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Speaker 1: Every day a week ago. Pick your ass up the

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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: You don't finish for y'all done morning. Everybody's DJ Envy

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Speaker 2: just hilarious. Chelamaine the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 1: We got a special guest in the building.

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Speaker 2: Always a pleasure to see. This Brother album is out

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Speaker 2: right now. Something's in the Water ladies and gentlemen, Lollo Russ,

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Speaker 2: welcome back.

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Speaker 3: Brother, Something that the Water comes out on the sixth year.

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Speaker 1: You know, we actually were moving it back. We've been

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Speaker 1: campaigned and sell one hundred thousand albums. It's out and no,

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Speaker 1: it ain't out. You know, we just been doing pre

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Speaker 1: orders so we can go pre order and listen to

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Speaker 1: like some of the tracks. But we hit twenty one

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Speaker 1: thousand hours and thirty days. So wow.

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Speaker 3: You know, now talk to us about this hundred thousand,

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Speaker 3: one hundred thousand copies. You're trying what's called a hundred

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Speaker 3: thousand albums challenge. You're trying to sell one hundred thousand copies. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: independently off this one project. Where did the idea come from?

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Speaker 1: Man? Just a stroll with me and the homie. You know,

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Speaker 1: we take walks every morning and just kind of build

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Speaker 1: the vision and the dream and what we want. And

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Speaker 1: it was one of the monings I was feeling myself

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, God can sell a hundred thousand hours,

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Speaker 1: You know. I think it's a goal that a lot

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Speaker 4: Like, I love what you.

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Speaker 3: Do because it's like the evolution of Nipsey Hustles Proud

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Speaker 3: to Pay campaign, but you always just pay what you want.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, And it's like people.

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Speaker 3: Who just appreciate you and appreciate what you do end

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Speaker 3: up dropping some money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Kyrie Evan dropped what eleven eleven thousand, Snoop Dog twenty

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and then just like regular people too, like you

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Yeah, eleven thousand, eleven, like ten thousand,

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Speaker 5: eight thousand, this is dope? And do you have a

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Speaker 5: dadline for it? The honey cakes?

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Speaker 1: So you just extended, Yeah, I just extended. So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go through February. You know, I really feel like

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Speaker 1: it's an achievable goal. And just where we Land did

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Speaker 5: So why you wanted to sell one hundred k albums

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Speaker 5: before you dropped it?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 5: I thought you mean just sell.

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Speaker 1: Damn before damn.

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Speaker 5: This is still good though, pre orders yeah damn.

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Speaker 7: But congratulations, gratitude that Little John. Every record on album.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yep, everything in my homies, my in house team.

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Speaker 1: They teamed up with John and we sat in the studio.

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Speaker 1: I think we did a total like four sessions. Got

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Speaker 7: How Little John?

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Speaker 1: It's been some years we've been chopping it up. And

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Speaker 1: then we was randomly in la and having a convo

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Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm just in the text little

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Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, what is the Russell's sound Because like a

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Speaker 3: few people see you do records a little John, it's

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Speaker 3: but then you can actually spit yeah a lyricist.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what is Lo Russell's sound?

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Speaker 1: It's hard to encapsulate and it's tough. We talk about

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Speaker 1: that often. Like a lot of people think I'm just

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Speaker 1: what's popular, what's viral? But you know you found me

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Speaker 3: Ovane sent me that, Uh it was the twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: And I heard that and it was funny because Hobein

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what happened I'm like, Yo, this dude is phenomenal.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's all to me. That was always the laying.

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Speaker 3: But then I started seeing you do everything and I'm like, hey, Larrussell,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, that was the goal from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Like I, I've always made every kind of music, but

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Speaker 2: So this is just like this album told you from

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Speaker 7: So I say, what was your mind frame for this?

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Speaker 2: And you wanted people to know you I'm from the

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Speaker 1: God damn right right? Yeah, I really wanted something that

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Speaker 1: represents us. You know. I feel like as a region,

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Speaker 1: even when people think of their top ten list, you

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Speaker 1: I wanted to just remin people like we make the

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Speaker 1: music that the coach would move to. When you hear

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Speaker 1: But it's also we get am you know. Ain't too

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Speaker 3: Are there people who take advantage of the format and

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Speaker 1: Of course, you know, but don't. I don't even look

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Speaker 2: Now, if somebody gives you eleven thousand dollars, right, is

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So Kyrie bought one album for eleven thousand, so

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Speaker 1: you can you can either buy multiple four in them

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Speaker 1: But I wouldn't have three. That wouldn't have been history history.

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Speaker 2: Because really, twenty three thousand copies, right, you could say,

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Speaker 5: What do you think the true monetary value of the

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Speaker 1: It's priceless, you know. I think that's what I built

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Speaker 1: my whole ethos and brand on. It's not free. It's priceless.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you get an experience that changes your life,

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Speaker 3: No matter what, you built a career outside the traditional

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Speaker 4: A major label never could.

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Speaker 1: Freedom? You know, every label situation I was getting offered

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Speaker 1: I released forty three albums just in the past. Since

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Speaker 1: I was able to build my catalog that my family,

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Speaker 1: even that me being able to share royalties with fans

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Speaker 1: You know, it's like those royalties ain't choice to give.

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Speaker 4: He not capping either. He tried to give them to me.

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Speaker 1: Yo, what I did everybody who helped me early, you know,

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Speaker 1: But you're a human though you're a radio personality, but

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Speaker 1: won't be radio and you'll just be Charlemagne, and it's like,

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Speaker 3: At what point did you realize you didn't need permission

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Speaker 1: When I started being granted the same opportunities as the

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Speaker 1: I didn't even get interviewed. I just came and rapped.

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Speaker 1: We filmed the whole process of me coming up the elevator.

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Speaker 1: It was like a ten minute video total. Like I

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Speaker 4: You just got the opportunity to perform at the super.

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what that means.

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Speaker 1: people coming in, Like, I'm just curating the energy in

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Speaker 1: at the crib. I'm outside all time.

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Speaker 4: Okay, how did that happen? How did how did they

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Speaker 4: reach out to Larrusso for the Super Bowl? Super Bowl tailgateboard.

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Speaker 1: I got a good friend named George that I met

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Speaker 1: when I did Sunday Service last year, who's just like

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Speaker 1: a big brand guy. And he I met him and

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Speaker 1: he's like, man, you you so dope, Like I believe

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Speaker 1: head of the NFL. And I'm just like this nigga

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Speaker 4: So clearly, clearly the conversation was good.

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Speaker 1: It means I now have support beyond just my homies

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Speaker 3: And also too, I feel like rock Nation still allows

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Speaker 1: There was no way I would go over there without it,

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Speaker 3: How do you define winning now? Is it money? Is

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Speaker 1: I think it's impact, you know. I think how many

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Speaker 3: I love what you mentioned Balletjo Man, because you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, when we made this album with Little John,

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Speaker 1: How much was the check I was working at? You? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so I was gonna ask to who are

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Speaker 5: You've been rapping this since elementary school? So did you?

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Speaker 5: Was that like the moment where you're like, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: all them. I thought they were like wrestlers. I didn't.

438
00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 1: I didn't think they were like real people. Yeah, I

439
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,960
Speaker 1: thought it was just car that everybody playing. So I

440
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,320
Speaker 1: didn't even see this as a possibility where it's like

441
00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,160
Speaker 1: I could be famous and successful for doing the same.

442
00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:09,920
Speaker 4: Thing, even with E forty like right there.

443
00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,240
Speaker 1: But he wasn't right there, Like I didn't. I didn't

444
00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,440
Speaker 1: see E forty growing up like I heard of the

445
00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:17,440
Speaker 1: forty You feel me and we listened to the music,

446
00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,119
Speaker 1: but I didn't see him presently.

447
00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:21,760
Speaker 2: But put your eyes on the goal when it came

448
00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,080
Speaker 2: to it, because you no, like you said, you worked

449
00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,400
Speaker 2: at ups and in the first check was small, right,

450
00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,200
Speaker 2: But now you're in the industry and all these people

451
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,040
Speaker 2: are throwing your money. And instead of taking that money

452
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,720
Speaker 2: and buying the luxuries if you wanted that you could have,

453
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,640
Speaker 2: you decided to say, now I'm gonna wait for my turn,

454
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:37,520
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna keep it this way.

455
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:38,600
Speaker 7: What gave you that.

456
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,600
Speaker 2: Guyans to say, I'm gonna keep the blinders on and

457
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:41,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep going.

458
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,200
Speaker 1: I just want success in freedom more than I want

459
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 1: the other things. You know, I really I thrive off

460
00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:01,200
Speaker 1: seeing my team elevate and show the word what was possible,

461
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 1: like getting super Bowls, like man like this, this ain't real,

462
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 1: you know, And been able to share that with a

463
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,919
Speaker 1: bunch of Bay Area kids feels way more better than

464
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,919
Speaker 1: getting a car or getting anything else. Just none of that,

465
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 1: None of that fulfills me in the same way because I.

466
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,040
Speaker 2: Don't think anybody would have looked at it differently because

467
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 2: you had a child, you had a family to provide

468
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 2: for in the reasons, but you still said I'm gonna

469
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 2: stick through it.

470
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,040
Speaker 7: And most people wouldn't stuck through.

471
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:29,200
Speaker 2: And you see it all the time in the industry

472
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,479
Speaker 2: where people make these bogus deals and they fight their

473
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 2: whole career to get out of these days. But you

474
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 2: was like, Nah, this is the way, because it didn't.

475
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,720
Speaker 1: Have to work. It didn't you know. I've I've been

476
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,480
Speaker 1: in enough time to give up, you know, but I

477
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,960
Speaker 1: just I had to see it through. You know. It's

478
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 1: like with this hundred K campaign. It's just something that

479
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 1: when something on your spirit, you have no choice but

480
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,440
Speaker 1: to act on it. And it's one of those things

481
00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,159
Speaker 1: that I got to see through. I got approve of

482
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,920
Speaker 1: all these little homies in Valleo that I see when

483
00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,359
Speaker 1: I take my daughter to school that's like this, and

484
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: as possible, they see me, They shake my hand, they

485
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,399
Speaker 1: hugged me. They know I'm a real person in a

486
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,120
Speaker 1: life who actually did it.

487
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:11,119
Speaker 3: I also feel like, you know, you prove that you know,

488
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,679
Speaker 3: success is subjective, right, because I feel like, you know,

489
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 3: as long as you're happy doing what it is that

490
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 3: you're doing, you're successful.

491
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:19,280
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

492
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 3: So it's probably rappers out there that's making four or

493
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 3: five million dollars right every month, but they not happy.

494
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 4: But Russell is genuinely happy.

495
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 7: And the idea of performing in the backyard? Whose idea

496
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 7: was that? When you brought it to your family? What

497
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 7: did they say the first time?

498
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 1: They was all in? You know, I mean everybody everybody

499
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 1: of course had they like, well, you know, you know

500
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 1: this come with different precautions, but they was all in.

501
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 1: You know, my parents see me drin in that bedroom,

502
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:53,200
Speaker 1: making songs, pressing my own out and pressing my own merch,

503
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 1: throwing my own shows, and you know they know how

504
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 1: ambitious I am. I don't really take no for an answer.

505
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 1: You know, even if they would have been like, man,

506
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: you can't do that here? I would have went and

507
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: bought a house and built one, you know, like I'm

508
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: that ambitious when to come to what I want for myself.

509
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,120
Speaker 1: And you know, that was just that was an act

510
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 1: of rebellion. That's one of those things I'm really thankful

511
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 1: for that somebody told me no. It's like all the labels.

512
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 1: If nobody told me no, I wouldn't be here today.

513
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,919
Speaker 1: And somebody telling me know about a venue made me

514
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: build my own infrastructure.

515
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 3: Why was it important for you to bring the spotlight

516
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,400
Speaker 3: home instead of chasing validation someplace?

517
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 4: Elf.

518
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 1: I didn't want the next wave of kids to come

519
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: from where I come from to think they had to

520
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,959
Speaker 1: leave to be successful, or that they couldn't do it,

521
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 1: to just think it wasn't a possibility. You know. It's like,

522
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: we have limited options where I grow up. We don't

523
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 1: grow up meeting lawyers and doctors and all of that,

524
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: so our options of who we think we could become

525
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:56,360
Speaker 1: is very limited. And it's just like when people come

526
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: into Valao, you know, and they got to stop at

527
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,199
Speaker 1: my crib, and they going to Momos, and they end

528
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: up going to profit and they go to all these

529
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: other places because they in the city and you see

530
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: Juvie pull up on your block and Little John pull

531
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: up on your block. That do something to your spirit

532
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: as a youngin like that, just make you feel like

533
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: you walking around around like he Man at some point

534
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 1: because you really really feel like you could do something

535
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: with your life.

536
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 5: And when does the the he Man effect turned into

537
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 5: the worry effect?

538
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: Right?

539
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 5: Because you know, where there is great success, you know,

540
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 5: it's always some evil shit that comes after, you know,

541
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 5: guys hating or whatever, you know what I'm saying, because

542
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 5: everybody ain't got it like that, of course, and you

543
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 5: know some people do the wrong things to get it

544
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 5: or just hate on the next person. Do you ever

545
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 5: worry about things like that?

546
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: Man? Hate come with the plate? Yeah, hate, come with

547
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: the plate. Nobody hates on the niggas who ain't doing nothing,

548
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: that's true, you know, like they just in the basement,

549
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 1: not doing nothing with their life. Don't even have to

550
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: worry about that. So the fact that it's even become

551
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: a thing in my life, I'm really grateful. You know.

552
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 1: I was telling the homies like I used to sit

553
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,959
Speaker 1: in my room and be upset that I could go

554
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: online and no one was talking about my shit. It

555
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 1: was like man, nobody knows about me, you know. So

556
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: now that I could wake up and there's thousands of

557
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: mentions about what I'm doing, I'm just grateful for it.

558
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 3: You're knowing for consistency, right, Like, like over hype and gimmicks,

559
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 3: how do you stay disciplined in a culture that's addicted

560
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 3: to the gimmicks and doing anything to go viral?

561
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 1: I really just like focus on the things I enjoy

562
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: and I love. Like, I don't even make content just

563
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: to make content. I'm really making things that like this

564
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: is cool to me, Like I love the Jabbewakeees. I

565
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: came up watching them, so getting them to come to

566
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 1: the crib and do something in my backyard like that

567
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: mattered to me. I love Juvie, getting them to the

568
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 1: yard that mattered to me. So I'm really not I'm

569
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: not trying to go viral or just make moments. I'm

570
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: just doing things that I think it's cool that I

571
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 1: enjoy and they happen to be moments that resonate with

572
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: the rest of the world. But I'm not chasing nothing.

573
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 4: Dude.

574
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 3: The ja Milwaukee's age, I was wondering that when I

575
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 3: saw them at the they came out with your female

576
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 3: Lopez this weekend?

577
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 4: Is it a new set of job? I had the

578
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 4: mask on the whole time when they was around you.

579
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 4: Are they young?

580
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 7: Oh?

581
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: Their backs all be hurting and flipping and all that

582
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: the world may never know, the world may never know

583
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: could be as well know.

584
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 3: The What responsibility do you feel to your community now

585
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 3: that your platform is grow?

586
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: I feel it's vital for me to just have proper

587
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,199
Speaker 1: representation of who we are and what we believe in

588
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: and what we stand for. And I'm I'm also human,

589
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm flawed, so it's like it's not

590
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: just on me, but I feel like while I'm in

591
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 1: this position and then in seat, you know, my goal

592
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: is to just represent my people in our light, not

593
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: just our negatives and all that, but also our light.

594
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: You know. I went to the news station the other

595
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 1: day and I went upstairs. I'm like, let me meet

596
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: all the producers and shake their hand too, and give them,

597
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: you know, the same grace that all the panel get

598
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: to meet. And we ran into this older black woman

599
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: and she was just thanking us for being on time

600
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: and being present and coming in a's who we are

601
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: and she was like, you know, you're showing something new

602
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: in a different wave. You know, I'm a rapper that's

603
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: been on the news like T twenty. It's part of

604
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: my normal pr that's how much they love me and

605
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: enjoy me. And we never seen that. You know, we

606
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: don't get to see our rappers speak this way sometimes

607
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: or with this level of poise or just you know,

608
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: the representations sometimes be off and be far left from

609
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: like reality of who we are as humans and what

610
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: he truly represents. So I feel like that that's my

611
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: thing is just every time I get it, I get

612
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: a chance to show the world who we are. I

613
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: do that properly.

614
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 4: Now.

615
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 2: Before he met with Jay a while ago when Diddy

616
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 2: was home, You met with Diddy?

617
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, were you thinking about signing with bad Boy?

618
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: No? Never?

619
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 7: What was that? What was that meeting about?

620
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: I think he just wanted to meet, but he also

621
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: wanted me to write for like a record that he

622
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 1: was making during the time. But I think he just

623
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: wanted to link and you know, feel the energy out

624
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: and everything. Like I'm he's seen the light, you know,

625
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: And I think that's the case with everybody who end

626
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: up on to meet, Like they see the light and

627
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: they want to get around it. And I feel like

628
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: when I met Puff, he was in that he was

629
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: in a space like you could feel his discomfort, you know,

630
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: Like I I remember leaving there. I went with my

631
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: mom and my daughter's mom and I left her and

632
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: we went on a long walk. Yeah, we went on

633
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: a long walk, and I was just like, man, he

634
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: going through it like he not okay, and before this, before,

635
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: way before, I just man, I'm a great sense engage

636
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: of like human and I could feel it, you know,

637
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: and just how the people around him moved. It was

638
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: like this ain't gonna be good because nobody around you

639
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: care enough to tell you when you wrong or tell

640
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: you you know, hey, this this a little off. And

641
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: you know, we we had conversation. We was walking to

642
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: the stool and I was like, man, you've got everything.

643
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: What do you want now, Like what's left for you

644
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,959
Speaker 1: to have? You know, because he was still distressed and

645
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: he was like, man, I just want to be able

646
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: to breathe. And I was like, damn. Like that was

647
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: a sentiment that I felt deeply because I've been in

648
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: that space through growing and getting famous in the crew

649
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: of success, where I'm like, damn, I can't even breathe

650
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: it so much on me, you know, and to see

651
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: him in that state was like, man, and you know,

652
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: I'm I'm non complicit in it, like nigga a nigga,

653
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: wrong is wrong, But I also can understand how somebody

654
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: could get all the way to that point when it

655
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: goes unchecked and when you build a world where everybody's

656
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: complicit in your behavior. And he wanted me to write

657
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: to I think the record was act bad. He played

658
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: me the record and I literally he was like what

659
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: you He was like, what you think after? And I said,

660
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: I don't love it? And he was like and everybody

661
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: in the room went still, And that that was the

662
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: first time that showed me all y'all niggas in here

663
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: lying because y'all gonna make me like I'm wrong for

664
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: saying I don't love it. And he was like, what's

665
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: you don't love about it? You know? And we had

666
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: a long discourse and I was telling them, like you

667
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: at the phase of your journey where we want to

668
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: hear your life. We know you had the bitches and

669
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: you did all that with like, that's not the puff

670
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: I want to hear from, like you fifty, that's not

671
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: the puff I want to hear from like we need

672
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: some life, right. And I was writing a new record

673
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: where I was like I was putting his journey in

674
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: and he was like, nah, man were trying to party

675
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: like that's too deep and I'm just like, damn, like

676
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: it was too far gone. You know.

677
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 3: I mean people hit me up because you did the

678
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 3: ny I forgot what the podcast? Whose podcast was you on?

679
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 7: Yeah?

680
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 3: I forgot who what podcast you was on? But you

681
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 3: you had told that story. You know how many people

682
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 3: hit me? And it was like, is this real?

683
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 4: He's just saying this because everything did he going through.

684
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 3: I'm like, nah, that's real. That was like three four

685
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 3: years ago. It was it was a while agod.

686
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, he hit me about that long time ago.

687
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: Did I'm sorry?

688
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: I was gonna say cause the record didn't do great,

689
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 2: So did y'all let it speak after that and be like, see,

690
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 2: this is why this is why it was goding YouTube.

691
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: Now we haven't spoke since. I don't think uh, I

692
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: don't think he was hyper fond of of you know

693
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: after that, you know, I don't think he disliked me.

694
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: But it was like, Nigga, I don't need no nigga

695
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: around me telling me the truth. You know, I just

696
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: I think I was out the circle at that point,

697
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: and you're a good reader.

698
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 5: I was about to stand on that. Do you think

699
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 5: it was more so like a fear of him going deep?

700
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 5: Cause where you were yo, yo, shit, we not were talking.

701
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 5: We're not talking to did we talking about?

702
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: Come on?

703
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 5: Anyway? Do you think it was like because he wanted

704
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 5: to party party?

705
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

706
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 5: But you was trying to get him in, Like you said,

707
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 5: you fifty year old puff, I don't want to hear it.

708
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 5: Nobody want to hear that right now. You know, at

709
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,239
Speaker 5: some point you got to get tired of turning up

710
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 5: and start teaching niggas or start getting detailing us the

711
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 5: things that we don't know whatever, right showing a different side?

712
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 5: Do you think it was? It could have been out

713
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 5: of fear that he didn't want to get that deep,

714
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 5: or just because he just really be on some party shit.

715
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 5: Could he could have been suppressing.

716
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:40,239
Speaker 1: As I've grown as a man and human, it's a

717
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: really deabilitating process too, shed everything you know yourself ass

718
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: You know, you end up in this state where you

719
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: like lost and you low and a lot of people

720
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: don't want to go back that low and have to

721
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: build up. And sometimes it's like the image you built

722
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: such an m in a life for yourself that you

723
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: don't even know who you are no more to go

724
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: back to something you know, like there's no home to

725
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: go back to when you destroyed every house you had.

726
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, damn, you're a good reader of energy too, man,

727
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 3: Like what was the difference?

728
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 4: I don't want to say difference.

729
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 3: What was the energy when you was with Hop and

730
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 3: every and all those guys.

731
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: You see, just you asking that made me smile like that,

732
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: that shows you like the presence and the energy. And

733
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: prior to us going, my homie Splash was like, man,

734
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna meet home today? Like how you feeling? And

735
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: I was telling them like, man, I'm conflicted because I

736
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: honestly don't know who I'm gonna meet because of the

737
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: Diddy thing and just meaning so many other people, And

738
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I'm nervous because I don't know

739
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: who I'm gonna meet. Am I gonna meet like someone

740
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: that I'm like, man, this is what I hope for?

741
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: Like damn another one? And it was it was everything

742
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: beyond like who who? Social media and the Internet make

743
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: hold out to be. It's so far from what it is,

744
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: just just from my interpreted I can only go off

745
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: my gauge and who I sat when and who I

746
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: spoke with. You know. Even before I went, my mama

747
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: was like, but what about all the YouTube videos? And

748
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: see what? She was really worried and concerned, you know.

749
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: And I was telling her like, man, one day, I'm

750
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: gonna be successful to the point where all those same

751
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: videos gonna be about me, and you're gonna be mad

752
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have to fight for me, for who

753
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: you know who I am. And I told her, I said,

754
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make my own determination. I'm gonna sit with

755
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: him and man like he poured into us in same

756
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 1: vice versa. And he even told me like the fact

757
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: that he would say, Man, I'm glad you said something

758
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: because I'm not above criticism. And if you didn't, I

759
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't have changed my own house and this wouldn't exist.

760
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: That's a powerful statement to make as a nigga who

761
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: up here because he's high enough to be like, nigga,

762
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: I don't care what you're talking about. I ain't never

763
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: got to see you again, you know. And for somebody

764
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: up there to say I'm not above criticism. I deserve

765
00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: that critique too, because it helped me.

766
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 4: Man, let's get listen.

767
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 7: Can we get play some joints off there.

768
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,399
Speaker 3: Or he can rap whatever you want to do, whatever

769
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 3: you feel like doing.

770
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like rapping. Got it queued up? You still cold?

771
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 4: You still cold?

772
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: You warmed up? Man, I'm the coldest happy.

773
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 4: The Russell text me this morning. He sent me instrumental.

774
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 4: He said, just in case, Yeah, just k That means

775
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, what we got.

776
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 5: Man came ahead with two hats in.

777
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 4: The sleeping baby, gonna turn it down a little bit.

778
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: I think I'm good.

779
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 5: Okay.

780
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: Pops used to whip a black and burger the suburban.

781
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: Back then, I knew that I was deserving. Back then,

782
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: I knew that I would be something. God put a

783
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,919
Speaker 1: light inside me like a pumpkin. Quality and quantity doing

784
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: in conjunction. A bruised ego could fuck up the family function?

785
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,720
Speaker 1: Did it from the crib changed the way the family functions? Yeah?

786
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: I see myself and my mama, I see myself and

787
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: my daughter. I see myself and my daddy. Remove myself

788
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 1: from a drama. I'm trying to help the family heal

789
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: and still make it up to heal, take care of everyone,

790
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: but still recoup the deal. I'm big Russ now. I

791
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: used to be live and big rusts still alive. This

792
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 1: shit real all ever, one that was to make my

793
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: daddy proud. You execute different when your daddy in the crowd,

794
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 1: trying to follow with lee, used to barely crack a smile.

795
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: Was in my style. I've been this way since a child,

796
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: back and forth with y'all. Y'all, I was young and wild.

797
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: We was both just babies having a child. Now we've

798
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,320
Speaker 1: grown in a house, still not a home. I cried

799
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: some nights, knowing your better off alone. I'm on the

800
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: road making money off songs while you're at home raising

801
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: babies on your own. Thank God you got your mamma

802
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 1: and your siblings. Thank God I'm still invited on Thanksgiving.

803
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: I might have to pass on the next one. I said,

804
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm the only one, not the best one, but every

805
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: day I show up in my human in form I said,

806
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: my mama knew this be my life when I was born.

807
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: Remember that night up in the hospital, you was torn

808
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: open by the breaching up my baby. I wasn't you.

809
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: If I couldn't understand the flow of life, all I

810
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: could do is grab your hand and try to hold

811
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: it tight. Used to be played with all the women.

812
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: I will hold that night thinking about mail when I

813
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: was learning how to hold the right. But shit got

814
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: ugly as a nigga with and over. That wasn't nice.

815
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 6: But I yeam, hey, hold on these rap songs then't

816
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 6: help heal plenty men reversing damage that was done to

817
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 6: us by many men.

818
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: You know they love to play gainster to somebody shank

819
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: your I learned early. Dear Lord. I want to thank

820
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 1: you for walking me through for us. When my eyes closed,

821
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: you ain't got to say a word when your eyes

822
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: hold the light giving to you by the most high.

823
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: I'm from the north, but I live on both sides.

824
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: You know I'm in the hood like a surpentine built

825
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: spitting rhyme's nigga felt member getting whoopings till the nigga

826
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: had welch. Early life lessons from a belt, yelling my

827
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: mama name, calling out for help. Once she ain't come

828
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: to rescue me, I will melt ship on my shoulder

829
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: through the day stayed in the room, I ain't even

830
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: want to play all the shit I never used to

831
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: say out of fear. I get to say here, these

832
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 1: flows been healing me since I was young. Ninety seven.

833
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: Work done with a fucking run. I can't see it

834
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: coming down my eyes, so I gotta let the song cry. Yeah.

835
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: I can't see it coming down my eyes, so I

836
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: gotta let the song cry. Yeah. Every night it came

837
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: down my eyes, and I still let this song cry. Yeah.

838
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: Thank god it came down my eyes. So I gotta

839
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 1: let the song cry. It's the motherfucking rock. I don't even.

840
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 3: Or there's something's in the water right now, Man, get

841
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 3: my guy one hundred dollars.

842
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: We don't we don't even biz. Please. You know I'm

843
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: a young black kid from the turf and this campaign

844
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: means so much to me. It's really showing the world

845
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: what's possible. We don't get to witness people really go

846
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 1: for something they believe in and publicly asks for help.

847
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: It takes so much the dissolution of pride to go

848
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: to your community and say, please help me achieve this.

849
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm at with it, Like I want

850
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: my people to support me. I want people to rally

851
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: behind me. This is something I believe is obtainable, So please,

852
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 1: even not being something's in the water, ya what I mean.

853
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 3: You can go to the website, you can pay whatever

854
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 3: you want to dollar, five dollars, ten dollars, whatever. Man,

855
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 3: let's just get my guy out.

856
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 4: Even make a purchase.

857
00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 7: My damn, it's the Breakfast Club Morning