Speaker 1: I loved the one of my theasers.
Speaker 2: Can call me privately. Y'all are coup on today manby
Speaker 2: mm hmmmmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: I don't love your pronouns sis a lot.
Speaker 3: I say I'm a pacifist. I stabbed the nigga once
Speaker 3: when I was listening to the super dug.
Speaker 4: Its lack. I. I can't believe that his wife would
Speaker 4: it good?
Speaker 5: Be hoping should be this your boy and a O
Speaker 5: N A what up as d J E f N
Speaker 5: and it's drink chance will take me crazy?
Speaker 4: War makes up.
Speaker 5: And right now, I'm gonna be honest, man, when we're
Speaker 5: looking at these two brothers here as at one point
Speaker 5: I never thought I would see them back together. One
Speaker 5: brother was in Africa like incense. The other brother was
Speaker 5: in Uticavese. Then we got another brother. There's will Pop
Speaker 5: in here and that the most legendary. But we'll talk
Speaker 5: about that later. But let's just get they have just
Speaker 5: dropped an album that is just for the fans. And
Speaker 5: they could have put it on Spot the Fire, they
Speaker 5: could have put it on iTunes, they could have put
Speaker 5: it on your local jule ree. No, they wanted to
Speaker 5: put it for their fans, their fans only these guys
Speaker 5: are monkey footing and they're still the most lyrical motherfuckers
Speaker 5: in the game.
Speaker 4: And I'm listening to this album and they not slipping
Speaker 4: up even a little bit. And they got a lot
Speaker 4: of money.
Speaker 5: In case you don't know what the fuck you're talking about,
Speaker 5: we're talking about the one, the only motherfucker block. Now,
Speaker 5: y'all seen, baby, I'm gonna start with you.
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of money. I live on
Speaker 1: a stipend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too. Do we have that clip?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: Let me just tell you something, y'all seen, baby, This
Speaker 5: is real talk. Whenever I'm down and I feel like
Speaker 5: life is fucked up and I don't want to keep
Speaker 5: moving on. Oh I feel like music it's not where
Speaker 5: I wanted to be, I always go to this clip
Speaker 5: and I watched this and this ship saves my life.
Speaker 7: This is real talk. Can you play it please?
Speaker 1: That's it's not even it's just you know, it's a lot,
Speaker 1: It's all favorable.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful. That blazer is gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the whole thing.
Speaker 4: Is it is a good moment. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 4: why I love that clip.
Speaker 8: The rag under the door, the success the success of
Speaker 8: Your Soul, the success of Black Starter, suscept of Dave
Speaker 8: Jappelle's show.
Speaker 9: Your bars are not supposed.
Speaker 10: To be like that, Yes they are, explain because.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm here to do. This is a
Speaker 1: large gift to me, right right, So you must, you know,
Speaker 1: put your crown on. I mean much.
Speaker 4: You always knew that I was.
Speaker 1: I was great at ryman from the moment I started.
Speaker 1: I was nine years old. I was never not good.
Speaker 4: I think we should makes a noise of that.
Speaker 7: You don't need that.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be out of sweet God, I really wasn't
Speaker 5: because we just did this interview would just be just
Speaker 5: us and not at the shock swearter God. This is
Speaker 5: something that really motivates me because I fell out of
Speaker 5: love of music a lot like I fell out of
Speaker 5: love with the business.
Speaker 4: That's a beastiness.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing it's not you know, you should
Speaker 1: fall out of love. That means you're a human being,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's not worthy if your love.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: This is not the music.
Speaker 1: So the art is another thing all together. I mean,
Speaker 1: the the fence around they called the industry is just
Speaker 1: you know, it's just an industrial fence, you know.
Speaker 5: So we had tot Level on the show, and we
Speaker 5: actually asked him about you're a whereabouts and what the
Speaker 5: time because we we had you was like a no
Speaker 5: man at one point.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm alive and planet of my country is Earth.
Speaker 1: I'm from a country called Earth like everybody else. So
Speaker 1: that's my perspective on life and living in place.
Speaker 11: I never heard of this country because that was the
Speaker 11: room of the rule was you went to Africa, I did,
Speaker 11: and you lost the passport and then you became a
Speaker 11: citizen of whatever country he was in.
Speaker 1: I'll tell the food story at another time, you know,
Speaker 1: that's like a whole other thing I was.
Speaker 4: I was living in.
Speaker 1: South Africa and doing my stay there. I obtained the
Speaker 1: secondary travel document, which is well documented the history of
Speaker 1: it and the province of it.
Speaker 4: And and the like.
Speaker 1: And I obtained one, and there was some disagreement between
Speaker 1: you myself and the and the South African government as
Speaker 1: it relates to what they qualify as valid travel document.
Speaker 12: And that was the older part that I remember, because
Speaker 12: this is supposed to part time, you know, but it's
Speaker 12: still parts has many different outfits these days.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't classify so much as that, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't experienced. I often invite people to look up the
Speaker 1: World Passport for themselves and just take it from there
Speaker 1: because I'm not here to make up anybody's mind about anything.
Speaker 4: But that was a part of my experience. Okay, so
Speaker 4: let me not get my hopes up. You said the
Speaker 4: World's passport, the World pastor from a fella. I cannot
Speaker 4: fill out for that, right, Let's be clear. You have
Speaker 4: to look at it, but I'm sure that I.
Speaker 9: Feel like I'm not going to be.
Speaker 1: It's information about it. Anyone is invited to to take it.
Speaker 4: Out and themselves like a community of people need to be.
Speaker 4: I don't want to. You know, you felt it.
Speaker 2: The first job.
Speaker 6: I said you were going to Africa.
Speaker 13: You said they got w's in Africa.
Speaker 5: Because you know why they used to lie to me.
Speaker 5: They to tell me I had to get vaccines.
Speaker 4: I had to get.
Speaker 9: Shots depending on the country going over there.
Speaker 5: But this is this is Africa, total totality at this
Speaker 5: time until I met Acon and then Akon said, Nigga,
Speaker 5: you come out there now vaccine. I don't know if
Speaker 5: I believe he just told everything to me. He was like,
Speaker 5: come on, let us go.
Speaker 14: I'm just like I'm forgive you in Jersey City is different?
Speaker 4: Why is that at the.
Speaker 5: Let's just let's just get back to this album, right,
Speaker 5: you guys, these fans have been backing for this album
Speaker 5: for so long. So on this is like a two
Speaker 5: part question because on one part you gave the fans
Speaker 5: everything they wanted.
Speaker 4: But then some and this But.
Speaker 5: To this generation, this might be the most laziest generation
Speaker 5: I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: Like they have Google, no fear of time, they have Google,
Speaker 4: and they'll still be like, well, how do I get
Speaker 4: it right?
Speaker 5: So I remember a friend of mine had he threw
Speaker 5: out a movie and this movie was so hard to download,
Speaker 5: like it wasn't in the so and he was like, yo,
Speaker 5: how was people not supporting us?
Speaker 4: We can't find the ship? You know what ider saying?
Speaker 4: I'm saying, because so, how do.
Speaker 5: Y'all y'all navigate through this through the system of you know,
Speaker 5: these fans that because luminary luminary, everyone doesn't notice. A
Speaker 5: subscription based everyone doesn't notice.
Speaker 9: How how do y'all navigate?
Speaker 4: Is this the first album like music project on that?
Speaker 4: Because do the podcast?
Speaker 13: There you go? You knew we did a podcast today makes.
Speaker 4: A noise of me.
Speaker 13: Because I mean and listen, I'm not going to uh
Speaker 13: differentiate between real and fake fans, because who knows what
Speaker 13: station people are in life with what they are and.
Speaker 6: They like to even know that we have.
Speaker 13: But we have made a choice, for a lot of
Speaker 13: valid reasons, to be in control of where and how
Speaker 13: we distribute our art, and I think every artist should
Speaker 13: have that choice, just like every human beings. You have
Speaker 13: a choice where to sell. They war is that if
Speaker 13: they if they got wears the cell and so because
Speaker 13: of that choice to have our podcast on Luminary, people's
Speaker 13: parties on Luminary.
Speaker 6: People who have been following us, and I'm.
Speaker 13: Not saying real fans, but people who have come on
Speaker 13: a journey with us have been followed what we y'all
Speaker 13: seen Bay is done with our installations. Who understand about
Speaker 13: the albums that he's worked on, Who understand who follow
Speaker 13: me and styles pr Me and domin d album. The
Speaker 13: ones who follow who go to Netflix and see au
Speaker 13: Dachapel specials. These people already on Luminic, They were already
Speaker 13: listening to Midnight Miracle, you know. And again I want
Speaker 13: to stress that's not a judgment or nothing, but at
Speaker 13: this point in our careers and because of the way
Speaker 13: the music business. Speaking for myself, we have to as
Speaker 13: as men and as artists focus on not trying to
Speaker 13: cast a why net and get everybody. Because even me
Speaker 13: as a fan, as a fan of black Star, I
Speaker 13: want to hear black Star wherever I feel like hearing it.
Speaker 6: But me as a fan of black Star, I.
Speaker 13: Also want to trust black Star, and I also want
Speaker 13: to follow black Star lead. And for us, it makes
Speaker 13: sense not to cast a white net try to get everybody.
Speaker 13: But for the people who are following us and people
Speaker 13: who are rocking with us, let's get them first. And
Speaker 13: you know what, we may have Vinyl come out, we
Speaker 13: may do other things.
Speaker 4: No, this is just the beginning.
Speaker 1: And also, I mean, you know, it's a principal choice.
Speaker 4: It's not like.
Speaker 1: There's an effort to make it unnecessarily inconvenient for people.
Speaker 4: I mean, from my point of view, I.
Speaker 1: Mean it seems fairly accessible, like a usonable distance for
Speaker 1: any listener to cover. You know, we're consolidating the experience.
Speaker 1: We're saying you don't have to go to all of
Speaker 1: these different places. You could just come right here, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's a question of value. If you value
Speaker 1: what we're doing, and we've explained to you, I mean
Speaker 1: quite clearly and in various formats, the reasons why we
Speaker 1: why we've chosen to do this, and the principles behind it,
Speaker 1: and what we're trying to establish and what we're trying
Speaker 1: to reform in many ways that exists in the system,
Speaker 1: then it's like it's a no brainer supporting a historical
Speaker 1: project within a historical approach. So if that's too cumbersome
Speaker 1: for you with then like just stay where you are
Speaker 1: to be quite candid, because you know when it's not
Speaker 1: when I here, it just bow to make things like
Speaker 1: convenient for people per se. You know, we're not complicating
Speaker 1: the process in this way. If the machine is it
Speaker 1: exists now, was more amenable and fair within no problem.
Speaker 1: But when they like in a legalized criminal enterprise and
Speaker 1: essence and my observation, But then I mean, like back.
Speaker 5: In the days, if you want a good you know,
Speaker 5: gold front, you have to go to ib square more
Speaker 5: might have.
Speaker 4: No. No, it's not even that, I mean, it's not
Speaker 4: even that.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, again, there's a prevailing metric that
Speaker 1: exists that does not take the artists into consideration at all.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't take humanity into consideration at all to
Speaker 1: be perfectly canon. And what we're doing is a very
Speaker 1: human thing. So's we're not gonna let the machine set
Speaker 1: the pace for us when we build the machine.
Speaker 15: In essence, you know, you can ask you because there's
Speaker 15: gonna be people that listen they don't artists that don't
Speaker 15: know there's creative ways to release their music and maintain ownership.
Speaker 15: And without getting into the details of your business, it
Speaker 15: seems like what you did here is to maintain ownership,
Speaker 15: you know, get what you're going to get something out
Speaker 15: of putting it out. You could do something else with
Speaker 15: it down the line.
Speaker 1: This is the life of it. I mean, it came
Speaker 1: out two weeks ago, you know, barely. You know, this
Speaker 1: is just the beginning. It's it's not like something that
Speaker 1: just came out this week and it's going to go away.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's historically preserved and that's the difference.
Speaker 13: And then you have to have the confidence of knowing
Speaker 13: that you're in a position to do that and knowing
Speaker 13: that your album, like we called it, No Fear of Time,
Speaker 13: will stand the test of time. If you're chasing the moment,
Speaker 13: you're chasing clout, and you're chasing something that's not actually real.
Speaker 15: It's not a promo room for first quarter or fourth
Speaker 15: quarter numbers and something like that.
Speaker 4: Right, don't just want to do a shot with you
Speaker 4: for no reason.
Speaker 16: I'm d alcoholics.
Speaker 4: If you're watching this today, why are you over here
Speaker 4: for a second?
Speaker 9: Right you?
Speaker 5: I just want to say I studied you three nights
Speaker 5: in a row.
Speaker 4: All right. You know I'm not allowed to talk. You
Speaker 4: don't have to talk. You don't have to talk. But
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 7: This is this is the first.
Speaker 4: Time I want to I want to.
Speaker 9: Tell this to y'all.
Speaker 4: I have the mic ready, niggas.
Speaker 7: I want to tell y'all.
Speaker 5: This is probably the first time I was seriously jealous
Speaker 5: of a comedian, because I'm used to if I have
Speaker 5: three shows, three nights in a row, this is a stabbing,
Speaker 5: a shootout. I'm almost there wishing something like I'm there.
Speaker 17: With the first night Friday, Everything's perfect.
Speaker 4: I'm like, this is the way it works.
Speaker 5: The second night perfect, and then the third night and
Speaker 5: I was like, and I really thought about it. I
Speaker 5: was like, yo, I'm traumatized being a hip hop artist
Speaker 5: that I don't even feel that going backstage when it's calm,
Speaker 5: it's actually normal.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 6: I think it was the third night.
Speaker 4: Once backstage tang show.
Speaker 7: Com Chaos of the difference.
Speaker 4: What's you was about to get into the story? No, no,
Speaker 4: because be talking about that night.
Speaker 6: He was that Dave show at Dave Show.
Speaker 5: One where's Donelle was Donelli is here.
Speaker 6: Let me just tell you.
Speaker 5: Something because I really you know, the same show that
Speaker 5: was controversy that everyone spoke about.
Speaker 4: I got to see it.
Speaker 5: I got to see like I felt like he practiced
Speaker 5: on me, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I mean for thirty thousand other month.
Speaker 4: I'm but this, so I say, holy ship.
Speaker 5: But then I would go every night and I would
Speaker 5: see don Now and don Now don't give a fuck,
Speaker 5: like like for.
Speaker 4: Real, he's filthy. You fucking love.
Speaker 11: When you're not.
Speaker 4: Tell you this money.
Speaker 18: I can't wait for your Netflix, specially some Netflix first dog.
Speaker 19: I just want to say this. I know I'm not
Speaker 19: gonna be here low right, but the level of disrespect
Speaker 19: in his motherfucking I swear I saw y'all niggas talking
Speaker 19: about law a type of ship here, pop and ship.
Speaker 19: You disrespectful? You disrespected and you disrespectful?
Speaker 9: Are you getting more disrespect? That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Do you know why?
Speaker 2: You know how.
Speaker 6: Different?
Speaker 7: Because ress different?
Speaker 20: Now, let me just apologizelze that hated time machine.
Speaker 4: When y'all went back right and you was you was beautiful, right, Nigga,
Speaker 4: You're about to set up a joke. Nigga, I could
Speaker 4: tell I was beautiful.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, Are you talking about to cast turn the charter?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: Okay, because everybody go with Athley Larry Now was now
Speaker 5: was that activader?
Speaker 21: It was Coconut Order, It was Wigi Vader, No, it was.
Speaker 6: It was it was coming on.
Speaker 19: The idea I had was to put in the champagne bottle.
Speaker 19: They was like that, she's gonna get too messy, right,
Speaker 19: so I do? I said, do the aerosol joint, right,
Speaker 19: and that's where mother was born. But I got this
Speaker 19: with a lot of people don't know. We did that
Speaker 19: show sixteen seventeen hours a day, right. It was times
Speaker 19: where niggas ain't had no more gas. We did did
Speaker 19: all the last we were these niggas. Charlie Murphy with
Speaker 19: everybody you cannot think of no funniest ship, and Dave
Speaker 19: will always figure out this ship to go to the
Speaker 19: next level. I don't know if y'all remember, if you
Speaker 19: know the show, it was a scene where we was
Speaker 19: looking at the the the actors and whatever. They flip
Speaker 19: a card you like supposed to improv off of it.
Speaker 19: It was Patersa O'Neill was Charlie Murphy and we was
Speaker 19: gassed out.
Speaker 4: We had no more laughs left.
Speaker 19: I was like, there's no more laugh left in this
Speaker 19: bigga said it looked like she wear boxes and addicted holes.
Speaker 19: This was a cancer coach, nigga. We was like, this
Speaker 19: night night, it is over. Yeah, but y'all are disrespect
Speaker 19: I was looking forward to coming on the show.
Speaker 7: If you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Gonna talking, I'm gonna talking. I'm nothing happened.
Speaker 7: So so this cribe to this area that we have
Speaker 7: right now. It's called the shock. This cribe to us.
Speaker 3: The other shack is an old car garage, probably from
Speaker 3: the nineteen fifties. I didn't change the outside at all,
Speaker 3: but inside we tricked it out right. I would drive
Speaker 3: by here and I told my wife one day I
Speaker 3: was gonna buy it. We're gonna do with that shack.
Speaker 3: I said, we don't you worry about what I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do with that shack. What I did was I made
Speaker 3: this clubhouse. Nothing fancy, but man, this is like a
Speaker 3: home for our culture. Yes means a lot. Nor is
Speaker 3: they think you came here. Yes, the last time I
Speaker 3: saw DMX.
Speaker 4: We had a great night here. Quality brought them by. Wow.
Speaker 3: We've had parties here with common with rhyme and freestyle
Speaker 3: or chance to wrap.
Speaker 4: All kinds of people just fall through.
Speaker 3: And we make memories. The walls in the here splattered
Speaker 3: with just random night memories. Yes, photographer Matchew Baton, I
Speaker 3: think took all these photos, with the exception of the
Speaker 3: block party poster. Right, it's me and most at a
Speaker 3: comedy club in London. We had a great time that night.
Speaker 3: We ended up watching the super Bowl and then in
Speaker 3: halftime called Colin Kaepernick because we could. You know, like like,
Speaker 3: this is a strange place, Ohio, but it's a good place.
Speaker 3: But the memories we made here are legendary. Things have
Speaker 3: happened in this room in this town people wouldn't even believe.
Speaker 3: And Quality is a regularly I've seen the regular.
Speaker 6: Recorded some of the Blackstar album here in this So
Speaker 6: can I say.
Speaker 5: Something beir Because a lot of times people move to
Speaker 5: Miami and say, I'm never coming home, I'm going to
Speaker 5: stay here. A lot of Positi people go to Japan
Speaker 5: and say I'm never coming home and staying here. They
Speaker 5: go to l A. This is probably the first time
Speaker 5: a person said I'm going I'm staying in Ohio.
Speaker 4: I'm never coming back. How did you How did you
Speaker 4: discover this?
Speaker 3: We don't know if that needs its own episode.
Speaker 4: It's real.
Speaker 3: It's like, look, look, when Lebron James left Ohio, I
Speaker 3: understood this is not the kind of place that you
Speaker 3: should stay your whole life. You should leave an income back.
Speaker 3: It's a value that you appreciate once you have something
Speaker 3: to contrast it. Leaving New York City was like kicking
Speaker 3: a drug habit. New York is an addictive motherfucker. There's
Speaker 3: no place quite like Thank God. I know, I know,
Speaker 3: and I know you feel that way. I'm just saying
Speaker 3: that they need one and we couldn't do it another.
Speaker 22: We're supposed to make.
Speaker 4: Continue. I mean, look, you guys are fucking.
Speaker 3: Like quantum physicists or some ship in the culture.
Speaker 4: You know, you guys.
Speaker 3: All of you guys have made albums. I love like
Speaker 3: what you scored my life.
Speaker 4: You know you're all from New York City.
Speaker 3: What a fucking amazing phenomenon that the genre of music
Speaker 3: was created in New York City and now it's a
Speaker 3: global phenomena.
Speaker 4: It's snow.
Speaker 3: It's no small thing that the boys from New York
Speaker 3: put together. You know, any of the niggas I see
Speaker 3: Jay I once saw Shook Knight across the room.
Speaker 4: This nigga was eating a salad in the restaurant. I
Speaker 4: was like, there he goes all that. It looked like
Speaker 4: season from.
Speaker 6: This like.
Speaker 4: Shut around his mouth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, niggas wildlife, Yeah man, but it means a lot.
Speaker 3: You know that That night d m X came over
Speaker 3: while they had called him, was five hours late. M Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's normal. No, was remarkable. He was late because he
Speaker 3: didn't want to come to my home empty handed. He
Speaker 3: went to his trunk and I mean, we're in the
Speaker 3: middle of nowhere. This nigga had crab lakes. We sat here,
Speaker 3: we watched the game, We had a great conversation. We
Speaker 3: was karaoke and songs, and then we went to my
Speaker 3: house and d m X cooked the crabb dinner for
Speaker 3: me and all my friends. My wife woke up in
Speaker 3: the middle of the night and saw DMX in the
Speaker 3: kitchen tasting.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 4: It blew a fucking mind.
Speaker 3: We're in the middle of nowhere, but it's wherever we
Speaker 3: put it. Me and Black started do our podcast right
Speaker 3: here at this bar.
Speaker 4: It was a very safe place for me.
Speaker 5: We have to come here, private luminary show for here.
Speaker 4: We gotta come fuck with us. I mean, we we
Speaker 4: do the thing. I'm a home for a culture, and
Speaker 4: I'm honored.
Speaker 3: I'm honored you're here, man, and whatever donills complained about.
Speaker 4: But let me say, let me tell you something.
Speaker 5: Dave Off show was about giving people they flowers and
Speaker 5: giving people their praises. Now, and I'm gonna just tell
Speaker 5: you something I've seen the likes of I was too
Speaker 5: young for Richard Pryor, so I came Eddie Murphy. I
Speaker 5: remember wh people went to go see Eddie Murphy movies
Speaker 5: and they got dipped like like they was taking pictures
Speaker 5: for the money they were getting a movie. And I've
Speaker 5: seen these comedians run. And I've always seen people go
Speaker 5: Hollywood and you know, leave certain people.
Speaker 4: The thing that special about Dave is you always have
Speaker 4: hip hop?
Speaker 3: Which man, let me tell you something. My parents were
Speaker 3: split up, so I grew up in d C. I
Speaker 3: grew up out here in Ohio. My father lived here.
Speaker 3: Always associated this place with relaxing, and I went to
Speaker 3: middle school here middle school. There was a guy must
Speaker 3: have been twelve years old that was a homie.
Speaker 4: This nigga had.
Speaker 3: Remember the niggas wear high socks and had boomboxes.
Speaker 4: He was one of them.
Speaker 3: Niggas like that, but the socks were high. It's funtherfucker
Speaker 3: played Eric Bean's president one day when we're playing basketball
Speaker 3: on my driveway. I couldn't fucking believe it. Make him,
Speaker 3: make him, make him clap to this ah thank you
Speaker 3: DJs and that beat drop. Well, I get emotional thinking
Speaker 3: about it. There was a guy, Frank Ski. He does
Speaker 3: the radio in Atlanta now, but he was in Baltimore.
Speaker 3: That nigga had a hip hop show. And I go
Speaker 3: home to DC to see my mother and I could
Speaker 3: barely get his station, but I recorded with the tape recorder.
Speaker 4: Off the radio. I loved hip hop music like. Being
Speaker 4: in New York was my desk to me, and it's weird.
Speaker 4: I met.
Speaker 3: Tal Quality and a Daylight SOULI show and Kenyon College
Speaker 3: in Ohio. Whoa Stay Live? It was It was Quality.
Speaker 3: It was a guy named Truth be no lie. They
Speaker 3: killed that show. You know they got all the stuff
Speaker 3: I need. And and that night me and Quality, you know,
Speaker 3: hit it off. Quality is mean. When you first meet.
Speaker 9: Him, everyone says that he's mean. Said what you think
Speaker 9: you mean?
Speaker 4: He said, I'm gonna make the baseball had the biggest hat.
Speaker 6: This one was gonna say that what baseball?
Speaker 4: But but.
Speaker 3: I met Quality that night months not many months later,
Speaker 3: one or two months later, weeks I was in New
Speaker 3: York City that I was driving down the street and
Speaker 3: I was carter the red light toilet. Quality ran up
Speaker 3: to my car and goes, yo, Dave, we just met
Speaker 3: the second time I ever met him.
Speaker 4: I go, hey, hey, how are you?
Speaker 3: He goes, I'm great, man, I'm recording with my friends
Speaker 3: at Electric Lady Land.
Speaker 4: He goes, pull Jimmy Hendrick Studio.
Speaker 14: Jimmy Heady Street, right on Eighth Street, White Cat.
Speaker 4: I pulled up. Man, These niggas hit the whole building.
Speaker 3: DeAngelo was in the basement and the Roots was on
Speaker 3: one floor, and by dude was had a session on
Speaker 3: another floor all the way up to the top.
Speaker 4: On the top floor was quality session.
Speaker 3: And that day, I don't know if you remember this,
Speaker 3: you laid the verse for a Common song. Common was
Speaker 3: in there too, called the Questions. It was me you,
Speaker 3: it was your session dealer, motherfucking James. That's the first
Speaker 3: time I met Diyla James. Poison was the uh. It
Speaker 3: was when I was writing and killing them softly, and
Speaker 3: from them sessions we all became good friends. I never
Speaker 3: seen music recording. I never met niggas my age who
Speaker 3: had stamps in their passport. Like no, we were young.
Speaker 3: We were young when I did Chappelle Shaw was not
Speaker 3: long after that. I you know, I said I want
Speaker 3: to do music on the show. The thing with Most
Speaker 3: in the college because we was driving with Most and
Speaker 3: a motherfucking sprinter van and he would make the driver
Speaker 3: play beats and would just be like rhyming over beats.
Speaker 4: It was just like that. I mean, all this in
Speaker 4: a whip and y'all sing would be rhyming.
Speaker 3: And we was like yo, people would want to see this,
Speaker 3: like like it was alchemy with culture. These motherfuckers was
Speaker 3: doing something. It was like an exciting time. I remember
Speaker 3: I took Common you know that singer Bloud me coming Beloud.
Speaker 3: A bunch of niggas from Electric Lady Land went to
Speaker 3: the Comedy Seller New York.
Speaker 4: They never seem like comedy before, like them. It's one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty seats that room to comedy sell in
Speaker 4: New York. It was very special.
Speaker 3: That was the first place where Richard Pryor saw Bill
Speaker 3: Constant performed. It's that kind of is that kind of
Speaker 3: room like wow, you know it's one of those New
Speaker 3: York rooms, like only in New York, Only in New York, right,
Speaker 3: it makes history like that like when I when I
Speaker 3: showed up there, I was seventeen. John Stewart was twenty seven.
Speaker 3: I remember Ray Ramono used to sell mattresses.
Speaker 7: But but hi, lobs like that, Wait, did you say mattresses?
Speaker 4: Ray Ramonde used to sell like mattresses. I don't remember.
Speaker 4: I don't even know what I mean. Niggas was comedians,
Speaker 4: but they had it. They had a whole other lives.
Speaker 3: I remember one night it was me and a bunch
Speaker 3: of comedians, all these niggas something what you do before
Speaker 3: you did comedy one niggas Like yeah, I was gonna
Speaker 3: play professional baseball.
Speaker 4: I was in the fun That's grill.
Speaker 3: Another guy was a Wall Street trader walked off the
Speaker 3: floor today. She's just like, I can't do this anymore
Speaker 3: and just start doing stand up full time.
Speaker 4: I mean all kinds of stories like that. And then
Speaker 4: they get to me, they go, day, what do you
Speaker 4: doing for you to comedy? I said, I was an
Speaker 4: eighth grader anyway.
Speaker 3: When I did Chapel Show and I wanted to do music,
Speaker 3: I couldn't get people come on. I would reach out
Speaker 3: to artists and like, like, who could you remember that
Speaker 3: you try to get I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4: Say any names. He was a dirty motherfucker for doing that.
Speaker 3: Niggas niggas you know in Love and I didn't know
Speaker 3: in Love said no, but really in their defense or
Speaker 3: whenever heard of this show anything but the first Yeah,
Speaker 3: but half Bake was like a terrible movie until I
Speaker 3: made it.
Speaker 4: Made it.
Speaker 7: No do you know I made the song gonna havel
Speaker 7: bake and everything you know?
Speaker 4: You do you know me, don't make me be the
Speaker 4: first nigga cry on drink. We don't get photo, we
Speaker 4: don't get We're gonna get half baked flowers. Man you
Speaker 4: got to get to have Big.
Speaker 5: By the way, let me just let me not only
Speaker 5: say who hold Not only that, but when I went
Speaker 5: to Maui for my first time and the guy gave Wowie, I.
Speaker 9: Said, serious, I didn't think that was real.
Speaker 3: Dave Chapelle movie, Oh bro, don't get here talking about that.
Speaker 3: But but to finish the story, Sorry, no, I haven't
Speaker 3: Big got his flowers.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: What I was gonna say is, Okay, when we did
Speaker 3: Chappelle's show, these were the cats that pulled up.
Speaker 4: You have seen more.
Speaker 3: Was the first nigga that I mean, fellow, excuse me,
Speaker 3: ever performed on Chapelle Show. Kwaley the second Person Every
Speaker 3: Form special. First time I heard Kanye West, this nigga
Speaker 3: played a get By remix that everybody.
Speaker 4: I think it was on everybody.
Speaker 3: The whole in New York did thee. But Kanye's versus
Speaker 3: the first one. When he said the thing about miracle whips,
Speaker 3: I remember, I rewinded.
Speaker 4: It, like, what was that boy that get it?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 4: Who is that guy? What happened? Who wants me over there?
Speaker 23: Oh?
Speaker 4: Oh my bad? Nigga. This nigga was texting moves that
Speaker 4: nigga five ft to the w.
Speaker 5: So, so then I'll come over here to everyone, come
Speaker 5: over here for one second because this is a funny part.
Speaker 9: This is all funny.
Speaker 4: We know you go over there.
Speaker 13: We know we.
Speaker 7: He's most professional.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hold up and Dave, yeah, be a. Tyler has
Speaker 4: always been great. I felt like after I had a certain.
Speaker 5: Person on my show, we even got tighter, which is
Speaker 5: not heard of, because when certain things like that happened,
Speaker 5: most people.
Speaker 4: I was with I had to live okay when they
Speaker 4: drink champs came out okay.
Speaker 5: So to warn them and if called each other or
Speaker 5: I called you, you called me, or whatever, we called
Speaker 5: each other, and we said, we can't just come out
Speaker 5: without telling.
Speaker 7: Without telling Tyler first, aut telling Tyler first.
Speaker 5: So I would like to ask y'all where was y'all
Speaker 5: at when y'all first heard Kanye say.
Speaker 4: This was not the Kennedy assassination? First? Where were you.
Speaker 9: When it came across the wire.
Speaker 4: Shot? When we were again, we weren't, we were? And
Speaker 4: what happened in because y'all getting high? Look look, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: The only reason we're even smoking and drinking and entertaining
Speaker 3: this Tomfooler is because on the show called drink Champs.
Speaker 4: What do you mean drink Champs, nigga, I'm.
Speaker 9: Standing next to mean drink.
Speaker 4: Nobody's fucking with him. So y'all, y'all in Denver, and
Speaker 4: what happens? I don't remember listening. Listen, no no, no, no, listen.
Speaker 3: Pop culture is a desert right now, and your show
Speaker 3: is an anomaly.
Speaker 4: And that Kanye west.
Speaker 3: Uh interview you did was one of my favorite things
Speaker 3: that I've seen in old pop culture in recent history.
Speaker 9: I think you gave I fucked.
Speaker 4: With Kanye, but man, I ain't seen him like that
Speaker 4: in a minute.
Speaker 3: It was funny, it was engaging, and then this nigga
Speaker 3: had to go in on Quality's head.
Speaker 6: I forgot about this.
Speaker 3: He said something about quality making baseball heads popular.
Speaker 5: That ain't no disrespecting, because I would like I would
Speaker 5: like to beat you up, Tyler, because honestly, I could
Speaker 5: tell the first two days we spoke you were hot.
Speaker 4: Okay, I can tell, but you trusted me as.
Speaker 5: A friend, and I was really respect that because you
Speaker 5: knew I say, your toddler, I couldn't stop anything. You know,
Speaker 5: like once once a person starts to go, and a
Speaker 5: person of that calibers just like damn, what do I do?
Speaker 9: I can't throw a muscle on him.
Speaker 4: But you could have. You could have took this the
Speaker 4: wrong wrong way. You could have you could have called.
Speaker 3: You talk about telling me about because I killed that
Speaker 3: mother for that baseball hat comment.
Speaker 4: Nobody, nobody hat. No, this nigga was. This thing was
Speaker 4: not hot at all. I was with him when he
Speaker 4: saw immediately, yeah he was not.
Speaker 5: But my first two calls, I was nervous, okay, But
Speaker 5: then the third and fourth and everyone you kind of
Speaker 5: like just brush it off and was just like, but
Speaker 5: you said something to me that was very, very probably
Speaker 5: the most popular, probably the most illness things I've ever
Speaker 5: heard in my life. You said to me, the thing
Speaker 5: about Kanye is even when he distance you, he helps you.
Speaker 5: And you said, the problem with him is he knows that.
Speaker 5: I do remember saying that.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, nail, that's the part. I agree with that.
Speaker 4: So I didn't hear this.
Speaker 6: You heard of this because you think I heard.
Speaker 4: I heard.
Speaker 6: I did have fun with it, but you know.
Speaker 4: No, you're not alerted to smoke. I think it's American spirits.
Speaker 4: But it's okay. I'm good, not bad. That's okay. So
Speaker 4: I have to do it smoke smoke smoke?
Speaker 2: So tal it.
Speaker 9: Are you getting phone calls?
Speaker 24: How?
Speaker 4: How is this? How is this? I mean obviously me
Speaker 4: and e FN called you, but the episode drops. Are
Speaker 4: you getting phone calls? How does this work for you? Oh?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 6: That was good times. It was a good times.
Speaker 13: It felt like you know what it felt like. It
Speaker 13: felt like having a hit record out. That's how it felt,
Speaker 13: the way that I remember like when get I was out.
Speaker 13: Just it just so so it just you know, it
Speaker 13: reminded me of what Kanye meant to the culture. And
Speaker 13: you know, the hatship was funny to me. It was hilarious.
Speaker 17: Thought it was.
Speaker 4: I laughed, but I didn't even realize you wear hats
Speaker 4: like that. No, it was funny.
Speaker 13: I was like, because you help me, because y'all put
Speaker 13: it in two parts, right, so it was it was
Speaker 13: a cliffhanger, rushing right, and the first part he just
Speaker 13: dissed me, and I didn't see the second part. So
Speaker 13: first part I was like, oh, that was weird. But
Speaker 13: the second part you was like, yo, but didn't you
Speaker 13: just see him? And what you was talking about was
Speaker 13: pictures at my Dave Chappelle comedy show, which was on
Speaker 13: my birthday. I DJ I'm DJing. Dave says, Kanye gonna
Speaker 13: show U. Kanye shows up, no security nothing, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 13: I'm gonna play all Kanye set. He sat next to me.
Speaker 13: We had a great time. That was like a month before.
Speaker 13: I saw him on drink chips at the at the
Speaker 13: stand and I bring it up.
Speaker 23: That was yeah.
Speaker 6: Buster was there that night too, and.
Speaker 7: It was rhyme.
Speaker 4: By the way, for the public. It is the kind
Speaker 4: of nigga you forget how much you love them till
Speaker 4: you see them all that way. You see them, you mind.
Speaker 3: It is. But even if you didn't know, it's just
Speaker 3: seeing his facemasks, you want to tear the club up.
Speaker 6: That's right, get down. He get the eyebrout of going
Speaker 6: up real quick.
Speaker 4: But now you know.
Speaker 13: It was my birthday, so I had all my people
Speaker 13: with me, a lot of flappish niggas, a lot of
Speaker 13: baseball hats. So when Kanye said it's gonna be twelve
Speaker 13: niggas with baseball hats, I wish niggas he was talking about,
Speaker 13: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: And we on a group chat.
Speaker 13: We you know we you know you're a certain age
Speaker 13: on the group chat with your friends from back in
Speaker 13: the day. We on a group chat just laughing about this.
Speaker 13: But you know, it was a moment that I that
Speaker 13: I had to I had to have fun with it
Speaker 13: because I got a lot of love for Kanye, and
Speaker 13: he seemed there was there was underlying context behind that.
Speaker 6: You know, it really another with bars or common a
Speaker 6: baseball hats and none of that and none to do
Speaker 6: with that.
Speaker 13: And so for me, there was at Kanye got a
Speaker 13: huge platform, and I care and I you know, I'm
Speaker 13: like Marlow from the wire. My name is my name.
Speaker 6: You don't speak of my name in no disrespectful way.
Speaker 4: That's how I feel.
Speaker 13: And he got a huge platform, and I love him,
Speaker 13: and he my friend and my brother. So this was
Speaker 13: all very conflicting and difficult. Richie expressed on drink chairs
Speaker 13: before right and me and and to be real, me
Speaker 13: expressing that drink champs is what he was responding to
Speaker 13: when he when he said what he had to say,
Speaker 13: it was when I saw the documentary, a shout out
Speaker 13: of Coolie because I think he did a great job.
Speaker 13: But when I saw the documentary, there's moments in the
Speaker 13: documentary and me and seen me together with Kanye, and
Speaker 13: I'll be honest with you, my life was moving.
Speaker 6: So fast at the time, a lot of shows, a
Speaker 6: lot of drinking, a lot of smoking, a lot of
Speaker 6: just rap.
Speaker 4: Confess, there's a lot of.
Speaker 13: Ship, can't I'm watching this documentary and I don't remember
Speaker 13: those moments, and so me not remembering those moments, I
Speaker 13: had to realize, well, if I don't even remember those moments,
Speaker 13: I had to see him a film. The people who
Speaker 13: wasn't there, they definitely don't know about that, so they
Speaker 13: don't have no context. So I have to stop even
Speaker 13: be considering the context of people who wasn't there, you
Speaker 13: know what I'm saying. Like for the people who was there,
Speaker 13: they know you know what I'm saying. And that's that's
Speaker 13: that's what that documentary reminded me of.
Speaker 5: Okay, very briefly, I spoke the consequence, right, It was
Speaker 5: just when the first episode dropped.
Speaker 3: By the way, this has nothing to do it with
Speaker 3: this nigga consequence perfect teeth.
Speaker 9: So I spoke the consequence.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I see.
Speaker 5: So when I spoke the consequence, at first, it seemed
Speaker 5: like he was, you know, a little disgruntle because people
Speaker 5: was using footage of him. That was from from from
Speaker 5: early on and then later on it seemed like it
Speaker 5: was like it was cool. But one of the the
Speaker 5: Kanye documentary, which you just brung up, is you kept
Speaker 5: saying this guy is going to be the guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I did, like very confidently too.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean I think you ever said just do
Speaker 4: a whole album together.
Speaker 1: It's fairly obvious to me from the from the get
Speaker 1: go where I was had it where it already was
Speaker 1: when you and him. I mean, he was amazing producer,
Speaker 1: he had all the star quality.
Speaker 4: He was different. He challenged, in my opinion, a lot of.
Speaker 1: The macho notion disassociated with but hip hop specifically, Like he.
Speaker 5: Even just said recently, he said, you won't do four
Speaker 5: years in college, but he's twenty five of life.
Speaker 4: That's disrespect to every gangster nigga in the world.
Speaker 9: No one become caught down.
Speaker 7: Well, he said what he said he won't.
Speaker 1: He said, you mean in college, you won't do four
Speaker 1: years in college, but you do twenty five in life.
Speaker 4: What he's trying to say, man, this is very good
Speaker 4: what I'm doing. It's all good. Okay, get your dental.
Speaker 13: He's saying that where we place our values where you
Speaker 13: place our values and then he also said.
Speaker 5: Mellionaires where it changed like it's also like you this
Speaker 5: in a millionnaire. I've never heard this before.
Speaker 4: But who is this is a millionaire?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, which man? This all of us millions. I'm talking
Speaker 4: about Bring over river Vision boats made out of Night Trial,
Speaker 4: Robert Right.
Speaker 5: I see what you're saying on the documentary, and I
Speaker 5: see what even Dave said when Dave said, like you know,
Speaker 5: he was watching these clips what Kanye and Kanye was said,
Speaker 5: I'm dope w I'm doing dope ship. But what I'm
Speaker 5: trying to get from you is what was the actual
Speaker 5: thing that you knew that this guy was great?
Speaker 4: You listened to the beast he did the truth for
Speaker 4: being segull, just to listen.
Speaker 1: If this guy is fifty percent is good rhyman and
Speaker 1: he is with them bets, he's gonna ahead. Diamond D
Speaker 1: there's another MC Producers said hip hop is a classic
Speaker 1: Pete Rock who he was just kind of like flirted
Speaker 1: with ramas sometimes whatever he would do it it was,
Speaker 1: it was, it was a pure thing. I take It's
Speaker 1: the same way Dylan is the same way for for all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kannie just took it to the fullest, you know extension
Speaker 1: where he was like, no, I'm and people weren't trying
Speaker 1: to accept Conye because he didn't fit into the archetype
Speaker 1: of what has been sold is a solo rapper image.
Speaker 1: At that time, he changed the paradigm for what was
Speaker 1: possible in terms of an audience connecting with with not
Speaker 1: just the music, but also an approach. I mean the
Speaker 1: whole thing with the you know, college drop out, with
Speaker 1: the mascot all that. It's like, it's art, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It wasn't about him, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: on the block doing this and this and that. But
Speaker 1: and he made soon as the appeal to everybody, no
Speaker 1: matter where you were. You know, it was just it
Speaker 1: was just good music. I mean, you know, good life
Speaker 1: is not about some sort of macho pasta. It's just dope,
Speaker 1: you know. So that's what I appreciated about him. And
Speaker 1: so what Pof was doing with No Way Out, I
Speaker 1: was like, if that's working, I know, just the proper
Speaker 1: off is not ro my life Kanye had published not
Speaker 1: even Ron my Life, Doctor Dre right, Doctor Dre is
Speaker 1: going in on those bars, whether he wrote them or not.
Speaker 1: Heard he sounds fantastic. They say that pop doesn't, but
Speaker 1: it's just you know, it's another hemisphere. Kanye was like,
Speaker 1: and he said it ain't nobody don't don't can hear
Speaker 1: you go and get ain't nobody calls this due to
Speaker 1: rapping at track Triple Double Norse says, it's like he's
Speaker 1: telling you, you know, and when you have that type
Speaker 1: of talent musically, well the naturally you're gonna have something interesting.
Speaker 1: The same man through the wires. It's the most rock
Speaker 1: and roll shit ever. Who does a verse with the
Speaker 1: joy wire shit? After they you know, like and this
Speaker 1: is the response to like flying out of the window
Speaker 1: of a moving car at their driving like you know,
Speaker 1: like you know, any barely thirty or like in his
Speaker 1: early thirties and some shit, it's like that's a serious thing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was just always evident to me he
Speaker 1: had the vision after he came out with Graduate.
Speaker 4: Let me say story, so graduation, I hope I have
Speaker 4: nothing of my teeth because I was good.
Speaker 9: What kind of food was?
Speaker 4: That was very simple with chicken wing and some rice?
Speaker 1: Okay, but thanks for asking and a recent pieces that
Speaker 1: ill it's an appartee.
Speaker 4: I have another one now.
Speaker 1: Uh so Karane, this is before graduation, and this is
Speaker 1: around the time that there was that whole thing between
Speaker 1: him and fifty, like who's going to have the better
Speaker 1: first year?
Speaker 4: Who was going to be the king of hip hop
Speaker 4: of a boom?
Speaker 1: And you know this is this is fifty posts give
Speaker 1: us to dot trying, So fifties like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: his presences up, it's.
Speaker 4: Like, give us a trine.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't care what you feel about you know,
Speaker 1: gangster rap or even fifty himself, but that's it is classic.
Speaker 1: I mean that that was a classic record. So fifties
Speaker 1: up and he's loaded up with another one, and you
Speaker 1: nobody really knows what it's going to because people forget
Speaker 1: power the dollar fifty like, well fifty was like spitting fifty.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so you know, like fifty was like I never
Speaker 9: got paid.
Speaker 4: It's cool. I'm not just I feel you label ever
Speaker 4: paid you. He tells me your favorite right right on here. Man.
Speaker 1: So there was that whole battle that they you know
Speaker 1: that they were very happy to have a man. Connie
Speaker 1: had a listening session that was in a movie theater.
Speaker 1: I never forget it was right over there by Chelsea. No,
Speaker 1: it's like in the back of the Old Death Cham
Speaker 1: but like in the forties and fifties, like just off there,
Speaker 1: like by the way Cats. The Cats did it is
Speaker 1: you looked that block over it's like forty.
Speaker 4: By the winter.
Speaker 1: God, it's not Sony Studios, but it's like it's like
Speaker 1: forty ninth and not it's I think it's no, it's
Speaker 1: before ten, so it's like night. It's right there on
Speaker 1: the corner where the old Yeah, the Old Death JM.
Speaker 1: The university used to say. Anyway, it was a local
Speaker 1: movie theater. It was there, and what Kanye did is
Speaker 1: that you came into the movie theater. He had programs
Speaker 1: for like all of the songs and some of the
Speaker 1: lyrics and all that, so so caramel popcorn and edited
Speaker 1: visuals from anime movies that he liked and played that
Speaker 1: in sync to the music.
Speaker 4: The moment that he did that and the moment that
Speaker 4: I left there, I was.
Speaker 1: Like, Kanye wins that I don't care what fifty cent
Speaker 1: got in the tank. He is not beating this album
Speaker 1: at this time. It's just no way.
Speaker 4: It was so creative.
Speaker 1: It was I mean, good morning, it was graduate is
Speaker 1: like it's like a thriller moment that people actually proper
Speaker 1: appropriately appropriately appreciate you for this, I mean, and they
Speaker 1: try to. I always feel like they try to hate
Speaker 1: on it. Because he really sold a million records.
Speaker 19: In the day.
Speaker 1: I don't care what they say. I don't know about this,
Speaker 1: but they say he sold his first day. The first
Speaker 1: week is the first day. If I'm not mistakes, the
Speaker 1: first week of the first day, I believe it's the
Speaker 1: first day fifty so seven hundred thousand copies. This is
Speaker 1: before Spotify and all of this. We sold nine hundred
Speaker 1: thousand pieces, which means he sold the main pieces.
Speaker 4: And you don't want to roll it off. Let's just like,
Speaker 4: let's quit playing games.
Speaker 1: Lets it kept it kept the record industry like floating
Speaker 1: for at least the next five years with that, and
Speaker 1: it helped them transition into this whole streamer model because.
Speaker 4: They was just sitting on cash and who was like that.
Speaker 1: It wasn't cold player, it wasn't YouTube, it wasn't any
Speaker 1: it wasn't any other genre. It was Kanye West with
Speaker 1: a beautifully cleanly produced album. There was pure hip hop
Speaker 1: and Barry Bonds, like, what are we even talking about?
Speaker 1: This ship is out of control, and yeah, I was like, fifties,
Speaker 1: he don't have nothing. In response to that, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's he was riding in the tie
Speaker 1: that Kanye created. In my opinion and from an observers
Speaker 1: point of view, for me, it felt like a referendum on.
Speaker 9: The on You'd be using words, I don't know what
Speaker 9: the talking about.
Speaker 6: This whole town.
Speaker 1: I'll been like, yep, a referendum. It's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's like a vote. It's like it's almost like a
Speaker 1: public petition. Yeah, it's not exactly a vote, but it's
Speaker 1: like something that happens before a vote.
Speaker 4: But they have signed of cultural referendums like.
Speaker 1: This side or this side is going to determine the
Speaker 1: cultural direction for this group for at least the next
Speaker 1: five years, if not the full generation. And in my opinion,
Speaker 1: that's what Kanye West Graduation Album did. It opened up
Speaker 1: the paradigm creatively for what could be viewed as groundbreaking
Speaker 1: and inventive and also having big scale, and there was
Speaker 1: no one at that type of pop culture scale was
Speaker 1: being that creative, you know, particularly in hip hop. So
Speaker 1: it's a big moment for the culture. I mean, and
Speaker 1: you know, this kid from Chicago to everybody stepped on
Speaker 1: because he was wearing hard bottom shoes and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, fucking cardigans with button down shirts were not
Speaker 1: everybody justice like that, but at least once too, you know,
Speaker 1: like you know, you know, Kanye just stayed true to himself.
Speaker 4: I think that's what the real powerble.
Speaker 1: It's not about following the style that somebody introduced to you.
Speaker 4: It's about being you.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: And let me ask you. There was a cover right,
Speaker 9: I believe it was you.
Speaker 4: Black Thought in Phara months.
Speaker 1: That's Source magazine, Source magazine, So magazine.
Speaker 4: This is backpack.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, okay, let me tell you what
Speaker 5: the outside is looking at it saying backpack hip hop.
Speaker 4: It's at the forefront now, I guess, but you know
Speaker 4: what I mean.
Speaker 25: Even you remember you remember the couple, But even the
Speaker 25: backpack coach never accepted that terminology either.
Speaker 1: It was like it's something that people came up with
Speaker 1: to try to like, you know, I get where people
Speaker 1: coming from with it, but it was like that stuff
Speaker 1: because it doesn't have any gravity to it.
Speaker 7: It's like, so that's not you know what it is.
Speaker 13: It's like, okay, so I grew up in Flatbush Flat
Speaker 13: Lambs area. It's a two fare zone. And so when
Speaker 13: we went to what at that time Greenwich Village's Lower
Speaker 13: east Side to go to parties in the city, we
Speaker 13: hopped in the Turnstarle and.
Speaker 6: We had backpacks on, and it was a very practical.
Speaker 1: New York City thing, like a sign of dangers, like
Speaker 1: Center Trade dust.
Speaker 6: I get him on the other side. But then you
Speaker 6: started seeing.
Speaker 13: Then you start seeing in hip hop videos, you start
Speaker 13: seeing Grand Puba went to backpack on. Then you have
Speaker 13: kids from the suburbs coming and let me tell you
Speaker 13: wearing empty backpacks at the show. Let me tell you
Speaker 13: where backpack.
Speaker 6: That's where he came.
Speaker 4: Frowned upon.
Speaker 5: Backpack and against the culture was simultaneously.
Speaker 4: At one time we ran this saying it was one
Speaker 4: video what they do the roots.
Speaker 7: It's separated backpack and gangs stuff.
Speaker 9: That sounds personal because it does.
Speaker 4: It did know, because you know what it did.
Speaker 5: Everything that represented gangs stuff, the roots had dissed at
Speaker 5: that moment.
Speaker 4: Damn, I'm full mad hip.
Speaker 2: Hop right now.
Speaker 3: You know, Lear played some outside baseballs, some outside baseball.
Speaker 4: I'm not a rapper, no, no, no, because I need
Speaker 4: to hear your face after Okay, here I go. We
Speaker 4: ever got the most vicious win? Okay, gangs vicious?
Speaker 9: Yes, what they do?
Speaker 4: Who do what they do? And this is what yes
Speaker 4: love video? Yes, and it was clever, right, But there
Speaker 4: was more bites at the Biggie Show than it was
Speaker 4: at the Roots one more more more particularly, there's more
Speaker 4: bitches at the NAS show. Okay, but that but that
Speaker 4: didn't come yet. What they do was before. Let me
Speaker 4: tell you something, what they do before. Let me tell
Speaker 4: you something. I don't know if.
Speaker 7: I remember me and NAS happened the meeting and him
Speaker 7: saying that is about me.
Speaker 4: You have a meeting about this.
Speaker 9: I'm saying, your son, this is not about you at all.
Speaker 9: But remember when they're.
Speaker 5: Chasing the wrapper through where they chasing the rapper through
Speaker 5: at Queensbridge, in the projects, not Queensbridge, any projects in America.
Speaker 9: What every project looks the same. So I remember that
Speaker 9: that was the time.
Speaker 4: This is a long grudge.
Speaker 26: I can't believe. I can't believe that you still have
Speaker 26: trauma over there. They do video fuck them backpack cut
Speaker 26: that out.
Speaker 6: No, no, but he sounded like, you know, he sounded
Speaker 6: like Memphis Bleef talking about the NA.
Speaker 7: So no, because you know what.
Speaker 5: You know what was crazy to me was when Kanye
Speaker 5: said that, he said I was faking being a backpack
Speaker 5: wrapper and boot Camp.
Speaker 4: People from boot Camp came.
Speaker 5: At us and said, yo, we want to respawn to Kanye,
Speaker 5: and I was like, I don't think they were talking
Speaker 5: about you.
Speaker 4: At No, Yeah, I don't think he was talking about me.
Speaker 9: He was talking about book shot box shots.
Speaker 7: People hit us and me because.
Speaker 13: Remember who got the prop video box Buckshot five foot
Speaker 13: with the backpacks jumping around.
Speaker 7: That was the first that considered. That's why they felt
Speaker 7: that way.
Speaker 4: That's why they backed up.
Speaker 7: That's why they felt that. They felt they brought it in.
Speaker 4: Cli big up Bucks. But I didn't understand that when Buck.
Speaker 6: Because they had the backpack, they got the person. When
Speaker 6: buckshot Buckshot performs, he wears a backpack.
Speaker 9: I just took the Apollo with Caros one that.
Speaker 6: Came out with the backpack.
Speaker 7: And you know what, Now I get now, I get it.
Speaker 4: Now I get what he was doing.
Speaker 9: He came, he took, he put the backpack on the
Speaker 9: ground and he turned around like this.
Speaker 6: That's what he did. Now I understand what he was doing. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he was making a statement about backpacks.
Speaker 15: But Kanye is definitely was talking about He was talking
Speaker 15: about the underground scene, which I was saying because that
Speaker 15: was a scene that was supporting him.
Speaker 4: Talk about Puerto Rican busy.
Speaker 9: So he's never died.
Speaker 4: Latins saying calls as nigger.
Speaker 22: You're not approved, man, He's approved. Hold On, hold on,
Speaker 22: Let's take a shot.
Speaker 7: Shot, shot, take a shot, man, Because listen, our show.
Speaker 4: Was about giving people they flowers. We will give all
Speaker 4: three shows about getting funked up, and this is not.
Speaker 4: It's also about getting It's the best out of this
Speaker 4: dark fantasy.
Speaker 7: Let's talk more about that.
Speaker 4: He did say that. Now I visited Kanye once. Let's
Speaker 4: take chanced to him. You visited.
Speaker 3: The only reason we're talking about him is because he's
Speaker 3: our friend and he's a great guy, superstar. Look, I
Speaker 3: went and visiting once in myom. He played for me
Speaker 3: what at the time he called Dona. Man, you might
Speaker 3: have to cut this out, boy, I gotta say it.
Speaker 3: It was incredible. First bar on the record, I guess
Speaker 3: you were just played on the Black Style album, and
Speaker 3: the first bar on his album he said, I just
Speaker 3: heard the new Black Star. Feels good to be a
Speaker 3: Black star.
Speaker 4: Man. It was it was the old Kanye. It wasn't
Speaker 4: the old Kanye. It was the forever Kanye. Like dad
Speaker 4: was Kanye.
Speaker 3: Man, he was just in the pocket now. He played
Speaker 3: this album he raved about a black style album. And
Speaker 3: when Donna came out, not a single song he played
Speaker 3: for me that day was on it. But whatever that
Speaker 3: ship was that he played was incredible. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 3: tell you from the outside looking and this includes you.
Speaker 4: No listen.
Speaker 3: I remember one of the ten fucking cushions apart in
Speaker 3: the club when Super Thuck came on. I'm not joking,
Speaker 3: I'm not joking. I remember when the first Black Star
Speaker 3: album came out and bought Alexis at the time that
Speaker 3: was It's quite the car, and I bumped that Black
Speaker 3: Star Wall around.
Speaker 9: Manhattan is the first album as soon as the game.
Speaker 3: And I met this nigga like, I'm like, while it
Speaker 3: was happening, man, you tell him quality.
Speaker 4: I met him, I didn't recognize him, and he was
Speaker 4: so mean.
Speaker 9: Fucking around says about him. Not everybody says that's air
Speaker 9: wax City.
Speaker 3: Quality is not mean, but he's he's quality. How he
Speaker 3: make you feel like he's judging you because he's so
Speaker 3: smart stop living that.
Speaker 4: Way, smart pants. That's what a stranger was saying.
Speaker 9: It was a while.
Speaker 4: It was a wild, serendipitous time.
Speaker 3: They were scoring a moment in my life, and I
Speaker 3: met him in the moment they were scoring. I've heard
Speaker 3: their music before I met them. Oh you're that GUYVN
Speaker 3: Bump in the car. Hip Hop was still like that
Speaker 3: back then. Wow, beautiful, Right, everybody's trapping now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, not everybody.
Speaker 23: No, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Beautiful?
Speaker 9: Yeah, this real hip hop left. You're saying, of course, Well.
Speaker 1: I mean there's real everything left. There's real people aliva
Speaker 1: all the time doing things.
Speaker 6: You got to curate your own thing. You got to
Speaker 6: be a conscious consumer.
Speaker 2: You have to.
Speaker 6: You don't have to, but it would be wise to
Speaker 6: be in charge of what you take in or not.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll be fine, But it's not like we're
Speaker 1: like whatever we have, whatever we need. We've always had
Speaker 1: everything that we need.
Speaker 4: We have now.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean we don't want or even need more.
Speaker 1: Things can't be better. But I'm you know, I'm very
Speaker 1: grateful to be allowed today and to be who I
Speaker 1: am and doing what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: That she was mad smart. That just makes a noise that.
Speaker 7: That's the simplest, smartest way ever.
Speaker 4: It's just being you know, just natural.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a I'm not a genius about everything.
Speaker 4: Favorite country you visit? My favorite country to visit?
Speaker 6: Land? People that question never.
Speaker 1: Know, but I want to say, but I don't want
Speaker 1: everybody to come. No, No, it's Africa. Africa, Yeah, East Africa.
Speaker 6: Keep going, you might as well keep going there they start.
Speaker 1: Getting My favorite places I've visited so far in my life?
Speaker 4: Is the answer? W this hands a ball?
Speaker 9: I'm eight at the restaurant in thirty fourth streets.
Speaker 2: A ball.
Speaker 4: This is I went to Howard University for a party.
Speaker 6: The bars.
Speaker 9: Are you taking the show?
Speaker 4: Most? Okay? Taking the show?
Speaker 9: We do this, this is what we do it and
Speaker 9: off show.
Speaker 4: This is quick time.
Speaker 7: Let me make a baby man? You always too this look.
Speaker 14: I got the hold.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I just want to say, this is my this is
Speaker 6: my fourth time with drinks.
Speaker 4: Hips, this is my first, this is his first. I'm eating. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I need jack you get.
Speaker 7: You get time time club?
Speaker 4: So who else is in the club?
Speaker 6: Jada Kiss would be in it?
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, so Jada Kiss the four Yeah yeah, you
Speaker 9: know I ain't go out.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, by the way, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 7: It's been a couple of times.
Speaker 5: If I thought I fucked up your money because I
Speaker 5: got you drunk and then you had to go to
Speaker 5: the show, you.
Speaker 9: Did my away and I was, that's that's what I mean.
Speaker 9: That's that was my first time with dream Chaps.
Speaker 6: I know better now.
Speaker 13: I took a napper fell sleeper problem. I was doing
Speaker 13: Dream Champs in a tag top bro I thought I
Speaker 13: was Dave.
Speaker 1: It was two thousand and fourteen, So I told annoyed today,
Speaker 1: I said, I said, we didn't judg up for you,
Speaker 1: but we kind of did.
Speaker 6: Just make me.
Speaker 4: So I just like this all the time. I was
Speaker 4: just I was ready to do what is that?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 25: In the in f and and stand for the full name?
Speaker 25: Eric said, no, Yeah. One of my favorite songs ever
Speaker 25: did was with d j e f N Me and
Speaker 25: dj E f N recod Man recognize. It's a great song.
Speaker 4: That's a dope record.
Speaker 5: Okay, we don't have one together, and we we were
Speaker 5: getting one together because we're doing a drink cham this
Speaker 5: is this is quick time of slid Dave. You don't
Speaker 5: you don't have this is just an answer you don't
Speaker 5: have to say nothing. This is a multiple choice questions.
Speaker 9: You could, you can?
Speaker 4: You know you played this game before just before? Yes,
Speaker 4: let me give you some Japanese whiskey, all right, before.
Speaker 6: We play this game.
Speaker 7: Follow me shot glasses.
Speaker 4: Damn.
Speaker 17: So if you're big double hanging out with the devil,
Speaker 17: I love that, even.
Speaker 4: Far from the devil, I fuck with you.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, and I ain't gonna lie today. Let me
Speaker 9: just tell you something.
Speaker 4: I told this story of a drink chance, but I
Speaker 4: want to tell this to your face. This is what happened.
Speaker 9: I land in Atlanta, I have no time to go
Speaker 9: to see the real weed.
Speaker 4: Man. Driver sees me. My people hold me from the hood.
Speaker 4: His name is Murdy. He's a great guy. Murders. Good dude,
Speaker 4: tells me, I'm not sure about this bar. So I
Speaker 4: got a choice either that goes to the hotel, got
Speaker 4: my bags off and missed this money.
Speaker 27: I said, fuck it, We go straight to the shall
Speaker 27: be chilling unbronounced to me. My favorite comedian in the
Speaker 27: world just walks through and says, what's up?
Speaker 6: He can't be this cool?
Speaker 7: What something?
Speaker 9: And then he just w and if he walks away,
Speaker 9: and I'm like.
Speaker 20: Holy ship, I said, Yo, whenever he comes back, I
Speaker 20: gotta give him a drink.
Speaker 7: And then like, I don't think Dave drinks.
Speaker 28: I'm like, I want me to give him fore, I
Speaker 28: just gotta give him a drink because that's just really
Speaker 28: what the focus is said. Over do so you walk
Speaker 28: back over, I give him a drink, and then I
Speaker 28: hand him my blood drink.
Speaker 9: Yes I didn't know that.
Speaker 27: And then I hand him and this was like the
Speaker 27: most unsecured you have a wore you ever not put
Speaker 27: on enough.
Speaker 4: Toyodorate, and then you smelled yourself. I'm like, this is
Speaker 4: not right.
Speaker 7: I had bloot and I was like, I'm not sure.
Speaker 7: I hope he's drunk, right, because I didn't know if
Speaker 7: the week was good or not.
Speaker 4: I had just lit it.
Speaker 7: I shot, let's give him quick time and slid real quick.
Speaker 7: Can you your drink?
Speaker 4: And you too, Dad?
Speaker 9: You just feel me a drinking drink? You drink the rules?
Speaker 4: Yeah all right? You want look move that sign? We
Speaker 4: have DJ.
Speaker 2: Drink.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know you want to get it, get it.
Speaker 4: I ain't gotta be right there.
Speaker 7: You ready, I'm ready here.
Speaker 4: This is so heard.
Speaker 6: You know I'm not gonna answer a lot of times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then you're gonna drink the game.
Speaker 7: Kendrick.
Speaker 9: Of course this were just rotting.
Speaker 4: Let me tell yourself.
Speaker 7: Gonna happen.
Speaker 4: I was like, I met them both in the same
Speaker 4: time in Australia. I would never pick, so take a
Speaker 4: drink for that.
Speaker 7: If you don't pick, you take a drink. I'm a
Speaker 7: drink from my sage couple.
Speaker 4: Yea passes out in the moments.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got.
Speaker 4: Cool g rapp Oh big punt.
Speaker 7: You gotta give it a g rap That's what I said, godfather,
Speaker 7: But absolutely, you know what.
Speaker 6: I'm glad you brought that up because I got to
Speaker 6: clear something up on drink Champs.
Speaker 13: A long time ago, I had a bar and I said,
Speaker 13: you just a fat joke, thinking you a big pun,
Speaker 13: and me personally, I think it's a great bar. But
Speaker 13: there was no rap genius and no Internet back then.
Speaker 13: So I just now realized that for years a lot
Speaker 13: of people thought I was saying you're just a fat joke, right,
Speaker 13: thinking you a big pun, which I would never say
Speaker 13: because I got a lot of respect for crass you
Speaker 13: so fat joke with a K.
Speaker 6: I want to clear it up because i'men seeing a
Speaker 6: lot of chatter about that.
Speaker 4: All people like it just ft joke, and I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I was fat joke, Jesus joke. That's a terrible phone call.
Speaker 9: Joe's trying to kill your.
Speaker 4: Fat joke. Jesus terrifying quality. You're like this, terrified niggas
Speaker 4: stayed toilet.
Speaker 7: Start your niggas later.
Speaker 21: They came out two years ago. Everybody, all right, Jay,
Speaker 21: old biggie, Oh man, take a shot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, let's take a shot. Let's take a shot.
Speaker 6: Cheers or.
Speaker 4: Jesus, that's not fair.
Speaker 1: Fair.
Speaker 4: The game is not supposed to be fair, supposed.
Speaker 1: To already compare to them, though you said that on
Speaker 1: some Brooklyn ship.
Speaker 7: I see, I feel yeah, they make Brooklyn niggas In case.
Speaker 1: Y'all remember, yeah, it's something I heard big. It was
Speaker 1: on the Who's the Man sounds for Party and Bullshit.
Speaker 6: That was Party and Bullshit.
Speaker 4: Record.
Speaker 1: No, I was Class Squeeze and Nash smoking buses and
Speaker 1: Jay routine since thirteen on the scene. I used to
Speaker 1: pack up dudes training dude some backpack round that's backpack that.
Speaker 1: That was the first time I ever heard baby. Trying
Speaker 1: to remember the first time I heard Jay.
Speaker 6: For me, it was reasonable doubt.
Speaker 4: It was Dead Presidents.
Speaker 7: No excuse me, it's why, Sophie. It was original, flat, that.
Speaker 9: Foxy regular Big, you get to.
Speaker 6: Day, you can get away past Wow, also crazy.
Speaker 1: The reason about down album was going around heavy in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn at that time, so it's like you you, I think.
Speaker 4: The thing that that.
Speaker 1: Made J stand out to me was friend of Folk
Speaker 1: and a lot of it was like a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, the singles and stuff. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this friend of Folks is this dude is different approaching?
Speaker 6: For me, it was Liverture Regrets Regrets to made me
Speaker 6: be like, this is a problem.
Speaker 4: When I really became a J fan.
Speaker 1: Not that I was always respective, but when Volume three
Speaker 1: would come and get me.
Speaker 15: Three.
Speaker 13: Vol three was dope Man, modern day the solo MoMA
Speaker 13: modern day times.
Speaker 9: He said that.
Speaker 4: I said, that's when it's converging. Did but they didn't
Speaker 4: live long enough.
Speaker 1: Jay's a whole other thing, but that Big creatively, I mean,
Speaker 1: give me Lou, I mean, who shots to Big?
Speaker 4: Was a I mean, I remember where I was when
Speaker 4: I heard Unbelievable. I was I was.
Speaker 1: I was working with NBC on the Peers of Chelsea,
Speaker 1: piers Now offices on the Piers and she was on
Speaker 1: the radio.
Speaker 7: That's that's the difference between you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, seen like you're a real actor. I've seen you
Speaker 4: play Adoptor and I believed you. I'm glad you did that.
Speaker 7: I wanted to go see you.
Speaker 11: Look like.
Speaker 13: They told me, y'all seen babies in the movie and
Speaker 13: I don't even recognize him Anto forty five minutes in,
Speaker 13: because you is.
Speaker 4: A real actor. Actor. Man, I'm just a guy having
Speaker 4: a vegan burger right now.
Speaker 7: So is you not going to open a y'all seen
Speaker 7: school of acting?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 13: Like like.
Speaker 7: Like you don't know he opened the school.
Speaker 20: Schooper as, y'all see school for people's play niggas. Niggas
Speaker 20: don't know how to play doctors. You gotta show niggas.
Speaker 4: How to play doctor.
Speaker 13: It's like caning a school for them seeing for those
Speaker 13: who want to be in the field of dogs and
Speaker 13: then again a second dog.
Speaker 6: The half them se is coming out selling them a.
Speaker 9: Similar for you, perpetrator.
Speaker 18: But I'm come on, no, but I'm that serious because
Speaker 18: you because you really know how to act.
Speaker 7: That's serious.
Speaker 9: Like because if they called me to play shot Meek playing.
Speaker 7: From forty projects.
Speaker 4: I got that.
Speaker 7: You're talking about state property movie.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 6: Hey he was good at that.
Speaker 7: But if they tell me.
Speaker 29: What reference, tell me your local, if you tell me
Speaker 29: to play child Japan child. But I was like, you know,
Speaker 29: you won't come out there.
Speaker 1: You have to and the desire you want to be
Speaker 1: in movies, it feels like like you want to make something.
Speaker 4: I'm good.
Speaker 7: I'm just gonna crase you good because you've been.
Speaker 1: That's very kind. I mean, I try to do the
Speaker 1: best work I can. I've enjoyed it all the time.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I will do it again, but
Speaker 1: we'll see.
Speaker 4: You don't know if because you haven't done it for
Speaker 4: a while, right, Yeah, he quick, I could do other
Speaker 4: things he retired.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and I'm grateful for the work that
Speaker 1: I've been able to do. But there are things, the
Speaker 1: projects that I would like to do, but you know,
Speaker 1: they they take time to develop them more of a
Speaker 1: you know, of a personal nature preference from So if
Speaker 1: they happened, great, If they don't. If something comes up
Speaker 1: interesting and that I'm available for and works out, wasn't sure,
Speaker 1: but you.
Speaker 5: Know what your greatest active debut besides when you was
Speaker 5: playing a doctor.
Speaker 4: You know what your other greatest active debut is, I.
Speaker 7: Mean the greatest active period.
Speaker 4: That's me what.
Speaker 2: Be kind? We want.
Speaker 7: You and Jack be creating movies almost try.
Speaker 4: To do that.
Speaker 7: Because so you know, Michelle Gondry who did that movie.
Speaker 6: He did.
Speaker 1: That's why goy Michelle, He's great, he's amazing. Michelle, he
Speaker 1: was the director.
Speaker 30: Beautiful, really really joy a wonderful story glory from working
Speaker 30: on the set with him, where we'll be setting up
Speaker 30: this long continuous shot.
Speaker 4: It was like a continuous shot.
Speaker 1: That was it was at least like two minutes long,
Speaker 1: and it was you know, it was outdoor, it was
Speaker 1: coming up, the camera was moving some distance in a
Speaker 1: continuous shot, and it had to you know, there's certain
Speaker 1: activity that needed to be choreographed, and you know, the
Speaker 1: stage and we started walking the trailer you know, where
Speaker 1: the camera track would be.
Speaker 4: And it was very timed.
Speaker 1: It was like if you see it's a film called
Speaker 1: Touch of Evil that has like an opening shot at
Speaker 1: continuous shot it's like several minutes long.
Speaker 4: It's brilliant.
Speaker 1: It's like you know, ballet, because all of these different
Speaker 1: pieces of activity of choreographed as the camera's moving, so
Speaker 1: timing is key. So this was something similar that Michelle
Speaker 1: was doing. And we started walking the camera track and
Speaker 1: he was with you know, a few of the other
Speaker 1: cinematography and associate direct and stuff like this, and not
Speaker 1: the associate director but one of the production officials. So
Speaker 1: he's playing it out the side. He's talking on with
Speaker 1: chemin oal here and this and this is what happened.
Speaker 6: And then.
Speaker 1: One of the assists the directors said, oh, you know
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work because this is this is not
Speaker 1: and Michelle, this is something that I'll never forget.
Speaker 4: He stopped. He said, the thick French accent goes, Please,
Speaker 4: it is early in the morning. Do not tell me
Speaker 4: what I cannot do. He was like, this is we
Speaker 4: just started to day, got the rest of the data.
Speaker 4: Figure Let me.
Speaker 1: Figure it out on my own before you, like pour
Speaker 1: some cold water on my vision. And I'll never forget that.
Speaker 1: He said, Please, it is the beginning of the day.
Speaker 1: Do not tell me what I cannot do.
Speaker 4: Somebody give me a biggie perpont du to go. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but I enjoyed making movies.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that people haven't enjoyed seeing them if I
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to do it in the future of them.
Speaker 4: Great. My favorite film that I've done, It's hard to say.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say.
Speaker 1: My two favorite films that I've worked on have been
Speaker 1: be Kinming One and Hitchhikers Got to the Galaxy.
Speaker 4: That was. That was amazing. Thank you for the fish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was an amazing experience because it was all
Speaker 1: shot on stage.
Speaker 4: It was like very little green screen, so all.
Speaker 1: Those huge the vogons like their actual like people inside
Speaker 1: of them operating.
Speaker 4: It was like it was a it was a yeah,
Speaker 4: that was like. That was yeah.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that, and I like the relationships that
Speaker 1: I developed on the time.
Speaker 4: Job was fun, giant job. Bamboozoo was was historic to it.
Speaker 1: I was, Yeah, I really enjoyed working with Spike and
Speaker 1: Charlie Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Is and that.
Speaker 6: Mouse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, mom search some strange.
Speaker 1: It was the first major film that have been shot
Speaker 1: on on digital cameras at that time. It was like that, right, like,
Speaker 1: this is quality film, this is shot on digital crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 15: You guys don't think about merging the two worlds, the
Speaker 15: music and the cinema.
Speaker 4: Because of your background and bringing that together like Blackstar,
Speaker 4: I mean, like.
Speaker 9: Cast got the movie if it's something.
Speaker 4: Organic, I mean, but you know, I mean for me,
Speaker 4: I don't really.
Speaker 1: Of course I think in those terms in terms of
Speaker 1: like you know, awareness of you know, capabilities, but I
Speaker 1: don't really create entertainment products per se as products. No,
Speaker 1: I just don't have that type of And I'm not
Speaker 1: down in that. There's some people who do it and
Speaker 1: they're like they're really good at that, but that's never been.
Speaker 15: So when you create, thinking this thing is a commodity
Speaker 15: that's sold in I mean, I'm aware.
Speaker 28: Of that, but I'm not focused on that. That's not
Speaker 28: that they are worked with Eddie Murphy and and they
Speaker 28: stopped your crib to they that's an underrated movie. That's
Speaker 28: an underrated movie.
Speaker 1: Eddie was very like super cool to me, Like it
Speaker 1: was crazy, like it came up like it's a last
Speaker 1: minute kind of.
Speaker 4: Casting. And I had met him briefly before them.
Speaker 1: Was the only time that I met somebody, you know,
Speaker 1: it was it was the first time that I met somebody.
Speaker 1: Second time it was Prince that I was like really
Speaker 1: aware that like you need to hold it down and
Speaker 1: like he was saying out like you totally capable of
Speaker 1: doing at this moment, you know what I'm saying, Like Ede,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Eddie. I mean, first of all, it
Speaker 1: was Eddie. It was crazy. The way I met it
Speaker 1: was crazy. Somebody was saying, I was in l A
Speaker 1: at the time, stand at the Chutte on my man.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, Prince is having an after party for his
Speaker 1: show at one of these little cafes on Sunset.
Speaker 4: I was like, where it was. The place is directly
Speaker 4: across the street from the hotel. I was like, you,
Speaker 4: gott was press ass out? Was his press ass out?
Speaker 4: He wasn't even there. I didn't see him at that place,
Speaker 4: but I can't.
Speaker 1: I walked in and they took me to a room
Speaker 1: and they said just wait here, you know less you know,
Speaker 1: and the show is about to start whatever like that.
Speaker 1: And then I walked into like another smaller room that
Speaker 1: was behind that like do like a saloon type door.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like with the bottom and the top of
Speaker 1: it was like, you know, like a swing door. And
Speaker 1: I pushed the door open and I see a woman
Speaker 1: very attractive Eddie Murphy and another woman an attractive woman,
Speaker 1: and it's just them sitting there like in this small room,
Speaker 1: like you know, like I've bench seating on both sides,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh. And the moment that I
Speaker 1: poked my head through the door because I saw Eddie
Speaker 1: Murphy sitting there just with two other people, I immediately
Speaker 1: assumed I walked in the wrong room because Eddie Murphy
Speaker 1: sitting there.
Speaker 31: Give me room, and maybe I shouldn't be here, like
Speaker 31: I I walked into the super VP area. I'm sorry
Speaker 31: inside of the tiny room.
Speaker 1: But I was like, please don't have me thrown out
Speaker 1: of here, and I'm thinking of my mind. But then
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know if I should go
Speaker 1: back to this room. I was talking to the people
Speaker 1: who would let us sit and they were like, no, no,
Speaker 1: you can go back there. So I'm by myself and
Speaker 1: I go back there.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, but Eddie Murphy is She's like, no, no,
Speaker 4: it's fine, you go. So it's nobody else. Eddie Murphy
Speaker 4: has people with him, it's just me. So now I
Speaker 4: got to like put myself.
Speaker 1: Together and make like the proper human person in control
Speaker 1: of themselves. Introduction like her good evening, everyone, Hew, were
Speaker 1: you lo lo off?
Speaker 4: Four of us?
Speaker 1: And I said, hi, you know, I'm Dante almost and
Speaker 1: then and then they're very polite. Eddie shook my hand
Speaker 1: and everything sat down, and then you know, and they're
Speaker 1: not really saying.
Speaker 4: Anything to each other, just back there, just kind of
Speaker 4: chilling listening to music. It's very it's very like what
Speaker 4: rich people do when it's you know, so just chilling. Serene.
Speaker 4: I went to Dave spell show and.
Speaker 6: Then a few moments.
Speaker 1: Later after that and he turns to his wife at
Speaker 1: the time it goes you'll be chilling with most depth.
Speaker 4: I was like what, I was like, do you I'm
Speaker 4: I said, I'm chilling with like I'm meetre with you.
Speaker 4: You don't understand.
Speaker 1: I could have like had a Michael Jackson like screaming
Speaker 1: crying over because that individual right there. For how when
Speaker 1: I was growing up to see him on essen L,
Speaker 1: it is what he was. It was like he was
Speaker 1: my career path and then all of this hip hop
Speaker 1: should happened. But that's where I was going. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be eighteen and on SNL and that's my job.
Speaker 1: So when I met him, I was like what And
Speaker 1: then it was time after that, then then I got
Speaker 1: showtime and there.
Speaker 4: You mean Robert. Yeah, uh, Robertsonill was super cool, a
Speaker 4: very serious guy.
Speaker 7: You would you like, do you like this Japanese whiskey?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: No, no, that's all about it.
Speaker 4: That by the way, I'm thinking.
Speaker 22: That the name that is the name of a Blackstall
Speaker 22: record on Drake Sam's combination.
Speaker 6: He's called.
Speaker 4: That's allus.
Speaker 1: Robert Denill was cool, super cool, serious, you know. But
Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, you feel the gravity of
Speaker 1: his presidence.
Speaker 3: A second, Robert, think about yourself, nigga might feel the
Speaker 3: gravity of your presence.
Speaker 4: I like this phrase, gravity of your presence. That's what
Speaker 4: you feel that way, bitch, that's me. That's my presence.
Speaker 32: Is say, do I feel that way about myself? Sometimes?
Speaker 32: I mean to be honest, tell the truth. Yes, to
Speaker 32: be honest, yes, you see how people you know might respond.
Speaker 32: But to be honest, I don't want to I don't
Speaker 32: want to.
Speaker 4: Know how people feel about me. Either way, good little
Speaker 4: by it.
Speaker 9: It's really your business business.
Speaker 4: Say what you be saying. Sometimes body spray and drive
Speaker 4: pat you feel that's the gravity of my presence I'm
Speaker 4: talking about.
Speaker 9: I go too far.
Speaker 19: I know.
Speaker 6: You about to fuck with somebody right now? Say what
Speaker 6: you be saying to me about praise.
Speaker 4: Chair that I go too far. We haven't gone too far.
Speaker 1: Praise be as as detrimental as harsh criticism, right, because
Speaker 1: if you if you fall into being praised too much,
Speaker 1: and you get a custom or even develop an appetite
Speaker 1: for that, you could possibly be easily manipulated and very often,
Speaker 1: and I have a proper perspective on where you really are,
Speaker 1: you know, and critics get praised a lot. I tell you,
Speaker 1: what are you saying this? I'm like, oh no, you
Speaker 1: ain't a wanting to myself. But it's just you know,
Speaker 1: it's not adjustment on anybody.
Speaker 2: It's just like.
Speaker 1: For me, like but it's just like you know, now
Speaker 1: that we have the record out, I don't really read
Speaker 1: the reviews but so much, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I've seen certain comments or whatever, but I try not
Speaker 1: to pay attention to them, either way positive or otherwise,
Speaker 1: because ultimately, the thing is how I feel about it
Speaker 1: before I do it, as I'm doing it after it's done.
Speaker 1: So I have to live with my relationship with what
Speaker 1: I do longer than anybody anyway. So it's it's important
Speaker 1: for me to feel good about what it is I'm doing,
Speaker 1: and I mean, of course it's.
Speaker 4: Room for improving with human beings.
Speaker 1: I'm not perfect, but you know that I was damn there,
Speaker 1: that's the perfect man this new album?
Speaker 4: Yeah you.
Speaker 2: Did?
Speaker 4: You always feel that way about creating.
Speaker 1: I was always amazed by people who were able to
Speaker 1: do it professionally and not have to do anything else.
Speaker 4: And to me, that was the entire victory.
Speaker 1: If you could get to do this, to be an artist,
Speaker 1: to be a creative professionally without having to have a
Speaker 1: secondary gig that you may or may not like and
Speaker 1: that you're only doing, you know, to like keep the
Speaker 1: light song, so to speak. To me, that was the whole,
Speaker 1: the whole magic trick so to speak, you know, not
Speaker 1: even the trick, but like that was the like that
Speaker 1: was the measure of success because it means that it's
Speaker 1: something that you are good at doing, that you enjoy doing,
Speaker 1: that you can get to do on a like earned
Speaker 1: daily bread level. That's like, you know, short feet. I
Speaker 1: remember when Drake said that, you know, rappers when they
Speaker 1: wrapped to pay their bill shit and all, like this
Speaker 1: is not even a little bit.
Speaker 4: And I thought about that.
Speaker 1: I was like, if anybody can rap good enough, to
Speaker 1: get one bill paid.
Speaker 4: Like if somebody say like, oh, you.
Speaker 1: Know, what's your phone bill or what's your cable bill
Speaker 1: or whatever it be, Like, no, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: You know I put in sixteen bars a month and
Speaker 1: then you know they just cover my my cable.
Speaker 9: Right, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4: They made it. I mean the man I have made it.
Speaker 1: But then you are good enough to get a bill
Speaker 1: paid or somebody will accept your creative work as currency.
Speaker 4: Incredible to me.
Speaker 3: We are never getting say I'm anna pacifist. I stabbed
Speaker 3: the nigga once when I was listening to the super stuff.
Speaker 14: That's a really good rerection. Allegedly. Okay, I gotta be
Speaker 14: quick Thomas line. Okay, I mean being back to the
Speaker 14: high tech or premo. Oh come on, Man's premiere.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna drink. Don't you answer me this question. I'm
Speaker 4: answering this question. Man, nigga was drunk.
Speaker 6: Listen jail premiere is that's my twin.
Speaker 4: That's my twin.
Speaker 23: First, that's my twin, Primo, that's my twin. That was fine,
Speaker 23: you know what I'm saying. You shot anyways, that's my twin.
Speaker 23: High Text's my favorite producer. High check for Cincinnatiohi, right down.
Speaker 9: The road, not mad mad Live is very good.
Speaker 4: I love how text is my text is my favorite.
Speaker 4: Taking a job.
Speaker 6: No, we're not taking a shot, he said, Primo, Yes,
Speaker 6: give me a shot.
Speaker 4: I won't say this.
Speaker 6: Hot check whatever.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, but I gotta what.
Speaker 6: I just gotta say. I I gotta say because Hot
Speaker 6: Tech we did this, We did this.
Speaker 4: Jock is incredible.
Speaker 7: We just black Stolbu with Mad Living Mad Live is
Speaker 7: we just whole album Maddlin.
Speaker 6: Nobody has done a whole black job except for Madlin.
Speaker 6: But I checkted eighty percent.
Speaker 4: That first Black Star.
Speaker 13: Hoig texted the whole Reflection Eternal album and people hear
Speaker 13: my voice until I wrapped on those hot Tech beats,
Speaker 13: damn space.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I take it, Master. I mean, that's really hard one.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, you know, it's pretty much as
Speaker 1: Gang Star. It's like, you know, it's just another level,
Speaker 1: but you know they're definitely in the in the echelon together.
Speaker 4: For bias, it was a personal bias.
Speaker 9: How everyone let me ask you this one.
Speaker 4: I think you met him both, and I think you
Speaker 4: met him both, and I'm not sure if you met
Speaker 4: him both. M j.
Speaker 1: Or Prince I met them both, especially Price, but these
Speaker 1: are a hard dream that he worked with.
Speaker 6: Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brandon, Michael Jackson might not be mipples to apples.
Speaker 7: We're asking about that about Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4: Might Michael Johnson.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was another video called Ghost.
Speaker 1: It was like his It was like Thriller, like ten
Speaker 1: or fifteen years later, and he was playing take one
Speaker 1: of the epic videos for one of his songs, and
Speaker 1: I played one of the cast members in it, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I got to see him do his choreography
Speaker 1: like yeah live it was I was like nineteen geez
Speaker 1: and they shot it in LA.
Speaker 32: That's say you know when you say Prince to Michael Jackson,
Speaker 32: I'll tell you this story, tell you.
Speaker 4: I was on tour two thousand and nine.
Speaker 19: It was the.
Speaker 1: Ecstatic, My my last album, but I first came out
Speaker 1: and I was on tour and the first date was
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, and Jay Electronica.
Speaker 4: Was on our tour with me and.
Speaker 1: The album that come out in June. We were on
Speaker 1: too on August. It was our first date on the tour.
Speaker 4: We do the show.
Speaker 6: The show is good.
Speaker 4: People are with us, but it's also the record was new.
Speaker 1: It was our first day on tour, I kind of
Speaker 1: do you know how you get just kind of like
Speaker 1: still working out the k so to speak.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: So the show ends, we backstage, dude comes back.
Speaker 1: He's a little you know, like toasty, and he's like,
Speaker 1: y'all our DJ for Prince and man, Prince will.
Speaker 9: Really meets you.
Speaker 1: And we was like, okay, all right, local winos and
Speaker 1: drop safely, and but he just kept of lingering around,
Speaker 1: like you know, he was there for like an hour more.
Speaker 1: After the show is just kind of kicking it at
Speaker 1: every ten to fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4: This dude come back, Prince want to meet you.
Speaker 2: Man for you.
Speaker 4: He's like, okay, crazy guy, we leave it now.
Speaker 1: You be job safe. So go to the hotel. It's
Speaker 1: like maybe two thirty in the morning. All I want
Speaker 1: to do is go to tell and sleep, right.
Speaker 4: I just shows you. I get on the bus in
Speaker 4: the morning.
Speaker 9: It's you know, you know the drug Prince comes out.
Speaker 6: No, okay.
Speaker 4: So I'm laying I'm laying I'm in we in the
Speaker 4: w a someplace like this, and I'm laying out on
Speaker 4: the bed.
Speaker 1: I haven't taken off I haven't put the sheets back on,
Speaker 1: took off my shoes. I'm laid out like little radcal
Speaker 1: style on the bed and I get a call from
Speaker 1: my tour manager at the time and he's like, yo,
Speaker 1: you want to meet Prince tonight. And I was like, look, man,
Speaker 1: everybody need to stop playing these reindeer games. It's two
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning.
Speaker 4: I'm going to bed.
Speaker 1: If this doesn't happen, like in the next five to
Speaker 1: ten minutes, I might gonna be conscious.
Speaker 4: So it's not gonna happen. So good night, and tell
Speaker 4: Prince that said hello.
Speaker 1: Laid out radio silence five minutes later, stood up five
Speaker 1: minutes later and I'm like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Pick up the phone. My guy goes you ready. I'm like, yeah, yeah, bat,
Speaker 4: I'm ready because I want to see you.
Speaker 1: Make I see Prince to the quarter of this v
Speaker 1: in the morning, because right now you.
Speaker 4: Got to show me, right.
Speaker 1: So I walk downstairs on three o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: I'm walking in the corridor to the to the side
Speaker 1: exit of the hotel and I.
Speaker 4: See a man standing outside.
Speaker 1: With the black suits, perfectly pressed, white shirt, black tie.
Speaker 1: He's standing with his hands folded in front of a
Speaker 1: perfectly gleamingly polished forward focus. The ship is shining like
Speaker 1: it's a fucking double all Bentley coon with the fucking
Speaker 1: black I'll never forget this black with the white leather seats.
Speaker 1: And when I saw them let the seat so that
Speaker 1: fucking brilliantly polished the black forward focus like a company
Speaker 1: corporate car.
Speaker 4: I was like, I I think we're either going to
Speaker 4: see the biggest jug dealers over going to see press.
Speaker 1: Well twenty minutes later, I'm looking at the motorcycle from
Speaker 1: purple rank.
Speaker 4: Does he have a blow with something? Have a bow
Speaker 4: on trying to scrap?
Speaker 9: Yeah, he had it to.
Speaker 4: Shiah, Yeah, it's custom and she hit him prints clothes respect.
Speaker 1: It was a dude with a giant chef had It
Speaker 1: was like, I want some cookies. I was like, it's
Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning. Who even has a chef on.
Speaker 6: Cookies?
Speaker 4: There's like, you want some cookies?
Speaker 1: And we're like, yeah, we take some cookies and brought
Speaker 1: out a tray of perfectly baked, warm chocolate cookies.
Speaker 9: Just context and you love cookies. This is the Chapelle show.
Speaker 4: He's it's like an airplane hangar and it's three in
Speaker 4: the morning. He's got full band on stage. Nobody in
Speaker 4: the hangar. It's like half a dozen people the party.
Speaker 7: It's not a competition.
Speaker 4: He was on States and then I'm saying, that's the
Speaker 4: relations to Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1: He prays a whole sets. It's incredible. Were stunned. He says,
Speaker 1: you can clap, you got.
Speaker 4: In for free and that, and then he ends the set.
Speaker 1: And this was like no more than forty days after
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson had died.
Speaker 4: Right, she plays I Want to Be where You are instrumental,
Speaker 4: no vocals. The band plays it. Prince stayed away to.
Speaker 33: Chris this is and he's he's talking to Michael Jazz. No,
Speaker 33: he did, Hans Lord, we recently see you get back
Speaker 33: your Netflix.
Speaker 4: You mean.
Speaker 5: Not the Netflix. Uh, well well it was through Netflix
Speaker 5: the Chapelle Show. I'm right now trying to buy my
Speaker 5: my first two albums and they're actually complying with me.
Speaker 4: They just did it too, the same label.
Speaker 5: How was that day for people that artists, you know,
Speaker 5: whether it's a comedian, whether it's a you.
Speaker 9: Know, come in and not knowing the deals that they
Speaker 9: signed and and and retracted those deals.
Speaker 4: How was it for you? Man?
Speaker 3: Look Laurd in all honesty, this is a complicated discussion, right,
Speaker 3: but you know what, I know.
Speaker 4: We should say much more than that. Well now, but
Speaker 4: I know, you know, you know, I know that.
Speaker 3: Black Star, black Star releases album away. Let nobody released
Speaker 3: the album for us? Yes, because they know too?
Speaker 16: What do we know?
Speaker 4: We need to own our own We well, whatever we
Speaker 4: know and we know.
Speaker 16: This is what.
Speaker 3: This is what I call expensive knowledge, which what you
Speaker 3: had to go through to know what you know? In
Speaker 3: this regard, that's a tough one, right, So what we already.
Speaker 2: Take, right, we know.
Speaker 9: And we know, yes, you know, it's confidence, right.
Speaker 3: And listen, it's the only career we got. I think
Speaker 3: we're all protecting something. There's a certain artistic truth.
Speaker 17: We have to be.
Speaker 3: True to, the true, to our muse. This is why
Speaker 3: I love this Black Star record. Twenty four years and
Speaker 3: they drop like it's nothing. It still sound as young
Speaker 3: as they did when they started, and the ill bars
Speaker 3: the albums called no Fear Time, What's young?
Speaker 4: But I was me the whole time.
Speaker 3: I can remember if I think back, how eight year
Speaker 3: old meat felt at this time of that time.
Speaker 6: Mhm, you close your eyes you can see it.
Speaker 4: I was me the whole time. I was me the
Speaker 4: whole time.
Speaker 3: Listen, whatever whatever happened happened, whatever will happen will happen.
Speaker 4: But man, what a moment.
Speaker 3: I'm doing the drink Champs and Yellow Springs Ohio with
Speaker 3: most death Tyler quality. We only need extra pages in
Speaker 3: our passports because we are those kinds of niggas.
Speaker 9: Yes, we travel this world.
Speaker 4: Everyone does it, and here we all are in Miller.
Speaker 4: Don'twhare beeing us? Feels good? Man? Listen.
Speaker 3: The fact that they do this out luminary is a bar.
Speaker 3: The fact that I get to touch this process.
Speaker 4: Like this is an honor. The fact that you are
Speaker 4: here doing drink Champs, nigga, This is for the culture.
Speaker 4: It means something. This is right now, It's just the
Speaker 4: day of our lives. Well you see his days going. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we've made a good memory, this one, This one should
Speaker 4: be on the wall. It was a good one the
Speaker 4: first and many times. Hopefully.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Ohio, Thanks and welcome back after twenty four years. Yes,
Speaker 3: let start, let's go, let's go, let's push this culture forward.
Speaker 4: Yes, because yes, seen Bebe and Tyler the same way.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk to Dave and I'm gonna talk to
Speaker 4: Don now I'm not talking.
Speaker 2: Them on I'm.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, but but let me just take something,
Speaker 5: the combination, the camaraderie, y'all.
Speaker 4: Together, the chemistry.
Speaker 5: This is your home too, you know, chemistry for Brooklynlyn
Speaker 5: because it's New York City and then it's.
Speaker 4: Brooklyn, no stop, other than Brooklyn, nigga, that's.
Speaker 6: The planet.
Speaker 4: No disagreed.
Speaker 1: Bears The of the population in New York City, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's just the facts. If that's changed in recent years,
Speaker 1: unberknownst to me. If there's a more populous city in
Speaker 1: in New York City and the boroughs right now, then
Speaker 1: I stand to be corrected. But as far as I know,
Speaker 1: as far as I'm aware, the majority of people who
Speaker 1: live in New York City live in Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 1: It's a historic borough of historic events, of people, of
Speaker 1: of of prestige and great achievement from all areas legal
Speaker 1: and elicit.
Speaker 4: Uh you know what I mean, and.
Speaker 1: Home to some of the greatest of seas they have
Speaker 1: ever breathed air. And I mean it's not for like,
Speaker 1: you know, for Ego's sake. I mean, you know, we're
Speaker 1: doing what we've been allowed to do. You know, we
Speaker 1: have the facility capacities do it, and that's truly a gift.
Speaker 1: I want to avoid treating the gifts like an achievement,
Speaker 1: because it's not.
Speaker 4: What you do with your gift is the real achievement.
Speaker 1: And you know, without sounding to whatever I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just the way I really feel about it. We try
Speaker 1: to help as many as we can help, to do
Speaker 1: good for ourselves so we can do good for others.
Speaker 4: Say what me mean, mean what we.
Speaker 1: Say, don't be mean, don't take ship from nobody under
Speaker 1: any circumstance.
Speaker 4: Just remain humble and do.
Speaker 1: Beautiful things with the time that we've been given here
Speaker 1: on earth, with the capabilities and facilities that we have,
Speaker 1: so we express that in what we do. It's been
Speaker 1: the better part of my adult life. And I can
Speaker 1: say the same for Dave and for for Talban, for
Speaker 1: many of us in this room, and so honor to
Speaker 1: be here and chop of the children. Just about the
Speaker 1: about the culture too, And I wanted to say one
Speaker 1: thing too, because I see these you guys have to
Speaker 1: push the t on on yes recently, and you're asking
Speaker 1: the question about the crime narrative or the drug narrative
Speaker 1: that appears in so much of his work, and you know,
Speaker 1: I've spoken with pushed it directly about my very.
Speaker 4: My perspective or that directly, you know, And I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Say that as many talented writers out here, many people
Speaker 1: with strong powers of observation, particularly as you know, people
Speaker 1: who call themselves mcs, are part of this thing that
Speaker 1: we're doing. What we put our talent towards promoting or
Speaker 1: speaking about or addressing is UH is important as far
Speaker 1: as as I could see, and particularly coming from our
Speaker 1: communities where so many people were negatively affected by that
Speaker 1: presence and still are. And with that being said, there's
Speaker 1: no judgment on anybody who's done that or is doing
Speaker 1: that this at this point, you know, I have no
Speaker 1: judgment on it. That's what I'm saying that Like, oh
Speaker 1: you you know, cause trust me, you know I have.
Speaker 1: We all got friends and family and somebody that was
Speaker 1: in that, and it's no judgment on the day humanity
Speaker 1: to them.
Speaker 4: Is That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to what we promote as lifestyles
Speaker 1: or ideas, well, you know, that has impact, that has weight,
Speaker 1: you know, And I don't think we need any more
Speaker 1: crack commercials for our community or for our humanity at
Speaker 1: this point, particularly given the space and time that we
Speaker 1: are in as.
Speaker 4: Members of the human race.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, try to do as much
Speaker 1: good as you can, you know, do no harm where
Speaker 1: it is possible, you know, especially if it's unnecessary. And
Speaker 1: I like to see the rights there are talented that
Speaker 1: actually have something to say. I'll be curious about what
Speaker 1: they have to say about what's.
Speaker 4: Going on with all of us, not just going on
Speaker 4: one niche of the world, you know.
Speaker 1: And when I see it put towards that, I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: you know, I think those powers be put to better use,
Speaker 1: you know. With that being said, also, I feel like
Speaker 1: what we've done and what I've been contributing up until
Speaker 1: this point and with this current project is without powallel,
Speaker 1: you know, there's what we're doing is at the top
Speaker 1: of the register in terms of quality, consistency, theme, aim, creativity.
Speaker 1: I don't think we sacrifice any of the overall elements
Speaker 1: that people want to hear, you know, from MC's or
Speaker 1: from black Men in particular. I think I approaches courageous.
Speaker 1: I think it's noble. I think it's it's a classic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, don't stop avoid it that world. No no,
Speaker 1: but it's a classic because it embodies all of those elements,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and it's uh, it's well
Speaker 1: crafted as well as any well crafted class say material.
Speaker 1: So people may not some people may being doubted that.
Speaker 1: Some people may not recognize that right now, real hip hop,
Speaker 1: real hip hop.
Speaker 5: You're not talking to the y'allas, y'all, Yonders, Yonder Yonders
Speaker 5: is our cousins, y'all and.
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