WEBVTT - Geto Boys Reloaded: Straight To The Point feat. Dee - 1 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.560 Yet you know boys is back and redod it all 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.480 in your mind. Yeah, now, deep throating. This is for 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:13.160 the streets, the real the reilroading, the distenfranchise, the truth, escapegoating. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:14.640 And they ain't know when we speak the truth, so 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.319 they ain't quoted because we wrote it. The North South 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.919 East coaches, the ge be not for keeping your head bobbing. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.000 It ain't no stopping and once to be drop said 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.120 by and then the system is so corrupt they threw the. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.120 Rock out their heads and then blame it on us. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.800 Don't get it twisted on coding. We danced it. Put 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:39.400 no butterment biscuits. It's Willie d y'all, Ghetto Boys in 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.280 the House back with another episode of information and instructions 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.800 to help you navigate through this wild, crazy, beautiful world 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:55.360 in the studio. D one one the number one, y'all. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.280 It's a special significance to that. I think I know 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.280 what it is, but I'd rather have you explain. 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.160 That, of course, brother. Yeah, man, I got my name 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.680 in college. I went to a Division I school, LSU 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.280 dand Ruge, Louisiana. And you know, if you play college ball, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.000 you know D one is like significant because it's like, oh, yes, 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:17.880 you top not you know what I mean. But not 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.240 only that, my birth name is David. My Mama named 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.640 me David. And when I started to get into the 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.360 REP game, I felt like I was the one that 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.160 was chosen to be in this thing. And I felt 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.840 like God shows me like, man, you in a group 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.680 with twenty other people, but you the one, you know 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.480 what I mean. So instead of V one, I took 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.560 the d from David. I said, I'm d one. 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.560 That's dope. That's dope. And that's how you came up 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.680 with David and Galaid. That album that you put out, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.120 yeah that was that was dope. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.000 There you go. That was my first album. 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.080 Yeah that was your debut debut album. Man, you know 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:55.040 you made a lot of noise really fast, really fast, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.480 and then it was like you just stopped. Did that 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.800 happen like intentionally? Do you switch gears? 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.200 Nah? I don't think I stopped. I think I'm richer, 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.559 I'm I'm more well known now. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.440 What I'm saying. What I'm saying is that like you're moving, 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.920 You're you're still doing stuff, but I haven't seen you 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:21.119 doing like like the what would they say the mainstream 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.359 the mainstream stuff. Okay. Yeah. 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:29.519 So when I first jumped into the game, I was independent. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.399 I was fresh out of college. I got a job 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.040 as a middle school teacher, so I got a nine 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.320 to five bag and band ruge. I'm teaching and one 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.800 of my math teaching Math, yeah, math teacher, and I 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.880 taught life skills too. I can't leave that when I 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.760 taught a subject called life skills. So I'm teaching math 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.840 and life skills. And while I'm teaching, I do a 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.079 song called j fifty and Wheezy where I'm calling out 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.840 jay Z, fifty cent and Lil Wayne. I'm not dissing them, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.440 but I'm holding them accountable for their lyrics and for 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.960 the message they sending because I'm seeing how the impact 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.600 of they lyrics is affecting my students. One of my 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.120 students came in class one day and had a tattoo 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.880 that said MOB on it. You know, MOB stand for 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.560 money over right. I asked him. I said, man, you 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.000 know what that tattoo mean? He was like no, sir. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.720 He looked at me and I said, well, why did 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.520 you get it? Because his favorite rapper, Lil Wayne, has 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.920 it tattooed on her. And when I realized how powerful 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.440 these Brothers lyrics were. I said, I I could choose 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.640 to remain a teacher or I could get into the 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.120 rap game to be a teacher. So I'm still a 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.880 teacher at heart, but instead of mister Augustine, I'm d 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.080 one now. And because I'm in the rap game, I'm 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.640 able to reach way more people. That music video went 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.600 viral for j fifty and Weasy. At the time, MTV 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.760 Jams was like the Holy grail. If you could get 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.040 a video on MTV Jams, it was like, man, you 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.080 made it, you know, bro As an independent artist, as 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.760 a middle school teacher, I'm looking and I got a 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.040 song that's on the top twenty on MTV Jams and 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.040 on BT and all this stuff, and people looking like, man, 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.720 how you doing this? So I'm getting mainstream looks, but 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.960 I'm still an independent all this with a job, you 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.200 know what I mean. So then after that that led 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.440 to like a little situation where different labels wanted to 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.160 sign me. So cash Money ironically was one of the 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.000 labels that wanted to sign me. So I mean talks 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:22.280 with burrow Man and Slim, they flying me out to Miami. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.560 I never forget this meeting I had with Slim at 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.359 the Rich Carlton Hotel and he talking to me. And 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.720 I grew up on these dudes, you know, so at 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.080 the time I'm looking at Slim something. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.120 Don't talk Slim. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.919 It's not perfectly man Slim. You know, he talked real slow, 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.080 you could tell his words are real calculated. And he 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.080 said he liked me. Man. He said he liked my 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.080 my authenticity, you know, he liked he liked it. I'm 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.800 not trying to be somebody. I'm not, so they wanted 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.080 to bring me over there. But in the back of 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.320 my mind, I was always like, man, I just did 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.560 a song that got real popular. Well it's calling out 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.160 jay Z, fifty cent and Lil Wayne, Like how that's 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.960 gonna work, you know. And the whole time that they 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.600 would courting me and talking to me, I never met 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.479 Wayne in person, right, So I was like, this don't 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.160 feel right, man, you know what I mean, Like I 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.920 didn't I didn't been around the block enough, you know. Yeah, 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.440 I'm like I could be getting set up to get shelved, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.479 you know. So, so I didn't end up signing that deal. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.520 Long story show, I didn't end up signing that deal 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.719 because I really knew what my purpose was in this game. 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.560 If your name is Cash Money Records, what you think 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.719 you in this game to do primarily make money? Right, 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.960 I'm in this game to be a teacher. I'm gonna 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.920 make money. But after I get to teach, so it's 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.080 impact over income for me. If it's income, and then 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.840 if we make a little impact for you, then we're 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.760 not in the game for the same purpose. I recognized that, Bro, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.520 you got two types of artists in this game. You 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.839 got the hustlers and you got the teachers. Some people 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.560 get into the game like, man, I'm just trying to 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.600 make some bread. I'm a hustler. I'm gonna figure out 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.479 how to use the rap game to make money. What 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.920 you don't read as a rapper, you're automatically a teacher though, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.039 because hip hop is so digestible, it's so much information 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.720 inside of your lyrics. Then it rhymes, then it's repetition. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.040 What does that equal? That equals retention? So people are 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.560 memorizing these lyrics. I guarantee you, me and you both. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.760 We could wrap the lyrics to songs that we liked 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.400 over twenty years ago, but we could still wrap the 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.960 lyrics word for word. That's because of the higher retention 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.800 rate of hip hop. So if you're a hustler primarily 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.600 getting into the rap gam you're gonna end up being 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.279 a hustler primarily, then a teacher, and then you're gonna 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.200 entertain people in the process. Right, If you're a teacher 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.719 getting into the rap game, then you're trying to teach. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.799 You're gonna make some money if you're successful. You can't 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.200 not make money in the rap game if you're successful, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.159 and you're gonna entertain people in the process. I learned 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.000 early on, I'm a teacher that's getting into the rap 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.160 gam to teach. I've made money by the grace of God, 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.480 you know what I mean, in a cool position. And 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.279 of course I entertain people. I got hundreds of thousands 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.520 of fans all over the world, like that's great, probably millions. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.120 But I'm not a hustler that's just trying to get 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.480 into this game to figure out how I could just 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.560 make money by any means, And unfortunately a lot of 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.280 people are yeah, and and that you're always gonna clash. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:18.800 So I didn't sign with cash. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.320 Money and that was did you ever meet Wayne? 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.040 No? You want to know something crazy bro, I was out. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.800 Wayne had a concert out here last night. I was 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.440 on the tour bus. Still didn't meet Wayne. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.000 You was on his tour bus. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:34.840 Wayne got it. We ain't got two tour buses. He 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.640 got his tour bus. He got a tour bus for 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.440 all his clique, his crew. Right, So they all know me. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.360 We got songs together, like we is New Orleans. We're small, bro, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.880 we all know each other. I'm friends with I'm cool 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.600 with all these dudes. They see me, they embrace me, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.200 They dap me off, gutta gutta macmain. You know all 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.240 these people. Yeah, Wayne is on the other tour bus, right, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.559 all these dudes know me. I'm thinking that was Wayne 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.480 to a bus. So I'm thinking I'm about to meet him. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.560 We about to after all these years, we about to 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.440 be able to you know, chop it up. It's gonna 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.880 be cool because I got no hate towards this brother, 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.120 you know, nothing like that. I'm just in the game 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.200 to be a teacher, and Lil Wayne was one of 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.880 my teachers, whether he knows it or not, because I 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.040 grew up listening to so much of his lyrics. Come 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.080 to find out, he wasn't on that bus. He was 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.119 on the first bus. Bro, We always right. When I 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.160 realized that, and I got off one bus to walk 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.280 to the other, I saw this big circle of people 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.800 walking towards the entrance at the House of Blues that 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.840 was Wayne, and all them just missed them. Not that 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.520 I'm like like searching out to like, oh I gotta 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.480 meet Wayne, but we always just barely miss each other. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.679 You heard me, So I did all that, Bro. So 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.920 to answer your question, yeah, I got some mainstream looks 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.119 before I ever signed. Then I did sign with RCA. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.720 RCA Records signed a major record deal with them. Of 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.760 course they helped get me some big looks, you know. 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:52.880 So if you see me on TV, if you see 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:57.280 me on a lot of award shows, performing BT hip 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.880 Hop Awards, all this type of stuff, that's when I was. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:02.640 But I can't even say that it was because of 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.600 the label. It was really because of my hustle. It 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:07.880 was really because of my hustle. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:08.079 Bro. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.120 I didn't have music videos go viral. I did a 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.600 song about paying my student loans off called Sally May Back, and. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.880 Then you use the proceeds to pay off your student. 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.439 I used the proceed I used the proceeds from my 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.400 record deal to pay off my student loans. Bro, And 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.640 that song got so popular and when so viral that 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.320 people looked up and they saw d one on the 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.080 Real the daytime talk show. Right, it was either the 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.160 Real or Wendy Williams. I had a choice to go 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.080 on either one. I went on the reel, performed, got 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.520 interviewed like this, millions of people around the country seeing me, right, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.200 they see me on ESPN, ESPN doing an interview with 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:45.959 me right, national television. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:46.439 Man. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.360 That wasn't the regular label. That was my hustle, And 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.880 that was my anointing from God to be honest with you, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.959 because I realized that even hustle ain't enough to open 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.960 doors that God just don't want to open for you. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.920 So this game for a reason, Bro, I've been knowing 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:02.680 that for a while. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.479 Why did you choose the Reel over Wendy Williams. 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:12.160 Why Because Wendy Williams. When I think of her name, 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.959 I instantly think a mess. That's why your reputation is 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.280 so important in this game. When I thought of the Real, 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.560 I was like, okay, you think of them, you think 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.440 of something like bright and more positive, a friendly atmosphere 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.400 with Wendy Williams. It seems like if you ain't got 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.560 no drama or no gossip, like you're not really gonna 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.640 click too well with her. And I never met her 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.960 in person, but from a distance, you know the energy 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:38.400 that's given off, you know. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.120 Well, the real To be fair, they've had their fast 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:47.880 share of gossip and mess, you know, drama. What do 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.800 you think about First of all, that's been an uptick 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:59.280 of teacher student fight videos the internet. Fair, there's a 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.880 myriad of them out there if you look on the internet. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.920 What do you think about this volatile situation we find 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.240 ourselves in with teachers and students in the classroom. 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.480 Yeah, I think the part that you're leaving out is 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.400 the role that parents play, because if your parenting your 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.680 child properly at home, there's no way in the world 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.200 that they would have the audacity to go to school 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.280 and talk about wanting to fight their teacher. Students going 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.840 to school nowadays thinking oh, it's cool to threaten my teacher, 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.280 it's cool to call my teacher's hands because it's gonna 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.760 make my classmates laugh. And that's because of bad parenting. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:38.119 Yeah. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:39.600 Man, at the end of the day, I had one 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:43.760 student I had one student who, no matter how hard 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.600 I tried, this dude did not like me at all 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:48.880 at all. And I knew at the end of the day, 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.640 I knew that if he had the opportunity, that he 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.760 would have fought me. And because I knew that, I 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.120 also had the maturity as a man to say I'm 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:00.800 not going to do anything. Ain't to take it to 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.600 that level. So that was a time where I literally 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.760 had to sit in front of the door. I sat 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.120 in the desk in front of the door, blocking the 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.120 door so he couldn't get out of the classroom. Because 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.040 I was like, brother, I said, we're gonna set the 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.439 list right here, right now. And that don't mean I'm 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.520 calling your hands. That mean we're gonna sit down as men, 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.000 or as a man and a young man, and we're 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.320 gonna talk through this, bro, because you don't like me, 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.200 and you don't have to like me, but we're gonna 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.760 get to the bottom of why you don't like. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.840 Me, and we get to the bottom. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:30.000 Yeah, we got to the bottom. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.400 And what was the bottom the bottom he. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.080 Was going through head at home. Man, it had nothing 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.120 to do with me. This brother broke down crying by 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.440 the end of our session. We're sitting there talking. He 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.000 having daddy issues. So when he comes in the classroom 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.960 and he see another black man, me trying to exert 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.680 some level of authority over him, it just automatically wasn't 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.720 making him feel like he wanted to respect or listen 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.679 to anything. I had to say this dude, daddy had 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.440 him out here trying to sell dope. And this man 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.199 was a middle school student. This man was all messed 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:05.960 up in the head in terms of like who to 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:10.440 really look up to. And that's why mentorship is so important, really, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.600 Like it's so important whether you're a parent or whether 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:14.240 you're a rapper. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:14.480 Bro. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.040 In the rap game, we got all these people that 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.400 we call OG's, but I feel like we got we 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:25.640 got horrible, horrible examples oftentimes of people who are just 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.880 super irresponsible. Man, just because you're an elder statesman in 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.000 the game, don't mean you're a real o G. You're 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.319 probably a DG. That means you're a disappointing, grown up, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.120 straight up bro. You can't just call somebody an OG 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:45.000 just because they're old. You're a DG man, straight up. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.839 Good boys. Reloaded podcasts will be right back after the 0:13:50.840 --> 0:14:02.800 squat Man, let's go back to on Monastery School. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:03.920 Well, you did your research. 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:08.160 Let's go back, man, let's go back. These are your 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.840 formidable years. What do you remember about walking the hallways 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.000 of Audibond Man? 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.199 First of all, I grew up on the East side. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.800 I grew up in the Ninth Wall in New Orleans, right, Yeah, 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:19.200 So where I grew up at it's a lot of 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.480 poverty and you know, you see a lot of violence. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.240 That's the known for us, right all black. I remember 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.200 going all the way across town, like forty minutes, you know, 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.200 to get to the other side of town to go 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.040 to Auduburn that's near Tulane University. And by the time 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.720 I catched the Lake Forest bus to the street called 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.480 Canal Street and finally get there, I'm like, man, I 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.400 didn't have to walk past million dollar houses on Saint 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.160 Charles to get to school. I didn't have to see 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.520 all these luxury calls in order to get to school. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.800 It showed me that there's more to life than just 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:56.160 my hood. That was big for me because I was like, man, 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.240 I am not just a product of my environment. My 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.560 environment can become a product of me if I apply 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.080 myself right in school, So, man, when I was at 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.280 that school, I was around white students, I was around 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.120 Asian students, I was around black students. And it showed 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.560 me that just because your parents might make more money 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.320 than mine, you're not any better than me. Because I'm 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.960 in the gifted classes, y'all, not even in gifted classes. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.400 I'm smarter than you, and you got ten times the 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.680 money I got power. That's when I was like, oh, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.720 this's a weapon right here my brain. Oh man, that's 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.640 that's gonna be my ticket out straight up. And I 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.040 knew that from an early age. Bro, Like shout out 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.480 to my daddy. Man, my daddy had to camp out 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.760 to get me in that school. Bro, it's a public 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.480 school in New Orleans. You know, you ain't got to 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.080 pay a dime to go there. But it's so like 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.360 sought after for people to go to this type of 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.600 school back then that my pops had to camp out 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.840 just to get me a spot in line to be 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.600 in a lottery to potentially be able to get into 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.640 this school. So he camped out in a tent overnight 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.320 on the street corner in New Orleans. Because they said 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.000 the first one hundred people had an opportunity to get 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:02.640 into the lottery. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.800 Well, first of all, I don't even believe because black 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.680 men don't take care of their kids like that. We 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.160 we abandoned our kids. We ain't. We ain't. We're not that. 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.680 We're not, we're not, we're not present. False, We're not 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.240 that false. Your daddy did that for really false? Man, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:16.080 My daddy did that. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:16.240 Man. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.200 They need to stop acting like black men don't take 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.200 care of their kids. Bro, you take care of yours, 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.680 damn skippy. Then you go, look, he's so cont only 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.040 somebody from Texas and City. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.400 Let me tell you. Let me tell you something, bro. Uh, 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.800 I don't even understand how a man could have a 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.360 child born into this world and not be there for 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.520 the arrival of that baby. I can get it if 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:45.840 there's some type of circumstances that that are beyond your control, 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.080 But you know a child, your child is being born 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.760 to see that you planted in this woman and it's 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:57.560 this baby is coming into the world, and you know 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:02.920 it's going down, and your silly ass is sitting at 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.840 home watching the game, or you at the bar, kicking 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.480 it on the streets or whatever you're doing. To me, 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:14.960 that is the most uncivilized thing it's amongst the most 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.480 uncivilized thing that a person can do. Like you're talking 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.720 about bringing a human being into the world, and you're 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:27.720 responsible for their development, and it's that what you produce 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:33.520 gets to go out into the world and reproduce, you know, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.399 and to just act like you ain't did nothing, like 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.520 you ain't had no parts in it. That right there, bro. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.879 Bro Bro. So, I knew from early on that I 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.480 was different because I not only did I have my pops, 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.560 but I had my grandpa, you know, and my grandpa 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.240 is currently ninety three years old. That's my hero right there, 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.600 that's my main man. Like people who follow me on 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.560 social media, they feel like he's their grandpa because I 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.639 post him a lot on my social media and they 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.880 just like, oh, man, I wish he was my papa, 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.600 you know, they yeah, bro, And I I realized that 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.200 that wasn't the norm for my friends. Like a lot 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.000 of my friends, I look around and they ain't had 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.720 their daddy. They ain't had their daddy and their grandpa. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.240 And I had both of them. So you know what 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.280 that meant, I had no excuse. I know what it's 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.520 like to respect a woman. Bro. I see my daddy 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.439 do it with my mama every day. Grandpa and Grandma 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.800 married sixty six years before she passed away recently. I 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.720 saw this. So because of that, I understand the importance 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.840 of mentorship and leadership. So when I get into the 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.280 rap game, I knew off top man, I got a 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.760 responsibility to my audience. I'm not just here to entertain. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.320 You heard me. You know, even if you had an excuse, 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.200 you wouldn't use an excuse if you wanted to better yourself. 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:50.440 That's a good point. You know. 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:55.320 I wasn't raised with my father. I probably saw my 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:59.119 father every other year or so. Sometimes, you know, when 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.280 he was closer to where I lived, I may see 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:07.679 him multiple times in one year, but very seldom. I mean, 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.920 he definitely did not play a role in my development 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.240 as far as a man. I never had a heart 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.760 to heart with him until he was on his deathbed. Basically, 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.600 so everything that I picked up was trial and error. 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:31.240 It was through watching other men who I admired, you know, 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.120 and some other man that I admired were unlearned, right, 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.680 so I could have easily said, well, I'm this way 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:45.560 because my daddy was this way. You know, I behave 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.480 this way. I'm gonna do this because my daddy did it, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:53.639 but I wanted better, so I never used the excuse. Like, 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.080 at the end of the day, your excuses ain't gonna 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.880 matter if you walk into If you then let's say, 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:06.360 sell some dope and you end up in a court room, 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.480 the judge's gonna be like, you think the judge's gonna say, hey, 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.080 not bring him over here, a young man. 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.159 Tell me, how did you have it? 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.680 How hard life was you know when your father wasn't there? 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:21.280 And I can understand, So you know what, I'm gonna 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.840 let you get back out there and try it again. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:28.040 You know, good luck, son. The judge's gonna be like, 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:32.240 I got me another one. Here's another one. Yeah, five years, 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.640 ten years, twenty years, thirty years, seventy years, eighty years, 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.920 hundred years. They don't give a damn. And because you're 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:42.680 going into a courtroom and you're asking for mercy from 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.080 people who were hired to show you no mercy. 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:48.640 They were hired to show you no mercy, and you're 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:53.400 asking you asking for mercy. Yeah, that's man, that's messed up. 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:57.520 Was even more messed up, is well? We make music 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.840 that glorifies this type of behavior. Yeah, We make the 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.359 soundtrack for the lifestyle that someone would want to live. 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:09.080 When they say, Okay, I want to sell Dobe, we 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.360 make music that makes it sound appealing. We got all 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.080 these gray hair clouds, chasers, you know what I'm saying, 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.359 People with gray hairs, but they still chasing cloud because 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:19.879 they're still like, I want to be relevant with the 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.280 young boys, you know, I want to make music that 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.119 the teenager is gonna feel. You're not supposed to be 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:28.399 making music that the teenagers gonna feel, you know what 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:30.240 I mean. You're not supposed to be trying to fit 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:32.520 in with them. You're supposed to be setting an example 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:35.800 for them. And when I hear these people that have 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.480 been rapping about selling cocaine, you know, we could call 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:40.479 them out by name if we wanted to bro and 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:43.480 go viral right quick. But they know who they are, 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:46.080 and the fans listening to this know who they are. 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:49.560 Like you and your thirties, your faulties, your fifties, if 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.520 you still rapping about cocaine or killing people, even if 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.720 you sold that, even if you shot somebody before, there's 0:21:55.760 --> 0:22:00.440 a difference between narration and glorification. And I just feel 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.600 like in the rap game, it's too much glorification of 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.600 things that's gonna get us locked up or get us 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:08.760 six feet underground. 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:15.800 I'm glad you. I'm glad you clarified that, you know, narration, glorification, 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:20.359 because that has always been my. 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:22.320 M O. 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:28.160 You know, not to glorify, you know, but to narrate, 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:31.639 and sometimes not to glorify but horrify. At the end 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.240 of the day, we're gonna speak about it, but I'm 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:36.639 gonna tell you I can. We can talk about that 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:38.720 chop in the trunk, but let me tell you also 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:40.639 about what's gonna happen if you get caught with that 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:43.880 chop in the trunk, you see, And that's that's what 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:47.480 that's what a lot of us fail to do. Like 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:51.760 at the end of the day, like we're we got 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:54.320 to have all hands on deck, like we're in a 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:58.439 crisis situation. And I personally, when it comes to music, 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:00.600 I personally don't try to like I wouldn't try to 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:04.879 police what a person says because I know, especially the youngsters, 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.480 because I know at the end of the day, they're 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:10.560 not going to be the same person tomorrow as they 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:13.840 are today. Like I grew you know, like even when 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:18.159 I was writing music. When I was considering myself painting 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:22.200 the narrative, I still wasn't as sharp as I am today. 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:25.440 And I know now that some of this stuff need 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:29.120 to be even clarified even more, because some people only 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:32.040 hear one thing and they take a lot of people 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:35.120 have cognitive dissonance. They hear that one thing that they 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:37.920 want to hear, and that's it. For example, I wrote 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:42.840 in the verse my mind and the Mind Playing Tricks verse, 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:48.159 I said, I make big money. I drive big cars. 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:53.000 Everybody know me. It's like I'm a movie star. But 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.520 late at night, something ain't right. They didn't hear it. 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:58.399 They didn't catch that part at all. They just I 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:03.840 make big money, I drive That's all they heard. They 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:06.360 didn't hear the whole piece. While I said, but late 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:09.800 at night, something ain't right. I'm paranoid out here in 0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:13.879 these streets. I'm busting left in the pop pies and 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:18.360 bell dot quit, you know, and I'm thinking this is killers. 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.920 And they jump out this three blind, crippling, crazy senior citizens. 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:24.480 You see what I'm saying. They missed that part. And 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:29.120 I'm telling you that happened for real, Like it wasn't 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:32.920 a situation where three blind, crippling, craziest, three senior citizens 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:35.560 hopped out the car. But it was a situation where 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:38.200 a little five year old kid came around that corner 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:41.960 and I thought it was a shooter and he almost 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:46.439 got clapped, you know. So that that's that paranoia, and 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:51.639 it's it's that, it's that that constant, that constant sense 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:55.960 of being on the edge. You can't live like that, bro, 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:57.080 That ain't no where to live. 0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:00.679 Man, Bro, you said cognitive dissonance. I want you all 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:02.520 to go. If you watching this, go look that up. 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:06.920 I did a song about cognitive dissonance and I didn't 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:09.960 use I didn't use that vocabulary. I just called it. 0:25:10.000 --> 0:25:12.400 People don't want the real, you know what I mean? 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:15.040 I say people don't want that real? They just say 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:18.000 that they do. Now. People don't want that real. And 0:25:18.040 --> 0:25:21.240 I'm one of them too. I'm so easily entertained by 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:25.720 ratchet activity. Violent negative imagery always seem to interest me. 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:30.720 I tell myself, no more music glorifying evil, selling drugs, womanizing, 0:25:30.880 --> 0:25:33.359 killing our people. Then I hear a song with a 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:36.240 tight beat and can't deny it. The hook is catching, 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:39.800 so I subconsciously memorize it. Next thing, you know, I'm 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:43.080 reciting all the lyrics, and my day don't feel complete 0:25:43.160 --> 0:25:46.320 unless I hear it inviting darkness in my spirit. This 0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:49.359 can't be light. I'm craving what I'm supposed to be fighting. 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:52.480 This can't be right. I must be blind to the effects. 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:55.399 This can't be sight. Death is in the power of 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:58.439 the tongue, and this can't be life. Be careful what 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:01.879 you get involved with. You can't support a cause but 0:26:01.920 --> 0:26:06.960 then hate the effects that it causes. When we listen 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:09.600 to this and we would say I make big money, 0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:12.320 I drive a big cause. Everybody, if that's all we 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:14.159 want here and that's all we want to focus on, 0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:17.120 then we can't get mad when the stuff we got 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:18.920 to do to make that big money and the stuff 0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:22.119 we got to do to drive them big cause backfire 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:24.159 is on us and we're like, dang, I had to 0:26:24.200 --> 0:26:26.639 do some illegal stuff to make this big money. So 0:26:26.680 --> 0:26:29.679 what happened when you do illegal things that judge be like, 0:26:30.040 --> 0:26:30.880 come here, yong man. 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:35.560 It's that simple certain time. It's the same thing I 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:38.440 remember growing up. Man. People used to say, you can 0:26:38.480 --> 0:26:40.879 be whatever you want to be. Just go to school, 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:43.640 make good grades, listen to your parents. You can't even 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:46.360 be president of the United States. But they didn't tell 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:52.119 me I couldn't be beating up my classmates and okay, 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:54.240 I couldn't still out the store. They didn't tell me 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:56.560 that part. They just told me, just go to school. 0:26:56.920 --> 0:26:58.639 I did. Went to school. I made some good grades, 0:26:58.680 --> 0:27:05.439 you know, to my parents sometimes, but I like I 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:08.679 like options. I like to have options. I don't like 0:27:08.720 --> 0:27:11.480 to have my options limited. And if somebody would have 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:15.560 told me you can't be beating up your classmates and stuff, 0:27:16.480 --> 0:27:18.600 and you can't be stealing out the store, I probably 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:20.840 would not have stolen out the store or something. Because 0:27:20.880 --> 0:27:22.600 I like my options. I would have been like, you 0:27:22.640 --> 0:27:26.280 know what, I probably wouldn't be able to bounce back 0:27:26.280 --> 0:27:28.520 from this if I get caught up, So let me 0:27:28.560 --> 0:27:32.480 not do this. You know I was. I was that 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:36.080 intentional growing up as a kid. I was like, Wow, 0:27:36.240 --> 0:27:39.359 I wanted to do something, and I put my mind 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:42.399 to do it. I did it good or bad. I 0:27:42.400 --> 0:27:46.119 would do it. And so for you, you grew up 0:27:46.160 --> 0:27:50.119 in the household with your mom and your dad, and 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:57.240 who who who was the disciplinary in your family? 0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:00.719 Your dad the disciplinarian was my mo Mama. They used 0:28:00.760 --> 0:28:02.159 to call my mama the exorcist? 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:04.159 Yeah, yeah, who was. 0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:08.240 My friends used to ca Yeah, my friends used to 0:28:08.240 --> 0:28:10.800 call my mom the exorcist because that's the type of 0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:13.840 energy she gave off when she got mad. It's like 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:17.280 you was scared that, like, oh, David, mama is possessed 0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:21.400 straight up. So she was the person who I feared 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:26.119 getting her mad at me. Man, my pops, bro, My 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:29.119 pops only got two switches. It's either zero or a hundred. 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:31.639 So I only seen my daddy get mad at me 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:35.199 one time in life. And I'm still scared to this 0:28:35.359 --> 0:28:38.520 day thinking about when he got mad and when he 0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:41.640 looked at me and pointed at me and told me, 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:45.840 and it was it was basically me not not coming 0:28:45.880 --> 0:28:48.000 home on time because what was I doing? I was 0:28:48.040 --> 0:28:49.440 doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing. 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:51.160 How old are you not? Fourteen fifteen? 0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:56.680 Yes, that's exactly I tell you, all right, man, And 0:28:56.720 --> 0:28:57.920 you know, I don't know if my people going to 0:28:57.960 --> 0:28:59.280 watch this or not, so I'm like, I don't know 0:28:59.320 --> 0:29:02.080 if I should say what I was doing, but I 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:04.000 was definitely doing something I wasn't supposed to be. 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:04.600 Man. 0:29:04.640 --> 0:29:07.440 When I finally got home, my pops looked at me, 0:29:07.480 --> 0:29:09.680 that look in his eyes, him pointing at me, and 0:29:09.800 --> 0:29:12.880 him like I never forget him banging his fists on 0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:15.960 that table and sit you get here, when you get 0:29:16.000 --> 0:29:18.320 here after school? When when I when I tell you too, 0:29:18.400 --> 0:29:21.360 or when you're supposed to. Man, when he did that, bro, 0:29:22.000 --> 0:29:25.080 his hands hitting on that table like literally made my 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:29.200 heart go, you know what I mean, And that feel 0:29:29.280 --> 0:29:32.000 made me say, Man, these people do too much for me. 0:29:32.040 --> 0:29:34.600 They too, They too cool for me to be bringing 0:29:34.600 --> 0:29:36.600 out this other side, you know what I mean. I 0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:38.560 never wanted to see that side of my daddy again, 0:29:38.840 --> 0:29:42.160 my mama. That's a little more of like all right, 0:29:42.360 --> 0:29:45.760 mom's mom's, mom's always gonna find some reason to get 0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:48.960 mad at me. I think that's just that. But overall, 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:51.600 it wasn't me being afraid of them as much as 0:29:51.600 --> 0:29:55.000 me not wanting to make them look stupid. Man, these 0:29:55.040 --> 0:29:57.920 people people sacrifice so much for me, Bro, They got 0:29:58.400 --> 0:30:00.960 they got so many stories. Yeah stuff I haven't even 0:30:01.000 --> 0:30:03.680 talked about publicly yet of what my parents have done 0:30:03.680 --> 0:30:07.560 for me that definitely changed the entire course of my life. 0:30:07.680 --> 0:30:09.720 And I you know, I'll speak on that stuff one day. 0:30:09.720 --> 0:30:11.640 But why would I want to make them look bad, 0:30:11.680 --> 0:30:12.640 they didn't did so much. 0:30:14.160 --> 0:30:17.560 Dude, you just blew my mind with that statement, because 0:30:19.640 --> 0:30:25.200 I didn't feel that I had to make my mother 0:30:25.320 --> 0:30:29.920 proud because she was abusive towards me. So I didn't 0:30:30.320 --> 0:30:33.080 care what she thought if I go out into the 0:30:33.080 --> 0:30:36.520 streets and I did wild, reckless things, because you know, 0:30:36.640 --> 0:30:39.040 I probably get an ass whooping anyway for something that 0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:42.760 I didn't do. I didn't you know, she thought that 0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:51.440 I did or whatever. Right, So, when you have when 0:30:51.480 --> 0:30:58.040 you when you have parents that you feel that truly 0:30:58.240 --> 0:31:01.360 have your best interest at heart, and they love you, 0:31:01.680 --> 0:31:05.920 and they're showing you examples daily, they're showing you examples 0:31:05.960 --> 0:31:09.520 of their love daily, you're less likely. I'm not saying 0:31:09.520 --> 0:31:13.360 you won't do it, but you're less likely to do 0:31:13.440 --> 0:31:18.000 things to embarrass your family, to do things to disappoint them. 0:31:18.200 --> 0:31:21.680 You know less, you're less like. And I'm gonna go 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:23.200 ahead and say this. I might get in trouble for this, 0:31:23.600 --> 0:31:25.760 probably gonna get in trouble for this right here. But 0:31:28.000 --> 0:31:32.560 this is why when I date women, I date women 0:31:32.840 --> 0:31:36.440 who have good relationships with their mothers and fathers. M 0:31:38.640 --> 0:31:41.959 women who have good relationships with their mothers and fathers, 0:31:42.000 --> 0:31:45.960 and they come from good stock. They typically are not 0:31:46.040 --> 0:31:48.320 going to go out and do something to embarrass themselves, 0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:51.280 are you? If they get into it with you and 0:31:51.360 --> 0:31:53.600 y'all have a problem, it's gonna be private. It's gonna 0:31:53.600 --> 0:31:55.480 be a private matter. They're not going to the internet 0:31:55.840 --> 0:31:58.400 and harry you out. They're not gonna go write a 0:31:58.480 --> 0:32:01.800 tale all book then doing that type of stuff. But 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:05.440 a woman who just comes from a family where you know, 0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:08.280 anything goes and you know, just do you and whatever 0:32:08.840 --> 0:32:13.880 and not be concerned about how it affects others, they're 0:32:13.960 --> 0:32:17.040 capable of doing anything in same way with mad. But 0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:20.280 that's the way I That's the reason why I move 0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:21.000 the where I moved. 0:32:21.040 --> 0:32:23.959 When it comes to dating, they call crash dumbies, that's 0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:26.000 what we call them where I'm from. Like, you're not 0:32:26.040 --> 0:32:28.280 a crash dummy when you know you got something to lose, 0:32:29.440 --> 0:32:31.680 But you're a crash dumby wheen you just like, oh word, 0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:33.840 I ain't get my way today, or you made me 0:32:33.880 --> 0:32:36.400 mad today. Oh I'm about to air everything out. I'm 0:32:36.400 --> 0:32:39.000 about to just who knows what's gonna happen, But it 0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:41.840 don't even matter what happened, because I'm just gone. I'm 0:32:41.880 --> 0:32:44.400 just going to the internet with everything. I'm just I'm 0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:47.120 just I'm willing to do anything. Males off females. Bro, 0:32:47.400 --> 0:32:50.440 you want to avoid crash dumbies in life, you want 0:32:50.440 --> 0:32:53.600 to that could be. That's why one of my nicknames 0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:55.640 coming up was the one Man on Me, d One, 0:32:55.760 --> 0:32:58.160 the one man on Me, cause I was just like, man, 0:32:58.240 --> 0:33:01.400 I can't have people rolling with me and I'm responsible 0:33:01.480 --> 0:33:04.040 for if they do something when we out of town 0:33:04.120 --> 0:33:06.440 at a show or something like that. If they do something, 0:33:06.440 --> 0:33:08.480 it's gonna come back to Oh that was d One's people, 0:33:08.560 --> 0:33:12.040 you know what I mean. And unfortunately you got a 0:33:12.080 --> 0:33:14.760 lot of crash dumbis who they don't think about it 0:33:14.840 --> 0:33:16.640 like that. They think about it like, man, I'm grown. 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:21.080 I never forget being in a car getting pulled over 0:33:22.840 --> 0:33:25.719 late at night, coming from a show I had in 0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:31.360 Saint Louis, Missouri, and getting back to New Orleans and 0:33:31.400 --> 0:33:34.920 we get pulled over and my partner and I'm still 0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:36.840 cool with him to this day, but it's just like 0:33:37.640 --> 0:33:40.160 the energy he had from the passenger side of the 0:33:40.200 --> 0:33:42.880 seat for the policeman, you know what I'm saying, was 0:33:43.000 --> 0:33:45.800 just something that it's like you about to mess it up. 0:33:45.840 --> 0:33:48.760 For both of us. Bro, I'm the driver and I'm 0:33:48.800 --> 0:33:51.320 the public figure right now, you know what I mean. 0:33:51.600 --> 0:33:56.280 And I also know how to defuse this situation. Did 0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:59.240 I run the red light? I did? I really did. 0:34:00.120 --> 0:34:01.920 Am I mad that I got caught? Yeah, I'm mad 0:34:01.960 --> 0:34:04.840 I got caught. But when these brothers come up to 0:34:04.840 --> 0:34:07.040 the car, I'm not going to be an antagonist, and 0:34:07.080 --> 0:34:09.000 I'm not going like, oh, try to you know, go 0:34:09.040 --> 0:34:12.440 above and beyond. But when you are passenger's side antagonist, 0:34:12.760 --> 0:34:15.319 it's like that could be dangerous for all of us. 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:18.080 And lessons like that just taught me, Like, at the 0:34:18.120 --> 0:34:20.319 end of the day, I can't tell another grown man 0:34:20.400 --> 0:34:22.120 what to sell or what to do. People going to 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:24.160 be themselves at the end of the day, but I 0:34:24.239 --> 0:34:27.760 can determine who I'm going to have in that closer 0:34:27.840 --> 0:34:28.719 proximity to me. 0:34:29.280 --> 0:34:32.680 Absolutely, you feel me. Just mentioned when you was fourteen 0:34:32.800 --> 0:34:35.360 fifteen years old, you came in the house late, and 0:34:35.440 --> 0:34:37.880 I told you, I'm gonna tell you how I knew 0:34:38.040 --> 0:34:42.719 you was around that age. Typically for young men, when 0:34:42.719 --> 0:34:45.720 they're about fourteen fifteen, it's when they try their father 0:34:46.040 --> 0:34:49.480 or that mother for the first time, but especially their 0:34:49.520 --> 0:34:54.280 father because they are now in the high school range. 0:34:55.040 --> 0:35:00.440 And when you're in high school, you are around boys 0:35:00.480 --> 0:35:04.320 who are often your father's size. Some of those seniors 0:35:04.320 --> 0:35:07.719 and juniors are as big as your daddy, and you're 0:35:07.760 --> 0:35:11.560 sizing them up. You're competing against them for girls. You're 0:35:11.600 --> 0:35:14.680 competing against them for a spot on the basketball team, 0:35:14.719 --> 0:35:19.080 the football team, the wrestling team. You have to be physical, 0:35:19.680 --> 0:35:23.040 and you feel like oftentimes if you can take them, 0:35:23.680 --> 0:35:25.759 perhaps you can take dad. Bro. 0:35:25.960 --> 0:35:28.800 You just spoke my life, bro, Yes, you just spoke 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:29.120 my life. 0:35:29.160 --> 0:35:29.279 Bro. 0:35:29.360 --> 0:35:32.040 I got into I got into it with Johnny James. 0:35:32.080 --> 0:35:35.000 He was a senior. I was a freshman in high school. 0:35:35.239 --> 0:35:38.239 On the basketball court, it's the big center. I'm the 0:35:38.280 --> 0:35:40.120 little point guard, you know what I mean. But when 0:35:40.160 --> 0:35:42.200 I got into it with him, and I came out 0:35:42.239 --> 0:35:44.200 and my nose wasn't bloody, and I was like, man, 0:35:44.200 --> 0:35:46.759 I held my own against Johnny James, like just not 0:35:46.800 --> 0:35:49.479 in a fight. I'm looking at it. He's six ' five, 0:35:49.600 --> 0:35:51.960 My daddy only sixty three, you know what I'm saying, right, 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:55.120 And so yeah, I think I got a little a 0:35:55.160 --> 0:35:58.280 little outside my top And at that time. 0:35:58.080 --> 0:36:00.960 You're right, Yeah, my step daddy used to kind it 0:36:01.040 --> 0:36:02.120 smelling your piss. 0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:05.600 That's funny. 0:36:06.719 --> 0:36:07.840 Are you still a Catholic? 0:36:08.560 --> 0:36:09.240 I'm Christian? 0:36:09.640 --> 0:36:10.920 Okay, you switched it up. 0:36:10.960 --> 0:36:11.520 I'm Christian. 0:36:11.600 --> 0:36:12.640 Yeah, yeah. 0:36:12.800 --> 0:36:14.960 When I got to college. When I got to college, 0:36:15.000 --> 0:36:19.680 that's when I went from just going to church because 0:36:19.680 --> 0:36:21.440 my parents told me this the church we go to, 0:36:21.560 --> 0:36:23.239 and this's what we believe in and that's what we do, 0:36:23.520 --> 0:36:25.799 to being like I got to form my own relationship 0:36:25.880 --> 0:36:28.560 with God. For those who don't know, my freshman year 0:36:28.800 --> 0:36:29.760 was one for the books. 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:29.960 Bro. 0:36:30.400 --> 0:36:32.960 My freshman year in college, one of my best friends 0:36:33.000 --> 0:36:36.520 got murdered back in New Orleans. My roommate in college 0:36:36.560 --> 0:36:40.320 started selling dope. You heard me, My girlfriend in college 0:36:40.560 --> 0:36:43.600 cheated on me with a football player on LSU's team, 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:47.640 and I got cut from LSU's basketball team. All in 0:36:47.800 --> 0:36:50.400 one year. All this stuff happened to me. So a 0:36:50.400 --> 0:36:53.279 lot that I was building my identity on and a 0:36:53.280 --> 0:36:55.319 lot of stuff that was giving me my confidence at 0:36:55.320 --> 0:36:58.440 the time. That stuff all got taken away from it rapidly. 0:36:58.800 --> 0:37:00.880 So that's when I had to lean on God in 0:37:00.920 --> 0:37:03.239 a way, not just like, oh, God is just some 0:37:03.840 --> 0:37:06.719 random phrase that we just named. I had to really 0:37:06.760 --> 0:37:09.839 form a relationship with God and have an understanding of 0:37:10.320 --> 0:37:13.400 who God was, why God chose to create me, and 0:37:13.480 --> 0:37:15.840 what God put me here to do. All that stuff 0:37:15.880 --> 0:37:17.840 happened that year, bro. So that's when I was like 0:37:18.080 --> 0:37:21.279 I found Christianity and not just saying oh, I'm just 0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:23.200 Catholic because that's just what my family is. 0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:28.560 Yeah, girdle boys revoted podcasts when we right back after 0:37:28.560 --> 0:37:41.520 this sport. So you jump out, you start rapping in college. 0:37:42.360 --> 0:37:46.520 That's a late start, very rapper, very late college. But 0:37:46.600 --> 0:37:51.280 you find success relatively early, like, and so you start, 0:37:51.680 --> 0:37:55.800 you start to rapping. What happens when the people around 0:37:55.840 --> 0:37:57.840 you who've been knowing you for a long time finds 0:37:57.880 --> 0:38:00.759 out you're rapping. You're in college to go out and 0:38:01.360 --> 0:38:04.560 take over the world, do something great, add to humanity sometimes. 0:38:05.520 --> 0:38:09.160 But what were you majoring in business marketing? 0:38:09.480 --> 0:38:09.920 Okay? 0:38:10.080 --> 0:38:10.279 Yeah? 0:38:11.600 --> 0:38:16.400 What do your parents say when you decide, Hey, Dad, 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:18.799 I think I'm gonna rap. I'm going to do this 0:38:18.880 --> 0:38:19.279 rap thing. 0:38:19.360 --> 0:38:21.399 There you go. I didn't do the a mom, Dad, 0:38:21.440 --> 0:38:23.280 I'm about to wrap. I didn't tell him at first. 0:38:23.840 --> 0:38:25.520 I didn't tell him. So I was like living a 0:38:25.560 --> 0:38:28.640 double life with my parents because they're like, all right, 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:31.160 how your grade's going and how your class is gone, 0:38:31.400 --> 0:38:33.880 and I'm thinking, how this mixtape going that I just dropped, 0:38:33.960 --> 0:38:35.920 you know what I'm saying, And they don't have any idea. 0:38:36.280 --> 0:38:39.400 One of my mama's co workers, her son went to 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:42.040 high school with me, and he found out that I wrapped, 0:38:42.400 --> 0:38:45.680 and he gave his mom my mixtape that I dropped, 0:38:45.719 --> 0:38:48.520 my first mixtape when I was in college. She must 0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:51.040 have went back to my mama at the job and said, oh, 0:38:51.040 --> 0:38:53.719 I ain't no, David was wrapping. Now, Oh that's interesting. 0:38:53.800 --> 0:38:56.719 Like my son gave me his mixtape and gave it 0:38:56.760 --> 0:38:59.640 to my mama. And when my mama showed me the 0:38:59.760 --> 0:39:02.480 mix tape that I had dropped that I didn't tell 0:39:02.520 --> 0:39:05.240 them anything about. That's how they found out I was rapping. 0:39:05.719 --> 0:39:07.879 But by this time, they're not tripping because you're still 0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:10.680 in college. Like you dropped out of college to rap. 0:39:10.680 --> 0:39:12.880 Still in college, still in college? 0:39:13.520 --> 0:39:16.279 And did you you didn't get your degree? Right? 0:39:16.320 --> 0:39:17.400 I did? I graduate? 0:39:17.520 --> 0:39:17.680 Bro? 0:39:17.840 --> 0:39:19.400 I don't know if you know right now, but you 0:39:19.440 --> 0:39:23.160 know I'm teaching at Harvard University right now. Yeah, yeah, 0:39:23.239 --> 0:39:25.279 Like I like, so I got my degree a long 0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:27.360 time ago. And when people on the internet here that 0:39:27.440 --> 0:39:30.520 I'm at Harvard right now, Like, I'm up there teaching 0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:33.440 courses on hip hop. Man, I'm doing a fellowship at Harvard, 0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:37.440 a hip hop fellowship that literally like has me at 0:39:37.480 --> 0:39:40.160 an Ivy League school representing hip hop. So I got 0:39:40.160 --> 0:39:42.160 my bachelor's degree a while ago. 0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:49.000 You know, right, what is the ex girlfriend who left 0:39:49.040 --> 0:39:52.600 you for the football player doing? And also what is 0:39:52.640 --> 0:39:55.319 this guy who was your roommate that was selling dope? 0:39:55.320 --> 0:39:56.040 What happened then? 0:39:56.239 --> 0:39:58.200 Yeah, so he got kicked out of school, he got 0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:00.800 kicked off campus, he had to do some jail time, 0:40:00.920 --> 0:40:04.640 all that type of stuff. He didn't end up dying, thankfully, 0:40:04.719 --> 0:40:07.279 nothing crazy like that. Last time my song was a 0:40:07.320 --> 0:40:10.520 few years ago in New Orleans and he was balltending somewhere. 0:40:11.080 --> 0:40:12.759 So I was in me and my home and went 0:40:13.080 --> 0:40:15.920 in a spot to watch the game playoff game or something, 0:40:16.239 --> 0:40:18.520 and I turned around and the dude who was taking 0:40:18.560 --> 0:40:22.360 our food order was my boy. I was like, wow, 0:40:22.520 --> 0:40:25.960 So yeah, we just made a small talk. We ain't 0:40:26.000 --> 0:40:29.200 have no big huge like, oh my goodness, Bro's been 0:40:29.320 --> 0:40:31.600 up all these years. It was just kind of like work, 0:40:31.960 --> 0:40:34.840 I ain't. I'm glad to see he's still alive. 0:40:34.520 --> 0:40:37.160 You know what, I mean, and what about the ex girlfriend? 0:40:37.760 --> 0:40:41.120 So that's another story. Brother. So with her, I. 0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:42.560 Learned her married. 0:40:43.960 --> 0:40:44.120 Bro. 0:40:44.560 --> 0:40:48.600 After that, I was not. I learned like I learned 0:40:48.600 --> 0:40:53.239 that man. That level of heartbreak made me realize that 0:40:54.120 --> 0:40:56.880 if I'm doing my best, because oh my goodness, I 0:40:56.920 --> 0:40:58.760 was doing my best, bro, that was my first love. 0:40:59.080 --> 0:41:01.319 If I'm doing my best, say my best ain't enough 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:04.399 for a woman that ain't the woman for me. I'm 0:41:04.400 --> 0:41:07.000 not gonna keep pursuing that man. And I learned that 0:41:07.040 --> 0:41:09.400 at an early age when that happened to me in college, 0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:12.120 when I got cheated on and it wasn't even a 0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:14.319 star football player she cheated on me with He was 0:41:14.360 --> 0:41:16.640 like a fourth string, like bench walmer, you know what 0:41:16.680 --> 0:41:18.600 I mean. So I was just like, whatever it is 0:41:18.680 --> 0:41:22.560 you saw and this dude, if me giving my all 0:41:22.680 --> 0:41:27.400 to you ain't enough cool, So it's no beef because 0:41:27.560 --> 0:41:30.920 it's because of her that I started rapping. Like I 0:41:30.960 --> 0:41:33.080 wouldn't even be rapping, you know. I went to I 0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:37.800 went to college to make good grades, playball, and figure 0:41:37.800 --> 0:41:39.480 out what kind of career I was gonna have. I 0:41:39.520 --> 0:41:42.080 got a late start with rapping, but it came after 0:41:42.880 --> 0:41:45.040 she cheated on me and you know, you don't go 0:41:45.080 --> 0:41:47.640 to therapy when you're a college student, and especially back then, 0:41:47.719 --> 0:41:51.120 therapy wasn't like this buzzword like it is now. So 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:53.640 my therapy was, Man, I gotta be able to talk 0:41:53.680 --> 0:41:55.520 to these beats. I gotta be able to talk to 0:41:55.560 --> 0:41:58.080 these instrumentals and just get all these you know, all 0:41:58.080 --> 0:41:59.359 this hurt and all this paying out. 0:42:00.000 --> 0:42:01.520 That's the name of the song you wrote about her. 0:42:01.920 --> 0:42:04.839 It was called Wanna Be Good to You. That's what 0:42:04.840 --> 0:42:06.680 it's called. It was called Wanna be Good to You 0:42:06.800 --> 0:42:10.839 because and you know, I didn't have original beats at 0:42:10.840 --> 0:42:13.600 the time, so it was definitely like instrumentals. It was 0:42:13.640 --> 0:42:16.560 an old Kanye West instrumental that I wrapped over and 0:42:17.680 --> 0:42:20.319 it was basically saying how she cheated on me, she 0:42:20.440 --> 0:42:24.040 messed over me, broke my heart. But then she tried 0:42:24.040 --> 0:42:26.200 to double back and she realized like, oh I made 0:42:26.239 --> 0:42:28.120 a mistake, Like that was a good dude right there, 0:42:28.160 --> 0:42:30.480 and she wanted to try to come back. And also, 0:42:30.640 --> 0:42:32.279 I want to be good to you, David, you know 0:42:32.280 --> 0:42:34.359 what I mean, And so the song was about that. 0:42:34.640 --> 0:42:37.280 But it was just saying like now it ain't no beef, 0:42:37.440 --> 0:42:40.680 you know, but I'm good on you, because this is 0:42:40.719 --> 0:42:42.480 what you did. This what you put me through. And 0:42:42.640 --> 0:42:45.720 you know what, in the weirdest way possible, thank you 0:42:45.760 --> 0:42:48.440 for putting me through that. Because since you put me 0:42:48.480 --> 0:42:50.719 through that, I didnet tapped into a whole nother side 0:42:50.719 --> 0:42:52.680 of myself that I ain't know existed. I got some 0:42:52.760 --> 0:42:55.480 real grit, now, you know I got. I got, I 0:42:55.520 --> 0:42:59.160 got the ability to use this gift of hip hop 0:42:59.440 --> 0:43:02.160 that really I started using because I was heartbroken. But 0:43:02.239 --> 0:43:04.680 now I see how this gift could change people's lives. 0:43:04.840 --> 0:43:07.920 And that literally was the birth of d one. 0:43:08.440 --> 0:43:12.040 When you taught math, you taught for what two years? 0:43:12.040 --> 0:43:12.879 I taught two years? 0:43:12.920 --> 0:43:15.560 Okay, and then you quit? Did you quit to pursue 0:43:15.600 --> 0:43:16.360 your rap career? 0:43:16.520 --> 0:43:19.800 Absolutely? That's when the fifteen Weezy video went viral? 0:43:20.160 --> 0:43:25.200 Right? Was there any trepidation about quitting the teaching profession 0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:27.640 because you know, we always say we need good teachers, 0:43:27.640 --> 0:43:30.000 and then we got one. Yeah, and now he's talking 0:43:30.000 --> 0:43:30.920 about going to rap. 0:43:30.800 --> 0:43:32.440 Talking about want to be a rapper. Yep. So I 0:43:32.480 --> 0:43:34.719 made a promise to my students. I said, listen, y'all, 0:43:34.760 --> 0:43:37.239 mister Augustine, gonna stop teaching at the end of this year. 0:43:37.520 --> 0:43:40.160 I'm gonna go out here and pursue my career as 0:43:40.160 --> 0:43:42.520 a rapper. I said, I've never made any money off 0:43:42.520 --> 0:43:46.000 of rapping before, but people are starting to know my name. 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:48.360 I'm buzzing in New Orleans. I'm buzzing in the streets 0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:51.240 of bad and rouge. I said. One thing I promise 0:43:51.360 --> 0:43:53.680 y'all is that if I'm gonna make it in the 0:43:53.760 --> 0:43:56.360 rap game, I'm not going to compromise the stuff I 0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:56.879 stand for. 0:43:56.960 --> 0:43:58.759 So my motto is three is up. And I know 0:43:58.760 --> 0:44:00.560 you know that, I know it, know you three. Let 0:44:00.560 --> 0:44:03.439 me get it, let me get what you got. Be real, 0:44:03.600 --> 0:44:05.400 be righteous, be relevant. 0:44:05.440 --> 0:44:07.520 That's it, my writer, I got you what. That's it. 0:44:07.960 --> 0:44:10.799 You know what my hood is and everything right out. Yeah, Like, 0:44:11.080 --> 0:44:13.319 I appreciate you on. You're a OG, bro, You're not 0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:16.840 a DG. You're a OG. You ain't one of them dgs. 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:19.400 So I told my students, if I make it in 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:21.719 the rap game, I guarantee you I'm gonna be the 0:44:21.760 --> 0:44:24.480 same dude that's in here as y'all teacher. But I'm 0:44:24.520 --> 0:44:27.120 just gonna have a bigger platform because I'm d one 0:44:27.200 --> 0:44:30.759 instead of mister Augustine. So all these years later, yeah, bro, 0:44:30.960 --> 0:44:34.000 I've been successful for a long time in rap. I 0:44:34.040 --> 0:44:37.160 don't brag, I don't boasts, you know about what I 0:44:37.239 --> 0:44:40.399 have and what i've a master or you know all 0:44:40.440 --> 0:44:42.399 this time you kind of threw me a curve ball 0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:46.160 when we started the interview when you ask me about 0:44:46.200 --> 0:44:48.600 like what happened as if like I'm one of them 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:52.600 stories of a dude who got on and then fell off. Bro, Like, 0:44:52.640 --> 0:44:54.839 I'm in such a great position right now and I'm 0:44:54.840 --> 0:44:58.560 talking about I'm sitting here about I just performed at 0:44:58.560 --> 0:45:01.399 the New Orleans Jazz Fest. I'm sitting here looking at 0:45:01.400 --> 0:45:03.880 fifteen toy days we got coming up over the summer. 0:45:04.160 --> 0:45:07.600 I'm teaching at Harvard University. You hear men getting paid 0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:10.000 to be up there teaching on hip hop and doing 0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:14.960 a fellowship at Harvard University. Like I'm at conferences speaking 0:45:14.960 --> 0:45:19.000 on financial literacy, speaking on empowerment with doctor Boyce Watkins, 0:45:19.040 --> 0:45:21.040 and you know that's our partner and all that. Like, 0:45:21.640 --> 0:45:25.000 I just realized that some people, not you, but some 0:45:25.080 --> 0:45:30.720 people their lens of what they deemed successful is who's 0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:33.359 on the radio when I turn on ninety seven point 0:45:33.440 --> 0:45:35.440 nine in the box every day, whoever I hear on 0:45:35.520 --> 0:45:37.640 there that's who's popular. You know what I'm saying, Oh, 0:45:37.640 --> 0:45:39.680 that's what's popping. And it's like, you want to talk 0:45:39.680 --> 0:45:42.040 about who wealthy. You want to talk about who got 0:45:42.120 --> 0:45:45.319 peace of mind and could walk around without security. You 0:45:45.360 --> 0:45:48.120 want to talk about who really is making an impact 0:45:48.239 --> 0:45:51.480 in their community to where people's lives are better because 0:45:51.480 --> 0:45:55.239 of their music and because of their partnerships with different programs. 0:45:55.480 --> 0:45:57.400 When I partner with Sally May, we gave away three 0:45:57.480 --> 0:46:00.040 hundred thousand dollars over the course of our partnership to 0:45:59.840 --> 0:46:02.759 get other to black and brown students were and some 0:46:02.800 --> 0:46:06.040 white students too, but just students in general who wanted 0:46:06.040 --> 0:46:09.440 college scholarships. Like I want us to start redefining what 0:46:09.560 --> 0:46:12.359 success looks like in the rap gam because if more 0:46:12.440 --> 0:46:14.440 people were like That's why I loved that, I got 0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:18.319 three hundred thousand followers, four hundred thousand followers online, that 0:46:18.440 --> 0:46:21.400 type of stuff. I love that, not because that matters 0:46:21.440 --> 0:46:23.920 to me, but because when I go and speak in 0:46:23.920 --> 0:46:26.279 a middle school or a high school, them kids look 0:46:26.280 --> 0:46:28.279 and they see that blue check, and this ain't the 0:46:28.280 --> 0:46:30.000 blue check I gotta pay for her, This ain't the 0:46:30.040 --> 0:46:33.520 fifteen dollars a month of verification that anybody could buy. 0:46:33.640 --> 0:46:36.840 Now this is like I had this for years, that 0:46:36.920 --> 0:46:39.640 stuff don't matter to me. But that's how they determine 0:46:39.640 --> 0:46:42.480 what success is. So what this is my goal that 0:46:42.560 --> 0:46:45.840 is very important. I've wanted to be the person in 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:49.440 the rap game that confuses people when it comes to 0:46:49.440 --> 0:46:52.840 what success looks like. Because on one hand, you look online, 0:46:52.920 --> 0:46:55.040 D one is always booked. I know, he getting paid 0:46:55.040 --> 0:46:57.480 to do all these shows, speak at all these colleges, 0:46:57.560 --> 0:46:59.920 do all this stuff. So D one is always busy. 0:47:00.000 --> 0:47:02.200 He got a lot of followers. But on the other hand, 0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:05.719 D one drives a hind of a cord. D one 0:47:06.080 --> 0:47:09.279 don't wear no big expensive jewelry. D one that's not 0:47:09.400 --> 0:47:13.759 on here stunting and flashing with his material possessions. So 0:47:13.920 --> 0:47:17.520 is he successful because success don't normally look like driving 0:47:17.520 --> 0:47:21.160 a hind of a cord. But I look online and success 0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:23.480 definitely look like all these numbers and all these views 0:47:23.480 --> 0:47:25.759 and followers and all this getting booked all over and 0:47:25.840 --> 0:47:28.880 I want people to see that, like, yes, success doesn't 0:47:28.920 --> 0:47:31.719 have to look like this narrow definition of what one 0:47:31.760 --> 0:47:34.920 percent of the music industry shows us, which is iced 0:47:34.960 --> 0:47:38.040 out everything and pull up in the maybag. Pull up 0:47:38.040 --> 0:47:40.440 in the Bugatti that don't have to be what success 0:47:40.520 --> 0:47:41.040 just looks like. 0:47:41.480 --> 0:47:44.040 Well, you know, I already know you're successful. I know 0:47:44.160 --> 0:47:46.600 you personally, so I already know you're a good business man. 0:47:46.719 --> 0:47:47.960 And what's going on with the watches? 0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:52.120 Oh yeah, that's I man having to go to court 0:47:52.200 --> 0:47:55.000 right now? What you want to know? The truth? Unfortunately 0:47:55.200 --> 0:47:59.719 with look, bro, just because everybody your skin folk, don't 0:47:59.719 --> 0:48:01.959 mean they your kinfolk, bro. And you know I wasn't 0:48:02.000 --> 0:48:06.480 in that en devil by myself, you know what I'm saying. Unfortunately, Yeah, Bro, 0:48:06.560 --> 0:48:10.480 that that's something that went left field. And I'm I am. 0:48:10.760 --> 0:48:12.879 I don't even know what I should or shouldn't speak 0:48:12.880 --> 0:48:16.480 on because it's literally a legal situation. But man, just 0:48:16.560 --> 0:48:21.240 know that I got messed over bad, bad by a partner, bad, 0:48:21.400 --> 0:48:25.759 really bad. And I see how, Bro, I see how 0:48:25.840 --> 0:48:28.279 some people when they get messed over on a certain level. 0:48:28.560 --> 0:48:31.240 I see how some people end up making a mistake 0:48:31.520 --> 0:48:33.560 that lands them in jail or something like that because 0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:36.239 they put hands on somebody, because they physically I see it. 0:48:36.560 --> 0:48:39.200 But thankfully I'm in a position where it's like, oh, yeah, 0:48:39.239 --> 0:48:42.800 you really messed over me. But I'm really blessed like 0:48:43.239 --> 0:48:46.800 like so blessed overall in so many ways that the 0:48:46.840 --> 0:48:49.360 ways in which you messed over me financially, the ways 0:48:49.400 --> 0:48:53.239 in which you yeah, messed over me legally, like all 0:48:53.239 --> 0:48:55.880 this stuff. That's what they got lawyers for, you hear me. 0:48:55.960 --> 0:48:58.680 And I got lawyer money, you hear me. So that's 0:48:58.719 --> 0:49:01.200 going to handle itself. Just take a long time when 0:49:01.200 --> 0:49:03.239 you go to that route. But I get it how 0:49:03.320 --> 0:49:05.839 our people in the streets who it's like, man, this 0:49:05.880 --> 0:49:08.520 was my lifeline. This is all I had gone for myself, 0:49:08.760 --> 0:49:10.920 and now you done stole this and you done did 0:49:10.920 --> 0:49:13.400 this and you didn't maneuver it like that. I see 0:49:13.400 --> 0:49:15.360 how people be like, man, we're finna go put that 0:49:15.400 --> 0:49:17.440 black mask on the night and we finnah go. You 0:49:17.520 --> 0:49:20.080 know what I mean, catch us when I get it now, bro, 0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:23.239 because that stuff didn't happen between that and me being 0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:25.920 in the music industry for all these years with all 0:49:25.960 --> 0:49:28.960 these people who try to steal from you and record 0:49:29.040 --> 0:49:31.880 labels and what they do in terms of like playing 0:49:31.880 --> 0:49:34.800 with your creativity, playing with your manhood. You know, I 0:49:34.800 --> 0:49:38.640 don't have people in the music industry before like males 0:49:38.760 --> 0:49:41.000 like tell me like if I if I perform sexual 0:49:41.040 --> 0:49:44.000 favors for them that you know they'll put me on 0:49:44.200 --> 0:49:46.919 Like that really happened, Bro, I got a song about 0:49:46.920 --> 0:49:47.680 the car. 0:49:47.239 --> 0:49:52.040 You gotta call them out. Man. You got names, Bro, 0:49:53.760 --> 0:49:55.880 we gotta get We gotta get names to help the 0:49:55.920 --> 0:49:57.000 next generation. 0:49:56.640 --> 0:49:59.160 To help the well. The good thing is this dude 0:49:59.200 --> 0:50:02.040 ain't relevant, no, Bro, he was relevant when I was 0:50:02.120 --> 0:50:04.719 first first getting out of college, saying. 0:50:06.719 --> 0:50:09.040 In his heart then, man, he already down. Let's kick 0:50:09.120 --> 0:50:10.439 him whley down. What's his name? 0:50:10.600 --> 0:50:12.319 Man, I ain't gonna call his name out. He ain't 0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:15.279 even worth the he gonna get popular of he's gonna 0:50:15.280 --> 0:50:18.080 get relevant again off of that, Like, I ain't gonna 0:50:18.080 --> 0:50:20.120 do it. I almost want to call out the names 0:50:20.160 --> 0:50:23.360 of these these all this tool bro who just like 0:50:24.280 --> 0:50:28.719 they just intentionally ignorant. Bro, it's not unintentional ignorance. It's 0:50:28.800 --> 0:50:30.040 intentional ignorance. 0:50:30.080 --> 0:50:30.239 Bro. 0:50:30.560 --> 0:50:33.359 And I promise you, I'm just like, oh, you wanna 0:50:33.360 --> 0:50:35.480 go viral right quickly? He called his name out, call 0:50:35.560 --> 0:50:37.400 his name out like I said, I called him gray 0:50:37.440 --> 0:50:40.560 hair clout chasers because you're literally so old that you 0:50:40.680 --> 0:50:43.800 got gray hair now, bro, but you're still clout chasing 0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:47.240 or you sitting here like one thing I didn't enjoy 0:50:47.600 --> 0:50:51.720 was Joe Budden when NBA young boy who's from my state, 0:50:52.239 --> 0:50:54.200 did an interview on Billboard. I don't know if you 0:50:54.239 --> 0:50:57.520 saw it. He was like, man, he was almost in 0:50:57.560 --> 0:51:01.120 tears in the interview. Man, I realize how many people 0:51:01.160 --> 0:51:03.319 I led astray with my music, and I really want 0:51:03.360 --> 0:51:05.040 to do better. You know what I'm saying. This is 0:51:05.080 --> 0:51:07.920 what he's saying in the interview. He's shaking in the interview, 0:51:08.080 --> 0:51:10.600 his voice trembling, and everything he talked about all I 0:51:10.640 --> 0:51:12.799 heard he experienced coming up and he want to do 0:51:12.880 --> 0:51:16.400 better now. Me as a teacher, I'm looking at it 0:51:16.520 --> 0:51:19.640 like that's how a student looks when they are having 0:51:19.880 --> 0:51:22.640 a vulnerable moment and when they're scared and they terrified. 0:51:22.920 --> 0:51:24.880 Y'all just so happen. They had the cameras rolling and 0:51:24.960 --> 0:51:28.799 catch that. But this is when mentors need to come 0:51:28.840 --> 0:51:30.920 to be next to a person like this and to 0:51:30.960 --> 0:51:33.880 be able to like nurture that energy and help, you know, 0:51:33.960 --> 0:51:36.319 help that be something that they continue to move in 0:51:36.360 --> 0:51:39.239 that type of direction. I saw Joe Budden come out, man, 0:51:39.360 --> 0:51:40.960 being a young boy lying to y'all. Man, he's just 0:51:41.000 --> 0:51:43.120 trying to go viral. Man, He faking man, like he 0:51:43.120 --> 0:51:45.360 ain't finna do that. Da da da da da. And 0:51:45.400 --> 0:51:46.920 I'm just like as messed up. 0:51:46.960 --> 0:51:47.120 Bro. 0:51:47.640 --> 0:51:49.200 You know, I was a Joe Budden fan when he 0:51:49.239 --> 0:51:52.320 was a rapper. He rap about being in group homes, 0:51:52.360 --> 0:51:55.359 He rap about all the emotional distress he went through 0:51:55.400 --> 0:51:57.480 as a kid coming up, all that type of stuff. 0:51:57.960 --> 0:51:59.800 What if people gave up on him like that? You 0:51:59.880 --> 0:52:00.520 know what I'm saying. 0:52:00.640 --> 0:52:03.440 I know how long ago was this interview? 0:52:03.640 --> 0:52:05.960 Oh, this was a few months ago. I've taught on 0:52:06.080 --> 0:52:08.839 this in my in my classes up at Harvard. Bro, 0:52:08.920 --> 0:52:11.080 Like I showed this interview. I want to say. It 0:52:11.120 --> 0:52:13.680 came out in January on Billboard. I sent it to 0:52:13.719 --> 0:52:16.360 your phone. Yeah, oh bro, when you see this interview, 0:52:16.440 --> 0:52:19.520 We're gonna watch it right after this interview, and I 0:52:19.560 --> 0:52:21.799 want to know your thoughts on it, Like cause, Bro, 0:52:21.920 --> 0:52:24.000 I'm from the streets. Bro, you know what I'm saying. 0:52:24.040 --> 0:52:27.120 I'm not no dude that was participating, but I'm from 0:52:27.160 --> 0:52:30.040 that element, so I know. Also when somebody is just 0:52:30.800 --> 0:52:33.239 stunting for the camera or they trying to play a role, 0:52:33.440 --> 0:52:36.040 you know what I'm saying, versus like, man, he having 0:52:36.040 --> 0:52:38.120 a real moment right now. You know what I'm saying. 0:52:38.440 --> 0:52:41.759 I didn't really taught to students who I'm on the 0:52:41.760 --> 0:52:44.440 phone yesterday with my former student, you know, Fredo Bang. 0:52:45.200 --> 0:52:47.279 Absolutely what fred that's my. 0:52:47.280 --> 0:52:49.400 Student, bro, Yeah, that was my student. That was my 0:52:49.440 --> 0:52:50.239 middle school student. 0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:50.960 That's my dude. 0:52:51.040 --> 0:52:51.200 Man. 0:52:52.200 --> 0:52:55.080 Man, I'm on FaceTime with him yesterday talking brother. Me 0:52:55.080 --> 0:52:58.280 and fred are talking about financial literacy, were talking about investments, 0:52:58.280 --> 0:53:01.480 were talking about paying up, paying taxes, were talking about 0:53:01.719 --> 0:53:07.719 payroll and staff and team and just grown man stuff. Bro, 0:53:07.920 --> 0:53:10.799 you know what I mean, grown man business. Like It's 0:53:10.840 --> 0:53:13.560 amazing for me to see that and to understand that, 0:53:13.719 --> 0:53:16.560 like this brother trust me, This brother trust me. 0:53:16.680 --> 0:53:17.040 I got it. 0:53:17.120 --> 0:53:19.000 So even when he make mistakes or do things that 0:53:19.040 --> 0:53:21.560 I disagree with, just like sometimes you might be like, 0:53:21.600 --> 0:53:24.080 oh Diadan jumped out there on Instagram and said this 0:53:24.320 --> 0:53:26.800 or say this about this issue. You might not agree 0:53:26.800 --> 0:53:29.680 with everything I do, but it's still important that you know, man, 0:53:29.920 --> 0:53:32.080 D got a good heart. So I ain't gonna just 0:53:32.719 --> 0:53:35.920 denounce everything D stand for, cancel D because I disagree 0:53:35.960 --> 0:53:38.479 with one thing he done did with Fredile, I see 0:53:38.480 --> 0:53:40.719 that this man trust me, This man, you know, is 0:53:40.800 --> 0:53:43.600 willing to be open with me and vulnerable. The worst 0:53:43.640 --> 0:53:46.600 thing I could ever do is to be like just 0:53:46.680 --> 0:53:49.120 so I could go viral right right quick, is to 0:53:49.160 --> 0:53:51.480 try to talk down on somebody like that. 0:53:51.560 --> 0:53:51.759 You know. 0:53:51.840 --> 0:53:53.520 So when I saw Joe Budden doing that with the 0:53:53.600 --> 0:53:56.840 NBA young boy and stuff, I ain't respect that at all. 0:53:57.239 --> 0:53:58.640 I ain't respect that at all. 0:53:58.840 --> 0:54:03.880 Yeah, do you ever feel like doing Christian rap holds 0:54:03.920 --> 0:54:04.279 you back? 0:54:04.480 --> 0:54:05.800 You think I'm a Christian rapper? 0:54:07.440 --> 0:54:09.399 Are you a Christian rapper? You're a Christian? You rap? 0:54:10.400 --> 0:54:11.479 That makes me a Christian rapper? 0:54:11.520 --> 0:54:13.000 I mean, if you're a Christian and you rap, you're 0:54:13.000 --> 0:54:13.840 not a Christian rapper. 0:54:13.960 --> 0:54:17.040 I don't know. Man, if you're if you're a Muslim 0:54:17.120 --> 0:54:19.520 and you wrap. 0:54:21.480 --> 0:54:23.920 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Educate, educating. 0:54:23.960 --> 0:54:26.880 I'm a priority rapper. I rap about it. 0:54:28.480 --> 0:54:30.240 Putsairs on that one. 0:54:33.120 --> 0:54:35.600 I'm a priority rap. I rap about what my priorities 0:54:35.640 --> 0:54:39.279 on life. God is my top priority in life. God 0:54:39.360 --> 0:54:42.320 gave me life, God created me. What's not my priorities 0:54:42.400 --> 0:54:46.839 is my jewelry, my cause, and my clothes. Man, that 0:54:46.880 --> 0:54:48.920 ain't high priorities. So you ain't gonna hit me rapping 0:54:48.920 --> 0:54:51.479 about that too much? Well, I mentioned it, sure because 0:54:51.520 --> 0:54:53.920 I got all all of the above, but God is 0:54:53.920 --> 0:54:57.239 my top priority. Love relationships, you know what I mean. 0:54:57.719 --> 0:55:01.360 Understanding women, Understanding how to make an impact on the youth, 0:55:01.520 --> 0:55:06.040 understanding that prioritizing black love the black community. That's my priorities. 0:55:06.040 --> 0:55:09.200 I'm a priority rapper, bro. You feel me, but. 0:55:09.400 --> 0:55:11.880 I love it. But I love it. 0:55:12.280 --> 0:55:16.879 I never tell somebody don't call me whatever they view 0:55:16.960 --> 0:55:19.640 my art to be, you know, based on listening to it. 0:55:19.719 --> 0:55:21.960 I say, I said, what's the point of writing all 0:55:21.960 --> 0:55:24.680 of these lyrics if I'm rapping to an audience that 0:55:24.760 --> 0:55:27.279 ain't trying to hear it. They rather me blow a 0:55:27.360 --> 0:55:30.680 bag than rap about building wealth. They rather me get 0:55:30.719 --> 0:55:35.400 some brain than rap about mental health. Don't censor me, eventually, 0:55:35.719 --> 0:55:38.480 try to make sense of me. I don't need your dollars. 0:55:38.520 --> 0:55:41.600 I need you to think sensibly you feel good now 0:55:41.640 --> 0:55:45.320 that you're vegan, or that's funny if you're still supporting garbage, 0:55:45.520 --> 0:55:49.440 you just a healthy dummy. My city don't even love me. 0:55:49.560 --> 0:55:51.880 I'm calling it how it is. I'm a threat to 0:55:51.920 --> 0:55:55.640 the power structure that's brainwashing our kids. I'm fracturing all 0:55:55.640 --> 0:55:59.080 the egos of illegitimate heroes. I only look up to 0:55:59.160 --> 0:56:02.839 one man because he died, then he rolls. I keep 0:56:02.880 --> 0:56:05.759 it too real because life don't last too long. If 0:56:05.800 --> 0:56:09.640 everybody likes me, I'm doing something too wrong. Maybe in 0:56:09.719 --> 0:56:13.440 time they'll appreciate my words like nipsy till then I'm 0:56:13.440 --> 0:56:16.080 gonna see how far keeping it real gives me. That's 0:56:16.120 --> 0:56:19.680 my mindset, Oh man, that's how That's how I approach you. 0:56:19.719 --> 0:56:21.759 So if people hear all that and they see the 0:56:21.800 --> 0:56:24.360 moves I'm making, and they see me he at Harvard 0:56:24.640 --> 0:56:28.759 and he performing in colleges, clubs and churches and all that. 0:56:28.840 --> 0:56:32.080 And but because he reped God, he a Christian rapper, 0:56:32.280 --> 0:56:33.719 I am what you perceive me to be. 0:56:34.120 --> 0:56:39.080 Your independent grind is unmatched. I was looking at some 0:56:39.160 --> 0:56:42.239 of the things that you was doing, and you know, uh, 0:56:42.680 --> 0:56:45.080 some of the people that you've worked with, like you 0:56:45.520 --> 0:56:49.600 work with like so many damn artists, Like I mean, 0:56:50.280 --> 0:56:53.760 you work with Drake and you tour it, you toured 0:56:53.800 --> 0:56:57.480 with who was that? I saw it. I saw you 0:56:57.520 --> 0:57:00.520 did a song with Juvenile YEA. I saw this stuff 0:57:00.520 --> 0:57:01.320 with Manny Fresh. 0:57:01.480 --> 0:57:01.719 Yeah. 0:57:02.560 --> 0:57:04.960 You've worked with Acon. 0:57:04.840 --> 0:57:08.440 Yeah, Loop and Fia School, you create. 0:57:08.360 --> 0:57:11.080 And you yeah, Bigret. In fact, Joe, you and you 0:57:11.160 --> 0:57:14.839 and you and uh loope, y'all really cool. 0:57:14.920 --> 0:57:18.520 Huh real cool. Yeah, that's my briter right there. Yeah, 0:57:18.640 --> 0:57:19.840 that's my britter right there. 0:57:20.080 --> 0:57:22.880 So I can see that, y'all be imagining with you know. 0:57:23.200 --> 0:57:25.840 Yeah, So you know, I'm at Harvard right now. He's 0:57:25.880 --> 0:57:29.360 at mi T that's ten minutes away from Harvard University. 0:57:29.440 --> 0:57:32.080 So we both up there in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he 0:57:32.200 --> 0:57:34.800 teaching that MI I T. And I'm doing my program 0:57:34.800 --> 0:57:35.760 and teaching at Harvard. 0:57:35.800 --> 0:57:38.080 Bro. Too cool, crazy. 0:57:37.760 --> 0:57:39.760 Crazy bro. And we don't toured the country together. We 0:57:39.800 --> 0:57:42.760 went on tour together. We got music together. So now 0:57:42.800 --> 0:57:45.320 for us to be up there, it's powerful and it 0:57:45.360 --> 0:57:49.640 shows the possibilities of rap in academia. You know, rap 0:57:49.720 --> 0:57:52.480 turned how old ffty this year, right, hip hop turned 0:57:52.520 --> 0:57:55.440 fifty years old this year. We just getting started, baby, 0:57:55.680 --> 0:57:59.120 were just getting started. We're in Ivy League schools right now. Man, 0:57:59.440 --> 0:58:03.400 I just was teaching last week on how hip hop 0:58:03.440 --> 0:58:06.120 took over the world and what lessons it has taught 0:58:06.120 --> 0:58:09.840 the black community on Harvard University's campus. Man, when the 0:58:09.920 --> 0:58:12.520 people seeing and when I go to Harvard, I'm the 0:58:12.560 --> 0:58:14.440 same dude you're seeing right now. Well, I'm not going 0:58:14.440 --> 0:58:17.640 there like, Hi, guys, my names are d David Augustine 0:58:17.680 --> 0:58:20.920 and I'd like to but I'm me. I get to 0:58:20.960 --> 0:58:22.320 be authentically myself. 0:58:22.560 --> 0:58:22.720 Bro. 0:58:22.840 --> 0:58:27.080 That is powerful, and we don't celebrate that in hip 0:58:27.080 --> 0:58:29.840 hop thor if I say, like, man, I'm a top 0:58:29.880 --> 0:58:33.560 tier rapper and I'm also at Harvard University right now. 0:58:34.360 --> 0:58:37.400 Not there's no student, no disrespect to the students. That's amazing, 0:58:37.440 --> 0:58:39.920 but I'm up there doing a fellowship. I'm up there 0:58:40.920 --> 0:58:44.840 teaching and doing research on hip hop. In hip hop, 0:58:45.560 --> 0:58:48.800 we don't look at that like that's a flex, like 0:58:48.880 --> 0:58:52.000 oh oh, you're doing that. But if it's like, man, 0:58:52.000 --> 0:58:53.960 that boy D one was in what's one of your 0:58:53.960 --> 0:58:55.960 strip clubs? Y'all got out here? What's the name? I know, 0:58:56.040 --> 0:58:59.520 you know what's one of the names. He gonna act 0:58:59.600 --> 0:58:59.840 like him. 0:59:00.000 --> 0:59:02.720 Don't go to him. I don't do strict, but I 0:59:02.960 --> 0:59:04.080 do know the names. 0:59:03.960 --> 0:59:08.120 All right. One was still the boy D one was 0:59:08.120 --> 0:59:11.000 in IX last night will Willie d them boys threw 0:59:11.120 --> 0:59:12.320 fifty rags of people with. 0:59:14.680 --> 0:59:15.280 Somebody else. 0:59:15.520 --> 0:59:16.800 Man was not with me. 0:59:16.880 --> 0:59:21.480 But see that if I did see you flexing, uh yo, 0:59:21.640 --> 0:59:24.080 bro hold on, man, hold on, because you're o g 0:59:24.600 --> 0:59:26.919 like saying man, you know we can do with that money, man. 0:59:26.880 --> 0:59:30.640 Because you're o g It takes courage, It takes really 0:59:30.680 --> 0:59:32.439 I don't want to call his name, bro, but a dude. 0:59:32.480 --> 0:59:34.240 I grew up listening to looked up to him. 0:59:34.560 --> 0:59:34.720 Man. 0:59:34.760 --> 0:59:37.960 I'll never forget being in the studio with him and 0:59:38.120 --> 0:59:40.720 we have an intelligent conversation just like this. He's older 0:59:40.760 --> 0:59:45.080 than me, he around your age and definitely where I'm from. 0:59:45.280 --> 0:59:47.400 I mean, you know, he's a legend and I don't 0:59:47.440 --> 0:59:49.360 even I think we need to use a different word 0:59:49.480 --> 0:59:52.520 other than legend nowadays too, because everybody we call a 0:59:52.600 --> 0:59:56.040 legend ain't a legend. But we're in the studio having 0:59:56.040 --> 0:59:59.480 a talk like this, and his engineer was like, I 0:59:59.600 --> 1:00:01.840 have such a such a I got to be pulled up, 1:00:02.040 --> 1:00:04.120 you know, going there, you can spit your verse. We 1:00:04.240 --> 1:00:08.040 go from having this type of talk about fatherhood and 1:00:08.640 --> 1:00:12.320 black love and the community and financial literacy. As soon 1:00:12.360 --> 1:00:14.400 as he go get in that boot, man, he won't 1:00:14.400 --> 1:00:18.360 spit the most ignorant I'm gonna kill you and y'all y'all, 1:00:18.600 --> 1:00:20.560 and all your home is and da da da, and 1:00:20.600 --> 1:00:23.160 I got kilos of cocaine and da da da da da, 1:00:23.200 --> 1:00:28.240 And I'm a big like just that quick, bro, Bro, 1:00:29.240 --> 1:00:32.000 I witnessed this stuff. I can't make these stories up. 1:00:32.040 --> 1:00:35.160 So when I witness this type of stuff, I'm just 1:00:35.240 --> 1:00:37.040 I'm not numb to it. I'm like, oh something man, 1:00:37.160 --> 1:00:40.040 right about this? Bro? Like, people are getting in character 1:00:41.000 --> 1:00:45.040 when they are rappers. Meanwhile, as a real man, you 1:00:45.200 --> 1:00:48.200 totally different And that's not cool, Bro, I just want 1:00:48.200 --> 1:00:50.720 to be the same dude on and off the mic. 1:00:51.600 --> 1:00:54.040 Well, yeah, it's a lot of dudes that are like that. 1:00:54.240 --> 1:00:54.479 Man. 1:00:54.560 --> 1:00:58.120 You know some of the biggest artists out there who 1:00:58.160 --> 1:01:03.120 these people respect, they have no eyes idea that you know, 1:01:04.000 --> 1:01:08.040 dude ain't who they think he is, you know what 1:01:08.080 --> 1:01:12.320 I'm talking about. Like so, but the thing is, because 1:01:12.320 --> 1:01:15.800 here is the deal, bro, Like, if if you really 1:01:15.960 --> 1:01:21.280 that you all of that, and a street cat with 1:01:21.520 --> 1:01:25.120 credentials want to check, what's the first thing you're gonna do. 1:01:25.160 --> 1:01:28.600 He gonna call your hometown and he's gonna ask somebody 1:01:28.880 --> 1:01:32.760 on the ground about you. And that person on the 1:01:32.760 --> 1:01:35.800 ground that he asked gonna give him the real So 1:01:35.880 --> 1:01:39.400 everybody else, you know, they get the uh, they get 1:01:39.440 --> 1:01:44.440 the you know what they call it, the reperence, the reference, 1:01:44.960 --> 1:01:51.760 the representative representative. Yeah, you know. But the people that know, yeah, 1:01:51.880 --> 1:01:55.200 they get the real They really know, Bro, they really know. 1:01:55.840 --> 1:02:01.120 And the people that know the one really know the 1:02:01.200 --> 1:02:05.400 real people know you know, David Augustine, you know what 1:02:05.440 --> 1:02:07.480 I'm talking about. We know you real, but we know 1:02:07.520 --> 1:02:11.360 you solid and we really do appreciate what you bring 1:02:11.360 --> 1:02:17.920 to the table. And you know absolutely you know, no 1:02:18.120 --> 1:02:23.680 disrespect whatsoever when it comes to uh, you know, your 1:02:23.720 --> 1:02:29.400 contributions to this game. You know what I'm saying. You're 1:02:29.440 --> 1:02:33.880 one of those guys that when the people your I 1:02:33.920 --> 1:02:36.880 always say, like, when your peers respect you, you're doing 1:02:36.880 --> 1:02:41.760 something wrong. Your peers respect you. Thank you, man, Thank you, 1:02:42.320 --> 1:02:44.360 thank you. It's been an honor man to sit down 1:02:44.400 --> 1:02:45.640 and have a conversation with you. 1:02:45.960 --> 1:02:48.080 I waited a year for this, bro. I know you 1:02:48.160 --> 1:02:49.520 know I appreciate that. 1:02:50.000 --> 1:02:52.160 And what's up with that gear? Man? Like you cold 1:02:52.160 --> 1:02:54.640 blooded with the gear on the gear game? What's up 1:02:54.680 --> 1:02:54.880 with that? 1:02:54.960 --> 1:02:57.040 Because you make way more money on merch than you 1:02:57.120 --> 1:03:00.320 do on streams. It's like if you're independent. But it's 1:03:00.360 --> 1:03:03.080 like me, you gotta know, man, like it's a lifestyle 1:03:03.200 --> 1:03:05.200 that you gotta be pushing the people. The music is 1:03:05.200 --> 1:03:07.560 the soundtrack, but you got to head a gift for people. 1:03:07.600 --> 1:03:11.600 So Mission Visionlifestyle dot Com is my website. I got 1:03:11.640 --> 1:03:14.240 a whole store there, man, And you see me rocking 1:03:14.320 --> 1:03:17.560 Mission Vision right here. That's my movement. That's also my ratulation, 1:03:18.160 --> 1:03:21.680 Mission Vision Music, Mission Vision Music. That's the label baby. 1:03:21.760 --> 1:03:24.720 So yeah. So if people want socks, they want sweatpants, 1:03:24.760 --> 1:03:27.360 they want hoodies, they want T shirts, tank tops, we 1:03:27.440 --> 1:03:29.320 got all that, and we actually got much more on 1:03:29.360 --> 1:03:32.000 the weast. So thank you for allowing me to give 1:03:32.040 --> 1:03:35.720 that plug Mission Visionlifestyle dot Com. Willie d actually be 1:03:35.760 --> 1:03:38.240 wearing my merch. I got pictures of him, y'all, and 1:03:38.280 --> 1:03:40.760 I'm gonna post them. Just if y'all think I'm lying. 1:03:40.640 --> 1:03:43.000 Post the man post it. Put it in their face. 1:03:43.280 --> 1:03:44.720 That's it, brother, Thank you man. 1:03:45.440 --> 1:03:46.080 No more talk. 1:03:48.160 --> 1:03:50.720 This episode was produced by A King and brought to 1:03:50.800 --> 1:03:51.160 you by 1:03:51.400 --> 1:03:55.720 The Black Effect Podcast Network at iHeartRadio