WEBVTT - "Rest In Peace" 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:09.600 Tra we lost my whole face last two weeks. Lifestyle 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:16.560 Kiddy Fern simon your favorite Ethiopian suit so low. Yeah, 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.560 I'm gonna say do it with that smile. Directly, I 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:20.759 was like, don't mind the list, it's not really I 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:22.440 didn't really hear him this. I didn't hear I can 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.040 feel it. Maybe maybe it doesn't sound like it, but 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.960 I can definitely feel it and say something with an S. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.280 There's like a weird like bubble, like a Smit bubble. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.040 So I just been is it like? Is it? Is it? Well? 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:40.040 This is week too? Um, this this particular set of 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.519 trades hurt like hell, you got a headache and this 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.400 is your how many number of trays is three? Or 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.000 this is my second second train? So you know they 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.840 say it'll be many steps first to three days. Ten 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.479 that's ten trays you'll get. Well, some of the trades 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.720 are just for a week, some could be for two weeks. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.720 So you sound good because I was listening, I had 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.160 a lisp. Well last week it's real bad. I I 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.000 think I probably just got a little used to it 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:03.760 by now. And you have to talk for a living, 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.080 so you gotta figure it. Yeah, because if you don't 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:08.520 keep a man for the amount of time. It's just 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.840 two well twenty to twenty two, but they want you 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.000 to wear him for twenty two hours, so they already 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:18.039 been awful for Are you feeling a difference. I am 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.680 feeling the pain and pressure in my mouth and my head, 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.520 and my temple's hurt, and and I'm hungry and one 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.800 tooth at a time. Sometimes time it feels like they're 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.480 all moving. Okay, it feels like, you know, at the 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.679 end of this is an amazing smile, you're gonna be 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.000 just not that you didn't smile already, but you're just 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.880 gonna be gone with I am super excited. It was 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.800 a low rough at brunch with these on this past 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.120 Sunday because I was scared I was going to accidentally 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.839 drool in front of somebody spen on I don't know whatever. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:54.680 Y'all time. Shout out to the girls with the Cocktails podcast, 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.960 Kiki and Medina. They came through the brunch. I heard 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.760 somebody in ball Nation hit you said they was coming 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.120 from Seattle. It was amazing. Yeah, I got an email 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.280 from someone and Seattle. I'm excited for her to come 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.440 and experience it. Um did he Emma came through and 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.320 did her afro burlesque. Jamison came in and spent some money. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:15.239 We did a couple of shots shows. It was high energy. Yeah, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:16.840 it was high energy. Had the strip of post I 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:22.960 saw somebody of my my friend Mark Jackson was there. Yes, yes, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:28.480 our friend left dance. I'm gonna yep. He enjoyed it too. Yeah, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.919 welcome to Sunday Brunch. What is your favorite meal there? 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.560 Because I'm coming to get it this Sunday. I'm going 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.280 to be in town. I'm saying that again. I'm not 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.640 missing this Sunday. Right? Would you go with me? Would you? 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:39.720 Would you come meet me and go with me? Well, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.080 since you asked, the French houses bomb. But the chicken 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.440 and waffles, honest to guy, y'all is the best waffle 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.160 I've ever had in my life. Okay, So that's what 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.000 we're giving this Sunday. What time? What time is good 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.840 to come? Like eat without all the turn up? A 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.040 good time to come and eat without the turn up. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.320 I would say, like two, you won't be there. I'm 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.160 there from open and clothes every Sunday. You better be dedicated. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.480 I'm there. I do it all reservations trying to get 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:12.160 my chickens. Okay, like Robins said, give them coining doggers. Rory, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.560 how was your weekend? You mine was good? H you 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:19.520 know out hearing these screets doing my thing, sir, stuff 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:25.400 you got. You gotta award your peers honored Champ talking 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.919 about my peers honor me one time for the A 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:33.160 till twenty dinner. Um, Brandon, appreciate you, my guy and 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.720 the whole crew. I know he was him and his partner. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:42.760 Appreciate everybody. Carmen, thank you for influencer award um in 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.840 my particular field. That's right, So that was cool. Shout 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.440 out to the other winners and people that got recognized too. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.280 That was super dope. That's awesome. Baby is doing man, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.320 The babies are good. Man. Potty training is kicking my ass. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:59.240 But she'll poop in the potty one day and then 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.040 the pooping her panties the next day because we think 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.800 she ready. And yeah, outside of that, es actually looks 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:10.800 she don't want to be messing soon enough. Trust ladies 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.960 and gentlemen. I went to Indianapolis this weekend. Yeah, I 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.599 haven't been to Indie. I don't think they have a 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.920 really nice downtown Indianapolis. Really, I mean it's cool. And 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.280 they had this thing called Party Graw P A R 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.960 D I graw like Marty Grab Party Grow And it 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.840 was like two thousand plus people in this joint I'm 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.040 talking about when I say party. I was just so impressed. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.400 And they had a whole give back component. Big shout 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.640 to Jeff and we liked the party A party p 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.480 A r D s I think the Instagram, but they 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.320 were giving out money to you know, local influence the 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.720 companies and doing their thing. It was a whole cultural thing. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.680 I really had a really really good time Indianapolis. Oh 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.599 and I spoke in Virginia Union y'all, so that I 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.960 sent you all the clip. I had this this o G. Yeah. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.600 The o G was like, you know, I speak all 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:01.560 the time. I mean I know that, you know, the 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.240 connection is there with the people that you know come 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.359 to see me. But this guy was like five cameras 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.680 over here. They were like really taping this stand, Like 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.120 who are the cameras? Like it's the new anyway. So 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.880 it's this older gentleman behind the camera and he was 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:18.520 literally like fidgety, like making me nervous, fidgety, right, and 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:19.920 I'm like, why does he keep pacing around? So we 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.720 got the Q and a portion and he like tried 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.479 to jump and they had this whole thing schedule with 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.440 people in the audience with the mic. They were he 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.119 just came like, you want to ask you a question? 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.200 And they were like wait wait, can you you know, 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.560 wait till other people answer their question or ask their questions. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.960 So when they finally got back to the O G 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.120 as a question, please, I got them know I need 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.400 to know. So he was like, um, you know, we 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.840 had the Richmond thirty fourth thing today and I just 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.200 don't understand basically why so many people in here listening 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.800 to you and they weren't at the Richmond thirty fourth thing. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.360 The mind you Richmond thirty four were activists that went 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.200 to Virginia Union and they sat in at the War 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.280 Wars downtown and they had like this whole sitting thing. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.279 One was peaceful, the other time they got arrested. But 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.279 he was so like charged. I'm like, well, and the 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.200 energy he was given, I just I felt like, you know, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.039 cutting them up really quick. Oh he was, he he was, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.440 but you know I did I can't like I was 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.600 I was. I felt compassionate. I have felt I have 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.159 felt like this is the time I can bridge the gap. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.440 And this is what I said, Well, the one thing 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.400 your generation has to do is honor this history. And 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:29.640 I think living in that mindset keeps us startling. But 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.240 that is something we honor and we respect and we 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.720 will never forget. But it's something we have to grow from. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.560 You know, I was serving this conversation with the brothers 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.120 this morning, and since it's this morning, you know, I 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.599 feel racism now more than I felt as a child. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.480 And I think it's because hip hop saved so many 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.680 of us, and to not honor that like you honor 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.839 the civil rights leaders, is injustice to this generation. And 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.600 if you can't speak to them in the way that 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.000 they can receive, there's no growth for our culture. We're 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.640 gonna honor our culture, this historical black houge. Then that 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.520 they're here because of your generation is offering. In in 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.080 the thirty four is offering, but we have to be 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:15.520 conscious of what's going to connect. I spoken to class today, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.400 Um the professor, I said the exact same thing. I 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.480 just said it in a more relatable way. And there's 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.520 no disrespect to structural teaching and you know, textbook teaching. 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.000 But the Kenny Burns way happened to connect in a 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.440 different form. So I appreciate that. But we don't have 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.320 to doell on that anymore. We have to honor it. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.440 We also have to speak to them in a way 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.600 that they can grow well. Y'all have to want to do. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.000 Y'all tend to live in a time period instead of 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.000 living in today's society. Mentally, I'm just gonna keep it 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:50.960 a buck. So but anyway, I felt I felt like 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.080 o g needed a hug. I felt like he needs 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.240 to understand why it's hard for them, how it was 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.880 hard for them to connect with us because that generation 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.800 put all their years on us. That generation spoke all 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.080 of the tribal and tri relation they went through on 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:07.880 us like they spoke it like it was not like 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.520 this happened to us, And we're gonna move forward and 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.680 you're gonna be a bigger, better, you know, offering of 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.760 our generation. That's what we're doing, Like my generation is 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:20.600 I'm touching every soul I could touch, giving them the information, 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.440 making sure they are equipped to go forward. That generation didn't. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.120 So it was it was a good I think it 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.080 was a good moment and it resonated because it went 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.840 viral um and people were posting it. Yeah. But anyway, 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.880 so big shout out of the Virginia Union University. I 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.480 will be back and I'm on this college tour now, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.880 guys called what matters most and what matters most to 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:44.280 me now in my forty year of life. It's just 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.160 you know what I'm saying, like sharing all the information. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.439 I want you to have the information ball the nation. Anyway, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:58.400 now it's time for in case you missed, ladies and gentlemen, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.240 arrest in peace to the goat Obe and Gianna Brian 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.240 all the pastors lost yesterday they had a ceremony at 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.920 Staples Center and Claude had merchant When I say, Vanessa 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.400 Brian might be the strongest human man I'm talking about. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.440 But you know what, I'm glad that they waited like 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.080 at least a month out because I think earlier she 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.200 couldn't have done that. I had to process. I was 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.679 crying the whole time. Oh my god. I mean there 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.559 was literally not one dry eye in the room. Everyone 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.240 was emotional at one point because they failed her. She 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.520 said she never be able to walk her down the 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.720 aisle and try to drive a car. Just little things, 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:39.719 like little things when you talk on the way home. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.120 Things people take for granted the moment every day. And 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.920 she said this is what this one made me tear 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:45.840 it when she said that guy had to take them both. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.600 Basically they wouldn't have been okay with I should other hill. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.200 I mean like when I when I say rint gut 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.319 rink the cry right now. But on the light of no. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.880 Michael Jordan's was very emotional. Yeah, he was very emotionally. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.559 Din't tear me up because I kept thinking about the 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.280 mean when I looked in his face and when he 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.840 said that they're gonna have another phone year, some me crying. 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.280 I died. But if you look at it, though, his 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:15.679 tears like fall the same way every time. I was like, guys, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.880 like he doesn't wipe his face. Yeh's crying. It's just 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.560 like he just let it all fall. Let it go 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:26.599 his face, let it go. But Shack was funny too. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.480 Shock said, he said, we came out to Hoddle. It's like, Yo, 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.440 Kobe not passing the ball, so sad, I'm gonna talk 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:33.920 to him. You go to Kobe, says Kobe. You know 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:40.160 there's no Iron team he said, what is that? That 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.800 was perfect to them and tells them to just catch 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.240 him on a rebound because he's not passing the ball exactly. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.600 Gave light to his personality. And you know, and I 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.600 think that that that's what that's what was needed because 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.360 I think with all the people their morning, you know, 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:56.800 it was just a thing where it was like, we 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.640 need some light heartedness because I swear to you every 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:05.040 like swipe up every I'm seeing too, I'm seeing g 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.600 I'm seeing him and it's getting depressed, and like, I 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.959 just I want to know. I wanted to laugh, and 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:11.920 I'm glad it gave us those humorous moments. But you know, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.760 one last thing I enjoyed. I didn't judge Yance, but 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:20.480 I really enjoyed Alicia Keys. I didn't performers played debethoven 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:25.440 um piece that he learned. He learned it for Vanessa 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.920 and he taught it to himself by ear and he 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.319 played it for her and Alicia Keys would be able 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.720 to play it back the last time. That's really awesome. Well, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.280 you you mentioned Beyonce, and I actually read a story 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.600 on the way in here today that people are calling 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.040 her a diva because she would not allow photographers to 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.079 snap any photos of her during her performance, and they 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.840 were like, you know, the other celebrities or performers didn't 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.199 request that she's such a diva. I actually think the opposite. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.600 I think she didn't want them to exploit her images 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.560 and make the headlines about her more so than it 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:02.439 was about their memorial service. Exactly going away strictly for 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:09.080 Vanessa and the family her throughout the whole entire process 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.520 of the memorial and it was she was just there 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:16.559 for her friends. I think that yea, like whenever she performed, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.440 she's going to automatically like command respect, right. I think 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.959 she just felt like like she taking about me, and 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:24.800 she know who she is, so she was like, you 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.319 know what, y'all, y'all just keep And by the way 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.520 it's being stream live on you know, every time they 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.360 put the camera on her too, she would like put 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.400 her head down or you know, she'll be holding Vanessa. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.480 You know, you could just tell she was just there 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:43.520 strictly for her friends alone. I loved how the NBA 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.760 legends the current player I just everybody and and and 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.960 if I would say Michael Jordan said it right, a 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.520 piece of all of us died like I mean, if 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.520 you had any you know, my kids like I love 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.920 Michael Jordan, my kids love Kobe. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.520 So it's definitely a sad time. But rest in peace 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.720 Kobe and Gianna Briant. We love you, we miss you. Um. 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.439 Also rest in peace to Katherine Johnson y'all, one of 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.000 the NASA mathematicians to pick it and hit and figure 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.760 that's character exactly. And also b Smith, a famous chef, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.120 and Archbready. The older we get, man, it's just like, 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:20.640 I mean, every week, every week, it's just like tim 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.240 is flying so fast and stuff is happening left and right. 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.320 Were just like trying to keep up with the time, 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.560 man like or slow time down. But it's like moving 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.760 at the whirlwind. I've never felt like I was surrounded 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.240 by death this much. I mean culturally, they don't take 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.080 us to the funerals that we're not allowed to go 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.839 as children, so I didn't really understand, you know, I 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.000 didn't have that full grasp of it. The older you get, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.720 I'm just like, wow, this really happens every day? Yes, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.079 every day, yes man. And rest in peace to Harvey Weinstein. No, 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:58.839 he is not dead, but he will rest in jail. Well, bars, Bars, Well, 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.400 let's come on, man, let's see what happens. Because one 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.320 of the charges he can face only like up to 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.439 five years, and the other one I think it's up 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:11.080 to five. So let'st's see how much you see him 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.760 on the walker. He tried to do cripple and all 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.960 that stuff. Look at him now. Didn't work, But let 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.200 me know, he looked like he is the cheerier rating. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.600 I think that was I think that was the purpose. 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.840 Try to look off real and old and stuff, so 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.160 like have pity on the old man. I'll get your 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:36.760 ass in jail him. Absolutely. Yeah, shut up, win Stein 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:42.320 Stein whatever, the old dusty nasty wine wine. Take your 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:51.200 answer to Cell Block sevent ladies and gemmen, rest in 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.560 peace to the Atlanta club scene. Uh. You know, I've 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.440 been seeing I mean the O G. Frankski. I saw 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.120 Stuart Rock and DJ actual least something the other day, 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.880 and I want to have this conversation with um, you 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.760 know frank Ski a couple of weeks. But I mean, 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.360 and you know, people have been saying this. I mean 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.320 there's been you know, little things said here and there 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.960 about the Atlanta club coach of the DJs. The host 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:19.360 of promoters. Um, but Frankski notably said recently, like you know, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.200 he's he's coming at all DJ. He like the art 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:22.760 of DJ and has gone. He just you know, in 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.760 respect to frank Ski, he had one of the most 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.720 popular nights ever in Atlanta with northern exposure. Um yeah 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.480 he actually yeah due to the brown he wasn't leaveing 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.920 the A t l M back then. But um, but 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.240 he had a point, right, So then you yesterday I 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.840 saw um Stuet Rock um picture of Stuet Rock and 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.119 DJ Cash and some other gentlemen were having a discussion, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.440 you know, about the Atlanta and how you know, and 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.920 so they were talking about and this. Never mind you 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.280 a lot of people say, we've often talked, you know, 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.160 on air and off air about what's not happening in 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.480 the A t l club scene. And I think it 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.280 was just a shift, right my personal opinions, there's a 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.920 shift culture. Like it's like, you know, at a certain 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.800 point you outgrow you know what I'm saying, that box 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:07.600 And I call the club a box because you get 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.680 really you're put in the box when you're in there, 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.560 like for forever. It's taking me to get the stigma 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.800 of the party guy off of me as I've transcended 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:22.040 into corporate partnerships and actually hosting television shows and being 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.280 a real host outside of the party host. And I 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.240 wanted to further the conversation because it made a lot 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.680 of sense with some of the things they're saying, um 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:36.520 promoters promoters. When I started, they had no choice because 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.520 it wasn't happening right, so they had to pay. And 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.400 as you grew, your money grew. But then people like 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.960 myself who started like influencer programs, thing that you added 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:49.040 on to your piece of the pie, and then it 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.800 demanded a certain level of pay right, And things I 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.560 hear from you when you first started, things I heard 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.120 from you when you first started, and the things I 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.400 listen to them say yesterday is so true because now 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.080 you could pay somebody to the three hundred dollars they're 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.240 gonna take that, you know what I'm saying. But it's 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:07.560 fucking the game up because these people aren't as qualified 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.119 to keep the energy right because first and foremost, if 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.359 you make it two three hundred dollars, you're sick. You 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.879 can you could just buy Jordan's like you can't. Literally, 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.719 And I think they quote I'm quoting I think Stewey Rocks, Yes, 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.960 but like, but at the same time, you gotta start somewhere. 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.000 But what what the what the promoters are doing. They're 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.000 doubling down on it, you know what I'm saying, because 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.240 they figured, like, I could pay this little money still 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.320 get the shot Out'll still get the mentions and whatever 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.840 I need. But what do y'all think about that piece? 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:37.399 And we'll go on to the next that. What do 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.440 y'all think about the promoter? I think a big problem 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.200 is I think promoters are really selfish, and it's about 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.360 what they look like. Um, it's about the perception more 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.439 so than it is about actually giving the audience a 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:53.320 genuine experience. So if you're willing to pay somebody a 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.000 dirt cheap price to host and and that is actually 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.119 going to reflect in the performance, but you're you're happy 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.480 with it because and he's still gonna shout your name out, 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.439 it's selfish. You're you literally come off as if you 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.880 only care about how many times people hear your name 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.280 on the mic more so than is he actually getting 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.879 the crowd going. I think, Um, for me, when I 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.320 first started working at the clubs, I was nineteen working 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.520 at the doors, and I remember there were promoters and 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.520 there were sub promoters. The sub promoters were like your 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.199 street team. They are responsible for getting girls, taking them 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.400 to the bar, Like we give you drink tickets. Take 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:29.919 the girls to the bar, make sure they're having a 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.720 good time. Go outside, make sure you, you know, solicit 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.080 people to come in. Then all of a sudden, I 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.960 start seeing the sub promoters inside on the couches drinking 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.840 out of bottles. I'm like, what the hell y'all doing, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.960 like promoting or not? Like what you think that you're 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.520 bringing twenty people in here? Justifies you coming in here 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:52.760 acting like this, like demanding a table. I gotta have bottles, 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.080 I gotta do this. I think they're very selfish and 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.879 it shows in their behavior. But most people I didn't 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:02.879 really notice because I was getting my price when I 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:07.479 was hosting, well, when I became a dj um, I 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.720 first started opening, and when I was opening, I was 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:13.560 I had a price because I'm over here, like I'm 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.880 not taking anything less than three or fifty to open, 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.200 because I'm still you know what I'm saying. So I 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.879 understood that, and then I was getting it in certain 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:23.919 places and in some places they would not try to 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:25.479 offer it to me, and then I would see that 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.639 they would have other DJs to do it for lesson. 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:33.160 And it wasn't until last year summer two thousand nineteen summer, Um, 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.239 I did this one spot. You know, I'm saying, they 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.199 gave you my fee and I was like, yeah, so 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.879 what's up with every Thursday? It was like, nah, I 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:42.720 got somebody that's gonna do it for two fifty the 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.679 whole night. And I said what I said, you got it. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:47.680 You know what I'm saying. So now I'm over here 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.080 like damn, okay, why is it like this? So I 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.359 in my in my mind, I'm over here like there's 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:56.600 no DJ union, there's no party host like entertainment union. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.040 I would love to start like a union where we 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:02.040 could all meet and then we can all set the market, 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.440 because that's needed. I like that. But the only problem 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.280 is it's gonna be it's always somebody that needs quick, 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.879 fast money that's going to do it for cheaper. So 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.320 I don't know how effective it could be. But if 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:16.760 everybody went up a hundred and fifty dollars on their price, 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.600 we can start hitting in that direction. You know, I 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:24.439 think you know what I think fucked up the market Hookah. No, 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.320 I mean there's a lot of variables, right the wires man, 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.879 But the sus point, I think the sub promoters fucked 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.159 the game up because let me tell you what happened. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.560 No dance floor either though. No, But let me tell you, 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.480 like what Sue said was was very very important for 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:40.679 you to hear. When you're a sub promote, when you're 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.760 sub anything, you're at a certain level where you have 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:47.000 to prove a point, right, And I think that what 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:51.959 has happened because of table service, bottle service, because of 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.280 you know, the enormous size of the venues. At one point, 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.679