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Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Questloft Supreme.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry your ward wa West Love Supreme.

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Speaker 3: Just indeed your hosts Questo with us.

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Speaker 2: Who've got a font Tigelo not the Blue Room. I

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Speaker 2: kind of like this daytime version of Quest Loft Supreme.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a little over hair.

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Speaker 2: Out of the way. What time is it out there? Layah?

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Speaker 4: Nine?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, tied doing Quest Left Supreme and nine in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Sorry about that, you're okay? Yeah, it's nude. You're waking

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Speaker 2: and bacon.

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Speaker 3: I'm so far just waking.

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Speaker 4: But keep watching.

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Speaker 2: I get it, I get it. And of course Bill

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Speaker 2: Sermon's probably gonna seest me Street right now. So well,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, oh wait, no, right, yeah, everything yeah, actor or.

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Speaker 2: The Muppet sag actors like are they are they?

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Speaker 5: It's like the.

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Speaker 2: Olden pick of signs. I see, I see yeah, yo,

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Of course, it would be remiss if,

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Speaker 2: in this year of our lower twenty twenty three, if

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Speaker 2: we didn't start celebrating hip hop's fiftieth anniversary, at least

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Speaker 2: with some some key interviews with legendary figures that have

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Speaker 2: pushed the culture forward. So basically, I'll say that for

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Speaker 2: the last twenty five years, we've watched this young man

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Speaker 2: grow and evolve and expand definitely one of the most

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Speaker 2: respected and consistent MC's in the game right about now.

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Speaker 2: Of course, he co found it a love group in

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Speaker 2: the culture of hip hop, of course, that's the Locks.

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Speaker 2: He is an amazing solo career and has been pretty

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Speaker 2: much part of a handful of songs that we all

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Speaker 2: know by heart, including one I forgot about, the Rising

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Speaker 2: Down record that You're You're You're on Rising Down with Us.

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Speaker 2: And I'll say that more importantly, uh, he has pivoted

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Speaker 2: to not only cultivating his music career, but also entering

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Speaker 2: the health space, which you know, was also influential to me. Like,

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Speaker 2: it's good that both Fonte and and our guests today

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Speaker 2: and their and their small subtle ways with planting seeds

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Speaker 2: about me personally thinking about my time on on this plane,

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Speaker 2: on this earthly plane, and how how I could make

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Speaker 2: it and actually be exemplary my damn self taking my

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Speaker 2: life series with my health. You know, our guest today

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Speaker 2: is opened up juice bars across New York City, including

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Speaker 2: his hometown of Yonkers, which actually just found out is

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Speaker 2: not far from where my farm is right now.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: He's bringing chance to the community. Uh, he and his

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Speaker 2: family is basically, I'm showing people the pathway to you know,

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Speaker 2: better health, food, body of mind. And you know he's

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Speaker 2: he's an author, he's pitting novels, twenty albums to his name,

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Speaker 2: Grammy nominations, and one of the best voices in hip hop.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Styles Pete across Love Supreme.

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Speaker 2: It's good man, how you doing.

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Speaker 4: What's up? Family?

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Speaker 3: Are feeling feeling good?

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Speaker 2: Brother?

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Speaker 3: Good to see you, good to see awesome, awesome.

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Speaker 2: Right about now? Where are you? What part of the

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Speaker 2: world are you in? I'm assuming that you're in New

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Speaker 2: York City?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in. I'm in New York outside of the gym.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I love it.

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Speaker 6: I love it outside the gym, sitting in the Oh

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Speaker 6: my god.

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Speaker 5: How long were you in the gym? Styles?

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Speaker 4: I was in the gym about an hour?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I left the gym.

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Speaker 5: My damn self was today legs? Cardio?

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Speaker 4: What we oh? Today?

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Speaker 7: I just did cardio to be honest, this is a

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Speaker 7: It looks like a windbreaker, but this is actually like

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Speaker 7: a sauna suit.

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Speaker 5: So that's what it looks.

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Speaker 4: Work. Yeah, definitely, the.

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Speaker 7: Yeah they could not not just for a lot of

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Speaker 7: people do it. They think you put on a sauna suit.

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Speaker 7: One is great to sweat and lose weight, but it's

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Speaker 7: also great to get rid of toxins. It's a great

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Speaker 7: way to get rid of toxins that kind of speed

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Speaker 7: up your sweating.

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Speaker 4: Sweat a lot.

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Speaker 7: I'm big on sweating, stretching, sleeping, All the s's are

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Speaker 7: very important in your life.

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Speaker 4: Sleep and sweat as much as possible.

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Speaker 3: What's your what's your cardio choice? You you walk, run

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Speaker 3: stair master? Like what you what you do?

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Speaker 4: I like? I like the air bike a lot, like

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Speaker 4: the roll machine.

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Speaker 2: I hate the root machine.

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Speaker 4: Man, I love the roll machine.

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Speaker 2: I hate my training uses that as punishment.

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Speaker 4: Yo.

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Speaker 7: It's a good machine because you get to work everything today.

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Speaker 4: I got on.

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Speaker 7: I hurt my knee a little bit last week. I

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Speaker 7: don't even know what happened. My knee just turned to

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Speaker 7: my enemy out of nowhere. But it feeling a lot better.

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Speaker 7: It called forties now, Yeah, my whole master went into

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Speaker 7: my knee and it ain't been the same since. So

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Speaker 7: today I got on the song. I see the elder

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Speaker 7: people get on all the time, and I thought it

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Speaker 7: was I thought it was a joke because all you

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Speaker 7: do is ship there and go like this lift It

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Speaker 7: almost killed me.

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Speaker 4: Not the elliptical. You just shut down and do your

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Speaker 4: hands like this.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh the bike, the bike joined when your hands, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I thought it was sweet that that. That machine is

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Speaker 4: no joke.

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Speaker 2: You're right, I had tested that. Now my enemy is

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Speaker 2: a machine called do you know about Jacob's ladder?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the that's the the versa climate is the

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Speaker 7: worst machine in the That's why it's always empty.

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Speaker 5: Is that the steps?

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Speaker 4: The steps?

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Speaker 5: Did you just walk up the steps?

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Speaker 2: Mus walk up endless ladder.

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Speaker 7: It's like the actual easiest way to say your mountain

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Speaker 7: climbing without mountain climbing without a mountain to make whatever

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Speaker 7: part of your body is not in shape, that machine

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Speaker 7: will let you know what part of the body that is.

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Speaker 5: So before you worked out, what did you do, like,

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Speaker 5: what did you put in your body before you worked out?

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Speaker 4: Today?

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Speaker 7: I didn't do anything but a juice. I had kill

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Speaker 7: Cilancho cucumber lime juice.

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Speaker 2: We did this previously with Dave Matthews or I kind

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Speaker 2: of just threw the script out and just kept the

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Speaker 2: conversation going only because I'm so curious about this. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna story sort of a student and kind

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Speaker 2: of cast aside the quest of supreme one on one

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Speaker 2: questions because really I'm being selfish and just doing it

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Speaker 2: for my own benefit. But I've really, you know, I've

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Speaker 2: been following your storyline in terms of you pivoting your

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Speaker 2: course you know you already know Fonte already knows, like

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Speaker 2: I mean, everyone everyone on on this on this current

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Speaker 2: it's very likely that in a in a flash, you

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Speaker 2: could you could instantly leave this earthly plane in a

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Speaker 2: matter of seconds. This morning was one of those mornings.

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Speaker 2: You know, one of my best friends in the world

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Speaker 2: made his made his exodus to the next life. And

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Speaker 2: it's almost the point where it shouldn't be numbing when

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Speaker 2: you hear about this, especially when you hear about you

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Speaker 2: know it's more health related, but just the fact that

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Speaker 2: you know we're barely getting the pleasure of celebrating our

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Speaker 2: I would like to know what was this draw that

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Speaker 2: broke the camel's back for you in terms of like,

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Speaker 2: you gotta make you gotta make a change, and you

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Speaker 2: gotta not only focus on your own personal health, but

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Speaker 2: amplify that message for us that are out here listening

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 4: I believe in being in hip hop and.

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Speaker 7: Moving to a more affluent neighborhood was really my wake

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Speaker 7: up call to be honest to you years ago, you know,

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Speaker 7: through hip hop. Fortunate enough, I was able to move

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Speaker 4: I think I want to say I moved.

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Speaker 7: I'm forty eight now, around the time when I was

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Speaker 7: is a very braggadocious verbal sport, but it's unrealistic when

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Speaker 4: But when I started.

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Speaker 7: Thinking about it, how much how many people were aspiring

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Speaker 7: And to be able to afford the civic, you have

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Speaker 4: That is to take care of yourself.

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Speaker 7: And between that and then looking at the difference that

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Speaker 4: About me early styles, I would.

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Speaker 7: Say my temple was extremely bad to the point where

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Speaker 7: I was smart, but I would do stupid things.

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Speaker 4: I let my ego and my pride kind of run

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Speaker 7: What I was doing, so you know, I was not

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Speaker 7: But why am I am I this way? So I

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Speaker 7: I was around two forty. I had posting nazl drips, cyanaidis,

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Speaker 7: ezema and a horrible temper, And just from juicing up

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Speaker 7: noticed the change of my spirit. So it was like,

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Speaker 7: And then I kind of knew that was all due

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Speaker 7: to me just changing my lifestyle and caring about myself more.

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of us.

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Speaker 7: We say we care about ourselves, we say we love ourselves,

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Speaker 7: but we're programmed and condition to do things that people

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Speaker 7: to thinking, we don't owe ourselves the best, Like I

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Speaker 7: like material things, like you know what I mean, But

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Speaker 7: I don't love them more than I love my people.

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Speaker 7: Literally a war on people our color that we don't

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Speaker 7: We're gonna have soup kitchens and we're gonna give our

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Speaker 7: So for me, although God is Family has always been

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Speaker 7: Oh yo gro oh man, I see you can do

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Speaker 7: you have, when they see you put the things in

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00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 7: the blend of yourself.

444
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 4: And that you said that leads by example.

445
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 7: Like our kids listen to us, but they watch what

446
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 7: we do more than they listen to us.

447
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 5: But also isn't being an evolved man right now, like

448
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 5: that is actually trending. I was just talking too Freeway

449
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 5: about this, and I was like the fact that we

450
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 5: have more MC's showing their full cells instead of just

451
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,679
Speaker 5: all of the best parts. I mean, Freeway be an example,

452
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Speaker 5: and I was asking, I said, it seems like it's

453
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Speaker 5: a nice group of y'all who actually communicate with each

454
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 5: other and lift each other up that way, Isn't that

455
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Speaker 5: It seems like that's the case in that.

456
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 4: Way, right Yeah, I don't think it's the trend. I

457
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 4: think it's the shifting lifestyle.

458
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 5: Thank god the kids would call it the trend.

459
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 4: Yes, a trend will come and go.

460
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Speaker 7: I think a shift and your lifestyle is being connected

461
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 7: to somebody who genuinely.

462
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 4: Cares about you. I don't.

463
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 7: I'm not interested in having I think old hip hop is.

464
00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 7: I have to have more watches in a better watch

465
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 7: than you. My car is more expensive than you. I

466
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 7: could buy more bottles than you. I have more fine

467
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 7: women around me than you do. Like my thing is,

468
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,719
Speaker 7: I'm a married man, I'm a family man, and I

469
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 7: care about you for who you are.

470
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Speaker 4: I want to be the best me that I could be.

471
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 4: So fortunately it.

472
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Speaker 7: Can help myself first and foremost, then the loved ones

473
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 7: around me, then my friends, my immediate.

474
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 4: Inner circle, than my community.

475
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 7: And if you move with life with doing that, I

476
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 7: think that's the change that's needed. That's the change that's needed, because,

477
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,120
Speaker 7: like Ques said, I don't know if I'm gonna be here,

478
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 7: Like you know, I think people kind of look at

479
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 7: life and I've lost enough people in my life, family members,

480
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 7: close friends, people in the community where I know I'm

481
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 7: not promised five minutes later. So I want to do

482
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 7: what I could do to make the difference, to say,

483
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 7: when I go, you're not going to think about the

484
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 7: things you did. You have to think about the things

485
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 7: you didn't do, and right, I don't want that to

486
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 7: be on my conscious the way I didn't push. I

487
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 7: didn't push the envelope as for it as much as possible.

488
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Speaker 2: No, I really want to, you know, thank you for that.

489
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 2: Normally we save this part for the end about where

490
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 2: your life has changed. But for me, man, it was

491
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 2: it was really important to hear that, and I want

492
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 2: people to hear that that sort of shift is important.

493
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,120
Speaker 2: Can I ask, though, especially in light of how we're

494
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 2: dealing with mental health in the pandemic. Was therapy at

495
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 2: all a part of your shift as well?

496
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Speaker 4: Definitely my wife, my wife, Thank God for my wife.

497
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 4: Thank God she made shaw I.

498
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Speaker 7: Implemented that within my routine. Uh even when I didn't.

499
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Speaker 4: I forget. I've been on so a few of them shows.

500
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 4: Now I forget it.

501
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Speaker 5: Uh.

502
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Speaker 7: Black love is good for the for the mind and

503
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:04,959
Speaker 7: so but even doctor is doctor ish was a great

504
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 7: adding for my life because he helped me figure out

505
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 7: a lot of things.

506
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 4: And now.

507
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 7: What's crazy is I need to go to therapy more.

508
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 7: But I pretty much use my wife as a therapist,

509
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 7: which probably.

510
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, then who does she use as a therapist?

511
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 5: Because that that means.

512
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 4: But I think learning how to talk out. I think

513
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 4: a lot of us have a.

514
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 7: Problem with understanding that it's okay to not to understand

515
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 7: that your mind needs a break, Like even if you

516
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 7: think about today's just life in general today, like I

517
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 7: was telling somebody this the other day, besides having trauma,

518
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 7: for me, just logging on the Instagram some days makes

519
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 7: me need mental makes me know some kind of therapy

520
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,479
Speaker 7: because if you think about it, like I was sitting,

521
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 7: there's no way that you would have a conversation with

522
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 7: this many people.

523
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Speaker 4: Real life.

524
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 7: I'm not hearing even over one hundred and fifty people's

525
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 7: thoughts today and how they feel a negative energy, their attitude.

526
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 7: But when you log on, you're taking in so much

527
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 7: in the world so fast, and it's just so hard.

528
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 4: To even get a grasp of what's going on.

529
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 5: So in the back end of da of how you

530
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 5: don't even know how you if you've met people in

531
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 5: real life or just seeing them on the Instagram, I

532
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 5: don't know.

533
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 4: What's going on.

534
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 7: So to take in them people's thoughts, feelings, energy, what's

535
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 7: on their mind. We all need some sort of therapy.

536
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 7: We all need some sort of a laxation. Your mind

537
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 7: needs a lot, like we all it's black people, we

538
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 7: have PTSD period just being black. So on top of that,

539
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 7: I think about how fast things are moving, how fast

540
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 7: technology is advancing, and human beings aren't advancing as fast

541
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 7: as technology is, and all of these things, like even me,

542
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 7: for the like the normal things that probably won't make.

543
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 4: The average person need therapy, makes me need therapy.

544
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 7: Like I'm thinking about how AI is coming, I'm thinking

545
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 7: about like a log I went to see. I went

546
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,439
Speaker 7: to see this movie The other day Sound of Freedom

547
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 7: right after I left Sound of Freedom, and I'm thinking, damn,

548
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 7: all of this is happening to the kids, and you know,

549
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 7: people are losing their jobs the AI. Then you get

550
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 7: on Instagram and you got to hear everybody's personal thought,

551
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 7: not on anything that's almost relevant, and it made me go,

552
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 7: I need I need a break from the world some days,

553
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 7: like I don't care about how she's dressed, he's dressed,

554
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 7: who said what?

555
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 4: Rapper did this? Who doing what?

556
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 7: I just want to live in a healthier world and

557
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 7: contribute to that. But it doesn't kind of always pan

558
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 7: out that way, So that alone could kind of break

559
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 7: you down mentally, Like if you're not surrounding yourself around

560
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 7: people who think like you, who move how you move,

561
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 7: you're gonna need some kind of kind of therapy. And

562
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 7: like I've lost the daughter to suicide, me and myself.

563
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 7: I suffered from rage before without without knowing what was happening.

564
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 7: Like you hear people suffering from depression feeling this way,

565
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 7: but nobody speaks of the kid who suffers from rage.

566
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 7: So knowing all of the things that we deal with

567
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 7: in our community, like, uh, we need the mind, body,

568
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 7: and soul I believe all three needs to be worked

569
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 7: on constantly because you need to have them lined up

570
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 7: to have the best you in place. So it's not

571
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 7: just the body, it's not just being healthy. It's like

572
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 7: I live a healthy lifestyle more so from the health

573
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 7: aspect of you know, the physical health to spiritually and

574
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 7: mentally be be healthier to not not full victim to

575
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 7: the things that I usually were full victim to because

576
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 7: I don't feel good. Like, like, think about it, Like

577
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 7: how many people you can get on Instagram and go

578
00:29:58,440 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 7: I love red.

579
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 4: Somebody's gonna come on, go fuck red, I hate red blues,

580
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 4: my color, this and that. Like that's a lot to

581
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 4: deal with.

582
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 7: And there's people who will just come on your page

583
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 7: saying negative shit.

584
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 4: That's because they don't feel good about themselves.

585
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 7: Like so a person who doesn't feel good about themselves,

586
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 7: they're bound to push their negativity on you. And if

587
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 7: you're not in a mentally healthy enough space to understand that,

588
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 7: that could ruin your dam and bring.

589
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 5: You down, which most aren't.

590
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 4: Like you know what I mean. Now you're caring about what.

591
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 7: Strangers are saying about cyber strangers, Yeah, yeah, are saying

592
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 7: about you, Like that's a that's a that's a were

593
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Speaker 7: in a we're in a very different time, like in

594
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 7: this day and age, like.

595
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 4: We're in a time you can't even disagree with somebody.

596
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,479
Speaker 7: Like you know what I mean, It's like, okay, you're

597
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 7: you know, if you're not a Democrat, the Republicans are

598
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 7: mad at you. You're not a Republican. The Democrats are

599
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 7: mad at you. If you're not either one, then everybody's

600
00:30:58,400 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 7: mad at you.

601
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Speaker 4: You can say, I'm.

602
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 7: Thinking people instead of having a conversation or understand why

603
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 7: you're coming from that point of view, they'd rather just

604
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 7: drag you and call you names instead of even understanding.

605
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 7: Let me have a conversation to see your point of

606
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 7: view and why you feel that way.

607
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 4: And I believe that's why healthy lifestyle is very.

608
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 7: Important, because it's not just about physically being healthy, it's

609
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 7: about mentally being healthy. And then spiritual health means a

610
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 7: lot too, which really about on the day to day basis,

611
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 7: but your spiritual health means a lot because you don't

612
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 7: want just people coming in and putting their energy.

613
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 5: On you or I think we found another meditator. Have

614
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 5: we found another meditator?

615
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 2: For sure?

616
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 3: How do you take care of your your spiritual health.

617
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 3: Is it prayer? Is it meditation? Like what are your tools?

618
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 4: Prayer?

619
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 7: Meditation is surrounding myself around people I feel or spiritually grown,

620
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 7: or that can help me spiritually grow.

621
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 4: I also like the ground.

622
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 7: I like to take my sneakers off my side, so off,

623
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 7: step on the dirt for a minute, in contact with

624
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 7: the earth.

625
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 4: I like the stargaze. I like hikes in the nature.

626
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 7: I yelled, I screamed, I cry, I laugh, I throw

627
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 7: bowlers guy style.

628
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 4: I do what I gotta do to make go feel better.

629
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Speaker 2: You said something, Now, this is weird. You talked about rage, right, yeah,

630
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 2: and man I felt I got so I got so

631
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 2: envious because here's the thing. It took me all right,

632
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm certain that this episode will be

633
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 2: on UH in the month of all around April and May.

634
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 2: I realized something. Usually the most stressful time in my

635
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: life is between February and June, simply because of again

636
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 2: the weight, the weight of throwing that festival in Philadelphia.

637
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 2: You know, you're going through everything, You're going through every artist,

638
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 2: You're trying to cater everyone's needs, and you know, so

639
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: there's a lot of stress there. And I realized around May,

640
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 2: how I've been doing this wrong the entire time. And

641
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 2: I'm certain that almost ninety five percent of humanity does

642
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 2: the same thing that I do, which is I've only

643
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 2: been chasing one emotion only, and that's happiness. I've been

644
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 2: chasing happiness, which in the scheme of things, you think, well,

645
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 2: what's wrong with chasing happiness? But then I realize that

646
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 2: someone ever revealed to me maybe a year ago, and

647
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 2: I didn't listen to him good that it's like, yo, amir,

648
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 2: there are over forty eight other emotions besides happiness. And

649
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: they named the whole spectrum. They showed me a graphic chart.

650
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 2: There's some dark shit like jealousy and sadness, there's some

651
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 2: light shit like laughter, like happiness, and so there's a

652
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 2: whole spectrum of emotions, and I only knew happy, you

653
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. And so what I realized was that,

654
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 2: you know, I thought, whatever my my eat, whatever my

655
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 2: personality is to certain people like oh, myer never gets

656
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 2: angry and da da da da da da. I realized

657
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 2: that I'm absolutely not in touch with any other emotion

658
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,280
Speaker 2: besides happy. And that's why, like most of us self soothed.

659
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 2: That's why, like I always went to bad foods. That's

660
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 2: why another cat will go to cocaine. That's why another

661
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: cat will drink to death or whatever. And so a

662
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 2: friend of mine had gave me a link about a

663
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 2: retreat that I should go to for people who've never

664
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 2: ever expressed rage ever, because I told them that, oh,

665
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 2: I never get it. And when they said that, they

666
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 2: said this to me, They said, you not getting angry

667
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,760
Speaker 2: a mirror. Yeah, so when's the last time you expressed

668
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,439
Speaker 2: your anger out loud? And I was like, I said,

669
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 2: probably maybe twenty years ago when I was angry that

670
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 2: someone put the wrong mix on my album and now

671
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 2: it's stuck on my record. I got angry. And they're like,

672
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 2: you're telling me the last time he expressed the anger

673
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 2: was twenty years ago because of a mastering session glitch.

674
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, I don't get angry much

675
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 2: and they were like that you just said the equipment. Yeah,

676
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 2: I'm right, Well, one you take it out on yourself.

677
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 2: He's like, at least you know you you expressed anger,

678
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 2: but you was like, you know what, I'm gonna eat

679
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 2: these feelings away instead of expressing right, And at that

680
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 2: not expressing anger is almost like you saying, you know

681
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 2: what I haven't. I haven't urinated in two decades. And

682
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 2: so I went to this retreat. It's a three day

683
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: retreat that I went to in June, and man, I realized,

684
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 2: with the exception of an occasional roller coaster and even then,

685
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 2: when I think of my roller coaster experiences, my level

686
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 2: of screaming is more like a muppet like that sort

687
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 2: of thing. That's not like real rage, that's just like

688
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 2: you know, that sort of thing, this thing that I did.

689
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 2: You know, they literally teach you how to scream, like

690
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 2: we had to spend twenty four hours learning our baritone voice,

691
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 2: our alto like our chakra like from our voice, from

692
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 2: our throat to our stomachs. So cut to us actually

693
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 2: doing the rage exercise, and I didn't realize how much

694
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 2: anger and rage I've had, I mean for five like

695
00:36:55,360 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 2: just bottled up again. It's literally like not defecating for

696
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 2: fifty years or taken. And I didn't realize that, like, oh,

697
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 2: the key to life is not chasing happiness. It's in

698
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 2: the most healthiest way to express all emotions, definitely, And

699
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 2: I didn't really so when you were like yo, like

700
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 2: I was a rage aholic. I was thinking here, like, damn, man,

701
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 2: I would I mean, no, I don't want to be

702
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 2: toxic to other people, but I wish I would have

703
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 2: known what that feeling felt like like to express anger,

704
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 2: which i've you know, never done outwardly. So I don't know.

705
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 2: I just felt, but I felt you on that man.

706
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 2: That's that's that's amazing, man, I thank you. I guess

707
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: I'd be remiss if we didn't talk about like your

708
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: craft in your art right, like.

709
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,240
Speaker 5: Music memories and stuff.

710
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 4: Not really because the craft I think. I think in

711
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 4: the music.

712
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 7: Business, that's what we do a lot, and we don't.

713
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 7: These kind of conversations aren't helld enough because people don't

714
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 7: feel comfortable with talking about where they're at in life, like.

715
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 2: Well, vulnerability. People don't want to feel varlnerable.

716
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 4: You don't want to feel vulnerable, so like.

717
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 5: We weren't always allowed to feel vulnerable y'all too. We

718
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 5: have to acknowledge that.

719
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 7: It took me for years to realize, like I I

720
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 7: was the hardest MC out of reach, out of just

721
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 7: really wanting to hurt something like I had.

722
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 4: To realize later on, I was like.

723
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 7: Wow, I knew myself the whole time subconsciously because I

724
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 7: always told people I was a gangster and a gentleman,

725
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 7: like I'm the rapper who you can hear make some

726
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 7: real gangster shit. Then I know I'm the rapper who

727
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 7: also got a song with FONTI.

728
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 4: Right now, you know what I mean. I live this

729
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 4: and that. So I've always walked a fine line of balancing.

730
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 7: So throughout my music career, I've been fortunate enough to

731
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 7: say that I've been able to work with with the

732
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 7: greats and be able to be myself genuinely on both sides.

733
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 7: As I got old, it really took me to as

734
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,919
Speaker 7: I got older, like somebody I didn't think, I really

735
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 7: realized that one day I had an interview and somebody

736
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 7: was like, you may be one of the only few

737
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 7: artists who are walking that fine line who gets accepted.

738
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 7: And that made me have appreciation of of my craft

739
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 7: and saying that is a pretty dope thing you know

740
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 7: to be. But I also consciously realized I introduced myself

741
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 7: as that in the beginning.

742
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 4: I told people I'm literally half and half.

743
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 7: So I guess to say what I'm saying is our

744
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 7: careers sort of reflect.

745
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 4: Our life and who we are.

746
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 7: Like like you've held in that ridge quest but you've

747
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 7: always been the guy that people go, I'm gonna go

748
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 7: fuck with him.

749
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 4: We love these guys, we love what they do. Like

750
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 4: my early career, I almost ruined my fucking career out

751
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 4: of I almost ruled my own career with with not

752
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 4: being in two, with with being two in tune with

753
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 4: some of my feelings, and then nothing.

754
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 7: I think our careers are a reflection of who we are,

755
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 7: and we just have to learn other ways to be.

756
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 4: Like it took me to learn.

757
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 7: I like they got it to a point where I said,

758
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 7: I don't really want to feel like walking around with

759
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 7: two guns all the time and embracing a certain energy.

760
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 7: So I left the guns home and left the security.

761
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 7: But I brought a good energy with me, saying God's.

762
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 4: Gonna be my security and if it's my day to go,

763
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 4: it's my day to go. That was written. But I

764
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 4: also work somewhere in a light and even with.

765
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,280
Speaker 7: My history of the music I made and the music

766
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 7: I'm doing and just being in a place of going,

767
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 7: the people got to accept me for who I am, and.

768
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 4: I let the chips fall where they may.

769
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 7: So I've been blessed to have a you know, a great,

770
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 7: a great music career. I would like to say I've

771
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 7: been able to be around the reads and work with

772
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 7: a lot of the greats and be on a lot

773
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 7: of songs. I feel like, when it's all said and done,

774
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 7: I've been a very hard working MC and I appreciate it.

775
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 7: But my journey now, more so than my music career,

776
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 7: is to also make sure that people in music are

777
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 7: also understanding to connect your connect your career with your

778
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 7: personal life and your health, because without your health, you're

779
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 7: not going to really enjoy your career.

780
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 5: Since we are talking about career a little bit and

781
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 5: were talking about the fiftieth, it seems like, of course

782
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 5: you've been involved in a bunch of stuff this year,

783
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 5: but has there been anything that kind of really blew

784
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 5: you away as a as a fan of the craft,

785
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 5: not just a participant in the.

786
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 4: Culture, as a fan and a participant, I would.

787
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 7: Have to say, and not not to be funny just

788
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 7: because we're here, but rocking at Grammys and being part

789
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 7: of that for you know.

790
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 2: Ah, every time someone brings it up.

791
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 3: I forget.

792
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 7: That was one of the most beautiful things that I

793
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,720
Speaker 7: was to participate in I would say in my career,

794
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 7: before I got there, I like, this is what I'm saying.

795
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 4: About about life and your health.

796
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 7: Like even before I got there, I don't think I

797
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 7: got to the first rehearsal that I understood the magnitude

798
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 7: of it.

799
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 4: Then when I got to that first rehearsal, I was like,

800
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 4: and you saw and salt and pepper iced tea L L.

801
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 7: Black thought of ourselves, just the whole room, and just

802
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 7: understand that I was part of something that great and

803
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 7: to be fortunate enough to be there and to see

804
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 7: all my childhood superheroes son those coming up after me.

805
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 7: To be part of something that great was very very

806
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 7: I want to say humbling, because that's not the appropriate word.

807
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 2: I think it's humbling.

808
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 7: It was humbling, but it was more so of a

809
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 7: realization of how great this thing of ours, this and

810
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 7: how fortunate enough that my career has been to be

811
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 7: called to be part of it.

812
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, No, I know.

813
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 5: Because I was wondering if you understood that the moment

814
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 5: when the fans and the people watching that show saw

815
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 5: the lotsy y'all come on the stage, what that means

816
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 5: to that performance too? Like you understand that, like when

817
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 5: they see you, it's like, oh, sh yes, this is

818
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 5: for real.

819
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 4: Hell yeah it was. It was just it was beyond words.

820
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 7: And I got to and you know, it's crazy when

821
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 7: you and your group members and like we all were

822
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 7: saying the same shit, like this is absolutely fucking crazy.

823
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 4: I was like a kid in the candy store.

824
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 7: I was like, this right here is a moment I

825
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 7: will never forget because I think, especially in hip hop,

826
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 7: I think people get used to the other accolades, like

827
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 7: all right, I got a home, now, I got this

828
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 7: amount of cars, I sold this much for me, I'm

829
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 7: you know, I grew up in a in a time of.

830
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 4: Hip hop where for l l.

831
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 7: Iced tea to know your name, know your songs, for

832
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 7: Rockham to want to hug you is what something that

833
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 7: I could express, Like, that's better than any award that

834
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 7: I could ever get, to be acknowledged by the greats,

835
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 7: to be loved by them, to be respected by them

836
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 7: as a big O award than any award that I

837
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 7: could possibly get. It's an unreal feelings.

838
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 6: Were you to that point he speaking to your point

839
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 6: about you like kind of getting the accolades from the greats,

840
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 6: last time we saw each other in the flesh, it

841
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 6: was Kennedy Center, it was Pharaoh Manches Show.

842
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 3: We were in DC. This is pre pandemic, it's pre COVID.

843
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 6: But we saw each other and it was in the

844
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 6: hallway and I told Pooh, I'll never get it.

845
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 3: I was like, it was our album middle.

846
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 6: Or watch it came out. It just came out and

847
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 6: I saw you and he was like, yo, like.

848
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 3: You know we got each other. Gave me a big

849
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,760
Speaker 3: hug and he was like, yo, man, I love this record.

850
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 3: It sounds like y'all missed each other, you know what

851
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 3: I mean? And I knew that from you, Like I

852
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 3: was like, he know, you know what I mean.

853
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 6: So he was like, yo, man, sound like y'all missed

854
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 6: each other. Man, Like I love this record, like you

855
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 6: could hear it. And so I just really like hearing

856
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 6: that from you like that, you know. I mean, that

857
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 6: was it. Like we didn't tell another record after that.

858
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 6: I was good, and I wanted to ask, man, how

859
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 6: do you keep a rap group together?

860
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 5: Like?

861
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 3: I mean, you you know, she like, how do y'all?

862
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 2: Because it's just a very rare thing for groups like exist.

863
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 7: Brotherhood has to be more than anything like where where

864
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 7: I feel like the game has split up a lot

865
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 7: of groups with them prioritizing the game over brotherhood, like

866
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 7: we made an OH when we came in with brothers.

867
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 7: Like if I don't get on a record for you

868
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 7: to say kiss or Sheik is better than me, I

869
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 7: want you to say I'm better than them, you like

870
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 7: my first better, But when you don't, if you don't,

871
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 7: I'm still cool because it's a win for the team

872
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 7: and we accept it. But nobody gets you on the

873
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 7: basketball court looking for somebody else to be the MVP.

874
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 7: But if you understand that team and brotherhood over everything,

875
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 7: it keeps it together. Like I bond goes beyond music.

876
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 7: Our bond will always go beyond music. Our family members

877
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 7: rock with each other because with family, we understand that

878
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 7: it's family first and everything else kind of just falls after.

879
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 7: Like you can't you can't let feign materialistic things, money, women,

880
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 7: what people say, what other men say get in between

881
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 7: what you have, Like what you have has to be

882
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 7: sacred to you.

883
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 4: You have to appreciate making music is something we love.

884
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 7: It's fortunate enough that we've been able to do it

885
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 7: for you know, this thing of our starts as a hobby.

886
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 7: Then you make it a job, and if you're fortunate enough,

887
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 7: you get to make it a career. And then it's

888
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 7: really fortunate enough, people say, you know, you're doing legend

889
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 7: and every ship, and you work on being a legend.

890
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 7: So understood, Yeah, understanding that we've just always put ourselves

891
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 7: and our brotherhood before anything else, and we we've always

892
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 7: kept it that way.

893
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 2: But when do you pinpoint the time period of which

894
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,280
Speaker 2: the three of you said, let's start a group, because

895
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 2: I don't know the genesis of how you guys actually met.

896
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 4: High school kissing chik knew each other.

897
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 7: Actually, since I want to say single digits, I met them,

898
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 7: I met them in junior high and then we end

899
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 7: up going to high school together. Like they lived on

900
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 7: the north side of the Ankers, I lived on the

901
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 7: south side of the Ankers. As an MC, you get

902
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 7: to hear who's the other mcs ringing around town and

903
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:44,919
Speaker 7: they name will always ring.

904
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 4: And in high school we formed the group. It was

905
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 4: Bomb Squad. It was UH.

906
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 7: It was more so like they were EPMD and I

907
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 7: was k solo at first UH. And there was other

908
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 7: people who rap with the Bomb Squad. Also, their professionalism

909
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 7: and the studio taught me a lot very young, like

910
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 7: when everybody else was banging on hoods and just kind

911
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 7: of saying versus outside they were making hooks. They had

912
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,359
Speaker 7: so on format, they know how to they knew how

913
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 7: to lay in the studios down the scene that they

914
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 7: sounded outside in the studio. So, uh, I guess my

915
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 7: work ethic got drive and just being being close with

916
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 7: each other, like we would call each other over over

917
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 7: the phone, seeing each other's rhymes.

918
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 4: Here, here's what's going on, and just as we kept going.

919
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 4: Actually I had a job at odd job. How we

920
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 4: got on is I had an odd job at odd job. Uh,

921
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 4: I was.

922
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 7: Still part of me, but I was still truckloads and

923
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 7: ship and one day we just I stole the truckload

924
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:53,720
Speaker 7: of tapes. Then we made a demo, and that demo

925
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 7: just kept circulating around. And their professionalism, and I think

926
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 7: the trials and tribulations of us, what we went through

927
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 7: in high school, what we was going through outside of school,

928
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:12,439
Speaker 7: having stock jobs, part time criminals, having dreams of being

929
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 7: an MC's and just sticking without sticking to the guns

930
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 7: and believing in it. It forms something and then when

931
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 7: you split it, when you split a pizza three ways

932
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 7: or six ways or whatever amount of homeboys is there.

933
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 7: When you get a couple, you know, you're getting a

934
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 7: couple chicken wings and fried rice and you're breaking it down.

935
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 7: That kind of sticks with you. You don't you don't

936
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 7: forget those times. And I think we never forgot those times,

937
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 7: and us we always kept our brotherhood together.

938
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 4: Like even if you think about it, I don't a

939
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 4: bad boy.

940
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 7: When we was there, that was like we were on

941
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 7: the Chicago Bulls of rap and to risk it together,

942
00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 7: we're saying, I like, fuck it, we feeling good.

943
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 4: Here, we don't like it here, this and that all right?

944
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 4: We made it. We could make it again.

945
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 7: So I think even going through everything we went through

946
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 7: is kind of put us in a place in a

947
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 7: position of saying, you know where what we have is

948
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 7: always bigger than what the what, what the game is.

949
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 7: We had a brotherhood. We built it together. We we

950
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 7: came about the Mother together, and knowing that it just

951
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 7: it kept us tight and it under we understood what

952
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 7: we were.

953
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 4: We were understood that brotherhood more than a group.

954
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 2: You know, when people speak of Yonkers, of course they

955
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 2: think of you first, they think of they think of

956
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 2: Mary were there any other hip hop legends from Yonkers before.

957
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,760
Speaker 7: Mary with the first legend, actually Mary with legends before

958
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 7: we got on, right, Yeah, well made.

959
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 4: There's also Bill Blast. He was definitely legendary.

960
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 7: There was an MC I loved. His name was Universal.

961
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:02,359
Speaker 7: We had colleague Kool, We had my man Og, Dusty Mike.

962
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:07,280
Speaker 7: We had a few people, but I would say extra

963
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 7: Mary were the first legends of the town.

964
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 4: Like, what makes Ex a legend is here was a legend.

965
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 7: He was making solid music and tapes that everybody from

966
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 7: our time pretty much knew X.

967
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:19,439
Speaker 4: Would be a star.

968
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 7: I think what made him legendary is we happened to

969
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 7: get on first from rap.

970
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 4: But X is the one who brought us to rough Riders,

971
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:29,280
Speaker 4: brought rough Riders to us.

972
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 7: And I think for us to get on first and him,

973
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 7: I've never seen any bitter feelings towards towards that from X,

974
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 7: like I never seen, you know, because I think if

975
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,720
Speaker 7: the situation was vice versa, I would have been pissed.

976
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 7: I think he had the confidence of knowing how much

977
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,720
Speaker 7: of a huge star he was. He knew what was coming,

978
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 7: so it was important for us to throw, you know,

979
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 7: make sure he was on money, power, respect, and I

980
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 7: just think he understood the magnitude of how big and

981
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 7: now huge he was and where he was gonna go

982
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 7: in life. So I would say X and Mary are

983
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 7: with legendary before they were even knowing, Like Mary would

984
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 7: sing in the parks and the whole town would come out.

985
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 7: Like I knew Mary sing single digits. I actually knew

986
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 7: X and Mary before I knew kissing she can kiss.

987
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 7: I knew I knew Marry because she lived up Hire

988
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 7: and my cousin are close friends, which they still are

989
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 7: to this day. Like Mary calls me a little dave

990
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 7: to this day. Speed to Mary, I'm a little Dave,

991
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 7: Like you know what I mean. I knew Mary since

992
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 7: I was I was seven. I knew X because he's

993
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:40,359
Speaker 7: from the south Side too, so he lived a few

994
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 7: blocks from me. So I knew of X from it

995
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 7: is extra curriculum activities in the neighborhood.

996
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 4: He was legendary on both on both sides of the defense.

997
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 2: But so when I used to work at Roughhouse Records

998
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 2: as an intern and I joined rough House right when

999
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 2: DMX was signed the rough House first he had a

1000
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 2: single out called born Loser. I believe that halftime by

1001
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 2: Nas which was on the Zebrahead soundtrack and Born Loser

1002
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 2: that came in the box the same day, So I

1003
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 2: deserved that. The DJs were you guys like aware of

1004
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 2: that level of dmxic think.

1005
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 7: We knew him, like even in zebra You remember, just

1006
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 7: speaking of Zebrahead, Deshaun I went to school.

1007
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 2: With him, weren't it.

1008
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 4: I went, oh, wow, I think his.

1009
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 7: Name is DeShawn Castle. Correct, yes, Shawn Castle. He used

1010
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 7: to wrap his ass off too. That's another person who

1011
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 7: used to rhyme from jan because I think actually I

1012
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 7: met she through from DeShawn and junior high.

1013
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 4: Me and Deshaun I knew him.

1014
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 7: I got kicked out of that school, but we went

1015
00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 7: to It was a school called Hawthorne for the givet

1016
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 7: and Talented.

1017
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 4: They kicked my black ass right out of there. I

1018
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 4: was too bad for that one.

1019
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 2: Is that DeShawn?

1020
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 3: Is that the same DeShawn that was on the show

1021
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 3: Biz An AG album?

1022
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 4: Uh?

1023
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 3: Was did he ever sean you're talking about him to

1024
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 3: make any records?

1025
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 7: I don't remember if he was on show Business AG album.

1026
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 7: I do know he was the star Zebrahead though, Okay,

1027
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 7: all right, got.

1028
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I never knew his name, but he was dope.

1029
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I actually met she through him and in

1030
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 7: about seventh seventh grade, so uh yeah, I didn't know

1031
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 7: actually knew of the song Ship. We used to play it,

1032
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 7: we used to love it. And that's another reason, like

1033
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 7: God bless my brother asks why I have the utmost

1034
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 7: respect for him, because most people, when they get an opportunity,

1035
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 7: they lose out. It doesn't work the way they work,

1036
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 7: They tough, they tail and make it back. He never

1037
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 7: That's why he used a dog in real life. He

1038
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 7: had dog drive, he had dog will, and you know,

1039
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 7: I believe he had a lot of dog in them

1040
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,720
Speaker 7: and a whole lot of God in a mix because

1041
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 7: his driving, his willingness to keep pushing flow was crazy.

1042
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 7: And if you've ever seen DMX in the Battle, his

1043
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 7: level different were fucking insane. It was the level of

1044
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 7: ferocity to nastity ferociousness was literally insane.

1045
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 2: At least, the perception was, Oh, you're going to be

1046
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 2: the first generation of privilege in hip hop, where you

1047
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 2: know your level of success is not going to be

1048
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:36,399
Speaker 2: that of like Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five

1049
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 2: or Ultra Magneticum Seeds like you guys are actually going

1050
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 2: to be like national known and all that stuff. So

1051
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 2: just in the beginning and the very beginning, when the

1052
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 2: bad boy thing seems to be real, Like, at what

1053
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 2: point did it get real for you to know that,

1054
00:55:55,520 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 2: like Jesus Christ, like, we're literally about to We're about

1055
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 2: to make it.

1056
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 7: I would say when we heard that Buff he heard

1057
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 7: the demo from Mary and he heard it on the

1058
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 7: tour bus and he liked it and he called us up,

1059
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 7: we pretty much knew that we were going to make it.

1060
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 4: That's one thing we had.

1061
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 7: We had a chip on our shoulder because we were

1062
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 7: from Yonkers, like because nobody from Yonkers was on God

1063
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 7: Bless the Dead, Heavy D was on prior to us.

1064
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 7: Brand New Leans is from New Rochelle. Mount Vernon is

1065
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 7: after Yonkers, so the Bronx is before Yonkers. So we

1066
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 7: were literally like the Yonkers is attached to the Bronx,

1067
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 7: Like as soon as you get out the Bronx, you

1068
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:45,359
Speaker 7: ain't Yonkers. So we felt skipped over for so long

1069
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 7: that we we had the I believe part of us

1070
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 7: getting on was we had the utmost confidence and we

1071
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 7: always knew our shit. We always rehearsed a lot, We

1072
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 7: always memorized everything we were saying.

1073
00:56:58,760 --> 00:56:59,879
Speaker 4: We always had good time.

1074
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 7: So by the time we got to Puff and they

1075
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 7: said we have to meet him at his office in Rhyme,

1076
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 7: we were already on. We're getting on. There was no

1077
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 7: doubt about it in any of our heads. Like we

1078
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 7: were looking at it as like we're so overlooked, but

1079
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 7: we're we're fucking nice.

1080
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 4: That's that's how we used to go about it.

1081
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 7: And we traveled enough around and you know, from different burroughs,

1082
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 7: different places, and just wrapping our ass off to.

1083
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 4: The point where we knew how good we were.

1084
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 7: So by the time we got there, and I would say,

1085
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 7: that moment you're asking for is when we did.

1086
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 4: You'll see. And then we found out Big was getting

1087
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 4: on your seat.

1088
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 7: We knew history, we knew where were in the books

1089
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,959
Speaker 7: because when Big met us, I would even say, before

1090
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 7: getting on, it's when Big met us and he said, y'all.

1091
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 4: Are fucking them sees damn. We got on MC's and

1092
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 4: I'm glad to have y'at here for us.

1093
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 7: That meant a lot because at the particular time he

1094
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 7: was the King of New York, he did he'd done

1095
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 7: something someone no one had ever did, and It wasn't

1096
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 7: just rhyming good because he rhymed well, but it was

1097
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 7: the fact that he was such a well rounded MC

1098
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 7: that he kind of did everything well and.

1099
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 4: He changed the trajectory of how the game was going.

1100
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 4: He was big, He was owning it. He was making

1101
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 4: fat people proud. He was saying things that nobody was

1102
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 4: even saying. Black and ugliest. Ever, how like he was

1103
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 4: just going from an angle of saying shit that was

1104
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 4: like wow, like uh, it's crazy, Like you know what

1105
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 4: I mean.

1106
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 7: I believe Nas opened the door for our generation of

1107
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 7: rappers like he Nas is the He's the I call

1108
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 7: him the baby of the grand Masters, which the lyrical

1109
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 7: grand masters, which would be Cougi King, k arrests and

1110
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:59,959
Speaker 7: rock him, nabody, all of that, but from the child

1111
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 7: who's seen crack outside and drug dealers and robbers and

1112
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 7: knew how to bring it to the table. Then I

1113
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 7: felt a whole Big Wu Tang Nas and all of

1114
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 7: that really I mean escalated it. But I felt Big

1115
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 7: also was able to put the vision of what drug

1116
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 7: dealers wanted outside what we were looking for, the firing

1117
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 7: things in life.

1118
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 4: I felt he was able to mess it all and

1119
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 4: then just bring something new to the table.

1120
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,919
Speaker 7: So for him to feel that way about it's really

1121
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 7: made our confidence kind of boost out the door.

1122
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 4: Like we already was very confident.

1123
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 7: And then to get that love from somebody who was

1124
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 7: on who was on top, who you know, was being

1125
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 7: crowned the king of New York meant a lot to us.

1126
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 7: And then just being in Obsessions and working with him,

1127
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 7: speaking with him. Because besides that, like when we got

1128
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 7: into Bad Boy, our rooms used to merge, like we

1129
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 7: would go chill with you and Mafi and Big, they

1130
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 7: would chill with us. We would smoke together, we would

1131
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 7: drink it together. We were you know, I got to

1132
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:05,479
Speaker 7: see I got to see him making most of life

1133
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 7: after death. So that kind of feeling just puts you

1134
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 7: in a whole new way of belonging, Like you make

1135
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 7: it somewhere. To make it somewhere is one thing, but

1136
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 7: the question if you belong there is another. But to

1137
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 7: know you belong there is a whole nother feeling. Like

1138
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 7: so we had that feeling of knowing we belong.

1139
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 4: So it just made everything kind of great for us.

1140
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 2: Quick question, how did you guys come up with the

1141
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 2: name of.

1142
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 4: The group, Well, we were the warlocks.

1143
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 2: Ah, okay, were warlocks and.

1144
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 4: Took us the wars over. Drop it so for real,

1145
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 4: the war's over, So y'all can't be the Warlocks. But

1146
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 4: we wanted to be still who we were.

1147
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 7: So then we went home and I was like, you

1148
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 7: know what, actually what we were doing was and music wise,

1149
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 7: was we were living with our experiences.

1150
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 4: And that's what we put in our music. I was like, yo,

1151
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 4: living off experience y'all, and it was like, that's it,

1152
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 4: that's us just a lot.

1153
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 2: Okay. I thought you guys were just enthusiasts for really

1154
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 2: good bagel sandwiches. I didn't know where the locks came from,

1155
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 2: so wow, sorry.

1156
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 3: See I steal my joke.

1157
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 2: Next time I.

1158
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 3: Wanted to ask man.

1159
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 6: I read it was an interview or a quote somewhere

1160
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 6: where talking about the Let the Locks Go campaign when

1161
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:31,439
Speaker 6: y'a were getting off Bad Boy.

1162
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 3: That that was Puff's idea.

1163
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 6: He wanted to kind of make it, you know, kind

1164
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 6: of on some uh you know pet Barnum, like make

1165
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 6: it a thing.

1166
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, make camp. That's that's a lot, okay,

1167
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 3: talk about it, that's a damn line.

1168
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 4: No, we went with let the Locks Go.

1169
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 7: Because we understood that we didn't have the financial power

1170
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 7: or the lawyer power to deal with to to win

1171
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 7: the fight we were trying to fight.

1172
01:01:58,160 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 4: But what we understood was that.

1173
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 7: People who actually loved us on the street at that time,

1174
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 7: we did a lot of rumbling, a lot of making

1175
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 7: our name known, so people felt kind of connected to us,

1176
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 7: and we were blue collar rap so we figured we

1177
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 7: would do be smarter. But it and that we had

1178
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 7: we was like, all right, we can't win with money,

1179
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 7: we can't win with lawyers, but how do you pull

1180
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 7: out a strategy that works for.

1181
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 4: You and it's most and.

1182
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 7: Came up with We're gonna have the public joint in

1183
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 7: and just tell people what we're going through because at

1184
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:34,920
Speaker 7: the time, the public opinion embarrassed to say, I'm not

1185
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 7: And what's crazy about it is we had a standard

1186
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 7: industry contract, which we welter. We pretty much had a

1187
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 7: standard contract. But we also, like I said, we were

1188
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 7: kind of I think with an epitome of blue collar

1189
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 7: and white collar mix and being streaked, but being also

1190
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:58,440
Speaker 7: a little a little nerdy. Like everything is, if you

1191
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 7: sign a deal, no matter how bad it is, you

1192
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 7: should be able to renegotiate if you get get somewhere,

1193
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 7: like if you sell drugs.

1194
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 4: You know, I sold ten pieces for ten dollars.

1195
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 7: That's one hundred dollars. Now when you tell me I'm

1196
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 7: putting out an album, you know what I mean. I'm

1197
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 7: coming straight off the street. So it's no way I

1198
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 7: was gonna read all this paperwork and everything. That's happy.

1199
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 4: I wanted to be there. I'm as signing. But if

1200
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 4: you're telling me I'm only getting a h not even.

1201
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 7: A dollar off this album every album sold or not

1202
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 7: even two dollars, Now I got a problem and we

1203
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 7: gotta we gotta fix this.

1204
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 4: This ain't even cool. So we didn't really care about

1205
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 4: the image that everybody else was worried about.

1206
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 7: So we came with let the locks go, and we

1207
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 7: figured we'll use the power of the people, throw the

1208
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:46,320
Speaker 7: T shirts on on summer jam, let everybody and involve

1209
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 7: the people with it and have the people on your side.

1210
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 5: That's where raping you records came from, right. I can

1211
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 5: just keep hearing it in my head because they be

1212
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:55,920
Speaker 5: raping you, raping you, raping.

1213
01:03:57,880 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 4: Yup.

1214
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:02,280
Speaker 7: So we just strategized and use what we felt would

1215
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:06,240
Speaker 7: work for us, which was a campaign letting people know

1216
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:08,480
Speaker 7: how we felt and that we didn't want to be there.

1217
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 3: Thanks for clearing that up. Man, I read that before

1218
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 3: and it yeah, thanks for clearing.

1219
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 4: That up for Damn Line.

1220
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's good at it.

1221
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 2: So just in your career, like, what would you say

1222
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 2: is can you name at least three like the magic

1223
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 2: moments that you were there for or that that really

1224
01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 2: impacted you.

1225
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:36,240
Speaker 7: One getting on when you first get on, I would say,

1226
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 7: it is uh, veryful. Two I want to say it's

1227
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:46,200
Speaker 7: a particular particular time and movement. But as I said,

1228
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 7: I sat down and reflected on all the artists that

1229
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:51,960
Speaker 7: I worked with I was able to work with, and

1230
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 7: it made me have a high level of appreciation for myself.

1231
01:04:55,960 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 7: I think when you take a conscious look at your

1232
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 7: catalog and are able to say, oh, man, I worked

1233
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 7: with him, I worked with I did this, I've done that,

1234
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 7: it made me very proud. And then the Grammys definitely

1235
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 7: was a highlight moment because I felt that was that was.

1236
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 4: Worldly, like you know what I mean? And how do

1237
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 4: you put this?

1238
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,920
Speaker 7: When you could do a stadium and you could do

1239
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 7: a small room, It puts you in and in the

1240
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 7: realization of.

1241
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 4: What you meet. The hip hop thinking about being on

1242
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 4: Bigg's album, Whole's album, a roots album.

1243
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:35,720
Speaker 7: Doing a song with Mariah doing you know, being on

1244
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 7: a Ma Maya album, being on a j LO album,

1245
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 7: being on a Talb album. I would say after Versus

1246
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 7: too the au, Yes, yes, I suspect the verses where

1247
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:53,440
Speaker 7: kids came up to us going, we're gonna learn our rhymes,

1248
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 7: We're gonna stop rapping over the track. Uh, we we're

1249
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 7: gonna have our show tight. We see what your brotherhood

1250
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 7: brings to the people. That was very important because I

1251
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 7: didn't understand. I never thought the magnitude of the after

1252
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 7: effect would be that big. And yes, yeah, So that

1253
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 7: was also a great moment in our career where we

1254
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:20,040
Speaker 7: were able to say, staying on the hamster wheel pays off,

1255
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 7: like you you know what I mean, being able to

1256
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 7: stay on that wheel and that workout and do what

1257
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:30,280
Speaker 7: you do continuously. Sometimes you don't get credit for what

1258
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 7: you do. You don't get acknowledgment, you don't get your accolades,

1259
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 7: you don't make certain lists, you don't get certain ackledgement.

1260
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 7: If you stick to what you do or it'll come

1261
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 7: around sooner or later. And Versus Versus showed us that

1262
01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 7: because it wasn't about we love this set, those is

1263
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 7: our brothers. But to see that many kids come up

1264
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 7: to us after going we're gonna learn our rhymes and

1265
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 7: we're gonna stop performing over that track with the words

1266
01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:00,040
Speaker 7: on meant a lot to us because we felt we

1267
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 7: now did what we were supposed to do for the

1268
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 7: hip hop we grew up on.

1269
01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 5: That's the one thing I was hoping. I was like,

1270
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 5: out of everything that came out of that versus, I

1271
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 5: was hoping that young artists are watching this and seeing

1272
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 5: what to do and what not to do.

1273
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so that meant a lot to it.

1274
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 5: One more question before you got because you mentioned you

1275
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 5: mentioned you and your wife Azua would do a couple

1276
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:22,520
Speaker 5: of these shows. And I'm so curious because when we

1277
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 5: see as as a consumer and as a watcher of

1278
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:27,040
Speaker 5: these shows, where we see you and your wife on them,

1279
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 5: we know what that brings. It brings a certain level

1280
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 5: of legitimacy to these couple shows, right because we know

1281
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 5: that y'all shit is real, y'all work on y'all shit

1282
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:37,480
Speaker 5: every day. Whatever. But I'm so curious for you and Azua,

1283
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 5: why what's your motivation for doing these shows?

1284
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 7: One you want to build your marriage up, you want

1285
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:46,280
Speaker 7: to learn what you can, but you also want to

1286
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:50,480
Speaker 7: show people like, uh, we pride ourselves. There's never been

1287
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 7: a show where we were in ourselves or somebody could

1288
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 7: pay us to be out of pocket, act uncivil or

1289
01:07:57,600 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 7: so we're big on black love and black family and

1290
01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 7: do what we can do for the black family and

1291
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 7: represent black love.

1292
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you. It's great. It means a lot

1293
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:06,919
Speaker 5: to us to see y'all.

1294
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 2: Thank y'all, thank you, Thank you, brother Steve. I know

1295
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:14,560
Speaker 2: you didn't get your cream cheese. That's all right.

1296
01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 4: I'm sure there'll be somebody else from a band.

1297
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, no.

1298
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:24,240
Speaker 4: Plant based cream cheese.

1299
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go.

1300
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 5: Oh that's yeah, I do like the plant based.

1301
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, yo styles. Thank you so much for doing this,

1302
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 2: And really, I really appreciate you for having the courage

1303
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 2: to really live in your integrity. And I know you're like,

1304
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,600
Speaker 2: I'm not a leader, but you're an absolute leader, and

1305
01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 2: you're a seed planner, and you know, like we're out

1306
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 2: here listening to you, and I'm especially out here listening

1307
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:51,880
Speaker 2: to you. I thank you for that so because that

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01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 2: that'll make me, that'll keep me on the straight and

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Speaker 2: narrow as well, and then that will inspire someone else

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Speaker 2: and so on and so on.

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Speaker 6: So no, man, Uh, from the time we met, like

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Speaker 6: first time it was when you were at first kind

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Speaker 6: of opening your juice bar when we did the Pharaoh.

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Speaker 3: Mantch Black Can side video.

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Speaker 6: I love that record, man, but we shot you know

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Speaker 6: that in you know, in your in your bar, and uh,

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01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 6: you just always been every time. I didn't even think

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01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:18,960
Speaker 6: you even knew who we were, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: When Pharaoh hit me for that record, he was like, yeah, man,

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01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 6: I want you to do a hook and I got styles.

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01:09:23,240 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 6: I was like word like style. I was like for

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Speaker 6: real and I heard it. I was like, oh this

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01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 6: shiit dovers hell. And so when I met you, man,

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01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 6: you just always every time we saw each other was

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Speaker 6: always love. You just always been just one of the

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01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 6: most solid dudes in this game, man, And I just

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01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:36,639
Speaker 6: wanted to just you you love him space.

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Speaker 4: You're having me on the project, bro.

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Speaker 7: I told you, I'm a fan, man, a big, big fan,

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Speaker 7: and question I owe you a personal think.

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Speaker 4: I was scared to do something. I asked quests for

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Speaker 4: a request at a party.

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Speaker 5: Dude a record to playing record.

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Speaker 2: Not only did he request the record, I actually complied,

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Speaker 2: and because I'm world famous for not but on top

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Speaker 2: of that, on top of that, to this day, my

1337
01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 2: first five records is Dreams. I played that. He has

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01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 2: me played Fleetwood Mac Dreams.

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Speaker 5: Wow, but in lovely.

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Speaker 4: I got scared. That was one. See I could have

1341
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:21,680
Speaker 4: mentioned my feelings. I was like, oh fuck, I think

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01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:22,719
Speaker 4: I offended questions.

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Speaker 1: I knew better than to ask, but I was like,

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Speaker 1: I had to ask this one.

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Speaker 8: I felt like it was a good time to ask.

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Speaker 8: Look he waved me off, like no, this is like

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01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:36,959
Speaker 8: it was like what record? I was like, creat Fleetwood

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Speaker 8: Mac and that ship. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you surprised. Doesn't surprise you surprised them, know, because

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01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:47,080
Speaker 2: the thing was, I was in my jawing like come on, man,

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01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:49,439
Speaker 2: I got this. I know what I'm doing. And then

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01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:52,600
Speaker 2: I thought about it and I was like, wait, he

1353
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 2: don't even know that. That's the perfect record to mix

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01:10:55,160 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 2: him right now. And I did it, and to this

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01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:03,320
Speaker 2: day is now in my first ten records. You brought

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01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 2: that to my repertoire. So thank you again. You changing mind,

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01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 2: You're changing my health and my creativity. I got the

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01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:13,600
Speaker 2: request a quest love. Nobody does that.

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Speaker 5: You're right, I'm trying to trying to get into for years.

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Speaker 4: I think that's gonna work right now. I gotta give

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01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 4: it a try.

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01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:27,000
Speaker 2: Yes, it like wave. I was like, oh my god,

1363
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 2: you wait, because I was. It was like juggling plates

1364
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 2: like trust me and people, Yeah, don't don't, don't get couraged. Don't,

1365
01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 2: don't get couraged at all.

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01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:43,640
Speaker 7: That was and it was a vegan It was a

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01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 7: vegan plant based right. Shout out to chef Dan you

1368
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 7: home too, Yes, that was. Let me tell you something

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Speaker 7: to a question.

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Speaker 1: You are you know what it is.

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Speaker 4: You are absolutely astonishing.

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01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 7: Amazing DJ too, because that whole night was a lesson

1373
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:05,559
Speaker 7: for me because I went, you know, sometimes you think

1374
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 7: people are great just in their field, and I've seen

1375
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 7: question other fields.

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Speaker 4: But to rock that fucking party, what he was playing,

1377
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:15,240
Speaker 4: what he was doing. If I was a DJ, I

1378
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 4: would have been taking notes. I would have I probably

1379
01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:19,840
Speaker 4: would have written everything down in my note notepad. But

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Speaker 4: you're an amazing person. Thank you very much, thank you,

1381
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 4: And that's a big more spot for me. I made it.

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Speaker 2: I gotta that's.

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01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 4: Gonna go on my hip hop, on my hip hop.

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01:12:29,680 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 4: Great things I did I gotta, I gotta. I was

1385
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:36,519
Speaker 4: able to get a make a suggestion and it happened.

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01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:39,880
Speaker 2: You made it happen. Yes, you did. A rare moment

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01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 2: in Quest Left history. Thank you very much. Want to

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01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:45,280
Speaker 2: be having Steve and Fante and Laia and unpaid Bill

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Speaker 2: uh And in the great style. See this is another

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01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 2: classic episode of Quest Left Supreme. See y'all nextra.

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