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Speaker 2: Thanks take valantility.

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Speaker 3: We are the authority on.

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Speaker 2: R and ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 3: My name is Tank Valentine and this is the Army

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Speaker 3: Money Podcast, the authority on all things.

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Speaker 1: HORR and B.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean today's it's.

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Speaker 3: A beautiful day, man, it's today where you know we

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Speaker 3: get to talk to and interact with a man who's multifaceted, uh, bilingual, multicultural.

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Speaker 3: I think he got a skin care line. I mean

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Speaker 3: great skin, great skin, a character to go with the skin.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 5: This is how you.

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Speaker 2: Diversify your portfolio. You're seeing what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: You're always gonna be cracking in one area and you

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Speaker 3: got another area to hold you up.

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Speaker 1: And listen, I become the podcast.

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Speaker 3: Now come on now, who will somebody gonna tell me

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Speaker 3: that the podcast. That's what I'm saying, in honor of Birst,

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Speaker 3: to find your portfolio and being good in every asset

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Speaker 3: in that motherfucker. Ye.

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Speaker 1: Hey, So, so the two languages I speak, the third

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Speaker 1: language I speak it's called sexy. Yeah, it's called sexy.

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Speaker 1: It's about a Scotish language. It's called sexy baby. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: so just it's three of.

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Speaker 1: This is your camera. I had to look at him

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Speaker 1: and look.

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Speaker 2: Relax.

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Speaker 5: You don't speak the language.

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Speaker 2: I do speak.

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Speaker 3: Please, please, please, you try to. It's better when you're

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Speaker 3: not here. When you're not here, is that sound horrible?

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Speaker 1: It's okay. I love you.

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Speaker 5: I love you. It's the truth.

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Speaker 2: Not always thank you.

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Speaker 3: So I could not have been in no no, yeah,

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Speaker 3: having to New Jersey not even you don't coming to

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Speaker 3: America to okay. You have to teach me and willing

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Speaker 3: to learn. Listen, man, First of all, thank you my brother.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 3: You know we're family, but you know we we we

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Speaker 3: know your time is precious man, and we appreciate that

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Speaker 3: you've how you've grown. Thank you, We support you, know

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. How you've been successful.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: We don't take that for granted, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Even within friendship, man, we always want to salute and

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Speaker 3: respect that. How you feeling, man, you got you know

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Speaker 1: Thank you. You're dressing like an American today? Is that

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Speaker 7: I was putting on like some He tried to go

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Speaker 2: It's coming. No, no, he's got the Michael Jordan's show.

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Speaker 1: Yes though I did that. Yes, he showed up, Like

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Speaker 2: Nah.

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Speaker 1: I feel great, bro. You know, for me, I'm in

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Speaker 1: a place of like self learning, you know, self growth.

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Speaker 1: Like this year, I told myself, I'm going to do

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Speaker 3: It, Yeah, because I mean there is a discovery within

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Speaker 3: Saying that what are what are? And where are those

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Speaker 8: Work Because as entertainers where everyone else's get away, getaway?

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Speaker 8: And then when we then when we don't do it,

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Speaker 1: It's like we're not human, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: We'll just an imagination. We're fantasy. But people forget that. Yo,

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Speaker 1: It's been fast and it has been health has been

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Speaker 3: add to that the quality of that longevity yes, you

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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like how you're around, you know,

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Speaker 1: Time, absolutely and trusting your talent. You gotta trust your talent.

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Speaker 8: A lot of talented people don't actually trust their talent.

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Speaker 8: They feel like they're gonna run out, so they rush,

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Speaker 8: They rush into bad deals, they rush into doing bad things.

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Speaker 8: You know it's like, you know, especially in this day

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Speaker 1: Still be there. Do you feel like social media has

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Speaker 8: Think I think system talented people have always been impatient.

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Speaker 1: And you can see that now. But and for some

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Speaker 8: Say, hey, I'm gonna chill. I'm a way too, it's

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Speaker 3: You got to be able to identify, you know, your

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Speaker 3: we have to produce that.

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Speaker 1: And to get that exactly not true.

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Speaker 2: You just have to.

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Speaker 3: Do your thing your way, yes, the way it connects,

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Speaker 2: We got a lot of artists that are missed.

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Speaker 3: Three artists yeah you know what I mean, Yeah, who

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Speaker 2: People in a frenzy one point. There's a lot of that.

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Speaker 3: So it's just like the labels have an idea of

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Speaker 2: It's already happened. Yes, yes, So it's it's all different.

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Speaker 3: There is I don't think there is no right or

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Speaker 1: And that's the hardest thing for people who are really

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Speaker 1: You stop right there, don't you do this? Okay, get there? Okay, okay, we.

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Speaker 3: Had so much interaction before you got there. Yes, you

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Speaker 3: Back okay, okay, okay, okay back into time. Let's go

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Speaker 3: back to the very beginning where somebody said to you,

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Speaker 1: for what exactly. So let me just do communications, man,

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00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,199
Speaker 1: let me just do communication. So that was like, okay,

437
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 1: psychology and you know theater one on one, the history

438
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,919
Speaker 1: of theater. It was cool and just communicate, calm. It

439
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 1: was fun, you know what I mean. So, and it

440
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:39,720
Speaker 1: was where the girls.

441
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:45,919
Speaker 8: They weren't in a micro micro.

442
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,880
Speaker 2: Lady, I want to be with a lady.

443
00:21:49,280 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna walk in class with the list baby. So

444
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: we used to sneak into the studio that was just

445
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 1: for the engineering kids. So we got cool with the janitor.

446
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,920
Speaker 1: So we sneak in at one o'clock at night and

447
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 1: just record like our mixtapes, me and my guys at school.

448
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 1: So then it was like, okay, I really like So

449
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 1: we would just start printing out the mixtapes, selling it

450
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 1: right before class. And it's cold as hell in Chicago,

451
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 1: so we were really on the block, like at a

452
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 1: Northwestern Ivy League school, just passing out mixtape three dollars,

453
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 1: and we started realizing, oh, people really buying this, okay,

454
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:33,680
Speaker 1: so then we're like, yo, just come to our show.

455
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,440
Speaker 1: So then we started packing out the shows. So that's

456
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 1: when it was like, all right, so the hustle mentality, Okay,

457
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,399
Speaker 1: you're actually really good, doesn't matter what skin color it is, Okay,

458
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 1: let's keep going. So then you'll start taking like trains

459
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,679
Speaker 1: to the city, go to Chicago and just do like

460
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 1: the open mics there. And that's where I met Jeremiah

461
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: because he was coming at the birthday. Sex was about

462
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 1: to drop at that time and he was doing it,

463
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 1: so and then Will from day twenty six had his

464
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,120
Speaker 1: open mics, so it was like it was like a

465
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: family that was starting to form out there for me,

466
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 1: you know, but it was it was cool, man. There

467
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: was a lot of growth in that time. From seventeen

468
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: to twenty one.

469
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, you graduate, you graduate college.

470
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, do you stay in Chicago? Yes? So I graduate,

471
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: So it's how it goes illo. So I graduate, yep,

472
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,199
Speaker 1: so I graduate. So I moved to the hood in

473
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: Chicago when I graduate. So right at this point in

474
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 1: the hood, No, I didn't know it was a hood.

475
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 1: So it's it's High Park. You move where you could though.

476
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: I moved where I could afford. Yeah, and you know

477
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: anything Martin Luther King Boulevard.

478
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 4: You know, I was there.

479
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 2: I was.

480
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: I was there with Martin Luther. So when I when

481
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: I did that, it was me and my manager living

482
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 1: together at that time. So my dad was like, Yo,

483
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: since you finished school, I'll pay half your rent for

484
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 1: the first year so you can follow music. Like, since

485
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: you graduated, I'll give you six months rent to just

486
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,119
Speaker 1: figure out what the hell was going to do. So

487
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: this is when it gets interesting. So we really didn't

488
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 1: have money. I was a struggling artist. You started. I'm

489
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: starting to see all my my friends get economic jobs

490
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: and the walk working for Wall Street because Northwestern sets

491
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: you up for that. So I'm just basically in the

492
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: hood now this point, me and my manager and he

493
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,880
Speaker 1: was like, yo, like you ever thought about acting? Bro?

494
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,479
Speaker 1: Like you you shot like two music videos. You're real

495
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: natural in front of the camera. Like, let's go, let's

496
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: try to get money to do a commercial. That was

497
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: how it started. I was like, well, bro, I don't

498
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: got no resume or anything. I never really act before.

499
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: Like what he was like, Nah, just just let's just

500
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,360
Speaker 1: put your He was like, just put the two three

501
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 1: music videos you did and we just say you went

502
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 1: to Northwestern to see what happens. So I go spend

503
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: the day going to every agency in the city. Nobody

504
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: took me because there was no agent. There was nothing.

505
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 1: There was nothing. I had no no resume. The only

506
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: the only agency that took me was a small boutique agency.

507
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: And the only reason why she took means because her

508
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: son was a freshman at Northwestern. So she was like,

509
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: let me just make sure alumni is okay. Like I

510
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 1: don't know if you can act or not, but like,

511
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,360
Speaker 1: if you want to do this, let me make sure

512
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: you're okay. So she was like, all right, let me

513
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: do a camera test. You know the Gator Rays Gatoraye

514
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: script that I got. Just see what you do. At

515
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: this point in time, I didn't know. I had like

516
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 1: a photographic memory, so I don't know. I can look

517
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: at something. It okay cool. So I did it and

518
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: she was just like whoa, okay, this is your You

519
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: didn't study Northwestern? I said no, no. She was like,

520
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: all right, okay, So what we're gonna do. I'm gonna

521
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: give you. I'm gonna sign you. So it's Monday. She

522
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 1: was like, there's an audition for a TV show called

523
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,959
Speaker 1: Boss on Wednesday. I was like, all right, well, what

524
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: do I do when I go into audition? Like, how's

525
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 1: it set up? Is the casting director? She's like, don't

526
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: go in thinking that you're going to get this job.

527
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: The job, the role is already cast for. I just

528
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: want you to get used to being in front of

529
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: a casting director and the elements of auditioning. So just

530
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: just a friend is doing me a favorite. Her name

531
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,160
Speaker 1: is shout out the Clai signmon man. She she looked out.

532
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: So a friend is giving me, doing me a favor

533
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 1: by letting you in. So I was like, all right, cool, cool, cool.

534
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 1: So I took the papers for the audition and I

535
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 1: was like all right, cool, well, all right, boom, I'm

536
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: not gonna get this. So let me just have fun

537
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: with this fun. So I learned that. So I was like,

538
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: all right, I go in. So then I see Kelsey Grammar.

539
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,680
Speaker 1: So Kelsey Grammar is coming in to basically tell the

540
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: casting director casting agency, thank you for casting my new show,

541
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: which is Boss. So she was like, well, Kelsey, why

542
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 1: don't you just stay Why don't you just stay this?

543
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: You know, if you see anything with this kid, this

544
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: kid has never acted before. It's just just just see

545
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 1: what you you know. He's like, all right, I really

546
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:58,959
Speaker 1: didn't know who we were. I just remember seeing him

547
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 1: on Frasier. I'm saying, I really you know, So I'm

548
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 1: okay cool. I wasn't phased by it. So I'm so

549
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: in my music bag at this point. Remember when you

550
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: could write the website of your your website on a wristband. Yes, yeah, yeah,

551
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:21,400
Speaker 1: so I'm over there, wrote Tommy music back. I got

552
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 1: you go scroll down on when you go to the website,

553
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: like straight up not giving a damn, like you know

554
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I'm like, so they all laughing,

555
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: so mind I was like, okay, so that little laughing

556
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: is okay.

557
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 2: The move just got broken.

558
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: Ice is broken. So again another skill that. I'm like,

559
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: oh wow, okay, Ice is broken. It's cool. So then

560
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: I just do it do the auditions. So Kelsey's like

561
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: I never figured. He was like, can you try it,

562
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: you know, with a little list this and this, this, this,

563
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 1: this this. So I'm all right cool, he said, so

564
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: you so you study because at the time, Northwestern was

565
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 1: one of the top theater theater programs in the country.

566
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 2: Did you know this?

567
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: I don't know this. So when she said you went

568
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: to the Western, he was already like, oh, you probably

569
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: studied with Don. He was like, oh, you studied with

570
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: Don Mora because hey, haa Don Morris one of the

571
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: I said, but I don't know who Don morri is.

572
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: I never met Don Morris. Who is He like, no,

573
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 1: it's a sixty year old white woman. I said, oh okay, alright, alright,

574
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: we're back, you know. So so then I do it

575
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: about another three or four times and he was like, man,

576
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: he was like, I've never I haven't seen natural ability

577
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: since like a Jamie Fox, you really do music. I

578
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I seen man. He was like, okay, well, Claire,

579
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: let's figure something out. I remember that. I was like.

580
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: So I was like, so anyway, so two weeks later

581
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: they called and say I got the job. So it

582
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:55,959
Speaker 1: becomes I'm terrified. Bro's like, okay, my first deal. Now

583
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm scared. And I was like, Yo, you're getting six

584
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: figures out of school and you don't know what you do,

585
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: what you're doing, you don't know why why are you

586
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: paying me this money? I don't even know what I'm

587
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: supposed to do to earn this money.

588
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,239
Speaker 2: How am I like?

589
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: How does this make sense? So so Kelsey was like,

590
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: once I got the call, once I got the deal,

591
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: once I did the deal, Kelsey's like, yo, come meet me.

592
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: He's like, okay, so let me explain to you the basics.

593
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: This is camera left, camra right, These are called sides,

594
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: These are this and this. So every time, every every

595
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: time we have scenes together, I need you to come

596
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: to my trailer two hours before and we will do

597
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: scenes study together. I said, okay. So Kelsey Grammont was

598
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: basically my first acting teacher. Bro crazy. So he was like, man,

599
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: like this little cool, cool things that like you can

600
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: learn you know from only can learn from a great

601
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so it was like,

602
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: so episode one was my first acting class for real.

603
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: So whenever. So you go on Netflix and watch Boss.

604
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: That's my first acting class of what things are and

605
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: where things are. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. It's is guy

606
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: working at the right time. So my manager at the time,

607
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: I didn't have an agency at the time. So my

608
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: manager at the time was like, bro, fifty got this

609
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: show just like two thousand and fourteen is now. He's like,

610
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: fifty got this show called Power, Like like, I don't know.

611
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: Season one just went went on, but nobody's really talking

612
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: about it and they interested in you. But you gotta

613
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: fly yourself to LA and kind of put yourself up

614
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: for a pilot season. I'm like, dog, I only got

615
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: like five grand bro, Like I can I just put

616
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: my self tape? You really in self tape? Then you

617
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: had to be in the room, you know.

618
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 4: What I mean.

619
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, So like it wasn't really it was like can

620
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: I self tape? Like yeah, but you'll kind of be

621
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: shuffled and they're seeing people every day for this character. Bro,

622
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: it's a series regular regular role, like you gotta go in.

623
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: So I'm like Jesus, all right, So I bought my

624
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: ticket boom some counting every dollar like all right, well,

625
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: poly seasons about two three weeks. They might see me.

626
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: They might need to see me the first day and

627
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: not call you back for another two weeks. So damn,

628
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: I gotta figure out. Let me get Let me get

629
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: a motel. So I went, I got a motel in

630
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: east on East Hollywood, like with the essays yo, like

631
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: all this side like it's it's not one of my language.

632
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: It wasn't one of them. So I'm I'm in East Hollywood, bro,

633
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: and like and like, I'm like, damn, how much is

634
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: this from a night? He was like, uh forty, I said, Brom,

635
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: I'm a struggling artist. Like I don't know how long

636
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: I be here. He was like, shout out to Bob Man.

637
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: It was like, okay, I can do it was an

638
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: Indian dude. He was like, I can do twenty five

639
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: dollars a night for you. Just don't forget that's when

640
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: you make it, man, don't forget real hotel. But I

641
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: was in a motel. Bro different, it's different, it's nasty way.

642
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: But I was still pulling them though. I mean, it's

643
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: the man, you know. I said, this is a temporary big.

644
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 5: That's whoa, that's a cold bottom of the.

645
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: It's the man, not the hotel, bro, Bro, So from

646
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: the bottom.

647
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 4: Now we're here.

648
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm in the motel. So luckily the first

649
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: day they see me, they bring me in and they're like, man,

650
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: we love, we love, we love what you did. Do

651
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: I said, but maybe come back. We'll keep you posted.

652
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll have callbacks in like four or five days.

653
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So that's another one hundred and fifty

654
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: two hundred. I gotta eat, so four hundred all right, shoot,

655
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: all right, cool, all right, cool, I can I can

656
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: make it happen. Come that day boom, knock it out.

657
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: They're like, all right, well another four days. Well well

658
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: yeah it's like that, bro. It's like, well I did

659
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: it on Thursday. Monday was if you get the screen test,

660
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: you get like the what's called like if it's down

661
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: to basically you and somebody else, they basically like bring

662
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: you in. So I had to wait till Monday. Now,

663
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: so now I'm kind of pushing two weeks now, you know,

664
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: which I didn't know. I'm just starting to feel like

665
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: you're starting to know, like damn, like this is really

666
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: this is getting low, like this is getting lower.

667
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 2: Now.

668
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great, raised bro. So then I'm like, all right, cool,

669
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: so oh shout out to say your name. But like

670
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: one of my homegirls at the time, she was like,

671
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: you'll come to church with me, and I was like

672
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: all right. So I went to church and it was

673
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: it was like it was like the sermon was like

674
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: just just hold on a little longer, just hold on

675
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: a little longer. And that thing broke broke. And I

676
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,959
Speaker 1: was like, okay, all right because at the time, like

677
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: you on the top of the world, you in Chicago,

678
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: you got to hit show, your show wins a golden

679
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: globe the bass, and now you're not really with three

680
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: four thousand. You have money, but you can't really touch

681
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: it for real. So you start to feel like damn,

682
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: like what's wrong with me? Like what how did it

683
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: get to this point that I'm in a motel and

684
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: you know, and one of my homegirls got it like, yo,

685
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: I don't I handle it like that type of energy

686
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: is I'll never feel this ever again, yo. And so

687
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: so yeah, so that that mindset started changing when I

688
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: went to church and I was like, all right, cool,

689
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 1: I can do this, even if it's to my last

690
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: last dollar. I'm here, and I said, I did it.

691
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 2: You know.

692
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: So then callback comes and it was me and the Keith.

693
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: It was me and Leakeith, and he was like, yoh,

694
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: so you're going there for Dre. I'm like, yeah, I'm

695
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: going to j He's like you're going for JA.

696
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, nigga, I'm.

697
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: Going for JA. He's like, if I don't get this one,

698
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: I'm working on it, I might get this show called Atlanta.

699
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, shoot, well cool, bro. Either way,

700
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: you know, you do your things. So that's how we met,

701
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: and so went in. Oh I bodied it, bro. I

702
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: bodied it like it's one of the best experiences of

703
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: my life where I was like, damn, I just own

704
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: this whole situation. But it was also like that desperation

705
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: of I need this, like I for myself, my sanity,

706
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: for my mindset, for my family, for my future. Like

707
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: it was like I don't care, and I knew he

708
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: was nice. I was like, but I'm ten times better

709
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: than anybody in this moment. You know what I'm saying

710
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: in this moment, you know what I mean? So went

711
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: crazy and this again is how God works too. So

712
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: got the had to wait. They're like, we'll call you

713
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: back in like you know, like two three days we'll

714
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: know my my man is basically telling like yo, that

715
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: they don't really call right away, so just wait. You know,

716
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: they still got to see other people, you know, and

717
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: some people are you know, sending videos through Skype, and

718
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: so just just wait, bro, you know. So now I'm

719
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: down to like twelve hundred, Like twelve hundred, bro, and

720
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: get the call like you booked it, and that there

721
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 1: was the relief, like the relief, mind you we three

722
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 1: weeks in and just never forgetting that experience. So then

723
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: when I got my first paycheck, I went back to

724
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: that hotel, that motel and gave ten thousand to Bob.

725
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 2: You know what, Come on, man, you know what? Yeah?

726
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah.

727
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 5: I love I love the West.

728
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 2: So solid.

729
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 1: That's amazing, man, Bob, Come on, Bob, come on. Strip

730
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: Crazy Girls is over there somewhere close, you know. So

731
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: I'm at crib. Yeah I had already. You know, Ma's

732
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: been my guy for years. Yeah.

733
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm at the crib and you pop on the screen.

734
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I hadn't seen you. Yeah, I guess what years? Yeah,

735
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: And I'm like it's the first the first season. Yeah,

736
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: that's crazy.

737
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 5: It literally was.

738
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:09,439
Speaker 8: I literally had that moment Oh, you know you got

739
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 8: people that you're cool with but that you don't talk

740
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 8: to all the time.

741
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that you know you it's spaces, you know

742
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's not like you know, I was

743
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: on the call list of like, yeah, book, we know

744
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: each other, we cool, but I don't know that. Yeah,

745
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: yeah Nigga.

746
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 2: I'm literally like, oh.

747
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: Ship, Yeah, Nigga's cracking.

748
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 2: You know.

749
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 3: When I was watching it, I was like, I was,

750
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 3: he's really killing ship because that's not him the nicest guy, say,

751
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 3: the coolest nigga effort, and he is bodying this ship.

752
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 3: I really kind of don't like him. Yes, you know

753
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.

754
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: The way I definitely had a defendant for sure.

755
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 5: They be like, man, dude, hell no. Even though stuff

756
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 5: will come up with I'm like, yeah, here's a bullshitter,

757
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 5: a whole another route there, let's go. I'm sick of this.

758
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: Ship to.

759
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 4: Ship.

760
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 5: He always look at weasel out. Don't trust that nigga.

761
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 3: Like I was really in the show, Yes, don't tell

762
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 3: me nothing, like me and Ze would watch it. I said,

763
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 3: don't tell me nothing, I want to watch it, and

764
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 3: I really watched it from a fan. And when I

765
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 3: say enjoyed myself. Right, I know we're getting ready to

766
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 3: get to some more music because watching you go crazy

767
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 3: in that show and then hearing your music, I was like,

768
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,439
Speaker 3: I was like, they're not gonna get that. I said,

769
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 3: they're not gonna get it. And me, you talked about it.

770
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 3: He said, I say, you are so far left right now.

771
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 3: You are such an abuser, You are such a killer

772
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 3: and connoising motherfuckers that no one is going to be

773
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 3: able to separate you from that character and embody your

774
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 3: sexy music. They're not gonna find you there. Who is that?

775
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 6: You know?

776
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 3: Goddamn it really am And I was like, I felt

777
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 3: like there was a disconnect. Yeah, absolutely was because you

778
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 3: were doing so good, which is good and bad because

779
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 3: as a musician, as an artist, you're like, I just

780
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 3: want to be able to do what the fuck I do.

781
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 3: Appreciate me everywhere, but people will believe wholeheartedly that that

782
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 3: motherfucker devil and yeah, I lost half on a bet

783
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 3: movie lost. They will play my movie for educational purposes.

784
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 2: Don't fall.

785
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 5: In churches and in school, got run.

786
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 8: That's a tough space, like for a new artist. Absolute,

787
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 8: it's really tough for Tank. It's it's tough, but it's

788
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 8: a mind fuck for you. It's a mindful right, But

789
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 8: we're very mindful incognizant of that to this day though,

790
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 8: of when roles come in, what you think?

791
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: I'm like, you can't do it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you

792
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: can't do it. Not that one.

793
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 5: He's like, what if? I like, but if you do

794
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 5: too good? You're him?

795
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 4: Yeah?

796
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, And how do we you know what I mean,

797
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: I get around you know what I'm saying. So we

798
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: we are every time a role comes in, we have

799
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 1: those conversations.

800
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 3: So what is your feeling like you're you're killing no

801
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 3: power and you're also trying to have a moment in music. Yeah,

802
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 3: and within all of those conversations, like, what is your

803
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 3: realization about your process?

804
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 6: That?

805
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: Okay? So it was it was steps and levels and transitions.

806
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: So when I first got there, it was okay, oh

807
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: not when I first got Oh yeah, there's two sides that.

808
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 1: So when I was filming Season two, when my first

809
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: season with Season two, all my if you remember Dre

810
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: and Canan fifty were the best of France, right, So

811
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: I spent majority of my season with fifty, all my

812
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: scenes with fifty. So I started realizing like, damn, I

813
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: don't want to really bring up my music because it's

814
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: not the right time. And then people on the street

815
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: are giving him mixtapes and he's throwing it like I'm like,

816
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: I don't want that to be me. Let me chill,

817
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: like exactly, I don't know how to do my job

818
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: after that.

819
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 3: So then excuse me, what the hell is this man.

820
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 2: Should have done? Man thrown my drives?

821
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 4: Man crazy?

822
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 1: So so yeah, so I was like, nah, he's either

823
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: gonna have to hear me on the radio somehow or

824
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 1: somebody gonna have to bring it to him. So I'm

825
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: telling you the story of how I got my deal

826
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 1: and then we'll go into the transition of everything. So

827
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: we're filming season two, so I don't know the magnitude

828
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: of what Dre is gonna be at this time. We're

829
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: literally filming, so no one's seen it yet, so we're

830
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: just working, you know. So so so yeah, So one

831
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: day I still haven't told fifty four months into working

832
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: with him, almost every day that I do music. So

833
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 1: I go to this session one day. It's these two

834
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: white producers and they were like, hey, bro, I never

835
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: met them, but they've been asking to work for about

836
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: two three weeks at that time. So they're like, hey, Bro,

837
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: so somebody's gonna come to this session because we just

838
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 1: won a Snapchat beat battle and the guy from in

839
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 1: the Scope is going to come and get some records

840
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,919
Speaker 1: for some of his artists. So I was like all right, cool.

841
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: He's like, did you mind? I was like no, dadn't come.

842
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 1: So oh boy comes in and the record that I'm

843
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: working on is the record called my record called Lotto

844
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 1: with Fifth and eventually records I'm working. He was like, yo, yeah,

845
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 1: my name is Tony G I work with in the Scope.

846
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 4: But who's this that.

847
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: I was like, that's me, Bro. He's like oh, He's

848
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: like okay, did you do music? I was like yeah.

849
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: He said, what do you bring this to New York.

850
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I'm filming a TV show called Power.

851
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know it. You know we're

852
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: filming season two right now. He was like, bro, what

853
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: I do the music for Power? Said? I do all

854
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: the music for Power. It was like, Bro, I'm I'm

855
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: the head of G Unit Music. I said, what, Bro,

856
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: I played Dre. He was like, oh, you played Dre.

857
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 4: Yeah.

858
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: Fick was telling me about this kid Bro come to

859
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: the come to G unit tomorrow. I said, look at God,

860
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: Bro like, so I go to So it's how it works, right.

861
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: So my meeting, I was living in Brooklyn in the

862
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: studio apartment, so I had to go. If you know

863
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: New York, the traffic around one, two three to go

864
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: to Times Square, it's horrible. So my meeting was supposed

865
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: to be at one o'clock with Tony G. And you

866
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,479
Speaker 1: know when you play records, the meanings like thirty forty

867
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: minutes in and out kind of thing, right, But I

868
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: was like two. I was like, I was like an

869
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: hour and a half late. So I'm panicing, like, damn,

870
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,879
Speaker 1: this is I lost an opportunity man brola blah blah blah.

871
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 1: So Tony's like, nah, it's cool, Bro, it's cool, cool,

872
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: cool Now we just getting started. Anyway, So I sit

873
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: down and fifty comes in at two thirty. So if

874
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: I came on time, I most likely would have missed. Yeah,

875
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: that moment, that moment. So he comes in, He's like, hey, ro,

876
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: what's you doing?

877
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 6: Bro?

878
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 4: What you know here?

879
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man, Tony G came to the studio.

880
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: He's like, studio, what you filming? Something else there, So no, no,

881
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: like music studio. He was like, where you do music?

882
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: I was like yeah. He was like okay, let me So.

883
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what he I don't know what he

884
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: expected he was gonna hear. But I played the record.

885
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: I played Lotto and he made me play that song

886
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: nine times, back to back to back to back, and

887
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: he was like, oh yeah, let's we're gonna do a deal.

888
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 1: Oh what the fuck is this? We're gonna do a deal?

889
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: Oh yo, ro I'm gonna do my verse tonight. Have

890
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: your lord, let's set this up through. This is easy,

891
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: let's go. So I signed with Gan.

892
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 2: So today.

893
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 3: Man, right now, what's on your mind? Where are you

894
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 3: in terms of you know, the things you're working on

895
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 3: and where you want to tell the people to go

896
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 3: to things, where to be when you're gonna be there?

897
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah yeah.

898
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: So So first and foremost, we got a TV I mean,

899
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: I got a TV show called Will Trent that I'm

900
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: on now. It's on ABC. So we had to crossover

901
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 1: and go that sign you know what I'm saying, and

902
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 1: it's it's a beautiful thing, man, shout out to ABC.

903
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: So I got a movie house party. If you haven't

904
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: seen it yet. It's out in theaters right now. I'm

905
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: doing really well. I got a broken Lebron house. Yes, yes, sir,

906
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: yes king, yes sir, you know, yes, yeah you go.

907
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: He signed an argument.

908
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 8: We don't have a basketball podcast, so I'm not gonna

909
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 8: everybody know, Michael Jordan Green.

910
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 2: It just is what it is.

911
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 4: Six times I don't have a go.

912
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: We just I don't have a go. What you're doing,

913
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: what you're doing. This is how he win his little argument.

914
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: You know, you know I can't play no pim, so

915
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: whenever we start allgeting, he break out the pimo. Come on,

916
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: man with your man go ahead, what you're gonna do?

917
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: I just want to know your.

918
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 6: Top five, your top five? Mm hmmm, top five, Your

919
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 6: top five?

920
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: Who?

921
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 4: Your top.

922
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 5: Singers and song homes? R and B top us?

923
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, where it be?

924
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 5: Your top top five?

925
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 4: Hold on?

926
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 2: Still first, your top.

927
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 4: You're top.

928
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: Five. He showed out because you dissed his accent. He

929
00:47:55,239 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: showed up. Yeah, that's been five R and B singers,

930
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 1: Man and woman lives who Marvin start off right, Joe?

931
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what I know what box you in

932
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 2: right now?

933
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: I like O R Kelly, Kelly got you can't take

934
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: away from a box you I know for my life

935
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: Carl Thomas, m hm, Carl Thomas was crazy. And I

936
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 1: gotta go with Mike and Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson, that's

937
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: my start because you were the Nigerian Michael Jackson as

938
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: a child, I was better.

939
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 4: Did you have glitter?

940
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 2: I did?

941
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: I did all of it.

942
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 4: I made it myself.

943
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: It was in Glitan Gold.

944
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 3: That's a great box. That's a great box. Top five

945
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:04,240
Speaker 3: R and B songs.

946
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: Oh oh, Summer Raine, m m Summer Raine US in Chicago. Yeah,

947
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 1: you just can't help but to you just can't help it.

948
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's just so good man.

949
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 3: You need to find lenen, loose linen. When Summer Raine

950
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 3: come on, it's got to write a little bit with something.

951
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 3: It's gotta be tropical.

952
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: You can be twelve years old, you still feel like

953
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: an o G. When I record.

954
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 2: You gotta have on some different kind of sands, maybe

955
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:37,439
Speaker 2: a throng sand.

956
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: So I say Summer Raine. Then I go with Oh wow,

957
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: that's dang. There's so many songs. Uh, I'll go with

958
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,720
Speaker 1: I'll go with Thriller because of just watching the visual

959
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: with it and seeing like yo you can, you can

960
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:58,479
Speaker 1: actually make a movie.

961
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 8: It's never been done again never and it's been done,

962
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 8: it's never been recreated.

963
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 5: It can't ever.

964
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: You can't recreate thrilling. It can never be trying to

965
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: find a jacket for Halloween. Recreate thriller Oh for You

966
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: by Kenny Latimore. M. Yeah, that was hard to sing. Oh, bro,

967
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Don't don't don't. I don't recommend anybody try.

968
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: That is incredible.

969
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 8: Speaking of that's that that is like the top of

970
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 8: the top of wedding songs. Yeah, what is a Nigerian

971
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 8: wedding song? Because you said you're a Nigerian wedding singer.

972
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: So it was more gospel songs. Yeah, it was more

973
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 1: like Jesus paid it all. It was more of like,

974
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: uh but it was like so at that age it

975
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: was for me. It was Jesus paid it all. So

976
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: it was like the ceremony of just like basically celebrating

977
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: them together before like the African music came. I mean,

978
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: where am I at three? At three summer?

979
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 2: Thriller for You?

980
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: For you? Oh Joe, I want to know? M man,

981
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: that's crazy great, my crew. The song I sang a

982
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:29,879
Speaker 1: lot in high school. That just played, not even sang

983
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: a lot that played a lot was dang it was

984
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 1: on Jamie's unpredictable. Uh damn was it unpredictable? Yeah it

985
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: was actually no, no, it was. Yeah, it was predict

986
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 1: It's unpredictableable.

987
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 2: Do what to do?

988
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: Actually? Do what to do?

989
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 4: Is it not?

990
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:53,280
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? Do what do? That's for what it represented

991
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: for me, man, it was it was. It was incredible

992
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: because it was the first one do you know that record?

993
00:51:58,120 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 4: Tank?

994
00:51:58,920 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: Do you know that song?

995
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 3: I mean, I just you know, got called the Miami

996
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 3: Shooting Miami Weeis to help him finish the tune.

997
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. Just check the credits, bros. Incredible, incredible, incredible.

998
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 4: Bro, Like it was for.

999
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:16,720
Speaker 1: You know, for me, that was one of my surreal

1000
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: moments when I knew how much I was like the

1001
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: big I still am, for sure, but I was the

1002
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: biggest Jamie Fox fan in high school in college that

1003
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: the first ever celebrity that actually took me in in

1004
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: Hollywood was Jamie. Oh yeah, So I'll tell you the story.

1005
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 1: Tell many people have that story, bro. So it was

1006
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen and he was filming Jangle with Leonardo and

1007
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 1: he was like and I was like. We were at

1008
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: a Clippers Clippers private parties. It was my first time

1009
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: really in LA. I'm just young, just like, oh my god,

1010
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: I'm here my show popper. It was a golden globe

1011
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 1: we had just Kelsei had just won a golden globe.

1012
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: So somebody taps me on my shoulders. So I'm like,

1013
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: you know, okay, cool whatever. It's a dude with like

1014
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: this beard and look dirty. So I'm like, yo, who

1015
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: is this And it's dark, so I'm like, who is

1016
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: this nigga trying to touch? He does it. He's like, yo, man,

1017
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of you man. And he's literally in

1018
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: full everything. They're still in the middle of filming and

1019
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: he had a scully on and his shades on. So

1020
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,800
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, this is and he's dressed like different.

1021
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 1: It's not what I expect the Jamie Foxx to look like.

1022
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 2: So he tells me.

1023
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey man, I'm like, what's up, bro, Like,

1024
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you man, I appreciate you. But she's

1025
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: tapping me. He's like, look, nigga, turn around. I was like,

1026
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: oh my god. I said, oh my god. He was like, man,

1027
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: yo and me and Leonardo we stop everything and watch

1028
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 1: boss Man and you're super talented, bro, like what you're

1029
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 1: doing out in La And at the time I was

1030
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: there for Gold and Glove about still recording music. He said,

1031
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: you do music. I was like yeah, man, like, yo, come,

1032
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: there's a playoff games like come to my crib, come

1033
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: to there. Yeah, my family gonna be there, My sister's

1034
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: gonna be there. You know, come pull up, man, like

1035
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: you know, just just just vibei kicking with us for

1036
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: the for the day went over and it was just

1037
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: like he's like, Yo, let's go to the studio. Play

1038
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: my whole cattle out. He was like, man, like you

1039
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: my little brother. And so every time, even if he

1040
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: wasn't there, like most of the time he wasn't there,

1041
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: I was just to stay at the crib, you know

1042
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And like just for that to be

1043
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: my ushering into Hollywood, it was like wow, like someone

1044
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: that you see yourself doing similar things and just admires, like, oh,

1045
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: he's taking me under his wing. I remember like maybe

1046
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: four or five months later, I had a hosting at

1047
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:39,840
Speaker 1: some little club. It was my birthday. He got on

1048
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,479
Speaker 1: stage and like, yo. In the next five to ten years,

1049
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: this man gonna be one of the biggest people in

1050
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 1: the world, man, and it was just like wow.

1051
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:53,320
Speaker 8: Now his footprint is on the entertainment business. It's it's unmatched,

1052
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 8: it's unmatched.

1053
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: It's unmatched, man.

1054
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 8: It's literally he's the guy that you meet and you're like,

1055
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 8: it ain't all fake. Yes, yeah, when you meet Jamie Foxx,

1056
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 8: you realize that it's not all fake. You're like, you

1057
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 8: know what, you can go to the highest levels of

1058
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 8: this ship and still be.

1059
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: A real one. Absolutely, man, the greatest. So for you

1060
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: to have that story, man, it's amazing to hear it,

1061
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: and it's amazing to hear it over and over of

1062
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 1: different people that you Like, I saw ed shearing at

1063
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 1: his crazy bro, what's the readier white nigga bro? He

1064
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: likes different.

1065
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 8: Yeah, crazy Jamie believes really early man, and he I

1066
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 8: think he just loves He just loves talent.

1067
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: He loves talent, man, and he embraces it. So that's

1068
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: that's super dope. Okay.

1069
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 3: So that's your that's your five songs. That's five artists.

1070
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 3: Let's get a lets get a volt tronk going. Okay,

1071
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 3: we're gonna make a vult tronk an artist super artist.

1072
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 3: I want to know who you'renna get the vocals from.

1073
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 3: Who you're gonna get the performance style from. Who you're

1074
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 3: gonna get the style from, and you're gonna get the

1075
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:05,320
Speaker 3: passion from. So let's start with the vocal for your vultron.

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00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 3: You're okay, what person are you going to snatch the

1077
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 3: vocal front?

1078
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 4: Wow?

1079
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 1: Give me Whitney m hm, can't go wrong.

1080
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1081
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1082
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 3: Performance style, performance style, how they rock on stage, Prince Ship, Yeah,

1083
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 3: that's getting aggressive, aggressive styling, what they look like on stage.

1084
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:39,320
Speaker 1: Andre two thousand. But he's not R and B. But no, no, no,

1085
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 1: no god ye bang bangs. Give me a Andre two

1086
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:48,320
Speaker 1: thousand style. Yeah, put the show paths on Jersey. You

1087
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 1: will know, you will know not miss him like no

1088
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: means I was like it okay. And then the passion

1089
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:58,359
Speaker 1: of the artist, the harder, the soul of the art,

1090
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 1: the passion. Give me Quincy Jones mm hmm. Yeah, he's relentless.

1091
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: What you know anybody else that went over to France?

1092
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: And steady strings for your strings? You know what I'm saying.

1093
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: I'll be back, come back to the whole.

1094
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 2: No FaceTime, FaceTime, the phone.

1095
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: You gotta letters, letters, your letters.

1096
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 3: I'll be back. I gotta study strings and.

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00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 1: Who that's a different type of passion. That's a different

1098
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: that's a dedication. Man wrote out everybody's parts like with

1099
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: his hand. So you know what, I'll take the gig

1100
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: for less. I'll write the charts off crazy. You're talking

1101
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: about Frank Sinatra. Bro, people don't even know that in

1102
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: charge for Frank Sinatra. Come on, who are you? Come on?

1103
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 1: Quincy Jones, Jones that relentless?

1104
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Michael, we have to keep that. What do

1105
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 3: you mean can get away? That's the best part. So Michael,

1106
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 3: all the time, you can't keep fighting for the magic

1107
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 3: man for the magic.

1108
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 4: No, so man, Yeah, I ain't saying I ain't saying.

1110
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 7: That saying.

1111
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:27,440
Speaker 1: That you did.

1112
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 2: I ain't saying.

1113
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 4: No names.

1114
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 8: So we're here, and we're here. It's time you give

1115
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 8: us that story, funny or funked up. The only rule

1116
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 8: you can't say no name. I can't say no names.

1117
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: The Travels of ro Timmy, the Body, Scott's Travels travels.

1118
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: Yeah and listen, if if, if you want to be here,

1119
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: when you tell your story, tell your story.

1120
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 2: If that makes you.

1121
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: Feel better, yes, it makes me.

1122
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 5: You can't say no name.

1123
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: So right now this is Rotemy aka Dre the nigga.

1124
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 2: You love him again?

1125
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 1: Now I ain't saying no names. Hmm okay, all right.

1126
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: So when I was a young buck in this game

1127
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: looking at all the giants, Yes, there was one particular

1128
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:43,439
Speaker 1: joint that was an actress. And she was beautiful as

1129
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: golden beauty can be. Yes. So as a young girls,

1130
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do. Didn't have any idea

1131
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: what to do to say to this beautiful woman. You know,

1132
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:53,959
Speaker 1: I said, I have to give money.

1133
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 2: I have to do it.

1134
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 1: What I have?

1135
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 4: Do you have to pay for this thing?

1136
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 2: What am I doing?

1137
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was twenty one, twenty two years old.

1138
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: She was in a that T six or so. Yeah, yes,

1139
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: he who guy? Yeah, well she met the lion. You understand,

1140
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: she met the lion. So as she met the lion, right,

1141
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: so great, so she met the liar. Right. I realized

1142
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 1: that this woman was I was twenty one, twenty two,

1143
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: so she was recently divorced divorce. So her man was

1144
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: a big time business guy. But I said, listen, women,

1145
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: I don't have any money. I don't have money. I

1146
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 1: just have sex appeal and I have a gigantic thing. Yeah,

1147
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 1: I have something that will change your life if you're

1148
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: allowed to happen to you. If you want it, you'll

1149
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: never go back to any other mail ever, is that

1150
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: is once a lifetime baby. So as I get closer

1151
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 1: to bringing her over to my place, remember my place

1152
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 1: was nowhere to be found with a luggage and furniture,

1153
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: you don't finish it there. It was just a computer chair.

1154
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: But I had a computer chair for her as well.

1155
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: So in the computer chair, I said that I have

1156
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 1: not in here, but if you want, we can we

1157
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 1: can just talk. There's no I don't have cable, so

1158
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: we can have conversations. Do you like cards? We can

1159
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 1: play cards. So, as this moment is happening, the lights

1160
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 1: go off. The lights have gone off. This is one

1161
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: of routine Miss brookest moments ever. So as I sit

1162
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 1: there as a broke nigger, right, she says we can't

1163
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 1: just have conversation. She said, I'm so used to all

1164
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: these things that this man tried to do, but your

1165
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: conversation changed my life life. So we put candles and

1166
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: we almost had flaw sex. We almost remember, remember we

1167
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 1: all got flow after the conversation, but we did it.

1168
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: We had sex in the computer chair. So that was

1169
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: my story of this actress lady that is still popping

1170
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:21,919
Speaker 1: to the Hallelujah Jesus and you are not yes, yes,

1171
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: well I will not see a name computer chair.

1172
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 5: Well, we don't call the computer.

1173
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the computer chair, sir.

1174
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, lost lost our up in the chair. No,

1175
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 1: I haven't, no even tied up in the chair. I'm

1176
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 1: married now. Look so look man, first of all, man,

1177
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 1: congratulations to you man. Congratulations to you man. Thank you.

1178
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 1: Before we yes, you know, we get into those our

1179
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: mutual brother that we all have to make sure we

1180
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: shout out the ghost himself, who has no because between

1181
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:17,320
Speaker 1: all three of us, he's always been a bond between

1182
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 1: all three of them.

1183
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 5: Absolutely, he's always made sure.

1184
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 1: That if we're all in the same city, Hey, come come,

1185
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: come pull up on me. What's what's what's that?

1186
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 5: What's I got here?

1187
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 1: We got you know what I'm saying, like another genuine guy,

1188
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:40,680
Speaker 1: absolutely human, Yes, great human that has just always been

1189
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:43,720
Speaker 1: super super solid man that we all rock with, super heavy.

1190
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 8: And I know he gonna tap in. I know he

1191
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 8: gonna watch this podcast. Got a shouting bars for you to.

1192
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 2: It's not a regular Hello, no no, no, no, no,

1193
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 2: no no no.

1194
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 3: I just want to check on you and the tribe.

1195
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 3: You know, as you know Ows is also connected to me,

1196
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 3: a friend of mine, close to my heart. And then

1197
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 3: you know Brot Timmy who also you know, played a

1198
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 3: big part in developing on our show w as we

1199
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 3: became close and you know, now we're in such a

1200
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 3: great space, you know, spiritually as many as soldiers and bondage.

1201
01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:17,360
Speaker 1: And then back to you, my brother, I just want

1202
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: to say hello, Hello, a.

1203
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 2: Shout out to the brother.

1204
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:30,439
Speaker 1: Brother.

1205
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 3: But man list congratulations to you brother. Your product of

1206
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 3: hard work. Man of course, the gifts of course, right,

1207
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 3: but you are a product of hard work and and

1208
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 3: that that is not going to change. Skipping steps is

1209
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 3: never going to be. There's DNA, it's not even you know.

1210
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 2: What I'm saying.

1211
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:53,919
Speaker 1: I'm bow legged too.

1212
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 2: For that alone.

1213
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:00,160
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I know what you you're

1214
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 3: made up, I know what you're gonna do. I know

1215
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 3: you've had great success. I know you're on your way

1216
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:08,840
Speaker 3: to even greater success. And you will always have the

1217
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 3: backing and the support of your brothers man, the entire

1218
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 3: r and b money army.

1219
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 2: You are army.

1220
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 7: You represent you know, but Scotch to you give me

1221
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 7: a chair, baby, give him episode.

1222
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 2: We got to bring the chair.

1223
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:43,160
Speaker 5: You know, you know, you know, you know to reverse swivel.

1224
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

1225
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:49,440
Speaker 2: Make sure nothing again. Thank you.

1226
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 1: Whatever you need man, Thank you, insane, insane, absolutely congratulations

1227
01:05:55,960 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 1: on all the success. Like I said earlier, it's always

1228
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 1: great to see when a good guy wins man. Thank

1229
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 1: you Man. You a good dude.

1230
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 8: Thank you for flat out everything else. You're a good

1231
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 8: dude man, always been the same you fastest hell.

1232
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 5: To hey man, fast and fast dude.

1233
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 2: And loads to the ground to got real running back spirit.

1234
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:25,000
Speaker 2: Emmitt Smith's.

1235
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:37,280
Speaker 1: To you know what I'm saga man, cornerback Darrel, thanks

1236
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 1: for pulling up on it than Valentine.

1237
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:43,840
Speaker 2: And this is starting money podcast.

1238
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 5: No it's not. It's about Scotch Army and I'm going.

1239
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:49,760
Speaker 4: Make some.

1240
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 3: R and B money.

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01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:04,200
Speaker 8: R and B Money is a production of the Black

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01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:09,000
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01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:16,880
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01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:28,440
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