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Speaker 2: All right, guys, Well from back e y L. Hometown
Speaker 2: Heroes definitely a Hometown Hometown Heroes edition, not one four.
Speaker 2: That's a fact. So if you listen, if you're a
Speaker 2: loyal listening to us, if you're association, if you're a
Speaker 2: loyal listener to to the ARNI a leisure platform. You
Speaker 2: know that we hip hop heads. We really grew up
Speaker 2: listening to rap and it really influenced us a lot,
Speaker 2: a lot, a lot, probably more than anything for sure.
Speaker 2: So you know, coming from Westchester now one four of course,
Speaker 2: of course one of our major influences is none other
Speaker 2: than the Locks. That's like, we grew up on the Lox.
Speaker 3: That's the fact, Yo, mid nineties kids, that's all we had,
Speaker 3: That's all we had. I forget the first time I
Speaker 3: heard You'll see, I was like, Yo, they're from where
Speaker 3: we're from.
Speaker 2: Yo. Yeah, it wasn't too many. I mean you always
Speaker 2: had Pete Roxy, oh smooth, you had heavy D brand
Speaker 2: older than us, so like growing up like you guys DMX.
Speaker 2: Of course I can't forget about the dog, but it was,
Speaker 2: it was a big deal. So this is this is
Speaker 2: big for us. This is this is something that we're
Speaker 2: definitely looking forward to. The interview styles p the Ghosts,
Speaker 2: none other and Odua styles. I get very nervous when
Speaker 2: I pronounced names.
Speaker 4: You always say pronounce it for me.
Speaker 2: My name is Bla Alway. People always call me Rashid.
Speaker 5: They and you are I know how I feel.
Speaker 2: So first and foremost song, we want to thank you
Speaker 2: guys for joining us, appreciate.
Speaker 6: It, thank you for havings, for having Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna talk about a variety of different things
Speaker 2: because you guys are entrepreneurs and this is an entrepreneur
Speaker 2: business platform. But first I want to start where it
Speaker 2: all started for you, styles in the music business. And
Speaker 2: I feel like you're interested when it comes to music,
Speaker 2: because it's not too many artists that like twenty five
Speaker 2: years you've been in the game or something like that, probably.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like so it's almost very very long time.
Speaker 2: It's almost three decades, so it's not too many artists
Speaker 2: that have actually transitioned for that long period of time.
Speaker 2: So you came in Bad Boy Records.
Speaker 6: In ninety six.
Speaker 7: I was nineteen ninety six, is yeah my professional debut?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, So how has things changed? Because it's like,
Speaker 2: I feel like you came in young and obviously you probably,
Speaker 2: like all artists, you don't really know the business, but
Speaker 2: you learned the business as you go. So, like, how
Speaker 2: has the music industry changed in your opinion from the
Speaker 2: nineties when we was having a million dollar videos and
Speaker 2: now you know it's all about it's changed.
Speaker 6: It's changed tremendously because times have changed.
Speaker 7: I mean it was it's bound and changing it because
Speaker 7: everything about it has changed. How you lay music, how
Speaker 7: you could send it, how fast you could send it.
Speaker 7: You know, it wasn't Protus twelve or whatever we're on
Speaker 7: right now those you know, it started with rails and
Speaker 7: things of that nature.
Speaker 6: Then at times just kept advancing.
Speaker 7: So I think things have changed because as you said,
Speaker 7: like when we were coming in a game, you guys
Speaker 7: loved us because you knew we were from.
Speaker 6: Nine one four. It meant something. So I think.
Speaker 7: Where you you know, people were more touched by where
Speaker 7: people were from when they got the hit their music,
Speaker 7: and it was more like you're invested in the story
Speaker 7: now as to where Now with the Internet, you know,
Speaker 7: people know where they're from and love where they're from.
Speaker 6: But you know, New Yorkers may sound like a South dude.
Speaker 7: You may have a bunch of New York dudes who
Speaker 7: don't sound like they're from New York just because they
Speaker 7: have the reach and access to everywhere else in the
Speaker 7: world now, like you know what I mean. So I
Speaker 7: think that alone and just technology and how much money
Speaker 7: has been made and how big the industry changes it all.
Speaker 4: I think one of the things that's commendable.
Speaker 3: And yeah, you've been in it for twenty five years,
Speaker 3: but y'all been a group for that long. We don't
Speaker 3: see that in hip hop. We don't see guys sticking together.
Speaker 3: I know one of my favorite lines you have that
Speaker 3: was like every man's ahead of the group, and like
Speaker 3: y'all stuck by that. But at a certain point, I
Speaker 3: think you probably, maybe the forefront of it, you had
Speaker 3: an independent situation. And what's preaching that is that because
Speaker 3: of business deals that you've had obviously the bad.
Speaker 7: Boy era, and just because you're in a group, don't
Speaker 7: mean you all have to visualize.
Speaker 6: And see everything the same way.
Speaker 7: Like we're a group, and you know, we keep out
Speaker 7: what goes on in between the group between a group
Speaker 7: as far as business goes, I like independence and I
Speaker 7: like major I just don't like working for people. I
Speaker 7: like working with people. I don't really have anything against
Speaker 7: the majors. It's just when you're on a major as
Speaker 7: an artist, you know, it's it gets difficult, you know
Speaker 7: what I mean? So I'd rather do business with you
Speaker 7: and work with you than work for you. I'm not
Speaker 7: a I'm not good with working for people, you know
Speaker 7: what I mean. So we're independent, your life is more
Speaker 7: on your in your own hands, and you're you're more
Speaker 7: control and you know. But with that, I've learned how
Speaker 7: to do business in the majors and learn if I'm
Speaker 7: going to go work with the majors, I'm gonna do
Speaker 7: a partnership and not just be an artist, like you
Speaker 7: know what I mean. So I think it's a fine
Speaker 7: line between what makes you comfortable as a person.
Speaker 2: Well when did that? Because I obviously, like Steve Stole,
Speaker 2: everybody told about owning your masters. Now that's like real popular.
Speaker 2: Yeah you guys as early on that obviously the issue
Speaker 2: with bad Boy whatever as far as but at one point,
Speaker 2: I guess you had to realize, like getting on your masters,
Speaker 2: it's important to own your masters a for like up
Speaker 2: and coming artists and creators. How important can we hear
Speaker 2: about masters a lot? Right? But like as an artist,
Speaker 2: how important is it actually to own your masters? And
Speaker 2: when did that actually trigger in your brain?
Speaker 7: Like yo, I think I think with anything you do,
Speaker 7: that's like you want to own it if you put
Speaker 7: your time in your and your effort and your working,
Speaker 7: like you know what I mean, Like if you started
Speaker 7: to start somewhere or you start anything, that the object
Speaker 7: to end. The object is for ownership, to have ownership
Speaker 7: of something, to have some kind of equity, and how
Speaker 7: we're in the equity of whatever business you're involved in.
Speaker 7: So I think once you start getting to the numbers
Speaker 7: of how it's crunched down in music, you start understanding
Speaker 7: it's a small part.
Speaker 6: Of the scale.
Speaker 7: But then it's also a flip side to it because
Speaker 7: it really depends on what type of artists you are,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, and what you want to do,
Speaker 7: Like what are you in it for?
Speaker 6: What are you trying to do with it?
Speaker 7: So it's like, you know, I think it's a broad
Speaker 7: conversation when it comes to saying, all right, I want
Speaker 7: to own my masters. We've been around for a lot
Speaker 7: of years, so it makes sense for us to want
Speaker 7: to own our masters.
Speaker 6: It makes sense for everybody to want to own their masters.
Speaker 7: But a lot of people, you know, it takes a
Speaker 7: lot to learn the music game, like you know what
Speaker 7: I mean, And as it goes, I think people still.
Speaker 6: Don't know what's going on.
Speaker 7: I don't I'm still learning everything everything in life with
Speaker 7: me is a constant learning process every day, Like I don't,
Speaker 7: I will never Yeah, by default, I never know most
Speaker 7: of us just knowing I don't know enoughing I need
Speaker 7: to learn something new, and having a wife that always
Speaker 7: reminds me. You know, you want to be around smarter people,
Speaker 7: people who know more, or people who are more.
Speaker 6: Experienced, people you could gather something from.
Speaker 7: So don't I can't break down to you in real
Speaker 7: terms how streams work right now, and I don't think
Speaker 7: most artists can. I don't think most of the people
Speaker 7: who own the streaming business can, Like you know what
Speaker 7: I mean.
Speaker 6: So it's something we get adapted to and acting like
Speaker 6: we know.
Speaker 7: A lot of things, like if you see how thick
Speaker 7: a record contract is, unless you're a lawyer, how would
Speaker 7: you ever know that record contract? So the best thing
Speaker 7: is now learning the power of renegotiating and being able
Speaker 7: to deal with different people and then being able to say, Okay,
Speaker 7: I don't know, Like I like to tell someone straight
Speaker 7: up when I don't know something, but I know someone
Speaker 7: who does know, And I'm not the person you should
Speaker 7: jerk because I will double on triple check just to
Speaker 7: make sure because I don't know. But I think when
Speaker 7: any business you're in, you have to know you never
Speaker 7: know enohing. It's more you could learn and I know
Speaker 7: that from being married and just like you was with that,
Speaker 7: but you know, but you got to move on. And
Speaker 7: that's that's not just for work, that's kind of what
Speaker 7: with life in general. Like not to be funny, but
Speaker 7: like that was this morning, Like it was like, all right,
Speaker 7: you go over certain things and you have to put
Speaker 7: it in playing your life and that's pretty much work
Speaker 7: for me.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you a question. So here all
Speaker 2: the time, you shouldn't mix business and family. You shouldn't
Speaker 2: work with your especially your spouse. It's kind of difficult
Speaker 2: to like meet with somebody.
Speaker 4: You're always gonna get us in trouble. I'm like, no,
Speaker 4: it's great, it's great.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so I mean I think that's important. Like
Speaker 2: how does that work as far as the dynamic of
Speaker 2: you guys a business partners, but you're also life partners
Speaker 2: as well, Like, well, how's that work out?
Speaker 8: Well, it's taken to time to get an adjustment. No really,
Speaker 8: because initially you just go into it and then you realize, okay,
Speaker 8: we are actually spending a lot of time with each
Speaker 8: other and then you do to certain things that happen,
Speaker 8: you realize we actually have the same outlook at the
Speaker 8: end of the day. So it's like we'll go through
Speaker 8: certain things, but we know at the end of the
Speaker 8: day what our end goal is and what we want
Speaker 8: for each other and as a family.
Speaker 5: So but it definitely gets challenging, and.
Speaker 8: We for the most part, I would say organized and
Speaker 8: I ration in the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I plan it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: Like some days I'll say, like you should handle this,
Speaker 8: Like we can't be around each other the energy. Sometimes
Speaker 8: it's just not copaesthetic every day. So it just becomes,
Speaker 8: you know, understanding that we'll still have to see each
Speaker 8: other at the end of the day.
Speaker 5: So how we.
Speaker 8: Can you know, delegate during the day have a better
Speaker 8: peaceful evening.
Speaker 3: I feel like watching it from the sideline from outside
Speaker 3: looking in, it's like some people hire managers and some
Speaker 3: people have wives.
Speaker 8: Because throughout, you know, even with his managers, I have
Speaker 8: a good strong relationship with them because we have to
Speaker 8: all work and you know, with each other, just.
Speaker 4: To suit him, I mean, must have been a conversation.
Speaker 8: It's a great harmonious marriage because we need to have
Speaker 8: everybody needs to be cohesive, and in order to do that,
Speaker 8: we have to be on the same page. So the
Speaker 8: relationships are very important and I have to be involved
Speaker 8: with them, and not so much just to be controlling,
Speaker 8: but just so that everything's organized and I get the
Speaker 8: full scope on how to plan things.
Speaker 6: You know, s P.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, doesn't this make life easier though, right when
Speaker 3: when you've got when you got your life partner help
Speaker 3: manage in the life.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, if it's the right partner, yes and no. No,
Speaker 6: even with the right partners. Yeah, even with the right partners,
Speaker 6: yes and no.
Speaker 7: It's because it depends what lady, in what space you
Speaker 7: are in life, to be honest, because if it forces
Speaker 7: you to grow, like because some days she says things
Speaker 7: to me that I really don't want to hear. And
Speaker 7: it's like I would say, constructive criticism, but that you
Speaker 7: learned later to be thankful for.
Speaker 6: But some days I'm not the how I work and
Speaker 6: she works, we work.
Speaker 7: We have a lot of likenesses and then we have
Speaker 7: a lot of differences. So sometimes were like this, it's
Speaker 7: like dealing with a mirror. It's like so sometimes, like
Speaker 7: like she said, it's like you know what you do
Speaker 7: this today. I'll do this today, or you do this,
Speaker 7: I'll do this, and then we'll we'll we'll figure it
Speaker 7: out later because most of the time she's more right
Speaker 7: than me, and I.
Speaker 6: Just don't like it.
Speaker 5: No, he doesn't.
Speaker 7: But again it's I don't keep it a buck like
Speaker 7: sometimes I like being right, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 7: like like wrong?
Speaker 2: But hey, so, how did how did this come about?
Speaker 2: This is interesting in because so.
Speaker 4: And shout Daniel, but yeah, Greenberg connection.
Speaker 2: Is that your name? I don't know if you just
Speaker 2: found that out fact depending on where you met up.
Speaker 2: But he made a good point because he was, like,
Speaker 2: you know, he's personally witnessed the community changed once the
Speaker 2: juice bar opened, Like people come in here and it's
Speaker 2: part of their daily routine. Like he said, he actually
Speaker 2: saw the transformation happen. And he brung up a point
Speaker 2: that you know, well south youka is where we are
Speaker 2: right now is a food desert. I used to live
Speaker 2: in Baltimore and I did a research study and that's
Speaker 2: the first time I actually learned about food deserts. I
Speaker 2: never really realized that it was. You just get used
Speaker 2: to it. But where it's strategically placed, where it's they're
Speaker 2: not like real healthy sources for people to get food,
Speaker 2: and then they have to spend more money on junk
Speaker 2: food than they like buy like groceries and like gas stations,
Speaker 2: and it's like all kinds of processed foods and all that.
Speaker 2: So how did this come about? As far as Okay,
Speaker 2: you're a rap artist and now you are opening juice bar?
Speaker 6: Was this is a multiple answering.
Speaker 7: One one my wife here, I was on the road
Speaker 7: a lot, so she was telling me to eat better.
Speaker 6: And just live better. When I get home, I always ate, well,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: So but like I never knew what kill was until
Speaker 7: I was like, I know, spinach and collar green.
Speaker 6: I was like, what the hell's kille? So just some
Speaker 6: introducing foods to my life.
Speaker 7: And then also my partner and nine Nige, he had
Speaker 7: a juice on one hundred and twenty fifth.
Speaker 6: Fruits of Life.
Speaker 7: So just listening to her being on a roll like
Speaker 7: trying to carry it outside. And then also looking for
Speaker 7: peace too. I was I was getting in a lot
Speaker 7: of trouble at the time on the street, so I
Speaker 7: was trying to look for a new hangout and looked
Speaker 7: for some peace at the same time, and then from
Speaker 7: going there just you know, it was probably me, my partner,
Speaker 7: nine like my other partner Leo, and maybe five to
Speaker 7: six other customers at first.
Speaker 6: So I just started making it part of life, like.
Speaker 7: Whoever wanted to meet me or see me wherever, Like
Speaker 7: just meet me on two fifth of the juice ball,
Speaker 7: I have a juice eat.
Speaker 6: And then I lost weight. Yeah, you know, start changing,
Speaker 6: and I just started pushing it more.
Speaker 7: And then really it was at the we were living
Speaker 7: pretty well, and so as we started living better and
Speaker 7: moving to better places, and then just like also, like
Speaker 7: I said, I didn't even know what organic was until
Speaker 7: she told me, Like, so you know, I lived a
Speaker 7: certain way for a long time, and still I was
Speaker 7: like organic that sounded so farming, and organic is just
Speaker 7: the right thing in me is naturally and it's right
Speaker 7: form on tampered with, but that sounded so feign to me.
Speaker 7: So from just you know, having my wife going to
Speaker 7: the jewe Far and then noticing, as you know, making money,
Speaker 7: I was like, wow, we how they live in other
Speaker 7: neighborhoods and you know, you think it's just the parks
Speaker 7: and the schools, but when you start getting to the
Speaker 7: supermarkets and walking down the aisles and start really paying attention.
Speaker 7: I started really just paying attention, and we started paying attention.
Speaker 8: But the ultimate benefit for him was the benefits from it. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you know, so aside from all of that, like when
Speaker 8: you really start to see certain things heal and you know,
Speaker 8: ailments heal and get better and your body start to
Speaker 8: change and turn around and respond to your new diet,
Speaker 8: then it's more of an incentive to keep going.
Speaker 6: So spread the word. Yeah, you spread the word.
Speaker 3: In my mind, I was thinking like, because, like I said,
Speaker 3: we've watched you grow up like this. We've watched it happened.
Speaker 3: So in my mind, I'm thinking, like, what was the event?
Speaker 3: And now you're saying that your wife introduced it to you.
Speaker 3: So I'm wondering, have you always been on the healthy kid? Yes,
Speaker 3: so like you introduced it because this was already your life.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 8: Now the thing about me is I was raised in
Speaker 8: a rosta household. So that's I told that's you know, no,
Speaker 8: what is it?
Speaker 6: Come on?
Speaker 5: I was vital, but the no flying SARTs so and
Speaker 5: I didn't want to say that that the.
Speaker 8: Household I grew up in, you know, And I just
Speaker 8: kind of you know, continued it when I got older.
Speaker 8: So when I got married and I had kids, and
Speaker 8: I wanted them to eat healthy. That's how I you know,
Speaker 8: cooked and so forth. And I think as we got
Speaker 8: older and developed as a couple and we were growing,
Speaker 8: we just tried to always do things better. You know,
Speaker 8: we're always trying to improve on something, especially if you know,
Speaker 8: we you know, get sick or the kids get sick,
Speaker 8: when somebody responds to something negatively, we're always like, okay,
Speaker 8: well we're not going to do that anymore, and let's
Speaker 8: just go do something else. So because he had some issues,
Speaker 8: like he was hyper, he was he had what.
Speaker 5: You had. When those things healed and.
Speaker 4: The juice, it sounds like.
Speaker 2: When you lost a lot of weight. I remember seeing
Speaker 2: that you lost the out of weight. I think Kiss
Speaker 2: lost a lot of weight too. You didn kiss Crew here.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know that was him. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 2: he was just purposely balled. Jesus is like magical. But
Speaker 2: so whose idea was it? For the strategic partners? That's
Speaker 2: another thing thing told about that was actually pretty dope.
Speaker 2: When he told me about that, Like, I guess in
Speaker 2: each location you got like different partners.
Speaker 7: Well, I but in the juice Wow. I really wasn't
Speaker 7: meant to being a juice bo. I was forced by
Speaker 7: my partner's noth leal like in doing it. They was
Speaker 7: like I told you I used to visit the juice bar.
Speaker 7: Then you know, it was his family's business. He was
Speaker 7: doing something else and then he closed down and then
Speaker 7: he just called me and he kept kept in contact call.
Speaker 6: He was like, nah, I'm opening another juice barn. You're
Speaker 6: my partner.
Speaker 7: I was like, nah, I'm good because I was supposed
Speaker 7: to be a partner down there.
Speaker 6: I used to ask me. I was like, nah, I'm cool.
Speaker 6: Let me just I.
Speaker 7: Didn't really I didn't want to be invested in it
Speaker 7: because I wasn't. I didn't know enough, you know what
Speaker 7: I mean. And I just really wanted it people to
Speaker 7: feel good how I was feeling. So he was like,
Speaker 7: not for what you do. You got to be part
Speaker 7: of it.
Speaker 6: You're in it.
Speaker 5: So because of him, so it was like a no brainer.
Speaker 6: So it just worked and then some I promoted. I
Speaker 6: was like the cheerleader for you.
Speaker 2: Got four juic locations.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we have full locations and we have pharmacy for
Speaker 7: life or online store, you know what I mean, where
Speaker 7: you can get natural products like black seed oil, oil
Speaker 7: of regular soursa irish, more BCD vitamins, things for your stomach.
Speaker 9: Pharmacy is a little different, well it's a lot different,
Speaker 9: but it's like the sister company and it's just an
Speaker 9: extension of what we do with the juice bar, but
Speaker 9: it's more like we heil from our cell your level
Speaker 9: with supplements like sea moss and ladder rack and black
Speaker 9: seed and so everything that we have and we use
Speaker 9: that are that target specific.
Speaker 8: These is there. You know, they don't harm the rest
Speaker 8: of the body. You're healing essentially the rest of the body.
Speaker 8: So whereas if you do use you know, traditional medicine,
Speaker 8: you're always affecting another part of the body most of
Speaker 8: the time by the medicine.
Speaker 5: So we just try to heal from inside out.
Speaker 4: That's dope.
Speaker 3: So I mean the four locations obviously you've planted them
Speaker 3: inside of bracken Brown communities very intentionally to get give
Speaker 3: healthy alternatives. And so I'm thinking, one, is there a
Speaker 3: more expansion coming? And two if somebody you know from
Speaker 3: young because it's like, yo, I want to get invested
Speaker 3: in this, what's the type of start.
Speaker 4: Of course, that it takes to do something like this.
Speaker 7: Well what we say with the juice, well what it is,
Speaker 7: this is what this way it gets deep for this
Speaker 7: kind of business. We have a model here like if
Speaker 7: you see if you come, you see all our recipes
Speaker 7: on the menu. We tell all our customers get their
Speaker 7: own juice, to get their own blender. So we make
Speaker 7: officers drink free. You know, a lot of city where
Speaker 7: because drink free, buyomen ambulance, depending on you know, the
Speaker 7: time of the year, what's exactly going on. We do
Speaker 7: things for the community. So a lot of people what
Speaker 7: a lot of things in the way we do it
Speaker 7: to kind of look at as business. Maybe not the
Speaker 7: wisest for some people, but it's worked and got us
Speaker 7: full locations.
Speaker 6: So because we have.
Speaker 7: A model in here, like I'm nobody is as important
Speaker 7: as the cause in the company, nobody like not everybody
Speaker 7: who works here is as important as everybody, because it's
Speaker 7: a movement at the end of the day that's meant
Speaker 7: to reach households and families, that's meant to last longer
Speaker 7: than all of us, that's meant to go to the.
Speaker 6: Next generation, to the next generation.
Speaker 7: So it's No, it's more so of a movement where
Speaker 7: we just want people to fail and understand to juice
Speaker 7: up and get healthy. Even with pharmacy, we say, if
Speaker 7: you can't buy our products or don't want to buy
Speaker 7: our product, we have full juice balls. Everybody can't make
Speaker 7: it here. So we want people to see the menu
Speaker 7: and understanding about juicing. So a person may not want
Speaker 7: to do business with us because our motto is we're
Speaker 7: going to make money, but our job is to take
Speaker 7: care of our community first, and love is love.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're trying to get people to have it as
Speaker 5: a lifestyle.
Speaker 6: We want you to bring it home. You may you.
Speaker 8: Shouldn't be healthy eating shing to be an option and
Speaker 8: come from Ohio to be affordable and accessible.
Speaker 7: Oklahoma a whole nother state, a whole nother country is,
Speaker 7: and you may not be able to ever come back here.
Speaker 7: But when you hear we want you to gather something,
Speaker 7: learn something to bring home to your family that will
Speaker 7: benefits you, not because we're making money off of it,
Speaker 7: because we're benefiting, because you're benefiting as.
Speaker 6: A human being, just as a spirit is someone alive.
Speaker 7: If your kid's good, his kid's good, and my kid
Speaker 7: may be in trouble, or his kid may be in trouble.
Speaker 6: If they're around your kid, they may do good. But
Speaker 6: I think that's what it's about at the end of
Speaker 6: the day.
Speaker 5: And you can't unlearn the education, you know.
Speaker 8: So once you take and learn the education, you can
Speaker 8: pay it forward and it becomes you know, continuous.
Speaker 2: So yeah, let me ask you this far artists, was
Speaker 2: you ever intimidated business? Because I feel like a lot
Speaker 2: of time people, you know, it's like you might not
Speaker 2: be fully educated or business or investing stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and it's like you practice your craft and you become
Speaker 2: great at your craft, but it's into anything new is intimidating. Like, so,
Speaker 2: were you ever like intimidating, not like scared, but were
Speaker 2: you ever like a little nervous or apprehensive about becoming
Speaker 2: a business man?
Speaker 7: I'm so I think eager, that kind of that kind
Speaker 7: of skips me. I have a desire and when I
Speaker 7: see it, I just want to I want to get
Speaker 7: to it. I have a great wife to when something
Speaker 7: goes wrong, I get to sweek to her, I get
Speaker 7: to speak.
Speaker 6: To my homie.
Speaker 7: So intimidation, I would say, I get nervous, I get
Speaker 7: nervous about things I get. I'm I'm a fidgety, panicky
Speaker 7: type of dude. Not intimidated though, but I am fidgety.
Speaker 7: I am a warrior, but I'm also I'm very optimistic.
Speaker 7: I always feel like I land on my feet and
Speaker 7: if I did and I wasn't mental, So I try
Speaker 7: to you know, I try to go with that in
Speaker 7: my mind because I'm not one to really get to
Speaker 7: I'm from Youngers, New York and made it rapping, so
Speaker 7: that took a short mind state from hearing you know
Speaker 7: before and I'm sure with my two partners as well,
Speaker 7: before you before you made it. You can't imagine coming
Speaker 7: up as a youth and telling people you want to
Speaker 7: rhyme and being from here and nobody ever making it
Speaker 7: so all you hear is no, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 6: You should do something else. You know how many? How many?
Speaker 6: If I were to listen to.
Speaker 7: Those thousands and thousands and thousands of no's and find
Speaker 7: something else to do or make sure you know what
Speaker 7: I mean, I wouldn't be here today.
Speaker 6: Let me so, I'm not really good with intimidation.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you to it. Let me ask you
Speaker 2: a hip hop question. I always wondered this around that
Speaker 2: time you guys came out and you was with you
Speaker 2: was with bad Boy, but then like right after that,
Speaker 2: X comes out, but then he's with Roughriders. And then
Speaker 2: from my understanding, you had a relationship with Rough Friers,
Speaker 2: actually workship deal out with help work to deal out
Speaker 2: with bad Boys.
Speaker 6: So they were management.
Speaker 2: Didn't you just go with Rough Riders to begin with
Speaker 2: that bad Boy?
Speaker 6: They didn't have what they had. They didn't have what
Speaker 6: they had at the time.
Speaker 7: There was our management, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 7: It was our management got us to deal with bad Boy.
Speaker 7: Jimmy Jimmy seeing what they was doing, they was working hard,
Speaker 7: they got extra leo like you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: Then seeing what knowing they was our managers and got
Speaker 7: us to Bad Boys. And then knowing they was working
Speaker 7: with X and got him a situation led to their
Speaker 7: situation and in the scope. So it wasn't at the beginning,
Speaker 7: it wasn't no just b wasn't a situation to be on,
Speaker 7: like you know what I mean. So I don't regret
Speaker 7: ever being I think a lot of people think we
Speaker 7: regret being on Bad Boy.
Speaker 6: Things happened.
Speaker 7: I actually loved that I was on Bad Boy that
Speaker 7: was would say they wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Chicago a lot to learn from?
Speaker 3: That's that's that's a fair was like, sounds like the
Speaker 3: Chicago bulls.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you think I mean? Because
Speaker 2: you know it w wasn't.
Speaker 6: Learning the business.
Speaker 7: I think I think I think a lot of people
Speaker 7: don't understand we did something. And I think they'll understand
Speaker 7: this probably when we're dead and gone and really shit
Speaker 7: down and go holy shit, that's what really happened. We
Speaker 7: had a standing contract, bro. We had the standard music contract.
Speaker 7: Our contract was no different from what's the standard what
Speaker 7: is that what every other artist had coming into the game.
Speaker 6: We didn't have a screwed up more screwed up contract
Speaker 6: then every other artist that was out at the time.
Speaker 7: We just had the balls and understand it was stupid
Speaker 7: as fuck and that every business, in any business you do,
Speaker 7: you always should have the power of renegotiation.
Speaker 6: That's something we understood, like, Okay, you sign a contract,
Speaker 6: you don't know the contract, but after you perform and
Speaker 6: you do a certain thing, you should be able to
Speaker 6: have a certain power of negotiate.
Speaker 7: And I think we just had the balls enough to
Speaker 7: say that understand and have confidence in ourselves enough to
Speaker 7: know that. And we was ignorant too, and well, meet,
Speaker 7: I can't say we, you know, etatistical dealing with emotions
Speaker 7: at the same time of not knowing something is right,
Speaker 7: you become you know, I'm I'm a like I said,
Speaker 7: I'm not intimidated from believing what I believe in.
Speaker 6: So you know, it was more so like nah, in
Speaker 6: the same right, I'd rather go, you know, but rather not.
Speaker 7: I can't just live with not doing something that I
Speaker 7: know in my heart, I think that's right, Like you
Speaker 7: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: That's the beauty of it. Like we got to watch
Speaker 4: y'all grow from that.
Speaker 3: It was like, Yo, we heard y'all having with that interview,
Speaker 3: and then we saw y'all reconcile, and now we see
Speaker 3: y'all working together still.
Speaker 4: It's like, Yo, that's it.
Speaker 3: Like most times we never get to see those two stages, right,
Speaker 3: we always see.
Speaker 4: As the flare up. We never see reconciliation.
Speaker 3: We never see like YO, were in the same fight together,
Speaker 3: which I think is beautiful. So y'all have to go
Speaker 3: through that so that we could see it and now know,
Speaker 3: like YO, for sure, every man ahead of the group.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, like, let's do this the right.
Speaker 6: Way for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of these things like you said, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, a lack of knowledge young, you don't really
Speaker 2: have how could you really know? Learn? Learn as you go.
Speaker 2: But but I feel like artists now it's been like
Speaker 2: twenty years and a lot of artists are still making
Speaker 2: the same mistake.
Speaker 6: It's a different game though.
Speaker 7: I can't say they're making the same mistake because the
Speaker 7: amount of money involved in the way the system that's run,
Speaker 7: it's a whole different system. Like you know, you know
Speaker 7: what I mean, So when you're in a well, it's
Speaker 7: not all the way all the way different, but it's
Speaker 7: a whole new system. And these artists, you got to
Speaker 7: think if you're coming from somewhere and you was poor
Speaker 7: or not not well off, or with no exact right future,
Speaker 7: and then you see thousands of thousands of dollars a week,
Speaker 7: or hundreds of thousands or now millions.
Speaker 6: Of a year. This kid, he made one.
Speaker 7: He has emotional stress already, maybe ADHD or whatever, the
Speaker 7: part of I've always met mixing my letters.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I said it.
Speaker 4: Right, right, right, right, right.
Speaker 7: He may have any you know that, he may come
Speaker 7: from an environment where his parents didn't teacher right, he
Speaker 7: may not have had elders in his family that taught
Speaker 7: him right. So how can you really expect him to
Speaker 7: do well? Like you know what I mean, you're basing
Speaker 7: that off comparisons to societies where these kids had families, colleges,
Speaker 7: things in place, and systems in place for them to succeed.
Speaker 6: So when you give somebody who wasn't meant.
Speaker 7: To succeed just a shitload of money and they happen
Speaker 7: to succeed where most people don't succeed, they're going to
Speaker 7: run into some trouble. So whether it's happened to millions
Speaker 7: of people, it'll continue to happen because that's been a
Speaker 7: music business, not just rap. That's been music business, Hollywood, sports, entertainment.
Speaker 7: If you look all around the board, that's happened to
Speaker 7: a lot of a lot of people that were you know,
Speaker 7: well often come into.
Speaker 6: A certain thing.
Speaker 7: It depends on who's around you, what you knew, what
Speaker 7: you learned, and you know, if you have a good foundation,
Speaker 7: if you don't have a good foundation, and there's a
Speaker 7: lot of ups and down.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I add ask both of you, really,
Speaker 3: now do you feel as a shift do like I
Speaker 3: see that people are coming in, I saw young people
Speaker 3: coming in. Here are people and more interested now to
Speaker 3: talk to you about business? Or is it still like hey, yo,
Speaker 3: can you listen to my song?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Are we still trying to go to the music or
Speaker 3: people are looking at y'all like yo, they went the
Speaker 3: entrepreneurial route, like can you be our guidance? Can you
Speaker 3: be my mental type situation?
Speaker 8: Well, I believe they definitely want to get healthy. That's
Speaker 8: all we do is talk about well. For me, constant
Speaker 8: conversations about health and understanding and trying to transition and
Speaker 8: wanting to just become healthier and understanding more of what
Speaker 8: we do and more of the products. So I don't
Speaker 8: even hear rap conversations anymore. Really, it's like they always
Speaker 8: start with health and they may kind of segue to
Speaker 8: something else, but they kind of always start with health
Speaker 8: for the most part, because somebody's always having an issue
Speaker 8: and they look to us as hood doctors, so they
Speaker 8: always you know, need some sort of answer or some
Speaker 8: sort of help, which is cool, you know, so you know,
Speaker 8: we don't mind, you know. And again it's each one
Speaker 8: teach one. So if you know them, if you have
Speaker 8: information and you can give insight you know to people
Speaker 8: and you know, help them out, you should.
Speaker 6: I definitely much more health questions and health like. No,
Speaker 6: it's crazy.
Speaker 7: I always I always had a before actually doing this,
Speaker 7: I always had an order. You know, God, family, hip hop.
Speaker 7: God's part of the family. So I always said, it's family.
Speaker 7: Then you know, then hip hop has been the most
Speaker 7: important to me. Health came filled hip hop slot because
Speaker 7: there's no hip hop without the health. When you really
Speaker 7: get the mind standing and you get to understanding or
Speaker 7: what's really needed. But we have to do That's why
Speaker 7: I said what we do is bigger than us. It's
Speaker 7: bigger than this brand because it's actually what the brand
Speaker 7: stands for.
Speaker 10: But we all pay, you know, the gentleman you've seen
Speaker 10: here before you came in a shift before that, the
Speaker 10: people in the other store, what we all do at home,
Speaker 10: the pharmacy for life because it's meant to go to
Speaker 10: the next place.
Speaker 7: So the health is bigger because I think the community
Speaker 7: is starting to grasp that we need to survive, especially
Speaker 7: with you know, healing with pandemics, plandemics, racism, you know
Speaker 7: what I mean, systematic racism, you know, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer,
Speaker 7: stomach problems, ailments, you know. I think it's it's a
Speaker 7: point in time where you have to say survival is key.
Speaker 7: We about survival, like you know what I mean a
Speaker 7: lot of people I think health I think hip hop
Speaker 7: respects survival and it hasn't been broadcasted enough before. I
Speaker 7: guess are just in the light which we're willing to
Speaker 7: do to say this healthy shit is not a trend.
Speaker 6: It's not no corny shit. It's survival. It's survival for
Speaker 6: you and yours. And people get that, especially poor people,
Speaker 6: especially people.
Speaker 7: Who like whether it's you know, it's not highlighted and
Speaker 7: it's trendier now like it's getting becoming trendy in a trend,
Speaker 7: but it's not highlighted and champion when, like, you know,
Speaker 7: you test it for yourself. Do a post about some
Speaker 7: healthy shit, see how much reaction you get, and then
Speaker 7: do a health a post about some clown shit that
Speaker 7: means nothing, and see see the comparison. So when you
Speaker 7: understand that, then you really understand the fight, and we
Speaker 7: understand what we're here for. So we can get miserable
Speaker 7: and fold up and get frustrated and be like, you know,
Speaker 7: understand this shit is the most important shit ever because
Speaker 7: you could love me for my music and my bars
Speaker 7: may have touched you and got you through some tough times.
Speaker 7: But the knowledge that juice for life and pharmacy for
Speaker 7: life you know, you could get from us is priceless
Speaker 7: and it could last for generations and generations and generations.
Speaker 7: And we didn't invent this, Like this ain't like we
Speaker 7: always say juice for life and pharmacy for life because people,
Speaker 7: you know, this ain't nothing we invented.
Speaker 6: This is champion.
Speaker 4: It's just I mean, you've become y'all really have become
Speaker 4: the messenger for it.
Speaker 3: And it's not like it's not the avocado toast, you know.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying. And it's kind of similar.
Speaker 8: Well, it's the thing we try to promote balance to
Speaker 8: like it's like it's it's like we don't want to
Speaker 8: come off corny and like to dictating. It's more like,
Speaker 8: you know, we smoke, we we drink, you know, but again,
Speaker 8: it's about balance and understanding. Acidic diet and your body
Speaker 8: full of the city is just not good and it's
Speaker 8: you know, a breeding ground for a disease. So it's
Speaker 8: just more understanding balance and being happy too. So you
Speaker 8: have to If it's not making you happy, you probably
Speaker 8: won't continue to do it. But it will it will
Speaker 8: for the most part, so you'll find some something in
Speaker 8: it that pleases you that.
Speaker 5: Will be more of an incentive.
Speaker 7: So you you know, yeah, yeah, I'm just saying, like
Speaker 7: I was emailed it because people I think healthy people
Speaker 7: or people who look at health companies or health brands.
Speaker 6: We consider ourselves a health family brand. You know. We're
Speaker 6: not judgmental though. We just say, hey, do something good
Speaker 6: for yourself.
Speaker 7: Like we ain't here to judge anything that's going wrong
Speaker 7: or whatever you're doing in your life.
Speaker 6: We're just saying, hey, do something good for yourself because
Speaker 6: you deserve it. Not like yo, you got to do this,
Speaker 6: you got to do that. To the community, you got
Speaker 6: to do that.
Speaker 7: And now we're here for you. You want to take
Speaker 7: a ride, you want to feel good about yourself. We
Speaker 7: got some information that that help us feel good that
Speaker 7: may work for you.
Speaker 6: Like now we're not fortunate it down your throat are
Speaker 6: saying hey, you got to do this.
Speaker 4: Are you going to do that?
Speaker 7: We understand what it's like everybody, you know, I'm a
Speaker 7: tree hugger, but I like fashionable shit, like you know
Speaker 7: what I mean, I like to have a great time.
Speaker 8: And a lot of things too, you know, are embedded
Speaker 8: through tradition, tradition, so it takes a long time to
Speaker 8: kind of like you know, reverse that. So you might
Speaker 8: not even understand that you're in a certain way because
Speaker 8: you just are used to custom, you know, with your family.
Speaker 5: So once you even understand that alone, it's like.
Speaker 8: Wait a minute, I've been taking this much sugar in
Speaker 8: this amount of year or this month or for this whatever.
Speaker 5: It is so.
Speaker 2: Exactly a lot of things that they say is like
Speaker 2: the hereditary. Is it really hereditary or is it just
Speaker 2: your diet? It's hereditary, like it exactly exactly. But let
Speaker 2: me ask you this because it's like, actually, you mean
Speaker 2: Danie was talking off camp. We interview the young lady
Speaker 2: out of Atlanta who makes She had a business with
Speaker 2: you know, like thousands of pounds of food gets thrown
Speaker 2: away every day, and so she made a business of
Speaker 2: like feeding the homeless with the food that gets thrown away.
Speaker 2: So it's what's called a B corp LLC corp, so
Speaker 2: a b Corp. Is a for profit business for good
Speaker 2: So I think that that's beautiful because it's like we
Speaker 2: never apologize about making money. The whole point of businesses
Speaker 2: to make money. But you're doing it in a in
Speaker 2: a in a righteous manner. That's like a win win
Speaker 2: for everybody.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: So as far as the business, I see a lot
Speaker 2: of opportunities as far as scaling, like the online mode.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that you guys are doing that because especially
Speaker 2: now during Coroba, I feel like you don't have to
Speaker 2: have an online business to be successful. But if you
Speaker 2: don't have an online part of your business, I don't
Speaker 2: think it's going to be successful because I mean, even
Speaker 2: if you got the best juice bar in the world's
Speaker 2: a couple of whose idea was it to go online?
Speaker 2: And what is your vision for scaling that ramping that up?
Speaker 5: The vision is still how should I say still still? Yeah?
Speaker 6: It's still kind of vision board is not complete.
Speaker 8: Because honestly, we've only been up for about a year
Speaker 8: and the response has been overwhelming.
Speaker 5: It's been amazing.
Speaker 8: So it's just like we kind of got sat on
Speaker 8: our ass a little bit and kind of had to
Speaker 8: figure out what we're going to do because we didn't
Speaker 8: expect it to be as big as it's got. You
Speaker 8: know it's gotten, but I mean as of now, we
Speaker 8: just introduced some new products and again we try to
Speaker 8: just listen to our customer more and go according to
Speaker 8: the times like the COVID and so forth, and just
Speaker 8: you know, really just provide what's needed and filling the gaps.
Speaker 8: So we're not trying to be super you know, crazed
Speaker 8: and not again about all the money per se. It's
Speaker 8: more so about providing and making sure they understand because
Speaker 8: our community is funny because they really don't mind trying things,
Speaker 8: but they have to understand it. They really want to
Speaker 8: understand it first, and which is there's no problem you
Speaker 8: know with understanding it and res.
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Speaker 5: Break it down.
Speaker 8: But you know that's where the selling point comes in
Speaker 8: because once you believe it, they believe it.
Speaker 5: So it worked.
Speaker 6: I think with that, and I also like it's your point.
Speaker 6: I think with the young entrepreneurs, you have to do
Speaker 6: what you believe in.
Speaker 7: Like the main like we a lot of people want
Speaker 7: to be entrepreneurs are business people. But if you're not
Speaker 7: doing something you don't believe in, when you hit that
Speaker 7: rocky road, like you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: When when? When are you going to be prepared for it?
Speaker 7: Like, because if you don't love it, you may not
Speaker 7: want to continue to go on, like if you lose
Speaker 7: a chunk of money doing something, and like you have
Speaker 7: to be.
Speaker 6: Prepared for the bad as well as the good.
Speaker 7: Like, so you may lose time, you may lose money,
Speaker 7: you may lose friends, you may lose excitement, you may
Speaker 7: lose something in your life, and are you prepared to
Speaker 7: do do that? So you have to make sure it's
Speaker 7: something you love doing, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: And just to add to that, the online business is
Speaker 8: also an offering because there's a lot of people that
Speaker 8: can't get to the Juice Bar and they're always like
Speaker 8: how I mean they literally take trips.
Speaker 5: We've had school trips that come out to the Juice
Speaker 5: Bar when you know, yeah, like it's a big public
Speaker 5: whatever that is. Yeah.
Speaker 8: So with that being said that, the online business, you know,
Speaker 8: it goes to everyone. It's international. Everyone can get it.
Speaker 8: Everyone can get at least one or two of our products.
Speaker 8: Sometimes we just send care packages out depending on people's issues.
Speaker 5: So you know, we just want to make sure.
Speaker 8: That it's available, like the health, the supplements, the understanding,
Speaker 8: the education is all available you know and accessible for
Speaker 8: our community.
Speaker 3: So as part of the scaling, like you said, you
Speaker 3: have the online business, but are you trying to license
Speaker 3: some of the products and put them into.
Speaker 6: Definitely, Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 8: Mean well that's well, yeah, absolutely, and we're going to
Speaker 8: get a hub here actually to distribute some products distribution.
Speaker 7: Centeresty definitely not one for somewhere, definitely, definitely not. Sofore
Speaker 7: we will have you know, we'll be able to distribute,
Speaker 7: have people come in. Like like you said, the key
Speaker 7: to I guess what we try to do is live life,
Speaker 7: stay positive, inform our people and kind of live how
Speaker 7: we want to live while we're doing it, you know
Speaker 7: what I mean. The key to being an entrepreneur, like
Speaker 7: I said earlier, is knowing thyself, like you know what
Speaker 7: I mean, knowing your knowing your partner, knowing your customer.
Speaker 2: So I.
Speaker 6: Being my wife, we discussed a lot a lot of
Speaker 6: things as far.
Speaker 7: As business said, where we want to go pretty much
Speaker 7: all the time. So with you know, it's like saying
Speaker 7: all right, here, we're doing this with Jesus for life,
Speaker 7: but where do we want to be? Sometimes you have
Speaker 7: to this is a weird thing to say, Like she's
Speaker 7: smarter than me in certain areas. I may be smarter
Speaker 7: than her in certain areas. Now we have to combine
Speaker 7: up see who's smarter where and whip up a plan
Speaker 7: and say, Okay, how does this smart work out for
Speaker 7: our personal life besides business? For our personal life, how
Speaker 7: is this gonna work for what we want to do personally?
Speaker 7: Like where we want to go with what we want
Speaker 7: to do. Luckily we shared a lot of likenesses. Like
Speaker 7: I said, in a vision of the final the final
Speaker 7: end game is the same vision on how to get
Speaker 7: there may not be the exact same way.
Speaker 6: So now you have to keep pow wowing and keep
Speaker 6: pow wowing and keep powow know which is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 3: No, No, it is a positive because knowing that he's
Speaker 3: weak when yeah, like yeah.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: He trying to.
Speaker 7: Definitely to grow so understanding, Like you know, I didn't
Speaker 7: really have that that idea of how powerful online was,
Speaker 7: even being a.
Speaker 6: Musician, like you would think I'm the music. I'm the
Speaker 6: guy in music and the family.
Speaker 7: So here I have her every day telling me what
Speaker 7: music and with the juice bar, all right, you're not
Speaker 7: using this tool to get here.
Speaker 6: And I'm telling I don't like this ship, but you
Speaker 6: got to do this for that.
Speaker 7: So as I'm listening and learning and I'm watching and
Speaker 7: seeing certain things that she's shown me other things where
Speaker 7: with hands out and okay, now I see what you're saying.
Speaker 7: Put the yeah, I see, I see what it is. So,
Speaker 7: you know, like we had this thing from us having
Speaker 7: this I think. I think when you in a family business,
Speaker 7: I guess in the point of thing, you keep building
Speaker 7: and growing off of each other. So you know, I
Speaker 7: mean her sharp miss and her with I was able
Speaker 7: to see it and apply what I.
Speaker 6: Do and the game itself, okay, combined him.
Speaker 5: A lot because his work ethic is crazy.
Speaker 8: So it's like you kind of if you're around him,
Speaker 8: you're going to step your game up the period. You know,
Speaker 8: it's one of the reasons why I wrote the book.
Speaker 8: I wrote a book about you know, our daughter that
Speaker 8: passed away. But sorry, but yeah, that's because you know,
Speaker 8: he wrote a book and I was like, well, I
Speaker 8: want to write a book to you know, so he
Speaker 8: inspired me.
Speaker 2: So that positive peer pressure, Yeah, yeah, that's real, it's
Speaker 2: real and successful association. You always say guilty by association. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you could be successful positive peer pressure. In fact,
Speaker 2: nobody wants to be the dumbest kid in classes. Like
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. If you in a room
Speaker 2: with all geniuses, you want to try to be a genius.
Speaker 2: The counter is that if you're in a room with
Speaker 2: everybody that's doing bad, it's going to be difficult to
Speaker 2: do good. Right, you feel comfortable?
Speaker 6: Facts, that's a thousand percentying, I think.
Speaker 7: I think that's also a part of a reason for
Speaker 7: our success is we we don't give a shit about
Speaker 7: that uncomfortable feeling, like you're gonna We're gonna do what
Speaker 7: we feel is right.
Speaker 6: Like once I speak the hub about it and we
Speaker 6: speak back and forth.
Speaker 7: Like we both ain't gonna agree to none stupid that
Speaker 7: just ain't gonna happen, like you know what I.
Speaker 6: Mean, Like unless it's real some personal passionate.
Speaker 7: But we're blind, We're blind. We both ain't agree on
Speaker 7: none are going to agree on stupid? From being hunging
Speaker 7: back and forth, it's like you come up with better ideas,
Speaker 7: you come up with.
Speaker 6: Better ship and things. Part of me for cursing so
Speaker 6: much with better ideas and you know.
Speaker 7: Better thought patterns and just the better way to move,
Speaker 7: like you know what I mean, And just to keep
Speaker 7: pushing forward for your company and what you want to do,
Speaker 7: like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about So? I watched the video
Speaker 2: on Instagram. I think it was like a Yonkers town hall,
Speaker 2: but it was about gentrification. You had spoke at the
Speaker 2: town hall meeting. I think, so we talk about gentification
Speaker 2: and it's happening all over and I guess you know
Speaker 2: what's happening here too, and like where we're from, Greenberg,
Speaker 2: small town, but it's like ninety percent black. And I
Speaker 2: was driving through today and we saw a Tesla dealership
Speaker 2: and the testing dealers. Yeah, not just used to be
Speaker 2: just like a.
Speaker 4: Corner store, right, Leslie.
Speaker 2: So I told you, I said, over man, I said,
Speaker 2: what's Tesla?
Speaker 4: That's exactly what we said. We looked at each other,
Speaker 4: we said property taxes.
Speaker 6: Going going on?
Speaker 2: How you feel a about that? Especially, like I said,
Speaker 2: you spoke about that before.
Speaker 6: I feel it. I feel it's a it's a see
Speaker 6: this is this.
Speaker 7: Is so much of a long conversation to go in,
Speaker 7: so I'm gonna try to put it in very short
Speaker 7: power points. If I can as a as a human being,
Speaker 7: as just a man.
Speaker 6: I feel it's I feel it's okay.
Speaker 7: If you if the other men and women you're doing
Speaker 7: it with are looking at you in that way and
Speaker 7: want to come in and embrace your community and the
Speaker 7: things that happen in your community and respect what's going
Speaker 7: on and how it's built. And then it also if
Speaker 7: it's the people that's in the community are not the
Speaker 7: ones losing out and losing their property and now financially suffering.
Speaker 7: But that's how I feel as a man, But now
Speaker 7: how I feel as a black or brown man, that
Speaker 7: shit doesn't happen like that. And it's good because I
Speaker 7: want to see better things in our neighborhoods. I want
Speaker 7: to see better stores because we need to have whole
Speaker 7: foods where we live. Our kids need to have an
Speaker 7: old foods so the kids don't come in. Then our
Speaker 7: kids don't get to get a whole foods like you
Speaker 7: know what I mean, and certain things. So it's cool
Speaker 7: in that note, but we need to make sure that
Speaker 7: we're eating.
Speaker 6: I think as long as they.
Speaker 7: Make sure that we're getting solid jobs and then the
Speaker 7: opportunity to make money to move into these places, then
Speaker 7: then then maybe it's cool. But I worry about the placement.
Speaker 7: I really worry about the placement. But at the same time,
Speaker 7: I think the future we're heading to, or we're gonna
Speaker 7: have to head to, it's gonna have to be a
Speaker 7: world where people are gonna really have to be honest
Speaker 7: and figure it out, because I don't think the I
Speaker 7: don't think that's gonna work.
Speaker 6: With how the racial tension is keeps gathering.
Speaker 7: And keeps gaining and keeps gaining, so it's gonna either
Speaker 7: neutralize it.
Speaker 6: It's gonna come to a boiling point.
Speaker 7: That's not gonna work for the country, and America is
Speaker 7: gonna get looked at as an even more horrible place.
Speaker 6: Than it is now.
Speaker 3: It's a crucial time right now, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: especially with the pandemic happening. And that's why education is
Speaker 3: so important and that's why we you know, we take
Speaker 3: very seriously what we do because it's like we're gonna
Speaker 3: provide education and give people opportunity. So when you said distribution,
Speaker 3: the first thing I thought was, Yo, he's about to
Speaker 3: get jobs to this community more importantly than anything like, Yo,
Speaker 3: this job's coming.
Speaker 13: That's I mean, that's what the beautiful thing about here
Speaker 13: is we hire people, get to get jobs here, and
Speaker 13: we get to get our community good, even for the
Speaker 13: customers who you got to save a couple of dollars
Speaker 13: coming to get his use.
Speaker 6: Instead he's spending it on that bull crap and not
Speaker 6: feeling good.
Speaker 14: I think the key to it at all at the
Speaker 14: end of the day, because it's hard to look at
Speaker 14: from a certain standpoint of gentrification and say, what are
Speaker 14: we going to say that all the kids have black
Speaker 14: and half white one day?
Speaker 6: Like, at some point in time, this has to stop.
Speaker 7: But it has to stop when we fairly treated though,
Speaker 7: until we get to fear saying everything is right, then
Speaker 7: you know, we got to keep fighting and pushing forward.
Speaker 6: Especially you gotta buy black.
Speaker 7: You gotta buy black, Spend black, and that don't mean
Speaker 7: don't spend white, but by black, spend money your community,
Speaker 7: spend with your people, support your people, do what you
Speaker 7: have to do.
Speaker 6: And I think.
Speaker 7: I'm firm on I'm I'm firming because people often you know,
Speaker 7: like I said, this would be a long conversation.
Speaker 6: This goes since we since you headed there, This goes
Speaker 6: back to you.
Speaker 7: You you you say you we pick a political party,
Speaker 7: we shouldn't even have to ask these questions and worry
Speaker 7: about that issue. If we have political parties that's supposed
Speaker 7: to be running the country. How is that even a
Speaker 7: question that me and you and or even somebody white
Speaker 7: or be you together with white people.
Speaker 4: Have to have?
Speaker 6: What kind of country over here? So why are we
Speaker 6: running out voting and supporting.
Speaker 7: Whether whichever side it is to say, it's still the
Speaker 7: same thing. You still worried about gentrification, She's still worried
Speaker 7: about racism, where you're still worried about systematic racism. I'm
Speaker 7: still worried about my kids going to school a certain way.
Speaker 7: We all still worried about walking outside and just getting
Speaker 7: shot from getting pulled over. Like how really important are
Speaker 7: we in this country to keep running out and supporting
Speaker 7: a system that's been set up for us to lose
Speaker 7: in the first place.
Speaker 6: I look at it like that.
Speaker 7: I look for me, the Constitution is damn near the
Speaker 7: engine of racism. For me, the Constitution is the engine
Speaker 7: of racism.
Speaker 3: Like you know what, I mean, we get into that
Speaker 3: conversation a lot and they're like, yeah, it's not working,
Speaker 3: and in my mind, I'm like, no, it's working exactly
Speaker 3: how it was designed exactly.
Speaker 7: So you know, I think to a point where we
Speaker 7: where we start to say we and I think we'll
Speaker 7: be able to delegate delegate with gentrification, reparations, racism, systematic
Speaker 7: racism when you really have could be able to have
Speaker 7: dialogue on a dialogue on a real skill without all
Speaker 7: of us and all of them being blind because we
Speaker 7: have a lot of us that are blind. And I'm
Speaker 7: not saying for you to voter if you don't see
Speaker 7: it my way, you're blind. That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: If you choose the voter, whatever you choose to do,
Speaker 7: I respect it to each his own. But I feel
Speaker 7: like we're blind or understanding that has it should be
Speaker 7: done for her for when it's something going to get done,
Speaker 7: And I don't think the way that they keep going
Speaker 7: about it is the way. I just personally don't see that,
Speaker 7: Like I don't I don't see that change we have
Speaker 7: this time soon.
Speaker 3: We have this debate all the time, and a lot
Speaker 3: of people ask me equality, A lot of people ask
Speaker 3: for equity for what we really should be fighting for
Speaker 3: is economic empowerment.
Speaker 7: Yeah, now, look what you said that there's power, and
Speaker 7: what you said, a lot of people ask, a lot
Speaker 7: of people ask what we should be fighting for? How
Speaker 7: are you gonna you can't ask your oppressor for anything?
Speaker 6: Why do you keep asking? Why do you keep asking
Speaker 6: the oppressor for something? Are you like? Are you you're
Speaker 6: oppressed for? He feels like you feel feels a certain
Speaker 6: way about you.
Speaker 7: That's why you're and you're going to turn it around
Speaker 7: and go, hey, where's the equality oppressor?
Speaker 4: Are you serious?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 6: Wake up?
Speaker 4: You gotta wake up.
Speaker 3: So that's why that's why I think what you're doing
Speaker 3: here is vitally important. I think what we're doing and
Speaker 3: a lot of others are doing, is vitally important because
Speaker 3: we've created our own right, right Like if you hedd this,
Speaker 3: we've created something. There's plenty of people out there created.
Speaker 8: It's a real way to feel empowered too, you know,
Speaker 8: to feel like you're taking some ship back from yourself,
Speaker 8: knowing that it's designed, the world and the place is
Speaker 8: designed to kind of screw you up.
Speaker 5: So when you kind of own your health and own
Speaker 5: your immune system and own your soul and your spirit,
Speaker 5: your mind, your body's soul, and you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: and get everything right and harmoniously working. That's you getting
Speaker 5: empowered and you know, realizing that you can do something
Speaker 5: different just that, just with that alone, and then you
Speaker 5: can start to do all that other stuff. But you know,
Speaker 5: just just a good way to just say, you know,
Speaker 5: take my power back.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of a lot of times we
Speaker 2: don't fully understand issues that's going on in our community
Speaker 2: and speaker under the rug, whether it's health, mental health,
Speaker 2: and it's mental health, all that stuff, and it's like
Speaker 2: it doesn't go away if you don't talk about it.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying right back.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really if you if you self medicaid, you
Speaker 2: take drugs, you drink, you might feel different in the moment,
Speaker 2: but it's only gonna make it worse because now you've
Speaker 2: still got the same problem, but now you got all
Speaker 2: kinds of diseases that you cause yourself from taking these medications.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to ask you how do because you
Speaker 2: wrote a book and obviously you know understand the tragedy
Speaker 2: that you guys suffered, But how is that as far
Speaker 2: as like writing a book. How did that help you
Speaker 2: as far as like, you know, being an author and
Speaker 2: actually putting words on paper.
Speaker 8: Okay, well he's calling me an author. I know, an
Speaker 8: author is like you literally have written a book. But
Speaker 8: I don't know, I'm just still with that title. But anyway,
Speaker 8: because I felt compelled to write, you know, from my trauma,
Speaker 8: from my tragedy.
Speaker 5: So it wasn't like, you know, I wanted to be
Speaker 5: a writer, you.
Speaker 8: Know, I just felt like the need to expel and
Speaker 8: express and again probably save my mental my sanity to
Speaker 8: a degree, you know, because that was.
Speaker 5: The only way to I guess purge.
Speaker 8: It was cathartic because for me, it was like I
Speaker 8: couldn't really explain to anyone how I felt, and I
Speaker 8: didn't think anyone would really understand how I felt other
Speaker 8: than other parents that have lost you know, children, but
Speaker 8: it's still hard to articulate so in the moment, so
Speaker 8: you know, just into grieving and trying to process it.
Speaker 8: I just was the best thing. And I also thought
Speaker 8: it would help people as well, you know, just me
Speaker 8: being open and honest about my experience.
Speaker 4: So I just want to I mean, we're all parents,
Speaker 4: so we aplog you for your.
Speaker 2: Trials and should issues in life. My brother in law
Speaker 2: committed suicide, so I understand how that feels. It's just
Speaker 2: it's it's something that like I said, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: I definitely imployed you for speaking on that because it's
Speaker 2: like it's a lot more people than you might realize,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. It's like it's like one
Speaker 2: of those things where it's like you think nobody and
Speaker 2: then it's like, oh, a lot of people have a
Speaker 2: similar situation, and it's like I think people find comfort
Speaker 2: in knowing that they're not alone.
Speaker 8: And then and then again, it was for a lot
Speaker 8: of things, to be honest with you, not just for myself,
Speaker 8: not just to help someone, but it was also for
Speaker 8: my family because when you come from a family, it
Speaker 8: doesn't like discussing things and talking about certain things. When
Speaker 8: certain things happen, it kind of is indicative to the
Speaker 8: how should I say, the the the elephants in the room,
Speaker 8: you know, or things that we have seen and known about,
Speaker 8: but nobody kind of discusses and not you know, to
Speaker 8: for like there was like a lot of ment illness
Speaker 8: or you know, my daughter had mental illness or whatever.
Speaker 8: But it's just more so I would say similarities in
Speaker 8: situations that could have been you know, we could have
Speaker 8: expressed and had more dialogue about. And that book actually
Speaker 8: forced dialogue because you know, your family don't like talking
Speaker 8: about it, especially stuff like that, because it's a reflection
Speaker 8: of the family, you know, or or possible you know,
Speaker 8: or one side because she was she wasn't his biological child,
Speaker 8: so you know, you have the other family that you're
Speaker 8: dealing with too, so you got to take into consideration
Speaker 8: a lot of biological stuff.
Speaker 7: But you know, pushing through man and pushing through and
Speaker 7: she was representing for her daughter at the same time,
Speaker 7: I think, especially with suicides and like, we're a special family,
Speaker 7: so we wasn't gonna, you know, let other people's religious
Speaker 7: beliefs impact how we felt or carrying her memory or
Speaker 7: because I think a lot of that's where a lot
Speaker 7: of it becomes a stigma in our community due to
Speaker 7: the what you hear religiously about.
Speaker 6: It and makes family feel a certain way.
Speaker 7: I think with us, we like especially I've always had
Speaker 7: and we've always had our own relationship with God, and
Speaker 7: we went off of that and just you know, and
Speaker 7: from actually being able to do that, and then we
Speaker 7: kept seeing signs and just getting other signs in life
Speaker 7: that show us what we was doing and how we
Speaker 7: felt was the right thing. So I think it's important
Speaker 7: to let people, especially in a community, with everything. I
Speaker 7: think just our whole living in general from is letting
Speaker 7: people know you're going to always have trials and tribulations,
Speaker 7: piece of valleys. As much as you want and need love,
Speaker 7: we're going to have to deal with pain as well.
Speaker 6: So no, you're not alone in the whole journey, like
Speaker 6: you know what I.
Speaker 7: Mean, Like often and what's crazy will be you know,
Speaker 7: we'll be in the house is and this is where
Speaker 7: I learned to pick up on her strength and just understand,
Speaker 7: like will be in the house and she would be sad.
Speaker 7: I would be sad, and then you know she would
Speaker 7: go you know what about the mothers and of people
Speaker 7: who lost their children who they never see again, like
Speaker 7: your kids kidnapped and you just don't see him or
Speaker 7: you like, we started thinking of you know, and the
Speaker 7: things they go through, and it keeps you like, oh.
Speaker 5: Right, the worst situation is.
Speaker 7: Somebody right now who got an infant snatcher who won't
Speaker 7: like you know what I mean, and like this, so
Speaker 7: you have to just keep in mind that we all
Speaker 7: go through pain and keep pushing and kind of represent
Speaker 7: for your loved ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember you know the first time I mean speaking
Speaker 3: of vulnerable, because it was like, listen to you in
Speaker 3: the nineties, like, yo, that's your favorite rapper's favorite rapper,
Speaker 3: he's at the hardest bars. And then against the Gentleman album,
Speaker 3: my favorite song was my Brother And when I heard
Speaker 3: I just I couldn't stop listening to the song. I'm like, yo, wow,
Speaker 3: I see another side of them. Yeah, right, like you're
Speaker 3: talking about Yo, I can smile because I know everybody
Speaker 3: next to a.
Speaker 7: Little I share the pain, man, I share the pain,
Speaker 7: enjoy well. I try to let people know about the pain.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's all great artists share. The pain
Speaker 2: is eminem with his mom, whether it's not with his
Speaker 2: issues that he's going through with his white things that
Speaker 2: need I just feel like Tupac, I feel like in
Speaker 2: order to be a great artist, you have to be vulnerable. Yes,
Speaker 2: we saw as for for four Yeah exactly, it's part
Speaker 2: of artistry.
Speaker 3: You're calling me a great artist, No worry like people
Speaker 3: people say like that we're a journalist.
Speaker 4: I'm still struggling about.
Speaker 7: Is a great artist because she made design cakes for
Speaker 7: years that people went crazy.
Speaker 5: Over for anyone throwing it.
Speaker 6: And and art the beautiful art cakes.
Speaker 2: Artists objective too, because it's like you don't necessarily have
Speaker 2: to be an artist to be an artist. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, you can exactly. I think bron James
Speaker 2: is an artiste.
Speaker 6: On the Yeah, I saw it definitely.
Speaker 2: That one question before we wrap the marijuana industry, billion
Speaker 2: dollar industry, we got a chance to interview Al Harrington,
Speaker 2: good guy.
Speaker 6: I went in. Yeah, I'm getting in.
Speaker 4: That was on his way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, get we getting in.
Speaker 2: So so, how did how did you get involved in that?
Speaker 6: I'm just a pothead, bro, I love man. I told
Speaker 6: you do what you love.
Speaker 4: They got you as the top five most requests songs
Speaker 4: Wild High, Yeah it is.
Speaker 6: I mean I'm a pothead. I love the feeling. I
Speaker 6: really feel.
Speaker 7: Part is a big party healing too, and it's got
Speaker 7: a bad rap for years.
Speaker 6: Like you know what I mean, it has a statement.
Speaker 7: I believe that's because the government did that intentionally with
Speaker 7: purpose behind it.
Speaker 6: But of course, you know, as far as.
Speaker 7: The marijuana industry, I'm definitely pro Yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 7: be in there doing We're going to be in there
Speaker 7: as a family doing what we need to do. Is
Speaker 7: definitely part of the health industry, something I'm a connoisseur
Speaker 7: and then expert in.
Speaker 3: So yeah, outside obviously in a different state because New York.
Speaker 7: Now I'm away from New York. I'm gonna do what
Speaker 7: i gotta do. I'm out out of the state and
Speaker 7: I'm New.
Speaker 6: York coming here.
Speaker 4: That was part of the game he put us on.
Speaker 3: He was like, yo, it's so he's from Jersey and
Speaker 3: he was like, yo, to do it in New York
Speaker 3: is so crazy. Like you got to own a farm
Speaker 3: for twenty there's so many regulations.
Speaker 6: Somebody own a.
Speaker 4: Farm for twenty I don't know even.
Speaker 2: That's an issue going back to the racial thing. And
Speaker 2: I actually get down to us where it's like one
Speaker 2: percent of the marijuana industry.
Speaker 6: Is owned by black Yeah, just it. That's so it's
Speaker 6: like it you know, you got.
Speaker 2: People, you got to people in federal jail fifteen twenty
Speaker 2: thirty years from marijuana, and it's like now it's legal,
Speaker 2: but it's still not. The black entrepreneurs are not able
Speaker 2: to benefit from it. So it's always an issue.
Speaker 7: That's mean, and then and then that, yeah, damn, took
Speaker 7: the words right out of my mouth. Take the words
Speaker 7: right out of my mouth. I think it's gonna come
Speaker 7: a time where this is what I say, because I don't.
Speaker 7: I think all they're gonna have to have some kind
Speaker 7: of intelligent black leader meeting one day and come up
Speaker 7: with a black leader representative that's gonna deal with everybody
Speaker 7: else outside of the box that we are grouped.
Speaker 6: I think it shouldn't even be one one.
Speaker 7: I think it should be a group of representatives that's
Speaker 7: representing black and brown people across the world. That's gonna
Speaker 7: that's gonna step up and rise because we keep falling
Speaker 7: into the same trap.
Speaker 6: You're gonna gonna run out. You think Biden is gonna
Speaker 6: change the.
Speaker 7: Marijuana laws for black people in all of the Interstates
Speaker 7: or Trump?
Speaker 6: You know, either one of them.
Speaker 7: Do you think that's possible for what happening at all?
Speaker 7: Do you think either one of them is gonna make
Speaker 7: sure police are gonna pay if they kill a black citizen?
Speaker 6: Either one? Either one?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: No, But that's interesting.
Speaker 2: But you know what, shout out the nineteen keys. He
Speaker 2: said something on our podet cast he said, black people
Speaker 2: have been spoiled with leadership, and it's actually hurt us
Speaker 2: because it's like there's always been a leader, whether it's
Speaker 2: Marcus Garvey, whether it's Malcolm X, whether it's Elijah Muhaman,
Speaker 2: whether it is Martin Luther King, and it's like, you
Speaker 2: look at other communities, you really can't name a prominent
Speaker 2: Asian leader.
Speaker 7: You don't have to because they I hear you, and
Speaker 7: I don't disagree with that, but they didn't have to
Speaker 7: because they didn't exactly have a systematic racism set up
Speaker 7: strictly for them, well not as much as black men,
Speaker 7: not with this country. So that is the difference. Like
Speaker 7: no one goes around goes back to where Claude Anderson
Speaker 7: is at. No one goes around shooting Asians and juice.
Speaker 7: You understand what I'm saying. I think it's an intimidation
Speaker 7: factor about the black man, which we really that's where
Speaker 7: the real problem lies. It's a love hate relationship between
Speaker 7: the black man and a white man that this country
Speaker 7: has never been really been able to sit down and
Speaker 7: accept and say in a common common sense way that
Speaker 7: this is fucking stupid and this is really crazy. Give
Speaker 7: you common sense this is this sh common sense just
Speaker 7: we got we never look at yeah, yeah, never look
Speaker 7: at logical things.
Speaker 6: If I'm lower than you.
Speaker 7: If I'm a human being, right, and I believe you're
Speaker 7: lower than me, I believe your skin color makes you
Speaker 7: less than me. You're in theory, I am superior to you.
Speaker 7: Why the fuck would I put my baby in your hands?
Speaker 7: Would you ever do that? Would you ever in a
Speaker 7: million years put your child and someone that you feel
Speaker 7: is less human than you?
Speaker 2: Yes, because even people, even if slavery, you gotta realize
Speaker 2: the black women was breastfeeding.
Speaker 6: It again, would do that.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying that they looking at it.
Speaker 7: I'm saying, if they did that, then how could you
Speaker 7: think I'm lower than you?
Speaker 6: Is what I'm saying. Well, you can't possibly think that.
Speaker 6: You can't.
Speaker 7: Really, there's no logic in that. Whatever you feel is
Speaker 7: too low for you.
Speaker 6: You want better for your act.
Speaker 2: What he's gonna say, I'm gonna say, yeah, you felt
Speaker 2: like a certain levels, certain jobs are beneath you, or
Speaker 2: you're kind So you have somebody else that you feel
Speaker 2: us on that level? Do it? And I want to.
Speaker 7: You're going to touch my I think you're less than me.
Speaker 7: You can put your hands on my child.
Speaker 3: From a logical stand but are we talking about somebody
Speaker 3: that has logic?
Speaker 2: Racis no logic, if you know what I'm saying. There's
Speaker 2: no logic and racism conversation.
Speaker 6: So why now I'm gonna get to wise There no logic.
Speaker 3: Because it doesn't make sense because number one, I'm not
Speaker 3: looking at you as human, right, I'm not even looking
Speaker 3: at you as a full person.
Speaker 4: Right. I don't want to do that. So you're going
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 7: That, and maybe I know you're superior, and I'm cool
Speaker 7: with having the advantage, so I don't want things to
Speaker 7: change that.
Speaker 4: Well, that that goes on for generations, right, you can
Speaker 4: see that now.
Speaker 3: Right, It's like, look, I'm going to keep you here,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna the mindset has been so paying boozed.
Speaker 3: It's like, Yo, rather than me fearing you, you're fearing me,
Speaker 3: right for all the things that you've done. But I
Speaker 3: want to go back to the part about the leaders, right,
Speaker 3: and we same conversation was like we can't just have
Speaker 3: one because it's too easy to attack one, right, Like,
Speaker 3: if I know he's our leader, let's go get him,
Speaker 3: let's assassinate him, right, but like when Styles is a leader,
Speaker 3: when Shotty's a leader, when nineteen keys the leader, Wasson,
Speaker 3: you can't attack them all.
Speaker 4: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That's why I think this time is so important because
Speaker 3: we're seeing it, like this movement here that's starting, and
Speaker 3: like that's why I said, like, what's happening here is
Speaker 3: so important. You can't you can't burn this down because
Speaker 3: it's too many, right, you see what I'm saying, And
Speaker 3: like that's what's happening. And I feel like I think
Speaker 3: people can feel it. The powers that be quote unquote
Speaker 3: can feel it. So it's like, let me hold on
Speaker 3: toward h Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean it's true because the people will support the
Speaker 8: people will fight for us, you know at the end
Speaker 8: of the day. So yeah, it's more of like we
Speaker 8: we are pillars of the community, but by choice of
Speaker 8: the people.
Speaker 5: You know, this is where they want us.
Speaker 2: You know. It's white supremacies last sting. Everything has a run.
Speaker 4: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: It's like Custer's last sting. You always put up the
Speaker 2: biggest fight when you at the end of your run, right,
Speaker 2: And I feel like this is why supremacy's last stand
Speaker 2: because it's not just America. You're looking all over the world.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know that's why we got to stop
Speaker 7: asking for these same systems to be in play, like
Speaker 7: it has to be Like that's the one thing that
Speaker 7: drives me crazy, I think more than anything.
Speaker 6: Like I say, I'm not judging what anyone else does.
Speaker 6: Think about everything that you deal with in your life.
Speaker 6: Every device from your watch to your clothes, to your car,
Speaker 6: to papers, to pans, the typewriters.
Speaker 7: Now you could call your car on your phone, will
Speaker 7: get driven in your car without you driving.
Speaker 6: But they never changed the constitution.
Speaker 7: How How was everything being be invented with the paper
Speaker 7: that white gentlemen made when they didn't respect black people?
Speaker 6: All women still controls this country, that's what it's based with.
Speaker 6: How this country is based off of that piece of paper.
Speaker 6: Its fucking ludicrous.
Speaker 7: We will never be in a position where we need
Speaker 7: to be as long as we keep just keep accepting
Speaker 7: everything that we're handed. Even if we're gonna go with
Speaker 7: the Democratic Party, what are we going to get out
Speaker 7: of it? You go back to the Republican Party was
Speaker 7: the original black party. What are we gonna get out
Speaker 7: of it? Are we gonna finally mean something? And I
Speaker 7: think that's where we're gonna get at the thing when
Speaker 7: we mean something, and I think everything will change as
Speaker 7: for human beings period.
Speaker 4: This is a message.
Speaker 2: Do you really not write rhymes?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Well no, I can tell you the truth.
Speaker 5: It really doesn't.
Speaker 7: Doesn't When I was young, I'm not writing rhymes.
Speaker 6: Is not out of Let me say that. I want
Speaker 6: to be clear. It's not a bragadocious thing for me.
Speaker 7: So I don't you know, I really can't write rhymes,
Speaker 7: to be honest.
Speaker 2: Your brain just it's just too quick moving too.
Speaker 6: I'll be keep writing and keep it racing. And as
Speaker 6: a young and.
Speaker 7: I always had an off beat on b flow, so
Speaker 7: I couldn't look at the paper and remember how the
Speaker 7: rhyme goes. So for me, it's better to remember the man.
Speaker 7: I couldn't look at the paper and remember the melodie.
Speaker 7: And I always got minds in my head, so it's
Speaker 7: better off it's just doing it in my head.
Speaker 6: It's like an essay.
Speaker 7: I always looked at it as a child, as when
Speaker 7: you do an essay, when I'm just doing my own essays,
Speaker 7: when you have to memorize an essay or speech in school,
Speaker 7: I do the same exact thing, but I'm just doing
Speaker 7: it for myself. Well, it depends how I'm feeling. Sometimes
Speaker 7: the beat is telling me what to say. Sometimes it's
Speaker 7: a lot of different things that happen, you know. Sometimes
Speaker 7: could you just be the ancestors in something like you
Speaker 7: know what I mean? Sometimes sometimes it's me working hard
Speaker 7: in my mind.
Speaker 6: I play a lot love. I'm gonna show you how
Speaker 6: serious sign See this game right here, Oh my god,
Speaker 6: see what level on more? See the level that level times.
Speaker 7: A high level, bro, I never played the game five
Speaker 7: five thousand, three hundred and four boards, a thousand words stacks.
Speaker 6: I play with words and keep you know, read.
Speaker 4: That's a fun fact.
Speaker 6: You know, I got it.
Speaker 4: This is it. This is my hip hop question.
Speaker 3: All right Now, I'm not gonna say best group, but
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say best rhyming duo.
Speaker 4: We had this debate in the group chat.
Speaker 2: We know, we had a serious debate.
Speaker 4: It was like an hour debate.
Speaker 2: It was a serious debate.
Speaker 3: Obviously, yeah, now we well by the fact we said
Speaker 3: obviously we said.
Speaker 4: You and kiss.
Speaker 6: Well that was the argument.
Speaker 2: The fact.
Speaker 3: The fact though, I'm just saying duo on a song.
Speaker 3: As ands came up with you doing that.
Speaker 2: Let me let me say my top five ad and
Speaker 2: I name my son and I see it's on Partial
Speaker 2: as Ands, ghost Facing, ray Kwon You and kiss. Of course,
Speaker 2: then we threw in. I had Outcasts, Outcasts a podcast,
Speaker 2: Mad even though I think I think Havoc was more
Speaker 2: of a producer than the Prodigy. Was so good. That
Speaker 2: was so so good.
Speaker 6: That it was that left.
Speaker 2: But that was that, that was fact. That wasn't organic.
Speaker 7: No, I mean I say it was organic because they've
Speaker 7: been in the studio making music together.
Speaker 6: That was you know, that's I always say, Did you
Speaker 6: forgot E P. M D the original forefather of it all?
Speaker 4: Paris Smith?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Slick Rick and Dougie headed me in and out.
Speaker 4: We didn't go that far.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I left out m o P. The chemistry is
Speaker 6: incredible when they go out and they're due on that
Speaker 6: level and M m o P they they sync.
Speaker 7: This is incredible, is incredible, It's impeccable.
Speaker 4: I'm going, y'all, I mean mad me with biased.
Speaker 7: I'm going, I'm going to stupid m O P. Right
Speaker 7: was easy and nas I like a did people look
Speaker 7: at it though? And is a super dope together? Somebody
Speaker 7: missing it's not coming in my head though, it's was.
Speaker 3: That ever a time when you were kissing, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're gonna do an album because.
Speaker 6: You're in and out.
Speaker 7: We'll give you on in and out e P one
Speaker 7: of these right next year, right next year, in and out,
Speaker 7: in and out.
Speaker 2: They're definitely the best in and out situation. I never
Speaker 2: really heard anybody that.
Speaker 6: I think. I think we are the best in and
Speaker 6: out far.
Speaker 4: It's the best one. What's the best one? What's your favorite? Ever?
Speaker 4: Them to kiss and stuff?
Speaker 2: I mean band from TV? Of course, that's classic. We're
Speaker 2: gonna make it this classic. It's a lot, but Band
Speaker 2: from TV is my personal favorite because that was just
Speaker 2: that was just amazing. Everybody on the record, yeah stupid.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that that was all my or to
Speaker 2: pull some lesson a legend. But I'm just saying, on
Speaker 2: that song.
Speaker 4: Is it the best? If we had to rate them,
Speaker 4: probably the worst, not the I don't want to say
Speaker 4: the worst verse.
Speaker 2: I got the words first. But it's all good. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not it's not personal. If you had to do
Speaker 2: a versus battle, who would you battle?
Speaker 6: Anybody?
Speaker 2: Who would you want to battle? Me?
Speaker 6: Personally?
Speaker 4: Or the group you personally, they're.
Speaker 5: Trying to put him with that beans Beanie.
Speaker 2: Siegel one of the greatest rappers. Yeah, definitely Glass you
Speaker 2: got glad you squashed that situation. That's my favorite. That was.
Speaker 2: That was a tough That was tough for us because
Speaker 2: that's his favorite rapper of all time.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: And I would say kiss one. I was saying kiss
Speaker 2: one regardless, just because you gotta go with the whole team.
Speaker 2: You gotta go on the team.
Speaker 4: That was.
Speaker 3: That was the time because we have Rockefeller has and
Speaker 3: obviously now one four and.
Speaker 4: That was a crazy time.
Speaker 2: That was.
Speaker 4: That was but it was a moment though. I appreciate
Speaker 4: the moment to us.
Speaker 2: You said that they try to try to tea with Oh,
Speaker 2: it's as a group. I don't think that anybody can really.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's really either. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that you can magine maybe dips
Speaker 2: that would be good.
Speaker 5: It is fun. It's fun. It's not like.
Speaker 2: Good there it goes, there, it goes ladies.
Speaker 4: Love is love.
Speaker 2: Love is love. We want, we want, we want to
Speaker 2: thank you guys, really appreciate. What would you like to
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