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Speaker 1: Yeah, check it out, Manashi put a coon, don't forget

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Speaker 1: check me out on the Bootleg cav podcast See you soon.

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Speaker 2: Yo, Bootleg cav show Man, we got a special guest

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Speaker 2: in here, a living legend Akon in the building's going on?

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Speaker 2: What's good? Brother?

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Speaker 1: Amazing?

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Speaker 2: First of all, he got this new song Going Crazy.

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Speaker 2: I gotta say congrats. I can't believe it's been twenty

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. I can't even believe it.

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Speaker 2: It's time, I flew. It makes me feel like old

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Speaker 2: because I just remember. I just remember that, you know,

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Speaker 1: That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: How does it feel, man?

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Speaker 1: Now? It feels amazing, Yeah, because I don't feel like

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Speaker 2: Right super fast. Yeah, and you've had so much like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think all that played a role. And I

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Speaker 2: Yo. How dope is it to have like your brother

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Speaker 2: I feel like I just found out somebody who was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, boo, working man. He was meant to be an

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Speaker 1: exec Yeah, Like a lot of people don't know. It

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Speaker 2: show coming up at Red Rocks. Yeah, Red Rock Halloween

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Speaker 2: Eve thirtieth Grace who headlines at it's actually Pain Show.

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Speaker 2: So it's t Pain Show. You're okay.

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Speaker 1: He's bringing me out as a special gift.

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Speaker 2: So the last time you were on the show, you

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Speaker 2: we talked about it defensively. You've shaved it all off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pizza is the highest it's the highest margin.

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Speaker 1: McDonald's or Wendy's or whatever. But that's more like African

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how did your family come over?

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Speaker 2: Damn you So you speak how many languages for four?

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Speaker 1: That's a whole other man. Every single all of the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yo, talk to me. I saw what is going

440
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Speaker 2: on with with the city, with your city, because I

441
00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,800
Speaker 2: saw that that synagogue city you had like a deadline

442
00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,680
Speaker 2: and give me the update on what's going, because a

443
00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,880
Speaker 2: lot of people calling you, like saying it was a scam,

444
00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:48,880
Speaker 2: Like what is happening?

445
00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:50,560
Speaker 1: Okay, First of all, it's a city.

446
00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:51,359
Speaker 2: Let's clear it up.

447
00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,280
Speaker 1: No city is built in twenty four hours, right. A

448
00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,080
Speaker 1: house takes twelve months, sometimes.

449
00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:57,960
Speaker 2: For th teams, sometimes longer.

450
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Speaker 1: We're building literally a city, right, it's gonna take time.

451
00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,119
Speaker 1: I think the mistake that I made was promoting it

452
00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,840
Speaker 1: while the concept was being put together. So what happened

453
00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,679
Speaker 1: was people already assumed that it existed and that's what

454
00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,119
Speaker 1: it was. So while we're trying to put together the licenses,

455
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,119
Speaker 1: getting all the suits, the feasibility studies going on, the

456
00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,639
Speaker 1: environmental studies and all of that's happening, the world is

457
00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,560
Speaker 1: looking at Acon City as if the construction had.

458
00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,920
Speaker 2: Already because you had already started talking about it, right.

459
00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,679
Speaker 1: And I think, but these are all mistakes that you

460
00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,000
Speaker 1: make as you go. Right now, the process is still

461
00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,399
Speaker 1: in motion. Things are already moving and as time go.

462
00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,240
Speaker 1: That's why I've been keeping a light, quiet conversation when

463
00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:32,840
Speaker 1: it comes to the city until we get further into

464
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,200
Speaker 1: the project to where I can start having real conversations

465
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Speaker 1: about it.

466
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Speaker 2: Have you like, are you and Senegogu like good in

467
00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,600
Speaker 2: terms of just like oh yeah, we want to they're

468
00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:41,240
Speaker 2: up to up.

469
00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,560
Speaker 1: To date on everybody's up to date. Everything is, everything

470
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:45,040
Speaker 1: is on the up.

471
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Speaker 2: And have you seen this just unrelated, but have you

472
00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,360
Speaker 2: seen this thing that they're building And I think it's

473
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Speaker 2: in Dubay, that long.

474
00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,360
Speaker 1: Yet limb that's in Saudi Arabia.

475
00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:54,400
Speaker 2: It's crazy.

476
00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is crazy. And interestingly enough, the guy that

477
00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,399
Speaker 1: put together that whole master plan is to that I

478
00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:04,000
Speaker 1: just brought on board to help me arrange some ideas

479
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Speaker 1: over the city.

480
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for people who don't know they're building this like

481
00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,680
Speaker 2: long steel city.

482
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,800
Speaker 1: It's like crazy.

483
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,560
Speaker 2: It is something that you would see like in like

484
00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,080
Speaker 2: a sci fi movie as a kid, right, and they're

485
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Speaker 2: actually doing it. It's like I saw a staff that

486
00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:20,720
Speaker 2: like they're using like twenty or thirty percent of the

487
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,280
Speaker 2: world's steel manufacturing is going to that city right now,

488
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Speaker 2: because they're building this city in the middle of the desert.

489
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Speaker 1: In the middle of the desert, and it's.

490
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Speaker 2: Like it's this long, it looks it looks it looks

491
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Speaker 2: like a line. Yeah, it's fucking nuh. And that whole line.

492
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Speaker 1: Everything will be inside it, by the way.

493
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:41,720
Speaker 2: Like everything you need, grocery stores, gyms, entertainment, subways, transportation. Crazy.

494
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,280
Speaker 1: Once you're in there, you're in there.

495
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:44,960
Speaker 2: So you brought that guy on to help.

496
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Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the guys that did the master plan

497
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:48,080
Speaker 1: is working with men.

498
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Speaker 2: That's fucking awesome.

499
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Speaker 1: Man. No, No, that's cool.

500
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Speaker 2: You got to get a little condo over there, and then.

501
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 1: You're definitely gonna have a spot in Limp for sure.

502
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,840
Speaker 2: How for you, man? Like what is I feel like

503
00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,920
Speaker 2: we're also in like a cool era where a lot

504
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,480
Speaker 2: of you know, I just we forgot juveniles weed sitting here.

505
00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,159
Speaker 2: But Juvie's on tour with Manny Fresh doing his his

506
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 2: twenty fifth anniversary of four hundred degrees. I mean, Tea

507
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 2: Pains have such a crazy touring renaissance. I feel like

508
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 2: we're to the point now where we're kind of like

509
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 2: appreciating guys like yourself and like the era of music

510
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:21,959
Speaker 2: because like you said, the vibrations and music have been

511
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,920
Speaker 2: so low and whatever we said earlier about like yeah

512
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,479
Speaker 2: that like like obviously drug dealing and shoot shoot them

513
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 2: uphit was glorified during your era, which I which was

514
00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 2: my era too, But also there was a lot of

515
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 2: music that was just fun right right, Like you know

516
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like if I think you're like your

517
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,679
Speaker 2: biggest records, like they're just fun right. You know what

518
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,200
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like do you feel like that's what's missing

519
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 2: right now? Is like artists are like kind of getting

520
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 2: away from just like yo, Like people need music to

521
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,199
Speaker 2: live to. People know they do.

522
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,359
Speaker 1: I think today they're too cool to have fun. Yeah,

523
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 1: it's like you've been to almost like being fun is

524
00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:57,199
Speaker 1: being soft.

525
00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 2: And you go to a nightclub, everyone's standing around, mean

526
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,120
Speaker 2: mugging in five bottles. Right, everybody is too tense. Man,

527
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:05,440
Speaker 2: it's crazy.

528
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:07,920
Speaker 1: It's way too much man. Like With us, it was

529
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,879
Speaker 1: different because when you did get that energy, it stayed

530
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,360
Speaker 1: on the record because regardless of what it is, when

531
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,639
Speaker 1: you came out, everybody was still cool. But on the record,

532
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,439
Speaker 1: it was on the record. It's been as usual. But

533
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 1: when they meet up in person, they lined up and

534
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 1: get you on that next record. They to watch, you

535
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It was different because we understood

536
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: that it was still entertainment. Today they think entertainment is

537
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: supposed to be life, and life has to be reflected

538
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 1: in that entertainment, and that's where it gets dangerous.

539
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 2: I'm curious now that, like, you know, we've had this,

540
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,640
Speaker 2: like fifty cent has been prolific with the television shows.

541
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,919
Speaker 2: BMF's a big show. Now Big Meach is out. So

542
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,359
Speaker 2: I'm really curious it's gonna happen with Meach because he

543
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 2: could like have the number one podcast in hip hop

544
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 2: if he like, if he like did a podcast tomorrow

545
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 2: or did like I mean that that there's a very

546
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 2: successful stars show about his life and now he's free.

547
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 1: Now he's free. But Meach is one of probably the

548
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: smartest dudes I've ever met, man and all that, but

549
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: he's already got a plan on what he's gonna do

550
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: when you get out, I promise.

551
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 2: And he's in a halfway house, right, he's out right

552
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 2: out in Florida. So you've met Meach before?

553
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you know the cool guy in my family,

554
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: really cool. Yeah.

555
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 2: Did you go into these crazy parties where they had

556
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 2: like tigers and ship and while yeah.

557
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, we used to go to all those guys crazy.

558
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,120
Speaker 2: What's the craziest thing he's he in at a beach party?

559
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 2: In terms of like just animal.

560
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,399
Speaker 1: Animals, because it's like it's a hood like niot the

561
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: hell you know, tigers and ship.

562
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 2: Like you know what I'm saying, like like what babysitting Like.

563
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. He was a visionary though, and I think that

564
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 1: place to his advantage because he thinks beyond the average person,

565
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: because he knows that whatever it is in your mind

566
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: that you think you can actually make it happen, you's

567
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 1: got to work towards and get the find the money

568
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 1: to get it done.

569
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know recently you you were a part of

570
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 2: uh Vitalities been doing these things on child predators. Yeah,

571
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 2: and I would say the most viral run he did

572
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 2: was when the arrested child predator and You're standing there

573
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 2: singing locked up to this guy. It was hilarious. Tell

574
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 2: me about that situation because obviously I'm sure did Vitality

575
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 2: did he bag you out to do that? Because I mean,

576
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 2: he was getting everyone in their mom on that show.

577
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 1: He was he was he was already getting everybody on it.

578
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: I just felt like everybody approached it in such a

579
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: a in a negative way, really, right. But at the time,

580
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: I was promoting my twentieth anniversary of Trouble, and I

581
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: feel like this would be a perfect opportunity to do

582
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: that while at the same time utilizing those kind of

583
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: platforms and find different ways to market and promote and

584
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 1: lo and behold, Whack whack one hundred. Big shotsta wa

585
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: Wack called me. Was like, yokahn, hey man, I got

586
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 1: batality Man. He wants to do this thing with you

587
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: with the predators. I said, what you mean predators like

588
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: off the top. I was like, nah, you know what, wag,

589
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. But then he was like, no, no, no,

590
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: you check out man game just did it. You know,

591
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 1: all these dudes did and everything, And so I checked

592
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: and looked and I was like, oh, this is actually

593
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: not bad.

594
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I mean, you're of it.

595
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: I said, you know what this is, this is this,

596
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 1: this would be perfect. So then that's when we reached

597
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: out and then we have batalitly conversated on what he

598
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: was going doing, and he's like, yeah, this is gonna

599
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 1: go crazy.

600
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 2: So my thing is, like you know, I always say,

601
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 2: because a lot of people have been like critical of

602
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,439
Speaker 2: him for doing it the way he is doing it,

603
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 2: but I'm like, who cares? Who cares? I think those people,

604
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 2: even if they never get arrested. The fact that they're

605
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 2: publicly out there is shame. Yes, that's enough, Like great,

606
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 2: because I hope your life is ruined.

607
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: But you know, it was crazy, like even the one

608
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Speaker 1: that we did, the episode we did, I'm looking at

609
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: this dude, I'm like, he's not even all the way there. Mentally,

610
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 1: he's not like you could tell he's not he's sane,

611
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: but he's definitely.

612
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, but now people know what he looks like, so

613
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 2: now they eat the job or if he works around kids.

614
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 2: It's like, how you know, I.

615
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: Felt bad for him at the time it was happening.

616
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: Even though I was smiling and doing it. I knew

617
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: that this was going to change his life because I

618
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 1: know this is something he don't never want to go

619
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,439
Speaker 1: through again. But in my mind, I'm like, man, somebody

620
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: should have been there. That video had his converse because

621
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 1: he's like, I can tell that he wasn't all there.

622
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,679
Speaker 2: He well, yeah, that sh it was I'm not gonna lie.

623
00:25:58,680 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 2: It was hilarious.

624
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: It was he got a fee was.

625
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 2: Funny saying they like they did you talk to the cops?

626
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, but see at the time the cops say't know

627
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: he was gonna do that because they probably would have

628
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 1: told us we couldn't do it, so we ain't say

629
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 1: nothing about it.

630
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 2: I'm saying, like the cops are like, yeah, I'm a fan,

631
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 2: like uh.

632
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 1: Yeah afterwards afterwards, one of the cops like, men, I

633
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: wanted to bust out laughing so bad, but I couldn't.

634
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 2: Imagine you go to work that day, you don't know

635
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 2: that you're about to arrest the child predator while AKN

636
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 2: performs locked Up. That is hilarious.

637
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: That was too funny.

638
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 2: Bro, Yo, have you watched uh The New Joker too,

639
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 2: with your girl lady guy guy in it? Yeah? What

640
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 2: were your thoughts? It's getting panned critically.

641
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but you understand, like she's always been

642
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: an amazing actress artist.

643
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 2: All that Star Is Born is one of the best

644
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 2: movies ever.

645
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: I promise you, bro, she's a three sixty everything. Yeah,

646
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, I mean, I mean

647
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: the way I look at it, those critics are always critics,

648
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: always gonna attack you, But to me, when they attack it,

649
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: and I mean, that was that was that was a

650
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: piece that was well worth doing.

651
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how did you like the movie?

652
00:26:59,040 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: I like the movie?

653
00:26:59,600 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 2: You liked it.

654
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 1: I like the movie.

655
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I think it just wasn't what a

656
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 2: lot of people expect. It's almost like The Wire season two.

657
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever watched The Wire.

658
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: No, I haven't seen that.

659
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 2: Okay, The Wire season two was like it just took

660
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 2: a crazy left turn and everybody didn't appreciate it until

661
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 2: years later.

662
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: But yeah, but I think with me, it was a

663
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: little different because I kind of already knew what it

664
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: was going to be, and I've already seen the storyline

665
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: already to know what that was going to be, versus okay,

666
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 1: anticipating something and then getting something different.

667
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 2: Do you I wonder you know, with what a lot

668
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 2: of artists have been doing with selling their catalog, your

669
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 2: catalog's got to be pretty unprecedented in terms of just

670
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 2: all the stuff you've been a part of, whether it's

671
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 2: the Tea pain stuff, the Lady God Got stuff, your

672
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 2: own solo stuff, all of that stuff. Have you been

673
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 2: approached for the catalog thing and have you sold anything?

674
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: I think I think everybody's been approached for it, because

675
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: that's the game. Yeah, when you look at the catalog stuff,

676
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: I think for the most artists out there, if you

677
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: do have an extensive catalog. Hold on to it, don't

678
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: sell it.

679
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:56,959
Speaker 2: So you haven't sold anything.

680
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: Hold on to it.

681
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 2: Yeah for you, it's like it's got to be just

682
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 2: like it's residual income.

683
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: Everyone what people don't also have mis calculators that the

684
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: industry is changing and technology is moving into the future.

685
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: So in a minute, there's gonna be like licensing music

686
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: going to be the driver for everything on the internet

687
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: and everything on the metaverse. Metaverse is going to be

688
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: the future of entertained. I mean in a period.

689
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 2: I say this too. It's like, if all of these

690
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 2: private equity firms are buying up catalog, they might know

691
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 2: something we don't know exactly. So it's like you might

692
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 2: just want to hold out.

693
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: Unless you need the money to survive. Hold on to it.

694
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, what did you get an official offer?

695
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, like, oh no, I got I got

696
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know.

697
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 2: How can you share what's like the craziest offer you got?

698
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: No, Because then it's gonna it's gonna convince others to sell.

699
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: I don't want them to sell.

700
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 2: I feel like it'd be close to a billion dollars.

701
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: I don't want them to sell like.

702
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: You're the amount of like, like the amount of records

703
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 2: that you probably old cuts up. It's just kind of

704
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 2: be fucking insane.

705
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: Oh yes, it's unbelievable.

706
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's wild yo for you man. Uh, what

707
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 2: is what is the direction of your new album?

708
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: That the direct? Oh, I can't wait for y'all to hear.

709
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna change the game from a perspective

710
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: of just the energy of what music is now versus

711
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: where it needs to go. I really do believe that

712
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna put more smiles on

713
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: people's faces. It's gonna change the energy of records that

714
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: make you feel good or music that felt good period

715
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: in times where you needed to hear something to kind

716
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: of put you through something.

717
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, is there any homage to like the sound to

718
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 2: your first album?

719
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think if you like the first album, this

720
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: second album, the first this You know what, if I

721
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: had to put this album in category of any of

722
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: my three albums, I would say it was it was

723
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: a mix of all three albums for this album.

724
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's dope.

725
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would definitely be a mix of all three albums.

726
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: Because I realized I built three different bases because the

727
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: first album was more of a hip hop bas for audience.

728
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: Then the second album was more rhythmic, cross album pop.

729
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: Third album was popped. Yeah. So this, this album that

730
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: I'm putting out, A Not Guilty, gives you a number

731
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: of all of that.

732
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 2: I'm curious man, Like, from a radio perspective, when you

733
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 2: would meet program directors, did they ever give you hell

734
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 2: about how hard you made their job because there was

735
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 2: just no artist separation? Yeah?

736
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, listen, interesting enough you brought that up. The

737
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: reason why they created that artist separation law was because

738
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: of what I was doing.

739
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was like, Yo, every a coon z

740
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 2: on fucking everything, and then after you it was t

741
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 2: Pain's on fucking everything. And then Lil Wayne had that Runner.

742
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 2: He was on fucking everything. And now Drake is just like,

743
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 2: you know, it's crazy.

744
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: It was crazy, but that's why he did it for sure.

745
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's it's wild too because like for a

746
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 2: while there, like you were like everybody needed an acon hook.

747
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 2: Was there a feature that you almost did that didn't

748
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 2: end up coming out, or maybe something you cut that

749
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 2: didn't end up dropping, or something that almost happened that

750
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 2: didn't because you because you worked with so many artists.

751
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, so many. It was actually a record that I

752
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: did with Nicki Minaj. It never dropped, it'd never dropped,

753
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: but it was I think would have been probably one

754
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: of my biggest pop records.

755
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 2: Wow, what year was this?

756
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: This happened in twenty seventeen.

757
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, this is recent recent, that.

758
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: Is, But back then I would probably say the one

759
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: that didn't come out was me And who was that?

760
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: Can I e remember which one it was? Ooh, well,

761
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: the one that didn't come out but then eventually came

762
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: out after was doing with Michael Jackson. Ah, because that

763
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: was supposed.

764
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 2: To come out while he was while he was alive.

765
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: But then it was a lot of complication on the

766
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: release between Universal and Sony on the negotiations of it,

767
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: and then when Mike passed, the song went to his

768
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: estate and then two years later they ended up putting

769
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: it out.

770
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 2: Did you end up having any conversations with Mike when

771
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 2: he was alive, Oh?

772
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he was. He was my road dof for

773
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: like two years before he passed.

774
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 2: Oh, that's crazy.

775
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: He was doing a lot of work together and then

776
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: he was also doing a lot of new music that

777
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: was supposed to drop for his tour that he was

778
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: doing in the UK.

779
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: What was something like just being around Michael Jackson. Obviously

780
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 2: there's so many misconceptions about him, Yeah, too many. I

781
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 2: feel like a lot of people also didn't really know.

782
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: Him, They didn't know him at all.

783
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: What would you say your experience of being with him

784
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 2: was this? Man?

785
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: I think I wish the world would have gotten to

786
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: see and know him the way I did, because you

787
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: were And then I also realized why he was probably

788
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: the biggest artist on the planet. His heart drove everything

789
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: that he did. His focus was always on kids and

790
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: how he can mentally put them in a position to

791
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: conquer anything and also physically put them in the environments

792
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: to be able to conquer whatever those dreams were. Because

793
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: he was one of those kind of kids that didn't

794
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: have a childhood. Yeah, because he grew up as child star.

795
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: So that's why his adult years he was so attached

796
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: to things that kids do, because he was free enough

797
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: and rich enough to do those things that he never

798
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: got a chance to do, but he couldn't do it

799
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: with other adults. So he made sure that other kids

800
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: that didn't have the means to do it, were around

801
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: or was able to get that experience, you know what

802
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: I mean?

803
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 2: And you guys worked on a lot of music down Yeah,

804
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 2: how many unreleased songs are well at least ideas?

805
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: Did you get to be a endless amount of ideas?

806
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: Endless amount of ideas? I wish I could chop them

807
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: things up and put them out today, but does.

808
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 2: The state have them?

809
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: Well? I got them, but I could never put them

810
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: out because I don't think the state wouldever.

811
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 2: Everything sounds good though, that dude, you just got wrang

812
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson vocals just chilling. We'll never hear. That's what's crazy.

813
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: That's the worst, Yo, that's crazy.

814
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 2: Can you imagine? Yo? Did you have you and T

815
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 2: Pain ever discussed doing a joint project?

816
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: Yeah? Actually it's something that we're discussing now and believe

817
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: it or not, that's why we're starting to do more

818
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: appearances together, you know what I'm saying, to kind of

819
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: start getting that energy to see where the crowd is

820
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: often like what their energy is before we starting to

821
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: announce and starting things.

822
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 2: Oh no, I think that would be monumental if you

823
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 2: and T Pain did like a like a ten song

824
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 2: banger or something, like that.

825
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: We definitely it's overdue, way overdue, but it's better. It's

826
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: better that we can do it now that we're both independent.

827
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like it's.

828
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: Because now we can do it the way we want

829
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: to do it.

830
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 2: Without all the red tape and all that bullshit. Right,

831
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 2: it's so it's crazy for people who don't know, like

832
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,959
Speaker 2: t Pain. Uh, he said that like he really took

833
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 2: a gamble signing with you, because.

834
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: But I don't think it was a gamble. I would

835
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: say he took a leap of faith.

836
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 2: It was a leap of faith because he had other

837
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: opportunities on the table with big money.

838
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: Bob, major up opportunities, but he went with you.

839
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 2: And at the time, you have an unproven concept. Convict

840
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 2: music was just you.

841
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: It was just just me.

842
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 2: So like like he really kind of like you know,

843
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 2: just believed and he did and believed in me, and

844
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 2: then you know, the world has changed in music forever.

845
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, because all I thought all I could offer him

846
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: at that time was a career. Yeah, I couldn't give

847
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: him the upfront money that he's looking for, but I

848
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 1: knew one thing rock on me. I'm gonna make sure

849
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 1: that you can be able to feature family forever, Yo,

850
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: And it worked out. It worked out, for sure, It

851
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: did work out.

852
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 2: Yo. Was there anybody who you almost signed the Convict

853
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 2: Music but it just didn't end up happening Young Thug? Really?

854
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had his first record, Stoner that was on Convict.

855
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 2: That was on Stoner was on Convict.

856
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: We pushed that one, so it was it was a

857
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: single deal. I was supposed to go into an actual

858
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: full album artist deal. But when that record blew up, of.

859
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 2: Course everybody came in everywhere else.

860
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: And uh, that's how that went in up.

861
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 2: Wow, I did not know Stoner was on Convict Music

862
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 2: because I do.

863
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: I wor you worked that record. That That's how I

864
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 1: met Ojibu Dirty. Actually, Wow, I met Ojibu Dirty as

865
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: we was uh doing all the promo.

866
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 2: Stuff for the and uh, did you guys at least

867
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 2: obviously despite him not staying with you, did you guys

868
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 2: keep a good relationship?

869
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, it was I mean, I know, business, yeah,

870
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: but you know, and the decisions he made actually worked

871
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: out for him because he had an amazing career for sure.

872
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean his situation I think is uh. I

873
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 2: was just talking with jelly Roll, my boy jelly Roll

874
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 2: and he was saying, if he got his jelly roll,

875
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 2: he's so dope, he's amazing. Yeah, we just he just

876
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 2: got the number now in the country right now. I

877
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 2: love Yeah, he's incredible. But we're talking. I was on

878
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 2: the road with him a few days last week. Oh

879
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,760
Speaker 2: that's dope, and we were talking about the thug situation

880
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 2: and he was like, man, if he gets out, he

881
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 2: better sue the fuck out of because it's been the

882
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 2: longest trial they've it's been so much malpractice. It would

883
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 2: seem with the prosecutor and Fanny Willis and all them, like, yeah,

884
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 2: with thugs, he might have a civil suit on his hands.

885
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 2: If he ends up getting exonerated.

886
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see where that goes, for sure.

887
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be h. It's definitely gonna be interesting. Man,

888
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 2: for you bred Like, what's next for you outside of

889
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 2: all like the Icon City, the new music or is there?

890
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 2: Are you gonna do a book or you gonna do

891
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 2: a podcast?

892
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: Or what are you doing? Man? We're doing all of it.

893
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: We got Convict media coming where it's gonna be a list.

894
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: I actually just acquired uh what used to be uh

895
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: what's called lit Radio now but before then it was

896
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: Dash Radio, yeah, which was yeah so.

897
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 2: Wait yeah Dash the Skis thingj.

898
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: Ski is a company out of all Australia that bought it, okay,

899
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: and then we acquired into that company and now we

900
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: named it lit Lit Radio. Yeah, Lit Radio, So it's

901
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: not not only it's gonna be podcast, but it's gonna

902
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: be streaming and everything else like that.

903
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I think Dash, at least from what I remember,

904
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 2: it was available in like Ford. Was it Ford Vehicles?

905
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah it was.

906
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 2: So you're a part owner of that now yeah.

907
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, we took the whole platform.

908
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 2: Oh that's big man. Yeah. I always wondered, like DJ Ski,

909
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 2: that dude right there, I'm super smart bro, and he's

910
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: always finding people to give him money.

911
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: Listen, he's the perfect Yeah when I tell you, Ski,

912
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: I don't know, he pulls it out of a hat

913
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: every time, every time.

914
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 2: Because like Dash has been around. Always just was like thinking, like,

915
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 2: you know, I'm a radio guy, right right, So I

916
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 2: always was just like how do they make money?

917
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: Right?

918
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 2: Like it just keeps getting I'm like, how where are

919
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 2: they getting all this money?

920
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,880
Speaker 1: Ski Ski is like he's like a master uh uh,

921
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: a networker. He knows how to find but he's a

922
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: great picture too, Yeah, and he knows how to present

923
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: it to where you see the division.

924
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm curious man. Like you've been on so many

925
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 2: different sides of the music industry, it feels like there's

926
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 2: some sort of energy where at least I feel like

927
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 2: artists need to try to start figuring out a way

928
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 2: to push out, push off of these DSPs a little

929
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 2: and go go back to going direct a consumer, whether

930
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: it's dropping vinyls, whether it's dropping you know, merch. I

931
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 2: don't know if have you heard of Larussell, the kid Larrussell,

932
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 2: who's he's out in the Bays doing like super independent.

933
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 2: He's doing these concerts in his backyard. Wow, and you

934
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 2: have to pay, like you pay what you want to

935
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,439
Speaker 2: go to the show. So the's got some people paying

936
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars to come see him live and some

937
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 2: people paying ten dollars.

938
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: You know. That's so dope.

939
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 2: But I wonder where do you kind of forecast the

940
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: industry going. I feel like we were at least ten

941
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 2: years into the streaming era.

942
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 1: Now yeah, we end. I think there's going to be

943
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: a model that allows artists to now again go back

944
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: to selling something physical, even if it's a combination of music,

945
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: more merch and something digital asset to get you know,

946
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: to connect with it. But I do believe that the

947
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: streaming aspect of it is not making no sense for

948
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 1: us at all. Still. It's just to the point where

949
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a model that comes in that knocks

950
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: that out unless the stream is coming start actually getting.

951
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 2: Paying fairly something fairly Yeah, because the Spotify page your

952
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 2: thirty eight hundred bucks, you get a million streams, Like,

953
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 2: it doesn't make sense. Crazy, a million people listening to

954
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 2: this or a million times and I'm only getting four grand, Like, yeah,

955
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 2: that's that's crazy.

956
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:27,919
Speaker 1: Yeah.

957
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 2: I think it's just, you know, I think there has

958
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 2: to be like something like do you feel like major

959
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 2: labels are even like net Like, would you rather be

960
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 2: independent at this point? Or like if you're let's say

961
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 2: you're a con twenty years ago coming into the game,

962
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 2: you got a buzz going, you gotta mixtape buzz going,

963
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 2: do you feel like a label is necessary?

964
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: Still? No, Not for me for sure. I mean that's

965
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: that's why I'm independent now.

966
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 2: But I'm talking about even if you're like a new artist,

967
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 2: you're fucking a contract as self fund.

968
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: Right as a newer artist, I think depending on what

969
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: it is they're doing. Right, if you're more of a

970
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: novelty artist, you know, you underground, you're trying to build

971
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: a swell to where you're not looking for this big

972
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: major career, definitely go independent. But if you're doing things

973
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: like top forty pop music, you kind of you're not

974
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: going to survive in an independent era.

975
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 2: Yeah.

976
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

977
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 2: I always say if you're a pop artist and that's

978
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,760
Speaker 2: the goal, yeah, pop, you kind of need the machine.

979
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, you need you should build unless you got unless

980
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: you unless you got someone like DJ Ski is going

981
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: to raise the money for you.

982
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, Or you have like a dope like creative like

983
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 2: partnership with the distribution company that still lets you keep

984
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 2: your masters. They'll give you an advance and like there's

985
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 2: some sort of like hybrid deal of the two like

986
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 2: Empire or something.

987
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, Empire has actually actually been a good

988
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: model for the revenue model for independent artists. I think

989
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: they've done a really really good.

990
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 2: Jobeah, they got Shaboozie, The biggest song on Billboard this

991
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,959
Speaker 2: year is a technically it's a you know, Shaboozi owns

992
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 2: all that, you know, like he owns the Masters.

993
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 1: They're done a really really good job, you know, because

994
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: I think when you look at how Empire did it,

995
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: they took up a major uh uh position and they

996
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: actually start spending the money that's necessary, you know what

997
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I think from a perspective of independent,

998
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: it's really about the purse, just having the funding to

999
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: do it. But then you got to be connected to

1000
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: people that know who is the shakers and bakers in

1001
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: the business.

1002
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like, you know, we see this so much.

1003
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 2: I always tell artists like, you could have all the

1004
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 2: money in the world, if you don't know where to

1005
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 2: spend it, then your fuck don't make sense because we

1006
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 2: how many people have we seen who have got the

1007
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:35,879
Speaker 2: dope boy behind him driving stupid money? Athletes, Ah my.

1008
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: Goodness, every act got a label, like they just throw

1009
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: money out the window and it's never worked. It's never worked.

1010
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,240
Speaker 1: I don't know the only one that's ever worked with Shack.

1011
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 2: You know, he was a major. He was rapping a major.

1012
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 2: I mean, he had Platinum. The reason he's the only

1013
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: one I'm talking about, Carmelo Anthony had a label. I'm

1014
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 2: already Stodamayer had a label. Uh of the.

1015
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: Durand even the ones you don't know God.

1016
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 2: Labels, and no one gives a right because they're just

1017
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 2: they're just thinking because they got money. It's like, bro,

1018
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 2: that's not you gotta know where to spend it. You

1019
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 2: got to you gotta be smart like money, like like

1020
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 2: money's one thing, but knowing what to do.

1021
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: With it is.

1022
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 2: Otherwise you're just a tax right off. Absolutely, yeah. How

1023
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm curious, when you're like the level

1024
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 2: of wealthy that you are, do you have like any

1025
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 2: tax loophole, like a tidbitch you could share with the people,

1026
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 2: like anything I just think about taxes, bro, anything you

1027
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 2: could like write off the people don't think about.

1028
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: Like right, listen, the best and the smartest advice I

1029
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,919
Speaker 1: can give you just follow all the rules to the tea.

1030
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: You can never listen. This is the part that I

1031
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: understand about people trying to evade taxes. It don't make sense,

1032
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: first of all, because what happens is you got money

1033
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: sitting in a bank or in a trust front, or

1034
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: it just sits there anyway. Right, It's like it literally

1035
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: just you can't spend all that money in a lifetime.

1036
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: So what is the point, right, So my thing is

1037
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: spend as much of it as possible that you can

1038
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: write off so you can get a portion of that bat.

1039
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: Yes, it's literally that simple. It's that easy. I always say, like,

1040
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 2: if you know you got a big tax bill coming up,

1041
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 2: just start spending. What are some things you can invest in? Boom, Like, okay,

1042
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 2: I need new cameras, Boomed, I need a vehicle that

1043
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 2: weighs over six thousand pounds.

1044
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: There you go. You feel what I'm saying.

1045
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 2: Once you learn the rules of what's needed. Just people

1046
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 2: a private jet, right, because that's a rite off. That's

1047
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 2: the write off if you've got a business a PJ.

1048
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: And really what's so dope is that when you when

1049
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: you know, when you know how if you when you

1050
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 1: do follow the rules and you actually write it off,

1051
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: that money comes back to you. So it's almost like

1052
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: everything that you bought you getting for free.

1053
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 2: Yes, or that's what I say, really say, when it's

1054
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 2: time to if you're a business owner and that and

1055
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 2: and you know taxes are coming, you know you're gonna

1056
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 2: have a bill, you can either buy some ship that's

1057
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 2: useful to your business or give it away. To the government.

1058
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: Pick one, you got to pick one?

1059
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 2: Any idea when the new album's coming out. I know

1060
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 2: you got a new single in December, right.

1061
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going to open the door for the actual

1062
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: album that's going to drop in Februar.

1063
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,919
Speaker 2: Fully Independent, Fully Independent. I love I love it. What's

1064
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 2: going on with Kobe o'donna's random question?

1065
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, this is the fourth person that

1066
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: asked me about him. He's actually gonna be performing at

1067
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: the My My show in a couple of days, and would.

1068
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 2: Drive him to believe his weird, weird ass dad alone. Like

1069
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 2: I met him at a high school mixed tour ones

1070
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 2: when I was an intern, and Kobe O'donna's dad creeped

1071
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 2: me the funk out. But Yo, he was dope. He

1072
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 2: was so talented.

1073
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: Listen, can I tell you Kobe was justin Bieber before

1074
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 1: just he was super talented. He was the most unbelievable

1075
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: talent that I've had ever signed. But unfortunately, Yeah, his

1076
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 1: dad was in the middle of the lot of the business. Yeah,

1077
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 1: but now he's open, he's grown, he's free and unfortunate.

1078
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: Three years ago his dad actually passed away.

1079
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 2: He is actually moving his dad. I do feel bad

1080
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 2: for saying that. But how's your relationship these days with

1081
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 2: Go Go? You guys ever talk?

1082
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talk, We talk as well.

1083
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like if you and t Paine do

1084
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 2: a joint album, you gotta have her on the fucking album.

1085
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: Come on, now, it'd be crazy. Gotta happened. Well, my my,

1086
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: my oh is to get all of us together on

1087
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: something super super big. I don't care if it's gonna

1088
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: be a world tour whole album, but I just want

1089
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: to bring the whole family together as one celebration of

1090
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: all the stuff that we did and contributed to the business.

1091
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 2: Now for sure, man, we'll listen. Your legend the new

1092
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 2: song is out. Everybody should go run that up. Anything

1093
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 2: else people can support you on right now. But you know,

1094
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 2: obviously you gotta do you still have the crypto Huh?

1095
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 2: Is the crypto coin still thing?

1096
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 1: Oh? That's on pause. It was too political. I couldn't

1097
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: get it was start mixing up with my real business.

1098
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know much about it. Listen. I know

1099
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 2: I lost money on fucking ripple.

1100
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all lost money on that stuff. But for

1101
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: for that specific me, it was more political because my

1102
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:41,919
Speaker 1: coin was never even in the us.

1103
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 2: Right.

1104
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: That was for Africa and Africa only, but because it

1105
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: was doing so much in Africa, it started to affect

1106
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: some of the agendas and it started getting a little

1107
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:53,879
Speaker 1: deep there.

1108
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 2: It is. Man, Well, look, I appreciate you pulling up

1109
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 2: a kon Yo. By the way, I might have to

1110
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 2: catch a flight to the Red Rocks show. That's crazy, Yo,

1111
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 2: you got to it's gonna be nuts, my guy, con

1112
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 2: I appreciate you pulling up boom fire. Let's do Uh,

1113
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 2: We're gonna do some ship just for the radio show

1114
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 2: that it's gonna run on the syndicated show. So we're

1115
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 2: gonna have obviously we're gonna introduce the record, but I'm

1116
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,399
Speaker 2: gonna have you do. We do something on the show

1117
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 2: called the Daily Hate, where people listeners calling and they

1118
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 2: hate on something. They can hate on their boss, their baby, mama,

1119
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 2: the traffic, fucking Trump, whatever. So I'm gonna ask you

1120
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 2: something that you're hating.

1121
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: On got you. I don't even know if I'm hating

1122
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 1: on anything.

1123
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 2: It could be. It could be like it could be

1124
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,479
Speaker 2: when you get something delivered to you from Uber Eats

1125
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 2: and the food is cold and they don't they don't

1126
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 2: give you utensils.

1127
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to think of what I hated.

1128
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 2: It could be. It could be it could be it

1129
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 2: could be eddie, it could be fucking airline ship, it

1130
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 2: could be travel ship, every day ship. They don't have

1131
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 2: to be like hate per se, but it's just like

1132
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 2: something that you could be like, Yeah, man, you know

1133
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 2: I would maybe if you had an experience at an

1134
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 2: airport or maybe.

1135
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: You had an experience. I know exactly what I'm hating on.

1136
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 2: All Right, here we go, ro Yo. It's the boutleg

1137
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 2: Camp show. Shout out to Acon Man taking over the

1138
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 2: show Man. He got a new record out. We're going

1139
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 2: to get into that in this secons called Beautiful Day

1140
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: new album all the way. It is the celebrity edition

1141
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 2: of the Daily Hate Though, Acon, what are you hating on?

1142
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: Man? I ain't gonna lie to you. I was trying

1143
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: to think of anything that I can hate, because I

1144
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: don't hate much, but I had to say I am

1145
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: hating on the fact that every time I go through

1146
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: the UK, the sun is never out bro Oh in

1147
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: the UK it's one of my favorite places, but it's

1148
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: always cloudiesh It's gloomy, gloomy, rainy, like I'm not gonna lie.

1149
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,399
Speaker 2: I've never seen a video from someone in the UK

1150
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 2: where it looks sunny. It does always look great.

1151
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: Beautiful place though, Yeah, like I would live there if

1152
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: the sun just came out.

1153
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 2: Look, you got a new album coming out first quarter

1154
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 2: next year. I want you to get into this new single.

1155
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 2: Tell us about the song and let's get into it.

1156
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: Absolutely. This is called Acon's Beautiful Day Man. This is

1157
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: one of those songs that reminds you that no matter

1158
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: what you're going through in life, there's somebody out there

1159
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: that's going through worse. Man, So appreciate what you have

1160
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 1: and don't worry too much about what you want, what

1161
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: you're trying to get.

1162
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 2: Let's get into it. Brand new Acon on your radios,

1163
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 2: The Bootleg cav Show.

1164
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: Let's Go