WEBVTT - The 2 Chainz Episode 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:04.800 Get up, get th boys, it's back and reoaded. All 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.680 in your mind. Yeah, not deep throating. This is for 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:11.360 the streets, the reel, the railroaded, the distant franchise, the 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.720 truth Escape building. And they ain't knowing we speak the truth, 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.479 so they quoted because we wrote it. The North South 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.120 East coat is the gv MY for keeping your head bobbing. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.880 It ain't no stopping and wants to be dropped head by. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.280 And then the system is so corrupt they throw the 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.520 rock out their heads and then blame it on us. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.800 Don't get it twisted on code and me and danceing 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:45.240 for no buttament biscuits. It's Willie d y'all scar faces 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.479 in the building collectively hard to get old boys loaded, 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.960 reloaded with another episode of information and instructions to help 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.800 us out today, the one and only two changes in 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.960 the building. Yeah yeah, man. You know what, man, when 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.840 I when I think of you, that the first thing 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:10.000 that comes in my mind more than anything is intelligent man, 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.760 your shop dude, bro. And I know a lot of people, 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.280 a lot of people they don't get it because they 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.039 hear the music and they just think, oh, he's just 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.479 another rap. And I told him a long time ago. Man, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.840 when Chain's first came out. I'm sorry when Titty Boy came. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.960 When he first came, but I kept telling I say, Man, 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:31.200 don't get it fucked up that nigga can wrap. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:39.319 I wish you nigga would like a kitchen cabinet. Man. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.839 What what came first? Man? The rapping out of basketball? 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.080 Oh no, definitely basketball, man, still my favorite thing to 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.200 look at and participate in. I've been playing ball since 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.880 I was about seven years old. Started that, uh And Man, okay, 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.840 just like a lot of in the city kids. You 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.760 know what I'm saying, you could probably beat me up. No, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.800 I can't with you. Man, I probably beat you in basketball. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.560 I know you got hands with the boxing. Now I'm 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:12.359 talking about basketball. Too small to fight, you know right now. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:17.200 Fun Now, I got a good jemes playing and I 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.000 know how to get away with it. But like I 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:24.120 was saying talking to uh, now, yeah, I love basketball 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.480 and then but basketball kind of set me up for 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.000 the It definitely set me up for a rat because 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.360 you know, the person that that gets the ball or 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.640 has the ball the majority of the time is you 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.200 know who people look at. And I started you know 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.480 what I'm saying using that correlation with the microphone, like 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.160 you know what I'm saying, you got to my everybody 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.800 gonna look. And I enjoyed that attention. I enjoy you 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.160 know what I'm saying, the whole entertainment aspect. So it 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.600 became second natural for you know, you put on the 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.919 l of the motherfucking show, right, thank and we and 0:02:54.919 --> 0:03:00.280 and and you're not like a kid, but you got 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.440 a lot of energy. And watching you on stage make 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:09.600 me tired. Yeah. Man, Well it's important um in my 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:14.560 field of work too. Give the promoter and yeah, and 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.799 give the fans something to look at. So when it's 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.840 time to think about booking another show, thinking about doing 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.359 something else, that I'm that I'm a name that pops 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.919 up in the conversation and that in turn, um puts 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.400 money in my pocket, that put food in my my 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.760 family's mouth. So I get that, you know what I mean? 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.960 So I can't I don't care if it's forty or 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:39.320 forty thousand, I have to go on the show because 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.080 it's always somebody famine. And people that watch it on 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.080 the internet, they don't know that. You know, a lot 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.440 of us really as entertain as we feed off the energy. 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.480 But I have to psych myself out sometime and just 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.680 bring it. Bring my on you dope, bro. Man, I've 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.800 been knowing you since the nine nine or not. Like no, 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.400 it's probably maybe like two thousand, two thousand one something. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.440 You were doing def Jam South and I was with 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.720 Luda them. It was probably later let me go to 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.960 I gotta go with Louda. Um everything, well, I see 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.200 him occasionally, you know what I'm saying. He's doing real 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.240 well in life. How they go. When you were with 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.160 dt P oh oh yeah, So I was selling we 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.320 Goddamnan and U. They were working on the radio. So 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.479 I used to be serving like rappers they came to 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.800 the city. You know what I'm saying, He's come to 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.280 the city. They used to call me to serve them. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.360 Um my little crew, you know I'm saying. We were 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.680 getting a few little bags, and so we decided to 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:43.159 put like a little mixtape together. And when when um 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:44.920 it was Chris and Poem that was on the radio. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.560 When they heard the mixtape, they they were fucking with 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.560 a nigg and so they already knew what I did 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.560 in the streets and they knew what apartments man. Yeah, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.480 like you know, they always got me man. I always 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:01.960 ask you, man, what the fund is apartment? Up slacking 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:07.279 by the department part our apartments, apartment it called apartment. Yeah. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:12.599 We always teach me the off. But yeah, so anyway, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.560 I started wrapping with them, titty boy. Um you know 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.800 a little rough around the edges. You know what I'm saying. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.080 It is always dope to me, Man. I always appreciated 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.240 your work. And then when you went out and uh, 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.400 the it was a duffel bag boys that your first 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.599 yet went the funk off on that and he was 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.640 on ship. It's a song that you had, Man, it 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:41.000 was you and another kid. Uh, I'm gonna find it. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:42.800 I got it in. I got it in my yard, 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.520 my thing. But when you don't want to be listening 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.560 to your ship and they'll be jamming hardest fuck. You know. 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.039 I text you when you do. Yeah, you do, text 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.640 me some line that makes me feel real good. I 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.000 told him a long time ago, Man, do not get 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.000 it funked up? Yeah, get your asking that Stu. You 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.080 if you work with him, Man, you gotta listened to it. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.760 You know, you gotta listen to it. But I'm a fan, bro, 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.040 and I appreciate everything you did, bro. You know, I 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.720 I saw the come up. You know, it's different when 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.839 you meet the motherfucking he already up. But I watched 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.720 you'll come up, man, and I just congratulate you man 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.599 on every move and and and what you're doing. Bro. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.200 You know, man success, Bro. Much love to that. We 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.400 appreciate you coming up and thank you. I'm very appreciative 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.880 of that. Uh, you know what I mean. You guys know, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.960 y'all ledgerds, I'm at I'm at Bill before you know 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.719 in Atlanta. Don't tell Willie that ahead. Yeah when you 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.640 get off that ship. What do you mean, stop that ship? Man, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.839 stopped doing ship like that? Yeah? Yeah, y'all been on 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.320 the roads and what y'all y'all st we've been on 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.360 the road in your early twenties. Now we were teenagers. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.400 I was a way teenager, Willie Might y'all went on 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:59.720 the road as teenagers, right, I was, and Willie y'all 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.840 want roll together like out of town together. No man, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.280 really share the room in the beginning, and then you know, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.440 it got to a point where you know, really was 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.640 just sucking. Like I was like, you know what, man, 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.520 I'm gonna get my own ship. Dog say, first of all, 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.480 since you see when you do ship like that, I'm 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:27.920 just playing, motherfucking go in. I'm gonna go off where 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.480 you show off your show, come and take this guy. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:36.880 Damn spanking. So the reason why he has his own 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:43.200 he started getting his own room, was because he likes 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:48.360 the far, the lot, all that ship. And yeah, you 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:54.080 gotta I wanta stop lying. I won't lie. Stop that 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.920 line now, man, with the bottom line is that man, 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.360 we grew wet, we grew. The group got only you 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:05.920 know that we got we got more money and that's 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.760 what really happened. Yeah, but you know, I don't want 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.920 to get too far away from the basketball man, because 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:16.400 I'm actually fascinated by your game, bro, like that your skills. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.560 I mean watching you play like I'm looking at you 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.920 like if I was watching you two damn like. Well, 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.800 I know that guy went to Lee and you know 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.880 obviously you didn't go to the league. You pursued. But 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.959 how how strong was your desire yet to become an 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.040 NBA player? Okay, So the thing with the with me 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.480 is when when the when the teacher asks kids what 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.160 they want to be when they grow up. Obviously I 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.960 used to say basketball, because I never pictured myself being 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.839 a doctor, just having a nine of five all. I 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.480 never pictured myself sitting in traffic in the morning on 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.560 the way to work or coming home. Just from a 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.559 personal perspective, I don't knock anybody who does that, but 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.600 I never saw myself doing that. It was never an 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.760 differ for different folks. There was never an ambition of mine. 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:06.400 So I was also I've also been um trapping or 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.800 you know, selling drugs since I was in the seventh grade, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:13.160 you know what I mean. So I got locked up 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.520 in my ninth grade year for selling no, I'm sorry, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.640 my tenth grade year for selling I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.120 my tenth grade year for possession of cocaine, and sophomore 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.120 year for for selling week I mean not my senior 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.680 year of high school, I'm sorry for selling we And 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.160 so that messed up a lot of my scholarship opportunities 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.320 playing ball young bucks. Listen listen, yeah, and I'll definitely listen. 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.760 But I can always tell you, like, if you live 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.880 long enough, you can see like another side to it. 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.040 So a lot of the mistakes that I made earlier, 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.800 although I felt like they were very dark times for me, um, 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.800 and I can go into depth by a lot of things, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.440 but I'm just trying to use this time wise. I 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.959 end up using those experiences to be you know what 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.080 I mean to just I learned from them, you know. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.520 And that's that's the main thing about when they say 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.320 living and learn, it's a lot of cliches that that, uh, 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.160 I feel like I can I can relate to. So 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.839 I made some I used to love basketball, but when 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.200 I played basketball as a kid, I still was was 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.240 literally hustling me and um one of my homes named Shy. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.880 We used to take turns whooping, Like one day here 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:21.679 stay at the trapp and then I go hooping and 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.200 the next day, um, it will it will switch out, 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.199 you know what I'm saying. So I wasn't all the 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.280 way dedicated with whooping. I had natural skills and I 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.120 played ball like god given talent. And I played ball 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.960 and you know what they say about hard work, beach 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:38.560 talent and all of that stuff. So I was one 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.240 of those talented people who if somebody was hooping more 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:45.439 to me than then they were probably um get a 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.880 higher skill set because I was taking days off this 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.400 time now when this music feeling my lap when I 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.440 first started doing music, it wasn't consistent. I kind of 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.520 was one ft in, one foot out, the same thing, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.400 hustling making music, going on the road, slip looking for 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.440 a plug. When I was you had given up on basketball. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.240 Yeah at this point, Yeah, I wasn't into basketball like 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.320 that anymore because I have found a new love doing music, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:10.880 you know what I'm saying. So when I was able 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.920 to go on the road and travel, like I asked 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.160 you all about traveling, my whole thing going to cities 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.800 was trying to find out who had work, you know 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.640 what I'm saying. Like, I still hadn't really like turned 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.360 that part of me off. And then I went on 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:28.320 tour with with Wayne during Duffle Bad Boys, and I 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.920 basically saw what he did every night, and I started 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.240 membericking that. From that point on and my whole career 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.480 in life, everything has changed. So I've always kind of 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:42.360 attributed Bro for doing the record Duffle Bad Boys. And also, 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.400 you know what I'm saying, opening up my eyes to 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.480 what I need to do to be a successful rapper 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.680 in a time. Yeah, that's a beautiful thing because I've 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.280 seen so many people that have a great talent in 0:11:54.320 --> 0:12:00.320 the hood who lose those opportunities because they don't want 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.080 to get out of the streets. You know, they want 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.800 to go and do be the regular dude, take the 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.920 easy way. I can try to sell drugs at Jackson. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.360 Somebody still huh, really that's not that easy. Well, I 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.320 think it is because anybody can do it. You know, 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.679 a five year old can still five year old can 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.480 shoot you. You know a five five year can sell drugs. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.120 I don't believe that. Well, I've seen it, so I 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.360 believe it. I've seen I've seen it firsthand. And you know, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.560 and you've you've heard stories about five year old shooting 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:31.280 people you know, and and and being used and being 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.200 used to sell drugs, you know, five year old rock 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.800 up no dope will Well, I don't know, man, these 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.800 five year olds today, bro, I would not estimate them. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.320 And I'm so detached from the dope game until you know, 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.520 it's just far fast for me to believe ship like that. 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.439 But you know, if you say you've seen it, you know, yeah, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.280 I've seen it. I've seen it firsthand, man, And I 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.600 couldn't even think, who why wouldn't just push him down 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.959 and take a dope. Well, that's that those type of 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.040 things happened sometimes, but a lot of times you know 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.360 that that that the kid is being used as a conduit. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:10.240 So that kid he don't know, that kid don't know, uh, 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.960 But what that person on the other end knows is 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.600 that that kid got protection. I'm gonna tell you. I'm 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.600 gonna tell you this though. I'm gonna tell you from 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:23.000 this perspective because a lot of people feel like, um, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.120 you know, man, I don't please don't take this other 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:30.000 context that hustling is. Um, there's a choice when a 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:31.960 lot of the times you know it is a choice. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.520 But I look at it like this, look at I 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.480 want you to just try to fathom this. I've definitely 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.760 done some things that I regret. So just listen to this. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:46.439 Like you stay in a neighborhood, right that Okay, I'm 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.240 not I'm not from l A or California, right. And 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.679 when I was younger than from the South, I did 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:57.679 not understand um concept of gangs. I didn't even understand 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.160 you know what I'm saying, Why are they know what 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.840 I'm doing this? But it is really based when they 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.400 get older, like their neighborhood, this is where they're from. 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.640 This is like a brotherhood. They start blah blah blah 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.080 whatever you want to make it out to be, whether 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:13.240 good or bad. Right, Um, you go to Denver, Colorado. Right, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.040 this is like the whole neighborhood. They know how to ski, 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:20.160 right because they've raised on slopes and stuff like this. Right, 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.800 you go to Hawaii. Right, you know what I'm saying. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.000 Does everybody know how to surf? You know what I'm saying. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:27.880 They know how to surf. Whether it's a good thing 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.240 or what. This is what they do. Right, you go 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.280 to Atlanta, or you go to these apartments, the whole 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:39.240 partment seal drugs or trout. Now you what happens in 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:43.520 these cases is you automatically pick up your sack too. 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.120 But it's always somebody you see talent in that you 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.359 try to prevent them from doing that in this certain neighborhood. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.360 But nine times out of ten, this has looked at 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.000 as a norm, a way to take care of your family. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.560 And it may sound like bullshit, it may sound like 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:00.880 I don't know what it may sound like two people. 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.280 But if you come up and this is all you see, 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.239 this is all you know. I'm not sure what the 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.960 main thing in Houston or whatever, but if this is 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.520 all you know, like where I come from, then it 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.800 takes a minute for you to snap or for you 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:18.240 to plug up into reality because yo, you know Mama, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.320 your daddy, bro, Yo, everybody doing this on everybody look 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.880 at like the whole neighborhood missing antenna's because jays smoking 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:27.760 in front of you, like this is what you used 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.960 to the hallway full of crack, bro, Like you know 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.360 what I'm saying, this is what's going on. You know 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.000 what I'm saying. So it's not like you don't get 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.120 the ride through Beverly Hills until you get you ain't 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.240 never been on a plane before, so like all the 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.400 other ship just on TV. So for people who have 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.400 went through these different things, and it might be a 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.720 set up from the man or the government, where the 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.640 hell they're be saying, But like when you come up 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.800 in a certain area for a long period of time 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.400 and this is all they do, then it becomes so 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.640 natural for you that you gotta break the cha. You 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.080 gotta break it yourself and get going to go to 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.680 jail or really on your listen. And that's kind of 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.120 what happened in my In my instance, I just did 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.160 until I woke up one day and just went cold turkey. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.680 I didn't want to have a case. I didn't want 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:14.080 to have anything going on to make me pressed stop. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:21.720 I just did it. My mom. To answer your question changed, 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:27.640 I think that the dope game was national. I think 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:33.000 that the same uh, the same way that y'all played 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.600 in Atlanta, they played in Chicago, and they played in 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.560 in in Houston, and they played in d C. Like 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:45.160 the plague of of crack cocaine when it hit in 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:50.280 the mid eighties early eighties, you know that that ship 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.000 spread it like this fucking pandemic that we have going 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:58.080 on right now now. I was I was the same 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:03.880 kid that you were in a sense, um, because I 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:09.080 sold the same I did the same thing. Okay, um 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:13.760 my uncle's and I didn't. I and my ship was 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.720 so fucked up until I didn't give a funk who 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:20.200 I sold too. You know, I saw I sold to 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.480 my uncle's, my friends, my my, my friends, Mama isn't ship. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.520 I didn't give a fuck. But that that that that 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:33.800 crack plague, man just really uh set us in uh 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.560 a space in life where we did more harm to 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.720 ourselves than we got money on it. You know, we 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.560 didn't do good. You know, I feel fucked up about 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.440 the ship that I did growing up, but I was thirteen, fourteen, 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.960 fifteen years old. I think we're all We are who 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:57.000 we are by conditioning. You know, if if you grew 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.880 up in a household where education is stress, then nobody's 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:03.800 going bad an eye when you drop out in the 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.240 eighth grade because it's expected. You know. Uh, if you 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.719 grew up in the household, uh, where education is a 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:16.480 big deal, then uh, nobody's gonna bat an eye when 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.840 you graduate high school. You graduate high school, nobody's gonna 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.640 be like going crazy losing their minds when you graduate 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.679 high school. You know, like if you ever watch people 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:31.480 who who who graduate who go to these that that 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.520 come up in these households where education and stress, when 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.200 people go to the graduation, uh, they're like this, it's 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.480 very you know, like yeah, yeah, you know that's what 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.480 you know why we're clapping like this because I'm sitting 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.840 there for thinking college next. I ain't h yeah, yeah, 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:52.640 like it's the end, Like over we made, ain't doing 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.400 all that ship. I'm like, yeah I got the one 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:00.840 guy next college or next this business, this business thing 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:02.800 we're about to do. We're about to blow. You know, 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.560 That's how it is. And so it's like path laws law. 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:11.040 We are who we are the process of conditioning. And 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.439 if I don't give damn who you are, like you 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.760 were saying positive or negative or however you want to 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.080 look at it in different we are who we are 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.879 by process of conditioning. But the thing is that ultimately, 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.200 one thing that I knew growing up in the hood, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:29.320 just like everybody in this room, I understood early on 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.160 that I was gonna be held accountable for my actions. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.359 I knew that because I went to jail and ten great. 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.000 I mean when I was ten years old, so I 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:42.639 for burglary at ten years old, I was in juvenile 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:47.240 I'm on the rectors downtown, you know. So I knew 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.840 early on that I was going to be held accountable 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.320 for whatever I did. And ultimately, nobody really gives a funk. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:59.240 And so if I go out there and do something, 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.280 I'm not gonna be able to use where. You know, 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.920 my mom was an alcoholic, my daddy was abusive. This happened, 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:06.960 and I ain't got no money whatever, and people don't 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.080 give a damn. So ultimately I have to give a 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.600 damn about myself and care more about myself to make 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.439 sure that I don't walk into those traps and I 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.919 don't allow these clowns to capture me and do me 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.320 dirty because the traps are set for us. They don't 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.600 give a damn about us. We know that. So if 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:30.600 we know that, then I feel I feel like it's 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.960 incompet up on each of us to say, you know what, 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.560 I'm not gonna let you motherfucker's fool me. You're not 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.720 gonna get me. Like if we know these mothers out 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:41.320 here trying to do us dirty and they're trying to 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.560 capture us, you know, like we got to do it. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.880 At some point we have to say, you know what, 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.560 this is on me, it's on me. You're not gonna 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:54.000 get me. Yeah, I mean, you know you know what. 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:57.399 We're gonna try to ask smart to anything that I 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:01.159 put in front of us. But I mean, it's just 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.959 hard for me to go against it, to be so 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.159 contracted when I know where I came from, when I 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:10.280 know what I you know, did, and it can't undo. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:16.000 And I got reasons that maybe it may be pathetic 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.560 or they may make sense to some people. Don't you 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.520 want to be feel like getting just today? But you 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.760 know what you know for the most most part, I'm 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:29.600 I'm a better person that I was yesterday. So I've 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.000 been thinking like that for years. You know what I'm saying, 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:36.159 and and it takes conditioning. You know what I'm saying. 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:41.320 And even when I was hustling, I enjoyed going to school, 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:45.720 I enjoyed wearing nice things. I enjoyed, you know, being 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:50.000 a social butterfly, talking, engage and meeting new people. And 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.639 you know, I went to college. I have a college degree. 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.879 I did all. You got a college degree in what 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:02.120 college for? Yeah, well, when you know better, you do better. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.280 To your point, when you know better, you do better. 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.359 And you knew at some point you knew better and 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.639 you started doing better. All I'm saying is that ultimately, 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:12.640 like we all come from the same thing. I mean 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:15.280 I did, I did my dirt. But I think that 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.119 one of the issues with us uh as as o 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.280 g s is that a lot of times o gees 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.520 feel like, because we have a past, and you know 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.720 that past is checked, we did some dirty things. We 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.840 feel like if we speak against it, we're being hypocrites. 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:34.520