WEBVTT - Episode 266 w/ John Monopoly and Al Harrington 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.159 Welcome to Drink Champs, the production of The Black Effect 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:19.599 and I Heart Radio and it's drinks, motherfucking podcast. He's 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.440 a legendary queen's rapper. He's like Green is your boy 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.240 in O r E. He's a Miami hip hop pioneer 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.520 up his DJ e FN. Together they drink it up 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.960 with some of the biggest players in the most professional, 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.120 unprofessional podcast and yet number one sorts for drunk fast 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.120 drinks mother every day is New Year's e. That's like, 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:49.240 it's time for Drink Champs. Trink up mother, Mother. What 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.200 a good vie? Ops it should be. It's your boy. 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:53.880 What's going on as d J e F and this 0:00:54.000 --> 0:01:00.760 militating crazy wall drink chess? Yeah, yall banks up and 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.520 right now. You know I usually do a big, illustrious, 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.280 long intro, but what we're gonna do be a little late, 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.640 so we on time, but we're gonna get to it 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.000 right now. When I look at the left, I look 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:16.000 at the NBA star person that was drafted first round, 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.640 you know what I mean? Um went on, he had 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.400 an illustrious career and then came out and then switched 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.440 it all up after the NBA and invested in cannabis, 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.679 and from what I believe, it is the first black 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.880 owned cannabis company in California. I'm not sure we'll get 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.640 to the that. Then the next brother right here, he 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:39.000 worked with vir later rackets by later Management. I saw 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:40.880 him in the office stretched out. I knew him when 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:46.800 he had air. He worked with Kanye West, pure Kanye. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.080 He's got a lot to do with the air fact. Joe, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.040 Mr Elliott, anybody you want to you want to name, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.120 and the music business, John Monopoly has had a part 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:57.840 of it. So case you don't know who we're talking about. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:06.320 So my al motherfucking heritage and John the monopoly. So John, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.840 I want to stop with you right because we read 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.720 this article that comes out that says that you're the 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:18.520 cheap strategy officer Village which is uh out, and are 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:23.120 the partner they founded Village in Viola and together we 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.520 are the largest black owned cannabis companies. Make some noise 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.919 for that. That's what it makes the largest. It's the largest. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.760 How is the first? It's not the first, it's the largest, Okay, 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.560 So what made you all right? Cool? Because he was 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:44.839 burning when he was in the league, rights to it, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.880 all right, So that cool? You're playing. You you you 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.440 get injured. You know what I mean, they prescribed you 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.560 these these medications, right do you did you ever comply 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.239 to that? Yeah? I mean obviously I had a bunch 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:01.960 of injuries, So I had like twelve, I had twelve 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.760 surgeries throughout my career. So I definitely had my fair 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:09.359 share a c l back, both my shoulders, my hand. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.160 I had a bunch of stuff in my knees, both knees, 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.560 so uh, you know, definitely had my fair share surgery. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.600 Definitely had my fair share prescriptions. And you know what's 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.760 crazy about that is like when they give you prescriptions, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.440 they give you like endless amounts of prescriptions, you know 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.320 what I'm saying, And then they wonder why guys end 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.359 up you know, yeah, yeah, to give you a lot 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.960 Molly poker set like that everything. Okay, what I'm saying, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.640 whatever you want for the most yeah, exactly. So you know, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.880 and and a lot of players, you know, suffer from that, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.000 you know what I'm saying, They get to the point 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.280 where they struggle with addiction. And you know, obviously I've 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.880 changed that perception, you know what I'm saying in regards 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.120 to you know, professional athletes, and cannabis shoes. So he 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.600 wasn't burning in the league. I was not. I just 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.000 want to know. I was scared bro from Jersey, so 0:03:53.080 --> 0:04:02.880 like where I grew up, as you know, it's like, yeah, bro, range, 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.760 you know what I'm saying, waring drugs. You know, I 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.760 was going in eighties, so you know I'm an eighties 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.400 babies and I saw like kids get you know, locked up. 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:10.960 You know, I've been stopped in frist because I was 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:12.760 always bigging in my age. You know what I'm saying, 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.920 that I looked or whatever. So I was always afraid 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.200 of wead, you know what I'm saying. But when I 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.120 got to the NBA, you know, getting drafted out of 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.560 high school, first training camp, you know, some of the 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:21.960 vets called me because they wanted me to make a 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.160 store run for him. And when I get it's really 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:25.680 like that they make the rookie go to the store. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.720 You gotta do everything, bro, Like you ain't got some cigars. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.480 I got two young to get cigars. I had to 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:40.960 get like baby wipes, Baby's baby. Like, Bro, I walked 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.279 in the room, Bro, cloud of smoke came out room 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.440 and I walk in and then they're blowing it down. 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.520 I'm just looking around and whatever. They like rookie batt 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.240 and I say ship like I ain't gonna say nothing 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:51.800 or whatever. So I run the store, do what I 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.640 gotta do. And they really do call your rookie when 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.360 you don't call you your name, but everybody here rookie, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:06.520 US three rookies on. So yeah, bro the next day 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.160 and practice dog he was dogging into practice killing. No 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.640 we his crea team. I don't know if you know 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.520 what that, beau, his creer team is. Yeah, it makes 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:35.880 you better team. That's good coming from John. You had 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.839 one of the greatest opportunities in the world at one point, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.040 like he was directly working with Chris Lady and the 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.480 later like how did that come about? And how did 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.240 how did that happen? Um? I was a party promoter 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.120 in Chicago and uh timbu two right, yeah, timbucto. He 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.200 would he would j in my clubs back in the day, 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.880 Dragon Room, Biology by all these clubs. Rest in peace, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.520 Tim and I became friends with somebody who used to 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.920 come to my club who was friends with Chris, and 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.080 she told Chris about this guy that was throwing parties 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.240 like he did and managing Producers because I was managing 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:15.159 and I at the time, but there was nobody. You 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:21.480 couldn't you couldn't you could, you couldn't give us right 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.920 now cool. So me and Chris got cool. He would 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.320 let me take meetings with him, and then he was like, YEO, 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.479 if you ever decided to come to New York, you know, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.200 I'll give you a shot. And I was a little 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.680 little timid, but you know, I just I looked up 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.839 to him so much. And and Mono, you know, embraced 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.520 me in top Moscow Woods and I got cool with 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.200 James Cruise and the whole crew. And so that's how 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.400 I became a Violet and I'm a Violetist for life, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.200 you know what I mean to this day. But how 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.760 different was that, like, you know, going for managing producers 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.680 and then being a part of a company. Because this 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.240 company is l L COO J. This is Miss Elliotts, 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.000 the biggest, this was the biggest management company in hip hop. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.720 It was, uh, it was culture shock, you know what 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.440 I mean, because I was, you know, a kid from 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.880 Chicago trying to figure it out. And then I went 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.320 to New York and all the stars that I had 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.960 been seeing on television and trying to be around I'm 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:16.320 not in business with I was. It was to me 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.200 being having experience in violated Violator, you would be a 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:20.840 part of Bolt, but then you would be a part 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.480 of certain people's projects. So whose projects was you in 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.360 charge of? Right? So I was the head of producer management, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.080 so I handled Missy Elliott to me and Missy did 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.160 a project together for Monica. It was actually Monica's last 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.720 hit album and it was like, was so gone on 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.800 all these records? So I handed Missy Elliott. I had 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.720 a seven A really is who was a huge producer 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:45.320 for Murdering, which he'd be like, he's weird, he's weird, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:51.400 but he's done. So Havoc from mob D, who's incredible 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.000 we work with have you know as recently as last 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.120 year with yeah and um yeah absolutely his family of course. Um. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:02.080 So it was Havoc, Missy and Happen primarily and I'm 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.400 sure I'm forgetting somebody, but those are like the main three. Yeah, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.120 Because I was ahead of producer management, so I was 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.960 just shopping everybody's beach, trying to keep them and working, 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.720 you know, make sure our producers were constantly working. And 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.360 now we got a space here, which one you want 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:21.760 to open? I want a water. I can't drink Jesus 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.080 the roads. All right, cool, I'm gonna let you open that, sir. Goddamn. Yeah, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:29.920 as approved was making wants the more, I ain't gonna 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:35.200 with water somewhere. You know, I got hold bag of it. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.400 I think you left it. I let a whole or 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:43.040 maybe I don't know. So all right, let's moving on this. Yeah, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.240 you gotta hold it in my hallway. So you get 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.479 out the NBA. And how do you get this opportunity 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.559 to become involved with cannabis, especially if you're sticking to 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.880 your story, you didn't, Um, you ain't smoking the lead? 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.720 So what made you start to say, you know what 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.960 can in the business is my way of life? What 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.320 happened for me? Um? You know when I was I 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.320 went to I signed in Denver for the Denver Nuggets 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.480 and uh, you know cannabis, was you gotta open that? 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:22.400 I'm stay so yeah? So I so we went to 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.160 Denver and you know out there that the cannabis programs 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.160 was kind of just starting or whatever. And my grandmother 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:33.240 seventy nine years or convince convinced of the um, come 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.760 see me play and Normally she would say no, because 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.920 you know she can't dry that she's not trying to go. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.800 But for some reasons she said yes. Put on the plane. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.320 She got there, took her bags down, said she had 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.600 me bring a back back up. And as I'm bringing up, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.280 I can hear it shaking. It sound like a pill back. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.480 So I get it upstairs, put on the counter. She 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.480 come upstairs. She opened it up and she takes like 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.920 thirty pills. So I just look at it them, like, Grandma, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.040 are you taking so much medicine? What's going on? And 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.839 she was like, I got high blood pressure, diabetes, glaucoma. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.200 And I was like, glaucoma, got coma. I was like Grandma. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:03.720 I was just like Grandma was just reading newspaper two 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.200 days ago, how cannabis. I was calling the cannabis, How 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.160 cannabis helps glad coma, and it does this that in 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.480 the third and she said, are even more professional when 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.160 we call the cannabis. I just feel like it's a 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:18.240 lot easier for weed. And and it was cannabis in 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:26.400 the article used to sound like crack. That's no, but 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.000 that's what she called it. She was likely She asked me, like, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.880 what is cannabis, and I was like, marijuana weed. She's 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:35.199 like read like a smoking and I was like, no, Grandma, 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.240 looks like I said, it's medicinal as doctors prescribed this, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.840 blah blah blah. She like no. Next day I come home, 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:42.440 she's sitting in the kitchen and I'll come back from 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.760 shooting around. She's sitting at the table like this. So 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.880 I walked into my grandma, what's up? So she like squinted, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.600 She's like, is that you baby? Dogs? Like, yeah, how 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.559 are you doing? She smoked it? No, it's not yet. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.880 She's just looking at she like she's like, my eyes 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.880 hurt so bad today I can barely see. So I said, well, Grandmama, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.960 she just tried, you know, try to cannabis. And I 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.280 was like the sea group won'ta tell nobody. I'm made 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.600 so much paining day I try and I called my 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.040 boy he bringing back vietnamuse and then the volcano back 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:15.440 from her had a smoking right to stand. I didn't know, like, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:22.680 I'm not a smoke I didn't know. I just sounds 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.480 because she goes and she's smoking and she's smoking and 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.320 blowing it out her nose. And she didn't even blow 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.920 I'm looking at him, like, Grandma, you showing you on 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:38.360 smoke with blowing it out. So I taken outstairs. I 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.000 go taking that hour in the athlete. I go check 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.400 on her, and when I knocked on the door, I 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.320 don't hear nothing. So I knock again. I opened the 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.120 door and back to the door and she's looking down 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:46.840 and I'm like, Grandma, how are you feeling? I gotta 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.280 smirk on my face. And she turned around. She's crying 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.160 to She's like, I'm helled. She's like, you're not having 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:52.480 been able to read the words of my bike went 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.680 over three years, she's downstairs reading a bikey weather. She 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:04.280 got that much of candidate. So that's how I started, man, 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:05.800 That's how we got into the game. And that's how 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.200 I started to learn more about cannabis, and I learned how, 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.720 you know, help kids with epilepsy and siegures, people that 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.600 have like HIV and cancer termally ill like just a 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.040 better quality and like because me, like me, I just 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.720 want to get hot. Just being honest with you, right, 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.760 but just being honest right. But there is like the 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.800 medical benefits and all this that people like you. I 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.360 love hearing stories where people like you when you actually 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.800 have these better who benefits of it? Like, you know 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.240 what I'm saying, Like me, I like, I'm just being honest. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:32.800 I just want to get like I just don't want 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.040 to be sober, right, But there is this medical benefits 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.320 and have you been able to explore those? Yeah? Definitely. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.000 I mean you know, when we first started, one of 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.360 our extractors or whatever, he had a patient that had 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.200 like a hundred and twenty tumors on his lungs or whatever, 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.560 and he saw to him making him miss Rick Simpson oil, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.920 which is pretty much all the cannabinoids and playing. Now 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:55.920 I'm talking like a nerd ain't at the end of 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.679 the day, he gave it to this dude. They gave 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.160 him six months to live or whatever. He started eating 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.120 them or whatever. Due ended up living like six years 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.000 and all the tumors went off his lungs. You know 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:05.679 what I'm saying. So, these are like things that I'm 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.520 seeing when I very first get into the game, you 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.440 know what I'm saying. So and you go from that 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.720 to like, you know, one of my aunties have breast cancer. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.559 You know what I'm saying. I made her capsule is 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.559 the same thing she took them throughout her whole chemo. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.320 She gained eight pounds through chemo. You know, you know 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:23.440 obviously you know I'm saying stuff like that, So you know, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.640 I just have all kinds of stories of like how 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.120 magnificent this plan is. And it's just cool because we 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.920 just beginning the journey to like run attack into figuring 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.920 out all the things cannabis really can help. Now, how 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.839 is it to get it into dispensaries because obviously they 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.760 say that, Um, it's harder for for black people because 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.480 we started later. It has been hard for you because well, yeah, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.920 I mean it's been difficult right in just serve areas. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.840 So every state is different, right, so you know some 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.560 places is a lot easier to get you know, now 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.280 dem is actually very very uh highly regulated. Yeah, it's 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.480 oversaturated too, but like it's the it's probably the tough. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.720 But I glom minds in Denver, right, So that's what 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.080 is that easier easier for me? Yeah? Well, I mean 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.880 you just gotta if you have a license, you have 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.880 a license in that state, you can operate, you know 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.800 what I'm saying. So you'll work with somebody either for 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.160 distribution to different things like that. So it just depends 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.200 on the state's model. Every state is different, which is 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.959 very difficult. And that's why when you really look at 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.200 what we've been able to accomplish as being the biggest 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.520 multi state you know, Black operating company is really really 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.440 have to take your hats off to us because you know, 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.240 currently we raised about thirty million dollars combining both companies, 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.120 and our competitors have raised three, four or five hundred 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.560 million and some of them not even around anymore, you 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.440 know what I'm saying. So you know, it's it's extremely difficult. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.800 It's very uh, it's very expensive, you know what I'm saying, 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.960 to operate because if you want to have quality, which 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.680 which we smoke, you know what I'm saying, you have 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.480 to grow it yourself. You know what I'm saying. You 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.320 can't really rely on a partnership in another state to 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.520 you know, pretty much grow you know, candidacy where you 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.000 want to consistency across the states if you're gonna have 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.840 a product to maintained. But not only that, um, yeah, 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.640 you're come back too, but not only at Like I 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.400 see you like in the Soul House and see you 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.400 in l A and you will always like you know, 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.440 pass off. And the good thing about it is you've 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.600 never gave me something that was whack. And not only 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.880 that it wasn't it was always greatly packaged. It's like, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.800 y'all take your time on packaging it. And and I 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.440 think that a lot of times people just think that 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.800 we're supposed to support black because it's black. We want 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.080 to support quality, we want to support the best ship, 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.520 and if it happens to be black, that's sucking awesome, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.760 you know what I'm saying. So that's one of the 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.120 things that I loved about it. Like every time I was, 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.760 you know, getting something that, always look at the quality. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.160 Always look how it's packaged, and look how it's roll, 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.360 Look how it smells, look how and everything. So what 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.880 made y'all like spend so much time in my opinion, Well, 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.320 I always say, like, you know, for me, especially because 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.400 I got into the Candidis game so late, and like 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.560 having people like you, like when we did Biggs. When 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.560 I think I'm at the first messig the second time 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.560 me and you at the big birthday party, you know, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.000 the first thing you said to me when I gave 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:54.920 you the wink, he was like, bro, straight up. He 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:56.680 was like when somebody gave me a week before. I 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.160 was like, it's a basketball player, just like gottest ship 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.480 to the side. I finally got to smoke that. She 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:12.200 was like this motherfucker's were smoking. You know what I'm saying. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.320 But you know, to your point, it's like, you know, 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.000 my whole thing is like playing the NBA sixteen years 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:18.600 or One thing I learned with what they did with 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.560 us was that they branded the hell out of us, right, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.640 So like when the season started, to give us ten 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.480 sweat suits, they give us fifty pairs socks, hats, everything 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.320 because it's the logo. It's like, you know what I'm saying. 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.680 So I realized that if you're gonna build a brand, 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.400 that you got to be forward facing and at the 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.120 end of the day, you gotta have products that people 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.000 are gonna want to put up, you know what I'm saying. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.480 So for us, like when we look at like packaging 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.720 the product everything, we wanted to be the best of 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.720 the best because to your point, right, we don't want 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.760 you to support it just because we're black on when 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.880 the super boats, because I should just fired, you know 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.800 what I'm saying. The plus, you know what I'm just saying, 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.280 give it like Our biggest thing is we want to 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.240 give our community something that they can call their room. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.480 You know what I'm saying, almost like the food model 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.400 like when they was coming up. And one thing I 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.120 can tell y'all, your packaging don't look like no other packages. 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.560 Like me, I smoke everything every weed out there, right, 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.399 And I want to even try to ship, like I 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.240 want to try to ship like that's Bob. I'm like, 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:09.480 I don't care. Let me you know what I mean, 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.120 Like I go buy it. And one thing for sure 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.720 is everyone is kind of leaning towards like the sereal 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:21.880 look the character and it's it's it's actually it's actually 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.720 fucking up for the kids because it's cartoon. Is what 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.080 made y'all. What made y'all say I'm gonna separate from 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.280 that and like, you know, like it doesn't look like 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.720 a cartoon. Well it's funny, right, It's because at the 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.879 end of the day, the culture wants that, you know 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:37.600 what I'm saying. And I'm always a firm believe you 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.080 kind of give the people what they want. But for us, 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:41.920 we looked at it like we're gonna make that extra 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.159 investment to kind of teach people who it's gonna look 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.320 like in the future, you know what I'm saying. So 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.719 that's how we looked at that. Like with bags, you know, 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.440 there's something to be said with bags made potentially keep 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.199 the flower fresher and every things like that. We just 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.040 felt like with the jars or whatever, like I wanted 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.080 to be a surprise element, like you don't know what 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.879 it is until you actually opening, you know what I'm saying. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.240 Bad motherfucker would do some lemon cherry gelato crazy in 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:13.520 some violo galler I don't want to, don't. You don't 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:20.240 got no insurance that is come up closes. You said 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:33.040 you're smoking closes. That's well, I'm smoking a whole bunch 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:40.800 of the ship too. You know, John Boom, you are 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.600 not only Kanye West is like I want. Would you 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:50.359 say somewhat of a mentor mentor No? No, brother, brother, Okay, 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.159 that's I'm a couple couple of years older than him. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.960 So how how much did your phone ring after he 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:03.600 left TMZ that day? It rain a little bit, I mean, 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.360 but you know, we all go through what we go through. 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.240 Something None of us are perfect. You know, maybe he 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.200 made a mistakes here and there, but that's my brother 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:15.240 you know, is what it is. How did you feel 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:22.120 when he supported Trump? Um, it wasn't. It wasn't my 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:27.600 personal take on how I do my politics. But I 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.240 support him. That's my brother. I don't. I don't no 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.840 matter what he does, you know, no matter how he 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.760 decides to make put on his pants or wear a 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.080 hat whatever, I shouldn't make me no mind. I love 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:41.880 at How difficult is that? I don't know. I'm saying 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:44.159 you agree with it or didn't disagree with it, But 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.159 how difficult is that to have someone you call your 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.240 brother and have him make a decision that the black 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:53.399 community is just frowned upon? Is that difficult situation or 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.159 is something that you used to because he's just in 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:59.159 the public eye. I think, Um, I don't know if 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.560 it was difficult, Just is what it is. I never 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.280 really looked at it like I was under no extra 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.840 pressure because my man was taking a particular stance. I 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.960 think we're all free in this country to take whatever 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:15.960 stands we want at any given time. And that's just 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:27.360 what I say about that. What easy today for you? Man? 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:35.239 I've seen a boast the gap the other day like 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:37.879 this is this is you know, I'm gonna be honest. 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.520 You know that jacket fire too. I just feel Gap 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.240 is trash. I'm throwing it out there. If he can 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:48.760 make Gap good, he's a bad motherfucker. Because listen, I'm 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.720 gonna be honest, but he is a bad motherfucker. Yeah 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:56.520 that too. Just watch, just watch if he gets me 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.680 the wear guy. It's come on, but the jacket is 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.560 all it's not my style. Okay, it's not my style. 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.800 It's like the whole collection, the chance I'm gonna get 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:06.399 a collection, the chance I'm gonna get a collection, the 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.359 chance I wear Jess, I wear y Es. Yeah. But 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:14.480 um but ga, that just like a weird like. That's 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:19.959 like saying it's a personal thing. That's like saying, um, Elise, 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.320 you remember Elise. That's like saying I'm bringing Elise back. 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:31.440 You remember lottos? I lovember a lotto when you could you? Yeah, 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.240 I do what I was talking about, y'all. Old Motherfucker's 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:35.840 when I said, you know when you remember it up, 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:38.000 you think us motherfucker could bring a lot on back, 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.320 You gotta be a bad motherfucker. But let me ask 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:44.399 if anybody could do it at the crop ships that 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.200 he got us wearing, right, now we out a line 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:52.600 in the world crazy, World Crazy. I don't wear them too. 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:57.960 I don't get you want to tell you man, you 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:03.280 want to come to so but is that the like 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:08.520 the most difficult artists or the most unpredictable rather than not, 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:11.720 let's not say difficult. What's the most unpredictable artists you've 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:22.639 ever worked with? Probably Kanye Yeah, I managed Busted for 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:29.000 a while. Gotta be yeah. I working with Bustle was 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:30.879 always fun because I knew what it was coming. But 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:33.520 you know, yeah, we might be here one day. I 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:35.359 remember we was in Atlanta last year for three and 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:37.280 a half months ago, were doing all this since and 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.320 the next day we was gone. That's how he moved. 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:42.679 That was part of the genius. And he's a superhero, 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:44.760 so you can't funk with him. What's his white place 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:51.200 in America? I mean, like, listen, man, that's just what 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:55.880 Landa exactly he got. It's not my Knda bro, it's 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:59.520 what Landa like because he got his own little white Harry. 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:01.760 Y'all don't know what I'm talking about. Come on there, 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:07.640 who know why it's only white? My brother never been 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:12.240 there exactly. I mean, I ain't American sail listen to me, 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.680 you know. But um, I see NAS go out there. 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:19.280 Um this was actually the first time they invited me 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:22.840 as press and um I didn't go, but this was 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:24.399 the time to this coming. I think they've listen to 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:27.960 NAS album on this album and the fact that I've 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:30.760 seen people going crazy to go to Wyoming who've never 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.120 been to Wyoming. I'm like, once you get there, once 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.080 you leave, the rents just open. You can't go to 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:37.560 seven of em nothing. They don't got a ya, none 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:40.520 of that. So but how the hell because now I 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:42.960 see Dave Chappelle. Now Dave Chappelle is doing the same thing. Well, 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:49.840 I think, Hio, what does it want with these rich people? 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:51.480 What do they do? They just they just go out 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:55.000 there and just find out that nobody like you don't like? 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.720 Now that's something. What doesn't mean? That's very too, that's 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:03.680 very to piece of question. But why on me? That's 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:08.080 like heavy Trump ship, that's Trump. No, it's not Trump, 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:16.880 it's just heavy. Yeah, it's a lot of beautiful out there. Man, 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:26.040 it really is. Come on, West, is it really is? 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:27.879 It would be nice to you. I don't want you 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:30.680 to listen, to be honest with you, if you're hanging 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:34.200 with the right people, the right Republicans, you probably be good. 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:36.840 But you know, for like, you know what I'm saying, 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:39.719 like Democrats going out there, I'm just saying or liberal 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:42.680 or you know in between. It's just a little crazy, man, 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:47.719 It's a little crazy. So what I mean, I'm just 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:49.760 being honest, like I'm not going to wire on me. 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:55.440 I'm just being honest, like, it's not everybody. It's not everybody, 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:57.240 but it is peace and quiet, it is piece and 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:00.880 quite as beautiful. Yeah, you know that's you can get 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:05.639 your zin chick. So do you smoke? I seen you 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:08.760 looking at the smoke Champs. I smoked like a manniac. Okay, 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:11.600 I seen you in Soho house. I'm no mallible, mallible. 0:25:12.240 --> 0:25:20.080 He was having dinner and and noble, God, damnit, shout 0:25:20.080 --> 0:25:22.160 out the noble and maniable. That's the best. That's the best. 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:24.720 That's the best. And um the vibe, that's the vibe. 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:30.320 I'm a restaurant guy. What's your favorite restaurant? Houston's hill Stones. 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:34.520 Let me tell you some crazy shit. I love Hillstons. 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:36.920 I hate Hillstones. It's the same. It's the same thing. 0:25:37.280 --> 0:25:43.439 It's me stones, but I love us. That's my favorite. 0:25:43.800 --> 0:25:45.760 That's your favorite favorite. If we had your last milling 0:25:45.760 --> 0:25:49.600 on earth, you would do it proticipe chicken. No, it 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:51.840 depends on it depends. I might get the Hawaiian ribby 0:25:51.840 --> 0:25:57.280 all the ribs. Okay, okay, what's your favorite restaurant? Okay, 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:02.400 all right, that's the original Noble on the Hills. Uh, 0:26:02.560 --> 0:26:05.000 right down the block from the sls. Okay, I hate 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:09.639 that spot. We did not know how to little. We 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:11.119 did not know how to eat roll fish at the 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:15.440 time he brung this us hood ass. We're sitting there. 0:26:15.440 --> 0:26:18.359 He ordered, what do you want it? He ordered the 0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:23.240 rest snap, But that's ship was like that. We don't 0:26:23.240 --> 0:26:28.280 want to act like so we even even Steve Rippin, 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:30.479 but we don't want to act like we unsimilarized. So 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:34.520 we all we all like that. Oh my god. We 0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:37.120 as soon as we finish, we go straight to fat 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:41.959 Bird like yo, no, no, the same thing we that. No, 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:45.080 you gotta go get something to the mcdowald's Gonna Street. 0:26:45.320 --> 0:26:48.000 Mcdowald's Street, for somebody is the best McDonalds in the world. 0:26:48.160 --> 0:26:51.880 I don't know why they gotta have the organic food 0:26:51.920 --> 0:26:59.199 came our favorite food. Fish I'm gonna be in once 0:26:59.240 --> 0:27:00.879 a weekend. I go to the organic food Kings. You 0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:03.160 know what I'm saying. Well, I go veg it wants 0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:08.320 a meal like everyone. Yeah, like you know what instead 0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:10.439 of like breths, thenner you go blunches out of here, 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:13.879 going foolcage. You're organic. I'm a ship all day. God 0:27:13.920 --> 0:27:21.000 damn vegan food vigging vegan? Oh man, ship? Did you 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:24.200 name your rest your favor restaurant? Okay, how about you? 0:27:24.400 --> 0:27:27.280 Bro mean? I like Brimstone the steak House and pember 0:27:27.359 --> 0:27:38.359 Punstone firing Brimstone. That a little sick? All right? Now? 0:27:38.560 --> 0:27:42.040 All right? What was yours? Yours? Noble? I'm a whole 0:27:44.640 --> 0:27:48.520 yeah kind of yeah. I'm finger popping everything. I'm finger 0:27:48.560 --> 0:27:51.520 popping every restaurant. I love it. I love it. I'm sorry, man, 0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:54.720 I'm just I just put Yeah, I'm a Dantanna Craigs, 0:27:55.119 --> 0:28:00.119 car Bone Noble crustaceans. You'll listen. It's been time I 0:28:00.200 --> 0:28:02.160 thought I went to l A just for crustaceans. I'm 0:28:02.160 --> 0:28:05.040 just being honest. They got cocaine and their noodles never 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:08.639 ever had theirs, all the noodles, all my said dress up. 0:28:08.640 --> 0:28:10.280 Every time you put on hard bottoms in the in 0:28:10.320 --> 0:28:12.640 the college shirt did get in. I'm not even gonna 0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:18.800 tell it. You crustaces. Me and Fat Joe get bit 0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:22.520 one night. We just we fucked up. We're walking crust states. 0:28:22.640 --> 0:28:26.760 We got on nothing but sweatsuits. They shut us down, Yo, brothers, 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:28.880 you can't come in here. The whole restaurant is looking 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:32.040 like that's fucking Maria facto. Me and Fat Joe's too 0:28:32.359 --> 0:28:35.680 intosticated to say something intelligent back to the major D. 0:28:36.080 --> 0:28:37.880 So we're just like, I fucking fuck you were never 0:28:37.960 --> 0:28:43.600 coming back here? Oh fuss fuck you. The next day 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:49.800 I go there, I get a dress up shirts, I 0:28:49.920 --> 0:28:52.000 get address this. I don't tell Fat Joe we need 0:28:52.080 --> 0:28:55.320 to commitment not to go in. We said for this place. 0:28:55.800 --> 0:29:09.800 I walk in and he looked like ire he coming back. 0:29:12.240 --> 0:29:14.240 It was great. It's a great time. But yeah, l 0:29:14.280 --> 0:29:16.120 A l A Cuisine, So y'are both live in l 0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:20.040 A Right, it was shut down. Yeah, y'all was shut down, 0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:22.280 shut down, shut down from shut down. How so how 0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:25.120 was that? Like y'all was quarantine. Y'all was quarantine, and 0:29:25.360 --> 0:29:28.800 when quarantine was over, that's it was crazy like like 0:29:29.400 --> 0:29:32.200 out there it had me feeling like if I left 0:29:32.280 --> 0:29:34.800 the crib, I was gonna get Corona Bro. They had 0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:37.120 this thing and that ship was like everywhere it was 0:29:37.360 --> 0:29:42.000 it was. It was Miami, Miami been open, it was, Yeah, 0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:46.440 it been. It's been disrespectful, Rose Trees all comp was 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:52.800 crazy to be glad you drink with me? You know, 0:29:55.520 --> 0:30:01.560 So John Music industry, all this luxurious things going on, 0:30:02.960 --> 0:30:06.360 You're going to switch to cannabis. Um. I don't know 0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:10.320 if it's switching. I'm diversifying. I like that word. You know, 0:30:13.760 --> 0:30:19.200 we do first of far off sorry missing you know. 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:21.440 I mean I still work full time with you and 0:30:21.680 --> 0:30:25.000 still involved in a couple of different things. But I'm definitely, uh, 0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:28.840 heavily involved in this. I'm proud to be working with 0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:32.560 these brothers and about to take over the world. How 0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:35.080 about um, is there any other clients that you work 0:30:35.160 --> 0:30:42.040 with that is involved with cannabis? Any other clients? Um? No, 0:30:42.360 --> 0:30:45.200 this is the only My only cannabis venture is Village 0:30:45.280 --> 0:30:50.600 Viola cool? And are you trying to get it into Chicago? Chicago? Yeah? Absolutely, 0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:53.040 and we're working on getting a license in the state 0:30:53.080 --> 0:30:58.080 of Illinois. Make some noise for that. Is there any 0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:01.800 full side they're going federal from your perspective, I'm not 0:31:01.920 --> 0:31:05.080 an expert in that. I'm honestly new to the space, 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:09.080 so I'd rather not answer. Um, what do you think 0:31:09.120 --> 0:31:11.440 on that? Yeah, I think that within the next I 0:31:11.440 --> 0:31:13.280 mean obviously within the next ten years, that's like a 0:31:13.320 --> 0:31:16.160 big number, but maybe like next administration, like web becomes 0:31:16.200 --> 0:31:18.720 in next I think we'll probably push it to imagine 0:31:19.320 --> 0:31:22.880 preparing for that, because that's but if they do that, 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:25.120 are they doing that state from state? Are they gonna 0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:26.920 do with the whole United It would be federal would 0:31:26.920 --> 0:31:29.800 be federal alcohol, like what happened with it, so they 0:31:29.800 --> 0:31:32.479 don't have to do with state like let's can can 0:31:32.520 --> 0:31:36.240 Minnesota say I'm a federal legalized that can that happen? 0:31:36.400 --> 0:31:40.440 Or whole federal would be the whole United States. I'm 0:31:40.480 --> 0:31:43.360 sure each state can tweak certain details of the laws, 0:31:43.440 --> 0:31:45.360 just like you know, the same thing with alcohol, but 0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:47.920 that would be the game change, like having potency like 0:31:48.000 --> 0:31:50.520 in Utah you can't like the liquids different you know, 0:31:50.680 --> 0:31:53.680 percentages in Utah the rest of the country, So changes 0:31:53.760 --> 0:32:00.400 like that, Like Um and Denver you could buy psychedelics, yeah, tabs, 0:32:00.400 --> 0:32:04.200 acid and what's the other ship? Yeah, you can buy 0:32:04.280 --> 0:32:07.920 that ship the aid though I don't know by yeah, 0:32:12.480 --> 0:32:15.560 but there's a natural version of acid, like a natural 0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:17.680 person like kind of only. The only place in that 0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:20.840 country where you could do everything legally is in Oregon, 0:32:21.240 --> 0:32:24.200 real Oregon. Everything. Nobody don't want to go to Oregon, right, 0:32:24.200 --> 0:32:26.840 nobody except for the Nike outlet. That's it. Right, It's 0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:29.280 like it's gonna go to the Knight Doud and that's it. 0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:32.120 Let's get the funk about it there. Let's see the Oregon. 0:32:32.200 --> 0:32:34.000 But that's where everybody, y'all, you could do anything you 0:32:34.040 --> 0:32:36.400 want to or anything you want. Things about hooks too, 0:32:37.480 --> 0:32:41.680 that's New York, New York by hookers. No, no, no, 0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:43.200 they said they know the sex crime is not a 0:32:43.280 --> 0:32:45.520 crime no more. They say, go fuck but you know 0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:47.760 if it's basically because it's a girl now, because it's 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:50.080 a girl like Vegas in New York, I think so 0:32:50.560 --> 0:32:54.240 they got the rent like district, like we gotta take it. Yeah, 0:32:56.760 --> 0:33:02.200 just sit around even this kind of love me a smile. 0:33:04.040 --> 0:33:09.880 He's like it's gonna be like men and oh my god, 0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:14.320 all right, man, is it quick time of slive? Yet? No? Really? Alright? Cool? 0:33:14.600 --> 0:33:16.920 So he's not drinking. So this is this is on you, 0:33:17.040 --> 0:33:19.400 all right, So this is this is what happens, This 0:33:19.680 --> 0:33:21.400 is what this is what happened as a partnership. Right, 0:33:21.880 --> 0:33:24.960 so um quick, time of slime is very quick. You 0:33:25.040 --> 0:33:27.800 just name one or the other if you do want 0:33:27.880 --> 0:33:30.160 to name both, which we've set it up for you 0:33:30.240 --> 0:33:32.120 to name both because we feel like you're friends with both. 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:34.040 So you just say both, and then you take a 0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:37.000 shot for it's no, it's nothing big, whatever shot you 0:33:37.040 --> 0:33:42.160 want you like, this is this is the summer. Oh yeah, 0:33:42.160 --> 0:33:44.200 we got to kill the guy black owners the killer too. Yeah, 0:33:44.640 --> 0:33:49.960 we gotta killer dam Every time I say booth, well 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:51.880 taut with you. We're gonna take a shot with you, 0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:54.520 like first first old Thomas, first question. I think you're 0:33:54.520 --> 0:33:56.320 gonna take a shot. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. 0:33:56.400 --> 0:33:59.880 Let's let's figure this out. Okay, are we ready? Quick 0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:04.040 time a slid? All right, but get a shot though, 0:34:05.040 --> 0:34:09.560 let's get ready. Let's get ready with the shot. Alright, cool, yeah, 0:34:09.600 --> 0:34:12.239 the first one and three I think you taking a 0:34:12.280 --> 0:34:14.200 shot in my opinion, I'm not sure. All right, let 0:34:14.239 --> 0:34:16.279 me do. I'm taking one with you though, Like I said, 0:34:16.320 --> 0:34:19.000 all right, here we go. Every time you take one. 0:34:19.360 --> 0:34:21.359 There's a couple. There's a couple one here. All right, 0:34:22.200 --> 0:34:24.440 are you ready? Even questions? Bro? Get ready? All right? 0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:29.560 Cool nas or jay z damn jay z. Okay, all right, 0:34:29.600 --> 0:34:35.439 that was the mom. Okay, respect or loyalty. Okay, let's 0:34:35.440 --> 0:34:39.880 get let's get let's set them. We're not leaving you 0:34:39.960 --> 0:34:43.000 out there at alone. This is we with the guests. 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:48.200 We're not leaving you out there alone. Baby ship sports 0:34:48.360 --> 0:34:50.759 edition drinking sport. Oh yeah, y'all gotta take shots to 0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:59.319 come on, come on, get your shots together, relaxed. I'm 0:34:59.360 --> 0:35:01.120 not talking about let's like we're gonna give him a 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:03.120 shot to take a bone later though, just just for 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:09.600 him to feel a part of the s V. That's 0:35:09.640 --> 0:35:11.400 the best way to describe it. All right, come on, 0:35:11.600 --> 0:35:13.360 let's go. I'll need a little ice, don't worry about it. 0:35:14.239 --> 0:35:18.600 But boom, yeah, he might as well keep him loaded 0:35:18.640 --> 0:35:20.320 up because this text. Next one is gonna be it 0:35:20.400 --> 0:35:31.040 too slut Yeah, STU, all right, pretty, let's go DX 0:35:31.160 --> 0:35:41.200 or tupap another one. Let's go take that shot. Come on, 0:35:41.280 --> 0:35:48.759 when he got a little shot. But I'm all right, 0:35:48.840 --> 0:35:51.040 I'm gonna let you take this shot. But then this 0:35:51.160 --> 0:35:54.000 next one, I don't know since we got we never know, 0:35:55.600 --> 0:36:04.040 we never know, all right, in the camera solo solotlettle 0:36:05.280 --> 0:36:09.960 a little m hm. Alright. This next one, I don't 0:36:10.000 --> 0:36:21.520 know Miami or Toronto. Oh my god, are you right? 0:36:22.560 --> 0:36:28.920 My lord? Miami? Like this one, I don't know nineties 0:36:29.080 --> 0:36:37.480 or two thousand hip hop? I go uh two Thousand's okay? 0:36:38.080 --> 0:36:41.279 This one is up in the air for real or 0:36:41.400 --> 0:36:48.160 Kanye both? All right? We need them both for the culture, 0:36:49.239 --> 0:36:54.080 all right, I don't I don't want to. I'm gonna okay, 0:36:54.080 --> 0:36:56.839 I'm bugging out. I'm bugging out. I'm bugging now. I'm 0:36:56.880 --> 0:37:06.040 bugging now. All right, we move both of them. Bro Okay, Okay, 0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:12.600 let's skip this one, but I'll come back to this one. 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:15.320 Make sure I'll come back to it. Has Um sour 0:37:15.560 --> 0:37:21.759 or O G O G good one. Alright, This one 0:37:21.840 --> 0:37:25.720 is up in the air, Cardi bat or Nicki Minaj. 0:37:26.960 --> 0:37:29.440 Get your shot ready, No, I could pick I could 0:37:29.480 --> 0:37:32.080 pick a back. I'm gonna go with Nicki Minaj. Okay, 0:37:32.320 --> 0:37:37.680 Queen's in the building, all right, No, you can answer this, 0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:45.840 Pap Daddy or Chris Lady. You couldn't have me answer 0:37:45.920 --> 0:37:53.520 that one. So I'm gonna say pump okay, alright, okay, 0:37:54.120 --> 0:38:00.320 podcast or radio radio Okay, all right, this is for 0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:02.440 you now, depending on how you answer, hes gonna take 0:38:02.480 --> 0:38:09.879 the shot Kanye West or common sense. You can say both. 0:38:09.960 --> 0:38:16.320 Now I'm gonna Kanye. Yeah, okay, that's real. That's my dog. Okay, 0:38:17.000 --> 0:38:22.160 this is for you too, major or independent? Now independent? 0:38:23.320 --> 0:38:33.480 That was smooth, Okay, No I d or Kanye. Let 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:42.080 him take a shot. Shot man, my brother. Yeah. You 0:38:42.160 --> 0:38:45.080 don't want to have to go back to Chicago. You 0:38:45.160 --> 0:38:51.160 don't look on any given Sunday Kanye got him fading, Okay, sorry, 0:38:51.920 --> 0:38:55.360 and no ideas obi wan, but all right, it is 0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:57.520 what it is. This is gonna suck you up. You're ready. 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:08.640 J Cole or kind both get your shout. What you 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:12.719 thought about J coole new album Love? We didn't about 0:39:12.800 --> 0:39:15.040 him playing the African League, Well, I thought it was 0:39:15.160 --> 0:39:20.080 dope earlier white. He's really I don't know. It seems 0:39:20.080 --> 0:39:22.719 like it ain't work out right. They lost, like an 0:39:23.160 --> 0:39:26.080 elimination thing or whatever. Right. He said that he had 0:39:26.160 --> 0:39:28.280 personal reasons he had to go back to the States, 0:39:28.880 --> 0:39:30.280 but I think he just got a lot of slack 0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:33.800 because people were mad that he got the position, and 0:39:33.840 --> 0:39:35.520 there were other players that were up for it, but 0:39:35.640 --> 0:39:47.440 just because he got the name whatever, Yeah, le he did, 0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:50.000 he did. He played all right too. I've seen the 0:39:50.040 --> 0:39:54.640 couple of games. All right, hold on, damn, what is okay? Here? 0:39:54.680 --> 0:40:08.040 We are all right, both of y'all. Foxy Brown, a 0:40:08.080 --> 0:40:15.480 little camp ship. I'm gonna say Foxy mm, I say 0:40:15.520 --> 0:40:20.120 both Bro, they let's go back there. We're not around 0:40:20.800 --> 0:40:24.719 watching this man. Yeah, that's how I feel. That's how 0:40:24.840 --> 0:40:28.960 I feel. This motherfucker. Hold on, hold on, tell you 0:40:29.040 --> 0:40:37.080 if we want to know, bro, is the first time 0:40:37.120 --> 0:40:44.800 I take? It's getting funky right now, Biggie or big Punt? So, 0:40:46.960 --> 0:40:53.480 I mean, it doesn't matter somebody taking a shot, big Biggie. Okay, 0:40:54.080 --> 0:40:56.800 what's up? What's up all y'all? So for me, like 0:40:56.960 --> 0:40:59.480 when I was when I was my senior in high 0:40:59.480 --> 0:41:02.000 schools and pun was like on this little run and 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:05.000 I could see him. I can sneak into this one 0:41:05.080 --> 0:41:07.319 club in Manhattan. It seemed like every time I went, 0:41:07.520 --> 0:41:13.319 he was always in there. The Mage spot right off 0:41:13.360 --> 0:41:15.160 because I even went there after my high school street. 0:41:15.840 --> 0:41:18.879 It's right off of is the West Side Highway. Yes, 0:41:19.120 --> 0:41:23.880 it's that's the carpet of the Yeah, that's the one 0:41:23.920 --> 0:41:25.959 place I could sneak into it is the seventeen eighteen 0:41:26.040 --> 0:41:28.600 year olds, And it seemed like Poe was always in there, 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:31.520 so obviously I would be like Biggie, right, just because 0:41:31.560 --> 0:41:34.120 I know, like you got a relationship. Take a shot, 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:43.880 shot man, I don't worry about it, man, this is 0:41:43.920 --> 0:42:01.280 what we do. M over there, turn around. We were 0:42:02.840 --> 0:42:08.279 oh man, okay, we only got two more. Alright, Hey, 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:10.880 nobody gave you the authority to have anything. You got 0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:15.799 to relax. I know I was coming back to that one, 0:42:15.800 --> 0:42:22.080 all right, Um Lebron or Jordan's Jordan? Yeah, Jordan? Want 0:42:22.120 --> 0:42:26.640 to serious? All right? This is Bron his number two 0:42:26.760 --> 0:42:30.239 hands down like hands down, ain't on discussion, but he 0:42:30.280 --> 0:42:33.360 got knocked out of the first round. And I'm just asking. 0:42:33.400 --> 0:42:36.000 I'm just asking. It's just like I think. I mean, 0:42:36.040 --> 0:42:38.520 he's just saying he wanted he got a movie coming 0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:42.000 out space jam Yeah, to promote that I made more 0:42:42.080 --> 0:42:45.440 money off that championship. I love your political asset. I 0:42:45.480 --> 0:42:49.480 love that. I love times the Bron. What's most important. 0:42:49.640 --> 0:43:01.879 I'm gonna seeve you Burner Bron before because you see 0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:06.200 drinking on lean Branny game. I think that was a 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:09.920 right yeah, all right, and this is the last one. 0:43:10.040 --> 0:43:12.200 We got one more after this, after this one. This, 0:43:12.360 --> 0:43:15.680 This should be pretty easy for you. Bowls are the Knicks. Knicks. 0:43:16.400 --> 0:43:19.759 I'm not asking you, okay, because I know you're just 0:43:19.760 --> 0:43:24.520 gonna go both. Okay, I'm changing it up a little bit. 0:43:25.640 --> 0:43:29.239 I don't know what you're gonna say. I think I 0:43:29.280 --> 0:43:33.600 should know what you're gonna say. Drink Champs or All 0:43:33.680 --> 0:43:40.360 the Smoke podcast. That's crazy question that shot to the shot, bro, 0:43:40.480 --> 0:43:52.680 Come on, don't hurt my feelings. Yeah yeah, who who 0:43:53.040 --> 0:43:57.680 match did our show? He did our show and last 0:43:57.920 --> 0:43:59.719 they're supposed to come to ast you man um man, 0:44:00.040 --> 0:44:02.759 um he did our show, but I think he did. 0:44:03.040 --> 0:44:04.120 He did our show. He was like, you know what, 0:44:04.200 --> 0:44:07.719 I could do this ship too, and they grow and 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:11.400 this show was great. Great. I love how because to me, 0:44:11.480 --> 0:44:14.400 that's the drink Champs of sports, Like like, um how 0:44:14.480 --> 0:44:15.920 they do it because they know y'all, Like you know 0:44:15.960 --> 0:44:17.200 what I'm saying. It's the same way we know that 0:44:17.320 --> 0:44:19.120 the artist and you know what I mean. Um, so 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:21.800 I picked him up but um yeah, that was I 0:44:21.880 --> 0:44:23.080 switched it. I ain't gonna give it that. You know 0:44:23.120 --> 0:44:26.640 what I mean? You mean yeah, I sound like DMX. 0:44:29.280 --> 0:44:35.399 Oh I gotta check my phone. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, 0:44:35.400 --> 0:44:36.879 I ain't got I ain't got. I ain't got hash 0:44:37.680 --> 0:44:42.440 oh oh oh this is the read this out out broke, 0:44:42.480 --> 0:44:54.200 Come on les Le, prostitution is legal. Yeah, out to 0:44:55.080 --> 0:45:08.640 the weirdo man man hands the whole city. Just man, 0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:14.560 oh ship, that's fun. Up the Stroke coming back the 0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:20.120 Brons where Huts Point is? Yeah, East New York. Let's 0:45:20.120 --> 0:45:23.120 not forget East New York. Damn the week Brother James, 0:45:23.160 --> 0:45:25.680 Holy movie got the moody god, damnit. Someone said, why 0:45:25.680 --> 0:45:28.680 does Boopy episode y'all had? I ain't never had none 0:45:28.719 --> 0:45:31.040 of that. They never had. I know, I get it. 0:45:31.520 --> 0:45:37.200 You ain't burning the NBA neither, I get it. Of 0:45:37.239 --> 0:45:40.480 the good guys. He was one of the Jersey bro 0:45:40.640 --> 0:45:46.319 Square Square, I know where you're from, brou Jery man. 0:45:46.400 --> 0:45:48.239 He want to rep it with you, man, so he 0:45:48.280 --> 0:45:53.839 told him, thank you. Yeah, man. I asked me though, 0:45:54.440 --> 0:45:57.120 coming from St. Patrick's, you know, Carrie Irvan came from St. 0:45:57.160 --> 0:46:00.800 Patrick Michael kick Good, Chris came. What was that recipe? 0:46:00.920 --> 0:46:04.320 Like they developed NBA players like now, so I coached. 0:46:04.320 --> 0:46:06.800 His name Kevin Boyle, so he down in Mount Verde Academy. 0:46:06.880 --> 0:46:09.920 Now he just he a master bro, Like he just 0:46:10.120 --> 0:46:12.520 know how he knows how to get the best out 0:46:12.600 --> 0:46:14.120 of us, you know what I'm saying. So like he 0:46:14.200 --> 0:46:16.000 was the first who ever played for that like cuss 0:46:16.080 --> 0:46:19.160 me out or like, but it's just somehow he motivated 0:46:19.160 --> 0:46:20.840 you to just always want to be better, you know 0:46:20.880 --> 0:46:22.320 what I'm saying, that you're thinking about like all the 0:46:22.360 --> 0:46:24.800 other niggas he got in the league now, like Joel 0:46:24.920 --> 0:46:29.000 and b and the kid kid coming him coming in 0:46:29.080 --> 0:46:31.759 the league, Like he got monsters, you know what I'm saying. 0:46:31.760 --> 0:46:33.840 So he just can't identify talent. Because even when he 0:46:33.880 --> 0:46:36.320 picked me, bro, Like when he grabbed me from my 0:46:36.400 --> 0:46:38.040 high school went to Rozelle High School. I moved from 0:46:38.040 --> 0:46:40.759 Orange to Roselle and my freshman year I didn't even play. 0:46:41.440 --> 0:46:43.160 And then he seen me playing in the tournament in 0:46:43.280 --> 0:46:45.239 summer and pretty much convinced me to come to an 0:46:45.280 --> 0:46:47.960 all basketball school. And I ended up going from an 0:46:48.000 --> 0:46:51.040 unranked sophomore to the number one playing the country under 0:46:51.080 --> 0:46:53.560 like him and my a. But like how you felt 0:46:53.719 --> 0:46:56.000 becoming that from nobody to us, I don't know. I 0:46:56.160 --> 0:46:58.360 don't know better. Bro, You're seventeen years old, dog, and 0:46:58.400 --> 0:47:00.880 the ship happened so fast and obviously like back then 0:47:00.960 --> 0:47:03.320 it wasn't like social media and ship like that. So 0:47:03.840 --> 0:47:05.759 when you was grinding, he was really grinding. You know 0:47:05.800 --> 0:47:08.120 what I'm saying, Really here getting reps off like it 0:47:08.200 --> 0:47:10.880 was stories like MS told about you. You know what 0:47:10.880 --> 0:47:12.759 I'm saying. At that time, you know you know what 0:47:12.840 --> 0:47:15.120 I'm saying. But like once I got to that level, 0:47:15.280 --> 0:47:16.880 getting to the league, you know what I'm saying. I 0:47:16.960 --> 0:47:18.759 walked in the first time in practice, like I said, 0:47:18.760 --> 0:47:20.640 even though niggas was bowling, like I felt like I 0:47:20.760 --> 0:47:24.520 was just as good as them. Player ever played against 0:47:24.800 --> 0:47:30.000 Grant Hill, hands down Grant. Like if Grant Hill did 0:47:30.160 --> 0:47:37.319 not if he did not get hurt, if he didn't 0:47:37.320 --> 0:47:39.719 get hurt, he would have had like Lebron kind of 0:47:39.760 --> 0:47:42.160 like numbers, Bro, Like you played against the bron I 0:47:42.200 --> 0:47:45.279 played against Brian Bronze. Obviously he's Bron's number two, you 0:47:45.360 --> 0:47:47.440 know what I'm saying, Like he's the second. About Kovid, 0:47:47.920 --> 0:47:51.120 Kobe is probably three. You got Kovid have to Lebron. 0:47:51.719 --> 0:47:55.040 You want to make one thing, it's over stuff a long. 0:47:55.600 --> 0:47:57.120 I mean, like I live in that late so everybody 0:47:57.120 --> 0:47:59.000 want me to say Kobe, but like Bron, I like 0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:02.360 you keeping it with what what Brian does and brings 0:48:02.400 --> 0:48:04.520 to the game. He's a hard player. I haven't done 0:48:04.560 --> 0:48:07.720 that and he's done it for eighteen years at twenty 0:48:07.800 --> 0:48:10.520 five tenants and like, come on, dudes, don't do that. 0:48:10.640 --> 0:48:13.000 You know what I'm saying. So he's definitely different. Never 0:48:13.040 --> 0:48:17.399 played against Jordan. I played against Jordan too, because Jordan, 0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:22.320 that's still Jordan. If you still on him, that's posts 0:48:22.360 --> 0:48:24.600 still working. So my story one time we're playing them 0:48:24.719 --> 0:48:27.680 in d C and somehow I get into it with him, 0:48:28.640 --> 0:48:32.239 Jordan shure. So you always like growing like growing up. 0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:34.520 The whole minute of that. The stories is like you 0:48:34.680 --> 0:48:36.719 never say nothing back to Michael Jordan. You see something, 0:48:36.760 --> 0:48:39.040 Michael Jordan, He's gonna be like he's the person from 0:48:39.040 --> 0:48:40.800 the Wizard of Ours that you don't see but you 0:48:40.960 --> 0:48:43.759 hear exactly. Just don't say nothing to him. I feel me, 0:48:44.080 --> 0:48:46.920 but I said something, How does this happen? What's going on? 0:48:47.400 --> 0:48:49.439 We're just in the game. Is something happened? I ain't 0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:51.680 failing me, like you found me something something because he 0:48:51.760 --> 0:48:55.200 called everybody a home. That was his thing. Ever, hold on, 0:48:55.200 --> 0:49:00.040 hold on, just calm that. Okay, let's calm that. I 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:06.120 got me. So wait a minute. So he goes for 0:49:06.239 --> 0:49:08.560 a shot. He thinks you found him, and he says, 0:49:08.719 --> 0:49:12.719 he found me up. I found him. I did found him, 0:49:12.719 --> 0:49:14.520 And I'm like, at the ref, I don't even touched him. 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:19.000 You found me home. I'm like, man, who are you 0:49:19.080 --> 0:49:22.080 calling the hole? You know young from Joe? You don't 0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:24.480 know no better like I called you like I called 0:49:24.520 --> 0:49:27.000 you a home And I'm like, all right, So we 0:49:27.120 --> 0:49:29.719 go at it. So but he had forty one. I 0:49:29.840 --> 0:49:37.279 finished the game with thirty seven. But they won it. 0:49:38.080 --> 0:49:40.480 So they win the game. Whatever. I'm in the back mad, 0:49:40.640 --> 0:49:43.320 whatever we lose or whatever. And the ball boy comes 0:49:43.480 --> 0:49:47.279 walking in with his sneakers with Jordan and it's like 0:49:47.680 --> 0:49:53.160 it's like best wishes, keep working hard. I't even asked 0:49:53.239 --> 0:50:06.640 him for his shoes. Dude, shoes, did your kids shoes? Yeah? 0:50:16.280 --> 0:50:31.480 I don't even asked him shoes. Brot he said. But 0:50:32.120 --> 0:50:34.440 that's some ship that you could tell. Jordan gets the 0:50:34.600 --> 0:50:37.399 game like he gets like he gets like going at him, 0:50:37.719 --> 0:50:39.919 like I even think like even the Alan iverson moment 0:50:39.960 --> 0:50:42.440 where Alan like crushed them over. I felt like Jordan 0:50:42.520 --> 0:50:45.040 got hyped course to that, like like I cool, Like 0:50:45.120 --> 0:50:46.919 even when he talked about Kobe, he said that Kobe 0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:49.800 like whatever, he said that Kobe's friend of rule. He 0:50:49.880 --> 0:50:52.560 said that dat it was competitive to the very last minute. 0:50:53.040 --> 0:50:55.080 Is that's really like how the NBA is, Like, no, 0:50:55.200 --> 0:50:57.239 it is, did not know he was calling his host 0:50:57.320 --> 0:51:05.319 that's crazy you get from the East Coast. But it's 0:51:05.360 --> 0:51:09.480 like then Kevin gard Kevin Gardeck and PJ. Tucker they 0:51:09.560 --> 0:51:11.680 look that Look, that's the first time I felt like 0:51:11.840 --> 0:51:17.440 NBA got real again. Katie did. But but they but 0:51:17.520 --> 0:51:19.479 they but they went to college, They went to Coe 0:51:21.080 --> 0:51:25.640 when somewhere showing that stage at this bit right, sob 0:51:26.040 --> 0:51:33.080 like Katie came, you know what I'm saying. Something happened. 0:51:33.120 --> 0:51:35.040 You know what I'm saying. So let me because I'm 0:51:35.040 --> 0:51:37.680 bouncing around, right, I'm bouncing around everything. What do you 0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:41.680 feel about these super teams because right now it just 0:51:41.760 --> 0:51:44.160 feels like everyone is just like basically getting down with 0:51:44.200 --> 0:51:47.520 the gang. That's popping whoever let whoever got the best, 0:51:48.040 --> 0:51:50.279 Like well, I don't like, I mean, we don't like it. 0:51:50.440 --> 0:51:52.360 But it's just that's what the game is now. So 0:51:52.440 --> 0:51:54.520 you got to evolved with the times who fussed up 0:51:54.520 --> 0:51:56.960 the game for the super teams. I think Brian going 0:51:57.000 --> 0:52:00.520 to Miami is what started it, you know what I'm seeing? Yeah, 0:52:00.600 --> 0:52:07.840 that that that's what started Paul ray Allen and that 0:52:08.160 --> 0:52:12.520 that was a little different though, Yeah that wasn't one right, Yeah, 0:52:12.640 --> 0:52:15.960 but it was still different like Brian going there and 0:52:16.040 --> 0:52:18.680 then like orchestrating that that wasn't orchestra that was Those 0:52:18.760 --> 0:52:21.120 was trades, you know what I'm saying. Like they were 0:52:21.200 --> 0:52:25.239 free agents with their free and they exploded. Of course, 0:52:25.239 --> 0:52:27.400 I who don't want to live in Miami and win championships? 0:52:28.440 --> 0:52:30.719 Mean why not? It's like living in l A winning championships. 0:52:30.719 --> 0:52:32.560 You know what I'm saying. There's certain places where it's like, 0:52:33.120 --> 0:52:35.440 but we need to bring one back to New York though, bro, 0:52:35.600 --> 0:52:40.000 Like we don't look good to win the chip. I 0:52:40.040 --> 0:52:42.560 want to win. I want to win games. Bro. Like, 0:52:42.600 --> 0:52:44.600 if you think about coaching, you think about coming to coaching. 0:52:45.280 --> 0:52:57.440 Everybody cannabis. We're playing the team. We ain't working for 0:52:57.560 --> 0:53:01.480 nobody else, but we're working for no body. That's beautiful. 0:53:02.280 --> 0:53:03.840 What made you? That's what I'm saying, what made you 0:53:03.920 --> 0:53:05.640 didn't want to get down with all these other candidates 0:53:05.680 --> 0:53:08.600 companies already operated? What made you want to be black owned? 0:53:09.120 --> 0:53:11.080 I guess uh. You know when I first started like 0:53:11.239 --> 0:53:12.840 it was no option, I ain't had no way to go. 0:53:13.160 --> 0:53:15.880 Like now, remember now it's popular, bro, this We just 0:53:15.960 --> 0:53:20.080 we celebrating our teena anniversary of this ship. Take a 0:53:20.120 --> 0:53:22.759 shot for that. Take a shot for that ten year 0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:32.520 anniversary ship. And by the way, I'm drinking watermelons. Wellness, wellness, yes, 0:53:33.320 --> 0:53:37.640 salute man, the ten years of Viola and Harrison willness 0:53:38.000 --> 0:53:40.600 got damnit. So look what are you toasting with beer for? 0:53:41.200 --> 0:53:50.719 Come on by the mamajuana so is And this is 0:53:50.760 --> 0:53:53.720 the question for both of y'all. Is it really green gold? 0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:56.200 That's because that's how they're describing it right now. It's 0:53:56.280 --> 0:54:00.239 it's the green gold rush of everybody is you know, 0:54:00.320 --> 0:54:02.080 I got friends and I got people that know that 0:54:02.400 --> 0:54:06.480 invested in tobacco. When Chris was alive, I wanted to 0:54:06.560 --> 0:54:10.120 do a cigarette. I don't know what Chris like he did. 0:54:11.400 --> 0:54:13.080 I said, you had to change. I had to change, 0:54:13.200 --> 0:54:14.759 and I wanted I said Chris like, I don't know 0:54:14.800 --> 0:54:16.640 what he did, but he came back and said to me, 0:54:16.880 --> 0:54:19.160 we're not working with tobacco at all. And I don't 0:54:19.200 --> 0:54:24.200 know what he was. I've never seen like white, like 0:54:24.320 --> 0:54:26.200 white under his face, Like he was like like whatever 0:54:26.280 --> 0:54:27.799 he did, he tried to explore, like trying to get 0:54:27.880 --> 0:54:31.080 Newport to be like diligence and what and it was 0:54:31.160 --> 0:54:34.280 like that was the mafia, right, No, just in general, 0:54:34.280 --> 0:54:36.719 it was just bad. Yeah, Like if you notice, the 0:54:36.760 --> 0:54:39.320 only people that's doing tobacco that's like us is you 0:54:39.360 --> 0:54:41.800 have to do it in the Dominican Republic because I 0:54:41.800 --> 0:54:46.720 have to grab Mike, grab relief, grab a leef Dominican Republican. 0:54:47.280 --> 0:54:52.359 So what makes y'all say all right? Cool? Like, for instance, um, 0:54:53.000 --> 0:54:55.959 what was I saying before that? I was the green rush, 0:54:57.440 --> 0:55:00.520 that's what they call the green gold is? Is this 0:55:00.640 --> 0:55:03.200 what you guys feel that? This is what this is? Now? 0:55:03.320 --> 0:55:05.239 This is definitely the industry to be in, you know 0:55:05.280 --> 0:55:08.440 what I'm saying? Um, until like we fix like the 0:55:08.520 --> 0:55:11.319 tax laws around cannabis. It's hard for us to really 0:55:11.400 --> 0:55:15.040 make money in cannabis. Explain that because we can't write 0:55:15.040 --> 0:55:17.080 anything off. So there's a tax officer or two a 0:55:17.200 --> 0:55:20.600 d or whatever which you can write off like ordinary expenses. 0:55:20.680 --> 0:55:23.280 So like normally, like if you work for me or whatever, 0:55:23.440 --> 0:55:25.279 this is my employee, I can usually write you off 0:55:25.280 --> 0:55:27.880 through the business. In cannabis, you can't. So at the 0:55:27.960 --> 0:55:29.840 end of the day, it takes away from all of 0:55:29.920 --> 0:55:32.239 our margin, you know what I'm saying. Essentially to run 0:55:32.320 --> 0:55:36.040 these businesses now cultivation, which means like actually growing the plant. 0:55:36.560 --> 0:55:39.080 That is probably the most profitable part of the business, 0:55:39.560 --> 0:55:44.040 the most difficult. It is the most difficult hands indoor 0:55:44.120 --> 0:55:46.600 operation though, right and no matter where is that it 0:55:46.680 --> 0:55:51.760 can fail, can go bad. Bro you can get bugs, 0:55:51.920 --> 0:55:55.000 you can kind of you get mold, all these different 0:55:55.080 --> 0:55:57.000 things that can affect the plant in which will make you, 0:55:57.000 --> 0:56:00.360 you know, especially in legal environments, its test thing, so 0:56:00.440 --> 0:56:02.960 they test for all this stuff they're regulated to so 0:56:03.120 --> 0:56:05.080 you if you you know, have if you cross certain 0:56:05.120 --> 0:56:07.239 thresholds or whatever, you literally have to throw your entire 0:56:07.320 --> 0:56:09.400 crop out. And it depends on the side, you know, 0:56:09.520 --> 0:56:12.279 Like for us, like our biggest facility in Michigan, we 0:56:12.360 --> 0:56:15.000 produced three hundred pounds of money I'm saying, but that's 0:56:15.040 --> 0:56:17.879 equivalent to like seven hundred to a million, seven hundred 0:56:17.920 --> 0:56:21.320 thousands to a million dollars in revenue per month. You 0:56:21.400 --> 0:56:23.320 understand what I'm saying. And if you have one of 0:56:23.360 --> 0:56:25.719 those issues, bugs won't any of that. We literally got 0:56:25.840 --> 0:56:30.560 to throw it away. Yeah yeah, so and you don't 0:56:30.600 --> 0:56:32.959 know the quality of that. But until it's blooming, until 0:56:33.000 --> 0:56:35.000 it's done, until you actually get it tested, you know 0:56:35.080 --> 0:56:47.000 that's the results. Yeah, wow, damn yeah, man, it's it's 0:56:47.000 --> 0:56:49.120 it's extremely difficult, bro. And that's what I try to 0:56:49.160 --> 0:56:51.880 tell people, like, don't think that like this ship is easy. 0:56:52.080 --> 0:56:53.919 It's not easy at all, you know what I'm saying, 0:56:53.960 --> 0:56:56.560 because you know, in our teen year journey, we've had 0:56:56.560 --> 0:56:58.399 a lot of ups and downs. So how many other 0:56:58.760 --> 0:57:02.000 black owned cannabis companies do you see out there? Black Latino, 0:57:02.640 --> 0:57:06.120 same thing you see other people that's minorities, that's there's 0:57:06.160 --> 0:57:08.640 other companies out there. You know. You got like gas House, 0:57:08.880 --> 0:57:12.400 you got House gas House, you got Ball Family Farms, 0:57:12.480 --> 0:57:16.280 you got Family Farm, Ball Family Farms. Yeah, you got 0:57:16.400 --> 0:57:27.080 like like like like blacks another dude, um, you know 0:57:27.120 --> 0:57:29.680 you got him, you got bluntsed more what I'm saying. 0:57:29.760 --> 0:57:31.760 So there's a couple of companies out here at a 0:57:31.800 --> 0:57:34.760 black own that's out here doing anything or whatever. Is 0:57:34.800 --> 0:57:37.720 there ever any fear that like big Tobacco will just 0:57:38.000 --> 0:57:40.400 try to take over the industry. It's big fear that, 0:57:40.520 --> 0:57:41.919 you know what I'm saying, And that's that's how they're 0:57:41.920 --> 0:57:43.320 gonna set it up. I mean, if you look at 0:57:43.360 --> 0:57:47.080 like Amazon just recently announced it they're no longer testing 0:57:47.080 --> 0:57:51.680 their employees for cannabis, giving you signs that obviously Amazon 0:57:51.760 --> 0:57:54.400 want to be the biggest distribute of the week, you 0:57:54.440 --> 0:57:55.960 know what I'm saying. So like these are the things 0:57:56.000 --> 0:57:58.160 that I'm looking at as I'll sit back and look 0:57:58.200 --> 0:58:00.120 at the industry and what's going on, you know what 0:58:00.160 --> 0:58:02.200 I'm saying. But yes, tobacco companies are gonna come in, 0:58:02.640 --> 0:58:05.160 they're gonna try to buy I think the brands that 0:58:05.240 --> 0:58:07.160 are making the most noise, you know what I'm saying, 0:58:07.240 --> 0:58:10.080 So like the violas and the cookies and different things 0:58:10.160 --> 0:58:12.840 like that that out there really moving a lot of products. 0:58:18.800 --> 0:58:25.000 Hold on, hold on, hold on yeah, damns but left 0:58:25.080 --> 0:58:36.000 Rock yeah, we all we all drink chas Lave, yeah 0:58:38.040 --> 0:58:42.200 right now through businesses, I think. So, I mean, just 0:58:42.320 --> 0:58:44.720 like this distribution is becoming a big thing, you can 0:58:45.240 --> 0:58:46.680 you know what I'm saying. So I could see them 0:58:46.720 --> 0:58:50.000 trying hit me up hit me up. I see you 0:58:50.120 --> 0:58:54.560 have black family, Flower come on family. So what I'm 0:58:54.600 --> 0:58:57.320 doing is, uh, We're gonna create like our own like 0:58:58.840 --> 0:59:01.040 maybe Collis you might to call it. But eventually, like 0:59:01.120 --> 0:59:04.000 I vision black Flower family being like wait wait, wait, 0:59:04.040 --> 0:59:06.439 wait a minimum, wait a minute, you just say black 0:59:08.800 --> 0:59:12.360 let I need to be down. I need to be 0:59:12.480 --> 0:59:15.280 damn with black Flower Family. I don't need that ship 0:59:15.360 --> 0:59:18.120 gonna be. It's gonna be all the black owned cannabis brands, 0:59:18.240 --> 0:59:22.760 Monogram Cannabis, every Monogram, whoever. It is like us being together. 0:59:23.360 --> 0:59:25.720 You know what I'm saying, because I think that yeah, 0:59:25.840 --> 0:59:27.800 black Wall Street, but you know I got this black 0:59:27.840 --> 0:59:30.080 Flower family like bff. You know what I'm saying. So 0:59:30.600 --> 0:59:32.720 that's my vision of that is like all black you know, 0:59:32.960 --> 0:59:35.480 own brands kind of working together. And I think that 0:59:35.560 --> 0:59:38.680 at some point, if we, you know, continue to build together, 0:59:39.080 --> 0:59:41.160 we can start dictating a lot of the way to 0:59:41.200 --> 0:59:45.040 the market. You know what I'm saying. Could we push everything, bro, 0:59:45.160 --> 0:59:48.160 like this man Virgil and all like think about it, bro, everything, music, 0:59:48.880 --> 0:59:53.560 fucking fashion, everything, But it started with us, Bro, Like 0:59:53.680 --> 0:59:55.920 they use us and we take ship and make it 0:59:56.000 --> 0:59:57.800 those viral. You know what I'm saying that's how I 0:59:57.840 --> 0:59:59.840 feel about cannabis is the same thing. Like I feel 0:59:59.880 --> 1:00:02.160 like a lot of you know, these companies that have 1:00:02.280 --> 1:00:05.760 come in that uh, you know, obviously well funded, but 1:00:06.080 --> 1:00:08.880 don't really represent the culture. They fail, they're just not 1:00:09.040 --> 1:00:11.080 having the success that they should have, and it becomes 1:00:11.120 --> 1:00:12.840 a branding player. Really at the end of the day. 1:00:12.920 --> 1:00:14.520 It's kind of like if you think about like the 1:00:14.600 --> 1:00:17.720 Mexican cartels, like they're not the ones making the coke, 1:00:18.120 --> 1:00:21.320 making the drugs, but they became more valuable than Colombia 1:00:21.360 --> 1:00:23.400 and the guys in Peru because they were the ones 1:00:23.480 --> 1:00:25.560 that were, you know, ahead of it, in front of 1:00:25.600 --> 1:00:28.160 it in the market. That's what it becomes like branding places. 1:00:28.160 --> 1:00:30.560 You're in the market, you're cool in the market, You're 1:00:30.600 --> 1:00:32.920 you're you're relevant to the market. Now, that's what it is, 1:00:33.000 --> 1:00:35.680 and that's what we're trying to do. Kanye West could 1:00:35.680 --> 1:00:45.040 do a versus what oh and that's just the music. 1:00:45.920 --> 1:00:48.760 That's just like that's like words versus you see what 1:00:48.840 --> 1:00:53.320 he just said. He said, Oh yeah, it's Jack he said, Oh, 1:00:53.480 --> 1:00:56.280 I like did that. I don't think either one of 1:00:56.320 --> 1:00:59.360 them coming out of the house, probably not. They break 1:00:59.440 --> 1:01:01.600 the internet, they could do it from the house and 1:01:01.600 --> 1:01:03.160 I'm still break in and that should have breaked in 1:01:03.240 --> 1:01:22.960 and nah, you already Jersey Jersey Hell. I always asked 1:01:22.960 --> 1:01:25.480 what verses? I always say, like, who Chris Brown going against? 1:01:25.800 --> 1:01:28.640 That's what we're just talking about. What Tim So, what 1:01:28.760 --> 1:01:31.600 you think I think Chris Brown gets Usher? Everybody everybody 1:01:31.680 --> 1:01:33.840 sound bugging that. What would you say? I think Chris 1:01:34.000 --> 1:01:38.880 Brown gets that? Thinks we've said that. I think that 1:01:39.160 --> 1:01:43.479 Timberland is picking Usher. That's what they know. Chris Chris Brown. 1:01:43.680 --> 1:01:49.920 He picked Chris. Yeah, that was Chris. Yeah. Yeah. I 1:01:49.960 --> 1:01:52.520 can't say destroyed, no, not destroyed, no disrespect to us. 1:01:53.160 --> 1:01:55.560 I think he'll suck him up too, you know he 1:01:55.720 --> 1:02:00.280 Michael Jackson of our error. Chris Brown is if he didn't, 1:02:00.280 --> 1:02:02.800 I don't think about you would be the biggest start 1:02:02.800 --> 1:02:09.960 in the world. About that in the world. But they 1:02:10.120 --> 1:02:16.520 both had I think we got twenty How about all money? 1:02:17.640 --> 1:02:21.720 You said Kanye against jay I? That's crazy, man? What 1:02:21.800 --> 1:02:27.000 who else? Or Dre? Kanye and Dress That's what beats. 1:02:28.160 --> 1:02:34.960 It's two different producing artist Kanye, it's about no, no, Kane. 1:02:35.920 --> 1:02:40.560 Kanye gets too. He's an artist and he's a producing rap. 1:02:44.040 --> 1:02:47.560 What are you talking about they're gonna put out those things. 1:02:48.040 --> 1:02:52.920 It's about the twin against that. Listen against that and 1:02:53.080 --> 1:02:57.959 I saw it, bross check. That was a bad match. 1:02:58.000 --> 1:02:59.960 That's a bad match. I don't know what you don't 1:03:00.600 --> 1:03:04.800 I'm not gonna sign at black Man. There was the match. Yeah, 1:03:04.880 --> 1:03:06.760 I don't know. I think you ain't drank would work too, 1:03:06.800 --> 1:03:13.880 because they don't. I think Missing Missing the first Yeah, yeah, 1:03:14.040 --> 1:03:17.760 I tell you that. I don't like that, and I 1:03:17.840 --> 1:03:19.720 think you're right. I don't know what then you're talking 1:03:19.720 --> 1:03:36.400 about going on? Right, don't don't don't listen if you 1:03:36.480 --> 1:03:39.760 don't animated right, this is an animated like you know, 1:03:40.200 --> 1:03:43.280 like how bust this animated? They do? What the person 1:03:43.320 --> 1:03:45.960 that could mess with him is mystical they're doing. And 1:03:46.000 --> 1:03:48.640 I think Missical would go with who with the Boston Yeah, 1:03:48.680 --> 1:03:53.440 okay unless that ain't got enough ships. I like Missing, 1:03:53.560 --> 1:03:58.200 I like miss like Missing and busted Volt, but I 1:03:58.240 --> 1:04:01.880 think missing, but missing bust that about l L you 1:04:02.040 --> 1:04:06.640 think gets everybody's going crazy? It be caress one. Oh, 1:04:06.840 --> 1:04:09.360 that's what I keep seeing people. YEA want me to 1:04:09.400 --> 1:04:13.240 tell you the youth listen that ain't coming out of 1:04:13.240 --> 1:04:19.240 the house. I think so this other person, I don't 1:04:19.240 --> 1:04:24.720 think nobody gets Nobody gets him. Nobody gets drink nobody, 1:04:24.800 --> 1:04:31.880 no one, nobody, nobody, nobody. Let's go to the next subject. Yeah, no, nobody, 1:04:32.240 --> 1:04:35.600 nobody gets him. Son. Listen, Drake could do forty, forty 1:04:35.760 --> 1:04:41.560 R R and twenty. He could do forty. He could 1:04:41.560 --> 1:04:45.080 do battle Nobody getting call you in the same night 1:04:45.760 --> 1:04:53.640 I went to im. Sorry, I'm sorry out But you 1:04:53.760 --> 1:04:57.520 think like that, Like, um, what Kanye ever do something 1:04:57.560 --> 1:04:58.840 like that? I love the fact you taking a shot. 1:04:58.840 --> 1:05:01.480 We'ven at the gas. I love that. I love that 1:05:02.760 --> 1:05:04.960 I'm being ready to got damn there. I don't let 1:05:04.960 --> 1:05:09.440 you outshot me. Well, um, you think I didn't even 1:05:09.480 --> 1:05:12.360 do something like that, though, I don't think. So we'll 1:05:12.400 --> 1:05:17.200 put itself. He did do it with theft said album dropped. 1:05:17.520 --> 1:05:20.480 With album dropped, he did a different time though. Okay, 1:05:20.600 --> 1:05:23.720 we'll see. I think any type of nigger here'll do 1:05:23.840 --> 1:05:26.680 like a gospel he want to go against like Kirk Franklin. 1:05:29.600 --> 1:05:32.160 He'll go outside the genre. I think that's what I'm saying. 1:05:32.280 --> 1:05:35.880 He'd do kids even further out, like you'll go like 1:05:36.520 --> 1:05:39.760 Kirk colbein type ship. I mean, he's dead but you mean, like, 1:05:39.960 --> 1:05:42.040 I personally can't see him doing the verses at this 1:05:42.160 --> 1:05:45.080 point in his career. But you never know. You know, 1:05:46.560 --> 1:05:49.280 he said he wanted to Danny McBride to play him 1:05:49.280 --> 1:05:51.800 in the movie. That's what I knew. He's a legend, 1:05:52.120 --> 1:05:56.240 Danny McBride with the mullet, with the mullet. Kenny Powers 1:05:56.320 --> 1:06:10.640 would kill Kanye. It's a black Kanye, Kanye and jay Z. 1:06:10.720 --> 1:06:12.200 That would be crazy. That would be a good one. 1:06:12.600 --> 1:06:18.360 Who's the living It should be Kanye against Paul McCartney, right, 1:06:19.600 --> 1:06:24.480 some crazy like don't like that? Don't It won't work? Yeah, 1:06:24.480 --> 1:06:27.120 I don't want to see that ship. I don't want 1:06:27.160 --> 1:06:30.920 to see. So what's the next step. What's the next 1:06:30.960 --> 1:06:33.480 move for y'all? We've got it in You've got a 1:06:33.600 --> 1:06:37.600 luxurious executive. So what's the next move are we? Are 1:06:37.640 --> 1:06:40.840 we trying to do tobacco like blunts because all people 1:06:40.960 --> 1:06:45.240 like blunts, although I'm gonna take something not tobacco, but 1:06:45.360 --> 1:06:48.000 not tobacco. Though they got ones that you like them? 1:06:48.400 --> 1:06:50.520 What the hip raps? The White Boys? No, I don't 1:06:50.520 --> 1:06:53.880 like those. Um, there is something that I like though. 1:06:54.200 --> 1:06:57.720 There's a company called Packwood do a great job of 1:06:57.920 --> 1:07:02.920 fake tobacco. It's not tobacco. It's a couple of companies. 1:07:02.920 --> 1:07:06.320 I don't want to keep naming them. But even Saucy, 1:07:06.400 --> 1:07:08.920 Saucy got a good blunt. I don't know if you 1:07:09.280 --> 1:07:12.560 Alex talk. I don't know if they got a great, great, 1:07:12.640 --> 1:07:15.160 great great blunt. So is that something that you guys 1:07:15.160 --> 1:07:17.160 are doing it? You guys are I'm gonna stick with 1:07:17.240 --> 1:07:21.280 papers from that, Um, I think that Yeah, we're eventually, 1:07:21.360 --> 1:07:23.240 like we want to say on the health and wellness 1:07:23.280 --> 1:07:25.480 side of it, you know what I'm saying, but also lifestyle, 1:07:25.680 --> 1:07:27.560 you know what I'm saying. So like that's so a 1:07:27.680 --> 1:07:29.480 lot of the products that we will create will be 1:07:29.800 --> 1:07:32.480 kind of aim in that direction. You know what I'm saying. 1:07:33.720 --> 1:07:39.640 Cans right, bro, Like we just just high end quality, bro. 1:07:39.840 --> 1:07:43.080 We just want every time you haven't experienced a Vidola 1:07:43.120 --> 1:07:44.760 Ford to be a good one. You know what I'm saying. 1:07:44.760 --> 1:07:46.600 That we have the product to let it kind of 1:07:46.680 --> 1:07:48.200 let it speak for itself. You know what I'm saying. 1:07:48.240 --> 1:07:50.160 That we think about adding like brothers like him to 1:07:50.240 --> 1:07:53.600 strategic partnerships and different things like that. It's really for 1:07:53.800 --> 1:07:55.160 us to try to figure out how do we put 1:07:55.200 --> 1:07:58.040 a strangle hole around the culture of candidates. You know 1:07:58.080 --> 1:08:00.200 what I'm saying, because a lot of the company needs 1:08:00.240 --> 1:08:02.800 that we're out here buying product from and stuff like 1:08:02.840 --> 1:08:04.840 they don't look like us, you know what I'm saying. 1:08:05.000 --> 1:08:07.360 And that's a crime. You know what I'm saying, because 1:08:07.480 --> 1:08:10.320 you really just think about what our community been through 1:08:10.520 --> 1:08:13.040 because of cannabis. You know what I'm saying, Any fibers 1:08:13.080 --> 1:08:16.120 in the all drug arrests and black communities, is cannabis related? 1:08:16.640 --> 1:08:20.080 Any initiative on on the company's side to help with that, Like, yeah, 1:08:20.120 --> 1:08:22.080 we work, so we work. So that's the thing. So 1:08:22.120 --> 1:08:24.200 I don't pick one thing, right, you know what I'm saying. 1:08:24.200 --> 1:08:26.280 I kind of go across all of it, right, So 1:08:26.439 --> 1:08:28.960 like within I give back. You know, we feed, We 1:08:29.120 --> 1:08:33.720 feed people, We do expongements. We help people with this 1:08:33.800 --> 1:08:36.360 company car and rebound where we helped them with re 1:08:36.640 --> 1:08:39.080 entry back into the community, so trying to help them 1:08:39.160 --> 1:08:42.000 find places to live, in jobs and different things like that. 1:08:42.160 --> 1:08:44.240 You know what I'm saying. Like my biggest thing is 1:08:44.280 --> 1:08:48.000 like social, social, and economic empowerment, you know what I'm saying, 1:08:48.040 --> 1:08:50.800 Like we can, we could, we could, uh, we can 1:08:50.960 --> 1:08:52.880 march and do all that ship as long as we want. 1:08:52.920 --> 1:08:54.760 But until we can figure out how we can put 1:08:54.880 --> 1:08:57.160 money into the pockets of the people from the community, 1:08:57.240 --> 1:09:00.240 what's ever going to change, you know what I'm saying. 1:09:00.240 --> 1:09:02.080 And that's what we really focus on, is trying to 1:09:02.240 --> 1:09:04.680 hire more people of color and just really give them 1:09:04.720 --> 1:09:07.560 this opportunity so that they can participate. Because getting the 1:09:07.640 --> 1:09:09.680 job is one thing too, but we think ownership is 1:09:09.720 --> 1:09:11.599 another important thing, you know what I'm saying. So there's 1:09:11.640 --> 1:09:14.400 different social equity initiatives around the country. I think New 1:09:14.479 --> 1:09:16.559 York did an unbelievable job. You know what I'm saying. 1:09:16.560 --> 1:09:18.719 That they're smoking everywhere in New y'all. They're smoking everywhere 1:09:18.760 --> 1:09:21.080 and everywhere. But also when we talk about how they 1:09:21.160 --> 1:09:23.000 want to implement the program, you know what I'm saying, 1:09:23.000 --> 1:09:25.439 they're providing funding and all these different things that we 1:09:25.560 --> 1:09:27.880 will need in order to be successful, because if we 1:09:27.960 --> 1:09:31.240 don't have no bread, there's no way to really participate. 1:09:31.320 --> 1:09:33.439 In a lot of times, the money that is available 1:09:33.479 --> 1:09:37.000 to us as predatory money, meaning first time we sunk up, 1:09:37.040 --> 1:09:39.800 we default, we can't pay back our loan, they take 1:09:39.840 --> 1:09:41.920 over our business opennies on the dollar. You know what 1:09:42.000 --> 1:09:43.800 I'm saying, So we're trying to change all of that. 1:09:43.960 --> 1:09:45.400 You know what I'm saying. That's what we're working on, 1:09:45.520 --> 1:09:47.200 and that's what John is now coming on with the 1:09:47.320 --> 1:09:50.360 Village side of the business is is really focused on 1:09:50.600 --> 1:09:55.280 you know, um acquiring licenses and excuse me, licenses and 1:09:55.439 --> 1:09:57.840 states where you know, the limited licenses you don't actually 1:09:57.880 --> 1:09:59.800 need your own dispensary, just get it into every other 1:10:00.040 --> 1:10:02.040 spent to me. Yeah, we can get right as a brand, 1:10:02.080 --> 1:10:06.800 we can do that, right, So we'd rather get a 1:10:06.880 --> 1:10:10.240 cultivation manufacturing and if we can get retail, that's icing 1:10:10.280 --> 1:10:11.519 on the cake. You know what I'm saying, we can 1:10:11.560 --> 1:10:15.040 really control fully you know or you know, our distribution. 1:10:15.680 --> 1:10:17.600 Like you said, it's limited licenses in every state. So 1:10:17.680 --> 1:10:20.759 it's a lot of effort to try to get those licenses. Effort. 1:10:20.800 --> 1:10:22.960 I mean, like seriously, Like in New York the first round, 1:10:23.000 --> 1:10:25.640 they gave out ten licenses, right, you know, each one 1:10:25.720 --> 1:10:27.760 of those people, none of them will be like they 1:10:27.840 --> 1:10:30.559 considered they checked the minority box because they take They 1:10:30.640 --> 1:10:34.400 gave three white women a license, but their husbands two 1:10:34.400 --> 1:10:37.240 of their husbands were billionaires, right, so that you know 1:10:37.280 --> 1:10:39.280 what I'm saying, it's all kind of bullshit, you know 1:10:39.280 --> 1:10:41.360 what I'm saying. So we're trying to change that. We're 1:10:41.400 --> 1:10:43.760 speaking on that every day. It's in due time. But 1:10:44.160 --> 1:10:46.280 those licenses, just to give you an example, like those 1:10:46.320 --> 1:10:49.280 licenses are worth a hundred million dollars, you know what 1:10:49.360 --> 1:10:51.599 I'm saying, Like, and they cost them probably five million 1:10:51.600 --> 1:10:53.720 dollars to acquiry, you know what I'm saying. So when 1:10:53.720 --> 1:10:56.559 you think about like what it costs just to really 1:10:56.600 --> 1:10:59.320 be able to play in this game, it's like it's crazy, 1:10:59.479 --> 1:11:01.960 you know what I'm It's like same prices or l 1:11:02.040 --> 1:11:04.760 A is is not as expensive, you know what I'm saying. 1:11:04.840 --> 1:11:07.680 But you know, the l A process, I've been a 1:11:07.720 --> 1:11:09.600 part of this process for the last two years, and 1:11:09.960 --> 1:11:13.720 it's really fucked up. I mean they really drag people out. 1:11:13.880 --> 1:11:15.719 You know. In order to you know, get a license, 1:11:15.760 --> 1:11:17.280 you had to be in control of the real estates, 1:11:17.320 --> 1:11:18.880 and I mean you had to have some form of 1:11:18.920 --> 1:11:21.560 a lease. You're paying money. I know people that like 1:11:21.680 --> 1:11:24.200 refinanced their homes or whatever just to be able to 1:11:24.640 --> 1:11:27.320 you know, pay those notes, and they still haven't been 1:11:27.320 --> 1:11:30.400 any licenses issue two years later, you know what I'm saying. 1:11:30.479 --> 1:11:33.439 So certain states is definitely. You know what I'm saying 1:11:33.520 --> 1:11:36.320 really kind of you know, twisted. But you know, like 1:11:36.400 --> 1:11:37.840 I said, I think New York is one that's a 1:11:37.880 --> 1:11:40.559 pretty good one working with you know, on a daily basis, 1:11:41.320 --> 1:11:43.400 and uh, you know around the country is just trying 1:11:43.439 --> 1:11:45.559 to figure out how we can impact and give people 1:11:46.040 --> 1:11:53.800 a real opportunity for ownership in the cannabis space. Do 1:11:53.920 --> 1:12:00.759 you watch the show? You don't watch it? You gotta 1:12:00.840 --> 1:12:06.240 watch this shot on TV that kind of changed the 1:12:06.800 --> 1:12:10.240 hit actor with the dreads and yeah, Jaco Lattimore and 1:12:10.320 --> 1:12:16.400 all that listen, um Leno White, that's the whole I 1:12:16.479 --> 1:12:19.800 do not watch it because that's my homegirl. I watched 1:12:19.840 --> 1:12:23.360 it because, like, by the way, I'm black and Latino. 1:12:23.680 --> 1:12:26.680 I have black and Latino family in Chicago. I have 1:12:26.840 --> 1:12:29.640 Black family and Latino family that live a course of 1:12:29.640 --> 1:12:31.639 street from each other, never seen each other for thirty 1:12:31.760 --> 1:12:34.760 years because they was warring. And when I came out there, 1:12:34.920 --> 1:12:37.639 it's the first time that I had my my black 1:12:37.840 --> 1:12:40.679 family and my span my Puerto Rican family meet together. 1:12:40.720 --> 1:12:42.439 And they're like what a living Courser street had it? 1:12:43.439 --> 1:12:45.920 But they're not a family, you understand. I don't know 1:12:45.960 --> 1:12:49.400 if I'm making sense but and that's my own. That's 1:12:49.439 --> 1:12:53.599 my only critique of Leno Whites. The shot is I said, yo, 1:12:54.120 --> 1:12:56.120 she said, I said, yo, this is my favorite show. 1:12:56.200 --> 1:12:58.280 I love it so much. I'm so sorry to be 1:12:58.400 --> 1:13:01.960 that guy that gives you a one critique. And she's like, well, 1:13:02.000 --> 1:13:03.560 what's the one critique? You know what I mean? And 1:13:03.880 --> 1:13:06.200 I'm like, I didn't see a Puerto Rican in there, 1:13:06.760 --> 1:13:09.880 Like there's no Chicago, there's no Humble Park, there's no 1:13:10.920 --> 1:13:15.400 there's no that. That's probably the only critique criticism. And 1:13:15.560 --> 1:13:19.439 Mexicans a lot of Mexican now, Mexican is now. But 1:13:19.520 --> 1:13:24.839 if you really, if you really really even searching Latino gangs, 1:13:25.600 --> 1:13:34.719 that origin is from Lan King's Chico. The biggest gangs 1:13:34.760 --> 1:13:38.519 folk folk nation all came to Black Pea Stones all 1:13:38.600 --> 1:13:41.280 that just like like Chicago. I feel like this, I 1:13:41.680 --> 1:13:45.080 l A was gangbanging first, but Chicago showed them how 1:13:45.120 --> 1:13:49.320 to separate the land. Like Yo, t Rogers, t Rogers 1:13:49.640 --> 1:13:52.120 south Side. Let me pick up to my people Gangster 1:13:52.560 --> 1:13:56.160 Chronicle podcast, who was doing a documentary on t Rogers 1:13:56.280 --> 1:13:59.920 right now. He's from Chicago. Originally he went to the 1:14:00.160 --> 1:14:04.479 Jungles and Broad Black Peace Stones, Black Pea Stoles, which 1:14:04.560 --> 1:14:08.120 is originally originally a Chicago gang brought up to l A. 1:14:08.280 --> 1:14:12.000 And now it's thousands of members all over the world. 1:14:12.160 --> 1:14:14.920 You're growing up and hearing these local street gangs and 1:14:15.040 --> 1:14:18.439 now you know, twenty years later you're like what, like, 1:14:18.520 --> 1:14:20.840 I know, you gotta be buddying, like, so, what's crazy? 1:14:20.960 --> 1:14:24.799 Because I'm from the low end um area called Lake Meadows, 1:14:24.920 --> 1:14:28.280 which was right off A thirty third in Cottage. About 1:14:28.320 --> 1:14:31.120 a mile away was the fort which was the black 1:14:31.240 --> 1:14:35.160 Stone that was the headquarters. Okay, that's um. The brothers 1:14:35.280 --> 1:14:38.320 for the four Brothers that Jeff Ford and Johnny for well, 1:14:38.479 --> 1:14:44.120 I know now I'm from looking listen, come on, keep going, 1:14:44.800 --> 1:14:50.280 come on. So I grew up like like right around 1:14:50.439 --> 1:14:53.280 all of that. I was never you know really the documentary. 1:14:53.600 --> 1:14:55.040 You know, I didn't want to look at like I 1:14:55.120 --> 1:14:57.759 was down with the Four Brothers, you know, the documentary. 1:14:57.800 --> 1:15:00.360 But I was, you know around in my name bhood, 1:15:00.400 --> 1:15:02.400 you know, new people on both sides, and that was 1:15:02.439 --> 1:15:04.600 like the Black Panthers. They was feeding the kids that 1:15:05.000 --> 1:15:08.760 that gang essentially that I watched as a youth is 1:15:09.360 --> 1:15:11.360 was a part of what was going on in l A. 1:15:11.479 --> 1:15:13.760 Because he brought them out here, I mean out there 1:15:14.800 --> 1:15:17.800 and uh yeah, you know it's it's crazy how much 1:15:18.360 --> 1:15:23.719 you know the street organizations had impact on as children 1:15:23.760 --> 1:15:26.000 and tell your funny ship my first time in Chicago 1:15:28.880 --> 1:15:32.880 as Nori. I've been in Chicago as Poppy and vicked 1:15:32.960 --> 1:15:37.280 Santiago with my family, but now I've come back as 1:15:37.400 --> 1:15:40.880 Nori and I wore my hat to the wrong side, 1:15:41.000 --> 1:15:44.479 to the wrong side, didn't and the person said, move 1:15:44.560 --> 1:15:47.000 your hat, move your hat, fix your hat. You're like, 1:15:47.160 --> 1:15:50.200 what what you mean? He told you that like trying you. 1:15:52.880 --> 1:15:56.160 You just remember me being like, what what the you mean? 1:15:56.280 --> 1:15:58.320 Moved my hat? And then they looked as soon as 1:15:58.360 --> 1:16:02.479 they heard by accidents, like yeah, he don't know no 1:16:02.640 --> 1:16:05.320 better my sock, i'ld have my socking up in a 1:16:05.360 --> 1:16:07.280 certain way. I'm poorter week and so I always put 1:16:07.400 --> 1:16:10.120 put money in my sock. I don't know why, and 1:16:10.320 --> 1:16:12.080 like they would check me, like you'll put your sock down, 1:16:12.200 --> 1:16:16.040 Like what the funk? Like is that something you just 1:16:16.160 --> 1:16:18.479 grew up a part of and you just knew that 1:16:18.720 --> 1:16:22.200 or that's something you had to learn. Chicago is like 1:16:22.280 --> 1:16:24.280 something you had to learn quick if you were in 1:16:24.360 --> 1:16:27.320 the city. You know, I came from the city. I'm 1:16:27.360 --> 1:16:31.000 a city kids, so you know, when I'm moving around 1:16:31.160 --> 1:16:33.280 trying to throw my little parties and stuff and trying 1:16:33.320 --> 1:16:35.320 to be cool with certain sides, you just have to 1:16:35.360 --> 1:16:37.000 know how to move and you know how to be 1:16:37.080 --> 1:16:40.599 respectful to know who's what you know and your new 1:16:40.640 --> 1:16:42.880 tro You could be newtro, I could be I was 1:16:42.920 --> 1:16:45.000 affiliated on a couple of sides. But I'm very neutral, 1:16:45.040 --> 1:16:46.880 you know what I mean. I was never. I was never. 1:16:47.400 --> 1:16:51.360 I was never a game bag. I was never you 1:16:51.400 --> 1:17:00.720 trying to make it and it's time was you're not 1:17:00.800 --> 1:17:08.920 trying to at this story young, you know, coming from 1:17:08.960 --> 1:17:11.320 a certain neighborhood. It's just like if you're from this 1:17:11.439 --> 1:17:14.599 neighborhood and it's a g D neighborhood and you're kind 1:17:14.600 --> 1:17:17.720 of g D. But I wasn't. Never, I wasn't. It's 1:17:17.760 --> 1:17:20.439 that like something that's funny because right now there's g 1:17:20.560 --> 1:17:24.160 D in New York, there's g D is everywhere, the 1:17:24.200 --> 1:17:26.519 biggest black guy in the world. But that was something 1:17:26.640 --> 1:17:29.599 that again was originally in chicag on the South side 1:17:29.600 --> 1:17:33.160 of Chicago. And you you ever thought you'd be seeing 1:17:33.200 --> 1:17:35.479 ship like that, is it bumped out to see it 1:17:35.560 --> 1:17:38.120 when you go with another place and see it because 1:17:38.479 --> 1:17:41.400 Larry Jr. And I grew up together, and when you 1:17:41.520 --> 1:17:45.040 hold on listen book because you know when he's saying, Larry, Larry, 1:17:45.160 --> 1:17:47.920 who Trump's gonna part of him? Bro? I don't know 1:17:48.000 --> 1:17:56.680 why you put that call in, man, I just I 1:17:56.800 --> 1:18:00.400 just I just know. But little Larry Yes. So it's 1:18:00.439 --> 1:18:03.120 just like just seeing you know, and he's just so 1:18:03.320 --> 1:18:05.360 chill and just like that a good brother and his 1:18:05.439 --> 1:18:09.200 family they're all great people, and you know, just like 1:18:09.720 --> 1:18:13.519 seeing how much impact him and his family had throughout 1:18:13.720 --> 1:18:17.360 my youth and just seeing how it just grew and exploded. 1:18:17.479 --> 1:18:19.640 Like I would never think that there would be g 1:18:19.800 --> 1:18:22.519 ds in Brooklyn, you know what I mean, but out 1:18:22.520 --> 1:18:24.519 of there everywhere, you know what I mean. You know, 1:18:25.000 --> 1:18:27.160 it's a crazy thing about going to Chicago. I always 1:18:27.240 --> 1:18:32.960 loved Compete Green. You known, my club was across the street, 1:18:33.320 --> 1:18:38.680 and remember remember the ticket spot called Sammy's. I used 1:18:38.680 --> 1:18:40.680 to go there all the time and the police is 1:18:40.720 --> 1:18:42.639 to come out like, yeah, what are you doing here? 1:18:43.680 --> 1:18:45.920 I just didn't know. I was like, I love the 1:18:46.000 --> 1:18:52.000 ticket spot Sammy's. But gone. Yeah, So now let me 1:18:52.040 --> 1:18:53.760 ask you something that we're gonna move on to something 1:18:54.120 --> 1:18:58.599 pretty pretty generic. But in my opinion, I'm outside looking 1:18:58.640 --> 1:19:00.439 and I'm not from Chicago. I have mean on both 1:19:00.479 --> 1:19:04.479 sides from Chicago, Black and Latino. Right, But in my opinion, 1:19:04.680 --> 1:19:08.599 when the O g S was around, when the competing 1:19:08.680 --> 1:19:13.360 greens was around, Chicago was an organized place. Yeah, it 1:19:13.439 --> 1:19:17.160 seems like to me they took they took out all 1:19:17.240 --> 1:19:20.479 the ogs and once they locked up and the body 1:19:20.600 --> 1:19:22.920 just fell right right at once they took out the 1:19:23.000 --> 1:19:25.719 O G S. I felt like, now it's wild wild West. 1:19:27.840 --> 1:19:30.559 It's like they do this thing. It's like, uh, they 1:19:30.640 --> 1:19:33.800 call it a b K E b K anybody killer, 1:19:33.960 --> 1:19:39.040 everybody killer. It's kids as bad and that's why so much, 1:19:39.640 --> 1:19:41.519 you know, and they're doing it everywhere, you know, it's 1:19:41.560 --> 1:19:43.439 not it's not just on the South Side. Now they 1:19:43.520 --> 1:19:49.040 got duck on Oak Street or Walton, which is like Rodeo. 1:19:49.400 --> 1:19:54.040 Imagine you know, guys pulling up on Rodeo and Chicago 1:19:56.840 --> 1:19:59.360 they got dunk there. That's what they got, you god bless. Yeah, 1:19:59.400 --> 1:20:01.360 But thought it this bad because like, like like I 1:20:01.439 --> 1:20:03.960 said earlier, I don't know if he was here, but um, 1:20:04.479 --> 1:20:06.439 I'm sitting here, I'm a little late, and I go 1:20:06.560 --> 1:20:10.240 to the barbershop and I hear all this new music, 1:20:10.320 --> 1:20:13.120 but I never get to see the videos. Right. So 1:20:13.200 --> 1:20:17.559 I'm sitting there in the barbershop and every here's my dog, 1:20:18.200 --> 1:20:21.720 and I'm talking about every video they're like this, and 1:20:21.800 --> 1:20:24.240 I'm like that. I remember they used to monitor us. 1:20:25.560 --> 1:20:27.560 I remember the most person who would get away with 1:20:27.760 --> 1:20:32.200 lyrics on Violator was Missy. That was it, Like Missy. 1:20:32.280 --> 1:20:34.360 If you literally listen to miss these lyrics, you're like, damn, 1:20:34.439 --> 1:20:37.120 he's saying some ship. She's like saying some games ship. 1:20:37.200 --> 1:20:40.759 But she said and you ain't saying you ain't realized 1:20:40.760 --> 1:20:42.840 that she's saying, I'm beating you up then up, Like 1:20:43.200 --> 1:20:45.719 but you ain't realized she's saying that. Like what she's saying. 1:20:48.080 --> 1:20:53.160 But so us, we had to remix our lyrics, someone 1:20:53.240 --> 1:20:56.280 to say for us to have a commercial record. Right now, 1:20:56.479 --> 1:21:00.600 they're letting these records go out and then the the 1:21:00.840 --> 1:21:04.880 videos play with like I forget. I think it's Polo 1:21:05.000 --> 1:21:08.840 G from Chicago, Chico. I think it's Polo G. He 1:21:08.920 --> 1:21:10.920 got a video where he just wakes up and someone's 1:21:10.920 --> 1:21:14.080 just shooting at him. He's just he's just standing there 1:21:14.479 --> 1:21:17.920 and they're just shooting. I'm like, what the fuck is this? 1:21:18.439 --> 1:21:22.680 I'm like, it's that on the recordar TV? Like are 1:21:22.720 --> 1:21:24.640 we not on YouTube? They're like no, this is on 1:21:25.520 --> 1:21:28.439 whatever whatever it was. I'm sitting back. We couldn't do that? 1:21:29.120 --> 1:21:32.960 Is that? Like, I'm sorry to get deep. Is that 1:21:33.080 --> 1:21:35.920 like a form of black genocide? Because just this thing 1:21:36.000 --> 1:21:39.080 about it? Come on, but not, Let's think about it. 1:21:39.400 --> 1:21:43.000 If these are the dudes, that's our heroes, right, I 1:21:43.080 --> 1:21:45.240 mean when when when I was doing the music, I 1:21:45.400 --> 1:21:47.880 was heroes to people. If these are the new dudes, 1:21:47.920 --> 1:21:51.439 that's heroes and that's the image they're portraying. How the 1:21:51.600 --> 1:21:54.439 fuck are we not? You just just see the two 1:21:54.520 --> 1:21:56.879 fifteen year old boys shoot the security guarden in Atlanta. 1:22:00.479 --> 1:22:04.760 Heard about that rolled up. It was like a video game, bro. 1:22:06.200 --> 1:22:08.599 They had mask on, they got the security this broad 1:22:08.680 --> 1:22:12.200 day life And I'm sitting back like what the what 1:22:12.479 --> 1:22:18.680 the fun will give year old kids? Yeah? So like 1:22:19.240 --> 1:22:23.400 is this like a form of like let us kill ourselves? 1:22:23.520 --> 1:22:25.760 This is the new music? You followed us this way? 1:22:26.479 --> 1:22:29.920 And I think so that's what I'm on. That's what 1:22:30.040 --> 1:22:31.800 I think. You could see your point like why is 1:22:31.840 --> 1:22:34.759 it now acceptable? Yeah? You know what I'm saying because 1:22:35.120 --> 1:22:37.480 once again, I feel like our kids are so impressionable 1:22:38.080 --> 1:22:40.560 that when they see that, they're starting to normalize and 1:22:40.720 --> 1:22:42.800 think it's okay. It's like just away of life, you 1:22:42.840 --> 1:22:45.479 know what I'm saying. And I think that to your point, 1:22:45.560 --> 1:22:47.800 I think that these kids, it is a game to 1:22:47.880 --> 1:22:50.920 them life for death. Like for us, we value life, 1:22:51.120 --> 1:22:55.479 you know what I'm saying. Special that God bless for 1:22:55.560 --> 1:22:58.679 its past three days. I've heard of these three artists, 1:22:58.720 --> 1:23:00.280 and then when I heard of these three all I 1:23:00.360 --> 1:23:05.160 heard him being arrested. Like that's funked up. It is 1:23:05.280 --> 1:23:07.759 bro like when you come this, this is this business 1:23:07.800 --> 1:23:09.400 and you get a record deal, We're supposed to be 1:23:09.439 --> 1:23:11.840 celebrating you. I'm not supposed to be finding out about 1:23:11.880 --> 1:23:15.040 you because you got arrested. Does that make sense? Like 1:23:15.120 --> 1:23:18.679 that ship is like kind of funked up. I don't 1:23:18.720 --> 1:23:22.800 hear that only having like you said, you've always said, 1:23:23.320 --> 1:23:29.120 it never happens, it's just our But it depends on 1:23:29.200 --> 1:23:34.320 the actions though too. No, but it's glorified because it's 1:23:34.400 --> 1:23:38.640 coming from Yeah. Because see his point, like when you 1:23:38.720 --> 1:23:41.519 think about like the hardest songs on the radio right 1:23:41.560 --> 1:23:45.200 now is literally talking about like somebody that got smoked 1:23:47.520 --> 1:23:50.360 stories that it's like a lot of y'all. Ship was 1:23:50.439 --> 1:23:56.040 like storytellers because I'm hating a little bit. I'm like, 1:23:56.040 --> 1:23:57.479 I can't get away with that what I'm saying. But 1:23:57.600 --> 1:23:59.680 you were telling us, so youre talking about somebody, but 1:23:59.760 --> 1:24:04.639 you saying the name like they're saying the name said 1:24:06.320 --> 1:24:09.880 then I was there, We shot him there. It's just different, 1:24:09.960 --> 1:24:14.240 like this whole storytelling. Now they're telling the truth. They're 1:24:14.240 --> 1:24:22.600 telling truth. Totally different. And I didn't know what was 1:24:23.439 --> 1:24:26.559 And tell my man Sharif, who's here. We was arguing 1:24:26.600 --> 1:24:29.640 about like who had the most influenced Chicago niggas or 1:24:29.720 --> 1:24:33.760 New York niggas whatever over there, and he was saying, 1:24:33.800 --> 1:24:37.880 obviously in Chicago, and he started talking about drill, drill, drill, 1:24:37.920 --> 1:24:39.680 And I'm sitting on the call because he argued with 1:24:39.760 --> 1:24:42.280 me and my man Nay and I have no idea 1:24:42.320 --> 1:24:45.120 what he means by drill music. And then I looked 1:24:45.360 --> 1:24:47.760 looked it up and realized that you didn't know what 1:24:47.880 --> 1:24:53.720 drill that these things just talking about killing. That's real, 1:24:53.960 --> 1:24:58.280 that's scary. I'm last stek just to Chicago last week, man, 1:24:58.400 --> 1:25:01.840 my man, damn I co founding Viola in village and 1:25:02.160 --> 1:25:04.040 we're at the Noble Hotel. We want to know who 1:25:04.120 --> 1:25:07.840 to grab some food uptime. These three kids in front 1:25:07.840 --> 1:25:09.959 of us, and as we were walking on the elevator, 1:25:10.120 --> 1:25:12.679 I could tell they start looking back, like kept looking 1:25:12.720 --> 1:25:15.080 at me in the California said no, we were in Chicago. 1:25:15.800 --> 1:25:18.880 No tell, he's three kids. They're walking. They get on 1:25:18.880 --> 1:25:21.320 the elevator, so we get't elevate. Then it's in front 1:25:21.320 --> 1:25:22.760 of me, so he don't kind of see. He just 1:25:22.800 --> 1:25:24.720 walks on the elevator. So I'm looking. I could tell 1:25:24.760 --> 1:25:27.320 the way they're looking, They're like, what's up. So we 1:25:27.439 --> 1:25:31.519 get on the elevator right and one of the ones 1:25:31.560 --> 1:25:33.160 in the back, he kind of stepped to the back 1:25:33.200 --> 1:25:35.120 and he's still like looking at us, like you know 1:25:35.120 --> 1:25:36.400 what I'm saying, Like damn, They're like, why do we 1:25:36.479 --> 1:25:38.679 get on the elevator with them? So what I said 1:25:38.720 --> 1:25:40.240 to them, I was just like, yo, where y'all from? 1:25:40.840 --> 1:25:42.760 And he was like shot rack. He said that ship 1:25:42.880 --> 1:25:44.519 soon by by the time I said from, he was 1:25:44.520 --> 1:25:47.040 like shot Rack And I was like, oh, he was 1:25:47.080 --> 1:25:48.639 like where you from. I was like, I'm from Jersey. 1:25:48.680 --> 1:25:50.840 I'm telling you good He's like, yeah, I'm good, and 1:25:50.920 --> 1:25:53.519 he kind of calmed down. Yeah, you could tell like 1:25:53.720 --> 1:25:56.200 he was looking at an enemy. Yeah, bro, he was 1:25:56.240 --> 1:25:58.840 looking at us like what's going on? You know what 1:25:58.920 --> 1:26:01.920 I'm saying? And like the boys in Chicago, they ain't 1:26:01.960 --> 1:26:05.800 playing them kids out there, bro, because these dudes they 1:26:05.880 --> 1:26:09.560 were kids. Yeah, it's funked up, but the music is 1:26:09.600 --> 1:26:12.360 definitely selling that ship. You know what I'm saying. Crazy, 1:26:12.360 --> 1:26:15.280 you gotta new artist. You got one of those crazy guys, 1:26:15.720 --> 1:26:19.600 a new Drill. Crazy guys. They're all crazy to me. 1:26:19.680 --> 1:26:22.640 I love him. I love him what I used to 1:26:22.680 --> 1:26:25.720 be used to be like, I'm looking like, no, not 1:26:25.920 --> 1:26:29.120 right now, right now, a little dirt. None of them does. 1:26:29.200 --> 1:26:30.920 I fun with them. I love all them, the young 1:26:31.000 --> 1:26:32.600 kids out of Chicago, you know what I mean. I 1:26:32.680 --> 1:26:36.200 got a lot of relationship with their management teams and 1:26:36.280 --> 1:26:40.000 all that, but I'm just focused on y and right 1:26:40.040 --> 1:26:44.960 he got that. How do we look at that? How 1:26:45.000 --> 1:26:47.040 did you look at that? Scene started? Let me just 1:26:47.080 --> 1:26:50.160 tell you something while I'm sorry, okay going there, Yeah sorry. 1:26:50.280 --> 1:26:52.519 What never mean by that is when they jumped on 1:26:52.640 --> 1:26:58.240 Chief Keith record, right Drill. That's where Drill went pop 1:26:59.000 --> 1:27:01.680 see drill was underground. Let me tell you something. I 1:27:01.840 --> 1:27:04.200 walked to my son's room one day and I saw 1:27:04.360 --> 1:27:08.920 him watching Chief Keith video. And I first did not like. 1:27:09.680 --> 1:27:12.080 I was just like, all right, cool because it looked 1:27:12.120 --> 1:27:14.360 like they was a colder sat It looked like they 1:27:14.479 --> 1:27:16.439 was like and I did not see that they was 1:27:16.479 --> 1:27:19.000 pulling off guns like I just saw it. They was 1:27:19.080 --> 1:27:21.320 just over there in the house, and I was just like, okay. 1:27:21.520 --> 1:27:22.720 I was like, I look, I said, that's what you're 1:27:22.720 --> 1:27:25.759 listening to, and then I left out. Then I realized 1:27:25.840 --> 1:27:30.519 these things got choppers, Like what the funk? I just 1:27:30.600 --> 1:27:33.560 allowed my son to just look at And then I 1:27:33.840 --> 1:27:37.360 met Chief Keep. Obviously it was great. But yes I 1:27:37.479 --> 1:27:40.040 met Chief Keep in front of the Mansion Hotels, looking 1:27:40.040 --> 1:27:48.000 awesome with your chief. Um. But Kanye made drill music 1:27:49.680 --> 1:27:52.880 go to that level when he jumped on that's that ship. 1:27:52.960 --> 1:27:56.800 I don't like the first record. It was what did 1:27:56.840 --> 1:27:59.760 you feel about that? Did you know what he was doing? Um? 1:28:00.360 --> 1:28:03.000 At the time, I wasn't working with you, but I 1:28:03.160 --> 1:28:05.240 was working with a kid named King Louis who he 1:28:05.320 --> 1:28:08.360 shouted out on that record. Um, King Louis, that's that's 1:28:08.479 --> 1:28:12.040 not um Okay, it was. It was like they were 1:28:12.120 --> 1:28:14.439 like the two kind of big drill guys at the time. 1:28:14.520 --> 1:28:18.639 It was Chief Keith and King Louis. And King Louis 1:28:18.640 --> 1:28:23.320 actually got on the Jesus album We Ain't and Esus Jesus. 1:28:24.040 --> 1:28:30.559 That's not my favorite, great album opinion, that great album, 1:28:30.720 --> 1:28:33.800 but the album I would say, you know, yeah, he's 1:28:33.840 --> 1:28:37.000 a visionary and he saw, you know, what Keith was doing, 1:28:37.080 --> 1:28:38.960 and I think that's why he got on the record. 1:28:39.479 --> 1:28:42.400 In my opinion, that's just what I believe. He saw 1:28:42.479 --> 1:28:44.439 what was going going on with him and they had 1:28:44.479 --> 1:28:48.120 a relationship, and uh, it really helps it, like you say, 1:28:48.280 --> 1:28:51.519 but launched the whole movement because keep it still. You know, 1:28:51.960 --> 1:28:54.840 he's still a king of drill. He's still a king 1:28:54.880 --> 1:29:00.679 of drill. Can you define drill music? So cargo sub 1:29:00.800 --> 1:29:08.479 genre street like that from Chicago? Yeah, yeah, I got you. 1:29:08.960 --> 1:29:16.280 It's um, it's really at its core south side street 1:29:16.360 --> 1:29:21.599 hip hop of Chicago. That's what it really is. There's 1:29:22.040 --> 1:29:25.120 the drill artists all over the city and all over 1:29:25.160 --> 1:29:31.000 the country the world, over the world, but really it 1:29:31.120 --> 1:29:35.599 started out south and it's like some south side street ship. 1:29:37.040 --> 1:29:39.800 It's definitely hip. It's definitely hip hop because at First 1:29:39.840 --> 1:29:42.800 Street Ron when you do the Origin of Drill, we 1:29:42.880 --> 1:29:45.040 do the Origin of Drill, and you see these different 1:29:45.080 --> 1:29:47.439 clicks because they were all just like little kids. They 1:29:47.479 --> 1:29:50.439 were like basically just shotting out these games, all these 1:29:50.520 --> 1:29:54.280 different sets that we didn't know. But we were just 1:29:54.400 --> 1:29:57.200 listening to this ship like this is sound ill and 1:29:57.960 --> 1:30:01.760 then it kept going they kept going right, and um, 1:30:02.840 --> 1:30:06.320 now Chicago is the forefront of motherfucking right music. It's right, 1:30:06.800 --> 1:30:11.240 what what Kanye? And without them? Like, wow, is that 1:30:11.320 --> 1:30:13.760 something you brought of? Absolutely? Man, I've been working in 1:30:13.840 --> 1:30:17.400 the Chicago hip hop ship since eighty nine, So for me, 1:30:17.560 --> 1:30:20.160 it's just a you know, a dream come true. God 1:30:20.200 --> 1:30:28.680 bless that hopefully, Boli glacamole. Man, this is a good one. 1:30:29.600 --> 1:30:36.800 Good motherfucker. Sure doesn't necessarily gang music, right or is it? 1:30:38.479 --> 1:30:40.360 I think that's I think that's up to your point 1:30:40.400 --> 1:30:42.960 of view. Yeah, because that's like saying gangster rap. Don't 1:30:42.960 --> 1:30:47.479 mean you a gangsters against rap falls under gangster. Yes, 1:30:47.960 --> 1:30:57.960 what I'm trying to music story? Yeah, I think tell 1:30:58.040 --> 1:31:03.120 the story, but stead this morning, the story doesn't end 1:31:03.160 --> 1:31:08.479 well for most cases, it's really game or is it 1:31:08.600 --> 1:31:12.720 just you start ton but it's street street. I think 1:31:12.760 --> 1:31:15.960 it's streets necessarily gang. I don't want to use that 1:31:16.120 --> 1:31:19.040 word because that, to me, that has like a street 1:31:19.240 --> 1:31:23.439 organization implication. I'm not saying that, it's just street stories. 1:31:23.560 --> 1:31:26.479 To me, it's like if you have be for somebody 1:31:26.560 --> 1:31:27.800 and then you put it on the record, and you're 1:31:27.800 --> 1:31:30.920 just putting that on the record. But that's I understand 1:31:31.040 --> 1:31:33.840 what my perception of it is. I just wanted to 1:31:33.920 --> 1:31:37.040 know for someone that's from there, even if you should 1:31:37.080 --> 1:31:49.640 be removed from there. No just and n w A 1:31:49.720 --> 1:31:52.479 telling the dollars because it said the police. But these 1:31:52.560 --> 1:31:55.599 kids to block and they're really shooting at each other, 1:31:56.320 --> 1:31:58.439 and we are we are removed from it because I 1:31:58.479 --> 1:32:00.240 guarantee on the street let they're gonna say, you guys 1:32:00.240 --> 1:32:02.760 don't know what the funk you're talking about. But yeah, 1:32:03.479 --> 1:32:06.240 Chicago dude, don't get a funk about the Chicago dues. 1:32:06.520 --> 1:32:10.400 They don't get about Chicago dudes neither. They just it's 1:32:10.479 --> 1:32:19.160 just it's not this Chicago thing. No, drill has now 1:32:19.640 --> 1:32:24.080 been worldwide, you know, drill everywhere he was he was 1:32:24.080 --> 1:32:27.040 speaking to the origins of drill. Like when he said 1:32:27.120 --> 1:32:33.280 when he said, he's correct it's about that, and it's 1:32:33.280 --> 1:32:35.720 just like hip hop, like alright, cool hip hop. The 1:32:35.800 --> 1:32:38.400 Bronx had it for so long, like this is just 1:32:38.560 --> 1:32:40.640 be clear. The Bronx had it. Yes, they invented it. 1:32:40.840 --> 1:32:43.040 We gotta give it to them. But eventually it went 1:32:43.120 --> 1:32:45.439 to Queens, Eventually it went to Brooklyn, eventually it went 1:32:45.479 --> 1:32:48.599 to whatever. And they couldn't just clean hip hop no more. 1:32:48.920 --> 1:32:51.479 Hip hop is everything the same thing with Drill. Drill 1:32:51.640 --> 1:32:55.680 started in the South Side of Chicago, but does not 1:32:55.880 --> 1:32:58.720 mean that a person in Liberty City, a person in 1:32:59.400 --> 1:33:02.920 Old Child, the person for the projects, a person then 1:33:04.000 --> 1:33:08.519 whatever can't can't can yeah, Bush can't can't do the 1:33:08.600 --> 1:33:10.800 same thing. But it goes back to my original question 1:33:10.880 --> 1:33:13.320 to you, John Um, and maybe you can answer it. 1:33:13.920 --> 1:33:16.240 Does someone like Kanye look back and think of Drill 1:33:16.280 --> 1:33:19.120 and say, like, what does he think of it? Ultimately? 1:33:19.479 --> 1:33:23.000 I can't answer that. I know that he respects or 1:33:23.040 --> 1:33:25.960 I would think that he respects the impact, But I 1:33:26.000 --> 1:33:29.839 can't answer, can you respect artists but understand the negative 1:33:29.880 --> 1:33:34.120 implications that this music has overall in the bigger scheme 1:33:34.160 --> 1:33:41.320 of it impact? I can can you, Yeah, you go 1:33:41.520 --> 1:33:52.160 watch porn without being a freak? Yes, you don't necessarily 1:33:52.280 --> 1:34:02.640 mean you know he is somebody boys some point we 1:34:02.800 --> 1:34:06.240 bust one out. Don't mean you're freaking just mean you 1:34:07.240 --> 1:34:11.240 had to let one go. Baby, have an interest, interest happens. 1:34:12.720 --> 1:34:18.559 What's your favorite part of the music business? They creating, 1:34:18.760 --> 1:34:25.719 creating the music and the actual content. Yeah, studio, studio stuff, studio, 1:34:27.040 --> 1:34:31.000 and then I think second behind that is uh working 1:34:31.080 --> 1:34:37.120 on rollout, but definitely the inception, like being there when 1:34:37.160 --> 1:34:39.160 they beat, the first time to beat is played in 1:34:39.200 --> 1:34:41.960 that first flow and all that. I just like, that's 1:34:41.960 --> 1:34:44.840 just always been my ship. Studio, right ship. So what's 1:34:44.840 --> 1:34:46.960 your favorite part or Kanye? Is it to do some 1:34:47.080 --> 1:34:49.439 part or is it the artist part. I'll do a shot. 1:34:55.040 --> 1:35:03.160 This work, it's my ground. Brendan real like someone like that. 1:35:06.280 --> 1:35:12.000 I don't want he hasn't drinking, want no no, this 1:35:13.840 --> 1:35:19.720 like that? That ye that, I'll take a show me 1:35:20.200 --> 1:35:22.400 take a shot. I can't let you take a shot. 1:35:23.360 --> 1:35:27.600 I take a riot. Yeah, I take a shot, but 1:35:27.680 --> 1:35:30.160 you know what, it's very interested. Let me let me 1:35:30.200 --> 1:35:32.280 take a let me take a shot, take a shot. 1:35:32.800 --> 1:35:34.960 Let's take a shot with you and for you. But 1:35:35.120 --> 1:35:37.720 salu okay, I'm gonna take a little bit take a 1:35:37.760 --> 1:35:42.280 little bit, just a little brow. I had to kill 1:35:42.320 --> 1:35:48.960 that cool. You took it down, but you took you 1:35:49.040 --> 1:35:52.640 took a shower. I can't really drink, you know. You 1:35:52.880 --> 1:35:55.560 know what's interesting to hear you say that? What's that? 1:35:56.560 --> 1:35:59.400 Is what I asked you. Is Kanye the artist or 1:35:59.520 --> 1:36:02.080 Kanye A the producer? But the producer is the artist 1:36:02.120 --> 1:36:03.960 and the artist is the producer. I mean, it's all artistry. 1:36:04.920 --> 1:36:07.439 It is all artistry. But I mean you mean the 1:36:07.600 --> 1:36:12.040 M maybe the artist artist. I mean when you say 1:36:12.120 --> 1:36:14.720 artists to me, the producer is the artist. Okay, maybe 1:36:14.720 --> 1:36:16.800 I should have said MC. Okay, all right, so MC, 1:36:17.320 --> 1:36:23.479 because it's like it's a totally different like when I 1:36:23.560 --> 1:36:25.479 look at for all as an m C and I 1:36:25.520 --> 1:36:28.120 look at him as an artist, is totally different. Um, 1:36:29.479 --> 1:36:32.479 I think I'm more of a fan of Kanye as 1:36:32.479 --> 1:36:34.840 an artist, but I can't say I'm less as a 1:36:34.920 --> 1:36:38.519 fan of Kanye as a producer. Like like, so it's 1:36:38.600 --> 1:36:41.240 it's a very hard because you first learned of Kanye 1:36:41.360 --> 1:36:43.600 as a producer and probably became a fan of his 1:36:44.520 --> 1:36:47.439 making beats on these different people projects, specifically jay Z 1:36:47.640 --> 1:36:50.000 and the whole fan Rock and all that. So like 1:36:50.120 --> 1:36:52.840 he was getting hot first as a producer. You know 1:36:52.880 --> 1:36:54.840 what I mean? You know, how did you first come 1:36:54.920 --> 1:37:00.880 to you? Though? As I met him thirty years ago 1:37:01.040 --> 1:37:03.680 and ninety one through my boy Lucien. He was in 1:37:03.760 --> 1:37:06.400 a rap group called State of Mind. That was his 1:37:06.479 --> 1:37:12.320 first round group Kanye. It was Lucien, Kanye and another 1:37:12.320 --> 1:37:15.720 guy named Jean. You're already working with the time I 1:37:15.760 --> 1:37:20.000 started working with no I D and uh ninety uh 1:37:21.680 --> 1:37:29.640 six seven, You met in Kanye first? Yeah, yeah, but 1:37:29.720 --> 1:37:33.160 no but I met no I D around the same 1:37:33.280 --> 1:37:36.920 time though, so I've known them both probably about thirty years. 1:37:37.080 --> 1:37:41.519 But um I started working with Kanye soon as soon 1:37:41.520 --> 1:37:44.080 as I met him, we started working together, Like as 1:37:44.120 --> 1:37:45.320 soon as he told me, he said, You've got to 1:37:45.360 --> 1:37:49.200 work with me, dude. You know he was always so 1:37:49.400 --> 1:37:51.560 ill like he wasn't never whacked. You never met with 1:37:51.600 --> 1:37:54.920 Mothercker who was never whacked. He just was never wacking. 1:37:55.000 --> 1:37:58.280 Beach was always crazy and raps was always hard like, 1:37:59.360 --> 1:38:02.120 he just was always just that NIGGD makes those for Kanye. 1:38:05.520 --> 1:38:08.280 M are we gonna make great bigs and James cous 1:38:08.320 --> 1:38:10.800 In here because because the bigs got to have an 1:38:10.840 --> 1:38:15.839 opinion of that too. Wanted to work. Come on, goddamnit, 1:38:16.600 --> 1:38:22.840 come on, come on, because James go along just two minutes. 1:38:22.880 --> 1:38:29.720 Come on now. But that's ill. I didn't um. You know, 1:38:33.240 --> 1:38:37.479 it's only certain people who can live in those two 1:38:37.640 --> 1:38:41.280 different lives, right, A great producer and a great artist 1:38:41.479 --> 1:38:46.479 right off top, I think of Dr Dre right, I 1:38:46.560 --> 1:38:51.080 think of Pump Daddy for sure. I think of Kanye. 1:38:53.240 --> 1:38:59.720 I think of for real. I think you just don't 1:38:59.720 --> 1:39:06.600 forget about cut cute tip, qute tip? Have it? Have it? 1:39:07.040 --> 1:39:11.880 Have it? For sure? I have it. Yeah, that's that's 1:39:12.040 --> 1:39:17.360 that's pretty hard. That's pretty hard to maintain both. But 1:39:17.479 --> 1:39:20.000 even if you look at that list, you gotta kind 1:39:20.040 --> 1:39:24.680 of say, Kanye, is that really the right trip? No? No, no, 1:39:28.720 --> 1:39:35.920 well no, yeah, I guess what was? What was Chicago Rivals? 1:39:38.600 --> 1:39:45.000 Let me ask you something, Let me ask you something? Right, So, yeah, 1:39:45.040 --> 1:39:52.120 you're right, you can't do too. But it's this record 1:39:52.160 --> 1:39:54.760 that comes out right, and you know, hopefully you can 1:39:54.800 --> 1:39:58.280 help us with this. Big brother, my big brother, you 1:39:58.360 --> 1:40:01.160 used to be dame man. Big is brother, who is 1:40:01.240 --> 1:40:03.720 hip hop? Brother? Who is No? I did friend? No, 1:40:03.880 --> 1:40:07.559 I did man? Not a story again? So this record 1:40:07.600 --> 1:40:11.760 comes out. How do you feel hearing this record prior 1:40:11.840 --> 1:40:13.880 to it coming out, because this could be taking the 1:40:13.960 --> 1:40:16.960 wrong way this right, What do you think? What do 1:40:17.000 --> 1:40:19.360 you what is your first thought? I think he was 1:40:19.479 --> 1:40:21.519 just being honest, as he always was. If you just 1:40:21.680 --> 1:40:23.599 listened to him, he tells you what's on his mind. 1:40:24.000 --> 1:40:27.000 He never would hold back, and I think that's what 1:40:27.160 --> 1:40:32.080 really was so warm and um just welcoming to like 1:40:32.560 --> 1:40:34.720 the fans, and that's why people just love him so 1:40:34.920 --> 1:40:37.599 much because he never holds back. Still to this day, 1:40:37.680 --> 1:40:40.560 you know what I mean if you think know that 1:40:40.800 --> 1:40:49.679 that really happened. You know, we cool, but yo, back 1:40:49.760 --> 1:40:53.840 then we we was getting fronted on straight up. But 1:40:54.400 --> 1:41:02.120 I think you need to take the other shot. So 1:41:02.479 --> 1:41:05.519 really that was really like that, like yeah, but shout 1:41:05.560 --> 1:41:08.040 out to Biggs Man to us on our first private jet, 1:41:08.120 --> 1:41:16.840 man Big to me on my favorite. That was a 1:41:16.920 --> 1:41:21.479 lot of fun, a lot of fun. Oh man, this 1:41:21.560 --> 1:41:23.240 is history right here, man, you know what I mean? 1:41:24.720 --> 1:41:26.920 And you know the whole bottle bro Oh yeah you 1:41:27.080 --> 1:41:30.840 another one? I mean, you know another one. This is 1:41:30.880 --> 1:41:33.439 the finest of the finest, the oup so of I 1:41:33.479 --> 1:41:36.080 don't even know. This is black fantastic, you know what 1:41:36.080 --> 1:41:38.640 I'm saying. You know what I mean. Man, I was 1:41:38.720 --> 1:41:40.120 on be was on the group chat. You know what 1:41:40.120 --> 1:41:42.720 I'm saying. Biggs was there. What I want to you 1:41:42.800 --> 1:41:45.360 know somebody I had to tell him I drink more 1:41:45.439 --> 1:41:48.479 ace than you. Yeah, you don't. You know what I mean. 1:41:50.400 --> 1:41:55.800 You gotta relax, you gotta relax. But black this is 1:41:55.800 --> 1:41:58.880 what I love like you know what I mean? You know, uh, 1:41:59.479 --> 1:42:02.920 I think a uh the greatest product in the world. 1:42:03.240 --> 1:42:05.080 But then the fact that I know the brother who 1:42:05.160 --> 1:42:07.360 owns it, that secondary. You know what I'm saying. I 1:42:08.439 --> 1:42:11.240 know in the packaging, the package, look at it just 1:42:11.320 --> 1:42:15.120 looks sexy. Look that's it just looks sexy. Looks like 1:42:15.160 --> 1:42:23.160 you got the spinger Pops. Don't like that at Look 1:42:23.200 --> 1:42:25.599 at the rock. It's a don't forget brother here White, 1:42:25.600 --> 1:42:29.600 don't forget to get forgetting called me crazy. Don't got this? 1:42:29.760 --> 1:42:48.400 This all blank someone ship. He's starting lash. It's very expensive. 1:42:49.320 --> 1:42:51.559 So what's the end all be all viola? What are 1:42:51.560 --> 1:42:54.880 we trying to have viola in Mars seven? Yeah, bro, 1:42:54.960 --> 1:42:56.680 we want to be the biggest. We want to be 1:42:56.880 --> 1:43:00.880 when the coca is black. Cannabis are a lot little 1:43:00.880 --> 1:43:04.760 bit y'all just been letting this ship go down like 1:43:04.840 --> 1:43:16.400 I see you as he never snor you gotta sleep 1:43:16.400 --> 1:43:28.160 out there, Like right now we're in um. I think 1:43:28.200 --> 1:43:32.280 we're in six states. Six the states you're in. So 1:43:32.360 --> 1:43:43.120 when California, Oregon, Washington, Oregon, we get hi, all night rest, Colorado, Oklahoma, 1:43:43.160 --> 1:43:46.599 in Michigan. We're about to launch in Canada next month. 1:43:47.160 --> 1:43:49.200 And then we got Maryland in Missouri, we're about to 1:43:49.280 --> 1:43:52.800 launch in. We're getting we're working on New York. So 1:43:52.920 --> 1:43:55.880 New York is about to open up the new application process, 1:43:55.920 --> 1:43:59.920 so we're trying to get in Florida. Finish, I got 1:44:00.000 --> 1:44:03.439 that's your question, guys, whatever, But Florida. What's going on 1:44:03.600 --> 1:44:09.000 with Florida? Everybody got me, Like, I mean, Florida's kind 1:44:09.040 --> 1:44:11.720 of set up. They monopolize Florida, you know what I'm saying. 1:44:11.720 --> 1:44:15.000 They only gave certain people licenses and they running it up, 1:44:15.120 --> 1:44:19.240 especially like companies like Truly. But I think that they truly, 1:44:21.000 --> 1:44:22.960 You're out of line, man, that's what you You know, 1:44:23.000 --> 1:44:24.840 you you need your medicine. Yeah, I need it, I 1:44:24.920 --> 1:44:27.160 get it, you know what I'm saying. But we need 1:44:27.280 --> 1:44:29.759 Viola to get a license in or get a license 1:44:29.800 --> 1:44:32.479 in that you know what I'm saying that to be dope. 1:44:32.520 --> 1:44:38.240 Can we all get campaign. We're gonna work. We love Florida, 1:44:38.400 --> 1:44:39.880 We're gonna work on. We got to come up with 1:44:39.920 --> 1:44:43.880 a game plan how we can all benefited the smoke centuries. Bro, 1:44:44.000 --> 1:44:47.240 we got smoke Champs dispensaries. We've got smoke Champs, the brand, 1:44:47.760 --> 1:44:49.200 whatever the fun you want to have. You know what 1:44:49.280 --> 1:44:51.439 I'm saying. With the licenses, the key that is the 1:44:51.560 --> 1:44:55.800 only can we partner? Yeah? Bro, like these licenses out 1:44:55.800 --> 1:44:57.479 hear me. Think about every license you get, you go 1:44:57.600 --> 1:45:02.000 open up thirty plus dispensaries with one license. But like 1:45:02.160 --> 1:45:04.160 most states, they don't have that. That's what I'm saying. 1:45:04.200 --> 1:45:06.840 They allowed to monopolize this state. You know what I'm saying. 1:45:06.920 --> 1:45:09.599 Mostly we get a cultivation that's just a cultivation license. 1:45:09.880 --> 1:45:11.600 Ain't got nothing to do with stores. You know what 1:45:11.680 --> 1:45:20.200 I'm saying now, yesterday, yesterday, if it's going to happen, 1:45:21.000 --> 1:45:28.080 But yesterday he said, I said, I think you're yesterday 1:45:32.120 --> 1:45:37.680 that vegan whatever you got that tag of balls. Ball, 1:45:38.160 --> 1:45:43.840 we're trying to talk ball. Let's change your life right now. 1:45:43.960 --> 1:45:52.280 Let's change here. He wasn't supposed to drink the whole bottle. 1:45:53.960 --> 1:46:00.439 Now he drink. That's why that side. That's much. That's 1:46:01.000 --> 1:46:12.040 that's too much. That's give me happy happen. That's it. 1:46:12.160 --> 1:46:16.880 That's it. I'm gonna take some much. You ain't taking that. 1:46:17.960 --> 1:46:21.280 I'm not saying wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, 1:46:21.280 --> 1:46:23.439 hold again. You want to say something. I want to 1:46:23.439 --> 1:46:26.439 say something. Listen. Our show was about giving flowers. While 1:46:26.479 --> 1:46:29.680 you hear I know you hear that statement so much nowadays. 1:46:29.880 --> 1:46:33.120 I we didn't invent it. We made it famous. We 1:46:33.920 --> 1:46:35.479 that's what we did for the last six years of 1:46:35.479 --> 1:46:37.600 our life. We just wanted to have a show that 1:46:37.720 --> 1:46:39.960 we get big up people. There's so many people that 1:46:40.040 --> 1:46:41.639 when you got ten years in this game, they want 1:46:41.680 --> 1:46:43.519 to give you away and say, funck, you put you 1:46:43.560 --> 1:46:51.160 to the side. We invented giving people their flowers to 1:46:51.160 --> 1:46:56.439 say something also fun time. There's no high school a 1:46:56.520 --> 1:46:58.840 high school athlete going straight to the NBA. That's not 1:46:58.920 --> 1:47:00.360 a lot of other people. Not to make people to 1:47:00.520 --> 1:47:03.479 do that. And you had a sixteen year glorious career 1:47:03.920 --> 1:47:06.360 and you manifested out of thirty four years old into 1:47:06.400 --> 1:47:19.320 a cannabis entrepreneurship company. Got that hate that yes ship. 1:47:22.000 --> 1:47:27.200 Now to get the poet bro yeah, it's the right there. Yes, 1:47:27.920 --> 1:47:29.960 now now now I move this away. You don't want that? 1:47:39.439 --> 1:47:41.840 Who has you gonna take some of that you get 1:47:42.479 --> 1:47:44.679 now you're gonna store some more. Bro, Come on, really 1:47:46.080 --> 1:47:48.439 that starts you come out, you get make sure you 1:47:48.479 --> 1:47:51.120 get the engineer because when the fans asked us, why 1:47:51.200 --> 1:47:55.759 the sound sound? So I just want everyone to focusing 1:47:55.840 --> 1:48:01.599 on that drinking yea it out. The attack of bone 1:48:01.640 --> 1:48:12.479 is different. I'm sorry, you're definitely not coming. We're gonna 1:48:12.520 --> 1:48:19.240 leave you the funk where you at this earlier? What's 1:48:19.280 --> 1:48:21.880 his favorite part of the game. I would like to 1:48:21.880 --> 1:48:24.479 ask you what was your favorite part of playing the 1:48:24.520 --> 1:48:29.000 game when we were playing it basketball? Yeah, my favorite 1:48:29.040 --> 1:48:31.759 part of the game was the It was the arena, 1:48:32.400 --> 1:48:37.040 just the things. What's your favorite arena? Favorite areas? It 1:48:37.120 --> 1:48:43.759 is the Massive Masson Square Guard. What's the second favure? 1:48:44.920 --> 1:48:50.519 My second favorite the United Center Chicago, Chicago, and your 1:48:50.560 --> 1:49:00.400 third American Airlines Arena Miami. Right, we was what are points? 1:49:01.200 --> 1:49:06.200 And Baron said he smoked his whole career and you 1:49:06.280 --> 1:49:08.439 ain't burned out one time with the y'all smoked the 1:49:08.600 --> 1:49:22.960 one time, Bro, it was it was only time I 1:49:23.040 --> 1:49:28.640 smoke at hal was in the Big Three black Man, 1:49:31.479 --> 1:49:34.200 but no Baron Davis. She smoked with him. One time 1:49:34.280 --> 1:49:37.680 I smoked with them was in Phoenix, Arizona. We had 1:49:37.760 --> 1:49:41.040 just was eliminated from the playoffs, and I remember how 1:49:41.120 --> 1:49:44.439 paranoid I was after smoking with him. You gotta eliminate this. 1:49:44.520 --> 1:49:46.320 You had an excuse still get you got excuse you. 1:49:46.920 --> 1:49:48.760 It's crazy though, we got I got to listen. What's 1:49:48.800 --> 1:49:51.320 pretty crazy about that? Though? I got drug texted the 1:49:51.400 --> 1:49:58.120 next day. But that's when I found out that, you know, 1:49:58.360 --> 1:50:03.439 part of the process never Yeah, you get one dollar 1:50:03.760 --> 1:50:06.760 a year in the program. So like they check you 1:50:06.880 --> 1:50:09.400 four times, they techt you four times, but one of 1:50:09.439 --> 1:50:13.400 them can be diluted. David Stern big shout out to 1:50:13.439 --> 1:50:17.840 Day You're gonna let it go. We're about We're about 1:50:17.840 --> 1:50:20.200 to launch this, uh this product a topical cream call 1:50:20.280 --> 1:50:27.240 replay with the players next just like CBD whatever. Yeah. 1:50:27.560 --> 1:50:29.320 So for like you know, after the game, when you 1:50:29.400 --> 1:50:32.439 know you stiff and you know me anti inflammatories and 1:50:32.439 --> 1:50:34.679 ship like that. Because I took anti inflammatories of seven 1:50:34.720 --> 1:50:36.800 straight years. I took three pills a day, two in 1:50:36.840 --> 1:50:39.040 the morning, one at night, just so that I could 1:50:39.080 --> 1:50:42.960 feel good to go out and keep you know, you 1:50:43.000 --> 1:50:45.640 know what I'm saying. So I know how important it 1:50:45.720 --> 1:50:48.639 is for athletes to recover. You know what I'm saying, 1:50:48.720 --> 1:50:51.720 because we always hurt, Bro, Like there's no such thing. 1:50:51.760 --> 1:50:54.599 It's like I think, once you would come a professional athlete, 1:50:54.600 --> 1:50:58.519 you're never got to get hurt. It's just always something constant, recovery, 1:50:58.600 --> 1:51:03.200 constantly recovery. Something's hurting Bro Constantly. I ask a question, 1:51:03.360 --> 1:51:08.080 please and no, no, go ahead please. I love how 1:51:08.120 --> 1:51:10.960 he's shaking. Ask you a question. In the Big Three 1:51:12.040 --> 1:51:14.519 and the Big Three. Ch Oakley gave you a good one. 1:51:15.760 --> 1:51:18.040 Charles gave you a hit in the nose. You fell, 1:51:18.520 --> 1:51:20.719 and he tried to apologize. I think you said, forget 1:51:20.720 --> 1:51:22.320 about it. It is what it is, part of the game. 1:51:22.800 --> 1:51:28.400 But how was that dealing with Charles Oakley? All I'm 1:51:28.439 --> 1:51:30.360 gonna say, this is all I'm gonna say. When I 1:51:30.479 --> 1:51:34.840 was a rookie, there was a lockout, so Michael Jordan 1:51:34.920 --> 1:51:36.880 was retiring, but he was still trying to go through 1:51:36.920 --> 1:51:39.760 the process of helping us get through that process. And 1:51:39.920 --> 1:51:42.040 I'm not gonna see who it was. But all I 1:51:42.120 --> 1:51:43.880 know is we're staying in the lobby at the Hill 1:51:43.880 --> 1:51:47.439 and hotel in in uh in like Union Square or 1:51:47.439 --> 1:51:51.360 whatever that's hotel we right, And all I hear is 1:51:51.400 --> 1:51:54.559 like chill Oak, chill OK. And I watched oak Charles 1:51:54.640 --> 1:51:58.719 Oakley smack one of like the NBA like tough guys. 1:51:59.520 --> 1:52:05.479 That was did he say you don't know here? He 1:52:05.520 --> 1:52:09.200 smack Jordan? He smacked Jordan. No, he smacked somebody. That's 1:52:09.200 --> 1:52:13.000 crazy told that name. What who you said, Bobbley? That's 1:52:13.040 --> 1:52:15.360 crazy that he would say that name. But he smacked 1:52:15.400 --> 1:52:19.639 this guy. It seems like I wanted but he smacked 1:52:19.720 --> 1:52:22.559 this guy. And I'm I'm eighteen years old and I'm 1:52:22.640 --> 1:52:25.760 sitting there like what the fun bubble got smacked. Let's 1:52:25.760 --> 1:52:29.880 just start out. I'm not saying, I'm just see how 1:52:30.040 --> 1:52:36.960 is Let's say that name. Just spread the room. We'll deal, 1:52:38.000 --> 1:52:44.519 We'll deal with it. Smacked his face on his name, 1:52:44.600 --> 1:52:50.519 start with in the Hilton Hotel, Charles smack with my 1:52:50.640 --> 1:52:53.719 own eyes, it was two Charles, two Charles. I'm just saying, 1:52:54.439 --> 1:52:56.960 so just think about that. It's being like a eighteen 1:52:57.040 --> 1:53:00.280 year old. It's a possibility that Charles Oldie smacked Charles Walking. 1:53:00.360 --> 1:53:03.000 Let's just throw it out there. It's a good chance 1:53:03.040 --> 1:53:05.560 it's a good chance. So when he hit me, you 1:53:05.640 --> 1:53:12.240 know it's just and what mean and and two dollars domestic? 1:53:12.320 --> 1:53:15.960 Abut in two dollars seventeen? Are you hit me in 1:53:16.080 --> 1:53:20.080 two dollar seventeen? Big three? In our season? Shot the 1:53:20.120 --> 1:53:27.120 ice cuel, he gave you a they gave you don't 1:53:29.120 --> 1:53:32.680 shot to the championship. So let's safe to say when 1:53:32.800 --> 1:53:35.800 Charles Oakley got kicked up the garden, was you mad 1:53:36.080 --> 1:53:39.400 or he was like, funk that? You get that? Now? 1:53:39.439 --> 1:53:41.360 I'm just saying, I know we're OK. We'll go with 1:53:41.479 --> 1:53:44.479 some ship. Kicking up was the smartest thing they could 1:53:44.479 --> 1:53:47.519 have done. All right, I don't know. All right, let's 1:53:48.360 --> 1:53:53.479 weed clarification. So when you saw the footage, you felt 1:53:53.520 --> 1:53:56.320 like Oaks should have been kicked out and got kicked out. 1:53:56.320 --> 1:53:58.680 But because he said the next legend, no, I mean, 1:53:58.720 --> 1:54:01.960 they should have never done. They say out to right, 1:54:03.280 --> 1:54:10.880 get in. It's a difference. They go to another. No, 1:54:11.080 --> 1:54:12.960 I think I think we're oak Man, Like, you know, 1:54:13.040 --> 1:54:16.160 Oak's already in bent. They kicked him out. Yeah, I 1:54:16.200 --> 1:54:18.599 could tell he was bent. I said, I see that ship. 1:54:20.479 --> 1:54:23.400 Get a little drunk. People little drunk, but even drink 1:54:23.479 --> 1:54:27.840 chaps and stuff. Nah, he like if he work, he 1:54:28.080 --> 1:54:31.360 come on like Dad's okay, but he still shouldn't got 1:54:31.439 --> 1:54:33.960 kicked out, he said, he got kicked out. Man, he 1:54:34.000 --> 1:54:35.600 a leged like you said. But that's what I'm saying. 1:54:35.600 --> 1:54:37.880 But I think they just, uh, they didn't let Patrick 1:54:37.960 --> 1:54:42.000 you in in the other day. Yeah, you don't let 1:54:42.080 --> 1:54:45.680 Patrick about that? Right about that because I'm not trying 1:54:45.680 --> 1:54:47.720 to get an NBA contract ever. But I remember the 1:54:47.840 --> 1:54:50.920 kid about having tickets and we have the worst owner 1:54:51.320 --> 1:54:54.400 in the next history wrong film, No, not what the 1:54:55.800 --> 1:54:59.600 James yeah, Ernie one before all right, kind of he 1:54:59.680 --> 1:55:04.560 was a g confused to be way too much James 1:55:04.680 --> 1:55:07.080 Dolan with his name and I don't want to be 1:55:07.160 --> 1:55:08.360 for him. Was I don't want to be bad for 1:55:08.400 --> 1:55:09.880 the Garden, but I don't need to give a funk 1:55:09.920 --> 1:55:12.440 like it's okay, I'm watching from the Irish paup around 1:55:12.440 --> 1:55:15.600 the corner. It's all right, um, but he's kind of 1:55:15.720 --> 1:55:19.240 like not really letting us live. He did this year, right, 1:55:19.560 --> 1:55:22.520 we got a couple of players, got the rolls back. 1:55:23.440 --> 1:55:28.560 Phenomenal Chicago. I'm sorry took it all right? What's what's 1:55:28.760 --> 1:55:30.400 the m v P? That was r m v P 1:55:31.160 --> 1:55:34.880 Julie Judith Randow and then um, what's the number one pick? 1:55:35.320 --> 1:55:38.480 Jarrett R J. Barrett. We were looking good for a second. 1:55:38.640 --> 1:55:44.040 We did right John to Atlanta. They take Philadelphia. Sorry, 1:55:44.160 --> 1:55:47.000 that's a little drake man ran a little drake t 1:55:48.320 --> 1:55:50.760 little drake like little Drake was just throwing up number one. 1:55:51.080 --> 1:55:55.440 He's all over the place, a little man. That's crazy, 1:55:55.560 --> 1:56:18.360 that little light skinned little things. It Bro, but I 1:56:18.600 --> 1:56:20.680 a lie. The fact that the Knicks even got there. 1:56:21.360 --> 1:56:24.840 It felt good as a New Yorker. But the guard 1:56:24.960 --> 1:56:28.600 was rocking. To Bro, I don't have to disrespectful fans 1:56:28.800 --> 1:56:31.880 when they threw through that. Yeah, that's but that's not 1:56:32.040 --> 1:56:35.120 I like that assholes. But listen, I'm gonna say I 1:56:35.160 --> 1:56:37.480 wanna say real quick, real quick. For me and my 1:56:37.600 --> 1:56:41.760 experience in the league, the loudest arena for me, hands down, 1:56:41.800 --> 1:56:43.720 has still been the Garden. So I was in the 1:56:43.800 --> 1:56:46.840 arena when Larry Johnson hit the four point play against 1:56:46.880 --> 1:56:49.840 the Basis, and Bro, I thought it was an earthquake, 1:56:50.200 --> 1:56:54.240 Like the motherfucking arena was like shaking, like it was 1:56:54.320 --> 1:56:57.200 like moving, you know what I'm saying. So I'm like, 1:56:57.560 --> 1:57:01.160 for sure, like you playing older, you played the gold State. 1:57:02.360 --> 1:57:06.960 He was, yeah, he was. They was wild to but 1:57:07.200 --> 1:57:09.160 but they was like, see what I love about the 1:57:09.200 --> 1:57:12.080 Oakland fans, especially back then it wasn't corporate like now 1:57:12.080 --> 1:57:15.080 it was corporate. Now it was all the tech money 1:57:15.240 --> 1:57:17.320 and all that ship they got to. But before it 1:57:17.480 --> 1:57:20.600 was like the Nigga fans, like you see the white boy. 1:57:20.960 --> 1:57:26.800 Um he said, sons in four. Yeah, he was like 1:57:27.080 --> 1:57:31.800 sons in the four and he was right, And they 1:57:31.800 --> 1:57:37.800 swim from yesterday, get out of shout out of ja crowding. 1:57:38.200 --> 1:57:41.840 So dude, beat down. Dude gotta beat down. And they 1:57:41.920 --> 1:57:44.760 lost in four. They lost in fourth, so bad bro 1:57:46.120 --> 1:57:49.480 might take it this shit, he's got a good and 1:57:49.640 --> 1:57:53.720 what's the nut's looking like two and two? But but 1:57:53.880 --> 1:57:56.360 James Hardens her cap got hurt the other night with 1:57:56.600 --> 1:58:00.640 with an ankle. He's not playing game five honest, and 1:58:00.880 --> 1:58:03.880 Brook Lopez and Drew Holiday they might squeeze it through. Man, 1:58:04.200 --> 1:58:06.800 they might take it. Katie got to get fifty tomorrow, 1:58:07.640 --> 1:58:10.400 ain't um, what's what's up a man name? Um that 1:58:10.520 --> 1:58:16.360 came from the Clippers. No, he's not doing it, but 1:58:17.040 --> 1:58:19.040 the fucking man. But he's not number two. You're not 1:58:19.080 --> 1:58:21.280 gonna be able to do it. No, he's gonna be 1:58:21.320 --> 1:58:23.160 the man, but he's not gonna do it. Yeah, I 1:58:23.200 --> 1:58:26.320 don't think he's getting so yeah, yeah, Milwaukee got an 1:58:26.320 --> 1:58:28.640 opportunity to take over, and then it's gonna be Phenis 1:58:28.720 --> 1:58:32.480 Milwaukee and Jay Crowding CP three and fucking Devin Booker. 1:58:32.680 --> 1:58:35.800 They're gonna win it CP three to the Championships. That 1:58:35.840 --> 1:58:43.000 would be wh're CP three on de say Devin Booker, 1:58:43.040 --> 1:58:45.560 stop saying the other dude, you keep saying Jay crowd 1:58:45.680 --> 1:58:48.760 CP three and Devio Jay crowded first, No you got 1:58:49.720 --> 1:58:51.680 I'm how bad back? The reason I said j crowd 1:58:51.760 --> 1:58:53.760 because he played with Miami he last year and then 1:58:53.840 --> 1:59:04.800 they lost crying. Yeah, you know what you're going on? No, 1:59:04.960 --> 1:59:09.760 Jawder the truth, but he said cheap David Jake Crowder, 1:59:09.840 --> 1:59:14.200 You're right. I love this talk. I might go Cameron 1:59:14.280 --> 1:59:16.520 Pain before I go him too, but just we're talking 1:59:16.520 --> 1:59:19.520 about it after this show. We could talk about we're 1:59:19.560 --> 1:59:21.880 gonna bring in other people or not. Yeah, already, come on, 1:59:23.160 --> 1:59:34.960 come on, come on baby too bad Yo, I'm gonna 1:59:35.000 --> 1:59:38.600 take a definite opportunity while we're in transition at Houlton. 1:59:39.480 --> 1:59:41.720 So what was it? What was the difference between Indiana 1:59:41.800 --> 1:59:45.400 Pacers and Golden State. You're coming in as rookie and 1:59:45.480 --> 1:59:48.560 then you transition into a better was a way better 1:59:48.600 --> 1:59:51.400 playing Golden State, but you had a better Uh. But 1:59:51.520 --> 1:59:53.040 we had the same We had the same kind of 1:59:53.120 --> 1:59:55.360 family environment. That's why I said the most suscept I 1:59:55.440 --> 1:59:57.320 had was on teams or like we was like brothers. 1:59:57.640 --> 2:00:00.360 You know that we're going to Indiana. Didn't go to 2:00:00.400 --> 2:00:02.280 save It's only two teams where I had that kind 2:00:02.320 --> 2:00:06.800 of vibe. That's hard because Matt Barnes and uh Stacks, 2:00:07.320 --> 2:00:10.600 they're like relatable. They deal with the real real we 2:00:10.840 --> 2:00:16.480 we talk as humans. Uh, Derrick McKee, Antonio Davis Dale Davis, 2:00:16.680 --> 2:00:21.240 Chris Mullen. Those are legends to me. So as you're 2:00:21.240 --> 2:00:23.240 going in as a young man from the high school, 2:00:24.440 --> 2:00:27.080 how you see them as veterans and then you deal 2:00:27.120 --> 2:00:30.240 with people that you relate to a different ambience. But 2:00:30.400 --> 2:00:31.800 for me, I had it. I mean I had to 2:00:32.080 --> 2:00:34.080 be with them niggas all the time though, so I 2:00:34.120 --> 2:00:36.080 ain't had no choice but to kind of learn and 2:00:36.800 --> 2:00:39.680 I learned man ship basketball like how to have a 2:00:39.760 --> 2:00:44.480 girlfriend and yeah, like they told me all that ship, 2:00:45.240 --> 2:00:47.000 I got to move you know what I'm saying. No, 2:00:47.120 --> 2:00:49.480 I respect that a percent. Being that you're an athlete 2:00:49.520 --> 2:00:51.360 and you're from New Jersey. I always want to relate 2:00:51.480 --> 2:00:55.800 that because this is definitely Miami, New York and drink champs. 2:00:56.760 --> 2:00:58.440 I'm the only one New Jersey. So every time I 2:00:58.560 --> 2:01:02.400 get Nordy by Nature Lords and Underground or anybody and yourself, 2:01:02.720 --> 2:01:06.400 I gotta say, relate that struggle. We don't get the love. 2:01:07.120 --> 2:01:09.800 But but you're being an NBA athlete and being an 2:01:09.880 --> 2:01:16.000 NBA veteran at a young age. You came in high school, professional, 2:01:16.400 --> 2:01:21.240 now your entrepreneur, and you're still young forty. That's young. 2:01:22.120 --> 2:01:25.800 So congrats to you and celebrity celebration to you on 2:01:25.920 --> 2:01:29.320 your efforts and endeavors. But how can you get back 2:01:29.400 --> 2:01:33.200 to let's say, New Jersey to the people, I don't 2:01:33.240 --> 2:01:36.160 got another How can you get back and say I'm 2:01:36.200 --> 2:01:39.280 doing it, I'm showing it, I'm proving it, and there's 2:01:39.320 --> 2:01:41.760 a future. So mostly what we've been doing is like 2:01:41.840 --> 2:01:44.160 obviously all the states where we you know, where we 2:01:44.280 --> 2:01:46.240 have licenses in or whatever. Like I said, we do 2:01:46.400 --> 2:01:52.040 mad ship in the community from like you know, rehabbing homes, rebuilt, refurbishing, parks. 2:01:52.520 --> 2:01:55.600 Like I said, always feeding people. There's just all about 2:01:55.640 --> 2:01:57.400 the community, you know what I'm saying, Because it's just 2:01:57.560 --> 2:02:02.080 under all Harrison Wellness, it's it's under Violar Cares. So 2:02:02.160 --> 2:02:05.280 we have a company called Viola Cares. Yeah, yeah, so 2:02:05.440 --> 2:02:07.080 Viola Kids. So that's why I said. We had the 2:02:07.080 --> 2:02:10.040 partnership with Ruined Rebound and we helped with the re entry, 2:02:10.240 --> 2:02:12.800 with the expungements, and then like I said, we just 2:02:12.880 --> 2:02:14.960 worked with just different people that we know within the 2:02:15.040 --> 2:02:17.600 community that can help us with the with the get 2:02:17.640 --> 2:02:20.680 back in regards to feeding, like turkey drives, clothing drive, 2:02:20.800 --> 2:02:23.280 toy drives, all of that. You know what I'm saying, 2:02:23.640 --> 2:02:27.040 it's community accepting you for what you're bringing out or 2:02:27.120 --> 2:02:29.160 for what you was as an NBA player. No, I 2:02:29.240 --> 2:02:32.800 think now now like we're winning. Now I'm saying, Yeah, 2:02:33.000 --> 2:02:35.160 it's different. You know what I'm saying. It's cannabis. You 2:02:35.200 --> 2:02:37.880 know what I'm saying. Something that people don't expect mostly 2:02:37.920 --> 2:02:40.240 cannabi is any interaction with cannabies. So we led to 2:02:40.320 --> 2:02:42.360 something very negative, you know what I'm saying. So now 2:02:42.440 --> 2:02:45.320 I was like, oh, ship, like this is helping us, 2:02:45.400 --> 2:02:47.520 this is rebuilding us, is giving up, putting us in 2:02:47.560 --> 2:02:50.320 a better position to win. You know, I'm saying I 2:02:50.400 --> 2:02:54.280 want to congratulate you and say I followed that, and 2:02:54.360 --> 2:02:56.720 I'm glad that you gotta chair get with you, okay, 2:02:58.680 --> 2:03:01.560 coming in J threw you know it was it was 2:03:01.600 --> 2:03:03.920 a salute forgot to be here. Thank you for everything. 2:03:04.480 --> 2:03:15.960 Appreciate your drinking Sports Edition Space. No, that's called baby 2:03:16.360 --> 2:03:22.680 please please, that's that's that's my drink of choice. Yeah, 2:03:22.680 --> 2:03:23.880 I ain't a lot of the way you open it. 2:03:24.240 --> 2:03:26.520 Let me open it, like I was very nervous. How 2:03:26.560 --> 2:03:29.000 you opened it. You just left the ship right there. 2:03:29.040 --> 2:03:32.840 I'm like, no, because you know that's your bold Ye. Listen, 2:03:32.880 --> 2:03:37.400 we have bad experience bad experiences. I got you, I 2:03:37.480 --> 2:03:56.520 got you. You can't drink tis love chap all right now, 2:03:56.560 --> 2:04:00.240 we got some management powerhouse right here, right now. So 2:04:00.320 --> 2:04:03.640 I want to know between both y'all, well nor we 2:04:03.720 --> 2:04:06.480 already kind of alluded to you about who is the 2:04:06.560 --> 2:04:09.440 most don't say difficult, but what's the most difficult part 2:04:09.480 --> 2:04:14.960 about managing and artists? I don't say specific artists, trying 2:04:15.080 --> 2:04:19.120 to help them prioritize the difference between what they think 2:04:19.280 --> 2:04:24.680 is important sometimes and what's a real true priority in business, 2:04:25.280 --> 2:04:28.000 Like I feel for you dealing with like Kanye, for example, 2:04:28.040 --> 2:04:30.600 when you from the outside looking and you know, when 2:04:30.640 --> 2:04:34.640 we're looking at Kanye, it seems like he's unmanageable. Yeah, 2:04:34.680 --> 2:04:37.520 he says that. I mean, I don't even look at 2:04:37.560 --> 2:04:39.840 myself as his manager. I'm just on his team, just 2:04:39.960 --> 2:04:43.000 helping him run his business, you know. And then my 2:04:43.200 --> 2:04:48.600 my specific focus is uh is on music. But um yeah, 2:04:48.680 --> 2:04:51.240 I would say, you know, if anybody is I'm managed, 2:04:51.360 --> 2:04:53.560 it's him because he just has so many different interests 2:04:54.000 --> 2:04:56.000 and he moves in so many different ways, you know, 2:04:56.280 --> 2:04:59.360 because I've I've managed artists myself, and and it feels 2:04:59.440 --> 2:05:01.360 like and I also feel like I'm a part of 2:05:01.400 --> 2:05:03.360 the creative process. I don't know if y'all feel. I'm 2:05:03.400 --> 2:05:05.800 assuming I think y'all feel that you're part of the 2:05:05.840 --> 2:05:08.680 creative process. And it just feels like it just takes 2:05:08.760 --> 2:05:12.600 so much energy to manage another human being. Well, I mean, 2:05:13.200 --> 2:05:16.720 in my personal opinion, it's just me speaking. I don't 2:05:16.760 --> 2:05:20.440 find any part of management difficult because I don't take 2:05:20.480 --> 2:05:22.720 it as managing a person. I'll take it as managing 2:05:22.760 --> 2:05:24.840 an artist. I take it as managing the things around them. 2:05:24.880 --> 2:05:27.440 To help them excel and succeed and make their dreams 2:05:27.520 --> 2:05:31.160 come true. So it's not difficult because to see somebody 2:05:31.200 --> 2:05:34.720 else excel makes me happy, and making somebody else's dreams 2:05:34.760 --> 2:05:36.920 come true in turn make mind come true. That's how 2:05:36.920 --> 2:05:39.800 I approach management. But the one thing with an early 2:05:40.000 --> 2:05:44.000 artist that sometimes could be positioned as difficult to meet 2:05:44.280 --> 2:05:47.320 is business etiquette. Everybody's always trying to keep it real 2:05:47.400 --> 2:05:49.240 and want to talk a certain way and add a 2:05:49.320 --> 2:05:51.520 certain way. When you get into certain rooms, you know 2:05:51.560 --> 2:05:53.320 what I mean, there has to be a certain amount 2:05:53.360 --> 2:05:56.600 of etiquette. I mean I heard, you know them talk 2:05:56.640 --> 2:06:00.680 about getting into the cannabis business, and you know there 2:06:00.680 --> 2:06:02.800 are certain rules and guidelines you have to follow. So 2:06:02.840 --> 2:06:04.920 when you're in certain rooms, those rooms and guidelines become 2:06:05.000 --> 2:06:07.840 very important and you speak a certain way in a 2:06:07.920 --> 2:06:11.800 certain approach to things. That's a difficult part in the beginning, 2:06:12.200 --> 2:06:14.520 but once they catch it and to see them find 2:06:14.560 --> 2:06:16.560 out okay to get into their zone, it becomes like, wow, 2:06:16.640 --> 2:06:18.360 look at that. Now, I don't need to sit here 2:06:18.400 --> 2:06:20.000 and close the deal for you. Close your own deal. 2:06:20.600 --> 2:06:23.240 That's what you want from an artist. Why Noriri grow 2:06:23.360 --> 2:06:25.560 into who he's become? You know what I'm saying. As 2:06:25.600 --> 2:06:28.879 an artist, he was difficult and his crew was difficult 2:06:29.480 --> 2:06:35.760 everything around. But it was wonderful to see his growth 2:06:36.320 --> 2:06:38.840 because it was so much influence from thest to owner 2:06:38.920 --> 2:06:42.160 of myself. So when you see that or that hard 2:06:42.200 --> 2:06:45.640 work becomes us worth it like graduated and not even graduated, 2:06:45.640 --> 2:06:47.840 it's like yeah, because we always knew he had it 2:06:47.880 --> 2:06:50.800 in it, because sometimes our job is identified talent before 2:06:50.800 --> 2:06:53.360 it knows this talented and to bring that talent out 2:06:54.160 --> 2:06:56.200 so you know, and then when you see it actually happened, 2:06:56.560 --> 2:06:59.800 it's like when you when you harvest that strange and 2:06:59.840 --> 2:07:03.200 it comes out perfect. You've harvested an artist. And now 2:07:03.680 --> 2:07:05.360 look where they look what they could do, you know 2:07:05.400 --> 2:07:06.800 what I mean. It's like, okay, all right on to next. 2:07:06.840 --> 2:07:10.040 You's good over here, next they need you. You got 2:07:10.200 --> 2:07:13.440 you got the best shirt on right now. One flower 2:07:14.240 --> 2:07:17.880 at a motherfucking time, flowing at the time, baby, all right? 2:07:17.920 --> 2:07:20.560 That is that the logo? Is it? The slogan? Nah, 2:07:20.760 --> 2:07:23.400 it's kind of kind of for us a movement, you 2:07:23.480 --> 2:07:27.080 know what I'm saying, And just it's designed internally for 2:07:27.280 --> 2:07:30.640 us to uh, you know, keep it, keep it one 2:07:30.720 --> 2:07:35.000 step at the time. Keeping grassroots obviously the temptations to 2:07:35.080 --> 2:07:37.680 be real big. We just want to make sure as 2:07:37.720 --> 2:07:40.600 we move and grow, we're impactful, you know what I'm saying. 2:07:40.760 --> 2:07:42.440 So that's kind of internally what it means to me. 2:07:43.720 --> 2:07:46.480 So Marlboro come tomorrow and say I want to buy 2:07:46.600 --> 2:07:49.640 y'all say one flower the time or you saying at 2:07:49.680 --> 2:07:56.720 the time. Are you're saying we're selling? That depends on this. 2:07:56.960 --> 2:07:58.560 This is what I think. I think Marble is not 2:07:58.640 --> 2:08:01.040 gonna give me my value, and it's a compliment if 2:08:01.040 --> 2:08:04.280 they come, that's our value. I apologize. So I would 2:08:04.320 --> 2:08:06.640 take it as flattering that they're interested, but I would 2:08:06.680 --> 2:08:08.440 assume that they're not gonna give me the most that 2:08:08.800 --> 2:08:11.800 we can get for what we've built. I think that's 2:08:11.840 --> 2:08:13.560 not the best way to get where we're trying to go. 2:08:14.080 --> 2:08:16.720 It's tough, marm Bro. That's funny because you know, I 2:08:16.840 --> 2:08:27.200 love new pests that side of things, So I don't 2:08:27.240 --> 2:08:30.240 I just don't want to be hypocritical, because that's what 2:08:30.520 --> 2:08:33.400 like um, it seems like, you know, cannabis has headed 2:08:33.440 --> 2:08:41.160 towards like um. You know, these big tobacco companies that 2:08:41.240 --> 2:08:44.480 are losing money because people are smoking more marijuana nowadays 2:08:44.520 --> 2:08:47.640 that they're smoking tobacco and I feel like that's what 2:08:47.760 --> 2:08:50.080 is that is that factual? They're losing money. I have 2:08:50.160 --> 2:08:52.720 no idea for saying this is in my world, like 2:08:53.240 --> 2:08:54.800 I don't I don't know like in real life what 2:08:54.880 --> 2:08:57.160 I'm saying, Like in my world, I don't have a 2:08:57.200 --> 2:08:59.560 lot of cigarette smokers. I got about two left and 2:08:59.720 --> 2:09:02.080 our crew I think it's Deuce and Um Sunny D 2:09:02.960 --> 2:09:06.000 and they're like Toronto Source Rex's you know what I'm saying, Um, 2:09:06.320 --> 2:09:08.920 but everybody else is pretty much they moved on to 2:09:09.040 --> 2:09:12.520 James Cool. Look at James Crew smoking a big cigar. 2:09:12.760 --> 2:09:14.640 I mean not to say that that's even better than 2:09:15.160 --> 2:09:18.600 a cigarette, but it's it's it's um, it's it's more 2:09:18.640 --> 2:09:21.520 acceptable almost, you know what I'm saying. Like I could 2:09:21.520 --> 2:09:23.720 be anywhere that you could smoke a cigar in the pool, 2:09:24.000 --> 2:09:27.120 but you're smoke a cigarette. It's like like what are 2:09:27.160 --> 2:09:31.320 you doing? Still? Right? So? Um, are you guys trying 2:09:31.320 --> 2:09:37.640 to have products that like like a candagar? You know 2:09:37.760 --> 2:09:39.400 the beauty is to be honest, you for a weed 2:09:39.440 --> 2:09:42.160 and anything. I mean, I think for us, we want 2:09:42.200 --> 2:09:46.200 to maximize how beneficial it can be for people and 2:09:46.400 --> 2:09:49.640 and and leverage our position and our access to make 2:09:49.720 --> 2:09:53.280 sure that we kind of do that. A friend told me, Yeah, 2:09:53.800 --> 2:09:56.360 a hair caroline product. It's just many ways as the 2:09:56.360 --> 2:09:58.760 way Canadas affected you at twenty two as where it 2:09:58.800 --> 2:10:00.920 affects you at forty two. Right, it's a different thing. 2:10:01.600 --> 2:10:03.560 It's just a lot of little avenues and lanes. But 2:10:03.600 --> 2:10:05.560 I mean you can put weed in anything. That's that's 2:10:05.600 --> 2:10:08.600 the beginning. We want to kind of make it makes 2:10:08.640 --> 2:10:11.800 sense and kind of perfect our craft as far as 2:10:11.880 --> 2:10:15.440 how we can affect your lifestyle. So that's the approach 2:10:15.520 --> 2:10:17.320 we try to take to it. But the Cannon gard no, 2:10:17.720 --> 2:10:22.480 I love you more and more. Smoking a better more 2:10:22.800 --> 2:10:28.000 something a better changed my life. You know, you ever 2:10:28.080 --> 2:10:31.200 thought we would be legal, James Gruls, I mean to 2:10:31.320 --> 2:10:36.200 be honest, it's part of the earth. It's a healing flower, 2:10:36.880 --> 2:10:38.880 you know, and there were so many uses for it 2:10:39.800 --> 2:10:42.480 that I never thought it was really loss as its 2:10:42.560 --> 2:10:46.360 legal illegal, But now I never thought that that would 2:10:46.360 --> 2:10:49.840 be this much of a great business for young blacks 2:10:49.920 --> 2:10:53.600 and Natinos to get into and to really benefit from. 2:10:54.440 --> 2:10:57.840 But it's also kind of for me, kind of double 2:10:57.920 --> 2:11:00.200 edged swords to see all the people incarcerated. That's that's 2:11:00.200 --> 2:11:01.960 what needs to be you know, that's what needs to 2:11:02.000 --> 2:11:04.120 be dealt with. It's like it's like the cure for 2:11:04.200 --> 2:11:06.960 the problem. It's like all these brothers incarcerated, you know 2:11:06.960 --> 2:11:08.880 what I'm saying, for selling Tracy bags when he was young, 2:11:09.560 --> 2:11:12.360 you know, and now there's a bunch of young black 2:11:12.600 --> 2:11:15.920 entrepreneurs that are invested in the business, in the cannabis business. 2:11:16.160 --> 2:11:18.040 I just wish we were more invested in helping those 2:11:18.080 --> 2:11:20.120 guys out to get them out of jail, and not 2:11:20.200 --> 2:11:21.960 only to get them out, but also to help them 2:11:22.560 --> 2:11:25.240 come back into society a certain one. Things have changed 2:11:25.480 --> 2:11:29.320 a big of the Meek Male and Kim Kardashian, they're 2:11:29.320 --> 2:11:33.920 actually fighting for that for like for people and pushes 2:11:35.000 --> 2:11:39.840 or you just freestyling right now, but he let down 2:11:39.920 --> 2:11:45.320 with the feel about that. You know what I'm saying, 2:11:45.320 --> 2:11:47.640 It's the reality we deal with every day. I got 2:11:47.720 --> 2:11:52.200 locked up seventeen times, So that's what I'm saying. No 2:11:52.360 --> 2:11:57.440 one came to me and saying sorry, and it's no 2:11:57.600 --> 2:12:00.360 black people their own one time I got this. This 2:12:00.440 --> 2:12:02.520 is how funked up it was in New York City 2:12:02.520 --> 2:12:05.839 at one point, one point, the police see me smoking. 2:12:06.400 --> 2:12:10.160 I threw this ship and I'm a good like Skelly player, 2:12:10.400 --> 2:12:14.839 So like when I throw the blood that I cannot 2:12:14.920 --> 2:12:19.120 find it. The police came and said I found your blood. 2:12:19.120 --> 2:12:22.200 I said, were because I wanted to, and they still 2:12:22.320 --> 2:12:24.480 locked me up, Like I'm a good you don't even 2:12:24.520 --> 2:12:26.840 play Skelly. Skelly, like this is a foul game like 2:12:28.760 --> 2:12:32.440 you do. So I listen, I saw the blood, so 2:12:33.680 --> 2:12:36.120 there's no way they found it, and they still locked 2:12:36.160 --> 2:12:41.520 me up. I'm smelling it and having the That's how 2:12:41.600 --> 2:12:44.680 bad New York City laws was, and then they legalized 2:12:44.720 --> 2:12:47.640 it and says you can't participate if you had a marijuana. 2:12:48.120 --> 2:12:51.640 Think there's a lot of layers to it, because if 2:12:51.680 --> 2:12:54.960 you think about it, like the fact that that black 2:12:55.000 --> 2:12:59.840 and Latinos are highly incarcerated, the amount of black incarcerated 2:12:59.880 --> 2:13:03.920 for as small we defenses, and then you see these 2:13:04.120 --> 2:13:09.400 big cannabis companies not reflecting that population, and I think 2:13:09.440 --> 2:13:11.360 there has to be something that balances that out, because 2:13:11.360 --> 2:13:12.880 if anything, you need to look at these guys and 2:13:12.960 --> 2:13:17.480 cars as pioneers of an industry. No, I mean, I 2:13:17.600 --> 2:13:19.520 think the issue is what are we gonna do about it? 2:13:19.720 --> 2:13:21.520 Like they're they're kind of doing it in front of 2:13:21.560 --> 2:13:24.920 our face. So you know, all alluded to the culture 2:13:24.920 --> 2:13:27.040 and and not knows the culture better than anybody. What 2:13:27.120 --> 2:13:30.760 are we gonna do with all our influence and power 2:13:30.920 --> 2:13:32.840 to the fact that they're taking us from us? Since 2:13:32.920 --> 2:13:35.480 billions and dollars A step said something. I mean, I 2:13:35.600 --> 2:13:39.080 think it's very important. We gotta understand all of our 2:13:39.160 --> 2:13:50.120 culture has been vultued. Right that the monograph ads like 2:13:50.240 --> 2:13:52.200 he's been taking shots at like he'd been having some 2:13:53.600 --> 2:13:56.520 people was arrested, but it's legal over here, like he's 2:13:56.520 --> 2:13:59.960 been taking shots like at the whole government. I don't 2:14:00.000 --> 2:14:02.320 know if you've been people that like not as he should. 2:14:02.400 --> 2:14:05.880 I mean, is very hypocritical, but I think it's safe 2:14:05.920 --> 2:14:08.400 to say there's no way that that anybody is going 2:14:08.440 --> 2:14:11.840 to be able to compete with these big corporations, like 2:14:11.960 --> 2:14:15.160 a big tobacco company that has these infrastructures. Nobody's going 2:14:15.200 --> 2:14:17.760 to compete with that right now. No, No, what I'm 2:14:17.760 --> 2:14:21.360 trying to say, you get it from a big tobacco company, 2:14:21.640 --> 2:14:29.080 they're not They're not there. When they get in it, 2:14:29.360 --> 2:14:30.960 it's gonna be different. What I'm trying to say to 2:14:31.000 --> 2:14:33.080 you is this is that I think personally is my opinion. 2:14:33.160 --> 2:14:36.879 The equity is the branding side of it and the branding. 2:14:37.000 --> 2:14:39.120 To me, we don't I don't think we put enough value. 2:14:39.160 --> 2:14:40.840 I mean we I think we know that there's a 2:14:41.120 --> 2:14:44.160 value in branding. But I think that's that's a lot 2:14:44.240 --> 2:14:46.920 of value that's brought to the table that when these 2:14:46.960 --> 2:14:50.280 people with these infrastructures get involved, they're gonna need the 2:14:50.400 --> 2:14:53.080 branding side of it. And that's where everybody. That's where 2:14:53.160 --> 2:14:55.760 like the cars are being held by the minority factions. 2:14:56.160 --> 2:14:58.600 I think the branding is everything. I think to have 2:14:58.680 --> 2:15:01.440 an effective brand, you want control of the supply chain 2:15:01.800 --> 2:15:03.880 now because you want a good weed. You want some kids. 2:15:03.920 --> 2:15:06.120 You know, I like, I really smoke. So I want 2:15:06.600 --> 2:15:10.320 to be able to influence what we're putting out smoking now, brother, 2:15:10.640 --> 2:15:12.080 you know I don't want to be too outs. Yeah, 2:15:12.120 --> 2:15:14.680 come on, come on, you gotta support your product. You 2:15:14.760 --> 2:15:17.560 can't say that light up, light up you want to 2:15:17.560 --> 2:15:21.680 shout to like shot God, he is a man of 2:15:21.720 --> 2:15:23.560 shot man. What you put you on tag a bone, 2:15:23.600 --> 2:15:31.920 don't do it. That's the one that's a killing. You 2:15:31.960 --> 2:15:35.120 need shot glass? All right? Cool? But the branding, the 2:15:35.200 --> 2:15:39.840 branding is everything. We support that, and what we're trying 2:15:39.880 --> 2:15:42.840 to do is facilitate opportunities for brands to kind of 2:15:42.920 --> 2:15:45.200 solve that problem with the supply and where you bro 2:15:45.640 --> 2:15:54.879 Chicago together. Okay, Chicago, Chicago, some drill ship in the cannabis. 2:15:55.720 --> 2:16:03.720 I respect that. God Damn, I'm just h and c J. 2:16:03.880 --> 2:16:10.040 Got we right? Whoopt? We right? We dropped, dropped three strains? 2:16:10.560 --> 2:16:13.560 We dropped and I got a pH d in the 2:16:13.600 --> 2:16:16.240 showing amount of time about this business. And hats off 2:16:16.280 --> 2:16:18.000 to you because I know you've been in front of 2:16:18.040 --> 2:16:20.520 pioneer from the beginning. It was a lot, but yeah, 2:16:20.560 --> 2:16:24.560 we dropped the three strains we dropped? Whoopt drops? Az 2:16:25.920 --> 2:16:31.440 U two cookies? No, it's through it's actually through Munchies, 2:16:31.920 --> 2:16:33.920 which is a mine already owned company out on the 2:16:34.000 --> 2:16:37.840 West coast um and our distribution is with cookies. But 2:16:37.920 --> 2:16:41.760 it's almost like a necessary branding tool right now, where 2:16:41.879 --> 2:16:43.520 you know, you don't want the artists to go parking 2:16:43.560 --> 2:16:45.640 money on a bus down and and and the chain. 2:16:45.720 --> 2:16:48.120 You want parking money somewhere to invest in future business 2:16:48.640 --> 2:16:51.199 and counterbusiness a great future business to invest in because 2:16:51.240 --> 2:16:53.080 it's still growing and it's becoming more legal as we 2:16:53.160 --> 2:16:55.560 go along, you know, I mean I saw soon now 2:16:55.959 --> 2:16:57.480 you know, one of the biggest Latin arts in the world, 2:16:57.920 --> 2:17:00.360 you know, just took over Puerto Rico. But with the 2:17:00.440 --> 2:17:03.039 grow and with the with the retail stores, it's growing 2:17:03.080 --> 2:17:05.240 and he's growing and they'll be retail ss in Puerto 2:17:05.320 --> 2:17:09.039 Rico with cookies parted with yes, Puerto Ricos, Yes, yes, 2:17:09.400 --> 2:17:12.120 So there's this whole new business that and it's not 2:17:12.320 --> 2:17:14.760 just in hip hop world. It's also going more into 2:17:14.760 --> 2:17:16.080 the lat world. Just like you got to talking about 2:17:16.120 --> 2:17:18.440 drill before. I mean, Latin artists have driel records. Now 2:17:18.720 --> 2:17:20.520 you know, you got followed. You gotta how to follow 2:17:20.520 --> 2:17:24.320 you always. So it's like the culture is the time 2:17:24.520 --> 2:17:26.720 is shortening when people are picking up on what top 2:17:27.200 --> 2:17:29.760 and how to get involved. But we c J Yeah, 2:17:29.800 --> 2:17:31.600 we definitely did a strain on We learned a lot 2:17:32.120 --> 2:17:35.560 um and hats off guys, because you guys were there 2:17:35.560 --> 2:17:37.880 from the beginning. I cannot imagine what it was like 2:17:38.040 --> 2:17:41.440 that you guys are willing to do, like get along, 2:17:41.840 --> 2:17:44.480 get down with other artists to give them their own 2:17:44.560 --> 2:17:48.760 strain under your umbrella. Or it's like, yeah, we've been 2:17:48.800 --> 2:17:50.560 talking to a bunch of different artists to be honest, 2:17:50.600 --> 2:17:52.960 that that fit the right mode of what they're trying 2:17:53.000 --> 2:17:55.160 to do. You know what I'm saying. We've been having 2:17:55.240 --> 2:17:58.440 some great conversations and you're gonna be seeing some partnerships 2:17:58.520 --> 2:18:01.720 being announced in the very near future. Okay, we're enough 2:18:01.800 --> 2:18:05.480 for me? Yeah, enough for me. He's the least Papa. 2:18:06.040 --> 2:18:11.440 Are we good? I think it's I think it's like 2:18:11.480 --> 2:18:14.120 two more questions. Man, I think you got one left? 2:18:14.760 --> 2:18:17.360 What I got? I don't know. I don't know something. 2:18:17.760 --> 2:18:19.920 Yeah I do. I want I'm trying to get in 2:18:19.959 --> 2:18:29.760 the weed. Mother. The reason why I keep drilling down 2:18:30.040 --> 2:18:32.760 no pun intended on drill on the branding side is 2:18:32.800 --> 2:18:35.400 I feel that when this this thing could go national, 2:18:35.520 --> 2:18:37.760 it could go international, you know what I'm saying. And 2:18:37.840 --> 2:18:41.480 then when you have a brand that's just known, you 2:18:41.560 --> 2:18:44.840 can license license, license, license, lis So here's what they think. 2:18:45.680 --> 2:18:49.120 If there's gonna be twenty licenses in New York, a 2:18:49.280 --> 2:18:52.560 dirty licenses in New York or whatever, they feel like 2:18:52.680 --> 2:18:56.120 they can make the brand themselves and make a higher margin. 2:18:56.879 --> 2:19:00.160 So what ends up happening is you know some of 2:19:00.240 --> 2:19:02.480 this system, but it is you want the best product. 2:19:03.440 --> 2:19:05.880 They feel like, you know, so that's that's where that 2:19:06.040 --> 2:19:08.160 just gets tricky. So you have to have control of 2:19:08.200 --> 2:19:10.480 the supply chain. You gotta be able to grow it. 2:19:10.680 --> 2:19:12.800 At the end of the day, that's a lot. I mean, 2:19:12.920 --> 2:19:15.560 it's black people in its farming, so for me, you know, 2:19:15.720 --> 2:19:19.520 it's not Do you think that the cultivation side of 2:19:19.600 --> 2:19:21.720 it is one of the most important parts for people 2:19:21.760 --> 2:19:24.880 to get involved in. I think cultivation and branding go 2:19:25.120 --> 2:19:27.720 hand and that's the most important part of the whole. 2:19:28.120 --> 2:19:30.360 The word is distribution and all of that land because 2:19:30.360 --> 2:19:33.199 I feel like you want, we want to be vertically 2:19:33.280 --> 2:19:36.600 integrated whenever possible, because we were in there early. So 2:19:36.720 --> 2:19:38.680 that's an option, but the way they're doing things, it's 2:19:38.680 --> 2:19:41.800 not necessarily as much of an option, you know, So 2:19:42.320 --> 2:19:49.119 distributions Frances France, I don't know about France already grows, 2:19:49.400 --> 2:19:52.360 already grows in France. You see Murder Mountain the documentary 2:19:55.520 --> 2:19:59.400 the first they're murdering people up there and we ain't 2:19:59.440 --> 2:20:04.680 up there and county. It's a whole different, every every 2:20:04.760 --> 2:20:07.920 state is different. Called Murder Mountain. Fam that's different, though 2:20:08.200 --> 2:20:10.720 it's not different. They're murdering people in the mountains, ram 2:20:18.360 --> 2:20:21.640 taking taking a week yea cocaine. If they're gonna watch 2:20:21.680 --> 2:20:25.600 the documentary, I knew, Like my people said, Yo, none 2:20:25.640 --> 2:20:27.240 of that. We don't want to come to Homeboll County 2:20:27.280 --> 2:20:29.680 with us. I was like, what, Like, I've been in 2:20:29.760 --> 2:20:33.320 the worst flits in America. Like that's a ChIL. I 2:20:33.400 --> 2:20:35.200 watched the documentary. I was like, I want to go there. 2:20:35.520 --> 2:20:37.240 I think I think I think he said something point 2:20:37.280 --> 2:20:39.840 ain't everybody it's got You got to be part of 2:20:39.879 --> 2:20:42.000 the coachure. You gotta live in the coaches has to 2:20:42.080 --> 2:20:44.199 be real, has to be authentic, right, just like the music. 2:20:44.360 --> 2:20:49.280 Same thing. That's important because the culture itself is growing exponentially, 2:20:49.360 --> 2:20:53.039 that's right, and it's all mixed, not about black and brown, 2:20:53.400 --> 2:20:56.280 mixed culture something that's right, you know. But it's gonna 2:20:56.320 --> 2:20:58.879 go corporate. That's the thing. It's inevitable. That's what I'm 2:20:58.879 --> 2:21:00.800 trying to say, is how do we take advantage of 2:21:00.920 --> 2:21:03.680 something that it's inevitably going to go very corporate and 2:21:03.680 --> 2:21:07.760 they have a brand. That's what keeps saying, I can't, 2:21:07.800 --> 2:21:10.320 we can't be naive to that. You got a great team, 2:21:10.360 --> 2:21:12.960 you gotta knowledge. But you said something you said you 2:21:13.000 --> 2:21:15.760 were as like thirty million right, So who was the 2:21:15.800 --> 2:21:18.880 people that you went to to wasise this money? So 2:21:19.040 --> 2:21:22.200 it was some of my own money. Um, it was 2:21:22.360 --> 2:21:26.720 a bunch of ex athletes or whatever. And then like 2:21:26.800 --> 2:21:29.560 forensic Family. Okay, no, none of what you wanted. The 2:21:29.680 --> 2:21:34.040 name we had we just started to get institute was 2:21:34.800 --> 2:21:46.240 public yeah, like spot, like that's the start that corporated. 2:21:46.520 --> 2:21:48.480 You know what I mean that I want. I want 2:21:48.520 --> 2:21:51.119 to drill down in fact, this's billion dollar companies are 2:21:51.200 --> 2:21:54.320 four years old. They don't have they have a four 2:21:54.400 --> 2:21:56.680 year head start, So I get it. But I'm saying 2:21:56.720 --> 2:21:59.760 those people aren't as far along as you might think 2:21:59.840 --> 2:22:01.320 that are ahead of the curve. And at the end 2:22:01.320 --> 2:22:04.000 of the day, it's still selling marijuana, you know what 2:22:04.080 --> 2:22:07.040 I'm saying. So I don't want to overcomplicate what that's 2:22:08.080 --> 2:22:09.800 not just but it's not just to your point, not 2:22:09.920 --> 2:22:13.360 just matter wanted. It's it's also oils. It's also it's 2:22:13.720 --> 2:22:15.160 you know what I mean. You know we started in 2:22:15.280 --> 2:22:17.680 constant trates like I yeah, but at the end of 2:22:17.760 --> 2:22:21.840 the day, it's selling cannabis in some way shape fair enough, 2:22:22.200 --> 2:22:25.119 you know what I'm saying. So, and I think y'all 2:22:25.280 --> 2:22:27.320 influence the culture, like no what I mean, that's what 2:22:27.520 --> 2:22:30.560 the branding thing. I just want to when it's monetized 2:22:30.600 --> 2:22:31.960 and want us to be in the best position, in 2:22:32.000 --> 2:22:35.119 the strongest position possible as far as the brand side 2:22:35.120 --> 2:22:39.000 of things. But I agree with you, the worldwide distribution 2:22:39.040 --> 2:22:42.600 of the cannabis brand is the you know, the way 2:22:42.680 --> 2:22:45.640 to go. Are people even like, all right, you know 2:22:45.720 --> 2:22:47.840 what all the States is going legal? People even think 2:22:47.840 --> 2:22:57.520 about Amsterdam like overseas all people like? But they are 2:22:57.640 --> 2:23:01.800 they all then when Denver first went, they nemorous. They 2:23:01.840 --> 2:23:04.640 were all in Denver trying to figure it out. Did 2:23:04.680 --> 2:23:07.520 you see a documentary about the seeds? No, there are 2:23:07.560 --> 2:23:09.200 scenes that course a million dollars. What's the name of 2:23:09.240 --> 2:23:12.080 that company? It's crazy. They're guys that go the seeds. 2:23:14.400 --> 2:23:16.680 There are guys that go to the Amazon to find 2:23:16.720 --> 2:23:19.440 a certain seed for a certain stream, and the seeds 2:23:19.560 --> 2:23:23.440 or a million dollars, Like the business is so diverse. Crazy, 2:23:24.320 --> 2:23:27.600 the seed itself, it's so diverse. I was like a 2:23:27.640 --> 2:23:30.360 million dollars for a seed. So it doesn't sure good crop. 2:23:30.800 --> 2:23:32.680 You're just getting seeds, good seeds. You don't know what 2:23:32.800 --> 2:23:36.560 kind of female you're gonna get, right, Yeah, But now 2:23:36.920 --> 2:23:40.320 got to be a female seed, right, but we planted 2:23:40.440 --> 2:23:43.640 you just you said, what kind of female seed? You know, females, 2:23:43.879 --> 2:23:45.440 that's a big word. I don't know what that at 2:23:45.520 --> 2:23:49.520 least that female, you know, I don't think it has 2:23:49.560 --> 2:23:59.600 an I'm saying female. It's a female. It's either or 2:23:59.720 --> 2:24:01.560 you want it to be female. Then you wanted to 2:24:01.640 --> 2:24:12.440 be dope because that's true. But it's just like it's 2:24:12.480 --> 2:24:14.240 like we come from the same mother and father, but 2:24:14.600 --> 2:24:17.080 you know, y'all could be brothers and y'all are totally different. 2:24:17.800 --> 2:24:20.520 So it's the same thing with the females of the seeds, right, 2:24:20.640 --> 2:24:22.680 they come from the same mother and father, but each 2:24:22.720 --> 2:24:24.879 one grows different. You don't want to grow nine times 2:24:24.920 --> 2:24:26.240 out of team. You don't want to grow the one 2:24:26.280 --> 2:24:40.760 that looked like me, not him. You went there that viola. 2:24:43.280 --> 2:24:46.440 I just felt like crippy. To be honest, you just 2:24:46.560 --> 2:24:49.320 love Miami. He just loved anything. Come out with crippy. 2:24:50.080 --> 2:24:53.959 Wait for it, I'm gonna come out with it again, crippy, crippy. 2:24:54.200 --> 2:24:56.680 But then, what's what's the league going to do? Nothing 2:24:56.800 --> 2:25:00.360 he got to do with my crippy, crippy, cripp What 2:25:00.440 --> 2:25:05.280 do you think? Hazes? Jada Kisses the last two people 2:25:05.360 --> 2:25:08.080 on earth that smoke hazes. So let me ask what's 2:25:08.080 --> 2:25:13.480 the real is the real haze? Where was that at? Sid? 2:25:13.520 --> 2:25:16.880 You get it only New York? I like your questions, sir, Yes, sir, 2:25:17.800 --> 2:25:22.360 I'm trying to figure that out, Edie, that's a million 2:25:22.400 --> 2:25:24.320 out of seed. Like, did you imagine if you had 2:25:24.360 --> 2:25:30.279 a license to sell Hayes in New York? Leave? I'll 2:25:30.280 --> 2:25:35.840 be honest, but they don't got the nineteen double, you know, 2:25:36.200 --> 2:25:40.240 they don't got that Haye. But but but let's be clear. 2:25:40.680 --> 2:25:45.119 Creepy is Hayes. It's Hays little cousins mix, It's Hayes, 2:25:45.240 --> 2:25:49.320 little cousin. I look at us about it's o G. 2:25:49.520 --> 2:25:57.640 It's that's true. At one point they call you remember 2:25:57.720 --> 2:26:00.800 my preppy was very specific for the orange chairs. Look 2:26:00.879 --> 2:26:11.960 at you, CLEI brain you know, man, listen. I don't 2:26:11.959 --> 2:26:13.920 know if y'all know. Our show is about giving people 2:26:13.959 --> 2:26:16.640 their flowers while they're here. Thank you all so much 2:26:16.680 --> 2:26:19.560 for joining us, Thank you'all so much for coming out here. 2:26:20.080 --> 2:26:23.120 You want to big y'all up, you know, for everything 2:26:23.160 --> 2:26:27.080 you're doing, because that's what this show is about. 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