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Speaker 5: But without further ado, this is somebody who is an

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Speaker 5: You know, when you talk about music, when you talk

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Speaker 5: But has really you know, become a superstar entrepreneur and

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Speaker 5: sports League in America. Yes, congratulations, thank you. Something that

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Speaker 3: Man. You know, this is a this is a nice

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Speaker 5: So, speaking of the business model, how is it because

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Speaker 6: So that's where we are when that process right now.

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Speaker 4: Right, So when I look at your model, I'm thinking, like,

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Speaker 4: was there influencing that? Because when we were watching that,

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Speaker 4: we have teams. Obviously we see trilogy is Dominats and

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Speaker 3: Was that the biggest influencing model that you were looking at?

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Speaker 6: One of them I also played in in the NBA

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Speaker 6: It's our fourth year and you know, half the games

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Speaker 6: f T and have physical and real things that you

442
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 6: can do with it and not just be a piece

443
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 6: of art.

444
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 3: And so what we what we came.

445
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 6: Up with was was a FEAT which is giving people

446
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 6: ownership like experience, Like if you was the owner, you

447
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,959
Speaker 6: would you would have special parking, you would have you know,

448
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 6: v I P treatment. You know, you would have access

449
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 6: to practices and you know, the players and and and

450
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 6: and the functions and the parties and the things that

451
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 6: we do. And so that's what we offered. You know,

452
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 6: we offered our NFTs, but they were real things that.

453
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 3: You can do.

454
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 6: You know, you can you know, own a piece of

455
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 6: a team and and be treated like our owner.

456
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 4: When I look at the league, I look at the

457
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 4: player of retention, and so it makes me want to

458
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 4: how were the contract structure with the players season by

459
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 4: season or is it multi year? Because I mean I've

460
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 4: seen James White play almost every year.

461
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 3: Yeah you had ice old.

462
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 4: Joe killing and I mean he's he's probably gonna be

463
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 4: in there big three hole things.

464
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 3: Without a doubt. So how does that work with the players?

465
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 3: How do you structure contracts?

466
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 6: Will usually sign one or two year contracts. You know,

467
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 6: it's depending on success. You know, if you're winning, that's

468
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 6: my fun. So but if you're winning, you know we

469
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 6: want you back. If you're not winning, then we may

470
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 6: make a move here and there. You know, it's really

471
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 6: about and how long you been with your squad and

472
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 6: your team, you.

473
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying like that, that's uh, you.

474
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 6: Know, if you've been there a while and you i

475
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 6: ain't really got over the hump, we may make a change.

476
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 6: And what happens is we picked the player captain and

477
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 6: he gets to pick who he wants to play with,

478
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 6: So the Coke captains are his choice. And then and

479
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 6: then they draft two players from from the combine to

480
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 6: make up the rest of the roster.

481
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 3: And so.

482
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 6: You know, we have certain rules though too that if

483
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 6: you win the championship, that same squad has to return

484
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 6: to defend, and the runner up team they can return

485
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 6: with the same squad too, but they have to send

486
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 6: one player.

487
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 3: Back to the draft pool and pick a new player.

488
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 6: And then everybody else, the captains and Coke captains stay

489
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 6: the same, but all they draft players got to go

490
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 6: back to the pool and get they gotta you know,

491
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 6: reupp you know, if you're not winning, you gotta reup.

492
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 3: So that's pretty much how it goes.

493
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 6: So James White, they've they've you know, one have gotten

494
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 6: to the playoffs or the championship and so you know

495
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 6: he he's there. You know what I'm saying, there's no

496
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 6: reason to pull him because they've been winning the championship.

497
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 4: You know, shout out to Stephen Jackson.

498
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

499
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 5: But there's been a lot of talk lately about player

500
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 5: conduct from the NBA side, right, And I want to

501
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 5: talk about this John Morant situation because I see a

502
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 5: lot of people like, well, he has a right to

503
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 5: bear arms, but then it's like, well he works for

504
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 5: a private organization. So have you ever had any issues

505
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 5: with your league as far as player conduct and what's

506
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 5: your personal thoughts on specifically the John Morant situation.

507
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, we want players to conduct themselves in

508
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 6: a professional Manner's cool. We're dealing with players that's older,

509
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 6: you know, been around the game a little bit. You know,

510
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 6: we're not dealing with kids. You know, we're twenty two

511
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 6: one up. So you know, we want we want people

512
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,959
Speaker 6: to conduct themselves in the right way. We're not going

513
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 6: to micromanage our players though, you know at a certain point,

514
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 6: you know, what they do outside of the league is

515
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:28,479
Speaker 6: pretty much their business. But the NBA is a different

516
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 6: you know, it's a different league. They got different standards,

517
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 6: you know, I just want him to be treated like

518
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 6: other players that's brandished guns on you know, on pictures

519
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 6: or whatever.

520
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 3: You know, So it's complicated.

521
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 6: You know, it's like it's like marijuana, you know what

522
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 6: I'm saying, Like you're in a state that that, uh,

523
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 6: it's legal for recreational use. Do you suspend a guy

524
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 6: on camera smoking a blunt? You know, it's real tricky.

525
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 6: So you know, I just think you just take everything

526
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 6: in consideration. It doesn't help his brand, and I think

527
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 6: he should consider that. You know that little five minutes

528
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 6: of being cool with your homies, it don't do nothing

529
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 6: for you. Don't do nothing for you, you know, so

530
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 6: probably should put the guns down. You probably don't want

531
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 6: to need a gun. You know, in this life, you

532
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 6: don't want to need a gun. So I'm saying, so,

533
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 6: you know, playing with it is ridiculous.

534
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 3: You shouldn't play with guns period.

535
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 4: You brought my water and so it made me think

536
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 4: of being a league first because you were the first

537
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 4: league to accept marriwater and CBD. It's something that you

538
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 4: can use inside of the league. You also the first

539
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 4: with a four point play. Yeah, first a female coach

540
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 4: yep to lead a team. Were the first embrace mental

541
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 4: health first to embrace metals. So being in the league

542
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 4: at first, you're setting trends and I'm wondering what.

543
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 3: The relationship is like with the other league.

544
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 4: Right, we brought up the NBA, So is there a

545
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 4: positive relationship there where they're watching what you guys do

546
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 4: when it's saying like, maybe these are some of the

547
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 4: things that we can now accept, do you feel like

548
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 4: you're setting those trends in that way?

549
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 6: I mean, I think they're taking things that we're doing

550
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 6: and watching us, and we're you know, somewhat guinea pig

551
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 6: for it. But you know, we've taken some things from

552
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 6: the NBA too, so we understand that. I think I

553
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 6: don't think they like the fact that we change the

554
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 6: game without acts. We do what's best for the Big Three,

555
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 6: and they might not dig that because they have a

556
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 6: business model. You know, their players watch what we do,

557
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 6: and you know they they may want to be the

558
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 6: only ones to change the game, but it's too late.

559
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 5: So I have a theory that virtual reality is going

560
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 5: to change sports because I feel like it just makes

561
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 5: complete sense, Like if you could pay to actually put

562
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 5: a headset on and like be front row with Avontae

563
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 5: Davis throwing punches or Lebron or whatever. Right, Like, I

564
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 5: feel like virtual reality is gonna be big period. But

565
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 5: I feel like sports, particularly basketball, football, and boxing.

566
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 3: So how do you feel about that?

567
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 5: And is that something that you would incorporate in your

568
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 5: league as far as to have, like not right now,

569
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 5: but in the future a virtual reality component where people

570
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 5: can actually pay and have a virtual reality experience from home.

571
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, without a doubt. You know, however, they want to

572
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 6: experience the Big Three. You know, it's a challenge to

573
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 6: get ten twelve thousand people in an arena and you're

574
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 6: free on TV. So you know, some people gonna want

575
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 6: to watch it at home. Like me, I prefer watching

576
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 6: boxing at home. You know, I've been to a couple

577
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 6: of matches and shit, if you blink so so, and

578
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 6: you know, I like the announcers, I like the angles,

579
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 6: I like the replays, I like all that. So you

580
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 6: know that doesn't make me, you know, less of a

581
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 6: boxing fan. So so people gonna have a on preference.

582
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 6: And you know, we would be crazy to try to

583
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 6: shun the technology that's available for people to experience the

584
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 6: Big Three because it's all about eyeballs now, you know,

585
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 6: it's all about as many people seeing the game, you know,

586
00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 6: loving the game for UH and staying interested in the game.

587
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 6: That's the most important thing right now, you know, making

588
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 6: money off tickets, getting a big contract for streaming and

589
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 6: all these. To me, it's not the way to blow

590
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 6: up the league. The way to blow up the league

591
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 6: is eyeballs. Eyeballs, eyeballs, and so we'll do whatever it

592
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 6: takes to get those eyeballs on us, you know, whether

593
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 6: you come watch on TV or virtually.

594
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 4: One of the things when you're creating some innovative and

595
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 4: this is something we've learned, is you got to document

596
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 4: the process.

597
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 3: You document it all.

598
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 4: And so I know you're working with Jesse Collins Entertainment,

599
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 4: who is phenomenal in covering especially US, cover us in

600
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 4: the right man. So talk about that because I know

601
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 4: a lot of it is built around some of the

602
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 4: challenges that it took you to get to this point

603
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 4: with the league.

604
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 3: Without a doubt.

605
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 6: Man, you know, people wouldn't understand how hard it's been

606
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 6: these last seven years because of the obstacles, and not

607
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 6: only obstacles from the outside, but obstacles within, you know,

608
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 6: dealing with with with UH, with you know, people who

609
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 6: have ulterior motives for the league, you know, and and

610
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 6: so you know it's been it's been a challenge, but

611
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 6: you know, we up for it. You know, we kind

612
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 6: of knew it wasn't gonna be a cakewalk that you know,

613
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 6: starting the league from scratch is virtually impossible because so

614
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 6: many things got to go right and and you can

615
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 6: get attention, but keeping it here is a is another animal.

616
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 3: So it's been a challenge.

617
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 6: But but uh, I think people dig it another players

618
00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 6: love it. I know fans love it. And to me,

619
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to do anything else right now, you know,

620
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 6: another movie, another record, like you know, I could do that,

621
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 6: but this right here is something that's huge and humongous,

622
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 6: and so.

623
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 3: This is where I want to be.

624
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 5: So I want to ask you about Hollywood actually, because

625
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 5: you start in music and become a superstar and then

626
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 5: you're just going a crazy run in Hollywood. But so director, producer, screenwriter,

627
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 5: and actor. You actually have done all of the four

628
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 5: I believe one movie you did all fours Players Club, right,

629
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 5: So when you first starting in Hollywood, Boys and the

630
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 5: Hoods your first movie, yep, classic, that's classic.

631
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 3: Classic. So hey, I got all right, let's start there.

632
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 5: When you're doing Boys in the Hood, do you in

633
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 5: your mind know like this is something that is going

634
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 5: to be a game changer.

635
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 3: No. Nah.

636
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 6: You know, as a matter of fact, when I first

637
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 6: saw the rough cut it, you know, never show somebody

638
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 6: a rough cut if they don't know the process. Because

639
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 6: I was pissed off, you know, I left called my

640
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 6: manager at the time and I was like, we fucked up.

641
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 6: We fucked up doing this movie. It don't even look

642
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 6: like a movie it saw. It feel flat. And she

643
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 6: was like, what you're talking about? I said, John showed

644
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 6: me a piece of it. Well, he showed me the movie,

645
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 6: but it it's unfinished. Look, don't look finished, she said.

646
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 6: Did he say it was finished? I said, no, let

647
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 6: him finish the movie. Let him finish the movie. So

648
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 6: from the time I had seen the rough cut to

649
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 6: the time he showed me to finish movie, I was

650
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 6: pissed off.

651
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 3: You know, I was thinking, man, what didn't you like

652
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:04,439
Speaker 3: about it?

653
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 6: Well, you know, it just didn't have all the sound

654
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 6: effects in it. It didn't have you know, if you

655
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 6: watch a movie without without them sound effects and things,

656
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 6: they feel flat. You know, somebody set the cup down.

657
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 6: You don't hear the fucking cup. You know, like you

658
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 6: see a car go by, you don't hear the car,

659
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Speaker 6: you know what I mean. It just seemed like the hell,

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Speaker 6: WHI is this movie missing sounds?

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Speaker 3: You know? I know, I see I should be hearing.

662
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Speaker 6: But he had to put all that in and he

663
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Speaker 6: had to edit it and polish it up, and so

664
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Speaker 6: when I seen it finished, then I knew.

665
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Speaker 3: I was like, this is some shit.

666
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Speaker 6: You know, this is a good ass movie, Like this

667
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Speaker 6: is this is something that is gonna It's gonna change

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Speaker 6: people's outlook on guys that come from our neighborhood. You know,

669
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Speaker 6: did you feel that's interesting? Because now I'm thinking about it.

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Speaker 6: At the time, this is after America's Most Wanted. This

671
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Speaker 6: is after well right around the same time as that certificate.

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Speaker 6: Are you thinking this is a risk because I'm Ice Cube,

673
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Speaker 6: the rap star who's from NWA, who has his soul

674
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Speaker 6: career that's thriving. Hey, I am trying to act because

675
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Speaker 6: at the time, we don't really see too many people

676
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Speaker 6: in rap that's acting. Yeah, it's you and you didn't

677
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Speaker 6: play play house party. Yeah, yeah, I thought it was

678
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Speaker 6: a risk. Ice Team was acting a little bit or

679
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Speaker 6: he's in Colors, yep. Yeah, but uh he'sn't Breaking, It's

680
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Speaker 6: in Breaking and Ship. But but it was Yeah, I

681
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Speaker 6: was like, man, you know, I want to do good.

682
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Speaker 6: I'm not an actor, Like kept telling John, I'm not.

683
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Speaker 6: I'm not an actor, man, you know, like.

684
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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't.

685
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Speaker 6: I don't even want to be an actor, you know

686
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Speaker 6: what I'm saying. I just wanted to do good in

687
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Speaker 6: the movie.

688
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Speaker 3: And so.

689
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Speaker 6: Taking that attitude and taking that approach, and he helped

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Speaker 6: me through it.

691
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Speaker 3: Lawrence Fishburne helped me through it.

692
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Speaker 6: Cuba Gooding, Junior, you know, they are they all you know,

693
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Speaker 6: helped me get comfortable with doing that. Like, you know,

694
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Speaker 6: you could feel stupid acting, you know what I mean,

695
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Speaker 6: Like you got all these people looking and you just

696
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Speaker 6: gotta do some some shit that's written down from a

697
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Speaker 6: piece of paper and not from your true heart, you know.

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Speaker 6: So it was an adjustment.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm thinking to myself, now you start boys in

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Speaker 4: the Hood, John Singleton, invest in Peace, the influence there,

701
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Speaker 4: but you come back with Hoigher learning with him again.

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Speaker 4: So talk about the role he played inside of you,

703
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Speaker 4: thinking about screenwriting, producing.

704
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Speaker 6: Directing, everything. You know, he discovered me as an actor.

705
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Speaker 6: He he he coached me as a as a writer,

706
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Speaker 6: and he helped me as a director. Like he actually

707
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Speaker 6: came to the set when I was shooting Players Club

708
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Speaker 6: and helped me.

709
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Speaker 3: This big scene.

710
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Speaker 6: I was running out of time and he just helped

711
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Speaker 6: me organize it and get his shot. And so he

712
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Speaker 6: just he just stopped by to see what was up.

713
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Speaker 6: You know, he didn't stop by the work, and he

714
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Speaker 6: stayed there with me for six to eight hours to

715
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Speaker 6: make sure it just got done right. And so I

716
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Speaker 6: really needed him that day. And I appreciated him helping

717
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Speaker 6: me because you know, he went to film school, He

718
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Speaker 6: went to these things to prepare him.

719
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Speaker 3: You know I didn't.

720
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Speaker 6: I didn't do nothing but shoot videos and and and

721
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Speaker 6: I was on a few movie sets. So he was

722
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Speaker 6: my mentor throughout. You know, I wouldn't I wouldn't have

723
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Speaker 6: done film and produced and done these things without without John,

724
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Speaker 6: you know, basically being a living example and then helping

725
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Speaker 6: me when I needed it.

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Speaker 5: So how do you even have because most people are

727
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Speaker 5: you become a successful actor. A lot of people just

728
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Speaker 5: stay in that pocket and you could have just been

729
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Speaker 5: a successful actor. But like I said, to go screenwriter, producer,

730
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Speaker 5: and director. I think the first the first thing that

731
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Speaker 5: you wrote was Friday was that.

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Speaker 3: No, No, that's the third third movie I wrote. Uh.

733
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Speaker 3: He he encouraged me to write. He asked me.

734
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Speaker 6: You know, I was sitting in his house one day

735
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Speaker 6: and he was like, YO, when you're gonna write a movie?

736
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Speaker 3: And I'm like, what I said, Man, I'm barely getting

737
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Speaker 3: this actor shit right.

738
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Speaker 6: He said, you expect every script you get to be

739
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Speaker 6: as good as boys in the Hood. That's what he said.

740
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Speaker 6: I'm like, I don't know. I mean, Hollywood is full

741
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 6: of trash. Said if you want to do good movies,

742
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 6: you should write them. So and then he said, yo,

743
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Speaker 6: if you can write a record like the records you write,

744
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 6: you can write a movie. So that kind of gave

745
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Speaker 6: me the encouragement to just start writing. And then he

746
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Speaker 6: would help me. You know, I would taking my scripts,

747
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 6: he would read them. No it was trash, but he

748
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Speaker 6: would help me get better. And I wrote a script

749
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Speaker 6: called America He's Just Young, which is from my old

750
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Speaker 6: Funkadelic record, and then I wrote another one called Full Life,

751
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Speaker 6: and then I wrote Friday with DJ Pooh legend.

752
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Speaker 5: So Friday, you wrote, you wrote that that comes out

753
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Speaker 5: classes that changed the games again. Yeah, so this time

754
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Speaker 5: you got you're a little bit more seasons in Hollywood

755
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Speaker 5: and you actually wrote it. So when you wrote Friday,

756
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757
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Speaker 6: For for for the cool people? You know, I felt like,

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Speaker 6: Had Hood classics, h and I wanted mind, you know,

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Speaker 6: I mean I had boys in the hood, but I

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Speaker 6: wanted my own.

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Speaker 3: So I was, you know, working on that because I was.

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Speaker 6: Like, get a hood classic, then people always gonna like

835
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Speaker 6: this movie and they always gonna hire me as actor

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Speaker 6: if I ever have to, you know, rely on my

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Speaker 6: past to get work in the future. So having a

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Speaker 6: hood classic was was most important.

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Speaker 4: I think you you might be and sorry, maybe you

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Speaker 4: can correct me. You might be the only person with

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Speaker 4: a classic five mic album and a classic movie that's

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Speaker 4: his What do you think that.

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Speaker 3: Ever? Yeah, a classic movie that he that he made

844
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Speaker 3: that he made the movie.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and a classic like well, five mics messed up

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Speaker 4: that you have five mics, that's a fact. And Friday,

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Speaker 4: I mean Boys in the Hood of Lowe was a classic.

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Speaker 4: That's yours. But Frida is yours. Yours?

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Speaker 3: That might be a new thing.

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Speaker 4: I'm so that how long did it take to shot

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Speaker 4: because it was like maybe a couple of days, twenty

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Speaker 4: days to shoe. So as you're right, there is one thing, right,

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Speaker 4: but this business side of it, and we've seen it

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Speaker 4: with production, is you gotta pay these people. Yeah, right,

855
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Speaker 4: So who's teaching you about budgets? Like who you need

856
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Speaker 4: the lighting? Who's teaching you about that?

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Speaker 3: Is John as well.

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Speaker 6: I had a great manager by the name of Pat

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Speaker 6: Sharponay and she's actually a producer on the Friday movie.

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Speaker 3: But between.

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Speaker 6: Her and me, we was just figuring it out, you know,

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Speaker 6: figuring out who we wanted to use to help us

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Speaker 6: here and there, and so we just you know, worked

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Speaker 6: on finding the right crew, you know. But yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 6: it was really you know, her knowledge of the business

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Speaker 6: that that helped us get that movie done in twenty days.

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Speaker 4: So what because it will follow up really quickly because

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Speaker 4: you alluded to the Players Club. Yeah, but out of

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Speaker 4: forty films, it's the only one that you have directed,

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Speaker 4: producer and screenwriter and acted in. Yeah, and did the

871
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Speaker 4: soundtrack and did the soundtrack. I'm wondering because why is

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Speaker 4: that the only one that you did it? Was it

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Speaker 4: something that you saw from the production side that was like, oh,

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Speaker 4: directing side that was like this is a lot.

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Speaker 6: Well, directing kind of takes you out of the game

876
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 6: for about a year, year and a half. You're stuck

877
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 6: on one project, you know, And I didn't want to

878
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 6: be bogged down. So I actually like producing better than directing,

879
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 6: you know. I like to find a director that I

880
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 6: can work with and then produce the movie because I'm

881
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 6: not as bogged down, you know. I can I can

882
00:50:56,320 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 6: actually produce three movies in the same time as I

883
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 6: could direct one. And so I just felt like I

884
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 6: didn't want to. I don't want to be bogged down

885
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 6: like that again to have to you know, I wrote

886
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 6: the movie, so I was I was on that movie forever,

887
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 6: like writing it, then getting it where somebody wanted to

888
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 6: make it, then casting it, shooting it, editing, doing the soundtrack,

889
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 6: you know, putting it out and commentating the DVD and

890
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 6: you know, so since you look up and it's a

891
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 6: long time on one thing instead of doing multiple.

892
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 5: So speaking of the Friday, was there lessons that you know,

893
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 5: because let me if I'm wrong? Was there issues with

894
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 5: Warner brother because they owned the franchise?

895
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 6: Right, Warner Brothers, they are they distribute the franchise. So

896
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 6: they distributed the first one, and it has in the

897
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 6: contract that they have the right to distribute each one.

898
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 5: So what were their issues trying to make more Fridays?

899
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 5: Like they have to approve something before you could actually

900
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 5: make a Friday.

901
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, so talk about that.

902
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:21,760
Speaker 6: Well, we you know, we did the first one and

903
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 6: and I wasn't gonna do another one. After that, they

904
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,879
Speaker 6: approached me, could you want to think? Could you think

905
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 6: of another one? So I said yeah, And then I

906
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 6: approached Chris Tucker. He didn't want to do it. So

907
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, okay, this is kind of throw

908
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 6: a little monkey wrench in the movie. So so we

909
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 6: did it next Friday with Mike Aps. That was great.

910
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 3: People loved it. Then we did Friday at.

911
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 6: The next and then they asked me to write a

912
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:56,280
Speaker 6: fourth one, and I wrote and they they had.

913
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 3: An issue because.

914
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 6: Craig and Day they ends up in jail from selling weed,

915
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 6: you know, and finally end up in jail, and dee

916
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 6: Bo and the Joker Brothers is trying to you know

917
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,240
Speaker 6: what I mean, they in jail too, so they're trying

918
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 6: to you know, trying to you know, stab them up

919
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:21,240
Speaker 6: and shit. So they just was like, Jail's not funny.

920
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 6: You know, nobody, nobody's gonna laugh about being in jail.

921
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 3: I'm like, you ridiculous.

922
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 6: Like then all these movies come out like Oranges New

923
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 6: Black and Let's go to Jail and Life Life and

924
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 6: you know, Get Hard and all this shit, and I'm like, okay,

925
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 6: so y'all definitely don't know what y'are talking about. So

926
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 6: I just kind of, you know, that was in twenty thirteen,

927
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 6: you know, so I just kind of stopped paying attention

928
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 6: to them. Then they asked again, they begged again for

929
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 6: me to write another one.

930
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 3: So I come of, right, one to fit.

931
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 6: This time won't be about jail, and they loved it,

932
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 6: but they just had these little notes that they kept

933
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 6: trying to change things, trying to change it I'm like, dude,

934
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 6: you guys do not know what needs to go on

935
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 6: a Friday movie. Like, stop pretending like you guys are

936
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 6: smart when it comes to this shit. You know what

937
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 6: I mean, I know it, I know it's gonna work.

938
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,800
Speaker 6: I know it's not gonna work. And they just kept

939
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,800
Speaker 6: messing around. No one knows, back and forth, back and forth,

940
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:36,359
Speaker 6: you know, six months of this shit, and then John

941
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 6: Winsbone pass away, So they like just fucked around till

942
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 6: the man passed away and then Tiny passes away A J.

943
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 3: Johnson. It's like the movie we were gonna go back

944
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 3: on the block.

945
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 6: And so you know, I've been trying to get it,

946
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,280
Speaker 6: get control of the franchise.

947
00:54:58,440 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 3: Since then.

948
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 5: So essentially essentially you wrote to you actually wrote two

949
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:07,720
Speaker 5: more Fridays. Yeah, and that's never came out. Yeah obviously.

950
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

951
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 5: So you say you're trying to get control of the franchise.

952
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 5: How do you go about trying to get control of

953
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:12,720
Speaker 5: the franchise?

954
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 6: You know, I mean, of course appealing to their superiors

955
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 6: on you know, their basically sleeping on money.

956
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 3: Is it like a buy out thing? Maybe, like if

957
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 3: you pay you can not. I'm not, I'm not. I'm

958
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 3: not gonna pay for it.

959
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna you know, what they need to do

960
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 6: is let me control and they'll make a lot of money,

961
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 6: but they're not gonna make it.

962
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 3: So you're open to doing another one.

963
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:46,240
Speaker 6: I'm open to saying if another one can be done

964
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 6: while you're doing that, While that's happening, there's still other

965
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 6: franchises being created that you're involved in.

966
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 4: Right, So Barbershop, Yeah, it's right there, you have the

967
00:55:57,719 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 4: Are we there yet?

968
00:55:58,760 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 3: Yeah?

969
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 4: So now like intrusting family households, I wanted what that

970
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 4: experience was like for you, from Boys of the Hood

971
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 4: to that point, Like there's a generation where it's like, oh,

972
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 4: ice Cube, the guy who makes the kid movies like

973
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 4: I grew up, ice Cube was the dude was telling

974
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 4: us that.

975
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, I'm with this, I'm with this.

976
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 3: So how's that transition?

977
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 4: Because we don't see people grow, right, we don't see

978
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 4: our artists grow, we don't see them evolved, and we

979
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 4: don't see them have these moments.

980
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 3: So what was that transition like for you?

981
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 6: It's amazing, you know, to be able to sustain love

982
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 6: and families, and like, once I realized my fans, my

983
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 6: core fans were having kids, and they kids was in

984
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 6: elementary and junior high. I felt like, Okay, it's time

985
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 6: to do something to to make sure I'm still cool

986
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 6: in this household, that household or whatever. The last thing,

987
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 6: I want you to look at your kid and be

988
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 6: like ice cute.

989
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 3: You should you should look him up. He used to

990
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 3: be He used to be cool. You know what I mean.

991
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 3: We used to rock him, you know, he used to

992
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 3: used to use to put this record.

993
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 4: Yeah.

994
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

995
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 6: So I didn't want to be that guy, you know,

996
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 6: I wanted I wanted the kids to know who I was.

997
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 3: So the way to do that.

998
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 6: Is to do a movie that they love, and that's

999
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 6: always gonna get played, like see, are we there yet?

1000
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 6: The kids grow up, they love it, but they outgrow it.

1001
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 6: But then there's always new kids coming up who their

1002
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 6: parents is like, Yo, sick of you bugging me? Stick

1003
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 6: you in front of a movie, put in already there yet?

1004
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 6: So the love is generated, you know what I'm saying.

1005
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 6: With each with each generation that that watched that movie,

1006
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 6: they end up growing up and then they reach a

1007
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 6: point where they discover my music, they discover my my,

1008
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 6: my other movies and stuff. So it's it's a way

1009
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 6: to reach rejuvenate fans and to make sure that that

1010
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 6: the youngsters know who you are and they're not just

1011
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 6: relying on you should have heard death certificate, you know

1012
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 6: what I mean.

1013
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 3: You should have heard today was a good day.

1014
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've done something very unique inside of that too,

1015
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 4: and that's provided opportunities so that that's the first time

1016
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 4: we see Eve in the movie.

1017
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:29,919
Speaker 3: Ye first time we see NICKI humanas in that type

1018
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 3: of throw.

1019
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 4: You were super intentional about that, like, given opportunities to people,

1020
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 4: especially in the reporld.

1021
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 6: If they're great, you know what I mean, if they're good,

1022
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 6: if they if they have a personality that I think

1023
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 6: people want to see more of. Yeah, you know, it's

1024
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 6: really all about being the right person for the role.

1025
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 3: And so.

1026
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,919
Speaker 6: You know, I didn't know they was all gonna work out,

1027
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, never know how it's going

1028
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 6: to be when they when they actually audition or they

1029
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 6: come on set. But yeah, I want to give people

1030
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 6: a shot that that Hollywood may be overlooking.

1031
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 5: So speaking of Hollywood screenwriters, they're on strike right now.

1032
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:18,919
Speaker 5: And this goes back to the Web three conversation where

1033
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 5: somebody told me, you know, I just do I started

1034
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 5: thinking about it, and I'm like, they might not have

1035
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 5: as much leverage this time because of chat GBT, And

1036
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 5: it's like, well, if I can have a computer writer

1037
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 5: script in a day, then I don't necessarily need a screenwriter.

1038
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 3: What's your thoughts on that.

1039
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 6: Well, I think, you know, it's something that's very real

1040
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 6: and it can happen. Yeah, you can have a computer

1041
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 6: write to a script in a day, but you know,

1042
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, will it be as

1043
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 6: as real as a person writing it.

1044
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 3: Will they have that feel to it? Who knows? You know,

1045
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 3: it's it's a new world.

1046
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 6: That's why they don't strike, you know, they want to

1047
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 6: you know, curve it in some ways.

1048
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 3: You know.

1049
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 6: The worst thing is for them to tell the studios

1050
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 6: not to do it, but then they go home and

1051
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 6: do it when.

1052
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:26,439
Speaker 3: It's time for them to turn in that spread. Yeah, so.

1053
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 6: You know, at the end of the day, you know,

1054
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 6: technology is here. Everybody got to make an adjustment. I

1055
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 6: don't know if I want all my entertainment to you know,

1056
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 6: come from an artificial source. You know, I may just

1057
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 6: check out and you know people be scrolling more and

1058
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 6: looking at real stuff.

1059
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 3: You know.

1060
01:00:56,560 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 6: I think that the the hunger for reality is gonna

1061
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 6: start growing as more and more artificial things take over.

1062
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 3: You know. I even think it's a backlash right now with.

1063
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 6: Music music because you have a lot of people using

1064
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 6: auto tunes and they sounding like a computer, and I

1065
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 6: don't know if people are gonna go for that.

1066
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 3: Did you Amban? Yeah? I did. How do you feel

1067
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:27,479
Speaker 3: about it?

1068
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 6: I didn't like it because it's artificial, you know.

1069
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 3: I mean.

1070
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 6: I treated like a sample. You know, I can simpleize

1071
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 6: the Brothers, but not the Brothers. You know, it's just

1072
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 6: a piece of of how great they are. You know,

1073
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 6: it's a sample, it's a portion. It's not the it's

1074
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 6: not the is Brothers. You know, it's my interpretation of that.

1075
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 6: So I guess you look at this like you would

1076
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 6: look at sample.

1077
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1078
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 4: In terms of the movies and writing, there was a

1079
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 4: phase when you did the family comedies like the ones

1080
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 4: we alluded to earlier. You did the Buddy Cops films

1081
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 4: with twenty one Jump Street and twenty two Jump Street.

1082
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 4: I remember watching the original show Holly Robinson right along

1083
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 4: with that.

1084
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 3: Right along with Kevin.

1085
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 4: Is there a genre or a topic that you feel

1086
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 4: like you're headed toward that you haven't done.

1087
01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 3: Yet I think I could do more dramas.

1088
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 6: I mean, I like with the success of my comedies,

1089
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 6: most people shove comedies in my face. Most movies I

1090
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 6: get green litter comedy. So you know, I got some

1091
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 6: dramas in me song.

1092
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 4: What's that process like of getting at greenld So for

1093
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:50,959
Speaker 4: most people, they don't even understand. It's like, you write

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01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:53,439
Speaker 4: the movie, then it's what's the next step I.

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01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 6: Have to get it to You write the movie, polish

1096
01:02:58,040 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 6: it up as tight as you can get it, and

1097
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 6: and you uh, you know, you pitched idea to the people.

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01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 3: You know.

1099
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,360
Speaker 6: You know, I know from being out in Hollywood for

1100
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 6: thirty years, I know people are different studios that you

1101
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 6: could say, hey, I got something. You know we're pitching.

1102
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 6: We're gonna be going around to different studios and telling

1103
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 6: them the idea on this date. You want it, you

1104
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 6: want want me to come in, and so you set

1105
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 6: up a bunch of meetings where you go around town, uh,

1106
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 6: pitching the idea, and you know, people respond to it, Yo,

1107
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 6: we like it, we want it, and then you send

1108
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 6: them the script. The script go through whatever process to

1109
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:46,240
Speaker 6: go through at the studio. I think the marketing team

1110
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 6: has to sign off on it. You know, you don't

1111
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 6: want to do a movie that they can't sell, so

1112
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 6: a lot of different departments sign off on it before

1113
01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 6: it's green lit.

1114
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 3: Green lit means the studio has agreed to make it.

1115
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 6: Everybody has signed off on it, and you need actual signatures.

1116
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 6: And once you get all the signatures, you need the movie.

1117
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 6: You know, they start to spend money and the movie

1118
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 6: is actually green lit. When they start to spend money, do.

1119
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 4: You put the budget how much it's gonna cost to

1120
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 4: make it? Or yeah, they figure it out.

1121
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, you take the script, you get it to a

1122
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:31,520
Speaker 6: line producer, a line producer, he he breaks down how

1123
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 6: much it's gonna cost, how many days it's gonna take

1124
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 6: to shoot, how you know what you need? How many locations,

1125
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 6: and you know, he kind of breaks the script down

1126
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 6: to puzzle pieces and each piece costs a certain amount

1127
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 6: of money to create. So you know, you look up

1128
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 6: and it's like, yo, for this much money, you can

1129
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 6: shoot thirty days because it costs you know, one thirtieth

1130
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:05,439
Speaker 6: per day, you know what I mean?

1131
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 3: And so.

1132
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 6: Depends on how much it costs per day, that's how

1133
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 6: many days you got to shoot, on how much your

1134
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 6: budget is.

1135
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

1136
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 6: So it costs a million dollars a day, and you

1137
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 6: got thirty million dollars, you got thirty days to shoot.

1138
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 5: So sports and activism has always kind of gone hand

1139
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 5: in hand in the black community, from John Collis at

1140
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 5: the Olympics, Muhammad Ali to modern day Klan Kaepernick to

1141
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 5: Kyrie Irvan. You have been very vocal as an activist

1142
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:41,240
Speaker 5: for a long period of time in a variety of

1143
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:44,600
Speaker 5: different political situations that you take apart. Now you're actually

1144
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 5: an owner of sports league, So what's your thoughts on

1145
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 5: players taking social stances and what's your thoughts in general

1146
01:05:53,320 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 5: on sports and political activision, racial different things coming coming together, Like,

1147
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 5: what's your thoughts on that, Because a lot of people

1148
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 5: think that should be separate. Some people think that they

1149
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:05,760
Speaker 5: should go hand in hand.

1150
01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 3: Like, what's your thoughts. I think nobody want to see

1151
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 3: robots play.

1152
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 6: If that's the case, then you know, everybody would be

1153
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 6: creating their own Lebron James robot.

1154
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 3: You know, so nobody want to see robots play.

1155
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 6: Some human beings with opinions, you know, do I want

1156
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 6: you shouting out anything political in the middle of a

1157
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 6: jump shot? But before well, before and after the game.

1158
01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 3: Man, they put a mic in your face. You got

1159
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 3: the mic.

1160
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:47,440
Speaker 6: I'm I come from a from a culture of you

1161
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:53,200
Speaker 6: got the mic, Use it, you know, and you could

1162
01:06:53,280 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 6: change somebody's attitude. You know, you could change somebody's thought process.

1163
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 3: If they hear from the right person. You know.

1164
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 6: I remember different people coming up to my school and speaking,

1165
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 6: and some people I paid attention to, some people I didn't.

1166
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 6: It depends on how much did I like them, respect them,

1167
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:21,840
Speaker 6: understand what they was about.

1168
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 3: So sometimes it takes.

1169
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 6: An athlete to get the message across more than a

1170
01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:33,480
Speaker 6: politician or teacher or preacher or whatever. So you know,

1171
01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:40,120
Speaker 6: everybody should be able to voice their opinion depend you know,

1172
01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:43,040
Speaker 6: it don't depend. I mean, it don't matter if they

1173
01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:44,440
Speaker 6: played a sport or not.

1174
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 5: Would they be Throughout your career, you've pretty much done

1175
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 5: a variety of different things, from speaking out against the police,

1176
01:07:55,760 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 5: political issues, acting, rapping sports is anything that you feel uncomfortable,

1177
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:04,840
Speaker 5: like I don't want to like this is not my lane,

1178
01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:06,320
Speaker 5: because it seems like everything is your lane.

1179
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 3: Like, is it anything where it's like I'm staying away

1180
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 3: from this?

1181
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's plenty of things, you know, I just want

1182
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 6: to do what I feel like I could be. I

1183
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 6: can be additive, you know what I mean, be good

1184
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 6: at I don't want to I don't want to take

1185
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 6: away now. I don't want to just do stuff because

1186
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:31,680
Speaker 6: I can. I want to do it when I know

1187
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:37,840
Speaker 6: I could do a good job. And so I you know,

1188
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 6: I do a lot, but I make sure that I

1189
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:43,719
Speaker 6: don't do too much where I can do a good job.

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01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 3: You know. The last thing is, you know, just saying.

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01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 6: Jack of all trades, master of none is still better

1192
01:08:57,240 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 6: than being a master of one. But I don't want

1193
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 6: to do so many things that that that my music

1194
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:10,880
Speaker 6: or my acting or the sports starts to diminish because

1195
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:13,959
Speaker 6: I'm just spinning too many plates.

1196
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:16,759
Speaker 5: Now, jack of all trades, a master of none is better.

1197
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 5: I've never heard anybody say that before. I never heard

1198
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 5: the second part, second part. You know, people forget the

1199
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:22,759
Speaker 5: second part.

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01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:24,760
Speaker 6: They always say, you don't want to be a jack

1201
01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 6: of all trades and a master of none, but it's

1202
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:31,000
Speaker 6: still being It's still better than being a master of one.

1203
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 6: So I don't want to do everything. But you don't

1204
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:38,519
Speaker 6: want to just single out to just one thing too either,

1205
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 6: So I think it's about balance.

1206
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 3: It's about knowing when you've reached your limit.

1207
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 6: And I want to learn about a game and understand

1208
01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 6: it before I get in it. Anyway, So I'm always

1209
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:57,439
Speaker 6: you know, I want to respect the game before I

1210
01:09:57,479 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 6: get in it, because if now you're going to lose, I.

1211
01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:04,160
Speaker 4: Won't go back to nineteen ninety one, the line was

1212
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,240
Speaker 4: either they don't know, don't show, don't give a funk

1213
01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 4: about what's going on in the hood.

1214
01:10:08,479 --> 01:10:08,679
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1215
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 4: More important than the line, which is very important, was

1216
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 4: a shirt that you were wearing, Let's said Crenshaw on it,

1217
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 4: that sparked a movement inside of a young man we

1218
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:23,559
Speaker 4: know now it's the late Dipsey Hustle. I wonder what

1219
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:26,720
Speaker 4: your thoughts were when you saw the impact that that

1220
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:30,000
Speaker 4: shirt had on this community and obviously on him and

1221
01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:31,840
Speaker 4: the whole marathon brand.

1222
01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:38,120
Speaker 6: I didn't really make too much of it because the shirt,

1223
01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 6: you know, and Crenshaw has had a profound impact on me,

1224
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,160
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So it's hard to look

1225
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:54,559
Speaker 6: and say, yeah, I did that when when I was

1226
01:10:54,880 --> 01:11:00,639
Speaker 6: affected the same way. You know the area he used

1227
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:04,519
Speaker 6: to you know, it was boulevard where you know, people

1228
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 6: would go hang out with their cars, They women, they music,

1229
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:14,600
Speaker 6: and so to be able to just even highlight that

1230
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 6: area on film was you know, I felt honored, you

1231
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 6: know what I mean? So anybody taking that and running

1232
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:25,800
Speaker 6: with it, you know, to me was was was I

1233
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:29,719
Speaker 6: honored that I'll bestorm John instead of myself.

1234
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 3: So did you do you watch No Fall? The show? Nah?

1235
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 3: I couldn't watch No Fall. Why couldn't you watch it?

1236
01:11:38,080 --> 01:11:42,840
Speaker 6: Because John? You know, John wasn't there the complete division.

1237
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 4: The reason I asked is because the last scene, well

1238
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 4: the last year, the last scene that part. I was

1239
01:11:50,120 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 4: wondering how how you interpreted because it was kind of

1240
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 4: an old boys in the hood. He's walking through the

1241
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:57,400
Speaker 4: alley that reminded me of the alley that Ricky was

1242
01:11:57,439 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 4: running down. Yeah, you want to see a dead body, right,

1243
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:01,960
Speaker 4: you want to see that body and the filming boys

1244
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:03,679
Speaker 4: of the Hood as they're doing it, So it felt

1245
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 4: like an old to Johns I was thinking about how

1246
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:08,320
Speaker 4: you know your thoughtsbout it because you were involved in

1247
01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 4: that movie, and obviously John was the creator of Snowfall.

1248
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 3: I thought it was an amazing.

1249
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:17,560
Speaker 6: They call it the Easter Egg or whatever, an amazing

1250
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,880
Speaker 6: homage and and tribute to John.

1251
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:23,639
Speaker 3: And and.

1252
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:30,800
Speaker 6: We probably had some people around there screaming, you know

1253
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 6: what y'all making what y'all doing. I mean, I didn't

1254
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:38,640
Speaker 6: like him yelling you ain't gonna win the oscar, but

1255
01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:43,640
Speaker 6: silly niggas yell that ships at all. But but for

1256
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:45,960
Speaker 6: the most part, I thought it was real cool. I

1257
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 6: thought it was a great way that to put a

1258
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 6: cherry on top and and make you know, John's you know,

1259
01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 6: vision somewhat full circle because he's always seen you.

1260
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:00,639
Speaker 3: Know, we saw.

1261
01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:06,240
Speaker 6: Boys in the Hood and Poetic Justice and Baby Boy

1262
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:12,840
Speaker 6: as a trilogy, and and so you know, this was

1263
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:17,799
Speaker 6: his you know, weekly crack at it, so to speak.

1264
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 6: So you know, I wish he was able to that

1265
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 6: it was his vision throughout the whole series, but that

1266
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:29,440
Speaker 6: but that ending was real classy.

1267
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:32,680
Speaker 5: Is TV more challenging then because you've done TV like

1268
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 5: to Is TV more challenging in the movie or I.

1269
01:13:35,320 --> 01:13:41,520
Speaker 6: Think so because with TV you gotta you gotta basically

1270
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:46,720
Speaker 6: create a movie every week with a movie just you know,

1271
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:50,719
Speaker 6: it's a one shot deal. And so I think TV

1272
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:53,479
Speaker 6: it's harder to keep up with that pace.

1273
01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 3: Before we leave, I just gotta ask a couple of

1274
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:56,719
Speaker 3: rap questions.

1275
01:13:56,880 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 5: Yes, it's fitting because the last time we was here,

1276
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:03,240
Speaker 5: I asked Baron Davis the same the same exact question.

1277
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 5: So I'll be interested to get your take on it.

1278
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 5: Your top five rappers from l.

1279
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:22,320
Speaker 6: A Wow, from l A. I got some cold rappers

1280
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 6: out here. I don't miss nobody, you know, I like, uh.

1281
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:30,360
Speaker 5: M hmm.

1282
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 3: Can we claim corrupt? Yeah? Yes, sure, sure, sure, my love.

1283
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:39,920
Speaker 3: I can't put them in order though, that's fine, That's fine.

1284
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:43,679
Speaker 3: I love corrupt. Okay. I think you wanted the coldest

1285
01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:47,439
Speaker 3: and it could be surrounding areas calmed in Long Beach.

1286
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:56,240
Speaker 6: Kendrick is cold, Okay, the game is cold.

1287
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 3: Rass cast interesting choice. M hm.

1288
01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 6: Crooked Eye, no Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg is a superstar

1289
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 6: on all level. You're rhyme in pure rap.

1290
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:19,880
Speaker 3: Grab the mics bars? You know those as oppose to me?

1291
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 8: Are?

1292
01:15:21,240 --> 01:15:21,479
Speaker 3: You know?

1293
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:26,679
Speaker 4: Are the bars? I'm gonna make something even more general.

1294
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:30,679
Speaker 4: It's fifty years of hip hop, right if we're putting

1295
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 4: the playlist together with the five songs that have to

1296
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:36,320
Speaker 4: be in the fifty the fifty years of about what

1297
01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 4: are some of the five greatest sauce?

1298
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 3: I will put the breaks? Okay, uh rappers delight.

1299
01:15:48,720 --> 01:16:00,799
Speaker 8: Okay, the show classic, damn down.

1300
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:01,840
Speaker 3: To two fingers left.

1301
01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 6: I ain't even left the eighties yet.

1302
01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 3: Mhm.

1303
01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:25,320
Speaker 6: Wow, man, this is it's hard after that, like, wow, man,

1304
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 6: the last too.

1305
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 4: I cannot put one in go for it in my

1306
01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 4: top fifty. Yeah, today is a good day?

1307
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:33,320
Speaker 6: Is in the okay, all right, no problem, Like I

1308
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 6: know you're gonna be humbly speaking, I ain't gonna I

1309
01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 6: ain't gonna put that one in fifty. I appreciate those things, man,

1310
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:41,599
Speaker 6: I appreciate that that plays forever.

1311
01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:44,639
Speaker 3: It's one of those songs. It's like summertime for Smith.

1312
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:46,599
Speaker 3: But it's so many.

1313
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:53,519
Speaker 6: It's like, you know, treated right, God, damn uh, it's

1314
01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:54,920
Speaker 6: like it's so many.

1315
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:58,559
Speaker 3: It's tough. It's too many. It's too many.

1316
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:03,160
Speaker 6: Man, it's just like, yeah, it's too many that it's

1317
01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 6: too many many.

1318
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:06,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, him, it might be an easier one.

1319
01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:09,640
Speaker 5: I know you're obviously in a much more positive like

1320
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:11,840
Speaker 5: these things, but it's important to the culture. I think

1321
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 5: when you spar with your opponent, right, it's a core

1322
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:17,880
Speaker 5: element of hip hop. Yeah, you have one of the

1323
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:22,280
Speaker 5: top battle songs ever, the top, the top, the tip.

1324
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:26,799
Speaker 3: What's your top five? He said? The top no Vascilina

1325
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:29,479
Speaker 3: is the top battle song ever, and it's not even close.

1326
01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 3: It's not even close. All right now, yeah, so all right,

1327
01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 3: so what's the top five.

1328
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:38,519
Speaker 5: No Vascillina's number one for you, what's the top four

1329
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,880
Speaker 5: other than that battle songs?

1330
01:17:41,120 --> 01:17:45,080
Speaker 3: I mean I would go with, you know, hit him

1331
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 3: Up is good? Ether is is dope.

1332
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 4: I would go with, uh, your eighties got, uh, your

1333
01:17:59,520 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 4: eighties got.

1334
01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:04,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm not saying he's got you try I got.

1335
01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:15,240
Speaker 6: Oh man, I'm gonna have to go with uh, the

1336
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 6: bridge is over, that's what that's what we go and uh,

1337
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 6: I don't know.

1338
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:27,720
Speaker 3: I think I gotta go with let's go, let's go.

1339
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:32,680
Speaker 3: What was Let's go again? D d No? Takeover? Take

1340
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:36,599
Speaker 3: over or back to back, back to back is done

1341
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 3: to is serious? Yeah? That became like a number one record.

1342
01:18:40,240 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 4: Yeah it was Grammy not baby.

1343
01:18:44,320 --> 01:18:47,080
Speaker 3: I think he got one too. What was that? Uh?

1344
01:18:47,360 --> 01:18:53,880
Speaker 3: Back down ricky? Now? Back down was back down? Crazy? Yes?

1345
01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:57,759
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, but I don't think it's as strong as

1346
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 5: like takeovers that's in the five.

1347
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:04,400
Speaker 3: But ether no, I would say no Vasseline and ether

1348
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 3: I'm surprised his why it's no vassaline, you know, argue

1349
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:09,000
Speaker 3: this with us.

1350
01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 6: One took our poem c's and the manager.

1351
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 3: Can't beat that. Takeover?

1352
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:23,360
Speaker 4: Well, no Ether Ether took out a record a record

1353
01:19:23,439 --> 01:19:26,519
Speaker 4: label that took him out, put him on a pause.

1354
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:30,759
Speaker 4: I have to rearrange some things. I broke up a group.

1355
01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 6: You did that was kind of the temple getting at

1356
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 6: the end for Rufus, it was.

1357
01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:41,559
Speaker 3: All right, so no vascil I guess like both does right?

1358
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:44,360
Speaker 3: They came back. Yeah, bomb things was incredible. Do you

1359
01:19:44,439 --> 01:19:46,599
Speaker 3: do you miss that element of hip hop?

1360
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:47,960
Speaker 5: Like I said, I mean, of course nobody wants to

1361
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,280
Speaker 5: see violence and stuff like that, But do you miss

1362
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:52,840
Speaker 5: the element because there's still people beef in each other now,

1363
01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:55,719
Speaker 5: but now it's it's real beef, Like, do you miss

1364
01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:58,800
Speaker 5: the element of people actually making because it's not easy

1365
01:19:58,840 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 5: to make a song about somebody you got think you

1366
01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:01,480
Speaker 5: got the research.

1367
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:03,680
Speaker 3: Like cannabis is up there as well. Second d No,

1368
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:08,200
Speaker 3: you can't forget about that. That's that's up there. Yeah, okay, okay,

1369
01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:15,680
Speaker 3: do you miss that part of hip hop? I don't know.

1370
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:18,200
Speaker 3: You know, it's like it's like fighting.

1371
01:20:18,720 --> 01:20:23,519
Speaker 6: You know, it's cool when somebody else is fighting you watch,

1372
01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 6: but when you're in the fight, you don't know where

1373
01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:27,000
Speaker 6: it's really gonna go.

1374
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:29,720
Speaker 3: I don't know how cool you feel. It's like that.

1375
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:33,240
Speaker 6: It's kind of like you're putting, you know, not only

1376
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:37,680
Speaker 6: yourself but your crew in some kind of you know,

1377
01:20:39,479 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 6: possible danger, you know what I mean. You don't know

1378
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 6: how out of hand it's ever gonna get. And usually

1379
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 6: the people battling or going at it like that on

1380
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:52,840
Speaker 6: the record, it's serious. Before they get a chance to

1381
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 6: have a conversation, sometime they can squash it.

1382
01:20:56,880 --> 01:21:00,360
Speaker 4: You compare the making movies to making TV. You're saying

1383
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 4: like they're making a movie every week. I wonder what

1384
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 4: that's like for you, especially while you were creating these franchises.

1385
01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 4: The process of writing a movie as opposed to writing

1386
01:21:08,240 --> 01:21:11,080
Speaker 4: an album, is it the same creative mind flow? Like,

1387
01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 4: what's that process?

1388
01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 3: Well? Was it like for you?

1389
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:14,560
Speaker 8: No?

1390
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:19,439
Speaker 3: I you know, writing a movie is you know.

1391
01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 6: I looked at it kind of like a hobby. You know,

1392
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:26,760
Speaker 6: it's like my downtime. I may I may be out

1393
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:31,200
Speaker 6: of town, I may be on a movie and just bored,

1394
01:21:31,479 --> 01:21:34,519
Speaker 6: like in my dressing room, like in my trailer. So

1395
01:21:34,600 --> 01:21:40,080
Speaker 6: I'll start writing just to be creative and not just

1396
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:42,439
Speaker 6: have a lot of dead space with a record.

1397
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:44,200
Speaker 3: You know, I'm I gotta beat.

1398
01:21:44,439 --> 01:21:49,799
Speaker 6: I'm like, you know, I'm I want kind of instant

1399
01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:52,400
Speaker 6: satisfaction with a movie. I know it's like this is

1400
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:57,000
Speaker 6: a long drawn out process, so I just kind of

1401
01:21:57,040 --> 01:21:59,479
Speaker 6: take a different approach the music.

1402
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:01,599
Speaker 3: You know, you want you.

1403
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 6: Want to hear something, record something, and you want it

1404
01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:06,160
Speaker 6: to be dope when it come out to speaker, Like

1405
01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:11,640
Speaker 6: you need that shit. Like if it's not sounding good immediately,

1406
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:16,880
Speaker 6: you start to you know, either break it back down

1407
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:21,200
Speaker 6: or change things or just you know, you got to

1408
01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:23,719
Speaker 6: get it to that process. You gotta get it sounding

1409
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 6: good immediately.

1410
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:28,040
Speaker 5: I got two more music questions for you before we finish.

1411
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:33,720
Speaker 5: It's very important versus would you do it?

1412
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 3: Versus? And who would you?

1413
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:39,719
Speaker 5: Who do you think is the ideal dancing partner, Because

1414
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:42,760
Speaker 5: how I look at versus, it's not always like this

1415
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:44,320
Speaker 5: is the best person, this is the best person. They

1416
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:46,320
Speaker 5: got to kind of compliment each other, like, yeah, a

1417
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:48,240
Speaker 5: good dancing partner, Like I don't think two chains in

1418
01:22:48,320 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 5: Rick Ross was a good pairing, not from a skill standpoint,

1419
01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:54,240
Speaker 5: but it just it wasn't a good dancing partner. TI

1420
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:56,320
Speaker 5: and Rick Ross is probably a better dancing partner. So

1421
01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:58,720
Speaker 5: how you feel about would you do it versus? And

1422
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:01,479
Speaker 5: if so, who would you want to versus? I wouldn't

1423
01:23:01,520 --> 01:23:05,719
Speaker 5: do it versus, But I think me and LLL would

1424
01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:08,840
Speaker 5: be a great versus. Why wouldn't you do it versus?

1425
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:10,840
Speaker 5: We both can grip and rip, you know what I'm saying.

1426
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 5: We both grabbed the mic and spit it, and we

1427
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:19,880
Speaker 5: both can perform our songs, So I think it'd be great.

1428
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:20,679
Speaker 3: We both got.

1429
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 6: Hits, and you know he got a lot of hits.

1430
01:23:28,080 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 6: I said, he got a lot of hits, So I

1431
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 6: just think it'd be a good one. But I wouldn't

1432
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 6: do it. Why not because I respect him too much.

1433
01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 6: I can't go against LLL.

1434
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:38,639
Speaker 3: But it don't have to be a battle. It could

1435
01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:41,080
Speaker 3: be like because earlier how it was not gonna be like.

1436
01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:44,040
Speaker 5: It wasn't always dip Set and Locks turned it into

1437
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 5: the battle, But before that it was just because even

1438
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:47,080
Speaker 5: ghost Face and Rays.

1439
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:47,840
Speaker 3: Did a versus together.

1440
01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 5: Like before the dip set and Locks, it was more

1441
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 5: so like complimenting each other play a song. It was

1442
01:23:53,439 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 5: very friendly. Once Jada Kids got up there and took

1443
01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:57,559
Speaker 5: Santana's Ben dan Off.

1444
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:03,880
Speaker 3: Has it been at the end of the Yeah, that's like, yeah, no,

1445
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:06,800
Speaker 3: I'm good. All right.

1446
01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:09,360
Speaker 5: Well, my last questions the question how do you feel

1447
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 5: about artists selling their catalogs and would you sell your catalog?

1448
01:24:16,120 --> 01:24:17,600
Speaker 6: I think, you know, you got to do what you

1449
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:21,680
Speaker 6: feel is right for yourself and your family. You know,

1450
01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:26,120
Speaker 6: at the time, I don't think I would sell my

1451
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:32,560
Speaker 6: catalog because I think it's uh man, it's a valuable

1452
01:24:34,120 --> 01:24:42,479
Speaker 6: piece to our puzzle and my estate, my kids, my family.

1453
01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:47,439
Speaker 6: You know, once you sell it, then you know, you

1454
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 6: do something with that money.

1455
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 3: And then you you kind of lose out on what

1456
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 3: ownership is all about. You know.

1457
01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:59,120
Speaker 6: I love when people call me and be like, yo,

1458
01:24:59,160 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 6: we want to put this song in this movie here,

1459
01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:05,479
Speaker 6: And it's like, you know, that's the reason you own

1460
01:25:05,520 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 6: a song or own your publishing, to be able to

1461
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:10,759
Speaker 6: grant that and get that extra money.

1462
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's part of the game.

1463
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 4: You talked about family, talked about the state. I wonder

1464
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:20,559
Speaker 4: what it's like watching your son established himself as an

1465
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:21,759
Speaker 4: actor in this field?

1466
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:22,760
Speaker 3: Amazing?

1467
01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, who else could play you in

1468
01:25:25,280 --> 01:25:27,360
Speaker 4: the movie Budgets and he killed that?

1469
01:25:27,479 --> 01:25:28,600
Speaker 3: So what is that like?

1470
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:31,000
Speaker 4: Because most people we see in music their children want

1471
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:33,479
Speaker 4: to do music and sometimes the works.

1472
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:35,720
Speaker 3: Sometimes it doesn't just follows you an actor. How's that?

1473
01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:37,960
Speaker 3: How's that been? It's been great. You know.

1474
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:42,759
Speaker 6: I couldn't have like, you know, written out a better script,

1475
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:45,400
Speaker 6: you know, for what to happen the way it did.

1476
01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:50,240
Speaker 6: And the fact that he's not only you know, taking

1477
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:53,680
Speaker 6: that role, but he's he's run with his career. You know,

1478
01:25:53,760 --> 01:25:57,280
Speaker 6: he's in Spain right now doing then the Thieves too.

1479
01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:01,680
Speaker 6: And you know, as a bother, you just want your

1480
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:04,200
Speaker 6: kids to be good kids and then you want them

1481
01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:07,960
Speaker 6: to do something cool that they did. And uh, I

1482
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:10,840
Speaker 6: think he's he loving life right now, you know, he

1483
01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:15,439
Speaker 6: loving life. So proud of him, man, and proud of

1484
01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:18,799
Speaker 6: all my kids. You know, all my kids are great people.

1485
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:21,479
Speaker 6: And that's that's you know, that's what you want at

1486
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:23,000
Speaker 6: the end of the day. You know, as long as

1487
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 6: I ain't raising no no jail birds and no dope heads.

1488
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:29,240
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I'm happy. How long you've

1489
01:26:29,240 --> 01:26:34,120
Speaker 3: been married, been married for right now it's about thirty

1490
01:26:34,160 --> 01:26:36,519
Speaker 3: one years going to thirty one years. How has that

1491
01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:40,200
Speaker 3: impacted your career? I'm sure.

1492
01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:42,519
Speaker 5: I Mean people don't really talk about that a lot

1493
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:46,679
Speaker 5: but how that family having the stability in your family,

1494
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:48,920
Speaker 5: How important was that for you to be.

1495
01:26:48,880 --> 01:26:51,080
Speaker 3: Able to achieve the levels of success that you've been

1496
01:26:51,120 --> 01:26:51,799
Speaker 3: able to achieve.

1497
01:26:52,160 --> 01:26:54,640
Speaker 6: Wouldn't wouldn't be able to do it without without the

1498
01:26:54,720 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 6: family support and without being a family man. You know,

1499
01:27:01,479 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 6: I just think about all the time that that could

1500
01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:12,160
Speaker 6: have been wasted, that I ended up really staying focused

1501
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 6: because I didn't have those distractions that I've seen some

1502
01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:20,639
Speaker 6: of my peers have, and so, you know, it's been

1503
01:27:21,200 --> 01:27:23,600
Speaker 6: an essential part of me being able to do so

1504
01:27:23,720 --> 01:27:28,559
Speaker 6: many things and do them at a high level. You know,

1505
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:31,360
Speaker 6: if I was just running around, you know, I probably

1506
01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:33,200
Speaker 6: wouldn't get get most of that shit done.

1507
01:27:34,720 --> 01:27:39,120
Speaker 3: Que appreciate your time, brother much respect. How can it?

1508
01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:43,439
Speaker 5: When will the Big Three be airing again? How can

1509
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:44,880
Speaker 5: people get information? Anything else?

1510
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:46,840
Speaker 3: You want to let the people know before check us

1511
01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:47,880
Speaker 3: out The Big Three?

1512
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:51,439
Speaker 6: We're gonna be back for season six starting June twenty

1513
01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:57,160
Speaker 6: fifth on CBS. We starting down in Chicago all summer

1514
01:27:57,200 --> 01:28:01,880
Speaker 6: long from June twenty fifth to August twenty six, every weekend,

1515
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:03,519
Speaker 6: either Saturday or Sunday.

1516
01:28:03,920 --> 01:28:06,880
Speaker 5: You can check out The Big Three on CBS. Yes,

1517
01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:10,799
Speaker 5: and I heard you got a celebrity All Star game. Yeah,

1518
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:12,920
Speaker 5: y'all ready to get down in it.

1519
01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:17,800
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just think d C. Yeah, y'all ready, when

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Speaker 3: is it?

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Speaker 6: It's uh, it's was a week before the twenty six

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01:28:22,520 --> 01:28:25,720
Speaker 6: What is that? We're gonna put it in the calendar nineteenth

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01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:28,839
Speaker 6: August nineteenth, put it in the calendar.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Man, the Gallon Wallow n Eli Chopper. You know they

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01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:37,200
Speaker 6: he can really the ball.

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01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:39,280
Speaker 3: I've seen them play. Yeah ball.

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01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:42,000
Speaker 6: So we'll love to how y'all come back here and

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01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 6: show you what you know? That's what he show us

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01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:45,720
Speaker 6: what you got now.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you, brother, thank you, and thank you for

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01:28:49,320 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 5: you know, being a shining light for us, you know,

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01:28:53,439 --> 01:28:56,120
Speaker 5: watching from voys in the hood talking about gentrification thirty

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01:28:56,200 --> 01:28:59,000
Speaker 5: years ago, to not being afraid to be political, to

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01:28:59,479 --> 01:29:01,880
Speaker 5: you know, doing in the movies, to being an entrepreneur

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01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:04,759
Speaker 5: to provide an information. Game is something that I think

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01:29:05,360 --> 01:29:08,160
Speaker 5: a lot of people have gained a lot of insight

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01:29:08,240 --> 01:29:12,040
Speaker 5: from inspiration, motivation, and education. So that's something that is

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01:29:12,080 --> 01:29:14,479
Speaker 5: extremely important. So thank you for everything that you've done

1540
01:29:14,560 --> 01:29:16,080
Speaker 5: for the culture in the world.

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01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:20,120
Speaker 6: Appreciated man, you know much love. Just thanks for everybody

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01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 6: for all the support.

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01:29:21,720 --> 01:29:21,920
Speaker 3: Uh.

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01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 6: You know, you can't do this kind of stuff without

1545
01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:27,599
Speaker 6: the people, you know, supporting and showing you that they

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01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:32,160
Speaker 6: appreciated and they want more. And so you know, I've

1547
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 6: had so many people motivate me, so to be able

1548
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:39,880
Speaker 6: to motivate you know, anybody from what I'm doing, you know,

1549
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:44,200
Speaker 6: is just a blessing that comes off of, you know,

1550
01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:46,280
Speaker 6: putting your putting your head down and working hard.

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01:29:46,320 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 3: You know. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, yeah, ya.

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01:29:53,160 --> 01:29:57,360
Speaker 6: My graduates from my school being forced bad drop.

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01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 3: Might drop trust.

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01:30:11,840 --> 01:30:15,519
Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

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01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:19,360
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador

1556
01:30:19,600 --> 01:30:23,720
Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas. Man of Venezuelan charged with

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01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:27,680
Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just

1558
01:30:27,800 --> 01:30:31,559
Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President

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Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States

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Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, Attempted illegal border

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01:30:40,000 --> 01:30:43,559
Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over

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01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:46,840
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you

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01:30:46,920 --> 01:30:50,759
Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly

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01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will

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01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:58,559
Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home

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01:30:58,600 --> 01:31:01,960
Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.

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01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump America's laws,

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01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:09,679
Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.

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Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,