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Speaker 1: Backslash black Market. I know, I asked, and I was like, Yo,

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Speaker 1: how did y'all dig me up out of it? Damn, Bro,

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Speaker 1: you dope is here speaking to win. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the eighty five South spot Light. Bro. We always got

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Speaker 1: some dope people stopped through the trap, you know, showing

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Speaker 1: us love, and today is no exception. We got the

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Speaker 1: dope as creative. We can't even say an artist because

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Speaker 1: it goes away beyond a dope as creative human being. Bro,

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here going through the bio lfe brodel the

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Speaker 1: did at all? Bro, ain't got a cold as name.

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Speaker 1: Dear Warfley, you like that only war field I'm familiar with?

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Speaker 1: Come on, Marsha Marshall warfare absolutely, you know what. I

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Speaker 1: haven't met a war field that I wasn't related to you.

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Speaker 1: It was a wide receiver that was wield you know,

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Speaker 1: and my son is a wide received what's up? So

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Speaker 1: welcome to the trap first and foremost. Man, man, I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to be down here, you know. And I was

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Speaker 1: definitely familiar with the show, like I followed on social media,

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Speaker 1: but I knew, uh, it was something that was super dope.

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Speaker 1: When I told my son and his eyes let up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, so this is really the ship,

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Speaker 1: you know, but now I appreciate it. I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: I'll be down here. Speak to what you said about

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Speaker 1: your son. But when his generation started embracing the show

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Speaker 1: from us as like not as like you know, they're

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Speaker 1: doing it. But when they came some cool ship to them,

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Speaker 1: I knew it was gonna this is gonna be something

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Speaker 1: that lasts for a minute, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: even start coming to comedy shows yet right his generation,

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Speaker 1: right right, he's some fans and so shout out to

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Speaker 1: the money you're gonna spend with us, young state. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But you know it's funny. I gotta give you this

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Speaker 1: because as soon as I taught him, he was like,

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Speaker 1: you know that gonna roast you on the show. So

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, ship, So I brought down a

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Speaker 1: little piece offering. So one of my one of my

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Speaker 1: dope tees, you know what I mean, just like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like maybe he will lay off me a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you make it. You brought, when you bring,

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Speaker 1: get to make it, Taylor, you might adding this to

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Speaker 1: the rack of things. You know, I like to have ambience.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hang it up as we grew. You know

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Speaker 1: what Taylor is, I've been getting on her nerves. I

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Speaker 1: could see it all enough faces. She'd be like, right,

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Speaker 1: I did not work for you. Yeah. She came in

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Speaker 1: smiling though, But I guess you might have changed the

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Speaker 1: attitude a little bit for she. I don't talk to

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Speaker 1: it as much because she's talking to me up. She

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Speaker 1: real quiet. I'm like, why you don't never say nothing?

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Speaker 1: She said, why you don't never say nothing? To make sense?

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Speaker 1: I just won't like you, right yea? But man, how

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Speaker 1: did you get how did you get your start with

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Speaker 1: you know, bringing the creativity of life, the visuals, the art,

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Speaker 1: all of that. Man? Man, uh, one of your first

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Speaker 1: give me your first successful project. I don't eve a

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Speaker 1: damn if it was like second grade and you drew

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Speaker 1: the okay, my first successful project, man, when I was

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Speaker 1: in middle school, I want a logo design contest for

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Speaker 1: American Can Company. American Can Company. I don't even think

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Speaker 1: they're in existence anymore, but they were based in St. Louis.

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Speaker 1: My godfather worked for them, and he was like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're having a we having a logo design contest. Can

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Speaker 1: you draw something? And I was like sure. And so

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Speaker 1: the slogan was less put management and workers on an

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Speaker 1: just yeah, like a Libra scale with you know, some

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Speaker 1: the other. And I'm one that I wanted. So it

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Speaker 1: was like five dollars. You know, they probably should have

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Speaker 1: middle school. That was it was. It was a big thing.

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Speaker 1: It was definitely a big thing, you know. And so

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Speaker 1: all of my successes, you know, our tribute to uh

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Speaker 1: little marks like that. Like it wasn't really anything big,

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Speaker 1: that definitely happened, uh, And I'm so thankful for all

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Speaker 1: from art, sports, mentoring teachers, et cetera. Like I had

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Speaker 1: you checking out some of the fans. Al right, we

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Speaker 1: always you know, we rotated, but it rotated in a while.

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Speaker 1: You got some nice pieces. For every show we go to,

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Speaker 1: somebody bring us some artwork, like and always people you

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Speaker 1: never would expect to be artists. And the black hood

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Speaker 1: is don't do it like a gold boy, like when

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Speaker 1: you draw that now. I don't know. I started back

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Speaker 1: doing portraits in the pin right right right through a

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Speaker 1: little something to get a picture. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: they always got that voice and can we be in

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Speaker 1: my lady, we get a picture right now? Y'all had

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Speaker 1: that we just can we get a picture? You know what?

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Speaker 1: Like artists, man, we're coming off shape, size and color.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's dope that uh, you know, farmer

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Speaker 1: dope boys are not getting back into their portrait back

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Speaker 1: you know, that's awesome. This show been bringing the hood

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Speaker 1: back together. But that's good, that's good, you know what.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a great title too, bringing the Hood

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Speaker 1: back Together. So maybe that's another segment or spend off

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Speaker 1: just bringing the hood back together that we just had

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Speaker 1: like a baby dadd and a baby mama on facetag

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Speaker 1: mediate arguments so we can come get the kids. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people are hitting me on the on the endbody.

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Speaker 1: They didn't get back together with the baby mamas all

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Speaker 1: our pholts, right, we had some knew with it, but

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Speaker 1: you know what you could, You know, you can fix

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Speaker 1: a lot of things through laughter, you know. And uh

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Speaker 1: like like me and my wife, we've been together since

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Speaker 1: you're never even trying to get right right right right right?

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Speaker 1: His mama, his mamma right, hey, but listen other together, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: But when people ask what the secret is, I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And so everything else could go up and down. But

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Speaker 1: you know, like if you really enjoy being around that person, yeah, man, comedy,

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Speaker 1: comedy can cure our kind of ship. Man. We were

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Speaker 1: old are you? I'm thirty eight, okay, and you gotta

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Speaker 1: give us some successful marriage tips or you know what.

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Speaker 1: The whole another thing we gotta discuss, Okay, Okay, so listen,

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Speaker 1: I think that one. I mean, when it gets down

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Speaker 1: to giving relationship advice, like the only uh, the only

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Speaker 1: me and my wife. I ain't gonna take it anyway.

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Speaker 1: But you know, but yeah, you're going through it. We're

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Speaker 1: an artist, you know, it's no easy task because people.

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Speaker 1: People are very weird, absolutely, and I would say that

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm definitely weird. I just like different ship

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Speaker 1: One thing that probably makes me a little different than

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Speaker 1: so I was like, art, yeah, there's your way of

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Speaker 1: but you know, it just it just made it. I

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Speaker 1: So sometimes I work my ass off and I win.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I work my ass off and I lose. But

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Speaker 1: I kind of plushed the art the same way. Just

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Speaker 1: it's about working my ass off. So so creatively, what

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm like doing everything? Yeah, I like

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Speaker 1: I like you said, nudity, yeah absolutely, Yeah, Dugan Doughnuts, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's incredible. Hand you just named the whole list of

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Speaker 1: you see the superstardom and some of these people like

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Speaker 1: like I'm not surprised because they were great then, you know,

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Speaker 1: but you don't think about the long term. When you're

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Speaker 1: right and then you gotta you gotta you can't even

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Speaker 1: of how great and huge til C is and would like,

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Speaker 1: what was it like working with TILC? Man? Working with

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Speaker 1: TLC was great because they are they just love creative

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Speaker 1: to work got to work with. Who was the artist

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Speaker 1: that pushed your creativity? Like that really pushed you? Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, if I him, I would probably say Usher.

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Speaker 1: You keep that ship, bro. This dude is authentically one

424
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 1: of the coolest motherfucker's you've ever met. This nigger don't

425
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 1: never get out of character. That's good for real. I

426
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: ain't never seen him Yale run. I ain't never seen

427
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:26,360
Speaker 1: him in a hurry. Is on one speed. That's funny, man,

428
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, So what are you working on? What's next? Like,

429
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 1: what's what's excited coming up for you? What's exciting? Ship

430
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 1: is all exciting because none of this ship was ever

431
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 1: supposed to happen, so every show was exciting. Right now.

432
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: The main thing that I'm doing, since the world is

433
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: so crazy and just to be extra safe, is just

434
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 1: I'm doing these tour dates with Mike Epps. Okay, so

435
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 1: you know we're dropping five or six days at a time.

436
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 1: That's just you know, just taking it slow, you know,

437
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: day by day going back into this ship, creating this.

438
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: We're working on some animated ship, trying to get the

439
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 1: broach mom till we got this cartoon. Yeah, I was

440
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: checking that that t shirt out. Yeah man, this from

441
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: the We had this some dope ship on the show

442
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 1: and the fans wanted us to bring that. Okay, we

443
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: had did a song called Everybody hand Roaches and got it.

444
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: So we did this exterminator. So here's a funny one

445
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 1: man for you. I mean seeing just like connection. So

446
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 1: a long time ago, man, like I designed Nick Cannon's

447
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: hip hop album cover do we've been looking for because

448
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: you should have talked now. That ship never came out though,

449
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,719
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, like I ran into a Man

450
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 1: of the event. It was like a Grammy week and

451
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, man, I designed your cover. He

452
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 1: was like, man, I'll tell nobody about that ship. You

453
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: don't want nobody to see this? Yeah, now, that dude

454
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 1: so damn cool man. He's a cool one too. Yeah,

455
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,959
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Though. It's a small as world. Yeah, man,

456
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: everything is connected, and so I think especially in Atlanta.

457
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's easy to run in and

458
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,959
Speaker 1: bump into, you know, a great opportunity. So that's why

459
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 1: you gotta keep your reputation tight. After working with all

460
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: these people who are you know, considered legends and you know,

461
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: titans in the industry, how do you pick now who

462
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: you work with after having a resume, Like, man, it's

463
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 1: gotta be like if I'm working on like a creative

464
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: direction design type project, it has to be two things

465
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: a determined factor. Uh do I love the music? And

466
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: and do they got a budget? You know, because other

467
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 1: than that, it's just like I'm not really into it.

468
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: But if I dig the music, then maybe your budget

469
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: don't even have to be like a normal budget, you know.

470
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: Going back to the music, tell me about your Tommy

471
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 1: boyd Day, that Tommy Boy logo with that Yeah, yeah

472
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: that was a good logo man, So Tommy Boy, I

473
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: mean that, Uh it got me and my wife to

474
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:54,439
Speaker 1: New York City. Uh the job, it wasn't alle man.

475
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: I was like that. I started the clote never is

476
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: it's just the ship you do. Yeah, yeah, I started

477
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: that cloning the line. But what was dope was being

478
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: in New York City and especially like at that age,

479
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 1: and uh being able to freelance for everybody. So while

480
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: I was up there, I mean, even though work was

481
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: like kind of hectic, I was freelancing for like Andre Herrell,

482
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: Uptown Records, Puffy and Bad Boy, Uh ship, everybody that

483
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 1: I can kind of get a meeting with, you know,

484
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 1: and just the city. That the energy of the city

485
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: at that time. You know, it's one of those things

486
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: that leaves a stamp on you. And so I came

487
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: from St. Louis, which was slow moving like your boy,

488
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 1: you know, and then I and then moved to New

489
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: York City. So it was culture shocked for me when

490
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: I went up there and one of the funniest things

491
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: that I heard was like in the office, people said,

492
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: you're not from here around you know. I was like, no,

493
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: how do you know? It's like because you always smile,

494
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: and I'm like, damn, you know. So it's like now

495
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: they didn't like, they didn't like you at least, you know,

496
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 1: in the in the early nineties, they didn't like you

497
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: smile in the New York City. But uh, we don't

498
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: really have a lot to smile at about this is

499
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: this is true. But at the same time they do,

500
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: Like I've seen some of the craziest ship that I've

501
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life in New York City. You

502
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: would random you will, and it'll be so longer too,

503
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: and it'll be right next Like you can see the

504
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: craziest ship right next to the most expensive, richest ship.

505
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 1: I mean literally like right next to it doesn't matter

506
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: homes dude taking the ship the duncan dough Yes, yes,

507
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 1: ship right there, but here go wash his hands. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

508
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: yeah I say that. Like one time at lunch, I

509
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: just seen the dude pull his pants down. He was

510
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: shipping on the side of the building and he was

511
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: still talking. Yeah it's another yeah, Yeah, let's bubble back

512
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 1: on something that you briefly spoke on these n f

513
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: T s. Yeah, this ship is blowing up, man, Can

514
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: you give us a better description of what that is? Man?

515
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: I think, uh, the n f T. Yeah, I think

516
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: what it does is it gives artists and creators the

517
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: opportunity to authenticate whatever it is that they own and

518
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: they create and then maybe get paid on it for longevity. Right,

519
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: and so an n f T can be anything that

520
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: people consider worth having ownership men and keeping. So like

521
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,719
Speaker 1: this conversation right here that we take could be an

522
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: n f T, you know, and you put it up

523
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: and you have it minted and you get your blockchain

524
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: information and posting on the site and then you kind

525
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: of up and rolling. But the ship is it's really

526
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: really crazy, and I think that it's gonna disrupt a

527
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: lot of business markets. You know. Let me ask you

528
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: this for the struggling artists who may be watching, um,

529
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: what advice would you give to somebody who's super talented

530
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: that's you know, having one of those those you know,

531
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: those moments that you have as an artists what things

532
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: might not be moving right now to say that it's

533
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: not good and it's it's just one of those things

534
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: that you go through creatively try to I think that

535
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: like most artists, you know, like we really don't think

536
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: like business, you know. And so you could be an

537
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: artist and you are always painting and you're like, well ship,

538
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: like my ship ain't selling, you know. And so I think,

539
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: you know, if if you're having that type of run

540
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: and you confident in your work, you might have to

541
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: position that ship in another lane. Like because I got

542
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: this friend that's a dope as artist, but every time

543
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: she finished the piece, she refused to sell it. What

544
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: about What advice would you give artists who are like

545
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: that they create all of this ship that they wan't

546
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: nobody to have. Uh, well, it's a couple of things.

547
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: I mean if she wants to create it and then

548
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: maybe photographing and sell prints or sell t shirts or

549
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: coffee mugs, I mean, she won't let nobody get it.

550
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: It's just a big as personal collection ship. I mean

551
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: I was told, like when I was in the eighth

552
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: grade that if you're an artist, you gotta let the

553
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: world know, you know everything. Yeah, and so because of that,

554
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: like on junior, yeah over there on Facebook with what

555
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: your dad is talking about Hey, I try to tell him,

556
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: if you're an artist, you haven't let the world yeah

557
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: and so, and then I also believe, like a lot

558
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: of times, just like in everything, a lot of things

559
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: in life, you gotta let ship go so that you

560
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: can get to the greater things, right, and so like

561
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: with me, like with all of the art pieces that

562
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: I've done over the years, like I don't feel emotionally

563
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: connected to anything, you know, like, but uh, I feel

564
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: emotionally connected to my ideas and how I came up

565
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: with that. But after I finished the piece a matter

566
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: of fact, after I think of the piece, a lot

567
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: of times I feel like I want already, But then

568
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: I gotta go through the steps, which is the working

569
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: part of the artists. Gotta go make that ship, gotta

570
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: go paint that ship, like that's the work. But the

571
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: idea is what I truly love. And so I think,

572
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: you know, to me, like I go through the process

573
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: of like I gotta get shipped out of my site

574
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: so that I can have new ideas because you can't

575
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: some of your ship and wanted them no no no

576
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: no no, but you know what, no, never that. But

577
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: it's things that like that I've done that I didn't

578
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: care if it ever sold or not, because I really was,

579
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: you know, I was digging it like that. But other

580
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: than that, like I'm usually more excited to create the

581
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: next new thing, you know, and so like when I'm

582
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: working on things, I'm thinking of other ship that I

583
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: could be working, Like I'm learning from this experience to

584
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: take to the next experience. And so if all you're

585
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: doing is looking at them same experiences all all the time,

586
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: it's hard to get to your ideas. So when you

587
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: get in your zone, what are you listening to? Bro?

588
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: I listened to everything, man, I listened to tell me

589
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: some of your new favorite nimes, the new rap name

590
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: Man Earth Gang, uh shit. Like from a rap standpoint,

591
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: I mean I like Travis Scott. You know, is he

592
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: is he considered? Yeah? You know, okay, I like him.

593
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: The craziest Travis Scott story, Yeah, I gotta be gonna

594
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: hear it. Like I like Demanti Harris a lot. They

595
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: cold at Let me tell you this Travis Scott story.

596
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: So we had the BET Awards. Everybody outside, like all

597
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: the people who performing outside, all the rappers and ships.

598
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: So it's like this is right when his ship was

599
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: super on fight, right, helt ready to go on stage, right,

600
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: so he coming like I think he was on like

601
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: a truck or some ship, and we were walking to

602
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: the low Dog for this mother. He walked and like

603
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: shlipped and popped his fucking kneecap on the way to

604
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: the stage, and I'm like, oh, ship he posted he

605
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: like toys some ship right there running down, Like, so

606
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: what did they do? They fixed it, I mean, not

607
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: his leg, but they fixed the performance where he had.

608
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: I think he kind of just like laid on some

609
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: ship us. But I know he left right after that

610
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: because it's crazy he this ship. Yeah that's not good. Yeah,

611
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: it was like right in front of me too. So

612
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: he walking and he missed the step of some ship.

613
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: His leg gave out, and I was like, oh, somebody

614
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: get this man. I'm not quote, but I think like young,

615
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: Like is I mean it's j Cole considered young? Yeah, okay, yeah,

616
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: I mean so I mean I love like him. I

617
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: mean obviously Kendrick Lamar and I mean I like, motherfucker's

618
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: who can like rap rap, And so that's what I mean.

619
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: I'm gotta you gotta give some of the other guys

620
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: a chance to some of the ones who are not

621
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: necessarily great rappers. No, no, that's that's what he puts

622
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: me on. Yeah, no, yes, my son. I mean he's

623
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: in charge of curating those playlists for me. But he

624
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: put me on, like, what's the what's the young guy

625
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: out in California? Roddy Rich? Like, he put me up

626
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: on Roddy Rich. You like that singing ship? Yeah, I

627
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: mean that's what I mean. He's singing that. Yeah, but

628
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 1: way okay, he's he's a big dude, bro, big singing

629
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: ning rod awave put that downstick he got it, okay,

630
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: And think we really gonna hit some real aggressive ship

631
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: like NBA young boy. Okay, Yeah, that's that's his that's

632
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: his guy. I don't know what he did to the

633
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: to the next generation. He's the eldest, okay. And I

634
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: like and I like a little Baby. I think little Baby. Yeah,

635
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: I think little Baby is legit, you know, but some

636
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: some of it I just can't. I'm like, damn, I'm

637
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: not getting Oh I mean I am, oh should I'll

638
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: be fifty three, but uh but yeah, some shot I

639
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: just like I can't even. Yeah, we've been too hard

640
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,439
Speaker 1: on you know, fucking movie. Huh. We'll be too hard.

641
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: I'm not hard on him, you know, just like I'm

642
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: saying our generation, like it's hard on one generation right

643
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: in front of the guys who was right now, right man,

644
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: you ain't got no lyrics, And then you're looking back

645
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 1: to stuff this Ship. We've listening to him. It's crazy.

646
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I was. I was, you know the

647
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: other day, I was just listening to Ship, like the

648
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: Fat Boys and like the Skinny Boys, like they came

649
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 1: out when I was like a junior in high school,

650
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,760
Speaker 1: like in eighties six but they wouldn't really talking about shitty.

651
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: It was just like kind of like the party raps,

652
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: but we love it. Yeah yeah, So I mean yeah yeah,

653
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: and so you know, everything everything goes in cycles. I

654
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: just know, like the musically what always moves me. It's

655
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: the storyteller, you know. And so like when I think

656
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: about you know, like Andre three thousands on sixteen ain't

657
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: enough with Rick Ross, you know, I'm like, Ship is that?

658
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: Like if that if those bars at the standards, you know,

659
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: and and like you know, Ship t I like the

660
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: Libre album, Like I love that album, you know about

661
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: Tip I decided by the way, But I know, yeah,

662
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: but so I'm just I'm into that. I'm into the stories.

663
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: I want ship to take me placed. This young new

664
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: storytelling Nigga is well he's no longer with us, but

665
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: King Vam and then can give you every detail in

666
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: the cor with the radio owned listening to music. I

667
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: didn't like this ship, you know, just had do it.

668
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: I'd be like, he gave you every detail. That's funny man, Yeah,

669
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: I mean he loved Nip. I love Nip. You know.

670
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: I guess he's a young guy too. I love I

671
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: love Rap like you was with him earlier, just reminding

672
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: you of a Yeah, you know it's funny man, like

673
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: the way that he raps. But I agree, the way

674
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: that he raps it reminds me. And this is way

675
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: off to the left. But it's a book. I don't

676
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: know if you read it. It's called Relentless by Tim Grover.

677
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: I will, but you got it. You know you will

678
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: Relentless by Tim Grover. You will finish that ship in

679
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: two days. And Tim Grover ship. He should be at

680
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: paying me for this advertiser. But Rover was Michael No,

681
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: he was Michael Jordan's trainer when Mike was in the

682
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: NBA and then he started working with Kobe and Doane Wade.

683
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: But the book is written as if you're sitting right

684
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 1: next to them on the bench and they just talking

685
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: through ship. It's dope, but it'll get you if that

686
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 1: ship don't get you going nothing can you know. That's

687
00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: a great book. But it reminds me of Nip when

688
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: you read it. I mean it's you know, because of

689
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: the quality that you said. It's like you're right with him,

690
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: you know, the same thing, because sometimes Nip just throw

691
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: a Barten and it it kind of sounded like he

692
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: is talking to you this my weed. I was like, okay, bro,

693
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: we gotta collab on the project, man, man. I would

694
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: love to man. I mean, I've been doing a few

695
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 1: collaborations with different musicians and uh comedians though, bro, no,

696
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: but let's go and you know, and then I'm I'm

697
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: the I'm the type like if we say were gonna

698
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: do it, we're gonna do it. We ain't gonna meet

699
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: fifteen times. I'm gonna call young. I'm like, Yo, you

700
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: got that ship all right? Sending it to me. That's

701
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,919
Speaker 1: what it's like. I'm a hundred I'm a y'all hearing

702
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: this right now. I'm a hundred percent and so whatever

703
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: you want to try, you know why, it's got to

704
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: happen because your son is a fan of this show.

705
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: He's not gonna let that right, right, ship, you know,

706
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: I gotta uh, you know, I gotta have him as

707
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: my project manager. Then let him manage this process. Yeah,

708
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 1: you know, but yeah, but we can I mean whatever

709
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: it is, like, I don't think here we got a

710
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: whole another setup that we're going with. You know what

711
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: I'm saying. We would definitely want to want to get

712
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 1: some real dope ship and they'll y'all need a big

713
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: dopebox actually for real, like like I make these dope

714
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: boxes that are like a table. Although this partner that

715
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: ship is dope. He did a great job. Tell me

716
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: more about this dope box. What can I see? It

717
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: can sit? What people can hit you? Yeah? Actually yeah,

718
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: So if you go to yeah d l Warfield dot com.

719
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: Everything is on there. You know, my Instagram, my Twitter,

720
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: everything is just deal Warfield dot com. I'm on it.

721
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: I'm about to get on it right now because you

722
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: know I'm I'm I'm building me a man cave right

723
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:57,240
Speaker 1: now at my house. Okay, and that ship you said,

724
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 1: I like that that box ship missing little details on man.

725
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: So I started doing the Dope series like in two

726
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen, and obviously, I mean, everybody knows what

727
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: the word dope means in hip hop vernacular, so it

728
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: was something that I've been saying since like eighty one,

729
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: really night two and uh. So I started making these

730
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: pieces and they and uh the very first piece that

731
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,720
Speaker 1: I made was for a fundraiser for Chris Kelly's foundation,

732
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: and so he had I mean, yeah from Criss Cross. Yeah,

733
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: you gotta tell these Chriss Cross. Yeh was pretty killing,

734
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 1: right right yea. So I got hit up from a

735
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: young woman named Angela Watts that was curating his an event,

736
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: a fundraising an event for his foundation. They asked me

737
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: if I would put work in the show to help

738
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: raise money. I think it was for either cancer Lukenia.

739
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: I was like yeah, But then I didn't have ship

740
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 1: that was hip hop related, so you know, I started

741
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: doing these pieces just said dope, you know, and uh

742
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: they also and I was like, well, ship, like maybe

743
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: I should keep exploring it. So uh, since then, I

744
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: mean I started he went from making two dimensional pieces

745
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: to actually building boxes that say dope all over that

746
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: you can sit on. We have something to sit on

747
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: the table. And then from that, in two thousand nineteen,

748
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: I did an event. Uh it was at the Whiskey

749
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 1: Blue where I invited six of Atlanta's top photographers to

750
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: come out and shoot people sitting on my dopebox. And

751
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: so we we created this whole series called Sitting on Dope.

752
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: And so after they did the photos, the plan wants

753
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: to do a follow up art show of me making

754
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: artwork from the photos. But you know, COVID hit. So

755
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: I have all these assets. You know that eventually I

756
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 1: will do a show called the Dope Show. You know.

757
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: So I did collaborations with photographers, and then I did

758
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: collaborations with artists like my guy, Fabian Williams, Hobo Inc. Paper,

759
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 1: Frank Melissa Mitchell, Jeremy Brown, you know, uh, and a

760
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: bunch of others. So at some point we're gonna do

761
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: the show because everybody has to see all of this

762
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: work and all of these collaborations together. And Uh, the

763
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: thing that I like about that Dope series the best.

764
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: And even when I when I first came up with

765
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: the idea, I thought it could be a great mechanism

766
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: to get artists to collaborate, you know, because I mean,

767
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like that like this in comedy,

768
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: but a lot of times I think artists really don't

769
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: work together that much. Well, you know, comedy is such

770
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: a solo sport unless it's a movie or like a

771
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: sketch or something. Right, I don't really see too much

772
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: collaboration having Okay, So but as far as you writing

773
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: your stand up, is it just you or do you

774
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: work with other people on? Well it works like this.

775
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: It's just like everybody has a circle of friends. When

776
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: you you might show up to the club and do

777
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: do all this new ship that you wrote probably might

778
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: give you the best tag, right, don't say this, just

779
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: throw this in that. Oh you know what you should say.

780
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: That's the way that comedians when you see us outside

781
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: riff and joaning on some it's like that's how we

782
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: keep the flex the muscles flex. And so uh, like

783
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: all of my best creative ideas that came from Jon,

784
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: you know, like I mean, uh, comedy man, it is

785
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 1: fueled so many um ideas, the spontaneity of it, being

786
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: able to think on your feet and so even like

787
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: with a lot of my art or just the wittiness

788
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: so ever, like when I explained that ship, people like,

789
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: ah ship, you know, like when it's like the wittedness

790
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: of the con to me as as performed as a comedian,

791
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: it's like the jokes that I wrote, right, like all this,

792
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: all the laughs that I get, the in between jokes

793
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: that I wrote, Yeah, because that's when that's the mother's like,

794
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: oh ship, you know the joke I wrote supposed to

795
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: word right right now? I feel you on that. I

796
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: mean it's it's like watching a movie and you laughing

797
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: as some ship that's off to the left, like you know,

798
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: the scene is here, but it's a motherfucker back here

799
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: doing some crazy ass ship and you just see that

800
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: last just like the black dude on Robo Cop. I

801
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: don't know if people remember that one scene on Robo

802
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: Cop where all the cops was rolling out and they

803
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: was hitting the corner real heart, about twenty police cars

804
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 1: and it was a black dude. So the hot dolls

805
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: and just looked just look, they're going to kick somebody.

806
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: Classic yeah yeah, because itself to the left right, yeah

807
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: yeah man, yeah yeah. So I did a uh in

808
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,720
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen, I did a show at Wish Gallery,

809
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: you know, smaller spot, but the whole thing was really

810
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: targeted towards you know, gen z, the millennials, and it

811
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: was called The Million Likes, and it was based on

812
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 1: America's was really the world's fascination of just like famous

813
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: celebrity and losing their soul. And so I had a

814
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: lot of those pieces in there that was speaking directly

815
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: to like giving you like those witty ships, like at

816
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: first you don't get it, but then you're like, oh, ship,

817
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: Like that's what he's talking about, you know. So that's fun, man.

818
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: And like you have like your crew that you you

819
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 1: know that you bounce things off and riff with. Artists

820
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: work the same way. I mean, I have guys that

821
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: I could be up at one o'clock in the morning.

822
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: I called you, Chris, what you're thinking? You know that guy?

823
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: I call everybody waste too much? Yeah, but that's good,

824
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I uh, and you gotta you gotta have

825
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: those you know what I mean. Like when I was

826
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: in art school, Like I remember at the time when

827
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: my teacher was telling me about the value of having

828
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: studio made. Yet at the time I wasn't really tripping

829
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: off of that ship. But when you but when you

830
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: get out of when you're working and it's just you

831
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: with that one light on at two o'clock in the morning,

832
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:36,839
Speaker 1: you kind of wish you had people to bounce things

833
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: off of and people who know how to respectfully do it.

834
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Some people like to take

835
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: over your ideas. You don't do it. Yeah, let me

836
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: finish right, let me finish cooking. You can always tell

837
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: when they're about to steal your ship, though, This is

838
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: what comedians are always say when they're about to steal

839
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: how to jump like that? You don't have a like that?

840
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: How you gotta jump about my surgery? Right? I was

841
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: I was gonna have a certain use the land. Motherfucker

842
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 1: man man dropped that social one more time, so get

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Speaker 1: everything and then you don't learn ship up. So I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to figure that shot out too. Well, there you're

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Speaker 1: having folks. We're gonna be looking forward to getting a

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Speaker 1: projectiated here in the futures. Hey, find yourself so black excellence,

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Speaker 1: my man. Till