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[Assistant] Yeah, cause if you're that famous, it's like, you just, you really treasure the shit that you don't have to share with the world because there's so much that is being expected of you to share with people.


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[Assistant] When you think about what your album is going to say about you as an artist, like, how do you feel in terms of the statement that you're making?


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[Assistant] But did you feel like at a certain point in your career that was just what you had to talk about?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was just having that conversation with the Lil Ze Kid, but I think that that's a lot of truth to that, that there's been so much like meaningless music that's popped off over the past few years.


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[Assistant] I feel like people are like gravitating towards stuff that feels real.


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[Assistant] But it's like Meek blew up this year off of talking about more serious shit.


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[Assistant] What have you been doing while you've been out here in LA? Doing Grammy shows?


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[Assistant] Interesting. What kind of artists they put you with? Rappers? Or they put you with like singers? They put me with everybody.


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[Assistant] Jay-Z was really like one of the people that broke open that shit for me because I realized that he was writing some of Dr. Dre's shit early on and then I was just like, holy fuck, like that just changed how I thought of the verse so much.


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[Assistant] That's easy. A lot of people can do that. Damn, Adam. What you saying, Adam? No, but I mean that flow had it's own place and time, but it's like, you know, this is all-


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[Assistant] Anything can be hard, but it's just when you hear too much of something for too long.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I mean the shit changes and transforms so fast that you could give credit to the person that you first heard get big doing it. But there's no saying that there wasn't some kid in his town with 5,000 followers that was doing it too, you know?


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[Assistant] You know about all the different shit that people are doing, and you can tell who's using who's flow and stuff, but the general public isn't necessarily thinking on that level.


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[Assistant] That's kind of the thing that Kanye put out there and then Twitter actually acknowledged that they sort of agreed that like having the number of likes or the number of followers or whatever displayed so prominently because think about it, they could show things differently. I remember on Tumblr.


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[Assistant] When a lot of people had tumblers, you couldn't see how many followers you had. And that kinda changed the whole way that you used it. If you couldn't easily see how many people had, how many Instagram followers you had, then would people just consider, you know, would they think of people differently?


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[Assistant] It's weird knowing that that's like, that's gonna change your mind.


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[Assistant] Whenever I look through my DMs, I'm basically looking for the blue check. It's sad, but it's true because it's like, if it's not the blue check, then I, I don't know. Like it's just less of a reason.


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[Assistant] So when you're writing for somebody, does that almost even like open up your creativity more? Because you know that you don't have to go out there and say it.


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[Assistant] I ain't knocking it. You messed around a little bit and just didn't go for it? Nah.


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[Assistant] That's good too, cause I'm gonna be real with you, I don't think, uh, I'm guessing a lot of people in your type of scene haven't done DMT.


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[Assistant] That's rare to me, somebody who's open minded enough that you feel like you can give them an idea or talk to them about something. That's honestly how I felt about X. He was like that. He felt like he was always growing mentally. Myself, I don't really have the patience to sit there and talk to the average 19 year old rapper kid. Even if we did a good interview and I think you're cool or whatever, it's like I'm not talking on FaceTime for a half hour.


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[Assistant] That's amazing. Woah. I just met him a couple months ago at a party. It was so great. Good nigga, man. Yea, we were both fated as fuck. It was a good way to meet.


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[Assistant] Me and Chris Brown have a overlap with, uh, girls that we hang out with. Let's put it that way.


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[Assistant] Right, yeah, yeah. But it was just a weird thing to realize that we both, like, the girl that we knew in common, that we both, like, really fuck with her, like, actually think she's cool. Yeah. That was like a weird thing to realize, cause it's like, that's not normally the relationship.


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[Assistant] I could tell that she was so happy too that we were bonding over the thing and that she was alright.


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[Assistant] For sure. So, uh, what you got planned this year? What's, what's on the- Man, more visuals, man. More visuals.


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[Assistant] I'm so YouTube oriented that a lot of times I forget about a performer's music that isn't on YouTube. Like I just forget to go listen to their new tape or their new album. I just, I'm so used to watching the visuals, but realistically it's like it takes so long to shoot a video and shit that a lot of times their best shit is like on iTunes.


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[Assistant] It's weird too, because the more time and effort you put into your career, the more you find yourself in a position where it's not okay to just do a bullshit ass video in an Airbnb all of a sudden.


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[Assistant] Do you think you're just that kind of artist where you just know how to make stuff that works on radio?


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[Assistant] I think we're really starting to see the limitations of what being an Instagram gangster slash comic can really do for your career at a certain point.


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[Assistant] My general advice to somebody who didn't grow up in a gang or whatever is if you start to blow up and your music career starts going really well, don't join a gang then.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's tough to compare Skinner than 969 because his music sucks and his whole online persona is basically just taking L's over and over.


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[Assistant] Hey, nice dress. People will follow you to hate on you too if you're a certain type of person.


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[Assistant] Have you ever looked at somebody's SoundCloud comments and you see a whole lot of like...


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[Assistant] I've looked at people's songs and they have a million plays on a song, 300 likes, and then four comments. I'm like, what the fuck is this? That don't even make no sense. It makes no sense.


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[Assistant] If the, and the thing is about somebody like skinny or I could name certain other rappers, kid boo, who they're just so good at it in the sense that they buy the views, they buy the likes, they buy the comp, they just do it all to the point where they're really good at tricking people. But it's still not going to make your shit high in the end of the day.


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[Assistant] Wow, Dennis Graham. Better, better A&R than we were giving them credit for apparently.


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[Assistant] It's under kind of funny circumstances, but at least they got a chance to learn more about you even if they might have clicked just for some shenanigans.


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[Assistant] I was in Liv, I was in Liv with Gucci on stage, one of the greatest moments of my life. Litville, and I saw you too. You did.


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[Assistant] Oh good. Leightville. Shaq was right there, Guy Fieri.


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[Assistant] No jumper. Coolest podcast in the world. Check us out on YouTube, Soundcloud, iTunes. We got you on the merch. No problem. Let's get it.


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[Assistant] Tonight, Documenting Hate, New American Nazis.


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[Assistant] If I'm gonna sit outside here and talk, I better use this. Otherwise it's gonna eat me up. So I'm sitting here outside my little cottage, my little working studio.


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[Assistant] And it's actually midnight. As I told you earlier, I'm more awake during the nights than in the days when it's summer because of these magical nights.


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[Assistant] I just wanna catch every second of these nights. I never want them to end.


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[Assistant] I love the sound when it's a quiet night like this. I don't know if you can hear it on the camera, but it's the cowbells from the cows from the fields. That's one of my favorite sounds. So it's actually been happening a lot since my last vlog.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, been midsummer, which is, uh,


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[Assistant] Flowers and dance and music and food and like a big celebration.


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[Assistant] I love Midsummer. I think it's a beautiful tradition because it's...


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[Assistant] It's a celebration to light the summer solstice to this summer.


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[Assistant] And I think it has like two sides, because uhm, on the nights before midsummer, I always spend the night outside, because I wanna, you know, take in


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[Assistant] It's just a very happy time and I think a lot of Swedes love midsummer because it's a time when everybody just let it all out.


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[Assistant] And another thing that's been happening is that I have had my birthday on the 29th of June and this year I turned


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[Assistant] Thirty! And did I have a huge birthday party? No.


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[Assistant] I've never been into birthday parties really, and Juwan is actually the same, so that's good. So this time, we actually did get away. I have had this image in my head for a long time, that I wanted to celebrate his birthday.


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[Assistant] If you have followed my vlogs for a while, you might know that we bought a cottage in the mountains in November last year.


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[Assistant] My birthday was on Saturday, so on Friday night at midnight we had packed a car and we were ready to go.


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[Assistant] We were in the mountains for only three days, but it was the most amazing three days. And the night when it was my birthday, when we were gonna climb the mountain, it was just magical.


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[Assistant] And another good thing that happened on my birthday was that I got a text from Frida, you know, the farmer. If you have seen my earlier vlogs, you know. So she sent me a text with a picture of a little calf that was born on my birthday.


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[Assistant] It's getting a little bit chilly, but that's good because it keeps the mosquitoes away. And now it's only about a week left until our wedding.


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[Assistant] I know I mentioned really quick in my last vlog that we were gonna get married. And I know a lot of you were curious and you wanted to hear more.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I haven't really talked about it so much yet. Uh, I've just made one Instagram post about it. And I guess that's because we didn't really wanna make a huge thing out of it. So, we're gonna have a really small wedding here at our home.


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[Assistant] In our garden. And it's just gonna be our closest family. First of all, we actually thought about getting married all alone in the mountains without telling anybody.


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[Assistant] But then we felt that we wanted to share this beautiful day with our family. You know, me and Johan, none of us really likes to plan.


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[Assistant] Big weddings or big parties or- We have wanted to get married for many years now, because we have been engaged for three years.


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[Assistant] Because every year we were thinking that, oh not this year, we do it next year. But we realized that, no, it's never gonna come a day when we feel like throwing a big wedding. So that's when we first got the idea to have the wedding alone.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then yeaah, then we decided to have a really small wedding with our family here.


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[Assistant] We're gonna have the dinner in the old barn and there's a lot to clean up in there. We have already started a little bit with the wedding. Yesterday me and my mom was out on the fields to pick a lot of flowers. Because I had an idea of


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[Assistant] It's like a symbol for bringing luck or something, I think. But instead of throwing rice, I had this idea that I wanted it to be flowers, or dry flowers from the fields around Grundtjärn. So we spent like a couple of hours fixing with all the flowers, but it was really beautiful and the smell was wonderful.


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[Assistant] So at least that thing is done now, but we still have lots of things to do. So I'm really gonna have to focus on the wedding now this last week. So I'm not gonna upload any new video now until after the wedding. But I will film the wedding of course, or my brother will help me to film it.


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[Assistant] And I will film as much as I can, uh, because I really want to.


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[Assistant] You know, catch every glimpse of this day. So now you know why I will not upload a new video next week. That's because I'm getting married!


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[Assistant] There were a lot of people that were disenchanted with the mission. I'd say about half the guys in my unit. I think a lot of guys, they're lost and they want hope. They're looking for answers.


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[Assistant] There's a good amount of them. They keep quiet about it, especially when they're in. You can get in a lot of trouble. Going onto Facebook, I never mentioned the military.


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[Assistant] Take an average 19 year old from Adam Waffen.


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[Assistant] People looked up to the military guys. You were at least using the training that they had given you to hit back at them.


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[Assistant] A lot of the Iraq and Afghan war vets, they took what they saw the Taliban or Al-Qaeda in Iraq doing and applied it to what's going on here. Jews were the number one enemy.


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[Assistant] We would say the Jews were the virus, and the people of color, the homosexuals, they were the symptoms.


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[Assistant] If they were wanting to do something violent, they wouldn't do it publicly.


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[Assistant] These guys, they're not stupid. They're not like these skinhead types.


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[Assistant] We heard him over a couple of voice chats. I never met him in person though. Rape and Mason had their own little thing.


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[Assistant] And I try to reach out because I love those guys. Because they remind me of myself when I was young. Exactly.


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[Assistant] I got a special admiration for him and, uh, I believe that, uhm,


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[Assistant] If they learn how to channel that passion, that determination and that energy into something legit, they'll be a force to be reckoned with.


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[Assistant] No question, no question. Especially when you grow up poor in the ghettos of the United States, that's usually the first trade that you see, you know, that most entrepreneurs see, or less than they grow up, you know, in privileged households. You know, I talk about it all the time, you know,


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[Assistant] Why the rappers rap about selling drugs is because their first role models are more than likely drug dealers.


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[Assistant] Entry level to own in the supermarket. You know, you gotta buy the land. And you talk about here in Los Angeles.


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[Assistant] To buy a lot that a supermarket is on or a supermarket is already existing, you're talking about a couple million bucks. So, you know, now I hear you talking to somebody who...


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[Assistant] You may not have twenty dollars in they pocket, but now if you can get up on five or ten dollars, you can take that and parlay that into a career. You can start right now with five dollars in drugs and, and, uh, you can make a million dollars a day.


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[Assistant] Not at all. And, I mean, uh, and, and, you know, it's really, it's really weird to me the way that they treat drug dealers.


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[Assistant] Uh, so differently than they do the users. And, and I believe personally that they are both...


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[Assistant] There's no need to have dealers. And if you take away dealers, then the users can't get their drugs. Uhm, so, so, so, so I believe that they're both equally culpable, uhm, even though the system has treated them, you know, uhm,


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[Assistant] With great differences in when it comes down to sentencing and so forth.


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[Assistant] Everything. I read a lot of that when I was in prison. I mean, you know, when I was in prison, I wanted to know, uh, as much about drugs, the business, addiction that I could possibly learn. And yes, I read studies where they were doing in, uh, it might have been London.


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[Assistant] And they were talking about how people at one time were strung out, but then they become functional, uh, drug addicts where they would go to work on time.


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[Assistant] Pick the kids up from school. I mean, they were doing everything, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] Almost like cigarette smokers here, you know, cigarettes are cheap enough that people can


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[Assistant] You know, with most drugs, illegal drugs right now, it has an inflated price. You know, it has a price that prohibition marked it up. And what happens is that it drives it to where


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[Assistant] The normal person working on a job can't afford it when in actuality it really has no value. It only has the value that we placed on it.


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[Assistant] Exactly, when, when the leaves are probably worth 20 bucks, you know, for a kilo of cocaine, coca leaves. And then once they process it, it might be worth


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[Assistant] Well now it is, I heard, it's, it's around there, uh, but, but we were able to drive it down, you know, we, we drove the price down. Like I said, the cheapest I ever got it was nine five and they probably could have went lower than that, you know, knowing.


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[Assistant] Now, what I know now, you know, I thought, woo wee, nine five. They ain't making no money. Right. But, you know, once you find out what it actually costs and what's the real value, uhm, they were still making good money.


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[Assistant] Nah, man, they offered me the opportunity, but you know, I was like, nah, I do alright, right?


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[Assistant] Well, you know, you know, it happened gradually, you know, and it starts from uhm,


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[Assistant] It's something about working hard and being gifted, they kind of like go together, uhm, and that was the case with me, you know, I was...


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[Assistant] Turned pro and, uh, I think one made it top 100 in the world. Uh, one when he graduated from college, I think he was in the top 6 in the country. Right. Uhm, me and him played 1 and 2 at our high school.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and when he got ready to go pro, I was able to help him go pro. You know, I was like, I chose a better job than you did. You know, good luck with tennis.


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[Assistant] What the ash was a tremendous, uh, uhm.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, I just, I just loved him. I loved everything about his attitude, uhm, his, his, his, uhm, willingness to give back, you know, to come in the community, uhm,


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[Assistant] But you know what, I go to the theater one day and I see this other guy and he takes Arthur Asher's place. You know, now it's like...


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[Assistant] Okay, Arthur Ashe is cool with this other guy. Who? This super fly guy.


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[Assistant] Oh absolutely, absolutely. I mean, if you look at the videos that we're seeing on the screen and


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[Assistant] All through the 90s, you know, it started to take place. You know, where the gangsta rappers started to make a move and the record labels started to fund that movement. You know, they wanted the gangsta rappers. I mean, it goes as far as, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't know if you heard, but it was a letter that was circulated one time where


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[Assistant] Uh, when the record labels said that they wasn't making money selling records, so, uh, they invested in prisons.


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[Assistant] Prison music, you know, music that would tell the young kids to go out and take drugs and...


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[Assistant] Shoot up people and, and all sorts of, uh, ridiculous things and, and the kids believed that their heroes were doing it and getting away with it, you know, like, oh, you can go out and shoot somebody and become a rap star, you know, and, uh, that's the, the ticket to getting in.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, absolutely, uh, you know, they say bad news travel fast. So uhm.


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[Assistant] They, uh, they play on it, you know, and, uh, hopefully, uh,


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[Assistant] We can, uh, combat that with, um, some positivity and let them know that there's other ways. Uh, because I wish I would have had somebody that, um, could have grabbed me and, and, and showed me how.


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[Assistant] I could take my energies and, and my determination and my willingness to, to, to sacrifice almost everything. You know, I was willing to, uh, sacrifice my life. I was willing to kill for it. And you know, when I, when I got to prison and I was, I was really thinking, right, I was thinking to myself, I'm in my cell and I'm sitting there and I'm like, wow, you was willing to sacrifice your own family.


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[Assistant] You know, it was days that I would ride. My mom wouldn't move out of our neighborhood.


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[Assistant] It became a thing in LA where they were kidnapping drug dealers and kidnapping their families and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] You know, one day I'm riding down the street and I see my sons riding their tricycles in front of my mom's house because my mom wouldn't move.


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[Assistant] And I said to myself, if somebody do something to my kids, I'm gonna hunt them down. And when I got to prison and I thought about what I was saying, I was like, wow, you put your kids in danger from the line of work that you was doing.


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[Assistant] I've known people where you know, people went in and killed everybody in the house.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, I've been in jail with, you know, guys that was accused of, uh, killing everybody that was there, you know. What happened? Wasn't gonna be no witnesses.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, absolutely. And then, you know, when you're playing the game and you don't know the rules.


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[Assistant] You know a lot of times we, we get in the situations and...


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[Assistant] We did our homework. We just got in, you know, everybody else was in, we got in, you know, and you look up where we at.


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[Assistant] Right, because it carries on, it wasn't just cocaine based. No, no, no, uh-uh. It's everything I do is like this, you know.


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[Assistant] And I look, you know, I look at, I like my brother, you know, he can...


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[Assistant] He can sit in the room and watch football games all day and, and chill and, you know, smoke him a doobie and maybe drink him a beer and, and he's good. Me, no.


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[Assistant] Always, ever since I can remember, man. You know, when we were little...


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[Assistant] I'm like 12 years old. I used to organize car washes in front of the house. Uh, I used to cut yards. I used to hustle bottles from the neighbors. I mean, you know, I have enjoyed making money all my life. I mean, I really, really get a kick out of it. You know, all my old ladies, they get mad at me. I can't keep old lady cause they don't like it. You know, they don't like, um,


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[Assistant] I guess being ignored, you know, like I might come in, I'm into the phone and I don't even see her. You know, not personal, nothing personal.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it is, it is. And I really enjoy what I'm doing, so uhm.


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[Assistant] You know, get with it. You know, come on, join me. Let's, let's get in the phone together. You know, why, why can't we, uh, have fun making money?


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[Assistant] And, and black women are worse. Why do you say that? Shoot me. And they are, man. They don't- But just want more respect? No, they want more goods. More goods, more time. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, I never dated anything outside of black.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's such a short time, you know, and not really knowing, uhm, other races. You know, when I was growing up in South Central,


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[Assistant] You know, was nobody else coming to South Central. And now it's kind of integrating where, you know, Hispanics are moving in and.


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[Assistant] Occasionally somebody wired to come through, but uhm.


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[Assistant] I think I only had like one or two white friends my whole life. Right. Uh, one was a guy that played football with


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[Assistant] Some of my friends who got bussed out to the valley and he would come back from the valley and just hang out in the neighborhood and every time he would come over the police would be like, what are you doing over here? Are you all right? You know, as if he was kidnapped or something like that. So it wasn't really that much intermingling between, uh, between the two. Uh, I think the first time that I really had, uh,


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[Assistant] Really had a real, real relationship with, with, with somebody outside of, uh, black was my lawyer when I was going to prison and me and him was visiting every day talking, you know, two, three hours a day in the visiting room.


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[Assistant] When I really got to start to know what it was like, you know, or had any clue of what it was like, you know, to, uh,


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[Assistant] It took a couple months really to catch on to what I was doing. Months.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, it took some months. It didn't happen. No, all y'all overnight success. No, it didn't.


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[Assistant] I don't know, she kinda knew I was doing something, but she didn't really know, right?


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[Assistant] She had kicked me out of her house already because too many people coming over. She's like, oh, you got too much company?


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[Assistant] I'm living in her garage anyway. I ain't living in the house. I'm living in the garage. She throw me out the garage.


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[Assistant] But she's still allowing me to come in and keep stuff and my money. So uhm, one day I come in and she has my money out on the couch.


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[Assistant] Are you in the mob? Can you quit out? Can you get out right now? I think her house cost like $15,000, right? And she was paying like $150 a month or something.


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[Assistant] And I was like, no mom, it ain't like that. Ain't no mom.


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[Assistant] Oh no it was, it was almost like, almost like how people look at marijuana right now.


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[Assistant] You know, like, everybody that was hip was doing it. You know, like, if you had some money, if you had some money, you're freebasing.


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[Assistant] You know, they would be bragging, oh we going free bass in the night. And you know what free bass stand for. Right.


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[Assistant] Do you know what it stands for? Free bass. Uh, I don't know, you just gotta put me on the spot.


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[Assistant] Freebasing was a saying that they used to say to somebody who didn't have money. Oh, you're a freebaser.


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[Assistant] You know, you, you wanna be a baser, but if you ain't got no money, you a free baser.


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[Assistant] So you're going to be basing for free off of somebody else's product. So that's where it started.


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[Assistant] I enjoyed Joe's show, man. Yeah, a couple times. Yeah, he had me on twice. Matter of fact, you know, Joe gave me a great idea, you know. What was that? Well, you know, when I got out, I was doing really bad.


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[Assistant] Uh, like 14 some change. Okay, and you got approximately what year?


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[Assistant] 2009, exactly, I know that date. That's the date Wikipedia got for my birthday. May 2000, I mean, May...


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[Assistant] Uh, 2009, the fourth day. Well, there's gotta be somebody out there who can fix that for you. We did. I don't know how many times, but they, they want that to be my birthday.


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[Assistant] I guess that's the day that I resurrected, you know, LA Times, and I died, so.


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[Assistant] I went on the show and I was, you know, just telling them about how, you know, how I was doing, you know, things wasn't going well for me financially. And uh, Joe was like, well man, you need a t-shirt.


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[Assistant] The hell am I gonna do with a t-shirt? I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't.


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[Assistant] I couldn't fathom, you know, what a t-shirt could do for you. You know, I'm like, uhm, it wasn't something that I thought was tangible.


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[Assistant] Well anyway, I thought I left the show, I'm walking down the street, and uhm, I ran into this guy named Rick Clark.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you know who that is, but he's the founder of Fresh Jive. Oh yeaah, okay. Yeaah, so he was like, man, I got an idea for you. I heard you on the Joe Rogan Show, and I got an idea for a t-shirt for you. And so he said, the real work boss is not a rapper. So corny.


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[Assistant] My paypal went crazy. I mean, uhm, like I said, we were living in a vacant apartment, you know, that a friend was managing.


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[Assistant] And he allowed me to stay there while I got myself back together.


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[Assistant] And we woke up one morning, it was $18,000 in payback. Really? Yeaah, yeaah.


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[Assistant] If you was under investigation, everything you say, Oh, uh, get 10 of those microphones, uh, kilos, uh, 10 sets of headphones, two headphones and I mean anything, carburetors, you know, I've seen so many different things, uh,


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[Assistant] Be interpreted as cocaine when you go to court.


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[Assistant] I mean, I couldn't have made it right now, with all these damn cameras. Yeaah, it's crazy. You know, I've been breaking people's phones and...


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[Assistant] It probably would play both ways, you know, because you, you probably would be a little more organized, but then when you're more organized, when you go to court, they get all your organization records and, and, and present all that. And you know, when I went to court, they had no records, uh, no, no phone taps. What they did have is they had a recording where, uh, Danilo


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[Assistant] Matter of fact, the reason, you know, right now the feds only get 300 minutes a month on the phone.


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[Assistant] Oh no, that's only, that's all the minutes you get every month. Oh, oh, okay. You get 300 minutes a month on the phone. Right. That's it. That's your limit, you know. Wow. Spread them out. And that's why? Because, uh, it was a guy who was trying to have his informant killed while he was in prison. Really? And the feds were listening to the conversation and, uh, he wind up, the hitman wind up killing the wrong person.


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[Assistant] But they said that, uh, for people to have unlimited phone minutes made it really difficult for them to monitor the conversation. Even though they knew that the guy was gonna kill somebody, but they didn't know exactly who it was and they didn't stop it. Were you calling any shots from jail?


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[Assistant] No, no. I mean, you know, I still, you know, I never really call shots like that.


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[Assistant] I've been more like a motivator, you know. I like to consider myself as somebody who makes people better at whatever they're doing. In the black arena, we don't really have


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[Assistant] Necessarily shot callers. I mean, there are shot callers, but they're not, it's not like, you know, like the Mexican mafia, you know.


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[Assistant] You gotta line up, you gotta exercise every day. Well, in our community, we don't do that, you know. Uh, they have rules where they can't sit at certain tables.


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[Assistant] If you're black in prison, you sit wherever you want. You know, uh, as long as other groups.


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[Assistant] Except you, you know, you don't get into no ride with them where you bring everybody into it. Uhm, so, so, it's, it's kind of a different...


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh, uh, set of rules, uh, for the black community.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, I was sitting in prison and I, I'm gonna tell you the first time, uh, I was reading a book by Malcolm X and Alex Haley and, uh, I started to see what he was doing and I was like, I can do that.


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[Assistant] I can do the same thing that he's doing. And then, I, I, I started to go even deeper, and, and, cause they wrote an article about me in the Cincinnati, uh, Inquiry, and in this article, it was the front page, and they had,


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[Assistant] This was a year that, it was a presidential year, so they had, uh, Bill Clinton, Ross Perot, uh, George Bush.


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[Assistant] Senior, all of them was on the page, and on the other side of them they had one big picture of me.


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[Assistant] The ten million dollar man come to town to go to trial. And my picture was bigger than all three of their pictures. And I was like, wow, they just put you bigger than the presidents. You know, like, that's a big deal. Yeah.


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[Assistant] When I started thinking about that, I started to think, well, how can you take this and use this to your advantage?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's, that's what I started to realize and, and, and uhm, I never really knew that before. You know, when I was on the street, I was kind of sheltered.


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[Assistant] I didn't really like go around a lot of people, you know, it's like the information came to me. You know, it didn't, it didn't. I didn't go out.


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[Assistant] Looking for information, looking for, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] different things. They, they really bought me everything that I needed, you know. So, uh, I was, I was kinda sheltered of what was going on and, and I was surprised.


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[Assistant] I was, I was in jail one time, LA County jail, and, uh, it was about, about seven of us in a holding cell. We were getting booked in, and this one guy is sitting here telling three or four other guys,


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[Assistant] That he was waiting on me to come bail him out. Oh my cousin come to bail me out.


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[Assistant] And then he's telling these stories about how much cocaine was on the table, was amount of cocaine, and we was all just snorting and, and, and I'm like...


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[Assistant] This dude is over there talking about me and I'm sitting right here listening to him and he don't even know it's me. Right.


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[Assistant] Oh man, you hear so many stories, you know, helicopters and airplanes and, you know, women and, I mean, it just go on and on. Houses and, you know, the stories is unlimited.


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[Assistant] Most of those guys, you know, like they think most, uh, drug dealers are rich and, and, you know, most of them are not, you know. Uh, Ram Report did a study one time and they said that most drug dealers, uh, live with their mama.


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[Assistant] You know, so uhm, a lot of the stereotypes that we believe are not true, uhm, and we just have to, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, just keep searching to, uh, to get better and educate. And you know, that's really what I'm trying to do now. I want to educate the world about, uh, the world of drugs. You know, the people who've never been in it, who haven't been around it. Uh, just basically let them know, you know, what you're going to go through, um, how are you going to be affected and so forth.


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[Assistant] From, from my understanding, marijuana is, is a health drug, you know, or maybe a miracle plant, you know. Uhm, definitely that's the saying on, uh, CBD. And it was treated just like marijuana, just, you know, before a couple years.


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[Assistant] So uhm, I'm really excited that they're doing the new laws. You know, the only thing I'm mad about is that I ain't got a license.


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[Assistant] Oh, no doubt, no doubt. It's gonna be controlled by big money.


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[Assistant] They already buying up masses, amounts of property up in Humboldt and in different places.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, even like now with a lot of our big companies like, you know, Coca-Cola invested a hundred million dollars over in Canada in some, uh,


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[Assistant] And some companies that, that's in the marijuana. And there was another company that did too. It was like two or three companies that was, was, was on the news a couple months.


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[Assistant] Back when they was talking about how they're going over to Canada because they can't invest here, so they're investing in Canada.


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[Assistant] Which wind up happening to Canadians come back over here and, and buy everything up. So, uh, yeah, eventually if, uh, if the cities and, and.


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[Assistant] Uh, we as a people don't put some type of regulations down then, uh, we'll just be consumers of marijuana and have absolutely nothing to do with the business aspect.


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[Assistant] But you know, they're going to figure out a way. Very true. They always do. You know, the system, every time they come up with something.


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[Assistant] To stop them, they figure out a way around it. So, you know, it's that cat and mouse game, you know. And it's probably gonna go on. But I don't think they're gonna be able to stop the black market, uh, because people like buying from people they know, you know.


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[Assistant] So, and I think as long as that is, uh, the case, then I think that, uh, the black market is going to continue to...


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[Assistant] The drive and the prices that they're charging inside of dispensaries are ridiculous.


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[Assistant] You're a freakin' weed smoker? And you gotta have a good job. No, I haven't smoked in a long time. I eat, though. I do the edibles. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, I do the edibles. Why is that? What do you know, like, about smoking? Uhm, I won't stop.


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[Assistant] Really? Yeah, once I started, I just keep going. I had a bad, bad habit. I mean, an expensive habit when I used to smoke, you know. When you were like originally out doing your thing, you were smoking weed back then? Oh my goodness, did I smoke weed? I had my own private roller. Really? Yeah. His job was just to ride around and roll weed all day. That's tight.


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[Assistant] Oh man, that's all there is. He rolled them, I smoke them. Right. Were you doing coke back then at a certain point? I did it for about a week maybe, a week and a half. What was that week like? Best week of your life? Uh, I don't know about that. I woke up, I was messed up, man, my throat was still there, and I was like, I fucked up.


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[Assistant] I ain't, I ain't never doing that again. You know, I ain't never partying and, and it used up all my money. When I got to my first ounce, you know, I thought I was rich. You know, back then an ounce probably was worth about 9,000. I was like, oh my goodness, I got 9,000.


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[Assistant] It did, it smelled weird as fuck and it tasted weird. It got a weird smell to it. But see what they started doing is they started rocking it.


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[Assistant] And then putting the crumbs of the rock inside of the blunt and it didn't have that weird smell. It was primo. Dear God. That's what's scary.


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[Assistant] I got in it because I wanted better. You know, I wanted to have an opportunity to, to make something for myself. You know, and uhm, I didn't see the fur coats and gold and the diamonds as uhm, me bettering myself. You know, I thought about businesses.


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[Assistant] Create jobs, uh, create opportunity that would buy the diamonds, the cars, the houses later on down the line. And, and that's where I put my ninja in, you know, trying to create businesses.


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[Assistant] Talking about history is, is important. Uh, without us knowing our history, then we can repeat what, what happened already. And, uh, the importance of documentation and, and, and


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[Assistant] Uh, keeping track of everything is so that we don't make the same mistakes that we made before. Uh, good.


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[Assistant] Evil, whatever, it is what it is, but we definitely need to know where we came from so we can know where we're going.


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[Assistant] For one, I had myself surrounded where I didn't really deal with


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[Assistant] A lot of outside people. I knew the people I was dealing with. You know, I had raised my crew. You know, I taught my crew.


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[Assistant] How to sell drugs. I taught them how to work the triple beam. I taught them what an ounce was with a half ounce. So these guys had a kind of an affection for me that


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[Assistant] Uh, you can't get if you just walk on the street and you run into somebody. Hey man, I'm selling kilos. Oh, I'm buying kilos. And you hook up. That's a scary relationship because you don't know.


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[Assistant] You just can't start and stop like that. It's no. It's like being an addict. Right. You get addicted. So, so you gonna feed your family today then tomorrow they gotta starve? No.


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[Assistant] It's hard, it's hard. It gets, it gets, it gets more difficult because the bigger you get, the easier it gets. You know, like at first, I'm working


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[Assistant] When I first start, I work a whole week and maybe make 20 bucks.


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[Assistant] And then the next week I make 40, and then the next week maybe I make 100, and now I'm making a thousand a week. So, should I quit now?


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[Assistant] After I did that. I have to put in all that work to get there. Yeaah. Get here and now you want me to stop? No. Let me get 10,000. And then you get 10,000 and now you start making 10,000 every week and then, 10,000 every week. So if I do 100 days, then that's a million bucks.


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[Assistant] So, I was gonna get out, just like Superfly did, uhm, but that number just kept.


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[Assistant] Getting higher and higher. The amount you want to have. Yeaah, yeaah. Well maybe one more house. Maybe a little bigger house. Maybe, maybe I'll get this girlfriend a house too.


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[Assistant] And get this car for her or him, you know, and you just keep finding, uh, people who need help.


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[Assistant] Me too. Me too. And I love going there. Right. As often as I can.


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[Assistant] No, I don't mind having a relationship. It's just women, they, they, they, they, they're so controlling. You know, they like to dominate their man. Right. Have him at home all the time.


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[Assistant] Get all the money from him, you know. They want the money and the time at the same time and it's just hard to, uh, to, to give both.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm at home sometimes and I'm on the road a lot.


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[Assistant] I just come from France, Miami. What are you doing out there?


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[Assistant] Oh, so you still work with them? Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. Oh, that's amazing. Yeaah, I went down, uhm, and, uh, styled their clothes, you know, they had me styling their clothes and, uhm, then we just did a party for me in Miami.


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[Assistant] Uh, this past week before last and then, uh, this week we were down in, uh,


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[Assistant] Atlanta for the Super Bowl, you know, took our artists down and took my artists down and, uh.


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[Assistant] We were hitting clubs, we hit about 10 clubs up, you know, turn them out. Let them get on the microphone and shake them.


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[Assistant] So uhm, I still, I still do a lot and, and that's hard, you know, for a woman not to have you at home. And then I got little kids too. I got two babies and a seven year old and an eight year old. Right.


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[Assistant] You know, this don't happen, you know. Not in real life, you know. Get away scot-free, you know. Pay no price. Right. No. That's not gonna work. Go to jail.


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[Assistant] So, so I was, uh, and, and I didn't really understand it until after I was sitting in prison. And then I was sitting there and I was like, wow. I used to, I used to ask my girl, like, when we'd be laying in the bed, I was like, what you gonna do when I go to jail? You gonna run? You gonna come see me? You gonna send me something? And, uh, and this was before I never had no cop activity. So,


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[Assistant] What came to me when I was in jail, cause I'm doing a lot of thinking now, I got a lot of time to myself, no TV, yeah, no radio, so I'm just laying in the bed, you know, thinking. And what came to me was the only reason that I was asking her those questions is because


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[Assistant] I had put in my mind that I was going to drill. Subconsciously.


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[Assistant] Right? Yeah, most of them bail out on you after the judge hit the hammer. He hit the hammer. Oh, 10 years.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I was in Texarkana. I was in Texarkana. I had about... I might have had...


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[Assistant] Three years to do. Well, yeaah, I had right at three years to do because, you know, a little less than three.


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[Assistant] Because I missed my, my, my statute of limitations by five days. I could have won that lawsuit if I had been five days earlier. Really? That's what the judge said.


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[Assistant] We, we, we had put everything there and we felt that it was a solid case.


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[Assistant] And uh, and she coulda, you know, because what she did, it was her interpretation, because the law says, when does the public become aware that he's putting our music under this name?


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[Assistant] The general public she said was from one little radio station in the Miami area.


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[Assistant] Had started playing that record and she used the date that that record, that that radio station started playing the record as the day that triggered.


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[Assistant] Uh, the two years for the statute of limitations. So she could have said, oh well, maybe it wasn't.


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[Assistant] Uh, this radio station, maybe that radio station wasn't big enough, but 99.9 jams when they start playing it.


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[Assistant] Public should have known then, that would have gave me enough time to win my lawsuit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Now, you know, Freeway out of Philly, he uses my nickname Freeway, but this guy was using my government name.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, you gotta look at it, you know, from, from, cause I, I have a tendency to try to look at things from everybody's point of view and, and the way the court was looking at it was like, this guy's a drug dealer, he's just coming to earth.


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[Assistant] He don't have no rights. Oh, there's other guys rapping about being a drug dealer. But he's a good guy. Been to college.


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[Assistant] He has a college degree, no convictions, no record. He's a good kid.


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[Assistant] You know, and when the courts look at that, you know, they got one guy who's a real bad guy and another guy who...


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[Assistant] You know, pretends to be a bad guy, but he's really not a bad guy. Uh, who we gonna go with? You know, who's telling the truth here?


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[Assistant] Right. And, you know, they, they, you know, tend to lean toward the correctional officer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, no question. And, and, and you know, what it really boils down to is who does the machine want to win? You know, the machine dictates who they're behind.


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[Assistant] We looked at the numbers and the records wasn't selling, but they kept...


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[Assistant] Pumping him out there, pumping him out there, you know, trying to get people to, uh, to buy into his whole, uh, shenanigans.


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[Assistant] Well, we spoke on the phone when I first found out that, uh, that he was using my name. I ran him down, you know, had somebody to find him for me. And, uh, we talked on the phone and he was supposed to come to the prison and see me and, and we were supposed to talk about business, you know, how, uh, how it was supposed to work out, but, uh, it never.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, uh, I did the drink champs the other night with Nori. Really? And Nori was, uh, you know, Nori knows him well, he says. And he was like, well, Rick, well, maybe he thought you was going to extort him.


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[Assistant] Oh no, he knew. He knew. This guy, he's smart. No, he ain't no dummy.


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[Assistant] I mean, when you look at what he's done in the music business, how he's, uh,


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[Assistant] I think that's the word, where he picked different things at different times, different names, you know, uhm.


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[Assistant] Like one of his biggest songs, I Think I'm Big Meach, Larry Hoover. So he did.


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[Assistant] He knows, you know, he studies. So, so, so, oh definitely, he knew the value of, and what he told me on the phone, the value of having my name. You know how, uh, before he started using my name, nobody listened to him. Really?


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[Assistant] But once he started using my name, people ears perked.


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[Assistant] Because what happened is my name was a household name on the underground. And when they heard that name, it automatically.


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[Assistant] Draw out the attention because it had been ingrained inside of him to know that this name had meaning inside the underground.


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[Assistant] Put your face out there as much as possible. Absolutely, absolutely. I'ma smash, you know? Yeah. Uh, I gotta become big and, and, and powerful, uh, just...


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[Assistant] So that I know that I wasn't a flute. And I also know that once that happens, that it's going to overshine what he's done with the name and eventually he'll back away from the name. You think that that could potentially happen? Oh, absolutely. It will happen.


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[Assistant] Most days I usually wake up around 4, 30, 5 o'clock and start talking to people on the east coast, lining up my plays.


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[Assistant] After I finish talking on the East Coast, I'll get up and go to the auto auction.


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[Assistant] Really? Daily? Yea, daily. Buy me a couple cars, you know, make some money so that I have something to blow when I hit the streets.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, nah, I mean, I'm good at whatever I want to do. Really? I believe that if anything that


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[Assistant] I wanna do, if you put me in front of it, let me say it a few times, uh, I can become really, really good at it. Maybe not the best, but I can become really good at it where I can make some money and, and I'll do better than the average people will do. Uh, I don't care what it is. It's cars.


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[Assistant] The internet, I'm just now, I'm just now getting on the internet, you know, where I'm starting to talk to my, uh, my fans on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. Sometimes I mess up, they'll be like, man, somebody hacked our page. Wait, wait, mess up how so? Oh, I'll be saying stuff then.


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[Assistant] Oh really? Yeah, yeah, so me and him supposed to hook up and uh, try to put some stuff together. Uhm, talk to him about uh, blue face.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, getting ready to do his tour and, uh, hoping I can get my artist on a couple dates with him and, uh, you know. Matter of fact, I hollered at Whack, uh, Saturday. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] Well, this book right here, this is, this is my autobiography here. Uh, I wrote this one here when I was in prison.


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[Assistant] And I didn't know if I was gonna get out or not, you know.


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[Assistant] My lawyer told me I wasn't going to get out. The prosecutor told me that I wouldn't be getting out. The judge told me that I wouldn't be getting out and I didn't know if I was going to get out or not.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so what I did is I said, you know what, what can you do, uhm, what can you do for the world?


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[Assistant] I mean, what do you have to offer the world now? Here you are in a six by twelve. Uh, you only let out to, uh, go get your tray and shower. You're done. What can you do?


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[Assistant] Some come to me and say, write a book, you know, teach the young people.


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[Assistant] Uh, your lessons that you learned from, uh, from the draw game.


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[Assistant] That's how that one came about. So it's kinda like, uh, my, uh,


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[Assistant] My letter to the world, you know? If, if they want to know what it was like, uh, being in prison, with a life sentence without the possibility of parole, what I was going through, uh, pick up the book.


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[Assistant] Oh, absolutely. That book means a lot to me, man. I mean, uhm.


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[Assistant] Put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into, uh, this whole, this whole thing, you know.


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[Assistant] Being in court, seeing my mom break down, you know, I never saw my mom.


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[Assistant] Uh, break down like she did in court when they gave me the life sentence. It was like, I just...


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[Assistant] You know, a knife had been right in her heart, and you know, she's just like, my mom was about 78, 79.


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[Assistant] You'll never see your mom free again. And that was the case? She died while you were in prison? No, no, no. I got out. She died in my bedroom. Really? Yeaah. Yeaah. Two years ago.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. We got eight, oh yeaah, I was there number one.


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[Assistant] You know, how you had, they had it number one, you know. She, she, she knew if she called me, I was coming. Right. And, but being in prison took that away. You know, where...


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[Assistant] If she'd have called, I couldn't have came. You know, if she needed me, I couldn't be there. And that was one of the hardest things about being in prison is that...


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[Assistant] It takes away your, your, your dignity. You know, your, your ability to, to be important, to, to have substance. You know, I, I used to be a racist.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, you know, I used to be in prison and I used to wrestle with this and I was like...


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[Assistant] You know, when I was on the street, my girls used to fight over me.


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[Assistant] The reason that they were doing all that on the street is because I had tremendous value to them. Once you lose your value, then...


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[Assistant] You know, people have a tendency to forget about you and throw you in the trash.


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[Assistant] And it's so not. No, not at all, not at all. And that's what I had to, I had to go, for real though, I had to go all the way down. Yea. You know, because as long as I still had money, you know, I was still on the phone. My first months in prison, my phone bill was like $8,000 a month.


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[Assistant] It was ridiculous, but as the money started to dwindle, then I had to become more in tune with me. And it took away all of the, the costumes, the


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[Assistant] The fantasies, the make-believes, you know, the people who, uh,


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[Assistant] Only like you for what you had, you know, only around you because what you could do for them, uh, and, and I'm really hounding that right now, you know, uh, with people just coming around.


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[Assistant] Just to get what they can get. You know, they really don't like to be around you, but they have to. Right.


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[Assistant] No, that's unconditional love. My mom, like I said, she was like 77, 78 years old.


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[Assistant] When I was in San Diego, she would drive from LA to San Diego by herself. And I was like, mom, don't do it no more. You know, uh,


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[Assistant] Because I felt it was so dangerous for her to be that old to be driving by herself, but uhm, that's the way she felt, you know, in, in uhm,


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[Assistant] I've been looking for that woman that feel the same way, you know, like mama. Right. No matter what you do, you alright with me. Yeaah. That's real right there. Kinda like the love a kid gives you.


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[Assistant] That's why that kid love is so crazy. You can be gone for 10 weeks and come home and they jump on you.


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[Assistant] You my guy, I'm here with you no matter what happened, you know, I'mma fall with you, you know. And that was one of the reasons that when I was younger I was kind of drawn to the gangs because those guys were willing to die for each other.


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[Assistant] You know, cause so many other people, like we were saying, it's fake. You know, they're gonna be gone. But you know, with the gang culture, and that's why it's so amazing to me, is that these guys will literally die and go to prison with each other.


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[Assistant] What we have to do is teach them how to take, uh, those same skills that, that they've developed in the illegal world and develop that same mindset for legal business.


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[Assistant] Because business is business, I don't care what it is, it's really the same principles.


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[Assistant] You know, each product has a little different twist to it, but it's really the same, you know. And if they are able to, uhm, apply the street mentality to a business,


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[Assistant] And then, it's, it's crazy. I mean, just look at me. Look at what I'm doing right now, I mean.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable, you know, some of the stuff that I got going on. I can hardly believe the opportunities that I've created for myself.


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[Assistant] And I know now that I could have created these for myself all the time.


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[Assistant] Had I been focusing my energy toward those.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, but I know now that I could have did it the same way.


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[Assistant] It might have not been the way it is right now, but just think, I did 20, I did 8 years selling drugs, then I did 20 years in prison. Now just think, you're talking about 30 years. Now if I would have worked 30 years, the way I work, the way I say at McDonald's, I probably would have like 30 McDonald's's right now.


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[Assistant] Exactly, exactly, and that's the point. Not that, uh, I wasn't able to turn it around and get the boat going right. Just because, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] The boat did go crooked, don't mean that everybody's boat gotta go crooked. Why, why do you wanna turn your boat that way when you already know that


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[Assistant] You gotta turn it this way, you know? And if you turn it that way, then you can get the same results. Uh, uh, I believe that a person who starts out, uh, with no background or nothing can do what I'm doing, um,


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[Assistant] Maybe not as fast as I did it right now, but in time. I mean, I've been home almost 10 years right now. So, uh, the success that I'm having right now didn't come, uh, overnight and it didn't come because, you know, people will say, and people tell me that all the time. Well, uh, you sold drugs and that's how you got your reputation.


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[Assistant] But yes, a lot of guys that sold drugs and they didn't write their newspapers. They don't have no reputation. They don't have a documentary on Netflix. You know, I dreamed that documentary up when I was in prison, when I was writing a book. I thought also about it doing a documentary. So a lot of that is me, uh,


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[Assistant] Taking me, what I, what I learned, let me say this here, what I learned...


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[Assistant] When I was growing up, I was being molded by my environment.


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[Assistant] My environment was shaping who I was who I was becoming.


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[Assistant] Once I went to prison and I started to understand that


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[Assistant] To me, it's a joke, you know, when most of the guys, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] Talking about they sold drugs and parlayed it into a record career. I don't believe it. You know. I've seen it.


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[Assistant] They don't talk about universal giving them them checks and Warner Brothers, you know, giving them them checks. So, uh, when I think about it, that's pretty much how I, how I look at it is that, uh,


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[Assistant] It's a bunch of make believe, you know. It's a bunch of Hollywood, you know. Guys driving Rolls Royces that was rented and loaned and the record label, you know, let them use the jewelry and you know, they telling these young kids that they got it from selling drugs and I think it's bogus. And the kids are falling for it?


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[Assistant] No, I don't, I mean, but at the end of the day, you know, I'm gonna be who I am, uh, I'm gonna stand by my morals, you know, just because everybody else, uh,


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[Assistant] Wanna jump off a bridge, you know what I mean? I'ma jump off, you know, and I don't care if you get mad at me because I'm not jumping. You know, that's your prerogative.


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[Assistant] So at the end of the day, uh, I'm gonna stand my own ground. They're not, they're not paying my rent. You know, my rent is not, uh, based on if they like me or not or if they, uh, buy my book or, you know, buy a t-shirt or sweatshirt or whatever. Uh, it's not based on that. So at the end of the day, uh, I don't wanna play to my own tune.


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[Assistant] He says in words what I think. I think just like Gary, you know, like I hear him telling people, you fake ass entrepreneurs.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'll be joining the Jim Nort Show in the morning at 7 o'clock and then I'll, uh, I'll hit Gary at 4.


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[Assistant] Oh, no doubt, no doubt. Well, you know, uh, I, I studied when I, when I was in prison. You know, I, I went to prison, I was illiterate, but before I got out, I read over 300 books. Really? And I'm reading again. You know, I said I wasn't going to read any more books, but, uh, right now I'm reading, uh, Gary's book, Crush It.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, I've been reading that for a couple days. Uhm, I was reading it on the plane last night. I just finished another book on Instagram and uhm, I finished one on Facebook. Uhm, about how to, uh, how to use the internet. Really? Properly and make some money.


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[Assistant] It has, it has because, uh, you know, I'd never been on the internet before. I mean, I'd never been on the computer before I got out of prison. So for me coming home and, and then everybody got these little bitty phones. When I left, you know, phones, my phone was like this, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I gotta learn how to do emails too. I gotta learn everything, man. I'm, I'm, I'm raw. But you know, I got some people that's teaching me now. I hired some people to teach me.


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[Assistant] And, uh, my team, they're helping me. So, uh, I'm going to get it in a minute. I enjoy it though. You know, I enjoy getting on there talking, you know, especially to all those pretty women. Oh, geez. I can't even imagine your DMs.


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[Assistant] And you know, in doing my studies, I found out that the richest people in the history of mankind is people that sell. You have to be a seller. You know, if you can't sell, uh, you know, you might do alright, but if you want to be wealthy, you gotta be able to sell stuff.


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[Assistant] And I don't mind selling, you know, I don't mind asking them for their money. Give me that money.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, both my books. I just did another one. This one just got released two weeks ago.


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[Assistant] It's about, uh, basically how, uh, a friend of mine was riding around with me and he was watching how I was using these principles to, uh, make money. Amazing. And he put it down.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so, so they can check out the book, uh, both my books. You can get them at my website for RickRoss.com. Also, uh, the documentary is still on Netflix. You know, we're still up there. Uh, we're gonna start shooting a movie in March. Oh really? Yeaah, we got our budget together. And, uh, we hope in March we'll be shooting.


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[Assistant] Other than that, that's about it, man. Look out for my artists. You know, hopefully you have my artists on your, on your artists.


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[Assistant] Uh oh. Not cool. Not cool. And you know, I always, I miss everybody's name up. He got on me the other night when I introduced him at, uh,


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[Assistant] At the club in, uh, Atlanta, he got on me by introducing the wrong person.


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[Assistant] There's all kinds of initials at the ends of the names. Why you didn't come up with a common name like John? Nah, you'll see.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, but uh, he's real talented and we're pushing him right now and uh, we'll be going around the country with him so, you know, be on the lookout for us. Amazing.


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[Assistant] Cause we have this one thing that happens every year. That comes as a true sign that winter is finally letting go. And spring is arriving.


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[Assistant] I call it Vårfloden in Swedish, which means the river of spring.


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[Assistant] Every year when this happens, I feel this indescribable joy and happiness. It's like the highlight of the spring to me.


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[Assistant] And I can spend hours outside by the river. I like to imagine that I help melting the snow and that I help the water to flow better.


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[Assistant] And now I wake up and it's like I feel everything so intense.


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[Assistant] And it feels the same every spring. Well, it actually feels even more intense for every new spring that I get to experience.


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[Assistant] It's like I just came to this earth, and I feel this deep wonder for the beauty around me, and a deep gratitude for being alive.


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[Assistant] But of course, April is the most dirty and muddy time of the year. And it's actually not so beautiful outside at this time. And if you have a dog, it's gonna get so dirty inside after every walk.


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[Assistant] So this week, apart from helping the snow to melt, I've also spent most of the time in the smithy with Johan.


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[Assistant] Sometimes it just felt like we would never get done and that we would be stuck in the smithy forever.


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[Assistant] Both me and Johan are very passionate about our work. And when we have a very strong goal and a strong feeling of what we want to do, there's just no stopping us.


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[Assistant] We are not afraid of working really hard as long as we feel passion for it and feel that it's meaningful.


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[Assistant] But already now it feels a lot easier since we begin to see an end of these intense months with so much work.


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[Assistant] We are soon done designing our new collection and we have some really exciting plans and visions for the future regarding our yuri making.


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[Assistant] So, all this hard work has definitely been worth it. And now it's only one and a half month left until we move to our new house and get some more space. Then we don't need to have the Smithy in our living room anymore.


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[Assistant] More space will make everything so much easier for us.


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[Assistant] The early spring came as a big wonderful surprise when I needed it the most.


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[Assistant] So I have spent some evenings out in the old barn to put a lot of different seeds in the soil that hopefully will grow into beautiful plants and flowers in the summer.


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[Assistant] Because yes, we have decided to start with beekeeping and have our own bees. And that is something I have dreamt about for so many years. But now as we can have our very own house and this beautiful garden it feels like a perfect timing.


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[Assistant] Bees are actually so important for our planet and I really look forward to make a paradise for them in our garden.


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[Assistant] Since we're gonna move in a couple of weeks, it is a mess in our house right now. So it's been so difficult to find a place for all these plants. I only have this one window for them, so they have to share the little glimpses of sunlight that reaches in every day.


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[Assistant] I know it's not the perfect condition for some of the plants, and I've told them that I will probably have a rough start, but if they just manage to grow into life and keep holding on these weeks, I promise I will give them the dream life of any plant. Soon we will move.


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[Assistant] And soon, as the frozen ground has melted, I can begin to tap birch sap, which is also one of the highlights movements of the spring.


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[Assistant] It's an old myth here that says that drinking birch sap is a way of regaining all your energy after a long cold winter. And I definitely believe in that, so in May I always drink birch sap every day. I can't wait to make a video to show you how I do when I tap birch sap.


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[Assistant] So the spring has just begun. We have all this wonderful time ahead of us. And I so much look forward to experience another spring and summer. And I also look forward to share it with you guys. Thank you so much for watching my video.


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[Assistant] If you aren't following the money, how do you know that the low income housing tax credit is working?


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[Assistant] My suspicion is that there's a lot of things wrong with the program. It may not be serving all the people it should serve. There may be people in the middle getting more than they should. You would think


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[Assistant] That this would be something the IRS would be looking into because they have to police to see whether the money is serving the purpose it's supposed to serve.


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[Assistant] There's only been seven audits in 29 years. Well, if you aren't following the money, uh, how do you know that the low income housing tax credit is working?


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[Assistant] Out of the Government Accountability Office, should this program be continued under the same circumstances, or to what extent should it be changed?


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[Assistant] Yeah. I felt like it was an opportunity for me to gain more stability. This area in general I would like to get away from. What is it about getting out of this neighborhood? Work.


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[Assistant] Work. I want to live near a place where there are better job opportunities.


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[Assistant] To order Frontlines documenting hate, new American Nazis on DVD, visit ShopPBS or call 1-800-PLAY-PBS.


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[Assistant] This program is also available on Amazon Prime Video.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think everybody's hopes were high because it's such a great regular season. Uh, winning 51 games got everybody's hopes up.


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[Assistant] Playing a seven game series and having to do the back and forth of what that brings. Uh, I think overall it's going to be a great value to these young guys as they head into next season. Hopefully they'll learn some lessons.


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[Assistant] Back when we were playing, I mean, the Pistons were winning championships, the Bulls were winning championships, the Celtics, uh, most of the championships were coming out of the East.


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[Assistant] Uh, and so, I mean, you could go down the list. I mean, the Milwaukee Bucks have good teams. Uh, you just mentioned it, the Cowan on the Atlanta Hawks. So night in, night out, it was super, super competitive.


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[Assistant] And it was always going to be a question mark. I mean, even the New Jersey Nets who we had to play a couple of times in the first round were a very talented team.


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[Assistant] With guys like Derek Coleman and Drazen Petrovic and that crew. So, uh, it was night in, night out. I think help maybe prepare us a little bit more. Uh, I think the Eastern Conference this year.


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[Assistant] Uh, wasn't as strong and so I think it was positive for the Cavs to get good placement in the playoffs finishing fourth. But, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, the lack of preparation might have hurt them a little bit because they are allowing things to be a little bit more physical in the playoffs, which the league had gotten away from for the last couple of years. So.


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[Assistant] I mean, we had three seven footers on our team. I mean, we were up in the top of the league and blocked shots every year, steals and those kind of things. So.


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[Assistant] Trying to take people's heads off every night, like the Pistons are trying to hurt people out there. So we, you know, the whole idea of being soft, I think is, uh, you know, something that people like to talk about. I don't know if that's anywhere near what, what our team was.


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[Assistant] They got away a little bit from what they do, uh, in the playoffs. And I mean, when you got guys like that, I mean, I wasn't, you know, a great one on one defender.


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[Assistant] Make them play over those big guys behind you. That's what they did all year long. And, uh, they seem to get away, get away from a little bit in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Well, I think, uh, especially now with the emphasis on three point shooting, I mean, most every team in the league seems like has a shooting coach now or someone that fills that role. I definitely think everybody can improve their shooting.


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[Assistant] Now, can a guy go from a average shooter to a great shooter? I'm not so sure about that. I think there's just something that some guys just have. I mean, can, you know, Evan Mobley could work till he's blue in the face and he's not going to become Steph Curry. You know, it's just, uh,


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[Assistant] Some of those top ranked shooters just have something that's a little bit, you know, different, you know, a different mindset, a different touch to what they do. It's something that they.


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[Assistant] His, you know, he could be one of the top two way players in the league by far because he does have the ability to score and I don't think.


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[Assistant] I don't know that he'll ever be a 25 a game score, but he doesn't have to be, you know, I mean, if Evan Moley gives you, you know, 16, 18.


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[Assistant] Point the score to affect the game, but he's got to be able to score enough points to be a problem to make it difficult on the other team to just load up on Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland every night.


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[Assistant] Well, I think if he continues to work on it, I think he could eventually get himself in the 30, you know, 30% range at three point wise. But I just always go back to, you know, is that helping?


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[Assistant] Is that helping him as much? I'm not so sure. I think you gotta play to your strengths. I think you've seen guys over the year that have had huge impacts. Guys like...


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[Assistant] DeMar DeRozan, uh, you know, even Kawhi Leonard to a certain extent and he shoots a few threes, but he's a mid-range player and I think, uh,


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[Assistant] People get enamored because the Golden State Warriors have won championships shooting a ton of threes every night. But I think, you know, it always goes back to what your personnel is.


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[Assistant] Embiid and those guys, I love seeing skilled big guys again that are doing damage around the paint and around the free throw line and making their teammates better. And I hope more teams get to that.


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[Assistant] Well, I think, uh, you know, that's, that's something that the calves have got to grow.


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[Assistant] In offensively and I thought there were times this season during the regular season they were, but I just felt like there was way too many times during the playoffs that Mowgli or Allen just were not getting enough touches on the offensive end.


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[Assistant] And I think when good players, and I think that's part of being a really good point guard understanding, I mean, I understood if I wanted to keep my big guys involved, if I wanted them to help me on the defensive end or set a good screen on my guy,


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[Assistant] You know, I had to keep them happy, you know, sometimes and keep them happy on the offensive end and keep them involved. And I even remember times during games, Larry Nance might maybe hadn't touched the ball three or four times and he'd run down the door and said, Mark, give me, give me a shot here. Give me a touch. And that's just the relationship that we had by playing together for so long that


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[Assistant] You know, and as a point guard, you know, that was my job. Uh, you know, yeaah, I had to look for mine and there were certain games I might have had the advantage and might get up more shots. But I also needed to make sure I kept my teammates engaged in the game. And I think, uh,


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[Assistant] Donovan and Darius are both so good offensively in the one on one things, but.


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[Assistant] The best story, man, uh, there's a lot of stories, I'm sure. But, uh, you know, I think just for us, you know, being in a situation where, you know, we were in the heat of it with some of the best teams ever. I mean, the Bulls and Pistons and things like that, but.


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[Assistant] I think that's when you start seeing things and that's what I like about this team.


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[Assistant] As well, the current Cavs team is they, they seem to like each other and that's, uh.


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[Assistant] That's, that's more rare than you realize on an NBA roster. And so, uh, you know, when you develop that and you get to play, we were fortunate that core group of guys I played with, we got to play.


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[Assistant] Played together for, you know, seven, eight years together.


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[Assistant] We weren't just good teammates. We were friends and we, you know, our family were growing up together and we were close. And when you have that, you got a chance to have something special.


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[Assistant] And teams that can go out and compete night in, night out. And that's what it really takes when you're all pulling together. And I think that this current Cavs team has that. They seem to anyway, from just watching from the outside. Now it's just, you know,


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[Assistant] Continuing on the path, hopefully the team can add some pieces that they need moving forward for next year to make them even better.


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[Assistant] Well, I think you make a really good point because I played in an era where there was only 24 teams in the league. And so teams were deep. Like, I mean,


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[Assistant] From your top player to your, to your number 8 player, those guys 6, 7, and 8 could come in and give you 20 on a given night.


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[Assistant] Because those guys were legit and they could really, really score.


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, guys coming at me before, uh, Ron Harper got traded. Yeah. Craig Hilo, Hot Rod Williams.


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[Assistant] And so, uh, you know, I think John Battle is a guy for me that jumps up when you ask that question of somebody that's underrated. And I mean, John just, he was just, you knew what you were going to get from him every night and he, uh, he came in and he got it done.


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[Assistant] They could stretch the floor, but, uh, yeah, Brad, Brad was a good player. Tell him I said hello next time he's on the show.


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[Assistant] You know, if not the hardest, one of the hardest ones is because we felt like we were a better team. Uh, unfortunately we had injuries. I didn't get to play the first game of that series, which put us in a hole a little bit. Uh, but yeah, we had beaten Chicago six times a year.


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[Assistant] When he was two and a half, my grandmother got very ill.


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[Assistant] Donald, who was at a very, very critical point in his development as a child was essentially abandoned by her.


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[Assistant] He finds it difficult if not impossible to connect with him on any deep level because I don't believe he ever was able to with her.


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[Assistant] He was kind and generous. He liked hanging out with his friends who adored him.


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[Assistant] And maybe worst of all, although it's hard to say, he had interests outside of the family business. My grandfather understood none of that.


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[Assistant] My dad couldn't do anything right, and my grandfather made his life miserable.


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[Assistant] He wanted to avoid my father's fate of, you know, abuse and humiliation at the hands of his father. He took that lesson to heart.


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[Assistant] People of color, you know, African Americans in particular, Jewish people, women, were all considered fair game.


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[Assistant] And, you know, racism, antisemitism, and misogyny were very common in my grandparents' house. And it was just the way it was.


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[Assistant] That perfectly fit in with what my grandfather already thought.


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[Assistant] Everything's great, you know, and if you think that way, then everything will be great. The problem is, everything is not always great.


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[Assistant] My grandfather remains Donald's audience of one.


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[Assistant] It's to him, Donald's continually trying to prove himself.


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[Assistant] He said to me that when he arrived at the military academy, for the first time in his life, someone slapped him in the face when he got out of line.


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[Assistant] You would never know where the people came from in this building.


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[Assistant] Well, like myself, there was just about to be on the street.


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[Assistant] Hello everybody. My name is Tyvis Powell and it is my honor and pleasure to present this year's best overtime segment award. The nominees are yours truly.


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[Assistant] That ain't even cool, man. That ain't even cool.


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[Assistant] Jason absolutely ripping Yanis for his failures. I love Yanis.


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[Assistant] But when we talk about Giannis Antetokounmpo and what he's done in his career, it's, it's very evident that he is not only the best player, he will always be the best player.


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[Assistant] Pull certain strings to get tax breaks.


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[Assistant] We've seen it in Trump's presidency. When aides become too out front in their own right, he reacts in ways that sort of shove those figures back down to maintain the role of primacy that he not only seeks, but needs.


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[Assistant] It's a love story. He met her on a beach in spring break in college. They fell within days madly in love.


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[Assistant] ...of an out-of-touch body. And really wounded is prospects of a future run for president.


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[Assistant] Some people are in politics because they're in love with policy, but they're not necessarily in love with humans.


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[Assistant] I think that's always been one of his challenges as he tries to go for president. He casts about for what he wants to say. He casts about for the issues he wants to put forward and what he wants to say he believes in. And it, and it feels cast about.


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[Assistant] Joe Biden borrowed it and applied it to his own life and made a moving sort of aria, a moving sort of part of a speech about


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[Assistant] Ivana, in the beginning, that was great. It was very refreshing. You had this powerful woman by his side, but it grew tiresome for him.


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[Assistant] And why did it grow tiresome for him? Because there are no co-stars in Trump's orbit. There's only one spotlight, and it's on him.


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[Assistant] We hadn't even gone to trial yet. Two weeks passes and we are essentially given a death sentence with this ad.


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[Assistant] And then he signs his name at the very bottom.


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[Assistant] That was a whisper into the darkest, most sinister parts of society.


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[Assistant] We went to prison for a crime that we didn't commit, still to this day. We still have not been apologized to from the people who harmed us in that way, that political way, right?


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[Assistant] Yes, very unique to LA, very obscenely delicious. First up, we have... Don't know what these are, I'm not gonna lie, I got it on the menu, they're called jalapeño bombers. Oh, these are the jalapeño bombers!


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[Assistant] I bet I know like where you grew up, where your parents are from, like that's the cool thing about LA, right? It's this weird terroir where you can get like a deep fried jalapeno stuffed with crab meat and be like, I know the history behind that, and it's really cool. That is fantastic.


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[Assistant] It might be derivative of like Filipino Pandasal, uhm, but to me, as far as I know, it's a native LA company that, you know, was kind of just inspired by it. I feel like we're sitting next to a...


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[Assistant] Food is the only thing that I've cared about since I can remember. Like, since I was six years old, food just dominated my thoughts. And so I would come home from school,


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[Assistant] Delicious, sweet, soy, you know, the sesame on there. Next up, we got- Wow.


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[Assistant] You're covering it. Yeah, what do we got? We got, is that rice in there?


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[Assistant] Ray, some sort of meat. Is this a spicy pork? And then you hit it with the black sesame, the mayonnaise, and the sriracha. This is a treat. This is.


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[Assistant] I thought I was a chicken burger. A chicken burger is if you were to grind the chicken meat into a disc, and then cook that, and then put that on there. Like, browns. Okay. But, no, that's a good point, is whenever we talk about something, it's going to be culturally specific, right? When I say English muffin,


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[Assistant] I don't mean like a muffin in the style of England, right? I mean like I used to buy something called Thomas's brand English muffins that I grew up eating. To me that's an English muffin, to y'all that's completely something different. Right? And so like anytime you're talking about a hot dog or a sandwich or whatever.


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[Assistant] You have to like somehow bring that into your own cultural framework and then try and expand outward to see if there's any universality you can get to. I will say even the term hot dog is


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[Assistant] Really weird. Do you ever know where it comes from? No. Do we want to? Do we want to know?


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[Assistant] Please tell me it doesn't involve actual dogs. Well, it involves a stereotype about a certain group of people that they thought ate dog, which were Germans at the time.