WEBVTT - Rick Ross 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.680 Hello, Welcome to another edition of Club Shasha. I am 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.400 your host, also the proprietor of Club Shasha and the 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.720 guy that's coming by for a drinking conversation to day. Wow. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.760 I got a good one, guys, and he really doesn't 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.080 need any introduction, but I'm gonna introduce him anyway. Grammy 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:18.920 nominated rapper, multi platinum songwriter, New York Times bestselling author, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.640 record labor executive, the biggest boss in the game. You 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:27.840 know him, Miss Rose Rinsel Rick Ross, all my life, 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:33.239 the grinding, all my life, sacrifice, hustle back price one slice, 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.000 got the Broner dice to swap all my life. I've 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.200 been grinding all my life, all my life, the grinding, 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:44.320 all my life, sacrifice, hustle back price one slice, got 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.800 the BA dice to swap all my life. I've been 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:51.839 grinding all my life. Mister three h five hill, my 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:56.240 yae yo, what dude? Who man? I'm mapp you could 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.880 be here, my brother. You've been shining in a long time, 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.440 and I'm mapp you can come with you. Bro, I 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.440 really appreciate this. I'm gonna ross. I'm gonna be all 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.080 over the place. I'm not going to any particular direction, 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.280 but I'm gonna be all over the place, so just 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.280 bear with me. And like I said, thank you, thank you, 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.759 thank you for stopping by giving me a few moments 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.920 of your time. Man, I'm with you. Let's go, let's 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.000 do it. Let's first, I want to thank you for 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.400 turning out the vote in Georgia because for the first 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.400 time Georgia went for a blue press, a democratic president, 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.280 first time since ninety two. We got a Democratic center, 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.840 first time in two decades. And you and t I 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:41.720 and Luda Keisha last bottom, Stacy Abrams, uh Latortia Brown, 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.000 you guys turned up, showed up, showed up. So I 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.000 want to thank you for that from the bottom of 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.120 by heart. Well you know that's what I appreciate it. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.080 And I'm gonna just let you know me being who 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.720 I am and in a position I am, it's always 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.560 about my people, know what I mean. I'm going with 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.600 the voice of the people, and that's what they wanted, 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.440 so that's what we had to do. Also, can't leave 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.840 by Killer Mike, because you know he's always been boots 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.840 to the ground trying to do the right thing by 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.200 by the people in Georgia, especially the African American community 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.920 and the minority. So Killer Mike can't forget you, bro 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:18.320 without a doubt. Rick, Let's start with your business ventures. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.680 You got you, You got a lot of irons in 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.000 the fire. You got wing stops. I think you have 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.359 over twenty five wing stops, checkers, you have your own 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.960 strand of marijuana cookies, Uh, you got the way of 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:34.240 the Waves or collab with d Wade? What made you 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:38.320 decide to get involved in so many different businesses basically 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.640 right away? Honestly because it felt natural to me. It 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.920 didn't really feel like no work. Right. If you notice 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.359 everything that I ventured with uh, I made a partnership 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.960 with it was something that came naturally to me or 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.520 something that I possibly was already doing, just wasn't doing 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.079 it the right way right in the first opportunity I got, 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.480 Why line myself up with some of the greatest in 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.359 the business. When you speak of cookies, cookies and Burner, 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.919 that's number one in the business. You speak of my 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.280 my sneaker partnership with d Wade, that's number one in 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.560 Miami and worldwide. But just d Wade when he brought 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.160 to my city worldwide is where as well as the 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.519 bad app, the Bumboo, rum My Jet Dot, the health app. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.440 Everything that I'm doing is really coming natural to me, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.799 So it's nothing I have to go out my way 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.760 to represent a dude during the day. So you were 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.320 in the game doing some things that probably wasn't on 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.960 the up and up. So you already had from a standpoint, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.320 you already understood how business was supposed to operate correct 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.480 most definitely, without a doubt. I understood you gotta you 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.119 gotta step out here and take again. So I think 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.400 that's the biggest thing Roth because a lot of people 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.600 are afraid of failure, and I think if you're afraid 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.520 of failure, you're never gonna succeed because you're afraid to 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.080 take that step because you're like, man, I might fall, 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.920 well climbing to the top. You will fall. You gonna fall, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.119 But you gotta get back up, dush your knees off, 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.960 make sure your shirt looking good, and get right back 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.920 on the track because you will fall. That's what comes 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.680 with the game except that. But just make sure when 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.440 you get back up you learn from that and you 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.480 don't fall back in the same place. Ross. I heard something. 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.280 I heard you say something about when you did your 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.039 businesses and what you did for your family, you say 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.280 that you put them on so therefore you don't have 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.440 to constantly come out of your pocket and give them money. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.520 You gave them an avenue so they can do their 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.080 own thing right, most definitely. And that go for my 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.720 my little ones as well. I'm teaching my younger ones. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.560 You gotta put yourself in a position where you can 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.719 decide your income. You can make as much as you want, 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.239 versus just waiting for you know me. And that started, 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.240 of course with my family, my immediate family. And I 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.400 was blessed to have a mother that was highly intelligent. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.600 She had made degrees in so many different things, as 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.360 well as my sister. Now, okay, let's put all those 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.880 skills to use and let's turn up. And that's what 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.600 we did. I empowered my mom with the empire of 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.080 my sister. She's doing her own thing and we all 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.560 win it. Well, Ross, you have a very small family. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.680 But as you start to branch out, how did you 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.680 abhorid the jealousy? How did you abhorid you the family members? Like? Ross? 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:24.120 You got it? Let me get it? Well, you know, uh, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.919 I think for one of the person I am and 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.680 the person I was before I got paper. It was 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.839 always about honor. It wasn't necessarily about the money. You 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.359 could have been my my big cousin and the family 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.120 who went to the league, and we wouldn't eroded you 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.960 like that because that's just how my family was. It 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.920 ain't really about the you know, it's about going fishing 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.480 on the weekend and all that. So you just gotta 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.400 if if I feel like a person is weak, if 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.000 they just succumbed the jealousy, you gotta exclude them about 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.560 the equation, right, and you can't even think twice about that. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.000 But sometimes ross you don't know that us until you 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.560 get something for them to be jealous about. See, if 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.160 you still on their level, there is no jealousy because 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.560 you right where they are. It's when you start to 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.880 move without them, that's without of doubt. And that's something 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:13.800 that you just gonna have to learn as you go. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.000 But that's something you can expect and uh, you ain't 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.160 necessarily got to anticipate it, but expect it. So when 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.479 they present itself to you, you deal with it and 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.800 keep going. Was it hard to say no because a 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.719 lot of you see obviously talked to I know a 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.200 lot of athletes and from myself. It's sometimes it's hard 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.640 to say no because you know, you get that boy, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.839 I change your diapers. Boy, you remember that time I 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.680 took you to the story about those shoes? Man, you 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.599 remember I bought you the pack of cooking that guilt 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.920 trip you or it's half five hunter, leave me alone? 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.760 How do you say no? Ros I don't I don't. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.000 You know, I make sure I was always in a 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.680 position where I showed love. Right, it wasn't really necessarily 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.760 my move if he was playing chess, right, I'm I'm 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.120 always a player head. And so if you come you know, 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.440 if it comes to a time where you feel like 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.760 you gotta say no, don't even think twice about it. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:09.400 Follow your heart. What was the very first business you 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:15.400 ever started? Be illegal or illegal? Oh? Man? Man, you 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.920 know it's I didn't tried too many different things. Man. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.240 I always considered myself to be a boss. I was 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.120 always willing to start at the bottom, you know, like 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.240 I like I say. I started working at a car 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.920 wash at thirteen from eight in the morning at eight 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.840 pm on the weekends. I made thirty dollars plus tips. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.800 You know, but in a month or two I knew 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.000 how to if you was a big dope boy, I 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.560 knew how to go feel your car for you. I 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.200 had your CDs organized, your cassettes organized for you. I 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.560 got back, you know, so I went out the way 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.960 and that just applied that everything I did, I'm gonna 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.760 go a little further than maybe the next person did. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.160 Ross always tell when I talked to kids, I say, look, 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.760 experience a lot of different things, have a lot of 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.360 differ for jobs, because what you do as a child 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:03.880 will let you know what you don't want to do 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.640 as an adult. See, when I did businesses, I knew 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.400 what I didn't want to do. But Roth, unlike you, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.680 I don't know if I really ever truly said, you 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.560 know what, I want to be the CEO. I want 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.640 to be a boss. I might you know what made 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.120 you say, you know what, Working for somebody's cool, But 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.280 if I wanted to have people working with me, that 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.800 would be even doper. Oh man, I knew that once 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:30.400 I started working at the car wash. You wash, Yeah, 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.600 when I was working at the car wash, because once 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.280 you you you. Once I started working at the car wash, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.400 I realized how to boss. It's certain, dudes, it's certain 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.040 clients that are pulling the ones who pulled in in 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.679 them big lexus is that's before we even knew how 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:50.000 to pronounce lexus right the laser. You know what I'm saying. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.880 When they pulled in, he picked certain people to wash 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.600 those cars, the ones who got the biggest tips. Right. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.640 So by me being one of your to the youngest 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.720 out there the car wash at the gas station, Oh man, 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.240 I'm you know, I'm they sending me to the Toyota sellacus. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.679 Well you know, they got them two dollar tips. But 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.920 I'm gonna still lock them in too and make sure 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.200 when mom come back next week, she gonna request me too. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.080 But I'm trying to work my way up to the top. Right, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.599 So what was your first loss in business that you 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.000 was like, Okay, that was a mistake talking that went 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.840 up to the game. I'm gonna learn from that. You know, 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.040 possibly when I started cutting grass with some of the 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.880 dudes in the neighborhood, I don't went out and cut grass. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.360 I remember, you know, they was a it was a 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:44.040 successful lawn service, you know, two three blocks over from him. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.600 They had them three four big trucks. You know what 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.319 I'm saying. It was one of them type of situations. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:53.920 So I'm like, yo, okay, I want to go work 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.960 with y'all. You know what I mean? They like, ween, Sure, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.000 we'll let you know when we need you. You know, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.040 they they'll put you on that waiting list. I'm I 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.520 waited a month and when they finally told me, come on, 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.000 you could come get on the truck tomorrow morning, I 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.000 forgot the ass how much I was getting paid. Oh, 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:15.240 they did a number on your hug. What they worked 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:19.640 this shit out of rows day. Man, they worked this 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.719 shit out of me that Saturday, that Sunday, and they 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.000 paid me the following week. Right. Oh, when I got 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:31.080 that envelope, that envelope was so thin. I couldn't execute 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.520 none of them plans I had. But that made me say, 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.360 you know what. I was young too, and I said, 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.559 before you do anything else, you gotta make it clear 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.880 how much they gonna get you. What's the pay, what's 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.960 the hours? Oh that's mandatory, because definitely that that was 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.400 mandatory at a young age, because I see what it's like, 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.600 because I went out of sacrifice. Man, I was so tired. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.960 I'm talking about I went home, ain't even play Nintendo, 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.720 and I got you know, what I'm saying, I laid 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.560 straight out that's two days in the row. Waited a 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.920 whole another week to get that check. Man, I might 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.200 have got fifteen up. They definitely caught you slipping ross 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:09.840 because you know, when you're doing a job like that, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.160 you're supposed to get paid after the job. That ain't 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:17.240 supposed to carry over the whole week. I want That's 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.920 what I said. They took advantage of young Rothers day. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.800 But you but that was valuable teaching. So now when 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.960 you go in the business, whether it be a building 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.640 or you're trying to get a building, or you're trying 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.959 to start something. Okay, what what are we doing here? Now? 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.959 So this is the price, and this is the size 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.880 of the building, and this is this, and this is that. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.760 So you learn from that experience I did. And now 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.000 when I go and sit down and meetings, the first 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.920 thing I let him know is what excites me? Right, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.280 And nine times out of ten it's a dollar figure. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.520 If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense. Oh man, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.880 I just what you know. We may be able to 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.200 work something out, but I gotta be clear, make it clear. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.000 This is what excites Rose. As soon as I say 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.360 that number, it's like a bot go off in the 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:13.040 COMFITTI falls. That's your question, because don't you want me excited? Yea, 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.080 they want they're battle. They had you there for me 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.760 for a reason, you feel me. Have you ever thrown 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.800 out a number and they say, well, mister Ross, we 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.560 appreciate your service and we appreciate you taking the time. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:30.640 But that's not where we are right yet. Yeah, I 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.360 didn't throw a number out several times, you know what 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.520 I mean? Sometimes and then came back around. A matter 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.640 of fact, is a lot of times we come back 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.520 around and we connect, and a lot of times I 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.960 may I'm threw a number out there before they moved 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.160 a little slow and I went up on the number. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.040 Oh well okay, and they met me there. I actually 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:58.000 had a film that was filmed that in my state, right, 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.679 and I threw a number out there. I say, this 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.559 is a huge production. This shouldn't be much. Hey, I 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:10.400 understand what you guys need. That's two point five ms. Yeah, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.280 two point five million, Yeah, most definitely, that's it. Oh 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.760 and it's low walking. Oh yeah, they moved a little slow. Okay, 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.200 so you pick the pay us up. So you picked 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.720 the pay us up on them. It made him catch up. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.160 It made him catch up. For you, Oh man, if 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.160 we tapped down at two point seventy five, baby, Okay, 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.640 you'll see, I see. If you ran from the beginning, 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.079 you'd say it's a quarter meal. It's just like it's 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.960 just like it's just like playing chess. You gotta make 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.280 some good moves. But saved your best. You understand because 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.120 when you go down and you negotiating, it's a lot 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.120 of ways people and brands and companies negotiate. A lot 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.960 of companies use time right because they had because here's 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.320 the thing, they have the money. They counting on you 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.560 to becoming patient in the left and what you're probably 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.599 worked because like you said, they have time. They have 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:09.840 They look at it like we have what he exactly? What? What? 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:17.280 What's your today? What's your pride of a business venture? Well? Well, 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.080 you know, you know, I love everything I do. I 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.000 can't I can't even refront you know what I'm saying. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.760 Everything I put my heart into it all. But my 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:29.480 latest business venture my jet dot which is a health app. Okay, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.720 talk thought us about the health app. You already know 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.280 my jet doc. This is a health app. You know, 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.520 ten years ago I went through a U having seizures 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.400 back back, you know, and so what what it did was, 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.640 you know, I started working out, I got healthier. But 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.320 the experience that touched me the most throughout the whole 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.640 situation was the older people that I would meet sitting 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.040 in the doctor's waiting room and the office. You know, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.320 the type of doctors I'm going to see us for 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.720 your brain, and so the situation a lot, it's a 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.280 lot serious, you seeking with a lot older people. Older 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.080 people want to talk to the youngest dude in the room, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.160 and the conversations we would have, and so this would 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.160 really made me want to be a part of this 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.680 new app, my jet dot jet dot dot com. In 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:21.280 three minutes, you could have a doctor virtually on your phone. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:26.400 You describe in your situation, Yo, I just slip and fell, 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.640 this is how I'm feeling. Or it could be a grandparent, Yo, 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.720 my heart is feeling like this. I need to talk 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.760 to somebody right now. Or it maybe a situation like 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.440 mine where you pretty much know what's going on, but 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.240 you just need some personal advice and then you could 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.720 go get the prescription right up the street. There. I 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.960 have the filter up waiting on you right up the street. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.040 So my jet Dot this is my first app, my 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.920 first technology, and I feel it's really for my people, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:57.360 and my people need this. So if i'm if, I'm 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.760 if I'm reading you correctly, and I think I am 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.520 a situation. A lot of the things that you become 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:06.200 involved in if through personal experience. I mean, you like 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.360 wings hell, let me start a wing stop. I like 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.680 dif Caudi beverage. Let me start this Caudi beveridge. I'm 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.480 going to feel a doctor about YadA, YadA, YadA. Let 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:20.480 me start this exactly exactly. That's just me following my heart. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:24.040 That's just something that's Oh, I'm with that's eat, let's 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.680 do it. I'm with it. I don't feel like Yo, 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.160 I'm not going out my way. That's just a part 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.120 of my I'm gonna talk about my jet doc all day. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.880 I just left the gym. I'm over here, I'm over there. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.640 That's a part of my conversation. Because so many people 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.800 opened up to me after I went public saying, yo, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.960 I suffered from seizures. You'll be surprised. I mean, the 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.440 artists pulled me to the side, YO, become me. They 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.920 had a seizure and they found me on the toilet 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:54.800 eight hours later. I never told nobody this is the situation, yo, man, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.040 I never knew that, you know what I mean? I'm like, yo, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.840 you know, you know, it's just certain things we gotta 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.800 converse about. We gotta communicate, And that's why I felt 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:05.879 I had to do this. So you know, it's a 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.080 lot of people that want to be private. They don't 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.480 want to walk into the emergency room. They don't want 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.840 to go and get this prescription. They want to do 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.359 it in the privacy through their own phone. I get 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:21.280 it here. It is jet dot. You mentioned your health 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.760 right where you Is that one of the reasons that 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.719 you decide to say? You know what, I'm accomplishing all 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.960 of this. I'm I'm accumulating this. Well, I got all 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.800 these possessions, but hell, my health is in the trash 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.760 and I'm not gonna be around to enjoy it. Is 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.800 that what fourth Rick Ross? To get in shape? Better shape? 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:44.480 Of course? Of course? Why I accumulate everything you can 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.199 imagine just to drop dead and have a struggle. You 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.679 gotta man, I'm one of them people who want to 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.600 call my shots. So I'm gonna enjoy life right. I'm 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.320 still gonna get that ten piece of lemon pepper, you 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.520 feel me, that fried coin, you know what, cheese on 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.119 the French fries too. I'm gonna still do that. But 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.359 what I gotta do those other six days out the 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:10.920 week's pushed myself right in the I gotta push myself 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.040 in the right direction, and that's what I've been doing. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.359 I'm still happy. I'm much healthier. I'm eighty five pounds lighter. 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.600 I gonna stop having seizures. I'm just sharing. You know 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.440 what I'm doing and what's working with me for everybody 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:27.080 that come to my platform. Do you believe had you 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.080 not had the medical emergencies that you had, you would 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.240 have changed your diet, you would have changed your lifestyle. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.840 I doubt it. I doubt it. I was an all 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.640 city athlete. I made All Day class of nineteen ninety four. 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.159 I was always healthy my entire life. So when I 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.359 had a seizure, I said, you know where that come from? Me? 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:51.199 Not resting, me, not sleeping, me sipping lean in the 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.680 studio to seven am. And you know, once I told 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.840 the doctors the way I was sleeping two to three 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.639 hours at the most of night, he'sai. I'm surprised it's 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.879 not much worse, but you know, the conditions and the 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.760 things that came about, I most definitely told myself I 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.359 got a change right now, Rose can't. They can't zip 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.560 Rose up in the bag. I looked too good. I 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.280 got too many places to go. You know what I'm saying. 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.680 You mentioned that you were all Day County Miami. You 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.280 got a scholarship the Albanis State. I know about the 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.240 all Bnis State because if we used to play them, 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.880 that's right. Did you go to Albenis State and other 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.720 things became a distraction and you left or what transpired 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.320 with that? You know what it was is I got 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.359 a scholarship to Albany State College. I was the only 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:39.600 one to leave Miami. I went to Albany State. And 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.520 this was the first time I really went out of town, 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.040 in the first time in really few years that my 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.879 big homies in my community. You know, they weren't around 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:50.680 me when I came up where I came up from, 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.640 I was embraced, you know, I played football, I was cool. 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.080 They dressed me up, kept money in my pocket. This 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:57.679 is the first time I'm out of you know, I 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.280 couldn't put that burden on my mom. So I'm out 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.879 of town, ain't got much. I'm really starting to have 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.439 the wrong ideas. I'm gonna bring the wrong energy to 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:10.119 the campus. I told myself, before you do this and 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.760 you make a big mistake, just go back and follow 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:17.399 your heart, write your music. You know, I know, you 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.600 know football in your heart. I'm a dude that felt. 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.520 I'm the same boss mentality. I'm going to the league. 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.520 I'm going to the league. I'm gonna play two seasons, 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:27.439 turn up, and I'm gonna go to the league. And 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.000 once I realized, you know, that wasn't that my heart 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:32.800 wasn't there no more. I came back home and just 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.560 focused on the music. You know what I'm saying. All 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:41.359 being it, Southwest Ruin Georgia is a lot different than Miami. 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:46.639 A big was a culture. It was I was I 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.800 ain't know what was going on. I'm like, yo, you know, 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.480 they had just had a flood, so they had trailers 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.840 set up and it's like, yo, I'm out there. I'm 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.520 a freshman. They call you crap. You're a freshman, You're 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:03.080 a crap. That's a black college thing. Only HBCUs do that. 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:05.800 They don't do that at major university. That's what they do. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.760 That's what they do at HBCU. When you come into 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.520 frad for your crab Beth Belie came out dad, and 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:13.520 they called me a crap and told me to hold 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.200 the water button while all the seniors and Georgias drank 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:22.440 water while we drank what oh? I say, whoa? Yeah, 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.720