Joe Rogan Experience #1306 - Wiz Khalifa
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2 hours and 3 minutes
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189.39046
Summary
In this episode, we sit down with our good friend and MMA fighter, Wiz Khalifa, to talk about how he got his start in the martial arts game. We also talk about his love of weed and how he came up with the name Khalifa and what it s like being a martial arts fighter. We also discuss how he grew up growing up in a poor neighborhood and how it has changed his life and how to deal with the pressures of being a father and being an MMA fighter. Lastly, we talk about what it's like to be a martial artist and how that has changed him as well as how he deals with the pressure of being the father of two young kids. We finish the episode with a little bit of a rant about weed and what its like growing up with a kid with a pot dealer father and how we deal with it. We hope you enjoy this episode and that it gives you a little insight into who we are as a family and what we are all about. Stay high, brozz! XOXO xoxo - The Crew xoxoxo - P.S. Thank you so much for listening and supporting the podcast. We really appreciate your support and support. We appreciate it. -The Crew -PJ & Jadakiss Thank you for being a good friend of the pod. We are looking forward to seeing you in the next episode! -Jadakiz and keeping you up to date with our life! -Jaden and Jaden Jaden & Jaden - Jadz - Jaden, Jaden & Jaxon (Jadax - Jadadon ( ) , Jadon, . Jaedon, Jaeden, Jaden ( ) Jadron ( ) and Jadyn ( ) ( ) - Jarell ( ) & Jazmin ( ) . (Jaden, , , and Jai ( ) (Joden ( ) , Jaden( ) ( ), Jadion ( )(Jadon) ( ) Thank you Jadson ( ) Thanks for listening to this episode. Jaddon ( ) <3, Joden, . .Jadron & Jodon ( ) + Jadmon ( ) and Jarellan ( , & Jai ( ) ?
Transcript
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You're a martial artist, so you know, freaking the mind...
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You can't be a complete person until everything is together.
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So, you know, spiritually I've already ascended above my peers.
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Through that giant jug of weed you got on the table?
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Yeah, for the folks only listening, Wiz brought literally like a mason jar filled with weed.
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Because I got tired of smoking all different types of weed.
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I only smoke KK. Only KK. If you mix it up though, you'll get a big hit, right?
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You switch it up to somebody else's stuff, your body's not ready for it.
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You'll see me over in the corner of Stone somewhere.
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Like, I'll get physically, like, ill if I don't smoke my strain.
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I would think that you were like just getting stoned all day.
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I get stoned all day when I don't have shit to do.
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But if I have too much shit to do and I get stoned all day, that shit doesn't get done.
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Because a little tobacco gives you like this little extra high.
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Like, people who smoke blunts, they don't, some of them, they don't know that they're tobacco-ing.
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And they try to mask it and say, no, you know, it's a leaf.
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I'm happy how legal weed is these days because it's like...
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My son had a spring concert yesterday, and I would feel like shit back in the day walking in there smelling like butt.
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Because he goes to a private school, and it's like...
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So it's like, you know, you got the weed head dad, blah, blah, blah, and other things.
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Yeah, I've seen it happen because I have a 22-year-old daughter, but I also have an 11 and a 9-year-old.
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And with the 22-year-old, when she was growing up, it was all weird.
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It was like if you were a loser, if you were smoking weed.
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I live right up the street from the school, so I'm getting real technical with it.
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You see that lady they locked up today in Dallas?
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But she has another baby on the way in her new relationship.
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But she's able to take CBD during her pregnancy to help her.
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Gives it every day, he doesn't have them anymore.
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It does so many different things that when you talk about weed, you feel like you're lying.
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I mean, like, these days and this day and age, I was just telling somebody the other day, smoking pot is gonna be old school, like, you know what I mean?
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We're still gonna do it, but it's totally moving towards just ingesting it and rubbing it on and all that shit.
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Yeah, so people are less scared of it, and it works, like, fuck, like, you know what I mean?
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The thing about the edibles though, it puts you in a weird place if you get too much.
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So I got a homie who just took a THC pill yesterday and he was talking about types of shit like he was going to be awake.
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Not bad, but completely lost touch with this dimension.
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So it was a jiu-jitsu tournament, and then there was this party afterwards.
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And by the time the pills had kicked in, I have no idea how much it was in there, because it was like some handmade shit that this guy put together himself with little capsules that you buy.
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It was as high as I've ever been in my life, to the point where I wasn't even seeing people.
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I was seeing a two-dimensional cutout of the person, and then behind them, I was seeing their true intention, their soul peeking out.
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And he was just, he was a high level jujitsu guy.
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It was a very strange feeling I got talking to this cat.
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And then, like, a month later he was on the run for rape.
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Yeah, he had raped some woman, and then he escaped, and then he was so addicted to jiu-jitsu, the story was that he started training again with a fake name.
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And there's only that, especially back then when this happened, this was like the early 2000s, there's only a certain number of high-level black belts that are running around.
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So he put on this fake Brazilian name and started training in the Pacific Northwest.
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But he's strangling black belts and everybody's like, what the fuck is, who is this guy?
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So people ask, did someone take a picture of him?
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But I remember talking to him on these THC pills being like, there's some wiring that's not correct here.
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I fuck with mushrooms because that's what happened with me when I was on mushrooms.
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Because being a rapper and shit like that, you know, you'd be having to peel back the layers.
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I was trying to peel my own layers back just for my own personal Everyone is, right?
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And I ended up being backstage somewhere, and I was like, fuck!
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I'm around all these people, and I really see their true intentions.
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And I was like, I see what crowd they are, and I felt like I was separated.
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I was on a boat all the way out here, and they were all on an island partying, and I was like, damn.
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I haven't done them in like three years because they help you see shit like that.
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So it's like for me, I'll take that experience and I'll just live with it.
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I don't need to keep going through it over and over.
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You've probably seen that dude and was like, oh shit, now I know people who are rapey as soon as I see them.
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Not just a trained killer, but he was dangerous, like the way he thought about things.
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I mean, you don't know until you experience it, and that was a mild experience compared to most people's encounters.
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That's why I feel like more people need to smoke weed and train.
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But there's going to be some dudes just like that guy that are just...
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When you think about the world of fighting and competition, you're dealing with people that are taking the biggest risks.
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Some of the best people I've ever met in my life are fighters.
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Because you know that they're putting everything on the line.
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I look at it like, like you said, they chose that.
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So to become an athlete, to choose to fight, you know what I mean?
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And a lot of them are really, like you said, smart and they're technical, especially how the sport is developing these days because people don't want the long-term damage, but they want to still, you know what I mean, go hard.
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They're coming up with fucking all types of ways to do this shit.
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And it's like, at the end of the day, you have to be creative or you have to have some type of something up here.
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You're not just fighting to be fighting, you know?
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They're trying to find out if they can do it, right?
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Then they have just a drive to prove that they're the best.
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I was just talking to somebody the other day about that.
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It was like a crazy argument because they were saying how fight fans are just there for knockouts.
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And I was like, you definitely have your knockout fans.
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I was like, those are probably the people who pay the most, you know what I mean?
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But I was like, you got to give credit to a lot of people who understand fighting and love it.
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There's some people that just want to see people get beat up, and some people that want to see Floyd Mayweather duck punches.
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One of the best things about Floyd Mayweather and Canelo wasn't that Floyd beat Canelo up.
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He outboxed him, but he showed this level of defense.
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If you're a boxing fan, you're like, Jesus Christ!
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Floyd's only been hit a few times his whole career.
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And they fucking save the clip and play it over and over again.
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You think about other boxers, how much they get hit compared to Floyd.
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I love watching someone who can move like that.
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Like, my favorite fighter to watch in the UFC was Mighty Mouse.
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Not just because he was the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet, but because he was not getting hit.
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Occasionally, someone would tell, like, John Majorga tagged him on the straight left.
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If you're a fan of martial arts, you want to see the master of the puzzle.
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And I don't count them people out, and I wouldn't fucking sit in front of a dude and let him just be like, oh yeah, everybody wants to see knockouts.
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It's like when you get Arturo Gotti versus Mickey Ward.
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Fucking wars between these two guys that were not champ.
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They were they were like one step below at the time of their career being like championship level, right?
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So they weren't like in threat of fighting for the title No one thought like Floyd was better than both of them by far, right?
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But what they were doing was showing that two guys that are similarly talented can Put on like the most entertaining fight in the world.
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It's crazy War back and forth and back for I like watching that too Yeah, yup.
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Yeah, I want to see a good fight, me personally.
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I like watching someone just completely willy pep somebody, just like Pernell Whitaker used to do.
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You know, and you can only do that for so long, like, in any sport.
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If you watch those performances when those guys are at the top, that shows you what's possible.
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And it's good to see somebody, like, master their craft, too.
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Like, you watch them be I, and then it's like they become the shit, and it's like, oh, yeah, like, you know what I mean?
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I've seen this dude, like, start from just being okay, and now he's just fucking shit up.
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You see him learn, and you see him develop, and all of that stuff is fun.
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That's a good combination of getting to the bottom of shit is weed and martial arts.
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A lot of my thinking is just from after I train, I just sit there and just think about nothing, but you know what I mean?
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And I think the training helps you get all the bullshit off your back.
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I party a lot and I'm in the studio till like 5, 6 in the morning and I'm drinking and stuff like that.
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So to just be going down that path and doing that every day, bro, I look crazy.
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That's how I look at you like the OG. So it's like, I'm not going to go do it tomorrow.
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When I look back, I'll be like, I've seen Joe's gym, and that's what made me.
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Like I said, it's not all about just fighting and being the biggest, baddest, meanest motherfucker.
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Whatever your goals are, they bring you up to that speed.
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And I was like, fuck, I gotta gain some weight.
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Yeah, I mean, I guarantee you, Snoop would fuck up a lot of people in a regular fist fight.
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Yeah, he was working at the gym for a minute, and then I guess he chilled out.
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Anyway, my point was, the videos, it's nice to see, because you're training hard.
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I'm like, dude, you're really putting your work on this.
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Still though, you are sparring right there with one of the greatest Muay Thai fighters, if not the greatest of all time.
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You ever see that jumping left switch kick he knocked that dude out with?
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You're sparring with one of the greatest of all time.
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Those people, like you know about fighters, the majority, like you said, when you meet them, they're cool as hell.
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So to meet him and him not want to whoop my ass or like tell me like, hey, you look goofy, sit down.
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He's like showing me shit that I could use later.
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Well, the Thais have a really interesting way of sparring.
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They like tap and they laugh around and joke around.
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They're just developing their timing because they fight so often.
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John Wayne Parr is a friend of mine from Australia, multiple-time world champion.
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And he would talk in depth about how they would play.
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They just hit each other, just slap each other a little bit.
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And that way, they understand the timing of it, but they never worry about it.
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But you'll see guys like Serafian, he's capable of doing that.
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So he could spar with a guy like Snoop, or a guy like Sanchai could spar with a guy like you and just play with you.
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Everybody just have a good time and it's fun at the end.
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Me and Ernie, we were just doing that yesterday where it's developing the timing of the kicks.
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And when you've got a good sparring partner, you take care of each other.
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It looks kind of hard, but they're just making their bodies harder, like you said, for later.
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A lot of times they'll slap each other with the side of their leg, too.
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Yeah, I seen, what was it, a sidekick that you did?
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Because I'm learning just a regular sidekick, like a slide.
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They'd be the best at showing you how to do it.
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I'll definitely show you how, but if you need a place to train, find a really good Taekwondo school.
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Taekwondo has some things that won't work in MMA if you're adding takedowns and punches to the face.
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But because they don't punch to the face in tournaments, you get used to doing crazy kicks.
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And if you get good at that stuff, I think that's...
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If I had a kid that wanted to fight, I would say, let's just do some Kyokushin or some Taekwondo first.
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Just do some karate, something where you develop in leg dexterity.
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Then, as you get a little older, then move you into Muay Thai.
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Because when guys are constantly chomping at the legs...
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They never really develop the kind of spinning kicks that the guys do where they don't kick the legs.
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Those are the guys who develop the best spinning kicks because it's so easy to chop the legs and effective to chop the legs out.
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So a lot of those techniques don't really get dialed in to the level that they get dialed in from a Taekwondo guy because they can't kick each other in the legs.
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It's kind of a dumb way to fight because you should kick the legs but at the end of the day it allowed them to develop some crazy shit.
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Yeah, because it's all momentum and torque and crazy shit.
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It's like a lot of posture and you got to be balanced.
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When you're spinning or even if you're just standing there, you have to have...
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Yeah, that's what I've seen when you kicked the fuck out of that shit.
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I was like, yo, it's really balanced and straight.
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Because a lot of people, you might be strong as fuck, but you can see technique.
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If you do the shit over and over and over and really perfect it, that's different than just being able to throw a strong kick.
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I could write a song before this interview is over, but that's because I practice.
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It's not because I'm the most lyrical person in the world.
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When you write, do you write things out or do you do it out in your head?
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Like, I know Jay-Z supposedly doesn't write anything, right?
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So it's a lot easier for me to just have a melody in my head and make up the words as I go.
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But if I'm writing lyrics, like writing words down where I actually rap it, That's when I'm going to use the paper, you know?
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But there's different ways to do it because, honestly, this is what my studio setup looks like.
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I don't go in the booth or anything, and my engineer is sitting right there.
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I'll take a little break, write something down, and then I'll just jump straight back on it, you know what I mean?
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So there's different techniques, though, because a lot of the time, sometimes I won't write shit.
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I'll just go and just make it up and just keep going, keep flowing.
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Or there's times where I could just lay a melody and then write the words to it later.
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So you just do it based on however you feel that day?
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If the song is something that I get instant inspiration, I'm like, oh, I'm going to knock it out right now.
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Or if it's something that I want to live with for a little bit, I'll just do as much as I'm happy with at that point.
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Come back to it later and just make sure everything is fresh.
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If it's not there, then I just go away from it and find something that's more fun.
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It's a beautiful freedom to be able to do that.
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I swear, like, you know, it's work because I'm always looking for what's next, you know what I mean?
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For the fans, for the listeners, for the people who supported me all the way to this point.
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I can't have him just listening to a whole bunch of other rappers and not my music.
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It's, you know, it is an interesting responsibility you have, right?
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It's interesting, like you have so many people that want, you know, and I think we need to call it a different thing other than work.
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Because it's like, there's work, like, fuck, I work for UPS. Right.
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Yeah, it's cool, they got good benefits, but that's work.
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You know, when you love something, it almost, we need a better word.
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That it's the same word as working at McDonald's.
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If you had a shit job in your life, you'd know what that is.
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But saying I'm going to work when you're going to do something you love, you're excited about.
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Yeah, in that sense, the world's just not fair.
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Do you stop and think about how fortunate you are?
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I'm literally, like, last night, I'm, like, right in...
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A song and the only problem that I had was a girl's ass was right on me.
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And I was like, baby, I'm enjoying this as much as you are, but I got it physically right.
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And I started thinking to myself, wow, these are my problems.
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Obviously, you're working at it, but it needs a better word, a more, a nobler word.
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And that's why I always tell people, people always try to think down.
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They always try to think, man, that's easy for you to say, or not everybody can make it.
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Not everybody's going to walk to the top of the hill.
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Some people are going to stop halfway and go, I can't do it.
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Like you said, it's like, no, everybody can't do it.
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You gotta fucking go through the shit to get it.
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But when you get there, it looks awesome, right?
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Like you said, the top of the hill looks great, but...
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Yeah, and they get mad if people get to the top.
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At the top, man, there's no one who's like you who doesn't work hard.
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Because you work so freaking hard to get to where you're at.
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And then you get there and it's like, oh fuck, what do I do?
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And everything that was acceptable before becomes unacceptable because now you're up here.
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You can't really just go crazy like you did back in the day.
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And that's how you really maintain and stay in that spot and even level up.
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So do you consciously think, okay, balance out enjoyment with things that I have to do to stay disciplined?
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Whether I want to behave like this or not, I put myself here.
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So this is how I have to act because I'm not down here anymore.
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You do a little bit of this and a little bit of that instead of a lot of that.
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And it's like, you're going to get everything in the end.
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This is how it's just planned and how it's supposed to be.
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But you just piece it together just a little bit differently.
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Like, I just turned 31. Well, damn, I'm about to be 32. That's young to a lot of people.
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There's a whole new mind state, you know what I mean?
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And I feel like through my 20s, I was actually like a fucking teenager.
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So now I look at things a little bit differently.
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This is how you behave as an adult for the rest of your life.
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And it still involves a whole bunch of partying and having fun, but the business gets handled and things get approached totally differently.
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This other thing, too, like, people have to understand, to be someone like you, to be a very successful rapper, and to not expect you to live the way you talk about all the time, is so ridiculous.
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It's crazy as fuck because people, they want you to be you.
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But it gives this image in some people's minds of frivolous life, frivolous thinking, partying.
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And then they come around and do the same thing because they want it.
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I have a weird place in life where I think I'm the key to a lot of shit because if you want to enjoy yourself, I'm the guy.
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It's like, oh man, I'm just fucking gonna live through Wiz.
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If you wanna fucking be professional, like, especially in what I do, because there's a whole lot of...
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Rappers who aren't business, you know what I mean?
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They look at me like, Wiz has his shit together.
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So to be the party guy and the business guy, it's amazing, you know what I mean?
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It's a lane that I kind of carve for myself, but it's me in real life.
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So it's like that's the only thing I have to do is really just completely be myself.
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Just be 100, fucking show up, do my business thing, tell people to do the right thing, and fucking light the joint.
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People listening to this are probably like, wow.
00:34:21.000
I had John Witherspoon on yesterday with his son, JD. Okay.
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He's one of the funniest fucking human beings that's ever lived.
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By the end of the day, like, the cheekbone muscles, they're like, ah!
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That motherfucker been in the game forever and forever.
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Figured out how to just be who he is all the time.
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Yeah, it's not limited to one or two of us, right?
00:35:09.000
So how many years have you been training martial arts now?
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Nah, it's probably going to be old, but it's all good, though.
00:35:36.000
So that's very impressive that it's only two years in.
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I love it when people take a chance to and they try something new.
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Yeah, that's old, but, you know, we'll get there.
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Good technique for someone who's been doing it a year.
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It might not be the fastest in the world or the most devastating, but you're doing it perfect.
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You're doing exactly how you're supposed to do it, and then you just get better and better from there.
00:36:14.000
But what we were talking about is the change in your physique, man.
00:36:49.000
I already have a quick metabolism, so then you add working out to that.
00:37:02.000
You wake up and then you eat and then you go back to sleep?
00:37:04.000
Wake up, eat, go back to sleep, go train, eat, go to sleep.
00:37:21.000
Because like you said, that shit can fuck your stomach up.
00:37:24.000
Who told you to get up in the middle of the night and eat though?
00:37:30.000
I would say that your sleep cycle is more important than anything.
00:37:38.000
Oh, you mean like you set an alarm while you're awake?
00:37:43.000
I've never heard anybody telling someone to wake up in the middle of the night and eat.
00:37:48.000
I heard that from, there was that movie with Clint Eastwood where he played a boxing trainer and his daughter, that famous actress, played a boxer.
00:37:58.000
Billion Dollar Baby or something, Million Dollar Baby?
00:38:10.000
When she was training for that, I think that's what I read, that they had alarms set where she would wake up In the middle of the night and have a protein shake.
00:38:28.000
Because I was eating like twice a day on some rockstar shit.
00:38:37.000
Do you have a nutritionist or someone who handles your meals?
00:38:48.000
Yeah, because I'm single, so it's like I don't really got nobody in the house cooking or making all that shit happen for me.
00:38:56.000
So you can make sure everything's healthy, exactly what you want.
00:39:03.000
That's a good thing to not have to think about.
00:39:12.000
Like you said, well, like we were talking about, it's like mind, body, and soul, right?
00:39:37.000
Oh, yeah, I see you do, like, some hot yoga and shit.
00:39:53.000
Regular, normal stretching, but some yoga would be alright.
00:39:56.000
Yeah, it's good too because the heat in the room, everything gets real loose.
00:40:00.000
You can really kind of dig into certain things to test your flexibility, to stretch things out a little bit more.
00:40:10.000
When you're doing a lot of hard things like Muay Thai or weightlifting, everything's hard.
00:40:15.000
There's not enough stretching things out and maintaining your range of motion.
00:40:23.000
I try to do it at least once a week, but I often fail.
00:40:35.000
So in order to stay active, I just have to do a bunch of different things.
00:40:39.000
So whether it's martial arts or running or lifting or whatever it is.
00:40:44.000
I feel like through time you added those things in, right?
00:40:47.000
It was just like, alright, I'm going to do this.
00:40:49.000
Yeah, the hill running is the most recent thing.
00:40:54.000
I take my dog running through these steep-ass fucking hills and then, you know, sprinting up these...
00:41:13.000
You keep pushing, and you're pushing sand and pushing sand.
00:41:28.000
Yeah, you're learning about yourself when you're running up a fucking sand dune.
00:41:38.000
And you're forcing your body to do what your mind wants it to.
00:41:42.000
You're like, listen, bitch, I know you don't want to do this.
00:41:45.000
That's like, I heard the Diaz brothers do some crazy shit, like swimming.
00:41:54.000
Nick Diaz, I think it's now five times that he swam back from Alcatraz.
00:42:17.000
I'd run hills, which is definitely easier than sand dunes.
00:42:43.000
And the thing about it is it amps everything else out.
00:42:50.000
It just accentuates your ability to explode because you're running hills.
00:42:56.000
It's like you're doing these crazy plyometrics and you just develop this way stronger power in your legs and your lower trunk.
00:43:11.000
Because I like to just tune shit out and just go.
00:43:26.000
Put yourself at one mile, and then turn around and go back for the other mile.
00:43:30.000
And if you can do that on good, steep-ass hills, when you're done, you feel like you fought a battle with your brain.
00:43:38.000
It's like, you know you didn't want to do that, but you did it.
00:43:43.000
That's nothing compared to what some people do.
00:43:45.000
Yeah, but nah, that sounds like something that we could unlock later on in my life.
00:43:53.000
Doing something that's super strenuous all the time is important.
00:43:59.000
That's part of the reason why I fuck with training so much because it's not easy and it breaks you.
00:44:08.000
But you reach points where it's like, okay, now I'm just cruising so I need another challenge.
00:44:12.000
You're just sharpening the shit after a certain point so it's like, alright, now I'm going to go.
00:44:24.000
There's dunes somewhere down near Orange County that are pretty famous.
00:44:32.000
Yeah, there's a video of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook training there I was about to pull up.
00:44:44.000
In Australia, I believe Robert Whittaker does it.
00:44:47.000
Yeah, see, when you're doing shit like this on Sam, that is phenomenal for your body.
00:44:59.000
And I wonder if they're running with just socks on.
00:45:09.000
Because you're using every muscle in your toes to push through that sand.
00:45:21.000
Who's going to go to the top or who's going to stop in the middle?
00:45:28.000
I've just seen my whole life just running up some dudes just there.
00:45:49.000
So it's like you could be up here the whole time and you're building all of this and becoming more explosive and more dangerous and lighter on your feet.
00:46:01.000
When you started training and seeing these awesome benefits, were you like, God damn it, why wasn't I doing this all the time?
00:46:08.000
I'm actually happy that I waited for a little bit because I enjoy it.
00:46:18.000
I'm still figuring out new shit all the time and getting better.
00:46:25.000
For me, I feel like the physical was probably the first thing.
00:46:30.000
To come to me as a reward, as a benefit, I see the physical shit.
00:46:36.000
But now it's like the feeling that I get, you know what I mean?
00:46:40.000
Or like we said, posture and balance and technique improving and shit like that.
00:46:47.000
Learning that and feeling that and having that being a part of the process, I'm happy that now it's happening as opposed to it being old and played out to me.
00:47:05.000
I'm 51. I started training really seriously when I was 15. Oh, shit.
00:47:19.000
That's one thing I really admire about a lot of rappers.
00:47:29.000
There's a discipline aspect to it that I don't think gets appreciated.
00:47:44.000
You gotta be fucking knowing who's next and who's...
00:47:52.000
So at the end of the day, yeah, it's a crap out of shit.
00:47:56.000
I've been in the studio since I was 14, 15, and there was times when my dad used to have to tell me, like, yo, get out of the studio.
00:48:14.000
I might go to the movies or go to Dave& Buster's or something like that.
00:48:25.000
Well, that's amazing that you figured it out so young.
00:48:28.000
How old were you when you knew you wanted to be a rapper?
00:48:40.000
I wanted to be a Ninja Turtle and I wanted to be a rapper.
00:48:43.000
And I think a rapper was a little bit more realistic.
00:48:56.000
Yeah, that's when I started writing my first raps and shit.
00:49:00.000
Yeah, I was watching music videos, and I remember seeing Puffy and Biggie and Bone Thugs and Harmony is one of my favorite groups.
00:49:08.000
So I was like, yo, if I could do that, I'd be all right.
00:49:18.000
So you could download like instrumentals and shit like that.
00:49:21.000
So you didn't have to like have beats or anything.
00:49:23.000
Then they started introducing, you know, at home equipment.
00:49:31.000
Four track little bullshit thing that you could, you know what I mean?
00:49:35.000
So I started fucking around on that, like doing my own little home studio.
00:49:39.000
Then Fruity Loops came out, started making beats.
00:49:43.000
Cool Edit Pro was like the program back then before Pro Tools.
00:49:50.000
Like just in the fucking, in the crib, just putting it together.
00:49:55.000
Then I turned like, then by the time I was like 16, I got like an internship at a studio in Pittsburgh.
00:50:01.000
Where I was literally answering the phones and running errands and going to pick up office supplies and shit like that.
00:50:08.000
And in return, they would pay me with studio time.
00:50:16.000
I had four or five songs and that turned into a record deal.
00:50:21.000
Got my first deal at 16. That's an amazing story.
00:50:47.000
There's either a couple things you can do, and there's not a lot.
00:50:51.000
And working a job is, like, the last thing that anybody wants to do in Pittsburgh.
00:50:56.000
So all my cousins and everybody that I know do different shit than what I was willing to do.
00:51:01.000
I was like, yo, I'm not trying to be that guy, like that.
00:51:05.000
So I was like, how am I going to make a way for myself?
00:51:24.000
That's a beautiful thing to know what you want to do.
00:51:32.000
Finding a thing they really love so much they can put all their energy into.
00:51:36.000
I mean I'm blessed to grow up in a time too where technology was like taking over and shit.
00:51:43.000
If you're my age and you, like, make music or got a camera or, you know what I mean?
00:51:51.000
And now I think it's like if you have anything to do with weed, like, you know what I'm saying?
00:51:56.000
If you know how to grow it, if you could sell it, if you could brand it, if you could come up with light technology or whatever it is, like, that's going to be the future for this generation.
00:52:12.000
I think once they realize how much money there really is in pot and how safe it is in comparison to liquor and all these other established things that we've all...
00:52:26.000
Nobody has a problem with you drinking at 12 in the fucking afternoon.
00:52:33.000
People will be like, yo, let me get a little...
00:52:44.000
It's something that could be negative to some people.
00:53:01.000
Yeah, that's as much of an addiction as anything.
00:53:05.000
But pot can definitely, for some people, derail them.
00:53:11.000
It's a medicine, so you gotta have the right dosage.
00:53:18.000
I mean, certain people's experiences aren't everybody else's experiences.
00:53:22.000
So it's like, if you got fucked up on weed, that's you.
00:53:25.000
So it's like, don't put that off on everybody else.
00:53:29.000
Like, anything, it takes time to, you know what I mean?
00:53:32.000
Like, I can't take Percocet because it's like, that shit will fuck me up because I don't do painkillers.
00:53:39.000
But I think over a certain amount of time, if I had an injury, my body would start to react differently to a certain amount of Percocet.
00:53:53.000
But, you know, after a while, you know what I mean?
00:54:03.000
There's some people who can hit this and be in that corner for the rest of the day.
00:54:07.000
Me, I'm going to go do everything that I have to do.
00:54:14.000
I think that's true, but I also think some people might not react to it correctly in terms of, like, biologically.
00:54:22.000
Like, it might be, like, broccoli or something.
00:54:24.000
There's people out there that are allergic to weird shit.
00:54:36.000
I think it's opinion, like, if you believe it or not.
00:54:44.000
And if you don't want to believe that, then it's like, okay, cool.
00:54:56.000
Because it's like, I'm on the fence because it's like, you know, on one hand, people, I mean, I don't know.
00:55:15.000
One of the things I found out real early on is how many jujitsu guys smoke weed and do jujitsu.
00:55:23.000
High Rollers has these awesome events where they smoke weed and then they fight in a jujitsu match.
00:55:36.000
And they're the ones who actually got me, like, kind of, you know, into fitness.
00:55:49.000
Would have known, like, you know what I'm saying?
00:55:51.000
How many jujitsu dudes, like, smoke weed and, like, are about it, like...
00:56:08.000
It's better for rolling than it is for drilling.
00:56:11.000
Because, like, when someone's trying to teach you something, sometimes your brain's just not...
00:56:40.000
I feel like I'm going to just fuck with stand-up for a couple years and then just gradually do other things.
00:56:47.000
I'll just probably do jujitsu for like four or five years.
00:57:01.000
As long as you're strong, it's like the John Jones frame.
00:57:11.000
And then when he grabs ahold of you, he's strong enough and he's better at wrestling.
00:57:16.000
That's the perfect combination is long and strong.
00:57:27.000
It seems to me like just mechanically, the best frame is the long frame.
00:57:38.000
It doesn't guarantee success, but it's a fucking awesome bass.
00:57:47.000
Short dudes like me can't put big guys in triangles.
00:57:59.000
But long guys can get triangles from all kinds of places.
00:58:10.000
The thing that I like about it too is that you can go full blast.
00:58:14.000
Whereas if you're sparring, you don't really want to go full blast.
00:58:19.000
Tempered, measured, and just kind of touch each other.
00:58:21.000
But when you do sparring and jujitsu, because you're not striking each other, you're just wrestling and grappling, you can go full blast.
00:58:31.000
Like, the little bit that I've done, I was like, alright, cool, I can see.
00:58:43.000
I just love the fact that you're interested in doing different things.
00:58:54.000
I have read some books that I gravitate towards.
00:59:00.000
What kind of documentaries do you gravitate towards?
00:59:15.000
That was about this dude who was a guy who was making music.
00:59:23.000
And he had like a little bit of buzz on his album.
00:59:30.000
And he went back to work as a construction worker.
00:59:34.000
But his music became insanely huge in South Africa.
00:59:48.000
Meanwhile, this guy was working as a construction worker.
00:59:51.000
So in South Africa, he's a fucking mega superstar, like sells out arenas.
00:59:56.000
And, spoiler alert, it's a great documentary, you should see it, but he eventually goes to South Africa and does this concert there.
01:00:06.000
You're like, oh my god, can you imagine this guy was working as a laborer?
01:00:11.000
And the whole time, he was a superstar and he didn't even know it.
01:00:14.000
And then the people see him, they're singing along to his music.
01:00:29.000
I kind of feel like I heard the name, but I never, I never, never, no, I never seen that.
01:00:43.000
It's almost like being released from jail or something.
01:00:51.000
And seeing how comfortable he gets on stage, too.
01:01:07.000
So he's able to see the proceeds from his movie and his movie.
01:01:11.000
But someone said, I think he gave away all his money.
01:01:15.000
I read something, but that might be more of those rumors and legends about the guy.
01:01:25.000
Jamie, find out if that dude gave his money away.
01:01:34.000
Maybe he felt like he couldn't be a real bonafide artist unless he gave away his money or something crazy like that.
01:01:41.000
Because the guy was living in this small apartment.
01:01:43.000
That's why I don't want to do ayahuasca or anything like that.
01:01:46.000
I feel like that's what's going to happen to me.
01:01:55.000
You could get so, you know, so charity-driven and just give away everything.
01:02:10.000
He's on tour last year, touring theaters all over the country.
01:02:19.000
So there was a fake rumor that he gave away all his money?
01:02:20.000
Yeah, Dave Matthews covered one of his songs, and they went on tour, and I'll blow him up.
01:02:36.000
It's one of the best music documentaries I've ever seen.
01:02:57.000
I watched this Pink Floyd documentary about how they put together their albums, shit like that.
01:03:04.000
There's another one about background singers who never became super popular, but they're part of...
01:03:13.000
songs that you hear and that you love and it's just like telling the story like how writers and you know what I mean being in the studio and what it's like to live that life it's really cool because I listen to harmonies a lot I don't know if when you hear music I hear like all the textures of it so it's like I get interested in like what goes on sometimes like in the background and that was a cool story um fucking what was the last one that I actually watched I just watched...
01:04:13.000
They're, like, streaming them now, so it's like...
01:04:17.000
It's on, like, the fourth or fifth episode, I think.
01:04:20.000
Yeah, all those networks that don't stream everything, like, they must be...
01:04:24.000
It must suck to have, like, a show that has to be on Thursday night at 8. Losing out.
01:04:30.000
People want to watch things whenever they want to, like, right now.
01:04:38.000
Do you think the movie theaters will always be here?
01:04:56.000
If you look around old Hollywood, there's old theaters that aren't theaters anymore, but there's new theaters that have taken over them.
01:05:02.000
But those buildings are still there for whatever reason.
01:05:10.000
I just feel like it costs so much to keep screens and actually put movies in there and then you got the popcorn.
01:05:20.000
But it's one of the few things that we do with strangers is be a part of an audience.
01:05:26.000
It's the few things we randomly do with giant groups of strangers.
01:05:29.000
I feel like technology is removing that because people don't like that.
01:05:33.000
I think people are uncomfortable with it because most of the time we spend on devices.
01:05:41.000
And especially with, like, virtual reality becoming more popular.
01:05:45.000
You know, like, people love access, so it's like...
01:05:49.000
If you're making them feel like they're there, why would you want a random dude walking across your lap when you can just be in the movie?
01:05:57.000
I feel like they would just spend that money on keeping you at home where you want to be.
01:06:09.000
But I also think as a community of human beings, it's nice to have things that we all do together.
01:06:16.000
It fosters like a kind of getting along better and friendship with people that you don't know.
01:06:26.000
When you grow with a whole group of people, you go to see something, it's nice.
01:06:35.000
I've had fun at games and not gave a fuck about what was going on, but it's the community that was going on for sure, 100%.
01:06:46.000
That is an important part of cities and of communities.
01:06:50.000
That's one thing that I think that a movie theater does provide.
01:06:56.000
And I'm not even mad that people don't really go to the movies like that now, because it's like, when you actually do want to go, you can go.
01:07:04.000
And it's not full, and it's not, you know what I mean?
01:07:06.000
Like, it'll be people there, but it's not overwhelming to the point where you have, like...
01:07:23.000
I am worried that people are eventually going to all be living in some sort of a VR world.
01:07:34.000
You give people something and they're going to use it.
01:07:51.000
There's a thing outside of Disneyland where there's a VR game that you go through.
01:08:04.000
The Void VR. And there's a Star Wars one, and there's a Wreck-It Ralph one.
01:08:19.000
And while you're doing it, you're like, this is just step one.
01:08:36.000
Because I think that what they're showing you right now is state-of-the-art.
01:08:45.000
That's a good way to look at it, because they put it at my farm.
01:08:49.000
I just think these people are very competitive.
01:08:52.000
The money is in getting the best shit out the quickest.
01:08:58.000
So they're putting out the bootleg version and letting somebody smarter test it, work it, and make the better version, and then they'll come back and do that later.
01:09:08.000
I mean, that's what China does better than anybody.
01:09:20.000
It might be so fucking dangerous that they don't know how it'll...
01:09:27.000
So it's like, they give us little bits and pieces of it to let us...
01:09:31.000
You know, they spoon-feed it to us so they don't kill us.
01:09:39.000
Because they probably tested it on somebody and they died.
01:09:47.000
It's like, hold on, let's pull it back a little bit and just give them this.
01:09:56.000
Well, I think when you really don't know what the fuck is going on, that's with military stuff.
01:10:01.000
I think military stuff like weapons and, you know, spaceships and aircrafts that they're developing, we don't know what the fuck they're doing.
01:10:13.000
But I think with things like consumer electronics, like technology, I think what you see is what you get.
01:10:20.000
I think this is as good as they can do anything.
01:10:32.000
I feel like there's a phone that charges in two seconds.
01:10:38.000
If you're in a war and your cellular device goes down, it's like you can't plug it in and charge it.
01:10:53.000
But all that stuff, I can see your argument because you're in a war, they might have better batteries that the military develops or some new kind of battery.
01:11:09.000
If they had a better way of doing it, if Samsung came out with a phone that charged 100% in 30 seconds, And Apple would have to figure out how to compete with that.
01:11:25.000
No one would hold on to that because that would just dominate the market.
01:12:00.000
The R17 Pro, which is the company's latest, is the fastest charging smartphone in the world.
01:12:04.000
It advertises that 35 minutes is all it takes to entirely fill up a dead battery.
01:12:14.000
What do you think they can do for a full battery?
01:12:18.000
There's probably a hundred cell phones out there that can charge in five minutes.
01:12:21.000
There's not a million because they can't source that much.
01:12:26.000
Yeah, I would say there's a military phone that they might have a hundred of them passed around the military, but it's not mass produced.
01:12:41.000
You guys are all conspiratorial on electronics.
01:12:49.000
This is energy that we're talking about, right?
01:13:04.000
So they, I mean, like, at the end of the day, like, they have this shit.
01:13:07.000
They just can't give it to you because they're killing people testing it.
01:13:15.000
Like, they have to approve this shit before it comes out.
01:13:19.000
But they have a car that goes, it just crashed into the wall, you know what I mean?
01:13:23.000
And somebody died and they're like, whoa, we can't put this on the streets yet.
01:13:29.000
Well, you think they have a car that's so fast they can't put it on the street?
01:13:39.000
Communication, transportation, technology, the way we hear music, the way that we view things and shit like that.
01:13:47.000
Our whole experience, technology, whatever the fucking word is.
01:13:56.000
It was like you used to have to have the service to FaceTime.
01:14:04.000
It's like people don't even call each other no more.
01:14:24.000
I don't think companies have any reason to do that.
01:14:27.000
The only reason to do that would be to get rid of the stock of the stuff that they're already selling.
01:14:32.000
Because sometimes when companies announce a new product's coming, people stop buying the old product.
01:14:37.000
Like Corvette is having a problem with that right now.
01:14:39.000
Because the Corvette, excuse me, they got this car, the ZR1. You seen that thing?
01:14:45.000
It's ridiculous that you could go to a store and buy a car that has that much horsepower.
01:14:49.000
But a lot of people don't want to buy them because then there's a new Corvette coming out in like a year.
01:15:01.000
So in that sense, they might be holding out on what they're about to be able to do.
01:15:05.000
But like we saw with that foldable phone that Samsung tried to come out with, and then they had to take it back because it was so defective.
01:15:13.000
It was a giant embarrassment, and they pulled the whole thing.
01:15:15.000
And now they're trying to rework it and figure out what to do with it.
01:15:18.000
That's like, if a company has something like that happen, and that's the number two smartphone company in the world.
01:15:28.000
That's the number one cell phone manufacturer in the world, and they got that kind of a fuck-up?
01:15:36.000
I think they're trying to sell the best shit they have right now, and then they're in development with the next level shit right now.
01:15:43.000
But as far as what they can bring to market, what they have is what they bring to market.
01:15:47.000
I think those on-screen fingerprint sensors, they didn't used to be able to do that, and now they can.
01:15:54.000
All that shit is like, they're just trying to get it dialed in to the point where they can sell it to enough people and it doesn't break.
01:16:14.000
And, you know, when it came out, everybody was like, holy shit, this is the future.
01:16:19.000
I think there's like, like you said, there's like the people who just freak out about whatever's new, right?
01:16:26.000
And then there's like shit that really moves the, you know what I'm saying?
01:16:30.000
Like really changes shit, you know what I mean?
01:16:37.000
Like, you've got the people who just want the new shit, and then you've got motherfuckers who's actually, like, doing shit that changes things forever.
01:16:48.000
So it's like, mini-discs and all of that other stupid shit that people were trying to do to change music, it didn't work, you know what I mean?
01:16:57.000
So it's like the one thing that stands out and changes things forever, that's what motherfuckers remember.
01:17:05.000
It is what it is, but like, there's some smart motherfuckers who designed this shit for us, you know what I'm saying?
01:17:15.000
You got people who just consume it and they're just like, oh man, I'm here for whatever, whatever.
01:17:21.000
And then I feel like there's a lot of people who understand it and know how to play off of those people's emotions.
01:17:37.000
I'm not a person who is stuck with the old shit or has to have all of the new shit either.
01:17:55.000
What's cool about today, too, is that we can go and still appreciate and use some of the shit from the past like a record player.
01:18:05.000
And realize, wow, this is how people used to get their music.
01:18:08.000
They used to sit in front of the record player with headphones on.
01:18:20.000
It's crazy how everybody thinks the new shit ruins the older shit, too.
01:18:45.000
Remember when someone would give you a copy of a copy, and every now and then it had little lines through it and shit?
01:18:51.000
You get second, third generation copies from friends.
01:18:56.000
I don't know if you remember this, but you used to be able to buy movies right after they came out, especially in New York, because dudes would sit in the back of the movie theater.
01:19:29.000
In terms of the human race, that's not that long ago.
01:19:41.000
Imagine if you could see what the fuck 24 years from now is.
01:19:46.000
I've related to like when I was younger in the 90s because I was like a baby in the 90s.
01:19:59.000
And shit was totally, you know what I'm saying?
01:20:00.000
So it's like now, from 20 years, for that to be the same time frame, that shit is crazy to me.
01:20:09.000
Get yourself into a 1970 Plymouth and drive that thing.
01:20:14.000
And realize that in 1970, that's how people drove.
01:20:18.000
They drive this thing that barely knows where you're driving.
01:20:24.000
You could do this with the steering wheel as you're driving on the street.
01:20:26.000
They didn't even have power steering in the 60s and shit, bro.
01:20:41.000
If you looked at a block of time in history, like if you looked at the difference between 1820 and 1840, in our head, it's like, that's the same shit.
01:20:52.000
But if you look at our generation, 40 years ago to now, it's insane.
01:21:19.000
Every other car you drive afterwards will feel stupid.
01:21:28.000
It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever driven in my life.
01:21:41.000
It's a fucking rap music video, entourage style.
01:21:52.000
Someone should just follow you through the camera just to see who rings your doorbell.
01:22:07.000
If you think that they're holding back anything in the automotive world, drive that thing.
01:22:12.000
I feel like all cars are gonna look alike, and they're gonna look like Teslas.
01:22:17.000
So they're gonna have the super fast one for the elite motherfuckers, but then they're gonna have regular ones, and then we're all gonna have the same car.
01:22:30.000
They control your house, so everything is integrated.
01:22:38.000
So the only way to do that is for everything to be the same.
01:22:41.000
So if the Tesla is that ill, I never driven one, but if it's that ill, I don't see why people wouldn't be into it.
01:22:48.000
Just the pain in the asses, it takes a long time to charge.
01:22:52.000
Even if you have a Tesla supercharger thing, like I have a wall-mounted charger that's more amperage.
01:22:59.000
But it still takes a few hours to charge if it's almost dead.
01:23:10.000
You need an insane amount of power to power that thing.
01:23:22.000
Did you see this race they did with the tunnel?
01:23:28.000
The one on the right is using the tunnel that they haven't completed, and the one on the left is going above ground.
01:23:35.000
I think it's got those tracks on the side so that it can stay in place.
01:23:44.000
The way that it moves is That's how robots are going to kill us.
01:23:52.000
That guy's not moving at the top, and the guy's moving very fast.
01:23:54.000
It takes him four and a half minutes to go the same time.
01:23:58.000
But that guy's battery's dead as fuck on the right, I'll tell you that.
01:24:00.000
If you stomp on that thing for that long, you better be prepared for that shit to drain quick, especially when it's in ludicrous mode.
01:24:13.000
What kind of asshole is unhappy with Ludicrous mode?
01:24:16.000
I was going to ask before, don't you think there's some car company trying to beat them?
01:24:26.000
It's this little sports car-looking spaceship that goes 0-60 in 1.9 seconds.
01:24:58.000
Look at that, 1.9 seconds, zero to 60. Yeah, I don't need that.
01:25:05.000
They just seem, electric cars just seem like the future.
01:25:09.000
But again, that one's going to be interesting because it has 600 miles.
01:25:13.000
It can go 660 miles, I think, without charging, which is long distance.
01:25:22.000
The ones they have now are like 317. That's dope.
01:25:34.000
Imagine if you're one of those people that makes those things.
01:25:39.000
I feel like it's like really a process, like scientific, like, you know, because you don't want nobody to hurt themselves.
01:25:52.000
Like, what the fuck are they doing with technology and electricity in a car?
01:26:03.000
It's like, it's going to be so fast, it's got to have hella safety.
01:26:24.000
When you drive something like that and you realize, oh, okay, just 30, 40 years ago, cars were these stinky, weird things that barely steered right.
01:26:33.000
And now you have these things that seem like they're from a futuristic movie.
01:26:43.000
Because people are like, okay, where are we going to be without transportation?
01:26:50.000
I was looking up, I thought I saw something today about a Lamborghini electric car, but this fell into this whole of the Terzo millennial, some new, it is an electric car by Lamborghini that self-heals.
01:26:59.000
It has some sort of carbon fiber technology that allows it to fix itself.
01:27:33.000
If you want to go on a long trip in a Lamborghini, you're out of your fucking mind.
01:27:37.000
That thing will leave you in the middle of the desert.
01:27:49.000
But if you take one of those, you know that it's made by Italians.
01:27:59.000
When you put the accent with the car, it makes sense.
01:28:11.000
Yeah, cars are getting closer and closer to spaceships.
01:28:30.000
Yeah, because we work so hard to develop these roads.
01:28:37.000
Can you imagine if we had like a floating bubble highway system, right?
01:28:40.000
Like there's balloons held on by rope that go all the way to the ground.
01:28:45.000
And that marks the paths where you're allowed to fly your flying car through.
01:29:03.000
So it just takes you up and it just brings you around.
01:29:13.000
But then there's going to be lazy people that don't charge their fucking flying car.
01:29:23.000
You shouldn't be able to take off if it's not at a certain...
01:29:31.000
Then we're going to need more regulation so we have more government.
01:29:40.000
We need more government, more regulations, air cops.
01:29:48.000
They'll be even more on edge than the ground police.
01:29:55.000
They're probably going to be super paranoid up there.
01:30:02.000
Well, if we ever do eventually get to space travel, if human beings ever do figure out how to like go to other planets and set up a civilization on Mars or something like that, that's probably what the real next level future of humanity is going to be.
01:30:17.000
Other than artificial life, if we can really figure out how to set up a base somewhere.
01:30:22.000
Do you think you would ever go, if there was a base on Mars, and it takes six months to go to Mars?
01:30:30.000
Yeah, it was like, yo, Earth is about to be fucked up.
01:30:59.000
I just wonder, once they actually do start going from Earth to other planets, how many people are going to be willing to do that?
01:31:30.000
If they knew they could come back, because then they'd be able to brag about it.
01:31:36.000
It's like that time travel thing where it takes six Earth months to get there, but for you it's like two weeks?
01:31:45.000
You have to be at the speed of light for that to happen.
01:31:52.000
You might be able to go save some time if you go do that.
01:31:57.000
Like, if you go into space at a particularly high rate of speed, and then you figured out how to come back, like, your brother, your twin brother would be way older than you.
01:32:15.000
He had a show he did in LA and in the back they have this gigantic screen and it's this real high resolution screen and it showed all of the galaxies in the universe.
01:32:27.000
It showed all of them, you know, just all jammed in together with like appropriate space in between them.
01:32:33.000
And you look at it and you just go, what the fuck is that?
01:32:39.000
We're one dot in just trillions of dots of all these other galaxies through the known universe.
01:32:49.000
And one of the things he talked about was that the rate of time is not the same for each person, even on Earth.
01:32:58.000
Depending on where you go and what you do and what speed you travel at, if you and I were born on the exact same day and we both got a watch and that watch was perfectly calibrated and you put your watch on and I put my watch on and we met when we were 80, if our watches were still working,
01:33:18.000
And it might be only like a tiny increment, like a second or a couple seconds, but enough so that in the whole unit...
01:33:26.000
So while I'm there watching this thing, the whole thing just blew me away.
01:33:30.000
I was like, this is a crazy way to look at the universe.
01:33:34.000
Yeah, if anybody gets a chance, that's just one galaxy that they're showing.
01:33:39.000
That's one galaxy colliding with another galaxy.
01:33:55.000
I just don't believe everything that everybody tells me.
01:34:01.000
So I would have to get it from a reliable source.
01:34:31.000
It was this guy, Robin Ince, and they have this stage show.
01:34:36.000
And he comes out and talks about things and explains things.
01:34:39.000
But he explained that time thing to me, that if we live the same life...
01:35:00.000
Yeah, if you get a chance to see that show, man, it's a good thing to see, too, because it's so different than anything else you go to see.
01:35:08.000
I'm always, you know, either in the audience or on stage.
01:35:11.000
So to be there at this place in the audience of this weird kind of like show slash science seminar, it's amazing, man.
01:35:20.000
That shit seems crazy as fuck to learn and laugh.
01:35:25.000
Yeah, I gotta get you on some science documentaries.
01:35:30.000
When you're smoking weed and watching science documentaries.
01:35:43.000
If you have that paranoid feeling combined with a science documentary on space, then you realize, yeah, we're all very insignificant.
01:35:52.000
And you seem extra high because you're high watching space.
01:36:11.000
So right around the time where you were becoming successful as a rapper?
01:36:15.000
It was really like high school because I hated school and I was just so done with it.
01:36:23.000
And I was selling pot and my mom found out and she was low-key just super cool with it.
01:36:37.000
It actually helped me get through school to make it tolerable.
01:36:42.000
I was able to deal with the shit that I didn't want to deal with.
01:36:52.000
I went to a nice school, but I grew up in a time where it was weird.
01:36:58.000
Well, every school, for every kid, is not what you want to do every day.
01:37:04.000
And, like, you got teachers who say certain things to you, and it's like, alright, I understand what I'm really here for, you know what I mean?
01:37:11.000
And I see who I am to you, and you let it be known.
01:37:14.000
It's kind of hard to, like, take those people serious and want to do the work and all that shit.
01:37:20.000
Yeah, and it's like, for me, that was the bare minimum, was, like, graduate high school.
01:37:25.000
It's like, I could move on with the rest of my fucking life after that.
01:37:37.000
There's a lot of shit that's not that fun, but when you're high, it becomes interesting.
01:37:47.000
And you can take THC pills, you can get edibles, you can do whatever you want.
01:37:51.000
You become like appreciative of the experience.
01:37:59.000
There's something to me about music, listening to music too in a plane while you're high.
01:38:06.000
Headphones on and a plane surrounded by all these people.
01:38:10.000
Flying through the sky going 500 miles an hour.
01:38:22.000
For me, lately, I've been getting into a lot of really old rock and roll.
01:38:48.000
It's hard for us to imagine there was nothing like that before them.
01:38:54.000
There's levels of impact that those early musicians have that it's hard to really historically put into place because there wasn't anybody like them before that.
01:39:10.000
Stand-up comedy is only about Maybe like 70 years old or some shit like that.
01:39:17.000
Maybe you could say 100 if you want to get crazy.
01:39:39.000
I love anything that could be considered pop because it changes with the times, but you have these megastars, you know what I mean, who just transcend.
01:39:55.000
They're larger than life, like Michael Jackson, you know what I'm saying?
01:40:00.000
He's bigger than just music, you know what I mean?
01:40:04.000
And you become a legend as time goes on, but to be a living legend, living in those times and to be around those people and to really hear their music and experience them and shit like that, I feel like that shit is crazy.
01:40:37.000
Michael Jackson was the one when there was no one before.
01:40:44.000
There was other ones that were big, that were very popular, very famous.
01:40:47.000
But Michael Jackson, he transcended so hard, I was listening to WBCN radio in Boston.
01:40:56.000
And they were like, I know this is a rock and roll station, but this song is so fucking good, we're gonna play it anyway.
01:41:04.000
And he had been performing since a kid, so he worked his whole life to get to be, what was he, like 30 or something like that when he was at his peak?
01:41:20.000
And he did, you know, funk music, and he went through disco, and you know what I mean?
01:41:29.000
Yeah, man, and I would have loved to have seen him live before the controversy.
01:41:33.000
You know, just to just experience him as an artist.
01:41:38.000
What he did or didn't do, I don't know what he did.
01:41:43.000
But I would have loved to have seen him without the burden of that.
01:41:53.000
Like we're saying it needs to be a different word for work.
01:42:13.000
There's legends like Elton John and Rod Stewart.
01:42:25.000
Everybody wanted to wear those thriller jackets.
01:42:32.000
The musician has a choice if they want to go there with it.
01:42:35.000
I feel like the Elton Johns and even Prince and shit like that, they stayed true to exactly who they were.
01:42:43.000
Not that Michael Jackson didn't stay true to who he was, but...
01:43:07.000
Yeah, I just think there was no roadmap for the poor guy.
01:43:18.000
And there's no one before you and then everywhere you go people are screaming.
01:43:31.000
I wonder what that would be like if Michael Jackson came around today and he didn't exist before.
01:43:40.000
But I wonder if it would be as crazy because there's so many more stars now than there were back then.
01:43:48.000
Because there's just more venues and outlets for musicians, for basically everyone, for comedians, for everyone.
01:43:56.000
So because there's more outlets, there's more famous people.
01:44:02.000
Because back when he was that famous, there wasn't anyone that was parallel.
01:44:31.000
I like Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Freakin' Cool in the Gang, fuckin'...
01:44:44.000
I like a lot of the older soul music, like the Spinners, Patti LaBelle, you know what I'm saying?
01:44:58.000
Oh, we used to listen to a lot of Sting in The Police.
01:45:10.000
Like, you could put on any song, like, for real, for real.
01:45:13.000
And I fuck with it because I listen to a lot of different music.
01:45:37.000
We were talking about Marvin Gaye, and I was saying, it's so insane that his dad shot him.
01:45:41.000
And she said, imagine what a piece of shit he had to be for his dad to shoot him.
01:45:50.000
Why would you assume he's the piece of shit when his dad fucking shot him?
01:45:53.000
If he's a piece of shit, why doesn't his dad just get away from him?
01:45:56.000
No, if his dad's shooting him, his dad's a piece of shit.
01:46:00.000
She was instantly thinking he's a piece of shit.
01:46:07.000
That's because she's someone who grew up with a good...
01:46:15.000
To me, I'm like, that dad shot him because he was Marvin Gaye.
01:46:19.000
He's probably upset that his son had become Marvin Gaye.
01:46:26.000
All your songs are like the best music to fuck to.
01:46:30.000
And he didn't have, there was nothing, there was no slide into the DMs.
01:46:36.000
But he seemed like kind of like a faithful guy.
01:46:38.000
He seemed like he would find one chick and just fuck her and write an album about it.
01:46:46.000
If they're singing about fucking all the time, it's coming their way.
01:46:51.000
But they usually just want to fuck one girl like that.
01:47:11.000
When you get that feeling, he needs sexual healing.
01:47:14.000
The shit made him feel better when he was with her.
01:47:18.000
That's a big difference between N.W.A.'s first album.
01:47:26.000
There's some shit from the early gangster rap days you listen to today, you're like, whoa!
01:47:34.000
I remember it at the time when it was first coming out, and no one could understand.
01:47:38.000
There was no music like this before, and then all of a sudden you have Ice-T. Yeah, that was before they even had the freaking parental advisory on there.
01:47:48.000
It was like, parents, make sure y'all check this out before your kids get it.
01:48:16.000
They were trying to ban certain kinds of music.
01:48:25.000
If they catch you in Florida, they arrest people for...
01:48:34.000
Well, I'll go, but I'm not going crazy in Florida.
01:48:53.000
Lenny Bruce is a guy who got arrested a bunch of times for stand-up comedy because he wouldn't change his words and his swearing on stage.
01:49:09.000
Somebody doesn't like it so they want to put you in a cage.
01:49:17.000
Could you arrest someone if they just said that somewhere?
01:49:19.000
What if they're in the comfort of their own house and they said the things that are in that?
01:49:27.000
Could I drive down the road yelling it out the window?
01:49:34.000
Who the fuck are you to tell people they can't do that?
01:49:37.000
But then Florida, they're like, nope, obscenity.
01:49:42.000
That's why when shit goes down, it's like, alright, and then it's Florida.
01:49:49.000
It's so its own world that it's being overrun with invasive species.
01:49:55.000
A lady got attacked by an alligator just yesterday.
01:49:59.000
I feel like that happens all the time down there.
01:50:08.000
More often now than before because there's a lot of them.
01:50:12.000
I could imagine being a Gator, not having nowhere to go, just kicking it in Florida.
01:50:19.000
And I've been around for a long-ass fucking time.
01:50:26.000
And you just look at that lady like, she's so annoying.
01:50:31.000
I don't even eat ladies, but I'm going to do it today.
01:50:42.000
But if I was a gator, a dog would be a good snack.
01:50:58.000
If you didn't live in California, what state would you live in?
01:51:03.000
If I didn't live in Cali, what state would I live in?
01:51:08.000
Not Georgia, not Florida, not Pennsylvania, not New York.
01:51:39.000
Every time I'm on the highway nowadays and it's jammed up, bumper to bumper, I just say, imagine if something happened.
01:51:47.000
It's a regular Thursday and it's bumper to bumper.
01:51:53.000
When it rains out here, people don't know what to do.
01:52:05.000
Because people aren't tested out here by climate.
01:52:42.000
I mean, I don't know if that's really because of climate change, that those are ramping up.
01:52:48.000
But if they ramp up in unprecedented levels like that and it becomes impossible to live in Ohio...
01:52:54.000
Or Kentucky or anywhere where there's tornadoes.
01:52:57.000
If we find out that the center of the country is just tornado, like a tornado bowling area.
01:53:06.000
In Florida, you're just dodging hurricanes most of the year.
01:53:09.000
They just get lucky if it doesn't happen where you are.
01:53:12.000
Yeah, you're a dick sticking out into the ocean, and it's right where all the tornadoes get formed, or all the hurricanes get formed.
01:53:30.000
And I was living in Boston, which is pretty far away from the ocean, in terms of where my house was.
01:53:46.000
And they used to have some crazy fucking earthquakes over there.
01:54:02.000
Bro, I'm talking about whole room just shaking.
01:54:05.000
It's like a ride at Universal because you see shit moving.
01:54:18.000
And they get some crazy rain, like, when the typhoons come.
01:54:31.000
My mom was in there for a little bit, but then she got out.
01:54:37.000
So that's how I stayed in the military thing, was my stepmom.
01:54:44.000
We would live on base, you know what I mean, for like two years or whatever, and then I would move back with my mom.
01:54:49.000
What was it like living in Japan as a young guy?
01:54:54.000
I lived there in the late 90s, so it was like...
01:54:57.000
When technology was first changing, music was just now going into MP3s and shit like that.
01:55:10.000
It was fun, just being a kid, running around, fucking it up in Japan.
01:55:20.000
Like you grew up those two years in a completely different kind of culture.
01:55:24.000
So you have a different understanding of what's possible.
01:55:44.000
And I was like, this is one of the trippiest places I've ever been in my life.
01:55:50.000
No TV, regular TV. They don't got any American TV stations.
01:56:02.000
So this is before Netflix and everything too, right?
01:56:25.000
I couldn't buy all the CDs and shit that everybody was listening to.
01:56:33.000
Baby Japanese just to get around and shit, but I forgot it though.
01:56:39.000
It'll come back if I like, you know what I mean?
01:56:41.000
You run me through it, but I can't sit here and say no Japanese words.
01:56:54.000
So it's like one character means like three of our words.
01:57:04.000
And then they have like three different styles of writing too.
01:57:15.000
On one hand, you don't want it to go away because it's an ancient language.
01:57:18.000
On another hand, you're like, can you clean this up?
01:57:25.000
They don't even want us to fucking know that shit.
01:57:30.000
At the end of the day, they're like, we'll learn English if we want to.
01:57:33.000
But if you want to learn Japanese, it's going to be difficult, bro.
01:57:37.000
I want to learn some Asian language because I'm fascinated by reading like Twitter messages.
01:57:49.000
140 characters, like how many words is that though?
01:57:55.000
I mean, 280 are those Asian, whether it's Chinese or Japanese, those little symbols.
01:58:08.000
Do they have symbols for numbers or just use numbers?
01:58:16.000
I don't imagine that it's like one, two, and three.
01:58:30.000
Does the Japanese language have symbols that represent numbers?
01:58:34.000
Like you would write the letters T-H-R-E-E for three.
01:58:40.000
Like you would write three or you'd be the number three.
01:58:45.000
Nah, because Japanese is like each knee, son, she.
01:58:50.000
There's different, whole different words for it.
01:58:55.000
One is Ichi, however you spell that in Japanese.
01:59:02.000
I'm starting to kind of remember what it looks like now.
01:59:05.000
Do you think if you could move back there right now, you'd just get right back in the swing of things after a while?
01:59:13.000
David Lee Roth moved there from Van Halen, the lead singer of Van Halen.
01:59:23.000
I would probably appreciate it more now as an adult.
01:59:26.000
Yeah, because as a kid, you kind of just want to run wild and do everything that you see on TV. Oh, so you must be annoyed that you're stuck there.
01:59:40.000
It was fun for a little while, but you want to go back home and shit.
01:59:45.000
But as an adult, I feel like I would benefit a lot more from it.
01:59:51.000
So, at this stage of your career, when you're looking at what you're putting down, when you're making albums, when you're putting together your music, what excites you the most about it?
02:00:07.000
So I get just inspired off of production and shit like that, like the newest producers and shit.
02:00:14.000
Because I like to go out, I like to enjoy myself, I like to have fun.
02:00:17.000
So whatever is popping at that time, whatever the sound is, whether it's West Coast inspired or if it's down South inspired, I'm just interested in...
02:00:26.000
Finding my own way of doing what's new and what my fans would love from me.
02:00:33.000
Because as a music person, you want something new every time.
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So I just love creating and just coming up with what's new.
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Every time I always tell my engineer, I'm like, yo, let's fuck with the shit sonically so it don't sound the same as the last album.
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I come up with new ad-libs or just different shit to just kind of keep it fresh.
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Still do what people know me for, you know what I mean?
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But it's like just coming up with new ways of doing that.
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I love it when someone loves what they're doing and it comes out great.
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And that, to me, is one of the most inspiring things that I get out of any artist.
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It's like hearing them talk about their process.
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It's crazy for me because there's different ways to do what I do.
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I could sit there and just come up with some shit, brand new.
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Or I have the Oreo commercial with my son, where there's a team of people who come up with what could be the best for me, and I just do that shit, and then it just goes crazy.
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It's like See You Again is one of my biggest songs, and that song had eight different people on it.
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But I wrote two verses that the person who made the original song, I wrote two verses for it that they loved more than anybody else's song.
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So they gave me the whole record and it ended up being my host.
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So it's like the process of just like putting yourself in the situation and just being like, all right, cool, let's work.
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It's as beneficial as being, you know what I mean, a creative, just, okay, I'm going to do what I do.
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Sometimes you got to step outside of that and just use your talents.
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It's like being an actor or, you know what I mean?
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Like you just fill in that spot that people need you in.
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And I'm kind of at that point in my career because I work so hard on And grinded and done so many things and come up with so many waves and ideas that didn't exist before.
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Now I can use other people's ideas and just be myself and get a really big effect and everybody is happy.