WEBVTT - Episode 345 w/ Earn Your Leisure and 19KEYS 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.520 Welcome to Drink Champs, the production of the Black Effect 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:18.160 and I Heart radio and it's Drink Chas motherfucking podcast. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.680 He's a legendary queen's rapper. He's like Green is your 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.680 boy in O R. He's a Miami hip hop pioneer 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.720 up his dj e f N. Together they drink it 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.400 up with some of the biggest players in the most professional, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.800 unprofessional podcast and yet number one sorts for drunk drink 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.360 is New year' z dot time for Drink Champs. Drink Up, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:50.120 Mother would it could be hoping to it should be 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:51.760 this your boy in o R e w up is 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.200 d j e FN. This's middle Tempy crazy rold Radio. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:01:02.200 Drink Chaps, Yappy make something that now approaching the Christmas time, 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.160 it's so important, you know, for people of our community 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.240 to know about finances, to know about what to do, 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.480 to know and in this day and time, you know, 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.679 we usually you know, give these rappers these intros. What 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.280 I want to do right now, I want to I 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.920 want you guys to break it down. Um say, say 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:22.720 your name, what you do and then bring it that 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.280 to the fast. Just know, for off top, first of all, 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.479 I appreciate it so Rasha one half for Earn Your Leisha. 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.840 Earn Your Leisure media platform started four years ago and 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.480 talk about financial literacy, business empowerment. Um. You know, We've 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.440 created uh podcast network, we do a lot of events. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.360 We just did ms G that was crazy, So pretty much, 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:43.760 I guess the best way to describe it as a 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.800 platform and a movement for people that are interested in learning, 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.880 educating themselves and really get into to really learning about 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.200 money from the you know, the real root of it. Yeah. Yeah, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:55.919 So I'm try the other half of Earn Your Leisure. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.840 Like you said, financial literacy platform, it's really about teaching 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.800 sustainable wealth. You know what I'm saying. Lots of people 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:03.800 talk about generational wealth, but they never tell you once 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.360 you get the money, what you do with it. And 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:06.600 so we see that in a lot of industries. We 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.560 see in athletes and entertainments they get the money and 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.160 they blow it. And so our jobs to educate people 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.839 kick down doors, show different avenues, you know what I'm saying, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.760 so we can maintain the money for generations to come. Okay, 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:21.960 I'm nineteen keys uh the Courtious top Thought leader, you 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.519 understand me. I got a show called High Level Conversations, 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.520 the number one intellectual show in the world. Also have 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.160 a program called b w OH where we teach people mental, physical, 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.120 financial fitness. You understand me, just re engineering the mind, 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.400 knowing yourself, knowing who you are. You understand me, and 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.520 at the same time, knowing how to not only invest 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.120 in knowledge yourself, but how to invest in your communities. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.080 You understand me. We got a program called Oasis, and 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.200 it's more so when we have an investment group where 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.400 we get to come together and think about how to 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.600 reimagine Black America. So you know, as a young guy, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:01.480 I'm just here to get some knowledge. So I don't 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.560 see that, y'all. And I one knows the controversy, right, 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.320 we can't be can't avoid it, right, everyone knows the 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.960 controversy that we had here. He said he was a billionaire, right, 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:16.400 we respected that, we rooted for that. But then um, 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.880 we had this reports for datas saying that they froze 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.560 his accounts and stuff like that. But then I see 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.760 you guys, you guys interviewed. I don't want to say 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.880 the real black breast like a couple of but but 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.160 but how how is that? Like you know what I mean? 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:30.919 Like and then and then I guess it's a two 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.840 part question because it's like when you were saying he 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.839 was a billion there, did you did you you guys 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.880 are being in the financial back, did you know that 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.840 that he was wasn't he was worth it? And I 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.840 just said, I it's so crazy that you asked that 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.040 question because I was with them in l A, all 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.840 three of us was in l A the day before 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.840 Datas dropped him, and I was saying that I have 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.640 a strong suspicion because you know, people don't understand what 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.240 net worth means. You see the four blift, they see, okay, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.720 you're worth two billion dollars. They think you actually have 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.640 two billion dollars money, like you like, what's that cartoon? 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:07.200 And due with swimming, I think you think will come 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:13.640 up in But really how it works, it's like all 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.240 your assets, right. So I had a strong feeling just 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.520 I don't know call, but just from observing him that 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.520 most of his assets was in that company, Like I 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.280 didn't feel like he had a lot of money in stocks. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.040 We know he had a huntred fifty million dollars in 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.039 cash because kicked him out of and then he got 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:31.280 some real thing and stuff like that, So I was 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.719 just saying, like, I think probably ninety percent of his 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.440 money wasn't easy. It's just so happened that I was 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.800 right like a large So when they dropped to him, 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.960 now you have no more easy brand. The only thing 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.880 you have left at your bank accounts from real estates. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:44.599 So that's how that four hundred million comes into place. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.200 If you look at it, he probably got a couple 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:47.919 of homes. I think he got the ranch of Wyoming. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:49.719 He owns like Popper cent and Skims, and he got 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:51.560 a hundred fifty million dollars in cash that would equal 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.680 around four hundred million dollars. So you're like, okay, well, 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.400 was he ever really a billion? Ye? A lot of money. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.080 But it's like when you look at it, it's like, 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.239 now he never really had two billion dollars in cash 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.560 that's in the company. And then when he no longer 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.960 has a company, now you lose everything. So it's like 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.560 a car, like if you have no money to your 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.080 name at all, Right, and then you got a may back. Right, 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.320 let's say that may back is three hundred thousand dollars. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.520 Right now you're worth three hundred thousand dollars because you 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.560 can sell that if somebody's gonna buy it. But let's 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.799 say that that car burns up, you don't have insurance. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.680 Now you're worth nothing. That's how you kind of kind 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.279 of look at it as far as like so when 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.599 a lot of these guys, most of their wealth is 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.960 in their company, so that's what happened, we're easy. And 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.360 when they you know, when they took that away, then 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.279 you know he didn't have a company. He still was 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.200 a billionaire. He was a billionaire. And people's based on 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.359 projective wealth as well. Most of wealth in America's an illusion. 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:42.960 Most of the wealth in the world is an illusion. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.560 It's based on evaluation. You understand when you see it 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.800 a nerve white boy throw out an idea getting evaluation 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.279 for a billion dollars in a company versus somebody that's 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.040 in the court here that is one of the most 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.600 influential people in the world. If their ideas worth a billion, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.720 how is not his presence influence catalog and intellectual property. 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.479 I think the the idea of billionaires and things of 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.040 that nature is that we never controlled the evaluations, right, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.480 like how much is jay Z's catalog and Beyonce's catalog 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.120 and how much is Kanye's catalog worth I know he 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.240 don't own full mastery of it, but he's getting it 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.120 over time. But that's sort of the question because we've 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.360 never learned how to truly evaluate ourselves. Right. I would 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.960 say the things that he has in his intellectual property 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.279 is worth the billion, right because when he went to 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.760 Adidas with that, he was making them one or two 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.320 billion dollars per year, so they lost more money than 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.480 Kanye West did. But it's not framed that way because 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.240 we don't control the media. So therefore the narratives about 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.160 our evaluations, it's not put out there correctly, right, It's 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.400 a why just think about it? How come nobody in 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.880 the court has surpassed one billion dollars? How come there's 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.840 no two, three, four or five ten billion dollars right now? 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.320 They just announced and the announced you but you know 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:58.440 why pick off that? Remember blow when um, when Bro 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:06.400 was in jail and and he was selling George George 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.280 George boy, that was Boston George, right, So if you 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.640 remember he used to sell weed at first when he 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.360 got locked up, the dude from Colombia was like, you 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.200 you're hustling the wrong product. Put on kid, so you're 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:22.200 on the wrong product. So we're hustling the wrong product too. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.000 If you look at our billionaires and no disrespect, but 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:30.880 it's too entertainment spirits different things in that nation. So 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.560 this is why it's like I was talking Temple and 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.560 he like they say Jays he's a billionaire, but to me, 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.280 he's he's worth sixty billion. Like look at the level 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:38.760 of excellence that he had to reach to get to 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.200 one billion. When they got to do like Sam BigMan, 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.480 Foyd got her like he worth twenty eight billion. Nobody 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.840 even knew who he was because it's TechEd out who 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:53.920 got you got this interview? Who's not. What I'm saying 0:07:53.960 --> 0:08:00.560 is you're not two separate that's worth thirty billion dollars. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.320 You never heard of technology, crypto, different things. This is 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:06.960 this is, this is what we need to get more 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.160 into because it's like you can only go so far 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.120 as to ceiling. Like he said, Oprah been worth one 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.360 point five billion for ten years? How is that even possible? 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.520 How is everybody worth one billion? Tyler Perry did he, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:21.160 jay Z, Kanye wet every single person only got more 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:22.840 of I don't want to announce it, but that's that's 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.560 part of it too, right, So in order in order 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.080 to have the evaluation, you gotta cooperate. And so we 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.240 interviewed Don Peoples, who was one of the wealthiest black 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.400 men in real estate in the history of America. He 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.679 stopped cooperating with them, so you don't really know how 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.320 much he's worth. And if you go to other countries, 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.240 they don't cooperate as either. And so when we look 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:38.840 at guys like Elon must and we're like, yeah, that's 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.200 he's actually number two. Now, no, just passed him. But 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.440 what do you mean by co operating? You have to 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.160 tell them what you're doing to see what your your 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.960 assets are, right, So if you don't know my assets, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.040 how can you evaluate through a lot of times we 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.000 forget that part. And so like when we when we 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.960 talk about wealth and we look at like a guy 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.480 like Ellen and what saying is correct. A lot of 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.360 the money is tied into the company. And so when 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.800 we see Tesla at three hundred dollars, right, yeah, he's 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.920 the wealthiest man in the world. Right, But when Tesla 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.120 stopped drops, you see his wealth drop as well. So 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:06.599 now he's down there. I mean it sounds crazy, but 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.840 he's down like a hundred eight billion, but that's not 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.760 three thirty billion that he was about six months ago, 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:13.560 and so it's tied to it. But the other part 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.560 is the evaluation, and so most people forget that part. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.560 It was like how much your company is worth? But 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.320 evaluation sometimes it's just somebody with a lot of money 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.600 telling you what something is exactly, and so that that 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.240 scale is dictated by somebody else. And so if you 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.160 have a tech company, they may say like, oh, you 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.839 have certain components, how much money have you generated, Oh, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.200 you generated twenty million. That multiple can be five x, 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.040 and so you had a twenty million dollar company, but 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.800 they evaluated it out of five x multiple, that company 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.800 is not worth a hundred million. And so that's how 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.720 you get these evaluations like a hundred million a billion 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.120 dollar company, like you saw with face Clan. Face Clan 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.440 is a media company that started in gaming. Right, they 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.320 generated fifty million dollars, but they had so many different 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.719 assets under the umbrella that when the company wanted to 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.199 purchase it, they said, yeah, we're gonna give him a 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.199 twenty x mo to both. So when you do the 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.200 fifty million times twin x multiple, that's how you get 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.439 a billion dollars evaluation, and that's how you could actually 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.400 get that bigger the liquid you have to you have 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.000 to make it hit that it's not gonna so you 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.360 take it. So now you take the company public to 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:16.920 the stock market. There you go. That's the next So 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.640 it's levels like you know what I'm saying. So it's like, 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.760 now you realize we talked about stocks, right, and I 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.640 know if I know you tapped in right, yeah, yeah, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.760 four thousand crypto. He told me about crypto so long ago. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.439 Four thousand stocks on the stock market. At the four 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.800 thousand stocks on stock market? How many four thousand companies? 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.760 How many think is black on at a four thousand? 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:42.079 At a four thousand zero with a d of them? 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:50.839 What's I guess? Damn, I don't know. This is a 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:56.040 lot different. Just think about that, right, like we celebrate, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.559 keep bringing it down, keep bringing you gotta sit boy 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:14.320 only plastic company, well company total. So it's like think 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:20.800 about that, bro, that's crazy in the stock So what 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.360 I'm saying, So it's like that's real wealth. Take it. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.000 You take your company public. Now you can get a 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:30.160 twenty billion dollar evaluation. Now you can have five billion 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.040 dollars in stocks, or a hundred million dollars in stocks, 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.000 like this is the game that's being played with Like, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.680 like I said, going back to the Boston Georgian allity, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.560 a lot of times we're just playing the wrong game. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.720 We're not thinking big enough. Let me ask you. Obviously 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.679 we can't name this company, but at one point this 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.439 company was coming to us trying to buy us out, 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.960 and they were offering us a whole bunch of liquid, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.720 but they was offering us so much in stocks, and 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.080 we were just like, what if this company belly up, Like, 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.920 we'll never make what we're actually worth. What we're supposed 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.000 to do, that was we're supposed to say, Yo, let's 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.240 let's let's invest in the stocks. The stocks. Remember what 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.559 the CEO said, he said, take a chance with me. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.840 I'm gonna take a chance and taking it. I want 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:20.360 to say to day so bad. I think I know 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:21.640 the name and based on the time and of it, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.080 especially like since the market is pulled back at the time, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.400 it might not have been a great idea. But you 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.280 gotta look at the evalue. What do you believe in 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.840 the company right, especially that now that you're a part 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.280 of it, What does that due to the value of 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.560 the company, and not just this year, but let's say 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.400 ten years down the road. Right, if you're talking about 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.839 from a media standpoint, if everything is going streaming and 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.000 this company is leading in that space, right, where does 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.640 that stock go? Right? Because let's say you got the 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.960 deal and they said, all right, well you're gonna we're 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.160 gonna give you stock options at forty five dollars, right, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.480 But in ten years that forty five stock option turns 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:56.120 into ninety dollars. Now you just each on each share. 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.400 But it's possible, but it's also possible. It doesn't possibly 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.800 that these people were just you know the story. You 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.440 know the story in vitamin water. Part of not really 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.160 break it down. Everybody knows fifty made a bunch of 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.120 money on vitamin water. When nobody knows is that he 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.680 invested it, not even that vitamin water. They're from Queens. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:22.040 Oh yeah, the gods from Queens. So originally, like they 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.000 started the company, they don't really have enough money to really, like, 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.720 you know, so to offer these celebrities like contracts. But 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.640 they know that celebrities is a way to kind of 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.920 grow the brand. So and I don't want to get 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.120 the numbers wrong. I don't want to offend anybody, but 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.640 they want to a few people. At first. One of 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.160 the people being around our tests. They offered on our 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.960 tests the same deal they offered fifty cents run our tests. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.160 Wanted a couple of hundred thousand dollars in cash, They 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.199 didn't have a couple hundred thousand dollars in Cad said, look, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:49.920 we can't pay you a couple hundred thousand dollars in cash, 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.240 but we can't give you equity on our tests. Ain't 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.040 understand it. He ain't believe in it, and passed on it. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.280 Fifty cent came took the same deal with took equity. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:07.160 Fast forward eighteen months later, Coca Cola went and bought it. Wow. Yeah, 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.840 we haven't truly learned how to leverage and really get 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.440 into the idea equity enough in our courtship because we 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.720 want to have a hundred percent ownership instead of a 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:19.680 percentage of something that can tend next. Right, And so 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.400 the difference is it's like if I build a company 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.680 and I'm like, all right, by myself, I can get 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.200 it to do let's say a million dollars a year, right, 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.960 But let's say if I give away fifty percent of it. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.120 I can get it to do ten million dollars a year, 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.480 you understand me. So what would be I don't understand 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:42.840 a hundred percent of a company that a partner, let's 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.840 say Troy was shot all y'all the group, I say, 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:50.360 y'all gonna help me, market, y'all gonna do with the branding, psduction, 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.960 the whole nine. So instead of me just only a 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.320 hundred percent of a million dollars, our own fifty percent 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.440 of ten million dollars. So we haven't learned how to 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.880 build something that didn't leverage the equity of it. You 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.720 understand me by owning a percentage of it, because we 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.600 haven't historically had nothing, we think we need all of 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.560 it to feel like owners instead of learning the actual 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.720 science of business, right, most people they build a company 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.040 and their whole ideas, how can I give away a 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.520 part of this company, right, so that it's worth a 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.000 certain amounts so that they can do more, because by 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.760 yourself you can only do so much. So it's really 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.480 just reframing the way we go about business. Most people 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.320 build businesses to sell them, you understand me. And so 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.280 when you're doing that, you're building the framework completely different. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.680 Rather than saying how can I own this? Now, there's 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.560 generation of wealth where you build certain companies you want 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.880 to have in the family forever. Right, And we know 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.000 the Chase Banks, we know the code gates, we know 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.720 you know certain families who have had businesses for a 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.280 hundred plus years that they've been able to pass down 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.960 in their family and we use those as household products today. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:55.760 So there is you know, value and maintaining companies within 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.000 right the family. But there's also value and giving away 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.560 equity so that you can grow that company so that 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.920 they can become bigger and they become a household that 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.880 and even even even the companies that remained like Walmart 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.360 right in the way, they still gave up some equity 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.840 because it's a it's a publicly traded company. So they 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.240 take the company to the stock market. That means everybody 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.640 owns a part of it. And that's what, like he said, 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.760 it's like you know when you don't use, when you're 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.960 not used to having something you just hoarded because and 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.080 rightfully so, because it's like for years we always had 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.680 stuff taken away from us. You look at Black Wallster, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.600 you look at Freeman's Bag, you look at so much stuff. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.560 Anytime that we had something, they took it away from us. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.440 So psychologically we still look at like a hoarder, like 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.840 even with the information. It's like, but that's how we 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.080 change the game where it's like Tiger Woods teaching somebody 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.200 how to hit a golf ball doesn't affect him. It doesn't. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:43.960 It doesn't make him less of a up a golfer. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.760 Like what I'm saying me sharing information with you doesn't 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.600 actually hurt me at all. That's what we didn't understand. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:52.640 But but by the way, like, by the way, for 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.400 the first time I sees you brothers, I was like, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.720 day job is way more dangerous than moms because I'm 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.960 just being honest. It's like like like like you're telling 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.160 of people like I'm helping people career. You know, we're 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.159 helping people career come back in order. You guys are 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.440 telling people, look, you can make you money and keep 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.320 you money and you can build a whole company. Like 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.360 that's dangerous. But why is it dangerous? Though? Who opposed? 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.400 It's who do we have? Who examples? We have a y'all. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:22.119 Prior to y'all, who who was preaching and being cool? 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.560 Like I mean people, we just didn't respect he was 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.119 the preacher. He was the preacher that was smelling like culture. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:33.240 You know what I'm saying. So we prop that we 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:38.240 we are great consumers, right, we're not great producers, you 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.160 understand me. We are a culture that over consumes everybody 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.480 else's everything. Even when we go buy their brands, we're 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.040 not particularly binding because of the quality. Were binding because 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.040 of the branding. Right, we want to have somebody else 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.560 name to give us value and aspiration. We haven't learned 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.560 to take that. At one point eight trillion and having 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.840 much money, we haven't spending power and turned into an 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.720 investment dollar. Once we do that, now we have the 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.520 power of an entire nation, right when it reaches nations 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.080 on the planet Earth. The problem is is at number one, 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.560 we don't have collective sense of unity, collect the sense 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.679 of ownership, collect the sense of pride. We talk about culture, 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.199 but curture as this word that's thrown around so often, 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.920 but don't have that much meaning. Right, It's it's decentralizes 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:20.720 everywhere and everybody can say they are part of the 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.320 culture because they make a hot song, not because they're 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.080 part of some values, some standards, some principles, whatsoever. So 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.040 my whole thing is like now looking at each one 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.920 of us, like, we can all be brown and black men, 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.639 but what's your ethnicity? Right, Like, what is your values, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.159 your principles, your religion, your ideology or philosophy, what are 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.400 those things you stand on? Because we get it confused 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.119 because we look at each other and they all the 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.080 same color, but we all have different beliefs. Right, so 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.080 now we can't build with each other because I may 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.320 be talking about equity and ownership and building the entrepreneurship, 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.240 but your values may be completely different. But I gotta 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.840 confuse because I'm looking at the construct the race rather 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.800 than what's our ethnic ground. So men like myself, black Muslim, 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.720 masculine man with knowledge of self, you understand me ethnically, 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.640 we don't get inclusion. When they talk diversity and inclusion, 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.080 they're not talking about people like me now, they're talking 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.800 about the effeminated version of those who believe the same 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.119 things that they believe. So they can be black on 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.719 the outside but white on the inside. Right in the 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:25.360 movies and TVs entertainment, there's no representation of my archetype. Right, 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.280 many the people who think like me, look like me, 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.600 move like me. So when you talk about it being dangerous, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:32.840 you understand me. It's only dangerous because this is the 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.320 primal solution, right, and everybody else gets defeated. We make 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.840 our people producers. We're producing our own goods and services. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.120 That means we don't have to go outside our community, 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.439 and we stay uneducated, and we stay living in what 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.919 I like to call financial deserts where we don't have 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.840 access to somebody who has a financial education that can 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.600 give us advice on wealth and how to build business 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.280 and how to maintain our assets. Right, then we're gonna 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:02.080 always be the victims of some of everybody else courture 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.960 who does have that knowledge. Everybody else eats off us, 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.200 the Asian man, you know, us, a Jewish man, the 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.640 Messican man, everybody, because we don't produce our own anything, 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:12.960 so that means we have to go outside our community. 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:15.200 So when they see that at one point eight trillion, 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.000 and we say no, let's circulate that amongst us, that's 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.040 directly also as saying let's take it off the table. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:22.520 But how do we do that? Like, let's just get 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.199 straight to it. It's not wait, like, how do we 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.840 like I like, for instance, like I love the fact 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:31.280 that was it slutty vegan whenever they like whether you're 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.280 vegan or not? You know what I mean? Like, how 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.000 do we make more of that? So I think it 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:39.960 goes back to having a level of pride person foremost, 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:44.200 Like I feel like it's so crazy because like how 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.200 I was raised, how it was brought up, everything is black. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:49.320 So it's like I still carry that with me to 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.840 this day. So like my dentist is black, my doctor 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.520 is black, my lawyer is black, my account is black. 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:59.560 And I'm not doing that because I'm like it's just natural, 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.719 Like why would I not do it? And I'm not 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.840 compromising because they still qualified. I'm still like, you know, vetting, 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:11.800 But it's like, why would I celebrate having somebody other 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:13.480 than what? That doesn't even make any sense. We don't 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:15.040 want people that do that, like what I'm saying. So 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:16.600 it's like I was it's crazy because I was just 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:18.800 outside the hotel today and this guy ran up for 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:19.800 h me. He's like, yeah, I love you all. You 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:21.679 started talking to them and he's like yo. He's like 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:23.199 I was talking to this Jewish guy one time and 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:25.040 he told me you see this dollar and he's like yeah. 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:26.600 He's like you'll never have this dollar. And he's like 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:27.960 he thought it was a racial thing, but then he 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:29.760 broke it down to him. He said, look, when I 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.960 spend this dollar, I'm spending it at a Jewish restaurant 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:35.240 and they're gonna go to a junior dry clean They're 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:36.639 gonna put it in a Jewish bank. He was like, 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.680 you're never gonna see this because it's never gonna leave 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.120 our community. And they say they say the black dollar 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:43.800 leads in the community. I think within six minutes or 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.080 something like some crazy like I think everyone knows what 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.800 Kanye was saying, wasn't it wasn't too far fetched. I 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.240 think it's how he delivered it. But something I think 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.879 it was the first part is because we're gonna talk 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.600 about like building business infrastructure, but the first part is 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:01.520 you gotta how you view yourself. It's extremely important. Like 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:02.720 you know what I'm saying. It's like, if you don't 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:04.879 view yourself it's worthy, then you're not going to do 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:07.359 business with each other. Because if you're looking at somebody 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.119 like a nigga, you're gonna treat them like a nigga. 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:11.960 If I'm looking at you as my brother, like my brother, 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:16.200 so it's like, if I see you in a certain light, 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:19.840 I'm gonna be enthusiastic about spending money with you. And 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:21.919 it's not charity, Like that's what gotta get out of 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.280 that as well, Like if I'm supporting a business, it's 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:26.359 because I genuinely want to support the business because I 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:28.640 didn't have to tell you that you have to support Mercedes. 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:31.440 I didn't tell you had it. And it's like, yo, 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.080 you know, you know I brought that Gucci, now you 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:37.640 owe me, So we only do that with each other, 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:41.119 Like that's funny as hell. I went to open and 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:44.480 BBC and I just went and I bought out. I 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:46.320 brought out everything, and he was like he kind of 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:47.560 leaned over. It was like you know, I got you. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.520 I was like no, like like I gotta support. This 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:53.119 is what I'm here for. Like what the funk I 0:22:53.280 --> 0:23:01.960 need a hook up for? But you know I wanted 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:04.120 to support And it's like I forget what else even 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:07.199 vent his frames like you know, um Corey, like he 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.480 wouldn't open up and I just went and bought out everything. 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.520 And then it's like, you know, so many people and 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:14.480 it reminds me of that's how many people like people 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:16.360 think that they're supposed to get ship for free. If 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:18.800 that's if that, if that your brother, that ship got 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:21.399 to stop. We got that's the mentality though, But it 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:23.359 goes back to you said, like where are we supposed 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:25.280 to learn it from? That's why like this moment right here, 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:31.960 like being on drink Champs, this is important. It's a 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.240 street with important because for so long, especially our generation, 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:37.159 we grew up watching right, so we watched Puff, we 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:40.840 watched Jay, we watch uh cash Money, we watched all 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:43.159 these examples. We saw it happening. We just didn't know 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:45.280 how it's happening, and we only thought we can get 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.680 it through the couple of lanes. Like if we entertain this, 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:50.000 it's gonna be tough, all right, we gotta do the athletes. 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:51.800 If we don't do those two things, it's gonna be 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:53.920 really tough. Right until you start seeing like wait, this 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:56.960 is more to this, like we uncovered like yo, let's 0:23:56.960 --> 0:23:58.920 look at other people and other places of the world 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:01.200 who are actually accumulating wealth. Right, So when you never 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:03.440 hear about illegal Dan Godi, but he's about the black 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.359 man on the planet, right, nobody talks about that because 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:08.160 he's not a force, is not putting them on the list. 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:10.680 But illegal Dan Godi and he got he didn't get 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:13.120 it from entertainment. He didn't get it from a Mason. 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:18.320 Mussa was like the richest of all time. He's he 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:20.480 got it from national resources, he got for the oil. 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:23.000 He got it from construction, right, like his best friend 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:25.520 is building power plants. They can build their own city 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:29.800 just from the resources that they have. Dardos Pops. Yeah, 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:35.399 you know the artists. Hell's it goes with that cooperation. 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:36.680 Like if they don't report to you, how you know 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:38.800 what they're really doing. But you've got tons of billionaires 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.040 who was not reporting. They're doing real things. It's just 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:42.880 that when we look in America, we're like, all right, 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:46.240 Robert L. Smith, Yes, wealthy is black man in America, 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:48.560 but not in the world. There's no shame in What 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:52.040 about the guy that o bt Bob Johnson? He was 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:53.880 he was a billionaire too. He got a divorce, yea, 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:56.760 that called he called he lost four million the divorce. Yea. 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:03.120 It goes to the mindset, right like when when when 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:05.480 Jay said that line, he was like, uh, when he 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:07.159 bought the nets, so he was owning the nests. They 0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:08.639 were like you don't own it. But then he had 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:10.439 to remind people like yo, one percent of the billions 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:12.399 more than people ever seen, said we're gonna treat it 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:16.040 like this everyday thing, and then he sells. Spaining is like, well, 0:25:16.040 --> 0:25:18.960 he know he sold out, bro. He's actually merging the 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:21.760 company so it can expand he's now Thursday's part is 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:25.880 with the wealthiest man in quote unquote the world who 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:28.760 owns LVMH and so it's a strategic partnership to help 0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:31.359 the brand grow. That's not hurting him, right, He's actually 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:33.399 showing us how to do it right now. The problem 0:25:33.480 --> 0:25:35.199 is like for so long we watched, we watched, we 0:25:35.200 --> 0:25:37.600 didn't get the instructions on how to do it. So 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:40.160 that's why when we talk about the most dangerous, that's 0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:42.000 what this is right here. So the fact that we 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:44.960 got it from entertainers and now entertainment and music is 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:47.560 now looking at us like, yo, those are the guys. 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:50.600 This merger is important, my bad? But how important was it? 0:25:50.640 --> 0:25:52.640 Because you know, like I said, you guys are cool. 0:25:52.640 --> 0:25:55.520 It's different from hearing from people that's always suited and 0:25:55.560 --> 0:25:57.840 booted and you know they're looking too too, too good 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:00.639 and they don't have no sins and ship like that. 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:02.919 You know, it's different when you're you're human, you know me. So, 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:05.080 but how important was it for y'all to like connect 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:08.200 with entertainers and share y'all? I mean, that's what it's routed. 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:10.080 The first lesson I've ever wrote on financial lyricy was 0:26:10.119 --> 0:26:12.439 about jay Z because we grew up with him. Like 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:14.360 I told you when I saw you over night, I'm like, yo, 0:26:14.400 --> 0:26:15.520 you know he was on my door when I was 0:26:15.560 --> 0:26:17.360 growing up. Wow, like my mom, I got to pitch 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:28.640 I'm love because because that's what you meant to I'm like, yeah, 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:30.520 this is my guy. And so like when I was thinking, 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:32.320 like me and him had this connection when it was 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:34.399 like we were here lyrics, we wasn't hearing him the 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:36.399 same way everybody else was. We had Billy did the 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:38.760 code the message, and so I wrote. The first lesson 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:41.000 I wrote was all Black Scott sports entertainment, like he 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:44.080 wrote that ninety six. The first song on Z Reasonable Doubts, 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:46.600 the first song I'm Not Damn in two thousand tendansee 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:48.320 right right, Like if we look at the people who 0:26:48.359 --> 0:26:50.800 we think are successful with what avenues did they come from? 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:52.919 I'm like, yo, damn. Was he profound enough to know 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:55.440 that that was what we was gonna see twenty years 0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:57.520 later and then for him to change that and so 0:26:57.640 --> 0:26:59.280 hip hop has always been us. That's why I said 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:01.760 this is this is really the evolution of hip hop, right, 0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:05.280 like we watch people entertained, We've seen y'all become like, 0:27:05.320 --> 0:27:07.640 look at that, this is business and really it's going 0:27:07.680 --> 0:27:10.000 back to the route of hip hop understanding. I didn't 0:27:10.000 --> 0:27:12.480 think hip hop was gonna get this smart, like like 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:16.000 I'm so sorry, like you know, come on, was gonna 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:22.760 get this dumb I'm talking about I'm talking about Maybe 0:27:23.080 --> 0:27:25.639 it's totality, but I'm saying there's a lot of great 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:28.560 businessmen that are doing a lot of great ship on 0:27:28.600 --> 0:27:32.640 the business wise now because especially podcasts like podcast made 0:27:32.680 --> 0:27:34.560 it so we didn't you didn't think Russell back then 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:37.520 when he was doing Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm saying I'm 0:27:37.520 --> 0:27:39.760 adding on to that. Yeah, I'm saying even the Dame 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:43.080 Dashes and things that there was always shining examples. It 0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:46.159 never became the predominant culture, but that was they was 0:27:46.200 --> 0:27:48.240 always trying to make sure that they did not become 0:27:48.280 --> 0:27:50.639 the predominant culture. Because now they can't eat off you 0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:54.840 in this country. Right, We've always like, if you look 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:57.439 at the history of black people in America, we are 0:27:57.640 --> 0:28:01.000 some of the most inventive, innovative people that have exist 0:28:01.080 --> 0:28:03.080 in the history of time. Like it was a black 0:28:03.119 --> 0:28:05.919 man that created the door knob, to the to the stoplight, 0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:08.360 to the filament in the light bulb. But you don't 0:28:08.400 --> 0:28:11.720 think about black men and women in that respect, right, 0:28:11.720 --> 0:28:14.680 because it's not narrated like that. Why because we don't 0:28:14.720 --> 0:28:17.600 own media and we don't own the education systems. Right. 0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:20.679 If we educated each other based on what our actual 0:28:20.760 --> 0:28:23.159 contributions are and the things that we do in the 0:28:23.200 --> 0:28:27.280 important people within our curture, that becomes our curture. Our 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:29.920 thing is that we are the talent, but we don't 0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:32.240 own the talent, right, we are the curture. We don't 0:28:32.240 --> 0:28:35.440 own the courture. So somebody else is always managing our 0:28:35.480 --> 0:28:38.200 spirit and our energy and our bodies. I mean, but 0:28:38.240 --> 0:28:41.280 that ship just goes back to slavery. Right. We were 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:43.360 the talent. We were the ones that was doing all 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:45.160 the production. It was a brother that was creating the 0:28:45.200 --> 0:28:47.920 cotton gins and different inventions, but people were still in 0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:50.920 the patents and utilizing your labor it's the same thing 0:28:50.960 --> 0:28:55.200 with hip hop, is the same thing with the workforce. Right, Spiritually, 0:28:55.600 --> 0:28:58.240 the essence of hip hop is the most influential on 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:02.360 the planet Earth, right, But financially we don't own nor 0:29:02.480 --> 0:29:05.440 control none of that ship. Right, So if we can 0:29:05.520 --> 0:29:08.760 keep you uneducated, then we can control you. Right. That's 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:11.440 what we're talking about with the contracts and the legal 0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:13.760 leaves for us don't know nothing about that. But when 0:29:13.800 --> 0:29:15.680 you go back to the hip hop, hip hop started 0:29:15.720 --> 0:29:18.200 off the gods on the earth. Its started off piece 0:29:18.200 --> 0:29:20.640 of gods. That of what's suthing, nigga, you understand me. 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:22.840 It started off with kings and queens instead of niggas 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:25.680 and bitches. So it reverted and then that's when you 0:29:25.760 --> 0:29:27.640 was able to really control them because if it was 0:29:27.680 --> 0:29:30.360 based on knowledge, then people want to learn. If it's 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:33.480 based on ignorance, then people are satisfied with not knowing 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:35.800 and they just get a look. So people want to 0:29:35.880 --> 0:29:39.600 look successful, but they never learned the actual business of success. 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:42.240 So now we're at this point. If you look at 0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:47.080 every other courture, their wealth standard is steeped in education. 0:29:47.480 --> 0:29:50.440 Whether it's the Jewish, they look at education as the key. 0:29:50.760 --> 0:29:53.800 The Asian community, which has the highest, you know, grossing 0:29:53.840 --> 0:29:57.720 households in America, specifically the East Indian. Education is the 0:29:57.800 --> 0:30:00.880 key the way that Hispanics are growing right now. Education 0:30:01.200 --> 0:30:03.240 so for black people in America. And I'm not just 0:30:03.280 --> 0:30:06.320 talking about that college education that people are getting, because 0:30:06.320 --> 0:30:09.440 that's never prepared us. Right. We've we've given that ago. 0:30:09.560 --> 0:30:13.160 We've given millions and millions of dollars to these colleges 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:15.400 and we just told people to go, but we never 0:30:15.440 --> 0:30:17.400 really told them how to attain the skill sets for 0:30:17.600 --> 0:30:20.520 financial wealth, right, And what we're doing is saying that, 0:30:20.600 --> 0:30:22.640 all right, listen, you don't need to go four years 0:30:22.640 --> 0:30:25.160 to learn how to build wealth, you understand me. You 0:30:25.160 --> 0:30:27.880 can learn that just by listening, sitting down with a 0:30:27.920 --> 0:30:31.080 cult of educating yourself on YouTube. The game is changing 0:30:31.120 --> 0:30:34.000 with artificial intelligence and all sort of things. So we 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:37.120 so behind. Even when we catch up, we're still behind, 0:30:37.440 --> 0:30:39.640 you understand me. Because what we're catching up to is 0:30:39.800 --> 0:30:43.040 the ship that people are already pivoting from. So we 0:30:43.080 --> 0:30:45.400 have to not only be educated, but we have to 0:30:45.440 --> 0:30:48.400 be fishing with what we do with media and what 0:30:48.440 --> 0:30:50.680 we have right now, we have an opportunity to create 0:30:50.680 --> 0:30:53.400 a conglomerate to where you know, the only thing that 0:30:53.440 --> 0:30:56.440 we listen to is the things that we report right 0:30:56.520 --> 0:31:00.520 outside the media's control by whatever forces, institutions and hours. 0:31:00.560 --> 0:31:02.960 But when there's people of the courture we listen to 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:05.480 that we want somebody smart. We can find them in 0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:07.800 the court where we want to scientists and engineer and 0:31:08.000 --> 0:31:10.760 intellect whatever it is. We have all of that. And 0:31:10.760 --> 0:31:13.240 when I said the court, I'm talking about the ethnic 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:16.200 background of people who share those same common values. Who 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:19.320 won't that liberation, who won't that well, who won't that power? 0:31:19.520 --> 0:31:21.520 The people who don't want it, that's not my people. 0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:24.120 They just look like me, but they don't think like me, 0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:26.320 feel like me, a move like me. And we have 0:31:26.400 --> 0:31:28.840 to be able to concentrate our effort and our energy 0:31:28.880 --> 0:31:31.400 on those who are alike. And your hats hold up 0:31:31.440 --> 0:31:34.960 a second. I got something to say. Addiction is a 0:31:35.000 --> 0:31:39.200 treatable disease, but finding the right treatment can be overwhelming 0:31:39.280 --> 0:31:43.600 and confusing. Shatter Proof, a national nonprofit, is here to 0:31:43.680 --> 0:31:47.760 help without judgment. 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We're not the first people 0:32:26.240 --> 0:32:28.360 to ever talk about financial literacy, but we're the first 0:32:28.360 --> 0:32:31.720 people that really as scale did it in a way 0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:34.480 that was so relatable. I remember me coming up and 0:32:34.640 --> 0:32:37.880 me seeing rich people. They have they sneakers, fucked up. 0:32:38.200 --> 0:32:41.200 They were like they didn't really care about showing like 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:43.080 showing money, like you know what I mean. But you 0:32:43.160 --> 0:32:46.000 also got to understand like our background, like I always say, 0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:48.680 like I had to learn business, but I didn't have 0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:50.720 to learn culture. I am culture, Like I grew up 0:32:50.760 --> 0:32:53.800 in like War Report. I could recite that album from 0:32:54.360 --> 0:32:58.640 that ship, like even just coming here, like I got 0:32:58.720 --> 0:33:02.040 a photograph emory source like Gumbo, but I remember buying 0:33:02.040 --> 0:33:09.480 throwback jerseys. Right. That's so it's like not but that's 0:33:09.520 --> 0:33:14.040 really that's really inside, that's really inside of us. So 0:33:14.120 --> 0:33:16.680 you don't gotta. But for a long time, we thought 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:18.840 we had to compromise ourselves and like, Okay, in order 0:33:18.840 --> 0:33:21.120 to be taking serious, I gotta change the way I talk. 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:23.080 I have to put it's not a wrong putting a 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:24.920 suit on. But if we don't want to wear a suit, 0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:26.520 we don't have to wear like you know what I'm saying. 0:33:26.560 --> 0:33:28.640 We can still have a very high level of intelligence 0:33:28.840 --> 0:33:31.320 but not compromise who we are as people. So the 0:33:31.400 --> 0:33:34.200 hip hop that's just us. So now what happens is 0:33:34.200 --> 0:33:37.280 that people see us and they're like, damn, that's really relatable, 0:33:37.440 --> 0:33:39.720 Like I can actually achieve that. So it's like now 0:33:39.760 --> 0:33:43.200 the sanitation worker is on his app training stocks. Like 0:33:43.240 --> 0:33:46.200 what I'm saying we're gonna in a five is it's 0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:48.680 given inspiration because it's like for a long time, you thought, Okay, 0:33:48.720 --> 0:33:50.840 you gotta go to Harvard. It's over your head, you 0:33:50.920 --> 0:33:53.800 gotta be a super you know, I Q genius. But 0:33:53.880 --> 0:33:57.040 we're breaking all of those barriers and it's it's worldwide. 0:33:57.080 --> 0:33:59.280 So when we go to London and thousands of people 0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:02.440 come out because people have been disenfranchise for a long 0:34:02.480 --> 0:34:05.960 time all over the world, Jamaica, London, Nigeria, all of that. 0:34:06.080 --> 0:34:08.560 It's like a pyramid, like people at the top keep 0:34:08.600 --> 0:34:11.399 power to themselves, keep information to themselves, and they keep 0:34:11.400 --> 0:34:13.800 the people on the bottom ignorant, and they keep them entertained. 0:34:14.239 --> 0:34:17.239 They keep them entertained with sports and entertainment and just 0:34:17.320 --> 0:34:19.719 you know, everyday nonsense. But now it's like, Okay, you 0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:21.800 can still have sports entertainment. We love that as well, 0:34:22.040 --> 0:34:24.759 but we're gonna have some education as well. And now 0:34:24.800 --> 0:34:27.680 you he said, we went to London. I don't think 0:34:27.760 --> 0:34:30.880 y'all missed that, the Royal Albert Hall. We're just one 0:34:30.920 --> 0:34:33.239 of the most prestigious venues in the world, and we 0:34:33.320 --> 0:34:35.880 talked about financial education and it was sold out with 0:34:35.920 --> 0:34:45.799 three thousand plus. Yeah, because they well, we do. It's 0:34:45.840 --> 0:34:49.080 not normal, but we're normalizing it, you understand me. But 0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:52.239 we still want people to understand that this is the 0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:55.200 highest level of excellence that we're achieving as young black men. 0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:58.600 So when we're selling out different places and when you 0:34:58.640 --> 0:35:02.240 have crowds of people like it is a concert outside, 0:35:02.280 --> 0:35:05.000 because we're changing the narrative around that that has to 0:35:05.000 --> 0:35:07.640 be reported and respected and observed. That's the way you 0:35:07.719 --> 0:35:10.320 change it, you understand me. But if it's like okay, 0:35:10.320 --> 0:35:14.000 they just they're always doing something right, then therefore people 0:35:14.000 --> 0:35:16.320 don't see it as special, they don't see it as obtained, 0:35:16.320 --> 0:35:18.320 they don't see it as damn. This is a blueprint 0:35:18.360 --> 0:35:20.759 that we're setting across the planet Earth. You know, we 0:35:20.840 --> 0:35:23.239 may be some of the flies, young gentlemen that has 0:35:23.280 --> 0:35:30.919 ever been born. You know, being from Oakland, I feel 0:35:30.960 --> 0:35:33.840 like you know Oakland even I feel like even the 0:35:33.880 --> 0:35:36.720 dirtiest person in Oakland, even the most ignorant person in Oakland, 0:35:36.719 --> 0:35:40.160 gonna have some level of knowledge yourself. Because of the Oakland. 0:35:41.600 --> 0:35:47.200 Everybody knows how to know and they know how to talk, 0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:50.680 right because Oakland is one of the Mecas of game. Right, 0:35:50.719 --> 0:35:53.200 so you learn how to be able to communicate and 0:35:53.200 --> 0:35:55.160 now to speak and how to see through the bullshit. 0:35:55.239 --> 0:35:57.520 But also you know, the home of the Panthers and 0:35:57.920 --> 0:36:00.840 all of the different movements. Crack came from Oakland, you 0:36:00.920 --> 0:36:04.640 understand me. So growing up in Oakland, you learn about this. 0:36:05.160 --> 0:36:07.759 So it's very hard to be ignorant of the way 0:36:07.760 --> 0:36:09.840 that the world is and works, and what's your position 0:36:09.840 --> 0:36:13.279 as a black man. So whatever you take with that 0:36:13.320 --> 0:36:16.239 style the same way from Brooklyn and New York. These 0:36:16.280 --> 0:36:20.240 are very specific and different type of places. You understand 0:36:20.239 --> 0:36:22.839 me that whatever is brewed from there, it's gonna have 0:36:22.920 --> 0:36:27.040 court you and consciousness already in it. Right, and especially 0:36:27.080 --> 0:36:29.640 when you throw in being a Muslim and being masculine, 0:36:29.680 --> 0:36:32.080 where you show up and present yourself is gonna be 0:36:32.080 --> 0:36:34.720 with power. I'm not trying to acquiesce to the way 0:36:34.920 --> 0:36:37.520 the standards have been before me. I want to create 0:36:37.560 --> 0:36:40.200 something new. So those who look at me and be like, yo, 0:36:40.840 --> 0:36:43.520 nineteen keys can do it, then I can do it right. 0:36:43.640 --> 0:36:45.800 Like I've been through the streets, I didn't have the cases. 0:36:45.840 --> 0:36:47.400 I didn't did all of the things that will give 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:49.080 you an excuse to be like, well he had this, that, 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:52.080 and the third note, I've been through the same trappings, 0:36:52.120 --> 0:36:54.040 but it was the knowledge that got me out of it, 0:36:54.120 --> 0:36:57.920 the perspective, the experience. So therefore we're setting an example 0:36:58.000 --> 0:37:00.799 to say that all black men the planet Earth can 0:37:00.800 --> 0:37:03.279 stand up and beat themselves without having to bow down 0:37:03.320 --> 0:37:05.520 to the power structure. It's that same thing that he 0:37:05.600 --> 0:37:07.719 was talking about sports and the table. This is something 0:37:07.719 --> 0:37:18.040 that's very high on black Twitter, like like world Dion Sanders, people, 0:37:18.080 --> 0:37:20.359 I could taking him and I don't understand that, like 0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:22.319 like he's he has a job to do, doesn't he? 0:37:22.760 --> 0:37:28.880 And what what does interview Sanders um at Jackson State? Actually, 0:37:28.920 --> 0:37:33.719 you've been on there, you've been I'll say this about 0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:36.680 I understand and I respect the move because at the 0:37:36.760 --> 0:37:38.120 end of the day, it's just business, like you know, 0:37:38.560 --> 0:37:42.680 but I understand why people are are disappointed because how 0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:44.960 it was packaged and not even he might not have 0:37:45.000 --> 0:37:46.719 done this, but how it was package was that it's 0:37:46.760 --> 0:37:49.040 more than business. When you take a job at Carlorado, 0:37:49.080 --> 0:37:51.080 you know, that's just a job. You take a job 0:37:51.080 --> 0:37:53.360 at Jackson State and it's sold as you know, this 0:37:53.400 --> 0:37:57.000 is for the and this is for the culture. And 0:37:57.200 --> 0:37:59.440 now athletes can come and play and we're gonna support 0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:01.120 our own and you start to build up steam and 0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:03.879 then Rick Ross is coming down there, Gillian Willow coming 0:38:03.880 --> 0:38:06.200 down there, We're coming down everybody's coming down there. It's lit. 0:38:06.400 --> 0:38:08.240 And now you've got the top players in the country 0:38:08.520 --> 0:38:11.759 considering going to hpc US and people donating money. And 0:38:11.800 --> 0:38:13.160 did he told me he gonna write a check for 0:38:13.160 --> 0:38:15.200 a million dollars and it's more than just a job, 0:38:15.680 --> 0:38:17.799 you know what I'm saying. So people looked at it like, Okay, 0:38:17.880 --> 0:38:20.920 Dion sand is the most popular coaching sports right now, 0:38:21.680 --> 0:38:24.239 he's the most popular coaching sports. But he's supposed to know. 0:38:25.239 --> 0:38:26.600 I'm not mad at M. I'm not mad at but 0:38:26.640 --> 0:38:28.560 I'm just trying to show you how the other side 0:38:28.680 --> 0:38:31.840 is looking at it, like damn. For years, we've been defunded, 0:38:32.120 --> 0:38:34.759 we never had credibility, we've been embarrassed all of this. 0:38:35.200 --> 0:38:38.960 So now we're finally getting national recognition, we finally got pride, 0:38:39.280 --> 0:38:41.279 We finally can stand up because it's just throw it 0:38:41.280 --> 0:38:43.719 out there. In Colorado is a white school. It is 0:38:43.760 --> 0:38:50.040 super super like that. As soon as we get to 0:38:50.120 --> 0:38:52.560 the top, now, all of that's taken from us. So 0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:54.879 I'm not I'm not knocking him because he's just one person, 0:38:55.120 --> 0:38:58.360 but I'm just trying to just I can understand that 0:38:58.520 --> 0:39:00.680 some of that disappointm becomes stress. It's more than just 0:39:00.760 --> 0:39:04.160 a job. Like at HBCU, at that level, it's for 0:39:04.280 --> 0:39:07.040 the coach. What happens if his starting players over that's 0:39:07.280 --> 0:39:08.959 that's that's part of it now, right. So the first 0:39:09.000 --> 0:39:11.120 like that's what he did at at Jackson City right, 0:39:11.160 --> 0:39:12.680 Like the first thing he did was brought his family. 0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:14.440 Like he lives there, you know what I'm saying, So 0:39:14.520 --> 0:39:16.200 like that's part of it. So his son is there, 0:39:16.280 --> 0:39:18.600 his daughter works on campus, his other son plays for 0:39:18.680 --> 0:39:20.960 the team. So he brought them to Colorado. To the 0:39:21.040 --> 0:39:23.840 thing with Dion is like he's a trailblazer, right, but 0:39:23.920 --> 0:39:26.560 the trailblazer has set a pace for people to now follow. 0:39:27.000 --> 0:39:28.759 So like, yeah, he did his job. He was there 0:39:28.920 --> 0:39:30.759 one year, there was five hundred. The next year they 0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:32.640 tendant to this year they undefeated. They're gonna play in 0:39:32.680 --> 0:39:34.640 the ball game. He's done what he was supposed to 0:39:34.640 --> 0:39:36.479 do as a coach. He said, I'm not a leader 0:39:36.520 --> 0:39:38.600 of a school. I'm a leader of men, right and 0:39:38.800 --> 0:39:41.160 young women who are trying to get their education. He 0:39:41.239 --> 0:39:43.480 could do that anywhere. The fact that he chose Colorado, 0:39:43.560 --> 0:39:45.400 like I get it, Like for everything he's saying, I 0:39:45.480 --> 0:39:47.560 get that standpoint, But it does that stop him for 0:39:47.640 --> 0:39:50.640 now leading young men and women? Nah, who's next? Now? 0:39:50.719 --> 0:39:52.520 Who fills those shoes? It's like us right, like we 0:39:52.640 --> 0:39:55.400 kicked down doors right now, right, we're getting two spaces. 0:39:55.560 --> 0:39:57.520 Like what you said about sports entertainment and then being 0:39:57.560 --> 0:40:00.440 that elite, But there has to be a ladder in between, right, 0:40:00.480 --> 0:40:02.839 Like we became that ladder. Like, now who follows him? 0:40:03.120 --> 0:40:05.919 Who's the Hall of Fame athlete or a football player 0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:08.160 that says, you know what, Dion paved the way, Let 0:40:08.200 --> 0:40:10.400 me go take those rings from what he did. And 0:40:11.320 --> 0:40:13.799 Warren Sapp could be one of them. Right, But there's 0:40:13.880 --> 0:40:17.000 there's a bunch of Hall of Fame, there's a you 0:40:17.040 --> 0:40:18.839 can go down the list of names, right, but it's 0:40:18.920 --> 0:40:24.320 like who's going to do it? This is important for 0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:27.880 black Twitter and everybody that's criticizing to understand, right, we 0:40:28.040 --> 0:40:32.080 love criticizing, We love throwing rocks, we love talking about something. 0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:36.520 Of people that criticized have never done anything productive. So 0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:39.640 it's like, instead of criticizing, he's actually done something for HBCU. 0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:41.320 You could have said he could have did more, but 0:40:41.400 --> 0:40:43.879 he did a lot. What have you done? So it's 0:40:43.920 --> 0:40:45.560 like us, we just did a free event at Howard 0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:48.439 University on Saturday. Right, that's all way of giving back. 0:40:48.640 --> 0:40:51.000 If whoever, if you're at Howard or if you just 0:40:51.120 --> 0:40:53.960 in d C, come learn education, learn about learned about 0:40:53.960 --> 0:40:57.919 credit yea. So it's like instead of instead of looking 0:40:57.960 --> 0:41:00.799 at this as an opportunity to criticize somebody. Why don't 0:41:00.800 --> 0:41:02.879 you look at this as an opportunity to actually do something. 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:05.800 Give some money to an HBCU, go to an event, 0:41:06.000 --> 0:41:08.960 buy some merchandise, like, do something to to somebody. Like 0:41:09.120 --> 0:41:13.160 I'm saying, it's like, but that's humanity's problem. I don't 0:41:13.200 --> 0:41:14.880 want to say black people, but that's humanity problem, but 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:18.320 especially black people. Now stop doing that. Stop doing that 0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:20.560 because it happens all the time. It happens when they 0:41:20.600 --> 0:41:22.479 don't like if Nori do an interview with you, they're 0:41:22.480 --> 0:41:24.960 gonna criticize that. They don't like deon standing, they're gonna criticize. 0:41:24.960 --> 0:41:26.920 And it's like, you spend your whole day criticize with 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:30.240 somebody and you have not done anything to contribute anything 0:41:30.360 --> 0:41:34.759 productive in anybody's lives. So that's that's that's something detrimental, 0:41:35.040 --> 0:41:37.359 and we got to call it out and encourage people 0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:41.160 to actually help. And it's being reactive instead of proact. 0:41:41.920 --> 0:41:44.800 I always say, as well, just to be God's advocate 0:41:44.920 --> 0:41:48.120 on that one is that you know, you can't market 0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:53.279 a revolution in the movement and then sell out for capitalism. 0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:55.759 I think that's what people are tired of. That's what 0:41:55.840 --> 0:41:59.799 they figured. That is right because persons individual success don't 0:41:59.840 --> 0:42:02.960 matter here to the court. Individual successes you and your 0:42:03.080 --> 0:42:06.120 family when it was about the people in the movement, 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:09.880 and we felt like this was for HBCUs that's why 0:42:10.000 --> 0:42:13.440 everybody cared. So when he made that decision, he took 0:42:13.520 --> 0:42:16.000 the movement with him. You understand me. He sold out 0:42:16.040 --> 0:42:19.160 the movement as well for his decision for himself. So 0:42:19.280 --> 0:42:22.160 I think that's very important that when we do things, 0:42:22.440 --> 0:42:25.560 you understand me. Let's not trap our people into this 0:42:25.719 --> 0:42:28.000 feeling like, yo, I'm doing this for Black America. I'm 0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:30.120 doing this to get us like you have to also, 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:32.879 so when people are disappointed because you raised their expectations. 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:38.319 So let me tell you one thing I'm sorry to give. 0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:42.239 Like it's like when we're in UH, we wanted to 0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:44.520 own our ship. The reason why one of the biggest 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:46.320 reason why we went to vote with vote was gonna, 0:42:46.680 --> 0:42:52.600 you know, let us own our ships. But I'm gonna 0:42:52.600 --> 0:42:55.600 be honest with you. There for vote sales tomorrow and 0:42:55.640 --> 0:42:58.359 they didn't tell me. I kind of wouldn't be mad, 0:42:59.160 --> 0:43:00.440 you know what I'm saying. Even all I had a 0:43:00.480 --> 0:43:03.120 lot to do with properly theirselves. I probably wouldn't be mad. 0:43:03.200 --> 0:43:06.200 I feel like we should have something you know that 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:09.000 the ones us like, yo, you know has it. It's 0:43:09.040 --> 0:43:11.080 gonna be it's not gonna be the same. And as 0:43:11.120 --> 0:43:13.839 long as it's that because I realized now that none 0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:15.640 of the most of the ship is not really friendship. 0:43:16.680 --> 0:43:19.480 Most of the ship is business even when it's friendship, 0:43:20.280 --> 0:43:23.320 and you gotta learn how to take the punches with it. 0:43:24.160 --> 0:43:26.120 You understand what I'm trying to say, Like like it's 0:43:26.160 --> 0:43:28.239 been rumors all the time, like vote was selling over here, 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:30.120 and I'm like, I don't even make the phone calls 0:43:30.160 --> 0:43:32.200 be like yo, I'm a little heated, Like I don't 0:43:32.200 --> 0:43:33.520 even do that. I'll just be like all right, cool 0:43:33.520 --> 0:43:36.800 if that's the fact, because that's what we kind of 0:43:36.800 --> 0:43:39.160 signed up for business. So isn't that the same when 0:43:39.160 --> 0:43:40.719 it comes to Dion? I know what I think The 0:43:41.040 --> 0:43:44.040 difference between Dion and this is his the movement around 0:43:44.120 --> 0:43:47.799 the hbc US. He's bringing these top athletes over here, 0:43:48.120 --> 0:43:50.640 you understand, men, people is like finally that's dope. And 0:43:50.760 --> 0:43:53.520 the way that he pushed it out, their very inspirational movement. 0:43:53.600 --> 0:43:56.000 You thought he's gonna be there a couple more years 0:43:56.480 --> 0:43:58.919 him going to Colorado or white school. Even if he's 0:43:58.920 --> 0:44:01.759 bringing talented there's bring get money to there, you understand me. 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:04.120 If it's an hbc U school, then we see that 0:44:04.200 --> 0:44:05.800 as a black thing. We see that as when we 0:44:05.880 --> 0:44:08.480 talk about well from circulating the black dollar and educating 0:44:08.520 --> 0:44:11.360 ourselves to make that a better top tier school. So 0:44:11.560 --> 0:44:13.439 this is the idea of the mind of the people. 0:44:13.560 --> 0:44:15.800 Everybody is not even educated to know the nuance to 0:44:15.880 --> 0:44:18.080 the business structure of the deals. So they're going to 0:44:18.200 --> 0:44:21.160 react emotionally, of course, because the way you got people 0:44:21.239 --> 0:44:25.320 involved was getting them emotionally involved, right, getting them inspired, 0:44:25.400 --> 0:44:27.759 letting them see this and feel this, like, Yo, we're 0:44:27.800 --> 0:44:30.040 finally doing it over here. So I think that the 0:44:30.080 --> 0:44:32.640 way people responding to Dion was the only way that 0:44:32.680 --> 0:44:35.120 they knew how to respond to Dion. You understand me. 0:44:35.239 --> 0:44:37.080 You went to a white school and got a great deal, 0:44:37.200 --> 0:44:40.759 and for his career, that's great before the idea of 0:44:40.800 --> 0:44:43.960 what he was doing to HBCUs that has no value 0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:51.160 to its real quick because I like this, I like like, 0:44:51.200 --> 0:44:54.440 I feel like money of God. They can always use 0:44:54.480 --> 0:44:57.239 money against you, and a lot of niggas always turned 0:44:57.280 --> 0:44:59.280 for money and we can make any of every excuse, 0:44:59.360 --> 0:45:01.880 but if we did the same thing, we would be sellouts. Now, 0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:06.080 I don't think that if I come out here and 0:45:06.160 --> 0:45:08.520 present myself as a thought leader and not care for 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:11.120 the people, you understand me, and then some white company 0:45:11.280 --> 0:45:13.279 hires me Gucci, you'd be like, yo, well we want 0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:17.200 you to be our representatives, and I make the right. 0:45:19.480 --> 0:45:27.680 That's never imagine that right. They give me nineteen million 0:45:27.760 --> 0:45:30.719 and like want you to be the face I'm selling up. 0:45:31.760 --> 0:45:34.319 So it's to me, it's no difference when you're making 0:45:34.400 --> 0:45:37.080 that same decision. Now, what he did was great and 0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:39.200 what he represented. I think the way we got to 0:45:39.239 --> 0:45:43.600 communicate is not bringing these expectations like I'm a revolutionary 0:45:43.960 --> 0:45:48.200 when really I'm a capitalist. Because you said the word movement, 0:45:48.280 --> 0:45:51.880 and so when I hear it, movements required this more 0:45:51.880 --> 0:45:53.799 than one person, right, And so when you think about 0:45:53.800 --> 0:45:55.520 the den situation, is it a movement or is it 0:45:55.600 --> 0:45:59.080 a moment? Because it was a moment for Jackson. Staton 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:01.799 didn't help grand we don't know, did it help Morgan State, 0:46:01.800 --> 0:46:03.600 did it help out We don't know because we never 0:46:03.640 --> 0:46:05.360 got to see the long term effects of it. And 0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:08.160 so it was a moment, right, But it becomes a 0:46:08.200 --> 0:46:11.399 movement when somebody now carries that on, right, So that's 0:46:11.640 --> 0:46:13.560 that's how it's built. So that's what I'm looking at it, like, 0:46:13.640 --> 0:46:15.960 all right, there's so many of us, and there's so 0:46:16.080 --> 0:46:18.200 many alumni who come from these schools that never give back, 0:46:18.360 --> 0:46:21.400 like what he said, Like there's places there's plenty of 0:46:21.440 --> 0:46:24.120 pastigious alumni. Are they coming to support the schools? Are 0:46:24.160 --> 0:46:26.200 they becoming boosts for their schools? Are they rooting for 0:46:26.239 --> 0:46:28.400 the school that they like on TV? You see what 0:46:28.440 --> 0:46:30.080 I'm saying, and so like, in order for there to 0:46:30.120 --> 0:46:31.680 be a movement, it has to be more than one. 0:46:31.960 --> 0:46:33.759 So if Dion is just the one, you take the 0:46:33.800 --> 0:46:35.640 head of the leader, the leader of the movement out, 0:46:35.719 --> 0:46:38.600 and now there's no movement. But you're the one you started. 0:46:38.680 --> 0:46:40.799 You bring other people in so that it makes sure 0:46:40.840 --> 0:46:43.320 that it progresses. But now, whether he was somebody that 0:46:43.440 --> 0:46:45.480 kicked in the door and this is always his idea 0:46:45.600 --> 0:46:47.480 to go to one of these schools, then there was 0:46:47.560 --> 0:46:50.960 always a career movement. It was never a movement. Now 0:46:51.040 --> 0:46:54.320 whether that relies on his shoulder not as a different conversation, 0:46:54.640 --> 0:46:57.400 but when we're talking about creating a successful template. It 0:46:57.520 --> 0:47:00.759 has to be long term. Anything a person doesn't short term. Yeah, 0:47:00.840 --> 0:47:03.200 person can be inspired and do it, but that doesn't 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:05.440 really make you the founder of the movement unless you 0:47:05.640 --> 0:47:08.160 are there to usher it in for the next generation. 0:47:09.280 --> 0:47:11.160 That's the founder of the movement of hip hop. There's 0:47:11.160 --> 0:47:12.759 so many people that's the founders of a movement of 0:47:12.840 --> 0:47:14.600 hip hop who kept up to the same thing, who 0:47:14.640 --> 0:47:16.840 didn't go commercial, who didn't make these commercial records, and 0:47:16.920 --> 0:47:20.000 they are not financially and what is an example that 0:47:20.080 --> 0:47:21.560 you have for them? Let me, let me, let me, 0:47:21.719 --> 0:47:24.120 let me rebut let people were Bro just said, because 0:47:24.280 --> 0:47:33.799 I'm gonna use nineteen, I'm gonna use I'm gonna use 0:47:33.880 --> 0:47:35.600 some of his knowledge that he dropped on us a 0:47:35.640 --> 0:47:38.560 well back. He said, Black people have a savior complex. 0:47:39.000 --> 0:47:43.160 But we always look for one person coming back, Black 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:45.160 Jesus coming back to save us. Like what I'm saying, 0:47:45.200 --> 0:47:47.440 whether it's Malcolm X, whether it's markets carf, whether this 0:47:47.760 --> 0:47:50.200 whoever right, And it's like that's always told you all 0:47:50.200 --> 0:47:51.879 the time. People, I'm like, I'm not a leader, I'm 0:47:51.920 --> 0:47:54.160 a friend. Because leaders never have to tell somebody that 0:47:54.239 --> 0:47:56.400 their leader. If you choose to follow somebody and that's 0:47:56.440 --> 0:47:58.279 that's up to you to choose. But I'm not. It's 0:47:58.320 --> 0:48:00.439 too much pressure and too much sponsibiling, and a leader 0:48:00.480 --> 0:48:02.200 like I saying I'm not a leader. I'm just here 0:48:02.239 --> 0:48:04.640 doing my responsibility, just like you're doing your responsiblitybody should 0:48:04.640 --> 0:48:07.160 be doing the responsibility. So it's like a racist run. 0:48:07.840 --> 0:48:10.360 It's a marathon and you you have a baton. So 0:48:10.520 --> 0:48:14.520 sometimes every relationship ends. Every relationship ends. Sometimes the relationship 0:48:14.560 --> 0:48:16.680 could be six months, Sometimes relationship could be sixty years. 0:48:16.719 --> 0:48:18.719 But at one point is going to end. It's not 0:48:18.800 --> 0:48:21.080 about how long it last, is about how impactful it 0:48:21.280 --> 0:48:24.480 was while it lasted. Dion saying, is three years was 0:48:24.560 --> 0:48:28.279 more impact food than fifty years of what most people 0:48:28.400 --> 0:48:30.600 have ever done for HBCU. And by the way, I 0:48:30.640 --> 0:48:33.320 don't watch college football at all. The first time I 0:48:33.360 --> 0:48:37.000 started watching, but I didn't know it was so what. 0:48:37.200 --> 0:48:39.080 So what I'm saying is that he said, can you 0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:41.399 be a revolutionary or a capitalist? You could do both. 0:48:42.320 --> 0:48:45.160 We never apologized for making money because we were in 0:48:45.280 --> 0:48:47.080 a we're in a capitalistic society. This is what they 0:48:47.120 --> 0:48:49.000 put us in. I ain't I ain't choose to be 0:48:49.040 --> 0:48:50.560 in America. This is what I was born in some 0:48:50.800 --> 0:48:52.719 make the most of the opportunity that's provided for me. 0:48:53.040 --> 0:48:56.520 They demonize wealth and say, oh, you gotta be poor. 0:48:57.000 --> 0:48:59.600 And you know, somebody said on the other day, they said, 0:48:59.680 --> 0:49:02.880 Jesus said that you have a rich man has the 0:49:03.160 --> 0:49:06.239 odds of a needle in a haystack of making it 0:49:06.280 --> 0:49:08.120 to heaven. Something like that. I said, what's the odds 0:49:08.160 --> 0:49:09.640 of a poor person? That's what they never told you. 0:49:10.600 --> 0:49:12.080 You know what I'm saying, Like, what's the odds of 0:49:12.120 --> 0:49:14.440 a poor person? Probably the same? Like you know what 0:49:14.480 --> 0:49:17.000 I'm saying. They make it cool to be poor and 0:49:17.160 --> 0:49:19.840 broke and be but like you said, nobody's coming to 0:49:19.920 --> 0:49:22.520 help you when you when you're a poor revolutionary and 0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:24.480 when you're a poor founder and now you need to 0:49:24.600 --> 0:49:26.440 your teeth fix, all they're gonna say. It's not bro 0:49:26.840 --> 0:49:30.160 Your time is plast So it's like you can't you 0:49:30.320 --> 0:49:32.839 can't look at it from that standpoint because I look 0:49:32.880 --> 0:49:35.960 at like Deon Sanders can't. He added a lot of value, 0:49:36.040 --> 0:49:38.720 He added a lot of attention. He sparked the movement. 0:49:38.880 --> 0:49:41.080 Now who's who's turning it next? He never signed up 0:49:41.120 --> 0:49:43.879 for a lifelong contract to be Eddie Robinson the coach 0:49:44.200 --> 0:49:46.520 for seventy years. He did his three year He said 0:49:46.560 --> 0:49:48.600 it from day one. It's all about the money. That's 0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:54.120 don't make the argument that people should have been thrown 0:49:54.160 --> 0:49:56.120 a bunch of money into that situation to keep him 0:49:56.120 --> 0:49:59.640 there exactly. It was still it's still no, three years 0:49:59.760 --> 0:50:09.360 is a long time. It depends. Three years is as 0:50:09.440 --> 0:50:14.320 different than so. But you gotta look at it like this, 0:50:14.480 --> 0:50:17.120 because all the men that I've ever respected throughout history, 0:50:17.280 --> 0:50:19.279 you understany stood on what they stood on for a 0:50:19.360 --> 0:50:22.520 lifelong mission. Once they started it. You understand me. Now, 0:50:22.680 --> 0:50:24.200 I don't know what the rest of his life is 0:50:24.239 --> 0:50:27.320 going to be. The question that you first arose was 0:50:27.360 --> 0:50:30.000 about the way that people felt about it, right, And 0:50:30.080 --> 0:50:32.080 I believe that the way people felt about it was 0:50:32.160 --> 0:50:35.279 the way that he positioned it. He created the atmosphere 0:50:35.600 --> 0:50:38.319 that if I leave abruptly to a white school, then 0:50:38.360 --> 0:50:41.160 Black America's gonna feel this way because I got Black 0:50:41.200 --> 0:50:43.800 America hopes up by the change that I was making. 0:50:44.320 --> 0:50:46.840 So I don't think that it's controversial for people to 0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:50.480 react in the matter when you position their emotions into hope. 0:50:50.840 --> 0:50:56.680 You understand had nothing to do personally with black who's 0:50:57.000 --> 0:51:01.160 always said he was he who said he because times 0:51:08.160 --> 0:51:12.399 that he was not much of a player. He even 0:51:12.440 --> 0:51:18.080 went to an HBCU just to to and he was 0:51:18.120 --> 0:51:20.600 sitting there with his new wife and baby Face with 0:51:20.719 --> 0:51:23.080 his new girl, and he was with baby Faces. Oh, 0:51:23.880 --> 0:51:26.120 they were all together, and I was like, this is gangs. 0:51:27.239 --> 0:51:32.800 I was liked, this just crack. That just cra craigs 0:51:32.800 --> 0:51:38.120 a prop. But but yeah, because the way you broke 0:51:38.160 --> 0:51:40.600 it down and the way you guys said it, I 0:51:40.640 --> 0:51:41.920 didn't look at it like that, kind of looked at 0:51:41.920 --> 0:51:43.719 it like the Lebron decision as posed to looking at 0:51:43.719 --> 0:51:46.759 it as an historical black cop Lebron decision, you know 0:51:46.800 --> 0:51:50.520 when Lebron because everyone was just the decision, the rector decision. 0:51:53.640 --> 0:51:57.960 But hold, let's give it. Give the flowers flowers. You 0:51:58.000 --> 0:52:00.040 know our shows about giving you all your flowers like that, 0:52:02.280 --> 0:52:07.040 and you're gonna rebute the guy like that. Wow? Yes, wow, 0:52:08.080 --> 0:52:22.719 actually flower, I'm not deserving. Moving on right shout By 0:52:22.760 --> 0:52:26.200 the way, I also believe that it's it's always dangerous 0:52:26.200 --> 0:52:28.600 when we criticize black man do any good. He ain't. 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:31.240 He hasn't done any wrong, he hasn't done anything evil. 0:52:31.600 --> 0:52:34.919 It's just perspectives, opinions and emotions around the moves he's 0:52:35.040 --> 0:52:37.799 making because they're public. But him as a black man, 0:52:37.920 --> 0:52:40.240 the work that he's done, the inspiration that he showed, 0:52:40.560 --> 0:52:46.520 he deserves his flowers for that, you understand me. So 0:52:46.719 --> 0:52:50.600 one thing, um, I all noticed as soon as you 0:52:50.640 --> 0:52:53.480 walk in. Only I got on the roading right, only 0:52:53.600 --> 0:52:58.080 got some people. Some people will say, depending on who 0:52:58.120 --> 0:53:02.560 you ask, they'll say, you know, watches, this investment that's 0:53:02.560 --> 0:53:06.840 going down. It's investment that goes up and it's a 0:53:06.920 --> 0:53:09.080 roller coaster. What do you guys say to people who 0:53:09.680 --> 0:53:11.960 who's never party, how to watch? And this is this 0:53:12.040 --> 0:53:13.360 is a fact right now, you know, just having a 0:53:13.400 --> 0:53:16.200 little watch just you know, you know, looking good, feeling good. 0:53:16.600 --> 0:53:21.480 Some of these watches going up pretty cool with it, 0:53:23.320 --> 0:53:25.840 when some of them are staying still. The watch market 0:53:25.960 --> 0:53:29.160 is doing great right now if you look right now. 0:53:29.239 --> 0:53:31.680 Of course you know they haven't announced it, of course, 0:53:31.719 --> 0:53:35.359 but we're in a recession right some things we're going 0:53:35.480 --> 0:53:38.040 through some of the highest points of inflation in the 0:53:38.200 --> 0:53:43.080 nation right now. Right Plane tickets, food prices, healthcare and 0:53:43.200 --> 0:53:45.880 ontitude of different things are very high. And a lot 0:53:45.960 --> 0:53:48.000 of the different assets that people was holding on to 0:53:48.160 --> 0:53:50.080 have lost value. Right. This is the point in time 0:53:50.080 --> 0:53:52.560 where a lot of people have overlayvers bought too many 0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:56.400 assets and they end up selling. But role Lexus specifically 0:53:56.560 --> 0:53:59.319 has been a nice special case that even through all 0:53:59.400 --> 0:54:01.919 of this up and down with inflation and recession news 0:54:02.000 --> 0:54:05.239 and stocks being down and crypto being down, the rolexes 0:54:05.280 --> 0:54:08.160 have held their value and increased in value. Right and 0:54:08.600 --> 0:54:15.080 so right now, rox store, that's important. They only have 0:54:15.400 --> 0:54:20.000 displayed Rolexes. That's not working. Those are not no rolex stores. Actually. 0:54:20.880 --> 0:54:22.560 You know what's so crazy is that there's a whole 0:54:22.640 --> 0:54:25.359 education with these watches that I didn't even know until 0:54:25.440 --> 0:54:28.880 nobody knows until you're actually in the space. So it's like, 0:54:29.000 --> 0:54:30.719 you know what the watches. What I realized is that 0:54:30.840 --> 0:54:34.480 a all rolexes aren't made the same, and all rolexes 0:54:34.520 --> 0:54:38.200 don't have the same appreciation. So like like the sky dweller, right, 0:54:38.320 --> 0:54:40.759 that's the most complicated movement. So it's crazy, it's the 0:54:40.840 --> 0:54:43.239 most heavies. Yeah, so it's like that's one of the 0:54:43.280 --> 0:54:45.920 watches that appreciate over the court. The sky dweller appreciates 0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:47.839 more than this is the presidential I have a Scott 0:54:48.000 --> 0:54:50.560 the sky dweller will appreciate over time more than the 0:54:50.600 --> 0:54:56.960 presidential um. So it's interesting with president the US. Okay, 0:54:57.400 --> 0:55:07.440 I got gumbaders only we we we bringing you bring 0:55:12.400 --> 0:55:15.319 What the rolex is is like, you know what's so crazy, bro? 0:55:16.320 --> 0:55:18.200 Because Troy will break it down. But this is the 0:55:18.239 --> 0:55:21.040 good analogy of life. And it's like when you really 0:55:21.080 --> 0:55:25.719 start to understand watches, you see your watch like probably right, 0:55:26.600 --> 0:55:30.400 no dimonds, and it's like, thank you for throwing that 0:55:30.440 --> 0:55:34.640 out there. Yeah you got like the sky and it's 0:55:34.719 --> 0:55:38.840 like the watch value you would think it would be 0:55:38.920 --> 0:55:42.520 done by diamonds and gold. The most important thing of 0:55:42.560 --> 0:55:46.560 a watch is the movement. So it's like that's a 0:55:46.640 --> 0:55:49.600 metaphor for life as well, right, Like your movement has 0:55:49.640 --> 0:55:53.360 to always be on point. That's the most The exterior 0:55:53.520 --> 0:55:56.759 is what people look at. The interior is the most 0:55:56.800 --> 0:56:00.200 important thing. So understanding watches is like this is real 0:56:00.320 --> 0:56:02.960 time pieces his art. Like what I'm saying, like we're 0:56:03.000 --> 0:56:05.960 not just yeah, it's not just going and just saying 0:56:06.000 --> 0:56:09.520 I just want the most craziest whatever. It's like understanding 0:56:09.560 --> 0:56:11.800 and being educated on it. This is the education that 0:56:12.120 --> 0:56:15.520 I never received. We never received this education, right and even, 0:56:15.600 --> 0:56:18.200 like you said, even purchasing, it's like you gotta go 0:56:18.280 --> 0:56:20.640 on a waiting list and then you gotta purchase a 0:56:20.719 --> 0:56:26.160 watch to get another watch, build up your credit culture 0:56:26.719 --> 0:56:29.560 that's his game culture, and then it's like you gotta 0:56:29.560 --> 0:56:32.560 put it in the body to get work to get 0:56:32.560 --> 0:56:37.319 another sacrifice. It's like even jewelers, like, no disrespect any 0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:39.600 juelus here, but I don't trust jewelers, So it's like 0:56:39.680 --> 0:56:41.880 I only buy it from either the role like store 0:56:42.080 --> 0:56:46.400 or authorized. Authorized deal is extremely important because it's like 0:56:46.480 --> 0:56:49.920 even Quavo, we had him here, Yeah, he brought a 0:56:49.960 --> 0:56:53.120 watch that it wasn't real, but it's like he no, no, 0:56:54.000 --> 0:56:56.160 it was. It was made, it was put together, put together, 0:56:56.440 --> 0:56:58.160 it was real. It was like it was something like 0:56:58.280 --> 0:57:01.560 that face with when they did the knowledge on it. Yeah, 0:57:02.040 --> 0:57:07.120 it's like that's too much speculation for four hearted. Yeah, 0:57:09.440 --> 0:57:11.040 I'm saying that it was supposed to be a million, 0:57:11.120 --> 0:57:12.840 like like like he bought it for four hund but 0:57:12.840 --> 0:57:16.400 it was worth a million, that exact watch that hadn't 0:57:16.440 --> 0:57:19.120 been real. Yeah. But but but it's asset. Over the 0:57:19.200 --> 0:57:21.280 course of time, it goes up in value as long 0:57:21.320 --> 0:57:23.800 as you buy it correctly, you know, factory. Diamonds is 0:57:23.840 --> 0:57:27.120 always you know better even no diamonds is good, like 0:57:27.200 --> 0:57:28.600 you know what I mean? Like these are things that 0:57:28.720 --> 0:57:30.160 how you look at the watch, and you can look 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:31.520 at either way. You can look at it just from 0:57:31.560 --> 0:57:33.080 like I just want to shine, or you can look 0:57:33.080 --> 0:57:35.400 at it from an investment standpoint, like I gotta tell 0:57:35.400 --> 0:57:36.800 you part of me because you all, I'll tell you 0:57:36.880 --> 0:57:39.240 this crazy crazy about Richard when I went with them. 0:57:39.440 --> 0:57:41.600 It's the only thing I asked for rail four, like 0:57:41.680 --> 0:57:44.720 I for four favor and I don't ask for for nothing, 0:57:45.080 --> 0:57:47.919 you know, I mean, you go back, motherfucker. But I say, listen, 0:57:47.960 --> 0:57:50.320 I don't want to buy. I want to buy from 0:57:50.440 --> 0:57:54.240 them and the craziest ship. That's the only watch company 0:57:54.240 --> 0:57:56.360 I've ever dealt with that did not want my money. 0:57:56.400 --> 0:57:59.120 They wanted to explain to me why to watch is 0:57:59.160 --> 0:58:02.080 worth money and want to show to me the the 0:58:02.920 --> 0:58:04.960 complication they wanted to show to me, like look, look, 0:58:05.040 --> 0:58:06.800 this is a real watch. You see the ship in 0:58:06.800 --> 0:58:08.720 the background. You're supposed to always see it in the back. 0:58:08.920 --> 0:58:11.720 It was to always see that. That's why Paddocks and all. 0:58:11.800 --> 0:58:14.120 And then you know he obviously he should have on Rolex. 0:58:14.160 --> 0:58:18.000 He was like one movement. You know, he's a French guy. 0:58:18.120 --> 0:58:20.520 But what I'm trying to say is like what it 0:58:20.640 --> 0:58:24.520 was always bugged out to me because like Rolex, sometimes 0:58:24.600 --> 0:58:27.720 it's an investment and then sometimes it just stay the same. 0:58:28.400 --> 0:58:30.440 Is it always an investment? It depends on what you 0:58:30.520 --> 0:58:32.520 gotta get, what you like. Have you ever bought something 0:58:32.960 --> 0:58:35.080 that you because they said by it? And then it 0:58:35.200 --> 0:58:37.440 just so it goes back to building that portfolio. Right, 0:58:37.480 --> 0:58:39.680 So like in order to build my portfolio at the dealer, 0:58:39.720 --> 0:58:40.840 I had to get a watch. So I got like 0:58:40.880 --> 0:58:43.200 a sea dweller. I barely wear it, but it had 0:58:43.240 --> 0:58:44.960 to build my portfolio. So the next time I'm coming 0:58:44.960 --> 0:58:47.200 to the store and I'm like, yo, I really want 0:58:47.240 --> 0:58:50.120 that Daytona. If that Daytona comes in, I need that, right, 0:58:50.200 --> 0:58:52.320 And so now I got the portfolio and people like 0:58:52.440 --> 0:58:54.400 this is knowledge, like you gotta learn. So I get 0:58:54.440 --> 0:58:56.640 to see dweller and then finally they're like, oh I 0:58:56.680 --> 0:58:58.840 got the Daytona. Now bout the Daytona. This is a 0:58:58.880 --> 0:59:01.040 true story. Like it was at three thousand, right, I 0:59:01.080 --> 0:59:04.959 bought it three months ago. It's appreciated two three months. 0:59:05.760 --> 0:59:09.400 So the thirty three tho dollar watches now and right. 0:59:09.440 --> 0:59:11.120 So it just depends on which watch you get in that. 0:59:12.600 --> 0:59:16.360 Uh it's the Oyster Flex, it's a white go Oyster Flextion. Yeah, definitely. 0:59:16.360 --> 0:59:20.200 I don't got to know me, Yeah, definitely. But then 0:59:20.280 --> 0:59:22.440 I'm saying, like, appreciate you like that, like even like 0:59:22.560 --> 0:59:24.800 what you said what Cravo was like, yeah, even when 0:59:24.920 --> 0:59:27.000 I watched that segment, like the week later he was 0:59:27.040 --> 0:59:30.520 talking about not putting diamonds in his watch anymore, he's 0:59:30.560 --> 0:59:32.600 over that. That's why I said the education is point 0:59:32.600 --> 0:59:34.560 because you said something earlier. This is this is what 0:59:34.920 --> 0:59:38.160 it is is, Well, we don't know. You can actually 0:59:38.240 --> 0:59:40.440 go to a Richard Milly, you would go to a 0:59:40.560 --> 0:59:43.240 Paddock and you could just get on the list, right, 0:59:43.440 --> 0:59:45.840 But it's it's it's gonna be six months, it's gonna 0:59:45.880 --> 0:59:49.720 be longer. But but but I'm just saying, like, if 0:59:49.760 --> 0:59:53.480 you want retail, retail, like what happens is we want 0:59:53.480 --> 0:59:56.480 to skip that line. You want to take the mark up, 0:59:56.600 --> 1:00:01.200 but but you start going it jeweler's you once you 1:00:01.240 --> 1:00:02.960 When I realized with Julus is that you don't know 1:00:03.600 --> 1:00:06.600 you can tell me you're this diamond is I don't 1:00:06.680 --> 1:00:12.760 really know. I don't know because that sounds Rolex, I 1:00:13.120 --> 1:00:14.760 go trait the role. Actually go straight to Paddock and 1:00:14.800 --> 1:00:17.160 go straight to Richard. This watch is gonna sell anyway, 1:00:17.520 --> 1:00:19.520 so you know what I mean? Like, so why tell 1:00:19.560 --> 1:00:21.680 the layman who doesn't know anything about these watches? What 1:00:21.840 --> 1:00:24.200 gives these things the value that they have because you 1:00:24.240 --> 1:00:26.440 can't get them? Yeah, exactly, because you can't get the 1:00:28.760 --> 1:00:31.160 rarity of it. Yeah. I think I think of one 1:00:31.200 --> 1:00:36.320 of the greater that they put out, the report about 1:00:36.360 --> 1:00:39.720 two three black people have zero percent wealth and the 1:00:39.800 --> 1:00:42.880 ideals that we have zero assets to our name. You 1:00:43.000 --> 1:00:45.440 understand me, the idea when most people we talk about 1:00:45.840 --> 1:00:50.200 assets versus liabilities, buying something that's an asset versus buying 1:00:50.280 --> 1:00:53.960 something that's a liability. One increases your network, one decreases 1:00:54.000 --> 1:00:56.280 your network. Let's give an example of both. Right, So 1:00:56.760 --> 1:01:00.600 a watch can be an asset, right where a car 1:01:01.080 --> 1:01:07.360 a car that say, watch could life, but historically a 1:01:07.520 --> 1:01:11.160 car depociates the moment you get off the lock. Right. 1:01:12.800 --> 1:01:15.480 I know people guns, but I'm just saying the way 1:01:15.520 --> 1:01:17.800 people spend money. So let's say a person going to 1:01:17.880 --> 1:01:20.760 booby trap or two seas they're spending money. You understand me, 1:01:20.800 --> 1:01:23.160 what a stripper throwing tens of thousands of dollars, that's 1:01:23.160 --> 1:01:26.040 a liability. You understand me. That money is not coming back. 1:01:26.080 --> 1:01:30.040 It's not coming right at support in Miami. So you 1:01:36.240 --> 1:01:39.000 think about how much money, how much money is spent 1:01:39.080 --> 1:01:41.640 at the strip club. But if that money was went 1:01:41.800 --> 1:01:44.160 and put into our assets, it goes to increasing your 1:01:44.280 --> 1:01:47.120 network because your network is going to be your assets. 1:01:47.480 --> 1:01:50.400 Mine is your liabilities, you understand me. So your earned 1:01:50.440 --> 1:01:53.440 income your assets, mine is your debt. Right. And so 1:01:53.600 --> 1:01:56.200 when you're spending some money on something that doesn't give 1:01:56.240 --> 1:01:59.880 you a return, that's a liability or doesn't hold any value. Right. 1:02:00.000 --> 1:02:02.720 When we're talking about buying watches or buying land, of 1:02:02.800 --> 1:02:05.919 buying houses or stocks and crypto or gold, we're talking 1:02:05.960 --> 1:02:09.280 about the accumulation of wealth through assets. So when you're 1:02:09.320 --> 1:02:12.360 talking about liquidation events like what Kane West, and we're 1:02:12.400 --> 1:02:15.080 talking about evaluation, your true value is going to be 1:02:15.240 --> 1:02:18.320 based on your assets, right, the things you own. Then 1:02:18.400 --> 1:02:20.840 the evaluation is saying that this is what it's worth 1:02:21.200 --> 1:02:24.440 or impossibly could be worth. Right. So with Black America, 1:02:24.520 --> 1:02:27.280 to goal everybody should be thinking about daily is how 1:02:27.360 --> 1:02:29.240 can I take the money that I'm getting and put 1:02:29.280 --> 1:02:32.920 it in an asset class. Right, most people don't think 1:02:32.920 --> 1:02:35.960 about that because we've never been educated about asset classes. 1:02:36.120 --> 1:02:39.960 We only know liabilities. I believe that we over all 1:02:40.040 --> 1:02:43.280 the assets and under audent liabilities, meaning that if I 1:02:43.360 --> 1:02:45.880 tell you about the investment opportunity, you gonna overthink it. 1:02:45.960 --> 1:02:47.400 But if I said let's go to the strip club, 1:02:47.480 --> 1:02:50.200 you say let's go, you understand me, so you would 1:02:50.240 --> 1:03:01.800 throw your money easily. Money easy story. But brands is 1:03:01.840 --> 1:03:04.960 probably the biggest liabilities that we spend money on. Right 1:03:05.320 --> 1:03:11.880 when we find everything, it's like when you don't know, 1:03:12.400 --> 1:03:13.840 when you don't know what to do, you do what 1:03:13.920 --> 1:03:16.560 you know. You don't know what to do, you do 1:03:16.640 --> 1:03:18.720 what you know. So we know how to spend money 1:03:18.840 --> 1:03:21.080 on jewelry. We know how to spend money and ship clubs. 1:03:21.280 --> 1:03:23.400 We know how to we know. That's because that's familiar 1:03:23.480 --> 1:03:26.760 to us. We don't historically know how to invest in 1:03:26.840 --> 1:03:29.080 real estate, how to invest in stocks, how to invest 1:03:29.120 --> 1:03:32.760 in crypto. That's foreign. So when you have a lack 1:03:32.840 --> 1:03:36.040 of education, what comes into fear, and especially when it 1:03:36.080 --> 1:03:38.320 comes to the money, you become frozen. You're not gonna 1:03:38.360 --> 1:03:40.440 do anything if you if you this is why education 1:03:40.560 --> 1:03:44.120 is extremely important. So education is actually the most important 1:03:44.160 --> 1:03:46.760 thing in life, because when you realize that in this 1:03:46.960 --> 1:03:49.200 job market right now, no matter what, you can't even 1:03:49.200 --> 1:03:51.000 go outside and try to get a job, like you 1:03:51.000 --> 1:03:52.919 know what I mean, Like people are not hiring, they're 1:03:52.920 --> 1:03:56.720 they're firing people. So it's like when you realize at 1:03:56.720 --> 1:03:58.440 the end of the day, the education is the only 1:03:58.520 --> 1:04:00.080 thing that can save you. And like he said, not 1:04:00.240 --> 1:04:02.440 just a formal education as far as college, but what 1:04:02.560 --> 1:04:04.600 are you learning. This is what we've been able to provide, 1:04:04.680 --> 1:04:07.360 is like real time education where you can actually learn something, 1:04:07.400 --> 1:04:09.960 go outside and make money tomorrow, whether you have a 1:04:10.000 --> 1:04:12.160 college degree or not, whether you have a felony or not, 1:04:12.480 --> 1:04:14.720 whether you have you know, whatever or not. This is 1:04:14.800 --> 1:04:17.240 something that's extremely powerful, and like you said, it's also 1:04:17.280 --> 1:04:19.960 extremely dangerous. That's why I got to command y'all, like 1:04:20.000 --> 1:04:23.400 to say our face, we can said you're into each other, 1:04:23.880 --> 1:04:25.920 and I will always be like, what's up, y'all, But 1:04:26.040 --> 1:04:28.040 in my mind, I'm like, man, I want to be like, 1:04:28.120 --> 1:04:31.800 you'll be careful, you know, because y'all holding the same 1:04:31.840 --> 1:04:33.880 importance as a Martin of mouth, cause I know that 1:04:33.960 --> 1:04:36.440 we don't have these nowadays, but it's it's holding the 1:04:36.480 --> 1:04:40.520 same importance because what we have always missed is us 1:04:40.600 --> 1:04:45.040 being financially aware and like like for instance, most of 1:04:45.160 --> 1:04:47.040 us spend money before we have it. And what what 1:04:47.160 --> 1:04:49.560 it is is we get the money and we think 1:04:49.640 --> 1:04:52.600 that it's actually there, and then we start spending and 1:04:52.640 --> 1:04:55.000 then we forget that one. We gotta pay taxes on 1:04:55.120 --> 1:04:59.640 that and then to uh, you know it wasn't actually there, 1:04:59.720 --> 1:05:02.120 it was is there temporarily and you just spent the money. 1:05:02.160 --> 1:05:05.480 So how does how do you stop people from doing that? 1:05:05.600 --> 1:05:07.440 Like you said, it's the education, So when we see that, 1:05:07.560 --> 1:05:09.640 like even having a conversation about Rodex, that's important. But 1:05:09.640 --> 1:05:12.520 like you come from education, whereas I was a teacher, right, 1:05:12.560 --> 1:05:14.360 and so I know in schools this isn't happening. So 1:05:14.440 --> 1:05:16.360 what we gotta do. We gotta create systems. We gotta 1:05:16.360 --> 1:05:18.120 create the Bronx, Right, I was in the Bronx. Yeah, 1:05:18.160 --> 1:05:21.400 so we created By the way you teach it to 1:05:21.480 --> 1:05:33.680 the Bronx, you gonna win the world or two. But 1:05:33.920 --> 1:05:36.120 that's the point. So when we can look inside the 1:05:36.160 --> 1:05:38.400 system and know there's nothing there to help our people, 1:05:38.480 --> 1:05:40.240 then we got to create it. And so we just 1:05:40.320 --> 1:05:41.680 gotta have the courage to do it. But then we 1:05:41.760 --> 1:05:43.960 leave by example by actually showing people. And so when 1:05:44.000 --> 1:05:46.440 he's talking about, hey, we got to create investments in 1:05:46.480 --> 1:05:48.880 asset classes, most people like, well what is that? They 1:05:48.920 --> 1:05:50.800 don't even know that they're doing that. They just realized 1:05:50.800 --> 1:05:52.600 that they're consumers and they spend the money. So we 1:05:52.680 --> 1:05:54.640 spend it on all these brands we talked about, were 1:05:54.640 --> 1:05:56.520 spending on the strip club. But we never know that 1:05:56.600 --> 1:05:58.440 we can own you see what I'm saying. And that's 1:05:58.480 --> 1:06:00.200 the mind shift change that we have to have. So 1:06:00.360 --> 1:06:01.880 like when we come up here to talk about that, 1:06:02.360 --> 1:06:05.120 that's what we represent ownership. Like the dude hustling on 1:06:05.280 --> 1:06:07.360 the block doesn't know that he could probably buy that house. 1:06:07.720 --> 1:06:11.120 He don't that's what if he has. You know what's 1:06:11.160 --> 1:06:14.720 so crazy is like, so my cousin is in jail 1:06:14.760 --> 1:06:17.040 right now, he's in the fens and a few of 1:06:17.080 --> 1:06:19.080 my friends, but they tell me, like, yo, y'all got 1:06:19.160 --> 1:06:21.360 a large following this side of here, like people are 1:06:21.400 --> 1:06:23.320 really tapped in. And then I found out like there's 1:06:23.320 --> 1:06:25.840 guys that's trading crypto on cell phone stuff like that, 1:06:25.920 --> 1:06:28.040 Like they really tapped in. Because I feel like you 1:06:28.160 --> 1:06:32.240 have an entrepreneurial spirit. That's it. You just making the 1:06:32.320 --> 1:06:35.480 wrong decision. But you're making the wrong decision because in 1:06:35.760 --> 1:06:39.120 form Yeah, if you have the proper education. This is 1:06:39.160 --> 1:06:41.200 why his life with death matter as far as financial 1:06:41.200 --> 1:06:44.400 literacy is concerned, because it's like if you realize that 1:06:44.600 --> 1:06:46.240 you can make the same amount of money or even 1:06:46.320 --> 1:06:49.919 more money legally. Like I don't think anybody really wants 1:06:49.960 --> 1:06:52.760 to be a drug dealer, but that's something that's attainable. 1:06:53.120 --> 1:06:55.400 It's relatively easy. You know, you don't have to have 1:06:55.480 --> 1:06:57.640 a college degree, and you can go outside tomorrow and 1:06:57.760 --> 1:06:59.919 beginning with some people want to know. I'm just saying, 1:07:01.720 --> 1:07:07.120 I don't know, don't got no hope, No, let's listen, listen, no, no, no, 1:07:07.320 --> 1:07:09.200 But they want to be because a few things, right, 1:07:09.360 --> 1:07:12.040 the money, the attention, the lifestyle, all of that. What 1:07:12.640 --> 1:07:15.920 if you can get all of those without having to 1:07:16.000 --> 1:07:18.720 risk your freedom, without having to look over your shoulders, 1:07:18.720 --> 1:07:21.280 without having to without having risk doing twenty years in jail. 1:07:21.480 --> 1:07:23.080 What if you can do all of that legally? So 1:07:23.160 --> 1:07:24.680 this is why when we go to Diakemond and it's 1:07:24.680 --> 1:07:26.920 like we're on the floor and they and they've given it, 1:07:27.040 --> 1:07:30.439 like that's important for people to see because now it's 1:07:30.480 --> 1:07:33.439 like Okay, now you don't have to be a drug 1:07:33.520 --> 1:07:36.320 dealer to get that same level of hood admiration because 1:07:36.360 --> 1:07:39.600 it's important that hood love is important, like what I'm saying. 1:07:39.880 --> 1:07:42.240 So it's like this is what this was a disconnect 1:07:42.280 --> 1:07:45.640 before this corporate but the corporate people nobody ever saw them. 1:07:46.240 --> 1:07:48.280 Nobody ever saw the suits and they never so it's 1:07:48.280 --> 1:07:51.560 not attainable. They see us, They're gonna see us at 1:07:51.640 --> 1:07:53.840 some point. They might see us a booby trap. You never, no, 1:07:57.480 --> 1:07:59.920 not what but you go, that's the thing we attain 1:08:00.040 --> 1:08:01.400 boom right. And so the person who sat in the 1:08:01.400 --> 1:08:03.080 sudo was on the TV, it's like all right, schools 1:08:03.120 --> 1:08:04.920 this entertainment, but you turn the channel of and they 1:08:04.960 --> 1:08:07.960 disappeared us. We're gonna show up at every place that 1:08:08.000 --> 1:08:09.600 we're supposed to be. So if there's a event going on, 1:08:09.600 --> 1:08:11.600 you're gonna see us there. Why because we made from 1:08:11.640 --> 1:08:13.120 the people and we want them to see like this 1:08:13.160 --> 1:08:15.520 is related. Like you said, I got students who looking 1:08:15.560 --> 1:08:17.439 at me like yo, that was my gym teachers hard 1:08:17.560 --> 1:08:19.559 So you see what I'm saying. So they they're looking 1:08:19.600 --> 1:08:21.800 at it like yo, that's hard, he can do it. 1:08:22.560 --> 1:08:24.160 I just wanted them to go, like, yo, this is 1:08:24.240 --> 1:08:26.160 a career that you can do. Right, So like what 1:08:26.320 --> 1:08:28.880 we drive, what we were all, that's very important, right 1:08:29.600 --> 1:08:31.280 they The first thing they're gonna do is see us, 1:08:31.439 --> 1:08:34.160 like all the kids, all the kids that are our area, 1:08:34.240 --> 1:08:36.720 like they all trying to be entrepreneurs or they all 1:08:37.040 --> 1:08:39.680 got merch lines, they making hoodies, they're doing is they 1:08:39.760 --> 1:08:44.400 try and do that because now we are the people 1:08:44.439 --> 1:08:45.840 that they're looking up to. They're not looking up to 1:08:45.840 --> 1:08:47.839 the drug dealer because they didn't believe that means successful 1:08:47.880 --> 1:08:50.400 drug dealers to even look up to. Like now it's 1:08:50.439 --> 1:08:52.160 like then they really got they got it right now. 1:08:52.240 --> 1:08:54.880 That's why said nobody inherently wants to be a drug dealer. 1:08:55.200 --> 1:08:57.000 They want to be it because of the environment that 1:08:57.040 --> 1:08:58.680 they're in and what they're seeing in the options, and 1:08:58.720 --> 1:09:01.160 they make deductive reasonings and they say, Okay, this is 1:09:01.240 --> 1:09:03.320 the best option for me at this time. But now 1:09:03.360 --> 1:09:06.120 they're seeing us on social media a million one point 1:09:06.200 --> 1:09:09.519 two million followers. They're seeing us when we're on drink chance, 1:09:09.560 --> 1:09:11.200 we're wearing whatever we want to wear, we're going to 1:09:11.280 --> 1:09:16.840 the games, and it's like it's a. That's that's important 1:09:16.880 --> 1:09:19.480 for them to see. So now that now the admiration 1:09:19.640 --> 1:09:23.400 changes and the aspiration changes, and that's something you got 1:09:23.439 --> 1:09:24.920 how they can do it on the entrepreneurials. Not to 1:09:24.960 --> 1:09:27.800 cut your wisdom, but but that's something that's been our 1:09:27.880 --> 1:09:31.479 responsibility here. Right we know that number one, the drug dealers, 1:09:31.520 --> 1:09:34.559 the old troupe like Trump rather like YouTubers are making 1:09:34.600 --> 1:09:37.400 more than drug dealers and rappers, understand me. So even 1:09:37.479 --> 1:09:40.960 being inspiring rapper or drug dealer, that's the old idea 1:09:41.040 --> 1:09:42.880 of success in the court um when we didn't have 1:09:43.080 --> 1:09:46.400 as much exposure. Right now, we don't say YouTuber is 1:09:46.439 --> 1:09:50.920 making more to the TikTokers they dancing while these catches 1:09:51.320 --> 1:09:53.679 is out there risking their life and getting more money. 1:09:54.120 --> 1:09:57.160 They may be doing Airbnb, they may be doing touro 1:09:57.439 --> 1:10:00.599 or doing credit and they're making more money ca Right now, 1:10:00.680 --> 1:10:03.759 there's so many different ways to create different streams of income. 1:10:03.840 --> 1:10:05.800 You have to be lazy not to pick one up, 1:10:06.120 --> 1:10:08.519 you understand me. So now we are living in the 1:10:08.600 --> 1:10:11.280 time we don't have excuses, you understand me. It's like 1:10:11.840 --> 1:10:14.200 and it also goes towards when you talk about being 1:10:14.280 --> 1:10:17.800 dangerous and educating our people and picking up entrepreneurship. I 1:10:17.880 --> 1:10:19.519 don't care you in the streets, you in the trap. 1:10:19.960 --> 1:10:25.400 It's a mindset thing. Right, mind skills said, right mind set. 1:10:25.439 --> 1:10:28.080 You can master any skill set if you can teach 1:10:28.200 --> 1:10:31.240 young men right how to develop the mind of a man, 1:10:31.280 --> 1:10:33.800 because a man is his mind. Right, your ability to 1:10:33.920 --> 1:10:36.599 take ideas out your head and bring them into reality. 1:10:36.920 --> 1:10:38.640 That's how I know if you're a real man, you 1:10:38.760 --> 1:10:41.040 understand me. Otherwise I can't tell of your mind working 1:10:41.360 --> 1:10:44.320 at all. You just chasing women again some dollars. That's 1:10:44.400 --> 1:10:48.800 low level of activity. That's easy that But what is 1:10:48.840 --> 1:10:51.120 the vision that we have for Black America? Were just 1:10:51.320 --> 1:10:53.759 we went through Little Haiti, We went to Carol City, 1:10:54.280 --> 1:10:56.680 right and we were just walking around and we was asking, like, 1:10:56.800 --> 1:10:58.960 what is the vision y'all got for your neighborhood? Though? 1:10:59.320 --> 1:11:01.560 But we get mad that gentrification. They come in and 1:11:01.600 --> 1:11:04.600 beautify and make the neighborhood better and bringing businesses. But 1:11:04.720 --> 1:11:08.480 gentrification is not a bad thing, and we gentrify our ownhoods. 1:11:08.560 --> 1:11:13.000 We're taking value and we're bringing stocks exactly so star 1:11:13.920 --> 1:11:21.559 like like after Lea got her business over there, right, 1:11:21.880 --> 1:11:23.720 like you would look at that business and it wasn't 1:11:23.760 --> 1:11:26.720 black owned and say, yo, this is a sign of gentrification. Right, 1:11:26.840 --> 1:11:29.680 that's not a bad thing though. So like what we're doing, 1:11:29.720 --> 1:11:33.200 we got an even in Chicago, and it's about rebuilding Chicago, 1:11:33.439 --> 1:11:36.440 like reimagining what is your vision you have for your neighborhood, 1:11:36.520 --> 1:11:38.519 How can you see it better? And then how can 1:11:38.560 --> 1:11:41.360 the people collectively in those neighborhoods put money together to 1:11:41.479 --> 1:11:44.680 own it. Even when we're owning businesses, we don't own 1:11:44.720 --> 1:11:47.800 the building. We're paying rent to a landlord that's not 1:11:47.960 --> 1:11:51.120 from our community, right, So they have the longevity. But 1:11:51.200 --> 1:11:53.800 our businesses come and go, come and go, and if 1:11:53.840 --> 1:11:56.000 they want to kick us out to somebody that doesn't 1:11:56.040 --> 1:11:58.720 look like us, they have that power. So not only 1:11:58.800 --> 1:12:01.080 do we have to become man or where we want 1:12:01.120 --> 1:12:04.519 to take ownership in our environments, have control, because it 1:12:04.600 --> 1:12:07.160 ain't your hood. If you don't own it, you understand me, 1:12:07.280 --> 1:12:17.680 it's not that's your plantation. Another type of time he 1:12:17.840 --> 1:12:20.320 was on and that's that's when I think of when 1:12:20.360 --> 1:12:22.960 I think of things like that, that's like it's inspiring 1:12:23.240 --> 1:12:25.960 to see him have that whole strip more like what 1:12:26.040 --> 1:12:28.000 I'm saying, like, that's that's who we really got to 1:12:28.160 --> 1:12:31.880 focus more on is like the entrepreneurship, the ownership. Because 1:12:31.880 --> 1:12:33.720 it's like, I don't care how good you wrap at 1:12:33.800 --> 1:12:35.439 some point in time, people don't get tired of you, 1:12:35.560 --> 1:12:37.880 but I don't care how fast you are at some 1:12:37.960 --> 1:12:39.720 point in time your hand, but hand not gonna be 1:12:39.760 --> 1:12:43.200 the same. Use it. Using dip as an example, Ah, 1:12:43.280 --> 1:12:46.240 he went back to his own hood. We invested in 1:12:46.320 --> 1:12:48.760 his own hood, but that's where he died. So a 1:12:48.840 --> 1:12:50.920 lot of us is turned off by that. Someone us 1:12:50.960 --> 1:12:53.400 to say, yo, he did the right thing. Someone as saying, listen, 1:12:53.439 --> 1:12:56.000 the right thing to do it here? Yeah, well, I 1:12:56.080 --> 1:12:57.960 think there's a way you go about it. It's always 1:12:58.040 --> 1:12:59.320 the right thing, but you have to do it in 1:12:59.360 --> 1:13:02.120 the right way, you understand me. And because because I'll 1:13:02.120 --> 1:13:06.880 be honest with you, some people don't want to be saved. Yeah, 1:13:09.560 --> 1:13:12.000 I don't care how much they want to say it. 1:13:12.080 --> 1:13:13.760 And they're like yeah, yeah, yeah, but you put a 1:13:13.800 --> 1:13:15.639 person in the position, you send a person a boat, 1:13:16.200 --> 1:13:19.160 they want a yacht. But also also I think it's 1:13:19.200 --> 1:13:22.160 important for us to gentify other people's neighborhood as well, 1:13:22.479 --> 1:13:24.400 Like why not have a restaurant in a in a 1:13:24.439 --> 1:13:26.840 white neighborhood like they do it to us, you know 1:13:26.840 --> 1:13:28.400 what I mean? Like, so it's like, why not, like 1:13:28.479 --> 1:13:31.720 we got this thing bigger than just the neighborhood, the 1:13:32.120 --> 1:13:34.080 whole world. I could not to say that you said that, 1:13:34.160 --> 1:13:37.720 but the whole often do that though. I understand restaurants 1:13:37.720 --> 1:13:41.120 in every other place, but that's why I really don't, 1:13:41.280 --> 1:13:43.120 because most of our neighborhoods is in a couple of 1:13:43.160 --> 1:13:45.120 miles radio. That's why when we're do an event. We 1:13:45.240 --> 1:13:48.000 did an event in London at Royal Albert Hall, We're 1:13:48.000 --> 1:13:49.680 not gonna be in the community center. We're gonna be 1:13:49.760 --> 1:13:53.960 in the most prestigious venue in Europe because they colonized. 1:13:54.800 --> 1:13:56.559 We're gonna be first favor, Like know what I'm saying. 1:13:56.560 --> 1:13:58.400 So I feel like we should be able to stand anywhere. 1:13:58.400 --> 1:14:00.280 We should be able to be in Hall, and should 1:14:00.280 --> 1:14:02.360 be able to be in Tom Squire like, don't don't 1:14:02.400 --> 1:14:05.320 just marginalize us in just one area, in one community, 1:14:05.479 --> 1:14:08.800 because nobody else is marginalized. But what you want to 1:14:08.840 --> 1:14:11.120 say that though, because when I went out there to 1:14:11.200 --> 1:14:13.880 Brownsville and stuff, one thing I did notice, right, you 1:14:14.000 --> 1:14:16.320 got all these we're walking through the streets with the 1:14:16.439 --> 1:14:20.320 Bro rube I mayror Fahim, you understand me, and some 1:14:20.479 --> 1:14:23.599 other people and the young people is coming up asking 1:14:23.680 --> 1:14:25.800 us question like, bro, what can I do blah blah blah, 1:14:25.880 --> 1:14:28.360 that you have people in that neighborhood that our community 1:14:28.600 --> 1:14:32.519 organizers they have programs that can teach and educate people 1:14:32.600 --> 1:14:35.040 financial literacy, but most people don't know nothing about it. 1:14:35.360 --> 1:14:37.479 You understand me. You go through those same neighborhoods and 1:14:37.520 --> 1:14:39.280 everybody wants to tell you the stories of all the 1:14:39.400 --> 1:14:42.160 crimes and the issues that have happened there, and then 1:14:42.200 --> 1:14:44.160 the opportunity that they had where they could have bought 1:14:44.240 --> 1:14:46.960 this house and it would have been worth this much, right, 1:14:47.360 --> 1:14:50.519 And so the idea of owning our neighborhoods is just 1:14:50.720 --> 1:14:53.920 that like, there's assets and there's value there that we 1:14:54.040 --> 1:14:57.080 walked past every day and we depreciate it with criminality, 1:14:57.400 --> 1:14:59.800 you understand me. So it's this idea of looking around 1:14:59.840 --> 1:15:02.200 this saying that damn, can I own my home? Can 1:15:02.280 --> 1:15:04.639 I own my environment? And that's something that I think 1:15:04.720 --> 1:15:08.479 is obtainable to the average person, giving them a vision 1:15:08.520 --> 1:15:10.240 of why you're grinding, and giving you a vision of 1:15:10.280 --> 1:15:12.760 why you're hustling in the first place. It's to own 1:15:12.800 --> 1:15:16.320 everything around. When you go outside, you're traveling through Miami, 1:15:16.400 --> 1:15:18.080 how many buildings you look at and be like, that's 1:15:18.120 --> 1:15:20.519 the black person, look like me to own that when 1:15:20.560 --> 1:15:22.559 I go through anywhere in the world, or whether we're 1:15:22.600 --> 1:15:25.960 traveling through Europe, whether we're traveling through the Islands or 1:15:25.960 --> 1:15:29.160 throughout America. When I look at scottscrapers, they're not owned 1:15:29.200 --> 1:15:31.320 by black men and women. We don't own the world. 1:15:31.439 --> 1:15:33.880 And that's why it's important to not just think locally. 1:15:34.120 --> 1:15:41.360 Don people's saying people don't people is the only black 1:15:41.400 --> 1:15:43.760 girl state developer that had a hotel in South Beach. 1:15:43.880 --> 1:15:45.559 A lot of people even know the Royal Palm remember 1:15:45.600 --> 1:15:51.240 that developer, So it's like that's important because it's like 1:15:51.360 --> 1:15:57.960 we gotta be see what they do. Okay, thanks Mr 1:15:58.400 --> 1:16:03.960 than you. What they what they do is they love 1:16:04.120 --> 1:16:05.960 they love the I used to be a financial advisor, right, 1:16:06.000 --> 1:16:09.040 so there's different levels of racism. So it's like they'll 1:16:09.040 --> 1:16:11.639 put you in the boxes like you're the black financial advisor, 1:16:11.920 --> 1:16:15.120 you're working with black people, or you're the black agent 1:16:15.439 --> 1:16:18.439 all of your clients are black people, when every other 1:16:18.600 --> 1:16:21.000 person can work with any single person that they want 1:16:21.280 --> 1:16:23.800 so why is it always segregated for us to only 1:16:23.840 --> 1:16:27.320 stay in one box with our people in our neighborhood Like, nah, 1:16:27.439 --> 1:16:29.160 Like if I'm I want to be able to work 1:16:29.200 --> 1:16:31.559 with Taylor Swift and whoever, like you know what I'm saying, 1:16:31.560 --> 1:16:33.320 because it's like, if you're the most educating, you're the 1:16:33.360 --> 1:16:36.519 best person, then why are you relegated to just a 1:16:36.600 --> 1:16:40.040 small percentage of the population. That's the only only happens 1:16:40.040 --> 1:16:42.240 with black people. If you see an Indian person, he 1:16:42.280 --> 1:16:44.160 could be a CEO of a company. Nobody even thinks 1:16:44.160 --> 1:16:47.960 about it, right, it only happens with black people. When 1:16:48.520 --> 1:16:52.000 Black people have to stay within a small box, work 1:16:52.080 --> 1:16:55.439 with your own that's it. Nah, you should be able 1:16:55.479 --> 1:16:57.360 to expand all over the world if the world is 1:16:57.400 --> 1:17:00.600 yours and the world really should be your Like it 1:17:00.680 --> 1:17:03.000 goes the aspiration right exactly. So if you look at 1:17:03.000 --> 1:17:05.480 the neighborhoods like he's talking about, even inside of our neighborhoods, 1:17:05.560 --> 1:17:07.160 do we what do we own? Right? If we look 1:17:07.200 --> 1:17:10.160 at anything in the beautician area, we don't own that. 1:17:11.240 --> 1:17:12.680 We don't own that girl, Because I wanted to say that, 1:17:13.080 --> 1:17:15.519 if you think about the idea of the project, no 1:17:15.680 --> 1:17:20.880 one owns the project. Somebody, somebody individual that lives the 1:17:23.479 --> 1:17:26.320 city right own it all, you know, like like left Frack, 1:17:26.400 --> 1:17:28.800 I've just met the person that owns left Rack, I 1:17:28.840 --> 1:17:30.680 mean college party. And he walks up to me. He 1:17:30.760 --> 1:17:33.639 was like, you'vel reperd my family forever. And I didn't 1:17:33.680 --> 1:17:36.840 know whether to take that saying what you think about it? 1:17:37.000 --> 1:17:40.400 Felt it felt his name was left right, Yes, wasn't 1:17:40.439 --> 1:17:43.439 really Yeah, he this is this is this is the airs, 1:17:43.760 --> 1:17:46.080 like this is like and he's sitting there. We had 1:17:46.080 --> 1:17:48.680 a great time. We sat there, we had drinks, but 1:17:48.880 --> 1:17:50.200 it was just like it was just like hearing that 1:17:50.280 --> 1:17:53.800 like just met you. Yeah, yeah, this is this is 1:17:53.880 --> 1:17:56.960 like the grandson of the person that actually owns it. 1:17:57.120 --> 1:18:01.560 But because we're not city owned, it's like so I 1:18:01.600 --> 1:18:04.400 actually met It's like wow. Like but when you look 1:18:04.439 --> 1:18:09.080 at Queensbridge, like I remember me hanging out in Queensbridge. 1:18:09.200 --> 1:18:12.080 This is back in the days and Donald Trump had 1:18:12.120 --> 1:18:15.200 a letter in front of everyone's door and was like, yeah, 1:18:15.200 --> 1:18:17.759 I'm praying everyone ten thousand dollars to move out because 1:18:17.800 --> 1:18:20.120 he wanted to knock down Queensbridge and he wanted to 1:18:20.200 --> 1:18:23.000 make the Trump Towers Queensbridge. I don't know if you 1:18:23.120 --> 1:18:27.200 remember this, this is what happened. What happened, Yeah, I 1:18:27.240 --> 1:18:31.000 mean if you think about it, I mean definitely prime 1:18:31.040 --> 1:18:35.280 realists right on the river. You see Manhattan from outside 1:18:35.320 --> 1:18:37.200 your window, see looking at it like an opportunity where 1:18:37.200 --> 1:18:39.680 we're looking at it like yo, I rep here. But 1:18:40.479 --> 1:18:42.200 that's why long the city is so kind of nice, 1:18:42.240 --> 1:18:45.559 right exactly, because because they couldn't actually fix Queensbridge right now. 1:18:45.680 --> 1:18:47.120 Not to say they can't fix it, but they couldn't 1:18:47.160 --> 1:18:49.200 get what they wanted out of that deal. So they 1:18:49.280 --> 1:18:51.280 made everything around it nice and they left that ship 1:18:51.520 --> 1:18:54.600 that's still that's fucked up. That's how they played a 1:18:54.840 --> 1:18:57.360 Thinking about what I just said, I tried to find it, 1:18:57.880 --> 1:18:59.280 they couldn't get it, and they said, you know what, 1:18:59.360 --> 1:19:01.800 I'll build around it, and they left it. There's nothing 1:19:01.960 --> 1:19:04.360 like upgraded from queens Bridge other than the cameras for 1:19:04.439 --> 1:19:08.640 the tower, the police station. Then you know what you 1:19:09.040 --> 1:19:10.360 look at. But think about it though, because it's like 1:19:10.360 --> 1:19:12.760 all right, the favelas in Brazil saying, like a lot 1:19:12.800 --> 1:19:14.719 of these places is prime real estate, right, so it's like, okay, 1:19:14.840 --> 1:19:16.679 it's gonna be difficult to knock down. Was the ninety 1:19:16.680 --> 1:19:20.479 six buildings. It's difficult to knock down ninety six buildings, right, 1:19:20.680 --> 1:19:23.439 but you really can't get much better prime real estate. 1:19:23.479 --> 1:19:25.160 It's right on the water, and so I was like, okay, 1:19:25.280 --> 1:19:27.880 then they get the pepsi factory right up the world. 1:19:28.000 --> 1:19:29.920 So if we could just build or around it and 1:19:29.960 --> 1:19:31.760 then you put police all around it, so you make 1:19:31.760 --> 1:19:35.760 it a safe neighborhood. Now it's just dangerous just in 1:19:35.800 --> 1:19:37.640 the area. So it's like, all right, just keep it 1:19:37.760 --> 1:19:41.920 at a minimum, don't disturb the outside situation, and we 1:19:42.000 --> 1:19:44.120 can keep this thing going. And that's and that's what 1:19:44.240 --> 1:19:47.000 happens all over the world where it's like, you know, 1:19:47.800 --> 1:19:53.840 ultimately people understand that nothing's gonna stop the money from 1:19:53.880 --> 1:19:56.439 being made, right, Like, nothing's gonna stop the money from 1:19:56.439 --> 1:19:58.400 being made. This is what people gotta understand. Like we're 1:19:58.400 --> 1:20:00.120 in America. That's why I don't really get into like 1:20:00.760 --> 1:20:03.960 this capitalistic conversation all that, because this is America. At 1:20:03.960 --> 1:20:06.120 the end of the day, of course we're gonna be capitalists. 1:20:06.400 --> 1:20:07.880 This is this is what this country is built on. 1:20:08.080 --> 1:20:09.880 This is what this whole world is built on. Like 1:20:09.920 --> 1:20:11.400 know what I'm saying. So at the end of the day, 1:20:11.560 --> 1:20:13.800 you either participate or you become a victim. But but 1:20:13.920 --> 1:20:16.519 how much we have to also understand that we're still 1:20:16.600 --> 1:20:24.360 suffering the effects of colonialism to this day colonialism, which colonialism. 1:20:24.880 --> 1:20:27.360 You know, I believe in being rich and righteous, donable 1:20:27.400 --> 1:20:30.040 mental as far Con says something to the tune about 1:20:30.080 --> 1:20:34.960 being righteous capitalists right to where the idea of having 1:20:35.120 --> 1:20:39.200 wealth and obtaining economic power, you understand me, it's key. 1:20:39.400 --> 1:20:42.000 That's always been something that all of our leaders throughout 1:20:42.080 --> 1:20:44.840 time have talked about. But it's making sure that there 1:20:44.920 --> 1:20:48.280 is integrity and what we do right and making sure 1:20:48.360 --> 1:20:51.040 that there's righteousness and morals and everything that we do. 1:20:51.520 --> 1:20:54.519 Otherwise we will move just for the money. You understand men, 1:20:54.560 --> 1:20:56.400 When you move just for the money, you have to 1:20:56.479 --> 1:20:59.360 sell yourself. You will sell your people out right. And 1:20:59.479 --> 1:21:02.040 this is what we've seen throughout time. We haven't seen 1:21:02.200 --> 1:21:05.920 righteous capital to what we're talking about making money but 1:21:06.000 --> 1:21:09.799 attached to a social good, right Like, there's many different 1:21:09.880 --> 1:21:13.439 types of entrepreneurship and ways to make money. And with 1:21:13.640 --> 1:21:15.439 us being some of the most creative people on the 1:21:15.479 --> 1:21:17.880 planet Earth, you understand me, Like what we do and 1:21:17.960 --> 1:21:20.559 we have products of health and financial literacy and we're 1:21:20.640 --> 1:21:24.160 throwing events, and we're creating shows. All of these are 1:21:24.160 --> 1:21:27.320 attached to social goods, but we're making money. You understand 1:21:27.400 --> 1:21:31.800 me why because we have knowledge of marketing, knowledge of branding, right, 1:21:31.920 --> 1:21:34.840 we have knowledge of sales, knowledge of design, knowledge of 1:21:34.920 --> 1:21:38.400 financial literacy and media and content creation. So we can 1:21:38.560 --> 1:21:41.640 utilize our knowledge and creativity, but it's also gonna be 1:21:41.760 --> 1:21:44.679 trajected to where our character is as well and where 1:21:44.720 --> 1:21:48.240 my passion is, which for me particularly is for our people. 1:21:48.640 --> 1:21:50.720 So I believe that there's an easy way to where 1:21:50.760 --> 1:21:52.840 your people can benefit off the goods that you do, 1:21:53.000 --> 1:21:55.880 but also you can do global business. As my brother said, 1:21:56.439 --> 1:21:59.479 when we're talking about starting locally, there's so many people 1:21:59.520 --> 1:22:02.920 who may never go outside the country. So just giving 1:22:02.960 --> 1:22:05.080 them a vision of owning their neighborhood is for the 1:22:05.160 --> 1:22:08.200 people that's not leaving their neighborhood, you understand me. Then 1:22:08.240 --> 1:22:10.880 you have people that excel beyond those and be like, well, 1:22:11.160 --> 1:22:13.720 I want to own restaurants and I want to franchise, 1:22:14.120 --> 1:22:16.679 or I want to do you know, global real estate 1:22:16.760 --> 1:22:19.640 and have you know property in Africa and property in 1:22:19.680 --> 1:22:22.880 these different islands. Right, that's a different type of game. 1:22:23.320 --> 1:22:26.639 So you know, with us, it always feels like we're 1:22:26.680 --> 1:22:29.680 starting that from scratch. You understand me where we are 1:22:29.880 --> 1:22:32.240 right now, But really we don't have to. We're living 1:22:32.280 --> 1:22:34.760 in the greatest time of having the greatest resources and 1:22:34.880 --> 1:22:37.439 technology on the planet Earth, and it takes a few 1:22:37.560 --> 1:22:39.680 good men to do it. If we look at the 1:22:39.720 --> 1:22:42.360 culture right now, there's somebody that can take a check 1:22:42.400 --> 1:22:45.640 and be like, I can buy every major podcast in 1:22:45.720 --> 1:22:48.719 the courture right, and that check and go a cross 1:22:48.800 --> 1:22:51.160 over a billion, you understand me, Which means that they 1:22:51.200 --> 1:22:53.640 can own all the black media at a snap of 1:22:53.720 --> 1:22:56.200 their fingers if they wanted to. The question is how 1:22:56.400 --> 1:22:59.120 much is black media worked? Right? Because we get to 1:22:59.160 --> 1:23:02.400 control of the idea, is the narratives, the belief systems, 1:23:02.479 --> 1:23:04.760 the imaging that is put out there in front of 1:23:04.800 --> 1:23:06.840 our people. It's a reason that they control it because 1:23:06.880 --> 1:23:09.719 they understand if I can project that into your mind, 1:23:10.040 --> 1:23:12.439 into your woman's mind, then y'all gonna get birth to 1:23:12.520 --> 1:23:15.720 whatever reality that I tell y'all is real. You understand me. 1:23:15.800 --> 1:23:18.280 So now is up to us to where Thank you 1:23:18.360 --> 1:23:21.200 all for having us on. We're having high level conversations. 1:23:21.720 --> 1:23:24.200 Before I started high level conversations, and we're getting millions 1:23:24.240 --> 1:23:26.400 of views. People were saying that that's not gonna work. 1:23:26.400 --> 1:23:28.600 People not gonna want to sit for long term and 1:23:28.720 --> 1:23:33.120 listen to high level, in depth intellectual conversations below and behold, 1:23:33.120 --> 1:23:34.560 we have to show them how to do it the 1:23:34.720 --> 1:23:38.519 right way. So if we take consciousness and education as 1:23:38.520 --> 1:23:41.080 a luxury, so instead, okay, well let's present it in 1:23:41.160 --> 1:23:44.320 the luxurious manner. Let's make it aspirational. Let's make it 1:23:44.479 --> 1:23:47.559 something you want to obtain, right, because most men don't 1:23:47.680 --> 1:23:51.920 see being a man, standing up for yourself, getting money right, 1:23:52.320 --> 1:23:56.080 having social influence and power as their true goal. They 1:23:56.160 --> 1:23:58.439 just want some money and some holes and they're happy. 1:23:59.000 --> 1:24:02.400 So the integrity and the character is missing in our courture. 1:24:02.680 --> 1:24:09.920 So you're not going to get us people. But but 1:24:10.120 --> 1:24:12.640 but but you're not going to get us as a 1:24:12.720 --> 1:24:15.519 people to make any real strides the type that we 1:24:16.240 --> 1:24:19.080 we innately want to sit. It like there's a spirit. 1:24:19.120 --> 1:24:21.160 I don't care who you are, there's a spirit of us. 1:24:21.439 --> 1:24:24.160 They just wish we just came together. They just wish 1:24:24.280 --> 1:24:26.720 we did that. They don't have to be wishes. If 1:24:26.760 --> 1:24:29.800 you have real men and women, you understand me, Like 1:24:30.000 --> 1:24:33.639 there's like a wish is you know goal without work? 1:24:34.080 --> 1:24:36.519 You understand me. If we put that work in, then 1:24:36.560 --> 1:24:39.479 there's no more wishes. They're just reality. So when we're 1:24:39.479 --> 1:24:42.160 talking about is educating you on how to do it. 1:24:42.640 --> 1:24:45.360 Once you have the knowledge, how you're now accountable for 1:24:45.479 --> 1:24:48.639 either being lazy or giving birth. Right, a man's mind 1:24:48.760 --> 1:24:51.599 is his womb. Right. If you have an idea here, 1:24:51.680 --> 1:24:53.800 you don't give birth to it, that's because you aborted it. 1:24:54.160 --> 1:24:58.360 Procrastination is the abortion clinic of ideas. Right, you have 1:24:58.479 --> 1:25:00.880 an idea, but do you have the wilfulness? Do you 1:25:00.960 --> 1:25:03.120 have the intent? Do you have the knowledge to go 1:25:03.240 --> 1:25:05.280 bring that into me? I ain't saying whether it's hard 1:25:05.400 --> 1:25:07.839 or not. A man is meant to go do challenges. 1:25:07.960 --> 1:25:09.760 He is meant to go through the darkness. He is 1:25:09.800 --> 1:25:12.479 meant to go through all of that and still project 1:25:12.560 --> 1:25:14.679 his reality because look at every other man and woman 1:25:14.720 --> 1:25:17.240 they've done it. You don't think they had challenges. You 1:25:17.320 --> 1:25:19.240 don't think that they went through some of the hardest 1:25:19.320 --> 1:25:22.240 routes in the world. No, but each one of these 1:25:22.360 --> 1:25:25.920 ideas is small to who we are. Right, our power 1:25:25.960 --> 1:25:29.479 as God's our powers, men and women as kings and 1:25:29.640 --> 1:25:32.120 queens on this planet Earth. That means that you can't 1:25:32.160 --> 1:25:34.400 tell me if we believe that we were the comedic 1:25:34.479 --> 1:25:37.360 people that built the pyramids, and the Mansa Musa's you 1:25:37.439 --> 1:25:40.519 understand me and the Hannibal Barkers, the father of military 1:25:40.600 --> 1:25:43.280 genius in the two Saints around the world come on 1:25:43.439 --> 1:25:47.040 something like owning our neighborhood and owning some shy scrapers. 1:25:47.240 --> 1:25:49.800 That should be a snap of a finger before people 1:25:49.840 --> 1:25:53.240 who know who they are. But that goes to the exposure, right, 1:25:53.280 --> 1:25:55.920 So the exposure plus the education, when you put those 1:25:55.920 --> 1:25:57.679 two things together, they see it and now they educate 1:25:57.720 --> 1:25:59.960 on it. Now it becomes something that's super attainable. That's 1:26:00.040 --> 1:26:02.120 why they have to see us do it. They gotta 1:26:02.120 --> 1:26:03.760 see y'all do it, because it's like, wait, we sold 1:26:03.840 --> 1:26:05.720 him in one avenue, but now we've seen them doing this. 1:26:06.400 --> 1:26:14.200 It's a complete evolution. Well yeah, yeah, let's talk about 1:26:14.280 --> 1:26:16.840 Yea said that he wanted to build a community that 1:26:17.000 --> 1:26:20.519 was fully self sufficient, that nothing outside will come in 1:26:20.600 --> 1:26:23.040 the community or go out of the community. It sounds 1:26:23.080 --> 1:26:25.400 like a good idea back there. What you let me 1:26:25.400 --> 1:26:27.680 ask you this because I watched the whole interview. I 1:26:27.760 --> 1:26:31.680 watched the whole interview. Um, what was your thoughts reflecting 1:26:31.760 --> 1:26:34.760 on that situation. What's your thoughts on that situation? The 1:26:34.880 --> 1:26:39.400 George Floyd Park went over my head because most of 1:26:39.479 --> 1:26:42.479 the time that was like in the first fifteen minutes 1:26:42.520 --> 1:26:44.960 of the interview, like first five minutes thing. It might 1:26:45.000 --> 1:26:47.200 be even the first five minutes. And one of the 1:26:47.280 --> 1:26:49.320 things that I always get critiqued about, it's like cutting 1:26:49.320 --> 1:26:52.600 people off. So I was sitting there just trying to 1:26:52.720 --> 1:26:55.519 let him kind of talk. But I realized that that's 1:26:55.520 --> 1:26:59.880 the time I should have cut him, but I didn't. 1:27:00.240 --> 1:27:02.360 I didn't. I didn't see that to the next day. 1:27:02.560 --> 1:27:05.599 The next day because it was like, yo, he basically asked, 1:27:05.640 --> 1:27:09.160 you can be filmed today, and but by the way, 1:27:11.360 --> 1:27:21.160 there's a lot if I would documentary everything that happened, when, 1:27:21.240 --> 1:27:25.040 when when, But when his name was brought up, that 1:27:25.160 --> 1:27:29.000 was the least of our concerned because like he had 1:27:29.080 --> 1:27:32.120 compared him tomorrow the king at one point, and it 1:27:32.280 --> 1:27:34.559 was just like it was just all over the place. 1:27:35.640 --> 1:27:40.920 Had I been able to sit back and analyze it 1:27:40.960 --> 1:27:43.760 a little bit more, because really what it was, I'm 1:27:43.760 --> 1:27:45.960 being honest, this is the first time I've been addressing 1:27:46.000 --> 1:27:49.920 this question, and I would love to do so, like 1:27:50.000 --> 1:27:52.639 we kind of like felt snubbed a little bit because well, 1:27:52.800 --> 1:27:54.080 well let me say me, let me not throw you 1:27:54.200 --> 1:27:58.400 in it in there like probably gonna win the BT Award. 1:27:58.760 --> 1:28:04.240 God blessed with somebody who just got six episodes, you know, yeah, 1:28:04.320 --> 1:28:07.200 so God bless that, God bless god, God blessed short 1:28:07.479 --> 1:28:09.720 because that's not her, that's not how fall at all. 1:28:10.920 --> 1:28:12.719 But at the same token, it's like, all right, cool, 1:28:13.280 --> 1:28:15.360 we wanted so I was supposed to when I got 1:28:15.400 --> 1:28:18.760 the phone, go, I was let me relax because it 1:28:18.920 --> 1:28:21.160 was something about his energy that wasn't like the same. 1:28:22.520 --> 1:28:23.920 But he didn't want me. He didn't. He didn't He 1:28:23.960 --> 1:28:26.080 didn't say you almost say this. He didn't say I 1:28:26.200 --> 1:28:29.200 want this. We already knew what time, Nah, I knew, 1:28:30.600 --> 1:28:34.640 but I wasn't thinking it. So that's my take on 1:28:34.760 --> 1:28:36.519 it was like after looking at it, and I have 1:28:36.560 --> 1:28:38.400 to see it because the thing is, I'm not even 1:28:38.520 --> 1:28:43.519 hurting people. When I was, you know, I both brought 1:28:43.560 --> 1:28:45.280 up the war report. You know, that was that was 1:28:45.320 --> 1:28:47.720 the time in my life. You know, I grew that 1:28:48.439 --> 1:28:50.599 and I love who I am right now. I make 1:28:50.640 --> 1:28:54.400 people happy. People see me, what's some story? People think 1:28:54.439 --> 1:28:57.920 they know me, even both people those people who meet me. 1:28:57.960 --> 1:28:59.360 They never even met me. They just see me and 1:28:59.400 --> 1:29:02.360 be like, you know, was top bro, and they I 1:29:02.520 --> 1:29:06.360 like to remain that person. And that took away and 1:29:06.400 --> 1:29:09.439 which a lot of people don't know, it was him 1:29:09.439 --> 1:29:12.960 who told me to take it down. It was him 1:29:12.960 --> 1:29:15.320 who told me to take it. I mean, I didn't 1:29:15.320 --> 1:29:17.519 feel like that it should have been public information because 1:29:17.800 --> 1:29:20.120 it wasn't like he said, yo, take it down and 1:29:20.200 --> 1:29:22.600 to tell everyone to be public about it. But he 1:29:22.760 --> 1:29:24.080 was like yo. I was like, yo, I want to 1:29:24.120 --> 1:29:25.800 take the George Floyd part out and I want to 1:29:25.840 --> 1:29:28.160 take out you know, such a such part out. And 1:29:28.200 --> 1:29:29.360 he was like, well, if you gotta take it out, 1:29:29.400 --> 1:29:31.760 then you know, take it all down. And I was 1:29:31.800 --> 1:29:34.400 just like alright, cool. And by the way, we could 1:29:34.400 --> 1:29:36.240 have been assholes. We could have still made money off 1:29:36.240 --> 1:29:38.840 of this. That interview is still all over the place, 1:29:38.920 --> 1:29:41.920 but we didn't want to make money because the fact 1:29:42.040 --> 1:29:44.559 is the word got back that George Floyd family said 1:29:44.600 --> 1:29:47.840 that we said it mm hmm. Like you know, as 1:29:47.840 --> 1:29:51.479 a journalist, I've seen Oprah interview Cus Klan. She didn't 1:29:51.479 --> 1:29:53.519 pull hard and if you're down, you know what I'm saying, 1:29:53.520 --> 1:29:55.400 I've seen I've seen that so as a journalist, and 1:29:55.439 --> 1:29:58.200 not to mean you agree with everything that as a journalist. 1:29:58.479 --> 1:30:01.479 As a journalist, I didn't nothing wrong. As the person 1:30:01.520 --> 1:30:03.240 who has more rols, a person that stands with my 1:30:03.280 --> 1:30:05.439 black community, I felt like I let him down. So 1:30:05.560 --> 1:30:12.040 I felt like, you know, something like that. But I 1:30:12.120 --> 1:30:13.560 feel like this is deep, this is deep. It's the 1:30:13.560 --> 1:30:20.320 first time we talk about it. Let's go up. That 1:30:20.479 --> 1:30:25.040 moment was historical regardless, right, Everything that transpired from that 1:30:25.200 --> 1:30:28.360 moment was historical. I think it's a it's a key 1:30:28.479 --> 1:30:31.240 lesson in that though, because the reason kind of came 1:30:31.280 --> 1:30:34.360 to y'all because he wanted the media platform you understand me, 1:30:34.520 --> 1:30:38.479 specifically one of the black media platform. It's not easy 1:30:38.720 --> 1:30:41.639 for when the black man does do something that goes 1:30:41.720 --> 1:30:44.920 against the grain to also have a platform, right, right, 1:30:45.000 --> 1:30:47.920 So it's very important that both didn't tell me to 1:30:48.000 --> 1:30:50.120 take it down. By the way, both didn't tell us, 1:30:50.200 --> 1:30:51.920 but they laughed at us when he was like, yeah, 1:30:51.920 --> 1:30:59.519 because they told us, dope put it up. Really, that's 1:30:59.560 --> 1:31:03.040 keep everybody didn't tell y'all to take it down because 1:31:03.080 --> 1:31:05.840 a lot of people blame revolt when revolts still put 1:31:05.920 --> 1:31:08.320 it out there because the idea was to give a 1:31:08.520 --> 1:31:11.559 voice you understand me in the platform, whether you agree 1:31:11.560 --> 1:31:15.400 with it or not. He went on Piers morgane all 1:31:15.439 --> 1:31:21.760 of the other that was that none of those people 1:31:21.880 --> 1:31:27.040 because until globhouse, regular traditional media giving voices you understand 1:31:27.120 --> 1:31:31.280 me and black me, that everybody wants to control our voice. Right. 1:31:31.479 --> 1:31:34.360 We try to bully each other, right, even getting the 1:31:34.479 --> 1:31:37.200 suit that's bullying each other, because we don't try to 1:31:37.240 --> 1:31:39.240 bully other people because we know they got back up 1:31:39.280 --> 1:31:47.880 in power, right, and we do that ain't definitely we 1:31:48.000 --> 1:31:52.439 do that neighborhoods, right, We bully each other because we 1:31:52.600 --> 1:31:55.360 know you ain't got back up and touched that white 1:31:55.400 --> 1:31:58.120 boy touched that cop because they got back That's the 1:31:58.200 --> 1:32:00.800 same thing with everybody else in their net works. So 1:32:00.960 --> 1:32:03.160 I think that in that moment, we have to understand 1:32:03.200 --> 1:32:06.080 that black media is still in an infantile stage as 1:32:06.160 --> 1:32:09.240 far as us having these platforms. So moments like that 1:32:09.360 --> 1:32:12.439 were historical and set precedents that, No, we can have 1:32:12.680 --> 1:32:16.360 conversations even when we are of disagreement. We can make 1:32:16.479 --> 1:32:19.800 mistakes on our platform, right, but we don't have to 1:32:19.920 --> 1:32:22.800 be canceled. You understand me, And seeing like we're being 1:32:22.920 --> 1:32:27.479 criminalized and shunned and crucified. No Black men have the 1:32:27.600 --> 1:32:30.240 right to have their voice, whether you disagree or agree 1:32:30.320 --> 1:32:33.160 with it, and that's something that America never let us have. 1:32:33.720 --> 1:32:35.600 But I think I think to have to have my 1:32:35.720 --> 1:32:40.479 two cents to it. Um Sometimes sometimes I think in 1:32:40.560 --> 1:32:43.960 that documentary they are Kanye's mom said it's hard for 1:32:44.000 --> 1:32:46.240 a giant to see himself in the mirror some something 1:32:46.280 --> 1:32:49.000 to that effect. And I feel like it's hard for 1:32:49.160 --> 1:32:52.240 us to fully understand how powerful we are because we're 1:32:52.280 --> 1:32:55.479 in it. So like for you guys, I don't even 1:32:55.520 --> 1:32:58.360 think you might not even fully understand how important your 1:32:58.400 --> 1:33:02.840 platform is, even if you know. You know, I was 1:33:02.880 --> 1:33:06.680 ignored this. What I'm saying is that when I looked 1:33:06.720 --> 1:33:08.360 at the interview, I looked at it like he was 1:33:08.439 --> 1:33:10.680 coming to you guys to talk about a lot of 1:33:10.760 --> 1:33:14.160 serious issues. And I feel like it was a little 1:33:14.880 --> 1:33:17.880 lighthearted sometimes even with the shots or like the hip 1:33:17.920 --> 1:33:20.720 hop conversations, and I feel like, because you probably looking, 1:33:20.760 --> 1:33:22.280 it was just a regular inter Yeah, I mean this 1:33:22.360 --> 1:33:24.720 is drink champs. Yeah. The day, I want you all 1:33:24.720 --> 1:33:26.080 to be as comfortable as y'all could be. By the 1:33:26.160 --> 1:33:28.920 end of the day, I'm still gonna try get sometime sometime. 1:33:32.800 --> 1:33:35.479 But you said a key word, you said journalists. Yeah, 1:33:35.560 --> 1:33:38.800 I was just gone. So it's like, I don't like 1:33:38.920 --> 1:33:41.600 saying I don't like considering that you are not well. 1:33:43.960 --> 1:33:47.280 I feel like so when comes on, he's looking at Okay, 1:33:47.640 --> 1:33:50.439 this is a platform where I could reach millions of people, 1:33:51.120 --> 1:33:54.280 and it's hip hop culture. It's my peers, here's my thing, 1:33:54.600 --> 1:33:57.439 here's my thing. Our last interview, he kind of like 1:33:57.520 --> 1:34:00.160 warmed me what he wanted to talk about. So I 1:34:00.280 --> 1:34:02.000 was prepared for that. How he would have said, Yo, 1:34:02.680 --> 1:34:06.360 you know, I would have would hit eighteen keys, I'm 1:34:06.360 --> 1:34:08.960 gonna hit you know what I'm saying, Like he has 1:34:09.040 --> 1:34:13.400 something people there that is knowledgeable or just political, because 1:34:13.600 --> 1:34:16.920 when it goes political and it goes deep, it's a 1:34:16.960 --> 1:34:18.439 little bit too much for me, you know what I 1:34:18.479 --> 1:34:23.599 mean in a certain stance, Like I know my strengths, right, 1:34:24.040 --> 1:34:25.760 But I felt like when he came he looked at 1:34:25.800 --> 1:34:28.240 it like this is a safe place for me. That's 1:34:28.280 --> 1:34:32.120 definitely right. And it was. And it doesn't mean let 1:34:32.160 --> 1:34:33.439 me just tell you something. Let me just tell you something. 1:34:33.720 --> 1:34:37.320 One of the biggest compliments I've ever had was after 1:34:37.360 --> 1:34:40.080 I interviewed Kanye the first time, and we went to 1:34:40.120 --> 1:34:43.599 a Prime one twelve and all the black women came 1:34:43.680 --> 1:34:45.960 up to him and said hi, and he was like, 1:34:46.080 --> 1:34:48.960 this is the first time black women to say and 1:34:49.040 --> 1:34:52.240 I was just like, what this is? Like? I was 1:34:52.320 --> 1:34:54.560 blown away because he was like, Yo, this is what 1:34:54.680 --> 1:34:57.360 you gave to me. So I was like, oh, it 1:34:57.560 --> 1:35:01.240 was like, you gave me my people back exactly. So 1:35:01.840 --> 1:35:08.479 so he just kept like this before you finish your point. 1:35:08.960 --> 1:35:12.479 There's something to appreciate about that interview as well, because 1:35:12.600 --> 1:35:14.839 the George fourth thing that happened in the first five minutes, 1:35:15.439 --> 1:35:17.479 and I feel like that was an easy, low hanging 1:35:17.560 --> 1:35:21.479 fruit to serve to the population while ignoring the other 1:35:22.640 --> 1:35:25.240 of the interview, right because now you don't have to 1:35:25.320 --> 1:35:28.559 have real discussions on the point points truth and facts 1:35:28.640 --> 1:35:31.200 that he actually brought up. And the reason that he 1:35:31.400 --> 1:35:33.800 was happy that he came on there and you gave 1:35:33.880 --> 1:35:38.560 him a platform to speak truth, be revolutionary in his thought, unfiltered, 1:35:38.640 --> 1:35:40.840 and his people loved him for that. So he wanted 1:35:40.880 --> 1:35:43.679 to come back and do the same thing. In his mind, 1:35:43.720 --> 1:35:46.880 he was doing that and so and the rest of 1:35:46.960 --> 1:35:49.960 the interview, whether you agree with that part or disagree, 1:35:50.000 --> 1:35:52.200 that doesn't matter. We have to get to a point 1:35:52.240 --> 1:35:55.000 as a people where we're not distracted by the things 1:35:55.080 --> 1:35:57.439 that we disagree with, but we have commonality on the 1:35:57.520 --> 1:36:01.120 things that we do agree with. Like sorry to cut 1:36:01.200 --> 1:36:05.519 you off, but he said I can say some such 1:36:05.560 --> 1:36:08.840 and such things, but he never actually said it. He didn't. 1:36:09.000 --> 1:36:12.000 He was and that was his goal, wasn't it. His 1:36:12.160 --> 1:36:14.400 goal was to get out of the contract. I think 1:36:14.479 --> 1:36:17.519 that people make it seem like just dry dropped him. 1:36:17.760 --> 1:36:20.920 He said years before, he said, weeks before. I'm trying 1:36:20.960 --> 1:36:23.240 to get out this deal. They're doing me wrong. So 1:36:23.560 --> 1:36:26.479 for me, it looks like a strategy. Right. You can 1:36:26.560 --> 1:36:29.120 call it crazy, but the reality of it is you 1:36:29.240 --> 1:36:32.320 have a goal, you do something, and then you successfully 1:36:32.360 --> 1:36:34.719 get that and then everybody call you a faiure forward. 1:36:35.200 --> 1:36:37.920 That doesn't make sense to me because if you can't 1:36:37.920 --> 1:36:41.200 control the narrative of what just happened, everybody else puts 1:36:41.240 --> 1:36:43.479 their spin on it. That's what he was talking. I 1:36:43.560 --> 1:36:45.320 just want to go back to that point about journalism, 1:36:45.400 --> 1:36:47.479 because that's how you gotta like when people said that 1:36:47.520 --> 1:36:49.320 about that's at first, I'm like, no, bro, Like I'm 1:36:49.360 --> 1:36:51.519 just educated, bro, I'm just doing my job, but like 1:36:52.000 --> 1:36:55.200 you're actually creating a platform where this is journalism. He 1:36:55.280 --> 1:36:57.479 came here, it was for a safe space. He said 1:36:57.520 --> 1:36:58.880 some things that you may not agree with, but you 1:36:58.920 --> 1:37:01.400 allowed him the space to say it. And so inside 1:37:01.439 --> 1:37:03.240 of it, it was like, well, what is your job 1:37:03.320 --> 1:37:05.880 now to dude? Are you supposed to, like, hey, review 1:37:05.960 --> 1:37:08.040 him or letting him speak, because that's what the journalists 1:37:08.040 --> 1:37:11.280 will do. A train journalist has the tools to rebuttle. Yeah. 1:37:11.320 --> 1:37:14.200 But but sometimes but the strangers knowing, like you know 1:37:14.280 --> 1:37:17.040 that times that might not be my strength. You see 1:37:17.080 --> 1:37:18.920 what I'm saying. It's like I can't interview are Kelly? 1:37:19.320 --> 1:37:22.080 Come on man? Kelly said what's the camera? Where's the camera? 1:37:22.160 --> 1:37:25.640 I would have walked out like like that's not my 1:37:25.840 --> 1:37:32.280 strength some minutes. That's what I'm saying. Talk to anybody. Yeah, 1:37:33.080 --> 1:37:35.840 probably talk to anybody. But the part was what you're 1:37:35.840 --> 1:37:37.280 saying is I was gonna lose to it. It was 1:37:37.360 --> 1:37:39.880 like to get my people back right. So for so 1:37:40.000 --> 1:37:41.720 long he's been in that space where it was like, yo, 1:37:41.880 --> 1:37:44.160 he's he's talking with this is what he's saying. He 1:37:44.240 --> 1:37:46.519 doesn't like, he doesn't a pot black people, But where's 1:37:46.560 --> 1:37:47.840 the one place I can go, I can get him 1:37:47.880 --> 1:37:51.320 back like this and that was you right, And so 1:37:51.439 --> 1:37:53.680 it was like, it's interesting that you set that part 1:37:53.720 --> 1:37:55.200 like when you went outside, and it was like he 1:37:55.320 --> 1:37:57.519 felt that because he knew intentively, like this is the 1:37:57.520 --> 1:38:00.720 p to see it myself. Yeah, And it wasn't just 1:38:00.840 --> 1:38:03.280 regular black woman. It was a couple of the big 1:38:03.360 --> 1:38:06.439 black woman and that's you know, that's real black woman. 1:38:06.760 --> 1:38:08.080 When you got you know what I mean, have he 1:38:08.160 --> 1:38:11.200 said black woman, that's Mama's right there, Like he was like, 1:38:11.479 --> 1:38:13.200 that's what he said to me. He was like, Mama's 1:38:14.040 --> 1:38:16.479 all right. Cool. You know, since Kim black woman hasn't 1:38:16.600 --> 1:38:19.560 really fucked with me. But then but I've seen that 1:38:20.040 --> 1:38:23.479 Mama's I was like, holy sh it because I'm like, 1:38:23.600 --> 1:38:25.760 they hardly funk with me because I love and hip hop. 1:38:25.800 --> 1:38:27.280 They're like, I see your love and hip hop boy 1:38:27.760 --> 1:38:32.040 a cool. Yeah, but let's see, there was only two platforms. 1:38:32.120 --> 1:38:34.560 He could have came drink champs now he didn't know. 1:38:34.640 --> 1:38:40.920 He could have came a high level conversation right now 1:38:41.240 --> 1:38:43.920 and you know, and you know, to a couple of 1:38:44.040 --> 1:38:49.479 your journalists. It's up we review it to a couple 1:38:49.479 --> 1:38:52.280 of our journalists. Like, no, yeah, it's out of line. 1:38:53.000 --> 1:38:56.840 Why would they let shut up? He didn't calling you, 1:38:57.760 --> 1:39:01.040 that's a fact. He didn't calling you, just keeping a hunting. 1:39:01.920 --> 1:39:06.439 He ain't calling you since neither, so relaxed. You know, 1:39:06.520 --> 1:39:08.960 people always criticize my bad. I had to say that 1:39:09.040 --> 1:39:10.880 for a long time. If you stay out of it, 1:39:16.000 --> 1:39:17.920 concertain people ain't gonna lie that it was critiquing me. 1:39:18.160 --> 1:39:20.120 And I'm looking like they're like, no, he's out of 1:39:20.160 --> 1:39:22.720 line for taking car. No I'm not. This is still 1:39:22.800 --> 1:39:25.840 one of the most what gods of you believe in 1:39:25.920 --> 1:39:28.439 his views or you believe in his Honestly what I 1:39:28.479 --> 1:39:30.280 didn't know, and he got a lot of the people 1:39:30.320 --> 1:39:34.320 that criticizing and don't own their platforms, they couldn't take 1:39:34.400 --> 1:39:36.920 him off. It's not because they didn't want someone like 1:39:37.120 --> 1:39:38.880 we got to be careful with criticizing, and if we're 1:39:38.880 --> 1:39:41.600 not in a position to criticize, Like there's workers and 1:39:41.640 --> 1:39:44.880 there's bosses. Bosses and workers are in the same conversation. 1:39:45.040 --> 1:39:47.840 But how about Nike with with Kyrie, Like, but let 1:39:47.880 --> 1:39:51.680 me just finish. That's good because that's important. Ownership is 1:39:51.720 --> 1:39:53.560 real big for us, you know what I'm saying. So 1:39:53.720 --> 1:39:56.439 it's like we we have to be and it's nothing 1:39:56.479 --> 1:39:59.080 wrong with being a worker, but product yourself as soul. 1:39:59.600 --> 1:40:02.479 Problem is that a lot of times with workers and 1:40:02.600 --> 1:40:05.720 we talk to each other, as with bosses, we have 1:40:05.800 --> 1:40:07.599 to be extremely careful of how we speak to each 1:40:07.600 --> 1:40:10.400 other because language is important. So it's like, just be 1:40:10.520 --> 1:40:12.519 careful because you wouldn't talk to somebody else in that 1:40:12.600 --> 1:40:15.160 same manner, because I haven't seen you talking to anybody 1:40:15.160 --> 1:40:17.320 else in that same manner. You ain't talk to talk 1:40:17.479 --> 1:40:19.280 Carson in that manner. You can talk to Piers Morson 1:40:19.320 --> 1:40:21.640 in that manner. You ain't talk to anybody in that 1:40:21.880 --> 1:40:28.200 manner except there come outside, except except for the person 1:40:28.320 --> 1:40:31.519 that you deem as your peer. But we're not peers, 1:40:32.680 --> 1:40:34.240 Like know what I'm saying. So that's important for people 1:40:34.240 --> 1:40:37.080 to understand, because I feel like it's it's gotten so 1:40:37.320 --> 1:40:39.640 comfortable with Twitter, even the Dean saying is like, we 1:40:39.760 --> 1:40:42.679 got so comfortable disrespecting each other each other. It's so easy, 1:40:42.720 --> 1:40:44.960 I'm saying, so so easy. But it's like, like I said, 1:40:45.240 --> 1:40:47.280 be careful how we speak to each other because words 1:40:47.280 --> 1:40:50.559 are important and you could say something that could end 1:40:50.600 --> 1:40:52.880 your life or in somebody else's life and it's like 1:40:52.920 --> 1:40:54.839 a lot of times people end up in the penitential, 1:40:54.960 --> 1:40:57.240 they end up dead based off of emotions, based off 1:40:57.280 --> 1:40:59.920 of words. But then when you really look at it, 1:41:00.080 --> 1:41:03.080 it wasn't even that serious. But conflict resolution. How do 1:41:03.160 --> 1:41:06.040 we disagree with somebody in an honorable manner? How do 1:41:06.120 --> 1:41:08.519 we disagree with somebody without trying to publicly embarrass them, 1:41:08.760 --> 1:41:10.960 because now you publicly embarrassed when nobody wins, because now 1:41:11.000 --> 1:41:14.040 it's gonnly gonna escalate, escalate to the point where it 1:41:14.120 --> 1:41:15.640 might not even lead to violence. But it's it's so 1:41:15.800 --> 1:41:19.880 much disrespect that the relationship is completely the meek mills. 1:41:19.920 --> 1:41:22.599 No one actually knows what they've beefing over, if they 1:41:22.680 --> 1:41:26.160 even beefing. Like we know that he's something a couple 1:41:26.200 --> 1:41:28.439 of times and he just responded, well he didn't add 1:41:28.520 --> 1:41:30.200 him or something like that. But the fact there's like 1:41:30.280 --> 1:41:33.200 none of us know that. Yeah, and that's why I 1:41:33.240 --> 1:41:35.040 think public and that's one thing and I love Yeah, 1:41:35.240 --> 1:41:36.760 you ain't one of my favorites of all time, but 1:41:36.840 --> 1:41:39.000 I just wish that summertimes he would just stop talking 1:41:39.080 --> 1:41:40.800 so much. Yeah, like you know what I'm saying, That's 1:41:40.840 --> 1:41:42.439 how That's how it was brought up like I don't 1:41:42.600 --> 1:41:44.640 talk like I feel like you heard the record he 1:41:44.680 --> 1:41:48.439 put on Instagram. Yeah, it's like a snippet, right, people 1:41:48.520 --> 1:41:51.439 like that. I feel like I was raised Its like 1:41:51.600 --> 1:41:53.400 men don't talk like that, Like this is a new 1:41:53.560 --> 1:41:57.160 error where men just feel so comfortable speaking about other men, 1:41:57.280 --> 1:41:59.960 about other men's money, about other men like that. That's 1:42:00.120 --> 1:42:02.320 not a great question towards you, not how I was 1:42:02.400 --> 1:42:05.080 brought up. Is that money? Are we blaming that on money? 1:42:05.080 --> 1:42:07.479 Are we blame that's a that's a that's a lack 1:42:07.560 --> 1:42:10.760 of code of ethics from childhood. But also but let 1:42:10.800 --> 1:42:12.439 me then pink because it support it's a code of 1:42:12.479 --> 1:42:15.679 ethics fro childhood where you understand that, Okay, some things 1:42:15.720 --> 1:42:18.439 you don't speak about. You don't speak about somebody else 1:42:18.520 --> 1:42:21.160 like publicly, you don't discredit somebody, don't talk about somebody 1:42:21.160 --> 1:42:23.679 else's money, especially if you don't have a complete understanding 1:42:23.720 --> 1:42:26.040 of knowledge, like you're looking crazy out here like dr 1:42:26.240 --> 1:42:34.320 Umar said that. Um but even before, even before you 1:42:37.400 --> 1:42:39.960 had a good about said about Omar and Kyrie. But 1:42:41.120 --> 1:42:44.080 when it comes to speaking you understand me. It is 1:42:44.120 --> 1:42:47.320 because my brother is right on code of ethics. But 1:42:47.439 --> 1:42:51.360 it's Also, men are afraid to speak truth nowadays as well. 1:42:52.200 --> 1:42:56.599 So the refreshing aspect of Kanye was that he's speaking 1:42:56.600 --> 1:42:59.240 a lot of truth. Whether you believe he stood or 1:42:59.280 --> 1:43:03.320 lived for that truth, that doesn't matter. What he said 1:43:03.400 --> 1:43:06.360 true and we know that most of us will agree, 1:43:07.000 --> 1:43:12.120 right but not publicly. Ll agreed on Saturday Night Live. Yeah, 1:43:12.400 --> 1:43:16.599 but I'm saying, like people with platform because you're afraid 1:43:16.640 --> 1:43:19.519 of being d platform, you're afraid of being demonetized. And 1:43:19.560 --> 1:43:25.439 I didn't see anything that Dave Chappelle said offensive the 1:43:25.439 --> 1:43:27.760 way he did it. He didn't say nothing offensive. It 1:43:28.000 --> 1:43:30.320 was it wasn't jazz, but it was light, but it 1:43:30.479 --> 1:43:32.120 was heavy at the same time because what he was 1:43:32.160 --> 1:43:34.000 saying was pretty much what he was saying, and he 1:43:34.120 --> 1:43:36.439 was he was kind of taking shots at Kanye on 1:43:36.520 --> 1:43:39.560 the know in my opinion, but it was well, it 1:43:39.680 --> 1:43:42.120 was well thrown out. That's like he has these thoughts 1:43:42.280 --> 1:43:43.760 and it's just in my opinion, like he has these 1:43:43.800 --> 1:43:47.240 thoughts and yes, something that make sense, but the delivery 1:43:47.280 --> 1:43:51.360 all the time, it's like it or he heard something, 1:43:51.400 --> 1:43:53.240 he got a source of information that was like, yo, 1:43:53.360 --> 1:43:54.800 I just got this new information and I know what 1:43:54.880 --> 1:43:56.760 that's like. When you get information, you want to share it. 1:43:57.160 --> 1:43:59.640 But you did you do a death of research on 1:43:59.680 --> 1:44:01.400 that amazing that you got or did you just take 1:44:01.439 --> 1:44:03.160 the source and like all right, that's it, I'm running 1:44:03.200 --> 1:44:06.920 with it. And it's like, yo, I got it. I'm 1:44:06.960 --> 1:44:08.360 out of here with it, and now let me go 1:44:08.439 --> 1:44:10.880 through the and then and then also society, actually they 1:44:10.920 --> 1:44:15.280 don't know what you're trying to say. So people demonize 1:44:15.280 --> 1:44:17.479 you for what you said exactly how you said, the 1:44:17.520 --> 1:44:19.519 way you said it. But come on, now you know 1:44:19.640 --> 1:44:21.600 what he was trying to say. You know what the 1:44:21.720 --> 1:44:24.679 context was behind it. So even if you get somebody 1:44:24.720 --> 1:44:27.200 that's ignorant on the subject, but they speaking on something 1:44:27.280 --> 1:44:29.560 that's real, they may not know, and the way you 1:44:29.640 --> 1:44:31.280 can attack them and trying to get them to go 1:44:31.439 --> 1:44:33.880 more in depth and detail on that nor that it's true, 1:44:34.200 --> 1:44:36.200 but you know, you can tack them on the weaknesses 1:44:36.320 --> 1:44:39.040 of them not being able to fully be defensible on 1:44:39.240 --> 1:44:42.080 that point. You understand me. And that's how the media 1:44:42.200 --> 1:44:45.560 does it, and that's how society does it to deceptively 1:44:45.640 --> 1:44:49.080 manipulate people. You understand me that that's always been a way. 1:44:49.479 --> 1:44:51.840 So for me, I'm one of those people that well, 1:44:51.880 --> 1:44:53.920 I know what you were trying to say, here's the 1:44:54.040 --> 1:44:57.760 context behind it. There's truth behind it, there's facts behind it, 1:44:58.120 --> 1:44:59.960 and a lot of black men are afraid to speak 1:45:00.160 --> 1:45:02.519 up and to speak of truth because of look of 1:45:02.600 --> 1:45:05.320 what happened. You understand me. Like, we know that the 1:45:05.400 --> 1:45:08.200 business world has been taxing and playing black men and 1:45:08.280 --> 1:45:11.439 women for years, that the industry has always been unfair 1:45:11.600 --> 1:45:14.640 based on whoever owns it. But when we speak up 1:45:14.680 --> 1:45:17.160 on that, we can never be direct. And when you do, 1:45:17.280 --> 1:45:19.240 it's because you're already in the pocket of the people 1:45:19.320 --> 1:45:21.840 that you're trying to speak up against. So therefore you 1:45:21.920 --> 1:45:24.120 can never truly speak your mind when you're owned by 1:45:24.160 --> 1:45:26.760 the people you're speaking against. You understand me. And so 1:45:26.880 --> 1:45:29.280 that's the most dangerous thing that we have to get 1:45:29.320 --> 1:45:32.760 to a point where where we're growing now black men 1:45:32.800 --> 1:45:35.120 are having these conferences, whether it's us or whether it's 1:45:35.120 --> 1:45:39.040 people just being inspired that no, we own our voice, right, 1:45:39.280 --> 1:45:40.960 we can say what we want to say when we 1:45:41.080 --> 1:45:43.320 want to say it, and you goddamn know what the 1:45:43.360 --> 1:45:44.920 funk I meant. That's a part of it. So like 1:45:45.000 --> 1:45:47.360 even when we're saying like, yeah, we gotta own our voice, 1:45:47.400 --> 1:45:49.200 we got to create our own platforms. Yeah, that's true, 1:45:49.280 --> 1:45:51.720 right because after y'all, that's the last platform has been 1:45:51.720 --> 1:45:53.960 on if you look at it and seting like everyone 1:45:54.040 --> 1:45:56.639 has never been left by us. But if it's only y'all, 1:45:57.200 --> 1:45:59.040 then if I do y'all and there's a backlash, Now 1:45:59.040 --> 1:46:01.880 where do I go high level conversations? But that's only 1:46:01.920 --> 1:46:07.000 two like what I'm saying, Like like what I'm saying, 1:46:07.280 --> 1:46:09.920 if we only got two options, then I might have 1:46:10.040 --> 1:46:11.760 to go to different outlets. My thing with with with 1:46:11.920 --> 1:46:13.439 him is just like and I've always said this is 1:46:13.479 --> 1:46:16.519 like right now. I mean, we've seen his career, We've 1:46:16.520 --> 1:46:19.559 seen how it's played out. We we we know goes 1:46:19.560 --> 1:46:21.760 through these these times in his life, and it's like, 1:46:21.960 --> 1:46:23.679 at some point it's like, who's going to stop putting 1:46:23.720 --> 1:46:28.240 the mac in front of him? No, I don't even 1:46:28.280 --> 1:46:30.439 know if it's if it's about not putting it. I 1:46:30.560 --> 1:46:33.560 think that well we have in our cultures, you know, 1:46:33.720 --> 1:46:36.080 because I don't think sometimes just shutting up is the 1:46:36.160 --> 1:46:38.920 answer getting to the point and the crux of it, 1:46:39.200 --> 1:46:42.439 because everything that he talks about is bigger than him, right, 1:46:42.760 --> 1:46:44.439 So at some point in time, we got to stop 1:46:44.479 --> 1:46:47.920 trying to blame the messenger, and we talk about the message, right, 1:46:47.960 --> 1:46:51.599 because that's where the actual change of impacts come. Kanye 1:46:51.680 --> 1:46:54.439 West is a voice for the message that everybody agrees with, 1:46:54.760 --> 1:46:57.120 but they can't agree with it publicly. But the thing 1:46:57.160 --> 1:46:59.600 with Kanye is that, and I love Kanye, but the 1:46:59.680 --> 1:47:03.280 mess ensured and the message is tied closely together, and 1:47:05.120 --> 1:47:10.720 the message from MESA changes almost daily. So it's like, 1:47:11.000 --> 1:47:13.880 if you it's hard to it's hard to follow a 1:47:14.000 --> 1:47:17.200 message when the messages here one day and here the next. 1:47:17.439 --> 1:47:19.120 I don't know if you remember at one point he 1:47:19.200 --> 1:47:20.840 was like, yo, I don't have no industry friends, and 1:47:20.880 --> 1:47:24.240 I was like why. He was like, no one contacted 1:47:24.320 --> 1:47:27.200 them when Kim took the babies, and I was like, yeah, 1:47:27.200 --> 1:47:28.640 if I had to add that, I'm not sure if 1:47:29.200 --> 1:47:32.200 the thing about it, because that's like saying people go 1:47:32.280 --> 1:47:34.960 to child support every day, like nobody gonna that as 1:47:35.000 --> 1:47:36.920 a man, Like you're gonna go through that, like it's 1:47:36.960 --> 1:47:38.720 part of it, Like remember changing, So it's like but 1:47:39.040 --> 1:47:41.240 once again he blamed the whole industry for that. Yeah, 1:47:41.360 --> 1:47:43.800 but like, yeah, everyone, I don't think that was the 1:47:43.880 --> 1:47:46.280 part of his message that matters, you understand me, That's 1:47:46.280 --> 1:47:49.000 why when when you see some people champion, it's because 1:47:49.040 --> 1:47:51.559 they're taking a part that does matter and they're having 1:47:51.560 --> 1:47:54.760 a conversation on that, right, And that's the equity and 1:47:54.840 --> 1:47:59.080 the control of our power. You understand me, our intellectual property, 1:47:59.360 --> 1:48:02.840 our talent, is our skills, our gifts, Right, that's the 1:48:02.920 --> 1:48:05.519 part that mattered the most. And the truth is we 1:48:05.680 --> 1:48:08.240 don't own that. So I feel like Kayane West is 1:48:08.280 --> 1:48:11.080 will always Becomeing West. You can have conversations about him 1:48:11.160 --> 1:48:13.640 till you turn blue. But the reality of it is 1:48:13.760 --> 1:48:15.800 is that he gave us an opportunity to talk about 1:48:15.880 --> 1:48:18.599 something that's real that we really do need to own 1:48:18.680 --> 1:48:20.360 and change. But the whole thing about it is like 1:48:20.520 --> 1:48:22.920 we spend too much time talking about problems and other people. 1:48:23.880 --> 1:48:26.160 We gotta start talking about the future and solutions. So 1:48:26.320 --> 1:48:27.760 it's like, right now we're in the future and we 1:48:27.840 --> 1:48:30.320 got solutions. So when we talk about collaboration, it's like 1:48:30.560 --> 1:48:33.080 high level conversation. He references show a few different times, 1:48:33.439 --> 1:48:36.120 and that's a collaborative effort between us E y Oh 1:48:36.200 --> 1:48:38.799 Network and his show High Level Conversations. We come together 1:48:39.080 --> 1:48:40.720 and we didn't have the green light. We didn't have 1:48:40.760 --> 1:48:42.320 to ask for permission. Now he gets to put his 1:48:42.439 --> 1:48:44.519 voice out. We have a platform, he has a voice. 1:48:44.560 --> 1:48:46.600 We worked together, and this is something that's happening in 1:48:46.720 --> 1:48:48.640 real time. So many times we highlight the problem but 1:48:48.720 --> 1:48:51.400 not the solution and not what's actually happening in real time. 1:48:51.600 --> 1:48:56.000 And that's something that is very detrimental because it's like 1:48:56.120 --> 1:48:59.439 we'll spend so much time speaking about what's wrong, what 1:48:59.560 --> 1:49:01.800 we don't have. Yeah, we already know that we we 1:49:02.040 --> 1:49:04.120 come to this country as slaves. Of course we're gonna 1:49:04.120 --> 1:49:08.320 have a tremendous disadvantage, but we are making progress. So 1:49:08.880 --> 1:49:11.960 we could spend years talking about the ship that we 1:49:12.040 --> 1:49:15.320 don't own, the things that are funked up, our culture 1:49:15.479 --> 1:49:20.160 that's dysfunctional. But why don't we spend more time highlighting 1:49:20.320 --> 1:49:23.560 what's going right, where the direction that we're headed in, 1:49:24.160 --> 1:49:28.240 and what are the solutions to fix the problem. That's like, 1:49:28.560 --> 1:49:32.880 this is important. What I'm saying like podcasts, podcast space, media, 1:49:32.920 --> 1:49:37.320 this is actually media. I'm saying it started that, it 1:49:37.360 --> 1:49:39.040 started that it's a show. But that's why this is 1:49:39.120 --> 1:49:42.040 so important, Right, we own these things like that that 1:49:42.160 --> 1:49:44.120 we didn't grow up seeing that we didn't have. You 1:49:44.160 --> 1:49:46.360 know what I'm saying like we are all news was 1:49:46.400 --> 1:49:48.880 coming from rap city, you know what I'm saying, nobody 1:49:49.840 --> 1:49:52.559 and in music box me and doing this and people 1:49:52.600 --> 1:49:55.040 will like just give away the YouTube and me. And 1:49:55.120 --> 1:49:56.560 he was like, we never put in our show on 1:49:56.640 --> 1:49:59.200 YouTube without getting paid. Like we were like were like 1:49:59.280 --> 1:50:02.680 we went through someone ship in the music industry that 1:50:02.800 --> 1:50:05.320 we was like we were dicks. Everyone who did deal 1:50:05.360 --> 1:50:08.559 with us dick acts. And we were like, well that's 1:50:08.600 --> 1:50:11.160 just a good business exactly. But you learn in the business, 1:50:11.200 --> 1:50:12.760 so like that's something we have to learn to Like 1:50:13.280 --> 1:50:15.879 we don't like he's a financial advisor. I come from education, 1:50:16.080 --> 1:50:18.160 but like we didn't think this was gonna be a business. 1:50:19.040 --> 1:50:21.160 As we started realizing, like yeah, what's happening to him, 1:50:21.200 --> 1:50:23.280 Like oh wait, this is actually a business. We're gonna 1:50:23.280 --> 1:50:24.920 have to create something. We're gonna have to learn the space. 1:50:25.160 --> 1:50:27.519 But why we're learned it, which is key. We're teaching 1:50:27.560 --> 1:50:30.640 people about it, which is the other part that you 1:50:30.640 --> 1:50:34.679 know what I'm saying, Like as he talked about solution, 1:50:35.560 --> 1:50:40.160 the solution of collaboration, right because mostly none of us 1:50:40.200 --> 1:50:42.760 have everything, but each person has a part of it. 1:50:43.120 --> 1:50:45.240 They understand me one person as I did maybe the 1:50:45.280 --> 1:50:48.080 other person has the funding. Right when we talk about 1:50:48.120 --> 1:50:50.799 the solution number one of like, you can give millions 1:50:50.800 --> 1:50:52.960 of dollars to h b c US, but we also 1:50:53.000 --> 1:50:56.919 have organizations to where we independently educate our people directly 1:50:57.000 --> 1:51:00.240 on the skill sets so that they can produce assets. Right, 1:51:00.360 --> 1:51:02.959 that's key. That's that's something that we haven't even addressed 1:51:03.280 --> 1:51:06.560 whatsoever in our community. You understand me, not to I 1:51:06.640 --> 1:51:08.400 just want to say something. Let me let me feel 1:51:08.520 --> 1:51:14.720 the point real quick. Important touting not to knock, not 1:51:14.840 --> 1:51:25.640 to n I learned from nor. We're not asking for donations. No, No, 1:51:25.840 --> 1:51:32.280 that's that's that's why you gotta let me finish when 1:51:32.280 --> 1:51:34.800 I'm giving people a solution about how we fundel our 1:51:34.880 --> 1:51:36.960 money and where we the way we look at things, 1:51:37.400 --> 1:51:39.680 there's this old standard of looking at education as the 1:51:39.720 --> 1:51:43.680 model for saviorism. Right, you get educated, you understand, you 1:51:43.800 --> 1:51:45.280 become the one in the family that can take it 1:51:45.360 --> 1:51:49.680 to the trajectory. When we have millionaires, billionaires, organizations, institutions, 1:51:49.920 --> 1:51:51.920 they don't look at our show the same way that 1:51:51.960 --> 1:51:53.439 they look at other things. They don't look at our 1:51:53.479 --> 1:51:56.320 platform the same way. But we're the new replacement where 1:51:56.400 --> 1:51:59.240 the newer version of that. When you talk about, all right, 1:51:59.520 --> 1:52:02.120 how can his family get the assets and the education 1:52:02.360 --> 1:52:05.800 inside that family so that that last name has the value. Well, 1:52:05.880 --> 1:52:08.439 we teach those sort of things, right, So you can 1:52:08.520 --> 1:52:10.880 big up at HBCU, but you can also big up 1:52:10.920 --> 1:52:13.240 E y L University. You can also big up block 1:52:13.280 --> 1:52:16.840 World Order my space. Right, So when you're talking about that, 1:52:16.960 --> 1:52:19.800 it's saying that, yes, we are the new solution. Yes 1:52:19.920 --> 1:52:23.560 we are creating a new institution right for us that 1:52:23.720 --> 1:52:27.040 is by us as well. So it's it's it's retraining 1:52:27.160 --> 1:52:29.479 people even how to look at us and what we're 1:52:29.560 --> 1:52:32.759 doing because they got all these old frameworks of thinking. 1:52:33.040 --> 1:52:34.960 They don't know how to properly see us for who 1:52:35.040 --> 1:52:37.600 we are and what we've done. It's not easy to 1:52:37.720 --> 1:52:42.920 create multiple organizations and institutions and education platforms travel around 1:52:42.960 --> 1:52:45.599 the world and reach millions of people with the type 1:52:45.640 --> 1:52:48.320 of messaging that we've done. You see the resource, But 1:52:48.439 --> 1:52:52.160 behind the scenes is genius, you understand me. Behind the scenes, 1:52:52.240 --> 1:52:55.960 it's us developing ourselves to produce something that's never been done. 1:52:56.400 --> 1:52:58.120 So that means that that has to be given a 1:52:58.200 --> 1:53:01.200 special place in the courture that everybody has to come 1:53:01.280 --> 1:53:03.720 together and put their stamp on this ship, not just 1:53:03.920 --> 1:53:06.600 some people, because we're gonna easily project the nigga for 1:53:06.640 --> 1:53:09.320 getting on the beat and wrapping about some boyshit. But 1:53:09.400 --> 1:53:11.519 if we can travel around the world and teach our 1:53:11.600 --> 1:53:13.800 people how to get themselves out the pool pit, then 1:53:13.840 --> 1:53:16.080 you gotta tap in. And And the thing about it 1:53:16.320 --> 1:53:27.479 is like everything ever, every every everything, every every everything 1:53:27.520 --> 1:53:30.479 he said, Everything he said was true. But also it's like, 1:53:31.040 --> 1:53:33.880 you know, just looking back on it, whether people champion 1:53:34.040 --> 1:53:35.960 or not, it don't really even matter in my thing. 1:53:36.000 --> 1:53:37.720 I'm not even telling somebody you gotta do this, you 1:53:37.760 --> 1:53:40.360 gotta do that, because ultimately you do whatever you want 1:53:40.360 --> 1:53:42.400 to do. Bro, Like know what I'm saying. But it's like, 1:53:43.120 --> 1:53:46.120 for too long we look at black businesses as charities 1:53:46.800 --> 1:53:49.280 and then we look at like donations as a way 1:53:49.320 --> 1:53:52.120 to building wealth. That's not true because it's like how 1:53:52.240 --> 1:53:54.960 much money has been given to Africa and it hasn't 1:53:55.040 --> 1:53:57.800 changed the condition of the people in that situation. So 1:53:57.960 --> 1:54:00.000 it's like, when we're doing business, this is real busines 1:54:00.040 --> 1:54:02.280 is that we're standing on. We're offering a product that's 1:54:02.280 --> 1:54:05.000 worth every single bit that we're actually charging for. If 1:54:05.040 --> 1:54:06.720 you don't think that it is worth it, then don't 1:54:06.760 --> 1:54:09.280 pay for it. But we're not asking for a donation 1:54:09.320 --> 1:54:11.800 and we're not asking for handouts. We're doing real business 1:54:11.840 --> 1:54:13.840 and we're standing on it and we're providing a service 1:54:14.000 --> 1:54:16.240 and not just hearing America globally what there's an Abu 1:54:16.320 --> 1:54:18.400 Dhabi was in London, whether it's in Africa, whatever. So 1:54:18.520 --> 1:54:19.840 this is the things that we got to start looking 1:54:19.880 --> 1:54:22.000 at ourselves in a whole different light where it's like, 1:54:22.080 --> 1:54:24.639 now we're not we're not comparing ourselves to rappers because 1:54:24.640 --> 1:54:26.840 we're not rappers. We're not telling you that you've gotta 1:54:26.880 --> 1:54:28.720 stamp this because you don't have to stamp it. We're 1:54:28.760 --> 1:54:30.400 not asking you for anything because you don't gotta give 1:54:30.439 --> 1:54:31.800 us nothing. But at the end of the day, we're 1:54:31.800 --> 1:54:34.120 still going prosper. So it's like this is this is 1:54:34.160 --> 1:54:36.600 a level of confidence that we gotta have and too 1:54:36.720 --> 1:54:39.000 often we don't have that level of confidence because we're 1:54:39.000 --> 1:54:43.280 still looking at ourselves as charity victims, like we're not victims. 1:54:43.720 --> 1:54:46.000 So that's that's extremely important for people to understand, especially 1:54:46.000 --> 1:54:55.360 for the entrepreneurs that I'll look at it is it's 1:54:55.560 --> 1:54:59.040 complimentary you either enemy or a friend, and our courture. 1:54:59.080 --> 1:55:01.400 We got a lot of enemies, you understand me. Some 1:55:01.480 --> 1:55:03.520 people claim to be a part of the curture, but 1:55:03.640 --> 1:55:05.760 every single thing that they put out of some nigger 1:55:05.800 --> 1:55:09.400 ship and they none of it progressive whatsoever, you understand me. 1:55:09.520 --> 1:55:11.840 But they claim that they are part of it, and 1:55:11.960 --> 1:55:14.680 we give them accreditation and things of that nature, and 1:55:14.760 --> 1:55:16.560 we allow people to come up there and say, Yo, 1:55:16.640 --> 1:55:18.720 we're black, We're part of the courture. No, we gotta 1:55:18.760 --> 1:55:21.600 start snatching that car away, you not, because most of 1:55:21.640 --> 1:55:24.320 the things that they do are anti black, you understand me. 1:55:24.400 --> 1:55:26.640 Most of the music you make is anti black, most 1:55:26.680 --> 1:55:29.080 of the products that you make are anti black. Everything 1:55:29.160 --> 1:55:32.600 about your whole foundation and what you build is anti black. 1:55:33.040 --> 1:55:36.160 And what we're doing, you understand me, is pro black 1:55:36.320 --> 1:55:38.880 or pro good, because when we say anti black, it 1:55:38.920 --> 1:55:40.680 means that the things that you're putting out are not 1:55:40.840 --> 1:55:44.280 good for us. Right, But we were still champion you. 1:55:44.760 --> 1:55:47.640 So I feel like we gotta have soldiers in the courture. 1:55:47.680 --> 1:55:49.720 There are some people that you gotta give orders to 1:55:49.800 --> 1:55:53.040 because otherwise they don't know to do it. Like we've 1:55:53.120 --> 1:55:55.960 done this without that. Ain't got a donation or accreditation, 1:55:56.120 --> 1:55:58.400 none of that. I believe that validation comes from within 1:55:58.840 --> 1:56:00.920 and your accreditation is the work in the resource that 1:56:01.040 --> 1:56:03.080 you do. But at the same time, if you don't 1:56:03.120 --> 1:56:05.960 retrain the culture, because we've been programmed to do what 1:56:06.160 --> 1:56:09.360 we do, this ain't happened by accident. We've been programming 1:56:09.480 --> 1:56:14.400 every instance, from school to music, to entertainment to the preachers. Right, 1:56:14.480 --> 1:56:17.240 so it's people who have sold us out. Everything about 1:56:17.280 --> 1:56:20.160 our courture has been intentionally programmed for us to think 1:56:20.280 --> 1:56:22.720 and do what we do. Now, there's not going to 1:56:22.880 --> 1:56:26.000 be no accidental movement of getting us in the right direction. 1:56:26.440 --> 1:56:29.680 People have to be trained to do right. You understand me. 1:56:29.720 --> 1:56:32.400 It's easy to get the Mohammad said, there's easy to 1:56:32.440 --> 1:56:35.120 get people to go on the wrong direction. It's hard 1:56:35.160 --> 1:56:37.160 to get them to go in the right direction. That 1:56:37.280 --> 1:56:39.600 means that we have to do ten times more work. 1:56:40.120 --> 1:56:42.280 That means that we have to make sure that the 1:56:42.640 --> 1:56:46.160 organizations are just people. You understand me. They watch this show, 1:56:46.240 --> 1:56:48.400 they see what we do. They're here in the impact. 1:56:48.480 --> 1:56:51.920 We're talking about financial intelligence. We're talking about creating social 1:56:52.320 --> 1:56:56.680 grams and solutions. And yeah, another holiday where people are 1:56:56.680 --> 1:56:59.680 going to buy mostly liabilities. But if we can change 1:56:59.720 --> 1:57:02.919 them of the cycles that we on, we produce different results. 1:57:03.360 --> 1:57:06.120 So I am a firm believal of giving people orders. 1:57:06.440 --> 1:57:09.160 Whether you take that order or not, that's on you. 1:57:09.720 --> 1:57:11.880 But for those who consider themselves to be on the 1:57:11.960 --> 1:57:14.640 side of good, then rock We're good. But if you 1:57:14.800 --> 1:57:17.000 consider yourself to be good and you do sucking ship, 1:57:17.080 --> 1:57:22.640 then you are what you do your faith. I want 1:57:22.640 --> 1:57:24.440 to spake the game. Can we talk hip hop? Forward? 1:57:26.520 --> 1:57:30.000 Were before? All right? We're gonna give you two choices, 1:57:30.920 --> 1:57:35.640 one with Thomas Slane one. Listen, listen to choices one. 1:57:35.920 --> 1:57:38.880 Nobody drinks if you say both are neither, we're drinking. 1:57:39.240 --> 1:57:43.680 We drink what you don't? We don't? Yes, right, what's this? 1:57:43.800 --> 1:57:52.360 What's this that's to own? How much fine about mamahuana? 1:57:55.280 --> 1:57:58.680 Make that it can do? Tak Yeah, got y'all some 1:57:58.760 --> 1:58:01.960 hats two? Got some man? Yeah, that's so healthy. Stuff 1:58:02.000 --> 1:58:05.080 going on? Put it on the last time I put 1:58:05.120 --> 1:58:14.960 on work out run back. Just let you know what, man, 1:58:16.800 --> 1:58:21.240 I just playing TUPAC or DMX. I'm gonna go pop. 1:58:21.400 --> 1:58:26.880 I'm from Oakland. Wait, what one gotta go? No, you 1:58:26.960 --> 1:58:29.680 pick one? Who's your favorite? Who's your favorite? If you 1:58:29.720 --> 1:58:32.440 say both are me? Like the political I mean, I'm 1:58:32.480 --> 1:58:35.800 gonna say d MX. He's from like pretty much our neighborhood, 1:58:35.840 --> 1:58:38.520 and he gave a whole different level of pride to 1:58:38.640 --> 1:58:40.080 us when he came out. So I gotta go with them. 1:58:40.160 --> 1:58:41.880 I'm gonna take DMX two and not one four. It's 1:58:41.920 --> 1:58:44.760 just a bond that we're gonna have. Usually make y'all 1:58:45.440 --> 1:58:49.360 drake because y'all not together. Because you're all together, we're 1:58:49.360 --> 1:58:55.120 gonna let from Yeah, I respect that. Okay, that this 1:58:55.240 --> 1:59:01.840 one they picked that they're supposed to pick. That's very true. 1:59:02.400 --> 1:59:10.680 Podcasts or radio podcast Yes, okay, ready you take this one, 1:59:10.840 --> 1:59:16.960 Jay z or Nas business wise, business wise the only 1:59:17.000 --> 1:59:24.680 place my son's name is not sick. So I'm partial 1:59:24.760 --> 1:59:27.160 in that. Now's my favorite of all time. But of course, 1:59:27.200 --> 1:59:29.920 Hope is the billy go, especially when it comes to business. Yeah, 1:59:29.960 --> 1:59:31.800 but not is incredible to in the Vestrian capital space. 1:59:31.800 --> 1:59:34.680 We shouldn't discountact. Yes, I've been telling him to give 1:59:34.680 --> 1:59:42.320 me an investment years in w as I'm in w A. Yeah, 1:59:42.800 --> 1:59:43.880 you got to take a shot, now, are you really 1:59:46.920 --> 1:59:48.960 the West coast man? West Coast is that you got. 1:59:51.520 --> 1:59:54.440 I didn't grow up listening to that. You didn't grow 1:59:54.520 --> 1:59:55.840 up and listening to in w A. There's no way, 1:59:55.840 --> 1:59:59.320 it's impossible. He wasn't. He's not even old enough. Older brother, 2:00:00.440 --> 2:00:03.400 you know what I'm saying. You like, you're like five 2:00:03.520 --> 2:00:08.960 years old to play all that gangster ship my brother. 2:00:09.320 --> 2:00:11.400 I remember asking for easy Ease album when I was 2:00:11.520 --> 2:00:13.840 like seven years old, ain't I didn't get it. But 2:00:16.760 --> 2:00:21.720 the kids for ron production, production, production and business business, 2:00:22.040 --> 2:00:26.600 you said, who yeah, yeah, I go yeah, yeah, yeah, 2:00:27.280 --> 2:00:32.160 yeah yeah. Shout what the good hotel? What's it called 2:00:32.640 --> 2:00:34.400 good times? Good time? I'll tell you that's that's a 2:00:34.440 --> 2:00:40.520 big move. That's a big move. I gotta relax in 2:00:40.560 --> 2:00:46.400 the room. One time I was cheaper. They say it's 2:00:46.400 --> 2:00:50.040 like a French hotel, the tallest thing in the world, 2:00:50.080 --> 2:00:54.160 like five nine. You're laying the bed, your feet in 2:00:54.200 --> 2:00:55.680 the back. I was like, by the way, I was 2:00:55.760 --> 2:00:57.560 laying the wrong way. I woke up in the morning. 2:00:57.640 --> 2:00:59.680 My wife was like saying this way. I was like, 2:01:00.040 --> 2:01:07.240 gonna tell me down, all right, start with you, sir, 2:01:09.240 --> 2:01:13.880 Malcolm Martin. I'm gonna go with Malcolm. I'm gonna take 2:01:13.880 --> 2:01:17.040 the shot. He's gonna go with that. No, but what 2:01:17.200 --> 2:01:19.840 you you know, what's interesting is we didn't I didn't 2:01:19.880 --> 2:01:22.200 grow with Malcolm as a hero in the household though. 2:01:22.680 --> 2:01:27.280 You understand me growing up in a black Muslim household. Queens. Yeah, 2:01:27.360 --> 2:01:33.720 but I'm just saying, like Queens Detroit when he moved 2:01:33.760 --> 2:01:37.320 to New York, he moved to Queen's Eastmhurst respect for 2:01:37.480 --> 2:01:40.400 both as an adult on my own, but it wasn't 2:01:40.440 --> 2:01:43.240 celebrated in my household. You understand me growing up in 2:01:43.280 --> 2:01:46.960 a black Muslim household because we grew up in a nation. Yea. 2:01:47.120 --> 2:01:50.560 So it wasn't study him for myself and Martin for 2:01:50.720 --> 2:01:52.720 myself that I was able to gain respect for them 2:01:52.760 --> 2:01:59.200 as a grown man. Okay, I'll leave or Tyson alive. 2:02:00.000 --> 2:02:04.960 Ali shot Mike though a yeah, my close as when 2:02:04.960 --> 2:02:08.680 you hit we don't know problem legendary shout Michael Jordan 2:02:08.800 --> 2:02:11.480 or Lebron Oh you know, I'm Lebron James all day, 2:02:11.520 --> 2:02:18.480 the greatest to ever do this ship Michael Michael, Yeah, yeah, disagreed, Michael. 2:02:19.040 --> 2:02:23.200 It's Michael. They got a drink anyway. I think he 2:02:23.280 --> 2:02:26.480 inspired me more when I was a kid, so, Mike, Yeah, 2:02:26.640 --> 2:02:32.800 from a business standpoint is the best stand I was 2:02:32.880 --> 2:02:39.600 so proud Bron and that media meeting Jerry Jones. Yes, 2:02:39.720 --> 2:02:41.520 where he just sat there was like, wait a minute, 2:02:41.760 --> 2:02:43.440 They're not gonna ask me about this. You're not gonna 2:02:43.440 --> 2:02:46.040 ask me about this? Like to me, we needed that 2:02:46.560 --> 2:02:53.040 to me because as an athlete, you know, I've seen 2:02:53.120 --> 2:02:58.720 every Michael Jordan game, but as the times that we 2:02:58.840 --> 2:03:00.560 live in, I don't think Jordian would did that, not 2:03:00.640 --> 2:03:02.160 even it was back there, not even a thought he 2:03:04.640 --> 2:03:08.760 the Jordan was living down. But the reality is, even 2:03:08.800 --> 2:03:11.760 from a media standpoint, nobody's really still pressed him hard 2:03:11.800 --> 2:03:15.080 about that that picture even after even after he said that, 2:03:15.320 --> 2:03:18.080 Stephen the Bron said that, but even from the Bron standpoint, 2:03:18.120 --> 2:03:19.960 it was like it felt like that was audible on 2:03:20.120 --> 2:03:22.600 the barn. Yeah, we test him about Kyrie. I was 2:03:22.600 --> 2:03:24.680 just gonna say that I felt like Kyrie when the 2:03:24.800 --> 2:03:27.440 Kyrie situation happened, we didn't hear from him in the 2:03:27.480 --> 2:03:30.640 way we thought we was. He made it up right 2:03:30.680 --> 2:03:32.320 there and there, and then it was like, oh we 2:03:32.400 --> 2:03:35.280 needed that because he left. But I mean we Lebron 2:03:35.840 --> 2:03:39.280 Ron just Avricara shout the map, shout the rich rich Pall. 2:03:39.440 --> 2:03:42.040 I just spoke to Risport other day. That's crazy, solid, 2:03:42.480 --> 2:03:49.000 good solid, Go to you, scarface Ice cube ice Cube. 2:03:49.800 --> 2:03:52.280 I gotta think just gonna take that. He really well, 2:03:52.320 --> 2:03:56.080 you can do. He changed the rule just to take shots. 2:03:57.440 --> 2:03:59.200 But I used to go back and forth st born 2:03:59.240 --> 2:04:01.240 to St. Louis. I left when I was two, then 2:04:01.360 --> 2:04:03.800 raised in Oakland, but I remember going when I went 2:04:03.880 --> 2:04:06.200 back to high school in St. Louis and it was 2:04:06.280 --> 2:04:10.240 accident as our favorite rappers I'm naming dub c ice 2:04:10.360 --> 2:04:17.320 que They start laughing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would listen 2:04:17.320 --> 2:04:20.240 to what I was a man in St. Louis at 2:04:20.280 --> 2:04:23.360 that time. I don't think it really won up. I mean, 2:04:23.400 --> 2:04:30.640 you had a question the lunatic Top five Queens artists 2:04:30.680 --> 2:04:39.440 from Queen me. My top five Queens artists changed every time, 2:04:39.520 --> 2:04:42.240 but definitely not as Who's you Wrap Mob Deep called 2:04:42.280 --> 2:04:48.480 Mega or Flush Launch Professor seven people. Yeah yeah yeah, 2:04:51.200 --> 2:04:55.080 cheeks boys, boys, you know what I mean. You're not 2:04:55.160 --> 2:04:57.080 sticking to a fire. No no, no, not gonna come 2:04:57.080 --> 2:04:58.840 to Queens. Be the best bir can I get one, 2:04:59.240 --> 2:05:01.840 get one? We got the best rappers ever in Queens. 2:05:01.880 --> 2:05:03.320 I don't know, I don't know if you gotta just 2:05:03.480 --> 2:05:06.680 just give it to us. Y'all invented it, y'all invented it. 2:05:07.080 --> 2:05:10.960 But you know, Queen's cameras funked up by saying the 2:05:11.000 --> 2:05:12.680 bridge is over and then we've just never been over 2:05:12.760 --> 2:05:17.160 since then just kept and then Nah, saved us saved 2:05:17.160 --> 2:05:18.720 there with it. Okay, butlet's just stake with gree time, 2:05:19.120 --> 2:05:25.600 all right. I like this because you like you like, 2:05:25.680 --> 2:05:30.720 just move his nigger here right now. Drake a little way, drizzy, 2:05:31.560 --> 2:05:33.960 drizzy Drizzy, the best to ever do this ship. I 2:05:34.000 --> 2:05:36.920 could already tell we drinking because you do not agree. Nah, 2:05:37.560 --> 2:05:41.280 I'm a huge, huge Wing fan. But Drake Castle, that's 2:05:41.400 --> 2:05:43.680 past them. That's so in the first is you going 2:05:43.800 --> 2:05:49.040 with Drake hundred? I love hundred missiles, but Drake just 2:05:49.080 --> 2:05:51.320 got too many trees. Don't tell me you're going with 2:05:51.440 --> 2:05:59.960 Drake to the man, that's tough mixtape wine growing up. 2:06:00.040 --> 2:06:03.040 They just sound different. That's different, just different. Just monsters 2:06:04.360 --> 2:06:10.640 versus even the guard No in the verses. It's just 2:06:10.840 --> 2:06:13.080 a different element. Though. You know when they went on tour, 2:06:13.480 --> 2:06:16.320 so that was like five years ago. Yeah, Trizy way, 2:06:16.520 --> 2:06:18.400 it was like back and forth every night. It was 2:06:18.480 --> 2:06:21.880 a different one. But since that time, he's still putting out. 2:06:21.880 --> 2:06:25.960 Here's still putting out. He just did fifteen millions a 2:06:26.000 --> 2:06:27.760 great point. But why are you trying to change this? Man? 2:06:28.480 --> 2:06:32.280 Just I'm just giving it more that more independent research 2:06:32.320 --> 2:06:35.160 about situation. Independent you know. In the verse, I hear 2:06:35.200 --> 2:06:37.320 what y'all saying. You're talking about hits and stuff like that. 2:06:37.880 --> 2:06:39.680 But it's different when you get on that stage and 2:06:39.760 --> 2:06:43.400 people going the starting it's just draking Wayne. It's not 2:06:43.560 --> 2:06:45.440 his it's not all. That's just what I like and 2:06:45.520 --> 2:06:48.080 what I dislike. We're going, I'm gonna have to go 2:06:48.200 --> 2:06:53.920 with Wayne. You gotta take a shot just because I'm saying, yeah, yeah, 2:06:55.200 --> 2:06:58.200 this is beautiful. He's just being opposite. No, no, listen, 2:06:58.360 --> 2:07:01.720 opposition is different, right. I went, oh, this is a 2:07:01.760 --> 2:07:05.000 good out to Wheezy. It's a good one. Dave Dash 2:07:05.520 --> 2:07:08.240 or Russell Simmons, I know, we know Da so that 2:07:08.640 --> 2:07:12.000 I just Dame just called me today, So I gotta Dame. 2:07:12.440 --> 2:07:16.440 Shout out to Russell though. But yeah, games the motivation, Okay, 2:07:16.840 --> 2:07:19.160 get the motivation for the whole financial literacy move changed 2:07:19.200 --> 2:07:24.520 my life? Breakfast that changed my life? And which murder much? Yep? Yeah, 2:07:25.200 --> 2:07:30.480 do you work? Yeah? Can you get fired? Exactly? Okay, 2:07:30.520 --> 2:07:34.680 this is a good one. It's for all three. Start 2:07:34.800 --> 2:07:36.600 with you because I feel like I know who you 2:07:36.680 --> 2:07:42.360 wanna pick, m J or Prince So Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, Man, 2:07:43.040 --> 2:07:53.640 I'm wrong a ch prince over songs besides purple Brain. 2:07:54.760 --> 2:07:57.720 Jackson all, I'm Mike, you might. I grew up on 2:07:57.800 --> 2:08:01.440 Mike Still. That's that's the first album I ever had 2:08:01.600 --> 2:08:05.040 as a kid with like four years old on the way. 2:08:05.520 --> 2:08:07.200 I'm just just this is a new rule. I'm taking 2:08:07.240 --> 2:08:14.000 a shot for me being wrong. Prince Independent, you didn't 2:08:14.360 --> 2:08:17.120 the chats bar we didn't you think the ass out 2:08:17.160 --> 2:08:22.560 Prince every like like Prince fans. I know women that 2:08:22.640 --> 2:08:27.600 were Prince fans, Prince Prince from a prince at an 2:08:27.640 --> 2:08:29.640 artist and Michael jacks No, but when I go back, 2:08:30.480 --> 2:08:35.480 plays the Princess technically, but he was so woked back. 2:08:35.560 --> 2:08:42.200 Guy has slave on it like he it was ladder 2:08:42.360 --> 2:08:44.040 this year. Yeah, that's the fact. It was not like 2:08:44.120 --> 2:08:46.800 Princess early and he changed his name to the artist 2:08:46.880 --> 2:08:50.600 and came out sho name. He wanted the ma. He 2:08:50.680 --> 2:08:53.880 brought his ass out though that pearl, that pear. Prince 2:08:54.200 --> 2:08:56.200 and he were telling me he was really nice and basketball. 2:08:56.200 --> 2:08:59.040 I'll be like, stop. That's the first thing I asked 2:08:59.560 --> 2:09:03.360 the time. Sure, he said, yeah it's fat. Yeah, Okay, 2:09:03.720 --> 2:09:08.920 Queen l m C light way, I'm gonna go with Queen. 2:09:09.000 --> 2:09:10.600 I just met m C though, but I'm gonna go 2:09:14.280 --> 2:09:19.160 she as she she got the Grammy, she got the Tony, 2:09:19.480 --> 2:09:22.240 she got the Oscar. She's one of those queen. Yeah, 2:09:23.320 --> 2:09:27.560 the Chicago join went crazy for him. Okay, Rolex or Paddick, 2:09:29.360 --> 2:09:32.840 I only I only got I got. I got a 2:09:32.880 --> 2:09:34.560 collection of Rolex. So I'm gonna go with the with 2:09:34.680 --> 2:09:39.720 the role staying staying, Yeah, really put your roles in 2:09:39.760 --> 2:09:44.280 the sky. New Jack City or King of New York, 2:09:45.560 --> 2:09:49.480 New Jack, new Jack, new Jacky legendary. Yeah, shout out 2:09:49.480 --> 2:09:55.360 to Frank White, right, I like this one. You want 2:09:55.400 --> 2:10:00.360 to take this one off? Nike ger didas it's trying 2:10:00.360 --> 2:10:09.920 to cancel my song. I'm trying to represent. No. I 2:10:10.040 --> 2:10:12.520 think it's not even close man, as far as cultural impact. 2:10:12.600 --> 2:10:15.160 How we grew up Nike ship Yeah, I'm a nicky head. 2:10:16.440 --> 2:10:20.080 I w yeah, man, we're gonna keep it going on 2:10:21.400 --> 2:10:26.320 ship broke. I went you back too many shots? Yeah? Yeah, 2:10:26.600 --> 2:10:29.920 the whole leg came out, the whole leg. Grab another one. Literally, 2:10:31.040 --> 2:10:33.520 they got the fold out. Okay, I got to go 2:10:33.760 --> 2:10:42.240 back to that's crazy. Let's go. What was the question Nike, 2:10:44.360 --> 2:10:48.720 Joe Check, sover Shpe, Neither check. I ain't. I ain't 2:10:48.720 --> 2:10:52.560 really rocking with neither, but you gotta give an answer. It. 2:10:54.040 --> 2:10:56.280 If I got to give an answer, got to be Adidas. 2:10:56.760 --> 2:10:59.560 Not because I like him, you understand me, no, but 2:10:59.680 --> 2:11:04.560 because as a blood did Kyrie? No, right now, Nike 2:11:04.960 --> 2:11:10.560 open jumped out of the open. That's not gang. You 2:11:10.640 --> 2:11:14.080 called somebody blood. Yeah, we're gonna have to take a shot. No, 2:11:14.280 --> 2:11:16.320 I'm not, I'm not. I'm just saying that's for my 2:11:16.520 --> 2:11:19.480 energy is stick. They just dropped the the this They 2:11:19.520 --> 2:11:21.680 just dropped you, I know. But they still got for 2:11:21.760 --> 2:11:27.400 real Kyrie, real careful out there. He said, I'm not 2:11:27.440 --> 2:11:33.120 putting himself and got a few in joys me. That 2:11:33.240 --> 2:11:37.760 was one of the best calls I got when I 2:11:37.880 --> 2:11:40.920 was going through it. What's for real? Yeah? But he 2:11:41.000 --> 2:11:43.520 called me. It was like he did nothing wrong, you know, 2:11:44.560 --> 2:11:46.360 And I was like, so what do you think he was? Like? 2:11:46.640 --> 2:11:52.160 Just the profit off it just profit. I sent you 2:11:52.200 --> 2:11:55.280 a DM. I don't remember. I think you sent me 2:11:55.360 --> 2:11:57.320 in d M. You sent me, Yeah, I sent your M. 2:11:57.440 --> 2:12:00.320 I responded to your Yeah, you responded, um, because you know, 2:12:00.440 --> 2:12:01.840 like I said, I watched it, and I don't really 2:12:01.840 --> 2:12:03.400 watch a lot of interviews, but I actually watched the 2:12:03.400 --> 2:12:05.760 whole interview, so I thought that it was it was, 2:12:06.400 --> 2:12:09.760 you know, he's gonna have critics man interview. By the way, 2:12:09.760 --> 2:12:11.800 I wish, I wish, I wish I had more knowledge 2:12:12.080 --> 2:12:13.800 I would I have now, And I know it's only 2:12:14.040 --> 2:12:17.240 like a couple of months ago, but it's like I 2:12:17.360 --> 2:12:20.600 learned so much from that moment. Definitely was a learning experience. Yeah, 2:12:20.640 --> 2:12:23.160 I definitely. I definitely looked everybody who sent me a 2:12:23.240 --> 2:12:28.400 link on Twitter, everybody on Instagram usually like whatever, I 2:12:28.480 --> 2:12:30.280 have to hit every link. I was like, all right, cool, 2:12:31.720 --> 2:12:34.800 and I learned so much. And it's a lot of 2:12:34.880 --> 2:12:36.520 things that I watched I did different. But let's just 2:12:36.560 --> 2:12:42.320 fen a quick time a slide right quick. Yeah, Okay, 2:12:42.360 --> 2:12:49.320 Biggie Biggig. Gotta go with big but big els one 2:12:49.360 --> 2:12:54.000 of the y Yeah, definitely, Okay, Kodak or twenty one 2:12:54.040 --> 2:12:59.320 s Avage. I would go with Kodak Black. I'm gonna 2:12:59.320 --> 2:13:03.360 go with yet I feel like I feel like, yeah, 2:13:03.960 --> 2:13:09.120 some bars. Actually, you know, he surprised me on the album. 2:13:09.400 --> 2:13:11.320 It caught me off guard because I was like, he's 2:13:11.360 --> 2:13:20.200 really spitting Who's album? But it's Kodak's vibe is just 2:13:20.240 --> 2:13:23.080 super authentic. Like also being from Florida, we know, like 2:13:24.560 --> 2:13:26.200 remember he was sharing a room right next to us 2:13:26.240 --> 2:13:30.200 in twenty one Cool? I like, yeah, like that her 2:13:30.280 --> 2:13:31.520 loss I'm listen to, and I'm like, all right, this 2:13:31.600 --> 2:13:34.880 is cool. We got some joints. Um. I like twenty 2:13:34.960 --> 2:13:39.760 one because he's actually he's talking about what he's doing 2:13:39.800 --> 2:13:41.880 outside of music though, like he's talking about Financialist. He 2:13:41.920 --> 2:13:45.080 built the whole institution inside Atlanta for kids. I like 2:13:45.200 --> 2:13:48.840 him from that standpoint. From a music standpoint, I might 2:13:48.960 --> 2:13:50.680 take Kodak. I'm gonna take that. What do you think 2:13:50.720 --> 2:13:52.760 about that line that twenty one? Can you do? So? 2:13:52.960 --> 2:13:57.720 For me, I don't know what he's talking about. No, 2:13:57.800 --> 2:13:59.840 I was just singing there because that's what they say. 2:14:00.000 --> 2:14:03.560 I know what I'm saying, meaning behind that saying it. No, yeah, yeah, 2:14:03.880 --> 2:14:08.040 because I've never heard another man. So it was like 2:14:08.120 --> 2:14:15.400 I'm just asked, Hi, wait, wait, wait, wait, are you 2:14:15.440 --> 2:14:18.400 trying to say He's trying to say twenty one? Can you? Like? 2:14:19.320 --> 2:14:23.520 I want to say, it's just it's flatboy feminine question 2:14:23.640 --> 2:14:30.080 he's singing it as as right what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, 2:14:30.080 --> 2:14:32.240 I think I think he. I think he's like, can 2:14:32.320 --> 2:14:38.200 you do something right? But singing it and feminine perspect 2:14:38.240 --> 2:14:40.600 that's something like the girl would usually say. So, I 2:14:40.760 --> 2:14:42.880 was just asking because hip hop has become I did 2:14:43.000 --> 2:14:47.400 say it that there's no is blended. It's no longer 2:14:47.520 --> 2:14:51.200 like masculine. Because I see people with persons. It suns 2:14:51.280 --> 2:14:53.760 me sometimes I don't think that part of it. I 2:14:53.800 --> 2:14:56.960 think I've seen some persons out there. Oh yeah, yeah, 2:14:57.000 --> 2:14:59.360 it's that part. It's not just saying man is different 2:14:59.400 --> 2:15:04.000 these days. Do your thing to different? That's whatever. Yeah, 2:15:06.320 --> 2:15:07.760 I didn't take it. I didn't take it that way. 2:15:07.800 --> 2:15:09.200 I can see how you take it. What you said 2:15:09.240 --> 2:15:12.120 it that way. It sounded that. It sounds crazy if 2:15:12.120 --> 2:15:14.560 you look at it like a little bit. I'm gonna 2:15:14.560 --> 2:15:16.640 get him the benefit of doubt. I'm gonna shout to 2:15:16.640 --> 2:15:23.800 the system just like I want. I just called myself like, 2:15:23.880 --> 2:15:28.040 wait a minute, hold on, wait a minute, now, okay, cool, 2:15:28.080 --> 2:15:30.800 you got the next one puff or Dre puff or 2:15:30.880 --> 2:15:35.000 Drake dr dr Duff puff. Shout out the puff, shout 2:15:35.040 --> 2:15:40.879 out the shot the black what like whatever, whatever, everybody's 2:15:40.880 --> 2:15:43.480 going with the West Coast. Just just I gotta know 2:15:43.720 --> 2:15:51.040 what whatever, whatever, just Puff, just as whatever we know 2:15:51.120 --> 2:15:53.160 you're going with Dre. Don't worry about it. I'm not. 2:15:53.280 --> 2:16:00.200 Actually I'm gonna go with this is interesting. I want 2:16:00.200 --> 2:16:02.280 you to recall back to last weekend. Has Dre ever 2:16:02.360 --> 2:16:07.520 invited you? That's nothing. I'll be looking at, Like, all right, 2:16:07.560 --> 2:16:10.240 who inspired me the most? Who would have actually had 2:16:10.320 --> 2:16:13.280 some kind of impact in life? Dre. As a human being, 2:16:13.360 --> 2:16:15.680 I would say, no, you understand me. But like the 2:16:15.760 --> 2:16:19.000 work ethic of Puff of like get anything done by 2:16:19.120 --> 2:16:23.240 any means that has inspired me, you understand me, Dre. 2:16:23.400 --> 2:16:25.640 I would have to think about his legacy music West 2:16:25.680 --> 2:16:28.160 Coach that came from him, you understand me. But as 2:16:28.200 --> 2:16:30.520 a human being, if we just picking just off blank, 2:16:30.520 --> 2:16:33.080 I'm gonna have to go with Puff based on that criteria. 2:16:35.920 --> 2:16:41.000 The shot for that solo solo man Black Season in 2:16:41.040 --> 2:16:47.720 the Flesh, O dB of bis Market, O D b Rest, 2:16:47.800 --> 2:16:52.640 Piece of both Um. Oh, Dirty Baskett though Dirty I 2:16:52.760 --> 2:16:57.880 never met, Yeah, he passed in remember when that Blyn 2:16:59.440 --> 2:17:00.959 when we sat there, I want and I told him 2:17:00.959 --> 2:17:02.840 like I was a kid that was voting for Brooklyn 2:17:02.920 --> 2:17:05.400 zo on ballot of the beats. You know, it's gotta win. 2:17:05.520 --> 2:17:07.360 It's gotta win. Like the first time I met old 2:17:07.400 --> 2:17:11.560 dirty bastard, he digging his nose, right, we didn't try 2:17:11.560 --> 2:17:19.280 to give me. We're gonna do it. Hugged him. Yeah. Yeah, 2:17:23.520 --> 2:17:29.000 Robert Smith or Tyler Perry, that might be the topest 2:17:29.080 --> 2:17:34.760 question right now. You're talking. Um, wow, I'm gonna go 2:17:34.879 --> 2:17:39.400 with Robert. I'm with all my cards. Yeah yeah, I'm 2:17:39.760 --> 2:17:45.720 I'm gonna have to take a draw on that. I'm 2:17:45.760 --> 2:17:48.760 gonna say, I'm gonna say both. Yeah. We sat down 2:17:48.800 --> 2:17:50.320 with both of them. We had the privilege and sat down, 2:17:50.400 --> 2:17:51.920 sit down with both of them. And you sat down 2:17:51.959 --> 2:17:54.920 with Steve Harvey as well. That's our business that I 2:17:54.959 --> 2:18:00.760 didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, because it was crazy. Steve 2:18:00.800 --> 2:18:11.760 Harvey lebron Rest in Peace, Oh take Off, and me 2:18:11.959 --> 2:18:16.600 was the only people who had the Pearl Master presidential 2:18:17.440 --> 2:18:20.200 Pearl Master, and and Steve Harvey on your interview. I 2:18:20.320 --> 2:18:21.720 was like, I just kept zooming and I was like, 2:18:23.879 --> 2:18:28.160 you know, his watch collection. It was crazy. He's different. 2:18:28.440 --> 2:18:31.000 Was here here in the Middle East, He's different. Different. 2:18:32.000 --> 2:18:34.360 Let's say there's no joke shout, so this is the 2:18:34.480 --> 2:18:43.080 last one, loyalty or respect. Loyalty or respect. I'm taking loyalty. 2:18:44.160 --> 2:18:47.280 I'll take loyalty. They don't go hand in hand. Yeah, 2:18:47.320 --> 2:18:49.240 I'm trying to. I'm trying to see what's the difference 2:18:50.840 --> 2:18:53.040 loyal to somebody you don't respect, and it's hard to 2:18:53.040 --> 2:18:54.640 respect somebody that you're not gonna have some level of 2:18:54.720 --> 2:18:59.280 loyalty to respect both. I mean that this is the 2:18:59.320 --> 2:19:02.760 only one you take the like technically you're supposed to 2:19:02.760 --> 2:19:04.760 go which other way you want, But loyalty and respect, 2:19:04.800 --> 2:19:08.040 it's both. But but if you get respect, then I 2:19:08.120 --> 2:19:10.880 think it comes with loyalty. You understand me. But I 2:19:10.920 --> 2:19:12.480 wouldn't want to have a bunch of people loyal to 2:19:12.560 --> 2:19:16.119 me that don't respect me. I'll say this, I'll say 2:19:16.200 --> 2:19:19.160 loyalty because you can you can have respect for somebody 2:19:19.760 --> 2:19:22.760 off of intimidation that you not really have no real 2:19:22.879 --> 2:19:26.840 loyalty to it, or you can have respect for somebody 2:19:26.879 --> 2:19:29.840 because of their position. But if you loyal to somebody, 2:19:30.240 --> 2:19:32.400 it's something deeper than there. So I'm gonna take loyal 2:19:32.480 --> 2:19:37.600 I'm gonna taal, I'm gonna go both tooth both. Let's 2:19:37.600 --> 2:19:40.640 do it. Salute No, I can't get one question for 2:19:40.760 --> 2:19:46.440 you as you say one thing, remember your question, Remember 2:19:46.440 --> 2:19:51.640 your question, because this is this is this is something 2:19:51.680 --> 2:19:54.119 that's written down. They say that black and brown people 2:19:54.520 --> 2:20:01.640 follow every tread Besides, I was sticking together, m Is 2:20:01.720 --> 2:20:04.440 that true? And I like to hit ultimate of y'all. 2:20:04.680 --> 2:20:07.320 I think it's changing. I think that what we what 2:20:07.440 --> 2:20:11.280 were on embarking on is a financial revolution. I said, 2:20:11.280 --> 2:20:13.439 what we're embarking on right now is a financial revolution. 2:20:13.600 --> 2:20:15.359 And so when you see us come to the forefront 2:20:15.480 --> 2:20:18.720 with education and leading by example, but more importantly leading 2:20:18.760 --> 2:20:21.800 by demonstration. Right, So, like when we find out information, 2:20:21.920 --> 2:20:23.920 we give it back to people, but we actually implemented 2:20:24.080 --> 2:20:26.400 at the same time that they're doing it. It changes 2:20:26.520 --> 2:20:29.560 the mindset. It's like, you know, it's aspirational. I could 2:20:29.560 --> 2:20:34.640 do this. Um. So I think that that that there's 2:20:34.640 --> 2:20:37.840 a shift that's happening. And I think up here in 2:20:37.920 --> 2:20:40.320 the corporate level they don't really understand it yet, but 2:20:40.440 --> 2:20:42.080 on the surface they can feel it. And by the 2:20:42.120 --> 2:20:44.720 time they catch on, I mean, we're gonna be bubbling 2:20:44.800 --> 2:20:47.240 to a point where it's like, Yo, things have shifted 2:20:47.320 --> 2:20:49.080 so crazy, and they're gonna figure out trying to figure 2:20:49.120 --> 2:20:51.240 out where it came from. And that goes back to 2:20:51.320 --> 2:20:53.160 the part where like leaders right, Like I like what 2:20:53.240 --> 2:20:54.800 said he was, like, I'm not a leader, I'm a 2:20:54.879 --> 2:20:56.800 friend to you, right because if what happens when you 2:20:56.800 --> 2:20:59.760 shop the leader off, right, then the movement stops. But 2:21:00.040 --> 2:21:04.360 with us, what's leading is information. It's education, which you 2:21:04.440 --> 2:21:07.640 can't stop right. Like information, it's empowered, Like if I 2:21:07.680 --> 2:21:09.800 give you information, you're liable to share it with your friends, 2:21:10.120 --> 2:21:12.840 you're liable to share with your family. It changed, it 2:21:12.920 --> 2:21:15.480 makes everybody leave it, so you really can't stop this movement. 2:21:15.560 --> 2:21:18.040 So I think like right now, this time that we're in, 2:21:18.160 --> 2:21:21.200 like what Key said, it's the most pivotable time right now, 2:21:21.320 --> 2:21:23.280 especially since we came out of pandemic where we had 2:21:23.280 --> 2:21:27.520 an academic downturn, people really gravitated toward information, which is 2:21:27.920 --> 2:21:29.920 kind of pulted us because they looked at us for 2:21:30.000 --> 2:21:32.720 the forefront. But there's leaders that's being created from the 2:21:32.800 --> 2:21:35.280 information all throughout the world and we see it like 2:21:35.280 --> 2:21:37.480 when we went to London and we go to to Legos, Nigeria, 2:21:37.520 --> 2:21:41.880 we're seeing it happen. Um, So it's happening right now. 2:21:42.320 --> 2:21:44.400 I think we're embarking on it right now. I think 2:21:44.440 --> 2:21:46.760 it's a false narrative. We gotta be careful we're repeating 2:21:46.840 --> 2:21:49.680 false narratives because the narratives start to believe it that 2:21:49.800 --> 2:21:52.280 we don't stick together. We work together. It's like saying, 2:21:52.360 --> 2:21:54.400 like black men don't take care of their kids. That 2:21:54.480 --> 2:21:56.320 might have been true for generation, but like all the 2:21:56.400 --> 2:21:58.680 black people that I know my age are in their 2:21:58.720 --> 2:22:01.080 kids lives, I don't know. I may even know one 2:22:01.160 --> 2:22:02.680 or two, but I don't really know that many dead beats, 2:22:02.720 --> 2:22:04.119 like you know what I'm saying. So it's like when 2:22:04.120 --> 2:22:09.480 I'm looking at this room right here, I'm seeing you're Cuban, Yeah, 2:22:09.480 --> 2:22:13.200 Puerto Rican, Black y'all coming together. Y'all y'all created the 2:22:13.280 --> 2:22:20.400 biggest platform that we have in our cult. But it 2:22:20.480 --> 2:22:25.440 doesn't stop there. You partner revolt, which is black owned, 2:22:25.840 --> 2:22:29.040 right every single person in here, I see it Black Latino. 2:22:29.720 --> 2:22:33.520 Like I said, we got combo, black owned support, black 2:22:33.560 --> 2:22:36.840 owned businesses support, you got, you got, you got us, 2:22:37.000 --> 2:22:41.480 you got us on black, you got, you got some rock, 2:22:41.680 --> 2:22:44.400 you got spade, you got that, you got the Dominican liquor, 2:22:44.520 --> 2:22:47.640 you got got And then like I said, if you 2:22:47.720 --> 2:22:57.200 look at is that rocks everybody. I just look, I'm 2:22:57.200 --> 2:23:02.360 like so then so then it's like, okay, now you 2:23:02.480 --> 2:23:05.440 got us on his guest right, and you're helping us 2:23:05.520 --> 2:23:08.280 elevate our platform by communicating to an audience that may 2:23:08.320 --> 2:23:11.880 not be familiar with us and wearing black owned media platform. 2:23:12.680 --> 2:23:16.360 We partner with nineteen Keys, but he's black. So what 2:23:16.480 --> 2:23:19.240 does that tell you? Every every single person in here 2:23:19.360 --> 2:23:21.680 is collaborating with with each other on a certain level. 2:23:22.600 --> 2:23:25.440 So it's like that that narrative is just not even really. 2:23:25.520 --> 2:23:27.560 Of course we can do better, of course we can 2:23:27.600 --> 2:23:30.800 always do better, but this it just shows you when 2:23:30.840 --> 2:23:33.960 we're able to accomplish when we do work together. So 2:23:34.080 --> 2:23:37.160 I think that we are working together. We need to 2:23:37.240 --> 2:23:39.920 do more of it. But let's be careful with that 2:23:40.080 --> 2:23:42.480 narrative because the more we repeat it, the more we 2:23:42.520 --> 2:23:45.040 start to believe it. Let me just tell y'all something. 2:23:45.080 --> 2:23:48.680 All three of your brothers and I started by saying this, 2:23:49.879 --> 2:23:53.400 And the reason why is because I've never really seen 2:23:53.480 --> 2:23:57.240 this before. Like I've been i'mty five years old, I've 2:23:57.280 --> 2:24:00.920 been famous, kind of crazy, right like, so I've been 2:24:01.000 --> 2:24:06.640 more famous than i've been poor. I noticed that it's 2:24:06.640 --> 2:24:10.840 a financially good I said, famous. But when I seen 2:24:10.879 --> 2:24:13.080 you brothers, and I've seen you telling people how to 2:24:13.200 --> 2:24:16.040 do this a certain thing, and and and and and 2:24:16.320 --> 2:24:20.440 accumulated wealth and get that, I was like, I said, man, 2:24:20.520 --> 2:24:24.240 this is crazy because I don't really see people. And 2:24:24.280 --> 2:24:25.840 I said, I know, I said that earlier. I don't 2:24:25.879 --> 2:24:28.640 really see people that came before y'all that looked like y'all. 2:24:29.800 --> 2:24:31.280 And you know, some of the best advice you could 2:24:31.280 --> 2:24:34.400 ever get. This for my life a crackhead, right, crackhead 2:24:34.400 --> 2:24:37.080 got the best vice. It's just that you can't really 2:24:37.160 --> 2:24:39.640 take him serious because he made it nowhere in life, 2:24:40.600 --> 2:24:42.280 you know what I'm saying. So you're sitting here and 2:24:42.360 --> 2:24:45.040 he's telling you to really ship. Ever he's like, yo, man, 2:24:45.560 --> 2:24:47.800 it ain't about the journey. It's about the destination how 2:24:47.879 --> 2:24:50.720 you get there. And you're sitting there like whatever, And 2:24:50.879 --> 2:24:52.880 you're sitting there and you're not really understanding that he 2:24:53.000 --> 2:24:56.240 giving you real science. He given you real reality. But 2:24:56.320 --> 2:24:58.920 it's like, damn, when you look at him, you can't 2:24:58.959 --> 2:25:00.880 really take him serious because like damn, he's gonna ask 2:25:00.920 --> 2:25:04.199 me for five hours at the versation, so he giving 2:25:04.200 --> 2:25:05.920 you the really ship, but then he's gonna say, let 2:25:05.920 --> 2:25:07.600 me get files. You gotta give it, and then once 2:25:07.640 --> 2:25:11.440 you come to the files, his whole conversation actually deteriorates out. 2:25:11.680 --> 2:25:14.960 So what I'm saying is we don't have because the 2:25:15.040 --> 2:25:17.280 crack can be speaking that financial ship too, like you've 2:25:17.320 --> 2:25:19.600 better saying your money you like, maybe I should listen 2:25:19.640 --> 2:25:23.280 to him, because clearly he didn't say this right, right, 2:25:23.840 --> 2:25:27.080 But we don't take that knowledge because guess what he's 2:25:27.080 --> 2:25:31.600 looking up. He's the presentation. He's telling us the total 2:25:32.040 --> 2:25:34.080 advice that we should be listening to and we should 2:25:34.080 --> 2:25:37.480 be following. But his presentation is so fucked up. That's 2:25:37.520 --> 2:25:41.040 why it's so important for y'all to be be rolled up, 2:25:41.240 --> 2:25:44.120 be looking clean, and you're talking about financial freedom and 2:25:44.200 --> 2:25:47.240 financial wealth and all this. But it's not like they 2:25:47.280 --> 2:25:49.920 can't see it in y'all, right, right, you know what 2:25:49.959 --> 2:25:52.400 I mean? And that's very important because are people like 2:25:52.680 --> 2:25:56.640 one thing about becoming old school is if you become 2:25:56.680 --> 2:25:58.720 old school in this game and you ain't got no paper, 2:25:58.959 --> 2:26:01.760 them young dudes ain't listen into roasts of fact, I 2:26:01.840 --> 2:26:06.680 don't give a funk is whatever the village you become old, 2:26:06.840 --> 2:26:08.520 you got this a couple of great hairs I ain't 2:26:08.560 --> 2:26:10.280 have great hands to Kanye came here. By the way, 2:26:11.280 --> 2:26:13.640 I got great hairs now. But but but but by 2:26:13.680 --> 2:26:17.560 the way, if I ain't pulling up in the fandom 2:26:17.920 --> 2:26:23.360 a culinary uh made back, you know, you know, you know, 2:26:23.879 --> 2:26:27.520 they laugh, they get they get to joke. But if 2:26:27.640 --> 2:26:31.600 you're pulling up in that and that's what's woke up 2:26:31.600 --> 2:26:33.560 about all youth, because I remember you kept saying that 2:26:33.760 --> 2:26:37.600 you gotta remember, like claiming third t X. He realized 2:26:37.640 --> 2:26:40.200 that the older homies wasn't the people to save. He 2:26:40.320 --> 2:26:42.600 realized that he had to go back and save the youth. 2:26:43.360 --> 2:26:46.360 But you gotta be cooler the youth. You can't go 2:26:46.520 --> 2:26:49.320 to the youth and be like, yo, man, don't drink 2:26:49.360 --> 2:26:51.360 that o eat. You gotta actually drink the o E 2:26:51.520 --> 2:26:55.320 with him sometimes to let them know you would. Yeah, yeah, 2:26:55.520 --> 2:26:58.000 And then you take them out of that world. It's 2:26:58.080 --> 2:27:00.560 easier to reach the people when you're arms reach of 2:27:00.600 --> 2:27:03.520 the people. You know, there was a time when Frederick 2:27:03.560 --> 2:27:08.080 Douglas was the most photographed man on earth, right, and 2:27:08.200 --> 2:27:10.880 he's one of the greatest abolitionists to exist. So he 2:27:11.080 --> 2:27:18.960 was teaching people freedom. You understand me, And because that's 2:27:19.000 --> 2:27:23.360 hard let's just take a shop for practical dullas. That's 2:27:23.400 --> 2:27:27.440 just hard and we're gonna repeat this on Black History months. 2:27:28.600 --> 2:27:31.480 But think about that though. Why was he the most photographed? 2:27:31.520 --> 2:27:34.640 That was because he presented himself, right. He never smiled 2:27:34.720 --> 2:27:37.360 because he said that it was nothing to smile about, 2:27:37.920 --> 2:27:40.560 you understand me, Because he was fighting for freedom and 2:27:40.640 --> 2:27:43.800 this was serious. But he knew that his appearance was 2:27:43.879 --> 2:27:45.680 the way that he was going to be projected to 2:27:45.760 --> 2:27:48.640 the people around the world. So every time you've seen him, 2:27:48.680 --> 2:27:51.200 he was clean, you understand me. So he showed the 2:27:51.240 --> 2:27:54.080 appearance of what it's like to be free. Right. So 2:27:54.240 --> 2:27:56.880 if we're going to teach people financial freedom, then we 2:27:56.959 --> 2:27:59.880 have to show up looking financially free. Right. And the 2:28:00.160 --> 2:28:03.920 same time we're talking about this right here, Mohammed peach 2:28:04.000 --> 2:28:06.600 right there, man, get the close up on it. Okay, 2:28:06.640 --> 2:28:11.240 you stop paying just you know, but more rings in 2:28:11.280 --> 2:28:16.040 the risa. But even when we did the crowns, right, 2:28:16.080 --> 2:28:20.680 I was this is when like I kind of knew, 2:28:21.560 --> 2:28:24.040 how did he have something with the minister said, The 2:28:24.080 --> 2:28:27.640 minister said nothing against him. The minister actually like kind 2:28:27.680 --> 2:28:29.480 of praised that. Did he did he really have that 2:28:29.560 --> 2:28:32.360 two billion? I think he takes personal when you try 2:28:32.400 --> 2:28:34.879 to target his money. He's very sensitive about his finances. 2:28:35.240 --> 2:28:37.720 I noticed, like he takes his money very serious, like 2:28:38.000 --> 2:28:40.200 even for like he keeps going back and forth like 2:28:40.440 --> 2:28:43.080 they misspolded me, they discussed that, Like I think he 2:28:43.240 --> 2:28:47.440 really he really wants that validation of finances, like I'm 2:28:47.520 --> 2:28:49.400 worth this amount of money. And if you question that, 2:28:49.879 --> 2:28:53.400 he takes it personal. I don't think the minister actually 2:28:53.640 --> 2:28:57.400 think I'm something very serious as well on that particular subject. 2:28:57.480 --> 2:29:04.120 Because if you notice, nobody came out from the nation 2:29:04.320 --> 2:29:07.800 and slender came west after that, and that's a that's 2:29:07.840 --> 2:29:11.640 a lesson that Black America needs to take because everything 2:29:11.840 --> 2:29:14.880 is is doesn't have to be a war, you understand me, 2:29:15.400 --> 2:29:17.560 Because even when he said it's a conversation that needs 2:29:17.600 --> 2:29:19.680 to be had, and it is. But what we gonna 2:29:19.720 --> 2:29:23.440 run with is the conflict, not the conversation, right, And 2:29:23.600 --> 2:29:27.680 so I think that the presentation of the Honorable Minister 2:29:27.760 --> 2:29:31.160 lewis far kind and everybody that follows him not coming 2:29:31.200 --> 2:29:33.480 out against him, not creating an issue out of it, 2:29:33.640 --> 2:29:35.760 was a lesson for how we need to handle those 2:29:35.800 --> 2:29:39.600 type of things, right. And the reality of it is 2:29:39.760 --> 2:29:42.880 is we're speaking about the same thing we speak about evaluations. 2:29:43.400 --> 2:29:46.280 Is it really there, right? Or it doesn't come with 2:29:46.520 --> 2:29:49.400 terms of agreement based on a contract that you made 2:29:49.480 --> 2:29:52.720 that say you can maintain your position, you can maintain 2:29:52.800 --> 2:29:55.480 your evaluation, you can say you are who you are 2:29:56.120 --> 2:30:00.480 as long as you follow what we say. Right, and 2:30:00.560 --> 2:30:04.160 this is probably the terms and agreement of all top 2:30:04.600 --> 2:30:07.360 people that we see within our courts. Here. How many 2:30:07.440 --> 2:30:10.160 people can get their wealth snatched away like this if 2:30:10.200 --> 2:30:14.520 they say the wrong thing? Is that wealth? Is that power? 2:30:14.720 --> 2:30:17.720 Is that really billions? Is that really millions? So? But 2:30:17.840 --> 2:30:21.480 when you do that to a people same way where 2:30:21.840 --> 2:30:24.480 you know, during COVID nineteen, all the countries realized they 2:30:24.520 --> 2:30:27.840 had an over dependence on China right for supply chains, 2:30:27.879 --> 2:30:30.840 and countries now want to make their own so they're 2:30:30.840 --> 2:30:33.440 not seen as weak during those type of times. Black 2:30:33.520 --> 2:30:36.280 America is realizing that as well, that if we ever 2:30:36.360 --> 2:30:39.360 want to be free, speak free, move free, then we 2:30:39.520 --> 2:30:41.720 have to not have a dependence on somebody else that 2:30:41.760 --> 2:30:45.360 can control our freedom. Anything that controls your will, you 2:30:45.480 --> 2:30:50.840 are slave too, right, And so rich slaves exist, right. 2:30:51.760 --> 2:30:56.360 Wealthy slaves exist because you're giving liberty, which means that 2:30:56.920 --> 2:30:59.240 you are giving a range of things you can do, 2:30:59.360 --> 2:31:01.400 but not truth freedom to do whatever you want to do. 2:31:02.000 --> 2:31:05.360 So that's the difference between liberty and freedom. Most of 2:31:05.440 --> 2:31:08.080 the people that have wealth in our society and our curture, 2:31:08.160 --> 2:31:11.440 they have liberty and they wish they had true freedom 2:31:11.480 --> 2:31:13.720 to where. I want to do this project. I want 2:31:13.760 --> 2:31:15.280 to say what I want to say. I want to 2:31:15.360 --> 2:31:18.480 make this move this way, but I can't because even 2:31:18.560 --> 2:31:20.320 if I want to do this to appease my people, 2:31:20.400 --> 2:31:23.840 I have the piece them people. How about Tyler Perry, right, 2:31:24.080 --> 2:31:27.200 Tyler Perry is one of the most richest people, right, 2:31:27.360 --> 2:31:31.680 but in our community he always gets critiqued for playing Medea. 2:31:32.000 --> 2:31:34.080 I think I think sometimes like like, let me just 2:31:34.120 --> 2:31:37.960 finish like like, and then people say, Okay, yeah, he 2:31:38.040 --> 2:31:39.800 made this billion, he did all this, He did a 2:31:39.879 --> 2:31:41.800 great thing. But guess what he had to get there 2:31:41.840 --> 2:31:44.560 by wearing a dress, you know, Minister Foreire concept something 2:31:44.600 --> 2:31:47.160 about that. It is what made me change my mind 2:31:47.320 --> 2:31:51.280 on it on Tyler Perry because he said, I love 2:31:51.400 --> 2:31:54.920 Tyler Perry movies because of the lessons that he put 2:31:55.000 --> 2:31:57.160 in them. You understand me. And I think that was 2:31:57.240 --> 2:31:59.280 another lesson that he was teaching us is that we 2:31:59.320 --> 2:32:03.880 don't always need to critique everything. See playing grandmother, wouldn't 2:32:04.280 --> 2:32:13.200 grandmother grandmother position? You know, And that's one of those 2:32:13.200 --> 2:32:14.960 things where some people kick down the door. Then the 2:32:15.040 --> 2:32:16.959 next generation are the ones who rushed in the house 2:32:16.959 --> 2:32:20.080 and take over everything right. And I don't think it's 2:32:20.120 --> 2:32:21.880 going to be on him to do it. But it's 2:32:21.879 --> 2:32:25.040 an example because think about the type of movies we 2:32:25.080 --> 2:32:27.920 would like to see made right. But can you make 2:32:27.959 --> 2:32:32.080 those movies right? There's so many historical figures. There's there's 2:32:32.160 --> 2:32:36.080 no Marcus Garvey movies, no Noble draw Lead movies, no 2:32:36.200 --> 2:32:40.440 Ulijah Muhammed movies, no Two Saint movies, no Mansa Mussim, 2:32:41.000 --> 2:32:45.160 Hannibal Barker movies, John Horse movies. None of those movies 2:32:45.240 --> 2:32:51.879 about any of our real historical figures. Alba, we gott 2:32:52.800 --> 2:32:59.400 keep making drugs. What happens when we own our media 2:32:59.400 --> 2:33:01.800 and we can like and we can green light our 2:33:01.879 --> 2:33:06.280 own films and control on narratives. We appreciate. You can 2:33:06.320 --> 2:33:08.959 see if somebody, you know, based on what they build 2:33:09.000 --> 2:33:10.680 and what they did with it and the doors they 2:33:10.760 --> 2:33:12.960 kicked down. But I also think that sometimes we don't 2:33:12.959 --> 2:33:16.000 allow a person to fully develop into the legacy that 2:33:16.040 --> 2:33:18.520 they're going to bring about before we criticize, like you 2:33:18.560 --> 2:33:22.560 see will Smith emancipation. I say that one thing about 2:33:22.600 --> 2:33:25.080 Todder Perry because we actually got to speak with him, 2:33:25.760 --> 2:33:27.520 and we got to go to his studio which is 2:33:27.520 --> 2:33:31.200 actually which is crazy restroom. So it's like I think 2:33:31.280 --> 2:33:34.400 that people, everybody, you've been to his studio? No, no, 2:33:35.480 --> 2:33:39.480 it on Instagram? No, no, dope, dope, don't have to. 2:33:41.440 --> 2:33:45.600 There's five there's five Hollywood studios. I believe Sony like 2:33:45.640 --> 2:33:47.760 paramount all of them. Like you can feel all of 2:33:47.800 --> 2:33:51.760 those Hollywood studios on his campus in Atlanta. That's how 2:33:51.800 --> 2:33:53.800 big it is. They said, in any given day, there's 2:33:53.879 --> 2:33:58.600 five thousand people that's working. He employs. I forgot how 2:33:58.720 --> 2:34:01.960 much millions over a hundred million dollars nine the people 2:34:02.000 --> 2:34:04.480 of black people per hundred fifty million a year in 2:34:04.520 --> 2:34:09.520 salaries black people. So it's like sometimes the mean the 2:34:09.680 --> 2:34:11.800 ends justified the means just to find the ends. And 2:34:11.879 --> 2:34:13.480 I feel like, you know, once again going back to 2:34:13.560 --> 2:34:16.200 being critical, Yeah, we can, we can criticize the situation. 2:34:16.320 --> 2:34:19.600 But what he's able to, what he's been able to accomplish, 2:34:20.080 --> 2:34:23.960 nobody in one hundred years has built a studio. This, no, this, 2:34:24.280 --> 2:34:27.480 this is something that people need to understand. The last studio, 2:34:27.879 --> 2:34:31.440 the last studio was like Warner Bros. A hundred years ago. 2:34:31.720 --> 2:34:34.600 I'm not talking about Black, I'm I'm talking about any person. 2:34:35.440 --> 2:34:37.880 He's been able to accomplish when no other person has 2:34:37.920 --> 2:34:40.200 been able to accomplish in one hundred years. And then 2:34:40.360 --> 2:34:42.640 and then all those studios have been in the same place. 2:34:43.120 --> 2:34:45.160 So like, think about what he's done. Right, Not only 2:34:45.200 --> 2:34:46.880 did he take it out of Hollywood, he put it 2:34:46.920 --> 2:34:50.720 in Atlanta, Georgia black Hollywood black right, Like, you create 2:34:50.760 --> 2:34:53.320 a whole genre and then you create lots, right, And 2:34:53.400 --> 2:34:56.320 not only do you create your own space to create content, 2:34:57.959 --> 2:35:01.240 you created an economy that listen, you got you got Marvel. 2:35:01.360 --> 2:35:03.720 You got Marvel renting out your studio to shoot Black 2:35:03.760 --> 2:35:07.320 Panther too, right, And on top of it, you're creating 2:35:07.320 --> 2:35:09.320 your own content. But not only in the state that 2:35:09.400 --> 2:35:13.200 the taxes are favorable for. Think about what but when 2:35:13.240 --> 2:35:15.200 we were there, like lets said, you gotta see it, right, 2:35:15.320 --> 2:35:18.480 people are building economies outside of the studio. So what 2:35:18.600 --> 2:35:20.920 it was it was an old military base that used 2:35:20.959 --> 2:35:22.879 to home slaves. So like, thinking about what he's done 2:35:22.920 --> 2:35:25.760 here historically, But outside of those it was an old 2:35:25.800 --> 2:35:30.840 military military base, right, it was a it was a 2:35:30.840 --> 2:35:36.720 Confederate he talked, they're building their building economies outside of it. 2:35:36.800 --> 2:35:39.000 So outside of the areas of the wall, you see 2:35:39.400 --> 2:35:43.080 houses and developments being built. He's creating. It's a city 2:35:43.160 --> 2:35:45.600 outside of his studio. You see what I'm saying, Like 2:35:45.680 --> 2:35:47.560 it's completely different. Not only is he doing that, but 2:35:47.680 --> 2:35:49.480 who was he employing If you look at all the shows, 2:35:49.520 --> 2:35:51.760 what was he employing people that look like us? Who 2:35:51.840 --> 2:35:54.520 else is doing that? And he's been able to the 2:35:54.600 --> 2:35:56.879 illest part about this, Like I said, you gotta actually 2:35:56.920 --> 2:35:58.560 go there to get a full appreciation, because they give 2:35:58.560 --> 2:36:00.640 you a whole tour, takes about an hour. It's really 2:36:00.680 --> 2:36:04.160 a real estate play because he has more land than 2:36:04.200 --> 2:36:07.880 any Hollywood studio. So what happens is that now he's 2:36:07.959 --> 2:36:10.920 leasing the land back to the Hollywood studio. So they 2:36:11.000 --> 2:36:13.959 filmed some Black Panther at his studio. So Warner Brothers 2:36:14.040 --> 2:36:18.000 is paying him, Disney is paying him to film that 2:36:18.200 --> 2:36:21.280 movie at his studio, Like what I'm saying. So that's 2:36:21.320 --> 2:36:23.360 that's the real play behind it, is like he got 2:36:23.560 --> 2:36:26.600 so much land and he's created different sets. He got 2:36:27.080 --> 2:36:28.720 a set for the White House, he got a set 2:36:28.800 --> 2:36:30.840 that looks like Mississippi. He got a set that looks 2:36:30.840 --> 2:36:33.400 like New York City, all in this big campus in Atlanta. 2:36:33.600 --> 2:36:36.120 So now he's he's it's really a real estate play 2:36:36.160 --> 2:36:37.600 in it. So it's like when people just look on 2:36:37.680 --> 2:36:39.400 the surface. Yet he put on the dress. Yeah, I 2:36:39.520 --> 2:36:41.400 wouldn't put on it. Right, I'm not saying that you 2:36:41.480 --> 2:36:44.560 might not agree with that, but how they say every 2:36:44.600 --> 2:36:47.040 black man that's successful kind of like have to do that. 2:36:49.040 --> 2:36:51.320 But look but but but all right, so you don't 2:36:51.360 --> 2:36:54.080 have to do that, but but but but let me 2:36:54.120 --> 2:36:55.879 but let me say you can't with the words sell 2:36:55.879 --> 2:36:59.600 out because for me, you put on that dress to me, 2:37:00.320 --> 2:37:04.920 and regardless of however we context you alright, okay, but 2:37:05.000 --> 2:37:07.200 let me let me finish though, because we got nobody. 2:37:07.240 --> 2:37:10.520 We got nobody talking about drinking lean, we got nobody, 2:37:10.560 --> 2:37:12.560 we got a problem with nobody talking about popping pills. 2:37:12.600 --> 2:37:15.800 We got nobody talking about pimping women, killing another black man, 2:37:15.879 --> 2:37:18.600 what's worse, killing other black men. So what I'm saying 2:37:18.720 --> 2:37:23.280 is that we gotta be extremely careful about always criticizing, 2:37:24.040 --> 2:37:27.520 because you criticizing somebody but are you helping are you hurting? 2:37:27.959 --> 2:37:31.680 You're talking about drinking per meThe zine that's killing people 2:37:31.879 --> 2:37:36.400 is liquid heroin. You're turning the whole culture into drug addicts. 2:37:36.440 --> 2:37:38.480 These kids. If you ever seen somebody when they get 2:37:38.480 --> 2:37:40.560 off of that ship, it's like heroin. They it's the 2:37:40.640 --> 2:37:44.400 same effect when you start nodding and dozing, when you 2:37:44.520 --> 2:37:46.800 go off of withdrawals, you start scratching, you looking like 2:37:46.879 --> 2:37:49.760 a fucking rowing. So it's like, we gotta be extremely 2:37:49.800 --> 2:37:52.959 careful because it's like you promoting game culture and you're 2:37:53.040 --> 2:37:56.120 killing other black young boys fourteen years old that's dying 2:37:56.200 --> 2:37:58.560 over a flag. They don't even understand what they're killing 2:37:58.600 --> 2:38:02.040 each other four a It's like, just be careful, be 2:38:02.160 --> 2:38:06.000 careful criticizing and because we do that too much, and 2:38:06.120 --> 2:38:08.440 we throw around that word sell out and throw it out. 2:38:08.440 --> 2:38:11.840 And if somebody's employing five thousand people, like you know 2:38:11.879 --> 2:38:14.920 what I'm saying. So it's like there's levels and there's perspective. 2:38:17.120 --> 2:38:19.840 This complexity to the life, therest complexity to life. People 2:38:19.959 --> 2:38:22.840 like like we we create hundred, we create businesses, and 2:38:23.080 --> 2:38:25.720 most times black businesses there's only one employee inside of 2:38:25.760 --> 2:38:27.720 that right as entrepreneurs. But you talk about a man 2:38:27.720 --> 2:38:30.160 who was playing a hundred fifty million salary go to 2:38:30.200 --> 2:38:34.360 black people and fifty millions, that's different. We've never seen 2:38:34.400 --> 2:38:36.480 anything like that. That's why I said, when you you 2:38:36.600 --> 2:38:39.320 have to actually see it, When you see the man's vision, 2:38:39.879 --> 2:38:43.720 it changes your mindset, like being on the property and understanding, like, yo, 2:38:43.800 --> 2:38:45.440 this is crazy. Like when he's talking about building the 2:38:45.480 --> 2:38:47.920 white house. Now, if somebody is creating a movie and 2:38:47.959 --> 2:38:49.480 they need a white house scene, who you think they call? 2:38:49.680 --> 2:38:52.160 They're calling him? And how many movies is like that? 2:38:52.200 --> 2:38:54.280 How many shows is like that? You do that? I mean, 2:38:58.040 --> 2:39:00.920 speak that man. It was always talked to settle on 2:39:00.959 --> 2:39:03.160 the best part. You understand me. It's not about what 2:39:03.280 --> 2:39:05.280 you don't like. Look for what we do like. You 2:39:05.360 --> 2:39:07.680 understand me. That's the common reality of how we build. 2:39:08.160 --> 2:39:11.119 So you know, I'm learning now that even if it's 2:39:11.160 --> 2:39:13.360 somebody I disagree with, But what are the things that 2:39:13.400 --> 2:39:15.520 I do agree with? Because you've been saying this whole time, 2:39:15.800 --> 2:39:18.840 you're Muslim, that's a masculine. Yeah, so obviously you can't 2:39:18.840 --> 2:39:21.520 agree with him. We're in a dress. Well, I don't 2:39:21.560 --> 2:39:23.920 think about that too much. I don't agree with no 2:39:24.080 --> 2:39:26.480 men wearing dresses. So it's not I don't personalize it 2:39:26.520 --> 2:39:28.760 to Tyler Perry, but I'll just look at the affeminate 2:39:28.840 --> 2:39:31.800 agenda black man period. A lot of you know when 2:39:31.879 --> 2:39:35.200 when when you're talking about people doing lean that effimilates you, 2:39:35.560 --> 2:39:39.080 you understand me, Like the Brothers, softest hell, sweaty handshakes, 2:39:39.640 --> 2:39:42.600 you understand me, so you know we all of it. 2:39:42.760 --> 2:39:45.640 To me, I'm looking at as the same characteristics, right 2:39:45.760 --> 2:39:48.160 the person that's had the choice right now we're lean. 2:39:51.000 --> 2:40:01.360 I'm doing neither. I mean just because because think about 2:40:01.400 --> 2:40:03.600 it though, when we talk about anti blackness, right, so 2:40:03.840 --> 2:40:08.440 promoting violence, death culture to our people's anti black promoting 2:40:08.560 --> 2:40:12.480 unhealthy products, promoting drugs, and promoting their feminization of black 2:40:12.560 --> 2:40:15.160 men to our people is unhealthy. Black men have it 2:40:15.280 --> 2:40:17.920 the worst in America statistically, right, we have it the 2:40:18.000 --> 2:40:21.560 work health wise, financial wise, prison, however you want to 2:40:21.600 --> 2:40:23.920 slice them. Statistics, we have it the worst. I'm talking 2:40:23.959 --> 2:40:27.560 about from cancer to everything. Yet there are no movements 2:40:27.800 --> 2:40:32.280 around sensitivity towards black man and true mental health programs. 2:40:32.400 --> 2:40:35.160 That's not what they Everybody uses the black man and 2:40:35.280 --> 2:40:38.440 his body for their agenda, even when we die, everybody 2:40:38.520 --> 2:40:41.000 else benefits, and they start creating all these programs and 2:40:41.080 --> 2:40:43.400 all these movements out of it. But part of that 2:40:43.640 --> 2:40:46.280 is the effeminization when you don't have your mind and 2:40:46.360 --> 2:40:48.680 your will. When I'm saying I'm masculin, masterling just means 2:40:49.040 --> 2:40:54.600 the traits typical of a man. No, no, sir, No, sorry, 2:40:54.920 --> 2:40:57.800 no sir, No, I'm good on that. You know, I 2:40:57.920 --> 2:41:00.080 got you know, mom, be Taylor. They'd be Taylor are 2:41:00.120 --> 2:41:03.960 they'd be precise to my measurements. But just just to that, 2:41:05.520 --> 2:41:07.560 maybe we just you know, we just get them exact, 2:41:07.680 --> 2:41:10.160 you know. No, But you know, growing up, I grew 2:41:10.240 --> 2:41:12.160 up in a suit and bow tide. You understand, we 2:41:12.240 --> 2:41:15.000 grew up we used to drill every day. Right, I've 2:41:15.040 --> 2:41:17.360 seen the example of real men with ownership and power 2:41:17.440 --> 2:41:20.880 growing up in Oakland, California. So my disposition of seeing 2:41:20.920 --> 2:41:22.840 a man in a dress is based on how I 2:41:22.959 --> 2:41:25.320 grew up in my perception of that. Right. And then 2:41:25.360 --> 2:41:28.080 when we look at Dave Chappelle, where Dave Chappelle spoke 2:41:28.120 --> 2:41:30.840 about the industry where they specifically want you to do 2:41:31.000 --> 2:41:33.680 things that rob you of your integrity. How many times 2:41:33.760 --> 2:41:36.480 you you you didn't see people they go to parties. 2:41:36.520 --> 2:41:39.120 They go to these places in the industry, things that 2:41:39.280 --> 2:41:42.280 typically will go against their integrity, they still do because 2:41:42.320 --> 2:41:45.200 in that space is judgment free. But when they get home, 2:41:45.240 --> 2:41:48.959 they judging themselves. They're killing themselves. They have to constantly drink, 2:41:49.040 --> 2:41:51.400 constantly socialized, so they don't have to think about the 2:41:51.480 --> 2:41:53.920 things that they're doing. Most of these men die while 2:41:53.959 --> 2:41:56.360 they're living. You understand me. They soul and their spirit 2:41:56.440 --> 2:41:58.520 ain't there no more. And that's what they do a 2:41:58.600 --> 2:42:01.080 lot of times. When they put prominent black bend in position, 2:42:01.440 --> 2:42:04.000 they've killed them, They've destroyed them, so they don't have 2:42:04.200 --> 2:42:06.680 that same will, and that's thing sparked to do something 2:42:06.760 --> 2:42:09.080 powerful and dangerous. Well, that's what you keep worried that 2:42:09.120 --> 2:42:11.120 you just said, is they put you in position. This 2:42:11.240 --> 2:42:13.600 is the good thing about us. We had no gate keeper. 2:42:14.080 --> 2:42:16.280 We didn't have nobody that passes to torch and say, okay, 2:42:16.280 --> 2:42:18.320 we're gonna greenlight a show for you, We're gonna give 2:42:18.360 --> 2:42:20.160 you a media company. Everything that we did we had 2:42:20.200 --> 2:42:22.560 to actually figure out for ourselves. Were powered by the people. 2:42:22.800 --> 2:42:24.600 So that gives us a tremendous amount of leverage, not 2:42:24.680 --> 2:42:34.360 only financially, but integrity. I sh but our shows about 2:42:34.360 --> 2:42:39.280 giving people off the flowers. Fear you brothers take it. 2:42:39.680 --> 2:42:44.040 It's crazy. Yeah, all three of your brothers really deserved 2:42:44.120 --> 2:42:53.360 this not real talk um, because teaching a culture or 2:42:53.440 --> 2:42:59.960 teaching people high financial freedom to know that it doesn't 2:43:00.040 --> 2:43:03.080 matter if you started out, bro, you can come, you 2:43:03.160 --> 2:43:06.520 can invest. Like I've seen I forget what's this asian 2:43:07.440 --> 2:43:11.320 um realtor and he was like, yo, my first first 2:43:11.360 --> 2:43:13.760 He's like, my first ship I bought was eighteen thousand, 2:43:14.200 --> 2:43:15.800 so he said he brought it and then he lived 2:43:15.840 --> 2:43:19.000 in it, and then he rented the other two units. 2:43:19.200 --> 2:43:21.279 And it's like everyone think you gotta have eight hundred 2:43:21.320 --> 2:43:25.440 thousand or whatever. Like it's just like and then when 2:43:25.440 --> 2:43:26.880 I've seen that, I was like, all right, cool, there's 2:43:26.879 --> 2:43:30.160 no people. And then it's y'all guys right, and it's like, 2:43:32.360 --> 2:43:35.120 yeall of us, it smells like us, you look like us, 2:43:36.720 --> 2:43:42.240 y'all talk like us, and y'all fucking financial gurus. Like 2:43:42.320 --> 2:43:44.959 I want to salute y'all, I'm want to praise y'all. 2:43:45.320 --> 2:43:46.920 I want to say that this is the first time 2:43:47.080 --> 2:43:50.480 I've ever seen this, I've ever seen people talking. What's 2:43:50.480 --> 2:43:56.240 the other dude, Tony Roberts relate to this guy not 2:43:56.360 --> 2:44:02.480 going to like the closest dam I got hit bro, 2:44:02.640 --> 2:44:06.080 my mistake, and he's hit me back like but you know, 2:44:06.280 --> 2:44:08.520 you know, closest thing that came was like an envy 2:44:09.480 --> 2:44:13.120 and yeah, was like, okay, I love the fact that 2:44:13.160 --> 2:44:16.720 season always you know, I was looking the same. But 2:44:16.879 --> 2:44:19.880 what you guys are doing, especially with the crypto, we 2:44:19.920 --> 2:44:23.600 don't speaking about the crypto yet. Crypto? What's the crypto? 2:44:25.400 --> 2:44:33.920 Not he talking about citation? What's what's the ship? What's 2:44:33.959 --> 2:44:37.080 the ship? Um? What's the ship that we um? Interior? 2:44:38.080 --> 2:44:54.080 Any working out for me on any week? I'm looking 2:44:54.200 --> 2:44:58.040 like what stop looking stot. I gotta let it go 2:45:00.000 --> 2:45:04.360 crazy crazy, be like the only it's only fucking past 2:45:04.440 --> 2:45:11.960 word cold. I know, don't forget that. It is great, 2:45:12.040 --> 2:45:17.680 that's the pastor, y know, but but stop working out 2:45:17.720 --> 2:45:20.240 for me. It's guy's not working out for anybody right now, 2:45:20.280 --> 2:45:25.360 relying let's term, He's just going through it like my 2:45:25.680 --> 2:45:28.360 theory is going down. I remember when he first got something. 2:45:28.440 --> 2:45:30.280 I called him, I said, dude, they got access to 2:45:30.400 --> 2:45:33.120 my account and then he goes what he yeah that 2:45:33.280 --> 2:45:38.720 somebody rob you the theory that the market was changing 2:45:38.879 --> 2:45:44.840 he thought here because how about making money? But by 2:45:44.879 --> 2:45:46.600 the way, I said it way dumber and I just 2:45:46.640 --> 2:45:49.520 said it and he was like, the only people that's 2:45:49.560 --> 2:45:52.199 making money right now crypto. The people that's trading crypto, 2:45:52.640 --> 2:45:55.039 you understand me. So as its fluction aint going up 2:45:55.080 --> 2:45:57.039 and down, they buying out and they settling, they buying, 2:45:57.120 --> 2:46:00.600 they selling, right. So even when you talk about the 2:46:00.760 --> 2:46:03.800 SBF thing, that's what he's doing. He was an arbitarge trader, right, 2:46:04.800 --> 2:46:09.240 f TX but what's his name's Sam banked me free. 2:46:09.320 --> 2:46:11.640 So that's why I say FBF right, because I've been 2:46:11.680 --> 2:46:14.480 seeing the SBF more than anything. And when you talk 2:46:14.480 --> 2:46:17.800 about the media where they've been portraying him right, because 2:46:17.879 --> 2:46:20.200 he's given so much money to media and so much 2:46:20.280 --> 2:46:25.400 money to these political parties, many they praising them almost 2:46:25.520 --> 2:46:27.720 why they're talking about his situation like it's just a 2:46:27.800 --> 2:46:31.840 down the fact that he lost billions of dollars and 2:46:31.920 --> 2:46:35.240 the people have lost hundred hundreds of millions he was 2:46:35.280 --> 2:46:37.400 worth We don't even get the opportunity to make who 2:46:37.480 --> 2:46:40.720 was in the state. Yeah, yeah, but he's not. Yeah, 2:46:40.760 --> 2:46:44.600 he's a cryptograg exchange. But with that is that it 2:46:44.720 --> 2:46:50.320 was centralized exchange at the stadium. The arena area was called. 2:46:51.560 --> 2:47:02.600 He got talking about the cheap then a contract for 2:47:02.640 --> 2:47:07.400 American Airlines arena. That's the reason why it changed. He's 2:47:07.400 --> 2:47:10.000 the person that owns f who got the cryptoa that's 2:47:10.000 --> 2:47:15.280 crypto dot com. That's but what do you guys think 2:47:15.320 --> 2:47:17.480 happened in that situation? What do you think that what 2:47:18.760 --> 2:47:21.320 they're saying, what they're saying is that and like I said, 2:47:21.320 --> 2:47:24.440 it's alleged, but they're saying that pretty much. He was 2:47:24.560 --> 2:47:29.120 using money from from investors to fund other projects. What 2:47:29.280 --> 2:47:32.400 happened was that some pyramids style, that's what they say. 2:47:34.680 --> 2:47:36.600 You're in the space, so you know, you know finance, 2:47:37.200 --> 2:47:41.840 So a report was published that was unfavorable to uh 2:47:42.120 --> 2:47:45.320 F t X that that they have token. So Finance 2:47:45.600 --> 2:47:48.600 had a lot of their coins. Finance pulled their money out. 2:47:48.879 --> 2:47:50.960 Once Finance pulled their money out and made all the 2:47:51.000 --> 2:47:53.640 investors scared, and now it was a rush on the bank. 2:47:54.040 --> 2:47:56.080 Now a lot of people started to pull their money out. 2:47:56.120 --> 2:47:58.119 They didn't have enough money to pay back every single 2:47:58.160 --> 2:47:59.840 person I wanted to put their money out, and the 2:48:00.000 --> 2:48:03.039 collapse it over there. It's like within within one day, 2:48:03.200 --> 2:48:07.400 they wanted five billion back five billions, right, it's like, 2:48:07.840 --> 2:48:11.400 but here's the illest part. Right, So Binance, Right, the 2:48:11.600 --> 2:48:14.640 CEO of Binances like, we might you know what, we'll 2:48:14.680 --> 2:48:17.320 help you out. We'll buy your exchange. Before we buy 2:48:17.320 --> 2:48:19.439 the exchange, we need to see the paperwork on your finances. 2:48:20.040 --> 2:48:22.000 So when they look at the finances, they're looking at 2:48:22.040 --> 2:48:24.680 it like, yo, this is this This ain't really like 2:48:24.760 --> 2:48:27.400 they don't really have no legit business. So they pulled 2:48:27.400 --> 2:48:29.200 out of the deal. Now like on top of one 2:48:29.240 --> 2:48:31.480 of the five billion they've seen that buiance, which could 2:48:31.480 --> 2:48:33.200 have rescued him, saying now we're not doing this. They 2:48:33.200 --> 2:48:36.640 don't even have legit paperwork. You got a guy who 2:48:36.640 --> 2:48:39.920 goes from twenty nine billion net worth, right what they're 2:48:39.920 --> 2:48:43.200 saying to like nine hundred thousand within forty eight hours. 2:48:44.000 --> 2:48:50.320 What Yeah, he said it not not a hundred million. 2:48:50.400 --> 2:48:53.360 He was still worth a hundred hundred not even still 2:48:54.160 --> 2:48:56.400 he was still worth eight hundred He lost about billion 2:48:56.400 --> 2:48:59.720 dollars that's how much. I thought. It was just eight 2:48:59.760 --> 2:49:02.640 billion and he lost, which they said he was worth billion, 2:49:02.920 --> 2:49:05.360 and when a day later he was worth eight hundred million. 2:49:05.480 --> 2:49:10.600 That he lost. But what about people's money lost to 2:49:10.760 --> 2:49:14.840 Tom Brady is involved in that. But one of the 2:49:14.959 --> 2:49:18.600 biggest keys on that though, is that everything that happened 2:49:18.640 --> 2:49:21.840 with his change is like centralized issues still is when 2:49:21.920 --> 2:49:24.760 one person actually owns the pot and controls the pot. 2:49:25.840 --> 2:49:29.000 It wasn't crypto that failed. It was the exchange, the banks, 2:49:29.040 --> 2:49:32.360 the investments, the over leveraging, all the standard stuff that 2:49:32.440 --> 2:49:36.560 happens with regular banks. It's just brought into the crypto space, right, 2:49:36.640 --> 2:49:38.840 So most people were thinking like, oh, there's a crypto 2:49:39.000 --> 2:49:41.720 that failed. No, it was Sam Bankman Fried. It was 2:49:41.800 --> 2:49:44.560 the regular white man and naked balls of institutions of 2:49:44.640 --> 2:49:48.280 banks over leveraging trusting him, and that's what failed, and 2:49:48.320 --> 2:49:50.360 people lost their money the same way like any other 2:49:50.440 --> 2:49:53.440 Ponzi scheme with a bank. So now everybody's saying that 2:49:53.440 --> 2:49:56.960 if you are on crypto, don't have it on in exchange, right, 2:49:57.040 --> 2:49:59.440 because if something happens to that exchange, they can't pay 2:49:59.520 --> 2:50:05.720 you out, right. So that's why I think won't pay out. Right. 2:50:05.800 --> 2:50:10.520 There's some terms in the agreement, but not specifically, they 2:50:10.600 --> 2:50:13.920 won't pay you out, you understand me, and increments if 2:50:13.959 --> 2:50:15.800 you want to pull out if they don't have it. 2:50:15.879 --> 2:50:18.680 But what they're saying is they said that they have 2:50:18.760 --> 2:50:21.720 an asset per asset, so if they say they got 2:50:21.760 --> 2:50:24.280 one big coin, they actually have a big coin. So therefore, 2:50:24.280 --> 2:50:26.440 if everybody wants to take it out, then everybody can. 2:50:26.560 --> 2:50:28.880 That's a difference. But if you get crypto and you 2:50:28.959 --> 2:50:31.160 hold it in your own what they call a cold wallet, 2:50:31.520 --> 2:50:33.560 then it don't matter what happens to the exchange you got, 2:50:33.640 --> 2:50:36.120 and that was the whole point of cryptocurrency, to not 2:50:36.280 --> 2:50:39.400 have it under centralized authority. Well, one person has control, 2:50:39.800 --> 2:50:42.280 or something happens to that institution, the money goes down 2:50:42.320 --> 2:50:44.920 and you lose favor. No, it's saying that you got 2:50:45.000 --> 2:50:47.520 your money, put it in your wallet, so no matter 2:50:47.600 --> 2:50:50.320 what happens, you're good. That's the whole point a lot 2:50:50.360 --> 2:50:52.600 of people, whether it's the crypto or the n f T. 2:50:53.000 --> 2:50:56.039 That goes back to education. If you don't educate yourself, 2:50:56.080 --> 2:50:58.879 you're ignorantly going into another asset class where you're gonna 2:50:58.920 --> 2:51:01.560 fail the same way you did the previously one. Right, 2:51:01.640 --> 2:51:04.280 So we have to get educated on every single thing 2:51:04.400 --> 2:51:07.080 that happens because it could be beneficial tools. We could 2:51:07.240 --> 2:51:09.800 use it for a tool. But if we don't get 2:51:09.959 --> 2:51:12.240 educated and we're ignorant, then we're left up to the 2:51:12.320 --> 2:51:15.520 people who are educated and hoping that they don't play 2:51:15.560 --> 2:51:18.080 a scheme on it like they always. The part about 2:51:18.120 --> 2:51:22.160 the the decentralization is that where's the regulation, right? So 2:51:22.320 --> 2:51:24.400 like if I look for a balance sheet that you 2:51:24.480 --> 2:51:26.000 can't provide it for me, Like I don't have to 2:51:26.040 --> 2:51:28.400 provide you with that. That's part of it. Let's let's 2:51:28.440 --> 2:51:32.240 talk about the average person in the hood. Yeah, you know, 2:51:32.840 --> 2:51:37.920 a couple of dollars, wants to leave the hood, doesn't 2:51:37.959 --> 2:51:40.920 know how to invest. It's crypto something. I'm going to 2:51:41.120 --> 2:51:44.080 educate yourself first. The first thing you should invest in 2:51:44.320 --> 2:51:48.720 your mind. That's the greatest as. But let's suppose I'm 2:51:51.920 --> 2:51:53.120 People say that all the time, like if I got 2:51:53.120 --> 2:51:54.760 a thousand dollars, what should I do? I'm trying to 2:51:54.760 --> 2:51:58.680 flip a thousand? All so he not get a a ball, 2:52:00.280 --> 2:52:08.480 don't get, don't get. Don't for not getting not getting, 2:52:09.760 --> 2:52:14.119 don't get. Here's the thing it's important to have. Let's 2:52:14.160 --> 2:52:16.760 talk to the guy who's wanting. I'm gonna talk to them. 2:52:17.600 --> 2:52:20.800 It's important to have realistic expectations because when you have 2:52:20.959 --> 2:52:24.360 false expectations, that's when things go go left. You think 2:52:24.360 --> 2:52:25.959 you've got a thousand dollars, You're gonna make a million 2:52:26.000 --> 2:52:28.040 dollars tomorrow. That's you know what I'm saying, Like, you're gonna, 2:52:28.320 --> 2:52:30.840 you're gonna, you're gonna do things. That's that's gonna be 2:52:30.879 --> 2:52:35.680 a So what I always tell people, it's like right 2:52:35.680 --> 2:52:37.280 now we are on an invest in wave. Right now. 2:52:37.280 --> 2:52:39.920 Everybody wants to be an investor, but investing goes hand 2:52:39.959 --> 2:52:42.040 in hand with making money. That's probably gotta talk about business. 2:52:42.120 --> 2:52:44.000 I'd like to talk about business even more than investing 2:52:44.120 --> 2:52:45.920 because it's like if you don't have money to invest, 2:52:46.080 --> 2:52:48.960 then you can't invest. So it's like for us, like 2:52:49.040 --> 2:52:52.160 we started a cash flowing positive business. Startup business will 2:52:52.200 --> 2:52:55.760 low overhead, that has ability to scale that you can 2:52:55.800 --> 2:53:01.680 actually produce revenue within twelve to eighteen months passanto, Yes, 2:53:06.440 --> 2:53:13.160 that cleans us. It's keep your ninety and so before 2:53:13.680 --> 2:53:15.840 before before you invest in another business, why don't you 2:53:15.879 --> 2:53:18.800 invest in your own business? The business you're talking about, 2:53:18.840 --> 2:53:21.200 is it the trucking business? Any business? Like we started 2:53:21.600 --> 2:53:23.560 we started this business of a podcast business. That was 2:53:23.600 --> 2:53:25.720 the business that we started. So that's what works for us. 2:53:25.959 --> 2:53:28.200 But what's your business is it? Is it gonna be merch, 2:53:28.640 --> 2:53:30.440 Is it gonna be selling products? Is like you know 2:53:30.440 --> 2:53:32.000 what I'm saying. Figure that out. That's what we got 2:53:32.120 --> 2:53:34.959 to figure out before before you invest in any other business, 2:53:35.000 --> 2:53:37.680 invest in your own business. The thousand dollars, what do 2:53:37.760 --> 2:53:39.959 you what's that recommendation for the thousand dollar I can 2:53:39.959 --> 2:53:41.920 only tell you got a lot of money today. It's 2:53:41.920 --> 2:53:43.840 a lot of the money. We started. We started earning 2:53:43.840 --> 2:53:47.760 Alicia with dollars, not even like like so it's like 2:53:48.160 --> 2:53:50.320 my brother. It depends, it depends on it depends on 2:53:50.360 --> 2:53:55.119 how you getting me smarter as the minute go smary 2:53:55.160 --> 2:53:56.960 time he passed me. So, here's the few businesses that 2:53:57.000 --> 2:53:59.120 you can start with with a thousand dollars, right. You 2:53:59.160 --> 2:54:02.480 can start a podcast, which we started a podcast. I'm 2:54:02.480 --> 2:54:04.840 not just speaking from you know. We actually started a 2:54:04.920 --> 2:54:06.760 podcast and now we're growing from the media company. We 2:54:06.879 --> 2:54:09.000 ain't start with any money. We started with iPhones and 2:54:09.000 --> 2:54:11.080 were starting with shotgun mics that we had somebody else 2:54:11.120 --> 2:54:13.800 that lent us the microphones. That's not that's not hard 2:54:13.840 --> 2:54:15.480 to do. You put the you put the content on 2:54:15.600 --> 2:54:17.680 social media, you produce it, you put it on YouTube. 2:54:17.680 --> 2:54:19.760 Platforms are there, they're free to saw that you can 2:54:19.800 --> 2:54:22.360 start a merged company with no money. We talked about before, 2:54:22.440 --> 2:54:24.840 how you have um the man print that company that 2:54:24.879 --> 2:54:32.520 we print company that is free where you actually somebody 2:54:32.640 --> 2:54:34.879 orders a T shirt, you give them a design. Now 2:54:35.240 --> 2:54:37.680 when they order it, then they printed up and they 2:54:37.760 --> 2:54:39.680 shipped it for you. They take a lot of the margin, 2:54:40.280 --> 2:54:42.560 but it's not cost you any money. Now once you 2:54:42.640 --> 2:54:44.520 get enough money, now you can go directly to the 2:54:45.520 --> 2:54:49.080 manufacturing first. It's just not having overhead from the beginning exactly. 2:54:49.560 --> 2:54:52.080 We don't We don't take on any inventory, you know 2:54:52.080 --> 2:54:53.840 what I'm saying. We don't take on any return like 2:54:53.959 --> 2:54:56.120 they do. All that all we did was create the design. 2:54:56.240 --> 2:54:59.520 We created the community that wanted the design, and they 2:54:59.520 --> 2:55:02.600 ship it out force. And it's learning skill sets that 2:55:02.760 --> 2:55:05.840 become businesses. Like yeah, I said these, this is my 2:55:05.920 --> 2:55:08.480 Crown Society business. So we got these, We got the hats, 2:55:08.560 --> 2:55:10.360 we got clothing, you know, I mean, we got a 2:55:10.400 --> 2:55:13.880 bunch of different things that we got the health products. Right, 2:55:14.040 --> 2:55:16.480 I do coaching, so it's like everything that I do, 2:55:16.640 --> 2:55:18.760 I teach. Right, this is a family business, one that 2:55:18.879 --> 2:55:21.760 I hired my whole family right here. This is the 2:55:21.800 --> 2:55:25.520 gold water you ever heard of claudio silver, So this 2:55:25.680 --> 2:55:32.040 is claudial gold. Yes. So we're born with zero pointed 2:55:32.120 --> 2:55:34.880 zero cent goal within our body. So we're born with 2:55:34.959 --> 2:55:37.920 all these different minerals within our body. We have gold 2:55:37.959 --> 2:55:40.560 within our body. I've been trying to tell you that 2:55:41.400 --> 2:55:44.160 our body. Yeah, we do. But when you increase certain 2:55:44.200 --> 2:55:47.560 minerals within the body to have effects, right, mamnesium zing 2:55:47.760 --> 2:55:50.080 all these different things, same thing with silver and gold. 2:55:50.160 --> 2:55:53.160 Gold is a super conductive electricity. It was the ancient 2:55:53.200 --> 2:55:55.440 Egyptians that used to utilize it back in the day. 2:55:55.480 --> 2:55:58.400 They believed it was the elixir of immortality. So they 2:55:58.480 --> 2:56:00.880 believe that because it's the only the men that doesn't rest, 2:56:00.959 --> 2:56:02.959 that if you continue to drink it, then you won't 2:56:03.000 --> 2:56:05.720 rest essentially. So, but they used to take it in 2:56:05.760 --> 2:56:11.480 the power. Yeah, you're drinking gold, so it's in smart Yeah. 2:56:11.680 --> 2:56:21.080 So historically it's been known to be good for anti inflammation, ending. 2:56:21.200 --> 2:56:24.120 Some people report having like super lucid dreams because you 2:56:24.200 --> 2:56:27.040 got all this electrical activity in the mind. So there's 2:56:27.160 --> 2:56:30.320 multiple benefits. We got that, we got smart mass. Yeah, 2:56:30.400 --> 2:56:33.720 we got new tropics. That one is like that's a 2:56:33.920 --> 2:56:36.320 vitamin C moss, you understand me. So we need that 2:56:36.480 --> 2:56:40.240 during different seasonal cycles really all the time. So it 2:56:40.320 --> 2:56:43.720 has sea moss in there, it has vitamin C in there. Um. 2:56:43.879 --> 2:56:46.040 That one also has a few other different ones. We 2:56:46.200 --> 2:56:48.440 just named it moss because it has that's the base 2:56:48.520 --> 2:56:51.240 of it. But it's like we got sports mass when 2:56:51.360 --> 2:56:53.560 it has like quarter sceps because we got shrooms in there. 2:56:53.640 --> 2:56:55.600 So these are medicinal shrooms that we put in their 2:56:55.680 --> 2:57:01.560 same thing with smart that we got. The smart months 2:57:01.680 --> 2:57:08.840 has t think about it like them we got. We 2:57:08.920 --> 2:57:11.200 got the liquor curture. Now magic with the liquor courture 2:57:11.280 --> 2:57:13.199 go hand in hand with the health courtre though, because 2:57:14.040 --> 2:57:21.600 you wake up that's that's that's but we gotta that's 2:57:21.640 --> 2:57:25.160 another conversation. The mental health issues in the black community 2:57:25.280 --> 2:57:28.560 or brain health issues. You understand me. We over chemicalize 2:57:28.560 --> 2:57:31.240 and undermineralize. You're trying to get somebody in the hood 2:57:31.320 --> 2:57:34.720 to focus to learn. They can't. They can't focus more 2:57:34.760 --> 2:57:37.760 than eight seconds like a fish. So and there's the 2:57:37.800 --> 2:57:40.640 adderall shortage. But if you bring something like sports monks 2:57:40.680 --> 2:57:42.680 what we have, it's allowing you to sit there and focus. 2:57:43.160 --> 2:57:45.800 We go through different peace cycles throughout the day, so 2:57:46.200 --> 2:57:48.600 there are cycles where we can't focus cycles what we can't. 2:57:48.600 --> 2:57:51.040 But when we eat wrong and our gut health is 2:57:51.080 --> 2:57:53.800 bad and our body is bad, then we're losing that focus. 2:57:53.879 --> 2:57:55.880 We can't concentrate, so we can never get into that 2:57:56.000 --> 2:57:58.360 flow state. You understand me. And so when you're talking 2:57:58.360 --> 2:58:01.560 about black people doing business, you know wealth comes from health. 2:58:01.720 --> 2:58:04.240 You're talking about health, you're talking about being financially healthy 2:58:04.400 --> 2:58:07.760 when you're talking about wealth. So we first in our neighborhoods, 2:58:07.800 --> 2:58:10.520 we got food deserts where you don't have access to 2:58:10.640 --> 2:58:14.080 nutrient available food. Same thing why I called the financial desert, 2:58:14.080 --> 2:58:16.520 because you don't have access right to somebody who can 2:58:16.560 --> 2:58:19.840 give you financial education or give you financial advice. So 2:58:20.040 --> 2:58:21.960 we want to change anything, we have to start with 2:58:22.040 --> 2:58:24.280 the diets of our people, the way we eat what 2:58:24.440 --> 2:58:26.720 we in take, and then look at the food. Doesn't 2:58:26.840 --> 2:58:31.360 look at pacifically the type of restaurants in our neighborhoods. 2:58:31.720 --> 2:58:33.960 You got the Jack in the Boxes, you got the Windy's, 2:58:34.240 --> 2:58:37.320 you got the murder Donalds, all of these different ones. 2:58:37.720 --> 2:58:41.400 They're there to kill us. McDonald look crazy me, right, 2:58:41.920 --> 2:58:44.480 But I'm just saying there's a and that, and it's 2:58:44.520 --> 2:58:47.280 a desert and that kills us. So the spur count 2:58:47.360 --> 2:58:54.080 is decreasing you. It's seriously because during COVID nineteen they 2:58:54.120 --> 2:58:57.640 said that we had the highest predisposition right to the 2:58:57.720 --> 2:59:00.959 higher rates of illnesses. But nobody addressed that fact at all. 2:59:01.520 --> 2:59:04.320 Nobody is talking about the fact that we will talk 2:59:04.400 --> 2:59:06.920 about business and then we will put the same things 2:59:07.000 --> 2:59:09.440 that kill us in our neighborhoods in the name of capitalism. 2:59:09.800 --> 2:59:13.000 So that's why I talk about social entrepreneurship and social good. 2:59:13.400 --> 2:59:15.520 If we're going to do it, do it like my 2:59:15.640 --> 2:59:17.959 brother in the locks, you understand me to where he's 2:59:18.000 --> 2:59:20.880 putting something stouse pete, where he's putting up a juice 2:59:20.959 --> 2:59:23.840 bar in his neighborhood. That's a good I don't really 2:59:23.920 --> 2:59:25.680 care about. If you just do business, you have to 2:59:25.720 --> 2:59:28.080 do good business, and business that is good for us. 2:59:28.560 --> 2:59:31.560 So our people suffer from a lack of being able 2:59:31.600 --> 2:59:37.080 to focus right. Entertainment is a fight between entertainment and education, 2:59:37.160 --> 2:59:39.440 and this is why we make an entertainment so that 2:59:39.640 --> 2:59:42.800 is educational entertaining so we can actually get your attention. 2:59:43.320 --> 2:59:46.119 The greatest fight right now is for black people's attention. 2:59:46.480 --> 2:59:49.160 Black people's attention is worth one point six trillion dollars. 2:59:49.240 --> 2:59:51.520 That's why you understand me. So we can get your 2:59:51.520 --> 2:59:54.600 attention to products that will actually help you. That's healthy 2:59:54.680 --> 2:59:57.280 for you, that it gets you thinking about vision, long 2:59:57.480 --> 3:00:01.720 term thinking, business education and develop an these skills. Black people, 3:00:02.959 --> 3:00:07.640 smart moss, smart masses. Black people's out of raw black people. Yeah, 3:00:08.240 --> 3:00:10.960 so I know how my white people get down. White 3:00:10.959 --> 3:00:16.640 people don't take it to take. But before I think skill, 3:00:16.720 --> 3:00:20.199 since you asked about that, and if you asked about 3:00:20.200 --> 3:00:21.880 that thousand dollars, I want to I want to finish 3:00:21.920 --> 3:00:23.160 that because I don't get a chance to finish it, 3:00:24.080 --> 3:00:28.160 I said, I said clothing. I said, uh, media with podcasts, 3:00:28.800 --> 3:00:34.440 uh vending machine talk about it episode. Absolutely absolutely, that's 3:00:34.440 --> 3:00:38.240 what I'm saying. Use vendom machines. So like you think 3:00:38.240 --> 3:00:40.480 about it, like you put it in places like obviously 3:00:40.560 --> 3:00:42.520 we went back to our old high school, right and 3:00:42.600 --> 3:00:44.800 we looked at it. We're like, there's no vendom machines here. 3:00:45.040 --> 3:00:48.440 This is an opportune place right now. We ain't putting 3:00:48.480 --> 3:00:50.880 in high school. Not not in high school, but you 3:00:50.920 --> 3:00:57.800 could do that college college. Yeah, they haven't sex, but 3:00:58.080 --> 3:00:59.720 it might be contal if we put in hig school. 3:00:59.760 --> 3:01:03.200 But Kyle, just that's definitely control perfect. Places like in 3:01:03.360 --> 3:01:05.720 l A, like they put marijuana inside the vendom machines, 3:01:05.760 --> 3:01:07.440 but most people they use the venom machines, but they 3:01:07.480 --> 3:01:09.680 don't look it as a business opportunity. We looked at 3:01:09.720 --> 3:01:11.680 it like, Yo, there's no venom machines in the high school. 3:01:11.840 --> 3:01:13.680 These kids that are transporting every day, I know they're 3:01:13.720 --> 3:01:15.760 not eating breakfast. We got healthy oppotions that we can 3:01:15.800 --> 3:01:17.400 put inside these venom machines. On top of it, we 3:01:17.440 --> 3:01:19.720 can put water inside the other venoties. So we're looking 3:01:19.720 --> 3:01:21.760 at like this is a business opportunity. Not only are 3:01:21.800 --> 3:01:24.560 we helping our community, but we're helping the economy inside 3:01:24.600 --> 3:01:26.640 of the school. Right, instead of having big sales, instead 3:01:26.680 --> 3:01:29.720 of having fundraises, we can actually help them create their 3:01:29.760 --> 3:01:31.840 own economy. And on top of it, we can help 3:01:31.959 --> 3:01:35.200 the senior class by donating the proceeds from what they're 3:01:35.200 --> 3:01:38.400 already putting in. So it's it's self efficient economy. Not 3:01:38.520 --> 3:01:40.440 only are we doing that, but we're like, yeah, look, 3:01:41.120 --> 3:01:42.920 let's it employ some of the people who are in 3:01:42.959 --> 3:01:45.640 the school. Right, So we hired the seniors that are 3:01:45.680 --> 3:01:47.440 in the school to now run the machines and have 3:01:47.560 --> 3:01:49.280 them as part of the business. We got our young 3:01:49.360 --> 3:01:51.760 boy here, I do like, who's running that business? And 3:01:51.840 --> 3:01:53.440 we think of it like, oh, it's Venom schine that 3:01:53.480 --> 3:01:55.720 made no money. But like, yo, our Vendom machines are 3:01:55.760 --> 3:02:01.120 jeering thirty a month right just on an ecosystem, like oh, 3:02:01.120 --> 3:02:03.160 I'm gonna stop there, I'm gonna get a beverage. I'm 3:02:03.160 --> 3:02:05.200 gonna get something need before I go to class. It's 3:02:05.200 --> 3:02:08.920 self sufficient. And so you think about thirty. You tell 3:02:08.959 --> 3:02:11.720 me a business that's thirty dring thirty for eighteen year 3:02:11.720 --> 3:02:14.360 old right now with a thousand dollar investment. Right after 3:02:14.480 --> 3:02:16.760 you pay that thousand dollars, after the first two months, 3:02:16.760 --> 3:02:19.320 you've already got return on your investment. Not everything is 3:02:19.320 --> 3:02:21.280 just profit. You see what I'm saying. And it's something 3:02:21.320 --> 3:02:22.960 that's so simple because people use it all the time. 3:02:23.000 --> 3:02:24.320 But we're starting to see it is like people taking 3:02:24.360 --> 3:02:26.840 that episode in that information and they're putting it in 3:02:27.000 --> 3:02:29.960 college campuses. But we've seen people in the entertainment industry like, yo, 3:02:30.000 --> 3:02:31.880 I'm gonna put that in my studio because that's what 3:02:32.240 --> 3:02:34.000 what people do when they come to the studio. They smoke. 3:02:34.080 --> 3:02:36.760 They're gonna be hungry, right, they put on college campuses, 3:02:36.840 --> 3:02:39.520 they're gonna need condom. We've seen a Vendom machine that 3:02:39.640 --> 3:02:45.120 had champagne inside, Spade inside in l a, right, and 3:02:45.200 --> 3:02:47.680 so you think about the bottle and the up charge, 3:02:47.720 --> 3:02:49.000 and the thing about the Vendom machine is that you 3:02:49.080 --> 3:02:51.920 get to set the price right and so right, so 3:02:52.040 --> 3:02:54.040 we know the margins and so we're gonna make sure 3:02:54.080 --> 3:02:56.119 that it's profitable, that we make money, but we're also 3:02:56.120 --> 3:02:59.920 going to service our community as well. And so these 3:03:00.000 --> 3:03:02.080 the type of businesses that when people we pass them 3:03:02.120 --> 3:03:04.000 every day, we never think that this is money. It's 3:03:04.000 --> 3:03:05.600 like what you said with the truck. And we live 3:03:05.640 --> 3:03:07.720 in New York City from New York, right, we see 3:03:07.760 --> 3:03:10.280 trucks passing us every day. We're not thinking like, Yo, 3:03:10.959 --> 3:03:14.080 that's a business that's passing us. That's actually somebody's business 3:03:14.160 --> 3:03:20.520 that's going to a place. I've a documentary on Netflix 3:03:20.920 --> 3:03:24.280 where John Gardi and them actually looked at a truck 3:03:24.440 --> 3:03:28.039 that drove through Manhattan that didn't have they signed on them, 3:03:29.720 --> 3:03:32.040 and I was just like, they were like, who has 3:03:32.120 --> 3:03:35.720 the balls to drive to the city without having our son? 3:03:35.959 --> 3:03:37.240 And that's a fact, And it's like one of these 3:03:37.280 --> 3:03:40.280 things you never think about. So it's like you grew up. 3:03:40.440 --> 3:03:42.080 Have you ever seen anybody take money out of vendom 3:03:42.080 --> 3:03:47.440 machine before? Yeah? Have you know? I've never seen it before. 3:03:48.080 --> 3:03:50.720 And the reason, the reason being is because they come 3:03:50.760 --> 3:03:52.720 at odd hours, two o'clock in the morning. One because 3:03:52.760 --> 3:03:54.760 they don't want you to think it's a business. You 3:03:54.879 --> 3:03:57.400 never growing up. I've seen vendom machines my whole entire life. 3:03:57.440 --> 3:03:59.760 I never looked at it as a business opportunity. I 3:04:00.080 --> 3:04:01.880 that it has an opportunity to spend a dollar and 3:04:01.920 --> 3:04:07.040 a dollar because vendor machines cents. You twist this ship 3:04:07.280 --> 3:04:12.000 and a bubble gum because you do that long enough. 3:04:12.080 --> 3:04:15.520 That's like I have to say, once you once you 3:04:15.640 --> 3:04:18.720 change your mindset, everything becomes an opportunity. You see trucks 3:04:18.920 --> 3:04:22.360 drive every single day. Population never look at it like 3:04:22.680 --> 3:04:25.520 somebody owns that truck. They're just looking at like that's 3:04:25.560 --> 3:04:27.920 a truck driving by. You see you see it a 3:04:28.000 --> 3:04:30.440 house on the street that's messed up. You just thinking 3:04:30.480 --> 3:04:32.560 it's a band though. You're not looking at it like, oh, 3:04:32.640 --> 3:04:36.840 that's a distressed property. I can buy that for undermarket value, 3:04:36.920 --> 3:04:38.480 fix it up, and then sell it for a fifty 3:04:38.520 --> 3:04:40.840 percent profit. But once you start to look at things 3:04:40.879 --> 3:04:43.400 and invest that everything around you becomes a business opportunity. 3:04:43.480 --> 3:04:47.080 Now owns who owns this restaurant, Who owns this liquor, 3:04:47.240 --> 3:04:49.360 who owns these mich who's making these microphones? How kind 3:04:49.360 --> 3:04:52.640 of manufact how can I actually I know that? How 3:04:52.680 --> 3:04:55.040 can I have a podcast studio? So now people can 3:04:55.200 --> 3:04:58.600 rent my studio and come in. Like, everything becomes the opportunity. 3:04:58.600 --> 3:05:00.440 So there's opportunities all around you. So talking about that 3:05:00.440 --> 3:05:01.720 thousand dollars, I can go on and on and on 3:05:01.760 --> 3:05:03.760 about businesses that you but first you gotta look at 3:05:03.800 --> 3:05:06.600 your mindset. Once again, it goes back to not being 3:05:06.640 --> 3:05:10.080 a victim. You gotta look at yourself as somebody that's 3:05:10.720 --> 3:05:13.959 in the world where it's opportunity all around you. Are 3:05:14.040 --> 3:05:16.160 you going to take advantage of the opportunity or are 3:05:16.200 --> 3:05:19.000 you going to complain? You can't do both. You have 3:05:19.160 --> 3:05:22.760 to pick a side. You will ate something side. What 3:05:22.840 --> 3:05:24.680 are you seeing? Are you seeing opportunity and be willing 3:05:24.760 --> 3:05:27.280 to fail miserably and pick it up and do it. 3:05:27.720 --> 3:05:32.039 Failures is the key. Most people. They they'll try something, 3:05:32.120 --> 3:05:34.360 they'll fail, and that's that's my set. So I even 3:05:34.400 --> 3:05:36.040 I even look at it as a failure. Right is 3:05:36.280 --> 3:05:45.280 the right back you can keeping Like one of the 3:05:45.400 --> 3:05:48.960 things I teach my status, One of the things I 3:05:49.040 --> 3:05:51.800 teach my students is how to write books. Right. You 3:05:51.920 --> 3:05:54.640 can't over saturate the market on books, right, even the 3:05:54.800 --> 3:05:57.440 books right, everybody. Even if you got a podcast, you 3:05:57.560 --> 3:05:59.920 can take that podcast and you can pay some my 3:06:00.160 --> 3:06:02.720 to edit that, chype it down, transcribe it, and turn 3:06:02.760 --> 3:06:04.959 it into a book for you can pay somebody on fiber, 3:06:05.280 --> 3:06:08.520 you understand me. You can go to untapped. I think, 3:06:08.560 --> 3:06:10.360 come on now, I can't believe people don't have some 3:06:10.440 --> 3:06:13.280 marketplace of skills. You develop any of one of those skills, 3:06:13.280 --> 3:06:15.800 you give yourself a job, you understand me. I talked 3:06:15.800 --> 3:06:17.680 to homey that got out of jail how to utilize 3:06:17.720 --> 3:06:20.720 then AI program to where he created art by just 3:06:20.840 --> 3:06:22.720 texting in props. Then he threw an art show and 3:06:22.760 --> 3:06:25.840 he sold a painting for a thousand dollars. Right, So 3:06:26.040 --> 3:06:28.240 it's like learning these skill sets mean that you have 3:06:28.280 --> 3:06:30.360 a skill set where you're never gonna go broke because 3:06:30.400 --> 3:06:32.680 it's always gonna be value in it. But that's why 3:06:32.720 --> 3:06:34.680 it goes back to education that the best thing you 3:06:34.720 --> 3:06:36.840 can do with a thousand dollars to educate yourself. That's 3:06:36.840 --> 3:06:39.400 who gives you a return for the rest of your life. Right, 3:06:39.840 --> 3:06:42.480 Like all these products I have, I designed every single 3:06:42.560 --> 3:06:44.720 as one of them. You understand me. I built the 3:06:44.800 --> 3:06:46.800 positions in the family, the books. I was the one 3:06:46.840 --> 3:06:49.119 who ordered it, who designed it, who put everything out 3:06:49.200 --> 3:06:52.080 in there. Every program that we have, we're showing you 3:06:52.200 --> 3:06:54.520 what can be done with little to no money. But 3:06:54.640 --> 3:06:57.920 you can't do nothing without knowledge, you understand me. That's 3:06:57.959 --> 3:06:59.920 why the quickest way to add value to yourself is 3:07:00.000 --> 3:07:02.560 to learn something new. The quickest way to add value 3:07:02.560 --> 3:07:04.480 to somebody else is to teach them something they didn't know. 3:07:06.120 --> 3:07:07.800 And the thing is too not to cut you up, 3:07:07.800 --> 3:07:09.440 but the thing about it, it's like you said, failure. 3:07:09.840 --> 3:07:12.039 You know what changed my life, bro when I realized 3:07:12.080 --> 3:07:14.160 that I'm gonna die one day. And at the end 3:07:14.200 --> 3:07:15.920 of the day, it doesn't really matter with someone because 3:07:15.959 --> 3:07:18.520 it's like, we get hung up on public perception. What 3:07:18.600 --> 3:07:21.280 people are gonna think about us. You know, if it 3:07:21.360 --> 3:07:26.760 doesn't work out, I'm gonna be embarrassed in the grand 3:07:26.800 --> 3:07:30.560 scheme of things, Right, what does that really matter? Right? 3:07:30.640 --> 3:07:32.959 And it's like ultimately you're gonna die. So you're either 3:07:33.000 --> 3:07:36.200 gonna die with regret, You're gonna die with failure, or 3:07:36.200 --> 3:07:38.840 you're gonna die with accomplishment. So it's like I could 3:07:38.879 --> 3:07:41.200 take having failure on my on my jacket, but I 3:07:41.240 --> 3:07:43.440 don't want to have regret. So that was like even 3:07:43.520 --> 3:07:44.880 like what we do now, Like I had the vision 3:07:44.879 --> 3:07:47.320 of what we're doing now in and it took me 3:07:47.440 --> 3:07:49.720 seven years to actually actually do it because I'm like, 3:07:50.160 --> 3:07:52.480 you know, self doubt and people are gonna think of 3:07:52.520 --> 3:07:53.800 her and way did it die? And then when I 3:07:53.879 --> 3:07:57.360 realized that people are gonna think something about you anyway regardless. 3:07:57.680 --> 3:07:59.879 And it's like people will go to ten different job 3:08:00.600 --> 3:08:04.440 trainings and job opportunities are and try to get all 3:08:04.480 --> 3:08:08.560 of these positions and they're at a fifteen different job interviews. 3:08:08.600 --> 3:08:11.120 They might get one. They never look at it like 3:08:11.200 --> 3:08:14.360 I failed fifteen times. But you start a business one 3:08:14.440 --> 3:08:16.520 time it doesn't work out and you say this is 3:08:16.560 --> 3:08:18.680 not for me? What if? What if? What if you 3:08:18.720 --> 3:08:21.560 want to one job on interview you didn't get high 3:08:21.560 --> 3:08:23.520 and you say this isn't for me. You know what 3:08:23.560 --> 3:08:25.480 I'm saying. It's like just the mindset. So I feel 3:08:25.520 --> 3:08:30.000 like when you when you understand that ultimately, no matter 3:08:30.120 --> 3:08:32.920 what you do in this world, it's not going to 3:08:33.040 --> 3:08:34.400 be the end of it. Like know what I'm saying, 3:08:34.480 --> 3:08:37.560 Even if you fail, you've always come back. Their businesses 3:08:37.959 --> 3:08:40.320 invested in it. It failed, Yeah, for sure, we started 3:08:40.360 --> 3:08:46.760 the music acts. It's a learning it's a learning experience. 3:08:47.120 --> 3:08:50.040 I kind of like failure. You understand me. I don't 3:08:50.080 --> 3:08:54.200 like the idea of perfection. Even when people try to 3:08:54.280 --> 3:08:56.440 cash you as a leader, they want to hold up 3:08:56.440 --> 3:08:58.720 this image of perfection. So if they find any flaws, 3:08:58.760 --> 3:09:01.160 they feel like they're exposed. Somebody wrote that in the 3:09:01.240 --> 3:09:03.600 comment say one day, nineteen Keys, you're gonna be exposed. 3:09:03.640 --> 3:09:05.520 I said, I hope so, because the more that I'm 3:09:05.560 --> 3:09:07.840 exposed to the world, the more I grow. Right, the 3:09:07.879 --> 3:09:09.959 more I'm exposed to myself, the more that I grow 3:09:10.360 --> 3:09:13.280 I'm not afraid of my own flaws and failures. That's 3:09:13.320 --> 3:09:16.240 where I become a man that by learning myself and 3:09:16.280 --> 3:09:20.640 developing myself in those areas. Society has become so hypocritical 3:09:21.160 --> 3:09:24.240 that we will demonize somebody for the same flaws that 3:09:24.360 --> 3:09:27.800 we have right in public. So I've gotten to this 3:09:28.000 --> 3:09:31.760 part where, you know, seeing somebody started business. The results 3:09:31.879 --> 3:09:34.280 is cool, like seeing the flying is the watches, all 3:09:34.360 --> 3:09:36.640 of that. But what I look at is the process 3:09:36.720 --> 3:09:39.280 in between. So are you telling me that you went 3:09:39.360 --> 3:09:41.720 through all of them nights of stress, You went through 3:09:41.800 --> 3:09:44.560 those different times of failure, You went through that lack 3:09:44.680 --> 3:09:47.240 and that sacrifice and that fast and and you still 3:09:47.440 --> 3:09:50.039 made it through, and you still kept pushing to higher 3:09:50.120 --> 3:09:52.480 levels if you haven't settled yet. I look at a 3:09:52.560 --> 3:09:54.600 person and I see them going through the darkness to 3:09:54.640 --> 3:09:56.640 bring it to light. I don't look at the light 3:09:56.720 --> 3:09:59.120 and saying that, oh I want that. Most people want 3:09:59.160 --> 3:10:01.880 the results, but they don't want the process, so there 3:10:02.120 --> 3:10:04.880 they never achieve it. This just smell way better. Let's 3:10:04.879 --> 3:10:09.800 come on, man, come on. This doesn't do the same 3:10:09.879 --> 3:10:13.480 ship as sage. Yeah, it does the same thing. It 3:10:13.640 --> 3:10:19.280 wasn't confidence. It's slightly reasons you got this. You never 3:10:19.360 --> 3:10:24.560 claimed this defense. It's right now, come on, yeah, don't 3:10:24.600 --> 3:10:37.440 play what is this call? What is this called? This 3:10:37.640 --> 3:10:41.360 just smells good? Sage saves be having the smell different. 3:10:41.400 --> 3:10:44.320 That's why that's why I don't be bringing sage everywhere. Okay, 3:10:44.400 --> 3:10:50.840 so what do you call this? Said? The energy? You said? 3:10:54.200 --> 3:10:56.440 I mean I know Cubans use it. I can't say 3:10:56.440 --> 3:10:59.080 I'm sure this is It smells like coke. I just 3:10:59.200 --> 3:11:03.000 wrote about coconut. What I mean by that? I just 3:11:03.280 --> 3:11:05.920 they thought I was smoking weed, but I was lying. Polysizal, Yeah, 3:11:06.360 --> 3:11:09.560 this just smell good. I ain't gonna lie and looks safe. 3:11:09.760 --> 3:11:13.240 Saf saves don't smell good. But I could tell SAYE 3:11:13.360 --> 3:11:18.160 bring the devils from. Polysanto is a tree that's native 3:11:18.200 --> 3:11:22.160 to Peru, Ecuador, and other South American countries. It grows 3:11:22.200 --> 3:11:26.000 in tropical drive forces. It produces a fragrant resident. In Spanish, 3:11:26.080 --> 3:11:30.280 polysanto means holywood. So that's holywood you're smoking over there, right, No, 3:11:30.400 --> 3:11:40.160 I'm not smoking. I'm with you, everybody. But for thousands 3:11:40.200 --> 3:11:42.160 of years, the wood, the resident, the oil has been 3:11:42.240 --> 3:11:45.119 used for medicinal purposes. Has been mainly used to treat 3:11:45.120 --> 3:11:47.520 pain and stress, but it's also used to clear negative 3:11:47.640 --> 3:11:53.640 energy understanding like key, So do y'all believe they use 3:11:53.680 --> 3:11:56.200 different things? Y'all believe in Dr Sabe? You know what's 3:11:56.240 --> 3:11:59.080 so crazy about Dr Saby? So you know, doctor take 3:11:59.120 --> 3:12:03.440 a shot for no reason. I feel like you want 3:12:03.480 --> 3:12:07.240 to get You know, a lot of people heard about 3:12:07.280 --> 3:12:09.080 Dr Saby with Nipsey Hustle rest in Piece of nipp 3:12:09.320 --> 3:12:14.640 And I remember when left I heard even left out. 3:12:14.680 --> 3:12:17.120 I was like in the two thousand, so my mom 3:12:18.120 --> 3:12:21.680 and like mid nineties, my mom had some health issues. 3:12:21.720 --> 3:12:24.080 She was, you know, kind of overweight whatever, and she 3:12:24.200 --> 3:12:29.360 went to Dr Saby in like in Brooklyn. He had 3:12:29.480 --> 3:12:32.280 he had a shop in Brooklyn, Um and she was 3:12:32.520 --> 3:12:36.279 and she lost thirty pounds in one month and transformed 3:12:36.320 --> 3:12:39.520 the whole life. She's been vegetarian ever since. So that's 3:12:39.560 --> 3:12:41.520 the first time I heard about Dr Saby was in 3:12:41.520 --> 3:12:45.360 the nineties when my mom went to her to him, Yeah, 3:12:45.480 --> 3:12:48.720 I had, And so it's like and then ever since then, 3:12:48.840 --> 3:12:50.960 I had, like one of my friends is he's in 3:12:50.959 --> 3:12:52.960 a wheelchair. He went he went to the to the 3:12:53.040 --> 3:12:59.959 compound um and Coca was the Nick right now with Nick, 3:13:01.080 --> 3:13:10.320 it's nothing so a lot, you know, it's a lot 3:13:10.360 --> 3:13:14.039 of controversy, but I know from first hand experience, because 3:13:14.080 --> 3:13:17.200 like I said, my mom was like going to him. 3:13:17.440 --> 3:13:20.600 I said, you know, and I've seen I've seen I've 3:13:20.600 --> 3:13:25.080 seen the effects first as a little kid, how it 3:13:25.240 --> 3:13:27.520 changed her. And she never went back. She hasn't. She 3:13:27.640 --> 3:13:30.080 has to eat and meat in thirty years. Like you 3:13:30.120 --> 3:13:31.240 know what I'm saying that she has to eat me 3:13:31.320 --> 3:13:34.000 in thirty years and you eat me. I'm a pest catarian. 3:13:35.320 --> 3:13:38.480 Dr Sevey's my business partner on the gold Water Company. 3:13:38.560 --> 3:13:40.800 I got one of his stepsons. That's my business partner, 3:13:41.200 --> 3:13:43.360 you understand me. So his mother was the one who 3:13:43.440 --> 3:13:45.800 helped founded deal richa clinic that he had. It was 3:13:46.120 --> 3:13:48.200 it used to be right there where the Brooklyn Center is, 3:13:48.320 --> 3:13:50.240 where the net set. He used to add a clinic there. 3:13:50.280 --> 3:13:52.480 That's when he first, you know, made the claim of 3:13:52.720 --> 3:13:57.320 Karen Aid's right. Um, you eat me, no, no, no, 3:13:57.440 --> 3:13:59.800 I eat I'm pest catarian. Sometimes I like some lamb. 3:14:00.320 --> 3:14:07.760 Sometimes sometimes this year, because I've been working out on 3:14:07.840 --> 3:14:21.199 my job, I've been a little I've been throwing Dr 3:14:21.240 --> 3:14:23.320 Savin you know, he was in the Nation of Islam. 3:14:23.480 --> 3:14:29.360 He first learned about health science from the understand how 3:14:29.400 --> 3:14:31.960 to eat your live and it was also about one 3:14:32.000 --> 3:14:34.800 mill yea. And he said at the dinner table with him, 3:14:35.120 --> 3:14:39.000 you understand me, Sabe didn't notice. Yeah, that's where he 3:14:39.040 --> 3:14:41.440 first got his discipline from being a f y o 3:14:41.920 --> 3:14:45.240 ye yes. So you know I've talked to his wife 3:14:45.280 --> 3:14:47.640 about this his ex wife, of course, you understand me, 3:14:47.760 --> 3:14:49.920 and she was giving us the breakdown. But he even 3:14:50.000 --> 3:14:51.480 he tells you that you can go on YouTube and 3:14:51.520 --> 3:14:54.160 he'll give the breakdown. He said, Mohammed was the only 3:14:54.240 --> 3:14:56.640 person I've seen talking to black people in America about 3:14:56.680 --> 3:15:00.400 health and food. Right, And of course, my it don't 3:15:00.400 --> 3:15:02.800 get nowhere near enough credit for the impact that he's 3:15:02.800 --> 3:15:05.400 had on the entire globe. Right. If you remove the 3:15:06.080 --> 3:15:08.959 Mohammad from history, how many things do you remove from history? 3:15:09.280 --> 3:15:12.880 The whole entire world has to change. Hip hop is 3:15:12.920 --> 3:15:15.920 not hip hop, you understand me, doctor, He's not that 3:15:16.080 --> 3:15:19.240 the sevy. There's no black panthers, there's no malcommats, no 3:15:19.360 --> 3:15:22.600 public enemy. Right, there's so many like consciousness as we 3:15:22.760 --> 3:15:27.160 know it. There's no Harlem, you understand me, exactly. So 3:15:27.760 --> 3:15:30.800 you know, the lineage that he left behind was a lineage. 3:15:30.879 --> 3:15:32.720 And that's why that's like somebody I look up to. 3:15:32.879 --> 3:15:34.920 That's why I got it right here, because I look 3:15:35.000 --> 3:15:37.960 at what he did that was tangible. He had businesses, right, 3:15:38.040 --> 3:15:41.240 he had imported excellent, Yeah, he had his own plane. 3:15:41.280 --> 3:15:44.680 He had a fish import and export business directly from Peru. Right, 3:15:44.720 --> 3:15:47.640 he had trust, he had like a college institution set up. 3:15:47.680 --> 3:15:49.560 He had barber shops. He had a lot of rights 3:15:49.640 --> 3:15:54.920 to well, you know, imagine you've had a lot of 3:15:55.000 --> 3:15:58.119 chicks to North. Yeah, back then that was back there too. 3:15:58.520 --> 3:16:05.800 You understand what I'm just saying. Man, this Mohammed had 3:16:05.879 --> 3:16:08.080 the third grade education and he took a knowledge that 3:16:08.160 --> 3:16:10.760 he was taught and he changed the world with it. Right. So, 3:16:11.000 --> 3:16:13.880 as you know, we look at many different men in 3:16:14.120 --> 3:16:17.240 history and we don't ever look at the route. But 3:16:17.320 --> 3:16:19.000 if you go to the route, what he was doing 3:16:19.360 --> 3:16:21.520 everything that we're doing. He talked about He had an 3:16:21.560 --> 3:16:24.680 economic blueprint, right. It was a full breakdown on how 3:16:24.720 --> 3:16:26.480 we can give like five to tens in a day 3:16:26.720 --> 3:16:29.240 and how we can create our own He talked about separation, 3:16:29.280 --> 3:16:32.200 He talked about do for self. So everything that I'm 3:16:32.280 --> 3:16:35.480 doing right now is based on the lineage of my ancestors, 3:16:35.959 --> 3:16:37.960 you understand me, And the goal is to stand on 3:16:38.040 --> 3:16:40.320 the side of them, will go further, and until we've 3:16:40.360 --> 3:16:42.879 reached that plateau that they've reached and we go further. 3:16:43.000 --> 3:16:45.280 We haven't done enough yet and we can't say that 3:16:45.440 --> 3:16:49.840 we have. Right. Marcus Garvey, he had multiple businesses. He 3:16:49.959 --> 3:16:51.840 started the Black Star line because there was a White 3:16:51.879 --> 3:16:55.120 Star line, right. He had stock certificates for all of 3:16:55.160 --> 3:16:57.280 the people and he had twenty five chapters around the world. 3:16:57.320 --> 3:17:00.640 Before social media, Frederick Douglas had his own media company. 3:17:00.680 --> 3:17:04.160 He had his own newspaper, the North Star, that would circulate. 3:17:04.520 --> 3:17:06.920 The most successful leaders of all time control of their 3:17:06.959 --> 3:17:10.240 own media. Right. So when you look at Malcolm X, 3:17:10.360 --> 3:17:12.240 you look at the underbullt like Mohammed, you look at 3:17:12.280 --> 3:17:15.400 Minister far Can you look at Frederick Douglass you look right, 3:17:15.920 --> 3:17:18.400 you look at Marcus Garvey, the final Call and before 3:17:18.480 --> 3:17:21.000 that it was Mohammed speaks Final cart. Back then the 3:17:21.080 --> 3:17:24.560 paper was right, That's what I'm saying. But paper wasn't 3:17:24.560 --> 3:17:26.320 in that because it was hand in hand and nothing 3:17:26.959 --> 3:17:30.320 controlling that media. It's key to leadership. They did no 3:17:30.560 --> 3:17:32.920 news unless they but but but come on, but the 3:17:33.040 --> 3:17:35.039 question that you asked to kind of you know, bring 3:17:35.160 --> 3:17:37.600 this full circa. Remember when I said about the watch 3:17:37.720 --> 3:17:39.840 having the movements, and that was the most important thing 3:17:40.400 --> 3:17:45.160 that financial literacy, financial intelligence, money and physical health care 3:17:45.200 --> 3:17:47.560 hand in hand. Your life has to be in line. 3:17:47.920 --> 3:17:50.360 So from your relationships to your your health all that's 3:17:50.400 --> 3:17:53.800 extremely important because it's hard to you know, have a 3:17:53.879 --> 3:17:58.160 financial you know, well being if out of shape, like 3:17:58.200 --> 3:17:59.320 you know what I'm saying, if you if you just 3:17:59.520 --> 3:18:01.880 if you just focused on your health, you can't even 3:18:01.959 --> 3:18:04.240 focus on trying to invest. Like know what I'm saying. 3:18:04.240 --> 3:18:07.400 If you're having trouble breathing, that's that's more important than anything, 3:18:07.560 --> 3:18:09.160 you know what I'm saying. So this is extremely important 3:18:09.160 --> 3:18:13.000 as far a what we eat is extremely important, working 3:18:13.040 --> 3:18:18.200 out is extremely important, to having healthy relationships is extremely important. 3:18:18.560 --> 3:18:22.240 And we talked about financing money, but it's three sixty 3:18:22.920 --> 3:18:25.000 All of that, all of that goes into play because 3:18:25.360 --> 3:18:28.199 just having one area and having all the other areas 3:18:28.240 --> 3:18:30.680 this functional, it's not gonna work. You gotta have a movement, 3:18:30.760 --> 3:18:33.400 just like a watch where everything is moving efficiently. It's 3:18:33.640 --> 3:18:35.039 how you do one thing is how you do everything. 3:18:35.680 --> 3:18:37.840 Like I mean, we literally watch you right like we 3:18:38.080 --> 3:18:45.040 we watched Noriega. We saw all that, but also we 3:18:45.120 --> 3:18:47.440 saw like yeo, I remember why I'm watching run eight miles. 3:18:48.040 --> 3:18:51.200 I'm on top of that. I'm watching him now. I 3:18:51.280 --> 3:18:53.640 got the balance exactly, I'm watching him as a husband. 3:18:53.680 --> 3:18:55.440 So like people discount that fact that they don't want 3:18:55.440 --> 3:18:57.200 to talk about that fat every time, I've seen you, 3:18:57.240 --> 3:18:59.320 I've seen your wife with you. You see what I'm saying, 3:18:59.400 --> 3:19:05.359 Like that, it comes to real ship, right, that's really 3:19:06.440 --> 3:19:08.440 with you. But it goes into that at that point, 3:19:08.600 --> 3:19:11.560 like Yo, it's a balance between everything hating people come 3:19:11.640 --> 3:19:13.480 to me and they judge me from what they know 3:19:13.680 --> 3:19:15.840 me from. People come to people like what what what? 3:19:17.000 --> 3:19:20.280 This ain't the melvine like I was saying, the age 3:19:20.640 --> 3:19:23.440 like like, but then also people remember you for moments 3:19:23.480 --> 3:19:25.760 in time like like I said, like I know it 3:19:25.879 --> 3:19:28.160 was twenty years ago, but it's like I still played 3:19:28.200 --> 3:19:30.760 a war report to this day because I remember what 3:19:30.879 --> 3:19:32.960 that meant to me at that moment in time, and 3:19:33.200 --> 3:19:36.440 that's beautiful, Like like I remember it was and I 3:19:36.560 --> 3:19:39.080 love that. But I just also want to live in 3:19:39.160 --> 3:19:45.040 this day. I think album that's what he keeps saying. 3:19:46.040 --> 3:19:51.000 Three keep said, no problem, but just love love ill matic. 3:19:51.480 --> 3:19:54.560 But I'm living. But I think there's a generation of 3:19:54.640 --> 3:19:57.240 people who weren't alive for that that war report. They 3:19:57.280 --> 3:20:01.920 weren't alive. They all they know you for is this, Yeah, 3:20:02.040 --> 3:20:05.480 listens incredible. There's people that look at me and say 3:20:05.560 --> 3:20:12.520 you rap exactly. The whole generation don't And horrid Wood 3:20:14.320 --> 3:20:17.920 We was like, literally, that's nothing. We got on these 3:20:17.959 --> 3:20:22.000 both Jackson's, we got on that A kid alive. That's 3:20:22.080 --> 3:20:26.080 weird these right now new with both Jackson play. They 3:20:26.160 --> 3:20:29.520 knew with Michael Jordan played, but that's what they researched that. 3:20:29.680 --> 3:20:31.760 But they get millions of dollars off of hip hop 3:20:31.840 --> 3:20:34.520 and they won't research hip hop. That's that's how they 3:20:34.560 --> 3:20:36.280 fucked up. When I told you that, I'm not gonna look. 3:20:36.360 --> 3:20:39.680 I remember you can some people some people some people. 3:20:39.959 --> 3:20:44.000 Some people research, they don't. It depends the whole day 3:20:44.040 --> 3:20:47.720 around A lot don't care a lot don't care hip 3:20:47.760 --> 3:20:51.000 hop everybody. You had to be a student of hip hop. Yeah, 3:20:51.040 --> 3:20:53.560 and you had like was a community it was. I 3:20:53.680 --> 3:20:55.240 used to tell people it was like like the Gothic 3:20:55.360 --> 3:20:58.040 kids in school, but you had to like it a 3:20:58.160 --> 3:21:00.960 cultural movement at that time. Think about it is like 3:21:01.280 --> 3:21:03.480 like I sit there and I hope I always look 3:21:03.480 --> 3:21:05.520 at these kids and they'd be like, you know, Jordan's 3:21:05.800 --> 3:21:07.800 you knows better, and I'm looking at him, like how 3:21:07.879 --> 3:21:10.200 do you know? Jordan's telling me jay Z is not 3:21:10.640 --> 3:21:13.520 but j is not. We didn't we didn't. We didn't 3:21:13.520 --> 3:21:16.560 research music like you didn't you never listen to John 3:21:16.640 --> 3:21:21.240 Coltrane kind of did listen to you want to listen 3:21:21.280 --> 3:21:30.320 to John Coltrane. But he going, that's why why are 3:21:30.320 --> 3:21:32.200 you saying that? But why are you saying that that 3:21:32.360 --> 3:21:34.240 person It's always going to be the youth is going 3:21:34.280 --> 3:21:36.280 to be dominated on what's happening right now in this 3:21:36.440 --> 3:21:39.480 moment in time, because even me, why they were in 3:21:39.600 --> 3:21:42.560 Jordan's and it's not this moment of time. But let men, 3:21:43.280 --> 3:21:45.960 I never I never listened to plenty different reasons you 3:21:46.080 --> 3:21:49.400 never did. I never listened to. That's before my error. 3:21:49.680 --> 3:21:53.199 My error was like NAS and then Big and then Jay. 3:21:53.400 --> 3:21:55.120 I mean if yours NAS, then it would be. But 3:21:56.440 --> 3:22:01.360 it comes from he knows two. It's like it goes 3:22:01.640 --> 3:22:04.920 into I mean que Tip produces. That's what I'm saying. 3:22:04.920 --> 3:22:06.880 When they when they had their run, he told me 3:22:07.000 --> 3:22:12.840 like he like it's crazy because like he's not that far, 3:22:13.000 --> 3:22:14.840 like he's two years young to me. But his hip 3:22:14.879 --> 3:22:17.040 hop starts a little different for me. Like I'm born 3:22:17.080 --> 3:22:20.240 in the South Bronx. I'm listening to k Arrest his 3:22:20.600 --> 3:22:22.600 I'm listening to trapical Quests, I'm listening to Public and 3:22:23.000 --> 3:22:25.800 it starts with like the Golden arrow like its nas 3:22:26.000 --> 3:22:31.600 and it is big and the golden little question. Yeah, 3:22:32.360 --> 3:22:35.280 it's that's that I can see how he says that 3:22:36.000 --> 3:22:38.440 you find your love to see. It's that help me 3:22:38.480 --> 3:22:40.680 find my way. It's not like can I kick it 3:22:41.040 --> 3:22:43.880 trapical quests, it's a different one. It's like this is 3:22:43.920 --> 3:22:47.439 good hip hop. It's like it's fight, but she comes generational. 3:22:47.560 --> 3:22:51.080 It's like three. You see what I'm saying. Yeah, they do. 3:22:52.480 --> 3:22:56.320 You can't appreciate it. He fight, you appreciate that's the tales. 3:22:56.400 --> 3:22:57.720 And you know, I told I had an argument with 3:22:57.800 --> 3:23:00.240 my barber the other day. He's telling me about Aggie 3:23:00.280 --> 3:23:01.959 and Jane whatever. We're having an argument and I said, 3:23:01.959 --> 3:23:03.880 hold up, how old are you? And his age was 3:23:04.000 --> 3:23:07.920 five years younger appreciation you just stand Now, that's why 3:23:08.040 --> 3:23:10.360 this is just connected. Here's why, here's why we are 3:23:10.400 --> 3:23:12.880 connecting it. Right. So when we did Master Square Garden, right, 3:23:13.360 --> 3:23:15.240 we put on the Minx, and it wasn't because we 3:23:15.320 --> 3:23:17.160 just wanted to put on Minx. We wanted to pay 3:23:17.240 --> 3:23:22.480 homage to books, and we came out like just hate 3:23:22.520 --> 3:23:24.600 me now. So even if they didn't know hate me now, 3:23:24.800 --> 3:23:26.800 they don't know it now, just like I did with 3:23:26.840 --> 3:23:28.560 you like, I'm not, yo, bro, I gotta with these 3:23:28.600 --> 3:23:36.520 ange these rights part right. I remember I taped that 3:23:36.640 --> 3:23:42.120 when it was you. It was ex Cannabis freestyle, and 3:23:42.200 --> 3:23:44.440 I'm recording that and I'm listening to it every day. 3:23:44.840 --> 3:23:53.920 Everybody I would superfection. That was faa tell you. Somebody 3:23:54.000 --> 3:23:59.400 I don't know showed up. The pun was supposed to 3:23:59.440 --> 3:24:01.400 meet me, So I was supposed to be me and 3:24:01.520 --> 3:24:05.680 Punt because I thought Cannabis and DMX was going at us. 3:24:06.360 --> 3:24:09.840 It was supposed to be Yeah, that's that's what I 3:24:09.920 --> 3:24:12.520 didn't Crazy showed him so late. I had to go 3:24:12.640 --> 3:24:16.360 up though. That's crazy spent the whole album. He No, 3:24:16.600 --> 3:24:18.800 they wouldn't let Punt up once I came up, so 3:24:18.920 --> 3:24:20.680 he came up. Eventually he came. He was there, he 3:24:20.760 --> 3:24:23.280 was downstairs. But by the time he's hitting me like this, 3:24:23.840 --> 3:24:27.960 this wasn't like you know, I'm spending my und man 3:24:28.040 --> 3:24:30.080 asked spending my mind. He can still call me like 3:24:30.160 --> 3:24:32.320 I had to wait to spit my whole ship. And 3:24:32.400 --> 3:24:36.920 if you look, if you listen to that freestyle, Cannabis 3:24:36.959 --> 3:24:43.360 and DMX is jumping me. Yeah, that's why Cloud is 3:24:43.400 --> 3:24:46.480 going crazy, Like yo, let me let me up and 3:24:46.560 --> 3:24:51.520 I just had to hold the crazy that was like 3:24:51.560 --> 3:24:53.720 a forty five minute album at Cannabis. I don't know 3:24:53.760 --> 3:24:56.680 where you get this fucking rumor that we sent them 3:24:56.720 --> 3:25:00.280 a fucking car service that didn't show up. You see this. 3:25:02.840 --> 3:25:04.920 No no, But even when you say that, though, when 3:25:04.920 --> 3:25:08.320 you look at it, two of the greatest like platforms 3:25:08.400 --> 3:25:11.120 that revitalize a lot of hip hop artists versus in 3:25:11.160 --> 3:25:14.480 his Drink Champs, you understand me so, like even you 3:25:14.920 --> 3:25:17.800 credit a platform to give yourself a new image in 3:25:18.000 --> 3:25:20.520 today's time and with a lot of artists, because when 3:25:20.520 --> 3:25:23.000 I first started listening to Drink Champs, when you was 3:25:23.080 --> 3:25:25.600 having all the artists come in, like it was allowed 3:25:25.640 --> 3:25:28.640 with me to re appreciate them in their stories, right, 3:25:29.000 --> 3:25:31.600 and I got invested into it. The same thing with versus. 3:25:31.920 --> 3:25:34.960 You got reinvested into the catalogs, you know, and then 3:25:35.000 --> 3:25:38.840 it reintroduced a completely new generation to this music in 3:25:38.959 --> 3:25:42.720 today's time, but without the context, right, because you appreciate 3:25:43.200 --> 3:25:45.440 you appreciate jay Z because of the context of who 3:25:45.520 --> 3:25:48.800 jay Z is today, not even just his catalog. So 3:25:48.920 --> 3:25:51.720 it's hard for somebody else to appreciate an artist the 3:25:51.800 --> 3:25:53.680 same way. If you didn't grow up in those moments 3:25:54.160 --> 3:25:56.240 that you feel that's connected to the music of who 3:25:56.320 --> 3:26:00.120 they are, Like Nipsey Hustle. Appreciating Nipsey Hustle at to 3:26:00.200 --> 3:26:03.040 his death and why he's living. It's two different things. 3:26:03.560 --> 3:26:05.640 And for the next generation they may only have his 3:26:05.800 --> 3:26:07.800 music to listen to. They won't be connected to the 3:26:07.840 --> 3:26:10.720 feeling of that time. That's why I said, like when 3:26:10.720 --> 3:26:13.200 I've seen I've seen Cormega, I'm like, yo, damn, Like 3:26:13.240 --> 3:26:15.840 we started thinking like remember when Mega that Firm album, 3:26:15.879 --> 3:26:17.640 how we felt you got shot him on him? I'm like, 3:26:17.800 --> 3:26:20.200 that's great. I've seen Black Sheep on here. I'm like, 3:26:20.400 --> 3:26:23.360 don't these people don't even understand, like what that recommended? 3:26:23.440 --> 3:26:27.520 Like nine, Like that's why I'm so sorry and I'm 3:26:27.560 --> 3:26:29.720 so sorry to like to take your compliment that you 3:26:29.800 --> 3:26:32.240 gave me and then put it back on y'all. Like 3:26:32.480 --> 3:26:34.920 that's the reason why I like, like I look at 3:26:34.959 --> 3:26:37.640 what we're doing and I say, this is so beautiful 3:26:37.640 --> 3:26:40.480 because we're like helping people with plenished their careers. But 3:26:40.600 --> 3:26:46.960 what y'all doing something totally that for puff puff Flowers? 3:26:47.360 --> 3:26:50.920 Stop me give me what y'all doing to say you're Listen, 3:26:51.600 --> 3:26:54.720 y'all could be next to Nori. You can live next 3:26:54.760 --> 3:26:57.680 to Norm, right next to Paul. You're gonna live next 3:26:57.720 --> 3:27:00.120 to such a such And you don't got to be 3:27:00.200 --> 3:27:06.800 an entertainment fact. You don't gotta be ball player, you 3:27:06.879 --> 3:27:11.040 don't gotta be none of that. Maybe you're selling bud, 3:27:11.680 --> 3:27:15.760 maybe whatever. But y'all could be next to these same 3:27:15.879 --> 3:27:20.360 people in the same regard, with the same respect. That's 3:27:20.360 --> 3:27:22.720 why I tell you your job is way more than 3:27:23.120 --> 3:27:29.240 appreciate that. I appreciate you. They say rappers the most 3:27:29.320 --> 3:27:33.000 dangerous job of being honest. Being financial advisors might be 3:27:33.160 --> 3:27:38.320 more because because even with rappers, even with rappers, there's 3:27:38.320 --> 3:27:41.400 not people who's gonna tell us invest into this, like 3:27:41.560 --> 3:27:44.879 invest into the burger spot over there and do over there. 3:27:45.600 --> 3:27:48.320 But but y'all are doing that. So I just want 3:27:48.400 --> 3:27:53.400 you all to be careful that for Puff told us 3:27:53.400 --> 3:27:55.480 so he's at puffs house and he was like, yo, 3:27:55.640 --> 3:27:57.960 he was like, we're telling him, like you're the inspiration. 3:27:58.040 --> 3:28:00.720 Like he was like, na, y'all the tipping point, like 3:28:00.760 --> 3:28:05.040 y'all the first people in history. I was trying to 3:28:05.040 --> 3:28:14.000 say this force people to actually show get money, get fly, 3:28:14.560 --> 3:28:16.520 and I have to cool. I have to wrap and 3:28:16.520 --> 3:28:18.920 I have to dance, and y'all just getting money and 3:28:19.040 --> 3:28:21.720 y'all doing it through business and y'all showing other people. 3:28:22.040 --> 3:28:24.160 He's like y'all the tipping point, bro, Like y'all really 3:28:24.640 --> 3:28:27.120 changed the whole dynamic in this ship. So thank you 3:28:27.240 --> 3:28:39.280 for that, brother, everybody. I'm sorry to keep reiterating. This 3:28:39.600 --> 3:28:46.400 is because if I show a kid right now in 3:28:46.480 --> 3:28:52.040 the hood how to hold a gun, I might be 3:28:52.600 --> 3:28:56.200 one of the most dangerous dudes in the show him 3:28:56.200 --> 3:28:58.680 how to do this. But if I showed him never 3:28:58.920 --> 3:29:02.680 hold a I might be one of the most people 3:29:03.040 --> 3:29:06.400 because a funk about it. And that part is not cool, 3:29:07.320 --> 3:29:11.240 and that part is whack. I heard somebody say, if 3:29:11.280 --> 3:29:15.120 you're O G is telling you to go outside, then 3:29:15.200 --> 3:29:18.160 you're O G ain't your old G. Like, we have 3:29:18.360 --> 3:29:24.440 to spread the rhetoric the facts that being a drug 3:29:24.560 --> 3:29:27.160 deal or being on the block or doing that, that's 3:29:27.200 --> 3:29:30.000 not the only way. That's all we have. Back then 3:29:30.120 --> 3:29:33.960 we had athletes. What does big say if we have 3:29:34.080 --> 3:29:40.160 a jump shot or you had to jump shot, No, 3:29:40.320 --> 3:29:45.320 that's we passed. I think the key there. What you're 3:29:45.360 --> 3:29:47.320 saying here for a whole another of the y'all. You 3:29:47.360 --> 3:29:50.040 know what I'm saying. We waged past that now as well. 3:29:50.160 --> 3:29:53.760 It's like the O G. Courture is so lost because 3:29:53.879 --> 3:29:56.200 being it ain't no more gangsters in hip hop. That 3:29:56.280 --> 3:29:59.760 ain't because but even just the idea of a gangster. 3:30:00.560 --> 3:30:04.280 We took the worst parts of like the Italian mob curture. Right. 3:30:04.320 --> 3:30:09.000 We didn't take the parts about family right protection, right, 3:30:09.120 --> 3:30:11.400 we didn't. We didn't take the code. We didn't. We 3:30:11.480 --> 3:30:14.519 took the worst parts of bullying each other and criminality 3:30:14.560 --> 3:30:17.960 against each other, not creating protected covenants of families in 3:30:18.040 --> 3:30:22.240 different orders and establishing that community. So today they will 3:30:22.280 --> 3:30:28.160 get Yeah, that's that's family and communion and standards and curture. 3:30:28.680 --> 3:30:30.960 We took the worst parts of everything that we see 3:30:31.200 --> 3:30:36.440 and then we glorify that. So O G or gangster 3:30:36.560 --> 3:30:39.000 got to be somebody that has the ability to protect 3:30:39.240 --> 3:30:41.880 the neighborhood, to employ the neighborhood, to be able to 3:30:42.080 --> 3:30:44.560 educate and teach. It's just the fact that we gotta 3:30:44.640 --> 3:30:47.960 backwards curture everything that's good for us. We glorify, I 3:30:48.000 --> 3:30:50.440 mean everything that's bad for us. We glorify everything that's 3:30:50.440 --> 3:30:52.480 good for us. You understand, when we look at it 3:30:52.600 --> 3:30:54.520 like his lane. Okay, but how do we do that? Then? 3:30:54.640 --> 3:30:57.680 How do we start? That's what we represent so like 3:30:58.480 --> 3:31:01.120 by you know, a man is his intellect. That's what 3:31:01.240 --> 3:31:03.680 makes a man really a man, not his physical prowess. 3:31:03.720 --> 3:31:05.920 Anybody can go in the jim work out, anybody can 3:31:05.959 --> 3:31:08.480 pull a trigger. But what makes the real man that's 3:31:08.560 --> 3:31:11.120 remembered as legends in time that we really look up 3:31:11.160 --> 3:31:14.040 to is the way they use their mind. Understand me 3:31:14.160 --> 3:31:17.760 and changing the narrative of the ones that's smart, you 3:31:17.840 --> 3:31:20.600 understand me are the ones that should be followed, right, 3:31:20.959 --> 3:31:23.040 not the ones that got issues and anger and they 3:31:23.120 --> 3:31:25.280 always want to fight everybody and kill and shoot their 3:31:25.360 --> 3:31:27.760 brother assists and they get strikes for doing some dumb 3:31:27.800 --> 3:31:29.720 ship that didn't matter, and it started off something that 3:31:29.800 --> 3:31:33.240 didn't matter my part, Like if they offered you the 3:31:33.320 --> 3:31:35.280 five hundred thousand or the jay Z me, and what 3:31:35.400 --> 3:31:41.160 would you take? What I'm taking five thousand? I mean, 3:31:42.600 --> 3:31:45.040 And so you got to look at the context as 3:31:45.080 --> 3:31:47.960 a person and what a person spend five hundred thousand 3:31:48.000 --> 3:31:49.480 to get next to jay Z because they want to 3:31:49.520 --> 3:31:51.480 leverage it so they can have a relationship with him 3:31:51.520 --> 3:31:53.800 to build off that. Now if he said there and 3:31:53.840 --> 3:31:55.960 he'd do an interview with me on high level conversations. 3:31:56.000 --> 3:31:58.080 That's more worth it than the five minute meeting. You 3:31:58.160 --> 3:32:00.560 understand me, I'm gonna leverage that way past five hundred 3:32:00.600 --> 3:32:04.279 thousand dollars. So I think the context in your strategy 3:32:04.680 --> 3:32:06.760 and how you're going to leverage it matters the most. 3:32:06.959 --> 3:32:10.640 Leverages everything. You understand me, So it can't always be 3:32:10.800 --> 3:32:13.880 simple as black and white and say that, Okay, do 3:32:14.000 --> 3:32:16.440 I have a strategy on how I'm utilize this connection 3:32:16.480 --> 3:32:19.360 and relationship or am I there to get inspiration during 3:32:19.400 --> 3:32:22.000 the five minute meeting? No, because in that case, I've 3:32:22.000 --> 3:32:24.200 already got a business plan where I can use a 3:32:24.280 --> 3:32:30.200 five let's say it's dinner. But if I got a 3:32:30.280 --> 3:32:32.640 business already and I can use a five hundred thousand 3:32:32.680 --> 3:32:35.240 dollar in fusion and investment into that business, and that's 3:32:35.240 --> 3:32:37.520 gonna take me further than talking with jay Z. You 3:32:37.640 --> 3:32:40.080 understand me. I'm gonna do that. Maybe flip that to 3:32:40.200 --> 3:32:42.040 five million and see if I can take five hundred 3:32:42.080 --> 3:32:44.560 thousand dollars and get a dinner. Let me tell you 3:32:44.560 --> 3:32:46.800 what I take the dinner. Because this isn't theoretic, this 3:32:46.920 --> 3:32:50.440 is real life. When we met Steve Harvey and we 3:32:50.560 --> 3:32:52.920 spent time with him. We interviewed him, we talked to 3:32:52.959 --> 3:32:55.560 him or whatever, and that relationship is worth more than money. 3:32:56.160 --> 3:32:59.000 That sounds cliche, but that's real. So when we met him, 3:32:59.080 --> 3:33:05.720 he took a liking too. He's he said, he said yo, 3:33:05.800 --> 3:33:07.960 he said yo. I like, y'all we're gonna make a 3:33:08.000 --> 3:33:11.680 lot of money together. Shortly after we became business partners, 3:33:11.720 --> 3:33:13.640 we did an event called invest FST. We have fourteen 3:33:13.640 --> 3:33:16.320 thousand people in Atlanta. He just invited us to Abu Dhabi. 3:33:16.400 --> 3:33:18.000 We was in Abu Dhabi. Looks like we're gonna be 3:33:18.000 --> 3:33:19.760 doing stuff in the Middle East. So it's like that 3:33:19.879 --> 3:33:22.080 relationship is gonna be worth way more than five hundred 3:33:22.120 --> 3:33:24.879 thousand dollars. So it's like you're looking at short term 3:33:24.920 --> 3:33:28.280 as opposed looking at long term investing people like your 3:33:28.360 --> 3:33:30.720 life is worth more than five hundred thousand dollars. I 3:33:30.800 --> 3:33:32.480 can't put a price tag on your life. I can't 3:33:32.520 --> 3:33:35.080 put a price tag on the information, on the information 3:33:35.120 --> 3:33:37.440 and relationships that we could potentially do. Like what I'm saying, like, 3:33:37.520 --> 3:33:40.880 let's let's do real business. We don't need money right now. Fortunately, 3:33:41.080 --> 3:33:42.920 through the grace of God, we're not We're not hurting 3:33:42.959 --> 3:33:45.039 for money. So when you're not hurting for money, then 3:33:45.080 --> 3:33:47.280 you start to then you start to use your intelligence. 3:33:47.840 --> 3:33:49.800 The problem we're not having money is that you win 3:33:49.879 --> 3:33:52.440 survival mode. You've got to be very careful about people 3:33:52.480 --> 3:33:55.040 that's in survival mode because they'll do anything for a 3:33:55.120 --> 3:33:57.920 short liquor saying the lick. This is a long term 3:33:58.000 --> 3:34:07.480 This is long term wealth difference because what you're saying 3:34:09.120 --> 3:34:11.400 in our communities, we're so used to that. Like what 3:34:11.520 --> 3:34:13.440 you said, like, Yo, shout out to you for teaching 3:34:13.480 --> 3:34:16.360 the bronx. I'm watching survival mode right while I'm trying 3:34:16.400 --> 3:34:18.320 to get to the next base, which is that travel mode. 3:34:18.520 --> 3:34:20.360 Because when you get to thravel mode, then you see 3:34:20.360 --> 3:34:23.119 the world differently. Now you see everything as an opportunity. 3:34:23.120 --> 3:34:24.600 Now I'm not taking the fire hunt. I'd rather take 3:34:24.600 --> 3:34:27.120 the meeting because it's going to lead to other opportunities. 3:34:27.320 --> 3:34:29.600 Now I'm looking at the meeting because Yo, wait, he 3:34:29.720 --> 3:34:32.400 said something that I could create a business offer. It's 3:34:32.400 --> 3:34:34.880 a different mindset, Like we got to go back to that. 3:34:35.000 --> 3:34:37.920 Like the mindset is the key right when we when 3:34:37.959 --> 3:34:40.600 we make that shift from survival to salve your life 3:34:40.680 --> 3:34:44.160 changes because now you see the passway to freedom right 3:34:44.160 --> 3:34:46.600 and everybody has a different freedom, level of freedom special. 3:34:47.360 --> 3:34:49.640 But when you see in that that travel, it's like, Yo, 3:34:50.000 --> 3:34:52.520 this is obtainable. I have access to my time. Once 3:34:52.560 --> 3:34:54.400 I have access to my time, now I'm free to think. 3:34:55.000 --> 3:34:58.520 Once you're free to think, it opens up the door 3:34:58.640 --> 3:35:00.280 for you. Right while you're in that non of five 3:35:00.280 --> 3:35:02.240 when you survive them, like and I'll come from that right, 3:35:02.280 --> 3:35:04.680 Like I'm teaching every day, Like I'm watching nine to 3:35:04.760 --> 3:35:07.040 three every day, I'm doing the same thing. It's like, yo, 3:35:07.120 --> 3:35:08.920 I'm working, and then I start coaching. I'm like, I'm 3:35:08.959 --> 3:35:12.040 working from seven o'clock to seven o'clock. I'm just trying 3:35:12.080 --> 3:35:13.720 to get dinner and make sure my kids are good, 3:35:13.760 --> 3:35:15.280 my wife and I and I'm gonna do the same 3:35:15.320 --> 3:35:16.720 thing the next day. I don't have time to think 3:35:16.840 --> 3:35:19.800 or create anything else. I don't have time to thrive, right, 3:35:19.879 --> 3:35:21.560 But as soon as that time frees up, it's like, 3:35:21.640 --> 3:35:24.640 oh wait, I got space. Now I got opportunity. My 3:35:24.760 --> 3:35:27.760 mind can now expand and now I can create opportunities 3:35:27.760 --> 3:35:30.920 for myself or I can see ways to create opportunities 3:35:31.080 --> 3:35:33.440 which we we don't see in our community. Most people 3:35:33.440 --> 3:35:34.920 are just trying to survive on the day to day 3:35:35.000 --> 3:35:36.840 like y'all gonna make it, you know, tomam wa do 3:35:36.879 --> 3:35:39.080 the next thing. I can't wait for Friday? How many 3:35:39.120 --> 3:35:41.400 people are like yo, I can't wait for Friday. Every 3:35:41.480 --> 3:35:44.200 day is Friday? For every day is fri I think 3:35:44.280 --> 3:35:46.560 we all just said the same things as far as 3:35:46.640 --> 3:35:48.880 just how to leverage that. What is your strategy? If 3:35:48.920 --> 3:35:50.680 as long as you're thinking in that manner, I think 3:35:50.680 --> 3:35:53.440 you're thinking in the right way. They understand me, and 3:35:53.840 --> 3:35:56.840 therefore everything you do in life is strategic to your 3:35:56.920 --> 3:35:59.680 means and your vision. Right. Like for me, I can't 3:35:59.720 --> 3:36:02.640 do anything unless I have a clear vision for it, right, 3:36:02.760 --> 3:36:05.240 And some people don't have a clear vision. Like he said, 3:36:05.280 --> 3:36:07.720 if you're thinking the survival mode, your vision only goes 3:36:07.760 --> 3:36:11.360 past your paycheck. Understand me, I'm thinking of next week 3:36:11.640 --> 3:36:13.680 or what I can do with that money. You don't 3:36:13.680 --> 3:36:17.440 actually play in the playground of your imagination, right, my hope. 3:36:17.440 --> 3:36:19.600 There's a thought experiment. If you tell the average person 3:36:19.680 --> 3:36:22.400 think of what you think is impossible, then I want 3:36:22.440 --> 3:36:25.480 you to imagine yourself doing it, right, so you start 3:36:25.560 --> 3:36:28.760 to stretch your limits. Right, it was something you were 3:36:28.800 --> 3:36:33.120 talking about uh with the billionaires, about thinking bigger, right, Like, 3:36:33.680 --> 3:36:36.640 sometimes we think based on what we can see instead 3:36:36.640 --> 3:36:40.600 of what we can envision. Right. The imagination is so powerful, 3:36:40.720 --> 3:36:43.040 the most powerful thing on the planet Earth, because you 3:36:43.120 --> 3:36:46.000 can literally imagine things that you may not have the 3:36:46.080 --> 3:36:49.120 resources for in your environment. But as long as you 3:36:49.200 --> 3:36:52.240 can imagine it, then you can conjure you can create it. Right. 3:36:52.320 --> 3:36:55.880 So for me, it's about imagining things having in a vision. 3:36:56.200 --> 3:36:57.880 All right, Now, what's my steps to get in there? 3:36:57.920 --> 3:36:59.320 All right? Well, I don't know how to do it, 3:36:59.360 --> 3:37:01.640 all right? First up, let me get the knowledge. Now 3:37:01.720 --> 3:37:04.000 that I have the knowledge, now let me write down 3:37:04.040 --> 3:37:05.600 the steps on what do I need to do? And 3:37:05.680 --> 3:37:08.040 I start knocking it out step by step. And anytime 3:37:08.080 --> 3:37:09.320 I get to a step I don't know what to 3:37:09.400 --> 3:37:11.800 do next, the next step is always learned what to do, 3:37:11.959 --> 3:37:14.600 then execute. So if you start to think in an 3:37:14.720 --> 3:37:19.640 execution manner, there is no blocks, right, It's educate yourself 3:37:19.680 --> 3:37:21.760 when you get to something you don't know, and then 3:37:21.879 --> 3:37:25.959 execute once you know, and then repeat that path forever. Right. 3:37:26.040 --> 3:37:27.920 So for me, I don't never have a point in 3:37:27.959 --> 3:37:30.280 life where it's like, Yo, you accomplished this, that in 3:37:30.320 --> 3:37:32.320 the third So what that wasn't the bigger vision? That 3:37:32.400 --> 3:37:34.240 was the steps to climb up to where I want 3:37:34.280 --> 3:37:36.959 to be. That was one of the things Tyler Perry 3:37:37.000 --> 3:37:39.480 tod us. It was like your dream big, dream more, 3:37:40.280 --> 3:37:42.600 and I'm like, yo, how what how do you? How 3:37:42.640 --> 3:37:45.440 do you dream more? But that comes with exposure and 3:37:45.480 --> 3:37:48.200 you put yourself in positions inside rooms or it's like, yo, 3:37:48.520 --> 3:37:50.680 the things that you throw were impossible and now possible. 3:37:50.680 --> 3:37:52.600 It's in fact the thing Pop told us, like when 3:37:52.600 --> 3:37:54.080 you medicine. It's like, you'll tell me your while is 3:37:54.160 --> 3:37:55.800 dream right now? So I can show you. I can 3:37:55.840 --> 3:37:58.000 blow that ship out the water so you can create more. 3:37:58.560 --> 3:38:00.200 I want you all to see more. I want to 3:38:00.240 --> 3:38:01.600 show you how to do more. I want to show 3:38:01.640 --> 3:38:04.680 you that anything is achievable. Because he's seeing things at 3:38:04.760 --> 3:38:06.680 his level, right, Like a lot of people looking at 3:38:06.720 --> 3:38:08.400 us and like, yo, they're super successful. I love what 3:38:08.440 --> 3:38:10.560 they're doing. You know, they changed my life. He's at 3:38:10.600 --> 3:38:13.039 a different level. He's seeing things at this level. Right. 3:38:13.120 --> 3:38:14.520 We got to get to that point so we can 3:38:14.560 --> 3:38:16.560 see the barriers that he's kids because we're kicking down 3:38:16.600 --> 3:38:19.720 barriers here, right, And we didn't get to but he's 3:38:19.720 --> 3:38:21.680 seeing things at his level, but how many people are 3:38:21.720 --> 3:38:24.080 He's new to it? Like for as great as we 3:38:24.160 --> 3:38:26.200 think he is and were great as we think as 3:38:26.200 --> 3:38:28.960 Tyler is, and they're new to it. We're talking about 3:38:29.000 --> 3:38:30.560 when you talk about the Wall and family, we're talking 3:38:30.560 --> 3:38:34.520 about generations of just wealth. Right, we're talking about the 3:38:34.520 --> 3:38:36.360 one of the wealthiest families in the history of the country. 3:38:37.440 --> 3:38:40.280 Everybody here that looks like us is new, so they're 3:38:40.280 --> 3:38:42.960 still learning and they're facing barriers, right, and so like 3:38:43.080 --> 3:38:45.600 as we climb, it's like, all right, well, who gets 3:38:45.680 --> 3:38:48.480 to tell their story? Who gets to telling? Like, Yo, 3:38:48.800 --> 3:38:50.800 what are the things you're facing at this level? Because 3:38:51.320 --> 3:38:53.280 as we're trying to climb to it, we need to 3:38:53.400 --> 3:38:56.680 know so that when we get there, Oh, it's gonna 3:38:56.680 --> 3:38:58.680 be a smoother process for us. That's the that's the key. 3:38:58.760 --> 3:39:00.880 It's like, Yo, your kick and down doors, so that 3:39:01.560 --> 3:39:04.160 it's gonna be easier for us. You see what I'm saying. 3:39:04.280 --> 3:39:06.360 Like that, that's what That's why I think this is 3:39:06.400 --> 3:39:08.320 the most unique time. Like when I say it's a 3:39:08.360 --> 3:39:15.040 financial evolution, it really is. And uh, because it really 3:39:15.240 --> 3:39:26.080 is like being financially inclined. It's something that's never been 3:39:26.320 --> 3:39:31.400 preached in our community. Soon. Like I've had ten record deals. 3:39:31.720 --> 3:39:34.280 There's not one person I've ever signed to someone that said, 3:39:34.400 --> 3:39:36.920 let me help you out, sir, let me let me 3:39:37.000 --> 3:39:39.640 make sure you invest into the right properties, to make 3:39:39.680 --> 3:39:42.840 sure you take your money and give it to this encounter. 3:39:45.000 --> 3:39:48.920 I've been years. It's not one person I had to go, 3:39:49.200 --> 3:39:51.080 like I said, I think you said that earlier. I 3:39:51.120 --> 3:39:53.160 had to go and seek these people. But the thing 3:39:53.200 --> 3:39:56.920 about it is, it's like that's funked up. Where's where's 3:39:56.959 --> 3:39:59.400 the book that's ever gonna be written? Like yo, that's 3:39:59.440 --> 3:40:03.000 how you go from you know, black and brown poorness 3:40:03.600 --> 3:40:07.160 to you know, there's there's books that's out there. We 3:40:07.240 --> 3:40:10.400 just gotta read more. But but also we know it's coming. 3:40:10.879 --> 3:40:13.000 This is what So like, as far as you know 3:40:13.080 --> 3:40:15.840 how to, the NBA and NFL have like a rookie symposium. 3:40:16.640 --> 3:40:18.480 So we've been talking about like doing that for the 3:40:18.600 --> 3:40:22.400 music industry. I'm sorry. Rookie symposium is like when kie 3:40:22.520 --> 3:40:27.440 Like I understood that when rookies, when rookies first get drafted, 3:40:27.800 --> 3:40:29.720 like a couple of months after they go to like Vegas, 3:40:29.760 --> 3:40:31.440 they go different places and they have like a whole 3:40:31.480 --> 3:40:36.480 weekend of events. So that like just how you talk 3:40:36.520 --> 3:40:38.240 to the media. This is how you deal with these 3:40:38.280 --> 3:40:41.320 relationship situations, This is how you deal with money. So 3:40:41.360 --> 3:40:42.879 I feel like it needs to be a training camp 3:40:43.360 --> 3:40:46.760 for for record artists, right, But that's let me, let 3:40:46.800 --> 3:40:50.280 me just stop you. That's why we're so dumb in 3:40:50.440 --> 3:40:53.240 hip hop because we don't have that. I just told you. 3:40:53.320 --> 3:40:55.360 That's what we're working on. That's what we're working on. 3:40:55.600 --> 3:41:02.760 Artists development, the real artist one of their powers. Because 3:41:02.800 --> 3:41:05.680 you know why you gotta you gotta helping like me, 3:41:05.879 --> 3:41:10.360 but I could go fly and helping what you do 3:41:10.720 --> 3:41:12.920 the funk up? Because you hope someone that I can say, 3:41:12.920 --> 3:41:14.920 I'm up. We help you, you help somebody else. You 3:41:15.000 --> 3:41:18.960 help each one reach one, each one, each artist that's 3:41:19.000 --> 3:41:21.760 signed and the artist that's not signed, like the independent artists. 3:41:21.840 --> 3:41:23.920 Like one of the huge things is now, I know 3:41:24.040 --> 3:41:26.800 everybody wants to be independent, but don't really know how 3:41:27.280 --> 3:41:29.320 you understand me. I have hick Misson was asking me 3:41:29.320 --> 3:41:31.720 about how to create a discord, right, so that you 3:41:31.800 --> 3:41:33.720 can put your community in there and so you can 3:41:33.800 --> 3:41:37.000 have access to your own community. One thing I asked 3:41:37.000 --> 3:41:38.920 people all the time, it is like you have your 3:41:38.959 --> 3:41:40.880 favorite artists, But how much money have you spent with 3:41:40.959 --> 3:41:44.480 that artists over a lifetime? Average person? Probably five dollars 3:41:44.520 --> 3:41:49.840 based on streaming right artists? Now, yeah, nowadays stream we 3:41:49.879 --> 3:41:53.199 had it was you was selling it. It was your business, 3:41:53.440 --> 3:41:55.360 you understand me. But they changed it to the streaming 3:41:55.440 --> 3:41:58.160 companies and a lot of artists didn't know how to adapt. That. 3:41:59.879 --> 3:42:08.200 I got you for so learning learning business, you get 3:42:08.240 --> 3:42:11.000 creative on how to package your product, number one, you 3:42:11.120 --> 3:42:13.959 understand me. Otherwise you always go be looking for somebody 3:42:14.000 --> 3:42:16.400 else that tells you how to manage yourself, how to 3:42:16.440 --> 3:42:19.160 put the product out right. It's like social media. We 3:42:19.240 --> 3:42:21.879 sign a contract once we go on these sites, right 3:42:21.959 --> 3:42:25.400 that says that they own all of our intellectual property right, 3:42:26.000 --> 3:42:28.840 And essentially it's like signing over the masters to all 3:42:28.879 --> 3:42:31.680 your I P. Right and that you can make money 3:42:31.720 --> 3:42:33.440 on social media, but you have to leverage it the 3:42:33.480 --> 3:42:36.520 same way artists have the leverage doing concerts rather to 3:42:36.600 --> 3:42:39.920 get a direct benefit of monetization. Right. But we don't 3:42:39.920 --> 3:42:42.119 think about these things as business models. We just hand 3:42:42.160 --> 3:42:44.640 them over so we can get access. So the new 3:42:44.720 --> 3:42:46.959 world that's coming in when people talk about web three 3:42:47.000 --> 3:42:49.160 and things of that nature is figuring out how to 3:42:49.280 --> 3:42:52.039 be independent and how to own your own community, how 3:42:52.080 --> 3:42:54.280 to own your own I p how to generate a 3:42:54.360 --> 3:42:57.440 business around that. That's a different game. I want artists. 3:42:57.840 --> 3:42:59.760 I don't know what the average rapper makes on Blogley 3:42:59.800 --> 3:43:03.000 say seventy thousand, and I think it's that's way too high, right, 3:43:03.480 --> 3:43:07.200 But the reality of it is is that I'm just saying, 3:43:07.720 --> 3:43:10.039 if there's a lot of people that want to be rappers, 3:43:10.080 --> 3:43:11.760 and I know some of them, they're not making no 3:43:11.959 --> 3:43:16.360 money of their actual career. Because rappers a career. It's 3:43:16.400 --> 3:43:20.120 like a job, it's a business like anything else. But 3:43:20.160 --> 3:43:22.640 they don't know how to package it, how to products, 3:43:23.200 --> 3:43:25.960 how to run a concert, how to build a marketing plan, 3:43:26.080 --> 3:43:29.440 distribution around any of what they're doing. So it's okay 3:43:29.560 --> 3:43:32.080 to be of the artists in the credive community, but 3:43:32.240 --> 3:43:34.560 you have to learn the business that coincides with it. 3:43:35.080 --> 3:43:37.560 So otherwise you can't complain about the contract. I'm gonna 3:43:37.560 --> 3:43:41.120 give Oakland some credit. I'm gonna give Oakland some I'm 3:43:41.120 --> 3:43:45.760 gonna get Oakland Oakland because because one of our alumni 3:43:45.920 --> 3:43:50.880 from E y L. The Russell Yeah yeah, Yeahble you 3:43:50.959 --> 3:43:55.600 had him on here. No, no, but it's incredible. You 3:43:55.720 --> 3:44:00.520 got everything that he didn spoke about, figured it out 3:44:00.680 --> 3:44:03.200 and is mastering it. And we're not We're gonna do 3:44:03.240 --> 3:44:04.760 some stuff with him too. But he's figured it out 3:44:04.800 --> 3:44:08.760 how to monetize his audience. Whereas when most times people 3:44:08.800 --> 3:44:11.880 just buy tickets, it's like there's no relationship between. He 3:44:11.959 --> 3:44:14.040 has figured out, like, yo, how do I maximize knowing 3:44:14.120 --> 3:44:16.680 my audience, knowing my and making sure that they get 3:44:16.760 --> 3:44:20.600 exactly what they need, but also incentivizing the things that 3:44:20.680 --> 3:44:26.240 he's given. He really has figured out, like like Nip 3:44:26.400 --> 3:44:30.800 kind of glorified, but he's really taken it to the 3:44:30.879 --> 3:44:32.600 next level where it's like, yo, you can pay anything 3:44:32.640 --> 3:44:34.400 you want. So his album, you can pay a dollar 3:44:34.440 --> 3:44:36.520 for it, or you can pay a thousand dollars for 3:44:37.440 --> 3:44:39.280 what I'm saying. Whereas most people look at it like YO, 3:44:39.520 --> 3:44:41.280 all right, how many people are gonna pay a dollar? Yeah, 3:44:41.280 --> 3:44:42.880 people are gonna pay a doll for it. But then 3:44:42.920 --> 3:44:45.200 you might get somebody like us who are looking at 3:44:45.200 --> 3:44:46.720 it like, yo, I love what he's doing. I'm gonna 3:44:46.760 --> 3:44:48.560 pay five dollars for it. And he's building up a 3:44:48.640 --> 3:44:54.680 core audience straight front, like and you utilizing into the 3:44:54.720 --> 3:44:56.840 sense where it's like from a math standpoint, it's like, 3:44:56.879 --> 3:44:58.800 all right, well, if I pay a dollar and he 3:44:58.879 --> 3:45:01.720 pays five hundred, if enough people do that on average, 3:45:01.720 --> 3:45:04.039 I'm gonna make about twenty seven dollars if if if 3:45:04.120 --> 3:45:06.400 everybody pays a dollar ten and a couple of people 3:45:06.600 --> 3:45:08.520 that are you thinking about it? Right? Like if you 3:45:08.600 --> 3:45:11.600 put out album today, are you making twenty seven dollars 3:45:11.760 --> 3:45:15.000 per album? No? Way? Right after they thinking about album? 3:45:15.080 --> 3:45:21.840 Not not you, but you looked at me doing shows 3:45:21.879 --> 3:45:24.840 at his house and exactly so he directed ansumers but 3:45:24.920 --> 3:45:27.520 everything most people on the album, and they're gonna get 3:45:27.600 --> 3:45:29.280 like points on the album. So it's like, yeah, you 3:45:29.400 --> 3:45:34.200 might make nine sense, he might sell, but he's making 3:45:34.280 --> 3:45:38.080 twenty seven. East credit to the history of the Bay 3:45:38.200 --> 3:45:46.720 Area in general from being independent from the game. Down 3:45:46.800 --> 3:45:51.080 South too though, down South about but Houston, I would say, 3:45:52.879 --> 3:45:58.280 the big Houston, New Orleans all that. You know what 3:45:58.320 --> 3:46:01.440 I'm saying. Independence. Everybody can reach your independence now, man, 3:46:02.320 --> 3:46:05.040 but you know your independence is let me ask. This 3:46:05.200 --> 3:46:07.600 is going to be like probably the last question story. 3:46:07.840 --> 3:46:10.959 I'm just gonna be that's gonna be like cut head. 3:46:12.240 --> 3:46:16.600 Anybody wants to answer it, answer it. But murder and 3:46:16.640 --> 3:46:23.000 the hip hop murder, yeah, like like the lyrics about 3:46:23.080 --> 3:46:28.240 murdering killing, people murdered whatever. The death culture. Right now, 3:46:28.360 --> 3:46:31.520 it feel like death culture murder, people getting killed, people 3:46:31.600 --> 3:46:33.640 getting killed. I feel like I feel like it's energy 3:46:33.959 --> 3:46:36.240 and I feel like, you know, you gotta be extremely careful. 3:46:36.280 --> 3:46:38.840 Like I said, words have power, the energy and the 3:46:38.879 --> 3:46:41.880 persona that you put out has power. So you know, 3:46:42.040 --> 3:46:45.840 when you put out a persona of certain type of things, 3:46:45.959 --> 3:46:47.480 sometimes it comes back to you. And when you're in 3:46:47.480 --> 3:46:50.720 an environment like you never hear about the Ja Coles 3:46:50.720 --> 3:46:52.680 in the world, but you never hear about the j 3:46:52.800 --> 3:46:54.600 Coles of the world, of Chinnical Lamars of the world. 3:46:54.640 --> 3:46:57.120 You never heard about these people toler quality. You never 3:46:57.160 --> 3:46:59.840 hear a the people getting killed, if you think about it, right, 3:47:00.040 --> 3:47:02.800 never hear by no conscious rappers quote unquote concous rappers 3:47:02.800 --> 3:47:06.800 getting killed. And it's like, why why they're still black, 3:47:06.840 --> 3:47:10.119 they're still rappers. About anybody in another culture getting killed? Huh, 3:47:10.320 --> 3:47:12.920 you don't hear about anybody another culture getting killed? Well, 3:47:12.959 --> 3:47:15.320 that's true too. I'm just saying, just within our culture, 3:47:16.280 --> 3:47:21.240 how many conscious rappers have ever been killed? Just think 3:47:21.240 --> 3:47:27.280 about it? How many kind of comments from the same 3:47:27.320 --> 3:47:29.480 city where we what we think about a lot of death? Right, 3:47:29.560 --> 3:47:32.280 he's from Chicago, He's from death. But but how many 3:47:32.320 --> 3:47:34.760 conscious rappers in the history of rap has ever been killed? 3:47:35.080 --> 3:47:38.520 Think about it. I can't do it. Not one. I 3:47:38.520 --> 3:47:42.240 don't think not one. How many quote unquote gangster rappers 3:47:42.280 --> 3:47:46.480 have been killed? Hundreds? Saying it's almost like I think, 3:47:48.200 --> 3:47:52.080 so are we braving the music Tupac was. Tupac was 3:47:52.120 --> 3:47:55.240 borderline conscious, but towards the end of his career he 3:47:55.440 --> 3:47:58.840 chose a persona of a gangster and a gang banger 3:47:59.520 --> 3:48:01.200 and agree with you, you know what I'm saying. So 3:48:01.480 --> 3:48:04.680 so it's like I feel like, hey, we gotta be 3:48:04.760 --> 3:48:07.840 careful of what we're champion and what kind of energy 3:48:07.920 --> 3:48:10.800 we put out there, because ultimately, whatever energy you put 3:48:10.840 --> 3:48:13.400 out there is gonna come back to you. And ultimately 3:48:13.480 --> 3:48:17.320 we gotta be more careful about how we value each other. 3:48:18.040 --> 3:48:20.480 Like I said, just going back to conflict resolution is 3:48:20.520 --> 3:48:22.920 extremely important. This is a good thing that ended with like, 3:48:23.560 --> 3:48:25.840 you know, what does it take to to to understand, 3:48:25.920 --> 3:48:29.520 like to say, Okay, I hurt you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, 3:48:29.600 --> 3:48:31.240 I'm sorry, Like you know what I'm saying, Like, that's 3:48:31.280 --> 3:48:32.920 one of the hardest things to do as a manner 3:48:32.959 --> 3:48:37.080 to say I'm sorry. It's easier to kill somebody. It's 3:48:37.120 --> 3:48:39.400 easier to kill somebody than it is to say I'm sorry. 3:48:39.480 --> 3:48:42.560 Think about that. Like most people, it's easier to physically 3:48:42.640 --> 3:48:44.480 harm somebody. I could punch you in your face and 3:48:44.560 --> 3:48:47.720 slap you with no I gotta think about saying sorry. 3:48:48.240 --> 3:48:50.560 It's gonna hurt me. It's gonna bring down myself. It's 3:48:50.760 --> 3:48:53.960 gonna like humble me, Like I could rather just spitting 3:48:54.000 --> 3:48:56.400 your face and say I'm sorry. How do how do 3:48:56.520 --> 3:48:57.960 how do we go? Won't let you? How do we 3:48:58.480 --> 3:49:01.160 how do we know how to talk to each other? 3:49:01.520 --> 3:49:03.680 How do we know to apologize when we hurt each other? 3:49:03.960 --> 3:49:06.480 How do we know how to communicate to be like yo, bro, 3:49:06.840 --> 3:49:09.840 I wasn't feeling that without it escalating to the point 3:49:09.880 --> 3:49:12.520 where we got it is talking out That goes back 3:49:12.560 --> 3:49:17.080 to children. Conflict resolution is the biggest issue in our community. 3:49:17.360 --> 3:49:19.280 There's people that are doing thirty years and jail as 3:49:19.320 --> 3:49:24.080 people that's under ground because of conflict resolution. They wasn't 3:49:24.120 --> 3:49:27.000 able to communicate their problems and they thought that the 3:49:27.040 --> 3:49:30.240 way that to solve the problems was through violence and 3:49:30.400 --> 3:49:35.240 through aggression. Ultimately, that only kills two different people. It's 3:49:35.240 --> 3:49:37.200 going to kill the person that's dead, and it's going 3:49:37.280 --> 3:49:39.200 to kill the person that's gonna do forty years in life, 3:49:39.320 --> 3:49:41.160 and it's gonna kill their kid that's gonna grow up 3:49:41.160 --> 3:49:47.080 without all that. So it's like once again going back 3:49:47.120 --> 3:49:50.880 to financial literacy extremely important. Health extremely important, you know, 3:49:51.000 --> 3:49:56.080 mental health extremely important, Conflict resolution extremely important, Communication extremely important, 3:49:56.320 --> 3:49:58.600 Like we really got to master the art of communication. 3:49:59.080 --> 3:50:01.680 We really gotta under stand how to control our emotions. 3:50:01.960 --> 3:50:03.800 We really got to understand how to talk to each 3:50:03.840 --> 3:50:06.480 other as men. And this is things that's going to 3:50:06.640 --> 3:50:09.880 really save an uplift our community if we don't be 3:50:09.960 --> 3:50:13.720 gonna be in a continuous cycle of violence and people dying, 3:50:14.280 --> 3:50:17.320 and ultimately, nobody's winning from that. Nobody's winning from that. 3:50:17.720 --> 3:50:22.400 So it's like, learn how to deal with your emotions, 3:50:22.840 --> 3:50:27.360 learn how to communicate effectively, and hopefully this this can change, 3:50:27.720 --> 3:50:30.040 but we have to we have to get on a 3:50:30.120 --> 3:50:32.760 higher level of frequency. And I think the music plays 3:50:32.760 --> 3:50:34.880 a big part. And this is extremely important because this 3:50:34.960 --> 3:50:36.880 is a music platform. Ultimately, even though you had us 3:50:36.920 --> 3:50:39.280 on him thank you for that. But music is one 3:50:39.320 --> 3:50:43.080 of the most is probably the most important things. Appreciate 3:50:43.200 --> 3:50:51.000 that music is the most important thing we got. We got. 3:50:52.800 --> 3:50:55.000 We gotta be careful about the messages that we're putting 3:50:55.040 --> 3:50:57.600 in the music because the messages that were put in 3:50:57.640 --> 3:51:01.800 the music definitely they they impact the lives of the 3:51:01.840 --> 3:51:04.240 people that are listening to it. So it's like the musicians, 3:51:04.280 --> 3:51:06.760 it's not just art. It's not just people say like, yo, 3:51:06.840 --> 3:51:09.000 you could make a movie. Music is different from movies 3:51:09.040 --> 3:51:10.480 because I never watched the movie and thought it was 3:51:10.560 --> 3:51:12.640 real life. But I listened to Prodigy and I actually 3:51:12.680 --> 3:51:16.640 thought that that was real life. When I made The 3:51:16.720 --> 3:51:20.040 Warrior for I didn't know that people are exaggerating rhymes. 3:51:20.640 --> 3:51:22.960 So the next album is like, you don't got to 3:51:23.040 --> 3:51:26.840 do nothing like just yeah, and I was like, wait 3:51:26.880 --> 3:51:31.400 a minute, so that's fucked up. I'm talking you know 3:51:31.560 --> 3:51:34.960 the unabuls A little far con says something. He's say, 3:51:35.840 --> 3:51:40.040 one rap song is worth a thousand sermons, right, Simons, 3:51:40.520 --> 3:51:45.040 like a thousand speeches, I believe for for anybody. Almost 3:51:45.240 --> 3:51:50.000 I think the actual quote was speeches. I might have misquoted, 3:51:50.440 --> 3:51:55.360 but sermons or speeches because think think about the power. 3:51:58.200 --> 3:52:01.280 We know what that is. That's the whole another conversation. 3:52:01.840 --> 3:52:03.720 But when we talk about hip hop, in the death 3:52:03.800 --> 3:52:06.640 courture around hip hop, most people make music, but it's 3:52:06.640 --> 3:52:09.680 a soundtrack to their death. Don't order you understand me? 3:52:10.680 --> 3:52:13.000 And let me ask all three of y'all, is this 3:52:13.200 --> 3:52:18.840 the first time we ever had music titled death? Let 3:52:18.880 --> 3:52:25.080 me let me let me finish my point real quick. 3:52:25.200 --> 3:52:28.960 When I went to had a party for Empire that 3:52:29.080 --> 3:52:31.160 I forgot what they call like every year they have one, 3:52:31.560 --> 3:52:33.280 and they invited me to come by right because I 3:52:33.400 --> 3:52:35.280 was speaking to some of the office at BT, like 3:52:35.400 --> 3:52:38.040 money man, things of that nature. As I'm speaking to it, 3:52:38.160 --> 3:52:40.560 I'm sitting in the front and mostly all of the rappers, 3:52:40.560 --> 3:52:42.840 everybody's coming in. They come in, they stopping, they're paying 3:52:42.880 --> 3:52:45.120 how much and showing love, and then some of them 3:52:45.160 --> 3:52:47.920 will stop and be like keys. You know, we talked 3:52:47.960 --> 3:52:50.280 to this gangster ship, but I don't actually rather talk 3:52:50.360 --> 3:52:52.720 about something else. But I don't know how to switch. 3:52:52.880 --> 3:52:55.320 I don't know how to change, you understand me. And 3:52:55.440 --> 3:52:57.720 so the way you come in the door often is 3:52:57.760 --> 3:52:59.800 the way you have to stay because you lose your 3:53:00.040 --> 3:53:02.880 the ends. So it's a lot of times, just teaching 3:53:02.920 --> 3:53:05.440 them how you can make that pivot and music as well, 3:53:05.480 --> 3:53:07.920 because they'd rather make party music rather than talk about 3:53:08.000 --> 3:53:11.320 killing and murdering all of the time. Because every rapper 3:53:11.440 --> 3:53:13.760 makes the soundtrack to their death, you can go back 3:53:13.840 --> 3:53:16.960 to their lyrics and it looks like the description of 3:53:17.040 --> 3:53:20.480 how they died. Like he talked about music as a frequency, 3:53:20.920 --> 3:53:23.680 it can control the mind, our bodies of water. That 3:53:23.920 --> 3:53:27.360 music gets trapped into our subconscious and we're always thinking 3:53:27.400 --> 3:53:30.120 those lyrics over and over. Then we jump into the 3:53:30.320 --> 3:53:34.240 environments as well. So you're talking about cash, robbing and killing. 3:53:34.320 --> 3:53:36.440 Then you got cats around you that robbed and killed. 3:53:36.760 --> 3:53:38.640 So for you to get caught into the mix of 3:53:38.720 --> 3:53:43.000 your own lyrics only makes sense. When we talk about Greek. 3:53:43.160 --> 3:53:45.360 You know, from the hood, we always talk about listening. 3:53:45.640 --> 3:53:48.080 We can make music that reflects the environment we see, 3:53:48.520 --> 3:53:50.640 and we can make music that reflects the environment we 3:53:50.760 --> 3:53:56.560 want to see. But these are two different things. A second, man, 3:53:56.560 --> 3:54:01.960 it's twice the godgame. Say talk to me, but I've 3:54:02.160 --> 3:54:06.000 never heard of Susvestless alone having any problems in the hood. 3:54:09.000 --> 3:54:13.520 That's that point problem with the movie that scar Face. 3:54:14.520 --> 3:54:16.800 But let me look at this case. This guy's got 3:54:17.360 --> 3:54:23.960 I took him collection, but no security. But but they're 3:54:23.960 --> 3:54:27.120 not they're not from the environment. That in the environment, 3:54:27.320 --> 3:54:30.320 and nobody believes that that's actually. Like I said, I'm 3:54:30.320 --> 3:54:33.240 speaking from firsthand experience. Bro. When I was I got 3:54:33.280 --> 3:54:35.640 into it, almost got into a fight about at one point, 3:54:35.680 --> 3:54:38.600 I was prodigy, was the best rapper. And you could 3:54:38.680 --> 3:54:44.040 not convince me that almost dude right in middle schools, 3:54:44.800 --> 3:54:47.280 he was about to fight. I was there. I was 3:54:47.320 --> 3:54:51.800 in middle the best rapping about to fight some no prodigy, 3:54:51.880 --> 3:54:54.040 Like you know what I'm saying something at that time, 3:54:54.200 --> 3:54:57.120 you couldn't tell me that every single word he's saying, 3:54:57.400 --> 3:55:00.680 it's not reality. Oh you couldn't. Ge couldn't convince me 3:55:00.760 --> 3:55:05.120 that it wasn't reality because that's how emotionally invested I was. 3:55:05.280 --> 3:55:07.920 I was never emotionally invested like that in any actor ever. 3:55:08.360 --> 3:55:11.000 I never I never watched the movie and thought I'm 3:55:11.040 --> 3:55:16.720 a fight over Denzel Washington. So it's like, we gotta 3:55:16.760 --> 3:55:21.360 be honest. It's a good argument to say, but in reality, 3:55:21.560 --> 3:55:25.000 our culture, our children, it's real, are looking at rappers 3:55:25.080 --> 3:55:28.840 way different than it look active different. When I when 3:55:28.880 --> 3:55:31.400 I hurt body in the trunk, Bro, I had the question, 3:55:31.480 --> 3:55:34.600 is this a real story, real ship record, great record? 3:55:34.920 --> 3:55:36.760 I mean, I really want to know why it was never? 3:55:38.080 --> 3:55:42.760 I wonder why I was never. I'm not stop this 3:55:42.880 --> 3:55:55.320 real or any invest the statue limitations that never happened. 3:55:58.760 --> 3:56:03.280 It's beautiful. I'm listening to nas. I'm like, what is beautiful? 3:56:03.360 --> 3:56:11.200 I'm like, who's normal? It's beautiful. Yeah, we need it all. 3:56:12.480 --> 3:56:15.080 But but when the gods stopped being in wrapping hip hop, 3:56:15.200 --> 3:56:17.840 because you know it started off that, that's what sucked 3:56:17.880 --> 3:56:20.760 it up. When it was no longer now yourself in 3:56:21.080 --> 3:56:24.120 the court, the principles, no value. Then it was just 3:56:25.640 --> 3:56:29.200 East coast, West coast, you understand me, drill music, music, 3:56:29.800 --> 3:56:33.640 killing each other, laying drugs, fast sex, fast depth. Everything 3:56:33.720 --> 3:56:36.440 about courture now is about how to die quicker, you 3:56:36.520 --> 3:56:39.680 understand me. It's not how to live longer. Music now yeah, 3:56:40.000 --> 3:56:44.200 because it's surrounded by death courts and all of us 3:56:44.360 --> 3:56:48.160 as well into our age. I've never remember hip hop, 3:56:50.200 --> 3:56:55.360 nick nick, and it's like my son, my son is old. 3:56:55.960 --> 3:57:01.240 Did you understanding it's real? Said? Won't least they said 3:57:01.640 --> 3:57:05.280 all this ship, they never labeled that they called against 3:57:05.320 --> 3:57:12.280 him because that was going against the established the level 3:57:12.400 --> 3:57:16.800 what did you call it? The level of violence that's 3:57:17.800 --> 3:57:21.560 celebrated now and drill wrap is a height that's never 3:57:21.600 --> 3:57:24.400 been seen before. When you're smoking on somebody that's dead, 3:57:24.840 --> 3:57:28.280 when you make when you laugh, dances on somebody, when 3:57:28.880 --> 3:57:31.680 when you last see one person, they took the person's tools, 3:57:32.040 --> 3:57:34.320 broke into his block. Yeah, Like know what I'm saying, 3:57:34.320 --> 3:57:37.120 Like cast is getting carried through the streets. This is 3:57:37.280 --> 3:57:40.960 this is a this is a level of disrespect for 3:57:41.280 --> 3:57:45.280 dead people that we've never seen before, never seen, you 3:57:45.320 --> 3:57:47.240 know what I'm saying. So this this, this is like 3:57:47.320 --> 3:57:51.000 I said, this is influencing younger. Like I said, my 3:57:51.080 --> 3:57:54.640 sons are growing up on My son is eleven years old. 3:57:55.240 --> 3:57:59.240 He don't know anything about street life, you know what 3:57:59.240 --> 3:58:01.760 I'm saying. But like he's listening to drill music, so 3:58:01.920 --> 3:58:06.040 he's he's he's educating me on like Dideosama and different kids. 3:58:08.320 --> 3:58:12.160 But it's like ultimately, no matter no you, but it's 3:58:12.160 --> 3:58:14.280 no matter what, when you're listening to it, it's gonna 3:58:14.320 --> 3:58:17.040 have some level of effect, have some level. You don't 3:58:17.040 --> 3:58:19.160 even have to be able to live that you don't 3:58:19.520 --> 3:58:22.600 after a while when you're listening to it, he's telling 3:58:22.680 --> 3:58:24.520 me about sugar Hill. I'm like, what you know about 3:58:24.520 --> 3:58:27.760 sugar He's like, Dideosma from sugar Hill, sugar Hill. I'm 3:58:27.840 --> 3:58:29.840 thinking A Z like you know what I'm saying, the 3:58:29.920 --> 3:58:32.520 movie sugar Hill, that was an aspirational sugar Hill from Hallm. 3:58:32.600 --> 3:58:34.400 That's one of the that was one of the richest 3:58:34.400 --> 3:58:36.760 blocks in the Hallm renaissance when A Z made sugar 3:58:36.840 --> 3:58:38.640 Hill a Z from Brooklyn. But it was like that 3:58:38.800 --> 3:58:41.320 was aspirational, Like know what I'm saying. It was like 3:58:41.400 --> 3:58:43.720 I made it to sugar Hill. He likes sugar Hills, 3:58:43.760 --> 3:58:45.600 the hood, and he's telling me about all of this 3:58:45.720 --> 3:58:47.320 drill wrapping, all this that's coming out of that. But 3:58:47.400 --> 3:58:49.880 I'm just saying, like, that's the effect that is having 3:58:49.960 --> 3:58:54.320 on young people where it's like you celebrating your ops 3:58:54.720 --> 3:58:57.880 getting killed and you're dancing on their graves and you're 3:58:57.920 --> 3:59:01.280 smoking it there packs and all that. At at some 3:59:01.400 --> 3:59:04.440 point in time, we got to understand that's gonna come 3:59:04.440 --> 3:59:07.040 back to you. That's Demon Time Ship. That's like that's 3:59:07.080 --> 3:59:10.440 what it ain't no God in it, no more like 3:59:10.520 --> 3:59:12.440 they don't even believe in God for the most part, 3:59:12.680 --> 3:59:15.440 Like they really acted sam on Demon Time that's somebody 3:59:15.480 --> 3:59:17.760 who's a million for the devil. You understand me. So 3:59:17.880 --> 3:59:20.640 all their lower thoughts and ideas, they don't have no 3:59:20.800 --> 3:59:24.120 ideas towards life off. But a lot of times people 3:59:24.280 --> 3:59:28.600 say you reach out to the younger generation. Sometimes I'm like, man, 3:59:29.920 --> 3:59:32.320 well it's a lot of younger it's a lot of 3:59:32.400 --> 3:59:35.040 younger generation to reach out to. I was them before 3:59:35.440 --> 3:59:41.040 you gotta make it. Yeah, but I was on that 3:59:41.280 --> 3:59:44.640 level of disrespect, like like I didn't like that older 3:59:44.720 --> 3:59:48.760 niggas didn't give me love that I wanted. That's who 3:59:48.840 --> 3:59:51.280 did you look up to at that time? But when 3:59:51.320 --> 3:59:53.600 you was twenty you made Warrport, you said black on 3:59:53.720 --> 3:59:57.320 black crime. It's both, it's Swain, we both back background, 3:59:57.880 --> 4:00:00.960 both sing em to mar So it's like you got 4:00:03.480 --> 4:00:08.400 what I'm saying that you have always come back to 4:00:08.480 --> 4:00:12.240 knowledge yourself and they ain't got nothing. And if you don't, 4:00:12.960 --> 4:00:19.600 you don't know you can. You can call yourself a demon, 4:00:19.680 --> 4:00:22.320 but you can't call yourself a god. Understand me, And 4:00:22.480 --> 4:00:25.360 that's that's that's a serious point. Knowledge yourself. I don't 4:00:25.360 --> 4:00:27.120 care who you are, where you come from, what's your course, 4:00:27.160 --> 4:00:29.560 and what's your background. There ain't never been no greater 4:00:29.680 --> 4:00:32.640 man than where knowledge yourself has taught men how to become. 4:00:32.880 --> 4:00:35.080 You understand me. I'm talking about like when you're talking 4:00:35.120 --> 4:00:38.480 about people love Malcolm X, people love Minister far Kind 4:00:38.560 --> 4:00:41.280 in the Nation of Islam, because that was his foundations. 4:00:41.640 --> 4:00:43.520 You understand me, to let you know who you are. 4:00:43.880 --> 4:00:47.120 They are here navigating lost. So they're gonna fall in 4:00:47.200 --> 4:00:48.640 love with the money. They're gonna fall in love with 4:00:48.680 --> 4:00:50.320 the drugs. They're gonna fall in love with the sex 4:00:50.440 --> 4:00:54.000 to influence the party in the industry. The most dangerous 4:00:54.080 --> 4:00:56.560 thing for a young mind is to be impressed. When 4:00:56.560 --> 4:00:58.880 you're impressed by something that changes the integrity of who 4:00:58.960 --> 4:01:01.640 you are, when you already don't have that thinking, that 4:01:01.840 --> 4:01:04.880 confidence of knowing who you are. Then something else you 4:01:04.960 --> 4:01:07.240 can look at, this is greater than yourself, and they 4:01:07.280 --> 4:01:09.720 can use that to manipulate and control you in any 4:01:09.840 --> 4:01:12.200 faster the way. So these young boys, they look at 4:01:12.240 --> 4:01:14.280 all he talked about murder and death, he talked about 4:01:14.360 --> 4:01:16.640 his options. I'm impressed by that. He got likes, he 4:01:16.720 --> 4:01:18.680 got money off of it. I'm going to do the 4:01:18.760 --> 4:01:26.600 same thing. Can we look at anything anti black that y'all? 4:01:26.680 --> 4:01:32.960 This and the dad, this is wicked. This is corny. 4:01:34.760 --> 4:01:41.440 We denounced that absolutely, that's not your opposition. Yeah, these 4:01:41.440 --> 4:01:43.760 are people that look like what I want to talk 4:01:43.800 --> 4:01:47.320 about yours is like from if you listen, like I'm 4:01:47.320 --> 4:01:48.920 gonna thinking because when he sat there, I'm like, yo, 4:01:49.000 --> 4:01:51.800 damn closer, Like you literally started my saying. I started 4:01:51.800 --> 4:01:54.160 out and I rapped the wrong route. You already knew. 4:01:54.880 --> 4:01:57.760 You already knew. But this aspiration in the next few lines, 4:01:57.880 --> 4:02:00.280 like trying to go from paint overs to make sofas. Yeah, 4:02:00.960 --> 4:02:03.160 I'm trying to get to that point. You see what 4:02:03.200 --> 4:02:06.560 I'm saying, Like we were busy talking about no, bro, Like, Yo, 4:02:06.720 --> 4:02:09.080 this is the circumstances that we end and the real 4:02:09.400 --> 4:02:12.360 how are we gonna get We're not trying to stay here, 4:02:12.920 --> 4:02:17.120 We're trying to go here. I'm really your brother. What 4:02:17.160 --> 4:02:19.320 I'm saying like inside, like at twenty so think about that. 4:02:19.320 --> 4:02:21.160 You're doing that at twenty poem part of that too, 4:02:21.200 --> 4:02:23.480 But it's like, yo, ya can see it. Y'all started 4:02:23.520 --> 4:02:25.680 from it. But Yo, this is the aspiration to get 4:02:25.720 --> 4:02:28.200 to hear Whereas now it's like, how can I be 4:02:28.320 --> 4:02:32.360 as disrespectful as possible? Is the power amount? What did 4:02:32.480 --> 4:02:35.000 Nipsey Hustle say He's say, when you look at the 4:02:35.080 --> 4:02:37.520 guys in the the hood, often when they go looking 4:02:37.600 --> 4:02:39.720 for somebody, looking for somebody that look like them, you're 4:02:39.720 --> 4:02:42.520 looking to go kill as something. Let me that's what happens. 4:02:42.720 --> 4:02:44.520 Let me change the subject real quick, because this is 4:02:44.560 --> 4:02:47.080 what everybody think. Do you think Nipsey Hustle being killed 4:02:47.160 --> 4:02:50.960 wascy theory? I mean a conspiracy theory is just people 4:02:51.000 --> 4:02:53.520 having a theory that was in conspiracy. You understand me. 4:02:54.280 --> 4:02:56.320 To be killed, I have no facts around this, so 4:02:56.360 --> 4:03:00.280 I don't want theorist. I know that Nipsey hustle life 4:03:00.520 --> 4:03:02.760 was probably one of the greatest lessons in hip hop Ever, 4:03:03.280 --> 4:03:05.800 you understand me, and I don't want people to be 4:03:05.960 --> 4:03:08.880 fearful of the legacy that he left behind. You understand me. 4:03:09.000 --> 4:03:12.000 Many people would die on the route to change, right, 4:03:12.280 --> 4:03:16.120 but you honor Jesus. You honor their life by going 4:03:16.240 --> 4:03:18.360 further doing the same thing that they did. You don't 4:03:18.400 --> 4:03:20.280 honor by saying what now, I don't want to do that. 4:03:20.720 --> 4:03:22.560 That's not how you honor a man that lived his 4:03:22.680 --> 4:03:25.520 life trying to change his environment and the circumstances of 4:03:26.040 --> 4:03:28.240 you looking at that life and saying, this is how 4:03:28.360 --> 4:03:30.840 he failed, Let me do something different exactly. That's the 4:03:30.960 --> 4:03:34.480 points from you always got to learn from revolutionaries. Every 4:03:34.520 --> 4:03:39.040 revolutionary makes mistakes. But it's like Shake Rivera, he's he 4:03:39.280 --> 4:03:42.480 he's a revolutionary and he ended up dying for the cause. 4:03:42.960 --> 4:03:47.000 But ultimately they won, you know what I'm saying, like 4:03:47.040 --> 4:03:59.880 they took a shot for that. I don't know. I respect, 4:04:00.000 --> 4:04:04.240 I respect changed what like like this in the sense, 4:04:04.360 --> 4:04:07.040 but I mean, I know it's deeper with cash and 4:04:07.080 --> 4:04:08.600 all that, But I'm just saying as far as the 4:04:08.960 --> 4:04:12.880 original intense, No, the intense themselves from the oppression. I 4:04:12.960 --> 4:04:17.560 respect people the proactiveness, but what we don't know what 4:04:17.680 --> 4:04:22.480 that man became and the revolution. That's exactly why it's 4:04:22.480 --> 4:04:24.520 called And he could tie it into Dion, you could 4:04:24.520 --> 4:04:27.240 talk into anything. The reason it's called the marathon because 4:04:27.320 --> 4:04:29.080 the baton needs to be passed. And so when we 4:04:29.120 --> 4:04:31.560 look at Nipsey's, I can see we are Nipsey's. I 4:04:31.600 --> 4:04:33.680 can see we don't look at it like yeah, that's his. No, 4:04:33.760 --> 4:04:35.960 we look at it like that's ours, right, Like the 4:04:36.040 --> 4:04:39.920 marathon continues like we really live in that's it's it's 4:04:40.000 --> 4:04:42.560 in us. So crazy about Nip. We was actually real 4:04:42.680 --> 4:04:44.600 Nip fans. We went to his concert and all of that, like, 4:04:44.640 --> 4:04:47.000 we're really supported it, and we knew that we was 4:04:47.040 --> 4:04:49.800 waking an interview with him after he died. Every single 4:04:49.920 --> 4:04:52.680 person we haven't met Black Sam yet, but every single 4:04:52.760 --> 4:04:57.480 person from j Stone to Dave Growth Sam, his sister, 4:04:57.720 --> 4:05:04.080 to his sister to Damn Steve All everyone I love y'all, 4:05:04.120 --> 4:05:06.120 call me the middle of bro Nip. Nip would have 4:05:06.120 --> 4:05:08.320 loved y'all. He called me in the middle of everyone. 4:05:08.400 --> 4:05:10.160 Everyone of him like, Yo, Nip would have loved y'all 4:05:10.200 --> 4:05:12.840 because y'all doing exactly what he wanted to do. Yeah, 4:05:12.960 --> 4:05:16.640 unfortunately he had an untimely demise. But it's up to 4:05:16.840 --> 4:05:20.440 us to carry the torch to and to keep it, 4:05:20.640 --> 4:05:22.920 keep it, keep the race going. So that's actually my 4:05:23.080 --> 4:05:27.240 last question, and I know I actually again, I actually 4:05:27.280 --> 4:05:30.200 had this earlier, and I want to re ask this again. 4:05:32.920 --> 4:05:35.720 So many of us want to invest in our own hood, 4:05:37.480 --> 4:05:40.480 but we we can, we can. You know, it's chinks. 4:05:42.640 --> 4:05:50.280 Edit that out. I'm trying to save you China. That's 4:05:50.280 --> 4:06:02.720 not politically correct. Everybody's name Asian population, no change drug. 4:06:04.200 --> 4:06:15.040 I thought, I how do I get kissing today said 4:06:15.200 --> 4:06:18.920 edit that out. He said, I didn't smoking the gunball 4:06:20.080 --> 4:06:27.080 going he said the chinks I said, but I'm looking 4:06:27.120 --> 4:06:34.320 at your face is like waiting that weaded so many people, 4:06:36.440 --> 4:06:40.520 so many people, so many people. Uh, look at what's 4:06:40.560 --> 4:06:45.000 my man name, young Dolf yeast peace. So many people 4:06:45.040 --> 4:06:47.880 get murdered at home, and yeah, in their own hood, 4:06:48.440 --> 4:06:51.400 they'll stay home, they try to investigate. And if they 4:06:51.440 --> 4:06:53.240 don't try to investigate hood, what they're trying to do 4:06:53.400 --> 4:06:56.880 is invest into the investment that's already invested, and then 4:06:56.880 --> 4:06:59.640 they'll go and try to support that investment. Yeah, but 4:06:59.760 --> 4:07:06.600 then they die. Yeah, And I understand what you guys 4:07:06.640 --> 4:07:09.160 are saying, go back and invest, but there's so many 4:07:10.080 --> 4:07:13.480 cases of rappers going home to invest into their own 4:07:13.560 --> 4:07:18.720 hood and then trying to to build that financial well 4:07:19.240 --> 4:07:22.200 and then they die. But there's also so many cases 4:07:22.480 --> 4:07:26.160 like tr Gucci. You're not Gucci, but jeez, you understand me. 4:07:26.240 --> 4:07:29.480 They invested into Atlanta heavily. I think that if you 4:07:29.600 --> 4:07:33.240 focus on the cases where things went wrong, you magnify that. 4:07:33.720 --> 4:07:35.960 But there are so many black men and women that 4:07:36.120 --> 4:07:39.280 do invest in to commercial real estate in their neighborhood. 4:07:41.080 --> 4:07:49.360 And um, but jeez, won't promote that. I mean, the 4:07:49.440 --> 4:07:51.280 only reason I know it is because he said it. 4:07:52.280 --> 4:07:54.800 Want the exact location. I get what you're saying. You're saying, 4:07:54.960 --> 4:07:57.400 I mean, I think you have to be intelligent. You 4:07:57.480 --> 4:07:59.160 have to be intelligent, right, and you have to we 4:07:59.280 --> 4:08:02.480 have to look in for full circumstances as well. That 4:08:02.640 --> 4:08:06.120 wasn't just a random act of violence when Nipsey Hustle, right, 4:08:06.520 --> 4:08:09.880 I mean, you know, ultimately I love Nipsey Hustle. But 4:08:09.920 --> 4:08:12.480 I'm just saying I love Nipsey Hustle. I love everything 4:08:12.560 --> 4:08:15.480 about him, and I love his music. But ultimately, you're 4:08:15.480 --> 4:08:18.360 still a gang member and it's a it's a conflict 4:08:18.400 --> 4:08:24.560 between another gang member, so make it what I'm saying. 4:08:24.600 --> 4:08:27.400 What I'm saying is that we gotta look at the 4:08:27.440 --> 4:08:30.120 whole picture and be and be truthful about it. Right, 4:08:30.400 --> 4:08:32.640 It's not just a random act of He just opened 4:08:32.720 --> 4:08:34.320 up a business in his neighborhood and he got killed 4:08:34.360 --> 4:08:37.000 for no reason. It's like, these are different activities that 4:08:37.120 --> 4:08:39.800 take place within gang culture. So it's like, now we 4:08:39.840 --> 4:08:42.800 gotta look at the bigger picture of gang culture, where 4:08:42.800 --> 4:08:46.240 we know that most crips are not killed by bloods, 4:08:46.640 --> 4:08:49.800 most crips are killed by crips. Most bloods are killed 4:08:49.880 --> 4:08:52.600 by bloods. This is an internal conflict that's been happening 4:08:52.640 --> 4:08:55.040 for a long time. Nipsey Hustle not the first person. 4:08:55.120 --> 4:08:56.920 He's not the first Rolling sixty to get killed by 4:08:57.040 --> 4:08:59.680 Rolling sixty. That has been happening for a long time, 4:09:00.360 --> 4:09:02.280 you know what I'm saying. So it's like, it's not 4:09:02.400 --> 4:09:05.120 necessarily I don't think that it's because Nipsey Hustle opened 4:09:05.120 --> 4:09:07.360 the business in this neighborhood and he got killed. It's 4:09:07.400 --> 4:09:09.680 probably because of internal What I'm saying is, how do 4:09:09.760 --> 4:09:12.080 we defer people from saying that. How do we tell 4:09:12.160 --> 4:09:15.280 Gumbo Gumbo? Listen, you met him on a hundred forty 4:09:15.920 --> 4:09:18.960 Gumbo wants to, you know, put Madison Square, Gumbo on 4:09:19.080 --> 4:09:21.680 a hundred forty free right where Copler's used to be. 4:09:22.080 --> 4:09:24.960 But but guess what the sixteen people who just got 4:09:25.080 --> 4:09:27.360 killed up the block or down the block or around 4:09:27.400 --> 4:09:30.440 the block. And then why why why would we invest 4:09:30.560 --> 4:09:34.040 into these communities that is actually savage? How do they 4:09:34.120 --> 4:09:36.360 do it when when you look at gentrification, what is 4:09:36.400 --> 4:09:38.680 the process that happens a lot of times they move 4:09:38.760 --> 4:09:41.800 out a lot of people before they invest into that neighborhood. 4:09:42.240 --> 4:09:44.320 You understand me. This is how they control it. So 4:09:44.440 --> 4:09:46.080 you start to see a bunch of people that get 4:09:46.200 --> 4:09:48.600 priced out of just get kicked out of that neighborhood. 4:09:48.960 --> 4:09:51.280 Then they start to bring in the Starbucks. Then they 4:09:51.320 --> 4:09:54.200 start to bring in, right, all of the different type 4:09:54.240 --> 4:09:55.800 of business. Because let me stop before, which is not 4:09:55.920 --> 4:09:58.760 at a particularly bad things. We did the same thing 4:09:58.840 --> 4:10:02.680 because justification had started in like the like the barely 4:10:02.840 --> 4:10:05.280 white neighborhoods at first, and there was like all right, 4:10:05.320 --> 4:10:08.320 whol it's like like twelve cent black people, just get 4:10:08.360 --> 4:10:10.400 them out of here. Let let me say this more. 4:10:10.520 --> 4:10:13.800 It's about how you do it though, right, Magic Johnson 4:10:13.920 --> 4:10:20.720 has it there in or right, he got it there 4:10:20.760 --> 4:10:23.400 on Hunt fifth Street. Right, it's how you do it. 4:10:23.640 --> 4:10:25.400 You don't necessarily have to be hanging out in front 4:10:25.400 --> 4:10:29.960 of the every single day you und you don't necessarily 4:10:30.040 --> 4:10:33.360 have to be involved in the neighborhood politics. So it's 4:10:33.400 --> 4:10:35.240 about being intelligent at the end of the day as well, 4:10:35.640 --> 4:10:37.440 and how how you carrying It's like, we could do 4:10:37.520 --> 4:10:42.360 good business, but let's do good business some Unfortunately sometimes 4:10:42.680 --> 4:10:46.160 most of the times we we we mix business and 4:10:46.240 --> 4:10:48.400 neighborhood and we don't know how they can buy, and 4:10:48.440 --> 4:10:50.840 we don't know how to separate the two businesses, business 4:10:50.880 --> 4:10:53.720 in the neighborhood politics and neighborhood politics. If you're a 4:10:53.800 --> 4:10:55.800 business owner in that neighborhood and you have a business 4:10:55.800 --> 4:10:57.760 own in the neighborhood, you don't necessarily need to be 4:10:57.920 --> 4:11:02.320 deeply rooted in the neighborhood politics. Separate yourself because you 4:11:02.360 --> 4:11:04.360 could be a business owner and uplift the community and 4:11:04.440 --> 4:11:07.200 make money. But when you when you are deep rooted 4:11:07.200 --> 4:11:11.240 in the neighborhood politics, neighborhood issues, is gonna happen to you. 4:11:11.560 --> 4:11:13.640 That's that's part, that's the natural progression. It's like when 4:11:13.720 --> 4:11:16.200 when this elevation is going to be separation. But you 4:11:16.320 --> 4:11:18.200 got to know that, right, there's certain things that you're 4:11:18.200 --> 4:11:19.880 not gonna be able to partake in. So that that 4:11:19.960 --> 4:11:22.120 comes on. How does the person invest into the hood 4:11:22.520 --> 4:11:24.440 and then not trying to be in part of it. 4:11:24.520 --> 4:11:26.400 So I'll tell you one thing that we're doing with 4:11:26.520 --> 4:11:29.360 some good brothers at Oasis. I suppose I invest in 4:11:29.440 --> 4:11:32.200 new work, right, and then new work has a baseball game, 4:11:32.520 --> 4:11:34.120 Why wouldn't want to go out? I mean, if you 4:11:34.160 --> 4:11:36.000 want to go, you go, But I think that's separate. 4:11:36.080 --> 4:11:39.440 Tend your investment, like you can invest like our our ideas, 4:11:39.520 --> 4:11:42.240 like investing into Black America. It could be anywhere in America, 4:11:42.280 --> 4:11:45.440 but it's Black America investing into our communities and have 4:11:45.560 --> 4:11:48.280 the businesses as owned by us. Right. Like one thing 4:11:48.360 --> 4:11:50.600 that we're doing is is having a fund to where 4:11:50.640 --> 4:11:53.360 anybody can invest in the neighborhood. Right, you go look 4:11:53.400 --> 4:11:56.200 at all of the abandoned houses that's in the neighborhood 4:11:56.200 --> 4:11:59.400 and abandoned buildings. Then you go buy those buildings up, 4:11:59.520 --> 4:12:01.360 you put and it's there, and the people that live 4:12:01.400 --> 4:12:03.920 in that environment that invested into that fund or just 4:12:04.040 --> 4:12:06.520 those families, they are going to support that business and 4:12:06.600 --> 4:12:08.920 now they also have equity in that business as well 4:12:09.360 --> 4:12:12.360 or that company. There's there's multiple to the different ways 4:12:12.400 --> 4:12:14.840 that you can go about investing. It's about what is 4:12:14.880 --> 4:12:17.360 your strategy and how you want to go about doing it. Now, 4:12:17.480 --> 4:12:20.080 somebody like you that have some money, you can invest 4:12:20.200 --> 4:12:23.560 all throughout America. Nobody has to know you're right. If 4:12:23.600 --> 4:12:25.400 you want to go to that game, you're gonna go 4:12:25.480 --> 4:12:27.720 to that game, whether you're invested into that community or not. 4:12:28.120 --> 4:12:30.520 So they have nothing to do with your investment portfolio. 4:12:31.080 --> 4:12:33.880 The thing is the people that own our shops and 4:12:34.040 --> 4:12:36.960 own our communities are not in them. You don't see 4:12:37.000 --> 4:12:39.680 them ever. So you can own your whole block and 4:12:39.760 --> 4:12:42.560 everybody could be paying you, you know, Rick, and nobody 4:12:42.640 --> 4:12:44.560 has to ever see that. That's my whole point. And 4:12:44.640 --> 4:12:47.120 you can still be active on a certain level. But 4:12:47.280 --> 4:12:50.240 it's like there's different between being active coming through showing 4:12:50.320 --> 4:12:55.080 love and being active on the corner in the barbershop 4:12:55.680 --> 4:12:57.720 conversation and you said it, The crazy part is that 4:12:57.880 --> 4:13:01.760 you actually live this right. You've been rapping, rapping left 4:13:01.840 --> 4:13:06.400 rack since I first heard you IRAQ, Like that's all 4:13:06.480 --> 4:13:08.320 I know. Then I met the person that owned it 4:13:09.720 --> 4:13:13.480 thirty years later. Crazy, he'd be thirty five, you know 4:13:13.480 --> 4:13:16.560 what I'm saying, and like I know you and by 4:13:18.440 --> 4:13:21.520 yeah and by default like he just he like I'm 4:13:21.560 --> 4:13:25.560 sitting there at college house and he's sitting there, he's yeah, 4:13:26.000 --> 4:13:29.880 he waited, he waited to speak to me. And then 4:13:29.920 --> 4:13:32.720 when he changed, you have was the change? No, no, no, no, no, 4:13:33.640 --> 4:13:35.480 he got he got this a little bit confused. What 4:13:35.760 --> 4:13:38.920 it was is he seen my chain and then really 4:13:39.000 --> 4:13:41.760 showed him his chain when he had left frax City 4:13:41.800 --> 4:13:44.040 on it. You know what I'm saying. So um, But 4:13:44.200 --> 4:13:46.880 what it was was like he he sat there and 4:13:46.880 --> 4:13:48.280 he waited it and he was like, yo, you know 4:13:48.360 --> 4:13:51.360 you've been wrapping my family forever, and like it was 4:13:51.400 --> 4:13:56.200 a bit of sweet moments. He owned the business and 4:13:56.280 --> 4:13:58.640 you never knew who he was, but to me Italian. 4:13:58.760 --> 4:14:09.080 So yeah, I think it's okay to say Jewish. But 4:14:11.360 --> 4:14:13.880 this is important. When we was going down in Brownsville 4:14:13.920 --> 4:14:16.160 and throughout New York and we're having conversations with the 4:14:16.200 --> 4:14:19.560 business owner, most of them was Middle Eastern or Jewish. 4:14:19.960 --> 4:14:22.960 You can't have a conversation about Black America without having 4:14:23.000 --> 4:14:26.440 a conversation with or about Jewish people because we're intertwined. 4:14:26.480 --> 4:14:28.520 Most people, landlords are going to be Jewish. Most of 4:14:28.560 --> 4:14:30.400 the stories that we support are going to be Jewish. 4:14:30.800 --> 4:14:32.640 So what we're doing is we're looking at the same 4:14:32.760 --> 4:14:34.360 models that they've built and said, we want to do 4:14:34.440 --> 4:14:37.240 that for ourselves. Thank you for showing us. Now it's 4:14:37.240 --> 4:14:40.400 time for us to build a day and we should. 4:14:40.560 --> 4:14:43.600 And so when you say what's the blueprint, that's the blueprint. 4:14:44.000 --> 4:14:46.960 The Asian community is the blueprint. You understand me, they've 4:14:46.960 --> 4:14:48.760 shown us how to do it. All we have to 4:14:48.800 --> 4:14:51.080 do is follow those same models that we complain about 4:14:51.480 --> 4:14:55.280 instead utilize them as solutions and strategies. That's it. That's 4:14:55.320 --> 4:15:01.600 crazy that this came around. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. 4:15:02.560 --> 4:15:05.640 Thank you all so much. I'm being honest um to 4:15:05.800 --> 4:15:10.400 visit um, but I'm being honest. Um. Your job is 4:15:10.480 --> 4:15:15.560 way more dangerous than our jobs because y'all teaching people 4:15:16.000 --> 4:15:19.240 to get up and stay out like if you like, 4:15:19.520 --> 4:15:22.000 because that's that's what we're used to in the hood, 4:15:22.080 --> 4:15:24.920 the Ponzi scheme, right, Like you go, you come buy 4:15:25.080 --> 4:15:29.400 till your icy. It's Italian icy. It this is Italian. 4:15:30.280 --> 4:15:32.560 This is tire nicy, and then by the time you 4:15:32.640 --> 4:15:35.440 get to the big Italian icy, no one gets a 4:15:35.600 --> 4:15:39.560 tire nicey. Right. That's the posy schemes that we're used 4:15:39.560 --> 4:15:42.960 to in New York. Right, this is this is how 4:15:43.040 --> 4:15:47.520 it is. But there's no Palsi s kid, this is 4:15:47.640 --> 4:15:51.480 real ship. You're telling people this. You do A B 4:15:51.720 --> 4:15:58.600 and C, you're gonna get to E F G and 4:15:58.720 --> 4:16:01.920 nothing else comes goes with it. Just fucking follow the rules. 4:16:02.040 --> 4:16:08.360 Bos Bro said, it's way more dangerous than mars All 4:16:08.400 --> 4:16:11.520 I'm doing is bringing you back to life, to your 4:16:11.560 --> 4:16:18.200 old school rapper. Let's come here. Good. Now that got wrong. 4:16:19.640 --> 4:16:26.400 You're back back. I don't need to spread that dust 4:16:26.480 --> 4:16:31.040 on y'all, y'all dust to spread it on me. But 4:16:31.200 --> 4:16:35.760 that's what I have to do. Spread this dusty this this, 4:16:35.960 --> 4:16:39.440 this is a dangerous conversation of dangerous collaboration. Yeah, and 4:16:40.360 --> 4:16:43.320 they are back man, we we I'm always here to 4:16:43.400 --> 4:16:49.400 be a resource. You relax word what you got to 4:16:49.440 --> 4:16:55.760 relax the whole time? Say we got to edit that. 4:16:57.320 --> 4:17:03.560 I really appreciate ate you guys. You guys deserved. You 4:17:03.640 --> 4:17:07.120 guys are beautiful. No no, no, no no no, I'm 4:17:07.120 --> 4:17:10.440 not real ship. No, it's really your alleged, your alegged 4:17:10.680 --> 4:17:14.600 that's the real ship. And I want to say thank 4:17:14.720 --> 4:17:19.000 y'all because there's non before y'all, and we don't know 4:17:19.040 --> 4:17:21.840 who's gonna be after y'all, just like y'all Sanders, just 4:17:21.960 --> 4:17:24.560 like Deon. Alright, Dion did what he had to do. 4:17:24.720 --> 4:17:27.360 That was great, and he went on. He got his paycheck. 4:17:27.600 --> 4:17:32.000 Someone's gonna disagree, someone's gonna agree. But what y'all doing, 4:17:32.840 --> 4:17:39.960 it's different. Y'are teaching us how to be stable how 4:17:40.000 --> 4:17:42.680 to continue with this, and not only that, teach other 4:17:42.840 --> 4:17:45.520 people how to do It's not a secret. You could 4:17:45.560 --> 4:17:48.800 I could be saying, take take off, Simlar, me, you 4:17:48.920 --> 4:17:51.720 and five people. You're not doing that. You know what 4:17:51.760 --> 4:17:54.920 I'm saying, Like these people are gonna be like, oh cool, 4:17:54.960 --> 4:17:57.280 they got MANswers, they got big boy roll. He's I'm 4:17:57.320 --> 4:17:59.840 gonna pay that. No, you're doing this for the world. 4:18:00.120 --> 4:18:04.760 That's a beautiful thing. We appreciate that. This is the 4:18:04.880 --> 4:18:17.600 last question. All of the people that I know when 4:18:17.680 --> 4:18:21.720 this man was president. When this man was president, everybody 4:18:21.760 --> 4:18:27.680 I know was rich. It's Trump good for us. Let 4:18:27.720 --> 4:18:30.200 me just say this, Let's just keep it really going 4:18:30.200 --> 4:18:38.080 to the bathroom. Donald Donald Donald Trump, Donald Trump. Donald 4:18:38.160 --> 4:18:44.720 Trump is definitely uh. He seemed like a racist. He's 4:18:45.440 --> 4:18:47.480 very ignorant person when it comes to a variety of 4:18:47.520 --> 4:18:52.000 different things. But he is a businessman and um at 4:18:52.000 --> 4:18:54.120 the end of the broke people when he was in office. 4:18:56.400 --> 4:18:58.400 That's the one thing I gotta give. So I say this, 4:18:58.600 --> 4:19:00.760 you know was your good busines? Well, I'll say this, 4:19:00.840 --> 4:19:02.840 you don't. You do you don't. You don't reach that 4:19:02.960 --> 4:19:05.480 level of success by just being an accident or being dumb. 4:19:05.680 --> 4:19:08.080 And I'm not even a having a family that but 4:19:08.400 --> 4:19:11.440 even even if you have a family, there's plenty of 4:19:11.480 --> 4:19:14.240 people that have families, have to have fun up. So 4:19:14.320 --> 4:19:16.360 we got to give some level of credit when credit 4:19:16.520 --> 4:19:19.600 is due. He is he is. He is a good businessman, 4:19:19.640 --> 4:19:22.240 he's a great marketer, marketing. Yet one of the that 4:19:22.320 --> 4:19:24.200 would say he's a and that's that's that's probably the 4:19:24.240 --> 4:19:28.440 most important part of business. Um. But as as a person, 4:19:28.840 --> 4:19:31.120 of course he's He's done so many different things that 4:19:31.480 --> 4:19:34.760 you know, he has no no integrity. So but as 4:19:34.800 --> 4:19:38.880 far as people won't vote for him, not not in majority, 4:19:39.040 --> 4:19:42.520 because they didn't vote for him last time, I know 4:19:42.640 --> 4:19:46.360 you're not. Even when it comes to the whole politics, 4:19:46.440 --> 4:19:50.680 and my whole thing has always been vote for myself. 4:19:50.760 --> 4:19:54.120 It don't matter whose president. If we rely on who's 4:19:54.120 --> 4:19:59.040 the president for our economic opportunities, we always little. The 4:19:59.120 --> 4:20:01.800 only person you need to vote for every season is yourself. 4:20:02.160 --> 4:20:04.120 You understand me. And when it kind of black America, 4:20:05.400 --> 4:20:15.080 you've already been voted politician. But campaigns what we're doing 4:20:15.160 --> 4:20:17.680 when we travel around the world, people are voting for us, 4:20:18.240 --> 4:20:22.520 understand me. Yeah, The campaign is the education. The campaign 4:20:22.680 --> 4:20:24.720 is the trail that we on. We're teaching our people 4:20:24.800 --> 4:20:27.480 how to do for self rather than wait somebody to 4:20:27.560 --> 4:20:29.760 do for you. So when you teach your people how 4:20:29.840 --> 4:20:31.640 to be self sufficient and they don't have to wait 4:20:31.720 --> 4:20:33.800 on the savior, they're not waiting to vote on the 4:20:33.880 --> 4:20:37.000 next old, rich white man, you understand me. They're voting 4:20:37.040 --> 4:20:39.440 for themselves, saying that I'm gonna take and then we 4:20:39.600 --> 4:20:42.440 vote with our dollars. Right, So when I'm investing into 4:20:42.480 --> 4:20:45.160 a black business, I'm supporting the black business. I'm voting 4:20:45.240 --> 4:20:47.680 for you to circulate my dollar into that community so 4:20:47.840 --> 4:20:50.160 we can have economic eliftment, so more of us at 4:20:50.200 --> 4:20:52.640 the top, right, and less of us are at the bottom. 4:20:53.240 --> 4:20:56.240 That you know, we tried politics for a very long time. 4:20:56.760 --> 4:20:59.640 People can have a conversation about politics, but it's nothing 4:21:00.000 --> 4:21:02.520 if it don't have the capital structure behind it, you 4:21:02.640 --> 4:21:06.000 understand me. So when you talk on politics, if you don't, 4:21:06.640 --> 4:21:08.960 you know, buy the politician and put them into place. 4:21:08.960 --> 4:21:12.720 Because voting is for poor people. Lobbying is for the rich. Right, 4:21:12.840 --> 4:21:14.800 you're rich, so you got to get into the game. 4:21:15.000 --> 4:21:21.720 Lobby lobbying is creating second floor the economic infrastructure to say, look, 4:21:22.000 --> 4:21:24.120 this is what we stand for and we need this 4:21:24.240 --> 4:21:27.120 to happen, right, and so when we we don't really 4:21:27.200 --> 4:21:30.520 have too many back lobbies and so like the lobbyists 4:21:30.800 --> 4:21:36.840 standing on the second floor, Well, so that's where it 4:21:36.880 --> 4:21:38.920 comes from. Right, We're gonna stand in the middle of 4:21:39.560 --> 4:21:41.600 Congress and we're gonna say look, we're gonna be outside 4:21:41.600 --> 4:21:43.040 the center and said, look, these are the things we 4:21:43.160 --> 4:21:45.080 want and if you don't do it, we're not voting 4:21:45.120 --> 4:21:47.400 for you. Right, and you need that back in So 4:21:47.520 --> 4:21:49.680 the n A has a lobby, Jewish community has. We 4:21:49.800 --> 4:21:51.920 don't have a lobby. And so we spoke about this 4:21:52.040 --> 4:21:54.080 on an episode, was like, yo, when do we create 4:21:54.120 --> 4:21:57.000 a Countries have lobbies and when are we going to 4:21:57.040 --> 4:21:58.960 create our lobby to say, like, these are the things 4:21:59.040 --> 4:22:01.840 that we want. We're not voting for you unless these 4:22:02.000 --> 4:22:04.640 needs are met. The problem is that there's so many 4:22:04.720 --> 4:22:07.240 needs that we can't perform to say like, yo, these 4:22:07.280 --> 4:22:09.200 are the things that we want. There's so many things 4:22:09.240 --> 4:22:10.880 that we want, but we haven't figured out what are 4:22:10.960 --> 4:22:13.480 the things that we're gonna put to the paramount or 4:22:13.520 --> 4:22:15.840 the forefront to say like this is it and if 4:22:15.880 --> 4:22:18.600 you don't do these things, we're not voting. What does 4:22:18.680 --> 4:22:22.640 every candidate, what does every candidate need that runs off? 4:22:23.120 --> 4:22:28.200 Hold on this. You know why he felt so confident 4:22:28.240 --> 4:22:32.240 saying that, because all black people vote for Democrat regardless 4:22:32.240 --> 4:22:36.320 of it. And they and most of you know, the 4:22:36.800 --> 4:22:39.600 so called activists and community leaders and people are in 4:22:39.680 --> 4:22:42.400 the pockets of the lobby and groups and of the 4:22:42.520 --> 4:22:46.240 Democratic Party regardless if they have tangible force or not. 4:22:46.840 --> 4:22:48.960 So the new thing is, you know, this generation don't 4:22:48.960 --> 4:22:51.840 believe in that ship. We don't believe in blindly voting 4:22:52.000 --> 4:22:55.520 just to participate in politics. We want to actually make 4:22:55.640 --> 4:22:58.680 everything that we do count. If our ancestors didn't just 4:22:58.800 --> 4:23:00.520 die for us to write to vote, they die for 4:23:00.640 --> 4:23:04.000 us to have ownership and control and power, you understand me. 4:23:04.080 --> 4:23:07.240 But we usualize these old tropes and old things over 4:23:07.360 --> 4:23:09.760 and over and over, but we get nothing, nothing, and nothing. 4:23:10.280 --> 4:23:13.000 So my whole thing is, like you said, no, no 4:23:13.160 --> 4:23:16.360 politician can even run office, not even win without money, 4:23:16.800 --> 4:23:19.240 you understand me. So he gives them that money. Are 4:23:19.320 --> 4:23:21.280 the people that they owe when they get into office. 4:23:21.720 --> 4:23:23.240 So if they owe us, then they have to do 4:23:23.320 --> 4:23:30.360 what we say exactly. That's that's a lobby over I 4:23:30.480 --> 4:23:36.560 got I gotta take at that's drink Champs. Yeah, that's that. 4:23:36.720 --> 4:23:44.760 That's been drink Champs. 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