WEBVTT - Larrance Dopson 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:00.960 Speaks to the planet. 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:02.560 I go by the name of Charlamagne of God and 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:04.920 guess what. I can't wait to see y'all at the 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:08.319 third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. That's right, We're coming 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.360 back to Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, April twenty six at Poeman 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.840 Yards and it's hosted by none other than Decisions, Decisions, 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.560 Mandy B and Weezy. Okay, we got the R and 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.319 B Money podcast. We're taking Jay Valentine. We got the 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.919 Woman of All podcasts with Sarah Jake Roberts. We got 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.479 Good Mom's Bad Choices. Carrie Champion will be there with 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.440 her next sports podcast and the Trap Nerds podcast, with 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.200 more to be announced. 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Facilities what you're doing to give. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:41.039 Back from the mud, Hm, I'm talking about the world, Craig. Yes, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:46.119 do this ship from the hood to the world one. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:58.559 Of the coldest right now? Yes, right now? Brands fit. Yeah, Hey, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.520 nigga time, Bro. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:02.840 You know what it is like? You know, it's like 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:07.320 when you see like when you see like when you 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:08.120 see niggas is. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:13.880 Like from where you're from. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:16.200 Like that type of soil and you see them not 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:21.440 only take it to a level of being successful, but 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:26.040 then taking that success and figuring out a way to 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:27.480 be impactful. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:30.280 That's different. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:35.800 Like we can rest on a lot of people's success 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.080 that have come from where we come from, right, but 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.240 the ability and idea to say, okay, let's not just 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:51.720 stop here at us, let's give it back that right there, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:58.400 My brother is commendable and absolutely impressive. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:02:59.680 Thank you, bro. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.640 And I haven't been down there to the teacher class yet, 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.240 but I would love to. Everything that's said on tape 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:11.600 is binding. We hold a nigga to that along. But 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:17.359 like seeing what you what you guys have built again 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.119 not only on the success, but on the on the 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.880 premise of giving the academy. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:25.520 Academy. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:31.519 Ye take before we do the deep dive, give me 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:36.640 the thought process of not just stopping at your success 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.840 but then saying, what can we do with this? 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:41.800 Man? 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:46.880 Bro Well, we lived crazy life being from l a 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.119 like really being from the trenches, from like the streets 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:54.480 to the church to educational world. So I've literally been 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:58.600 able to be around every single type of emotion to 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.280 know how to make to get everyone to their higher 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.839 self through whatever I can do, you know what I mean. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.320 So even with the school man, I was literally me 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.120 and James built the curriculum off of all the bitch 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.320 azz niggas we've dealt with in the music business. So literally, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.840 every time it was a problem where it was if 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.240 it was a studio session where I would say somebody 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.279 was playing the headphones too loud, why someone's trying to talk, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.800 I'm like, oh, yeah, he's fucking up. He'll never come 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.960 back here. So what we'll do is go to the 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.839 curriculum and put that in the curriculum. So every everything 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.400 that we hate about everything in the music business, and 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.440 with the solution though, so you know what I mean. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.880 And we literally worked on that for literally three four 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.440 years straight before we had a school. And that was 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.920 one of the parts of the manifestation because when people 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.040 was asking me, I would just say, yo, I got 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.160 to school. They say, yo, how are you been working 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:54.800 on your music. I was like, yeah, I'm working on 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.200 the school. So then I got one hundred people that 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.000 now is talking about our school that we haven't built yet. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.400 So now I got one hundred more people that that's 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.159 bringing their resources from our school. So that was literally, 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.240 you know, the just word of mouth and just speaking 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.440 into an existence, speaking it to an existence. It really 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.760 was really the trick, but it really came off of 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.800 us dealing with you know, me and James, we've been 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.600 through literally the trenches in every type of way from 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.120 from the streets to the music business. So we just 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.440 wanted to be at a blueprint to really show the culture. Yo, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.200 don't go this way, go this way. You know, they're 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:36.800 they're training us to be unemployed well employees. So our 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.240 school teaches you how to be an unemployable nigga to 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.680 where you can license our thoughts. Before you to get 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.000 to that point, you got to understand the behavior, the 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.040 brand laws, how to how to deal with assholes, how 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.719 not to react to people, how to get into the 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.720 minds of the hearts and the minds of the consumers 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.520 through words and through body language. And it's all these 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.240 secrets to make at the end of the day, to 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.800 be a service that makes people feel good and to 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.839 get them closer to God. That's the whole point. But 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.440 through with the school is you're just getting so much 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.359 swag because ninety percent of the teachers are famous. You know, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.800 we had everybody from Nipsey rest in Peace one of 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.599 our first teachers, from Kendred to Justin the Bruno, the 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.960 you know, heads of fortune, five hundred companies from tech, fashion, field, music, 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.359 and sports. You know, I'm I'm on the board of 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.719 a company company called Boat that's evaluated fourteen billion dollars 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.000 right now. So the last two years I had to 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:33.200 learn everything about RSU, stock offs, four or nine a's vestings, quorums, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.200 Delaware laws. So now it's like we're taking that and 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.720 showing the culture. It's just how it's hit words and 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.359 phrase that pays the music. There's phrase that pays us 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.479 to get becoming tax writeoffs for billionaires and how to 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.719 get in the hearts and minds of the consumer through words. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.080 And that's that's really what I'm on now and content building, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.600 our content Academy, because it's we're just in the future. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.960 We have like the New Disney and Inglewood by the way, 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.560 you gotta come by. It's pretty New. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.880 Disney in Inglewood, the Disney. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.960 It ain't sound Academy. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.279 I just wanted to say it a third time. Three 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.760 is powerful. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.000 Serious, it's just unbelieva. You got to see it. We 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.880 partner with this company called we Play where their Ukrainian 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.080 company where they came out here. They do like American 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.440 they do all the biggest shows, but they came out 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.840 here and just believing they was either gonna go fight 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.720 the war or come here. They landed and playing Delray 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.880 met them guys. They do. They got the craziest screen 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.239 or where you can do the Mandalorian the Doom movie 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.600 motion capture vr AI. I mean ar to where like 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.080 you could do a podcast and I can be talking 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.640 to a cartoon next to me in motion capture. Like 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.120 that's the next R and B money for the future, 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.360 you know what I mean. So like it's unheard of 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.200 it's really Disney at the highest level where the business 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.280 model we're changing everything from modern day slavery. We're not 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.640 doing it. We're changing the models. People are going to 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.120 own the ship and you know, we're just we're just 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.560 creating the right models for people to really get to 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:04.280 their higher self. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:05.360 Because it's too. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.920 Many niggas signed w knis Man. We employees, we need 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.240 stock options, and you gotta know about that ship too. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.880 You know, we gotta we gotta take this journey, bro, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:21.240 We gotta take this journey from from the streets to 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.960 the future. Because everything you just said is the future, 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.920 well it's the future. And for a lot of people 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:31.560 it was French. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.280 Yes, yes, yeah, you just you spoke. You just spoke 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.199 another language you're. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.760 Talking and the fact that you're willing to take the 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.800 time to break that language down to teach people what 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.880 that is, and and the work that you're doing to 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.760 make sure you understand. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.560 Oh yeah, if you can't teach, you you don't know it. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.320 You gotta know the teacher like you're you're in it, 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.880 you're immersed in it. So we gotta we got to 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:05.520 figure out how we get from from the hood to 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:14.600 fourteen dollar. People take me, take me, take me to 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:21.120 the beginning rants like like little rants like what is 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:21.680 what is? 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:22.120 What is? 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.199 Little RNTs thinking what what? What part is? 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:24.760 Did you from? 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.440 I'm from Los Angeles, one of ras from LA. But 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.320 my family is from Chicago, whole family of Chicago. My 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.920 dad was in a group singing group that was signed 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.640 to the Delphonics, So they came out here, you know, 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.960 wanting to be yeah the dream. I'm glad he did 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.000 because I was probably with a show for Vice Lord, 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:46.240 the GV with they came out here. My whole family, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.120 with my sister and uh I was. I was raised 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.960 right on like Western Adams twenty fourth Street school, so 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:58.880 I did you know, the whole LA thing. And from 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.280 there we always was the first day in me, first 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.040 in me was our home church. So that's kind of 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.800 where I really start getting into like the church music too, 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.760 because you know, my dad played at piano. My whole 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.559 family is like the Black Manhattan Transfer. If y'all don't 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.200 know man Man Transfer is, look him up, you know, 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.000 you know. So it's like, so I had to learn 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.400 all the mold town. I had to learn everything about 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.440 music from my family. And then we were the family 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.520 in a complex. It was called the complex. It's in 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.400 a hood where everybody just lived. But we were like 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.640 the only family where I had a mom and a dad. 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.439 So everybody came in our house for food, for birthdays, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.800 every day. We played the piano, sing and I'm talking, 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.320 but we did neverhood. Yeah, this is when babies as kids. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.040 My sister, My sister was in a gospel group called 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:49.720 Repent and Shep Crawford and my brother all the group together. 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:51.840 Even mine to Jordan, I don't know if you know, 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.719 but he was in a group called Protege. He did 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.160 this is how we do it. They was all in 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.719 the group together. So like my I was raised off 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.439 of just church, you know, playing at church and being 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.319 in the hood. So it was it was either kind 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:10.480 of yeah yeah, but yeah, so I mean from that 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.880 from even me, you know, I had I joined a 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.600 church fraternity that changed my life too. It's called Juice 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:17.240 Fire Christ. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.840 But we I'm in a Christian fraternity. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:26.560 Really, you know your Greek alphabets of course, yeah, come on. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.160 So we had to go through like I got pledged. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.360 We had to learn everything about God and. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.040 The full line. We were the first line. We were 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:39.240 the first line. I'm number two, I'm number five. Okay, 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:48.640 this is another like yeah, uh, Fraternity and Incorporated. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.640 I'm trying to tell you what it really is crips. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:12:01.240 Like that. I mean, honestly, we was pledged by wasps exactly. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:08.120 I was in Maryland, so so it was it was Cappus, 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.040 it was it was uh, it was Omegas and it 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.520 was it was it was Cues and it was Alpha. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:14.320 That's crazy. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.360 So we our line incorporated. We used to go around 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.959 the city. We used to go around the city stumping at 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:21.960 all the church events. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:27.000 Have to battle you know, wait, wait, wait, that's something 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:38.040 that nobody knows about, like you dogs like bro. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:39.800 That I can't be doing that stuff because I'm not 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:40.120 part of it. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.000 But like all of that was the shimmy that the 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.600 Caps got all of it because we had we were 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.559 we were a collection of all of those guys who 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.920 were who were you know, church guys whould save guys 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.880 and wanted to start something for the church. And that's 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:55.840 what we're product of. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.960 That's crazy. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:02.720 I still got friend that I go back home. We 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.959 still hit the shake and do the whole thing. I've 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.120 known you this whole time. I didn't know this. You 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:08.160 didn't believe me. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:17.680 Yeah, I didn't dispect you. I just think. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.040 I dispected you. 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:25.880 Oh my brother. 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:32.280 Okay, okay, I seen it. Yeah. So other than that, we. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.240 Was am I too old to join? No? 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.760 But yeah, we were literally a church band. So we 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.520 was the band at church and your family, well, my 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.120 family was always singing in church, you know what I mean. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.760 But my sister Sharen was and talking. My brother law 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.800 Tony was like the real ones that was had us 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.800 really in the church scene and Tony Tony yeah yeah, 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.360 but uh then from there, I always wanted to have 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.960 our own bed, you know what I mean. So do 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.600 you know we got our name? No, all right, I 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.000 get yah short story, then I'll tell you about James 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.760 because it's the whole Okay, okay, but we got our 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.480 name by them. We're a church band. We was playing for, uh, 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:14.280 Bobby Valentino. We did a church convention with Bobby Valentino 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.079 right when he did that slow down song. And at 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.800 that time, it was broke as fuck and we were 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.000 doing all these rehearsals for free, and then him and 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.560 it was man at Japun was like, yo, we were 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.680 doing this death jam show and we need you all 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.280 to help us get our deal. I'm like, look, nigga, 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.920 we broke like you gotta us fifteen hundred and nothing. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.400 And he was like, all right, well, what's the name 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:40.840 of your band? We was like fift what he was? 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.720 You know, from there we started a musical game. Everybody 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.320 had to you know, we was we had to play 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.880 every instrument. Everybody was their own voltron. But you have 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.800 to be a cold nigga and you couldn't be a buster, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.800 just like mob rules. Like it's real family rules, like 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.880 you can't do no and if you do it, God's 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.960 So you were just saying nigga fifteen hundred or nothing, 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.680 showing we ain't doing nothing family the family. 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.120 And then he was like all right, but then what's 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.400 going to be the name? You was really just standing 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.119 on fifteen. I don't want to get past this conversation. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.360 Nigga fifteen hundred and nothing. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:19.000 What you're doing? 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.320 We neat that bread. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.440 It was part of the negotiation. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.480 Yeah, And that was the first time and the only 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:29.120 time James foul Roy, it's a whole, it's a host. 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:33.680 Okay, okay, So is James in the band at this time? 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.960 So James, So, James was the fifteen hundred. I met 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.440 James battle rapping at West Angeles. He murdered somebody and 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.880 I was like, wow, who's this guy? Ok at the 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.760 church battle rapping like the church at church outside but 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:49.000 murdering somebody. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:55.760 Church battle rapping or or no, no outside, It don't 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.400 matter where you're at in the church, in the basement. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:15:59.840 He go. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.560 But James on even have to That's like I've seen James. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.440 We used to have stink caught the pit where James 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.920 battle rapp. I mean it was like disaster and all 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:12.240 these real battle rappers and James won. I was there, 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.600 no cap work it up. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.200 I'm not going to fight. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.760 Yeah, that's that's a cheatcough bro. He's literally one of 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.720 the craze out there alive. And then he just happened 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.240 to listen to Kim Barell. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:28.840 And then everything come on now changes everything all the time. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.400 So when you when you meet him at West Angeles, 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.160 what's the first move for you. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.200 Met him a couple of times, but we had it 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.760 took a couple other times for us to get really cool. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.040 So I met him at church. We uh, he was 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:43.640 battle rapping. I was like, yo, man, you got to 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.240 be a part of our bend fifteen hundred, you know, 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:50.600 come on rehearsal Cool came. But before that we met him. Uh, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.680 it was it was a long story, but it end 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.600 up being a shootout in north Ridge with a bunch 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.640 of our friends and there was a bunch of crazy 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.720 stuff that happen. So we're literally on the street handcuffed 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.800 because our car is in the middle of the shootout, 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.159 and I'm just like, this is we gotta do some 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:07.919 we gotta do. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:08.640 We gotta. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.440 Are y'all on the opposite side, on the same We're 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:14.240 on the same side. 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.240 We came together. But at that time I was, you know, 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.719 I'm from l A. So I was you know, I 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.280 was outside that was in the mix and I just 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.760 happened to bring him and bam, my German dish what 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.600 you got to something that was in the mix? But 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:30.960 James is a Jameson. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.639 Yeah, but Scaredgas was just scared. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:40.240 But I shouldn't have been there, and we was thinking 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.359 about that when we were sitting outside for four hours and 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.639 four hours, bro, I can't even get my car to 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:46.120 the next day. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:46.359 It was. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.239 It was a real shoot It was a shootout like 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.960 it was. This is a true story and after that, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.040 we decided this was stupid and uh he came to 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.280 rehearsal for by Valentino, but he ended up being so 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:02.680 good at rehearsal. Can't cap guys like they in the 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.679 fire and James, James got They tried to fire James 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:10.480 because we was a rehearsal and you know, after our rehearsals, 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.639 we the band, we can't wait to just play our 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:18.040 you know, the attention got it was tricky. So that's 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.040 the only time I've seen James get fire. And after 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:21.840 that he has been the richest nigga I know. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.719 Yeah, yeah, fire up. 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:32.959 Yeah. Unemployable what yeah, yeah. 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:33.960 I never knew that could be a thing. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:40.080 And being too good on the male side, well no, 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.840 you know why that you you believe that though, or 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:46.200 why it's it's a reality for you because you came 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.439 in the game with someone like genuine genu Wine don't 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:55.199 have he don't he he loves to promote right like 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.440 frecking red now cold bloody like they sang it. 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:07.600 He won't he wanted. Everybody don't want to smoke on stage? Yeah, smoke, 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.080 That's the only way it works. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.520 You gotta be you gotta you gotta look at the 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:14.119 side and behind. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:20.880 That's what's niggas have. Luther Vandrois singing background, right, want. 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.600 Something gotta make something gott to push you, ye. 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.080 Mark, but Rih Carey sang background for people. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.920 Something gotta make you want to chop Like that's the 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:30.880 only way, that's the only. 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:31.720 Way you get better. 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.600 Yeah, yeah, and have real moments is to have them 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:37.919 real motherfuckers on stage. 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.680 Me and you both had, uh you've had Lonnie singing background. 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:47.840 We both had Luke James singing background the Goat And when. 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.480 He sang background for Tank and when he sang back 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.720 from the background for me, we found a space like, hey, man, 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:52.600 go ahead, you. 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.639 Go crazy crazy. 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:56.080 That's what you. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.960 Supposed to that, bro, because you got to think about 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:05.920 like like when I saw your Earth, I was like, man, 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:08.520 I loved I love to see. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:09.280 My nigga shine. 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:17.520 Yeah, I love it, no matter how distant the communication. Nigga, 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:18.639 I see it. 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:24.719 Yeah, And I'm like, they cooking, they cooking. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.320 When I'm on the road, I talk about it. Yeah, 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:32.359 but you don't know about fifty hundred Jim niggas, stim 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.560 niggas doing it. They got everything. They're doing everything. 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:34.960 Man. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:47.520 You know what I'm saying, Okay, James goes crazy. He's 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.360 doing the thing now he's you know. But then finally 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.440 you guys are fifteen hundred and nothing right. 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.399 Yeah, we're fifteen hundred. And then the first person I 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:58.280 guess the opportunity was Snoop. He actually was Teddy Riley. 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:03.360 I guess Tedy Rally. So this time James was brother's 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.320 fuck and we had I had a session with Teddy Riley. 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.040 But James Carr something happened with was raining and he 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:10.840 liked the keys. 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:11.000 In the car. 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:12.280 So I was like, yo, it just come to me. 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.359 So he calls to me the record one of them 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.040 studio I leave studio that he got now that used 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.840 to be Teddy's and uh, I'm like, yeah, just say 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.240 you my cousin, Nigga, you my cousin. So I walk 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:27.200 in there and tell you my cousin. Line was actually 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.840 there and this was a song we did call I 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.120 Know You Remember Me that James wrote, and we were 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.919 in the studio Mars Mars there doing the beat and 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.159 he just was playing to beat. Teddy just walked in 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:44.840 and said, I know you remember me, and then James 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:47.119 James just finished the song. I don't know, got it? 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:49.919 Why don't you Chris Staali and see and they it was 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.000