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Speaker 1: Steph Curry, I used your curR.

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Speaker 2: I apologize for my statement being misconscrewed. I was just

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Speaker 2: stormed up trying to make a joke out of it.

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Speaker 1: What's that? It wasn't my damn business.

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Speaker 2: Like my wife said, Steph did something that all us

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Speaker 2: brothers with women should do, and that's stand up and

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Speaker 2: defending no matter if somebody stepped on the foot, no

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Speaker 2: matter they did it or not. Man check and say,

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Speaker 2: hey man, you just say excuse me, So let me

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Speaker 2: say again, I used to step excuse me. I apologize deeply,

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Speaker 2: and I'm searching for your address so I may send

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Speaker 2: y'all some of this proloma. Y'all may make more love,

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Speaker 2: make beautiful light, skin Baby's mother.

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Speaker 3: All my life, grunting all my life, sacrifice, hustle, pric

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Speaker 3: want Slice, got the brothers swap all my life. I

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Speaker 3: been grinding all my life, all my life, grinning all

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Speaker 3: my life, sacrifice, hustle, bad price one slice, got the

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Speaker 3: brothers swash all my life.

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Speaker 2: I've been grunting all my life.

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Speaker 4: Hell On, welcome to another episode of Club Sha Sha.

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Speaker 4: I am your host, Shendon Sharp. I'm also the propride

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Speaker 4: of Club Sha Shape stopping by for conversation on the

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Speaker 4: drink today. Is a four time Grammy Award winning rapper,

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Speaker 4: an Emmy Award winning host, the Ultimate Hyphenaney, A rapper, actor,

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Speaker 4: outspoken social activist, celebrated culture commentator, and an entrepreneur. He's

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Speaker 4: an advocate for the disenfranchised, the frequent public speaker on politics,

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Speaker 4: race and equality. He's earned the first ever Billboard change

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Speaker 4: Maker Award. An influential figure, a respected artist, a decorative

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Speaker 4: veteran MC, an elite wordsmith, a hit maker, and Atlanta icon.

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Speaker 4: He's hip hop royalty. Here he is ladies and gentlemen

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Speaker 4: killing Mike. I preached that that man, Bet. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Boy, thank you.

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Speaker 4: We've been trying to make this happen for a minute.

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Speaker 4: I understand that you're very busy, but you took time

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Speaker 4: out of your schedule today to grace my audience with

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Speaker 4: an opportunity to hear you.

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Speaker 1: And I appreciate that. Man. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: And let me say, man, let me start by saying

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Speaker 2: congratulation you and Starling Man being the first brothers that

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Speaker 2: gold holding. Now, man, it's gonna be many to come,

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Speaker 2: many after the boy. Only one first only one first.

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Speaker 2: And you and your brother Ben as a Georgia boy,

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Speaker 2: y'all been heroes me a very long time.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Man.

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Speaker 4: I got my own Kanye Killer Mike. I know you,

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Speaker 4: but I want to celebrate you. I gotta celebrate I

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Speaker 4: mean Grammy Award when you've been at this thing for

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Speaker 4: a minute. And we will to talk about this during

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Speaker 4: the interview. But you got your flowers. They might have

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Speaker 4: not came when you wanted them to.

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Speaker 2: Go, they they came. They got them. Hey, let me

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Speaker 2: tell you what's cool, man all. I only drink about

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Speaker 2: four or five times a year, but this one type

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Speaker 2: of which And I got a Poloma remix that me

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Speaker 2: and my guy made me and lp on one half

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Speaker 2: of Run the Jewels. We made out of a messcal

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Speaker 2: and grapefruit juice. Only you try it out, telling if

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Speaker 2: you like.

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Speaker 1: But what is it? What is it? Give it a silp?

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you drinking?

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Speaker 3: Know?

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Speaker 2: I taste grapefruit. You taste grapefruit? Was a mess caalin

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Speaker 2: now too. The smokier, heavier taste is a mescal comes

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Speaker 2: out of Mexico. His wife's grandmother. His wife would bring

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Speaker 2: him messcal to Mexico. He fell in love with it

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Speaker 2: and the chase they y act pretty good. Part of

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Speaker 2: that got you gotta be me.

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Speaker 1: Then we go, come on, man, do something with them

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Speaker 1: like that. But you trying to do something for there

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Speaker 1: we go.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how they're gonna go after this. It started.

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Speaker 4: It started well, Mike, we got to get right into it. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you got into a little verbal not I mean.

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Speaker 2: I'm not stop hold stop, Steph Curry. I used your

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Speaker 2: curry while my wife can cussed me out.

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Speaker 1: She got me.

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Speaker 2: My oldest daughter called me, My youngest daughter called me.

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Speaker 2: My homeboys that played in the NBA called me, and

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Speaker 2: I realized maybe I shouldn't smoke marijuana and get on.

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Speaker 2: So step let me say this because I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: You checking it, because it showed me you have a

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Speaker 2: say to the comedian, go easy on, step and I

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Speaker 2: just type some stupid My homegirl tells me figure o man,

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Speaker 2: our political fighter and activist.

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Speaker 1: She said, Bro, you don't understand how this could be misread.

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Speaker 2: And I read it and I said, damn, So step

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Speaker 2: let me say man, since my favorite player ever turned

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Speaker 2: me on to you, Kobe Bryant, Kobe bing Brian told

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Speaker 2: me you gotta follow.

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Speaker 1: You heard this story before. You have been my guy.

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Speaker 2: The only time I don't cheer for you is when

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Speaker 2: you're playing against the Hawks, because the Hawks are my guys.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Ice Trade.

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Speaker 2: But I gotta say first and foremost, miss missus Aisha

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Speaker 2: Curry and her husband's step, I apologize for my statement

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Speaker 2: being misconscrewed. I was just stoned up trying to make

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Speaker 2: a joke out of it. What's that It wasn't my

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Speaker 2: damn business, like my wife said. So I'm sorry y'all.

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Speaker 2: And see that's the thing. Knowing you like I.

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Speaker 1: Know you, you.

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Speaker 2: Don't really dwelve del into other people's affairs. Hi man,

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Speaker 2: Hi stoned man and the boy made it all a

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Speaker 2: glow really joke, and I love glow. I I just

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Speaker 2: give it a little bit. But I but I was

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Speaker 2: hit and telling me, no, don't go so hard on

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Speaker 2: my guy because sep my guy.

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Speaker 1: But it read wrong.

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Speaker 2: But I'm gonna tell you something, man, step did something

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Speaker 2: that all us brothers with women should do, and that's

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Speaker 2: stand up and depending no matter if somebody stepped on

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Speaker 2: my foot, No.

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Speaker 1: Matter they did it or not.

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Speaker 2: Man check and say, hey, man, you didn't say excuse me,

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Speaker 2: so let me say again. I he's your step excuse me.

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Speaker 2: I apologize deeply, and I'm searching for your address so

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Speaker 2: I may send y'all some of this ploma y'all may

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Speaker 2: make more love, make a beautiful, light skinned baby flash love.

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Speaker 1: Y'all.

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Speaker 4: What a great transition. You've been married almost twenty years. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: but what people don't know probably maybe you're closest friends.

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Speaker 1: You and Shane kept it a secret for.

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Speaker 2: Further nine nine Yeah, how did.

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Speaker 1: You keep it a secret? And why did you keep

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Speaker 1: it a secret?

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Speaker 2: Well, see, man's in the world of ruined some good stuff.

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Speaker 2: If they know about it, didn't Yeah, they will, They'll

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Speaker 2: find rumor lies in your window. They'll find reason to

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Speaker 2: getting away. And I want and I want to walk

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Speaker 2: in the straight path too. I was crooked, a clothes

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Speaker 1: That's not the reason I kept the secret.

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Speaker 2: I kept the sec because she was mine right and

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to share her with a gossip, sights

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Speaker 2: and opinion. I didn't want to share her with other

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Speaker 2: people thought of our marriage because it's been very non

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Speaker 2: traditional times. I just wanted her to myself, and in

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Speaker 2: the meanwhile, I had to understand that she is a wife,

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Speaker 2: had to share me with the world. And even though

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Speaker 2: didn't really look for attention. That's why I couldn't tell you.

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Speaker 2: Prob she figured you a home boy, she got right

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Speaker 2: to talk with to you, but I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Man. We got met.

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Speaker 2: It was three in the morning. We in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: A friend of mine who had in a former life

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Speaker 2: doing my best financially. He was like, now bringing out

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Speaker 2: a couple of grand to the club, just say hello

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Speaker 2: to folks. Man, my man TV man shots out and

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Speaker 2: at three in the morning, Man, it just struck me.

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Speaker 2: I was like, man, I'm supposed to be married to

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Speaker 2: something on that saying, you know, if you say yes,

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Speaker 2: we can go do it now. If you say no,

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Speaker 2: I just so I'm gonna figure out something else to do.

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Speaker 2: And she said yes, and we got up, got a cab.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't even uber and we want a cab. At

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Speaker 2: through chapels. Really, the cab guy was our witness. We

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Speaker 2: got married by some white woman who I'm sure was

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Speaker 2: and I have been honored to be her husband. I've

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Speaker 2: her greatly because she didn't make me stop going to

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Speaker 2: the Blue Flame. She encouraged her and went with me.

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Speaker 2: She encouraged me when I wanted to quit rapping, to

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Speaker 2: keep rapping. She encouraged me when I went into business

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Speaker 2: to think bigger, think begger, think better. And I'm just

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Speaker 2: proud of her. Ozzy Osbourne has a has a godless

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Speaker 2: spill when he talks about sharing. They say, she's my

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm envious of her. And I really felt that

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Speaker 2: because those are the truest feelings. Sometimes when you're married,

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Speaker 2: you don't you don't know how you're gonna feel about

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Speaker 2: each other that day. But I know I made a

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Speaker 2: it's over.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take these offers and started crying about.

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Speaker 4: Him when it was very unconventional to start, and she

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Speaker 4: seems she was amenable to it. But did you guys

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Speaker 4: had the family together, y'all?

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Speaker 1: So that was it? Was it?

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm gonna tell you how it was. We were

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Speaker 2: at we were in South Carolina. He'll to head her family.

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Speaker 2: She's from Savannah, but her family and father's family of

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Speaker 2: South Carolina. He'll take their huge family, like my mother's

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Speaker 2: side of the family in Tuskei. They they and they

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Speaker 2: love their nieces and nephews and sons and daughters. So

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Speaker 2: we were on there and she was talking about, you know,

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Speaker 2: building on some of the land that you know, the

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Speaker 2: family has down there. And so I'm like, yeah, man,

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Speaker 2: y'all get this the land. We'll figure out, you know,

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Speaker 2: how may get her housband. And her hunt says, hold on,

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Speaker 2: hold on, hello, when when? When when are I marry

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Speaker 2: my niece? I said, excuse me, I said, when did

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Speaker 2: I married my niece?

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Speaker 1: Been too long?

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Speaker 2: You've been there and you just been having around he

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Speaker 2: just having a run around chairs here on the run.

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Speaker 2: And I'm just like, ecut, I don't understand her. What

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Speaker 2: she says, You're just gonna have my daughter, my girl,

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Speaker 2: I mean my niece, my niece following you around, chase

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Speaker 2: you around the world. And I started laughing because ain't

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Speaker 2: Penny is serious? She reminded me my un me Linda.

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Speaker 2: She was not playing, you know what I mean. She

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Speaker 2: she's the one that tell my wife, go cook for

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Speaker 2: your husband, Go cook your husband. Don't need to be

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Speaker 2: going out to eat your go in and kitchen and

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Speaker 2: then cool. So she's talking to that and I'm like, uh, tee,

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Speaker 2: we've been married nine years, what you've been married.

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Speaker 1: Not and never heard another peep out of her.

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Speaker 2: It satisfied her enough to know that I had validated

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Speaker 2: her niece through marrying her. And that's my girl up

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Speaker 2: But Mike, you said you knew Shade was the one

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Speaker 1: Like that battle. Damn, that's what I said.

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Speaker 2: And when I pulled up, I pulled that the apartment.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I met her in Daytona like all her yeah,

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Speaker 1: She want to be? The feeling in her head? Son o, God,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean she was. She had beautiful skin glown,

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Speaker 1: This girl's goning hate. I was like, I can't have

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Speaker 1: I know Mike.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know what the hell ten

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Speaker 2: I said, man, you need to take me out to dinner.

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Speaker 2: And you know, she again she thought I was arrogant

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Speaker 2: to Gentleman. I thought she was just amazing. Wow, that's

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Speaker 2: that's an unbelievable story. She's in the building of the

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Speaker 2: You see, Shaye, You're like, yeah, I ain't gonna be

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Speaker 2: We were having fun, but I was just like this

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Speaker 2: it was a certain amount of standoffishness about her. So

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Speaker 2: She was like an old lady and a young fine.

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Speaker 2: She looked like she was supposed to be stripping getting

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Speaker 1: Gonna know what I would do it? Right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can remember the moment she was like she

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Speaker 2: was gonna go waitress and Jazzy Tea, and I said, god, I.

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Speaker 1: Went and thought I had to go. Think you went

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, man, magic City Magic, all of them. But

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Speaker 2: you know waiting. I just got the thought. I was like, man, damn,

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Speaker 2: I said happen. I said it's gonna go crazy because

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Speaker 2: this ain't gonna I was like, I was like, no,

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Speaker 2: I got that little Bill, I don't worry about that.

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Speaker 4: But since you didn't have a traditional wedding, Yeah, how

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Speaker 1: Between thirty and fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: So by the time the cake and yeah, you're in

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Speaker 4: the DJ and you get the building, how much do

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Speaker 4: say for the sake of argument, I don't know if

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Speaker 4: you would do it the same way over again, or

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Speaker 4: you would go back, or you'd have a traditional wedding.

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Speaker 4: Maybe Sha would have won a traditional wedding. Let's just

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Speaker 4: say Mike had a quarter bill. Yeah, how much would

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Speaker 2: A wedding if she wanted a traditional wed and she

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Speaker 2: take that money, I'm gonna put twenty percent down on

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Speaker 2: to be in your mama's or grandmama's backyard. Yeah, with

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Speaker 2: a very nice dress, So you would give something for

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Speaker 2: the dress and a tuxedo or source or just a suit,

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Speaker 2: but you would put that money into investing in something

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Speaker 2: that's gonna grow over the next ten to fifteen years.

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Speaker 2: So you know, you it's good when you married and

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Speaker 2: when you single to have mentors. We have a group

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Speaker 2: and John preaches us, you know, you know, just economic integrity,

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Speaker 1: What you do just for flash, just for show.

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Speaker 2: So we would, honestly, I would say before a traditional marriage,

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Speaker 2: we probably would have invested in something. And that theory

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Speaker 1: You know, what are you gonna do with it? And

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Speaker 2: That was the first rental property we bought, and we've

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Speaker 2: grown our portfolio. You know, I could have afforded one

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Speaker 2: She was like, no, we should buy these apartments. You've

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Speaker 2: So maybe when I'm sixty seven or something, she'll want

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Speaker 2: that wig and that gold dress. I don't see I'm

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Speaker 2: them in overalls. But when they jump traditional well, and

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Speaker 2: and tell Ski Alabama. We still own that land to

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Speaker 2: this day. And both of their names is on that DP.

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Speaker 2: It was not just my great grandfather's in h Blackness

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Speaker 2: we probably would you give us thirty five forty thousand dollars,

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Speaker 2: We just gonna go find another property to buy an

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Speaker 1: To do that.

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Speaker 4: You said that you knew that that was your soulmate.

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Speaker 4: How different do you believe your life would have been.

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Speaker 4: Had you not followed your instincts and say that's my soulmate,

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Speaker 2: My twin flying like you know, I think more. I

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Speaker 2: think we the same flying, just sparking different kind of

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Speaker 2: the encouragement they needed me. I've never followen off from

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Speaker 2: So I've had a lot of people my soul match with,

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Speaker 2: Probably would have made a lot more money but squandered it,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So I'm glad that I

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Speaker 2: I can bring my check home too, and the proper

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Speaker 2: investment is gonna get made. Now the money I make

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Speaker 2: on a weekend in mind, you can't tell me what

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Speaker 4: You are really an old soul. Yeah, because I was

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Speaker 4: around my grandfather growing up. And that's how the but

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Speaker 4: all the old men thought like that. Yeah, they worked

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Speaker 4: they come set that check on the table.

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00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,119
Speaker 1: Yep, go do what you're gonna do with that. Man,

434
00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:48,800
Speaker 1: I don't do what you're gonna do. That's how that's

435
00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:49,960
Speaker 1: that's how they thought. Ye.

436
00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,640
Speaker 2: It was like prob is it probably thirty one. And

437
00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,080
Speaker 2: when it talks about the type of woman you want

438
00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:55,879
Speaker 2: to marry, a woman that's gonna be a conservative, woman

439
00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,240
Speaker 2: that's gonna be saved, woman that's gonna take her time

440
00:17:58,280 --> 00:17:59,879
Speaker 2: to invest and do things for herself with this.

441
00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,480
Speaker 1: For the medician, you want that because you need a partner.

442
00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:04,960
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You have to have a partner.

443
00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,879
Speaker 2: And you know, and for me, we have lost the

444
00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,879
Speaker 2: art of partnership and in our opinion, not even in

445
00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,879
Speaker 2: our extual but in our opinion. See, it used to

446
00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:15,840
Speaker 2: be you want to break up with your girl, and

447
00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:17,880
Speaker 2: it be like that sitting in the good Fellows, your

448
00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:18,480
Speaker 2: home is sitting around.

449
00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:19,080
Speaker 1: You gotta go home.

450
00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,479
Speaker 2: I know you like your little side piece and everything,

451
00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,359
Speaker 2: and y'all, y'all get back to that, but you gotta

452
00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:25,480
Speaker 2: go home, you know, no matter what happens. And I

453
00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,680
Speaker 2: think that we've lost that philosophy, you know, in our community,

454
00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,480
Speaker 2: and it's not good for us because you gotta go home.

455
00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,399
Speaker 2: Y'all take care of home, I mean, and if you

456
00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,280
Speaker 2: really got a good side at home. I've seen for

457
00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,119
Speaker 2: old men in the country have two homes, you know,

458
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,240
Speaker 2: a mess around, but both of them homes be stable

459
00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,440
Speaker 2: because one of them women, of both of them women,

460
00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,480
Speaker 2: but they're teaching him to stay in line, to stay

461
00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:46,920
Speaker 2: And I think that we need to get back to

462
00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:47,440
Speaker 2: that as men.

463
00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,560
Speaker 1: Shay seems to allow you to be you.

464
00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, how important is that in a marriage, in a

465
00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,440
Speaker 4: relationship that because a lot of times you meet someone

466
00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,719
Speaker 4: and you try to change the very person that you met. Ya,

467
00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,280
Speaker 4: Shae met you killer Mike how you are, but she've

468
00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,840
Speaker 4: allowed you to be that Yeah, how important is that

469
00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:09,320
Speaker 4: in a relationship, in a marriage.

470
00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:11,840
Speaker 2: That's a compromise. I trim back on some of my

471
00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,399
Speaker 2: you know, you know what I mean I have. But

472
00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,199
Speaker 2: but with that said, being allowed to be me is

473
00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,040
Speaker 2: what's allowed us to prosper and grow. And I appreciate that,

474
00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,240
Speaker 2: and I encourage her to be her. I don't want

475
00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,200
Speaker 2: her to simply be Michael Render of Killer Mike's wife.

476
00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,600
Speaker 2: I want Shaye bigger. I want SHANEA. Ford Render to

477
00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,000
Speaker 2: be the biggest, best, most badass version of herself. When

478
00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,400
Speaker 2: you see a project coming, like development properties. We do

479
00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,160
Speaker 2: Techi Homes for partner in a company called Techi Homes

480
00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,760
Speaker 2: that's building miniature neighborhoods for people. That man looked for

481
00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:42,960
Speaker 2: me for five six years, cant find me. When he

482
00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,080
Speaker 2: finally found me, he met my business partner and my

483
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,480
Speaker 2: life partner. He met Shaye and she was a business

484
00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:49,720
Speaker 2: part She went out on the construction site, she walked

485
00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,760
Speaker 2: the sites. She came back and said, hey, this is

486
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,280
Speaker 2: a good investment. So for me it was important because

487
00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,320
Speaker 2: I knew I married somebody who was like, well, if

488
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:57,600
Speaker 2: I'm the tight end man, I want to know my

489
00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,760
Speaker 2: old lineman doing their thing, and me and Shaye try

490
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,159
Speaker 2: to work in tandem like that. And so I've always

491
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,920
Speaker 2: attempted to live like that with women I have data

492
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 2: to been with, but it didn't work because they didn't

493
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,440
Speaker 2: pa have the proper understanding, or it didn't work because

494
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:09,120
Speaker 2: they they have a proper faith.

495
00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:10,600
Speaker 1: And I don't mean that from a bad perspective.

496
00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 2: My youngest daughter, Mikey's so by your mama is like,

497
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,040
Speaker 2: hey man, I'm into this working thing. That entrepreneur thing

498
00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,800
Speaker 2: is too shaky. I don't know, you know, I need healthcare.

499
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:24,120
Speaker 2: And and her and Shae have an amazing relationship that's

500
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 2: benefited my daughter because Month is going to go to work.

501
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,560
Speaker 1: Month is going to take care of foods and county.

502
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,919
Speaker 2: He's taking care of Shane's gonna work on these development

503
00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:32,640
Speaker 2: She's gonna take some high risks, but they both pour

504
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,959
Speaker 2: into my daughter. And that my daughter's a freshman at

505
00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 2: half the university Jose rewards are pouring back. So her

506
00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,399
Speaker 2: letting me be me allowed a big mixed family. You know,

507
00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,119
Speaker 2: you come to our house on thanksgetting it. Literally everybody

508
00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,240
Speaker 2: is there, the kids there, they mama's there, they mama's

509
00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,040
Speaker 2: sisters and brothers there. You know, friends and family that

510
00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,760
Speaker 2: may not have friends family there, but everybody's welcome. And

511
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 2: that's what I needed that because in order for me

512
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:56,920
Speaker 2: to be the type of Michael I am, a kid

513
00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,199
Speaker 2: raised by his grandparents, raised them between parents, and we

514
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,480
Speaker 2: didn't say step parents, but these bonus parents and all

515
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,880
Speaker 2: these cousins and stuff. You know, we were in Atlanta,

516
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:06,680
Speaker 2: but we lived like we was in the country. All

517
00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 2: ten of my niece, all ten of my cousins, we

518
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 2: were all in the living room floor together on palace.

519
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 2: Nobody won't sleep next to me because I peed in

520
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 2: the bed.

521
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 1: So it was all the palace, the best thing going. Man.

522
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 2: If it wasn't though, if it wasn't for me marrying her,

523
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 2: I probably would have had a far more disruptive life.

524
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 2: So I'm appreciating for her for having the trust in

525
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,359
Speaker 2: need that I could do it, and encouraging me when

526
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:28,920
Speaker 2: I thought I could.

527
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,879
Speaker 4: All the places that you meant Strokers and Blue Flame,

528
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 4: you had the tea you go to Dugans and she

529
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 4: seems like, Okay, you can do that, but you take

530
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:38,120
Speaker 4: a with you.

531
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. Whatever.

532
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 2: If you got a wife who finds a stripper, you

533
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 2: want to stripple to seal yeah, and we get half

534
00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:46,479
Speaker 2: off on our dance high when I go to when

535
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:47,920
Speaker 2: I go to manage seeing what I'll say, Man, my

536
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,639
Speaker 2: dance would be ten dollars for real, just like me.

537
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 1: You jarge me ten, Mike. You know it's just a rule.

538
00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:53,919
Speaker 1: I get that.

539
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,080
Speaker 2: With shape, they'd be like, girl, don't worry about I

540
00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 2: ain't even worry about no dancing night. I just wanted

541
00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 2: to hang with you.

542
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 1: I like, you know what I mean, Just you ain't

543
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: gonna get me no break. I've been spinning with you

544
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:03,360
Speaker 1: sing my freshman year.

545
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,400
Speaker 2: But they liked my wife. A lot of them thought

546
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 2: she used to be a stripper. That was so funny.

547
00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 1: A dancer.

548
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 2: But we respect the girls. We love the girls. We

549
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,560
Speaker 2: built cool relationships. A lot of those young women in

550
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,359
Speaker 2: there aren't just dancing. They own businesses. Shade shop with

551
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 2: them a lot for their hair businesses. They're clothing businesses.

552
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,920
Speaker 2: She's encouraged them to get real estate license. Shot out

553
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 2: the girl. These went on to get her her her

554
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 2: nursings practitioner. I mean she's a nurse. She was a

555
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 2: practitioner when we met him. I think she's a full

556
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,280
Speaker 2: on nursing I was just so you get to see

557
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 2: these success stories too. And I'm just I'm damn proud

558
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:34,639
Speaker 2: that when I go to the club, if I'm with

559
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:35,840
Speaker 2: my wife, I get a discount.

560
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 4: Like how hard is it to remain monogamous when you're married?

561
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: How hard? I don't know. I ain't known.

562
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 2: Try oh man.

563
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: Man, it was just it was just it was this dancer. Man.

564
00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 1: I was just I was smitting by the dancer.

565
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 2: But I knew, I knew I want was supposed to

566
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 2: be doing out doing my my old lady and the

567
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,880
Speaker 2: lightness dancer and his dancer. She liked my old lady,

568
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 2: but it was a lust of way. My old lady

569
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 2: wasn't interested. And I just had too much fun.

570
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: Man.

571
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 2: So I done had too much fun at the girl's

572
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 2: spot one time and I got out of there. Man,

573
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,359
Speaker 2: I got a call, man, maybe you should come back. Man,

574
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 2: we should run around too. I was like, well, I

575
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 2: am trying to get some cardio ina and man, I

576
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,360
Speaker 2: got a call when I got in there saying, manye

577
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: I don't bring your ass out their girl house right now.

578
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 2: I'm gonna kill both of y'all. I said, what, Man,

579
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 2: get out here, stop playing. Man, I ain't even over

580
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 2: the man, you just singing the truck my.

581
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: Little out there. My wife had my gun right away,

582
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: pointing at me. I was like, okay, damn. I was

583
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: like Henry and the good things. I woke up like hey, I.

584
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 2: Got in the truck where I stood on like she say,

585
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 2: ain't never see your fat.

586
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: Everyone's so fast.

587
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 2: My life, no, being monogamous, got a lot easier after that.

588
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: But but what what.

589
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 2: Killed me is she drove straight Mounet Debra House. Nunti

590
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 2: Debra was the aunt that you know, encourage me to

591
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 2: read Manti Debl's. She was, you know, into zen and

592
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 2: just peacefulness.

593
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: Man.

594
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 2: I walked in that man, my auntie say, I've never

595
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,360
Speaker 2: been so disappointed you in my life.

596
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 1: I rather got shot. Would I literally would have rather

597
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 1: got you had so much respect.

598
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 2: For man and to hear and to hear her how

599
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 2: disappointed she was after that, The rules changed.

600
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 1: After that.

601
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 2: I was just like, man, you know I like you.

602
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 2: You just got to holler at her. If you can

603
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 2: convince her that we like each other nothing, you ain't

604
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 2: no problem.

605
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: Man. I love to do a twirl in the wind,

606
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 1: which your dad.

607
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 2: But I don't want to get shot, and I don't

608
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 2: want Monty devil to feel like that again. So you know,

609
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 2: I would just say, let Taylor fit your marriage for you.

610
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 2: I can't tell you what monogamy is the best thing

611
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 2: for your marriage. Because when I see some of my

612
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 2: Muslim brothers that have three four wifs, all they kids,

613
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 2: scholarship in the school. You know, a lot of my

614
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 2: homies have been monogamous. They got to pay for private school,

615
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 2: laugh for college. So the dynamics of marriage and more

616
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 2: than just who you land with a monogamy and anonomy there,

617
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 2: how do I partner with this person because I know

618
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 2: a lot of I was. We we visited, man, we

619
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 2: have some dear friends. They're both attorneys and Peach and Howard.

620
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 2: They're amazing attorney. She was already an attorney. Her husband soldiers,

621
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 2: janitary business, winter on the comme attorney. They just some

622
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 2: of them black folks should be proud to brag about.

623
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 2: But they left me in the garage with the husbands

624
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 2: one time. So we down in Tampa and the boys

625
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 2: cities there. They got a nice strip club there, so

626
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 2: I'm like, oo, let's go to the strip club. And

627
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 2: the guys want to you know, it turned into a

628
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,159
Speaker 2: It turned into a slave plantation. When you said, Harriet, come, oh, no,

629
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 2: I don't know about that boss, And I was like, man,

630
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,400
Speaker 2: what's wrong with you? And I was like, your wife,

631
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 2: don't go to the cook I gave a speech. I mean,

632
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 2: this shit was it was. It was brave, heartworthy. So

633
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get the men that were going out the

634
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 2: next day, Peachy and Shakee get me in the kitchen.

635
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 2: They saying, oh Mike and peaching like a sister said me.

636
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,919
Speaker 2: She said yeah, I said yeah. She said, the wives

637
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 2: have a talk and they don't. They don't really want you.

638
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 2: And Shakee comes in and said, stop talking, stop talking,

639
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:56,719
Speaker 2: shut up.

640
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:57,640
Speaker 1: I said, what you're talking about?

641
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 2: She said, stop talking to wives, Hud, because you give

642
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 2: them some idea that they can live like us, and

643
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 2: they can't live like us. They don't have the same

644
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 2: type of marriage we do. You were out here messing

645
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 2: up marriages. And I was like, oh my god, I

646
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 2: done told slavery is freedom on the other side. So

647
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 2: so what I realized is Shae and I have a

648
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 2: non traditional marriage, and that that I have the ability

649
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 2: to speak my mind. Even if I can't ask on

650
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Speaker 2: every impulse and thought, I can say to my wife.

651
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: Man, I find that girl on a track, I can

652
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: she all nudged me.

653
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, look at the ass on that one.

654
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: So I have a best friend like relationship in that

655
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 2: way with it. You mentioned something earlier, just a few

656
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 2: minutes ago. You said your kid's mother and Shane have

657
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 2: a great relationship.

658
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

659
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,959
Speaker 4: How important was that for you to make sure your

660
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 4: kids mother had a relationship with your now wife, because

661
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 4: a lot of times it's not like that because they

662
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 4: feel some type of way that you would hurt and

663
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 4: not with them. She's getting benefits that they were in time.

664
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 4: She ain't got no well I don't know if you

665
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 4: had kids at the time, but she ain't. She ain't

666
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 4: went through what yet. She got us as a package deal.

667
00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 4: She got you know, she got a five for one,

668
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,199
Speaker 4: you know with us, we the pagage deal with you know.

669
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 4: So she was like, I remember when our first dates.

670
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 4: She were going to buy clothes a Pony boy. You know,

671
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 4: Pony is the one who had the kidney transplant. These

672
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,239
Speaker 4: named trade school shots out only I talked to them,

673
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 4: my god this morning. So it's three mothers. It was

674
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 4: four children, you know, with the oldest boys. Mother's pretty cool.

675
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 4: She was pretty cool with the second two. She was

676
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 4: a little wilder.

677
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,479
Speaker 2: We was from the same neighborhood, so it took them

678
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: are meant to get acclimated to each other, but they did,

679
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 2: and they have a lot of love and reverence for

680
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 2: one another. Like she's the one at of call shade now,

681
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: like if he feel like being a not mone or

682
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 2: none monotonous, we gonna whoop the whole ass like she's asked.

683
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 2: But I'm just like a lot of fat head. Please don't,

684
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: let's not do. Let's not whoop no wholes asses to like.

685
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 2: And the youngest with Michael her her mother's Anna, and

686
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 2: Anna is amazing. My grandfather used to plead with my

687
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,959
Speaker 2: father by her father Big Mike, and my mother drew

688
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 2: other Denise. He used to say, get that his sisters together.

689
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 2: He has two sisters by you and three sisters by you,

690
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 2: which means this boy has five sisters. No half sisters,

691
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 2: no step sisters. He has five sisters. And my parents

692
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 2: were so young and in passion that a lot of

693
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 2: times they didn't do right in terms of taking that advice.

694
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: Now that my sisters are adults, they know one another.

695
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 2: They talk, they congregate, and they all love their brothers,

696
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 2: and their brother all loved them, and I wanted my

697
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 2: children to have that faster. My children have me on

698
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 2: a text chain, and they got a whole nother text

699
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 2: chain without me about me. Because even if you don't

700
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 2: have the same by your mother and father, biologically y'all

701
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,959
Speaker 2: are fifty percent y'all are fifty percent me.

702
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: That means y'all belong to one another. And I need you, guys.

703
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 2: I need to know that one day when I die,

704
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 2: that those four people that's gonna cry are connected beyond me.

705
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: And I have accomplished that, and that is my greatest.

706
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 2: Accomplishment, you know, besides finding a woman that will be

707
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,719
Speaker 2: stat fast and that pilosiphle with me, My greatest accomplishment

708
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 2: had been in birthing these four individuals and having these four.

709
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: Individuals grow up to be a human being.

710
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 2: When I go in a room and say their name,

711
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,239
Speaker 2: people speaking in high steem and away from me, they

712
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 2: keep the same integrity for my family that we've developed

713
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 2: over the past fifty sixty hundred and eighty years. However

714
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 2: many times years we've been doing it, and they love

715
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 2: one another beyond me.

716
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: You know, that's awesome. You're in business with your wife.

717
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 2: A lot of people are like, man, you know a

718
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 2: keep wife wife business. Keep that over here because she

719
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 2: knows everything. So it's not like you can hide something

720
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 2: because he knows. He's reading all the documentation. Also, she

721
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 2: knows where all the money is.

722
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 4: She knows the safety posit box, she knows the shoe box,

723
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 4: the backets and all that. How what led you to do?

724
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 4: Like you know what shape everything? I'm an open book

725
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 4: there it is.

726
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I saw, you know, with Daddy

727
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: and Willie, That's what I saw. Now.

728
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, what the money winning made on the weekend, that

729
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 2: was his money, whatever he made playing talk, driving dumps

730
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 2: on the wind. But the money from chatahooch you break,

731
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 2: that was the bet. And Wally collected thund and raise

732
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 2: Michael Lovey and Lashama, you know what I mean. So

733
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 2: you know it's one or two things. Like I got

734
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 2: a building I bought I didn't tell her about, but

735
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 2: she was pissed about it. But I knew I wanted

736
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 2: to build it, and I wanted to see if I

737
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 2: could do it myself, you know what I mean? And

738
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 2: I went and I went and got it, got great,

739
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 2: got great terms on the loan got great and it's

740
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 2: paid off already. You know, I knew I was gonna

741
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 2: get it out quick, but I had to see if

742
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: I could do it myself because of what I had

743
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 2: learned just in proxy to her, and she learned.

744
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: She teaches what she what she learned about development. She

745
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: taught me.

746
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,719
Speaker 2: I'm running around trying to learn lyrics and learn lines,

747
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: but she makes sure I understand, you know, shot out

748
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 2: my man Booker t on the teching homes and and

749
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 2: somebody who's been a part of wisdom on a shouts out,

750
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 2: you know, to my man Patrick who's giving wisdom. To

751
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 2: a shout out to John hol'brien who's giving wisdom, Jamie

752
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 2: Jamie Gertz, who's giving wisdom, Tony Wrestler, owner of the house,

753
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 2: who's giving wisdom. She takes that information, We take that information,

754
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 2: and we aggregated, We get it figured out what's gonna

755
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 2: work best for Mike and Shay so having a partner

756
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 2: and me.

757
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: I told him, if you ever want to leave.

758
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 2: Me for another nigga, just telling me, get introduced to

759
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 2: his brotherhoods because you're not getting rid of me like

760
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: I'm here. I'm here to then yeah, yeah, what we

761
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 2: getting her for her birthday?

762
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: Brotherhood? You you know what I'm saying. I don't.

763
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 2: So I'm just I'm locked in with a like that,

764
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 2: you know, and I and I trust her implicitly I got.

765
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 2: I woke up exhausted and dehydrated in the hospital. I

766
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 2: had blicked and didn't even know what was wrong. I

767
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 2: woke up and there she was. And I went to sleep,

768
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 2: and I woke up and there she was. And I

769
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 2: went to sleep, and I woke up and that she was.

770
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 2: She wouldn't leave my side at the hospital. She wouldn't

771
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: leave my dad come up. I gotta watch him now

772
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 2: I'm straight. She didn't leave to left. I remember we left.

773
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 2: We left. She was smoking a joint, playing kingsle lyon,

774
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And I just I appreciate

775
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:25,959
Speaker 2: it for that, and I understood the death of what

776
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 2: my grandparents had with that, you know, every time when

777
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 2: the burnt went fish and he ain't come back with

778
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 2: no fish, but he came back with the same love

779
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: and adoration for Betty. And that's what I saw. So

780
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 2: that's what I emulate, you know. And I have a partner.

781
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 2: I don't just have a wife.

782
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 4: What happens when she wants to do a property, you

783
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 4: don't agree. You want to do a property, she doesn't agree. Yeah,

784
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 4: how do you resolve disagreement?

785
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 2: We just we talked, We argue. I mean, we had

786
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 2: disagreements that last in months. We had philosophy, were were

787
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: still standing on the different side.

788
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: You know.

789
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: You know, for me, man, you know I practice this

790
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 2: long for a few years, I was like, you know,

791
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 2: I could technically have four wives. Like she like, nigg

792
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna move my house. I hope you in the

793
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 2: hole be okay, you know what I mean? So real,

794
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 2: But I don't have to hide the fact that from

795
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 2: a philosophical standpoint, I do think you can have more

796
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 2: than one wife. But but that's a much more freeing

797
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 2: relationship than one way. I got the city in the

798
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 2: garage and not go to the ship club in Eyboy City,

799
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So, for for me, I

800
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 2: found a partner in that I can openly communicate, agree

801
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 2: and disagree with and and she came with me. So

802
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 2: there's certain things my wife told me, man, she said,

803
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 2: I want to get a bed and breakfast. When I

804
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: was young in my career, had a little more money,

805
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: at that time, and I was eran, I was fuck on.

806
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 2: Then I stay in Marriott's, you know, talking talking like

807
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 2: Pempcy to myself in the mirror. And what exploded right

808
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 2: after that bed and breakfast, right in Savannah, Jordan and

809
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 2: I and I came back and told her.

810
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: I said, I'm sorry. I just I said I was wrong.

811
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: So when she came back to me and said, I

812
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 2: found in the dust your building and Savanna they're about

813
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 2: to build a new police station smother stuff over there,

814
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 2: I didn't question it. I just I just signed off

815
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 2: on the paperwork, you know. And and that property is

816
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 2: worth I would say seven or eight times what it

817
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 2: was when we bought it. And I remember going to

818
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 2: the property we bought it from a black woman, and

819
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 2: black woman walked in the room and realized it was

820
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 2: a young black couple minded for and she burst in

821
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 2: tears crime because she said, I had bought this with

822
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 2: my husband, and I wanted the legacy to be people

823
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 2: who looked like us. As so I tend to trust

824
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 2: that God has favor and grace on us, and if

825
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 2: we'll give ourselves the grace to get through the communication,

826
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 2: that we will reach some type of understanding and understanding.

827
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 2: It doesn't always mean an agreement, but I trust her

828
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: because I've seen her as a businesswoman. That's the same

829
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 2: property I'll tell people about that I bought instead of

830
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 2: buying the Dodge. Jamien's worth just under a million dollars

831
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:47,920
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Speaker 4: she's like, you know, Michael, I was thinking about this,

864
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 4: or you was like, Shay, hey, I rolled by this

865
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 4: area right here, and it seemed like they're gonna be

866
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 4: developing this. They're gonna be some small they're gonna be

867
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 4: family homes of the project. How do you decide what

868
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 4: you guys are gonna go invest in.

869
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: Kevin like that.

870
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: Like you know, some people will come to it and say,

871
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,240
Speaker 2: you know, hey, as as the baby boomers a getting older,

872
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 2: these are going to be good investments.

873
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 1: Retirement communities, homes. You see.

874
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 2: Alonzo mornings and One did an amazing job. T I

875
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 2: knew affordable housing was a big thing in Atlanta, so

876
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 2: he built one hundred and forty some of our units

877
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 2: right at the old K Marty bought the old K

878
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 2: martin developed those.

879
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: So we talked about it all.

880
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 2: We knew that, you know, coming I look at man,

881
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 2: My heroes were people like the working men that worked

882
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 2: at the longshoremen in Savannah, the working men that worked

883
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 2: at chatter which to brick like my grandfather, these me

884
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 2: and oftentimes the things they would buy, like my grandfather

885
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 2: never sold this original house, so we always had a

886
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 2: rental property. That rental properties what allowed him to get

887
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 2: an RV, which allowed him to take us on vacation

888
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 2: from late Win up of Soccer to Tapa clear Water,

889
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 2: same Pete. We got to go all these places because

890
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 2: my grandfather made a sound investment. My grandfather, you know,

891
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,479
Speaker 2: they had a little stock option here. Their pinised stocks.

892
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 2: He would buy stuff for us. My grandmother was an investor,

893
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: you know. She was a grow your own food, or

894
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 2: you don't have to get everything from the store. So

895
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 2: when me and Shaye have an idea, she usually is

896
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 2: a better researcher than me. I do things off good instinct,

897
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 2: you know. It's like I remember buying my first barbershop.

898
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 2: We were recording rap music and we were living in

899
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 2: Brooklyn at the time. We were living in Williamsburg record music.

900
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,240
Speaker 2: I saw a barbershop on Crigss.

901
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 1: I just bought it.

902
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 2: And she was like, I told her she ain't taught

903
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 2: me for two weeks and I was like what. She

904
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 2: was like, you could have just they damn LEAs on it,

905
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:51,479
Speaker 2: but we could have just when it got the least.

906
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 2: I said, shit, I ain't never think of it like

907
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 2: that she and she was like, well, you need to

908
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 2: think and we need to talk about before we make

909
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 2: major moves with money. I didn't make another major move

910
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 2: with money for another probably fifteen sixteen years, you know,

911
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 2: because I understood that the importance of having my partner.

912
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 2: You know, you get warm buffet, but a lot of

913
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 2: people don't know who Charlie Mungery is. You know, you

914
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 2: don't get doctor King without having Corrella Scott. You need

915
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 2: a partner. You need a partner. So for me, I

916
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 2: needed someone who thought practically, who was instinctively conservative with

917
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 2: a dollar, and the universe gave me that hurt. What

918
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 2: she needed was a dreamer, a believer in, someone who

919
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 2: wasn't afraid to think is big it she is because

920
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 2: you know, only one, two, three, ten, twenty rental properties

921
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 2: is one thing, but when you get into development, and

922
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: she stepped into development. Bankhead Seafood is a restaurant that

923
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 2: Ti and I bought from a lady named is Helen Harden.

924
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 2: It was a hole in the wall, grete five fish,

925
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 2: great shrimp in the world's best Hushpuppy. When we reopened

926
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 2: that that business, it opened as a sit down restaurant.

927
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 2: We've had some repairs done on it. Now we're reopening

928
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 2: a matter of weeks, which I'm very proud about. But

929
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 2: if it wasn't for Shay and Crystal Peterson thinking big,

930
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 2: it wouldn't have been.

931
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: Developed like that.

932
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 2: But she only could think that be it cause she's

933
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 2: up at night watching YouTube, reading literature, learning, She's being

934
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 2: mentored by people like Booker t But I put people.

935
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 1: Like John O'Brien.

936
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 2: She is in a constant state of learning, and that's

937
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 2: what I trust more than just Okay, I know she

938
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 2: did a couple of times she had a real estate license,

939
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 2: was trying to get it. I trust the fact that

940
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 2: she's researched with me. I trust my gut, and I

941
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 2: like a good story. So when you look at the

942
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 2: swag shop which I brought for you today, cause we

943
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,479
Speaker 2: got your hell always on point. So we got man,

944
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 2: we got shampools, we got well, you gonna love this

945
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 2: bump killer.

946
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: You get raisor bumps.

947
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 2: We got a shaving cran for those brothers that still

948
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 2: put raisor till they faced a lot of yeah, so

949
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 2: this is you're gonna love this shaving crane. We spent

950
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 2: two and a half years developing this, and we got

951
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 2: your being all. So we got we got this. But

952
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 2: what I learned by watching my wife is research it.

953
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: I could have went and bought some white label stuff

954
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 2: that was made for white folks that wasn't for our skinning.

955
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 2: But what I went and did was I went and

956
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 2: developed formulas just specifically for us. So when I get

957
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 2: out the car and I see a Floyd's barber shop

958
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 2: across the street. I know that the swag shave washing

959
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 2: groom shop is going to be comparable to a Floyd's

960
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 2: one day, because I think that there's a cool that

961
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 2: black barbershops offer. And it was for me just about

962
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 2: marrying a business model with that cool. We figured that

963
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 2: out with the first barbershop and State Farm arena. You

964
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 2: can get a haircut, have the same view as the

965
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,439
Speaker 2: sweets wash the game. But then I said, man, well,

966
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 2: I can't grow the company's fast as I'd like to grow.

967
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 2: At COVID Happening, I was supposed expanded by ten stories

968
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 2: by now, I said, so in lighted that, what can

969
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 2: I do? Talk to Tony Wrestling. Tony said, you know, Mike,

970
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 2: you could go ahead and start rolling out your product.

971
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 2: You don't have to wait. So I appreciate Tony for

972
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: that advice, because they put me on a two and

973
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 2: a half year campaign to develop and research our own.

974
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 2: We've developed and research our own. We got some of

975
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 2: the best products on the market. Now they're gonna be

976
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 2: rolling out and it's only because I've learned good research

977
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 2: habits from my wife. What did some of the keys

978
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 2: to run a successful business. Ah, man, I haven't been

979
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 2: successful in all of them. So learn your lessons and

980
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 2: from your failures.

981
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: With the doves. You gotta take some ails, y'all.

982
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:57,959
Speaker 2: Man, you're gonna take some als, man, and you're gonna

983
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: take them like we took some al's that man can't see,

984
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 2: but were too top hevery on salary at first. So

985
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 2: rather than keep going and keep shulling along, we said stop.

986
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 2: We put a freeze on it. We said, we got

987
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 2: some infrastructure things we need to fix, some pight one late,

988
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 2: let's fix that. Let's put a freeze on, Let's put

989
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 2: a freez on spending money. Let's read, let's read configureate

990
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: how we do business, and when we reopen, we'll be

991
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 2: a much more streamlined business, much more effective.

992
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: But it took me and Tip not having an ego.

993
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 2: Our egos had to be put to the side of

994
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 2: me and my friend had to come to the table

995
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 2: and talk and say, well, how are we gonna fix this?

996
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 2: And I've been to a couple other restaurants, and this

997
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 2: is what I thought with this. The first time I

998
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 2: thought about doing it, I just thought about white labeling

999
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 2: the first time I got some product back.

1000
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying this isn't good product. Let me develop my

1001
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: own things.

1002
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 2: So you're going to have to be willing to eat

1003
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:41,959
Speaker 2: some losses before you get a win, and you're gonna

1004
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 2: have to learn from them. And then I've been reading

1005
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 2: Charlie munger Man, his quotes, his books and things of

1006
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 2: that nature, and Charlie has a real good thing. You're

1007
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 2: saying big part of sixteen, it's just to keep yourself

1008
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 2: from doing stupid things, like you know, sometimes dam this

1009
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 2: ain't This ain't a winning play, so why run it.

1010
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 2: Don't run the play if it's not a winner. Try

1011
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 2: to avoid the stupidity that's all ready in you. And

1012
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 2: that way, even if you're intelligence don't save you, and

1013
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 2: your none stupidness will. So I've tried to do a

1014
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 2: good job and growing up in business and learning from

1015
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 2: my mistakes early. You got to know when to cut

1016
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 2: the rope early, you know what I mean, when it's

1017
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 2: too much weight, to.

1018
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: Let it go.

1019
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 2: And you got to do things you're naturally passionate about.

1020
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 2: Elle loves mescal, my wrap partner. So when it came

1021
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 2: time to develop an alcohol I'm not much nonlcohol drink.

1022
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 2: I like marijuana. I leaned on his expertise in messcale.

1023
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 2: I leaned on what he thought, and then when it

1024
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 2: came time that will alignment like this, well, just so

1025
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 2: every every day person when it came time to meditates

1026
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, I like this. We understood that

1027
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 2: together we had put together something. You got a marijuana

1028
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:36,399
Speaker 2: line coming up, and.

1029
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: I did or not didn't like it.

1030
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 2: I like, I didn't hate it, but I didn't like

1031
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 2: the marijuana business from a corporate structure. I believe marijuana

1032
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 2: should be ram by the people who put their time

1033
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 2: in federal prison. I believe marijuana should be ran by

1034
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 2: the people who grow on the top of the mountains

1035
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 2: of Jamaica. I believe marijuana should be ran by the

1036
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 2: people who were outlaws twenty years ago. I don't think

1037
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 2: marijuana should be ran in a corporate way. I don't

1038
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 2: think marijuana should have to sit in my warehouse two

1039
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 2: three months before it hits the public.

1040
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: So I'm not a big.

1041
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 2: Fan of that business in the same way I was.

1042
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 2: I'm a bigger fan of like where we from. People

1043
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 2: make their own call looker. I like call looker, then

1044
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 2: I like bying look out the store. Sometimes you mentioned

1045
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 2: bankhead seafood.

1046
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 4: It's a staple, yeah, And I remember hearing that it

1047
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 4: was potentially going out of business, and I remember you

1048
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,720
Speaker 4: and Tip Yeah, like I was like, damn, it's almost

1049
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 4: like you and Tim like, man, this is a staple.

1050
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: We can't let this thing.

1051
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 2: That's how we felt, like, I don't, I don't. I

1052
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 2: don't know if we'll ever have a hundred make head seapoods.

1053
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 2: I don't know, But what I know is that one

1054
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 2: that we dedicated ourselves to. For anybody who ever said

1055
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,439
Speaker 2: disparagier remark, don't you worry, but we will be back

1056
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 2: on your ass and open in a few weeks and

1057
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 2: you can come on out, you widern to talk all

1058
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: that shit, but we're gonna eat these hush pups and

1059
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 2: laugh at you because we have a mission. Were the

1060
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 2: sign little napperhead boys that sold dope up and down

1061
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 2: that street. We the sign of nap head boys that

1062
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,800
Speaker 2: played for them parks around that around the corner. We

1063
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 2: the sign of nap head boys that went to Frederick

1064
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 2: Douglas's high school under doctor Samuel Hill, and he believed

1065
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 2: in us. We just I a'm little boys that William Murray,

1066
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 2: you know, mattern Art teacher who told us to be

1067
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 2: a business man. We the same little boys he's still

1068
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 2: proud of. So I feel indebted to my community and

1069
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 2: those children in the community that are right next door

1070
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 2: at the organization called Paul Kids that helps kids after

1071
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: school get their reading there and have clean clothes and

1072
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: supplies they need. I feel indebted to my community, whether

1073
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 2: it's car your heights.

1074
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: And grove parks or the old born homes.

1075
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 2: To show them an example of you can, you know,

1076
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 2: to show them that you can, you must, you will.

1077
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 2: And the biggest way we can do that is by

1078
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 2: keeping that restaurant and those recipes alive.

1079
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: We got better seat. Now you got a rooftop.

1080
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 2: You can smoke your smoke your cigars on the rooftop

1081
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 2: if we want to, and look out at Bankheads. You

1082
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 2: expanded it, Yes, yes we did. That's what I say,

1083
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 2: shade develop it. We tore down the old building. We

1084
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 2: had to keep one legacy wall. It is now full

1085
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 2: sit down restaurant on the inside, and we have a

1086
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 2: rooftop in which you can see the sun set every day. Wow,

1087
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 2: it's an absolutely gorgeous building. And I'm very proud of

1088
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 2: Shane Crystal for putting it together, and we've now brought

1089
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 2: on a woman named Shanaka who who has ran four

1090
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 2: four five now restaurants and clubs. She helped us understand

1091
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 2: what we were doing wrong and getting it right. Rest

1092
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 2: in peace to og Mike, who had helped Tip with

1093
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 2: Trap City. He just died, but he gave us some

1094
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 2: valuable advice. Brother while Lead whose family started to fish

1095
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 2: the prime franchise down there and his dad was a

1096
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 2: part of the Olympics in terms of feeding feeding the

1097
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 2: Olympians in ninety six. We've had a lot of good

1098
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,359
Speaker 2: people around us to help us, not sincerely appreciate it.

1099
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 2: And I just know I know we're going to be

1100
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 2: successful because we're not no quitter.

1101
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 4: You know what I was wondering, How difficult is it?

1102
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 4: And maybe it's not as difficult as it would appear

1103
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 4: to like to take advice you're like, because a lot

1104
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 4: of times you're like, Man, I Bro, I know I

1105
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 4: know what I know. I know, I know, I know

1106
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 4: what I did wrong. I know what I'm doing. Bro,

1107
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 4: How difficult is it? Like you said, you and Tam

1108
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 4: swallowed your ego, But how difficult is that?

1109
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: Mike?

1110
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 4: Because you've had success in other areas. And so when

1111
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 4: somebody tried to tell you something, You're like, well, you

1112
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 4: not successful.

1113
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: So why am I going? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd have

1114
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: had that. I have had that. Listen, man, it's hard.

1115
00:44:58,080 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: It's hard not to get your own way.

1116
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 2: And even if you feel like you know, listening don't

1117
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 2: cost you nothing.

1118
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: Listen.

1119
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,879
Speaker 2: Listening might cast you everything, you know what I'm saying,

1120
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,240
Speaker 2: But listening don't cost you nothing.

1121
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: You I can listen. You know.

1122
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 2: I've had better advice on not becoming an addict by addicts,

1123
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 2: and I have by.

1124
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: People who've been non addicts. This is what I'm saying.

1125
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 2: I've had better advice from addicts on how not to

1126
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 2: become an addict that I've had for none addicts. Because

1127
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 2: addicts understand addiction. They can see it in your early

1128
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 2: You know, fat boy, you your your ego getting too big.

1129
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 2: You're liking that too much. You gonna mess around and

1130
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 2: you're gonna lose everything at the creeb. You're hanging in

1131
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 2: the club too much. You know, you have to you

1132
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 2: have to take advice. I remember, you know, I remember

1133
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 2: my my, my, My grandfather will say, you know, the

1134
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 2: world gonna learn you, boy, And man, when you hear

1135
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 2: that you you just like, oh my god, he tired

1136
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,919
Speaker 2: of talking to me. When your grandparents say, you're gonna

1137
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 2: self hate me in the world gonna learn you, or

1138
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 2: the world can learn you better than I can.

1139
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 1: That means I poor work. Yeah I can. Yeah.

1140
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 2: And they didn't say teach, They said learn because you're

1141
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 2: gonna learn the lesson you. You gonna learn that lesson

1142
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 2: when you sitting down on your ass broke as a joke.

1143
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 2: You can't call and you ain't got nobody to callsuse,

1144
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 2: ain't nobody gonna answer that phone and speak man, you

1145
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 2: know man, man the world and learning sign I get

1146
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 2: it now. So for me, it's my ego oftentimes wants

1147
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 2: to jump up. I like to argue I love it,

1148
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna go sit by myself and I'm gonna

1149
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 2: think through what you're saying because I appreciate you, even

1150
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 2: care enough to part any wisdom. You know, even if

1151
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 2: your wisdom is doubt. You know, I can accept it because,

1152
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 2: like I told him, I said, when we come back now,

1153
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 2: I said, I have saved all them, all the messages.

1154
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 2: What people say this, whey we mess up this way,

1155
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 2: We're gonna say now I'm gonna let them know this

1156
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 2: what we fixed, and I expect see your ass and

1157
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 2: he'll buy some fish. Don't give me no advice, don't

1158
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,479
Speaker 2: come by no fish, no huts, fuffles. Yeah, we're trying

1159
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 2: to be the new care of Hellers, trying to play Okay, yeah.

1160
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: Man, that that frich lord find that Lois.

1161
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 4: How does shade help you when you're at your absolute

1162
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 4: Lois and really the only person you could turn to

1163
00:46:58,640 --> 00:46:59,439
Speaker 4: was probably hurt.

1164
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it's so. You know, she was talking to

1165
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 2: one of my ex girlfriend from high school. We had

1166
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 2: lived together, and she said she had told her. She said,

1167
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 2: I remember a time, well, you know, I was I

1168
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 2: thought we couldn't pay rent. I thought we was on

1169
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 2: my ass, bro, she said. Mike started laughing and walked

1170
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 2: to the closet and pulled out a few thousand dollars

1171
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 2: and said, girl, we never broke.

1172
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: I'm always I'm gonna always be a savory.

1173
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 2: So even from my time from running around in the streets,

1174
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 2: you know, trying to be a half ass drug dealing shit,

1175
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 2: my mother taught me. Denise taught me in port of

1176
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 2: conservative of having something and tuck and then hide.

1177
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: You know, you got to so instinctively, I'm like that.

1178
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 2: But with that said, there are a many times where

1179
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 2: as a man, your life, yourself be stretched too thin.

1180
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:41,919
Speaker 2: All four of your kids need somen at one time.

1181
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 2: You know, with my businesses I got I like old

1182
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 2: calls too much, so I tend to tend to buy

1183
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 2: too many old casts and with that business, with certain

1184
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 2: businesses I put so much passion into that passion oftentimes

1185
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 2: will lead to a cash deficit. That's why I empathize

1186
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 2: and sympathize when people be saying, hey, man, you know

1187
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 2: I get dame. You know I ship Sometimes you need

1188
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 2: to pour so much your own money to it. It's

1189
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 2: bosses be broke. You know, it can get like that.

1190
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 2: But to have a woman that you have invested in

1191
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 2: and that has made the proper investments with your investment.

1192
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 2: When I bought her her grandmother's house that she grew

1193
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 2: up in, she didn't just take the house and try

1194
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 2: to flip the house. She put the house together, put

1195
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 2: that house up as a as a house for rent.

1196
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,280
Speaker 2: So at the end of the year, no matter what happened,

1197
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 2: she knows she had these many thousands of dollars off

1198
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 2: that rent. When I bought a house off one of

1199
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 2: my comedian homeboys, and he taught me about pass split

1200
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 2: and we started using pass split.

1201
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:29,359
Speaker 1: I don't ask her about that money.

1202
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 2: I just know, man, there's been times I've been tight

1203
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,720
Speaker 2: and I need to fix the sixty seventy thousand dollars.

1204
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 2: And she said, well, should I got it. I'm just like, well,

1205
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 2: you get it. You got another husband and she said, no, nigga,

1206
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 2: you brought me the two houses and this is just

1207
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 2: what I saved about this. Just make sure you pay

1208
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 2: me back and I'll get out there singing, dancing. And

1209
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 2: after the show she called a counsel and I send

1210
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 2: me my money.

1211
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 1: But Mike, what's the brokers you've ever been? Oh?

1212
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 2: Man, I've been so broke. I laid in the room

1213
00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 2: for two years to press and I had I had

1214
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 2: got a truck and it got repolled and it was

1215
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 2: it was under Mikey's mom's name, and it broke my

1216
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 2: heart because it was under somebody else's name and I

1217
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 2: could have did it under my name. I want to

1218
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:14,799
Speaker 2: spend a few hundred dollars more and it just would

1219
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 2: affected me, but it affected her. I felt so gifted

1220
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 2: about that. Don't think you make her messing up her credit. Yeah,

1221
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 2: why you were doing that? Now you put how you're

1222
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 2: gonna put the truck and some of any kids. Now

1223
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 2: people don't know that, don't bus ship dun But but

1224
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 2: I tell you this, when I got when I got,

1225
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 2: when I got my when I got back on my feet,

1226
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 2: she ain't paid the car notes cent, you know what

1227
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 2: I'm saying. And I deeply appreciate her for being patient

1228
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 2: with me. But the brothers I ever being man was

1229
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 2: you know, I man, I remember paying. I remember I

1230
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 2: remember paying child's port and then getting child's port order

1231
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 2: the next week.

1232
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: I literally paid nine hundred busy the next week was

1233
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: so well, we gonna hit you with the child sport

1234
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 1: order anyway you can, you know.

1235
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 2: And I all, but but but I had for two

1236
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 2: years I was on my ass. And if it hadn't

1237
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 2: been for the encouragement for shape, it hadn't been for

1238
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 2: people like TV booking me on the chipling circuit, if

1239
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 2: it hadn't been for for me getting with SIMC Records

1240
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 2: at the time, and my manager was currently working with

1241
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 2: him at the time and now my manager works for me,

1242
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 2: if it hadn't been for all these people believing in

1243
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 2: me mester DJ swip out as DJ, giving me a

1244
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 2: praise to record at this kind of rate, I wouldn't

1245
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 2: have been able to do.

1246
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: I pledge the leagience to the grind as a series

1247
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 1: that was meant. I pledge allegiance at the grindment getting

1248
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 1: rich independently. And I had to do that. I had to.

1249
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: I had to.

1250
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 2: Understand the record business from the trump up from digging

1251
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 2: out my trunk, having fat beats hit me and say

1252
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 2: this is how many you sold this, mom, Because that

1253
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 2: way I put a value on money that I didn't

1254
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 2: have before, you know what I mean. So the brokes

1255
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 2: I of being. I didn't have transportation and I was famous,

1256
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 2: the brokes out of being as I couldn't afford a

1257
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 2: five dollars a dance in his flame. Girls that gave

1258
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 2: me dance on charity and say it's gonna be all right,

1259
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 2: big dog. You good for Yeah, exactly exactly, we got

1260
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 2: your big dog. You got some grace today. You tried

1261
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 2: to file bankruptcy, you too, broke to file bankruptcy. Yeah

1262
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 2: I was, you know, the bank works. It was the

1263
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 2: cop though. I did that a piers my baby, my mom. Yeah, yeah,

1264
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 2: I was like health of you know what I mean,

1265
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 2: I gave this money, you're gonna hit me with the order.

1266
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 2: But but but her mama was afraid that I was

1267
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 2: gonna be a typical guy. So her mama pressed telling

1268
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 2: to doing something. And I got pissed because I went

1269
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 2: and the lawyer was a white boy, her lawyer, and

1270
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 2: he had a he brought a black and turn in

1271
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 2: with him. And I said, you know, and and and

1272
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 2: you know, flack were better word. I said, the crack

1273
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 2: of trying to shame me. And I really was offended

1274
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 2: by it. So then I went to my white woman lawyer.

1275
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: I said, we filed the bankrupts. Scared the ship out there,

1276
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: as you know. Then they called it off.

1277
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 2: Well, we sat down and we talked and we figured

1278
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 2: it out. Because I love my kids, I'm not gonna

1279
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:35,439
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna have my kids go without.

1280
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:36,760
Speaker 1: You don't want them being hardship.

1281
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 2: But but let's work, let's talk, and we did and

1282
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,399
Speaker 2: we did, and I have a wonderful relationship with her.

1283
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: I have a run relationship with all three of them.

1284
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 2: But you know, it was just like man, when you're

1285
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 2: on your ass, sometimes you just got to meet them

1286
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 2: on yours. Because peoplen'na see you and still think you're

1287
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 2: doing good, you know what I mean. But but the

1288
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 2: force ones wasn't clean. I was just cleaning them.

1289
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:53,879
Speaker 1: Every night like a dad. And I was a little body,

1290
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. There wasn't I wasn't gonna

1291
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: they wasn't doing it. I ain't wane, babe, you know

1292
00:51:59,040 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: what I mean.

1293
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 2: But but but but I appreciate the grace that they

1294
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 2: gave me because after we after we got past that

1295
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 2: rough moment and sat down and talked it out, we

1296
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 2: gotta saw it out.

1297
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 4: But that's the thing, though, Mike, you go back and

1298
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 4: you look back, You're like, man, there's a lot of

1299
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,800
Speaker 4: things that we could have done differently. We could have

1300
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:18,720
Speaker 4: just talked instead of reacting. You reacted, I reacted. We're young,

1301
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 4: I'm high strung. You high strung. I'm not gonna let

1302
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 4: you one up me. You're not gonna let you one

1303
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 4: up me. And we find ourselves in the spot where

1304
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 4: we could have just sit down and talked, and we

1305
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 4: could have saved because ain't nobody really get rich.

1306
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: But the lawyers. But the lawyer gotta pay. The lawyers

1307
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:33,399
Speaker 1: got paid. That was it.

1308
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 2: The lawyer got paid many But come mom, man, that's all.

1309
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 2: But but but I appreciate understanding and learning that way.

1310
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 2: I often tell my kids when I try to impart

1311
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 2: something on you and my niece and nephews, I'm impartning

1312
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 2: on you from a place of where I have failed.

1313
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 2: I don't think you gonna fail. I'm just telling you

1314
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 2: where I failed. And I don't want to see I've

1315
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 2: seen it. I see further down the road because I'd

1316
00:52:58,440 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 2: have made that. I'd have been furthered out of the rest.

1317
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 2: That's a word E forty said. I've been your age.

1318
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 2: You've never been by a well, that's an awful with job.

1319
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 4: And if you put the guardrails up where that could

1320
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 4: potentially be a problem. I put guardrails up there so

1321
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 4: you won't have those problems.

1322
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: Just listen.

1323
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 2: Like people intentionally, they get this wrong. God bless the

1324
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 2: black BOURGEOISI I went to Morehouse, createst greatest Black college

1325
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 2: for men in the world. I understand the concept of

1326
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 2: the Jackson Jills, and I get what higher education will

1327
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 2: do for us. But don't forget Tuskeig University was built

1328
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 2: with the hands of the students who went there. The

1329
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:33,919
Speaker 2: students who went on to become doctor. Lawyer's engineers made

1330
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 2: the bricks that formed the bills. I just spoke at Tuskeig,

1331
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 2: you know, a few weeks ago, and I got a

1332
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 2: chance to see the bricks and see the thumb prints

1333
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 2: in them. And I want to remind people that, you know,

1334
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 2: our young men, if they aren't going to go to college,

1335
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 2: they need to be going to seek trade.

1336
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: So I said something publicly.

1337
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,879
Speaker 2: I said, if a young man, you know, between say

1338
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 2: let's sa age's fourteen twenty fours, to get a girl pregnant,

1339
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 2: that girl's gonna receive WIG or some type of government

1340
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 2: underwriting the funding. I said, let's make it so that

1341
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 2: the boys don't owe that. First two years back now,

1342
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:03,479
Speaker 2: people tried to make it like interpret like you gonna

1343
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 2: take girls, you know, the government asistant they get.

1344
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, dummy.

1345
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 2: I would like to add, I would like to say,

1346
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 2: if the girls are going to get this government assistant,

1347
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 2: let's require it that the boys have to go to

1348
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 2: some type of trade school too. So within that eighteen

1349
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 2: to twenty four months, while she's being assisted by government,

1350
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 2: and this child is being allowed to be nurtured in

1351
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 2: terms of food, clothing, shelter. Let's make it so that

1352
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,320
Speaker 2: these little boys have a price to go get educated.

1353
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 2: Because what we need is educated fathers. Along with these

1354
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 2: educated monthers is our girls are going to school. That

1355
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 2: post high school, they going to school. I don't care

1356
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 2: if it's to be a nurse tent or to be

1357
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 2: a full on doctor. They're going to school. Our girls

1358
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 2: still understand the power of education. We need to make

1359
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 2: some of the United States government to underwrite our boys.

1360
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 2: That first, whether it's be eighteen months to twenty four months,

1361
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 2: you gotta go get a trade, young man. And if

1362
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 2: you get this trade, then we're not gonna charge you

1363
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 2: back them two years, that first two years, cause they

1364
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 2: gonna get their money. Now they're gonna get their money.

1365
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 2: But if you got But if you got you know,

1366
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 2: my friend, I remember he got his pass for it.

1367
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 2: He could have went through the roof. But that was

1368
00:54:57,719 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 2: half the years and being a dad and having it

1369
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 2: go through the court system of not being allowed to travel.

1370
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 2: So I want to see us as a people, whether

1371
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 2: y'all married or not.

1372
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: I like it.

1373
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 2: So if you get married and you get a trade,

1374
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 2: you get a bonus, you get a little interest loan

1375
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 2: on whether you want the house. But I think that

1376
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 2: as black people, we're gonna have to sit out with

1377
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 2: one another outside of government and government resources, and we're

1378
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 2: gonna have to come up with some new terms and

1379
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 2: conditions for what to do once these babies get pregnant,

1380
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 2: because it's both pregnant, the boy and the girl. These

1381
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 2: families gonna have to start getting together and say, well,

1382
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 2: what's the plan for them so that we don't do

1383
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 2: it again with the next generation and we get to

1384
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 2: stabilize because had it not been for my grandparents, had

1385
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 2: not been for your grandparents, we wouldn't have opportunity to

1386
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:35,840
Speaker 2: create what people you know to catch word generational wealth,

1387
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 2: which is really just the ability to take care of

1388
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 2: yourself post my partner when I get out of here,

1389
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 2: I want to make sure you can take care of

1390
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 2: yourself and the kids that are coming out.

1391
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 4: Wow, you spend five hundred thousand of your own money. Yeah,

1392
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:49,280
Speaker 4: Award winning album.

1393
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:50,320
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1394
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 2: And Shay wasn't too happy by that. Nah, she at

1395
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 2: a quarter million dollars she had me said, She was like,

1396
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 2: what is you? What do you keep taking this big

1397
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 2: money out for? And I was like, man, I got

1398
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 2: a dream. I gave her I got a dream.

1399
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: She was like a quarter million dollars.

1400
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, man, and we're gonna have to

1401
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,360
Speaker 2: probably spill a little more because Deon no I D

1402
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 2: lives in La so we're gonna have to go out there.

1403
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 2: So yeah, man, we we I did, and I was

1404
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 2: proud to have done it. But had I known what

1405
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 2: I know now, it wouldn't I wouldn't spent that much money.

1406
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 2: I would have I would have, you know, shout out

1407
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 2: the cubs like your an R and shouts out to

1408
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 2: Wheel my manager, business partner. I wouldn't have, you know,

1409
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have been so free with it. But I

1410
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 2: needed to do it because the gamble paid off. I

1411
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 2: walked away with three Grammys, walked away, walked out of

1412
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 2: getting locked up after Grammars walked out a folk hero. Well,

1413
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 2: I walked in a musician. So it's paid off, you know.

1414
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 2: And and and then when it came around this time,

1415
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 2: direct companys calling me said hey, we got some money

1416
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:57,439
Speaker 2: to give you to record a no record. We don't

1417
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 2: even want you to spend your money. We got some

1418
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 2: money for you. It's like okay, so dad and pluff.

1419
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 2: So I was like, okay, I got you, this is

1420
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 2: really a partnership. But I'll tell you a time that

1421
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 2: I understood how important her mind was to me, And

1422
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 2: that was when my attorney and not my attorney, my

1423
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 2: account called me and say, hey, man, I don't know.

1424
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: If she's getting ready to divorce you, but I mean

1425
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: she's taken out like eighty.

1426
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 2: Grand and I'm just like eighty grand.

1427
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: I mean, but she's done it several times.

1428
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 2: And I'm like, yeah, he's a he's a small like

1429
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 2: he's small Jewish guy.

1430
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: Man.

1431
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 2: It gets a little nervous and asking I'm just like Robert.

1432
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 2: Just calm down, man, I said, I'll talked to her,

1433
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 2: see what it's about. And she said that he talked

1434
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 2: to God.

1435
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: Damn. I was trying to surprise you.

1436
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 2: I've been developing these houses and she had developed a

1437
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 2: few of our properties that were then on the market,

1438
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 2: of course for rent. And he was he was a

1439
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 2: he was a for a while a few days around there.

1440
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: But but you appreciated because he was like, hey, but

1441
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: but I knew that. I knew that she wasn't a squanderer.

1442
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 2: Now she could spend three hours and everything in the

1443
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 2: science store right and by buy the shit out, so

1444
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 2: you know, we land in London, she going to tomorrow,

1445
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 2: we land in la She going to the mow Butt.

1446
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 2: She is a woman that is constantly thinking a way

1447
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 2: to invest internal dollar. And I appreciate that about it.

1448
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 2: So I trusted her and I appreciate her for trusting

1449
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 2: me in terms of Michael, because Michael really was a gamble.

1450
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: It spend a half million dollars ther on money. It's

1451
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: not what you should be doing, you know what I mean?

1452
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: So what do you learn? What do you learn from that?

1453
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 2: I learned that once you prove to the record company

1454
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 2: that I'm willing to do it myself and I can

1455
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 2: do it, they're a lot more free flowing on the

1456
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 2: other side of the budget because they know you've already

1457
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 2: took the gamble and invested in yourself. They know how

1458
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 2: much your investment based on the probably investment, they know

1459
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 2: how much of return they can expect on this investment.

1460
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 2: So they're going to not only invest in you, They're

1461
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 2: going to invest in you and bump you up some

1462
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 2: because they want to further the investment.

1463
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 1: They want you to grow.

1464
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 4: You've got a lot of criticism because you beat some

1465
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 4: heavy hitters that night.

1466
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a lot of critics like a man

1467
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: that any record that it wasn't better that Travis Scott,

1468
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: it was better than this.

1469
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 2: Travag shouts out to south the Metro dam Yeah, at

1470
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 2: a loss of.

1471
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: All nigga, I want that's it. That's it said. They

1472
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: put Travis in a position where they tried to get

1473
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: him to diss me. He came with some light balls.

1474
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 1: It was cute, you know. I appreciated it, and that

1475
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: ship was funny.

1476
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 2: But it's the same kid that I had sought south

1477
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 2: by Southwest, and I remember telling Sway like, don't try

1478
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 2: to push him to be no freestyle artists on it.

1479
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: This kid is just good. He's entertaining. I like Travis Scott.

1480
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: I take take my kids to see and he's entertaining.

1481
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: And Ship. I like the comic book, like like imagery

1482
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: he has. I like him a lot. But you know,

1483
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: with that said, like I'm a i'm an MC like

1484
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: I'm not here to play with you, like I'm the top.

1485
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's a lot of people you love in

1486
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: the in the league.

1487
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 2: But when Denver played them, when balt One played them,

1488
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 2: hey man, I'm here to win though, So that I

1489
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 2: taught that yeah, if you, if you are Travis Scott

1490
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 2: being the one of the ones that.

1491
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: Have disparaged to me, I don't give a damn Nigga.

1492
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: I walked out, I still got grabs like kick you

1493
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 1: know you gonna do? You know?

1494
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 2: I mean Nigga came out wrapped me. That's just and

1495
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 2: that's just what it is like. But that's not to

1496
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 2: say I'm not entertained.

1497
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: I don't like him.

1498
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 2: That's just to say, when the game is only metal win,

1499
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 2: I don't care ol lamb onhu come in gray hairs.

1500
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 1: I got this all I ever wanted to do. So

1501
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: I'm not going to feel bad about being a winner

1502
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:13,520
Speaker 1: because I put five hundred grand and my own money

1503
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: into it. I've given my life since I was nine

1504
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: years old to this. You know what, I'm given forty

1505
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: years of my life, over forty years my life to this.

1506
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 2: So I can't I can't feel bad about when you

1507
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 2: get it, because when you ask God for something, to

1508
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 2: be prepared for everything that comes with it, right when

1509
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 2: you ask God God, I want to be a winner.

1510
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 2: You know next year they gonna comfort you harder when

1511
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 2: you win a Super Bowl. Boy, the hardest thing to overcome.

1512
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 2: I would imagine his laziness. Yes, because man out in

1513
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 2: one I want to chill. I don't want to do

1514
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 2: like Jared Rice and run them heels. I don't want

1515
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 2: to be I don't want to be like Shannon and

1516
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 2: get out there and condition myself. Yeah. So my thing is,

1517
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 2: with everything I asked for to come with the win,

1518
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 2: I got right and with that, I accept it all

1519
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 2: and I appreciate it. So when I get back in

1520
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 2: the studio and work my ass off for the next

1521
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty days, when I come out on

1522
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 2: the other side, I'm coming back to whoop ass again.

1523
01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 2: I don't give a shit who's in the category you are.

1524
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 2: I think Kaan has said something on the street. You

1525
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 2: ever talked to Kin? I have not talked to Ki.

1526
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 2: I think I think we may have passed each other

1527
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 2: a wrestling event. I may have said alone. You may

1528
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 2: have said a low but I don't. I mean, I

1529
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 2: bet you that nigga know who I am.

1530
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:12,920
Speaker 1: Now I know who you are.

1531
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 2: Congratulations too on that. I think it's time magazine come

1532
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 2: and graduation. Yeah, yeah, graduate and unbelieve me. Yeah, I'm

1533
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 2: cheering for all your niggas, even your little niggas don't

1534
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 2: like me. I'm cheering for your niggas because I don't

1535
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 2: want you enfulld in County, begging nobody for nothing, being

1536
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 2: nobody girlfriend, you know what I mean.

1537
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 1: So you know I don't.

1538
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 2: I don't give a shit. Oh I don't give a

1539
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 2: damn how you feel, because I got mine.

1540
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: The old people.

1541
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 2: You say something yourself, I got mine. You got to

1542
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 2: get your got it? Yeah, So I'm good. Everything I've

1543
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 2: ever wanted I got. I got a white shape like

1544
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 2: a strip, I got off fast muscle calls. I got

1545
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 2: some German calls in there. My house paid for, my

1546
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 2: warehouses and buildings paid for. I can sit back and

1547
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 2: take a monk off and live off the rents that

1548
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 2: I charge people.

1549
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: I am rich. I'm as rich as I ever been.

1550
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 2: I'm fine. I'm not jay z rich, not big and

1551
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 2: that rich. But boy for old country boy man, you

1552
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 2: got more than you ever throw what everything you don't know.

1553
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 2: The only thing I'm missing now is a couple hundred

1554
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 2: acre or somewhere, And where's Georgia my own lake and

1555
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 2: a compound for my sisters live on with me, and

1556
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 2: that's so on coming. So y'all, no matter what you

1557
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 2: say about me, what you try to try to do

1558
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 2: or throw at me, I don't care a damn.

1559
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: It don't matter to me. I'm good.

1560
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 4: The barbs were mad at you, not Nikki, but the Barbs,

1561
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 4: which is Nikki fan I love.

1562
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: I love Nikki too.

1563
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 2: About might Why would they I mean, it's not I

1564
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 2: didn't even know they were mad because my daughter's a

1565
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 2: bar anaya, so she's she protected me. I think she's

1566
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 2: my advocacid, my advocate on my own clubhouse or whatever.

1567
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 2: Fat But I want to say, man, I think it's

1568
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 2: a bit of an insult to call her one of

1569
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 2: the best female MC's. Nikki is just one of the

1570
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 2: best seeds in the world. So right, just shouts out

1571
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 2: to Nikkid. Love you the death girl. You're absolutely amazing.

1572
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 2: But that night, this is the highest you've ever been musically. Yeah,

1573
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 2: and something happened. Yeah, walk us through because you like

1574
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 2: you and the ag we're in the high. Yeah, Grady,

1575
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 2: you nominated for all these awards. You don't know, and

1576
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 2: when you people are like, hey, I'm just glad I'm nominated.

1577
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 2: I don't care if I win or not. That's a

1578
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 2: lot you nominated, man, That's like I'm played the game. Well,

1579
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 2: I'm just at the super Bowl. If I don't win.

1580
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 1: This game, but I don't know if and when I'll

1581
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 1: even matter.

1582
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:18,600
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you're so high. And then that unfortunate incident happened.

1583
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:20,200
Speaker 4: Can you walk us through that night?

1584
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: What I mean?

1585
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 2: We were told to go places by different people, but

1586
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 2: we didn't have one person just to walk us through.

1587
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:29,000
Speaker 2: I think now that they do it differently now, but

1588
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 2: we kind of got dropped off. At the ticketing place.

1589
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 2: We showed our tickets, we went through. It was a

1590
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 2: ledge that somebody with me didn't have a ticket, but

1591
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 2: we were ticketed. My publicists was walking me to the

1592
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:40,360
Speaker 2: red carpet. It was raining outside, so we were trying

1593
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 2: to walk it through. We were told we couldn't go.

1594
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 2: We didn't understand what was happening. Next thing, you know,

1595
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 2: we were being told that we were going to be detained.

1596
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 2: We were detained and I'm headed to jail. By the

1597
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 2: time they get me, I'm in the holding cell. Now,

1598
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 2: my wife had wanted, Shay had wanted to bring the

1599
01:03:57,400 --> 01:03:59,160
Speaker 2: kids out. I was like, now, for whatever reason, I

1600
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 2: don't want to bring the kids.

1601
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: Wow. What I did know is the next day my son.

1602
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 2: Would receive an emergency kidney out of nowhere, out of

1603
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 2: he has a rare blood type, so out of it

1604
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 2: was very He had been bumped up on the kidney

1605
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 2: don the list, but we didn't know he had one coming.

1606
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 2: So I was glad God has a plan and God

1607
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 2: can remain anonymous through what seems to be a series

1608
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,919
Speaker 2: of unfortunate events. So I'm sitting there in the holding

1609
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 2: sell and.

1610
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, ain't this some bullshit?

1611
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 2: And the people who loved me because the cops were

1612
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 2: kind enough to let me keep my phone, were hit

1613
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 2: me with encouragement. People like my Mayor Dickens down in Atlanta,

1614
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:35,760
Speaker 2: former Mayor Keisha Lamb's bottom because same read we're hitting

1615
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 2: Mayor Karen Bass out in LA. There's a policeman on

1616
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 2: night dude, I forget his name, Mayberry or something. He's

1617
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:46,400
Speaker 2: telling them down, bring him all in. By the time

1618
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 2: they got me brought in, they had received fifteen hundred

1619
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:51,479
Speaker 2: phone calls like on some mathmake shit like they're about

1620
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 2: to do a protest on your police station, Like these

1621
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 2: people are coming out here for Mike. I don't think

1622
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 2: you guys know who you were arrested. They had to

1623
01:04:57,320 --> 01:04:59,959
Speaker 2: move me to another the Timement Center. It scared themsel

1624
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 2: But as I'm sitting there kind of by myself, I

1625
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 2: just start thanking God, and I just say, man, you know,

1626
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 2: I appreciate you putting me in this place of peace

1627
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 2: and quiet because everything is so wild and disturbing. I

1628
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 2: knew I could win, but I didn't know I was

1629
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 2: gonna sweep, So thank you Lord. I knew I could

1630
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 2: get back to this mountaintop, but I didn't know it

1631
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 2: was gonna be on this album.

1632
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord. I just started being thankful.

1633
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 2: I was like Daniel on the Lions there and I

1634
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 2: was like joning the belly of the well because I

1635
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 2: felt like it was something that God needed me to

1636
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 2: understand in that moment, to make me not get too arrogant,

1637
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 2: not too full of myself, you know, not to be.

1638
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,000
Speaker 1: And I told you sore. And I can remember when

1639
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 1: I when I checked out.

1640
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 2: I can remember the Blackguard and I and I had

1641
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 2: I had had Mexican policemen pretty much around me, one

1642
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 2: white guy, and they weren't very talkative too for me.

1643
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: They weren't.

1644
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 2: They weren't rude or unkind, but they weren't. They weren't

1645
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:52,080
Speaker 2: engaging and at like Atlanta, You've allowed the Atlanta police,

1646
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 2: you know, you Nigga went to schooled you, you know.

1647
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 2: But he said no, Mike, well, I want to see

1648
01:05:57,720 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 2: you come back. I said, you ain't got to worry

1649
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 2: about that. He said good, and I walked out. And

1650
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:05,760
Speaker 2: it was like a movie. I saw, I saw Shake

1651
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 2: standing in the rying. I saw my lawyer Elliott standing

1652
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 2: in the ring. Will was in the car in the rain,

1653
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 2: and it was just like it was like the end

1654
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 2: of a movie. And I thought that was the very

1655
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:17,840
Speaker 2: end of the movie that this beautiful romantic said of me,

1656
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 2: this woman who I love, my lawyer, you know, the

1657
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:23,439
Speaker 2: people who care about me. There and then I woke

1658
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 2: up the next morning after having it because I still

1659
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 2: went out of the party. I still went out of

1660
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 2: party with Tom Wiley huh and and and Ryan and

1661
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 2: his son and Tom Willy who who discovered Tupac right

1662
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 2: he owns the parent company to the Loma Businas company

1663
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 2: I partnered with.

1664
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 1: Man.

1665
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:40,440
Speaker 2: We still went out and had a great time at

1666
01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:42,840
Speaker 2: I think it was Peterson Automotive Museum.

1667
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 1: And had had a great night. Oh man, it was

1668
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 1: a great night. Jesus Christ.

1669
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 2: And the next morning, I woke up to a call

1670
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 2: from Pony Boy's mom saying, Hey, you gotta get back

1671
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:54,440
Speaker 2: to Atlantic, you gotta get back now.

1672
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 1: And I was like, what's wrong, what's wrong? She was like,

1673
01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 1: Pony's getting his kidney. She was like, He's getting the kidney.

1674
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 1: And that that was truly the end of the movie

1675
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 1: for me, and I just thank God even harder, you know,

1676
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 1: I thank God for everybody that had been a part

1677
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 1: of making that album with me, everybody that had sat

1678
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: up at the studio with me to encourage me, everybody

1679
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 1: that just gave me Rico wait, God bless then it

1680
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 1: was gone. Now.

1681
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:18,919
Speaker 2: I remember Rico walking in the room Ray Murray saying,

1682
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:23,080
Speaker 2: you know, this album gotta be a cohesive with the

1683
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:25,720
Speaker 2: chronic and it got to be Southern. And he just

1684
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 2: left and I was like, well, that's a hell of

1685
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:30,479
Speaker 2: a thing to say to somebody, you know what I'm saying.

1686
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:32,919
Speaker 2: I was like, that's the chronice, you know what I'm saying.

1687
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:36,120
Speaker 2: But we managed to do it, and it was only

1688
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 2: because of the people that believed in me. It was

1689
01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 2: because of the men and women that believed me, the

1690
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 2: people that truly loved me, that believed in me, It

1691
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:43,760
Speaker 2: was because of the ex girlfriends that believed in me.

1692
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:45,680
Speaker 2: It was because my wife that believed in me. It

1693
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 2: was because my kids believed in me. If I wouldn't

1694
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:49,680
Speaker 2: have had all that belief poured into me, I don't

1695
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 2: know what I would have done. So in that moment,

1696
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 2: that night, that night, that troublesome. Like I tell people,

1697
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 2: they locked up a rapper, but when they let me out,

1698
01:07:57,720 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 2: I was a folk hero. When we went to the

1699
01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 2: White House, when we got home, standing ovations. We went

1700
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,800
Speaker 2: to sponn did it standing ovation when we went there.

1701
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,440
Speaker 2: Everywhere we went it was standing ovations. Because the city

1702
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 2: told me, man, we felt like we won, And I said,

1703
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 2: because we did.

1704
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:09,959
Speaker 1: Wow.

1705
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:20,200
Speaker 4: When you hurt the categories and Killer Mike, Yes, Travis

1706
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 4: Scott Drake. You heard all these name called and the

1707
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:26,599
Speaker 4: winner is Killer Mike.

1708
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1709
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 2: The first time it was excited. I was like, oh

1710
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:32,160
Speaker 2: my god, this is crazy, this is amazing. I got one,

1711
01:08:32,479 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 2: got on, so I'm not leaving him to handle. Like then,

1712
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:37,960
Speaker 2: zees said I'm leaving with something. I'm leaving with something.

1713
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 2: But I walked back and they said, hold on, Mike,

1714
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 2: don't walk back to your chair. Noticed it when I

1715
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:43,559
Speaker 2: went up there, the first time, I said, I asked Shay,

1716
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,360
Speaker 2: I said where Shad was my wife at They said,

1717
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:47,800
Speaker 2: I said, don't go back, and said no, hold on.

1718
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 2: I said, oh shit, I don't want to know them,

1719
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:52,040
Speaker 2: and I went back out. When they called my name again,

1720
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 2: I'm just like Nikka, Oh shit, I don't want two.

1721
01:08:57,400 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 2: When I got off again because I asked the share again,

1722
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 2: she's still then come down, I asked. When I was left,

1723
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:06,160
Speaker 2: they said hold on, and that's when I realized, oh shit,

1724
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:08,800
Speaker 2: I just swept. They said, don't go nowhere yet, Mike,

1725
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 2: And that's when I knew I was finna win three.

1726
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 2: And when I looked up and saying, will going crazy,

1727
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:18,519
Speaker 2: Paul yt cuz light yere on the stage, my wife

1728
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:20,320
Speaker 2: coming up in that short dress for them, heels on

1729
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:23,760
Speaker 2: the five mouth, hours like hours like it truly was

1730
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 2: a moment, and everybody in the house that night who

1731
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:28,600
Speaker 2: had love for me, I appreciated. There were people that

1732
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:30,760
Speaker 2: you just didn't even see that just gave a fuck

1733
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 2: and showed love. And I just appreciated you all. You know, Wow,

1734
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 2: you got Drake, I mean, Dre hadn't really done anything. Yes, Stacks, Yeah,

1735
01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 2: how'd you get? How'd you get stacked on? How'd you

1736
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 2: get stacks on this album? I invited we were I

1737
01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 2: was at the no Id studio and we and I

1738
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:49,640
Speaker 2: invited him just to come through at least like Dre

1739
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 2: and Big Boy mattered to me like I have a

1740
01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:56,880
Speaker 2: I have a I have a podcast called Conversation with

1741
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 2: kill Him Mike. I got to get you on there too,

1742
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,639
Speaker 2: and we talked with I had a conversation with Seebohm,

1743
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:04,280
Speaker 2: who at once time was my you know, like your

1744
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 2: your friend and arch rival at the same time, because

1745
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 2: see Bong was was very low and dedicated to Big

1746
01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 2: and seeing what Big Boy wanted to see happened and

1747
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:15,000
Speaker 2: Drey and Big at the time, Dray had decided I'm

1748
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 2: going to leave rap and I'm going to pursue acting,

1749
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:22,600
Speaker 2: pursue fashion that at the time the crew felt and

1750
01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 2: I said a word abandoning, But there's no malice on it.

1751
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 2: It's just that that's how we felt. We felt like

1752
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:33,720
Speaker 2: our leader. Him and Big Boy are our leaders, you know.

1753
01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 2: And like in lieu of Rico being gone, now Ray,

1754
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 2: who was being very very quiet member of organized no

1755
01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:42,320
Speaker 2: It said to become more vocal. Ray has always been

1756
01:10:42,360 --> 01:10:45,040
Speaker 2: like Yoda, quiet in the far but Ray is our leader,

1757
01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 2: Sleepy Brown's our leader. So that was like one half

1758
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 2: of our leadership left. And to pursue what you should do,

1759
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:54,760
Speaker 2: pursue your soul's desire and calling. But it just went

1760
01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 2: into anarchy. And so getting an opportunity to be in

1761
01:10:58,439 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 2: a room with Trey as no longer just teacher and student,

1762
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 2: not only just leader and follow up, but equals getting

1763
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 2: a chance to be in a role with him and

1764
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:07,800
Speaker 2: let him hear what was Michael at the time and

1765
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 2: say I think I may have something that you like.

1766
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: Man.

1767
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 2: It was it was overwhelming because all I ever wanted

1768
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:16,920
Speaker 2: to do was making him and Big Boy proud. I

1769
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:18,600
Speaker 2: I wanted to make him and Big Boy and a

1770
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:21,599
Speaker 2: woman named Regina Davenport who now works with brother David Banner.

1771
01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:23,559
Speaker 1: She was at a and r yup at Quoemini.

1772
01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:25,760
Speaker 2: If if it had not been for those three people,

1773
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:28,120
Speaker 2: my life would have went drastically different. If it hadn't

1774
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 2: been for Nicelo Reddick, you know, whose mother was a

1775
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 2: school teacher and father Bonzo Reddick a mother Betting and

1776
01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:35,400
Speaker 2: father Bonzo's a famous lawyer.

1777
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:37,160
Speaker 1: I I and in Savannah.

1778
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:38,679
Speaker 2: He was best friends of me, Boy if it hadn't

1779
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 2: been for these people encouraged me, allow me in, then

1780
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 2: uh where would I be?

1781
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:43,200
Speaker 1: So?

1782
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 2: You know, I just wanna man like I forever do. Man,

1783
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:47,759
Speaker 2: I always I tell Dre Mandamn man, you'd be forgetting

1784
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 2: to mention me an interview. You got to mention me

1785
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:51,720
Speaker 2: big dog. We trying to sell a record. But I

1786
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 2: never forget to mention Big and Drey because I appreciate

1787
01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 2: them so much to give me an opportunity to change

1788
01:11:57,080 --> 01:11:59,240
Speaker 2: my life. And as I grew older and matured, I

1789
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:02,600
Speaker 2: understood what a difficult task big boy took her on it.

1790
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:06,360
Speaker 2: Then losing his partner, you know, and not losing his friend,

1791
01:12:06,479 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 2: his brother, but his partner and rhyme because his partner

1792
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:11,720
Speaker 2: Ryme had other things. It's sold salt, other things to see.

1793
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:15,639
Speaker 2: But he was forced to now hold it down alone

1794
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 2: and by himself. And I remember years later just to

1795
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:19,599
Speaker 2: call him be here, got to know where one night,

1796
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 2: just saying, man, I understand, and I apologize. I deeply

1797
01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:26,439
Speaker 2: apologize for the way I acted, you know, when when

1798
01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:28,400
Speaker 2: everything was following a partner, you were trying to hold

1799
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 2: it together. I deeply apologize because I see as a leader,

1800
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:33,760
Speaker 2: but you go man, he says, see, I told you, boy,

1801
01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 2: so I think big and thank training.

1802
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 1: You know, do you think they'll ever make music again together.

1803
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:44,080
Speaker 2: I don't think about it because I'm an outcast fan.

1804
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 2: I get frustrated. I want to yell at the sky too,

1805
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 2: you know, I understand that, But I'm glad that every

1806
01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:52,160
Speaker 2: few years they pop out on the stage together and

1807
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 2: I and I think that music is better for it.

1808
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:57,639
Speaker 2: They're receiving their rock and Roll Hall of Fame sometimes

1809
01:12:57,680 --> 01:12:59,400
Speaker 2: the next couple of months between. I think, I told

1810
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 2: her in November, yep, I'm gonna be proud to be

1811
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 2: in the audience watching that happen, just like I was

1812
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:05,800
Speaker 2: proud to watch you in sterling Man walk on that

1813
01:13:05,880 --> 01:13:08,160
Speaker 2: stage get those gold coats. I think that they don't

1814
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 2: owe the world nothing, but should they want to give

1815
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:10,519
Speaker 2: the world something?

1816
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: We glass were they appreciated? You won your first Grammy

1817
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 1: with them in O three Yep, I did yep on

1818
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:18,760
Speaker 1: a song called the Whole World. I lit that shit

1819
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 1: up too, and that and I learned the importance of

1820
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:22,719
Speaker 1: work ethic. Then I wanted to go out to the club.

1821
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 1: All the other guys were going out, I think to

1822
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:26,800
Speaker 1: the Gentlemen's Club. They were going out too, and I

1823
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,560
Speaker 1: remember Bigot stopping me saying, Hey, maybe you want to

1824
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 1: stay here and and check out because it was supposed

1825
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 1: to be another single off that album that was going

1826
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:35,519
Speaker 1: to be the lead single, and Big So I think

1827
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 1: you need to stay, you know, and try to do something.

1828
01:13:37,920 --> 01:13:40,679
Speaker 1: This so Big Boy Man, I gotta say, has always

1829
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:43,800
Speaker 1: been an encourager and always been someone I wanted to

1830
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 1: emulate in terms of being a good businessman, a good provider,

1831
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:48,759
Speaker 1: the cornerstone of his family.

1832
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:52,320
Speaker 2: I just, I just he's somebody that doesn't get the

1833
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,439
Speaker 2: praise and accolades he deserves because he's because he's quiet

1834
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 2: about it and he doesn't he doesn't throw his tail around.

1835
01:13:58,040 --> 01:13:59,640
Speaker 2: But man, if Big Boy through his tail around, a

1836
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:01,880
Speaker 2: lot of y'all be shamed. That boy bank that boy

1837
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 2: bank account on fold. Man, you know you know what

1838
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:06,439
Speaker 2: the original by a house in the rich neighborhood, say Man,

1839
01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 2: I thinking i'mn'n buying his next old neighbor house.

1840
01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:16,479
Speaker 1: I don't really want no nighbor God damn, you know,

1841
01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:20,720
Speaker 1: is it true? Future was a part of the Dungeon family. Yeah,

1842
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: Future Future.

1843
01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 2: He used to be called me head when he was

1844
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 2: rapping the DF second Generation and and g Rock, I

1845
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:30,920
Speaker 2: think nick name the Future and he did. He he's

1846
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:34,160
Speaker 2: Rico's cousin and he's an amazing artist. He's Dre's current

1847
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:37,640
Speaker 2: favorite rapper and Atlanta Atlanta. It's just it belongs to him.

1848
01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 2: They love him and he he gave the work. Future

1849
01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 2: to me is like a futuristic rendition of the Blues.

1850
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 2: When you listen to his music, a lot of times

1851
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:46,599
Speaker 2: you listen to things they have a sad and painful

1852
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 2: to heal. But he made him sound like man, it's

1853
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 2: the most exciting thing in the world, you know, so

1854
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 2: shouts out the Future. I really appreciate him and Dre

1855
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 2: because after Drake gave me the record, we had to

1856
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 2: figure out how to make it a record. Drey had

1857
01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 2: a verse, you know him, and I think Blake, I

1858
01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:02,559
Speaker 2: forgetting the young Man Sam. I think Blake they had

1859
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:06,040
Speaker 2: and then no I d came in and then DJ

1860
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,680
Speaker 2: Paul came in and it just went crazy. But I

1861
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 2: appreciate Future because I know Future got a lot of

1862
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,640
Speaker 2: shit to do. You know, the Future, Future got a

1863
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 2: lot of hits to be on. But Future came out

1864
01:15:14,880 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 2: of nowhere. Man and it sent me that verse. Man,

1865
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 2: I just appreciate him and him and Stacks for doing that.

1866
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:21,240
Speaker 2: So future. I ain't seen him a long time, but

1867
01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:23,040
Speaker 2: thank you. You know I still appreciate you. Moron.

1868
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: When he was in the second Generation, did you know

1869
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 1: he would like be what he's become.

1870
01:15:28,160 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 2: No, I didn't because I was so I was too

1871
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:33,479
Speaker 2: too busy clawing that not falling off myself, you know

1872
01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like the big record company didn't have

1873
01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:37,960
Speaker 2: much faith in me. You know, Columbia Records is a company,

1874
01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 2: the people who worked there. I didn't have faith in

1875
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:41,960
Speaker 2: killing Mike. They'm telling you, a big black guy, you

1876
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 2: can't be I ain't killing Mike yet. You know, you

1877
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:45,600
Speaker 2: got a band come out a few years later, call

1878
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:47,600
Speaker 2: the Killers, and everybody gets behind them. You know.

1879
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 1: I mean, so for me, I was too busy clawing.

1880
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: But I knew that Rico understood talent, and I knew

1881
01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 1: that the guys. I knew he could wrap his ass off.

1882
01:15:56,520 --> 01:15:58,639
Speaker 1: I knew g Rockins he smooth with dope as hell.

1883
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:00,720
Speaker 1: You know, bullet Ball was dope. I knew that the

1884
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:03,360
Speaker 1: guys that that rec had put together for sex Generation

1885
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:05,840
Speaker 1: with dope guys. So I never doubted him, but it

1886
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:08,840
Speaker 1: was when I saw him. He did a record I'm

1887
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:12,200
Speaker 1: forgetting it was featured with, but the kid literally chopped

1888
01:16:12,280 --> 01:16:14,960
Speaker 1: Future out the video. Whoever was doing it was chopping

1889
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: Future out, and as a Gunstown man, I got pissed.

1890
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:18,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, that's how I got y'all doing this.

1891
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:20,640
Speaker 2: You know it was I think it was racks On

1892
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:22,600
Speaker 2: racks On Racks. He might it might have been that,

1893
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 2: but I knew then. I was like, Oh, they trying

1894
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:26,960
Speaker 2: to hold Sharlty back. Oh, Sharlty gonna do it. And

1895
01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:28,559
Speaker 2: the next thing, you know, Charlotte did it. I can't

1896
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 2: even remember the other art's name. That's not an insult

1897
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:30,559
Speaker 2: to him.

1898
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:31,240
Speaker 1: That just said.

1899
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 2: That was the moment that I knew when I seen

1900
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 2: another company try to kind of excuse him or get

1901
01:16:36,479 --> 01:16:38,120
Speaker 2: him or I said, oh he got he got with it,

1902
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 2: take out with it, and he's not He's not let us,

1903
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:42,360
Speaker 2: He's not let us down. Man, He's done the city proud.

1904
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:44,599
Speaker 4: You also got Dave Chappelle to peal on that that's

1905
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 4: my guy that I just asked him because because man

1906
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:52,240
Speaker 4: I went to I ended up befriended Dave because I've

1907
01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:54,640
Speaker 4: always thought he was hype, intelligent funny his hell, and

1908
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 4: it's crazy that like him and Ryan Davis or two

1909
01:16:57,439 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 4: of the most and Paul Mooney, you know so Paul

1910
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:01,679
Speaker 4: only of course, God bless the dead Dave.

1911
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 2: This is the current legendarre is Ryan Davis, who I

1912
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:05,800
Speaker 2: think is going to be an absolute go too.

1913
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: I like intelligent funny, you know what I mean.

1914
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 2: I like all funnies, but there's something about intelligent funny

1915
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 2: and Dave Man. I remember asking Dave, you know when

1916
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 2: he gave me this speech after one of his show,

1917
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 2: like you.

1918
01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:19,639
Speaker 1: Need to run for governor, and I'm like, I don't.

1919
01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: I want some money like you.

1920
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Speaker 2: And he gave me this speech about how I don't

1921
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Speaker 2: care if you go to strip clubs. I don't care

1922
01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 2: if you smoke. We care that we can trust you,

1923
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Speaker 2: the people havingplicit faith in you to do and you

1924
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:35,120
Speaker 2: have to honor that by doing something. So I called

1925
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:36,759
Speaker 2: him and said, Dave, you'll do something on the album.

1926
01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:38,560
Speaker 2: I sent it to him, and he sent back that

1927
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 2: monologue and I was like, oh shit. And then people

1928
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:43,960
Speaker 2: try to get pissed about the monologue.

1929
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Speaker 1: Y'all.

1930
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Speaker 2: Dare you compare being a black man or being a

1931
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,559
Speaker 2: rapper to storming the beaches of Bokanock When I think

1932
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 2: to myself, how many eighteen and nineteen year old boys

1933
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,080
Speaker 2: in the army and I don't know what their life

1934
01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:57,479
Speaker 2: is going. Stepping out on that beach is is scary

1935
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 2: stepping off that curb. Sometimes you don't know what you doing,

1936
01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:02,760
Speaker 2: which direction to go, what's going on around you? And

1937
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,000
Speaker 2: I say, man, what a what A What a pitiful

1938
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 2: way to hate on him, to hate a metaphor by

1939
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:10,639
Speaker 2: trying to hate on Dave Chappelle, who's an intelligent who

1940
01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 2: gets it. And I appreciate him telling me to run

1941
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Speaker 2: because I ain't start running since Man, Thank you, Dave.

1942
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Speaker 1: What was the first time you met Dave? First time

1943
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:20,840
Speaker 1: I met Dave?

1944
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Speaker 2: Dave had me on the shoulder Chapelle Show the first

1945
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:25,280
Speaker 2: season when everybody was like, your.

1946
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Speaker 1: Name is Killer Michael and Puffy Killer Mike, and.

1947
01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 2: Dave was like, ill book him and had me come

1948
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:33,800
Speaker 2: to a boxing gym in Brooklyn and me and my

1949
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:35,680
Speaker 2: man gg McGee, who just got his ex in the

1950
01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 2: Nation Islam South South the g Gerard X. Now, man,

1951
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Speaker 2: I'm very proud of you. We went up there, man,

1952
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:43,760
Speaker 2: and we perform action and Dave was jumping around. He

1953
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:48,400
Speaker 2: was skinned as a prison and I have been a

1954
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:50,439
Speaker 2: fan of since then, but in the last four years

1955
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 2: really built a.

1956
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:53,920
Speaker 1: Solid friendship with him. You took him to the Flame, took.

1957
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Speaker 2: Him to the flat and Bill maher and that's how

1958
01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:02,280
Speaker 2: we toured together. At the end of the night, Yet

1959
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:03,680
Speaker 2: at the end of the night, he puts his arm

1960
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 2: around me and says, Mike, we shit gone tour. And

1961
01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 2: I was like, don't play with me. I have my

1962
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 2: white folks. Call your white folks in the morning. We're

1963
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 2: getting shit together. And the next next morning I called

1964
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 2: my wife folks. The man days white folks already called us.

1965
01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:17,519
Speaker 2: You guys are going on tour.

1966
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Speaker 1: Wow.

1967
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:21,240
Speaker 2: And and it happens, happened, and the Flame. I owe

1968
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:22,840
Speaker 2: a lot to the Flame, shouts out to Michael and

1969
01:19:22,920 --> 01:19:25,760
Speaker 2: Jackie Kato. The food good food is the best at

1970
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:27,120
Speaker 2: then let me tell you so, let me get you

1971
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:30,080
Speaker 2: all this, man. Atlanta is one of the places where

1972
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 2: not only do you have black strip clubs, they're black on.

1973
01:19:32,479 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 2: So when you start talking about Club Rain now I

1974
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:36,840
Speaker 2: think rebranded Foley. You start to my peach, it starts

1975
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 2: my magic city started talking about the Flame. You're talking. Yeah,

1976
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:42,720
Speaker 2: Candy Lab with two change shouts out the rail there.

1977
01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 2: Those are clubs that Foley's name is now rain Oh

1978
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 2: on Morland, which used to be yep, now.

1979
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Speaker 1: There, it used to be on what you call them

1980
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: to they move that way.

1981
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but it's gone now, so that one had

1982
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Speaker 2: to close. So I think that they're just doing a

1983
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Speaker 2: licensing deal.

1984
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, but but I don't know why I knew that. Yeah,

1985
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: but yeah, these places got great got great food.

1986
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 2: So if you want the best wings, you know a

1987
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 2: lot of people gonna tell you Magic City and I

1988
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 2: love Magic City Wings, but you know from the West Side.

1989
01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:11,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the West Side Wings had that flying.

1990
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Speaker 2: I'm have to check the flames and they got Yeah,

1991
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:16,080
Speaker 2: you gotta let me tell you, gotta do I'm gonna

1992
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:21,880
Speaker 2: tell the secret. They shilly, they shill, got them all

1993
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 2: natural bodies and them girls got they got. I'm calling

1994
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:27,280
Speaker 2: for the food. That's all I want. That's all all respect,

1995
01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:30,880
Speaker 2: work respect. We're gonna go for the food. Yeah, yeah,

1996
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Speaker 2: y Jordan, get Joe got the schedule.

1997
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Speaker 1: Let's her do it.

1998
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Speaker 4: This concludes the first half of my conversation. Part two

1999
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Speaker 4: is also posted and you can access it to whichever

2000
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Speaker 4: podcast platform you just listened to Part one on, Just

2001
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Speaker 4: simply go back to club shap profile and I'll see

2002
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Speaker 4: you there.