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Speaker 7: Like every other individual from the hood that forces you

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Speaker 7: That was my first like listening to a real bar.

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Speaker 7: And then once Poon got the call from Tomb, everything

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Speaker 7: He ended up connecting me to Bobby. I ended up

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Speaker 7: Then we did a remix. It was all over the

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Speaker 7: that session, you know, because there was a song we

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Speaker 7: So that's like, it's crazy, how like it all ties

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Speaker 7: So this is how that come together. I ended up

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Speaker 7: real name? He was like, I don't know Brandon. He

433
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 7: was like, you're talking about my little my my, like

434
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 7: my little cousin Brandon. Well he just say that, but

435
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,679
Speaker 7: like my little homie brand and that grew up on

436
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 7: A hundred Street. He was like, I went Scooter's like,

437
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 7: I don't know off for Chicago. He was like, tell

438
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 7: him come up here. Scooter called me that night. I

439
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 7: was I was, I don't even know where I was. Oh,

440
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 7: I got dropped off by the homie girl at the time,

441
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 7: and uh, they dropped me off at the studio because

442
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 7: they knew Tyrese too, and Tyresee was like, as soon

443
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 7: as I got off the elevator, he was like and

444
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,880
Speaker 7: gave me a big old hug. And the first thing

445
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 7: he said I never forget. He was like, don't steal

446
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 7: from me and don't lie to me, and I'll look

447
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 7: out for you forever. I was like, steal, I don't

448
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,199
Speaker 7: need to steal from you for what. I just go

449
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 7: hustle and hit the money myself. But he went through

450
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 7: a lot of traumatic episodes with friends who stole clothes

451
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 7: and stuff around the time when he was younger, you

452
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 7: know what I mean. So I get where he was

453
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 7: coming from. And ever since then, man man, he took

454
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 7: me on two tours with him studio access opened up

455
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 7: his roller dexter relationships resources. I didn't been on movie sets.

456
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 7: I was on Transformers one and two set. I actually

457
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 7: was going to be in Transformers one. I was actually

458
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 7: I made it and just like the final couple edits

459
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 7: and I got cut out. Yeah, like set me up crazy,

460
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 7: Like I met Michael Bay and Josh Dumal and all

461
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 7: of them, Like they built real relationships with these people.

462
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 7: Because of Tyresse, I'd have been to Dubai and Charjah

463
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 7: and all, like the theres a solid dude man, real

464
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 7: good person who goes through things like any other person

465
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 7: from the hood who have a traumatic upbringing, you know,

466
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 7: parents on you know, dealing with person you know, alcohol,

467
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 7: drug abuse, and you know Tyrese used to like wash

468
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 7: his socks in the sink at school, Like that's what

469
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 7: kind of house he was, Like he had to live

470
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 7: with my cousins then, because it's just a situation was

471
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 7: kind of unfortunate. So we only see what we see

472
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 7: on social media, right, Like we see the breakdowns and

473
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,439
Speaker 7: we see him all Tyrese's tripping again. But for anybody

474
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 7: who understand wellness, mental wellness and mental health, there's a

475
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 7: reason why this stuff is produced, especially in communities. Likewise,

476
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 7: but not trying to go all off to the left,

477
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 7: but I just there's an opportunity for me to let

478
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 7: people know, like Terreese is really a great human being.

479
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 7: He has his ways where like all of them, we

480
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 7: don't agree with ourself one hundred percent of the time,

481
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 7: so how we expect to agree with somebody else? But

482
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 7: Tyresse from since I walked through those elevator doors always,

483
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 7: you know, looked out, you know what I'm saying, he'd

484
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 7: be the person be like, Yo, he got some money

485
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 7: for rent, why just take it. You don't got to

486
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 7: ask for it. He'll just give it to you because

487
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 7: he'll go do a show, go clean up seventy eighty

488
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 7: grand and be like, YO, got some money, just take it.

489
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 7: I don't want this, take it. Come on, you know

490
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 7: what I mean. He's a great person. So anyhow, so

491
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 7: that happened, and I end up creating a rock band

492
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 7: during that process too. It was called Life nine because

493
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 7: I'm wanted to do something different, and I ended up

494
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 7: signing that band to Tyresee's label. Listen, Tyree's had everybody's

495
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 7: under him at fifteen hundred and nothing. James faunt Leroy, Uh,

496
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 7: he's on it. He just he's on the NAS and

497
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 7: jay Z Joy, James faunt Leroy, hit boy. He had

498
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 7: all of these people like on his floor. We used

499
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 7: to call it the second floor, like we was all

500
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 7: there just making music.

501
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 4: You know.

502
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 7: But you know, things happen the way it's supposed to happen,

503
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 7: and Tyrese, you know, that's the Tyresse.

504
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 4: We've spoken about masters a bunch of times. Can you

505
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 4: break down publishing because a lot of people don't really

506
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 4: understand the power behind that and how lucrative it can

507
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 4: be if you have a publishing deal.

508
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 7: So, in Layman's terms, right, look at publishing like masters

509
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 7: as well. Right, So when you write or produce a composition,

510
00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 7: there's publishing and then there's writers writers share. There's two

511
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 7: split up into two. That is kind of it's not

512
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 7: the master, but it is the ownership of a song.

513
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 7: Each song has publishing. Now you can build substantial generational

514
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 7: wealth through publishing, owning your publishing. That's why you know

515
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 7: publishing companies that get mad at me. But you should

516
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 7: never sign a publishing deal. Never, not not a co

517
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 7: pub deal. I don't even fuck how much money they

518
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 7: offer you if you're into this kind of thing. Right,

519
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 7: just to give people an understanding of where the publishing

520
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 7: market is. Right now, you got companies who are buying

521
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 7: publishing rights and selling it to firms, big investment firms

522
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 7: for billions of dollars because of how publishing generates income.

523
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 7: You know, there's you know, you got publishing and you

524
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 7: generates performance royalties. They're sink, there's mechanicals, there's all of

525
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 7: these things that go into publishing. And I'm trying to

526
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 7: simplify it. But it's not a simple thing, and it's

527
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 7: purposely done to not be the simple, so the systems

528
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 7: can make money off of it while we send back like, well,

529
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 7: own fifty percent publishing how much as I opposed to

530
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 7: get fifty percent, but fifty percent of what? No one

531
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 7: knows these answers. I just had this conversation yesterday that

532
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 7: this whole market is fucked up. It's like a system

533
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 7: of information that doesn't give us all of the information.

534
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 7: What I mean by that is, like you, for publishing,

535
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 7: it gets split the producer. Technically, if you produce it,

536
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 7: you get fifty percent and the right writer goes fifty percent.

537
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 4: Right.

538
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,719
Speaker 7: However, if you do a co pub deal, that means

539
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 7: the publishing company owns fifty percent of your publishing and

540
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 7: the publishing company has to recoup the money they advanced you,

541
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 7: and they're giving you a percentage of your percentage until

542
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 7: you fulfill a commitment, which is called a I don't

543
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 7: know if publishing companies still do this, but like MDRC

544
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 7: is what they call, which means you have a commitment

545
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 7: to turn in four songs. Right, you got a four

546
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 7: song commitment. Keep in mind one song equals one hundred percent.

547
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 7: So that means if you collaborate with a bunch of

548
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 7: producers and writers, you only get thirty percent of a song.

549
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 7: How many songs this is going to take for you

550
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 7: to put out? And they have stipulations in the terms

551
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,719
Speaker 7: that says, this song has to be distributed by a

552
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 7: major recording company Interscope, Depth, Jam Atlantic, You know whatever,

553
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 7: If it's an independent release, it don't count towards your commitment.

554
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 7: If it's on an EP, it don't count towards your commitment. Shit,

555
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 7: sometimes if it's not a single, it don't count towards

556
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 7: your commitment. So you will be you'll find yourself part

557
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 7: in these contracts with these publishing companies for ever because

558
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 7: you can't fulfill your record commitment. So these are the

559
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 7: systems that are put in place to stop us from

560
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 7: progressing it. And this is ownership. This is like equity

561
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 7: in your composition. Publishing is the equity in your composition.

562
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 7: Master is then control of the composition.

563
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 3: So like the masters is like I want to put

564
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 3: this song in a Pepsi commercial. Whoever owns the masters

565
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 3: has the right to do that. The publishing is the

566
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 3: people that actually get paid from the song being in

567
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 3: the Pepsi.

568
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 7: Commercial actually created the song.

569
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 3: They created the song, the writers, and so technically the

570
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 3: artists could not own masters and not own publishing either

571
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 3: if they don't write, if they're not writing, somebody's writing

572
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 3: for them and they're not publishing and getting publishing or masters.

573
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 4: So you did Iggy's first three mixtapes? Did you do

574
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 4: the album too?

575
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 7: They kicked me out the team. So how that even

576
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 7: happened was I was on my second child, right, and

577
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 7: it was tough. Broke back to the original question, why

578
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 7: financial literacy, I went broke. We's doing all of this stuff.

579
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 7: She's now booming, right and offers she's with this company

580
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 7: from London, and you know what I'm saying, Like they

581
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,479
Speaker 7: invited me to London. Yeah, and it was like, we're

582
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 7: gonna pay you for everything you did in the past.

583
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 7: You to come out to London and finished this last mixtape.

584
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 7: Because we finished start the album. We got these producers

585
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 7: that's in house. They fly me out to London. I

586
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 7: finished her mixtape the day I finished. Everybody disappeared in London,

587
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 7: left me in London. Brom by yourself, Yeah, everybody disappeared.

588
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 7: Iggy Company nobody answering their phone all of this shit.

589
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 7: I ended up getting back to London, right. I ended

590
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 7: up running into a dude named George who was who

591
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 7: based in then shout out George Man who had an

592
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 7: artist's name Eliza Doolittle.

593
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 4: Right.

594
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 7: He looked out for me and was like, you good.

595
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 7: I got you man, I'm gonna take care of you.

596
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 7: Didn't even know dude. Just got connected with him through

597
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 7: a publisher through at Universal Publishing or whatever, and so

598
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 7: they said I called back. So they called me. Biggy

599
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 7: team called me and was like, Yo, we want you

600
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 7: to come on the road out of no where. I

601
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 7: didn't talked to him since I was left in London.

602
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 7: I just had my second child. Shit went broke. I'm like, yo,

603
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 7: y'all gotta pay me because I wasn't getting paid. Bro,

604
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 7: I wasn't getting paid all of the shit that I

605
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 7: was doing. Figure I didn't you didn't get paid. I

606
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 7: probably made a total of like six hundred dollars through

607
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:45,439
Speaker 7: that whole run.

608
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 4: How many songs did you write?

609
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 7: Every song on Ignorant Art because it's a mixtape. Because

610
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 7: so remember nobody's killing you for mixtapes. The buzz is

611
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 7: generating she getting shows and booking shows, and I'm doing it.

612
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 7: I probably got a couple hundred dollars to do the

613
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 7: tour ship because I ended up meeting the booking agent

614
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 7: and building a relationship, and I started to find out

615
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 7: how much money was going out. And then I started

616
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 7: to get in the middle of the business and be like,

617
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 7: what the fuck is going on? But I was, you know,

618
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 7: this was something that I developed, and it was hard

619
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 7: letting go because this was like my baby, like the

620
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 7: idea of it, and it was the biggest thing I

621
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 7: had ever been a part of in the music business.

622
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 7: In the hindsight, right and thought and so.

623
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 4: Yo.

624
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 7: They called me and was like, we want you to

625
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 7: go back in the road. I said, I'm not going

626
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 7: nowhere until y'all pay me. What am I going to

627
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 7: get paid? It's like, we're gonna get back to you.

628
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 7: And that's how that's how it ended. Years went by.

629
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 7: Fancy happens, right, Shadostamy Scheme, who was a part of

630
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 7: that whole thing that was my long like, so she

631
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 7: never wrote anything. Shout outs to Homie scheme, shout outs

632
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 7: to me. So she contributed in the studio here and there,

633
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 7: like depending on what song it is. She has ideas,

634
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 7: but I mean, you're from Australia, like black culture, like

635
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 7: you need You're going to need help. You're gonna need

636
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 7: somebody to do this for you. You know, it's just scientifically,

637
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 7: it's just you have to so fancy that whole run happened.

638
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 7: You know, she got her number one ship's popping with

639
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 7: the company who fucking left me out to ship hit

640
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 7: rock bottom. She starts falling off. Now we're starting to

641
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 7: see all of the bullshit happen. Now people don't trust her.

642
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 7: She's getting into it with tip, She's getting into it

643
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 7: here and this, that and the thing. Things are starting

644
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 7: to fall You already know what happens next.

645
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 4: They call you.

646
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 7: So the owner of this company, And when people look

647
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 7: at this and they do that research, they gonna find

648
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 7: out who she was signed to. And I don't give

649
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 7: a fuck, call me the CEO of the company, going hey,

650
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 7: can we meet at the Beverly Hills Hotel? And I

651
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 7: brought all my kids with me. It's just so she

652
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 7: could feel it. It's like, what have you been doing?

653
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 7: I was working at Nieman Marcus, my nigga at the time,

654
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 7: in the warehouse making mint like eight something an hour,

655
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 7: a nigga who just developed this star, a nigga who

656
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 7: didn't you know what I'm saying. Then had deals and

657
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 7: all kinds of shit like and I this is off

658
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 7: of I ended up getting a pub there off of

659
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 7: Iggy mixtape. Shit though, let's be clear, I ended up

660
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 7: cross over, cross over, spin move, layup pub deal and

661
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 7: got bred from that. But then, you know, I didn't

662
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 7: know shit about money, flew through it, ran through it empty.

663
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 7: Met with the CEO of the company. I want to

664
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 7: bring you on. I want to hire you for my

665
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:08,479
Speaker 7: I want to hire you as an an R, all right,

666
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 7: not knowing that there was a plan why she wanted

667
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 7: to hire me, But it all came to life as

668
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 7: time went forward. A couple of months go by. She

669
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 7: put me with this. She put me with Bishop Nerow

670
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 7: shout outs, Bishop Nehrew from New York. I ended up

671
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 7: building a great relationship with him and his dad. Fucking

672
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 7: dope people, man. And that's how I ended up meeting

673
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 7: not meeting Nads, but like reconnecting with NADS. Through that,

674
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 7: there was a kid from London named zernaio Fontaine, and

675
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 7: then there was another chick from like New Zealand named Laurel,

676
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 7: and I ended up doing their projects fire all fire,

677
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 7: just like that, and I ended up putting a girl

678
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 7: group together during this process. Next thing, you know, I

679
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 7: see one of the president or whatever for the company

680
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 7: outside smoking cigarette, going crazy on the phone. So I

681
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 7: walk outside. What's happening? Oh, just Iggy is driving us

682
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 7: crazy and it's just so difficult. And wait a minute,

683
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 7: would you be willing to work with Iggy again? Keep

684
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 7: in mind Iggy is going through a lawsuit at this time.

685
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 7: They put my name in their Affidavid, So I'm like,

686
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 7: it's starting to come to life now. Why they need

687
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 7: me to say Iggy ain't do nothing bad and all

688
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 7: of this stuff whatever, Long story short, They asked me

689
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 7: to get back in the studio with Iggy after all

690
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 7: this time. Remember I ain't talked to him since they

691
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 7: left me hanging in London. Now work for this company

692
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,479
Speaker 7: who left me in London because I'm broke. I'm like, fuck,

693
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 7: I got it. I got kids. So they paying me

694
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 7: a salary or whatever, and they was like, can we

695
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 7: get you back in the studio with Iggy? I was like,

696
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 7: it's up to Iggy, it ain't up to me. I

697
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 7: ain't do nothing. She the one who y'all let her

698
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 7: or whatever however we want to word this.

699
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 4: And so.

700
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 7: I call Chords that same day. What's up, dog, I

701
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 7: got something for you?

702
00:39:58,880 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 4: What up?

703
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 7: My g out of nowhere? You're ready to get back

704
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 7: in the studio with Iggy? He was like, wait what.

705
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 7: Keep in mind he hadn't talked to her since Ignorant Art.

706
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 7: I had did three mixtapes with her. He only did

707
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 7: Ignorant Art because we were trying to sign her to

708
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,760
Speaker 7: our company, Drugs, and she wouldn't sign to it for whatever.

709
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 7: The reason Chords the way he handles music is he

710
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 7: protects it. He don't like it to get out, and

711
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 7: a lot of artists don't like that, like I want

712
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 7: to hear about music, and chordses like, no, you're gonna

713
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 7: leak it, Like he comes from that, Like some people

714
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 7: can't get with that, you know. And he don't like

715
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 7: to release music when it's not done. He needs to

716
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 7: be fully produced, fully everything, live instrumentation, all that. Anyhow,

717
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 7: a call chorus Chorus was like, fuck it, let's do it.

718
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 7: No debate. He was like, let's do it. We get

719
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 7: back in the studio. We spent a whole day just

720
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 7: conversating with Iggy, kind of getting to know her again.

721
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 7: She left that day. That night, I did twelve songs

722
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 7: Nigga in a six hour time, playing twelve for a

723
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,720
Speaker 7: project that was gonna be called Ignorant art uh Digital Distortion.

724
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 7: One of the songs was called a Zillion that came

725
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,439
Speaker 7: out on SoundCloud that they leave, and then another song

726
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 7: was called Team Team should probably be platinum. Now, this

727
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 7: is in the height of her when Rikabadu said that

728
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 7: on BT Awards and was everybody clown and Iggy and

729
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 7: she was swaggy p and he cheating, like yeah, shut

730
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 7: out swack. She was going through all of that stuff.

731
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 7: This is in the height of everybody hate her, that

732
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 7: the whole that uh that rap she did on stage

733
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 7: and everybody was clowning her when she sound crazy and

734
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 7: like like, this is in the height of all of that.

735
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 7: We put our Team bro and it went gold and

736
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 7: it charted on Billboard because I know the sauce when

737
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 7: it comes to this to her because I developed it.

738
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 7: And the next thing, you know, Nigga, the company start.

739
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 7: She started rebelling against her company. They thought I was

740
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 7: trying to manage her and they ended up cutting me

741
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 7: out again and guess what, have an iggy after that,

742
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 7: we know the rest, you know what I'm saying. So

743
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 7: digressing back from that story to financial literacy. So I

744
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 7: made money during these runs, right, each and every time

745
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 7: I would just spend spend, spend, spend, spend, broke spend.

746
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 7: I got kids in the family. We live in an

747
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 7: apartment in the valley, you know what I'm saying. So

748
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 7: we got real bills, and my kid is like getting older.

749
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,439
Speaker 7: My oldest right now is sixteen, so at the time,

750
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 7: you know, obviously he was younger, but we're raising the

751
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 7: household and spend spend spend broke after like the third

752
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 7: time bro first book I bought was Automatic Millionaire. That

753
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 7: was the first book I bought, and I can't remember

754
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 7: that the author, but it was a while ago. And

755
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 7: they tell you how to make your money automatic. Basically,

756
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 7: check come in, set a percentage aside, tell your bank

757
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 7: that when a check comes in, move this to a

758
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 7: different account, and you just got to be disciplined. You

759
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 7: don't touch that. You don't have no card, no nothing

760
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 7: to that account. It just money comes in the bank.

761
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 7: Can set it up or ten percent of that check

762
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 7: automatically gets transferred to this account, automatic millionaire. And if

763
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 7: you do that over the course of a pan, you

764
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 7: can and it shows you how to create a million

765
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 7: dollars from that. That's money management. It's just simple money management.

766
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 7: Not at the highest level, but just basic concept. Then

767
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 7: the next book I read was Rich Dad Poort that

768
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,919
Speaker 7: and the next book I read was Then I started

769
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 7: reading different things like Tipping Point and Outliers and Blink

770
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 7: of Richest Man in Babylon, different books like that, and

771
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 7: I was like, this ain't so hard. It don't seem

772
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 7: that difficult, disciplined to really save money, to know what

773
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 7: to do with your money. Then I started to I

774
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 7: have a partner named David Hill who owns a company

775
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 7: named vyr, which is a streaming site shout Out's day

776
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 7: and every day we would share stock information, just two niggas.

777
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 7: He from Philly, I'm from Watts. I don't know nothing

778
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 7: about it, but we would. We signed up for Scott Trader,

779
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 7: yeah exactly now it's TD and Merrior Trade right, and

780
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 7: we would. He would be like, what you invest in,

781
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,919
Speaker 7: Let's just invest in this. We didn't even know nothing

782
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 7: about it, but we got in the habit of just

783
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 7: doing it, and we start to see our money incrementally

784
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 7: grow because it wasn't like we had a lot of

785
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 7: money to play with, but we could see how it works.

786
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 7: That made me start looking into people like Warren Buffett,

787
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 7: people like that, and I start to see what he

788
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 7: put his money in. I'm like this, nigga's money is

789
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 7: in stocks the majority of investments. Mmm. So then I

790
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:10,240
Speaker 7: started to mimic with these power players Jack my uh

791
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 7: fucking Warren Buffett, like all of these people play with

792
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 7: stocks on a high level. I started to see what

793
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 7: they invest their money. Then that's what taught me what

794
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 7: a dividend was. Then I would look up on investor Pediat,

795
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 7: very useful web, very crazy, so invested pedia and I

796
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 7: started to really get interested in finance. I mean, I

797
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 7: don't know everybody out there. When I was five six

798
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 7: years old, my teacher said we were going over numbers

799
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 7: quick story, and we were going over tenth place, hundreds place,

800
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 7: thousands place.

801
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 3: Et cetera, et cetera.

802
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 7: So I said we went up to a million. I said, teacher,

803
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 7: what's up? What's after a million? My teacher was like

804
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 7: two million. It was like I was like no, no, no, no, no, no,

805
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 7: likeety nine nine, you know, I mean, what's after that?

806
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 7: It was like a billion. I was like, what's after that?

807
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 7: A trillion? What's after that? A quadrillion? What's after that?

808
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 7: A billion? Yeah, it's great, I said, what's after that?

809
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 7: Six tillion? I said, I want that much money? I

810
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 7: was six years old, bro, So this already was in

811
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 7: me and it wasn't like agreed to do whatever it

812
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 7: takes to get it. But it's just like, I know

813
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 7: if I had that, what I could do for the world.

814
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 7: And that's just the type of person I always been.

815
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 7: So anyhow, I digress. So we're going on Investipedia. What's

816
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 7: the dividend, like, what's what the bonds? How do mutual

817
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 7: funds work? How does all of this stuff work? And

818
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 7: then I would share, you know, obviously go back to

819
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 7: the books that I'm reading. I would share this information

820
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 7: with my wife. That was my wife, you know, the

821
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 7: back mom, and she she was sounds good to me.

822
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 7: I wish you would have took the money you had

823
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 7: from these publishers bought some realists say to something. But

824
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 7: I mean we're here now, like I got your back

825
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 7: whatever you and I just started. Then I just went

826
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 7: Ham like I got a stash account in the Robin

827
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,280
Speaker 7: Hood and tdu marriatrade and I got gold and Sacks

828
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 7: retirement account, and I just start opening all these things

829
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 7: until I really figured it out. And then I would

830
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 7: people my family like I did my mom's budget. I

831
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 7: started doing people that was close to me, like setting

832
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 7: up their financial plan. I even took a class on

833
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 7: life insurance. I took a class on retirement accounts, was

834
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 7: how you will and you know, different type of life

835
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 7: insurance policies, because that was something I didn't know nothing

836
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 7: about life insurance growing up. I mean, we used to

837
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 7: go fund me signs now, but back then it was

838
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 7: just like standing in the street asking people for money

839
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 7: to pay for somebody funeral, real talk, not knowing that,

840
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 7: oh you could have been paying like thirty dollars a

841
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 7: month for some term. I mean, I mean, it's.

842
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 2: Erness what's up.

843
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,040
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844
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,720
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845
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 8: is a breeze, and you're out the door before the

846
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847
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848
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849
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Speaker 8: pop up market, or even one of our merch partners,

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Speaker 7: For those who know, but it is what I mean

892
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 7: was a month. Yeah, sure, still could have paid for

893
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Speaker 7: your funeral and might have left something over with the

894
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Speaker 7: right one. And so I started to do these plans

895
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Speaker 7: for all of my family members. And that's when I

896
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Speaker 7: started to develop the knowledge. Then I started to apply

897
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Speaker 7: it to my own personal and then from there I

898
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Speaker 7: just got a love for like financial literacy, love for finance.

899
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Speaker 7: Even I'm taking a class a class at Yale right

900
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Speaker 7: now online for managing funds because I just wanted to

901
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Speaker 7: know investment funds. I just want to know. I'm not

902
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Speaker 7: trying to work for nobody, but I do want to

903
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Speaker 7: get brothers, kings like us queens. Let's put off money

904
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Speaker 7: together and move it here. Because the science of it is,

905
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 7: you know, you carry the one. There's chances of this

906
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 7: company will go up based on the probability blah blah

907
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 7: blah blah blah. Like I'm studying all of that shit.

908
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 7: How they do it, oh, supposed to do it, That's

909
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Speaker 7: what I'm studying.

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Speaker 3: So, so, how did you get how'd you get that

911
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 3: in the schools because you have. You're in schools now right,

912
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Speaker 3: La County.

913
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Speaker 7: SO, shoutouts Principal Ra. He's part of OSG. Shoutouts OSGG.

914
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Speaker 7: Shout to Dennis, Dennis big Man, big big shot Dennis.

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Speaker 7: Principal Ra. He's a call it revolutionary educator, right. He

916
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Speaker 7: does things that no principal. I will say, no principle

917
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Speaker 7: because everybody in OSG is revolutionary. But as far as

918
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Speaker 7: La County, I've never seen nobody approach education like him.

919
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Speaker 7: So Principal Rah school started maybe three years ago. It's

920
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Speaker 7: called a Public Service Academy. It's almost like a public

921
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 7: and a charter school combined where he kind of can

922
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Speaker 7: do his own thing. But he's still under LA owned

923
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Speaker 7: by L A U s D. SO. Principal rads from

924
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Speaker 7: Compton and he just like hit me on Instagram. Yo,

925
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Speaker 7: I see what you're doing in the community. I want

926
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Speaker 7: to invite you into world to my school. I got

927
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Speaker 7: about two hundred kids right now. It's only ninth and

928
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Speaker 7: tenth and eleventh or ninth and tenth at the time.

929
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Speaker 7: I don't have no expectations. I don't know what we

930
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Speaker 7: can do, but let's put our heads together. And see

931
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Speaker 7: what happened. He didn't think I was gonna respond. I

932
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Speaker 7: was like, sure, I came up there, did a tour

933
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Speaker 7: of the campus. This dude got laser cutting room, three

934
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Speaker 7: D printing room, ar room, computer room to do digital

935
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Speaker 7: graphics like stud music, stud like he at his school.

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Speaker 3: How do you get the funding for that? Just made

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Speaker 3: it happen?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Man, God, you know what I'm saying, most high like

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Speaker 7: praise praise the most And I was like, Yo, we

941
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Speaker 7: just we just need to put our foot on the

942
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Speaker 7: gas on this thing, man. And I'm like, if you

943
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Speaker 7: open to do whatever it takes, and I'm willing to

944
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Speaker 7: pull in resources. I mean, Principal Road was like, fuck it,

945
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Speaker 7: let's do it, you know what I mean. And one

946
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Speaker 7: of the first things we did was financial literacy class.

947
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Speaker 7: I was partnered with Bank of California because of the

948
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Speaker 7: LAFC Soccer Club. Bank of California. You know, for those

949
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Speaker 7: who don't know, all banks have a CRA department. CRA

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Speaker 7: is response they have to do things in the community,

951
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Speaker 7: especially for low income communities. By law, there's a state

952
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Speaker 7: I think it's a federal thing that they have to

953
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Speaker 7: buy by when you charter a bank, that you have

954
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Speaker 7: to do these things like they have to allocate so

955
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Speaker 7: much funds and do things. Because I knew this, I'm like, yo,

956
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Speaker 7: I went to Bank of California doing a financial literacy program.

957
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Speaker 7: I need you to back it. You know, give me

958
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Speaker 7: the pay for your banking officials to come to this school.

959
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Speaker 7: We're going to teach this class. Principal Rod brought the kids,

960
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Speaker 7: brought other people from the public. We had like one

961
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Speaker 7: hundred and sixty something people in our class, ninth through twelfth,

962
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Speaker 7: ninth through eleventh and adults. It was a six week course.

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Speaker 7: This was our first one bank in California. They ran

964
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Speaker 7: the first one trash. It was horrible, hord. It was

965
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Speaker 7: a disaster. Kids was falling asleep, it wasn't really popping.

966
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Speaker 7: So I was like, I got a IDEA Week two

967
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Speaker 7: started it off with a Nipsey verse, the dedication. You

968
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Speaker 7: know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: I wrapped that verse into yourselvation.

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Speaker 7: Come on, man, wafers, come on, man, shout out ned recipes,

971
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Speaker 7: man to the king, to the So I started the

972
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Speaker 7: whole class off with that verse. So now the kids

973
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Speaker 7: is dang, what's about to happen today?

974
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Speaker 4: Wait? Wait, is that Watt.

975
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Speaker 7: Yeah, say, you know, Diversity Pathways, Public Service Academy and

976
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:06,359
Speaker 7: so what they call it the U and it's only

977
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Speaker 7: a one hour and a half class. So I started

978
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Speaker 7: off with the net first. Then we're going to breathing

979
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Speaker 7: because when you breathe, you know, we did breathing exercises,

980
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Speaker 7: you allow information to process better. So like it's just

981
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 7: like clinically proven, we did that. So now they're ready

982
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Speaker 7: to learn. Boom, We're going up money management and credit

983
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 7: that day and I'm so first the instructor teaches, and

984
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Speaker 7: then I come right behind them like one of the things.

985
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 7: So on one of the days, I remember this vividly.

986
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Speaker 7: It was so dope. Man, I knew we was breaking

987
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 7: through to the kids. These ninth graders bro never had

988
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Speaker 7: no financial literacy nothing in their life. We were talking

989
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 7: about public and private companies because we were dealing with

990
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 7: stocks and investments and stuff like that. I was like,

991
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 7: who know what a public and private company is?

992
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 4: Kid?

993
00:56:53,280 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 7: Raise his hands, public company, McDonald knows. I said, there

994
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 7: you go, I said, what's a private company? He goes,

995
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 7: my homie bike shot. That's it. Like that's how you

996
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 7: know you're breaking through. So then we you know, then

997
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Speaker 7: by week three, week four, and I'm jumping in, so

998
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 7: the instructor will say what's on the presentation, and then

999
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Speaker 7: I will come in. What they trying to say is,

1000
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 7: you know, predatory lending is like on Instagram when they

1001
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 7: send you that click this link here and you end

1002
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 7: up getting your thing hacked, you know what I mean, Well,

1003
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 7: not predatory land, but like credit scams and stuff like.

1004
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 7: That's what he was talking about. Like it's like, it's

1005
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 7: like that, how many people didn't got that link in

1006
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 7: their Instagram talking about click this link and then me,

1007
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 7: I'm like, that's credit scam. You got to watch out

1008
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 7: for stuff like this. This is what it looks like,

1009
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, don't put your information in

1010
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 7: to avoid They get it now. They know.

1011
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 4: That sounds very familiar.

1012
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:58,439
Speaker 7: So so you know, kind of towards the end now,

1013
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 7: like week five, because it's only six weeks, we introduced

1014
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 7: everybody to robin Hood. Robinhood didn't give me no money

1015
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 7: for this. They don't even know I'm gonna g I'm

1016
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 7: gonna get my check. One hundred and sixty people bro

1017
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 7: kids all downloaded it to their phone, stashing Robinhood. Everybody

1018
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 7: invested in Bank of California just because they did the

1019
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 7: class and they partnered with think wats to do it.

1020
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Speaker 7: The kids set up their accounts obviously their parents set

1021
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 7: it up for them, came back, had like ten dollars

1022
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 7: in their account and they all invested in fucking Bank

1023
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Speaker 7: of California. Bro kids now know, Like one kid, we

1024
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 7: would do exercises to put a whole money management thing

1025
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Speaker 7: to pay for something else.

1026
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 4: Right.

1027
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,959
Speaker 7: So one of the exercises it was this one kid

1028
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 7: was like, I want to buy some yeasies shout outaya.

1029
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Speaker 7: So I was like, okay, So how we gonna get there?

1030
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 7: How much money do you get a week for lunch?

1031
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 7: And so I get like I get fifty dollars a week.

1032
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 7: I'm like, damn, you get fifty dollars for lunch. But

1033
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 7: then I mean, people take care of their kids. I

1034
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 7: don't care. You could be broke, but you will give

1035
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 7: your kids your last So he got fifty dollars a week, right,

1036
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 7: I'm like, tell me everything you buy during this week.

1037
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Speaker 7: I get takis every day, I get.

1038
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Speaker 6: A cookie man am PM big gold, like every in

1039
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 6: and out meal every single day.

1040
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Speaker 7: So we did an exercise. I was like, so, let's

1041
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 7: take Tuesdays Thursdays. You cut out everything that you spend

1042
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 7: your money on and let's move that to a sidepot.

1043
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 7: And we did the math face blew up.

1044
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Speaker 5: It was like, all, I got to do this and

1045
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 5: I can get my yeezies in like two months. Oh man, thanks,

1046
00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 5: It's just basic principles. You show these kids to do it,

1047
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 5: they'll do it. So I just start fall in love

1048
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 5: with stuff like that. Right from that at this school working.

1049
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Speaker 7: With the schools or we were talking about and the Clippers,

1050
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 7: right LFC. I got the thing with l AFC. Shout

1051
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 7: out Stem, Larry, Bird, Rich, Larry, all of them over there.

1052
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 7: So I did a theme song for the team. Adidas

1053
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 7: end up supporting it, became a partner. After that, we

1054
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 7: shoot this crazy video, one of the first videos and

1055
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 7: theme song for an MLS soccer team ever popped off

1056
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Speaker 7: crazy Clippers get a win to that. Hey we want

1057
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,919
Speaker 7: to so no DJ Dents let me stop lying, shout

1058
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 7: out DJ Dents, he's a DJ for the Clippers. Official, Yo,

1059
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 7: we need a theme song. Nobody fuck with us. They

1060
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 7: won't give us. I'm like, well, you called it right

1061
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 7: the man, So I do a song in like two days, right,

1062
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 7: took me for.

1063
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Speaker 3: The Clippers, for the Clippers. So no, no La Rappers

1064
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 3: wanted to do theme song for the Clippers. They're just

1065
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 3: so loyal to the Lakers, Lakers Man's Lakers.

1066
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they got snoop Clippers only there ain'tybody.

1067
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, must have beat it. They got sticks.

1068
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Speaker 4: Well they didn't at the time.

1069
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 7: Kenya Bears. He'd be at the matches. I mean the

1070
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 7: games all the time. Ken you bears for the Brownish

1071
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 7: Like we're.

1072
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 4: In his house right now.

1073
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 7: I feel like.

1074
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 4: It looks like from the show, So I.

1075
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 7: Do the song. DJ didn't say this ship fire. He

1076
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 7: started playing it at the games. So when they run

1077
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 7: out the tunnel, he plays the theme song every game.

1078
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 7: VP of Operations, here's it. What's that? He's like, Oh,

1079
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 7: this sticks like this fire. It's like, I want to

1080
01:01:54,560 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 7: license it. Who I was like, so, say, YO, put

1081
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 7: me in an email with shout outs Matt pay good dude, man, Like, YO,

1082
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:06,920
Speaker 7: send me email, I want to license this. What is

1083
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 7: it going to cost? What? I was like, Nope, I

1084
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 7: want a meetingim. He said, excuse me in the email.

1085
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 7: It's funny. It's like, YO, what excuse me? Like we're

1086
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 7: having a conversation. I was like, no, I want to

1087
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 7: meet him. He's like, all right, let's set up a meeting.

1088
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 7: We're gonna meet. I'm sitting in front of Matt so, man,

1089
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 7: it's like, yeah, I want to license the song, you

1090
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 7: know what I mean, and I want you to perform

1091
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 7: at halftime. It's like no, he's looking to be crazy

1092
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 7: and he's looking at He's like why not. I was like,

1093
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 7: because it's bigger than music, what our relationship is going

1094
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 7: to be. It's like tell me. So I was like,

1095
01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:45,560
Speaker 7: first I played in the LAFC video that I did

1096
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 7: because it wasn't now that time massive. I'm gonna make

1097
01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 7: y'all watch it before we leave on that TV or

1098
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 7: something crazy. So then he was like, man, I want

1099
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 7: to do this. I was like, it's bigger than this.

1100
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 7: It's like tell me. I was like, I ain't focused

1101
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 7: on no money from y'all because I know y'all got

1102
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 7: a lot of it. Steve Bomer is very wealthy. Not

1103
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,959
Speaker 7: focused on money for my pocket. I'm focused on money

1104
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 7: for my community. Matt said, Wait, no artist, nobody we've

1105
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 7: ever booked, worked with, or partner with, Like that's a

1106
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,480
Speaker 7: person has ever said that they wanted to do something

1107
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 7: for the community, and Steve loves to do and stuff

1108
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 7: for the community. Genuinely, I was like, well, you find

1109
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 7: the right guy. They said, what you want to do?

1110
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 7: I said, I want to build basketball courts in the

1111
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 7: hood because I seen y'all got a program or y'all

1112
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 7: refurbishing courts at parks. Matt said, see what we can do.

1113
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 7: One week later, he hooked me up with Denise and

1114
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 7: Gillian Zucker. Gillian Zucker is the president of Clippers Ops president.

1115
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:54,480
Speaker 7: I took him to the U. Shit was fucked up

1116
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 7: over there, Bro. The fucking courts was beat up, the

1117
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 7: gym was slippery. Keep in mind, this gym is home

1118
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 7: of the Drew League, where the original Drew League was.

1119
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 3: Okay, because Julie's in Compton now right.

1120
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 7: It moves around, So this is where the original Drew

1121
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 7: League was at this gym, so it's has legacy.

1122
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 4: The Green Wolf M.

1123
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 7: So Clippers was like, I had no idea about the

1124
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 7: history or nothing, didn't even care. They was like, Gillian

1125
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,760
Speaker 7: came to watch Bro. She had a fifteen minute window.

1126
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 7: I had to drive from the valley back to Watts

1127
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 7: to catch Gillian because he called out of nowhere. It's

1128
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 7: like some president and ship. Oh, Gillion's on her way

1129
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 7: to watch.

1130
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 4: Hold on.

1131
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 7: Left where I was. I left my kid at school.

1132
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 7: I'm like, Yoki man, like you stay here and come

1133
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:48,840
Speaker 7: back and get you whatever. So came there, Bro Gillian

1134
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 7: Man walked around and say a single word. It was

1135
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 7: me Denise Gillian and shout out Sheldon, who was a

1136
01:04:57,080 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 7: part of the whole process. Isabella right, who's on my team.

1137
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 7: And so we're doing a walkthrough and principal rise right

1138
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 7: there and we're nervous because were like, I don't know

1139
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 7: why we was nervous. She just didn't wasn't talking, just

1140
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 7: looking around like that, just like that. We walked through

1141
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 7: one hallway and it was a fucking picture of a

1142
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 7: fucking penis a kid.

1143
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, like suck my dick, like don't look look over

1144
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 6: here like like like.

1145
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,960
Speaker 7: Like I was like no, I was like, it's over with.

1146
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 7: Somebody called somebody called him whoever called Portland, you know

1147
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 7: what I mean. So Gillian walked out seeing everything. Bro

1148
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 7: looked at the course and said, we walked towards the

1149
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 7: end of the gate. She still didn't say nothing. She's

1150
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 7: leaving now because you got to go to another meeting.

1151
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 7: We get to her car, damn near her car and

1152
01:05:57,240 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 7: I was like, so what do you think? She said,

1153
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 7: let's do it. That was it, got in her car left,

1154
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 7: So Denise goes, okay, so we need to get this going.

1155
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 7: What do we need to do? Dog six In six days,

1156
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:22,880
Speaker 7: we did sixteen basketball courts, an entire gym. Refers like

1157
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 7: indoor basketball gym did Jehovah and it's now the Clippers

1158
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 7: think Watts Community Court.

1159
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 4: Clap it up for that.

1160
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, appreciate.

1161
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 4: So sixteen court.

1162
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 3: When's the sixteen like sixteen outdoor on the playground in

1163
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 3: different neighborhoods.

1164
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 7: No, just in the playground on that one.

1165
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 4: Oh, the sixteen court that people can play at.

1166
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:45,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, sixteen basketball court? Yeah, like Venice Beach, Like yeah,

1167
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 3: back to back to back back.

1168
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 4: How many kids in the school.

1169
01:06:48,160 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 3: Shit at that?

1170
01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 7: It's a it's a middle school in the high school combined,

1171
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 7: so it's Drew Middle School and the you, I don't know,

1172
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 7: maybe about eight hundred.

1173
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 3: I'm assuming a lot of people from the people, not

1174
01:06:57,520 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 3: just in school. Come it's just a regular.

1175
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:00,320
Speaker 7: Oh yeah now community.

1176
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying sixteen courts. That's a lot

1177
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 3: of courts. That's like, oh yeah, that's huge. We do

1178
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 3: a whole don no do like three on three we

1179
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 3: dot eyl something.

1180
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 7: Let's do it. That's a fact, easy, easy work.

1181
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 4: I thought that the next thing I'm going to ask

1182
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 4: you about was part of it. But you also got

1183
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 4: free memberships to Planing Fitness.

1184
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 7: So Planning fitness. Seeing that Planning Fitness is I think

1185
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:30,640
Speaker 7: is a partner of Clippers too. But they've seen what

1186
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 7: was going on, reached out to me. How can we

1187
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:37,760
Speaker 7: work together. I'll say, easy, let's go to schools that

1188
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 7: have weight room and let's refurbish you and turn them

1189
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 7: in the Planet Fitness gyms. No school is going to

1190
01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:48,400
Speaker 7: tell you no. It was like, great idea, we'll pay

1191
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 7: for everything. Weeks turned their their weight room into a

1192
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:57,720
Speaker 7: Planet Fitness gym that's free for staff and faculty and

1193
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,800
Speaker 7: students the same the same school, same school.

1194
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 4: The morality, the kids have to be at it all

1195
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 4: the time. They're seeing all these things happening. It's like

1196
01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 4: now I want to go to school.

1197
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 7: So look, chronic appsenteeism skyrocketed down like ninety The you

1198
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:20,560
Speaker 7: had was in the top three of lowest chronic apsenteeism.

1199
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 7: And for those who don't understand what that is, chronic apsenteism,

1200
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:28,600
Speaker 7: kids not going to school exactly right, kids were coming.

1201
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 3: To school because they wanted, they wanted to be there.

1202
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:35,240
Speaker 7: Exactly just from these refurbishments and these enhancements are renovations. Right,

1203
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:43,680
Speaker 7: test scores, grades through the roof, through the roof. Bro

1204
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 7: It was like we looking at the data. Man right

1205
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 7: looking at data, and was like this is crazy. And

1206
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 7: I was like, this is the blueprint. This is how

1207
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 7: we changed hoods. Take these corporations who have who can

1208
01:08:57,040 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 7: do this, don't cost them nothing. These fitness gyms, let's

1209
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 7: just take that. For instance, weight rooms or whatever. They

1210
01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:07,640
Speaker 7: have to refurbish their equipment once a year. Like you

1211
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 7: can't keep the same equipment in the gym, you gotta

1212
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:11,840
Speaker 7: turn you got to get rid of it. And what

1213
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:14,160
Speaker 7: do they do with that? They auction it off, give

1214
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 7: it away. Are they junking? Nah, bring that over here

1215
01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:21,719
Speaker 7: to a school in need, turn their gym into whatever,

1216
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 7: blank fitness equinox. You know what I'm saying, Planet fitness,

1217
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:29,920
Speaker 7: whatever you want and donate the equipment here and they'll

1218
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 7: utilize that. People gonna be taking, kids gonna be taking

1219
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:33,759
Speaker 7: selfies and all that. You're gonna get the brand recognition

1220
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:38,479
Speaker 7: acts right off, and then we can activate it, send

1221
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 7: the instructor down once a quarter to do a workout

1222
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 7: with the kids for pe whatever. And so those are

1223
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 7: the type of programs that I'll be developing and putting together.

1224
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:49,000
Speaker 3: How did you so, how'd you reach out to Like, so,

1225
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 3: all right, the Clippers thing?

1226
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 4: You said?

1227
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 3: How that came about Planet Fitness? How'd you get that?

1228
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 3: And that you just after the clippers?

1229
01:09:55,439 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 7: The Clippers thing, they reached out to me. Actually, don't

1230
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 7: give me the line. There was somebody at Power one

1231
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 7: on six, the radio station, and I'm crazy because I

1232
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:11,760
Speaker 7: can't remember her name. I'm sorry, Please forgive me. She

1233
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,439
Speaker 7: connected me with Planning Fitness because Planet Fitness was doing

1234
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:16,599
Speaker 7: something with Power one on six, and she told them

1235
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:20,599
Speaker 7: they needed to meet with me, and I said, all right, cool.

1236
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:23,719
Speaker 7: And that's how they was like, didn't have no intentions.

1237
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 7: They was like, what can we do in the community?

1238
01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:27,080
Speaker 7: Because they told her they wanted to do stuff in

1239
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 7: the community. I was like, this is what we do,

1240
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 7: and they did it. Stay what they work.

1241
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:34,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've been doing a lot. I mean, obviously if

1242
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:36,599
Speaker 4: they don't know. Yes, you're feeding families in your community.

1243
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:38,600
Speaker 4: You did this stuff with the schools. A lot of

1244
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:40,960
Speaker 4: times people will come up to us and they've heard

1245
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 4: about the program we ran in our community, and they're like,

1246
01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:45,599
Speaker 4: I want to do that. I want to do that.

1247
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 4: How do I get the funding? And I know one

1248
01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 4: of the things that you hold your hat on this

1249
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 4: you're doing these things with little to no funding.

1250
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:56,640
Speaker 7: So how connect with these brands and these organizations and

1251
01:10:56,680 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 7: these corporations, man, because they'll be connected two resources that

1252
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 7: want to do this already, like, for instance, Dodgers. Right,

1253
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 7: I'm a partner with the Dodgers too. First of all,

1254
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:13,479
Speaker 7: real quick too, talk to him, talk to them, yo, man,

1255
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 7: my whole shout out, whole. I can't wait till we meet.

1256
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:19,719
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, not snoop shout outs, uncle snoop.

1257
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. I'm looking you know what

1258
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 7: I mean. First artist to be a partner with LAFC

1259
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 7: professional MLS soccer team, Los Angeles Dodgers professional MLB team,

1260
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 7: Los Angeles Clippers professional NBA, and Los Angeles Rams NFL,

1261
01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:48,800
Speaker 7: the four majors. First ever, you tell me somebody else

1262
01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:51,439
Speaker 7: in any other city who has done it, and I

1263
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 7: will wait all right, Like I said, So Dodgers for instance, right,

1264
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 7: they have their partners with food from food vendors, LAFC,

1265
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:04,640
Speaker 7: different food vendors, you know, rams all of them, and

1266
01:12:06,479 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 7: they're too big to do everything right, these organisms, these

1267
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 7: sports teams like so they connect with organizations that got

1268
01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:17,760
Speaker 7: boots on the ground. Because I know this, Yo, Dodgers,

1269
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 7: I do food drives every week already. You want to

1270
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 7: tap in absolutely? What dates can we do? We got

1271
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,960
Speaker 7: thirty eight pounds food boxes that we can give out

1272
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 7: every single week. You want to be a part of it. Absolutely,

1273
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 7: Boom LFC we needed we got Farmer John's and we

1274
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:38,599
Speaker 7: got all of these different things. We want to do

1275
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 7: something in the community. You have access to the community,

1276
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:43,920
Speaker 7: can you do these drives? So that's how I connect

1277
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 7: the dots people who want to do it but don't

1278
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 7: have the boots on the ground to do it. I

1279
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 7: just connect with them, bring my boots on the ground

1280
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 7: and my team we get the boxes. We serve the community, simple.

1281
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 3: And you talked about that, so serving the community, do

1282
01:12:58,120 --> 01:12:58,799
Speaker 3: vegan meals.

1283
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 4: I believe neighborhood.

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01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 7: Shout out to all the vegans in the world. I

1285
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:06,439
Speaker 7: am a I am a Okay, with respect to the

1286
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 7: vegan community, I have made a dietary choice to become

1287
01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:16,679
Speaker 7: a vegan. In regards to my diet, right, I'm still

1288
01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 7: I'm going to officially transition, like with shoes and all

1289
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:23,880
Speaker 7: of that stuff. More mink coats, no more minx man

1290
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 7: minks on the floor, get money anymore, you know. I mean. So,

1291
01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:39,800
Speaker 7: what I like to do is practice what I preach,

1292
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:44,000
Speaker 7: Like offer these dietary solutions to the hood too. I

1293
01:13:44,040 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 7: even try to bring a Trader Joe's and Whole Foods

1294
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:47,559
Speaker 7: to the hood. Like they was like, no one's going

1295
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 7: to buy from Trader Trader Joe's will never work in Watts.

1296
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 7: People tell me that. Literally, I'll show so what I

1297
01:13:58,640 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 7: Beyond Me was one of partner shout outs hashtag Lunchbag

1298
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 7: who made the connection for me and beyond Me. So

1299
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 7: Aj from hashtag Lunchbag partner with beyond Me. They wanted

1300
01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:12,559
Speaker 7: to distribute like a million Hamburgers or something like that,

1301
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 7: and so AJ hit me. I was like, Yo, you

1302
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 7: got to do this with us, like you tapped in

1303
01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:20,439
Speaker 7: and watched. That's impossible for us to do it alone.

1304
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:23,200
Speaker 7: We can't do a million birds. Like. So he has

1305
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:27,760
Speaker 7: a restaurant called Hilltop Shoutouts Hilltop. It's in Inglewood. It's

1306
01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 7: raised one of their partners on one location, and I

1307
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,200
Speaker 7: think he has like three locations now, but then Shoutouts

1308
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:40,040
Speaker 7: Hilltop in Inglewood. So he tapped into Think Watch. AJ

1309
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 7: was like, YO, help me with this. So what I

1310
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 7: did was connect with all of the schools in LAUSD.

1311
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 7: This is during the pandemic. I'm like, Yo, I know

1312
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,720
Speaker 7: these kids hungry. I know these kids don't really know

1313
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,800
Speaker 7: their parents at work, like how they're gonna eat. So

1314
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:54,519
Speaker 7: I just start hitting up all of the schools and

1315
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:57,920
Speaker 7: Watts and said that I'll put a team together to

1316
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 7: deliver beyond Me Burgers direc to their doorstep. And that's

1317
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:04,320
Speaker 7: what I did every single week for like nine weeks

1318
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 7: in a row. And so we would bring Hamburgers right

1319
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:10,839
Speaker 7: to these kids doorstep. They would come out happy.

1320
01:15:10,920 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 6: Bro.

1321
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:14,280
Speaker 7: They're not even vegans right right, but I got to

1322
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:17,000
Speaker 7: deliver the beyond Me burgers. Beyond Me didn't know what

1323
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:20,240
Speaker 7: was going on. They just knew they was giving out burgers.

1324
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:23,040
Speaker 7: They didn't know the story. It probably still didn't to

1325
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:25,920
Speaker 7: this day know what was going on. But that's what

1326
01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 7: I did more vegan distribution during the month of March

1327
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:39,280
Speaker 7: Women's History Month, I partnered. I used my own money

1328
01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 7: and paid vegan food distributions owned by women small businesses.

1329
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:51,919
Speaker 7: Bought like two hundred miles and donated them to the community.

1330
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:57,479
Speaker 7: So one company was Estrada Vegan Sisters. They made a

1331
01:15:57,840 --> 01:16:05,320
Speaker 7: vegan Beligian cuisine Fire Fire. Another one was o Ky Vegan.

1332
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 7: They make like a different thing like vegan dishes and

1333
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 7: things like that. But then outside it like so I

1334
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:14,559
Speaker 7: always and then I do these healthfares in the hood.

1335
01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 7: So in these healthfares, we have like vegan vendors come

1336
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 7: and serve food, and I also give them alternative medicine

1337
01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:27,599
Speaker 7: like dande, lion root, burdock root, sea moss, uh, different

1338
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:31,759
Speaker 7: things like that, like all of that stuff bro instead

1339
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,160
Speaker 7: of like the traditional Thailand all's and all of these

1340
01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:38,400
Speaker 7: different things and medicines, because health is a big part

1341
01:16:38,439 --> 01:16:41,640
Speaker 7: of what I'm trying to make awareness for in the

1342
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 7: hood too. Shf we ain't gonna be able to spend

1343
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:46,120
Speaker 7: no money if we ain't living.

1344
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:47,759
Speaker 4: But that's a fact.

1345
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 3: So what do you for, Watts, Like we always had

1346
01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:55,160
Speaker 3: you know one side of things, whether there's any any

1347
01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 3: neighborhood in la like whether it's Queenshaw, wats Compton. Whyts

1348
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:04,960
Speaker 3: you think of riots? You think of obviously you know gangs. Well,

1349
01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:07,680
Speaker 3: what's the other side? It seems like I haven't been there.

1350
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:10,680
Speaker 3: Hopefully we get a chance to go tomorrow. But what

1351
01:17:11,120 --> 01:17:14,240
Speaker 3: is your perspective on Watts as far as the community.

1352
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 3: Are you optimistic about the community? How has it changed?

1353
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 3: Is it changing? Is gentrification happening?

1354
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:21,600
Speaker 4: Like?

1355
01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 3: What's the for the people?

1356
01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 4: Like?

1357
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:24,800
Speaker 3: Give them a window in the world, because you had

1358
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:27,160
Speaker 3: about these neighborhoods and you just hear what you see

1359
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:29,599
Speaker 3: on TV. We don't really know exactly what's going on.

1360
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 3: So can you kind of give them a peak, a

1361
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 3: peek into the world.

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01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:38,200
Speaker 7: So, I mean, in order to tell that story, you

1363
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:39,960
Speaker 7: got to kind of touch on history a little bit,

1364
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 7: right for some reason, not some reason, I know the

1365
01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:54,600
Speaker 7: reason Watch has been purposely systemically oppressed because of the

1366
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 7: history of what I mean by that during the Second

1367
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:01,080
Speaker 7: Migration African Americans when they migrated to los.

1368
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 3: From Chicago or from Mississippi.

1369
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 7: Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas to escape slavery. During the migration they

1370
01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 7: came to California, right, Some people went to the North,

1371
01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:19,680
Speaker 7: but a large influx came to Los Angeles. Guess where

1372
01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 7: they came. They came to Watts. The population went from

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01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:28,840
Speaker 7: like thirty twenty thousand to two hundred and something thousand.

1374
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 7: Watts was the most populated area of African Americans on

1375
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:37,840
Speaker 7: in California at one point in time in the history.

1376
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:42,400
Speaker 7: So then we started to see things like the real

1377
01:18:42,520 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 7: estate covenant back in the day redlining, right, that's when

1378
01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 7: that started to kicking, and they started to box us

1379
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:52,880
Speaker 7: all in one space, and that's when they started to

1380
01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:57,720
Speaker 7: pour resources out, and now we got like games.

1381
01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 4: And even the design of the railroad exactly was designed

1382
01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 4: to keep y'all everyone blocked in one area and ya

1383
01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 4: stay in this area, We're gonna move over.

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01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 7: Here, exactly. There's a true story, man. We're I think

1385
01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:13,639
Speaker 7: in the eighties because the sixties was the Watch Rebellion

1386
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 7: known as the Watch Riots. Eighties was a little bit

1387
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 7: after that. Wat's been going through this continuous cycle of

1388
01:19:20,120 --> 01:19:28,240
Speaker 7: just oppression, right, systemic like purposely planted things. Right, there

1389
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:33,880
Speaker 7: was a big train wreck and watch fucking the carts

1390
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:39,400
Speaker 7: popped open for days. No one came and did anything.

1391
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:42,760
Speaker 7: So now the people in the hood go up to

1392
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:46,040
Speaker 7: these carts like damn it, shit, nobody came here for days.

1393
01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:56,640
Speaker 7: They opened these chests, guns, couches and drugs. This is

1394
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:57,519
Speaker 7: how they got guns.

1395
01:19:57,560 --> 01:19:58,160
Speaker 4: That's crazy.

1396
01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:01,599
Speaker 7: This is a true story in the eighties, like the eighties,

1397
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 7: it's crazy. This is a true story. This is the

1398
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:07,639
Speaker 7: height of when the crack crack erar.

1399
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, bro, how we gonna get in there. Oh, we'll

1400
01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:10,799
Speaker 4: do a train.

1401
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:15,280
Speaker 7: Right because we got the train tracks there, so let's

1402
01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 7: send a train down there.

1403
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:17,280
Speaker 4: Fuck it up.

1404
01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:21,559
Speaker 7: And number firearms and drugs was heavy and it Reagan area,

1405
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:22,920
Speaker 7: so we know what's going on.

1406
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 4: I ran Contra.

1407
01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 7: This is how they got guns and.

1408
01:20:27,120 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 4: North I ran Contra. I ran Contra band that he's sponsored.

1409
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 7: Man, don't do that right now. I'm gonna give me off.

1410
01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:40,559
Speaker 7: So wats has been going through this because they need

1411
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 7: to oppress our people and keep us here. Remember at

1412
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:45,559
Speaker 7: a point in time, because of this covenant, white people

1413
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:47,559
Speaker 7: wasn't I mean, black people wasn't even allowed to go

1414
01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 7: out of Watts. The police will pull you over and

1415
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:52,599
Speaker 7: beat the ship out of you. Like my dad told

1416
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:55,280
Speaker 7: me this, this story. It's like this was real. My

1417
01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:57,439
Speaker 7: mom is like my mom in her seventies, like she

1418
01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 7: noticed too. That's why my mom had never been outside

1419
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,960
Speaker 7: of Wats unconsciously, not until I started to see life

1420
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:07,559
Speaker 7: and pull her out, and she like never left Watts

1421
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:09,360
Speaker 7: had never seen the four or five or the one

1422
01:21:09,400 --> 01:21:14,720
Speaker 7: on one freeway because of the old press, like not

1423
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:15,559
Speaker 7: even knowing that.

1424
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 3: This is it's like the Truman Show. Truman Show. Yeah,

1425
01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:21,280
Speaker 3: they say, like most people stay within a four mile

1426
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:23,840
Speaker 3: radius of winning, and it's like some people never even

1427
01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:27,960
Speaker 3: leave their neighborhood literally, and it's like not by physical boundaries,

1428
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:30,840
Speaker 3: but they create mental boundaries to just keep you in

1429
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:34,800
Speaker 3: and then geographic boundaries like a highway or one hundred

1430
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 3: you know, I'm saying something like that. So it's like

1431
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:38,479
Speaker 3: you got a lot of neighborhoods where people literally just

1432
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:39,720
Speaker 3: stay in their neighborhood.

1433
01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:42,519
Speaker 7: Absolutely so with Watts, right, and I'm gonna get to

1434
01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 7: the point with Watts, through history, it has been over

1435
01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:50,360
Speaker 7: and over again oppression. So right now, obviously you're gonna

1436
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:54,320
Speaker 7: see some traumatic episodes that people get murdered. You know,

1437
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:58,680
Speaker 7: like anyhood, you know, a lot of crime, not a

1438
01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:03,720
Speaker 7: lot of resources, not a lot of fucking shout out

1439
01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:13,000
Speaker 7: to principal ra call them not a lot of opportunities, right. However,

1440
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 7: there is a I'm gonna ask some more stats too.

1441
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:23,320
Speaker 7: It's important to know watts water system is messed up too,

1442
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:26,400
Speaker 7: the air quality is messed up. This is all designed.

1443
01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:30,439
Speaker 7: You lose twelve years. La County did a study and

1444
01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 7: you can look at it. Anybody can look it up

1445
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:34,599
Speaker 7: when they watch this, that you lose twelve years of

1446
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 7: life living in Watts compared to like Beverly Hills or

1447
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 7: other areas because of the water. It's nuts. They're trying

1448
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:44,840
Speaker 7: to kill us any way they can down in these communities.

1449
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:50,840
Speaker 7: So this is one stat So, however, think about what

1450
01:22:50,880 --> 01:22:55,559
Speaker 7: Watts has produced. It is known that Watts has produced

1451
01:22:55,600 --> 01:23:00,599
Speaker 7: more iconic figures or impactful figures throughout time in any

1452
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 7: other place in the world. I'm not just saying this.

1453
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:06,719
Speaker 7: I'm not even gassing. This is a real true statement.

1454
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:10,800
Speaker 7: The only thing closest to Watts about figures that it

1455
01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:15,240
Speaker 7: is produced is Egypt. It's a real study.

1456
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:16,759
Speaker 4: Bro to who the people.

1457
01:23:18,439 --> 01:23:22,439
Speaker 7: People that we know, Tyrese, you know, uh, top dog,

1458
01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:26,479
Speaker 7: these are people we know today. But Charles Mingus, jazz

1459
01:23:26,560 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 7: musician Florence Griffith Joyr Olympic gold Medalist, Charles Right, one

1460
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:37,280
Speaker 7: hundred third Street Band, The Whispers, Edda James like, uh uh,

1461
01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 7: shoot man, there's so many more sticks sticks razy the President.

1462
01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:51,040
Speaker 7: You might have heard them the rule of shake sticks.

1463
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:57,320
Speaker 7: So without just going on and on about it. But

1464
01:23:57,520 --> 01:24:01,920
Speaker 7: and then history, you know watch Rebellion, different things like that. Uh,

1465
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:05,439
Speaker 7: the Second Migration, you know everything that came out of

1466
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 7: Watts that moved outwards. Everybody, everything started there and then

1467
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:11,799
Speaker 7: moved outwards to the west side, to Compton, to started

1468
01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:15,760
Speaker 7: in watch first. So there's studies in history that proves

1469
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:22,520
Speaker 7: all of these points. There are iconic landmarks like watch towers.

1470
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:24,280
Speaker 4: Right, that's the project, right.

1471
01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:28,720
Speaker 7: It's a it was built by Simon rodea Italian guy.

1472
01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:35,160
Speaker 7: It's literally a monument. Yeah, it's like tower. Yeah, it's

1473
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:38,679
Speaker 7: a rendition of the watchtower. But it's really like a

1474
01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 7: hood light bulb that represents power and it represents an idea. Right,

1475
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 7: so so you got to watch. You got the Mafundi Building.

1476
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:55,120
Speaker 7: So the Mafundi Building is home of the WATS Writers Workshop,

1477
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 7: which was developed after the Wats riots, a place where

1478
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:03,720
Speaker 7: individuals from the community come get right, like poetry, learn

1479
01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:07,800
Speaker 7: how to script, write music, record music. It was home

1480
01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:12,160
Speaker 7: of father I'm d and the Wats Prophets. I'm gonna

1481
01:25:12,160 --> 01:25:17,680
Speaker 7: start some controversy with this. Watch Profits are the creators

1482
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:23,559
Speaker 7: of rap music, not hip hop rap. Watch prophets because

1483
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:27,760
Speaker 7: remember there's the Last Poet. I know it's hard, I

1484
01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:29,960
Speaker 7: know it's hard. Last I'm not talking about hip hop.

1485
01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:34,599
Speaker 7: I'm not talking about it's different, totally different things.

1486
01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 3: Like the Last Poets poetry poetry that's rap.

1487
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:41,879
Speaker 7: So last Poets used to rock with the Watch Profits.

1488
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:46,080
Speaker 7: Rap was created by the Watch prophets, the first ones

1489
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:49,599
Speaker 7: to do it. Then obviously the last Poets they'll probably

1490
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 7: tell you straight up, so last Poets. Obviously East Coast

1491
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:59,200
Speaker 7: held that down. Watch Prophets was all West Coast just split.

1492
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 7: It's only two half now at this point. But Washed

1493
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:08,240
Speaker 7: Profits where the creators of rap, so and what they

1494
01:26:08,439 --> 01:26:12,040
Speaker 7: there's a book that's about to come out like Ebonics.

1495
01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:14,959
Speaker 7: They were a part of creating ebonics.

1496
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,240
Speaker 4: If somebody gave me a history lesson of a day

1497
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 4: on that I mentioned it during the forties interview.

1498
01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:24,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, West Coast somebody that came from Wash Profits. So

1499
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:27,880
Speaker 7: like I'm saying it's impactful things that we all have

1500
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 7: adopted throughout time that all started and watched. This is

1501
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:35,400
Speaker 7: at the Mafundi building. This is in Watts right, the

1502
01:26:35,479 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 7: train station that they're trying to sell to this creedy

1503
01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:41,920
Speaker 7: white dude that we're trying to fight for to get back.

1504
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 7: This is where people came in at black people from slavery.

1505
01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 7: This train station they're trying to sell it to. It

1506
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:51,400
Speaker 7: shouldn't be sold to.

1507
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:53,360
Speaker 4: A historical historical landmark.

1508
01:26:53,479 --> 01:26:55,679
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what I mean. So it's stuff like that.

1509
01:26:57,280 --> 01:27:00,080
Speaker 7: There's so many other things going on and watched. So

1510
01:27:00,160 --> 01:27:03,360
Speaker 7: I say all that to say, watch is headed. There

1511
01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:06,320
Speaker 7: is gentrification. But you can look at gentrification two ways

1512
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:13,679
Speaker 7: negative positive. If we owned our own block, gingentrification wouldn't

1513
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:18,040
Speaker 7: affect us. But we have to get the education right here.

1514
01:27:18,080 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 7: And here's where we start that. Number one, what's the

1515
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 7: first thing we do? We get money?

1516
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 4: Right?

1517
01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:26,720
Speaker 7: You say, I'm getting up out the hood, go buy

1518
01:27:26,760 --> 01:27:31,639
Speaker 7: me a house. Why I don't think that's smart when

1519
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 7: you think about it. How do schools get money? Property taxes?

1520
01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:44,160
Speaker 7: You get rich you from the hood, why not just

1521
01:27:44,200 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 7: build your house up, increase the value? Property taxes? Now

1522
01:27:49,439 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 7: you're putting money back into the schools. That's in your

1523
01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:55,880
Speaker 7: hood right to get more resources. But you need enough

1524
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 7: people to do that right to make a When you

1525
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:02,680
Speaker 7: move out of the hood, you're paying property taxes for

1526
01:28:02,760 --> 01:28:06,919
Speaker 7: little Jimmy. That ain't got nothing to do with educating

1527
01:28:06,920 --> 01:28:10,080
Speaker 7: people that look like you. Not only that, you paying

1528
01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 7: the rent for the police that's harassing you in these communities.

1529
01:28:14,800 --> 01:28:17,639
Speaker 7: You're paying the taxes you're paying is for that police

1530
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:21,840
Speaker 7: department in that city, So that means you're paying police

1531
01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:26,800
Speaker 7: to harass you. So we move out of the hood

1532
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:29,799
Speaker 7: with the concept of getting a better life, but really

1533
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 7: you're actually a part of the system. That's I think

1534
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:35,920
Speaker 7: that narrative was created.

1535
01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 4: That's what Jason said, by your own neighborhood. But before

1536
01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:40,519
Speaker 4: them people do it claim imminent domain and how your

1537
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:45,720
Speaker 4: people move in converse of what we was doing. That's

1538
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:46,439
Speaker 4: the Nipsey joint.

1539
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:53,439
Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, look, so why not we can reverse

1540
01:28:53,479 --> 01:28:57,080
Speaker 7: that psychle by Okay, I get bread. Fuck, I'm gonna

1541
01:28:57,080 --> 01:28:59,599
Speaker 7: buy the house down here, buy the house down here,

1542
01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:04,240
Speaker 7: build it up and go back. And the fact I'm

1543
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 7: going to buy this property over here, flip it turned

1544
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:10,639
Speaker 7: into a cloud kitchen or whatever. You know what I'm saying,

1545
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:13,559
Speaker 7: hire the people in the hood. That's economic development. Now

1546
01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:16,679
Speaker 7: they're spending money in their own neighborhood. They're making money,

1547
01:29:16,680 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 7: bringing it back, paying property taxes. Now is going to

1548
01:29:19,120 --> 01:29:21,559
Speaker 7: the schools. The schools start to build. Now our voice

1549
01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:24,200
Speaker 7: becomes stronger, like we need financial literacy in this school.

1550
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 7: We need this at this school. We need these type

1551
01:29:27,360 --> 01:29:30,240
Speaker 7: of teachers at this school. Need the teachers to look

1552
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:33,280
Speaker 7: like this, talk like this, feel like this, act like

1553
01:29:33,320 --> 01:29:37,559
Speaker 7: this at these schools. That's how you do it. But

1554
01:29:37,600 --> 01:29:41,080
Speaker 7: it's been so many years of the cycle broken down

1555
01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:44,200
Speaker 7: to where it's hard for us to figure that out.

1556
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:47,240
Speaker 7: But we got to break up all of these narratives

1557
01:29:47,280 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 7: like move out the hood when you get it. Yeah,

1558
01:29:49,120 --> 01:29:51,000
Speaker 7: you can get you a crib out the hood, just

1559
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:54,280
Speaker 7: to have one, but don't leave the hood where you're

1560
01:29:54,280 --> 01:29:56,840
Speaker 7: not putting any money back. The easiest way to put

1561
01:29:56,840 --> 01:29:58,599
Speaker 7: money back in the hood is just pay the property

1562
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:04,040
Speaker 7: taxes because now you focus. Now got education, Now you

1563
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:08,120
Speaker 7: got resources. Now the state in the city, they gotta

1564
01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:10,360
Speaker 7: send money and shit like that because of the amount

1565
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:13,840
Speaker 7: of money of the people that's in the neighborhood. You

1566
01:30:13,880 --> 01:30:19,880
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, so WATTS is I digress, WATS

1567
01:30:20,280 --> 01:30:24,320
Speaker 7: is now moving towards with people like me and like

1568
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:28,280
Speaker 7: the tops and stuff like that positive gentrification, Right, we

1569
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:30,799
Speaker 7: can't get it in a way of what's already setting stone,

1570
01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:34,559
Speaker 7: like these huge organizations and bought property and bought the

1571
01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:38,519
Speaker 7: housing projects and returning them into townhomes and condos, and

1572
01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:41,120
Speaker 7: like there's nothing we can do about that. But we

1573
01:30:41,160 --> 01:30:43,720
Speaker 7: can do about was what we already own. And these

1574
01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:46,120
Speaker 7: new developers that come in and buy up this land,

1575
01:30:46,160 --> 01:30:48,960
Speaker 7: that open up retail plazas to partner with them the

1576
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:52,880
Speaker 7: community organization agreements. Okay, my duties are. I'm gonna do

1577
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:54,840
Speaker 7: these food drives and do all of this thing and

1578
01:30:54,840 --> 01:30:57,439
Speaker 7: bring a positive influence to the community, to your plaza

1579
01:30:57,640 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 7: and make sure they don't fuck this shit up. But

1580
01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:03,120
Speaker 7: for that, you're gonna give me ten percent equity in

1581
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:06,640
Speaker 7: this plaza, in this development. You need me because I

1582
01:31:06,680 --> 01:31:08,760
Speaker 7: have the people who are going to patronize. They're gonna

1583
01:31:08,800 --> 01:31:12,360
Speaker 7: spend money here, so you need me. That's what we

1584
01:31:12,439 --> 01:31:14,920
Speaker 7: got to do with these companies, these developers that come

1585
01:31:14,960 --> 01:31:18,519
Speaker 7: into our neighborhoods set up malls and shopping little centers

1586
01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:21,280
Speaker 7: and these are the deals we should be doing as

1587
01:31:21,280 --> 01:31:24,120
Speaker 7: a group or as an individual. Come to them and

1588
01:31:24,160 --> 01:31:28,640
Speaker 7: say this is what you need. You know, that's what

1589
01:31:28,680 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 7: we're working on. I'm building something called the Watch thirty

1590
01:31:30,960 --> 01:31:33,280
Speaker 7: thirty vision. I'm trying to turn Watch into the Black

1591
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:39,080
Speaker 7: Silicon Valley. So we're gonna be developing tech and we're

1592
01:31:39,280 --> 01:31:42,759
Speaker 7: installing these water filteration systems in the hood to address

1593
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:46,360
Speaker 7: the piping the bad water. A partner with James Smith

1594
01:31:46,400 --> 01:31:49,680
Speaker 7: in five oh one C three is not a nonprofit organization,

1595
01:31:50,240 --> 01:31:52,760
Speaker 7: shout out Omar and Drew Fitzgerald.

1596
01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:53,719
Speaker 4: Is that that Aqua Equity campaign.

1597
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:56,400
Speaker 7: So Aqua Equity is our own piece of that. Go

1598
01:31:56,400 --> 01:31:57,639
Speaker 7: buy some oco equity right now.

1599
01:31:57,680 --> 01:31:58,400
Speaker 2: In the case.

1600
01:32:00,080 --> 01:32:04,240
Speaker 7: So aquae equity illuminum can environmentally safe, the whole nine

1601
01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:07,880
Speaker 7: we like, very environmentally conscious. The whole story behind the

1602
01:32:07,920 --> 01:32:10,640
Speaker 7: founders and the people. It's all black, you know what

1603
01:32:10,680 --> 01:32:14,160
Speaker 7: I mean. And I just want people digging a little

1604
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 7: equa equitywater dot com go check it out. So five o'

1605
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:21,719
Speaker 7: one C three and James Smith and myself came together

1606
01:32:21,880 --> 01:32:25,040
Speaker 7: to address They first started in Flint. They addressed to

1607
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:29,439
Speaker 7: Flint crisis. Building these filteration systems right because the water's

1608
01:32:29,439 --> 01:32:32,759
Speaker 7: fucked up. What this filteration system does is it removes

1609
01:32:32,840 --> 01:32:36,240
Speaker 7: all the lead, impurities and toxins out of the water

1610
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:39,040
Speaker 7: and filters it in terms of the fresh drinking water

1611
01:32:39,200 --> 01:32:43,360
Speaker 7: whatever you want to use it for pure fresh from

1612
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:47,000
Speaker 7: the system that was created. Shout out Jaron who created

1613
01:32:47,040 --> 01:32:51,840
Speaker 7: the system. And the goal is to install ten of

1614
01:32:51,880 --> 01:32:53,840
Speaker 7: them in wats. We've already done two, we're working on

1615
01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:56,360
Speaker 7: a third probably in the next week or two. And

1616
01:32:56,560 --> 01:33:00,720
Speaker 7: basically we're addressing this water crisis and watch. So we've

1617
01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:04,679
Speaker 7: been installing them all throughout the hood and that's an

1618
01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:10,280
Speaker 7: it's huge deal, man, big deal. And so we're doing

1619
01:33:10,320 --> 01:33:13,519
Speaker 7: things like that right So we're building systems like that.

1620
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:18,479
Speaker 7: The next thing we're building is these machines that could

1621
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:22,400
Speaker 7: pull CO two from the air and recycled, refurbish it

1622
01:33:22,479 --> 01:33:26,800
Speaker 7: or whatever and push out air quality fresh oxygen. So

1623
01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:30,080
Speaker 7: we're gonna be installing these little sensor things all over

1624
01:33:30,120 --> 01:33:35,600
Speaker 7: the city to where it's producing good air quality in

1625
01:33:35,640 --> 01:33:39,320
Speaker 7: the hood. Like we're working on that technology right now.

1626
01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:43,479
Speaker 7: Like we're in the n FT space right we're doing

1627
01:33:43,520 --> 01:33:50,000
Speaker 7: coding classes, we're doing that starting the new financial literacy

1628
01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:57,200
Speaker 7: debit education thing called think pockets, right, debit card allowances,

1629
01:33:57,280 --> 01:34:02,360
Speaker 7: teach them about money. You know, they can invest. Kids

1630
01:34:02,360 --> 01:34:03,840
Speaker 7: in the hood can get their own little debit card,

1631
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:06,439
Speaker 7: invest and donate the charities, different things like that. Right,

1632
01:34:06,800 --> 01:34:09,400
Speaker 7: we're building all of that and Watts everything. We got

1633
01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:12,519
Speaker 7: the program the sports programming. We got to produce your

1634
01:34:12,520 --> 01:34:14,960
Speaker 7: own clothes. I remember the episode y'all talking about y'all

1635
01:34:15,080 --> 01:34:19,120
Speaker 7: using print full and all, like, we're gonna we're building

1636
01:34:19,160 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 7: that in Watts. We got all the equipment. We got

1637
01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:25,759
Speaker 7: everything there already. Right now as we speak, the equipment

1638
01:34:25,840 --> 01:34:29,519
Speaker 7: is there. So now it's just setting it up. And

1639
01:34:29,600 --> 01:34:31,719
Speaker 7: so that's why I'm like, we're gonna be developing technology

1640
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:32,160
Speaker 7: and everything.

1641
01:34:32,520 --> 01:34:34,320
Speaker 4: But we were playing when we said you're the president.

1642
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:35,280
Speaker 4: We're not playing.

1643
01:34:35,600 --> 01:34:38,640
Speaker 7: This is real deal, y'all check it.

1644
01:34:38,640 --> 01:34:39,400
Speaker 4: We're not playing with.

1645
01:34:39,400 --> 01:34:44,080
Speaker 7: The president sitting with the other rulers, y'all talking that shit.

1646
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:50,040
Speaker 4: Man, a small council meeting, that's a fact. Stakes.

1647
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:52,439
Speaker 3: I appreciate you, man, Thank you.

1648
01:34:52,479 --> 01:34:52,679
Speaker 7: Man.

1649
01:34:52,840 --> 01:34:55,400
Speaker 3: Boys you like to leave the people with all your

1650
01:34:55,439 --> 01:34:59,000
Speaker 3: contact information, social media initiatives.

1651
01:34:58,360 --> 01:34:58,720
Speaker 4: All of that.

1652
01:34:59,200 --> 01:35:04,040
Speaker 7: Man. Uh, thinkwatch dot com, think Watschfoundation, dot org. If

1653
01:35:04,040 --> 01:35:06,719
Speaker 7: you want to donate, show some love to the foundation

1654
01:35:06,880 --> 01:35:12,479
Speaker 7: side at watch sticks on everything, Instagram, Twitter, I talk

1655
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:17,040
Speaker 7: a lot of ship on Twitter. You want to talk sports,

1656
01:35:17,439 --> 01:35:21,240
Speaker 7: you want to talk anything. Clippers winning the finals this year,

1657
01:35:24,320 --> 01:35:28,400
Speaker 7: not winning in New York either, I just want to

1658
01:35:29,080 --> 01:35:33,120
Speaker 7: right now. No, uh, shout outs KD. He rocked with

1659
01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:36,800
Speaker 7: some of the homies from Watson. So so think wise,

1660
01:35:36,840 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 7: think watse Foundation man a man. Food drives financial literacy.

1661
01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:46,240
Speaker 7: That's what I'm about, new tech ventures. It's all open man.

1662
01:35:46,280 --> 01:35:49,639
Speaker 7: I just want the world to know, especially our people,

1663
01:35:50,479 --> 01:35:55,240
Speaker 7: that it's endless possibility out here. Man. And I know

1664
01:35:55,280 --> 01:35:57,799
Speaker 7: we up against a lot of oppression, a lot of trauma.

1665
01:35:58,760 --> 01:36:03,400
Speaker 7: But if just dream, just continue to dream and turn

1666
01:36:03,479 --> 01:36:06,960
Speaker 7: those dreams into a reality, take action. All it take

1667
01:36:07,080 --> 01:36:09,320
Speaker 7: is action, and you could change the world.

1668
01:36:09,920 --> 01:36:13,640
Speaker 3: That's it, ladies and gentlemen. Chroy house Keeping Eye Us.

1669
01:36:13,760 --> 01:36:16,040
Speaker 4: Shout to everybody on Patreon dot com. I prout to

1670
01:36:16,080 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 4: pay program. Obviously, I tear five members have access to

1671
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:22,439
Speaker 4: e y Ya University, the number one school for business

1672
01:36:22,560 --> 01:36:25,360
Speaker 4: and anything in the entrepreneurial world. So shout to order

1673
01:36:25,400 --> 01:36:27,160
Speaker 4: earners that have been a part of that. Shout everybody

1674
01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:29,759
Speaker 4: that spends the point in the merch earned the season.

1675
01:36:30,240 --> 01:36:34,320
Speaker 4: Earning the season is here, and it's so shouting hell

1676
01:36:34,400 --> 01:36:37,479
Speaker 4: to y'all and the whole team. I've been in smitty

1677
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:40,120
Speaker 4: out there holding it down for us, and yeah, man,

1678
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:40,760
Speaker 4: love is love.

1679
01:36:40,800 --> 01:36:43,120
Speaker 3: You know that shouts to everybody and a man. You know,

1680
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:45,160
Speaker 3: I thoroughly enjoyed it every time I come out here.

1681
01:36:45,280 --> 01:36:48,720
Speaker 3: Definitely gonna move out here, man, it's a man.

1682
01:36:48,840 --> 01:36:52,840
Speaker 7: Come many'll y'all belong here. Enough time in New York,

1683
01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:54,479
Speaker 7: I ain't gonna front. I was in New York for

1684
01:36:54,520 --> 01:36:58,240
Speaker 7: a second when it was Clinton Hill. Okay, now it's

1685
01:36:58,280 --> 01:37:02,759
Speaker 7: what Williams bird. Yeah, that's just different Brooklyn.

1686
01:37:04,840 --> 01:37:05,680
Speaker 4: That's a fact, man.

1687
01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:07,679
Speaker 3: But yeah, shout out to everybody and all the neighbor

1688
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:10,000
Speaker 3: but everybody always show us love. He was in Crenshaw,

1689
01:37:10,120 --> 01:37:11,720
Speaker 3: went to Simply Hot.

1690
01:37:12,560 --> 01:37:16,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, man, the cabbage Joints.

1691
01:37:16,240 --> 01:37:19,880
Speaker 3: Simple and a bunch of guys like Yo, Lee, I

1692
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:24,439
Speaker 3: rock with you, so yeah, we're coming to watch.

1693
01:37:24,479 --> 01:37:25,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're coming to watch.

1694
01:37:25,240 --> 01:37:27,760
Speaker 7: That's what it's gonna love you. I mean, you know

1695
01:37:27,840 --> 01:37:29,400
Speaker 7: you might see a couple of straight dogs.

1696
01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:36,559
Speaker 3: H's so good, bro. Thank you guys for rocking with us.

1697
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:37,400
Speaker 3: We'll see you next week.

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