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Speaker 1: What's up is Way Up with Angela Yee and this

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Speaker 1: is exciting for the first time on Way Up with

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Speaker 1: Angela Yee.

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Speaker 2: I know this man a long time, but he's finally

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Speaker 2: on Way Up.

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Speaker 3: I was trying to be the first guest.

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Speaker 1: No, you were, you know, you're all over the world,

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Speaker 1: but a kN is here and you have a group

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Speaker 1: that is now signed a convent culture we got sheesh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And you guys are brothers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, and so Lex So you guys are

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Speaker 1: from Chicago, but you kind of grew up.

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Speaker 5: No, not kind of. We grew up in Elkhart, Indiana. Okay,

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Speaker 5: so what but we was born in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So did you spend time there?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a little bit?

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Speaker 5: Sixcept we moved when we was young, about seven eight

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Speaker 5: years old to Indiana. Elcart, Indiana, and we grew up there.

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Speaker 2: That's the place I've never been to.

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Speaker 1: Okay, if you have to describe it, I mean I've

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Speaker 1: Was that your first time going there? Okay, so tell

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Speaker 1: me about Elkhart and what's that? What's that like?

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's like a little small melting pot. It's

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Speaker 5: only fifty thous some people. But you know it's people.

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Speaker 4: From Chicago, Gary, Detroit, you know what I mean. It's

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Speaker 5: You know, it ain't that big, but it's a little

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Speaker 3: It's a small big town.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. But you know, we just we just we're putting

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Speaker 5: It never really got put on on the map in

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Speaker 2: Only person that the city out.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and we ain't make no announcement. They just

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Speaker 3: The cameras.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's always fascinating to me to see

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Speaker 1: how groups get discovered, right and so akon how did

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Speaker 2: Like, how did they come to your attention?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Well she was word of mouth. You know.

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Speaker 6: I had a few guys that I was working with

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Speaker 6: super dope writers, super artists, and they produced they three

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Speaker 1: Like, she.

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Speaker 2: Three sixty has a bad name.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm talking about creating.

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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I was like, they do it all And

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Speaker 6: I love that because you know when that's the first

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Speaker 6: one hundred percent. But if they could do half, I

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Speaker 3: So it was perfect.

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Speaker 2: The art of A and Ring is so different now.

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Speaker 1: I feel like then how it used to be, like

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Speaker 1: But now you know, it's just so it's so much

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you got like and art. I don't think the

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Speaker 3: But to me, that's just a moment right now.

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Speaker 6: The artist itself is that artist worth anything that's going

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Speaker 1: The song Ghetto Living, that's also it is your song

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Speaker 1: remade remix. And I know you had said you were

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Speaker 1: So is this a She's song or is it an

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Speaker 6: But interesting enough, Illness is the producer of this track,

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Speaker 2: He's like, man, listen, I can get this clear.

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Speaker 3: They really surprised me. They surprised me heard. I was like,

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Speaker 3: oh shit, nobody's flipped ghetto yet.

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Speaker 1: It sounds good and the lyrics are amazing. I had

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Speaker 1: He's good, but I was playing and he didn't know

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Love, And so your story is also interesting as brothers.

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Speaker 1: You guys ended up being locked up together. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: while you were there though it didn't waste any time,

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Speaker 4: He used to wake me up when I was sleep

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. And I was learning how

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Speaker 5: But yeah, you know, he was bunkies in the joint

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Speaker 5: because I'm like, bro, We're not going to be locked

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Speaker 4: We got outdates.

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Speaker 5: This is our dream. This is what we got to

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: We've been rapids since we was kids. I talked hibou

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Speaker 5: was a lot of crazy stuff going on while we

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Speaker 4: To have faith and see past that and see your future.

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Speaker 4: And now we're here.

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Speaker 2: You know, I know, your job, your mother crazy during that.

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Speaker 4: Time, a lot of heartbreak. We broke our heart, you

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Speaker 2: You didn't go in at the same time. It was

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Speaker 4: Nah, we got locked up together.

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Speaker 1: Oh together, okay, And so we was kids, just young

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Speaker 5: And that's why I can't like a lot of times,

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Speaker 4: And how did it form? I can't answer that.

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Speaker 5: I always let him answer because I this last time,

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Speaker 4: It was a little It was a little what I

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Speaker 5: She was even thought of, But we was always like,

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Speaker 4: On, you know what I'm saying. And it worked out.

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Speaker 1: Why the name she sh I mean, he named that.

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Speaker 1: What were y'all playing with before that? We didn't have

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Speaker 5: We didn't have a name. It's just Ellens biscuit. This

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Speaker 4: That's real.

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Speaker 5: And then it's like, you know a lot of people

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Speaker 1: It's probably got a better situation to be in because

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Speaker 3: No, it's impossible.

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Speaker 6: You know, the most successful artists and the ones that

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Speaker 3: The time, this is the music business.

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Speaker 6: The moment you exclude the business and it just become

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Speaker 6: Talk about this dude stole my publisher and I ain't

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Speaker 6: You want to be in a position to know that

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Speaker 6: it's only gonna last, but for so long. So you

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Speaker 6: got a small window to take what you invested. I mean,

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Speaker 6: take what you made and invest it in something that's

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Speaker 6: value within that finance that you made to create income

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Speaker 6: for yourself even when you decide no more that you're

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Speaker 6: So we talk about that all the time.

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Speaker 1: How was your deal structure so you were able to

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Speaker 6: No, it was impossible back then, and to me, it

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Speaker 6: was just a matter of time, you know, renegotiating, finding leverage,

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: So you find always find those little pockets where you

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Speaker 4: And it's just it was deeper than the music and

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Speaker 5: He teaches though, like I'm gonna I'm gonna keep it

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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I think, but like I was saying earlier,

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Speaker 6: It's like that's when you're successful and you become lazy

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Speaker 1: Need it, and you know, you guys being brothers and

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Speaker 6: So it was always it was that dynamic that actually

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Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, me and him wanted to say.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you might not even be alive.

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Speaker 6: I told him, I said, Yo, the time that y'all

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Speaker 5: No, man, that that we needed that like that changed

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Speaker 3: It's different.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just saying that it is.

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Speaker 5: It is very It's it's like you find a little

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Speaker 1: Have you thought about writing for other people or would

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that. That was the way that I mean,

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Speaker 3: That's what I did.

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Speaker 6: That's why nobody couldn't catch up, because by the time

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Speaker 1: Being forward thinking. I know you're also planning to do

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know Gary Levox, he's he's the lead singer

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Speaker 3: Man, he got to come through the trenches and do

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And it's crazy because I kind of feel guilty

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Speaker 3: So I started doing Latin albums. I was doing.

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Speaker 7: Dad Man, I was everything, trying to take.

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Speaker 6: That genre I haven't touched. I've touched literally, and I

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Speaker 3: In every genre literally, what about jazz? Jazz? I don't

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Speaker 6: I hate jazz mainly because my dad was a jazz musician.

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Speaker 1: You know since you brought up spending time in Africa,

443
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Speaker 1: and I know, and I do want to adjust the headline.

444
00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear your side of things because

445
00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:01,800
Speaker 1: that so they put out this whole thing with the

446
00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:05,000
Speaker 1: city and Senegal and how now that didn't happen.

447
00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,280
Speaker 2: It was a huge undertaking. No, it's happening, okay, So.

448
00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,359
Speaker 6: Just to be very clear, Acon City is under attack.

449
00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,159
Speaker 6: The concept of what this dream means to Africa is

450
00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,280
Speaker 6: so big that it's shaking up a lot of agendas

451
00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,639
Speaker 6: in Africa because a lot of people don't know that

452
00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:26,800
Speaker 6: Africa creates more millionaires than anywhere in the world. The

453
00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,440
Speaker 6: only thing that's stopping in Africa from developing on the

454
00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,880
Speaker 6: level that it needs to develop to compete with the

455
00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:38,120
Speaker 6: international world is unity and confidence. Right the younger generation.

456
00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,560
Speaker 6: Right now, seventy five percent of Africa is under twenty

457
00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,200
Speaker 6: one so our youth future and what Africa is to

458
00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,080
Speaker 6: become in the future based on the elements that we

459
00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:48,560
Speaker 6: actually literally control today.

460
00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:49,880
Speaker 3: Africa is the future.

461
00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,960
Speaker 6: The only thing that can keep Africa under captive in

462
00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,400
Speaker 6: the Western world to continue to rape Africa the way

463
00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,800
Speaker 6: it is is for people like me with dreams like

464
00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,480
Speaker 6: this not existing because it motivates us to do the

465
00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,840
Speaker 6: same thing in different countries and not on that, but

466
00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,400
Speaker 6: it also motivated us to all come together and actually

467
00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:11,320
Speaker 6: bring about change of this magnitude. Right, So, anyone that's

468
00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,159
Speaker 6: in construction or anyone that just used basic common sense

469
00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,120
Speaker 6: knows that it takes twelve months to maybe fifteen months

470
00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:19,200
Speaker 6: to build a normal house.

471
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,000
Speaker 3: We're talking about god.

472
00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:25,440
Speaker 6: A city with high end high rises, major structures. I mean,

473
00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,960
Speaker 6: it's just the studies alone took two and a half

474
00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,080
Speaker 6: years before construction even began.

475
00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,640
Speaker 3: Right, So there's a lot that's happening within it.

476
00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,280
Speaker 6: But I'm realizing there's a lot of agendas also that's benefit.

477
00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:41,199
Speaker 6: If this project don't happen, they can't physically stop it

478
00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,000
Speaker 6: because they have to go to Africa to stop it,

479
00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,840
Speaker 6: which they can't stop an existing ongoing project, but the

480
00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,680
Speaker 6: way they can damage it is through media excyber warfare,

481
00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,960
Speaker 6: because these are things that the average person don't go

482
00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,719
Speaker 6: physically to go see what's happening. So they're utilizing all

483
00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,360
Speaker 6: this media to try to discredit the project and make

484
00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,720
Speaker 6: it seem smaller than it actually is, to kind of

485
00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 6: just take some of the power off of it. Because

486
00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,399
Speaker 6: I'm telling you if this, if this project or I

487
00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 6: live to see it finish, Africa's gonna be changed forever.

488
00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:09,000
Speaker 7: Right.

489
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,360
Speaker 1: I do feel like now you see so many more

490
00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,320
Speaker 1: people traveling there and wanting to go different places, people

491
00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:15,600
Speaker 1: talking about investing in real.

492
00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,040
Speaker 6: Li and this is all due to the things that

493
00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,879
Speaker 6: we've done, all the way down to creating festivals and

494
00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,359
Speaker 6: African Americans going back to Ghana for the year return.

495
00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,359
Speaker 6: This is all things we develop. So they're seeing that

496
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,520
Speaker 6: we're now coming together in uniting. This is the world's

497
00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,000
Speaker 6: worst fear because the moment Africa come together, our people,

498
00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,080
Speaker 6: African Americans, a diaspa come together, the game is over.

499
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 6: Like we literally become the superpower of the universe.

500
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Speaker 1: So you still have that land because I know in

501
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,000
Speaker 1: the article it was like, oh, we took the land.

502
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,880
Speaker 3: I can't take what they don't own. That's my land.

503
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 3: How you gonna take my land?

504
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,200
Speaker 2: You know what I'm like, that hasn't happened in the past.

505
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:50,640
Speaker 7: That can happen.

506
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,080
Speaker 6: But Africa, when you own it, you own it from

507
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 6: the tutor to the Buddha. Like even if I struck

508
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,920
Speaker 6: oil in my land in Africa, that's mine. In America,

509
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:00,880
Speaker 6: after three feet under the great six feet on the ground,

510
00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,119
Speaker 6: you don't want it no more. The government takes it

511
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:02,680
Speaker 6: so that sam.

512
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,959
Speaker 7: Yes, it's secretly it's a lot.

513
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:06,880
Speaker 3: As I'm saying, it's a lot. It's a lot to it.

514
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,240
Speaker 6: But for the most part, Acon City is a dream

515
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 6: that nobody you can't kill a dream and a process.

516
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 6: This now, this is the part where the people have

517
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 6: to realize what's real and what's not. Because if you

518
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:22,720
Speaker 6: see three thousand negative ads and not one positive one,

519
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,760
Speaker 6: you got to know that there's an agenda going on somewhere,

520
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 6: you know, all.

521
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,680
Speaker 1: Right, well good, I just wanted to clear that out.

522
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 1: I don't like to bring no negativity.

523
00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 6: But I was no, no, but yeah, actually negative because

524
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,159
Speaker 6: it's not negative though it's actually positive the way I

525
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 6: look at it. It just continues to market it because

526
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 6: when it actually goes up and people are invited and

527
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 6: I start hosting people, all those ads are gonna look crazy, right,

528
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,600
Speaker 6: So I don't worry about I'm more focused on the

529
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,320
Speaker 6: end product versus what's happening today.

530
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 1: We're going to everybody, well as far as have you

531
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 1: all traveled yet.

532
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 2: To Senegal, to Africa, anywhere I have it?

533
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,199
Speaker 4: Okay, it was beautiful, did you he was still? He

534
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 4: was still? I was still locked up. I went to

535
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,879
Speaker 4: Senegague and he just led the way, you know what

536
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 4: I mean.

537
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,399
Speaker 2: I was just what was that like for you?

538
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 5: It was beautiful though it was a lot of uh,

539
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 5: a lot of I just seen how people lied about Africa,

540
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 5: like you know what I mean.

541
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 2: And you're like, well damn, they got way more.

542
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 4: No, I'm gonna tell you something that shocked me. It

543
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 4: was the cars.

544
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 5: Like you know, it's messed up cars everywhere America, El

545
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 5: Card here, whatever. But like I seen like a lot

546
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 5: of nice foreign cards, like you know what I mean,

547
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 5: A lot of like Benzes, Beamers, you know what I mean, and.

548
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,239
Speaker 4: Stuff like that. And I was just like, Okay, well

549
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,880
Speaker 4: they riding clean too, you know what I mean?

550
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 7: Like you know that.

551
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 5: That's That's what messed me up a lot, you know,

552
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 5: what I mean just saying, you know, it was what.

553
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 2: You saw painted to be.

554
00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it was. It was. It was beautiful though.

555
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 2: And so how much longer were you locked up while

556
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 2: he was home?

557
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 5: I think I did, like maybe like a year a year,

558
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 5: some change more than you the first time. All right,

559
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,120
Speaker 5: So he we were locked up, I did six years,

560
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 5: he did seven years.

561
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 4: He got out in twenty fifteen. Yeah, and I went back.

562
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 4: He went back for a violence. I went back for

563
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 4: a violation. It was there two years, two years. So

564
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 4: then he got out in twenty twenty two to two.

565
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 5: And then he did a year on house arrest and

566
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 5: then probation, and then I moved him down there with me.

567
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 5: So he's technical from his second stint. He only been

568
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 5: out for a couple of years.

569
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:40,680
Speaker 2: OK.

570
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, literally like two years and some change.

571
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 5: But when I got out, I like, as soon as

572
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 5: I got out, he moved his studio up to Indiana

573
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 5: because he picked me up from the joint. So I

574
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,400
Speaker 5: recorded like that first little mixtape, because I got out

575
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 5: with two mixtapes, So I recorded one like as soon

576
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 5: like while he was up there for like a weekend

577
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 5: or three days or something like that.

578
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 4: So as soon as I.

579
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 5: Got out, I got to work, but I was on

580
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 5: house arrest, so I just had to you know, thug

581
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 5: it out to let me go.

582
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 2: How is your patience during that time and.

583
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 5: What it was like? You know, really it was like

584
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 5: I knew it was crunch time. You know what I'm saying.

585
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 5: I had to we gotta make this happen, you know,

586
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 5: no more messing around, you know what I'm saying, playing games.

587
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. Out here in these.

588
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,360
Speaker 5: Streets or whatever whatever it was. I was all over

589
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:31,159
Speaker 5: the place, you know, at first. So you know what

590
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,160
Speaker 5: I'm saying, I'm glad we're here now.

591
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 7: Yeah.

592
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 4: No, it's a blessing, major blessing.

593
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 1: Like to have the opportunity and know you cannot like

594
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:42,679
Speaker 1: you said, you can't play around.

595
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 4: Yeah.

596
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 5: I used to tell him, like when I moved him

597
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 5: down here, I just looked at him like, you know,

598
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 5: I got kid.

599
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 4: He just had just had.

600
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 2: His first Yeah, congratulations.

601
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 5: Found motivation for him because I have had to get

602
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 5: him on some big brother like look, I'm grinding, you

603
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 5: know what I mean, But like you gotta we got

604
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 5: we both got a mama that need us, you know

605
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 5: what I mean.

606
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,439
Speaker 4: Not just me, I got one, you know what I mean, right,

607
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 4: we both.

608
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 5: You need to be matched my energy, you need to

609
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And when I moved him

610
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 5: down to Atlanta, like he got straight to meet he

611
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 5: just listened and just he zoned out.

612
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad you just said grinding because it

613
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 1: made me think of the grinding freestyle.

614
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, guys did.

615
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: And and you know, was there any influence on you

616
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,439
Speaker 1: guys because being brothers and the Clips just put.

617
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 2: Out a great new album.

618
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, you know as well. So I thought

619
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: that was cool that y'all did that.

620
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, push you actually flew back together from France.

621
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 6: We was out there for the for the fashion week,

622
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 6: and we flew back out. He was telling me the

623
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 6: project was just dropping and he was heading back to

624
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 6: promote it.

625
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 5: Yeah.

626
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: One thing he don't do is hold his tongue about anything. Yeah,

627
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: if something happened, he was gonna tell it.

628
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 4: Yeah.

629
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 7: We grew up.

630
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 4: We grew up listening to the Clips, you know what

631
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 4: I mean.

632
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 5: We get the comparison all the time, and I mean

633
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 5: we cool with it, you know what I mean. We

634
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 5: just we're here to raise the bardo, you know what

635
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 5: I mean, right, we was getting those comparisons before we

636
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 5: was even a group.

637
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a fact.

638
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:15,919
Speaker 2: That's funny.

639
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 5: For we've even been getting it all out, Like you

640
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 5: know what I mean, it's a bunch of similar.

641
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 6: I should see two brothers actually equally dope, Yeah, exact

642
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 6: and actually together. Yeah, moving on the same path like

643
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 6: most brothers always compete.

644
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, y'all ain't have that problem.

645
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: You guys sometimes are interchangeable in the situation.

646
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 2: I mean, you go do the thing for me.

647
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 3: It's all leadership. It's all leadership. It's definitely leadership, you know,

648
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 3: because right now Bo is an executive. You try to

649
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 3: be a better executive. Meet.

650
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: Listen, I ran into bool working with Kanye, and I

651
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: know that was stressful, but but you.

652
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 6: See it now, you know. I mean it was things

653
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 6: that me and him used to debate about all the time.

654
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 6: And now you're like, damn, bro, you was right.

655
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 7: You know what.

656
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 6: Damn, I see what you mean now. But that's why

657
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,919
Speaker 6: I love that experience to be. You know, once you

658
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 6: once you get the experience, then all your lessons actually

659
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 6: you feel good knowing that they're actually now soaking in

660
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 6: because oftentimes your parents will tell you or you won't

661
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 6: understand what I'm doing until you start having kids. Yeah,

662
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 6: when you have kids, you understand why because oftentimes you

663
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 6: be thinking your parents are tripping.

664
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, you're right, you know, and your kids.

665
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 3: Like, damn, I get it. You got a whole nother

666
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 3: respect for your parents at that point.

667
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I feel like a lot of people was

668
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: giving Kanye's team a hard time and being like, oh,

669
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 1: why his team ain't but to understand that, like, sometimes

670
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: it's just nothing you could do, Like what am I

671
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: You know, he's a grown man.

672
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 7: How can I do?

673
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 2: Yeah?

674
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 6: You know, you can only do it with things that

675
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 6: you can control. You can't control another man's brain.

676
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: And it's crazy to be so talented but then just

677
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: have so many different things, oh man, you know happening,

678
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: and it makes people, you know, at the end of

679
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: the day, like it could turnish somebody's legacy to have

680
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: done so much and lay down the groundwork and had

681
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: so many classics, and then later on in life it's

682
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: just some than to think about, like how do you

683
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: want to be remembered?

684
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 6: That's the key, and I think we should always remember

685
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 6: that even moving in because oftentimes, like especially now, is

686
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 6: the most dangerous time for legacies, for future legacies because

687
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 6: a lot of these people that's out here, most most

688
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 6: of the younger generation disease. I think they're doing so

689
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 6: much just for views, or they're doing so much to

690
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 6: go viral, not realizing what you're building today, that what

691
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 6: you're doing right now is going to be what destroys

692
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 6: or make you in twenty five years when you're trying

693
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 6: to build that legacy.

694
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 2: You right about that.

695
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: When I go talk to kids in school, one thing

696
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: I always tell them, I'm like this social media. You

697
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: know how they bring up the old tweets man of

698
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: you talking crazy. We just seen that happen on Love Island, right,

699
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: you know. And you know, sometimes that's why I always

700
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: feel like people act like I don't like social media

701
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,239
Speaker 1: because you destroy yourself what you write on there.

702
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 2: You don't have to put everything on there.

703
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: Something feel like maybe I shouldn't do this, then don't

704
00:28:58,120 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: period if you have to think about it.

705
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 6: First thing is if you feel like you have to

706
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 6: race it or you go back to you there, it's

707
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 6: worse because it shows that you raced it, because.

708
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: That's the first the deleted it.

709
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 3: But this is what they deleted and You're like, but.

710
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: I'm talking about It's like, I know you're not talking

711
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: about me.

712
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 3: It's very crazy.

713
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: This is like a moment I know you don't even

714
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 2: touch nothing.

715
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 4: Talking to you.

716
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 3: I don't understand crazy.

717
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: So what do you see happening for Shesh in the future?

718
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: What's the what's the plan?

719
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 4: Things?

720
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead, amazing things like I mean, I feel

721
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 5: like all the doors is opening up. Just do off

722
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,959
Speaker 5: the hard work that we put in, you know what

723
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 5: I'm saying, a lot of times, just going to sleep

724
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 5: in the morning time when it's when it's when the

725
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 5: birds is chirping, you ain't been sleep yet, just perfecting something,

726
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. I just know I feel

727
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 5: in my spirit that is good, good things to come

728
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 5: for Sheesh. I don't really know any you know what

729
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 5: I'm saying, crazy like things into the future. I just

730
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 5: know that we dropping tapes every two months or something

731
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 5: around that area.

732
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

733
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 5: We giving the best content, you know what I'm saying,

734
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 5: And we're gonna give y'all our best.

735
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: When you guys think about all the music that you

736
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: did before, like you said, you had like a thousand songs.

737
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: What type of you know, if you have to think

738
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: about some of the themes and things that were going

739
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: on when you were writing, what is it that you

740
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: would say that music was like for you, I.

741
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 5: Was just writing from a place of like hunger and determination,

742
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 5: like right, so I didn't like sing so much in prison,

743
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 5: you know what I mean?

744
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 4: Being involved, you know what I mean, just.

745
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 5: Just surviving and just going through what I was going

746
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 5: through as a kid becoming a man in there, Like

747
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 5: I just knew that I can't this ain't it.

748
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 4: I can't do this for the restaurant.

749
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 5: Then just us breaking our mom my heart like you know,

750
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 5: we love you know what I mean, Like we Mama's boys,

751
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 5: low key, you know what I mean.

752
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 4: And it's like.

753
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 5: Just from I just knew that life this can't be life,

754
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 5: Like it gotta be more to life than this, you

755
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 5: know what I mean. And I knew that I wasn't

756
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,239
Speaker 5: gonna feel I knew. I was like you know how

757
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 5: fifty had get rich of doatrone, Like it was like

758
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 5: that's literally like I will wake him up, like hey,

759
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 5: I don't give that. We got seven years and six

760
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 5: days and thirty two hours, Like okay, we can write

761
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 5: for another hour.

762
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 4: Kill another hour off that time, you know what I mean.

763
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 5: Like, that's what literally what type of time I was on,

764
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 5: and I just knew that we I'm not gonna fall,

765
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna feel you need that type of reality,

766
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 5: like and you know what I mean, even though that

767
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 5: was my reality, My real reality was in my mind,

768
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 5: I seen myself on stage. I seen me and my

769
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 5: brother being successful, buying on my house, you know what

770
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 5: I mean. And you just gotta make that your reality,

771
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 5: not them closing the gate talking about some or opening

772
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 5: the gate talking about some child, you.

773
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 4: Know what I mean.

774
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 5: And you gotta sacrifice a lot, you know, just know

775
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 5: that come with it. You just got to sacrifice, you

776
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. I don't want to say you

777
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 5: got to lose something, but just know you got to sacrifice,

778
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 5: whether it's time and time energy, you know you know

779
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 5: what relationships.

780
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 2: Relationship definitely one man.

781
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 6: I tell everybody the hardest part of success is managing people.

782
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you can't control what anybody else does. And

783
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: then sometimes it's hard because you have a sense of loyalty.

784
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: You feel like you're a bad person if you're not loyal,

785
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: But sometimes you loyal, you know, for the wrong reasons.

786
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: It can't be so loyal to somebody else that you're

787
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: not loyal to yourself. Where you put somebody else above you,

788
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: or they keep on proving you know how bad and

789
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: toxic they can be for you, and you feel like, well,

790
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to be that person that let me

791
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: give them another chance.

792
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 2: And you make excuses, you know, for other people.

793
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 5: I've read somewhere said, you know, you pick the wrong person.

794
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 5: You know that could set you back for out of

795
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 5: ten years. Yeah, you know, if you mess around with

796
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 5: just the wrong person is wrong.

797
00:32:58,440 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

798
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got some brothers here, man, I got.

799
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 4: I got him forever.

800
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 5: This's my you know what I mean, it's my heart,

801
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So we we we ain't

802
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 5: gonna we know we got each other. I think that's

803
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 5: like an advantage, like when you're working with somebody, it

804
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 5: could be your best friend. But like and not to

805
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 5: say brothers don't beef or none of that. Yeah, but

806
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 5: I'm saying a lot if you if y'all really locked

807
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 5: in and really got that I want the best for him.

808
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 4: I know he want the best for me. It's seamless.

809
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,239
Speaker 5: It's like well, you know what I mean, we were

810
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 5: gonna always move the right way.

811
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 2: How did you tell your mom you guys were getting

812
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 2: a deal.

813
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 4: How did I tell my mama? Uh? I think I

814
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 4: think it was on FaceTime?

815
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I facetimed because she wasn't moving, she

816
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 5: wasn't living down there. She lived with us, now, you

817
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 5: know what I mean? Well with me and uh, I

818
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 5: just she just was excited. But she she real spiritual,

819
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 5: so she always knew we was gonna like do something and.

820
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 4: With music and make it in music.

821
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 5: She always shout out to my mom and popped out

822
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 5: and being spiritual.

823
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: I will say the music has a bit of a

824
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: gospel type of yeah.

825
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, Like when you hear that album tho, Yeah,

826
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 6: it's gonna touch you. It's gonna touch that was done.

827
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was done. It's gonna make people cry.

828
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.

829
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 6: It's the records that's gonna make you remember why music

830
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 6: was so impactful in people's lives.

831
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, we need that, that's what we need.

832
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, we need that.

833
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 5: And we ain't just got the bars the melodies on there,

834
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Like it's real melodic to

835
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 5: with the bars, you know what I mean?

836
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 1: It's the three sixty without a three sixties.

837
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 4: You're gonna know why we do it too.

838
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 5: All the reasons why we do it is on the album,

839
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 5: my kids, his son, you know what I mean.

840
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 4: Like, you know we real you were transparent, you know

841
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 4: what I mean.

842
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 5: You're gonna be able to hear and feel everything and

843
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 5: it's real related, you know what I mean.

844
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, put on the map.

845
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, in a major way, in a major way. We're

846
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 5: putting on for LCRD for sure.

847
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on this. I cannot wait to hear the project.

848
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 6: Is there a date or well, I'm gonna be announcing

849
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 6: the date soon.

850
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:14,280
Speaker 7: Okay.

851
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 6: I wanted to drop the single first and see the reaction,

852
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 6: see where we was going, because I like, now I'm

853
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 6: utilizing the data to my advantage.

854
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: Of course, you are one thing.

855
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 3: Like nothing about one more week.

856
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 6: I have enough data to be able to say, Katy,

857
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 6: we're dropping on this day, going on tour.

858
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 3: There we go.

859
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 2: You know, cities are responding in this way.

860
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: I saw you're talking to TMZ about AI, which is

861
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: such a touchy subject for people.

862
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 3: You know.

863
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: Timberland had to kind of like and I've seen labels

864
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: sign an AI artist and then change their mind and

865
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: backtrack because people are nervous about technology.

866
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 2: But like you said, but you.

867
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 3: Gotta embrace it.

868
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta embrace the technology like because either you're

869
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 6: gonna roll with it, it's gonna roll over you because

870
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,280
Speaker 6: technologies it's coming.

871
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 2: Yeah and a I's been here for a while.

872
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: It's just now people are figuring out different ways to

873
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: use it. It's getting more widespread. So I know you

874
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: have plans already. What you have no idea you make

875
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: more money from music or other like other ventures.

876
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,280
Speaker 6: Music is just a vehicle to get to the money.

877
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 6: I use music to promote the things I'm making money on.

878
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, all right, well listen, keep that business savvy

879
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: about you because I feel the same rate. It's my

880
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: day job. But we got to use this to get Yeah,

881
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: you'll be driving to get to the cast.

882
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 7: You get it, all right?

883
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: Well, thank you guys so much. I appreciate y'all for

884
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 1: joining me. You know, it's been a long time coming.

885
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: But I love to see it and the song is

886
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. So for people if you haven't had a

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Speaker 1: chance to go watch the video and listen to it,

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Speaker 1: I told you, like I said, I put it on

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Speaker 1: MAINL had no idea what I was listening to.

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Speaker 2: He was like, Oh, what's that like?

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Speaker 7: Turn that out?

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Speaker 4: So it follow.

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Speaker 1: Me?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, please follow me at a big underscore ski a

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Speaker 5: and then follow me at l N S Underscore A

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Speaker 6: Right, and if you forget all of that, just go

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Speaker 6: with acon dot com or at acon on any platform

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Speaker 6: wherever you see me and she doing anything, video or whatever,

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Speaker 6: just tag that.

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Speaker 3: You'll see I tag them and you can follow them

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Speaker 3: from there.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, All right, well thank you so much. Again.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna do? People were asking, are you going

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Speaker 1: to do smack that as a country song?

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, got to hear what that sounded like.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 6: Why I'm so excited is because, see, a lot of

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Speaker 6: people don't know that my first album was all done

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Speaker 6: with a country state of mind. Okay, before before I

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Speaker 6: was gonna R and B, I was gonna go country.

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Speaker 3: Wow, like because in Africa, country is huge.

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Speaker 2: Okay I didn't know that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So a lot of my music was written with

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Speaker 6: a country mindset. Just I just put hip hop beats

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Speaker 6: on them. So now when we take them same lyrics

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Speaker 6: and put them behind country music, it fits, really fits

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Speaker 6: like a glove, like this record I just did with

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Speaker 6: with with Ross uh.

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Speaker 3: Josh, Josh. Okay, so we redid right now now now right,

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Speaker 3: you gotta.

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Speaker 2: Change right now.

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Speaker 7: Okay. But you said I was just fit. You couldn't

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Speaker 7: even tell just fit right in.

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Speaker 2: It just seems I can't wait to hear smack.

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Speaker 3: That so crazy, you got to hear it. I can't

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Speaker 3: wait to drop that one.

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Speaker 7: All right, Well, thank you again.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you absolutely. Next time, Okay, we like that