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Speaker 4: How do you look at the opportunities from this landscape

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Speaker 1: Should build more team, definitely, to employ employ more people,

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Speaker 1: Now I'm learning, I'm in control of my business, I'm

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Speaker 2: What I mean.

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Speaker 5: So do you think that it was more so just

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Speaker 1: Yes, it was a lack of education, And it also

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Speaker 2: Just trying to take control over your life.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, exactly, you hope that people would help you

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Speaker 1: So it's best to get education so you don't have

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we spoke about this a little bit earlier

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Speaker 4: And so we've had plenty of conversations and people in

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Speaker 3: It's paying taxes.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So so shut it down. Speaking of taxes. I

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Speaker 1: but I mean I owed millions, millions, like hundreds of

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Speaker 3: Go back to so I was trying, we were gonna

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Speaker 4: So the lack of education around that, right as you're

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Speaker 1: Team, a great business management team, and you have to

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Speaker 2: And that's how I was moving period.

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Speaker 1: When I was married. I was like, pay my taxes,

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Speaker 1: And then you know, they didn't listen to me, so,

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Speaker 1: Those things are important to me. Payroll, taxes, times, anything that.

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Speaker 1: You know, if anyone's doing a service, you have to

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Speaker 1: you know what, Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get back to you. It's not always so much about

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Speaker 1: owe them money. You understand what I'm saying. So if

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Speaker 5: And a lot of times when we think about pre numps,

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Speaker 2: Because I didn't have one, and that's why I was.

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Speaker 1: I ended up having to just give everything away because

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Speaker 2: It's so whack right.

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Speaker 1: Now that men you know, can come ask you and

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Speaker 2: You mean, I gotta.

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Speaker 1: Pay him for cheating a line or to me and

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Speaker 1: ruining my life. So yeah, and and the law is

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm telling you, man, it's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Mary.

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Speaker 4: My wife is here, so baby, I love you. But

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Speaker 4: so you said, you're debt free. And we see the

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Speaker 4: You're now an independent artist. So let's talk congratulations. I mean,

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Speaker 4: the you know, how you feeling about this.

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Speaker 1: I feel like like I'm flying sometimes because I was

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Speaker 1: I just was low and I felt like I owed

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Speaker 1: I can just put music out. I could just do

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Speaker 3: Hey, DJ, you're supposed to drop just fine. When I

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Speaker 5: So as far as a lot of artists these days

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Speaker 3: And would you sell your catalog?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not, No, it's too valuable.

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Speaker 5: So when you say it's too valuable, too valuable from

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Speaker 5: not money this, you got to come with billions of

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Speaker 1: I don't think the catalog. Once you sell it, you're

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Speaker 1: going to spend that billion dollars. You'll never be able

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Speaker 1: to get those babies back. Like those are my babies.

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Speaker 1: They literally came out of my womb. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, maybe later when I get older,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 4: So I see there's a lot of brands that are here,

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Speaker 4: of nation urban When you're looking for a strategic business partner.

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Speaker 4: What are you looking for in a brand that is

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Speaker 1: The first thing is do you know me? Because you

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Speaker 1: can't help me sell me if you don't know me.

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Speaker 1: You can't sell anything from my brand if you don't

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Speaker 1: know me. So the first thing is do you know

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Speaker 1: Mary J.

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Speaker 3: Blige?

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Speaker 2: What is she about?

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Speaker 1: Because then you're gonna you're gonna be full, You're gonna

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Speaker 3: Mary J.

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Speaker 2: Blisgerberg. So the first thing is.

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Speaker 1: Do you You gotta know you gotta you gotta have history.

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Speaker 2: You gotta know the history of me so we can

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Speaker 5: So we was with the good Brother Swiss couple of

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Speaker 3: Versus would you do it? Versus? No? Why not? Why

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Speaker 3: would you not want to do that?

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Speaker 1: I just let me just say this that I love Swiss.

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Speaker 1: That I mean, I love Swiss. That's my friend, that's

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Speaker 1: who got And it's no disrespect. I just don't care,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't need to say I had to know.

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Speaker 1: I have some of the hottest records. I know, I

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Speaker 1: your record my record sension.

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Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you.

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Speaker 5: Let me ask you this just from an admiration standpoint,

443
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 5: if you ever had to dance with somebody, who do

444
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 5: you have? Anybody that you would say this is a

445
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 5: counterpart that I really appreciate their music, and I would

446
00:23:58,680 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 5: love to have some level of.

447
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: So many people that have great music out there. I

448
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 1: mean there's so many women that have just catalogs, you know.

449
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: So I mean I don't have to I don't like

450
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 1: the putting everybody up against each other the right like,

451
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I mean I could just put

452
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,639
Speaker 1: my shirt on and just walk away. I could put

453
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: take that.

454
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 2: I could put the ons four on one album on

455
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 2: and just walk away.

456
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,159
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm gonna be honest with you, and thank you

457
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,679
Speaker 4: for protecting me because I mentioned somebody he protected me.

458
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 3: Thank you for shall But we had.

459
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 4: Old with us and he was like, I haven't really

460
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 4: seen Mary perform I said, listen, you gotta go to

461
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 4: a show and let I'm going down. Come on and

462
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 4: just look around and watch what happens to the audience.

463
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 4: Y'all know it's crazy. We saw a little bit of

464
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,159
Speaker 4: it last night. So shout out to the four on one,

465
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 4: shout to share, my shout to all the.

466
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Speaker 3: Albums number one, thank you, but you brought the four.

467
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 4: One and it made me think about this guy who

468
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 4: was integral in that process. Puff and outside of the music,

469
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 4: he's been a major figure in life, especially in the

470
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 4: world of business. Can you talk about some of the

471
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 4: mentorship he's given you outside of music.

472
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 2: I mean, let me just start from the beginning.

473
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 1: When I met Puff, he was ambitious, a go get

474
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 1: it and I was just a little girl from Slovan

475
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 1: that was scared of success.

476
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,120
Speaker 2: But this man wasn't scared of no success.

477
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: He wasn't scared to be fly, he wasn't scared to

478
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: be seen, and he was the opposite of everything that

479
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 1: I was. So just watching him was encouraging to me

480
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: and taught me a lot. And he was always about

481
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: He wanted the success more than we wanted it. He

482
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: wanted our success for us more than we wanted it. So,

483
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he just gave me a lot of confidence.

484
00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,080
Speaker 1: And you know, and and and at that time, you know,

485
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 1: he gave me a lot of confidence in my music.

486
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: And you know, he was like a, Yo, you're gonna

487
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: get out there and bust a ass.

488
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 2: You're gonna get out there. Yo, you wanna do that.

489
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 2: And it was just like okay, okay, okay, okay okay.

490
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: So he made me my personality was very like like this.

491
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 1: But he really helped me a lot. He really, you know,

492
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: picked a lot of the right, you know, samples together.

493
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,919
Speaker 2: We did a lot. I mean, it wasn't no you know,

494
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 2: just organic.

495
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: And he was just puff daddy, like the same puff

496
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: daddy you see today.

497
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 2: He's the same puff daddy he was then.

498
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: And he was so he wanted it for Mary, for

499
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: Joe to see, for all of us, more than we

500
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: even wanted it. So man, you know, that's that's you know.

501
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: He Yeah, he helped me sustain.

502
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 5: So your music has become the soundtrack to millions of

503
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 5: people's lives, millions of women's lives from the downs that

504
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 5: from ninety two to twenty twenty three, when you go

505
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 5: to all around the world, how does that feel when

506
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 5: they connect with you on a different level. It's like

507
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 5: a spiritual level, like you've helped guide them through, you know,

508
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 5: heartbreak and breakups and divorce.

509
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 3: How does that feel for you to play that role?

510
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,959
Speaker 1: It feels good, and it's a responsibility because I'm not

511
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: doing anything special.

512
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,719
Speaker 2: I'm just falling and getting back up. That's it.

513
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 1: I'm just falling. I'm getting back up, and am I

514
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 1: getting backed up? Sometimes I'm laying down longer than what

515
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to, But I get up and I come

516
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: out on the other side. And so that's really all

517
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: I've done, you know. So I say, when people like

518
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: you saved my life, I'd be like, well, you really

519
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: need to give that credit to God for giving me

520
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: the strength to get back up.

521
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 4: So we talked about the spirits, We talked about the production,

522
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 4: we talked about the acting. Obviously, the talent in the

523
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 4: field of singing.

524
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 3: I'm looking that down.

525
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 4: Food to your right, and I'm thinking to myself, if

526
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 4: don in the room, there's more business to come.

527
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 3: And so I'm wondering one.

528
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 4: Hundred all right, we know, So what else is on

529
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 4: the vision board for the Mary J. Blige Empire? What

530
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 4: else is on the vision board, Like, what else do

531
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 4: you see, Like that's something I want to tackle that

532
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 4: I want to get involved in that business, or that's

533
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 4: something that I can see I can add to the portfolio.

534
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 2: Well, the Boots are coming.

535
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, what's up with the Hey, Hey, that's the

536
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: next thing, said the boots.

537
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 2: Yes about the book line.

538
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 4: The dancing is so separately though, I said that dancing

539
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 4: is so separately.

540
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 3: Everybody can't dance like you in the boots.

541
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 2: We got talking about the dancing. We talking about the

542
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 2: bootline right now, Arders, what's going on? Listen?

543
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 4: Eylu is relaunching, revamping, retooling. That's why we're creating a

544
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 4: new educational experience that's more expansive.

545
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 5: Tell what we got, Yes, twenty twenty three, we got

546
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 5: a lot in store, a lot playing for you guys.

547
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,959
Speaker 3: So you know that eyou already includes.

548
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 5: Monthly financial planning calls with Me, book club calls with Troy,

549
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 5: real estate calls with MG the mortgage got access to

550
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 5: the Home Buying Blueprint Volume one and Volume two. Part

551
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 5: of the revamp will include twenty seven local chapters from

552
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 5: across the United States, live interactive teaching, hands on not

553
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 5: just pre recorded videos, plus fifteen brand new curriculums.

554
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 3: The biggest just got bigger.

555
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: I just want to get that going because everybody you

556
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: don't really want it.

557
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 5: So what are some of the biggest lessons in business

558
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 5: and just in general that you've learned over your thirty

559
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 5: year career.

560
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 2: Take care of yourself?

561
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: Do I mean, go behind everybody, check in on your business,

562
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: check in on yourself. Just make sure you are in

563
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: on every single thing. And if they don't know you,

564
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: then they can't identify you. If they can't if they

565
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: don't have no history on you and what you're doing,

566
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: they can't help you.

567
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 2: So that's really it. Just take care of you.

568
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm sure there's plenty of women in here,

569
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 4: and we saw a lot of artists at the show

570
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 4: last night. Now that you have a label, are you

571
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 4: currently looking for talent to put on the label?

572
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 3: How does would somebody go about that? Well?

573
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 1: Right, So let me give you the backstory on why

574
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: I'm just getting the label. I tried to do it

575
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: a long time ago, and what I don't like doing

576
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: is promising people things, and I don't have the money

577
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: to back it up. So this is my first one

578
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: more is my first artists that I've signed because now

579
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: I have the money to make their dreams come true.

580
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: So I don't want to have people come and be

581
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: on my label and I'm selling you a dream because

582
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: I don't want nobody to sell me a dream. So

583
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: right now, I'm just on one more. I'm on one

584
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: more right now, and that's it. If you have talent,

585
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: you know, if you got some patience, you know, I'll

586
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: you know, I'll sign you. But you got to have

587
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: patience because you know, the stuff don't happen over It

588
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: took me so long to get my advance when I

589
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: was on you know, signed to Uptown Records.

590
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 2: But you got to have patience.

591
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,959
Speaker 1: And I don't like making people wait and selling people dreams,

592
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: and people have bills and lives and stuff like that.

593
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: I want to be able to help you pay your bills,

594
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: you know. So that's why I only have one one

595
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: artist right now.

596
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 5: Before we leave, this is just the second year of

597
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 5: your festival. What is your vision for this festival in

598
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 5: ten years? Like, what do you like to see this

599
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 5: grow into?

600
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: Man that we we go to We have seventy thousand

601
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: people and the arena, it's like it just gets.

602
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 2: Bigger and bigger. But I just wanted to get bigger

603
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: and bigger.

604
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: And I want women to walk away and having their

605
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: own businesses when they walk away from this, having more ideas,

606
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: just and learning how to love ourselves and self awareness

607
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: and just all.

608
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 2: Kind of beautiful. I just want everybody.

609
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 3: I just want to be.

610
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 2: Bigger and bigger in all those things.

611
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, we need everybody standing on your feet.

612
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 3: Please, yeah, please.

613
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 2: My graduates from my school being forced

614
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 3: Back drop bag drop my drop, back drop drop