WEBVTT - RAHEEM DEVAUGHN - Smoothie Operator SauteĢ 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.559 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.400 I'm your host Coley Witt, and today we have Grammy 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:10.720 Award winning Soul and R and B recording artists Rahim 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:12.200 Devon in the building. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:13.040 Hello. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:17.040 Hello, And he's already made my first, I would say, 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.040 my first round of dish. He made me smoothie with 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:27.720 what is pineapple, banana, ginger, root, rasberry, raspberries, blueberries, berries, 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.360 manuka oil oil, manuka honey honey. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:31.600 Yeah. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.600 So I'm already drinking good No, no, you who's for 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.560 the table this round? And now we're cooking something else 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.320 for me? I feel really really special right now. So 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:44.720 what are you making for me? Right now? 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:49.920 I'm like some garlic, kale, garlic, kale, fresh garlic. Thet 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.320 things heat up over here, you know, cooking it up. 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.560 So we talked before and we were talking about how 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.600 this show is all about eating while broke. But what 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.360 I loved what you said was like, no matter how 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.319 it broke, I was, I still made sure to eat healthy, healthy. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.000 Yeah, to eat healthy like you know, I believe it 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:33.560 or not. You know, mushrooms and you know one red pepper, 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.080 you know, maybe a little bushel of kale, it's not 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.039 as expensive as one may think, you know what I mean. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.480 It really wasn't. So some of the team was like, oh, 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.800 oyster mushrooms, it's so expensive. It was three dollars. Now 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.040 the question is what are you gonna make for me? Officially, 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:53.600 that's a real question because I was over here thinking 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.640 it was scrambled eggs, mushrooms. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.400 Little mystery, little mystery mystery dish. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.600 We're excited about it. Yeah, So take me back to 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:08.640 the beginning days. That's the hard times for him, you know. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:10.760 I well, I always been hard working, you know what 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.679 I mean, even in the hardest of times. You know, 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.639 I've been working since I was fifteen, sixteen years old, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.679 you know what I mean. So, like my first job 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.120 was Giant Food and Calverton, Maryland, uh, which is like 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.919 right there adjacent to uh Feltsville, Maryland. 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.000 Is that like grocery store? No? 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.160 What w Well you're a Giant Yeah, absolutely, yeah, so 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.840 your partial pick up and eventually you know, graduated to 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:42.280 doing you know, uh, customer service and. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.760 And working a register and all the things. You know. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:45.720 Well, every job I always had was in you know, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.480 like customer service. I think it it like prepared me 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:53.400 for to be able to you know, be interact with people, 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.400 which is one of my favorite things to do, you know, 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:57.560 at the concerts. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.520 And uh it did you know early on that you 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:02.720 wanted to be in music? 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:11.080 Yeah, I think that's something I always was drawn to, 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.359 you know, even as it even as you know, as 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.080 a kid young, you know what I mean. I mean, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.919 I think I remember seeing like was it Motown twenty five? 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.000 You know, the Grammy Awards. I think I think right 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.840 around like eighty four eighty five is when I really 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:28.960 got that that itch. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:29.280 You know. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:34.200 Yeah, now you you grew up with music in the house, right. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.440 Oh, absolutely, no single parent household. My father wasn't in 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.120 the household, but he was definitely was in my life. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.600 He was a He was a classically trained child prodigy. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:49.480 Cellis no No a boy, the artist name Ebduai dude. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.920 My mother worked you know for I. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.280 Guess you could say like a law enforcement no immigrations 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.000 was a was an officer for a long time. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:00.440 Uh. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.440 And but mom had the mom had the vinyl you know, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.400 the dope vinyl collection. You know, go through her vinyl collections. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.320 It's kind of just checking out, you know, different different artists, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.240 discovering artists like Bob Molly. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.240 You know, Quincy Jones as a producer, of course. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.200 A lot of Marvin Gay, uh, you know, and then 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.480 I would and then and then I you know, spending 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.600 time with my dad, uh you know, in his background, 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.320 uh classically you know, and going through his collection and 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:28.039 stuff like that. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:28.280 Uh. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.400 I discovered Prince at a young age. You know, the 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.840 Purple Wing album. I totally probably shouldn't have been listening 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.800 to that, to that album at that age, but uh, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.880 I was just fascinated and blown away, you know by Prince. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.480 Did your parents know you could sing yet? Or did 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.720 they were they? Did they have an idea? No? 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.120 I kind of really just like kept that to myself. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:54.200 I think singing. I was a late bloomer, like, you know, 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.760 pursuing the singing, singing thing, you know, first year of 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.240 college going to Copper State College. I graduated from High 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:04.680 Point and uh Peg County and you know, going to 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.680 Confidence where I really kind of like literally like found myself. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:08.919 You know. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.279 So before then, they didn't hear a like they didn't 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.240 have any idea that. Like they sent you off to 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.799 college and like it's gonna go get a college degree. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.599 Did you tell them what you were going to college for. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.279 I originally went to college, I was I was red shirted, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.680 but I had I had a track scholarship. Yeah uh, 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:34.880 you know, as a distance runner, and and. 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:37.880 I thought I wanted to be in law enforcement. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.039 And I went for three semesters I felt, you know, 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.640 I joined the singing group. I fell in love with 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.600 the art of like singing. And next thing, you know, 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.120 you know, I dropped out and here we are. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.480 And before you now in that transition, you because I 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:01.039 read online, you know, you had kind of john harmonize 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.400 with this group on campus, and that was kind of 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.360 like the beginning is that cract? And then but at 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.000 what point do you go home and you say, hey, mom, dad, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.200 this is the this is the the road change I'm making. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.640 Well, it wasn't going back home at that point. I'm 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.080 an adult, you know, I kind of had kind of 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.920 figured it out. I slept on a few couches here 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.000 and then you know, I had some great friends who 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:28.000 you know, who definitely helped along the way in that process. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.159 But I had to figure it out, you know. You know, 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.880 at some point I became a dad. You know, I'm 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:34.440 gonna try. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:40.240 Well, we're cooking for two cool? I want you to 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:40.760 eat with me? 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:42.000 I kind of. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.200 Yeah, I like to do it kind of like you know, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.440 and appetizers or oh is this you can kind of 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:50.839 eat it? 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:52.320 You know what I mean? 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.680 Sports team shout outs to them, We're gonna eat it 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.000 a school from now. You don't watch y'all back here? 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:03.360 So I could try this, Yeah, absolutely, I'm gonna try it. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:10.000 So before I try, I gotta ask you the road 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.560 of couch surfing. Was there any part of you that 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.600 was questioning whether this was your purpose? 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:15.560 Oh? 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.720 I mean I think I think definitely. Through life we 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.920 question what our purpose is. You know some people, some 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.920 people go to go through their entire life, uh, you know, 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:29.880 trying to figure out their their purpose. You know, some 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:35.760 people find it criocket than others. You know, how was 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.600 I think I went? I went through the process of 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:44.280 from from from from knowing to believing or from believing 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:44.600 in knowing. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:45.120 Excuse me? 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:46.440 Oh man? 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:48.720 So, so you know that there's a process of like 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.040 believing that you can do something, and then there's something 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.520 like you know, absolutely knowing that hey, this is what 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.560 I want to do. I'm going to figure out how 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:02.000 to do it, you know, and uh, I think once 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:06.120 I mastered the art of like knowing and manifestation understanding 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.120 you know, the power of prayer. And when what was. 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.960 That epiphany of knowing? Like when did you know? You knew? 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.560 For me, it was like doing the open mics and 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.880 just seeing how people responded, okay, yeah to the you know, 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:25.280 to the music responded to me. You know, I always 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.360 was an artist that uh, I always had to have, 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.520 you know, even in my early career. You know, I 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.560 had I had product, I had CDs, I had, you know, 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.000 something that was tangible that people could you know, take 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:39.680 me home. 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.760 With them verse a. You know what I mean. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:42.480 Uh. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.040 And once I once I saw that or you know, 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:46.640 or a perform a song and I would see how 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.960 people would respond to it or ask me how could 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:49.640 they buy the song? 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:50.960 Then I knew I was on the something. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:55.280 Now. Typically during that whole process, I would assume you 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.920 weren't were you were? You were still struggling financially. So 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:04.040 was there anybody around you that's like whoa you know, 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.959 is the is the math math making sense? Are you 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:08.920 still doing side hustles to No? 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:13.840 Definitely, definitely still working, uh day job, shy hustle stuff 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:18.200 you know jobs jobs that I have. Oh man, I 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.280 worked at UH, Like I said, giant food. 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:21.560 I worked at. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:26.000 UH after college, after having baby and still pursuing music. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.160 Yeah, yeah, this is like, you know, definitely first son 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:33.960 in the picture at this point, you know, working, you know, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.960 just trying to figure it out. I worked for I 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.240 worked for a long Fence. I worked for Chevy J's 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.040 bank telemarketing. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.080 While still doing music. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.880 Yeah, while still doing music. And is your go to 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:49.439 get this word stout? Where's where's my where's my shoe? 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:50.920 My shoe? Chef? 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:52.000 Tasha? 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:58.960 Help? Can we get that renched out for me? Thank you? 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:05.239 Yeah, thanks Tasha. So you're just just for all our listeners. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:12.440 He's made a beautiful kaoe garlic salady like thing that 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.600 was like heated over the stove. Now he chopped up 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.320 the scallions, the onions, and the red peppers. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.080 Tell her to bring some forks too. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.079 Tell Tasha to bring forks. We're definitely going over your time, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.959 because I feel like the story is starting to heat 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.120 up just as good as these dishes. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.160 Sorry, yeah, it's all good. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.880 So you're pursuing this is your the mother of your 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.560 child signaling any type of pressure on you to like 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.800 maybe possibly give up music. Is there anything? 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.760 Nah, I'm I'm, I'm, I'm I'm yeah, that's not that. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:48.400 That's never a parent you know, whether it's co parenting 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.280 or my parents or whoever. Like at this point, I 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.120 got my in my mind what I'm doing, you know 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.920 what i mean? Okay, So yeah, as long as I'm 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.560 able to provide and you know, for my son, you know, 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.440 and take care of my my father's responsibilities. That was 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.280 never an option to like kind of dictate, like you know. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.080 Like at this point you also know you know for sure. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.000 Right, Yeah, I mean I'm yeah, I'm you know, it's 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.120 it's tunnel vision, you know what i mean, like not 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:18.120 having a backup plan, knowing that you know, this is 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.319 something that you want to do. Uh, and then and 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.040 and figuring out you know, like you know, you figure 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.520 it out, you master it, You figure out what works 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.560 for you, and you know, and then and then and 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.640 it's putting the right time, you know, the right team 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:32.840 around you too, you know. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.480 Yeah. So was it early on in your career where 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.600 you got your first like publishing or writing. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:45.760 So so so initially I was signed to a label. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.319 H We're not signed to a label, excuse me. Initially, 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:56.920 I want to I won a contest, uh and at 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:01.320 open mic contest, and and when in that contests, I 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.920 used that money to get a CD burner and kind 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.120 of like start burning my own music, selling out of 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.840 the trunk another local artist and. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.640 I'll bring you recording the music to burn it. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.679 Well, another local artist and producer from the area. We 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.280 we teamed up and mobbed up and ended up getting 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.319 apartment together, and uh we formed a group called Urban 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.080 AF thirty one, which we went on to, uh, you know, 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.280 make a lot of great music. I need my cooking 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.400 oil was my cooking oil. 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.160 I think they brought something from the uh yeah, cooking. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:40.000 Tasha cooking oil called Tasha Jajah come back here and 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.880 say it was we need cooking oil, cooking oil. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:45.720 No, that's olive oil. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:46.280 Yeah. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.640 So we so we started, So we started, you know, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.880 we started this group Urban After thirty one, we put 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.079 out a project called The Healing. Uh. You know, I 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.520 also teamed up with a phenomenal artist from DC. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.080 It's kind of thank you, thank. 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:03.480 You, phenomenal artists from DC by the name of West Felton. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.200 We formed a group called The Crossroads. So I always been. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:10.560 Part of these like you know groups, and just even 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.760 in the early stages of my career, I understood what 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.520 it was to like reinvent myself as an artist, you 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.200 know what I mean, and and that and that there's 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.560 you know a lot of different genres of music that 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.920 that that that that you know, that I liked and 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.800 I wanted to participate in and you know that whole thing. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:28.319 So it's kind of like, you know. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:32.319 Figuring out how to do that being an independent artist 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.800 at the same time, you know, through the process of it, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.840 and eventually, you know, what ended up happening was what 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:45.920 had happened was that you know, uh, I met some 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.280 producers from the area locally who were like super dope 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.679 and their managers and people that they did business with, 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:58.720 uh managed Genuine at the time, and uh you know, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.160 I asked, I asked the dre Vons and Cliff Jones 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.280 at the time to manage me, which they which they 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.760 agreed to do, and you know, I just kind of 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.280 expressed them that I just wanted to kind of just 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.679 like do music full time, you know, and if there 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:17.240 was any opportunities to like you know, sing background for 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:22.280 any artist, you know, genuine whomever did I'd be interested 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.080 in doing it, and you know, I ended up getting 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.280 a call for the gig and touring with him still 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.040 while all while pursuing, you know, my career being part 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:33.480 of these different groups stuff as well. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.760 And but at this point you're no back and there's 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.680 no us. You don't have a day. 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.520 Job, right, Nah, at this point there's no jay job. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.760 So yeah, so you know, now you got past that hurdle. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.560 Yeah so now so now so now it's like monetizing, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:49.960 you know, in real time, you know. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.560 So how long would you say that journey was that spam? 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:59.520 Oh man, you're talking anywhere between two thousand and you're 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.480 saying from like two thousand and. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:08.520 Two too, like two thousand and two, I did the deal. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.040 So you're talking, you're talking about this is right between 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:16.760 like nineteen ninety nine, say, or ninety eight through like 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:23.240 two thousand, like two thousand and one, you know where 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.880 you know, you know, just figuring it out, yeah, you know, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:35.480 figuring it out and during that recording, what recording at 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.120 the time what would become the love experience, not knowing 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.320 at the time that that's what it would be, you know, 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:47.080 and just never putting all my all my options in 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.240 one you know, one basket, you know what I mean, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.320 I think, you know, allowed me to be able to 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.320 do I could just be part of different things, you know, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.400 I in this group I'm doing my solo thing is 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:03.000 Rahiem Devon, like you know, the option to that, you know, 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:04.800 you never know what's going to kind of take off, 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.920 you know, so you know, I was just just having 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.680 fun doing it the entire time, you know, because I 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.880 believe that anything, you know, what we do, it should 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:15.640 definitely be fun. 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:16.880 Right and. 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.400 Yeah, you know, the interest, the buzz started to really 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.640 start happening, you know, around two thousand and one, golding 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.640 over into two, I started to go to a lot 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:34.240 of artist showcases, RCA Records, whoever would have me. Like, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.840 we went, we got a lot of we got it, 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.160 We got a lot of no's until we finally got it. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.440 Yes, okay, you know how did you handle those no's? 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.760 I mean we just never gave up, you know, you 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.560 know I just kind of always like looked at it like, hey, 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.960 if it's not going to happen here, then hey stay lost, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.680 stay what it's their loss. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.360 It's their loss. Yeah of course, yeah, yeah, you know 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.800 were there's some lessons in there that you had to 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:06.040 learn about the industry. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:08.800 Yeah, I just, I just I just I never gave up, 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:09.960 you know what I mean. I wouldn't say it was 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.040 it was that anything was like painful, like you know, 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.800 I you know, even then I understood that it was like, 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.639 you know, timing involved like I like, you know, I was, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.320 I still was popping, you know what I mean. Yeah, 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.640 So you know we were doing at that point, We're 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:28.560 doing college gigs with the you know, with Urban after 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.000 thirty one, and you know, I'm I'm I'm when I'm 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.760 not out on the road doing my independent stuff, I'm 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.720 on the road with g vir Ginuine. 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:41.240 So it's you know, you're still moving in that forward motion. 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:42.680 It seems oh no, for sure. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:44.359 And it sounds like you kept busy. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.200 Yeah, absolutely absolutely, That's that's the name of the gang. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.040 Like even like now, you know what I mean. 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.960 Like, yeah, you gotta stay busy and work and nobody's 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:54.480 gonna give you that. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.159 You gotta work for it. You got ground for it, 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.960 you know, and you gotta. 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.760 Eat and you gotta eat to ask because this part 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.199 of the show, I have to say, have me the 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.200 most interested is the mushrooms. I know, this is a 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.560 sidebar for everyone. But I've never really cooked mushrooms like this, 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:11.679 so I'm just curious. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.560 You we got so we got a little cornmeal, right, 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:17.680 and I saw you season it. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:22.240 Yeah, we got the mushrooms popping. But the oyster, the 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:23.320 oyster mushrooms. 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.840 I use a little jets egg, okay, right, just to 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.119 get it, just to get it popping. 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.640 And then you let us sit in there, right, yeah, 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:31.080 let it. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.200 Sit in there, marinate a little bit, season it a 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.680 little bit, and then we got the flour happening. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:40.560 And yeah, I'm so excited. I've never seen it. So 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:42.679 if you would have left here and you would have 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.960 like not gotten to this part, I promise you I 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:50.560 would have been texting your management like it is, right. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.280 I just want to thing about the kel you know, 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:54.720 even as it gets a little cool. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.960 Mm hmm, there we go. That sound like. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.200 Yes, I've been waiting for that. 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.240 I was waiting for it when you first put it in. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.320 I've seen someone on this show took water and did it, 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:08.320 and I was scared. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:09.400 This is not the move. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.120 Yes, that's not the move. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.280 She made some really great onion rings. 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:14.680 That's what's up. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:20.720 The kale is really good, So you just eat the 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.439 mushrooms all by itself on the plate with the kale. 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.199 Well do you yeah, I mean it's like kind of 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:25.399 like a. 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.399 Th This is like like a vegan chicken nugget, you know, 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:35.080 finger fool you know, do you know. 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.760 If there's any benefits to the mushroom. 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.480 That's I think there's always beneficial to rushrooms. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:46.840 Oh okay, So where do you see yourself going from here? 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.720 Like what's next on the milestones for you? 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:50.440 You know, it's crazy. 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:54.480 It's crazy because after nineteen years, I'm on a I'm 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.240 on a any client still you don't want to pivot? 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:58.000 Like it's been great. 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.560 I just finished a nineteen city tour let us uh 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:06.520 you know, which was which was amazing. You know, I'm 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.800 putting out music quarterly. Quarterly, yeah, quarterly, you know, been 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.240 putting out the seasonal projects, you know, Summer of Love, 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.440 Fall in Love, Winter and Love, you know, for spring, 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.040 we're doing a series of. 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:24.480 Of singles you know, which are being received. Well. So yeah, 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.680 I mean, it's it's it's it's God's a limit. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.280 Definitely what I definitely see myself doing more television and 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.600 film and and things of that nature. But it's still 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:48.159 so much of the world that I haven't seen touring 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:52.480 as a recording artist, you know, and uh, and possibilities 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.640 that are out there. Definitely get into some strategic partnerships. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:59.719 Shout out to Gilead Sciencest, who was phenomenal, uh, you know, 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.119 you know for the Raheem Devon brand and their brand 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.440 and all the wonderful work that they're doing in the community, 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:09.320 you know, advocating and you know, they invested over twelve 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:13.080 million dollars in grants, you know, to create awareness and 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.400 break down the stigmas about HIV and age and house 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.280 affecting black women and girls you know, here in the country, 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.440 here in the state with them. Well, you know, I 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:23.040 you know, I do a lot of community work. 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:24.360 Yeah, I didn't know that. 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.320 Yeah. When I'm not you know, praying. 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:32.000 For me gomet eating Wall Broke episode. I promise you 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:34.640 I'm gonna go home and try to do all of this. 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:36.280 Listen, you can do it. You can do it. 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.919 You can you can you can eat while broke and 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.280 still be you know healthy. 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:43.359 You know what I mean, which is the name of 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:43.720 the game. 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.080 You know, I'm gonna be really judging the muscrooms really hard. 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.600 By the way, I have another random question when it 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:51.399 comes to the mushrooms. Earlier, I had said, when I 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.440 was looking at the packs of mushrooms, one of them 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.080 they look like really wet. Is that like a sign 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:00.119 you shouldn't buy mushrooms if the package is look I 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:00.600 looked at them. 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:01.800 I think they were They're pretty good. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.680 Pick the one that was Oh yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:07.920 I think if it's I think, if it's ever in question, 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:11.080 if you ever have to ask, then yeah, yeah. 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:12.199 I was sitting there like, I don't know. 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.639 I would definitely say, trust your impulse on that, you know. 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:17.280 But the ones I got you. 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:17.520 Did you did good. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:18.720 You did good, you did good. 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:22.760 I love how you're really chefing it, you know. So 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:24.399 who are you currently signed to? 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:26.600 I'm currently signed to myself. 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:29.679 That's what I want to talk about. So what was 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:34.480 you You were signed the Jibe at one point. 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:36.520 Right, Yeah, so Jibe was from two thousand and two, 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:42.880 the first album came out of five and then by 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:50.520 two thousand and eleven, you know, January first, twenty eleven when. 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:55.440 I became independent again. So about fifteen fifteen years give 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:57.159 a take that I've. 0:22:57.000 --> 0:23:01.040 Been indy, you know, And what would you say the 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:02.800 pros and the cons of being indie. 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:10.200 R Man, I mean, definitely you make more money long 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:14.840 long term. I mean, I think the main thing is 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:17.000 about the ownership of it, you know, and just being 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:19.560 able to just kind of just just dictate your destiny. 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:22.280 You can put out music when you want, you know. 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.199 Yeah, it's just something about having your own you know, 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:29.399 you know, and being having ownership. 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:31.000 It's so important. 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.600 You know, on the first record, on that record that 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.120 you put out with Jove, though, was your deal? Did 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:40.400 you not get your own majority of it or what 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:41.119 was that deal? Well? 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:43.359 No, I mean, I'm I'm I'm a I'm a published 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:45.320 writer and producer and all these things, you know what 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:47.760 I mean. So it really, you know, being independent comes 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:50.159 down to having ownership of the master like you know. 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:52.000 Yeah, so you know bucket lists. 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:53.439 I want to I definitely want to go back and 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:56.800 get the masters for the Love Experience album, Love Behind 0:23:56.800 --> 0:24:00.560 the Melody, and the Level More Masterpiece in particular. You know, uh, 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:03.680 which were the three releases that I had with you 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:05.200 you know, yeah. 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:08.040 I know when we interviewed, I interviewed Bone Thugs and 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:10.879 Harmony here and they rush still waiting. I think they 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:13.520 had like another year before they can get their masks 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:16.280 something like that, and it was really important to them, too. 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:23.119 Very important thing. I got a baked potatoes your stove, so. 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:25.720 This is really cook You're gonna have to excuse me 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:28.240 and get them. I'm gonna go. I just want to. 0:24:29.520 --> 0:24:32.080 I'm hoping prayerfully that they're that they're did that go, 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:34.760 We're gonna take a quick love king break, ladies, gentlemen, 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:35.600 not be right back. 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:37.680 The two finger snaps. 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:44.800 And I was just really good garlic direct. 0:24:44.840 --> 0:24:48.760 Are they ready? Yeah? I don't know if they're ready. 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:52.520 That one might be ready. They're not. That's that's yea. 0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:55.520 It must have. It looked like it cut off on you. Yeah, 0:24:55.600 --> 0:25:02.639 it keeps cutting off. Oh wow, yeah, he keeps cutting off. 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:03.200 Let's do this. 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:08.760 So guys, just so you know a little behind the 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:12.160 scenes about Rahee. He's really into this cooking thing. Okay. 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:14.160 We try to like tell him, you know, you don't 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:15.040 have to make smoothies. 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:15.880 I don't know what that means. 0:25:15.920 --> 0:25:16.760 You don't have to. 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:21.359 Hey, we'll pre cook, we'll preachop everything. He was like, no, 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:24.800 I got this really into cooking. Wondered if he was 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:28.000 really into cooking. He's really into cooking. He seems like 0:25:28.119 --> 0:25:30.720 real legit with this. Most guess we could talk them 0:25:30.720 --> 0:25:31.040 out of it. 0:25:31.080 --> 0:25:38.400 Really, they don't have. 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:47.639 I'm sure Tony is back there having a heart attack 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:51.320 over the time. I feel the pressure, Tony. I could 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:58.520 feel you, and you come. Rahine's back, everybody. I was 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:00.320 talking to the camera. I was telling him what I 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:04.920 thought about you. Oh yeah, I was just telling Tony. 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:12.520 I could feel his energy. I feel you, Tony pressuring me. 0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:13.240 I'm bad. 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.639 He's enjoying this cooking. Okay, do you want me to 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:19.200 open these? Do you want me to do anything? 0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:23.200 You can't do that? Don't be messing around in my kitchen. 0:26:23.240 --> 0:26:27.320 Now, he's enjoying this. Do you see this? So when 0:26:27.359 --> 0:26:30.440 you're at home by yourself, do you cook like this? Oh? 0:26:30.680 --> 0:26:31.680 I cook in spurts. 0:26:32.760 --> 0:26:37.200 I'm you know, yeah, life is you know, it's it's interesting. 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:40.159 This is the busiest I ever been in my entire career. 0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:47.320 So yeah, so to uh so to you know, to 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:53.600 have time is always the challenge, you know. Uh yeah, 0:26:53.680 --> 0:26:56.480 so you know that's the challenge. Time is the challenge. 0:26:56.480 --> 0:26:59.000 So what's your cheap meal when you're this busy? 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:01.919 Sorry? I mean this is like a go to like 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:03.320 if you get it, if you get if you get like, 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:09.080 you know, a hotel room, uh with the kitchen, you 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:10.240 know what I mean. You don't have to have the 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:14.639 gas stove. You know, you have a couple of ingredients 0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:16.040 and just do your thing, you know what I mean. 0:27:16.040 --> 0:27:17.960 It's just like it's just like a is. 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:19.960 There a reason why you choose them? 0:27:19.960 --> 0:27:23.560 Malayan salt. 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:25.520 I feel like it's also a little saltier. 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:28.520 No, I don't know. 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:29.320 I mean it could be. 0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:32.719 It could be a little saltier, but it's definitely a 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:36.200 lot healthier though, Okay, yeah, definitely a lot healthier. 0:27:37.080 --> 0:27:38.480 Yeah, definitely a lot healthier. 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:39.800 But you're not vegan. 0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:43.480 I have been vegan most of my life. I have 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:47.600 periods where you know, I do I'm currently like I 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:50.440 guess I would say pro tarry, you know, and yeah 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:52.320 in the sense of, uh you. 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:55.120 Dip your pinky into the. 0:27:57.040 --> 0:28:00.840 Yeah, I'll do I'll do lamb and I'll do wild 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:04.760 caught fish like evident that It just I just feel 0:28:04.760 --> 0:28:08.480 like it agrees with my digestive track. I mean, yeah, 0:28:08.480 --> 0:28:09.880 it just agrees with me, you know what I mean. 0:28:11.560 --> 0:28:13.240 You know, me being a blood type that I am 0:28:13.280 --> 0:28:18.080 and just blood type absolutely. 0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:19.320 I want to get one of those done because I 0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:21.920 I a doctor told me I was alerted to red meat. 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:25.200 So do you hear enough episodes of eating while broken? 0:28:25.280 --> 0:28:27.639 Hear me say yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, yeah. The 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:29.280 thing that yeah, the thing is so it's just like, 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:32.240 you know, it's good to know like what your you know, 0:28:32.359 --> 0:28:35.520 what what agrees with your body and what you know 0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:36.760 what serves your body best? 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:37.360 You know what I mean? 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:38.360 What made you get me? 0:28:38.640 --> 0:28:40.400 I feel I feel like you kind of like are 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:45.800 indirectly slowly poisoning yourself by doing anything other than that? Yeah, 0:28:46.080 --> 0:28:46.680 you know what I mean? 0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:47.640 I agree with that. 0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:47.920 Yeah. 0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:50.840 So it also takes I think maturity because I was 0:28:50.840 --> 0:28:52.680 telling my friends I knew I was alerted to red 0:28:52.720 --> 0:28:54.400 meat at the age of twenty four, but I didn't 0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:57.600 stop till I was like thirty six. And why do 0:28:57.600 --> 0:28:59.560 you think Why do you think I was just immature? 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:00.880 It's an immaturity. 0:29:01.120 --> 0:29:01.360 Yeah. 0:29:01.560 --> 0:29:04.040 Now, if I see oxtail or short rep, I'm like, 0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:07.240 no matter how much I love you, I'm not doing it. 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:11.120 This is the part I've been dying to try it. 0:29:11.400 --> 0:29:12.480 Can we show it to the camera? 0:29:12.800 --> 0:29:13.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that. 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:16.200 Guys, that looks legit. 0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:19.920 Yeah, where's my oh my dog, my dog my dollar. 0:29:20.240 --> 0:29:22.719 I'm excited about this. Here we go, Here we go. 0:29:25.320 --> 0:29:27.400 You got some options of. 0:29:27.760 --> 0:29:29.000 Do we have dipping sauces? 0:29:29.000 --> 0:29:29.560 Sorry? 0:29:29.600 --> 0:29:30.200 Options? 0:29:30.480 --> 0:29:34.280 Yeah, you have difference. You have dipping sauces too. Absolutely 0:29:36.080 --> 0:29:37.480 shut that right there. 0:29:39.680 --> 0:29:41.240 I'm gonna try and make this at home. I'm gonna 0:29:41.240 --> 0:29:42.560 send your team some pictures of it. 0:29:43.640 --> 0:29:47.000 So you got oh, okay, we got we got sauces. 0:29:47.040 --> 0:29:50.840 Okay, yeah, I just want to try. 0:29:50.840 --> 0:29:55.760 I'm gonna try it. Here we go. 0:29:57.360 --> 0:30:05.200 So we got cherioockey sauce right there, and we'll do so. 0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:08.040 Who was your favorite collab in your career? 0:30:09.320 --> 0:30:12.240 My favorite collab? Yeah, man, I worked with a lot 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:16.240 of people, of course, you know, uh ghost Face and 0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:21.400 Ray Kwan, you know, definitely always bucket list stuff, DJ Jazzy, 0:30:21.480 --> 0:30:24.200 Jeff Kenny, Dope. I can't say like I have a 0:30:24.320 --> 0:30:27.040 necessarily a favorite. 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:31.080 Bless you do you have a favorite at least collaboration 0:30:31.200 --> 0:30:33.760 where it was a g overall just great experience from 0:30:33.800 --> 0:30:37.080 beginning to end, or experience that surprised you. 0:30:40.720 --> 0:30:40.920 Man. 0:30:41.000 --> 0:30:41.080 Uh. 0:30:41.160 --> 0:30:43.480 I think the roots, the roots, you know, me working 0:30:43.520 --> 0:30:46.719 with the roots and just the way that whole Uh, 0:30:47.920 --> 0:30:52.400 that whole situation happened with rich uh Nicholas, who was 0:30:52.880 --> 0:30:55.680 kind of like the hidden member Slash. I guess you 0:30:55.680 --> 0:30:59.440 could say manager uh for the group, you know, being 0:30:59.480 --> 0:31:02.800 this being the studio with Raymond Angry and Black Thought 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:06.200 working on these records one on one at the time, 0:31:06.360 --> 0:31:09.640 rich Rich kind of being very specific about what type 0:31:09.640 --> 0:31:10.960 of records he wanted me to make. 0:31:13.120 --> 0:31:14.360 There's a song on They're called. 0:31:14.200 --> 0:31:17.880 A Man with No Future Future and the irony, the 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:22.840 irony of the song is that I didn't know at 0:31:22.840 --> 0:31:24.720 the time, and I don't I'm not sure how many 0:31:24.720 --> 0:31:26.840 people know at the time, but Rich was Rich was 0:31:26.920 --> 0:31:29.000 uh was was was was. 0:31:29.000 --> 0:31:30.800 Uh terminally ill. 0:31:32.000 --> 0:31:34.360 So he had me so so I remember having this 0:31:34.400 --> 0:31:38.240 conversation with him on the phone about creating this record 0:31:39.440 --> 0:31:41.959 about a man with no future, not knowing that I 0:31:42.000 --> 0:31:45.800 was making basically like the soundtrack of his life. Oh wow. Yeah. 0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:47.240 And I don't know if I don't I don't know 0:31:47.240 --> 0:31:49.040 if he ever shared that with Black Thought. 0:31:51.040 --> 0:31:53.440 But it just uh yeah. 0:31:53.520 --> 0:31:57.880 So it's kind of well, when when when the album 0:31:57.920 --> 0:32:00.680 when like literally he passed, like the week that the 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:02.440 album dropped, or like I want to say, like right 0:32:02.440 --> 0:32:05.920 before the album dropped. Like maybe maybe maybe within that 0:32:06.000 --> 0:32:08.719 thirty day. I can't remember the timeline, but like and 0:32:08.760 --> 0:32:10.800 it was just like wow, like Rich pat and then 0:32:10.840 --> 0:32:12.680 and then it came out like, hey, Rich had been sick. 0:32:12.760 --> 0:32:13.080 I didn't. 0:32:13.200 --> 0:32:14.920 So then so then I started going back to the 0:32:14.920 --> 0:32:19.520 conversations that we had that we had been having about 0:32:19.960 --> 0:32:23.840 the music and how specific he was he you know, 0:32:23.840 --> 0:32:25.920 when he told me the concept of what he wanted 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:30.080 and what, you know, what what the production was saying 0:32:30.120 --> 0:32:34.240 to him. And then I say and then I'm like, yo, wow, 0:32:35.000 --> 0:32:35.880 this was about him. 0:32:36.120 --> 0:32:37.600 How's your How's I. 0:32:37.560 --> 0:32:39.480 Want to try it? I'm gonna try it right now, guys, 0:32:39.720 --> 0:32:41.160 I'm gonna try it without seasoning. 0:32:41.560 --> 0:32:44.320 I'm going there. Really, you're going there. 0:32:45.720 --> 0:32:48.040 We shouse chicken, Rob it's schuey. 0:32:49.440 --> 0:32:57.080 It was not dry like chicken tender tender. 0:32:57.160 --> 0:33:01.200 Yeah, it's tender. Well, it's chewy, a little bit. 0:33:02.760 --> 0:33:02.880 Chew. 0:33:03.960 --> 0:33:06.320 I wasn't too sure if I could like actually successfully 0:33:06.320 --> 0:33:08.040 bite it, so I shoved the whole thing in. Guys. 0:33:08.440 --> 0:33:12.240 Which one was the cheriochy? This one? This one? 0:33:13.200 --> 0:33:14.640 Yeah, I think that that's. 0:33:15.080 --> 0:33:18.440 Yeah old I tried. I feel like this would go 0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:18.960 really good with. 0:33:19.040 --> 0:33:22.400 Ranch by the way, guys, Yeah, a ranch would do 0:33:24.600 --> 0:33:26.800 me and myself, I'd have to do like a vegan ranch. 0:33:28.120 --> 0:33:32.040 I think that's barbecue. You tried this one? 0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:36.560 Yeah, that's that's barbecue. And that's yeah. 0:33:36.800 --> 0:33:40.120 I'm gonna eat all of these, guys. I don't know 0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:41.880 if I'm hungry or if I just like it. 0:33:42.200 --> 0:33:43.600 I think I think I like it. 0:33:43.640 --> 0:33:44.880 I think I might be onto something. 0:33:44.880 --> 0:33:47.360 Guys, something gonna come in to my house and be like, 0:33:47.360 --> 0:33:48.200 what are you making? I'm making? 0:33:50.280 --> 0:33:55.160 It's banging with the barbecue. Barbecue, that's it. 0:33:55.960 --> 0:34:03.680 Yeah, barbecue is quite better, but the barbecue gives it 0:34:03.720 --> 0:34:04.000 the pop. 0:34:04.800 --> 0:34:08.440 Is there a reason why you chose to cornmeal? Holding? 0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:10.719 I'm gonna eat all of these? Did you? Did you 0:34:10.760 --> 0:34:14.839 have more? But did I? There's more. I don't want 0:34:14.840 --> 0:34:16.839 to be that person that like eats all the food 0:34:16.880 --> 0:34:18.440 and the guy looks up and he's like, wait, did 0:34:18.440 --> 0:34:22.600 you eat it all? That happened to me one time. 0:34:22.600 --> 0:34:24.880 It was really embarrassed, really embarrassed. 0:34:25.800 --> 0:34:28.319 That's really good. Where's my sous where's my shoe chef? 0:34:30.520 --> 0:34:31.800 Yeah? 0:34:32.080 --> 0:34:35.719 I need I need the sour cream and the sour 0:34:35.800 --> 0:34:38.000 cream and cheese out of the out of the fridge. 0:34:39.000 --> 0:34:45.240 Yep, And uh does your team know that you're passionate about. 0:34:45.000 --> 0:34:48.160 Personal Okay, what do you think? I'm here, but. 0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:51.399 I'm saying because I think Tony's gonna murder us. No, 0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:54.280 you gotta be a You're. 0:34:54.120 --> 0:34:55.719 Not gonna even speak that into assistance. 0:34:57.400 --> 0:34:58.280 I feel the pressure. 0:34:59.160 --> 0:35:02.040 I'm gonna eat all of Is there a reason why 0:35:02.040 --> 0:35:04.400 you chose the corn meal holding? 0:35:05.520 --> 0:35:08.439 Yeah, I mean no, no, no, no, no no no, no, no 0:35:08.320 --> 0:35:08.600 no no. 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:13.279 It's like on the table. It's on the table. It 0:35:13.280 --> 0:35:14.279 looks like a little. 0:35:17.239 --> 0:35:19.120 Yeah. 0:35:19.160 --> 0:35:22.680 And what we're gonna do because we're gonna have. 0:35:22.680 --> 0:35:24.719 To don't do this one. 0:35:25.440 --> 0:35:26.120 We're gonna have to. 0:35:26.440 --> 0:35:27.600 I just don't. 0:35:27.440 --> 0:35:32.359 Improvise a bit. Where's my knife? Where's my knife? Myna? 0:35:34.000 --> 0:35:34.480 Oh here? 0:35:34.560 --> 0:35:38.040 Sorry, yes, yeah, you can just sit it right here. 0:35:38.760 --> 0:35:40.360 I need to keep basking this. But is there a 0:35:40.360 --> 0:35:43.080 reason why you keep why you use the corn meal 0:35:43.280 --> 0:35:48.600 outing but the corn meal outside on the and versus 0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:52.600 any other bredding for the mushroom? 0:35:52.800 --> 0:35:56.239 I just like the texture. How do you like it? 0:35:56.360 --> 0:35:58.400 I like the texture? But I was just curious, like 0:35:58.480 --> 0:36:00.840 if it was a flavor thing or was a texture. 0:36:01.040 --> 0:36:02.080 A flavored texture? 0:36:02.280 --> 0:36:04.160 You know, I'm curious if you were to do this 0:36:04.200 --> 0:36:08.080 corn meal outing with a different bread. 0:36:08.160 --> 0:36:10.879 Now, if I'd have had more time, I probably would 0:36:10.960 --> 0:36:15.720 have did a I probably would have did a. 0:36:17.440 --> 0:36:17.800 A U. 0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:22.040 I probably would have fried it and then put it 0:36:22.080 --> 0:36:23.680 in the oven for a little bit too. 0:36:24.280 --> 0:36:28.760 Why just to give it a little more, For a little. 0:36:28.560 --> 0:36:32.440 More, I'm waiting for more. It's good though. 0:36:33.600 --> 0:36:33.799 Yeah. 0:36:33.840 --> 0:36:35.520 So the only reason why I'm saying that is either 0:36:35.800 --> 0:36:40.520 it's like I like the texture, but I feel like 0:36:40.640 --> 0:36:45.880 either mixing it with another breadcrumb or maybe maybe adding 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:49.080 like garlic powder and onion powder or something maybe to it. 0:36:50.120 --> 0:36:53.120 Bro You know the thing is too it's in the 0:36:53.680 --> 0:36:56.320 keys in seasoning. You know you could seizon your flower. 0:36:57.320 --> 0:36:57.560 Yeah. 0:36:57.600 --> 0:37:00.000 So again, you know, it's really about how much time 0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:03.600 you have. No Usually when you're eating broke, you're trying 0:37:03.600 --> 0:37:04.840 to get to somewhere to make some money. 0:37:04.840 --> 0:37:07.399 This is so good. This ain't eating this ain't this 0:37:07.480 --> 0:37:10.680 is this is I'm glad you did this because it's 0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:13.399 teaching all of us that we can eat healthy and 0:37:13.480 --> 0:37:17.480 on a budget, and that being you could also be 0:37:17.640 --> 0:37:18.319 vegan and. 0:37:18.280 --> 0:37:21.440 Also eat on a budget, absolutely. 0:37:21.160 --> 0:37:23.359 Which I never thought. I never knew. But I've been 0:37:23.400 --> 0:37:25.759 watching these new videos that people are like turning like 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:27.920 lion mushroom. Have you ever seen a lion mushom? 0:37:30.000 --> 0:37:30.200 Yeah? 0:37:30.520 --> 0:37:35.480 Yeah, absolutely, you do that. Yeah, absolutely, that was a 0:37:35.520 --> 0:37:40.280 potential actual d the DMV. 0:37:44.280 --> 0:37:45.960 Just come back every day and just show us a 0:37:45.960 --> 0:37:49.799 new vegan lesson. Okay, I mean. 0:37:49.760 --> 0:37:51.319 That that sounds good. It sounds like it's good to 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:51.840 the pilot. 0:37:52.320 --> 0:37:54.320 It's amazing, Like I'm. 0:37:54.200 --> 0:37:56.279 Doing a good job here, ladies, gentlemen. 0:37:56.280 --> 0:37:58.960 What is some things that fans would be shocked to 0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:01.319 know about you side is the fact that you love 0:38:01.360 --> 0:38:04.400 to cook. 0:38:06.000 --> 0:38:08.759 Maybe I guess my love for you know, community and 0:38:08.920 --> 0:38:10.880 just the work that I you know, how passionate I 0:38:10.880 --> 0:38:13.799 am about the community work that I do. And then 0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:15.560 and then and then I guess just you know, just 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:18.600 a passion too for the passion that I have for 0:38:19.719 --> 0:38:25.240 working with you know, uh well community. But it also 0:38:25.480 --> 0:38:27.080 just like the fans, like you know what I mean, 0:38:27.120 --> 0:38:29.480 the meet and greets and just the whole the way 0:38:29.600 --> 0:38:32.920 you know, that exchange it happenings live like something that is. 0:38:32.960 --> 0:38:36.040 Very important, you know, very very important to me. 0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:39.319 Was there anything that happened during your career or life 0:38:39.400 --> 0:38:41.400 that was like a major pivotal moment? 0:38:41.960 --> 0:38:44.279 Yeah, the loss of my dad you know, is going 0:38:44.320 --> 0:38:48.520 on two years and my dad passed and and I 0:38:48.680 --> 0:38:52.680 I can say that it's definitely been, uh been a 0:38:52.680 --> 0:38:56.839 pivot for me, you know, in the sense of, I'm 0:38:56.880 --> 0:39:00.319 gonna kind of do do you do you some thing 0:39:01.000 --> 0:39:04.600 because we're pressed for time and we are eating while 0:39:04.600 --> 0:39:11.040 we're broke. I'm gonna do like a dice. Uh you 0:39:11.080 --> 0:39:13.800 are really like, we're gonna do like you a dice. 0:39:15.400 --> 0:39:16.480 Potatoe. 0:39:16.560 --> 0:39:19.400 We're gonna call it a dice. Uh, it's not mashed 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:21.400 a dice, baked potato. 0:39:21.760 --> 0:39:22.160 You know what I mean. 0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:23.840 Okay, this looks legit. 0:39:24.160 --> 0:39:25.960 Yeah, we call it a Mexican. 0:39:25.560 --> 0:39:29.600 I've never seen anybody do this. Yeah, let's see how 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:31.279 that you're really showing off? 0:39:31.360 --> 0:39:33.480 How that? How that? How that? We'll see how that? 0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:33.840 How that? 0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:37.439 How that does you did? Let's see and uh, let's 0:39:37.440 --> 0:39:40.000 take that off there. So we're gonna burn things? 0:39:40.480 --> 0:39:42.120 Do you have to take those out and burn. 0:39:41.880 --> 0:39:42.439 The house down? 0:39:42.520 --> 0:39:45.239 Stay all right? 0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:49.680 I think we pretty much Tony's gonna be excited because 0:39:49.680 --> 0:39:50.400 we pretty much. 0:39:50.880 --> 0:39:52.880 To hear the rest of pretty much done here about 0:39:52.920 --> 0:39:53.480 your dad? 0:39:54.360 --> 0:39:58.200 Yeah, so so yeah, about that, it's basically where's my 0:39:58.320 --> 0:40:02.000 sour cream? So it's basically like you know, that's a 0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:05.360 when you lose you know, a parent, child, you know, 0:40:06.080 --> 0:40:08.799 a loved one, something. 0:40:10.120 --> 0:40:11.280 Of that magnitude. 0:40:11.680 --> 0:40:15.000 Will you know, it can break your spirit m like completely, 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:17.440 Like you know, some people don't bounce back from from 0:40:17.480 --> 0:40:19.920 situations like that, you know what I mean, like mentally 0:40:20.880 --> 0:40:23.040 you know, just talk about depression and just like all 0:40:23.080 --> 0:40:27.640 the things right, so you know, but for me, it's 0:40:27.640 --> 0:40:30.600 definitely been part of my my pivot one one me 0:40:30.719 --> 0:40:33.319 knowing that you know, that energy is always. 0:40:33.000 --> 0:40:34.040 Around me. 0:40:35.800 --> 0:40:39.400 And just you know, just just just knowing that you know, 0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:41.560 the spirit lives forever. So I feel, I I f 0:40:41.760 --> 0:40:44.400 I I feel my dad and my loved one and 0:40:44.400 --> 0:40:48.080 my ancestors and you know and and all that I do. 0:40:48.080 --> 0:40:50.000 Do you feel like your dad was very proud of you? 0:40:50.040 --> 0:40:50.879 And oh? 0:40:50.920 --> 0:40:52.480 Absolutely absolutely. 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:54.239 I think the the tough the toughest part for me 0:40:54.320 --> 0:40:59.520 is probably having has been having to has been having 0:40:59.560 --> 0:41:16.239 to it's after the show. My dad was the type 0:41:16.239 --> 0:41:20.360 of person. Yeah, my dad would be the person that 0:41:20.400 --> 0:41:23.080 would like call me, you know once the show was 0:41:23.120 --> 0:41:25.040 once the show was done, like you know what I mean, Like, hey, 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:30.600 I was to show the night type vibes you. 0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:33.279 I like the way it looks. But I know what 0:41:33.320 --> 0:41:35.960 that tastes like, right, that's yeah, but they're not. Yeah, 0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:39.399 let's do the thin one that's farthest from the seed. 0:41:39.920 --> 0:41:43.200 Let's do this. I break you, I break you down 0:41:43.239 --> 0:41:46.080 one into like just for the presentation. 0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:52.399 I love how passionate you are about this. What would 0:41:52.440 --> 0:41:56.920 you say your secret ingredient would be to life? Like, 0:41:56.960 --> 0:41:59.840 if you had to say one secret ingredient to life, 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:01.279 what would you say it is? Am I allowed to 0:42:01.280 --> 0:42:01.600 try this? 0:42:01.760 --> 0:42:01.920 Yeah? 0:42:02.000 --> 0:42:05.640 Yeah, that's the dude, he govin. Yeah, I would say 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:16.040 it's my secret ingredient to life. Uh is No, it's 0:42:16.080 --> 0:42:18.000 it's it's you know, it's the I think. I think 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:19.719 it's the art of hustling, you know what I mean, 0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:23.000 like like just you know, it's the art of hustling. 0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:25.680 Understand that you're gonna go out and you gotta get 0:42:25.680 --> 0:42:29.640 out and go go get it. And you know part 0:42:29.719 --> 0:42:33.080 part part of the art of hustling is like it's uh, 0:42:34.080 --> 0:42:37.279 it's it's not only manifestation, but it's about at the 0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:40.080 end of the day, you know, it's about ownership, you know. 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:44.040 And uh, for me, you know, my one of the 0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:50.799 greatest intellectual properties is my is my music, you know, 0:42:51.960 --> 0:42:53.920 so for the so for example, the deal that I 0:42:53.920 --> 0:42:56.359 have with even Diabez and how I'm usializing that new 0:42:56.360 --> 0:42:59.319 platform that's out there for great artists or any any 0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:02.120 artists out there. If you're independent artists, you want to 0:43:02.160 --> 0:43:04.719 make eighty percent of the revenue. You want to go 0:43:04.840 --> 0:43:09.759 from zero point zero three percent streaming wise and have 0:43:09.920 --> 0:43:12.680 exclusiveivity to where to where you can bring your fanship 0:43:12.719 --> 0:43:15.520 to one place and and and and and see your 0:43:15.560 --> 0:43:18.839 and see your streams go from you know, get paid 0:43:18.840 --> 0:43:20.480 off of your streams, you know, a fraction of a 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:23.720 penny versus versus two dollars. I think the two dollars 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:25.400 or a dollar twenty five sounds. 0:43:25.080 --> 0:43:26.560 Good than me on what platform? 0:43:26.880 --> 0:43:29.839 And that's even dot biz e V E N dot 0:43:29.880 --> 0:43:33.160 biz b I Z. And you know, I released the 0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:37.799 Winner of Love project there first, uh, which is which 0:43:37.840 --> 0:43:40.480 is still doing extremely well. And now you know, I'm 0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:43.719 doing side artists deals with with with phenomenal artists like 0:43:43.719 --> 0:43:46.919 the poet Rob Brown who just dropped her project. There's 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:51.040 no place like knowing, you know side. 0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:52.919 What does that mean? 0:43:53.000 --> 0:43:57.239 So that's like Raheem Devon presents. Okay, yeah, yeah, So 0:43:57.239 --> 0:43:59.840 so you know presenting other artists and using my platform 0:44:00.400 --> 0:44:03.640 to you know, uh, to to to to expose my 0:44:03.719 --> 0:44:06.719 fans and music lovers to to new art, you know, 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:11.040 new new poetry, you know, phenomenal poets, musicians, you know. 0:44:11.360 --> 0:44:14.200 You know see this, They're gonna ask, well, how do 0:44:14.239 --> 0:44:16.120 we get our music in front of you so we 0:44:16.120 --> 0:44:17.240 can get on that radar? 0:44:17.320 --> 0:44:19.400 Oh It's so easy. I mean, I'm not I'm not 0:44:19.480 --> 0:44:21.560 hard to find. I would say definitely start with the 0:44:21.600 --> 0:44:26.960 Graham Instagram, Rahiem underscored devon uh official website, Raheem Devon 0:44:27.239 --> 0:44:34.600 Online doc Global. You know, I'm you know, sliding the dms. 0:44:34.640 --> 0:44:37.120 Some of those dms have blockers? Does your How do 0:44:37.200 --> 0:44:38.520 you know if yours does or doesn't? 0:44:38.600 --> 0:44:41.200 Well, I mean one only have one page artist page, 0:44:41.239 --> 0:44:43.160 and and and those and if you know, you know, 0:44:43.200 --> 0:44:46.160 I'm very very engaging, you know. 0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:48.719 On the platform. 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:51.880 So yeah, it's you know, how at me, you know 0:44:51.920 --> 0:44:53.839 what I mean, part of part of, part of, part 0:44:53.880 --> 0:44:56.160 of being an independent artist. And I think a successful 0:44:56.200 --> 0:45:02.320 independent artist is it's uh, it's it's it's it's about 0:45:02.719 --> 0:45:06.160 being accessible to the fans. How how do you like 0:45:06.200 --> 0:45:08.520 your I just want to say, nice baked potato. 0:45:08.320 --> 0:45:10.799 This is the most inappropriate question I will ever ask 0:45:10.840 --> 0:45:11.200 a guest. 0:45:11.239 --> 0:45:11.759 But are you? 0:45:12.000 --> 0:45:15.080 Are you single? And the only reason why I'm saying 0:45:15.080 --> 0:45:18.440 this is, ladies, I'm dating it, Ladies. I gotta say this. Okay, 0:45:19.160 --> 0:45:21.839 I have to say this. This man cooks for you. 0:45:22.640 --> 0:45:23.640 It's the end. 0:45:24.160 --> 0:45:25.000 Why is it? 0:45:25.080 --> 0:45:27.600 What's sweetness? Is it the potato that has this a 0:45:27.600 --> 0:45:28.319 sweet kick to it? 0:45:28.360 --> 0:45:29.359 You got a little sweet kick. 0:45:30.160 --> 0:45:31.040 It's probably the sour. 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:32.120 It's the vegans sour queer. 0:45:33.640 --> 0:45:37.800 Well, Jared, you're back there. I promise you this is 0:45:37.840 --> 0:45:41.160 the best potato you'll ever have in your life. I 0:45:41.239 --> 0:45:44.080 was nervous for you. Put in that concoction of pepper 0:45:44.280 --> 0:45:44.960 that that. 0:45:45.040 --> 0:45:47.080 Is your average baked potato. 0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:52.600 But did that's a that's a that's a dice, slice 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:55.880 and dice mm mm. 0:45:55.920 --> 0:46:02.160 This when's best potato by far. This can win award competition. 0:46:03.320 --> 0:46:04.279 I'm gonna have to come back. 0:46:04.320 --> 0:46:06.319 Are you gonna try it? You're gonna try it? Have 0:46:06.400 --> 0:46:07.080 you had this before? 0:46:07.719 --> 0:46:08.640 I got to have a little bit. 0:46:08.840 --> 0:46:11.640 Let me just tell you something. I'll be honest, the 0:46:11.680 --> 0:46:14.600 best potato I've ever had in my life. And I 0:46:14.640 --> 0:46:16.239 am stealing this recipe for life. 0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:16.560 Guys. 0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:17.760 It's vegan sour cream. 0:46:18.080 --> 0:46:21.799 I be I'll be honest with you, peppers, I'll be 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:24.640 honest with you. I pulled an audible because I know 0:46:24.680 --> 0:46:29.160 that we you know, we got time constraints, so I 0:46:29.160 --> 0:46:30.680 had to be you know, I had to pull audible. 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:34.840 What an audible? I had to pull an audible. I 0:46:34.880 --> 0:46:37.319 had to had to pull up. I had to call 0:46:37.360 --> 0:46:37.800 a play. 0:46:38.840 --> 0:46:40.240 This is the best play of my life. 0:46:41.520 --> 0:46:47.319 Your your your your stove. The electric stove in the 0:46:47.360 --> 0:46:48.640 other room was not being. 0:46:50.560 --> 0:46:52.640 So I had to how long did you bake those 0:46:52.640 --> 0:46:53.120 potatoes for? 0:46:55.719 --> 0:46:57.920 I did the best I could what I had over there, 0:46:58.239 --> 0:46:59.520 and it just stove over there. 0:46:59.560 --> 0:47:02.359 All I know own is that I texted. I told 0:47:02.400 --> 0:47:05.120 him this. I texted the booker while I was driving. 0:47:05.160 --> 0:47:07.000 I was like, I can't believe we forgot some ingredients. 0:47:07.200 --> 0:47:09.640 I'm personally driving to get him, and I texted her 0:47:09.719 --> 0:47:13.720 I said, whoever is dating this man is eating good. 0:47:14.120 --> 0:47:19.600 And then I tried the potato and this is amazing. 0:47:22.120 --> 0:47:23.759 This was amazing because I would have never thought to 0:47:23.800 --> 0:47:33.319 mix cheese with the peppers the way you did. You 0:47:33.360 --> 0:47:36.319 may have to release a cookbook. There's something to go 0:47:36.360 --> 0:47:41.319 out with the albums. You think I'm playing. Is it 0:47:41.360 --> 0:47:42.080 not delicious? 0:47:42.840 --> 0:47:44.600 Okay, hell delicious? 0:47:44.640 --> 0:47:44.719 Right? 0:47:44.840 --> 0:47:47.719 Yeah, it's something different, right, yeah, this is the best 0:47:48.320 --> 0:47:51.080 it is, right? Have you made this at home before? 0:47:52.719 --> 0:47:55.520 It tastes good right in my tripping. 0:47:56.640 --> 0:48:01.759 Now I'm trying to figure out that's maybe No, I didn't. 0:48:01.800 --> 0:48:04.560 I know, I didn't use his plate to cut ginger. Oh, 0:48:04.640 --> 0:48:05.440 I know what it is. 0:48:07.800 --> 0:48:16.560 I used the mints, garlic paste and the ginger paste. 0:48:16.600 --> 0:48:18.280 That's where you get to kick the sweet kick. 0:48:19.680 --> 0:48:21.520 Where in the when you were doing the onion. 0:48:21.680 --> 0:48:26.080 When I marinated the vegetables. So this is a good 0:48:26.160 --> 0:48:27.799 like marinate. It's like kind of like my go to 0:48:28.920 --> 0:48:31.880 so I married, I marinated the vestments and then we 0:48:31.960 --> 0:48:34.160 topped it with, you know, with the topics. 0:48:34.200 --> 0:48:36.000 The bigger I was thinking it was could have it 0:48:36.040 --> 0:48:37.920 could have been that you chose red potatoes. 0:48:38.400 --> 0:48:38.799 Mm hmm. 0:48:39.320 --> 0:48:39.960 That's what it did. 0:48:40.440 --> 0:48:42.640 That's what it is. It is bomb right, that was 0:48:43.280 --> 0:48:43.800 the keys. 0:48:43.800 --> 0:48:47.120 You can't use too much though, you know, ginger can 0:48:47.160 --> 0:48:49.920 be overbearing, you know, garlic ginger. 0:48:50.080 --> 0:48:53.600 Look at the way he's eating at best best, one 0:48:53.600 --> 0:48:56.000 of the best dishes on the show. I'm glad that 0:48:56.080 --> 0:48:57.400 you were passionate. 0:48:57.719 --> 0:48:59.359 Jallapeno in there. You know what I mean. 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:01.920 And you know what this also says about you, is 0:49:01.960 --> 0:49:04.959 that anything that you put your hands to or touch, 0:49:05.239 --> 0:49:07.239 it seems like you go one hundred percent. Because even 0:49:07.360 --> 0:49:09.719 you could have we gave you. I try to give 0:49:09.760 --> 0:49:11.560 you a lot of Hey, you don't have to do 0:49:11.600 --> 0:49:13.279 all this, but I noticed you. We're like, no, if 0:49:13.280 --> 0:49:14.640 I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it. 0:49:15.080 --> 0:49:16.600 No, we gotta do it right. We gotta do it right. 0:49:16.719 --> 0:49:18.320 You gotta do it right. Yes. 0:49:18.680 --> 0:49:21.560 And I had to listen to Bulletproof the whole time 0:49:21.600 --> 0:49:22.480 I was shopping for you. 0:49:23.800 --> 0:49:24.960 Oh, this is amazing. 0:49:25.360 --> 0:49:28.400 I like this, This is amazing. Right, Yeah, it sucks 0:49:28.400 --> 0:49:30.920 because oh because I always try to share some with 0:49:31.040 --> 0:49:32.120 Jared Dark camera guy. 0:49:32.200 --> 0:49:34.720 My slice, So this is gonna be my slice baked potato. 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:38.040 Hands on, Beth, the slice baked potato. 0:49:38.080 --> 0:49:38.680 This was just. 0:49:40.960 --> 0:49:45.080 Whom you ever streuch it too. Yeah, it's the best potato. 0:49:46.000 --> 0:49:49.439 Everything else was great. The potato is the number one 0:49:49.560 --> 0:49:55.319 best potato and the entire three seasons of Eating Wall Broke. Wow, Yeah, 0:49:56.520 --> 0:49:57.280 you're the champion. 0:49:57.600 --> 0:49:58.640 Hear that, guys. 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:02.040 The goat they're gonna try it. You guys are gonna 0:50:02.040 --> 0:50:06.319 try it. Is there any way, any way, your fans 0:50:06.320 --> 0:50:09.160 can keep up with you. I know you mentioned Instagram. 0:50:09.440 --> 0:50:11.000 But we're about to close out, so I want to 0:50:11.040 --> 0:50:13.680 see if I covered everything or if I'm missing anything. 0:50:19.080 --> 0:50:21.080 Once the cameras go down, I'm like wolfing all this 0:50:21.120 --> 0:50:27.520 stuff down. Can you sing us too? Oh? And he 0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:30.160 was singing like a little eating while broke song earlier too, 0:50:31.719 --> 0:50:35.600 you were harmonizing us. You could close out with a song. Look, 0:50:35.640 --> 0:50:36.520 he's trying to swallow. 0:50:36.520 --> 0:50:37.520 I'm sorry you can't. 0:50:37.560 --> 0:50:38.839 You can't eat and sing. 0:50:39.320 --> 0:50:41.160 No, No, people hate when we eat and talk too. 0:50:42.880 --> 0:50:45.359 This has been amazing. Thank you for having me. 0:50:45.960 --> 0:50:53.440 It's been an honor tove to feed your belly and. 0:50:51.719 --> 0:50:54.040 And get our kitchen nights and thirty are set nice 0:50:54.080 --> 0:50:55.880 and thirty. You're like a real cook. Look at that. 0:50:57.200 --> 0:51:00.000 So I want you to I try to make all 0:51:00.080 --> 0:51:03.000 the singers. I think we had Mario Neo now raheen. 0:51:03.920 --> 0:51:05.560 We want you to sing a reminder. 0:51:06.600 --> 0:51:07.320 You all. 0:51:09.120 --> 0:51:10.200 Sing a reminder? 0:51:10.320 --> 0:51:12.440 Yeah, so I have like I had Neil sing like 0:51:12.520 --> 0:51:16.600 a little and Mario sing a little, and we gotta 0:51:16.600 --> 0:51:19.200 have you sing a little. We should do a snipe of. 0:51:19.280 --> 0:51:22.919 Who I gottatch? I gotta wash it wash it down. 0:51:23.200 --> 0:51:25.520 Jesus, it's so good. 0:51:27.600 --> 0:51:29.480 Did you mix it with your smoothie? 0:51:32.760 --> 0:51:35.880 Yeah, it's just a little smoothie backwash. It's not gonna. 0:51:37.200 --> 0:51:39.799 Okay, all right, hate to put you on the spot. 0:51:41.520 --> 0:51:45.200 He was singing earlier in the kitchen when he first 0:51:45.239 --> 0:51:45.560 got here. 0:51:45.640 --> 0:51:48.399 Oh man, they're gonna make my life so complicated. 0:51:50.120 --> 0:51:52.319 I love it. I'm gonna do a thing of like 0:51:52.880 --> 0:51:54.879 you could guess who who sung, who sung? 0:51:55.000 --> 0:51:58.719 What I'm gonna have to do like a food. 0:51:58.440 --> 0:52:01.680 Truck or something you have to I promise those potatoes 0:52:01.680 --> 0:52:03.680 are gonna sell like hotcakes. Hotcakes. 0:52:09.120 --> 0:52:10.640 This is the best apple juice. 0:52:10.920 --> 0:52:13.680 I don't know how you're talking about. The apple juice 0:52:13.680 --> 0:52:15.920 and the potato was the best thing that ever happened 0:52:16.600 --> 0:52:17.640 to anyone's kitchen. 0:52:18.640 --> 0:52:21.319 Mm mmmm. It ain't nothing to lock up. 0:52:21.400 --> 0:52:25.799 One man, one man, one man, strong, one man, one man. 0:52:26.320 --> 0:52:32.400 Well fed woman yep, fed by Raheem, divine kind of woman. 0:52:33.800 --> 0:52:43.800 Well, it has been another wonderful episode of it. Wow, Broke, 0:52:44.400 --> 0:52:47.239 I am Rahem, Divine, the love king of soul and 0:52:47.360 --> 0:52:49.680 R and B. It's been a pleasure to be here. 0:52:49.960 --> 0:53:13.279 Thank you. Peace out y'all for more eating. While Broke 0:53:13.320 --> 0:53:17.040 from iHeartRadio and the Black Effect. Visit the iHeartRadio app, 0:53:17.160 --> 0:53:20.200 Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.