1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Thanks the chronic goals. This is not your average shows. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: You're now tuned into the rail. 3 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 2: Welcome to the gainst the Chronicles podcast, the production of 4 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 2: iHeart Radio and Black Effect podcast Network. Make sure you 5 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 2: download the iHeart app and subscribe to Against the Chronicles. 6 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 2: For my Apple users, hit the purple Michael your front screen, 7 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: subscribed Against the Chronicles, leave of five star rating and 8 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 2: comment what's the deal? What's the deal? What's the deal? 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: Rich Man? Shoot? 10 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,919 Speaker 2: Same old thing, Man. I should have turned the air 11 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: conditioning on before I came up in here. Man, it's 12 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 2: hot as hell. It's weather been weird as hell. 13 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: No heat stroke, little heat thing right now? 14 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,639 Speaker 2: Well, I know if it's hot down here where I'm at, 15 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it's courting. Where you're at right now. 16 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 3: It's in the mid nineties out this way you're right 17 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,559 Speaker 3: now is probably shit boo noo. It's probably eighty something 18 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 3: degrees right now. 19 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: Hey, let me ask you this, man, Do you feel 20 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: some kind of what it's like eighty three degrees right now? Yeah? 21 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you something, man, You know what 22 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: I mean? You talk every day, man, multiple times a day. 23 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 2: I have to ask you this shit. Do you feel 24 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 2: kind of like saying that it's your last album. No, 25 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 2: how do you say you feel what? But do you 26 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 2: feel accomplished? Like do you feel like, man, it's time. 27 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: Accomplished. 28 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 3: I mean, it all depends on what you feel you 29 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 3: needed to fill as an artist, as an entertainment. And 30 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 3: then you know, not just I don't want to say 31 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 3: it's you know, it's a young man's game, you know, 32 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 3: because every time you make, every time you make, yeah, 33 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 3: you know, the announcement that it might be your last 34 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 3: record or shark. You know, people you know, fans, people, friends, whatever, 35 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 3: they encourage you to keep, you know, making music because 36 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 3: first of all, they want you to understand that music 37 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 3: shouldn't have an age limit. You know, the sound might 38 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 3: go through through gaps, generational gaps, or whatever music might be. 39 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 3: But you know, if you were you know, an artist 40 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 3: who was appreciated by by you know, few many people 41 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 3: are going to always, I guess encourage you to make music, 42 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 3: especially if they still love the sound and the direction 43 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 3: of what your music is. But you know, at one 44 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 3: point in the time, you know, I guess you know, 45 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 3: everybody feel like, you know, it's time to retire, and 46 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 3: you know, either enjoy life or grandkids or you know, 47 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 3: you know, and I know it's not a physical you 48 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 3: want to say sport, you know, baseball, basketball, football, You know, 49 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 3: niggas get a certain age, it's time to hang it up, right. 50 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 3: But you see, musicians, shit, if you're a good musician, 51 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 3: I guess you can you can tour, and you know, 52 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 3: as long as you have a fan base, you could 53 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 3: tour and make music for you. 54 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: Know, however long. 55 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 3: But I guess sometimes you know, in certain situations when 56 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 3: you want to go out, you know, like they say 57 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 3: about motherfuck, you don't want to go out on a 58 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 3: sour note, right. You know, music is changing, it's evolving. 59 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 3: Like I said, people always say, oh, don't don't stop 60 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 3: making music eight because I don't like what I hear today. 61 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 3: And your sound is something that I appreciated. But you know, 62 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 3: it's not like shit. You gotta look at it, and 63 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 3: you gotta look at it on the sense of do 64 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 3: you do this shit because it's financially stable, or do 65 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 3: you do this shit because you just generally love to 66 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 3: make music? 67 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: Right? 68 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 3: And that's the point I'm that you know, I love 69 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 3: to make music, but you know, sometimes you gotta figure out, Okay, 70 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 3: I need to go try something else, you know. 71 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. And you know I was thinking about 72 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 2: that one day because you were a real big sports fanatic, 73 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 2: and I was thinking. I was like, man eight been 74 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 2: doing this shit since he was eighteen, seventeen seventeen on 75 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 2: a professional level, right, So you never got the chance 76 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 2: really to go out and do other shit that a 77 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 2: young man would do, like play football, play baseball, run 78 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: track and do different stuff. So you kind of like 79 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 2: just jump off the porch and you was just in 80 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 2: the game. You feel what I mean? 81 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 3: I think eating on being an average motherfucker, you know, 82 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 3: not that it's too late, you get me. I'd love 83 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 3: to be a nigga who went to school, started his 84 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 3: own motherfucking automotive garage and shit, you know, working on cars, 85 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 3: working on motorcycles, shit like that, a co rider shop, 86 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 3: building no riders and shit like that, which is letting 87 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 3: too late to do, you feel me. So you know 88 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 3: you gotta gotta pick up something else, you know, because 89 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 3: you have It's not like niggas is dummies and the 90 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 3: only thing they can do is and and not that 91 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 3: that's something simple, you know, coming up with a hit 92 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 3: record or coming up with a good song or a 93 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 3: good beat or something that a motherfucker want to spend 94 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 3: their money off. You feel me so, but you could 95 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 3: try new things, do something. You see what I'm saying. 96 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 3: You know what people got the misconsider. I think people 97 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 3: had a misconception that if you make it an entertainment, 98 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 3: that it's an easier route. I've never heard the fact 99 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 3: that I'm a sales executive, right. I've always had a 100 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,479 Speaker 3: very very good career, right, you know, very good career, right, 101 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 3: And I've never let that go because I've always liked 102 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 3: the security of having that. You feel what I'm saying, right, 103 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 3: And I think people get to miscing me doing both. 104 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 3: Actually now, when I was working in the entertainment the industry, man, 105 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 3: I was a full time I was full time. I 106 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 3: was a full time executive, right. But I think people 107 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 3: get this misconception that working as a rapper or actor 108 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 3: is actually easier work than you going somewhere o'clock and 109 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 3: then at eight o'clock and getting off a five. I 110 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 3: don't think people understand that when you go on a 111 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 3: set sometimes, cause I have done movies, right, I've done 112 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 3: comparash those movies. Everything you might go on to set 113 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 3: man at six o'clock in the morning, and you may 114 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 3: not leave to ten o'clock at night, and you're doing 115 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,919 Speaker 3: the same thing over and over and over and over again, right, 116 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 3: just so they can get a perpect tape. Right, So 117 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 3: I think people think, you know, you do one scene 118 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 3: and you know, independent movies it's a little different. But 119 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 3: even with that, you know, we was just a Milwaukee 120 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 3: shooting something. 121 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: It's work. I know. 122 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 3: It's definitely a lot of times you get in confused 123 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 3: with fun and games. You know, you watch videos. You 124 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 3: see niggas party in their clubs, drank bitches, homeknies, weed, smoke, 125 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 3: you know, chains on money around. Even with you know, performances, 126 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 3: you see the same thing backstage dressing rooms. You know, 127 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 3: a lot of your friends and peers in the business 128 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 3: and everybody's you know, dapping it up and giving each other, 129 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 3: you know, gentleman hugs and pounds and pieces and and 130 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 3: so you know, to the general eye, that's fun shit. 131 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 3: That ain't work. You get, that's that's fun shit. But 132 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 3: knowing what what and you know, especially if you on 133 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 3: the road with it, what comes with that. You're getting 134 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 3: up a motherfucker four o'clock in the morning. After just 135 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 3: beating it up till maybe three o'clock in the morning. 136 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 3: The morning, get the motherfucking go to your hotel, maybe 137 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 3: for an hour and a half two hours. That's if 138 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 3: you flying. If you on a bus is different. But 139 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 3: you know, if you fly in place to place, then 140 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 3: motherfucker you go to your hotel. You got to pack up, 141 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 3: motherfucking your shit. You get me, And this is for 142 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 3: This is for the regular nigga. Now I ain't saying 143 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 3: for the mega superstar who got handlers and who got 144 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,959 Speaker 3: motherfucking shit to do all it. This is for a 145 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 3: nigga like me who grinding it out on your own. 146 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 147 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 3: And I've never had you know, my whole career, I've 148 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 3: never had handlers and assistance. And you know, it was 149 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 3: just me and the homies. You feel me and nigga. 150 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 3: You you get, you get a plane ticket, you get 151 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 3: a room, you know, and you might get a couple 152 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 3: of dollars. Some niggas is just going because you know, 153 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 3: they love the atmosphere and they want to be on 154 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 3: the road. You know, you're paying security or you're paying 155 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 3: you know, a road manager or whatever. It's still the 156 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 3: same ship. Niggas gotta get up at four o'clock in 157 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 3: the morning, you know, and you hanging. 158 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 1: You you call it hanging, and that might. 159 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 3: Seem fun to people, but me myself, you know, I 160 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 3: gave up the heavy drinking and ship because the ship 161 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 3: is is, it's it's extensive on the. 162 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: Body and on the month you get if you learn, 163 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: you know the world. 164 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 3: Like I said, it's the difference of you the club 165 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 3: or you're doing a show date on at the arena. 166 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 3: You know, you going to the after party. You probably 167 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 3: there till two in the morning. You get back to 168 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 3: your hotel, it's almost three o'clock. You got a six 169 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 3: o'clock flight because you gotta be in the next town 170 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:19,559 Speaker 3: to be ready for the next show. And then it's 171 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 3: like like okay, so shit, you get to your hotel, 172 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 3: you gotta pack up your bags and shit. Then you 173 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 3: gotta get to the airport. Then you gotta make sure 174 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 3: everybody else is straight, because you know, I was the 175 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 3: title nigga like Bigger. If you ain't ready, your ticket 176 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 3: gonna be slid under the door. I'm gonna tell a 177 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 3: road man to just slide the nigga ticket under the door. 178 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 3: Nigga and we out because it was my responsibility and 179 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 3: I had to be in town the next day. 180 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 2: You had to be in town. And I think that's 181 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 2: what people don't understand. I remember it, man, when I 182 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 2: had the first experience of doing my own, like, not 183 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 2: me not going on the road with craft and quickening 184 00:10:56,160 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 2: them dudes, right, but me going and going over to the end. 185 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,559 Speaker 2: I have my DJ and you know sometimes when you 186 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 2: go to Europe, you may have them three four days 187 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 2: days off, right, you know, when you're doing something off, 188 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 2: get a couple of days off. So we sitting up 189 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: in this it wasn't an airbnb at the time, but 190 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 2: were sitting up in this hostel or whatever, right, and 191 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 2: he decides that, oh, I want to go back home 192 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 2: because he got a girlfriend. He's worried about what she 193 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 2: got going on, right, So I'm thinking they paying for 194 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 2: it if it do it. That ticket was like three 195 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 2: thousand dollars. 196 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 3: Bro. 197 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: He went home and he came back and made no time. 198 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 2: But I was would have labeled that was functioned as 199 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 2: an independent right, you know, you get your money, right, 200 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 2: and while they not charging you back like a record label. 201 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 2: I see, my shit is minus like forty five hundred 202 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 2: dollars and I'm like, well, what is you know, Like, 203 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 2: where did this go? That was? 204 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 1: Oh that's for that flight he took back home. Oh yeah, 205 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: you get shot take home. 206 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're getting charged for everything when you on the 207 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 2: you know, when you on the road like that, especially 208 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 2: you're on a promotional thing, right, You're on one of 209 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 2: those promotional things, right, and it's just not the sweetest people. 210 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. Eight is fun because you're doing 211 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: something you like to do. 212 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 2: But like you said, you could be a dude that's 213 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 2: autumn mechanic man doing what you love and you don't 214 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 2: feel like you're working right. But I big different when 215 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 2: people say the entertainers have an easy life, man, it's like, 216 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 2: unless you when the top two percent, it is really man, 217 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 2: a lot of ups and downs, especially in early years 218 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 2: when you don't know how to manage your money right, 219 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 2: because you got to remember, you might see a check 220 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 2: for seventy five eighty thousand, feel like you balling, But 221 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 2: that may be the only check that you see from 222 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 2: the record label until you put that next album. 223 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 3: Oh definitely, because you ain't getting no royalties, you ain't 224 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 3: getting all none of that. Because you know, we already 225 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 3: know what that game is. But like again, you know, 226 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 3: it's work to you know, it's work. It's stringus. You 227 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 3: gotta watch your health. Yeah, you know, you see a 228 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 3: lot of niggas in our field who die from from 229 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,599 Speaker 3: from other causes other than getting shot and killed in 230 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 3: some bullshit you get me, mm hmm. Got niggas died 231 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 3: from ship health reasons. That's because you know that truck. 232 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 3: Their road life is is strenuous, and especially when you 233 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 3: and your beginning grind. You know, today, I don't know 234 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 3: what it's like. I don't know, you know, because it's 235 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 3: a different time in the era and in my day, 236 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 3: you know, niggas did a lot of torn niggas did 237 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 3: a lot of promo touring and it's uh, it's stressful, 238 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 3: you know, being in places on time, dealing with fans, 239 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 3: making sure everything is organized and everything is set up. 240 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 3: So you know, just like being a motherfucking uh super 241 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 3: superintendent at a company and you gotta travel is y'all 242 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 3: got different companies around fucking country and you gotta go 243 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 3: to different spots and make sure everything is race. 244 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: You see what I did. So it's it's like that. 245 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 3: It's like being executive and gotta travel and different love 246 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 3: fucking job sites. And today we're in Chicago. Tomorrow gotta 247 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 3: go to Cleveland and and do the work. And then 248 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 3: and then two days from now, I gotta travel down 249 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 3: to Florida. Then I gotta travel and then we got 250 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 3: a motherfucking we gotta work diig overseas. 251 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: So a week after that, I gotta. 252 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 3: Jump on the motherfucking plane and fly overseas and go 253 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 3: through work over there. 254 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: You know, we're getting up. 255 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 3: Were running, we running, we we you know, we we 256 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 3: own the road. 257 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: You know, we on the plane. So it's strictuous. 258 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 3: And then depending on how long you be gone and 259 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 3: you so you don't get to experience a lot, you know, when. 260 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 2: You know the thing is bro we do do better 261 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 2: than probably the average joke. 262 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: Right, That's why I don't never count a short. 263 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 2: We are blessed, right because you know, I was looking 264 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 2: one day and I was looking at what the average 265 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 2: American income it is for the household. I think it 266 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 2: was something like forty five fifty grand. I was like, man, 267 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 2: this is probably pretty rough to make it with that, 268 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 2: because you know, not to be floss and nothing, but 269 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 2: you know, we do. We'll do a little bit better 270 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 2: than that, right, right, And you think about it, It's like, man, 271 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 2: I don't think I don't have. You don't see me. 272 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 2: I don't have, you know, outside of me having something cool, 273 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 2: driving being and living in a cool, decent place, I 274 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 2: don't have nothing to really. That's just like, oh, man, 275 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 2: you see what Steve got. I'm a regular dude, I 276 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 2: feel like, right, And. 277 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 3: All the time you're, yeah, it's a different we got 278 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 3: different occupations, but nigga, I'm like, it's the same. Like 279 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 3: I'm like the foreman at the company, right. You get 280 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 3: I'm not the president, but I'm not there. I'm not 281 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 3: the line worker either. You get me. 282 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: I'm I'm sitting. 283 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 3: Somewhere where you know, I got a little bit, but 284 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 3: I don't got a lot. 285 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: You feel me. 286 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 3: And I'm not gonna I'm not gonna Thank God, I'm 287 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 3: not gonna starve today, right, and I'm not gonna starve 288 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 3: next week, and my light's not gonna be out. But 289 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 3: I can't go and buy me no motherfucking Rose Royce 290 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 3: and no motherfucking thirty five thousand dollars chain and you know, 291 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 3: and floss and go to motherfucking you know, can I 292 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 3: go out to dinner at a nice restaurant, and can 293 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 3: I buy a new pair of shoes, And you know, 294 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 3: my son away at college, and can I make sure 295 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 3: he eat every day or if his needs are met 296 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 3: and shit like that. 297 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, but. 298 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I can't go rent no 299 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 3: motherfucking yachts and the whole lavish parties and shit like that, 300 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 3: because I'm a nigga who in reality, i'm you know, 301 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 3: I hustle, but you know I'm not trying to be 302 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 3: out of my motherfucking I'm not stupid. You feel me, 303 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 3: you know, And and I don't complain about that. You 304 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 3: feel me. I'm a nigga who all who wrote all 305 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 3: my music throughout my whole career, so I own all 306 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 3: my songs. You know, it's been over thirty years. So 307 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 3: I'm one of I'm in. I'm one of them niggas 308 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 3: in that category where I'll be able to turn around 309 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,360 Speaker 3: and sell my catalog, you know, songs like growing Up 310 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 3: in the Hood and Hood took Me under off of 311 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 3: the money straight up mines, Can. 312 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: I Kill It? 313 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:55,199 Speaker 3: And and and and all those songs that you know, 314 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 3: I've had the ability to write my own music throughout 315 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 3: my career. Ye, so you know, and and and that'll 316 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 3: be you know, retirement fun. You get me, and that's 317 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 3: when you get to kick back. And that's why I 318 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 3: see it so well, well, well I still get up 319 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,360 Speaker 3: and maybe go do a show every now and then. 320 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 3: Of course if it's if it makes it's like I said, 321 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 3: just got through doing this little movie, and shit, if 322 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 3: more roles start to evolve because of that, definitely, you 323 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. But like you said, I'm gonna 324 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 3: I'm gonna try something else. And it's not that Nigga 325 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 3: giving up on music. It's just that you you you 326 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 3: have the ability to do something. So why not you know, nigga, 327 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 3: you know watching this health and you know, before Nigga 328 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 3: check out, then it would be nice to you know, 329 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 3: see what else the world has to offer. 330 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 331 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing bro right there. You know, you 332 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,439 Speaker 2: get to do movies, right, And that's why I've always 333 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 2: thought about it. Like this, Man, I'm a dude from Cleveland. O. 334 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 2: How I was talking. I've actually been doing a lot 335 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 2: of just conversating man with homies that I came up with. 336 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 2: Some of them went down different paths. Like I was 337 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 2: talking to my homeboy, man, Edward Julian. He's a real 338 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 2: prolific writer, not an author, and he runs a program 339 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 2: out there. But you know, him and his brothers was 340 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 2: two of the biggest de boys in the city when 341 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 2: we was coming up. Them have been my classmate since 342 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 2: Joseph A. F Landis. You feel what I'm saying, since 343 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 2: we was in fifth grade, those like my brothers. 344 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: It don't matter. 345 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 2: You know, you got the homies in the hood, man, 346 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 2: it don't matter if you ain't seen them for twenty years. 347 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,120 Speaker 2: When y'all see each other, it's like, y'all like, how 348 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 2: your mama doing, what's up with your brother? What's up 349 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 2: with so and so? 350 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: Right? 351 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 2: And he was just telling me, man, he was like, man, 352 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 2: you know still we made a lot of money. We 353 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 2: made a gang of bread, right, but it was next 354 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 2: from us just that quick because we didn't work for it. 355 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: Do you way did you think like in Begtown? 356 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 3: And then this goes fai niggas you like you said, 357 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 3: you know, niggas still in the hood whatever and niggas, 358 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 3: when do you think that it's the time for a 359 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 3: nigga to feel like Okay, it's time for me to 360 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 3: switch it up because you got old niggas still in 361 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 3: the hood represent me and trying to be down and 362 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 3: coming home from prison. You know who done done twenty 363 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 3: five thirty years and shit like that. Niggas who are 364 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 3: still trying to be significant. Cause we know niggas now 365 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 3: over forty years old who you feel representation is significant. 366 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: And they look ridiculous. When is it time. 367 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 3: For for you for a nigga to be like you 368 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 3: say and that sometimes you gotta try something else, right, 369 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 3: you know? 370 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 2: And it's and this is me being honest. I've never 371 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 2: been one of those people that looked at like rappers. 372 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:51,679 Speaker 2: That was a certain age to me. It was like, 373 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 2: as long as you nice and as long as you 374 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 2: still feel it in your heart that that's what you 375 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 2: want to do. Because it's some cast that love it 376 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 2: like bus to Buzz probably ain't gonna never start wrapping. 377 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 2: He loved that shit. You could look at him and 378 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 2: tell he loves being on the road, he loves being 379 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 2: in a studio. That's a part of who he is. Right, 380 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 2: So plus the plus probably never stopped. Right, we see 381 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 2: him he getting up in age and still get busy, right, 382 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 2: I think it's when you don't feel it in your 383 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 2: heart no more. I think when you whenever you say 384 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 2: his time. Because I'm gonna tell you this, Man, I 385 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 2: was lucky. Sometimes I feel like I'm Forrest Gump. 386 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:19,199 Speaker 1: Bro. 387 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 2: I lived so many different lives, right. I remember I 388 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,439 Speaker 2: was playing football, man. I never played in the NFL 389 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 2: nothing like that. But I was messed around the CFL 390 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 2: in the Arena League, right. And I remember my agent, 391 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 2: man had got me back home because I was playing 392 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 2: the Zabrena team in Dallas, and he had got me 393 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:36,959 Speaker 2: back to California. 394 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: Right. 395 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 2: And I had a cool little personal stay. Had personal 396 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 2: service contracts when you get paid a little bit more, 397 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 2: you know than the average dude. Right, And that wasn't 398 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 2: a whole bunch of money, it was just better than 399 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 2: what the average check was. And I went out to 400 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 2: practice that day, man, and I just didn't feel the excitement. 401 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 2: I just didn't feel it no more. Man. It was 402 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 2: just kind of like, man, this is just And I 403 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 2: had to tell him, you know, I said, Man, you 404 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 2: know what, Man, I appreciate the opportunity, man, but this 405 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 2: is it for me. Like I'm done, Like I don't 406 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 2: want to play no more. It was other stuff I 407 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 2: wanted to do at that point. I think when you 408 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 2: start feeling like and I always say, that's the voice 409 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 2: of God, right whenever you hear something in your head 410 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 2: kind of telling you, hey, man, it's time to do 411 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 2: something else, because you never know, man, God may have 412 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,199 Speaker 2: a blessing for you around the corner where you may 413 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,439 Speaker 2: go on a rhyme bro and do you forty fifty movies. 414 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 2: That's not off the ram of impossibility, you know what 415 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 2: I mean. 416 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: It's like. 417 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,199 Speaker 2: It's all kinds of stuff that just comes your way sometimes. 418 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 2: Like I've had stuff, man. You know, I don't like 419 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 2: speaking on stuff I'm doing, man, but I've had opportunities 420 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 2: as of late, you know, some of the same opportunities 421 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 2: you've had to where it was kind of like, man, 422 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 2: you know what, that was cool And I wasn't expecting that, 423 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 2: you feel me and I just man, sort of believe 424 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,719 Speaker 2: in letting the spirit man, God my movements, man, and 425 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 2: when it's time to stop doing something, to not be 426 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 2: so in myself and say that's not what I want 427 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 2: to do. I want to do this, man. I think 428 00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 2: it's one of them things man, where I see it 429 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 2: all the time. I meet a lot of kids, and 430 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 2: you would see like a group of three kids, right, 431 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 2: you have one dude that's the rapper, one dude that's 432 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 2: the manager, and one dude that's a homeboy. Right, and 433 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 2: you can look at him and just tell from you 434 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,199 Speaker 2: being around, Okay, that nigga right there should be the rapper. 435 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 2: That nigga right there, that's the rapper. He should be 436 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 2: the manager. And the other nigga that's just the homie. 437 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 2: He might have more swag than both of them. You 438 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 2: feel what I'm saying, And it's like you're looking at it, 439 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,159 Speaker 2: but you can't tell them that because they're young, and 440 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 2: they all got their dreams and they all got the 441 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 2: divisional what they see themselves as. 442 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: Right. 443 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 2: I think, man, whenever and sometimes to me, I think 444 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 2: you can't say. You can't say when something is not 445 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 2: working out, right, But I do think this, man, I 446 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 2: don't have no problem with none of the ogs rapper. 447 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 2: And I think if that's what you do, do your thing, 448 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 2: it ain't my place to tell nobody want to stop. 449 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 2: But I do think if you've been aspiring to be 450 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 2: a rapper since you were the sixteen and you forty 451 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 2: five now, it may be time to realign your vision 452 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 2: and say, you know what, I love music, I'm gonna 453 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 2: go into man, I'm gonna maybe a writer for somebody. 454 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: I may go. 455 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 2: You know, you can produce records to your nineties, try 456 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 2: your hand in production, but allow somebody else to do that, 457 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 2: because that's not for you. Possibly, and you could be 458 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 2: hindering your blessing by saying, you know what, I want 459 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 2: to be a rapper. You might fuck around and be 460 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 2: a manager and find you with Kendrick Lamar something. You 461 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 2: get to develop them and use all the skills that 462 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 2: you don't learn over time. Because just because a nigga 463 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 2: ain't made it, don't mean they necessarily whack it, just 464 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 2: mean it ain't for you. 465 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 3: I mean, we know several niggas who've had, you know, 466 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 3: previous projects and haven't put out you projects in years, 467 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 3: in decades. There's a lot of them all there. But 468 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 3: I don't know if they said they're retired or if 469 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,640 Speaker 3: they just wanted to just you know, ride out into 470 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,400 Speaker 3: the se set off of whatever the work they've got. 471 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 3: Get me, because it's several niggas that we feel that 472 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 3: could probably still make make noise in the industry, but 473 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 3: they decided, you know, I'm just not gonna do this 474 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:23,360 Speaker 3: ship now. You can't say, but they never announced, oh 475 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 3: I'm retired. I don't do that shit no more. Because 476 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 3: every now and then you might hear amongst. 477 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 2: Something, well, you know, one thing I will say, Man, 478 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 2: I've seen as a blake that every rapper want to 479 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 2: run and get a podcast. 480 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: Well you know that's. 481 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 2: The I ain't mad at it because they just, you know, everything, 482 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:44,640 Speaker 2: they're trying to find something to do, you feel me, 483 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 2: And that just. 484 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 3: Goes to show the same with any and I don't 485 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 3: want to say any motherfucking field of entertainment because niggas 486 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 3: who tried their hand at you know, being artists or 487 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 3: out music. Everybody thought at one time, you know, and 488 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 3: still feel to this day that rap was the new ticket. 489 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 1: You feel me. 490 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 3: You know how they used to say niggas was only 491 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,199 Speaker 3: good back in the days playing sports, You get hit. 492 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 3: Same thing goes for the rap game when it presented 493 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 3: itself predominantly ran by niggas, right, I mean, were performed. 494 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 3: You know, everybody started feeling because niggas looked at rappers 495 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 3: as the average motherfucker like me. You get me. I'm 496 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 3: coming out of poverty coming off the block. You know 497 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 3: I'm near some that, you know, I'm around this element. 498 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 3: So everybody started at at one time, everybody felt like shit, 499 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 3: I could rap, just like you just got through saying 500 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 3: it's some niggas who started rapping when they were sixteen 501 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 3: seventeen and they forty five and they still haven't done 502 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,399 Speaker 3: nothing significant and still trying. Everybody thought that about the 503 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 3: rock Gag at one point, right, you knew you, you 504 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 3: knew niggas who shouldn't be picking up the mic, who 505 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 3: was picking up the mic? 506 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: All of them? 507 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, you get Me niggas, like you turned around like 508 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 3: really like now you laughing, like when did that happen? 509 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: How did you get kicked? How did the bug bite you? 510 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 3: Because you know, so that's what happened with the podcast game. 511 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 1: You Get Me. 512 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 3: Podcast game had that revolving door for niggas who wanted 513 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 3: to jump on the merry go right right, you know, 514 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 3: the merry go round start spinning, and depending how fast 515 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 3: it is going, some niggas want to attempt to jump 516 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 3: on while that motherfucker going right m Sometimes you can 517 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 3: jump on that motherfucker, hold on and manage to stay. 518 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,919 Speaker 3: You know, I used to be in a and the 519 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 3: niggas puts you on a little small, little merry go 520 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 3: round thing. It used to spend that motherfucker fast and 521 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 3: used to try to jump on that motherfucker while we 522 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 3: was spinning. Now, some niggas could hold on, right, Some 523 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,159 Speaker 3: niggas could on and hold on the mutherfucking. 524 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 1: Bars and spin around and be like cool. 525 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 3: Some niggas try to jump on, spin around once or 526 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,439 Speaker 3: twice and fall off. So that that was that's the 527 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 3: rap game. That's the podcast game. Now you get me 528 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 3: because how many years you been on the show. It's 529 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 3: been a few, there's been a minute. Now, it's been 530 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 3: five years. 531 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 1: Uh. But it's a lot of niggas don't understand, you know, 532 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: half of a podcast. 533 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 3: It's just like being a motherfucker who might have had 534 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 3: you know, it's a journalist or an interviewer. You know, 535 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 3: you gotta be able to connect with certain people. Subjects 536 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 3: gotta be on point, you know. And because of the 537 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 3: element of what a lot of these podcasters are, you 538 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 3: give you a lot of niggas. You're giving this a 539 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 3: lot of us who got podcasts right. 540 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: And then about the same shit you got. 541 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 3: The white people who got they podcasts and they ship 542 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 3: and they element. But you got a lot of niggas 543 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 3: with podcasts, right, and like you said, uh, some of 544 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 3: them are up here, you know, some of them are here. 545 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 3: And then then you got the bottom feeders, the niggas 546 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 3: who nigga, I'm gonna start a podcast because so and 547 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 3: so on them got one, or this nigga got one. 548 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 3: I see this nigga got so fuck it, I'm gonna 549 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 3: start me one. But they don't understand it's it's it's 550 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 3: it's an art form. 551 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: Again. You know, you gotta be able to connect with people. 552 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 3: And then again you got to learn how to have 553 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 3: a conversation and know what to acts and know what 554 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 3: to inform people about. And that's where a lot that's 555 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 3: where a lot of shit falls off because half of 556 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 3: motherfuckers who got shows can't even hold a decent conversation 557 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 3: or they don't even know how to hold a you know, 558 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 3: a fifteen minute conversation. 559 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: When I was saying the same thing one hundred. 560 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 2: Times, you feel me, And that's real. You know what 561 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 2: I noticed? Man shut out to crypt mac Man. He 562 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 2: hit me, were gonna have him on the show next week, right, 563 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 2: and he reached out to us when he came home, 564 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 2: and he told me it's been a lot of people 565 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 2: trying to interview him because you know, he draws numbers 566 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 2: in and he's entertainer, right of course, he's you know, comedy, right. 567 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 2: But he said, man, I want to come back on 568 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 2: y'all show because I'm trying to do stuff different this time. 569 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 2: And I said, yeah, he said, And y'all actually had 570 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 2: a real conversation with me. It wasn't just about like 571 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 2: me looking at playing with cats and doing goof y'all. 572 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 3: I'll see a lot of people want and I don't 573 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 3: want to say, ex Lloyd, that's what it is. 574 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: What it is. 575 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 3: The Niggas Show, it is what it is because like 576 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 3: a nigga, at the end of the day, the nigga 577 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 3: gotta eat right. And if a nigga gonna pay you 578 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 3: to come do shit, then nine times out of ten, 579 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 3: when a nigga's trying to build his mother fucking his catalog, 580 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 3: a nigga trying to build his motherfucking image of you're 581 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 3: gonna do a lot of shit that you are you're 582 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 3: opposed to doing right, That's just it at the end 583 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 3: of the day. So a lot of people like to 584 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 3: want to exploit that. You know, people don't want to 585 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 3: sit up and hear no serious conversation about Krip Mac. 586 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: Nah nigga. 587 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 3: I want to see the antics. I want to see 588 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 3: the foolishness. I want to see that the craziness you 589 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 3: get me, because that's what's gonna get my numbers up. 590 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 3: And that's what's gonna get people interested and and and 591 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 3: whatever that is of Kryp Mac and other niggas. 592 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: Like you said, they want to exploit this. 593 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 3: Ship because it's gonna be great for my numbers if 594 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,040 Speaker 3: I have him on the show, and I have him, 595 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 3: like you said, playing with cats or or or boxing 596 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 3: a nigga, or or or you know, advertising a nigga's 597 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 3: product or whatever it is, you get me. You know 598 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 3: that's what that's what it is. So I understand that 599 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 3: they gotta get his money book. You know, we have 600 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 3: never been about the image of what Chryp Mac represents 601 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 3: to the rest of the people as it's entertainment. You 602 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 3: feel me, We want to You want to talk to 603 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 3: a nigga about nigga? 604 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: Who are you? Where you come from? You're like, I 605 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: want to know the real you? 606 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 3: What'sh your real name, how to how how did this 607 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 3: come about? Why are people interested in you? Do you 608 00:32:55,080 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 3: feel like you have to put on this motherfucking suit 609 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 3: for people? And you know you gotta be the King's 610 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 3: gesture you get me. You gotta be that type of 611 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 3: bullshit to a please motherfuckers. Like you said, who who's 612 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 3: gonna sit down and really talk to kryp maat And 613 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 3: that's in questions about realism and how is life and 614 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 3: how is life inside jail? 615 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 1: And what did you go to for in the first place? 616 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,959 Speaker 2: If you know you have a daughter? Now, like what 617 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 2: is your plans on stands your life? 618 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: You know, just really I want to get you on 619 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: here and I want you to do some crazy ship 620 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,959 Speaker 1: and let's see how many numbers I can get because 621 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,959 Speaker 1: like you said, at the end of the day, people 622 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 1: want to exploit and and a lot of people pray 623 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: on your your silliness life. Man, you know I can't 624 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,720 Speaker 1: get em more my ship nigga, and Nigga's gonna be legit. 625 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: You get me because that and that's what it is. 626 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 1: And you can't knock them up fucking for you dog. 627 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it's all about numbers, 628 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 1: right you're getting. I want because that that's gonna present 629 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 1: a bigger check. 630 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 2: You know my numbers, we want numbers eight but me 631 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 2: and you see most of these dudes that do the 632 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,799 Speaker 2: goofy shit, right, most of these guys that do the 633 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 2: goofy shit, they don't go outside. They're not You don't 634 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 2: see them nowhere. They don't. 635 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: They don't go to restaurants, they don't go You. 636 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 2: Just don't see them out in public, right, so they 637 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 2: can come with I go outside, man, people see me 638 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,279 Speaker 2: in I have children with my last name, I have wife, man, 639 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 2: I have people that know me in the community. I 640 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,120 Speaker 2: can't afford to be the fool, bro. I'm not a joke, 641 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,239 Speaker 2: you feel what I'm saying. I don't want to be 642 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,760 Speaker 2: looked at as a joke either. I don't want people 643 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,280 Speaker 2: thinking like Mania, that old silly ass nigga. We already 644 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 2: got enough old silly niggas. Dog. 645 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: I don't want to be the third You feel what 646 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 1: I'm saying. 647 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, that's when you're dealing with other people and 648 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,160 Speaker 3: the image of who you are as a man and 649 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 3: what you want to be, what you want to stand for. 650 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 3: As far as being involved in this this crazy ass 651 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 3: entertainment world, this world of content creators and and numbers 652 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 3: and algorithms and all that shit. Somebody just got to 653 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 3: be straight and be a regular. Like I say it 654 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,400 Speaker 3: all the time, somebody gotta be regular. You get me somebody. 655 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 3: And that's where I feel we're able to connect with 656 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 3: more motherfuckers or just a simple motherfuckers, you know, you know, 657 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 3: we just connect with regular motherfuckers because life is real 658 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 3: and everything ain't about floss and flash, and it ain't 659 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 3: about you know what you got, how much you get me, 660 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:53,360 Speaker 3: But it's about you as the motherfucking person. And people 661 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 3: like to know that. Oh shit, it's THI a regular 662 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 3: motherfucker like me. I didn't even know that shit. Oh 663 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 3: this need to get up in the morning and put 664 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,799 Speaker 3: on socks just like I do. Nigga put on draws 665 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,920 Speaker 3: just like I do. You know, whatever you saw, people 666 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 3: want to know that. People like that. I know a 667 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 3: lot of people, you know, like to see foolishness, and 668 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,319 Speaker 3: that's unfortunate, but you know, that's the world. You know, 669 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 3: there's comedy, there's entertainment, there's craziness, you know, and people 670 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 3: pay to see that shit and people want to see it. 671 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,359 Speaker 3: But then You know, there's a handful of motherfuckers who 672 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,240 Speaker 3: are normal and just want to be record. 673 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,279 Speaker 1: You get me, and that's cool shouting him this. You 674 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 1: know what, man, you don't know. You don't know what 675 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:38,799 Speaker 1: Trip Mac do. 676 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,800 Speaker 3: After the cameras go off and he's at home and 677 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,359 Speaker 3: there's no motherfucking niggas looking through them. You know, there's 678 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 3: no goodie mobs, you know, niggas looking through my window 679 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,360 Speaker 3: and shit. And you know, who knows what the nigga 680 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 3: might be at all. He might be the regulars motherfucker 681 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 3: at home with the kid and just a straight father 682 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 3: and whatever whatever, but he no once he walk out 683 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:02,400 Speaker 3: that door. 684 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,359 Speaker 1: You get me. You know, all all bets are off. 685 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,320 Speaker 3: The full antics are on nigga this, this, this is 686 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,960 Speaker 3: the hood and this. You know a lot of people 687 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 3: do that ship You get me. Yeah, you know what 688 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,800 Speaker 3: a lot of kids start. You know, Superman was real 689 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,920 Speaker 3: when he went into the phone booth and changed and whatever. 690 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 3: And then when the nigga got off that movie screen 691 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,160 Speaker 3: and went home, that nigga put on a suit and 692 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,640 Speaker 3: tanging out, getting loaded at bars and crazy shit. 693 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: Just try and be regular, mother fucker. 694 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,320 Speaker 3: So you don't you have to watch the character because 695 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 3: this is this get all, I'm making money off this ship, right, 696 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,680 Speaker 3: everybody finds their lane to do ship. 697 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:46,000 Speaker 1: You feel me. 698 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:52,040 Speaker 2: Always, I've always came to this conclusion though, Bru, the 699 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 2: moment that Charlemagne and them hit us up man and 700 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 2: say hey man, you know what we need your to 701 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,239 Speaker 2: step it up and do this and that, man, And 702 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 2: I'm not going to ever put the red nose on 703 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:03,400 Speaker 2: for nobody. 704 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,560 Speaker 1: That would be the thing. I decided to let it go. 705 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:10,200 Speaker 1: And I think. 706 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 3: Niggas understand, you know who, You got to understand who 707 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,839 Speaker 3: you're dealing with and what people are willing to go through. 708 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,360 Speaker 3: We've never been looked at as that type of show. 709 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,480 Speaker 3: We've never been looked at as you know, following the 710 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,759 Speaker 3: trends of gimmicks and doing all kinds of crazy shit 711 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:34,440 Speaker 3: for numbers. We're we're known as the normal niggas. And again, 712 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,840 Speaker 3: there's a lot of normal motherfuckers out there. There's a 713 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,600 Speaker 3: lot of normal niggas, and there's a lot of normal 714 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,359 Speaker 3: females in normal life that goes on, and we try 715 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 3: to connect with that because we're we don't see ourselves 716 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:57,000 Speaker 3: as the super hero motherfuckers, as these super entertainer. Motherfuckers 717 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,959 Speaker 3: that can't that. You know, We're coming on the show 718 00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 3: and Nigga, I got gold din the teeth in my 719 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,239 Speaker 3: mouth and I'm wearing a big ass chain and you 720 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:12,759 Speaker 3: know we're doing our God I said, some ship just 721 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 3: you have to leave it to the other motherfuckers. And 722 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,840 Speaker 3: the reality of it is is you just have to 723 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,640 Speaker 3: really be yourself so people can respect that. 724 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:23,480 Speaker 1: You get me. 725 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,920 Speaker 3: I ain't putting on no I ain't doing no motherfucking 726 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,280 Speaker 3: antics right here. What you see is what you get. 727 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,799 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You get a regular nigga 728 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,759 Speaker 3: who's gonna talk to you like me and the mother 729 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 3: fucking garage or we just chopping it up on the 730 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 3: on the on the phone, and Nigga, I'm talking to 731 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,719 Speaker 3: you just like I used to talk to one of 732 00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,960 Speaker 3: my niggas every day. And that's just what it is. 733 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,040 Speaker 3: With the podcast, We're just trying to connect with people 734 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:52,279 Speaker 3: and bring out you know, just I don't give a 735 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,920 Speaker 3: fuck how well we know about all that shit. Nigga, 736 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,319 Speaker 3: who is you and who is you about? And what 737 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,879 Speaker 3: is your story? And and then what can you bring 738 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,920 Speaker 3: to the table. As far as you know, there's a 739 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 3: lot of motherfuckers who are normal who listen to this 740 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,239 Speaker 3: shells and what you have to doing? What's your normalcy 741 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,439 Speaker 3: to the shell and you know they're trying to bring 742 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,160 Speaker 3: on those superhero shit were trying to bring on normal motherfuckers. 743 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,080 Speaker 3: Tell us they struggles, what they've been through, and then 744 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,600 Speaker 3: the success of coming out of the ship hall you 745 00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,440 Speaker 3: feel me, like Andy duframe, that's what we do. 746 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,640 Speaker 2: It's real. I'm not just I'm not here for all that, man. 747 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,440 Speaker 2: You know what one of the things I was looking 748 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,200 Speaker 2: at right, And it's just media period now. See it 749 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,480 Speaker 2: ain't just the podcasts. Even news is with sensationalism now, 750 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,040 Speaker 2: like I know you heard about they said we were 751 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,879 Speaker 2: supposed to have beware of the drone strikes in California, 752 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,680 Speaker 2: that Iran was going to be sending the drones over 753 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,400 Speaker 2: here to you know, and you know somebody big get 754 00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 2: hitting dobat right. But all of that thieves The news 755 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:04,320 Speaker 2: cycle is driven by negativity. That's what interests people because 756 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:08,560 Speaker 2: if you've ever noticed, whenever they have a high speed chase, 757 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,840 Speaker 2: they start the news off of that. Well, first we 758 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:13,360 Speaker 2: have a chased on the one on one theory, but 759 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:14,879 Speaker 2: we're gonna get to that because they want to keep 760 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,560 Speaker 2: you waiting around to get to that. They want you 761 00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,759 Speaker 2: to watch the whole program. And it's like that's it's 762 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,719 Speaker 2: like a carrot, right, like a horse thing on the 763 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:22,960 Speaker 2: whole carrot in front of a horse. 764 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:23,239 Speaker 1: Right. 765 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,200 Speaker 2: Oh, man, I want to stay on here and watch 766 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,479 Speaker 2: this because I want to see the high speed chase. 767 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,600 Speaker 2: Is he gonna get caught at somebody gonna get shot 768 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,000 Speaker 2: on TV as day? Because it's like, man, that's a 769 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:35,280 Speaker 2: real thing. Man. You know when people look at bullshit 770 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,080 Speaker 2: man and raises their endorphins in their body. There's people 771 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,120 Speaker 2: this addicted to bullshit, bro. And so a lot of 772 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:42,680 Speaker 2: people are addicted to the bullshit. 773 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,360 Speaker 3: Why you think all those new brand new networks or 774 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:51,960 Speaker 3: or or or or ball and then coming up, because 775 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,600 Speaker 3: you've got people who are faithful to bullshit, like theig 776 00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,520 Speaker 3: I don't want to watch the nigga getting aldward or 777 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,360 Speaker 3: adulation and now I want to see a motherfucker getting 778 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,160 Speaker 3: busted with his bitch. Or I want to see the 779 00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,480 Speaker 3: two bitches scrapping and going at it in the motherfucking 780 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,040 Speaker 3: live room. Or I want to see the two gay 781 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,560 Speaker 3: people doing, you know, getting into fights and shit and 782 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,960 Speaker 3: whatever motherfuckers love. 783 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,800 Speaker 1: Bullshit and like you said, phrases. 784 00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:27,520 Speaker 3: The motherfucking endorphins in your motherfucker because like I said, 785 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,560 Speaker 3: I had a nigga who was faithful to that shit. 786 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,560 Speaker 1: I used to be like, now I can watch this ship, 787 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,680 Speaker 1: this shit is. It's like, damn, that's all you're. 788 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:39,759 Speaker 3: Doing, nigga. Motherfuckers is pulling up. They just pull up. 789 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,759 Speaker 3: They just pull up to a park, nigga and got 790 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,680 Speaker 3: the cameras rolling and pull up with a van full 791 00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:50,600 Speaker 3: of bitches and another vand full of bitches and bitches 792 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:55,400 Speaker 3: y'all just start fighting with each other, badies, the babies, 793 00:42:56,120 --> 00:43:02,560 Speaker 3: niggas be for that ship, niggas, and not to kno 794 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:08,440 Speaker 3: nobody's hustle, right, who turns to Yeah, not to not 795 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:15,400 Speaker 3: know body's because you get your bread. You get your bread, right, 796 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,040 Speaker 3: m hm. You get your bread, You get your bread, 797 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,040 Speaker 3: not to knock nobody hustle. That's how you want to 798 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,960 Speaker 3: get it. And you know that's how it's gonna. You 799 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,600 Speaker 3: know whatever, fuck it if you want to beat the 800 00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:36,120 Speaker 3: bitch's ass to the top, I'm you know, all I 801 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:40,759 Speaker 3: could do, hopefully, if if if I was hopefully I 802 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,840 Speaker 3: would be involved enough you know, in my daughter's life 803 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:51,040 Speaker 3: or you know, influences around some of these young women 804 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:51,840 Speaker 3: would be like this. 805 00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:58,360 Speaker 1: But sometimes what fuck's gonna do because. 806 00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:01,040 Speaker 3: As a young lady, like I said, I was a 807 00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:05,279 Speaker 3: nineteen eighteen year old motherfucker myself. That's why I say 808 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,120 Speaker 3: I could never judge a motherfucker because there were some 809 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:14,680 Speaker 3: things I did at seventeen eighteen, shit even sixteen, that 810 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,960 Speaker 3: I probably knew I shouldn't have been doing, but I 811 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:26,360 Speaker 3: did the motherfuckers anyway, And yeah, think of the consequences 812 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:30,960 Speaker 3: of my actions because I'm trying to get it, you 813 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,760 Speaker 3: feel me, because I'm feeling like I'm a young motherfucker 814 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:40,080 Speaker 3: who needed and fuck trying to go out and be 815 00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:44,120 Speaker 3: an honest motherfucker worked for it, and you know, but 816 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,319 Speaker 3: fuck that shit I'm gonna do with all the other 817 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:51,680 Speaker 3: motherfucking niggas who coming up doing so. And then there's 818 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,319 Speaker 3: there's there's that point to where a nigga can't tell 819 00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:55,759 Speaker 3: you shit. 820 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,680 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear no advice from no motherfucking body. 821 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:05,120 Speaker 3: So again, I am the last motherfucker, you know, outside 822 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:10,080 Speaker 3: of my own children, to give advice to as a 823 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:15,239 Speaker 3: young motherfucker, because motherfucker might want to hear. Motherfucker might 824 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:20,839 Speaker 3: tell me, nigga, fuck you, you're getting me real, put 825 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,480 Speaker 3: myself in the situation to where a nigga gonna tell 826 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:27,000 Speaker 3: me fuck me. Now, I gotta nigga, fuck you, You 827 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,400 Speaker 3: feel me? Who knows what's on? 828 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:29,759 Speaker 1: Time? 829 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,839 Speaker 3: I go with the young niggas saying, hey, I get 830 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,520 Speaker 3: it because I was once one. I was once you, 831 00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:43,560 Speaker 3: so I get it. But you know, I can tell 832 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,839 Speaker 3: you, you know what might happen in the long run. That's 833 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,680 Speaker 3: always been me from a nigga, from experience, from a nigga, 834 00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:54,920 Speaker 3: from what I've seen thirty years ago, you know, because 835 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,680 Speaker 3: it ain't nothing different. They still locking niggas up, Niggas 836 00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:03,040 Speaker 3: still getting shot, you're getting so it's no different. And 837 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:06,000 Speaker 3: that shit was going on thirty years ago, you feel me, 838 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,160 Speaker 3: that shit was going on forty fifty years or sixty 839 00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:15,400 Speaker 3: years ago. Shit y'all now popping niggas and homies dying 840 00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:19,600 Speaker 3: and representing the hood and with the nigga I was 841 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:23,279 Speaker 3: you thirty forty years ago, and I'm gonna tell you 842 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,360 Speaker 3: right now, it's the same shit. They're still locking you 843 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,640 Speaker 3: niggas up, They're still throwing away. The key niggas is 844 00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:34,279 Speaker 3: still dying, so you might want to listen to a 845 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,480 Speaker 3: motherfucker you feel me. You might not want to wait 846 00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,360 Speaker 3: till it's too late, but that's what it is. So 847 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,120 Speaker 3: I get it, and people gonna and then there's people 848 00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,680 Speaker 3: who gonna pay that loyal fee for me. I feel 849 00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,480 Speaker 3: pay my five ninety nine the up to see some 850 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:53,560 Speaker 3: hat and you get me. M. I mean, you know 851 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:58,600 Speaker 3: some people are untreatd by mess. I'm love. I'm gonna 852 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:02,279 Speaker 3: tell you people pay. I'm a nigga who avoid mess, 853 00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:08,719 Speaker 3: so I don't entertain. And again, I am not criticizing 854 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,160 Speaker 3: what a motherfucker do to make his money, because in 855 00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:17,960 Speaker 3: this day and age, motherfuckers do whatever they gotta do. 856 00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,759 Speaker 3: And at one point in time still you probably had 857 00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,080 Speaker 3: the mindset of I'm gonna do what the fuck I 858 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,600 Speaker 3: gotta do to get this bread mm. 859 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:35,160 Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, we got kids. You you live in certainty. 860 00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:37,640 Speaker 3: You got a point in time where I got it, 861 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:41,839 Speaker 3: but you made choice. That was the difference. You still say, Hey, 862 00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,240 Speaker 3: I'm gonna do what I gotta do, but it's certain 863 00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:45,960 Speaker 3: shit I'm not going to do. 864 00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:47,200 Speaker 1: You get you. 865 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,279 Speaker 2: I made a choice, and I made and you know what, 866 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,200 Speaker 2: he and I think. We all continuously make them choices. 867 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,920 Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you, man, I've had opportunities to do 868 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,600 Speaker 2: certain shit for a lot of bread, for a lot 869 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,200 Speaker 2: of bread, and I've seen, you know what, no cool 870 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,920 Speaker 2: one that I'm not doing that right, Because at the 871 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,719 Speaker 2: end of the day, bro, we still a minute, right, 872 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,319 Speaker 2: we got somebody, We got sons to wear our last name. 873 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,759 Speaker 2: They would have our last name forever. Do you know 874 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,600 Speaker 2: that would be how sick I would be? Man? At fun, 875 00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,120 Speaker 2: I did some stupid shit and it costs my kids 876 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,000 Speaker 2: opportunities to have motherfuckers looking at them. 877 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,600 Speaker 1: Crasy, right, you feel what I'm saying. So everything is 878 00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:26,120 Speaker 1: not working. 879 00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,360 Speaker 3: We've all been presented with the opportunities to dip for 880 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,359 Speaker 3: our feet in that water. You get me, But some 881 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:38,719 Speaker 3: of us go an, I don't want to take that die. 882 00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,120 Speaker 3: Some niggas go, fuck that, I'm jumping in head first, 883 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:42,680 Speaker 3: fuck it. 884 00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,160 Speaker 1: Mm hm. You get some of us test that water 885 00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:49,400 Speaker 1: and be like and get to thinking. 886 00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:54,080 Speaker 3: Like and that that that jump might not be that 887 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,600 Speaker 3: water might be down there. You know it's I don't 888 00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,279 Speaker 3: know if I want to do that. So you make choices, man, 889 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,479 Speaker 3: You know sometimes you know. And and like you said, 890 00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:05,839 Speaker 3: that's just God telling you man, you might not want 891 00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:06,520 Speaker 3: to do that ship. 892 00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, you might not want to man, I'm gonna tell 893 00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:13,400 Speaker 2: you bro. I remember, man, a motherfucker presented me with 894 00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:15,320 Speaker 2: the opportunity to make a lot of money. 895 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,040 Speaker 1: Man, and it wouldn't It wasn't nothing too bad. 896 00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,279 Speaker 2: It was some reality thing content, but it was some 897 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:25,239 Speaker 2: of that Who's Network type of ship, and it was 898 00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,000 Speaker 2: it was a good bag in it, man, you know 899 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,759 Speaker 2: what I decided? Man? And really I told my wife 900 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,000 Speaker 2: about it, because I tell my wife about trying out. 901 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,239 Speaker 2: I ain't go everything. I'm slicking up the whole no 902 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:35,120 Speaker 2: secrets from her, you. 903 00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:39,960 Speaker 1: Know what I mean. And she was like, she laughted, 904 00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:41,239 Speaker 1: well what you gonna do? 905 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,000 Speaker 2: When I said, man, I don't think it's gonna be 906 00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:44,440 Speaker 2: I don't think it would be cool, she said, I'm 907 00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,520 Speaker 2: glad you think that, because it wouldn't be cool, you know, 908 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:48,279 Speaker 2: like I wouldn't like that ship. 909 00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,160 Speaker 1: And oh no, that's just that's let me show what 910 00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:53,840 Speaker 1: you say, So what you're gonna do. 911 00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,160 Speaker 2: I wanted to see because you know, she said, she 912 00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,239 Speaker 2: wanted to see you know, the ship, you know, and 913 00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,200 Speaker 2: and it's real my wife's at the point and then. 914 00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,160 Speaker 1: A way she leave a motherfucker over some bullshit. 915 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,319 Speaker 2: You know. It's like then I can't blame her, man, 916 00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:06,640 Speaker 2: because I'm her husband. 917 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:07,439 Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying. 918 00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:13,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I look at that stuff, man, like I 919 00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,880 Speaker 2: look at this Zoo's networkshit man and shut up to 920 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,839 Speaker 2: that brother man because he made a gang of money. 921 00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,200 Speaker 2: He got a million, so he got millions to subscribe 922 00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,719 Speaker 2: as man paying six nine a month. That dude's making 923 00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,480 Speaker 2: a man six seven million dollars a month. 924 00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:31,480 Speaker 3: But it went costs and at some people's expense that 925 00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,120 Speaker 3: there is no cost to get me at that point 926 00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,600 Speaker 3: you make it six seven million dollars a month, there 927 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,359 Speaker 3: is no I don't give a fuck. I exploit your 928 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,799 Speaker 3: motherfucking mama if she want to come over here and 929 00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,520 Speaker 3: get out, like we get out and you have those motherfuckers. 930 00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,000 Speaker 3: You feel me some people, you know, And I don't 931 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,040 Speaker 3: know if to say that it's wrong to do to 932 00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:03,000 Speaker 3: you know, exploit people's thirst for success or you get me, 933 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:08,360 Speaker 3: because that's just like, you know, that's just like the 934 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:15,200 Speaker 3: theme of of the girl who come from the small 935 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:19,040 Speaker 3: town on the greyhound bus and come to Hollywood thinking 936 00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,279 Speaker 3: she gonna be a star, and then next thing you know, 937 00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,719 Speaker 3: you get me. She a star by fucking her way 938 00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:30,200 Speaker 3: to the top. Now she the biggest motherfucking stripper or 939 00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,800 Speaker 3: the biggest hole and everybody know in the industry, and 940 00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:34,920 Speaker 3: she making bread. 941 00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:39,520 Speaker 1: But at what costs? You know, so, man, And this 942 00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,280 Speaker 1: is the it's the same. It's the same. It's the same. 943 00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:46,600 Speaker 3: You give me, get you, You get you a young 944 00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:51,680 Speaker 3: motherfucking sexy red or something who stuck in the projects 945 00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:55,799 Speaker 3: or low income and poverty and struggling and got a 946 00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,600 Speaker 3: little bitty job at Walmart or some bullshit they make 947 00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,560 Speaker 3: it in me and bitch from the hood and got 948 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:07,680 Speaker 3: some squabble game and nigga hit Come the big bag wharf, nigga, 949 00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,520 Speaker 3: you know big grab Ball's house. Nigga, come all up 950 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:14,040 Speaker 3: in this house. You know Grandma, you get up in there, nigga, 951 00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,600 Speaker 3: it's the big back. But you know you explore the motherfucker. 952 00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,399 Speaker 3: You're gonna be rich and famous. Girl, Get up in here, 953 00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:23,479 Speaker 3: motherfucking squabble with a couple of motherfuckers and shit, next 954 00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,879 Speaker 3: thing you know, you're gonna have you a motherfucking rap 955 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,319 Speaker 3: song and a video, and you know you gonna be old. 956 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,200 Speaker 3: You're gonna beat cracking so. 957 00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:35,480 Speaker 2: Have you You know, you gotta think about an eight 958 00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,000 Speaker 2: and a lot of this ship. Man, I've had, you know, 959 00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:42,240 Speaker 2: that smacking contest shit where they got motherfucker's stimps make yeah, yeah, yeah, 960 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,120 Speaker 2: you know I could have did that, man like, I 961 00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,319 Speaker 2: could have been six years and seven years ahead of that. 962 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,839 Speaker 2: Dog Like I had the opportunity to do that shit, 963 00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,239 Speaker 2: and I said no, I said, man, no, I'm not 964 00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:52,839 Speaker 2: doing that. 965 00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,440 Speaker 1: And it was more that ain't the worst thing that 966 00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,400 Speaker 1: motherfucker to do. But for what, dog. 967 00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:03,200 Speaker 3: Like I said, some people, like some people you know, 968 00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,840 Speaker 3: like you said, you might have the morals to go. 969 00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,560 Speaker 3: I don't want to get involved with no type of 970 00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,680 Speaker 3: shit like that. But just like you action your wife about, 971 00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,840 Speaker 3: you know, should we do something like that with the 972 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,839 Speaker 3: bitches in the house fighting and doing all that shit? 973 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:24,160 Speaker 3: Are crazy and some of some people might. You know, 974 00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:28,200 Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure there's been a lot of motherfuckers who 975 00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:34,040 Speaker 3: probably looked at that and be and with like, I 976 00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,000 Speaker 3: don't want to touch that, you feel me. So there's 977 00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:41,000 Speaker 3: a lot of people that have the mind state that 978 00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:45,600 Speaker 3: you or I myself might have, like, Okay, it might 979 00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,600 Speaker 3: be lucrative, right, it might be pretty lucrative in the 980 00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:50,160 Speaker 3: long run. 981 00:53:52,440 --> 00:54:00,400 Speaker 1: I just like, sometimes all money ain't good money. 982 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,560 Speaker 3: And not to say that it ain't good for them, 983 00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,200 Speaker 3: but like you said, at what costs? You know, because 984 00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:09,799 Speaker 3: I'm sure there's been some some some some frustrations and 985 00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:14,480 Speaker 3: some fed up motherfuckers and some and and some some 986 00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:19,000 Speaker 3: some wrongdoings and ship, you know, so like you said, 987 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,520 Speaker 3: at what cost do you want to put yourself on that? 988 00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:21,880 Speaker 1: Nothing? 989 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,840 Speaker 2: And don't get me wrong, eight, I got some reality shows. 990 00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,279 Speaker 2: I'm about to start producing this some funny ship and 991 00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,480 Speaker 2: you know it's what it was, just funny. I'm not 992 00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:33,120 Speaker 2: against comedy, man, I'm just against anything man that's just 993 00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,680 Speaker 2: making our people look a certain kind of way. 994 00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:37,520 Speaker 1: That's that's me. 995 00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:42,080 Speaker 3: I'm I feel I get embarrassed by ship, certain ship. 996 00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,840 Speaker 3: I see, like, damn man, why the fuck they have 997 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,719 Speaker 3: to do that? And it's all you know, not not 998 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:52,680 Speaker 3: to say that other races and other motherfucking people don't 999 00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:57,080 Speaker 3: do just as dumb ship, but like you said, sometimes 1000 00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:02,400 Speaker 3: you be wanting sometimes you want that outcome for people different. 1001 00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:08,160 Speaker 3: And I say, fucking you know, to be saying some 1002 00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:12,239 Speaker 3: shit because of how a my uh but you of 1003 00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,799 Speaker 3: how I start, but you grow and you give me 1004 00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,480 Speaker 3: and you learn from shit. And that's why I said 1005 00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:22,680 Speaker 3: it's understandable, especially when it's a young person who you 1006 00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:26,759 Speaker 3: know hasn't lived a full life yet and don't know 1007 00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,720 Speaker 3: what it's like to be forty or fifty years old. 1008 00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:34,440 Speaker 3: And you know, if they're fortunate enough to make it 1009 00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:39,680 Speaker 3: to that age, then they will understand, you know, at 1010 00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:40,400 Speaker 3: that point in. 1011 00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:43,200 Speaker 1: Time, like damn, I was all on. 1012 00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:47,240 Speaker 3: Camera fighting bitches and get into it, and you get 1013 00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:51,560 Speaker 3: me and and what image do you want to leave 1014 00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,879 Speaker 3: for people at the end of the day. And Okay, yeah, 1015 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,520 Speaker 3: you're successful now. And twenty years later, you know you've 1016 00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:02,480 Speaker 3: made millions of dollars and you know you're probably able 1017 00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:06,920 Speaker 3: to live comfortable and and your generational people after that 1018 00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:11,600 Speaker 3: will probably be able to hopefully, you know, be successful 1019 00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:14,680 Speaker 3: from your rise. But at what costs that you have 1020 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:18,759 Speaker 3: to go through, Like you, like in all situations, you know, 1021 00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,120 Speaker 3: we had to go through the bullshit for y'all to 1022 00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:22,440 Speaker 3: be able to have it easy. 1023 00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:23,000 Speaker 1: Today. 1024 00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,960 Speaker 3: You feel me and I feel that's just that's one 1025 00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:29,000 Speaker 3: that's one of those steps. You get me just like 1026 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:32,439 Speaker 3: us in the beginning of of of hip hop. 1027 00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:33,160 Speaker 1: You get me. 1028 00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,680 Speaker 3: And there was a lot of ship that we had 1029 00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:38,440 Speaker 3: to go through and take on the chi in for 1030 00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,319 Speaker 3: motherfuckers to be able to do what the fuck they 1031 00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,839 Speaker 3: want to do. Today, you can release what the fuck 1032 00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:46,560 Speaker 3: you want to do today. You can you you ain't 1033 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,120 Speaker 3: even gotta worry about radio now. You can just have 1034 00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:53,080 Speaker 3: your ship streamed on a platform today. And you know 1035 00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,279 Speaker 3: it's so all that shit niggas had to take on 1036 00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,600 Speaker 3: the chin and you know, get the dogs sicked on 1037 00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:04,400 Speaker 3: them and all that type of shit, and and maybe 1038 00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,000 Speaker 3: that's what they'll be saying, you know, down the road. 1039 00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,200 Speaker 3: We had to fight bitches on camera and we had 1040 00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:14,879 Speaker 3: to do this. For now you can start your own 1041 00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,480 Speaker 3: network like it ain't shit. You know, it used to 1042 00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,680 Speaker 3: be used to be just for the big motherfuckers, the 1043 00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,960 Speaker 3: ABC movies. 1044 00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,640 Speaker 2: And some ship to make millions of dollars. Dog, you 1045 00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:27,600 Speaker 2: make some money. 1046 00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:32,280 Speaker 3: We went through the rough shit of beating bitches asses 1047 00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,640 Speaker 3: and going through all kinds of crazy shit and showing 1048 00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:39,840 Speaker 3: people that shit you look up after made one hundred 1049 00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:43,320 Speaker 3: million dollars from a nigga's fishing of his own because 1050 00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,720 Speaker 3: they ain't gonna put this shit on No ABC they 1051 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,760 Speaker 3: ain't gonna put this ship. I got an idea for 1052 00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,600 Speaker 3: a show, you negga putting bitches in the house and 1053 00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,120 Speaker 3: just let them go out and trap with each other 1054 00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,040 Speaker 3: and woo you won't. ABC ain't gonna put that on. 1055 00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:00,120 Speaker 3: But the crazy shit is, twenty years from now, you 1056 00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:04,000 Speaker 3: might turn ABC and BC on and see motherfuckers fighting 1057 00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,440 Speaker 3: inside the house on you the fucking Bachelor on the 1058 00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:11,439 Speaker 3: On the Bachelor, you get because it's cool, right, They're 1059 00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,520 Speaker 3: gonna popularize it now to wear a shit, So you 1060 00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:17,600 Speaker 3: might see two niggas on The Bachelor getting into it 1061 00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,080 Speaker 3: over or if two females getting into it. You know, 1062 00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:26,000 Speaker 3: it's just the criteria of what is accepted. You feel me, man, 1063 00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:27,760 Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you, Doug Will. 1064 00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:33,600 Speaker 1: Can you imagine imagine watching the Bachelorette and watching niggas 1065 00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,920 Speaker 1: fighting on the Bachelorette over the bitch on ABC? You 1066 00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:37,480 Speaker 1: get me. 1067 00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:39,880 Speaker 2: They would never have that because I'm gonna tell you, man, 1068 00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,880 Speaker 2: and I don't like to shit black and white, but 1069 00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:44,880 Speaker 2: they ain't gonna never make themselves look crazy like that. 1070 00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:46,640 Speaker 1: They're not gonna do it. 1071 00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,960 Speaker 2: It's just up and on that note, man, we a 1072 00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:54,200 Speaker 2: part of your dog yill Well. 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