WEBVTT - Conversations About Going Against The Grain 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.440 Watch up and welcome back to another episode of No 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:15.200 Sinners Podcast with your host Now, fuck that with your load, glasses, maloney, dog, 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.479 what's the deal? Tell me? 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:18.880 I don't know what what what the hell are we 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:19.600 doing here today? 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.720 You know what? Someone was on my mind. I saw 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:33.040 this dope ass me and it was a really amazing me. Uh. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:39.520 It's a picture because of a candle, right, it's it's 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.360 it's a it's a community of candles and they shaped 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.639 like humans, right, but they're candles. That their head is candles, 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:52.040 and they're headed to a podium where somebody is hanging. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:57.200 And the man that's actually taking it's a man that's 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:01.200 his head is like a light bulb, and he's going 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.720 to the place where people get hung at that the 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:09.440 hangman is taking him over there, and and the hangman 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.160 is taking him up there as everybody the candles look 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:19.319 on sure sure and that that picture really resonated with me, 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:26.360 like because I felt like this almost my whole life. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:36.360 I tweeted the picture on my Twitter at g Malone 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.560 and somebody said, man, glasses, is that really what it is? 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:45.039 Or do you just be going against the grain? And 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:47.800 it goes back to some of you always joke with 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.600 me and like man trolling, and it blows me away 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.680 that people don't realize, like I don't believe in like 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.960 going against the grain. Like every time I say something 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:02.080 and people don't get what I'm saying, it's really frustrating 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.480 and it's hella lonely. It's like I could have a 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:10.520 conversation with somebody, right, like my top five favorite, excuse me, 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.520 not the top my top five favorite. Like I look 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.959 at professional sports, let's say basketball, by what you accomplished 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:21.120 as a professional. What all of the things you accomplished 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:27.400 as a professional basketball player in the league? Right, you know, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.799 how did you do as a rookie? Did you make 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.200 the All Star? Did you lead in any league that 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.360 you know categories? Did you make any all NBA teams? 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:41.239 Did you win any league you know individual awards? Did 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:47.640 you win a championship? Did you win any accomplishments extra 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.480 because you guys won a championship like a finals MVP. Right, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.000 So I kind of go through these mathematical processes to 0:02:55.080 --> 0:03:01.200 really decide who's like how I would rank it, right, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.239 Like for example, Tim Duncan is the greatest power forward 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.840 to me of all time. You had the greatest NBA 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.880 career of all power forwards. The second one would be 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:15.480 Dennis Rodman, the third one would be Gianni's Antetokunpo, the 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.240 fourth one would be Kevin Garnett, and the fifth one 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.920 would be Dirt Mayo. This is all not taking Bob 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:25.880 Pettitt into thought, right, as you know. But people hear 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:30.880 me say Rodman as the second best power forward right, 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.919 which to me would make him a top ten all 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:39.680 time NBA player, right. Because NBA is played in teams, 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.960 it's five man there's no one on one. So I 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.600 always look at the best five like the best five 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.560 starting in a position, because nobody plays on one on one. 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.000 If I try to make the league one on one 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.400 who I thought was better, it wouldn't take into account 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.120 anything but my ignorance in what could happen in a 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.800 one on one basketball game because no body is playing 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.640 each other in one on one. It's only a team sport. 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.040 But this is Math saying this to me. Math said that. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.480 So when I say the best five NBA players of 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:15.800 all time is Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Lebron, James Tim Duncan, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.919 Bill Russell, is because those five guys accomplish the most 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.720 as an NBA player from those positions. The second five 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:34.920 would be Steph Curry, Kobe Bryant, Larry Bird, Dennis Robin, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.400 and Kareem Abdujabbor. But people hear the term, they hear 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:43.599 Dennis Robman's name, and most people immediately disagree because he 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.680 doesn't score a ton of points. And then you'll hear 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.760 this traditional argument of oh, you know, well, you know 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.400 his offense, and I'm like, well, he's the greatest offensive rebounder, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.920 you know, considered the greatest offensive rebounder in the modern era. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:08.360 Sure that's offense. Yeah, Like you would look at kreemab 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.840 du Jabbar scoring thirty points a game, and you wouldn't 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.599 care that he averaged three assists. Who the fuck cares 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.840 he averages thirty points. Well, if a guy is averaging 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.560 seven assists, I mean, excuse, excuse me seven offensive rebounds, 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:27.200 that's like nobody fucking does that. Yeah, not not in 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.279 the modern era of hoops. Nobody's averaging seven offensive rebounds 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.880 a game. Like, if you go back into the nineteen 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:38.640 ninety six finals, I think Dennis Rodman broke the offensive 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.520 rebounding per game record two or three times. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:51.679 Sure, he also broke the underhand outlet pass record several times. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:58.880 Right, So I look at his defense, I think Defensive 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.560 Player of the Year. Like I've done enough math to understand. 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.320 Since the invention of the Defensive Player award, the MVP 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:10.320 has gone to an offensive situation. If you understand, the 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:15.440 NBA values offense, right, because that's what selles seats. Ninety 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.640 five ninety eight percent of the time, they're going to 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.800 pick the offensive player that has the greatest highlights in 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.720 the NBA at the time for the most part. But 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.000 there's no true way to pick it. But the math 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.960 gives me the consistency to think. You know, I wager 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.200 on the math that has already been proven, and that's 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.400 how I come up with my thoughts. So I can 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.440 look at a Dennis Ridman, who is a two time 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.760 Defensive Player of the Year, mind you, on teams that 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.800 are the number one defensive teams in the NBA, not 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.760 not all the time the number one offensive teams, but 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.440 pretty much ninety nine percent of the times, they're going 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.680 to be the number one defensive Player of the year 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.960 with one of the best defensive players of all time. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.040 For sure, He's been the best defensive player on every 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.960 team he's been on, and every team he's been on 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.000 has had a top two or three defense, if not 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.360 number one, they may have a number eleven offense, like 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.000 the Pistons, did you know what I mean? Or the 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.960 Bulls where you know the second and third year, they 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.440 might have had a number four offense, right, but they 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.240 had the number one defense. So I can see his 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.400 impact on the court. But it's not because I'm a 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.680 fan of Dennis Robbin. It's because mathematically I value offense 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.440 and defense the exact same. So I equate the defensive 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.760 Player of the Year with the MVP. Right. I equate 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:41.560 great defenders with great offensive players, especially if they're accomplishing 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:46.160 things like all defensive first teams, rebounding records, you know, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.320 defensive player of the year, whether it's block shots, steals, 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.520 I equate that. And then so even when I'm looking 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.560 from the offensive side, for Dennis Robin, he's the greatest 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.840 offensive rebounder in the modern era for the most part. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.040 You know, maybe more es Malone can argue that, but 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:06.080 people can't average six and seven offense. This is incredible. 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.560 That would be like the equivalent of somebody scoring thirty 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.000 five points a game. That's how rare it is on 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.280 the offensive side of the ball. 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:21.080 Yeah, I mean, there's the spurt was shorter. But didn't 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.480 Ben Wallace have a little run where he stacked up 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.480 a lot of rebounding numbers for sure? 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.840 But he's not even the offensive rebounder, and nor did 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.400 he rebound the ball nearly as well as Dennis Robin. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.360 But he was the defender Dennis Robin. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.439 Well, I thought somebody, who the hell was it? Somebody 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.480 says Robin put up like fifteen or sixteen boards a 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:40.760 game for a few years. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:46.000 I think Drummond did really well drumming. But so what 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.720 I'm saying, like, that's what I'm saying. It's like, even 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.720 even with Ben Wilace out the fact that Dennis Robin 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.880 is such an incredible offensive rebounder, I can position him 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.520 even as a two way player. And most got Magic Johnson, 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.280 who does get a ton of credit for really good defense. 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.240 He had the steals record multiple times. Like great players 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.640 figure out how to make a difference even if it's 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.840 not in the traditional sense. Even if Magic Johnson isn't 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.559 the greatest one on one defender like you can put 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.160 on the basketball court, he still was able to make 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.920 NBA League leading defensive things happen like the Steels title 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.400 two or three times, and since he was an NBA player, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:31.240 no sillers, gl my brother Peter just working some shit 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:37.200 out like usual. So the mathematics of it all is 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.319 how I come up with it. I don't come up 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.280 with this shit to argue with people, like, I'm not 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.920 trying to start a fucking argument with people. Rest is sure. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.800 If I said something, it's because I've done mathematical work 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:52.959 to come up with the thought. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:59.760 Yeah, I think you appreciated my analysis of your style, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.040 being like, you get pushed to a point where everybody 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.160 else in the room is saying something so absurd that 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:11.640 you have to then say the rational and people think 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.520 that you're trolling the room because the room's consensus is 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.080 North and you're like, no idiots South. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.440 Yes, And for the most part, I will let them 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.280 just say it. I will let people just say ignorant shit, 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.800 bro Like, I will not keep thinking about it until 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.840 it starts being overwhelming and it's a room full of 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:37.760 motherfuckers saying bullshit. Then I gotta say something, Hey, man, 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.800 that is not true. That is not true. I don't 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.959 go around finding motherfuckers to disagree with I hate man. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:52.400 Disagreeing with the masses is such a lonely road. Like 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.200 I was on a podcast with these two ladies, you 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.480 know you in New York, the Horrible Decisions Girl Mandy 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.480 and Wheezy Right and the girl were asking me. The 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.920 girls were asking me, They say, man, Glasses, how do 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.800 we meet a quality guy, like without going through the 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.160 rigm Monroe or the bullshit? And I'm like, so they start. 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.400 I start asking them questions. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.160 How do I get a bunch of money without having 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.000 to have a job. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.760 Well, my thing was, I start asking questions, and mathematically 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.520 I came up with, well, you shouldn't put out until 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.600 you get married. That's who you will see who somebody 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.240 really is, if you really want to see. And I 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.760 mean it was six seven hundred, eight hundred women in 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.960 my comments. You go look on my Instagram at Glasses 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.080 low it's women cussing me out because I'm telling them 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.280 the greatest advice possible based off the mathematics. Like it's 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.559 not like I went into a Bible and picked up 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:54.080 the wisdom of thousands of years. The mathematics says the 0:11:54.120 --> 0:12:00.200 same shit right now, And that kind of in that 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.480 becomes the story of my existence all the time. Cuz, 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.360 like right now, like one of the most important things 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.600 to me, right and it should be to anybody in 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:18.880 pursuit of something great is to succeed at a level 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.480 that very few succeed, right, or really to maximize who 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.800 you are. Let's say that, right, I know I can 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:30.240 have a gold album. That's my goal, a gold album 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.480 because at that point, if you have a gold album, 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.720 you have broken through the underground. It don't mean you 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.319 a star, like let's say Drake or Kendrick Lamar or 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.160 Kanye West, but you're not underground no more. At least 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:46.440 you're on top of the sement. And I know I'm 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.280 worthy of being there right now, wherever. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:49.400 Else I go. 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.600 Once I get from the underground onto the no I 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:57.760 break through. Fine, But that's the goal. And I just 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.680 keep talking to people around me bro like I'm like, hey, man, 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.040 like we really are misusing technology when it comes to 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:09.719 hip hop, Like we're misusing everything about being alive and 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.960 hip hop right now. You know, we're not using any 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.120 of the tools. We're still playing by rules that were 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:21.280 created forty years ago for completely different technology. Like we 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.400 feel like the guys in the nineties like were way 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.440 smarter or better, and it's like, no, man, it's like 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.960 back then. If you like the singles, they forced you 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.520 to buy the album. They would spend all of this 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.319 ridiculous money to work a single because they knew if 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.280 you liked that single and you went to the store 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.320 to buy it to hear it again, they was gonna 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.360 be able to get fifteen or twenty dollars out your 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:48.240 ass for the album. They purposely undership the singles because 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:49.920 they didn't want to make three or four dollars on 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.400 those cassettes. No, they wanted to make fifteen or twenty 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.560 dollars for the compact. This the whole album. And then 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.800 at that time you were forced to digest the brand 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.240 of the artist you were buying because you heard all 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.640 of the songs and they were really nice musicians, you 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.160 know what I mean. So obviously doctor Dre was able 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.480 to do with the chronic is brilliant and he gave 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.120 you He presented a brand of a person that we 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.200 all came to know and love, which is you know, 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.480 Doctor Dre or Snoop, right, But we were very much 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:25.200 forced into it because rest is sure, if they printed 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:29.920 up enough CDs of g Thing and Dreda and let 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.680 me ride in little ghetto boy. More people than not 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.280 would have bought the fucking single. It's cheaper and it's 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.560 what I want, So it's simple business. So I'm telling 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.560 people that in in a climate that people really felt 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.720 like singles market albums and they don't singles market themselves. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.480 And when I say something like that, bro, it drives 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.040 people crazy. And I'm like, because so long the room 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.200 has been saying singles market albums, that was the thought 0:14:58.520 --> 0:14:59.360 exactly funny. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.160 I was thinking in the car yesterday about remember that 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.360 pareto distribution thing I sent you with you a while back, 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:05.920 like a week ago. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.200 To them, Sure. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.080 It was described. I've seen that concept illustrated with the 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.920 way that the USSR, like when they toppled the Ukraine 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.520 and they had the massive famine because all the really 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.080 good farmers got killed and they took all their land 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:22.920 and gave it to the peasants. Well, the peasants were 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.800 not good farmers, that's why they were peasants. And the 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.400 good farmers were running all the farms. They were good farmers, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.080 so they couldn't come with any more grain, and they 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:33.720 all died, so like and so far aside that applies 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.680 to some music. The distribution is pounds of grain. It's 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.840 not plants of grain, you know. So like now, the 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:46.200 distribution metric is streams. It's not how many songs you make, 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.480 how good the song, how many albums, know, it's how 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.280 many streams. That's pounds of grain. It doesn't matter how 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.360 many grain plants you have if you only get in 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.520 one kernel of plant, you know. And I was kind 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.240 of like the you like like exactly, kind of like 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:02.920 what you're saying, like that, it's a it's a new 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.880 paradigm the light bulb by all the candles. Every time 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.840 you have a paradigm disruptor, it's hanging the disruptor. No 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.920 one wants to deal with the disruptor. It's uncertainty. It 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.560 creates problems. That could have been a bunch of combustion 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.960 vehicles and an electric car. It could have been Fiat 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.960 currencies and bitcoin. It could have been any of a 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.400 number it could it could have been copper and graphy. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.840 It could have been anything, you know, but they chose 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.360 candles and light bulbs. And it's a perfect illustration. And 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.600 I think as far as music, goes Yeah, but it 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:38.600 needs to start to shift from that album mentality. I 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.120 mean at the end of the day, really, I mean, 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:46.960 unless you love to death an artist, it's it's kind 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.080 of hard, like it's it's it's not it's not saying 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.240 it's hard. It's harder for the artists to hold the 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:57.160 attention of the listener in a digital environment that's cloud based. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:04.000 Man, you just gave me a crazy idea during that conversation, Like, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.239 once I figure out what the minimum per stream is, 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:16.040 like the minimum time, Sure, if it's thirty seconds, Like 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.040 what if I took thirty seconds? Right if I told 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.680 a story that was six minutes long over the same beat, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.320 but I broke it up because you could have zero 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.159 you know, you can have zero space. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.679 Yeah, you have to look at like YouTube ads. YouTube 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.560 bads are giving fifteen seconds if you don't say the 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.680 name of the company in the first fifteen seconds until 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.040 that skip button hits. How many times do I not 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.159 know who the fuck even the advertiser was because they 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.680 didn't get to the name of the company in fifteen seconds. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.040 Well, I'm saying, let's say, if it's thirty seconds, yeah, 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.640 then I just make it one track two track, three track, 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.119 four track. That's pretty good. It could be the same song, 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.800 but space, you know, the zero space as a choice. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:57.600 So you get credit for fors to the credit for 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.800 one boom boom. There we are. 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.680 Okay, back to your point, forgive me. No, I was done, no, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.359 but I wanted to respond to it. But I was 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.840 writing that idea as you were. It was hitting me 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.560 stream metrics. What was the last thing you said? Uh? 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.560 I said, Like, Now, I think about how how confining 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.399 the album was. You're in your car, you have to 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.320 put it in. You hit next, You're still confined to 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.320 the same disc. You can only go to the next song. 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.240 Now you're hit next, You're in a whole other genre, 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:32.960 with a whole other artist and a whole other album 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.919 a song. There's no more confines. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:42.480 Yeah, no, good point. But I don't think it's because 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.800 the audience has a short attention span. I'm not saying 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.040 it is no, no, Okay, okay, forgive me. 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:54.760 I'm saying technologically speaking, the effort level, like the the 0:18:55.040 --> 0:19:00.760 physical actual barrier to leave the album now vers twenty 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.119 five years ago, is totally diferent. 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.840 Sure, you're definitely more convenient. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:07.919 At best, especially in a car. I mean like when 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.200 they had the six discer and you had it on 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.920 a shuffle. That's as much of a mix as you're 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:17.679 gonna get. Fact now, Yeah, and you got cloud mixes 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.680 now that people put together that have aggregated data that 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.680 people now get spends and they get money because they 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.000 just put together good mixes of other people's shit. They 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:26.520 have a good. 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:30.760 Channel, which is what a mixtape was. Yeah. Sure, so 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.800 I think there is opportunity, right. I think there's actually 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.280 more opportunity than ever before. But I just think you 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.800 have to stop playing by old rules absolutely, and when 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:47.000 either I bring these conversations to people because they make 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.840 me feel like that fucking light bulb in a room 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.760 full of candles, and niggas want me hung, because it's 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:58.000 almost like everybody is my whole life, not just my 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.480 music career, my whole life because everybody been forcing me 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.520 to play ball. But the problem with the way most 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:08.959 people are playing ball ninety percent of the time, ninety 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.280 out of one hundred, there are the ten times, like 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.159 my older homie Pluck, there is sometimes he tell me 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.480 something that makes perfect sense, even because I'm not doing 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:21.240 the math or I don't know the math in that arena, right, 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.359 like gangbanging. He would tell me certain things because he 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.359 understood the math better in that arena. But I'm having 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.720 a conversation with people. It's not about that. Like nine 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:33.120 times out of ten, they're just doing what they think 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.320 they are supposed to do versus why it makes sense. 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:41.320 And that shit is fucking frustrating, bro. And whenever you challenge, 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.040 you know the room because the math. You're doing the 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.520 math that everybody's saying, but you're coming up with a 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:50.840 different solution. You're doing the equation, but the solution is different. 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.480 You're doing the multiplication, but the product is different. You're 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:58.080 doing the division, you're doing the adding, but the sum 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:02.080 is different. You're doing the subtraction, but the difference is different. Yeah, 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:04.960 you know. I mean, I'm not getting what you're getting. 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:07.800 And it's easy, and I get it because I've been 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:11.639 on people's podcast. Fucking Big Court got me like that 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.840 one time. I'm saying something and he acted like when 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:16.520 the camera's on, he didn't get it. And when the 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:17.879 camera went off, he was like, yeah, I was just 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.760 fucking with you to make conversation, And I was like, 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.080 am I the only person I'm dead serious about? What 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:30.200 I'm saying all the time, Like I don't think people 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:34.240 really believe all. I believe all the shit I am saying. 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.920 If I'm talking about Dennis Raman being the second best part, 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:42.080 I believe it. And it's only because I'm doing the mathematics. 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.320 I'm not saying who I like better. If you ask 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.359 me who I would like better, the list would probably 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:50.040 be completely different. If it was the five power forwards 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.040 I like better or I like watching It's completely different 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:57.280 than the five greatest you know which. We have accomplishments 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:00.159 to come up with that thing. But people will I 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:04.840 separate what they like from accomplishments, or they will not separate, 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.000 you know, offense being the centers piece of what they like. 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:15.560 Even though every last professional great, all time great coach 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:18.760 or sportsman in the history of the thing will tell 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.480 you defense wins championships. And that's why we play sports 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:23.840 in the first place, is to win. 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:30.359 Sure, John, the simplest math in assessing a team sport 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:36.040 is what is your impact footprint, so to speak, on 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.239 a team and how much did the team win? If 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.640 you're the eighth guy on the importance hierarchy of your roster, 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:45.080 I don't care that you're like like Jack Haley winning 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:47.239 four rings or whatever, hanging out with Robin to keep 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:49.879 him in line. I don't care about you, Jack, Sorry, sure, 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:54.119 But like if your top one, two, three on a 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:58.200 team and you got five or you got six, you 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:03.359 got to multiply six by point eight five importance index score, 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:04.760 you know what I mean, and then you get five. 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:07.800 If you're Robert ri and you got six, but you're 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:11.479 a point two five index score, you only got like 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:12.280 one and a half. 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:17.280 Yeah, yeah, But I think it just makes people feel 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:24.080 better when they they can disregard me presenting a different 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.200 solution to a problem that they never did the work 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:31.600 on themselves. People, And I get why, bro, Like I 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:34.040 think men hered me and you have talked about this. 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:36.879 I don't think people are stupid or incapable of doing 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:40.240 the work. I don't think they they don't have what 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:42.760 it takes to do to work. I think they are 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:47.720 Hella distracted in Hella lazy one or the other right 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:50.959 to where people don't want to do the math on 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:52.720 their own. They say, just give me the answer and 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:55.960 then I'm a right to answer. It made me think 0:23:56.080 --> 0:24:00.000 like I took pride in taking tests. I'm starting to 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:02.480