Have you ever wondered how hustlers from Georgia turned their early struggles into entrepreneurial success stories? Meet Jack and Guest Sniper AKA BigPlay Ray, and XtraGramSam, as we recount our journeys from the gritty streets to business triumphs. Listen to how our brotherhood, rooted in resilience and a shared history, fuels our relentless drive. Through personal tales of risk-taking and overcoming setbacks, we reveal the hustler mentality that defines us and keeps us pushing forward.
Surrounding yourself with goal-oriented people can make or break your success. We share our experiences cultivating a strong support system, stressing the importance of genuine connections and removing negative influences. As fathers, we discuss the legacies we aim to leave behind, and the relentless drive to succeed for our children. Be prepared for some laughs and touching moments as we share stories about the joys and challenges of parenting, and the unique motivation from our kids.
The world has changed, and so has parenting. We reflect on our childhoods filled with outdoor adventures and how today's screen-focused youth are missing out. From reminiscing about drinking from water hoses to discussing the impact of technology, we highlight the generational shifts in upbringing. Wrapping up, we emphasize the importance of mutual support, self-belief, and the need to let go of stress. Pour yourself a drink, sit back, and enjoy an episode packed with motivational reflections, humorous anecdotes, and powerful insights into growth and resilience.
Have you ever wondered how hustlers from Georgia turned their early struggles into entrepreneurial success stories? Meet Jack and Guest Sniper AKA BigPlay Ray, and XtraGramSam, as we recount our journeys from the gritty streets to business triumphs. Listen to how our brotherhood, rooted in resilience and a shared history, fuels our relentless drive. Through personal tales of risk-taking and overcoming setbacks, we reveal the hustler mentality that defines us and keeps us pushing forward.
Surrounding yourself with goal-oriented people can make or break your success. We share our experiences cultivating a strong support system, stressing the importance of genuine connections and removing negative influences. As fathers, we discuss the legacies we aim to leave behind, and the relentless drive to succeed for our children. Be prepared for some laughs and touching moments as we share stories about the joys and challenges of parenting, and the unique motivation from our kids.
The world has changed, and so has parenting. We reflect on our childhoods filled with outdoor adventures and how today's screen-focused youth are missing out. From reminiscing about drinking from water hoses to discussing the impact of technology, we highlight the generational shifts in upbringing. Wrapping up, we emphasize the importance of mutual support, self-belief, and the need to let go of stress. Pour yourself a drink, sit back, and enjoy an episode packed with motivational reflections, humorous anecdotes, and powerful insights into growth and resilience.
Hey Gucci, how you gonna start the day off again. The way I'm drivin' up, I just might wreck or somethin'. Why would I chase a bitch? I can go chase a check or somethin'.
Speaker 2:You ain't talk about no money. Nigga, burn up. Nigga, fuckin' with the air got me turnt up. Nigga, nigga, two-spirit workin' for my baby. These bitches, they just wanna have my baby Born in the 80s, crack baby Mama. She was in the streets, so guess who raised me? You, motherfuckin' right, couldn't get it from my mama, so I got it off the block, been workin' my whole life, but I ain't never punched a cop. Nine years old nigga get shot.
Speaker 4:Hey, welcome to Four Steppers. Only I'm Jack, but I got two guests with me. That's Sniper AKA Big Play Raider. I'm Jack, but I got two guests with me. That's Sniper AKA Big Play Raider. And you got Extra Grand Sam. Yes sir, yes sir, hey, we just you know we coming back with that hustler mentality right now. So you know, y'all been hearing us laugh and joke this, that. And the third Somebody told me they got tired of hearing about relationships, so we're going to take y'all back to the business side. Y'all going to figure out and realize where we're from, how you feel, and just get to know us for a little bit, which y'all already know me. I just got different hats and different coins and different shells and this, that. And the third I'm always trying to rub two pennies together, trying to make a million out of it. And, by the way, my name is Jack.
Speaker 2:Hey Sniper, go ahead and introduce yourself. Well, y'all know what big play rate. I know what it is, man, I'm from Georgia, Jack appreciate you having me my boy?
Speaker 4:No problem man. You know we go back like four flats on a Cadillac with two big donuts in the back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to tell these folks about you, man. You know we call you Tommy because you know you stay. I ain't got a job but you got a million jobs. Different type of hustle man.
Speaker 3:I love it, though, my brother.
Speaker 4:Big Facts For sure. Hey, that was snipe, hey.
Speaker 3:G hey, that was Snipin'. Hey G. What you know, man, what you know. Tell me something, man. What you know, let these folks know who you is. Man. Well, if you from Madison, you probably know me as Sam. You know that nigga that always be doing shit type shit. But it's your ground, sam, man. Like man, this shit go a long way. You all the way back to high school with you. Jj, you already know man, but, um, you know we'll get into all that. You know we'll lie behind the name and all that stuff.
Speaker 4:You know saying we get into it yeah, and just for treat for y'all, we just gonna. This is, by the way, this is one of my partners, my player. Partners like school is like school days. Partners like well, we've been in some shit together. Partners, oh yeah, um, but that's what you got to understand about me.
Speaker 4:Greg and sniper Shoot. We might not see each other every day, but shoot a when that bat signal go up, hey I. But it's also you got to understand where all three of us come from. All of us are entrepreneurs, like plenty of times over I mean shit, remember all money, green money, remember that, oh yeah, but you got to understand it's this is more like a brotherhood because we, we, we are the true epitome of everybody eats, because if I can't do it, I'm gonna send you to sam, if sam can't do it, you're gonna send your sniper, and vice versa. But that's what we come to is like that hustler mentality was.
Speaker 4:Connect that hustler mentality. Can it be cultured and grown and put in different situations with people? Because, like I tell y'all all the time I laugh and joke and people don't understand the, the background that I come from, to be blessed to even be walking on the earth, like right now, took plenty of risk. Risk versus reward, I mean shit. You're going to fumble a couple balls. You're going to fumble a couple bags. You're going to drag your dick in the dirt. But hey, one thing about it is two things for sure. One, it doesn't have to be said, it does not have to be explained. So you got to understand. The hustler's mentality is about the people that you involve yourself with and have around you. Do y'all agree? I agree.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I believe what you surround yourself around you know what I'm saying also creates your reality too. Man, you know you got to be careful. What you put in like to your eyes and ears, man, it also affects your reality around you. You know what I'm saying. You hang around broke people, you know what I'm saying, people with no ambition. Man, nine times ten, like that's, that's the track you're gonna be on, so you always want to surround yourself with people with goals and ambition. Like you know what I'm saying. Like you, always, every time you call me bro, you always got a next plan for something. You always you know what I'm saying have something going like why, for me, I'm always trying to think of the next dollar or way, you know, to enhance something.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying, yeah, you got to be hungry for it, you got to want it, you got to want it. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, we got kids, we stay hustling.
Speaker 3:We got to get it. Hey, we got to have another idea after the last one, man, because you know that one idea might run out. You know you got to have some more man.
Speaker 4:But I feel like shoot, even dealing with y'all Like as friends, brothers, like brothers from another mother, every time we pitch An idea to each other, we're constantly Gotting on Telling each other hey man, go for that, yeah, get money Don't make money Right, bro shoot, and if I can't, if you, if you you struggling trying to make it, but we finna try to make this y'all shake. I'm trying to make it, but we finna try to make this John shape.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we finna scrape the pot for real. Yeah, yeah, definitely. We gonna pitch ideas to each other, like today. He would tell him I'm like bro, I think you should. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Piggybacking on what you said, I'm throwing ideas. Hey man, you should try this, try this.
Speaker 4:But I mean and it's like backgrounds, because a lot of people get that confusion because there's a reason a stadium is built the way it's, because those fans in the stage might support you but they can't go on a journey that you built for. And it's like why should I tell my, my brother, bro, you ain't going to do that man, you're going to fumble that bad Instead of being like bro, go for it. I know you got it.
Speaker 3:Got to rock. We know who's talking that positivity behind whatever you're trying to do. You know, with that sports system coming in and that type of energy, it does take it to a different level rather than you doing it by yourself. You know what I'm saying. When your peers involved people pushing you, it does elevate whatever the hell it is. You know what I'm saying when your peers involved people pushing you it does elevate whatever the hell it is. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:Like that's fact, because I mean, but it's also the flip side of that, that positivity, what I feel as a positive vibe from somebody, is like shoot, we sitting here chopping it up, but if you see me fumbling and stumbling, you go. Hey, bro, tighten up, you doing too much. If you see me fumbling and stumbling you better, hey bro tighten up, you do it.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, you know I'm going to be that one that hate hey. Oh yeah, that's the one you ask.
Speaker 2:Hey, hey you might get mad and you might not want to talk to him for a couple days, but I'm going to call him hey bro hey bro, fucking up, tighten up.
Speaker 4:Get rid of it, man, but you know what it comes down to. Those are actual, genuine people that fuck with you, that are being with you.
Speaker 3:They don't mind how you're feeling, go ahead. They don't mind how you're feeling, you know what I'm saying, but you need that straightening, though.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's just a little bit of straightening, because you got to understand when they call you their brethren. It's like they don't want to see you fall, see you fumble, see you stumble. They just want you to grow and flourish like a wonderful plant. But you got other miscellaneous motherfuckers out here Tender dick motherfuckers out here. Motherfuckers faking in silicone titties out here. Motherfucker, goddamn Cambodian breast milk sweet motherfuckers out here. They want to see you fail. They want to see you fall. They want to got down and throw salt on anything that you have to watch it shrivel and die.
Speaker 4:But like my papa used to tell me, man, if you got five motherfuckers sitting down smoking weed, not doing shit today, guess what you gonna be?
Speaker 4:That's six motherfuckers not doing shit. But if you surround yourself with like-minded people that want better for life, that want dreams and everything to come true, they're going to push you to be better. Because, if y'all didn't know, the other two here with me are also Files and they know the trials and tribulations of how hard it is to stand up every day, even when you fumble. How hard it is to stand up every day, even when you fumble, even when they want something. The only thing you're going to be doing is saying, okay, daddy will figure it out, or daddy got you, but they don't never see that. Because they don't never see that wheels turning, that smoke got on behind their head, because they don't understand the time, the struggle and the effort that we put into this. Because you got to understand, like I told my kids one day I might be dead and gone, but you are my legacy. I want you to be better than I was, because it's only right.
Speaker 2:I got two boys, so I'm definitely I got two boys and a girl, so I'm applying that to all three of them. You know what I'm saying, but definitely.
Speaker 4:Because, I mean, does it feel like failure is not an option? No more.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Can't fail yeah yeah. I got to do to make sure that they're going to be straight when I leave. Absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 4:Because that's what a lot of people fail to realize your kids are watching your every move and the people that really don't take care of their kids, how do you really walk this earth and breathe still and don't understand, boy, you gave this life blood right here. When you in that nursing home, who gonna visit you?
Speaker 2:It ain't no love like the kid. That's a different type of love. But that's a different type of motivation though, too, that too Well, I could be having a fucked up day and my kid run up to me and give me like the biggest hug. That shit change my whole day.
Speaker 3:It's a whole different day you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:that's it. Just motivate. Motivate me to go hard.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you got that innocent, like positive energy about a man. You know I'm saying like always looking at your kids, and especially when they're growing, and you know I'm saying they little man, just they just do something to it. Now you feel me, I mean, and watching, watching a little person you know what I'm saying Evolve in front of your eyes Like that shit is amazing too, as well.
Speaker 4:Cause. Cause in my mind, it's like, even if we, like a lot of people, always ask me, boy, how you feeling today, hey man, I didn't want to come in this bed. I didn't want to come in this bed. I didn't want to come in this, motherfucker, but guess what? I knew I had to. I knew I had little tiny, pitty patter feet. They're going to be wanting something. Because in my mind it's like, sometimes I don't have the energy, but guess what I'm thinking, man, I don't want to go to work, but guess what?
Speaker 2:I got to get up and go. I got to get up and go. He's depending on me, man what's up.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna ask both of y'all what's the best part about being a dad the successes, the, the look, dad, look what I did, the thank you for being my daddy. The daddy you want to do this. Hey daddy, look at what I did on the game. Hey daddy, look at the video I found.
Speaker 3:I think those are the best parts yeah, the best part of being a daddy is like the expectation that your child has of a daddy and you being able to fulfill that. You know that dad role for them. You know what I'm saying. We all might not have had or whatever our situation with our perfect parents and like how we wanted to have a dad. But being able to feel that for your young and you know I'm saying the best thing about you know I'm saying being a dad.
Speaker 4:I think, hell yeah, because I mean shoot. It's even the fear that you might expose them to the wrong situations, because I'm a little bit rougher on the edge.
Speaker 2:He said a little bit he said a little bit.
Speaker 3:I seen you slamming him on the neck.
Speaker 4:Look, we ain't going to talk about that. Hey, look, we are not going to talk about those boys, those boys that got on at the club that night. When I told him, he told my son I got a two-piece for you. I said yeah you fucking bitch, I got two pieces of biscuit for you. Come on, we ain't get it.
Speaker 3:But it's man my jaw's scared bro, hey, hey.
Speaker 4:It's those moments that make us the best. Yeah, man, we all growing up, I think for me, man, personally I don't.
Speaker 2:I just think just watching them grow up, man, that's the big part. Just watching them grow up, you know what I'm saying. You can be like, damn, I was doing that same thing when I was around the age you know what I'm saying. Like I think that's the big part for me overall Just being there to provide for them. They ask me for something. I make them do it. Right right, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:Because I mean that brings that little twinkle.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got a question for y'all. What's the funniest part about being a dad? Funniest part, those situations.
Speaker 4:Man, let me tell you.
Speaker 2:I say the funniest part is probably like me saying something when I'm around the edge and then they saying it back there. I know you got it.
Speaker 3:I know you got it.
Speaker 4:Hitting the? U on you. I got a funny story for you about one of my kids. It brought me back to my turn, right, because when I was younger I'm tomorrow, we little bit. So we were back like I'm a 90s baby, I'm an 80s baby, so I was out when Shaq had the designs cut in his head, right, right, right. So boom, I'm like 7, 8. So I told my older cousin, mikey, I need you to cut me some designs in my head. Mikey, ain't nothing but two years older than me, we done got a whole today. Little goddamn shaver Boy, I had goddamn patches all over the top of my head. Boy. My mama cussed me out and whooped my ass so bad.
Speaker 3:Boy had a pap on his head.
Speaker 4:So, boom, fast forward. So I came home one day after work you know just talking to my kids and shit. So I looked at my oldest son. I'm like, hey, something wrong with your motherfucking head. So my son has health. I said, man, something ain't right with this hell. I said, bro, what's with your hairline? What the fuck you got going on? What the fuck you got going on, bro, tell me why. This motherfucker had a whole spook mane cut into his goddamn line-up. I said, what the fuck did you do Experiment? He said I was trying to give myself a line-up and he done pushed this goddamn shit back. So the only thing it did was make me laugh but also get that.
Speaker 4:I'm like hey, I said he told me something Daddy, this look bad. I said I ain't gonna hold you. It look fucked up. But we gonna figure this out. But that right. There is a funny moment to me Because it's a flashback on some shit I went and did myself. But now I'm going to tell them hey, do it like this.
Speaker 4:Do it like this next time. You got to do it Because, bro, I'm looking at you. I don't want to walk around with you looking fucked up, but guess what? We're going to work through this. We're going to figure this out.
Speaker 2:Put some gel on it, get this we're gonna figure this out to where we're gonna got. Now, you know, put some gel on it, get your baseball cap, we're gonna work this out. I did the same shit. I was experimenting, trying to say that look at him.
Speaker 3:He mess up man, you gotta get that bald head. When you really mess your head up, you gotta get that bald head.
Speaker 4:I have to get that bald head. But you know the other craziest part your head up, Gotta get that bald head boy. I have to get that bald head, but you know.
Speaker 4:but you know the other craziest part, you know the other craziest part is the fact that most of the situations we go through we know how to. We saw our parents work with us through those situations right and and only thing that does was tell us you can make it through this, right, we just gotta. And that's what I took on in life and that's what I try to teach all my kids. You gonna have to wag certain situations.
Speaker 2:You gonna have to put two pennies together to make a million so let me ask you this you think the parenting for how we came up to now, you think it's like less strict than how we came up?
Speaker 4:When I look at some parents, hell yeah, yeah, because they take the easy road out. I'm quick. I want to tell my son go out there and drink out the water hose like a motherfucker. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Them kids don't mess with the outside like that. They don't mess with the outside like that.
Speaker 4:They don't taste that for their first. It's all hot and shit. There's something about that water coming in that water hole.
Speaker 2:It was different, that shit had Revolavent in it.
Speaker 4:That shit had the vitamins and shit. That shit had that B12 in it.
Speaker 3:That shit had that non-COVID in it, you know what I'm saying, and water of the summer by that water hole, but hey, but y'all remember y'all know the other thing.
Speaker 4:That's crazy, though, how kids just don't get outside and ride bikes and shit yeah, they don't.
Speaker 3:They don't spend no time outside like that and I appreciate it. Like when we came up we used to do stuff like that man, you outside all day until the start getting dark. You know these kids. Now they stuck in the house on these screens, on these, these phones, these games. You know they don't even know what it's like to be out there like that. You know that type of energy Don't be running in and out my door. Yeah, I'm getting cut off for going in and out the house Like shit.
Speaker 4:Hey, you pick either in or out, man you got to pick one Out. Y'all ain't going to got what am I used to? Boy shit who Dog? I remember just going down to the creek and going to swimming, catching tadpoles and shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I guess that's what made my ass country as far Catching turtles and shit. You know they're outside doing.
Speaker 4:But you know what, though? I'm glad these kids ain't got shit like we used to, because y'all remember line wire and shit.
Speaker 2:That shit get your computer so many fucking viruses.
Speaker 4:Why, shit, what? And you don't hey, you got to tell your mama. I don't know how you got that.
Speaker 3:I don't know what that is. Who?
Speaker 4:else did it. But hey, because it's like I was joking with somebody at work the other day. I said, boy, I said that Kazaza and LimeWire, boy, that shit, I should have paid attention, that was sex class though. I fought around and downloaded the wrong shit, man, and my shit got a virus, I mean. But you think about it, shoot. That aspect there has transcended even in life. If I move the wrong way, if I carry on that same wrong energy, it's going to, I'm going to get the wrong, it's going to be consequences and repercussions for it. Because what do you do after you got to bounce back, but you don't know how to bounce back. And that's what I'm afraid a lot of these parents ain't teaching their kids Right, because common sense ain't common. No more, bro. Yeah, I know they're saying it all the time, these motherfuckers slow, dumb and retarded. There's a new generation coming up.
Speaker 2:I said boy you're putting those on the weekends? We got to think about those. They ain't really got nobody guiding them either. Like it ain't too many. You know what I'm saying. Like when we came, it was a lot of older folks Just guiding us, getting on our ass. We fucked up and did something wrong. You know what I'm saying? Like now it's like the young niggas, they the OG to the old Y'all. Like you got young niggas with some money and they looking up to them.
Speaker 4:Right that shit acts bad with me.
Speaker 3:Young niggas be big dog, big bro, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I just try to stay on my kids and make sure they you know what I'm saying on top of what they need to be on top of.
Speaker 4:Shoot, I mean shoot. I keep myself in my pivot, yeah, myself in my pivot, because I don't even look at like from the time that we grew up to the time now I have music used to tell us to get out and make money.
Speaker 3:Yeah, now these got them glorified junkies.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like what made you try that? Oh, I don't know. I heard them song. Oh, I can take two 30s. You about to be dead they crash out music man but it's like. It's like where do you go from there? Because now you got folks snitching just to get a couple days off. They sentence, then they come home and be celebrated because they used to be shit. You snitched, bro, you.
Speaker 3:You wiped out the mouth definitely yeah, man, the street definitely changed years, years ago. Man, snitching nothing new. I don't think, man, and I think that's why you can't really be the man like them boys used to do in, like the 90s and shit like that. You can't get that high in that game just because of that. Right there, man, there's going to be somebody going to get, you know, hit about something and they don't want to do their time, and then they're going to try to flip the net. Man, just, you know what I'm saying. Get it off them or whatever, and that goes from stains to the blood of anybody. You can't really trust nobody in that game, man. I mean, you can still do it, man, but you got to be very careful these days, man, because this shit is out of hand.
Speaker 4:It's just. I think the scales are tipped. I think the bad influence is just from certain individuals thinking, oh, it's okay to snitch For what I think about. Y'all remember the dare card they used to ride around and say stop snitching on the side of it. That's what that mean to me. Hey, let the drug do. Look all these folks out here, letting the drugs do them instead of them doing the drug. It's like bro. It's like I've seen so many kids. They're like 16, 17, 18 year old junkies. It's like bro who told you that was cool. He didn't live like that, right, he ain't even went through no shit to be got no junk yeah them young junkies, that's wild, like we saw.
Speaker 3:We saw the crack era coming up. Man with them. Young junkies like we be seeing, like Odin on the fake perks and all that shit. That shit wild, like never seen. No shit like that before.
Speaker 4:But that's, that's like I try to keep my kids as far away that I can from them, because it's like I don't want you even exposed to that. But I want you exposed to it Because I want you to see, bro, that ain't, that ain't living Nigga, that's dying, because you got to worry about already keeping your shit on a hustle every time that you do it. So what do you do? What else do you do?
Speaker 2:They're going to see it though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're going to be seeing it anyway.
Speaker 2:They're going to stop them from exposing it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:It feels like a lot with the media. They're like that, like ain't nothing really withheld from the youth, like that, you know like. You know, like when we was growing up, like it was, like you get to a certain age you start seeing shit like that, like they come out the back because they got that look in the palm of their hand every day. So they definitely how we were, like it wasn't really even cussing like that on TV, like that at night when we were coming up. Man, you know it was different coming up from our area opposed to theirs.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah yeah, I feel you, especially with the exposure to the internet shit. Now you can see so much shit on there, yeah, like they're in the palm of their hand every day. It influences them, though they just take it Whatever they see it ring with it.
Speaker 3:Hey, I remember you had to wait till late night to try to see some ass and titties and shit. You know what I'm saying. You got to wait till late night to see some ass and titties. I'm going to tell you what that thing smell. Like man. You can roll over anytime you want to and see that, and just scroll down your timeline.
Speaker 2:It and see that. And just scroll down your timeline it's bow. But what?
Speaker 4:but it's like. It's like every everything that you open now is sexualized, though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, overly like, like you said overly, like for real, for real, for real in the word it's like sex sells, though, like real talk, though like sex sells, like and there's been a big, big drive since we were coming up like sex sells.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Everything.
Speaker 4:And it's crazy because it's like that sex sales shit don't have an age limit on one wall. It's like when you start looking at how the media starts. All these folks start coming out as gotten on undercover perverts and this, that and the third Like what type of shit y'all?
Speaker 3:on man, this shit ain't nothing new up under the sun. I'm firm believing that. Saying so, like I believe we just finding out about it, you know.
Speaker 4:Saying I'm from the dead door and they're weird ass people Away with it so much because they ain't have this shit in the palm of their hand. That's all it is too, because a lot of these folks just are confused out here about every aspect of life, because they thinking, oh, because I can do this and this person paying me some money, well, how can I lose? Yeah, your morals.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think morals know nine days though, nah, nah exactly days?
Speaker 3:nah, exactly like the upbringing like you get when you morals respect and all that shit. Like that shit is definitely gone now. They so like it ain't a bad, almost like.
Speaker 2:I said everybody I fuck with. I always want to sit and win. I always want to sit with. I always encourage them to do. You know what I'm saying. Hey, if you doing it, I'm more happy for you than you is. You know what I'm saying. Like I done, did in the conference or something. You know what I'm saying. Y'all got for that. I'm always hey what you got there. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:I've always been like that I know that I do that same thing, because it's like, if I don't, because I'm going to be the hardest person on myself Because I don't feel like I'm doing a good enough job. But and if I'm thinking that and everybody else chime in and tell me boy, you're souped up, bro, I don't see it Right. But it's like. Then you get to a point where you open your eyes and you sit, stand back at it and like I can do this.
Speaker 3:Right, I can do this. Hey, yo, you just touched on something. There's a lot of different versions of you out here in the world, right, Every person you meet has a version of you when they met you. You know what I'm saying, right, so there's a million and one different versions of you out here. You know I'm saying, like, when you try to control what that is, I want to be this type of nigga. You know I'm saying you really push that, for you almost really see this shit really come to reality if you push it every day. I remember we used to talk about this shit all the time and you were the first nigga to shoot my video when you first had bought the camera, the drone, everything, ray with her. We had been talking, talking, talking. We pushed that narrative and then, like you know, I'm saying like, but what they got to do it, like what, what, what people see you as is is like that's the vision I saw when you was talking about being a cameraman.
Speaker 3:I like they're gonna shoot this shit, we're gonna shoot the video, we're gonna make this shit pop. And you just popped up like hey, bro, I got it. I've already been thinking about it, let's do it. What song you got? I just picked a song. Fuck it, we're going to do it up.
Speaker 2:I ain't going to cut your RG.
Speaker 3:No, you good man, you really popped out of nowhere with that goddamn camera no kelp, no kelp, bro, and the drone and everything, bro, like the whole neighborhood. Like he was like what song you got? I just picked the song. I wasn't ready, but I had been thinking about it though. I was like shit, we do this one, yeah.
Speaker 2:I respect what you're doing, though I appreciate it. Videos, podcasts yeah, absolutely bro for real everything. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:I appreciate y'all man. I'm room played a lot of folks don't know how much go into this from you trying to get broadcast to you trying to get, and everybody always asks me the extras, like why you ain't doing this shit.
Speaker 2:It takes time then you also got to work for you too. You know what I'm saying. You know what. I'm saying you just got also got to work for you too, though you know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:It might not work for me, yeah.
Speaker 4:But you just got to do what works for you. I mean shit. It's just a progress aspect. To me it's like when we saw Sam jump out with the vinyl shit. The next time I saw Ray jump out and got done with the vinyl shit, I'm like, and they just kept taking it up extra lit right here. Then you got got no respect to hustle.
Speaker 3:That shit was an explosion, though Like real, real talk, man, like I ain't even expect for that shit to take off like it did, man, but like, just like I said, man, we be sitting around thinking, talking about shit, and then we actually put that shit into motion. Oh, oh shit, my bad.
Speaker 2:I'ma say, greg can vouch for that. Like I only want to Come up with a brand Just so I can wear it. I didn't even want to Sell clothes, I just want to Fill them up with something that I can call my own. You know what I'm saying. I'm like yeah, somebody ask me hey bro, what that is? That ain't my brand. I ain't even do it. Try to make no money. You know what I'm saying. You know I ain't. I just like to shop. Yeah, I like to shop that shit. Just something I want to get off my list or my technique, or my goal, or something like that, because it was.
Speaker 4:It's where you take every aspect of everything you learn throughout life and apply it to a positive light. With a business, a supply and demand, let me switch up. Let me have different gotten on styles, let me have different flavors. Right, and it's that's what we learned from being 80s babies that that we gotta. We gotta be multi-talented like it's 50 ways to get paid out here. You can't be stagnant. Just keep your junk on a swivel. Keep it on the pot. Let's go. Let's get the pad out, let's weigh it up a little bit and let's go make this money.
Speaker 3:One of my favorite songs. Man, you got to get up, get out and get something. Man, that's it. It used to always motivate me every time I hear it and like you, my head, and like you know, even when I'm working and painting the shop, man, I, I got to have it. It's on my playlist. You know, you, with the good tomorrow era, dungeon family, that type of thing. Man like and boy wasn't talking about just sitting around getting high all day, man, talking about some real but a lot of folks fail to realize that nowadays they think everything's supposed to be given to them.
Speaker 4:How do you appreciate something that's just given to you, right, you ain't work for it you ain't gonna appreciate it, man, it's always supposed to be given yes, give me, give me, because I know I've been broke before, broke as fuck before make you appreciate what you accumulate it really do that, because once you go down and you you can do nothing but come up.
Speaker 4:So I mean it's just keeping everything positive. And a lot of times, like even when you don't want to be positive, you got somebody around you that's not gonna let you stay negative, that's gonna tell you you still on top of your shit, hey, this just this day, you just got your dick knocking in the dirt, but you're gonna, you're gonna stand back up yeah you ain't got no choice but to stand back.
Speaker 3:You're gonna stay down yeah, I think it's about how you look at situation man. If you can find the good in any situation man, it can grow. It controls how you look at it. You know I'm saying life is about perception and like how you look at shit. You know I'm saying if a bad situation happening, you find the good in it, it still creates positivity. You know I'm saying within yourself. And you know I'm saying how you gonna move on the next situation? You know I'm saying that's how I be thinking, looking at it, I might have got fired but I'll be like shit man. This shit probably set me up for the next job. Then, boom, I'm making more money than I made at the last job. Or you know I I'm saying you wreck that car really like that car. But boom, turn around. I ain't think I'll be driving this. I'm in something different. You know you gotta look at you, gotta find a silver lining in this shit, I ain't gonna lie, I get fired from the job.
Speaker 2:I be like fuck this shit, they be having me fucked up. You know what I'm saying. They be having me fucked up. I had a little bit of bitterness in there, though, like yeah, I wouldn't say fuck a few folks I love, but you know they had me fucked up at some point in time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know when they got you fucked up, y'all already have me you know when they officially got you fucked up With what?
Speaker 4:When they got you working a whole motherfucking day and an hour before you get off you get fired.
Speaker 3:Bruh, before you get off you get fired.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I don't want to say McLean bro.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:I don't really not get no respect. Well, I get them a little bit of respect because first they had me come in and they sent me home. But I get them the most respect because they called me on the phone and told me that I was fired. I can respect that, because I didn on the phone and told me that I was fired. I had to come I mean that I can respect that because y'all I had to get up in that morning and go that decent though like nowadays man, no, don't get what why?
Speaker 2:don't work me. Five to six, all of it did get some free baby.
Speaker 3:You know you put a fire me, but hey, hey, the last 15 minutes, let me holla at you real quick.
Speaker 2:Why I done worked all of you down. Let me holla at you real quick.
Speaker 4:Hey, that's when I was at Kmart, dog them motherfuckers had me stocking shells, putting up shells, doing end caps, this, that and the third. I'm working like a regular day, goddamn it. Hey, let me holla at you for a second. What's going on? What's going on, we're going on. Yeah, we're going to have to let you go.
Speaker 3:It's not working out with us shit, it's been working all day, ain't it?
Speaker 4:hey, but you know what's fucked up, though? Really, though, it's the aspect of man. What the fuck am I doing here? Y'all got me fucked up, and the real reason they got me fucked up and and the real reason they got you fucked up is because they expect you not to be mad.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah that's the crazy part the level of disrespect we have. Man, I'm like man, you know. I'm gonna say something about this shit man.
Speaker 4:Come on, I done worked so many jobs, but that shit hey, dog, hey, cause I be at work all the time and they talk and when I walk past I always see security standing outside the door. I was like, oh shit, somebody getting fired. They scared these motherfuckers gonna come in here and shoot the bitch. You don't think they'll help you, hey. But hey, this the one thing that work there that don't never want to get fired Because you look at them and say, yeah, if they fire this motherfucker, I make sure I got them call out sick man. Yeah, because they think they're going to come back and shoot this bitch up.
Speaker 2:I always tell people man, look, don't stress about it Now, you can't control it, there you go. If you can't control it, don't stress about it. Now you can't control it, there you go. See, if you can't control it, don't stress about it, just go with the flow you got to. Because if you stress about it, it don't go away.
Speaker 4:Well, you don't have an aneurysm you don't have a heart attack. You can't control shit in this life Except for your own movement. That's it.
Speaker 2:Your, that's all you can do, man what y'all fellas drinking on man.
Speaker 3:I'm about to take another shot of Ripper Shuttle man.
Speaker 2:I'm about to take another shot of Ripper Shuttle man, you tired of having a drink though. Part one.
Speaker 4:Shit go ahead.
Speaker 2:Tired of having a drink.
Speaker 4:Let's have a drink, hey, but that's all y'all for Four. Steppers On and we out.