1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over 9 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. 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Yeah, we got a lot of friends here. 20 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,759 Speaker 3: The Rock Nation building new York City. We only come 21 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 3: to this building for special occasions, so we were summoned 22 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 3: every time. 23 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 2: Every time were summoned, we show up. 24 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 4: That's a fact. 25 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 3: We got summoned today by one of the biggest in 26 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 3: the game, somebody that we've actually been wanting to talk 27 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 3: to for a while now. But everything happens when it's 28 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 3: supposed to happen. So Yo Gotti, Yes, congratulations. First and foremost, 29 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 3: I know you got a project that's dropping Gangster gross 30 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 3: so we're going to talk about that, but we're also 31 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 3: going to talk about everything that you have going on 32 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 3: and so much stuff. I feel like you're one of 33 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 3: these people that just keep going. You know, it's like 34 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 3: a few people rose you. It's like you know a 35 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 3: few people that just kind of just when you think 36 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 3: they've reached a certain pinnacle, they do something else totally 37 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 3: out the box that nobody really So I'm really excited 38 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 3: to have this conversation. Thank you for joining us, appreciate it. 39 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 3: Let's get it, yeah for sure. So all right, so 40 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about the business, but first let's talk 41 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 3: about the project. What made you want to do a 42 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:17,119 Speaker 3: gangster grows like Gangster GROLs obviously, that's like legendary mix 43 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 3: tape type series. 44 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 4: Vibes with DJ drama. 45 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:21,959 Speaker 3: Obviously where you are in your game right now, you're 46 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 3: a veteran label owner, entrepreneur, I feel like you want 47 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 3: to kind of go back. 48 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 4: To the core. Yeah, it's an art piece, you know 49 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like at this point, one man and 50 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 4: moving forward, like any music composition I put together. To me, 51 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 4: it's like it's purposeful and it's an art piece, you 52 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 4: know what I mean. So it's a short project, it's 53 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 4: ten songs being Dramma, and it's like it was like 54 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 4: the answer something that I started in two thousand and six. 55 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 4: I put out a mixtape call I Told You so, 56 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, and when I was like, 57 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 4: had a vision of doing a lot of these things, 58 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 4: I actually done. So this is kind of like the 59 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 4: follow up that is like I showed you so you 60 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, And to me, it is purposeful. 61 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 4: It's an art piece. And Drumma was a part of it. 62 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 4: That movement, just the whole the whole culture had felt 63 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 4: back then was a part of it, you know what 64 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 4: I mean. I wanted to capture that feeling within the project. 65 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. 66 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 5: When I looked at the titles I checked the project, 67 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 5: I was dope. I'm gonna talk about a few of 68 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 5: the saws that I really like. I want to learn 69 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 5: how to pronounce the word view like you pronounced it. 70 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 5: But we'll get into that. So you went from I 71 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 5: told you show to I showed you so right, which 72 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 5: is very fitting because that's a seventeen year span between projects. 73 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 5: Obviously coming from Memphis, most people are not looking at 74 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 5: it from a hip hop scene at the time. In 75 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 5: two thousand and six, this is going to be a 76 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 5: prominent place where that could dominate music. What was that 77 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 5: process like over the seventeen years of continuousy grinding and 78 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 5: contingency grind to. 79 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 2: Say like, nah, we got something to say. 80 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 4: I mean, the project was just like a you know, 81 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 4: an ongoing hustle, you know what I'm saying. It's like, 82 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 4: you know, when you're driving the car, you got to 83 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 4: have the navigation. You got to know where you're going. 84 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 4: Everybody may not know it, may be a lot of 85 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 4: people that jump in and out of car, may be 86 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 4: some solid ones that never get out the car, but 87 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 4: somebody got to have a rollmap, you know what I'm saying. 88 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 4: I feel like I'm one of them people that always 89 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 4: had the rollmap when it came to hustling or it 90 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 4: came to the playing, you know what I'm saying. That's 91 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 4: one of the things I feel like I was just 92 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 4: blessed with, like the way that sometimes I don't have 93 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 4: the answer, I'm just driving right, but I figured it 94 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 4: out on my way, you know what I'm saying, And 95 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 4: I always end up going in the right direction. So 96 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 4: let's talk about the label. I feel like you. 97 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 3: Have the hottest label in the game right now with 98 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 3: so many artists Like I don't know how you You're 99 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 3: extremely talented as far as finding these artists, like are 100 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 3: you actually like do you have it air as at 101 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 3: an R? Because from ESG to money Bag YOD to 102 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 3: A forty two Doug, they're all different type of artists, 103 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 3: but they all may hit records. Like how do you 104 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 3: continuously find artists and get them to become stars? 105 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 4: I mean, I don't do it by myself, you know, 106 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 4: of course I think, well, of course I got the era, 107 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 4: I got a I got the eyesight, I got the indicators, 108 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 4: I got you know everything. We need to identify the 109 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 4: right talent and to move it in the right direction. 110 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 4: But it ain't just me by far, you know what 111 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 4: I mean. We got a big team, We got a 112 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 4: big staff, you know, and we run our company in 113 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 4: like an open table discussion type, you know, I mean, 114 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 4: like anybody can present anything, you know. I mean, you 115 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 4: don't even got to be an an r. You can 116 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 4: be anybody be like I think this dope, I think 117 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 4: this key here, and you just put it on the table. 118 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 4: We look at everything and if we think it's you 119 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, if we think it's some of 120 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 4: course I got the least say it like, you know 121 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 4: what I mean, Like if I think that's what it is, 122 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 4: and my team lead and I'm gonna make the right decision. 123 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 4: So but it ain't you know, every artist can come differently. 124 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 3: How do you determine because you haven't really missed that's 125 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 3: extremely difficult to do. To just continuously get artists that 126 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 3: are successful, that's almost impossible. How have you been able 127 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 3: to It's one thing to you know, identify a person 128 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: has talent. Another thing to identified a person can actually 129 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 3: go through the process and actually make it. It can't 130 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 3: just be luck like five after five people. There's a 131 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 3: system that's put in place, like you have to have 132 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 3: something that is filtering people to make it. So, like, 133 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 3: what do you look for in an artist to say 134 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 3: like this is a person that I really want to 135 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 3: invest in. 136 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 4: I think, first of all, I'm a artists first, you 137 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, So I understand artists. What's up? 138 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 6: Bro? 139 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 2: We'll be interrupted by Mike Rubin. 140 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 7: Saying that. 141 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 4: It was here that keep it rolling, talk about my 142 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 4: guy killing it to work. I appreciate it, Yeah, but uh, 143 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 4: I mean I was saying I'm an artist first. So 144 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 4: I think that's one of my biggest My biggest strengths 145 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 4: is that I feel like I can understand the artists 146 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 4: in the way nobody else can or most executives can't, 147 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Like they may understand you know, 148 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 4: marketing or or different things that I understand too, but 149 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 4: understanding the artists and knowing how to motivate the artists, 150 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 4: how to help an artist, how to pull things out 151 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 4: of artists, you know, knowing that I had to shut 152 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 4: artist confidence down or ego down, or or not getting 153 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 4: in their way. That's a whole another trait, you know 154 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So I think I know that from 155 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 4: being an artist myself. And also like we just try 156 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 4: to pick right you know what I mean, Like we 157 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 4: don't just sign anything or anybody or you know, we 158 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 4: make sure we do the due diligence that we picking 159 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 4: the right person, you know what I'm saying. So we 160 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 4: ain't just got a lot of things in the mix 161 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 4: just taking up a lot of time. 162 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 5: So being an artist, right, and I think this is 163 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 5: something that you've mastered, and we've seen very few people 164 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 5: master having a label and having artists that sometimes will 165 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 5: grow even bigger than you are at. 166 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 2: The present time. So we've watched money Back explode. 167 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,079 Speaker 5: His career is out of control, right, and then you 168 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 5: come back in forty two is incredible, right, you see, 169 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 5: it's g's incredible. 170 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 2: And then Glo Reala just comes through and SMOs everybody. 171 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 5: How is it from your standpoint of being like, one, 172 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,199 Speaker 5: ye're an artist and getting out of the way of 173 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 5: your artists too, see and encouraging them. Right when I'm 174 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 5: listening to Fake Love, I'm like, you know, he's reflective 175 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 5: of these moments. 176 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 2: Right. 177 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 5: Even the billboard cover was like, nah, I'm not doing 178 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 5: this cover unless they're with me, So like, is that 179 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 5: something that you have to grow into to realize, like 180 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 5: y'all gonna get out there way, let them shine, that 181 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:16,599 Speaker 5: their success's monitor Like how do you balance that? 182 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 4: Well, first, I think all the artists I work with 183 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 4: like different artists, and that everybody's different artists, they different businesses. 184 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 4: They all they own separate businesses and entities. That's how 185 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 4: I look at it from a business standpoint, Like everybody 186 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,599 Speaker 4: business model to success or profit or whatever it is 187 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 4: we try to do is different. You know, or work 188 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 4: for Glow you know that ain't mean never work for 189 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 4: money Bag or work for money Bag. Don't mean that 190 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 4: worked for g or Doug. You know what I mean. 191 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 4: You gotta be like that in tune with the details. 192 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 4: It ain't like a factory where you're just doing the 193 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 4: same thing with every single person that come through her, 194 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And I don't think I 195 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 4: had to grow into that because I ain't never been 196 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 4: that type of individual, you know what I'm saying. You 197 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 4: know I was in the music business when I was 198 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 4: just in the street. I was able to get money 199 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 4: or my partners in the street without having an ego 200 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 4: or issue, you know what I'm saying. Like I always 201 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 4: been a selfless person, and I always been a team person. 202 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 4: So I ain't never I ain't never helped to grow 203 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 4: into stepping out the way. I'm not the way anyway. 204 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. Hey, I not easy to do, 205 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So you know, I understand 206 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 4: my position. I understand I'm a team player. I know 207 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 4: how to play my role, you know what I mean. 208 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 4: I let people do what they want to do. I 209 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 4: don't get in nobody way. You know what I'm saying. 210 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 4: I do what I was supposed to do for them, 211 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 4: and we don't have no issues. 212 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 3: So let's take it back to the beginning. You start, 213 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 3: because the first time I heard about you, it was crazy. 214 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 3: I haven't heard your name for a long time, but 215 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 3: I wasn't in tune your music. And I saw a 216 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 3: video I think it was in Dallas and. 217 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 8: You walk through a mall and like you shut the 218 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 8: mall down, and I had never heard your song before, 219 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,559 Speaker 8: and I just just that just blew my mind that 220 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 8: I'm like, damn like and dependent, like I never heard 221 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,839 Speaker 8: his music before, and he obviously. 222 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 4: In the South, was like jay Z. 223 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, So what's the first Like 224 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 3: steps that you took to get the label off the ground? 225 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 3: Did you come in independent as a label? You came 226 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 3: in as an artist then signed with the major, Like 227 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,719 Speaker 3: what's the process from the start to here? 228 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,439 Speaker 4: Came in as an artist through my own label from 229 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 4: the beginning, off the yeah front, off the rip. But 230 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 4: then you know, as I got into the game, you know, 231 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 4: I signed as an artist a couple of times, two 232 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 4: different labels, TVT Records, UH RCA. You know, I bought 233 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 4: myself out of a couple of contracts, you know what 234 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 4: I'm saying. I bought myself out to deal with TVT, 235 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 4: UH the one with r c A too. So I 236 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 4: played kind of on both sides of the field, and 237 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 4: I think, you know, as an artist, sometimes you have 238 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 4: to depend on everybody. What you need what you don't 239 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 4: need is different, you know what I'm saying. So I 240 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 4: came in though as an artist with my own label 241 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 4: from the beginning, I went into just being an artist 242 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,959 Speaker 4: on a major label. I came back out of this system, 243 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Said I was gonna be 244 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 4: independent if ever end up doing a partnership with a 245 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 4: major again, because I felt like that were made sense 246 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 4: at the time. So it's just you know, I've been 247 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 4: going through through different different layers of it. 248 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,719 Speaker 5: Yeah, there's one thing that I've never heard, and this 249 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 5: is quite astonishing, right, Like a lot of times in 250 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 5: the music business we hear that artists they didn't like that. 251 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 2: Contract, it was a bad deal, bad contract. I've never 252 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 2: heard a story about that from you. 253 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 5: So, like, how did you get the business savvy to 254 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 5: navigate through all these deals and make sure that you're 255 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 5: on the right end of everything that you signed, I. 256 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 4: Mean, keeping it g I ain't saying I was just 257 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 4: like super business sabbog on this, you know, coming since 258 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 4: I think coming, since it's the best since best business since, 259 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But I wouldn't say I 260 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 4: was super savage own the music business from the beginning, 261 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like I think my first 262 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 4: couple of contracts are bad. I just ain't a complaining 263 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. I am type of nigga 264 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 4: that make excuses and be whining, and I don't feel 265 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 4: like getting on the internet talking about a contract helps me, 266 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 4: you know what I mean? What that do for me? 267 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,719 Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Like, you know it's like 268 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,199 Speaker 4: you in with you in, get through it. If you 269 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 4: learn something from it, don't get it again. That's the 270 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 4: type of person I am. So you'll never hear me 271 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 4: whining then complaining and making excuses about even if I 272 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 4: got to even if I'm dealt a bad hand, I'm 273 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 4: gonna just make the best out of it and then 274 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:27,719 Speaker 4: and learn from it, you know what I mean. So 275 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that my first couple of situations, I 276 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 4: went into what the best ones. I don't know if 277 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 4: you heard me say that. I brought myself out my 278 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 4: first couple of contracts. I had to buy myself out 279 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,839 Speaker 4: for a reason. You just ain't never seen me on 280 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 4: the internet wiring about it, you know what. I think 281 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 4: that's the difference. How much how much did it cost 282 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 4: to buy yourself off? I think the first one like 283 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 4: four five hundred or some four five hundred thousand I 284 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,199 Speaker 4: think I signed for. I think they gave me like 285 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 4: forty thousand. How many albums was you obligated for? I 286 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 4: mean I would like to typle trick, probably four or five. Okay, 287 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 4: So why'd you buy yourself out? You just didn't see 288 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 4: it going anywhere? Yeah, I mean the company had kind 289 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 4: of folded. They had the company had folded, and then 290 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 4: the contracts got inquired by the next company they bought it, 291 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So we basically moved to 292 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 4: the company they bought the other company, you know what 293 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 4: I'm saying. But I wasn't really like super pleased with 294 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 4: the original company anyway, you know what I mean. So 295 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 4: I saw that as a move when they went to 296 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 4: the new new company to approach them, like, Yo, I'm 297 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 4: trying to like do something different, you know what I'm saying, 298 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 4: But I ain't ask it for nothing for free, you 299 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 4: know what it calls or how we can work it 300 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 4: out big. 301 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 2: Of course, to be the boss. 302 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 5: So two thousand and six, the first mixtape dropped, well, 303 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 5: not the first mixtape, but the first Gangs the Gills 304 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 5: Gainst the Grills drops twenty thirteen. 305 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 2: There's a transition where now. 306 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 5: This isn't a Memphis story, this is becoming a national 307 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 5: everybody's starting to know the name. What was the strategy 308 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 5: from your team at that point to Sor right, we 309 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 5: got to make ourselves more known to the general pub 310 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 5: but we got to become a part of the fixture 311 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 5: of hip hop culture. 312 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 4: I feel like we always felt like that, you know 313 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 4: what I'm saying. I felt like we were just hustling 314 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 4: and you know, trying to make our way through the 315 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 4: game and learning as we was going. You know, I 316 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 4: always been a study or so like I always studied 317 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 4: certain people like Jay Z and Jay Prince and mister 318 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 4: P bird MANA. Slim. Actually spent a lot of time 319 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 4: with bird Man and Slim earlier in my career, and 320 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 4: that that kind of taught me a lot of my 321 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 4: executive skills and just just just really just seeing the 322 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 4: game firsthand from being able to like watch a person 323 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 4: go through and deal with it. Them years that I 324 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 4: was around bird Man and Slim was probably like to 325 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 4: me some of my most valuable lessons and and game 326 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 4: I was able to pick up. What's one of the 327 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 4: one of the things you learned from them, I mean 328 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 4: one of the things I learned that like, you know, 329 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 4: you got to you gotta take this shit serious and 330 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 4: you gotta work, you know what I mean. I don't 331 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 4: think I seen nobody that were more than them, you know, 332 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 4: so I look at I look at life like this, right, 333 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 4: so you know, just the cash money me now said 334 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 4: they going to the studio every day. The studio is 335 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 4: the office, you know what I mean. So I'm like 336 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 4: niggas ain't working more than them, and they you know, 337 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 4: a hundred times ahead of you. They out hustling you, 338 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 4: and you way behind, you know what I mean. So 339 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 4: like if anybody that if you probably ever talk to 340 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 4: that have been around just the cash money family system, 341 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 4: like you know, the way Wayne was in the studio, 342 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 4: the way they stayed in the studio, like this was 343 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 4: like the trap, like ify day, wake up, report to 344 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 4: the studio. But it makes sense right because you selling music, 345 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Like it's like being in 346 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 4: the street and but you never own your you feel 347 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 4: I mean, like what you're doing, you know what I mean. So, uh, 348 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 4: that was one of the things I learned, and I 349 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 4: man a lot of more things, you know, a lot 350 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 4: of things I learned just you know, you know, directly 351 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 4: and directly. So the situation that you have now CMG. 352 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 4: You said it's distributed through scope and Universal Partnership and LESCOPE. Okay, 353 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 4: so when did that formalize? That a couple of years 354 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 4: ago and like maybe two three years but. 355 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 3: So what is that because we had that a lot 356 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 3: like what does that actually mean? So that means that 357 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 3: they distributed. All right, we get that part of it, 358 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 3: and then. 359 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 5: How do I save? Where do I invest? Can I 360 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 5: build wealth to pass on to my family? Fidelity's got 361 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 5: answers for you right here at invest Vest. 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Learn 369 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 5: more at fidelity dot com, slash black Wealth, or visit 370 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 5: booth two oh one. 371 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 3: You and them the music they distributed, they pay for 372 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,399 Speaker 3: marketing or you got to pay for marketing. They take 373 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 3: a percentage of the album sales. Like what's the actual 374 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 3: business behind like that type of spot? 375 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 4: I mean it's a partnership, Like a true partnership is 376 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 4: like you know somebody that invests. Right, it's basically like 377 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 4: an investment. Right, you put up the paper, but I 378 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 4: stand behind the paper. You know what I'm saying, my 379 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 4: company is my decision. You know what I'm saying. I 380 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 4: got to make sure I deliver it for me, you 381 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. But you know, it's just come 382 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 4: with services too. So you may have you have different 383 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 4: radio staff, or you have you know, TV and FAM 384 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 4: and you have different departments that you also able to 385 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 4: tap into outside of the financial resources that they give you. 386 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 4: But it's still your company and you you driving the 387 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 4: car and your company, cause they have partnerships with many people, 388 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 4: so they're not writing the plan out for you. You 389 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. They just help you. They basically 390 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 4: your partner give your budget. 391 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, and your budget is determined by how successful you are. 392 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 4: Like every regular, I think I think your budget is 393 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,919 Speaker 4: determined off. Actually I think I actually think your budget 394 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 4: is determined off if they believe you know what the 395 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 4: fuck you're doing or not. You know what I'm saying, 396 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 4: Because actually I can do whatever I want to do. 397 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. If I say, get that 398 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 4: person and to spend this on this person to do that, 399 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 4: I ain't never getting questioned, you know what I'm saying. 400 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 4: But I'm also proven to know what I'm doing. So 401 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 4: I believe it's if they feel like you know what 402 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 4: you're doing and who you is. I think they that's 403 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 4: that's how the partnership go, you know what I mean, 404 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 4: probably different than your business. If your partner felt like 405 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 4: you want to do an interveria top of the uh yeah, 406 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 4: if I statement and they're like, man, shit, caught three 407 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 4: hundred down to do that, don't make sense, you know 408 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Or they just believe in whatever you 409 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 4: say is the way because you're always proving that the 410 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 4: plays you make all pay off. You know what I'm saying, 411 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 4: They're always the right place. Every time everything you bring 412 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 4: to the table, it's it always worked. 413 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 3: It's like Michael Jordan could streame on a coach John Paxson, 414 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 3: can't you know what I mean? Sont really? 415 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 4: I think with me? I just thought about that when 416 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 4: you said that, you know, I make my I create, 417 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 4: I create my own budgets. 418 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 5: How is it when you know there's a project, or 419 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 5: there may be a piece of art that an artist 420 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 5: is trying to create and you don't see the vision, 421 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 5: but the artist does, right, Like, how do how do 422 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 5: you navigate through that? Because I mean, there's got to 423 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,400 Speaker 5: be a resolution and sometimes you have the final say, 424 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 5: but you know the artist is looking at it as 425 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 5: their creative piece of art that they're offering to the world. 426 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 2: So how do you navigate that type of situation? 427 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 8: With me? 428 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 4: With every artists I work with and ever work with, 429 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,719 Speaker 4: they always got the found say, yeah, is they art? 430 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,479 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, is they life? Is they art? 431 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 5: You know? 432 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 4: I'm more of a like a mentor advice you know, 433 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 4: like truly your partner who you can we can go 434 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 4: back and forth about hash, you know, its opinion and advice, 435 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 4: but at the end of the day, whatever the artists 436 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 4: want to do, that's that's how we roll them. 437 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 3: So I always look at running a label kind of 438 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 3: like a coach. You got to manage personalities, extremely difficult. 439 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 3: Everybody's coming from different areas, they got different egos. All 440 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 3: artists have egos. It has to happen. You wouldn't be 441 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 3: a successful artist if you didn't have ego. Some people 442 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 3: egos are bigger than others. But you have to manage that. 443 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 4: How difficult is that? 444 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 3: And how do you how do you manage dealing with 445 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 3: so many different people and making sure that everybody is happy, 446 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 3: taken care of and not feeling neglected. A lot of 447 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 3: times people don't tell you that they feel a certain 448 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 3: way until it's too late, you know what I mean, 449 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 3: Like how do you. 450 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 4: How do you do that? I mean, I just try to, 451 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 4: like you know, I think one of the most important 452 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 4: things is your relationship with everybody individually. You know what 453 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 4: I mean, whatever bun it is, you be also, I'm 454 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 4: heavy on it. And to me, how you be heavy 455 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 4: on that is transparency truth. You know what I mean, 456 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 4: whether it's good or bad, I'm always gonna tell you 457 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 4: the truth, you know what I mean, because I want 458 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 4: to create that relationship that's like you know what I mean, 459 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 4: like we like brothers mean like you can or you 460 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 4: can tell me the truth. You know what I mean. 461 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 4: And and that's me and your theme whether it's good 462 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 4: or bad like and it ain't it ain't gonna ever 463 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 4: leave me and you you know what I mean. So 464 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 4: to me, my goal is to always create that with 465 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 4: whoever I'm working with. And it's like a trust thing, 466 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 4: like if I can trust you and you can trust me, 467 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 4: they don't matter how good or bad this shit be, 468 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 4: and we in it together. To me, that's the strongest 469 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 4: thing you can create and then make the business flow. 470 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 4: They make the business flow, like even smoother because now 471 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 4: you and the artists always know that, like you one 472 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 4: thousand with them, and if you one, you gonna let 473 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 4: them know, not in front of everybody. You know what 474 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like we can be in there, we can 475 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 4: be in there in front of the endoscope, and I 476 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 4: think what you said is the worst shit in the world. 477 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,080 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. But I never said you 478 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 2: have a conversation after you feel me. 479 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 4: I never say this ship right there? You know what 480 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,680 Speaker 4: I mean. Now when we leave, I can't even see 481 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 4: it in front of you know, my people and young people. 482 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 4: You know, when me and you get alan or me 483 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 4: and you get on the phone, then I tell you 484 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 4: like I don't agree with that. I don't think that 485 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 4: shit smart. But I'm also gonna tell you but if 486 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 4: that's how you want to roll, that's how we're gonna roll. 487 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 2: Stand up. 488 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. But I gotta let you 489 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 4: know because I can't afford if it goes long for 490 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 4: you to tell me why you ain't telling me this ship? 491 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Like, like why ain't tear 492 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 4: me with tripping. Bro. 493 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 2: I seen this on some videos in the past, and 494 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 2: I'm like, I don got to. I know he's gonna 495 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,360 Speaker 2: say something after this video for you. I mean, that's 496 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 2: that's your stand up. 497 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 4: But you got to, cause I feel like, Bro, when 498 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 4: you're a true team, you gotta be able to take 499 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 4: the hit sometimes the of the the hard part of 500 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 4: the loss or whatever. Just like you can go to 501 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 4: the bank with the motherfucker. You know what I'm saying. 502 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 4: You gotta be able to, you know, take to hit 503 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 4: with them too. 504 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 3: If that were the cause you see what you've seen 505 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 3: it As a leader, just from looking at it, you're 506 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 3: more of a laid back. 507 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,159 Speaker 4: Type of vibe as opposed to hip hop. 508 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 3: We've always had the label on it in the forefront 509 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,479 Speaker 3: like Diddy, like Shook Knight, like you know, these are 510 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 3: like very like aggressive personalities, but you seem like you're 511 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 3: more like you said, you kind of just let them 512 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 3: do what they want to do. You might give them advice, 513 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 3: you're going to you always like that or this something 514 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 3: that you had to learn to kind of like just 515 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 3: play a little bit back and kind of not be 516 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 3: too assertive. 517 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 4: Nothing. I always been like that, Yeah, I always been 518 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 4: like that, because again, I always understood a team. Always 519 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 4: understood the team win championships. No one person win the championship, 520 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 4: not even me, And it's my label. I can't do 521 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 4: this shit by myself. You know what I'm saying, be 522 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 4: young the artists, Like I got twenty thirty staff members, 523 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 4: I wanted to go saying I got twenty thirty staff 524 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 4: member to me is just just as important, you know 525 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 4: what I mean, Because I can't do it all without them, 526 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Like, were working twenty four 527 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 4: hours round the clock for eight man people every day. 528 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, fixing, ship playing and ship 529 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 4: mark you know what I mean, Like, you can't do that. 530 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 4: You can't do that by yourself, you you know what 531 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 4: I mean. You got to have the right team that 532 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 4: I was. 533 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 5: I was going there because as you're talking, I'm thinking 534 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 5: to myself, Yes, you're signing artists, but when you sign artists, 535 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 5: they come with antoage of people. But on top of 536 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 5: just signing them, you're actually every time you get a 537 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 5: new artist and they are super successful, you're scaling, and 538 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 5: so you have to hire new people to help with 539 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 5: that scaling process. 540 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 2: So, like, how involved in that are you? 541 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:36,399 Speaker 7: Are you? 542 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 2: Is it somebody? 543 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 4: Like? 544 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 2: Who are the people on the team that make sure 545 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 2: that we're going to a point where got to scale? 546 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 2: What's the budget? You know, who's making pick? Like, who's 547 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 2: doing all that we got? 548 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 4: We got? We ain't running no like this ain't no 549 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 4: because people forget that. It's I mean, we ain't running 550 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 4: no fake label shit over like right right right? We 551 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 4: got everything, you know what I'm saying, All the financial ship, 552 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 4: the uh you know hr like everything is professionally runing, 553 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 4: the offices, everything is like you know what I mean? 554 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 4: And I try to bring on Actually, every time we 555 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 4: sign an artist, we try to bring on two three 556 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 4: extra staff members because we want every artist to have 557 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 4: people dedicated. It's dedicated to just them, you know what 558 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 4: I'm saying. So every time we bring on a artists, 559 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 4: we bring on more staff. 560 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think people forget that part. 561 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 5: It's like they you know, you see artists and it 562 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 5: becomes successful, the first thing they want to do is like, 563 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 5: I'm a creative label, but there's a business that goes 564 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 5: behind the misstructure. 565 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 4: You got to run the business behind it because I 566 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 4: ain't gonna be you know, my things, I ain't doing 567 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 4: this shit to look good. I ain't doing this shit 568 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 4: for that, you know what I mean. Like I'm a 569 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 4: definitely one of mean niggas. Is what a hoodie and 570 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 4: the loco art? You know what I mean? I'm playing 571 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 4: I'm playing shit for real. 572 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 3: So let me ask you this your perspective on this, 573 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 3: because we ask artists this and they all kind of 574 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,719 Speaker 3: have a lot of similar views on it, but they 575 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 3: never also actually invested in a person and it might 576 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 3: not have working out. 577 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 4: What's your viewpoint on three sixty deals? I feel like 578 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 4: business is business right, you know what I mean? Going 579 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 4: back through I was telling you about myself in my 580 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 4: younger days right and my younger business ventures. I think 581 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 4: business is business right. I think who said this the 582 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 4: whole was somebody say this, like like what's one hundred 583 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 4: percent of zero? 584 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 2: Right? 585 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,640 Speaker 4: So to me, you ain't thinking logical when you think 586 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 4: you get everything and nobody getting nothing from you. That's 587 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 4: not common sense, you know what I mean. So if 588 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 4: we meet, just give us a name. Say that's a 589 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 4: brand new artist who walk out this building today, right? 590 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 4: What's your value today? How much you're getting for a 591 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 4: show today, how many records you're selling today? How much 592 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 4: merch you're selling today? Nothing? You know what I mean. 593 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 4: You're grossing five hundred a year dollars right, so now 594 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 4: let's say us three. Put the money in, put the 595 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 4: work in. Now you're making five hundr median a year 596 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 4: or five me whatever, way, don't fuck you none of that. 597 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 2: Because it's a term. 598 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 4: That's ain three to sixty and it don't sound cool. 599 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 4: And you seem like you're bossed up because you ain't 600 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 4: in one. It's bullshit that ain't business. Stand on business, 601 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So you basically telling me 602 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 4: you want me to put on my money, You want 603 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 4: me to put up my time, you want me to 604 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 4: take my risk, but you don't want me gettinghing or 605 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 4: take because I haven't because it ain't guaranteed that you're 606 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,199 Speaker 4: gonna win. My mean, you ain't guarantee that you're even 607 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 4: gonna win. 608 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 3: In my opinion on this, I want to come into 609 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 3: I said this, and I got some backlash to me. 610 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 3: There's no such thing as a bad deal because people 611 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 3: Here's how I view this. People say they got a 612 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 3: bad deal after the deal, like three years after you're educated, 613 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 3: after you have enough money. But in that moment, you 614 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 3: wouldn't have taken a deal if it was bad, Like 615 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 3: hindsight is twenty twenty. You can't look at it like that, 616 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 3: like you're saying like, yeah, I got five hundred thousand, 617 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 3: but yeah, in that moment, five hundred thousand change your life. 618 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 4: But in that moment, you ain't have five hundred dollars exactly, 619 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 4: I feel me exactly. And you had no outlets, and 620 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 4: you had no team, and you had no information even 621 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 4: how to get five thousand dollars, you know what I'm saying, 622 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 4: And you maybe would have never made it. 623 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 2: Chances are probably not, you feel me, so, I mean, 624 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 2: but I do I believe it. 625 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 4: Being fair, you know what I mean. And that's again 626 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 4: with me being an artist. First, you know what I'm saying, 627 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 4: I feel like you have to do that, you have 628 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 4: to do correct business. I believe that you do. You 629 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 4: have to be fair. So I don't think the going 630 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 4: back to your question, I don't think the thing is bad, 631 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Now you can dive into 632 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 4: what the percentages of it is, and it's different, you 633 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 4: know what I mean. If you're taking everything from them, 634 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 4: it's different because now you ain't being fair. You know 635 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 4: what I'm saying, but the idea love, I don't foposed 636 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 4: to eat with you, but I can work with you. 637 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 4: That ain't coming sense to me. 638 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 5: So as an exactly, like, let's say we get this 639 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 5: so called artist, what's the process of rolling out a 640 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 5: new artist? You've done it plenty of time and you've 641 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 5: done it successfully, So what's that process like? Is it 642 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 5: are we looking for what they have that's original to 643 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 5: the market, what's the analytics where they popping at? What's 644 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 5: that sound like? How does that process work when you're 645 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 5: debuting somebody? 646 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 4: You know? I think I think every artist is different 647 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 4: again going back to I think every artist is a 648 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 4: different business. So I think the approaches are different depending 649 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 4: on what artists it is, what gen music, it is, 650 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 4: where they're from, you know what I mean, Like what 651 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 4: the focus is. So I think to me, the first 652 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 4: step is identifying who the audience is, you know what 653 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 4: I mean, who were going after? Because if we know 654 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 4: who we're going after, then we start to build the 655 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 4: playing from nerve. We're going after the screeps, we're going 656 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 4: after the Internet, We're going to cross over like what 657 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 4: we what we're trying to do because each one of 658 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 4: them is a different map. So I think the most 659 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 4: important thing is a lot of people skill. The first 660 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 4: step is identifying what you even is. You know, one 661 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 4: of the first things most artists say when you meet them, 662 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 4: so what type of Because this when you're trying to 663 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 4: identify the audience, you're like, so what type of not 664 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 4: comparing yourself to anybody, but what type of artists? You 665 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 4: just so we understand who the demographic in the audience is, Like, oh, 666 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 4: I do everything thinking about it because most artists from 667 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 4: a talent level, you probably can't. You probably can't do everything, 668 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Nowadays you got artists who 669 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 4: can rap and sing, you know what I'm saying, You're 670 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 4: artists who get like so you could be. But when 671 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 4: we try to identify who were going after who the audience, 672 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 4: then ain't nothing else because now we're just sitting there 673 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 4: like we don't know, we don't know who to go 674 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 4: to at least first, even if we're going to go 675 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 4: and multiple audiences, like, we don't even know where to started. 676 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 4: I say this thing of like you may have somebody 677 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 4: that work at a de bands dealer and he the 678 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 4: every month he did employee of the money. He said, 679 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 4: one hundred beans is a month. Then you take him 680 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 4: to a kill stone. He can't sell a car. You 681 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, It's because he don't know the options. 682 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 4: You don't know the options to the comedy settling. So 683 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 4: I got to know the options, you know what I'm saying, 684 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 4: to even stay the product. 685 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 3: So let me ask you this switching gears a little bit. 686 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 3: You're an entrepreneur, not just in the business of music, 687 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 3: but all types of businesses. DC United you are part 688 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 3: owner of that. That's the soccer club football for all 689 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 3: the Europeans. How did you get into that? And what's 690 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 3: to deal with that? 691 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 4: I had a mean with one of the other I 692 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 4: had a mean initial meaning with one of the other 693 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 4: owners of the team. You know, we was talking about 694 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 4: something different at first, and you know, between building a 695 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 4: relationship and talking and tell him what I was trying 696 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 4: to do, you know, my visions in life and where 697 00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 4: I was trying to go. And I think the opportunity 698 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 4: just presented presented itself, you know what I'm saying. And 699 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 4: I was in position to take the opportunity when it 700 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 4: presented itself. H And that's one of my biggest things 701 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 4: like I feel I'm trying to do with diversifying entrepreneurship, 702 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 4: you know, and as a and as who I am 703 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 4: and what I represent to the culture, just to show 704 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 4: that we could do other shit. We can do other things, 705 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Like you know, of course, 706 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 4: we don't got to street hull, so we don't got 707 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 4: to just do rap merries to either. We can own 708 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,959 Speaker 4: professional sports team, we can do real estate, we can 709 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 4: do trucking companies, we can do you know, we can 710 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 4: be in tech investments, we can be in whatever consumer goods, 711 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 4: whatever we desire to be in. If we you know, 712 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 4: stay on point and stay on your pivot like you 713 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 4: you need to be, and make sure you in position. 714 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 4: One of my biggest things. Make sure you in position 715 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 4: when the opportunity presents itself. 716 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 2: That's right. 717 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 5: If you're not there, you wouldn't be able to be 718 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 5: part of the ownership. Was it MLS intentionally or because 719 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 5: that was the opportunity that was presented in front of you? 720 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,520 Speaker 2: Because it is a fast grown league. I'm not even 721 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 2: sure I people. 722 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 5: Understand how fast league is growing, how much the appreciation 723 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 5: from twenty years ago on some of these clubs. DC 724 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:18,359 Speaker 5: United was a prestigious one and congratulations of being part 725 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,759 Speaker 5: of it. Was it intentional, MLS or it was based 726 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 5: on the opportunity to present it? 727 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 4: So I think it was based on the opportunity at 728 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 4: the time, you know what I'm saying. But I think 729 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 4: things are full circle, meaning like some of the guys 730 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:35,279 Speaker 4: that I was able to how I was able to 731 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,880 Speaker 4: get into that I had new from years and years 732 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 4: and years ago because they had something to do with 733 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,319 Speaker 4: the Memphis Grizzley scene. And I was trying to buy 734 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,799 Speaker 4: into the Memphis Grizzlies and unfortunately I didn't. I wasn't 735 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,320 Speaker 4: able to do it, but I was trying to do it. 736 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,720 Speaker 4: I was trying to buy the Memphick Gridley a decade 737 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 4: before I got into DC United. But it's some of 738 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,319 Speaker 4: the same people, you know what I'm saying. So their 739 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,919 Speaker 4: relationship started ten years before that, you know what I'm saying, 740 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,240 Speaker 4: And you know, ten years later, that opportunity to present 741 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:04,280 Speaker 4: it presented itself. 742 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw this a couple of weeks ago, you know, 743 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 5: as MLS, you at the at the White House and 744 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,280 Speaker 5: I'm looking at Yo Gotti, I'm looking at Joe Biden, 745 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,720 Speaker 5: and I'm wandering to myself, the guy who made youngsters 746 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 5: on the come up is now standing in to the 747 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 5: first lady. 748 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 2: What was that moment like for you? 749 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,240 Speaker 4: I mean for me, it's like I look at everything 750 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,720 Speaker 4: just like I don't know. I'm just a selfless person, 751 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 4: so I don't even like I don't you know what 752 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,520 Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like everything I think about is like us. 753 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:39,840 Speaker 4: You know what I mean When I say us, I 754 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,800 Speaker 4: mean it's just like like the culture environment where we 755 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,279 Speaker 4: come from, meaning like I just look at everything like 756 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,359 Speaker 4: I'm like we are, Like I just hope that people 757 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 4: see that, like, man, we can we here, we can 758 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 4: be here, we can you know what I'm saying, Like 759 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 4: because these things I didn't even like that won't even 760 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 4: part of my plan, Like keeviny g. You know what 761 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like you know, ten fifteen years ago, I 762 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,760 Speaker 4: want to thinking about there weren't even in the goals 763 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 4: I went thinking about, Man, get to the White House. 764 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,279 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like I'm just figure not 765 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 4: trying to be a successful financial hustle, you know what 766 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 4: I mean. But I'm grateful for for everything that happens, 767 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And I take it serious 768 00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 4: and I respect it, and you know, I'm proud of 769 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:26,720 Speaker 4: proud of everything. 770 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I was watching the soccer skills. Okay, 771 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:34,759 Speaker 2: but you know, my. 772 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 4: Son played soccer as I got introduced to the sport. 773 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 4: It's the only sport my son ever played. So, you know, 774 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,719 Speaker 4: being a father, going to practice, going to games, I 775 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 4: learned about soccer, you know what I'm saying. I didn't 776 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 4: grow up like I don't know if I've probably never 777 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 4: even seen a soccer field where I grew up at. 778 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 4: You know, I thought soccer ball was a flat basketball, 779 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,080 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Like the first couple of 780 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 4: times were playing with a soccer ball, Like why this 781 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:08,000 Speaker 4: shit ain't bouncing, you know what I'm saying. So, you know, 782 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:09,880 Speaker 4: my son, he go to he live in a different 783 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,640 Speaker 4: life than I live. So his school got a soccer 784 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,880 Speaker 4: field at the school and that's the sport that he 785 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,720 Speaker 4: decided to play, you know, So I'm just whatever he decided, 786 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:21,320 Speaker 4: I'm supporting it. So I learned the rules of the 787 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,759 Speaker 4: game and everything through him, you know what I mean. 788 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 4: So that was a different accomplishment for me too, because 789 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,320 Speaker 4: when I was able to go back to him and 790 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,959 Speaker 4: be like, Yo, you heard of DC United were thinking 791 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,400 Speaker 4: about buying into the team? What you think? You know 792 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 4: what I mean? I was able to get his advice 793 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,279 Speaker 4: on just soft in general and the team, and like 794 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,279 Speaker 4: he was a big part of that whole transition for me. 795 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,080 Speaker 4: So that's a whole nother feeling and the government for 796 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,240 Speaker 4: me to like be able to have my son almost 797 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,359 Speaker 4: walking me through the deal, you know what I'm saying. 798 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:59,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine. So talk about Prevas the restaurant in Memphis. 799 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, prevails. It's like a staple, a staple 800 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,880 Speaker 4: of Memphis now that and it became is one of 801 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,279 Speaker 4: the spots. I feel like anybody come through Memphis, they 802 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:15,160 Speaker 4: stop it. It's a family ran business, you know. When 803 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,680 Speaker 4: it comes to that, it's probably one of the hardest 804 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,080 Speaker 4: things I ever done. Out of every business I ever ran, 805 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,400 Speaker 4: that's the hardest thing I ever tried to do. And 806 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,759 Speaker 4: it's probably the only business I ever failed. It in 807 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 4: a sense like myself personally, Like when I was running 808 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 4: it hands on myself the first couple of years they're 809 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,759 Speaker 4: over when I was trying to do everything hands on, 810 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,080 Speaker 4: Like when I say fail, not that we ever went 811 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 4: out of business and went. 812 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,479 Speaker 5: At the time is come, lady and gentlemen. 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It would have been shut down. 878 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,400 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Because I'm taking paper that 879 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,279 Speaker 4: I'm making other places keeping it open, you know what 880 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,759 Speaker 4: I'm saying. But at once I gave it to I 881 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,080 Speaker 4: stepped away from it and gave it to like my family, 882 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,920 Speaker 4: you know, my mama, and sistered them to run it. 883 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,000 Speaker 4: You know they turned it around. How they turned around? 884 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:43,560 Speaker 4: You had to ask them. 885 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,520 Speaker 2: Now, you know what I'm saying, Congrect, what do you 886 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:46,800 Speaker 2: think that? 887 00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:48,920 Speaker 3: What do you think the proud obviously restaurant wanted the 888 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,920 Speaker 3: hardest businesses to be successful in period. I think like 889 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,200 Speaker 3: ninety in the restaurants fell. But from your perspective as 890 00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,120 Speaker 3: a restaurant toy, you said you was actually hands on. 891 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 4: What was the issues that you was having? I think 892 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,960 Speaker 4: for one, you got to like to be successful a restaurant, 893 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,360 Speaker 4: if it's not a chain, I think you have to 894 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,400 Speaker 4: be there. You have to be in there, like you 895 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,239 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, you have to like have a 896 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:14,120 Speaker 4: true sense of you know, everything that's happening and everybody 897 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,520 Speaker 4: that's working for you. It's one of the biggest stealth businesses. 898 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,880 Speaker 4: You have a hair. You know me, I call myself 899 00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:25,040 Speaker 4: like just hiring the best people, you know what I'm saying. 900 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,719 Speaker 4: So I wasn't running myself, but I'm like, Okay, this 901 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,839 Speaker 4: person worked for this restaurant, I'm gonna pay you more, 902 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,120 Speaker 4: and this person work at her and I'm gonna pay 903 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,919 Speaker 4: you more. And I'm trying to symbol the best tream 904 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,759 Speaker 4: to run it. And it still won't work, you know 905 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,200 Speaker 4: what I mean. Like I'm paying like I'm paying people 906 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,920 Speaker 4: more than what they was getting paid at their job 907 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,800 Speaker 4: to come run the restaurant because I'm thinking that's the 908 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,279 Speaker 4: right thing to do. You feel me, But it ain't work. 909 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:50,400 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying That my family went in 910 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,600 Speaker 4: there and I don't know, you know what they did. 911 00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,360 Speaker 4: They they three sixty that you're gonna turn it around, 912 00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,959 Speaker 4: and you know they ain't needed nothing for me since 913 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,960 Speaker 4: you feel me and up and running move may years 914 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:03,520 Speaker 4: was just them. 915 00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,400 Speaker 5: So you got the investment inside of the MLS, you 916 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,480 Speaker 5: got the restaurant or other things that interest you in 917 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,440 Speaker 5: terms of investing in, like real estate or even a 918 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:13,480 Speaker 5: stock market things like that. 919 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, I do. I do a little bit of all that, 920 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,040 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Like I've been into real estate, 921 00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,400 Speaker 4: real estate, Like I love real estate, you know what 922 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:21,799 Speaker 4: I'm saying. 923 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:23,680 Speaker 2: I like that. 924 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,200 Speaker 4: I do a lot of real estate, also invest in, 925 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,560 Speaker 4: like I got some take investments, some salad investments. We play. 926 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,960 Speaker 4: We got money in the market. You know, we try 927 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:34,920 Speaker 4: to like move it around. 928 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:35,520 Speaker 2: First of all. 929 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:40,239 Speaker 4: Yeah, Phase Clan you involved with that, Yeah, early too, 930 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,440 Speaker 4: I was in the early talk about that. You know 931 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,879 Speaker 4: what's so crazy is that Phase Clan. I never heard 932 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:45,480 Speaker 4: of it before. 933 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:49,239 Speaker 3: My son he's twelve and he's like a gamer and 934 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,600 Speaker 3: he's the one that actually told me about Phase Clan 935 00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,239 Speaker 3: and Phase Jarvis and all these different people. And I 936 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,920 Speaker 3: started to research him and I really like that business 937 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,560 Speaker 3: model and just the name Phase remind me like Wu 938 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,000 Speaker 3: Tang Clan. Well, it's like different people. They all got 939 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,960 Speaker 3: their own personalities, but they're all under one roof. So yeah, 940 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,840 Speaker 3: talk about your Yeah, how you found those guys and 941 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,480 Speaker 3: what made you want to be involved in that. 942 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,960 Speaker 4: I think as you moving around. Right. You probably heard 943 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,200 Speaker 4: people say that like hip hop music, it's a vehicle. Right, 944 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,680 Speaker 4: if you're smart, you understanding what we're doing. The music 945 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:26,320 Speaker 4: is a vehicle to get other places. Right. So example, 946 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,359 Speaker 4: I was doing promo with the artist block Boy JB. 947 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,440 Speaker 4: I was doing promo with him and we had to 948 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:37,319 Speaker 4: go do some content at some influencers house. This house 949 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,239 Speaker 4: happened to be if Ice Clan house. You know what 950 00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,279 Speaker 4: I'm saying. I think in a YouTube or rights gun 951 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,600 Speaker 4: or something like that. It was a big YouTuber And 952 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,279 Speaker 4: so we in there and when we get to her, 953 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,880 Speaker 4: I'm kind of like amazed by they set up and 954 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,280 Speaker 4: they got like three mansions, two three mansions side by side, 955 00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,960 Speaker 4: but they using them as like content houses. I hadn't 956 00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,439 Speaker 4: never seen nothing like that. I'm like, so what y'all 957 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:03,480 Speaker 4: do now? All over? So I got, you know, me 958 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,080 Speaker 4: being a hustler, my intennas jump up immediately. 959 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:07,840 Speaker 2: Who would manage you? 960 00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,280 Speaker 4: Let me get your information? And it kind of started 961 00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,160 Speaker 4: their like and it started from me just taking an 962 00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,640 Speaker 4: artist to do some promo, and it led into me 963 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:20,239 Speaker 4: getting the contact or they managers and having means and 964 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,239 Speaker 4: meets with them later later on and again for a 965 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,000 Speaker 4: surface world. I end up investing in them, you know 966 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,480 Speaker 4: what I'm saying. But it really just how it started 967 00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:32,640 Speaker 4: me me going to do promo on some music, shit hustles, ambition. 968 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,560 Speaker 5: So it's it's very interesting that we got interrupted by 969 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,960 Speaker 5: Mike Rubin and we're here in the Right Nations Office. 970 00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,080 Speaker 2: I want to talk about your social justice that you've 971 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:42,480 Speaker 2: been doing. 972 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,920 Speaker 5: I know you Jay recently, y y'all, y'all called off 973 00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,200 Speaker 5: the suit with the Mississippi State Presitentiary. He talked about 974 00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,440 Speaker 5: what that was about and some of the improvements that 975 00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:53,640 Speaker 5: were happening because of the suit. 976 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,759 Speaker 4: I mean, the whole goal is that was to get 977 00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,600 Speaker 4: improvements in the prison for the prisoners. You know what 978 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,520 Speaker 4: I'm saying. That's what it's all about. We're just trying 979 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,600 Speaker 4: to make it, you know, you know, make it a 980 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,440 Speaker 4: better place for the people that was in Parchment. So 981 00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:12,480 Speaker 4: you know, they stepped up and added some programs, some 982 00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:17,240 Speaker 4: better health care programs, some mental health programs, and actually 983 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,800 Speaker 4: changed a lot of the systems around that was in 984 00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,400 Speaker 4: there from when we first took action on it, you 985 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,520 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So, but you know, we still 986 00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,759 Speaker 4: got to watch it. We still got to watch it 987 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,440 Speaker 4: closely and make sure that you know they're doing what 988 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:31,560 Speaker 4: they're supposed to be doing. 989 00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:33,720 Speaker 2: What made you want to get involved? 990 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,920 Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I come from a family. Anybody 991 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:40,400 Speaker 4: didn't know me like you know my family. I'm like 992 00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:44,120 Speaker 4: one of them. I grew up in with my family 993 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:48,480 Speaker 4: being in prisons. So just that the whole subject is uh, 994 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,600 Speaker 4: you know, it's a delicate situation to me. I grew 995 00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:55,080 Speaker 4: up visiting prisons my whole child life. Going to the 996 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,719 Speaker 4: fed joint of her to see my antique, going fed 997 00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,359 Speaker 4: joint to see my other aunt. Team. My father in prison, 998 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,000 Speaker 4: I'm writing him or send him money. My brother in prison, 999 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,279 Speaker 4: I'm writing him. I'm going to visit him. So I 1000 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,239 Speaker 4: always travel in and out of visitations in prison. It's 1001 00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,840 Speaker 4: my family. He's still regular people, O, my loved ones. 1002 00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,200 Speaker 4: They may be doing time, but they still hearmans. You 1003 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,719 Speaker 4: can't treat them my animals. And you feel me. So 1004 00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,160 Speaker 4: it's suposed to be prison, supposed to be for rehabilitation, right, 1005 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:24,399 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, ain't for what we see 1006 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,799 Speaker 4: happening in parlishment. So when we see the videos come 1007 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:32,280 Speaker 4: out and the pictures of what was happening in in partment. 1008 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:36,319 Speaker 4: It's like here, man conditions. So yeah, you know they 1009 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,960 Speaker 4: could be you know, one of our brothers, cousins, uncles, daddies, 1010 00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:45,359 Speaker 4: you know, anybody that end up in prison for anything. Yeah. 1011 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:48,360 Speaker 5: I only asked because I mean, there's plenty of artists 1012 00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:52,240 Speaker 5: who could be doing something, but very few do do something. 1013 00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,560 Speaker 5: And so I was just when I'm reading it, when 1014 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,719 Speaker 5: I first heard the news about it a couple of 1015 00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,400 Speaker 5: years ago, I might stand up. 1016 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,120 Speaker 2: I mean, which is your character in Mississippi? 1017 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,560 Speaker 4: Like I beg Yard. You know, you cross over one 1018 00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,600 Speaker 4: street and you know you probably still think you're in Memphis, 1019 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,799 Speaker 4: but you're actually in Misissippi, you know what I mean. 1020 00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,040 Speaker 4: It's like I tried to stay the area, so I 1021 00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,840 Speaker 4: actually had partners and stuff that was done time in 1022 00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,400 Speaker 4: in prison before you know what I man, like, I 1023 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,600 Speaker 4: know people that's actually done time in the same prison. 1024 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:27,399 Speaker 3: Let me ask you this as far as AI. What's 1025 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,239 Speaker 3: your thoughts on AI? You know, we see a lot 1026 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,040 Speaker 3: of AI crazy use it now. 1027 00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,520 Speaker 4: I'm still trying to like understand it fully. 1028 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:36,839 Speaker 5: Uh. 1029 00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,600 Speaker 4: I tried to use it action on this mixtape. Oh yeah, 1030 00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,560 Speaker 4: like your voice, Yeah, it's a it's a it's a 1031 00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,920 Speaker 4: skit on this mixtape where it's a news person talking 1032 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,879 Speaker 4: on the front of the song with me and Money 1033 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,000 Speaker 4: bay Yo called My Business. We tried to get a 1034 00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,680 Speaker 4: how to do that. It ain't turn out right though. 1035 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,320 Speaker 4: It sounded too like robotic in uh, like a computer. 1036 00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,200 Speaker 4: But we actually tried to do it, like it's like 1037 00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,520 Speaker 4: if it's a it's a talking part in Man and 1038 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,520 Speaker 4: My Business, like a news reporter and driveway front of you. 1039 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,920 Speaker 4: It's another talking part in there. We tried to do 1040 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:13,719 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying on the quick till we're like, yo, 1041 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,080 Speaker 4: we just we just get ai to do it, you 1042 00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:17,600 Speaker 4: know what I mean. So we tried it, but it 1043 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,600 Speaker 4: ain't turn out the proper way, so we had to 1044 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,359 Speaker 4: end getting somebody to actually do it. What's your thoughts 1045 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,440 Speaker 4: on the throw? I just think I think it's like 1046 00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:29,839 Speaker 4: next world, like next what they call, you know, way 1047 00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,919 Speaker 4: up three this shit maybe way up four or five 1048 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,640 Speaker 4: or know, like just what you're seeing doing it, it's 1049 00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,160 Speaker 4: kind of scary or the idea that you know it 1050 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:42,120 Speaker 4: makes you wonder like like what gonna be like the 1051 00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:46,239 Speaker 4: need for people, you know what I mean, Like if 1052 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,080 Speaker 4: you can put these if you can go on AI 1053 00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:52,160 Speaker 4: and get anything done. I was telling somebody in my company, 1054 00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,600 Speaker 4: like we was just hiring. Somebody ask me, I wanted 1055 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,399 Speaker 4: to read the resume. I said, nah, like they could 1056 00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,239 Speaker 4: have done this shit on AI. You feel you know 1057 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,880 Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like they could have just you can 1058 00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,120 Speaker 4: write me a resume say I was the best so 1059 00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:08,400 Speaker 4: and so from this you know what I'm saying. And 1060 00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,480 Speaker 4: the best piece of paper can you print out? Can 1061 00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:14,840 Speaker 4: come out right? So I'm like, no, you gotta just 1062 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,880 Speaker 4: you know, we gotta interviewroom, we gotta put them in 1063 00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:20,600 Speaker 4: our face and we gotta we gotta fill it out 1064 00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:24,440 Speaker 4: like that because it's different tools to play without her. Now, 1065 00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:26,400 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, you can get tricked. You 1066 00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,680 Speaker 4: can get tricked easily. And I don't know, maybe it 1067 00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:34,399 Speaker 4: take like make shit seem more lazier, because yeah, I mean, 1068 00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,439 Speaker 4: you get the ancles, so you get the work done. 1069 00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:41,720 Speaker 5: You can too easily. Almost it's gonna be more efficient. 1070 00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:43,239 Speaker 5: But even from it, I mean, I think that's dope 1071 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:45,600 Speaker 5: that you tried to incorporate, which means that you were 1072 00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:48,040 Speaker 5: educated on it because you knew what it was. I 1073 00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,600 Speaker 5: wondered from your standpoint as the exact of the label. 1074 00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:55,960 Speaker 5: Are you educating the artists about like what tohead for them? 1075 00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:56,120 Speaker 2: Right? 1076 00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:57,920 Speaker 5: Because even from a standpoint like if I wanted to 1077 00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:01,120 Speaker 5: create a verse that sounded like you and put that out, 1078 00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:02,800 Speaker 5: I'm not sure how you stop me, right because it 1079 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,319 Speaker 5: technically isn't That's what I'm saying for him, you can't 1080 00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,200 Speaker 5: stop it. And so like if that song now becomes 1081 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,319 Speaker 5: something that becomes ahead social media to you know know, took. 1082 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,840 Speaker 4: Me, and so I'm just trying to figure out how 1083 00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:19,160 Speaker 4: we eat off of that's like how do we get 1084 00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:23,040 Speaker 4: okay what you're doing? What what's that part? You know 1085 00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,879 Speaker 4: what I mean? You know, I'm hustle first, I'm trying 1086 00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:26,560 Speaker 4: to figure out. 1087 00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:26,560 Speaker 2: Like. 1088 00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:31,120 Speaker 4: You know, to me, I got an issue with it. 1089 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,239 Speaker 4: If you're doing it, we can't get cutting. And then 1090 00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:35,080 Speaker 4: we got to issue. Know what I'm saying, if you 1091 00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:39,359 Speaker 4: buzz it down, figure out, figure how to buzz it down, 1092 00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:41,200 Speaker 4: and go to work. You know what I'm saying. You 1093 00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:42,800 Speaker 4: can figure how to buzz it down, Like y'all go 1094 00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:44,439 Speaker 4: to work. You know what I'm saying. 1095 00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,680 Speaker 5: It's gonna be an interesting time, right, because that that 1096 00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:49,400 Speaker 5: that's one of those things that it would be a 1097 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:53,200 Speaker 5: copyright claim. But who who are you facing that that 1098 00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,040 Speaker 5: charge with, right, the person who created or the AI 1099 00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:56,600 Speaker 5: that created. 1100 00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:58,359 Speaker 4: I think they're trying to figure that out right now. 1101 00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,759 Speaker 4: I think it's a lot of bad food about trying 1102 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,480 Speaker 4: to figure out, like, you know, how they're gonna work, 1103 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,160 Speaker 4: like what was right? What was wrong was? You know 1104 00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:08,680 Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Who you reach out to? How you 1105 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:09,680 Speaker 4: get compensated. 1106 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,000 Speaker 5: So the one thing that artists do have an their 1107 00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:16,000 Speaker 5: advantage is that AI can't, well not yet, can't do 1108 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,680 Speaker 5: a live show, right, Like that's one of those things 1109 00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:23,160 Speaker 5: that that happened ten years ago for exactly I'm just saying, 1110 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,759 Speaker 5: as I said, yet I'm saying it's not going to happen. 1111 00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,440 Speaker 5: It hasn't happened yet. So they still have that to 1112 00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:30,600 Speaker 5: their advantage. But what we're seeing now is that a 1113 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:32,560 Speaker 5: lot of times when people are going on tours and 1114 00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:38,359 Speaker 5: we're seeing people's reaction to the live show has changed, right, 1115 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,080 Speaker 5: ticket sales have changed over over the past couple of years, 1116 00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:44,239 Speaker 5: COVID has affected that. What are your thoughts about having 1117 00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,000 Speaker 5: an artist being ready to go out on a tour, 1118 00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,040 Speaker 5: being opening that for a tour, how do you prepare 1119 00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:49,440 Speaker 5: them for that moment based on. 1120 00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,879 Speaker 4: Like the data that y'all got, like an artist being 1121 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,120 Speaker 4: an opening egg on the tool. 1122 00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:54,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, like getting them ready to go out on tour, 1123 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,839 Speaker 3: or yeah, how do you feel out toring period? Because 1124 00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,880 Speaker 3: so the talk is that touring is slowing down right 1125 00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:01,400 Speaker 3: now for a lot of artists. 1126 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,120 Speaker 4: Man, I look at it like this, right, It's like, 1127 00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,440 Speaker 4: you know, it's just adjustments, bro, It's a hustleer. You 1128 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,040 Speaker 4: gotta know how to adjust, you know what I mean. Like, 1129 00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,640 Speaker 4: you know, every day ain't gonna be the bench day, 1130 00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,320 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, It come with it, like 1131 00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,560 Speaker 4: you gotta adjust, you know what I mean. Sometimes it's 1132 00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,640 Speaker 4: gonna be your tour. Sometimes it's somebody else too. You 1133 00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,080 Speaker 4: open it up or you direct support. You just got 1134 00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,480 Speaker 4: to know how to adjust and get the business done, 1135 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:32,319 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And I think the whole 1136 00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:36,960 Speaker 4: thing with them saying tickets sales decline and or it's 1137 00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,680 Speaker 4: at a good time for touring, But it's still people, 1138 00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:42,440 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, It's still people in the building. 1139 00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:45,520 Speaker 4: So what's the difference you got? Maybe it's eight thousand 1140 00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:51,120 Speaker 4: instead of twelve. Adjust the numbers, adjust the venue side, 1141 00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,960 Speaker 4: keep going, you know what I mean like to me 1142 00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:55,840 Speaker 4: to go back in the beginning, like I ain't no, 1143 00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:58,560 Speaker 4: I ain't no complaining, Like, but see what it is 1144 00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:06,040 Speaker 4: and then let's keep because you know, years ago hip 1145 00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,839 Speaker 4: hop was down, then hip hop was the number one 1146 00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,719 Speaker 4: jump the music now went down a little bit more, 1147 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,359 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying like that, But you're gonna 1148 00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:18,560 Speaker 4: have adjustments in business. In any business, if you was 1149 00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:22,200 Speaker 4: selling doughnuts T shirt, you probably have a year where 1150 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,719 Speaker 4: you would a business up thirty percent. You may have 1151 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,440 Speaker 4: a year with a business down ten percent. It's just 1152 00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:33,480 Speaker 4: that's like a it's a cause of business. So I 1153 00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,719 Speaker 4: think people just overreacting on the shit basically, you know 1154 00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,839 Speaker 4: what I'm saying. I think you know, it's a lot 1155 00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,840 Speaker 4: of tours out. You know, everybody have been excited to 1156 00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:45,400 Speaker 4: get outside, been we've been down COVID. Yeah, you know 1157 00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,359 Speaker 4: what I mean. But I don't think I think it's 1158 00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,239 Speaker 4: just to me, it's a regular schedule program and it's 1159 00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,759 Speaker 4: just one of those things where you know, next year 1160 00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:54,040 Speaker 4: everything may be back up. 1161 00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,799 Speaker 5: Is that still from an artist standpoint to when we're 1162 00:55:57,800 --> 00:55:59,879 Speaker 5: talking about revenues of income for an artist? 1163 00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,320 Speaker 2: Toy? Is that still number one above everything? Else or 1164 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,480 Speaker 2: all the other things like maybe sponsorship or ad deals 1165 00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:07,440 Speaker 2: or something like that that they have. 1166 00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:09,400 Speaker 4: I don't know who you is, I think, but I 1167 00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:12,640 Speaker 4: also I always think touring is like probably the fastest 1168 00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,640 Speaker 4: money to get because you can get it every weekend, 1169 00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:19,719 Speaker 4: two three times a weekend right now, right here, right 1170 00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,480 Speaker 4: So I think touring is going to always be like 1171 00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:26,320 Speaker 4: a big, a big income revenue for artists. 1172 00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of artists can have issues IRS, so 1173 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,919 Speaker 3: the accounting might have taken advantage of them or business manager. 1174 00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:37,200 Speaker 4: You ever have any issues? No, I had, I had 1175 00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:39,640 Speaker 4: them type I ain't had them type of issues, but 1176 00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:43,080 Speaker 4: I did have I didn't have them type of issues 1177 00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:45,719 Speaker 4: were it affected me, But I did have a I 1178 00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,640 Speaker 4: call it, I want to call it. I call it 1179 00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:53,080 Speaker 4: a lack of information in the beginning when it came 1180 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:56,440 Speaker 4: to that, when it came to that area, you know, 1181 00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:00,600 Speaker 4: unfortunately for me, because you know, I'm I'm good with 1182 00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:03,360 Speaker 4: my money, I'm good with saving money, I'm good with 1183 00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,920 Speaker 4: keeping money. That even when I learned the information, I 1184 00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,600 Speaker 4: was in position to handle it, you know what I mean, 1185 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,920 Speaker 4: because we grew up. We grew up, I grew up. 1186 00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,520 Speaker 4: Maybe they should teach this in school too, because I 1187 00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,480 Speaker 4: grew up thinking when you when we heard taxes, my 1188 00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,160 Speaker 4: mom and them got tax money. That's when we got 1189 00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,400 Speaker 4: new Jordans, we got new outfits, we got new joints. 1190 00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:29,120 Speaker 4: It was a celebration when it was tax time. Waiting 1191 00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,880 Speaker 4: on tax time, that was better than Christmas, you know 1192 00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:35,360 Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So I didn't know, you know, even 1193 00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,080 Speaker 4: in my early stages to getting money, I didn't know 1194 00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,919 Speaker 4: we had to pay. So it ain't that I didn't 1195 00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,200 Speaker 4: want to pay or that I w wasn't pay. I 1196 00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:46,919 Speaker 4: didn't know because a lack of information. They adn't teach 1197 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,840 Speaker 4: me that in school, you know what I'm saying. Nobody 1198 00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:51,880 Speaker 4: taught me that in school. When I opened up my 1199 00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,240 Speaker 4: bank and started putting big chicks in the bank, my 1200 00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:56,840 Speaker 4: bank couldn't tell me I had to pay taxes. I 1201 00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,280 Speaker 4: didn't have a CPA in the beginning, so I didn't 1202 00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:04,240 Speaker 4: know that right. So for me, I was buying real 1203 00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:08,000 Speaker 4: estate early, right, and I just happened to get a 1204 00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:11,000 Speaker 4: letter they say like, yo, we're gonna what they called it, 1205 00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:12,920 Speaker 4: like seize your property if you gonna pay this. And 1206 00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,040 Speaker 4: I didn't even know you had to pay property taxes 1207 00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,240 Speaker 4: on a house that you had paid cash. Yeah, keep 1208 00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:21,640 Speaker 4: it mand at this At this time, Brian, I got 1209 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:25,000 Speaker 4: ten to fifteen houses I didn't pay cash for that 1210 00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:27,640 Speaker 4: I done had for four five years that I never 1211 00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,919 Speaker 4: paid property taxes on because I didn't know for five years. 1212 00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:32,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know. 1213 00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:34,320 Speaker 4: So it's just so happened that I get a letter 1214 00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:37,160 Speaker 4: and the mail telling me that they won't they gonna 1215 00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,160 Speaker 4: seize the properties if I don't pay these property taxes. 1216 00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:41,880 Speaker 4: And I get a letter about this, but I you 1217 00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:45,160 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So I hear my lawyer at 1218 00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,560 Speaker 4: the time that wasn't even a tax lawyer. He just 1219 00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:51,160 Speaker 4: you know, he was a criminal lawyer. Lawyer. I know, 1220 00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,600 Speaker 4: I'm begging the year, you know what I'm saying. So 1221 00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,320 Speaker 4: I hear him like, yo, look me, I need to 1222 00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:59,680 Speaker 4: seeing these papers. And he sent me to a tax 1223 00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:02,400 Speaker 4: law you're in a CPA, you know what I mean. 1224 00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:06,320 Speaker 4: And and I sit down with them and they pretty 1225 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:07,800 Speaker 4: much put me on game. You know what I'm saying, 1226 00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:10,040 Speaker 4: like this, how this worked? Just how this goal? You 1227 00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,120 Speaker 4: know what I mean? Go get your statements, we look 1228 00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,720 Speaker 4: at everything together, just with your just how to go. 1229 00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,360 Speaker 4: Luckily for you, you have money yeah, I had the 1230 00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:25,200 Speaker 4: paper to handle it. But I think I think I 1231 00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:27,600 Speaker 4: do think that's a thing though, because I do, I 1232 00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:30,320 Speaker 4: do think that's a thing where depending on where you 1233 00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:34,320 Speaker 4: how you grow up, you may not even know that exists. 1234 00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,440 Speaker 4: And then you ain't good with the paper and by 1235 00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,960 Speaker 4: the time it comes to your front doorstep, you ain't 1236 00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,760 Speaker 4: in position. You in the hole. From there you and 1237 00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,760 Speaker 4: you deep in the hole. So one of the things 1238 00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:48,360 Speaker 4: I do, you know, one of the things I do, 1239 00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,080 Speaker 4: we make sure we tell the artist that first time 1240 00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,200 Speaker 4: we get your dollar. You know what I'm saying, we 1241 00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,080 Speaker 4: give you money, yo, make sure you're doing this, and 1242 00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:58,760 Speaker 4: we even advise certain thing makes you get you a CPA. 1243 00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:00,960 Speaker 4: Make sure you get you this. Make sure do you 1244 01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,680 Speaker 4: set them up with one or you have to give 1245 01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:05,680 Speaker 4: them a CPA to it? No, no, no, no, I 1246 01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,360 Speaker 4: don't ever want to give an artist nothing like that 1247 01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:11,720 Speaker 4: because I don't never want to be like, oh that 1248 01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,480 Speaker 4: your people. You know what I'm saying, the show people 1249 01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:16,720 Speaker 4: and the money ain't right, And I ain't doing that, 1250 01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,320 Speaker 4: I wonder. I mean, I'm giving you the information like, yo, 1251 01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,480 Speaker 4: you need this, you need this, you need this and 1252 01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,360 Speaker 4: this why And I'm giving them the example, the same thing. 1253 01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:25,960 Speaker 4: I just told y'all, man, this what happened to me. 1254 01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:28,120 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I ain't knowing. You know, 1255 01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,240 Speaker 4: it's what happens. So make sure this don't happen to you. 1256 01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:32,760 Speaker 4: Let me just ask my fault. 1257 01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:35,760 Speaker 3: So we have our friend who's an executive at a label, 1258 01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,560 Speaker 3: and he brought the idea where you know, in the NBA, 1259 01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:41,200 Speaker 3: in the NFL, they have like the Rookie Symposium when 1260 01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,160 Speaker 3: you get drafted, Like all of the rookies come to 1261 01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:46,560 Speaker 3: like Vegas for like the weekend, and they give them 1262 01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:48,560 Speaker 3: all different types of lessons, and like one of the lessons, 1263 01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:50,760 Speaker 3: like they get like a financial advisors to like educate them. 1264 01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:52,680 Speaker 3: A lot of people don't listen, but at least they 1265 01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:54,840 Speaker 3: got like who camp. So he was saying that they 1266 01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:58,760 Speaker 3: should have like a symposium for all like artists, when 1267 01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:00,760 Speaker 3: you first get a record deal, you got to go 1268 01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,560 Speaker 3: through this. At least you can say that you wasn't 1269 01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,320 Speaker 3: you didn't know, Like I mean, like now you make 1270 01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,200 Speaker 3: a conscious decision not to pay taxes, that's on you. 1271 01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:11,040 Speaker 3: But it's like you know, like you say, you're taking 1272 01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:13,240 Speaker 3: a kid eighteen seventeen years old. I never believe even 1273 01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,760 Speaker 3: had a job. Yeah, and you know how you really 1274 01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,040 Speaker 3: expect them to know about handling all of this. So 1275 01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:19,760 Speaker 3: what's your thoughts on on that idea? 1276 01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:21,200 Speaker 4: No, I agree with that. I agree with that. I 1277 01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:26,000 Speaker 4: actually was. I actually was talking to or somebody I 1278 01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:28,280 Speaker 4: know they do management, and he was telling me that 1279 01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:33,280 Speaker 4: they don't even take clients unless part of their contract 1280 01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:37,000 Speaker 4: is you have to have a CPA for them to 1281 01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:38,919 Speaker 4: even do business with you. Like, we're not even doing 1282 01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,040 Speaker 4: straight up business with just us and you when they 1283 01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:44,440 Speaker 4: come to financial like, we want to deal with your CPA, 1284 01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,480 Speaker 4: so it's always clean and straight up from the from 1285 01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:51,480 Speaker 4: the beginning. That's suthing. I actually may start implicating in 1286 01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:53,680 Speaker 4: my contracts, you know what I'm saying, because I think 1287 01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:56,320 Speaker 4: it's important. I just think, like you know, I do 1288 01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:04,600 Speaker 4: non music related jobs for my artists now, I mean 1289 01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:06,600 Speaker 4: like stuff like that we talk about to help them 1290 01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:08,680 Speaker 4: do whatever it is. If you're trying to buy a 1291 01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,640 Speaker 4: house or colla, like we involved in anything you allow 1292 01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:15,200 Speaker 4: us to be involved in. You know what I'm saying, 1293 01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:17,840 Speaker 4: because we look at you as family and we don't 1294 01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:19,360 Speaker 4: want you to do it wrong. We don't want you 1295 01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:22,040 Speaker 4: to pay more because you didn't have the right information 1296 01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,240 Speaker 4: to do it. We don't want nobody to scam you, 1297 01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:25,520 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. We don't want you to 1298 01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:29,400 Speaker 4: run into these hurdles that we probably already ran through. 1299 01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,600 Speaker 4: We already paid for the mistake, so we won't try 1300 01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:36,040 Speaker 4: to bypass you past those mistakes. So I work with 1301 01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:39,880 Speaker 4: all my artists on stuff like that. It's none marriage related. 1302 01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:43,520 Speaker 4: That ain't no nothing, not how older do in my contract. 1303 01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:46,120 Speaker 4: That's just like from the you know, the goodness of 1304 01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:48,760 Speaker 4: our heart. I want to see, you know, our family 1305 01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,800 Speaker 4: do it the right way. So I do think if 1306 01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:55,640 Speaker 4: they was putting it, you know in the record labels 1307 01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,160 Speaker 4: a part of the structures or you know, in the 1308 01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,720 Speaker 4: schools again, because you know, I ain't no you know 1309 01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:03,280 Speaker 4: I ain't no dumb nigga. You feel me like you 1310 01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:06,040 Speaker 4: feel like I made age in school, you know what 1311 01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:08,160 Speaker 4: I'm saying, And I didn't know what about it. Yeah, 1312 01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,640 Speaker 4: so I wouldn't even say, like you know what I'm saying, 1313 01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:12,480 Speaker 4: how they're trying to try to play on us, like, 1314 01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:14,680 Speaker 4: oh you're from a certain place. You don't know now, 1315 01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:17,840 Speaker 4: you know, I'm want of the ones to he age. 1316 01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:19,000 Speaker 4: I still didn't know about it. 1317 01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:20,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a fact. 1318 01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:22,680 Speaker 5: I mean it's something that we're working on as well 1319 01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,640 Speaker 5: to get curriculum put into the school district starting here 1320 01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,040 Speaker 5: in New York City, but hopefully it would be something 1321 01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:30,800 Speaker 5: that goes throughout the United States and eventually throughout the world. 1322 01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:33,240 Speaker 5: I was wondering this though, from a standpoint of being 1323 01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:37,040 Speaker 5: an independent artist and having the margins when you're independent 1324 01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:40,200 Speaker 5: look a little different. What's your thoughts about streaming in 1325 01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:43,720 Speaker 5: this day and age and having you know, people rely 1326 01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:46,280 Speaker 5: on streaming as a source of income because again, we 1327 01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:48,800 Speaker 5: don't really know how much one stream is equaled, or 1328 01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:50,520 Speaker 5: we don't know how much a million streams is equal. 1329 01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:51,880 Speaker 2: So what's your thoughts about that? 1330 01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:55,080 Speaker 5: Because we've seen you put out plenty of hits, right, 1331 01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:57,920 Speaker 5: like multi platinum hits, So what's your thoughts on streaming 1332 01:03:57,960 --> 01:03:58,640 Speaker 5: in this day and age. 1333 01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:04,480 Speaker 4: I mean, I actually like streaming better than how it was, 1334 01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:07,880 Speaker 4: you know, when it was just physical city because I 1335 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:12,880 Speaker 4: think that for multiple reasons, I think that the replay 1336 01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:16,600 Speaker 4: value of a record today, I think it's way more 1337 01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:19,600 Speaker 4: karen and stays up than when it was on a 1338 01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:22,160 Speaker 4: physical city. I feel like if you scratched up your 1339 01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,120 Speaker 4: city and lost it or lost it? Was you really 1340 01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:27,120 Speaker 4: going back to the store to buy the cit over 1341 01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:29,480 Speaker 4: and over and over again. I feel like you don't 1342 01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:30,880 Speaker 4: got to deal with it. You just pick up your 1343 01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,800 Speaker 4: phone and you can listen to that song from ten 1344 01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:36,280 Speaker 4: years ago whenever you feel like it, you know what 1345 01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:40,320 Speaker 4: I mean. As the world gets smarter, also people get lazier. 1346 01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:45,440 Speaker 4: So I don't think a court hard, goutted fan is 1347 01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:48,320 Speaker 4: going to buy the city ten times over. You know 1348 01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:48,760 Speaker 4: what I'm saying. 1349 01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:51,280 Speaker 2: But I think you will listen to it on your. 1350 01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:53,560 Speaker 4: Phone whenever you feel like you know you get in 1351 01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:56,080 Speaker 4: their moved. You can go back twenty years if you 1352 01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:58,680 Speaker 4: want to, right, I heard it at your fingertip. So 1353 01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:01,920 Speaker 4: I like the idea of streaming. I think it's been 1354 01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:08,320 Speaker 4: some research too. It showed the catalog performance performs better streaming. 1355 01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:12,320 Speaker 4: I think, you know what I'm saying. So I ain't 1356 01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:14,520 Speaker 4: got no issue with streaming. I actually like it. I 1357 01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:17,400 Speaker 4: think we just got to keep, you know, keep keep 1358 01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,120 Speaker 4: working on it to make sure we get our fresh 1359 01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:23,480 Speaker 4: sure of you know, the business Off of. 1360 01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:26,800 Speaker 5: Speaking of fast share, just a quick follow up. I 1361 01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:29,400 Speaker 5: wonder if the good folks at Instagram ever reached out 1362 01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:32,480 Speaker 5: to you after you put out this on d M. 1363 01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:36,800 Speaker 4: No Snapchat either, Oh my gosh, Snapchat. 1364 01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:38,840 Speaker 2: I ain't. 1365 01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:40,480 Speaker 4: I ain't never got a dollar. 1366 01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:47,320 Speaker 2: You feel a lot, a lot of swimming happening, man, 1367 01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:47,960 Speaker 2: I feel like it. 1368 01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:55,600 Speaker 4: Owe me life. O A nice you know what I'm saying. 1369 01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:58,000 Speaker 2: The check man, now we appreciate you. 1370 01:05:58,160 --> 01:05:58,320 Speaker 4: Man. 1371 01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:03,840 Speaker 3: Before we leave, any words of advice for any you know, entrepreneur, 1372 01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:07,360 Speaker 3: anybody that you know might be looking at you for guidance, 1373 01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:10,640 Speaker 3: like you know, any daily routines or anything that you 1374 01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:13,000 Speaker 3: want to just kind of, you know, give some words 1375 01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:13,920 Speaker 3: of encouragement anything. 1376 01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:18,440 Speaker 4: I just say, you know, whatever you're doing, do it, 1377 01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:19,960 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like, do it for real. 1378 01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:22,120 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. Like time is the most 1379 01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:25,240 Speaker 4: valuable thing in the world. That's your biggest asset, So 1380 01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:27,600 Speaker 4: don't play with it. If you're gonna do it, do 1381 01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:29,120 Speaker 4: it for real. You know what I'm saying. 1382 01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:29,480 Speaker 5: Do it. 1383 01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:32,960 Speaker 4: You know, even if if people don't think you can 1384 01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:35,200 Speaker 4: do it, you know what I mean, prove them wrong 1385 01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:39,120 Speaker 4: and and achieve whatever it is you want to achieve. 1386 01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:45,640 Speaker 4: And uh, test yourself or challenge yourself, challenge yourself to 1387 01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:50,360 Speaker 4: do more or leave a bigger impact, you know what 1388 01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,480 Speaker 4: I mean. That's what I'm all right now, trying to 1389 01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,920 Speaker 4: build legacy. Everything is about the impact, how much how 1390 01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:57,960 Speaker 4: many people I can help, how many people I can touch, 1391 01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:01,520 Speaker 4: you know, while I'm on my journey to do what 1392 01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,160 Speaker 4: I'm trying to do, how many people I can bring 1393 01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:05,960 Speaker 4: with me, how many lives we can change? You know 1394 01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:09,920 Speaker 4: what I'm saying along the way. Yeah, keep me pushing. 1395 01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:14,360 Speaker 4: Appreciate you. Oh, I got a question for y'all. Do it? 1396 01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:16,960 Speaker 4: I gotta question yase. Y'all left me off their list too. 1397 01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:20,200 Speaker 4: You saw the list I was gonna I was gonna 1398 01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:24,840 Speaker 4: bring up there. It was it was audible mention. 1399 01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,080 Speaker 2: He was definitely in the conversation so that anybody was 1400 01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:31,000 Speaker 2: saying to me there that I'm like, I ain't what 1401 01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:31,480 Speaker 2: are you all right? 1402 01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:34,200 Speaker 3: So let's talk about this then? So what's your top ten? 1403 01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:36,960 Speaker 3: And this was actually he was involved in this. 1404 01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:37,800 Speaker 4: It was us three. 1405 01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:40,160 Speaker 2: Yes, we called in a few friends. 1406 01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:42,320 Speaker 4: Who do we have on that list? We had third 1407 01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:43,520 Speaker 4: Man at number one? We did. 1408 01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:47,040 Speaker 2: We had Jay can we pull this list off? Doctor? 1409 01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:48,120 Speaker 4: Please? 1410 01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:52,920 Speaker 2: We had JD were very important. V was in there. 1411 01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:57,479 Speaker 2: I'm happy that it reached. 1412 01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:00,720 Speaker 4: You pulled it off. I pull it off. Here we go, 1413 01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:03,320 Speaker 4: this is the list, we'll put it on on the graphics. 1414 01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:04,000 Speaker 4: So we did. 1415 01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,320 Speaker 3: Everybody was on their top ten rapper list, top fifty 1416 01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:08,360 Speaker 3: rapper list, so we wanted to be different and we 1417 01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:13,720 Speaker 3: put together a top ten list of hip hop label 1418 01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:23,200 Speaker 3: CEOs number ten, Marion Suge Knight, any argument then Knight 1419 01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:27,080 Speaker 3: number ten, number nine, Jermaine Dupri number eight, Dame Dash 1420 01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:31,360 Speaker 3: number seven, La Read number six, Master P number five, 1421 01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:35,880 Speaker 3: Russell Simmons number four, Doctor Dre number three, jay Z 1422 01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:41,639 Speaker 3: number two, Diddy, and number one was Birdman, Bryan. 1423 01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:43,519 Speaker 2: Williams Baby but that counts as baby and Slim. 1424 01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:44,320 Speaker 4: Yeah. 1425 01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:47,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, but we did have or we did have an 1426 01:08:47,400 --> 01:08:47,800 Speaker 2: honorable man. 1427 01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:48,800 Speaker 4: We did arrange label. 1428 01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:51,160 Speaker 2: We had fifteen and then everybody was like, nah, it 1429 01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:54,960 Speaker 2: has to be ten. So the CMG was on there. 1430 01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:58,000 Speaker 5: You were on there, mentioned yeah, yeah, because well we 1431 01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:00,960 Speaker 5: also had quality control on the well you see, because 1432 01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:02,799 Speaker 5: it was a lot of like, wait, through, what's quality control? 1433 01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:05,400 Speaker 2: They were on there. If you didn't say, was in 1434 01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:08,080 Speaker 2: honorable mention as well? Yeah, was in there as well. 1435 01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:16,360 Speaker 4: Know, I respect all them. I feel like, uh, you know, 1436 01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:19,639 Speaker 4: I feel like p P probably should have been higher. 1437 01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:24,160 Speaker 4: You put him, he's number five, so you put people 1438 01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:26,040 Speaker 4: about people five. I think. 1439 01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:30,320 Speaker 2: Russell Simmons in front of him, Doctor Dre, jy Z Puffin, 1440 01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:31,360 Speaker 2: and Birdman. 1441 01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:35,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, who would be your top five? P most definitely 1442 01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:38,680 Speaker 4: got to be the top bird I feel like, you know, 1443 01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:41,840 Speaker 4: I just feel like in the South we hustled different 1444 01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:45,840 Speaker 4: and I feel like we had bigger challenges, you know 1445 01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:49,840 Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So see what p accomplished. To see 1446 01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:53,560 Speaker 4: what you know, Master p accomplished, See what Birdman and 1447 01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:56,920 Speaker 4: Slim accomplished. You know what I mean. I don't think 1448 01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:58,280 Speaker 4: y'all ain't have a rap a lot of them. 1449 01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:01,360 Speaker 3: I was gonna say, princes in the thing if we 1450 01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:04,000 Speaker 3: could just be so all right. Sue Knight, I felt 1451 01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:07,920 Speaker 3: like he had the most powerful record label, but it 1452 01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:09,439 Speaker 3: was for a very short period of time. When you 1453 01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:12,920 Speaker 3: look at Snoop, Doctor Dre and Tupac, it's kind of 1454 01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:16,160 Speaker 3: difficult to go against. And he revolutionized the game as 1455 01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:19,400 Speaker 3: far as that independent structure on a very large scale. 1456 01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:25,720 Speaker 3: Jermaine Dupriez underrated, very underrated because he has a laun consistency. 1457 01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:29,160 Speaker 5: I got super respected producer too though, right that's why 1458 01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,519 Speaker 5: in a songwriter because he's a producer. 1459 01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:32,800 Speaker 2: But he's an exact too. 1460 01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:36,439 Speaker 5: So some people argued, yes, more of his catalog might 1461 01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:37,960 Speaker 5: be R and B, but people forget a lot of 1462 01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:38,960 Speaker 5: the hip hop that he's done. 1463 01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:42,320 Speaker 4: He dead lot, Yeah, yeah he yeah, successful artists. Yeah, 1464 01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:44,479 Speaker 4: Dame Dash changed the game. 1465 01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:47,000 Speaker 5: They will arguing that one too, because we should have 1466 01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:50,080 Speaker 5: maybe had put Jay together, but we separated. 1467 01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:53,200 Speaker 3: Ja because had a Jay Dame. I loved Dame and depth, 1468 01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:57,120 Speaker 3: but it kind of ended after Rockefeller. Jay is still 1469 01:10:57,240 --> 01:10:59,160 Speaker 3: twenty years later and still you know what I'm saying. 1470 01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:03,240 Speaker 3: So and l A readers, master P, l A Red 1471 01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:06,040 Speaker 3: we took from the face to him come in He's 1472 01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:10,080 Speaker 3: we start the face, but we go to death jam 1473 01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:11,599 Speaker 3: to epics, so we had to put learned. 1474 01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:15,400 Speaker 4: I learned a lot from l A. When I said 1475 01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:17,360 Speaker 4: I want going When I said I want gonna rock 1476 01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:20,439 Speaker 4: with a major again, I was I was standing on 1477 01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:22,800 Speaker 4: that and l A. Reid was the person that made 1478 01:11:22,840 --> 01:11:25,800 Speaker 4: me like start back working with a major. So I 1479 01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:30,120 Speaker 4: doesn't a label deal with epic with l A. You 1480 01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:33,080 Speaker 4: know what I mean? And and uh, I learned a 1481 01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:33,920 Speaker 4: lot from l A. 1482 01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:37,360 Speaker 3: So we said, master P he's he A lot of 1483 01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:39,200 Speaker 3: people said, like he should have been much higher, but 1484 01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:42,000 Speaker 3: he did have a hell of a run. 1485 01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:56,960 Speaker 9: But it was shorter P master P, shorter Sort. 1486 01:11:56,120 --> 01:12:02,680 Speaker 10: His wife man master P putting that with fifty lent 1487 01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:07,840 Speaker 10: from like with like good nineties selects nine, maybe maybe 1488 01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:08,479 Speaker 10: two thousand. 1489 01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:10,680 Speaker 2: But the reason, but that's what I'm saying, that was 1490 01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:12,160 Speaker 2: because of the successive cash money. 1491 01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:15,280 Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. Two though, I study this ship 1492 01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:19,040 Speaker 4: this like it's like class. To me, what I'm saying 1493 01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:22,000 Speaker 4: like this, I looked at everybody's store. I watched everybody 1494 01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:24,479 Speaker 4: any if you put out any story, we wrote, any book. 1495 01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:28,120 Speaker 4: I read everybody's store. I watched everybody. You know, everybody, 1496 01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:30,800 Speaker 4: uh went up there. I watch where everybody feel it. 1497 01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:33,400 Speaker 4: That's that's homework for me, you know what I'm saying. 1498 01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:37,599 Speaker 4: That's how I learned directly and indirectly. When I say 1499 01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:40,960 Speaker 4: somebody like P. To me, it's a difference from you know, 1500 01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:43,799 Speaker 4: if you get it, and I ain't taking nothing from nobody, 1501 01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:48,120 Speaker 4: but to me, you playing with different tools. Meaning it's 1502 01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:51,160 Speaker 4: like if you go into one of your record label 1503 01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,880 Speaker 4: was already in New York, right and you and you 1504 01:12:54,080 --> 01:12:57,080 Speaker 4: and the system is there, and you create good music, 1505 01:12:57,240 --> 01:12:59,600 Speaker 4: you already have the system. Or I'm telling you the 1506 01:12:59,680 --> 01:13:02,880 Speaker 4: niggas like Pete created the system from nothing. You know 1507 01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:04,559 Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like they didn't have they weren't playing 1508 01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:06,800 Speaker 4: with the same tools, you know what I'm saying. They 1509 01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:09,000 Speaker 4: weren't playing with the same tools. And then if you 1510 01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:12,599 Speaker 4: look at the numbers, there was a number triple four 1511 01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:14,800 Speaker 4: or five times and they weren't playing with the same tool. 1512 01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:17,880 Speaker 4: And you know what I'm saying, it's. 1513 01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:19,920 Speaker 2: What's it's different. 1514 01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:23,120 Speaker 5: And we're just talking music about so like they've done 1515 01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:25,799 Speaker 5: out so like he's done a lot of things outside 1516 01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:27,880 Speaker 5: of music, of course, so we were just talking music. 1517 01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:36,519 Speaker 4: Who's your top five CEOs top five? Top five? I'm going, man, 1518 01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:40,640 Speaker 4: I'm going j just because like Jay like it's like 1519 01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:43,200 Speaker 4: what Jay do is Like, are you saying just music? 1520 01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:43,360 Speaker 2: No? 1521 01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:47,680 Speaker 3: No, just for music like record label, CEOs, record label, CEOs, 1522 01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:54,280 Speaker 3: record label c So not what they did outside of music, 1523 01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:56,160 Speaker 3: just what they were able to accomplish. 1524 01:13:56,280 --> 01:14:04,400 Speaker 2: And because it's all the vehicle that that was the part. 1525 01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:07,960 Speaker 4: It's all the vehicle and the impact, it's all the 1526 01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:10,360 Speaker 4: velica and the impact that they brought to the culture. 1527 01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:12,280 Speaker 4: All right, So that's fine. So you know what I'm saying. 1528 01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:15,639 Speaker 4: So you can include outside to your top five CEOs. 1529 01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:22,320 Speaker 4: I go, I go, I go, J and P and 1530 01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:30,120 Speaker 4: J Master P Birdman slim uh h? What else y'all 1531 01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:42,000 Speaker 4: have on the team? Did he did he? That's thirty years? 1532 01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:42,240 Speaker 8: Sure? 1533 01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:43,080 Speaker 2: Did he? Did? 1534 01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:43,160 Speaker 7: He? 1535 01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:43,640 Speaker 3: Want to. 1536 01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:48,360 Speaker 4: Want to say? You can't play with. 1537 01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:50,080 Speaker 3: Wow? 1538 01:14:50,479 --> 01:14:54,679 Speaker 4: You have to think to you you thinking back like big? 1539 01:14:57,080 --> 01:14:57,559 Speaker 4: If you want. 1540 01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:02,160 Speaker 2: The fresh? Did he got to Dre is not in that? 1541 01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:03,120 Speaker 4: It's d. 1542 01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:10,439 Speaker 2: That would be fun Dre Dre m fifty Kendrick Dan Dreck. 1543 01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:13,720 Speaker 4: What man I meant? 1544 01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:15,880 Speaker 2: That's wo whoo? 1545 01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:17,640 Speaker 4: Who we ain't put that was in the tea though. 1546 01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:20,880 Speaker 4: You didn't put yourself friends put yourself. You didn't put. 1547 01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:23,360 Speaker 5: Quality control l a read and we have still roll 1548 01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:25,160 Speaker 5: in there and everybody you didn't put Sure. 1549 01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:29,600 Speaker 4: Night, I'll probably go with there. Five. I'll probably go 1550 01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:33,040 Speaker 4: with that five. And oh see, I feel like I 1551 01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:35,280 Speaker 4: feel like, you know, I feel like when people were 1552 01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:38,400 Speaker 4: sending it to me, they said, I mean I feel 1553 01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:40,400 Speaker 4: like people sending to me. You know, we living in 1554 01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:43,439 Speaker 4: it's two doy twenty three, twenty two. You know people 1555 01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:45,639 Speaker 4: got short memories, right, you know what I mean, people 1556 01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:48,479 Speaker 4: thinking about c MG now that thinking about. 1557 01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:49,519 Speaker 2: Q C now exactly. 1558 01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:50,160 Speaker 4: You know what I mean. 1559 01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,479 Speaker 2: That's what I mean. 1560 01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:55,960 Speaker 5: So Bertman responded and said, that's dope, but you need 1561 01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:57,519 Speaker 5: to be on it and quality control needs to be 1562 01:15:57,600 --> 01:15:57,800 Speaker 5: on He. 1563 01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:01,439 Speaker 4: Said, quality control should have been number two. Too far, 1564 01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:04,080 Speaker 4: he took it too far, he did. 1565 01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:07,320 Speaker 2: But they, I mean, but if you're telling like somebody for. 1566 01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,840 Speaker 4: If you're talking about in the last you know, yes, 1567 01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:13,800 Speaker 4: for sure, I mean who I don't know who's doing 1568 01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:15,800 Speaker 4: with me and Peter? You pee know what I'm saying. 1569 01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:18,240 Speaker 4: People talk you see it? You know what you got 1570 01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:20,320 Speaker 4: the hottest label? You know, Me and Pete talking, Me 1571 01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:23,519 Speaker 4: and Pete talked like we should have no no, no no. 1572 01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:28,000 Speaker 4: Something we talk about like you know is mutual respective 1573 01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:33,000 Speaker 4: like you know, you know, if one of these younger 1574 01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:37,800 Speaker 4: artists lands with myself for him, you know they got 1575 01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:41,640 Speaker 4: a better shot. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. But 1576 01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:43,840 Speaker 4: that was probably the same as if you if you 1577 01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:47,120 Speaker 4: landed with cash, money or no limit back then you 1578 01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:48,000 Speaker 4: had a better shadow. 1579 01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:53,559 Speaker 5: Rock the Fellow or is there artist artists that y'all 1580 01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:58,920 Speaker 5: were both involved in signing about the sign and they. 1581 01:16:58,840 --> 01:16:59,240 Speaker 2: Went with you. 1582 01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:04,400 Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, you know, everybody be out 1583 01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:06,760 Speaker 4: of the same artist kind of. I'm pretty sure we 1584 01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:09,400 Speaker 4: probably talking to some of the same people at the 1585 01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:12,120 Speaker 4: same time. When I was talking, I was talking to Glow. 1586 01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:14,320 Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, every record label and the 1587 01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:16,560 Speaker 4: music business was talking to him, and I was the 1588 01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:18,760 Speaker 4: last one to talk to him. You know what I'm saying. 1589 01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,599 Speaker 4: We did some stuff together, like with forty two dogs. 1590 01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:25,680 Speaker 4: You know, a little baby a part of it, you 1591 01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:27,400 Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So I look at that, it's like, 1592 01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:31,519 Speaker 4: you know, a little baby from PF you know CC. 1593 01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:34,719 Speaker 4: It's all the same umbrellas. So you know what I'm saying. 1594 01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:37,840 Speaker 3: Now, you're in the hell of a run. So right 1595 01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:42,080 Speaker 3: now you you're the highest label right now. You were saying, 1596 01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:46,719 Speaker 3: of course, where do you rank yourself as all time CEO? 1597 01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:47,880 Speaker 3: Think your top ten? 1598 01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:53,479 Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, I think we in I think we're in there. 1599 01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:55,720 Speaker 4: But I also think, you know, humbly, I feel like 1600 01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:57,040 Speaker 4: we got a lot more work to do. 1601 01:17:57,200 --> 01:18:00,160 Speaker 3: I like thinking that you just said, you said, ask 1602 01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:02,280 Speaker 3: you about we I said, do you think you're I said, 1603 01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:04,760 Speaker 3: do you think you're top CEO? And you said, I 1604 01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:08,479 Speaker 3: think we are in there. That's very that shows a 1605 01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:09,400 Speaker 3: lot about your character. 1606 01:18:09,880 --> 01:18:12,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, because again it ain't the same to mean by myself. 1607 01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:14,160 Speaker 4: Like if if I didn't have Bag and I didn't 1608 01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:16,080 Speaker 4: have Glow, and I didn't have g and I have Dub, 1609 01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:19,320 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, and and Youngster and blocking 1610 01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:23,000 Speaker 4: all these artists I was able to work with. You know, 1611 01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:26,479 Speaker 4: we we sEMG. You know what I'm saying, Like you 1612 01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:29,439 Speaker 4: know what I mean like that, you know you got 1613 01:18:29,520 --> 01:18:31,840 Speaker 4: to better come together like the Transform, but you said 1614 01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:34,360 Speaker 4: we put all those together. We see them g and 1615 01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:38,519 Speaker 4: I feel like we need we need every piece, We 1616 01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:41,479 Speaker 4: need every part that would make us, that would make 1617 01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:44,800 Speaker 4: us us, you know what I'm saying. So this thing, 1618 01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:47,519 Speaker 4: this thing, this thing we were building, it's all of ours. 1619 01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:49,479 Speaker 4: Well appreciate you, my brother. 1620 01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:54,639 Speaker 2: We will update the list. Got the point of view 1621 01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:58,439 Speaker 2: I was listening to that coming down from. 1622 01:18:58,960 --> 01:18:59,519 Speaker 4: My point of you. 1623 01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:03,760 Speaker 2: I left the WOF to the RNN for the r 1624 01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:05,160 Speaker 2: and this accident. 1625 01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,479 Speaker 3: Shout out to Gotti man, We appreciate your time. Make 1626 01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:11,800 Speaker 3: sure you get the new project. And yes I showed 1627 01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:13,960 Speaker 3: you so. Yeah for sure, Bill. 1628 01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:15,920 Speaker 2: Earners, what's going on? 1629 01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:16,439 Speaker 4: Listen? 1630 01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:20,920 Speaker 5: Eylu is relaunching, revamping, retooling. That's why we're creating a 1631 01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:23,599 Speaker 5: new educational experience that's more expensive. 1632 01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:26,920 Speaker 6: Shy telling them we got yes twenty twenty three, we 1633 01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:29,200 Speaker 6: got a lot. 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