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Speaker 4: You're an entrepreneur. You do a lot of different things,
Speaker 4: but one of the things that you do is you're
Speaker 4: an author. Yes, and you wrote seven books? Seven books?
Speaker 4: All right, so can we talk about that. We haven't
Speaker 4: covered the book industry yet. So what is the process
Speaker 4: of writing a book? Like as far as from the
Speaker 4: do you like, yeah, can you just walk me through that?
Speaker 4: Do you have a ghostwriter?
Speaker 3: Do you? Yeah?
Speaker 4: You actually sit there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna tell you. So.
Speaker 7: When I wrote my first book ten years ago, it
Speaker 7: took me about eight maybe eight nine months to put
Speaker 7: the book out because I literally I had a BlackBerry
Speaker 7: at the time. I literally would like sit in my
Speaker 7: car and like write the book of my BlackBerry. Now
Speaker 7: fast forward, I got done by the book in two months,
Speaker 7: maybe less than that, because technology is the great equalizer
Speaker 7: for everything. And so for me, the way that you
Speaker 7: write a book is, and this is what I would
Speaker 7: suggest to anybody, is to start with the end in mind.
Speaker 7: So before you even write a first chapter or anything,
Speaker 7: understand what is it that you want people to get
Speaker 7: out of this book. And now I need you to say,
Speaker 7: this is the end, this is what I want people
Speaker 7: to get.
Speaker 5: And then now work your way backwards.
Speaker 7: Right, So if I want people to get the financial
Speaker 7: lessons that jay Z taught in four forty four, that's
Speaker 7: the main thing. So when people who are finished, they're
Speaker 7: going to understand how to build generational wealth.
Speaker 5: And so how do I do that? So now go
Speaker 5: backwards and I outline.
Speaker 7: I say, all right, so I'm going to go from
Speaker 7: from self sufficiency to cooperative economics to generational wealth, right,
Speaker 7: and I'm going to break down each of those into chapters.
Speaker 7: Now that I've broken down into chapters, I'm going to
Speaker 7: go to each chapter and I'm going to bullet point
Speaker 7: everything and say these are the main things I want
Speaker 7: to talk about in each different chapter and literally dictate
Speaker 7: the rest.
Speaker 3: Now you didn't did you go to formal school for that?
Speaker 8: You study literature and this is just all all self
Speaker 8: to it.
Speaker 7: So here's what I realized, and this is a great
Speaker 7: message as to you don't necessarily have to listen to
Speaker 7: people because they've done it, or because they have a
Speaker 7: master's or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 5: Do what works for your audience, right.
Speaker 7: And what I realized was when I wrote my first
Speaker 7: book and then I started you know that one did
Speaker 7: pretty well, and then I wrote my second book, which
Speaker 7: is What the Fight Go Twelve Steps of Repairing Your Credit.
Speaker 7: I realized that people liked that book because I wrote
Speaker 7: the way I talked, and my audience didn't care about syntax,
Speaker 7: they didn't care about you know, you know, and I
Speaker 7: don't want to say proper because at the end of
Speaker 7: the day, my goal was to get the message out
Speaker 7: to the people that I needed to get the message.
Speaker 7: And so what I decided to do is like, you
Speaker 7: know what if people are resonated with my writing because
Speaker 7: they like it, you know, I write the way I talk,
Speaker 7: then that's why I started to dictate books. After I
Speaker 7: dictate the book, I then I do some to an
Speaker 7: editor of it, right, because I'm you know, what dictate?
Speaker 4: What does that? What does that mean?
Speaker 7: So like literally I pulled my IF phone out. I
Speaker 7: gotta yeah, I got an MV eighty eight and I
Speaker 7: literally so now I got this outline, right, I have
Speaker 7: this outline. I know each of the chapters or chapter one,
Speaker 7: you know, uh you know, don't spend money on a
Speaker 7: V twelve engine. And so now right, and so now
Speaker 7: I'm literally speaking into my phone as if I was
Speaker 7: teaching it. Right, And so as a public speaker, you know,
Speaker 7: if you tell me right now I need you to
Speaker 7: talk about a topic, I could get on my feet
Speaker 7: and talk about the topic. And so literally I would
Speaker 7: just talk into the microphone and dictate what, you know,
Speaker 7: what I want people to learn from that chapter.
Speaker 5: The great thing about technology is because you have you know,
Speaker 5: you have.
Speaker 7: Uh not as you have services like fiver Right, you
Speaker 7: go to fiver and get somebody to translate, right, to
Speaker 7: transcribe what you just said into the written form. And
Speaker 7: so now you go to fiverr they transcribe it for you.
Speaker 7: Now you have a whole ten pages that you just
Speaker 7: dictated in twenty minutes, literally in twenty minutes because the
Speaker 7: cost for maybe one hundred dollars, maybe two hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: It depends on how you know, how much time right,
Speaker 7: and so you know, you get them to to you know,
Speaker 7: to to transcribe it for you and then that that way,
Speaker 7: Now you have this book written all raw form of
Speaker 7: how you talk. You go through it first though, right,
Speaker 7: you go through it, you make sure it reads right.
Speaker 7: You you know, you may have to do some research,
Speaker 7: like so for me, I had to research certain stories. Right,
Speaker 7: So if I'm talking about you know, owning your rights
Speaker 7: and prints, I had to learn. I had to I
Speaker 7: had to talk about Prince's story and you know he
Speaker 7: didn't have a will, and you know what he wanted
Speaker 7: to do with his things, and I needed to add
Speaker 7: those things. So those pieces you add later, like the
Speaker 7: research and all that stuff you add later. But the
Speaker 7: main topic your knowledge, what you want people to learn.
Speaker 5: You dictate that. You go through the book, and literally
Speaker 5: I think you can.
Speaker 3: You can.
Speaker 5: You can write and publish a book for three months tops.
Speaker 8: And that's been the process from the first second book
Speaker 8: on or No. So I started this process. So I'm
Speaker 8: at I'm at seven books, book four to seven. I've
Speaker 8: dictated so all right, so that's how you actually write
Speaker 8: the book. Now the next step of actually publishing a
Speaker 8: book getting it out there?
Speaker 4: What's that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So publishing the.
Speaker 7: Book is literally going through Amazon, right, and so you
Speaker 7: know Amazon used to have a company called create Space,
Speaker 7: but they all kind of merged it now into their
Speaker 7: their kindle Kindle.
Speaker 3: So if you go to.
Speaker 7: Amazon dot KDP dot com, so it's like Candle Direct
Speaker 7: Publishing is the name of the company. Literally, Uh, you
Speaker 7: would go, So I use five her again, right, so
Speaker 7: I get a book cover done?
Speaker 4: So can you playing with five? I just heard that
Speaker 4: company book? Can you explain?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So Fiver is a marketplace for any service that
Speaker 7: you need. Graphic designers, uh, anything you need, you need freelance, yeah,
Speaker 7: freelance people, right, and so the great thing about Fiver
Speaker 7: is that Fiver has freelancers from all over the world.
Speaker 7: And so in someone in Indonesia who is a graphic
Speaker 7: designer is not going to charge you one thousand dollars
Speaker 7: for a book cover. They're literally going to charge you
Speaker 7: ten to fifteen dollars or twenty dollars or thirty dollars.
Speaker 5: Something that we look at all this is nothing but
Speaker 5: for them.
Speaker 7: You know, they're cost of living is so low, so
Speaker 7: that's a lot of money for them, right, And so
Speaker 7: I use fiver to create you know, I use a
Speaker 7: graphic designer on Fiver. I literally never paid more than
Speaker 7: fifty dollars for a book cover after I use fiver
Speaker 7: and my book cover is. If you go to Amazon
Speaker 7: right now, you look at all of my book covers,
Speaker 7: they all look professional. They're all done, you know, with
Speaker 7: top quality. But I'm paying fifty dollars for that. You
Speaker 7: also can go to fiver right. So once you are
Speaker 7: you finished writing a book, you get somebody to edit
Speaker 7: the book for you. There's a layout design, right, so
Speaker 7: when you look at the book, the book has to
Speaker 7: be laid out somewhow.
Speaker 5: I use five for that as well. I go to fiver. Wait,
Speaker 5: hold on me, stop giving them plug.
Speaker 4: Cut the check five cut.
Speaker 7: So you can go to any but but but you know,
Speaker 7: like you could, you could literally, you know, get somebody
Speaker 7: to design the inside of the book for you as well.
Speaker 7: And that's how you get the professional look, right. And
Speaker 7: so once you have your cover, your cover file, you
Speaker 7: have your your inside file. You then upload that to
Speaker 7: Kindle Direct Publishing and there's a couple of things that
Speaker 7: that that happens with that right number One, Once you uploaded,
Speaker 7: you write, you know, you you put your title in,
Speaker 7: you put the subtitle, you put your name, your bio,
Speaker 7: you put all that stuff in, and that's how it's
Speaker 7: going to be populated into Amazon dot com and ready
Speaker 7: for sale.
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Speaker 7: The only sort of caveat to that is that Kindle
Speaker 7: Direct Publishing will give you an ISBN number, right, and
Speaker 7: so your ISBN number is your is the book where
Speaker 7: people search the book as your barcode. And so if
Speaker 7: you go through Amazon to get an ISBN number, when
Speaker 7: you go to Amazon, is going to show Amazon is
Speaker 7: going to say you independently published this book, right, Or
Speaker 7: you can buy your own ISBN number, which is if
Speaker 7: you go to Balkers. So Balkers is the company that
Speaker 7: offers ISBN numbers and that's what identifies your book. If
Speaker 7: you go to buy Bokers, and I think the website
Speaker 7: is my identifiers dot com, you can actually buy your
Speaker 7: own ISBN number.
Speaker 5: Why is that important? Right?
Speaker 7: It's important because for me as a speaker, as somebody
Speaker 7: who you know, my books are are how I teach
Speaker 7: the people.
Speaker 5: But it also is a way like a resume that
Speaker 5: lets me in so.
Speaker 7: People could book me for speaking engagements, people book me
Speaker 7: for media, you know, media opportunities, things of that nature,
Speaker 7: which give me more visibility to sell more books. For
Speaker 7: some reason, there's still this negative taboo on self published
Speaker 7: office and so if I use Amazon to to give
Speaker 7: me my is number, it's gonna show that I'm independently
Speaker 7: published and people are not gonna take me as serious.
Speaker 5: Serious.
Speaker 7: So what I do is I go to Boukers, and
Speaker 7: I buy my own I VN number under my own
Speaker 7: company called One Brick Publishing, right, so all of my
Speaker 7: books have been distributed under One Brick Publishing. The reason
Speaker 7: why it's One Brick Publishing and it's not ash Cash
Speaker 7: Publishing is because I want you to I don't want.
Speaker 4: You to be like, oh, Ash Cash, the same guy.
Speaker 4: You know, it looks better if it's a bigger exactly.
Speaker 5: So now people are like, yoke Ernest, what's up.
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Speaker 5: I literally get people to hit me like joke.
Speaker 7: Can you connect with one brick publisher back the sound
Speaker 7: dope And honestly, you know what one brick publishing is
Speaker 7: because back in the days, I used to move those bricks.
Speaker 3: One brick publisher, one brick out of time.
Speaker 5: That's where that's where, That's where I got it from.
Speaker 7: Actually, I was watching a Will Smith story, and will
Speaker 7: Smith was giving his example about how him and his
Speaker 7: brother got you know, his pops tore down his wall
Speaker 7: and told him to rebuild the wall. And they were
Speaker 7: looking like, yoha, I'm gonna rebuild the wall. They said, Yo,
Speaker 7: build it one brick at a time. As you make
Speaker 7: sure that this is the best brick possible, then you'll
Speaker 7: have a good wall. Was like, oh, that's a dope story.
Speaker 7: Then that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna build a
Speaker 7: publishing company one brick at a time. And so now
Speaker 7: when you look at my books, they're all published by
Speaker 7: one brick. And the reason why that's important because now
Speaker 7: when people are looking for somebody, looking for experts and
Speaker 7: looking for people, uh, they're gonna see everything.
Speaker 5: You know, everything's professional.
Speaker 7: It gives this you know, illusion that you're signed to
Speaker 7: a publishing house and and people take you more serious
Speaker 7: from that.
Speaker 4: Now that's dope. Before I just want to see you're
Speaker 4: early legion.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 4: We give it a lot of fact game like, yo, honestly,
Speaker 4: we might have to start charging myself. It's a little different.
Speaker 4: It's getting crazy.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. So you have you haven't done an audio
Speaker 3: book yet, right.
Speaker 5: Book?
Speaker 8: So is it the same process? Like, so if you
Speaker 8: do it through I'm not gonna say the companies yet, right,
Speaker 8: you send it to an editor.
Speaker 3: Now they tell you what you need to say and
Speaker 3: you do it through the audio.
Speaker 7: So so so when I do the audios, and that
Speaker 7: was that was another thing, right, I was like, so
Speaker 7: I make I make a living off a book, so
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. And what I realized was
Speaker 7: that you know, and it happened and I went backwards
Speaker 7: because when I put out the j book, the four
Speaker 7: forty four book, I had uber.
Speaker 5: Drivers like yo, bro, I need this book, but I'm
Speaker 5: in my uber all.
Speaker 7: Day and I'm like, oh, and so I kept forgetting
Speaker 7: about a market of people who either drive who don't
Speaker 7: have that's.
Speaker 5: Like me, or not pick up a physical book.
Speaker 7: And so literally like fashot out the garage band, like
Speaker 7: I literally recorded my audio books right right, I'm saying,
Speaker 7: like I literally you know what I'm saying, like like
Speaker 7: recording my books on garage band once to you, and
Speaker 7: I like, I read the book. So I'm literally like
Speaker 7: reading the book once it's done, even if I mess
Speaker 7: up with whatever the case may be. To get get
Speaker 7: everything right, I send it to somebody on on that
Speaker 7: company again, and you can look.
Speaker 5: For you know, you know, audio edit to whatever the
Speaker 5: case may be.
Speaker 7: They edited. They even take out the dead air, so
Speaker 7: like like sometimes if that doesn't sound right and there's
Speaker 7: dead air, and they take they like they edited compress it.
Speaker 7: I mean you you know you listen to it. A freelance, right, yeah,
Speaker 7: all freelance. So yeah, all these people are freelance. And
Speaker 7: then there's a company called a c X. It's all
Speaker 7: owned by Amazon. Amazon run things.
Speaker 5: So yeah, they run things. So a c X right,
Speaker 5: A a c X dot com.
Speaker 7: Uh, if you go to them, now, you upload your file,
Speaker 7: you put the title and all that stuff, and then
Speaker 7: they distribute the book to audible dot com and iTunes.
Speaker 7: And so now if you look look for my book
Speaker 7: on audio, you'll see it on Audible, You'll see it
Speaker 7: on iTunes.
Speaker 5: And that's how how I do audio books.
Speaker 4: They do it for free.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So so the so the thing about Amazon and a
Speaker 7: c X and on these people, it's print on demand, right,
Speaker 7: which means that it's all consignment. So it's not like
Speaker 7: you don't have to pay anything. They just take a
Speaker 7: percentage of what's being sold.
Speaker 4: I was gonna ask you that because somebody else try
Speaker 4: my man, I M P.
Speaker 1: O P.
Speaker 4: Steve. Yeah, he wrote a book and that's my guy too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And he was saying that like you said, because
Speaker 4: I was asking him, like, what if you have like
Speaker 4: a thousand books and they're not selling. He was like, well,
Speaker 4: they only print the books right as you want it.
Speaker 4: If you go into a show, you can have like
Speaker 4: one hundred books, but until then it's ordered, and then
Speaker 4: when they actually order it, then they'll print it. Can
Speaker 4: you explain that product? Yeah?
Speaker 7: So it's the dopest thing. And that's why I think.
Speaker 7: And it's two different business models, right. I'm not of
Speaker 7: the thinking that one is better than the other. Do
Speaker 7: what works for you, right, because we all know Eric Thomas,
Speaker 7: the hip hop preacher, when he came out with his book,
Speaker 7: he did not put it on Amazon, right, He sold
Speaker 7: them straight out his garage.
Speaker 5: He did all that, right. And you know, obviously you
Speaker 5: keep the lion Shire.
Speaker 7: But if you have the capital upfront to do that,
Speaker 7: to buy the books and do all that stuff, then
Speaker 7: that's fine. Or if you have the you know, if
Speaker 7: people are reaching out to you, right, you have the demand,
Speaker 7: then that makes sense. But if somebody's just starting out,
Speaker 7: I literally write like I can literally put out a
Speaker 7: book for less than five hundred dollars, right, because all
Speaker 7: I'm telling you is that all I mean is the
Speaker 7: person to do to cover for me. I need an editor,
Speaker 7: and I need somebody to do the design for me.
Speaker 7: And then now I have the book out, what happens
Speaker 7: is I set the price. Right, So let's say I
Speaker 7: want I want to charge you know, I want to
Speaker 7: charge fourteen ninety nine for my books. I put it
Speaker 7: out on Amazon for fourteen ninety nine and so so
Speaker 7: so I don't have to pay anything at all. Every
Speaker 7: time somebody orders a book Amazon, they take care of
Speaker 7: the printing and so they minus the printing cost. And
Speaker 7: so you know a book like this, you know it's
Speaker 7: probably probably cost you about two dollars and fifty cents
Speaker 7: to print, and so they take out that two dollars
Speaker 7: and fifty cent from that fourteen ninety nine, and then
Speaker 7: just to have put it on their platform, they might
Speaker 7: take twenty to forty percent of that and then you
Speaker 7: get the difference. And so that's how it works, where
Speaker 7: you could sell a thousand books, but you don't ever
Speaker 7: have to worry about keeping you know, you know, inventory
Speaker 7: in your trunk or anything like that.
Speaker 5: I mean for me as a speaker. And that's the
Speaker 5: great thing about it too, is.
Speaker 7: That you know, when I when when people buy books
Speaker 7: on Amazon, I get I get a check from them
Speaker 7: each month right at the end of the month.
Speaker 5: But when I do speaking engagements, I'm not, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm I'm ordering my books from them. And think about it.
Speaker 7: If I print out this book and it cost me
Speaker 7: two dollars and fifty cent, I'm selling to you hand
Speaker 7: in hand ten dollars. So I'm still making seven dollars
Speaker 7: and fifty cent and I had to put up no,
Speaker 7: you know, like I had to put up the two
Speaker 7: fifty up front to get it. But I already know
Speaker 7: I'm about to go to the speaking engagement or you know,
Speaker 7: I'm about to speak at the school and the school
Speaker 7: wants X amount of copies. And so it's really a
Speaker 7: low overhead way to make money by not having to
Speaker 7: keep that keep a lot of a lot of the
Speaker 7: revenue or inventory in your trump, you know, in your garage.
Speaker 7: Because I remember my first book, like those books were
Speaker 7: collecting dusk. I was like, hYP you know, I put
Speaker 7: the money out of run. I'm gonna get a thousand copies.
Speaker 7: I'm thinking that they're gonna sell out, and I'm gonna
Speaker 7: sit in there and look at these like blawing duff
Speaker 7: off of them.
Speaker 3: You know what we got? We got.
Speaker 8: I mean it's pretty similar to us. Like a lot
Speaker 8: of times we go places and people ask it's like, yo,
Speaker 8: can I get a shirt?
Speaker 3: A shirt?
Speaker 8: And we're like, well, we were gonna carry the shirts, right,
Speaker 8: we got a copy that you order them online, you
Speaker 8: go to our website, you can get them. We don't
Speaker 8: walk around with inventory, right because, like who wants to
Speaker 8: be stuck with exact five hundred s exactly and right exactly,
Speaker 8: putting out that upfront capital and then having to wait
Speaker 8: or hustle your way to get rid of that inventory,
Speaker 8: opposed to just saying, you know what, if the demand
Speaker 8: is there, let me put it out there.
Speaker 7: And if if the demand is there, it's a win
Speaker 7: win for everybody. And that's why I like that that
Speaker 7: business model.
Speaker 4: And all right, so for independent authors, how does that work?
Speaker 4: As far as different, Like if you signed to a
Speaker 4: major public kit like Simon and Schuster that time, Like
Speaker 4: it's like I think Charlamage because he actually Chearlamagne. He
Speaker 4: spoke about that where he signed to parliament. Shuster and
Speaker 4: he did the book Black Privilege. Then think he did
Speaker 4: another book, yeah, and he was saying he was like,
Speaker 4: you know what, I should have just did this myself
Speaker 4: and killed it. So like, what's the like, is it
Speaker 4: like a record deal? Like they take exactly?
Speaker 5: Is exactly like it?
Speaker 7: Is it exactly like a record deal? So so pretty
Speaker 7: much it's exactly like a record pretty much. Simon and
Speaker 7: Schuster says, oh you hot, right now, all right, I'm
Speaker 7: gonna put out this book and I'm gonna give you
Speaker 7: points off the book, right, and so if I sell
Speaker 7: the book for ten dollars, I'll give you a dollar,
Speaker 7: like and then numbers are like it's so archaic, like
Speaker 7: their numbers are probably steal that. Right, If they sell
Speaker 7: a book for ten dollars, you probably still only get
Speaker 7: one dollar off of every book you sell.
Speaker 5: Right, he has two number one best sellers exactly, And.
Speaker 7: So what happens is, you know they they they definitely
Speaker 7: gave him an advance because of who he is, right,
Speaker 7: So what happens is they but they give him this advance.
Speaker 7: They say here's this money up front, and then whatever
Speaker 7: we sell you get, you know, like we deduct that
Speaker 7: from the advance and you'll you'll get royalties forever. Right,
Speaker 7: You'll get a dollar off of every book you sell forever.
Speaker 7: But who gets that nine dollars?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: It's Simon and Schuster.
Speaker 7: He's a big enough name that if he self published
Speaker 7: the book himself, he would have kept the line share
Speaker 7: of that. And that's why I love being a self
Speaker 7: published author, right, because that's exactly that. When I first
Speaker 7: wrote my book, I knew that I have direct access
Speaker 7: to my consumer through Twitter, and then Instagram came and
Speaker 7: then Facebook to the point and I'm not even done yet,
Speaker 7: Like I haven't even hit the height of where I
Speaker 7: know I'll be. But imagine that, right the moment where
Speaker 7: millions of people know that Ash Cash chiefes Financial Education,
Speaker 7: and people say, wow, he got these books. I want
Speaker 7: to learn about credit?
Speaker 5: Where can I go? I want to learn about this?
Speaker 5: And they go and get all these books. I eat
Speaker 5: off that forever. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But the intellectual probably, and like you said too off camera,
Speaker 4: is like that's something that stays, that's a catalyg like music.
Speaker 4: So we talk about, like evenh Nipsey. A lot of
Speaker 4: people just got up on Nipsey last year with his
Speaker 4: last album, but he had a Body of Work mixtape
Speaker 4: before that. So when they heard Victory Lap, they were
Speaker 4: so impressed with it, and it's like, Okay, let me
Speaker 4: go back to pulletaink got no names on it and
Speaker 4: all the other stuff that he did early on, but
Speaker 4: you already have that music sitting. Even Chris Gotti said
Speaker 4: that on our interview with him, when he was like,
Speaker 4: once the music is dead, it should be there for ever,
Speaker 4: right because DMX is still gonna make money if somebody
Speaker 4: buys It's dark and hell, it's hot Jacket. It came
Speaker 4: out fifteen years exactly.
Speaker 8: It's like they had the Wall Street Jonna actually published
Speaker 8: this article on Slick Rick and how a lot of
Speaker 8: that he is the most sample song in the history
Speaker 8: of hip hop and he still.
Speaker 3: Makes money over it, but not as much as she
Speaker 3: could have. Right, he still is you know.
Speaker 7: YO, think about this and I think I wouldn't say
Speaker 7: I wrote it in the four forty four book. I
Speaker 7: talked about Whitney Houston right when Bodyguard came out. I
Speaker 7: Will Always Love You her biggest record ever. Dolly Parton
Speaker 7: wrote it. Yeah, she made the least amount of money
Speaker 7: from it. Whitney used to make the least amount of
Speaker 7: money from.
Speaker 4: It, Dolly Partner. It's a sample. She wrote her song.
Speaker 5: It is her song.
Speaker 8: It's her song. I think she actually performed it before too.
Speaker 8: It's a remake and remake up the song, right and
Speaker 8: so she so, so you know now Whitney Houston, you know,
Speaker 8: crossed over. She has this movie with Kevin Costner and
Speaker 8: all these people are like, oh my god, I will
Speaker 8: always love you.
Speaker 5: I think I think it's so forty two.
Speaker 8: Million, they're crazy number. And she had, I mean, thankfully
Speaker 8: for her. She had like three other number ones off
Speaker 8: that soundtrack, but the biggest.
Speaker 3: One was you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: So and so the point is, as as the Honorable
Speaker 7: Sean Carter says, until you right, until you own your own,
Speaker 7: you can't be free. It's about it's about ownership. And
Speaker 7: you know, again, you have to believe in yourself right.
Speaker 7: And a lot of times people are gonna say, yo,
Speaker 7: you know what, I'm gonna take it. I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: sometimes people will sell their intellectual property because they want
Speaker 7: to put it in the door. They want to do
Speaker 7: certain things. But if you believe that your information is gold.
Speaker 7: If you believe or if somebody else believes, and they're
Speaker 7: willing to pay you for it, sometimes waiting it out right,
Speaker 7: like master p said, Master people was like yo, they
Speaker 7: when once they.
Speaker 5: Offered me a million dollars, I realized, I knew you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. And so because of that, he
Speaker 5: held out and that's why he made so much money.
Speaker 5: And so we have to be of that mindset.
Speaker 7: And that's what you know, I like to teach, and
Speaker 7: that's what we're teaching is ownership is key because that
Speaker 7: that is that is your you know, that's your income,
Speaker 7: that's your legacy.
Speaker 5: That's what you could pass down.
Speaker 7: You can't pass right, all right, great, if you get
Speaker 7: this royal from another company them like they were not.
Speaker 7: They did not write the book, they did not, they
Speaker 7: did not write the verse. Why are they getting the
Speaker 7: most of it? Why? Why why am I signed to you?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 7: Yes, if you have the distribution channel, then we should partner,
Speaker 7: we should make money together.
Speaker 5: But why am I on again ten percent?
Speaker 7: And and yeah, you got casts associated with it, but
Speaker 7: you're still making more than me and it's my name,
Speaker 7: my likeness, my information, my music, my whatever, and now
Speaker 7: you're you're able to profit the most of it.
Speaker 5: It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: Gems him right there.
Speaker 6: My graduates from my school being forced back. Drop drop, Mike,
Speaker 6: drop bad drop.
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