Speaker 1: What's up everybody. Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening, thank you for watching. If you're on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to have this platform. I'm glad to get
Speaker 1: to talk to you. I'm grateful that during the crazy
Speaker 1: world that we live in, where musicians no longer get
Speaker 1: to go on tour that much, I could still engage
Speaker 1: with audiences and tell you about a new album that
Speaker 1: I have coming in September, and what we've been doing
Speaker 1: here at the Yege Farm, and I could talk to
Speaker 1: you about some of my friends. Today's podcast actually as
Speaker 1: a brand new friend of mine named Lathan Warlick. He
Speaker 1: is an artist out of Tennessee. He's featured on one
Speaker 1: of my songs, That's Why I Love Dirt Roads. I
Speaker 1: didn't meet him until this day. Until today, he came
Speaker 1: to do a music video with his family, and I
Speaker 1: had a feeling he had a good story, really interesting guy,
Speaker 1: and sure enough this podcast, he blew me away his
Speaker 1: joyful outlook on the world and life in general, inspired
Speaker 1: by God. This dude, this dude's got it together. He's
Speaker 1: got a lot to look up to, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna like his story. I was just I was
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be blown away. Welcome to the podcast. This
Speaker 1: is episode forty one. Did time long, line up and down?
Speaker 1: Going back? Crazy? Coolation Lathan Warlick. I feel like if
Speaker 1: I if I say the story of how I mean
Speaker 1: you got together, it would I'd be beating a dead
Speaker 1: horse because I've said it so many times. But of
Speaker 1: course there's people on here that probably haven't heard me
Speaker 1: say it. Been listening to this podcast, so yeah, it
Speaker 1: was what about three months ago, four months ago? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will say that something like that. Yeah, it late
Speaker 1: at night, my wife Amber, you know, we're just kind
Speaker 1: of getting ready to go to bed, and she's looking
Speaker 1: at Instagram and I hear her listening to this one artist.
Speaker 1: I could tell it same arge because it's like over
Speaker 1: and over, you know, and I was like, what are
Speaker 1: you looking at? She's like, oh, this is There's this
Speaker 1: guy I found on Instagram and he does he puts
Speaker 1: these lyrics to these songs and everything is is God based,
Speaker 1: you know, Christian based, so put it, put in a
Speaker 1: Christian spin on a bunch of these songs. And I
Speaker 1: started listening and by instantly I was I was engaged
Speaker 1: because these videos it's you in a car. Yeah, every
Speaker 1: time you take a simple water. Yeah, that's like the thing,
Speaker 1: you take a simple water. As as the song starts
Speaker 1: and then you come in with your lyrics. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear our kids run around there. Our kids are playing
Speaker 1: right now, literally outside in the hall. So I just
Speaker 1: get entrenched in this and the way that you engage
Speaker 1: the camera with your lyrics and the way your eyes
Speaker 1: light up. Yeah, let's do as you look at the camera.
Speaker 1: And so there's this one I say, I say every
Speaker 1: time I tell the story, I got say this part.
Speaker 1: But there was one about Kobe Bryant the helicopter crash,
Speaker 1: and man, it got me these lyrics. And so everybody
Speaker 1: listening Granger Smith Podcast, check this out. Lathan Warlick. Instagram
Speaker 1: is where I found it, but it's also it's on
Speaker 1: a lot of things, like it's on your TikTok. But
Speaker 1: there's one about Kobe Bryant. And you start it starts off.
Speaker 1: It starts off where you're talking about how terrible it is,
Speaker 1: how terrible the news jed probably the news probably just
Speaker 1: came out when you did that. Yeah. Yeah, So then
Speaker 1: you talk about how terrible it is, and then you
Speaker 1: flip and you say, and he had his daughter with him.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what was going through, what they were,
Speaker 1: what they were saying, what they were saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine less words you said to a daddy. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: And so then those lyrics just tear you down to
Speaker 1: the bone, and then you flip it again and you go.
Speaker 1: But then God spoke to me, yeah, yeah, And so
Speaker 1: by that point it's like you look at the camera.
Speaker 1: But then God spoke to me. I pray for all
Speaker 1: the victims that was affected that horrible helicopter crash. Yeah,
Speaker 1: woke up with a lot on my mind. Had a
Speaker 1: thought like that they really won't line never said a
Speaker 1: word to God because I was still in my feelings
Speaker 1: about the helicopter crash to kill Kobe Bryant. I had
Speaker 1: a lot of questions, like, what was you when there
Speaker 1: was happening? You could have stopped the whole thing for pression.
Speaker 1: And he had his daughter on the flight. I can't
Speaker 1: even imagine the last word she was trying to tell
Speaker 1: her daddy. Then God spoke to me. He said, I
Speaker 1: got a bigger plan, way more than you could never
Speaker 1: understand life, a lot more than what you're seeing right
Speaker 1: in front of you, and death gonna come to each
Speaker 1: and every man. See, they didn't go from life to death.
Speaker 1: They went from life to a better life now. I
Speaker 1: got them right here in my hands. But I can
Speaker 1: understand why you're grief because the flesh used to seeing
Speaker 1: them on earth. But that ain't where you stand. It's
Speaker 1: okay to cry, but let's not a grief like we
Speaker 1: don't have hope. And when God got it played, this
Speaker 1: got a way of showing us that your body gotta lead,
Speaker 1: So tell me we just soul go lead. And then
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I'm in. I'm in. You know,
Speaker 1: I got the screen right here watching this, and so
Speaker 1: long story short, and we'll get in. We'll get into
Speaker 1: that and I want to talk about that, but long
Speaker 1: story short. Right then and there, I friended him, i'
Speaker 1: DMed him, and I said, hey, man, you don't know me.
Speaker 1: I'm a country singer. This is crazy, but I've been
Speaker 1: watching your videos. I love what you do. Would you
Speaker 1: ever consider doing a song with me? You messaged back
Speaker 1: something like, well, this is crazy too, but what if
Speaker 1: I said yes? Yeah? Then we became friends. Then we
Speaker 1: started texting. Then we then I got I got That's
Speaker 1: why I love Dirt Roads to you. You wrote the lyrics.
Speaker 1: We've since recorded it. I hope a lot of you
Speaker 1: guys that have the are listening to this podcast. I
Speaker 1: hope you all have heard it. That that's why I
Speaker 1: love Dirt Roads featuring lath and Warwick version. And today
Speaker 1: we met last night for the first time on the
Speaker 1: fourth of July Man in Round Rock, Texas. We got
Speaker 1: on the stage together. It was unread. The energy you
Speaker 1: brought was unreal. I'm almost done talking because you're the
Speaker 1: one that's supposed to be talking on this podcast, but
Speaker 1: I just want to say, Man, we met for you
Speaker 1: flew in with your family, We met, we got on
Speaker 1: the stage, the energy was unbelievable to the crowd. And
Speaker 1: then today we're at the Yegee Farm. You have your
Speaker 1: family with you, I have mine, and we're going to
Speaker 1: film a music video for that song. For that that's
Speaker 1: crazy and gentlemen, Lathan Warlick, that's all I got. That's
Speaker 1: that's amazing, bro. That that's a blessing. So what I
Speaker 1: want to do on this podcast though, is really get
Speaker 1: to know you, because I know a lot about you musically.
Speaker 1: And then we worked a lot, you know, making this
Speaker 1: song Social Distance. You had to do it in Memphis, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: where we're close to your hometown. That's where you got
Speaker 1: in the studio. But you've mentioned several times, so you're
Speaker 1: essentially a rapper that brings Christ into your messages. Correct.
Speaker 1: And you've told me in passing that you had a
Speaker 1: rough time before that that led you to that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, man, And I want to hear. I want
Speaker 1: to hear, man, I want to hear what happened and
Speaker 1: why you turned into someone that is that is a
Speaker 1: messenger of God's word and how you did that. That's
Speaker 1: how God did that? Yeah? Yeah, Well, first off, I
Speaker 1: started off as a dancer. Man. I was seriously, it's crazy,
Speaker 1: but I used to dance. Man. We used to do
Speaker 1: this thing called joking and it originated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: And that's how we started. Man. I used to do shows,
Speaker 1: do a lot of talent shows around town and used
Speaker 1: to hang out with people that do the shows. And
Speaker 1: after we did that, we started to go celebrate. You know,
Speaker 1: we did this one talent show. I remember doing this
Speaker 1: one talent show and we wanted so much money and
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, this is because you know, back then,
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars was a lot when it was like
Speaker 1: four yard of one or two. And if you want
Speaker 1: to get dollars. I was like, no matter what, let's
Speaker 1: go hang out. So you know, what better place to
Speaker 1: go hang out than than the club? You know. So
Speaker 1: because we danced a lot, so we went to this club, man,
Speaker 1: and this is right here was the tragic event that
Speaker 1: actually shifted my atmosphere and was like, yo, something gotta change,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So we at this club
Speaker 1: before Christian. I knew of God, but I didn't have
Speaker 1: the relationship with christ you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: only knew of God because my Grandmama was always telling
Speaker 1: me about you know, hey, look man, listen late then
Speaker 1: you know you need to get to know Jesus. You know,
Speaker 1: you need to get to know God. But I heard
Speaker 1: this so many times it was just like a broken
Speaker 1: record to me, you know what I mean. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: it was like more like religion versus a relationship, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's what really scarred me. So I was like, nah.
Speaker 1: In fact, I used to go to my grandmama house bruh,
Speaker 1: and my grandma used to be like, but right before
Speaker 1: I walked in the in the house, I used to
Speaker 1: tell my friends, Okay, listen, y'all, we're going to go
Speaker 1: in here. My grandma gonna talk about Jesus, all right,
Speaker 1: I told your friends, Yeah, exactly like, but just kind
Speaker 1: of ignore it, you know. Just we're gonna go get
Speaker 1: something to drink. Then we're gonna go back outside. You know.
Speaker 1: But you know that's that's the type of like Grandmama
Speaker 1: had though. You know. So I didn't have a relationship
Speaker 1: with christ. I just knew of God. You know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't really applying him to my life, you know, until
Speaker 1: this tragic event took place. Yeah, so we went to
Speaker 1: this club. Man, after we got done dancing and and
Speaker 1: we want a talent show. So we went to this
Speaker 1: club and we went to this club. It was about
Speaker 1: six or seven of us, but we pulled up, like man,
Speaker 1: eight or nine cars, you know, just to hang out.
Speaker 1: And when we went to this club, man, I know
Speaker 1: everybody after I got this one hot headed friend that
Speaker 1: you just can't tell nothing to. It's just like everybody,
Speaker 1: Oh my God, like you can't stop this period, Like
Speaker 1: he won't let nothing go. Pride, he's so proudful. He
Speaker 1: can't do you step on his toes, you push him whatever.
Speaker 1: He got to do something, you know, And I had
Speaker 1: one on with me man, and he was my he
Speaker 1: was my cousin. He's my first cousin. Ain't gonna say
Speaker 1: his name, but he's my first cousin, man, And yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And so we get to this club, dude. And when
Speaker 1: we got to this club, we made a little circle.
Speaker 1: We should do this thing in the club where they
Speaker 1: make the circle and one at a time go they
Speaker 1: would go, and you would dancing of the circle, you know.
Speaker 1: So we're doing these dances and stuff, and right when
Speaker 1: we got done, we kind of leaned up against the wall,
Speaker 1: like besides the DJ booth. And since we lean up
Speaker 1: against the wall, dude, there's some guys over in the
Speaker 1: corner that was pointed at my cousin, you know, because
Speaker 1: I don't know if they had beach or no. No, no,
Speaker 1: he's not a big dude. In fact, I'm bigger than him.
Speaker 1: I'm bigger at him. But he just was a he
Speaker 1: was a firecracker bro like he when he get on,
Speaker 1: he get on, you you know. So we were over
Speaker 1: there standing in the corner, dude, and this guy like
Speaker 1: just across the way just pointing him, was like, yo,
Speaker 1: this is and that this isn't there. And we noticed
Speaker 1: like one of my guys noticed like, yeah, what's you know,
Speaker 1: what's with this guy? What's what's over him? And then
Speaker 1: I'm looking like here we go because the hot hit
Speaker 1: was already like yeah, okay, okay, and I'm like, here
Speaker 1: we go, dude, here we go this So I immediately said, hey, listen, guys, listen, bro.
Speaker 1: I said, it's so many clubs around here that we
Speaker 1: can go to. We ain't even got to be at
Speaker 1: this one. Let's go to another one. We can get
Speaker 1: in all of them free around this around this town anyway,
Speaker 1: So let's go to another one. So right when I'm
Speaker 1: gathering everybody else to go, man, this guy walked by
Speaker 1: all of them. It was like him and like four
Speaker 1: other guys. They just started walking by. Man. As soon
Speaker 1: as they walked by in between us, he like he stepped.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he if I can remember it.
Speaker 1: I think he stepped on his toe toe or something
Speaker 1: nudged him or something. And as soon as he did that,
Speaker 1: I immediately grabbed him. I grabbed him and I just
Speaker 1: picked him up. As soon as I picked him up,
Speaker 1: I'm sarting to walk towards the door. Dude with him
Speaker 1: with my cousin I picked yes with my cousin. I
Speaker 1: picked him up and was like no, because he already
Speaker 1: like no, put me down. And I'm picking him up,
Speaker 1: and I'm walking them. I'm walking them and walking them
Speaker 1: out the door. And Dude, as soon as I got
Speaker 1: to the door, I felt to push on my back
Speaker 1: and I turned around and do this was like the
Speaker 1: whole club was fighting, dude, cause it's like I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I didn't notice everything that was going on
Speaker 1: behind me because I'm too busy focused on let me
Speaker 1: get the problem at the way, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But when I was trying to figure out, like, man,
Speaker 1: let me get the problem at the way, the bigger
Speaker 1: problem was behind me, you know. So I'm walking dude
Speaker 1: to the door, and I sell them at the door.
Speaker 1: As soon as I sell them at the door, man,
Speaker 1: I turned around. The whole club was fighting, you know.
Speaker 1: And then I got to thinking like, man, my God
Speaker 1: is still in there, you know. So but then I
Speaker 1: was like let me them, yeah, yeah, like six or
Speaker 1: seven of them and there and then a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of more other guys that I knew, you know that
Speaker 1: I came with, you know. But then now. So now
Speaker 1: I'm actually I don'e got my cousin outside, and now
Speaker 1: I'm trying to gather my other guys up. So I
Speaker 1: told him, man, just go to the car, you know,
Speaker 1: let me let me, let me try to get everybody
Speaker 1: else together and we'll wait in the car. So now
Speaker 1: I'm gathering people up, getting people to the car. So
Speaker 1: I get a lot of people to the car. And
Speaker 1: of course they didching off. They running off, They running off,
Speaker 1: they ditching off, they running off. Well, now the fight
Speaker 1: doesn't move from inside the club to outside the club,
Speaker 1: So now people fighting the parking lot. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, People fighting in different bouns. Dude, they was inside,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because they job was just
Speaker 1: to bounce them outside. Yeah, when they get outside, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: we're doing our job for everybody, and they have a
Speaker 1: good time. But dude, the turning point though, was as
Speaker 1: I'm trying to gather man everybody up to try to
Speaker 1: get him in his car because it's time to go,
Speaker 1: you know. And as I'm gathering everybody up, I know
Speaker 1: there's one of my partners. He walk up to me,
Speaker 1: and he walked up to me, Dude, he's holding his
Speaker 1: head and dude, he had a gas on his head
Speaker 1: from like the top of his head all the way
Speaker 1: down to like the middle of his ear. And I
Speaker 1: was like, yo, we got to get you to a hospital,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I had two shirts on,
Speaker 1: So I took the other shirt off and had a
Speaker 1: T shirt on, and I took that shirt off. I
Speaker 1: just put on his head. And now I shoved him
Speaker 1: in the car. When I shoved him in the car,
Speaker 1: now all the other guys like, yoh, we gotta go.
Speaker 1: We got we got to get him to the hospital.
Speaker 1: And so we shoving this guy in the car and
Speaker 1: I'm telling them, let's go. And so now three or
Speaker 1: four guys, you know, they they getting in their own
Speaker 1: cars and they shut the doors and now we're actually
Speaker 1: finn leave man as soon as as soon as I
Speaker 1: get out, and to go to the driver that was
Speaker 1: driving the car we was in, and I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: ro we gotta go, let's go. He didn't know, you know,
Speaker 1: one of our guys head was busted, like literally, he
Speaker 1: needed to he need the hospital, he need to go
Speaker 1: to the hospital. And he didn't even notice that. But
Speaker 1: as soon as I like, he actually noticed and I
Speaker 1: was telling him. We walk into the car, and as
Speaker 1: soon as we walked up to the car, dude, this
Speaker 1: one guy was walking up Like as soon as he
Speaker 1: was walking up, people around him were scattering like they
Speaker 1: was just running, you know. Him and another guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for a reason, him and another guy was walking up
Speaker 1: on us. And then like it's just for some reason,
Speaker 1: everybody's just like like scattering, you know. And I look
Speaker 1: and then my partner was like, man, no, I'm finna go.
Speaker 1: I finna go off of the goal. And I turned around.
Speaker 1: I was like, nah, wait, And so I'm walking up.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of walking up towards the guys that's walking
Speaker 1: towards us, like and I'm finna be like, hey, yo,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that they't gonna be none
Speaker 1: of that or whatever ever. But I noticed, like, nah,
Speaker 1: this this right here is too serious. So I turned around.
Speaker 1: Du When I turned around, everybody was gone like they
Speaker 1: they don't open the doors and ran out like the
Speaker 1: other side of the car. So now I'm by myself,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So just pitch it that
Speaker 1: guy exactly with the guy that they're still walking up
Speaker 1: because as I noticed, like, no, hold this, this ain't
Speaker 1: going right. So I kind of started backing up and
Speaker 1: I chunked a round back to the car, and that's
Speaker 1: when everybody kind of dipped off. So when everybody dipped off,
Speaker 1: I'm like, dang. Literally, I'm like, I'm by myself. I'm
Speaker 1: looking around like, oh no, so what do you do
Speaker 1: with everybody's running? I ran, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So as soon as I took off, man, I took
Speaker 1: off running. And then when I took off running, it
Speaker 1: was dark. So when I took off running, I ran
Speaker 1: around a building. And when I ran around a building, dude,
Speaker 1: it was like pitch darker running building. But I noticed
Speaker 1: these guys chasing me. You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: noticed that. Yeah, so it was two So I noticed
Speaker 1: that it was these guys were chasing me. And as
Speaker 1: these guys are chasing me, dude. And when I when
Speaker 1: I ran around, when I went around the corner, dude,
Speaker 1: I ran from looking back running forward and looking back, dude,
Speaker 1: I ran right into a wall. Literally hit the wall
Speaker 1: like boom, you know. And when I hit this wall, dude,
Speaker 1: I hit it. It was like, oh, man, like I
Speaker 1: feel stupid, you know, I just I was feeling embarrassed,
Speaker 1: like I didn't even I didn't even realize like these
Speaker 1: guys was was what was following me. I hit it.
Speaker 1: It's so hard. I was thinking, like why am I
Speaker 1: even running? You know what I mean? And then when
Speaker 1: but when I hit it, and I came to myself
Speaker 1: like dang, I'm tripping, and I turned around. And when
Speaker 1: I turned around, these guys standing there like literally they
Speaker 1: still walking up, they kind of kind of pacing because
Speaker 1: you know, when I'm tired running, and he was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's up. What's up now? What's up now? And now
Speaker 1: I'm standing there like wait, man, what and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's up now? What's up now? So I had one
Speaker 1: shirt on because I'm the first shirt that I took off.
Speaker 1: I still have my T shirt on, right, and so
Speaker 1: I'm looking at them two guys like I just same nothing,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I was like, I've been
Speaker 1: jumped before. I can take my shirt off, and you know,
Speaker 1: I can try to handle them and get out of
Speaker 1: the situation whatever. So I didn't think that that's about it.
Speaker 1: So I was taking my shirt off, like Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna prepare myself for a fight. That's the only way
Speaker 1: I can get out of this, dude, is I'm taking
Speaker 1: my shirt off. Man. I noticed that the guy come
Speaker 1: around man the backside of his like his backside man
Speaker 1: with a forty five calible pistol, all chrome forty five
Speaker 1: catible pistol, dude, And he got the gun down to
Speaker 1: his side. And then that's when life changed. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, snaps, you know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 1: like maybe this is the yeah, yeah, exactly, like dang,
Speaker 1: maybe yeah, maybe this is it. Maybe this is the end.
Speaker 1: And as I'm standing right there, dude, his partner was
Speaker 1: like his partner. His partner told him, he said, man,
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do? He said, what you're gonna do?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh snaps. He then he told him,
Speaker 1: he said, man, gone and kill him. He said, gone
Speaker 1: and burn this man. He told the other guy with
Speaker 1: the gun. Yeah, he said, what you're gonna do. Then
Speaker 1: he said, man, gone to kill him? Like a challenge, Yeah,
Speaker 1: going to kill him. He said, what you're doing, what
Speaker 1: you're waiting on? You're scared? He said, going and burn him,
Speaker 1: Going and burn I'm going to shoot him. What you're doing.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody around here with us going to shoot him?
Speaker 1: And the guy picked up the gun, dude, and pointed
Speaker 1: the gun right at me, pointing right on my face.
Speaker 1: And so I'm sitting there, and when I stood there,
Speaker 1: that's when it all hit me. I said, dang, I'm
Speaker 1: finna die. You know what I'm saying. And I said,
Speaker 1: I said, man, I don't want my mama to see
Speaker 1: me on the news like this. I don't want my
Speaker 1: gun mama to see me on the news like this,
Speaker 1: Like I don't want I don't want nobody to see
Speaker 1: me like that. I don't I don't want to go
Speaker 1: out like this. This ain't how I want to leave,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And as I'm standing that dude,
Speaker 1: and this guy got this forty five calible pistol point
Speaker 1: of my face, not my chest, not nowhere else. He
Speaker 1: got right in my face. I can remember my grandmama
Speaker 1: bro saying, if I was ever in the time of
Speaker 1: need and call on God, that's the first thing that
Speaker 1: came to my mind when this guy got this forty
Speaker 1: five caliber epistol. So all the times that I was
Speaker 1: at my grandmama house and telling my buddies like she
Speaker 1: gonna say somebody, God, she gonna say somebody Jesus. It's
Speaker 1: like she knew it was gonna be a time that
Speaker 1: I would have to call on God and he was
Speaker 1: gonna have to do the work. You know what I'm saying. Absolutely. So,
Speaker 1: if I'm standing right there man with this guy with
Speaker 1: this forty five caliber pistol pointed to my face, I
Speaker 1: remember looking up and I thought about my grandmama, and
Speaker 1: I told God, I said, God, all right right here.
Speaker 1: Why this guy got the gun pointed at me? I said, Man,
Speaker 1: if you I looked up and I said, if you real,
Speaker 1: like everybody say you are the man, just hit me
Speaker 1: out the situation. That's exactly what I said. I said,
Speaker 1: just hit me out of the situation. And I look
Speaker 1: back at the guy because I'm just thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: now it's over it. I can't do nothing now it's over,
Speaker 1: you know. And this guy got the gunpointed at me,
Speaker 1: and out of fear, I knew he would pull the
Speaker 1: trigger because his hand was shaking. Not only was his
Speaker 1: hand shaking, but he was sweating, so he was finished
Speaker 1: just accidentally pulled the trigger because he was so scared,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So now I'm just like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's over. It's gonna be over. And the guy looked
Speaker 1: at me, and he looked at his friend, and he
Speaker 1: looked back at me and he said, man, you and
Speaker 1: me to choot him. He said, yeah, you're scared. Man,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get those stripes or what I mean,
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do. You're trying to go on
Speaker 1: to get some ranking this thing or what. And he
Speaker 1: looked at me again and he pulled the trigger and
Speaker 1: the gun click and as soon as the gun clicked,
Speaker 1: he took the gun out of his head. He said, man,
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're doing. He took a gun
Speaker 1: and he ejected the bullet out the gun and the
Speaker 1: gun a bullet came out of the gun and he
Speaker 1: drawing down with it. As soon as he drew down
Speaker 1: with it, a car hit the corner. The lights of
Speaker 1: the car hit the corner, and when the lights hit
Speaker 1: the corner, them guys took off running because he was
Speaker 1: scared because it was lights. Now it's like, oh, snap,
Speaker 1: somebody here. You know what I'm saying. It's like somebody here.
Speaker 1: And so the guy took off, and as soon as
Speaker 1: the guy took off, man, I forgot what I said
Speaker 1: during the whole situation that was going on. I forgot
Speaker 1: what I said during this whole time, and so I
Speaker 1: walked I was I was starting to walk off like yeah,
Speaker 1: dangn I can't be touched, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that's what I thought, you know. And dude,
Speaker 1: at that moment, I've never in my life felt the
Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit until this night. And that's
Speaker 1: when it something hit me. Something hit me, and something
Speaker 1: weighed on my shoulders. It's like something It's like it's
Speaker 1: like a weight started sitting on my shoulders. And then
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, I just started crying, Like literally, I
Speaker 1: just started crying out oft know where, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you know what. I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute? You know what I'm saying. And as
Speaker 1: I'm walking off, dude, it was like I was crying
Speaker 1: so much that I just turned around and was like,
Speaker 1: I can't go out there, you know, all teary eye
Speaker 1: to all these people out there. Let me turn around,
Speaker 1: and just started wiping my eyes, wiping my eyes and dude.
Speaker 1: As I turned around, I started wiping my eyes. And
Speaker 1: as I'm walking and walking and walking and walking, dude,
Speaker 1: I walked up on the bullet that the guy had
Speaker 1: ejected out of the gun, dude. And as I'm standing
Speaker 1: right there, and I'm just wiping my eyes, wiping my eyes,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking down and I can barely see his
Speaker 1: tears flooding my eyes. And I picked up the bullet, dude,
Speaker 1: and it was an indent on the back of the
Speaker 1: bullet to where that lead didn't fly off of the bullet,
Speaker 1: but the hammer hit the bullet. So God was already
Speaker 1: trying to show me during that during that time, like listen,
Speaker 1: since he knew I knew a lot about guns, since
Speaker 1: I got so many, and because I like to collect them,
Speaker 1: and so since he knew I knew a lot about guns,
Speaker 1: and he was he was already speaking to me, saying,
Speaker 1: before you go tell everybody that a gun jammed, I
Speaker 1: want to show you this right here happened and the
Speaker 1: lead just didn't come off of it, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's why he led me back to the bullet,
Speaker 1: so I won't have no type of like, no type
Speaker 1: of second thought or second guess of this is why
Speaker 1: this happened, you know what I'm saying. And so ever
Speaker 1: since then, man, that's when it been like a life
Speaker 1: changing experience for me. That's when it been something like
Speaker 1: I said, man, you know what I told my wife
Speaker 1: she was my girlfriend at the time. I said, you
Speaker 1: know what, man, I want to I want to, I
Speaker 1: want to I want to do something different. I want
Speaker 1: to move away from the hood, and I want to
Speaker 1: I want to get married, you know. And she's like, wait,
Speaker 1: what you know? Then when I told my partners to
Speaker 1: do it, it it looked like looked at me like I
Speaker 1: told him I was gay or something like. Literally, it
Speaker 1: looked at me like, wait, man, what you know because
Speaker 1: it's just this wasn't something we did was from you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So that was a life changing thing.
Speaker 1: That's what made me say, you know what, I want
Speaker 1: to sit down because I asked, God, if you are real,
Speaker 1: and then can you hit me out of the the situation.
Speaker 1: So since I said that, I feel like I owe
Speaker 1: life to him, you know what I'm saying. So since
Speaker 1: since that happened, it is like, aren't even supposed to
Speaker 1: be here? So since I ain't supposed to be here.
Speaker 1: I'm finna make the best of the moments even when
Speaker 1: stuff do happen. I'm gonna go back to this moment
Speaker 1: of saying, Dann's supposed to supposed to be here, no way.
Speaker 1: So when the worst of the worst happened to me,
Speaker 1: I look back and be like, I ain't eve supposed
Speaker 1: to be here, you know. So that's what helped me
Speaker 1: get through life. You know what I'm saying. That's what
Speaker 1: helped me like make it straight through life. Man, that
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Speaker 1: that story, right, There's times, many many times in the Bible,
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Speaker 1: in Corinthians when Paul says that so that he won't
Speaker 1: get conceited, God put a thorn in his side from
Speaker 1: an agent of Satan. It's one of the weirdest. It's
Speaker 1: one of the weirdest passages because you think about Satan.
Speaker 1: God used Satan so that Satan wouldn't win. That's weird, right,
Speaker 1: And that's almost what happened in your story. He used,
Speaker 1: he used some bad dudes, fueled by your crazy cousin.
Speaker 1: He used a lot of bad things. Oh, that Satan
Speaker 1: wouldn't win in the end by using you. That that scene,
Speaker 1: And that's why understanding the works of God is pretty
Speaker 1: much impossible. We can't even begin to want to want
Speaker 1: to understand but the fact is, the truth is the
Speaker 1: light is now that you have brought so many people
Speaker 1: to the light. That's crazy because of a really dark night.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. But God allowed to happen. He brought it,
Speaker 1: He brought it together, he brought He even got your
Speaker 1: buddy all gashed up, you know. And it's terrible, but that,
Speaker 1: but but that that's how that's how he works very mysteriously.
Speaker 1: And uh, and you what what fascinates me about you
Speaker 1: to this day is how you continue to talk about
Speaker 1: God speaking to you and the Holy Spirit speaking to you.
Speaker 1: And you first described it as an overwhelming emotion that
Speaker 1: made you cry, which is real because you don't just cry,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, like you know, you know when
Speaker 1: an emotions, a human emotions coming on, and you know
Speaker 1: when you didn't cause it. Everybody goes through that. And
Speaker 1: so how has that evolved today? When you told me
Speaker 1: yesterday at the stadium when we're playing, we're walking around
Speaker 1: that day and you mentioned something God's been speaking to me.
Speaker 1: Remember that, I don't remember what it was about. You
Speaker 1: say it a lot. You throw those words out as
Speaker 1: if this is a relationship that that you cultivate every day. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: so how does God speak to you? And I guess
Speaker 1: that's my question. Man. First off, it got to be
Speaker 1: through the power of prayer. It got to be through
Speaker 1: the power of fasting, because even in About Man, a
Speaker 1: lot of people miss the part that it says that
Speaker 1: we need to pray as much as we need to pray,
Speaker 1: as much as we were fast as much as we pray.
Speaker 1: So you can't just pray and just think everythings gonna happen,
Speaker 1: and they can for some people it probably can. But
Speaker 1: if you're trying to really understand the language and the
Speaker 1: voice of God, dude, you got to put it all
Speaker 1: into play. You know what I'm saying. You gotta fast,
Speaker 1: you gotta pray, you gotta meditate on the word, you
Speaker 1: got to look into the Bible, do it just like anything, Dude,
Speaker 1: if I feed my flesh more than I feed my spirit,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the flesh, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But if I feed my spirit, then that's what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get in return is understanding God and understanding stuff.
Speaker 1: So that's why stuff like they come to play now.
Speaker 1: I had to eliminate the distractions in order to hear
Speaker 1: god voice. First though, you know what I'm saying, because
Speaker 1: I couldn't. There's no way I can understand I could
Speaker 1: distinguish between if it's just whatever's going on in my head,
Speaker 1: or if it's Jesus or if it's the body of
Speaker 1: Christ really speaking to me, because it's not like a
Speaker 1: movie where it's a big I don't know. No, I
Speaker 1: mean he can. I'm not saying it can, but I
Speaker 1: ain't hearing it. But that's not his style. That's not
Speaker 1: it's not his style, and it's it's it'd be a
Speaker 1: bunch of like he had confirmed a lot before something
Speaker 1: even happened. You know what I'm saying, Like, let me
Speaker 1: tell you this one incident, like this one story where
Speaker 1: I had I hit a truck man. I had a Ciperado, dude,
Speaker 1: and I had a six inch on it. Thirty five's
Speaker 1: on thirty No, what was it? He had? Thirty three
Speaker 1: is on it? Such a country boy? Yeah, dude, and
Speaker 1: uh and uh And I hit this person. I hit
Speaker 1: this person from the back. Literally it was it was
Speaker 1: raining and I was on my way to this show,
Speaker 1: to this event, and I just looked down. It was
Speaker 1: like yo, I was telling him I was worried about
Speaker 1: like the speakers of something. They was like, man, the
Speaker 1: PA system went out of something through the electricity and
Speaker 1: you know, the lightning struck or whatever. So I looked
Speaker 1: down like, man, what And I got a bit this
Speaker 1: show in like five minutes. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's like boom and phonoe him and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I just ran into the back of somebody, you know.
Speaker 1: And when I hit the back of this person, he
Speaker 1: got out, gave all the insurance and stuff to make
Speaker 1: a long story short, and I had to pay like
Speaker 1: a five hundred dollars deductible, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I was just thinking about I had it, but
Speaker 1: I was thinking to myself, like I don't want to
Speaker 1: get this much. No five hund dollars up, like this
Speaker 1: is just either when the gate, especially when he had
Speaker 1: like no DNT I him. But it wasn't even a
Speaker 1: dean in the back of his truck. It wasn't even
Speaker 1: like it probably was maybe a paint chip about this big,
Speaker 1: literally like a quarter of an inch painte exactly. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, should I have to even pay? I said,
Speaker 1: But you know what, I'm gonna pay it, you know,
Speaker 1: And it didn't even bother me. But then the next
Speaker 1: day when I called my daddy, I was like, hey, Daddy,
Speaker 1: I ain't never in my life had a rick So
Speaker 1: I'm like, I told my dad. I said, hey, Daddy,
Speaker 1: like I just hear somebody yesterday, you know. And then
Speaker 1: right after that, right after I told him that my
Speaker 1: wife called me because she hit somebody. We both of
Speaker 1: us ain't never had a ricket. No, it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the next day. The next day, dude, she
Speaker 1: hit some And I'm just sitting there like, oh my God,
Speaker 1: and this is and this what really had start to
Speaker 1: bother me because I'm like, now I'm talking to God.
Speaker 1: I don't know about y'all, but I talked to God.
Speaker 1: When I talk to God, I'm like, bro, listen, man,
Speaker 1: you see what's going on. You know what's going on
Speaker 1: to other people that might look crazy, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, like, this is the relationship I have with him. Now,
Speaker 1: if you got a quiet relationship where you just kind
Speaker 1: of worksped a God in your head and you pray
Speaker 1: to God at night, only then that might be you
Speaker 1: but not me. Me is like, Okay, God, I understand
Speaker 1: You're really trying to show me something, but I need
Speaker 1: it in black and white right here, like I need
Speaker 1: to see what's going on. And he always reveal it
Speaker 1: to me just like that, because that's a relationship I got,
Speaker 1: you know, and how David was in the Bible, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, people telling me all the time, but something
Speaker 1: like that, you know, that's that's amazing. But so I
Speaker 1: called my data the next morning, bro, and I'm like, daddy,
Speaker 1: you know, man, I just hit this dude, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to. I really don't even want to give
Speaker 1: no five and or dollars because it ain't nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with his car, I said. And then Constance just hit somebody.
Speaker 1: I said, so man, what what like what what? What?
Speaker 1: What you think going on? And this and that, and
Speaker 1: right then I just started to balling again. Ain't nothing
Speaker 1: never bothered me? Like nothing really too much bothered me.
Speaker 1: And my wife said it all the time. Like then,
Speaker 1: I just it's just crazy to me how nothing never
Speaker 1: bothers you. Like we can lose. I'm telling you, we
Speaker 1: can lose like twenty thousand bucks or something could happen
Speaker 1: to us, and I still be like it's cool, It's cool. God. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the last and like the last time something happened
Speaker 1: me and my wife, she was like, I was like, no,
Speaker 1: it's cool, baby, Like it's not cool. And it's like,
Speaker 1: oh wait, you know what I'm saying because it's like
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Like I said, I go back
Speaker 1: to the first time. I don't even I don't even
Speaker 1: deserve this life. It's like, man, I look at life
Speaker 1: totally different than a whole lot of people you know,
Speaker 1: and so like. But but this time, this one in particular,
Speaker 1: time bothered me, and so I just wrote down. I
Speaker 1: just started telling my daddy like dang man, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to follow a lot of stuff that God
Speaker 1: is doing, like and it's just out of my emotions, bright,
Speaker 1: out of my feelings and out of my anger. It's like,
Speaker 1: now I'm going to my daddy, Like Dad, they listen, man,
Speaker 1: Because you gotta have accountability. People like I don't care
Speaker 1: who you are. You gotta have people you can go
Speaker 1: to and talk to about about like situations that's going
Speaker 1: on in your life. It's not for you to bottle
Speaker 1: feelings up. It's not that ain't how God meant for
Speaker 1: it to be. We're supposed to be connecting with with
Speaker 1: with other believers and other people that love Jesus, that
Speaker 1: love God, in order for us to release a lot
Speaker 1: of these feelings and emotions that we have, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So we can help each other get
Speaker 1: through some stuff, because you're not supposed to go through
Speaker 1: like all of this junk alone, especially stuff that's going on,
Speaker 1: especially right now in twenty twenty, you know. But so
Speaker 1: I got to tell on top of to my daddy, dude,
Speaker 1: and all these feelings and the motion are starting to come,
Speaker 1: and then my dad and then I just I just stopped.
Speaker 1: It's like something came over and I was like, but
Speaker 1: you know what, Daddy, I like, drive my face up
Speaker 1: and went to a whole other personality like, but you
Speaker 1: know what, Daddy, Man, I believe God. I know God.
Speaker 1: Can I know God? Will he gonna do something? And
Speaker 1: I know he gonna do it. I said, And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come back to you within the next I will
Speaker 1: guarantee you about the next ten days and i'ma have
Speaker 1: a testimony about this day. I said so, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna leave it at that. And my dad was just like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, you really be encouraging me. Son,
Speaker 1: you just I really feel like it is you called
Speaker 1: your dad ye to get encouragement, then God gave it
Speaker 1: to you before your dad could speak, and then you
Speaker 1: gave it back to your dad. Yeah. Ye, exact conversation.
Speaker 1: That was the conversation. But then I was like, then
Speaker 1: we went on to something else, and he was just like,
Speaker 1: you know, son, that is You're right. You're absolutely right
Speaker 1: something I believe. I was standing right here with you
Speaker 1: and believe with you that something else is gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I really believe it. I said, Okay, cool, I said,
Speaker 1: but anyway, and kind of brush it off, and then
Speaker 1: we just got to talking about something else. I think
Speaker 1: he's talking about deer Hunter something and I was like, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: Then I got out the phone with him. Do how
Speaker 1: about the next weekend I had to show in Dallas, Texas,
Speaker 1: UH with Pastor Ross and Mahomie John. Dude. John is
Speaker 1: an amazing guy from Colonial Hill Church. He just he
Speaker 1: just sent me down there with him. There was just
Speaker 1: to be like just to come along and go with him. Well,
Speaker 1: I ended up doing something at the church because I
Speaker 1: get you know, they like they found out who I was,
Speaker 1: and so I ended up doing something at the church.
Speaker 1: And right after I did something at the church, Dude, Man,
Speaker 1: this lady walks up and we all sent it in
Speaker 1: the circle and the pastor of the church, Ross walks
Speaker 1: up and this is like this is a week later,
Speaker 1: one week later, seven days later, and he said, hey, later,
Speaker 1: he said, man, he said, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on, but he said it's later wanted me
Speaker 1: to give you this. I'm like, wait, what's that, Ross?
Speaker 1: And he handed me a folded up piece of paper.
Speaker 1: I said, Ross, you know me, bro, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't take money. I don't take I don't you know.
Speaker 1: I don't do that. I don't take money. I don't
Speaker 1: take none of that. Dude. I'm just it's a blessing
Speaker 1: for me to be here, and I'm just blessed to
Speaker 1: be here. But that's it. And he was like no, no,
Speaker 1: he said, it's on my spirit that the Lord really
Speaker 1: wants you to have this. He said, because it's gonna
Speaker 1: be something different once you open it. Now, Ross, I
Speaker 1: never know. I never told nobody about the situation but
Speaker 1: my daddy about what went on. Dude. When I open
Speaker 1: up this check, it was a check for five hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: exact dollars, the same as my deductible. Wow. And I
Speaker 1: opened it up and dude, I just tapped around. And
Speaker 1: when I tapped around, there was like that's crazy, ain't
Speaker 1: the man? I said, nah, man, you right now, just
Speaker 1: tell this. I know it, bro because it's God is
Speaker 1: amazing broh. And I can't even I can't put in
Speaker 1: the words just over a podcast of how you know
Speaker 1: the type of God that we serve many of them.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's do it. And so when I
Speaker 1: unfolded this thing and I told him the story, I said,
Speaker 1: brou my deductible last week was five hundred dollars. And
Speaker 1: I told my daddy, this is something I didn't want
Speaker 1: to pay. But I told my daddy, but watch when
Speaker 1: I test. Someone is gonna come out of this. Now
Speaker 1: I get to call my daddy and encourage him. Now
Speaker 1: his face is fit to go up through the roof
Speaker 1: because of what's going on. And all of them tucked
Speaker 1: around and said god, man, dude, it was like, I'm serious.
Speaker 1: Dude was all like like this my face like whoa
Speaker 1: this is? This is crazy? Like this is this is
Speaker 1: something that's beyond me, you know, what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: moments like that, bro, That's what. That's what what listening
Speaker 1: to God's voice is. Even when something horrible happened in
Speaker 1: your life, still you can't be distracted of what happened
Speaker 1: at the moment. You got to continue to just follow
Speaker 1: God and just be like, you know what, I know this,
Speaker 1: and it's okay to grieve, It's okay to like I like, like,
Speaker 1: like how I did cried, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: to my daddy. But I couldn't cry so long that
Speaker 1: I didn't have hope. You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: couldn't cry so long. I couldn't stay in that one
Speaker 1: spot and be like, man it is, you know, and
Speaker 1: just dwell on a moment to where sending me the
Speaker 1: suicidal thoughts, to where it sending me to stuff like man,
Speaker 1: forget this life always crazy, life, always stupid. And I
Speaker 1: couldn't dwell on that moment because the enemy. The longer
Speaker 1: you dwell on a crazy moment like that and you
Speaker 1: don't get back to God, the enemy gonna use that
Speaker 1: as bait. He gonna jump in that mind, dude, and
Speaker 1: he gonna stay there. He gonna stay there. He gonna
Speaker 1: stay there here, gonna stay there. One thing gonna turn
Speaker 1: into the next, next thing ona turn in to the next,
Speaker 1: and then you will find yourself doing something that you
Speaker 1: will never think about that you've ever done. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna take walk me through that. What you're saying right there,
Speaker 1: walk me through that. I've had a lot of guys
Speaker 1: on this podcast. I've had I've had several veterans, Yeah, suffering,
Speaker 1: you know, they've seen some stuff. They will staying race.
Speaker 1: So walk me through. What you're saying right there is perfect, perfect.
Speaker 1: You You have this moment, bad moment, the world, the
Speaker 1: world is crazy. Yeah, and you said as soon as
Speaker 1: you dwell on that, the enemy's going to take advantage exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: So how so what do you do in that moment
Speaker 1: to not dwell on it? As soon as you said,
Speaker 1: you gotta take it to God? Right? Yeah, okay, tell
Speaker 1: me that. But when I take it to God, it's
Speaker 1: like I take it. I take that moment to God,
Speaker 1: like I don't wait. You can't wait, you can't prolonger,
Speaker 1: you can't be like, you can't just think about something
Speaker 1: might happen. You got to have hope in something and
Speaker 1: go like finish happen immediately, expeditionously. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because it's like when something happened is like like I
Speaker 1: was dwelling on the moment when I was talking to
Speaker 1: my daddy, crying like man, this is that dad. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I was like, I stopped. I
Speaker 1: had to stop and tell myself like, but wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I can't stay here. So that's when I told my daddy,
Speaker 1: but watch this though, Watch ow God do something. Watch
Speaker 1: how the enemy won't win, Watch how God set this
Speaker 1: whole thing up. Just for a testimony, you know, I
Speaker 1: believe that's the Holy Spirit that intervenes in that thought
Speaker 1: right there, the one that goes, wait a minute. That's
Speaker 1: that's when the Holy Spirit this is speaks to you
Speaker 1: and then walk us through taking it to God from then. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but see, so what do you physically say in a moment,
Speaker 1: a bad moment and then you wait a minute, and
Speaker 1: then what you say during that moment? Since I told
Speaker 1: my dad, I said, but watch this, watch yall, something happened.
Speaker 1: Watch y'all God turn this thing around. That's when my
Speaker 1: daddy was like, well, that's right, that's right, man. Well
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, right now, let's pray about that thing.
Speaker 1: And so when he do that, that's what I'm saying
Speaker 1: about accountability people. Your dad's spiritual too. Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying about account like having accountability partners, dude,
Speaker 1: because think about it, if my dad didn't say, let's
Speaker 1: pray with that thing, or if he would have been
Speaker 1: the type of person that was like, dang, that's messed up. Dang, dude,
Speaker 1: that's that and had everything negative to say about the situation. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. You gotta watch your friends because
Speaker 1: that is your future. The people that you hanging around
Speaker 1: and people you rock with, that is your future. So
Speaker 1: I had to literally push away a lot of those people.
Speaker 1: So when moments like this come me and somebody like
Speaker 1: my daddy or my other accountability partner, Maurice, might shut
Speaker 1: out to my homi Maurice and he hit me up,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, brouh, let's pray with that thing. Let's
Speaker 1: pray a back this thing. It's not this thing. You
Speaker 1: got the part, there's no question about it, you know.
Speaker 1: And then once it's like once we juice each other up,
Speaker 1: then when I get out the phone. Like when I
Speaker 1: got out the phone, I did, and that's when I
Speaker 1: literally had a conversation with God, Like, Lord, Man, you
Speaker 1: know the situation is going on. Help me out of
Speaker 1: this situation like you did before. This ain't nothing new.
Speaker 1: This ain't nothing new to me, This ain't nothing new
Speaker 1: to you. I know you can. I know you will,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna leave it at that, just like that,
Speaker 1: and you gotta believe it. There's no way you believe
Speaker 1: in that something would happen if you keep deling on
Speaker 1: the moment. And there's also that fine line of you
Speaker 1: don't want to push everybody out of your life that
Speaker 1: you can't actually help too. You only put people in
Speaker 1: your life that's cushion. Definitely, Definitely you gotta have a
Speaker 1: little of that friction that you could do your work
Speaker 1: in them. Definitely. I know you do that. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: definitely man. And that's also what your music does. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like seasons for me, man, Like last month was
Speaker 1: the season that God was saying, you know what, before
Speaker 1: all of this stuff right here happened, I want to
Speaker 1: do something in you. So in order for me to
Speaker 1: do something in you, I need you to get rid
Speaker 1: of these people, you know what I'm saying. But see
Speaker 1: that that's the perks of listening to God. That's the
Speaker 1: perks of understanding God. You know what I'm saying. Think
Speaker 1: about it. If I have missed out on that, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be here with you. I wouldn't be here. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't know as boards you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't know a lot of people if
Speaker 1: I would have missed out on stuff like that. Because
Speaker 1: it was like, in order I have to hear God's voice,
Speaker 1: and when if I don't hear God's voice, it's like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. I gotta push that to
Speaker 1: the side, you know, just like with different different even
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go into this, just like with different even
Speaker 1: different labels. It was like I can't do this with
Speaker 1: them because I don't feel like this is what a
Speaker 1: Lord lead me, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: that's when I stopped and was like, now I can't
Speaker 1: do this with this with this type of people, you know,
Speaker 1: because I believe that God gonna have somebody in play
Speaker 1: for me to you know, walk with alone. This journey
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna make this thing happen. Going farther
Speaker 1: and farther in your walk, you start to specifically hear
Speaker 1: who's talking to you. Yeah, definitely the evil one's talking
Speaker 1: to Oh yeah, oh, and you learn to hear his voice.
Speaker 1: For instance, this happened to me yesterday. I woke up
Speaker 1: yesterday and I thought, Man, I was like, man, fourth
Speaker 1: of July. It's like I got Lathan and his family
Speaker 1: flying in COVID's flying around Like, Man, this isn't a
Speaker 1: good idea. Now, this isn't a good idea. I should man,
Speaker 1: I should just back out of this whole thing. I
Speaker 1: should back out of the show tonight. I should just
Speaker 1: cancel this music video. I possibly put in him in danger.
Speaker 1: You know, they got to get on a plane. And
Speaker 1: then I thought, that's not the voice I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: be listening to. Wow, everything is fine. Yeah, we got this.
Speaker 1: There's a reason he's coming to Texas. There's a reason
Speaker 1: he's going to be in this music video with me
Speaker 1: on Sunday, yep. And and now I feel and then
Speaker 1: when you go through with it, you feel when you
Speaker 1: made the right decision. Yeah, when you listen to the
Speaker 1: right voice. Exactly. I'm gonna take a quick break, reach
Speaker 1: out these cameras for show. So after this, after this podcast,
Speaker 1: at the end of it, I want to play that
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant video we're talking about because and and we're
Speaker 1: we're just looked at it over the break. We look
Speaker 1: to see if we could just play it over the mic.
Speaker 1: But I kind of want to show the video anyway
Speaker 1: because the way that you look at the camera and
Speaker 1: you're like I said, and then God spoke to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't even notice that, bro. You so many people
Speaker 1: pointed that out and I didn't even notice. It was
Speaker 1: just when I'm doing this stuff, dude, It's just like
Speaker 1: I want to show you realit it. I don't want
Speaker 1: to show you no fake I don't want to give
Speaker 1: you no jump were you just you're just a really
Speaker 1: good speaker. You have a cool Southern accent. I appreciate it, bro,
Speaker 1: because you're a country boy like I always say, but you, man,
Speaker 1: you're just a really good speaker and you engage really
Speaker 1: well with your eyes and your your hands, and that
Speaker 1: that's why those videos work, man, That's why it hooked me. Wow.
Speaker 1: But I definitely on this podcast, we need to get
Speaker 1: into racism, Yeah for sure, because there's also a I
Speaker 1: want to hear it. I'm gonna shut up, but I
Speaker 1: want to hear from from your point of view, because
Speaker 1: you have you have a view of love, and I
Speaker 1: wonder where that comes in when the world is in
Speaker 1: chaos like this. Yeah, maybe that's the time when it's
Speaker 1: most important. Yeah, but y'all, I'll let it be. Could be,
Speaker 1: I'll let you teach me. Yeah, definitely. What just starting
Speaker 1: it off, dude, this is and I know this is
Speaker 1: a tough pill to swallow, man for people, for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. But it took me knowing Jesus to
Speaker 1: understand this. So first off, if you don't know Jesus,
Speaker 1: if you don't have a relationship with God, then this
Speaker 1: this might just come off to a lot of people
Speaker 1: wrong anyway, you know what I'm saying. So that's why
Speaker 1: when people come to me about it, I don't go
Speaker 1: with with what the world is doing on giving their
Speaker 1: views about it, going straight to straight to the man.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, And this is how I do.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not even so much of a skin issue.
Speaker 1: If you think you gotta think about it it's not
Speaker 1: so much of a skin issue, it's so much of
Speaker 1: a it's a deep rooted sin issue, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's it's a sin that that that a
Speaker 1: lot of people struggle with racism, you know. So since
Speaker 1: it's a deep rooted sin issue, I'm me as a
Speaker 1: Christian and somebody that loved Jesus, I see, have to
Speaker 1: love this person now. It's loving this person gonna be easy. No,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be easy, you know because, uh like
Speaker 1: like the harm and the hurt that they're doing for somebody,
Speaker 1: you know. But at the same time, I gotta follow
Speaker 1: the biblical ways. Man of Christ. I can't walk with
Speaker 1: the world. And what the world is doing now is
Speaker 1: you know what they're doing? Is it wrong? Of course?
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, just just going back to the
Speaker 1: George Floyd thing, man, we actually seen them like convict
Speaker 1: a man, trial a man, and murderer man just right there,
Speaker 1: you know, just just all on in one setting, like
Speaker 1: you took a man the court, you gave him a
Speaker 1: date to be to die, and you and you killed
Speaker 1: him right there. And I've never met or heard anyone
Speaker 1: that disagrees with that. Yeah, anybody I haven't either. I
Speaker 1: have I haven't either. But the thing about it is,
Speaker 1: it's now because the world has seen it, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's been going on for a long time. But
Speaker 1: now that it's it's everybody can see it. It's like,
Speaker 1: holy crap. There could be anybody laying down there, you know,
Speaker 1: But me, as a black man and as as somebody
Speaker 1: loved Jesus, I still got to say what I feel
Speaker 1: the same way if it was a Mexican land there,
Speaker 1: if it was a white guy landing there. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because because all of those lives matter,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And when I say that,
Speaker 1: I'm saying that this is in like, uh, just looking
Speaker 1: at it and in the eyesight of Jesus. Dude, when
Speaker 1: I say this stuff, you know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 1: gotta be careful saying stuff like all you do. You
Speaker 1: know these days people crucified for that kind exactly. Definitely,
Speaker 1: But I understand it. All lives matter too. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's like, right now, this is the
Speaker 1: issue that's going on, so right now we need to
Speaker 1: point we need to point at this because this life
Speaker 1: here is it matters now. Right now too, because if
Speaker 1: you're looking at it on down the line, like just
Speaker 1: through history, people have been dying and people have been
Speaker 1: getting killed over this type of stuff. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. As far as racist, yeah exactly, definitely maybe
Speaker 1: the oldest, the oldest mankind crime. Yeah exactly written history
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, and see we can see this stuff. But
Speaker 1: I had somebody DM me the other day and he
Speaker 1: was just like black guy, Man, this DM me the
Speaker 1: other day was like, man, what's up coon, what's up
Speaker 1: such and such and such? And I don't think he knew,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think the thing about it. That was
Speaker 1: when I messaged him back. It's surprising because I don't
Speaker 1: think he thought I was gonna message him back. And
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, what's up? Like I have to
Speaker 1: be ready to hear you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not gonna last back at you just
Speaker 1: because you're saying that, because I want to know. I
Speaker 1: want to hear. I want to hear your views about it. Exactly.
Speaker 1: I couldn't come up to you like now, you know,
Speaker 1: screw that f you whatever, what's up now? I couldn't
Speaker 1: do that. I had to be like yo, what's up?
Speaker 1: Talk to me, like, what makes you feel like that?
Speaker 1: And he was like, man, because he's just trying to
Speaker 1: do with what the white folks doing and he's trying
Speaker 1: to go this is that. I said, oh, I said,
Speaker 1: what makes you feel like that? He was like, because man,
Speaker 1: he posted a picture of all of y'all, like everybody
Speaker 1: kneeling at the same time and coming together. I said, oh,
Speaker 1: I said, so your issue as a black man is
Speaker 1: the issue of everybody coming together. And he was like, well, no,
Speaker 1: I want saying all that. I was like, well, tell
Speaker 1: me the issue. I said, you angry at something? I
Speaker 1: said to talk to him, asaid, I give you my number,
Speaker 1: we can call, we can talk about this thing. Are
Speaker 1: you serious? Yeah, I said, dude, So talk to me, dude,
Speaker 1: like like, what are you really mad at? Because that's
Speaker 1: not the what are you really Let's get down to
Speaker 1: the root of the real cause of why you're really mad.
Speaker 1: And yeah, man, it's just I don't know this because
Speaker 1: many folks killing us. I said, Okay, check this out.
Speaker 1: I said, my brother, I'm coming to you from a
Speaker 1: black guy to another black guy. I said, Man, last
Speaker 1: week I got pulled up and in Chicago and know
Speaker 1: if you hear it. But man, he did a drive
Speaker 1: by shooting each other five year old kid right in
Speaker 1: the head and the killer dead. I said that life
Speaker 1: mattered yesterday, straight up, bro, I said. And then you
Speaker 1: got a boys of clinics all over the town. Bro,
Speaker 1: they killing babies like forty going north them lipy. The
Speaker 1: baby lives matter. You got to think about stuff like that,
Speaker 1: I said. So when you came to me with this
Speaker 1: type of stuff, I want you to have the same
Speaker 1: energy when somebody do that on a five year old kid.
Speaker 1: Man pulling up in the hood, blowing a five year
Speaker 1: old kid mine. I like, come on, dude, what were
Speaker 1: at Let's march, let's stand, let's let's put our boots
Speaker 1: on the ground, let's do some stuff. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So when I came to him like that,
Speaker 1: that's when the conversation went like, oh, whatever, because you
Speaker 1: gotta be real. I'm a realist, bro. I love Jesus.
Speaker 1: And now he's messing with somebody else exactly what he's
Speaker 1: on social media, messing with somebody exactly. But you have
Speaker 1: people like that on social media, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And it's just because man, I love Jesus, bro I
Speaker 1: love God. And if, like I said before I even
Speaker 1: started talking to you, if you don't understand God, if
Speaker 1: you don't understand Jesus, all this stuff that I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I completely over your head anyway. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't like what you see on social
Speaker 1: media is just music. You know what I'm saying. Like
Speaker 1: it's it's just it's like I only show you the
Speaker 1: music part of my life, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And you're getting a glimpse of who I am who
Speaker 1: like you're getting a glimpse of me and Jesus, my
Speaker 1: relationship with Christ without me saying, hey, y'all, I've given
Speaker 1: my life to Christ. I love Jesus. I didn't. I'm
Speaker 1: not even flowing it out there like that. You're living
Speaker 1: by example. I'm living it exactly. I'm not just telling
Speaker 1: you what's going on. I'm much believable exactly. And that's
Speaker 1: why I'm asking all these questions too, because you you
Speaker 1: just have this joy that just comes out of you. Man,
Speaker 1: It's just you walk in like a radiance, and that's
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do because otherwise it just sounds
Speaker 1: preachy and tired and lame, you know, walking around going
Speaker 1: you know, Jesus, you know Jesus. You know. Instead you
Speaker 1: want people to go to a year ago. What's different
Speaker 1: about you? Man? What what do you know that I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly? Like what what's your secret? And then
Speaker 1: there it is? There it is. That's it. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you my secret. That's it, man. And that's not
Speaker 1: just little people. Dude, I love I'm telling you. Like
Speaker 1: I said, man only supposed to have his life. So
Speaker 1: since I don't supposed to have his life, it's like, man,
Speaker 1: I want to try to walk in this way and
Speaker 1: now it's every day perfect. No, oh my god, no,
Speaker 1: it's not exactly exactly. Even my wife, dude, I come
Speaker 1: to her a lot like hey baby, listen, man, pray
Speaker 1: for me about this. This type of spirit is coming
Speaker 1: up on me. Pray for me about this. That's another thing, dude.
Speaker 1: You gotta have that type of influence from this person too.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Even with your partner, you know,
Speaker 1: because me and her don't went through so much stuff. Dude,
Speaker 1: just from my childhood growing up, like being taught about
Speaker 1: women like man, have this this many type of women.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the goal to try to do whatever
Speaker 1: with any type of woman. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Growing up in the hood, all of this stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: so that curse was still on my on my life,
Speaker 1: and I told myself, I'm not gonna put that curse
Speaker 1: on my son's you know. So I got to do
Speaker 1: something to where I make it to where my sons is.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna follow their curse. I'm gonna break this.
Speaker 1: I tell you right now, They're not. They're already good
Speaker 1: boys and and with a daddy like you, and I've
Speaker 1: met Constance, your wife. These these kids are gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna go up the right way. They're gonna be smart
Speaker 1: kids and and they're going to see the world for
Speaker 1: what it is. And so many times people are trying
Speaker 1: to fix the world. As Christians, we know that it's
Speaker 1: a following world. Yeah this is it's not going to
Speaker 1: get fixed by us trying to fix the world. We
Speaker 1: could only help ourselves and internally change ourselves through love
Speaker 1: and spread it outward. Yep. Relate one relationship at a time.
Speaker 1: That's it is it to me. It starts with our families.
Speaker 1: Once you master that love and that responsibility. It goes
Speaker 1: out to your your your cousins, and your outer family,
Speaker 1: and then your friends and then your community, and then
Speaker 1: that spreads out to you the city yep, and it
Speaker 1: just keeps going outward. But until you make your own bed,
Speaker 1: let's brush your own teeth. That says you're not gonna
Speaker 1: fix the world. No, man, it's a phone world. It's
Speaker 1: a broken world. It is it is, And I feel like, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta hold in order to fix this thing. Now
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about what's going on, so let's talk
Speaker 1: about how to fix it. I feel like one way
Speaker 1: we can fix this is holding our own accountable. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying exactly, Like if I see my brother, like,
Speaker 1: for instance, if I see like where I'm from, dude,
Speaker 1: is you know a lot go on? Man? And like
Speaker 1: say fings. If I see one of my guys pull up,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm talking to him, hollering at him. He like, Yo,
Speaker 1: what's up? And I'm like, what's up? Bro? What you
Speaker 1: gonna go do? Oh? Man? You know I'm running, Im
Speaker 1: running a little low one. And so what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go here and rob this little gas station
Speaker 1: right quick. I need to write then and right there
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, yo, listen, bro, man, if you
Speaker 1: are this gas station, you might not make it out.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. To even see the money
Speaker 1: and say fans, and you rob the gas station and
Speaker 1: get twenty five hundred dollars, you ain't even gonna you
Speaker 1: ain't even gonna really be able to spend it because
Speaker 1: you're gonna get locked up and it ain't even worth
Speaker 1: you even going in to get twenty five hundred. I
Speaker 1: was out of a he could cure you. Think about
Speaker 1: all these all this stuff they can go on. So
Speaker 1: I'll tell you my brother, like, listen, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: Don't do that. Think about it. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: you hurting right now, but just think about it. Go
Speaker 1: to somebody else. You know what I'm saying. What you
Speaker 1: need help with because it happened out with something. Has
Speaker 1: this conversation happened? I ain't half what it's definitely happened,
Speaker 1: but it was more so like a man, well, now
Speaker 1: you like this because you're doing this and you're doing that.
Speaker 1: It's like it's nice for you exactly exactly. And I'm
Speaker 1: like a million followers on TikTok Ude, that's nothing. I
Speaker 1: don't know why people think it's another thing. People think
Speaker 1: you got a million followers, you got a million dollars.
Speaker 1: I know that. I know that because you got a
Speaker 1: million followers on tap. Dude. Come on, man, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 1: That is crazy, dude. But just like holding each other accountable, dude.
Speaker 1: And and just like with like with people like you,
Speaker 1: like man, if it's if you hear somebody else saying
Speaker 1: something about racism, like man, look at that whatever, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's like, yo, yo, that ain't the move right now,
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty. It's time to be real. It's something different,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, just holding each other accountable.
Speaker 1: Even officers, police officers. We see somebody there fell on
Speaker 1: their neck. Come on, hey, look, partner, that's that's good.
Speaker 1: Pat him on the bed, that's good. That's good. Me down.
Speaker 1: That's crazy because that seems like that's a no brainer
Speaker 1: like that. I know that seems like yeah, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but it still happens. Obviously the whole world saw it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we gotta see that, man, we gotta And when
Speaker 1: we see stuff like that, you can't unsee it, you know,
Speaker 1: especially when a man on the ground, man Holland to
Speaker 1: his mama. It make you think about, like, dang, dude,
Speaker 1: is that I never see the full video? I never
Speaker 1: seen the four. I couldn't. I couldn't see the four video.
Speaker 1: When I seen on the knee, I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say no more. I mean media already
Speaker 1: talking about it enough. I didn't either. Yeah, so I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have to. I don't have to really see
Speaker 1: no more, you know what I'm saying, because it's like, dang, dude,
Speaker 1: this is wrong. What's wrong is wrong? You know. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how I look at it. That's good stuff, definitely
Speaker 1: for show for shure, Yeah, your kids are gonna be good.
Speaker 1: And uh, if we had, if we just had that
Speaker 1: mentality of love passed down through generation, it's just a
Speaker 1: little bit. Then your kids are going to be a
Speaker 1: little bit better off, and then their kids be a
Speaker 1: little bit better off, yep, and then their kids a
Speaker 1: little bit better off. And it's the same with mine
Speaker 1: and my grandkids and my great grandkids. I like to
Speaker 1: think that it just gets every generation gets a little
Speaker 1: bit better. Yeah, I do. I have hoping that dude,
Speaker 1: I have hoping every generation after this will get better.
Speaker 1: As you can see, it's getting better, bro, even with racism, Like,
Speaker 1: come on, we got to be real about what's going on.
Speaker 1: It ain't it ain't we don't. We don't. I mean
Speaker 1: we can share the same scene and stuff now, Dude,
Speaker 1: it ain't how it used to be, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And then even like other white people, Bro,
Speaker 1: they coming in and it's like, Yo, this ain't right.
Speaker 1: We can't do this. Like look now in twenty twenty, bro,
Speaker 1: you got this my phrase time ever seeing different companies,
Speaker 1: different celebrities, different artists of a different race saying hey, yo,
Speaker 1: what can we do to stop this? Like how can
Speaker 1: we help? What can we do? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I ain't never seen it first, me too, dude. Even
Speaker 1: companies changing logos, companies are doing stuff different saying like listen,
Speaker 1: we got this many people high hire this many of
Speaker 1: the percentage, you know what I'm saying. So in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: it's already a generational thing that's already being broke down.
Speaker 1: So you got to look at some positive stuff that
Speaker 1: God that's doing the world won't show you that the
Speaker 1: world won't show you the positive stuff that's going on.
Speaker 1: That's why I post it on my social media, like
Speaker 1: I want to show y'all it is. But of course
Speaker 1: it come off to a lot of people like, man,
Speaker 1: you're just trying to make it look like you know,
Speaker 1: this isn't it man, I'm just showing your reality. They are.
Speaker 1: I mean, you see enough negativity in one day, So
Speaker 1: you're what's your Instagram laketon walllick first and last name
Speaker 1: at L A T H A n W A R
Speaker 1: L I c K. Yep, that's it. So you got
Speaker 1: to go and go check this out because and you
Speaker 1: put that video on there. The video you keep talking
Speaker 1: about is I don't know what city was that from? Yep,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I actually got it from a young lady.
Speaker 1: I was so ready to post it. I was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: do you mind if I yeah, shit, and I just
Speaker 1: get out for a posting. Was like, let's do it.
Speaker 1: It's it's a video of one side is a bunch
Speaker 1: of protesters and the other side is a bunch of
Speaker 1: police officers. Both sides are mixed together, and uh, they
Speaker 1: go they they're coming together, and you think all this
Speaker 1: is about to get bad. Yes, and these guys get
Speaker 1: really crazy and then they all start taking a knee
Speaker 1: to each other and a sign a sign of respect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on either side they take a knee for each other,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's yeah something man. When the protesters started kneeling,
Speaker 1: and then after the protesters started kneeling, then the officers
Speaker 1: just started kneeling. But then in the middle of while
Speaker 1: the officer was started had started kneeling, one of the
Speaker 1: protesters got up and then went over just to shake
Speaker 1: the guy, shake the police officer's hand, and the amount
Speaker 1: of energy that the police officer put in shaking his
Speaker 1: guy hand was like a sign of relief. Like he
Speaker 1: grabbed him and pulled him close, and he grabbed his
Speaker 1: shoulder and pulled him even closer, saying like, man, I
Speaker 1: want to go home, Like you want to go home.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, dude, we in this
Speaker 1: thing together, united, we stand. It was it was in
Speaker 1: that in both groups. It was black, brown. Yes, everyone
Speaker 1: was in either side, we officers, protesters. And I think
Speaker 1: we need to push that more because the news definitely
Speaker 1: just going to show that. Man. No, news, don't push it.
Speaker 1: They want to divide us everybody and the news just
Speaker 1: wants to divide everybody I know, man, and that's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to know them. Yep, clickbait, that's it man.
Speaker 1: It's like people love the negativity, dude. People love the
Speaker 1: feed off of that because mens, we love company, so right,
Speaker 1: people love it. That's right. So me and you about
Speaker 1: to go film this music video. For sure, by the
Speaker 1: time you hear this podcast, I probably won't still be out.
Speaker 1: We got Paul. Paul's got to edit this thing, so yeah,
Speaker 1: but it'll be out soon. So you guys be looking
Speaker 1: for that. Please check out Lathan and all his stuff.
Speaker 1: A million followers on TikTok amst of the media follows
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Let them fool you. So But but like
Speaker 1: I said, I want to end this podcast. I'm wanna
Speaker 1: shoot over this video for sure. And you got so
Speaker 1: many good videos, man, There's so many good ones. And
Speaker 1: I don't even know why I'm singling this one out,
Speaker 1: maybe because it's the first one that really caught my attention.
Speaker 1: But the the way that you flow from this is
Speaker 1: this is terrible. This is shocking, the way you flow
Speaker 1: through that to wait a minute, then God spoke to
Speaker 1: me and he showed me. What this means is, uh,
Speaker 1: it is amazing. So I want to end the podcast
Speaker 1: with with that. But let's do it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We'll do this many many times. Man, love you, my dude,
Speaker 1: and we'll uh, we'll go shoot this video. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: So do it. Here's what I'm talking about Instagram right here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you never know what to expect or what's coming next.
Speaker 1: When riding them dirty rolls, the grappling dust might throw
Speaker 1: you walk. I'm ready, you're not on the God knows.
Speaker 1: It's hard trying to hold it together. When I lost
Speaker 1: a couple of people alone the ride. Wish I can
Speaker 1: roll back the hands on the clock, just to tell
Speaker 1: him I love you just one more time. I wasn't
Speaker 1: prepared for the pain that came and had me tore
Speaker 1: up on the inside. But I can hear you on
Speaker 1: the side of me, wish very softly telling me not
Speaker 1: to cry. Just when I thought I was hopeless, you
Speaker 1: kept reminding me how you will never leave. And now
Speaker 1: lot them people we lost had a place up in heaven.
Speaker 1: So make sure I get a seat. We go through
Speaker 1: some bats, sit downs, and might even have a fe
Speaker 1: curious we don't see I end up at home every
Speaker 1: time because God got his hand on my life and
Speaker 1: he guide me. Yeah,