WEBVTT - Master P 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.080 Hello, Welcome to another edition of Club Sha Shay. I 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.640 am your host, Shell and Sharp, also the proprietor of 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.039 Club Shasha, and the guy that's stopping by for a 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.760 drink and conversation today. He really doesn't need any introduction, 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.480 but I'm gonna introduce him anyway. He's a rapper. He's 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:19.320 an actor, movie producer, record executive, a mogul, former NBA 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.840 NBA player, and mister make um say huh master pe 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.480 all my life and grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:33.160 back pricing one slice got theron dice swathing all my life. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.800 I've been grinding all my life, us all my life, 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.960 the grinding all my life up, sacrifice, hustle back pricing, 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.800 one slice got the bron dice to swap all my life. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:48.159 I've been grinding in all my life. Hee, what a do? 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.120 What's going on? Bro man? Thanks for stopping by and 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.200 giving me a few minutes of your time today. I 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.920 really really appreciate it. We're gonna cover a broad range 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.880 of topics were wanted to go all over, and hopefully, 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.960 I really hope that when we're done with this conversation 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.640 and we air this, a lot of people will take issue, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.360 take heed to what you said, and maybe there will 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.280 become better people, better businessmen, and better aspects of their life. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.039 So I really appreciate you taking time today. Yes, sir, Yes, sir. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:23.920 Let's start with the latest Rebok datas made it. Let 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.200 it be known that they're looking to sell the Rebok 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:30.320 brand from under their umbrella. You mentioned along with Baron Davis, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.240 that you would like to purchase this. Do you feel 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.760 that you've taken the necessary steps to put you in 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.800 line to be able to take over this property. Well, 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.720 right now, we already show proof of funds. So we 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.320 have a seat at the table right now and we're 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.960 getting close and to be able to take Rebok Black 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.680 into the history something that never been done. To have 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.960 a CEO of a large tennis shoe brand like this, 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.040 it would change the game changing narrative. It's all about 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.560 economic empowerment, you know. It's what we protest for. It 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.480 is what lebron them stand up for their games to 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:12.799 want to show some diversity, but also show some plan 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:14.919 of action. The plan of action is we don't have 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.560 to stand in the streets and protest no more. We 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:22.160 have to understand impartance of building economic empowerment. And this 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.200 is how we change the privacy. This is how we 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.280 change the crime rate in our communities. This is how 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.280 we give back, This is how we give opportunities. And 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.440 this deal is just one of many. If it go 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.440 through and they choose us to be able to run 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.280 a brand like this, I haven't an initiative that I 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.760 want to start. It us begin with Alan iverson Shack 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.480 and to the next newest biggest player in the game 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.400 that will be the next draft pick, Jail and SuDS. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.640 I want to be able to take Jail and SuDS 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.679 and be one of the faces to this brand. And 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.760 because I want kids that come from nowhere that's been 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.760 underrated their whole life and say, you know what, now, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.079 let's put these kids on this platform and showcase them 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.560 and and show them that how we could come from 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.960 the bottom and change the narrative by doing what's right 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.720 and being able to recognize the underdogs. And I think 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:20.400 the NBA, the NFL, the Major League Baseball, this is 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:25.280 history to have a CEO of a company like me 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.720 that come from nothing, not a perfect life, but changed 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.160 my life and be able to to do something big 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.239 for the culture. So I want to take the whole 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.760 culture with me on this ride to get to see 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:41.080 at the table, to show them that we understand financial 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.840 literacy and we understand growth. And this is a movement. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.480 This is not just a deal. Like I said, this 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.240 is only one of many. We're gonna open up banks, 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.800 we're gonna open up grocery stores, we're gonna create products. 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.040 So showing that we can do this, So this this 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.280 is the twenties first century, This is not it's gonna 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:02.040 look this would be very from you, master p because 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.440 normally what you do is that you build from the 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.080 bottom to the top. But you will be purchased in 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.960 the company that's already been established and you will take 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.160 over it. So why was it important for you? Because normally, 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.840 like you, like I said, you like to build that way. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.080 You're like, okay, I know this is me, this is 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.640 my blood, sweat and tears. And so now you're going 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.560 in basically to already made product. Now you're just trying 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.640 to take it to the next level. Yeah, because that's 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.840 the growth. When you look at Reginald Lewis did this 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:35.160 in nineteen seventies. This guy did this. He was from Maryland, 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.320 and he showed us that we can do this, and 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.000 I want to show this generation that yeah, we can 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.560 build stuff, but at the same time, we can acquire 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:48.160 major brands and now we can help more because when 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.479 you look at it right now, it's hard for us 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.960 to help people in our community. My model is the 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.480 more I make, the more I give. So now people 0:04:55.520 --> 0:05:01.320 don't realize, you know, it's it's you lose thousands. So 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.280 you look at a millionaires might lose thousands to become millionaires. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.400 Billionaires lose millions to become billionaires. And we have to 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.040 think like that, that's the only way we're going to 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.880 close this gapluck. And so that's what my life is about, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:21.040 not closing that gap, showing the end balance and some diversity. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.440 This is the time, and I think we got to 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.280 think bigger. This is me being on a mission to grow, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.280 keep learning, getting the experience all the failures that I've 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:34.400 been through, you know, falling, hitting the ground, picking myself 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.719 back up, and not being afraid to say I don't 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.440 know everything, and putting the right team together, because I 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.880 mean the financial team that I was able to put 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.440 together to go in acquire deal like this, it's incredible. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.600 It's almost like sports sports did it for me, you know, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.560 to where now. No, it's not just about me. I'm 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.520 the head of the team, but I need so many 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.920 of these great people, you know, financial people now, Like 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.600 for me, it's like I don't need street people with me. 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.320 I need nerds. I need people behind computers. I need 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.159 people that know technology. I need people that know money. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.719 And that's how we grow and get to this. Fixing 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:15.440 this and balance pe. You talked about picking yourself up 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.160 after you've been knocked down. I think that's some of 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.599 the hardest thing for people. People don't like fail your 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.320 people don't handle failure. People don't handle rejection. No one 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.040 handles that well. So how many how does you How 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.440 do you after one, two, three, ten, doors flamm in 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.839 your face? You have a business startup and it fails. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.360 How do you pick you How? How did master p 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.400 pick himself up and says, Okay, that opportunity didn't work out, 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.360 but there's another one over there that's going to work out. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.800 How do you stay so positive in situations like this? Wow, 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:45.920 I put my trust in faith and guard. And it's 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.720 not just about me. I know that whatever it is 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.400 for me to get to my destination, some of them 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.360 doors need to close right. That's at the right door 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.719 for me, and it's a bigger door, always open up. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:06:59.800 And I want to take other people with me, so 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:02.160 I know that this is not just about me. I 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.320 want to take thousands of people that has business, that 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.080 look like us, that has products, and get the products 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.840 and brands into these stores. And I just think that 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.600 nobody has educated us. So I want to be that person. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.320 I want to be the Muhammad alive business. I want 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.680 to be the model of the king of business, to 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.880 lead us to that to that mountaintop and say, look 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.760 look what we could do now. We could eat now, 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.080 we could feed our people and not do it. I 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.280 think it's not dwelling on the pass. Everybody dwell on 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.240 old slavery or just how they mistreat us. I'm like, no, 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.040 we can't change the past, but we could change the future. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.160 So that that that that's what drives me to where 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.560 every time I follow them like no, I gotta get up, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.160 I gotta keep going. You know, yesterday it was a 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.960 bad day, but tomorrow gonna be better. And I keep 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.080 that positive attitude and speak it so you know, like 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:50.760 we just see I got on my shirt right here, 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.440 la grad and l A grade is about from Louisiana 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.840 to Los Angeles to the greats. I mean, everybody that 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.040 came before me. It's not about me and able to 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:07.560 create a product brand, water, sports, drinks, anything in the 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.520 beverage business. And they've been doing this for years and 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.800 I'm like, you know what, it's time for us to 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.760 do that. So to be a part of this. It's 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.680 a movement to be able to give water back to 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.080 people in our community. Help the elderly they don't get this, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.240 you know, help educate the kids in the in the community. 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.960 And that's what it is. I think that feel you 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.480 keeps me the guy that invented the light bulb, he 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.679 feels nine hundred and ninety nine times and then all 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.959 of a sudden he created the light bulb. And look 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.480 look where we are now. And so think about us 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.640 now being able to create something, something to push us 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.440 and drive us doing some positive I mean, I didn't 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.080 come from a perfect life. A lot of people feel 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:49.559 a lot of people went to jail, a lot of 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.200 people died at a young age. And I'm saying, God, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.920 spare my life, let me do something right. You know, 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.559 if you do right, blessings will continue. So I think 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.000 that'd be my motivation. It's no limit to what I 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.199 can do. I name myself master Be because I'm a 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.800 master whatever I do. And I think you gotta speak 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.400 positive on yourself. And it's all about consistency and putting 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.640 in the work. You know, even a filial to me, 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.280 is just a lesson. It's not a loss. It's not 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.400 a l It's a lesson. And that's how I look 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.400 at it. I'm like, you know what, it's not a race, 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.640 it's a marathon. I just gotta keep going. I'm gonna 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.720 get there, and that's what I get. In the music industry, 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.080 I went from selling no records to selling a hundred 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.120 million records independently. And that's just how God is. When 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.199 you do the right thing, you will overcome all the negativity. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.720 Even the haters gonna love you in the end. Even 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.120 the people that just wait, Okay, maybe they might not 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.040 want to see me on top right now, They're gonna 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.079 wait until you go on to say I'm gonna buy 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.600 all this product. That's cool, But guess what, I'm gonna 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.400 still keep doing my plot while I'm here. I'm gonna 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.160 keep showing them that we can actually do this. We 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.360 can build these big brands the same way they was 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.760 able to do, and now we can buy these brands 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.640 and take over and put the money back into the 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.120 culture in the community. But we have to supply with 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.320 each other. We got to stop with the self hate 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.120 that don't want to see. You know. I celebrate you, man, 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.280 like I'm proud of you from what you're able to do. 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.520 You know what I'm saying. Transition from sports to be 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.000 able to communicate and be able to talk to us. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.559 That's big. That's how we change the narrative. We have 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.840 to showcase more of this and the people that are 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.600 doing the right thing. I tell my son all the time, 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.840 I say, Romeo, you blessed. Just keep doing the right thing. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.280 God gonna bless you with bigger and bigger and better 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.120 things because you're doing the right thing. And I think that, 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.280 but we don't show that. We don't showcase that. We 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.439 pe You and I were having a conversation off camera 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.560 and we're talking about and I was asking you. I's 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.240 like you in LA. He's like, yeah, I'm in LA. 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.199 I said, you left the booth. He's like, yeah, I'm 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.839 in between two places. I'm between Minnesota in la and 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:47.560 I know. I asked you, and I asked you. I said, 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.560 why did you move? He said, why do you leave 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.120 where you were from? Why that we can be at 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.200 a location. We might have five kN homies and they 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.360 all cool as long as we all there together. But 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.320 if if I make it out, if you're making out 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.240 the front win making out, why do we become reveentable? 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.280 Why is it like that? Well, because if you look 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.800 at it right, everybody has twenty four hours. Yeah, while 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.080 you're working, they sleeping and parting and playing, and then 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.959 they want the same results. You're not gonna get the 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.199 same results. You sacrifice, you got out and then what 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:21.680 you need to do. I tell you all the time, 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.319 Like I'm no different. I got a brother in concentrated. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.839 We all had millions of dollars. So life is like this. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.560 People that want to sit on a cone and smoke 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.000 and drink and guess what, you can't be mad at 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.400 me or you because our life is different. We got 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.240 a nicer house or nicer car or whatever because we 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.640 decided to do the right thing. We left the cone. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.280 I'm not trying to go backwards. And I think that's 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.720 what people got to realize. Like if you don't want 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.160 to go back to It's two types of people. It's 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:53.200 average people and above average people. The difference. Average people 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:57.520 are comfortable being uncomfortable. Above average people not and were not. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.160 So yeah, I have a house in Louisia. I have 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.840 a house in Minnesota. I have a house in Los Angeles, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.880 so I can go back and forth. But the thing 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.280 why I go to Minnesota my kids go to many 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.640 Ha High Academy and they play basketball. I gotta I 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.880 gotta one kid, Herson Miller. He's a sixth street parent guard. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.360 He a senior and you know he's getting ready to 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.520 go to college. And I have a six four shooting guard, 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.360 Mercy Miller. He a freshman and he's starting on the 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.439 varsity team. And my thing is, I'm allowing them to 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.160 see both sides. So when they go to Minnesota, by 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.720 they mind, they're able to feel like, now, I gave 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.719 up California, gave up New Orleans, I gotta go into 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.800 cold weather. I want them to be uncomfortable and I 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.480 want them to be able to experience this instead of 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.599 saying everything is good, I'm teaching them work at this. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.439 And guess what, they're not the top kids in the 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.760 country right now, but they will be in the end. 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.200 I tell them, it's not how you start, it's how 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.360 you finish. You put the work in. These kids put 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.400 the work in, have been putting the work in for years. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.360 I mean, we played on the National TV game last year. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:12.720 We played against Lebron's son Briani James at Sierra Canyon. Everybody, yeah, 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.280 everybody looked at us like they just gonna get blowed 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:20.160 out the water. You know. We won that game by 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.360 twenty person who wasn't even right now. We won the 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.640 top teams in the country, but we wasn't ranked, and 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.520 nobody knew when my kids were even jailing suns jailing 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.120 suns and I went to Gunzaga. He's probably gonna be 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.319 the top five NBA player in the draft this year, 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.640 but last year, nobody was talking about him. And that's 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.440 what I love about this. I'm saying, like, I don't 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.280 mind being the underdog. Even when I played, nobody didn't knew, 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.880 like ky Master Pete really buffed. They didn't know that 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.599 this is what I did, but voted this. So I 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.520 loved that team atmosphere in the vable to to let 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.160 my kids see a boat the balance like don't worry 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.400 about what I got, but think about what you can 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.120 build and add on to what I have. That's how 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.439 we build generational well. But you have to understand. I 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.679 was talking to they training other day Christmas, like if 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.040 he trained briand and a lot of other you know people, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.880 and it's like, what makes these kids different is that 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.240 they know that they got to work for what they want, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.440 Like you're not just handing it to him, because nobody 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.240 could teach her to work. You just have to put 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.040 your body through this and deal with it. We just 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.480 want opportunity, that's it. We don't We don't want nobody 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.200 to give us. No, we want an opportunity. Right. That's 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.560 what I want to talk to you about, pet, is 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.080 that you can you and I understand, we didn't have anything. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.400 There was nothing to be given out to us. Our 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.680 parents didn't have anything, so it wasn't like they could 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.640 just hand us anything and we could just sit back. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.680 So we had to grind. How do you get your 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.240 kids when you've accomplished so much and they can sit 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.080 back and just and go into business with you and 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.680 not have to grind, say, like some like you had 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.440 to grind or I had to grind going up. How 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.480 do you get kids to under saying that you gotta 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.600 grind in order to get what you first you have 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.040 to do. You have to show them this success is temporary, 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.560 So you got to show them who God is first. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.200 Once they know that and they have the faith to 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.640 keep going, and then you have to let them know 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.440 that all the stuff you have, it's like the hurricane 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.640 me growing up in New Orleans, this could all be 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.480 washed away. You have to start over, and you got 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.320 to go back and then you have to teach them 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.520 or work at it. So you got to start at 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.680 a young age. I've been doing this with my kids 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.840 since they was three years old, Like you know what 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.280 this is what it is. Nobody gonna give you nothing. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.120 You got. It's a mentality. It's a mindset. So my 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.160 kids now what I love about them when when somebody 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:43.880 walk up to them and said, well why you work 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.360 so hard because master, poor dad, you don't have to 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.200 do that. And when you get on the court, you know, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.840 people know these kids are beats. They like animals because 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.600 they like, I gotta protect my family name. So you 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.800 gotta you gotta love something and have a purpose in 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.120 life and know exactly why you doing something. When the 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.720 kids said they gotta protect their family name, they know 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.640 it's like a step Curry. I played with Dale Curry, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.600 and I don't watch Steph Curry come in the gym 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.760 when he was young. But what Dale taught him was 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.040 that nobody's gonna give you nothing. If we want, you 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:15.960 got to get in that gym and put them shots up. 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:23.520 My kids at and uh eighteen and in fifteen, they 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.880 in the gym putting up fifteen hundred shots after the game, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.800 you know, on the days off, like they know, like 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.080 you don't work, you don't eat, like our whole mentality is. 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.400 You know, we got this whole thing to where we 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.480 gotta go harder than the next person. We gotta go 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.120 harder than the next family. We ten steps behind. They've 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.120 been passing money down from their descendants. And that's what 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:49.280 I'm saying. If we if we're gonna do this, it's 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.320 gonna take all of us. It's not just me that 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.960 that has to go harder. You know, we all have 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.400 to go hold if we're gonna break this negative cycle, 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.080 this imbalance of wealth. And if we're gonna do that, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.880 and we know this temporary so well, I also got 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.480 to teach them about helping, philanthropy, giving back, like this 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.880 is not just about you, because you can't take this witch, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.480 so this is temporary success, but having some integrity. So 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.639 I just think that's what I give my kids when 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.600 they get up in the morning, saying, you have to 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.240 keep educating yourself. The same way you want to be 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.600 a student of the game in basketball, you got to 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.040 be that in life and in school and education. So 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.600 my kids, like, right now, we're looking for a college. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.880 We're gonna look for a college that's gonna not only 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.760 be a great college but could also help you on 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.680 both ends off the court and own the court. So 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.440 you know, I've been talking to a lot of Spleen 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:44.200 talking Vanderbild, been talking to BYU Stamford Howard. I mean, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.800 we've been talking to a lot of great schools. But LSU, 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:49.960 I could go on and on, but I'm like, you know, 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.280 for my kid to come, there's gonna have to be 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.440 something that's gonna not just give them basketball, but also 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.240 educational because we want to keep building that up. You know, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.560 keep understanding that knowledge is the most important thing in 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.679 this wisdom. So we want somewhere that's gonna prepare us 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.000 off the court, because that's when a lot of actors, 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.679 you look at a lot of athleties end up back 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.280 in the hood because they have no education and they 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.280 know nothing about finance, so they're depending on financial advising. 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.720 So a financial advising is gonna be your best friend 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:20.800 once you make some money. But what happened before you 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.800 got this right? You're trying to teach your kids to 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.200 surround your people, surround yourself with people that's knowledgeable, but 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:33.760 people that you really trust. Yes, yes, you mentioned about 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.600 possibility acquiring rebuking, You mentioned Shot, You mentioned Alan Irison. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.119 Would you like to see Rebok become a because Rebok 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.120 used to be a major player in the NBA, used 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:45.960 to be a major player in the NFL. I don't 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.000 know if they were, and they were somewhe in baseball, 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.359 But are you trying to get the brand back into 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.480 that because right, NiFe them to be basically Adidas and 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:59.720 Nike in basketball, Well, thank nobody if that brand is 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.480 black on you imagine what a kid gonna do when 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.760 you walk into the store knowing that even a white 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:09.000 Asian Latino. Because there's been an end balance, we started 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.160 buying these shoes and we never was able to benefit off. 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.320 So imagine if we take a dysfunctional brand like this 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:19.080 and make it just as big as night, Like, we're 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.359 gonna change the game, Like like kids are gonna be 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:28.400 proud to play in these shoes. I'm talking about high school, college, 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.760 and then pro athletes are gonna be proud to when 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:33.320 you know, when you look at Lebron, you look at 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.000 all these different players, they're gonna be proud, even if 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.360 they're not in the brand, they're gonna feel like, man, 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:43.840 we we overcame something. This is major. I feel like 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.920 it's it would be a movement, like when a kid 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:51.080 walk into a store saying, wow, I wear this because 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.640 look what Master Pete built. Look when he give back 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.360 to the community and a culture, and you're gonna see 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.480 Rebok everywhere And I think, I think it's about to happen. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.080 It's about to happen. And if it don't happen, then 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.720 we're gonna keep building. I mean, I got my own brand, 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.240 I got I got MANIATI. You know what I'm saying. 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.480 It's staying for motivating oneself and courage you actively than independently. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.560 H We're creating big brands just the cereals that's coming 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.520 out the Master Crunch. So you know, I mean we 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.080 we came a long way. You know, I did the music. 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:26.200