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[Assistant] Hand over the keyblade and I'll spare your lives. Glad I'm merciful, unlike the heartless. So, which will it be? The keyblade? Or the plank?


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[Assistant] Pierce, you okay up there? Yeah, there's a helicopter up here I'm gonna climb to. You think you'll be okay on your own? Get that thing and come pick me up, I'll be fine.


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[Assistant] What? Guess I could really use some help in here. Anything? Matt? Keith?


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[Assistant] I'm finna rap in a bit. The homie finna be my hype man. I'm finna go up.


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[Assistant] My deepest gratitude to the editors of Soap Opera Digest for this wonderful award. I'll cherish it always.


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[Assistant] It happens to fall on a very special year because 1986 marks my tenth year as a head writer of continuing drama.


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[Assistant] So Meredith and your crew, this is a wonderful anniversary present. Thank you for honoring my work in the past, and it gives me something to live up to in the future. Thank you all.


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[Assistant] Assuming we're right and Cortana is on this plant. How did she get here?


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[Assistant] Well, thank you very much. Actually, I can't help but be impressed. Look what these ladies have been through. I mean, one play is a cop's wife. We all know how hard that is.


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[Assistant] Another widow runs a TV station, and that's gotta be a rough job. And the third, we saw what happened to her, she got hit on the head with a sign, and wound up here in the studio, alive and well to tell about.


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[Assistant] The outstanding supporting actress in a daytime continuing drama, live and in poison.


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[Assistant] I've made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgment.


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[Assistant] You know, some years after I had been on General Hospital, an incredible woman joined the show and things were never the same. That woman is Gloria Monte, my very own female Italian stallion.


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[Assistant] What is having Bitcoin? No, not having Bitcoin, having Bitcoin. What does it mean? When does it happen? What happens to the value of Bitcoin when it does happen? Well, stick around. Here on Bitcoin Whiteboard Tuesday, we'll answer these questions and more.


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[Assistant] Hi everyone, I'm Nate Martin from 99Bitcoins.com and this is Bitcoin Whiteboard Tuesday. During each edition, we'll go over some basic ideas about Bitcoin. That way, you can learn more about Bitcoin yourself or forward these videos to friends or family members who have questions.


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[Assistant] When Bitcoin was created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto, he designed a way for new Bitcoins to be distributed without a person or group of people deciding who should get them. The idea, called Bitcoin mining, was to reward people with new Bitcoin for doing the work of verifying new transactions into new blocks through computational work.


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[Assistant] Okay, I lost some of you there. For a better understanding of mining, check out our episode titled, What is Bitcoin Mining?


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[Assistant] Suffice to say that new Bitcoin is created as a reward for miners verifying blocks in the blockchain.


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[Assistant] When Bitcoin started, the reward was set to 50 coins per block.


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[Assistant] But Nakamoto put into the protocol a rule where every 210,000 blocks, or roughly every four years, the reward would be cut in half. And so is named a having event.


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[Assistant] The first occurred in late 2012, where block number 210,000 rewarded 50 coins to the winning miner. But then, block number 210,001 only rewarded its winning miner 25 coins.


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[Assistant] The second halving event occurred in mid-2016, halving the block reward again, so the reward for block number 420,001 came in the amount of 12.5 coins. And so it will go until sometime near the year 2140 when all 21 million bitcoins will have been mined.


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[Assistant] Why the change? Why not keep the reward the same? Isn't that unfair to the minors?


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[Assistant] The answer to that question lies in the law of supply and demand. If the coins are created too quickly and there's no end to the number of bitcoins that can be created, eventually there will be so many bitcoins in circulation that they would have very little value.


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[Assistant] Vitalik Buterin, who was, at the time of this episode, the lead developer of the Ethereum project, wrote an op-ed piece for Bitcoin Magazine and explains the need for slowing the distribution of Bitcoins through having this way.


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[Assistant] The main reason why this is done is to keep inflation under control.


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[Assistant] One of the major faults of traditional fiat currencies controlled by central banks is that the banks can print as much of the currency as they want.


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[Assistant] And if they print too much, the laws of supply and demand ensure that the value of the currency starts dropping quickly.


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[Assistant] Bitcoin, on the other hand, is intended to simulate a commodity like gold.


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[Assistant] There is only a limited amount of gold in the world, and with every gram of gold that is mined, the gold that still remains becomes harder and harder to extract.


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[Assistant] As a result of this limited supply, gold has maintained its value as an international medium of exchange and store of value for over 6,000 years. And the hope is that Bitcoin will do the same.


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[Assistant] Okay, but I'm sure you're asking, what will happen to the value of my Bitcoin?


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[Assistant] Well, the short answer is, nobody knows. In 2016, a week after the halving event, not much happened to the exchange rate of Bitcoin against the US dollar. Where Bitcoin was trading at around 650 US dollars at the time of the event, a week later the rate was about 675, so not much of a change.


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[Assistant] Many believe that the anticipated rise in price actually occurred between three months and a year ahead of the event itself, where Bitcoin was trading around $300 at a year prior and $430 three months before the halving occurred.


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[Assistant] But that was a different time. Add into the mix the media attention and subsequent public awareness spike in 2017.


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[Assistant] The exponential growth of ICOs and new coins in the marketplace, government regulations and restrictions, not to mention futures and derivative offerings opening up doors for institutional investment, and it becomes quite the task to predict what effect the next halving event will have on global exchange rates.


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[Assistant] The important thing to remember is this, Bitcoin was designed to be valuable. First, in that there will only ever be a specific number of them in existence, 21 million, and that inflation in Bitcoin's economy is kept in check by slowing its distribution through the process of halving.


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[Assistant] I hope this gives you a better idea of what Bitcoin having is and why it's an important feature of what gives Bitcoin its value.


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[Assistant] Now, you may still have some questions. If so, just leave them in the comment section below. And if you're watching this video on YouTube and enjoy what you're seeing, don't forget to hit the like button and make sure to subscribe for notifications to new episodes.


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[Assistant] Thanks for joining me here at the whiteboard. For 99Bitcoins.com, I'm Nate Martin, and I'll see you in a bit.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm in the plane doing my thing.


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[Assistant] Don't take this the wrong way, but I've spent years living in the past, I'm ready for the future.


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[Assistant] Ooh, is that a killin' floor? Merry Christmas to me.


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[Assistant] Shit, I forgot Mr. Dayxx Machina was even on the ship.


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[Assistant] He's in, sure do make a good argument for murdering him. Oh, they're nothing compared to their leader.


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[Assistant] Michelle Lee and Kevin Dobson in Notts Landing. And Emma Sands and John James of the Colbys. Please.


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[Assistant] But their movement still needs work. It's not scary enough.


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[Assistant] Nonsense, my devices are always perfect! Oh, I've got it! Why, of course!


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[Assistant] The heartless need a heart. Doctor.


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[Assistant] Do you think we can add a heart to that device? Certainly. A heart's not all that complicated. Let's get to work. To make a heart, first take a container with a lock.


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[Assistant] Why, that was amazing! Uh, and you are?


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[Assistant] Sora! Well done, Sora! I'd like you to be a part of this year's Halloween! What's this heartless doing here?


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[Assistant] Oh, the Heartless came to town just recently. What's frustrating is I can't get them to dance with me.


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[Assistant] So, the doctor and I are trying to improve the guidance system.


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[Assistant] Okay doctor, let's continue. The ingredients for a heart. Pulse. Emotion.


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[Assistant] Mix them all together, and we have a heart.


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[Assistant] No problem. Sora, would you like to come along? Sure.


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[Assistant] Once we get the heartless a heart, they'll dance just as I envision it. Trust me, you're going to love it.


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[Assistant] What is a stablecoin? What is it used for? How are stablecoins created? And are they really a good idea? Well, stick around. In this episode of Crypto Whiteboard Tuesday, we'll answer these questions and more.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Nate Martin from 99Bitcoins.com and welcome to Crypto Whiteboard Tuesday where we take complex cryptocurrency topics, break them down, and translate them into plain English. Before we begin, don't forget to subscribe to the channel and click that bell so you will immediately get notified when a new video comes out. Today's topic is stablecoins.


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[Assistant] Most cryptocurrencies were meant to serve as a medium of exchange and not just a store of value. The problem is that due to their relatively small market cap, even popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin tend to experience wide fluctuations in price. Usually, the smaller a market cap an asset has, the more volatile its price will be.


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[Assistant] Imagine throwing a rock into a small pond. Now, take the same rock and throw it into the ocean.


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[Assistant] Clearly, the rock will have much more of an effect on the pond than on the ocean. In the same manner, the cryptocurrency market cap is a small pond for now.


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[Assistant] And is more affected by everyday buy and sell orders than, say for example, the US dollar.


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[Assistant] This creates a major issue, since you can't enjoy the benefits of cryptocurrencies, which include the decentralization of money and a free-for-all payment system, without the value volatility that accompanies it. Imagine how hard it is to use Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency for day-to-day transactions and trading purposes when one day it's worth X and the next day it's worth half that.


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[Assistant] Just think what it feels like to be the guy who bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins eight years ago. That's exactly where stablecoins come in.


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[Assistant] Simply put, stablecoins are an attempt to create a cryptocurrency that isn't volatile. A stablecoin's value is pegged to a real-world currency, also known as a fiat currency. For example, the stablecoin known as Tether or USDT is worth 1 USD and is expected to maintain this peg no matter what.


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[Assistant] Stablecoins allow for the convenience of cryptocurrency, which means fast settlement and fewer regulatory hurdles, along with the stability of fiat currencies.


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[Assistant] Like most coins, the most obvious use case would be to use them as a medium of exchange for day-to-day purchases. But since these coins aren't very popular at the moment, no one really accepts them as a payment method.


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[Assistant] So, the main usage of stablecoins today is actually on cryptocurrency exchanges. Using stablecoins, traders can trade volatile cryptocurrencies for stable cryptocurrencies when they want to lower their risk.


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[Assistant] For example, if I'm invested in Bitcoin and I don't want to risk the price of Bitcoin falling against the US dollar, I can just exchange my Bitcoins for USDT and retain my dollar value. Once I want to get back into the game and hold Bitcoins, I can just exchange my USDT back to BTC.


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[Assistant] This method is extremely popular with crypto-only exchanges that don't supply their users with the option to exchange Bitcoin for fiat currencies due to regulation. Another great advantage of stablecoins is that you can move funds between exchanges relatively quickly, since crypto transactions are faster and cheaper than fiat transactions.


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[Assistant] How are they made possible? What keeps their price from the volatility that other cryptocurrencies experience? Well, there are several ways a company can try and maintain its stablecoins pegged to a fiat currency.


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[Assistant] The first way to maintain a peg is by creating trust that the coin is actually worth what it is pegged to.


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[Assistant] For example, if the market doesn't believe that one USDT is really worth $1, people will immediately dump all of their USDT and the price will crash. In order to maintain this trust, the company backs its coins with some sort of asset.


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[Assistant] This collateral is basically proof that the company is good for its word and that its coins should actually be worth the pegged amount. For example, in Tether's case, each USDT is said to be backed by an actual US dollar that Tether holds as collateral. A different example for collateral is the DGX token that is said to be backed by gold.


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[Assistant] Another version of a collateralized stablecoin is one that is backed by one or more cryptocurrencies. This form of collateral is much easier to audit since a company's balance can be viewed on the blockchain. The second way to maintain a peg is by manipulating the coin supply on the market, also known as an algorithmic peg.


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[Assistant] An algorithmic peg means the company writes a set of rules, also known as a smart contract, that increases or decreases the amount of a stablecoin in circulation depending on the coin's price. Let me explain.


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[Assistant] Imagine we have a stablecoin that is pegged to the US dollar through an algorithmic peg. Assuming a lot of people were to start buying the coin, its price would rise and the peg will be broken. To prevent this from happening, new coins are issued. This increase in supply alleviates the price pressure created by the demand and maintains the coin's value.


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[Assistant] If, on the other hand, many people start selling the coin, coins are removed from the overall supply in order to hold the price peg to one US dollar. To be clear, algorithmically pegged stablecoins don't hold any assets as collateral.


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[Assistant] The smart contract that manages the coin acts as a central bank. It tries to manipulate the price back to the peg by changing the money supply. There are pros and cons for each pegging method.


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[Assistant] Fiat collateralized pegs transmit the highest degree of certainty to stablecoin holders that the coin is indeed worth the asset it is backed by.


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[Assistant] However, fiat collateralized pegs have some major cons. For one, from the company's standpoint, the asset is frozen and can't be used for anything else. Also, there's always the risk of embezzlement or the closing of the company's bank account, which can ruin the trust in the stablecoin.


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[Assistant] Another issue with fiat collateralized stablecoins is that it's hard to actually prove the company owns enough of the asset to really back the amount of coins in circulation. Tether, for example, has suffered severe criticism and audit requests from skeptics claiming the company doesn't have enough collateral to back the USDT in circulation.


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[Assistant] Crypto-collateralized coins on the other hand may have the benefit of viewing the collateral on the blockchain, but the collateral itself is extremely volatile.


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[Assistant] That's why a premium is needed. In many cases, that company will hold 150% or even more of the collateral needed to make up for possible drops in the cryptocurrency prices. Algorithmic pegging benefits from the fact that the company doesn't need to hold any asset on hand.


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[Assistant] However, many will argue that algorithmic pegging theory doesn't really work in real life, since manipulating the money supply isn't a guarantee the peg will hold. With all of the complexities in maintaining a stable coin's peg, you might be wondering, what's the incentive to create a stable coin in the first place? What's the business model? Well, for each company, there's a different incentive. Some companies can charge a fee for trading their coins.


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[Assistant] Other companies use their stablecoin as a marketing channel to raise awareness to the company and other services it offers.


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[Assistant] Hobie, Gemini, Coinbase, and Circle are exchanges that have created their own stablecoins in order to attract more users to their trading platforms and allow easier transition of funds within and between exchanges. Let's take a moment to go over some examples of the more popular stablecoins in use today.


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[Assistant] USDT, or USD Tether, which I've already mentioned, is a fiat collateralized stablecoin that is pegged to the US dollar. The coin was created by the company Tether and has remained relatively stable since its introduction in 2015.


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[Assistant] TUSD, not to be confused with USDT, stands for true USD and is a relatively new fiat collateralized stablecoin that attempts to address the criticism directed at Tether. Collateral US dollars are held in the bank accounts of multiple trust companies. These bank accounts are published every day and are subject to monthly audits.


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[Assistant] GUSD, also known as GeminiUSD, is a fiat collateralized stablecoin issued by the popular crypto exchange Gemini, which was established by the Winklevoss brothers. According to Gemini, GUSD is the first regulated stablecoin in the world.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of criticism going on about the creation of stablecoins. The most common one is related to the inability of actually maintaining the peg in the long run. This could be due to any one of the reasons I've mentioned before.


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[Assistant] On top of that, a quick look at history tells us that all pegged currencies are doomed to fail due to the cost of maintaining them, especially when that peg comes under attack. Some well-known examples where pegs were broken are the Swiss franc peg to the euro in 2015, the Chinese yuan to the US dollar in 2005,


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[Assistant] The Thai bot peg to the US dollar in 1997, and the most famous of them all, the gold standard, pegging the US dollar to gold in 1971.


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[Assistant] But the bigger question here is the issue of governance. Stablecoins are considered by many to be centralized due to the fact that there is a company behind them that maintains the peg, whether it be algorithmic or collateralized. Therefore, stablecoins aren't really cryptocurrencies in the sense that they aren't decentralized.


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[Assistant] Another issue is that stable coins seem to be providing a solution to something that is just a growing pain and not a constant problem.


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[Assistant] Once cryptocurrencies achieve a higher market cap, their volatility will reduce dramatically and there will be no real use for stablecoins. Stablecoins are trying to get the best of both worlds. The stability of an established currency with a large market and the flexibility of a decentralized free-for-all cryptocurrency.


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[Assistant] The problem is that they also get the worst of both worlds, a centralized coin with a sort of central bank controlling it, and a questionable ability to maintain the public's trust in it.


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[Assistant] Finally, there's the question of regulation. Will regulators allow companies to create an asset that mimics legal tender without any oversight? One example for such an issue is Basis, an algorithmically pegged stablecoin that raised over $130 million for its project just to shut down due to regulatory issues not too long ago.


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[Assistant] It seems like stablecoins are some sort of a temporary utility for exchanges, allowing traders a haven out of volatility without needing to supply them with a regulated fiat option.


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[Assistant] In the long run, it's hard to be sure how or whether these coins will have a place in the crypto ecosystem, especially with so many question marks surrounding them.


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[Assistant] That's it for today's episode of Crypto Whiteboard Tuesday. Hopefully by now you understand what stablecoins are and how they work. A type of cryptocurrency that is pegged to the value of a less volatile asset, usually the US dollar.


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[Assistant] You may still have some questions. If so, just leave them in the comments section below.


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[Assistant] And if you're watching this video on YouTube and enjoy what you've seen, don't forget to hit the like button. Then make sure to subscribe to the channel and click that bell so you'll be notified as soon as we post new episodes. Thanks for joining me here at the whiteboard. For 99Bitcoins.com, I'm Nate Martin, and I'll see you in a bit.


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[Assistant] Another issue is that stablecoins seem to peeper, seem to pee, and is a relatively new pee- uh huh. Algorithmic cres- mmm hmm hmm.


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[Assistant] No, absolutely. It's a lot of people that only know me for certain things. So they might know me for this, but didn't know I did that. They know me for this, but didn't know I was attached to that. Like, so it's a, it's a puzzle. It's definitely a puzzle.


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[Assistant] What time do you get up? I get up like 5, well I get up at 5.45, they send a car to my crib at 5.45, so that's my alarm clock. I get up at like,


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[Assistant] Nah, man, I feel rich with my kids, man. My kids make me feel that warmth, you know what I mean? For real. But I'm trying to get rich, for real, like I'm trying to get on my shit.


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[Assistant] So I wanted to be a rapper when I was a kid, but like I grew up around a lot of like, a lot of my homies I grew up with was rappers and like once they started having success, I didn't want that.


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[Assistant] Like how I even got on there, I don't know. Like, I mean, I do know, but it's funny cause everybody was telling me like, yo, after Joe left, I ain't wanna watch the show no more. I was like, me either.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Like honestly, like Joe my man and like when he left the show, I just was like, the fuck is going to happen?


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[Assistant] And then they like, yo, we want you to come back. And I'm like, alright. And then we did the guest host thing. And then, um, I think Joe was, Joe was, was, was having conversations with them about potentially coming back.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it was around the time when he was figuring out his revolt shit. And uhm, this was, I was already on the show when this happened. You know what I mean? I was already on a show with Star. And then they told me like, yo, you know, it's a chance that Joe might come back. Uh, if he doesn't, you know, we want to explore some things. I'm like, cool, it's ancillary for me because I never wanted to do this ever in life.


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[Assistant] Shit, like to get the blessing from, like that's my dog, so like to get that from him, it just kinda lifted the weight off my shoulders like I didn't have no shoes to fill.


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[Assistant] I can't shit on complex, you know what I mean? Cause you my dog and you on there. So like we got that, like we've had a good rapport like uhm, when I was working at Rockefellers when Joe was at Def Jam. So I've known him for years and then like


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[Assistant] Yo, I swear, Adam, like, I ain't gon' front, so that shit kinda came right on time for me. Cause it was like...


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[Assistant] I was transitioning out of managing Davies. I mean, I was transitioning out of that and


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[Assistant] I was good, but like I needed to figure out what my next thing was going to be. And like right around when that came, it was right on time. I didn't even, it came so fast for me, I couldn't even think of none of that shit.


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[Assistant] I just was like, alright well, I don't really know. I'm in the barbershop talking with my niggas for years. We talk shit about rap music. I used to get on Instagram Live and do this thing called Free Throws, where I used to like


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[Assistant] Everybody and just talk about like how they could get on their game and get into the game. And I used to talk about music on there too.


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[Assistant] And it kind of, like just the Instagram live shit kind of built a little platform for me, for the people that follow me. So I didn't have a problem like just speaking. I don't have a problem speaking, but like to do it on a level where now when I walk outside motherfuckers is stopping me like, yo, can I take a picture? I never imagined that. So I kind of got thrown in the middle of the ocean and had to swim to shore.


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[Assistant] But I didn't even, like, cause that's just what I do, like, you know what I mean? Like we, I'm from Harlem, well I'm from the Bronx and I'm from Harlem, you know what I mean? We argue, like we argue about fucking rap, we argue about sports, we argue about the streets.


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[Assistant] I didn't, I thought I was, you know what it was? I really used to think I was stupid. Because, I thought I was stupid because like, I wasn't as good as everybody else academically. So I thought that like,


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[Assistant] I really believe for a long time, like if you excel academically, then you're smart. I really believed that. Cause I had like self-esteem issues when I was younger. Only because like certain shit that teachers said to me. Like I always joke about it, but I feel like I should have been a special ed.


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[Assistant] Only because, like, especially when I was in a more condensed class, I couldn't focus in a room with 35 kids. I wanted to play, daydream and shit.


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[Assistant] Yo, I would wake up, I would take all my comic books, I would wake up 9 o'clock in the morning on a Saturday, this is when I'm like 7, 8, 9, 10 years old, and I would draw. I'm talking about from 9 in the morning to 10 at night, just draw. And they wanted to put me in like schools to draw and shit, but then my mom started telling me I'm gonna go to school for drawing and I was like, I don't wanna do it.


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[Assistant] That's why I'm not, that's why I don't work for the MCU. Like if I could have did that shit maybe I could have went on to do something like that. So I had, I didn't think I was smart, but you know what showed me was when I was smart was when I was like a teenager and I started trying to get into the streets. And like I would be around like 40 niggas and like I'm smarter than all of them and I'm not the leader.


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[Assistant] I'm around all these people that's telling me to do stupid shit and we doing stupid shit together and I'm smarter than them but I'm not even the person leading them.


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[Assistant] Gangs hit really heavy and drugs was really heavy and I gotta go, like now I can open up the door and go outside. So I gotta figure out like how I'm surviving this. So my, my thing was like, I gotta attach myself to certain things or certain people in order for me to make it, make it home. Cause that's what was happening. People was getting hurt. So I kind of joined in the shit that I didn't want to be into just to kind of get by, but


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[Assistant] I was, I couldn't stand on my own two, like I ain't gonna lie, I didn't really have a lot of stability, like for five years I lived in five different places and went to five different schools, so I didn't-


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[Assistant] 7th grade, I do 7th grade all in Maryland. They break up. We gotta move back to New York. Come back 8th grade, graduate, and we went through the shelter system. Going through the shelter system, that shit was tough and then


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[Assistant] Graduating from 8th grade going to 9th grade, we get out the shelter system, now it's time for us to move somewhere else.


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[Assistant] Nah, not really cause I don't, I got like, out of kids, like my dad got eight kids, I'm number six out of eight, and I don't really know like my older siblings and shit. Like I just, I just got cool with one of my older siblings this year that I only met him one time in my life. You know what I mean? So I didn't really, I didn't have nobody I could, I get into a fight, I couldn't call no big brother. I couldn't call no soul.


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[Assistant] Let me not say pussy, I just was like, I wanna say pussy cause I don't want a kid to see this and think that you just, like, you just, it's like you, you uhm, I just wasn't confrontational. Now my thing was, I would fight.


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[Assistant] No, listen, if you from Harlem, like my era of Harlem, so like...


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[Assistant] My era Harlem, you either go to school, you play basketball, or you sell drugs. That's it. There is no nothing else.


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[Assistant] Everybody, you either getting money or you playing ball. If you don't succeed in ball, then you end up selling drugs. If you don't end up, like nobody I was around went to college. I'm like the most successful person in my family. I'm a high school dropout.


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[Assistant] I'm hungry. He like, you hungry? I'm like, yea, he like, let's go to Burger King. I'm like, I ain't got no money. He like, don't worry about it. We go to Burger King.


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[Assistant] Some chick come bring us a bunch of big ass bag of fucking Burger King.


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[Assistant] He like, we like, who car is this? He like, it's my wife's car. We look, it's a Junior Mafia CD in there. We like, you know, your wife ain't listening to no fucking Junior Mafia. My man's like, fuck it. They bought the car, they joy-rolled around in that shit for a day, crashed and just left it. What the fuck. You know what I mean? But that's, that's how growing up in Harlem was. And then I grew up on a block where that blood shit hit heavy. So it was like, you got to figure out what you going to do when you come outside.


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[Assistant] Was it a dip set making it cool? Nah, it wasn't no dip set. Cam wasn't even out as a rapper at that time.


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[Assistant] But uhm, yeaah, so like now it wasn't Dipset making it cool, it just was like, see the shit is the gang shit in New York, it started in prison.


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[Assistant] So like, it's really ruthless. Like where I grew up at was crazy. Like I didn't even know what fucking, I didn't even know what trauma meant until like four years ago. I'm 36 years old. So it's mad shit I seen as a kid.


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[Assistant] But I didn't know that, like, I should have talked about or talked to a person about the things I seen when I was a kid. You just lived to go on with it. Like, you know, it's like not a thing.


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[Assistant] I seen a lot of people who like get crazy money on my block, but they also caught crazy indictments. It's like, it goes hand in hand.


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[Assistant] They was going to jail, in high school, like they going to jail for selling crack, going to do a month in Sponford, coming home.


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[Assistant] And eventually end up going to Rikers, coming home. You know what I mean? So it was...


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[Assistant] It was like a revolving door. Like the place that I grew up at in Harlem is nicknamed Convict Alley because in all of New York, in like a certain parameter of proximity, it's the most repeat offenders in all of New York. So I grew up in a place where


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[Assistant] You more likely to go to jail, come home in six months, or come home and go back to jail for whatever you did or something worse in six months.


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[Assistant] How am I gonna lift? Like, you know what I mean? Like, how am I gonna get past this? Right. You know, so.


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[Assistant] Nah, I was always like, I was, I was working like little regular jobs, like even with me, like,


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[Assistant] I would never sit here and proclaim that I was like, I was on my block moving this and moving that. The most I did on my block was look out.


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[Assistant] Cause my dad is like one of the most respected street dudes in the Bronx, but he kept, he never like...


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[Assistant] You can't, you can't hide shit. Kids are smarter than the parents thinking. I'm a parent. Like kids are smarter than you think. And uhm.


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[Assistant] He was trying to hide certain shit from me and I was like, why the fuck am I listening to you and you doing everything you telling me not to do?


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? So, it was kind of a rebellion of my dad to kind of get you.


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[Assistant] Well not at The Rock, I worked in the mailroom where Rockefeller was, so I worked in the mailroom. I didn't even, Rockefeller wasn't even my floor to deliver to.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, like, alright, so look, you seen the movie Backstage before?


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[Assistant] I had dropped out of high school and my mom was like, yo listen, I don't mind if you like, if you're not gonna go to school right now.


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[Assistant] Exactly. And this is 2000. Holy shit. So I'm 17 so I get- So you feel like you're meant to be here. Absolutely. Absolutely. Cause I absolutely could have went- it was people that when we all took the test they was, oh you going to World Trade Center. You know what I'm saying? Wow.


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[Assistant] I'm like why, like I'm a kid, I'm 17, I'm like why the fuck is there all this Murder Inc stuff in here? It's a building, like, so...


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[Assistant] They like, uhm, we do that and then we go to another floor.


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[Assistant] And then I go to the 27th floor, Murder Inc. was on the 20th floor. And I go to the 27th floor and it's Def Jam. And I'm like, and I'm like, yo, what is all of this stuff here? Like I just see a Def Jam logo. I'm like, what is this? Like I still don't know where I'm at. And then the guy's like, yo, this is where all the record labels at. I'm like, what the fuck? Like you serious? Yeah. So that was like working in the mill room. But the way I got my first, first start was,


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[Assistant] I wish Bleak was getting it back there. But nah, uhm, Omiyeli McIntosh, she worked for Jay-Z's fan club called FanFam.


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[Assistant] And like, they would ship out, you know, there's no internet at this time. So this is like, kids is writing in letters saying, I love Jay-Z, send me a t-shirt or some shit. And I'm helping them pack t-shirts after work. Cause I was a kid, like I was the youngest person there. Everybody else is like in their twenties. I was the youngest person in there, so they would let me help out after work. End up getting fired from the mail room a year later.


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[Assistant] It was a box that was supposed to go to Def Jam that this dude, he left on the floor for me in a freight area and...


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[Assistant] I worked at a fucking sneaker store around my block, uh, for like a couple months.


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[Assistant] So that was my start. Wow. That's crazy. Yea, that was the start.


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[Assistant] I don't know what the fuck, I just didn't, yo I swear to God. So look, around this time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this one I'm like 19 now. Like this is like one of my first friends I've had in my life. He got murdered. You know what I mean? So he got killed and then like...


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[Assistant] Like just a lot of friends I had was going to jail and I was like I wanna do something cause I knew that if I didn't...


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[Assistant] I didn't do anything, like, end up getting an assistant A&R position like six months in though.


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[Assistant] I got cool with um, Chris and Neve from the Young Guns. So we all the same age, so like.


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[Assistant] You know, the Young Guns at the time, we was like, damn, was we 17? No, I think I might have been 18 at this time now. Y'all was 18 at the time. Not when he died, but like yea, 18. So...


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[Assistant] I just was like, yo, one day I found Beanie Seagull's mother's name on a piece of paper.


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[Assistant] And I just, I like the Young Guns and I like all the Philly artists so much and I felt like they wasn't doing nothing so I called, I just, I could've got fucking...


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[Assistant] Yeah, because I'm going to the studio and like, I'm just pulling up at the studio and like Jay is in there, fucking Kanye is in there doing beats, the Young Guns is in there playing pool, Beanie Seagull in the other room, and Just Blaze in the other room, and I'm just a kid just sitting there with nothing to do. So everybody's like, who the fuck told this kid? Like, I know it used to be days I'd come in there and like Jay,


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[Assistant] They be like, who let this kid in here? And I used to do dumb shit, like say shit to them like, yo, so, and they just would look at me like, who the fuck do this kid think he is?


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[Assistant] Of course I piss people off, yo. I remember one night I went there and like, like the next day I go to the office and Shari was like, do not go to the studio again.


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[Assistant] I started working on state property albums and then Beanie Seagu took a liking to me. Me and Beanie Seagu got really, really tight, you know what I mean? He, uh, I became Muslim being around him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, wow. So it was like, it was a learning experience, but...


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[Assistant] Nah, I ain't gonna lie, man. It's so funny, like, I remember, like, I was, I think I did Charlamagne's podcast, and he asked me a question about Beanie Cigu. He said, when he had did something to me, I said, yo.


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[Assistant] And they did drink, they drink, uhm, syrup and shit.


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[Assistant] That lean is a motherfucker, bro. It really is. Yea, I tried fucking with that shit too, and that shit, like, just being curious, fucking around, and there's not nothing to play with. No, that's a dangerous thing.


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[Assistant] You know, well I wasn't around at that time, like I was way younger than that when he got around, but the story is that his brother named Sadiq from Philly and he knew Jay and him or whatever and he brought Beenz up, you know what I mean? He brought Beenz up and then Beenz just rapped for Jay for like an hour or some shit and then he was like, and then he put him on Reservoir Dogs or some shit like that.


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[Assistant] One day he record and he just say the shit you heard him saying in his sleep.


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[Assistant] Well he sold records, like that's the thing, he did sell records, like he was, yo he might have been richer than majority of people around in his class that was selling records because


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[Assistant] A Kiss sells 65,000 records the first week, that's big. Jadakiss was selling fucking 240, 300,000 the first week and people


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[Assistant] Well, I'm, I'm doing, at this time I'm just doing whatever is asked of me, but like, I'm, uh,


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[Assistant] And they produced all the records, like they was the guys in Philly. So like, if you was an up and coming rapper in Philly, you went over there to do records. So I got, I like befriended them and I became like they little homies.


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[Assistant] Dude, but not really, like he don't really eat, like he like, like his favorite rapper is me, like his favorite rapper is me, Drake, Young Thug, fucking, uh, Dirk. Uhm, well, he, he fuck with Tekka, OD Heavy. Really? Yea, he love Tekka, yo, like, he, he fucks with, uhm,


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[Assistant] No, absolutely, like my son, he helped me, I signed my artist TJ Porter. He signed to Def Jam because of my son.


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[Assistant] I think they said that they was at like, because TJ played basketball too, so they was like, they was at a basketball game and somebody said he played, he rapped, or he told somebody it's SoundCloud, so they just looked him up and they started listening to his music and then sharing it amongst their friends. But when I met him, he had a song that had like 700,000 streams on SoundCloud, and all he's doing is playing basketball and going to school.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? So I'm like, shit, come over here. You know what I mean? Groomed him for a year and then he got signed to Dev Gym. That's crazy. Yeah, my son, my son, I credit him for that shit.


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[Assistant] I was fucked up, bro. I thought, look, I wouldn't have never gotten fucking Harlem tattooed on my hand. Like at the time I'm thinking, I'm going to be at Rockefeller forever. I'm 20 years old. I'm going to Jay birthday parties, Beyonce there, fucking every actor. I'm hanging in this loop and I'm a young kid. I'm thinking this shit is never going to end. And then one day that shit just was like, boom.


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[Assistant] When I look back now, I kinda did, but didn't. Cause the thing was, it came to a point when all the camera and shit was happening.


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[Assistant] I go somewhere else and we around Dame. But I was around Dame a lot. But Dame never spoke badly about Jay. When we was around him, like, he never said nothing about what was going on.


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[Assistant] And that was in the epicenter of that shit. They never like, we didn't know, it just happened. Boom, one day it just, and it was like,


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[Assistant] Go with your mother or your father. Like really, it was like, who do you go with? And I didn't know what to do. I wouldn't got a regular job again.


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[Assistant] Like really know how to build relationships. So like at Rockefeller, we didn't really wheeze the fucking everything. A young kid that works for OVO right now, I'm pretty sure like they've got relationships, but they thinking that that's never gonna end. Like you never think cash money is gonna end at the peak of their level.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? That was like, that shit was a, that hurt. So where'd you go to work? Jamba Juice? Fucking fresh direct.


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[Assistant] It's like this place in New York that like, fill orders for fucking...


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[Assistant] Groceries and shit. I only did that for four days. I worked at Bed Bath & Beyond. I worked at-


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[Assistant] And I, I did uhm, that for a few years. I worked at Channel 11, which is, what the fuck is Channel 11 out here? Pix is what?


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I did, uh, I did that for a bit. I got laid off from that job, rehired, and then got laid off again. And that last time I got laid off...


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[Assistant] I mean, I was like, I'm not, I'ma just try my shit. You know what I mean? So what'd that turn into?


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[Assistant] Just to learn your lesson. I mean, roll it all out. I did tons of shit bro, like I mean like...


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[Assistant] Even being that Rockefeller, I almost went to jail, all types of shit. Like, we was reckless, yo. The young guns, we was, the young guns, we was young guns. We was carrying guns everywhere. Like, we was wildin'. You know what I mean? Like, Neaf caught a gun charge one time. Me and him was together. He caught a gun charge. That was another eye-opener for me. You know what I mean? Neaf caught a gun charge and then Jay wanted to have a conversation. That's the first conversation I had with Jay.


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[Assistant] Them carrying guns every day, like, that's how they live. He was like, you know, he said, you see Tata? I'm like, yea, he like, I'm the reason why Tata's mother never have to work again in her life.


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[Assistant] I learned like the importance of like your voice. Like, like for me, I have a voice.


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[Assistant] Like even in my neighborhood. You know what I mean? Like I'm respected in Harlem. And I say that to say this, like as a man.


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[Assistant] Ain't got nothing to do with no street shit. You ain't gonna go to Harlem and they gonna tell you, yeah, Wayno was blaming at him and he was doing this and he was like, you know what I mean? I had fights, I had all types of bullshit, but that's not what I'm respected for. I'm respected as a man in Harlem. Like from old people to little kids to in between. So it's like a lot of people in my neighborhood, they look at me like, like a shining example of


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah. I mean like for me, so I'm really careful about how I speak. You know what I mean? Because I know like, the same way I talk, I watched Irv Gotti when I was a kid. I watched Dame. I watched Kevin Liles.


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[Assistant] Fuckin' tons of people speak and I just used to always like idolize how they spoke and what they was about. So it's like for me...


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[Assistant] I'm very cognizant about how I handle myself, how I articulate myself, cause I don't want nobody getting the wrong impressions. Like I'm not, I'm also not going to tell you that everything is sweet, cause it ain't sweet. I done cracked in my head tons of times, you know what I'm saying? And I done cracked some niggas in their heads too, but it's like, that's not what my life is about. My life is about like,


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[Assistant] Pivoting and figuring shit out so that you don't have to be in a bad position. And I got respect for that. So I take that shit with pride.


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[Assistant] So it was like that and then I, the way I met Dave East was, uhm.


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[Assistant] What do you, like, anybody managing you? He like, nah, he like, I just been doing this shit myself. I said, I said I'ma make you rich. I said I promise you I'ma make you rich. And I was like, uhm.


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[Assistant] Watch what we gonna do, like as long as you follow like the game plan or what it is I wanna do, we gonna be good and like, we made it into something.


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[Assistant] So the first thing I did, he was working on a tape called Black Rose. So like, he was like, yo, I wanna get a feature.


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[Assistant] So I got like, I say, yo, you know Smoke Dizzy? He's like, I know of him. I'm like, all right. I told Dizzy, I'm like, yo, I got this kid, you know what I mean? He dope. I brought, I brought Dizzy through his spot. They sat, Smoke, a hundred blunts. And he was like, yo, I like him. I'm going to do the verse. Did that. And then, um, my producers, they did like the last track that ended up being his intro on Black Rose. So, um.


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[Assistant] I use my resources. Like along the way, like along the way of me doing all this Rockefeller shit, I met Meek Mill like when I was like 16, like when Meek was 16, I was like 20, 21.


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[Assistant] So I met Meek Mill, so I had a relationship, I've had a relationship with Meek Mill since, for like over shit, before he caught his charge. Wow. You know what I mean? So...


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[Assistant] I knew that Dave was a rapper's rapper, so I had to put him around other rappers. So I introduced him to me. You know what I mean? Built that synergy there. I had a rapport with Styles P.


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[Assistant] We, we, we, we did tons of great work. You know what I mean? We both got out the hood.


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[Assistant] Not, nah, not too much. Well, I would give suggestions. Like, so I would, like sometimes I would put my A&R hat on. I never told him to like change no words. Like I never said, yo.


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[Assistant] I didn't write these songs. I just gave them the concept. You know what I mean? So it was uhm, a Jaune song that I was listening to everyday, everyday, everyday.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's called Don't Shoot, where I told him like, it was like, I think it was around like, right after the mic, you know black men is always getting fucking killed by police, so it was like- One of those.


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[Assistant] But I, but see, I'm talking about like, kindergarten, first grade, second grade. But I'm thinking about like, and then as I got, like the first, the first time I seen a cop do some foul shit I was around like eight or nine years old. Really? Yeah. What was it?


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[Assistant] My, my, uh, my cousin, we was going to the store. He was taking me to the store. He might have been like 13 or 14. And I was like 8. And...


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? And then when he took the coke out of his pocket, he like, look what he got and started beating him up. They didn't even lock him up, they just beat him up.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? So it's like, I seen that when I was a little kid, so that's what changed how I felt about police as a kid.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I said you gonna do a song where, I said I want you to do a song where...


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[Assistant] Like you, you, you rapping but you a little kid and you talking about like how cops ain't that bad and then as a teenager they start fucking with you, you know what I mean, a bit and your voice changes and then...


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[Assistant] And he sat and talked with his father for a long time and he called me next day like, yo, I got the record and he did it. So like, that's the kind of stuff that I kind of helped out with Dave with.


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[Assistant] You know, I never wrote no bars or said, yo, you should say this or change the hook like that. I just would give suggestions like from an A&R type of point of view.


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[Assistant] I mean, like yo, I got, like yeaah, I was a part of it.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? And we almost made it happen, but like, it just business, it didn't work out. But uhm, yeaah man, I never forget, yo, like I uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, we had the first conversation and then we did, when it was time to do the deal, I sat in the room, like it was his birthday. Me and his lawyer sat in Def Jam from 9pm on a Friday to 4am.


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[Assistant] But I called him, like he was at the club partying and I called my man and I'm like, yo, bring him to the office right now. It was like three o'clock in the morning and his contract was done.


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[Assistant] You know when I got that check, I just was like, I woke up, looked at my bank account, seen that bread, I was like moving. Wow. Told my girl that we outta here. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] I mean it did, like you know it's crazy I always give myself a new like bar, like it's like, that's all I ever wanted to do is move out the hood, so I had to find a new motivation after that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, man, so it's like, you know, we did that, and then uhm, you know, we-


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[Assistant] Next year, like, we split. You know what I mean? Like, we split after that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it just wasn't like, we just wasn't in the same, we wasn't thinking the same.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, the ways that we was thinking, he was thinking, you know, a certain way how he wanted to do things.


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[Assistant] And I didn't want to do things how he wanted to do things and he didn't want to do things the way I wanted to do things. So we just, we separated. You know what I mean? We separated. And then uhm, I just went on to like keep doing my thing and then I ended up at Everyday Struggle. You know what I mean? And then uhm, signed to a few more artists. You know what I mean? I got another artist that signed to Epic. Uhm, Daniel Munoz. He's like a pop star. I'm at SK to Walmart.


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[Assistant] Yea, yo, it's kinda crazy. You know, because like, I'm not used to...


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[Assistant] I'm not used to people stopping me and wanting to take pictures with me.


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[Assistant] You know, just wanting to talk to me. It's so funny because whenever a person, like, gets five seconds with me, they try to get, like, their version of everyday struggle. You know what I mean? Like, they be like, yo, Wayno, what you think about that? I'm like, dawg, I'm just trying to, you know, I'm just trying to cop a pair of sneakers, you know what I mean? Trying to go to the movies, like, it ain't that type of party.


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[Assistant] It's kinda, it's kinda ill, man. I mean, I appreciate it though. You know what I mean? Because I never, I ain't gon' front at him like I ain't think I'd be shit, yo.


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[Assistant] You know, we there with Star, and you know, then the Star shit stops, and then I'm on there, and then uhm,


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[Assistant] That's in the middle of the whole Tekashi shit. And I got my reservations about like how I feel about a lot of that shit. You know what I mean? How he was doing.


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[Assistant] And I, I was jacking a lot of that shit, you know what I mean? And I was uhm, I was telling Ak about that and then I also had a perception of him. But I, I was like, I was a fan of his work cause I watched, I tuned into like all his blogs shit, just to listen to him and stuff. Not, I just like, like hearing him talk about like the one shot rack, all that shit. And then uhm, like working with him was kinda like,


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[Assistant] I didn't know who he was, and he didn't know who I was. So, we never would stand offish, but I was kinda like, I don't really fuck with this nigga. Like when I first got there.


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[Assistant] So like, he's really a cool dude and I fuck with him. You know what I mean? But I, uh, we had our moments, you know what I mean? Like when we had, like when that whole Tekashi shit came down, we had an episode that got kinda like, like I kinda went hard on him. But the reason why I went hard on him is because he was doing shit, saying shit about my name when I was in the round. Like I did the, um, the pull up shit with Joe.


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[Assistant] And he was like, yeaah. He was like, Casanova was dead. Wayne was dead.


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[Assistant] And you know, Tekashi told them niggas suck his dick and I'm like...


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[Assistant] First of all, in New York, like this whole, this suck my dick shit is some new shit. In New York,


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[Assistant] And like, somebody say something about your moms, but you don't really hear it. And he be like, yo, you ain't just hear what this nigga said. He be like, yo, yo, you going to... Yo, 3 o'clock, y'all gotta fight.


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[Assistant] I didn't say that, he said it. I didn't say that shit, he said that. Yo, you gonna take that? Like, he's that nigga, like, he, and I, like, that's the person that, like, everybody is, like, cool with because they stir shit up, but you don't really bother him.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Like because his position is really out of the space.


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[Assistant] I mean the thing is, is like, what people gotta take into account too is that academics is a civilian. He's a fucking civilian. He's not a gangster.


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[Assistant] Nah man. Meek, but I tell, I say this man, they not nobody to play with. Yeah I know, that's the problem. Cause I know like, I didn't meet Meek on no music shit. I met him as a kid in the street that used to ride dirt bikes that rap.


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[Assistant] Cause he like, one of his like, close friends at the time was a dude that...


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[Assistant] And that's how I knew them, you know what I mean? And him rapping was just like extra.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? But yeaah, they definitely wanted to catch him and shit, but at the end of the day, you do something to him, he sue you, then what?


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Like you going, like, you don't wanna have to pay a million dollars and then probably, I don't know if he's gonna fucking go hard with the charges to the furthest extent of the law.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? You don't wanna catch no charge fucking with this dude.


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[Assistant] I mean, he ain't going, like, Meek ain't even on that, man. Like, Meek ain't even, you know, Meek is in a whole new place. I'm proud for my guy, man. That's my guy.


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[Assistant] I mean he was, but I was always happy for him though, cause I know where he come from. You know what I mean? I used to be in the studio with Meek when he had the ankle monitor on and be like,


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Just to see a dude that like, I know where he come from and I know his people to see him make something of himself.


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[Assistant] Yea, that's why a lot of people, like, on the show, they be like, oh, ain't no a Meek Mill dick ride or, like, yo, dawg, if you knew somebody...


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[Assistant] Who was, when I met Meek, he was in the street, he wasn't like, he wasn't, he ain't have no money, he was hustling in the streets, and...


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[Assistant] He became something. You want to celebrate that person? I'm not going to wait for him to die.


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[Assistant] I'm not waiting for nothing to happen to me, for me to say I love him and for me to say he's one of the best out there. That's my dog. Like I'ma always do that.


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[Assistant] Oh nah man, people, you know what fans do, they want you, they hype you up to do something stupid to call you stupid. They, like for real, they hype you up, you know what fans do, they be like,


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[Assistant] Oh man, like, like, alright, you remember when I had to load the whole Soulja Boy shit when he was on the show? And everybody was like, oh, Soulja Boy, he didn't...


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[Assistant] Threaten me. Like, you know what I mean? He was upset. And I, like, one thing, I respect Soulja Boy. You know what I mean? I respect him. I think that he's very misunderstood. I think that a lot...


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[Assistant] Yo, you shoulda fought him, you shoulda did this, you pussy, you this, you that. I'm like, okay.


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[Assistant] And they say, you know, everybody from Complex sent me down like, yo, Wayno, you know, this is dope, but this is not the type of, you know, stuff we need here, man. Like, you know.


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[Assistant] We gonna have to let you go. And I lose out on my check that I'm getting, you know what they gonna call me? Stupid. So they gonna be like, they telling me I shoulda did something stupid.


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[Assistant] Nah, I didn't even feel disrespected because I didn't feel threatened.


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[Assistant] Like all he did, like he was talking, he was talking, what I got mad at is when he said, y'all are stupid. Now look, he been calling, he didn't, he been calling academics, fuck niggas, stupid, everything for an hour.


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[Assistant] Academics are men. If he comfortable with that, that's fine. He wasn't like, it's one thing to watch it on camera, but on set it's a different thing. He wasn't giving me that energy when he said, y'all stupid niggas and we got a woman sitting here.


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[Assistant] Let's not forget that there's a woman, and a black woman, and I don't give a fuck if I'm on the end of the earth. If I see a black woman in a tough position, any woman, but a black woman specifically in a tough position, I'm gonna defend that.


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[Assistant] No, but he was just mad, but he was more mad at academic. He didn't even know me.


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[Assistant] I'm not mad at that. I'm the nigga from the behind the scenes that ain't even supposed to be here. So, so when it happened, I just was like, yo, come on brother, as men, clear that up because we not, you know, and that was the first time where I seen how media will flip things because everybody showed


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[Assistant] No, he noticed his faults right then and there and media ran with just the bullshit. I'm like, okay, now I see what I'm in. That's the first time I was like, oh I get it.


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[Assistant] Yeah man, I mean like, I just, I be like this man, with this, when it come to this music shit, because all these guys think they tough, just take something man, take jujitsu or some shit, like do shit in your spare time so that if you do get into something, you get it over with fast. You know what I mean? Like, but I'm not in it for that, like I'm not in it to get into no altercations or none of that shit, you know what I mean? But, it just was,


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[Assistant] Like complex, I fuck with complex, you know what I mean? But my perspective of the brand was different at that moment when that shit went down.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Because it's like, but I guess they had to look at it like shit, let's make the best of it.


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[Assistant] I don't think academics had a problem with it. People look at him as that type of person as a meme all day every day.


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[Assistant] I'm not with that cause I just, I represent a certain type of place. Like I represent a certain type of people and I'm not with that. The thing is, is that I'm just respectful. You know what I mean? Like I didn't have conversations with all types of artists that did not know me.


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[Assistant] So the thing is, when I deal with people, I'm not a journalist. You know what I mean? I just deal with people as human beings. If it's something that's bothering, and I guess that's good journalism, when it's something that's fucking with a person and you get them to talk about the worst part of it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but see, and that's the thing though, I can't cross the line cause I never wanted the beat here.


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[Assistant] So it's like for me, I'm trying to like, I'm trying to create more new content and shit. Like 2020 I'm trying to roll out new things and do new things, but I want it based on like,


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[Assistant] He's talking crazy, but it made for great content, so I watch it. But you know what it is too, Adam? Like, a lot of people, uhm, and not you specifically.


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[Assistant] But I say like certain people that look for certain rises out of people, that's they money maker. I'm from Harlem, man. I'ma get money regardless. I'ma get money whether it's some music shit, whether it's some whatever. If I gotta get into sports, I figure that shit out. If I gotta get into...


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[Assistant] Selling juices, if I gotta sell water, if I gotta get into any game I will, I always say, if you bring me to, you know how they say, you can't, uh, you can't bring a horse to water, but you can't make him drink?


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[Assistant] You have to know who you dealing with. Listen, Starr, man, I used to fucking listen to Starr say shit to people like,


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[Assistant] I just was looking at it from a fan perspective, you know what I mean? But yeaah, that was a moment there. I wasn't there at the time.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? It was good, like I'm like, like complex treats me well, I say that.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, absolutely. And I mean, it also opened me up to a new audience of people.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? So it's like, it's opened me up to like, new avenues and new ideas. And you know what another thing was is like...


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[Assistant] This game is built off of comebacks, man. It's built off of like stories and when me and East had our split, it was like, what's Wayno gonna do next? You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] That came, you know what I mean? And when that came, one thing I say about being in this music industry, I got a lot of people that like root for me. Like I know that. Genuinely people that root for me. Now like, is everybody my best friend? No. But I got a lot of people that do want to see me do good. It's probably people that want to see me do bad. I don't know them and I don't give a fuck about them.


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[Assistant] But, for the people that do want to see me do good, I'm on it. You know what I mean? So, it made sense for me to do it. Take that position.


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[Assistant] So I was watching his shit for like a month, you know what I mean? I was watching his shit for like a month and I was listening to the songs and I just thought it was like,


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[Assistant] Like, my typical day is, I come into the office, it might be everybody got an artist now. Like everybody has artists, people send me shit all day, every day.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so I do, I do everyday struggle at, uh, shit, we start at 7am.


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[Assistant] I'm done by like 9.30, 9 o'clock most days, and it's on 43rd street. Asylum on 50th street. So I just walk up the block. Know what I mean? Walk up the block, go in the office.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you this, so like, even with that, like, I don't feel no pressure, man. You know what I told, somebody asked me do I feel pressure. I said you know what pressure is? Pressure is selling drugs to pay your bills.


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[Assistant] This is all a dream, but like, I'm trying to make the best of it and what I mean by that is like,


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[Assistant] When I, when I, I'm signing artists, I'm trying to develop artists. Like I'm not into the whole fucking numbers game.


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[Assistant] Oh, his numbers is this. He's streaming that. Give him whatever he wants. I'm not into that shit. Cause I might not fucking like you.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? And you might be a fucking dingbat. Like, you know what I mean? Like, like real shit. Like, like, I'ma, I'ma sign somebody and give them a life changing, um, opportunity cause they got a bunch of numbers, but they're a fucking bad person, they're a dickhead, they come in the room, don't look people in the eye, don't shake everybody hand. Fuck all that. It's gonna be more artists out there, so I do my shit with integrity. Like, I mean,


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[Assistant] Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of dope artists, you know what I mean, out there and shit, but like, I'm not just trying to grab anything. I'm trying, like, my time at Asylum, I want it to be defined by sound.


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[Assistant] And each artist that I sign has their own sound. I haven't signed two artists that sound alike.


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[Assistant] So it's like, I want my time to be there like, yo, you know he had this kid and that kid made this. Or he had that kid and that kid made that. You know what I mean? And we run the numbers up and we do great? Perfect. But I just want my shit there because it's not forever. I want my time to be defined by me giving opportunities to the people that deserve them and putting them in a position to be in this shit for ten years.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean that's the thing, like with East, it was like, he could rap his ass off, but like...


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[Assistant] He's likable, good personality, you know?


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[Assistant] I look at, I look at artists as like, uh, businesses.


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[Assistant] Like you got the artist, the rapper floor, right? You have the...


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[Assistant] Their music was my soundtrack to my everyday. So when a dude is telling me about, and don't get me wrong, I was young enough to see Big Daddy Kane, but when you telling me that Jadakiss is not better than him,


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[Assistant] Or even Rakim, like me personally, Jadakiss and Styles P and Sheik, their music meant more to me than Rakim's music. So the same way how a kid would be like, a kid would say


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[Assistant] You, you ask a kid that's a fucking Tekka fan or you ask Tekka like, yo, how do you feel about Jay-Z's music? He be like,


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[Assistant] Jay-Z? What the fuck are you talking about? He's 17. You expect him to know what Jay-Z's first album sound, and not saying that he shouldn't do his homework. That's one thing I'm not gonna say. Like, it's cool for artists to do homework, but...


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[Assistant] What, what means something to him is Chief Keef, Lil Wayne, them niggas like.


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[Assistant] I started listening to Public Enemy when I was like 21 for real. Cause all I knew was the singles. I knew like...


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[Assistant] You, you, nobody could have told me, if you would have asked me a question like, yo it's Chuck D, one of the best, I'd be like,


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[Assistant] He not better than Method Man. You know what I mean? I would've said it cause Wu-Tang Clan meant everything to me. So I wouldn't have been like, I would've said some shit that if I'm a rapper it's gonna make headlines. He doesn't think this. He's not born in that era. Everybody not gonna feel the same way.


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[Assistant] And I was like, damn, I didn't, and this is when I first got on the show, I was like, I didn't understand that. So what I do now is like, my artists have day to days, I handle their business. So I handle their business, I talk to them, you know what I mean? We stay in contact, but I'm not with them on a day to day. So it's like, it's not, I've been, I've gotten used to that now. Like I can't, artists are fucking crazy. You can't be random all day.


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[Assistant] I don't think I'm too old for it, I just feel like I paid my dues in that round.


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[Assistant] For two days, washed my ass, I've washed my ass two days out the whole week before, in the sink, all types of shit. So, I'm, I've passed that part. Like, as you, as you grow as a, uhm, as you grow as a businessman, you what, you gotta elevate, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] You're not handling things the same way you used to, so like, I'm too old for the bullshit. Now I be too old for the...


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[Assistant] I sign an artist and you want to gangbang and do all this stupid shit and I need to make phone calls to get you out of trouble. I ain't with none of that shit.


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[Assistant] Nothing good come out the streets, so I don't care about, I don't give a fuck about chilling on, oh this is such and such block, let's go chill over there. Like, I don't give a fuck about that. If I'm in the hood somewhere, it's cause I'm going to see somebody I got love for. You know what I mean? I ain't with that standing on the corner, so when it come to artists, I don't do all of that. So artists that, if you, my thing is this.


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[Assistant] You wanna be a tough guy, join the fucking UFC. Cause you ain't tougher than none of them. Nope. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] So you can't blur the lines, you know what I'm saying? Like I'm not with that blurring lines shit. You know, like people be wanting to...


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[Assistant] Not just that I was scared when I moved there. I didn't know who I was. I defined myself. I know who I am. I'm comfortable wherever I'm at.


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[Assistant] I mean it is, but it's all bullshit. See that's the thing. Everybody looks at the... I'm not gonna lie. If you...


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[Assistant] Viewing this shit from not knowing anything, that shit looks cool, right? It looks cool. You get to wear this color. It looks the coolest shit in the world.


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[Assistant] It looks cool, you get to wear this color, you get to do these special handshakes, you got certain coded words, so you gotta put some work in.


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[Assistant] You might got a shoe, you got a, you got put that, then you got put that work in. It ain't, you put work in, it ain't easy to go to sleep after that.


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[Assistant] That's the part that don't nobody tell you about. When you gotta hurt somebody.


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[Assistant] Why it may look attractive, it's not. And I understand wanting to be a part of something. I mean like,


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[Assistant] Just specifically, I speak for black people, we tribal. We wanna feel like we part of something. That's why we got fraternities. That's why we got certain types of groups. That's why we got little cliques. It ain't just gangs, we got all types of shit. The army, it's all... Everybody wanna feel like they're a part of something to some sort of extent. Whether it's religion.


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[Assistant] I'm not, like you don't wanna be the person that motherfuckers gotta get a go from me to put your ass in the dirt. That shit is, that shit is crazy.


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[Assistant] You, you motherfuckers be out here beefing in the streets and ain't even got life insurance.


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[Assistant] So you out here beefing, you want problems and you get killed, you get murdered, your mother can't even do shit. She gotta go around, you, motherfuckers be dying. Yea, you know what's crazy? I noticed this by working in corporate America. When I worked in corporate America and people that I work with, white people, they lost a family member, the motherfuckers die on Wednesday, their ass is in the ground by Saturday. That quick. Black people die, these motherfuckers is chilling for three weeks.


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[Assistant] For real, nah, this shit is real. These motherfuckers is chillin' for three weeks. He died on Monday or we gotta bury him next, next month. Why? Because they can't afford to fuckin' bury him. How gangster is that? That shit ain't gangster.


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[Assistant] That shit ain't, that shit ain't cool, you know what I'm saying? That's what I'm saying with these kids. I be, but I be telling kids, I be like, listen.


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[Assistant] Cause you know, you go to high school and you had him, you had that guy to come in and say, hey y'all, um,


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[Assistant] Like, you know how all these kids want a million dollars for Adele? I want a million dollars. I want a million dollars. For what? You want a million dollars? Like, okay.


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[Assistant] When somebody, when you do a deal, it's not a deal for you. It's a deal for both parties. Right. So, you want the money. You know what? I'll give you the money. But I wanna know how I'm getting my money back.


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[Assistant] So you want this money for this investment.


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[Assistant] This is an investment. When you go to the bank and you ask for, you go to the bank for a loan, what do they ask you for? For a business. Credit.


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[Assistant] Credit, but what else? A business plan. Right. They say, what's your business plan? What's the cash flow? What's the portfolio? Like, how are we quantifying this? Where's the...


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[Assistant] You could do that with, like, that's how you get in business and anything else. Music. Everybody just wanna walk in and get a check.


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[Assistant] And then when you get the check and you get fucked over because here's what happens. We give you this million dollars or I'm not going to say we. Because while I'm saying this, I'm not pro-label.


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[Assistant] It don't hit how the last shit hit. Cool! We took that shot. Put out some more music. That don't hit how the last shit hit.


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[Assistant] But now, you done ran through that whole million dollars we gave you. So you start panicking, uh, yo, can I get some, like, yo, I need another advance, I need, no you can't get another advance, the fuck, we just gave you a million dollars, what you do? Oh man, alright, well.


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[Assistant] You can take the rights to this and then let me get that. Now you fucking yourself.


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[Assistant] I seen a kid get a million dollar deal and he didn't even put a record out.


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[Assistant] I be lookin' at the, like, how they court these artists the same way how a chick that you never met would try to set you up. Right? Like, okay, you poppin' and it's down to third.


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[Assistant] All this money invested in me? Why is that? So you think that they're giving you this money without knowing what they're gonna make? They already did the projections. The gank, the fight is fixed.


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[Assistant] After you, they get what you get out of you, what you got next. Cause if you ain't got nothing next, okay, peace.


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[Assistant] I didn't see, I didn't sat with dudes that work in television that raised 20 million for some shit that never happened.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? So it's like, shit, don't just, just, and I know it's tough, but if you're gonna get into the music business, try to learn. Try to learn however you can.


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[Assistant] And I'm doing everything. I'm doing everything bro. I'm doing everything because like, you know.


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm only 36 yo. Fucking Mark Cuban became a billionaire at 43 or some shit like that. He's 50 something. And I'm not saying like, one, another thing too is like the whole billionaire shit. In order to be a billionaire, you gotta be doing some real distinctive shit. But I'm learning. You know what I mean? I'm learning. I feel like my people, like black people, we the only ones that put these unfit


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[Assistant] Angry ass racist police killing black people. You got mad shooters walking in places killing black people. And then we got black people killing black people.


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[Assistant] I, like, we, it's exhausting being me sometimes, but the thing about it is, is like, I'm not giving up, man, and I know that like,


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[Assistant] Like that shit that Pac said about sparking minds, like I really believe that. Cause there's so many things that I've seen. It's like how, like with Nipsey, right? Nipsey gone.


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[Assistant] Nipsey Ben talked like, you could go through every Nipsey Hussle interview, he never said nothing crazy.


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[Assistant] I just tweeted this the other day, like, my brokeest times is where I came up with my best idea.


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[Assistant] She gotta smell that. I go in my house, I gotta see roaches.


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[Assistant] If you don't, like you better get the, your family deserve better than this.


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[Assistant] So it's like, that's why I'm at with it. And that's when a person, when a person come to me and they be like,


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[Assistant] 90, like 95% of people that hit the lotto lose the lotto. I mean lose the money. Wanna know why? Because they was never trained for it. They was never built for it. It just happened. It's tougher to maintain the bread.


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[Assistant] And I just be trying to encourage the youth for that, cause I been a youth. I know what it's like to be 18 and everybody saying everything you saying is stupid. Or people saying, you 17, what the fuck do you know? You ain't going to know nothing till you 21? You ain't did shit by the time you 25? I know what it is, and I learned, I know what it is to be 25 and look back at your 18 year old self. I know what it is to be 30 and look back at my 30.


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[Assistant] So now I'm just telling them like, yo, if you feeling it in here, like, yo, it ain't working in it. Yo, get back up on that horse man.


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[Assistant] My pops told me that shit one time. My pops was like, he said like he was fucked up for a year. He was like, he said for one year I kept like two pair of jeans.


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[Assistant] And my pop's a street, a street dude, like, my pop's 69 years old, he's a street dude to the core. And he was like...


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[Assistant] That's the thing we don't talk about in hip hop culture is discipline. Motherfuckers ain't got discipline. A motherfucker make a record, a hit record, and don't even want to come talk to you or nobody at radio to promote it.


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[Assistant] You got a mixtape out. No jumbo. What they wanna talk about?


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[Assistant] I know that they do that. I've been around artists that do it. Man.


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[Assistant] Mike wasn't chasing money, he was chasing greatness. Like, Michael Jordan was not chasing no fucking bread. He had bread. He's just like, he wanted to be better than everybody, to the point he was obsessive. I be feeling like I'm obsessed with what I do. Cause I be missing shit with my kids and all that.


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[Assistant] She's in Ivy League College. Really? You know, Ivy League College with a full academic scholarship. Damn. The fucking Brainiac. We work in my crib. Wow. You know what I mean? Like, like.


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[Assistant] She, she, I mean she loves it, she thinks it's cool.


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[Assistant] My kids is getting out the door and he's walking up to the car. I looked at him, I said, not right now. It's 8 o'clock in the morning. I'm like, yo, not right now.


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[Assistant] Not right now, but I'm telling my kids, I don't know who the fuck this could be.


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[Assistant] Y'all better pay the fuck attention, cause everybody's not our friend.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? And I don't live a life where I'm looking over my shoulder and I don't live a life where like I'm beefing with other artists or other media personalities or people where I gotta watch my back and worry about my kids, but you never, people are fucking insane out here.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so, yo, you know, I met Childish Gambino and I'd like, I fucking walked up to him and I said what up to him and shit. And I just wanted to talk cause my youngest daughter, she's seven. She loves Childish Gambino.


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[Assistant] And I just wanted to tell him, I was like, yo, my daughter loves you and all that. He was like, wait a minute, you're that guy off that show, right? And I'm like...


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[Assistant] I'm like, oh shit, this nigga know who I am? I'm like, yeaah. So, he was like, yo, he said, I think it's so ill.


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[Assistant] He said, I think what y'all do is so ill because he said like everything like that he does and he was telling me like everything I do in my world is like scripted. We write it out and all of that and we act it out. He's like, I can't even imagine like having to get up and talk every day about shit. You know what I mean? And that put a different perspective on me like I never thought of it like that. Like I could talk. I don't have a problem with that. But it's like we get...


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[Assistant] We get, uh, you know, our topics for the night. I go over them. And I know, I be like, I know academics gonna be on this. So I just be thinking like, alright, I'ma just take this perspective on it. Cause I know where he at with it. You know what I mean? Like we don't, we don't even, like when we sit in the morning, I don't be like, yo Ak, what you gonna say? I'ma say this. You gonna say that? We don't do none of that.


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[Assistant] Like, knock the fuck out, you know what I'm saying? But, but he, like, he, he wake up, that's one thing I know about Ak, them cameras come on, that shit, he turn, he's good with that shit. Really? Yeah, so, and we got, like, we built


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[Assistant] Over the past year, we built that shit the way we both understand how we are. He knows, same thing with me. He knows how I think about things and I know how he thinks about certain things.


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[Assistant] Even with us, like, we debate, but our debate is not me overbearingly yelling and just telling him he's an idiot. You never went false.


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[Assistant] When he, cause we met, I was talking about him on Twitter and then he followed me and then we used to talk and then we exchanged numbers and we used to FaceTime from time to time.


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[Assistant] I had text him, I said, yo bro, I hope you, I hope you okay, you know what I mean? We, I think we've, I text him and then we FaceTime and I was like, bro, you got your son, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] We gotta be here for him, can't be playing with that health. He's like, yeah, man. And then one day I hit him again and I was like, how you feeling? He's like sober as a motherfucker. You know what I mean? But, um, yeah, man, he was, I think that, you know, and like I said, man, like in Chicago, they go through a lot of trauma, they go through a lot of shit and you know, that shit starts, you know, you start medicating yourself and you go into a hole, man, and it's tough to get out of, but you know,


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[Assistant] Yeaah man, I actually like, I've been, I've been working on a few things man, I've been working on a few things.


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[Assistant] I've been trying to like, it's crazy because, because I was kind of thrust into it and I was part of a show. It's like I'm on a team. It's like...


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[Assistant] They want me to do, um, different things, uh, top of the year. Me and one of my partners, Jonel, we working on doing like a master class where we gonna go around and do like a tour. We, I have these same type of conversations and teach like the youth and just people who want to learn about business, you know, the business and give them some, you know, well wishes. So there's gonna be a lot of stuff coming in 2020 for me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I just, yo Adam, lastly, I just say this man, like I'm not competing with nobody. Like, I feel like so many people is just trying to compete. It's like everybody wants to start their thing and they want to, and I mean we are competing in a sense, but I mean like,


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[Assistant] I'ma support anybody who builds any type of content that I'm into and I'ma fuck with it. So it's like for me...


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[Assistant] If that's Tsunayan, where's the Guardian? Um, partially underwater. Seeing he built the city around the emerged part of it.


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[Assistant] Is the highest located eye score?


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[Assistant] The previous one was just about 7,000 meters.


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[Assistant] Nojumper, coolest podcast in a while. I got my man Lil Got It back in here. How you feeling?


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[Assistant] Let's talk about this though. You really off the perks?


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[Assistant] You had a bag, you were demanding a bag of chips so that you could take a burger set. You were like, I need something in my stomach, somebody gotta go get me a bag of chips.


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[Assistant] And then you drop the, you drop the perk in the soda.


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[Assistant] I was a little worried, I'm not gonna lie, I was like, man, this guy might be doing too much. Nah.


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[Assistant] We went viral last time from just you talking about it. You talking about some crack or some shit? We went viral because I asked you if you'd ever smoked crack.


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[Assistant] But okay, the point I was trying to make is just that doing perks, doing crack, it ain't that different.


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[Assistant] Listen, I snorted a lot of coke in my life. That ain't that different than smoking crack.


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[Assistant] Nah, I never did crack. I don't even really- Well, I mean, I've seen it in enough movies and stuff, I think I know what it'd be like.


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[Assistant] Is it soft? Soft. Soft. Cocaine. Oh yea. You never did that? You ain't really partying.


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[Assistant] You ain't got deep enough into the hole. If you never did enough downers that you had to get a little zoot, then you ain't really living.


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[Assistant] Let's try this Nestle with a candy bar, maybe some chocolate milk.


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[Assistant] I don't want to drink water. I feel like when I see Nestle's name on some water that it's gonna taste like, like chocolate milk.


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[Assistant] Self care. That's good, taking care of yourself. What's the lifestyle been like of Lil God since we last talked? I feel like you've been, you've been glowing up, the names ringing bigger and bigger bells.


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[Assistant] Talk to me about this. You're telling our boy Hondra that you can fuck him up at 2k. You take a lot of pride in your basketball skills.


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[Assistant] Who's better than you in the rap world? That you've played, that can fuck you up consistently.


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[Assistant] That's just unrealistic. Admit, there's gotta be somebody who's better than you. Like Ninja, but not for 2K.


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[Assistant] You can't bring no 14-year-old white kid to the trap house to defeat Lil' Gotted in 2K. It's not happening.


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[Assistant] Do you ever think about getting into the sort of e-gaming space? Cause they got like offset investing in FaZe, they got Drake investing in 100 Thieves. We could have the little got it.