© 2023 Raw Material Entertainment
Hosted by: The Global Zoe, Eric Biddines & Drego Mill
Looking back at our journey of eleven episodes, we take pride in how far Xposure has come— from a simple idea to a platform enabling cities to voice out their stories. Remember our first episode? That's still the crowd favorite! We're grateful for the Global Zoe, our stellar team behind the scenes who's been instrumental in our success. And, guess what? We've got a ton of insights to share on music, art, and society, to keep your curiosity piqued.
What's it like to conduct interviews or discover new artists? It's quite a rollercoaster! There's the thrill of asking those hard-hitting questions, the art of creating a warm ambiance for our guests, and the challenge of finding hidden gems in the music industry. Plus, we've been pondering over the complexities of modern rap, how melodies can surpass language barriers, and the need for conscious lyricism. And yes, we're not shying away from the tough stuff. We've got some thought-provoking discussions on gun laws, violence's impact on our youth, and even some deep, personal reflections on loss and faith.
And before we let you go, we're rounding off with some lighthearted banter on personal styles influenced by drug dealers, and the fascination of physical features. Ever wondered why the 'hood rat' look is so popular, or the role of accessories and tattoos in creating this style? We've got you covered! And just for a good laugh, we share our favorite podcast episodes, our obsession with the 'Milky Way Galaxy', and our insights on setting individual pace for success. So, come, join us, let's talk, laugh and explore, as we dissect everything from our beloved music scene to the dynamic society we live in!
This is more than just another podcast episode. It's a reflection of our journey, a celebration of our milestones, and a heartfelt thank you to you, our listeners, for being a part of Xposure. Let's keep the conversation going, shall we?
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© 2023 Raw Material Entertainment
Hosted by: The Global Zoe, Eric Biddines & Drego Mill
Looking back at our journey of eleven episodes, we take pride in how far Xposure has come— from a simple idea to a platform enabling cities to voice out their stories. Remember our first episode? That's still the crowd favorite! We're grateful for the Global Zoe, our stellar team behind the scenes who's been instrumental in our success. And, guess what? We've got a ton of insights to share on music, art, and society, to keep your curiosity piqued.
What's it like to conduct interviews or discover new artists? It's quite a rollercoaster! There's the thrill of asking those hard-hitting questions, the art of creating a warm ambiance for our guests, and the challenge of finding hidden gems in the music industry. Plus, we've been pondering over the complexities of modern rap, how melodies can surpass language barriers, and the need for conscious lyricism. And yes, we're not shying away from the tough stuff. We've got some thought-provoking discussions on gun laws, violence's impact on our youth, and even some deep, personal reflections on loss and faith.
And before we let you go, we're rounding off with some lighthearted banter on personal styles influenced by drug dealers, and the fascination of physical features. Ever wondered why the 'hood rat' look is so popular, or the role of accessories and tattoos in creating this style? We've got you covered! And just for a good laugh, we share our favorite podcast episodes, our obsession with the 'Milky Way Galaxy', and our insights on setting individual pace for success. So, come, join us, let's talk, laugh and explore, as we dissect everything from our beloved music scene to the dynamic society we live in!
This is more than just another podcast episode. It's a reflection of our journey, a celebration of our milestones, and a heartfelt thank you to you, our listeners, for being a part of Xposure. Let's keep the conversation going, shall we?
More than just a Podcast, It’s a Movement”❗️
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What's going on? Y'all, y'all tuned in to exposure. I be your boy, the global zone, and I'm with the gang.
Speaker 2:Eric Biddens, drago Mill.
Speaker 1:And we want to give a shout out to our official sponsor, bella and Vion Exposures Official Drink of Choice and today we celebrating 10 episodes plus.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Today is episode 11.
Speaker 3:Clap that up. That's amazing.
Speaker 2:And we are the special invited guests, the exposure essence, that's what we wearing here today. So shout out to you Exposure for showing up.
Speaker 1:Talk about exposure. You need the exposure you got to touch the streets. You need that street credibility. You need that promotion.
Speaker 3:And that's what exposure provides for the peace.
Speaker 1:What do you mean that it makes him sound Out here at MIA Going on, like I always do, watching exposure, getting hit in the head with that exposure. Know what it is them Down dollars. Ray Lowe Number one DJs.
Speaker 2:Number one promoters for show from Palm Beach. It's exposed. That's why it opened up. Y'all check it out. You know what I'm saying. Keep it locked with all over the floor and you are watching.
Speaker 1:Exposure Absolutely man. 10 episodes plus man. I remember when we did the first one, you know what I mean. Just trying to have a first episode come out strong. I think that was a. I don't want to say we want to over achieve, but I remember speaking on the phone we wanted to come out with a bang, and it's surprising how that episode probably still has the most views when you consider all the platforms that we do exist on.
Speaker 2:That was amazing.
Speaker 1:And then when you think about how far back we shot it. But doing research on podcasts, it is something to celebrate, because when I was looking at certain statistics out there, it said most podcasts don't go past four episodes. Like, if you can make it past four, you have something there. And to make it to 10, when you can double that, and then there's so much more to go, that's amazing, that's great.
Speaker 2:Hey, shout out to us for that. Shout out to you. I don't even know if we ever discussed on the podcast of when you had this idea and came up with it and wanted to just press go Like literally left no time to actually consider when we was going to do it. I brought up the spot that we can do it at. You're like all right, that's what we're doing. Ain't verified, ain't confirmed nothing. It'll be like all right, draco, want to do it, let's go yeah.
Speaker 2:You ever want to do it, let's go. Yeah, I ain't even thinking about a name. Matter of fact, I already got a name.
Speaker 5:It's been dormant for a while. Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2:It came out with hats and merch and everything.
Speaker 2:So shout out to for those that have been watching our previous episodes and that's been watching our episodes from in the future and you coming back, the global zone, the one who asking all these questions that steer the flow of all this, which I'll see is him the mastermind. He even do a lot of the in the future. For those of y'all coming from the future back to this episode, he ain't going to be doing some of the stuff he doing now, but he do a lot of the behind the scene production work as well. He make me and Drago job very, very easy. So shout out to the global zone Give a round of applause for that. That's all. That's all that's all 10 episodes, appreciate it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, and we here, we here to celebrate it, man, and no, just thank you guys for the contribution you guys do. Man, I couldn't do this on my own. And now, when I'm starting to look back and I'm getting the feedback from our supporters, I want to say, and the people that are now watching episodes it's like every week we drop, we get a following and the messages are always positive and it's great, because that was the whole intention behind Given our city, our area, our region a platform a voice because where do we go when we want to express ourselves or talk about our accomplishments and some of our failures?
Speaker 1:We've seen so many things over the decade that the city has had Right. We've had a lot of platforms, whether it's magazines, whether it's blog sites, but to exist today we need more platforms to continue that legacy, that documentation purposes, or it's gone Right. There's a new generation of rappers that we don't know about. That we're doing our research Correct. Y'all just was talking about a record I haven't heard yet, Right.
Speaker 3:Right. So I got to go check that out, and that's just the way.
Speaker 1:Time is flying man, but no, it's great man and it's amazing. I was excited to come today just to talk about us Like we don't got to guest today, you know, what I mean. So it's different, but here to talk about us, man. So how is everything in your world there? How's everything going, man?
Speaker 2:Oh, everything beautiful. You know, it's simple. I haven't, to be honest, been keeping up with the music far as like what's actually been going on and circulating, but it allowed me to have a more purified opinion when things pop up or when current events do slither into my world, and it's making me care more about the music and the quality and where the I want to say, the industry side of it is going. Yeah, the industry side of it going. I seen this. It was very interesting. This came across my Instagram the, not the story side, but the area.
Speaker 1:The reals.
Speaker 2:No, not the wherever they give you that other feed. I don't even know the discovery.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was in discovery and somebody said that physical music is coming back. Right, they said this was a prediction. It came and because it came to me, I was like that would make sense to find a way to bring forth, to create superstars again, to create that excitement, to create you physically walking into, you know, a store, a restaurant, whatever the case may be, whatever the chains are, that gave you that huge push of like, oh, this person got a big push. You might need a physical aspect of bringing that artistry back to life.
Speaker 1:We say physical, don't mind the CD.
Speaker 2:So when he said that, I don't think he's saying a CD.
Speaker 3:I'm thinking like in the flesh.
Speaker 2:Well, it will be in the flesh. But this just me free styling and maybe, if you all see this, we want our percentage if this do happen. But I'm thinking the industry might go into a format to where their, let's say, flagship artists per se will come out through the music will be presented through a product. So it may be a merch piece, but it's going to be in mass quantity, just like you are going. You see, you know 100 no limit CDs when you go into the store and you knew that this was something. Everybody walking in that traffic you knew if it got here it was something, because not everything can get here in the physical.
Speaker 2:Anything can get in the digital to where it don't really say nothing. But if the global zone Zumba, his next project is, is going to be in bed, bath and beyond all of them, but it's coming with a bowl of like a, like a, like a bowl or something else to say this and it's like that's.
Speaker 2:That's the physical component of the project, so it might not necessarily be that per se but yeah, when Kanye had that little musical ball thing or whatever just finding something physical to be able to roll out your artists that this, this label, is company or whoever is getting behind, and have it put in a place that not everybody could be in.
Speaker 1:I got you.
Speaker 2:So that's, that's what's kind of missing, having the music, the artistry and a place not everybody could be in. And it might, can be anywhere, it could be. It could be a necklace, it can be, you know something, that say, all right, this is my favorite artist. Like if I was to put our project and you see all my artists walking around, all my fans walking around with this necklace, you'd be like, oh man, that's his fans, they listen to his music. Now you are walking symbol of the artist or the project or the single you on, you in love with. So that's, that's a new format. He, he said it wasn't necessary. I'm just explaining, like how I get it.
Speaker 3:I think Jay-Z did the same thing when you, when one of the Samsung's came out here, released the album on the Samsung. If you purchased that phone, the phone came with the album. Yeah, yeah, that's expensive, though that's expensive.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking something like round twenty thirty dollars, and it's in mass, it's in a right, it's in all, all of the chains that you want to think of. Damn.
Speaker 1:I think, I think it would be needed, though that would make it. So I mean, it's already. It's still exciting, but that that would be a great piece. I remember my earlier days. I remember when Cali wasn't. He was on, but it he wasn't the Cali he was today. But I remember going to a best buy. This is when Ace Hood was close to him.
Speaker 1:I remember waiting in the line for maybe an hour and some change to get my, my CD signed and he also took a picture with you. Him and Ace Hood took a picture with you.
Speaker 2:But I remember I was with you there, was it? Yeah, it was like in Broward or something out West. There you go.
Speaker 1:I remember like just like. That meant something, though, like having that autograph like that meant something. It was worth that experience. You know what I mean. Like that, that was dope. So yeah, I get that. I get that man and having a piece of that artist, that that'll make it exciting. I mean I feel like what's the guy name? Is it LA Russell LaRussell?
Speaker 2:LaRussell, larussell.
Speaker 1:I kind of feel like he does a good job with the, with the how you could pay a price for the show, or yeah, yeah, yeah, or you just merge like you put the money on there.
Speaker 1:You don't, you might be able to pay a dollar, you might pay 250, but that's up to you. I think that's that's excellent, that's excellent. So just thinking about a parlor, I mean I don't know if you ever envision yourself doing a podcast, and we know they're trending now. So what would you say has been probably one of the most challenging things you faced? Uh, I'll go with Draco. What was one challenge you faced? Not at your, you know, doing a podcast, because you, you know, you weren't, we wasn't doing podcasts before. You know what I mean. But now that we actually know where audio in as a video for us, what's one thing you feel has been challenging?
Speaker 3:Not axing our guests. The wrong question. Like you know, Zend, Like I'll hesitate, or sometimes I'll come in and I'll ask them before we go. You know live. Can I ask this question?
Speaker 3:If they agree, then you know they know it's coming and it's more comfortable. But if if it's someone you know it's not everybody can handle a question that they know or you know sometimes they be, they let us know ahead of time, hey, we're, let's not go on, the drama end and then that conversation is, you know, is dead. Or if you know we have some people that come in and they have no problem, no issue with any question. So yeah, that would be, I think, because people do want to know. You know if, if we can have, like this, plenty of other podcasts out there, they know if they go on this podcast, they know they're going to get that answer from that podcast. Gotcha, you know what I'm saying. So I want to be known for that, but no pressure for it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:I want to put it on Tough question, Correct, I guess, because you know I feel like Charlemagne has a reputation for that. Correct the tough questions, he just goes straight for it.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:They want to say the tough questions is, I think, the label they put on it or the things that probably happen. That's current. It's like we know this happened, so what is it? What are you at right now?
Speaker 3:We could say versus right, we're definitely not dangerous. What?
Speaker 1:people would say yeah.
Speaker 3:We're definitely not dangerous with it. We're not, we're not planning on that right, but we definitely would want to know about it. You know, of course, and that would be, of course, make a great short you know, let's be, real about it. But hey, you know, if it happens, it happens, and of course I like to be respectful next ahead of time, before something like that happened. But yeah, that's probably the toughest thing, though. Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's a good one. What about you?
Speaker 2:What's some of the toughest things on the podcast, and you weigh so many off the camera hats, so that's a good one.
Speaker 1:If I had to pick on my end, what would be the toughest? I can go different, I guess I'm trying to think on the. I feel like he can go different ways. But, believe it or not, the I would say if you had to really say the, editing could be one of the most challenging parts of a podcast. I think it's easy to get the cameras rolling, you get the filming, but you know the audio. Making sure the audio and the videos align the deeper you get into it. You understand angles. You understand you know when certain things are supposed to cut away. When people put in emphasis how many camera angles you're working with means the more work right.
Speaker 1:So if it was, just two people, one camera, it'd be a lot easier.
Speaker 1:So, having you got to find that excitement and it's one thing to do a dope interview you excited, you leave and you're like, oh man, just did an interview with such and such. But then that work of editing it, that's a different side of it and I've had, I had to learn a lot of different things to shout out to YouTube, but I'm getting more comfortable with that. So I would say the editing, but I don't know if it's going to be more of a challenge, because I feel like once you throw the hat on, you know it now, as far as in the beginning, you're like, can I really do this? But then you know when you, when you really try to manage everything and you're on a budget, you're trying to make sure things align, I think sometimes we step into or we even get outside of our comfort zones, because if you open up a logic or fruity loops, what I said out there, pro Tools, any, I mean I remember starting off on a cool edit, if y'all know that program once upon a time.
Speaker 1:They're very similar. When you talk about editing, like whether you take your own vocal or you're cutting the video, they're very similar.
Speaker 3:Believe it or not. Guys, you just answered some of your questions. Jod that down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that, that, that what I would say would have been the biggest. But because I feel like we make it a welcoming environment, I feel like the things that people probably would, the things I would think it's not that you know, after doing triple J and young LA, the Van Dems, the one, I mean we had so many different guests but looking back, I think the environment they're welcoming and once they get we get started with them, I see the comfortability and how relaxed everyone is. Yeah, that's, it's always good. It's always good. Yes, sir, what you got here, what you think, is the any challenges you? You you saw that you're like man, this was different.
Speaker 2:I think my, after the episode is done, my I want to say my foresight playback on it, like the performance of the conversation.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Like thinking about myself, what I said in the, in the, in the interview or in the performance of it, Like if I just assuming that we're going to be seen by millions of people like if it's something that in six months can I still lean on it. So it's, it's a challenge, but I'm I've been taking it as an exercise to see how proud of myself I can be in the moment of the show.
Speaker 1:I like that.
Speaker 2:And still, after it, be like you know what my future? Me still staying on everything that was, for the most part, that was said because a few times I caught myself. I was like man, your, your sarcasm, and that point might have triggered some somebody or some people in a way that you might not, might not even be honest to you. So for me, the challenge is balancing the performance of the personality and actually trying to be entertaining for the viewers but still engage in the conversation. So it's like it's weird you could come up, you could come across a way and I now I definitely have way more respect for people on this side of the mic way more respect, right?
Speaker 2:Because you, the people on this side of the mic, they, they sacrifice their sales, this and this going to be a gem of the day. The people on the media side of the mic, they sacrifice themselves for the sake of the artist or the, the person who's sharing who they are, to either clear some things up or, to you know, show their intelligence. You got to kind of, you got to take an L in some sense on this side.
Speaker 1:You got to ask sometimes stupid questions. Do you ask who is the best for the situation or do you have to?
Speaker 2:I think the reason why the reason why it is both is best for the situation and, if you have to, because you got to think about all right, they, they, they hear to showcase who they are, but they still, they have things that they specifically want to express and get out. So you might have to ask something off camera, we might already know what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But now on camera to clarify for everybody else. You got to ask a dumb question. You got to ask about a song that's old, that you know about the song but, you still got to ask it, because 500,000 other people going to be really happy about that.
Speaker 2:And this is. This is something I never considered and I see we give, like the media people, we give them a really, really hard time and we we judge them from journalists, from album review people, from blogs, from people that own that, own the outlets that not necessarily the one taking these personal hits, djs, like anybody who, on the side of allowing the the talent to get the exposure, we be judging them, we judge them and they have to take a hit for playing out, for playing a part and allowing that performance to unfold. Correct.
Speaker 3:That's something I had to learn being on this side too. You don't listen to everyone that comes into the door. I'm going to use Lil Wayne for an example. He said in his songs I think twice or multiple times he shot himself. He says the man in the mirror and all this other, like I listened to, I, we all listened to him like crazy back in the day, and then he'll go on to interview and that's what he was bad with interviews.
Speaker 3:Like it's like saying hey, you bring this person in and you really don't know him. You, I feel like it's better when they go to somewhere where people don't really know him, because they understand they heard it in the music, so it's, it's, the questions may be easily said or asked. You know what I'm saying. So, like it's like saying hey, like we want to know detail about detail, what happened when you shot yourself? You know what I'm saying. Like you don't want to say that way, but but okay, we know you shot yourself. Like what really happened? Yeah, but I mean, you know it's a tough, I think it's a tough conversation.
Speaker 1:Reliving it? Yeah, Possibly. Yeah Could be some trauma.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying Like and then there's some there's some good ones where you could ask, like Lord would say in that song uh, five, two? Everybody thought he said five, two or fine two, like that's a, that's a happy situation, a, you know a more cheerful conversation to have because you clean up, you're clearing up your lyrics that you said, because no one ever really knew what you said. So instead of saying five, two or fine two, that's a better situation, but something like that and you go to every interview and you're being asked that same thing. I know that kind of sucks. That's tough, that's. I understand where you're coming from with that, everybody.
Speaker 2:on the other end, the viewers you see the, the comments, you see the what interviewees have to carry. You need Soulja Boy fans went in for for certain. Oh yeah, for certain they're playing about Soulja Boy yeah.
Speaker 2:For certain, and I know Soulja Boy would take that as a compliment, because Soulja Boy wouldn't know he's an influencer. Yeah. He knows his influence, what he gave to the game For sure. Rather, his fans and followers know that they love him because of his influence. He wouldn't have benefited. But, me giving that highlighting, that perspective of his mogul status to Soulja Boy fans.
Speaker 1:And you, respectfully, you said that His mogul status yeah.
Speaker 2:Soulja Boy like yeah, yeah, I'm a mogul, you know he'll like that, but there's a, there's a hit I take for saying it, because there's this and it ain't even all the way real. There's a, there's a performance on the side of just having an opinion too you might legit, want to challenge the, not the obvious, the popular opinion.
Speaker 2:Some we just like that. The popular opinion, you want to. You want to challenge it and sometimes your performance and challenge in the popular opinion for the sake of just being engaged and entertaining, because life entertaining, because life will be born if we have that, that friction. Yeah, yeah, you take a, you take a, you take a hit on that yeah, that's a, I respect it.
Speaker 1:I respect it and, to your point, I think it does give you another perspective coming from the journey of the side wearing that hat, and I think the environment plays a role too. But it's been interesting and I just think I fall. I guess we had there, were more than willing, and they all gave us a good, good, good information and welcome, welcome us into their world. That was a dope. So shout out to everybody that's been on the platform we greatly appreciate y'all, the ones that's in the queue, stay tuned for those too. Man, we've got so much more to talk about, so much more to say on exposure, so that's a that's always excellent.
Speaker 3:Right there, man, hey um, I want to ask both of you guys and today's music or what? Whatever music, what's your your favorite genre?
Speaker 2:I would say R&B, I'm definitely outside of what you guys do yeah, I would say our. I would say instrumental music then, but I'm liking R&B more than I'm liking rap right now what about you?
Speaker 3:global?
Speaker 1:right now right now I'm not gonna say over, but, like right now, I've been definitely listening to a lot of Afro beats right now. Okay, surprisingly, just the Tim's, the you know the Davido's, the.
Speaker 1:WizKid. I know I know so many. Now you know the burner boys. I've just been trying to really understand and trying to listen to the body of work. I know you got the songs on the radio but taking my time to go back and listen to the beats, in Haitian culture, they have a somewhat of an Afro-Compile right right in the the sounds, which is amazing for me. It's very similar. If you minus the solo, the only thing in Haitian music they would put a solo to it and we got a few guys who are very big with the Afro-Compile or Afro beats of Haiti. So very similar as far as the sound, just different, different language, but it's the same beat just different, language different message.
Speaker 1:So your Afro beats lately. I've been Afro.
Speaker 3:I think, afro beat.
Speaker 3:We're in a, when it comes to Afro beats, the feel-good era, like it's all feel-good music, yeah, yeah no matter what the topic is it's still all feel-good, it's not depressing, it's you could dance to it, you get you in your zone and all of that. I think it's. They're bringing the feel-good era back and, like you said, I love it. That's one, that's one of mines Afro and then instrumental. Like I'll go and I hate to say it I'll go take the vocals off of someone song and just listen to the beat no, no, no, no, I know I'm not good, yeah, yeah, no reason why.
Speaker 3:And then even some of the good ones because they're so good. I may lead a beat and then use their vocal on something else to sample or something, but I can't be. I know I'm not the only one that because he said that I cannot be the only one out there that's doing that. People are doing it. That's why I say that instrumental right now afro, afro type music, cuz R&B is, I think, the 90s up. That's gonna always be my playlist but right now.
Speaker 3:Right now I think it's Afro beats and instrumental. I try to look for new people. I know you said you guys haven't been, you haven't been really paying attention to music. Right now I find a few, but it's hard, it's hard I. There's only one person right now I'm listening to and it's mainly talking about women, but his flavor is kind of different. His name is big Cousin. Big Cousin yeah he'll rap it from Florida big boy, yeah he um it's crazy.
Speaker 3:I was just browsing on Apple music and I heard one song I was okay, this is dope, and then I went looking for more and then I end up liking every single thing and I just added his entire album so TikTok has done that for me yeah.
Speaker 1:I can't say whole bodies of work, but there's certain records. I would hear man and I'm like damn, I like that.
Speaker 3:Let me check it out and then I show them the music and then I end up finding that I go looking for the record um and of course, the algorithms.
Speaker 1:It's amazing how that works, because now those people can um constantly. I show them on my timeline, right, and I get to hear new records. But like I mean, I like yeah the last one that got me. I saw a clip. It was a clip, it was a real. Whether Instagram or he right dude name.
Speaker 1:I want to say it's been a. It's called load up the boat. It got like a country but it got like this reggae vibe. But he a white dude with dreads but he almost has a southern swag and he ain't doing country music but it's a sub but the song is dope as hell. He's talking about, you know, having a good time, like grabbing your fishing poles and going on the boat.
Speaker 3:But when you hit a record I'm like damn it's crazy he riding that bit low like, and I was like. I added it to my playlist I do.
Speaker 1:I do a lot of singles, but I haven't listened to a lot of your work in a while right, ig do the same thing for me.
Speaker 3:I've seen that. And another thing on IG the paid of views for the music. They're never to me, they're never hot. I feel like if you correct if it's every time I say sponsor on there I may listen to like a minute and then I'm like not, it always fails. But you give it a chance, I'll give it a chance, but it cuz cuz. I ran into one and I feel like maybe I can find some others yeah it always fails.
Speaker 3:I gave up on it, man, but don't exactly what you said. I hear it and I'm like, ooh, and I hitched, I'll slide it from the top. It's just them, and it goes straight to my Apple music, guess that I'll do.
Speaker 2:Are these people, these artists y'all find? Do y'all discover that they signed or anything, or is they just miraculously?
Speaker 1:I haven't went further than that, but I'm looking at their pages. I don't think they're signing minds been on mine's been on sign you follow her on.
Speaker 3:I ain't cook, I ain't keep, I ain't call. She wasn't before, she wasn't. I was. I was trying to say she was so good, yeah, and I was trying to sample a couple.
Speaker 2:Everybody was sampling herself yeah, she got mad about that right, but but she was putting bot. I need go yes, you do, I could cover because, people are sampling her and making beats, remixes and just things that people end up doing, but after a while, like if it can be flattering at first.
Speaker 1:But then, it keep happening a lot, and then it's taken away from you, like people actually said what in the like publishing?
Speaker 2:who go fight, who gonna fight right, right, so so fight, but it talking internet right.
Speaker 3:But if you release something, okay, I'm gonna use I'm using example real quick sidebar. I'm gonna use the DJ that was sampling everybody like the car, the Cardi B coronavirus. If you put it on the internet, it's out there for everyone to see. I understand. So that means but now you? But there's a policy, something in the policies. Once you put it out there, it's, it's out there.
Speaker 1:People can do what they want with it no, yeah, we don't know some, some of them be leasing some of me.
Speaker 2:Leasing these beats though no, no, no money.
Speaker 1:They might be if it's for promo, right cool, that's different.
Speaker 3:So so okay, listen, listen, it was for promo, it was for prop property, she was doing it to get more fans and but hers didn't actually have beats on again she's great she has great vocals.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if you're doing vocals and everything's behind you has vocals, and maybe you have just a rim or snare, a producer somebody's gonna grab it and do something with it. It was making her bigger, which it did, but I know why she did get upset later on is because someone overseas did a cover up of what she did and it blew past her and the IG said that she copied them. So they shut her video down and said it wasn't her work and then it was. It was said on the BT awards that that you know one of the I forgot who went up on the stage and said that and they had her come out and perform it and she got a record deal in New York or whatever like that after that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she one of my favorite new artists. Yeah, I like her. I like Larussell. Yeah, I like it's a couple of people.
Speaker 3:She does cover up, she was great. But the thing you know, you release it on social media, man. It's for everybody to use and see.
Speaker 2:Foggy Raw. Is it Froggy Raw, foggy Raw? I like him. I think it's Foggy Raw.
Speaker 1:Froggy Raw, where you from I think he's from Georgia.
Speaker 2:Okay, rapper. Yeah, he a rapper. I like him, he do. He got like a poetic style. It's unique because he is not. It's nowhere near what Silk the shocker was doing. How you leave the beat? Because it's no, it's a lot of his stuff, don't have drums in them. So he'll be rapping smooth and poetically and sometimes hit the intelligence is in. It is amazing because sometimes he'll leave rhyming a little bit and go into talking spoken word and slip back into a rap flow and then he'll lead a beat a little bit. Then he'll come back on tempo. So you don't even know, even when he leave the beat he's still on it because the the peak in the wave still hit the peak in the quantization. So he's pulling off the blue face.
Speaker 1:No, he ain't pulling off the blue face.
Speaker 2:That's intelligent. What blue face do too, because it's. It's hard for me to stay off beat, that's hard. So in on another planet, that might be the skill it's also video where they're saying that Drake has something similar.
Speaker 1:It's not it's own beat, but it's to a different part of like it's, I guess, slightly up. It's weird to explain, but they're saying it's a science to the rhyme scheme and how we hear it. Yeah, it's catchier. It was some video I saw and I don't know, but it was. It looked like it was factual because they gave you references to the record and I was like damn, that is different. But to your point I felt like I couldn't rap like that. That's a whole another animal.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it's hard to rap like how Silk DeSaca was doing. Try to try to rap along what Silk DeSaca was doing. That's not easy either. It's natural for us to stay on rhythm.
Speaker 3:That's natural because we saw our head, we've got rhythm, yeah, so the rappers.
Speaker 2:That's rapping off beat. That is difficult. You were you hearing something totally different. I don't even know if we're hearing the same thing.
Speaker 3:The way Ply started out. It was that was dope. I like that. That was kind of it wasn't off, but it was the way he started off was really good.
Speaker 2:That too, he threw a lot of words in, but it worked for me.
Speaker 3:That's the farthest. I'm a go If you go no, that first project.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right, he threw a lot of words.
Speaker 5:They were just crumpled.
Speaker 2:I'm like all right, he needed to say what he needed to say, so you respect it, because if you forcing that mean the words, that mean you got to say that. Currents, he got a unique flow to to where he'll leave the beat and his rhyme words a land in different spots. So how we the basic way. You your last word with Ryan with of one ball, with round with the last bird word of the other bar. If you clever, you might have three peaks where all three of those peaks rhyme and things like that. Currents, see the rhyme word from the middle three bars later you might get the word that actually run round with that word he said four seconds ago. So he won't even really kill you. You got to wait for all right, I'm with you, I'm here with you saying yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, and then it finally comes to us Like there there is so much room for you know, to be open to what even makes sense. Yeah, yeah I like to hear a lyrical blueface rapper Like a to be how people get annoyed with blueface with how he don't stay on the beat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now imagine, like some, like just a different level of lyricism that you might respect a little bit more, you ain't just saying, oh, they be attacking. I wonder if we would then appreciate what artists that's cramming words together and kind of doing what they want with the flow and the beat I wonder what we would say then. How interesting it would be.
Speaker 3:Man are we? Are we just too old to not keep up with music now? Because our folks was like that that they know music. We had to tell them they were. They was actually right because what do you mean by that?
Speaker 2:I think there was, there was those that still that didn't like rap, but they like Tupac or they like Snoop, they like. So if it was worthy to for the past to to have a genre that you don't like, and then you see something in there you're like wait, I don't like the other stuff. Yeah. But that's the goal.
Speaker 1:My thing always hearing from folks who's a little older than me maybe within 10 years is that they never could understand what certain folks are saying, like I remember, oh, hey, oh, someone older than me listen to my music now. I like it because I could hear everything you saying, whether you're not using this much slang, or maybe because you're not using so much profanity, you could be more present and more clear. I just thought that was interesting because I'm like that's all it been right. You know, you gotta hear. I mean, besides, back in the day, twista and Bone Thugs and Harmony for the most part, everyone else.
Speaker 1:You knew what they were saying. That's a big thing. But today there's some rappers uh, I mean Young Thug. There's some lyrics from Young Thug. I'm like what did you just say? Even on lifestyle, as much as we love lifestyle, I'll be the first one in the club. You know what I'm saying. You weren't singing every word I had to go look up the lyrics for some of that stuff man.
Speaker 3:Again, like you said, melody. Melody wins me and that's the reason why I fell in love with that track. I didn't know what he was saying, but the melody will always pull me in, like his melodies was.
Speaker 2:We can get tricked too, though. Yeah, not taking nothing from Thug Thug of that era. Like I love what he did, especially to melody and the, the voice and things like that. He did some stuff I ain't never even hear.
Speaker 3:He had TI doing his ad-libs. Like that, ti started doing it. If you live, if you started listening to TI, ti would do his. Yeah, yeah, he would do things. Look at that one particular song.
Speaker 1:No, no, if you listen, if it ain't about the money. Oh, he did more yeah that he I feel like he jumped into Young Thug's lane. When you talk about it ain't about the money.
Speaker 2:That was one of the hardest opening lines in a long time. Bussing out the band though, oh, you remind me of.
Speaker 5:Trick Daddy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Anybody wanna like where you is just that that you came in and today I'm.
Speaker 2:I don't know why. He asked everybody in the club if somebody wanted to die, because everybody in the club was like everybody, everybody.
Speaker 5:When that song came in, everybody seemed like they wanted to die.
Speaker 1:That is a question to ask.
Speaker 5:I swear.
Speaker 1:I don't think no one ever asked you that.
Speaker 5:And everybody like yes, kill me Trick.
Speaker 1:Daddy, but dawg, we would do it three, four times in a row. You can't play that part of the song once as a DJ. You fire, bro you gotta take it back three to four times Come on man and when I see him do it live.
Speaker 1:That was my first time experiencing it at the James L Night Center. Man, I went, man, listen, boy, I just said I felt like I was the only one in the arena. You know what I'm saying. You just in the zone. Yeah, that was a, that was a vibe man but yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Well, because he asked a question we kind of left it about if we're too old. I don't think. I totally disagree that we are too old Season, even season. You have an intelligent ear, so you can't be too old. You do know what's good. I would even argue our shoot. But what? I'm 4545.
Speaker 3:But what I'm saying is are we in our parents slot? Now, you know what I'm saying. Are we now in that slot?
Speaker 2:I would say this is the biggest difference. We quality music was still, was still with within us, right, like there was still we. We experienced so much for us, so they didn't like what we was doing because it was different. So it kind of came across hating, but for the most part many of them supported it and we use a lot of elements from them.
Speaker 2:Now the difference now we in a we start to move into a later generation of of rap. So we are kind of like the we, the, our opinion is the foundation of it and because we gave up something by not liking how the generation before us did us. So now we don't want to do that to the younger people but we're not realizing we're in an early cycle. We have to do that to the younger people. They was already blues, rock and roll. It been already going on for such a stretched out window, so about time. So now with, I would say, the genre of rap or urban music, whatever you want to call it, we have the right to say no, that ain't it, because it's still too early to just let anything do anything. And I'll even say that for myself Some of my earliest songs I shouldn't have been making. I was unqualified to make some of the songs I thought I was making. I thought because-.
Speaker 1:Why did?
Speaker 2:you say, that Did you not own a certain material. It wasn't enough, and keep in mind I'm on the light end of the spectrum.
Speaker 2:But I still had songs. That was a thousand percent wasn't me. Or there was things that I end up saying that kind of it was in many ways steer the direction of where you would end up in your life, or we can point to others as references just from having fun. But you're like, oh, was you having fun and just creating if you actually end up doing life in prison? Or was you having fun or creating if you actually did do some of the things you just mimicked and the psychology in it it's like it's cool, we can sit around here and talk and be like, oh no, it's fine, it's just music in it, because none of us paid the price, thankfully.
Speaker 2:But, not everybody was fortunate. Some, many people end up adopting the environment and the music and the art they was making. So they took on and in the wrong way. They took the messages in the wrong way sometimes Because a lot of the like we're going to trap music, the hood, the gangsta music and stuff like that. It was lessons to not do this. Most of those people didn't want you to do what they was doing. And then some way we got the message wrong.
Speaker 2:It was like oh, that looked fun, I'm going to do it and many, many of us end up doing it. And now, because we end up doing it, there's you got the artificial side of it, that's saying it and doing it and like without really any motive.
Speaker 1:I struggle with that because sometimes, okay, let's say you go watch a film, right, and let's say it's a serial killer. So should we be making films about serial killers? Because then you're inspiring. I don't even want to say names, you know what I'm just going to say. I can say names, or even a documentary. I was almost a little triggered by this because I'm like why the hell would we bring this up? Because I knew nothing about it. I knew nothing about it until everyone started talking about it. Then I'm like I stood it in one or I did not got tempted at one point. I'm like I want to know what everyone talking about. After watching this particular thing, I was ready to hurt somebody. I'm like dog that's jacked up. What buddy was doing? Mostly folks that look like us. I was a little more upset.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, anything I was like we should, we shouldn't have certain things, and in this one I think about the architects. I'm like we didn't know that that was going to do that to us in the wrong way.
Speaker 1:And that's why I struggled with, because then I feel like it's a different kind of art. But to your point, I know it's music we're talking about, but I get, you can get that from a visual tool.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean, right.
Speaker 1:That troubled me I ain't gonna lie to y'all was like damn, this happened and the neighbor was on it and no one would even check out what she was saying. And the fourth was at the 40. It was the young kid who ran away and got brought back to the do. Oh man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I didn't bother watching it, because I remember seeing it, I remember hearing it and it learned so much at that time when it was happening about it, because around that, while when that was happening, I think we had an issue with the big white van taking kids at the same time around that age, around that time.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I didn't even bother. I didn't follow the height because I already was educated. Because, like you said, it automatically triggers you to be like yo. They trade on thing that triggered me to. That triggered me, I mean to the sidebar, but it triggered me like yo what? And this man is just walking around like I'm not gonna do it, but it triggers me like somebody got to get this man. I understood.
Speaker 1:You get what I'm saying. Like that's crazy. Music has that same Like. I guess the way I'm taking it Clearly Because music never made me do that Same, but I don't know. At this point in my life, that documentary was the first time I felt some rage. I ain't gonna lie to you.
Speaker 2:All of our programming for the most part at least, our animated self comes from the music and the content that we take in how we talk. You can trace how you talk, your slang, to your environment, your region. Whatever music is, it's hot at the time. You can see that influence in the culture around. Whatever movie come out, you see like everybody that didn't have a boys in a hood type environment, you end up seeing it after that. If it wasn't that originally or it kind of amplified, where what was supposed to be a warning it didn't really work like that. Like Smokey the Bear made people want to go smoke, you end up seeing merch with Smokey the Bear lighting up.
Speaker 5:We just remixed the whole thing.
Speaker 3:It did push, it did push. It's crazy.
Speaker 5:That's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then down to porn as well, Like I'm guilty of trying to do stuff I seen on porn.
Speaker 3:I think us men period are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and luckily I was intuitive enough. I was like this don't even feel good, I'm just doing this for the performance. Some positions just look good.
Speaker 1:You were going to be like oh, oh, no, that's how she doing it. Okay, I'm trying this one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you just you almost attempt to put a leg in a different spot and you're like, all right, it could work, yeah yeah, it was even if it ain't on camera, it's for like oh, I can, I can maneuver, I can do more, because you're seeing in the porn they doing different, they switching it up and things like that. And then you'll, you'll. I've been in situations where we're like, all right, let's do something else.
Speaker 5:I'm like this was this, was this, was it. I'm like liking this and you think you're doing you're born, or something like what, no, no, no, what's wrong, or maybe they just trying to maximize.
Speaker 1:If we got this 30 minute window, I want to get a little bit of everything versus just two positions. Let's get five.
Speaker 2:But sometimes the, the, the instrument is already enough. I could be just so overwhelmed by the instrument so I might not need to switch up so much, especially when something is going real amazing. But then you see that, oh man, we trying to hunch like, like the porn we trying to, and you and you seen some of the some of the I know you got this from because this is new.
Speaker 1:This is new.
Speaker 2:This is like the Korean Stephens with the salt and pepper thing, that when, when that came out like people was talking about that I know some of our grandmothers been doing that, some of those things too, but you you felt the influence of what was just going on and how it affect us, and that's not even I wouldn't say that's, I wouldn't say that's bad, but I am. We are now at a point where we thinking we, like you, know this when it affects us, we know this is going to affect us. Just by being here. It's going to have to manifest. Yeah.
Speaker 2:In some type of way.
Speaker 1:And there's some people who like watching stuff like that that's crazy. It doesn't bother them. You know what I mean. There's some stuff that they're kind of into that.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:You know. So that's a that's a.
Speaker 2:that's a strong mind. There are some strong minds Like I could watch certain like scary or dark movies that most people like will have nightmares. I could do that it would. It inspired me to have nightmares. No it I could watch something that would give somebody else nightmares. It would inspire me.
Speaker 1:So 50 Cent just posted this right. It says psychologist warns warns it's a major red flag If you relax by enjoying true crime story. Yep. And it's kind of funny how we talking about like I took a snapshot of that, because that's just something said again. Psychologist warns it's a major red flag If you relax by enjoying true crime stories. Do you know, and he actually posted it and one name I don't want to reference, just because, for whatever it was, that's the picture they had with the catch.
Speaker 3:Right, do you, do you know how much households go to sleep watching true TV or for 60 minutes?
Speaker 2:Lifetime. Lifetime got some dark. Like I go in the house.
Speaker 3:I don't do it, but I can hear the TV and I know they're resting. They don't like that. They're gonna fall asleep to it.
Speaker 2:Unsolved mysteries. That wouldn't well. That's that's from my time growing up.
Speaker 1:That was just no, that was major, that was major.
Speaker 5:That guy voice was not nice and you and you looking, you like these people, they catch it.
Speaker 2:These unsolved. So they are out here and riding around and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:My folks used to like watching tells to the crib. Whatever that was, I don't, I was young. I didn't like to hear none of that. I'm going to bed Like I used to. Man, I was not a fan, gremlins too, I was not a fan. They watch that and go to sleep. Man, I can't.
Speaker 2:It's. It's weird, I'm assuming on one on one end of the spectrum. The I'm making sense of the psychology in it is to build the endurance for certain people, so certain people will be able to endure certain dark aspects of just life.
Speaker 2:And it won't really. It won't affect them. In a way it will affect somebody else and I say that because I could watch some stuff and it won't give me nightmares. But I know where to give other people nightmares. But I'm looking at it for a whole nother reason and it's it inspires me. So that might show up as a red flag to somebody Like I like Harry Potter, I like Wizarding, sci-fi, the anything into these, into other realms and all those Stranger things. Stranger things yeah, I watched. I feel like that yeah, I watched Stranger Things.
Speaker 2:I lost it right after like the the second one, but I could things like that kind of expand my imagination, but I have the mind for it. Now there's some stuff in there in some of these movies that will give a person nightmares and as people that they'll get nightmares just for seeing a monster or anything like that. A monster wouldn't scare me. I'm not looking, I'm not looking at it. I'm not even registering the monster being like an actual threat.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've met some people that they watch those stuff because they, they, they prepare their life to be ready for it, like they're waiting for it to happen, like that apocalypse. Yeah, like that like correct, Like they're so ready for that to happen and because of what they watch and when I see people with like two, more than more than five guns, that's what I would think.
Speaker 1:What you? What are we doing?
Speaker 2:Those. There's a culture with that.
Speaker 1:Walking dead or something. What's about to happen? They're waiting for it.
Speaker 2:Oh, some people are prepared for things like that, some. I want to check all of them out.
Speaker 3:I think over 60% of our population is ready.
Speaker 1:Last time I went to the gun range do a trash coat.
Speaker 5:And that's when I'm like what the?
Speaker 1:hell, I'm not just this one. He pours. He pour like a. I don't know how small the gun could get. It's like it could fold, bro, and it came from the sock. I'm like damn.
Speaker 2:I would ask what city you live in Little broad.
Speaker 1:All I knew was like.
Speaker 5:I hope you're out of town when you going. This is a derry.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, this is a derry man.
Speaker 3:All right, so what y'all, how y'all feel about this new law?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll go there. Yes, I don't know nothing about it.
Speaker 1:You can carry without a concealed ID now, as long as you over 21 and all the other checks are good Background check is good hey that's a little backwards.
Speaker 3:Florida only, yeah, so so there's, there's, there's. Of course you got to follow. Oh ID on your all time.
Speaker 1:You don't have to go get the concealed to carry it on.
Speaker 2:Correct. So anybody with an ID can get a gun, correct?
Speaker 1:But you can't be a felon.
Speaker 2:Right. They still going to run the background check.
Speaker 1:Right, those are still. Those are oars in place. But like I had to get my, I had to go get a concealed. I went to a class, did the class and then you file, you send it in for the one I don't know.
Speaker 2:Why? Why would we take?
Speaker 3:away that stuff. It's not to go away, but now he can. He can lead a state and go anywhere with it. Listen, this is Florida, you don't need it. But if you leave the state with it on you and you don't have a concealed license, you're fucked.
Speaker 2:I thought we want to make sure that. Like not anybody, just like some carrying carry yeah exactly so carrying now yeah.
Speaker 3:And ID ain't solid. Hold on, hold on. So check this out. Here's what I don't know if people got fake IDs. Here's what I was told. They said this law these are, these are people that I know that owned over 20 guns. They said this law may make someone think twice before doing what they're doing, because now multiple people may have a weapon on them, you understand? So, before I go, as you're saying, for example, this person pissed me off and I want to go, I might damn they might have one on them, you know.
Speaker 1:so that's what it doesn't matter, because you can still have your ID. You don't see my.
Speaker 1:ID in my wallet, like that's why, as a, I don't get that perspective at all for me personally, I don't get that perspective because my ID in my wallet. You wouldn't you know what I'm saying, you wouldn't know. Um, now, I do understand that for some people. I seen where, when you do, when you work, until some people have this, like it boosts up your ego or something that you would let slide and say my bad, like you better say.
Speaker 1:I didn't see this in club environments, where one time I just just really made me not want to hang out just in parking lots no more. Last time I this is a while ago though, but last time I was in a parking lot the promoter was passing off lives and there was a gang of us talking, having a conversation, and some of us, you know, at the end of the night you tired, you about to go. He was handing out his fly. Some people took it and the one dude say he didn't want it and he felt disrespected. So we thought nothing of it. He said I'm good, I don't need that, bam, maybe.
Speaker 1:Two minutes later car pulls up, he jumps out firing his arm what's up now? And I'm just like what the hell just happened? We all kind of just at, hey bro, like he just didn't want your fly, he's like that, and he just wanted to make a point like do something, say something. And we all just like, once again, it ain't that serious, everyone cool. And then he got back in his car and everyone just told him no, just keep pushing. And he took off, bro, and it just at that moment I just was like I'm not hanging out no more at the club parking lot because the event was over, and hanging around just catching up with some fellas. That's what ended up happening, man, and I was like this, ain't it, bro? And I kind of feel like that's what I feel like when you at least when you were concealed you went through the process, you got the ID. I just felt like it was an extra checklist.
Speaker 2:You recorded, you recorded that you have the concealed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have to know it goes.
Speaker 2:So it's recorded.
Speaker 1:And then now with ID you can just go through your step with that extra concealed. You have to go that extra step to have that's just for the state of Florida.
Speaker 3:Like you said why are we doing while we? What?
Speaker 1:happened, oh boys listen up above. That's the approved.
Speaker 3:Listen, listen. Believe it or not, a lot of other states love our governor.
Speaker 2:I don't, I don't. I like a lot of the stuff I heard him say on his Instagram Correct, Correct.
Speaker 3:But I want to get into the politics, but because I'm not a fan of it.
Speaker 1:but but, but right, same here.
Speaker 3:But. But the thing is they love, they, like them and it brings more people into the state you bring. You know I'm saying to come, stay and spend money and all that other BS. So that's part of it. You know what I'm saying. So, but again I was told hey, like, if I'm going to go bother you, eric now I might think twice, right?
Speaker 1:And keeping my air when you weren't concealed. If you didn't have the license, you had to keep it in a glove compartment, Like you had to have it in this original box. You keep it in the glove compartment of the trunk of your car. It couldn't just be on your lap or on you.
Speaker 1:So when the police pull you over, you would have to let them know. Oh no, it's in my glove compartment Now you still have to. You got to still let them know. You have it on, but now you know you're going to have to let them know when it's on you. But, there was a certain way. You had to carry a firearm if you weren't concealed.
Speaker 2:So I say this it makes, if I'm looking at Florida as a community, like a nation, like the Florida Pride Nation, as a us, then I'm not mad at it, because then I'm like I'm, I'm a feel safe, because I'm like if there's any outside threat to Florida, they can be like no, they too strapped in Florida.
Speaker 5:There is too strapped in Florida. We is not, we, not, we don't want no smoke Like you even you know whatever groups, that, whatever threats there could be, that I have no knowledge.
Speaker 2:We don't have no knowledge of it.
Speaker 5:If you're looking at a state, florida ain't gonna be the one you want to you want to.
Speaker 2:You want to go there with. So me, I'm not. I'm not a. I'm not a. I'm not an arms person, right, but anybody who, anytime I see a, whether it's a neighbor or somebody, a family, meaning anything like that your pride in having a weapon to protect yourself and your family, your friends, your community I'm looking at that as an extension of protection for me. I understand.
Speaker 2:Thank you. No, no matter how much community tension there could actually be, nobody want the nation they live in or the region they live in, the city they live in the community, to be under any major threat. So at the end of the day, you know you'll your state, go and protect your state, and so I'm never offended by that. Hey, I ain't walking around with the gun you described, with the trunk. She's cold, buddy. But it's probably some people in there. They're like hey, I'm on your side, buddy.
Speaker 5:You training, Listen we friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah so yeah.
Speaker 1:So I mean why we on that? So I mean I don't know if y'all caught up. So in Chicago, you know the mother was ordering, um, the dude got disrespectful. She texts her son her songs in the car. He's 14 and long story short. If you saw the clip or whatnot, um, you know he told the lady, you know you keep talking, say something again. I'm pretty much gonna go off on, i'ma steal you if you want to say that. And he, he, I mean so he talks about, if you haven't seen the video that he literally caught back and take off this woman head.
Speaker 1:Like he caught back, like you can hear it. You feel me like like you will see two dudes fight Right, but this is an older lady. He caught back and why? He got like I think maybe gotta a good double yeah.
Speaker 1:I think he got a good double in but the son pulled up because then the mom texted son who was in the car. He pulls up as he gets in there. Now, of course you see this dude, this male right, the guy Beating up on your mama. He ended up shooting buddy Right, but it runs outside. He ends up finishing off in the parking lot. Pretty much. I don't know if it was two shots. I'm gonna confirm two or three shots, but in the in a long story short. But it ended up passing and they take off. They had to turn themselves. They turn themselves in after the fact.
Speaker 1:But so you know, when you looking at everyone's feedback is different. Everyone looks at a different. You say, my damn, you know a 14 year old having the kid step in for his mama. And then you say, well damn, did it have to get that far? You know, but I think it's, it's mixed emotions. Did you catch that clip? You heard about that. You know nothing at all, but I think about a 14 year old kid having to kill you know, I'm saying who's probably?
Speaker 3:high school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 14 grown yeah you're in high school, you shouldn't have to do that. But he had to actually kill somebody for putting their hands on it, on a mama, and I know we all passionate about our parents, you know. So I think it's hard to really Say anything on it, like I get everything, because then you say, man, another black male just died, you know, but he made a bad decision, but then he had to lose his life over it. You know what I'm saying? Like that's what you, you ask yourself, and at the same time I think any of us, if you see somebody it don't matter what man Putting hands on your mama, you, you don't want that to slide to. You want that person to pay.
Speaker 3:I don't want to think, but that location, I think the people that were there because I was reading the comments, the people that were there being at that location I know nothing about Chicago I, I'm, I'm, I'm think, I'm trying to be in those people presence like damn, this place is crazy. If I don't go to go to go to try to stop this man now I stopped this man he may come back for me, or you know what I'm saying, because I don't know. I was just trying to feel what those people, that, because people was like what, there's men there, why aren't they helping? Why aren't they stopping this man? You know, zan, it was a bunch of situations not now I'm picturing like what could have gotten this man that mad.
Speaker 1:I can't justify right understood, understood.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:I can tell you, personally I've defused a lot of situations when that thing, when it's that tense, sometimes that's all people would need. Yeah it's someone to be like. You know y'all chill, no man, go ahead and walk that off.
Speaker 3:Walk that way, man.
Speaker 1:Sometimes that's what people just need, because we don't know what kind of day I got, god, I don't know what kind of day buddy was having, but sometimes you just need that one person to step in, maybe, like, y'all chill. I know it's not easy, granted that what we're talking about, chicago, but I can tell you personally, within the past year there's probably three situations where I kind of saw about to go left and all I had to do was say no man, y'all chill, what's going on? What do I say? Let's talk a little bit. You know, just taking one person away, right, you probably, I don't know who pistol, who loaded who, not, who had a knife, but I've done seen where you know. I think it depends. I'm not telling you if it's already on the popping to jump in there, but I think sometimes we don't know what people are going through. And that one step you did. You probably say some of these life man, right? Uh?
Speaker 3:that peacekeeper has gone. I used to be that way too. I cannot keep the piece. I'll just go the other way, because that's Because I've been in a situation grew up in dare where, being a peacekeeper, I'm just even from school, being young and just doing it. Yeah, I've seen someone get hit right from. This is diffusing the situation which was diffused. Did someone get hit right in front of now?
Speaker 4:No, that's that's done, dada, because you couldn't you diffused but hit like punch, like no, no shot shot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like it's it I. I was like you know what did they die? Uh no, they didn't die or they just got hit. But you know, it's just a stupid situation. You know what I'm saying, but again, that's all saying now if you don't know the person you want to step in.
Speaker 1:What were you saying in general? That's see, that's another situation.
Speaker 3:Um, there are people that's gonna go. If they don't know me, if I know you, it's. I think it's a lot easier to calm the situation. You know what I'm saying. Okay, um, because I'm sure we bring on that side where we had to be calmed out I've been calmed down before multiple times and not what doesn't have a weapon or anything, but, you know, want to want to throw hands, but I've been. I've been on both sides and I know what it what it feels like to be calmed down. You calm down. Of course, you go the other way. Let it go.
Speaker 3:Yeah it is what it is, but man looks awesome. Man, that's, that's our problem.
Speaker 1:Man, it's gonna make you look, so that's our problem.
Speaker 3:That is our problem, man. That's our problem right there. We grew up, we grow. We grew up being taught not to be that way and not saying it's a bad thing. It's just, there's certain situations where you've got to be that person. But I think that's a problem in our culture. That's what I'm gonna say, because that word right there is it's, it's it's bad man. Oh, you're a man, stop crying, don't cry. Yeah, I think it's a problem in our culture. That plays another part too.
Speaker 1:I mean, are we still pushing that narrative?
Speaker 3:I see I've been soft situation.
Speaker 2:I've been seeing it change, like people talking about it more.
Speaker 3:I think the podcast is a helping out a lot. Man like real talk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah definitely Um.
Speaker 1:I saw something with Fred Taylor, with his grandma I know she was very ill and, um, they're adding up asking him like yo, so how, you know how you really doing, you know what I'm saying, seeing that moment, you know what I'm saying. Well, he really took it in and I think I I felt like that's the first time Maybe he even told them boys like you know, like exactly what was going on and how they made him feel and what she really meant to him, um, and I think that it almost normalized it, like it was okay to see him tear up and his voice break, talking about his grandma like it meant a lot.
Speaker 1:I'm like, damn, he really put it out there like he ain't holding back and like you know I'm thugging it out. I'm not not saying toes, like you know how we would say right, it's whatever, um and I think um.
Speaker 1:And there's another thing I want to talk about the dc uh young fly using his uh girl. You know what I'm saying, but that that was amazing for me to watch that for a trailer clip. I I really appreciated that. I'm like I'm so glad the pivot is doing what it's doing. You know what I'm saying Because I think, beyond sports, uh, they, when you talk about vulnerability from a male, that show definitely highlights that. And let the guest be the guest, because the rock even gave us some uh, some his upbringing and some of the personal things discussing that. I don't know how they fit it in an hour. I was shocked that it was only an hour episode because I feel like they could have went three dollars like a three hour episode. When you got Dwayne, I'm sure that he got time for three hours, but that was another powerful episode.
Speaker 3:I bust around. Is it the same thing, like People always ask? Me why you watch these park ads. Why you watch this park.
Speaker 3:I was like it educates me and it educates me in a different way that you may not understand as a man. Some, some men don't know, but a lot of women ask me why do you watch? I said they encourage me, it makes me stronger and it gives me a breather. Believe it or not, I can sit back and like damn, I put myself in a shoe, not a particular podcast, so it just um multiple podcasts it does.
Speaker 3:It's multiple of them because they, they, they all help, like a lot of them do help. And sometimes I mainly watch the people I do want to. And then I'm like, if I don't know this person, I'll, maybe I'll go and watch it and get to know them. But right, and then exactly what you said, I didn't know him, but when I saw, um, yeah, talking about when he sat back and took a breather and did what he did, I'm like, damn, yeah, like Just dem accident. Nobody, because it couldn't be nobody. Maybe even the closest friend Got him to get to that point to let it out man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, to breathe. To be him he was relieved.
Speaker 3:He definitely was relieved, like yeah, I had to get that on, like I paused and I'm like damn, I took a breather. Yeah, it's good man. I mean it was deep, it was you could tell it wasn't.
Speaker 1:Once again, it's like it's one thing to have an idea, but I guess when you take the time to really ask somebody, you know how you really doing though, bro with that Like I think that's what it was. It was finally like, let me you know, say speaking it was uh, yeah, that that clip definitely got me, you know.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna look at that clip.
Speaker 1:So yeah, jeffy, check it out. And so what's speaking of is kind of similar to. So D D C, young fly. You know his growing in for a surgery something small and you know she didn't make it out. They got three young kids together. They weren't married but she passed. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:This is recently. This reason, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, this one for the past. Well, she just did the service, so I think we on two weeks now.
Speaker 1:One week too, and he's been doing shows. He's been doing interviews. I know he's been doing shows, he's been doing interviews. He's he's been going with life and everyone kind of. He's been getting the. The feedback is two different. Well, I feel like the believers, people who walk with a faith. It's like man. I could see God working with him. I see he got the support he needed. Other folks, I think, who don't understand how powerful his faith is and if I'm not mistaken, his dad was a pastor, he. But watching him not only speak when I see clips from the service, but seeing his whole, what gives him the strength now and shout out to 85 south, his whole crew.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he say it's, it's, the love is coming in. That's what keeps him afloat and why he's able to keep moving. But think about he's still got three kids to raise now. I mean, you know you're gonna have his family.
Speaker 1:But as a man, you lose the, the one, the gatekeeper, the one who's taking care of everything at the crib. Why he out there doing what he do? And she was a hustler too. I'm not taking away from what she does, but that man got a different kind of faith because he holds it so very well.
Speaker 1:And he said yes, sometimes I cry at it, sometimes, you know, I think it hurts, but I can't break down. He's like I believe it. You know, everything happened for a reason and she's still here in spirit. He just has a a whole different perspective on that death because I think he could have just hit rock bottom. If we saw him in the street would have been cracking on him. You know what I mean. But the fact that he's actually carrying himself, we still have a problem with it. Instead of really, I think more people should be encouraging that man, or and make it sure at night he's still all right. You know I'm saying it's not just for the cameras and the mics, but yeah, it's crazy man. She went in for surgery and I mean she was a pretty beautiful young lady man like I don't know what she wanted to go get done, but Wow.
Speaker 3:And again I was in the comments Um, I don't let those stuff if. Even if it wouldn't, I wouldn't let bother me. But it's it's. I wanted to see the women's reaction. Now you know what was what was really going on and I wanted to see. I hate I honest truth, I really hate it and I'm a big guy. I just hate the surgery thing, man, because Just our era growing up it was either working out, boxing, like we, we, it was all about Throwing hands period, like it's something physical to do. You know I'm saying to keep you in shape. You know I'm saying it's just the new times and these surgery stuff. It does bother me and but we know what the surgery was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:She was doing a um, um, um mommy's date. Well, she called it a um Mommy. Makeover, she was doing a surgery.
Speaker 1:All right, not, not so, mommy, makeover could for you know it could mean she was like it's tightening up things.
Speaker 3:She had a baby bro. She was trying to get the uh Uh. The food.
Speaker 1:A little bit. You know, they could pull something up, yeah it's.
Speaker 3:My thing is. It's like um, I had to bring it up Um, my best friend. It's like a situation with the cove situation, bro. It's like saying, if it wasn't here, these people could have extra A lot of time more, at least five, maybe seven, I don't know but I'm just saying extra time with family. This I feel like that wasn't being able. We couldn't avoid that because it happened. But her situation I feel like it could have been Avoided. I was looking to see if someone was going to say something like that in the in the comments which were, there were a bunch, you know, but I mean, it's, it's tough, especially, especially with the line of work that she does people look in the mirror.
Speaker 1:They don't see what we see man that could be part of that right, because like I said right. You see this girl, you probably right. I can't tell nothing wrong, right.
Speaker 3:It, it. It just hurts me as a man because I've seen I've had a girl, they you good and they have a problem with it. I know it's just, I know it's a human problem. It just it hurts because I know I've been down like yo, you was good, like for me, I you straight, you don't need to be touched, I'm happy. You know it's just. It could, it could have been kind of afforded to me. You know I'm saying and I just it hurts.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's, it's. I don't think anything, any of those things, as easy as we make it correct surgery or the decision.
Speaker 2:The, the surgery, the decision, the desire to want abs, a nice body full of lips, any of those things? I think it's, and the the science in the psychology is explaining how difficult it is. It's the hundred is called the hundredth monkey effect, but basically after a hundred people start doing it is spray like a disease. So it's uncontrollable at that point and we around the the proof of that. So if Improximity of you, or even in a nation you in, if you know a hundred people go get their lips done, you can calculate it's going to be a few million going will. That's, that's just the math. The math be mathin a lot of the times. So it's a degree we that we're not in control Of, especially the things that don't make sense.
Speaker 3:When it don't make.
Speaker 2:When you, when you assume that it don't make sense, then that's when you know you got less control than you actually think. But when I don't think, we Uh give ourselves the benefit of doubt or the the grace for that. Okay, let me hit you with a side bar.
Speaker 3:So I Grew my hair. And if I tell you I grew my hair because I, because I have a big-ass head or a big-ass forehead and I want to cover it, would you believe me, or is I'm? I'm trying to follow a trend?
Speaker 2:I would definitely say you try to follow it.
Speaker 3:So you got golds because you was following the trick. Yeah, oh yeah, because the drug dealers. Yeah, the drug dealers had gold teeth.
Speaker 2:They was giving the kids ice getting ice cream truck.
Speaker 3:You know ice cream truck.
Speaker 2:They had the clothes Like and it was shiny like. The people looked up to him like I literally got gold teeth because I I the first week I seen gold teeth was drug dealers. It wasn't nobody on tv or nothing. Okay, and every and they had permanent gold teeth back then. So that's why I got permanent. I went to Dennis. They found my teeth down, everything I wasn't. It was like, hey, if you're gonna do it, you gotta do it the right way. So I. Yeah, they found it's similar to how you do veneers.
Speaker 1:What you found? Was it called the mold? Is that called the mold?
Speaker 2:It is it is a mold, but they cemented in. They found teeth down, so it it's not so bulky, so you can floss and everything with it, um. But I did that because of the drug dealers. Now you do have a big head, but culturally Big heads always been around you, ain't? No, your head was big until they called you lollipop boy.
Speaker 5:And you know in growing up what you can work with. They can crack, so you.
Speaker 3:Dreads.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right so I'm, but the maintenance ain't scared you.
Speaker 3:No, it ain't. It ain't scared me. It ain't scared me. My folks probably would you know said that, but they, my folks, didn't care. My, you know, growing up Haitian, they didn't care about that. Well, my side of the folks of Haitian family, they didn't care about the head. They said that's something that grows on his body. I don't think that's a problem. They said that that grows on his body. They said it. But if I came home with earrings and tattoos that I went to go put on my body that I can't get rid of, it was over for me. It was that's. It was over for me.
Speaker 1:But traditional Right. I was able to do it all.
Speaker 3:Let me, let me, let me add another sidebar to that. All right, so Growing up in school, growing a school women, be like I was told. Oh, you would look good with earrings, so is that part of what you were saying earlier with?
Speaker 2:Yes, it's a conditioning, because you you end up you do look good with earrings.
Speaker 3:Okay, so so now I'm okay. Now I'm gonna take a step further. So do you think men do things?
Speaker 2:Because? Yes, because if, if you know, she likes that.
Speaker 3:You're gonna go become that. Yeah, I would say.
Speaker 2:Most of the things that did was so if I is, I would have loved to have a female.
Speaker 3:I would want to know if it's vice versa. I would have loved that.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, Absolutely. I can go in both ways easy.
Speaker 2:We, we are, we are, we all do it, so so.
Speaker 3:I never. I mean, I grew up around a bunch of thugs. I didn't want to be like them.
Speaker 2:I knew the ladies love I just never wanted to be like you was. You was, um, calibrated stronger in that direction to me. I I had a I had enough um Disruptive ingredient in me that getting gold teeth was disruptive to who I was. So that rebelliousness of I knew I wasn't going to sell drugs but I was like, oh, I get. It's inspiring to see that that the, I guess the influence, how the drug really just lit up with the chains, the nice shoes especially when you're in the hood like these, like the first successful people you really seeing, and so that rub off on you. I ain't it. Yeah, it rubbed off on me but.
Speaker 2:I was calibrated enough to where I didn't take the route of actually going out doing drugs. And then later it kind of worked when you had the girls or the women, that kind of like that bad boy image, but necessarily didn't want to be in a danger.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I want to know that.
Speaker 1:Right there, before you said it, you saw something. I had a flashback. Damn, this was a nice moment, because then you started talking. But what was that thought? Can you share that first thought?
Speaker 2:My, my personal assessment. I just I just heard of I heard of a few girls hit on a voice in my head. Ok.
Speaker 5:OK, oh, it's like you, you fuck.
Speaker 2:But then it's like you, poetic.
Speaker 5:You like, you like a hundred three thousand type it is.
Speaker 2:So it's like you, you there, but you, you safe, you safe and you you were doing music when you, when you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was music at the time. Yeah, that was, that was me. That was me Active in music, active in music as well.
Speaker 2:The polarity work, especially when I stopped dressing, so like urban like after after a lot of us got away from, like the baggy jeans, how we was doing. Oh yeah, we like once that kind of left, then you can dress normal or weird, or I was trying to. You know I'm from the outcast cloth, so I was trying to be different. And so the gold teeth, the the tattoos, and but doing, having a different energy, that kind of contradicted what that image said I was supposed to be. It was kind of it was it was fun to me, like you didn't really know what you was going to get, or you was confused. You was like all right, is he a bug? Or? But he talked about coffee instead of Hennessy. So something is throwing me out. And at the time I didn't smoke at it and drink. So I really was just. I was all over the place with what I was building myself up to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't even point and I had dreads. I could see that be good, I could throw some folks on Like what the hell? They do look like he's supposed to be rapping about such and such.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, I did that on purpose to to throw, throw me off and just be interested in and rebellious. But, that hundredth monkey effect is a real thing, and we don't give enough credit to how unavoidable the influence of each other is. My thing I like about the Dugs is.
Speaker 3:it was the vehicles man, the vehicles in the sling man. I used to like to talk, talk like I was a third. That was the main thing I was into.
Speaker 1:So you grew your hair to cover your forehead.
Speaker 3:So I had a big head. I just grew up with a big head my son got a big head.
Speaker 4:I have a big head. My son have a big head.
Speaker 3:I just feel like it looks better with hair. When I get a low cut, I have my little mini waves that only come on this side of the head. If I had it all the way around then I probably would have kept it low, but I feel like it looks better with the hair. You feel me that's, so I grew the hair back. I had it at my shoulders at one point and then I got rid of it. To prove, to prove.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, I did it Be in zoe at the time. She was my girl before she came my wife. Saw her family. Hey, this ain't nothing, I can grow it back if I want to.
Speaker 5:OK, ok, so I got rid of it, just tell them.
Speaker 3:Hey, do I look presentable now?
Speaker 1:Do you feel like so? Is it a confidence booster for you now, Like you?
Speaker 3:feel like when I get it done freshly twist you do a crazy cross, that you sit under that.
Speaker 5:You seen that selfie he sent in? Hey, I'm about to get it. Ah, hey, he sent a. He got his hair retouched.
Speaker 3:He sent us a selfie. The first time I had it it was nothing, but when I got it back, oh, yeah, yeah, because I knew it was going through COVID. Oh, y'all's like, nah, fuck that. It's a great time Because we're in the house, I work at the warehouse, great time I can have it covered up. All the ugly face can get out of there. You know what I'm saying. Once I go past the ugly face, we good, you're not ugly, though the ugly I know. The women tell me that. I know. Thank you, appreciate it, brother.
Speaker 1:I feel like is this something you feel like women? Do you think they want to touch or rub your hair with the dreads? I think that's what made me grow with the that's. That's. That's what made me grow. Oh, that's what made me grow the first time.
Speaker 3:I used to like women playing in my home In high school and middle school. That's what made me actually really. I just I liked the touch and they made me go to sleep. And women used to love to do, you know, man hair and back in the day, back in the day in school. So that was a thing I just used to love to touch and that's what made me grow it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I just yeah. So there was a bunch of other people that did it for that same reason. But what if?
Speaker 1:you found OK before you grew your dreads. But if, what? If you're particular, your girl. Now, what if she, you, you had a little cut and then she loves you the way you are? She's like no, what you? No, do you only need to grow your, your hair? I love you the way you are. Would you still? Would have done it because you feel like you need to do it or because her love is enough? Her saying she's going to be your companion. She likes you just the way you are. Is that enough? Because we're not. Although it's not a surgery, it's a change that you're going to do to yourself.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:Would you still? Do you think?
Speaker 3:So. So I'm going to have to use my last one, because the one I took says it's. She met me with it and it wasn't an issue. She didn't care. She really didn't care, but the one I'm with now. We had the conversation. If I didn't have them, it was nothing. She wouldn't have looked my way.
Speaker 1:But I'm asking you personally though, like if she would have said I love you just the way you are, I would have kept it. You would have kept it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would have kept it. I would have kept it.
Speaker 2:So the new one, if you didn't have it.
Speaker 3:If I had it, she wouldn't have looked my way.
Speaker 2:How that made you feel.
Speaker 3:I'm like damn. I really had to like really take it down. I had like pause and take it back, like damn.
Speaker 5:OK, I'm ugly.
Speaker 3:It's like shit, I got a big ass head. That's what I really told myself. I'm like, yeah, I got a big ass head, but I don't believe it. But it was shorter, though. You know what I'm saying At the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't believe it, because your personality, you like an invisible person, because you fall in love with, not the physical. You Right, so she can say that, but it's not true enough, because who you are ain't enough, your dress ain't enough to keep her up.
Speaker 3:We got to bring these questions back. Women trust me. They love being with dreads and there are women that look. No, trust me, they wouldn't have looked. I'm telling you they would say it. They wouldn't have looked that way, even with the beer game. They love men with beer. If you don't got it or you have it.
Speaker 1:But they ain't going to stay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's no joke.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, these are true.
Speaker 2:We talking about debate.
Speaker 5:We talking about debate though.
Speaker 2:Now, if you all talk about debate, then you could get a change. You get gold teeth, you could get muscles, you can get any baits. I'm talking about what kept her there.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, of course, yeah, my purse, yes, yes, Because they cut off games strong too.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, they cut off games strong too. So the dreads was the bait. But all of us know the bait ain't nothing. No, no, you're right.
Speaker 3:Bait, don't keep nobody around. No you're right.
Speaker 2:We'd be more disappointed at what our baitables are. We were like man. Why I keep falling for the same person.
Speaker 5:What's wrong with me? You know people be sitting there praying.
Speaker 2:You have a tight yeah people be praying to run away from what they attracted to. Because that's how much we don't trust the bait. We don't trust what we like.
Speaker 3:Because it could be disappointing. Is that part of the 100 monkeys?
Speaker 2:That's a proof that the 100 monkey thing work. Because if the 100 monkey thing didn't work meaning we wasn't all influenced by invisible actions of our environment then we would be making better decisions, we wouldn't have as many regrets, we wouldn't be lost and confused with a choice we thought we was 1,000% sure on. So that's just an aspect that shows that, hey, our confidence is a little. Our confidence and our tastes have a great degree of illusion to it, because when you really start to factor in things, the real fundamentals, you realize oh wait, I don't really like this, I don't really like that person, but these genes ugly. I don't like these genes no more.
Speaker 3:OK, what's your must have? What's that attention grabber for you?
Speaker 2:Well now, so it used to be titties. I'm still because we're in the middle. He got that white boy.
Speaker 1:I don't hear titties often.
Speaker 2:It used to be titties. It's still titties. I'm always, because it's the Milky Way Galaxy. I'm always be, I'm always be, team.
Speaker 1:So titties will be the first thing.
Speaker 2:No, that's what you used to be, I used to like. Now I had to fight myself from seeing from like a tittie with like snaps my neck Sometimes. I'd be in a line and if titties is behind me, ok, there you go and I look and you see exactly when you're like, how did I know titties was there? So it's something else and that's part of the 100th monkey effect. Oh, jesus Christ, because I shouldn't.
Speaker 2:And this is why this is called the Milky Way by the fact, because the extraterrestrials notice our obsession with breasts from cows, goat milk, almond milk, anything we just try to associate with milk and titties for whatever reason here. So it's an obsession we all have. But now my must have would have to be like personality over anything, like we just got to be cool. It ain't even. It ain't nothing physical. The physical stuff can, and anybody who got a few miles on them or know like you know the physical stuff can be there. But it don't mean that, yes, if we talking about the physical insects, then you never know where fire sex is going to come from. You know you always be lost.
Speaker 2:Big titties might not be popping like the 130 foot pound, no tittie girl, and you be like whoa who designed this Because this is doing some other stuff. It's clearly some energies and textures and fluids and angles that's going on and the design that's way beyond just what you think a tittie is or a booty cheek is looking like. And I do like booty, but I'm not an anal person, so like when you get, yeah, it's nice to look at, but I want to participate with the instruments that I'm fascinated with. So a nice booty, you can grab it and do stuff like that, but yeah, you can put your head on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can put your head.
Speaker 1:Massage it. Yeah, you got some stuff you can do.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you can do that with the belly.
Speaker 2:You can do that with the elbow if you get the auntie, what?
Speaker 1:What do? You got people with different fetishes. You got people feet fetish.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, feet fetish. You got different fetishes out there, so I mean you can't not get on the stand up. You can't understand what people like, what they like.
Speaker 1:I cannot understand what people? Like what they like, man yeah.
Speaker 2:So it would be personality. I think I'm showing my age and not what they must have. Yeah, I don't care what you like. I wish we didn't get some of the backlash that we got for being involved with somebody that might not look like who you should be with. Like I think that throw a lot of people out.
Speaker 1:I feel like Tief is going to be really big in the next five years, because everybody is almost on the Tief wave now. It's almost cool to get veneers and go to Columbia or Turkey or wherever you're going to get it. I feel like Tief is going to be a big thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm with you because I just saw some people with some messed up grills got a Tief done. I'm like man, you don't bypass me by 20 miles.
Speaker 1:Because Plyes and Cal, I mean you got people who do, I think when they just look too big, I mean the ones that look like the horse Tief, I think you stare at it. It's like me with the girls with the long eyelashes, like one of them. Things look like you about to take off.
Speaker 3:Let's not start.
Speaker 1:If you run fast enough, you literally fly. Let's not start. Don't start.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, no no, we're going too far.
Speaker 2:No, no, I've seen. I know what I'll ask you to talk about, but I ain't going to lie, I've seen, I've seen. Listen, I've seen. I'm just saying I've seen some women look really nice with those the hood. I'll ask Stop, Look, if you got, you got to have a whole it can't be overly done. I'm talking about the overly done. I was like, hey, that's the I'll ask you to talk about, but you did it right.
Speaker 1:I don't know why it's not bad, but OK, do you stare? Does it make you like stare like?
Speaker 2:I did. I did stare because they, they was extreme, it was obvious. But I was like you, you did it right, some I don't think everybody doing right, or you, you got to have the whole. You know you got to have a whole. You got the whole outfit, everything. She had the outfit, she had the lashes, she had the big nails.
Speaker 1:Explain what the outfit. There's an outfit that's going to compliment.
Speaker 2:It's like this, the big old high lash. So I'm trying to, I'm trying to, I'm trying to y'all have to be listen. There's an art to and I'm going to say this, I'm going to use this word, but I don't mean it disrespectful but there's an art to the hood rat. Look. So she had the long nails with all the Swivorsky diamonds on it.
Speaker 1:The Swivorsky what if I don't even know what?
Speaker 2:they are, they, they, they like, they like rhinestones, but the quality the different quality version. It's the expensive. She had the. She had the earrings. She had the neck tattoos. She had the lip gloss. She had the the arm tattoos she had the the fuzzy, like she had the, the most pristine hood rat look, and the lashes went with it. She had the ponytail with the baby howl, you know how they do the baby howl yeah, draggled that body.
Speaker 2:She had everything that the the kit was the kit made sense it matched what's unique, what Eric is saying.
Speaker 1:I think when you have it it's like a body builder. When you have all the right portions, it looked right Exactly, but because maybe the some of the things I'm talking about. It's not portioned properly.
Speaker 5:It just makes me stand yeah, Then then it looked, then it looked wrong it looked wrong Because.
Speaker 2:I have seen it where it was like oh your, your head ain't big enough. And there you go. Your head might not be, big enough, but I've seen it. I was like, ooh, this, this girl, she got it right.
Speaker 3:Bro, I'd rather than walk around with yellow hair, than having that shit go farther than they knows. That's cap. They gonna hit me for it. What it knows you exaggerating. Bro, if it goes farther than you. I'm talking about this right here, bro. No, not all it's just that's too much. He's huge, that dog. If it goes farther than you know, this cap, bro.
Speaker 2:I wish, I wish I could, I wish I could take it. You see how you say there's an outfit.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, if the outfit come off, that come off bro Period.
Speaker 2:It's the same thing when you see a big dude who pulled off being a big dude right.
Speaker 1:I when you painted the picture for some reason it made sense you didn't have to go through it she had a person said to me I'm just like damn, that's what it is. All the rain zone.
Speaker 2:It was like oh, you look like, you look like. You look like exactly what you portraying and not the artificial way. She was the template of what she was. If they're considering the 100 monkey effect, she was the first one.
Speaker 4:I just don't want the 100. And she did it right the 100 because it can sound offensive.
Speaker 2:But I would say she was the. What she was was the archetype of that.
Speaker 3:And then some people will mess it up. It's not it. I like touching eyebrows. It's not it. Yeah, yeah, she might not, she might not holler at you, then I have a okay, I have a type of if she's small, I'm too much, not really a fan. If she, what? If she smokes, I'm not a fan, but I put that at that level.
Speaker 1:Like, if I see that even we okay.
Speaker 3:It's a turn off for me.
Speaker 4:It's a turn off for me, Maybe cigarettes you don't want the smoke to cigarette.
Speaker 3:Right, it's a turn off for me Because some people can do the weed okay. Yeah, it's still kind of a turn off for me, Cause she can eat checkers.
Speaker 1:Where the checkers go.
Speaker 2:I fucked the fries up she didn't even hear fucking on some fries, but the thing is she can't eat checkers, but she can't smoke this guy is weird, she's a happy.
Speaker 3:No man, it's just overboard it's. I've seen too many overboard Women try to put glasses on with them. I've seen that it's like, why do this to yourself? And you can have them so much shorter and they'll still look good? Cause, be honest, do you like them?
Speaker 2:I'm telling you about a girl who pulled them off. Do you like them?
Speaker 1:Like what.
Speaker 3:The long ass.
Speaker 1:I brought the whole conversation up on the eyelashes.
Speaker 3:I think women do it for other women.
Speaker 1:I guess now cause I feel like we might let them throw them about the. I wouldn't be surprised if 70% of the world is doing the eyelash add-ons now. It's almost becoming somewhat normal where it doesn't stand out as much.
Speaker 1:Some people get the light fillers, Some people go all the way. Now, all I said is, when it all the way, I stare Like my thing is like what the heck Cause? You're not used to it. So I feel like you're like a peacock that just open up with the wings on me, Like I feel like that's what I'm looking at and you just be like damn.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:It catches me looking, but when Eric described the perfect the hood wrap package In a proper way.
Speaker 5:In a proper way Right.
Speaker 1:I just it made sense and I think what I see is, when it doesn't match the rest of the body or the swag, it just stands out. Why the hell do you like it looked like it would be heavy if it got wet, like it just looked like your eyelids would be like damn.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got to see it with the right person pulling it off. No, it ain't right for me.
Speaker 1:So I get it, I get it. Listen, I ain't listen to each his own right To each his own. That's just one thing I talk about. So talk about that BTO's Y'all out there.
Speaker 3:I'm listening man.
Speaker 2:I saw clips, I got a text and somebody said it was disappointed with music. I was trying to get it right, so I'm going back to that.
Speaker 1:They kind of felt like it was really ratchet.
Speaker 4:Who performed, you know who performed A lot of people performed who didn't perform?
Speaker 3:would be more requested.
Speaker 1:But a lot of people performed.
Speaker 3:That booty hook Brown stuff performed. The booty brown.
Speaker 1:I don't know her name, but Busta Ron's got the Lifetime Achievement Award. That was big for him. He had a little message about working with the youth and artists. Putting the beat down, it don't really help. Nobody don't make nobody no money. He had a speech on that. I think people were talking about the. For me, most of the ladies had those see-through dresses where they had a two piece. You could see what G string or what thong they had on, what some people just would cover the nipple. I think that's what most people were bashing. And then one girl took her sandals off when she was in the crowd watching. They had her on camera without her sandals on. I guess maybe because the high heels, you know how that go.
Speaker 1:But they'll send out those. That's what made the show really ratchet. Did I enjoy some of the performance? Yes, I think a lot of her show was good. The audio was bad Because I think if she didn't do so much movement and she did it live the energy would be on point. She had good. What do you want to call? It. Stage props.
Speaker 3:Choreography Coordination was dope, but because she was lip syncing.
Speaker 1:I just felt like it hit that record that put it on the floor. That's an energy record, like Busta was wild into it, but it just didn't feel the same to me watching that. But yeah, a lot of people performed because it's 50 years of hip hop, so they brought everybody out. Man, everybody came out for it. They had a party but yeah, they bashing it pretty bad. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I ain't watch it, but I did get a text like the disappointment with music.
Speaker 1:I mean, to me it's not who they are, who they have performing, because this music that already exists, they're just who they chose to perform. Because I'm like the records. We all know that most of the records I feel it wasn't like you had a bunch of new artists that we didn't know. The double, what you call that, the freestyle part, was a little different too. Finesse, two times was on it. He still gave his prison with his hand. He did his old school beatbox with his hand.
Speaker 1:That was a little unique there. He did that, but Collar Coyle right, she seemed like she's making a whole line.
Speaker 2:She was a good performer, from what I understand. I remember early on seeing her performance.
Speaker 5:And that's Benzino's daughter, correct?
Speaker 2:Yeah, correct, yeah, I like her.
Speaker 1:I only watched some of the performances back just to kind of see what was going on.
Speaker 3:But no it looked pretty lit so you made some more Haitian food.
Speaker 2:No, it wasn't Because I was cheated. I tried to use some canned products and missed some of the epi's.
Speaker 3:The epi's yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it ain't nowhere near close. It took the canned products to a next level, but it's still. I wouldn't even disrespect Haitian food to act like I was even close. I got 100 more years. But you ate it though, yeah, yeah, yeah, I ate it. It wasn't bad. I tried on winning on it.
Speaker 5:You enjoy cooking, did you?
Speaker 1:say you enjoy cooking.
Speaker 2:Because I have a creative mind. I like to see what stick. I don't even really be tasting the seasonings or nothing. I just look and just kind of feel and mix some stuff up. If I had my dream kitchen then I'd probably be a beast.
Speaker 1:That's a nars, isn't it? That's what I've been seeing about you. I've been seeing you when you do some cooking stuff you do, I'll be like this is really cooking, Like he really creating a whole quesadilla out here.
Speaker 2:My quesadillas are fired up. My quesadillas are fire. I can do some really amazing things with ramen noodles with modifying it. I'm good at amplifying frozen dinners and stuff like that, just taking things that's kind of already pre-cooked and taking it to the next level.
Speaker 3:You got to use that hashtag men can cook man whenever you post it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going to get into it too.
Speaker 1:So have you seen a tea green episode yet?
Speaker 2:Well, I've seen him doing it over the years and I've been around him in person, but I know he got his page. Now his YouTube page.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he started.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's doing good too. Yeah, it was pretty interesting watching some of his stuff. Yeah, he happy about that.
Speaker 1:I guess what got me while I was dying is he had some leftovers and he came up with a recipe with some leftovers. He enhanced some fish with grit to make it a whole breakfast and I'm like, oh, he really putting some thought and you can see the work. He got some episodes out there. He got a whole intro and everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he got a section and all he go to his house. He got the double screen computers because he had a tech geek too. But, he grilled and everything.
Speaker 1:So you're in good cook, he's all the way cooked. If you're going to be recording, listen, you got to know you got it To have the eight. I mean you can tell it's started out because he got some angles. I'm like, yeah, that camera on the wall, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:He happy about it, hey T.
Speaker 1:Green man shout out to you my G, we see you. We see you, we might have to pull up and have a. Maybe give him some feedback on some of the food.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he like Haitian food too. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh. They did it all the time my whole family and even extended family all been eating Haitian food for like a long, long time Shout out to y'all.
Speaker 5:It's like a regular.
Speaker 3:For real man. It's like a regular dish, though that's yeah. That's different in here, even though I know A lot of people like Haitian food.
Speaker 2:Listen, palm Beach County, I will say South Florida. It's probably more than South Florida now, but Florida has a special relationship with Haitians. It's a lot of what's out here, man.
Speaker 1:And to be honest I mean I know we gotta be county. But I feel like Der Ray. It's like Lil Haiti.
Speaker 2:Der Ray is like Lil Haiti.
Speaker 1:It's our little Haiti. How about to say it like when I think of cousins and the buys when we say buys, like the baby, stuff the spot.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying Like buys in Crioll the spot.
Speaker 1:Like dog if you like, and I, most of the people, friends, the people who do like my dad, who I'm somewhat aware of, like if you go to. Is that Lawson in Congress? You got some barbershops over there, but they gotta bro. They do a whole hangout business like a reunion. The barbershop turned into a lounge, the barbecue come out the grill the liquor, but like when I say it's like a buys man that Der Ray is on fire. I think somebody just did a block party like Johnny Barber.
Speaker 1:Somebody did a barbershop and I seen all the our folks more like the people we from Fayette like to the tracks what they doing at this event, like damn, der Ray was just, but it's like once somebody doing something. Everybody like that's one thing about Der Ray when I, when I always think about it. That's like a little hater to me, man, growing up it was always that's where it's at. That's where it's at.
Speaker 3:But it's getting expensive, so the one who got it got it, but it looked like everybody's migrating north now. Like, I feel like.
Speaker 1:Port St Lucy has been a gold mine for a lot of people, Cause you getting what it costs for a house. Now you getting, you know, a bang for your buck with the land and the property.
Speaker 2:It makes sense, definitely makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's insane man, that's the same. So I guess one thing I want to also talk about is we, as we know, we're celebrating and we we're doing a recap is let's talk about, I mean, and not taking away from any of the episodes, but as the particular episode that would be your favorite. You would say and why? Not only the episode, but why was that particular one your favorite drink?
Speaker 3:Or we will start off with you you know, I think I I like the one when Jarvis was here, jarvis and Nadia.
Speaker 2:I like that one.
Speaker 3:I feel like we got really deep into, so you like the relationship stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I I.
Speaker 3:I it brings a crowd, but it is, it's just. It's just. I think it needs to be talked about more, man. You know, I feel like we, we as the culture, we lack there. Man, we do yes.
Speaker 1:So, yes, the thoughts of that, yeah, I think that whole, yeah, that whole interview was nice to be in and it's kind of funny with that interview, I feel like resurfacing some of the clips definitely brought traffic or got some more people engaged because we shot it and we dropped some clips on it. But I think it coming back around that that second hit, with us having more subscribers and followers, depending on the platform, it definitely made some noise and it's always interesting with us and what we talk about.
Speaker 1:It's just like different platforms. You know, I feel like, whether it's the algorithms or what, the cadence of exposure, they do different things. I know if it's going to be entertainment, I already know what platform is going to have the most views. I know if we're talking about we're going to entertainment. If we're talking about something on the artistry, I know that one and that one with TikTok, for, surprisingly, that episode with TikTok, it just did phenomenal.
Speaker 3:Can I add one more?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3:See, Money and Mo. I like that one a lot too. They both weigh heavy to me, but yeah, because I learned a lot. I think that was real exposure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because there was a lot of gyms in that episode, I think just in general Mo brings a different dynamic and what she experienced we don't meet people of her caliber all the time within South Florida, so that was dope what she represents and what she's doing. You know what I mean. Awesome, all right.
Speaker 2:I might have to say the triple J interview. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because one of the one of the things that got me excited about being on the podcast was being able to, in present day, on, I would say, a more modern platform, to be able to have some of the history here recorded. And triple J is an important person to be able to calcify some of that history because he has some information, he has a story that I feel like 200 years from now will be important to look back and kind of pinpoint certain areas in our music history. We don't, I don't know of much that went on here musically last 50 years. There's nothing.
Speaker 1:Keep that high. I want you to keep going. But you know, what's interesting to that piece you said is the fact that I see other people taking some of our content and sharing it because certain things people didn't know they're not sure what it was saying and I know we're dropping trips, interview and I think we've got some good gems and stats that we didn't know. We use the terms certain terms we use, you know, even to the word the raw.
Speaker 2:Yeah when that generated yeah.
Speaker 2:Like it's some good stuff and that's interesting that you you know you're talking about yeah, I feel like it's me with his, me with his interview brings the emotional importance of what exposure is allowing for a community of people that contribute to whatever all of this becomes later down the line. So you, you'll have the, the next forthcoming generations or whatever. They'll be able to look back at certain things like we don't. I got grandparents. I have nothing, nothing of them. I have no pictures, really no videos, no tweaks, what they?
Speaker 5:they personalities yeah.
Speaker 2:So we're we're able to record the bodies that contribute to you know the good and the bad, and the art and the, the energy, what what life was like.
Speaker 2:So to be able to do that and I'm still using trip jazz, my favorite, but all the other people as well that we we brought on here, so that the the narrow part of what we do with with this podcast, to me is way more important because it's allowing real people that place, they feed on the ground, that have true historical references and identities within the people in. I'm not saying it represents everybody, but a niche of people. I think it's, I think it's beautiful. So that's an. I feel like that's important and shout out to us for doing that, because there's there's going to be people that look back and be like you know what. I'm glad they recorded that, yeah, because that's my great, great uncle.
Speaker 2:Or that's my like I could see that, stuff like that. Imagine if we had access to things like even just newspaper clippings. We don't even, we don't even got that. So we doing this. Yeah, yeah, shout out to me for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was weird I hold on to stuff like that there were just certain things. You don't see that every day, not on, not on good terms, right, you know?
Speaker 2:what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:So, it's, it's. I feel like that's very, very important and we had the stuff like this. Especially when it's not on the biggest platforms, it should still be appreciated, and I'm I'm lobbying for the future of our communities to put more importance in the recorded, the recorded beingness in the, in the, in the present moment, Because it's going to matter. It's going to matter for those who you know, especially like yourself and us, that put aside time with not much promise on anything you're doing, to say, hey, we care about what's happening here and the, the, the scribes of history, is very rare that the scribes ever get they um get their flowers, they always giving them out, but it's a lot of people that do not get the credit they deserve for allowing us to continue forward, just with a essence, and so so I like that.
Speaker 2:So the triple J is important to me because it he um calcify such a broadness of our rap scene, and it's others too. But he, just the, he's the one that fit the most to come, like in modern times, to where we know. Oh, you can't deny that a lot of people know his name, Can't deny that his effects of piercing through the industry rather did what he should have. We know he was capable of doing and champion him to, to be for an ending there's. There's many others that we've been, that we place. So I feel like in you want to come through here because the reason we doing it for absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1:That was a well said too. Damn, I don't know if I want to say anything after that one. Um yeah, good job, I guess.
Speaker 3:I will.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely good job.
Speaker 1:Um, and I'm, I'm just picking something different, because you already said that one and I got nothing on top of that and I would just say the first episode of hot and Van Damme, um, um, I I really enjoyed it because it was a whole. You know, like we said, before exposure got started, you know, we, we had a conversation, we, we came up with the idea, um, we went to lunch, we got a chance to talk about it a little bit more, what we're going to do, how we can do it, and I just feel like getting to the first episode could be intimidating, challenging, but doing the whole process of the invite, us sitting down at the round table and doing that first episode, I feel like it opened the door for us to. We saw what it could do and, um, we were here, we brought us to this point. So that episode will forever be um special to me because of that.
Speaker 4:You know what I'm saying, cause I feel like it was a bunch of homeboys, really just having a conversation through daddy fat up in there. Just a come on out here and we threw him on the mind.
Speaker 1:I think it was just a whole vibe to to guest appearances and really just kicking the dough in for exposure as a podcast format. Right Cause it was a DVD once upon a time. But that, uh, for that I really enjoyed the first episode and then I think I would follow up with trip uh being able to hear his story telling and his story, uh, as much as we interacted, we seen him. I didn't know all the things he shared with us. That was a dope and that's forever going to go down in history for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, this is our first episode was just us. So, uh, shout out to us, uh, engage in, man, we, we, we want the distance one, two hours without a, without a special invited guest man. So, yeah, uh, shout out to us, man and um, y'all want to end with a, a gym of the day. I want to give a. I know we did one on the first episode, but we haven't given the gym of the day um ourselves in a long time. Uh, you already kind of gave one, so if we can use yours, Draco, you want anything you seen recently that you feel uh for the, you for an upcoming producer.
Speaker 1:Um anything you want to tell them.
Speaker 3:I seen a comment uh, someone wrote on Facebook and they said uh, in this time that you're in, right now, what have you learned recently? And um, I put um, patience, step back. It's okay to step back. Um, I think taking a breather would help everyone at times. So I think patience is the main word that I'm looking for. But, yeah, patience or breather.
Speaker 1:Be patient, I think correct. Okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 2:That's what's up Um you, you giving us a gym.
Speaker 1:I'm going to give a gym of the day, I think as well. Right, it's definitely deserve. I'm trying to feel the emotions that I feel right now and what I would tell somebody. Uh, I know we kind of set well, I kind of feel like I set it off camera, um, before we actually started the show. Um, it's uh, you know, and I would give this advice to you can apply, how you can help apply, however, but you know that beginning is could be scary as hell for anybody. Anything.
Speaker 1:You, you know the that there's a vision that comes right, and then, whether it's a song, whether it's a podcast, whether it's that you're going to go into entrepreneurship, you about to make t-shirts and you looking at that press machine on Amazon for the longest, you don't know which one to buy the one that costs 500, the one that costs 200, you know, I feel like you know, do your research, but you, you know, you gotta be willing to jump out there and figure it out. You gonna bump your head, you gonna make mistakes. Not everything in the beginning is going to be perfect. You think about your first record into the way you make music. Now, you think about the way you used to dress back then to the way you are now and I catch myself now and I'm trying to. You know, I don't mind trying to inspire others, but I always tell them the first one isn't going to look like the first episode. For example, won't look like the 10th episode.
Speaker 1:We had to work and build the chemistry to get where we are now. We have a love, we got a passion for what we're doing and that consistency. It comes with time and, I think, with exposure as well, and I think, all of us. What makes us unique, too, is we're moving at our own pace, right? So keep that in mind. Your first episode is not going to look like your 10th, right, so that that would be my and you could apply that. However, day one on the job and two weeks later you're going to know protocols, you're going to know the dos and the don'ts, right? So be willing to go through that process, embrace it and move at your own pace. Don't be looking at what everybody else is doing. Move at your own pace. So, whether you want to do daily, weekly, bi-weekly, two, every two months, if you feel like that's what you need to do and that's what worked for you, move at your own pace until the circumstances change and you could move however you would want to move. That would be my gym of the day.
Speaker 3:That's it, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 2:But no, man we really appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1:This has been our episode 11. Really excited, really celebrating. Once again, shout out to everybody that's backing us, shout out to everybody that's watching and watching every episode and y'all leave us those positive comments on great conversation. Keep it going. We need to do this back then, but we got it now. I want y'all to know that and we here to stay man. So I always, like always, we always appreciate y'all for watching and listening and it's exposure we out.
Speaker 3:It's more than just a podcast. It's exposure.