Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to another edition of Club Sha Shay. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Shell and Sharp, also the proprietor of
Speaker 1: Club Shasha, and the guy that's stopping by for a
Speaker 1: drink and conversation today. He really doesn't need any introduction,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna introduce him anyway. He's a rapper. He's
Speaker 1: an actor, movie producer, record executive, a mogul, former NBA
Speaker 1: NBA player, and mister make um say huh master pe
Speaker 1: all my life and grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle
Speaker 1: back pricing one slice got theron dice swathing all my life.
Speaker 1: I've been grinding all my life, us all my life,
Speaker 1: the grinding all my life up, sacrifice, hustle back pricing,
Speaker 1: one slice got the bron dice to swap all my life.
Speaker 1: I've been grinding in all my life. Hee, what a do?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Bro man? Thanks for stopping by and
Speaker 1: giving me a few minutes of your time today. I
Speaker 1: really really appreciate it. We're gonna cover a broad range
Speaker 1: of topics were wanted to go all over, and hopefully,
Speaker 1: I really hope that when we're done with this conversation
Speaker 1: and we air this, a lot of people will take issue,
Speaker 1: take heed to what you said, and maybe there will
Speaker 1: become better people, better businessmen, and better aspects of their life.
Speaker 1: So I really appreciate you taking time today. Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the latest Rebok datas made it. Let
Speaker 1: it be known that they're looking to sell the Rebok
Speaker 1: brand from under their umbrella. You mentioned along with Baron Davis,
Speaker 1: that you would like to purchase this. Do you feel
Speaker 1: that you've taken the necessary steps to put you in
Speaker 1: line to be able to take over this property. Well,
Speaker 1: right now, we already show proof of funds. So we
Speaker 1: have a seat at the table right now and we're
Speaker 1: getting close and to be able to take Rebok Black
Speaker 1: into the history something that never been done. To have
Speaker 1: a CEO of a large tennis shoe brand like this,
Speaker 1: it would change the game changing narrative. It's all about
Speaker 1: economic empowerment, you know. It's what we protest for. It
Speaker 1: is what lebron them stand up for their games to
Speaker 1: want to show some diversity, but also show some plan
Speaker 1: of action. The plan of action is we don't have
Speaker 1: to stand in the streets and protest no more. We
Speaker 1: have to understand impartance of building economic empowerment. And this
Speaker 1: is how we change the privacy. This is how we
Speaker 1: change the crime rate in our communities. This is how
Speaker 1: we give back, This is how we give opportunities. And
Speaker 1: this deal is just one of many. If it go
Speaker 1: through and they choose us to be able to run
Speaker 1: a brand like this, I haven't an initiative that I
Speaker 1: want to start. It us begin with Alan iverson Shack
Speaker 1: and to the next newest biggest player in the game
Speaker 1: that will be the next draft pick, Jail and SuDS.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to take Jail and SuDS
Speaker 1: and be one of the faces to this brand. And
Speaker 1: because I want kids that come from nowhere that's been
Speaker 1: underrated their whole life and say, you know what, now,
Speaker 1: let's put these kids on this platform and showcase them
Speaker 1: and and show them that how we could come from
Speaker 1: the bottom and change the narrative by doing what's right
Speaker 1: and being able to recognize the underdogs. And I think
Speaker 1: the NBA, the NFL, the Major League Baseball, this is
Speaker 1: history to have a CEO of a company like me
Speaker 1: that come from nothing, not a perfect life, but changed
Speaker 1: my life and be able to to do something big
Speaker 1: for the culture. So I want to take the whole
Speaker 1: culture with me on this ride to get to see
Speaker 1: at the table, to show them that we understand financial
Speaker 1: literacy and we understand growth. And this is a movement.
Speaker 1: This is not just a deal. Like I said, this
Speaker 1: is only one of many. We're gonna open up banks,
Speaker 1: we're gonna open up grocery stores, we're gonna create products.
Speaker 1: So showing that we can do this, So this this
Speaker 1: is the twenties first century, This is not it's gonna
Speaker 1: look this would be very from you, master p because
Speaker 1: normally what you do is that you build from the
Speaker 1: bottom to the top. But you will be purchased in
Speaker 1: the company that's already been established and you will take
Speaker 1: over it. So why was it important for you? Because normally,
Speaker 1: like you, like I said, you like to build that way.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, I know this is me, this is
Speaker 1: my blood, sweat and tears. And so now you're going
Speaker 1: in basically to already made product. Now you're just trying
Speaker 1: to take it to the next level. Yeah, because that's
Speaker 1: the growth. When you look at Reginald Lewis did this
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventies. This guy did this. He was from Maryland,
Speaker 1: and he showed us that we can do this, and
Speaker 1: I want to show this generation that yeah, we can
Speaker 1: build stuff, but at the same time, we can acquire
Speaker 1: major brands and now we can help more because when
Speaker 1: you look at it right now, it's hard for us
Speaker 1: to help people in our community. My model is the
Speaker 1: more I make, the more I give. So now people
Speaker 1: don't realize, you know, it's it's you lose thousands. So
Speaker 1: you look at a millionaires might lose thousands to become millionaires.
Speaker 1: Billionaires lose millions to become billionaires. And we have to
Speaker 1: think like that, that's the only way we're going to
Speaker 1: close this gapluck. And so that's what my life is about,
Speaker 1: not closing that gap, showing the end balance and some diversity.
Speaker 1: This is the time, and I think we got to
Speaker 1: think bigger. This is me being on a mission to grow,
Speaker 1: keep learning, getting the experience all the failures that I've
Speaker 1: been through, you know, falling, hitting the ground, picking myself
Speaker 1: back up, and not being afraid to say I don't
Speaker 1: know everything, and putting the right team together, because I
Speaker 1: mean the financial team that I was able to put
Speaker 1: together to go in acquire deal like this, it's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's almost like sports sports did it for me, you know,
Speaker 1: to where now. No, it's not just about me. I'm
Speaker 1: the head of the team, but I need so many
Speaker 1: of these great people, you know, financial people now, Like
Speaker 1: for me, it's like I don't need street people with me.
Speaker 1: I need nerds. I need people behind computers. I need
Speaker 1: people that know technology. I need people that know money.
Speaker 1: And that's how we grow and get to this. Fixing
Speaker 1: this and balance pe. You talked about picking yourself up
Speaker 1: after you've been knocked down. I think that's some of
Speaker 1: the hardest thing for people. People don't like fail your
Speaker 1: people don't handle failure. People don't handle rejection. No one
Speaker 1: handles that well. So how many how does you How
Speaker 1: do you after one, two, three, ten, doors flamm in
Speaker 1: your face? You have a business startup and it fails.
Speaker 1: How do you pick you How? How did master p
Speaker 1: pick himself up and says, Okay, that opportunity didn't work out,
Speaker 1: but there's another one over there that's going to work out.
Speaker 1: How do you stay so positive in situations like this? Wow,
Speaker 1: I put my trust in faith and guard. And it's
Speaker 1: not just about me. I know that whatever it is
Speaker 1: for me to get to my destination, some of them
Speaker 1: doors need to close right. That's at the right door
Speaker 1: for me, and it's a bigger door, always open up.
Speaker 1: And I want to take other people with me, so
Speaker 1: I know that this is not just about me. I
Speaker 1: want to take thousands of people that has business, that
Speaker 1: look like us, that has products, and get the products
Speaker 1: and brands into these stores. And I just think that
Speaker 1: nobody has educated us. So I want to be that person.
Speaker 1: I want to be the Muhammad alive business. I want
Speaker 1: to be the model of the king of business, to
Speaker 1: lead us to that to that mountaintop and say, look
Speaker 1: look what we could do now. We could eat now,
Speaker 1: we could feed our people and not do it. I
Speaker 1: think it's not dwelling on the pass. Everybody dwell on
Speaker 1: old slavery or just how they mistreat us. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: we can't change the past, but we could change the future.
Speaker 1: So that that that that's what drives me to where
Speaker 1: every time I follow them like no, I gotta get up,
Speaker 1: I gotta keep going. You know, yesterday it was a
Speaker 1: bad day, but tomorrow gonna be better. And I keep
Speaker 1: that positive attitude and speak it so you know, like
Speaker 1: we just see I got on my shirt right here,
Speaker 1: la grad and l A grade is about from Louisiana
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles to the greats. I mean, everybody that
Speaker 1: came before me. It's not about me and able to
Speaker 1: create a product brand, water, sports, drinks, anything in the
Speaker 1: beverage business. And they've been doing this for years and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, it's time for us to
Speaker 1: do that. So to be a part of this. It's
Speaker 1: a movement to be able to give water back to
Speaker 1: people in our community. Help the elderly they don't get this,
Speaker 1: you know, help educate the kids in the in the community.
Speaker 1: And that's what it is. I think that feel you
Speaker 1: keeps me the guy that invented the light bulb, he
Speaker 1: feels nine hundred and ninety nine times and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he created the light bulb. And look
Speaker 1: look where we are now. And so think about us
Speaker 1: now being able to create something, something to push us
Speaker 1: and drive us doing some positive I mean, I didn't
Speaker 1: come from a perfect life. A lot of people feel
Speaker 1: a lot of people went to jail, a lot of
Speaker 1: people died at a young age. And I'm saying, God,
Speaker 1: spare my life, let me do something right. You know,
Speaker 1: if you do right, blessings will continue. So I think
Speaker 1: that'd be my motivation. It's no limit to what I
Speaker 1: can do. I name myself master Be because I'm a
Speaker 1: master whatever I do. And I think you gotta speak
Speaker 1: positive on yourself. And it's all about consistency and putting
Speaker 1: in the work. You know, even a filial to me,
Speaker 1: is just a lesson. It's not a loss. It's not
Speaker 1: a l It's a lesson. And that's how I look
Speaker 1: at it. I'm like, you know what, it's not a race,
Speaker 1: it's a marathon. I just gotta keep going. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get there, and that's what I get. In the music industry,
Speaker 1: I went from selling no records to selling a hundred
Speaker 1: million records independently. And that's just how God is. When
Speaker 1: you do the right thing, you will overcome all the negativity.
Speaker 1: Even the haters gonna love you in the end. Even
Speaker 1: the people that just wait, Okay, maybe they might not
Speaker 1: want to see me on top right now, They're gonna
Speaker 1: wait until you go on to say I'm gonna buy
Speaker 1: all this product. That's cool, But guess what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: still keep doing my plot while I'm here. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep showing them that we can actually do this. We
Speaker 1: can build these big brands the same way they was
Speaker 1: able to do, and now we can buy these brands
Speaker 1: and take over and put the money back into the
Speaker 1: culture in the community. But we have to supply with
Speaker 1: each other. We got to stop with the self hate
Speaker 1: that don't want to see. You know. I celebrate you, man,
Speaker 1: like I'm proud of you from what you're able to do.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Transition from sports to be
Speaker 1: able to communicate and be able to talk to us.
Speaker 1: That's big. That's how we change the narrative. We have
Speaker 1: to showcase more of this and the people that are
Speaker 1: doing the right thing. I tell my son all the time,
Speaker 1: I say, Romeo, you blessed. Just keep doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: God gonna bless you with bigger and bigger and better
Speaker 1: things because you're doing the right thing. And I think that,
Speaker 1: but we don't show that. We don't showcase that. We
Speaker 1: pe You and I were having a conversation off camera
Speaker 1: and we're talking about and I was asking you. I's
Speaker 1: like you in LA. He's like, yeah, I'm in LA.
Speaker 1: I said, you left the booth. He's like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: in between two places. I'm between Minnesota in la and
Speaker 1: I know. I asked you, and I asked you. I said,
Speaker 1: why did you move? He said, why do you leave
Speaker 1: where you were from? Why that we can be at
Speaker 1: a location. We might have five kN homies and they
Speaker 1: all cool as long as we all there together. But
Speaker 1: if if I make it out, if you're making out
Speaker 1: the front win making out, why do we become reveentable?
Speaker 1: Why is it like that? Well, because if you look
Speaker 1: at it right, everybody has twenty four hours. Yeah, while
Speaker 1: you're working, they sleeping and parting and playing, and then
Speaker 1: they want the same results. You're not gonna get the
Speaker 1: same results. You sacrifice, you got out and then what
Speaker 1: you need to do. I tell you all the time,
Speaker 1: Like I'm no different. I got a brother in concentrated.
Speaker 1: We all had millions of dollars. So life is like this.
Speaker 1: People that want to sit on a cone and smoke
Speaker 1: and drink and guess what, you can't be mad at
Speaker 1: me or you because our life is different. We got
Speaker 1: a nicer house or nicer car or whatever because we
Speaker 1: decided to do the right thing. We left the cone.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to go backwards. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what people got to realize. Like if you don't want
Speaker 1: to go back to It's two types of people. It's
Speaker 1: average people and above average people. The difference. Average people
Speaker 1: are comfortable being uncomfortable. Above average people not and were not.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I have a house in Louisia. I have
Speaker 1: a house in Minnesota. I have a house in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: so I can go back and forth. But the thing
Speaker 1: why I go to Minnesota my kids go to many
Speaker 1: Ha High Academy and they play basketball. I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta one kid, Herson Miller. He's a sixth street parent guard.
Speaker 1: He a senior and you know he's getting ready to
Speaker 1: go to college. And I have a six four shooting guard,
Speaker 1: Mercy Miller. He a freshman and he's starting on the
Speaker 1: varsity team. And my thing is, I'm allowing them to
Speaker 1: see both sides. So when they go to Minnesota, by
Speaker 1: they mind, they're able to feel like, now, I gave
Speaker 1: up California, gave up New Orleans, I gotta go into
Speaker 1: cold weather. I want them to be uncomfortable and I
Speaker 1: want them to be able to experience this instead of
Speaker 1: saying everything is good, I'm teaching them work at this.
Speaker 1: And guess what, they're not the top kids in the
Speaker 1: country right now, but they will be in the end.
Speaker 1: I tell them, it's not how you start, it's how
Speaker 1: you finish. You put the work in. These kids put
Speaker 1: the work in, have been putting the work in for years.
Speaker 1: I mean, we played on the National TV game last year.
Speaker 1: We played against Lebron's son Briani James at Sierra Canyon. Everybody, yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody looked at us like they just gonna get blowed
Speaker 1: out the water. You know. We won that game by
Speaker 1: twenty person who wasn't even right now. We won the
Speaker 1: top teams in the country, but we wasn't ranked, and
Speaker 1: nobody knew when my kids were even jailing suns jailing
Speaker 1: suns and I went to Gunzaga. He's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: the top five NBA player in the draft this year,
Speaker 1: but last year, nobody was talking about him. And that's
Speaker 1: what I love about this. I'm saying, like, I don't
Speaker 1: mind being the underdog. Even when I played, nobody didn't knew,
Speaker 1: like ky Master Pete really buffed. They didn't know that
Speaker 1: this is what I did, but voted this. So I
Speaker 1: loved that team atmosphere in the vable to to let
Speaker 1: my kids see a boat the balance like don't worry
Speaker 1: about what I got, but think about what you can
Speaker 1: build and add on to what I have. That's how
Speaker 1: we build generational well. But you have to understand. I
Speaker 1: was talking to they training other day Christmas, like if
Speaker 1: he trained briand and a lot of other you know people,
Speaker 1: and it's like, what makes these kids different is that
Speaker 1: they know that they got to work for what they want,
Speaker 1: Like you're not just handing it to him, because nobody
Speaker 1: could teach her to work. You just have to put
Speaker 1: your body through this and deal with it. We just
Speaker 1: want opportunity, that's it. We don't We don't want nobody
Speaker 1: to give us. No, we want an opportunity. Right. That's
Speaker 1: what I want to talk to you about, pet, is
Speaker 1: that you can you and I understand, we didn't have anything.
Speaker 1: There was nothing to be given out to us. Our
Speaker 1: parents didn't have anything, so it wasn't like they could
Speaker 1: just hand us anything and we could just sit back.
Speaker 1: So we had to grind. How do you get your
Speaker 1: kids when you've accomplished so much and they can sit
Speaker 1: back and just and go into business with you and
Speaker 1: not have to grind, say, like some like you had
Speaker 1: to grind or I had to grind going up. How
Speaker 1: do you get kids to under saying that you gotta
Speaker 1: grind in order to get what you first you have
Speaker 1: to do. You have to show them this success is temporary,
Speaker 1: So you got to show them who God is first.
Speaker 1: Once they know that and they have the faith to
Speaker 1: keep going, and then you have to let them know
Speaker 1: that all the stuff you have, it's like the hurricane
Speaker 1: me growing up in New Orleans, this could all be
Speaker 1: washed away. You have to start over, and you got
Speaker 1: to go back and then you have to teach them
Speaker 1: or work at it. So you got to start at
Speaker 1: a young age. I've been doing this with my kids
Speaker 1: since they was three years old, Like you know what
Speaker 1: this is what it is. Nobody gonna give you nothing.
Speaker 1: You got. It's a mentality. It's a mindset. So my
Speaker 1: kids now what I love about them when when somebody
Speaker 1: walk up to them and said, well why you work
Speaker 1: so hard because master, poor dad, you don't have to
Speaker 1: do that. And when you get on the court, you know,
Speaker 1: people know these kids are beats. They like animals because
Speaker 1: they like, I gotta protect my family name. So you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta love something and have a purpose in
Speaker 1: life and know exactly why you doing something. When the
Speaker 1: kids said they gotta protect their family name, they know
Speaker 1: it's like a step Curry. I played with Dale Curry,
Speaker 1: and I don't watch Steph Curry come in the gym
Speaker 1: when he was young. But what Dale taught him was
Speaker 1: that nobody's gonna give you nothing. If we want, you
Speaker 1: got to get in that gym and put them shots up.
Speaker 1: My kids at and uh eighteen and in fifteen, they
Speaker 1: in the gym putting up fifteen hundred shots after the game,
Speaker 1: you know, on the days off, like they know, like
Speaker 1: you don't work, you don't eat, like our whole mentality is.
Speaker 1: You know, we got this whole thing to where we
Speaker 1: gotta go harder than the next person. We gotta go
Speaker 1: harder than the next family. We ten steps behind. They've
Speaker 1: been passing money down from their descendants. And that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. If we if we're gonna do this, it's
Speaker 1: gonna take all of us. It's not just me that
Speaker 1: that has to go harder. You know, we all have
Speaker 1: to go hold if we're gonna break this negative cycle,
Speaker 1: this imbalance of wealth. And if we're gonna do that,
Speaker 1: and we know this temporary so well, I also got
Speaker 1: to teach them about helping, philanthropy, giving back, like this
Speaker 1: is not just about you, because you can't take this witch,
Speaker 1: so this is temporary success, but having some integrity. So
Speaker 1: I just think that's what I give my kids when
Speaker 1: they get up in the morning, saying, you have to
Speaker 1: keep educating yourself. The same way you want to be
Speaker 1: a student of the game in basketball, you got to
Speaker 1: be that in life and in school and education. So
Speaker 1: my kids, like, right now, we're looking for a college.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look for a college that's gonna not only
Speaker 1: be a great college but could also help you on
Speaker 1: both ends off the court and own the court. So
Speaker 1: you know, I've been talking to a lot of Spleen
Speaker 1: talking Vanderbild, been talking to BYU Stamford Howard. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've been talking to a lot of great schools. But LSU,
Speaker 1: I could go on and on, but I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: for my kid to come, there's gonna have to be
Speaker 1: something that's gonna not just give them basketball, but also
Speaker 1: educational because we want to keep building that up. You know,
Speaker 1: keep understanding that knowledge is the most important thing in
Speaker 1: this wisdom. So we want somewhere that's gonna prepare us
Speaker 1: off the court, because that's when a lot of actors,
Speaker 1: you look at a lot of athleties end up back
Speaker 1: in the hood because they have no education and they
Speaker 1: know nothing about finance, so they're depending on financial advising.
Speaker 1: So a financial advising is gonna be your best friend
Speaker 1: once you make some money. But what happened before you
Speaker 1: got this right? You're trying to teach your kids to
Speaker 1: surround your people, surround yourself with people that's knowledgeable, but
Speaker 1: people that you really trust. Yes, yes, you mentioned about
Speaker 1: possibility acquiring rebuking, You mentioned Shot, You mentioned Alan Irison.
Speaker 1: Would you like to see Rebok become a because Rebok
Speaker 1: used to be a major player in the NBA, used
Speaker 1: to be a major player in the NFL. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they were, and they were somewhe in baseball,
Speaker 1: But are you trying to get the brand back into
Speaker 1: that because right, NiFe them to be basically Adidas and
Speaker 1: Nike in basketball, Well, thank nobody if that brand is
Speaker 1: black on you imagine what a kid gonna do when
Speaker 1: you walk into the store knowing that even a white
Speaker 1: Asian Latino. Because there's been an end balance, we started
Speaker 1: buying these shoes and we never was able to benefit off.
Speaker 1: So imagine if we take a dysfunctional brand like this
Speaker 1: and make it just as big as night, Like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna change the game, Like like kids are gonna be
Speaker 1: proud to play in these shoes. I'm talking about high school, college,
Speaker 1: and then pro athletes are gonna be proud to when
Speaker 1: you know, when you look at Lebron, you look at
Speaker 1: all these different players, they're gonna be proud, even if
Speaker 1: they're not in the brand, they're gonna feel like, man,
Speaker 1: we we overcame something. This is major. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's it would be a movement, like when a kid
Speaker 1: walk into a store saying, wow, I wear this because
Speaker 1: look what Master Pete built. Look when he give back
Speaker 1: to the community and a culture, and you're gonna see
Speaker 1: Rebok everywhere And I think, I think it's about to happen.
Speaker 1: It's about to happen. And if it don't happen, then
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep building. I mean, I got my own brand,
Speaker 1: I got I got MANIATI. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's staying for motivating oneself and courage you actively than independently.
Speaker 1: H We're creating big brands just the cereals that's coming
Speaker 1: out the Master Crunch. So you know, I mean we
Speaker 1: we came a long way. You know, I did the music.
Speaker 1: Now we've got the hoodie who cereos, you know, so
Speaker 1: kids could have fun. You know, I mean we're thinking
Speaker 1: outside the box. Yeah, we want to acquire this, but
Speaker 1: if they don't get us to us, it's not the
Speaker 1: end of the world. Then we're gonna keep building what
Speaker 1: we have already, taking these companies and turning into international
Speaker 1: companies because right now, I mean I went from having
Speaker 1: a small amount of fans purchased out of stuff to
Speaker 1: having hundreds of thousands by all over the world. Now,
Speaker 1: so we I mean from China to Europe to India
Speaker 1: to after Like we're building fan base that just keep
Speaker 1: building and building. It's it's because the brand loyalty and
Speaker 1: what we do in the community. People want to support
Speaker 1: us because they know the more we make, the more
Speaker 1: we give. Let me ask your question, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people want to know this. How do
Speaker 1: you how do you get from an idea to getting
Speaker 1: something on the shelf? Yeah, you know what people don't realize.
Speaker 1: You have to trust the process. You have to start
Speaker 1: small and build bring it to life, like start first
Speaker 1: building that brand, saying speak it like, this is what
Speaker 1: I want to do. Didn't do your research, go online,
Speaker 1: figure out where you could get this stuff made at
Speaker 1: and keep building Like so, let me show you nobody
Speaker 1: had noodles like far as the African American person to
Speaker 1: create news. I created these rap news the icon version,
Speaker 1: and I just went online start looking for a place
Speaker 1: to make the noodles, came up with the brand, and
Speaker 1: you know, me and my partner James is like, you
Speaker 1: know what, let's take this to another level. And we did.
Speaker 1: And I think that we are afraid, but think about it.
Speaker 1: They've been making billions of dollars off of us, because
Speaker 1: sometimes people always say it's the smaller things. Even you
Speaker 1: look at answer Mom and Uncle Ben, those brands, they
Speaker 1: made billions of dollars, but they wasn't owned for us.
Speaker 1: And I tell my people trust the process. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna make even healthier items. That's coming next,
Speaker 1: but first we got to get some of that shelving space.
Speaker 1: So it's almost like you're saying, starting the brand is
Speaker 1: like playing baseball. You got to swing at the ball
Speaker 1: to hit it. You might hit a home run. But
Speaker 1: if you never swing, you're never gonna hit a home run.
Speaker 1: And so get in the game and start small. It's
Speaker 1: almost like buying house. Don't go buy a big house
Speaker 1: until you learn the process of buying a little small
Speaker 1: house or a condo or whatever, and say, oh, this
Speaker 1: the process, and that's I mean it. Don't take a
Speaker 1: rocket scientists understand that. I like what you've done because
Speaker 1: I think sometimes people get caught up in trying to
Speaker 1: at the next thing. Why not try to improve on
Speaker 1: something that's already been invented that people We've been in Roman,
Speaker 1: people been college right now, I don't really need to
Speaker 1: invent a new snap. I can just get my own snap. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna eat it anyway, think about it. We know
Speaker 1: when we was in Agaett, that's when that was the
Speaker 1: meals for us. When I come home, you happy to
Speaker 1: have those noodles. You're like, okay, because exactly so. But
Speaker 1: because I think it's amazing. I mean, you look at
Speaker 1: what you've been able to do. And I want to
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Do you believe had your career,
Speaker 1: had you become an NBA player like you had dreamed,
Speaker 1: would any of this have been possible because I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Pete. I think this forced you to
Speaker 1: become what you became. I believe you'd have been given
Speaker 1: devoted most of your time to a honey your craft
Speaker 1: of being a great NBA player, and you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had the time to do this. So yeah, this is,
Speaker 1: this is, this is a blessing for me because I
Speaker 1: won't I wouldn't be able to feed the people I'm
Speaker 1: able to feed now. I wouldn't being able to do
Speaker 1: the things just on an NBA salary and a thing
Speaker 1: that God closed those doors and it made me come
Speaker 1: up with something else to start realizing, you know that
Speaker 1: I need to do something else in that product always
Speaker 1: talent because I was always wanted to do it with
Speaker 1: my talent and what God showed me this stuff would
Speaker 1: be around even when I'm not around. And that's the difference.
Speaker 1: Like we gotta think like that. That's when you're thinking bigger.
Speaker 1: That's when you can help more people. You can feed
Speaker 1: more people. And I look at a lot of NBA
Speaker 1: guys because once you make it, you know you can
Speaker 1: help your family and people around you. It's hard to
Speaker 1: go and say, wow, I could help other families and
Speaker 1: help other people. And with this I can I could
Speaker 1: give more people opportunities, I could create more in theres. Uh.
Speaker 1: This this is a blessing for me. And I looked
Speaker 1: at it and I said that with products, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to feed countries. It's not just us no more.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be able to feed families that are starting
Speaker 1: in Africa, overseas, international, all these different places because we
Speaker 1: could put this brand everywhere. And uh, like you said,
Speaker 1: it's a blessing. I mean because you know when when
Speaker 1: when you're in the NBA and everything gonna go to
Speaker 1: where you want to go and you gotta leave and
Speaker 1: come back home and start over, you start thinking you
Speaker 1: just want that other shot to get back. But you know,
Speaker 1: we definitely got to take some time and start thinking
Speaker 1: about our futures. And that's my thing, is teaching this
Speaker 1: generation how to be more than just at eletes and entertainment.
Speaker 1: You know, like these business people that own these companies,
Speaker 1: that own these leads, that own these teams, they were
Speaker 1: but yeah, if they could write you a check, but
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars, what do you think they were? Exactly?
Speaker 1: If I'm you know what I believe I believe that
Speaker 1: you worked harder, not that you didn't work hard at
Speaker 1: your NBA career, but I believe you worked harder because
Speaker 1: you didn't want what happened at the NBA to happen
Speaker 1: in this bridge. Because from the time you can sometimes
Speaker 1: you could be the right package, but you arrived at
Speaker 1: the wrong destination. So the package that you had had
Speaker 1: to go to the right destination, and the right destination
Speaker 1: was music. The right destination were products. That's what you're
Speaker 1: calling was you didn't know it at the time, that's
Speaker 1: what the calling was. Yeah, I mean, but that's not
Speaker 1: going to work because you be so caught up into
Speaker 1: you know what you gotta do, and you don't want
Speaker 1: to feel at it. You don't want to start over.
Speaker 1: But got to have a bigger door fee and and
Speaker 1: it's definitely a blessing for me and I'm thankful, and
Speaker 1: it all hump you on the way to your journey.
Speaker 1: And but I mean, that's what life is about. You
Speaker 1: just have to get up. As a telling you about
Speaker 1: to feel your part, you have to get up and
Speaker 1: just keep going, you know, instead of sitting around to
Speaker 1: press upset at yourself and and living the haters tell
Speaker 1: you you're done. You know, this is when you get
Speaker 1: up and you go harder, and like they always say,
Speaker 1: you go hard and go home. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And it's like when you come from where we come from,
Speaker 1: it ain't no going back to them, but just new
Speaker 1: kids in the community then the elderly in that. Because
Speaker 1: that's why I look at you. I'm going back. I
Speaker 1: go back a lot, but it's it's because I have
Speaker 1: a purpose, something to do. You know. I got to
Speaker 1: do my part. It's not that I'm going back together
Speaker 1: live because that ain't what I work hard to say.
Speaker 1: I gotta keep growing, I gotta keep getting better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that go hard to go home with working for me
Speaker 1: because I did everything. I get out home. I wasn't
Speaker 1: trying to go back. I go back to visit, but
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to do Yeah. I had Ricky Williams
Speaker 1: on last week and you opened up a sports agency
Speaker 1: business you were and Ricky was your first client. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what would you have done because obviously that didn't work
Speaker 1: out the way you at home? What did you learn
Speaker 1: about that situation and what would you have done differently
Speaker 1: knowing what you know now? So I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: one thing, and if you talked to Ricky is nothing
Speaker 1: I could do differently because that was Ricky Church. Nobody
Speaker 1: never wanted to say that. They finally say that on
Speaker 1: the documentary. What Ricky told me was, look, it's either
Speaker 1: you gonna get this deal done for me. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to the white man and get this deal done
Speaker 1: because I need this money. He wanted the sentence, and
Speaker 1: he wanted the upfront money, which he got a lot
Speaker 1: of money up front that a lot of athletes didn't
Speaker 1: get in that time. And it's just a business decision
Speaker 1: that had to be done, which which was the truth.
Speaker 1: That's the way he wanted to do it, and you
Speaker 1: gotta look at it. For me, I've always let people
Speaker 1: be their own boss. Ricky was the boss of of
Speaker 1: what he what he needs to do. But we call
Speaker 1: a lot of flat because we black guys that's in
Speaker 1: that business. That that's scared David Falk and all those
Speaker 1: other companies that how could we get a Heisman trouple
Speaker 1: just getting in a And that's that's because the loyalty
Speaker 1: the community and people knowing that and we're gonna do
Speaker 1: what you want to do. You the boss to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. And that's what people don't realize. That's
Speaker 1: how treat That's that the truth. You know what I'm saying. Well,
Speaker 1: I think we should hold out after this. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, that agent worked for me.
Speaker 1: I tell you what to do. You don't tell I'm
Speaker 1: paying you, you're not paying me. But think about this.
Speaker 1: Rickey Williams was a kid coming out of college. Ye
Speaker 1: back then and till this day. College. You know, even
Speaker 1: when I played in college, we get four hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a month, everybody wearing your jersey. You have no money,
Speaker 1: your mom has no money. Let's be honest. This kid
Speaker 1: to get eight to twelve million dollars up front, knowing
Speaker 1: that he might get hurt, he like, I want to
Speaker 1: take that money right and and I got the Saints
Speaker 1: owner Benson to give him that, which nobody else wouldn't
Speaker 1: do that. And it's all about having relationships and resource men.
Speaker 1: Benson was like this. Benson was like, get me Ricky Williams.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give whatever he wants. I give him the
Speaker 1: upfront money. And that's what he was able to get.
Speaker 1: And it happened, and so everybody else looked at it
Speaker 1: like it was a bad deal, but it wasn't. Ricky
Speaker 1: had a lot of other issues going on, you know,
Speaker 1: with his own personal life and it showed throughout the time.
Speaker 1: But at least he was able to get that money
Speaker 1: up front to be able to live a better life
Speaker 1: for him and his family. So I mean, like you said,
Speaker 1: God do stuff for a reason, and I think people
Speaker 1: wanted to to to to find a out to make
Speaker 1: us look bad. But not looking at that, if Ricket
Speaker 1: would have did that with a white agent, what would
Speaker 1: they said about it, Because that's what he wanted to do.
Speaker 1: He was gonna do it with any of those guys
Speaker 1: he was gonna be with. That's what he wanted. And
Speaker 1: this was a guy that had his mind made up.
Speaker 1: And if you talk to Ricky, you know he a
Speaker 1: guy that know what he wants right. So in other words,
Speaker 1: but see in him doing that, it did irreparable harm
Speaker 1: to you because it made it seem like you didn't
Speaker 1: know what the hell you was doing if you were
Speaker 1: out there doing bad deals. When an actuality, he think
Speaker 1: either pe, you get the deal done, or I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take it. This cold corporation is white corporation and they'll
Speaker 1: get it done. So you get a choice. Well you
Speaker 1: got no choice now but to get the deal done. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that and that's life. I mean, that's business. It's
Speaker 1: not personal. It's business. And that's that's what he wanted.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, however it worked out. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's his career. And that's what was told X first
Speaker 1: told him that he had agents that worked for the
Speaker 1: company that told him like, this is not a good
Speaker 1: deal to do, but it's a good deal for money wise.
Speaker 1: You need the money. And you got to imagine most
Speaker 1: of us getting out of college. We need the money.
Speaker 1: We need your money. We need the money. So they
Speaker 1: don't Mama, grandma in the house. We already got raided wrong,
Speaker 1: but we already got a merceded, we got a rolex,
Speaker 1: so we got back then beside you was the thing.
Speaker 1: We already wear it beside, so we need we need
Speaker 1: that paper. Yeah and that and that's what a lot
Speaker 1: of white athletes don't have to go through that. No,
Speaker 1: and that's sad, but we don't talk about that. We
Speaker 1: just try to stereotype in and make up stuff just
Speaker 1: for the press of the media. But I mean, any
Speaker 1: real media people could look through that and say wow,
Speaker 1: you know after Rick and Williams said it, it's on
Speaker 1: a documentary, he said, he said it. It wasn't It
Speaker 1: wasn't you. It was him, because I want to earn
Speaker 1: my money and in actuality earning your money. This is
Speaker 1: too dangerous of a game to tie that much money
Speaker 1: in him, sinis. And you're not playing basketball, you're not
Speaker 1: playing baseball football And that was told to him. But
Speaker 1: you know what he said, It's like it's like any
Speaker 1: of us, if we know what we want to do
Speaker 1: and the reason why we wanted, you know, to happen
Speaker 1: like that, we're gonna get it done the way we
Speaker 1: want it done. Like at think in his career at
Speaker 1: that time, nobody was getting eight to twelve million dollars
Speaker 1: up front to play football guaranteed money, Like as soon
Speaker 1: as I signed, I'm gonna get eight to twelve million dollars.
Speaker 1: Nobody was doing it. That's a lot of money for
Speaker 1: a football player. So he was looking at it. But
Speaker 1: maybe my career is three years, I'm gonna make what
Speaker 1: two million a year or whatever, like that's the only
Speaker 1: six million dollars if I played three years, and if
Speaker 1: I could get hurt or whatever. He liked, if I
Speaker 1: take this money up front and I could go start
Speaker 1: a business, do all these other things. But you really
Speaker 1: have to be prepared to be a boss to do that,
Speaker 1: because you know after that time, or you don't least
Speaker 1: this and send them, then what you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: fall back on. And those are the type of things
Speaker 1: that was told to him. But he was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, that sounds good, but we poured right now.
Speaker 1: We need that money. You mentioned that a lot of
Speaker 1: white athletes don't have to endure because the thing was,
Speaker 1: I grew up in the eighties, born in sixty eight,
Speaker 1: grew up in the seventies and eighties. We didn't have
Speaker 1: indoor plumbing, we didn't have running water. So you actually
Speaker 1: think that the first chance I get some money, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get a feat or I'm trying to get something.
Speaker 1: Really tell you something. When I got to college. When
Speaker 1: I got to college, my coach at Houston say, why
Speaker 1: are you smiling so much? Son, I said, coach, because
Speaker 1: I got my own big You know, I was sleeping
Speaker 1: on the floor the whole I live with my grand
Speaker 1: so I never had a bed until I got to college.
Speaker 1: So the coaches like, man, I love this kid. He
Speaker 1: home when he gonna bag, he's just gonna go. I
Speaker 1: was happy to you know what I'm saying. I like
Speaker 1: to have my own bed. So imagine that go to
Speaker 1: college and you get to go and you ain't got
Speaker 1: to go outside to go to the bathroom. You're getting
Speaker 1: three good meals a day. Man, I ain't gonna I'm
Speaker 1: about to flunk out of here. You think I'm about
Speaker 1: to go back home and not get three meals today
Speaker 1: and have to go outside and use the bathroom and
Speaker 1: to take it and watching the tough y'all must be
Speaker 1: out y'all mind, man, let me chell yourself saying the
Speaker 1: guy broken down our house. We chased them up the street, Like, man,
Speaker 1: you must have came to give us something because we
Speaker 1: ain't got him at the age. Yeah, y'all did him
Speaker 1: like like felt like Ricky smile and a Friday without
Speaker 1: But think about this. You were ahead of your time,
Speaker 1: p because there are a lot of guys now you
Speaker 1: see jay Z has started at Fort had rock Nation
Speaker 1: and give old label. You were ahead of your time.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of guys that are doing what
Speaker 1: you did. Damn they're twenty years ago. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: a blessing to be honest with you. Like, but when
Speaker 1: you do right, like I said, all this stuff are coming,
Speaker 1: like nobody's really doing what I'm doing now, and it's
Speaker 1: all because of what I was able to do in
Speaker 1: the past and learn from that, learn from those mistakes
Speaker 1: and like I said, learn from those failures and just
Speaker 1: keep going. But when you look at it right now,
Speaker 1: I mean I look at it, so imagine showing nobody
Speaker 1: really looked at this. And I'm gonna do a basketball
Speaker 1: documentary next because I want people see that I didn't
Speaker 1: just go to the NBA. I went to the CBA.
Speaker 1: I had to go to all type of those type
Speaker 1: of coaches and to get to the lead to get
Speaker 1: ten day call ups. It's different now, like I had
Speaker 1: to go get off in the CBA to get a
Speaker 1: ten day call up. So people don't know that I
Speaker 1: went to Dallas. I went. Then I went to sacrament
Speaker 1: I went to all those teams on ten days that
Speaker 1: you know, you had to stick. I was out there
Speaker 1: with the mucin Norris, with with with the I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just so many great players. But you know,
Speaker 1: so I had to go through John Lucas, John Lucis
Speaker 1: and Houston. If you could survive John Lucas training in
Speaker 1: the summer, you could go to the league because John
Speaker 1: Lukes gonna make you quick. And once I survived that,
Speaker 1: playing with the Nick Van Nexos and the Sam Causell,
Speaker 1: I knew that I was ready. But I also when
Speaker 1: I look back at it, imagine me, I had my
Speaker 1: own sports ages. I had some of the top NBA
Speaker 1: players that I had put into the league. So you know,
Speaker 1: I easily could have did a package deal if I
Speaker 1: really just wanted to. I try to do it the
Speaker 1: right way, right went on my talent, Like I could
Speaker 1: have been in the league for at least three to
Speaker 1: five years just on package deals if that's what I wanted.
Speaker 1: But I did it the right way and it all
Speaker 1: worked out, And I think that's how God work. And
Speaker 1: I think these blessings is gonna be even bigger because
Speaker 1: I did it the right way and I'm able to
Speaker 1: see and I can help more people. So it's not
Speaker 1: about me. I can look at these contracts. I can
Speaker 1: look at a kid and say, you know what, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get to the league. They're gonna take you away
Speaker 1: from your family. They're gonna turn you against your friends,
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and then when it's over for you,
Speaker 1: nobody gonna speak to you again. And and they say, well,
Speaker 1: how you know that? I know from experience. I watch
Speaker 1: kids that I put into the league and I and
Speaker 1: I understand this because the first thing they do that
Speaker 1: you know, when you come from the hood, they don't
Speaker 1: want you to be around your people no more correct.
Speaker 1: And so think about it. Who is not gonna take
Speaker 1: care of their mother or their father, which you know,
Speaker 1: we see these stories all the time, like my mom
Speaker 1: and my dad took me to aid you pray, this
Speaker 1: took me to all these different things. And then once
Speaker 1: I make it, and I don't help them, like how
Speaker 1: you expect to help Blessings You see what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: My thanks to these kids, because you know, once they
Speaker 1: get you around this fortune and fame, they make you
Speaker 1: forget about what you can ain't from. But they come
Speaker 1: on then tilling they come when it's good. My thing
Speaker 1: is trying to educate these kids and show them when
Speaker 1: it was bad. We're worth these people. Yeah, so we
Speaker 1: got now, we got to hold them accountable because they
Speaker 1: come with it. So think about I told one of
Speaker 1: my guys there, I say, hey, are your best friends
Speaker 1: with your financial advice? You know why because you're successful.
Speaker 1: Let's let's see you lose all this and see if
Speaker 1: they that's still gonna be your best friend. And that's
Speaker 1: what a pee. I tell Look here, my grandmother and
Speaker 1: my mother didn't drive me the one the one practice.
Speaker 1: But I tell you what, my mom gave me life,
Speaker 1: and my grandmother gave me everything but life. And so
Speaker 1: they're in the beginning, you're gonna be there in the end.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't get how some of these guys
Speaker 1: like they make it out and then they're abandon the family.
Speaker 1: I could not do that in good conscious. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got we got a change, but we have to
Speaker 1: keep educating them and showing them the right way because
Speaker 1: they say money is the root of alli and it's
Speaker 1: the love for money. The love for money. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: reading you got a scholarship to Louisville and when you
Speaker 1: were coming out of high school, Louisville was one of
Speaker 1: the preimitive programs and all the college basketball. But you
Speaker 1: walked to the University of Houston. Why because I feel
Speaker 1: like it wasn't right. A lot of stuff was going on,
Speaker 1: uh in my family, and I was I felt like
Speaker 1: this was the right place. I had family in Houston,
Speaker 1: So I decided to go to Houston. And it made
Speaker 1: me who I am the day because it's like what
Speaker 1: I was able to do at Houston in the relationships
Speaker 1: and you know, like we used to go back and
Speaker 1: play Clyde in uh in a in in in the
Speaker 1: in the in the dream. So I seen them at
Speaker 1: one hour alumni games, UH last year and it's just
Speaker 1: you know, Rickey Winslow, they catted, you know, all these
Speaker 1: dudes coming and when we came back together, nobody knew
Speaker 1: that I was gonna make it at music. So they
Speaker 1: all looking at me like, boy, you did something with
Speaker 1: your life. But we never knew because I never was
Speaker 1: into the music in practice and none of that type
Speaker 1: of stuff because I was focused on being the best
Speaker 1: basketball player in And I just think that Houston really
Speaker 1: showed me a lot for us, you know, the whole
Speaker 1: team atmosphere, and I think it was it was it
Speaker 1: was the right place for me. I mean, I turned
Speaker 1: down LSU. I had Dale Brown coming to the project
Speaker 1: recruit me John Thompson, and so that was that was
Speaker 1: the right fit for me, you know, Houston, because you know,
Speaker 1: my coach was like, you know, you running done, you
Speaker 1: can shoot the ball. So I learned how to shoot
Speaker 1: with no lights. We had no lights in the projects.
Speaker 1: I had to listen for the next so I was
Speaker 1: always the shooting. You know, I'm looking at you. You play.
Speaker 1: You mentioned some of the leagues that you played in
Speaker 1: the abas C BA IBL NBA. You average twenty four
Speaker 1: points a game. In two thousand and four, the ABL
Speaker 1: of Las Vegas Rattlers played in the preseason from Charlotte Horners,
Speaker 1: torontod Raptors and you played with them. Great player he
Speaker 1: played with bes Carter Charles Opening on that final team.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Tracy McGrady. Tracy McGrady, Yeah, yeah, why don't you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean I remember you doing an interview
Speaker 1: and you said, I'm good enough to make it. It's
Speaker 1: whether or not they can look past master P and
Speaker 1: give me a pair of shape. Yep. Well, people, people
Speaker 1: got to realize master P was so big and my
Speaker 1: music was so big, even at Charlotte. I mean, I
Speaker 1: did a hell of a job there, but that you know,
Speaker 1: Bibe Bass, the GM said, man, your music is pure
Speaker 1: phil and did another thing. You know, I was a
Speaker 1: tough guy, right. He said, why you're not scared of
Speaker 1: and the Mason. I said, sir, I'm not scared of
Speaker 1: no man. He said, well, I'm scared of and the Mason.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why you're not scared because so
Speaker 1: me and Adon Mason ended up being friends. But we
Speaker 1: got into it when I first came. Now, he from
Speaker 1: New York. I'm from New Orleans. You know, God bless
Speaker 1: the dead, like that was my due. But when we
Speaker 1: first got there and the Mason was a bullet. I'm
Speaker 1: on the team with Adi Mason, Derik Coleman and bj Olmstrong,
Speaker 1: you know, Davi Kurt. And so when I get in
Speaker 1: and training camp and Mason said, don't nobody touched me?
Speaker 1: Telling all the rookies. You know, nobody touched me in practice.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna have a problem. So, you know, me
Speaker 1: being from New Orleans for a shot, I hear him.
Speaker 1: He like little maide, this dude about six ten. I'm
Speaker 1: six Moore. He like, little man, We gonna fight after pricing,
Speaker 1: no brother, fight right now. We got to fight right now.
Speaker 1: And he starts saying, he starts saying man, I like
Speaker 1: you you you you you tough and we end up
Speaker 1: being friends after that. But you know, me just setting
Speaker 1: the stage because I asked coach. I said, coach, what
Speaker 1: happened if we get into a coach that whatever happened
Speaker 1: in the gym staying in the jump. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I got tested a couple of times, and even in Toronto.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a rookie because the rookie is always
Speaker 1: supposed to carry the bags. And I'm like, you know me,
Speaker 1: I'm out there with Charles Oakland. That was my dog.
Speaker 1: Man me me openly. We you know, we was on it.
Speaker 1: So it was like when we come to town, it
Speaker 1: was like, man, it's so they wanted me to carry
Speaker 1: the bags. I said, I can't carry the bags. I'm
Speaker 1: a super rookie. So so I never carry the bags.
Speaker 1: So you know, I ain't gonna say no name. But
Speaker 1: one of the players didn't try, you know, because everybody
Speaker 1: from the hood, but you know we played basketball and
Speaker 1: that I don't think that went too good for him.
Speaker 1: You know, after that, I ain't never had to carry
Speaker 1: the bags. Nobody never asked me, you know. So you
Speaker 1: but Pe, you know you already know if you're a
Speaker 1: younger player, they're gonna try you. They got things to
Speaker 1: see how far they can go with you. Now, if
Speaker 1: you let it slide, because you know it sports, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like it's a prison mentality. No, they'll they
Speaker 1: don't put they'll they'll put shave and clean in your face.
Speaker 1: I set the rules straight when I got that, said, look, man,
Speaker 1: I come here to work to get better. I'm not
Speaker 1: come into place, so don't play them games with me.
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to do that. And they got it,
Speaker 1: but I did have to make an example so they
Speaker 1: can understand that. You know, they're not gonna keep playing
Speaker 1: them rookie games with me. So you know, it's a
Speaker 1: lot right playing basketball people that I don't know how
Speaker 1: it is now, but back then you had real guys
Speaker 1: from Luz in these leads, so it was always looking
Speaker 1: for the next tough guy who gonna run the team
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I'm like, man, this is almost like
Speaker 1: being a prisoner. Yeah. Yeah, if it's a mentality that
Speaker 1: you got to stand up for yourself and sometimes Pete,
Speaker 1: you got to be willing. You know, you gotta fight,
Speaker 1: even though you might not compat the guy, but you
Speaker 1: gotta stand up for yourself becoming you don't, they'll continually
Speaker 1: run over you. And I'll tell them all I used
Speaker 1: to tell them. I went to college. I say, look here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't come to fight, but I didn't come to either.
Speaker 1: So how we're gonna do this? You know, you know
Speaker 1: we're gonna fight every day. Yeah, so this doesn't The
Speaker 1: basketball thing doesn't work. It doesn't work out. How to
Speaker 1: help considering that you were not in the music, You
Speaker 1: weren't doing anything in the music, How to hell you
Speaker 1: get to the music business from basketball when you that
Speaker 1: wasn't a part of it to begin with. Well, I
Speaker 1: got hurt at Houston, and you know, back then they
Speaker 1: take the scholarships away from you, like there's no use
Speaker 1: for you. So when they took that scholarship away from
Speaker 1: my grandfather to say you can't sit in this house,
Speaker 1: you gotta do something. But I didn't even know if
Speaker 1: I was gonna be able to walk outter that no moment.
Speaker 1: And I just started listening to music and getting in
Speaker 1: tooy it. And then I had a son, I had Romeo,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I gotta get away. I went to
Speaker 1: California and I opened up a record store, and I
Speaker 1: watched all these people, you know, standing in line, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gonna start my own little company. So
Speaker 1: I opened up this little, small, mom and pop record store,
Speaker 1: caused it No Limit Records. And I started realizing watching
Speaker 1: the people what they was buying and what they liked. Man,
Speaker 1: I have a story to tell. So not only I
Speaker 1: own the store and I understand the whole customer service
Speaker 1: part of this, but also I realized that I have
Speaker 1: a story to tell, and I wanted to I wanted
Speaker 1: to put the solo on the map because at that time,
Speaker 1: you had Two Pot, biggest small everybody was the East Coast,
Speaker 1: West Coast. You had a little bit of the ghetto
Speaker 1: boys and Uncle Luke and I and I'm like, but
Speaker 1: far as the music in the South, going to the
Speaker 1: East Coast and the West Coast, it was just a
Speaker 1: little bit of and I'm like, nah, I gotta represent.
Speaker 1: And so I just started doing music. And I started
Speaker 1: going on rod because Two Pot and then used to
Speaker 1: come into my store, and so I started going on
Speaker 1: the road with them, and then one day they let
Speaker 1: me open up for him and the rest was history.
Speaker 1: After that. Wow, I mean, just like that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you opened up, you opened up a music store, and
Speaker 1: then not only thing, you know, but you had to
Speaker 1: have bigger dreams then just running a music store the
Speaker 1: operating store front. Yeah. Now what happened was when Tupid
Speaker 1: U two short, all those guys was coming to put
Speaker 1: their records in my stories on consignment, and when it
Speaker 1: was coming in, you know, I'm start thinking, like I'm
Speaker 1: from New Orleans, all the stuff I'd have been through,
Speaker 1: like you know, you think about going, yeah I did.
Speaker 1: That's what happened. I'm like, I need to put this
Speaker 1: into you know, put my story into. Then I started
Speaker 1: calling my brother like now let's start this group, and
Speaker 1: it just it just all went from there. It was
Speaker 1: hard because think about it, I didn't have the major
Speaker 1: companies behind me. So I'll be sitting in the library,
Speaker 1: like we talked about early, waiting on these record people
Speaker 1: to come to the table to try to get my
Speaker 1: music on the radio stations, and sometimes it didn't work
Speaker 1: because I didn't sound like nobody in the West Coast,
Speaker 1: so it seemed like it was a field you but
Speaker 1: it was different, but it was unique and that uniqueness.
Speaker 1: Once I got bigger, it took me to be able
Speaker 1: to sell over a hundred million records. You mentioned that
Speaker 1: you moved to California, your grandfather passed, You got a
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars settlement, and you flipped it in the million.
Speaker 1: Normally people get the kind of money that's really never
Speaker 1: had money, they blow it. Why were you? Why were you? You?
Speaker 1: Like you had an idea of what you wanted to
Speaker 1: do with that money once you got it, and blowing
Speaker 1: it wasn't bad. Yeah, Well my thing was, I knew
Speaker 1: I could have went brought a car. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I could have went brought some jewelry. And I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you know, by going to college, I'm like, I need
Speaker 1: to invest into a business so I could have some
Speaker 1: money all the time. And that's what I did. And
Speaker 1: when I when I found that record store, I invested
Speaker 1: back into myself. And I think people got to realize
Speaker 1: you are your most important investment because you know what
Speaker 1: you want, you know what you like, and when I
Speaker 1: was able to do that, you know you're gonna be
Speaker 1: passionate about something because you love this. It's like basketball,
Speaker 1: I put my hard work in bast because I love it.
Speaker 1: Same thing in music. I love it and I love
Speaker 1: doing it. So you find a business, you got to
Speaker 1: find a problem. The problem was, first you didn't see
Speaker 1: nobody had hip hop stores in music. They had they
Speaker 1: had R and B stores, and they had gospel stores
Speaker 1: in the black community, but it was no hip hop
Speaker 1: Breck the store. And when I found that problem, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this ten thousand and turn it into something.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what I was going to turn it into.
Speaker 1: But I took that ten thousand and turned it into
Speaker 1: a business and it just kept drawing. So what was
Speaker 1: your business model? Because, like you said, you went to college.
Speaker 1: But if I'm not mistaken, you had never owned a
Speaker 1: business at that point in time. Correct, No, I haven't.
Speaker 1: But what I did was I started going to the
Speaker 1: library and researching. And I think that's the part that
Speaker 1: education is so important, Like you have to research. You
Speaker 1: have to do your due diligence to know exactly what
Speaker 1: you're getting into, the ups, the downs, how you're gonna
Speaker 1: get distribution, where you're gonna get your products from all
Speaker 1: those things. So I didn't just jump into it. I
Speaker 1: start going to the library. I mean, I start spending
Speaker 1: so much time at the library. The lay that the
Speaker 1: library is like you know, what are you doing? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm trying to understand about this music business.
Speaker 1: I want to know everything about it, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, it's almost like playing basketball. People say, no,
Speaker 1: what makes you do your basketball? IQ? Your football IQ?
Speaker 1: You know, like you really have to invest into the
Speaker 1: education part of it. And that's what I did. I
Speaker 1: start really getting out there saying, let me know how
Speaker 1: these record companies work for as the stores of retails.
Speaker 1: And then when I got into to put my own
Speaker 1: music out, I started going back to the library, study contracts,
Speaker 1: how to negotiate contracts, all those types of different things.
Speaker 1: And so I think the education part me me willing
Speaker 1: to learn like you have to. The most important thing
Speaker 1: is knowing that you don't know everything. That's that's the
Speaker 1: greatest thing for me. I'm like, I don't know. So
Speaker 1: only way I could be an expert that I got
Speaker 1: to go through it and experience it. But right now,
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I tell people all the time,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid to say you don't know. What was
Speaker 1: one of the things that you learned in the street
Speaker 1: that you were able to bring the business that helped
Speaker 1: you become successful in business? Well, not to let nobody
Speaker 1: take advantage of you, and you have to stand up
Speaker 1: for yourself. And that's what the streets taught me. And
Speaker 1: I think it worked for me because most business people
Speaker 1: only have just the business side or the education side,
Speaker 1: but to see both sides. But you know, even the
Speaker 1: streets taught me how to keep your word in having it,
Speaker 1: checker it. And I think that took me a long
Speaker 1: way in business because once I was able to leave
Speaker 1: that life behind and understand what corporate America, you know,
Speaker 1: it's all about. I wanted to take that same drive
Speaker 1: and hustle and grind me to copy America but positive
Speaker 1: and and I think that's what that's what saved my
Speaker 1: life because I never was about trying to take advantage
Speaker 1: of somebody's just like I just want my peace. Whatever
Speaker 1: my fair share is, that's what I want. And I
Speaker 1: don't care what it is. If it's ten dollars, I
Speaker 1: want my ten dollars, don't try to give me, don't
Speaker 1: try to give me five dollars, give me, give me
Speaker 1: all of what I've learned. Yeah, I mean it, And
Speaker 1: it's all about you know, the principle is what matters.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the difference, like and and you
Speaker 1: look at it too. A lot of guys from the streets.
Speaker 1: You know, it was a it was a chain of
Speaker 1: command back then. We don't have that no more, you
Speaker 1: know now. You know, like even when I was playing basketball,
Speaker 1: even I lived in the worst neighborhoods, they knew person
Speaker 1: Miller basketball player. Man, y'all don't do that, y'all let
Speaker 1: him know if something like right, Like man, a lot
Speaker 1: of these kids dying, like they they killing off all
Speaker 1: the greatest talent that we have. I mean, I've seen
Speaker 1: a sixty eleven kid get shot and killed down in Compton,
Speaker 1: sixty nine kids. It's like these kids were just in
Speaker 1: high school. These kids is gonna be the future to
Speaker 1: come back to take care of the community. That's what
Speaker 1: I want to be able to pass that down, Like
Speaker 1: we gotta preserve the kids in our blocks, in our communities,
Speaker 1: Like we can't keep killing the talent, because who're gonna
Speaker 1: come back and take care of us? Right? It's kind
Speaker 1: of like you see that in the in the music
Speaker 1: industry industry, big pop and now you see all these
Speaker 1: young brow like pop smoking all these other guys. I'm like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, that wasn't. That wasn't going on in
Speaker 1: the eighties. That wasn't That wasn't sposed happen. It's not
Speaker 1: supposed to happen. Like those guys are supposed to be
Speaker 1: the goals there and you're supposed to look out for them.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to get protected. They gonna take care of everybody.
Speaker 1: Now look at it, even like the Nipsey Hustles, who's
Speaker 1: gonna take care of the community. Now, this guy put
Speaker 1: everything into taking care of the community, and we just
Speaker 1: get rid of him. And so that's my whole thing
Speaker 1: is about educating now with culture. So we need to
Speaker 1: know we have to preserve the people that's gonna take
Speaker 1: care of the community. And that's what they did back
Speaker 1: in the days. You know that they did that. Back
Speaker 1: in the days you had to go talk to somebody
Speaker 1: before you couldn't even think about getting into a fight
Speaker 1: with somebody, right, and you looked at you looked out
Speaker 1: for everybody in the community. Like if you knew somebody, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's such a such grandma. Yeah, I knew a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that did a lot of things, but that's
Speaker 1: such a such grandma. We can't breaking her house and
Speaker 1: that's such a we can't do you know, we can't
Speaker 1: do things like that. Now it seems like this generation
Speaker 1: they don't even care. I don't care who it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what it is, and it's it's drugs, man, drugs.
Speaker 1: It's really took it over and we don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about this. And I was talking to a warden
Speaker 1: in the prison and he said, ninety percent of these
Speaker 1: guys in here is over drugs. And a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys are good people, but they don't even know
Speaker 1: half of the stuff they was doing, why they was
Speaker 1: committing these crimes. I said, wow, it really is. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a drug thing. You mentioned that
Speaker 1: Tupac from E forty. As a matter of fact, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have E forty on my show in the coming day.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that they came into your store and somehow
Speaker 1: you became friends with Tupac and you in Tupac let
Speaker 1: you on the road. You open up how that happened.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, I'm proud of the only guy,
Speaker 1: the young guy in the community. They didn't even know
Speaker 1: it was my story. They're like, this should Dad's store.
Speaker 1: Some people that didn't believe. I'm like, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: my dad's store, you know. But I think the guys
Speaker 1: was just I mean, even with E forty So I
Speaker 1: really learned the music industry from Efty uncle Saint Charles.
Speaker 1: So Saint Charles ended up showing me how to distribute
Speaker 1: my music throughout the whole Bay Area. And I mean
Speaker 1: it was just a lot of young people that had
Speaker 1: hustled back then in the Bay Area, from Too Short
Speaker 1: to E Fardy. I mean I could go on and on.
Speaker 1: I mean, Spice one. It was like it was a
Speaker 1: lot of young hustlers back there, and I think I
Speaker 1: was able to get my drive and hustle from them
Speaker 1: and having them around, and I mean it was it
Speaker 1: was just that error. It was that error that the
Speaker 1: Bay Area people for his music. They always thought out
Speaker 1: the bit out the box and always came up with
Speaker 1: their own language and everything. I mean, even for some
Speaker 1: of the stuff I didn't even understand, you know, he
Speaker 1: thought it was rapping fast back back there. But guess
Speaker 1: what everybody saying it word for word, everybody, if pe
Speaker 1: you mine, nobody to this day have E forty flow.
Speaker 1: You look at Too Short now that based out is
Speaker 1: very unique to that area, that area and the day
Speaker 1: nobody has ever been able to comprehend and be able
Speaker 1: to show you. He fought in the got man, let
Speaker 1: me show yourself. So this is my dog. So you
Speaker 1: know I had to put forty on these rappers next. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's he forded, that's my dog. Hey
Speaker 1: he good, dude, he coming on and he got and
Speaker 1: he got Kanya tycoon. Yeah, yeah, he'd be doing cooking.
Speaker 1: He got pop in paying the goon with the foon. Definitely,
Speaker 1: he definitely a mobile. But you know what, Forty was
Speaker 1: able to diversify his portfolio, and that's I got a
Speaker 1: lot of respects for him for that. Knowing that we're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to do this entertainment stuff forever,
Speaker 1: and just like you know, you can't do football film,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I and I think
Speaker 1: that now we realizing that we need to get us
Speaker 1: something else to keep it going. Hey, hold on, you
Speaker 1: mean to tell me you ain't gonna be jagg up
Speaker 1: on stage. You ain't gonna be seven years old. I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be selling these products. That's what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be doing. You mentioned that the Bay and then you
Speaker 1: let leave the Bay and you head back to New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Why why why'd you go back to the boot? Because
Speaker 1: I realized that I need to put my city on
Speaker 1: the map. And that's why I went back. I went
Speaker 1: back to show these kids that we can do it.
Speaker 1: We don't have to say we from the east coast
Speaker 1: of the West thast. We could actually be proud to
Speaker 1: be from New Orleans, to be proud to be from
Speaker 1: the South and be able to compete with everybody and
Speaker 1: I and that's what I realized when I realized that,
Speaker 1: I know, I had to go back home. You mentioned,
Speaker 1: and it's been very documenting. You spoke about it, that
Speaker 1: how you would drive around and you sell CDs out
Speaker 1: the trunk of your car. Give us some of the stories.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you like, man, what the hell am
Speaker 1: I doing? If this thing will ever pay off of me?
Speaker 1: Or were you like, I'm gonna make this work? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I realized. I went in one neighborhood. I
Speaker 1: went to South Central. I was trying to sell my
Speaker 1: tapes and CDs out the trunk of my car because
Speaker 1: Easy he had took me to the swap meet and
Speaker 1: I was able to sell CDs there, right, And so
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm hyped up now, but I end up
Speaker 1: in the wrong neighborhood and I got the wrong color.
Speaker 1: It was like, man, what you're doing? Like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to sell these CD little bitty guys say,
Speaker 1: I say, sir, I don't want no trouble. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to sell these CD He said, what kind of seed
Speaker 1: you like? To take that shirt off first? You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I say, no, no problem with that.
Speaker 1: You know I got with no shirt. Look, so you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not used to the whole gang thing, so I'm
Speaker 1: not you know, I took that shirt off quick though.
Speaker 1: He said how much you want for that that that CD?
Speaker 1: I say, I want twenty outs? I gave you tend
Speaker 1: I said, yes, sir. He said it better be good.
Speaker 1: You know, this guy he had his gun in his hand.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm already stuck, right. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, mamb I gotta think about where
Speaker 1: I'm going there before like getting these places now. So
Speaker 1: that that devil taught me a lot, but it was good.
Speaker 1: He ended up liking the music. You know, he ended
Speaker 1: up liking the music you you you mentioned that one
Speaker 1: time you ran out of gas, you got pulled over,
Speaker 1: your fell asleep. Well, I mean in order to because
Speaker 1: I think the thing is not all is that everybody
Speaker 1: sees where you are, but a lot, very few people
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to see the journey that helped get
Speaker 1: you where you are because all they see is this.
Speaker 1: They never thought bad. Yeah, and I think I think
Speaker 1: that's what life is about. You know. People always think
Speaker 1: they know what they really don't know because they see
Speaker 1: you are now. But I mean I come from a
Speaker 1: poor place. I come from not having nothing. I mean
Speaker 1: I could I could remember going to the store with
Speaker 1: my family and just thinking, Wow, if I could get
Speaker 1: me some Oreo cookies, uh, you know, being hungry. And
Speaker 1: I think that people don't see that. But you know,
Speaker 1: for the ones that I understand, I want to show
Speaker 1: them that you could come out of nothing. But you
Speaker 1: gotta keep working. You gotta outwork everybody like And that's
Speaker 1: what I did. I mean, consistency is what's gonna get
Speaker 1: you to your dreams and your goals. I just kept going.
Speaker 1: It's like, I know I'm not where I need to
Speaker 1: be at. Let me keep working, Let me get better,
Speaker 1: let me get to my destination. Man. And it's it's
Speaker 1: even bigger than what I could even imagine. It's just
Speaker 1: keep going the distribution deal with Friday Records, And I
Speaker 1: think you had Michael Jackson Attorney working with you. And
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this, it's like you got an eighty
Speaker 1: five fifteen deal. Now, if you have success, like you'll
Speaker 1: think you're gonna have success. They probably gave you that
Speaker 1: deal not thinking you were gonna be able to generate
Speaker 1: the kind of success and if I ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: done eight but lord behold, you generate millions and millions
Speaker 1: and hundreds of millions, and not like, what are we doing? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: they thought that. You know, for one, I'm a kid
Speaker 1: from New Orleans. They thought, when this kid come up
Speaker 1: the streets, what's gonna happen? He probably gonna live six months?
Speaker 1: So this is gonna be a great deal for them.
Speaker 1: And they didn't know that I came to change my life.
Speaker 1: I came to be better. I came to lead a
Speaker 1: life behind and I was gonna get out there and
Speaker 1: work and go marketing and do what I need to
Speaker 1: do to blow those records up and That's what I did.
Speaker 1: I was everywhere. I'm jumping on planes, I'm jumping in vans,
Speaker 1: driving you know sometimes, and I'm I'm putting my own
Speaker 1: posters up. I was in New York. The guy was like,
Speaker 1: is that you? I said, now, dog, you want you
Speaker 1: to think Master Pete gonna be out here putting posts
Speaker 1: up for this dude, I'm from the South. We all
Speaker 1: looked alike. So you know, you know, you gotta go hold,
Speaker 1: you gotta go hard if you believe, you know nobody
Speaker 1: else believe. And you know New York has an ordinance
Speaker 1: no post to sign, so you gotta be careful where
Speaker 1: you actually put your signs up at. Yeah, so let
Speaker 1: me askin your pet Yeah, you go, so, how did
Speaker 1: you know to to work this deal? So's because obviously
Speaker 1: he's Michael Jackson attorney. He's been at this quite a while,
Speaker 1: and he understands because Michael ended up having some problems
Speaker 1: with Sony Records. Prince had in some of the bigger
Speaker 1: entertainers had issue with their record company. So you go in.
Speaker 1: So you kind of had an idea where you wanted
Speaker 1: to go, how you wanted this thing to be a
Speaker 1: percentage wise? Yeah, what I did was I went in
Speaker 1: humble and willing to learn. And so that's what any
Speaker 1: artists that's listening to, any entertainer actor, actually go and humble,
Speaker 1: go in to learn, get educated. This guy told me
Speaker 1: that Michael Jackson made the most money out of every
Speaker 1: artist in the world. He had a twenty two percent deal.
Speaker 1: And so I said to him, well, what's the deal
Speaker 1: bigger than Michael Jackson. He told me, he said, you'll
Speaker 1: get eighty five percent in a rec company, get fifteen
Speaker 1: percent as a distribution deal. But I don't think they'll
Speaker 1: do that with you. But you're gonna need two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand a marketing money if you're gonna get that type
Speaker 1: of deal. So nobody goes into a record company willing
Speaker 1: to give up two hundred thousand dollars to promote the product.
Speaker 1: And that's what I did. So once I knew that,
Speaker 1: that's why I started selling the CDs at the trunk
Speaker 1: of my car. When I made enough money, that's when
Speaker 1: I went at went at the deal knowing that I
Speaker 1: can handle the marketing and promotion for this product. And
Speaker 1: plus I was gonna go hit the road myself. So
Speaker 1: once I was educated to that information, So it's all
Speaker 1: about information, educating yourself, having the right resources, and I
Speaker 1: think that's where business start. It don't start on a
Speaker 1: success of the business. You got to have a plan
Speaker 1: and then you got to have a plan of action.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people they don't have that, so
Speaker 1: they just think. You know, some people think, oh, I men,
Speaker 1: get this record, gent them and sell millions of record.
Speaker 1: The record company told me after I came up with
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand, they told me that was gonna be
Speaker 1: happy if I sold ten thousand units, We're gonna be
Speaker 1: popping bottles. And I'm like, ten thousand units already put
Speaker 1: a lot of money into this. So I'm already thinking
Speaker 1: I got to go work harder, so almost like an athlete.
Speaker 1: So that's where the basketball thing come in for me.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I need to go I work these guys.
Speaker 1: I'm like, if if you got Ice qu jay Z
Speaker 1: all these guys was on the label at the time,
Speaker 1: Easy Eat. I'm like, if you got them, how many
Speaker 1: units they're selling? And I'm trying to watch and see
Speaker 1: where they at, they out in the clubs, the out
Speaker 1: of the marketplace, what they're doing. I'm saying, if they
Speaker 1: out one place. I need to be ten places. If
Speaker 1: if if they product is not in these places, my
Speaker 1: product need to be there. But who gonna put it up?
Speaker 1: I got to go put it up. I gotta got
Speaker 1: to put the work in. And so all the places
Speaker 1: they didn't want to go, I'm going like all these
Speaker 1: little small towns. I'm like, no, I got to hit
Speaker 1: these small towns, these small spots. And that's basically how
Speaker 1: I did it, not being afraid to to out work
Speaker 1: the next guy. It's almost like sports. I got there
Speaker 1: from the whole, you know, playing basketball, that mentality. I
Speaker 1: got more talent than me. But I can I can
Speaker 1: do something about that working. I mean, look at the
Speaker 1: people I had on the label. But you had Easy Eat,
Speaker 1: you had Iceque, you had jay Z, you had Scuff
Speaker 1: facing the ghetto boys, all these people his own Priority
Speaker 1: records at that time. Wow. So after you you start
Speaker 1: blowing up and you get bigger and bigger, did you
Speaker 1: ever have a problem with Priority trying to bring It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: hold on, man, we might need to rework this deal.
Speaker 1: N I never had a problem with I never had
Speaker 1: a problem with him, Like I had the best deal.
Speaker 1: Think about it is nobody had a deal like I had,
Speaker 1: so I just had to I just had to keep
Speaker 1: on moving until I kept growing and growing and growing
Speaker 1: and getting better and trying to figure out other things
Speaker 1: I wanted, and I wanted to get into the movie business.
Speaker 1: I started putting my own films out where they told me,
Speaker 1: you can't do that I wanted. At one time, I
Speaker 1: had twenty records on Billboard at one time, they say
Speaker 1: that I can't the most records you could put out
Speaker 1: this too, I say, no, I own the comack. I
Speaker 1: put out many I want And that's what I did.
Speaker 1: So we made history at the time because we did
Speaker 1: stuff that they didn't think could happen. And I think that,
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to think out the box. And
Speaker 1: that's so that's how you control your destination. It's through ownership.
Speaker 1: And so by me own an eighty five percent of
Speaker 1: the company, I could do whatever I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: You mentioned, But also a lot of that have to
Speaker 1: do with radio airplay. How do you get DJs in
Speaker 1: these different markets to play your songs, your music. So
Speaker 1: I did what a lot of people should be doing
Speaker 1: right now. I brought DJs jackets. I always brought the
Speaker 1: no limit jackets T shirts. I went into the marketplace
Speaker 1: appreciated them, showing them that I appreciate them. I showed up,
Speaker 1: showed up at their events. I made their events bigger.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of artists don't. They don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. They just hide behind the computer.
Speaker 1: Like I'm actually going out touching these people in their marketplace,
Speaker 1: doing free parties for them. And now they are playing
Speaker 1: my music everywhere every time they come into the club
Speaker 1: because nobody else is going to do that. Think about
Speaker 1: the other big stories are not gonna come to these
Speaker 1: market It plays places for the DJ. The DJ is
Speaker 1: the most important role in the music business to me me.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the eighty five fifteenth Flint that you got,
Speaker 1: and there's something called a three sixty deal. Can you
Speaker 1: explain that to the people at home, the difference between
Speaker 1: the type of deal you got versus the conventional deal
Speaker 1: that all the other artists were doing at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you got a deal like that made,
Speaker 1: then you control everything. A three sixty deal they eat
Speaker 1: off everything you got it and they control you. And
Speaker 1: that's probably the worst deal that you could have, which
Speaker 1: a lot of artists have it. And I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to work and do to
Speaker 1: put the hard work that I was able to put
Speaker 1: it in. But you know, you got to decide if
Speaker 1: you want a distribution deal or you want to own
Speaker 1: your company, or you want to be a worker. A
Speaker 1: three sixty deal it makes you a worker, so you
Speaker 1: don't control nothing, and everything you do, they get a
Speaker 1: piece of it. And so that's why I try to
Speaker 1: educate our culture to that. And and guess what a
Speaker 1: distribution deal is not for everybody? Like I said, being
Speaker 1: a boss is not for everybody because a lot of
Speaker 1: us come from there together. You got the deal, you
Speaker 1: gotta work, you got to hit, you got you gotta work, work,
Speaker 1: You gotta decide what you want to do. So you
Speaker 1: gotta look at it, even if you look at it
Speaker 1: right now. In the movie business, Will Smith and Denzil
Speaker 1: wants to make twenty mail of a movie. And my
Speaker 1: thing is to them, I'm thinking, how come you know
Speaker 1: make your own movies? But everybody, you know, they just
Speaker 1: starting to do that. But I'm just saying when they
Speaker 1: were super hot that you know, you know, you get
Speaker 1: cool at Okay, Well, I'm good at making the twenty
Speaker 1: mail of the movie, but you see what they grew into.
Speaker 1: Imagine when they first started. And that's what I think
Speaker 1: I was. I was even trying to show Spike Lee
Speaker 1: that I'm like, man, you know, you older than me
Speaker 1: and you know the business. But imagine if instead of
Speaker 1: going to these people, because you already have a fan
Speaker 1: base for these urban movies. So if you just made
Speaker 1: the movies yourself, imagine how much bigger. I mean, Spike
Speaker 1: Lee should probably be like Disney or somebody, but the
Speaker 1: black version of you know what I'm saying, But we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't want to accept that. It's gonna take a
Speaker 1: lot of work. It's not gonna be pappering. Like so
Speaker 1: the difference of my career. I didn't get all the
Speaker 1: nice trailers. I didn't get the private jets and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. I'm working. I'm in and out the planes,
Speaker 1: regular planes because I gotta get there. I gotta keep
Speaker 1: the budget down all this type of stuff, because this
Speaker 1: is my money I'm spending. These guys are spending other
Speaker 1: people money. But it also makes you lazy too at
Speaker 1: the same time, and so you gotta look at that.
Speaker 1: And then, like I said, being a boss is not
Speaker 1: for everybody. Because you gotta take care of everybody. It's
Speaker 1: a difference because there's a lot more responsibility and not
Speaker 1: get it. Some people just want the pappering. It's like,
Speaker 1: but guess what. The pappering is gonna stop when it
Speaker 1: don't work. So I was able to keep going because
Speaker 1: I don't have nobody saying we got to drop feet
Speaker 1: from the label because he's not selling the records he
Speaker 1: used to sell. No, it's like I could grow, move on,
Speaker 1: getting to something else, and keep going. But if you
Speaker 1: look at it, it's like the entertainment where they dropping
Speaker 1: people all the time. So when when you're not good enough,
Speaker 1: it's like sports. That's why I say product our ways
Speaker 1: sound sports. You was one of the best, daddy, But
Speaker 1: when when you can't running and jumped like it used to,
Speaker 1: you gone. They already look at five years when you're
Speaker 1: the top dog, they're looking for somebody else's maybe got this.
Speaker 1: This was were gonna bring in for shadow, like but
Speaker 1: if you knew that five years, you would have been
Speaker 1: thinking a whole different way, right, And so that's the part.
Speaker 1: We got to educate this culture too, the ones that
Speaker 1: want to listen because they got some I'm thinking, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna be bigger than It ain't
Speaker 1: about being bigger than me, because think about it, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, if you just got a
Speaker 1: record deal on three sixty bill, you never gonna be
Speaker 1: bigger than me because the money you're making is gonna
Speaker 1: be controlled by them, and they're controlling where you're going,
Speaker 1: what you do. That's why they give you a big
Speaker 1: check up. From now, you gotta be don't be worried
Speaker 1: about being bigger than P. Be smarter than P. You
Speaker 1: gotta Yeah, that's what I want you to And all
Speaker 1: you gotta do is stop and ask me for that information.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to you because I want you
Speaker 1: to be I want you to not have to make
Speaker 1: the mistakes I made. But I can't do nothing that
Speaker 1: you just want to go on your owners. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of these autists. Let me tell you something. So
Speaker 1: I was trying to show these guys like right now
Speaker 1: that if they did the right deals, with the way
Speaker 1: social media and all this stuff is going, these guys
Speaker 1: would be bigger than me. But they got the wrong deal,
Speaker 1: so they're going instead of putting the work in the
Speaker 1: same work you're putting in for the record company. Imagine
Speaker 1: up somebody put that in for their own company. What
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. Because you have the power. Once you've
Speaker 1: got to hit record, you could sell anything, right, right,
Speaker 1: How did you go about negotiating to getting your your
Speaker 1: your music and like Walmart, Kmart circus, how did you
Speaker 1: do with that? Because it's not easy to deal with
Speaker 1: corporate America in the business that you're in selling what
Speaker 1: you're selling. Yeah, well you know what. You have to
Speaker 1: go in there on a diversity side first, but then
Speaker 1: showing them that your product is bigger than just Black America,
Speaker 1: Like you have product for the world, Like I make
Speaker 1: music and product for human beings. So once I got in,
Speaker 1: I had to explain that to them, like don't just
Speaker 1: put me in a box because I'm like any other
Speaker 1: businessman that comes in there, Like my product is for
Speaker 1: the world. My product is not just for African Americans.
Speaker 1: My product is for everybody. And when I make my
Speaker 1: music and I make my product, but it's owned by me.
Speaker 1: So the imbalance is that you guys, you want to
Speaker 1: add some diversity into Walmart in a target, into all
Speaker 1: these other stories to provis and by doing that, you
Speaker 1: got to give us an opportunity, and I think that's
Speaker 1: the way we gotta think, Like, we also have to
Speaker 1: educate those buyers because they just don't know. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what I was able to do. I was
Speaker 1: able to educate them, to show them my strategy and
Speaker 1: my plan and then we at right now in the world.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like we have to take advantage
Speaker 1: of these times right now to get product into these stories,
Speaker 1: to add some balance and some diversity. Pee. If you
Speaker 1: own your own company, so you got to set up
Speaker 1: these meetings right Yeah, Yeah, I got to set the
Speaker 1: meetings up. I gotta be on time. I gotta do
Speaker 1: the zoom cause I gotta show up. And when you
Speaker 1: own your company, I mean that's what it's gonna be. Now.
Speaker 1: If I just wanted to go work for somebody, I
Speaker 1: could just chill. But I don't get no time to
Speaker 1: chill because I want to build generational well right Snoop Dogg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tell the people the difference between negotiating with you nightd
Speaker 1: with Cold America. You know what to be honest with
Speaker 1: you know, I think it was easy to negotiate it
Speaker 1: with your Knight. Didn't negotiate with Cover America. Because he
Speaker 1: already knew what he wanted. Corporate America, you gotta sit
Speaker 1: around on the table with twenty different people that has
Speaker 1: their own idea and expectations. So it was a challenge
Speaker 1: because at the time going in there, you know, I
Speaker 1: was able to show Sugar that you know, you're gonna
Speaker 1: sell this artists anyway. And so what I learned from
Speaker 1: being from the streets, I'm like, you know what I
Speaker 1: asked Sugar, like, how much are you getting for snoop?
Speaker 1: He told me the number. I said, Okay, let me
Speaker 1: put extra two hundred thousand on there. It made sense.
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, you're gonna You're gonna do this anyway,
Speaker 1: but now they gave you something extra with it. And
Speaker 1: I think that was the difference. But you know, in
Speaker 1: corporate America, it's it's like it's a situation to where
Speaker 1: they sit in. You sit at these tables with all
Speaker 1: these different people, and they have a strategy, and if
Speaker 1: your strategy work with their strategy, then you get the deal.
Speaker 1: You know, because a lot of us think we got
Speaker 1: our own strategy. And I think my thing is, you
Speaker 1: want to be successful in business when you're going to
Speaker 1: look to do a deal. Make sure your strategy is
Speaker 1: up to part with with what the deal you're doing.
Speaker 1: So you go in there and you get the deal
Speaker 1: with with Schnoop And by this time Snooping and and
Speaker 1: she'll had a falling out and she want to do
Speaker 1: a this track. He want to do a disc album
Speaker 1: like death Row fl Sugar, whoa, whoa, whoa, No, we can't,
Speaker 1: bro We're not going to do that. Now. My whole
Speaker 1: thing was I told Snoop was you got to have
Speaker 1: some integrity and uh, you know, you can't keep fighting
Speaker 1: fire with fire unless you you're ready to burn. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know this guy had opened some doors for you,
Speaker 1: so you gotta at least be thankful for that. So
Speaker 1: you know, us black men going against black men, like,
Speaker 1: we have to change that narrative. And I was able
Speaker 1: to show him that, show him that with love and saying, look, man,
Speaker 1: just the right way to do this, and and and
Speaker 1: and he agreed. And look with his career, now look
Speaker 1: what he's able to do. And you know, Snoop, I
Speaker 1: mean we we end up being a best of friends
Speaker 1: because you know, his mentality change, you know, and and
Speaker 1: his growth and uh, he just kept growing and getting better.
Speaker 1: And you know, he was able to build an empire.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what this is about for me,
Speaker 1: to being able to create more millionaires and hopefully billionaires
Speaker 1: and and and have people come through. I called no
Speaker 1: limit the university. You come through here, get the game,
Speaker 1: and go do what you gotta do. And that's what
Speaker 1: Snoop was able to do. And I'm proud of him.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of the man he became and uh and
Speaker 1: and what and what he's doing. Mostly I'm proud of
Speaker 1: what he's doing in the community with the football league
Speaker 1: and and me and Snoop. Just a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: we just did a basketball game, so I brought all
Speaker 1: my kids down, uh and we had a We had
Speaker 1: a three on three high school the best high schoolers
Speaker 1: in the country. And so that's what I love that
Speaker 1: Snoop hard is in the right place. He want to
Speaker 1: give back, he want to do us right, and a
Speaker 1: lot of us we lost a lot of kids in
Speaker 1: the programs. You know, My My, My, My program been
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles for a while, and so people don't
Speaker 1: know I started out uh being Janelle. We created Urban Borne,
Speaker 1: and one of our first students at Urban Born, people
Speaker 1: don't notice was Nipsey Hustle and we was all about
Speaker 1: getting gangs off the street. And uh, I used to
Speaker 1: tell Nipsey even like going to high school, like look, man,
Speaker 1: you stopped gang banging. I'm gonna give you a couple
Speaker 1: of hours, so I give him some money and need
Speaker 1: to come back. Well, I'm trying. Coach. They always called
Speaker 1: me Coach Pete. Yeah, coach, you know, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna hang out with those
Speaker 1: guys no more. And then we built the Great Relationship
Speaker 1: and uh, that program, I mean it's still going to
Speaker 1: till today. And uh that's that's what I mostly love
Speaker 1: about Snoop and what we was able to do, you know,
Speaker 1: still being a part of the community and giving back
Speaker 1: and being able to reach kids like that, you know,
Speaker 1: in that youth and being a part of that world. Man,
Speaker 1: because we got so much talent in the hood, but
Speaker 1: we it's get wasted by the by the violence and
Speaker 1: in the negativity. So yeah, I just think that you know,
Speaker 1: more people like Snoop and more entertainers doing that, like
Speaker 1: we're gonna save a lot of kids. Late nineties, you're
Speaker 1: on top of the world, make them say, I'm body
Speaker 1: by it, babble babble, how you do that? There? Well,
Speaker 1: anything that you couldn't do? I don't think I couldn't
Speaker 1: did anything. But you know what I'm I'm I'm thankful
Speaker 1: and blessed that I've always remained humble, you know, because
Speaker 1: they always say money changes, but also money just enhanced
Speaker 1: who you really are. And so I'm just glad that
Speaker 1: that I was humble and I wasn't into just doing
Speaker 1: all kinds of crazy stuff to where I just like,
Speaker 1: you know what I want. I want a better life
Speaker 1: for my family. So I just kept working. So it's
Speaker 1: a blessing man to be able to have all those
Speaker 1: big records and everything. But that never was the end
Speaker 1: for me. That wasn't like you know, some guys like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I do this, This is all I wanted now.
Speaker 1: I was always like, we need to figure out something
Speaker 1: better and I need to get better. I wanted to
Speaker 1: get better with my music. I wanted to get better
Speaker 1: at my thinking. You know what, I was rapping about everything,
Speaker 1: because when you're there on the front line, that's all
Speaker 1: you hear, that's all you see. But I also wanted
Speaker 1: to figure out how cannot grow it. One day I
Speaker 1: could be a part of corporate America because that's how
Speaker 1: I could really feed my people. Like it's always been
Speaker 1: about trying to feed my people with education or just
Speaker 1: actually feeding my people where we don't have to go
Speaker 1: ask nobody for nothing. So but I know I had
Speaker 1: to get better. I had to grow because most people
Speaker 1: and I look at a lot of my friends now,
Speaker 1: they're still the same. And I'm like, I can't mess
Speaker 1: with you because your mentality is still in the price.
Speaker 1: Your mentality is still on the cone that ain't me, Like,
Speaker 1: you can't get mad at me because I want more
Speaker 1: out of life. And you might say, oh, man, you change.
Speaker 1: I did, Yeah, I got I got better. What's wrong
Speaker 1: with getting better? Well, I'll be thinking about it. You
Speaker 1: have a baby, the baby go through a progression, it
Speaker 1: grows that baby. Don't baby forever to change. You're supposed
Speaker 1: to grow. Bro is natural, Yeah, and people don't. People
Speaker 1: don't realize like being broke as a mindset. Like even
Speaker 1: when I was poor, I never thought I was broken.
Speaker 1: I've always said, like, I gotta do something. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm waiting on the lawsuit, my checking the meal. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking like that why everybody else thinking, oh I don't
Speaker 1: have nothing, I'm hurting, and they speak that negativity like
Speaker 1: so even when you go back and see y'all. So
Speaker 1: I was telling so this the funniest thing happened to me. Right.
Speaker 1: They had this kid in middle school with me. He
Speaker 1: was five six. He was like the biggest kid and
Speaker 1: in our class. So I pull up on Facebook. This
Speaker 1: kid say, yeah, y'all, you know y'all looking up to
Speaker 1: master people. But I beat him up in middle school
Speaker 1: and and something. Girls, Yes, it's like you beat him
Speaker 1: up in middle school and and and so. Uh you
Speaker 1: know how they on your Facebook they tell you how
Speaker 1: tall you is and whatever. Right, so he fives he's
Speaker 1: still five six, shadder. So I go on, now, I say,
Speaker 1: beat me up. Now, come on, I had to do it,
Speaker 1: shad Man. I'm looking at that your artists. You had
Speaker 1: Mystical to five or four boys soldiers, Slim, Sup, Shock
Speaker 1: and Ce Murder, Romeo you you you a. I love
Speaker 1: all the guys, but Mystical, Mystical, Mystical could have been
Speaker 1: he was what happened Pete? Yeah, you know, mister got
Speaker 1: caught up with Mystical. He's getting together now Man, I'm
Speaker 1: proud of him and he getting a second chance. Are
Speaker 1: you looking at work? We're definitely going on tour together
Speaker 1: and we're doing stuff. I mean, Mystical mia x h
Speaker 1: Mac about to get out of being in concerrader this
Speaker 1: there was another guy that was just he his career
Speaker 1: could have been so big. He probably the most talented guy. Uh,
Speaker 1: probably even more talented than Mystical, but he wouldn't kin. Yeah, Mac,
Speaker 1: like this guy, this guy was talented and he just
Speaker 1: lost lost his whole career. And that's what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: you got to do the right thing and and stop
Speaker 1: being around their own people, you know, And I feel
Speaker 1: like that's what. That's what, that's what, that's where we're
Speaker 1: going at now, like being able to show this generation
Speaker 1: you don't have to make the mistakes we made. So now, Man,
Speaker 1: Mystical was Yeah, talented brothers, Mystical Soldiers, Slim mia x
Speaker 1: thing still see Mac, I could go on and on. Man,
Speaker 1: we had some talent on that label. Man, you had it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've lived every person's dream, not just black. Obviously you're
Speaker 1: black and that's the but you've lived a dream, a
Speaker 1: life of life growing up in poverty, not having and
Speaker 1: rising and people get an opportunity to see. What advice
Speaker 1: would you give this generation? How can there be more masterps?
Speaker 1: I can say, don't be afraid to work, don't be
Speaker 1: afraid to where nobody don't believe in you. You have
Speaker 1: to believe in yourself, put your trust and faith and
Speaker 1: God in and have a dream and a goal and
Speaker 1: stick with it like it's not a race, it's a marathon.
Speaker 1: Like even when them curveballs come the destination, you know,
Speaker 1: even though it looked like you're not getting there, if
Speaker 1: you're doing something every day, consist you're gonna get to
Speaker 1: your dreams and your goals. And don't be afraid to fail.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, don't be afraid to try to get better,
Speaker 1: and don't be afraid to work and and and if
Speaker 1: I did it, I know you could do it. So
Speaker 1: what advice? Because you've been very financial responsible, what financial
Speaker 1: advice would you give young America? Educate yourself, don't work
Speaker 1: for money, don't pray for money, pray for wisdom when
Speaker 1: you work. Work because you love something in this your
Speaker 1: purpose and this your passion. Before we wrap up, I
Speaker 1: want to ask you this, and you be the you're
Speaker 1: the best person to ask this. I need your five
Speaker 1: top wrappers that could play, that could hoop, and I
Speaker 1: need your five top hoop or that could wrap. Hmm,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say j Cole Okay, uh two chains okay?
Speaker 1: Uh quai bo okay the gang okay in Romeo? Damn
Speaker 1: you left so you don't look at Chris Brown as
Speaker 1: a rapper. No, okay, Chris Brown, Katy who though? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Chris Brown? Who I hope with Chris Brown? The fuck
Speaker 1: he could? Who? Okay, Okay, okay, I believe Okay, Now
Speaker 1: give me the who, give me the hoopers that could
Speaker 1: be rappers. I want to know who who is the
Speaker 1: top NBA hooper or the top no, you know what,
Speaker 1: I wanna let you include football players too. I want
Speaker 1: to know who's number one because there were a lot
Speaker 1: of beat there's a lot of going on speculation that
Speaker 1: you know, the galloping in Portland and there's a guy
Speaker 1: that played the Lando and Miami Heat and the Lakers.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of guy that say, damn the bad
Speaker 1: the guy in Portland is gotta be the best. The
Speaker 1: little gotta be there. He gotta be from what I
Speaker 1: see with him. Go with Shaq. Okay, all right? Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean who else in basketball that we do? So
Speaker 1: that's it. I can let me can le Beyon bel
Speaker 1: rap who lebian lebyan Beil. I mean he's good. You
Speaker 1: can't you can't knock that. Also, I gotta go with
Speaker 1: what his name is? He he got some nice songs
Speaker 1: to Uh he married to what the name is the singer? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's four. Yeah, and I gotta go with Hi.
Speaker 1: How are you gonna leave you off? You gotta be
Speaker 1: the god all of you gotta be the godfather. You
Speaker 1: know what I did vote, so the you gotta leave
Speaker 1: me out like you can't put me in that. You
Speaker 1: gotta be the number one slide. You gotta be the
Speaker 1: number one in both bubble. You know what. I'm a
Speaker 1: humble man. I'm you know, keep me out of it.
Speaker 1: And then I just I let everybody. I let everybody
Speaker 1: had any bump. But then I gotta I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with uh. I'm gonna go with Ai. Okay, So that's fine.
Speaker 1: We're not telling me. We don't. We don't have to
Speaker 1: put me in none of those mixed how about okay,
Speaker 1: I tell you what I need, my rush, my Rushmore rappers.
Speaker 1: Give me your my Rushmore rappers. You get four. That's
Speaker 1: it in the ror. So for you, Jay b the
Speaker 1: kr has wondered too too short to tu whomever Ice
Speaker 1: que Tupac Bigger, give me four, all right? Two first,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you two pot in bigg Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's too old. We only got two left. Somebody getting
Speaker 1: left out. Oh guess what you know? That's that's like,
Speaker 1: that's a biggie. Okay, give me your forem Rushmore Hoopers,
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's okay, Lebron Jane okay, okay, Magic Johnson, Magic
Speaker 1: and Larry Burn bad. See everybody get mad at me
Speaker 1: because Lard Burn was my favorite player growing up. I
Speaker 1: had all every burden for a white boy back then.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling y'all you could cut him up, scratch
Speaker 1: him with him. You're not gonna stop it. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you you're not gonna stop it. Pete. I want
Speaker 1: to thank you for stopping by giving me a few
Speaker 1: moments of your time. Congratulations of all your success. I
Speaker 1: want to give you your flowers while you can hear
Speaker 1: me praise you, because a lot of times we give
Speaker 1: people flowers and they can't smell him. A lot of
Speaker 1: times we praise people and they can't hear it. So
Speaker 1: I want to give you flowers. I want to praise
Speaker 1: Master Peace for what he's done for his community while
Speaker 1: he can hear it, while he can smell the flowers.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, my brother. Salute bag you man. Have
Speaker 1: a God all my life and rounding all my life.
Speaker 1: Sacrifice hustle back to pricing. One slice got the bron
Speaker 1: of dice to swapping all my life. I've been grinding
Speaker 1: in all my life, all my life, and running all
Speaker 1: my life. Sacrifice, Hustle back to pricing. One slice got
Speaker 1: the brona dice to swapping all my life. I've been
Speaker 1: grinding in all my life.