Valuetainment - May 26, 2026


＂They Don't Understand You, William＂ - Rick Ross Was Written Off Until His Mom Did THIS

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Rick Ross Kanye Tuscaneiro William Chevys
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Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

183.53

Word count

1,505

Sentence count

150

Harmful content

Toxicity

16

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Hate speech

6

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Summary

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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.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 The interesting thing for me, 100 car collection.
00:00:03.240 Is it true that you got your driver's license at 45?
00:00:08.700 Let's say, okay, when I was 15, you get your little pre-driver's license.
00:00:15.560 Then you're in high school, you get your license.
00:00:19.200 But my license expired after high school,
00:00:21.440 and I've never went and renewed them to a few years ago.
00:00:26.460 Got it.
00:00:26.980 So you did get the license at 15, 16,
00:00:29.360 but you didn't renew it.
00:00:30.440 Yeah, in high school, I did the little driver's course.
00:00:33.520 Boom, they give you the, I forgot what they call it.
00:00:37.160 Before your driver's license. 1.00
00:00:38.900 You get some shit. 1.00
00:00:40.140 Some shit like that. 1.00
00:00:41.680 You know what I'm saying? 0.99
00:00:42.160 At 15, and then at 16, yeah, driver's there.
00:00:45.140 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
00:00:46.560 And then at 16, they gave me my license,
00:00:49.100 but I never renewed them.
00:00:51.120 But I also went, you know, a long time without driving, so.
00:00:55.180 A long time without driving.
00:00:56.400 So literally, you weren't driving.
00:00:58.320 Yeah, a long time.
00:00:59.320 You know, I was using drivers.
00:01:00.960 You know what I'm saying?
00:01:01.640 So you didn't need a driver's license.
00:01:02.840 I didn't.
00:01:03.660 That's what I felt like.
00:01:04.780 What was your first car, by the way?
00:01:05.980 What was the first car you ever had?
00:01:07.400 Man, R.I.P. to my grandfather.
00:01:09.160 He gave me a 76 Caprice.
00:01:13.780 He knew, he understood the love I had for Chevys at a young age.
00:01:19.200 So, you know, he had him a little small collection,
00:01:22.980 a little spot where they used to work on cars at.
00:01:25.720 So, yep, I had a two-door just like the blue one right here.
00:01:28.980 At what age?
00:01:29.840 Yeah, 15, 16.
00:01:31.020 15, 16 years old.
00:01:32.020 Yeah.
00:01:32.280 First car.
00:01:32.900 First car.
00:01:33.440 Now, did you get your drive and your, you know, competitiveness from your grandfather?
00:01:38.620 Was he one that was, you know, also hustling, or where did that drive come from?
00:01:42.860 He without a doubt was a hustler.
00:01:44.360 He without a doubt. 0.72
00:01:45.740 You know what I'm saying?
00:01:46.280 He was from Clarksdale, Mississippi, and for you to have, you know, automobile, motor shop or something,
00:01:52.740 you got to really be a go-getter.
00:01:55.720 And was he tough?
00:01:56.860 Was it a close relationship where he would toughen you up?
00:01:59.460 Or, you know, where did the toughness come from?
00:02:00.800 No, he was really soft-spoken and really just shared that wisdom.
00:02:05.580 He really shared that wisdom.
00:02:07.280 What did he share with you at a young age?
00:02:08.660 No, just a lot of different games.
00:02:10.220 Told me a lot of different stories.
00:02:11.720 Just a lot of different, if you're going to be great,
00:02:13.980 you got to be great.
00:02:15.000 You know what I mean?
00:02:16.160 Just a lot of different.
00:02:17.720 Okay, let me tell you like this.
00:02:19.200 You could sit around and you would hear stories like, yo,
00:02:22.840 So they'll tell you how a big boy told them what they would do.
00:02:29.520 A lot of people, let's say if you was a rich, you know what I'm saying?
00:02:32.320 You would put a piece of paper right there on the floor, right?
00:02:35.740 And if you have somebody come in, let's say if you're interviewing them for something.
00:02:39.820 Yeah.
00:02:40.820 And if they stepped over that paper, they wouldn't even, it's already done.
00:02:44.960 What does that mean?
00:02:45.460 That means if I got to tell you to pick that paper up, you ain't on your A game.
00:02:50.940 Wow.
00:02:52.240 Wow.
00:02:52.840 So when you step into some place, if you see that, you got to, as you go, you already making moves.
00:02:59.440 Wow.
00:02:59.760 So that's that game you could get from somebody.
00:03:01.720 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.
00:03:09.300 And that's what I absorbed and that's what I apply to the way I hustle now.
00:03:13.040 When did you know you were special?
00:03:14.380 When did you know you had something special in you?
00:03:17.280 How early?
00:03:18.760 Like you knew something was different about you.
00:03:20.300 You know, it wasn't too early because at first I had to accept my weaknesses.
00:03:26.180 You know, when I first was in school, I damn near could remember the first day
00:03:29.660 when they gave us a paper and pencil when we was tracing the letters.
00:03:33.960 You know how it would be A, B, and C?
00:03:36.160 I remember looking around when everybody else understood the instructions.
00:03:44.320 The whole class, everybody else tracing the letters A, B, and C. 0.96
00:03:48.940 And I was looking around like, damn, I missed all of this.
00:03:54.360 So that's what I had to deal with the first beginning of my life. 0.94
00:03:57.300 Okay, I'm not good in math.
00:03:58.680 I'm not this.
00:03:59.640 Okay, my strengths are reading.
00:04:02.400 And I love films.
00:04:03.880 I love showing me something on the screen versus listening to this man talk in front of me.
00:04:09.680 I have nothing in common with these people.
00:04:12.080 In school?
00:04:12.900 In school.
00:04:13.720 And what grade?
00:04:14.400 How early was that? 1.00
00:04:15.460 Shit, first grade. 1.00
00:04:16.660 Oh, wow. 1.00
00:04:17.400 I knew it was a problem there.
00:04:19.360 So who is feeding confidence into you?
00:04:21.680 Because you're very confident.
00:04:22.400 My mother.
00:04:22.700 What would she say to you?
00:04:24.060 How did she develop the confidence?
00:04:25.120 They don't understand you, William.
00:04:27.120 They don't understand you.
00:04:29.140 I'm talking about the whole school telling me you don't need to be in public schools.
00:04:34.220 She's telling you this?
00:04:35.320 No, the school, the principals, everybody else.
00:04:38.660 You know, the people they send to your house to sit down and talk with your parents
00:04:42.640 and try to tell them there's something wrong with this individual.
00:04:46.440 and she's saying, no, you're wrong.
00:04:48.900 And you would see this exchange she's having with them.
00:04:51.340 Yeah, I've sat in the, you know, of course.
00:04:53.840 Wow.
00:04:54.420 Multiple times.
00:04:55.280 And I would watch her defend me.
00:04:58.460 You know who else was like that?
00:04:59.980 The documentary of Kanye when you watched the role his mom played.
00:05:03.760 His mom was also big on developing confidence in him as well.
00:05:07.100 I don't know if you saw the documentary with Kanye.
00:05:09.100 I might have missed it.
00:05:10.160 Yeah.
00:05:10.360 It was also a similar thing where, you know,
00:05:13.340 the role a mother plays in raising a son
00:05:15.760 and what kind of – so you're getting that support.
00:05:18.740 Now, when you're going to school, are you early on rapping?
00:05:23.840 Are you playing sports?
00:05:25.320 What would a Rick Ross – if I was in fifth grade with you
00:05:28.720 or 10th grade with you, who was Rick Ross in fifth and 10th grade?
00:05:31.440 I was most definitely a class clown.
00:05:36.160 I was highly respected.
00:05:38.820 I wasn't on no bully type vibe, you know,
00:05:41.680 but I hit you with a two-piece real quick, you know what I mean?
00:05:44.500 So give me a little piece of that pizza you eating on, you know what I'm saying?
00:05:50.560 You know what I'm saying?
00:05:51.920 But other than that, you know, I used to crack jokes,
00:05:54.880 and music was in my life by this time.
00:05:58.700 Because by this time, yeah, by the fifth grade, you know, I have, you know, friends now.
00:06:04.240 We got homies, and one of my closest friends, his name was Avery Branch.
00:06:08.940 Wherever he had, I've been looking for him for the last few years.
00:06:11.300 he's been featured on two or three of my albums but he had what his mom would do was like you know
00:06:19.240 kids that have problems she would adopt them so you know it's almost like he had five or six big
00:06:27.240 brothers in his crib and they were doing music and everything else so I was introduced you know
00:06:34.860 through my homie boom to his big brothers them who had vinyl records this that oh so we're a rap 0.88
00:06:43.020 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 0.85
00:06:48.600 first time you freestyle or what's the first time you freestyle where you're like okay this guy can 0.69
00:06:52.320 hang you know my freestyle skills was never like that i always wanted to put some thought into it
00:07:01.340 You know what I'm saying? 1.00
00:07:01.940 I had homies who would start just spitting, 1.00
00:07:04.240 but that never really impressed me. 1.00
00:07:06.880 You know what I'm saying?
00:07:07.500 The dudes I was listening to,
00:07:08.820 they were saying things that was damn near mind-blowing.
00:07:11.620 So if I walked up to somebody and somebody was like, 0.99
00:07:13.960 yeah, my kick's on, hit's on, dick's on, Rick's on. 1.00
00:07:18.440 Yo, chill out, homie. 1.00
00:07:20.340 That's not you. 1.00
00:07:21.340 Nah.
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