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Speaker 1: R and money.

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Speaker 2: We are.

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Speaker 1: We are the.

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Speaker 3: Authority, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tank Valentine and

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Speaker 3: this is the Army Money Podcast, The authority.

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Speaker 1: On all things are in by.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my my my.

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Speaker 4: My, yes, real going on listen here.

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Speaker 3: We we we we have a special place here where

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Speaker 3: where special people we we. We are blessed when they

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Speaker 3: stop by amen, when they are in the midst in

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Speaker 3: the presence being who and what they are. This man

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Speaker 3: is a fine man man the cloth Uh, a man

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Speaker 3: of deep soil, deep soil. Yeah, keep the name him

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Speaker 3: uh and and and and his gift uh speaks.

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Speaker 1: Volumes throughout the musical universe.

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Speaker 2: I speak on.

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Speaker 3: None other than as I bring guest preacher to the podium.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna use that when I go on my.

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Speaker 1: Next to you are you man? You are brother man.

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Speaker 1: I love you brother to be him man.

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Speaker 2: I gotta shake out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. We've been doing this.

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Speaker 2: A long long time, brothers for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know.

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Speaker 3: Along with the brotherhood, you know, today I feel like,

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Speaker 3: you know, we get to we get to talk to

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Speaker 3: talk about b J the Chicago kid.

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Speaker 1: We get we get to we get to talk shipped.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying you know what I'm saying

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Speaker 3: you you you get to say you God, damn right, go.

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Speaker 2: Ahead and look who I mean it.

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Speaker 1: Then you're damn right. Yes on who they say.

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Speaker 3: I am multi faceted, multi talented. More importantly man, uh,

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Speaker 3: just a good brother man, Thank you man, good brother man.

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Speaker 3: You know there's that's universal, that's not just language we talk.

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Speaker 3: That's that's around the world. Very important to this thing.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: I think you are very important to this thing. Thank

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Speaker 2: you man, Thank you saying same. That's why I showed up.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 2: I was at the Raphaels down the street, said let

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Speaker 2: me go ahead and try about with in between these

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Speaker 2: episodes and Tom and Jerry Snookie get my sweat out

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Speaker 2: the first off and shout out to the cooogie.

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Speaker 1: You.

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Speaker 3: You are not getting away from here without giving me

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Speaker 3: the connect I got.

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Speaker 2: You say, let's the real, authentic o G not the

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Speaker 2: I don't want none of that new You want something

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Speaker 2: to put time in you. I want that real threading.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your lineage is crazy. If your family dynamics,

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Speaker 3: it's all it's all crazy. Like you know, we we

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Speaker 3: we could have you here for two days.

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Speaker 1: We can going through the.

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Speaker 3: Levels and the progressions. But let's at least let's at

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Speaker 3: least touch on the beginning of of what you come from, man,

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Speaker 3: and and and and where it all started for you?

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Speaker 1: Where was a must.

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Speaker 2: I'm the youngest of three boys, both parents in the home. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: born and raised in the same home that I left.

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Speaker 2: I was born here, moving to l A. Anything they touched,

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Speaker 2: I touched basketball, drums, bases in the house a couple

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Speaker 2: of times. With music in general, even my mom and dad.

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Speaker 2: My dad, he was a choir director in this earlier

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Speaker 2: Afro real Bell Bottom days, you know that that era.

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Speaker 1: And he was directing the choir with the Afro.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I still got pictures. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: my dad was a choir director. My mom did the

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Speaker 2: same thing, and so they grew up in the same church.

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Speaker 2: Then she went to her mom's church for some time

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Speaker 2: and then came back to that church. So my mom

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Speaker 2: was was directing choirs pretty much the whole time as well,

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Speaker 2: learning how to harmonize, doing what harmony was, Knowing how

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Speaker 2: all of that. Like my mom taught me that in

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Speaker 2: the car. Like I remember the first time I ever

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Speaker 2: had to sing at church. She made me sing with

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Speaker 2: it was pretty much three of us. We had to

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Speaker 2: before we went into church. That was my first sign

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Speaker 2: of pressure and getting through it. Of course, I was

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Speaker 2: about six or seven years old, bro and I and

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Speaker 2: I felt that pressure of have a responsibility of a part.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's singing this with you, so if you fall off,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna make the ship rocky.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's like I understood what the musical responsibility was for

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Speaker 2: the first time, outside of a choir or a.

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Speaker 1: Group or something. It was just like us this way. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Was like all right, and we went in and we

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Speaker 2: did it. It was amazing, man. But just little things like

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Speaker 2: children's choirs. Just stuff like that, it takes me back. Oh,

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Speaker 2: for sure, I had gigs. I had church gigs.

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Speaker 2: I actually when I moved to l A, I left

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Speaker 2: the church to come to LA to pursue writing and

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Speaker 2: you know, artistry and so forth, music on a different

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Speaker 2: level outside of the drums. So I left forget to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when you were in this church space. I mean

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Speaker 3: you talked about six and seven, already harmonized and already

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Speaker 3: feeling the pressure.

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Speaker 2: My brothers they went on to play like for all

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Speaker 2: of the best choirs, the recordings and all like my

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Speaker 2: Scooter is Man recorded so many times with so many

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Speaker 2: groups and choirs throughout downloadable history. Aaron, Aaron, don't look

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Speaker 2: like it, but he the oldest. Everybody like who the oldest?

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Speaker 2: I was like, God, like the oldest, but he's the oldest.

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Speaker 2: School is next, Scooter is next, and then I'm the

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Speaker 2: youngest BJ. So it just man, bro, like my brothers

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Speaker 2: were and still is everything to be. They still remain

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Speaker 2: big brothers, even in me being an artist, like when

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Speaker 2: it comes to like away from all this, you know this, man,

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Speaker 2: they still be brothers. Just they they stayed my dogs

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Speaker 2: many just like that, and we stay locked. And was

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Speaker 2: best dressed in high school. So of course it's his

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Speaker 2: reason why I might want to be fresh every day?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: Was that because they were able to you know, I

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Speaker 1: mean you had a couple of things.

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, of course, you know if they left

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Speaker 2: too long on leave their closet open. Yeah, the reason

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Speaker 2: why girls on the body line we met some girls

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Speaker 4: Bob's close the ship I wantuposed to iron that it

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Speaker 4: got a hole in it there. That's not.

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Speaker 2: One day Scooter walked in and not I got in

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Speaker 2: maybe ten minutes before him and not knowing he was

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Speaker 2: coming straight and he caught me with it on mom

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Speaker 2: and daddy wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Mom, and daddy wasn't that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like his hands.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, mano, mano, man Yeah, that dope. But but

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Speaker 2: I got it off in school. I got that fit off.

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Speaker 2: Though I got that fit off, was it worth it? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: especially for the times you didn't have that fit. Nigga

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Speaker 2: snuck in on the Wednesday would feel like, are you

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Speaker 2: in shopping yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Huh?

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Speaker 2: It ain't Monday, nigga. Niggas nigga, you know niggas go

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Speaker 2: shopping on the weekend. So here's a new fit on

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Speaker 2: the Wednesday night. Niggas just wait to figure something matter. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know how it is, man. I think that whole

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Speaker 2: competitiveness from even like you know, racing to the car

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Speaker 2: with your cousins as kids. Man, that whole competitiveness it

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Speaker 2: helped us form, like, you know, that other side of

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Speaker 2: life that you don't learn in the house, you know

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Almost like with basketball, can struw you

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Speaker 2: if you get beyond just hooping at the park and

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Speaker 2: and understanding of what teammates he is, and what survival is,

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Speaker 2: how to yeah, how to hold it down? Yeah, every everybody? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: yeah yeah. All of that was conditioning for surviving in

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Speaker 2: this game. Is still surviving in it. Reinventing myself again

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Speaker 2: to go again and have a little bit more fun

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Speaker 2: like our heroes have done. All of that stuff has

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Speaker 2: been seasoning to have a barbecue restaurant that we're trying

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Speaker 2: to make not but barbecue chicken.

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Speaker 1: Did you?

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Speaker 2: Did you?

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Speaker 3: Because I know me in church, I didn't know what

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Speaker 3: this was. You know, I wasn't even in a space

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Speaker 3: where it was even allowed to consider m Like I

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Speaker 3: know my older cousins that would listen to to uh

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Speaker 3: the secular, that's the word, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: I thought that I thought they were like, they're going

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Speaker 3: to hell. Well I didn't think they were going to hell.

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Speaker 3: I thought they were I thought they were cooler.

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Speaker 2: There was an interest, a curiosity.

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Speaker 3: I was like, because I used to. You know, I

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Speaker 3: used to hang with all my street guys. But at

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Speaker 3: a certain point when my grandmother you screamed out the

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Speaker 3: rail back and you know what time it was. Everybody

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Speaker 3: go to church, That's what it was.

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Speaker 2: Same with the sledge chiusehold and they laughed and joke.

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Speaker 2: We laughed in joke too, But Nigga, we ain't let

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Speaker 2: we ain't leave that that that that portray on cacking

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Speaker 2: is still nigga passing my cutback. I mean it. The

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Speaker 2: who we are, our understanding of ourselves. While we feel

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Speaker 2: those that had the same understanding of across the corner

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Speaker 2: before us, while we felt their music so stronger than

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Speaker 2: other artists, because Nigga, that's that's us. You listen to

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Speaker 2: your uncle yo, your musical pop show, your god daddy

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Speaker 2: in another way, but some type of ken to you

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Speaker 2: and it feels very familiar, and that that helps us

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Speaker 2: with who we are finding out, who we are growing

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Speaker 2: to be, what we want more of because they had

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Speaker 2: way less than we have but still gave us way

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Speaker 2: more than we give it.

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Speaker 1: They no pro tools, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, they had way less than what we had,

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Speaker 2: but gave more than what we give it for sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because imagine that bassic player fucking up all god damn time,

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Speaker 2: and we recording this song today. The bass player keep

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Speaker 2: sucking up. They're like, Hi, nigga, war more nigga. We

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Speaker 2: be going in the alley right easy, my big ma

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Speaker 2: beery steak tonight. I ain't being late.

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Speaker 1: You gotta be fed up, Jack.

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Speaker 4: Stevie wonder whoof.

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Speaker 2: Yep, yep, I can't see you, but I'm gonna find you. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna find you.

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Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Somebody even told me. They was like, have you ever

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Speaker 2: like they said, they know, I love so New so much.

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Speaker 2: It said, have you paid attention to how the sound

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Speaker 2: changed from before Martin Luther King? And then when he died,

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Speaker 2: he said them basslines got needed them, drums can heave.

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Speaker 2: Your conversation got a little different. You can hear the frustration,

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Speaker 2: the anger, the pain, even if it's a happy song

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Speaker 2: that Sh'S slapping now, It's like it certain things changed

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Speaker 2: music without the recognition of it changing, because it just

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Speaker 2: what we feel, it's gonna change you in what you do.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. The person that sell phones man,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's a bottle with some green spraying

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Speaker 1: Master This is different.

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Speaker 4: He's playing the secular music.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, I'm like what, I'm like, ugly,

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Speaker 1: where were you going? Got a date? I got a date?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Kid, you define everybody'd be like man like at a

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Speaker 2: Was it that that was it? That was it? That

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Speaker 2: Like even when I said the clone, it's like, I

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Speaker 2: or something something, but don't smell like nothing. You know something, Yeah, fly,

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 2: They say, what you didn't have a lot of when

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Speaker 2: because yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's true. But everything goes

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Speaker 2: back to when we were kids and what what we

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 2: Some guys still want that rock and sock and robot.

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Speaker 3: And I saw I saw the Vultron lines for sale.

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Speaker 3: On the other thing, I'm about to buy the.

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Speaker 1: Shield kill you. I bought a Megatron. I'm about to

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Speaker 1: buy a new Megatron that transforms on its own. I

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Speaker 3: You did because I didn't. I used to lie to that,

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Speaker 3: lie about having it. Yeah yeah, I got Nintendo. I

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Speaker 3: you talk about your big brothers and and obviously they're

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Speaker 3: like they're like their God. Yeah, when when do you

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Speaker 2: I had to be irritating first. I had to be

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Speaker 2: very irritating. First, I'm talking about school to be like Mama,

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Speaker 2: I used to call they the musicians. They have a

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 2: You know what I was on?

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Speaker 1: You gotta take BJ with you.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I immediately run to the room to

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Speaker 4: How old are you at this point?

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Speaker 2: Oh, nigga? That started. That started when I would have

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Speaker 1: But I was.

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Speaker 2: I knew I was a cool little brother man. Like

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Speaker 2: I used to shoot dice against my brother musician homies

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Speaker 2: and take their money.

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Speaker 1: School.

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Speaker 2: You were bet with me and like, Nick, come on,

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Speaker 2: make me some money, nigga. You know what I do,

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Speaker 2: nigga jump shots and dice. I shoot both of them.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. That was my air force

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Speaker 2: warm money. My mom was like this all you get

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Speaker 2: for shoes, This is gonna get for clothes going back

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Speaker 2: to school. You gotta make it work.

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Speaker 1: I'm line. Let me take this.

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Speaker 2: I'd be right back about thirty minutes. Yeah, go ahead

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Speaker 2: to go to Brander Park. Yep, we end up shooting

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Speaker 2: that was my way of like earning bread around that

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Speaker 2: in the gym shooting jumpers for money. I come, I

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Speaker 2: got three fifty in my pocket coming home today, though,

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Speaker 2: fuck it. I I deal with it with my pops.

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Speaker 2: That list of all them days you went out the

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Speaker 2: but you deal with it when it comes. But having

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Speaker 2: Winfrey Man. The list goes on and on. Every Bulls rally.

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Speaker 4: They came through Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, every Bulls rally, my daddy worked the stage where

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Speaker 2: make sure ain't nothing, nigga. I'll tell you what, the

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Speaker 2: Blues Fest, the Taste of Chicago, the Jazz Fest. Like

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Speaker 2: So one day I'm at the Gospel Fest. It's probably

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Speaker 2: the ship out gospel because I know Uncle Ron. I

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Speaker 2: call him Uncle Ron, like my daddy buddies all in

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Speaker 2: my right there. I know they about the dog this way,

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Speaker 2: So are you just bugging out?

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Speaker 4: Are you just hooping to gamble? Are you? Are you

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Speaker 4: going to school and hooping for the team too?

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Speaker 2: Are you just's what's crazy? I'll tell you this, this

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Speaker 2: Basketball was always available. I don't care if he was

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Speaker 2: in the alley hoop and I don't care you went

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Speaker 2: We ain't supposed to, Uh, hooping in Chicago, you gotta

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Speaker 2: go to parks that you know is the opposite of

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Speaker 2: how you grew up. You know what I'm saying. Far

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Speaker 2: as a gang wise or whatever, you notice in the

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Speaker 2: whole nother hood. You've been over here, you know this area,

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Speaker 2: but you don't hoop at this park. You ain't never

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Speaker 2: got You ain't got out the car and been around

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Speaker 2: these niggas, and the car is just as far away

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Speaker 2: from you because it is from him. Yeah, Like, nigga,

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Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta face the wolves. You gotta go

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Speaker 2: dance with the lions. And I think surviving in that city,

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Speaker 2: it makes you fearless, not being the enemy.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 2: Like, if you know you ain't the enemy, you walking,

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Speaker 2: you about to go on the liquor store. It's about

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Speaker 2: six niggas out there, and that you out the car,

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Speaker 2: you get back, you go back in the car, You're

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Speaker 2: gonna look like everything. Yeah, you might well keep on

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Speaker 2: what's up? Brother, that's how y'all doing? Before they say something,

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Speaker 2: I'm in the mother fucking store. I ain't listening to

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Speaker 2: you come talk back. I'm just letting you know, Nigga,

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Speaker 2: I'm not the nigga killch your cousin. Nigga, I ain't

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Speaker 2: fight you in high school. Nigga, ain't the nigga that

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Speaker 2: and you hear my accent, Nigga, I am not. But

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Speaker 2: you gotta be fearless if you ain't got shit to hide.

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Speaker 2: It's like in a mob, bro, if you ain't got

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Speaker 2: it to hide him, since you shake and stutter or nothing,

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Speaker 2: and just speak your truth and shut the fuck up,

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Speaker 2: you know. And I think that was my way of

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Speaker 2: being fearless, of moving out here to La Hell. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all that shit. It's like it. Keep it, keep you

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Speaker 2: tied in it, keep you focused too, cause sometimes you

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Speaker 2: might do the best out of three and then Nigga,

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Speaker 2: that's losing. Like Nigga, let's do one for one alright.

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Speaker 2: That means you gotta be so owned to the point

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Speaker 2: where if you know about jump shots, like Nigga, you

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Speaker 2: hit enough for them. It's a feeling. It's not even

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Speaker 2: how far you from the rim or nothing, nigga, it's

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Speaker 2: a feeling. And Nigga, I got really good. I got

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Speaker 2: used to that feeling. Very fast. And it's kind of

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Speaker 2: the same with music. Sometimes when you're on stage, this

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Speaker 2: song might be next on the list, but you got

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Speaker 2: some guys behind you.

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Speaker 1: They can follow you black niggas, they won't.

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Speaker 2: They want the one after that, and you're going out

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Speaker 2: there and you're black. I don't want to do something different.

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Speaker 2: Now they setting up for what did you just told him?

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Speaker 2: They getting ready so about and they.

439
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Speaker 1: Know when they hit it.

440
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,960
Speaker 2: It's all of his basketball is knowing how to penetrate.

441
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:18,920
Speaker 2: You see him over there, but the more you look

442
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 2: over there, it's gonna you gonna give him up. Theyga

443
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,000
Speaker 2: don't look over there, but let then they keep moving

444
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 2: you on. That's what made magic so ill. He didn't

445
00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 2: have to give up what he was about to do

446
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,639
Speaker 2: so much and him that's why he got to know

447
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 2: the passes off and it it's like it's it's a

448
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,760
Speaker 2: it's a certain concentration in penetration that you that you

449
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,240
Speaker 2: get in basketball that you could assess to other things

450
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 2: in life.

451
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. So you following school around.

452
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 2: Man and well when he get in the garage, boy

453
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 2: boom boom, just like them clothes. He call me with

454
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:50,159
Speaker 2: the clothes. No, nah, I'll tell you this. If I'm like, Mama,

455
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 2: I want to go, She's like, you gotta take bj

456
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take about two three hits in the chest

457
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 2: before we get in the kind of garage because he's like, niggas,

458
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 2: you know, I want to do me, Nigga, you're messing

459
00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,479
Speaker 2: up my flow. I'm like up, but I'm flying shit niggas.

460
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 2: By the time we get there, they his homies happy

461
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 2: to see me. Bro. Yeah, yeah, but I understand what

462
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,200
Speaker 2: I was doing with my brother, like he probably wanted

463
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:14,399
Speaker 2: to do some a little different than what he told

464
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,199
Speaker 2: my mama, you know how. Yeah, but nigga, they got

465
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 2: a little sister, nigga, what's up? And that is that

466
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 2: that happened quite a few times. So it's like, you know,

467
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 2: I learned a lot from hanging out with my brothers

468
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 2: far more mature than me. So even when I got

469
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 2: back around people my age, it stood out in a

470
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,400
Speaker 2: lot of ways. Having a father that I had, having

471
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 2: a mother that I had, helped me not be outside

472
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 2: to a certain point, to the point where certain shit

473
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 2: was only stories. Man, I heard when certain niggas got shot,

474
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't there. It was it was the survival

475
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 2: of me. You know what I'm saying, dude, it was

476
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 2: just it was the illest Aaron being the oldest Aaron

477
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,679
Speaker 2: was you know, he was the one of them. You know,

478
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,239
Speaker 2: get a couple of dollars, man, he like, man, clean

479
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:58,119
Speaker 2: them gym shoes for me.

480
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: I got you. I'll be there like, yeah, try.

481
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 2: To clean them souls in the ones. Just so you

482
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,440
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. I give me a little quick

483
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 2: ten fifteen dollars, twenty dollars man. I I've learned to

484
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 2: utilize my big big brothers is big brothers. You know

485
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, If an't working at the

486
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 2: store or something, nigga, you know, hit me up there.

487
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm in school, Nigga. Y'all got to

488
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 2: shoot hook up at foot locker from the homie. They

489
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,360
Speaker 2: can bring me some something back, Nigga. I'm a little

490
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 2: and I represent y'all. Nigga. Yeah yeah, nigga, yeah yeah,

491
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,120
Speaker 2: Or nigga, just bring me to y'all level, nigga, because

492
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 2: I understand it. Y'all know I know how to put

493
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 2: it together. You got the link, nigga. You got five nigga,

494
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:31,359
Speaker 2: give me one nigga And if you got five, you

495
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,920
Speaker 2: could get six, especially if you tell Willie it's for BJ.

496
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 7: So had your brothers did they leave when they turned

497
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 7: eighteen or did they stay in Chicago though?

498
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was the first one to move to LA,

499
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 2: but my brothers moved out the house.

500
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 4: And but they still stayed in the city.

501
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: But they still stay in the city. Yep.

502
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 4: But what made you go to LA?

503
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 2: Interesting question? So in high school, I I knew I

504
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 2: I you knew you were special musically, yes, people even

505
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 2: to get back to the basketball team.

506
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:16,640
Speaker 1: My bad.

507
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 2: I'm all over the place. But when I went to

508
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 2: high school, nigga, I hooped so much every day. Nigga,

509
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 2: I'm just nigga. You hear basketball and then you looking

510
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 2: out the windows seeing who out that drilling. Nigga know

511
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 2: if you should go hoop? If it's time yet, Nigga

512
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. That's the neighborhood. So nigga, yeah,

513
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 2: I went in there to try to play. But when

514
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 2: I saw ja uh Varsiti, I was like.

515
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, motherfucker. These niggas go overhead jav.

516
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 2: Real quick, try it out? What's crazy? I mean, it's

517
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,719
Speaker 2: next try But nigga, I didn't even go back. I

518
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 2: didn't go back. I don't know why, but I still

519
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 2: hung with the Hoopers Shine Dock Reality and there was

520
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 2: my niggas, like these were my niggas. So nigga, I

521
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 2: I walked it in our school. The music side is

522
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 2: like this hallway. It's like it's like an extension to

523
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,400
Speaker 2: the building. And to get over there, you know, wonder

524
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 2: over there. You Yeah, I said, I'm about to go

525
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 2: the church drummer.

526
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: I'm about to go see what these thiggas overhead DoD nigga.

527
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 2: My cousin. My cousin Charles was in the band. He

528
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 2: played drums at church. Uh something, about to go and

529
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 2: see what it's about here, Like nigga Actu you the

530
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 2: band nigga kind of cool? You should go. So I'm like, then,

531
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 2: I see you gotta walk past the choir room, the

532
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 2: piano room, in the band room. So I'm like, okay,

533
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 2: go in the band room. I got a class with

534
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 2: this nigga.

535
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: I notice.

536
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 2: Band coolest hell, it ain't no really nerdy ass band.

537
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 2: It's it's it's people that more book heavy than student heavy.

538
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 2: It was some nerds in the band, but the band

539
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 2: was actually niggas that'll beat your ass, come kick it

540
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 2: with you, nigga going out to eat nigga where the

541
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 2: girls at like. I was like, Nigga, I can rock

542
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 2: with this. So Nigga. I joined the band. I became

543
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 2: section leader within a month. It was a rule in

544
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 2: the band that you must know how to read music

545
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 2: to join this band and to excel in this band.

546
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 2: I never took music as a as a class, never

547
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 2: took music as a class.

548
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: I learned.

549
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 2: I was Nick Cannon.

550
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 1: You play it, I can remember it.

551
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 2: Because church is every genre, and one Sunday every genre

552
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 2: you might got, you got. The next day you're doing funk,

553
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 2: and next thing though you're doing this nigga, you're playing

554
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 2: R and B for offering. It's every freaking genre. Bro praise,

555
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 2: some worship, be country music.

556
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

557
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 2: It's every So I adapted very fast, and people that

558
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 2: thought they were supposed to have that spot but never

559
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 2: look at me like so they make niggas battle. I'm

560
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 2: used to playing the whole set. You canna make. You

561
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 2: played this one thing. I'm playing the ram everything, but

562
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 2: I'm playing it in a way that you wouldn't play

563
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 2: it because you play it, you come from this way

564
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 2: of playing it. I come from a different way of

565
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 2: planning it.

566
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

567
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 2: I played for my soul. That's how I can listen

568
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 2: to play. And they got never they never beat me.

569
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 2: I was sexually until I didn't want to be sexually

570
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 2: to no more.

571
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 1: He ain't taking music as a class.

572
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 2: I just sit back there and let mister Key tell him,

573
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 2: like to shut the fuck up and man their business.

574
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 2: Let him fight my battles. Just be a g what

575
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 2: you're saying the mob don't don't you got sation? But

576
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 2: my band leader was like one, two three four. He'd

577
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 2: be like, what the I love mister Key to this day,

578
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 2: mister Key, because when you're from the hood, majority of

579
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 2: us need to be talked like that, to be talked.

580
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 1: Listen, listen, respect people.

581
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 3: It's so much floating around online that that people get

582
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:45,959
Speaker 3: to judge from from from their private schools and and

583
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 3: and and from their higher learning and this upper eche

584
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 3: line of believing. When you don't come from that place,

585
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 3: you don't understand what it takes to get through to

586
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 3: a kid with the principal said, if you take him

587
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 3: home and never bring him back, I'll pass him. Get

588
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 3: him the fuck here. What are you gonna tell him?

589
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 3: You want to sit him down and have a conversation

590
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 3: with him? No, you nah, Pops needed to go upside

591
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 3: my head need that differently, Yeah, you need that real Badley.

592
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,400
Speaker 1: It was that. What's crazy is.

593
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 2: We understood what we understood, what we had to do

594
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 2: every week in the house. He wants to he want

595
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 2: the house clean Wednesday. God damn Friday. If you don't

596
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 2: do a Friday, better be done before you leave Saturday

597
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 2: to do whatever your all day ship is, or you

598
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 2: got a problem when you return Saturday night, you got

599
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 2: a problem. And from responsibility to just knowing, like Nigga,

600
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 2: that ship was right. Nigga, who what the you got

601
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 2: three boys? My mom is the only lady in the house, Nigga.

602
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nigga yea.

603
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: And nigg we watch her car. We have to do

604
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 2: all that, Nigga. We have to do all that. Nigga.

605
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 2: I still love and appreciate and Nigga, I praised my

606
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 2: mother man, she not just being a mother, but like

607
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: understanding what Sometimes it was important to me that really

608
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 2: what he's supposed to be like Nigga could be on

609
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: punishment and having a field trip you going to such

610
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: and such a nigga, one of them trips. Everybody need

611
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 2: need a new outfit my day. Like you ain't getting

612
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 2: she you ain't even going on trip. My mama like

613
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 2: give me that slip. She side a slip, nigga. One

614
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 2: of the trip niggas. She comeing able to little Nike

615
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 2: fit from coals, some super mess shorts with a knight.

616
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 2: You sound on that, nigga. Some socks. Nigga, You got

617
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 2: your shoes a nigga, And she like hurry up and

618
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 2: put it on while my daddy sleep and she give

619
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 2: me about it and I go to the trip. It's like, nigga,

620
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 2: my mom's just you don't beat that kind of love, bro.

621
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 2: You don't beat the display, the affection, the unconditional love.

622
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 2: That's like the first time to get of unconditional love

623
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 2: in the household with some of us. I understand something did,

624
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 2: but nigga, that was the first sign I ever had

625
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 2: an undditional love.

626
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: Nigga. My mom will call me right a nigga, I give.

627
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: Me five minutes, I'll be back, or slide the four

628
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 2: on the mice makes you everything all right? But my

629
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 2: mom is like that, yeah, but it was crazy. My

630
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 2: son share the same birthday as my mom. Wow, yeah, dude,

631
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 2: maybe even my magic was like, you know, like when

632
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: Pops passed away, my pop saw me. He's like, Nigga,

633
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 2: you gonna have a boy. I was like, Nigga's Thanksgiving.

634
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 2: We all drinking, niggas, playing dominoes, smack of the table, nigga,

635
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 2: the kids running around a matter of fact, she is again,

636
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 2: then we're gone and you're praying for the cow before

637
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 2: the milk. Milk for the cow passed away. Two years

638
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 2: after that, long and behore. Both my brothers got all girls.

639
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 2: I had the first boy of our generation. It's like, nigga, wow,

640
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 2: how to hell you? And he said it laughing. Atter

641
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 2: you feel this cup of black nigga? So how do

642
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 2: you know? It's just it's just that thing, man. It's

643
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 2: it's those things that mand you. The life is real

644
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 2: beyond your control. Yeah, some things in life. It really

645
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: is magical in a beautiful way.

646
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

647
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 3: When you're moving to La is this is this? Are

648
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 3: you getting the blessings to make this move? Because I'm

649
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 3: sure it wasn't a it wasn't an easy one.

650
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: Nigga, I ain't had luggage there it is, I ain't luggage.

651
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: I know that, I know that move.

652
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 4: Did you have luggage?

653
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: Nigga?

654
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 2: I had?

655
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 3: I had whatever I had, Yeah, I had. I had

656
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 3: a thousand dollars in the car. Let me tell you

657
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 3: I had shoes. I bought shoes.

658
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, gotta have gotta have a kick or to

659
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 2: just so if you need to gowhere you like it, yeah, drip,

660
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 2: go back home.

661
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 4: But you have something that you need.

662
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 2: To get you yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep. So Aaron

663
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 2: gets married, schoolter traveling. Both of my brothers had passports

664
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 2: before me, like traveling the world doing music, not just

665
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 2: doing some frivolus ship. Like doing music. That was one

666
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: of the first things that I ever saw that made

667
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: me believe that excuse me, that it really it happened,

668
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 2: happened beyond a gig.

669
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

670
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 7: You know, when does it click for you? Like, Okay,

671
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 7: I really want to be an artist. I want to start,

672
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 7: you know, I want a record deal, because I'm sure

673
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 7: at this point now you're hearing about all the things

674
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 7: you hear about the record, that you hear about the

675
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 7: publishing deal you hear. You know what I'm saying like,

676
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 7: because once you're in it, yeah, now the world opens up.

677
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: I was.

678
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 2: I was low key for real, for I was running

679
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 2: more close to being a songwriter when I first first

680
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 2: got here being an artist. I knew I would be

681
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 2: an artist, never knowing when the time would come. Having

682
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: the job when I landed was a huge blessing. Working

683
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 2: with Mary and Mary I siting back ground for them.

684
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 2: I remember doing the church on a Friday with them

685
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 2: and Saturday week in New York at a baseball stadium

686
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 2: and bust the rhymes on the show.

687
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: They would do.

688
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 2: They would fit places, they were finished everywhere, Yeah, everywhere.

689
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 2: And it was really cool for me to have that

690
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 2: experience because and like I want so Nigga, I would

691
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 2: be the songs I'm working on. I would be giving

692
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 2: warrant c d's like tell me how can I write

693
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 2: and get better? Or tell me if you could use this.

694
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure it out.

695
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 4: And so he was mentoring you through a lot of

696
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 4: it early on.

697
00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 2: In a sense. Yeah.

698
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 7: And then.

699
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 2: They had like a Taco Sunday or something at their

700
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: crib and I went and Harrold was there. I was like, Nigger,

701
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 2: I heard a lot about you boy. And when I

702
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 2: saw how country and southern love and he was I

703
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 2: was like, bro, man, then give me your number. Bro,

704
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 2: I gotta call you, because is it cool if I

705
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 2: just bug you? Sometimes he was like, Shorty, you.

706
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: Cool.

707
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 4: He's probably all the twenty at the time.

708
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 2: To put the pencil with a pencil. So it would

709
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 2: be times where during the week I would catch a

710
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 2: cab to Big John's office just to go in that

711
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 2: little blue studio back that would held and write, watch

712
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: him write all these songs Baby Mama for Fantasia and

713
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: all that type of stuff. I would begin to see

714
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 2: real product made in a real factory, in real place.

715
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 2: And I really didn't know who Big John well, I

716
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 2: knew what he did.

717
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: I was.

718
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 2: I didn't know, like to what, I'm just thinking the

719
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 2: blue here for her, and I'll begin to start like,

720
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 2: motherfuckers hair, can I come again, nigga? Yeah, you come again?

721
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 2: After Wire was like what you think about this bridge,

722
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 2: and He'll walk out and go to the cafeteria, come

723
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 2: back like you got something. I was like, what do

724
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 2: you want to here?

725
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: Yeah?

726
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 2: I got something that So get that song get up

727
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 2: being Nikes fresh off the box Mario.

728
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: Place.

729
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 2: I wrote that Bridge. Not my first. That's my first

730
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 2: R and B placement for sure. My first placement was

731
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 2: with Ramsey Lewis Urban Nights. So Kevin Randolph was always like,

732
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 2: that's like Ramsey, Well rest the piece of Ramsey, but

733
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 2: that was like Ramsey's piano son, you know. And Kevin

734
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 2: thought my writing had got to a point where I

735
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 2: could at least like write that hook and let Ramsey

736
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 2: do that firse thing and you know, like NI, get

737
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 2: your feet wet, get your a check, learn how this go,

738
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 2: get your published name, started to just get it together.

739
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 2: And that was the beginning. That was like the first

740
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 2: So then Ramsey called us for the next one. And

741
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 2: then so I was like, alright, cool, now we in

742
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 2: and no, nigga, how about this my first R and

743
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 2: B placement. That's how I'm at tank Oh shit yeah,

744
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 2: ah shit right. So my brother School is singing background

745
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 2: for Dave Hollister and school to be playing like little

746
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 2: songs that make it with Kevin, like the Fireings he

747
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 2: be playing on the road, So day like who the

748
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: fuck is that? What is that? And Dave wanted to

749
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 2: meet me, So nig I come to the show when

750
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 2: they come to Chicago, Dave cool as fuck everything pan out.

751
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 2: He was like, man, I I'm working on the album

752
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 2: and I know you could get something for me. Man,

753
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 2: just just send me some shit, Send me some of

754
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 2: the best shit you got. So I went back to

755
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 2: my record some shit, got a song. Place came to

756
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 2: LA and I do not I wish I remember what

757
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 2: studio we were in h in Hollywood. It's Tank walks in.

758
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 2: Dave is working on the joint that Brandy ex husband

759
00:35:58,600 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 2: was working on.

760
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: What big bird oh big b yeah yeah yeah.

761
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 2: Thing came in, plugged that keyboard up, had the mother

762
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 2: fucks getting ship together. And when the keyboard was working,

763
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 2: I was like, this nigga crazy, This nigga crazy, you

764
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 2: know Dave Dave always looking around like the day he

765
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 2: was like like.

766
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: And low key.

767
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 2: Then I just begin to put everything together from music

768
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 2: you will put you were putting out. It was like, Bro,

769
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 2: those the days I will never ever, ever, ever, ever

770
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 2: fucking forget. That was before I even decided to be

771
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 2: an artist. I was still just trying to be an

772
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 2: amazing songwriter and learn more and he probably try to

773
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 2: be the next herold Lily if I could, you know,

774
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 2: that was one of my favorite songwriters in writing because

775
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 2: he knew how to take that thing. And and then

776
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 2: later understanding about the underdogs, and now I was like, God,

777
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 2: damn y'all motherfuckers and some dogs fuck.

778
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 4: Under Did you get a publishing deal?

779
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 2: No? I did not do it.

780
00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: You didn't.

781
00:36:58,560 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 4: You didn't do one?

782
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 2: Nope, I didn't. I didn't. Harold also told me it

783
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 2: wasn't best for me to do a publishing deal, and

784
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 2: he also explained to me the difference between a publishing

785
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 2: deal and at men deal and so forth, and then

786
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 2: explain what I should do when I when it was

787
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 2: best for the time. One of the most solid people

788
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 2: that I met in this music game, because he's not

789
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 2: just the I know the same herold you know, and

790
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 2: you know you know the same hero he knows. You know,

791
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 2: people like that in the game one nigga Ralph with

792
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: another nigga. You know, if very few people know the

793
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 2: same person in that person.

794
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: First the start of it, niggas be.

795
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 2: Switching up and it's not too many people. That's the

796
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 2: same person with everybody, And what everybody know was a

797
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 2: good person. Everybody can know the same asshole, you know

798
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. But man like Harold was just he

799
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: wasn't just informative, but he gave me something to do

800
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 2: to keep me busy, to understand how it works, and

801
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 2: just giving me advice. Ended up getting my own songs

802
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 2: placed on Mario and some time after that, and but

803
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 2: Mario was one of the first albums that I really

804
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 2: wanted to be a part of at one point once

805
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 2: I met him at Record Plant and we both found

806
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 2: that like Nigga, that we loved the same style of

807
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 2: R and B singing. It was like super R and B.

808
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 2: But Harold got that soul and Warn't got that soul

809
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 2: in on Mario. And then that's when you got to

810
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: brave my hair. When you look at me, I know

811
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 2: all that soulfulness into the R and B. It adds

812
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 2: and helped him form what he has because the nigga, Honestly,

813
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 2: him and Eric Doggins are two of the craziest motherfuckers

814
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 2: I've ever sat and watched cut vocals like dog I'm

815
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 2: about to go, I'm about to go Yeah. But yeah,

816
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 2: I really wanted to work with Mario. Seeing somebody young

817
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 2: like that, with vocal talent, with vocal understand and with

818
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 2: musical understanding like that, and being around people that I've admired.

819
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 2: I wanted to be a part of that. I wanted

820
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 2: to take part in his legacy in a sense because

821
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,760
Speaker 2: even back then I only wanted to work with magical things.

822
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 2: I wanted to work on something that I knew I

823
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 2: could stand out in because of what I've listened to

824
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 2: and what niggas played before. I could control that radio.

825
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 2: You know, you better not touch my radio. What they

826
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 2: planning after listen to that? But that babyface, that right,

827
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 2: and that simplicity something else and that anytime he played

828
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 2: that and we was going out to eat to the

829
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 2: steakhouse or the buffet or something, and I'm in the

830
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 2: back of that stanking lanker and he playing that babyface,

831
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 2: I'm like, this nigga really good and I'm gonna get it.

832
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 2: We'll say about being young with those antennas being.

833
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: Uplay, let it play, don't touch nothing?

834
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:46,439
Speaker 2: Can you stand the ring?

835
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: Same thing, exact same thing.

836
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 2: That Minnesota period is so special musically. People do not

837
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 2: give Minnesota the credit. It's just the Jimmy Jam Terry

838
00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 2: Lewis the Purple one and I'm men condition next I

839
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 2: got Come on, I'm sure people, I don't even know.

840
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 4: The coldest songwriters I believe.

841
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, yes, sir. I didn't know they was from Minnesota.

842
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 2: From Minnesota just sucked me up with that next that's

843
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 2: what's up. Yeah, man, the Midwest. It's very very special musically, man.

844
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 2: But yeah, I had the job with Mary and Mary

845
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 2: and I'm shopping the songs around, got the got to

846
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,240
Speaker 2: end up end up in the studio with Warren, Lily

847
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 2: and Mario and.

848
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: I was addicted. Bro. Yeah, oh my god.

849
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 2: I never felt I highlight that over in my life

850
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 2: musically from Chicago being here like that, knowing you just

851
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 2: pull up to the studio, seeing how it happens. Being apart,

852
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, nigga, I ain't going back for nothing.

853
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:44,479
Speaker 2: I'm here.

854
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: I think.

855
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 2: I think that's the feeling that we all get, and

856
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 2: that we all got honestly when we all came here.

857
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 2: Is it's very real mm hmm, right, Like it's it's tangible.

858
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 2: You get here and you're like, oh, that song that

859
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 2: this random nigga just played me a month ago is

860
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 2: now the biggest song in the world.

861
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 4: Crazy, and that don't happen nowhere else.

862
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, not at that time.

863
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? For me? You know what

864
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 4: I mean.

865
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: I didn't.

866
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 4: I didn't go to New York, I didn't go to Atlanta.

867
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 7: I came to La Obviously it was closer for me

868
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 7: coming from San Francisco.

869
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,359
Speaker 4: It was the closest place for me to go.

870
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 7: But in San Francisco, I didn't know nobody that literally

871
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 7: placed records, you know what I mean, Like you knew

872
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 7: niggas that have local records, that you got a record

873
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 7: that that blew up out the city that became you

874
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, Like we had rapid fote, you

875
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 7: got the Players Club and go Platum and we're like.

876
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 4: Oh, this is amazing. But you didn't. I didn't know

877
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 4: niggas that were literally.

878
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,760
Speaker 7: Really placing records somebody in the system. In the system,

879
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, the Who's Looking List, you

880
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 7: remember them. Shit, they used to sit out like I

881
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 7: don't even know it exists.

882
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: Ever, the first day to act sing.

883
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 7: When I was like, wait, so okay, so they want

884
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 7: this type of song and they want this is it?

885
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 4: And then you realize, like all that shit, they don't

886
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 4: want none of that ship that's on those papers.

887
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 1: Later, yes, yes, yes, like it together.

888
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 2: It was so exciting to be that close to it

889
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 2: to to touch it to Philly, it was. It was

890
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 2: super exciting, man, and that kind of started the the hunger.

891
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 2: What kind of started the ship for the artistry.

892
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 4: It was.

893
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 1: I don't know what album.

894
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 2: I think it was the damn the album after Confessions.

895
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:28,959
Speaker 2: It was a Hero I Stand or something like that.

896
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, and d No, Yeah it was.

897
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:34,919
Speaker 1: Yeah.

898
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 2: So at this time, my mom, I'm in Philly working

899
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 2: with Drave for Dow a lot, like to the point

900
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 2: where I'm out there so long, I'm sending my rent back.

901
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: I'm not even coming back, like, I'm just out there.

902
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 2: And I had songs that I brought out there to Philly,

903
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 2: and I worked on songs in Philly with dan Va

904
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 2: Dow for Usher and a few other artists they were

905
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 2: working for. We came up with some very unique records

906
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 2: that we thought were dope. When you're a young writer

907
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 2: and you don't know exactly what a nigga wont if

908
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 2: it's if it's unique enough, you're willing to play it

909
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 2: to see if a nigga can over like sell it,

910
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 2: because it's the unique with the nigga.

911
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: That could sell it. Oh shit, you know.

912
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 2: So were trying to wait for that other half of

913
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 2: the math to add up, but it wasn't adding up.

914
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 2: I was like, man, what y'all think about me just

915
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 2: keeping these motherfucking records? I was like, for you, I

916
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 2: was like, yep, Like Nigga is all, what the fuck

917
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 2: us we're gonna do with them? I was like, yup,

918
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 2: Like just give me a monk with them, Like, let

919
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 2: me chucklet's put these motherfuckers out, just see what happened.

920
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, those the records that kind

921
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 2: of started the the whiff after Pineapple, because Pineapple was

922
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 2: like Pineapple was the time that I was singing in

923
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: our background for Usher. I left Mary Mary and went

924
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 2: to Usher.

925
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 4: And you were Usher during confessions.

926
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: Yeah shit, that's crazy.

927
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, pantees the on you. I've never seen nothing

928
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 2: like that in my life. I went to the mall

929
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 2: with them one day just to see what then happens.

930
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 2: I wanted.

931
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,760
Speaker 1: I said, how the fuck do you go to the mall.

932
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 4: To you to the ma shut it down?

933
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 2: Yesther reason Nigga we took a break from sound check

934
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 2: was what he was doing.

935
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: He's uh.

936
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,959
Speaker 2: Live in Puerto Rico, live on showtime in Puerto Rico,

937
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 2: and my nigga, Ryan, love it, Ryan, love it man.

938
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 2: He came back like he did a nigga that Wu

939
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 2: was school me how us would be like certain ships,

940
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 2: saying or he would like give me the details so

941
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 2: I can because we clicked verywhere, like, nigga, I know

942
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 2: you would kill this. I just want to tell you

943
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 2: what he liked so you could just already like I'm

944
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 2: like all right, ben, So Ryan put me on the game.

945
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 2: Me and Ryan became really close, so he so he

946
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 2: went over there to see what they was talking about. He

947
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 2: was like, go to the mall when we take a break.

948
00:44:55,400 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 2: I said, nigga, I'm going to We're going to. You

949
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 2: ain't tell me for me to get this information and

950
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 2: drink a gateorway till y'all get back.

951
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 1: You gotta be fucked up.

952
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 2: So nigga, I went to the mars like you going too.

953
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 2: So it's maybe but myself, Elijah USh, Terrence, Ryan is

954
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 2: probably about seven eight of us. We're getting to tomorrow.

955
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 2: First maybe four people see us, then thirty. It was

956
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,439
Speaker 2: from four to thirty, and then thirty went from thirty.

957
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:25,439
Speaker 1: To three hundred.

958
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 2: To the point where to the point where we came in,

959
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:33,919
Speaker 2: we were just close. Now I'm on the other side

960
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 2: of that wall.

961
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: And people between us. So me and Ryan like.

962
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 2: Nigga, we gotta get back because if they move and

963
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 2: go through a door, then you let Nigga. So we

964
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 2: get back and now we we holding on like Elijah

965
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 2: Jacket like Nigga. They walker were walking.

966
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: We all like Nigga, we together.

967
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 2: I remember Nigga one time. This girl they was like

968
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 2: she kept like trying to put the phone in his

969
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 2: fucking like touch his nose with the phone. Life just

970
00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:03,280
Speaker 2: like yo, chill out. Somehow she get back phone. Feel

971
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 2: imagine a seat of five hundred people in the phone

972
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 2: is kicked through the gaps of everybody's and then you

973
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,439
Speaker 2: ain't gonna see them pictures. So with just to see

974
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 2: that that level of pandemonium, bro, and really like of

975
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 2: somebody in one of the pinnacles of their musical career,

976
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 2: blew my fucking mind.

977
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: I got back to the sound check, like, how the.

978
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 2: Fuck this nigga be doing that ship?

979
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: Wow?

980
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 2: Because Nigga everywhere he go, Bro, it was. It was

981
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 2: such an amazing experience. Man. I learned so much from Mary,

982
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 2: Mary to from the details of singing need that track

983
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 2: you all the details they sing and them girls got

984
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 2: some ship inchapellas they talk about. Man, listen them girls.

985
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 2: If you if you get Mary Mary acapellas, it'll bless

986
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 2: your soul just as much as the album with all

987
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 2: the music and not only learning what they were singing,

988
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: but how to sing it, how to project yourself where

989
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 2: it comes out right, even with background vocals and the

990
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 2: band and their vocals, that I learned so much of

991
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 2: how to do it right in a real productive and

992
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 2: production type of way versus at church just singing. Churches

993
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 2: have just now begin to elevate it. And it feels

994
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 2: like in yes, yes, yes, yes, because I came from

995
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 2: the same type of church like you as an old

996
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 2: man in there or an old lady and there, singing

997
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 2: before any musician theyver you donna get there. It's called devotion.

998
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, so.

999
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: It's called devotion.

1000
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, usher, I learned how to the inflections that

1001
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 2: I learned with Mary Mary, how to take that times ten,

1002
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 2: because fuck what your personal what your favorite part is?

1003
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 2: Sing this song?

1004
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: Sing damn song? Yeah?

1005
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,760
Speaker 2: Fuck what your favorite part is? Sing this whole motherfucker

1006
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 2: like it's your favorite part. And that's what like elevated,

1007
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 2: and then me and Usher got cool to them, like, Nigga,

1008
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 2: what you did, Nigga that last take? Nigga, that shit

1009
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 2: called like you should do that shit. I'm not even

1010
00:47:58,040 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 2: like I'm talking to the boss, but I'm like, Nigga,

1011
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 2: that shit was yet because Nigga, I feel like I've

1012
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,240
Speaker 2: connected with that is.

1013
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 3: Your your your your gift qualifies you in the space

1014
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 3: within the conversation.

1015
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's not like suggestion. You

1016
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: told me.

1017
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 2: I feel the same way. But you know, sometimes when

1018
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 2: it's working, you ain't been here long, you ain't you know,

1019
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 2: but I didn't care.

1020
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: I feel comfortable. But but but but killers no killers.

1021
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. We know we we know

1022
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 1: when it's a.

1023
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 3: Nigga that is this that singing backgrounds or you know

1024
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, or Nigga's that's not really in this space.

1025
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: He ain't selling records, he's not doing this. But you

1026
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: can look at him like this. That's they look that

1027
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: Nigga would do.

1028
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 2: That's the fun that it would do. I swear, god, bro,

1029
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 2: that's to look like, you know, between songs, Babby playing

1030
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,839
Speaker 2: niggas just be singing around and it turned to something.

1031
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,800
Speaker 2: Now he's singing the song we singing, just playing around

1032
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 2: that look black. Yeah, because you're you're in his ears, nigga, Yeah,

1033
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 2: you're in his ears. No, man, those relationships and it's

1034
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 2: so what I'm asking about for you is like Mary

1035
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:22,919
Speaker 2: Mary now usher And of course you've you've, you've you've

1036
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 2: banded and bonded with you know, other background singers and

1037
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 2: other musicians. Are you now when you say you go

1038
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 2: to drama Dad say hey man, maybe maybe maybe me?

1039
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: Right?

1040
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 3: Are you starting to feel like, as you've been around

1041
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 3: this level, that you're like.

1042
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:40,959
Speaker 1: I can do it. Oh I belong here?

1043
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, uh huh that thing work?

1044
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 4: Huh. Yes, make sure you play like you're playing for

1045
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 4: Dave Pallas the back of the day. Man, don't let

1046
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 4: him down.

1047
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 2: Now, Tant tant Tank Definitely. I forgot which dog he

1048
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 2: had on the album. He had a dog on the album.

1049
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 2: Him and I used to listen to watching Mill Soup

1050
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 2: Joint those on that too.

1051
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's some jam water BJ the Chicago kid. You

1052
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: come from a place.

1053
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, well we know it's in your blood, so also

1054
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 5: in your clothes and such waiting early.

1055
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: As you've been able to create great music.

1056
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 3: There's great music that has also inspired you to be

1057
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 3: who you are.

1058
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: We want know your favorites. Okay, the people do too.

1059
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:12,359
Speaker 1: We call that here. You're well. We called m hm.

1060
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: Top five your top five? Okay, top your top five

1061
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 1: ould be missing ory okay, yes, we got to do

1062
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 1: did not you go there wrong?

1063
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,760
Speaker 6: Is you?

1064
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 2: Yes?

1065
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 6: Ye?

1066
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 2: Yes, sir?

1067
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 6: You yeah?

1068
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.

1069
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: B j the Chicago kids, Yes, sir? What's that? Your

1070
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: top five.

1071
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 2: R and B singers, Top five R and B singers

1072
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 2: and no order, no particular order.

1073
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: Joe, Yeah, favorite, Yeah, one of my favorites. Kick this

1074
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:49,760
Speaker 1: ship off. Talk to talk about.

1075
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 4: Joe.

1076
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: Joe. They don't talk about Joe enough. Joe. This is

1077
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: hard because I only got four left. God damn this.

1078
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 1: It's tough.

1079
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 2: Joe. The music exists. R Kelly, The music exists. I

1080
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 2: don't I don't condone.

1081
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: The music exists. Joe.

1082
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 2: I'm going to say usher, m and I'm gonna say

1083
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 2: usher because it's a time where I seen him hit

1084
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 2: the gas again.

1085
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Nigga.

1086
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 2: His verse on that Chris Brown record. I said, Nigga,

1087
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 2: I hear your precisest I see what you're trying it's quick. Yeah,

1088
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 2: that's quick. A surgeon for sure, for sure and precise

1089
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 2: to be quick. Yeah, you could be quick and slide.

1090
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 2: That's not that it was like, no, give me, I

1091
00:53:54,800 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 2: could tell yeah Stokely, Yeah, Stokely's real range, his real authentic.

1092
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 3: Range is messing around, and that Stevie Wonder range.

1093
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes, And I don't feel like I got

1094
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,919
Speaker 2: to say Stevie. That's what we all know that certain

1095
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 2: people above this they see on top of the Yeah. Yeah,

1096
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 2: I don't got to say that, Donny, we already know. Yes, yes, yes,

1097
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 2: so I said it kills Joe Usher, Stokely.

1098
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 1: Stokely, Jesus Christ.

1099
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 2: Only one more?

1100
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: Only one? Will there be one? Bro?

1101
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 2: It's too many. This nigga next to me is nigga

1102
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 2: a fucking problem? Did y'all just hear the intro of my.

1103
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: It's a problem.

1104
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 2: Intro intro problem, That's what I'm saying. Only one, God

1105
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 2: damn bro. All right, I'm gonna do this right. For

1106
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 2: my fifth I'm gonna say, Reggie Lewis, here's Chicago legend.

1107
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:00,439
Speaker 1: He like.

1108
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 2: You like when the nigga's in the NBA. Still remember

1109
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 2: like the nigga that gave him problems. He know they

1110
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 2: was real fucking problems. Some of the problems that Nigga

1111
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 2: gave him, niggas these days can't even give them that day.

1112
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 2: Reggie is that type of nigga. I'll be damned if

1113
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 2: I say everybody that people know Chicago has so many

1114
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 2: incredible ier freaking monster she is like when I first

1115
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 2: heard of I was like Nigga Caes.

1116
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 4: She never leave.

1117
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 2: Nigga sung the background for a one time during one

1118
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 2: period of my life, my brother Aaron, myself and iSER

1119
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 2: we three saying background for a five wasn't the biggest

1120
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,720
Speaker 2: paying gig I've ever had, but one of the funnest

1121
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 2: because I was singing with three two other sons. Yeah,

1122
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 2: Anthony Hamilton was one of those gigs where I got

1123
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 2: to sing with some sangers singers. Anthony Hamilton was that

1124
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,839
Speaker 2: gig where you could actually do the soulful like Jodasyes,

1125
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 2: but through a background and your mic is on on.

1126
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 2: That was that gig for me, believe it or not,

1127
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 2: I tell you a gym that very two people know.

1128
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 2: I got signed to Motown and that night I got

1129
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 2: a call the same background for D'Angelo during that for

1130
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 2: that tour he did. I was like sick because D'Angel

1131
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 2: was somebody I always wanted to work with, and to

1132
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 2: know I got that call when God called me up.

1133
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 2: It's like, hey, do I got two minutes to think

1134
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 2: about this in the morning. Let me just ponder on

1135
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 2: this for a minute, because I can't say no yet.

1136
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 2: It's not easy to say no when it's somebody you

1137
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 2: really admire, and you get to learn from inside the clock,

1138
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 2: like fuck being out Now it's a door and you

1139
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 2: can walk in this clock and look up and see

1140
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 2: all the fucking mechanisms, and like, that's one of the

1141
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 2: artists I would have loved to see because I'm such

1142
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 2: a Prince fan. He's a stuteent love. I'm a student

1143
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 2: of both of them. I love to see how people

1144
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 2: think beyond what they choose to give us.

1145
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: Basically because there is a difference.

1146
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, there there are levels to being behind that

1147
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 3: veil and be like you're not gonna use that, Yes,

1148
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 3: you're gonna deviate from Yeah, it'd be so many things.

1149
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 3: Was like, I'm not gonna understand that. Let me just

1150
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 3: let me just stay right in here.

1151
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 2: Got a song, right, I still got another five?

1152
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: Your top five.

1153
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 2: Still got another five like you, I ain't here, none

1154
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 2: of the women.

1155
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: Yet your top five R and B songs? Oh man,

1156
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: mm hmm. Can the ring easy? That's easy?

1157
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 2: As we lay it because we're gonna be.

1158
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 4: Here thirty minutes.

1159
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: Pinpoint them as we lay?

1160
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 2: Can you stand the Ring Landslides by the Dissey Chicks?

1161
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I think.

1162
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 2: Don't your music have some of the illness harmony of

1163
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 2: the best storytelling but placed perfectly white.

1164
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 1: White Nigga R and B.

1165
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, but same emotions, same I mean, yes, it's just say.

1166
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: They have a way with still tones, yes.

1167
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 2: No verbrato sometimes and when they find you like yo.

1168
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 3: What they have a way with still tones and moving

1169
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 3: just the middle note too to clash with the lower.

1170
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: Note or drop on you to.

1171
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 3: Okay, it's there, it's it's for them, it's soul for

1172
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 3: for for the outside looking in. There's a technicality to

1173
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 3: that that if you don't know the technical part of

1174
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 3: what they're doing, you're not going to be able to

1175
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 3: pull it off.

1176
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,520
Speaker 2: And you won't even probably really know that they You.

1177
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 3: Won't understand what some of the craziest ship it's a

1178
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 3: different language, Yes, it's a different I studied that ship

1179
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 3: and I'm like this, that's not easy.

1180
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: Exit.

1181
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 2: Exit is one of the coldest.

1182
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: Fourth.

1183
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 4: That was four, that's for That was because you had

1184
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 4: Disney Chicks as a landslide.

1185
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 2: I take it. It wasn't R and B, but I

1186
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 2: just had to gotta take it. So fifth, last, but

1187
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 2: not least, D'Angelo, how does it feel?

1188
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: Man?

1189
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 2: It's too many. I know I left some off, y'all.

1190
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 2: I know put them in the comments.

1191
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 3: In my opinion, that's one of the greatest songs of

1192
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 3: all times.

1193
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 1: I do too. I think so too.

1194
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 3: Berother everything in that sect it's perfect, every perfect song.

1195
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: Bro.

1196
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 2: I heard Rafael tell me the story of it, and

1197
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 2: there's so many imperfections in what we consider right.

1198
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: But that's that's perfection. Yes, yes, it is coming together.

1199
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 4: James Brown said, you feel this. I feel.

1200
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 2: Hum hm.

1201
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: M hm hm hmm. Yeah. Let me go on. I said,

1202
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 1: no next, I'm saying no names. I'm saying no names.

1203
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: Come on, I saying no name. He was we used

1204
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 1: to leave what you need, don't say. She ain't saying

1205
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 1: no names.

1206
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're here now.

1207
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 7: Now, very that's your part of the show.

1208
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 4: Come on, man, I know you listen. I know you

1209
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 4: don't watch the show. You know the segment.

1210
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: You know it, you know it.

1211
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 2: I'm here, what's up? What's up?

1212
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 1: You know? All right?

1213
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 7: Well we we play this game, all right, card I

1214
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 7: ain't saying no names. Will you tell us a story?

1215
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 7: Funnyer fucked up a funny and fucked up? The only

1216
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 7: rule to the game. Okay, you can't say no names.

1217
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 7: You can't say no names. I didn't think of a

1218
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 7: good one.

1219
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 2: I was on tour some years ago, and uh, I

1220
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 2: was talking to a young lady over time, never met

1221
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 2: her face to face two a time, close by, pop up?

1222
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 2: Say cool, no problem? Yeah, two tickets?

1223
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 4: Here you go?

1224
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 2: You only use one?

1225
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 6: Cool?

1226
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 2: No problem? Even better? Ain't nobody with you? Cool?

1227
01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: Uh?

1228
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 2: Get off stage? Incredible show. I don't really have a

1229
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 2: lot of people backstage unless it's like because you know, yeah,

1230
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 2: because when I get offstage, my brain is like the

1231
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 2: TV with no cable, just like, sh let me come back,

1232
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 2: get some channels back in this bitch.

1233
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: You need me laying It's like, Yo, did you do

1234
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: you enjoy the show?

1235
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, I enjoyed the show. Can I see

1236
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 2: before I need I drive out? Yeah? Send the address?

1237
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 2: Maybe get the address we get there, I go on

1238
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 2: my bag. I don't take my whole bag out, have

1239
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 2: like a little duffel of something I put when I'm

1240
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 2: about to put on to the trees, I ain't taking

1241
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 2: that bag.

1242
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 1: Some stairs to do one thing. I'm on tour. Man,

1243
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: you gotta be fucked up.

1244
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 2: Who gonna being these bitches down?

1245
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:43,920
Speaker 1: I mean.

1246
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 2: When I get out the when I get out the

1247
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 2: back of the vehicle with my bag, I see a

1248
01:02:53,480 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 2: car in the driveway. I see a female dude. I

1249
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 2: watched everything. I keep walking. As I get in the

1250
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 2: front lobby, I hear a voice get out of a car.

1251
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: I turn around.

1252
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 2: The face looked for me, and man, mind, we never

1253
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 2: met in person. So but I'm not I'm I'm gonna

1254
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 2: let you. I think it could be somebody look just

1255
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 2: like you. But I'm that player. I don't got it.

1256
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 2: So she's like, hey Bees, and I'm like when she

1257
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 2: got across that, hey Bee said, I remember what the

1258
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 2: nigga looked like in the car. So I was like,

1259
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 2: all right, it's like you cool, your your people wait

1260
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 2: for you or something. She's like no, I was like,

1261
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 2: all right, cool, remember having my shower shit with me?

1262
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 2: So we got upstairs, and she was like, no. I

1263
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 2: offered her a drink. Somebody had brought me some Hennessy

1264
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:58,919
Speaker 2: Pure white brand new bottle. Hey man, I had poured

1265
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 2: a little bit, poor me, a little bit. I said, cheers.

1266
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 2: When I cheers that glass. I drank it.

1267
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 1: But I drink on my eyes open. I drink it.

1268
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: I looked at her.

1269
01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 2: She threw what was in the cup out like it's

1270
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 2: a carpeted room, bro, she just do this first first,

1271
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 2: wod nigga think like you just saw me open, take

1272
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 2: the thing off. You didn't want it, just don't drink it.

1273
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 2: But this this n C pre white fuck you wasting

1274
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 2: for But anyway, that was just weird for so many reasons,

1275
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 2: more than what I just said. I don't got time

1276
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 2: to a lie mind you. I just got out of stage.

1277
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 2: I'm sweating and everything. I'm not about to go in

1278
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 2: the shower because that was weird. So what I did

1279
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:45,200
Speaker 2: was I stood up start getting shot in the bag,

1280
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 2: you know, trying to waste time to really like assess

1281
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 2: with the fuck nigga. Some ship is too red. Something

1282
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 2: is burging, ye, some shit is burging, yeah, like ain't

1283
01:04:56,400 --> 01:05:02,600
Speaker 2: no red? So long and behold she said something that

1284
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 2: was like so wild. I was like, you wanna know what.

1285
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: I'm about to leave.

1286
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 2: I'm about to go you you. So I got up,

1287
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 2: got my shit, I walked out. She didn't move, she

1288
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 2: didn't do nothing. So what I did was like a

1289
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 2: g I went to the front desk. I was like,

1290
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 2: I'd like to close out of uh eight seventeen and

1291
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 2: that's anything in there. Police clear the room because nobody's

1292
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 2: The guy at the front there says I'm the only

1293
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 2: one working tonight. I was like, I will and I

1294
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 2: looked at him like you need to go clear the room.

1295
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 2: And I went back to the same vehicle I got

1296
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 2: out of. My manager comes downstairs and he's like my

1297
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 2: role manager. He's like, so, what do you know what's

1298
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 2: going on? I was like, Nigga. I don't know what

1299
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 2: she owned, nigga, but I just know she's she she

1300
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 2: not what her thumbs was given. You know what I'm

1301
01:05:55,840 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 2: saying and type of messaging. And the guy says from

1302
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 2: the front desk, I'm about to go up there because

1303
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 2: while I'm talking to the road manager, he's on the

1304
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 2: phone calling up to the room. So she answers the

1305
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 2: phone why I don't be dealing with this type of shit.

1306
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:14,760
Speaker 2: That's why immediately had a no, a zero tolerance for it.

1307
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 2: He said, I'm about to go up there. I was like,

1308
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 2: all right, so now me and the road managers walking

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01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 2: back to the vehicle. By the time we get to

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01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 2: the vehicle, the police is pulling up to the hotel

1311
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 2: for her. I'm not knowing. I'm just like watching everything

1312
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 2: after vehicle after the nigga.

1313
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 1: So the police pull up.

1314
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:38,200
Speaker 2: And when the police pull up, I was like, so,

1315
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 2: you know, when you're on tour, you got that one

1316
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:43,800
Speaker 2: text of everybody. Yeah, I said, y'all, we out of

1317
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 2: here in the next five minutes. Get your shit and

1318
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:49,640
Speaker 2: we I don't got time to I don't blend them

1319
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 2: two worlds and two niggas like me being an artist.

1320
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:55,480
Speaker 2: I'm not your father, but I would definitely have to

1321
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 2: explain some shit to your family if anything ever happened

1322
01:06:57,640 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 2: with in any kind of form. And I'm just not

1323
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 2: of that, you know. I'm so niggas came downstairs. I said,

1324
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:06,800
Speaker 2: splash into y'all when we leave. So these niggas coming down,

1325
01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 2: they was like, who was that girl they had hog

1326
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 2: tied bringing off? So they had to cuff her legs

1327
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 2: in her hands. What because she didn't want to leave

1328
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 2: the hotel?

1329
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 1: Wow? Bro wow wow Wow.

1330
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 2: So it doesn't matter if you plan the smash, don't

1331
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 2: plan the smash whatever. Know who you're talking to, because

1332
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 2: when you come from a different era of meeting people,

1333
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 2: you meet them the best comfortable, understandable way.

1334
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,680
Speaker 1: For your protection. Yeah, so.

1335
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 2: Lo and behold everybody come downstairs.

1336
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:40,959
Speaker 1: They're like, who is that girl? They had hog tie bringing?

1337
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,520
Speaker 2: So now the police got her literally feet and hands

1338
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 2: together like she about to go on the grill on

1339
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:47,160
Speaker 2: America's best barbecuer.

1340
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: And we get all getting a vehicle.

1341
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 2: Nigga, I ain't even take my shot to get in

1342
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 2: the next sit like got I don't give nigga what

1343
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:56,439
Speaker 2: my safety? All that is way more putting any goofy shit.

1344
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:57,960
Speaker 2: I didn't seen enough goofy.

1345
01:07:57,680 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 1: Shit in my life.

1346
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 2: I'd have heard enough goofy stores for my friends for

1347
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:04,840
Speaker 2: me to even play any role in anybody else's goofy movie.

1348
01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 2: What what hell?

1349
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:07,919
Speaker 1: Now?

1350
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:10,440
Speaker 2: So as soon as we get right before the freeway,

1351
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 2: the car in front of us have an accident where

1352
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 2: they hit the joint boom and hit the fucking roof.

1353
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 2: They so now we like, nigga, we leaving the police.

1354
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 2: We see an accident in front of us. He was like, yeah,

1355
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 2: this is one of those days where you just got

1356
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:25,680
Speaker 2: to get the fuck out this city, this whole this

1357
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 2: whole city, is this whole stuff. Yeah, we're out of here.

1358
01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 2: You know what bad vibes feel like. And that was

1359
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 2: enough for me to get out the hotel. But we

1360
01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 2: low key tried to get out and help the guy

1361
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 2: that that was laying on his roof. This roof was

1362
01:08:39,320 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 2: ship the cars upside down. Nigga like, I'm good, I'm good.

1363
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:45,679
Speaker 2: He was like, yep, you're good.

1364
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 1: We out there. Good luck, that's all makes you good.

1365
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 2: Brobody would sleep. We see the accident.

1366
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: Now the nigga died there. Now then he was like.

1367
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 2: We good and he was. I was like, nobody opened

1368
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 2: the door, touch the cord of you see that?

1369
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, y'alla be careful out here, man, go more than careful,

1370
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:08,920
Speaker 1: more than careful. And that was.

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01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you, man, I just I seen too much.

1372
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:14,599
Speaker 4: Nigga.

1373
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 2: You didn't even have to drink the liquor. Why did

1374
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 2: you throw it in this nice hotel with this cut?

1375
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:22,440
Speaker 1: You're weird though, poor execution.

1376
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, White Flag was really ten because like whatever question

1377
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:27,680
Speaker 2: you can ask if.

1378
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 7: You trying to set me up, cause she go do

1379
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:30,559
Speaker 7: your show and go.

1380
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:33,639
Speaker 1: And go to slip.

1381
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, even being that many years ago, bro, you you

1382
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 2: gotta you gotta understand, like I've seen, I've seen background

1383
01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 2: many years before even being an artist. So and a

1384
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:45,559
Speaker 2: lot of friends I grew up with I still have.

1385
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,920
Speaker 2: This didn't excite me or bringing any extracurricular activity to

1386
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,639
Speaker 2: me that I never had before, even before a single

1387
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 2: back background with ushers like nigga, I have friends, I

1388
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 2: had a prime date. She was bad. It was I

1389
01:09:55,920 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 2: have Yeah, I was I had enough person. I need

1390
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 2: myself to, you know, have a good life and and

1391
01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:07,679
Speaker 2: not really have to. But from the conversation, the conversation

1392
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 2: Nigga the coolest fun like.

1393
01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 1: But the the Lord to sleep.

1394
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 3: Is a thing. It is a real thing. Like these

1395
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 3: these these this especially with this new internet.

1396
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 2: The Internet. Oh just keep being venting himself. Man, what

1397
01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:31,599
Speaker 2: same old soul just to new.

1398
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:34,839
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you what Floyd Mayweather say, protect yourself

1399
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:35,719
Speaker 3: at all times.

1400
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 2: And he ain't say that he gotta do it, but

1401
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:39,080
Speaker 2: he probably said the niggas been saying that before him,

1402
01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 2: but everywhere every where.

1403
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:43,920
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you know, nigga head butted him in

1404
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 3: the face and then wanted to hug.

1405
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 1: You're gonna get these.

1406
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 2: I was so happy he did that, Bro, I was

1407
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 2: so happy he did that because I'm.

1408
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 1: Get these point protection. At some point, I don't want

1409
01:10:59,160 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 1: to hug you.

1410
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:03,719
Speaker 3: I don't want Yeah, you don't get to you don't

1411
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 3: get to disrespect me, offend me, and not get some

1412
01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 3: of that back.

1413
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:10,479
Speaker 2: That's how I look at the world. And that's what

1414
01:11:10,479 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna teach my son. What yeah, and too, don't

1415
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 2: you ain't you ain't always You ain't always got to

1416
01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 2: give it out to get it back. Some time you

1417
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 2: could just be that type of day. But nigga, keep

1418
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 2: your head on the swivel. You would be able to

1419
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 2: still be the You could keep the controller in that

1420
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 2: situation at all times.

1421
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: You keep your head on.

1422
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 3: You know, the world is just such a crazy place,

1423
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 3: and the world is the world is looking. People are

1424
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 3: always looking for an advantage and and and I don't

1425
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:40,560
Speaker 3: I don't mean to tell my son like this, like

1426
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 3: my wife gets on me, like I don't tell him that.

1427
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:47,400
Speaker 3: But in this new world, I have to tell him that. Yeah,

1428
01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 3: if you smell it, yeah, get off. You can apologize

1429
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 3: after I thought I thought y'all was on something. Yeah yeah,

1430
01:11:56,640 --> 01:12:00,280
Speaker 3: I felt like felt like I was I.

1431
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 1: Was gonna get the bad end of that. Yeah, so sorry,

1432
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:05,679
Speaker 1: but I had to go first.

1433
01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, because sometimes you niggas don't even realize they could

1434
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:14,639
Speaker 2: have done it until the ship that already happened.

1435
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 3: We used to fight back in the day. We used

1436
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 3: to throw some punches and then somebody would win, somebody

1437
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 3: would lose or be a tie, and then that was

1438
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 3: the end of it. Go home and come back the

1439
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 3: next day. Pa, you actually cool, dog, I really I

1440
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 3: rock with you. You know what I'm saying, Go for

1441
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 3: a fight to be a best friend.

1442
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: Now.

1443
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 3: It's so unpredictable because crashing out is a sports is sports.

1444
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 3: It's part of the conversation.

1445
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:49,200
Speaker 1: It really is. It's famous, it's part of it's it's famous.

1446
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 3: So you know you you're not gonna crash first on minds.

1447
01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 2: And too, Bro, you only got one life, man, it

1448
01:12:58,360 --> 01:12:59,880
Speaker 2: ain't even about being you.

1449
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:01,479
Speaker 1: You got to be smarter, bro. Smart.

1450
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,880
Speaker 2: Being smart it's coding and being stronger.

1451
01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:10,639
Speaker 3: At all times made you better believe it assess. Yeah, smartest,

1452
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 3: this feels like a track, like a track moment. Yeah

1453
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:22,920
Speaker 3: funk that I would be a lot. I'm making it

1454
01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 3: home one way or anohing.

1455
01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 2: To man, Nigga has been through too much, too much.

1456
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,320
Speaker 2: I don't seen too many movies, documentaries, nigga stories in

1457
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:36,400
Speaker 2: front of my face. I'm good.

1458
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:43,000
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, brother, brother b Chicago kid. I'd like

1459
01:13:43,040 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 3: to say your whole name. I like to you know

1460
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:46,600
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I like for your flowers to be

1461
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 3: addressed to you. Appreciate, Thank you, brother, thank thank you

1462
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:55,680
Speaker 3: for your time, thank you for your gift. You know

1463
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:59,760
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, your continued contribution to this, to this

1464
01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 3: you universe, which is also inspiring to us. You see

1465
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. And we're home for you. You know, I

1466
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 3: just want to make sure we express that to you.

1467
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:11,600
Speaker 3: We're a home for you. This ain't just about you

1468
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 3: being a guest or you know, any any anything superficial

1469
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 3: or anything industry. My brother, you are brother, this is

1470
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 3: home for you. You want to come up here and

1471
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:20,559
Speaker 3: just put your feet up on the table and just

1472
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:23,240
Speaker 3: talk shop and and be do you know I say

1473
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:26,719
Speaker 3: I'm saying, And be a resident and think. Man, Carl Blanche,

1474
01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 3: my brother, you know that. I just want to make

1475
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:33,600
Speaker 3: sure I guess you take that off. You might not

1476
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 3: get that back.

1477
01:14:37,400 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 2: Keep keep it.

1478
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 1: That you want to take.

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01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 3: And this is the Army Money podcast, the authority on

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01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 3: all things R and B. And this is our loved

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1482
01:14:53,160 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 3: he's doing. I want you to put your ears and

1483
01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,080
Speaker 3: your eyes on it.

1484
01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:02,599
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1486
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