WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Styles P 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.040 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.320 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Questloft Supreme. 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.799 I'm sorry your ward wa West Love Supreme. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.319 Just indeed your hosts Questo with us. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.840 Who've got a font Tigelo not the Blue Room. I 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.000 kind of like this daytime version of Quest Loft Supreme. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.720 Yeah, yeah, it's a little over hair. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.280 Out of the way. What time is it out there? Layah? 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:38.440 Nine? 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.200 Yeah, tied doing Quest Left Supreme and nine in the morning. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:50.320 Sorry about that, you're okay? Yeah, it's nude. You're waking 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:50.720 and bacon. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.200 I'm so far just waking. 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:54.040 But keep watching. 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.640 I get it, I get it. And of course Bill 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.720 Sermon's probably gonna seest me Street right now. So well, 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:01.720 I don't know, I. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:06.880 Mean, oh wait, no, right, yeah, everything yeah, actor or. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.920 The Muppet sag actors like are they are they? 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.360 It's like the. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.640 Olden pick of signs. I see, I see yeah, yo, 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.959 Ladies and gentlemen. Of course, it would be remiss if, 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.200 in this year of our lower twenty twenty three, if 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.880 we didn't start celebrating hip hop's fiftieth anniversary, at least 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.039 with some some key interviews with legendary figures that have 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.679 pushed the culture forward. So basically, I'll say that for 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.000 the last twenty five years, we've watched this young man 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:48.720 grow and evolve and expand definitely one of the most 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.680 respected and consistent MC's in the game right about now. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.960 Of course, he co found it a love group in 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.120 the culture of hip hop, of course, that's the Locks. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.480 He is an amazing solo career and has been pretty 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.480 much part of a handful of songs that we all 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.640 know by heart, including one I forgot about, the Rising 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.040 Down record that You're You're You're on Rising Down with Us. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.239 And I'll say that more importantly, uh, he has pivoted 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:24.400 to not only cultivating his music career, but also entering 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:28.440 the health space, which you know, was also influential to me. Like, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.800 it's good that both Fonte and and our guests today 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.720 are on here, and I kind of credit both men 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.519 and their and their small subtle ways with planting seeds 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:43.840 about me personally thinking about my time on on this plane, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.079 on this earthly plane, and how how I could make 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.760 it and actually be exemplary my damn self taking my 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.800 life series with my health. You know, our guest today 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.880 is opened up juice bars across New York City, including 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.519 his hometown of Yonkers, which actually just found out is 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.680 not far from where my farm is right now. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:03.480 Uh. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.280 He's bringing chance to the community. Uh, he and his 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.800 family is basically, I'm showing people the pathway to you know, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.360 better health, food, body of mind. And you know he's 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.480 he's an author, he's pitting novels, twenty albums to his name, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.760 Grammy nominations, and one of the best voices in hip hop. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.200 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Styles Pete across Love Supreme. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:27.720 It's good man, how you doing. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:28.800 What's up? Family? 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.320 Are feeling feeling good? 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:30.560 Brother? 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.919 Good to see you, good to see awesome, awesome. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.760 Right about now? Where are you? What part of the 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.520 world are you in? I'm assuming that you're in New 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:38.040 York City? 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.600 Yeah, I'm in. I'm in New York outside of the gym. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.600 Okay, I love it. 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.280 I love it outside the gym, sitting in the Oh 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:50.000 my god. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.480 How long were you in the gym? Styles? 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.240 I was in the gym about an hour? 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.920 Yeah, I left the gym. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.640 My damn self was today legs? Cardio? 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.200 What we oh? Today? 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.400 I just did cardio to be honest, this is a 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.440 It looks like a windbreaker, but this is actually like 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:07.240 a sauna suit. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:08.200 So that's what it looks. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.760 Work. Yeah, definitely, the. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.760 Yeah they could not not just for a lot of 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.200 people do it. They think you put on a sauna suit. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.240 One is great to sweat and lose weight, but it's 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.080 also great to get rid of toxins. It's a great 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.000 way to get rid of toxins that kind of speed 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:27.839 up your sweating. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:28.960 Sweat a lot. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:34.360 I'm big on sweating, stretching, sleeping, All the s's are 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:35.839 very important in your life. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.120 Sleep and sweat as much as possible. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.400 What's your what's your cardio choice? You you walk, run 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.040 stair master? Like what you what you do? 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.719 I like? I like the air bike a lot, like 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:48.640 the roll machine. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:50.400 I hate the root machine. 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.320 Man, I love the roll machine. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.640 I hate my training uses that as punishment. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:55.880 Yo. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.320 It's a good machine because you get to work everything today. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:01.840 I got on. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.240 I hurt my knee a little bit last week. I 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.200 don't even know what happened. My knee just turned to 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.280 my enemy out of nowhere. But it feeling a lot better. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.880 It called forties now, Yeah, my whole master went into 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.280 my knee and it ain't been the same since. So 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.600 today I got on the song. I see the elder 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.280 people get on all the time, and I thought it 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.159 was I thought it was a joke because all you 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.000 do is ship there and go like this lift It 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:25.840 almost killed me. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.600 Not the elliptical. You just shut down and do your 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:29.360 hands like this. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:34.120 Yeah, oh the bike, the bike joined when your hands, Yeah, 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:35.200 with your hands. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.159 I thought it was sweet that that. That machine is 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:38.760 no joke. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:44.000 You're right, I had tested that. Now my enemy is 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.120 a machine called do you know about Jacob's ladder? 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:47.200 Oh? 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.560 Yeah, that's the that's the the versa climate is the 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.200 worst machine in the That's why it's always empty. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:55.839 Is that the steps? 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:56.280 The steps? 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:57.320 Did you just walk up the steps? 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.440 Mus walk up endless ladder. 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.880 It's like the actual easiest way to say your mountain 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:08.880 climbing without mountain climbing without a mountain to make whatever 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.240 part of your body is not in shape, that machine 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.000 will let you know what part of the body that is. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.760 So before you worked out, what did you do, like, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.880 what did you put in your body before you worked out? 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:20.480 Today? 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.960 I didn't do anything but a juice. I had kill 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.320 Cilancho cucumber lime juice. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:32.280 We did this previously with Dave Matthews or I kind 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.359 of just threw the script out and just kept the 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.280 conversation going only because I'm so curious about this. I'm 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.680 gonna I'm gonna story sort of a student and kind 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.640 of cast aside the quest of supreme one on one 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.360 questions because really I'm being selfish and just doing it 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:55.200 for my own benefit. But I've really, you know, I've 0:06:55.200 --> 0:07:01.240 been following your storyline in terms of you pivoting your 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:05.479 life and taking your your your health seriously. And of 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.440 course you know you already know Fonte already knows, like 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.200 I mean, everyone everyone on on this on this current 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:19.760 conversation knows that we're kind of in an arena where 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:24.520 it's very likely that in a in a flash, you 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.920 could you could instantly leave this earthly plane in a 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.880 matter of seconds. This morning was one of those mornings. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.120 You know, one of my best friends in the world 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.920 made his made his exodus to the next life. And 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:41.480 it's almost the point where it shouldn't be numbing when 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.720 you hear about this, especially when you hear about you 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.560 know it's more health related, but just the fact that 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:51.560 you know we're barely getting the pleasure of celebrating our 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:57.480 fiftieth birthday, let alone an older age. And so for me, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.440 I would like to know what was this draw that 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.880 broke the camel's back for you in terms of like, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.200 you gotta make you gotta make a change, and you 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.960 gotta not only focus on your own personal health, but 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.600 amplify that message for us that are out here listening 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:13.800 to you. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.280 I believe in being in hip hop and. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.840 Moving to a more affluent neighborhood was really my wake 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:27.240 up call to be honest to you years ago, you know, 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.800 through hip hop. Fortunate enough, I was able to move 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.119 from where I originally lived. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.680 I think I want to say I moved. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.560 I'm forty eight now, around the time when I was 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.040 twenty one twenty two is when I first moved to 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.840 a better neighborhood and just really noticing the differences in 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:49.600 the stores and the differences and what's being sold when 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.440 you live in a more affluent neighborhood. And hip hop 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.600 is a very braggadocious verbal sport, but it's unrealistic when 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.840 you think of poor people like everybody you know, naturally 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.200 were supposed to brag shit, we better mcs and talk 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:06.319 about your lifestyle. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.360 But when I started. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.679 Thinking about it, how much how many people were aspiring 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.920 and to get things that most likely they wouldn't be 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.120 able to get or wouldn't be able to afford, and 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.080 that their life is focused on that due to hip hop. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.400 It kind of made me change my outlook on the 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.360 message I wanted to deliver. So it was like, Bro, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.640 you want to Bentley, but you can't afford the civic. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.439 And to be able to afford the civic, you have 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.400 to have a certain work lifestyle work ethic, and the 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:35.240 best way to do. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.199 That is to take care of yourself. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.200 And between that and then looking at the difference that 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.480 a healthy lifestyle made for me personally, the things that 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.200 it was able to change. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.280 About me early styles, I would. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:53.440 Say my temple was extremely bad to the point where 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.439 I was smart, but I would do stupid things. 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.480 I let my ego and my pride kind of run 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:00.199 my life and. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.880 What I was doing, so you know, I was not 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.920 going to have security type of guy. If I have 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.760 a problem, I'm handling on my own. And then that 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.480 later on led me to being more cowboyish, and then 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.880 I had to sit back and think like what's wrong 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.960 with me? Like I'm too smart to be this way? 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.640 But why am I am I this way? So I 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.199 came up with my own hypotheses that I had some 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:28.240 sort of chemical imbalance and that was coming from what 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:33.240 I was putting in my body. I was at the time, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:37.240 I was around two forty. I had posting nazl drips, cyanaidis, 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.360 ezema and a horrible temper, And just from juicing up 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.880 and eating better, I noticed the change of myself. I 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.800 noticed the change of my spirit. So it was like, 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.760 you know, I started looking at things out of the 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.679 box and from how I normally would look at things. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.559 And then I kind of knew that was all due 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.240 to me just changing my lifestyle and caring about myself more. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:00.400 I think a lot of us. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.000 We say we care about ourselves, we say we love ourselves, 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.840 but we're programmed and condition to do things that people 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.240 before us did, whether it's our parents, our grandparents, our 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:16.600 great grandparents, our neighbors. You know, we kind of put 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.440 ourselves in a box of not treating ourselves right because 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.360 people we love and that came up before us and 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.680 around us don't treat themselves right. So we get condition 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:31.640 to thinking, we don't owe ourselves the best, Like I 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.520 like material things, like you know what I mean, But 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.480 I don't love them more than I love my people. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.600 I don't love them more than I love myself. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.080 And some of us we don't even love ourselves enough 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.280 because we don't really know to. Like we run around, 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.520 we chase the dollar, we chase the dream. We're trying 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.160 to be here for our family. We're trying to have 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.040 our families live a better life. But that really all 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:55.960 starts with your personal health. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:00.240 And like you say, one you think about it and hip. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.360 We're the most influential genre that's across the world, but 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.680 we also the genre that suffers, you know, being that way, 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.280 mostly black, brown, people of color, whatever you want to 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:16.040 call it. We don't pay attention to diabetes. We don't 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.360 pay attention to high blood pressure. We don't pay attention 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.360 to cancer. We don't pay attention to the things we're eating. 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.680 We don't look up the ingredients of the things we're eating. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.800 But you could go buy. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.960 The best outfit, you could buy the best watch by 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:29.640 the best car. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.600 You don't remember with styles. It wasn't until what the 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.800 nineties was when brothers were still saying I ain't gonna 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.839 live till twenty five anyway, Right. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.800 That was that was a lot Like I'm forty eight. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.000 I know there was a time in my life I 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.400 didn't even think about making it to fifty. The future 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:49.040 that wasn't even in my You know that that was 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.760 like a bonus and a plus. And then we lose 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.880 so many people, but we don't look at why, like 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.960 and technology is so fast and speeding nowadays that we're 0:12:57.960 --> 0:12:59.800 not all taking care of ourselves properly. 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:01.520 So I think it's important to do that. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.520 The scope of how we look at things and how 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.000 we head for ourselves and our family. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.880 Real talk, man, like what year did you open your 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:11.360 juice bar? 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:13.200 Thirteen years ago? 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.800 Almost fourteen years ago would be the be the first one. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.520 Yeah, I'll probably say, you know a lot of times 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:25.160 like you know, like people who are pioneers and they 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.600 never get the credit, Like you'll never hear anyone say like, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.920 oh llll cool J's in my top five, although we'll 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.280 acknowledge him as God, will acknowledge him as the goat 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.400 or whatever. But you know, we'll always do like our like, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.240 oh well there's Big Daddy Caine cools you Brad da 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.640 Da Da, But no one ever says like LL's so 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:47.480 good and so pioneering. It's almost like Thriller will never 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.760 be in anyone's top five list, as like albums that change, 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.079 you know what I mean, Like it just goes without 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.880 saying that if I really think about it. So there 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.480 was a point in my life around to two thousand 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:04.079 and nine twenty ten in which I think we were 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.200 doing like the first we did, like the second Roots 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:11.320 Picnic in Philly, And that's probably the one concentrated week 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.480 in which I will return back to Philadelphia like my home. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.920 Like I'm here in New York because of the Tonight 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:19.320 Show and all that stuff. So I live in New 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.360 York now, but when it's Roots Picnic time, between all 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.400 the rehearsals and all that stuff, I'm going back to Philadelphia. 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:31.560 And I don't know, like I do this weird thing. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.840 And when I was younger, I used to always like 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.800 kind of ridicule, Like you'll hear about like old ball 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.520 players going back to their projects or whatever, and You'll 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:41.880 be like, Yo, what the hell are they doing? Like 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.280 why would you put yourself in that dangerous Like I'd 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.320 be super judgment on that, but i'd also know that 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.680 I do that too a lot, Like I will three 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.320 in the morning drive by my Grandmam's house, like between 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.840 like eleven PM to four in the morning, what I 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.080 called chasing ghosts, like and I want to know, like 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.600 why do I have an addiction to like visiting the 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.280 worst parts of my childhood just to like, is this 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.440 how I deal with the balance of connecting of like 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.840 maybe feelings of guilt that I have of like where 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.400 I am now like the same thing living in an 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.120 affluent neighborhood, or like is this me balancing out? But 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:26.240 the whole point was that the Second Roots picnic another 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:30.400 way that I go back to whatever nostalgia is also 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.000 a very toxic way, which is food. Now, Philadelphia is 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.800 a food town, so of course that's right. I will 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.360 make plants like, Okay, on Tuesday, I'm gonna go to 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.880 this whole spot Da Da, and then Wednesday and Thursday 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:44.680 I'm gonna go to my favorite cheese steak spots and 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.880 Da da da. So I remember the night before, the 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:53.040 night before the second picnic, I kind of overdid it 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:57.640 on the cheese steaks, and I felt horrible and I realized, 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:03.840 like yo, man, I went to neighborhood and realized that 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:09.280 everything that I've consumed all my life, which explains you know, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.560 at some points I was like four hundred and thirty pounds. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.880 Currently right now I'm like two ninety. But back in 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.480 my four hundred pounds days, I've realized like yo, like 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.400 every every fattening food that there ever was, it's almost 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.640 like by design every like why are the cheapest foods. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.560 The most harmful foods the rightest accessible? 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.800 Right? So then skip to me seeing a clip of 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.840 you talking about this. It was like the ribbon cutting 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:42.920 of your your juice spot. And when you said what 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.680 you said, I was like, I was like, that's it. 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.360 Not only am I going to turn my personal life 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.600 around and not to mention like Fonte had already like 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:58.040 released a song about how you know, we're getting older 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.560 now we need to you know, he called it expensive jeans, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.760 punt on jeans, and that that also planted seed to me. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.359 But when I saw what you did, I was like, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:15.159 that's exactly like I'm gonna have to be the paradigm shift. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:21.080 So cut to now, like my entire investment portfolio is 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:28.640 investing in plant based healthier figuring out how to turn 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.879 into conversation around without people like rolling their eyes like 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.080 all right, here he comes again, like preaching or whatever 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:38.080 for you though you influenced me and I'm not in 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:43.240 your inner circle. Is your inner circle taking note of this? 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.520 And are you being influential on them or they're now 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.520 looking at you like here he goes again, like telling 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.760 me to put the liquor down, and I come to 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.360 the gym with him, I get, I get a bit 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:54.760 of both. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.480 For the most part, I could say most of my 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:58.879 inner circle has changed. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.840 I am. I guess I'm annoying with it, but. 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:08.119 I look at it like this, it's a war, like 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:08.840 you know what I mean. 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:10.160 It's it's it's. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:15.160 Literally a war on people our color that we don't 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.760 know we're in. So I and I also want to 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.680 look at it like I'm the leader. 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:23.120 Of the pack. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:28.600 There's been Dick Gregory before me. There's been plenty of 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.600 people who done it. I'm just probably the most loudest, 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.920 voicterous person in hip hop. Even in hip hop, there's 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.360 plenty of plant based people. There's plenty of vegans. As 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.960 you said, like I'm haunted by going back to where 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.960 I'm from because no pun intended. You do that because 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.840 you connected to your roots, and when you're connected to 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.639 your roots, it's hard to forget where you're from. And 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.200 when you when you escalate, you always want to somewhat 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.600 stay in tune. I think that's the musical part of us, 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.679 is staying in tune with the foundation. But when you 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:04.160 start understanding that it's a war, I don't really care 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.440 how you look at me. I don't care how annoyed 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.439 you get. I do my job as a messenger. I 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.640 am a messenger, and I don't look at it any 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.560 further than that. And if whether you take the messenger, 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.360 you don't take the message, that's not on me. It's 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.200 on me to make sure I just keep throwing out 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.680 the message so to be able to go from one 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.280 juice bar and see the you know, when I first 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:27.280 started doing this, some. 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.920 Styles peed from the locks hardest them. 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:35.000 See, you know, the guy who's done plenty of more 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.040 than enough stupid shit in my lifetime, of a guy 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.199 with a history of violence. So when you understand that, 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.320 and you understand where that comes from, you don't really 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:47.239 have time to worry about how people are taking it. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.320 When we're losing so many great people in our culture, 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.200 when we're losing so many great people in our families 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:58.440 in the streets. I don't really worry about if how 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.959 I rub you, as long as I got the message out, 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.639 as long as I did my job, I was able 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.919 to not only see my inner circle change, but my 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:11.879 neighborhood change. Through that, we have been able to connect 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:13.400 with the mayor, build up parks. 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.760 I'm doing something with the y m c A nowhere. 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.679 We're gonna have soup kitchens and we're gonna give our 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:20.600 plant based food. 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.520 We're just gonna keep pushing it forward. We're not gonna 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:25.199 worry about uh. 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.919 I'm the now Vegandale has a bunch of other rappers 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.600 coming to it. I don't think you really got the 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:34.960 time when when we're doing what we're doing, When you're 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.560 pushing forward, you don't have the time to worry about 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.960 if you're rubbing people the wrong way, or if they're 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.760 tired of hearing you. The messager hit them one day, 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:46.320 maybe sometimes when it's too late, maybe sometimes early enough, 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:48.720 maybe sometimes just on time. 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:53.000 But as a messenger that that's our job. 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.680 And fortunately I have been able to see enough enough 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:01.200 people change before for me. Like you guys know this fine, fine, 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.200 and YouTube, But when somebody comes up to you and go, yo, 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.160 your music has changed my life. Yo, this song means 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.000