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Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, mm hmmm.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back jackets.

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Speaker 3: Is a good day?

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Speaker 2: Man? Were you telling a list?

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Speaker 3: I mean we of just uh what's the theme that

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Speaker 3: the Fast and Furious ten is the theme? I guess

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Speaker 3: we're going with.

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Speaker 4: Man, we're just taking off of the space fast and furious.

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Speaker 4: That's what we're the fast and furious in this space.

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Speaker 3: So now we want to welcome to the show. Something

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Speaker 3: we've been listen, We've been trying to get this doe

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Speaker 3: for a minute. Man, my dog trying to get this

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Speaker 3: doe for a minute, pulled up a.

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Speaker 4: Snag at my wedding, without a without a thought, and

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Speaker 4: then disappeared again, and then disappeared to night.

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Speaker 2: To disappeared through the curtain.

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Speaker 3: We've never seen it. Man, Welcome to the show, man, Tyre,

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Speaker 3: I appreciate to catch up with you. Yes, Yes, multi talented,

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Speaker 3: grateful to be here, believe it. Singer, songwriter, actor. What

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Speaker 3: is it like when you think about where it started

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Speaker 3: to where you are right now? Do you ever get

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Speaker 3: a chance? Are you constantly trying to see what's next?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Man, I tell people that where I'm from, what

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Speaker 2: I've seen, what I've been exposed to throughout my childhood,

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Speaker 2: and teenage years before I got on. Nothing about what

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Speaker 2: I see in my dreams will ever compete with how

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Speaker 2: blessed in life altering I see when I wake up,

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Speaker 2: you look at my life life man, You know, like

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Speaker 2: when I go to sleep, I be so tired. Its

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Speaker 2: pitch black man, you know what I mean? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I dream with my eyes open, so I just see shit. Man,

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Speaker 2: I just be like wow, man, Like my whole thing

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Speaker 2: got off the ground for my thirty second commercial. So

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Speaker 2: we've already been sitting there longer than thirty seconds. It

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Speaker 2: was supposed to be over for me already. So every

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Speaker 2: day that I'm able to wake up and see and

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Speaker 2: experience and meet and you know, just go places and

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Speaker 2: catch a vibe. Man, it's it's life altering. Hold on,

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Speaker 2: I don't know who's making noise over there with the

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Speaker 2: potato chips?

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Speaker 3: Yes, who is it? Please?

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Speaker 2: But who is it? Who is I promise you that

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Speaker 2: shit You would think that I got on some headphones

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Speaker 2: right now with how loud that shit? Oh my, Like,

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Speaker 2: I promise, these thoughts are expensive. I want to reach

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Speaker 2: them all. I've been weak on this shit. Please yeah,

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Speaker 2: please with the dorito.

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Speaker 5: Bag, carry on?

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Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah, So you know, I just really feel like,

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Speaker 2: you know, I think the moment you take your access

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Speaker 2: for granted, your access will no longer be granted, you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean? So I literally like it ain't

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Speaker 2: about slab rich money, mansion, this and that. Man, I

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Speaker 2: can't believe any of this, which allows me to really

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Speaker 2: like like wow, you know every day. Yeah, And I

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Speaker 2: just hope that never ends. Man, I don't ever want

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Speaker 2: to get too familiar with being blessed.

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Speaker 3: Take us back to you said, the commercial kind of

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Speaker 3: change your life. Take us back to that process, how

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Speaker 3: that came about, and what would just like in that

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Speaker 3: moment and obviously you never thought it would be what

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Speaker 3: it is, But walk us back through that process.

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Speaker 2: I was they called my high scho school, how were you? Sixteen?

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Speaker 2: Said they was looking for a male black sixteen through eighteen.

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Speaker 2: They had already been to like three other states, you know,

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Speaker 2: New York, Atlanta, and then the school that I went

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Speaker 2: to was a school, you know, with a lot of

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Speaker 2: performing arts. A lot of folks had graduated, you know,

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Speaker 2: the whole horn section of Earth Wind and Fire, saxophone

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Speaker 2: player Gerald Albright, a legend named Patrice Russian, the drummer

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Speaker 2: and Google Chancellor. So a bunch of folks that y'all

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Speaker 2: may not know or maybe, but they were all legends,

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Speaker 2: came out of the school. So when they started making

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Speaker 2: phone calls, it was like, let's let's let's call the

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Speaker 2: schools where they normally have singers and really talented people.

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Speaker 2: So I was at Lock High School in South Central,

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Speaker 2: got the phone call. My music teacher got to call

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Speaker 2: Reggie Andrews rest in Peace, and yeah, he was like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: they just called, and you know, hey, man, I think

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Speaker 2: everything's about to change for you. I'm looking at him like, shit,

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Speaker 2: I'll take anything over twenty dollars whatever it is. If

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Speaker 2: it's more than twenty dollars, we out of here. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's been to sit down on the back of that bus, man,

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Speaker 2: And I don't know, I got so many different things, Matt,

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Speaker 2: that just kind of it's kind of hard to answer

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Speaker 2: that question because it's like I be I you know,

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Speaker 2: if I can simplify it would be imagine or remember

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Speaker 2: your prom you got your suit on shit has rented.

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Speaker 2: It's nice, you got your paddent letter, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean. And if you were blessed enough to have

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Speaker 2: a limb even if you roll with one of the homies,

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Speaker 2: sun roof is out like limo and everything is like

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Speaker 2: a fantasy. But you know, at a certain point, this

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Speaker 2: limos gotta go back. Suit gotta go back. Suit's gotta

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Speaker 2: go back everything. You know, you go back to being

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Speaker 2: a pumpkin. Man. I've been in this limosine for twenty

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Speaker 2: five years. Bro been in this limo for twenty five man,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I almost convinced myself early on because of

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Speaker 2: the level of trauma and dysfunction that I was born in,

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Speaker 2: there was no way for me to ever think that

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Speaker 2: it would be more than a thirty second, five minute high,

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Speaker 2: you know, so like my life felt, my career felt

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Speaker 2: like a rental car, felt like a limo. It was

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Speaker 2: like fleeting. Ain't no fucking way this limo gonna stay here.

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Speaker 2: With the way I'm looking and what we riding in

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Speaker 2: and the sun roof and what we're doing. We got eight.

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Speaker 2: I was wrap it up, it's over. I've been in

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Speaker 2: this limbo over twenty five man, I can't believe it.

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Speaker 2: So I had to shift from you know, so humble

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Speaker 2: and so grateful. Wow, you know, I had to get

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Speaker 2: out of the wow of the rental car and say

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Speaker 2: I own the car. This is mine. God ain't gonna

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Speaker 2: take it away and give it to nobody else. So

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Speaker 2: now you gotta negotiate on the car. Different You got

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Speaker 2: to think about get off your goofy shit and really think, like,

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Speaker 2: if you don't get out of your so humble and

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Speaker 2: so grateful, stay humble, but don't lose your value and

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Speaker 2: understanding your position and disposition when it comes to deals

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Speaker 2: and deal terms. Don't take what they're offering. Especially when

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Speaker 2: I had kids, Man, everything was like shit, I was

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Speaker 2: negotiating for me. Now, nigga, it's y'all versus my two daughters.

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Speaker 2: I feel bad for whoever's on the other side of

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Speaker 2: the deal, uh, because it ain't about us no more.

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Speaker 2: Once once the angels get here, man, Like, don't embarrass

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Speaker 2: yourself from that, not from thinking that next week is promised.

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Speaker 2: I got next week to get my ship together. Yeah

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Speaker 2: got it? So yeah, that's that's that's my answer, man.

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Speaker 4: M Take us back to Watts. What was going on?

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Speaker 4: And Tyree Gibson head as a young kid. You know,

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Speaker 4: I know you got your he was raised by your mother,

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Speaker 4: You had siblings, and your brother just got out recently, right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: yeah in Vegas Tyrone, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Big bro man, Yeah, bet On one. But he pulling

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Speaker 2: it together. Man, I'm proud of him. Yeah. So honestly, man,

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Speaker 2: typical stories pretty much every level of dysfunction, every example

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Speaker 2: of you know, it's all laid out, you're going to jail,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get shot, you know, drive by bloods, crips,

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Speaker 2: Mexican gangs, rivals, one block away from the hoods that

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Speaker 2: your hood don't get along with. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: in the hood as a good guy. I never banged

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Speaker 2: in my life, never sold nothing. I'm not gonna paint

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Speaker 2: that picture. But you know, I grew up in and

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Speaker 2: around monsters that's doing that shit for real every day,

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Speaker 2: and so sometimes they'll take your head off just from

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Speaker 2: where you live and who you know. And so I

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Speaker 2: woke up expecting to die. I woke up like I

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Speaker 2: pretty much know what the outcome of this shit's gonna

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Speaker 2: be because I see it and I'm around it every day.

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Speaker 2: I don't care if you're a good guy. Seen too

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Speaker 2: many of the homies that ain't banging, ain't slanging dead

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Speaker 2: playing basketball on the Wednesday. They did on Thursday, were

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Speaker 2: doing fundraisers trying to raise money to bury the homie

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Speaker 2: cause he's fucking twelve years old. Nobody had insurance in place,

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Speaker 2: that wasn't a plan. So everything about kind of feeling like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm in this, but I feel different. I'm in this,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not of this. And I didn't know I

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Speaker 2: could sing at the time, but I knew that it

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Speaker 2: didn't really feel like putting on that blue or that

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Speaker 2: like I ain't really I don't really know if I

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Speaker 2: had the heart that like really step in it on

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Speaker 2: be out there with the ziploc bags and and and

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Speaker 2: pushing it on that level and you know, carrying, and

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't know if that was in the

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Speaker 2: be around it, to feel it is to know what

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Speaker 2: is yours, Like I know, because the example is there, nigga,

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Speaker 2: you can you can put the trucks on. And it

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Speaker 2: just never felt like some ship that was real for me.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, I didn't know what I

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Speaker 2: was going to be like. I wasn't the best athlete.

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Speaker 2: I was cool, but I wasn't. I wasn't killing niggas

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Speaker 2: on the court. It was like I had nobody show.

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Speaker 3: Up when they talk about what they used to do.

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Speaker 4: Everybody else, everyone else the interviewed, they don't play.

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Speaker 3: Who appreciate you carry Listen.

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Speaker 2: Man, I might get you might got a strong three

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Speaker 2: piece in a biscuit out of me that I'm tired

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Speaker 2: as a motherfucker. I'm gonna give a nigga my best ai. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so after word, but yeah, when I seen the nigga

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Speaker 2: saying the national anthem, I was like, Yo, that's all right,

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Speaker 2: what's that? That's all right. We're looking at this right here. Man,

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Speaker 2: that's all right. You know what I mean. Everybody's standing up,

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Speaker 2: full attention, no one's distracted. If I they got their

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Speaker 2: hand on their heart, I think I could do this. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but nah, it's uh. All my homies, like even my

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Speaker 2: best homie is here with me, and you know, eight

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Speaker 2: years old, my nigga kin yata man, top top athlete. Man.

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Speaker 2: You know all my boys, Man, I go to their cribs.

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Speaker 2: They got the whole wall of trophies. I'd be like,

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Speaker 2: I don't really know what this in the cars for

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Speaker 2: me like that to be out here. So I just

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Speaker 2: was lost, felt different, didn't really felt feel like I belong.

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Speaker 2: But then, just what do you have in mind? God?

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Speaker 2: You know the homies go to jail and they come out.

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Speaker 2: They trying to make it sound like it's that shit

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Speaker 2: up that moment. I'm not. I'm not fucking with any

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Speaker 2: of that dialogue that came from you got you got

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Speaker 2: niggas happy more happy to celebrate the homie getting out

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Speaker 2: of jail from doing five or ten. But when somebody

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Speaker 2: graduate from high school, you know they got three homies

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Speaker 2: at that event, it's we four hundred deep and the

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Speaker 2: homie get out. I don't really know if I'm I

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Speaker 2: don't know, ruh. It's just like super early on. Shit

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Speaker 2: was just like, ah, like what the what? What is

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Speaker 2: this that I'm feeling? Because I know what I'm supposed

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Speaker 2: to feel. I see it, I'm around it every day.

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Speaker 2: The m part of the Curly Top Snoop dre n

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Speaker 2: W A straight out of Compton, I'm in watching right

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Speaker 2: next door. This is this is what it is. God

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Speaker 2: just had other plans, man, So imagine me not being

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Speaker 2: at sixteen in Hawthorn, right off the golf course, gated

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Speaker 3: Straight up, you play golf, No, live on a golf course.

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Speaker 3: Don't play golf me. Uh, your first title album?

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Speaker 2: Like? Weird? You know, because I wasn't third generation singer

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Speaker 2: I mean, I was just I was just kind of

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Speaker 2: Homies wasn't It wasn't Homies wasn't sure. It was almost

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like, what what one of the big

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Speaker 2: ain't that ship Marvin typ So it was it was,

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Speaker 2: it was, it was. It was me just really trying

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Speaker 2: that ship hit me like boom. So I was like

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Speaker 2: the energy from the homies, like I said, and being

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Speaker 2: the homies in the neighborhood like, oh boy, you killed

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Speaker 2: it yesterday. It just came out the blue, and just

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Speaker 2: trying to understand what is this unexpected gift? How do

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Speaker 2: so that's that's kind of how it happened. Man. So

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Speaker 2: I'll be on when I come out on stage, I

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Speaker 2: turned around, like, who the fuck is all these people? Like?

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Speaker 2: I don't drop ams that often to matter in music

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Speaker 2: I just everything is unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: Man, That's all I can say. I got a funny story.

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Speaker 4: Can I tell this funny story? So he said he

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is my career ended.

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Speaker 4: So I had this two cousins, right, they were meant

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Speaker 4: always hang with him. So the choir director felt like, okay,

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Speaker 4: you know June and Pop always leading song. Let's let's

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Speaker 2: Right. So they was the ones that really was meant

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Speaker 4: They had all that right, they killing it. They could

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Speaker 4: and they passed it to me. So this is my

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Speaker 4: I just had to pass the mic, so that you

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Speaker 2: I tried to I didn't have it. That was pretty

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Speaker 4: I didn't have that. I just passed the mic. I

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Speaker 2: When you knew it wasn't meant for me. We had

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Speaker 2: She made us all think we could sing. We finally

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Speaker 2: All of light scared niggas killing me like I'll be sure.

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Speaker 2: It was like dark scared niggas that ever shot in

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Speaker 3: What was the scene like when you came out? Who

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Speaker 2: Well, shit it was next there was a singer named

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Speaker 2: and uh, you know, I went to the gym and

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Speaker 2: It was I just I was just in this process

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Speaker 2: I just had bits and pieces of moments. I figured

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Speaker 2: like when you you know, when you upload videos and

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Speaker 2: just anything, and you're there as a legend NBA and

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Speaker 2: you pouring into your your your twins, and you know

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Speaker 2: it's like I ain't have the you know Teddy Pendergrass

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Speaker 2: successful because I did it and you're gonna do it

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Speaker 2: better than me. It was I'm the alien of the family.

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Speaker 2: I'm one of one of one. It never happened before

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Speaker 2: me or after me. And imagine that pressure. And I'm

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Speaker 2: still out here just fighting to maintain this unexpected gift.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, fasten on the way, talk to us. What

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Speaker 3: has been been like for you? As you talk to

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Speaker 3: you know, living this dream. I mean to be in this,

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Speaker 3: uh this series with this group of people for this

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Speaker 3: long and continue to do it.

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Speaker 2: Uh man, listen, man, God is God has a sense

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Speaker 2: got killed in Vegas and John Singleton rest in peace,

427
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 2: shelved Baby Boy and for Baby Boy to be my

428
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 2: first movie, which is why I had pac on a

429
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 2: mural in my bedroom. And then to go from Baby

430
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 2: Boy to Too Fast, Too Furious, extremely hood and extremely

431
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 2: white and mainstream, It's like, this is all crazy. So

432
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 2: Ven Diesel and Paul obviously did part one, which I

433
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 2: had nothing to do with. I came in for part two.

434
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 2: The opportunity for part two only happened because they couldn't

435
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 2: make a deal with Vin Diesel. I said, nigg, I

436
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 2: do the shit for them. I do for that. I

437
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 2: do this ship for a turkey sad with some cheese

438
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: on itig like, this shit is incredible.

439
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 3: Uh.

440
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 2: And so when I got the phone call that you know,

441
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 2: they couldn't make a deal with Van or the first

442
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 2: director uh named Rob Cohen, that that that got the

443
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 2: franchise off the ground. I was just like, wait, so

444
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 2: you want me to do the whole movie opposite Paul

445
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 2: the way Ven did the whole first one opposite Paul.

446
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 2: That's crazy? Uh? And how did y'all make the connection

447
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: that Jody Right couldn't do anything and it's got to

448
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 2: do a roaman? Like it wasn't one white person in

449
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 2: our movie. It was nothing about me that said pop

450
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 2: mainstream crossover. I'm a I'm bigger. I'm three minutes ago.

451
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: I was on in Watts, Like everything about my energy

452
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with white people, you know what

453
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 2: I mean? Like, I'm like, you put me opposite the

454
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 2: whitest white man. There is rest in peace to Paul,

455
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 2: but he's the surfer. He's like literally that guy. And

456
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 2: so my brain was like trying to make the connection.

457
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 2: And then there's God again, just like I got all

458
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,479
Speaker 2: of this in mind for you, beyond anything that you

459
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 2: could ever see or for see for yourself, and I'm

460
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 2: just in autopilot, just like okay, you know so yeah, man,

461
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 2: Like the first one came out twenty three years ago.

462
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 2: Now we got Fast ten. So I did part two.

463
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 2: I wasn't in three, I wasn't in four, and then

464
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 2: me the rock all was in part five and I've

465
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 2: done five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and we about

466
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 2: to do two more. It's a gift that keeps gonna

467
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 2: give him ship. I don't care if I'm in the

468
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 2: movie for three minutes, but three hours changed my life ever.

469
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's uh, it's it's something else, bro.

470
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 2: Like we just came back from Rome, during the International

471
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 2: press junket. First time in the history of movie premieeres,

472
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 2: they was at the actual coliseum as our backdrop. They

473
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 2: just thought that ship was photoshop. I'm turning around like, man,

474
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 2: you know, it's like it's all you took the legend Kimberly,

475
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 2: which I seen that. Yes, sure, my mom passed. Shout

476
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 2: out to her. Yeah, shout out to Kim. Mama, Kim,

477
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 2: I love you changed my life. Man. Yeah, I was

478
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 2: my mom's past last year, rest in peace on Valentine's

479
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 2: Day of all days, And like, wow, so you give

480
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 2: birth to an R and B singer and you die

481
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 2: on the most romantic day in the world. I gotta

482
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 2: process that one. That's that's heavy. But yeah, man, I

483
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 2: you know, I had a real rocky relationship with my

484
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 2: mom growing up. You know, she drank for like twenty

485
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 2: seven years, and childhood was real crazy. But I loved

486
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 2: it because I know she did her best and I

487
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 2: was her fourth child and she could have decided I

488
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 2: already got three, so yeah, and let me go on

489
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,719
Speaker 2: to get rid of him. So she she she pushed

490
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 2: me out, two boys, two girls, and here I am.

491
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 3: All the smoke in the flesh in the Flesh. Luda

492
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 3: spoke to the closeness of that cast and crew that

493
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 3: you guys are really like family off the camera. Can

494
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 3: you speak to the importance of just them as people?

495
00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, man, I mean it's definitely a vibe. I mean,

496
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 2: I don't really know. Like when we all first started

497
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 2: doing it, I feel like we all linked up way

498
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 2: more often than we do now. But it's all love.

499
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 2: Like it's like, the only thing I can connect it

500
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 2: to is like, you ain't got no problem in none

501
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 2: of your homies you grew up with, but you look

502
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 2: forward to the class reunion every year, you know what

503
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 2: I mean. So we texting, got a little text chain energy,

504
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: and we all you know, the kids that get together

505
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 2: for birthdays and certain holidays. But then we all on

506
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 2: the set. Man, it feels like a real class reunion.

507
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 2: And it's just it's hard to believe that we get

508
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 2: as much as we get done because we laughing and

509
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 2: joking and having so much fun. But we're all very clear, like, yeah,

510
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 2: the money is flying, the champagne is flying, but we're

511
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 2: under a lot of pressure because we're working on something

512
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 2: that a lot of people are antis peyton and that

513
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 2: ship could be very stressful, especially being around then, because

514
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 2: he's definitely got at least ten more these motherfuckers in

515
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 2: his head. Right now, you could talk to Van and

516
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 2: you'd be like, yo, did you catch the last forty

517
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 2: five minutes of what I just said? Because he's on

518
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 2: some genius shit. He's way way he's already casting who's

519
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 2: going to be in the next three yep to the

520
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:33,919
Speaker 2: yeah you's got to show up with Yeah, yeah, Roman ain't.

521
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 2: Roman ain't went home yet. It was just I was like, lookah.

522
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 3: Man, cousin Jesse.

523
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did the premiere fast ten. We got Roman

524
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 2: in Rome. Shit, ain't nobody ever met my brother, my cousin.

525
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 2: They never follow Roman home and then has actually been

526
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 2: talking about that ship. He's like, yo, man, what is

527
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 2: what is? What is Rome? Where does Rome live? I said, well,

528
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 2: for one, we already established that me and Paul Walker

529
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 2: from Barstow. There's hoods in Barstow, so you know, maybe

530
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 2: we got to figure that out. Yeah, but yeah, it's

531
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 2: uh they literally they was just it's been a couple

532
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 2: of years of them having conversations about like where where

533
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 2: does Rome and Tag live? You know, you see Van,

534
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 2: it's dating Michelle we've already had kids, and he dating

535
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 2: this girl with Chelle. You know, they unpacked the home life,

536
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 2: but all the rest of us somehow end up in

537
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:44,720
Speaker 2: his backyard at the dinner table with where y'all niggas

538
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 2: go from must the game from home? We always I

539
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 2: appreciate the food, man, I got to count See y'all

540
00:35:55,239 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 2: niggas don't want me my mama. So yeah, they been.

541
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,399
Speaker 2: They've been unpacking that conversation, man, and I think they're

542
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 2: gonna get to it at some point.

543
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 3: You ready, random question that just came to me. Forgive

544
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 3: me and baby boy, when Snoop kicked your son's ford

545
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 3: over said fuck your fort? Did your son ever tell you?

546
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 3: Did your son ever tell you how you felt about

547
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 3: Snoop kicking his fort down?

548
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 2: I wasn't even on a set that day, for little nik,

549
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 2: I wasn't on the set that day, man.

550
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 5: I told you later. Yeah, that was a high thought

551
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 5: forgetting No.

552
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 2: No, no, we're good. We needed that. We needed that. No.

553
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 2: I wasn't even on a set that day. Man, Oh

554
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 2: my good.

555
00:36:53,480 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 4: That's funny, man, you stupid bro, that's funny. Who like

556
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 4: we had loud on the show today. Yeah, and he

557
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 4: talked about John Singleton's greatness. Can you speak to that

558
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 4: as well? Where do we start?

559
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 2: Man? I mean I would describe John as a kindergarten

560
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 2: teacher or a head start teacher. You know when you

561
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 2: when when when you drop your baby off and they're

562
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 2: getting their first round of class, froom and education. He

563
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 2: had the patients as a filmmaker to teach you and

564
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 2: show you everything that has to do with acting. Did

565
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 2: it for qbe? Did it for two? I mean the

566
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 2: list is thirty forty and it wasn't just the actors

567
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 2: and that he put on the amount of camera operators.

568
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 2: You know Ruth Carter who just won her second Oscar.

569
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 2: She was our stylist, baby Boy. She was our stylist

570
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 2: for Four Brothers Brothers Dope movie. Now she's designing and

571
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 2: winning her second oscar for Black Panther. So John Singleton, man,

572
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 2: he came here and God God used this man to

573
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 2: change everything. Everything is different after he came and went.

574
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 2: There's like all of us are still on. Regina King,

575
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:46,919
Speaker 2: Regina Hall, Cuba Gooding Jr. Lawrence Fishburne, it's everybody's yeah,

576
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 2: Neil Long producing writing something and some executives that I

577
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 2: mean Bro, he's got like thirty different forty people that's

578
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 2: in the academy that's able to vote for who should

579
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 2: win an Oscar. Bro. When I got to the set

580
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 2: of Baby Boy, it was all black people in every

581
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 2: category on the set. And then I went from Baby

582
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 2: Boy to Too Fast, Too Furious, And because that was

583
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 2: my introduction in Hollywood, I'm like steady, cam, lighting, grips, electron.

584
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 2: All of these departments were all black people, and so

585
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 2: he normalized. He's like, yo, if you're capable of doing

586
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 2: the job, I'm not gonna exclude you. Because at the time,

587
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 2: everything about excluding us from all departments was very real.

588
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 2: So when you the boss and you can put your

589
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 2: people on, that's very capable doing the job. Ain't on

590
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 2: some niggas, You're like, look, you ain't that good. But

591
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 2: it's like he like he's got there's some giants out here,

592
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 2: you know that cut hair, do makeup and blah blah blah.

593
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 2: So he just made sure that everybody in every department

594
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 2: was on and uh. And then to go from that

595
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 2: to my second movie, Too Fast, Too Furious, it was

596
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 2: just like, wow, got it. He changed my life of him, man,

597
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 2: Like I'm talking about I don't even I don't even

598
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 2: understand why he had so much in mind for me. Man, Yo,

599
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: you the one he used to always say, Man, you

600
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 2: were mommy a park man you And I couldn't even

601
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 2: process that because I think a part the way I

602
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 2: think a part uh the way we all did here

603
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,240
Speaker 2: on the West Coast. But it was he just kept

604
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 2: saying it. And then when I hung out with his

605
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 2: mom's one time in North Carolina, uh, me and my

606
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 2: ex was about to divorce, mother of my first child,

607
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 2: and she was the godmother to my first daughter, Sheila,

608
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 2: And we went to her ranch for like two weeks,

609
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 2: and she was a chainsmoker, and she said to me

610
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,760
Speaker 2: ten times that I like, oh, did all these niggas

611
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 2: running around here, all trying to sound like my son

612
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 2: looked like my son? But you you the only one

613
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 2: that really remind me of my son. And it's kind

614
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 2: of scary. I know you didn't come here for that,

615
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 2: but oh my god, you know. And just like hearing

616
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 2: that and then making the connection that of all the

617
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 2: people that John could have casted, he said, you remind

618
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: me of And I didn't have the acting chops to

619
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 2: justify him putting me in baby boy. I was baby boy.

620
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 2: I'm number one on the call. Shit, I wasn't number three,

621
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 2: number four. It's your first acting role. We're not gonna

622
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 2: make you to starve, my nigga, pay your dues, and

623
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 2: we're gonna give you a little walk on, see how

624
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 2: you do, and then we'll give you a bigger role

625
00:41:55,120 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 2: after I was baby boy. And it was because he

626
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 2: made the connection the park. Now I'm not pox So

627
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 2: before y'all niggas jump in my comics, just shut up,

628
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 2: goofy ass niggas, right, niggas shut up right, you know.

629
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 2: So it was, it was, it was, It was really interesting, man.

630
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 2: It's like her, his mom said, you vocal, you outspoken.

631
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 2: You know, you got some panther energy on you. You

632
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 2: speak up and speak out about real shit that matters.

633
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 2: You ain't afraid of somebody saying we ain't gonna hire

634
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 2: you because you're trying to speak up on some shit

635
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 2: going on in the hood. Police brutality, excessive force, and racism.

636
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 2: Always been vocal and out spoken off top. And you know,

637
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 2: when you first get on in Hollywood, you know they're

638
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 2: in jeopardy of putting somebody like me on, you know,

639
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 2: because you know what you're gonna say and how irresponsible

640
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: are you even though you knew to this? Uh uh so, yeah, man,

641
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 2: it was it was wild John Singleton, It's my forever

642
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:11,919
Speaker 2: hero man man changed my life forever, forever. Snoop Dogg.

643
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was working with him, And you have any

644
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 4: funny stories from being on set with him? He came out,

645
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 4: he came here and I think he had the longest

646
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 4: episode maybe of all the smoke. He sat in there

647
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 4: that same laid down and smoked for two hours and

648
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 4: just told the stories. But you have any funny stories

649
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:28,919
Speaker 4: from him being on set?

650
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 2: Uh? Fuck you for funny stories. I don't know if

651
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 2: I have any funny stories, man. I mean when I'm

652
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 2: around Snoop Nigga, I'm nervous. I'm star struck as a motherfucker.

653
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 2: That's one of the big homies for real from your West. Like,

654
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 2: you know, I don't care. I mean we be on

655
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 2: FaceTime and ship. He'll call me out, what's up, nephew?

656
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 2: Oh ship? You know, like I'm still a regular you

657
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 2: know South Central Lad, Before there was a marvel Our

658
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 2: super Heroes was them. They was doing shit that It's

659
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 2: like the Impilors, the Girls, the parties, the pool parties,

660
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 2: the smoking, the drinking, the life, the clicks to entorize

661
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 2: to going to the concerts and seeing niggas sell out arenas.

662
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 2: And we ain't had no idea what kind of money

663
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,320
Speaker 2: they was making, but shit, everything about what we was doing,

664
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 2: beyond selling, banging, cripping and blooding, they created a you know,

665
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 2: easy E. They was like, yo, you could rap, you

666
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 2: could because I guess at the time I was too

667
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 2: young to know, like everything about hip hop was on

668
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 2: the East. So once once you know easy E and

669
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 2: too Short and all that ship started happening for the West,

670
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 2: it became some other ship that you know in the hood,

671
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 2: be like, oh, man, nigga, maybe we can get on

672
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 2: some rap ship and and and so yeah, man, I've

673
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 2: done some legendary backyard parties at my crib. And every time, hey,

674
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 2: Nigga'm gonna pull up on you, you know, I'd be like,

675
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 2: and then he'll get out of his sprinter and I'm

676
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 2: just like, it's like I hear music, you know, like

677
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 2: fucking stoop man. So that I ain't got no funnies though,

678
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 2: I just be nervous around it.

679
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 3: Speak to you, to speak to your legendary back backyard parties,

680
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 3: back in my good back of my gold days. I

681
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 3: didn't grab a couple of a handful of man there, Yes, that's.

682
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 2: Up, bro, I know I know what you're capable of.

683
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 2: I know what you're capable of. Rachel was right forty

684
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 2: the one man.

685
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 3: That boy at the backyard lady, that was.

686
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 4: Right, It was right, It was all the way right.

687
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 4: Thousand and seven, you land a major role in Transformers.

688
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 2: What was that? Like? Crazy?

689
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 4: You still had the uh one of the Transformers in

690
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 4: his crib not at the time, not at the time.

691
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it all after but yeah my Transformer

692
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 2: tattoo right there. Yeah, I grew up watching Transformers. Man,

693
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 2: so you grew up watching the hot He's crazy, like I'm.

694
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,439
Speaker 2: They don't have to tell me nothing about Autobox Versus

695
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 2: except the comments. It was Lucky Charles and telling them

696
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 2: under rules this ship was crazy, like you want to

697
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 2: you want me to talk? Yeah, that was like crazy, bro,

698
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 2: like like I said, man, working with Michael Bay of course.

699
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 2: Oh man, Oh, so here's a here's a Michael Bass story. Uh,

700
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 2: let me think about this for a second. If I

701
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 2: ever told this story publicly, gotta tell a quick Michael

702
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 2: Bay's story. So, first thing, when we were doing uh,

703
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 2: Too Fast, Too Furious. The whole Too Fast, Too Furious

704
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 2: was filmed in Miami. Uh, and while we was doing

705
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 2: Too Fast, Too Furious, they were shooting Bad Boys too,

706
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 2: So Will Smith and Martin and I been knowing Martin

707
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 2: because I did a guest appearance on Martin when he

708
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 2: had a TV sitcom of all time. I stopped watching

709
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 2: TV after that, married with children and ours I was

710
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 2: number TV uh. So uh, I know him, love them both.

711
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 2: They every time they would get around me over the years,

712
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 2: they would always like, for whatever reason, just go above

713
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 2: and beyond, just trying to put me up on game

714
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 2: and protect me from myself. So I, you know, I

715
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 2: hit Will. I got invited to the set of Bad Boys,

716
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 2: and even though our budget was nice, that ship was

717
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:20,439
Speaker 2: crazy with what they was doing. Right. So fast forward

718
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 2: the maloof Brothers opening their first hotel in Vegas. For

719
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 2: the grand opening, they put like seventy five some celebs

720
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 2: on on these private planes from LA just to be

721
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 2: there for the grand opening. So literally, I get on

722
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 2: the plane and I'm on this private joint just like,

723
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 2: oh shit, private plane. It's crazy. And then right as

724
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 2: the door was about to close, Michael Bay come walking

725
00:48:56,080 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 2: on and I'm sitting there like, what the fuck is

726
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 2: going on? I know exactly who the fuck this guy

727
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,720
Speaker 2: is sitting here. I'm talking about man, I'm talking about

728
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 2: right here on the plane. So I'm sitting there, shook

729
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 2: his hand, cool vibe. He remember me from coming to

730
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 2: the set Will and Martin and then h I asked

731
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 2: him a question. I was like, let me ask you something, man,

732
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 2: are you aware of how many people in Hollywood say

733
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 2: you're like arrogant? You iss you had and this, And

734
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 2: I guess the question was like the last thing he

735
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:43,839
Speaker 2: expected me to ask him, But you can tell just

736
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 2: on some real shit. He was like, Yo, I appreciate

737
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 2: you asking me a real ask question instead of like

738
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:51,800
Speaker 2: sitting there telling me how much you love the movies

739
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 2: I've done. That was like, so our whole hour flight

740
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,879
Speaker 2: was about just chopping it up about some real shit,

741
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,879
Speaker 2: like what people think of you versus what you think

742
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 2: of yourself. What is is what you said and what

743
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 2: you did, what you responsible for, blah blah blah. That

744
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 2: was the gist of it. And it was love. It

745
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 2: was all love. So then I get to the lobby

746
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 2: and I've never hung out with dude. I was on

747
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 2: the set. He was in go mode, you know, genius director,

748
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 2: big action guy. Everything is a thousand miles an hour

749
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,839
Speaker 2: in his head, you know, and so seeing him when

750
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 2: he's out of game mode, he's a whole nother person,

751
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 2: very cool, sociable. So I get to the front desk

752
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 2: to check in, and as I'm walking through the lobby

753
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 2: because it's the grand opening, all these women was in

754
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 2: the lobby in Vegas and without me noticing, by the

755
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 2: time I got to the front desk, I lon't must

756
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 2: have turned around. It was like thirty of them gawking

757
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 2: and looking, and Michael Bay walked up to me. It's like,

758
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 2: hey man, wow, you know, like he really got excited

759
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 2: about all this energy that was around me, and my

760
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 2: brain was like my brain was like huh mo, nigga,

761
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like like if this is

762
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 2: if this is what? If this is what you own?

763
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 2: I do? This is what I do? You know? This

764
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 2: is easy? You know. I'm like, I'm the R and

765
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 2: B nigga. Turn active, Nigga. I got juice is following

766
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:31,919
Speaker 2: me this all day. So I'm I'm seeing the excitement

767
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,760
Speaker 2: that he's feeling about the energy around and I ain't

768
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 2: fin the city and say I arranged anything because I

769
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 2: ain't that nigga, but it was it was really like

770
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 2: and I was like, and then literally at the front desk,

771
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 2: was not the plan, but I felt his energy. I said, Yo, man,

772
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 2: I got some girls coming up. Man, dreams is real.

773
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 2: Low key, man, you ain't doing nothing, pull up right right,

774
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 2: It's like. And then he was like, you know, what's

775
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 2: what's your room number? I got the key. I was like,

776
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 2: you know, blah blah blah, four or five, whatever it was.

777
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 2: And then I was like, man, they ain't coming. You know,

778
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 2: he ain't no fucking way, you know, man, listen, I

779
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 2: literally it's the funniest shit, Michael. See this clip. He

780
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 2: gonna be like you, I've.

781
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 5: Never told nobody he got there before you.

782
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 2: So I'm literally in the room right. I swear to god,

783
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,959
Speaker 2: it was at least thirty chicks in there. I didn't

784
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 2: tell them they needed to do anything. I just said, look, man,

785
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 2: if this man knocking my door when he come upstairs,

786
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 2: y'all got one job and one job on it. To

787
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 2: just make him feel like the most incredible motherfucker you've

788
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 2: ever met. And I said, look, man, I want y'all

789
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 2: to know there is nobody in the history of cinema

790
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 2: who knows how to film and capture women the way

791
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 2: Michael Bay do on some victorious secrets. They're shooting him

792
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 2: campaign for thirty years, blah blah blah. So they all

793
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 2: up in there like the and I'm like, yo, he

794
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 2: actually specialized and putting random women on. He don't necessarily

795
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 2: need to be with a supermodel. He don't go for

796
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,439
Speaker 2: the established. He'll go and find some brand new, bad

797
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 2: shit and make him look nigga. They was up in

798
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 2: that motherfucker Like damn. They're just like, well, thank you

799
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 2: for the opportunity. I'm like, I'm like, he gonna be happy.

800
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,240
Speaker 2: They ain't got with me. He gonna be way happy

801
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 2: to see y'all way to get up here. So hey, man,

802
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 2: y'all ain't gotta do shit. Literally, this ain't no prostitution,

803
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 2: Like I ain't. I don't play them games and I

804
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:43,240
Speaker 2: do shit. Which nothing did go down. Man. Drinks, girls

805
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 2: put some music on, vibe had a nice little sweet

806
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 2: It wasn't nothing crazy, and like an hour go by,

807
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 2: I'm walking, I'm pacing in my room. Man, but bo

808
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 2: but but bok, and I swear, man, I almost want

809
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 2: to get up and reenact this shit with the cameras

810
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,879
Speaker 2: on me. But like, if the peep hole was hit,

811
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, like it was like

812
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 2: a move, like, oh ship, yo. If this fuck is

813
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 2: almost solidless door, when I look through his people, it's over.

814
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 2: It's over. So I went look to the people. Fuck yo,

815
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 2: hell no good right y'all already y'r niggas Action Bro

816
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 2: opened the door, came in. You know he always got

817
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 2: his little shirt just about right here. You know, you

818
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 2: know he's missing Miami twenty. Hey, hey, man, you know

819
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 2: you want him to dream of it. They went. They

820
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 2: went full on flirting, like, don't worry about me, just

821
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 2: make sure he feels amazing when he gets here. Man,

822
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,399
Speaker 2: they hit that thing so far out the park. Next thing,

823
00:54:56,440 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 2: you know, got each other's number. He invited me to

824
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 2: a Christmas party that's up the street by the way

825
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:10,439
Speaker 2: here in Santa Monica, and uh hung out with him.

826
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 2: He said, hey, man, uh, I got this movie I'm

827
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 2: about to do. I'm thinking about doing it. You know.

828
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 2: Steven Spielberg hit me up and he's mentioning the Spielberg

829
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 2: like this normal. I'm like Spielberg, you know, he wanted

830
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 2: to direct it, and he was like, you maybe you

831
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 2: should do it. He's like, what do you think man?

832
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 2: I said, Transformers, Man, you that's best childhood for me.

833
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:37,879
Speaker 2: And he's like, yeah, yeah, you think I should do it?

834
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 2: Like fuck, yeah, man, it'll be crazy. He's talking to

835
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 2: me like as if me saying he should do it

836
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 2: is going to actually make him do it. I'm like, well, shit,

837
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 2: you're gonna ask me. Yeah, so then and what else

838
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 2: should do? You should put me in it too? Yeah?

839
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 2: Then he said this was funny. He said, uh, He's like, yeah,

840
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 2: what you doing movie like that? Like yeah, I'm trying.

841
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,399
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm so fucking fired up and I'm trying

842
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 2: to play it cool like eh, man, like that, it's crazy.

843
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 2: I grew up on that, man, be crazy. You would

844
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 2: kill that shit if you did it. And then he

845
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 2: said yeah, yeah, yeah, are you funny? I said, yeah, yeah, yeah,

846
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 2: I'm funny. I don't I mean, I can't really tell

847
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:26,879
Speaker 2: you I'm funny, but I you know, yeah, I've been

848
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 2: known to keep niggas attention to tell a good joke

849
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 2: of too you so, and so he invited me back

850
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 2: to his office. I walked in his office. The whole

851
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 2: room was full of images. It's all computer generator. It's

852
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 2: all of these images of the cars and the Bumblebee

853
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 2: before and after that, you know, the Optimist trying truck

854
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,439
Speaker 2: and all of these images. And he's like, come in, man,

855
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 2: and I'm looking. I'm like, what the you know, I'm

856
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 2: looking at my childhood. So he wanted to cast me

857
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 2: in the first Transformers to play Bernie Mack, the car

858
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 2: salesman who sold Shy of Labuff's character the first Bumblebee

859
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 2: if anybody seen it, that was supposed to be me,

860
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 2: Bernie Mack. And after hanging out with him several times,

861
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 2: he literally swept. He literally created the role Nest and

862
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 2: had me with Josh Dummel the soldiers, and we ended

863
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 2: up doing three Transformers. I would have been grateful for

864
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 2: the Bernie Mac role, but for him to be like, yo,

865
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 2: I really like you. You a good guy, Like he literally

866
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 2: out the sky. We had nothing to do to the storyline.

867
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 2: He created the Transformers soldiers that work and rock with

868
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 2: Shia Labuff's character and all of that shit. Happened from

869
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 2: an airplane ride, and all these women at the fucking hotel.

870
00:57:57,880 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 2: What's the name of Hodel the palm, the palm.

871
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 3: They did the job.

872
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 2: They put me on my damn lad ye yeah, yeah,

873
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 2: yeah yeah. If y'all see this.

874
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 3: Interview, thank you.

875
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 4: What fans are the most lawyers? Transformers are fast and furious.

876
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 2: Uh well, I don't do transformers no more so. It's

877
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 2: definitely fast. I got three out of it. I hope

878
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 2: I can do it again. Man, that'd be crazy to

879
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 2: run that back. But my focus right now, honestly, man,

880
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 2: I'm on my music. Shit. Man, it's been ten years

881
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 2: since I dropped an album. You know. My last album

882
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:44,919
Speaker 2: is called Black Rose, and I've been in the studio. Man,

883
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 2: just like really like, it's hard for me to accept

884
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 2: that the year is twenty twenty three right now. I'm

885
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 2: in sixty eight. Right now, in my head, I'm I

886
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 2: was just that the club last night, Studio fifty four,

887
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 2: Marvin Gaye, Teddy, Michael Jackson just played a new song

888
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 2: last night and shut the club down. That's where my

889
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 2: head is. I'm like, I'm literally in the seventies, tapping

890
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 2: into that vintage retro R and B Soul. You know,

891
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 2: my album is called Beautiful Pain. So I've been I've

892
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 2: been in the studio just in you know, it's almost

893
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 2: like method acting. I'm like deep deep in my R

894
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 2: and B bag right now, R and B Soul bag,

895
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 2: Like nobody could tell me that Barry Gordy wasn't just

896
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 2: at my house last night.

897
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 3: I mean, how you've being in the spotlight a lot

898
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 3: of your private problems become public, similar to.

899
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 2: Me, all of us.

900
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 3: What is it? What have you learned? I guess from that?

901
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 3: Can you laugh? I mean they created a meme? Can

902
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 3: you laugh about stuff like that? What have you learned?

903
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 3: I mean I'm someone very similar where my divorce was

904
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 3: public and what happened after was public, and then my

905
01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 3: fight for my kids was public. You know, obviously you've

906
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 3: gone through some of those struggles and although it should

907
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 3: be private moments, it's public moments, so everyone is picking

908
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 3: at and saying what should and shouldn't happen. How have

909
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 3: you kind of learned and navigating kind of made yourself

910
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 3: better from those experiences.

911
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up, man, because I think

912
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 2: us as black men, we don't talk about it as

913
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 2: much as we should because you know, the story of

914
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:51,720
Speaker 2: my life with all of my interviews has been it's

915
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 2: crazy how women will come down on us about not talking,

916
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 2: not communicating, not expressing any of their feelings and sentiments,

917
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 2: and then as soon as we do that, now we

918
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 2: soft moaning, bitch and crime whatever. You know. It's like,

919
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 2: damn if you do, damn if you don't. So I've

920
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 2: always been beyond expressive, written two books, I got fucking

921
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:26,440
Speaker 2: YouTube videos in the thousands with my motivational inspirational videos

922
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 2: that I put out, just like getting it off of me.

923
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 2: The truth is, y'all come from the world of sports.

924
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 2: There's nothing about my life that comes with a sports

925
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 2: announcer talking about it. Well. Tyreese's performance comes in at

926
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 2: a strong ten the last performance with it. He had

927
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 2: tried it, but he didn't Land. I don't deal with

928
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 2: that As an R and B nigga. We deal with

929
01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 2: radio host and on air personalities. But everything about this

930
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 2: life that I live, I am growing up in real

931
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 2: time and I am figuring it out. I'm bumping my head,

932
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 2: I'm falling, I'm making mistake, I'm up, I'm down, I'm sad,

933
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 2: I'm confused, I'm wondering like who the fucking why, and

934
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 2: wondering like, did you really just get in a whole

935
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 2: relationship and just fake the whole shit to get a

936
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,400
Speaker 2: baby out of it? When I got in this shit

937
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:31,480
Speaker 2: for real, to do it for the rest of my life. Bro,

938
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 2: I took my wedding band off and I was light

939
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 2: skinning under my finger. Man, dang, I.

940
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 3: Think the worst thing.

941
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 2: No, it's not, no, but I'm just saying for him

942
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 2: to say that though I never took my shit off,

943
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 2: man like fully in it. And uh so my single

944
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 2: entitled I Don't Think You Ever Loved Me featuring Lenny Kravitz. Man,

945
01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 2: you know, I probably didn't even know I had a song.

946
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 2: I want you all to hear it all streaming platforms, Apple, Spotify,

947
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,360
Speaker 2: I Don't Think You Ever Loved Me featuring Lenny Kravitz.

948
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,200
Speaker 2: You know, I was with her for five years, we

949
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 2: was married almost three, didn't even get to three, and

950
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 2: then she just pulled the plug on the marriage. And

951
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 2: I'm literally over here just seeing my whole shit go

952
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 2: up and smoke, and I'm over here pulling out a

953
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 2: human calculator, just trying to add it all up. And

954
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:40,439
Speaker 2: you know, my whole thing has always been I've never

955
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 2: been the kind of entertainer or public figure that wants

956
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:52,080
Speaker 2: to sell you on the success of it all. I'm

957
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 2: gonna tell you everything. Don't don't look up to me

958
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 2: because of the shiny building. Don't don't love me because

959
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 2: of the drophead, love the nigga in the car that

960
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 2: happens to be driving to drop head. It's always been

961
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 2: just the opposite for me. I got the shit that's

962
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 2: gonna make everybody like yo. That's but I want you

963
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 2: to say, Yo, that's a man of integrity. He's honest.

964
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 2: He allows himself to be vulnerable and go into those

965
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 2: uncomfortable conversations that most people never feel safe with having,

966
01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 2: and and and you know most people, first of us

967
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:34,480
Speaker 2: us as men, we've been forced to shut up. You know,

968
01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 2: women have went above and beyond to express themselves and

969
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 2: be expressive, and we don't really feel safe with talking

970
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 2: about our actual feelings, childhood traumas, the shit we've seen

971
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 2: when exposed to them, places that we could all slip into,

972
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 2: knowing that the answer is not in a medicine bottle.

973
01:04:56,320 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 2: Sometimes Jesus ain't enough for us, you know what I mean?

974
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 2: With what we're feeling, and the concept of Jesus is like, well,

975
01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:10,440
Speaker 2: how do I apply that into And then I'm like,

976
01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 2: got it, got it? Because it's confusing. I don't wake

977
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 2: up with no ill will and no malicious intent. You

978
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 2: would expect a nigga with money, power, access to the streets,

979
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 2: to corporate America, to the lawyers. You would expect me

980
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 2: to be the one to say I got the power

981
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna become abusive with my power. But I

982
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 2: find myself being on the receiving end of what nigga's

983
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 2: trying to do to me, and I'm like, damn, I

984
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 2: got the power to do it to you and probably

985
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 2: can get away with it, but I don't have them intentions.

986
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 2: So it makes dealing with these type of things in

987
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 2: real time it hits you harder because I'm like, damn,

988
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:57,560
Speaker 2: what I could do, I don't do, But then everybody

989
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 2: seems to be doing. I'm not sitting there playing victim.

990
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 2: But it's crazy, man. Uh And yeah that's that's my answer. Man,

991
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:10,320
Speaker 2: Like I at these California courtess on some funck ship

992
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 2: like one hundred, Like man, listen, man, uh uh, get

993
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 2: married out of state, have your baby out of state

994
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 2: and y'all come live out here all you want, but

995
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 2: uh don't, don't do it. You know that that this

996
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 2: sold master on one eleven Hill Street. Fuck your life up.

997
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 3: Jack, got all of us who you think pay the

998
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 3: most child support?

999
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:38,520
Speaker 2: Me? By fo you close? Man? Where are you at?

1000
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 2: Where you at? Where you at?

1001
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:42,360
Speaker 3: You got eleven kids?

1002
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 2: I got no, I don't, I don't. You gotta left gear.

1003
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:51,320
Speaker 2: We got to talk about that now.

1004
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 4: I got I got five girls, two boys. But I

1005
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 4: paid eighteen five for one. This is one child in California.

1006
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,080
Speaker 4: I paid eighteen five for one child for my in

1007
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 4: big career.

1008
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 2: Eighteen five. This is one child that's fucked up.

1009
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 4: So yeah, you got six more of them around the

1010
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 4: range to.

1011
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:21,040
Speaker 2: Your God is good. He blessed me with enough. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

1012
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 2: but he's not supposed to bless you to give it away,

1013
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 2: not at all, not at all, because yeah, see that's

1014
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 2: the positive spin on it. God is good. Yeah, yeah,

1015
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 2: month when I got to go out, Man, that's some bullshit, bro,

1016
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 2: because we already know that if we actually talking about

1017
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:43,600
Speaker 2: the actual needs of the child, it's not being met,

1018
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:48,200
Speaker 2: it's all. It's it's beyond being met. So you know

1019
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 2: that that that bag is not for the child extracurricular activities.

1020
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:58,440
Speaker 4: Man, l a boy, I tell you killers and boat

1021
01:07:58,440 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 4: TX they be doing on this.

1022
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,600
Speaker 3: The summer I retired after I was done playing, I

1023
01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:10,640
Speaker 3: stayed outfit. Uh. I stayed up in Beverly Hills. And

1024
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:14,560
Speaker 3: that's that's the point of my story. So I ran

1025
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:16,679
Speaker 3: into Russell Simmons and me and him started hanging out,

1026
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:19,320
Speaker 3: and I really pissed the idea to have like a

1027
01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:21,920
Speaker 3: child support car like he had the rush card, And

1028
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 3: I'm like, you need to create a car where you

1029
01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 3: have to see like every time they swipe, it has

1030
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 3: to you see the receipts, so it sees if it

1031
01:08:28,040 --> 01:08:30,479
Speaker 3: goes towards the children. And I really pissed that ship

1032
01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:34,360
Speaker 3: to remember what happened to them. Yeah, but if someone,

1033
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:36,280
Speaker 3: if someone could think of that, if someone could come

1034
01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:37,599
Speaker 3: up with that, just give me a little cut.

1035
01:08:37,479 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 2: Of that, know how about? Yeah we call that ship

1036
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:47,760
Speaker 2: uh man has done so the child support You got

1037
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:50,439
Speaker 2: to see all that, man, my child support payment. It

1038
01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 2: gets wired onto the car and every time you wiped,

1039
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 2: you get to see see what's happened. Someone can make

1040
01:08:56,040 --> 01:08:59,799
Speaker 2: that because that eighteen five I ain't got no noble

1041
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 2: and malleable vibe on that.

1042
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:05,320
Speaker 3: Because the kids ain't coming in with no person who

1043
01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:07,760
Speaker 3: knows shoes.

1044
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, that shi it hurt, bro. And then you go

1045
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,439
Speaker 2: up in the courtroom. It don't matter what receipts, what

1046
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 2: paper trail, what you show up with to prove that

1047
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 2: you got to cut that check, regardless that I'm gonna

1048
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 2: tell you, man, a man, I'm still bleeding. I'm bleeding

1049
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:32,000
Speaker 2: right now. I see your blood up.

1050
01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:32,519
Speaker 3: And I met you.

1051
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 2: I met you to drops. But imagine, imagine, don't matter

1052
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 2: NBA or single actor, imagine that this is common knowledge.

1053
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 2: You walk into the courtroom and if you was born

1054
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 2: a man, you gotta preset McDonald's, man, you're gonna get

1055
01:09:52,320 --> 01:10:00,160
Speaker 2: the shafting balls, tax returns, fuck you and anything you

1056
01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 2: gotta say. Now when you ain't getting no money, you're

1057
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:11,719
Speaker 2: dead beat. But then when you getting money, you get fucked.

1058
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:15,960
Speaker 2: Damn if you do, damn you don't. And what you're

1059
01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:19,519
Speaker 2: gonna do going in and then cry about it? Now

1060
01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 2: we're gonna laugh at you. What more do you want

1061
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:27,599
Speaker 2: from me? I want my soul back, motherfucking just like

1062
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 2: I want to. I'm always gonna take care of mine.

1063
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:36,560
Speaker 2: I'm not with her no more, ain't no way my

1064
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 2: baby need all that. I know what we was doing

1065
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:43,200
Speaker 2: for her while we were together. So what you about

1066
01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:46,679
Speaker 2: to do with all that monthly that we wasn't doing

1067
01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:49,759
Speaker 2: for the baby monthly? When I'm the nigga with the bag,

1068
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 2: the baby never had eighteen five worth of anything per month.

1069
01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 2: Think about it. Me and my wife or me and

1070
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 2: my girl never spent eighteen five on the baby while

1071
01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:13,400
Speaker 2: we were together. So you suddenly about to spend eighteen

1072
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 2: five because you're with the baby by yourself?

1073
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:18,599
Speaker 3: My go cold game.

1074
01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:20,320
Speaker 2: It's a cold game.

1075
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 3: You better wear a jacket.

1076
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 2: Uh, it's more than that quick hitters's what's the pill

1077
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 2: that they take them stop themselves getting praised? What's that

1078
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,880
Speaker 2: birth control? Yeah? We did. We need to figure that out.

1079
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 3: They got the mail one. Now to do with the beer?

1080
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 3: Takes it?

1081
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 2: With the beer takes it? Okay, you look a little

1082
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 2: light headed, you've been drinking waters. You're gonna take that,

1083
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:46,799
Speaker 2: but they'll tell this about the side effects.

1084
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:53,679
Speaker 4: I'm a mean that gonna stop no matter.

1085
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 3: Look man power for that all love, piece of love.

1086
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 2: But that's why they do this podcast a safe place

1087
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 2: for us to talk about this and one thing. You know,

1088
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 2: me and him haven't been through it.

1089
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 3: Yea, I should have been all over the world, all

1090
01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 3: over the Yeah, that's the every day I walk around.

1091
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:16,719
Speaker 3: I mean, anytime I post on that, there's still gonna

1092
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 3: be comments for like the rest of my life.

1093
01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:19,759
Speaker 2: Just public.

1094
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:22,680
Speaker 3: I've been hit you every once in a while. Bro,

1095
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:25,360
Speaker 3: just check it in on your help me and we love.

1096
01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 2: We can never assume I pulled up on him.

1097
01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:32,320
Speaker 4: Have you ever been on the walk? I've never. I've

1098
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 4: never been on a walk like around the neighborhood. I

1099
01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:37,680
Speaker 4: just but this ship was different though. So I go

1100
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 4: to this house. He's like, first when I get there,

1101
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:45,600
Speaker 4: I think the last first. When I get there, it

1102
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:47,439
Speaker 4: is the first one I hit. So etail me to

1103
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:48,680
Speaker 4: come over, the first one I get. As soon as

1104
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:51,439
Speaker 4: I hit the dose, somebody stop up, go this way

1105
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:53,280
Speaker 4: over here. You got to take the COVID test.

1106
01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 2: He hit me up and said, yo, I really want

1107
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 2: to get up on this act and ship. Man, I

1108
01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 2: really want to chop it up. So I say, yo, bro,

1109
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 2: I'm one of them niggas that will overshare. I'm not

1110
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:07,120
Speaker 2: threatening insecure about no other man getting in this game.

1111
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:10,120
Speaker 2: So instead of you like me getting on the movie set,

1112
01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 2: winging it, bumping your head and make mistakes. Let's really

1113
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:15,599
Speaker 2: chop it up about what you're trying to do, because

1114
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:17,320
Speaker 2: there's a lot of ways to go about it. So

1115
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:21,800
Speaker 2: he pulled up and that go ahead, and so I do.

1116
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 2: I do my COVID test and all that.

1117
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:28,080
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying that nose, Yes, yes, a

1118
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 4: couple of different They did one q T.

1119
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 2: They got it. They got it.

1120
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 3: They will tell me your ship get it faster.

1121
01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 2: I forgot what I was saying. COVID test.

1122
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, COVID testing. To take the COVID tests. And

1123
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 4: I talk to him, sit down whatever. He's like, let's

1124
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:54,880
Speaker 4: let's go talk to just takes a walk. So this

1125
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:57,920
Speaker 4: is the whole reason. So I walked around the block

1126
01:13:58,160 --> 01:13:58,720
Speaker 4: growing up.

1127
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 2: I actually walked the people house. I'm gonna take a walk.

1128
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 2: This was a real walk, bro. Let me tell you why.

1129
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:11,200
Speaker 4: If all the trees was green, all the houses were nice,

1130
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 4: and we landed in the park where it was just

1131
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 4: one bitch and it's just green everywhere.

1132
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 2: I'm like, this nigga taken me to heaven? Did this

1133
01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 2: nigga take me all the walk in heaven. That's my

1134
01:14:25,479 --> 01:14:28,840
Speaker 2: nigga from childhood. Bro. I literally just took him over

1135
01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 2: with what we ended up on that bench.

1136
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 4: Right that was I was like, okay, so this is

1137
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 4: what people mean when they say let's take a walk.

1138
01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 2: That was a real walk. It was very refreshing. I

1139
01:14:45,479 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 2: learned a lot. It was mental health, it was. But

1140
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:51,400
Speaker 2: that's what they usually do on the golf course. Because

1141
01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:54,120
Speaker 2: I don't play golf. You don't get around the birds

1142
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:56,799
Speaker 2: and the chirping in the little lakes and creeks, and

1143
01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 2: so in my neighborhood, I live in Buckhead and landed

1144
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 2: cribs is ridiculous. And they got these big ass yards

1145
01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 2: and all the way up there with the big old front,

1146
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 2: you know. And so I'm like, yo, man, one thing

1147
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 2: about where I live and ain't some security everywhere, but

1148
01:15:13,360 --> 01:15:16,559
Speaker 2: it's safe. It's private. And for the first time ever

1149
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 2: in my life, it don't matter how long I been on,

1150
01:15:19,439 --> 01:15:22,200
Speaker 2: I ain't never been able to take a walk in

1151
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:25,880
Speaker 2: my neighborhood since I been on and I go here,

1152
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:27,880
Speaker 2: it's not like we went a mile and it was

1153
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 2: like it was there. We made a hard left and

1154
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 2: then and that ain't even the park. That's what's crazy.

1155
01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 2: That's somebody's yard. Yard. That's how big the yard is.

1156
01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 2: I said, man, went, I was like, yo, I normally

1157
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:44,960
Speaker 2: sit right here on this bench. Man, it's surrounded by

1158
01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 2: trees and green and get my thoughts together, walk right

1159
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 2: back to the crib. So the whole time we was walking,

1160
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:52,639
Speaker 2: I was just trying to chop it up and really

1161
01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 2: put my nigga up on game about this acting shit, man,

1162
01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:58,720
Speaker 2: you know, shit man, It's like, yeah, we're supposed to

1163
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:01,360
Speaker 2: sit there at the table, five plays this and that

1164
01:16:01,360 --> 01:16:03,360
Speaker 2: and no, that was way better. That was way better.

1165
01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 2: Chopping it up. Man, it's my favorite walk. I know

1166
01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:08,800
Speaker 2: what it means.

1167
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:13,760
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, walk all right, quick hitters. First thing to

1168
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 3: come to mind. I mean obviously through your your music,

1169
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:19,720
Speaker 3: you're acting, you've seen a lot of places you've been

1170
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 3: around the world. Three favorite cities.

1171
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:26,439
Speaker 2: Man, I'm I'm still I ain't still ain't recovered from Miami.

1172
01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 2: Miami's probably Miami is probably top of my list. Second

1173
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 2: is Brazil for all the right reasons. Uh my god,

1174
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 2: my god. I heard yeah, yeah, you heard. It's crazy. Yeah,

1175
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 2: all the ship were excited about on TV, just like

1176
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 2: Brazil is. If you ever thinking about getting married, settling down,

1177
01:16:56,360 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 2: just do yourself a favor, get that out of your system,

1178
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:02,599
Speaker 2: and then get to the crib and say, I'm gonna

1179
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:04,599
Speaker 2: do this for the rest of my life. But ooh,

1180
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:11,800
Speaker 2: I'm glad I was able to star. I'm saying that

1181
01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:13,640
Speaker 2: to every real nigga. I here, watch it, like you know,

1182
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:16,479
Speaker 2: go live it. It ain't that expensive. It's like four hundred

1183
01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 2: thirty dollars in coach. You got it round trip. It's shit,

1184
01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 2: best shit in life. But yeah, between Miami and Brazil, Uh,

1185
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 2: my favorite place on earth right now because I'm on

1186
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 2: some super privacy. When I take a break, I don't

1187
01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:42,920
Speaker 2: want to see people movement nothing. I'm heavy on my

1188
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 2: Turks and Caicos right now. Heavy. I don't want to

1189
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:51,920
Speaker 2: see nothing nobody. I take my hookah, Nigga, I be

1190
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:56,000
Speaker 2: sitting on my balcony. I don't go. I'm Turks and Caicos.

1191
01:17:57,200 --> 01:18:00,000
Speaker 2: I swear man, I might we might be three masks

1192
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:03,599
Speaker 2: away from me saying fuck America. I'm out. I'm gonna

1193
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 2: be out there with a big ass stomach with a

1194
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:12,160
Speaker 2: monkey name bubbles. Nigga like this fuck this shit like

1195
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 2: it's it's it's you gotta you like, I'm in my

1196
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:19,960
Speaker 2: grown man bag heavy, Like, man, how do you feel

1197
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:24,879
Speaker 2: I'm not okay? Every time I go to Turks, whatever

1198
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:31,599
Speaker 2: level of drain, my shit just always recharges. And I promise, man,

1199
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:34,439
Speaker 2: Turks is it? Turks? Is it if you ain't never

1200
01:18:34,479 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 2: been bless yourself? It's only two hour flight from Atlanta

1201
01:18:38,320 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 2: to That's what I love.

1202
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 4: I'm like, out, what's the craziest fan in the action

1203
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:43,479
Speaker 4: you've had?

1204
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 2: I had a girl in my hotel room in Houston,

1205
01:18:48,080 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 2: found out where I was staying, went to the front desk,

1206
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:54,720
Speaker 2: convinced the nigga at the front desk that a key

1207
01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:57,120
Speaker 2: was supposed to be in her name. She was already

1208
01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:59,839
Speaker 2: upstairs ready to go when.

1209
01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:03,680
Speaker 3: I walked the question did you go or did you

1210
01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 3: send her home?

1211
01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:06,560
Speaker 2: I got out of there. That was That was a

1212
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:11,240
Speaker 2: little scary for anybody that's determined. You definitely got a

1213
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:15,040
Speaker 2: lot of got Yeah you really you you you? What

1214
01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:17,920
Speaker 2: do you call it premeditated? Yeah? Yeah, shi, it is

1215
01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:22,080
Speaker 2: way too you convincing they at the front desk, Yeah,

1216
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:24,679
Speaker 2: I'm just Tyrese is staying here. I know what he called.

1217
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:26,680
Speaker 2: You know, last name check is so you call it

1218
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:29,600
Speaker 2: in my name? None of that ship was real. She

1219
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:33,639
Speaker 2: was in the room. Yeah, it's crazy, that's crazy.

1220
01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 3: If you could have a billboard with a message, uh,

1221
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 3: message saying slogan for the world to see, what would

1222
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:40,719
Speaker 3: it be ship?

1223
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:42,320
Speaker 2: How many buzz with the window?

1224
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:43,600
Speaker 4: We were like, oh, yeah, you got the key I

1225
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:46,680
Speaker 4: left you?

1226
01:19:49,680 --> 01:20:01,479
Speaker 2: What was slogan? Uh? I really feel this overwhelming sense

1227
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 2: to give it all away, not on some charity shit

1228
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 2: like cutting checks and you know the way I post,

1229
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:16,160
Speaker 2: the way I communicate everything about this interview, there's somebody

1230
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 2: that's gonna hear something and be like, oh, nigga, he

1231
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:23,439
Speaker 2: made it possibly made me think it was possible because

1232
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:26,599
Speaker 2: the way he just steal regular still just you know

1233
01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:31,040
Speaker 2: something about what I do and the way I do it.

1234
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:36,719
Speaker 2: I have this overwhelming sense of responsibility to just give

1235
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:43,600
Speaker 2: somebody permission to go get it without you know, I

1236
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:48,640
Speaker 2: don't don't be inspired by chains and yo he a

1237
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:52,880
Speaker 2: real but you know, so I would say the billboard

1238
01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:58,720
Speaker 2: would say me today, you tomorrow, and I believe that

1239
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 2: without being threatened or insecure about Yo, you put me

1240
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:07,280
Speaker 2: up on And I flipped that shit and turned into

1241
01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 2: if we ain't both pulling up in the rose Roy's bruh.

1242
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 2: We ain't both in a mansion mansion hopping. If we

1243
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:16,840
Speaker 2: ain't yo you, what's the tale number? You know? If

1244
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 2: we ain't on that, what the fuck are we doing? You know?

1245
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:26,559
Speaker 2: And I like, I really really want everybody to believe

1246
01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 2: that it's possible to get it. And wherever you at,

1247
01:21:31,280 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like it might be fuck,

1248
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:38,719
Speaker 2: it might be dark. It made like everything is pulling

1249
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 2: you down, and you like thinking the inevitable is but man,

1250
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:51,600
Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus Christ is my Lord and savior. Yeah,

1251
01:21:51,680 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 2: and there is nothing about what you feeling, carrying and

1252
01:21:57,200 --> 01:22:00,600
Speaker 2: dealing with right now that has anything to do with

1253
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:03,800
Speaker 2: the outcome of all that God has in mind for you.

1254
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:09,719
Speaker 2: If you don't believe that, just stay at it, stayed

1255
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 2: the course. It ain't enough handsome, ain't enough jokes. I

1256
01:22:14,080 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 2: don't know enough hood niggas. I ain't got nothing to

1257
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 2: connect to nothing because my brain is like, wow, so

1258
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:26,000
Speaker 2: God had all of this in mind for me and

1259
01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:31,479
Speaker 2: I'm out here just winging it, trying to understand it

1260
01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:40,000
Speaker 2: all as it's happening, you know, and wow, this is

1261
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:47,400
Speaker 2: what all of this and it's still happening. Unbelieve even

1262
01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 2: sitting there with y'all. Man, this is like I've seen

1263
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:54,240
Speaker 2: y'all podcasts for years. I'm just sitting here on the couch,

1264
01:22:54,880 --> 01:23:01,360
Speaker 2: unbelieve appreciate it. So yeah, man, that's that's kind of it. Bro,

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Speaker 2: question who would you like to see on our show?

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01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 4: But before you answer that, you have to help us

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01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 4: get your answer on the show.

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01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:15,599
Speaker 2: I'm getting good with that question. Yeah. So you're saying,

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01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:17,840
Speaker 2: who would I like to see on the show? And

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01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 2: can I help y'all to get the person on the show.

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01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:21,720
Speaker 4: Whether you choose that you want to see on our show,

1272
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:23,360
Speaker 4: you have to help us get them on the show.

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01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:27,200
Speaker 2: All right? Uh? Will Smith been on here already? Yep, Yeah,

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01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:33,679
Speaker 2: I've seen that episode. Uh yeah, Denzelzel.

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01:23:34,240 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 4: So you the second person that said Denzel, So we

1276
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 4: need both of y'all to hit.

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Speaker 2: Him on this.

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01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:41,439
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying personal line on the on

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Speaker 4: the just on the on the training day line.

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01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:49,439
Speaker 2: Because I know lones are gonna pull up. He wasn't

1281
01:23:49,439 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 2: no punk niggas show. Because I know where your heart

1282
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 2: is at with the acting ship. I think you need

1283
01:23:55,880 --> 01:24:01,560
Speaker 2: to start inviting more actors on here. I have the dialogue.

1284
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 2: You know, niggas in the real estate. They need to

1285
01:24:04,280 --> 01:24:08,240
Speaker 2: start interviewing folks that's in the world that you're trying

1286
01:24:08,280 --> 01:24:10,800
Speaker 2: to get in, because the wisdom and the knowledge gives

1287
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:12,320
Speaker 2: you the insight to be able to say, oh yo,

1288
01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:15,360
Speaker 2: I didn't really think it as possible until somebody just

1289
01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:17,799
Speaker 2: broke that ship down and made it all so simple,

1290
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:22,439
Speaker 2: like it was so much more difficult in my mind

1291
01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 2: to get to that. And then he just blah, blood man,

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01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 2: I'd the best teacher. That's free Game merch name of

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Speaker 2: my new podcast.

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Speaker 6: He handed my rather all the suffere and you can

1295
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 6: get that you you you you are you can you

1296
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:40,920
Speaker 6: people out there at all the smoke down store, you

1297
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:43,439
Speaker 6: can be ass flyers Me and Matt and now black

1298
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:47,000
Speaker 6: Tie Man Weed Whacker.

1299
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I'm saying.

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01:24:52,080 --> 01:24:55,840
Speaker 2: Yep, I got y know, I think I got yeah

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01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:59,519
Speaker 2: this appreciation. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Hey, man,

1302
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:01,400
Speaker 2: Before oh why I go, man, I got to ask

1303
01:25:01,439 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 2: you all a question man, for real, man, I gotta

1304
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:08,559
Speaker 2: ask you all a question man, because crazy thing is

1305
01:25:09,400 --> 01:25:10,759
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna sit in and painting.

1306
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:10,840
Speaker 1: No.

1307
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:13,800
Speaker 2: Me and Kobe were the best the Homies picture because

1308
01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:16,719
Speaker 2: that's not the story. But we both got on around

1309
01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 2: the same year. You know, I remember because Brandy the

1310
01:25:23,120 --> 01:25:26,360
Speaker 2: singer Brandy and our best of friends since eleven years old,

1311
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:29,519
Speaker 2: and her and Kobe went to the prom together, right,

1312
01:25:29,640 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 2: and we was all we all kind of got on

1313
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,200
Speaker 2: around that same time because he went straight from high

1314
01:25:35,240 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 2: school into the league. So what was it like, man

1315
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:43,080
Speaker 2: like knowing him for real? For real? Because everything about

1316
01:25:43,120 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 2: me running to him and it was always good vibes

1317
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:48,679
Speaker 2: and conversation, but it was all like bits and pieces.

1318
01:25:48,720 --> 01:25:51,120
Speaker 2: I've never like hung out with him for three four

1319
01:25:51,160 --> 01:25:54,479
Speaker 2: hours and just sat across like this and chopped it up,

1320
01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:57,639
Speaker 2: like what made him so different other than his skill

1321
01:25:57,760 --> 01:26:01,080
Speaker 2: level and all that he accomplished, Like what what type

1322
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:04,960
Speaker 2: of tiger? What leg yo? That motherfucker's in chense?

1323
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:08,160
Speaker 4: Like? Was it ever like or was it most most

1324
01:26:08,200 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 4: people as a teenager, especially all of us, you know,

1325
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:13,040
Speaker 4: we was thinking just playing basketball, having fun, going mex

1326
01:26:13,120 --> 01:26:15,439
Speaker 4: with girls. Like at a young age, he had a

1327
01:26:15,520 --> 01:26:18,680
Speaker 4: hit list of all the top players in our class,

1328
01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:21,679
Speaker 4: and his people was focused on being better and destroying

1329
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:24,720
Speaker 4: all than when he's seen them at a teenager. I

1330
01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:27,280
Speaker 4: don't know no other teenager that played basketball and not

1331
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:29,760
Speaker 4: area that was thinking like that we alway having fun.

1332
01:26:29,800 --> 01:26:31,240
Speaker 2: We wanted the new shoes, you know what I'm saying.

1333
01:26:31,280 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 2: We wanted to be fly. He was thinking being the

1334
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:37,680
Speaker 2: greatest basketball player of all time as a teenager.

1335
01:26:38,320 --> 01:26:42,519
Speaker 4: And that was his conversation. And I'm talking about from work.

1336
01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:45,799
Speaker 4: Walkthrough is at McDonald's game. It's footage that's Richard Hamilton

1337
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:48,800
Speaker 4: posts on his page. We're doing a walk through. He

1338
01:26:48,880 --> 01:26:51,120
Speaker 4: catched the ball, swipe hard and go dunk it. It's

1339
01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 4: like it's just a walk through.

1340
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 2: Both So he was just different, Like his will to

1341
01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 2: win and will to be great.

1342
01:26:56,240 --> 01:26:58,200
Speaker 4: You can't teach that. And I don't think you've very

1343
01:26:58,200 --> 01:26:59,479
Speaker 4: you probably won't ever see it again.

1344
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 2: But it was sparked by Jordan, Yes, and his father, Yes,

1345
01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 2: his father Jim. He was able to even identify and

1346
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 2: connect to m J. And then he like, I want

1347
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:12,519
Speaker 2: to even be bigger and better. But it was it

1348
01:27:12,600 --> 01:27:16,320
Speaker 2: was a constant appetite of aggression. Great.

1349
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I got a chance to like really

1350
01:27:19,560 --> 01:27:21,560
Speaker 3: really get to know him once he became teammates and

1351
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:24,559
Speaker 3: then post career, and you know, obviously you see his

1352
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:27,920
Speaker 3: greatness on the court and in his driving will, but

1353
01:27:28,920 --> 01:27:31,400
Speaker 3: you know, I got a chance to see like the father,

1354
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 3: you know, the coach, you know, the way he looked

1355
01:27:35,280 --> 01:27:37,599
Speaker 3: out for people, the way he loved people, the way

1356
01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:40,720
Speaker 3: he tried to inspire people, and really took that same

1357
01:27:40,840 --> 01:27:43,880
Speaker 3: grind and Jackson and basketball and wanted to put it

1358
01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:46,680
Speaker 3: in business and again to help people. You know. He

1359
01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:48,880
Speaker 3: was telling us both like the last time we talked

1360
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:50,880
Speaker 3: to him, like I don't want to be known for

1361
01:27:50,920 --> 01:27:53,200
Speaker 3: my last twenty years. I'm like, Nika, you're coach Bryant.

1362
01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:55,960
Speaker 3: Five championships Los Angelakers wanted to He's like, I want

1363
01:27:55,960 --> 01:27:57,760
Speaker 3: to be known for the next twenty you know what

1364
01:27:57,760 --> 01:28:00,240
Speaker 3: I mean. So he was always kind of whatever it

1365
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 3: was gonna he was gonna put his mind to. He

1366
01:28:02,280 --> 01:28:04,400
Speaker 3: was going to be the best at Like that's how much.

1367
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:08,120
Speaker 3: But again I see them cool, relaxed, talking shit, you know,

1368
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:11,200
Speaker 3: back and forth. So it wasn't I didn't, No, No,

1369
01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 3: I knew him in passing. I didn't know the younger Kobe.

1370
01:28:14,120 --> 01:28:16,160
Speaker 3: When I got a chance to meet obviously the older Kobe,

1371
01:28:16,200 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 3: it was just a lot different.

1372
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:20,599
Speaker 2: I've heard and I don't know if this is true.

1373
01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:23,320
Speaker 2: It's nothing bad, but I've heard that it doesn't matter

1374
01:28:24,160 --> 01:28:27,400
Speaker 2: how often you were around him. He just never let

1375
01:28:27,479 --> 01:28:30,759
Speaker 2: anybody get all the way too familiar. It was always

1376
01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:35,000
Speaker 2: a you know or was there ever like something that

1377
01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:37,800
Speaker 2: felt like, oh that they were all best friends and

1378
01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:39,920
Speaker 2: we all like, was it ever?

1379
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:42,320
Speaker 3: Like, No, he didn't let everybody in. He didn't. And

1380
01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:44,040
Speaker 3: I even asked him about that too. I used to

1381
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:45,400
Speaker 3: tell like, why don't you show the world this? And

1382
01:28:45,439 --> 01:28:47,360
Speaker 3: He's like, nah, I can't show these motherfuckers at you

1383
01:28:47,400 --> 01:28:48,920
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So like if he allowed you

1384
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:50,320
Speaker 3: to come in, and I can't even say I like

1385
01:28:50,360 --> 01:28:52,800
Speaker 3: you said, I wouldn't say I'm super like, but he

1386
01:28:52,840 --> 01:28:54,519
Speaker 3: allowed me in, you know what I mean, around him

1387
01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:56,960
Speaker 3: and the kids and and you know, kind of the family,

1388
01:28:57,760 --> 01:28:58,519
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff.

1389
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:00,800
Speaker 4: And yeah, he had a little MJ him to where

1390
01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:04,000
Speaker 4: he's trying to get one up on everybody, and not

1391
01:29:04,040 --> 01:29:06,960
Speaker 4: in a bad way. He's just thinking why competition, Like

1392
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:08,680
Speaker 4: he's a thinker. He was a thinker, you know what

1393
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:10,360
Speaker 4: I'm saying. Even on the court, you know what I'm saying.

1394
01:29:10,400 --> 01:29:13,560
Speaker 4: His game showed it, but his i Q of basketball

1395
01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:15,840
Speaker 4: was just as high as anybody's, you know what I'm saying.

1396
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:17,760
Speaker 4: That's what people don't understand about Kobe That's why he

1397
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:20,680
Speaker 4: was so relentless because he can outthink you. He was

1398
01:29:20,720 --> 01:29:23,120
Speaker 4: already great with the ball, and when, like you, sometimes

1399
01:29:23,160 --> 01:29:25,880
Speaker 4: you guard him, you in awe, like fucking Kobe Bryant,

1400
01:29:25,880 --> 01:29:28,040
Speaker 4: So he's already mind fucked you.

1401
01:29:28,040 --> 01:29:31,000
Speaker 2: You know what hit you with some ship? You know

1402
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:33,360
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Like he was just different, Bro, He

1403
01:29:33,439 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 2: was different? Though, will it will there ever be a

1404
01:29:36,040 --> 01:29:41,320
Speaker 2: such thing in your mind as athletes of because I

1405
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:46,679
Speaker 2: don't live in that world obviously, But like obviously Kobe

1406
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:50,640
Speaker 2: is Kobe, And before Kobe, that was Magic Johnson and

1407
01:29:50,760 --> 01:29:55,320
Speaker 2: kind of the rain of energy Kareem because I'm West

1408
01:29:55,320 --> 01:30:00,599
Speaker 2: Coast all day, so Kareem Magic Johnson and then Kobe.

1409
01:30:01,600 --> 01:30:06,160
Speaker 2: But as much as Lebron mean to all of us

1410
01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:11,000
Speaker 2: in the game, is Kobe like that tough of an

1411
01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:14,320
Speaker 2: act to follow because of what he meant to us

1412
01:30:14,360 --> 01:30:17,519
Speaker 2: all and then the loss? Will will anyone ever be

1413
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:21,920
Speaker 2: able to kind of ever feel the peak of success

1414
01:30:22,400 --> 01:30:25,120
Speaker 2: on that level because of the tragedy in your mind?

1415
01:30:25,240 --> 01:30:27,720
Speaker 4: For me, it's different because I can separate the two,

1416
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:30,760
Speaker 4: Like I know how I felt about Kobe as a

1417
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:33,000
Speaker 4: basketball player, as playing against him, as knowing him as

1418
01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:35,679
Speaker 4: as a kid, But I also know how my emotions

1419
01:30:35,720 --> 01:30:38,640
Speaker 4: shifted when he passed, So can I look at it

1420
01:30:38,680 --> 01:30:40,360
Speaker 4: from I can speak on him being an athlete and

1421
01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:43,320
Speaker 4: the great basketball player, but I could also speak of

1422
01:30:43,520 --> 01:30:45,640
Speaker 4: what we miss him by him being gone, You know

1423
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:46,120
Speaker 4: what I'm saying.

1424
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:47,720
Speaker 2: So it's I can separate the.

1425
01:30:47,640 --> 01:30:50,800
Speaker 3: Two, huh. I mean, I think obviously Lebron's greatness is

1426
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:54,519
Speaker 3: Lebron's greatness. But I think, you know, for someone to

1427
01:30:54,720 --> 01:30:58,160
Speaker 3: get drafted here as like we, like he said, you

1428
01:30:58,200 --> 01:30:59,640
Speaker 3: grew up in front of our eyes. He grew up

1429
01:30:59,640 --> 01:31:01,719
Speaker 3: in front of the world's eyes as well, from seventeen

1430
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:04,080
Speaker 3: years old to you know, row the ship until the

1431
01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:06,040
Speaker 3: till the ship sink, when he could have jumped and

1432
01:31:06,080 --> 01:31:08,680
Speaker 3: went somewhere else. So I don't think anyone will ever

1433
01:31:08,720 --> 01:31:13,559
Speaker 3: be more impactful to the Lakers historic name than Kobe

1434
01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:15,559
Speaker 3: for what he meant to it, the championships he won,

1435
01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:17,280
Speaker 3: and then obviously the way he went.

1436
01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:19,639
Speaker 4: Out, and we'll never see, you know, the same time,

1437
01:31:19,680 --> 01:31:22,800
Speaker 4: we'll never see nothing like that, Kobe Jordan, none of

1438
01:31:22,800 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 4: that ever again.

1439
01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:28,800
Speaker 2: And it's clear that crazy. Yeah. See Lebron man, he

1440
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:32,000
Speaker 2: a fellow capital, and we got the same birthday December thirtieth.

1441
01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:35,120
Speaker 2: In my mind, he's definitely one of my best friends.

1442
01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:39,320
Speaker 2: In my mind, you'll never see a Lebron James seeing

1443
01:31:39,400 --> 01:31:42,679
Speaker 2: him in the shop, man, just like I seen this

1444
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:45,720
Speaker 2: this lab. I'm yo, Man, that's my nigga. He just

1445
01:31:45,760 --> 01:31:49,960
Speaker 2: don't know it yet, right, But yeah, Man, I appreciate

1446
01:31:50,040 --> 01:31:54,000
Speaker 2: y'all having me on appreciation plan. Man. I'm grateful. Man,

1447
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:56,960
Speaker 2: I've been I've been looking at I've been looking at

1448
01:31:57,000 --> 01:31:59,679
Speaker 2: y'all man forever. Man, I wish you all the best. Man,

1449
01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:02,439
Speaker 2: appreciate you. Thanks for coming to my wedding and sliding

1450
01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:08,439
Speaker 2: out like home. I gotta tell you why I slid out. Man, Oh,

1451
01:32:08,479 --> 01:32:12,840
Speaker 2: we didn't care. We didn't care, you did. I showed

1452
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:15,960
Speaker 2: my job. Man, you was good. But outside of that, man,

1453
01:32:16,040 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 2: the most uncomfortable thing for me is to show up

1454
01:32:19,640 --> 01:32:23,840
Speaker 2: to a man's biggest and most incredible day. Still make it,

1455
01:32:23,880 --> 01:32:27,640
Speaker 2: make it about me, Yeah, because it was show was

1456
01:32:27,680 --> 01:32:36,600
Speaker 2: gonna be. I did my thing about that because he was.

1457
01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:38,360
Speaker 3: Over in the corner by me. He was singing over

1458
01:32:38,479 --> 01:32:41,400
Speaker 3: in the corner, making all.

1459
01:32:41,280 --> 01:32:46,160
Speaker 2: The home crying, and everybody wanted to get up and say, man,

1460
01:32:46,360 --> 01:32:48,240
Speaker 2: I grew a man. I remember when you. You know

1461
01:32:48,400 --> 01:32:51,120
Speaker 2: all that I don't want that energy to shift me

1462
01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:53,720
Speaker 2: at all that I did. You know he asked me

1463
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:56,240
Speaker 2: to sing it the wedd I was here, I'm here

1464
01:32:56,280 --> 01:33:00,160
Speaker 2: with my best and killed out of here. Kill right.

1465
01:33:00,360 --> 01:33:01,720
Speaker 2: Appreciate that's alright.

1466
01:33:01,360 --> 01:33:04,599
Speaker 3: Man, Tyre, We appreciate you. You catch this on Showtime Basketball,

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01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:07,760
Speaker 3: YouTube and the iHeart Platform Black Effects. We'll see y'all

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Speaker 3: next week