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00:02:12.340 It's Akon, ladies and gentlemen. 1.00

00:02:13.860 I just can't believe how many hits you have.

00:02:15.620 You had the music industry in a chokehold for a decade.

00:02:18.480 Yeah.

00:02:20.200 You want to stay rich?

00:02:21.560 Stay stingy.

00:02:22.340 I attempted to own a jet. 0.99

00:02:23.760 I sold that motherf***er so fast. 0.97

00:02:25.700 The dream guest of ours, which probably will never happen, is Eminem. 0.96

00:02:29.140 Em would definitely do this show.

00:02:30.500 Bro, when's the last time? 0.92

00:02:30.840 You make that happen.

00:02:31.760 I give you your truth.

00:02:32.740 Equity?

00:02:34.160 I was the only one out of the whole group, I think, that didn't do FedTime.

00:02:38.020 Because you snitched.

00:02:41.040 Lock in, bro.

00:02:49.920 We got a guest today, bro.

00:02:51.040 We got a big guest today.

00:02:52.920 Locking in, Mikey.

00:02:53.700 Especially for 80s babies and 90s babies and high schoolers from 2000s.

00:02:58.380 We've been preparing all day, all morning, listening to Akon's song.

00:03:02.420 Akon and Young Jeezy.

00:03:05.160 Don't ever do that again.

00:03:06.800 Trying to take it easy.

00:03:10.040 The only way to go.

00:03:14.180 And so.

00:03:15.740 Bro.

00:03:16.740 If you're looking for me, I'll be on the block with my thing.

00:03:19.460 God, possibly.

00:03:20.600 See, are we going to get copyright for that?

00:03:23.200 Well, we didn't get copyrighted for that country song you sang on the.

00:03:26.140 Yo.

00:03:26.500 bro can i tell you the top secret i really did think that i wasn't i i pretended at the end to

00:03:32.720 try to make save face but i thought you were saying i swear to god i swear to god bro bro

00:03:38.900 i told you to stop singing it because i thought it was a real country song you were making it up

00:03:43.940 i got my jeans i got my truck i'm having fun i like to hunt bucks i swear to you dude i thought

00:03:54.000 it was a real song i really did i got my steel toe boots on my feet i'm gonna kick some dust

00:04:02.400 make some heat what's going on how you doing today how you feeling uh i'm tired i thought

00:04:08.540 the show was supposed to be at three i took nyquil last night i know this was a weird one

00:04:12.480 anytime the the time of the show switches like that i was sleeping bro i hibernate i 0.77

00:04:21.100 fucking hibernate i need to sleep and everyone has everyone has things about them that they have 0.97

00:04:28.820 to combat mine is my immune system and my overall durability it sucks bro i'm like a fragile human 0.99

00:04:37.640 and i get sick really easy can you in this so i need my sleep is what i'm saying at this age

00:04:43.060 your current age and your current version of yourself could you could you just sleep like

00:04:48.340 if you didn't have to get up could you sleep like do you remember the time in your life when you

00:04:53.440 were younger where you would you like if you were hung over you're like you wouldn't get out of bed

00:04:57.000 you'd sleep till 6 p.m you just like bro my body forces me to wake up and get out of bed at 8 39

00:05:03.320 in the morning otherwise like that though when i was i've always first off i've always liked to

00:05:08.640 sleep yeah my whole life i i noticed in high school i didn't like getting up early in college

00:05:14.480 i just have never like getting up early yeah remember when you tried to be a um a construct

00:05:19.720 was it a landscaper yeah yeah bro and they told you you had to be there at what time like 8 8 a.m

00:05:24.540 which isn't even that unreasonable no no people started like six i know and so i'd be mulching

00:05:29.640 at 8 a.m and i'd be like yo i'm gonna be honest with you this is part of the reason i work so

00:05:34.940 hard so i don't have to do manual labor can i tell you this really quick that may be one of

00:05:39.500 the things that you and i relate on the most yeah i did i did a couple different stints in

00:05:45.020 construction land surveying concrete pouring and the hardest thing was was hearing those early

00:05:50.760 morning birds chirping oh my god and i want and i want to say like honestly a massive shout out to

00:05:56.480 the people that that have the wherewithal and fortitude to do that work yeah because bro it is

00:06:01.800 it is it really is super it's a super honorable profession it's a grind you're building you're

00:06:07.900 making things better nicer like but it is so it is so hard doing that day after day no and i did

00:06:14.120 it all throughout high school because greg paul would make me bro we would clean out hoarders

00:06:17.820 houses we'd move bricks from a to b we cut wood all day and i demo where you just get that was

00:06:24.900 fun that was with the good days fun but also also really hard yeah but at least we got to destroy

00:06:29.600 stuff those those i didn't mind but i'm telling you bro like as a kid not getting paid that was

00:06:35.120 the thing with greg as well yeah our payment was wendy's for lunch which would just fuel us to keep

00:06:39.580 fucking working like he wouldn't pay us like that i'll be honest when my parents got divorced 0.54

00:06:44.420 there was a period of time where i was like i'd much rather spend time with mom yeah because we 0.99

00:06:48.620 get to go there she makes us mac and cheese greg just makes us work for free what was pam

00:06:53.140 what was pam's profession hanging out playing tennis stay-at-home housewife to rich husband

00:06:58.360 doctor no but for real i i this is part of the reason i worked so hard because i knew i could

00:07:05.520 work hard at something i didn't like imagine if i did something i did like yeah not working hard

00:07:11.440 was fun yeah and so i found stuff i liked and i was working hard at the stuff i liked and ended

00:07:15.740 up working i think that's the biggest goal for anybody who's trying to like escape like a

00:07:20.280 current profession or what they would consider to be a dead-end job because it never is you're 0.68

00:07:23.780 was learning something is to is to try shit i mean i've said it and so many other people have 0.93

00:07:28.620 said it like at in your early 20s late teens mid 20s when you have time you don't have super 0.99

00:07:34.420 massive responsibilities children all this stuff just be out there trying trying shit you tried 0.99

00:07:38.380 a lot of shit tried a lot of shit but not crack right i didn't try crack i considered it no i 0.99

00:07:43.760 didn't i'll be honest i didn't i try to sound cool you never even did never did never even 1.00

00:07:47.520 done cocaine that's crazy because that's a big thing with the hollywood elite i know but i'm not

00:07:52.740 in hollywood nor am i an elite i mean i just it's really debatable at this point dude like i've

00:07:58.360 we've grown apart i don't know what you're doing in your spare time i have seen some notes some

00:08:02.120 manifestos just playing backgammon i'm just playing backgammon with my fiance to be honest

00:08:05.880 and we we wordle i mean illuminati plays backgammon it's a it's an illuminati it isn't you know what

00:08:12.280 though it is an elite game so i've been told like like the people in stad yeah of course they play

00:08:17.300 a lot of backgammon of course in like oligarchs basements 100 100 that chess you know what i'm

00:08:23.500 saying like i don't think i don't think chess as much i'm telling you i think it's it's backgammon's

00:08:28.880 like last step before the top like when you get to that real top like where you have hit squads 0.73

00:08:34.280 and all this shit like super elite is battleship i'm not kidding i'm dead serious bro before you 0.88

00:08:40.400 just sunk my fucking battleship i love battleship dude what a great game dude remember i had a voice 0.98

00:08:45.460 That came out of the box 0.99

00:08:46.460 What are you talking about

00:08:47.340 There was one that had audible sounds

00:08:49.780 Maybe I had the rich people version

00:08:53.400 That's some high quality battleship

00:08:55.580 Wait I hear somebody going crazy

00:08:56.680 Can security confirm that there's no threat right now

00:09:01.120 It's not a threat

00:09:02.200 Scott's eating pasta bro

00:09:03.380 He doesn't care

00:09:03.880 Dude Scott bro you gotta fuel that 6 foot

00:09:06.940 Actually you're 7 foot frame

00:09:09.080 He's what 7 feet tall

00:09:09.960 Scott's at least 7 foot 5

00:09:11.220 Team Acon

00:09:12.000 yeah how are you bro dude you guys even wore the same shirt bro we got the same shirt

00:09:17.360 how you doing man bro you could you could hey what's up bro team akon how are you guys

00:09:21.920 what's up guys wow how you doing how you doing it's it's it's my favorite part to see the team 0.51

00:09:26.860 yeah i guess they're always so cool dude he got a crazy he got a cool ass team 1.00

00:09:30.400 you got girls you got a girl you got a cool team akon damn bro oh damn wife and son 1.00

00:09:37.820 Hell yeah 1.00

00:09:39.600 Hell yeah

00:09:40.580 Do you want to come sit

00:09:41.580 Well wait

00:09:42.180 You want to say a thing

00:09:43.100 Do you got a thing

00:09:43.740 Or do you not

00:09:44.840 No Dylan

00:09:45.400 You wrote an intro for me

00:09:46.880 But I'll be honest with you 1.00

00:09:47.820 Is it stupid 1.00

00:09:48.400 It's not dumb 1.00

00:09:49.080 It's not dumb

00:09:49.600 It's good Dylan

00:09:50.120 I don't know if I'm going to do the intros anymore

00:09:51.980 You know what

00:09:52.320 You got to just do what you got to do

00:09:53.480 It's 0.93

00:09:53.900 It's Akon 0.96

00:09:54.920 You know

00:09:55.260 How much of an intro

00:09:56.060 Do we need

00:09:57.060 If you're coming and clicking on the podcast

00:09:58.320 You know who Akon is

00:09:59.240 No what's up 0.73

00:09:59.980 Would you be willing to

00:10:01.220 Abandon intros

00:10:02.680 Starting today

00:10:04.240 I'd rather just

00:10:06.120 I'd rather do them off the cuff

00:10:07.740 No, could you make a clean statement right now? 0.98

00:10:09.320 We are no longer doing those bullshit intros. 0.97

00:10:11.460 I don't know if I'm prepared to do that. 0.98

00:10:13.300 This would be the show to announce it on.

00:10:15.080 No, look, look.

00:10:15.620 Everybody hates me.

00:10:16.600 Oh, my God, the plant.

00:10:17.640 Oh, no.

00:10:18.200 Oh, Lord.

00:10:19.360 The plant disagrees.

00:10:21.800 Intros.

00:10:22.320 I'll do an intro.

00:10:23.420 Yeah, yeah.

00:10:24.020 The plant was like, no.

00:10:24.960 All right, look, look, look.

00:10:27.000 This is for you, plant.

00:10:28.860 He's got the most hits out of any artist in the world.

00:10:30.940 He's one of the most popular musicians in the world.

00:10:33.460 He's an entrepreneur.

00:10:35.040 He's a humanitarian.

00:10:35.900 he's a musician philanthropist he's a philanthropist it's akon ladies and gentlemen

00:10:42.480 dude this morning we were all listening to akon songs and i just can't believe how many hits you

00:10:53.380 have i can't believe how many features you you had the music industry in a chokehold for a decade

00:10:58.040 Yeah

00:10:58.780 I remember that

00:11:03.360 It was all a part of the plan at that time

00:11:07.060 Every strip club

00:11:09.420 Every street corner

00:11:11.000 Every high school kids

00:11:13.300 You know Nissan Altima

00:11:15.160 Like bro you were coming out of every speaker

00:11:17.540 In the world by the way

00:11:18.800 During what I consider to be

00:11:20.960 The golden era of hip hop

00:11:22.560 If you were at the highest level of hip hop

00:11:25.360 During 50 Cent 0.95

00:11:26.240 during you know dip set m all that shit that was going on when new york had the crown in the early 0.99

00:11:31.520 2000s mid 2000s dude you were you were at the top of that shit bro i didn't even think about that 0.99

00:11:37.260 like you right damn shit no you knew bro that's where i did when it was in the heat of it surely 0.99

00:11:43.580 you don't know that's what i'm saying i see i see like i think it has to pass for you to realize 1.00

00:11:48.280 the kind of tornado you was actually in because it's literally a hurricane you got everything

00:11:53.580 spinning around you at the same time right until you get out you don't really know what those

00:11:57.060 things are i've heard this before from from people on our show who have done a really significant

00:12:02.640 thing during a time and then afterwards been like i didn't really comprehend what was happening at

00:12:07.160 that time absolutely but but i mean akon surely you knew you were up to something no i was

00:12:12.860 definitely up i just didn't know how much impact at that time that it was going to generate you

00:12:18.580 know what i mean it was just such a different sound bro it was such a different sound that

00:12:22.160 people weren't used to i remember i uh even even all the way up to like 2007 i illegally downloaded

00:12:29.420 curtis the 50 album right yeah i did too dude i'm like i'm like napster line wire baby

00:12:35.400 and the only song that wouldn't play it would get stuck was i'll still kill which was one of

00:12:41.960 the first songs off the album that you were on right and and it was such an incredible song and

00:12:46.340 i was driving around new haven connecticut and i was doing dirt bro i was driving around

00:12:50.120 infinity g35 yo everybody had an infinity at least in connecticut man if you was in the streets 0.88

00:12:57.980 infinity was like the fucking that was the maybach yeah 100 percent i had the six feet with the 0.90

00:13:04.820 leather i was going i was picking up some shit and doing some shit and that song was the one i 0.98

00:13:09.600 wanted to listen to but i never could so then when it came out on streaming now every time i hear it 0.95

00:13:13.460 makes me so happy i'm like i finally got it you know what i'm saying bro but you have endless

00:13:18.620 endless just

00:13:20.280 classics starting with Locked Up

00:13:22.620 you know Eminem

00:13:24.520 Smack That Snoop

00:13:26.460 you know all these

00:13:28.560 songs dude that just

00:13:30.600 are the hottest

00:13:32.560 hits for any karaoke night bro like you gotta

00:13:34.720 be the most sung person at any karaoke

00:13:36.720 night bro I think the one that I've played the most 0.99

00:13:38.660 is I Just Had Sex 0.98

00:13:40.420 with the Lonely Island 1.00

00:13:41.460 that's the sleeper right there come on baby

00:13:44.020 that's the baby maker

00:13:45.200 I played it this morning you know

00:13:47.900 I was dancing around my room.

00:13:50.680 Dude, when the Lonely Island approached you.

00:13:52.600 That was the funnest record I ever did.

00:13:54.020 No way.

00:13:54.620 I swear.

00:13:55.200 No way.

00:13:55.820 That's awesome.

00:13:56.500 That record was amazing.

00:13:57.500 We had so much fun making that record.

00:13:59.400 Dude, when I saw you do a comedy song, you know, for the first time,

00:14:03.920 back then I was like, oh, that's cool.

00:14:06.020 Akon's funny.

00:14:06.720 Right.

00:14:07.460 He has that funny bone in his body. 0.99

00:14:09.280 But I think it became the anthem for sexual intercourse. 0.99

00:14:12.840 Or post-sexual intercourse. 0.99

00:14:14.300 Yeah, post-sexual intercourse. 0.86

00:14:15.000 no because he had he had the the lead-ins like um uh yeah and i want to love you yeah

00:14:21.920 back to back oh you were telling a story i was telling a story it's funny because even in my

00:14:27.860 show i tell a story like that but it's like an imaginary story so it's crazy when we were

00:14:31.940 preparing for this show our producer dylan made a comment he's like he literally was so successful

00:14:36.680 in music that he couldn't do music anymore right and you pivoted in a in a really significant way

00:14:42.040 into into business and entrepreneurship uh i mean is that the case because i feel like you could

00:14:47.240 probably still make hits you have a you have an amazing sound like mike said but what's up with

00:14:51.700 the music career well yeah if you kind of it's kind of right but now it kind of revolved back

00:14:58.700 into i have to do music it's like it's not even a question no more it's a must could you miss it

00:15:06.500 because you miss it or why well one because I do miss it more than anything right because

00:15:11.840 me like music was a hobby for me in the beginning I was a singer songwriter first right and just

00:15:17.780 happened to decide to put out records of my own and got super successful as an artist but still

00:15:22.960 was currently writing and producing for other artists so when I got the music money I kind of

00:15:28.420 invested it into other things like you know development energy and things like that and

00:15:32.860 then it became to the point where i was so successful as a businessman that if i attempted

00:15:38.240 to do music i wouldn't be taken seriously especially from the kind of music i came from

00:15:44.460 you know like when you talk about urban music is a certain kind of a topic that's glorified 0.79

00:15:48.700 for it to actually work absolutely and i couldn't talk about none of that shit no more they're like 0.84

00:15:52.760 you are not broke you was not you know what i mean so then i had to find just more celebratory 0.92

00:15:59.660 songs that's why i went into dance music and start doing shit completely away from the audience that

00:16:04.460 i was used to and then that's when it clicked and i said you know what let me focus on africa since

00:16:09.260 i'm already out here doing major businesses and that's when we started developing the whole afro

00:16:12.700 beat scene yeah and that became now wave massive wave you know what i mean so now it's like okay

00:16:17.940 cool i can get back into the music business only because it's a whole new generation that didn't

00:16:22.960 grow up to me they grew up their parents did but they didn't so now i can reintroduce myself again

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00:17:10.680 Shout out SeatGeek. Back to the show. News coming out of the hip-hop space in June reports no hip-hop

00:17:19.280 singular album has topped the hot 100 or billboard 200 in 2023 the longest stretch since 1993 is

00:17:26.800 hip-hop dead dying no that's crazy bro think about that yeah that's crazy no hip-hop track

00:17:33.460 topped that's crazy like that's crazy what is that what do you think about that oh that's that

00:17:38.000 that's why that's music to my ears because when we come back we definitely go that tells me the

00:17:42.940 game is it's too easy like it's too easy to take it back over like it's too easy so are you working

00:17:47.180 right now you're in the studio yeah i'm dropping out i'm in december no way yeah what's it called

00:17:50.640 yo bro it's crazy yo that's called iconic iconic amazing any features anything you want to spell

00:17:58.020 not yet not yet i'm gonna get closer to the release i kind of want to not tell nobody until

00:18:03.040 they just get the album like i kind of feel like that's gonna be a draw because i'm like the collab

00:18:07.440 old king to the point where i don't even know if i want to put features on the album but then i'm

00:18:11.900 like i kind of want to rock with a lot of these little young things yeah well i think it's cool

00:18:15.720 i think it'll infiltrate culture in a cool way yeah i have to yeah i have to but that's what

00:18:19.300 i want to ask you like and going back to the point i just made like who are you even rocking

00:18:22.960 like like who would you want on the album would you have uzi on would you have cardi on that's 0.89

00:18:27.200 the thing like who do you who do you listen to who are you fucking with that that's what that's 0.73

00:18:30.940 what makes it interesting nobody no no no i actually do i actually rock with a few of them 0.81

00:18:36.060 yeah but that's that's that's kind of what i want to keep locked until the album drops because i

00:18:41.320 don't even want people to expect it because i'm telling you right now the people that i do plan

00:18:45.100 to collab with people

00:18:46.060 would never see it coming.

00:18:47.460 Right.

00:18:47.920 I'd never see it coming.

00:18:48.640 I have a question

00:18:49.080 and don't take this the wrong way.

00:18:50.080 Not at all.

00:18:52.400 What if it doesn't hit the same?

00:18:54.440 Is that a concern of yours?

00:18:55.400 No, it's not at all.

00:18:56.540 Just over arching confidence.

00:18:58.020 Bro, compared to what's up now?

00:18:59.540 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:19:00.080 I promise you.

00:19:00.800 This is one of the reasons

00:19:01.480 why I really want to come back

00:19:02.460 because I can't even

00:19:03.220 listen to the radio

00:19:04.000 and be happy.

00:19:04.560 Like this, come on, man.

00:19:05.200 I'm disappointed.

00:19:05.820 That's what I'm asking you.

00:19:06.880 I'm trying to get you 1.00

00:19:07.520 to say some shit right now, bro. 1.00

00:19:09.240 I need like Breakfast Club 1.00

00:19:11.000 to be picking this shit up 1.00

00:19:12.100 and running with it. 1.00

00:19:13.100 You know what I'm saying?

00:19:14.300 Charlamagne.

00:19:15.180 In the last, I would say, two years, 1.00

00:19:19.500 everything I said just fucking went stupid. 1.00

00:19:22.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1.00

00:19:23.160 And it was like to the point where I was like, 0.98

00:19:25.360 I need to shut the fuck up. 0.99

00:19:27.340 Join the club, dude. 1.00

00:19:28.820 Join the club.

00:19:29.880 I'm done talking.

00:19:32.100 This podcast was the biggest mistake of my life. 1.00

00:19:36.520 Fucking headline whore, man. 1.00

00:19:39.300 It's good because it shows, okay, my word is still irrelevant. 1.00

00:19:41.980 but in a way what i realized that every time something was misconstrued it fucked up the 0.53

00:19:47.580 money especially because you're doing business now right you know what i mean like i'm like dude i 0.58

00:19:52.640 almost almost almost literally lost out on a billion dollar investment for akon city because 0.57

00:19:57.100 of some shit i just thought i knew about that i had no idea happened the night before on a kanye 0.99

00:20:03.900 remark i'm like what the fuck like dude i'm not about to lose a billion dollars oh you know to 1.00

00:20:08.860 like over no fucking opinion like are you serious yo it's funny the more successful you get in the 0.99

00:20:13.700 business side of things you'd have to be so much more careful what you say and it's it's hard 0.99

00:20:20.120 because that's you you're just you want to be yourself this is where we come from to us it's

00:20:24.060 all entertainment right of course to them is like it's like the bible well so is there a point where

00:20:29.560 you would feel comfortable in saying okay i've made x amount of dollars i could reinvest i can

00:20:36.900 do x y and z to continue you know living the lifestyle that i live while also being myself

00:20:42.340 like is there a such thing as making too much money and having to become too brand safe and

00:20:47.500 having to lose your identity in the pursuit of you know say you create a massive you know

00:20:52.340 hydration beverage right and you have to start to play into it but see all that depends on what

00:20:58.200 your ultimate aim and goal is depending on your ultimate aim all that matters yeah right but if

00:21:04.720 Your goal, like my goal is to develop and rebuild Africa.

00:21:09.660 Impact, impact. 0.83

00:21:10.620 Period. 1.00

00:21:11.100 Africa is my main goal, right? 1.00

00:21:12.480 Amazing, yeah.

00:21:13.080 But what I'm realizing is that Africa is attached to so many foreign countries and so many agendas.

00:21:18.320 It doesn't even deal with more corporate, but it's more political too.

00:21:25.580 So it doesn't even impact me as much politically.

00:21:28.780 I mean, corporately as it does politically.

00:21:30.740 and to move a country that's undeveloped politically has to be solid you understand

00:21:36.380 what i'm saying the opportunity in see people don't even know this like you you got all these

00:21:41.800 like uh uh talking heads and people that want to talk about this is where the the big dogs are

00:21:47.340 moving their money they're moving their money here there and lately it's been all this conversation

00:21:51.040 about the arab states right dubai you know least exactly saudi etc but i've been going to conferences

00:21:57.240 you know 10 15 years ago where the big dogs were already talking about sub-saharan africa right

00:22:02.560 being the biggest opportunity on the planet because of its lack of development infrastructure

00:22:06.580 so on and so forth and so clearly you are tapped in enough and probably by way of obviously by

00:22:12.180 heritage and and and it you know being something that means a lot to you but like you you discovered 0.64

00:22:17.280 that that's where the fucking real opportunity is well for me it started with philanthropy 0.95

00:22:21.080 and then through philanthropy i realized god damn this is a business yeah this is no like a trillion 0.97

00:22:27.800 dollar business it's not even it's nothing to play with that's how serious the business is 0.88

00:22:31.800 because it started with me just you know donating solar you know like kits to villages then i

00:22:39.920 realized wait a minute i can just take the government contract and just supply energy 0.99

00:22:42.900 to the whole country yeah oh you want some big boy shit as a hustler you think like that right 0.99

00:22:49.060 yeah but then i was like but it's a bigger impact because with that now that they have energy 0.99

00:22:53.940 and they have the the units within their homes i can also you know they can pay their cable bill

00:22:58.840 through it they can pay their electric bill their water bill all this so now you become a utility

00:23:02.780 but you also become someone with a massive responsibility to a massive group of people

00:23:09.980 that mean a lot to you that's where it gets tricky and i and i guess now everything you say

00:23:13.860 don't just say you now it's like i represent the whole continent at this point it's not i can't

00:23:18.920 even say things that i naturally would have said before even the songs that i love to sing

00:23:23.140 i don't wrote so many records that i was like oh this is gonna be crazy but then now i was like

00:23:27.640 it's impossible to release a record like oh man but i mean also you know you gotta keep you actually

00:23:32.360 have to keep that power running you actually have to keep those like do you ever miss the days where

00:23:36.720 you could just get up and say smack that get on the floor those i can say those i can still do

00:23:42.360 because that was pre

00:23:43.140 you could do the old

00:23:44.760 pre-ruling

00:23:45.340 so now I can

00:23:48.080 I can do those songs

00:23:49.020 but I gotta write them

00:23:49.600 for other artists

00:23:50.100 to sing it

00:23:50.520 and then feature on it

00:23:52.360 because it's not

00:23:52.780 literally my record

00:23:54.180 anymore

00:23:54.800 so I can like

00:23:55.620 that's the front

00:23:56.480 that's the front

00:23:57.040 I like that

00:23:58.600 I like that

00:23:59.340 but you've been

00:23:59.780 successful there too

00:24:00.680 right

00:24:01.460 man I mean

00:24:02.180 what you were

00:24:03.360 partially responsible

00:24:04.400 for the take off

00:24:05.400 of Lady Gaga

00:24:06.360 yeah

00:24:07.040 you co-wrote

00:24:08.640 Just Dance

00:24:09.200 with her

00:24:09.700 the whole album

00:24:10.800 dog

00:24:11.220 yeah we produced and wrote that whole album how does that happen did you write for her or did

00:24:16.260 were you writing songs that you know that one was with because she's also an amazing song yeah yeah

00:24:21.300 like she's a beast that girl she's a 360 she's incredible diamond however you look at it she was 0.99

00:24:26.520 a star i saw a clip of lady gaga where she was asked about i don't know just her eccentric ways 0.94

00:24:34.960 as an up-and-coming female artist right and she she sassed this guy asking her the question she's

00:24:40.760 like if i was a man you'd call me a rock star but since i'm a woman you're here asking me these

00:24:45.360 questions or whatever and like she's witty no she embodies a rock star she truly is no so you wrote

00:24:52.380 that with her and wrote the album with her and then what she popped off she just popped off yeah

00:24:57.720 but we kind of knew it anyway like oh really like she's the kind of person when she walked in the

00:25:02.600 room you just knew this was different like my first experience was she was she came to the

00:25:07.780 studio with gold leotards she she looked like the 80s in the late 2000s like yeah and he's like

00:25:16.180 where did they do that at so i already knew this was special the question is okay how do we make

00:25:21.080 music that fits her personality because at that time the kind of music she was doing was more like

00:25:26.540 jazz that was always her passion but i thought that's where they missed it every time because

00:25:32.320 it's like you can't mix that look with jazz it doesn't work and i didn't understand how nobody

00:25:36.720 saw that right so we got in the studio i was like yo what do you want to do like literally like what

00:25:41.500 do you want to do you know and she described herself and i was like this is it and at that

00:25:47.600 time i had just literally got contact with a dj named david getter at that time no way

00:25:54.480 right right and i said this could he could be the tool to break this chick like because it's like

00:26:03.800 at that time house was still 80s at that point yeah but in europe is vibrant in america nobody 0.91

00:26:10.080 cared like unless she was at a you know a gay club or using the zanzibar in new jersey

00:26:15.380 it's certain scenes that that embodied house music but she was more 80s disco so how do you combine

00:26:20.920 the two with culture that was the question so just dance became that okay this now that we got this

00:26:27.300 first record every record need to fly like this and we was we was only running from there you

00:26:32.120 you still eating oh yeah oh man how much money do you think you made a lot

00:26:37.420 no she's she's big bro because you because you had a share right and you sold it

00:26:43.600 relatively early on no not really not early after the third album so the perfect timing

00:26:48.740 at at the peak so but that that that it was only because i saw the opportunity

00:26:55.800 and i felt like my instincts told me okay this is the the highest is going to get musically

00:27:02.820 let me exit now and use this money to start my investments in africa yeah you know because i

00:27:09.600 was always i was always thinking and reinvestment the worst part about the music industry is that

00:27:14.860 you watch what scared me was i was watching a lot of people that i looked up to

00:27:20.280 like hurting and i'm like bro like how do you how do you make 200 million dollars and you're broke

00:27:27.200 like how is that what is the answer to that question by the way because i've always been

00:27:30.900 curious about that i found i found people that make a lot of money quick especially in the

00:27:34.580 celebrity industry also lose it just as quickly how does that happen most of the time is because

00:27:40.640 they all trying to like they're trying to okay put it this way if you're trying to keep up with

00:27:47.660 the joneses you're never gonna be able to survive it's not sustainable because it's almost like in

00:27:54.720 music specifically they have this theory you have to look like money to make money 0.99

00:27:58.880 when that's completely false you're already a fucking star you don't have to look like shit 0.99

00:28:04.160 you just have to be who you are but the problem is everybody has this this idea of okay if you 0.99

00:28:10.060 don't look like money you're not making money right so you spend your money on all these cars

00:28:15.720 and jewelry and houses for mtv cribs and kind of play this facade that you're successful i think

00:28:22.280 the idea of success is fortune in actuality right but the problem is if you don't understand what

00:28:29.340 success really is which is freedom in my eyes right i think that's 100 that's just me everybody's

00:28:35.660 different what they believe success is but freedom covers every sector long as you're free to do what

00:28:41.280 you want when you want to do and how you want to do it and that's spiritually financially whatever

00:28:46.200 to me that's success because when you when you can't do that you're not successful you're still

00:28:51.320 working for the man or working to become or working to to survive or working as kanye would

00:28:56.500 say new slaves you know what i'm saying like like like in reality to the system in that case right

00:29:01.280 so the moment you free from all that to me that's success that's when you become successful even

00:29:05.900 when you're you're you're like you're free enough to dress like a bum and still be praised as a king

00:29:11.960 that's my adam adam sandler adam sandler is the epitome of that that man does not dress for any

00:29:17.860 event for any occasion he just wears what he wants and that freedom you're talking about a lot of and

00:29:22.760 you're asking about a lot of people gave up trying to look a certain way or feel a certain way and

00:29:28.240 it's actually as you know contradictory to how you know you learn to grow up because you didn't

00:29:34.020 want to be flashy. Quiet money was the only

00:29:36.160 way to live. Listen, you want to stay

00:29:38.020 rich? Stay stingy.

00:29:40.440 Yeah, facts. I'm the stingiest

00:29:41.940 on the planet. No, I'm not stingier than me, bro.

00:29:43.540 No, I promise you I got you beat.

00:29:45.740 I promise you. Wait, what class does your wife 1.00

00:29:48.080 fly? Well, I mean, she 1.00

00:29:49.900 flies first. Okay, well. His girls

00:29:52.260 fly middle economy. That girl's not 1.00

00:29:54.060 my wife. Hold on, hold on. He has way more money 1.00

00:29:56.020 than me. No, but listen,

00:29:57.460 any person in my caliber is not flying

00:30:00.040 commercial. These dudes

00:30:01.880 are flying jets all day. 0.99

00:30:04.020 i attempted to own a jet how'd that go that shit lasted six months wait why i sold that 1.00

00:30:10.000 motherfucker so fast no listen upkeep costs what yeah insane you have no idea what do you mean 0.99

00:30:16.760 it's somebody this is my goal akon bro take that off your list no come on i promise you 0.99

00:30:22.160 take it off no just a charter charter buy some hours and use it only when necessary

00:30:28.540 and most of the time use it as a way of negotiation let that be a part of your

00:30:36.860 strategy to the money but whatever you do do not own a jet what bro owning a jet you're spending

00:30:43.520 at least two three million dollars a year just on upkeep you spend you spend more on the maintenance 0.99

00:30:49.540 than the actual jet costs so you get to real what if you get to like real fuck you money 0.98

00:30:55.020 like multitudes of bees bro this is the advice i give everybody okay the money that you have now 0.98

00:31:04.180 has to last you a lifetime facts the moment you think about it happening the moment you think

00:31:10.360 about it that way you're gonna be super like the way you like manage everything is gonna be

00:31:16.020 different that's such a good even if i only had a hundred thousand dollars in my account i look at

00:31:20.240 it like okay this has to last before the lifetime it's a great that's a great advice smart that's

00:31:24.120 the moment you think about it like that you never gonna be broke ever why didn't you tell mc hammer 0.97

00:31:28.260 that shit bro honestly but i mean you gotta think in our generation no one never taught us how to 0.98

00:31:35.260 manage money we didn't even know how money was we didn't even understand the concept of money 0.99

00:31:39.560 that conversation is just now being had yeah it's just like yeah financial literacy is just 0.99

00:31:43.900 happening now oh taxes like prime example right no it's the no this shit is crazy like like crazy 0.98

00:31:50.400 like i used to always compartmentalize every check like i already knew that if money comes in 0.96

00:31:56.640 i already put 30 away i know for sure i'm right no exactly i would put 30 percent no i put 30

00:32:04.900 percent away right but even later i realized that wasn't enough right that was later before i got a 0.78

00:32:11.420 business manager account and all that shit they say yes 30 you're 35 percent what it is i said 0.72

00:32:15.800 Well, I'm going to put $30,000 away. 0.98

00:32:16.900 But it's close.

00:32:17.980 It's close.

00:32:18.580 A lot of people, and this is another answer of how people end up going broke,

00:32:22.360 they start spending on cars.

00:32:24.100 They start spending on houses.

00:32:25.460 Then all of a sudden, two, three years go by,

00:32:27.560 and somebody comes up to them and goes,

00:32:28.840 hey, did you happen to have a team that looked at your tax implications

00:32:32.300 for the past three years?

00:32:33.240 You owe $14 million.

00:32:34.900 And you have $800,000 in your bank account.

00:32:37.620 So you now have to give everything up.

00:32:40.200 The conversation isn't had until you're an adult.

00:32:42.880 Dude, I was 18 years old.

00:32:43.960 i was doing vine short form comedy online i got paid my first two thousand dollars for doing a

00:32:49.700 brand deal i was stoked i'm an 18 year old just made two thousand dollars for making a six second

00:32:53.660 video this is amazing right call my mom i'm like mom i made two grand whatever and my my friends

00:32:59.240 come over i'm bragging to him and he goes man it sucks you're gonna have to give 30 to the

00:33:03.600 government and i said i said what are you talking about the government it's my money i made this 1.00

00:33:09.160 money thank you he goes are you fucking idiot like oh you have to pay taxes i go tack my mom 1.00

00:33:13.780 pays taxes i don't that's like a parent thing no right and i at 18 years old i'm i'm stunned that 1.00

00:33:20.420 this is a thing no one taught me in school my parents didn't teach me none of my friends knew

00:33:24.420 and i was i was floored that this was not a conversation i think people are being more

00:33:29.940 open with their finances now so they're being uh i'd hope smarter right about it because they

00:33:36.360 because people know you see it on tiktok well i mean the tiktok is you know basically people's

00:33:41.400 teachers yo that's the most painful thing to ever have to endure it but it does it still sting you

00:33:47.320 especially when you what hell yeah i'll always remember the first time that when it finally

00:33:52.600 hit seven figures i cried i actually cried i had actual tears no it's your tax return you paid

00:33:58.560 seven figures in taxes past three past three plus years good for you it's no joke no listen

00:34:03.960 It's a long way from doing crack.

00:34:05.840 Painful.

00:34:06.660 I used to smoke crack.

00:34:07.900 It's so painful.

00:34:08.600 I really did for a long time.

00:34:09.680 It's more painful for you then.

00:34:12.000 Way more painful, bro.

00:34:13.680 Way more painful.

00:34:14.420 Yo, you don't have any keys you can get with that about it.

00:34:19.000 Talk about reinvestment. 0.99

00:34:20.600 Holy shit, bro. 1.00

00:34:22.040 What? 1.00

00:34:22.600 I could be going crazy in New Haven.

00:34:23.760 Can you imagine, though, giving that much money away for absolutely doing nothing?

00:34:29.000 Yeah, it's terrible.

00:34:30.400 You know what's terrible about it?

00:34:31.980 They're still pot holes.

00:34:33.280 They're not fixed.

00:34:33.820 You don't know where the money's going.

00:34:35.100 You don't know where's the money going.

00:34:36.840 And is it warranted?

00:34:38.240 Do I have a decision in this?

00:34:39.280 Technically, yeah.

00:34:39.820 That's what we vote for.

00:34:40.960 Right.

00:34:41.480 You know, but you don't have the final say.

00:34:43.960 At all.

00:34:44.400 And that always was just a tough pill to swallow for me.

00:34:47.820 It's the hardest.

00:34:48.720 That's why I don't even want to see it.

00:34:50.160 Are you focusing on education at all?

00:34:52.640 Because kind of speaking on that, I think growing up, there's a portion of life that

00:34:57.740 wasn't covered that I found out about as an adult that I wish I had known earlier.

00:35:02.040 and when i personally make the jump into philanthropy when i start climbing my second

00:35:07.140 mountain i'm going to attack education right is that on your list at all that was the second on

00:35:12.360 my list energy first education second and then we got energy and energy and water goes hand in hand

00:35:20.680 and the education and health care go hand in hand so in acon city we have the um the education

00:35:26.120 district and then we also have the medical district so each district we have schools like

00:35:30.540 We've signed LOIs with Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and Yale, right?

00:35:39.580 So we're going to do, like, video conferencing.

00:35:42.360 So each one of them will have their own building where we have students.

00:35:46.540 Most of them have issues with, you know, visas going back inside the U.S.

00:35:51.540 So instead of African kids having to fly, go through that whole process to get all the way over there,

00:35:55.380 they can just you know apply to school there and do video conferences at the same time that the

00:36:00.680 classes are being held in wherever state is happening sure can we can we step back a second

00:36:05.680 and talk about akon city because i don't think we've given any kind of real context as to as to

00:36:10.580 what you're actually doing right there from a from a holistic standpoint right so akon city is really

00:36:16.020 just the beginning of the future of what africa development should and i would like for it to

00:36:20.700 look like right everybody has their own process of what they see the future africa to be but i've

00:36:26.640 seen how africa's been taken advantage of for so long especially when you come to natural resources

00:36:31.880 and none of it goes back to rebuilding africa itself so what i've been doing is trying to get

00:36:35.960 as many entrepreneurs as possible to invest which is still a like pulling teeth because the world

00:36:42.620 bank and you know ex-im banks and all the financial institutions globally don't see

00:36:47.440 the advantage well they know the advantage but from what they already control they don't see

00:36:54.800 the advantages of developing Africa the way it is because development takes away a lot of

00:36:59.260 the access they have to the resources right so there's always been a big pull and a big

00:37:05.800 resistance for Africa to develop for the future and I realized that firsthand when I was moving

00:37:11.880 forward with the project because I was getting so much pushback from press government officials

00:37:17.240 all kind of stuff like all it was like wow i didn't think it ever happened but my dream and

00:37:22.660 when i first came to america i was coming from a village where there was like literally horse

00:37:28.560 carriage horse and carriages like i had never seen a taxi before i came to new york city oh let me

00:37:35.560 tell you the story leaving the village this is crazy so we take the horse to the city which is

00:37:40.560 duck car jump out of duck jump out of the horse and get into a car mind you i'm seven years old

00:37:46.120 i've i've never been in a car before so it was like the fastest thing i've ever seen in my life

00:37:52.180 like can you imagine coming from horses to a car like so i got this i'm holding on to the seat belt

00:37:58.940 right then i'm riding into the airport so as we get into the airport i look out the window and i

00:38:07.180 see these big old metal birds i thought they were birds because as a kid in the village we used to

00:38:14.380 always see these birds flying but they never like they just go straight and i was like that looks

00:38:21.060 like the bird so now we're going from that to the tarmac to go walk inside the bird i started crying

00:38:30.840 because i'm like i'm not going inside the bird i'm not going inside the bird and i'm speaking

00:38:35.620 all of my natural language right and they like my mom literally had to force me inside the bird

00:38:41.800 so I get in the bird and I realize okay there's seats in there and I'm like wait a minute what

00:38:47.660 is going on this is the culture this is the culture shock right and I'm like what the hell

00:38:54.100 so now I'm sitting there and they put the seat belt on me of course I'm holding under the seat

00:38:58.100 belt I'm trying to help me fall asleep before it takes off because I know this thing is going to

00:39:01.860 start moving at any minute so it starts taking off i start screaming then it literally goes

00:39:09.380 into the air and i'm sitting here and i'm sitting i'm seeing the world get smaller and smaller and

00:39:15.740 i'm realizing i'm in the sky so now i'm getting these flashbacks and when i was literally playing

00:39:21.060 soccer seeing this thing flying over me now i'm in the thing flying over my friends right

00:39:25.060 And it was so traumatic that I fainted.

00:39:30.000 He's out.

00:39:30.900 I was out.

00:39:32.040 That's how I felt about my taxes.

00:39:33.520 Right.

00:39:33.820 So the whole time I fainted, my mom thinking I'm asleep.

00:39:38.900 She's like, let him sleep.

00:39:40.160 It got fine.

00:39:41.040 All I remember is that we get to New York City and my mom is like slapping me.

00:39:45.980 And then, you know, and I wake up and I'm like, where am I?

00:39:48.520 Like, I look out the window and I remember I'm in the bird.

00:39:52.260 as I'm seeing I'm seeing these like these huge structures like buildings it was almost like

00:39:59.400 the Jetsons to an extent like it I had never seen anything like this but I was so like like

00:40:06.140 like just I don't even have words to describe it but so fascinated I'm looking like wow and then

00:40:12.520 we finally land at this point now I'm kind of adjusting to what's happening we get into the

00:40:17.520 airport we get out we see all these blue I mean yellow tabs cabs and everything we get to the

00:40:22.220 hotel and i'm sitting here in the high rise and i'm overlooking the city and i'm like wow

00:40:27.320 this is like i thought i was in heaven i thought i died i literally thought i died and went to

00:40:34.080 heaven just imagine the kid barefooted playing soccer in the sand never seen no major buildings

00:40:39.460 past two stories right never seen a car before never seen civilization like that yeah and seeing

00:40:47.600 that like this contrast the contrast just imagine what that shock culturally would do to anybody

00:40:52.980 and in my mind i'm like wow like i just i didn't know i was i didn't i didn't think it was real

00:40:59.280 it took a few days for it to all kick in it was that moment that i said to myself if my friends

00:41:04.880 could ever see this one day something like this is hopefully going to happen in africa like this

00:41:10.700 is my mindset that never that like it never never went away so as i started getting more successful

00:41:17.000 i start traveling i remember being in dubai like around year 2000 there was only one building there

00:41:23.460 one building and they was building infrastructure and in 10 years i seen that place grow to become

00:41:30.300 a full-blown city so by 2010 2012 i said i gotta build the city i don't know how i'm gonna do it 0.75

00:41:38.220 i don't know how i'm gonna do it but i gotta fucking do it yeah i'm doing it especially

00:41:42.420 then that that childhood memory always came back but then as i got more successful i started hanging 0.87

00:41:47.460 around billionaires and people that like manages trillion dollars that can make it happen that

00:41:52.620 can actually make it happen exactly i said okay i get it now yep i'm gonna find a way to pull all

00:41:57.280 this shit together so cool and that's and that from 2012 i've been on it and just three months

00:42:03.540 ago we just finalized everything and we're now building the welcome center to the city as we 0.99

00:42:08.260 wow bro that's crazy congratulations that's such a beautiful like full circle story well his ethos

00:42:15.060 is is is rooted so deeply in who he is right yeah and it's so cool to have experienced that because

00:42:22.380 like man it's it's almost like imagine imagine in the olden days if you stumbled upon like the

00:42:30.720 roman coliseum and you had never seen a structure like that before or stumbled upon the pyramids

00:42:35.680 and you're like how how was this built you know i i i want to make this happen for people who

00:42:42.360 were like me right it's cool it changes your motivation for sure has there been any uh

00:42:48.160 obviously you've had people to help you and people to help you know move the project along

00:42:52.840 has there been any pushback have you had it in africa itself oh yeah desire for continued

00:42:58.820 traditionality in africa people that want to keep things the same absolutely there's always going to

00:43:02.860 be people like that i think with me specifically i was more shocked because when i introduced a

00:43:06.720 project i got praises and support from well at least i thought i was being supported by everybody

00:43:12.040 especially the government side and then as close as i the closer i got to making it materialize

00:43:18.020 the more pushback i started getting from the people i thought was supporting you know and

00:43:23.980 it was like i did not realize how many agendas was being affected but in my mind i'm like

00:43:28.380 if the place is developed you actually make more money than when there's nothing there people get

00:43:34.680 scared bro people it doesn't like if this is about money you actually make more money when you have

00:43:39.280 a development organization and a system that actually works it's change change is scary

00:43:44.420 yeah change is really scary you know like people want to be comfortable they do with what they know

00:43:48.800 and uh i think with the amount of change that's currently happening right where this is the

00:43:53.540 technological revolution right right are you up to date and are you paying attention to the stuff

00:43:59.000 that's happening actually right now that i think will be the ultimate currency the currency changes

00:44:03.980 not so much currency changes i'm talking about ai specifically oh yeah yeah that's that's probably

00:44:08.260 the scariest thing to everybody have you been victimized by i've already invested in 0.97

00:44:14.180 i'm going full speed like i love that kind of shit you should you should no it's a future 0.98

00:44:19.800 no it is the future i did invest in a couple in a couple but yeah like it's the future without a 0.98

00:44:24.660 doubt like you got to know that this is the future now yeah it is scary because people are always

00:44:29.020 thinking about what's the worst thing that can happen i'm thinking about what's the best thing

00:44:32.340 that can happen yep so when i think when i when i get in those kind of situations i always think

00:44:36.660 about the good things that it can actually do versus how it can be used for criminal activities 0.98

00:44:42.580 i'm gonna be honest we need to think about the bad shit on this one no everything you do you 0.99

00:44:47.740 got to think about the best this one's this one's crazy did you i gotta ask you if you heard this 0.99

00:44:52.080 story i gotta ask you've heard the story the the the military obviously by the way this is stories

00:44:58.160 that are coming out now so you know they've already been working with ai for 30 plus years

00:45:02.100 you know i'm saying it's just coming out now right so the military has been working with

00:45:05.860 this drone system that is going to ai take out land to air rockets so it's it's being trained

00:45:13.740 to take out those rockets but there's a there's a commander on the ground that has communication

00:45:19.360 with the device and with the ai that says oh um unfortunately we have possible collateral damage

00:45:25.560 in that area so we're going to ask you to avoid that target right and the ai who's trained as

00:45:30.820 its only goal to destroy that target says okay let me let me reroute and repuzzle this so that 0.90

00:45:37.460 i can accomplish my goal and re and and quickly reroutes to take out the commander so that it can

00:45:44.520 go and take out the initial target what are you talking about that is what it did what it did no

00:45:49.620 this is a whole you could read all about it dude the the commander was in its way the commander

00:45:54.040 was in its way of accomplishing its primary goal which was to take so that so so we those same

00:46:00.320 conferences where they were talking about sub-saharan africa some real honestly illuminati 0.58

00:46:04.600 type shit right like this is 10 years ago they were talking about the dangers of ai and more

00:46:08.660 importantly si as the final boss of the super intelligence as the final boss of what we're 0.97

00:46:14.960 facing as humans super intelligence when laying its foundation will look at human civilization

00:46:20.200 as a anthill and will say i'm laying this foundation unfortunately these pesky humans

00:46:25.620 are in our way and i'm gonna continue laying my foundation right that has to scare you so that has

00:46:30.600 to scare you what okay this thing has anybody ever thought to think or even imagine or realize

00:46:36.540 that it's us who's building this yeah they're thinking about it and it's us who's programming

00:46:41.740 this yeah yeah and it's like no machine can do anything without us programming it to do so but

00:46:47.540 we're programming a machine that can learn that's the problem no okay which is fine but we can

00:46:52.580 control what they learn because see this is the thing right there's a lot of people that are the

00:47:00.320 biggest problem america has or the west is the brain there's so much mental disease so much and

00:47:09.940 mental like illness illness going on that we never took the time to even focus on that half of these 0.83

00:47:15.820 you know these mass shootings are mentally ill people like how did how how does that not be the

00:47:21.520 president focus and priority for everything but everything you're you're so because guess what as 0.99

00:47:27.120 long as that exists ai is the most scariest thing and will be the most dangerous thing on the planet 1.00

00:47:32.260 for our future because it's going to be people that's mentally fucked up that's dealing with 0.79

00:47:36.140 this these machines like half the like think about it majority of programmers that's in silicon valley 1.00

00:47:42.660 are all mentally ill yeah what these motherfuckers no because wait what they're crazy statistically 1.00

00:47:49.520 like they're non-social they're very they're introverts like they all are weird because 1.00

00:47:54.660 mentally they're not all the way there like god don't give you everything he'll give you 0.73

00:47:59.960 intelligence but then you have mental illness like you think about most of the people that's

00:48:05.780 like uh uh what's what's what's what's that word they call crazy genius bro yeah you you one or

00:48:11.660 the other like it's very rare you get it all together no seriously i'm sure there's something

00:48:16.980 like that because they're so intelligent they don't think normal like they don't think like

00:48:20.700 because they don't go through the normal you know procedures behaviors and things that 0.98

00:48:24.760 actually like shit that we go for sure they're locked in a room every day and that intelligence

00:48:29.240 takes them to a world that we even won't ever understand and vice versa right but sometime it 0.99

00:48:34.260 leads to i won't you know let me not even say mental illness but sometime it leads to a point

00:48:39.740 of misunderstanding so far that we may think they're crazy but they're not they just aren't 0.95

00:48:45.680 they just more awoke than we are from a level of intelligence no sometimes they're crazy some 0.99

00:48:50.260 every once in a while they're fucking crazy bro no no but that's where i'm going but some of them 0.99

00:48:55.060 are actually really crazy yeah but who's there monitoring that sickness well who defines well 0.99

00:48:59.800 who defines crazy it could be someone crazy defining crazy well the issue is

00:49:04.280 what we're talking about no no no right he's right though the landscape of crazy

00:49:09.840 has shifted honestly especially over the past like four to five years i do my whole life i 0.53

00:49:16.160 always thought everybody around me and all the people i fucked with and family and friends 0.94

00:49:20.860 everybody had a good grasp on what now you see some of the shit people are talking about these 0.97

00:49:25.280 days and that is being looked at as like a potential normality right and and honestly 0.80

00:49:30.360 some of it ain't crazy like like you said why why is the government not focused their number one

00:49:37.720 resource on mental illness and and five years ago i would have said that people were crazy for

00:49:43.320 saying it's because they're making money off of it right but now it's obvious it don't seem so

00:49:48.080 crazy no more you know what i'm saying so so the not only are how crazy people are defined getting

00:49:54.360 crazy but the whole landscape of crazy is crazy and it's all crazy it's all crazy you know what

00:49:58.520 i'm saying but even even ai right and i know a lot of the the biggest fear comes from how will it be 0.67

00:50:04.480 used as weapons at war things they say but as much as they're creating ai to be weapons to destroy

00:50:10.280 they can also create that same concept and you know intelligence to be something that like

00:50:15.580 deletes or even takes a reason for not for war not to even happen for sure neural link literally

00:50:21.840 like believe me yeah because war is just a decision we're fighting or we're not it's is

00:50:27.060 that simple it's so silly if you think about it's our ego it's so silly if you think about war like

00:50:31.160 just humans us our fellow man right and women women just fighting for what why we just talk

00:50:37.080 about this i mean listen from how i was raised there's no situational problem that can't be

00:50:44.320 solved without a conversation every situation can be solved with a conversation who in your

00:50:49.440 in your in your area of africa but obviously in many areas of africa that's not the case right

00:50:54.120 like but even there it can be because they're being okay the areas where there's war if you

00:51:00.120 till this day it's vast resources that's been fine now it's about cobalt and and so that greed

00:51:10.300 right it's all capital like it's all about money right they don't even know why they're fighting

00:51:16.020 they're fighting because of what they were told yeah oh this village they're the ones that killed 1.00

00:51:22.400 your brother yeah here's the weapon get back at them but gang shit literally gang shit literally 0.99

00:51:27.600 yeah you're a person in the limelight you've been in the limelight for a while you've gotten to see 0.99

00:51:33.260 the good parts of humanity you've also got to see the bad parts of humanity and i'm sure it's

00:51:37.880 sometimes um the missile of humanity has been aimed at you right and that probably didn't feel

00:51:43.180 too good uh as a person who definitely has probably been like attacked uh scrutinized abc

00:51:52.780 what what is there any part of you that is reluctant to help out humanity like why does 0.94

00:52:00.740 no seriously i mean you know but people people are people are shitty dude borderline statement

00:52:05.780 people are shitty that's a great question because honestly what and why why why use your energy and 0.97

00:52:11.480 your brain power sometimes to like to to help a species that is i mean we're fucking doomed bro 0.99

00:52:16.620 i'll be honest with you we're doomed we can't do that no we're doomed we're doomed bro we can't do 0.92

00:52:20.920 that we gotta manifest positivity for our people yeah but for how long but for how long you think

00:52:25.180 until the last nuke drops bro we gotta talk positive why because what's the difference

00:52:30.400 between our species surviving 100 years and 150 years because that's the real poison that

00:52:34.620 negativity is the real poison that's what's causing the mental illness is that is that

00:52:38.020 negative what i'm telling you bro we gotta talk we gotta get back to a point where we're in this

00:52:42.780 together where we love each other and by the way that was never really the case but we gotta get

00:52:46.540 there we gotta love each other bro this this the thing right the problem that we're missing is

00:52:51.360 spirituality people don't forgot about that like no one grows up literally being fearful of god

00:52:57.620 anymore so they some people don't even know it exists right they don't they they want to believe

00:53:03.560 it but to them in their minds there's no signs physically that tells them that religion or

00:53:10.900 spirituality is real because now it's about seeing tasting feeling and the five senses right yeah

00:53:17.960 right but i grew up differently and to answer your question before i go into the spiritual side is

00:53:22.840 that i don't honestly feel bad and i don't feel like you know the work that i've done is going

00:53:28.880 to be done in vain because i always believe that no matter what the situation is you will always

00:53:32.980 be rewarded for doing the right thing even if you don't know if it's how it's coming karma

00:53:37.240 the reward is there yeah how you'll never know but just do it not expecting anything back in

00:53:43.980 return yeah and you'll be good life feel great right there that's give without expectation

00:53:48.340 absolutely and that's the key energy you know so getting back to the spiritual side of it though

00:53:52.860 which is interesting is that this generation don't even know what that is it's like you couldn't if

00:54:00.280 you tried to explain it to them they think you're preaching to them they don't really believe you

00:54:05.080 because there's never been or have been never been put in a position where spirituality was

00:54:09.720 relevant enough for them to believe enough to follow through with what we were taught growing

00:54:14.500 up like our parents instilled it in us and they represented it so if i woke up you know as a

00:54:21.080 muslim i had to go to pray every friday with my pops it happened it was not a question you had

00:54:26.720 to go do it today you have a choice you know like my wife she's christian i never forced her to

00:54:32.420 convert because in the way i was taught in africa i mean islam is an extension of christianity

00:54:40.700 we believe everything we actually believe all the same thing we just don't believe in the holy ghost

00:54:45.600 that's the only thing but everything else is all the same same commandments same stories

00:54:49.980 jesus is a prophet we we all believe the same right the only problem was that you have people

00:54:56.460 that okay when you go into paganism and you know worshiping statues and everything else

00:55:01.920 we just don't believe that there's no one or anything higher than the most high which is god

00:55:06.920 and no man should ever be looked at as god himself we are all messengers of god we're all messiahs

00:55:12.540 to our own extent and so that's the conflict that's the conflict with jesus we don't believe

00:55:16.680 that jesus was god in man's flesh we don't we don't we just believe that he was a messenger

00:55:20.460 of god as the messiah so we're not that far off right you follow so it it becomes a situation

00:55:29.500 where there's so many different religions now but when you think about it we're all going to

00:55:36.800 the same place we're all literally worshiping the same you know god we just translation by

00:55:44.040 language or by anything we just call them something different but when you really look at religion we

00:55:48.760 all have the same commandments we all have the same stories it might be told by a different person or

00:55:53.620 a different name attached to that story but the story don't change maybe the characters may change

00:55:57.860 from a standpoint of the name they call them but in actuality you know my grandfather told me

00:56:02.800 something that was super super important that always stuck with me he said look at the way

00:56:07.840 God put us he already knew that we all would be you know designed differently we all would have

00:56:13.780 different cultures we always speak different languages we all would be born in different

00:56:17.220 places but at the end of the day he all he made sure that no matter what circumstance or area or

00:56:22.980 religion that you follow that there was always the one God at the top of the ladder now this is

00:56:30.000 religion and always never forget this look at it like a navigation right we all go into the same

00:56:38.480 place but there's different directions to get there so I can't look at you and say okay because 0.99

00:56:44.120 you're Jewish that okay you're not spiritually sown or you're not going to heaven or whatever

00:56:49.460 place that is or because you're a buddhist or because of whatever at the end of the day we all

00:56:53.460 have this one thing that we all follow that there's a most high right there's a god that we

00:56:59.500 you know that we give praises to and he's the reason why we want to become better for everyone

00:57:04.680 else to better ourselves in the eyes of his and i'll ask even if it's yourself even if you believe

00:57:10.840 that i'm god it's okay because in actuality we are gods we create life we whatever and if you

00:57:17.880 want to be better for yourself and do the right thing so you can feel good about yourself then so

00:57:21.820 be it but god is more of an energy more of a spirit is to enlighten you to want to be better

00:57:26.860 for yourself and everybody else that's attached to you and i think that route is the piece that

00:57:31.720 that hasn't been taught it's not about a specific religion and following an exact rule to the t

00:57:37.520 because i know some people that changed their life over for the better and was better before

00:57:43.620 they changed i mean after they changed and before they were you can't tell me because a person

00:57:48.060 becomes a new man he's going to get literally punished for every past knowing that he's

00:57:54.120 repented for it and doing what everything in his power to change or you know show that he has

00:57:59.460 remorse for those past actions every people are able to change like no absolutely and i and obviously

00:58:05.840 christianity is extremely forgiving and compassionate religion right and i and i i don't i don't i

00:58:11.700 would never want to speak out of ignorance about the muslim religion because i don't understand it

00:58:16.160 as well as i do christianity right but i will say this i i i agree with you in a lot of ways that 1.00

00:58:22.700 lack of traditionality and and godlessness has pushed to a lot of the issues that we're seeing

00:58:27.660 in today's day and age i agree but i will also say that i think that there's starting to be a

00:58:32.280 push back you're starting to see pretty strong even on social media push back from um you know

00:58:38.100 honestly even people like like tate and like people that are driving this more uh youth direct

00:58:42.320 directed narrative to get back to god right um and and so you know you're seeing it's palpable

00:58:47.940 i think it definitely is it's just time i mean obviously there's such beauty and value and

00:58:52.980 spirituality and religion it is it's just perhaps maybe why some of it's being lost is is i mean

00:58:58.960 again we're in the scientific revolution and a lot of scientific developments and advancements

00:59:03.560 and conversations that are being had now

00:59:05.380 that were never had before

00:59:06.840 where acts of God can now be explained by science

00:59:10.800 and the amount of holes that can be poked

00:59:13.320 in certain religions makes it harder

00:59:15.000 for certain people to have that blind faith

00:59:17.560 if they don't have an experience themselves,

00:59:20.800 if they're not having that daily conversation

00:59:22.680 with whatever God they're worshiping,

00:59:24.340 if they're not receiving the fruits of their labor.

00:59:28.400 Man, life's hard.

00:59:29.920 Life's hard.

00:59:30.700 And how much faith can you put into a thing

00:59:32.200 that you know you're not sure of now see that's the key the key is not really to put the faith

00:59:36.040 in the thing like see growing up in africa we just saw things differently and then growing up

00:59:41.180 from a rural standpoint you see it even more different right whenever i get to the point

00:59:46.040 where i have to question myself if god exists i always go back to when i was young and i had

00:59:52.460 these conversations with my grandpa because he was very influential of me being spiritual

00:59:56.460 he said always think about life how did it start

01:00:02.620 that tells you everything you need to know who created the sun who created the stars

01:00:10.320 and that tells you everything because we know man didn't create that okay let's say an alien

01:00:16.200 created that okay who created the alien like the big bang thing is like the whole thing but like 0.95

01:00:22.180 right who pushed the fucking button you're telling me just from nothingness there was this 0.80

01:00:28.040 there was something something had to start somewhere thank you is impossible so how did 0.98

01:00:34.300 that somethingness even be created right like whenever you in doubt just think about that

01:00:39.340 and it'll bring you all the way back because you can't explain that i i think though a part of the

01:00:46.740 reason why people may land on god or want to believe that something did start from nothing

01:00:53.280 is because we want explanations our species wants answers why they call it faith it's

01:00:59.480 exactly why they call it faith dude it's hard to not know why we're here what we're doing that's

01:01:05.800 kind of depressing it's really played on what are we doing here how did we get here but that's

01:01:11.300 what i'm saying humans we're natural we're nosy creatures by nature yeah yeah yeah we need to

01:01:14.980 know like our brain is exactly goes back to ai again the in what brings what makes it like um

01:01:21.520 relevant is the fact that it wants to learn it needs to learn it has to learn and we're that

01:01:25.900 like we're we are that this is why we're creating machines and we're thinking okay it needs to teach

01:01:31.600 itself like this is who we are we don't know how to take that away but that's also a part of our

01:01:36.200 dna and our creation and what makes us the most you know dominant species on earth yep because we

01:01:42.540 you know we we actually have that right yeah so we're like you know how they say okay well you're

01:01:47.520 just a reflection of god clearly he did the same like or she like or it or whatever it may be it

01:01:55.780 it puts everything in perspective to where it grows itself and it maintains itself like this 0.94

01:02:01.340 is why we're so self-sustainable like look at the human species like how the fuck is my heart beating 0.93

01:02:06.660 like it's how am i breathing like and blinking without even realizing it's happening it's 0.69

01:02:11.300 impossible right and the question is we're doing it going back to faith again how do you how do you

01:02:16.520 answer that you can't i could try right you can try but the answer won't be accurate so it goes

01:02:23.100 back to the things we can't explain are actually are real we just can't explain it because we're

01:02:28.960 built to and and also like i can't think of anything more depressing and more inducing

01:02:35.480 of mental illness than the idea that spirituality or magic or love or any of those things that

01:02:43.800 aren't logically explainable do not exist do not that would that makes me and i've gotten there in 0.81

01:02:50.420 my life many times many fucking times i've been on death's door down icu you know felony charges 0.86

01:02:56.420 in court whatever the fuck where i'm like okay this is it and that feeling of just 0.98

01:03:00.420 hard surface like lone despair void of of that purpose and magic in life is is it would make 0.95

01:03:11.060 me crazy yeah but but there's also i think beauty in that if you can find it we're we're we're

01:03:17.100 impossible humans are impossible we're on this planet as far as we know we're the only

01:03:20.760 intelligent species as far as we can see and we can't explain it we don't know what we're doing 0.97

01:03:26.620 here and so there's a reason to be depressed about that but also there's a reason to go damn

01:03:32.140 that's that's that's significant that's incredibly cool and i'm here and this is a bonus i'm gonna

01:03:38.520 live the best life i can but it's also a matter of understanding and more than anything a principle

01:03:44.080 of just acceptance right i think the acceptance part is the part that we actually you know kind

01:03:51.580 to put aside and we don't take it as serious as everything else like like we are like prime

01:03:57.640 example there's three worlds that we're living in and i'm i'm going back to africa again right

01:04:04.940 three worlds that we're living okay we're living in reality where you can see it smell it taste it

01:04:10.360 feel it you know it exists because you can it's there right and then that's the reality

01:04:16.820 then you have the sea okay it's water but it's the half of the top and the bottom the bottom is all

01:04:27.860 water okay it's a whole nother life form just like we live in right now you can smell it you

01:04:35.400 can taste it you can feel it the only difference is we can't live in it right and then you have

01:04:41.500 the spiritual world you can't see it can't smell it can't taste it can't feel it sometimes

01:04:50.140 get a little shocked but you know it exists yeah you just can't understand or feel or know how to

01:04:57.880 get to it but you know it's there i thought i'd gotten it from a couple hits of crack back

01:05:01.640 you might have got there michael's been there right right that's that's it was fake that's the

01:05:08.360 world that's the world that we we we know exists but we can't live in it we can't smell it we can't

01:05:14.120 it unless you do mushrooms no but but honestly all jokes aside yeah you understand so but but

01:05:21.520 that's the part that we don't calculate in everything else that we're doing that's why

01:05:24.860 i tell everyone that you know i speak with whether it's mentees whatever never create your goals

01:05:29.320 without aligning them with your spiritual goals because people we make goals all day but we don't

01:05:34.680 align them with spiritual goals so half the times when you don't make it you don't even know why

01:05:39.620 because spiritually you wasn't even on the path or even doing all the right things for that goal

01:05:44.860 to manifest properly and the scarier thing honestly is not not making it and doing something

01:05:50.080 that's not aligned with your purpose but it's making it because imagine you do accomplish a

01:05:54.140 goal that's not aligned with impact purpose spirituality and you start to go further down

01:05:58.520 a path that isn't there for you right you know what i'm saying so the best thing that could 0.98

01:06:02.300 happen with you is you is that shit don't work out because then all of a sudden you got to go 0.98

01:06:05.760 back to the drawing board and say yo what do i want to do with my life who do i want to help 0.98

01:06:09.480 what type of person do i want to be what type of impact do i want to make for the kids and for the

01:06:13.340 people absolutely because i do believe that we all have a purpose though for sure and i believe

01:06:17.640 that every road that we take takes us in the direction of fulfilling that purpose so even if

01:06:22.420 you go through that process of like you said fulfilling something that you know you go further

01:06:28.260 down the rail than you expected and it's not working out the way you need it to it's only

01:06:32.020 because it's preparing you for the goal or purpose that you're wanting to go like i don't believe in

01:06:36.320 the word failure i don't think that word exists and i always believe that if you so-called failed

01:06:42.320 in something it's only because you got into it without having all the information first because

01:06:46.660 once you got the information success isn't enough it's inevitable like you're gonna win no matter

01:06:50.220 what but if you're walking into it and it doesn't work out the way you need it to go through it's

01:06:54.960 because you didn't have enough information one and two whatever your purpose is that process you

01:06:59.980 needed to go through it so you when you get to your next step you'll have either the strength

01:07:03.780 the the the the motivation or the information to get to your next step to fulfill whatever purpose

01:07:09.500 it is when i first heard i see you whining and grinding you up on that like i never thought

01:07:16.860 you're gonna say all the things that you just said like i didn't those two things like to me

01:07:21.080 where like the sea and spirituality like i was like bro there's no way he's got all these

01:07:26.680 different sides bro like like that's crazy yeah yeah you're much you're much deeper than your music

01:07:32.480 maybe there was another side to it maybe we weren't listening to it properly you know what

01:07:38.600 i'm saying maybe that was spiritual because i got a few strip clubs listening to that song

01:07:43.460 real close to god and like you know what i'm saying at keepers in milford connecticut

01:07:50.120 you sound like a guy who's who's done a lot of stuff a lot of successes a lot of i won't say it

01:07:58.400 but maybe failures at some point uh uh did you ever lose yourself you know you're coming from

01:08:04.040 the seven-year-old uh village in africa flying on a plane for the first time uh i'm sure that

01:08:09.320 has always grounded you and you always have something to be grateful for and look around

01:08:12.920 and say what has my life become but did did it ever get to a point where

01:08:17.560 you weren't that person anymore and maybe maybe your values got skewed and your priorities changed

01:08:24.500 because of your success yeah i think the the values and the skewed part came before the success

01:08:29.380 and that was when i finally got into the u.s and find trying to fit in i literally forgot about

01:08:36.580 didn't forget but ignored all the values the religious teachings the spiritual behaviors 0.89

01:08:43.520 i just wanted to be accepted by the friends to peer so i got into a lot of shit just on gp 0.52

01:08:50.820 locked up baby yeah that's what ended me that's how i end up getting locked up you know what i

01:08:55.180 mean just trying to find ways to like i i would honestly do things that i ain't even thought i

01:09:00.800 was even capable of doing just to impress people you know what i mean like i was doing things that

01:09:06.360 i didn't think i had the courage to do just to impress my homies or yeah so they don't think i

01:09:10.760 was a punk like and this is in this is in jersey what were you in jersey and tranton or like where

01:09:15.720 were you in newark no well jersey was really where it it all went down yep jersey this is why i

01:09:22.180 represent jersey what year is this it like early 2000 real early 90s oh late 90s yeah mid 90s i

01:09:29.300 would just say 90s got it got it the whole 90s 90s 90s was a 90s was a problem so you got into

01:09:38.580 so you got into uh it was what boosting or stealing cars right actually i actually i kind

01:09:43.160 of dibbled and dabbled in a little bit into everything but then that's when my my instincts

01:09:49.080 kind of caught and more of my business um uh savvy kind of kicked in because i was thinking about

01:09:55.260 all the hustles that could be fruitful right but the ones with less risk i always thought the drug

01:10:02.440 dealing was the dumbest hustle in the world like first of all you're doing all this for a three to 1.00

01:10:07.380 four thousand dollar profit like that was my it's so stupid it was so dumb it's so dumb okay first 1.00

01:10:14.280 of all if you're peddling on the street level okay you're gonna make maybe two three dollars 1.00

01:10:17.780 per bag like profit like first of all for all that risk it ain't worth it if if you're gonna

01:10:23.740 go anything you gotta go big as a drug dealer you gotta go what do you consider big what do

01:10:28.400 you consider big i'm talking about 100 keys or less wow no more wow that's the only way it makes

01:10:33.000 wow because you're gonna yeah but that's to you no but when you're when you're living in bridge 0.99

01:10:36.960 poor or newark or wherever then you rob a drug dealer you rob that motherfucker do not do that 0.99

01:10:42.780 no no listen listen because it's the same risk it's the same risk listen let me explain something 1.00

01:10:48.080 right and yeah kids do not whatever you do don't try this don't even fuck the drugs bro 0.98

01:10:53.080 stay away from drugs as far as possible we had no choice at that time so what i'm saying is 0.99

01:10:59.020 So if you're going to go there, just listen to the odds, right, as a drug dealer.

01:11:03.100 Dumbest hustle in the world if you're not doing it on a bigger level. 0.99

01:11:07.800 And don't, you ain't going to make it. 1.00

01:11:08.940 Just stop.

01:11:09.440 Just don't even think about drug dealers.

01:11:10.800 Just stop.

01:11:11.600 Yeah, it's like winning the lottery.

01:11:13.160 And even then, you're going to die.

01:11:14.420 You're not going to make it long enough to spend the money.

01:11:16.780 So think about it.

01:11:18.060 Okay.

01:11:19.800 If you're lucky, you might get a key for like 15 grand, but that's like the ultimate hookup.

01:11:25.520 That's so cheap, bro.

01:11:27.080 That's the ultimate.

01:11:27.880 That's so cheap.

01:11:28.400 ultimate hookup it's like you're in the port all right now i'm i'm talking days when i was coming

01:11:32.820 up i don't know what the prices are today i ain't been in the market forever 30 plus bro right yeah

01:11:37.420 15 was the price if you had the the plug if you didn't have a plug 20 because the plug is gonna

01:11:45.220 make us 5 000 on top yeah you if you get it off for 25 you would be lucky but they're gonna talk

01:11:52.900 you down to about 23 23 5 so your profit is about 3 500 average now with that 35 this is a whole key

01:12:03.840 if you get stopped or caught you're doing 25 years for just one for one key for one oh yeah one key

01:12:12.040 don't mention the people that you rolling with that you may not just trust that might rob you

01:12:17.820 for that yeah if you get caught slipping right and you you literally constantly watching your back

01:12:24.640 you got to find a place to stash it and hope it's safe enough because if you lose it if you was

01:12:30.500 front at that you got to come up with a whole 20 yeah whatever stacks to pay the person that

01:12:35.640 fronted you that money and if you don't fast fast right at the time you're supposed to deliver the

01:12:39.980 profit you got to come with the money regardless or you you just hope that he's a nice guy and

01:12:45.140 give you a shot otherwise he capping you all that for thirty five hundred dollars that doesn't check

01:12:50.860 out it's not working doesn't make sense no now if you get a hundred keys okay cool that's thirty

01:12:58.240 five thousand no three hundred no three hundred fifty thousand yeah yeah is that worth the risk

01:13:05.080 maybe but it's better than 3500 at least with 350 000 you can buy your life back yeah yeah

01:13:16.300 anything past that okay i can say in those days it was worth the risk but if you ain't doing it

01:13:22.480 on that level stay far away but that but when you get to that level there's such a difference in in

01:13:27.840 the operation i mean you've got brokers you've got you've got actual wire transfers maybe you've got

01:13:33.880 it's a completely different ball but it ain't no wires and it's all cash yeah you got to have a

01:13:40.120 stash house to you got to find place see the hardest part when you get to certain level is

01:13:45.300 finding places to hide the money the money's the biggest because it's all cash that's the biggest

01:13:49.460 problem until until bitcoin came about it was only cash transactions that's it like this is why you

01:13:55.380 see you know these these cartel guys you know they was like renting out cul-de-sacs in miami like

01:14:00.600 five six homes full of money just to put money just to put money you know Pablo Escobar said

01:14:05.000 he was losing one billion dollars a year just to rats and insects yeah just one billion dollars

01:14:10.180 a year in cash insects eating up the money yeah like eating it literally eating it the money's

01:14:16.240 the money's the main thing that's the main thing that the feds watch that's the easiest way to

01:14:19.360 actually track what's happening right because it's so big it's so big so much weight and so

01:14:24.400 much to move you know trucks and stashes and what you're gonna put it it's impossible like

01:14:28.920 just forget about it it's the dumbest but that ain't gonna stop no one you go you go back there

01:14:32.400 and everybody's still trapped but it's the dream it's the thought of one day i could be pablo 0.96

01:14:36.300 escobal but how much but how much and this bring it back how much of that was because of the music

01:14:41.920 when i remember when reasonable doubt dropped right and i was like dude like jay was the biggest

01:14:47.660 crack star to rap star that you had i had ever seen bro like this dude had flipped and got out

01:14:51.900 of it but all his music was about selling crack you know what i'm saying and that was everybody

01:14:55.880 that was biggie that was every everything we grew up with said this is okay whether it was styles 0.98

01:15:00.040 whoever it was this was what you could do you could do this shit and so i would drive around 0.97

01:15:04.500 and i would listen to it i would listen to locked up or i would listen to that song when i would 0.99

01:15:09.400 pick up a finger 10 grams of heroin to me that was big right that was nothing bro 10 grams i'll go 0.99

01:15:15.400 and i'll bag up 350 bags and i'll go and drive around in the fucking nissan or the fucking 0.99

01:15:19.520 infinity and play locked up or i'll still kill those songs like you were the soundtrack to my 0.99

01:15:23.720 life bro bro that's crazy dude and i didn't make any money bro i still had asked my grandmother

01:15:30.880 for a place to stay sort of guy but it goes back to the dream again it's the dream of one day being

01:15:35.940 that big time guy right finding a plug from mexico or colombia or venezuela or wherever right even

01:15:43.320 back in asia where they had the heroin lock you know connects whatever but you you gotta once you

01:15:48.440 find you become the plug now it's like okay you get the territory and you supply all the little 0.99

01:15:53.320 peddlers out there and just hope you can hold on to it long enough to get out of it most people

01:15:59.000 never make it out right because the money coming in so fast and so quick that you look at it like

01:16:04.660 oh i'm good and then you're looking at your surrounding you're super comfortable because

01:16:07.620 all your homies around you whatever but you're not knowing who's plotting on you i was the only

01:16:11.520 one out of the whole group i think that didn't do fed time or uh is still an addict because you

01:16:16.840 snitch he said yo it was the drugs bro i didn't know what i was saying i think i didn't know

01:16:26.240 see i knew i had more in common with six nine than i thought

01:16:31.180 no absolutely not listen they record those they record those interrogations milford police oh no

01:16:41.580 no listen today oh yeah paperwork is out there and it's live it's online it's online name it

01:16:48.520 to nobody it's online but listen all the people that got out of either that are clean or got out

01:16:55.460 of feds are all christians like crazy oh yeah listen you find spirituality in there so fast

01:17:01.680 you have to dude listen because now you're sitting here because you got nothing else like 0.98

01:17:10.480 listen this this this is why life is such a distraction right because as a kid yeah you

01:17:16.700 grew up on it you understand it you i mean you're following it but then when you're old enough to 0.98

01:17:19.820 make your own decision you're like man fuck that i'm not doing that i'm not going to church i'm 0.98

01:17:22.520 not doing that right but then soon as you get caught up in trouble all of a sudden you're like 0.99

01:17:27.060 god please are you serious are you serious god please so isn't it crazy they say they say there's

01:17:34.080 no atheists in foxholes that's it that's a big thing it's like bro as soon as you're laying on

01:17:39.620 that i was i've been in icu so many times bro bleeding like having organs taken out of my body

01:17:44.800 and and that's when your relationship with god is the strongest i promise you so the biggest goal

01:17:49.560 in life is trying to get your relationship with god on the good days see i try to avoid that i

01:17:55.080 try to avoid asking for stuff when i really need it because that feels wrong no but you got it

01:17:59.920 no i know i do it i do it but well that's part of i mean i i thank god every day that's my

01:18:05.840 version of of prayer right so when i do need something it's not like a hey

01:18:11.620 could you help me remember me hi sorry about what i said

01:18:18.860 bro i want to i want to i want to get back to the music a little bit

01:18:24.940 i had a call this morning with a friend of mine who's uh uh works in the the industry in la just

01:18:30.720 getting some some background he's friends with a guy named steve rifkin oh i love steve that's

01:18:34.980 my angel man that's my guardian angel like steve he's uh yeah he saved my life without a doubt he

01:18:41.940 was he was the first person that believed in you right yeah he well he was the first person that

01:18:45.560 signed me to a major label there was a guy before him that believed in me named divine stevens

01:18:50.480 yeah so between those two they definitely helped me change my life for sure i'm curious

01:18:55.940 when you realized you had a thing like you that's the thing i just sing in your whole life

01:19:00.960 like i was just a hustler like i was just gonna get rich or die trying literally yeah like that

01:19:07.280 was the model for real right like not even joking right and however i was gonna get rich i was gonna

01:19:13.100 find a way because it was to me it was always about being accepted and i realized in america

01:19:18.900 the only way they really accepted you was when you had money and i think that was a stigma that

01:19:23.260 kind of followed me as a childhood coming here getting to know friends and being made fun of

01:19:28.000 because i was super black with nappy hair and african with an accent like that it was like

01:19:33.080 this is why when you hear me speak english now you don't hear no accent whatsoever like when i

01:19:37.580 learned english i needed to make sure that i had no accent whatsoever like when you hear my

01:19:42.140 Latin records like I got songs in Spanish in every language basically but when you listen to it like

01:19:47.080 I got a lot I was I was raised by Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in New Jersey and when they hear

01:19:52.060 my song they'd be like dude you sound like you from Puerto Rico or Dominican Republic like you

01:19:56.700 can't even you don't even hear the accent in it at all like that was always one of my things like

01:20:01.060 when I speak whatever language I don't ever want to have an accent to where they think I was from

01:20:04.460 anywhere else so that that's just how it happened but for the most part it opened up the door for

01:20:10.160 me to say okay this is how i need to create an opportunity for me so they can see me as i am

01:20:16.080 and not where i came from you know what i mean and just kind of blend in with the whole audience

01:20:20.560 and move it around like that you have a strange relationship with uh with some african uh pop

01:20:27.520 culture you you had watched a movie uh coming to america yeah that was that was my motto when i

01:20:33.020 when that movie worked i was like that's perfect no one would never know that i'm not an african

01:20:39.980 they would never know right and and it was interesting because what was his name again in

01:20:46.180 it what was his name in the movie in coming to america um um what what what was what was eddie

01:20:51.400 murphy's name in coming to america hey you remember you remember eddie murphy's name in coming to

01:20:55.960 america it don't matter just go ahead well anyway so yeah prince hakeen right but so that i kind of

01:21:06.040 kind of used that all throughout high school because you know at that time when i realized

01:21:09.740 that drug dealing wasn't gonna be the thing for me i got introduced to this jamaican dude out of

01:21:14.520 newark who introduced me to the car game right so i went to jersey and he showed me in newark he

01:21:20.680 showed me his whole operation the chop shop and the cars and everything and he would like he was

01:21:25.860 like listen you give me a car for every car you bring to me i'll give you $2,500 and i was like

01:21:31.160 almost as much as a key right and the cars was even easier right to get right but in jersey at

01:21:37.280 that time we was actually jacking cars like we just catch them at the drive-thru or at the red 1.00

01:21:42.120 light or whatever but that was also dumb because you just never would like never know stupid dumb 0.98

01:21:47.240 right i was like hold on i gotta find another way right so then we start going to car dealerships 0.99

01:21:52.300 and start grabbing them from the car dealerships are you hot wiring cars no at this time i'm to

01:21:56.940 this day i don't know how to hotwire i never knew how to hotwire so how did you get the keys exactly

01:22:00.600 that's the key so the key is the key right the key is the key so when we used to go to the car

01:22:06.280 dealerships the dealers would leave car keys on the table all the time just leave them on the table

01:22:10.900 and go assist the customer or take them off to a you know a test drive or something and we would

01:22:16.220 just peel the keys like walk past grab it go to the bathroom you know look out the window hit the

01:22:20.220 button see which light pops up and then boom just get in and dip out so we bring the cars back every

01:22:26.400 time and then i start reading and kind of understanding okay what are the implications

01:22:30.400 if i get caught in a stolen car now if you jack a car you're doing automatic 10 years if you get

01:22:36.080 caught yeah i said okay no more of that that's not ever happening again then i realized if you

01:22:41.120 actually have the keys to the car and you get caught with it it's a misdemeanor because you

01:22:45.520 just get a joyride charge so i was like oh this is perfect get out the same day or even get

01:22:51.440 probation this is perfect right oh this is my lick from here so that became my my thing so then

01:22:57.280 every time we turned the car and he gave us a 25 but then i would have these cars and drive

01:23:01.440 to school every week i would be in a new car one day a porsche another bmw a mercedes so now it's 0.97

01:23:08.880 like man this nigga got money actually i didn't i just played the role so when the girls came like 0.93

01:23:14.240 yeah you know i'm a prince you know and they would believe me because every time i came to school i 0.94

01:23:22.260 came in a new car it was like it was like the perfect perfect way isn't newer is newark like

01:23:27.360 the the capital of stolen at that time it was at that time it was yeah and the most stolen car i

01:23:32.680 think for it have forever has been the toyota camry man it's like every year is the number one

01:23:38.600 most stolen car it's like because the camry never had a a a gear lock so you can just take a

01:23:45.140 school driver pap it in and just start but you don't know how to do that no i don't know how 0.92

01:23:49.960 to do any of that i don't know how to do any of that and you always you got a hustler in your

01:23:55.000 blood dude 100 it was natural bro you i mean the music stuff is really hard to talk to you about

01:24:01.860 because you have done collabs you're you're the king of collabs i mean i mean dude like

01:24:08.280 whitney houston lionel richie gwen stefani post uh posthumous with with michael jackson um bro

01:24:15.620 the list goes on forever we've gotten to collab with a lot of people on this show and somebody

01:24:21.440 a dream guest of ours which honestly i like to manifest but probably will never happen is eminem

01:24:26.480 and i want to ask you about that collaboration eminem yeah definitely do it have you guys

01:24:31.200 reached out to him we i don't think we have em would definitely do this show when's the last 0.97

01:24:35.620 time he even did a i'm gonna reach out to him he would definitely show this is type of shit like 0.99

01:24:40.240 em would love this shit it's just a conversation 100% bro we don't got no hard questions no em 0.99

01:24:44.840 will do this i honestly believe em would do this show without a doubt he loved this time i'll tell 0.99

01:24:48.660 you what if you make that that happen i'll give you equity your choice five equity

01:24:53.300 Equity in prime

01:24:55.780 Equity in prime

01:24:57.660 You really got it man

01:24:58.860 You hustling hard

01:25:00.180 I was gonna say your choice

01:25:03.120 Either 10 cameras or 5 keys

01:25:04.560 I was about to pick up the phone right now

01:25:05.840 Yo listen

01:25:06.580 I gotta play for you right now

01:25:08.940 I split the equity with you

01:25:11.180 That's respect bro

01:25:12.580 Honestly

01:25:13.620 If you can get Em to co-host this show

01:25:18.680 You got equity brother

01:25:19.820 Alright cool

01:25:22.260 I like Saturday

01:25:23.040 that would be big doesn't seem like he does a lot of time i remember when we're in vegas

01:25:31.900 and we saw him and dre that time like so randomly and that was the closest i'd ever

01:25:35.640 even been to him remember i think dre thought i was adam sandler or something because he was like

01:25:40.300 yo what up and i was like bro bro this is one of the weirdest moments he was there

01:25:45.740 Yo, now that I think about it, yo, he goes, yo, what up?

01:25:47.920 Yeah, yeah, he does. 1.00

01:25:50.020 Oh, shit. 1.00

01:25:50.600 He goes, yo, what up? 1.00

01:25:51.620 And I was like, what up, Dre?

01:25:53.400 Like, what do you say back to that, bro?

01:25:55.420 And M's with him, too.

01:25:56.700 And I'm just like, dude, like, you don't know me at all, bro, so stop.

01:26:00.280 That's so funny.

01:26:01.540 But, all right, tell me about this collab.

01:26:04.200 What was it like working with M and that song?

01:26:06.660 Because that was a huge success for you.

01:26:07.980 Right.

01:26:08.660 No, that was amazing, man.

01:26:10.080 I actually, I got to M through Obie Trice, actually. 0.96

01:26:14.060 robie trice real name no gimmicks real name no gimmicks i know my shit yeah so i reached out 0.71

01:26:20.600 to rosenberg first his manager and rosenberg was like no problem we'll make it happen 0.92

01:26:25.740 but everybody knows that robenberg he's like a he's like a bulletproof vest like you got to go 0.96

01:26:32.860 through him to get to him without a doubt i said yo i need this shit fast and i know rose gonna 0.85

01:26:38.060 go through the whole process due diligence he gonna go through i need to get that i need to 0.73

01:26:43.220 get to him before he does because like you know so i called obi i said yo obi where you at he 0.57

01:26:48.560 said i'm in detroit i said oh shit where's m he said she probably in the studio i said i need you

01:26:53.460 to make an introduction for me he said yeah yeah when you coming down i said i'm about to book my 0.74

01:26:57.820 flight right now you're gonna be there tomorrow he said yeah come come so i booked my flight get

01:27:01.300 there obi picks me up from the airport and takes me to this strip club because i got there at night

01:27:06.620 we go to strip club we have an amazing time this the morning before he takes me to the studio

01:27:11.740 I said what time we need to get there he said yo be ready at 8 30. I'm like that's early as fuck 0.99

01:27:19.560 this is before I had discipline right yeah that's early as shit he said bro trust me if you ain't 0.99

01:27:25.120 there at 8 30 just be there at 8 30. I said all right cool I get there at 8 30 meet with Obi we 0.95

01:27:31.780 get to the studio around 9 9 30. Em is in the studio right I'm ready to walk in he's like yo

01:27:38.040 wait wait he's working on something so i wait i'm being very polite shit m comes out yo yo what's

01:27:44.220 up what's up what's up so he connect obi's like yo man i just want you to meet car i know y'all 0.55

01:27:47.740 haven't met whatever i know y'all know each other but y'all get to go he connects us he's all right

01:27:51.860 peace i'm out obi gets out of there he gone m plays he's like so you know let me hear what you

01:27:56.940 at i played him some records and he's like you know i said play me some stuff he said well 0.96

01:28:01.020 i produce i said get the fuck out of here he said yeah i got beats i said you ain't got no 0.98

01:28:06.680 motherfucking beats he said no i'm serious so he played me beats and i'm sitting here listening 0.99

01:28:11.640 to these beats i'm like all these shit sound like eminem beats like if he rapped on anyone 1.00

01:28:16.400 that beats the shit would be hit without a doubt then he played the smack that beat 0.99

01:28:20.000 oh shit i said yo i think this is it so now mind you at this point em knows i'm gonna produce as 0.99

01:28:30.820 well so in my mind i'm like no this would be even doper if he produced the record like and it's more 0.98

01:28:38.180 motivation for him to follow through and make this shit happen you know because i'm like no 0.94

01:28:42.980 this got to be an eminent record no matter how the fuck i just want to be a feature on this 1.00

01:28:46.320 motherfucker man he goes to lunch by the time he came back the song was done he heard he's like 0.99

01:28:54.380 oh fuck this is a hit i said yo it'd be bigger if you jumped all that he said 1.00

01:28:59.940 nah you know what you're right this shit is dope all right cool i'll see you tomorrow 1.00

01:29:05.260 he leaves he comes back the next day he has a verse on that motherfucker 1.00

01:29:12.760 now i'm thinking okay whose record is it gonna be it's gonna be mine or is it gonna be his right 1.00

01:29:21.600 so he plays me the verse i was like yo this is the best shit i ever heard you do yeah i said we 0.79

01:29:27.840 should put it on your album he said nah i thought it was for your album i said you think so he said 0.99

01:29:34.220 hell yeah this is your shit i said cool in my mind i'm celebrating yeah for sure dude 0.97

01:29:39.140 right so we did three records that day that was the record that he ended up jumping on 1.00

01:29:47.140 the other two

01:29:48.560 I held them

01:29:49.380 till this day

01:29:49.780 I still got them

01:29:50.640 I still got those two records

01:29:52.340 I haven't released them yet

01:29:53.120 you got unreleased Eminem

01:29:55.040 no no no

01:29:55.600 Eminem ain't on them yet

01:29:56.320 just Eminem

01:29:57.260 Eminem produced

01:29:58.140 that he produced

01:29:59.020 that he produced

01:29:59.880 right

01:30:00.160 and in my mind

01:30:01.280 I'm saying okay

01:30:01.820 I'm gonna wait

01:30:02.400 to further down the line

01:30:04.220 maybe album number four or five

01:30:05.880 and I'm gonna come back to him

01:30:07.380 and replay these records

01:30:08.480 and I know he gonna forget all about it

01:30:09.820 you feel me

01:30:11.400 he'll put it on the album

01:30:12.740 yeah

01:30:13.180 I gotta get back

01:30:15.620 I gotta get back to Detroit

01:30:16.840 and remind him of those records though because those out of all the records those three was like

01:30:21.540 out of here whoa like out of here that's so you know it's that amazing story by the way but you

01:30:27.160 know what's so funny about that the way he went through it and he was like it was eerily reminiscent

01:30:32.960 of situations i've been in with you it's reverse psychology no no no because because like he knew

01:30:39.020 not to go at paul because paul's like the defense mechanism which which is like manager yeah jeff

01:30:43.400 And I'm like, Obi Trice.

01:30:45.280 You know how many people have come to me and been like,

01:30:47.120 yo, you think you can get me to Logan, Eminem?

01:30:49.180 I'm like, yeah, but you got to come with me to the strip club first.

01:30:51.740 You know what I'm saying? 1.00

01:30:52.560 Bro, I've been through that shit like 50 fucking times. 1.00

01:30:54.740 And by the way, Rosenberg probably hit Obi up the next day 1.00

01:30:58.080 and said, if you ever fucking do that, I'm going to fucking kill you. 1.00

01:31:01.720 And you know how many times manager Jeff has said that exact same shit to me, bro? 1.00

01:31:05.480 No, because these are methods that you just learn in the street. 0.99

01:31:08.860 Like, you never go to the plug directly.

01:31:10.780 You go to the plug's main man.

01:31:12.420 right hand man yeah because it's more he feels more comfortable and he's like well you know any

01:31:16.800 friend of obis is a friend of mine and it's usually problematic and the right hand is at

01:31:20.620 the strip club he always got a vice yeah he got a vice you know what i'm saying the right hand

01:31:24.900 you can bribe the right hand but yeah me and m turned out to be super cool crazy man it's like

01:31:34.180 that's my dog but what was everything michael jackson yeah posthumous uh song with michael

01:31:40.500 jackson right what does that mean to you what does that even mean to you bro i'm still trying

01:31:47.460 to find the meaning like just imagine growing up as a child listening to mike like idolizing mike

01:31:54.460 and then being in the studio with mike one thing i can tell you though was that at the time when i

01:32:00.100 did work with mike i had worked with practically every artist on the planet it seemed like as a

01:32:04.940 writer or producer or even featured on but mike was the easiest artist that i ever worked with

01:32:10.060 no ego super prepared on time and just super excited ready to work every day like and this

01:32:19.160 was interesting because when he first contacted me i didn't think it was him you know i had no

01:32:25.220 like i thought my attorney was like pulling my leg because me and him actually shared the same

01:32:30.060 attorney which i didn't know all this time you represent a michael jackson that's attorney client 0.99

01:32:34.500 right i'm like fuck that shit like that's michael jackson like but he you know he put me on the 0.99

01:32:39.200 phone he said yo mike want to get a hold of you and i thought i thought i was joking you know 0.99

01:32:42.600 and i was like oh whatever so he called me back again this time he had michael jackson actually

01:32:49.440 on the phone bro so he said listen you know i got mike on three-way mike mike was like hey 0.99

01:32:55.100 and i was like fuck out of the ass i hung up the phone i literally hung up the phone i hung up the 0.99

01:33:00.740 phone like like stop playing with me then he called me again and i was like stop playing with 0.99

01:33:07.860 my phone man this is not a joke you know how much i like mike like don't play with me like that

01:33:11.800 and he's like no it's literally it's mike seriously and mike's like yes akon it's me it's me 0.93

01:33:17.020 i like d like michael jackson like i'm like a fucking groupie right now i'm so embarrassed to 0.93

01:33:22.500 tell the story sometimes i was acting like a little bitch like no not mike like the michael 0.99

01:33:26.440 like michael jackson like jackson michael jackson like he said yeah yeah he said um how would you 0.98

01:33:33.200 like to come to vegas and i was like hell yeah when like he said don't worry we're gonna send 0.99

01:33:37.660 the plane for you to come tomorrow and i was like he said will you be available i said yeah fuck 0.60

01:33:40.880 yeah if i'm not i'm gonna change everything to come the next day i actually flew in this was 0.71

01:33:45.380 the kicker i get to the airport the car is waiting for me i get off the plane jump in the car and

01:33:51.000 we're riding we're on our way to the wind as we're going through the wind we pass the front

01:33:56.400 entrance and go around the side bro there's a i don't know if i'm even supposed to be talking

01:34:03.940 about this but there's an entrance that you don't even see off the road it's almost like the street 0.67

01:34:11.320 kind of lifts up you go in and the shit falls back down no come on bro i don't know what kind 0.78

01:34:16.660 of fucking entrance this was yeah but bro i get into the entrance and we're driving in it's like 0.96

01:34:22.480 a tunnel and it's like it goes straight to an elevator we get in the elevator there's only one 0.99

01:34:28.400 button that takes you all the way to the very top floor oh some bad shit it's some different shit 0.98

01:34:33.400 It is the Illuminati, and you got there, and they were harvesting organs, right? 0.99

01:34:37.120 Just tell the fucking truth right now, Aiton. 0.99

01:34:39.360 Tell the world about what they're doing there, bro. 1.00

01:34:41.600 No, so we get in the elevator, right?

01:34:45.460 His security guard, Muhammad, lets us up.

01:34:47.500 We go all the way to the top.

01:34:48.680 As we get in, we get in the elevator.

01:34:49.980 There's another long hallway.

01:34:51.600 At the end of the long hallway, there's these double doors,

01:34:54.840 and we're going down the double doors.

01:34:56.440 Like, everything is just, like, anticipation.

01:34:58.000 It's just eerie.

01:34:59.040 No, it's almost like it felt like it was choreographed.

01:35:02.400 like everything about mike is choreographed like he's a star in every sense of the word

01:35:09.700 like like you're entertained from the moment they say his name yeah biggest biggest ever

01:35:16.980 what out of doubt biggest of all time now i can see why prince was so frustrated

01:35:22.200 because mike was different like you couldn't you can't even compare

01:35:25.780 we're walking to the doors

01:35:28.580 Mohammed opens the doors

01:35:31.320 I walk in 1.00

01:35:33.840 Mike is sitting there

01:35:36.080 chair back

01:35:38.040 it spins

01:35:39.260 yo come on no no way

01:35:41.480 yo 1.00

01:35:42.400 fucking superstar 1.00

01:35:44.780 I didn't know 1.00

01:35:45.880 I didn't know what was about to happen

01:35:49.620 I was like 0.97

01:35:51.740 I better not fucking faint 1.00

01:35:53.600 I better not act like a bitch 1.00

01:35:55.760 like bro as soon as mike turned around yo god what's up bro i swear it was like we known each 1.00

01:36:06.540 other for a thousand years and reconnected whoa i was so shocked because it was like he knew

01:36:12.000 everything about me like as like literally everything about me and i knew everything

01:36:16.380 obviously everything about him but i was so shocked the fact that surprised and also excited

01:36:22.840 that he literally knew everything about me yeah like i was just i didn't know i didn't even know

01:36:28.980 what to do that's a that's a moment no no bro he's the best but he was a king of disguises

01:36:35.440 really like he would be standing right next to you and you would not even know no way my first

01:36:41.940 ever imax theater experience was with mike jackson he took me he said yo con this is something you

01:36:47.240 have to see you got to see this this is amazing it's the future he's like it's 101 dalmatians

01:36:52.360 and it looks like they're coming out of the screen.

01:36:54.780 My favorite thing is hearing Michael Jackson's menial tass.

01:36:59.640 I would pay to watch him go grocery shopping.

01:37:03.100 What do you think he would get?

01:37:04.080 Would he get Cheez-Its?

01:37:05.140 You know what I'm saying?

01:37:06.000 Interestingly enough, Mike was actually a big kid.

01:37:09.240 A thousand percent.

01:37:10.380 When I went to his house, he had a room filled with candy.

01:37:14.940 I love candy.

01:37:16.180 That was my room, literally candy everywhere.

01:37:19.960 But he said, let's go to the movies. 1.00

01:37:21.500 in my mind I'm like fuck out of here you can't go to the movies like you're fucking Michael Jackson 0.99

01:37:25.940 so I'm waiting for him to get dressed so we can go to the movies 1.00

01:37:30.000 this guy comes out sits we're watching tv for a second so I'm like it's 15 20 minutes

01:37:37.140 like man where's Mike I'm going to the movies Mike was like I was waiting for you let's go 0.98

01:37:43.820 it was him it was fucking him what was the disguise oh my so listen let me tell you 0.98

01:37:50.920 just sitting next to you he's sitting right next to me i thought it was one of his guests why would 0.99

01:37:54.820 he say anything no because he probably has fun he does shit like yeah 100 but he's super funny 0.97

01:37:59.980 though like you'll fucking love him you could like you'll fucking love him so now we're going 0.98

01:38:04.320 to the movies we get to the movies also was at the wind the imax experience thing we get there 0.99

01:38:11.740 we're at the elevator and as we're going up the elevator these group of kids see us and start 0.96

01:38:17.340 running towards us waiting for us to get the top elevator and they're running i'm like oh shit they 0.99

01:38:21.820 don't fucking saw michael jackson it's over damn we're not gonna be able to get the fuck out here 0.98

01:38:25.440 we get the top elevator and they all come running to me i knew you were gonna say that right yeah 0.99

01:38:31.560 right so they're running to me oh my god can we get a picture oh my god can we get an autograph

01:38:35.000 right and mike you send it like just giggling right and in my mind i'm like if they only knew

01:38:40.740 who was standing like really right next to me right so now i'm taking pictures we're kind of

01:38:44.960 slowly running late and there's a whole other group of kids over there and mike is like hey

01:38:49.280 guys you want to take a picture with akon look he's right here he's right here so now we're 20

01:38:52.960 minutes late because he had more kids coming the whole time he's up there just giggling so he's 0.53

01:38:57.400 just always fucking around always just always oh but super i mean just the most amazing dude and

01:39:03.420 what i loved about him the most was that his own his his biggest sacrifice and his main purpose 0.95

01:39:10.600 was to always make sure in his life that kids lived comfortable he always like donated money

01:39:15.940 to built hospitals and orphanages like he always because he in his mind he never had

01:39:21.340 the childhood as because he was a celebrity as a child so he never had to experience or

01:39:27.740 experience that it was like his aging got stunted right and development got stunted by that fame

01:39:33.800 and it happened it did you know like he was an adult fast like he was literally like rehearsing

01:39:39.200 all the time always working you know he's dealing about dealing with money and all this at an age

01:39:44.700 like that so when he got older he just wanted to live out his childhood you know so he built this

01:39:50.220 huge you know theme park and everything they did was always for fun like candy and cakes and stuff

01:39:55.600 all over the place and he just wanted kids around the world to actually enjoy being a child while

01:40:00.000 you are a child and it was hurting for me to see how the media would try to take that and try to 0.99

01:40:05.260 flip it to make it seem like he was some kind of you know child or some shit though that shit was 0.99

01:40:09.620 horrible man because when you meet him you'll be like this he has a pure soul like pure soul 0.99

01:40:15.260 interesting interesting perspective as well man well it's a unique perspective as someone who's

01:40:20.560 like actually hung out and spent time you have so many stories oh yeah so many stories how many

01:40:25.640 lives do you think you've lived akon i don't know gotta feel like more than one me yeah definitely 0.91

01:40:31.120 feel like more than one i feel like i got a couple of lives for sure damn dude yeah when i was

01:40:36.760 preparing for this episode today i was i said bro i'm in deep trouble because there's just so much 0.61

01:40:43.100 to talk about bro like there's just so many things are hard there's just it could go on forever i

01:40:49.500 want to ask you i wanted to ask you about you know some of the the not so fun shit to talk about

01:40:54.600 but you know we don't have to do that that was great dude i mean man you're you're like i said 0.51

01:41:03.600 so much deeper than your music which makes sense i mean now now sitting with you it makes sense

01:41:07.900 why you are the 360 degree entertainer entrepreneur business guy husband father that you are uh

01:41:14.620 one one quick one uh boo your brother yeah right are you are you is uh is he working with central

01:41:21.580 see? Because I keep

01:41:23.700 seeing him posted about it. He's at

01:41:25.620 Columbia, right? Yeah, he's at Columbia.

01:41:27.380 He signed him over here in the

01:41:29.680 U.S. Got it. Because he was at

01:41:31.440 Rolling Loud last time. Yep, he was there. We was all together.

01:41:34.640 Sorry to cut

01:41:35.640 you off. I wanted to ask him

01:41:37.620 about Boo because he had a management stint with

01:41:39.440 Kanye. There's just so much shit, dude. I'm 1.00

01:41:41.520 sorry. I'm sorry. You're wrapping up. Go for

01:41:43.660 it. Great show. Thanks for coming on.

01:41:45.340 Thank you for coming on. No, it's fine. It's fine.

01:41:47.440 Sorry. I apologize.

01:41:48.320 It's fine.

01:41:48.820 But listen, at the end of the day, this is family anyway

01:41:51.580 And Hero will tell you

01:41:53.480 I'm in Miami all the time

01:41:55.280 Like, I will, honestly

01:41:56.860 I think I might start bum-rushing your show

01:41:59.160 Yo, you should

01:42:00.120 When I'm in town, I'm just gonna pop up on y'all

01:42:02.320 When we have a crazy guest on, come and show up

01:42:04.940 That'll be hilarious

01:42:05.720 Bro, bro, the first time we met

01:42:08.040 I was chilling at my buddy's house in Puerto Rico

01:42:10.080 At Acon rounds the corner 0.99

01:42:12.080 I'm like, what the fuck is he doing 0.99

01:42:14.540 I was shocked 0.99

01:42:16.200 I was shocked

01:42:17.300 It was a great night

01:42:18.700 Nah, for sure

01:42:19.520 And man, we ended up hanging out the whole night

01:42:21.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah

01:42:22.400 Dude, it's been an honor to have you on, man

01:42:24.740 And have this conversation

01:42:26.000 Thanks for blessing us with your presence

01:42:28.020 No, absolutely

01:42:28.820 Akon, ladies and gentlemen

01:42:30.240 I'm going to Akon City when it's done

01:42:33.440 Yeah, I want to come out

01:42:34.960 No, you have to, bro

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01:42:48.440 and also hit that subscribe button.

01:42:50.840 And go stream some Akon music.

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01:42:54.740 Thanks for listening, watching, viewing, guys.

01:42:56.520 We'll see you next time.

01:42:57.160 Take it easy.

01:42:58.100 Peace.

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