What Exactly Is A Failed Rapper? How Is It Defined?

[00:00:00] Okay, what's up everybody? I go by the name of Doggie Diamonds. Hip-hop is in the building, of course. You know, I wanted to talk about this because I think this is a deep topic,

[00:00:11] you know, basically people going at me on Twitter for, you know, you know, it's funny. Let me put this in its proper perspective. I don't believe that I'm taking up for Joe Button per se, right?

[00:00:22] Because Joe Button made some errors in his critique of Drake. I admitted that yesterday, but I don't like the narrative. I hate the word narrative too, but I don't like the talking point

[00:00:32] or the take of a failed rapper. It kind of bothers me a little bit because for the most part, if we're going to call people fail rappers, it's so like, how is that defined, right?

[00:00:50] It's so many of our peers, our comrades, our brothers in this culture that can be considered a failed rapper if we're going to go in accordance to what I think some people's

[00:01:03] definition is. And I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. I think the minute you put out a project, you didn't fail. You know, the toughest thing to do, first of all, is to get a

[00:01:18] record deal, especially at a specific time, right? To get a record deal, to get a major record deal, to get a video done, to go on a tour and to actually be in commercials, uh, and be,

[00:01:36] even if it's, it's, it's locally known, right? Because we have rappers, for example, I'm going to get into that in a minute. So for you to be able to achieve these things,

[00:01:50] how can you be a failed rapper? There's no such thing as a failed rapper. And what I didn't like about that statement, as I feel like so many of, of, you know, my peers in the chat, so many of my

[00:02:02] peers that's going to watch this later on might get a little discouraged. And I don't want you to get discouraged. If you're talented, keep striving with that talent. Just make sure you

[00:02:16] have a way that can pay your bills. And even if you rap for a hobby, even if you rap to get, get stuff off your chest, even if you rap to rap, because you love it, you cannot be a failure

[00:02:28] because you're doing with your love. Nothing can make you a failure. If you're doing what you love now, let's get into things that some people, uh, that can make you not make it. Okay. Because again,

[00:02:40] I'm going to say this again, and people are going to argue the point and people are going to say, uh, how they feel about this statement that I'm going to make. Drake couldn't fail

[00:02:53] because Drake is manufactured. Drake has a lot of, he has rapper lot records behind him. He has young money behind him. He has cash money behind him. Then he has universal behind him. And with those four companies comes individuals who already household names. So we're talking

[00:03:23] about Jay Prince. We're talking about little Wayne, and we're talking about bird man, baby. Remember when the first time we saw Drake was like young money and they had an all-star cast that included tiger, Nicki Minaj. So, you know, so then, then he has, uh, he's done collaborations

[00:03:49] with people. So he's manufactured, you know, some of his rounds was written for him. Not saying he can't write, he could write, not saying he can't rap. He could rap, but he has a lot going for him.

[00:03:59] And I didn't even bring up the small hat thing. He doesn't, and I didn't even bring up the fact that who his, look who his uncle is. So he also comes from the grassy. So he has a past where

[00:04:12] he has a lot of people that were rooting for him. Right? So hustle, hustle P thank you for your donation and thank you for support my independent voice. The super chat is open by the way.

[00:04:28] And so was the cash app pen. So when we think about failed rappers, none of my comrades in this culture can, could be sick, could be considered a failed rapper to me. If they

[00:04:43] made one record, I like you didn't fail fam. You changed my life. You got brothers like B O B. That's why I put them on the thumbnail because I don't look at none of them as a failed rapper.

[00:04:57] You got brothers like Saigon industry politics, cause Saigon not rap. He could rap. Maybe he didn't live up to the potential that we thought he should have lived up to, but he dealt with a

[00:05:09] lot of industry politics and not wanting to conform to what was going on. You're set up for failure. Ab soul. We were looking at him to be the nest, but I remember black lip bastard. I remember all

[00:05:24] these things, but Kendrick ended up being the star out of TDE. But remember at one point it was ab soul. It was ab soul. We got other brothers have pools, not Serena dream coming soon. We heard it for a long time, but industry

[00:05:44] politics, different things stop some of these people's career from reaching its full potential. So I can't call you a failure. Ab soul is incredible. Saigon got records that I like, especially, um, uh, some of his mixtape work and B O B guy hits.

[00:06:05] Um, Jay electronica. Some people might say Jay electronica is a failed rapper. How, how could he be a failed rapper? If he put out an album with Jay-Z, you didn't fail fam. And you all incorrect. Jay electronica. I'll go on record and tell y'all,

[00:06:24] I've told y'all plenty of time, but I said, that's my personal favorite rapper. I just know his catalog of music. I've been listening. I'm not a person who just got in tuned. I've been listening to songs like dealing. I've been listening

[00:06:42] since songs that I couldn't even pronounce the name of it. I was, I was listening to songs. I couldn't even pronounce the name of the song where he was having songs where every letter was spaced out when I was listening to Jay electronica since my space.

[00:06:57] So when I think of a failed rapper, we had individuals that we might say is a failed rapper is a failed rapper. Some people might say, what's the brother's name? Um, O B trice.

[00:07:15] O B trice is a fail. How could OBI trice be a fit because he, so if OB trice right now started podcasting, gave his take on how he feel about the culture. Some people would say, Oh, you will fail rapper. How OB trice made that the setup

[00:07:38] to this day, you rocking the setup with Nate dog. So how could you say that, that, that somebody's a failed rapper if they put out projects now, you know what I, when I think of fail rappers,

[00:07:52] I think of macho man, Randy Savage putting out an album. I think of John Cena. I think of Parker Lewis from Parker Lewis can't leave. I think a bud Bundy that's a failed rapper.

[00:08:11] Ain't none of my brothers, no failed rappers because I know what it take to do this. None of these brothers is failed rappers. And according to the standards of making it,

[00:08:21] we can say who is a failed rapper when it comes to majors tech nine, can we say tech nine is a fail rapper? Hell no tech nine. Hell no. Everybody in slaughterhouse would be considered to be

[00:08:47] a failed rapper, right? Because they was on majors and they didn't make it. But could we say slaughterhouse was failed rappers? Royce has put out some of the greatest bodies of work. Crooked eyes, crooked eye,

[00:09:05] Joel Ortiz, uh, put out, you know, uh, incredible music. So I don't like, um, calling people a failed rapper because we have something called majors. Then we have the underground. And remember, according to Ebro, do your history. According

[00:09:28] to Ebro, Sean Price was a minor league rapper. According to Ebro, Sean Price was a minor league rapper. Sean Price was a minor league rapper, the great Sean Price. And he was great before he

[00:09:52] passed. Cause I don't like when people pass and then we start praising them. Right? He said, Sean Price was a minor league rapper. So how can we call anybody a failed rapper for one,

[00:10:09] if they made a hit record, even if it was a casual hit tag team may woop there it is tag team could still perform to this day and go pick up a little $1,500 every week in somewhere. Maybe it is a boat

[00:10:24] ride. Maybe it is in front of a few people. So how could you call somebody a failure if they are able to feed themselves in some type of way from what they did now another rapper who I love and respect

[00:10:39] a lot. We have killer priests, killer priest did Bible on Jesus project, killer priest. Um, got that, uh, um, that, that crazy, um, or, or, or the ghost face, uh, um, the ghost face feature.

[00:10:59] We have, uh, uh, uh, sons of man. How can we say brothers are failures if they're revered, revered as one of the greats, how can you fail? You might've failed because of politics. And let's

[00:11:13] not, let's not exclude this. What I'm saying? How could you be a failure with a classic? How could you be a failure with a classic? You can't be a failure with a classic. So fourth chain, come on. Fourth chamber, fourth chamber, but it's priests, a major artist does

[00:11:38] priests get on, on, uh, uh, is he, is he, uh, on everything? No, but could we say killer priest as a fail rapper, but according to what the standards are being set, a lot of our brothers

[00:11:58] would be considered to be fair rappers. And I'm not jacking that. I'm not going to let the culture call brothers, fail rappers who have a following, who have a fan base and who put out classic music.

[00:12:15] I'm not letting that happen. I'm not letting that happen. We can't change. We can't change a who's a fail rapper. Like I said, macho man, Randy Savage put out a rap album. The damn, the, the LA Raiders put out rap records. You know, it's been people Deion Sanders,

[00:12:42] the great Deion Sanders had a song called must be the money. Look it up. Look it up. I never took him for a rapper, but I remember must be the month. I remember it. But so I'm like,

[00:12:59] nah, fam. So to me, a fail rapper is somebody who jumps in the lane trying to rap, but you're not a rapper. You're just doing it for the check. That to me is a failed rapper. Kobe Bryant, another one,

[00:13:13] Allie Vegas wrote Kobe Bryant rhymes. Did you know that? So I can't say, uh, I can't, I can't let, I can't let nobody do that. I can't let, I can't, I can't let nobody do that.

[00:13:29] I can't let nobody. What is manufactured? Because I see somebody say erroneously and kind of stupid that Jay-Z is manufactured. Do you know what manufactured mean? See, a lot of times y'all say

[00:13:42] stuff and y'all don't even know what it means per definition. You don't know what it means. And I gave an example of how Drake is manufactured. You can't say that about Jay-Z. You can't say that about Joe button. You can't say that about, they wasn't manufactured. There's

[00:14:04] not a bunch of moving pieces that put them together. So I'm confused, but I'm not going to really get into that. You know what I'm saying? Um, Kim shack was manufactured too,

[00:14:20] but shack end up coming out with hits with it. So this is what I'm saying. So if you're a manufacturer and you have everybody putting together your shit, then you're going to be

[00:14:31] a success because everybody has something to do with it. Well, we got so many brothers on the underground ransom. We got, uh, we got 38 spesh. We got my, my, my, my, my, my dude, my bro graph

[00:14:49] lyrical assassins. How can we say they fail rappers? If that's the case, you can say a lot of battle rappers are failed rappers, but are they failed if they battle rap and they're successful

[00:15:06] in the mass millions of views and riches off a battle rap. And that's just another form of rap. Rock Marciano was on flip mode. He also was in the UN, UN with Pete rock and look at rock

[00:15:18] Marciano now. But if he had a, if he had a, uh, he's were considered to be a failed rapper in accordance to majors and people manufacturing them. Rock Marciano was able to create a sound

[00:15:33] that is being used in the culture right now, but we can't, we can't, we can't be calling people fail rappers. We can't do that. We can't, we can't, we can't be calling people fail rappers.

[00:15:48] And a lot of these brothers pivoted, they pivoted, they, they learned, they learned how to pivot. So in the pivot, in the pivot, they might've started doing different things. They might've started doing stuff different because remember he was rock Marciano. Then he became rock Moss.

[00:16:09] Then it was like, Hmm, I'm not going to let people call these dope ass MCs that the industry wasn't nice to, to a certain extent. Because again, everybody doesn't have cash money, young money, rap a lot universal Republic behind them. Right? Everybody doesn't have that. Everybody doesn't

[00:16:32] get these golden opportunities. Everybody doesn't get that. So that's like saying red cafe is a fail rapper, but how could fair cafe be a fail rapper? If he did shit out like some like, yeah, somebody

[00:16:45] said in the, in the, um, remember at one point 50 was pushing that narrative. He was saying, yo conscious, the graveyard, conscious, the graveyard, he was saying conscious, the graveyard. But if it

[00:16:58] wasn't for Koch, we wouldn't have got some of them stoke them dope styles P projects. We wouldn't have got a lot of projects if it wasn't for Koch, which is now E1 now. So we can't, we can't,

[00:17:10] we can't be calling people failures, right? We can't be calling people failures. And you have to be careful when you call them people a failure because besides Drake, where are you in your career

[00:17:33] and where you want to be? Are you a failure family to some of the people in the chat? Some of the people who are going to watch this on the playback, some of you individuals, some of you

[00:17:41] bros, some of you says y'all put out projects. You don't consider yourself to be a failure because you didn't get a deal because you didn't become successful according to industry standards.

[00:17:53] When you go in that booth and you know, you laying down that fire and you know, you doing what you gotta do. You could be on your 20th project. How can you be a failure? If you put out 20 projects,

[00:18:04] how could you be a failure? If you put out two, how could you be a failure? If you found a way to be able to feed yourself and your family from your craft, that's not failing.

[00:18:17] And then when you say your brother's living check from check, check the check. Well, welcome to most of America. I don't know about the bros in Canada, but most of America is living check to check. You got people with master's degrees who live

[00:18:31] from check to check. Now, when you tap out the culture because, um, when you in this culture for so long, it's very, very mentally taxing and nobody talks about that. This culture is very, very mentally taxing because your mental health suffers. Honestly, I'm just being real with you.

[00:19:03] Um, your mental health suffers because you're, you're caught in between wanting to do your craft and having to be able to support yourself and your family. You might have children. You might take care of your mother. You might, you know, you need a place to stay.

[00:19:25] You know how many nice people, I mean, nice. Some of y'all in the chat that is, is, is, is incredible, but real life in your skill didn't mesh yet. So you're forced to live real life. You're forced

[00:19:46] to go to work. You're forced to take some of your extra money that you make from your job and actually put it into your career. So how can I call you a failure? If you, if you, if you

[00:19:58] try and if you still going at it, if you still add it and then sometimes you got to put it down. Sometimes you got to say, look, I can't do this rap thing right now. I just have some children.

[00:20:12] Um, I got them, you know, the worst part in your life when you got to move, well, you got to pack all your shit and move that slows you down. That sets you back.

[00:20:23] So everybody is not going to be this manufactured star. Everybody is not going to be in the spotlight. Everybody's not going to get the opportunity. Everybody's not going to get the opportunity to be in the spotlight. Some people don't even want it. Lloyd Banks don't even like

[00:20:43] doing interviews. And I think that that hinders his career. I think a lot of artists that don't like doing interviews has hindered their career because we don't know their mindset. We don't know

[00:20:54] them, which could be good and bad, you know, but I think for the most part is not good. I think most people should, uh, at least do a couple of interviews a year. You have some artists who never

[00:21:07] did any, who don't do none. Right. According to the standards, now peep this, this is going to completely. Bush your brain, according to what Drake said, according to what Drake described Joe button as you know, who's the biggest fail rapper.

[00:21:37] And this is to change your whole perception of what a fail rapper is. Although Joe button didn't sell these enormous records, right. Although he did, he was known throughout the hip hop community with his peers and the fans, right. Or wrong. We can all agree with that.

[00:21:57] Um, he did several videos. He had a major deal. He had a digital deal. Then he had a slight major in a group. According to what Drake is describing as a fail rapper, because they quit,

[00:22:23] does that apply to 50 cent? I think about it. 50 cent sold a lot of records. He was on a major. He left, got dropped, whatever. And he stopped rapping because he pivoted from rap into movies.

[00:22:46] Is he a fail rapper? He pivoted from doing all of this music to be in the number one rapper in the world, to be the number one rapper in the world. So we ain't hear no music from in a long time.

[00:23:08] So is he a failed rapper? How could it be a failed rapper? He went out on his terms. So how, how could, according to the description, according to what, how he's defining a fail

[00:23:20] rapper that applies to so many, but they don't do music. And 50 not doing music hurt his whole crew from young buck to Tony Ayo to, um, Lloyd Banks. But guess what? He's on the tour sold out

[00:23:48] tour right now. I've been in places where I seen Joe button sell out the venue and people say, Oh, gas stations don't count. Listen, some of you individuals who talk shit, listen,

[00:24:08] I'd rather be a one hit wonder than a no hit wonder. And I ain't talking about Drake. I'm talking about the peanut gallery. I'm talking about the individuals who, who, who, who liked

[00:24:17] to talk. Joe button is doing what Joe button wants to do. So when you fit, when you fail, that means you're out of the culture. You're out of it. He didn't fail. He pivoted and took this culture, the podcasting thing

[00:24:38] and made millions off of it and making millions and able to put other people on. But it came from, it came from being a rapper. It came from being a rapper. So just because you

[00:24:56] quit rap, you will, you can consider it to be a failure. How could you be a failure? If you was a household name, how could you be a failure? If everybody knew who you was, how could you be

[00:25:04] a failure? So you have to be, you got to make hotline bling. You got to stream certain things. You got to do certain shit. I've been, I'm telling you, I've been in venues where Joe

[00:25:16] button was the headliner and I'm like, Oh shit. It's a lot of people in here. What are you here for? It is Joe button show word. One venue that I was into, I mean, that I was in

[00:25:30] that holds a lot of people that I've been to. Cause people like to say, um, yeah, he, he, um, yo, he selling out gas stations and all that. And I've been to BB Kings. If you ever been

[00:25:43] to BB Kings in New York, BB Kings is big. Joe Joe button headlined that he headlined that. And Gilly somebody on street media TV had mentioned Gilly. Gilly was nice. And the Gilly allegedly wrote for a little Wayne. How could be, how could he be a fail rapper?

[00:26:06] If that's his pen Gilly, just, you know, Gilly was offering many deals that he didn't want. He didn't take them. Um, it's somebody in the chat that you're going hard to try to get my

[00:26:22] attention. And I'm telling you tonight is not going to work because what you're doing is you're talking shit. But I bet you, if I dissect you, if I go into what you do, you're a failed at whatever you do. You know why? Cause I don't fucking know you.

[00:26:39] I don't even know you. How can somebody be a failure if they're a household name? I don't know you, but you hear telling us and telling me what somebody else ain't. What are you?

[00:26:57] What have you ever achieved? What have you ever done? How have you ever added onto this culture? And reason why this conversation is so important because you have many people who have their criticisms. You have many people who have their takes and they never done anything

[00:27:17] in the culture. They are quick to destroy everything about the culture, but they never built anything. I never built anything, but they got to take, look at his dickhead. That's what I'm talking about right here. That's what I'm talking about. Look, I'm not even going to

[00:27:36] dignify them by saying a name. See that that's people who would just hear. That's people who would just hear. That's people who would just hear to they're mad. You understand what I'm saying? Because at the end of the day,

[00:28:01] I know what this should take to do. This is not easy. This is none of this shit is easy. Going into the studio is not easy. When you write your own raps, it ain't easy picking out beats.

[00:28:11] It ain't easy. None of that is easy. None of that is easy. You understand? It's not easy. And then again, you got real life, you got your life, you got what's going on

[00:28:28] and you have different things that take place in trying to have a career and be a human and live a life. Do you know, you know, when, when you are a rapper or whatever the case may be,

[00:28:38] sometimes you know, you go through real shit. You know, niggas get stung by bees and shit like that and they face could swell up. You know, different things happen to you in life,

[00:28:55] but it ain't for me to say you will fail you if you did it at a level that I never done it at. So until you do it at certain levels, you can't call somebody a failure. Cause one thing I could

[00:29:15] say about Joe button, one thing I could say about a lot of people, they aren't manufactured tech nine ain't doing big tours selling crazy merch. Wasn't West side gunning them on shady records as well. Are they failed rappers? Just really think about that.

[00:29:41] Wasn't West is it is West side gunning them fail rappers. How? So we have majors, we have underground and we have rappers that say, I do what I want, how I want, when I want,

[00:30:05] how can we never talk about fail, uh, singers fail R and B artists. We'll never talk about them. You know, um, we, we never talk about that. So if you call him a failed rapper is because

[00:30:26] you think you're the top rapper. And it's so bad that it's so bad that people dislike Joe button so much. They actually siding with Drake, which I don't care for Joe button or don't care

[00:30:48] for him. You know, me and him have a cordial relationship, you know, whatever, but I'm not gonna. And, and, and, and speaking up for him, I feel like I'm speaking up for so many others.

[00:30:58] I feel like I'm speaking up for, for people who put they, they, they shit on the line in this culture. So there is no more destiny's child. There is no more Latoya Luckett. And I think the,

[00:31:12] um, woman Latavia are they fail singers? Are they failed singers? Because they got kicked out of group. You know what I'm saying? So I'm telling you, Macho Man, Randy Savage has an album.

[00:31:32] Brooke Hogan made an album. You have many people who have attempted to do things in this culture that it didn't work. Do you know who, do y'all know who Ray Wade Robson and Wade Robson. He's a,

[00:31:51] a, a dude who was a choreographer. He choreographed for Britney Spears and sync. A lot of them people. He actually, um, I think accused Michael Jackson of doing some, uh, uh, stuff to him,

[00:32:05] but his name is Wade Robson. He was in a group called quote. They had a song produced by red man called who the hell. Right? So wave Robson is a, he became a choreographer. His partner was married

[00:32:24] to Reagan Gomez. Look up quote Q U O he wrapped. He was a child rapper. To me, that's a fail rapper. That's a fail rapper because you tried it. It didn't work. And then you just was like,

[00:32:47] I ain't doing it no more. Now let me give you one deeper. Did Joe button fail because he wasn't good or did Joe button fail because the new regime came in deaf jamming. Who was a part of

[00:33:04] that new regime? Jay-Z when Jay-Z came in, Joe button told you his situation with Jay-Z Jay-Z remember took pump it up when Jay-Z became the president of the deaf jam. They didn't believe

[00:33:20] in Joe buttons project. The old regime did, but the new regime didn't believe in Joe button on his project. Hence why he ended up not being on deaf jam no more. So did he fail or did the system

[00:33:41] fail him? Because the system fails a lot of individuals. The system fails a lot of individuals and because they get caught up in the industry politics, we could call them failures. I'm a hip hop historian. I ain't think I knew about quote, right? I know about every group

[00:34:03] that ever came out. And that's why I feel like I have to defend some of my rapping brothers because I know the politics that they went through. I know some of the stuff that they've been through

[00:34:14] in this culture that caused our perception of them, uh, of, to look like they are failures, but they're not really failures. The system failed them and everybody doesn't know how to pivot. Everybody doesn't know how to do independent. Everybody doesn't know how to do something else.

[00:34:36] Right? So we can't call them. I mean, shit, sir, mix a lot. You understand what I'm saying? He had baby got back. He had my hoopty. I do like that. My hoopty song. It was terrible, but I loved it,

[00:34:55] but I loved it. And we got a lot of, a lot of dudes that's underground, underground. We, we, we, we got, I can't call them failures. I can't, I can't, I can't call

[00:35:06] them failures. I can't, I can't say you a fail rapper. Nah, can't call you a fail rapper. I'm not, I'm not going to do that because I don't like the way it's being defined. I don't like, uh, uh, uh,

[00:35:20] where, where it's, it's, you know, because, you know, think about men, fellas, think about when you break up with a woman, you could be the best thing that happened to her or the worst thing

[00:35:32] that happened to her. But if you break up with her, she gonna say all types of shit about you. That's fucked up. You know what I'm saying? She going to say, yo, you know, what was the,

[00:35:41] what's the main things that men to discredit a man you say he's, he's, uh, he's, you know, he's kind of a cardio, um, his meat small. You can hear, you hear all these things, right?

[00:35:56] And it's almost like you're saying things, uh, to try to hurt somebody feelings, but it's really not no truth in it. Right? You got mad groups. You got, uh, you got ill bill. You got Vinnie

[00:36:12] Pazienza. You got army of the Pharaohs. You got necro. I know, I know of a lot of underground groups that are large in that world. Large. They're still touring overseas, overseas. They're still, they still is they, they right now could be in Scandinavia doing tours.

[00:36:40] They can be, they can be right now in Yugoslavia touring. How could you be a fair rapper? If you can tour it's people who live off their shows, it's people who live off their shows. You know

[00:37:04] what I'm saying? It's people who live off their shows. So it's a lot of people who've been already the rugged man who used to be crustified dibs, who was on a major label who was on job records,

[00:37:24] but he had to pivot because crustified dibs had to go away for RA to rugged man to exist, man. Every time I see a RA, um, uh, he's on tour somewhere he's overseas somewhere. So again, um,

[00:37:49] um, New York, you're, you're, you're, you're cruising for a bruising because you don't know what you're talking about. And I'm talking about people who would consider, say, first of all,

[00:38:04] if you was here from the beginning and one thing y'all not going to do, you're not going to come in the chat and try to have your little bum ass take when I already done broke shit down an hour

[00:38:12] ago, either rewind or get left either that well, already rugged man is crustified dibs. Look it up. So, so at the end of it all, you have the underground, you shut the hell. Drake has a

[00:38:39] machine behind him. All rappers do all rappers got a machine behind them. See, look, this be casual people who don't know what they're talking about. Don't know what they don't know what they talk

[00:38:53] about. I see that's the problem with a lot of y'all. A lot of y'all swear. Y'all know the damn culture and you don't, you don't. How many record label meetings you've been to where the record labels located? Who are the record labels? Who are the A and R's?

[00:39:11] What are they job description? You don't, you sit on the internet and you watch people takes and you watch people say stuff and you just talk and you never, ever, ever, ever, ever put your

[00:39:23] social security down on a contract. Never had a contract looked over, never produced, never wrote, never mixed, never mastered, never did anything. But you know everything about a business that

[00:39:34] you're not in. So if you know everything who you put on where your record at. So what are you talking about? What are you talking about? Y'all know nothing about nothing. Just sit back and be

[00:39:53] quiet. Just sit back and maybe see the problem is if you stay silent, they silent and listen. I told you listening silent have the same letters. They're interchangeable, but you can't listen if

[00:40:12] you're not silent. And if you're not silent, you can't listen. You so busy trying to get a word in edgewise that you're not, you don't even know what you're talking about. You don't know what you

[00:40:21] talking about. So every rapper has a machine behind them, right? So who's Technon machine? Who's Onyx machine? Who's their machine? And I know a lot of these dudes stay on the road.

[00:40:40] They're everywhere. How you think they live? First of all, you know, as an artist back in the days, there was the publishing wasn't what it was. Publishing used to come in a form of royalty,

[00:40:51] right? Why do you think publishing is so big now? Because record labels, certain record labels didn't give publishing. They would just give royalty. They would just give a royalty. It's dick breath. It's not about Joe. Niggas love Joe today, but going to be trashed him by next week.

[00:41:10] But I've been calling Drake a cornball for how long? How long y'all been calling Drake a cornball? So you don't like Joe button that much that you'll side with Drake. Got you. Say no more.

[00:41:29] Somebody like Slim Thug would be considered a fail rapper, right? He got a big house in Houston, mad cars. He don't have to sell a record outside of Houston. So how could he be a failure of

[00:41:43] Houston is I mean, Texas is one of the biggest States in America. And if he sell in his city alone, stream in his city alone, he don't need none of us. I don't be knowing what the hell

[00:42:00] y'all talking about. And again, that is the problem within our culture because we have people who come in this shit and don't know nothing. What have you ever done in it? You've done nothing.

[00:42:16] So if you didn't part, if you're not a part of mixing the bricks, if you're not a part of mixing the cement, you're not a part of laying the foundation or even witnessing it. How can you

[00:42:25] talk about what's going on and who not what you will? You're not even in the conversation. You was never there. You're not, you're a nobody. You're a spectator. Just spectate. That's why you got players in the game. And that's why you got people in the seats,

[00:42:47] sit your ass in the seat and clap. And some people are in nosebleeds and some people are front row. Nobody can hear you shouting up there because it's easy to stand up in the nosebleeds

[00:43:01] and say how somebody a bum, but you're watching them. Do you not understand psychologically what that means? You're watching somebody to call them a bum, but they're doing what you aspire to do.

[00:43:16] They doing what, what your homeboy star mail. You, you think star mail should be doing. Yeah. My man star mail, nice and everybody watch when he get his deal. Shut up. Ain't no such thing as no fail

[00:43:32] rapper to me. If you listen, you made one song to me, you, you did it because music used to be unique. You music used to help you remember where you was at in life. You, when certain records came

[00:43:51] out, you remember where you lived. You remember where you was at? You remember your age? That's what music used to be. Now that Drake made the 50 of the same records, you can differentiate for all dogs from the pregnant album from what's the difference. What's the difference?

[00:44:16] What's the difference? So again, if you put out an album, you had a trailer for a video, you're known you toward you been all around and we can quote some of your raps. How did you

[00:44:39] fail? How did you fail? We can even say my brother Nim's that's my bro, Brooklyn brother. Nims is one of the hottest dudes on the underground. He is with a clothing line. That's crazy. That's crazy. There's no such thing. I told you macho man, Randy Savage,

[00:45:10] if Mr. T make a rap, see you a fail rapper. If you're not really a rapper and you just jump into the lane for a check that to me, that's a fail rap. You had TV stars who did albums.

[00:45:23] That's a fail rapper. John Cena doing an album is if the WWE doing a rap album, that's fail rapper. That's that's come on man. That's culture vulture fail shit. But it's too many brothers that according to what he described, it fits so many people.

[00:45:47] I said not memes, Nims, N E M S N E M S N E M S is Nims. He made the song Bing Bong. Everybody's saying Bing Bong because of him. That comes from him had the Nick saying Bing Bong.

[00:46:15] So again, we got a lot of brothers in his culture who did a lot because of politics. I said Parker Lewis. I said Parker Lewis because Brian Austin Green, Brian Austin Green is,

[00:46:28] is, is, uh, is, uh, is that part? No. Parker Lewis to somebody else. Park. Yeah. Brian Austin Green. I think it's from nine or two. Yeah. Yeah. But Parker Lewis did an album too.

[00:46:44] So we got a lot of brothers who been in this culture who did a lot, who didn't do certain things due to industry politics, mental illness. Tommy Hill. Did you know that Tommy Hill finger son did music? Did you know that Tommy Hill, his son did music

[00:47:13] Jaden Smith. You know what I'm saying? So I think sometimes we, we, we conflate fail from whack. Or, or, or, or somebody who doesn't want to rap. I don't mean you're a failure. I interviewed Tommy Hill before too. You know what I'm saying? A lot. Listen,

[00:47:46] a lot of battle rappers. Remember, listen, a lot of battle rappers, Megan Simone, not Megan Simone, Raven. Simone was doing rap albums and rap songs, Raven, Simone, Willow Smith. I went my

[00:48:11] head back and forth, but you have people who, uh, been through hell. And I know, uh, uh, uh, I know what some of these dudes been through. I've spoken to them. I've interviewed them. So they didn't fail because they didn't have the ambition. They failed because the industry

[00:48:33] failed them. Politics failed them. Look how many of these brothers get, get caught up in, in, in, in the politics of the, of the culture. And then they're not on no more than we say,

[00:48:56] all right. Cause I wanted to show y'all something too. I wanted to show y'all something, you know, it's got some type of demonstration. So, um, reason why I took this thumbnail is

[00:49:09] because I seen this on this djbooth.com and this is could have should have would have six rappers who never reached the mountain top. Hip hop is a mountain, but the industry is a revolving door

[00:49:20] and half the battle is getting in and managing to stick around. But not one when I read, tell me to take my glasses off, please. Cause they were off right now. Uh, so look, this is

[00:49:32] the thumbnail they made. They will consider, you know, uh, these rappers should have reached the mountain top in their opinion, B O B Saigon and Absol. Let's see what else they got. J electronica could have been a superstar. Um, could he been a superstar? Um,

[00:50:00] that's subjective. You know what I'm saying? Like some of these things are subjective. I know for, well, I can't say I know for a fact, but I'm pretty sure J electronica has

[00:50:09] a whole lot of music. We never heard. He has a whole lot of music out that many of you never heard now that's out because he was just releasing it. So he's supposed to be in the mainstream

[00:50:25] because Diddy and Jay-Z were at war over ushering the age of electronica. I personally think in my opinion, and I can't say, um, uh, this is fact, but I don't think J electronica heart is really into being an alarm light into, uh, being out

[00:50:46] there like that. Can he rap incredibly? Hell yeah. But we also have to understand just because you're a rapper and you are supposed to be an alarm light. That don't mean that it's meant for you.

[00:50:58] That don't mean you want to do it. And that don't mean you have the esteem sometime to do that. You know, it's a lot that take place in this culture. So just because Diddy and Jay-Z,

[00:51:13] so what would Jay electronica be like on, on what label would he be with Diddy? Just really think about that. Who popped over there? That's still alive. Respectfully. I rest my case that didn't quit because Mace ran away. Mark Curry don't make it's a lot of people that

[00:51:35] quit red cafe was on bad boy to Saigon. I would say this is due to industry politics. He was on Atlantic and they wanted him to do some stuff. He had no gimmick or jingle. It was grand lyricism

[00:51:53] and hard knock storytelling that placed them with, wow. The ironic thing is both of them was with just blaze. That's I just realized that that's D B O B achieve success, but fell short

[00:52:10] of potential. So how could you achieve success? You did records with Bruno Mars, but you failed short B O B. If you, if you pay attention to B O B, he's in a whole different mental space.

[00:52:26] Maybe hip hop wasn't his calling anymore. Ab soul who put out a incredible project. I think last year, rich homie Quan. Um, well, I don't know who this Rory individual is. I have

[00:52:45] no idea who that is. So I'm not even going to get into that. I don't even like this thumbnail. So I'm maybe they got something dope, but I I'm good. I'll pass. I I'll check it out later. Maybe. Um,

[00:52:58] rich homie Quan. Well, look how life played out at rich homie. Quan had a stayed where he was at. He would be on young thug indictment. So he got out the culture and left just in time to be free.

[00:53:17] So I wouldn't call him a failure. I would call him smart. He knew something and saw something that we didn't know. And we didn't see. So how could you, you know, and again, this is subjective.

[00:53:28] Some people could think all of these dudes as failures. Hey man, we know who they are, right? Except for the Rory individual. This was another article, um, 11 rappers who failed to live up to

[00:53:44] their potential. And this is in 2014. So you see how people view you Lauren Hill. So is she a failed rapper because she didn't live up to the potential of what we're still talking about her music.

[00:53:57] She just, well, she don't, um, she doesn't do her tours and show up on time. So, um, would y'all consider Lauren Hill to be a failure? Leave me a comment on the video. When you get to

[00:54:14] this part, she achieved so much success that she was able to walk away, but I wouldn't call her. I wouldn't call her a failure. I mean, she's Lauren Hill. Maybe she didn't live up to her potential. Maybe it's because due to her relationship, her tumultuous relationship,

[00:54:32] becoming a mother many times over, uh, she wasn't able to do what we wanted her to do as an artist because she was too busy being a mother and a wife in a tumultuous relationship. Maybe real life

[00:54:45] kicked in, maybe music, rap singing, bop, bop, bop, playing, strumming that guitar, took a backseat to what was really going on in her life. And it happens. Beanie Siegel, come on. Beanie Siegel lost his week. Come on. Beanie Siegel lost his voice

[00:55:05] straight like that. Beanie Siegel, who's one of the greatest rappers of all time. This is a fact. One of the greatest were records that we still play to this day. Right now, as we speak, you

[00:55:16] might play some Beanie Siegel in the gym tomorrow because you need to be going to the gym tomorrow or going for a walk or doing some type of physical activity. I don't care if you, if you, if you

[00:55:24] smash it, you can't really smash the, yes, you could. You can smash the, well, don't, don't, don't sing the lyrics. Just, just put on an instrumental. All right. Jewel Santana. Unfortunately, another individual that got caught up in industry politics,

[00:55:45] according to legend, LA Reed wasn't really feeling Jewel Santana. He had a bad contract with cam according to legend, allegedly. And it caused him to go into a whirlwind of what drugs.

[00:56:03] The rest is history. Lady Sovereign. I didn't see what was big about her in the first place, but she was ahead of her time because look where UK hip hop is at now. Look, look at the Brooklyn

[00:56:18] drill. Music is based off of the UK soundtrack where you think pop smoke was getting that sound from. So she might've just been ahead of her time, but we know who she is. Mims.

[00:56:34] Um, this was one of the biggest records ever. You know what I'm saying? This is, this is one of the, the, the, the biggest rec records ever. And they even says, uh, you remember, and I,

[00:56:52] and I think he was independent if I'm not mistaken. I think Mims was, uh, uh, was independent. If I'm not mistaken, who should conflict now, you ain't going to do that about no crucial conflict, man.

[00:57:06] I yo I'm gonna be real with you. Yo, I love who should conflict, man. That was like that. Hey, even that song scummy and Hey has influenced a number of Chicago MCs, including chance, the rapper.

[00:57:24] How could you be a failure? Cause you didn't live up to your potential. If you influence one of the biggest fake independent artists in the culture, cause they like to say they're

[00:57:35] independent, but they black by people into deep. I'm not too sure who this is. And I can't hit play, but I think I know who that is. I think I know who that is. I think I know back to the hotel.

[00:57:49] They say in young MC, Tony, a yo Tony Hale's on a worldwide sold out tour right now. As you can hear my voice with 50 cent young MC was the first person named young. And we thought it was corny.

[00:58:09] You see how to see how the universe work. We thought young MC was a corny name. We was like young. Why is his name? Young MC young. Now look, young, young has become the staple

[00:58:29] of what they call a self. Now he started that. I seen somebody put Philly's most wanted. Um, I actually have a Philly's most wanted interview with bubonic, um, on Forbes DVD channel. I interviewed bubonic before. So crucial conflict. I love yo man.

[00:59:05] Hey, in the middle. That was before. Well, the first little was like little, little seas and, and little cam. And, uh, it was more, it was my thing. Who was the first little, but young you wouldn't have no young Jeezy. You wouldn't have no young money.

[00:59:31] You know what I'm saying? And how could MCM would be a failed rapper? He sold all them on a, all them records was one of the biggest rappers in the world. I was doing tours.

[00:59:43] And then again, yes, James Crawley. I thank you for pointing that out. A lot of dudes is black ball. A lot of dudes is in bad contracts, bad situations. And again, when Joe button

[00:59:56] was on Def Jam, Jay-Z took over. That was it. Recipe for disaster. Little Richard got that right. So this show to me is to one thing Drake did say is don't give up. But what I'm saying to

[01:00:30] you, according to, according to description, many people could be considered to be failures. Um, don't give up. Just be reasonable. Be realistic with your career. Be realistic with your craft, be realistic. And even if you rap, see some people, some people rap is therapy.

[01:01:01] I it's a lot of people because I feel for people who, you know, who never made it due to different, different circumstances. I know them, we know them in the hood. Every, every last one of us

[01:01:11] every, every last one of us right now got maybe a cousin, uh, your brother, uh, one of your homies. That's nice. Rap date as or y'all listen to a song every night as my show go off.

[01:01:25] It's a song called tip toe. That's my first cousin rapping on that. That's my first cousin rapping on that. And I got y'all to listen to it and to like it, but I can't say that he's a failure because he's nice as hell, but real life kicked in

[01:01:44] in different circumstances, kicked in that made him not be able to pursue his career. But every night y'all hit tiptoe every night to where y'all say, play the whole song. So how could he be a failure if I made potent, which is his name,

[01:02:06] something that y'all listen to every night. See how it works. See how you could bring it all back around. See how you can do that. See, see how you can do it, but you have to be able to pivot.

[01:02:22] You gotta be able to pivot. Everybody can't pivot. Some of y'all have felt, all right, Scarlet just got her first apartment. What if she gave up? Cause she a failure. What

[01:02:37] if she gave up because of that, that, that thing on her lip, which I, which I'm, I'm gonna be real with you. I like Scarlet on when she was real, real hardcore, what they going to try to do with

[01:02:51] her now, Swiss beach. You should have stayed out of that one fan. I'm just be real because this is a sidebar, but just saying that she's a female DMX. No, she not, it's never going to be

[01:03:04] another DMX. It never going to be another DMX because DMX was DMX. When you tell somebody they're like something, sometimes they try to be like something, but how could you be like something that you don't know? Nah, we got that, that this is New York joint. That was,

[01:03:35] that was, that was it, man. That was it. That was it. Like, like there's never going to be another DMX. His, his, we can't recreate humans. Only people who could, who, who, who could

[01:03:54] recreate something might be they children. And cause it's like, it's like dirty. I love YDB. That's, that's the homie. That's the bro. But he is able to capture a part of dirty, a part of,

[01:04:10] of, of, of you, you is biological. You is physical child, but that was into the 36 chambers, returned to the 36 chambers, dirty, dirty once came back as 250 pounds. He wasn't that same guy.

[01:04:31] So what we're seeing is that dirty. We're not seeing what he would have been had he survived and put out other music in different music. Right. So, you know, the, the, the, the emulation

[01:04:46] sometimes is not good. And I wish they had a left Scarlet, you know, I'm gonna be real with you. Like, I don't even like her with makeup on, you know what I'm saying? I don't even think she's

[01:04:57] weird. She's, she's, she's meant to wear makeup, not no heels. She's not even meant to be matching in a matching outfit. Truthfully, she had a lane that she could have just stayed in

[01:05:14] and had her thing or five over the movement in the building. And they're trying to clean up. Anyway, but I can't say, um, because I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, Ricardo, you feel like bootcamp was black ball according to their relationship with Tupac.

[01:05:47] I can't really say that because they were independent. Like how could you get black ball at buckshot and them could put out music whenever they want to. And then it's on the fans,

[01:05:54] right? This is what I'm saying. The problem is that there is no more fans. Everybody does what you do and everybody critiques what you do. Right. So who are the people that supposed to

[01:06:06] be supporting you? If you think your man star mail is nicer, you understand what I'm saying? Um, when you hear Scarlet tell her story, she'd been through hell, right? She'd been through hell.

[01:06:24] So yo, I think she would have been able to embrace a struggle for young ladies. That was the, the, the, the complete opposite of my pussy. So, because that's what DMX did do when he came

[01:06:45] out, when everybody had on shiny suits and everybody was doing so he just came with a damn jumper on in the tunnel talking about, get at me. And it was the change that we needed. And I think

[01:06:56] Scarlet was able to do that. And then Swizz is gonna beat boxing and shit. Nah, man, nah, I ain't nah, nah, nah. See, look, you say scholarship, Scarlet is trash, but how is Scarlet trash?

[01:07:19] I don't think she's trash. She was able to capture something that I live, that I know. If you're not from New York, you're not going to understand her. You understand what I'm saying?

[01:07:33] You, you not gonna understand her. If you not from New York, did you ever listen to her poetry? Did you do everything? But again, look, we'll just completely tear her down and people are big up Meg

[01:07:45] and people will say, uh, uh, uh, sexy red is dope because sexy red is manufactured. Sexy red pound town is dope to you. Sukiana is dope to you. You like that shit?

[01:08:04] See, I'm a Brooklyn dude. So when I hear this is New York, that captures the essence of what I know. So it's not for everybody, but to say she's trash and that girl has been through hell in her life

[01:08:19] and for that even be able to go in the damn booth and lay down something. Nah, nah, Jay Black, you said she sounded like a dude. So Remy Mars sounds feminine to you. Remy Mars sound like

[01:08:37] she sounds real feminine to you. So you cool on her too? Or do some of you individuals like who you told to like, or do you like who you grow to like? Do you like who you get seen the most? Do

[01:08:53] you like who standing next to people? I just listened to the music sometimes. Sometimes I don't like the music and I just leave it right there. I don't got no opinion on it. I don't got

[01:09:11] nothing to say, but I remember as a rapper called boss that made a song called deeper. That's one of the dopest records ever made, ever made. Look up boss deeper. She didn't sound like no female.

[01:09:28] Shit is fire. Fire. Look up boss deeper. And that beat she's rapping to is actually Biggie warning beat because it's actually a walk on by, by Isaac Hayes. That's where the sample come from.

[01:09:47] Also MC eight used it and the hood took me under the same sample. The hood took me under warning and boss is the same sample. Walk on by, by Isaac Hayes, but boss sound like

[01:10:08] she was a damn nigga. So for any of you who, who doing your thing, where's my phone? So if any of you doing your thing, um, you know, be realistic. Know that you might not make it

[01:10:32] to a certain level. You might not make it there, but that don't mean you will fail you because failure is really something that could, you know, it could, it could fuck with your mind. It could

[01:10:43] fuck with your self esteem. It could fuck with, uh, how you go about shit. Some of you really love music. Some of you really want to, uh, put out music. Some of you, you know, this is your outlet.

[01:10:55] Like I tell, it's a lot of individuals that, that hit me up and say, you know, I'm too old to rap. Yeah. I don't know. And I just say, just do it for you. Just, just do it for you. Just do it for

[01:11:10] you because at least you, at least you, you, you, you able to say, you know, I put out a record. At least you able to show your kids 10 years from now, 15 years from now,

[01:11:21] daddy made a song. Mommy made a record. That's it. Do it for you. Get it out. That's really what this is all about. If you got the talent, you believe you got the skill,

[01:11:34] do it for you. Do it to say that you did it. That's really what it's all about. What good is having all them raps in your brain? What's good is having all them,

[01:11:45] all them songs in your brain. What's good to having all that in your computer. What good is having all that? So put it out, put it out. So that's, that's how I feel. That's why

[01:12:02] everything I do, you know, um, I just put, put music out. You know what I'm saying? That's just what I do. I'm just going to put more music out, you know? Um, that's it.

[01:12:21] Why you keep saying Scarlet mental is messed up. Do you know what she'd been through? Why don't you go fucking read her story and know her story besides keep saying how mental is messed up. All

[01:12:31] our fucking mental is messed up. Everybody meant to is messed up in accordance to somebody else. If I watch you eat a piece of fish and eat the eyes in the head, I think your fucking mental is messed up. Don't do that.

[01:12:45] Cause I don't think mental illness or anything with somebody mental is a joke at all, or even to be criticized or to be talked about unless you understand them in a story. So why

[01:12:55] you keep saying how mental is messed up. If you eat a hairy chicken wing in front of me, I think your mental is messed up. So that shit is subjective too. What the fuck did she do to

[01:13:05] make you say her mental is messed up? She has been, she has been through hell. Do you know what she's been through? Do you know what she's been through? She's been touched. She's been through

[01:13:17] hell. Wouldn't your mental be messed up too? Isn't her music supposed to reflect what she's been through? Isn't her music supposed to reflect what she'd been through? That don't mean she's whack.

[01:13:32] That means she's getting it out. Don't you know that when you talk, you get it out via talking is how you heal. Most people bottle stuff up and never get it out. So sometimes she's making the

[01:13:45] music that she needs to make because this is her therapy. So stop saying her fucking mental is messed up cause you sound stupid. Seriously, respectfully, you keep saying her music is her

[01:13:56] mental, her mental, her mental. Give me a black woman in America who mental ain't messed up behind all the shit that we've been through and go through. I'll wait. Anyway, anyway. And if you

[01:14:18] think her mental is messed up and you think her music is negative, don't listen to it. Period. Everything is not from you. Do you think D so DMX was rap tight to you? DMX was just,

[01:14:35] DMX was just perfectly fine. DMX would break down crying at any given time. DMX mental was right, right? It was a reflection of what he went through. It was a reflection of his life. His

[01:14:54] music is supposed to say shit like that. His music was negative too. To some, it was all perception. It was all how you look at it. So it just keeps saying her mental. You type that like four times

[01:15:05] like you're trying to prove a point. All of our mental is fucked up. Look what we've been through. Look what we go through day in and day out. I'm not talking to you no more. I'm not talking to you

[01:15:17] no more because again, which I'll do is y'all tear people down before they even get a chance. You tear people down before they even get a chance to show what they're gonna do.

[01:15:32] You wouldn't say DMX was the devil. Bullshit. He had a song called Damien. Who is Damien? See how you don't. Did you listen to Damien? Did you listen to Damien? Who is Damien? You ever saw

[01:15:51] the omen? You wouldn't say DMX was the devil. Bullshit. But now, now you, now you were dumb. Now I'm not answering you no more. Bullshit. Thank you for bullshitting yourself in front of

[01:16:03] the audience. Thank you. Thank you. You just prove that you're not even worth talking to anymore. Had a song called Damien. Ray Kwan talk about smoking crack. Yeah. What are you talking about?

[01:16:27] Anyway, anyway, let me go. I got shit to do. And don't let me tell y'all DMX story. DMX was struggling with addiction, all types of shit. Damien is the devil's son.

[01:16:58] And I could show you an interview that I did with his wife when she said, Damien describes him. Damien is the devil's son. He had a song called Lord Give Me a Sign. So how many albums do Scarlet

[01:17:18] Pat? How many, how many albums do Scarlet Pat? Did she just start? Are you her peer? Are you her age? Are you, are you a young woman? Because really, you really think about it. The problem is we like

[01:17:38] to judge people who we never walk their walk and how people convey they self is how they convey they self. We just got to wait and see. That's it. That's it. But y'all throw out the

[01:18:02] baby and the bath water every time. And that's why we fucked up. That's why we're fucked up because everybody's quick to come discredit everything. What is negative music? So, okay. So hip hop is all positive. What are you talking about?

[01:18:23] So you don't listen to end up. I can name every artist that did some negative shit. What are you talking about? Anyway, J O thank you. He made a song called Lord Give Me a Sign. He also smoked crack.

[01:18:48] So what, what he wanted us to pray for him. He prayed for you. That's what you personally like. But for some reason you're personally attacking her, but you got a whole bunch of artists that

[01:19:06] are artists that every other word that come out, they mouth is my pussy. So I don't see you saying nothing about them. I don't see you saying nothing about them. I'm judging what the fuck have you been doing for the last 15 minutes? And just be honest,

[01:19:28] what have you been doing? What have you been doing for the last 15 minutes? You never heard DMX rapping about blood on his dick and fucking corpse and shit like that. I think you need to

[01:19:41] go listen to DMX. That being a casual fan, like I said to homie last night, you listened to that. Y'all going to make me lose my mind. And you think that define him anyway, everybody has duality,

[01:20:01] everybody. So again, when you see the youth and they're venting, they're crying out for help, whether it's the music or what it is, what we do, we just say, oh fuck them. They have negative.

[01:20:28] You think I know how a 17 year old thinks in 2023? I don't. I don't know how a 23 year old thinks because the time was different, but I know I've been their age. They never been mine. So all

[01:20:38] I could do, see this is the difference between me and others in the youth. A lot of people say the youth don't listen, right? No, we don't listen to them. Let them talk, let them express. And you

[01:20:48] give them a solution or alternative method to their thoughts, their actions and the way they carry their self. That's it. We trying to say in my time, listen, in your time, y'all niggas was

[01:21:03] had to roll your window down like this. What is you talking about now? My damn sunroof go to the front to the back. Y'all ain't even have sunroof. So what are you talking about in your time? And

[01:21:13] that's the problem we keep talking about in my time, in my time, I ain't even have power windows. What are you talking about? We never going to go back to them times. We only going to go forward.

[01:21:25] So how do we move forward if this is the generation coming behind us? And then that was one of the things, the critiques of Joe button had a Drake too. Yo, why are you going back messing with the

[01:21:35] youth when you supposed to be leading them? You acting like that. Lead them, that's what he said too, but that went on over everybody's head. You 37 year old going back to fucking with 25 year old

[01:21:50] girls, corrupting them, trying to be like the youth when you should be one of the leaders because you're 37 years old. But do we just call them stupid? Listen, when I was 17 years old, you

[01:22:06] couldn't tell me shit. You couldn't tell me that you've been through what I've been through. I had, I had every reason to be the way I am. Listen, my mother died when I was two. I had the whole

[01:22:19] stick laid out for why I was going to be a knucklehead. Seriously. I had the whole reason of why I could be justified in being a knucklehead until a light bulb went off in me,

[01:22:35] until I was able to speak to elders and they listened to me and they said, well, you don't got to do this. You don't got to do this. How about you try this? And then it was like, Hmm,

[01:22:45] I never thought of that. But we keep not hearing the problems, not hearing what they're going through, but tell them what they're going through and how things should be. That's not how it worked.

[01:22:57] If you was fucking young when Bill Clinton was president or, or, or, or Bush at something like that, man, listen, ice cube said, well, we already know negative music is what the labels

[01:23:10] is pushing yet. Cause ice Q made a lot of positive music too. He was just in a group called niggas with attitudes made songs called a bitch as a bitch. Now you're fucking quote an ice cube.

[01:23:26] And first of all, let's just be honest. Why is hip hop raising anybody anyway? Why is, why is rappers raising people's children? Why is rappers the, the, the, the conversation of

[01:23:45] what everybody talks about all day anyway, this is kind of weird. It's kind of weird when you talk about, uh, rappers, this rapper's this rapper's dad. Like y'all don't know no regular ass people.

[01:24:01] Y'all don't know. You don't know no plumbers and shit like that. You don't know no lawyers. You don't know nobody who lives outside of the internet bubble in this entertainment, tainment bubble. Y'all don't go to work. Y'all don't have jobs. You don't read to your babies

[01:24:16] no more. You don't do shit. You don't do laundry. I just did laundry. I gotta wash my sheets. I just bought a new sheet set to put on. Y'all don't do regular shit. Everything is

[01:24:24] rappers rap, rap, rap, this rap, did rap, rap, rap, hip hop, rap. What the hell is wrong with y'all? No, my hip, my, my platform is not about rappers. No, that means you're a casual watcher.

[01:24:37] You might be new here. Go back. I talk about mental health. That's why I get triggered when people talk about somebody's mental. I get very, very triggered because I don't think it's funny

[01:24:47] and I don't think it's something to be made fun of. I think it's something that we all are going through it. Everybody across the board, you have people like Robin Williams. You have people like,

[01:24:57] uh, what's the cook do who, who have a lot of money and they still hung up. We had to sit in the house, uh, uh, around each other thinking that come outside dressed like astronauts,

[01:25:15] thinking that we touched the wall, we was going to die. You don't think people are still bugged out. You don't think when you cough, people are still looking at you like, yo, why are you coughing?

[01:25:24] You don't don't. First of all, don't tell me what my platform is about. Don't tell me what my platform is about because sometimes I give you what you want in order to give you what you need.

[01:25:45] If you notice every show I do starts with talking about nigga bullshit that everybody wants to hear and then I venture off into what I want to give you right or wrong. We could start there, but we're

[01:26:00] not staying there because everybody wants the juicy shit. If I came on here, I got mad shows. I can show you mental health as well. I got all those shits. The love of the show. I got all

[01:26:14] you mental health as well. I got all those shits, the lowest views, the lowest likes. Nobody cares about that. Nobody wants to hear anything uplifting. Nobody want to hear anything positive.

[01:26:27] Everybody wants to tune in to watch the crash. So I'm going to give you what you want and then I'm going to give you what you need. Every show you look at every show I do the last half hour

[01:26:40] is always about building and building us up. That's what it's about and I'm never going to stop doing that because that's who I am. You never see me kid up here. You know what I hate

[01:26:52] about black people and all these antics and axes and shit? I don't do none of that cornball shit, but people watch that shit though and y'all won't even hit the like button. So this I know what I'm

[01:27:09] doing. I know what I'm doing. You got to give people what they want in order to give them what they need because if you give them what they need, they don't want it. You got people who could go

[01:27:24] to the store and buy some water. They buy soda. You got people who could eat a salad. They eat a cheeseburger. No, that's not why people talk about rappers because they don't balance it with nothing

[01:27:43] else. Everything is balanced and it's a duality in everything. People talk about rappers cause they ain't got no motherfucking life and they think there's somebody too. Everybody think there's somebody. A lot of people judge who they think they are based off their followers. Well,

[01:27:57] hell she could be a bum, a chick about none, but if she showed her titties, she'll get 200,000 followers. So she's more important to the culture than me cause she's showing her titties. Just

[01:28:07] really think about it. Just really think about that. Many women and many dudes are on social media with a big following because they show their body. Not cause they have any tangible skill.

[01:28:25] Because they show their body. That's it. Oh, she got a fat ass. Well, I'm following that. Then you got all these lusty dudes who's in there. Shit. Yo, you the best. Oh, oh, oh,

[01:28:39] yo, I eat your ass when you leave the gym. I don't care if it's musty. I don't care. I don't live my life like that. But you got people who never did anything for the culture. You got people who never

[01:28:50] added on anything, but have the most to say. The most to say. Always tearing shit down. Never, never wrote a rap, never did a beat, never did anything and have mental health issues too. It

[01:29:03] is people who sit before you every day with obvious mental health issues. That's why they smoke so much and drink so much and all they do is tear shit down. And I'm not like that.

[01:29:11] I can be transparent. Yo, I've been through this in my life. I've been through this in my life. This how I navigate through this, through that. This is how I do this. This is how I do that.

[01:29:20] This is how you do it. Change your perspective. That's what we talk about. That's what's going on. You watching motherfuckers drinking right in front of you drunk, watching nigga with Jerry curls, looking at pictures back and forth, but never got help for their problems. But it could

[01:29:38] project and tell you what's wrong with you. And people watch that shit. People watch that shit. People watch somebody tear people down day in and day out. And you guys are, yo, so what do you do?

[01:29:57] They don't do nothing. You put them in a room with a computer, you put them in a room with a pen, you put them in a room with a book. They don't know how to do nothing.

[01:30:08] But they'll tear down writers. They'll tear down computer experts. They'll tear down a lot of people who are actually creative people who actually do shit. They'll tear them down all day. And then now look, now look at us. Look at us. Everybody's a goddamn critic.

[01:30:27] Everybody's a critic of everything to whereas when we see people do stuff that we should be learning from, we don't learn from them because somebody said, he a bum. I used to have

[01:30:47] people around me that was always calling somebody broke. And I'm like, yo, how you always calling somebody broke? What's the diss? Oh, you broke. You broke. You broke. Oh, they broke. This person

[01:31:03] is broke. Anyway, let me go. I must drink water, drink a bottle of some BCA's. Um, listen, before I go, when I crunch my numbers and I put all my numbers together,

[01:31:35] I could put you in front of many people. Um, I've had, I got some promo coming up that I'm doing. Um, but I do want to say this about the promotion.

[01:31:45] Um, when I do promotion for you, I'm going to do what I said I was going to do. If I do some promotion for you and you have an issue with it or something wasn't to your liking

[01:32:01] and you think I can correct it, that's fine. But don't ever in your life, ever in your life say I scammed you or I didn't do what I said I was going to do. You see those things on the screen?

[01:32:18] That's what I'm going to do. I give you a turnaround time. That's it. But I've had some instances with people with terrible brands, terrible, uh, product don't even know anything about business or anything and telling me how to do something that I'm successful in.

[01:32:40] And you want to do something. So homie fall back, calm down, calm down, calm the fuck down. Cause you cruising the emails and the dumb shit. Calm down. That's all I'm gonna say. Calm down. Also, man, if you need advice, you need consultation,

[01:33:06] you want to learn how to do what I do. Yo hit me up, book your consultation. You know what I'm saying? And to all the individuals who are doing your thing, put your music out, please put your

[01:33:19] music out. If you don't do it for you, Hey man, think about this. I'm gonna come back really quick. Think about this before I go, right? Just think about this. If you have children,

[01:33:32] unless you have a lot of videos to leave to your children, imagine if you did music and your children are allowed to sing along with you and you pass, imagine what that will do for generations.

[01:33:46] Videos could probably go away, get lost. But if you put music on streaming platforms and all around, think about your children's children's children can say that was my great great grandfather. That was this, that was that. Put your music out and dedicate a song. Even if no

[01:34:06] matter what you rap about, no matter how you rap, dedicate at least one of your records to your family and your future family, they going to be able to listen to it. And I'm not saying that they're going to be able to listen to you forever.

[01:34:19] Just really think about that. So put your music out until next time I'm out.