WEBVTT - #135 - David Sabastian 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.400 Say, man, it's the Bootleg cav podcast. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:08.920 Dope Dope episode today with the artist named David Sebastian. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:15.840 He's from Los Angeles, California. He's a designer, an authorland. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.400 I mean, he's going to tell you all that he is, 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.600 but he's an incredible artist as well. We had him 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.079 pre style on the show not too long ago and 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.720 he did his thing. Shout out to David Sebastian. Shout 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:28.560 outs to our sponsors odd Socks. Make sure to odd 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:33.160 socksofficial dot com used the promo code bootleg. keV it's 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.239 actually just bootleg. He used the promo code bootleg. You'll 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.720 save twenty percent off everything odd Socks has. 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I mean, how many hats are you wearing? Yeah, 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:26.560 clothing line, I'm wearing them all at the moment. Literal art, 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:40.640 I'd say definitely a musician, Uh, designer, author, activist, philanthropist. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.560 That's a big word for saying, you know, you help 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:46.679 out the community in some way everything. Man, I'm about 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.240 to drop a cookbook, a raw vegan cookbook, you know, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.280 so I guess I'm a chef now too, you feel 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.680 so explain the raw part because some people say they're vegan. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.000 But when I just talked to you about it, you 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:57.760 were like, no, I eat everything raw now, so what 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.360 does that mean? It's just electric foods. You know, like 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.440 a lot of times when you cook your food over 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:07.640 certain temperature, you cook out all the nutrients. So it's 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.720 something that's kind of new for me. But I like 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.360 it because you know your whole life, you learn how 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.640 to cook a certain way right, and then when you 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.800 can't do that anymore, it forces your mind to create 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.799 new ways to do it. And then the cookbook thing 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.840 was just like a lot of my niggas who like 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.120 in the hood, don't know how to cook, don't yo 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.520 raws to expend like an easy applicable way to make 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.440 raw dishes that look good, that taste good, that make 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.160 you feel good for like under ten dollars. You know, 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.000 so is raw. Like essentially, you go to the store, 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.240 you buy vegetables and then you just eat them that way. Yes, 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.679 but you don't. You don't just take some colar grains 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.720 and just eat them, right, So like a vegan dish 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.480 would be, I mean, a raw dish would be like 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.040 you get a collar green, right, and then you get 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.960 some hummus, put some hummus in it, you chop up 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.480 some onions, you put a little deal on it, you 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:03.040 cut up some garlic, you add some you know, it's 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.360 just playing with flavors. So then you roll that up. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:07.880 I like, make this like raw sushi. I roll it 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.680 up and it just tastes incredible. Man, little sesame seeds 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.880 in it. As opposed to like cooking, opposed to cook food. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.360 I've lost twelve pounds in about two weeks. Big, and 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.880 so this is something new you just started. I'm like 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.320 thirty days in. Do you know I'm going to my 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.880 birthday because I love I love meat. Paul's like, I 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.360 love I love I love me me too. Man. You 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.639 know that's why I can never I just I respect 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.480 people who say they're vegan. Yeah, because I couldn't. I 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.520 just can't even process. But it depends on how much 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.680 you value. So when I eat meat, and I'm like 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.520 just a fucking carnivore, I'm tired all the time. I'm 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.160 fucking sleeping in meetings, I can't move, you know what 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.360 I mean. I'm like in this constant state of like narcosis. Right. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.840 So but I'm eating good right, but now I'm raw 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.000 And it doesn't really fuck with like eating some ribs, 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.480 some jerk chicken. But I stay up nineteen hours out 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.840 the day. I can run fucking as long as I 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.800 want to. You know, I just feel incredible, feel amazing. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.240 Are you going so after your birthday you're gonna go 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.320 back to eating meat? No? On my birthday, I'm going 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.000 to eat a dish, a dish, A dish. What would 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:23.640 that dish? Be like some grade eight wagoo fucking you know, 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.080 just top maybe like thousand dollars fil a wagoo. The 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.960 wagoo's the one. Yeah, that's the wagon. That's a nice 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.840 way to treat yourself. Yeah, well listen you you came 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.800 up on our show what like March or April of 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:45.520 last year. Yeah, killed your freestyle. You put out some records. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.680 You just put out a audio book called Imagination Time. Right, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.400 For people who don't know what that means, explain to 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.400 me the first of all, the inspiration for this book 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:06.680 and what is what does it mean? So the inspiration 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.479 behind it was one of my good friends, Jermaine. He 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.920 sent me an audio book maybe six seven years ago 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.560 by a guy named Neville Godard who was a speaker, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.880 a positive speaker in the forties and the fifties, and 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.760 it changed my life. It absolutely changed my life. And 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:30.839 it all centered around your imagination, essentially being God. Right. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.760 So this thing, this entity that we call God, is 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.600 the human imagination. Right, Like, if you look around this room, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:43.000 what's one thing in here that wasn't created by someone's imagination? Right? 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:48.400 That's fair. The artwork, the music in it, it's you know, 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.800 everything is essentially created by your imagination. So this audio 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:57.920 book taught you how to utilize your imagination to create 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.640 the desired reality you want. So I started listening, listening 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.560 to it and practicing it, and then I was like, 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.400 oh fuck, and this is a book that's old. It's old, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.719 it's yeah, from the forties, it's some talking from forties, fifties, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.200 it's on YouTube typing how to use your imagination. Okay, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.599 it's brilliant. So I started using it and my life 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.839 started changing. Because before that, I did a lot of 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:22.720 busy work. I did a lot of like you know, 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:24.960 sometimes we do a lot of things to feel like 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.880 we're doing something. I was just always I'm doing this, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.039 doing this, doing this. But once I learned the power 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.320 of my imagination, it's like you ever heard the expression, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.480 like a big dick, don't got to move that much, right? 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.240 You know what I mean? You don't got to do 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.960 too much. You know, you can literally just think it 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.760 and create it into your reality. So long story short, 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:49.839 just looking at all these teachers and philosophical people, you 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.880 got esther Hicks, you got fucking all these people. They're 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.039 all like older, like white people, you know, they're all 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.279 like older white people, and there's no real representation in 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.000 the audio book Self Help Space, especially from someone who's 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.679 tattooed like me and as a rapper in Indy streets, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.240 you know. So really it just happened like that, like, Yo, 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.400 I need to speak a language that my people understand 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.640 and then teach them the power of their imagination. So 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.960 that's how it started. Yeah, so like explain kind of 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.880 you said that during the pandemic you had kind of 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:30.920 started practicing Yeah, this, I guess, I guess imagination time. Yeah, right, 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.360 so kind of give people like a breakdown on like 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.280 what that entails and like so so when you wake 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.320 up and before you go to sleep, your your mind 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.520 enters something called rim sleep, right, and it's where you 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.600 don't really your subconscious doesn't know the difference between a 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.760 dream and reality, right, So that's the that's the best 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.840 time to impress upon thoughts in your mind that you 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.840 want to create, because your subconscious is going to materialize 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.160 them because they don't know if it's real or if 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.160 you're in a dream. So I would wake up and 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.120 at this time I was living at the Orsini. Do 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.280 you know where the or scene is? Is that downtown? 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.640 It's downtown. It's like these hood projects, you know, like 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:16.040 Niggas was getting robbed in. It's not like fucking the projects, right, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.200 It's like some it's like where like if you're an 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.680 upscale drug dealer, you move to and you know, you 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.320 get some like luxury or whatever. But I was in 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.120 this one bedroom and I just finished living in my office, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.080 which was an upgrade, and I wanted a penthouse. Man. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.240 I wanted a penthouse, and I wanted a beautiful fucking girlfriend. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.520 And I wanted my music to go somewhere, you know. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.920 And I wanted a record deal, but I wanted the 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.520 right record deal. I wanted real equity, and I wanted 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.600 a couple other things that I just wanted. And I 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.200 started waking up and I would go. I would spend 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.280 I first started off at ten minutes, and I moved 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.400 to twenty minutes, and then now I do thirty minutes 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.280 a day. And what I would do is is I 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:02.359 would lay down and I would myself in a situation 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.760 in the future, given that I had all the things 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.680 that I wanted. So if I have the penthouse, right, 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:11.920 I'd envision me I close bys and I'd wake up 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.920 in my mind in that penthouse and I'd look outside 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.320 and I'd be like, it's fucking beautiful up here. And 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.240 you know, the girlfriend of my dreams would be laying 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:21.319 in the bed and she'd be like, you want me 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:22.839 to cook you some food? And I'm like, yeah, cook 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.199 me some food. And I'd walk around. I'd get phone 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.200 calls about, you know, with my lawyer talking like every 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.000 you know, you create just like a movie. When you 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.240 write a script, you're writing a script for your future life, right, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.320 and then you live in that reality and then you 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.880 let it go. You would just wake up and go 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.840 about your day. You don't worry if it's gonna happen, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.560 you don't worry why it's not happening. You don't even 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.120 worry about the current reality. You just let it go, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:52.080 like you just watched the film and then crazy shit's 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.360 just gonna start happening to you. Man. I've seen it 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.040 happen to me. I've seen it happen to my friends. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.120 I've seen it happen to my mom who practices it now. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.959 And you know, one thing led to another. It's the pandemic. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.000 I'm like, fuck, everybody's on their phones now. Something said 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.640 you'll drop your album I'm like, drop my album, but 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:10.240 how am I going to upload it to this and 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.480 I can't sell it on your website. I'm like, sell 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.920 it on my fucking website. Okay, fuck it. End up 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.240 making too much money and then end up leveraging that 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:25.679 into you know, a situation, a situation and the great situation, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.480 and then I end up getting that fucking penthouse and 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.360 end up meeting this girl who I'm not with anymore, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.840 but I think I met her last time. Yeah, she 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.520 was fine, she was beautiful human being. It's nice, Yeah, 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.080 very nice. She was fine and she was nice, But 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.200 that didn't work out because you know, you ever heard 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.600 the same be careful what you asked for? Definitely. You 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.480 know you you may think you want something, but you 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.360 have to be very very specific on what you want 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.520 because you might end up getting exactly what you say 0:10:55.559 --> 0:11:02.600 you want. That's fair. Well, you also, this penthouse you 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.720 had was there was a very bad situation that happened 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.720 for people who don't know it wasn't at this pinho. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.920 That pinhouse moved to another pinhouse, So where you moved 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.000 for people who don't know, there was in La there 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.440 was a hostage situation that everyone across the world saw 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:25.880 on online where they there was Was it your lady 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.360 that was being held hostage? She was my friend. Your 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.200 friend was being held hostage at your place by a guy, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.079 a gunman, and the police, the swat team whatever it is, 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.680 blew blew the wall up or and then rescued her, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.240 killed the dude, killed the guy in your living room. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.960 You're not home at the time. You want to even 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.280 know something that's crazy as that was fucking crazy. It 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:50.800 was very because I was watching and then I saw 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.040 you post like that's my home and I was like, oh, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.679 fuck the Then that's crazy as is. I threw a 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.240 little party the night before and a couple of people 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.600 stayed over and whatever. And my friend, her name is Haley, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:07.040 the one who got held it gunpoint. Before I left 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.120 to go to a meeting, right, I said, don't let 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.280 no weird don't let no weird crazy niggas in my house. 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.040 I don't know why I said it. I just looked back. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:16.760 I was like, don't let no weird crazy niggas in 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.440 my house. And she laughed just like I'm not and 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.040 I'm like, okay, cool. And then I leave and I 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.080 go to this meeting and then I'm like calling her, 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.559 trying to reach out to her, and she's not picking up, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.160 and I'm like that's strange, Like why she's not picking up. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.960 Maybe she's sleep right. And then we get back to 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.920 my house and the entire street is fucking blocked off. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.800 Everything is blocked off from ear to fucking seventh Street 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.040 or whatever, and I'm like, what's going on? And people 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:43.800 are like, yo, it was a shooting. It was a shooting. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.440 She was shooting. I'm like, oh shit, you know it's crazy. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.840 They're like, the gunman ran into your building. Now I'm like, 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.000 oh fuck, he's in my building. Now, it's like crazy 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.960 calling her, she's still not picking up, and something in 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.880 my gut was like, oh fuck, I bet this niggas 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.880 in my house because crazy shit happens to me, like 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.760 this crazy movie. Weird shit just happens. And I'm like, 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.960 there's no reason why she wouldn't be picking up with 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.120 this this and I put you and two together. And 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:17.520 then someone who I was with, Uh, well, this someone 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.840 I was with was just like, I think someone's in 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.679 your house and I'm like, uh, oh fuck, someone is 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.800 in my house. So the guy had a bad day. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.319 He went on a fucking shooting rampage, tried to steal 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.959 a car shot, someone pulled a trigger a to another 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.880 dude's head the gun one click, ended up running into 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:41.040 my building and uh, running into my house, and your 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:45.320 friend's okay, she's okay, I mean outside of the outside 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.160 of the trauma that this situation. But she's alive, you know, 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.440 which is amazing. But you know, anything could have happened. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.760 And then when they broke in, you know, he grabbed 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:58.040 her to shield himself, and it could have went really bad. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.240 I could have went really really bad. So when they 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.920 because there was like an explosion, right, So, yeah, they 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.600 put C four on all my doors. They they blew 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.680 up my crib. They like blew up my crib, my closet. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.000 That ship is like horrible. So all the ship that 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.679 I manifested to end up getting blown up, which is 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:22.440 funny as shit, which is crazy. But personal belonging is fucked. Yeah, 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.000 but a lot of them, but none of it means anything. 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.400 It really doesn't. And I can honestly say that to 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.600 anybody probably watching this, like you know, you you work 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.560 your whole life to get new cars and watches and 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.440 clothes and cloths and shit. But they really don't mean anything. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.120 I agree, man, people all the time. Are you used 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.480 to live there? He doll No, they owe me money too, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.600 Santa fe owes me money. If you're a lawyer watching this, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.280 I have a million dollar civil case ready to go 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.200 get at me, because seriously, they who owes you money? 0:14:55.200 --> 0:15:00.840 The apartment building or the cops, all of them, Okay everybody. Yeah, 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:06.480 they kind of blew up your your insurance the building 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.080 because the dude shouldn't have been able to get into 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.120 the building. There was a security guard that wasn't on. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.720 He was working that day, but he was always hollering 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.520 at women, like every time on Netflix or something. Yeah, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.520 he was like that. Every time I see a guy 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.960 working security at a building. He's got his phone, like 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.160 underneath the desk, he's got his little Yeah. Yeah, he 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.760 ain't fucking tripping, So he should never been able to 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.640 get in that building, you know, let alone up to 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.120 the fourth floor. Oh the fourth floor. Yeah yeah, that's 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:38.080 a that's not like a yeah yeah yeah, Like so well, 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.160 at least that your friend's find yeah, you know, physically 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.080 she's still here. Yeah, somebody else was scared as fuck. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.560 I wasn't scared. I said, she's coming out. And that's 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.440 how you utilize your imagination. You can heal yourself, you 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.120 can heal someone else. You can manipulate a situation simply 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.240 by seeing the outcome and then believing it. I guess 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:03.560 that's what people would call faith, mm hmm, manifestation, manifestation. Yeah. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:08.320 Do you think would you kind of compare the imagination 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.680 time thing to like a form of meditation in a way? 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.760 Of course? Yeah? The focus is a practice. Yeah. I 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.360 saw that Jim Carrey had tapped in with the audio book, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.440 said that one of his friends had shared it with him, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.800 and then he tweeted about it, which is a big deal. 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.600 By the way, Jim Carrey's probably got one of the 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.720 more incredible imaginations ever. Yo. Did you hear him on 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:34.880 the Weekend's new album? Yeah, genius, The whole radio station 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.760 is genius. Yeah, the Weekend's album is dope. I fuck 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.680 with it, but not just that's got to be crazy, right, 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:45.400 like Jim Carrey tweeting about you, I'm blessed. I have 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.480 so much, Yo, I have something I can't even talk 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.360 about that's gonna happen with Jim Carrey that it'll probably 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:59.480 surface in a couple weeks something collaborative, collaborative music. I 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:05.760 don't know, that's fair, that's big. Have you met Jim Carrey, Yeah, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:10.560 cool dude, psychedelic electric. He seems like I know he 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.920 does already painted stuff like it seems like a very 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:17.479 uh yeah, he was. He's always been my favorite actor. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.720 I love The Truman Show, I love Man on the Moon. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.960 Everything that he's done has been just remarkable. But I 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.480 got a lot of ship up my sleeve this year. 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.520 I'm fucking swinging for the fences. Man on all good 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:37.760 will collaboration, easy skied roll collaboration, You're gonna you're collaborating 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.200 with yeasy on skid Row. I don't know. I just coughed. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.359 I don't know what's going on. But a lot, a 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.680 lot of a lot of transitions, a lot of new 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:50.000 things are happening. I'm dropping eight projects this year. Eight yeah. Now, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.680 when you say projects, music music projects, so yeah, eight 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.040 bodies of work in some capacity this year. Valentine's Day Times, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.160 I made girls cry in December, dropping AI Artificial Ignorance. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:07.320 Throughout the summer, I'm dropping mix tapes in Texas, New Orleans, Canada, Chicago, 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.159 something to go to these regions and work with Manny 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.840 Fresh and New you know, I mean, different producers, rereleasing 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.199 We Are God, There Will Be Blood, which will be 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.040 a Christmas album that I do on skid Row, using 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.919 people from the community to make like the craziest Christmas 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.040 album ever. Wow. You know it's you know, it's interesting 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.959 because like you have, like like you said, you're you 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.320 give back a lot, but you also shine a light 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.720 on skid Row and just kind of the homeless population 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:35.960 in general in La. Yeah, And I feel like during 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:41.280 the pandemic, I guess homelessness obviously was on a rise, 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:45.240 but it also kind of became like the national narrative 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.160 about LA's going to shit because the homeless man, there's 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.480 people sleeping everywhere. It's like, you know, the city can 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.560 fix this. Watch. I was gonna ask you kind of 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.640 your take on that, because you're you know, you're probably 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.639 so just like death right, death is a trillion dollar 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:08.560 business death, so is a fitness so is homelessness. If 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.480 there was no homelessness, then there wouldn't be these foundations 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:15.000 to help homelessness, which everyone's got salaries where everyone's got 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:19.239 these over fluff salaries and it's like a business. You know, 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.320 you got to feed this and the tax write offs 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.040 and all this shit, you know, so they kind of 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:29.080 needed to exist. And mind you, there are some people 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.120 that live in on skid row who want to live 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.639 on skid row, like you know, not everyone wants to 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.440 live in a house. There's a story of this woman 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.600 who we got housing for, moved into her house and 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.840 then set up her tent in her living room, through 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.000 away all the furniture in the house and set up 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.320 her tent in the middle of her living room. Jesus 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:54.520 shout out to her. Dedicated. It's dedicated. But so my 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:59.440 goal isn't to necessarily eradicate skid row for everyone, because 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:01.760 I feel like there are people who are simply who 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.280 simply want to be liberated from society, who don't want 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:11.199 any fiduciary responsibility. But the people who do want to 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.200 get out of it. Like I've been doing imagination time 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:15.160 on skid row, going up to certain people and getting 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.199 them to see what they imagine, and ten out of 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.840 ten of them are just imagining a nice place to sleep. 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:22.960 They're like, man, I just want to live in a 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.359 living room with a nice couch into this and some 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.680 pajamas they just want somewhere to sleep and an opportunity. 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:33.680 There's thousands and thousands and thousands of square foots square 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:38.040 footage and factories downtown that are vacant that I'm going 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.439 to buy. I'm going to buy. I'm going to turn 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.120 it into housing. I'm also going to branch it off 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.320 into my skid Row manufacturing. There should be skin Row 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.359 trash clean up. We're going to start a community garden. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.200 There's you know, skid Row potato chips because you can 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.240 grow potatoes up. And I have this whole plan of 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.919 you know, getting a potato factory. They're making skid Row 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:03.440 potato chips. Like I'm just I'm just figuring it out. 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.080 Did you notice skid Row getting becoming a more like 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.840 or Downtown just in general becoming a more wild place 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.240 the last two years. Yeah, I know it was always 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:15.560 It's always was wild in pockets, but it felt like 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.600 it's getting crazy. Man. It's feeling like Gotham City right now. 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:23.240 Every time I go downtown, it's like it's like I'm like, 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.680 every time I go, it's like, damn, sh it's getting crazy. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:27.359 And then I'll go two months later it's like fuck, 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:29.520 I'll go a week later. But the crazy thing is 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:32.760 is on skid Row. It's not crazy, man. I feel 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:37.240 safer on skid Row than on Melrose, right Melrose, Yeah, 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.240 damn Melroses. It's hot for sure. Melros then used to 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.879 be like that, Yeah, of course, yeah, you know, but 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.080 like skid Row is really a community of fucking people. 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:50.239 Like it's really like Grandmama's, grand uncles, cousins, it's like 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.200 a it's a community. Yeah, there's some junkies, Yeah, there's 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:56.600 some this, but it's really good people. Man. Yeah. Do 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:01.120 you do you cause with your interaction with people on schedule, 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.520 because I always feel like with the homeless thing, there's there's, 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:07.800 like you said, there's people who are there because they 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:09.600 don't have a choice, so they want to get out 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:11.720 of it, they want to get into a better place. 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:13.719 And then there are a fraction of the people who 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:17.879 have drug problems, who have mental problems, who you know, 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:19.920 not even talk about people who just want to be 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:22.960 liberated from society, but people who just are in a 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:26.840