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Speaker 1: Hmmmm.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to a special edition of All the Smoke

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Speaker 2: Coming to You Live from the College Football Hall of

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Speaker 2: Fame on behalf of the Rocket Foundation and my brother Quavo.

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Speaker 3: Man, this is a long time coming.

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Speaker 4: Bro.

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Speaker 2: We've been trying to connect for like four years to

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Speaker 2: get you on the show, and we're finally here. Man,

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Speaker 2: really excited. Man of many hats. We've partnered in legends

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Speaker 2: and talked about doing some other things. So why are

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Speaker 2: we out here? What you got going on today?

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Speaker 5: We're celebrating the Rocket Foundation. We're doing the Rocket Foundation,

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Speaker 5: of course, but we celebrate my nephew birthday. We putting

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Speaker 5: it all in once, calling the summit, and we're just

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Speaker 5: doing this for a purpose.

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Speaker 4: Bro.

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Speaker 5: It should take our legacy. His name still alive and

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Speaker 5: we gotta be front line and do something about it,

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Speaker 5: you know, from the politics sides and.

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Speaker 4: In the street side.

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Speaker 5: So like we just merging this together and building this

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Speaker 5: big old foundation, this big old family, this big you

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Speaker 5: are not alone crew, this big superhero group. Like I

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Speaker 5: feel like we just here to just embrace all that

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Speaker 5: energy of like when you when you lose a love,

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Speaker 5: when we're here for you.

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Speaker 3: Introduce us to who's to your right.

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Speaker 5: My dog, Greg Jackson, you know what I'm saying, President

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Speaker 5: of the Rocket Foundation. I'm lett him break it down

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Speaker 5: on how he, you know, started and came here and

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Speaker 5: with me.

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Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about your background, too, great,

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Speaker 2: because we ran across past.

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Speaker 3: What year was that, Yeah, White House?

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Speaker 2: When I came into the White House, because I worked

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Speaker 2: with the group Advanced Piece, Advanced Peace. Forgive me, we're

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Speaker 2: out there in California. But yeah, tell us how you started,

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Speaker 2: where you started with the Biden administration, and how you

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Speaker 2: moved your way with Cuevo.

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Speaker 6: Well, my work on this issue started in April twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 6: I was leaving the club with my cousins and just

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Speaker 6: like so many moments, we got caught in the middle

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Speaker 6: of across fire.

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Speaker 4: Bullets rang out and I was hit.

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Speaker 6: The bullet hit me, hit two arteries, nearly cost my life,

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Speaker 6: and I got within thirty minutes of dying from blood

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Speaker 6: loss and went through six surgeries six months of recovery.

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Speaker 6: But in that moment, I just kept telling myself, if

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Speaker 6: want to do everything I can to make sure no

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Speaker 6: one else goes through what I went through. And since

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Speaker 6: then unfortunately, I've lost a couple mintees and a few

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Speaker 6: friends to gun violence. It's just a huge issue that

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Speaker 6: keeps raging forward. But I've been an outspoken activist for

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Speaker 6: now over twelve years, fought to pass policy in Washington,

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Speaker 6: d C. We passed the first bill in thirty years

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Speaker 6: on gun violence, the Bipartis Is Safe for Communities Act.

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Speaker 6: And then shortly after that I met Kwavo, and you know,

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Speaker 6: unfortunately through tragedy, but he was determined to make it triumph,

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Speaker 6: you know, and to make it make sure that there's

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Speaker 6: power in the loss that happened.

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Speaker 4: And we went to the White House. He went to

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Speaker 4: the White House, sat down with the Vice.

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Speaker 6: President, We met with members of Congress and said, hey,

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Speaker 6: we need a team that can help address this issue

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Speaker 6: every day. And President Biden and Vice President Harris answer

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Speaker 6: and created the first ever White House Office of Gun

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Speaker 6: Violence Prevention in twenty twenty three. I don't know if

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Speaker 6: it was you that did it, but I got hired

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Speaker 6: and so I was a deputy director there for about

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Speaker 6: a year and a half, and in that job, we

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Speaker 6: moved forty two billion dollars into gun violence prevention. We

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Speaker 6: did fifty four executive actions, and we fully implemented that

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Speaker 6: big law that made gun trafficking and federal offense that

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Speaker 6: added more money for victims of violence and really added

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Speaker 6: more resources for mental health and youth programs and a

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Speaker 6: lot of the programs that now the Rocket Foundation is

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Speaker 6: working with. And so it's been the honor of my

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Speaker 6: life to serve in the White House. And you know,

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Speaker 6: I just thank God every day that he got me

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Speaker 3: So what is the goal?

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Speaker 2: And you guys can take terms kind of telling what

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Speaker 2: is the goal of this, because I know we're gonna

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Speaker 2: talk a little bit later on the panel, but you're

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Speaker 2: kind of setting up a situation where people can get

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Speaker 2: a hold of you, a coalition of athletes and entertainers

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Speaker 2: and ecosystem where people having issues with with with with

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Speaker 2: on the ground. Explain to us a little bit more

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Speaker 5: Right we just like you said, it it goes around

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Speaker 5: the world. You know what I'm saying. It happens every day,

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Speaker 5: It happens in all cities. Man, I'm pretty sure y'all

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Speaker 5: background y'all had to you know what I'm saying, Seeing

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Speaker 5: it or been in it, and so we just you know,

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Speaker 5: going retaliate, retaliating in the streets and being like doing

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Speaker 5: it the wrong way. It's like we we need to

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Speaker 5: go to the big way. We need to go to

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Speaker 5: the White House. We need to you know, try to

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Speaker 5: change some laws. We need to link up together and

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Speaker 5: get frontline and really like and go hard about this.

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Speaker 5: Cause you see, like other family members and theyvey won't

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Speaker 5: like change, They won't like they want some to be done.

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Speaker 5: And you just can't, you know what I'm saying. You

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Speaker 5: can't just lead a house and just crash out all

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Speaker 5: the time. So like I feel like I had to

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Speaker 5: my ego. I had to sit aside, you know what

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Speaker 5: I'm saying. It's hard every time I do to these summings,

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Speaker 5: I feel like like one I was there, This's my nephew,

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Speaker 5: so I'm always like supposed to take care of him

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Speaker 5: and bring him home at in any situation. So starting

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Speaker 5: from like I said, starting from this in the foundation

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Speaker 5: is just it's the only way I think I know

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Speaker 5: right now, and and I'm just looking for Like, I'm

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Speaker 5: I wanna be that vessel. I wanna be that answer.

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Speaker 5: I wanna be that guy that you can call on

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Speaker 5: that's been through it too. So that's that's what I'm

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Speaker 4: Wanna say this like I think it's I think it's

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Speaker 4: a beautiful thing. Cause like even with my situation with

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Speaker 4: I know I can move with. What you're doing is

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Speaker 4: very beneficial, bro, cause instead of having to get up

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Speaker 4: and find people that that's like minded, that want that,

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Speaker 4: that care about it, you already have that. So when

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Speaker 4: it's time to move, y'all already moving one time. That's

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Speaker 4: a beautiful thing. Bro. I gotta salute you fortreciation, right.

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Speaker 3: We we know not to cut you off.

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Speaker 2: We know that obviously having someone as big as Quavo

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Speaker 2: and and him using his celebrity and his money and

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Speaker 2: his platform policy is what really moves the th the

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Speaker 2: needle and that's a space that that that you've been in.

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Speaker 2: How important it is teaming up with someone like him

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Speaker 2: and then also moving on the policy side as well

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's the policy, but it's also the resources, right,

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Speaker 6: Like what Cuevo described and what Steam described, man is

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Speaker 6: having those big bros to go to. There are thousands

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Speaker 6: of organizations across the country that are doing this work.

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Speaker 6: You know, Safe Streets in Baltimore, Advanced Piece in La A, Detroit, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I mean, every city has local organizations that are working

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Speaker 6: most of them are underfunded. Most of them don't have

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Speaker 6: the you know, a big communications team and they're working

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Speaker 6: granted to over ten organizations here locally to help them

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Speaker 6: how they're helping to save lives.

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Speaker 4: Because the last three years we've seen.

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Speaker 6: The steepest declines and homicides in American history thirty one percent.

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Speaker 6: And the big difference was not the big laws, it

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Speaker 6: And so we went from you know, small organizations that

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Speaker 6: so much. And that's where policy meets culture, right, and

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Speaker 4: The voice, and then they and the way that we

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Speaker 4: So some kind of way, the people that's willing to

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Speaker 6: The term that we we identify for these groups are

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Speaker 6: community violence Intervention Organizations or CBI and and these groups

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Speaker 6: are doing everything from street outreach. Some of them are

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: That's why I work with the group Advanced piece up

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Speaker 2: and stocked in the Sacramento. They they talk to the

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Speaker 2: people that are most likely to be sh doing the

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Speaker 2: shootings or being shot like they have the ogs to

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Speaker 2: get out of prison and come back and talk. And

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Speaker 2: we take them to games and raise funds and give

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Speaker 2: them different experiences because we could tell people, tip, we're

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Speaker 2: blue in the face, put down the guns.

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Speaker 3: But what are we replacing the guns with?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: You gotta replace with opportunity, right, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: So until we really start doing that, that's when we

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Speaker 2: start seeing change. So great, thank you for your time.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna catch up with you a little bit later

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Speaker 2: on the panel, and man, you can catch the rest

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Speaker 4: Let's start from beginning, bro, the NAF. Yeah, I had

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Speaker 4: a blessing uh to be called on and off. Come

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Speaker 4: hang with y'all a couple of times. Talk about your

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Speaker 4: a uh, your upbringing and what does atail rep mean

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Speaker 4: and represent to you.

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Speaker 5: I was originally born in Athens, Georgia, and about about

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Speaker 5: like sixth sixth seventh grade, we moved to Gwenett. We

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Speaker 5: called it the North and shit, we were just some

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Speaker 5: five thirty young niggas just just having fun, making music,

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Speaker 5: doing sports and getting in trouble.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, trying to figure it out.

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Speaker 5: Trying to figure it out. You know, everybody stayed at

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Speaker 5: my house. Uh, that's that's Mama crib. We call it

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Speaker 5: Mama hunch o. Everybody stayed there. And then and downstairs

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Speaker 5: we had came up on this laptop and and like

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Speaker 5: a bluebird mic and so I hooked it up downstairs

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Speaker 5: and we had this like gymnastic Mac hooked that thing

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Speaker 4: Everybody called Mama Mama. You was raised by Mama Dad,

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Speaker 4: Wasn't there a similar smile upbringing a lot of people

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Speaker 4: don't know the what a mother that's raising a whole

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Speaker 4: what she go through a day to better sacrifice She

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Speaker 4: make talk about you know what your mom meant to

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Speaker 4: everybody around y'all because even you know, some of your

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Speaker 4: groupmates said talk about how she was a father figure

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Speaker 4: to everybody and she and she gave everybody the real game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, she just let everybody inside. All the doors always open, always,

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Speaker 5: you can always get some food. The best cooking straight up, raw,

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Speaker 5: uncut advice. Even like you know, sometimes parents other other kids,

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Speaker 5: parents had like strict ways on like not letting you

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Speaker 5: outside and do like just crazy stuff. You know what

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, My mom be like how your parents not

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Speaker 5: and so sometimes we'll like the kids used to like

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Speaker 5: she was just so cool and caring. But at the

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Speaker 5: same time, she still ain't let you just do no nothing,

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Speaker 5: since like you couldn't just be able to disrespecting the spot.

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Speaker 5: And I just felt like it was a level of respect,

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Speaker 5: and it was a level level of like, Okay, we

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Speaker 5: all growing up as young men, we got responsibilities, you

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, And she just always instilled it

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Speaker 5: and just always made sure we, you know, kept God first,

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Speaker 5: and watch for the haters, watch for the jealousy, keep

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Speaker 5: your brothers, you know what I'm saying, keep your brothers.

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Speaker 5: Everybody looking good. We share clothes, s same shoes, same shirts.

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Speaker 5: We gonna we gonna always make sure we look good together.

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Speaker 5: So it was just that commoditiy of it just together.

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Speaker 5: It's like that what shoes on.

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Speaker 4: Your sister said he didn't get whippings like we did.

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Speaker 5: Oh nah, I'm the only boy. I ain't really get

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Speaker 5: in trouble like that cause I was on I was

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Speaker 5: the only boy she love on the son. I I

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Speaker 5: think she get that from my grandmoma though, cause my

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Speaker 5: grandmoma had five girls and one boy, and so they

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Speaker 5: used to just always make sure the boy was straight.

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Speaker 5: Uncle both Yeah, I got one uncle. It's crazy.

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Speaker 4: What kind of music did you listen to growing up?

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Speaker 4: I know y'all all turned down was wrapping up around

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Speaker 4: that time. I was out here when y'all was coming up.

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Speaker 5: Growing up, we was listening to hot boys a lot.

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Speaker 5: I was a real big T Pain fan. That that

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Speaker 5: kind of how I get the tune and the melodies

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Speaker 5: and shit young l A J. Money.

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Speaker 4: They don't know how it was.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was huge us Gucci of course, Yeah, Gzy

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Speaker 5: But like the ship that started the sauce in the wave,

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Speaker 5: I feel like we go Features and Leland and d J.

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Speaker 5: That was like kind of gave us our our template

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Speaker 5: and palette on on where to go with with the.

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Speaker 2: Swag football music first two loves, but your your first

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Speaker 2: love was football. Quarterback always had a ball in your

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Speaker 2: hand as a youngster, had the Gwynette County record for

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Speaker 2: the most consecutive passes completion twenty eight until somebody in

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Speaker 2: the NFL, Taylor Henkey, came and broke that record.

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Speaker 3: Was he? Where'd you say?

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Speaker 2: Is that June the Chargers with the Chargers so and

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Speaker 2: a young up and coming NFL player broke your record? Uh,

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Speaker 2: you could really play football. Talk to us about the

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Speaker 2: passion of the quarterback position and kind of while we're

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Speaker 2: here today at the College Football Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 5: Of course, I always played sports growing up. Quarterback came

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Speaker 5: real late to me. I wonder I didn't play quarterback

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Speaker 5: growing up. I played receiver, corner, a little bit of

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Speaker 5: tight end, and they would throw me at quarterback every

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Speaker 5: now and then, like sprinkle me in because I was

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Speaker 5: left hand and I was.

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Speaker 4: Just everybody left and I think they sweet, you know

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Speaker 4: what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: So they and I had that like just that little

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Speaker 5: itching it and then ship like the first I want

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Speaker 5: to say, ninth grade, we lost one of my third quarterback.

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Speaker 5: I think he broke his collar bomb my other quarterback.

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Speaker 5: He was game banging. He just went cross street, got suspended.

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Speaker 5: And then they were just like doing tryouts in ninth grades,

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Speaker 5: so like anybody come up there. So I seen I

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Speaker 5: seen my one of my buddies. He was a rob seef.

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Speaker 5: He went down and he's like, I got it, don't

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Speaker 5: worry about I got He came down neck broke coming

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Speaker 5: back they like nah boom. So I was kind of

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Speaker 5: like I want to say last as I'm just like

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Speaker 5: fuck it, I do it. And when I went over there,

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Speaker 5: jail natural it j click. And then ninth grade, I

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Speaker 5: think I played jav I got like most improved player

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Speaker 5: was I had to compete with a young nag. He

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Speaker 5: was His name was Zay Bridge. I'll never forget you, boy,

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Speaker 5: you still fire. He like six six, crazy young, just

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Speaker 5: had it all, Like look him up top top to bottom,

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Speaker 5: had it all and just like he went out there.

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Speaker 5: But I think I don't think he was a quarterback.

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Speaker 5: I think he was like a safety or something. But

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Speaker 5: like anyway, he was a cold blooded over. He can

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Speaker 5: do anything he wanted to do on the field. So

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Speaker 5: I guess spring game he just ain't having him that

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Speaker 5: day he got them. They threw me out there first

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Speaker 5: player of the game. I threw a touchdown and.

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Speaker 3: It was the first player the game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll never forget it. We played Collins Hill.

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Speaker 4: That's dope.

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Speaker 2: What kind of influence did Mike Vick have on you

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Speaker 2: once you became a quarterback?

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Speaker 5: Of course I would, and I'm gonna sell him. I

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Speaker 5: was big, was my favorite player. I felt like when

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Speaker 5: was kind of hard for me to be a Falcons

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Speaker 5: fan again after that. But now I'm back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, did you play any hoop or was just off football?

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Speaker 5: I played ball? I played Yeah, I played basketball. I

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Speaker 5: really was good at basketball.

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Speaker 3: Was like organized basketball.

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Speaker 5: I played a little league growing up middle school, and

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Speaker 5: then when I got to high school, I couldn't never

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Speaker 5: like get over that spring progress support. I could never

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Speaker 5: get over it. Every time I every time I pulled up,

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Speaker 5: I was feeling. So that's how how they would cut

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Speaker 5: me and then I get mad and then do all

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Speaker 5: spring sports. So I just to keep me like in

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Speaker 5: for the first time and I played pitcher in left

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Speaker 5: field and ship. That's what kept me with my grades.

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Speaker 5: When I was rolling over to basketball, I meant rolling

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Speaker 5: over to football and then ship after that right back again.

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Speaker 5: I'm feeling again. It was just like a like a

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Speaker 5: just like, I'm just gonna be a spring football and

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Speaker 5: baseball guy. But I did it all though.

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Speaker 2: The athlete mindset, that's something we talked to Kobe about.

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Speaker 2: We recently talked to Ryan Coogler about about just how

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Speaker 2: do you change that mindset from sports to business and

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Speaker 2: your example of music, how to be an athlete help

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Speaker 5: Most definitely socially, help you to learn how to be

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Speaker 5: a leader. You know what I'm saying, Take charge, control

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Speaker 5: the room, go through ups and downs. You know what

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, a lot of things don't go your way.

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Speaker 5: You gotta be able to you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 5: stand in it and uh that's what I think in business.

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Speaker 5: And then patience, patience, you know what I'm saying. You

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Speaker 5: won't a lot you even like when you're working out,

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Speaker 5: you thinking that you can go get big tomorrow, but

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Speaker 5: you gotta you gotta stay at it. So like that football,

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Speaker 5: sports communicate with you know what I'm saying, Having that coach,

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Speaker 5: that father, figures, that big brother, it kind of like

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Speaker 5: that's why I be trying to like tell kids, like

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Speaker 5: you should for show you like all three sports to

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Speaker 5: see whatever you wanted, you know what I'm saying, But

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Speaker 5: that one like if you doing one sport right now,

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Speaker 5: getting it together. But that's how I feel like it

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Speaker 2: When did music surpass sports? As far as ma'am, this

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Speaker 2: maybe something I could do.

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Speaker 4: Shit.

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Speaker 5: After I dropped out of high school, I had playing

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Speaker 5: A didn't work. I went playing B and that was music. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and but ill we was always good. We was always good.

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Speaker 5: Like we're fucking around and just make songs for the school.

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Speaker 5: They'll love them. Make songs for the for the for

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Speaker 5: the football team. They're like it. I passed my mixtape

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Speaker 5: out in like eighth grade, me and tape. Everybody laughed

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Speaker 5: at us, you know what I'm saying, But they they

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Speaker 5: knew it was that only one nigga pulled up to

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Speaker 5: the captier like, hey, bro, that Mick Tay matter if

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Speaker 5: I get on him? And that was all set that's

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Speaker 5: how it happened in the cafeterias.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: So they all knew it, but he was the only

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Speaker 2: one that really show love to it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but Take though, Take always been rapping. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: been the one. But he's just no music front to back,

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Like he used to get

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Speaker 5: in trouble for singing the Turk album left the top

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Speaker 5: the bottom, and he was a kid like then coming there,

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Speaker 5: cuss doing all that cuszing man. Mama came in there

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Speaker 5: and took the whole CD in there thing. He was sick.

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Speaker 5: But like he was just such a student of the game,

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Speaker 5: and like he knew every word to every song. He

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Speaker 5: knew my words to my songs. He knew like he

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Speaker 5: was just such a sponge. It was like, it's crazy.

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Speaker 4: I was blessed to be in the studio with you, Gucci,

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Speaker 4: the whole Migos or Juice and Dog at the same time,

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Speaker 4: and you and you were in the booth. This just

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Speaker 4: to call he was you was in the booth. He

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Speaker 4: came in there, helped you with some stuff, and we

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Speaker 4: was all in the chilling. But when he went in there,

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Speaker 4: all of us was in there like like like who

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Speaker 4: this guy here? Like he was he just took that

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Speaker 4: people at there present like he was the best. Every

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, he was like that

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Speaker 3: bro over but chill though, Yeah, because.

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Speaker 5: That's how he got his name though take Off was

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00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,239
Speaker 5: really called his first. It was like one take, you

438
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,959
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like we started, like when we

439
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,640
Speaker 5: was rapping, I used to record on this thing called

440
00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,120
Speaker 5: Windows movie make it. It's like a long time ago,

441
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,920
Speaker 5: and like you had to set it up to where

442
00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:38,760
Speaker 5: like you put the I had to put the track

443
00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,639
Speaker 5: up there where the movie real would be, and I

444
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 5: put and it had like this narration thing so you

445
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,720
Speaker 5: can just narrate the real you get what I'm saying.

446
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,399
Speaker 5: So it was kind of like a song, you get

447
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So but you got it, Like but

448
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,199
Speaker 5: you started, you gotta keep going. You can't suck up,

449
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 5: Like if you fuck up, you got to delete the

450
00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,159
Speaker 5: whole game. So like I would be fucking up, you

451
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:01,840
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, And like we had to start over,

452
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,360
Speaker 5: start over. But when that man got on one take,

453
00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 5: one take every time, and then I take off, he

454
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 5: got his name that's dope.

455
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 2: I was in the studio the order then, like they

456
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 2: did the l a Leaker ship and I like remember

457
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:15,560
Speaker 2: that night and I brought you something and I was

458
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 2: just sitting there like this ship is dope shows.

459
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:19,120
Speaker 3: Just sit there and see it.

460
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:21,680
Speaker 5: We need to crack that strand we need to get

461
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 5: we still we got business plays and stuff going on

462
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 5: over here. Man, he's my god. These are big bro

463
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,359
Speaker 5: cat like serious.

464
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 4: You're known as the leader of the of the migos,

465
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,399
Speaker 4: But it was true that take off was really the

466
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 4: one that got you in the boot for the first time.

467
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 5: He was the backbone. I feel like me and him

468
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,200
Speaker 5: both was always the fans of just music, you know

469
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,280
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Like I said, Bro, we used to

470
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,080
Speaker 5: ride on our glasses like like soldiers. I used to

471
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 5: be crump boy. It used to be God Damn forgot

472
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 5: what his name was.

473
00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,120
Speaker 4: The light. I can't think his name.

474
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 5: I would know my name, Crump well he was. He

475
00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 5: used to be like dope boy, like for a week.

476
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,200
Speaker 5: Even we had to sweet you know what I'm saying,

477
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 5: Like we just always just been in that. But I

478
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 5: was playing sports, so I thought that I would go

479
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,880
Speaker 5: and he was like or we just get put over.

480
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 5: He was fourteen years old, and and asked him what

481
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,920
Speaker 5: he did. He was like, I'm a rapper. Cops would

482
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 5: be like, yo, come in real quick, man, come listen

483
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,439
Speaker 5: to this man, tell him what you do. Said, I

484
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 5: wrap straight up and like so he always knew that

485
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 5: we was gonna be a rapper. And that's why I

486
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 5: said the playing b didn't feel like, no, no hard job,

487
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 5: because he was already.

488
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:36,160
Speaker 4: Y'all been wrapping back in the days, y'all was putting

489
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 4: my sticks to the microphones.

490
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 5: Socks over mics over oh nail, nail, the mic to

491
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 5: the nail, the mic to the wall. No MIC's staying.

492
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 5: It's kind of like hanging off the corner of the wall.

493
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 5: And then you just put like ten socks over it

494
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 5: and then make it like and it make it sound

495
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 5: like a real mic. And this is like and this

496
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 5: like little stick mics at Walmart.

497
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:00,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, y'all remember.

498
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 5: Those deth mics like the stick ones.

499
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 4: You just.

500
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 5: Get the rapping had to.

501
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 4: With all that, y'all had to find a way to

502
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 4: one take everything.

503
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 5: We had to find a way to one take everything.

504
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 5: And we just started getting good at what we you

505
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying all the time at libs one

506
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 5: take verse, one take. If not you, you're gonna mess

507
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 5: up the whole song. What's crazy. I used to hate

508
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 5: being at the end because I knew I'm a fuck up.

509
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 5: So if I'm at the end of you did your versus,

510
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,439
Speaker 5: you did your versus, and I gotta come in in

511
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 5: and and I fuck it up, you gotta start over everybody,

512
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So that was that was

513
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 5: that was I'll never forget that.

514
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 3: That was the pressure to get you better though.

515
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, Polo Club for Polo Club, p O l O.

516
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 4: Talk about it.

517
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 5: Man, they had us burned. That's what I said, the

518
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 5: j futuristic of LA You know what I'm saying, that

519
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 5: whole Bay by bayh world. We were bowed out extra

520
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 5: by who Polo Club.

521
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 4: It was burned out, big horses.

522
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 5: On God, the Bigger, the Rugby, the Levi True Religions.

523
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 2: It was Trim couldn't tell you shit, Oh my god.

524
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 4: The Polo Club mixtape was met with mixed feelings. It

525
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 4: was mixed feelings about.

526
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 5: A while cause it was I feel like it actually

527
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 5: didn't have it was another member in there shout up

528
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 5: with my boy Nick Man.

529
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 3: Nick didn't make the cup.

530
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 5: Huh nah, he had asked. He was just going hard.

531
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 5: He ended up doing like fifteen mm. You know what

532
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 5: I'm saying. He just took a different route. But yeah,

533
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 5: it was just I think we was a little bit premature,

534
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,880
Speaker 5: like we weren't ready yet. I don't think we were ready.

535
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,919
Speaker 5: I think I was like seventeen sixteen. It was. It

536
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 5: was sparking, but we weren't ready yet. I I'm glad

537
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 5: that we didn't take off cause I thought cause I

538
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,439
Speaker 5: was really thought we was ready. Like I'm like, it's crazy,

539
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 5: but I'm we were just brewing brow and brwing. Then

540
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 5: it like that migo shit came. It was just like, okay,

541
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 5: north Side Gwenett, we got the migos living here, We

542
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 5: got the you know what I'm saying. We the only

543
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 5: it's like black and brown everybody in the school week. Okay,

544
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 5: cool we migo game. How we gonna we going to

545
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 5: migos black? You know what I'm saying. And like I

546
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 5: thinks long lived street Scooter God damn j Money OGD.

547
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 5: When we came in, they were like, oh, y'all boy

548
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 5: looked like y'all boy got it. Out, it's already dressed.

549
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 5: We ain't got it. It's over with, And it was

550
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 5: just once we got that official stamp, it was just

551
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:18,919
Speaker 5: we were gone.

552
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 4: When during this time, when y'all figuring it out, y'all

553
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 4: making the music, y'all growing any og step in and

554
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 4: give y'all some game, or y'all learned everything off experience

555
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 4: when we was recording.

556
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 5: That's what that's I'm glad that's a good question. You said.

557
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 4: Bro.

558
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 5: We we walked in the studio with other folks. I

559
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 5: feel like we was ahead of them, you know what

560
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 5: I'm saying, cause of the punch in, because of the

561
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 5: one takes, cause of the We was just punching in,

562
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 5: punching in, punching in. So we walked in the studio,

563
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 5: I was like, damn, bro, we doing it right. You

564
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 5: ain't never cause y'all y'all pro so, y'all probably fifteen

565
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 5: sixteen doing motherfucking superstar NBA workouts that you don't don't

566
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 5: even know that you was doing til you walked in there.

567
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 5: Over there to the gym, You're like, oh, damn, we

568
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 5: shooting three hundred fifty y'all? Do I do that at

569
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 5: the crib every day. You know what I'm saying, We

570
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 5: do in and outs across the pit, you know what

571
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So like the formula was o. We was

572
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 5: making the formula. We was having the formula already, it

573
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 5: was already ready. So when we walked in, we just

574
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 5: looked like we was just.

575
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you some names.

576
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 2: Tell me the first thing to come to mind, or

577
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 2: any good stories about them, outcasts.

578
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 5: Greatest group, greatest group of all time for sure.

579
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 3: That what did they mean to Atlanta and you growing up?

580
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 5: First ones to kick the door down, having something to say,

581
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 5: the first verbal ones and not you know what I'm saying, unapologetically,

582
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 5: and the Dungeon the basement, you know what I'm saying.

583
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 5: All that, it's the same. It's just like the boys

584
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 5: outside and like having you know what I'm saying, telling

585
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 5: them folks to Nigga having something to say, like Nigga

586
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 5: having swag and they dripped was just out of here.

587
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 5: Two different, two different worlds. And that's how of course,

588
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 5: of course they Andre and Andre big Boy out the

589
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 5: whole Dungeon family. You know, they they set the tone

590
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,199
Speaker 5: for sure for Atlanta ti Ya ti Ya to.

591
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 4: Goat the king Ken you go to trap, sure, question

592
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 4: about it? Yeah?

593
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, that going down three sixteen run when we were

594
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 5: moving from Adding to Gwenette. That was our tape of

595
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 5: motivation cause I saw I didn't wanna leave at it.

596
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 5: I ain't wanna leave at all.

597
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 4: He might too.

598
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 5: It might be my favorite rabbit from Atlanta all time.

599
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 5: The show You had a fough too, Jeez, the goat

600
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 5: snow Man, ad lib King, he most definitely the ad.

601
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 4: Lib King dominated this era too, especially out here in

602
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 4: the Sure A.

603
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 5: Little scrappy, shrill young nigga. You feel like he set

604
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 5: the tone for that, that marsh pit music, you know

605
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Like that stuff that Cardy and Kenndam doing.

606
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 5: You know, they were going ahead, bust of music. Little Johns,

607
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 5: you can get it up like it was just I

608
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 5: think they they started leading leading that way.

609
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 3: Soldier Boy, he trimmed too.

610
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 5: He one of the first ones that ever called the

611
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 5: migos over. He wanted the first rappers that ever dealt

612
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,239
Speaker 5: with us, you know what I'm saying. Actually, that's how

613
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 5: I met trave at Soldier House, you know what I'm saying.

614
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 5: That man traffic went on to dne t you know,

615
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 5: he not said this ship.

616
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 4: Go viral, because you want to say you the first everybody.

617
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 5: The first rapper pulled up on them with J money,

618
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 5: but the first big one for show with soldiers.

619
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Future, the Wizard, the Go Too.

620
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, that motherfucker ever got infinity life.

621
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, You're gonna walk it down,

622
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 5: You're gonna do whatever it's ready to roll.

623
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 2: What was your first international trip, asked migos. That just

624
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 2: blew y'all mind.

625
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 5: I wanna say somewhere ain't no niggas really went like that,

626
00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 5: Like Australia was crazy. Australia actually was one of the

627
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 5: best times of my life cause we went from like

628
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 5: Africa to Australia. But year was just about I wanna

629
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 5: say twenty A culture too, twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, ten

630
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 5: for real, twenty nineteen. Yeah, and I end up like

631
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 5: we end up making Narcos in the studio, but we

632
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 5: got kicked out the hotel because the flight was the

633
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 5: next day, and so I guess we couldn't stay there.

634
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 5: So we just stayed in the studio from like six

635
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 5: to six, like six am. Tol R The next day

636
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 5: and it was just oh, man, man, I don't even

637
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 5: know his name. I just heard him in like in

638
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 5: the in the other room just playing the saxophone. He

639
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,959
Speaker 5: was just playing the shit out the saxophone. I'm just like, bro,

640
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 5: we need you to come play this shit. And I think

641
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 5: we end up doing Narcos in two player for the

642
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 5: com relation take. And I just think, like those that

643
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 5: moment right that just was was too dope for me.

644
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 5: It's hard to explain, cause like it wa you know

645
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 5: what I'm saying it It was just the the studio

646
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 5: fucked up. We couldn't we like it looked like you

647
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 5: didn't have no inspo there, and we found a a

648
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 5: major smn Chis record. That's what I'm saying.

649
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 4: At least expect Travers Traf.

650
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 5: Oh nah, you to you to go for sure? Trave

651
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 5: That's my brother. He We feed off each other. It's

652
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 5: like Batman Robin when we when we get in there

653
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 5: and we just I just feel like he me and

654
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm him. You know what I mean.

655
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 4: I wanna ge ask his questions off uh keenon Streets Classics.

656
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 4: What was I wasn't making that album? I mean that

657
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 4: song to the street. Lucher pulled up rest in Peace School.

658
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 5: Her Peace School for sure. Think it was just one

659
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 5: of the nights in QC.

660
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 4: Y'all was all in up. When y'all made that all.

661
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 5: In there, he five, Lucher came in. We was already

662
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 5: working on one.

663
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 4: Me school.

664
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 5: We we were doing like three. I think Flipper got

665
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 5: on one. The uh team. What you think it is?

666
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 5: Doff ye playing with it? Phlipp flipping me Flipper. We

667
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 5: all we got on one and then Luther came in

668
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 5: I think like a hour later, and then out you

669
00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 5: like he.

670
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 4: Pulled, we pulled who made to be jeans and make

671
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:02,479
Speaker 4: that big anyway?

672
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 5: We When I walked in, I was kind of like

673
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 5: that at the end of him, I'm like, man, I'm

674
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 5: really ready to do you know what I'm saying, turn

675
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 5: it in. But Luke came in, so I'm just like,

676
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 5: all right, cool, I got it prepping and get right.

677
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 5: So I walk in there, I'm just like, I got

678
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 5: money away before that. This put my bitches and new man.

679
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 5: But I'm saying it like that. She's like, man, come

680
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 5: on out, I got something to say right now and

681
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 5: leave that. He go right in the look like your bam,

682
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 5: and then after that it was just magic. Every time

683
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 5: I get into like a no I want, I want

684
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 5: to say, don't want to, but like not in the

685
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 5: vibe when you think you not, it make a smash

686
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 5: every time off the goat. Well that's my dog. I

687
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 5: missed Off for sure, that Nigga one thousand, always hoigh, spirited,

688
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 5: always loved and always god damn laughing like a motherfucker.

689
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 5: He just ready to work. I got some I got

690
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 5: some shit with Off too.

691
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 3: He is a good dude overall though, to.

692
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 5: Show gonna get you anything, buy you anything for real.

693
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 4: Always done by his paper. Talk about the early days

694
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 4: promoting that the promote migos at the Pink Flamingo, he

695
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 4: said it back.

696
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 5: And started at that's crazy, that's where it started at

697
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 5: because DJ ray g he he said. And he used

698
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 5: to be Cardi and set DJ but he still set DJ.

699
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 5: But he was in Plink Flamingo, And we had this

700
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 5: song called Bando and jumping out the gym, and we

701
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 5: had Bando before we even got sign before we even

702
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 5: came up to the city. Bando was the first song

703
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 5: that like started like brewing into town anyway, but like

704
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 5: to get the niggas to play the song, we would

705
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 5: have to like go up there with the DJ, smoke

706
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 5: a blunt with them, buy him two drinks or the

707
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,719
Speaker 5: Blue Motherfuckers y'all remember that the Blue Motherfuckers that and

708
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 5: just smoke some weed and ship. He gonna spend it,

709
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 5: but we gotta make sure he spend it prime time.

710
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 5: Can't spend it when the lights come on, can't spend

711
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 5: it when of the vibe going down. We need this

712
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 5: shit hot and fresh like at the top of the

713
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 5: top and shit, I wanna say, before we hit hit Bando,

714
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 5: we gave him like two records that wasn't really catching.

715
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 5: He wasn't moving the folks like that. But when we

716
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 5: dropped him off for the Bando bro mm, then I

717
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 5: knew like they was coming up to us like yo,

718
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 5: this this the one. And then so he started like

719
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 5: the DJ would like move spots you like yo, f

720
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 5: So Friday he would do like Thursday, He'll do Peak

721
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 5: for me. Go Friday, He'll do Obsession, Saturday he'll do Mansion.

722
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 5: And we was just following that, nigga, you know what

723
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 5: I'm saying. An every time he DJ here, we come

724
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 5: with that blend in that joint and we all had money.

725
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 5: We all have paper. You know what I'm saying, fresh,

726
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 5: deepest hell, pull up, Camaro charges back to back.

727
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 4: Man.

728
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 5: We seventeen eighteen years old. And then key Motion did

729
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 5: he shoot our videos? And he shot all the QC video.

730
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 5: He was just out there with a camera like, Yo,

731
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 5: can I just shoot this shit? This ship look good

732
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 5: and I'll just shoot it. And then that's how it happened.

733
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 5: We just go from club to club following our DJ.

734
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 5: And then that thing, you know, we put him on

735
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 5: the tape made him the DJ. He been on the

736
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 5: road emotionally, been shooting videos for Wham and the old

737
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 5: QC City Girls, everybody, all the startup crew since ever

738
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 5: since then, everything been like you know what I'm saying,

739
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 5: like good money.

740
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:21,720
Speaker 4: Yeah.

741
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 2: Would you ever produce Amigos documentary?

742
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, we're actually working on that right now.

743
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 5: We got a lot of footage.

744
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 3: You mentioned all that footage that's people would love to see.

745
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got a lot of footage.

746
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 4: Man.

747
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 5: We got something.

748
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, gush, we got put up for Tammy, put up.

749
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 5: We got one road for.

750
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 4: You too, good ones. Tell me if you agree with

751
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 4: this statement in Atlanta, A local hit can be a

752
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 4: shortcut to the national stage.

753
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 5: Absolutely easy call, easy easy.

754
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 2: What was the first hit y'all heard on the radio?

755
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 2: Like that y'all did was like.

756
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 5: Oh, sh bando for sure, Bando I'm talking about band

757
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 5: was like band knows. So beginning it's like we used to.

758
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 4: Do nobody lived. When they're talking about nobody, I don't

759
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 4: care we we lived in a mansion or a broke

760
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 4: down house or everybody lived in bandos.

761
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 5: And ain't nobody knew what it was nobody.

762
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 3: But you live in it.

763
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 5: But like when we dropped that song, bro we had

764
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 5: the battle. We dropped that song in Hot one on

765
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 5: seven nine, where you'd be like song number one and

766
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 5: number two, like we winning about it every week, winning

767
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 5: about it. Oh nah, we like that number one? Man?

768
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 5: Keep that band no going all right? Bet calling number

769
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 5: number one to two? Bando, Man, that's it. And then

770
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 5: like ship, we were just like booming. Then I ran

771
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 5: into it, like I'm saying, we were following ray g around.

772
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 5: So we go to O sessions and god damn, while

773
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 5: this song going on, I'm walking in the section, bump

774
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 5: a nigga, I look him up and down he looked

775
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 5: me up and damn, it's Aytova. Were like, damn, this

776
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 5: this is Aytova. He like, man, he don't lie, Man,

777
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 5: what's up? B y'all?

778
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 4: A band?

779
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 3: No boy?

780
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 5: He been looking they used to call a band, no boy.

781
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 5: We've been looking for y'all like you talking about like

782
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 5: him and Gucci. That's all I want to say. Like,

783
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 5: not even a week later, he got damn hit real

784
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 5: and what I'm saying who I wanted us to come

785
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 5: to the studio, but I was so mad that like

786
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 5: just rap because I felt like I felt like we

787
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,720
Speaker 5: had did it. I felt like we on the radio.

788
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 5: We winning. God, damn this shit working everybody. We banned

789
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 5: no boys around the town. This ni Guchie. Don't want

790
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 5: to holler us manad you know what I'm saying. I'm like,

791
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 5: don't don't call me that boys shit real? He like, man,

792
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 5: no real. So I hit Zay cause I got his

793
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 5: number one out. When he said they were looking for us,

794
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 5: I said, hey, ja, is this added us right? He

795
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 5: said this motherfucker sound about right? And we jumped in

796
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 5: the car, went straight to the East Side and like

797
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 5: everything then it was the rest of history.

798
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 4: Shout out my boy Icond of line got bricks like

799
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 4: shack at the free throw. Basketball rappers already always intertwined.

800
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 4: Give me some of your favorite lines you use one

801
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 4: or two of your favorite lines that you included with

802
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 4: basketball players all the basketball games I just did.

803
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 5: I just did a new one. Yeah, I say, little bro,

804
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,479
Speaker 5: pull up ball player James. You know what I'm saying.

805
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 5: You got a little bro you pull up ball player

806
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 5: Brandon James. Yeah, that's my favorite one right now.

807
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 4: Yeah. The art of the musical group rap group? Which

808
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 4: rap group? Which rap? Our musical group inspired you and

809
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 4: the Migos Vision rap group. Yeah, because a lot of

810
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 4: people rap, but everybody don't. Don't conquer the whole the

811
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 4: whole aspect. Yeah, the entertaining part, the offs.

812
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 5: I was just talking to Metro about this the other day.

813
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 5: Saint Lordan Tex was kind of with the swag and everything.

814
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 5: Talked about them, I want to say. And then I

815
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 5: seen like a clip from like the Cash Money Millionaires

816
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 5: when they did they when they used to all get

817
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 5: on station back in the day.

818
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was crazy, that was it.

819
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that would put us to that level, like, alright,

820
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 5: that's how we wanna do it, you know, what I'm saying,

821
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 5: that's the ball. And then we used to always talk

822
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 5: about like movement. Gotta have your movement right, gotta explain.

823
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 5: You got to get 'em what you're saying. You feel

824
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 5: I'm saying, she can't be right here rapping and just

825
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 5: with your head down. You gotta you know, at them

826
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 5: words out.

827
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, they paint that picture.

828
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 5: Mama, mama, mama.

829
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 2: The order, the hook, the hook god, yeah, the hook God?

830
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 2: Where'd that come from?

831
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 5: Beating them niggas to the studio, beating them to the booth,

832
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 5: going making five six songs while everybody go outside?

833
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 4: What's that hook? Lade?

834
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 5: It wasn't damn personally. I would just I was just

835
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 5: sitting in the stool, bro and make like five six

836
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 5: of 'em and ship like three, two or three of 'em.

837
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 5: They want 'em and they want to get one.

838
00:38:58,840 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 4: But like.

839
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 5: I used to, just always work, always work, work, work, work.

840
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 5: I made it kind of easy for the guys.

841
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 4: Is always the hardest point.

842
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 5: I just made it easy for the guys. You know,

843
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 5: take gonna come clean up everything I set, gonna chop

844
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 5: it down, you know.

845
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 2: So how did the relationship between QC and you got

846
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 2: yourself start it.

847
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 5: Started when grew up, grew up, Pad went in and

848
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 5: we just felt like when he had like like I said,

849
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 5: he when when he came and signed us, I was

850
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 5: life changed instantly boom, and like when he went to

851
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 5: jail and start trickling back to like that and all

852
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 5: side ship. We were like, oh, hell no, we can't

853
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 5: go back. We just we just we just velt it.

854
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 5: You feel what I'm saying. And we just got I

855
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 5: got a call from Pee long way. He was just like, bro,

856
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 5: pull up, just pull up, red did em? And it

857
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 5: just pull up and I pulled up. He was talking

858
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,479
Speaker 5: about p But a month before go out went to jail.

859
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 5: People putt me, I mean go up with me in

860
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 5: the car with Pete. He was like, I got my

861
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 5: buddy coming over here. Don't say nothing to him, don't

862
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 5: look at him, don't say no words, y'all. Just get

863
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 5: in the car and JT ride. So I'm like, what

864
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 5: the hell type of fucking oh geez lord, this here?

865
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 5: We just we me and take we just looking like

866
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 5: so we get in the car, when we ride go

867
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 5: through hit the city. We ain't say too much. He popped.

868
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 5: He was like, ded my new arty to Migo. God damn,

869
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 5: I want you to play the music. He played the

870
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 5: music in the car p J Ryde. He don't pay

871
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 5: no attention. He on the phone getting on the fun

872
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 5: So I'm thinking he he ain't fucking with it. I

873
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 5: get out the car and leave my phone in the

874
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 5: car and and he was like, I say, go up

875
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 5: and love my phone. And he said where you love

876
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,439
Speaker 5: your phone in the car? I just told you don't

877
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 5: do nothing crazy in there. Man call you the So

878
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 5: I'm like, man, hell no, fab forward. That's how I

879
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 5: met him. So I get the car from him long

880
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 5: way long way, like I'm like, alright, cool and shit.

881
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,760
Speaker 5: We walk in the studio. He had a brand new studio.

882
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 5: Ain't nobody recorded, and he like, I just built his

883
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 5: own know what to do it? And so I hit,

884
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 5: I hit grew up for R I hit go on

885
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 5: like we going that way? He like, alright, bet that's

886
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 5: the best bet. Folk caming over with a trad bag

887
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 5: full of money and we're like, don't tell me, I

888
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 5: dug this up for nothing. I look, I looked down.

889
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 5: I did like then n it it's time to go.

890
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 4: Yeah hum. That's his history Culture album twenty seventeen Legendary

891
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 4: debuts number one on the charts. The album has bad

892
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 4: and bullsry t Shirt, Slippery, get Right with his name,

893
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 4: a few some legendary producers on the album as well

894
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:43,479
Speaker 4: metro Booming. Is they Toven without hurting any feelings? Which

895
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 4: one of them boys is the hardest.

896
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 3: Who you gonna have the best chemistry with?

897
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 5: And they told they Toven started it off from the church.

898
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,399
Speaker 4: They told him, of course, ain't he a good dude too?

899
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 4: I like about Zay.

900
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 5: It just struck again with the women. Yeah, he ain't

901
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 5: gonna never You gonna keep striking.

902
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 4: Yeah. You on the tourist for recording his songs in

903
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 4: thirty forty minutes. What are your best memories grinding the

904
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 4: studio pumping out song? Like the best memory that you had?

905
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 4: You think about them. You know, you still got a

906
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 4: long career left. But I noticed that one moment where

907
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 4: you sat in the studio and he was like shit stop. Yeah,

908
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 4: like man, I came still still kind of surreal to me.

909
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 5: Gotta go gotta be there for Satyr moment.

910
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,720
Speaker 4: M gotta be for Sachi.

911
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 5: We was all downstairs in the basement and you dropped

912
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 5: the s we dropped the beat and Bruh, we was

913
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 5: just I was just fasachi and set say up aside

914
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 5: you and take saupiside, and I say upisides you again.

915
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 5: Then I went back in and I recorded it and

916
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 5: I came out. I'm saying, are we s br I

917
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 5: think I'm saying fasata too much? They like, Noah, keep

918
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 5: like that. We gonna do it just like this and

919
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 5: then everything you know, God damn, I met. I. We

920
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:58,439
Speaker 5: was in birthday bash. That boy Drake pulled up. He said, bruh,

921
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 5: I love everything y'all doing. From Pronto Pasachia Bandoh he like,

922
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 5: send me either one of them. So I sent him too.

923
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 5: I sent him Pronto and Pasachi. He sent that Pasachi

924
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 5: and he was gone.

925
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:11,879
Speaker 4: Drake off.

926
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 5: Yeah.

927
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 3: What's it like working with Draken?

928
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that boy the goat with it go. Like

929
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 5: I said, I always cook up shit first, like even

930
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 5: with Drake, like even with Walkie Talking Portland, all of

931
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 5: these songs be cooked, like I cook him up, and

932
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 5: then I just sent him off. I sent him off

933
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 5: and like shit jet be. It's just great chemistry. I

934
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 5: know what Draken get on. You know what I'm saying.

935
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 5: I know where the trap to get on, so I

936
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 5: just tap in and shit like that when I sit

937
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 5: on in the boot.

938
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 4: When you go there.

939
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 5: You wrote any songs in the RB artists, I wanna

940
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 5: say the biggest one we did was eight Shit with

941
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 5: Jay Z and Beyonce for sure. Yeah that was life

942
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:51,919
Speaker 5: changing too, for real.

943
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,959
Speaker 4: Set that up. Yeah, n I would love to write

944
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 4: for like.

945
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 5: R and B artists and get in that bad for sure.

946
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 4: Twenty ten's two thousand was CAU was a great year.

947
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,720
Speaker 4: It was the introduction of basically the rap scene in Atlanta.

948
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 4: You know, I remember, I remember not too long ago.

949
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 4: You know, I followed you sposted a picture or you

950
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 4: take offset Kwan Thug when Thug was going to a situation.

951
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 4: Looking back now, bro, A l A lot has changed.

952
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 4: I know me growing up, A a lot of people

953
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 4: that I wish was here with me now and the

954
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 4: plans we had everybody didn't make you know what I'm saying,

955
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 4: And some niggas din't stay down, some of 'em with

956
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 4: the bullshit route, you know what I'm saying. To be

957
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 4: here to now and seeing where it started and you

958
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:39,760
Speaker 4: here now any reflection, well, I'm still a lot of Change's.

959
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 5: A lot of that change, and I just look back

960
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 5: at Jim I c I can only just thank God,

961
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, and just thank God that

962
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 5: I'm still here, and just thank God for keeping my

963
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 5: antennas connected, you know, allowing me to do stuff like

964
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 5: the Rocket Foundation, because if I can erase it, if

965
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 5: I can go back, you know what I'm going back

966
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 5: to do. Yeah, no question is just I'm just trying

967
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 5: to still figure out the this, this formula, this answer.

968
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, that what God wants me

969
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 5: to do and what my what my nephew want me

970
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 5: to do. I feel like before he left, we used

971
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 5: to talk about like stuff like like him like us

972
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 5: going going to different worlds and like tapping into like

973
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 5: frequencies and energy. So like before he before he was gone,

974
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 5: already knew like damn, he finna be up there really

975
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 5: putting one in for me, feel me. So now I

976
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 5: got to like I got to keep my antennas clean.

977
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 5: I can't be going too craze, getting too drunk. You

978
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. You gotta cause when you go

979
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 5: to see Sleepy processing all this THATFF. You know what

980
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 5: I'm saying, He come to you in your dreams, you know,

981
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 5: So I just want to make sure I'm I'm more

982
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 5: super clear and sometimes people being aware of that. You

983
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. Your but is your partners and

984
00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 5: if if they can't, you know, try to plug in

985
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 5: the same way you trying to plug in. It ain't

986
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 5: no smoke. We just gotta go on different paths. I

987
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 5: will bring you to the top. Just let me go

988
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 5: off and go v fiting for the team. I'm gonna

989
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:11,839
Speaker 5: come back and grab the squad out regardless. I can't

990
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 5: never look at you. I'll never look at you on

991
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 5: the side of no road and not do nothing for you.

992
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 5: It's oh, you know what I'm saying. So we gotta

993
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 5: allow that space. You know what I'm saying, And that's

994
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 5: what and that's why I'm at and it fit. It

995
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 5: feel great because bruh, I will I was, you know

996
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, like every night, you know, crying trying

997
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 5: to figure out why this even happened. And now I'm like, okay,

998
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 5: I'm I'm uh, I see why and I'm in a minute,

999
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:39,879
Speaker 5: and I got to stay in there and and it's

1000
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 5: trying to you know, it's time to take charge.

1001
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 4: You in there for a reason, Bro, almost three years now,

1002
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 4: I lost with my little brother and my little sister

1003
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 4: two months apart. Dang, So it ain't gonna never get easy,

1004
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 4: But you got that's our motivation to keep pushing. And

1005
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 4: let me say this too, cause I'm older than you, Bro,

1006
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 4: I don't ever hesitate the cry because that's the only

1007
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 4: one we could show people that we love that's not here. Yeah,

1008
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 4: to show 'em the way we love him in the physical.

1009
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 4: It's bout dropping him, you know what I'm saying. So

1010
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 4: I just I I see the strengthen you and I

1011
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 4: see you pushing from him. But that's why I'm so

1012
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 4: admired by it. That's why I l I L I

1013
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 4: love talking to you, love being around you, because a

1014
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 4: lot of people don't have that natural strength to keep

1015
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 4: pushing on. Yes, sir, you know what I'm saying. With

1016
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 4: everything that's on 'em. Yes, you know what I'm saying.

1017
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 4: So y you doing something that a lot of people

1018
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 4: are not built to do. Bro, So understand you different

1019
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 4: than you here for a reason? Man pre facts. Yes, sir,

1020
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 4: let's talk about some of the Migo's most iconic moments.

1021
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 4: Child's gotta being no shot of yard on Bad and

1022
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 4: Bougie the best song ever after winning the Globe of

1023
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 4: Golden gold board in Atlanta. How big was that man?

1024
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 5: Crazy our songs, I don't wanna say number three or

1025
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 5: number two. And when that man got on.

1026
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 4: That gloden globe, it took off.

1027
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 5: No, he ja, we just needed that lad little extra

1028
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 5: push on that rocket. That thing he made at number one.

1029
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 5: But child's game, you know, he from he from Stoneman on,

1030
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 5: he from Geordi, from Atlanti from we said enough. But

1031
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 5: he always been a student of the game, bruh. And

1032
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 5: he always like kept us in the loop. Like he's

1033
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 5: always just pull up, come to the studio and just

1034
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 5: soak it up and just so like the skits for Atlanta,

1035
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 5: Like I don't know, man, I just think like we

1036
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:17,280
Speaker 5: his formula to his whole setup, but in a good way.

1037
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 4: What I'm saying the first season Atlanta.

1038
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 5: I'm just proud to be a party whole flips man.

1039
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 5: He keep it real and keep it solid.

1040
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 4: Look at my dad forty million views on the views

1041
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 4: on the music video, asked my daughter, I'd be in

1042
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:40,439
Speaker 4: the car home and I'm still dad. How you feel

1043
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 4: about that? Even with Cam Newton, I just feel like

1044
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 4: we should have just everybody. Yeah, I don't know that

1045
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 4: for sure.

1046
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 5: Overly Dad was always just dripped. So when we said

1047
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 5: look at my dad, it was like, look at my drip,

1048
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 5: look at my swag. And we was on the stage

1049
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 5: us just like the first QC group Us Jose.

1050
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 4: Flip with.

1051
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 5: Even Duke the e p A. What I said, we

1052
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 5: used to be on stage and like we all had

1053
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 5: Emmitt Smith was the song that Emmitt Smith and Fuck

1054
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 5: the Rap Game was the song that we started like dabbing,

1055
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 5: but we all just dropped one time at the same time,

1056
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 5: so everybody, you feel me, and so they were just

1057
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 5: like what that is, Like, man, we're going dad, look

1058
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So it was just like

1059
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 5: it's the swag and so ship just went God damn

1060
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 5: nuts and man, I wish I would have made them

1061
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 5: Christmas sweaters like two chains. Like we were just so

1062
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 5: young and JA Rock started out. It was just were

1063
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,959
Speaker 5: just dropping sauce and leaving. You know what I'm saying,

1064
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 5: And I think, like Dave is that you could have made.

1065
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 4: Some real money. They got so bad when everybody when

1066
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 4: they talked, they.

1067
00:49:54,440 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the height telling just do this all the

1068
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 2: time dog burnt out with that ship.

1069
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 5: That's the lobby run the ship man. That's all livey

1070
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 5: run a long way, Like you said, mis all them boyd,

1071
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 5: they've been running that lobby man. That's the lobby running stuff.

1072
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 4: Sure anyone else we did name that? You feel like

1073
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 4: a new level of fan Excuse me got to.

1074
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 5: Go to Rich Kid. Yeah, got shot that boy, risky kid,

1075
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 5: he never gave up. Yeah, that motherfucker he the real

1076
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 5: for next kid history is insane.

1077
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 4: He come from a bag though, don't he know he

1078
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 4: don't okay, okay, I thought one of them, one of them,

1079
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 4: I don't know. It was a rigid kid. I want

1080
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 4: him too, kid to say came from a band.

1081
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 5: Rich from Haiti. Yeah, that boy came through the skateboard,

1082
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,399
Speaker 5: just running around the city. But how we met him,

1083
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 5: he got damn. He said he had a whole He

1084
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 5: said he had a whole deal and didn't have it.

1085
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 5: That nigga just a line like a motherfucker. But I

1086
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 5: looked his ship up. He had more followers than us. Yeah,

1087
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 5: he had a blue check and that nigga had loads

1088
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 5: of beats. So I'm like, man, bring your ass to

1089
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 5: the studio. And ever since then he never left the basement.

1090
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 5: And then he walked in. I walked him in. Nigga

1091
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 5: gave him a deal. They gave Skipper, they gave skip

1092
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 5: with a dial. So any any one of my homeboys

1093
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 5: were walking, they just give me give him money for

1094
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 5: just being apartment.

1095
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 4: Now you got Albam Wayne.

1096
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 5: You feel what I'm saying. God, Now you got Albam

1097
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 5: Wayne and one with Kendrick.

1098
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 4: Oh God, that's grave.

1099
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 2: When you sit back obviously you're still young. But when

1100
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 2: you sit back and think, I think there's a lot

1101
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 2: of rappers, a lot of successful rappers, but y'all elevated

1102
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 2: from rappers to rock stars. Like when you sit back

1103
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 2: and come, you think, have you been able to kind

1104
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 2: of sit back and process with everything else going on

1105
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 2: just where your guys space and history is.

1106
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I really had a lot of time

1107
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,439
Speaker 5: to reflect, Like now you know what I'm saying, because

1108
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 5: I'm looking at the memories, you know what I'm saying

1109
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 5: my boys and looking at my boys, I'm like, why

1110
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 5: ain't nobody to tell m who was on that right there?

1111
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 5: I felt like, yuh, we was going so fast that

1112
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 5: if I felt like if someone would have just said yo,

1113
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 5: you know, after you get a number one song, this

1114
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 5: what happens, or you know, after you get a number

1115
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 5: one album, this will happen, or you know, after you

1116
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 5: do a tour, just the way after you do Drake

1117
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 5: and stuff, this will happen. I think like we was

1118
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 5: running so fast that we didn't I don't think we could.

1119
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 5: We couldn't hear that, or I don't think nobody even

1120
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 5: just said like, y'all three niggas coming for you know

1121
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,399
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And I be looking back at that.

1122
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 5: That's why I feel like I don't regret it. I

1123
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 5: just feel like we should have just locked in so

1124
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 5: we can sustain on what we was gonna. We only

1125
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 5: did Culture three, We only did three albums, you know

1126
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And I just felt like it was

1127
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 5: more to the guys, you know what I'm saying. Still

1128
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 5: more to the guys. We got a lot of in

1129
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 5: the ball. But I'm just saying, like I want, I

1130
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 5: want here, you know what I'm saying.

1131
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:57,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you in a good space right now to

1132
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 2: work on music?

1133
00:52:58,719 --> 00:52:58,919
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1134
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 5: Yeah, ship Center. It's being good, No real, Yeah, it's

1135
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:05,919
Speaker 5: sounding great.

1136
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 2: In twenty years, when you look back and you guys

1137
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 2: are inducted into me hopefully won't be that long into

1138
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 2: the rock and roll or that that was it the

1139
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,359
Speaker 2: rock and Roll Hall of Fames. What do you want

1140
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 2: people to know about your group?

1141
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 3: The Beat Ghost? What do you want them to say

1142
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 3: about your group? What message?

1143
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 5: The boys was hungry? The boys really came from nothing.

1144
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:30,280
Speaker 5: Them boys keep God first, you know, always gonna always

1145
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 5: gonna keep, always gonna keep the rocket alive. We wouldn't

1146
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 5: even be here if you want for the rocket. And

1147
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 5: we love our mamals and just trend setters. Boys and

1148
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 5: Boys came through and changed the game. And we only

1149
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 5: needed three albums.

1150
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 3: Crazy, you know what I'm saying. You don't really think

1151
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 3: about it.

1152
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 2: I didn't really think about it till you said it's

1153
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 2: really only three albums. Quick hurt his first thing to

1154
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 2: come to mind. Let us know one album you can

1155
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 2: listen to with no skips.

1156
00:53:55,960 --> 00:54:00,439
Speaker 5: On my young Nigga way. I'm going Ken Carson, Ken.

1157
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 4: Carson, Top five Atlanta Athletes of all Time, Top Atlanta. Yeah,

1158
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 4: before before you answer that, tell me how you got

1159
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 4: the tied up for your album that you're finish.

1160
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 5: Drop sat just like like my Renaissan ship Rent a

1161
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 5: sun man. They can do everything, multiple hats on the

1162
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 5: trend set of the Hook God, the Hook King, the

1163
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 5: Chrome God. Don't forget where this flavor came from. And

1164
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 5: then at the same time Life of course it's my

1165
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 5: favorite movie, you know, Claude and Ray. It's kind of

1166
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:32,280
Speaker 5: like you know what I'm saying. So we just always

1167
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 5: just had that vision. And when we be playing and ship,

1168
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 5: we see it like how race out the boom boom.

1169
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 5: I feel like that's a black thing, like do our ideas.

1170
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 5: We see that ship like that before we even got there.

1171
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 5: So that's how I feel like that. That's what I

1172
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:46,879
Speaker 5: feel about saying.

1173
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 4: Top five athletes all.

1174
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 5: Time, Top five athletes Atlanta, Atlanta. Yeah, top five Atlanta

1175
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:55,320
Speaker 5: Ship Nigga might get on me about there. I gotta

1176
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 5: go cam New, Gotta put the white in the Hall

1177
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,800
Speaker 5: of Famer, Gotta go Josh Josh Smith.

1178
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 3: I was just for John's last night.

1179
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 5: Gotta go to North Side legend lou Will Will. He

1180
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 5: came from a little outside and Quay quite Yeah.

1181
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 2: Great, you talk about yes, sir, M J. Kobe Bron

1182
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 2: Wrinkle h ship.

1183
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 5: Uh gotta do Broun Bron first, how are you thirty? Four.

1184
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 3: I like to Yeah, I like to see first.

1185
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 4: Just a heavy second.

1186
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 5: I go Kobe second and m J third, only because

1187
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 5: ninety six I wanted ninety one, you know how, Like

1188
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 5: I didn't get the I didn't understand that.

1189
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:46,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, when I.

1190
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 5: Watched the clips, I understand why y'all call him. It

1191
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 5: was the only skilled guy that was doing everything. But

1192
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 5: like if you put him a bunch of whole, like

1193
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 5: if everybody, I don't think.

1194
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 4: He do the same thing you put you on in

1195
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:58,439
Speaker 4: the league. Now he's gonna have forty five.

1196
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 5: I don't think so. I don't think so everybody do

1197
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 5: the same. We all they all eat, you got shape

1198
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 5: like all of them. Yeah, but you can't touch him,

1199
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:14,720
Speaker 5: but you can't touch him. He fought through all. Yeah,

1200
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 5: but I never I'm sorry Black number two. I don't care.

1201
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 5: I don't kill Black number two. I go Lebron first,

1202
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 5: Black second, and then long lived Kobe Man, the hummy child,

1203
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:31,760
Speaker 5: crush Sierra.

1204
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:38,919
Speaker 4: Everybody. So everybody had one around the time. Yeah, away

1205
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 4: from Atlanta. Yeah, if it was one, guess you could

1206
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 4: see on our show who would it be? But you

1207
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,359
Speaker 4: have to help us get your answer on the show.

1208
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 5: You said, what said one.

1209
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 4: Time one time. Sometimes get confused, who would you like

1210
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:50,439
Speaker 4: to see on our show?

1211
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 2: But you got to help us get him on the show.

1212
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 2: Who you think would be a good guess? It only

1213
00:56:55,719 --> 00:57:00,760
Speaker 2: took us four years to get you.

1214
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: Man.

1215
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 4: Gonna tell pull up man, y'all won't pull up man?

1216
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 4: I say, no, that's even better. You gotta make the call,

1217
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 4: and so he might do by business my boy.

1218
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, We'll be back out of here for Major

1219
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 2: League the Baseball All Star and playing are you the

1220
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 2: celebrity game?

1221
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 3: That's dope.

1222
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 2: I'm playing in, Uh Mookie best got a game on

1223
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 2: June teenth the Dollar Stadium I'm playing in before we

1224
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 2: get out of.

1225
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 5: Here, back to the eight. I'm glad we missed all.

1226
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 2: Your coach legends, Scott. The partnership of business, how legends

1227
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 2: is legends does help you with your your youth league

1228
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 2: and all your foundations.

1229
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 5: Legends.

1230
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, speak speak to speak to that partnership in Scott.

1231
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 5: Since day one, legends of Scott been you know what

1232
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like my family, they came in and did

1233
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 5: all my hunch o days. My hunch o days is

1234
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 5: what my pride. I put a lot of my pride

1235
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 5: into I kind of like chilled off this year, but

1236
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 5: it's more like about like bringing the community, putting everybody

1237
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 5: in my town, bringing all my my guys. I think

1238
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 5: Stack came a year we just you know what I'm saying,

1239
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 5: just showing them that we all could be touched and

1240
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 5: filed and heard and reached, you know. And and Scott

1241
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 5: is the main one that you know, makes make sure

1242
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 5: everything happened. He dripped my guys, He dripped the team,

1243
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 5: He dripped Team Huncho. He dripped anybody. I want him

1244
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 5: to drip you know what I'm saying. Keep them straight,

1245
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 5: he keep them lazy, keep all the kids who coming

1246
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 5: in the draft, lace and legend stuff. And his events.

1247
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 5: He throw crazy, big events. Me and Matt we threw

1248
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 5: one in l A at the Mumba Academy that was incredible.

1249
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 5: We need to run that back down the way.

1250
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 3: Let's do it.

1251
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 5: We had Floyd Snoop.

1252
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 2: This nigga Snoop came into played in the old school

1253
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:53,439
Speaker 2: high top Chuck Tailors came in and got like six

1254
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 2: that was the best one. Six rebounds and left one

1255
00:58:58,320 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 2: quarter in.

1256
00:58:58,720 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 3: He bounced.

1257
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:01,959
Speaker 5: Yeah, they did that one, and then I did another

1258
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 5: one out here right in Atlanta. Jes Be was here,

1259
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 5: so like Legends.

1260
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 2: Is yeah, we do it. Funny story how we did it.

1261
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,919
Speaker 2: So when Scott launched the brand, we're kind of thinking

1262
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 2: the faces of who could do what?

1263
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 3: Who could do what?

1264
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 2: And I was just thinking young up and coming who

1265
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 2: was in l A And I thought Kyle Kuzma. So

1266
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 2: we pitched Kyle Kuzma because he was hot with the

1267
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 2: Lakers at the time, and his business manager past I'm like,

1268
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 2: let's go get Quavo's.

1269
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 5: Like when I walked in there, it was you, Scott. Yeah,

1270
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 5: you said the same stuff.

1271
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, we said.

1272
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 2: We set on the meeting in Capitol Records. Yeah, we

1273
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 2: went and pitched him the whole idea of being the

1274
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 2: face of the brand.

1275
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 3: And we was like, what seven years now?

1276
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 2: Seven years? Yeah, right right when I finished playing, Yeah.

1277
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 5: I'm ready. I'm ready for Legends to go. Nike Man,

1278
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 5: let's go, man, let's lock in. That's how big it is.

1279
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 3: Let's go big. Yes, sir man, we appreciate your time.

1280
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1281
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 2: Excited to be here and get to the panel. That's

1282
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 2: a wrap, yes, sir, So we're here. Before we get started,

1283
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 2: I want to say one more or send some more

1284
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 2: love to Mama take off and Mama hancho, and we

1285
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 2: love you, We love you, guys, praying for you, guys.

1286
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 2: Kwaivo to the Rocket Foundation, talk to us a little

1287
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 2: bit about it. Obviously we know why we're here, but

1288
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 2: talk to us about the inspiration behind it and the

1289
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 2: ultimate goal of the foundation.

1290
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 5: It's all powered by the Rocket. You know what I'm saying.

1291
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,919
Speaker 5: I don't want to say long live the Rocket and

1292
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 5: we just uh, we just I'm just looking to be

1293
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 5: a vessel, you know what I'm saying to my family

1294
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 5: and looking to prove and and and step with my

1295
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 5: chest up and my head he head here high for

1296
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 5: my my nephew, and just try to make change the

1297
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 5: best way I can. And that being said, I want

1298
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 5: to like commedorate all the guys that's in the community

1299
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 5: that ever lost like someone doing gun violence. You got

1300
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 5: somewhere to come to, You got somewhere to you know,

1301
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 5: talk to somebody, and you got some people that's gonna

1302
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 5: pull up front line with you. You know what I'm saying.

1303
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 5: So and that's us, that's Rocket Foundation.

1304
01:00:58,880 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 3: Now.

1305
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 2: Obviously, you being a superstar in this space, why was

1306
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 2: it important to use your voice, your platform, your resources,

1307
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 2: you said you want to create a hub of your peers, rappers, athletes,

1308
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 2: to like to be able to use all of our

1309
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 2: voices together to hopefully help with this gun violence. But

1310
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 2: why was that just what was the key to that

1311
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 2: and what was it like? Also on a two part

1312
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 2: question going to the White House. Obviously you have a

1313
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 2: huge platform, you speak your mind, you use your resources,

1314
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,480
Speaker 2: but we know that to get real change it has

1315
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 2: to be policy driven. You've been able to do that

1316
01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 2: with your partner, Greg, But tell us a little bit

1317
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 2: about that journey as well.

1318
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 5: It's a tough journey, you know what I'm saying. But

1319
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 5: if you're gonna do something about it, you got to

1320
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 5: start with the with the head. You got to start

1321
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 5: at the top, so only and you can't go the

1322
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 5: opposite where you can't go to the streetway. So I felt

1323
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:52,640
Speaker 5: like being frontline the political way and just trying to

1324
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 5: get like change and policies and stuff going there, I

1325
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 5: feel like was a better approach and I felt like

1326
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 5: we got a lot of stuff done and a lot

1327
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 5: of grants and stuff, but most importantly, like I'm just

1328
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 5: here just being an instrument for my boy take.

1329
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 4: I'm definitely inspired by by what you're doing in the

1330
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:14,080
Speaker 4: Rocket Foundation.

1331
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 3: A lot of y'all don't know that.

1332
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 4: George Floyd was like a close friend of mine, and

1333
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 4: I was able to experience some things, and I was

1334
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 4: able to lead the biggest civilis rights civil rights movement

1335
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 4: ever in history, with eighteen countries in all fifty states

1336
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 4: protests at the same time for my friend. So what

1337
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 4: Quapo's doing is something that everybody should take serious because

1338
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 4: you don't want to have to wait until you lose

1339
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 4: somebody to stand up and do what's right right.

1340
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 3: So what Quapo's doing right now is bigger. It's bigger

1341
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 3: than music.

1342
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:45,439
Speaker 4: It's bigger than anything he's ever done because he's doing

1343
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 4: something that's that that that that's bigger than him. So

1344
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 4: y'all pay attention to this and not just what we're saying,

1345
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:52,760
Speaker 4: but watching all of his actions and what he's doing.

1346
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:56,920
Speaker 4: It's bigger than what we're talking. Okay, music, let's touch

1347
01:02:56,920 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 4: it on a little music. Tell some of these kids

1348
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 4: out here growing up who inspired you musically?

1349
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 5: Growing up? Who inspired me? Was a hot boy's cash money?

1350
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 5: Of course, that was like the foundation, you know what

1351
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 5: I'm saying. And then once I got older, as like

1352
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 5: a teenager, I started rocking out the futuristic way, you

1353
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. I was burnt out by the

1354
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 5: young la, the Jay Moneys, you know what I'm saying,

1355
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 5: the polo world. So we had came up with a

1356
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 5: group called Polo Club, you know what I'm saying, before

1357
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 5: the Migos. So that was mainly my inspiration. Of course,

1358
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 5: Gucca man Tip Future, he was a little bit ahead

1359
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 5: of us, and we would just look at them like

1360
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 5: rock stars and we got to get there.

1361
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 4: Being that you from this area, you're from atl why

1362
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:46,400
Speaker 4: you think it's so important that you continue to be

1363
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:50,439
Speaker 4: involved with the youth and start these youth programs.

1364
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 5: Because it start with them, you know what I'm saying.

1365
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 5: While you're in I'm a young rich you know what

1366
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So I got to give back to my guys,

1367
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 5: and it's important I give back to the youth, you

1368
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. I got my school high school

1369
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 5: football team.

1370
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 4: In here, which my cousin, my cousin coaches you know BYO.

1371
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 5: I got a huncho elite in here, some of them

1372
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 5: guys in here, all myself unself guid and like shit

1373
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 5: that that signed that hunch O sign that came from

1374
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:18,880
Speaker 5: hunch O Day. So it's important that I give back

1375
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:21,919
Speaker 5: and just sean that yeah, you can touch me even

1376
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:25,160
Speaker 5: though this get big, but we all come from nothing

1377
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 5: and we need each other.

1378
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 2: But also talk to us about I mean we were

1379
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 2: talking about in the back, these programs that you're putting on,

1380
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 2: these youth programs in the football space, the basketball space,

1381
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 2: the community events. That shit takes a lot. It's a

1382
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 2: lot of hard work and it's tiring. And obviously they

1383
01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 2: just see the star you and moving around. But tell

1384
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,200
Speaker 2: to us a little bit about what the processes of

1385
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:49,520
Speaker 2: keeping these programs going and strong and getting kids opportunities.

1386
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 2: You'll tell us you got kids going to college now.

1387
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 2: Your first group was five years ago, so you're freshmen

1388
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:55,520
Speaker 2: are now going to be freshman in college.

1389
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 3: I mean, how proud does that make you? And what

1390
01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 3: kind of work goes in behind that?

1391
01:04:59,360 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 4: Man?

1392
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 5: Super probably with It takes a lot of work, and

1393
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 5: like I said, this is my first time, so I

1394
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 5: ain't really know what I was doing. I was just

1395
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 5: doing what I love because I love the game and

1396
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:11,720
Speaker 5: I wish I had a big brother that can you

1397
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Help me out with some cleats

1398
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 5: or some shoes or some jerseys or whatnot, and it

1399
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:19,440
Speaker 5: started becoming like a whole thing. So I'm just like,

1400
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 5: let's do it. We gonna go hunt you or elite,

1401
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 5: but I gotta make sure I pay for everything. Make

1402
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 5: sure I pay for they travel, their food, they everything, everything, everything,

1403
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 5: even they off the field problems and stuff like that.

1404
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 5: But I look at myself like, cause I ain't. It

1405
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 5: was tough for me too. It's tough for me and Mama.

1406
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 5: I kind of like missed the miss the point where

1407
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 5: we moved to going it to a situation we ain't

1408
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 5: had no you know what I'm saying enough for me

1409
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 5: to play. So I always just just looked at that like, Okay,

1410
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 5: I got to be here for these kids and do

1411
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 5: it for the youth, you know, do it for them.

1412
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 2: Music obviously heavy sports background, but music became center stage.

1413
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 2: Talk to us about you and takeoffs early, just back

1414
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 2: and forth, musical passion, love and how gifted he was

1415
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:05,240
Speaker 2: and how you said he just had one of them

1416
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 2: brains where he spoke everything into existence. He knew y'a

1417
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 2: always gonna be stars when you guys are teenagers.

1418
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 5: Oh god, we was fourteen years old. It's a crazy story,

1419
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 5: but I think he was about fourteen. I had to

1420
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 5: be like fifteen, seventeen, seventeen. I'm seventeen. Yeah, okay, I'm

1421
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 5: three years old. I'm tripping, all right. So then we

1422
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:28,840
Speaker 5: get pulled over by the police and I'm the police asking.

1423
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 3: Him what he do.

1424
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 5: He said, I'm a rapper at fourteen old, and they

1425
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 5: was joking about it, but he was dead serious. And

1426
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 5: that when I knew he was gonna be something. But

1427
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 5: at the same time, he used to be like, yeah,

1428
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:43,840
Speaker 5: you can have that sports stuff. I'm gonna go to

1429
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:47,640
Speaker 5: the Boothman record And he always knew songs left and right.

1430
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. He always did everything in

1431
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 5: one take. That's how he got his name Takeoff, you

1432
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. Like we would do songs in

1433
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 5: one flow. Sometimes I mess up, mess up the whole song.

1434
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 5: He not messing up here, not skipping a beat, walking,

1435
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 5: And I just think like he just the youngest in

1436
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 5: a sponge and a student of the game and know

1437
01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 5: exactly what he wanted. He didn't have a plan beat,

1438
01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:13,040
Speaker 5: he didn't play sports, and he barely went to school,

1439
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:18,200
Speaker 5: but he knew how to wrapt. Yeah, that's my bull racket.

1440
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:20,040
Speaker 5: We was outside to stay in school.

1441
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 3: That's not good. Stay in school.

1442
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:25,920
Speaker 4: We was talking to the outside about business and when

1443
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:28,880
Speaker 4: you know, we was talking about taking the guns and

1444
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,920
Speaker 4: guns down, and you was talking about you have to

1445
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 4: put something in the hands. You was talking about building

1446
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 4: the studio, showing them how to record. How important is

1447
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 4: it to say one thing but also give them something

1448
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 4: else to be positive and to go forward.

1449
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's my dream. My dream goal is to like

1450
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 5: put community centers the stuff that I had, Like back

1451
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:55,840
Speaker 5: then it was basketball and you know, after school programs.

1452
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 5: But now I'm thinking like bigger, like game systems, you

1453
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, and streaming spots place you know

1454
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:05,200
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Places where people can learn how to

1455
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,920
Speaker 5: make beats, places where people can play the piano, learn

1456
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 5: take piano lessons, just some extracurricular after school, you know

1457
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:16,519
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So my goal is to start start there,

1458
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 5: don't I do want to do the courts and stuff,

1459
01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 5: but I think like kids got they route when they

1460
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:25,479
Speaker 5: comes to sports. I think like activities and learning how

1461
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:28,240
Speaker 5: to be you know, active in this world, in this

1462
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:31,120
Speaker 5: new streaming world, and you know, just doing classes like that.

1463
01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 5: So that's my main goal right now that I want

1464
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:33,599
Speaker 5: to do for the youth.

1465
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 2: Obviously succeeded in music, but you've also been all over

1466
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 2: TV and in the movie screen.

1467
01:08:39,400 --> 01:08:42,880
Speaker 3: What is your passion from for acting? Come?

1468
01:08:43,400 --> 01:08:47,040
Speaker 5: Just Jack's are all trades man, just watching watching TV,

1469
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 5: looking at looking at stuff and being like, yeah, I

1470
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 5: can do that, seeing if I can do it, and

1471
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 5: then once I get into that, into the field of it,

1472
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 5: I'll be like, Okay, I want to do it.

1473
01:08:57,120 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 4: You know.

1474
01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:00,720
Speaker 5: I don't never limit myself to nothing, to just being

1475
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 5: a rapper or just being a once for an athlete.

1476
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 5: I always try everything just so I can see what

1477
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 5: I really want to do and it could be another

1478
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:13,840
Speaker 5: career after you get done doing what you're doing, you

1479
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:16,320
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So that's why I always keep

1480
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 5: my arms and everything.

1481
01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 2: Who are some of the bigger actors you got a

1482
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 2: chance to work with so far, and I'm gonna put

1483
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:23,880
Speaker 2: you on the spot. What was your favorite project you

1484
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 2: worked on as far as acting.

1485
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:28,599
Speaker 5: I've been blessed to jump out there with the big guys.

1486
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:34,640
Speaker 5: So I got John Travolta, Robert de Niro, John Malkovich,

1487
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 5: Queen Latifa. She was the first one who brought like

1488
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:41,600
Speaker 5: emotion out of me. And it's uh so, I was

1489
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 5: just I would just learn on set and just wing it,

1490
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And I just, like I said,

1491
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:48,680
Speaker 5: I was blessed to be around them, and I'm just

1492
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:50,439
Speaker 5: studying and being a student of the game.

1493
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 3: You got a favorite project you've worked on. I saw Norcos.

1494
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe.

1495
01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 5: I was like, hold on favorite project. I got to say, uh,

1496
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:01,640
Speaker 5: praised it. That's my favorite one.

1497
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:05,280
Speaker 3: You look a little bit too natural on nar coas Bro.

1498
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:09,759
Speaker 5: Narcos was fired too. Narcos is great. Hunt your weekend,

1499
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 5: talk about it. We're doing what we're doing, hunt or

1500
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:15,439
Speaker 5: down or off, you know what I'm saying. We bring

1501
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:17,040
Speaker 5: all the kids, Like I said, we bring all the

1502
01:10:17,120 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 5: kids from the town. We bring all the athletes, all

1503
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:22,840
Speaker 5: my celebrity friends. We host the game. We either do

1504
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 5: flag football or basketball, depending on what the weather like.

1505
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:29,320
Speaker 5: And we put we get shuttles. If you don't got

1506
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 5: a ride, we get you picked up. We got booths,

1507
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:38,400
Speaker 5: scholarship grants, we give our checks and we just have fun.

1508
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:41,679
Speaker 5: And and this year I just took a break because

1509
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:45,839
Speaker 5: I've been mainly focused on the Rocket Summer, the Rocket Foundation.

1510
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 5: But our premise next year we'll be back and it's

1511
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 5: gonna be another energy and we're gonna be back the

1512
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 5: Ball and a half for fun.

1513
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 3: Talk about the album that's coming out, the.

1514
01:10:54,600 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 5: Album coming out this fall called Sachamo and I'm I'm

1515
01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 5: ready for it.

1516
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,839
Speaker 2: You talked to us a little bit, and I asked, obviously,

1517
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 2: with all the stuff that's going on mentally, you're in

1518
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 2: the right space right now, you feel like to really

1519
01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 2: get out there and jump back into the music thing.

1520
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:18,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm ready. I'm always dropping hiss every season, you

1521
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:20,600
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So it ain't stay consistent, but

1522
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:23,360
Speaker 5: you know, I gotta stay consistent, and whether whether I'm

1523
01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:25,599
Speaker 5: down or not, I still got to feed my people

1524
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 5: and make sure I got to lift somebody else up

1525
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 5: when they listen to my music. So I can't just

1526
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:33,759
Speaker 5: be super owned myself and just being in a shell.

1527
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 5: But like just the best I ever felt, and I

1528
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:39,640
Speaker 5: feel like it's going back to like the essence, but

1529
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 5: I feel that power and I feel that the power

1530
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,280
Speaker 5: would take in the steward and I can hear them

1531
01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:47,519
Speaker 5: coming through me out the songs and it's just feel

1532
01:11:48,280 --> 01:11:50,400
Speaker 5: it feel like, and I got all the other stuff

1533
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 5: out the way, and I can see clear. Sometimes you

1534
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 5: got to get a lot of things out the way

1535
01:11:55,080 --> 01:11:57,479
Speaker 5: to you know, to move forward and go to the

1536
01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:00,240
Speaker 5: place you need to be. Young guys, you know, saying

1537
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:02,200
Speaker 5: some of your home was and stuff like that. Y'all

1538
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 5: gotta figure stuff out. Sometimes you gotta do it by

1539
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 5: yourself to go up through there. And then you ain't

1540
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 5: leaving them. You just gonna come back and get them

1541
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:11,720
Speaker 5: and tell them this how I was trying to do it.

1542
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 5: If you didn't see the vision, So I feel like

1543
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:18,120
Speaker 5: this vision is going into this project Satimo, and I'm

1544
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:18,479
Speaker 5: on one.

1545
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 4: I want to talk to the youngsters that's here. I

1546
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:22,200
Speaker 4: just want to give y'all a quick message while we're here.

1547
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:24,639
Speaker 4: I know we're talking to Quay and you know we're

1548
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 4: here to honor the Rocket Foundation, But I want to

1549
01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:28,640
Speaker 4: give y'all just just some advice because I wouldn't be

1550
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,880
Speaker 4: myself if I didn't one. Everything you need to be great,

1551
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 4: everything you need to be great successful is already in you, right,

1552
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:40,160
Speaker 4: It's already in you. You don't need to look to

1553
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:43,640
Speaker 4: social media. You only need to look outside yourself. Are

1554
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:46,280
Speaker 4: the mirror for somebody to tell you great, for you

1555
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:48,760
Speaker 4: to believe it. When you wake up every morning, you

1556
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 4: look in the mirror and tell yourself and believe you great.

1557
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 3: That's all the affirmation you need.

1558
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,599
Speaker 4: When you looking for through social media and and everywhere,

1559
01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 4: and you looking for advice, are positive stuff to look at.

1560
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:02,719
Speaker 4: Be careful of what you look at on the internet,

1561
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 4: because everybody's not giving you positive advice, and everybody's not

1562
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 4: leading you the right way. So be careful with what

1563
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 4: you're watching, what you believe in, what you listen to,

1564
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:13,840
Speaker 4: because it's a lot of people out here. We call

1565
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:16,560
Speaker 4: the blind leading the blind, and it's a lot of

1566
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:18,280
Speaker 4: people that don't want to see you ahead or see

1567
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:20,960
Speaker 4: you do better than them. So always believe in yourself

1568
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:22,920
Speaker 4: and believe that the competence you need to be great

1569
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:26,080
Speaker 4: is already in you, and you don't need nobody outside

1570
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 4: that mirror to tell you great.

1571
01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:28,839
Speaker 5: Appreciate you overully.

1572
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 2: As you continue to push through for gun violence. Do

1573
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:41,679
Speaker 2: we see in maybe ten years you doing the next

1574
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:45,000
Speaker 2: ten years more political work. Obviously you have a huge voice,

1575
01:13:45,040 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 2: a huge platform. When people like you put their heart

1576
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:51,479
Speaker 2: and soul into projects like this, good things happen. With

1577
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:54,600
Speaker 2: the success of this gun violence campaign and mission and

1578
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 2: foundation moving forward, can we expect more other projects in

1579
01:13:59,000 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 2: a similar space.

1580
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:01,880
Speaker 5: I'm just doing what God asked me to do. You

1581
01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, he driving, I'm just ryding so

1582
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 5: you know, I'm here to just complete the mission. Like

1583
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,599
Speaker 5: I said, I just want to be connected and keep

1584
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:13,600
Speaker 5: my antennas you know, clear, so I can speak to

1585
01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 5: my guy and just make sure what it is he

1586
01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:19,599
Speaker 5: wants me to do is just you know, push forward.

1587
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,160
Speaker 5: But it ain't even my control. And if it's on

1588
01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 5: the desk and it's in front of me, I'm open

1589
01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:25,560
Speaker 5: and I'm ready to do it.

1590
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:26,160
Speaker 4: Love it.

1591
01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 2: We're gonna take some questions now, anybody got any questions

1592
01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 2: for anybody up here, for Kavo, for myself, for Stack,

1593
01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:32,799
Speaker 2: don't be scared.

1594
01:14:33,120 --> 01:14:38,719
Speaker 7: My name Andrew and from uh from I'm from Cleveland, Avenue.

1595
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:41,200
Speaker 3: I wonder you got young boy number?

1596
01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:43,240
Speaker 1: Nah?

1597
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:44,960
Speaker 5: I do gotta know.

1598
01:14:45,560 --> 01:14:46,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, y'all tell him about me.

1599
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:47,320
Speaker 5: I'm a bit fan.

1600
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 4: Uh.

1601
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:52,920
Speaker 3: And I wasn't no, no done with my real question,

1602
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 3: he said, I ain't done.

1603
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:56,400
Speaker 7: Hold on, Yeah, and I like your h that little

1604
01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:01,640
Speaker 7: studio you did with all set take off and uh so,

1605
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,120
Speaker 7: y oh you you y'all are you wrapping in that studio?

1606
01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 7: Ye'ah me's with that, y'all?

1607
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:10,320
Speaker 5: Thank you, little bro. I appreciate you.

1608
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 3: Anybody else, anybody else? Gee, we got you on the move.

1609
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 8: Ge Hey, my name is Brianna. I went to come

1610
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:24,280
Speaker 8: up project and Sweet Soul. I'ma trying to form it

1611
01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:27,879
Speaker 8: as a do you in the future, like see yourself

1612
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:35,040
Speaker 8: changing going more towards a message against anti gun violence

1613
01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:38,680
Speaker 8: in your music, Like I feel like your voice, like

1614
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:41,640
Speaker 8: you said, like that's that's the biggest blessing that the

1615
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 8: most I gave you. You know, the money came from that.

1616
01:15:44,439 --> 01:15:47,599
Speaker 8: So do you see yourself using the original blessing as

1617
01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 8: a way to also advocate for the exact thing that

1618
01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 8: the Rocket Foundation is doing.

1619
01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I feel like it's a fifty to fifty

1620
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 5: because I feel like I still got people around me

1621
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 5: or what us came from nothing, still living that, still

1622
01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:05,479
Speaker 5: going through that all the time every day. So it's

1623
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:09,240
Speaker 5: kind of like it's like I have to still let

1624
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:12,400
Speaker 5: these people know what's going on. If I just go

1625
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:14,320
Speaker 5: all the way left and don't let them know, then

1626
01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 5: they my guys won't be able to listen to me

1627
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:19,840
Speaker 5: about what's going on out here outside for real. So

1628
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 5: I try to, like, I try to like, I try

1629
01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:26,200
Speaker 5: to like split it. So I do I do records,

1630
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 5: and you know, I do like country records and records

1631
01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:34,640
Speaker 5: with Atlanta and records with uh Luke Bryant, and I

1632
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 5: try to like take it to another on a on

1633
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 5: a country level, but like on an advocate side, I

1634
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:46,080
Speaker 5: don't feel like I haven't checked that box with a record,

1635
01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 5: But I think I should do a few. I think

1636
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:49,800
Speaker 5: I think it'll work.

1637
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:53,000
Speaker 3: It's a good question. Anybody else We got time for

1638
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:53,559
Speaker 3: a couple more.

1639
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 9: Hey, I'm Ashley Johnson. I am the founder of the

1640
01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 9: Street Widows Foundation. I'm from Louisville, Kentucky. But I lost

1641
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:02,719
Speaker 9: my husband February nineteen, twenty twenty in De Cab County.

1642
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:04,639
Speaker 5: He was shot and killed at a gas station.

1643
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 9: I also want to raise up that he was the

1644
01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:12,559
Speaker 9: fourth person killed at that intersection in February of that year.

1645
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 5: My question is for U.

1646
01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:19,440
Speaker 9: Kwavo in your loss, when you had those feelings of vengeance,

1647
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 9: of wanting to get revenge for or street justice for

1648
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 9: your loss, what did you do with that What did

1649
01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 9: you do with those feelings? I feel like a lot

1650
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:31,640
Speaker 9: of our kids deal with that. As a widow, I

1651
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 9: dealt with that, and especially like with your platform, how

1652
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:37,759
Speaker 9: did you deal with those feelings?

1653
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 5: I'm still going through that. You know, it ain't no

1654
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:43,519
Speaker 5: timing on that. You know, it ain't no timing on

1655
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:46,200
Speaker 5: any of that you just asked for. So sometimes you

1656
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 5: could just be super patient and your revenger come or

1657
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:54,840
Speaker 5: through God, or your revenger come through triumph and politics.

1658
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 5: Your revenger come through going through the White House. Your

1659
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:02,760
Speaker 5: avenger come with passing these laws, changing lives in other kids' life.

1660
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:06,680
Speaker 5: So like you just you just gotta just sit in

1661
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 5: it and be ready for it. Your game's gonna come.

1662
01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 4: I want to touch on that too. My brother was

1663
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:12,840
Speaker 4: killed when I was sick. My older brother was killed

1664
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 4: when I was sixteen, and at that age I was

1665
01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:17,200
Speaker 4: really in a difference. I'm a totally different person now,

1666
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 4: but what the people around me, who I provided for,

1667
01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:26,599
Speaker 4: who depended on me, forced me to not think that way.

1668
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 4: You know, So when you have responsibilities, when you have

1669
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:32,680
Speaker 4: people relying on you, then that that is especially as

1670
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:34,960
Speaker 4: a mother. I know you understand that you got other

1671
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 4: people relying. It's easy for you to make the right

1672
01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:39,639
Speaker 4: decisions and you're not being selfless. So I can see

1673
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 4: you right now, I see you, a strong black woman.

1674
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:42,840
Speaker 4: I see you, I see I know. It's a lot

1675
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:44,720
Speaker 4: of people that depend on you, and you got to

1676
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:47,600
Speaker 4: make those decisions for those people that depend on you.

1677
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:49,840
Speaker 5: And it's okay to feel that way, you know what

1678
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So you okay, you know, so you just

1679
01:18:53,960 --> 01:18:54,599
Speaker 5: it's gonna come.

1680
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:56,920
Speaker 3: Trust me. Thank you. We have one last question here.

1681
01:18:58,080 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 4: Hi.

1682
01:18:58,479 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 10: My name is doctor Cynthia Willy and a grief and

1683
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 10: trauma therapist. The biggest thing I kind of wish that

1684
01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 10: when we get in people get into this arena we

1685
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:09,680
Speaker 10: have so many youth around us, is just sharing that

1686
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:13,639
Speaker 10: before they get to that anger spot which takes them

1687
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 10: to want to pick the gun up. How important is

1688
01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:18,560
Speaker 10: it that now that we've had to deal with that

1689
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:21,639
Speaker 10: loss for you all was devastating for you as a family,

1690
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:24,719
Speaker 10: but even myself being a mother who's buried a child,

1691
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 10: finding that most people just don't talk about it enough

1692
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 10: right and therapy is so definitely needed. But the biggest

1693
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:36,280
Speaker 10: thing is empowering everybody that touches the kid to make

1694
01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 10: sure they have the therapy so that the kid knows.

1695
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:40,600
Speaker 5: How important it is for them to have it.

1696
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 10: How has the mental health factor changed for you, your mom,

1697
01:19:44,439 --> 01:19:47,960
Speaker 10: your sister, everybody has known. We followed the story for

1698
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:50,439
Speaker 10: so long, But are y'all really okay?

1699
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 5: I mean, you know what I'm saying. We just we

1700
01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:55,840
Speaker 5: going through it still. It's only the second year, you know,

1701
01:19:56,040 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 5: so it's still fresh, and every day is in it out,

1702
01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 5: you know. You know, it's it's like we we damn

1703
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:06,840
Speaker 5: there something on these days like this, we really don't

1704
01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 5: even want to pull up, you feel me, because it's

1705
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:13,240
Speaker 5: not fun. It's not great talking about this, you know

1706
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. It's kind of like I said, I

1707
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:18,240
Speaker 5: was there and this this is my nephew, and my

1708
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:20,479
Speaker 5: responsibility is to make sure we all get home. Ever

1709
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 5: since I was a child, and it just couldn't happen

1710
01:20:22,880 --> 01:20:25,760
Speaker 5: that way, And and I feel like when I come

1711
01:20:25,840 --> 01:20:28,000
Speaker 5: up here, I don't like it, you know, at all.

1712
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 5: So I'm still I'm still in it. But like I said,

1713
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:36,560
Speaker 5: like I'm not, I'm not I'm not driving, so I

1714
01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:40,559
Speaker 5: can't be acting out on me. So I gotta act.

1715
01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 5: I gotta act for the folks, and I gotta be

1716
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:44,600
Speaker 5: here for my for my for my sisters and my

1717
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:47,439
Speaker 5: my niece and my nephew and my mama. So and

1718
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 5: I gotta maintain the house. So you're either gonna lose

1719
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:53,960
Speaker 5: it all and you're gonna act crazy, gonna go what

1720
01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, or you're gonna stand up

1721
01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:57,680
Speaker 5: and be a man and just stay in it.

1722
01:20:57,840 --> 01:21:00,679
Speaker 3: We all right, Yeah, I think.

1723
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:04,320
Speaker 6: Sorry, I know he said that was the last question,

1724
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:06,679
Speaker 6: But I got this young man here, probably the youngest

1725
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:08,600
Speaker 6: person who wanted to ask questions I couldn't say no.

1726
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:11,120
Speaker 6: Come on, please introduce yourself and you get the final

1727
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 6: question for the panel.

1728
01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:14,799
Speaker 3: I'm Lyric.

1729
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:18,720
Speaker 11: I am ten years old. My birthday's February tenth. And

1730
01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 11: what about kids like me? I used to do pro

1731
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 11: tunes and yonkers and I work in rough riders, So

1732
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:32,160
Speaker 11: what about more kids like me that do piano and drums.

1733
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:34,000
Speaker 5: Well, we need to go ahead and get you in

1734
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 5: the studio, sir, with some big guys, and we got

1735
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:38,280
Speaker 5: to hear you sound I like that, and you just

1736
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 5: got to keep working. And I think it's time to go,

1737
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 5: you know, so keep going in and if you are

1738
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:46,479
Speaker 5: already edit We're gonna put you in the studio somewhere,

1739
01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 5: my guy.

1740
01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:49,720
Speaker 3: I love it, Yes, sir, Thank you all. Thank you

1741
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:50,360
Speaker 3: for your questions.

1742
01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:50,759
Speaker 4: Everyone.

1743
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 2: I think what I think at the end of the day.

1744
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:57,719
Speaker 2: The I mean from that question alone, you see there's interest.

1745
01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:00,320
Speaker 2: There's one. They just needs to be the resources. And

1746
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:02,800
Speaker 2: we've touched on this before. We you know, we're telling

1747
01:22:02,840 --> 01:22:04,640
Speaker 2: the youth to put the guns down, but what are

1748
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:06,800
Speaker 2: we replacing the guns with. We need to replace the

1749
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 2: guns with opportunities, with the resources. And that's why, you know,

1750
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 2: it was so important for us to come here today

1751
01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:15,479
Speaker 2: because that's exactly what this foundation is doing. So we

1752
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 2: want to thank everybody for coming out today. Quavo, you

1753
01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:22,720
Speaker 2: and your entire family. I know it's not easy. We've

1754
01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:25,840
Speaker 2: all lost people and the courage and the strength and

1755
01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:27,960
Speaker 2: the will to keep pushing. Like you said, this day

1756
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 2: by day, there's no manual on how to grieve or

1757
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:32,599
Speaker 2: the right or the wrong way to grieve, So grieving

1758
01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 2: your way, make sure you keep God first.

1759
01:22:34,760 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 3: We love everybody and thank you guys.

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01:22:37,280 --> 01:22:37,519
Speaker 4: Y'all