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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Colen Witt, and today we have very

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Speaker 1: special guests in the building, recording artists actor. Most of

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Speaker 1: us all know you from your multi platinum selling group

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Speaker 1: B two K. Yes, ma'am, it is an honor to

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Speaker 1: have you here today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate you having me.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what you're gonna have me eating today.

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Speaker 2: All right, so today we're gonna take the famous Freedo

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Speaker 2: Lai bag, Fredo's original corn chips, and we're gonna pop

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Speaker 2: in a pot some hornmale chili. Okay, We're gonna heat

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Speaker 2: that joint up, and then we're gonna melt some cheese

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Speaker 2: in there and we're gonna pour it into the Friedo bag.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna mix it up, and we're gonna have chili

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Speaker 2: cheese fritos.

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Speaker 1: This sounds really dope. I've never ever had this, So

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Speaker 1: I was you heard me. I was really excited. I

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Speaker 1: was like, wait, what, Yeah, that's what we're gonna go with.

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Speaker 1: This sounds like something you'd eat like after school.

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Speaker 2: Yo. So the way this came about was I used

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Speaker 2: to me and my friends after school, we would always

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Speaker 2: go to West Chuster Park so and just playball. It

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Speaker 2: was an open gym there, so of course, you know,

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Speaker 2: we didn't have no money. As kids, we have like

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Speaker 2: some change in our pocket. And the ice cream trunk

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Speaker 2: used to pull up and he would have these small

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Speaker 2: bags of free thos and chili and cheese that he made.

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Speaker 2: He would just dump a little bit in there and

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Speaker 2: give us a plastic spoon. We mix it up like

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Speaker 2: not your us.

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Speaker 1: Oh so that's how okay, okay, I didn't even know that.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if all the ice cream trugs so that

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Speaker 1: I feel like in La that happens. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: know about New.

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Speaker 2: York, but then you know, it transferred over to us.

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Speaker 2: Leaving middle school to high school and stopping at seven eleven,

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Speaker 2: getting the bag of Friedo's, opening it in the store

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Speaker 2: and then hitting it with the chili and cheese instead

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Speaker 2: of doing nacho chips, because then you get more chips

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Speaker 2: in the bag, you know, so then you could get fancy.

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Speaker 1: You're like kind of big too, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You could get fancy after seven elevens through some jalapenos

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Speaker 2: on there too, you know what I'm saying. And then

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Speaker 2: they just charged you like a dollar for the Chilian cheese.

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Speaker 1: Oh really, okay, I thought you guys were like kind

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Speaker 1: of sneaking it.

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Speaker 2: I mean yeah, it was the initial thing, you know.

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Speaker 1: Then they were like, no, kids, you're gonna pay a dollar. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and whip up this chili.

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Speaker 2: Start.

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Speaker 1: What do you call this, Freddy Freedom?

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Speaker 2: My name is the Freedo Bang.

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Speaker 1: The Freedo Bang.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, because you whip Freedo up with little shebang,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So it's the Freedo Bang. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Teachers.

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Speaker 2: Teachers were gonna pop open this can of chili right now.

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Speaker 1: You don't add any seasoning or anything.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you really want to get fancy like that.

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Speaker 2: But we're talking about being broke. So when you broke,

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Speaker 2: you ain't got no seasons, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: You gotta work with what you got.

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Speaker 1: How'd you find the can of chili? How'd you get

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Speaker 1: onto that?

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Speaker 2: Well, it was down the street from my house. I

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Speaker 2: stayed on Slosson and uh it was a grocery store

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Speaker 2: down the street called the Bootle Market. It's still there

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Speaker 2: in the Booto Market. This was the chili they gave us.

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Speaker 2: You know what, I'm saying, this is our options chili.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a little bit of this water.

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Speaker 1: And you're fron You're an l A native, right, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well I was born in New Orleans, so

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Speaker 2: I got got creole winding. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I could really throw down. We was really cooking, and

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Speaker 2: we wasn't no no broke. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I can make some real real fire up in here.

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Speaker 1: But so if you didn't have to cook a broke

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Speaker 1: this what dish could I expect from a good Like

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Speaker 1: if you were trying to impress me, like, what would

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Speaker 1: you do to what meal would you cook for me?

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Speaker 2: Well? First I would ask do you are.

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Speaker 1: You allergic to anything?

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Speaker 2: Nothing? Okay? Do you like spicy food?

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Speaker 1: Not really?

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Speaker 2: Not really okay? So I would probably bless you with like.

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Speaker 1: Some bless you are you in the kitchen?

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Speaker 2: Okay? I would bless you with some chicken and shrimp

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Speaker 2: pasta jumbalie.

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Speaker 1: How long would that take you to cook?

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Speaker 2: I'm quick, so I probably fixed that up in like

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Speaker 2: an hour.

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Speaker 1: No way, damn. We should have had a special addition

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Speaker 1: for you. So take me back to what was going

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Speaker 1: on during this era, like take me all the way

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Speaker 1: there so I could be there with you during this

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Speaker 1: broke here in middle school? High school? What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Say mostly middle school? High school is early be two

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Speaker 2: k you know, so I was on the road at

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Speaker 2: that time. But high middle school, you know, I would

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Speaker 2: catch the bus home. Like I said, I stayed right

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Speaker 2: there off Slusson in like over heal, so right there.

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Speaker 2: I mean we used to have Ye's Cafe, I mean

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Speaker 2: Ye's Chinese restaurant. We had Sachi's karaoke, Tariokey chicken bowls,

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Speaker 2: we had another little Mexican restaurant right there.

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Speaker 1: But you know, what was your home life was like?

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Speaker 1: Was it like a single mom? Two parents house, single mom?

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Speaker 1: And then what did your mom do she like as

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Speaker 1: far as work and how did she support y'all?

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Speaker 2: She canceled counseled at a junior college West Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: community House. She's a counselor up there. Well she was.

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Speaker 2: She retired. But man, I got so many kids that

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Speaker 2: used to see me and would be like, yo, your

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Speaker 2: little fizz, And I'm like, yeah, they will be like, man,

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Speaker 2: I know your mom, Like he helped me through school.

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Speaker 2: Tell miss Frederick, I said, thank you like, Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: I used to be like, man, my mom's more famous

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Speaker 2: in the hood than me, because literally, like everybody that

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Speaker 2: knew me knew my mom. Everybody was going to that school.

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Speaker 2: See what was bubbling warm? Okay, that's like you know,

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Speaker 2: what's heating up? See that little smoke coming off of it.

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Speaker 1: So the kids in school they would call you a

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Speaker 1: little fits. So your name was little Fitz.

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Speaker 2: Before I got the name in the group.

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Speaker 1: But you're saying, after you was superstar B two K,

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Speaker 1: they were still coming up to you about your mom. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Still to this day, I'll see people like, man,

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Speaker 2: your mom helped me through school. Man, if it wasn't

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Speaker 2: for her, I wouldn't have went to this school and

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Speaker 2: started working here. Yeah, she put a lot of.

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Speaker 1: People on like, so she was like very inspiring.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she was a counselor. Then she became head of

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Speaker 2: a transfer center, so she started helping kids figure out,

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Speaker 2: you know, all the credits and everything they needed to

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Speaker 2: get to their desire university.

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Speaker 1: Wow. And then did you have sip? It was just

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Speaker 1: you my older sister. Okay, So did you guys grow

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Speaker 1: up with her busy busy? Because a lot of single moms.

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Speaker 1: I'm hearing that like barely.

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Speaker 2: My older sister, she's seven years older, so she played

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Speaker 2: a big role in my life most of the time.

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Speaker 2: I can remember in elementary school my mom was working

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Speaker 2: graen yard shift for some computer computer company, and uh,

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Speaker 2: it would be me and my sister. I would come home.

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Speaker 2: Times have changed, man, I would come home from the

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Speaker 2: bus in the second grade by myself wow, and do stuff.

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Speaker 1: Like this really, Like, so you learned learn how to

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Speaker 1: cook like simple meals early, yeah, super early, second grade ten?

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Speaker 2: How old is it was making all of that super early?

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Speaker 2: But like I said, my family was from New Orleans,

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Speaker 2: so I had an uncle who showed me how to

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Speaker 2: chop up green onions. Take some uh some hot sausage

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Speaker 2: cut up, put some a couple of empowdered garlic powder,

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Speaker 2: some garlic clothes. Cut those up and put it in

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Speaker 2: the in the noodles, and that'd be tasting like a

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Speaker 2: whole different. It ain't regular top raman. You know.

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Speaker 1: That's how you did your raman.

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Speaker 2: What crack, what fire man?

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Speaker 1: We should have had you a damn You could do

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Speaker 1: your own eating while broke special So you started with

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Speaker 1: B two K kind of early So take me through, Like,

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Speaker 1: I guess how that transition happened from being raising a

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Speaker 1: single mom, you know, household with an older sibling that's

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Speaker 1: seven years older to you, kind of getting signed right

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Speaker 1: out of high school or I'm guessing during high school.

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Speaker 2: In high school during our ninth grade year actually ninth grade?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what were you doing as a kid?

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Speaker 2: I didn't finish the full ninth grade year. I checked

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Speaker 2: out and started doing independent studies.

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Speaker 1: So what were you doing that led to a record

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Speaker 1: deal on the ninth grade? I have to know what

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Speaker 1: you were doing when your mom wasn't watching you.

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Speaker 3: Well, we were being rehearsal a lot, you know, as

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Speaker 3: a group, we were together in studio sessions, rehearsals mostly

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Speaker 3: mostly rehearsal and.

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Speaker 2: Performing for different labels.

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Speaker 1: So while you were a little kid, though, but who

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Speaker 1: was helping you guide you when you're a little kid,

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Speaker 1: Like obviously you didn't Just like how I need to

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Speaker 1: know how this group came together because I'm so lost.

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Speaker 1: You were so young?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was young. I was eight years old when

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Speaker 2: I joined the group.

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Speaker 1: Was it like you and your friends?

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Speaker 2: It was me actually, uh, friend of mine still to

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Speaker 2: this day, Jane Aiko's older brother, his name Jahi. He

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Speaker 2: was in the group. It was me and him were

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Speaker 2: more of the original like first two. We went through

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Speaker 2: a lot of different members until it got to me, Jahi,

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Speaker 2: this other guy Trey, and Bull and Rats and that

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Speaker 2: group got split up because Sony wanted to sign us,

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Speaker 2: but they wanted to sign just us three with another

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Speaker 2: member and take the other two Jahi and Trey and

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Speaker 2: put them in another group, which became Final Four.

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Speaker 1: But how did you guys get in front of the

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Speaker 1: labels at that age?

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Speaker 2: We had management that was that had originally put the

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Speaker 2: group together, you know, was finding all the members. A

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Speaker 2: lady by the name Akisha Gamble and choreographer Dave Scott.

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Speaker 2: They found us in all different places. I was at

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Speaker 2: a Black HICs Black Expo downtown LA and my mom

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Speaker 2: took me down there as a kid, and there was

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Speaker 2: this group on stage and I was looking at him.

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Speaker 2: I was really into ABC Criss Cross at that and

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Speaker 2: they had on like the big jerseys and the baggy jeans,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, they looked tight. And then

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Speaker 2: we walked off and this lady came chasing behind my mom.

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Speaker 2: She's excuse me, your son is so adorable. What's his name?

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Speaker 2: She started talking to me and I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm Drew and she was like, do you sing a

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Speaker 2: rapp And I'm like, yeah, I rap and she's like,

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Speaker 2: oh okay, and my mom's looking like you rap? What's

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Speaker 2: going on? So she called my mom uh later on

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Speaker 2: group members' houses what happened to be Jahiaiko's older brother

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Speaker 2: and audition. I rapped and they liked it. They put

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Speaker 2: me in a group. I was hey, wow, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: Sure, Wow, you don't ever see it as a kid,

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Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, So this this this chili cheese ready ready?

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, and we'll let you all see that.

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Speaker 1: That looks really gooey and messy, and all right, here

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, let me get a little bit with you

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Speaker 1: Oh there we go, ready one the three. Listen, How

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Speaker 2: How I still don't? You can't do this every day? Now?

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Speaker 1: My age, no, no, but you know what the texture

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to put you all on man, this

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Speaker 1: I would be eating this every day, you feel me?

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Speaker 1: Fire you like daddy other year off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, you know, I got all the snacks.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, this is a great snack. This

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Speaker 1: is amazing. So now your your story is so unique

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Speaker 1: because you're young and you literally went to the Promised Land,

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Speaker 1: So like let's talk about the signing day and what

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Speaker 2: So in high school, ninth grade at the time, I

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Speaker 2: grade I was thirteen. I was super young. My schedule

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Speaker 2: to check out before then.

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Speaker 2: on the weekends because yeah, we were in school. We

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Speaker 2: None of us.

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Speaker 1: Now, did you tell your friends at school or your

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Speaker 2: When I came, I cause I went to Bishop Montgomery,

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to be real cool. I used to wear

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Speaker 2: Like you in this group. So they had a homecoming

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Speaker 2: remember that that was my highlight high school moment, Like yeah,

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Speaker 2: Shit, I would think it was when we first heard

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Speaker 2: What And because it was like, Yo, we're actually on

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Speaker 1: Okay, and then the song what was the song at

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Speaker 2: No, we're on the road with road management, but she's

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Speaker 2: calling you know, I'm making sure I do my parts.

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Speaker 2: My mom was before she got the counseling job, she

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Speaker 2: So I never got a break like to just say,

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Speaker 2: fuck it, I ain't doing homework today. What I'm saying

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Speaker 2: it was like, did you do your work? What is it?

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Speaker 2: Let me see it. So it was like, you know,

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Speaker 2: Well, we got our little advancement, which wasn't crazy. You know,

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Speaker 2: because we weren't eighteen, so I couldn't spend it like that.

438
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 2: And I think the first little money I had, I

439
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,439
Speaker 2: might have had like five grand to really touch and

440
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 2: I think I spent it all in the mall. In

441
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 2: like two weeks, it was gone, those shoes, just everything

442
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,200
Speaker 2: you wanted. You know. It was like I got money, Now, two.

443
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:42,680
Speaker 1: Weeks it was gone. Did your mom know you blewing?

444
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 1: In two weeks?

445
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 3: Oh?

446
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,160
Speaker 2: Nah? No, See, my mom gave me access to really

447
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 2: control my own money, the money I could touch, you know.

448
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: Oh, so she didn't touch it at all, she let it.

449
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. A lot of parents don't do that.

450
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 2: Nah. Nah. And sometimes I'd be like, I wish you

451
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 2: would have took all my fucking money.

452
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, Now when you handle your money,

453
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: do you handle it different?

454
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 2: Because especially because I have a kid, you know, I

455
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 2: always have to put something to the side for him.

456
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 2: So when you know, whenever he's eighteen or something happened,

457
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 2: you know, he's he's good.

458
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: He's so don't caring. Yeah, yeah, I know that. Like

459
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 1: now I feel way more parental responsibility after having a kid.

460
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, first of all, school tuition, priority over everything, okay,

461
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 1: number one thing, you know. And now I'm like, okay

462
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: for future, you know, generational wealth, house, whatever, you know. Trust.

463
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: But luckily with social media, now I feel like, even

464
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: if you're not really the genius at parenting, like social

465
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 1: media will have like a thirty second snippet on how

466
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: you should be operating, you know, right, how you should

467
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 1: be handling your house and your real estate and your

468
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 1: bank accounts for your kids. And if you say this,

469
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: you see those snippets online.

470
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, well all the time, all the time.

471
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 1: All right, So back to your story. So you you

472
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,479
Speaker 1: get your five thousand, that's your first taste of money

473
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: while being popular. Right, then what's the next monthslone? Like,

474
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: when do you do you blow up and actually have

475
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: money a lot of money at the same time.

476
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 2: No, because like we were still under eighteen. So, like

477
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 2: I said, majority, I know, my money was going into

478
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 2: a trust account, you know where I couldn't touch it

479
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 2: till I was eighteen. However, really your parents worked, it

480
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 2: was how you was you see your money. So I

481
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 2: was maybe seeing only ten percent of my money.

482
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: That I was getting good job, Mom, I was good.

483
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 2: I wasn't seeing a lot.

484
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: So but then what happened when you turned eighteen?

485
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 2: I ain't got my crib, pay my car off, the

486
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 2: responsible stuff I should do at eighteen, you know. But

487
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 2: then from there it was like figuring it all out

488
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 2: again because I wasn't doing the nine to five. I

489
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 2: did check back into school because Mom she was still

490
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 2: at the junior college. So I was like, I think

491
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 2: I was maybe like twenty four and I checked back

492
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 2: into school for like a year.

493
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 1: But where was B two K when you were twenty four,

494
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: like I was.

495
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 2: We were broken up before we turned eighteen. We broke up,

496
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 2: oh before you before I turned eighteen. Yeah, we broke

497
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 2: up when I was seventeen.

498
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: Really, but so when we was watching you on TV

499
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: and all that, you was a little kid.

500
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was from thirteen to seventeen.

501
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: What it's so weird because I think maybe because I

502
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 1: was younger, I felt like maybe you were older or something.

503
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 2: No, thirteen to seventeen, and then love and Hip Hop

504
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 2: came about twenty fourteen. By that time, I was going

505
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 2: on thirty.

506
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so you're in the so the band gets dismembered,

507
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: you go back to regular life. But is regular life

508
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 1: normal for someone that is a super star? Well no, yeah,

509
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: So tell me how that was that transition tough.

510
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 2: I would say not. I didn't. It wasn't tough for

511
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 2: me because I'm an introvert. I already don't like to

512
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 2: be out, so I'd rather stay in the house. So

513
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 2: I was just very secluded most of the time. It

514
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 2: wasn't until I had my son when I was twenty

515
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 2: four that I like started to step out again. And

516
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 2: you know, I have to play the parent roles. So

517
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 2: now I'm meeting other kids, parents and talking and being

518
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 2: more social and out. So that's what got me out

519
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 2: of like Michelle was having my son.

520
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: But when the band justmembered, did you say you're gonna

521
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,959
Speaker 1: stay in music or did you say we tried?

522
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 2: I tried, but it was just so much politics and

523
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: people that we were dealing with that keeping certain things

524
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 2: in place to where we couldn't really do much. So

525
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,239
Speaker 2: I tried to do what I could, but yeah, it

526
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 2: wasn't much.

527
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,120
Speaker 1: Did you end up trying to get a job or open, No.

528
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 2: I was never going to get a job.

529
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 1: That was never good.

530
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 2: I was not a Nope. I'm like, no, I'm fizzed.

531
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 2: I'm not getting no job. I'm gonna figure it out.

532
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: What did your mom say when you were saying that, She.

533
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 2: Just told me keep going. She pushed the dream.

534
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: You know, how did you survive? I guess from now

535
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: from that point, I mean before loving hip hop.

536
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 2: So before hip hop so eighteen to twenty four when

537
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 2: I was eighteen. Now you're about to get a breakthrough

538
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 2: story nobody ever really got. That's what I.

539
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: Help me, help me, help you help me, but help me, Yes,

540
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: tell me.

541
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 2: I did some. I did some smart things, you know,

542
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 2: win my money. But prior in those years, I started

543
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 2: a business. I had a cannabis dispensary. I had dispensaries,

544
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 2: uh that whole time and even past that time. Uh,

545
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: but yeah, that was my main source of income. I

546
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 2: had met a guy who really knew the business inside

547
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 2: and out, and we were neighbors, and I had a

548
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 2: little bit of money, and I was like, yo, I

549
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 2: smoked at the time, still do. And I was like, yo,

550
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 2: I want to start one of these, Like what like

551
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 2: what is this? And he started showing me the ropes

552
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 2: and everything. So we opened one together. It was just ye,

553
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 2: this was two thousand and six. I opened my first shop.

554
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 2: It was downtown to lay me and him. We had

555
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 2: that one for about a year and maybe two years,

556
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 2: and then opened another and another And you.

557
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: Guys were you guys? Was he a part black too?

558
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 2: Or was it was a Jewish guy?

559
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: Oh, Jewish guy. I was gonna say. Because the cannabis industry,

560
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: there's rumors on the street that it's notorious a little

561
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: bit slanted away from the blacks, like to get their

562
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: licensing and being able.

563
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 2: To know the stories that came in place, like you

564
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 2: have the it's a license that's available for people who

565
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 2: have been to jail for selling marijuana or traffic in marijuana.

566
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 2: Yeah that I forget what it's called. Man, it's been.

567
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: So long, but there is there is a system that

568
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: helps to get them, Okay. Yeah, because I remember thinking

569
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: at some point, like, man, you got to think of

570
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: how many people are doing this before it became legal.

571
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, all their experience and to my situations for sure,

572
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 2: because you know, I mean it came out in what

573
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 2: two thousand and twelve, one shop I have for like,

574
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 2: I had it for like three four years. It was

575
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 2: on Robertson. It was called Little Amsterdam. Sold it to

576
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 2: these other guys and they never took It's part of

577
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 2: my fault. I never got the least out of my name.

578
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 2: So when the city came down on them and raided

579
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 2: them and everything came back on me because the building

580
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 2: was in my name.

581
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: Oh wow.

582
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was all on TMZ and everything. Little

583
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 2: Fizz caught selling marijuana. I'm like Jesus Christy, Yeah, but yeah,

584
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 2: that was that was mainly what I was doing for.

585
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: So you were on and you were you weren't just

586
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: an investor like you were hands on yeah.

587
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. People will see me in the shops like, bro,

588
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 2: what you're doing in here? Yoh you the plug? I'm no, man,

589
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 2: it's a business. They didn't see it like that back then.

590
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 2: Like now you see it and you see it and

591
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 2: you respect it as a real business. You know. Back

592
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 2: then it was like everybody felt like I was just trapping.

593
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 2: But I'm like, man, I'm putting money into this, you

594
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like I went and got sellers,

595
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 2: promounced things with my name, wanting that let you know

596
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 2: I was really doing it, you know, aside from not

597
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 2: being able to have a business license per se. But

598
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 2: I was still trying to do it as legal as

599
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 2: I could. Yeah.

600
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: And is there a reason why the life expectancy on

601
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: those business was To me, they sound a little short

602
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: because it's like you said, one year or four.

603
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 2: Years, or because at that time it had no federal guidelines.

604
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 2: It was legal with state but not federally. So once

605
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 2: you got too big, like I remember when a shop

606
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 2: I had downtown got so big, I got a letter

607
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 2: from the US attorney telling me to close or they

608
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 2: were going to send the DA and in two weeks

609
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 2: to raise me.

610
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: What so I thought, But I thought it's still not

611
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: legal on a federal level because I heard that that's

612
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: why those shops can't have bank accounts.

613
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, so many loopholes in it. Now I'm out

614
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 2: of it.

615
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: Now, Okay, what made you end up closing up shop?

616
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: And then I have to know anytime an entrepreneur walks

617
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: away from a business or industry, you have to wonder,

618
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:02,479
Speaker 1: like what happened?

619
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: It was time and I think, you know, God put

620
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 2: certain things in place for me to see and say,

621
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 2: you know it's time to move on. You're not the

622
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 2: answer you're looking for.

623
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: No, I would say this. Okay, a lot of people

624
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: don't know this. I may have said it on the

625
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: show a couple of times, but other guests that have

626
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: participated in this activity. But during the pandemic, I was

627
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: like freaking out and my business. I have a corporate

628
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: events company, and my business it was a pandemic. It

629
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: got annihilated in minutes, like it was like end of

630
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: my business instantly. And so I saw a lot of

631
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: the people Weed was like selling like crazy. So I

632
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: invested in Weed and then it was like going good.

633
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: And then we took a little bit of a legal turn,

634
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: and then I was like oh that a legal urn

635
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: may not so I try to pull out and I

636
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: still ended up losing a lot of money. I lost

637
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: a crazy amount of money, but most of it was

638
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: the profit that I was profit. I was just like

639
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: kind of letting it set so I didn't personally lose

640
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: as much as I lost my games. But it was

641
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: going good. And then it took like I said, it

642
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 1: took a little legal, illegal turn and then I was like, uh,

643
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think and it ended up

644
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 1: not ending well. I ended up losing all my money.

645
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: So just so you know, I've played and I got

646
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: out and that was my lesson. And let me tell

647
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 1: you something. The other people didn't get out as soon

648
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: as me and I promised you they was done for

649
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: good after that. They was like, I'm never touching that

650
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: industry cause it's very there's rules, and then it's so

651
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 1: easy to like fracture it or whatever. It just gets

652
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: a little. Yeah. So that's why I was out. But

653
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: I was only in for like probably like a year.

654
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,399
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was quick, man.

655
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: I was nervous the whole time. And I was like investor,

656
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: way back here, way back here.

657
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 2: So imagine being hands on over ten years.

658
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you this. The stuff I was doing.

659
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: I can say this because nobody's ever gonna but some

660
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: of the stuff I was doing was a little illegal.

661
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: But during the pandemic, I would fly look over at

662
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: the cameras like do you want to say that? I

663
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: would fly money, not over over on the airplanes or whatever.

664
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: But now I you know, I travel. When I had

665
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,959
Speaker 1: a baby, I realized when you travel with breast milk,

666
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: they test everything. And I realized later like that was

667
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: very dangerous to fly with money, because you know weed,

668
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: money has like we smell.

669
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was during I promise that people don't know

670
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 4: me know that.

671
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, I'm getting on this plane and

672
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: I would you know, I would be nervous as hell.

673
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: But I never flew with like nothing crazy like one

674
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: hundred k, but it was it was still enough to

675
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: be like, you know. But then I had a baby

676
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: and I realized that I was an idiot because with

677
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: a baby, they like test your breastmoke. They're like all

678
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: like swabbing everything, swabbing the child. I'm like, yo, only

679
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: they knew like before the breast smoke, you know, and

680
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: if they would have done that, I would have, we

681
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: would not be sitting here right now. But yeah, no,

682
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: that's why I got out, just so you know, sideon

683
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:32,240
Speaker 1: all right, So anyways, you do this business, you exit

684
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 1: the last oh.

685
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 2: For the minorities and the people that do want to

686
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 2: try to get in. It's called social equity license. Oh

687
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 2: really yeah, social equity license. So if you look into it,

688
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 2: you can you know, I don't know if they're still

689
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 2: doing no more, if they're still available to apply for it,

690
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 2: but that's what it was.

691
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: So if you have like a beard to entry, you

692
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: can go there and they'll help you get the license.

693
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta go down to the city City Hall.

694
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: Social equity license. Thanks for remembering that. So after your

695
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: entrepreneurial thing is that when hip hop, love and hip

696
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 1: hop enters the scene.

697
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 2: When what love and hip hop enters is when what

698
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:10,760
Speaker 2: you said.

699
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: When you're exiting, because you said there was no space where.

700
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,479
Speaker 2: You were still still there.

701
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: Oh you were still there.

702
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't fully get out till twenty eighteen,

703
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 2: and I had a whole case.

704
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: So that was right before the pandemic. Yeah you said

705
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: you had a whole what case?

706
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have my lawyers and everybody did a great

707
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: job at keeping that, you know, keeping that off off

708
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 2: the news and blogs, because I really did that was

709
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 2: I was. I was in court the whole time I

710
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 2: was on tour, the reunion tour. Oh really, yeah, yeah

711
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 2: I was.

712
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: Oh wait, so B two Kate was back. So you

713
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: were investing in these business, You were doing this business,

714
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: but you ended up going back to beat You guys

715
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: reunited for the.

716
00:37:54,200 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 2: Were reunited in twenty nineteen. So summer eighteen is when

717
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 2: I had my whole situation happened, and twenty nineteen is

718
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 2: when I started going to court for it. And I

719
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 2: was in court for like a year.

720
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: Ok.

721
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, So every time I'm on stage, I'm like, am

722
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 2: I going to jail tomorrow? Hold on?

723
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: Man?

724
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 2: So my dad's move is like faint, like this might

725
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 2: be my last show.

726
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: But and you weren't a dad at the time yet, right.

727
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 2: Yes you were, Yeah, my son was nine years old.

728
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: You were really like stressed, yeah during the reunion. But

729
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: you're now at this point, you're also generating money from

730
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: the tour, and I'm sure that's going to.

731
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 2: Court court yep, yep, lowyer all that.

732
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: Dang, So what are your pockets looking like during that era.

733
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 2: Still good, Still good. Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know

734
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 2: I had a lot going on from TV, the shops.

735
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're also good at managing money at

736
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: this point.

737
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So I wouldn't say I would like, I

738
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 2: have never really.

739
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 1: Went broke after after that age. You never went broke.

740
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 2: Again after sh I never really went bro thank god.

741
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 2: But no, I mean there's there's still struggles, you know

742
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 2: what I mean, there's still struggles, and there's there's just

743
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 2: like you said, it's being smart. It's knowing when to

744
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 2: to start trimming down, you know, trimming the fact. You know,

745
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 2: if there's bills that are over here that are necessarily

746
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 2: you got to cut them off. You know, can't go

747
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 2: out to go to eat at mass Stros every weekend,

748
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, You got to scale back,

749
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 2: cook at home, you know what I mean. So it's

750
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 2: just all about being conscious of where you are, you know,

751
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,240
Speaker 2: and where you can go, you know, not living beyond

752
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 2: your means. So I would say in the group, you know,

753
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 2: we did a lot of that to where if it

754
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 2: wasn't for me having money put up like I did

755
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 2: in my trust, you know, I could have been back

756
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 2: out here broke like that not knowing where to go

757
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 2: or being able to take the risk that I've taken.

758
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,439
Speaker 1: So were you the youngest member in the group. Okay, yeah,

759
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: I feel like it's hard sometimes when you're that young

760
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: and you get exposed to money. I feel like there

761
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: could be a double edged sword where you end up

762
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: never really understanding how money works because you're used to

763
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: it coming and then maybe disappearing and coming, and it's

764
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: in lump sums versus like little.

765
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 2: Well see, my mindset was I was getting the little

766
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 2: increments and all the money was going in the trust.

767
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 2: Then the group broke up and it was broken up

768
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 2: for a few months and my trust open. Now it

769
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 2: was okay, I have money, but I don't have this group.

770
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 2: So what am I going to do? I have to invest.

771
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 2: I have to make my money work for me. So

772
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 2: that that's when the conversation came with my neighbor and

773
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 2: what we're doing with the shop, and can we open it?

774
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 2: Can I get in? Can I be an investor? How

775
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 2: does that look? What do I need to do? So

776
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 2: it worked out for me.

777
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: Very smart, very intuitive, natural entrepreneur.

778
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 2: I would say thank you.

779
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: So during so the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, you have

780
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,760
Speaker 1: the reunion. Take me to the next milestone in your life.

781
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 2: The next milestone would be, uh, coming off tour. It

782
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 2: was funny because it's like, now I'm done with the

783
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 2: whole cannabis business, right, and I'm coming off tour and

784
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 2: I'm still in court. And after I would say maybe

785
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 2: six months of being off the road, I had my

786
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 2: sentencing and I got off with no jail time, gratefully,

787
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 2: but I had probation and some work release, which is

788
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 2: like community service, but like you know, working on the

789
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 2: size of the freeway, chopping free. You had gotten island

790
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: sweeping saying yeah, nice time doing that. So after that,

791
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 2: once I was free of that and just had to

792
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 2: deal with probation, I was figuring out, you know what's next.

793
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 2: Obviously Loving hip Hop wasn't going on anymore? Oh said

794
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 2: the pandemic.

795
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: Okay, but you were at that point you had already

796
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: taped it. You had taped at least one season of it.

797
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 2: Of Love and Love and hip Hop started twenty fourteen. Oh,

798
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 2: so you were all I had done seven seasons of

799
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 2: Love and Hi. So in twenty twenty, when the pandemic

800
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 2: was going on, twenty yeah, twenty twenty the pandemic was happening.

801
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 2: I was trying to figure it out, but you know,

802
00:42:55,120 --> 00:43:02,479
Speaker 2: everybody was in the house. So I just started kind

803
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 2: of diving into everything from trying to figure out how

804
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 2: to produce shows, acting more. I ended up filming a

805
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 2: movie which is actually coming out next month, November twenty second.

806
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 2: It's called Run Nixon. It'll be in AMC theaters.

807
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've seen it on your social media. Yeah,

808
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:25,240
Speaker 1: so Run Nixon.

809
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 2: I did the movie, started acting more, learning how to produce.

810
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 2: I actually produced on the movie as well. And I

811
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 2: was still doing music here and there, filling it out

812
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: more of like a hobby. And then I opened a restaurant.

813
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 2: I had the opportunity to get to open a restaurant.

814
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: This is before the pandemic.

815
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 2: This is during the pandemic.

816
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: During the pandemic. Yeah, oh my gosh, take me to that.

817
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 2: So I a friend of mine, my lawyer, a friend

818
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 2: of my lawyers had a restaurant. He had multiple restaurant

819
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 2: and being at the pandemic had happened, he didn't want

820
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 2: to close them all, but he had to trim down.

821
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 2: So it was an opportunity for me to take over

822
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 2: one of the restaurants, which I did. I rebranded it

823
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 2: called it Druze Louisiana French Quarters. It was in Westwood,

824
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 2: beautiful location, right by UCLA.

825
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 1: And.

826
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 2: I just kind of jumped in it, you know, Like

827
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 2: I said, it was during the pandemic, so I jumped

828
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 2: in it, like let's just see what it does. And

829
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 2: early I had a lot of people coming in, but

830
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 2: of course it slows down. It's a restaurant, you gotta like,

831
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 2: it's so many different things that go into a restaurant

832
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 2: with marketing and getting people to come in from Yelp reviews,

833
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 2: and it's just a whole lot. So I'm going through

834
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 2: it and trying to figure out how to make turnover

835
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 2: a profit. Of course, in restaurant businesses, it doesn't happen

836
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 2: like that. It takes at least a year or two to.

837
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: Break even wow, or will even create that stability of

838
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: understanding that flow.

839
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 2: Right, And so my brain and working how it works

840
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 2: like very fast and always trying to figure out the

841
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 2: next idea or the next move to keep it going.

842
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 2: When I opened the restaurant and I put the restaurant

843
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:32,280
Speaker 2: on grub Hub, uber each door Dash, I started seeing

844
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 2: it like one of my dispensaries. So with the dispensaries,

845
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 2: I would always promote and put my shops on weed Maps.

846
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 2: Weed Maps is a website or an app that gives

847
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 2: all the patients and customers access to where each of

848
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 2: the shops are. And so how it works is you'll

849
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 2: go to a certain region in your state and it'll

850
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 2: show you all the shops in that region, and it's

851
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,760
Speaker 2: like a list. It looks like grub Hub or uber

852
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 2: eats or door Dash. So when I'm on this and

853
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 2: I got my restaurant on there, I said, I wonder

854
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 2: if I could do something different with this. And at

855
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 2: the time, I had seen something called ghost kitchens where

856
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 2: people would create these virtual restaurants and only post it

857
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 2: on grub Hub or uber Eats, and you would be

858
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 2: able to order it through that, but you couldn't go

859
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 2: to a physical location.

860
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't even know that.

861
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 2: So when I seen that, I said, that's how I

862
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 2: do it. So I basically created five virtual restaurants. One

863
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 2: was called La Soul Tacos. I had Trus Louisiana, of course,

864
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 2: which was the actual standing restaurant. I had Maxwell's Polish Dogs.

865
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 2: I had Veggie Buns, which was all vegetarian food, and

866
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 2: then I had, uh, what was the last one?

867
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: And you came up with all this on your own.

868
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and damn what was the other restaurant? It was

869
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 2: one more restaurant I had, Oh, uh, go Wings, now

870
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 2: Wings stop go Wings. So I had those five restaurants

871
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 2: and I had them all on grub Hub, door Dash,

872
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 2: Uber Eats. Uh, what's the other one? Grubhub, door Dash,

873
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 2: Uber eats, and.

874
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: Door Dash.

875
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 2: I said, door Dash, grub Hub, uber eats, and it's

876
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:36,919
Speaker 2: one more.

877
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 1: Basically all the food apps.

878
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,839
Speaker 2: So I took all the food apps. I put all

879
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 2: my restaurants.

880
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: And these are all ghosts most of them. All four

881
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: of them are ghost.

882
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,479
Speaker 2: Kitchens except one. So now not only are you going

883
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 2: to these apps to order food, you're ordering from five

884
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 2: of my restaurants. So now I'm not banking on one restaurant.

885
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 2: I'm banking on on five different ones with five different.

886
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: Foods, and then five different ghostly one location, but one location,

887
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: but the ghost location could be anywhere, right, I mean

888
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: like when they pull it up on the map, are

889
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: they is it close to their house?

890
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 2: The ghost location gives you an address to pick for

891
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 2: the delivery drivers to pick the food up. They would

892
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 2: come to Drus Louisiana.

893
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: Wow.

894
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 2: So instead of banking on Drews Louisiana to do what

895
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 2: I needed to do, Now I'm getting five calls for

896
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 2: this restaurant, twenty for this one, fifteen for this one.

897
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 2: And it got to be so much that I overwhelmed myself.

898
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 2: And now I'm in there helping the cooks cook myself. No. Yeah,

899
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 2: and I'm like, bro, I didn't sign up for this.

900
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 2: Like it's a great ideas, doing what it's supposed to do,

901
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,839
Speaker 2: but this is a lot of work. I'm going to

902
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 2: the restaurant depot buying, running out of this sour cream

903
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 2: might about to be about to expire. And I got

904
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 2: health department coming tomorrow, and I got to have everything

905
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,439
Speaker 2: in it in there with no expiration dates, all good

906
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 2: expiration dates. I got to make sure the meats are frozen,

907
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 2: the fishes frozen, it's in the freezer. This part, like,

908
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 2: it was a lot to deal with. And I'm doing

909
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 2: it do loo with a few employees. So building it up,

910
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 2: building it up. It's getting better. But then the pandemic

911
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 2: hit back again. We had the second rise and I

912
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 2: was in the UCLA Health Building and they came down

913
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: and were like, got to shut down the food in here. Why, Well,

914
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 2: one thing was for sure, I didn't feel it. I

915
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 2: felt a certain way about getting a vaccine, and a

916
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,439
Speaker 2: lot of my employees didn't want to get it. So

917
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 2: being that we weren't vaccinated, they're like, y'all got to

918
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 2: get out this building.

919
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, but what an amazing Okay, I just have

920
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: to highlight this pivot because my favorite person the interview

921
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 1: on this show is entrepreneurs. Believe it or not, If

922
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 1: choose between celebrities, influence and entrepreneurs, I'm all, I'm all

923
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: about entrepreneurs. But your pivot game being hinted like taking

924
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: over this business but figuring out a way to create

925
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: more business and market it was simply outstandingly genius. Like

926
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take that and make it into a clip

927
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 1: and send it to like, you know, hopefully restaurants everybody

928
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: takes games because that is the most genius innovative thing

929
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: I've ever heard. And even when you pay attention to

930
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 1: the way, you didn't, I gotta highlight this. You chose

931
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: different types of food, you chose wings, you chose veggies,

932
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 1: Like you covered all the basics of and did you

933
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: actually think about that, Like, yeah, covering all the that

934
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: is because.

935
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 2: Not everybody sea food, not everybody eats veggie food, not

936
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 2: everybody's not impressed with your own works like this.

937
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: But were you not sitting there, like I would have

938
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 1: been called like, yess not much of a g I

939
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: n look what I did, Like, you don't do that?

940
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 2: No, I do that.

941
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: If I have a simple hack and I feel like

942
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: I like somehow crack the cold on geniusness, I would

943
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: be texting all my friends like, yo, you'll never guess

944
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: what I was able to accomplish. And you didn't do that,

945
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I'm the opposite. I wasn't fucking Billboard of

946
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: the Year.

947
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 2: I'd be right, my circles real small. And then it's

948
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 2: like if my boys hit me and it's like, yo, man,

949
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 2: what you're doing with this? This is super dope? Can

950
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 2: I get in? I'm always yeah, come on.

951
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: Wow, let's do it. But that was that. It was

952
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 1: probably the most dopest pivot game I've ever seen. And

953
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 1: it was during the pandemic. You really had to think

954
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: out of the box. Some people will quit, believe it

955
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: or not, a lot of people will quit under that

956
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: type of pressure, and a lot of people wouldn't be

957
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: running around, you know, trying to find the sour cream

958
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:54,239
Speaker 1: or whatever. So kudos to you. You're so extreme entrepreneur,

959
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: so exciting. I did not know that about you. So

960
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: I'm really more hyped right now. But that's cool, all right,

961
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: So take so keep going with your story.

962
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 2: Man, there's so many things after that. I had a

963
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 2: home that I bought in in Porter Ranch, and I

964
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 2: leased it out because I was running everything. Like with

965
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 2: the restaurants, we ended up closing that down, and at

966
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 2: that time, I have my home, I'm helping my mom's

967
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:40,919
Speaker 2: with her home, and now I have to figure out

968
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 2: ways to scale down, trim back. So I leased out

969
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 2: my house, got something a little smaller, and I was

970
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 2: in a space of trying to figure out what was next.

971
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 2: So I, like I said, during the pandemic, besides the

972
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 2: restaurant and music and film, I was also learning to produce.

973
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 2: So I wanted to figure out a way to produce

974
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 2: a show, but one that made sense, and I wanted

975
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 2: to do something that involved my son because now my

976
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 2: son is older and he's controlling my life.

977
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: So what do you mean, scare me? Tell me, what

978
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: does that mean?

979
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 2: Every day? Of course, there's school, but then after school

980
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 2: there's basketball practice, after practice or before basketball practice, there's

981
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 2: basketball training, after training, nurse practice. Then we're back home.

982
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 2: Then we're homework and study, then dinner, cooking dinner.

983
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 5: And then I'm like a single dad, right, Me and

984
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 5: a mom are joint joint custody. So mostly every other week,

985
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 5: you know, he's with me, but I'm the dad and

986
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 5: he's in puberty stage, so he's with me, now, you

987
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Like, yeah, you can go.

988
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,359
Speaker 2: Mom wants to see you. You want to see mom,

989
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 2: hang out, go y'all, do y'all thing. You know what

990
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 2: I'm saying. I'm never gonna not let you see your mother.

991
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:13,439
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You always see your mom,

992
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:16,439
Speaker 2: but in these crucial stages, you need to be with me. Yeah,

993
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,720
Speaker 2: you know. So every day from the type of school

994
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,879
Speaker 2: he goes to a prep school. I drop him off

995
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 2: at the gym in the morning. They train for three hours,

996
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 2: then they get busted to school in the sprinter van

997
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 2: and they have lunch. Then they do school for three hours,

998
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 2: no homework. After that we're training. After training, he has

999
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 2: practiced two times a week after that, it's games on

1000
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 2: the weekend tournaments.

1001
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 1: He's definitely controlling your life, is him? Just to backtrack

1002
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: a little bit, I know we talked about your mom.

1003
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 2: You are very.

1004
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: Much even when you watch love and Half Hop, but

1005
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: you see your very vested dad. Is there? What is

1006
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,359
Speaker 1: your relationship with your dad? Is there a reason why

1007
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,040
Speaker 1: you're I'm not saying all men aren't vested, but I'm no,

1008
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: it's definitely noticeable.

1009
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't meet my father until I was thirteen,

1010
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 2: so I always had this thing where I had a

1011
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 2: vision of what a father looked like and what I

1012
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 2: wanted my father to be like. And I made a

1013
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 2: promise to myself, you know, if I ever have a

1014
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 2: kid or something, he's never going to experience what I

1015
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 2: experienced growing up in wanting and trying to imagine what

1016
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 2: it's like to have a father in his life. So

1017
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 2: when he got here, I just I was already setting stone,

1018
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 2: like this is my son, you know, regardless, Like I'm

1019
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 2: gonna be there no matter what. I'll go broke, I'll

1020
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 2: eat while I broke, as long as I'm in his life,

1021
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So trying to figure it

1022
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 2: out what's next, And like I said, everything is basketball.

1023
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 2: I'm in the gym with him twenty four to seven,

1024
00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 2: so I'm noticing. One night I'm telling him, YO, turn

1025
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 2: TV off, go to bed. So I walk in this

1026
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 2: room he was sleep and I go to turn the

1027
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 2: TV off, and it was this YouTube show he watches.

1028
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 2: And all these shows he watches on YouTube are based

1029
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 2: on basketball, from a channel called Overtime, Elite, to Ball,

1030
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 2: his Life, to Switch Cultures, just everything you can think

1031
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 2: of basketball related he's watching. But this particular night, he

1032
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 2: has on a show on Overtime called Fear Nothing. It's

1033
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 2: a show based on Mikey Williams's journey from high school

1034
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 2: basketball to wherever he's going, and he watches this. He

1035
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 2: watched the show a whole lot at this time, and

1036
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 2: I looked at it and I had to Things just

1037
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 2: hit my brain and I said, that's it. I'm sorry.

1038
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 2: I said, that's it. That's what I need. That's what

1039
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 2: I need to produce a show doing youth high school

1040
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 2: basketball that doesn't just highlight one player, but highlights all

1041
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 2: of the kids and gives it like a sports center

1042
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 2: fit to where they could watch this and feel like

1043
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 2: I might be on here tonight. Yeah, because they don't

1044
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:22,439
Speaker 2: have that. So I created this show called Youth Got Game.

1045
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 1: Youth Got Game and they can get it on YouTuber.

1046
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:29,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so our first episode is be coming out

1047
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 2: in the next month or so.

1048
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: Okay, But.

1049
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 2: Got into that and started networking, got the right people

1050
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 2: on the team, and now we'll be hosting like all

1051
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 2: the top Nike tournaments. Wow, all the So it's like

1052
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 2: May Hoops camps will be hosting those.

1053
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: Is your son really turns like crowd and excited about

1054
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: what you were able to do? Just it's kind of

1055
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 1: like he inspired this, right, So does he say it

1056
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: or does he talk about it or not?

1057
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 2: Really, he's just focused on playing the game. You want

1058
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 2: to see hisself on the show. He knows that with me,

1059
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 2: he's gonna have to work really hard and do what

1060
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 2: he's supposed to do. It's not gonna just be oh,

1061
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 2: you're and my son, I'm putting you on. So it's

1062
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 2: more of a challenge.

1063
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: Now.

1064
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 2: I put him up to the challenge. He accepted it,

1065
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 2: you know, So you got to put in the work.

1066
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: Okay.

1067
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 2: But yeah, so put together that show. We got a

1068
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,479
Speaker 2: couple of big things coming up for us. We're doing

1069
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 2: a camp in Charlotte with this company, cyber Athletics.

1070
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: You're doing a basketball client camp camp.

1071
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be hosting it our podcast.

1072
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: Wait, the show is a podcast, and I guess I'm

1073
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 1: kind of visioning like reality slash.

1074
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 2: It's a live podcast.

1075
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: It's a live podcast.

1076
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 2: Okay, got it. And we have guests on the show,

1077
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 2: you know, from younger athletes, to coaches, to referees to

1078
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 2: professional past and future and players.

1079
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, that's pretty awesome.

1080
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 2: So that's that's what I've been on now. And in

1081
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 2: the process of that, I actually took on a team.

1082
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 2: I created a travel team from my son because we

1083
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 2: were doing all these games and we were with a

1084
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 2: couple programs that I felt like could be doing more

1085
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 2: and not necessarily be much as much of a money grab.

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00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 2: So I ended up starting my own team and got

1087
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 2: all my son's friends who I know could really hoop,

1088
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 2: and one of my friends who coaches high school basketball,

1089
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 2: and put them all together. We started a team East

1090
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 2: West Prospects, and we went this summer and smashed through

1091
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 2: all the tournaments, won all of them that we joined, literally,

1092
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 2: and I had a bunch of sixth graders turning seventh

1093
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 2: graders who played against eighth and ninth graders and we

1094
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 2: were winning everything. Wo. So that started happening. I started

1095
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:09,160
Speaker 2: getting calls from like top program directors from Compton Magic

1096
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 2: or why not these are programs ran by These are

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01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 2: top programs that were put together that are sponsored by

1098
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 2: like Adidas and Nike and NBA players, Like why not

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01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 2: its Russell Westbrook program. Compton Magic is a staple in LA,

1100
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 2: has been around since I was a kid, you know,

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01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 2: And they have players who've come from their programs to

1102
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 2: play professional basketball. We're in the NBA today. So all

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01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 2: these programs are calling me now trying to combine.

1104
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: And when to get behind East West.

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01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow. So one of my friends and I knew

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01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:52,600
Speaker 2: since I was like seventeen eighteen, he's cousins with Paul

1107
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 2: George and he runs the program for Paul George Elite,

1108
01:00:56,360 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 2: and we had talked and we was like, yo, man,

1109
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 2: and I want you to bring your boy, Like how

1110
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 2: much it's gonna cost me to get your boy back

1111
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 2: over here? Talking about my son? And I'm like, man,

1112
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 2: let's you know, let's have a conversation. Let's talk and

1113
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 2: see what we can come up with. Basically, he gave

1114
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 2: me the keys to run the seventh grade program at

1115
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 2: Paul George Leaks. So now we're sponsored by Nike, playing

1116
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 2: on all the top platforms.

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01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 1: So, but does your son leave your East West team.

1118
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 2: To So East West is now Paul George.

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01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: Okay, So now it's official. So you guys have been

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01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: accepted as an official under that umbrella. Yep, okay, So

1121
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 1: son is still on the team. Damn, I want to

1122
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 1: watch these games. He got me hyped.

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01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 2: So yep, we did that, and you know, constantly filming

1124
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 2: on them as well, highlighting now and then.

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01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 1: Is it hard to get all those parental clearances or

1126
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: is it like everyone you you built such a good

1127
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 1: rapport with everybody that everyone just sign and releases. As

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01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: for what, oh, I thought you're you highlight the kids

1129
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: on the show.

1130
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 2: I will if they're doing they thing, you know what

1131
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 2: I'm saying, But that anybody can be highlighted, it does.

1132
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 2: I don't need parental Oh I don't know. Highlight somebody's

1133
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 2: kid that's doing what they should be doing on the court.

1134
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 2: You know, that's just giving them more exposure. Yeah, and

1135
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 2: we're not charging you know for that, Like this is Hey,

1136
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 2: if I think you're hot, you're doing what you need

1137
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 2: to do, you look good on the court, and you eating. Yeah,

1138
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 2: let's highlight you, you know what I mean, Like a

1139
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 2: lot of kids put in a lot of work in

1140
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 2: basketball that we don't see, you know, from the kid

1141
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 2: that doesn't have the travel team, that plays at the

1142
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 2: park and he's there every single day and might be

1143
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 2: there by himself, and and he just played one game

1144
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 2: in a recreation league and might put up fifty points

1145
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 2: and you'll never hear about it. But now you're watching,

1146
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 2: you've got game and you'll see it.

1147
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: Wow.

1148
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 2: You know, like we're diving in deep from everywhere across

1149
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 2: them everything.

1150
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, okay, So you're even getting the ones that

1151
01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 1: like can't afford to be in the clinics. I love that.

1152
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: And then I know you're thinking about opening your own

1153
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 1: clinic down the road.

1154
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 2: Right as far as like camps, yeah, camps, Yeah, we'll

1155
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 2: probably do something.

1156
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely see that in your future.

1157
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 2: It's definitely gonna.

1158
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: So what's the next milestones for you after that? Because

1159
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 1: I think we're current, right, you brought me so.

1160
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 2: Now that's where we are, and some more exciting things.

1161
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 2: Putting together a podcast along with Bug and Rats.

1162
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: What Yeah, yeah, yeah, where got you guys should come

1163
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: here and take you. Yeah, I'll take care of you.

1164
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll let you. I'll let you see when we

1165
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 2: when we when we dropped the teaser on.

1166
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 1: Okay, oh you guys already started recording it and everything

1167
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 1: unless you see, I'm gonna call like you don't tell

1168
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 1: me enough he called. I think calls me almost once

1169
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:55,439
Speaker 1: a day now, I'm not even gonna lie, it's probably

1170
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: five times a day.

1171
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,200
Speaker 2: Man. I talked to I talked to him and Book

1172
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:01,480
Speaker 2: every single day, you know. And they've been on their

1173
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 2: journeys as well, right as it's super smart networking and

1174
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 2: tied into a lot of different things that brings so

1175
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 2: much value to what we're doing.

1176
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: And he's also done the I feel like he's also

1177
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: been teaching me a little. I mean, I'm not good

1178
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 1: at it. But he also worked on his mental health

1179
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: and he'll be like dropping like like smart gems. I mean,

1180
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: i'd be like I wish I was like that. He'd

1181
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 1: be like, you can be like that. Well I'm not

1182
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: there yet, but you know, but yeah, he's worked on

1183
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 1: his mental health too, which I think a lot of

1184
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 1: people don't talk about working on that.

1185
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 2: In addition, that's really big of him, man, I salute

1186
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 2: him for that. Sure, he's doing really good. And you know,

1187
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 2: and Bug is still working in films doing films. So

1188
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:48,080
Speaker 2: us all coming together and creating what we put together,

1189
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 2: it's pretty dope.

1190
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: So it's like, B two K coming back. Should we

1191
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 1: be anticipating because you're talking to.

1192
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 2: Lines, we're gonna see some you Okay.

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01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm pretty sure your fan base is still

1194
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: rock solid and loyal and uh, they're gonna be anticipating

1195
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:09,680
Speaker 1: in the days to see the reunion for sure.

1196
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 2: For sure.

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01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 1: Bless you, bless you? Now, how can everybody keep up

1198
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 1: with you? We could talk directly to this camera. How

1199
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,560
Speaker 1: can everybody keep up with everything you have going on?

1200
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 1: And then break down the youth You got game, youth

1201
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:28,919
Speaker 1: got game everything individually?

1202
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 2: No, for sure? Well, first and foremost, you can you know,

1203
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 2: check out my instagram air fizzle, same with the threads

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Speaker 2: air Fizzle.

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Speaker 1: It's Ai R Fizzle.

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01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, fi z z o. Check out my movie coming

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01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 2: to AMC theaters November twenty second run Nixon. I'm really

1208
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:53,920
Speaker 2: excited about that. I think y'all are really gonna.

1209
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 1: Enjoy that, And what's run Nixon about?

1210
01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 2: I'm a single five Well, no, I'm sorry. I'm a

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01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 2: father of a ten year old boy who has a

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01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 2: heart condition. His mother is a stripper and one day

1213
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 2: she drops him off to his game. I get there.

1214
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 2: He plays basketball. I get there and he has a

1215
01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 2: heart attack on the court. He's suffering from forget what

1216
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 2: the heart disease is called, but basically he needs a

1217
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:28,720
Speaker 2: heart transplant immediately or he won't survive, and our insurance

1218
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 2: doesn't cover it. So his mother takes matters into her

1219
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 2: own hands and robs a drug dealer from the strip

1220
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 2: club she works at.

1221
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 1: Oh wow.

1222
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:42,520
Speaker 2: He gets home, he puts clues together, figures out who

1223
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 2: did it and why, and he kidnaps our son and

1224
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 2: I have to figure out how to get him back.

1225
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:50,439
Speaker 1: Oh this sounds crazy intense. We gotta see this movie

1226
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 1: in theater and then what else can we look forward

1227
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: to it?

1228
01:06:55,360 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 2: And then look forward to seeing you know me my

1229
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 2: boy CJ. Y'all can follow him on Instagram Coach CJ

1230
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 2: Underscore twenty three. We'll be highlighting all these kids. Man,

1231
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 2: youth Got Game. Check out Youthgot Game dot com. You've

1232
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 2: got game Instagram page. Yeah, it's gonna be crazy, man.

1233
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 2: You might be the next kid on youth. Got game,

1234
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 2: you never know. I yes, ma'am.

1235
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, Well, thank you for feeding me. I

1236
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:29,280
Speaker 1: can finally finish this bag Frido without tuning in your ears.

1237
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 2: Yes, yes.

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01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:52,160
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