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Speaker 1: Wake that answer up in the morning. The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 2: Everybody's the DJ n V Jesse Larious, Charlamagne the guy.

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Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest

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Speaker 2: in the building for Queens, New York Queens. Get the money.

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Speaker 2: He got a lot of it. He got a lot

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 3: Ladies. Fall Club is welcome, brothers.

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Speaker 1: What's up Breakfast Club? Good morning.

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Speaker 3: How you feeling this morning?

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Speaker 1: I feel good. I'm glad to be here with y'all.

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Speaker 1: Glad to be here with y'all. H glad to be

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Speaker 1: here with y'all. Lots of new things going on. I'm

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Speaker 1: back in being to a Manhattan night. So I'm like,

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Speaker 1: lots of cool things are coming to the city.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: So you know I have to come and drop y'all

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Speaker 1: off of the newest news, all the new things.

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Speaker 4: What is the newest news?

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Speaker 1: Well, first off, November twenty third, the tell Our Store open.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations in New York.

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Speaker 1: In New York City, We're gonna bring back, you know,

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Speaker 1: going downtown so Ho shopping loitering. You know, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be down there where all the fake bags are

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Speaker 1: and the real ones, and we can pick and choose.

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Speaker 2: But they just recently did a sting and they say

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Speaker 2: they got forty million dollars worth of fake bags.

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Speaker 3: Off the streets.

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Speaker 1: That's horrible. That's horrible, And leave those people alone. I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what is it. They don't have anything better to do,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's like I love to be able to

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Speaker 1: go down I love seeing my bag down there. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: that's when you know you made it.

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Speaker 2: But that doesn't affected sales though, the fact that somebody

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Speaker 2: can get your bag fake.

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Speaker 1: It's the same price, that's the same price. I made

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Speaker 1: good friends with all the bag dealers down there. They're

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Speaker 1: very sweet men. It's very sweet man.

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Speaker 4: That's definitely like a different way of looking at it.

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Speaker 4: I love that. I love that trying to you know.

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Speaker 1: No, you know, it's like the bag's the same price,

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Speaker 1: so it's like we're going to be on the same street,

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Speaker 1: we're sharing the same turf. You know, they might be

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Speaker 1: selling the same bag.

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Speaker 4: How long has it taken for you to actually get

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Speaker 4: your store.

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Speaker 3: You've been talking about it for a while.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I dropped the news actually here two years ago.

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Speaker 1: When I said it, my team started like scrambling to

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Speaker 1: try to do it, and we're like, wait, if we're

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Speaker 1: going to do it, we need to really do it.

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Speaker 1: It shouldn't be a pop up. So this isn't a

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Speaker 1: pop up. And it's on the eve of the twentieth

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Speaker 1: year anniversary of this brand, which is really cool because

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Speaker 1: this is what I wanted to do, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the whole time, because this is the type of brand

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Speaker 1: that is three sixty that you need to kind of

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Speaker 1: experience everything together in one place. You know. It's tying

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Speaker 1: back to the TV station that we have tell Far TV,

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Speaker 1: so a lot of the you know, like people that

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Speaker 1: a part of that TV process and that's where all

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Speaker 1: the new Runway shows are gonna be. Yeah, it's just

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Speaker 1: like you know, like the clothes like are made for

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Speaker 1: a certain type of person, and like the stores that exist,

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Speaker 1: you know, that person isn't really like you know, cater

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Speaker 1: to You're not you know, so you know, I'm a

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Speaker 1: Unix brand. That's not that section in you know, any store.

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Speaker 1: So I have to do it myself, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a really interesting experience that people

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Speaker 2: You have enough product, right, because that's one thing people

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Speaker 2: always say that when they try to buy your bags

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Speaker 2: or your stuff is sold out.

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Speaker 1: They're sold out.

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Speaker 2: If you have at with only one bag because it's

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Speaker 2: sold out, how you fix that problem.

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Speaker 4: That's why you knock the people on canav Street, That's why.

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Speaker 1: Go back down there. They might have it before.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're good friends now, so you know the

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Speaker 1: Like when you go to the store, you can basically

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Speaker 2: But does that make you nervous though, because one of

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Speaker 3: People love the bags, they love the clothes.

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Speaker 2: But some of the mystique was trying to get it

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Speaker 3: You got to get the drop before the drop date.

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Speaker 2: But that was part of the mistike getting kind of

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Speaker 2: like with sneakers, Right, you want to get you want

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Speaker 2: to win it on that app but everybody to get

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Speaker 2: to this it's like I don't want it. So how

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Speaker 2: does that affect business?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think that that's not what we were trying

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Speaker 1: to do in the first Yeah, that's just a beautiful

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Speaker 1: like we weren't like trying to sell the stores. Just

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Speaker 1: like the most beautiful thing because that's when I realized that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the brand was bigger than what you know,

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Speaker 1: like a store could project how much to buy or

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Speaker 3: For people that don't know, you here a couple of

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Speaker 2: But I want for people that's just listening now, because

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Speaker 2: last two years, right, Lake Comers. For people that don't know,

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Speaker 2: the first question I would get was You're from Queens,

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Speaker 2: Right, how did a young boy from nor from left

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Speaker 2: Rack get into making bags and how did it become successful?

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Speaker 1: And fashion? You know? I you know, I always have

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Speaker 1: was not with that shit. So it's like I wanted

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be an accountant. I was like really

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Speaker 1: it to people rather than like math. And also too,

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Speaker 1: it's like the things that I wanted to wear didn't exist,

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Speaker 1: just like it's not made for the type of brand

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Speaker 2: And I was going to ask that people are so

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Speaker 3: Especially in Queens.

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Speaker 1: That's like that's the grit for me, you know, like

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Speaker 1: all of that, you know, like what you can't do

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Speaker 1: For me, that was like reassurance, you know, and I

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Speaker 1: used to be like, yo, I'm I'm doing it right,

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Speaker 1: and I like that. And then it's like seeing people

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Speaker 3: It's like you know, and it's just like.

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Speaker 1: All of that is exciting for me. And that's like

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Speaker 1: when you see that that's what people look like, it's

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Speaker 3: A fight, you not a fight.

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of brothers. I can talk a

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's because coming out of left rack down at

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Speaker 2: elevator when he's seen Tims and caught hearts and all

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Speaker 2: was like they probably had jokes. I'm like, you must

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Speaker 1: How to fight. Shout out to all my brothers. I

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Speaker 1: I think New York's a different thing. You know, because

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Speaker 1: I also grew up in Maryland, DC, Virginia too, CMV.

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Speaker 1: You know, Maryland's also seems like more like you know,

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Speaker 1: places like that. But all of that, all of those

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Speaker 1: you know, because I'm like, that's what those people wear

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Speaker 1: over there. I want to twist it like this and

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Speaker 1: like change it like that, and then we're all wearing

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Speaker 1: you know, these different tropes of like American culture that

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Speaker 5: Now, in the last four years, your brand has become

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Speaker 5: one of the biggest black owned brand names and without

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Speaker 5: any investors, without any stores, any traditional advertising.

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Speaker 4: How stuff did you do all it?

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Speaker 1: It's the people. It's the people, you know, like you

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Speaker 1: see a mayor of yourself. Even like how I relate

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Speaker 1: to the Internet, It's like I don't really use it.

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Speaker 1: It's like I just see other people that post things,

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Speaker 1: post their lives, you know, and it's like, really, the

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Speaker 1: what's behind it. But it's like it's like I've been

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Speaker 5: And they're slick, like they're they're definitely slick. They not

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Speaker 3: But you know, how does that affect you?

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's like like again like

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00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,480
Speaker 1: I said, like I will walk down the street and

439
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,800
Speaker 1: people will be like, you know that's what you actually know?

440
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,080
Speaker 1: You might be doing something right. And if you actually

441
00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 1: just look like that. It's like I'm not changing my

442
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,600
Speaker 1: clothes every day. I didn't change my clothes every day,

443
00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:09,840
Speaker 1: you know, like back in the day, and like I

444
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 1: ride a bike everywhere. But it's like I really respect

445
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:17,200
Speaker 1: the person and it's like, you know, I wore this

446
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 1: this morning, I took the train, came home, went to

447
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 1: this thing. It's like you're actually that person. You're not

448
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,119
Speaker 1: putting on a costume like Instagram or something like that.

449
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:27,480
Speaker 3: You know, you take enough money now where you don't

450
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:28,479
Speaker 3: got to take the train everywhere now.

451
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,880
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't taken the train in a very

452
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,760
Speaker 1: long time, and I don't even think I took the

453
00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 1: train back in the day like that, because I ride

454
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 1: a bike everywhere, Like I said, I ride a bike Queens, Brooklyn,

455
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,359
Speaker 1: Manhattan in all in one day, you know, and handle

456
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 1: all my business from all year round. So it's like

457
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,920
Speaker 1: I've never been like it's like, whenever I get on

458
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,199
Speaker 1: the train, it doesn't come. That's how you know. I'm like,

459
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,919
Speaker 1: I'm actually from Left Rock City. If you know about that.

460
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,679
Speaker 1: It's like when you get on the train and it

461
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: doesn't come, but you have to get back out. Yeah,

462
00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 1: it's like yeah. So it's like, you know, the fashion.

463
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,880
Speaker 2: When you first broke into the industry, you did it independently, right,

464
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,680
Speaker 2: any of the fashion houses try to box you out

465
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 2: because the way that you move was totally different from

466
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 2: anywhere else.

467
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I just had like I like,

468
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,439
Speaker 1: what I do? You know, It's like I've gotten offers

469
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 1: from everybody from everybody, gotten offers from everybody, you know.

470
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 1: And it was around a specific time around like twenty

471
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 1: twenty when people wanted a black face to be a

472
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 1: mascot for a brand that's not black owned, you know,

473
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 1: to be acceptable for the time being. You see twenty

474
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 1: twenty four, things are shifting back it's like I force

475
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: like I enjoy what I do. I have the freedom

476
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 1: to do what I want to do, say what I

477
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: want to say, you know, which is really important. Have

478
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: the freedom to choose, you know, like when I put

479
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,199
Speaker 1: out a collection, how I put it out and with

480
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,080
Speaker 1: who you know, and I couldn't imagine being able to

481
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,120
Speaker 1: do that in this system. Is like, like I said,

482
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: I had to actively choose to leave the fashion industry

483
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: because I'm like, it's not it's not it's not what

484
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 1: this brand's about.

485
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 3: You know, why didn't you Why didn't you sell? Like

486
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 3: because I mean, I'm sure they will offering a lot

487
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 3: of money.

488
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: Again, No, it's like the deal that most designers get.

489
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: It's like you make a like small amount of whatever

490
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 1: your business is the first.

491
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 3: Off they sent you, if you remember.

492
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:36,199
Speaker 1: They they who I'm like, you know first it's like

493
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, people want to produce a collection,

494
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,119
Speaker 1: which I would love to produce, you know, and making

495
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: that sacrifice to be able to do runway shows and

496
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 1: fashion weeks and all these things. But do you get

497
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,719
Speaker 1: to sell those clothes? No? You know, like do you

498
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: actually sell those clothes? No? And it's like that's why

499
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:59,120
Speaker 1: most designers have just this little runway to be able

500
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: to make it or it or it's all over, you

501
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And it's like season to season,

502
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,439
Speaker 1: and it's like do I want to do that? And

503
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,439
Speaker 1: go to Europe to do that where it's like I

504
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: could just get fired any second because you know, and yeah,

505
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: and it's like I enjoy what I do, you know

506
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: what I mean. So I've been trying to figure it

507
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: out independently, you know, and figure it out with my heart.

508
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 3: You know.

509
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: I've been doing this since I was fifteen, Like my

510
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 1: name is on it, you know what I mean. And

511
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I lived in Asia and I've

512
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 1: lived in Europe, and it's like it makes a lot

513
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: of sense here, you know what I mean. It's like

514
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: I'm home, you know.

515
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 3: Do you want to sell?

516
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: No, there's nothing I could sell and I'm not about

517
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: selling anything. It's like I own my own name. It's

518
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: like everybody in my company is like I have a

519
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: company with my best friends, you know that. Actually they've

520
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 1: been through all different kinds of you know, realms of

521
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: different fashion industry is sat worked with different brands and

522
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: designers and different things like that, and it's like who

523
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 1: owns their name. There's not a lot of people. And

524
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: it's like for me, that's like a big thing. It's

525
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: like if I didn't want to do this, you know,

526
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: I'd be okay.

527
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 3: You know.

528
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 1: It's like it's like, actually, you know, opening a store

529
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: in this industry, like doing all the things that I'm doing,

530
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 1: you know, to actively. It's not about money. You know,

531
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 1: like even the store that I'm opening is not about money.

532
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: You can come there and try on some ship and

533
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: take a picture in the New Age kind of way

534
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: and put the ship back.

535
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 3: Don't tell people that.

536
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: No, I'm gonna tell them that it's an interactive store.

537
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 3: I don't I don't want to buy different.

538
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 2: You see that all the window shops coming right.

539
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 1: I'm a window shopper too. I go through all of

540
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,719
Speaker 1: the stores that try something on, look through it to

541
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,199
Speaker 1: turn it inside and outside, and I'm like, do I

542
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: really want it? We'll see tomorrow. If I wake up

543
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 1: and think about it tomorrow, I'll text someone and be like, yo,

544
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: can you send me that ship? You know what I mean.

545
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: But it's like it's like it's more special when it's

546
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: like someone actually wants you to be in nothing. You

547
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and I want people to be

548
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: in that thing. You know what I mean?

549
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 2: Gotcha, now, Beyonce, do you send to every piece of

550
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 2: clothing or bag y that you put out?

551
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: Beyonce? I heard she just like she does it herself.

552
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: She's the queen. I don't know. I haven't even ordered online.

553
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 1: I think she hits someone up and she has good

554
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: people working for her, so you know, like, yeah, I can't,

555
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: I can't. Like she works in mysterious ways. I'm like, yeah,

556
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't even know he did that.

557
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,439
Speaker 2: You know, so giddy you still get giddy and excited

558
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 2: anytime you see her wearing a bag.

559
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: I get giddy and excited when I see like everybody

560
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: wearing a bag, Like I get giddy and excited when

561
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: I see you wearing a sweatshirt. You know, it's like

562
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: I watch y'all show in the morning, like you guys

563
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: the voices of the morning.

564
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 3: My wife don't. By the way, I just want you

565
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 3: to know, definitely.

566
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: Well, November twenty third, you can come down to this

567
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: store and get another Broadway at Canal Street. We're bringing

568
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: downtown back. We can loiter, you can try some ship on.

569
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 3: Wait the game. Yeah, that's bringing the gift.

570
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: My beautiful sister will coming bearing, coming bearing, and you

571
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: know what I need to do.

572
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 3: Need I need a bigger devil? Did you make a

573
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 3: bigger devil?

574
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 4: Yeah?

575
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: Okay, like you have? Do you have the big one?

576
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 3: That's like I call it a one day like.

577
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: No, yeah, you got the big one?

578
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 5: Yes?

579
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 4: Sorry, thanks for having me, y'all.

580
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,679
Speaker 3: Y'all right now we.

581
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: Got some good things. So, oh my god, this is

582
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: the new bag. It's this size.

583
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 4: It's the new size.

584
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 3: It's the new size.

585
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: It's not too big, it's not this one.

586
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 3: Medium.

587
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was available only only only at our

588
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 1: store for only a short media million, million, short amount

589
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: of time. So like you gotta get it. You can

590
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 1: only get it at the store. Maybe we'll put it online.

591
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: Do you think we should put it online? Yes, it's

592
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: the size everybody's been asking for.

593
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.

594
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: You're so welcome and also envy. I got you a sweatshirt.

595
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

596
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: I see New York. I t C New York. You

597
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: see you can get the Canal Street look just like DJ.

598
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 3: And check out the back. Check out the back. Check

599
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 3: out the back. Check on the back. Tell us what

600
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 3: that says, tell us what that says? Eight seven seven six.

601
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: Yes, you can call the request the bag for those

602
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: of you at home that can't make it to the store.

603
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: November twenty third is the opening of the store. But

604
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: hopefully this store will be open forever and many years

605
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: to come. So don't all come the same day. Don't

606
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: you know you have a party. Don't all come the

607
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: same day unless you're with the ships and then let's

608
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: do it.

609
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: Now, tell us about that day. So you're doing a

610
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 2: grand opening, you're doing block opening, you're doing something for

611
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 2: people to perform.

612
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: Right, Oh my god, damn heavy oat.

613
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 3: Okay, just got all it.

614
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, see you listen to DJ Envy, listen to the source.

615
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: The party and the opening is gonna be November twenty third.

616
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: If you want to come by and be a part

617
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: of Telfur TV on that day, please just stop by

618
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: and see us, or don't and come the next day

619
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth, or the twenty fifth, or the twenty sixth,

620
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: or the twenty seventh, or the twenty eighth or the

621
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: twenty ninth or the thirtieth.

622
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 3: I don't think thirty second Chris.

623
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I think we might be you know,

624
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: like I want to do really interesting things with this store.

625
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: It's not all about shopping. So sometimes we'll have a

626
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: TV show being taped there at the same time. Maybe

627
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: we'll be shooting a music video, maybe we'll be having

628
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: a drink, you know. But yeah, just want things to

629
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: work differently. And yeah, I'm excited. I'm happy, happy to

630
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: be here for breakfast.

631
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 3: My name Bushwick Burking came from where Where did that

632
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 3: come from?

633
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: Damn it came from the internet. I'm like, damn to

634
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: for our shopper, Like why everything got to be related

635
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: to a burker? Who's this woman?

636
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 3: Like why do y'all want that bag?

637
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: And I guess, like, you know, I can take the

638
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: esteem or whatever the street says it is. But you know,

639
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: tell fur shopper and lots more to come.

640
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, we appreciate you joining us. November twenty third, Yes,

641
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,719
Speaker 3: opening of the first.

642
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: Store Canal Street and Broadway, and make sure you head

643
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 2: out there.

644
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 3: There's gonna be all types of things giving away.

645
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a lot of fun, it's gonna be performances,

646
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 2: and go out there and make sure you support and

647
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 2: purchase somebody. You know, your your fans and your supporters are.

648
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 2: They don't play about.

649
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: You, about y'all either. Don't play about y'all either. This

650
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: is your store. Please come and bless it, you know,

651
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: treat us well. Let's like, you know, let the city

652
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: be what they used to be.

653
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 2: You know, well, let's tell fall Clemens, we appreciate, we

654
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: appreciate all the gifts.

655
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 3: On tomorrow, just with the media, tell it's the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Wake that answer up in the morning. Breakfast Club