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Speaker 1: Every day.

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Speaker 2: Up the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 1: Finish for y'all.

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Speaker 3: Done morning.

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Speaker 2: Everybody is the j n V.

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Speaker 4: Just hilarious. Charlamagne, he gud we are the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 4: Law La Rosa is here as well, and we got

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Speaker 4: a special guest in the.

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Speaker 3: Building, a motherfucking icon.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was up here, this is his first time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's what I seen you on the road,

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Speaker 5: I know, but I thought you've been up here.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Hey man, hey, thank y'all for having me.

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Speaker 6: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: It's about time.

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Speaker 1: And everybody, we don't say good morning enough to our

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Speaker 1: fellow brothers and sisters.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 5: I was a victim of that until I started to

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Speaker 5: change my mindset. Sometimes I would come down, get in

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Speaker 5: the car going, you know, on the road, I didn't

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Speaker 5: say good morning.

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Speaker 1: And once I started to change my mindset.

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Speaker 5: I realized that's a good way to start your day

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Speaker 5: in a gesture to someone whoever you're riding with, you know,

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Speaker 5: the driver, whoever.

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Speaker 3: That feeling, and then that's how they're feeling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes that's also the case. Sometimes just say how

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Speaker 5: is your day going?

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Speaker 7: Yea?

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Speaker 5: You know, I found myself sometimes I'm a I'm a

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Speaker 5: I'm really in tune to my spiritual side.

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Speaker 1: I've been for a long time.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes I might just be I remember being in the

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Speaker 5: club and I might walk by a random person and

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Speaker 5: I can feel that energy and I'd be like, let

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Speaker 5: me just give you a hug, And sometimes that just

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Speaker 5: changes somebody's life absolutely.

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Speaker 3: What about that?

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Speaker 6: What about when you were the person that might have

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Speaker 6: been creating energy though, Like if you felt like some

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Speaker 6: aggressive angriness for this person, but it was your fault

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Speaker 6: because well.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna tell you.

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Speaker 5: One time I was in South Carolina a and a

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Speaker 5: Hole in the Wall club way back in the day,

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Speaker 5: and it was supposed to be a night where cash

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Speaker 5: money was supposed to be there, and they called me

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Speaker 5: because cash money couldn't come. So these folks in South

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Speaker 5: Carolina was mad than a motherfucker.

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Speaker 1: It was not cash money.

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Speaker 5: Little johnn Eastside boys show up and so I understand

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Speaker 5: it's a hostile situation, but I said, I looked out

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Speaker 5: on that crowd and I said, the biggest dude in

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Speaker 5: this crowd, I'm about to make him my best friend.

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Speaker 5: And I made him my best friend during the show,

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Speaker 5: like playing to him, giving him drinks and hyping them up,

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Speaker 5: and then he turned like it turned the whole crowd around,

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Speaker 5: and then they were fans of us after that. But

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Speaker 5: it was it was a way you can always change

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Speaker 5: the energy of a situation if you approach with a

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Speaker 5: calm manner. That's why good security don't go and try

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Speaker 1: They try to defuse the situation. That's the first rule

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Speaker 2: Lot, John, I want to go back. So this is

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Speaker 2: your first time.

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Speaker 3: Real quick, what is a little John morning routine?

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Speaker 5: Like I knew you were going to ask me that morning,

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Speaker 5: So this morning I woke up, had a little water

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Speaker 5: because you know, I do my I do this Korean

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Speaker 5: facial stuff, so I do skin.

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Speaker 1: You know, my skin is very important to my skin. Look, ladies,

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Speaker 1: one rule for that.

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Speaker 5: Is positivity, positive energy, positive thoughts, because if you're a

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Speaker 5: negative person in all this negativity, it's gonna wear the flesh.

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Speaker 5: So get up in the morning and do my skincare routine,

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Speaker 5: burust my teeth, all that good stuff. And then since

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Speaker 5: was two hard boiled eggs, some yogurt, some berries, and

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Speaker 5: positive mindset. It's gonna be a great day. I'm always

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Speaker 5: in my mind saying affirmations for the day, even before

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Speaker 5: I go to bed, in my dreams, Like last night,

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Speaker 5: I was like, it's gonna be a great interview. This

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Speaker 5: is I look at this as one of the biggest

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Speaker 5: interviews I've ever done in my life because it's like,

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Speaker 5: it's a fifty minutes, forty five minutes, fifty minutes a

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Speaker 1: It's a lot to talk about. Charlote man. You you

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Speaker 1: see me grow from. I think we one time.

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Speaker 5: We taught you were like you came to the radio

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Speaker 5: station and in South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: What time that was early on? He wasn't even on

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Speaker 1: air yet, right were.

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Speaker 6: I think it was a phone er you called in.

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Speaker 6: You had just put out I think you had just

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Speaker 6: put out be a beer.

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Speaker 1: Wow. So that's twenty years ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So we were talking about you having the Confederate flag

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Speaker 6: in the in the video and I don't.

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Speaker 1: Care about that. So that's what you know.

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Speaker 5: You've seen the growth, and it's I think it's important

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Speaker 5: because yeah, you've seen the growth. You've seen it from

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Speaker 5: a different angle. You've seen it from a different angle.

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Speaker 5: You've seen it from a different angle, and you know,

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Speaker 5: you guys moved the needle of culture and you had

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Speaker 5: everybody and their grandmama on this show. So I think

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Speaker 5: it's one of the most important and you know, best

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Speaker 5: all of that.

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Speaker 3: Let's claim it.

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Speaker 2: Let's claim it. I want to go back.

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Speaker 4: I want to start from the beginning of these are

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Speaker 4: the interviews I love because for some reason, I thought

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Speaker 4: you've been up here before. So I want to start

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Speaker 4: when you first got into the music industry, right, let's

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Speaker 4: start with you started working with your main Dupris yep,

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Speaker 4: ninety three.

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Speaker 2: Let's start from there.

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Speaker 4: So how did you hook up a Jamaine dupri and

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Speaker 4: what did you do for Jamaine Duprix.

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Speaker 5: So I used to be in Atlanta in the nineties.

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Speaker 5: I was like the hottest DJ in the city.

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Speaker 1: I was the demand.

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Speaker 5: I did all the parties and I would see Jermaine

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Speaker 5: this one club called the Phoenix night Club, which was

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Speaker 1: We brought Biggie, We brought Biggie.

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Speaker 5: I got Biggie and Craig Mac together when they did

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Speaker 5: interesting story because we got we we.

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Speaker 1: I worked on the radio station, but I wasn't the PD.

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Speaker 5: And you know how back then you had to go

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Speaker 5: get Biggie and Craig because he thought I was like

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Speaker 1: And he get there and the club.

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Speaker 5: Is slammed like a million people and he's like, Yo,

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Speaker 5: what the heck, Yo, we need some more money because

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Speaker 5: this thing is packed. And then he found out that

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Speaker 5: And then he even tried to get the rep that

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Speaker 6: So yeah, that was normal back then when artists are

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, but you had you wanted to go through

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Speaker 5: You get to spend get your look. And we wasn't that,

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Speaker 5: but we were high promoters. So I was doing all

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Speaker 1: I called it from Bankhead to Buckhead. That was from the.

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Speaker 5: Boogie spots to the the most hood you can get

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Speaker 5: in Atlanta. So I was literally everywhere. And Jermaine came

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Speaker 5: Dallas Austin's brother came to me.

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Speaker 1: First, so his name was Claude Austin. He passed away, but.

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Speaker 5: Claude Austin came to me first and wanted me to

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Speaker 5: was like, I need you, someone like you to represent,

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Speaker 5: you know, my label, because you everywhere.

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Speaker 1: So he hired me.

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Speaker 5: In nineteen ninety three, I started working at Social Death

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Speaker 5: so that was represent Social Death from Bankhead, Like I

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Speaker 5: I had I put together all of the Social Death

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Speaker 5: That changed music too, like it gave us a whole

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Speaker 5: Like slow jam acapellas, like say, one famous mix was, uh,

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Speaker 1: Nobody made an actual song.

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Speaker 5: So I came up with that concept and I went

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Speaker 5: to my boy DJ Cool Collie aka Rodney, and then

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Speaker 5: at the same time I met carlmo Uh. He used

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Speaker 5: to call the phone that Social Death and play his

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Speaker 5: So I ended up using him and we did my

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Speaker 5: Boo and so yeah, I did all of the Soco

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Speaker 5: had play a Pancho. He got signed and we did

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Speaker 5: a couple of records with Player Pancho. And Player Pancho

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Speaker 5: is actually how I met the East Side Boys, Wow,

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Speaker 5: Because Player Pancho would always when he would go out,

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Speaker 5: And so I was always with Pancho because he was

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Speaker 1: And so me and the East Side Boys just one

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Speaker 4: When did you start producing? When did did the production

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Speaker 4: And you never you never made beats at that time.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 5: It started off where me and my partner I used

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Speaker 5: Through that, we got linked up with Signette Records, and

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Speaker 5: I'm looking at the credits.

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Speaker 1: He actually did produce it.

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Speaker 5: So what we did at that time we would kind

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Speaker 3: Da da da yo, do you have product your credits

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Speaker 5: I should have gotten some because I really co produced

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Speaker 5: my job description as an artist, the first project I'm

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Speaker 6: I'm glad you mentioned Sam and Bolto because people always

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Speaker 3: The East Side Boys. What did they bring to the table?

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Speaker 6: What made Little John and the East Side Boys such

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Speaker 5: We were just like because we were we were the

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Speaker 1: That's where we were.

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Speaker 5: We were them niggas that were turned up in the

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Speaker 1: Here with that. So we were that.

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Speaker 5: And what people don't understand about krunk music, I've known

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Speaker 5: it become big? Because it was an outlet of energy.

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Speaker 1: For black youth.

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Speaker 5: Yes, when you went to the club, you had a

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Speaker 5: fuck was going on in your life. You hear that

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Speaker 5: you let all of.

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Speaker 1: That out and you feel amazing, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: So that's why krunk music was able to reach so

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Speaker 1: That's why I still like going.

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Speaker 5: Like I see you talking of all the time about

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Speaker 1: And I think we do and and.

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Speaker 5: Like krunk music tap into music to their ancestors because

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Speaker 2: What did you do when you were a band from clubs?

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Speaker 4: I remember in college there was some clubs that like,

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Speaker 5: We just kept going because when you when you tell

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Speaker 5: it was crazy that the music got people so rowdy

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Speaker 5: I was in Louisiana one time we did a show

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was crazy.

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Speaker 5: a viral video of be performing Get Crunk and that

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Speaker 5: Energy was in that place. And I think it's just

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Speaker 6: And Get Crunked with such a great record, because I

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Speaker 6: But as soon as you hear who in my Bohagen

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Speaker 1: God killed that salute Bohagen out there?

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Speaker 6: How did you how did you even have the mindset

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Speaker 3: How did you take that energy to another level?

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Speaker 5: That beat was produced by Little J who produced kno

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Speaker 5: if you buck. So it was time to you know,

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Speaker 5: come and work on the album, and you know, everybody

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Speaker 5: down with be and me. Of course people that don't

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Speaker 5: know Crime Mob. Part of that was through being me,

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Speaker 5: of course I called all of the squad, you know,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, Little Jay sent me.

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Speaker 5: I think he sent me some beats and that was

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Speaker 1: I thought it was one of the crukest beats ever too.

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Speaker 5: I think my favorite beats that I've produced, our co

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Speaker 5: Gonna Do and what You're Gonna Do is unique.

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Speaker 1: I was in New York when I did that beat.

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Speaker 5: I remember I was on TVT and Steve got leeb

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Speaker 5: and shout out to Brian Leach, my boy, Brian Leach,

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Speaker 5: she was the ant ar at the time. He was

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Speaker 5: I'm like, he can't put no fucking album out called

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, fuck this guy.

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Speaker 5: And so I was in the New I was in

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Speaker 5: made that beat. I'm never mad when I make tracks,

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Speaker 5: but that's one of the only beats I've ever made

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Speaker 5: when I was angry, And that's why it sounds so aggressive,

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Speaker 5: because I was mad that I had to go in

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Speaker 5: He was like, no, you gotta go and do this song.

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Speaker 5: And so that's my anger coming out through the drummers.

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Speaker 3: Do you have a trademark the word crunk?

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Speaker 1: I can't remember. Probably did all my ad libs.

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Speaker 3: I know that because you're the face of crunk.

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Speaker 6: But to me, I would have to give I would

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Speaker 5: So that's another argument going around. It's an argument that

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Speaker 5: You couldn't be riding around not listening to master P.

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Speaker 1: Master P. Master P changed the landscape of the South,

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Speaker 5: He was the first one that really got us rally.

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Speaker 5: I would say it was master P, but we was

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Speaker 5: listening to Balling G. And of course three six Mafia

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Speaker 5: came around that.

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Speaker 3: Do you think he got us rody before three to six?

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Speaker 1: I think about it, about.

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Speaker 6: It, about it, yeah, but had a club.

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Speaker 1: Club was ninety seven? What yet about about it come out?

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Speaker 2: I was in college.

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Speaker 5: I think it was like ninety five. I remember what

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Speaker 5: bass music. And then when master P came that was.

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Speaker 4: Over about about that was ninety five, definitely. That was

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Speaker 1: That was the record.

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Speaker 5: Motherfuckers in the hood was getting no limit tattoos.

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Speaker 1: Exactly.

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Speaker 5: That's what changes for us. So I will say Memphis

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Speaker 5: is part of the influence, but our sound is different.

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Speaker 5: Memphis was getting Bucks.

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Speaker 3: It was ninety seven. That's even late though.

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Speaker 5: When we got when we got Terry Club was when

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Speaker 5: they redid it. That was ninety seven, because I remember

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Speaker 5: it says on the Vinyl Terror Club up ninety seven. So,

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Speaker 5: but it started for us with Master p Master. That

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Speaker 1: Shit just changed it.

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Speaker 5: But we are influenced. But it's all different sounds, but

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Speaker 5: it all intertwined and works together.

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Speaker 3: So what would you call what three six was doing?

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Speaker 5: They called it in Memphis Memphis buck, but three six

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Speaker 5: think it was just three six created The three six

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Speaker 1: So salute Paul Juicy and the whole squad. That's family too.

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Speaker 2: You know what I want?

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Speaker 4: You know what the word ask too when you made

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Speaker 4: when you were making these tracks, did you try to

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Speaker 4: make it your business not to sound the same, because

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Speaker 4: you know, when you look at your desiography to see

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Speaker 4: some of the records that you did, like, I'm so

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Speaker 4: amazed because they don't sound the same.

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Speaker 2: Right, you can go to the window.

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Speaker 4: To the wall, you could blow your whistle over here

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Speaker 4: and then you can like the ship is amazing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well it depends, well a lot of it. So

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00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,160
Speaker 5: so let's talk Get Low. Interesting story of Get Low,

450
00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,280
Speaker 5: Get load became because I was trying to make Party Up.

451
00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:03,040
Speaker 5: I was inspired by part I love DMX's Party Up

452
00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:03,919
Speaker 5: so much.

453
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,080
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to make something like that.

454
00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 1: Let me go in the studio. This was like ninety nine,

455
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:10,480
Speaker 1: and so I go in and.

456
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,480
Speaker 5: I come out with Get Low. If you listen to it,

457
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,920
Speaker 5: it's got the whistle like Party Up. It's some similarities.

458
00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,560
Speaker 5: I'm inspired by it. But I sat on the beat.

459
00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,399
Speaker 5: I couldn't really come up with nothing. And then I

460
00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,040
Speaker 5: had a session with Yin Yang and I pulled that

461
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 5: beat out and we may get Low. So it comes

462
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,000
Speaker 5: out like that just came like I said, because I

463
00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,119
Speaker 5: was trying to do something different, but it turned from

464
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,720
Speaker 5: like a rowdy party up type song to a tork song.

465
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,520
Speaker 5: But then like say tell me when to go E forty.

466
00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,600
Speaker 5: We were in the studio together, and that's the energy

467
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,440
Speaker 5: of what he's giving me and his squad is giving me, and.

468
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 1: It comes out into the drummer shoit.

469
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,720
Speaker 5: So every time I make the best stuff when I'm

470
00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:49,959
Speaker 5: in the studio, young bloods.

471
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:50,240
Speaker 1: Damn.

472
00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,400
Speaker 5: We were in the studio together and it took two

473
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,800
Speaker 5: days for us to get that song done. Like I

474
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,919
Speaker 5: did the beat the first day. We had the verses

475
00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,960
Speaker 5: the first day, but we did not have the hook.

476
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,000
Speaker 5: And then the second day we just threw a party

477
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,680
Speaker 5: in the studio and then Bohagen again, shout out Bohagen.

478
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,879
Speaker 5: He was like everybody was throwing hooks out and then

479
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:12,639
Speaker 5: he was just kind of mumbling something. I was like,

480
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 5: what you got, because I'm shooting everybody shit down like

481
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,399
Speaker 5: that shits trash and then he's.

482
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 1: Just mumbling son. I was like, what's that?

483
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 6: That?

484
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,320
Speaker 5: That's it, that's it, go lay that and then I

485
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 5: got the second part, you know, And sometimes that's how

486
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 5: some of the records happened to, like you just stumble

487
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:28,719
Speaker 5: onto it.

488
00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,040
Speaker 1: Whistle blow the whistle. I did that beat that.

489
00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 5: I did that beat the same week that I did

490
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 5: tell me when to go Damn.

491
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 1: Yeah.

492
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:43,040
Speaker 5: So I was working on E forty's album and I

493
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 5: think we had done muscle Cars that day. So too Short,

494
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 5: Too Short had came to the studio a couple of

495
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 5: days after that. So before, like earlier in the week,

496
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 5: I was making beats and I was going through sounds

497
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,160
Speaker 5: and I found that sound and I was like, ooh,

498
00:21:59,200 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 5: this sounded.

499
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 1: Like rikytails baseline, Like this is a base like that.

500
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:04,679
Speaker 5: I was like, let me make some with that. And

501
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,880
Speaker 5: I don't know what made me instead of making it slow,

502
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 5: make it fast. Because I like to do stuff different.

503
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,240
Speaker 5: I don't like to be expected. So I was like,

504
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 5: let me make it one hundred whatever bpms and so

505
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,920
Speaker 5: I put it to the side, and when too Short

506
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,679
Speaker 5: came to the studio a couple of days later, I

507
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 5: was like, here you go.

508
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 1: You know I got something for you.

509
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 5: But first forty turned it down to forty Forty had

510
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,640
Speaker 5: to remind me of this the other day. He was like,

511
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,199
Speaker 5: you know, you gave me that beat first, and I

512
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 5: was like, this sounded like Todd, so give it to Todd.

513
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:35,840
Speaker 5: So that's what happened.

514
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 3: Basically, he should get corproduction credits.

515
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 1: He didn't want it.

516
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 6: What moment made you realize Crump had officially crossed from

517
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 6: suvering energy to a global.

518
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,719
Speaker 1: Move coming up doing MTV.

519
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 5: They let me get in Times Square on a double

520
00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 5: deckord bus with a little scrappy on tr real doing

521
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 5: what you gonna do?

522
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:04,880
Speaker 1: Bruh MTV.

523
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 6: I was gonna say MTV too, because I remember watching

524
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:09,919
Speaker 6: the Video Music Awards.

525
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 3: I forgot what year it was.

526
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,679
Speaker 6: They played get Low Going in the commercial break and

527
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 6: the audience went crazy, and Justin Timberlake was Wilent. I

528
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 6: just remember thinking to myself, Oh, get Lowers out of here.

529
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then we end up performing get Low at

530
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 5: the MTV Video Music Awards.

531
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 1: Get Low, Yeah, Lean Back.

532
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 5: And what else we did that year, I can't remember,

533
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 5: but that was that was a big time and Dave

534
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 5: Chappelle was the host, So that was pretty insane.

535
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: That was a pretty insane year for me.

536
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,920
Speaker 4: And when when you touched when you started doing R

537
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 4: and B, did you think you could do R and B?

538
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 2: Or was one of the things.

539
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 4: How did you get introduced to say, let me try

540
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:48,679
Speaker 4: to make R and B records for doing all?

541
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,119
Speaker 3: It was already doing them with the social also.

542
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: Well that was different. So here's what happened.

543
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,959
Speaker 5: So Sean Garrett shout out Sean Garrett, incredible songwriter. He

544
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,639
Speaker 5: reached out to h I guess he was trying to

545
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 5: get in touch with me and he couldn't get in

546
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 5: touch with me, so he knew somebody that worked with me.

547
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 1: Her name was Delicia.

548
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 5: Delicia had all my beats, so she gave him a

549
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 5: beat CD and that's how he got the beat.

550
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 1: Basically, the freak Elite beat, which turned into yeah. So

551
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: she gave him the beat.

552
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:22,439
Speaker 5: So thank you Delicia forgiving Sean those beats, and Sean

553
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 5: wrote yeah to.

554
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: That freakaak beat.

555
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 5: So crazy thing about that is that beat was for mystical.

556
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 5: Freakalyague's beat was for mystical.

557
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 1: So I did though.

558
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 5: I used to like have labels booked me in Circle

559
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 5: House shout out be Bat Circle House in Miami, and

560
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 5: I like take a week and I just go and

561
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,640
Speaker 5: do as mini beats as possible, and the label could

562
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 5: take all the beats put them on whatever artists they want.

563
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 5: So these particular sessions was for mystical. That beat was

564
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 5: in there. He passed on it, and so I think

565
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,159
Speaker 5: CEO shout out Coo. He got the beat and he

566
00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 5: wrote Freakalyak my I don't even know this, but he

567
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 5: wrote that and submitted it to the label Pete Pablo.

568
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 5: He ended up recording. But I don't even know this.

569
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 5: So Sean Garrett has the beat. He writes, yeah, usher

570
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 5: don't want to record no more songs.

571
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: He done with the damn Alutum. He's like, I'm good,

572
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: I got burned, I got all these other songs. I'm good,

573
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 1: We're good.

574
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 5: La reads like, no, go record the damn song. So

575
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,120
Speaker 5: he goes to record the song and.

576
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: We come out with it.

577
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 5: I remember going into doing the sessions too, like we

578
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 5: I think we recording La and we were like, this

579
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 5: is a smash, right, And so the song is in

580
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 5: the can and then I remember it was around Christmas time,

581
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 5: the album's done. La Reid is in Miami and he

582
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 5: calls JD going insane, and JD called me on three

583
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 5: Way and La Reid is like, why am I hearing

584
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,159
Speaker 5: this Usher record on the radio? And basically it was

585
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 5: the freakingly instrumental plan as a bed. They had released

586
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 5: the song as a single, Freaka Leak, and we didn't

587
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 5: even know.

588
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: I didn't even know they had used to beat.

589
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 5: So La Red is going crazy and then we're like,

590
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,199
Speaker 5: all right, we're just gonna go in and do a

591
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 5: new beat. Thank god we did, because yeah over Freaka

592
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 5: Leak is not as good as yeah as Yeah. Now

593
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 5: that's how God worked. And crazy story is when I

594
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 5: went into the studio to like redo the beat, I'm like,

595
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:30,360
Speaker 5: how that.

596
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 1: Pete Poplo record ain't gonna be that big? Just take

597
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 1: all the keys off. Let's just play a new stem.

598
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 5: Because it's Usher, you know what I mean, And I don't,

599
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 5: you know, I just didn't think it was gonna be

600
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 5: that big. It could have been a cool record, but

601
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 5: I didn't think it was gonna be a number one

602
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 5: song like it was. So that's why the beats sound similar,

603
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 5: is because I just used the same exact drums, but

604
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 5: I played a different synth line. So well, it got

605
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 5: my boy a rock. My boy Rock played the scynth line.

606
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 5: So we just played a new synth line and here

607
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 5: we are with two monsters.

608
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

609
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 6: It probably helped frequently though, because yeah, make.

610
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 1: Them together lovers and friends, so that I was going

611
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: to get to that.

612
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 8: That origin story tell them.

613
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 1: So when we when I can't.

614
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 5: We were working on my album Crunk Juice, right, So uh,

615
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 5: instead of going with another up tempo, I like to

616
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 5: be different. I could have certainly went to Usher, John

617
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 5: and Luda with another fast song. I said, let's do

618
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 5: something different. And at at in Atlanta, we go to

619
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 5: Strip club for everything, so we always in you know.

620
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 5: I was in the Strip club one day and the

621
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 5: DJ played the Michael Sterling Lovers.

622
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 1: And Friends, and I was like, huh, that could be

623
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: pretty cool for Usher to do.

624
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 5: So let's let's back up. So this is before Usher's

625
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 5: album is done. I give Usher the Michael Starr on

626
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 5: the City, like check this out. We should do this

627
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,360
Speaker 5: over this nigga don't listen to it. He don't listen

628
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 5: to it, so we on my album. So I'm like,

629
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take that Lovers and Friends I did and

630
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 5: do it from my album. So I do the beat

631
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 5: over and I let Usher know, yo, I got this

632
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 5: joint for us, like come you know, let's do it.

633
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 5: So he flies in, he records it, and he's out

634
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 5: and after he does his part, so I'm just like, wow,

635
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 5: this is a smash.

636
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: So I called Lula.

637
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 5: I'm like, bro, we got another one, like I need

638
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 5: you on his ASAP saying it Luda. He did his

639
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 5: parts and then I go in last because I'm not

640
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 5: the rapper, and so I was like, I need to

641
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 5: take my time to make sure.

642
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: My verse is as catchy as possible because.

643
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 5: I can't compete against Luda Chris and then it's Ussher

644
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 5: like come on. So I was like, let me take

645
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 5: something from this record. We had a record called It's

646
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 5: a record we did with Ubi.

647
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 3: I forgot the name of it, nothing.

648
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: Free, nothing Free. You forget that that's a classic, Nothing's Free.

649
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 5: So we did nothing Free like in the nineties, and

650
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 5: so I was like, that shady part was really catchy

651
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 5: on that song, but it was regional. Nobody really heard

652
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 5: it out of the South. So it's like, let me

653
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 5: take that same little thing and put that in Lovers

654
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 5: and Friends, and that will be the little catch for

655
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 5: my verse to make it catchier and a little Did

656
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 5: I know that I was gonna be like people's favorite

657
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,479
Speaker 5: verses because it's so simple. It's so simple and it's catchy,

658
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 5: and yeah, that's one of That song went number one without

659
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 5: a video because it was the labels and Superstartists and

660
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 5: superstar ad and Da Da Da Da Da. But number

661
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 5: one song rap song of the year without a video

662
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 5: in the two thousands is impossible.

663
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 6: You got three of and you made me think of

664
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 6: it when you said nothing is for You got three

665
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 6: artists that I feel like should have been way Yeah,

666
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 6: China White, Yeah, Ubie and Bull Hagen.

667
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 3: Yeah what you what do you think? Why did I

668
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 3: didn't connect?

669
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 5: We worked hard, like Ubi was with me for a

670
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 5: long time. We did a lot of records, but we

671
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 5: just never got the right one. Just how it just

672
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 5: happens like that sometimes with artists. Uh, China went to

673
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 5: jail right when we shot the video for Bea Bea

674
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 5: and me and my boy Rob Mac left the video

675
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 5: at the end of the video shoot. We drove her

676
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 5: to prison after the video shoot, all the way in Louisiana.

677
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: So she did. I don't remember how much time it was.

678
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: It was at least five years.

679
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 9: That sounds she went to fan time for gun Running

680
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 9: Damn yeah.

681
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 5: So she she didn't even get to perform the song

682
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 5: at its peak at all, so that that messed her

683
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 5: window up. And then bo Haggen the same thing. We

684
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 5: were just trying to get the records. We just never

685
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 5: got the records.

686
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: You know.

687
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 5: We said, I set them up nicely and get crunk

688
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 5: and you know he did the hook on Dan, but

689
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 5: we just never was able to translate. Those are things

690
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 5: that you know, hurt me to this day because those

691
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 5: were people that are down with me for a long

692
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 5: time and I was pushing, pushing, pushing and working they

693
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 5: make the record, but sometimes they just it just don't

694
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 5: come out.

695
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 8: You know, I was gonna say with the Lovers and

696
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 8: Friends video when I when I watched you tell the

697
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 8: story you talked about I know you mentioned labels loosely,

698
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 8: but you said that the labels didn't look at you

699
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 8: as a comparable artist too. Yeah, which when I heard, like,

700
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 8: I just I mean, I don't know, it made me

701
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 8: upset when I heard, Well.

702
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 5: You gotta think Ludacris is a rapper death Jam in

703
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 5: the two thousands, Usher is fucking Usher at Monster, biggest

704
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 5: guy in R and B.

705
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: And I'm this guy doing crump music. You got it.

706
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: It's not the time, it's not the same times.

707
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 5: Now as I'm I'm known, I'm established, I've proven myself

708
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 5: over and over again. But early in those in those days,

709
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 5: it hadn't happened yet.

710
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, they.

711
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 6: Feel like you helped the find that whole sound of

712
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 6: the early dude.

713
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: But they didn't. I don't feel like, you know, death Jam,

714
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?

715
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 2: Oh sure, I don't think nobody got it back then. No, Yeah,

716
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 2: Lotu John was it was.

717
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 4: He wasn't looked at as an artist per se like

718
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 4: Luda or exactly Usher. He was a host, djuction. Yeah

719
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 4: that's what it was.

720
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: Hype man, producer. Yeah, you know, that's the.

721
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 6: Clubs without you know what was the clubs without crunk music?

722
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 3: Little John back then like no.

723
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: A lot less energy.

724
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 2: Was it ever a low period for Little John?

725
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: Yeah?

726
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 5: I got burnt out probably after after the forties album,

727
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 5: and I think I tried, we tried to do a

728
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 5: second trivial and scrappy album, and I.

729
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: Just was fried from all.

730
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 5: You know, you got to think about I was going

731
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 5: since the nineties ninety three, you know, producing to was

732
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 5: that two thousand and eight or nine two thousand and eight,

733
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 5: and I'm I'm just depleted. I have no creative juices left.

734
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 5: I go in the studio, I'm trying to produce and

735
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 5: trying to make stuff. I think, yet nothing's coming out.

736
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 5: I think that's also what happened with two of those

737
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 5: artists too, because I might have gotten to the point

738
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 5: where I was just had nothing left.

739
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: I couldn't I couldn't create it.

740
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 5: And then so what I started to do was just

741
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 5: go back to the foundation DJJ, go back to the clubs.

742
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 5: And what happened was Reggie Bush invited me out to

743
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 5: the first game in the super Dome after Katrina. So

744
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 5: I went there and that night he had an after party,

745
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 5: went to the after party and it was a DJ

746
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 5: DJ and I was just like, this dude is freaking dope.

747
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 5: So I met the dude and he was cool and

748
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 5: so the next day his.

749
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: Name is DJ Spider.

750
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 5: So the next day we were I was in the

751
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 5: airport and this nerdy white dude come up to me like, hey,

752
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 5: remember me? Like who he was like, oh, Spider, I

753
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 5: was DJing last night. I was like, oh shit, So

754
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 5: what happened was he really inspired me to get back

755
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 5: into DJing by the way he was mixing. So me

756
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 5: and Spider linked up. He like got me on Serado,

757
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 5: he started like giving, gave me, helped me get my

758
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 5: music library up, and we started DJing together. So I

759
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 5: started to kind of get back into DJing, and so

760
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 5: d Jing brought my producer creative energy back.

761
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 3: Is that when the records like Shot Shot Shots and

762
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 3: all that stuff.

763
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 5: That came just by me being out and meeting people

764
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 5: and and you know learning this you know Open Format

765
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 5: World and EDM World and and yeah, I ended up

766
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 5: meeting lmfao. I was kind of following their story and

767
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 5: uh a mutual friend of ours named Eric Deluxe who

768
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 5: kind of he wrote shots too. U He reached out

769
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 5: to me and sent me to record. I was like,

770
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 5: this record is a smash. But around that time, I

771
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 5: think I first met them when we did a pit

772
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:55,879
Speaker 5: Bull video.

773
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: We were on like I think it was crazy. I

774
00:34:58,239 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: think they were in that video.

775
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 5: So I was kind of working with Pittbull because we

776
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 5: did the anthem we did Crazy. Then Yeah shots came

777
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 5: so I was still I started to move into another

778
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 5: world because I saw that EDM world. I kind of

779
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 5: jumped in right at just starting to get crazy, and

780
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 5: I ended up getting a DJ residency in eight in Vegas.

781
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 5: So I've been in Vegas doing a DJ residency since

782
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 5: eight and I'm still there now. So that was a

783
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 5: place where I could really, you know, learn a different style,

784
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 5: just open format world and just get my energy back

785
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 5: from just being in the midst of the people and

786
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 5: understanding what makes people move and groove again. Because DJing

787
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 5: is the foundation of my production. Like I think I

788
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 5: started playing the drums when I was in elementary school,

789
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 5: So drums and DJing are the two key elements to

790
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 5: my production style.

791
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: That's why it's.

792
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 5: More beat driven and that's why they're all club records.

793
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 6: A DJ side when you choose the pivot, because you

794
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 6: know you've pivoted a lot. When you choose the pivot,

795
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 6: is it because of where music is going or where

796
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 6: you're going as a person.

797
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 5: Where my spirit leaves me my spirit? You know, when

798
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 5: I started to get back into djaying, God put these

799
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 5: people in my path to say, okay, you should now

800
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 5: start moving over here. And I remember like telling my

801
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 5: manager and my lawyer, I want to go over here

802
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 5: and do this DJ stuff. They like, Bro, you're making

803
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 5: one hundred grand or beat? What the hell is wrong

804
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 5: with you? I was like, I can't do.

805
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: It no more.

806
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 5: But I saw the future and I just trust. I

807
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 5: always trust my spirit. Ladies and gentlemen, don't listen to

808
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 5: your mind, listen to your spirit. And you got to

809
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 5: learn the difference between the two. And when you learn

810
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 5: the difference, your spirit is never gonna lead you wrong.

811
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 5: Real trust it and it's gonna be fine. And that's

812
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 5: what I've been doing, you know, pretty much my whole life,

813
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 5: and everything's been okay, you know what I mean. Like

814
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 5: I've been able to now have number one medium song,

815
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 5: hip hop song, R and B song, AC song. How

816
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 5: many people you know had a hit song in every

817
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 5: in four decades, because you know, we had a hit

818
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 5: with even the usher Glue song. I think it was

819
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 5: an AC hit number one, I take it. And then

820
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 5: I had a song with Pitt Bull that came out

821
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 5: two years ago called Jumping that was like number one

822
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 5: on some chart. So yeah, since the nineties, I've been

823
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 5: doing this and I'm just thankful every day to wake

824
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 5: up and to still be able to do this, and

825
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 5: to also like, right now is the time where the

826
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 5: two thousands is on fire? Yeah, like, yes, it's on

827
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 5: Like I'm doing so many shows that and and for

828
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 5: crowds that I haven't seen and you know, or maybe

829
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 5: not have done it as a headline. I have never

830
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 5: headlined for ten thousand people until like the last couple

831
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 5: of years Tackles.

832
00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: Yeah.

833
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 5: So it's like, it's amazing that people the memories that

834
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 5: people have from that era, the fun time they had,

835
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 5: it's making this music you know now come back and

836
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 5: it's in a major.

837
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 7: Way made you what made you do the meditation. So

838
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 7: that's totally far the other end of the spectrum.

839
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, turning fifty, turn fifty, a lot of things started

840
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 5: to happen in my life. First thing I it hit

841
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 5: me was like I asked myself, what makes you happy?

842
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: And I said, damn, only.

843
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 5: Making sure everybody else good, but that's not what makes me.

844
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 5: Like what makes me happy? I couldn't really tell myself,

845
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 5: and so I was like, you know what, I need

846
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 5: to kind of put myself first.

847
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:55,479
Speaker 1: Like I'm not happy in this marriage. Like, so I said,

848
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: I want to do divorce.

849
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 5: And so around the same time, me and my my

850
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,919
Speaker 5: good friend Doug Davis we talk like every year because

851
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 5: he calls and gives me shit because he's he's like

852
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 5: a couple months younger than me, so he's like, oh,

853
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 5: you're old man.

854
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: So we're talking.

855
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 5: And he was telling me he wanted to introduce me

856
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 5: to somebody that was in this space and I was like, oh,

857
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 5: that's interesting because I've been listening to like all of this,

858
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 5: like b neural beats to sleep and relax and ocean

859
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 5: and rain and all of this type of stuff. So

860
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,280
Speaker 5: me and this guy kuld Bear, his name is caber Sego,

861
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 5: we connected. And so I'm going through the divorce and

862
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 5: like I didn't like where my mental state was at

863
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 5: because I'm angry, like, ah, why can't she just do

864
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 5: this and that? And so I'm like mad, and I

865
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 5: don't like, That's not me. I'm a positive at all

866
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 5: times person. I don't think negatively. So I'm like, I

867
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 5: started to like medit day. I started to say affirmations

868
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 5: every day, and it helped me to be in a

869
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 5: better mental state, as well as having good people in

870
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 5: my corner, like my queen.

871
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: Her name is Jamila.

872
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 5: She was there for me at that time, and she

873
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 5: would give me like also like just positive. She would

874
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 5: just keep me, try to keep me in a positive mindset.

875
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 5: And she had been through a rough divorce too, so

876
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 5: she can give me some insight and just you know,

877
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 5: help me keep my head up. So the affirmations every day,

878
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 5: I would literally get a cup of tea and I

879
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 5: had a copper pyramid on my deck. I'll drink, get

880
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 5: my tea, go sit in this copper pyramid and meditate

881
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 5: and just say these affirmations. I'm happy, I'm healthy, I'm

882
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 5: at peace every single day and throughout the day. And

883
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 5: so all of this happened at the same time I

884
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 5: meet Caber and me and Caber are talking. He's like,

885
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 5: let's do we should do meditation. So I was like, yeah,

886
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 5: let's do that. I'm down with that. I think that's

887
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 5: great because I was saying these affirmations I meditated.

888
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:04,280
Speaker 1: So uh, we went in recorded a bunch of stuff.

889
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 5: But yeah, it was because I needed it was time

890
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 5: for a change in my life. I needed to be

891
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 5: in more positive mindset. One thing that I also did

892
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 5: was I was like I would say, affirmations of negativity

893
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 5: can live inside of me.

894
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 1: I like, I don't. I try to get rid of

895
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: all negative thoughts.

896
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 5: And when I did that, when I really got rid

897
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 5: of the negative thoughts, I ain't not even saying the

898
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 5: word hate.

899
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 1: I didn't even use that word.

900
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 5: So I'm always trying to change anything that happens to me.

901
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 5: In any negative situation, it's some positivity you can pull

902
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 5: out of that you focus on that. So I would

903
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 5: always pull that positivity out. And I've learned if you

904
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 5: pull that out, pull pull a positivity out of any

905
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 5: negative situation, and you let God drive, don't try to

906
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 5: drive and trust God every it ain't gonna.

907
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 3: Always be all right.

908
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 5: And so we went in we recorded these albums, and

909
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 5: you know, this time of my life is feeling like

910
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,479
Speaker 5: I'm doing what God intended me to do. But what's

911
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 5: amazing is everything that got me here I was supposed

912
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 5: to do. And even like all of the music that

913
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 5: I've given people gave people positivity. So it's always been positivity,

914
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 5: but it's meaning more now when someone tells me I.

915
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 1: Never meditated, you helped me meditate.

916
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 5: I was having trouble getting over this grief of losing someone.

917
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: Your meditation about grief helped me. I'm inspired to do.

918
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 5: You know how many people have called me about getting

919
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 5: in the gym. It's insane, Like celebrities, all kind of

920
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 5: people are like, you inspired me to get healthy. So

921
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 5: I feel now like I'm doing what God intended me

922
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 5: to do.

923
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: It took me a long time to.

924
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 5: Get here, but this is the time it's supposed to

925
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,439
Speaker 5: be and crazy. I was thinking about this the other day.

926
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 5: I met mister Farrakhan at the Source Awards and he

927
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 5: basically told me, he said, you got power, you got

928
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 5: a voice, and he basically was kind of trying to

929
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 5: tell me, like use it and that like that stuck

930
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 5: with me, like I'm like, okay, but now I'm using

931
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 5: my voice and my power in a good way to

932
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 5: push positivity.

933
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: Into the world.

934
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 7: So that is what makes you happy.

935
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 1: That's what that's what you know what Yeah, it makes

936
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: me happy that.

937
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 5: Just to be just to do good, you know, just

938
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 5: to do good, because all that comes back and when

939
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 5: you like, a guy came to me, I did the

940
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 5: col of guard thing, right, A guy came to me

941
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 5: in the club one night in the club and was like,

942
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 5: I did that col of guard test because of you,

943
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 5: and it came back positive, and he did he didn't

944
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 5: have colon cancer, but he had polyps. So just stuff

945
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 5: like that, it just makes me feel like I'm doing

946
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 5: good in the workpiring people and being a good role

947
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 5: model to my son.

948
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: I have a daughter now, you know, she's ten months old.

949
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 3: Congratulation.

950
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 5: I look at life like with health like I got

951
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 5: to be here for her, you know what I'm saying.

952
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 5: I got to be here for her first day of school.

953
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 5: I gotta be here for high school graduation, walk her

954
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 5: down the aisle. So health is even more important than me.

955
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 5: It was something I was doing to just you know,

956
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,319
Speaker 5: live a long, full life. But even more so now

957
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 5: I have even more motivation because of my daughter.

958
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: And her mother. I got to be here for them,

959
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.

960
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 6: So it's crazy to see you cry because a lot

961
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 6: of people who never even thought you had ice.

962
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: No, you know what, black man, we need to cry.

963
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: So we need to cry.

964
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 5: When you get more in tune to your higher self

965
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 5: and you stop vibrating at these low frequencies, you can

966
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 5: let yourself let the energy flow as we should. We

967
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 5: don't have to be tough all the time.

968
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: And you're an advocate for therapy.

969
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 5: I push all brothers that we don't have to suffer

970
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 5: in silence.

971
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 1: We suffer in freaking silence.

972
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 5: Call your homie sometime to just be like, my nigga,

973
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 5: you good? How you doing not just period, but how

974
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 5: you mentally doing? Bro, Because that one little conversation could

975
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 5: make him not go do some stupid shit or take

976
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 5: his life or whatever.

977
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: You know. So I started doing therapy. I push anything,

978
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: any knowledge that.

979
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 5: I got, I try to share with everybody because we

980
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 5: got to help each other.

981
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 3: We all we got what's the gym? What's the gymy?

982
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 5: This is a trying, This is positivity abundance and it's

983
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 5: also my daughter's birthstone.

984
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

985
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 3: I want to ask you a question about about marriage.

986
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 6: Like you never hear men say they were tired of

987
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,280
Speaker 6: the marriage, like they wanted to walk away.

988
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 5: What happens is when you start to walk on those eggshells.

989
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 5: It's just not it's just not a positive environment. And

990
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 5: then when you get to the point where a lot

991
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 5: of times in marriage, we're just there making sure everything's good,

992
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 5: and who the hell checking on us, who's making sure

993
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,760
Speaker 5: we okay? Who's making who's coming to us and saying

994
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 5: what do you need today?

995
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: What can I do for you to make you happy?

996
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 9: You know?

997
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,720
Speaker 1: I know we're the providers and all of that.

998
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 5: But we need that love too. We need that assurance.

999
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 5: Sometimes women go to your men and just make them

1000
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 5: feel like, appreciate it because to live in today's society,

1001
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 5: to go out and make that money and all of

1002
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,720
Speaker 5: the things a husband and a father has to worry

1003
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 5: about every single day. Like I said, suffering in silence

1004
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 5: that y'all have no clue about. Just be that positive light,

1005
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 5: make that house a home, make it radiate positivity.

1006
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: You know.

1007
00:46:53,760 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 5: So yeah, man, y'all got me up here crime you

1008
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 5: might have needed.

1009
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 2: To release you know. You know what I wanted to

1010
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: know when when Dave Chappelle was doing the skits at first,

1011
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 2: did you take it as disrespectful? Did you always was like,

1012
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 2: oh this is great?

1013
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 5: No, A cipher sounds called me and he was like

1014
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 5: when he did the first one, and he was like, Yo,

1015
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 5: Dave Chappelle did this skit on you, Bro, It's crazy,

1016
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 5: it's hilarious. I was like on me, I'm like, why

1017
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 5: are you doing sketch on me? Like I ain't nobody,

1018
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 5: and he's like, bro, trust me. And so when I

1019
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 5: saw it, I was like, that's really me.

1020
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: That is really me.

1021
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 5: And I got on this show because I went one

1022
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 5: day to just tell Dave thank you for doing the sketches,

1023
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 5: because we have a mutual A friend's named Corey Smith,

1024
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 5: and Cory is the reason Dave is part of the

1025
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 5: reason Dave does the sketch too, because I think they

1026
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 5: might have heard this song, like what song was it?

1027
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 2: I don't give it.

1028
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't give him. He might have heard it.

1029
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 5: And he probably was like this would be interesting if

1030
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 5: that's all he says. But he's actually intelligent.

1031
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: And then Corey was like, yeah, John, Corey thought I

1032
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: went to Morehouse.

1033
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 5: I just was always hanging out in the AUC because

1034
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 5: back in the nineties, if you're from Atlanta, you went

1035
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 5: to the AUC.

1036
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: Clark.

1037
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 5: All of that to just get girls, you know what

1038
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 5: I mean. So you just used to go holler at

1039
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 5: the girls. So I used to be always up there.

1040
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,879
Speaker 5: So Corey was like, no, he's smart, he come from

1041
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 5: this and that. So Dave ran with it, and so

1042
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,839
Speaker 5: I went to the show to thank Dave and Day

1043
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:28,760
Speaker 5: was like, man, hang.

1044
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 1: Out, I want you to. Let's do a sketch. Like

1045
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: he didn't even have it, he didn't even know I

1046
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: was coming.

1047
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 5: And so we was just we did one sketch and

1048
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 5: then he had an idea to do another one, so

1049
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 5: he just had me on camera and he was off

1050
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 5: camera and we was improving back and forth, and that's

1051
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 5: how we got.

1052
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: The Little John and Little John sketch.

1053
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 5: And to think that I was able to improv with

1054
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,919
Speaker 5: one of the greatest comedians of our time. How many

1055
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 5: people get to do that? Not many, you know, So

1056
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 5: that was that was amazing. And Dave to me places

1057
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 5: that music would never ever be able to take me.

1058
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 3: How did that change everything for you? Just that sketch.

1059
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 5: It just opened me up to more people that didn't

1060
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 5: get it or didn't would have never listened to the music.

1061
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 5: I remember just being in the airport and like all

1062
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 5: kinds of white people coming to me, like whole families

1063
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 5: and all just all types of people because he was

1064
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:25,359
Speaker 5: moving the needle at that time for culture so and

1065
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 5: it just yeah, it just opened up a lot more doors.

1066
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 7: And that's when they started putting the t's in the name.

1067
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 5: Little John that yeah so and shout out the cat

1068
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 5: Williams soon because he he co signed me too when

1069
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 5: he did his Pimp Chronicles. I think that's his greatest

1070
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 5: special to. I'm going to record saying that.

1071
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 1: And you know, we he brought me out and let

1072
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: me do.

1073
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 5: My catchphrases and we ended up going in the studio

1074
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 5: working on some songs together. He just come by the house,

1075
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 5: shout out the cat. I need to get you in

1076
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 5: the gym with me. Cat, you can go work out,

1077
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 5: you can run, but can you push them weight up?

1078
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1079
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 4: Try to do that to do People come up to

1080
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,840
Speaker 4: you all the time like come on one time.

1081
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: Oh my god, could be yeah. Man, they don't do

1082
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: it as much as they used to.

1083
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 5: But like people that used to hang out with me,

1084
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 5: like say too early two thousands are you know twenty

1085
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:21,919
Speaker 5: tens used to be like, bro, you don't get tired

1086
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 5: of that.

1087
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't even hear it no more.

1088
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 5: I zone the people out, but like, yeah, I used

1089
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 5: to be at like TSA, a grocery store exactly, and

1090
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 5: they do it, so they so they expect me to

1091
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 5: do it, so they keep doing it and I might just.

1092
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 7: Be like, what's up, bro, meditation album? You do it's

1093
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 7: a soft yeah, but you.

1094
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So that's the new the new meditation album.

1095
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 5: So when we did the first, we recorded a bunch

1096
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 5: of stuff.

1097
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 1: When we you know, early too well, sorry.

1098
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 5: When I did the first Meditation album, I recorded a

1099
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 5: couple other projects. So one of the projects was something

1100
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 5: that my my god, Doug Davis came up with. He

1101
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 5: was like, you should take your songs and remix them

1102
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 5: into meditations and I was like okay. So we recorded it,

1103
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 5: but I was like, this don't need to come out

1104
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 5: first because nobody's gonna take me serious.

1105
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna like, yeah, get low and ground, you know.

1106
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 5: So I was like, we're not gonna do that first,

1107
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,359
Speaker 5: So now the time we're gonna drop that. I think

1108
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 5: it's a fun project, but it's real meditations, but it's

1109
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 5: just a playoff of the songs that you know and love.

1110
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 6: I just got a couple of questions, you know, the

1111
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 6: industry rewards constant energy, right, like you gotta always be on.

1112
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 6: How did you learn the difference between performance energy and

1113
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 6: just personal peace?

1114
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 5: I just in myself. It's spiritual again, Like I'm just

1115
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 5: I just know when to be crazy, little John.

1116
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: I know, be going to be just cool, chill.

1117
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 5: It's just just let my spirit got me everywhere, you

1118
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:57,959
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.

1119
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,399
Speaker 6: So and you talking about the meditation and the mind

1120
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 6: from this, like what I would ask when you were

1121
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 6: at the height of crump, did you even have the

1122
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 6: language for like stress and anxiety and burnout back then?

1123
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: No? I didn't.

1124
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,399
Speaker 5: I was just go go go go, go, go, go, go, go,

1125
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 5: go go go. It was all just cause I don't

1126
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 5: I don't know where the peak is, you know what

1127
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 5: I mean? And I don't even expect to get where

1128
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 5: I got, you know, because I just started off me

1129
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 5: and the Eastside Boys. We did that first song who

1130
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 5: You With, just to make something for the clubs of Atlanta,

1131
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 5: and then that turned into Okay, now you gotta do

1132
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 5: an album, and then that turned into being on Anger

1133
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 5: Management tour with Eminem and fifty Cent, and then fifty

1134
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 5: cent even took me to Australia, I went on tour

1135
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 5: with fifty in Australia, you.

1136
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying.

1137
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,879
Speaker 5: So it's like, I'm just happy to be here. I'm

1138
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 5: just gonna keep going because and that's how I am. Like,

1139
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 5: I just I gotta work. I gotta keep working, you know,

1140
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 5: because these are opportunities that are coming to me. So

1141
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 5: I don't want to you know, somebody sitting at home

1142
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 5: right now wishing they could be out, or somebody else

1143
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 5: could take this opportunity and use it if I don't

1144
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 5: use it.

1145
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take advantage of all of that. Now.

1146
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,720
Speaker 4: You are a big drink at one time and totally

1147
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 4: stopped Yes, yeah, what made you stop that drinking?

1148
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: Turning fifty?

1149
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 2: Had to fifty to stop drinking?

1150
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 1: Ye, judge, judgment you damn.

1151
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 5: So I turned fifty and for a while, like a

1152
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 5: year or two, I had this constant like discomfort, excuse me,

1153
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 5: discomfort in my side and I didn't even know what

1154
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 5: it was. So fifty like, I need to go get

1155
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 5: a I need to go to a doctor, right, So

1156
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 5: I went to the doctor and the doctor is like, okay,

1157
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 5: for one is I thought it was my liver because

1158
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 5: I'm like, I drink too much. It's got to be

1159
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 5: my liver, and I'm scared. So he's like, your liver's

1160
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 5: on the other side, it's not yours. And then he's like,

1161
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 5: it's probably inflammation in your gut. He's like, you're you're

1162
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,399
Speaker 5: fifty years old. You need a colonoscope anyway to check

1163
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 5: for polyps. So when I'm in there, I can check.

1164
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 5: I can do an endoscopy and check your gut. So

1165
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:10,319
Speaker 5: comes back and I have inflammation in my gut. So

1166
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 5: I had stopped drinking because I was scared of deliver.

1167
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 5: So I had already stopped. So by the time I

1168
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 5: had the colonoscopy, it had been like six months, and

1169
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm good, I'm just gonna not drink

1170
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 5: no more.

1171
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: So I think I was going like three months and

1172
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: I was like six months. I was like nah. Then

1173
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 1: I was like, maybe I go nine months.

1174
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 5: Then I went to a year, and I was like

1175
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 5: when I got to the year mark, I was like,

1176
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 5: I'm good.

1177
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: I don't even need to drink no more, you know.

1178
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: And I think one thing that kind.

1179
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 5: Of that that like brought some insight to me, Like

1180
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 5: health has been like important to me for a while

1181
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,280
Speaker 5: because I knew like a guy that had a triple bypass,

1182
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 5: he was like thirty five. So that started me first

1183
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 5: on my like I need to start correcting stuff with

1184
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 5: myself before it's too late, because the older you get,

1185
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 5: the harder it is to reverse what's going on. So

1186
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 5: that's that started. And then when I was dating my

1187
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 5: partner Jamila, she really pushed me into I think she

1188
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 5: saved my life because she pushed me into getting my

1189
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 5: blood work done and getting lab work done. I found

1190
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 5: out I had inflammation in my gut. Like I knew

1191
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 5: I had inflammation in my gut, but I candida gut

1192
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 5: is the key to a lot of problems in your body,

1193
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 5: So you got to get the I saw the rock

1194
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 5: talking and he said his gut was messed up too,

1195
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:31,839
Speaker 5: So no healthy bacteria in my gut Candida inflammation. And

1196
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 5: then I found other like markers in my blood work

1197
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 5: that I was like, oh, I gotta.

1198
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: Change this or take this out of my diet.

1199
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 5: So all of that helped me to like hone in

1200
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,439
Speaker 5: on exactly what I needed to do also to get

1201
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 5: my health like more tuned tuned in too.

1202
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 8: I saw you say it was like you came out

1203
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 8: of a like a ah, stop drinking.

1204
00:55:57,320 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 5: Because if you think about it, I was drinking every weekend,

1205
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 5: so I never fully got over the drinking.

1206
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:08,280
Speaker 1: Like I would drink a bottle of forty two a night, Jesus, Jesus.

1207
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,800
Speaker 1: Like so Friday, Saturday a bottle of forty two.

1208
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 8: Acoholic drinking, but all the nights a whole bottle.

1209
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 1: Every because I'm doing shots.

1210
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 8: We might do a couple of shots, but we ain't

1211
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:22,919
Speaker 8: doing a whole bottle.

1212
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: I'm the party guy.

1213
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 5: We don't want to drink with me, and I gotta

1214
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 5: drink with everybody. When I turned down the shot, they

1215
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 5: were like, bro, come on, man, yeah, so I gotta

1216
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 5: damn near a bottle of night. So I'm always constantly

1217
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 5: getting over the hangover or the getting My body is

1218
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 5: still trying to recover, so I never am recovering. So

1219
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 5: when you lay off the alcohol, you come out of

1220
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 5: that fog and it's like it's like everything is clearer, everything,

1221
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 5: you know. So I just I like the way that felt.

1222
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 5: And then you know, when I started working out, like

1223
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 5: I can work out like.

1224
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: You can't work out when you hungover.

1225
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 5: And then you put an alcohol in your body that's

1226
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 5: sugar that's that's not gonna help you get the goals.

1227
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:10,280
Speaker 6: So if you write a book, you know it should

1228
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 6: be to have a chapter turned down for what and

1229
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 6: you talk about exactly all the reasons why you ask

1230
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 6: your turn down.

1231
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially especially when you get in your up there

1232
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 5: in the years, you know, because right I'm fifty three,

1233
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 5: I'm going down the hill, you know what I mean.

1234
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 5: I want to have That's another thing. At my fifties,

1235
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm over that top. I don't know

1236
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,959
Speaker 5: how much time I got. I want to enjoy my life.

1237
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 5: I want to enjoy my life. I want to do

1238
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 5: stuff that makes me happy.

1239
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 6: Do you think people truly understand the loneliness that can

1240
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 6: come with success and entertainment.

1241
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: No, because they just see the private jets and the

1242
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: trips and all that. They don't realize.

1243
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 5: You know, sometimes you can't go nowhere because people bugging you.

1244
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 5: You can't spend time with your loved ones without people

1245
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 5: bugging you, or the the I gotta make another hit record,

1246
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. Like or even when you

1247
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 5: start to go down, you're not as hot as you were.

1248
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 5: People not picking up the phone and all that. Yeah,

1249
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 5: it's a lot of most people couldn't deal with this life.

1250
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 5: It could not deal with it because there's too much

1251
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 5: pressure then people on the internet with all their opinions

1252
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 5: and all of this and that, and it's a lot

1253
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 5: of pressure that you cannot be built weak to be

1254
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 5: in entertainment industry.

1255
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 6: So yes, sir, when you my last question, when you

1256
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 6: think about legacy, now, how much of it is about

1257
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 6: peace and purpose rather than I guess the plaques and

1258
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 6: the parties and all that.

1259
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 5: I think my legacy is going to be all about

1260
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 5: positivity because every step of the way it's been crunk

1261
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 5: was positive. It was a positive release. Then now EDM

1262
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 5: stuff was positive, positive part It was all partying based initially.

1263
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 5: But it wasn't like I was saying go do a

1264
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 5: drive by on the ops, you know what I mean.

1265
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: It was just like, hey, go release turn up, you know.

1266
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 5: And then you know, now in my latter years, it's meditation, mindfulness,

1267
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 5: get therapy, fellas, I'm gonna tell everybody out there, get therapy,

1268
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 5: get a therapy.

1269
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: If it's going through it.

1270
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 5: You should not be left to your own devices to

1271
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 5: deal with some serious issues. Sometimes you need to talk

1272
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 5: to someone that's a qualified person.

1273
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 1: And I did em DR.

1274
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 3: Did you ever do MDR?

1275
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 5: EMDR is amazing because it taps into your subconscious. When

1276
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 5: I did em DR, stuff came out that I didn't

1277
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 5: even really didn't know what's there. So it can tap

1278
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 5: to the it can find the root of why you

1279
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 5: got that trauma.

1280
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: And then like, so, yeah, I have not done any

1281
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: of that yet.

1282
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:47,920
Speaker 5: I don't want to do it. I'm thinking about it,

1283
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 5: but I don't want to. I don't want it to

1284
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 5: change me. It won't because I just feel like I'm

1285
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 5: already at a certain place. But I do want to

1286
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 5: go tap into those things that I have locked deep,

1287
00:59:59,360 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 5: deep deep.

1288
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 3: A lot of people who done E.

1289
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 6: D and MAR tell me that the iaching experience is

1290
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 6: pretty similar because it's just everything that is in your

1291
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 6: subconscious that you suppressed.

1292
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,160
Speaker 3: God is like, no, look at it. Yeah, it's all

1293
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 3: on the table, that scary feeling, that stuff.

1294
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: No, it's just it's profound.

1295
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 5: Em DR is profound because it's like that's why I

1296
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 5: act like that, or that's why my mother treated me that.

1297
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: Way, or this is why that happened.

1298
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 5: It helps you and then like em DR, Like when

1299
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 5: I did it recently, I was able to go to

1300
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 5: my childhood self and think it's okay, I'm here, it's fine,

1301
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 5: You're you're loved, you're appreciated, you know, all of that.

1302
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 5: And it helped me to get past whatever that was.

1303
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 5: So that's why I like it, because it's stuff that,

1304
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 5: you know, because I was kind of not worced, but

1305
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 5: I was like, someone was like, you should you know, go,

1306
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 5: you should try it, you know, because it helped them,

1307
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 5: and I did it and I was like.

1308
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 1: Man, I'm good. I don't need this. And then I

1309
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:06,520
Speaker 1: was like, damn, it's like I did not know that.

1310
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 5: And the more you do it, the more stuff comes

1311
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 5: to you, and you just realize this is.

1312
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 1: Why I'm the way I am.

1313
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 5: I can now get past this and I can change

1314
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 5: these habits, you know, and I can be living more.

1315
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:22,919
Speaker 1: I can live a better life. Wow.

1316
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 6: Man, little John, you are an icon and one of

1317
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 6: the greatest producers of all time. You bought people so

1318
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 6: much joy. In this next chapter of your life where

1319
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 6: you are helping people heal, I think it's gonna be

1320
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 6: your best work yet.

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Speaker 1: Brother. I do too. I do to.

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Speaker 5: It feels so good when people come to me and

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Speaker 5: say you help me, you know, without me even directly

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01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 5: doing anything for them.

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01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: I'm helping so many people and inspiring people.

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01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 5: Like with the with the fitness journey, with the you know,

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01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 5: the bodybuilding thing. Coming in third in this competition. I

1328
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 5: it was just it was hard to just do it period.

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01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 5: It was hard to just even get there. And I

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Speaker 5: was just happy to be a part of it. And

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Speaker 5: I just want to inspire people to say that that

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01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 5: say I can't work out, I don't have time. I'm

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01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 5: on the road, I'm a new father, I'm in the studio,

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01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 5: I'm doing a million things, and I'm able to go

1335
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 5: to the gym and transform my body, eat right, do

1336
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 5: all these things so.

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01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:24,920
Speaker 1: You can do it too.

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01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 6: Billy Blanks Man, you can do you training hit training

1339
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 6: where it's your music playlist, all the crunk music going

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Speaker 6: body by John.

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Speaker 1: I love it, Okay, help me out with it. Solon Man,

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I love it. Inspire.

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01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 4: There you go, well, Little John, we appreciate you for

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01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 4: joining us. And also December eighteenth, you're performing for our

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Speaker 4: assister station.

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Speaker 1: Shingle jingle Ball.

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01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 4: So what what should do people expect for Little John

1348
01:02:58,160 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 4: in that show trunk period?

1349
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: They want it because it says Little John and friends,

1350
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 1: it's krunk Crunk.

1351
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 5: And friendsunk crunk, you know commercial just it's Atlanta and

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01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 5: I gotta hit them hard. You know, Jermaine talking crap

1353
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 5: like but Jamaine my best family. Jermaine actually called me,

1354
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 5: was like, who you're bringing out?

1355
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I got friends friends.

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01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 5: So but I'm just gonna bring the crunk. That's what

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01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:27,880
Speaker 5: That's what they want. That's what I'm gonna give them.

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01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 5: That's what they ain't seen in the wild, So that's

1359
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 5: what I'm giving them. I ain't trying to do nothing

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01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 5: crazy crunk excited.

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01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 3: Could that error ever come back?

1362
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 6: Like the way metro Booman just did futuristic some Could

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01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 6: that crunk era ever come back?

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01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: If it did, it'll I don't know if people can

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01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 1: handle it.

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Speaker 3: I think we need like grown people who don't get

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Speaker 3: the release.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you have something you put everybody, everybody put their

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Speaker 3: phones up.

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01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 2: But you don't heal the same way.

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Speaker 6: You can't be.

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01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 8: And I don't know how to sprinkle down to the yns,

1374
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 8: Like how would they don't need sprinkle?

1375
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 7: Think that krunk could be recreated, But I'm glad that

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01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 7: we do have these crunk classics that will never die,

1377
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 7: so I don't think it could come back.

1378
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 5: Maybe I do something next year, Maybe I do, like

1379
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 5: why not you know Metro did?

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01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 1: Maybe why not? I was talking about it. But it's

1381
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 1: just got to be the right.

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01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 5: Everything with me is the right time, you know, when

1383
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 5: the universe tell me it's time for it, that's when

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01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:21,400
Speaker 5: it happens.

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01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 4: All right, Well ninety six point one, get your tickets.

1386
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 4: He will be performing at the Atlanti's Jingle Ball. Can't

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Speaker 4: wait to see you, guys. It's the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, every day, Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 1: Finish for y'all.

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Speaker 7: Done,