＂They Don't Understand You, William＂ - Rick Ross Was Written Off Until His Mom Did THIS
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In this episode, we have a special guest on the show. He is a man of many talents, but his drive and drive to be great comes from his grandfather. He was a great carpenter and carpenter, but it wasn t until he was a teenager that he realized he had something special in him.
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The interesting thing for me, 100 car collection.
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Is it true that you got your driver's license at 45?
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Let's say, okay, when I was 15, you get your little pre-driver's license.
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Then you're in high school, you get your license.
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and I've never went and renewed them to a few years ago.
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Yeah, in high school, I did the little driver's course.
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Boom, they give you the, I forgot what they call it.
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But I also went, you know, a long time without driving, so.
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He knew, he understood the love I had for Chevys at a young age.
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So, you know, he had him a little small collection,
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a little spot where they used to work on cars at.
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So, yep, I had a two-door just like the blue one right here.
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Now, did you get your drive and your, you know, competitiveness from your grandfather?
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Was he one that was, you know, also hustling, or where did that drive come from?
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He was from Clarksdale, Mississippi, and for you to have, you know, automobile, motor shop or something,
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Was it a close relationship where he would toughen you up?
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Or, you know, where did the toughness come from?
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No, he was really soft-spoken and really just shared that wisdom.
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Just a lot of different, if you're going to be great,
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You could sit around and you would hear stories like, yo,
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So they'll tell you how a big boy told them what they would do.
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A lot of people, let's say if you was a rich, you know what I'm saying?
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You would put a piece of paper right there on the floor, right?
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And if you have somebody come in, let's say if you're interviewing them for something.
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And if they stepped over that paper, they wouldn't even, it's already done.
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That means if I got to tell you to pick that paper up, you ain't on your A game.
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So when you step into some place, if you see that, you got to, as you go, you already making moves.
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So that's that game you could get from somebody.
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If you a youngster, if you 12, 15 years old and you listening to somebody that's 60, that's the type of game you get.
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And that's what I absorbed and that's what I apply to the way I hustle now.
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When did you know you had something special in you?
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Like you knew something was different about you.
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You know, it wasn't too early because at first I had to accept my weaknesses.
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You know, when I first was in school, I damn near could remember the first day
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when they gave us a paper and pencil when we was tracing the letters.
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I remember looking around when everybody else understood the instructions.
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The whole class, everybody else tracing the letters A, B, and C.
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And I was looking around like, damn, I missed all of this.
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So that's what I had to deal with the first beginning of my life.
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I love showing me something on the screen versus listening to this man talk in front of me.
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I'm talking about the whole school telling me you don't need to be in public schools.
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No, the school, the principals, everybody else.
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You know, the people they send to your house to sit down and talk with your parents
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and try to tell them there's something wrong with this individual.
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And you would see this exchange she's having with them.
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The documentary of Kanye when you watched the role his mom played.
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His mom was also big on developing confidence in him as well.
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I don't know if you saw the documentary with Kanye.
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and what kind of – so you're getting that support.
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Now, when you're going to school, are you early on rapping?
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What would a Rick Ross – if I was in fifth grade with you
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or 10th grade with you, who was Rick Ross in fifth and 10th grade?
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but I hit you with a two-piece real quick, you know what I mean?
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So give me a little piece of that pizza you eating on, you know what I'm saying?
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But other than that, you know, I used to crack jokes,
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Because by this time, yeah, by the fifth grade, you know, I have, you know, friends now.
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We got homies, and one of my closest friends, his name was Avery Branch.
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Wherever he had, I've been looking for him for the last few years.
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he's been featured on two or three of my albums but he had what his mom would do was like you know
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kids that have problems she would adopt them so you know it's almost like he had five or six big
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brothers in his crib and they were doing music and everything else so I was introduced you know
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through my homie boom to his big brothers them who had vinyl records this that oh so we're a rap
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group yeah y'all a rap group now okay so we're a rap group shit it's all good and so was that the
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first time you freestyle or what's the first time you freestyle where you're like okay this guy can
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hang you know my freestyle skills was never like that i always wanted to put some thought into it
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I had homies who would start just spitting,
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they were saying things that was damn near mind-blowing.
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So if I walked up to somebody and somebody was like,
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yeah, my kick's on, hit's on, dick's on, Rick's on.
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When we set out to create a shoe that blends comfort,
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We chose true Italian craftsmanship, each pair touched by 50 skilled hands.
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We chose patience, spending two years perfecting every detail,
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introducing the Future Looks Bright collection.
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