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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Questloft Supreme.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry your ward wa West Love Supreme.
Speaker 3: Just indeed your hosts Questo with us.
Speaker 2: Who've got a font Tigelo not the Blue Room. I
Speaker 2: kind of like this daytime version of Quest Loft Supreme.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a little over hair.
Speaker 2: Out of the way. What time is it out there? Layah?
Speaker 4: Nine?
Speaker 5: Yeah, tied doing Quest Left Supreme and nine in the morning.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that, you're okay? Yeah, it's nude. You're waking
Speaker 2: and bacon.
Speaker 3: I'm so far just waking.
Speaker 4: But keep watching.
Speaker 2: I get it, I get it. And of course Bill
Speaker 2: Sermon's probably gonna seest me Street right now. So well,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I.
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Speaker 5: It's like the.
Speaker 2: Olden pick of signs. I see, I see yeah, yo,
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Of course, it would be remiss if,
Speaker 2: in this year of our lower twenty twenty three, if
Speaker 2: we didn't start celebrating hip hop's fiftieth anniversary, at least
Speaker 2: with some some key interviews with legendary figures that have
Speaker 2: pushed the culture forward. So basically, I'll say that for
Speaker 2: the last twenty five years, we've watched this young man
Speaker 2: grow and evolve and expand definitely one of the most
Speaker 2: respected and consistent MC's in the game right about now.
Speaker 2: Of course, he co found it a love group in
Speaker 2: the culture of hip hop, of course, that's the Locks.
Speaker 2: He is an amazing solo career and has been pretty
Speaker 2: much part of a handful of songs that we all
Speaker 2: know by heart, including one I forgot about, the Rising
Speaker 2: Down record that You're You're You're on Rising Down with Us.
Speaker 2: And I'll say that more importantly, uh, he has pivoted
Speaker 2: to not only cultivating his music career, but also entering
Speaker 2: the health space, which you know, was also influential to me. Like,
Speaker 2: it's good that both Fonte and and our guests today
Speaker 2: are on here, and I kind of credit both men
Speaker 2: and their and their small subtle ways with planting seeds
Speaker 2: about me personally thinking about my time on on this plane,
Speaker 2: on this earthly plane, and how how I could make
Speaker 2: it and actually be exemplary my damn self taking my
Speaker 2: life series with my health. You know, our guest today
Speaker 2: is opened up juice bars across New York City, including
Speaker 2: his hometown of Yonkers, which actually just found out is
Speaker 2: not far from where my farm is right now.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's bringing chance to the community. Uh, he and his
Speaker 2: family is basically, I'm showing people the pathway to you know,
Speaker 2: better health, food, body of mind. And you know he's
Speaker 2: he's an author, he's pitting novels, twenty albums to his name,
Speaker 2: Grammy nominations, and one of the best voices in hip hop.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Styles Pete across Love Supreme.
Speaker 2: It's good man, how you doing.
Speaker 4: What's up? Family?
Speaker 3: Are feeling feeling good?
Speaker 2: Brother?
Speaker 3: Good to see you, good to see awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2: Right about now? Where are you? What part of the
Speaker 2: world are you in? I'm assuming that you're in New
Speaker 2: York City?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in. I'm in New York outside of the gym.
Speaker 2: Okay, I love it.
Speaker 6: I love it outside the gym, sitting in the Oh
Speaker 6: my god.
Speaker 5: How long were you in the gym? Styles?
Speaker 4: I was in the gym about an hour?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I left the gym.
Speaker 5: My damn self was today legs? Cardio?
Speaker 4: What we oh? Today?
Speaker 7: I just did cardio to be honest, this is a
Speaker 7: It looks like a windbreaker, but this is actually like
Speaker 7: a sauna suit.
Speaker 5: So that's what it looks.
Speaker 4: Work. Yeah, definitely, the.
Speaker 7: Yeah they could not not just for a lot of
Speaker 7: people do it. They think you put on a sauna suit.
Speaker 7: One is great to sweat and lose weight, but it's
Speaker 7: also great to get rid of toxins. It's a great
Speaker 7: way to get rid of toxins that kind of speed
Speaker 7: up your sweating.
Speaker 4: Sweat a lot.
Speaker 7: I'm big on sweating, stretching, sleeping, All the s's are
Speaker 7: very important in your life.
Speaker 4: Sleep and sweat as much as possible.
Speaker 3: What's your what's your cardio choice? You you walk, run
Speaker 3: stair master? Like what you what you do?
Speaker 4: I like? I like the air bike a lot, like
Speaker 4: the roll machine.
Speaker 2: I hate the root machine.
Speaker 4: Man, I love the roll machine.
Speaker 2: I hate my training uses that as punishment.
Speaker 4: Yo.
Speaker 7: It's a good machine because you get to work everything today.
Speaker 4: I got on.
Speaker 7: I hurt my knee a little bit last week. I
Speaker 7: don't even know what happened. My knee just turned to
Speaker 7: my enemy out of nowhere. But it feeling a lot better.
Speaker 7: It called forties now, Yeah, my whole master went into
Speaker 7: my knee and it ain't been the same since. So
Speaker 7: today I got on the song. I see the elder
Speaker 7: people get on all the time, and I thought it
Speaker 7: was I thought it was a joke because all you
Speaker 7: do is ship there and go like this lift It
Speaker 7: almost killed me.
Speaker 4: Not the elliptical. You just shut down and do your
Speaker 4: hands like this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh the bike, the bike joined when your hands, Yeah,
Speaker 5: with your hands.
Speaker 4: I thought it was sweet that that. That machine is
Speaker 4: no joke.
Speaker 2: You're right, I had tested that. Now my enemy is
Speaker 2: a machine called do you know about Jacob's ladder?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the that's the the versa climate is the
Speaker 7: worst machine in the That's why it's always empty.
Speaker 5: Is that the steps?
Speaker 4: The steps?
Speaker 5: Did you just walk up the steps?
Speaker 2: Mus walk up endless ladder.
Speaker 7: It's like the actual easiest way to say your mountain
Speaker 7: climbing without mountain climbing without a mountain to make whatever
Speaker 7: part of your body is not in shape, that machine
Speaker 7: will let you know what part of the body that is.
Speaker 5: So before you worked out, what did you do, like,
Speaker 5: what did you put in your body before you worked out?
Speaker 4: Today?
Speaker 7: I didn't do anything but a juice. I had kill
Speaker 7: Cilancho cucumber lime juice.
Speaker 2: We did this previously with Dave Matthews or I kind
Speaker 2: of just threw the script out and just kept the
Speaker 2: conversation going only because I'm so curious about this. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna story sort of a student and kind
Speaker 2: of cast aside the quest of supreme one on one
Speaker 2: questions because really I'm being selfish and just doing it
Speaker 2: for my own benefit. But I've really, you know, I've
Speaker 2: been following your storyline in terms of you pivoting your
Speaker 2: life and taking your your your health seriously. And of
Speaker 2: course you know you already know Fonte already knows, like
Speaker 2: I mean, everyone everyone on on this on this current
Speaker 2: conversation knows that we're kind of in an arena where
Speaker 2: it's very likely that in a in a flash, you
Speaker 2: could you could instantly leave this earthly plane in a
Speaker 2: matter of seconds. This morning was one of those mornings.
Speaker 2: You know, one of my best friends in the world
Speaker 2: made his made his exodus to the next life. And
Speaker 2: it's almost the point where it shouldn't be numbing when
Speaker 2: you hear about this, especially when you hear about you
Speaker 2: know it's more health related, but just the fact that
Speaker 2: you know we're barely getting the pleasure of celebrating our
Speaker 2: fiftieth birthday, let alone an older age. And so for me,
Speaker 2: I would like to know what was this draw that
Speaker 2: broke the camel's back for you in terms of like,
Speaker 2: you gotta make you gotta make a change, and you
Speaker 2: gotta not only focus on your own personal health, but
Speaker 2: amplify that message for us that are out here listening
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 4: I believe in being in hip hop and.
Speaker 7: Moving to a more affluent neighborhood was really my wake
Speaker 7: up call to be honest to you years ago, you know,
Speaker 7: through hip hop. Fortunate enough, I was able to move
Speaker 7: from where I originally lived.
Speaker 4: I think I want to say I moved.
Speaker 7: I'm forty eight now, around the time when I was
Speaker 7: twenty one twenty two is when I first moved to
Speaker 7: a better neighborhood and just really noticing the differences in
Speaker 7: the stores and the differences and what's being sold when
Speaker 7: you live in a more affluent neighborhood. And hip hop
Speaker 7: is a very braggadocious verbal sport, but it's unrealistic when
Speaker 7: you think of poor people like everybody you know, naturally
Speaker 7: were supposed to brag shit, we better mcs and talk
Speaker 7: about your lifestyle.
Speaker 4: But when I started.
Speaker 7: Thinking about it, how much how many people were aspiring
Speaker 7: and to get things that most likely they wouldn't be
Speaker 7: able to get or wouldn't be able to afford, and
Speaker 7: that their life is focused on that due to hip hop.
Speaker 7: It kind of made me change my outlook on the
Speaker 7: message I wanted to deliver. So it was like, Bro,
Speaker 7: you want to Bentley, but you can't afford the civic.
Speaker 7: And to be able to afford the civic, you have
Speaker 7: to have a certain work lifestyle work ethic, and the
Speaker 7: best way to do.
Speaker 4: That is to take care of yourself.
Speaker 7: And between that and then looking at the difference that
Speaker 7: a healthy lifestyle made for me personally, the things that
Speaker 7: it was able to change.
Speaker 4: About me early styles, I would.
Speaker 7: Say my temple was extremely bad to the point where
Speaker 7: I was smart, but I would do stupid things.
Speaker 4: I let my ego and my pride kind of run
Speaker 4: my life and.
Speaker 7: What I was doing, so you know, I was not
Speaker 7: going to have security type of guy. If I have
Speaker 7: a problem, I'm handling on my own. And then that
Speaker 7: later on led me to being more cowboyish, and then
Speaker 7: I had to sit back and think like what's wrong
Speaker 7: with me? Like I'm too smart to be this way?
Speaker 7: But why am I am I this way? So I
Speaker 7: came up with my own hypotheses that I had some
Speaker 7: sort of chemical imbalance and that was coming from what
Speaker 7: I was putting in my body. I was at the time,
Speaker 7: I was around two forty. I had posting nazl drips, cyanaidis,
Speaker 7: ezema and a horrible temper, And just from juicing up
Speaker 7: and eating better, I noticed the change of myself. I
Speaker 7: noticed the change of my spirit. So it was like,
Speaker 7: you know, I started looking at things out of the
Speaker 7: box and from how I normally would look at things.
Speaker 7: And then I kind of knew that was all due
Speaker 7: to me just changing my lifestyle and caring about myself more.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of us.
Speaker 7: We say we care about ourselves, we say we love ourselves,
Speaker 7: but we're programmed and condition to do things that people
Speaker 7: before us did, whether it's our parents, our grandparents, our
Speaker 7: great grandparents, our neighbors. You know, we kind of put
Speaker 7: ourselves in a box of not treating ourselves right because
Speaker 7: people we love and that came up before us and
Speaker 7: around us don't treat themselves right. So we get condition
Speaker 7: to thinking, we don't owe ourselves the best, Like I
Speaker 7: like material things, like you know what I mean, But
Speaker 7: I don't love them more than I love my people.
Speaker 4: I don't love them more than I love myself.
Speaker 7: And some of us we don't even love ourselves enough
Speaker 7: because we don't really know to. Like we run around,
Speaker 7: we chase the dollar, we chase the dream. We're trying
Speaker 7: to be here for our family. We're trying to have
Speaker 7: our families live a better life. But that really all
Speaker 7: starts with your personal health.
Speaker 4: And like you say, one you think about it and hip.
Speaker 7: We're the most influential genre that's across the world, but
Speaker 7: we also the genre that suffers, you know, being that way,
Speaker 7: mostly black, brown, people of color, whatever you want to
Speaker 7: call it. We don't pay attention to diabetes. We don't
Speaker 7: pay attention to high blood pressure. We don't pay attention
Speaker 7: to cancer. We don't pay attention to the things we're eating.
Speaker 7: We don't look up the ingredients of the things we're eating.
Speaker 4: But you could go buy.
Speaker 7: The best outfit, you could buy the best watch by
Speaker 7: the best car.
Speaker 5: You don't remember with styles. It wasn't until what the
Speaker 5: nineties was when brothers were still saying I ain't gonna
Speaker 5: live till twenty five anyway, Right.
Speaker 4: That was that was a lot Like I'm forty eight.
Speaker 7: I know there was a time in my life I
Speaker 7: didn't even think about making it to fifty. The future
Speaker 7: that wasn't even in my You know that that was
Speaker 7: like a bonus and a plus. And then we lose
Speaker 7: so many people, but we don't look at why, like
Speaker 7: and technology is so fast and speeding nowadays that we're
Speaker 7: not all taking care of ourselves properly.
Speaker 4: So I think it's important to do that.
Speaker 7: The scope of how we look at things and how
Speaker 7: we head for ourselves and our family.
Speaker 2: Real talk, man, like what year did you open your
Speaker 2: juice bar?
Speaker 4: Thirteen years ago?
Speaker 7: Almost fourteen years ago would be the be the first one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll probably say, you know a lot of times
Speaker 2: like you know, like people who are pioneers and they
Speaker 2: never get the credit, Like you'll never hear anyone say like,
Speaker 2: oh llll cool J's in my top five, although we'll
Speaker 2: acknowledge him as God, will acknowledge him as the goat
Speaker 2: or whatever. But you know, we'll always do like our like,
Speaker 2: oh well there's Big Daddy Caine cools you Brad da
Speaker 2: Da Da, But no one ever says like LL's so
Speaker 2: good and so pioneering. It's almost like Thriller will never
Speaker 2: be in anyone's top five list, as like albums that change,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like it just goes without
Speaker 2: saying that if I really think about it. So there
Speaker 2: was a point in my life around to two thousand
Speaker 2: and nine twenty ten in which I think we were
Speaker 2: doing like the first we did, like the second Roots
Speaker 2: Picnic in Philly, And that's probably the one concentrated week
Speaker 2: in which I will return back to Philadelphia like my home.
Speaker 2: Like I'm here in New York because of the Tonight
Speaker 2: Show and all that stuff. So I live in New
Speaker 2: York now, but when it's Roots Picnic time, between all
Speaker 2: the rehearsals and all that stuff, I'm going back to Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, like I do this weird thing.
Speaker 2: And when I was younger, I used to always like
Speaker 2: kind of ridicule, Like you'll hear about like old ball
Speaker 2: players going back to their projects or whatever, and You'll
Speaker 2: be like, Yo, what the hell are they doing? Like
Speaker 2: why would you put yourself in that dangerous Like I'd
Speaker 2: be super judgment on that, but i'd also know that
Speaker 2: I do that too a lot, Like I will three
Speaker 2: in the morning drive by my Grandmam's house, like between
Speaker 2: like eleven PM to four in the morning, what I
Speaker 2: called chasing ghosts, like and I want to know, like
Speaker 2: why do I have an addiction to like visiting the
Speaker 2: worst parts of my childhood just to like, is this
Speaker 2: how I deal with the balance of connecting of like
Speaker 2: maybe feelings of guilt that I have of like where
Speaker 2: I am now like the same thing living in an
Speaker 2: affluent neighborhood, or like is this me balancing out? But
Speaker 2: the whole point was that the Second Roots picnic another
Speaker 2: way that I go back to whatever nostalgia is also
Speaker 2: a very toxic way, which is food. Now, Philadelphia is
Speaker 2: a food town, so of course that's right. I will
Speaker 2: make plants like, Okay, on Tuesday, I'm gonna go to
Speaker 2: this whole spot Da Da, and then Wednesday and Thursday
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to my favorite cheese steak spots and
Speaker 2: Da da da. So I remember the night before, the
Speaker 2: night before the second picnic, I kind of overdid it
Speaker 2: on the cheese steaks, and I felt horrible and I realized,
Speaker 2: like yo, man, I went to neighborhood and realized that
Speaker 2: everything that I've consumed all my life, which explains you know,
Speaker 2: at some points I was like four hundred and thirty pounds.
Speaker 2: Currently right now I'm like two ninety. But back in
Speaker 2: my four hundred pounds days, I've realized like yo, like
Speaker 2: every every fattening food that there ever was, it's almost
Speaker 2: like by design every like why are the cheapest foods.
Speaker 5: The most harmful foods the rightest accessible?
Speaker 2: Right? So then skip to me seeing a clip of
Speaker 2: you talking about this. It was like the ribbon cutting
Speaker 2: of your your juice spot. And when you said what
Speaker 2: you said, I was like, I was like, that's it.
Speaker 2: Not only am I going to turn my personal life
Speaker 2: around and not to mention like Fonte had already like
Speaker 2: released a song about how you know, we're getting older
Speaker 2: now we need to you know, he called it expensive jeans,
Speaker 2: punt on jeans, and that that also planted seed to me.
Speaker 2: But when I saw what you did, I was like,
Speaker 2: that's exactly like I'm gonna have to be the paradigm shift.
Speaker 2: So cut to now, like my entire investment portfolio is
Speaker 2: investing in plant based healthier figuring out how to turn
Speaker 2: into conversation around without people like rolling their eyes like
Speaker 2: all right, here he comes again, like preaching or whatever
Speaker 2: for you though you influenced me and I'm not in
Speaker 2: your inner circle. Is your inner circle taking note of this?
Speaker 2: And are you being influential on them or they're now
Speaker 2: looking at you like here he goes again, like telling
Speaker 2: me to put the liquor down, and I come to
Speaker 2: the gym with him, I get, I get a bit
Speaker 2: of both.
Speaker 7: For the most part, I could say most of my
Speaker 7: inner circle has changed.
Speaker 4: I am. I guess I'm annoying with it, but.
Speaker 7: I look at it like this, it's a war, like
Speaker 7: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's.
Speaker 7: Literally a war on people our color that we don't
Speaker 7: know we're in. So I and I also want to
Speaker 7: look at it like I'm the leader.
Speaker 2: Of the pack.
Speaker 7: There's been Dick Gregory before me. There's been plenty of
Speaker 7: people who done it. I'm just probably the most loudest,
Speaker 7: voicterous person in hip hop. Even in hip hop, there's
Speaker 7: plenty of plant based people. There's plenty of vegans. As
Speaker 7: you said, like I'm haunted by going back to where
Speaker 7: I'm from because no pun intended. You do that because
Speaker 7: you connected to your roots, and when you're connected to
Speaker 7: your roots, it's hard to forget where you're from. And
Speaker 7: when you when you escalate, you always want to somewhat
Speaker 7: stay in tune. I think that's the musical part of us,
Speaker 7: is staying in tune with the foundation. But when you
Speaker 7: start understanding that it's a war, I don't really care
Speaker 7: how you look at me. I don't care how annoyed
Speaker 7: you get. I do my job as a messenger. I
Speaker 7: am a messenger, and I don't look at it any
Speaker 7: further than that. And if whether you take the messenger,
Speaker 7: you don't take the message, that's not on me. It's
Speaker 7: on me to make sure I just keep throwing out
Speaker 7: the message so to be able to go from one
Speaker 7: juice bar and see the you know, when I first
Speaker 7: started doing this, some.
Speaker 4: Styles peed from the locks hardest them.
Speaker 7: See, you know, the guy who's done plenty of more
Speaker 7: than enough stupid shit in my lifetime, of a guy
Speaker 7: with a history of violence. So when you understand that,
Speaker 7: and you understand where that comes from, you don't really
Speaker 7: have time to worry about how people are taking it.
Speaker 7: When we're losing so many great people in our culture,
Speaker 7: when we're losing so many great people in our families
Speaker 7: in the streets. I don't really worry about if how
Speaker 7: I rub you, as long as I got the message out,
Speaker 7: as long as I did my job, I was able
Speaker 7: to not only see my inner circle change, but my
Speaker 7: neighborhood change. Through that, we have been able to connect
Speaker 7: with the mayor, build up parks.
Speaker 4: I'm doing something with the y m c A nowhere.
Speaker 7: We're gonna have soup kitchens and we're gonna give our
Speaker 7: plant based food.
Speaker 4: We're just gonna keep pushing it forward. We're not gonna
Speaker 4: worry about uh.
Speaker 7: I'm the now Vegandale has a bunch of other rappers
Speaker 7: coming to it. I don't think you really got the
Speaker 7: time when when we're doing what we're doing, When you're
Speaker 7: pushing forward, you don't have the time to worry about
Speaker 7: if you're rubbing people the wrong way, or if they're
Speaker 7: tired of hearing you. The messager hit them one day,
Speaker 7: maybe sometimes when it's too late, maybe sometimes early enough,
Speaker 7: maybe sometimes just on time.
Speaker 4: But as a messenger that that's our job.
Speaker 7: And fortunately I have been able to see enough enough
Speaker 7: people change before for me. Like you guys know this fine, fine,
Speaker 7: and YouTube, But when somebody comes up to you and go, yo,
Speaker 7: your music has changed my life. Yo, this song means
Speaker 7: so much to me, Yo, that performance means so much
Speaker 7: to me. That's a that's out of this world feeling.
Speaker 7: It really humbles you in a.
Speaker 4: Way that it's hard to put it in words.
Speaker 7: So for me, although God is Family has always been
Speaker 7: God family and hip hop, the shift has been able
Speaker 7: to change the God is family, health then hip hop,
Speaker 7: because with our health we have nothing. And until you
Speaker 7: really realize that, like, there's so much of us who
Speaker 7: suffer from so many things and it's just not.
Speaker 4: Cool to talk about. So I don't get rid, I
Speaker 4: don't I don't care about if it's not cool. Now
Speaker 4: we're in the making it cool.
Speaker 7: Now, we're able to change now to say we went
Speaker 7: from one juice bar to five juice bars to almost
Speaker 7: six juice bars to now pharmacy for life online to
Speaker 7: a pharmacy for life brick and mortars. So what I
Speaker 7: do is understand is people are what they don't say
Speaker 7: is cool in front of everybody, they'll still come up
Speaker 7: to you on the side and.
Speaker 4: Go, yo, bro, how'd you lose that weight? Yo? Yo?
Speaker 5: Yo?
Speaker 4: Your skin looking like that.
Speaker 7: Oh yo gro oh man, I see you can do
Speaker 7: pull up to stretch this amount of much and how
Speaker 7: do you do it? So it's about the impact and
Speaker 7: change and people, whether you do it intentionally or not,
Speaker 7: when people see you change. Leading by example is the
Speaker 7: best thing you could do. Because even like we tell
Speaker 7: people in the juice bar, we give out the menu,
Speaker 7: like literally I have five juice bars, but how many
Speaker 7: people could physically make it to that juice bar? And
Speaker 7: they're all in New York. So what I do is
Speaker 7: tell people, get a juice and get a blender. If
Speaker 7: you come back. If you come in our juice bar
Speaker 7: and you never come back, that's fine with me. But
Speaker 7: take a picture of it and bring it home to
Speaker 7: your loved one. At least do that and practice by
Speaker 7: example because you bringing your kid into the juice bar.
Speaker 7: It's beneficial for me, but your kids seeing you wake
Speaker 7: up in the morning, whatever it is, your partner, whatever
Speaker 7: you have, when they see you put the things in
Speaker 7: the blend of yourself.
Speaker 4: And that you said that leads by example.
Speaker 7: Like our kids listen to us, but they watch what
Speaker 7: we do more than they listen to us.
Speaker 5: But also isn't being an evolved man right now, like
Speaker 5: that is actually trending. I was just talking too Freeway
Speaker 5: about this, and I was like the fact that we
Speaker 5: have more MC's showing their full cells instead of just
Speaker 5: all of the best parts. I mean, Freeway be an example,
Speaker 5: and I was asking, I said, it seems like it's
Speaker 5: a nice group of y'all who actually communicate with each
Speaker 5: other and lift each other up that way, Isn't that
Speaker 5: It seems like that's the case in that.
Speaker 4: Way, right Yeah, I don't think it's the trend. I
Speaker 4: think it's the shifting lifestyle.
Speaker 5: Thank god the kids would call it the trend.
Speaker 4: Yes, a trend will come and go.
Speaker 7: I think a shift and your lifestyle is being connected
Speaker 7: to somebody who genuinely.
Speaker 4: Cares about you. I don't.
Speaker 7: I'm not interested in having I think old hip hop is.
Speaker 7: I have to have more watches in a better watch
Speaker 7: than you. My car is more expensive than you. I
Speaker 7: could buy more bottles than you. I have more fine
Speaker 7: women around me than you do. Like my thing is,
Speaker 7: I'm a married man, I'm a family man, and I
Speaker 7: care about you for who you are.
Speaker 4: I want to be the best me that I could be.
Speaker 4: So fortunately it.
Speaker 7: Can help myself first and foremost, then the loved ones
Speaker 7: around me, then my friends, my immediate.
Speaker 4: Inner circle, than my community.
Speaker 7: And if you move with life with doing that, I
Speaker 7: think that's the change that's needed. That's the change that's needed, because,
Speaker 7: like Ques said, I don't know if I'm gonna be here,
Speaker 7: Like you know, I think people kind of look at
Speaker 7: life and I've lost enough people in my life, family members,
Speaker 7: close friends, people in the community where I know I'm
Speaker 7: not promised five minutes later. So I want to do
Speaker 7: what I could do to make the difference, to say,
Speaker 7: when I go, you're not going to think about the
Speaker 7: things you did. You have to think about the things
Speaker 7: you didn't do, and right, I don't want that to
Speaker 7: be on my conscious the way I didn't push. I
Speaker 7: didn't push the envelope as for it as much as possible.
Speaker 2: No, I really want to, you know, thank you for that.
Speaker 2: Normally we save this part for the end about where
Speaker 2: your life has changed. But for me, man, it was
Speaker 2: it was really important to hear that, and I want
Speaker 2: people to hear that that sort of shift is important.
Speaker 2: Can I ask, though, especially in light of how we're
Speaker 2: dealing with mental health in the pandemic. Was therapy at
Speaker 2: all a part of your shift as well?
Speaker 4: Definitely my wife, my wife, Thank God for my wife.
Speaker 4: Thank God she made shaw I.
Speaker 7: Implemented that within my routine. Uh even when I didn't.
Speaker 4: I forget. I've been on so a few of them shows.
Speaker 4: Now I forget it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: Black love is good for the for the mind and
Speaker 7: so but even doctor is doctor ish was a great
Speaker 7: adding for my life because he helped me figure out
Speaker 7: a lot of things.
Speaker 4: And now.
Speaker 7: What's crazy is I need to go to therapy more.
Speaker 7: But I pretty much use my wife as a therapist,
Speaker 7: which probably.
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, then who does she use as a therapist?
Speaker 5: Because that that means.
Speaker 4: But I think learning how to talk out. I think
Speaker 4: a lot of us have a.
Speaker 7: Problem with understanding that it's okay to not to understand
Speaker 7: that your mind needs a break, Like even if you
Speaker 7: think about today's just life in general today, like I
Speaker 7: was telling somebody this the other day, besides having trauma,
Speaker 7: for me, just logging on the Instagram some days makes
Speaker 7: me need mental makes me know some kind of therapy
Speaker 7: because if you think about it, like I was sitting,
Speaker 7: there's no way that you would have a conversation with
Speaker 7: this many people.
Speaker 4: Real life.
Speaker 7: I'm not hearing even over one hundred and fifty people's
Speaker 7: thoughts today and how they feel a negative energy, their attitude.
Speaker 7: But when you log on, you're taking in so much
Speaker 7: in the world so fast, and it's just so hard.
Speaker 4: To even get a grasp of what's going on.
Speaker 5: So in the back end of da of how you
Speaker 5: don't even know how you if you've met people in
Speaker 5: real life or just seeing them on the Instagram, I
Speaker 5: don't know.
Speaker 4: What's going on.
Speaker 7: So to take in them people's thoughts, feelings, energy, what's
Speaker 7: on their mind. We all need some sort of therapy.
Speaker 7: We all need some sort of a laxation. Your mind
Speaker 7: needs a lot, like we all it's black people, we
Speaker 7: have PTSD period just being black. So on top of that,
Speaker 7: I think about how fast things are moving, how fast
Speaker 7: technology is advancing, and human beings aren't advancing as fast
Speaker 7: as technology is, and all of these things, like even me,
Speaker 7: for the like the normal things that probably won't make.
Speaker 4: The average person need therapy, makes me need therapy.
Speaker 7: Like I'm thinking about how AI is coming, I'm thinking
Speaker 7: about like a log I went to see. I went
Speaker 7: to see this movie The other day Sound of Freedom
Speaker 7: right after I left Sound of Freedom, and I'm thinking, damn,
Speaker 7: all of this is happening to the kids, and you know,
Speaker 7: people are losing their jobs the AI. Then you get
Speaker 7: on Instagram and you got to hear everybody's personal thought,
Speaker 7: not on anything that's almost relevant, and it made me go,
Speaker 7: I need I need a break from the world some days,
Speaker 7: like I don't care about how she's dressed, he's dressed,
Speaker 7: who said what?
Speaker 4: Rapper did this? Who doing what?
Speaker 7: I just want to live in a healthier world and
Speaker 7: contribute to that. But it doesn't kind of always pan
Speaker 7: out that way, So that alone could kind of break
Speaker 7: you down mentally, Like if you're not surrounding yourself around
Speaker 7: people who think like you, who move how you move,
Speaker 7: you're gonna need some kind of kind of therapy. And
Speaker 7: like I've lost the daughter to suicide, me and myself.
Speaker 7: I suffered from rage before without without knowing what was happening.
Speaker 7: Like you hear people suffering from depression feeling this way,
Speaker 7: but nobody speaks of the kid who suffers from rage.
Speaker 7: So knowing all of the things that we deal with
Speaker 7: in our community, like, uh, we need the mind, body,
Speaker 7: and soul I believe all three needs to be worked
Speaker 7: on constantly because you need to have them lined up
Speaker 7: to have the best you in place. So it's not
Speaker 7: just the body, it's not just being healthy. It's like
Speaker 7: I live a healthy lifestyle more so from the health
Speaker 7: aspect of you know, the physical health to spiritually and
Speaker 7: mentally be be healthier to not not full victim to
Speaker 7: the things that I usually were full victim to because
Speaker 7: I don't feel good. Like, like, think about it, Like
Speaker 7: how many people you can get on Instagram and go
Speaker 7: I love red.
Speaker 4: Somebody's gonna come on, go fuck red, I hate red blues,
Speaker 4: my color, this and that. Like that's a lot to
Speaker 4: deal with.
Speaker 7: And there's people who will just come on your page
Speaker 7: saying negative shit.
Speaker 4: That's because they don't feel good about themselves.
Speaker 7: Like so a person who doesn't feel good about themselves,
Speaker 7: they're bound to push their negativity on you. And if
Speaker 7: you're not in a mentally healthy enough space to understand that,
Speaker 7: that could ruin your dam and bring.
Speaker 5: You down, which most aren't.
Speaker 4: Like you know what I mean. Now you're caring about what.
Speaker 7: Strangers are saying about cyber strangers, Yeah, yeah, are saying
Speaker 7: about you, Like that's a that's a that's a were
Speaker 7: in a we're in a very different time, like in
Speaker 7: this day and age, like.
Speaker 4: We're in a time you can't even disagree with somebody.
Speaker 7: Like you know what I mean, It's like, okay, you're
Speaker 7: you know, if you're not a Democrat, the Republicans are
Speaker 7: mad at you. You're not a Republican. The Democrats are
Speaker 7: mad at you. If you're not either one, then everybody's
Speaker 7: mad at you.
Speaker 4: You can say, I'm.
Speaker 7: Thinking people instead of having a conversation or understand why
Speaker 7: you're coming from that point of view, they'd rather just
Speaker 7: drag you and call you names instead of even understanding.
Speaker 7: Let me have a conversation to see your point of
Speaker 7: view and why you feel that way.
Speaker 4: And I believe that's why healthy lifestyle is very.
Speaker 7: Important, because it's not just about physically being healthy, it's
Speaker 7: about mentally being healthy. And then spiritual health means a
Speaker 7: lot too, which really about on the day to day basis,
Speaker 7: but your spiritual health means a lot because you don't
Speaker 7: want just people coming in and putting their energy.
Speaker 5: On you or I think we found another meditator. Have
Speaker 5: we found another meditator?
Speaker 2: For sure?
Speaker 3: How do you take care of your your spiritual health.
Speaker 3: Is it prayer? Is it meditation? Like what are your tools?
Speaker 4: Prayer?
Speaker 7: Meditation is surrounding myself around people I feel or spiritually grown,
Speaker 7: or that can help me spiritually grow.
Speaker 4: I also like the ground.
Speaker 7: I like to take my sneakers off my side, so off,
Speaker 7: step on the dirt for a minute, in contact with
Speaker 7: the earth.
Speaker 4: I like the stargaze. I like hikes in the nature.
Speaker 7: I yelled, I screamed, I cry, I laugh, I throw
Speaker 7: bowlers guy style.
Speaker 4: I do what I gotta do to make go feel better.
Speaker 2: You said something, Now, this is weird. You talked about rage, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: and man I felt I got so I got so
Speaker 2: envious because here's the thing. It took me all right,
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm certain that this episode will be
Speaker 2: on UH in the month of all around April and May.
Speaker 2: I realized something. Usually the most stressful time in my
Speaker 2: life is between February and June, simply because of again
Speaker 2: the weight, the weight of throwing that festival in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: You know, you're going through everything, You're going through every artist,
Speaker 2: You're trying to cater everyone's needs, and you know, so
Speaker 2: there's a lot of stress there. And I realized around May,
Speaker 2: how I've been doing this wrong the entire time. And
Speaker 2: I'm certain that almost ninety five percent of humanity does
Speaker 2: the same thing that I do, which is I've only
Speaker 2: been chasing one emotion only, and that's happiness. I've been
Speaker 2: chasing happiness, which in the scheme of things, you think, well,
Speaker 2: what's wrong with chasing happiness? But then I realize that
Speaker 2: someone ever revealed to me maybe a year ago, and
Speaker 2: I didn't listen to him good that it's like, yo, amir,
Speaker 2: there are over forty eight other emotions besides happiness. And
Speaker 2: they named the whole spectrum. They showed me a graphic chart.
Speaker 2: There's some dark shit like jealousy and sadness, there's some
Speaker 2: light shit like laughter, like happiness, and so there's a
Speaker 2: whole spectrum of emotions, and I only knew happy, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. And so what I realized was that,
Speaker 2: you know, I thought, whatever my my eat, whatever my
Speaker 2: personality is to certain people like oh, myer never gets
Speaker 2: angry and da da da da da da. I realized
Speaker 2: that I'm absolutely not in touch with any other emotion
Speaker 2: besides happy. And that's why, like most of us self soothed.
Speaker 2: That's why, like I always went to bad foods. That's
Speaker 2: why another cat will go to cocaine. That's why another
Speaker 2: cat will drink to death or whatever. And so a
Speaker 2: friend of mine had gave me a link about a
Speaker 2: retreat that I should go to for people who've never
Speaker 2: ever expressed rage ever, because I told them that, oh,
Speaker 2: I never get it. And when they said that, they
Speaker 2: said this to me, They said, you not getting angry
Speaker 2: a mirror. Yeah, so when's the last time you expressed
Speaker 2: your anger out loud? And I was like, I said,
Speaker 2: probably maybe twenty years ago when I was angry that
Speaker 2: someone put the wrong mix on my album and now
Speaker 2: it's stuck on my record. I got angry. And they're like,
Speaker 2: you're telling me the last time he expressed the anger
Speaker 2: was twenty years ago because of a mastering session glitch.
Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, I don't get angry much
Speaker 2: and they were like that you just said the equipment. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm right, Well, one you take it out on yourself.
Speaker 2: He's like, at least you know you you expressed anger,
Speaker 2: but you was like, you know what, I'm gonna eat
Speaker 2: these feelings away instead of expressing right, And at that
Speaker 2: not expressing anger is almost like you saying, you know
Speaker 2: what I haven't. I haven't urinated in two decades. And
Speaker 2: so I went to this retreat. It's a three day
Speaker 2: retreat that I went to in June, and man, I realized,
Speaker 2: with the exception of an occasional roller coaster and even then,
Speaker 2: when I think of my roller coaster experiences, my level
Speaker 2: of screaming is more like a muppet like that sort
Speaker 2: of thing. That's not like real rage, that's just like
Speaker 2: you know, that sort of thing, this thing that I did.
Speaker 2: You know, they literally teach you how to scream, like
Speaker 2: we had to spend twenty four hours learning our baritone voice,
Speaker 2: our alto like our chakra like from our voice, from
Speaker 2: our throat to our stomachs. So cut to us actually
Speaker 2: doing the rage exercise, and I didn't realize how much
Speaker 2: anger and rage I've had, I mean for five like
Speaker 2: just bottled up again. It's literally like not defecating for
Speaker 2: fifty years or taken. And I didn't realize that, like, oh,
Speaker 2: the key to life is not chasing happiness. It's in
Speaker 2: the most healthiest way to express all emotions, definitely, And
Speaker 2: I didn't really so when you were like yo, like
Speaker 2: I was a rage aholic. I was thinking here, like, damn, man,
Speaker 2: I would I mean, no, I don't want to be
Speaker 2: toxic to other people, but I wish I would have
Speaker 2: known what that feeling felt like like to express anger,
Speaker 2: which i've you know, never done outwardly. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just felt, but I felt you on that man.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's amazing, man, I thank you. I guess
Speaker 2: I'd be remiss if we didn't talk about like your
Speaker 2: craft in your art right, like.
Speaker 5: Music memories and stuff.
Speaker 4: Not really because the craft I think. I think in
Speaker 4: the music.
Speaker 7: Business, that's what we do a lot, and we don't.
Speaker 7: These kind of conversations aren't helld enough because people don't
Speaker 7: feel comfortable with talking about where they're at in life, like.
Speaker 2: Well, vulnerability. People don't want to feel varlnerable.
Speaker 4: You don't want to feel vulnerable, so like.
Speaker 5: We weren't always allowed to feel vulnerable y'all too. We
Speaker 5: have to acknowledge that.
Speaker 7: It took me for years to realize, like I I
Speaker 7: was the hardest MC out of reach, out of just
Speaker 7: really wanting to hurt something like I had.
Speaker 4: To realize later on, I was like.
Speaker 7: Wow, I knew myself the whole time subconsciously because I
Speaker 7: always told people I was a gangster and a gentleman,
Speaker 7: like I'm the rapper who you can hear make some
Speaker 7: real gangster shit. Then I know I'm the rapper who
Speaker 7: also got a song with FONTI.
Speaker 4: Right now, you know what I mean. I live this
Speaker 4: and that. So I've always walked a fine line of balancing.
Speaker 7: So throughout my music career, I've been fortunate enough to
Speaker 7: say that I've been able to work with with the
Speaker 7: greats and be able to be myself genuinely on both sides.
Speaker 7: As I got old, it really took me to as
Speaker 7: I got older, like somebody I didn't think, I really
Speaker 7: realized that one day I had an interview and somebody
Speaker 7: was like, you may be one of the only few
Speaker 7: artists who are walking that fine line who gets accepted.
Speaker 7: And that made me have appreciation of of my craft
Speaker 7: and saying that is a pretty dope thing you know
Speaker 7: to be. But I also consciously realized I introduced myself
Speaker 7: as that in the beginning.
Speaker 4: I told people I'm literally half and half.
Speaker 7: So I guess to say what I'm saying is our
Speaker 7: careers sort of reflect.
Speaker 4: Our life and who we are.
Speaker 7: Like like you've held in that ridge quest but you've
Speaker 7: always been the guy that people go, I'm gonna go
Speaker 7: fuck with him.
Speaker 4: We love these guys, we love what they do. Like
Speaker 4: my early career, I almost ruined my fucking career out
Speaker 4: of I almost ruled my own career with with not
Speaker 4: being in two, with with being two in tune with
Speaker 4: some of my feelings, and then nothing.
Speaker 7: I think our careers are a reflection of who we are,
Speaker 7: and we just have to learn other ways to be.
Speaker 4: Like it took me to learn.
Speaker 7: I like they got it to a point where I said,
Speaker 7: I don't really want to feel like walking around with
Speaker 7: two guns all the time and embracing a certain energy.
Speaker 7: So I left the guns home and left the security.
Speaker 7: But I brought a good energy with me, saying God's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be my security and if it's my day to go,
Speaker 4: it's my day to go. That was written. But I
Speaker 4: also work somewhere in a light and even with.
Speaker 7: My history of the music I made and the music
Speaker 7: I'm doing and just being in a place of going,
Speaker 7: the people got to accept me for who I am, and.
Speaker 4: I let the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 7: So I've been blessed to have a you know, a great,
Speaker 7: a great music career. I would like to say I've
Speaker 7: been able to be around the reads and work with
Speaker 7: a lot of the greats and be on a lot
Speaker 7: of songs. I feel like, when it's all said and done,
Speaker 7: I've been a very hard working MC and I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: But my journey now, more so than my music career,
Speaker 7: is to also make sure that people in music are
Speaker 7: also understanding to connect your connect your career with your
Speaker 7: personal life and your health, because without your health, you're
Speaker 7: not going to really enjoy your career.
Speaker 5: Since we are talking about career a little bit and
Speaker 5: were talking about the fiftieth, it seems like, of course
Speaker 5: you've been involved in a bunch of stuff this year,
Speaker 5: but has there been anything that kind of really blew
Speaker 5: you away as a as a fan of the craft,
Speaker 5: not just a participant in the.
Speaker 4: Culture, as a fan and a participant, I would.
Speaker 7: Have to say, and not not to be funny just
Speaker 7: because we're here, but rocking at Grammys and being part
Speaker 7: of that for you know.
Speaker 2: Ah, every time someone brings it up.
Speaker 3: I forget.
Speaker 7: That was one of the most beautiful things that I
Speaker 7: was to participate in I would say in my career,
Speaker 7: before I got there, I like, this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: About about life and your health.
Speaker 7: Like even before I got there, I don't think I
Speaker 7: got to the first rehearsal that I understood the magnitude
Speaker 7: of it.
Speaker 4: Then when I got to that first rehearsal, I was like,
Speaker 4: and you saw and salt and pepper iced tea L L.
Speaker 7: Black thought of ourselves, just the whole room, and just
Speaker 7: understand that I was part of something that great and
Speaker 7: to be fortunate enough to be there and to see
Speaker 7: all my childhood superheroes son those coming up after me.
Speaker 7: To be part of something that great was very very
Speaker 7: I want to say humbling, because that's not the appropriate word.
Speaker 2: I think it's humbling.
Speaker 7: It was humbling, but it was more so of a
Speaker 7: realization of how great this thing of ours, this and
Speaker 7: how fortunate enough that my career has been to be
Speaker 7: called to be part of it.
Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, No, I know.
Speaker 5: Because I was wondering if you understood that the moment
Speaker 5: when the fans and the people watching that show saw
Speaker 5: the lotsy y'all come on the stage, what that means
Speaker 5: to that performance too? Like you understand that, like when
Speaker 5: they see you, it's like, oh, sh yes, this is
Speaker 5: for real.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah it was. It was just it was beyond words.
Speaker 7: And I got to and you know, it's crazy when
Speaker 7: you and your group members and like we all were
Speaker 7: saying the same shit, like this is absolutely fucking crazy.
Speaker 4: I was like a kid in the candy store.
Speaker 7: I was like, this right here is a moment I
Speaker 7: will never forget because I think, especially in hip hop,
Speaker 7: I think people get used to the other accolades, like
Speaker 7: all right, I got a home, now, I got this
Speaker 7: amount of cars, I sold this much for me, I'm
Speaker 7: you know, I grew up in a in a time of.
Speaker 4: Hip hop where for l l.
Speaker 7: Iced tea to know your name, know your songs, for
Speaker 7: Rockham to want to hug you is what something that
Speaker 7: I could express, Like, that's better than any award that
Speaker 7: I could ever get, to be acknowledged by the greats,
Speaker 7: to be loved by them, to be respected by them
Speaker 7: as a big O award than any award that I
Speaker 7: could possibly get. It's an unreal feelings.
Speaker 6: Were you to that point he speaking to your point
Speaker 6: about you like kind of getting the accolades from the greats,
Speaker 6: last time we saw each other in the flesh, it
Speaker 6: was Kennedy Center, it was Pharaoh Manches Show.
Speaker 3: We were in DC. This is pre pandemic, it's pre COVID.
Speaker 6: But we saw each other and it was in the
Speaker 6: hallway and I told Pooh, I'll never get it.
Speaker 3: I was like, it was our album middle.
Speaker 6: Or watch it came out. It just came out and
Speaker 6: I saw you and he was like, yo, like.
Speaker 3: You know we got each other. Gave me a big
Speaker 3: hug and he was like, yo, man, I love this record.
Speaker 3: It sounds like y'all missed each other, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? And I knew that from you, Like I
Speaker 3: was like, he know, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So he was like, yo, man, sound like y'all missed
Speaker 6: each other. Man, Like I love this record, like you
Speaker 6: could hear it. And so I just really like hearing
Speaker 6: that from you like that, you know. I mean, that
Speaker 6: was it. Like we didn't tell another record after that.
Speaker 6: I was good, and I wanted to ask, man, how
Speaker 6: do you keep a rap group together?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: I mean, you you know, she like, how do y'all?
Speaker 2: Because it's just a very rare thing for groups like exist.
Speaker 7: Brotherhood has to be more than anything like where where
Speaker 7: I feel like the game has split up a lot
Speaker 7: of groups with them prioritizing the game over brotherhood, like
Speaker 7: we made an OH when we came in with brothers.
Speaker 7: Like if I don't get on a record for you
Speaker 7: to say kiss or Sheik is better than me, I
Speaker 7: want you to say I'm better than them, you like
Speaker 7: my first better, But when you don't, if you don't,
Speaker 7: I'm still cool because it's a win for the team
Speaker 7: and we accept it. But nobody gets you on the
Speaker 7: basketball court looking for somebody else to be the MVP.
Speaker 7: But if you understand that team and brotherhood over everything,
Speaker 7: it keeps it together. Like I bond goes beyond music.
Speaker 7: Our bond will always go beyond music. Our family members
Speaker 7: rock with each other because with family, we understand that
Speaker 7: it's family first and everything else kind of just falls after.
Speaker 7: Like you can't you can't let feign materialistic things, money, women,
Speaker 7: what people say, what other men say get in between
Speaker 7: what you have, Like what you have has to be
Speaker 7: sacred to you.
Speaker 4: You have to appreciate making music is something we love.
Speaker 7: It's fortunate enough that we've been able to do it
Speaker 7: for you know, this thing of our starts as a hobby.
Speaker 7: Then you make it a job, and if you're fortunate enough,
Speaker 7: you get to make it a career. And then it's
Speaker 7: really fortunate enough, people say, you know, you're doing legend
Speaker 7: and every ship, and you work on being a legend.
Speaker 7: So understood, Yeah, understanding that we've just always put ourselves
Speaker 7: and our brotherhood before anything else, and we we've always
Speaker 7: kept it that way.
Speaker 2: But when do you pinpoint the time period of which
Speaker 2: the three of you said, let's start a group, because
Speaker 2: I don't know the genesis of how you guys actually met.
Speaker 4: High school kissing chik knew each other.
Speaker 7: Actually, since I want to say single digits, I met them,
Speaker 7: I met them in junior high and then we end
Speaker 7: up going to high school together. Like they lived on
Speaker 7: the north side of the Ankers, I lived on the
Speaker 7: south side of the Ankers. As an MC, you get
Speaker 7: to hear who's the other mcs ringing around town and
Speaker 7: they name will always ring.
Speaker 4: And in high school we formed the group. It was
Speaker 4: Bomb Squad. It was UH.
Speaker 7: It was more so like they were EPMD and I
Speaker 7: was k solo at first UH. And there was other
Speaker 7: people who rap with the Bomb Squad. Also, their professionalism
Speaker 7: and the studio taught me a lot very young, like
Speaker 7: when everybody else was banging on hoods and just kind
Speaker 7: of saying versus outside they were making hooks. They had
Speaker 7: so on format, they know how to they knew how
Speaker 7: to lay in the studios down the scene that they
Speaker 7: sounded outside in the studio. So, uh, I guess my
Speaker 7: work ethic got drive and just being being close with
Speaker 7: each other, like we would call each other over over
Speaker 7: the phone, seeing each other's rhymes.
Speaker 4: Here, here's what's going on, and just as we kept going.
Speaker 4: Actually I had a job at odd job. How we
Speaker 4: got on is I had an odd job at odd job. Uh,
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 7: Still part of me, but I was still truckloads and
Speaker 7: ship and one day we just I stole the truckload
Speaker 7: of tapes. Then we made a demo, and that demo
Speaker 7: just kept circulating around. And their professionalism, and I think
Speaker 7: the trials and tribulations of us, what we went through
Speaker 7: in high school, what we was going through outside of school,
Speaker 7: having stock jobs, part time criminals, having dreams of being
Speaker 7: an MC's and just sticking without sticking to the guns
Speaker 7: and believing in it. It forms something and then when
Speaker 7: you split it, when you split a pizza three ways
Speaker 7: or six ways or whatever amount of homeboys is there.
Speaker 7: When you get a couple, you know, you're getting a
Speaker 7: couple chicken wings and fried rice and you're breaking it down.
Speaker 7: That kind of sticks with you. You don't you don't
Speaker 7: forget those times. And I think we never forgot those times,
Speaker 7: and us we always kept our brotherhood together.
Speaker 4: Like even if you think about it, I don't a
Speaker 4: bad boy.
Speaker 7: When we was there, that was like we were on
Speaker 7: the Chicago Bulls of rap and to risk it together,
Speaker 7: we're saying, I like, fuck it, we feeling good.
Speaker 4: Here, we don't like it here, this and that all right?
Speaker 4: We made it. We could make it again.
Speaker 7: So I think even going through everything we went through
Speaker 7: is kind of put us in a place in a
Speaker 7: position of saying, you know where what we have is
Speaker 7: always bigger than what the what, what the game is.
Speaker 7: We had a brotherhood. We built it together. We we
Speaker 7: came about the Mother together, and knowing that it just
Speaker 7: it kept us tight and it under we understood what
Speaker 7: we were.
Speaker 4: We were understood that brotherhood more than a group.
Speaker 2: You know, when people speak of Yonkers, of course they
Speaker 2: think of you first, they think of they think of
Speaker 2: Mary were there any other hip hop legends from Yonkers before.
Speaker 7: Mary with the first legend, actually Mary with legends before
Speaker 7: we got on, right, Yeah, well made.
Speaker 4: There's also Bill Blast. He was definitely legendary.
Speaker 7: There was an MC I loved. His name was Universal.
Speaker 7: We had colleague Kool, We had my man Og, Dusty Mike.
Speaker 7: We had a few people, but I would say extra
Speaker 7: Mary were the first legends of the town.
Speaker 4: Like, what makes Ex a legend is here was a legend.
Speaker 7: He was making solid music and tapes that everybody from
Speaker 7: our time pretty much knew X.
Speaker 4: Would be a star.
Speaker 7: I think what made him legendary is we happened to
Speaker 7: get on first from rap.
Speaker 4: But X is the one who brought us to rough Riders,
Speaker 4: brought rough Riders to us.
Speaker 7: And I think for us to get on first and him,
Speaker 7: I've never seen any bitter feelings towards towards that from X,
Speaker 7: like I never seen, you know, because I think if
Speaker 7: the situation was vice versa, I would have been pissed.
Speaker 7: I think he had the confidence of knowing how much
Speaker 7: of a huge star he was. He knew what was coming,
Speaker 7: so it was important for us to throw, you know,
Speaker 7: make sure he was on money, power, respect, and I
Speaker 7: just think he understood the magnitude of how big and
Speaker 7: now huge he was and where he was gonna go
Speaker 7: in life. So I would say X and Mary are
Speaker 7: with legendary before they were even knowing, Like Mary would
Speaker 7: sing in the parks and the whole town would come out.
Speaker 7: Like I knew Mary sing single digits. I actually knew
Speaker 7: X and Mary before I knew kissing she can kiss.
Speaker 7: I knew I knew Marry because she lived up Hire
Speaker 7: and my cousin are close friends, which they still are
Speaker 7: to this day. Like Mary calls me a little dave
Speaker 7: to this day. Speed to Mary, I'm a little Dave,
Speaker 7: Like you know what I mean. I knew Mary since
Speaker 7: I was I was seven. I knew X because he's
Speaker 7: from the south Side too, so he lived a few
Speaker 7: blocks from me. So I knew of X from it
Speaker 7: is extra curriculum activities in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4: He was legendary on both on both sides of the defense.
Speaker 2: But so when I used to work at Roughhouse Records
Speaker 2: as an intern and I joined rough House right when
Speaker 2: DMX was signed the rough House first he had a
Speaker 2: single out called born Loser. I believe that halftime by
Speaker 2: Nas which was on the Zebrahead soundtrack and Born Loser
Speaker 2: that came in the box the same day, So I
Speaker 2: deserved that. The DJs were you guys like aware of
Speaker 2: that level of dmxic think.
Speaker 7: We knew him, like even in zebra You remember, just
Speaker 7: speaking of Zebrahead, Deshaun I went to school.
Speaker 2: With him, weren't it.
Speaker 4: I went, oh, wow, I think his.
Speaker 7: Name is DeShawn Castle. Correct, yes, Shawn Castle. He used
Speaker 7: to wrap his ass off too. That's another person who
Speaker 7: used to rhyme from jan because I think actually I
Speaker 7: met she through from DeShawn and junior high.
Speaker 4: Me and Deshaun I knew him.
Speaker 7: I got kicked out of that school, but we went
Speaker 7: to It was a school called Hawthorne for the givet
Speaker 7: and Talented.
Speaker 4: They kicked my black ass right out of there. I
Speaker 4: was too bad for that one.
Speaker 2: Is that DeShawn?
Speaker 3: Is that the same DeShawn that was on the show
Speaker 3: Biz An AG album?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Was did he ever sean you're talking about him to
Speaker 3: make any records?
Speaker 7: I don't remember if he was on show Business AG album.
Speaker 7: I do know he was the star Zebrahead though, Okay,
Speaker 7: all right, got.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I never knew his name, but he was dope.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I actually met she through him and in
Speaker 7: about seventh seventh grade, so uh yeah, I didn't know
Speaker 7: actually knew of the song Ship. We used to play it,
Speaker 7: we used to love it. And that's another reason, like
Speaker 7: God bless my brother asks why I have the utmost
Speaker 7: respect for him, because most people, when they get an opportunity,
Speaker 7: they lose out. It doesn't work the way they work,
Speaker 7: They tough, they tail and make it back. He never
Speaker 7: That's why he used a dog in real life. He
Speaker 7: had dog drive, he had dog will, and you know,
Speaker 7: I believe he had a lot of dog in them
Speaker 7: and a whole lot of God in a mix because
Speaker 7: his driving, his willingness to keep pushing flow was crazy.
Speaker 7: And if you've ever seen DMX in the Battle, his
Speaker 7: level different were fucking insane. It was the level of
Speaker 7: ferocity to nastity ferociousness was literally insane.
Speaker 2: At least, the perception was, Oh, you're going to be
Speaker 2: the first generation of privilege in hip hop, where you
Speaker 2: know your level of success is not going to be
Speaker 2: that of like Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five
Speaker 2: or Ultra Magneticum Seeds like you guys are actually going
Speaker 2: to be like national known and all that stuff. So
Speaker 2: just in the beginning and the very beginning, when the
Speaker 2: bad boy thing seems to be real, Like, at what
Speaker 2: point did it get real for you to know that,
Speaker 2: like Jesus Christ, like, we're literally about to We're about
Speaker 2: to make it.
Speaker 7: I would say when we heard that Buff he heard
Speaker 7: the demo from Mary and he heard it on the
Speaker 7: tour bus and he liked it and he called us up,
Speaker 7: we pretty much knew that we were going to make it.
Speaker 4: That's one thing we had.
Speaker 7: We had a chip on our shoulder because we were
Speaker 7: from Yonkers, like because nobody from Yonkers was on God
Speaker 7: Bless the Dead, Heavy D was on prior to us.
Speaker 7: Brand New Leans is from New Rochelle. Mount Vernon is
Speaker 7: after Yonkers, so the Bronx is before Yonkers. So we
Speaker 7: were literally like the Yonkers is attached to the Bronx,
Speaker 7: Like as soon as you get out the Bronx, you
Speaker 7: ain't Yonkers. So we felt skipped over for so long
Speaker 7: that we we had the I believe part of us
Speaker 7: getting on was we had the utmost confidence and we
Speaker 7: always knew our shit. We always rehearsed a lot, We
Speaker 7: always memorized everything we were saying.
Speaker 4: We always had good time.
Speaker 7: So by the time we got to Puff and they
Speaker 7: said we have to meet him at his office in Rhyme,
Speaker 7: we were already on. We're getting on. There was no
Speaker 7: doubt about it in any of our heads. Like we
Speaker 7: were looking at it as like we're so overlooked, but
Speaker 7: we're we're fucking nice.
Speaker 4: That's that's how we used to go about it.
Speaker 7: And we traveled enough around and you know, from different burroughs,
Speaker 7: different places, and just wrapping our ass off to.
Speaker 4: The point where we knew how good we were.
Speaker 7: So by the time we got there, and I would say,
Speaker 7: that moment you're asking for is when we did.
Speaker 4: You'll see. And then we found out Big was getting
Speaker 4: on your seat.
Speaker 7: We knew history, we knew where were in the books
Speaker 7: because when Big met us, I would even say, before
Speaker 7: getting on, it's when Big met us and he said, y'all.
Speaker 4: Are fucking them sees damn. We got on MC's and
Speaker 4: I'm glad to have y'at here for us.
Speaker 7: That meant a lot because at the particular time he
Speaker 7: was the King of New York, he did he'd done
Speaker 7: something someone no one had ever did, and It wasn't
Speaker 7: just rhyming good because he rhymed well, but it was
Speaker 7: the fact that he was such a well rounded MC
Speaker 7: that he kind of did everything well and.
Speaker 4: He changed the trajectory of how the game was going.
Speaker 4: He was big, He was owning it. He was making
Speaker 4: fat people proud. He was saying things that nobody was
Speaker 4: even saying. Black and ugliest. Ever, how like he was
Speaker 4: just going from an angle of saying shit that was
Speaker 4: like wow, like uh, it's crazy, Like you know what
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 7: I believe Nas opened the door for our generation of
Speaker 7: rappers like he Nas is the He's the I call
Speaker 7: him the baby of the grand Masters, which the lyrical
Speaker 7: grand masters, which would be Cougi King, k arrests and
Speaker 7: rock him, nabody, all of that, but from the child
Speaker 7: who's seen crack outside and drug dealers and robbers and
Speaker 7: knew how to bring it to the table. Then I
Speaker 7: felt a whole Big Wu Tang Nas and all of
Speaker 7: that really I mean escalated it. But I felt Big
Speaker 7: also was able to put the vision of what drug
Speaker 7: dealers wanted outside what we were looking for, the firing
Speaker 7: things in life.
Speaker 4: I felt he was able to mess it all and
Speaker 4: then just bring something new to the table.
Speaker 7: So for him to feel that way about it's really
Speaker 7: made our confidence kind of boost out the door.
Speaker 4: Like we already was very confident.
Speaker 7: And then to get that love from somebody who was
Speaker 7: on who was on top, who you know, was being
Speaker 7: crowned the king of New York meant a lot to us.
Speaker 7: And then just being in Obsessions and working with him,
Speaker 7: speaking with him. Because besides that, like when we got
Speaker 7: into Bad Boy, our rooms used to merge, like we
Speaker 7: would go chill with you and Mafi and Big, they
Speaker 7: would chill with us. We would smoke together, we would
Speaker 7: drink it together. We were you know, I got to
Speaker 7: see I got to see him making most of life
Speaker 7: after death. So that kind of feeling just puts you
Speaker 7: in a whole new way of belonging, Like you make
Speaker 7: it somewhere. To make it somewhere is one thing, but
Speaker 7: the question if you belong there is another. But to
Speaker 7: know you belong there is a whole nother feeling. Like
Speaker 7: so we had that feeling of knowing we belong.
Speaker 4: So it just made everything kind of great for us.
Speaker 2: Quick question, how did you guys come up with the
Speaker 2: name of.
Speaker 4: The group, Well, we were the warlocks.
Speaker 2: Ah, okay, were warlocks and.
Speaker 4: Took us the wars over. Drop it so for real,
Speaker 4: the war's over, So y'all can't be the Warlocks. But
Speaker 4: we wanted to be still who we were.
Speaker 7: So then we went home and I was like, you
Speaker 7: know what, actually what we were doing was and music wise,
Speaker 7: was we were living with our experiences.
Speaker 4: And that's what we put in our music. I was like, yo,
Speaker 4: living off experience y'all, and it was like, that's it,
Speaker 4: that's us just a lot.
Speaker 2: Okay. I thought you guys were just enthusiasts for really
Speaker 2: good bagel sandwiches. I didn't know where the locks came from,
Speaker 2: so wow, sorry.
Speaker 3: See I steal my joke.
Speaker 2: Next time I.
Speaker 3: Wanted to ask man.
Speaker 6: I read it was an interview or a quote somewhere
Speaker 6: where talking about the Let the Locks Go campaign when
Speaker 6: y'a were getting off Bad Boy.
Speaker 3: That that was Puff's idea.
Speaker 6: He wanted to kind of make it, you know, kind
Speaker 6: of on some uh you know pet Barnum, like make
Speaker 6: it a thing.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, make camp. That's that's a lot, okay,
Speaker 3: talk about it, that's a damn line.
Speaker 4: No, we went with let the Locks Go.
Speaker 7: Because we understood that we didn't have the financial power
Speaker 7: or the lawyer power to deal with to to win
Speaker 7: the fight we were trying to fight.
Speaker 4: But what we understood was that.
Speaker 7: People who actually loved us on the street at that time,
Speaker 7: we did a lot of rumbling, a lot of making
Speaker 7: our name known, so people felt kind of connected to us,
Speaker 7: and we were blue collar rap so we figured we
Speaker 7: would do be smarter. But it and that we had
Speaker 7: we was like, all right, we can't win with money,
Speaker 7: we can't win with lawyers, but how do you pull
Speaker 7: out a strategy that works for.
Speaker 4: You and it's most and.
Speaker 7: Came up with We're gonna have the public joint in
Speaker 7: and just tell people what we're going through because at
Speaker 7: the time, the public opinion embarrassed to say, I'm not
Speaker 7: And what's crazy about it is we had a standard
Speaker 7: industry contract, which we welter. We pretty much had a
Speaker 7: standard contract. But we also, like I said, we were
Speaker 7: kind of I think with an epitome of blue collar
Speaker 7: and white collar mix and being streaked, but being also
Speaker 7: a little a little nerdy. Like everything is, if you
Speaker 7: sign a deal, no matter how bad it is, you
Speaker 7: should be able to renegotiate if you get get somewhere,
Speaker 7: like if you sell drugs.
Speaker 4: You know, I sold ten pieces for ten dollars.
Speaker 7: That's one hundred dollars. Now when you tell me I'm
Speaker 7: putting out an album, you know what I mean. I'm
Speaker 7: coming straight off the street. So it's no way I
Speaker 7: was gonna read all this paperwork and everything. That's happy.
Speaker 4: I wanted to be there. I'm as signing. But if
Speaker 4: you're telling me I'm only getting a h not even.
Speaker 7: A dollar off this album every album sold or not
Speaker 7: even two dollars, Now I got a problem and we
Speaker 7: gotta we gotta fix this.
Speaker 4: This ain't even cool. So we didn't really care about
Speaker 4: the image that everybody else was worried about.
Speaker 7: So we came with let the locks go, and we
Speaker 7: figured we'll use the power of the people, throw the
Speaker 7: T shirts on on summer jam, let everybody and involve
Speaker 7: the people with it and have the people on your side.
Speaker 5: That's where raping you records came from, right. I can
Speaker 5: just keep hearing it in my head because they be
Speaker 5: raping you, raping you, raping.
Speaker 4: Yup.
Speaker 7: So we just strategized and use what we felt would
Speaker 7: work for us, which was a campaign letting people know
Speaker 7: how we felt and that we didn't want to be there.
Speaker 3: Thanks for clearing that up. Man, I read that before
Speaker 3: and it yeah, thanks for clearing.
Speaker 4: That up for Damn Line.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's good at it.
Speaker 2: So just in your career, like, what would you say
Speaker 2: is can you name at least three like the magic
Speaker 2: moments that you were there for or that that really
Speaker 2: impacted you.
Speaker 7: One getting on when you first get on, I would say,
Speaker 7: it is uh, veryful. Two I want to say it's
Speaker 7: a particular particular time and movement. But as I said,
Speaker 7: I sat down and reflected on all the artists that
Speaker 7: I worked with I was able to work with, and
Speaker 7: it made me have a high level of appreciation for myself.
Speaker 7: I think when you take a conscious look at your
Speaker 7: catalog and are able to say, oh, man, I worked
Speaker 7: with him, I worked with I did this, I've done that,
Speaker 7: it made me very proud. And then the Grammys definitely
Speaker 7: was a highlight moment because I felt that was that was.
Speaker 4: Worldly, like you know what I mean? And how do
Speaker 4: you put this?
Speaker 7: When you could do a stadium and you could do
Speaker 7: a small room, It puts you in and in the
Speaker 7: realization of.
Speaker 4: What you meet. The hip hop thinking about being on
Speaker 4: Bigg's album, Whole's album, a roots album.
Speaker 7: Doing a song with Mariah doing you know, being on
Speaker 7: a Ma Maya album, being on a j LO album,
Speaker 7: being on a Talb album. I would say after Versus
Speaker 7: too the au, Yes, yes, I suspect the verses where
Speaker 7: kids came up to us going, we're gonna learn our rhymes,
Speaker 7: We're gonna stop rapping over the track. Uh, we we're
Speaker 7: gonna have our show tight. We see what your brotherhood
Speaker 7: brings to the people. That was very important because I
Speaker 7: didn't understand. I never thought the magnitude of the after
Speaker 7: effect would be that big. And yes, yeah, So that
Speaker 7: was also a great moment in our career where we
Speaker 7: were able to say, staying on the hamster wheel pays off,
Speaker 7: like you you know what I mean, being able to
Speaker 7: stay on that wheel and that workout and do what
Speaker 7: you do continuously. Sometimes you don't get credit for what
Speaker 7: you do. You don't get acknowledgment, you don't get your accolades,
Speaker 7: you don't make certain lists, you don't get certain ackledgement.
Speaker 7: If you stick to what you do or it'll come
Speaker 7: around sooner or later. And Versus Versus showed us that
Speaker 7: because it wasn't about we love this set, those is
Speaker 7: our brothers. But to see that many kids come up
Speaker 7: to us after going we're gonna learn our rhymes and
Speaker 7: we're gonna stop performing over that track with the words
Speaker 7: on meant a lot to us because we felt we
Speaker 7: now did what we were supposed to do for the
Speaker 7: hip hop we grew up on.
Speaker 5: That's the one thing I was hoping. I was like,
Speaker 5: out of everything that came out of that versus, I
Speaker 5: was hoping that young artists are watching this and seeing
Speaker 5: what to do and what not to do.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so that meant a lot to it.
Speaker 5: One more question before you got because you mentioned you
Speaker 5: mentioned you and your wife Azua would do a couple
Speaker 5: of these shows. And I'm so curious because when we
Speaker 5: see as as a consumer and as a watcher of
Speaker 5: these shows, where we see you and your wife on them,
Speaker 5: we know what that brings. It brings a certain level
Speaker 5: of legitimacy to these couple shows, right because we know
Speaker 5: that y'all shit is real, y'all work on y'all shit
Speaker 5: every day. Whatever. But I'm so curious for you and Azua,
Speaker 5: why what's your motivation for doing these shows?
Speaker 7: One you want to build your marriage up, you want
Speaker 7: to learn what you can, but you also want to
Speaker 7: show people like, uh, we pride ourselves. There's never been
Speaker 7: a show where we were in ourselves or somebody could
Speaker 7: pay us to be out of pocket, act uncivil or
Speaker 7: so we're big on black love and black family and
Speaker 7: do what we can do for the black family and
Speaker 7: represent black love.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you. It's great. It means a lot
Speaker 5: to us to see y'all.
Speaker 2: Thank y'all, thank you, Thank you, brother Steve. I know
Speaker 2: you didn't get your cream cheese. That's all right.
Speaker 4: I'm sure there'll be somebody else from a band.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, no.
Speaker 4: Plant based cream cheese.
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go.
Speaker 5: Oh that's yeah, I do like the plant based.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yo styles. Thank you so much for doing this,
Speaker 2: And really, I really appreciate you for having the courage
Speaker 2: to really live in your integrity. And I know you're like,
Speaker 2: I'm not a leader, but you're an absolute leader, and
Speaker 2: you're a seed planner, and you know, like we're out
Speaker 2: here listening to you, and I'm especially out here listening
Speaker 2: to you. I thank you for that so because that
Speaker 2: that'll make me, that'll keep me on the straight and
Speaker 2: narrow as well, and then that will inspire someone else
Speaker 2: and so on and so on.
Speaker 6: So no, man, Uh, from the time we met, like
Speaker 6: first time it was when you were at first kind
Speaker 6: of opening your juice bar when we did the Pharaoh.
Speaker 3: Mantch Black Can side video.
Speaker 6: I love that record, man, but we shot you know
Speaker 6: that in you know, in your in your bar, and uh,
Speaker 6: you just always been every time. I didn't even think
Speaker 6: you even knew who we were, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: When Pharaoh hit me for that record, he was like, yeah, man,
Speaker 6: I want you to do a hook and I got styles.
Speaker 6: I was like word like style. I was like for
Speaker 6: real and I heard it. I was like, oh this
Speaker 6: shiit dovers hell. And so when I met you, man,
Speaker 6: you just always every time we saw each other was
Speaker 6: always love. You just always been just one of the
Speaker 6: most solid dudes in this game, man, And I just
Speaker 6: wanted to just you you love him space.
Speaker 4: You're having me on the project, bro.
Speaker 7: I told you, I'm a fan, man, a big, big fan,
Speaker 7: and question I owe you a personal think.
Speaker 4: I was scared to do something. I asked quests for
Speaker 4: a request at a party.
Speaker 5: Dude a record to playing record.
Speaker 2: Not only did he request the record, I actually complied,
Speaker 2: and because I'm world famous for not but on top
Speaker 2: of that, on top of that, to this day, my
Speaker 2: first five records is Dreams. I played that. He has
Speaker 2: me played Fleetwood Mac Dreams.
Speaker 5: Wow, but in lovely.
Speaker 4: I got scared. That was one. See I could have
Speaker 4: mentioned my feelings. I was like, oh fuck, I think
Speaker 4: I offended questions.
Speaker 1: I knew better than to ask, but I was like,
Speaker 1: I had to ask this one.
Speaker 8: I felt like it was a good time to ask.
Speaker 8: Look he waved me off, like no, this is like
Speaker 8: it was like what record? I was like, creat Fleetwood
Speaker 8: Mac and that ship. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Thank you surprised. Doesn't surprise you surprised them, know, because
Speaker 2: the thing was, I was in my jawing like come on, man,
Speaker 2: I got this. I know what I'm doing. And then
Speaker 2: I thought about it and I was like, wait, he
Speaker 2: don't even know that. That's the perfect record to mix
Speaker 2: him right now. And I did it, and to this
Speaker 2: day is now in my first ten records. You brought
Speaker 2: that to my repertoire. So thank you again. You changing mind,
Speaker 2: You're changing my health and my creativity. I got the
Speaker 2: request a quest love. Nobody does that.
Speaker 5: You're right, I'm trying to trying to get into for years.
Speaker 4: I think that's gonna work right now. I gotta give
Speaker 4: it a try.
Speaker 2: Yes, it like wave. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: you wait, because I was. It was like juggling plates
Speaker 2: like trust me and people, Yeah, don't don't, don't get couraged. Don't,
Speaker 2: don't get couraged at all.
Speaker 7: That was and it was a vegan It was a
Speaker 7: vegan plant based right. Shout out to chef Dan you
Speaker 7: home too, Yes, that was. Let me tell you something
Speaker 7: to a question.
Speaker 1: You are you know what it is.
Speaker 4: You are absolutely astonishing.
Speaker 7: Amazing DJ too, because that whole night was a lesson
Speaker 7: for me because I went, you know, sometimes you think
Speaker 7: people are great just in their field, and I've seen
Speaker 7: question other fields.
Speaker 4: But to rock that fucking party, what he was playing,
Speaker 4: what he was doing. If I was a DJ, I
Speaker 4: would have been taking notes. I would have I probably
Speaker 4: would have written everything down in my note notepad. But
Speaker 4: you're an amazing person. Thank you very much, thank you,
Speaker 4: And that's a big more spot for me. I made it.
Speaker 2: I gotta that's.
Speaker 4: Gonna go on my hip hop, on my hip hop.
Speaker 4: Great things I did I gotta, I gotta. I was
Speaker 4: able to get a make a suggestion and it happened.
Speaker 2: You made it happen. Yes, you did. A rare moment
Speaker 2: in Quest Left history. Thank you very much. Want to
Speaker 2: be having Steve and Fante and Laia and unpaid Bill
Speaker 2: uh And in the great style. See this is another
Speaker 2: classic episode of Quest Left Supreme. See y'all nextra.
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