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June 23, 2025

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make "Chocolate Dope" w/ Reginald Parham

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make "Chocolate Dope" w/ Reginald Parham
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Season 6

Episode 02 | When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Chocolate Dope w/ Reginald Parham | Dirty Roses Podcast

Get ready for an incredibly "dope" conversation as Leigh LaRie and Nik B. welcome the man, the myth, the legend himself, Reginald "Reggie" Parham, founder of Chocolate Dope! In this raw and hilarious interview, Reggie shares his wild journey from Wisconsin to Portland, his multiple brushes with the law (including an unbelievable story about weed and police at the Idaho border!), and how life's curveballs inspired him to create a thriving clothing brand.

Discover his entrepreneurial struggles and triumphs, his unexpected health battles, and his candid (and often shocking!) takes on relationships, dating, and what men really think about "sterilization." Plus, hear why he loves Portland and how the Black community shaped his business acumen. You don't want to miss this one!

Episode Highlights & Timestamps:

  • [00:00:30] Welcome Reggie Parham, founder of Chocolate Dope!
  • [00:01:45] Reggie's journey from Wisconsin to Portland: Life after prison & finding "the best weed."
  • [00:04:30] The birth of Chocolate Dope: From rap merch to a cacao-inspired brand.
  • [00:06:50] Reggie's legal troubles: A shocking Idaho border story and beating a case.
  • [00:15:20] Entrepreneurial struggles: Battling diverticulitis & a brother's betrayal in the music industry.
  • [00:23:45] Balancing artistry & business: Reggie's multifaceted career.
  • [00:26:00] Reggie's wild life story: From New York to Florida, Dallas, Denver, and more!
  • [00:31:00] Dating and relationships: Reggie's candid (and hilarious) "sterilization" theory on condoms.
  • [00:44:30] Navigating life as an entrepreneur: Store robberies, growth, and Portland's unique culture.
  • [00:54:00] Top qualities Reggie looks for in a partner (brace yourselves!).
  • [00:57:30] Craziest thing for love? Reggie's honest take on "toxic honesty."
  • [01:03:00] From prison "P-Nice" merch to Chocolate Dope: The brand's origin story.
  • [01:10:00] Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs: Go hard every day!
  • [01:14:00] Reggie's favorite cities and unforgettable travel stories.

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I'm Lila Rhee.

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And I'm Nick B.

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Listen, we're just two single girls from the city of roses discussing all things love, lust, and perception.

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And roses are a symbol of all things beautiful about love.

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But as you know, love can get a little dirty, so we're here to talk about it.

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Dirty Roses podcast starts now.

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Hey, I'm Lila Ree.

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And I'm Nick B.

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And welcome to Dirty Roses Podcast. I don't want to say I'm excited, because I've said I'm excited for about six seasons now, five seasons.

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I mean, if that's how you feel, though.

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I am excited, though. I'm excited because we got somebody super dope, right? Super dope. We're gonna use that word all day. Dope, dope, dope, dope, dope. And as you guys know, we normally start the story, but there's no story needed for this episode because it's just my guy. He's like a story in himself. Like, I was introduced to him through his clothing brand, like, just various events and things, because I, you know, me, I love my local clothing brands. As y' all can see, we spread rocking it today, and I try to tap in with everybody, but I think we kind of. He. He took a disappearance for a little bit, and we're gonna talk about that. But we reconnected recently at an event, and I was like, yo, we gotta get you on the podcast, and we gotta get your clothes out there. And, you know, I want to be. I wanna be a brand ambassador. You know what I'm saying? So we reconnected. But my guy Reggie, I mean, originally from Wisconsin, I don't like when we say Oregon, everybody be like, there's black people in Oregon.

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And then when you said Wisconsin, I was like, there's.

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And you gotta say it like, t pain, Wisconsin. Find you in Wisconsin. And when I asked for a bio, he was like, I've got two kids, I'm single, and I'm looking for love. No, I'm just joking. He likes long walks in the park. He wants to dress you in chocolate dope lingerie. You know what I'm saying? But we do. We have the man, the myth, the legend, Reggie. Reginald Reg, my guy, chocolate dope. How are you?

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I'm good. I'm good. What's up, Whitney? How y' all feeling?

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Yes, we are so excited.

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Really happy to have you here.

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I'm happy to be here. This is a beautiful situation.

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Well, we. Lee kind of told me just a little bit. She kind of opened us up. A little. But tell us your story. How did you come from Wisconsin and make your way here to Oregon.

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Off the rip? Rest in peace to my boy Johnny Ratched. He was out here a long time ago in the rap. In the rap game. So I've been in some trouble a little bit. You feel me? And when I got out of prison, he was like, come down here and see what's up. I'm like, portland, Come on, bro.

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He's like the Wisconsin man saying, Portland. That's crazy.

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Right, right, right. Cause I ain't been out there, you know, It's Midwest. So when you see what's up, though. But I'm like, let me come out here and see what's happening. He's like, they got the best weed. I don't smoke weed. But you know. Okay, Right, right, right.

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I mean, but if you did, it's legal, right?

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Right, right. But it was legal. But he kept saying, it's the best weed. Everybody love it. I saw. Let me come out here and see what's going on. And I came out, you know, it was dope. You know what I'm saying? But as far as all that, when I seen. Yeah, that. You know what I'm saying?

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Show me pictures.

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Shout out. Yeah, that. When I seen. He showed me, you know, all the pictures, and it was, you know, saying, asian, white, black. And I'm like, bro, this is a. They own. Own already. Like, you know what I'm saying? It's part of the city, right? And how they get down. I was like, dang. So now I thought about it for a minute. So a lot of people don't know this. I got with Johnny. Johnny Ratchet's clothing line first.

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Okay. And what was his clothing line?

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I can't even think of it now. So long ago. Oh, man. I can't think of it right now.

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It's all good, right?

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But you gonna find it. You'll find it. Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I got. With his little line first, okay? And then.

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I got folks trying to.

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Buy shirts, making sales right now.

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Money never stops.

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That's what happens when you're an entrepreneur.

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Let me turn this phone off, because I know he gonna start going off as soon as we get on. So basically with him, I got in some trouble again.

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Lord have mercy. Well, you know, with a name like Johnny Rashi.

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I ends up getting some trouble. And then my girl at the time, my ex, was like, you should do your own clothing line, okay? And I was just like, my guy gonna be mad. You know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying? Cause I'm part of his. I had the money and all that. And then, I don't know, something happened between, like, make a long story short, I want to do mine. So I did RDD Collection first.

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What's it called?

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RDD Collection is my. It's my nickname. Roll the dice.

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Okay.

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All right. I'll show y' all. I had the big old chain.

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I just learned to play craps. I just learned.

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You just like. You know, you just like doing this with your hands. You just like doing this with your hands. You know what I'm saying?

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Nasty.

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Listen, Dirty roses.

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So, so anyway. So anyway, yeah. So like I said, I did that first, and I was in the rap game.

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Okay.

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So that's where they all started from. And I felt like I was just a rapper with a. It's really just merch. You feel me?

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It ain't really. No. It ain't really no clothing line. And I. And like I said, we really didn't know how to. Who was I mimicking? Who was I trying to see what it was?

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You just still figuring yourself out.

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Yeah, really. You know what I'm saying? Really was just on the rap game still. And once we came up with a situation after that, which we'll talk about later, whatever. But I'm just like, we gotta do something else.

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Yeah.

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And this chick was in the chocolate. Like, real chocolate, like cacao. Oh.

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I was like, please describe. Because was it like. It's Portland. So I'm like, is it a white girl that just like black men, or is this cold for something?

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No, no, no. This is Patricia.

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She got real happy around the hol.

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Willy Wonka type stuff, you know what I'm saying?

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She want that real chocolate, you feel me? But. But, nah, she was in the cacao.

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Okay, okay.

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And I was just like, okay, whatever. You know what I'm saying? And. But she was. You know, she smoked Halloween, but was just on the cacao about how I help you this and that. And I'm like, whatever. So then she started naming chocolates, and she hit chocolate dope. And. And I said, that's it. And then she like, oh. And it kept going. I'm like, no, no, no, Back up. I'm like, that's it.

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And that's how chocolate dope came.

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Oh, man. Does she get.

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All right. Is she getting royalties?

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Or is it like, once y' all broke up, it was a done deal? Like, we appreciate you. You have done your job.

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Taking the cacao with me.

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She had fell about. She cooled over here. But nah, we're not. I put the work in. You feel me? Listen, this is what it is.

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So. Okay. So you mentioned a couple times that you've been in trouble. If you care, Sharon. Like.

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You know what I'm saying. Dope cases, weed cases, you know what I'm saying? Battery cases. I've been to prison three times.

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Holy cow.

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But this is a long time ago.

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Okay. You would change me in.

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So let me also kind of piss you off a little bit. Some of the charges now behind weed specifically.

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And yeah, yeah, that would make me mad.

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So let me tell y' all about that real quick. That don't make no sense. So leaving here, y' all legal. You go up towards Idaho. Is Idaho, right? Yeah. So Idaho is illegal in this little neck. And then Montana's legal. So they sitting there trapped out, waiting on you. And there's no reason. I'm the most legal person.

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Oh, yeah. At the borders.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Okay.

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Like, this is next like 45 minutes, right?

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Right.

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They just sitting there. We pull up and it's like about. I say at least 10, 15 police got people pulled over. You know, we saying, lucky them than us.

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They said, ain't no black people in Idaho. So as soon as y' all come across that state line, we know what you doing.

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One lonely police sitting there. I'm like, why is he by himself over here? Cause he tracking right behind me. So I get over, shit, nigga, you.

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Know, he said, we got an nrgga situation up in here.

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No, no.

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In fact, that's exactly what it was, right?

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He is right behind me. You feel me? And then when I went over, he got behind me again and put the lights on. I'm like, okay. But I'm not tripping, though. Cause we don't smoke. Ain't nothing happening.

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Right?

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You feel me?

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And there's no reason for you to check my car because I ain't doing nothing right.

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Is it all he needed though, that.

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Part in an Idaho? Because why. Why are you here over the 45 minute stretch, right?

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We know what's going on.

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So we were here like, he ain't got no reason to take you, but you still had stuff in your car like you should have been doing. He wrong.

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Let us get you out of this.

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And it's a rental.

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I don't know what's in this car. What, sir.

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What is he having those Florida tags, right?

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So he. He run a bonus. It was like everything good you got, you know, saying insurance. I'm like, I got everything. I don't think I ain't that business this legal ever in my life. You feel me?

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You know, something wrong with a black man got everything extra, extra legal when he's doing something wrong. You know what I'm saying? Like, I got 18 kilos in the back trunk, but I got all my.

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Paperwork, all my paperwork. I'm legal, though. I'm legal, though. You feel me? So. So anyway, yeah, it was in the trunk, and this dude was like, okay, y' all good then? Everything's good. Okay. So boom, all of a sudden, he come back, knock on my window, get out the car. I'm like, for what? Oh, they don't get nothing. But he done took off. So I sat there, I'm like, I'm not getting out. Ain't no reason to get out, right? I know the rental went down. My man smoked cigarettes. We don't smoke weed, right? Know what I mean? So he made me get out and he's like, we going to bring the dogs? I'm like, I'm not consenting. No dogs or nothing. But regardless, you can bring the dogs. You ain't going. He's not going to smell nothing. You feel me?

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Right?

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So check game made the dog walk around, you know what I'm saying? Like three or four times, walk right past the trunk. Ain't nothing happening. They say something in German, he jump up and get in my car.

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Oh, so there's a code. See, they need to have them little translator things so that whenever. Whenever you say something, it's gonna be like, sick, Em, Right? We know what you said, right?

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So I know about this. I just don't know what he said. But I'm like. I'm like, you said something. You made him jump in the car. I said, because we don't smoke weed, bro, right? In a very long time. So I'm like, why would he be in my car?

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Yeah.

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I said, get your dog in my car, right? So regardless, he still. Oh, he hit. He hit something. I said, no, he didn't. So he comes out. I know where it's at. It's in the trunk. He's not in the car, right?

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So he in the wrong spot all.

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The time spot anyway. That's crazy. So with that being said, when he said it hit, not even check. It took them like 45 minutes before they even got to the trunk because.

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They were busy, because they were trying to find something in the car. That's why.

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You feel me? And after that, they went in there, boom, boom, me, my man's just like, wow, this is crazy.

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That is.

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Yeah. And they found. And of course they found it taking pictures, you know what I'm saying? It was like £10 on the front. You know what I mean?

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Now, this situation happened before your clothing line.

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Yes. Okay. This is what led to it.

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Okay.

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So, long story short, I beat the case.

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Okay.

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I got a. Oh, most definitely.

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Yeah.

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It's a legal search, right. I just seen the situation on Facebook. Me and my ex had seen this dude got caught with some. With some dope, some keys or something.

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Oh, wow.

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And they bought the dogs for no reason, right? And there was no reason for it, you know what I mean? He took it all the way to the Supreme Court and beat it. So now it's illegal to bring the dogs.

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Oh, wow.

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For no reason.

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Just for traffic stop, right?

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Y' all know what I did, right? I just clicked. He said I clicked and went over too fast. That's why he put me on. First of all, you were smashing. Going about a hundred behind me, right?

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You feel me?

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And I said, oh, wait a minute. Let me go and get over.

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Right, right, right.

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And I got over too fast. He said, that's why that's illegal.

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Oh, so he was behind you before you did the. The illegal lane change or whatever it was?

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So he was getting out of his way, right?

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He in the middle, waiting. We pass him. And since I'm black and be black, he sees. Oh, yeah, we got to get them. You feel me? And this is right before Montana. So we. We done passed 15 people getting pulled over, of course, and then, boom, we right there. So then, bro, this story.

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Stay out of Montana, Idaho.

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That part. That part.

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Wish you wouldn't have went that direction, but if I hadn't did that, life would have been different.

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That's true.

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I mean, obviously, all of our situations.

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Put us where we are today, so.

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We can't even be mad.

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That's why I'm not. I'm not mad. Well, I'm not mad anyway. I beat the case.

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That part.

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35, 000 later. Oh, you feel me? Oh, yeah.

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You're out of your.

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Out of pocket everything.

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Yes. Me and my girl and all that. Yeah.

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So even though. I was gonna say even though you beat it, they didn't have to pay for your lawyer fees or nothing like that.

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Nah. Only thing I got back because I had three. I had 3,500 in my suitcase. They took that, but they had to get back, so imagine how I felt about that.

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We ain't seen nothing.

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My bad. Right? That part. Or you could have just take the money and just said, let me be done. I mean, they could have just gave.

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It all back to me. And I've been happy about this.

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They give you your drugs back?

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Most definitely not.

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Oh, man.

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I'm like, hold on. I need all my stuff back. We can do this again next week. Right?

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Right, Right.

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Same time, same place.

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You feel me?

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Find me in another state. You know what I'm saying?

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But, yeah, so. Yeah, but. And that's what led to chocolate doping, you know, the movement and all that. You feel me, Is how I got here. So.

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Gotcha. So what has been like the outside of this, outside of, you know, getting in trouble, but what has been like, the biggest struggle as far as being an entrepreneur? And, like, kind of, how'd you overcome it?

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I'm gonna say the biggest struggle was when I got hurt. It wasn't. I've been. I've been doing this. This is. Like I said, I ran a label. You know what I mean?

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Right.

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I was already selling clothes before, got a store real quick and went back to selling drugs, which was stupid, but you know what I'm saying? I did clothing.

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It's like I figured out how to get out of getting in trouble.

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Exactly.

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So I'm gonna do it again and.

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Then jump right back in once I.

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Could do it again.

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It just don't make no sense. Just the way the mind frame is just dumb, you know what I mean? Now that I look back at it, I'm like, man, I was tripping. You know what I mean? For real? For real. Cause I had situations like with the phones and everything. My partner said gave me a hole with Sprint and all that.

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You like the Portland, Wisconsin version of I got the hookup?

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Yeah.

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Too much.

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Oh, my gosh.

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But as an entrepreneur, would you say that you are more business minded or artistic? Because both companies or brands that you've mentioned have been art based. Either it be merch or it'd be in the music industry. Where do you think you sit?

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Both, because. So let me. So I'll tell you why. When I really did the music game, I didn't start out as the rapper. I could rap. I got the artist, you feel me? So I did all the business work, me and my brother, you know what I'm saying? The business part of it. And then cats went to jail, went to prison, came in, you know, a lot of shit happened. And then I ended up to the end, missed out on the deal because of my brother. We gonna talk about that now? Cause at this point, I don't care. Cause this is a situation we kept quiet for a long time.

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My brother messed up a deal that I got in Detroit.

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Oh.

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And I got hurt. So I'm in the hospital. Excuse me. During the situation. And he just thought he was just gonna cut me out. Which didn't make no sense.

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Oh, so when you got hurt, did you fall down some stairs?

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No, it's just a lot of alcohol and drugs over the years of partying. Okay. You know what I'm saying? And it was in my stomach. It's really an old man disease.

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Oh, okay. So like you couldn't digest whatever you.

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Were inting called Diverticulitis.

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O, that's interesting.

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See, I thought she was going to be like, yeah, I was out doing some I didn't need to do. I got stabbed and then I got shot at the same damn time I was waiting for one of them.

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Is this what now? What is this?

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Diverticulitis is when that I ate some. How I came about it was I ate some peanuts too many. And then all of a sudden it got caught up in there. Yeah.

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Hold on.

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Are you allergic?

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Hold on, listen, cuz, look, that's in the back. Listen, we got to talk about all the things that you done did in your lifetime. I done did. And the peanuts took you out.

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Took me completely out on God.

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I. It'd always be the end of it.

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You know, but, but, but no, but I'm not. But no, it's not the peanuts. It's just the wrong time now it's over with. Whatever you put in there too much. And peanuts is one of them. If I, if I ate a bunch of popcorn, it have been a rap. Cuz they get stuck up in there and pussed up and oh, and I'm. I'm riding around in the car like this like, what is going on? I'm talking about my shit hurts so bad. I don't know what it is.

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Oh, wow.

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And then finally I'm. It's crazy cause I'm in a whip and I'm just leaned over my guy like what is you doing? I'm like, bro, you just don't know. And then all of a sudden at the light, I just got the. Oh no, I gotta go to the hospital right now.

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Oh wow.

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And went there and it was real. They were like, oh, you're lucky you came right now.

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So while you're.

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Hold on, hold on. That's the first time though. Then. Now I gotta stop eating steaks and all that. I Eat steak on a regular. I'm not a really good eater. You gotta think this is, this is not easy. I came to Portland is a whole different lifestyle.

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Right. It's supportive of that. Healthy eating.

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Healthy eating like a mug here. You feel me?

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They gonna get your veganism together.

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A whole vegan over here. But then after, you know what I'm saying? So now I'm going back to trying to eat regular.

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I'm thinking, so make me feel better. Yeah.

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And then it hit me again. I'm on the toilet crying, you feel me?

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Oh no.

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Yeah. Oh yeah. It was like that. Like I was an emron act or something like on there just hugging the toilet and I don't know what to do. I don't know what's going on. I drank some muscle using working out and I drink some muscle stuff. And that went right to it and messed it all up. Cause it was already messing up.

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That sounds painful.

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Yeah. So this happened right as we going to get the deal. You feel me?

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Gotcha. So you had to go to the hospital and then your brother, they said.

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You gotta get surgery. It's a wrap.

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If you don't surgery, you gonna die.

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Oh, wow. Oh, wow. So while you're in surgery.

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So while I went to surgery, this is right. Well, no, I haven't seen the surgery yet. I went in there for that.

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And I gotta get cleaned up and everything. That's when we supposed to get the deal.

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Okay.

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And my brother tried to cut me out. And the dude was like, oh no, that's the one who got the deal. You can't come. You don't know this. You're thinking it's really just the rapper.

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Yeah.

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You know what I mean? And I hate that we, you know what I'm saying? Melody G, my partner and we still cool, you know what I'm saying? We the one started this. You know what I mean? And I hate to this day I feel bad. Cause like my brother did that and it was really you. Cause he had the last. He really had the last word.

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Right.

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But it just, you know what I mean? Cause my brother came through with a story that was out of control, but he was jealous of me, you know what I mean?

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So it was you and your brother in the rapper. And your brother tried to go and finish the deal with the rapper and whoever you're doing the deal with while you were out.

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I mean, we get phone calls, paid shows from this dude from. I forgot where it was. But like we never heard it. That's why I Knew it was right. It's real anyway, because people we're dealing with.

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Right, right, right.

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Warner Brothers came to see us.

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Oh, wow.

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I'm not my fault. We came to see them.

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He called me, said, come. Come to Detroit right now. He said, be here by tomorrow.

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Oh, wow.

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He said they don't want none of the rappers seeing Detroit.

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Mm.

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I'm like, damn. For real? He's not just come down here, but really, he's already setting up. Cause he rocked with me every time I go to Detroit, right? We go see him, right. I just watch him. You know what I'm saying? See what's going on. And he's like, man, n. Don't be coming to Detroit.

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Yeah. I'm like, so are you and your brother are still.

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No, we're not cool.

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Oh, okay. Ever since.

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Ever since. No, it ain't been.

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Does he try to deny that he tried to cut you out? I mean, like, it's not a misunderstanding.

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Some extra stuff that went on with him that he's delusional about. And so with me and the whole, you know, I'm not gonna get too deep into it, but it just don't make no sense. It ain't cool that it happened that way. But I had to bring that part out. Cause a lot of people don't know what happened. He was gone.

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Right.

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You feel me? Then I came out and should have went. But I'm like, you gotta think I had some dope rappers on the label.

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Listen.

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I mean, rest in peace, McBang. You know what I'm saying? Him. You know what I'm saying? 50, you know what I mean? Was Kennel. I'm talking about a down south Jadakiss. He was like a Gucci Jadakiss.

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Oh, okay.

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You know what I mean? So it was a. I had, like, probably about 14 people working for me. That wasn't, you know, the rap game. Everybody getting paid.

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Right, right, right. For the most hustling. For real. And you got that big deal.

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You don't do the label at all anymore. There's lots of talent in the city.

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Yeah. But you gotta think I was really in it. In it for real. For real. And then once you see what. What this really is, it's. It's crazy. And then I got the rapping and it was going crazy. You know what I'm saying? We even opened up YG back home and went lit. And was lit. Lit. You feel me?

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So, I mean, you keep talking about.

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I do.

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Would you do it again?

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No.

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Like, right now? Yeah, we on the same page, right?

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I'm an old man. It's a rap. It's a rap.

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Spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti. Jokes and jokes and.

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But. So, no, you wouldn't get back on stage again. But is it still a passion that you ever write, or are you a freestyler?

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No, no, no, I was not a freestyler. I was a writer. But I loved it. I mean, I come from this. Right. I'm originally from Long Island, New York.

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Okay, wait a minute. So you say you're from. From Long island, but we have Wisconsin. So where did you. Where did you come out? Your mama's Kuchi.

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All up. So I came out to my mama coochie in London, Washington State medical aid. Washington.

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Okay. At the front door. And then. And then you went where? From there, that's.

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To New York.

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Okay. Okay.

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I live with my stepfather, though, for a year.

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In West Palm Beach, Florida, which some people gonna see that. Which is, you know, I'm saying shout out to my stepfather out there, which I thought was my real father, but he's the only father I know. You feel me?

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You got a story, don't you?

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Listen?

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You know what I mean? Yeah, I do. I got a big story.

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Favorite city you've lived in?

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I love Dallas. Dallas is one of my favorite cities.

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Dallas over Houston.

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Yeah, because I was. I mean, I love both, but. But I got more people in Dallas. I was there, you know, some of my partner. From. My partner Coop. Coop deville. Shout out to Coop De Ville. Top Show Films. I was manager of Top Short Films too, at one point in time, after the Rap Game.

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So now we did movies and everything else in film.

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Like, we're ready to start your own studio.

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We're doing Hood to Hood, though, you know what I'm saying at the time. So imagine me being sick. I can't get up. He calls and says, I know your problem is you need to be busy. You need your. And he's like, bro, get up, man. He says, I need you to do an interview. I'm like, well, who? He said, the real Rick Ross. Oh, I said, what? Imagine me laying, popping pills, trying to stay alive. You know what I'm saying? My shit hurting. He like, bro, my cousin got Rick Ross, man. I want you to do the interview.

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Not Rick Ross the rapper, but the real Rick Ross.

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He just got out of jail.

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He owe me a hundred favors.

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He owe me a hundred favors.

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Okay, so I got a serious question for you now. With all of these endeavors and all the locations you've lived and all the businesses you Manage and people you work with. How do you sustain a relationship amongst all of your business? Like, is it hard to meet quality women to date and that they're not just kind of chasing after your lifestyle, but then something.

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Okay, so the rap game is groupies. And, you know, you gotta go through that.

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I said, I seem like he took full advantage of that situation.

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I would, too, if I could. Like, come on over here.

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I need some male. We need some dirty rose male groupies.

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Trying to get some for a minute now.

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Okay. We do some auditions.

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A couple 16s. Y' all be together just like that.

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I'm telling you, we did have an audition, couch interviews on a whole, what looked like a.

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Anyway, so you saying, like, how can I deal? So it's not just that, really, because once you do all that, we messed up a lot of fans. That's how me and my man came up with it, right? And so when I came here, I wasn't planning on that. And then, of course, I ended up having a baby with a girl I didn't even know because, you know, man. You know, man, we. We're not that smart when it comes to the first time we. We hit it, right, with the. With the condom. And then we go Tupac right after. You know what I mean by. I say Tupac, right? The ball head, no hat. So what. So what happens is.

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Yo, I've never heard that, like, hey, daddy, you want to go Tupac? You know what I'm saying? He gonna be like, we trying to shoot you.

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Yeah, shoot at the club.

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So, like, for some reason, we think when we hit with the. With the condom, right? Yeah, we think it sterilized the pussy of everything. So that means.

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Wait, who thinks that?

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No, men. Men. We do, because I'm gonna tell you why. That's what we do. Listen, though. Listen, though. Think about it. We take you home, we use the condom. We might use the condom one more time after that. We raw, daddy.

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So you think that the.

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The latex.

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The latex sterile.

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We must.

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Because why would we sterilizes everything.

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It just stops it all.

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It's a block.

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It blocks the whole.

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You know, like ants, like, have a memory pattern. And like, so, like, if there's a blockage right there, they never go that way again. It's like his semen was like, oh, we know there's something there. We're just going to retreat back there once. It was one time ago.

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So we don't do that way, right? We gonna go to the right.

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Like, why would we.

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Like, what the Fuck, I have never.

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But, like, parents teach sex ed at home, please. Because they're not teaching it in school.

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They not. And men, y' all know I ain't lying, because you know what I'm saying? One time.

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Follow up on this account.

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One time. I done did it one time. And then, you know, the second time, she just slide over.

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She pregnant.

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See, I felt like it was more like, you do the condom, because you want to see if they whip the condom. Like, you know, like, oh, yeah, you.

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Did the right thing.

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Because then, right? You did the right thing. And then you're like, okay, she's safe because she was with it. She trying to be safe, too. Now we're good, right? You know? Now we're good.

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That is some good logic.

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But then he's like, no, but that's not it.

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That ain't it. Because I know women who just play the role, and they nasty than a mug, too.

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Well. And see, now I also understand, like, if you're hooking up with someone and it's like the first time, too, and you bring that condom the first time, but you only brought one. And if you're trying to go back, I could see how that happens. You know what I mean? Like.

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So logical. And he's like, nah, we just thought it sterilized.

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In the car. I ain't gonna get it, though.

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Hey, I done had it. I done had the kind in my pocket and didn't even use it. That's the problem with us, with men. We don't be thinking we want to go. Especially. Especially we, like when we meet, and you seem like you're the perfect girl. Everything. The house smell good, all your pussy. It got to be the best. It got to be.

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You can bathroom clean, you can cook. You must keep your coochie clean.

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You must keep your coochie clean. You got to.

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You don't be letting nobody have no babies off of this.

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You know what I'm saying? No babies. No babies or nothing. No diseases. You feel me? But, like, we just don't. We ain't that smart when it come to that.

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Oh, man.

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So, yeah, I didn't know my girl, and boom, bing, just like that. And next year, I was in Dallas.

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That was literally how it happened to me.

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Yeah. Boom, bing, just like that. Come back from Dallas, she was like, what'd she say? She said she was on a. On her period. And then she said she got it. And then when I came back, she was like. She said, yeah, exactly. You know what I'm talking about? She was Spotting.

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I've been there.

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And then next thing you know, she pregnant. She said, I'm pregnant. She threw up every day. And then guess what came back. My dad would take a lottas. Oh, so this is during chocolate, dope and all this when everything was starting to get ready to get busy. We both skinny as crackheads. She's throwing up every. Not just every day. She's throwing about six times a day.

336
00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:20.000
Dang.

337
00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:26.000
She gotta start smoking weed to only throw up three times a day. Oh, she's feeding me broth.

338
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I know people like that.

339
00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:27.000
I can't eat.

340
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Yeah.

341
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:31.000
I can't eat food. But once this happens, you gotta eat broth for, like, right?

342
00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:33.000
Because you got inflamed stomach.

343
00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:38.000
Oh, man. Yes, man. You gotta eat broth. Because I can't eat no food, period. I can't even eat cereal. Nothing.

344
00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:53.000
See, I know somebody who has that same kind of situation with weed, though. So every time they smoke, they're debilitated for, like, weeks. Like, really healed over can. And once they got better, they were like, okay, I'm better now. I can smoke weedy. And they did it again and do it again and got up, and so now they can't smoke down.

345
00:28:53.000 --> 00:29:08.000
I know someone, like, old girl who had to smoke during. At least she claimed. I don't know the science behind this, but she had to smoke during her pregnancy so that she could eat. Because you got to feed the baby while you're pregnant, throwing everything up. And the only thing that's, you know, settling is. I've seen that happen.

346
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:14.000
Yeah, there is, like, a medical thing. I'm not a doctor, so we ain't gonna make no claims, right? Please don't.

347
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:20.000
Listen, I'm nervous, but I that nervous. Virgo. Sagittarius.

348
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:21.000
You're right.

349
00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:25.000
How'd you know? Cause I'm a Virgo, for one. And don't do that.

350
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:28.000
Don't do us like that. We already vibing.

351
00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:34.000
You know what I'm saying? The vibe. The vibe is real. The vibe is real. But Sagittarius, one of my best punishers is Sagittarius. So we back in the game.

352
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Everybody loves us.

353
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Come on, now.

354
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:39.000
But you're a September Virgo. What are you?

355
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September 5th.

356
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.000
Okay, so I can rock to the September Virgos. Them August Virgos.

357
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Yeah, August Virgos.

358
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:52.000
Yeah, they different. They different. You feel me? Cool. Different.

359
00:29:52.000 --> 00:30:01.000
Ain't no trauma or triggers there. Okay, so you mentioned. Okay, so that was your oldest child or your youngest child. Currently Nas, you have two is.

360
00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:02.000
It's Burgo.

361
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The One that you're talking about with the. The unplanned pregnancy.

362
00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:07.000
Yeah, that's Nas, the newest one.

363
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The newest one. So the five year old. Okay, okay. But you do have a 24 year old, right? Oh, okay.

364
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Yeah.

365
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Was that also. She playing that she planned it. Okay, got it, got it.

366
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And she. She was a nurse, so she knew exactly what day and all that. And I tried to back out last minute and she jumped.

367
00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:29.000
Wait, hold on, wait.

368
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:37.000
When you say you tried to back out. We tried to pull out. Or you had to back out? Ain't no backing out of that. She was like.

369
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She's like. Remember you sterilized it.

370
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Straight up. Yeah.

371
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:52.000
Hold on. I gotta go back to this. The sterilization thought was five years ago.

372
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I'mma tell you something. I'm lucky I told you. I'm an old man now. You feel me? I'm an old man.

373
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But five years ago. I'm going to need you to know better.

374
00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:05.000
No, I thought this was. That's why I thought this was the first kid, cuz I thought it makes sense. You were young and dumb.

375
00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:06.000
He was young.

376
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.000
You was our age, bro.

377
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:21.000
What, man? We don't. We don't. We don't. I'm gonna tell y' all, the best time to get a man really is around, like 40. To me, it's really about 45. Cause that's when we really start understanding, you know, life.

378
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:22.000
We're ready not to 45.

379
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Huh? I mean, we're saying life.

380
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:25.000
We get all that.

381
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:30.000
You see young men and all that. But no, but as far as the women, we are not ready until we're like in our 40s.

382
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Okay?

383
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:34.000
So there's still hope because I'm now in that bracket.

384
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Except for them men then want kids and stuff, and then we over here with our geriatric pregnancies.

385
00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:42.000
Listen, I told them nobody gonna get these. Eg, we can go adopt some.

386
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She said she likes them scrambled, not fertilized, man.

387
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:47.000
I've seen it. I've seen it. I've seen it.

388
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:56.000
Nobody wants these old ass eggs but one person, okay? Just one. And they ain't getting no old ass. I'm not producing no old, old babies.

389
00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:59.000
Listen, you going to get your redheaded Asian stepchild?

390
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That would be awesome.

391
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:01.000
That would.

392
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:01.000
It would be.

393
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:05.000
Somebody don't want their child. I'll take care of it. I'm just saying that's how adoption work.

394
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:07.000
That's exactly how it works.

395
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.000
For real, yo, you can't say it.

396
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:16.000
Like that when someone doesn't want their Kid. That's usually when they put it up for adoption versus putting it up for abortion.

397
00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.000
Put it up for abortion, bitch. We gonna chase some kids.

398
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.000
I'll take care of the babies. Nobody won't send them my way.

399
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:25.000
What's up?

400
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:30.000
Put em on my tax returns. Cause I need a dependent. I'm making too much to not have a dependent at this point.

401
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:31.000
Yeah.

402
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:32.000
And right now Smokey and Rosie don't count.

403
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:33.000
Yeah, they don't count.

404
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:35.000
This drink. I ain't gonna lie. This drink good though.

405
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:44.000
Listen. Oh you know what we talking about it. Shout out to Nebula 9. You know they. That's hilarious.

406
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:45.000
I'm messing up already.

407
00:32:45.000 --> 00:33:33.000
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408
00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:35.000
But yeah, Moscow Meal right here. That's the one.

409
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:36.000
Listen, that he be killing me the best part.

410
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.000
No hangovers.

411
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:43.000
Right? And the, and the apple cider vinegar helps detox.

412
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.000
If you drink about 20, I'm sure you're gonna end up with a hangover.

413
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:54.000
You want to try? No, no, we got. He said. Did you just hear me say that when I drink too much or eat too much of one thing with that.

414
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:55.000
Or them peanuts, don't do it to me.

415
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:56.000
Okay?

416
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:57.000
Don't do it. Don't do it.

417
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:08.000
Oh my God. But no, yeah, it is good vodka. And we've been, we've been sipping so we like it. But you mentioned relationships and all those things and we wonder, you know how like how do you never answer the question.

418
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.000
How do you balance circle back to that?

419
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:19.000
We need to come back to that because we got into some sterilizations. But how do you balance relationships with your massive amounts of work and entrepreneurship?

420
00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:35.000
It's the hardest. It's not easy. My girl was like, I don't pay attention to it for a long time, my ex. And yeah, when you done been through it in the rap game and it ain't nothing to get no pussy, you know what I'm saying? It just ain't.

421
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:36.000
You know what I'm saying?

422
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:46.000
Like there's some people that just hard, they try hard, they gotta buy it, you know what I mean? And all that. But it just wasn't. Once you in the game for real, for real women, like people doing something like that's pretty awesome as facts.

423
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:55.000
Ambition is very sexy for a lot of people. Ambition, drive. Yeah, you can get. If you got an idea and a concept of an idea, something, then you gonna get some cool shit.

424
00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:56.000
Ambition is sexy.

425
00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:00.000
I know dudes who ain't got nothing getting coochie. So imagine someone that got that, that know what they're doing.

426
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:09.000
If they talk a good game, they be like, yeah girl, I'm working on all these projects. They be like, oh yes daddy, some sterilized. Sterilized, Sterilizing.

427
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:10.000
You know.

428
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Oh man.

429
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:51.000
But yeah, but no, as far as relationship wise, you know, I'm not really into the relationship cuz I don't been through it all. So now it's just. I gotta be cool. I'm saying we gotta. If we do something together, get this money, but it's gotta be over here. Cause when you're in relationship with somebody, either you doing something major or we gotta come to the light. Like my ex, like we gotta do this together. And I noticed that works. Think about back in the day, way back when we off the land, you feel me? Well, nobody going somewhere else to work. All of us is together. I'm going to kill you. Help me do this. You get the corn right and we're getting busy.

430
00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:56.000
So then would an ideal relationship for you be someone who is as ambitious as you?

431
00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:57.000
Yes, definitely.

432
00:35:57.000 --> 00:35:59.000
Or your support?

433
00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:00.000
Yeah. Or just my support.

434
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:14.000
Well, because. So what I'm saying is, is she someone that has her own careers, jobs, drive and is in her own lane or is it gonna work better for you that she can kind of make your business run easier, run smoother and.

435
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:32.000
Be your support if, if that happens though, because you don't know what happens. Like I just told you my situation. I'm. I'm not nobody who's going to run out of my kid. You know, dudes be. The situation I came in would have left been Gone like. Okay, sorry. You know what I'm saying, right? I dropped him off, but figured out.

436
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:33.000
I thought you were sterilized.

437
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:35.000
I thought you were sterilized.

438
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:36.000
Problem.

439
00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:37.000
That's your fault. Why ain't you sterilized?

440
00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:40.000
Why ain't you lying done yours?

441
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.000
I did my part. I wore the condom once.

442
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:47.000
The first time I wore. Matter of fact, I wore twice. It should have really been straight. You feel me? Should have been super dumb.

443
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:54.000
Matter fact, that ain't my baby. Whose baby? That's. My baby would be sterile right now.

444
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:56.000
You know what I'm saying? So.

445
00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:57.000
Oh my God.

446
00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:58.000
All right, I'm.

447
00:36:58.000 --> 00:36:59.000
That is great.

448
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:04.000
But. But yeah, it just. Yeah, I forgot.

449
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:05.000
No, it's okay.

450
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:05.000
So you I'm thinking about.

451
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:13.000
Ideally you would want somebody who is ambitious. And if they're not ambitious in their own lane, you would want somebody who is able to help you with your.

452
00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:17.000
No, no, no. Hold on, let me thank you first. I'm not the best boyfriend at this point.

453
00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:20.000
He said period. I'm.

454
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:21.000
The fact that he knows that is dope.

455
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:41.000
Yeah, I'm gonna keep 100 because ever since I got hurt. Can we. Can we go to that part? Yeah, so that way we can explain you what's going on. So when I got hurt, we had a store on Knife and Gleason. Not Knife and Gleason, knife in Burnside.

456
00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:42.000
Okay?

457
00:37:42.000 --> 00:38:13.000
We getting robbed every day. Not every day, but it seemed like it sicks back to back before we even opened it. Get robbed. And we had the big old grand opening. It was lit, you know what I'm saying? Shout out to my boy, AC Cream, you know what I mean? And yeah, we got it in. We got robbed before the opening, so then had to postpone it from November 21st to December. Yeah, December. And then we was on from there. And then we got robbed again.

458
00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:14.000
Damn.

459
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:19.000
Then got robbed again. Kicked in, broke windows. They two thousand dollar windows now.

460
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:20.000
Geez.

461
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.000
This is your store? Store.

462
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.000
Your store. Yeah.

463
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:29.000
Were they taking merchandise or money or so equipment? Like what was happening?

464
00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:31.000
No, ain't no money. We didn't let nobody no money.

465
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:34.000
Took that every night.

466
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:53.000
But they stole laptops, they stole clothes. And then one time they stole. Let me get up here. They stole my. My new. My new. My new hoodies I just brought out. Right, but no, but hold on. They only stole small, medium and large.

467
00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:57.000
And I was like, how are you being intentional when you steal some? Like, I can only because.

468
00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:59.000
Because they reselling it.

469
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:00.000
Yeah, yeah.

470
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.000
And that's what made me know. Then I got happy I'm like, damn.

471
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:05.000
My stuff is out there.

472
00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:06.000
Somebody want it.

473
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:07.000
Somebody, you know.

474
00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:09.000
He was like, I'm gonna run this insurance level.

475
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:12.000
If you steal my reseller, that means people really want it.

476
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:13.000
I'm being boosted. This is a come up.

477
00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:14.000
This is fire.

478
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:15.000
You feel me?

479
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:40.000
So. But yeah, but then I was like, nah. But then they, you know, then one time they came in. So Chuck, hey, they come in one time, don't take nothing. Snatch the pants off the. The mannequins. You know what I'm saying? Snatch them down. Like, I'm like, y' all trying to smash the mannequins. And then like, what's going on here? And then like. And then there was a bottle of Curve, which I don't know who be. I'm not knocking nobody who still rock the Curve.

480
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:41.000
Since the early 90s.

481
00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:42.000
Since the early 90s.

482
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:46.000
We started first wearing cologne and perfume.

483
00:39:46.000 --> 00:40:19.000
Okay, I'm glad y' Hey, I ain't say that till y' all still rocking Curve. You feel me? They said that. But. But yeah, it was back in the 90s, though. It was good. I liked it. But anyway, it was on there, and I'm just like, curve. And then. And then there was something else. So we called the police. I'm like, well, we got some stuff in there. Ain't ours. Y' all can do the. You know what I mean? The fingerprints. They like, nah, we don't do fingerprints unless someone got killed to do an armed robbery. I'm like, whoa, wait a minute. This is a robbery bank. I mean, this. So what if it ain't no killing, right? And this is when the. The police is defunded.

484
00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:21.000
Oh, they like, we ain't got time for this. Right?

485
00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:22.000
I got a lot of things to do.

486
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:25.000
Yeah, but no, you don't come in here.

487
00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:26.000
He said, no, you don't.

488
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:27.000
That's what they saying.

489
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:33.000
That's what they saying. But I'm like, no, you don't. This is an easy one. It's an easy one because you'll get the fingerprints.

490
00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:36.000
Right, Right. They. They literally left their mark.

491
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:38.000
And they were like, nah. Right? Literally.

492
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:39.000
Give me some scotch tape.

493
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:40.000
I'll pick it up myself.

494
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.000
You know what I'm saying? Run these.

495
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:46.000
And I ain't gonna lie. What I was thinking about, I was trying to figure out how I can get myself transfer.

496
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:52.000
We like, I'm doing an employee background check. I just need to run these fingerprints for the background check.

497
00:40:52.000 --> 00:41:34.000
But. But yeah. So after that, and then we was in. In Houston doing a popup. We had like, 10 spots we went to for the cigar. Cigar joint, you know? I mean, so shout out. Shout out to my people out there. Did that for this Dante. Dante's people out there. You know what I'm saying? So we go out there for that, and then the last day, get a call from AC Queen talking about they rob us again. And he's snatching. He's snatching the dude. He's snatching the dude out the thing. And he's smoking heron while he's staying. See? Chocolate dope stuff all up in there. Jackets and stuff. And he's pulling them out, and he's still getting high as he's pulling them out.

498
00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:36.000
Wait, with heroin?

499
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:37.000
Yes.

500
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.000
Wait, so he had a needle?

501
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:39.000
No, no, he went on the needle. He was smoking it.

502
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:41.000
Oh, oh, okay. Like, that's how I don't.

503
00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:43.000
You know, still. You don't need to be smoking.

504
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:49.000
There's a spoon in the bathroom somewhere waiting for some chocolate dope merchandise to come through. You know what I'm saying?

505
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:50.000
With a spoon in the head.

506
00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:53.000
Right? Like, come on. This is crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

507
00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:57.000
So, you know, you think it was the same person doing it every single time? Oh, wow.

508
00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:59.000
So we don't know if it was hot.

509
00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:00.000
You guys aren't in that location no more, right?

510
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:03.000
Most definitely not.

511
00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:06.000
I'm sure the insurance was like, we are not refunding you. Shit.

512
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:14.000
You see how y' all understood that, by the way? A lot of people just didn't. It was on somewhere else. Like, I'm doing it on purpose. First of all, we just open. Why would I do it on purpose?

513
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:15.000
Right?

514
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:16.000
I ain't been out here for five. Literally.

515
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:17.000
Trying to make some money.

516
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:29.000
Trying to make some money. I ain't been out here for five, six years. I'm like, man, we got. We got to hit a lick. Let's go on. Go settle on fire. You know what I'm saying? Like, nah, this is the beginning. Before, like, before we even open. And then boom, boom, boom. So five times.

517
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:30.000
Wow.

518
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:31.000
So we like, bro, we're gonna shut it down.

519
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:34.000
And that's a testament to how the city has kind of transitioned.

520
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:35.000
Yeah.

521
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:35.000
From our beautiful green.

522
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:43.000
It was. It was right after me. Not gonna say right after, but it was the. The. The riots and, you know, I mean, but it wasn't.

523
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:44.000
That makes sense.

524
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.000
It wasn't right after, but it still wasn't long enough.

525
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:55.000
There was a lot of people that moved into the town that are not from here and also not contributing to the economy. Nicely say it nicely. But, yeah, yeah.

526
00:42:55.000 --> 00:43:08.000
So. So after that, I would say I didn't know I didn't notice it before, but my. My head was messed up as far as. Not that part because I. I made more money before it even store.

527
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:09.000
Okay.

528
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:21.000
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I was out here moving and grooving. You know what I'm saying? It was a lot of money in. We were hustling as far with the clothes. You gotta think everybody. We was in with Marquis. I was. I was by Marquis Gourmet brothers.

529
00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:23.000
Oh, okay.

530
00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:38.000
Shout out Marquis. And we was there the whole time coping. Oh, I'm allowed to go out because I gotta. I got the car, the weed car. But the Asian dude let me come in there, which I couldn't believe he did. But he. But he's like, I get this money, so if you want to pay this once a month, let me just get it.

531
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:39.000
They about their money.

532
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:40.000
You feel me?

533
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:41.000
So.

534
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:50.000
So it was weed, alcohol and food that you going to be outside for.

535
00:43:50.000 --> 00:44:06.000
Marquis gonna be like, bro, why you telling my business? He gonna be like, bleep that out. I'm still trying to cater your damn editing button. So he said, order that extra. That special greens, you know what I'm saying? With the special sauce, you know what I'm saying? For delivery.

536
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:07.000
Oh, Lord.

537
00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:13.000
So y' all know right there. Was it MLK and Lombard, that spot.

538
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:14.000
Yeah.

539
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:16.000
Spot right there. Yeah, we was all up in there.

540
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:19.000
Okay, but I'm in there by the Taco Bell.

541
00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:20.000
Over there by the yam yams.

542
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:27.000
Yeah. Shout out to yam yams if you don't know about yam yams, man, I.

543
00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:40.000
Was eating a whole lot of that. Nah, for real. So we in there getting it cracking and I was kind of like. It was dope because we was outside, but it was hot. I remember. 110.

544
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:41.000
Yeah.

545
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:48.000
You know what I mean? But we was out there, though, you know, I mean, getting, getting to it. And that's what got things started, like, real heavy. A lot of people knowing who chuckled up was and all that.

546
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:51.000
Yeah, I think I did see you out there, cuz. You had the spot underneath the tent.

547
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:52.000
Yeah.

548
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:55.000
Yep, yep. Show. Did I seen tip before I even knew you.

549
00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:58.000
Okay, listen, I haven't seen it, but I wish I. I wish I did.

550
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:02.000
Yeah, well, you're in Virginia, so, you know, I'll see it though. You see it now.

551
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.000
You got. You got a lot for the say.

552
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:08.000
You got it wearing this around my city out there and people like where you get fabulous.

553
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:16.000
I do. I ain't going to lie. I love when I come to visit you and I be, I be wearing my local brands because don't nobody got it. They be my.

554
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:17.000
I try to tell folks, give me your merch.

555
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:18.000
I'll.

556
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:19.000
I'll get the word out over there.

557
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.000
Listen, nudge, nudge, you know what I'm saying?

558
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:27.000
Send me something. Cuz ain't nobody wearing in Virginia. I'm like, oh, yeah, now there is part of Virginia.

559
00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:28.000
Is she in?

560
00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:28.000
I can't remember.

561
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:32.000
Okay, well, I'm over there in the DMV area, so I'll.

562
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:33.000
The dmv?

563
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:36.000
Yeah, I'll touch the DMV area. The V in dmv.

564
00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:39.000
Right. Well, I, I'll touc, Maryland, dc, Virginia.

565
00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:42.000
So I got you without telling everybody exactly where she lives.

566
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:45.000
Right, right. Facts.

567
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:48.000
You don't need to know that I've been northern.

568
00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:55.000
Oh my goodness. Okay, so what are the top four qualities you look for in a person that you would want to date or. Well, you're not dating, but if I.

569
00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:56.000
Want, if I wanted to.

570
00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:59.000
If you wanted to date or sterilize, whatever.

571
00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:04.000
Not one or the other, you know, you dating or you sterilizing, you ain't doing both.

572
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.000
Okay. The number one, they got to have a fat ass. I like, you know what I'm saying?

573
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:12.000
But I'm just saying, he said, I know what quality, I know what I want.

574
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:20.000
I don't care. I don't care if you got no ass today. But we can go handle the business, go to Miami. We go and get this bbl.

575
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:21.000
Go get it figured out.

576
00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:29.000
Hey, man, y' all can get what y' all need. That's the thing about women. Y' all can get what y' all want. You know what I mean? Go handle that. Get that bbl. Get that ass number one.

577
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:30.000
Get a fat ass.

578
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:30.000
Get fat ass.

579
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:31.000
Gotcha.

580
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:35.000
Okay, you know, I mean, then I like a intelligent, real smart girl, you feel me?

581
00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:43.000
It comes after that, after that, fatty gotta be smart. And there's that, you know, you gotta. You see with your eyes first. So it makes.

582
00:46:43.000 --> 00:47:10.000
Right, right. We visual. Men are visual. You know what I mean? So, you know, and then you got to be ambitious, you know, like with the, you know, I mean, I'm on the entrepreneur type side, so you're not saying I'm perfect because I'm not. But you know, saying you gotta have that. It ain't just about, you know, working for somebody and this and that and, and family. Real family orientated, okay, Is what I like. You know what I'm saying? I've been There where it's not and it's sad. You know what I'm saying?

583
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:20.000
No, that makes sense. So if you were trying to get sterilized by a Reggie Taco dope, you gotta have a fat ass, gotta be smart, gotta be ambitious, and you gotta be about your family even though you're sterilized.

584
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:22.000
Well, listen, I'm currently single and I.

585
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:27.000
Meet those qualifications, I'm sterilized.

586
00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:29.000
Is she sterile?

587
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:34.000
Well, maybe after the first time, I might be. We'll find out.

588
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:46.000
I swear to God, I cannot find out. That is funny. Lord, what is the craziest thing you've ever done for love or perceived love?

589
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:47.000
Right, right.

590
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:50.000
He's like, I ain't never been in love.

591
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:51.000
Money.

592
00:47:51.000 --> 00:48:18.000
Yeah, really, it was. I ain't never did nothing too crazy as far as me. I just wasn't. I'm. Wasn't the best boyfriend type shit. You feel me? Because I. I'm just not. I, you know, saying I just was. I don't know. I can't really explain. I've always been. I could be a good boyfriend when I tell you the truth. My first one, I lied a lot. My bags are out in front of the house all the time. You feel me?

593
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:20.000
She didn't put a chocolate dope outside.

594
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:23.000
Bright ass, blue bags and everybody can see them.

595
00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:24.000
IKEA plastic bags.

596
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:29.000
Oh my God. On purpose. On purpose.

597
00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:30.000
They hold a lot.

598
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:32.000
They do. And they sturdy and I had a lot.

599
00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:38.000
You know, we owned the house back then, so it's like a whole lot of stuff. I'm just like, oh.

600
00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:46.000
Okay. But that is. That's crazy because I hear that a lot where like, guys are like, well, I tell you the truth, so that makes me a good guy. But does it just make you a truthful bad guy or.

601
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:58.000
No, no, hold on, hold on. So after that I said I stopped lying to women. So after that, you used to keep 100 and I got like five or six shits to mess with. And you got to deal with that or leave me alone or.

602
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:05.000
I mean, this is what I was talking about, about toxic honesty though, that part.

603
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:08.000
Because just cause it's honest doesn't make it good.

604
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.000
Doesn't mean that it's like healthy for.

605
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:15.000
No, let me explain that to you then, okay? Since you, since you accepted it, then who's toxic? Me or you?

606
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:16.000
That's very true.

607
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:18.000
If they do accept it, I mean, that is on them.

608
00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:19.000
Yeah, that's. That's the fact.

609
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:37.000
That's the whole point of me telling you the truth. You have look, look, shorty I got. I got a little baby over there, and she do this for me. And I got sh. Know, you know, she's strip, she stripping, she get down. You know what I'm saying? But her girl, she work at the DMV to make sure we all good. You know what I'm saying? Make sure we don't. And. Yeah.

610
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:41.000
Make sure. Everybody make sure we. Make sure your ID is the real id, right? Everybody has a real id.

611
00:49:41.000 --> 00:50:03.000
Listen, I got a funny ass DMV story. So I used to work at the men's warehouse at Lloyd center back in the day. And the DMV was across. And we used to always know, like, when people go in for their appointments, they would run their information to the DMV system. And if the person was like, oh, have a seat, we'll be right with you, it meant that you got flagged and they were going to get somebody. So we would be at the little gate watching, and we would see people get flagged. We'd be like, run.

612
00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:04.000
Oh, they're getting.

613
00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:07.000
They're calling the police.

614
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:12.000
And we would see people running out the store. They would be hopping over the little benches that were outside. Wait, where was this?

615
00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:14.000
I know there was a DMV in the Lloyd Center.

616
00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:21.000
Yeah, so men's warehouse was right across the dmv. And yeah, you know, I used to. I used to dress men for a living. Okay.

617
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.000
That's what they were doing when they asked you to have a seat. You haven't been in that situation.

618
00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:25.000
That's crazy. I learned.

619
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:28.000
Oh, yeah, we. We would be watching stuff. Like, we.

620
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:29.000
How much time we got?

621
00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:34.000
Oh, we good. We got about, you know, Let me tell y' all. He was like, I got one more story. Go ahead, boo. You got this.

622
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:45.000
Let me tell y' all. I know y' all want to get to y' all questions, but let me tell y' all how the clothing line in general came out. Yeah, I'm in prison. My first time in prison, right?

623
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:50.000
Every story starts good when it's in prison the first time.

624
00:50:50.000 --> 00:51:00.000
And I noticed the clothes was like the jeans with Levi's and, like, leaves, and the shirts were bogus. And I was just like, now we.

625
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:01.000
Need to step the fashion up.

626
00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:05.000
And prison, they need to step the fashion up. And I just was telling everybody, like.

627
00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:07.000
Take that orange patch off. They kn.

628
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:08.000
Come on, man.

629
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:10.000
Like this chocolate dope is the new black. Okay.

630
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:11.000
Right.

631
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:11.000
You know? You feel me?

632
00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:16.000
So I was like, my. My nickname P. Nice.

633
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:17.000
P. Nice.

634
00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:37.000
Yeah. So. So everybody in there calling all Peanuts stuff and I was like, man, you know what? I'm going to come out with a clothing line with the pe. Excuse me, with the P on it right now. I'm thinking. I didn't notice this until later. The whole prison. You know what I'm saying? Not the whole prison, but, you know, most. Most of the brothers.

635
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:38.000
D block.

636
00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:50.000
Well, no, no, no. No more than that. No. D block, E block, W block. They coming up on me talking about, oh, yeah, what's up with you, Youngin? I see you, bro. Yeah, but I'm gonna need some of that. Some of that gear. That P gear, bro. I'm gonna need that.

637
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:51.000
Aw.

638
00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:58.000
I'm telling people. And it got to the point where everybody is visualizing my shirt with the peon and all that, right?

639
00:51:58.000 --> 00:51:59.000
Oh, that's. That's cool.

640
00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:09.000
So I get out. My first shirt was P. Nice big old pee with nice incursive right here. And that's where it came from.

641
00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:10.000
Oh, that's dope.

642
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:11.000
Interesting.

643
00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:23.000
Even though. No, but listen. Now, nobody told me that it was illegal. Not just legal. No way possible was I ever gonna be able to be a criminal and sell my own clothes to the prison.

644
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:24.000
But why not?

645
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:26.000
Cause that's why not.

646
00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:32.000
I mean. No, but I'm saying, like, because usually, obviously, there's a standard for what they can wear.

647
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:46.000
But they wouldn't even do that, though. Like, it's a rap. They already have. They're plugged in. I don't know why I can't think of the name. Cause it was on Fond du Lac in Milwaukee. It's on Fond du Lac. The name of who they're getting their stuff from. But it would never be a criminal. This is a. This is a problem.

648
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:50.000
Oh, so you're saying that you could sell stuff as long as you didn't have a criminal background?

649
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:51.000
Right.

650
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:52.000
Got you.

651
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:58.000
Okay, if. Well, hold on, hold on. No, hold on. It would have to be at Nike, something like that, because that's who they.

652
00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:01.000
Have their contract with, right?

653
00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:04.000
Ain't no getting. No.

654
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:08.000
If it's Levi, who they get all their jeans from, or if it's New Balance, they get all their sneakers or.

655
00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:09.000
You see what I'm saying?

656
00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:11.000
Champion. The sweatshirt, it.

657
00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:12.000
Yeah, ain't no. Ain't no.

658
00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:14.000
Definitely ain't no penis happening.

659
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:15.000
None of that.

660
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:15.000
Gotcha.

661
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:16.000
But nobody.

662
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:26.000
Nobody said, listen, if they were smart, though, because some of these smaller brands that are trying to come up will probably be able to produce a better deal.

663
00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:28.000
Is that the right branding, though? You want to be like.

664
00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:29.000
I mean, in prison. No.

665
00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:31.000
Yeah.

666
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:52.000
It still could be its own inspiration story. I mean, a lot of these men are looking to reform. They're looking to come out a better place person. And it's like this person, he has a whole brand. He's no longer about that life. This may be where he started, but look at the money he's got.

667
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:55.000
They're not trying to happen.

668
00:53:55.000 --> 00:54:00.000
Of course they do. But it would sound good. Like if they're looking for ways to talk it off. There you go.

669
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:04.000
Did the guys come out and get shirts from you if anybody else got out?

670
00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:08.000
I mean, you don't run into people all the time. I ran into a couple people. I wasn't even on that. This is years later.

671
00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:09.000
Oh, okay. Gotcha.

672
00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:11.000
I didn't get into that until after the rap game.

673
00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:12.000
Oh, okay. Gotcha.

674
00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:21.000
The rap game. We come up with stuff, but it's like I said, it's merch. But yeah, it wasn't known and then I knew I was on that from this where I came from.

675
00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:22.000
Gotcha.

676
00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:22.000
You feel what I'm saying?

677
00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:29.000
That's a good story, though. That's a good, like. So from the very first thing, what you did was P. Nice. Then it was rdd.

678
00:54:29.000 --> 00:54:30.000
RDD Collection.

679
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:45.000
And then it was chocolate Dover after that. Did you have anything in between? Okay, so you. You need to have like a. Like a whole, like transition logo or something that shows your. Your journey. That would be dope. I would want that shirt. Plus and then have your mug shot on there.

680
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:46.000
From the first time.

681
00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:47.000
And I got a lot.

682
00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:51.000
And I got a whole lot shout out to Tommy. Remember Tommy from season three?

683
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:52.000
Yes.

684
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:54.000
And he had his mug shot shirt. Oh, yo.

685
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:56.000
Oh, yeah. It was hard for that.

686
00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:57.000
I ain't gonna lie.

687
00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:00.000
I need to do that. That was hard.

688
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:18.000
Oh, my goodness. So with all the things that you've been through in life, and I know that we haven't even tapped really the surface of your story. We might have to have you come back and do some follow up. But if there was, like one thing that you could either do again or do over in life, what would it be and why?

689
00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:48.000
The only thing I still think about is the first store that I had and didn't even open it is when I. When I had Sprint, the cell phones and all that. And I got mad at my brother and I got mad at my boy. Money, because money went right to this store. And my brother just was on some nonsense. So I was doing it by myself. But I could have done it by myself. That was the whole point. And I was just so used to extra fast money, which I didn't need it.

690
00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:49.000
Gotcha.

691
00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:59.000
I just. I didn't need it at the time. You know what I'm saying? Like, I was. I really was. I'm getting Louis Vuitton from New York and all that. And so in the bags were like 4, $500. Nobody has them.

692
00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:00.000
Right, right.

693
00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.000
And then sprint. I'm linked. I'm locked in.

694
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:04.000
Oh, you could have had you a whole little bodega.

695
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:08.000
It was going down like I'd be a millionaire. I'd have been millionaire early. You feel me?

696
00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:09.000
Oh, man. Yeah.

697
00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:20.000
So that's the only thing. I don't regret it. Cause you should never regret nothing. Right. But that's the only thing I think about. I would have done over. You know what I'm saying? And, you know, I don't. I believe in God. So heavy.

698
00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:21.000
Yeah.

699
00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:34.000
I'm not a religious person. I'm not, you know, in the church. I stopped going to church when I was seven years old because all that jumping around, I knew then I wasn't real. When I was 7, I caught headaches. I said, mom, not. No, I got a headache. This ain't.

700
00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:38.000
He said, I gotta. I can't make it to church this weekend. Can't do my outfits right now because my head hurts.

701
00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:41.000
Yeah. Cause I just know, dude, ain't. That's not real to me, all that.

702
00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:43.000
Tell me what God was talking about when you get home.

703
00:56:43.000 --> 00:57:09.000
Right. So. But yeah, but, yeah, but I believe in God, though. And so I. I tried my best to stand on. This is what God had planned. Even though you make your own decisions and God helps you through along the way. But then some situation with me, I'm just like, I wouldn't have did that. I wouldn't have said that. And I definitely wouldn't have dated that. Why did that happen? And then go that direction.

704
00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:10.000
Right.

705
00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:16.000
And so I think this beguiled, you know, ancestors is kind of doing this. Oh, no, no, no.

706
00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:17.000
You're right back this way.

707
00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:19.000
Come back over here. You know what I'm saying?

708
00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:20.000
Yeah, that makes sense.

709
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:21.000
And. Yeah.

710
00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:24.000
What advice do you have for someone that's coming up behind you?

711
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:27.000
Oh, wait, don't do it.

712
00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:29.000
This ain't for the faint of heart.

713
00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:47.000
No, definitely not. But whatever it is you doing nowadays, hit the Internet, whatever it is you love to do, do that shit. And. But do it every day and go hard. You understand? Because if you. I come from basketball. I was supposed to. I mean, I could have went.

714
00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:54.000
This man doesn't say I come from Everything right. Every time, every time he says something, it come from something different. I'd be like, man, cuz I put.

715
00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:57.000
All the way back for you. You know what I'm saying? I was raised by my uncles.

716
00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:01.000
I may have been born in Washington state, but I was also born in Pennsylvania.

717
00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:12.000
So when that happened, y' all didn't finish that. So, like, y' all think so? I'm west coast, born east coast, raised. So I was 10 and then Midwest. Now I'm Midwest.

718
00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:13.000
Well. Cause you were in Florida too, for a minute.

719
00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:34.000
Oh, yeah, for a year. I forgot. So I ain't okay. Yeah. So I got a little bit of shopping. It's funny, when I came back, instead of saying underwear, you know, imagine I'm from New York, so we more proper. And my uncles was making fun of me because I was saying draws. So I was there for a year. So now I'm talking. I got that down south, you feel me? And they. They was on my ass. Like that was funny to them.

720
00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:43.000
Okay, I'm trying to describe it without saying the word. If you have a carbonated drink, what do you call it based on? Cuz you're some from so many places.

721
00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:44.000
Like a soda.

722
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:45.000
Soda.

723
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:45.000
Yep.

724
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:46.000
There we go.

725
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:46.000
I was going to.

726
00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:50.000
I was wondering if you were going to say pop, cuz that's real West Coast. That's pop.

727
00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:51.000
Soda for me.

728
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:52.000
Soda.

729
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:55.000
It's soda for me too. But folks out here, most of them say pop.

730
00:58:55.000 --> 00:59:00.000
Pop. Yeah. And then if you're in Texas, everything is Coke. Everything.

731
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:05.000
Your Dr. Pepper, your Pepper. That's all you got?

732
00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:06.000
That's crazy.

733
00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:10.000
I love it. Okay, so if people want to find you, where can they find you at?

734
00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:14.000
Find me on. Damn, I can't even think now.

735
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.000
Instagram.

736
00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:18.000
Ig, Chocolate Dope.

737
00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:19.000
Okay.

738
00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:39.000
You know what I mean? Make sure y' all get me on there and then you can catch my P. Nice page P. Nice one on IG. And then tick tock. Is chocolate dope 17? If you didn't know, why the 17? Because we started in 17. Matter of fact, it just passed for 20 years when we started.

739
00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:40.000
Yeah.

740
00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:41.000
So that's the eight years that just passed.

741
00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:44.000
Oh, that's. Congrats.

742
00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:46.000
Okay, you want to hear the story?

743
00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:48.000
Like the hit. Here you go.

744
00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:49.000
Here you go.

745
00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:52.000
Back when I lived in Alabama, so.

746
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:54.000
I went to Colorado first left Milwaukee.

747
00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:56.000
I told you.

748
00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:58.000
I'm just telling y' all the story, man.

749
00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:00.000
I was gonna start in a different state.

750
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.000
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

751
01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:04.000
I get busy all 50. Look, you need at least 50 stories.

752
01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:05.000
Oh, man.

753
01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:06.000
I get busy.

754
01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:08.000
So, yeah. Cause y' all remember, I'm not from here.

755
01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:09.000
We know you ain't from here.

756
01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:45.000
And I haven't been on. We don't been on tour. We done been anywhere. You know what I mean? So, you know, I mean, I always end up with some people I mess with. I mess with the city. If I get there, I rock. You know what I'm saying? So the homegirl ends up going out there and she's like, come out there, whatever, right? I'm like, okay, we gonna get busy. So me and my man drive out there from Milwaukee. And on 4, 20, we got the shirts, got everything. Two Chains is performing, okay? For free. And it's gonna go down.

757
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:46.000
Oh, man.

758
01:00:46.000 --> 01:01:00.000
So we know we finna get this stuff off my first time, you know what I mean? We get up, it's raining, it's cold in the bitch. Also, we find out two chains ain't performing.

759
01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:01.000
Oh, no.

760
01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:15.000
Nobody buys. Not one fit, not one hoodie. Johnny Ratchet, rest in peace, my nigga. But he's gives one away to a chick that's going to buy it.

761
01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:19.000
I'm like, bro, we had a chance to make $30.

762
01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:23.000
$30, $40. I'm like, what you doing?

763
01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:25.000
That was gas money home, feel me?

764
01:01:25.000 --> 01:02:40.000
We already like, bro. You know what I mean? But at the end of the day, it's funny. I gave a lot here, obviously, but. But, yeah, that's how it kicked off and that's what made me. And then things just didn't work out the way it's supposed to in Denver. And I love Denver. Shout out to my people's in Denver. Because I really rock with y' all. But I drove my whip here. Cause I had one dude here, you know what I'm saying? But rest in peace, he ended up dying and all that. But he got me here, though. And then his cousin, you know what I'm saying, was here. So I was able to stay with them. So that's basically how I was able to save money. Because I only had to pay rent, like $100, okay? You know what I'm saying? And we all. This little spot was on a. I was on a recliner. And I was like, no, we gonna make this work now. I don't need no bed, you know what I'm saying? I wanna be comfortable. You feel me? So. And hopefully one day I got some stuff, a video of all that. Y' all see it. But shout out to Rodney and Alicia for letting me stay there. You know what I'm saying? And My people. So we. From back at the crib, he came up and so I knew all I had to do was make a phone call. I said, bro, I'm leaving. I'm coming. He's like, I'm bringing my ass. He's like, come on.

765
01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:41.000
Oh, man.

766
01:02:41.000 --> 01:02:45.000
And so I drove through. Almost died driving through Utah.

767
01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:47.000
He's like, I got a story about that. You want to hear that too?

768
01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:51.000
I don't even want to tell that story. Almost died in the mountains and it was cold as hell.

769
01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:52.000
Oh, God.

770
01:02:52.000 --> 01:03:00.000
But yeah, but I made it here, though, from Denver, and that was the reason why we left, man. Crazy after that. And this is what's going on.

771
01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:05.000
Eight years strong. I love it. Okay, so on IG TikTok all those things. And what's your website?

772
01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:09.000
Website is chocolate dopeapparel.shop.

773
01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:10.000
Okay.

774
01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:13.000
Not doc, not dot com.

775
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:16.000
And you can find all of this. You've got the Wave is Us going right now. You've got.

776
01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:20.000
Okay, the Wave is Us. Okay, so the Wave is Us is a series.

777
01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:21.000
Okay.

778
01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:22.000
That's. It's been going on for a while.

779
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:23.000
Okay.

780
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:29.000
You know what I mean? So it's not like. But really, the alter ego. The alter ego is dope sells itself.

781
01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:49.000
Gotcha. Dope sells it. It does. It does, unfortunately, in real life. But no, check out the website because you can get this stuff, you can get all the other. Because you've got several iterations of logos and designs and all kinds of things, and they are really freaking amazing. I love them.

782
01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:50.000
They.

783
01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:51.000
But Nick B, where can they find you at?

784
01:03:51.000 --> 01:04:00.000
So I can be found on all platforms of dirtyroses.com may that be our Facebook, our Instagram, our Twitter. We don't have Twitter. We have TikTok. There we go.

785
01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:01.000
We got all the things.

786
01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:07.000
We got all the things. But if you want to reach me specifically, I can be found on Instagram @nickbnickb and Ms. Leigh Laree, where can.

787
01:04:07.000 --> 01:04:25.000
We find you, Nick B. Yes, you can find me again. Like nick B said, dirtyrosespodcast.com or Dirty Roses podcast on all social media platforms, including YouTube because you can watch that this. But you can find me individually and go ahead and holl at your girl cuz I'm single and ready to mingle. No, it's Le.

788
01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:30.000
No, she not. No, she not. She dead ass is go hit it in the DM cuz she like.

789
01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:31.000
She like.

790
01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:46.000
It goes down. It's Leela reads L E I G H L A R I E. And that's on all platforms. And thank you so much, Mr. Reg. Reggie, Reginald P. Nice chocolate dope, all the things. We'll catch up with you later.

791
01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:48.000
No more, no more questions about the girls. They survive.

792
01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:50.000
We. We going to have to. We have to come back and tell.

793
01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:53.000
Your story because they all start in Southern California.

794
01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:57.000
Going the next one, listen, there's going to be a girl in 50 states.

795
01:04:57.000 --> 01:04:59.000
When I was in Alaska, you know what I'm saying?

796
01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:01.000
I liked her Eskimo kisses.

797
01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:04.000
We was doing these Eskimo kisses, you know what I'm saying? There was Caraboulu out there.

798
01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:22.000
I went and got my teeth in Columbus, you know what I'm saying? I had a girl out there, you feel me? So, yeah, I was staying with my homeboy, you know what I'm saying, instead of getting a hotel. And it was crazy out there, but you know what I'm saying? But you know, Columbia women. Shout out to my Colombian women, though. I got some pictures with y' all and you know what I'm saying? We got a name. But. But yeah.

799
01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:23.000
Oh my God.

800
01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:25.000
These are the after credits comedy.

801
01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:26.000
I swear to God.

802
01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:57.000
Oh, yeah, shout out. But I gotta give y' all a shout out to Portland though, because on some real Portland, I come from a different background, you know I'm saying? Type, you know what I'm saying? This in trouble a lot. And business wise, Portland, especially the black community really helped me how to be business, you know what I'm saying? Showed me a lot. Like, even like black man story. Not a major story, but Black Mannequin and Dave, they had. It was. The rain is out of control here.

803
01:05:57.000 --> 01:05:58.000
Oh, my goodness.

804
01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:15.000
So there's a pop up going on. So off top, I'm like, shit, ain't nothing happening. I'm like, it's raining. So I called Black Mannequin. He's like, he's like, what you doing? He's like, we here. Come on. What you doing? I said, what? So I'm thinking I could call Dave.

805
01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:16.000
Yeah.

806
01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:23.000
And Dave was like, I'm here. You better. Come on, you finna miss out. I made four. I made four, like 50 that day.

807
01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:25.000
Oh, wow. Okay.

808
01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:26.000
I said in the rain.

809
01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:27.000
Rain won't stop.

810
01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:33.000
Nothing in Portland is different. Y' all don't care. And I don't really do the. Y' all really don't do umbrellas. Umbrellas.

811
01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:35.000
You're a punk if you do an umbrella.

812
01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:38.000
That's exactly how y' all act. And I ain't never seen that.

813
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:41.000
If it rained, like, oh, she's not from here, right?

814
01:06:41.000 --> 01:06:48.000
I'm just like that part. Use umbrellas out here like it's raining like a mud. And y' all just walking like it's no big deal.

815
01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:50.000
Sandals on, right?

816
01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:51.000
Definitely. Sandals in the rain.

817
01:06:51.000 --> 01:06:56.000
I'm mad like your hamburgers got rain all in the hamburger. And y' all don't. Y' all just eat.

818
01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:57.000
Your buns are soggy, baby.

819
01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:16.000
Your buns are soggy. You ain't notice your bun was soggy. Oh, y' all like it when it gets soggy. Okay, okay, I understand now because all the juice and everything is all up in there now. The burger tastes better. The juices and all that. I get it. Okay. I'll figure it out, though. But yeah, we, you know, I'm saying shout out to Portugal. I love y' all, man, for real. And I love y' all, too, for having me on the show.

820
01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:21.000
For real, for real. So much. We appreciate you. We'll catch y' all later, all right?