WEBVTT - Out Of Context: Rod Wave 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.160 It's so crazy because a lunch Mainstay films. And I 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.080 was telling my partner the reason, like why the movies 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.760 in Hollywood is so like in the space that it's 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.000 in because they wasn't giving the youth or the people 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.120 the ball. They wasn't giving them like the shot, like 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.479 they want to do what they want to do or 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:19.880 lean toward their people instead of like getting the culture 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:21.880 or the youth involved fresh ideas. 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.200 Yeah, like that people ain't never seen before, so they 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.040 keep recycling the same ip, right, And it's. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.720 So crazy because like we just hit beer because I 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.680 bought a script called Raven Valley, right, but it's just 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.040 too it's like a duo, like a two brothers. But 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.400 they they edited, they gonna they edited, they wrote it 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.120 and they're gonna direct it. But you know, right now 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:44.400 in the movie space, like that's what buy Buzzes says. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.240 So like I kind of really like got in early 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.800 because I was just thinking that like six months before 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.760 says came out and he bought the script. And it's 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.920 so crazy because people had to double back because they 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:56.880 had the script like two years and like people was 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:01.160 passing on it. It's called Raven Valley Films. Is so crazy, 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.960 Like once I really learned it, like how you can 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.800 like come up with the idea, hire the writer and 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.880 hire the director, attach the talent to the script and 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.520 it could be halfway soul around the world before you 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.440 even shut up first shoot and. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.440 Then when you realize how much how much it takes 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.040 to do on you what am I waiting on? 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.480 Right? And that's why my whole idea was to like 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.640 not only produce the films and be in film space, 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.840 but also the distribution. That's what Virgo the network, That's 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.679 what that idea came in at, because like seventy five 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.080 percent content won't be original, you know what I'm saying. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:42.520 From TV shows to movies, dramas, podcasts, stuff, stuff like that. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:43.800 Content won't be original. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.200 That should make sense, especially for somebody like you because 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:48.040 you're a storyteller. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:52.080 Yeah good, are we good? 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:52.720 You checked? 0:01:52.760 --> 0:02:01.560 Right? Check Broadway? 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:03.520 How you doing? My brother? 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:04.720 It's cool than that? Man. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.120 The new album Don't Look Down? So was this your 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.680 seventh seventh studio album? Yeah, yeah, seventh studio album. What's 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.160 that title meaning to you? Don't look down? 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:20.600 I mean you get well me personally. Don't look Down 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.560 means like like I get to I get in these 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.639 moments while I can't even believe I'm here, And it's 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.840 kind of like a metaphor, like you get so hot 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.959 in the ground. It's not as scary as just don't 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.840 if you don't look down, but looking down make the 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.119 situation worse, you know what I'm saying, So I kind 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.080 of used it metaphorically speaking like like the heights that 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.080 I'm at, it's a lot of pressure, like you know, 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.200 like you don't want to fail, you don't want to 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.000 make the wrong moves. Like it's such a blessing and 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.520 it's so rare, like with the hand that I was 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.760 dealt to come as far as I came. Pause, you 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.040 know what I'm saying, But just to be here in 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:57.079 this space, it's like don't don't even like, don't look down, 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.120 like just keep going, keep dreaming, don't let nobody, but 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.000 don't nobody put no ceiling on you or what you 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:02.760 can you can't do. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.359 I hear that in your music a lot. Man. That's 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:06.840 why one of the things I wanted to talk to 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.600 you about was just like fame and how fame might 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.919 have might have changed things for you, right, Like like 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.000 like we talk about money, Like what problem did money 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.200 solve for you? 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:24.399 Just like no limitations, like I got my own money 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.840 cause I'm a I'm I don't I don't like to 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.320 I don't like to take, like I don't like the negative, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.160 like no energy with like stuff or ideas that I have. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:33.840 You know what I'm saying, I don't want to wait 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.040 on nobody or nobody that I don't want to play 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.360 by nobody else rules. You know what I'm saying. Like 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.400 I like to go, Like once I got something in 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.560 my head, I want to do it, like that's what 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.480 I want to do. And I feel like a lot 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.120 of businesses a lot of stuff in today's time, like 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.720 people use other people money and it's smart and it's 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.040 okay to do. But like if I got something I'm 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.520 passionate about, like I can just get up and push it. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.920 I can. I'm in control of my you know what 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:01.280 I'm saying, destiny, How I feel like I'm financially you 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.640 know what I'm saying stable, So all these ideas they 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.680 can actually come to life, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.040 And I feel like and I'm able to think clear, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.040 like I don't have to have the pressure or you know, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.840 what I'm saying, where it's gonna come from or what 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.279 I'm gonna do for this. I can just think clear 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.880 and see and you know what I'm saying, and just 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.760 think at a different different level. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:21.960 You know what I'm saying, Oh, we know you're getting 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.279 too the money, and we see the soul that shows 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.800 of the arenas you got you got God like Todd 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:32.680 mosk with showing up your interviews, heah, what problems did 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:33.320 money create? 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.719 Uh? It creates. I mean I feel like you always 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.840 have problems, you know what I'm saying. Your problems just 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.120 the problems just you know what I'm saying, became just 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.279 different like they came, but they fit that suit. Like 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.920 certain problems I could say, Like people, a lot of 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.719 people feel entitled, you know what I'm saying, a lot 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.240 of people feel like you know what I'm saying, like, oh, 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.480 you got all that money, like you should be able 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.520 to you know what I'm saying, People feeling title to it. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.080 You know what I'm saying. People people look at you 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.240 when they see money, you know what I'm saying. So 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.000 I feel like that's the number one problem with me 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:07.520 with money. You know what I'm saying, It's just like 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.160 that's all people's That's mostly what people see when they 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.039 first see you. You know what I'm saying, They see 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.320 money or you know what I'm saying, And it can 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.159 ruin a lot of things, you know. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.200 What I'm saying, that have success made trusting people easier 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:20.960 or harder? 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:28.279 I mean, success success doesn't didn't really like change the 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.800 way I trust people. I mean, seeing I've always you 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:37.440 know what I'm saying, felt like people got to earn trust, 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.200 you know what I'm saying, no matter successful, you failing, poor, rich, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.960 trusts have to be earned, you know what I'm saying. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:48.120 So it didn't really like change their shift drastically. Like 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.839 I saw a lot of things that I couldn't have imagined, 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:56.120 you know what I'm saying when I got successful financially stable, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.760 But trust has to be earned. The where you're at, 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.680 who you're talking about, where you go, Do. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.279 You feel successful? Do you still feel like you're surviving? 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.880 I mean, hell yeah, Okay, I feel successful because I 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:14.360 watched I watched me and my team put together a plan, 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.200 study the plan, and execute it, and I feel successful 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.240 And it got me ready for the world. Like I 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.960 can look at anything and piece it together and deep 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.400 like and break it down and put it back together. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.520 And now I feel like I can do whatever I 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.240 put my mind to, Like it's actually possible to come 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.120 up with a plan, come up with a blueprint, execute 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.240 it and succeed. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.719 So, yeah, what's the biggest misconception you think people have 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:39.680 about about you? 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:48.120 The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:52.240 the biggest misconception that people have about me. I feel 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.880 like people don't really understand, like my personality. I feel 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.960 like I don't give give them as much of reality 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.960 as I would, as as I as I wish, as 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.640 much as I could. I don't give them enough reality 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.160 to the point where they take whatever they see out 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.240 in the world and they make that image of me 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.840 because I give them so so little that they got 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.600 to use, They got to work with what they got, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.840 you know what I'm saying. So the biggest misconception would 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.040 be like my energy or my attitude towards like you know, 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.840 I say life for people. You know what I'm saying. 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.679 I feel like I'm like I'm the image that people 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.640 got about me is totally different than you know. What 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:32.800 I'm saying is. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.720 That by designs like you don't. You don't do a 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.040 lot of interviews. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.560 Right, Nah, that's what I'm saying, Like, I I mean, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.000 I don't know, man, you know what I'm saying. I 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.920 can't control with other people and what they put out 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.960 in the world about me. I can't control that. I 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:47.680 can only control what I put out in the world 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.560 or what I do. And it's just not natural for 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.720 me to push that on people or try to prove 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.680 a point of who I am or you know what 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.000 I'm saying, what I what I am, or how I 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.600 just don't never feel the need to do that when 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.000 I wake up in the morning. It's explaining that people 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.960 prove to people who I am, Like, that's true. You 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.800 want to take what you see online or you want 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.840 to do that, Like, then that's your god given right. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.680 I don't. I don't know. 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.440 I think that's dope though. That's like that's like old 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.320 school star right, Like old school superstars, they had an 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.000 era of mystery about them, you know what I mean, 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.040 Like like you got their music and you had to 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.480 hear what their life was like through their music. Every 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.000 now and then you might get it and it'd be 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.640 like rarely rarely. But I think that's dope, you know, 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.439 move like Michael Jackson. And the one thing I like 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.280 I like about you, man, it's like you're not out 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.920 here doing no goofy shit, you know, like you ain't 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.280 on the blogs and you know, all over social media 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.040 doing dumbn shit like people know Broadway for being a 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.120 dope artist telling out these shows and building a fan 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.240 base through music, Like I think that's what you're supposed 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:54.480 to do. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.600 And so yeah, I think it's so crazy that you 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.120 say that, because like he was just talking about that earlier, 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.200 Like I feel like I'm roadway once out of the year, 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.640 and when it's time to drop an album, do a tour, 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.440 then I'm back to you know what I'm saying, normal living, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.120 And they really don't really hit me until it's time 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.360 to drop albums or do tours or do press runs 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.600 or I actually like remember who I remember who I am? 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.319 You feel what I'm saying, because like, throughout the year, 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.920 I'm just like normal, especially like this chapter that I'm on, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.320 chapter that I'm on, you know what I'm saying, like 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:27.000 building businesses and getting deeper into the business and just 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.120 like building companies and networking and building relationships. That's what 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.560 I'm doing like three hundred days out of the year, 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:35.520 you know what I'm saying that the other sixty five 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.520 is like straight rock and roll, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.840 But then it's back to the basics, and I feel 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.640 like it's kind of like a good and a negative 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.720 and a plus because negative, like I wish people didn't, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.240 you know what I'm saying, take my image and run 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.560 with it. But it's a plus because that mysterious, like 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.080 people some people understand that they only got what the 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.720 Internet gave them and then make them want to dig 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:57.640 a little deeper. You know. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.319 You know too, man, You know I always wonder about you, 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.680 Like how does somebody who seems like they carry so 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.079 much pain, at least in their music right become one 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.160 of the biggest artists in America without letting that pain 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:11.960 destroy them? 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:17.480 Right? I mean it's bro I feel like everybody in 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.920 the world, like people always taking that safe pain. Like 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:22.679 I'm still not even like that word, you know what 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.560 I'm saying, because it's not even just pain, like it's 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.880 just testimony. It's just real life. Like if you get 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.960 up in the morning and you late the word bad accident, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.000 fucking coffee spilled on you shit like whatever going on, right, 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:38.600 and you come in the office and you talk about 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.400 it like you not like crying or dwelling on it, 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.199 or it wasn't painful, like it was just like something 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.520 you went through and you found somebody express it to 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.480 them and life went on. So like, I don't it 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.800 can't destroy me because it's just it's I turned it 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.520 just into a positive, right, And I feel like everybody 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.320 in the world go through stuff, go through things, like 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.200 everybody problems is you know what I'm saying, case by case, 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.839 but it's all normal, Like it's not pain, it's not sad, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.960 it's it's normal. It's reality. Like the world is so 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.160 stuck on the internet. Everybody's living these fake perfect lives. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.760 All these people living is fake fairy tale. You take 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.959 sixty five pictures, but you only post three of them. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.640 You found the most perfect pictures. You see what I'm saying, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.679 You're gonna edit it and do all this and that, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.679 And I feel like that's not reality, you know what 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.360 I'm saying. So I'm just living in reality. I'm just speaking. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.439 And that's why I say, like I'm on your way 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.960 once a year because the rest of the year, I'm 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.760 in reality, you know what I'm saying. Of course, I'm 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.360 on social media and I'm watching and I'm laughing and 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.319 joking and I'm watching this and watching TV. I know 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.600 what's going on in the world, But I'm in reality, bro, 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:52.920 and I try to keep that balance, you know what 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:57.880 I'm saying, because the fake perfect and stuff like it's 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:59.480 not real. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:04.199 Are you aware that you give people, especially young men 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.960 from the hood, permission to feel like they're not afraid 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.560 to express their emotions and talk about what they're going 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.000 through because of your music. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.880 Yeah, And it's so crazy because I'm kind of like 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:20.280 the sacrificial limb if you look at it, because men 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.800 or young men, young black men, young men, black, green, orange, white, 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:30.040 whatever color, like, it's not like if you talk about 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.760 your problems or you get too vulnerable whatever, like, nobody 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.040 want to hear it, you know what I'm saying. So 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.840 I'm like the proof. I'm like the walking example that people, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.240 you know what I'm saying, don't care about what you 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.080 go through. They don't care about how you feel. They 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.920 don't And I feel like the people who feel how 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.560 I feel, they connect with it. Right, like the young 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.600 black men they see like them, I'm not tripping like 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.360 it's just not me. Every is You can see that 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.360 rock and all these fans and all these following and 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.760 all these people who feel how he feel, how I feel, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.640 how you feel, you know what I'm saying. So I 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.360 feel like it's it's cool that I was able to 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:10.440 take reality right and turn it into a positive. And 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:15.600 it's just like walking example of why men can't. Can't complain, 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.920 You can't, you can't do nothing. You just got to 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.680 shut up and deal with it because you is a man, right, 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:26.440 and if you don't, people will polling at you and say, like, 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.760 look at all your flaws and shit, while they while 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.040 they got ten thousand more flaws than you, you know 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.920 what I'm saying, but they just not talking about theirs 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.400 are living in their truth, you know what I'm saying. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.679 That's right, But that's why you're used to connect with 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.320 people the way that it does, because because because you 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.240 live your truth. Is it a burden to be like 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.800 everybody's therapists and you like the ghetto psychiatrists? Does it 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:47.800 feel like a burden sometime? 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:49.880 And not really, because I don't really look at it 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.920 like that, like I'm making a song. I'm not looking 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:53.680 at it like I gotta make it sure for these people. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.360 I'm not looking at it like I gotta do this 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.679 for these people, like I'm just going in there having 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.880 my own little therapy session, and I'm just going there talking, 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.880 having and just having my own thing going on. My hobby, 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.679 my therapy, my what I like to do, right, And 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.480 it turned into what it is like as a young 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.319 black man in America when I couldn't talk to nobody, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.280 or when I nobody wanted to hear what I was saying. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.400 And I go around my home boys and they understand 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.040 how I feel. I get into So going to the 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.960 studio made me like that was my hobby. I had 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.840 a lot of built up anger. I had a lot 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.440 of built up like I didn't know how to express it. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.800 And other people my age or with the hand that 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.560 I was dealt that was similar to minds, they spread it, 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:41.480 expressed it in different ways. Some people violently expressed it right, 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:46.720 some people expressed it traumatically and couldn't get through it. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.200 And I just kind of expressed it through music, right, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.320 And it turned into what it is today and how 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.920 successful it done became you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.560 I was just trying to find a way to express 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.360 what I was feeling on what I be feeling right 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.160 and as a as a as a as a as 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.080 an adolescent, I didn't know how to write, and I 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.000 had a lot of built up anger and I just 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:14.360 would express it and dangerous or ways that stuff put 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.600 myself in stuff I probably couldn't get out of. So 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:21.000 finding music was my way of escaping or expressing or 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.920 letting it out because I don't want to like you, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.360 Like I said, nobody want to hear a man. Nobody 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.800 want to hear that right, because that's just the rules, 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.120 that's just how the world worked. So I found the 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.880 way to express it right, and other people around the 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:38.160 world felt it. So now my music whenever they feel 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.560 how they feel, they don't got to express it bindingly 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.880 or traumatically if they just listen to the music and 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.400 they understand, like, it's okay for you to not understand 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.280 why you feel how you feel. A lot of the world, 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.000 it's okay, you know what. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:51.920 I'm saying, It's okay to not be okay. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:56.240 It's normal. This reality is ninety nine percent people are 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.680 acting they faking like they that they perfect. Right, that 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:04.160 don't you're not happy, or you don't love life, or 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.280 you're not excited about today, or you don't love your 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:12.080 family or your friends. Right, It's just reality. Though. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.480 You know, millions of people, as you just said, you know, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.640 say your music saved their lives, right, Who saves Broadway music? 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:28.640 Music? Music? Music got me out of because you got 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.200 to think about it. Not only did music help me 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.920 express what I was feeling when all I knew was violence, right, 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:36.920 and I found a different way to express it. It 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.880 saved my life then, Right when I couldn't get nothing right. Right, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.920 when I couldn't get right, couldn't hustle and kept messing 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.760 up the money, kept doing this and I was out 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.720 in the world by myself, music came and saved me again. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.200 And it helped pay my bills. When I had kids 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:52.680 and I was trying to figre out what I'm about 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.360 to do, music helped feed them. Or my mama was 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.920 tired of working and she was tired. Music helped retire. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:03.120 You see what I'm saying. So nobody, I mean, I love, 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.840 I love my support system, like my family and my team, right, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.560 but music is a part of that my support system, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.360 Like it saved my life. You know what I'm saying, 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.959 It changed my whole trajectory. On the path that I 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.400 was at from seventeen to twenty seven, I probably would 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.040 have just been coming home, you know what I'm saying, 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.399 Like it changed my whole trajectory on what I was on, 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.040 where I was going in life, and not just me, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.680 ten million young black, angry young men in the world 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.560 was headed the same way, right, and music changed my 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.200 whole trajectory. So whenever I you know what I'm saying, 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.200 that's what even if you look at any other businesses 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.479 that I'm starting, like my edge on it is what 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:47.159 I did in music. My influence that I built doing music, audience, 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.560 see what I'm saying. So like that's what I'm just 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.040 thankful that I was able to find a hobby. And 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:57.160 guess what My hobby probably was music. Some people hobby 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:02.720 was basketball, football, film making. Like a great friend of mine, 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.320 Ryan Cooler, you know what I'm saying, Like that's how 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.440 people expressed. And I speak with people like Ryan and 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:13.159 the Tip Bro the music and we have conversations that 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.000 go deeper than the surface. You know, I have a 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.240 conversations with people that people probably can't when they see 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.399 me on the street, they talk to me. They probably 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.399 never even told their wife how they feel what I 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:26.679 help them through, you know what I'm saying, because they 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:27.600 don't feel like they can. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.959 I told you you the ghetto psychia therapist bro, just 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.720 real life. Who you're the go to guy? 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:34.960 Right? 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.399 For so many people? And now you said music, But 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:43.400 who does the go to person go to? You can't. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.520 You can't carry all this weight by yourself, man. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.040 I mean that's that's just that. Come with the territory, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.960 you know what I'm saying, Shit, Come with the territory, 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.840 because if you really ask yourself, like, who can anybody 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.360 go to? For real? It's not just me, Like I'm 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.360 justm rod wave and everybody I fancy shit, But who 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.920 can anybody go to? Like I really ask yourself that. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.399 Yeah, because there's there's there's only one you. Like, you 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.879 can talk to other people who might have had similar experiences, 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.760 but nobody has lived your life. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.880 Everything is casaby case, like who can you go to? Right? 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.679 Because even when you go to somebody, they are problems 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:27.960 of their own I don' want to hear that. It's 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.200 not even a sad thing. It's not even about problems. 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:31.840 It could be a happy I don't know how to 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.679 explain it, but it's not. People try to make it be. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:39.040 It's just reality. 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:43.520 The internet be acting like you just this sad depressed person. 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.159