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Speaker 1: Welcome to Drink Champs, the production of The Black Effect

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Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio and it's drinks, motherfucking podcast. He's

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Speaker 1: a legendary queen's rapper. He's like Green is your boy

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Speaker 1: in O r E. He's a Miami hip hop pioneer

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Speaker 1: up his DJ e FN. Together they drink it up

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Speaker 1: with some of the biggest players in the most professional,

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Speaker 1: unprofessional podcast and yet number one sorts for drunk fast

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Speaker 1: drinks mother every day is New Year's e. That's like,

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Speaker 1: it's time for Drink Champs. Trink up mother, Mother. What

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Speaker 1: a good vie? Ops it should be. It's your boy.

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Speaker 1: What's going on as d J e F and this

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Speaker 1: militating crazy wall drink chess? Yeah, yall banks up and

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Speaker 1: right now. You know I usually do a big, illustrious,

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Speaker 1: long intro, but what we're gonna do be a little late,

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Speaker 1: so we on time, but we're gonna get to it

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Speaker 1: right now. When I look at the left, I look

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Speaker 1: at the NBA star person that was drafted first round,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Um went on, he had

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Speaker 1: an illustrious career and then came out and then switched

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Speaker 1: it all up after the NBA and invested in cannabis,

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Speaker 1: and from what I believe, it is the first black

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Speaker 1: owned cannabis company in California. I'm not sure we'll get

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Speaker 1: to the that. Then the next brother right here, he

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Speaker 1: worked with vir later rackets by later Management. I saw

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Speaker 1: him in the office stretched out. I knew him when

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Speaker 1: he had air. He worked with Kanye West, pure Kanye.

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Speaker 1: He's got a lot to do with the air fact. Joe,

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Speaker 1: Mr Elliott, anybody you want to you want to name,

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Speaker 1: and the music business, John Monopoly has had a part

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Speaker 1: of it. So case you don't know who we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: So my al motherfucking heritage and John the monopoly. So John,

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Speaker 1: I want to stop with you right because we read

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Speaker 1: this article that comes out that says that you're the

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Speaker 1: cheap strategy officer Village which is uh out, and are

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Speaker 1: the partner they founded Village in Viola and together we

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Speaker 1: are the largest black owned cannabis companies. Make some noise

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Speaker 1: for that. That's what it makes the largest. It's the largest.

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Speaker 1: How is the first? It's not the first, it's the largest, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So what made you all right? Cool? Because he was

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Speaker 1: burning when he was in the league, rights to it,

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Speaker 1: all right, So that cool? You're playing. You you you

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Speaker 1: get injured. You know what I mean, they prescribed you

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Speaker 1: these these medications, right do you did you ever comply

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Speaker 1: to that? Yeah? I mean obviously I had a bunch

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Speaker 1: of injuries, So I had like twelve, I had twelve

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Speaker 1: surgeries throughout my career. So I definitely had my fair

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Speaker 1: share a c l back, both my shoulders, my hand.

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Speaker 1: I had a bunch of stuff in my knees, both knees,

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Speaker 1: so uh, you know, definitely had my fair share surgery.

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Speaker 1: Definitely had my fair share prescriptions. And you know what's

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Speaker 1: crazy about that is like when they give you prescriptions,

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Speaker 1: they give you like endless amounts of prescriptions, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And then they wonder why guys end

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Speaker 1: up you know, yeah, yeah, to give you a lot

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Speaker 1: Molly poker set like that everything. Okay, what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want for the most yeah, exactly. So you know,

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Speaker 1: and and a lot of players, you know, suffer from that,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, They get to the point

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Speaker 1: where they struggle with addiction. And you know, obviously I've

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Speaker 1: changed that perception, you know what I'm saying in regards

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Speaker 1: to you know, professional athletes, and cannabis shoes. So he

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Speaker 1: wasn't burning in the league. I was not. I just

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Speaker 1: want to know. I was scared bro from Jersey, so

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Speaker 1: like where I grew up, as you know, it's like, yeah, bro, range,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, waring drugs. You know, I

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Speaker 1: was going in eighties, so you know I'm an eighties

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Speaker 1: babies and I saw like kids get you know, locked up.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've been stopped in frist because I was

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Speaker 1: always bigging in my age. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: that I looked or whatever. So I was always afraid

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Speaker 1: got to the NBA, you know, getting drafted out of

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Speaker 1: high school, first training camp, you know, some of the

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Speaker 1: vets called me because they wanted me to make a

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Speaker 1: store run for him. And when I get it's really

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Speaker 1: like that they make the rookie go to the store.

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Speaker 1: You gotta do everything, bro, Like you ain't got some cigars.

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Speaker 1: I got two young to get cigars. I had to

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Speaker 1: get like baby wipes, Baby's baby. Like, Bro, I walked

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Speaker 1: in the room, Bro, cloud of smoke came out room

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Speaker 1: and I walk in and then they're blowing it down.

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking around and whatever. They like rookie batt

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Speaker 1: and I say ship like I ain't gonna say nothing

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Speaker 1: or whatever. So I run the store, do what I

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Speaker 1: and practice dog he was dogging into practice killing. No

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Speaker 1: we his crea team. I don't know if you know

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Speaker 1: what that, beau, his creer team is. Yeah, it makes

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Speaker 1: you better team. That's good coming from John. You had

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest opportunities in the world at one point,

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Speaker 1: like he was directly working with Chris Lady and the

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Speaker 1: later like how did that come about? And how did

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Speaker 1: how did that happen? Um? I was a party promoter

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Speaker 1: in Chicago and uh timbu two right, yeah, timbucto. He

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Speaker 1: would he would j in my clubs back in the day,

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Speaker 1: Dragon Room, Biology by all these clubs. Rest in peace,

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Speaker 1: Tim and I became friends with somebody who used to

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Speaker 1: come to my club who was friends with Chris, and

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Speaker 1: she told Chris about this guy that was throwing parties

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Speaker 1: like he did and managing Producers because I was managing

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Speaker 1: and I at the time, but there was nobody. You

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Speaker 1: couldn't you couldn't you could, you couldn't give us right

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Speaker 1: now cool. So me and Chris got cool. He would

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Speaker 1: let me take meetings with him, and then he was like, YEO,

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Speaker 1: if you ever decided to come to New York, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you a shot. And I was a little

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Speaker 1: little timid, but you know, I just I looked up

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Speaker 1: to him so much. And and Mono, you know, embraced

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Speaker 1: James Cruise and the whole crew. And so that's how

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Speaker 1: I became a Violet and I'm a Violetist for life,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean to this day. But how

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Speaker 1: different was that, like, you know, going for managing producers

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Speaker 1: and then being a part of a company. Because this

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Speaker 1: company is l L COO J. This is Miss Elliotts,

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Speaker 1: the biggest, this was the biggest management company in hip hop.

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Speaker 1: It was, uh, it was culture shock, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, because I was, you know, a kid from

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Speaker 1: to New York and all the stars that I had

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Speaker 1: been seeing on television and trying to be around I'm

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Speaker 1: not in business with I was. It was to me

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Speaker 1: being having experience in violated Violator, you would be a

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Speaker 1: part of Bolt, but then you would be a part

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Speaker 1: of certain people's projects. So whose projects was you in

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Speaker 1: charge of? Right? So I was the head of producer management,

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Speaker 1: so I handled Missy Elliott to me and Missy did

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Speaker 1: a project together for Monica. It was actually Monica's last

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Speaker 1: hit album and it was like, was so gone on

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Speaker 1: all these records? So I handed Missy Elliott. I had

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Speaker 1: a seven A really is who was a huge producer

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Speaker 1: for Murdering, which he'd be like, he's weird, he's weird,

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Speaker 1: but he's done. So Havoc from mob D, who's incredible

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Speaker 1: we work with have you know as recently as last

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Speaker 1: year with yeah and um yeah absolutely his family of course. Um.

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Speaker 1: So it was Havoc, Missy and Happen primarily and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure I'm forgetting somebody, but those are like the main three. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Because I was ahead of producer management, so I was

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Speaker 1: just shopping everybody's beach, trying to keep them and working,

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Speaker 1: you know, make sure our producers were constantly working. And

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Speaker 1: now we got a space here, which one you want

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Speaker 1: to open? I want a water. I can't drink Jesus

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Speaker 1: the roads. All right, cool, I'm gonna let you open that, sir. Goddamn. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: as approved was making wants the more, I ain't gonna

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Speaker 1: with water somewhere. You know, I got hold bag of it.

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Speaker 1: maybe I don't know. So all right, let's moving on this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you gotta hold it in my hallway. So you get

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Speaker 1: out the NBA. And how do you get this opportunity

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Speaker 1: to become involved with cannabis, especially if you're sticking to

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Speaker 1: your story, you didn't, Um, you ain't smoking the lead?

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Speaker 1: So what made you start to say, you know what

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Speaker 1: can in the business is my way of life? What

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Speaker 1: happened for me? Um? You know when I was I

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know cannabis, was you gotta open that?

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Speaker 1: I'm stay so yeah? So I so we went to

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Speaker 1: seventy nine years or convince convinced of the um, come

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Speaker 1: see me play and Normally she would say no, because

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Speaker 1: But for some reasons she said yes. Put on the plane.

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Speaker 1: I was just like Grandma was just reading newspaper two

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Speaker 1: shooting around. She's sitting at the table like this. So

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Speaker 1: I walked into my grandma, what's up? So she like squinted,

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Speaker 1: She's like, is that you baby? Dogs? Like, yeah, how

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Speaker 1: are you doing? She smoked it? No, it's not yet.

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Speaker 1: She's just looking at she like she's like, my eyes

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Speaker 1: hurt so bad today I can barely see. So I said, well, Grandmama,

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Speaker 1: was like the sea group won'ta tell nobody. I'm made

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Speaker 1: so much paining day I try and I called my

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Speaker 1: boy he bringing back vietnamuse and then the volcano back

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Speaker 1: because she goes and she's smoking and she's smoking and

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Speaker 1: blowing it out her nose. And she didn't even blow

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, Grandma, how are you feeling? I gotta

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Speaker 1: to She's like, I'm helled. She's like, you're not having

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Speaker 1: so you can't funk with him. What's his white place

423
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 1: in America? I mean, like, listen, man, that's just what

424
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 1: Landa exactly he got. It's not my Knda bro, it's

425
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 1: what Landa like because he got his own little white Harry.

426
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 1: Y'all don't know what I'm talking about. Come on there,

427
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:07,640
Speaker 1: who know why it's only white? My brother never been

428
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 1: there exactly. I mean, I ain't American sail listen to me,

429
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 1: you know. But um, I see NAS go out there.

430
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: Um this was actually the first time they invited me

431
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: as press and um I didn't go, but this was

432
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 1: the time to this coming. I think they've listen to

433
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 1: NAS album on this album and the fact that I've

434
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: seen people going crazy to go to Wyoming who've never

435
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,120
Speaker 1: been to Wyoming. I'm like, once you get there, once

436
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: you leave, the rents just open. You can't go to

437
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 1: seven of em nothing. They don't got a ya, none

438
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: of that. So but how the hell because now I

439
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: see Dave Chappelle. Now Dave Chappelle is doing the same thing. Well,

440
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 1: I think, Hio, what does it want with these rich people?

441
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: What do they do? They just they just go out

442
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: there and just find out that nobody like you don't like?

443
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: Now that's something. What doesn't mean? That's very too, that's

444
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 1: very to piece of question. But why on me? That's

445
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: like heavy Trump ship, that's Trump. No, it's not Trump,

446
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 1: it's just heavy. Yeah, it's a lot of beautiful out there. Man,

447
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: it really is. Come on, West, is it really is?

448
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 1: It would be nice to you. I don't want you

449
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 1: to listen, to be honest with you, if you're hanging

450
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,200
Speaker 1: with the right people, the right Republicans, you probably be good.

451
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: But you know, for like, you know what I'm saying,

452
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,719
Speaker 1: like Democrats going out there, I'm just saying or liberal

453
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 1: or you know in between. It's just a little crazy, man,

454
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:47,719
Speaker 1: It's a little crazy. So what I mean, I'm just

455
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: being honest, like I'm not going to wire on me.

456
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: I'm just being honest, like, it's not everybody. It's not everybody,

457
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: but it is peace and quiet, it is piece and

458
00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 1: quite as beautiful. Yeah, you know that's you can get

459
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: your zin chick. So do you smoke? I seen you

460
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: looking at the smoke Champs. I smoked like a manniac. Okay,

461
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: I seen you in Soho house. I'm no mallible, mallible.

462
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: He was having dinner and and noble, God, damnit, shout

463
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 1: out the noble and maniable. That's the best. That's the best.

464
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: That's the best. And um the vibe, that's the vibe.

465
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: I'm a restaurant guy. What's your favorite restaurant? Houston's hill Stones.

466
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: Let me tell you some crazy shit. I love Hillstons.

467
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 1: I hate Hillstones. It's the same. It's the same thing.

468
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 1: It's me stones, but I love us. That's my favorite.

469
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: That's your favorite favorite. If we had your last milling

470
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: on earth, you would do it proticipe chicken. No, it

471
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: depends on it depends. I might get the Hawaiian ribby

472
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: all the ribs. Okay, okay, what's your favorite restaurant? Okay,

473
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: all right, that's the original Noble on the Hills. Uh,

474
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: right down the block from the sls. Okay, I hate

475
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 1: that spot. We did not know how to little. We

476
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 1: did not know how to eat roll fish at the

477
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: time he brung this us hood ass. We're sitting there.

478
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: He ordered, what do you want it? He ordered the

479
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: rest snap, But that's ship was like that. We don't

480
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: want to act like so we even even Steve Rippin,

481
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,479
Speaker 1: but we don't want to act like we unsimilarized. So

482
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: we all we all like that. Oh my god. We

483
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 1: as soon as we finish, we go straight to fat

484
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,959
Speaker 1: Bird like yo, no, no, the same thing we that. No,

485
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: you gotta go get something to the mcdowald's Gonna Street.

486
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: Mcdowald's Street, for somebody is the best McDonalds in the world.

487
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,880
Speaker 1: I don't know why they gotta have the organic food

488
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: came our favorite food. Fish I'm gonna be in once

489
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,879
Speaker 1: a weekend. I go to the organic food Kings. You

490
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Well, I go veg it wants

491
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: a meal like everyone. Yeah, like you know what instead

492
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,439
Speaker 1: of like breths, thenner you go blunches out of here,

493
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: going foolcage. You're organic. I'm a ship all day. God

494
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: damn vegan food vigging vegan? Oh man, ship? Did you

495
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 1: name your rest your favor restaurant? Okay, how about you?

496
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: Bro mean? I like Brimstone the steak House and pember

497
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: Punstone firing Brimstone. That a little sick? All right? Now?

498
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: All right? What was yours? Yours? Noble? I'm a whole

499
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: yeah kind of yeah. I'm finger popping everything. I'm finger

500
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: popping every restaurant. I love it. I love it. I'm sorry, man,

501
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: I'm just I just put Yeah, I'm a Dantanna Craigs,

502
00:27:55,119 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 1: car Bone Noble crustaceans. You'll listen. It's been time I

503
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 1: thought I went to l A just for crustaceans. I'm

504
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: just being honest. They got cocaine and their noodles never

505
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 1: ever had theirs, all the noodles, all my said dress up.

506
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: Every time you put on hard bottoms in the in

507
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 1: the college shirt did get in. I'm not even gonna

508
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: tell it. You crustaces. Me and Fat Joe get bit

509
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: one night. We just we fucked up. We're walking crust states.

510
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: We got on nothing but sweatsuits. They shut us down, Yo, brothers,

511
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 1: you can't come in here. The whole restaurant is looking

512
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: like that's fucking Maria facto. Me and Fat Joe's too

513
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: intosticated to say something intelligent back to the major D.

514
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:37,880
Speaker 1: So we're just like, I fucking fuck you were never

515
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: coming back here? Oh fuss fuck you. The next day

516
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: I go there, I get a dress up shirts, I

517
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: get address this. I don't tell Fat Joe we need

518
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: to commitment not to go in. We said for this place.

519
00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: I walk in and he looked like ire he coming back.

520
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: It was great. It's a great time. But yeah, l

521
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: A l A Cuisine, So y'are both live in l

522
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: A Right, it was shut down. Yeah, y'all was shut down,

523
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: shut down, shut down from shut down. How so how

524
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: was that? Like y'all was quarantine. Y'all was quarantine, and

525
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: when quarantine was over, that's it was crazy like like

526
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: out there it had me feeling like if I left

527
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: the crib, I was gonna get Corona Bro. They had

528
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: this thing and that ship was like everywhere it was

529
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: it was. It was Miami, Miami been open, it was, Yeah,

530
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: it been. It's been disrespectful, Rose Trees all comp was

531
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: crazy to be glad you drink with me? You know,

532
00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: So John Music industry, all this luxurious things going on,

533
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: You're going to switch to cannabis. Um. I don't know

534
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: if it's switching. I'm diversifying. I like that word. You know,

535
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: we do first of far off sorry missing you know.

536
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: I mean I still work full time with you and

537
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: still involved in a couple of different things. But I'm definitely, uh,

538
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: heavily involved in this. I'm proud to be working with

539
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: these brothers and about to take over the world. How

540
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: about um, is there any other clients that you work

541
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: with that is involved with cannabis? Any other clients? Um? No,

542
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: this is the only My only cannabis venture is Village

543
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: Viola cool? And are you trying to get it into Chicago? Chicago? Yeah? Absolutely,

544
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: and we're working on getting a license in the state

545
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: of Illinois. Make some noise for that. Is there any

546
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: full side they're going federal from your perspective, I'm not

547
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: an expert in that. I'm honestly new to the space,

548
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: so I'd rather not answer. Um, what do you think

549
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: on that? Yeah, I think that within the next I

550
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: mean obviously within the next ten years, that's like a

551
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: big number, but maybe like next administration, like web becomes

552
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: in next I think we'll probably push it to imagine

553
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: preparing for that, because that's but if they do that,

554
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: are they doing that state from state? Are they gonna

555
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: do with the whole United It would be federal would

556
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: be federal alcohol, like what happened with it, so they

557
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 1: don't have to do with state like let's can can

558
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: Minnesota say I'm a federal legalized that can that happen?

559
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: Or whole federal would be the whole United States. I'm

560
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: sure each state can tweak certain details of the laws,

561
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: just like you know, the same thing with alcohol, but

562
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: that would be the game change, like having potency like

563
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: in Utah you can't like the liquids different you know,

564
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: percentages in Utah the rest of the country, So changes

565
00:31:53,760 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: like that, Like Um and Denver you could buy psychedelics, yeah, tabs,

566
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: acid and what's the other ship? Yeah, you can buy

567
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: that ship the aid though I don't know by yeah,

568
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: but there's a natural version of acid, like a natural

569
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: person like kind of only. The only place in that

570
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: country where you could do everything legally is in Oregon,

571
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: real Oregon. Everything. Nobody don't want to go to Oregon, right,

572
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: nobody except for the Nike outlet. That's it. Right, It's

573
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: like it's gonna go to the Knight Doud and that's it.

574
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: Let's get the funk about it there. Let's see the Oregon.

575
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: But that's where everybody, y'all, you could do anything you

576
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: want to or anything you want. Things about hooks too,

577
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: that's New York, New York by hookers. No, no, no,

578
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: they said they know the sex crime is not a

579
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: crime no more. They say, go fuck but you know

580
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: if it's basically because it's a girl now, because it's

581
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: a girl like Vegas in New York, I think so

582
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: they got the rent like district, like we gotta take it. Yeah,

583
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: just sit around even this kind of love me a smile.

584
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: He's like it's gonna be like men and oh my god,

585
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: all right, man, is it quick time of slive? Yet? No? Really? Alright? Cool?

586
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: So he's not drinking. So this is this is on you,

587
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: all right, So this is this is what happens, This

588
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: is what this is what happened as a partnership. Right,

589
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: so um quick, time of slime is very quick. You

590
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: just name one or the other if you do want

591
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: to name both, which we've set it up for you

592
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: to name both because we feel like you're friends with both.

593
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: So you just say both, and then you take a

594
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: shot for it's no, it's nothing big, whatever shot you

595
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: want you like, this is this is the summer. Oh yeah,

596
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: we got to kill the guy black owners the killer too. Yeah,

597
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: we gotta killer dam Every time I say booth, well

598
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: taut with you. We're gonna take a shot with you,

599
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: like first first old Thomas, first question. I think you're

600
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: gonna take a shot. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

601
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: Let's let's figure this out. Okay, are we ready? Quick

602
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: time a slid? All right, but get a shot though,

603
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: let's get ready. Let's get ready with the shot. Alright, cool, yeah,

604
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: the first one and three I think you taking a

605
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: shot in my opinion, I'm not sure. All right, let

606
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: me do. I'm taking one with you though, Like I said,

607
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: all right, here we go. Every time you take one.

608
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: There's a couple. There's a couple one here. All right,

609
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: are you ready? Even questions? Bro? Get ready? All right?

610
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: Cool nas or jay z damn jay z. Okay, all right,

611
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 1: that was the mom. Okay, respect or loyalty. Okay, let's

612
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: get let's get let's set them. We're not leaving you

613
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: out there at alone. This is we with the guests.

614
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: We're not leaving you out there alone. Baby ship sports

615
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: edition drinking sport. Oh yeah, y'all gotta take shots to

616
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: come on, come on, get your shots together, relaxed. I'm

617
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: not talking about let's like we're gonna give him a

618
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: shot to take a bone later though, just just for

619
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: him to feel a part of the s V. That's

620
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: the best way to describe it. All right, come on,

621
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: let's go. I'll need a little ice, don't worry about it.

622
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: But boom, yeah, he might as well keep him loaded

623
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: up because this text. Next one is gonna be it

624
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: too slut Yeah, STU, all right, pretty, let's go DX

625
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: or tupap another one. Let's go take that shot. Come on,

626
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: when he got a little shot. But I'm all right,

627
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you take this shot. But then this

628
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: next one, I don't know since we got we never know,

629
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Speaker 1: we never know, all right, in the camera solo solotlettle

630
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: a little m hm. Alright. This next one, I don't

631
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: know Miami or Toronto. Oh my god, are you right?

632
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: My lord? Miami? Like this one, I don't know nineties

633
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: or two thousand hip hop? I go uh two Thousand's okay?

634
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: This one is up in the air for real or

635
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: Kanye both? All right? We need them both for the culture,

636
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: all right, I don't I don't want to. I'm gonna okay,

637
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 1: I'm bugging out. I'm bugging out. I'm bugging now. I'm

638
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: bugging now. All right, we move both of them. Bro Okay, Okay,

639
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: let's skip this one, but I'll come back to this one.

640
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: Make sure I'll come back to it. Has Um sour

641
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: or O G O G good one. Alright, This one

642
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,720
Speaker 1: is up in the air, Cardi bat or Nicki Minaj.

643
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: Get your shot ready, No, I could pick I could

644
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: pick a back. I'm gonna go with Nicki Minaj. Okay,

645
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: Queen's in the building, all right, No, you can answer this,

646
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: Pap Daddy or Chris Lady. You couldn't have me answer

647
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: that one. So I'm gonna say pump okay, alright, okay,

648
00:37:54,120 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 1: podcast or radio radio Okay, all right, this is for

649
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: you now, depending on how you answer, hes gonna take

650
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 1: the shot Kanye West or common sense. You can say both.

651
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna Kanye. Yeah, okay, that's real. That's my dog. Okay,

652
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: this is for you too, major or independent? Now independent?

653
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: That was smooth, Okay, No I d or Kanye. Let

654
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: him take a shot. Shot man, my brother. Yeah. You

655
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: don't want to have to go back to Chicago. You

656
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: don't look on any given Sunday Kanye got him fading, Okay, sorry,

657
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: and no ideas obi wan, but all right, it is

658
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: what it is. This is gonna suck you up. You're ready.

659
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: J Cole or kind both get your shout. What you

660
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: thought about J coole new album Love? We didn't about

661
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: him playing the African League, Well, I thought it was

662
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: dope earlier white. He's really I don't know. It seems

663
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: like it ain't work out right. They lost, like an

664
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: elimination thing or whatever. Right. He said that he had

665
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 1: personal reasons he had to go back to the States,

666
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: but I think he just got a lot of slack

667
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 1: because people were mad that he got the position, and

668
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: there were other players that were up for it, but

669
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: just because he got the name whatever, Yeah, le he did,

670
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: he did. He played all right too. I've seen the

671
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: couple of games. All right, hold on, damn, what is okay? Here?

672
00:39:54,680 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: We are all right, both of y'all. Foxy Brown, a

673
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: little camp ship. I'm gonna say Foxy mm, I say

674
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: both Bro, they let's go back there. We're not around

675
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: watching this man. Yeah, that's how I feel. That's how

676
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: I feel. This motherfucker. Hold on, hold on, tell you

677
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: if we want to know, bro, is the first time

678
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: I take? It's getting funky right now, Biggie or big Punt? So,

679
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't matter somebody taking a shot, big Biggie. Okay,

680
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,800
Speaker 1: what's up? What's up all y'all? So for me, like

681
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: when I was when I was my senior in high

682
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: schools and pun was like on this little run and

683
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: I could see him. I can sneak into this one

684
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: club in Manhattan. It seemed like every time I went,

685
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: he was always in there. The Mage spot right off

686
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: because I even went there after my high school street.

687
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 1: It's right off of is the West Side Highway. Yes,

688
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: it's that's the carpet of the Yeah, that's the one

689
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,959
Speaker 1: place I could sneak into it is the seventeen eighteen

690
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: year olds, And it seemed like Poe was always in there,

691
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: so obviously I would be like Biggie, right, just because

692
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: I know, like you got a relationship. Take a shot,

693
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: shot man, I don't worry about it, man, this is

694
00:41:43,920 --> 00:42:01,280
Speaker 1: what we do. M over there, turn around. We were

695
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: oh man, okay, we only got two more. Alright, Hey,

696
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: nobody gave you the authority to have anything. You got

697
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: to relax. I know I was coming back to that one,

698
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: all right, Um Lebron or Jordan's Jordan? Yeah, Jordan? Want

699
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: to serious? All right? This is Bron his number two

700
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: hands down like hands down, ain't on discussion, but he

701
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 1: got knocked out of the first round. And I'm just asking.

702
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: I'm just asking. It's just like I think. I mean,

703
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: he's just saying he wanted he got a movie coming

704
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: out space jam Yeah, to promote that I made more

705
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: money off that championship. I love your political asset. I

706
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: love that. I love times the Bron. What's most important.

707
00:42:49,640 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: I'm gonna seeve you Burner Bron before because you see

708
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: drinking on lean Branny game. I think that was a

709
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: right yeah, all right, and this is the last one.

710
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: We got one more after this, after this one. This,

711
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: This should be pretty easy for you. Bowls are the Knicks. Knicks.

712
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: I'm not asking you, okay, because I know you're just

713
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: gonna go both. Okay, I'm changing it up a little bit.

714
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're gonna say. I think I

715
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: should know what you're gonna say. Drink Champs or All

716
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: the Smoke podcast. That's crazy question that shot to the shot, bro,

717
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: Come on, don't hurt my feelings. Yeah yeah, who who

718
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: match did our show? He did our show and last

719
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: they're supposed to come to ast you man um man,

720
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: um he did our show, but I think he did.

721
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: He did our show. He was like, you know what,

722
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: I could do this ship too, and they grow and

723
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: this show was great. Great. I love how because to me,

724
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: that's the drink Champs of sports, Like like, um how

725
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: they do it because they know y'all, Like you know

726
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's the same way we know that

727
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: the artist and you know what I mean. Um, so

728
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: I picked him up but um yeah, that was I

729
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: switched it. I ain't gonna give it that. You know

730
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: what I mean? You mean yeah, I sound like DMX.

731
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:35,399
Speaker 1: Oh I gotta check my phone. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,

732
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:36,879
Speaker 1: I ain't got I ain't got. I ain't got hash

733
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: oh oh oh this is the read this out out broke,

734
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: Come on les Le, prostitution is legal. Yeah, out to

735
00:44:55,080 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: the weirdo man man hands the whole city. Just man,

736
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: oh ship, that's fun. Up the Stroke coming back the

737
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: Brons where Huts Point is? Yeah, East New York. Let's

738
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: not forget East New York. Damn the week Brother James,

739
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: Holy movie got the moody god, damnit. Someone said, why

740
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: does Boopy episode y'all had? I ain't never had none

741
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: of that. They never had. I know, I get it.

742
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: You ain't burning the NBA neither, I get it. Of

743
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: the good guys. He was one of the Jersey bro

744
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: Square Square, I know where you're from, brou Jery man.

745
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: He want to rep it with you, man, so he

746
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: told him, thank you. Yeah, man. I asked me though,

747
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: coming from St. Patrick's, you know, Carrie Irvan came from St.

748
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 1: Patrick Michael kick Good, Chris came. What was that recipe?

749
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 1: Like they developed NBA players like now, so I coached.

750
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,800
Speaker 1: His name Kevin Boyle, so he down in Mount Verde Academy.

751
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: Now he just he a master bro, Like he just

752
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: know how he knows how to get the best out

753
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: of us, you know what I'm saying. So like he

754
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: was the first who ever played for that like cuss

755
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: me out or like, but it's just somehow he motivated

756
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: you to just always want to be better, you know

757
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that you're thinking about like all the

758
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 1: other niggas he got in the league now, like Joel

759
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: and b and the kid kid coming him coming in

760
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: the league, Like he got monsters, you know what I'm saying.

761
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: So he just can't identify talent. Because even when he

762
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: picked me, bro, Like when he grabbed me from my

763
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: high school went to Rozelle High School. I moved from

764
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: Orange to Roselle and my freshman year I didn't even play.

765
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: And then he seen me playing in the tournament in

766
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: summer and pretty much convinced me to come to an

767
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: all basketball school. And I ended up going from an

768
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: unranked sophomore to the number one playing the country under

769
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: like him and my a. But like how you felt

770
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: becoming that from nobody to us, I don't know. I

771
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: don't know better. Bro, You're seventeen years old, dog, and

772
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: the ship happened so fast and obviously like back then

773
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: it wasn't like social media and ship like that. So

774
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: when you was grinding, he was really grinding. You know

775
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Really here getting reps off like it

776
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: was stories like MS told about you. You know what

777
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: I'm saying. At that time, you know you know what

778
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But like once I got to that level,

779
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 1: getting to the league, you know what I'm saying. I

780
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: walked in the first time in practice, like I said,

781
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: even though niggas was bowling, like I felt like I

782
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: was just as good as them. Player ever played against

783
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: Grant Hill, hands down Grant. Like if Grant Hill did

784
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: not if he did not get hurt, if he didn't

785
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: get hurt, he would have had like Lebron kind of

786
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: like numbers, Bro, Like you played against the bron I

787
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: played against Brian Bronze. Obviously he's Bron's number two, you

788
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like he's the second. About Kovid,

789
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: Kobe is probably three. You got Kovid have to Lebron.

790
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: You want to make one thing, it's over stuff a long.

791
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: I mean, like I live in that late so everybody

792
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: want me to say Kobe, but like Bron, I like

793
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 1: you keeping it with what what Brian does and brings

794
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: to the game. He's a hard player. I haven't done

795
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 1: that and he's done it for eighteen years at twenty

796
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: five tenants and like, come on, dudes, don't do that.

797
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So he's definitely different. Never

798
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 1: played against Jordan. I played against Jordan too, because Jordan,

799
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 1: that's still Jordan. If you still on him, that's posts

800
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: still working. So my story one time we're playing them

801
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: in d C and somehow I get into it with him,

802
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: Jordan shure. So you always like growing like growing up.

803
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: The whole minute of that. The stories is like you

804
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: never say nothing back to Michael Jordan. You see something,

805
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, He's gonna be like he's the person from

806
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 1: the Wizard of Ours that you don't see but you

807
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: hear exactly. Just don't say nothing to him. I feel me,

808
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: but I said something, How does this happen? What's going on?

809
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,439
Speaker 1: We're just in the game. Is something happened? I ain't

810
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: failing me, like you found me something something because he

811
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: called everybody a home. That was his thing. Ever, hold on,

812
00:48:55,200 --> 00:49:00,040
Speaker 1: hold on, just calm that. Okay, let's calm that. I

813
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: got me. So wait a minute. So he goes for

814
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: a shot. He thinks you found him, and he says,

815
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: he found me up. I found him. I did found him,

816
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: And I'm like, at the ref, I don't even touched him.

817
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: You found me home. I'm like, man, who are you

818
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: calling the hole? You know young from Joe? You don't

819
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: know no better like I called you like I called

820
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: you a home And I'm like, all right, So we

821
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: go at it. So but he had forty one. I

822
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: finished the game with thirty seven. But they won it.

823
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: So they win the game. Whatever. I'm in the back mad,

824
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 1: whatever we lose or whatever. And the ball boy comes

825
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: walking in with his sneakers with Jordan and it's like

826
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: it's like best wishes, keep working hard. I't even asked

827
00:49:53,239 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: him for his shoes. Dude, shoes, did your kids shoes? Yeah?

828
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: I don't even asked him shoes. Brot he said. But

829
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: that's some ship that you could tell. Jordan gets the

830
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 1: game like he gets like he gets like going at him,

831
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,919
Speaker 1: like I even think like even the Alan iverson moment

832
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 1: where Alan like crushed them over. I felt like Jordan

833
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: got hyped course to that, like like I cool, Like

834
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:46,919
Speaker 1: even when he talked about Kobe, he said that Kobe

835
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 1: like whatever, he said that Kobe's friend of rule. He

836
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: said that dat it was competitive to the very last minute.

837
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: Is that's really like how the NBA is, Like, no,

838
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 1: it is, did not know he was calling his host

839
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 1: that's crazy you get from the East Coast. But it's

840
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: like then Kevin gard Kevin Gardeck and PJ. Tucker they

841
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: look that Look, that's the first time I felt like

842
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: NBA got real again. Katie did. But but they but

843
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,479
Speaker 1: they but they went to college, They went to Coe

844
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: when somewhere showing that stage at this bit right, sob

845
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: like Katie came, you know what I'm saying. Something happened.

846
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So let me because I'm

847
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: bouncing around, right, I'm bouncing around everything. What do you

848
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: feel about these super teams because right now it just

849
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: feels like everyone is just like basically getting down with

850
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: the gang. That's popping whoever let whoever got the best,

851
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: Like well, I don't like, I mean, we don't like it.

852
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: But it's just that's what the game is now. So

853
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: you got to evolved with the times who fussed up

854
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: the game for the super teams. I think Brian going

855
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: to Miami is what started it, you know what I'm seeing? Yeah,

856
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: that that that's what started Paul ray Allen and that

857
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: that was a little different though, Yeah that wasn't one right, Yeah,

858
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: but it was still different like Brian going there and

859
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: then like orchestrating that that wasn't orchestra that was Those

860
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: was trades, you know what I'm saying. Like they were

861
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: free agents with their free and they exploded. Of course,

862
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: I who don't want to live in Miami and win championships?

863
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: Mean why not? It's like living in l A winning championships.

864
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. There's certain places where it's like,

865
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: but we need to bring one back to New York though, bro,

866
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: Like we don't look good to win the chip. I

867
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: want to win. I want to win games. Bro. Like,

868
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: if you think about coaching, you think about coming to coaching.

869
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: Everybody cannabis. We're playing the team. We ain't working for

870
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: nobody else, but we're working for no body. That's beautiful.

871
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: What made you? That's what I'm saying, what made you

872
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: didn't want to get down with all these other candidates

873
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: companies already operated? What made you want to be black owned?

874
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: I guess uh. You know when I first started like

875
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: it was no option, I ain't had no way to go.

876
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 1: Like now, remember now it's popular, bro, this We just

877
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 1: we celebrating our teena anniversary of this ship. Take a

878
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 1: shot for that. Take a shot for that ten year

879
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: anniversary ship. And by the way, I'm drinking watermelons. Wellness, wellness, yes,

880
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: salute man, the ten years of Viola and Harrison willness

881
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: got damnit. So look what are you toasting with beer for?

882
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: Come on by the mamajuana so is And this is

883
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,720
Speaker 1: the question for both of y'all. Is it really green gold?

884
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: That's because that's how they're describing it right now. It's

885
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: it's the green gold rush of everybody is you know,

886
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: I got friends and I got people that know that

887
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: invested in tobacco. When Chris was alive, I wanted to

888
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: do a cigarette. I don't know what Chris like he did.

889
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: I said, you had to change. I had to change,

890
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: and I wanted I said Chris like, I don't know

891
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: what he did, but he came back and said to me,

892
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: we're not working with tobacco at all. And I don't

893
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: know what he was. I've never seen like white, like

894
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: white under his face, Like he was like like whatever

895
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 1: he did, he tried to explore, like trying to get

896
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: Newport to be like diligence and what and it was

897
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,280
Speaker 1: like that was the mafia, right, No, just in general,

898
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: it was just bad. Yeah, Like if you notice, the

899
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,320
Speaker 1: only people that's doing tobacco that's like us is you

900
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 1: have to do it in the Dominican Republic because I

901
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:46,720
Speaker 1: have to grab Mike, grab relief, grab a leef Dominican Republican.

902
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:52,359
Speaker 1: So what makes y'all say all right? Cool? Like, for instance, um,

903
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,959
Speaker 1: what was I saying before that? I was the green rush,

904
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: that's what they call the green gold is? Is this

905
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: what you guys feel that? This is what this is? Now?

906
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 1: This is definitely the industry to be in, you know

907
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Um, until like we fix like the

908
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 1: tax laws around cannabis. It's hard for us to really

909
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: make money in cannabis. Explain that because we can't write

910
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: anything off. So there's a tax officer or two a

911
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: d or whatever which you can write off like ordinary expenses.

912
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,280
Speaker 1: So like normally, like if you work for me or whatever,

913
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: this is my employee, I can usually write you off

914
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: through the business. In cannabis, you can't. So at the

915
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 1: end of the day, it takes away from all of

916
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: our margin, you know what I'm saying. Essentially to run

917
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: these businesses now cultivation, which means like actually growing the plant.

918
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: That is probably the most profitable part of the business,

919
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: the most difficult. It is the most difficult hands indoor

920
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: operation though, right and no matter where is that it

921
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:51,760
Speaker 1: can fail, can go bad. Bro you can get bugs,

922
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: you can kind of you get mold, all these different

923
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: things that can affect the plant in which will make you,

924
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 1: you know, especially in legal environments, its test thing, so

925
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 1: they test for all this stuff they're regulated to so

926
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: you if you you know, have if you cross certain

927
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: thresholds or whatever, you literally have to throw your entire

928
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 1: crop out. And it depends on the side, you know,

929
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: Like for us, like our biggest facility in Michigan, we

930
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 1: produced three hundred pounds of money I'm saying, but that's

931
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 1: equivalent to like seven hundred to a million, seven hundred

932
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:21,320
Speaker 1: thousands to a million dollars in revenue per month. You

933
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,320
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying. And if you have one of

934
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: those issues, bugs won't any of that. We literally got

935
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: to throw it away. Yeah yeah, so and you don't

936
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:32,959
Speaker 1: know the quality of that. But until it's blooming, until

937
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: it's done, until you actually get it tested, you know

938
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: that's the results. Yeah, wow, damn yeah, man, it's it's

939
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: it's extremely difficult, bro. And that's what I try to

940
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: tell people, like, don't think that like this ship is easy.

941
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:53,919
Speaker 1: It's not easy at all, you know what I'm saying,

942
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: because you know, in our teen year journey, we've had

943
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:58,399
Speaker 1: a lot of ups and downs. So how many other

944
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: black owned cannabis companies do you see out there? Black Latino,

945
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: same thing you see other people that's minorities, that's there's

946
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: other companies out there. You know. You got like gas House,

947
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 1: you got House gas House, you got Ball Family Farms,

948
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 1: you got Family Farm, Ball Family Farms. Yeah, you got

949
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: like like like like blacks another dude, um, you know

950
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: you got him, you got bluntsed more what I'm saying.

951
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: So there's a couple of companies out here at a

952
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: black own that's out here doing anything or whatever. Is

953
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: there ever any fear that like big Tobacco will just

954
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 1: try to take over the industry. It's big fear that,

955
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:41,919
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And that's that's how they're

956
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: gonna set it up. I mean, if you look at

957
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:47,080
Speaker 1: like Amazon just recently announced it they're no longer testing

958
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: their employees for cannabis, giving you signs that obviously Amazon

959
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 1: want to be the biggest distribute of the week, you

960
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So like these are the things

961
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at as I'll sit back and look

962
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:00,120
Speaker 1: at the industry and what's going on, you know what

963
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But yes, tobacco companies are gonna come in,

964
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to buy I think the brands that

965
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: are making the most noise, you know what I'm saying,

966
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: So like the violas and the cookies and different things

967
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: like that that out there really moving a lot of products.

968
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold on yeah, damns but left

969
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: Rock yeah, we all we all drink chas Lave, yeah

970
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: right now through businesses, I think. So, I mean, just

971
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: like this distribution is becoming a big thing, you can

972
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I could see them

973
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: trying hit me up hit me up. I see you

974
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: have black family, Flower come on family. So what I'm

975
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: doing is, uh, We're gonna create like our own like

976
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 1: maybe Collis you might to call it. But eventually, like

977
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: I vision black Flower family being like wait wait, wait,

978
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,439
Speaker 1: wait a minimum, wait a minute, you just say black

979
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: let I need to be down. I need to be

980
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: damn with black Flower Family. I don't need that ship

981
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna be all the black owned cannabis brands,

982
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: Monogram Cannabis, every Monogram, whoever. It is like us being together.

983
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because I think that yeah,

984
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: black Wall Street, but you know I got this black

985
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 1: Flower family like bff. You know what I'm saying. So

986
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 1: that's my vision of that is like all black you know,

987
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 1: own brands kind of working together. And I think that

988
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 1: at some point, if we, you know, continue to build together,

989
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: we can start dictating a lot of the way to

990
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 1: the market. You know what I'm saying. Could we push everything, bro,

991
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: like this man Virgil and all like think about it, bro, everything, music,

992
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 1: fucking fashion, everything, But it started with us, Bro, Like

993
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 1: they use us and we take ship and make it

994
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: those viral. You know what I'm saying that's how I

995
00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 1: feel about cannabis is the same thing. Like I feel

996
00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: like a lot of you know, these companies that have

997
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: come in that uh, you know, obviously well funded, but

998
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: don't really represent the culture. They fail, they're just not

999
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: having the success that they should have, and it becomes

1000
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 1: a branding player. Really at the end of the day.

1001
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: It's kind of like if you think about like the

1002
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: Mexican cartels, like they're not the ones making the coke,

1003
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 1: making the drugs, but they became more valuable than Colombia

1004
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 1: and the guys in Peru because they were the ones

1005
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: that were, you know, ahead of it, in front of

1006
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: it in the market. That's what it becomes like branding places.

1007
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: You're in the market, you're cool in the market, You're

1008
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 1: you're you're relevant to the market. Now, that's what it is,

1009
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 1: and that's what we're trying to do. Kanye West could

1010
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 1: do a versus what oh and that's just the music.

1011
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: That's just like that's like words versus you see what

1012
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 1: he just said. He said, Oh yeah, it's Jack he said, Oh,

1013
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: I like did that. I don't think either one of

1014
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: them coming out of the house, probably not. They break

1015
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:01,600
Speaker 1: the internet, they could do it from the house and

1016
01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 1: I'm still break in and that should have breaked in

1017
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 1: and nah, you already Jersey Jersey Hell. I always asked

1018
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 1: what verses? I always say, like, who Chris Brown going against?

1019
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: That's what we're just talking about. What Tim So, what

1020
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: you think I think Chris Brown gets Usher? Everybody everybody

1021
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:33,840
Speaker 1: sound bugging that. What would you say? I think Chris

1022
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: Brown gets that? Thinks we've said that. I think that

1023
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:43,479
Speaker 1: Timberland is picking Usher. That's what they know. Chris Chris Brown.

1024
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 1: He picked Chris. Yeah, that was Chris. Yeah. Yeah. I

1025
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: can't say destroyed, no, not destroyed, no disrespect to us.

1026
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: I think he'll suck him up too, you know he

1027
01:01:55,720 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson of our error. Chris Brown is if he didn't,

1028
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: I don't think about you would be the biggest start

1029
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: in the world. About that in the world. But they

1030
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: both had I think we got twenty How about all money?

1031
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: You said Kanye against jay I? That's crazy, man? What

1032
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: who else? Or Dre? Kanye and Dress That's what beats.

1033
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 1: It's two different producing artist Kanye, it's about no, no, Kane.

1034
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: Kanye gets too. He's an artist and he's a producing rap.

1035
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: What are you talking about they're gonna put out those things.

1036
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 1: It's about the twin against that. Listen against that and

1037
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:57,959
Speaker 1: I saw it, bross check. That was a bad match.

1038
01:02:58,000 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 1: That's a bad match. I don't know what you don't

1039
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sign at black Man. There was the match. Yeah,

1040
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think you ain't drank would work too,

1041
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 1: because they don't. I think Missing Missing the first Yeah, yeah,

1042
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: I tell you that. I don't like that, and I

1043
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: think you're right. I don't know what then you're talking

1044
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: about going on? Right, don't don't don't listen if you

1045
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: don't animated right, this is an animated like you know,

1046
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 1: like how bust this animated? They do? What the person

1047
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 1: that could mess with him is mystical they're doing. And

1048
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 1: I think Missical would go with who with the Boston Yeah,

1049
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 1: okay unless that ain't got enough ships. I like Missing,

1050
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:58,200
Speaker 1: I like miss like Missing and busted Volt, but I

1051
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: think missing, but missing bust that about l L you

1052
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 1: think gets everybody's going crazy? It be caress one. Oh,

1053
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: that's what I keep seeing people. YEA want me to

1054
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 1: tell you the youth listen that ain't coming out of

1055
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 1: the house. I think so this other person, I don't

1056
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 1: think nobody gets Nobody gets him. Nobody gets drink nobody,

1057
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 1: no one, nobody, nobody, nobody. Let's go to the next subject. Yeah, no, nobody,

1058
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: nobody gets him. Son. Listen, Drake could do forty, forty

1059
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: R R and twenty. He could do forty. He could

1060
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 1: do battle Nobody getting call you in the same night

1061
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 1: I went to im. Sorry, I'm sorry out But you

1062
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: think like that, Like, um, what Kanye ever do something

1063
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 1: like that? I love the fact you taking a shot.

1064
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: We'ven at the gas. I love that. I love that

1065
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm being ready to got damn there. I don't let

1066
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: you outshot me. Well, um, you think I didn't even

1067
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: do something like that, though, I don't think. So we'll

1068
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 1: put itself. He did do it with theft said album dropped.

1069
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: With album dropped, he did a different time though. Okay,

1070
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 1: we'll see. I think any type of nigger here'll do

1071
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 1: like a gospel he want to go against like Kirk Franklin.

1072
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:32,160
Speaker 1: He'll go outside the genre. I think that's what I'm saying.

1073
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: He'd do kids even further out, like you'll go like

1074
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 1: Kirk colbein type ship. I mean, he's dead but you mean, like,

1075
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 1: I personally can't see him doing the verses at this

1076
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: point in his career. But you never know. You know,

1077
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:49,280
Speaker 1: he said he wanted to Danny McBride to play him

1078
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: in the movie. That's what I knew. He's a legend,

1079
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:56,240
Speaker 1: Danny McBride with the mullet, with the mullet. Kenny Powers

1080
01:05:56,320 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: would kill Kanye. It's a black Kanye, Kanye and jay Z.

1081
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:12,200
Speaker 1: That would be crazy. That would be a good one.

1082
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 1: Who's the living It should be Kanye against Paul McCartney, right,

1083
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 1: some crazy like don't like that? Don't It won't work? Yeah,

1084
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:27,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to see that ship. I don't want

1085
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 1: to see. So what's the next step. What's the next

1086
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 1: move for y'all? We've got it in You've got a

1087
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 1: luxurious executive. So what's the next move are we? Are

1088
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 1: we trying to do tobacco like blunts because all people

1089
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:45,240
Speaker 1: like blunts, although I'm gonna take something not tobacco, but

1090
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: not tobacco. Though they got ones that you like them?

1091
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 1: What the hip raps? The White Boys? No, I don't

1092
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: like those. Um, there is something that I like though.

1093
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 1: There's a company called Packwood do a great job of

1094
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:02,920
Speaker 1: fake tobacco. It's not tobacco. It's a couple of companies.

1095
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to keep naming them. But even Saucy,

1096
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 1: Saucy got a good blunt. I don't know if you

1097
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 1: Alex talk. I don't know if they got a great, great,

1098
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:15,160
Speaker 1: great great blunt. So is that something that you guys

1099
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 1: are doing it? You guys are I'm gonna stick with

1100
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 1: papers from that, Um, I think that Yeah, we're eventually,

1101
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:23,240
Speaker 1: like we want to say on the health and wellness

1102
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 1: side of it, you know what I'm saying, but also lifestyle,

1103
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So like that's so a

1104
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,480
Speaker 1: lot of the products that we will create will be

1105
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:32,480
Speaker 1: kind of aim in that direction. You know what I'm saying.

1106
01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: Cans right, bro, Like we just just high end quality, bro.

1107
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 1: We just want every time you haven't experienced a Vidola

1108
01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 1: Ford to be a good one. You know what I'm saying.

1109
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:46,600
Speaker 1: That we have the product to let it kind of

1110
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:48,200
Speaker 1: let it speak for itself. You know what I'm saying.

1111
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: That we think about adding like brothers like him to

1112
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: strategic partnerships and different things like that. It's really for

1113
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: us to try to figure out how do we put

1114
01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 1: a strangle hole around the culture of candidates. You know

1115
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,200
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because a lot of the company needs

1116
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: that we're out here buying product from and stuff like

1117
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:04,840
Speaker 1: they don't look like us, you know what I'm saying.

1118
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:07,360
Speaker 1: And that's a crime. You know what I'm saying, because

1119
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 1: you really just think about what our community been through

1120
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 1: because of cannabis. You know what I'm saying, Any fibers

1121
01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 1: in the all drug arrests and black communities, is cannabis related?

1122
01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 1: Any initiative on on the company's side to help with that, Like, yeah,

1123
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 1: we work, so we work. So that's the thing. So

1124
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 1: I don't pick one thing, right, you know what I'm saying.

1125
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: I kind of go across all of it, right, So

1126
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 1: like within I give back. You know, we feed, We

1127
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 1: feed people, We do expongements. We help people with this

1128
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: company car and rebound where we helped them with re

1129
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:39,080
Speaker 1: entry back into the community, so trying to help them

1130
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:42,000
Speaker 1: find places to live, in jobs and different things like that.

1131
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like my biggest thing is

1132
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:48,000
Speaker 1: like social, social, and economic empowerment, you know what I'm saying,

1133
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 1: Like we can, we could, we could, uh, we can

1134
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:52,880
Speaker 1: march and do all that ship as long as we want.

1135
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 1: But until we can figure out how we can put

1136
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:57,160
Speaker 1: money into the pockets of the people from the community,

1137
01:08:57,240 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: what's ever going to change, you know what I'm saying.

1138
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 1: And that's what we really focus on, is trying to

1139
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:04,680
Speaker 1: hire more people of color and just really give them

1140
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:07,560
Speaker 1: this opportunity so that they can participate. Because getting the

1141
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:09,680
Speaker 1: job is one thing too, but we think ownership is

1142
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:11,599
Speaker 1: another important thing, you know what I'm saying. So there's

1143
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 1: different social equity initiatives around the country. I think New

1144
01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 1: York did an unbelievable job. You know what I'm saying.

1145
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:18,719
Speaker 1: That they're smoking everywhere in New y'all. They're smoking everywhere

1146
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 1: and everywhere. But also when we talk about how they

1147
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 1: want to implement the program, you know what I'm saying,

1148
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 1: they're providing funding and all these different things that we

1149
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 1: will need in order to be successful, because if we

1150
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 1: don't have no bread, there's no way to really participate.

1151
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:33,439
Speaker 1: In a lot of times, the money that is available

1152
01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: to us as predatory money, meaning first time we sunk up,

1153
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 1: we default, we can't pay back our loan, they take

1154
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 1: over our business opennies on the dollar. You know what

1155
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 1: I'm saying, So we're trying to change all of that.

1156
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:45,400
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. That's what we're working on,

1157
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 1: and that's what John is now coming on with the

1158
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: Village side of the business is is really focused on

1159
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: you know, um acquiring licenses and excuse me, licenses and

1160
01:09:55,439 --> 01:09:57,840
Speaker 1: states where you know, the limited licenses you don't actually

1161
01:09:57,880 --> 01:09:59,800
Speaker 1: need your own dispensary, just get it into every other

1162
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 1: spent to me. Yeah, we can get right as a brand,

1163
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 1: we can do that, right, So we'd rather get a

1164
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:10,240
Speaker 1: cultivation manufacturing and if we can get retail, that's icing

1165
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: on the cake. You know what I'm saying, we can

1166
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: really control fully you know or you know, our distribution.

1167
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:17,600
Speaker 1: Like you said, it's limited licenses in every state. So

1168
01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:20,759
Speaker 1: it's a lot of effort to try to get those licenses. Effort.

1169
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:22,960
Speaker 1: I mean, like seriously, Like in New York the first round,

1170
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:25,640
Speaker 1: they gave out ten licenses, right, you know, each one

1171
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:27,760
Speaker 1: of those people, none of them will be like they

1172
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:30,559
Speaker 1: considered they checked the minority box because they take They

1173
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: gave three white women a license, but their husbands two

1174
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 1: of their husbands were billionaires, right, so that you know

1175
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:39,280
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, it's all kind of bullshit, you know

1176
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So we're trying to change that. We're

1177
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:43,760
Speaker 1: speaking on that every day. It's in due time. But

1178
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 1: those licenses, just to give you an example, like those

1179
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 1: licenses are worth a hundred million dollars, you know what

1180
01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:51,599
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, and they cost them probably five million

1181
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:53,720
Speaker 1: dollars to acquiry, you know what I'm saying. So when

1182
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 1: you think about like what it costs just to really

1183
01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:59,320
Speaker 1: be able to play in this game, it's like it's crazy,

1184
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: you know what I'm It's like same prices or l

1185
01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:04,760
Speaker 1: A is is not as expensive, you know what I'm saying.

1186
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 1: But you know, the l A process, I've been a

1187
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:09,600
Speaker 1: part of this process for the last two years, and

1188
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:13,720
Speaker 1: it's really fucked up. I mean they really drag people out.

1189
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:15,719
Speaker 1: You know. In order to you know, get a license,

1190
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:17,280
Speaker 1: you had to be in control of the real estates,

1191
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:18,880
Speaker 1: and I mean you had to have some form of

1192
01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:21,560
Speaker 1: a lease. You're paying money. I know people that like

1193
01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: refinanced their homes or whatever just to be able to

1194
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 1: you know, pay those notes, and they still haven't been

1195
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:30,400
Speaker 1: any licenses issue two years later, you know what I'm saying.

1196
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 1: So certain states is definitely. You know what I'm saying

1197
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:36,320
Speaker 1: really kind of you know, twisted. But you know, like

1198
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 1: I said, I think New York is one that's a

1199
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:40,559
Speaker 1: pretty good one working with you know, on a daily basis,

1200
01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 1: and uh, you know around the country is just trying

1201
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:45,559
Speaker 1: to figure out how we can impact and give people

1202
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:53,800
Speaker 1: a real opportunity for ownership in the cannabis space. Do

1203
01:11:53,920 --> 01:12:00,759
Speaker 1: you watch the show? You don't watch it? You gotta

1204
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: watch this shot on TV that kind of changed the

1205
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 1: hit actor with the dreads and yeah, Jaco Lattimore and

1206
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:16,400
Speaker 1: all that listen, um Leno White, that's the whole I

1207
01:12:16,479 --> 01:12:19,800
Speaker 1: do not watch it because that's my homegirl. I watched

1208
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 1: it because, like, by the way, I'm black and Latino.

1209
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:26,680
Speaker 1: I have black and Latino family in Chicago. I have

1210
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:29,640
Speaker 1: Black family and Latino family that live a course of

1211
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: street from each other, never seen each other for thirty

1212
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:34,760
Speaker 1: years because they was warring. And when I came out there,

1213
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,639
Speaker 1: it's the first time that I had my my black

1214
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:40,679
Speaker 1: family and my span my Puerto Rican family meet together.

1215
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:42,439
Speaker 1: And they're like what a living Courser street had it?

1216
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 1: But they're not a family, you understand. I don't know

1217
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:49,400
Speaker 1: if I'm making sense but and that's my own. That's

1218
01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:53,599
Speaker 1: my only critique of Leno Whites. The shot is I said, yo,

1219
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 1: she said, I said, yo, this is my favorite show.

1220
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: I love it so much. I'm so sorry to be

1221
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:01,960
Speaker 1: that guy that gives you a one critique. And she's like, well,

1222
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:03,560
Speaker 1: what's the one critique? You know what I mean? And

1223
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, I didn't see a Puerto Rican in there,

1224
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 1: Like there's no Chicago, there's no Humble Park, there's no

1225
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:15,400
Speaker 1: there's no that. That's probably the only critique criticism. And

1226
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: Mexicans a lot of Mexican now, Mexican is now. But

1227
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:24,839
Speaker 1: if you really, if you really really even searching Latino gangs,

1228
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:34,719
Speaker 1: that origin is from Lan King's Chico. The biggest gangs

1229
01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 1: folk folk nation all came to Black Pea Stones all

1230
01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:41,280
Speaker 1: that just like like Chicago. I feel like this, I

1231
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 1: l A was gangbanging first, but Chicago showed them how

1232
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:49,320
Speaker 1: to separate the land. Like Yo, t Rogers, t Rogers

1233
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 1: south Side. Let me pick up to my people Gangster

1234
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:56,160
Speaker 1: Chronicle podcast, who was doing a documentary on t Rogers

1235
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: right now. He's from Chicago. Originally he went to the

1236
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 1: Jungles and Broad Black Peace Stones, Black Pea Stoles, which

1237
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 1: is originally originally a Chicago gang brought up to l A.

1238
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 1: And now it's thousands of members all over the world.

1239
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 1: You're growing up and hearing these local street gangs and

1240
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:18,439
Speaker 1: now you know, twenty years later you're like what, like,

1241
01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: I know, you gotta be buddying, like, so, what's crazy?

1242
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:24,799
Speaker 1: Because I'm from the low end um area called Lake Meadows,

1243
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:28,280
Speaker 1: which was right off A thirty third in Cottage. About

1244
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 1: a mile away was the fort which was the black

1245
01:14:31,240 --> 01:14:35,160
Speaker 1: Stone that was the headquarters. Okay, that's um. The brothers

1246
01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:38,320
Speaker 1: for the four Brothers that Jeff Ford and Johnny for well,

1247
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 1: I know now I'm from looking listen, come on, keep going,

1248
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:50,280
Speaker 1: come on. So I grew up like like right around

1249
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:53,280
Speaker 1: all of that. I was never you know really the documentary.

1250
01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:55,040
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't want to look at like I

1251
01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:57,759
Speaker 1: was down with the Four Brothers, you know, the documentary.

1252
01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:00,360
Speaker 1: But I was, you know around in my name bhood,

1253
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, new people on both sides, and that was

1254
01:15:02,439 --> 01:15:04,600
Speaker 1: like the Black Panthers. They was feeding the kids that

1255
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,760
Speaker 1: that gang essentially that I watched as a youth is

1256
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: was a part of what was going on in l A.

1257
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 1: Because he brought them out here, I mean out there

1258
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, you know it's it's crazy how much

1259
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:23,719
Speaker 1: you know the street organizations had impact on as children

1260
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 1: and tell your funny ship my first time in Chicago

1261
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 1: as Nori. I've been in Chicago as Poppy and vicked

1262
01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:37,280
Speaker 1: Santiago with my family, but now I've come back as

1263
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 1: Nori and I wore my hat to the wrong side,

1264
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 1: to the wrong side, didn't and the person said, move

1265
01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 1: your hat, move your hat, fix your hat. You're like,

1266
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 1: what what you mean? He told you that like trying you.

1267
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: You just remember me being like, what what the you mean?

1268
01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 1: Moved my hat? And then they looked as soon as

1269
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:02,479
Speaker 1: they heard by accidents, like yeah, he don't know no

1270
01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:05,320
Speaker 1: better my sock, i'ld have my socking up in a

1271
01:16:05,360 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: certain way. I'm poorter week and so I always put

1272
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:10,120
Speaker 1: put money in my sock. I don't know why, and

1273
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 1: like they would check me, like you'll put your sock down,

1274
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 1: Like what the funk? Like is that something you just

1275
01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 1: grew up a part of and you just knew that

1276
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:22,200
Speaker 1: or that's something you had to learn. Chicago is like

1277
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:24,280
Speaker 1: something you had to learn quick if you were in

1278
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:27,320
Speaker 1: the city. You know, I came from the city. I'm

1279
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: a city kids, so you know, when I'm moving around

1280
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:33,280
Speaker 1: trying to throw my little parties and stuff and trying

1281
01:16:33,320 --> 01:16:35,320
Speaker 1: to be cool with certain sides, you just have to

1282
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:37,000
Speaker 1: know how to move and you know how to be

1283
01:16:37,080 --> 01:16:40,599
Speaker 1: respectful to know who's what you know and your new

1284
01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 1: tro You could be newtro, I could be I was

1285
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 1: affiliated on a couple of sides. But I'm very neutral,

1286
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:46,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I was never. I was never.

1287
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:51,360
Speaker 1: I was never a game bag. I was never you

1288
01:16:51,400 --> 01:17:00,720
Speaker 1: trying to make it and it's time was you're not

1289
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: trying to at this story young, you know, coming from

1290
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 1: a certain neighborhood. It's just like if you're from this

1291
01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:14,599
Speaker 1: neighborhood and it's a g D neighborhood and you're kind

1292
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:17,720
Speaker 1: of g D. But I wasn't. Never, I wasn't. It's

1293
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 1: that like something that's funny because right now there's g

1294
01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:24,160
Speaker 1: D in New York, there's g D is everywhere, the

1295
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,519
Speaker 1: biggest black guy in the world. But that was something

1296
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,599
Speaker 1: that again was originally in chicag on the South side

1297
01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:33,160
Speaker 1: of Chicago. And you you ever thought you'd be seeing

1298
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:35,479
Speaker 1: ship like that, is it bumped out to see it

1299
01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:38,120
Speaker 1: when you go with another place and see it because

1300
01:17:38,479 --> 01:17:41,400
Speaker 1: Larry Jr. And I grew up together, and when you

1301
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:45,040
Speaker 1: hold on listen book because you know when he's saying, Larry, Larry,

1302
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:47,920
Speaker 1: who Trump's gonna part of him? Bro? I don't know

1303
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:56,680
Speaker 1: why you put that call in, man, I just I

1304
01:17:56,800 --> 01:18:00,400
Speaker 1: just I just know. But little Larry Yes. So it's

1305
01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 1: just like just seeing you know, and he's just so

1306
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 1: chill and just like that a good brother and his

1307
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:09,200
Speaker 1: family they're all great people, and you know, just like

1308
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:13,519
Speaker 1: seeing how much impact him and his family had throughout

1309
01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:17,360
Speaker 1: my youth and just seeing how it just grew and exploded.

1310
01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:19,640
Speaker 1: Like I would never think that there would be g

1311
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 1: ds in Brooklyn, you know what I mean, but out

1312
01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 1: of there everywhere, you know what I mean. You know,

1313
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,160
Speaker 1: it's a crazy thing about going to Chicago. I always

1314
01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:32,960
Speaker 1: loved Compete Green. You known, my club was across the street,

1315
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:38,680
Speaker 1: and remember remember the ticket spot called Sammy's. I used

1316
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:40,680
Speaker 1: to go there all the time and the police is

1317
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:42,639
Speaker 1: to come out like, yeah, what are you doing here?

1318
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 1: I just didn't know. I was like, I love the

1319
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:52,000
Speaker 1: ticket spot Sammy's. But gone. Yeah, So now let me

1320
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 1: ask you something that we're gonna move on to something

1321
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:58,599
Speaker 1: pretty pretty generic. But in my opinion, I'm outside looking

1322
01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:00,439
Speaker 1: and I'm not from Chicago. I have mean on both

1323
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: sides from Chicago, Black and Latino. Right, But in my opinion,

1324
01:19:04,680 --> 01:19:08,599
Speaker 1: when the O g S was around, when the competing

1325
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:13,360
Speaker 1: greens was around, Chicago was an organized place. Yeah, it

1326
01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:17,160
Speaker 1: seems like to me they took they took out all

1327
01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 1: the ogs and once they locked up and the body

1328
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 1: just fell right right at once they took out the

1329
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:25,719
Speaker 1: O G S. I felt like, now it's wild wild West.

1330
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:30,559
Speaker 1: It's like they do this thing. It's like, uh, they

1331
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:33,800
Speaker 1: call it a b K E b K anybody killer,

1332
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 1: everybody killer. It's kids as bad and that's why so much,

1333
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: you know, and they're doing it everywhere, you know, it's

1334
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:43,439
Speaker 1: not it's not just on the South Side. Now they

1335
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 1: got duck on Oak Street or Walton, which is like Rodeo.

1336
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 1: Imagine you know, guys pulling up on Rodeo and Chicago

1337
01:19:56,840 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: they got dunk there. That's what they got, you god bless. Yeah,

1338
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,360
Speaker 1: But thought it this bad because like, like like I

1339
01:20:01,439 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 1: said earlier, I don't know if he was here, but um,

1340
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:06,439
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here, I'm a little late, and I go

1341
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: to the barbershop and I hear all this new music,

1342
01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:13,120
Speaker 1: but I never get to see the videos. Right. So

1343
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:17,559
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there in the barbershop and every here's my dog,

1344
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:21,720
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about every video they're like this, and

1345
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: I'm like that. I remember they used to monitor us.

1346
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:27,560
Speaker 1: I remember the most person who would get away with

1347
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 1: lyrics on Violator was Missy. That was it, Like Missy.

1348
01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:34,360
Speaker 1: If you literally listen to miss these lyrics, you're like, damn,

1349
01:20:34,439 --> 01:20:37,120
Speaker 1: he's saying some ship. She's like saying some games ship.

1350
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:40,759
Speaker 1: But she said and you ain't saying you ain't realized

1351
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:42,840
Speaker 1: that she's saying, I'm beating you up then up, Like

1352
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:45,719
Speaker 1: but you ain't realized she's saying that. Like what she's saying.

1353
01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:53,160
Speaker 1: But so us, we had to remix our lyrics, someone

1354
01:20:53,240 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 1: to say for us to have a commercial record. Right now,

1355
01:20:56,479 --> 01:21:00,600
Speaker 1: they're letting these records go out and then the the

1356
01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 1: videos play with like I forget. I think it's Polo

1357
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:08,840
Speaker 1: G from Chicago, Chico. I think it's Polo G. He

1358
01:21:08,920 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 1: got a video where he just wakes up and someone's

1359
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:14,080
Speaker 1: just shooting at him. He's just he's just standing there

1360
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:17,920
Speaker 1: and they're just shooting. I'm like, what the fuck is this?

1361
01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:22,680
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's that on the recordar TV? Like are

1362
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:24,640
Speaker 1: we not on YouTube? They're like no, this is on

1363
01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: whatever whatever it was. I'm sitting back. We couldn't do that?

1364
01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:32,960
Speaker 1: Is that? Like, I'm sorry to get deep. Is that

1365
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 1: like a form of black genocide? Because just this thing

1366
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:39,080
Speaker 1: about it? Come on, but not, Let's think about it.

1367
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 1: If these are the dudes, that's our heroes, right, I

1368
01:21:43,080 --> 01:21:45,240
Speaker 1: mean when when when I was doing the music, I

1369
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:47,880
Speaker 1: was heroes to people. If these are the new dudes,

1370
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:51,439
Speaker 1: that's heroes and that's the image they're portraying. How the

1371
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 1: fuck are we not? You just just see the two

1372
01:21:54,520 --> 01:21:56,879
Speaker 1: fifteen year old boys shoot the security guarden in Atlanta.

1373
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:04,760
Speaker 1: Heard about that rolled up. It was like a video game, bro.

1374
01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:08,599
Speaker 1: They had mask on, they got the security this broad

1375
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:12,200
Speaker 1: day life And I'm sitting back like what the what

1376
01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:18,680
Speaker 1: the fun will give year old kids? Yeah? So like

1377
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 1: is this like a form of like let us kill ourselves?

1378
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:25,760
Speaker 1: This is the new music? You followed us this way?

1379
01:22:26,479 --> 01:22:29,920
Speaker 1: And I think so that's what I'm on. That's what

1380
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:31,800
Speaker 1: I think. You could see your point like why is

1381
01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:34,759
Speaker 1: it now acceptable? Yeah? You know what I'm saying because

1382
01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:37,480
Speaker 1: once again, I feel like our kids are so impressionable

1383
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:40,560
Speaker 1: that when they see that, they're starting to normalize and

1384
01:22:40,720 --> 01:22:42,800
Speaker 1: think it's okay. It's like just away of life, you

1385
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And I think that to your point,

1386
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 1: I think that these kids, it is a game to

1387
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 1: them life for death. Like for us, we value life,

1388
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:55,479
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Special that God bless for

1389
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:58,679
Speaker 1: its past three days. I've heard of these three artists,

1390
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: and then when I heard of these three all I

1391
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:05,160
Speaker 1: heard him being arrested. Like that's funked up. It is

1392
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:07,759
Speaker 1: bro like when you come this, this is this business

1393
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:09,400
Speaker 1: and you get a record deal, We're supposed to be

1394
01:23:09,439 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 1: celebrating you. I'm not supposed to be finding out about

1395
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:15,040
Speaker 1: you because you got arrested. Does that make sense? Like

1396
01:23:15,120 --> 01:23:18,679
Speaker 1: that ship is like kind of funked up. I don't

1397
01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 1: hear that only having like you said, you've always said,

1398
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 1: it never happens, it's just our But it depends on

1399
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:34,320
Speaker 1: the actions though too. No, but it's glorified because it's

1400
01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:38,640
Speaker 1: coming from Yeah. Because see his point, like when you

1401
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 1: think about like the hardest songs on the radio right

1402
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:45,200
Speaker 1: now is literally talking about like somebody that got smoked

1403
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:50,360
Speaker 1: stories that it's like a lot of y'all. Ship was

1404
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:56,040
Speaker 1: like storytellers because I'm hating a little bit. I'm like,

1405
01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: I can't get away with that what I'm saying. But

1406
01:23:57,600 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 1: you were telling us, so youre talking about somebody, but

1407
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:04,639
Speaker 1: you saying the name like they're saying the name said

1408
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 1: then I was there, We shot him there. It's just different,

1409
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:14,240
Speaker 1: like this whole storytelling. Now they're telling the truth. They're

1410
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:22,600
Speaker 1: telling truth. Totally different. And I didn't know what was

1411
01:24:23,439 --> 01:24:26,559
Speaker 1: And tell my man Sharif, who's here. We was arguing

1412
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:29,640
Speaker 1: about like who had the most influenced Chicago niggas or

1413
01:24:29,720 --> 01:24:33,760
Speaker 1: New York niggas whatever over there, and he was saying,

1414
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 1: obviously in Chicago, and he started talking about drill, drill, drill,

1415
01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:39,680
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting on the call because he argued with

1416
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:42,280
Speaker 1: me and my man Nay and I have no idea

1417
01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:45,120
Speaker 1: what he means by drill music. And then I looked

1418
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:47,760
Speaker 1: looked it up and realized that you didn't know what

1419
01:24:47,880 --> 01:24:53,720
Speaker 1: drill that these things just talking about killing. That's real,

1420
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:58,280
Speaker 1: that's scary. I'm last stek just to Chicago last week, man,

1421
01:24:58,400 --> 01:25:01,840
Speaker 1: my man, damn I co founding Viola in village and

1422
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 1: we're at the Noble Hotel. We want to know who

1423
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 1: to grab some food uptime. These three kids in front

1424
01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:09,959
Speaker 1: of us, and as we were walking on the elevator,

1425
01:25:10,120 --> 01:25:12,679
Speaker 1: I could tell they start looking back, like kept looking

1426
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:15,080
Speaker 1: at me in the California said no, we were in Chicago.

1427
01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:18,880
Speaker 1: No tell, he's three kids. They're walking. They get on

1428
01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:21,320
Speaker 1: the elevator, so we get't elevate. Then it's in front

1429
01:25:21,320 --> 01:25:22,760
Speaker 1: of me, so he don't kind of see. He just

1430
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:24,720
Speaker 1: walks on the elevator. So I'm looking. I could tell

1431
01:25:24,760 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 1: the way they're looking, They're like, what's up. So we

1432
01:25:27,439 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 1: get on the elevator right and one of the ones

1433
01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:33,160
Speaker 1: in the back, he kind of stepped to the back

1434
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:35,120
Speaker 1: and he's still like looking at us, like you know

1435
01:25:35,120 --> 01:25:36,400
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like damn, They're like, why do we

1436
01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:38,679
Speaker 1: get on the elevator with them? So what I said

1437
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 1: to them, I was just like, yo, where y'all from?

1438
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:42,760
Speaker 1: And he was like shot rack. He said that ship

1439
01:25:42,880 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 1: soon by by the time I said from, he was

1440
01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:47,040
Speaker 1: like shot Rack And I was like, oh, he was

1441
01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:48,639
Speaker 1: like where you from. I was like, I'm from Jersey.

1442
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:50,840
Speaker 1: I'm telling you good He's like, yeah, I'm good, and

1443
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:53,519
Speaker 1: he kind of calmed down. Yeah, you could tell like

1444
01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:56,200
Speaker 1: he was looking at an enemy. Yeah, bro, he was

1445
01:25:56,240 --> 01:25:58,840
Speaker 1: looking at us like what's going on? You know what

1446
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm saying? And like the boys in Chicago, they ain't

1447
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:05,800
Speaker 1: playing them kids out there, bro, because these dudes they

1448
01:26:05,880 --> 01:26:09,560
Speaker 1: were kids. Yeah, it's funked up, but the music is

1449
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 1: definitely selling that ship. You know what I'm saying. Crazy,

1450
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:15,280
Speaker 1: you gotta new artist. You got one of those crazy guys,

1451
01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:19,600
Speaker 1: a new Drill. Crazy guys. They're all crazy to me.

1452
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:22,640
Speaker 1: I love him. I love him what I used to

1453
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:25,720
Speaker 1: be used to be like, I'm looking like, no, not

1454
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 1: right now, right now, a little dirt. None of them does.

1455
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:30,920
Speaker 1: I fun with them. I love all them, the young

1456
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:32,600
Speaker 1: kids out of Chicago, you know what I mean. I

1457
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 1: got a lot of relationship with their management teams and

1458
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 1: all that, but I'm just focused on y and right

1459
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 1: he got that. How do we look at that? How

1460
01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:47,040
Speaker 1: did you look at that? Scene started? Let me just

1461
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:50,160
Speaker 1: tell you something while I'm sorry, okay going there, Yeah sorry.

1462
01:26:50,280 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 1: What never mean by that is when they jumped on

1463
01:26:52,640 --> 01:26:58,240
Speaker 1: Chief Keith record, right Drill. That's where Drill went pop

1464
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,680
Speaker 1: see drill was underground. Let me tell you something. I

1465
01:27:01,840 --> 01:27:04,200
Speaker 1: walked to my son's room one day and I saw

1466
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:08,920
Speaker 1: him watching Chief Keith video. And I first did not like.

1467
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 1: I was just like, all right, cool because it looked

1468
01:27:12,120 --> 01:27:14,360
Speaker 1: like they was a colder sat It looked like they

1469
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:16,439
Speaker 1: was like and I did not see that they was

1470
01:27:16,479 --> 01:27:19,000
Speaker 1: pulling off guns like I just saw it. They was

1471
01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 1: just over there in the house, and I was just like, okay.

1472
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:22,720
Speaker 1: I was like, I look, I said, that's what you're

1473
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:25,759
Speaker 1: listening to, and then I left out. Then I realized

1474
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:30,519
Speaker 1: these things got choppers, Like what the funk? I just

1475
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:33,560
Speaker 1: allowed my son to just look at And then I

1476
01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:37,360
Speaker 1: met Chief Keep. Obviously it was great. But yes I

1477
01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:40,040
Speaker 1: met Chief Keep in front of the Mansion Hotels, looking

1478
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 1: awesome with your chief. Um. But Kanye made drill music

1479
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:52,880
Speaker 1: go to that level when he jumped on that's that ship.

1480
01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:56,800
Speaker 1: I don't like the first record. It was what did

1481
01:27:56,840 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 1: you feel about that? Did you know what he was doing? Um?

1482
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:03,000
Speaker 1: At the time, I wasn't working with you, but I

1483
01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:05,240
Speaker 1: was working with a kid named King Louis who he

1484
01:28:05,320 --> 01:28:08,360
Speaker 1: shouted out on that record. Um, King Louis, that's that's

1485
01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 1: not um Okay, it was. It was like they were

1486
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 1: like the two kind of big drill guys at the time.

1487
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:18,639
Speaker 1: It was Chief Keith and King Louis. And King Louis

1488
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:23,320
Speaker 1: actually got on the Jesus album We Ain't and Esus Jesus.

1489
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 1: That's not my favorite, great album opinion, that great album,

1490
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:33,800
Speaker 1: but the album I would say, you know, yeah, he's

1491
01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 1: a visionary and he saw, you know, what Keith was doing,

1492
01:28:37,080 --> 01:28:38,960
Speaker 1: and I think that's why he got on the record.

1493
01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:42,400
Speaker 1: In my opinion, that's just what I believe. He saw

1494
01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:44,439
Speaker 1: what was going going on with him and they had

1495
01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:48,120
Speaker 1: a relationship, and uh, it really helps it, like you say,

1496
01:28:48,280 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 1: but launched the whole movement because keep it still. You know,

1497
01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:54,840
Speaker 1: he's still a king of drill. He's still a king

1498
01:28:54,880 --> 01:29:00,679
Speaker 1: of drill. Can you define drill music? So cargo sub

1499
01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:08,479
Speaker 1: genre street like that from Chicago? Yeah, yeah, I got you.

1500
01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:16,280
Speaker 1: It's um, it's really at its core south side street

1501
01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:21,599
Speaker 1: hip hop of Chicago. That's what it really is. There's

1502
01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 1: the drill artists all over the city and all over

1503
01:29:25,160 --> 01:29:31,000
Speaker 1: the country the world, over the world, but really it

1504
01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:35,599
Speaker 1: started out south and it's like some south side street ship.

1505
01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:39,800
Speaker 1: It's definitely hip. It's definitely hip hop because at First

1506
01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:42,800
Speaker 1: Street Ron when you do the Origin of Drill, we

1507
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:45,040
Speaker 1: do the Origin of Drill, and you see these different

1508
01:29:45,080 --> 01:29:47,439
Speaker 1: clicks because they were all just like little kids. They

1509
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:50,439
Speaker 1: were like basically just shotting out these games, all these

1510
01:29:50,520 --> 01:29:54,280
Speaker 1: different sets that we didn't know. But we were just

1511
01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:57,200
Speaker 1: listening to this ship like this is sound ill and

1512
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:01,760
Speaker 1: then it kept going they kept going right, and um,

1513
01:30:02,840 --> 01:30:06,320
Speaker 1: now Chicago is the forefront of motherfucking right music. It's right,

1514
01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:11,240
Speaker 1: what what Kanye? And without them? Like, wow, is that

1515
01:30:11,320 --> 01:30:13,760
Speaker 1: something you brought of? Absolutely? Man, I've been working in

1516
01:30:13,840 --> 01:30:17,400
Speaker 1: the Chicago hip hop ship since eighty nine, So for me,

1517
01:30:17,560 --> 01:30:20,160
Speaker 1: it's just a you know, a dream come true. God

1518
01:30:20,200 --> 01:30:28,680
Speaker 1: bless that hopefully, Boli glacamole. Man, this is a good one.

1519
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:36,800
Speaker 1: Good motherfucker. Sure doesn't necessarily gang music, right or is it?

1520
01:30:38,479 --> 01:30:40,360
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's up to your point

1521
01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:42,960
Speaker 1: of view. Yeah, because that's like saying gangster rap. Don't

1522
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: mean you a gangsters against rap falls under gangster. Yes,

1523
01:30:47,960 --> 01:30:57,960
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to music story? Yeah, I think tell

1524
01:30:58,040 --> 01:31:03,120
Speaker 1: the story, but stead this morning, the story doesn't end

1525
01:31:03,160 --> 01:31:08,479
Speaker 1: well for most cases, it's really game or is it

1526
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:12,720
Speaker 1: just you start ton but it's street street. I think

1527
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:15,960
Speaker 1: it's streets necessarily gang. I don't want to use that

1528
01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 1: word because that, to me, that has like a street

1529
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:23,439
Speaker 1: organization implication. I'm not saying that, it's just street stories.

1530
01:31:23,560 --> 01:31:26,479
Speaker 1: To me, it's like if you have be for somebody

1531
01:31:26,560 --> 01:31:27,800
Speaker 1: and then you put it on the record, and you're

1532
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 1: just putting that on the record. But that's I understand

1533
01:31:31,040 --> 01:31:33,840
Speaker 1: what my perception of it is. I just wanted to

1534
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:37,040
Speaker 1: know for someone that's from there, even if you should

1535
01:31:37,080 --> 01:31:49,640
Speaker 1: be removed from there. No just and n w A

1536
01:31:49,720 --> 01:31:52,479
Speaker 1: telling the dollars because it said the police. But these

1537
01:31:52,560 --> 01:31:55,599
Speaker 1: kids to block and they're really shooting at each other,

1538
01:31:56,320 --> 01:31:58,439
Speaker 1: and we are we are removed from it because I

1539
01:31:58,479 --> 01:32:00,240
Speaker 1: guarantee on the street let they're gonna say, you guys

1540
01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:02,760
Speaker 1: don't know what the funk you're talking about. But yeah,

1541
01:32:03,479 --> 01:32:06,240
Speaker 1: Chicago dude, don't get a funk about the Chicago dues.

1542
01:32:06,520 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 1: They don't get about Chicago dudes neither. They just it's

1543
01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:19,160
Speaker 1: just it's not this Chicago thing. No, drill has now

1544
01:32:19,640 --> 01:32:24,080
Speaker 1: been worldwide, you know, drill everywhere he was he was

1545
01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:27,040
Speaker 1: speaking to the origins of drill. Like when he said

1546
01:32:27,120 --> 01:32:33,280
Speaker 1: when he said, he's correct it's about that, and it's

1547
01:32:33,280 --> 01:32:35,720
Speaker 1: just like hip hop, like alright, cool hip hop. The

1548
01:32:35,800 --> 01:32:38,400
Speaker 1: Bronx had it for so long, like this is just

1549
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:40,640
Speaker 1: be clear. The Bronx had it. Yes, they invented it.

1550
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:43,040
Speaker 1: We gotta give it to them. But eventually it went

1551
01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:45,439
Speaker 1: to Queens, Eventually it went to Brooklyn, eventually it went

1552
01:32:45,479 --> 01:32:48,599
Speaker 1: to whatever. And they couldn't just clean hip hop no more.

1553
01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:51,479
Speaker 1: Hip hop is everything the same thing with Drill. Drill

1554
01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:55,680
Speaker 1: started in the South Side of Chicago, but does not

1555
01:32:55,880 --> 01:32:58,720
Speaker 1: mean that a person in Liberty City, a person in

1556
01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:02,920
Speaker 1: Old Child, the person for the projects, a person then

1557
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:08,519
Speaker 1: whatever can't can't can yeah, Bush can't can't do the

1558
01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:10,800
Speaker 1: same thing. But it goes back to my original question

1559
01:33:10,880 --> 01:33:13,320
Speaker 1: to you, John Um, and maybe you can answer it.

1560
01:33:13,920 --> 01:33:16,240
Speaker 1: Does someone like Kanye look back and think of Drill

1561
01:33:16,280 --> 01:33:19,120
Speaker 1: and say, like, what does he think of it? Ultimately?

1562
01:33:19,479 --> 01:33:23,000
Speaker 1: I can't answer that. I know that he respects or

1563
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:25,960
Speaker 1: I would think that he respects the impact, But I

1564
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:29,839
Speaker 1: can't answer, can you respect artists but understand the negative

1565
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 1: implications that this music has overall in the bigger scheme

1566
01:33:34,160 --> 01:33:41,320
Speaker 1: of it impact? I can can you, Yeah, you go

1567
01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:52,160
Speaker 1: watch porn without being a freak? Yes, you don't necessarily

1568
01:33:52,280 --> 01:34:02,640
Speaker 1: mean you know he is somebody boys some point we

1569
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:06,240
Speaker 1: bust one out. Don't mean you're freaking just mean you

1570
01:34:07,240 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 1: had to let one go. Baby, have an interest, interest happens.

1571
01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:18,559
Speaker 1: What's your favorite part of the music business? They creating,

1572
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:25,719
Speaker 1: creating the music and the actual content. Yeah, studio, studio stuff, studio,

1573
01:34:27,040 --> 01:34:31,000
Speaker 1: and then I think second behind that is uh working

1574
01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:37,120
Speaker 1: on rollout, but definitely the inception, like being there when

1575
01:34:37,160 --> 01:34:39,160
Speaker 1: they beat, the first time to beat is played in

1576
01:34:39,200 --> 01:34:41,960
Speaker 1: that first flow and all that. I just like, that's

1577
01:34:41,960 --> 01:34:44,840
Speaker 1: just always been my ship. Studio, right ship. So what's

1578
01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:46,960
Speaker 1: your favorite part or Kanye? Is it to do some

1579
01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:49,439
Speaker 1: part or is it the artist part. I'll do a shot.

1580
01:34:55,040 --> 01:35:03,160
Speaker 1: This work, it's my ground. Brendan real like someone like that.

1581
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:12,000
Speaker 1: I don't want he hasn't drinking, want no no, this

1582
01:35:13,840 --> 01:35:19,720
Speaker 1: like that? That ye that, I'll take a show me

1583
01:35:20,200 --> 01:35:22,400
Speaker 1: take a shot. I can't let you take a shot.

1584
01:35:23,360 --> 01:35:27,600
Speaker 1: I take a riot. Yeah, I take a shot, but

1585
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:30,160
Speaker 1: you know what, it's very interested. Let me let me

1586
01:35:30,200 --> 01:35:32,280
Speaker 1: take a let me take a shot, take a shot.

1587
01:35:32,800 --> 01:35:34,960
Speaker 1: Let's take a shot with you and for you. But

1588
01:35:35,120 --> 01:35:37,720
Speaker 1: salu okay, I'm gonna take a little bit take a

1589
01:35:37,760 --> 01:35:42,280
Speaker 1: little bit, just a little brow. I had to kill

1590
01:35:42,320 --> 01:35:48,960
Speaker 1: that cool. You took it down, but you took you

1591
01:35:49,040 --> 01:35:52,640
Speaker 1: took a shower. I can't really drink, you know. You

1592
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:55,560
Speaker 1: know what's interesting to hear you say that? What's that?

1593
01:35:56,560 --> 01:35:59,400
Speaker 1: Is what I asked you. Is Kanye the artist or

1594
01:35:59,520 --> 01:36:02,080
Speaker 1: Kanye A the producer? But the producer is the artist

1595
01:36:02,120 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: and the artist is the producer. I mean, it's all artistry.

1596
01:36:04,920 --> 01:36:07,439
Speaker 1: It is all artistry. But I mean you mean the

1597
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:12,040
Speaker 1: M maybe the artist artist. I mean when you say

1598
01:36:12,120 --> 01:36:14,720
Speaker 1: artists to me, the producer is the artist. Okay, maybe

1599
01:36:14,720 --> 01:36:16,800
Speaker 1: I should have said MC. Okay, all right, so MC,

1600
01:36:17,320 --> 01:36:23,479
Speaker 1: because it's like it's a totally different like when I

1601
01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:25,479
Speaker 1: look at for all as an m C and I

1602
01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:28,120
Speaker 1: look at him as an artist, is totally different. Um,

1603
01:36:29,479 --> 01:36:32,479
Speaker 1: I think I'm more of a fan of Kanye as

1604
01:36:32,479 --> 01:36:34,840
Speaker 1: an artist, but I can't say I'm less as a

1605
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:38,519
Speaker 1: fan of Kanye as a producer. Like like, so it's

1606
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:41,240
Speaker 1: it's a very hard because you first learned of Kanye

1607
01:36:41,360 --> 01:36:43,600
Speaker 1: as a producer and probably became a fan of his

1608
01:36:44,520 --> 01:36:47,439
Speaker 1: making beats on these different people projects, specifically jay Z

1609
01:36:47,640 --> 01:36:50,000
Speaker 1: and the whole fan Rock and all that. So like

1610
01:36:50,120 --> 01:36:52,840
Speaker 1: he was getting hot first as a producer. You know

1611
01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:54,840
Speaker 1: what I mean? You know, how did you first come

1612
01:36:54,920 --> 01:37:00,880
Speaker 1: to you? Though? As I met him thirty years ago

1613
01:37:01,040 --> 01:37:03,680
Speaker 1: and ninety one through my boy Lucien. He was in

1614
01:37:03,760 --> 01:37:06,400
Speaker 1: a rap group called State of Mind. That was his

1615
01:37:06,479 --> 01:37:12,320
Speaker 1: first round group Kanye. It was Lucien, Kanye and another

1616
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:15,720
Speaker 1: guy named Jean. You're already working with the time I

1617
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:20,000
Speaker 1: started working with no I D and uh ninety uh

1618
01:37:21,680 --> 01:37:29,640
Speaker 1: six seven, You met in Kanye first? Yeah, yeah, but

1619
01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:33,160
Speaker 1: no but I met no I D around the same

1620
01:37:33,280 --> 01:37:36,920
Speaker 1: time though, so I've known them both probably about thirty years.

1621
01:37:37,080 --> 01:37:41,519
Speaker 1: But um I started working with Kanye soon as soon

1622
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:44,080
Speaker 1: as I met him, we started working together, Like as

1623
01:37:44,120 --> 01:37:45,320
Speaker 1: soon as he told me, he said, You've got to

1624
01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:49,200
Speaker 1: work with me, dude. You know he was always so

1625
01:37:49,400 --> 01:37:51,560
Speaker 1: ill like he wasn't never whacked. You never met with

1626
01:37:51,600 --> 01:37:54,920
Speaker 1: Mothercker who was never whacked. He just was never wacking.

1627
01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:58,280
Speaker 1: Beach was always crazy and raps was always hard like,

1628
01:37:59,360 --> 01:38:02,120
Speaker 1: he just was always just that NIGGD makes those for Kanye.

1629
01:38:05,520 --> 01:38:08,280
Speaker 1: M are we gonna make great bigs and James cous

1630
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:10,800
Speaker 1: In here because because the bigs got to have an

1631
01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:15,839
Speaker 1: opinion of that too. Wanted to work. Come on, goddamnit,

1632
01:38:16,600 --> 01:38:22,840
Speaker 1: come on, come on, because James go along just two minutes.

1633
01:38:22,880 --> 01:38:29,720
Speaker 1: Come on now. But that's ill. I didn't um. You know,

1634
01:38:33,240 --> 01:38:37,479
Speaker 1: it's only certain people who can live in those two

1635
01:38:37,640 --> 01:38:41,280
Speaker 1: different lives, right, A great producer and a great artist

1636
01:38:41,479 --> 01:38:46,479
Speaker 1: right off top, I think of Dr Dre right, I

1637
01:38:46,560 --> 01:38:51,080
Speaker 1: think of Pump Daddy for sure. I think of Kanye.

1638
01:38:53,240 --> 01:38:59,720
Speaker 1: I think of for real. I think you just don't

1639
01:38:59,720 --> 01:39:06,600
Speaker 1: forget about cut cute tip, qute tip? Have it? Have it?

1640
01:39:07,040 --> 01:39:11,880
Speaker 1: Have it? For sure? I have it. Yeah, that's that's

1641
01:39:12,040 --> 01:39:17,360
Speaker 1: that's pretty hard. That's pretty hard to maintain both. But

1642
01:39:17,479 --> 01:39:20,000
Speaker 1: even if you look at that list, you gotta kind

1643
01:39:20,040 --> 01:39:24,680
Speaker 1: of say, Kanye, is that really the right trip? No? No, no,

1644
01:39:28,720 --> 01:39:35,920
Speaker 1: well no, yeah, I guess what was? What was Chicago Rivals?

1645
01:39:38,600 --> 01:39:45,000
Speaker 1: Let me ask you something, Let me ask you something? Right, So, yeah,

1646
01:39:45,040 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 1: you're right, you can't do too. But it's this record

1647
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:54,760
Speaker 1: that comes out right, and you know, hopefully you can

1648
01:39:54,800 --> 01:39:58,280
Speaker 1: help us with this. Big brother, my big brother, you

1649
01:39:58,360 --> 01:40:01,160
Speaker 1: used to be dame man. Big is brother, who is

1650
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:03,720
Speaker 1: hip hop? Brother? Who is No? I did friend? No,

1651
01:40:03,880 --> 01:40:07,559
Speaker 1: I did man? Not a story again? So this record

1652
01:40:07,600 --> 01:40:11,760
Speaker 1: comes out. How do you feel hearing this record prior

1653
01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:13,880
Speaker 1: to it coming out, because this could be taking the

1654
01:40:13,960 --> 01:40:16,960
Speaker 1: wrong way this right, What do you think? What do

1655
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:19,360
Speaker 1: you what is your first thought? I think he was

1656
01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:21,519
Speaker 1: just being honest, as he always was. If you just

1657
01:40:21,680 --> 01:40:23,599
Speaker 1: listened to him, he tells you what's on his mind.

1658
01:40:24,000 --> 01:40:27,000
Speaker 1: He never would hold back, and I think that's what

1659
01:40:27,160 --> 01:40:32,080
Speaker 1: really was so warm and um just welcoming to like

1660
01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:34,720
Speaker 1: the fans, and that's why people just love him so

1661
01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:37,599
Speaker 1: much because he never holds back. Still to this day,

1662
01:40:37,680 --> 01:40:40,560
Speaker 1: you know what I mean if you think know that

1663
01:40:40,800 --> 01:40:49,679
Speaker 1: that really happened. You know, we cool, but yo, back

1664
01:40:49,760 --> 01:40:53,840
Speaker 1: then we we was getting fronted on straight up. But

1665
01:40:54,400 --> 01:41:02,120
Speaker 1: I think you need to take the other shot. So

1666
01:41:02,479 --> 01:41:05,519
Speaker 1: really that was really like that, like yeah, but shout

1667
01:41:05,560 --> 01:41:08,040
Speaker 1: out to Biggs Man to us on our first private jet,

1668
01:41:08,120 --> 01:41:16,840
Speaker 1: man Big to me on my favorite. That was a

1669
01:41:16,920 --> 01:41:21,479
Speaker 1: lot of fun, a lot of fun. Oh man, this

1670
01:41:21,560 --> 01:41:23,240
Speaker 1: is history right here, man, you know what I mean?

1671
01:41:24,720 --> 01:41:26,920
Speaker 1: And you know the whole bottle bro Oh yeah you

1672
01:41:27,080 --> 01:41:30,840
Speaker 1: another one? I mean, you know another one. This is

1673
01:41:30,880 --> 01:41:33,439
Speaker 1: the finest of the finest, the oup so of I

1674
01:41:33,479 --> 01:41:36,080
Speaker 1: don't even know. This is black fantastic, you know what

1675
01:41:36,080 --> 01:41:38,640
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You know what I mean. Man, I was

1676
01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:40,120
Speaker 1: on be was on the group chat. You know what

1677
01:41:40,120 --> 01:41:42,720
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Biggs was there. What I want to you

1678
01:41:42,800 --> 01:41:45,360
Speaker 1: know somebody I had to tell him I drink more

1679
01:41:45,439 --> 01:41:48,479
Speaker 1: ace than you. Yeah, you don't. You know what I mean.

1680
01:41:50,400 --> 01:41:55,800
Speaker 1: You gotta relax, you gotta relax. But black this is

1681
01:41:55,800 --> 01:41:58,880
Speaker 1: what I love like you know what I mean? You know, uh,

1682
01:41:59,479 --> 01:42:02,920
Speaker 1: I think a uh the greatest product in the world.

1683
01:42:03,240 --> 01:42:05,080
Speaker 1: But then the fact that I know the brother who

1684
01:42:05,160 --> 01:42:07,360
Speaker 1: owns it, that secondary. You know what I'm saying. I

1685
01:42:08,439 --> 01:42:11,240
Speaker 1: know in the packaging, the package, look at it just

1686
01:42:11,320 --> 01:42:15,120
Speaker 1: looks sexy. Look that's it just looks sexy. Looks like

1687
01:42:15,160 --> 01:42:23,160
Speaker 1: you got the spinger Pops. Don't like that at Look

1688
01:42:23,200 --> 01:42:25,599
Speaker 1: at the rock. It's a don't forget brother here White,

1689
01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:29,600
Speaker 1: don't forget to get forgetting called me crazy. Don't got this?

1690
01:42:29,760 --> 01:42:48,400
Speaker 1: This all blank someone ship. He's starting lash. It's very expensive.

1691
01:42:49,320 --> 01:42:51,559
Speaker 1: So what's the end all be all viola? What are

1692
01:42:51,560 --> 01:42:54,880
Speaker 1: we trying to have viola in Mars seven? Yeah, bro,

1693
01:42:54,960 --> 01:42:56,680
Speaker 1: we want to be the biggest. We want to be

1694
01:42:56,880 --> 01:43:00,880
Speaker 1: when the coca is black. Cannabis are a lot little

1695
01:43:00,880 --> 01:43:04,760
Speaker 1: bit y'all just been letting this ship go down like

1696
01:43:04,840 --> 01:43:16,400
Speaker 1: I see you as he never snor you gotta sleep

1697
01:43:16,400 --> 01:43:28,160
Speaker 1: out there, Like right now we're in um. I think

1698
01:43:28,200 --> 01:43:32,280
Speaker 1: we're in six states. Six the states you're in. So

1699
01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:43,120
Speaker 1: when California, Oregon, Washington, Oregon, we get hi, all night rest, Colorado, Oklahoma,

1700
01:43:43,160 --> 01:43:46,599
Speaker 1: in Michigan. We're about to launch in Canada next month.

1701
01:43:47,160 --> 01:43:49,200
Speaker 1: And then we got Maryland in Missouri, we're about to

1702
01:43:49,280 --> 01:43:52,800
Speaker 1: launch in. We're getting we're working on New York. So

1703
01:43:52,920 --> 01:43:55,880
Speaker 1: New York is about to open up the new application process,

1704
01:43:55,920 --> 01:43:59,920
Speaker 1: so we're trying to get in Florida. Finish, I got

1705
01:44:00,000 --> 01:44:03,439
Speaker 1: that's your question, guys, whatever, But Florida. What's going on

1706
01:44:03,600 --> 01:44:09,000
Speaker 1: with Florida? Everybody got me, Like, I mean, Florida's kind

1707
01:44:09,040 --> 01:44:11,720
Speaker 1: of set up. They monopolize Florida, you know what I'm saying.

1708
01:44:11,720 --> 01:44:15,000
Speaker 1: They only gave certain people licenses and they running it up,

1709
01:44:15,120 --> 01:44:19,240
Speaker 1: especially like companies like Truly. But I think that they truly,

1710
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 1: You're out of line, man, that's what you You know,

1711
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:24,840
Speaker 1: you you need your medicine. Yeah, I need it, I

1712
01:44:24,920 --> 01:44:27,160
Speaker 1: get it, you know what I'm saying. But we need

1713
01:44:27,280 --> 01:44:29,759
Speaker 1: Viola to get a license in or get a license

1714
01:44:29,800 --> 01:44:32,479
Speaker 1: in that you know what I'm saying that to be dope.

1715
01:44:32,520 --> 01:44:38,240
Speaker 1: Can we all get campaign. We're gonna work. We love Florida,

1716
01:44:38,400 --> 01:44:39,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna work on. We got to come up with

1717
01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:43,880
Speaker 1: a game plan how we can all benefited the smoke centuries. Bro,

1718
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:47,240
Speaker 1: we got smoke Champs dispensaries. We've got smoke Champs, the brand,

1719
01:44:47,760 --> 01:44:49,200
Speaker 1: whatever the fun you want to have. You know what

1720
01:44:49,280 --> 01:44:51,439
Speaker 1: I'm saying. With the licenses, the key that is the

1721
01:44:51,560 --> 01:44:55,800
Speaker 1: only can we partner? Yeah? Bro, like these licenses out

1722
01:44:55,800 --> 01:44:57,479
Speaker 1: hear me. Think about every license you get, you go

1723
01:44:57,600 --> 01:45:02,000
Speaker 1: open up thirty plus dispensaries with one license. But like

1724
01:45:02,160 --> 01:45:04,160
Speaker 1: most states, they don't have that. That's what I'm saying.

1725
01:45:04,200 --> 01:45:06,840
Speaker 1: They allowed to monopolize this state. You know what I'm saying.

1726
01:45:06,920 --> 01:45:09,599
Speaker 1: Mostly we get a cultivation that's just a cultivation license.

1727
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:11,600
Speaker 1: Ain't got nothing to do with stores. You know what

1728
01:45:11,680 --> 01:45:20,200
Speaker 1: I'm saying now, yesterday, yesterday, if it's going to happen,

1729
01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:28,080
Speaker 1: But yesterday he said, I said, I think you're yesterday

1730
01:45:32,120 --> 01:45:37,680
Speaker 1: that vegan whatever you got that tag of balls. Ball,

1731
01:45:38,160 --> 01:45:43,840
Speaker 1: we're trying to talk ball. Let's change your life right now.

1732
01:45:43,960 --> 01:45:52,280
Speaker 1: Let's change here. He wasn't supposed to drink the whole bottle.

1733
01:45:53,960 --> 01:46:00,439
Speaker 1: Now he drink. That's why that side. That's much. That's

1734
01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:12,040
Speaker 1: that's too much. That's give me happy happen. That's it.

1735
01:46:12,160 --> 01:46:16,880
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm gonna take some much. You ain't taking that.

1736
01:46:17,960 --> 01:46:21,280
Speaker 1: I'm not saying wait, hold on, hold on, hold on,

1737
01:46:21,280 --> 01:46:23,439
Speaker 1: hold again. You want to say something. I want to

1738
01:46:23,439 --> 01:46:26,439
Speaker 1: say something. Listen. Our show was about giving flowers. While

1739
01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:29,680
Speaker 1: you hear I know you hear that statement so much nowadays.

1740
01:46:29,880 --> 01:46:33,120
Speaker 1: I we didn't invent it. We made it famous. We

1741
01:46:33,920 --> 01:46:35,479
Speaker 1: that's what we did for the last six years of

1742
01:46:35,479 --> 01:46:37,600
Speaker 1: our life. We just wanted to have a show that

1743
01:46:37,720 --> 01:46:39,960
Speaker 1: we get big up people. There's so many people that

1744
01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:41,639
Speaker 1: when you got ten years in this game, they want

1745
01:46:41,680 --> 01:46:43,519
Speaker 1: to give you away and say, funck, you put you

1746
01:46:43,560 --> 01:46:51,160
Speaker 1: to the side. We invented giving people their flowers to

1747
01:46:51,160 --> 01:46:56,439
Speaker 1: say something also fun time. There's no high school a

1748
01:46:56,520 --> 01:46:58,840
Speaker 1: high school athlete going straight to the NBA. That's not

1749
01:46:58,920 --> 01:47:00,360
Speaker 1: a lot of other people. Not to make people to

1750
01:47:00,520 --> 01:47:03,479
Speaker 1: do that. And you had a sixteen year glorious career

1751
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:06,360
Speaker 1: and you manifested out of thirty four years old into

1752
01:47:06,400 --> 01:47:19,320
Speaker 1: a cannabis entrepreneurship company. Got that hate that yes ship.

1753
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:27,200
Speaker 1: Now to get the poet bro yeah, it's the right there. Yes,

1754
01:47:27,920 --> 01:47:29,960
Speaker 1: now now now I move this away. You don't want that?

1755
01:47:39,439 --> 01:47:41,840
Speaker 1: Who has you gonna take some of that you get

1756
01:47:42,479 --> 01:47:44,679
Speaker 1: now you're gonna store some more. Bro, Come on, really

1757
01:47:46,080 --> 01:47:48,439
Speaker 1: that starts you come out, you get make sure you

1758
01:47:48,479 --> 01:47:51,120
Speaker 1: get the engineer because when the fans asked us, why

1759
01:47:51,200 --> 01:47:55,759
Speaker 1: the sound sound? So I just want everyone to focusing

1760
01:47:55,840 --> 01:48:01,599
Speaker 1: on that drinking yea it out. The attack of bone

1761
01:48:01,640 --> 01:48:12,479
Speaker 1: is different. I'm sorry, you're definitely not coming. We're gonna

1762
01:48:12,520 --> 01:48:19,240
Speaker 1: leave you the funk where you at this earlier? What's

1763
01:48:19,280 --> 01:48:21,880
Speaker 1: his favorite part of the game. I would like to

1764
01:48:21,880 --> 01:48:24,479
Speaker 1: ask you what was your favorite part of playing the

1765
01:48:24,520 --> 01:48:29,000
Speaker 1: game when we were playing it basketball? Yeah, my favorite

1766
01:48:29,040 --> 01:48:31,759
Speaker 1: part of the game was the It was the arena,

1767
01:48:32,400 --> 01:48:37,040
Speaker 1: just the things. What's your favorite arena? Favorite areas? It

1768
01:48:37,120 --> 01:48:43,759
Speaker 1: is the Massive Masson Square Guard. What's the second favure?

1769
01:48:44,920 --> 01:48:50,519
Speaker 1: My second favorite the United Center Chicago, Chicago, and your

1770
01:48:50,560 --> 01:49:00,400
Speaker 1: third American Airlines Arena Miami. Right, we was what are points?

1771
01:49:01,200 --> 01:49:06,200
Speaker 1: And Baron said he smoked his whole career and you

1772
01:49:06,280 --> 01:49:08,439
Speaker 1: ain't burned out one time with the y'all smoked the

1773
01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:22,960
Speaker 1: one time, Bro, it was it was only time I

1774
01:49:23,040 --> 01:49:28,640
Speaker 1: smoke at hal was in the Big Three black Man,

1775
01:49:31,479 --> 01:49:34,200
Speaker 1: but no Baron Davis. She smoked with him. One time

1776
01:49:34,280 --> 01:49:37,680
Speaker 1: I smoked with them was in Phoenix, Arizona. We had

1777
01:49:37,760 --> 01:49:41,040
Speaker 1: just was eliminated from the playoffs, and I remember how

1778
01:49:41,120 --> 01:49:44,439
Speaker 1: paranoid I was after smoking with him. You gotta eliminate this.

1779
01:49:44,520 --> 01:49:46,320
Speaker 1: You had an excuse still get you got excuse you.

1780
01:49:46,920 --> 01:49:48,760
Speaker 1: It's crazy though, we got I got to listen. What's

1781
01:49:48,800 --> 01:49:51,320
Speaker 1: pretty crazy about that? Though? I got drug texted the

1782
01:49:51,400 --> 01:49:58,120
Speaker 1: next day. But that's when I found out that, you know,

1783
01:49:58,360 --> 01:50:03,439
Speaker 1: part of the process never Yeah, you get one dollar

1784
01:50:03,760 --> 01:50:06,760
Speaker 1: a year in the program. So like they check you

1785
01:50:06,880 --> 01:50:09,400
Speaker 1: four times, they techt you four times, but one of

1786
01:50:09,439 --> 01:50:13,400
Speaker 1: them can be diluted. David Stern big shout out to

1787
01:50:13,439 --> 01:50:17,840
Speaker 1: Day You're gonna let it go. We're about We're about

1788
01:50:17,840 --> 01:50:20,200
Speaker 1: to launch this, uh this product a topical cream call

1789
01:50:20,280 --> 01:50:27,240
Speaker 1: replay with the players next just like CBD whatever. Yeah.

1790
01:50:27,560 --> 01:50:29,320
Speaker 1: So for like you know, after the game, when you

1791
01:50:29,400 --> 01:50:32,439
Speaker 1: know you stiff and you know me anti inflammatories and

1792
01:50:32,439 --> 01:50:34,679
Speaker 1: ship like that. Because I took anti inflammatories of seven

1793
01:50:34,720 --> 01:50:36,800
Speaker 1: straight years. I took three pills a day, two in

1794
01:50:36,840 --> 01:50:39,040
Speaker 1: the morning, one at night, just so that I could

1795
01:50:39,080 --> 01:50:42,960
Speaker 1: feel good to go out and keep you know, you

1796
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:45,640
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I know how important it

1797
01:50:45,720 --> 01:50:48,639
Speaker 1: is for athletes to recover. You know what I'm saying,

1798
01:50:48,720 --> 01:50:51,720
Speaker 1: because we always hurt, Bro, Like there's no such thing.

1799
01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:54,599
Speaker 1: It's like I think, once you would come a professional athlete,

1800
01:50:54,600 --> 01:50:58,519
Speaker 1: you're never got to get hurt. It's just always something constant, recovery,

1801
01:50:58,600 --> 01:51:03,200
Speaker 1: constantly recovery. Something's hurting Bro Constantly. I ask a question,

1802
01:51:03,360 --> 01:51:08,080
Speaker 1: please and no, no, go ahead please. I love how

1803
01:51:08,120 --> 01:51:10,960
Speaker 1: he's shaking. Ask you a question. In the Big Three

1804
01:51:12,040 --> 01:51:14,519
Speaker 1: and the Big Three. Ch Oakley gave you a good one.

1805
01:51:15,760 --> 01:51:18,040
Speaker 1: Charles gave you a hit in the nose. You fell,

1806
01:51:18,520 --> 01:51:20,719
Speaker 1: and he tried to apologize. I think you said, forget

1807
01:51:20,720 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 1: about it. It is what it is, part of the game.

1808
01:51:22,800 --> 01:51:28,400
Speaker 1: But how was that dealing with Charles Oakley? All I'm

1809
01:51:28,439 --> 01:51:30,360
Speaker 1: gonna say, this is all I'm gonna say. When I

1810
01:51:30,479 --> 01:51:34,840
Speaker 1: was a rookie, there was a lockout, so Michael Jordan

1811
01:51:34,920 --> 01:51:36,880
Speaker 1: was retiring, but he was still trying to go through

1812
01:51:36,920 --> 01:51:39,760
Speaker 1: the process of helping us get through that process. And

1813
01:51:39,920 --> 01:51:42,040
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna see who it was. But all I

1814
01:51:42,120 --> 01:51:43,880
Speaker 1: know is we're staying in the lobby at the Hill

1815
01:51:43,880 --> 01:51:47,439
Speaker 1: and hotel in in uh in like Union Square or

1816
01:51:47,439 --> 01:51:51,360
Speaker 1: whatever that's hotel we right, And all I hear is

1817
01:51:51,400 --> 01:51:54,559
Speaker 1: like chill Oak, chill OK. And I watched oak Charles

1818
01:51:54,640 --> 01:51:58,719
Speaker 1: Oakley smack one of like the NBA like tough guys.

1819
01:51:59,520 --> 01:52:05,479
Speaker 1: That was did he say you don't know here? He

1820
01:52:05,520 --> 01:52:09,200
Speaker 1: smack Jordan? He smacked Jordan. No, he smacked somebody. That's

1821
01:52:09,200 --> 01:52:13,000
Speaker 1: crazy told that name. What who you said, Bobbley? That's

1822
01:52:13,040 --> 01:52:15,360
Speaker 1: crazy that he would say that name. But he smacked

1823
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:19,639
Speaker 1: this guy. It seems like I wanted but he smacked

1824
01:52:19,720 --> 01:52:22,559
Speaker 1: this guy. And I'm I'm eighteen years old and I'm

1825
01:52:22,640 --> 01:52:25,760
Speaker 1: sitting there like what the fun bubble got smacked. Let's

1826
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:29,880
Speaker 1: just start out. I'm not saying, I'm just see how

1827
01:52:30,040 --> 01:52:36,960
Speaker 1: is Let's say that name. Just spread the room. We'll deal,

1828
01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:44,519
Speaker 1: We'll deal with it. Smacked his face on his name,

1829
01:52:44,600 --> 01:52:50,519
Speaker 1: start with in the Hilton Hotel, Charles smack with my

1830
01:52:50,640 --> 01:52:53,719
Speaker 1: own eyes, it was two Charles, two Charles. I'm just saying,

1831
01:52:54,439 --> 01:52:56,960
Speaker 1: so just think about that. It's being like a eighteen

1832
01:52:57,040 --> 01:53:00,280
Speaker 1: year old. It's a possibility that Charles Oldie smacked Charles Walking.

1833
01:53:00,360 --> 01:53:03,000
Speaker 1: Let's just throw it out there. It's a good chance

1834
01:53:03,040 --> 01:53:05,560
Speaker 1: it's a good chance. So when he hit me, you

1835
01:53:05,640 --> 01:53:12,240
Speaker 1: know it's just and what mean and and two dollars domestic?

1836
01:53:12,320 --> 01:53:15,960
Speaker 1: Abut in two dollars seventeen? Are you hit me in

1837
01:53:16,080 --> 01:53:20,080
Speaker 1: two dollar seventeen? Big three? In our season? Shot the

1838
01:53:20,120 --> 01:53:27,120
Speaker 1: ice cuel, he gave you a they gave you don't

1839
01:53:29,120 --> 01:53:32,680
Speaker 1: shot to the championship. So let's safe to say when

1840
01:53:32,800 --> 01:53:35,800
Speaker 1: Charles Oakley got kicked up the garden, was you mad

1841
01:53:36,080 --> 01:53:39,400
Speaker 1: or he was like, funk that? You get that? Now?

1842
01:53:39,439 --> 01:53:41,360
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I know we're OK. We'll go with

1843
01:53:41,479 --> 01:53:44,479
Speaker 1: some ship. Kicking up was the smartest thing they could

1844
01:53:44,479 --> 01:53:47,519
Speaker 1: have done. All right, I don't know. All right, let's

1845
01:53:48,360 --> 01:53:53,479
Speaker 1: weed clarification. So when you saw the footage, you felt

1846
01:53:53,520 --> 01:53:56,320
Speaker 1: like Oaks should have been kicked out and got kicked out.

1847
01:53:56,320 --> 01:53:58,680
Speaker 1: But because he said the next legend, no, I mean,

1848
01:53:58,720 --> 01:54:01,960
Speaker 1: they should have never done. They say out to right,

1849
01:54:03,280 --> 01:54:10,880
Speaker 1: get in. It's a difference. They go to another. No,

1850
01:54:11,080 --> 01:54:12,960
Speaker 1: I think I think we're oak Man, Like, you know,

1851
01:54:13,040 --> 01:54:16,160
Speaker 1: Oak's already in bent. They kicked him out. Yeah, I

1852
01:54:16,200 --> 01:54:18,599
Speaker 1: could tell he was bent. I said, I see that ship.

1853
01:54:20,479 --> 01:54:23,400
Speaker 1: Get a little drunk. People little drunk, but even drink

1854
01:54:23,479 --> 01:54:27,840
Speaker 1: chaps and stuff. Nah, he like if he work, he

1855
01:54:28,080 --> 01:54:31,360
Speaker 1: come on like Dad's okay, but he still shouldn't got

1856
01:54:31,439 --> 01:54:33,960
Speaker 1: kicked out, he said, he got kicked out. Man, he

1857
01:54:34,000 --> 01:54:35,600
Speaker 1: a leged like you said. But that's what I'm saying.

1858
01:54:35,600 --> 01:54:37,880
Speaker 1: But I think they just, uh, they didn't let Patrick

1859
01:54:37,960 --> 01:54:42,000
Speaker 1: you in in the other day. Yeah, you don't let

1860
01:54:42,080 --> 01:54:45,680
Speaker 1: Patrick about that? Right about that because I'm not trying

1861
01:54:45,680 --> 01:54:47,720
Speaker 1: to get an NBA contract ever. But I remember the

1862
01:54:47,840 --> 01:54:50,920
Speaker 1: kid about having tickets and we have the worst owner

1863
01:54:51,320 --> 01:54:54,400
Speaker 1: in the next history wrong film, No, not what the

1864
01:54:55,800 --> 01:54:59,600
Speaker 1: James yeah, Ernie one before all right, kind of he

1865
01:54:59,680 --> 01:55:04,560
Speaker 1: was a g confused to be way too much James

1866
01:55:04,680 --> 01:55:07,080
Speaker 1: Dolan with his name and I don't want to be

1867
01:55:07,160 --> 01:55:08,360
Speaker 1: for him. Was I don't want to be bad for

1868
01:55:08,400 --> 01:55:09,880
Speaker 1: the Garden, but I don't need to give a funk

1869
01:55:09,920 --> 01:55:12,440
Speaker 1: like it's okay, I'm watching from the Irish paup around

1870
01:55:12,440 --> 01:55:15,600
Speaker 1: the corner. It's all right, um, but he's kind of

1871
01:55:15,720 --> 01:55:19,240
Speaker 1: like not really letting us live. He did this year, right,

1872
01:55:19,560 --> 01:55:22,520
Speaker 1: we got a couple of players, got the rolls back.

1873
01:55:23,440 --> 01:55:28,560
Speaker 1: Phenomenal Chicago. I'm sorry took it all right? What's what's

1874
01:55:28,760 --> 01:55:30,400
Speaker 1: the m v P? That was r m v P

1875
01:55:31,160 --> 01:55:34,880
Speaker 1: Julie Judith Randow and then um, what's the number one pick?

1876
01:55:35,320 --> 01:55:38,480
Speaker 1: Jarrett R J. Barrett. We were looking good for a second.

1877
01:55:38,640 --> 01:55:44,040
Speaker 1: We did right John to Atlanta. They take Philadelphia. Sorry,

1878
01:55:44,160 --> 01:55:47,000
Speaker 1: that's a little drake man ran a little drake t

1879
01:55:48,320 --> 01:55:50,760
Speaker 1: little drake like little Drake was just throwing up number one.

1880
01:55:51,080 --> 01:55:55,440
Speaker 1: He's all over the place, a little man. That's crazy,

1881
01:55:55,560 --> 01:56:18,360
Speaker 1: that little light skinned little things. It Bro, but I

1882
01:56:18,600 --> 01:56:20,680
Speaker 1: a lie. The fact that the Knicks even got there.

1883
01:56:21,360 --> 01:56:24,840
Speaker 1: It felt good as a New Yorker. But the guard

1884
01:56:24,960 --> 01:56:28,600
Speaker 1: was rocking. To Bro, I don't have to disrespectful fans

1885
01:56:28,800 --> 01:56:31,880
Speaker 1: when they threw through that. Yeah, that's but that's not

1886
01:56:32,040 --> 01:56:35,120
Speaker 1: I like that assholes. But listen, I'm gonna say I

1887
01:56:35,160 --> 01:56:37,480
Speaker 1: wanna say real quick, real quick. For me and my

1888
01:56:37,600 --> 01:56:41,760
Speaker 1: experience in the league, the loudest arena for me, hands down,

1889
01:56:41,800 --> 01:56:43,720
Speaker 1: has still been the Garden. So I was in the

1890
01:56:43,800 --> 01:56:46,840
Speaker 1: arena when Larry Johnson hit the four point play against

1891
01:56:46,880 --> 01:56:49,840
Speaker 1: the Basis, and Bro, I thought it was an earthquake,

1892
01:56:50,200 --> 01:56:54,240
Speaker 1: Like the motherfucking arena was like shaking, like it was

1893
01:56:54,320 --> 01:56:57,200
Speaker 1: like moving, you know what I'm saying. So I'm like,

1894
01:56:57,560 --> 01:57:01,160
Speaker 1: for sure, like you playing older, you played the gold State.

1895
01:57:02,360 --> 01:57:06,960
Speaker 1: He was, yeah, he was. They was wild to but

1896
01:57:07,200 --> 01:57:09,160
Speaker 1: but they was like, see what I love about the

1897
01:57:09,200 --> 01:57:12,080
Speaker 1: Oakland fans, especially back then it wasn't corporate like now

1898
01:57:12,080 --> 01:57:15,080
Speaker 1: it was corporate. Now it was all the tech money

1899
01:57:15,240 --> 01:57:17,320
Speaker 1: and all that ship they got to. But before it

1900
01:57:17,480 --> 01:57:20,600
Speaker 1: was like the Nigga fans, like you see the white boy.

1901
01:57:20,960 --> 01:57:26,800
Speaker 1: Um he said, sons in four. Yeah, he was like

1902
01:57:27,080 --> 01:57:31,800
Speaker 1: sons in the four and he was right, And they

1903
01:57:31,800 --> 01:57:37,800
Speaker 1: swim from yesterday, get out of shout out of ja crowding.

1904
01:57:38,200 --> 01:57:41,840
Speaker 1: So dude, beat down. Dude gotta beat down. And they

1905
01:57:41,920 --> 01:57:44,760
Speaker 1: lost in four. They lost in fourth, so bad bro

1906
01:57:46,120 --> 01:57:49,480
Speaker 1: might take it this shit, he's got a good and

1907
01:57:49,640 --> 01:57:53,720
Speaker 1: what's the nut's looking like two and two? But but

1908
01:57:53,880 --> 01:57:56,360
Speaker 1: James Hardens her cap got hurt the other night with

1909
01:57:56,600 --> 01:58:00,640
Speaker 1: with an ankle. He's not playing game five honest, and

1910
01:58:00,880 --> 01:58:03,880
Speaker 1: Brook Lopez and Drew Holiday they might squeeze it through. Man,

1911
01:58:04,200 --> 01:58:06,800
Speaker 1: they might take it. Katie got to get fifty tomorrow,

1912
01:58:07,640 --> 01:58:10,400
Speaker 1: ain't um, what's what's up a man name? Um that

1913
01:58:10,520 --> 01:58:16,360
Speaker 1: came from the Clippers. No, he's not doing it, but

1914
01:58:17,040 --> 01:58:19,040
Speaker 1: the fucking man. But he's not number two. You're not

1915
01:58:19,080 --> 01:58:21,280
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do it. No, he's gonna be

1916
01:58:21,320 --> 01:58:23,160
Speaker 1: the man, but he's not gonna do it. Yeah, I

1917
01:58:23,200 --> 01:58:26,320
Speaker 1: don't think he's getting so yeah, yeah, Milwaukee got an

1918
01:58:26,320 --> 01:58:28,640
Speaker 1: opportunity to take over, and then it's gonna be Phenis

1919
01:58:28,720 --> 01:58:32,480
Speaker 1: Milwaukee and Jay Crowding CP three and fucking Devin Booker.

1920
01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:35,800
Speaker 1: They're gonna win it CP three to the Championships. That

1921
01:58:35,840 --> 01:58:43,000
Speaker 1: would be wh're CP three on de say Devin Booker,

1922
01:58:43,040 --> 01:58:45,560
Speaker 1: stop saying the other dude, you keep saying Jay crowd

1923
01:58:45,680 --> 01:58:48,760
Speaker 1: CP three and Devio Jay crowded first, No you got

1924
01:58:49,720 --> 01:58:51,680
Speaker 1: I'm how bad back? The reason I said j crowd

1925
01:58:51,760 --> 01:58:53,760
Speaker 1: because he played with Miami he last year and then

1926
01:58:53,840 --> 01:59:04,800
Speaker 1: they lost crying. Yeah, you know what you're going on? No,

1927
01:59:04,960 --> 01:59:09,760
Speaker 1: Jawder the truth, but he said cheap David Jake Crowder,

1928
01:59:09,840 --> 01:59:14,200
Speaker 1: You're right. I love this talk. I might go Cameron

1929
01:59:14,280 --> 01:59:16,520
Speaker 1: Pain before I go him too, but just we're talking

1930
01:59:16,520 --> 01:59:19,520
Speaker 1: about it after this show. We could talk about we're

1931
01:59:19,560 --> 01:59:21,880
Speaker 1: gonna bring in other people or not. Yeah, already, come on,

1932
01:59:23,160 --> 01:59:34,960
Speaker 1: come on, come on baby too bad Yo, I'm gonna

1933
01:59:35,000 --> 01:59:38,600
Speaker 1: take a definite opportunity while we're in transition at Houlton.

1934
01:59:39,480 --> 01:59:41,720
Speaker 1: So what was it? What was the difference between Indiana

1935
01:59:41,800 --> 01:59:45,400
Speaker 1: Pacers and Golden State. You're coming in as rookie and

1936
01:59:45,480 --> 01:59:48,560
Speaker 1: then you transition into a better was a way better

1937
01:59:48,600 --> 01:59:51,400
Speaker 1: playing Golden State, but you had a better Uh. But

1938
01:59:51,520 --> 01:59:53,040
Speaker 1: we had the same We had the same kind of

1939
01:59:53,120 --> 01:59:55,360
Speaker 1: family environment. That's why I said the most suscept I

1940
01:59:55,440 --> 01:59:57,320
Speaker 1: had was on teams or like we was like brothers.

1941
01:59:57,640 --> 02:00:00,360
Speaker 1: You know that we're going to Indiana. Didn't go to

1942
02:00:00,400 --> 02:00:02,280
Speaker 1: save It's only two teams where I had that kind

1943
02:00:02,320 --> 02:00:06,800
Speaker 1: of vibe. That's hard because Matt Barnes and uh Stacks,

1944
02:00:07,320 --> 02:00:10,600
Speaker 1: they're like relatable. They deal with the real real we

1945
02:00:10,840 --> 02:00:16,480
Speaker 1: we talk as humans. Uh, Derrick McKee, Antonio Davis Dale Davis,

1946
02:00:16,680 --> 02:00:21,240
Speaker 1: Chris Mullen. Those are legends to me. So as you're

1947
02:00:21,240 --> 02:00:23,240
Speaker 1: going in as a young man from the high school,

1948
02:00:24,440 --> 02:00:27,080
Speaker 1: how you see them as veterans and then you deal

1949
02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:30,240
Speaker 1: with people that you relate to a different ambience. But

1950
02:00:30,400 --> 02:00:31,800
Speaker 1: for me, I had it. I mean I had to

1951
02:00:32,080 --> 02:00:34,080
Speaker 1: be with them niggas all the time though, so I

1952
02:00:34,120 --> 02:00:36,080
Speaker 1: ain't had no choice but to kind of learn and

1953
02:00:36,800 --> 02:00:39,680
Speaker 1: I learned man ship basketball like how to have a

1954
02:00:39,760 --> 02:00:44,480
Speaker 1: girlfriend and yeah, like they told me all that ship,

1955
02:00:45,240 --> 02:00:47,000
Speaker 1: I got to move you know what I'm saying. No,

1956
02:00:47,120 --> 02:00:49,480
Speaker 1: I respect that a percent. Being that you're an athlete

1957
02:00:49,520 --> 02:00:51,360
Speaker 1: and you're from New Jersey. I always want to relate

1958
02:00:51,480 --> 02:00:55,800
Speaker 1: that because this is definitely Miami, New York and drink champs.

1959
02:00:56,760 --> 02:00:58,440
Speaker 1: I'm the only one New Jersey. So every time I

1960
02:00:58,560 --> 02:01:02,400
Speaker 1: get Nordy by Nature Lords and Underground or anybody and yourself,

1961
02:01:02,720 --> 02:01:06,400
Speaker 1: I gotta say, relate that struggle. We don't get the love.

1962
02:01:07,120 --> 02:01:09,800
Speaker 1: But but you're being an NBA athlete and being an

1963
02:01:09,880 --> 02:01:16,000
Speaker 1: NBA veteran at a young age. You came in high school, professional,

1964
02:01:16,400 --> 02:01:21,240
Speaker 1: now your entrepreneur, and you're still young forty. That's young.

1965
02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:25,800
Speaker 1: So congrats to you and celebrity celebration to you on

1966
02:01:25,920 --> 02:01:29,320
Speaker 1: your efforts and endeavors. But how can you get back

1967
02:01:29,400 --> 02:01:33,200
Speaker 1: to let's say, New Jersey to the people, I don't

1968
02:01:33,240 --> 02:01:36,160
Speaker 1: got another How can you get back and say I'm

1969
02:01:36,200 --> 02:01:39,280
Speaker 1: doing it, I'm showing it, I'm proving it, and there's

1970
02:01:39,320 --> 02:01:41,760
Speaker 1: a future. So mostly what we've been doing is like

1971
02:01:41,840 --> 02:01:44,160
Speaker 1: obviously all the states where we you know, where we

1972
02:01:44,280 --> 02:01:46,240
Speaker 1: have licenses in or whatever. Like I said, we do

1973
02:01:46,400 --> 02:01:52,040
Speaker 1: mad ship in the community from like you know, rehabbing homes, rebuilt, refurbishing, parks.

1974
02:01:52,520 --> 02:01:55,600
Speaker 1: Like I said, always feeding people. There's just all about

1975
02:01:55,640 --> 02:01:57,400
Speaker 1: the community, you know what I'm saying, Because it's just

1976
02:01:57,560 --> 02:02:02,080
Speaker 1: under all Harrison Wellness, it's it's under Violar Cares. So

1977
02:02:02,160 --> 02:02:05,280
Speaker 1: we have a company called Viola Cares. Yeah, yeah, so

1978
02:02:05,440 --> 02:02:07,080
Speaker 1: Viola Kids. So that's why I said. We had the

1979
02:02:07,080 --> 02:02:10,040
Speaker 1: partnership with Ruined Rebound and we helped with the re entry,

1980
02:02:10,240 --> 02:02:12,800
Speaker 1: with the expungements, and then like I said, we just

1981
02:02:12,880 --> 02:02:14,960
Speaker 1: worked with just different people that we know within the

1982
02:02:15,040 --> 02:02:17,600
Speaker 1: community that can help us with the with the get

1983
02:02:17,640 --> 02:02:20,680
Speaker 1: back in regards to feeding, like turkey drives, clothing drive,

1984
02:02:20,800 --> 02:02:23,280
Speaker 1: toy drives, all of that. You know what I'm saying,

1985
02:02:23,640 --> 02:02:27,040
Speaker 1: it's community accepting you for what you're bringing out or

1986
02:02:27,120 --> 02:02:29,160
Speaker 1: for what you was as an NBA player. No, I

1987
02:02:29,240 --> 02:02:32,800
Speaker 1: think now now like we're winning. Now I'm saying, Yeah,

1988
02:02:33,000 --> 02:02:35,160
Speaker 1: it's different. You know what I'm saying. It's cannabis. You

1989
02:02:35,200 --> 02:02:37,880
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Something that people don't expect mostly

1990
02:02:37,920 --> 02:02:40,240
Speaker 1: cannabi is any interaction with cannabies. So we led to

1991
02:02:40,320 --> 02:02:42,360
Speaker 1: something very negative, you know what I'm saying. So now

1992
02:02:42,440 --> 02:02:45,320
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, ship, like this is helping us,

1993
02:02:45,400 --> 02:02:47,520
Speaker 1: this is rebuilding us, is giving up, putting us in

1994
02:02:47,560 --> 02:02:50,320
Speaker 1: a better position to win. You know, I'm saying I

1995
02:02:50,400 --> 02:02:54,280
Speaker 1: want to congratulate you and say I followed that, and

1996
02:02:54,360 --> 02:02:56,720
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you gotta chair get with you, okay,

1997
02:02:58,680 --> 02:03:01,560
Speaker 1: coming in J threw you know it was it was

1998
02:03:01,600 --> 02:03:03,920
Speaker 1: a salute forgot to be here. Thank you for everything.

1999
02:03:04,480 --> 02:03:15,960
Speaker 1: Appreciate your drinking Sports Edition Space. No, that's called baby

2000
02:03:16,360 --> 02:03:22,680
Speaker 1: please please, that's that's that's my drink of choice. Yeah,

2001
02:03:22,680 --> 02:03:23,880
Speaker 1: I ain't a lot of the way you open it.

2002
02:03:24,240 --> 02:03:26,520
Speaker 1: Let me open it, like I was very nervous. How

2003
02:03:26,560 --> 02:03:29,000
Speaker 1: you opened it. You just left the ship right there.

2004
02:03:29,040 --> 02:03:32,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, because you know that's your bold Ye. Listen,

2005
02:03:32,880 --> 02:03:37,400
Speaker 1: we have bad experience bad experiences. I got you, I

2006
02:03:37,480 --> 02:03:56,520
Speaker 1: got you. You can't drink tis love chap all right now,

2007
02:03:56,560 --> 02:04:00,240
Speaker 1: we got some management powerhouse right here, right now. So

2008
02:04:00,320 --> 02:04:03,640
Speaker 1: I want to know between both y'all, well nor we

2009
02:04:03,720 --> 02:04:06,480
Speaker 1: already kind of alluded to you about who is the

2010
02:04:06,560 --> 02:04:09,440
Speaker 1: most don't say difficult, but what's the most difficult part

2011
02:04:09,480 --> 02:04:14,960
Speaker 1: about managing and artists? I don't say specific artists, trying

2012
02:04:15,080 --> 02:04:19,120
Speaker 1: to help them prioritize the difference between what they think

2013
02:04:19,280 --> 02:04:24,680
Speaker 1: is important sometimes and what's a real true priority in business,

2014
02:04:25,280 --> 02:04:28,000
Speaker 1: Like I feel for you dealing with like Kanye, for example,

2015
02:04:28,040 --> 02:04:30,600
Speaker 1: when you from the outside looking and you know, when

2016
02:04:30,640 --> 02:04:34,640
Speaker 1: we're looking at Kanye, it seems like he's unmanageable. Yeah,

2017
02:04:34,680 --> 02:04:37,520
Speaker 1: he says that. I mean, I don't even look at

2018
02:04:37,560 --> 02:04:39,840
Speaker 1: myself as his manager. I'm just on his team, just

2019
02:04:39,960 --> 02:04:43,000
Speaker 1: helping him run his business, you know. And then my

2020
02:04:43,200 --> 02:04:48,600
Speaker 1: my specific focus is uh is on music. But um yeah,

2021
02:04:48,680 --> 02:04:51,240
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, if anybody is I'm managed,

2022
02:04:51,360 --> 02:04:53,560
Speaker 1: it's him because he just has so many different interests

2023
02:04:54,000 --> 02:04:56,000
Speaker 1: and he moves in so many different ways, you know,

2024
02:04:56,280 --> 02:04:59,360
Speaker 1: because I've I've managed artists myself, and and it feels

2025
02:04:59,440 --> 02:05:01,360
Speaker 1: like and I also feel like I'm a part of

2026
02:05:01,400 --> 02:05:03,360
Speaker 1: the creative process. I don't know if y'all feel. I'm

2027
02:05:03,400 --> 02:05:05,800
Speaker 1: assuming I think y'all feel that you're part of the

2028
02:05:05,840 --> 02:05:08,680
Speaker 1: creative process. And it just feels like it just takes

2029
02:05:08,760 --> 02:05:12,600
Speaker 1: so much energy to manage another human being. Well, I mean,

2030
02:05:13,200 --> 02:05:16,720
Speaker 1: in my personal opinion, it's just me speaking. I don't

2031
02:05:16,760 --> 02:05:20,440
Speaker 1: find any part of management difficult because I don't take

2032
02:05:20,480 --> 02:05:22,720
Speaker 1: it as managing a person. I'll take it as managing

2033
02:05:22,760 --> 02:05:24,840
Speaker 1: an artist. I take it as managing the things around them.

2034
02:05:24,880 --> 02:05:27,440
Speaker 1: To help them excel and succeed and make their dreams

2035
02:05:27,520 --> 02:05:31,160
Speaker 1: come true. So it's not difficult because to see somebody

2036
02:05:31,200 --> 02:05:34,720
Speaker 1: else excel makes me happy, and making somebody else's dreams

2037
02:05:34,760 --> 02:05:36,920
Speaker 1: come true in turn make mind come true. That's how

2038
02:05:36,920 --> 02:05:39,800
Speaker 1: I approach management. But the one thing with an early

2039
02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:44,000
Speaker 1: artist that sometimes could be positioned as difficult to meet

2040
02:05:44,280 --> 02:05:47,320
Speaker 1: is business etiquette. Everybody's always trying to keep it real

2041
02:05:47,400 --> 02:05:49,240
Speaker 1: and want to talk a certain way and add a

2042
02:05:49,320 --> 02:05:51,520
Speaker 1: certain way. When you get into certain rooms, you know

2043
02:05:51,560 --> 02:05:53,320
Speaker 1: what I mean, there has to be a certain amount

2044
02:05:53,360 --> 02:05:56,600
Speaker 1: of etiquette. I mean I heard, you know them talk

2045
02:05:56,640 --> 02:06:00,680
Speaker 1: about getting into the cannabis business, and you know there

2046
02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:02,800
Speaker 1: are certain rules and guidelines you have to follow. So

2047
02:06:02,840 --> 02:06:04,920
Speaker 1: when you're in certain rooms, those rooms and guidelines become

2048
02:06:05,000 --> 02:06:07,840
Speaker 1: very important and you speak a certain way in a

2049
02:06:07,920 --> 02:06:11,800
Speaker 1: certain approach to things. That's a difficult part in the beginning,

2050
02:06:12,200 --> 02:06:14,520
Speaker 1: but once they catch it and to see them find

2051
02:06:14,560 --> 02:06:16,560
Speaker 1: out okay to get into their zone, it becomes like, wow,

2052
02:06:16,640 --> 02:06:18,360
Speaker 1: look at that. Now, I don't need to sit here

2053
02:06:18,400 --> 02:06:20,000
Speaker 1: and close the deal for you. Close your own deal.

2054
02:06:20,600 --> 02:06:23,240
Speaker 1: That's what you want from an artist. Why Noriri grow

2055
02:06:23,360 --> 02:06:25,560
Speaker 1: into who he's become? You know what I'm saying. As

2056
02:06:25,600 --> 02:06:28,879
Speaker 1: an artist, he was difficult and his crew was difficult

2057
02:06:29,480 --> 02:06:35,760
Speaker 1: everything around. But it was wonderful to see his growth

2058
02:06:36,320 --> 02:06:38,840
Speaker 1: because it was so much influence from thest to owner

2059
02:06:38,920 --> 02:06:42,160
Speaker 1: of myself. So when you see that or that hard

2060
02:06:42,200 --> 02:06:45,640
Speaker 1: work becomes us worth it like graduated and not even graduated,

2061
02:06:45,640 --> 02:06:47,840
Speaker 1: it's like yeah, because we always knew he had it

2062
02:06:47,880 --> 02:06:50,800
Speaker 1: in it, because sometimes our job is identified talent before

2063
02:06:50,800 --> 02:06:53,360
Speaker 1: it knows this talented and to bring that talent out

2064
02:06:54,160 --> 02:06:56,200
Speaker 1: so you know, and then when you see it actually happened,

2065
02:06:56,560 --> 02:06:59,800
Speaker 1: it's like when you when you harvest that strange and

2066
02:06:59,840 --> 02:07:03,200
Speaker 1: it comes out perfect. You've harvested an artist. And now

2067
02:07:03,680 --> 02:07:05,360
Speaker 1: look where they look what they could do, you know

2068
02:07:05,400 --> 02:07:06,800
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like, okay, all right on to next.

2069
02:07:06,840 --> 02:07:10,040
Speaker 1: You's good over here, next they need you. You got

2070
02:07:10,200 --> 02:07:13,440
Speaker 1: you got the best shirt on right now. One flower

2071
02:07:14,240 --> 02:07:17,880
Speaker 1: at a motherfucking time, flowing at the time, baby, all right?

2072
02:07:17,920 --> 02:07:20,560
Speaker 1: That is that the logo? Is it? The slogan? Nah,

2073
02:07:20,760 --> 02:07:23,400
Speaker 1: it's kind of kind of for us a movement, you

2074
02:07:23,480 --> 02:07:27,080
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, And just it's designed internally for

2075
02:07:27,280 --> 02:07:30,640
Speaker 1: us to uh, you know, keep it, keep it one

2076
02:07:30,720 --> 02:07:35,000
Speaker 1: step at the time. Keeping grassroots obviously the temptations to

2077
02:07:35,080 --> 02:07:37,680
Speaker 1: be real big. We just want to make sure as

2078
02:07:37,720 --> 02:07:40,600
Speaker 1: we move and grow, we're impactful, you know what I'm saying.

2079
02:07:40,760 --> 02:07:42,440
Speaker 1: So that's kind of internally what it means to me.

2080
02:07:43,720 --> 02:07:46,480
Speaker 1: So Marlboro come tomorrow and say I want to buy

2081
02:07:46,600 --> 02:07:49,640
Speaker 1: y'all say one flower the time or you saying at

2082
02:07:49,680 --> 02:07:56,720
Speaker 1: the time. Are you're saying we're selling? That depends on this.

2083
02:07:56,960 --> 02:07:58,560
Speaker 1: This is what I think. I think Marble is not

2084
02:07:58,640 --> 02:08:01,040
Speaker 1: gonna give me my value, and it's a compliment if

2085
02:08:01,040 --> 02:08:04,280
Speaker 1: they come, that's our value. I apologize. So I would

2086
02:08:04,320 --> 02:08:06,640
Speaker 1: take it as flattering that they're interested, but I would

2087
02:08:06,680 --> 02:08:08,440
Speaker 1: assume that they're not gonna give me the most that

2088
02:08:08,800 --> 02:08:11,800
Speaker 1: we can get for what we've built. I think that's

2089
02:08:11,840 --> 02:08:13,560
Speaker 1: not the best way to get where we're trying to go.

2090
02:08:14,080 --> 02:08:16,720
Speaker 1: It's tough, marm Bro. That's funny because you know, I

2091
02:08:16,840 --> 02:08:27,200
Speaker 1: love new pests that side of things, So I don't

2092
02:08:27,240 --> 02:08:30,240
Speaker 1: I just don't want to be hypocritical, because that's what

2093
02:08:30,520 --> 02:08:33,400
Speaker 1: like um, it seems like, you know, cannabis has headed

2094
02:08:33,440 --> 02:08:41,160
Speaker 1: towards like um. You know, these big tobacco companies that

2095
02:08:41,240 --> 02:08:44,480
Speaker 1: are losing money because people are smoking more marijuana nowadays

2096
02:08:44,520 --> 02:08:47,640
Speaker 1: that they're smoking tobacco and I feel like that's what

2097
02:08:47,760 --> 02:08:50,080
Speaker 1: is that is that factual? They're losing money. I have

2098
02:08:50,160 --> 02:08:52,720
Speaker 1: no idea for saying this is in my world, like

2099
02:08:53,240 --> 02:08:54,800
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know like in real life what

2100
02:08:54,880 --> 02:08:57,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like in my world, I don't have a

2101
02:08:57,200 --> 02:08:59,560
Speaker 1: lot of cigarette smokers. I got about two left and

2102
02:08:59,720 --> 02:09:02,080
Speaker 1: our crew I think it's Deuce and Um Sunny D

2103
02:09:02,960 --> 02:09:06,000
Speaker 1: and they're like Toronto Source Rex's you know what I'm saying, Um,

2104
02:09:06,320 --> 02:09:08,920
Speaker 1: but everybody else is pretty much they moved on to

2105
02:09:09,040 --> 02:09:12,520
Speaker 1: James Cool. Look at James Crew smoking a big cigar.

2106
02:09:12,760 --> 02:09:14,640
Speaker 1: I mean not to say that that's even better than

2107
02:09:15,160 --> 02:09:18,600
Speaker 1: a cigarette, but it's it's it's um, it's it's more

2108
02:09:18,640 --> 02:09:21,520
Speaker 1: acceptable almost, you know what I'm saying. Like I could

2109
02:09:21,520 --> 02:09:23,720
Speaker 1: be anywhere that you could smoke a cigar in the pool,

2110
02:09:24,000 --> 02:09:27,120
Speaker 1: but you're smoke a cigarette. It's like like what are

2111
02:09:27,160 --> 02:09:31,320
Speaker 1: you doing? Still? Right? So? Um, are you guys trying

2112
02:09:31,320 --> 02:09:37,640
Speaker 1: to have products that like like a candagar? You know

2113
02:09:37,760 --> 02:09:39,400
Speaker 1: the beauty is to be honest, you for a weed

2114
02:09:39,440 --> 02:09:42,160
Speaker 1: and anything. I mean, I think for us, we want

2115
02:09:42,200 --> 02:09:46,200
Speaker 1: to maximize how beneficial it can be for people and

2116
02:09:46,400 --> 02:09:49,640
Speaker 1: and and leverage our position and our access to make

2117
02:09:49,720 --> 02:09:53,280
Speaker 1: sure that we kind of do that. A friend told me, Yeah,

2118
02:09:53,800 --> 02:09:56,360
Speaker 1: a hair caroline product. It's just many ways as the

2119
02:09:56,360 --> 02:09:58,760
Speaker 1: way Canadas affected you at twenty two as where it

2120
02:09:58,800 --> 02:10:00,920
Speaker 1: affects you at forty two. Right, it's a different thing.

2121
02:10:01,600 --> 02:10:03,560
Speaker 1: It's just a lot of little avenues and lanes. But

2122
02:10:03,600 --> 02:10:05,560
Speaker 1: I mean you can put weed in anything. That's that's

2123
02:10:05,600 --> 02:10:08,600
Speaker 1: the beginning. We want to kind of make it makes

2124
02:10:08,640 --> 02:10:11,800
Speaker 1: sense and kind of perfect our craft as far as

2125
02:10:11,880 --> 02:10:15,440
Speaker 1: how we can affect your lifestyle. So that's the approach

2126
02:10:15,520 --> 02:10:17,320
Speaker 1: we try to take to it. But the Cannon gard no,

2127
02:10:17,720 --> 02:10:22,480
Speaker 1: I love you more and more. Smoking a better more

2128
02:10:22,800 --> 02:10:28,000
Speaker 1: something a better changed my life. You know, you ever

2129
02:10:28,080 --> 02:10:31,200
Speaker 1: thought we would be legal, James Gruls, I mean to

2130
02:10:31,320 --> 02:10:36,200
Speaker 1: be honest, it's part of the earth. It's a healing flower,

2131
02:10:36,880 --> 02:10:38,880
Speaker 1: you know, and there were so many uses for it

2132
02:10:39,800 --> 02:10:42,480
Speaker 1: that I never thought it was really loss as its

2133
02:10:42,560 --> 02:10:46,360
Speaker 1: legal illegal, But now I never thought that that would

2134
02:10:46,360 --> 02:10:49,840
Speaker 1: be this much of a great business for young blacks

2135
02:10:49,920 --> 02:10:53,600
Speaker 1: and Natinos to get into and to really benefit from.

2136
02:10:54,440 --> 02:10:57,840
Speaker 1: But it's also kind of for me, kind of double

2137
02:10:57,920 --> 02:11:00,200
Speaker 1: edged swords to see all the people incarcerated. That's that's

2138
02:11:00,200 --> 02:11:01,960
Speaker 1: what needs to be you know, that's what needs to

2139
02:11:02,000 --> 02:11:04,120
Speaker 1: be dealt with. It's like it's like the cure for

2140
02:11:04,200 --> 02:11:06,960
Speaker 1: the problem. It's like all these brothers incarcerated, you know

2141
02:11:06,960 --> 02:11:08,880
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, for selling Tracy bags when he was young,

2142
02:11:09,560 --> 02:11:12,360
Speaker 1: you know, and now there's a bunch of young black

2143
02:11:12,600 --> 02:11:15,920
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs that are invested in the business, in the cannabis business.

2144
02:11:16,160 --> 02:11:18,040
Speaker 1: I just wish we were more invested in helping those

2145
02:11:18,080 --> 02:11:20,120
Speaker 1: guys out to get them out of jail, and not

2146
02:11:20,200 --> 02:11:21,960
Speaker 1: only to get them out, but also to help them

2147
02:11:22,560 --> 02:11:25,240
Speaker 1: come back into society a certain one. Things have changed

2148
02:11:25,480 --> 02:11:29,320
Speaker 1: a big of the Meek Male and Kim Kardashian, they're

2149
02:11:29,320 --> 02:11:33,920
Speaker 1: actually fighting for that for like for people and pushes

2150
02:11:35,000 --> 02:11:39,840
Speaker 1: or you just freestyling right now, but he let down

2151
02:11:39,920 --> 02:11:45,320
Speaker 1: with the feel about that. You know what I'm saying,

2152
02:11:45,320 --> 02:11:47,640
Speaker 1: It's the reality we deal with every day. I got

2153
02:11:47,720 --> 02:11:52,200
Speaker 1: locked up seventeen times, So that's what I'm saying. No

2154
02:11:52,360 --> 02:11:57,440
Speaker 1: one came to me and saying sorry, and it's no

2155
02:11:57,600 --> 02:12:00,360
Speaker 1: black people their own one time I got this. This

2156
02:12:00,440 --> 02:12:02,520
Speaker 1: is how funked up it was in New York City

2157
02:12:02,520 --> 02:12:05,839
Speaker 1: at one point, one point, the police see me smoking.

2158
02:12:06,400 --> 02:12:10,160
Speaker 1: I threw this ship and I'm a good like Skelly player,

2159
02:12:10,400 --> 02:12:14,839
Speaker 1: So like when I throw the blood that I cannot

2160
02:12:14,920 --> 02:12:19,120
Speaker 1: find it. The police came and said I found your blood.

2161
02:12:19,120 --> 02:12:22,200
Speaker 1: I said, were because I wanted to, and they still

2162
02:12:22,320 --> 02:12:24,480
Speaker 1: locked me up, Like I'm a good you don't even

2163
02:12:24,520 --> 02:12:26,840
Speaker 1: play Skelly. Skelly, like this is a foul game like

2164
02:12:28,760 --> 02:12:32,440
Speaker 1: you do. So I listen, I saw the blood, so

2165
02:12:33,680 --> 02:12:36,120
Speaker 1: there's no way they found it, and they still locked

2166
02:12:36,160 --> 02:12:41,520
Speaker 1: me up. I'm smelling it and having the That's how

2167
02:12:41,600 --> 02:12:44,680
Speaker 1: bad New York City laws was, and then they legalized

2168
02:12:44,720 --> 02:12:47,640
Speaker 1: it and says you can't participate if you had a marijuana.

2169
02:12:48,120 --> 02:12:51,640
Speaker 1: Think there's a lot of layers to it, because if

2170
02:12:51,680 --> 02:12:54,960
Speaker 1: you think about it, like the fact that that black

2171
02:12:55,000 --> 02:12:59,840
Speaker 1: and Latinos are highly incarcerated, the amount of black incarcerated

2172
02:12:59,880 --> 02:13:03,920
Speaker 1: for as small we defenses, and then you see these

2173
02:13:04,120 --> 02:13:09,400
Speaker 1: big cannabis companies not reflecting that population, and I think

2174
02:13:09,440 --> 02:13:11,360
Speaker 1: there has to be something that balances that out, because

2175
02:13:11,360 --> 02:13:12,880
Speaker 1: if anything, you need to look at these guys and

2176
02:13:12,960 --> 02:13:17,480
Speaker 1: cars as pioneers of an industry. No, I mean, I

2177
02:13:17,600 --> 02:13:19,520
Speaker 1: think the issue is what are we gonna do about it?

2178
02:13:19,720 --> 02:13:21,520
Speaker 1: Like they're they're kind of doing it in front of

2179
02:13:21,560 --> 02:13:24,920
Speaker 1: our face. So you know, all alluded to the culture

2180
02:13:24,920 --> 02:13:27,040
Speaker 1: and and not knows the culture better than anybody. What

2181
02:13:27,120 --> 02:13:30,760
Speaker 1: are we gonna do with all our influence and power

2182
02:13:30,920 --> 02:13:32,840
Speaker 1: to the fact that they're taking us from us? Since

2183
02:13:32,920 --> 02:13:35,480
Speaker 1: billions and dollars A step said something. I mean, I

2184
02:13:35,600 --> 02:13:39,080
Speaker 1: think it's very important. We gotta understand all of our

2185
02:13:39,160 --> 02:13:50,120
Speaker 1: culture has been vultued. Right that the monograph ads like

2186
02:13:50,240 --> 02:13:52,200
Speaker 1: he's been taking shots at like he'd been having some

2187
02:13:53,600 --> 02:13:56,520
Speaker 1: people was arrested, but it's legal over here, like he's

2188
02:13:56,520 --> 02:13:59,960
Speaker 1: been taking shots like at the whole government. I don't

2189
02:14:00,000 --> 02:14:02,320
Speaker 1: know if you've been people that like not as he should.

2190
02:14:02,400 --> 02:14:05,880
Speaker 1: I mean, is very hypocritical, but I think it's safe

2191
02:14:05,920 --> 02:14:08,400
Speaker 1: to say there's no way that that anybody is going

2192
02:14:08,440 --> 02:14:11,840
Speaker 1: to be able to compete with these big corporations, like

2193
02:14:11,960 --> 02:14:15,160
Speaker 1: a big tobacco company that has these infrastructures. Nobody's going

2194
02:14:15,200 --> 02:14:17,760
Speaker 1: to compete with that right now. No, No, what I'm

2195
02:14:17,760 --> 02:14:21,360
Speaker 1: trying to say, you get it from a big tobacco company,

2196
02:14:21,640 --> 02:14:29,080
Speaker 1: they're not They're not there. When they get in it,

2197
02:14:29,360 --> 02:14:30,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna be different. What I'm trying to say to

2198
02:14:31,000 --> 02:14:33,080
Speaker 1: you is this is that I think personally is my opinion.

2199
02:14:33,160 --> 02:14:36,879
Speaker 1: The equity is the branding side of it and the branding.

2200
02:14:37,000 --> 02:14:39,120
Speaker 1: To me, we don't I don't think we put enough value.

2201
02:14:39,160 --> 02:14:40,840
Speaker 1: I mean we I think we know that there's a

2202
02:14:41,120 --> 02:14:44,160
Speaker 1: value in branding. But I think that's that's a lot

2203
02:14:44,240 --> 02:14:46,920
Speaker 1: of value that's brought to the table that when these

2204
02:14:46,960 --> 02:14:50,280
Speaker 1: people with these infrastructures get involved, they're gonna need the

2205
02:14:50,400 --> 02:14:53,080
Speaker 1: branding side of it. And that's where everybody. That's where

2206
02:14:53,160 --> 02:14:55,760
Speaker 1: like the cars are being held by the minority factions.

2207
02:14:56,160 --> 02:14:58,600
Speaker 1: I think the branding is everything. I think to have

2208
02:14:58,680 --> 02:15:01,440
Speaker 1: an effective brand, you want control of the supply chain

2209
02:15:01,800 --> 02:15:03,880
Speaker 1: now because you want a good weed. You want some kids.

2210
02:15:03,920 --> 02:15:06,120
Speaker 1: You know, I like, I really smoke. So I want

2211
02:15:06,600 --> 02:15:10,320
Speaker 1: to be able to influence what we're putting out smoking now, brother,

2212
02:15:10,640 --> 02:15:12,080
Speaker 1: you know I don't want to be too outs. Yeah,

2213
02:15:12,120 --> 02:15:14,680
Speaker 1: come on, come on, you gotta support your product. You

2214
02:15:14,760 --> 02:15:17,560
Speaker 1: can't say that light up, light up you want to

2215
02:15:17,560 --> 02:15:21,680
Speaker 1: shout to like shot God, he is a man of

2216
02:15:21,720 --> 02:15:23,560
Speaker 1: shot man. What you put you on tag a bone,

2217
02:15:23,600 --> 02:15:31,920
Speaker 1: don't do it. That's the one that's a killing. You

2218
02:15:31,960 --> 02:15:35,120
Speaker 1: need shot glass? All right? Cool? But the branding, the

2219
02:15:35,200 --> 02:15:39,840
Speaker 1: branding is everything. We support that, and what we're trying

2220
02:15:39,880 --> 02:15:42,840
Speaker 1: to do is facilitate opportunities for brands to kind of

2221
02:15:42,920 --> 02:15:45,200
Speaker 1: solve that problem with the supply and where you bro

2222
02:15:45,640 --> 02:15:54,879
Speaker 1: Chicago together. Okay, Chicago, Chicago, some drill ship in the cannabis.

2223
02:15:55,720 --> 02:16:03,720
Speaker 1: I respect that. God Damn, I'm just h and c J.

2224
02:16:03,880 --> 02:16:10,040
Speaker 1: Got we right? Whoopt? We right? We dropped, dropped three strains?

2225
02:16:10,560 --> 02:16:13,560
Speaker 1: We dropped and I got a pH d in the

2226
02:16:13,600 --> 02:16:16,240
Speaker 1: showing amount of time about this business. And hats off

2227
02:16:16,280 --> 02:16:18,000
Speaker 1: to you because I know you've been in front of

2228
02:16:18,040 --> 02:16:20,520
Speaker 1: pioneer from the beginning. It was a lot, but yeah,

2229
02:16:20,560 --> 02:16:24,560
Speaker 1: we dropped the three strains we dropped? Whoopt drops? Az

2230
02:16:25,920 --> 02:16:31,440
Speaker 1: U two cookies? No, it's through it's actually through Munchies,

2231
02:16:31,920 --> 02:16:33,920
Speaker 1: which is a mine already owned company out on the

2232
02:16:34,000 --> 02:16:37,840
Speaker 1: West coast um and our distribution is with cookies. But

2233
02:16:37,920 --> 02:16:41,760
Speaker 1: it's almost like a necessary branding tool right now, where

2234
02:16:41,879 --> 02:16:43,520
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want the artists to go parking

2235
02:16:43,560 --> 02:16:45,640
Speaker 1: money on a bus down and and and the chain.

2236
02:16:45,720 --> 02:16:48,120
Speaker 1: You want parking money somewhere to invest in future business

2237
02:16:48,640 --> 02:16:51,199
Speaker 1: and counterbusiness a great future business to invest in because

2238
02:16:51,240 --> 02:16:53,080
Speaker 1: it's still growing and it's becoming more legal as we

2239
02:16:53,160 --> 02:16:55,560
Speaker 1: go along, you know, I mean I saw soon now

2240
02:16:55,959 --> 02:16:57,480
Speaker 1: you know, one of the biggest Latin arts in the world,

2241
02:16:57,920 --> 02:17:00,360
Speaker 1: you know, just took over Puerto Rico. But with the

2242
02:17:00,440 --> 02:17:03,039
Speaker 1: grow and with the with the retail stores, it's growing

2243
02:17:03,080 --> 02:17:05,240
Speaker 1: and he's growing and they'll be retail ss in Puerto

2244
02:17:05,320 --> 02:17:09,039
Speaker 1: Rico with cookies parted with yes, Puerto Ricos, Yes, yes,

2245
02:17:09,400 --> 02:17:12,120
Speaker 1: So there's this whole new business that and it's not

2246
02:17:12,320 --> 02:17:14,760
Speaker 1: just in hip hop world. It's also going more into

2247
02:17:14,760 --> 02:17:16,080
Speaker 1: the lat world. Just like you got to talking about

2248
02:17:16,120 --> 02:17:18,440
Speaker 1: drill before. I mean, Latin artists have driel records. Now

2249
02:17:18,720 --> 02:17:20,520
Speaker 1: you know, you got followed. You gotta how to follow

2250
02:17:20,520 --> 02:17:24,320
Speaker 1: you always. So it's like the culture is the time

2251
02:17:24,520 --> 02:17:26,720
Speaker 1: is shortening when people are picking up on what top

2252
02:17:27,200 --> 02:17:29,760
Speaker 1: and how to get involved. But we c J Yeah,

2253
02:17:29,800 --> 02:17:31,600
Speaker 1: we definitely did a strain on We learned a lot

2254
02:17:32,120 --> 02:17:35,560
Speaker 1: um and hats off guys, because you guys were there

2255
02:17:35,560 --> 02:17:37,880
Speaker 1: from the beginning. I cannot imagine what it was like

2256
02:17:38,040 --> 02:17:41,440
Speaker 1: that you guys are willing to do, like get along,

2257
02:17:41,840 --> 02:17:44,480
Speaker 1: get down with other artists to give them their own

2258
02:17:44,560 --> 02:17:48,760
Speaker 1: strain under your umbrella. Or it's like, yeah, we've been

2259
02:17:48,800 --> 02:17:50,560
Speaker 1: talking to a bunch of different artists to be honest,

2260
02:17:50,600 --> 02:17:52,960
Speaker 1: that that fit the right mode of what they're trying

2261
02:17:53,000 --> 02:17:55,160
Speaker 1: to do. You know what I'm saying. We've been having

2262
02:17:55,240 --> 02:17:58,440
Speaker 1: some great conversations and you're gonna be seeing some partnerships

2263
02:17:58,520 --> 02:18:01,720
Speaker 1: being announced in the very near future. Okay, we're enough

2264
02:18:01,800 --> 02:18:05,480
Speaker 1: for me? Yeah, enough for me. He's the least Papa.

2265
02:18:06,040 --> 02:18:11,440
Speaker 1: Are we good? I think it's I think it's like

2266
02:18:11,480 --> 02:18:14,120
Speaker 1: two more questions. Man, I think you got one left?

2267
02:18:14,760 --> 02:18:17,360
Speaker 1: What I got? I don't know. I don't know something.

2268
02:18:17,760 --> 02:18:19,920
Speaker 1: Yeah I do. I want I'm trying to get in

2269
02:18:19,959 --> 02:18:29,760
Speaker 1: the weed. Mother. The reason why I keep drilling down

2270
02:18:30,040 --> 02:18:32,760
Speaker 1: no pun intended on drill on the branding side is

2271
02:18:32,800 --> 02:18:35,400
Speaker 1: I feel that when this this thing could go national,

2272
02:18:35,520 --> 02:18:37,760
Speaker 1: it could go international, you know what I'm saying. And

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Speaker 1: then when you have a brand that's just known, you

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Speaker 1: can license license, license, license, lis So here's what they think.

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Speaker 1: If there's gonna be twenty licenses in New York, a

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Speaker 1: dirty licenses in New York or whatever, they feel like

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Speaker 1: they can make the brand themselves and make a higher margin.

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Speaker 1: So what ends up happening is you know some of

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Speaker 1: this system, but it is you want the best product.

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Speaker 1: They feel like, you know, so that's that's where that

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02:19:06,040 --> 02:19:08,160
Speaker 1: just gets tricky. So you have to have control of

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Speaker 1: the supply chain. You gotta be able to grow it.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, that's a lot. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's black people in its farming, so for me, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not Do you think that the cultivation side of

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Speaker 1: it is one of the most important parts for people

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Speaker 1: to get involved in. I think cultivation and branding go

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Speaker 1: hand and that's the most important part of the whole.

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Speaker 1: The word is distribution and all of that land because

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Speaker 1: I feel like you want, we want to be vertically

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Speaker 1: integrated whenever possible, because we were in there early. So

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Speaker 1: that's an option, but the way they're doing things, it's

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Speaker 1: not necessarily as much of an option, you know, So

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Speaker 1: distributions Frances France, I don't know about France already grows,

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Speaker 1: already grows in France. You see Murder Mountain the documentary

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Speaker 1: the first they're murdering people up there and we ain't

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Speaker 1: up there and county. It's a whole different, every every

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Speaker 1: state is different. Called Murder Mountain. Fam that's different, though

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Speaker 1: it's not different. They're murdering people in the mountains, ram

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Speaker 1: taking taking a week yea cocaine. If they're gonna watch

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Speaker 1: the documentary, I knew, Like my people said, Yo, none

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Speaker 1: of that. We don't want to come to Homeboll County

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Speaker 1: with us. I was like, what, Like, I've been in

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Speaker 1: the worst flits in America. Like that's a ChIL. I

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02:20:33,400 --> 02:20:35,200
Speaker 1: watched the documentary. I was like, I want to go there.

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Speaker 1: I think I think I think he said something point

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Speaker 1: ain't everybody it's got You got to be part of

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Speaker 1: the coachure. You gotta live in the coaches has to

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Speaker 1: be real, has to be authentic, right, just like the music.

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Speaker 1: Same thing. That's important because the culture itself is growing exponentially,

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02:20:49,360 --> 02:20:53,039
Speaker 1: that's right, and it's all mixed, not about black and brown,

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02:20:53,400 --> 02:20:56,280
Speaker 1: mixed culture something that's right, you know. But it's gonna

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Speaker 1: go corporate. That's the thing. It's inevitable. That's what I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to say, is how do we take advantage of

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Speaker 1: something that it's inevitably going to go very corporate and

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02:21:03,680 --> 02:21:07,760
Speaker 1: they have a brand. That's what keeps saying, I can't,

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Speaker 1: we can't be naive to that. You got a great team,

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02:21:10,360 --> 02:21:12,960
Speaker 1: you gotta knowledge. But you said something you said you

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02:21:13,000 --> 02:21:15,760
Speaker 1: were as like thirty million right, So who was the

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02:21:15,800 --> 02:21:18,880
Speaker 1: people that you went to to wasise this money? So

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Speaker 1: it was some of my own money. Um, it was

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Speaker 1: a bunch of ex athletes or whatever. And then like

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Speaker 1: forensic Family. Okay, no, none of what you wanted. The

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Speaker 1: name we had we just started to get institute was

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Speaker 1: public yeah, like spot, like that's the start that corporated.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean that I want. I want

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02:21:48,520 --> 02:21:51,119
Speaker 1: to drill down in fact, this's billion dollar companies are

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Speaker 1: four years old. They don't have they have a four

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Speaker 1: year head start, So I get it. But I'm saying

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Speaker 1: those people aren't as far along as you might think

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Speaker 1: that are ahead of the curve. And at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, it's still selling marijuana, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I don't want to overcomplicate what that's

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Speaker 1: not just but it's not just to your point, not

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Speaker 1: just matter wanted. It's it's also oils. It's also it's

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02:22:13,720 --> 02:22:15,160
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know we started in

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02:22:15,280 --> 02:22:17,680
Speaker 1: constant trates like I yeah, but at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, it's selling cannabis in some way shape fair enough,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, and I think y'all

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Speaker 1: influence the culture, like no what I mean, that's what

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Speaker 1: the branding thing. I just want to when it's monetized

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Speaker 1: and want us to be in the best position, in

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Speaker 1: the strongest position possible as far as the brand side

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Speaker 1: of things. But I agree with you, the worldwide distribution

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Speaker 1: of the cannabis brand is the you know, the way

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Speaker 1: to go. Are people even like, all right, you know

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02:22:45,720 --> 02:22:47,840
Speaker 1: what all the States is going legal? People even think

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02:22:47,840 --> 02:22:57,520
Speaker 1: about Amsterdam like overseas all people like? But they are

2349
02:22:57,640 --> 02:23:01,800
Speaker 1: they all then when Denver first went, they nemorous. They

2350
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Speaker 1: were all in Denver trying to figure it out. Did

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Speaker 1: you see a documentary about the seeds? No, there are

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Speaker 1: scenes that course a million dollars. What's the name of

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02:23:09,240 --> 02:23:12,080
Speaker 1: that company? It's crazy. They're guys that go the seeds.

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Speaker 1: There are guys that go to the Amazon to find

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Speaker 1: a certain seed for a certain stream, and the seeds

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Speaker 1: or a million dollars, Like the business is so diverse. Crazy,

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Speaker 1: the seed itself, it's so diverse. I was like a

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Speaker 1: million dollars for a seed. So it doesn't sure good crop.

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Speaker 1: You're just getting seeds, good seeds. You don't know what

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Speaker 1: kind of female you're gonna get, right, Yeah, But now

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Speaker 1: got to be a female seed, right, but we planted

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Speaker 1: you just you said, what kind of female seed? You know, females,

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Speaker 1: that's a big word. I don't know what that at

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Speaker 1: least that female, you know, I don't think it has

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02:23:49,560 --> 02:23:59,600
Speaker 1: an I'm saying female. It's a female. It's either or

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Speaker 1: you want it to be female. Then you wanted to

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02:24:01,640 --> 02:24:12,440
Speaker 1: be dope because that's true. But it's just like it's

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Speaker 1: like we come from the same mother and father, but

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Speaker 1: you know, y'all could be brothers and y'all are totally different.

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Speaker 1: So it's the same thing with the females of the seeds, right,

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Speaker 1: they come from the same mother and father, but each

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Speaker 1: one grows different. You don't want to grow nine times

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Speaker 1: out of team. You don't want to grow the one

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02:24:26,280 --> 02:24:40,760
Speaker 1: that looked like me, not him. You went there that viola.

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Speaker 1: I just felt like crippy. To be honest, you just

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02:24:46,560 --> 02:24:49,320
Speaker 1: love Miami. He just loved anything. Come out with crippy.

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02:24:50,080 --> 02:24:53,959
Speaker 1: Wait for it, I'm gonna come out with it again, crippy, crippy.

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Speaker 1: But then, what's what's the league going to do? Nothing

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02:24:56,800 --> 02:25:00,360
Speaker 1: he got to do with my crippy, crippy, cripp What

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Speaker 1: do you think? Hazes? Jada Kisses the last two people

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Speaker 1: on earth that smoke hazes. So let me ask what's

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Speaker 1: the real is the real haze? Where was that at? Sid?

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Speaker 1: You get it only New York? I like your questions, sir, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure that out, Edie, that's a million

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Speaker 1: out of seed. Like, did you imagine if you had

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Speaker 1: a license to sell Hayes in New York? Leave? I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest, but they don't got the nineteen double, you know,

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Speaker 1: they don't got that Haye. But but but let's be clear.

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Speaker 1: Creepy is Hayes. It's Hays little cousins mix, It's Hayes,

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Speaker 1: little cousin. I look at us about it's o G.

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Speaker 1: It's that's true. At one point they call you remember

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Speaker 1: my preppy was very specific for the orange chairs. Look

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Speaker 1: at you, CLEI brain you know, man, listen. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if y'all know. Our show is about giving people

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Speaker 1: You want to big y'all up, you know, for everything

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Speaker 1: you're doing, because that's what this show is about. It

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Speaker 1: it's just bigging other people. It didn't take anything away

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Speaker 1: from me to pick up what your brothers are doing,

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