Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, yow Yo. Welcome to the
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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Jesus Nice and And for those of
Speaker 2: you at home who might be confused, I'm not Charlemagne.
Speaker 2: I'm the other black black guy. Oh that's how up.
Speaker 2: In which case, I am Charlemagne. We've got a great show.
Speaker 1: For you tonight.
Speaker 2: So let's get into some headlines. Republicans are trying to
Speaker 2: figure out a new Speaker of the House, and surprise, surprise,
Speaker 2: even Republicans don't like other Republicans.
Speaker 3: On Friday, House Republicans dropped Jim Jordan of Ohio as
Speaker 3: the nominee in a secret ballot after his three failed
Speaker 3: attempts to get elected. At least nine Republicans are now
Speaker 3: vying to be the Speaker of the House, setting the
Speaker 3: stage for a new candidate forum tomorrow. Among the contenders
Speaker 3: Byron Donalds of Florida, retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Jack
Speaker 3: Bergman of Michigan, a majority whip, Tom Emmer of Minnesota,
Speaker 3: who's backed by Alston Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker 2: That's right, they got nine Republicans running for speaker. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest, I kind of want to root
Speaker 2: for Byron.
Speaker 1: I feel like he might be my god.
Speaker 2: I mean no particular reason, but for real, though, look
Speaker 2: at this group of contenders. It looks like someone put
Speaker 2: a bottle of Hershey syrup.
Speaker 1: In the mayonnaise owl.
Speaker 4: Yo.
Speaker 1: All these white dudes look the same.
Speaker 2: In fact, three of them are the same guy and
Speaker 2: you didn't even notice.
Speaker 1: That's how similar they are. If you ask me, and
Speaker 1: Byron could win this thing easy. Oh yes.
Speaker 2: To do is say vote for me and I'll let
Speaker 2: you say it. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: I'm kidding, you know they already say it. It's time
Speaker 2: for some financial news. The Daily Show is a serious show.
Speaker 2: I know some people expect me to come on here
Speaker 2: and do my thing writer just roast people by that
Speaker 2: I have beeflip.
Speaker 1: But this is a serious show.
Speaker 2: There's a serious chair, serious desk, and now I'm going
Speaker 2: to give you some important financial news, so important I
Speaker 2: have to put on my spectacles.
Speaker 1: I report on the serious financial news.
Speaker 5: Popular radio host DJ Envy now distancing himself from an
Speaker 5: alleged multimillion dollar fraud scheme.
Speaker 1: Not DJ Envious, that was never on my radar.
Speaker 5: Go on, federal agents arresting his longtime friend and one
Speaker 5: time business partner, Caesar Pinia on charges of wire fraud,
Speaker 5: accusing him of a Ponzi like real estate scheme that
Speaker 5: allegedly defrauded investors.
Speaker 4: Out of millions.
Speaker 5: Pinya often appeared on The Breakfast Club, a top twenty
Speaker 5: iHeartRadio show with millions of listeners and YouTube subscribers to
Speaker 5: promote real estate investment. He also held seminars and created
Speaker 5: YouTube videos with Djnvy has not been charged in connection
Speaker 5: with the case, but many of the alleged victims say
Speaker 5: they were influenced by his celebrity status.
Speaker 1: Wow, DJ Envy is in trouble for real estate fraud.
Speaker 1: What a serious story. It's definitely not funny. There's certainly
Speaker 1: nothing personal that makes it funny to me. It's not
Speaker 1: like Rashaan.
Speaker 2: Accosted me on the radio for making a little joke
Speaker 2: about him and his wife, which I only.
Speaker 1: Thought we were friends. It's not like you called me dickhead.
Speaker 2: And then got so mad he locked himself in the
Speaker 2: studio for the rest of the show and then told
Speaker 2: the building security I was a threat.
Speaker 1: But even if that happened, that's all in the past.
Speaker 1: I'm just reading the news.
Speaker 2: Listen, and apparently the news is DJ Mvy might go
Speaker 2: to jail for an alleged Ponzi scheme flipped houses in
Speaker 2: New Jersey.
Speaker 1: That's not hilarious. It's tragic because he's just a DJ.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no way he could have known he
Speaker 2: might have been involved in a Ponzi scheme.
Speaker 4: Right when I.
Speaker 1: First got into real estate, I called three people. I
Speaker 1: called Clue, I called Fabulous, I called Joe Button. Joe
Speaker 1: Button told me it was a Ponzi scheme and I
Speaker 1: was gonna go to jail.
Speaker 2: That clip is not funny. We are not laughing at this.
Speaker 2: We're also not asking who's a dickhead? Now, I'm being serious.
Speaker 2: Look at these spectacles. This could have happened to anybody.
Speaker 2: Whenever I'm doing financial transactions. I also get advice from
Speaker 2: Joe Butten, Fabulous and DJ Clue. Everybody knows that the
Speaker 2: Lehman Brothers of hip hop, and look, I don't want
Speaker 2: Envy to go to prison. I mean, imagine getting locked
Speaker 2: up for one of the corniest crimes in hip hop history.
Speaker 2: This is a property brothers ass crime. Forget the bloods.
Speaker 2: He's gonna have to join the House hunters. But again,
Speaker 2: I'm just doing the news, and the news is that
Speaker 2: DJ Envy is a DJ, a man who turns tables,
Speaker 2: and now the tables have turned. Let's kick things off
Speaker 2: with big news about the speaker race in Congress. After
Speaker 2: spending three weeks on the dating scene, Republicans are finally
Speaker 2: swiping right now far.
Speaker 4: Right breaking news out of Washington.
Speaker 1: House lawmakers finally elected the next Speaker of the House.
Speaker 5: After twenty two days, fourteen candidates and four nominees, House
Speaker 5: Republicans united to elect Congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana the
Speaker 5: new Speaker of the House.
Speaker 2: Republicans finally named conservative Congressman Mike Johnson.
Speaker 4: And it's about time.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: America's new Speaker of the House is some dude named
Speaker 2: Mike Johnson.
Speaker 1: I'll be be honest.
Speaker 2: That sounds like the name you give a hotel when
Speaker 2: you're checking in after having an affair.
Speaker 1: Hey, my name is Mike Johnston. You went rooms by
Speaker 1: the hour.
Speaker 2: Now, if you don't know Mike Johnson, don't worry. Nobody
Speaker 2: else does. But what we do know is that he
Speaker 2: wants nationwide limits on abortion. He wants the criminalized gay sex,
Speaker 2: and he even wants to ban reggae thoon.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm lying on.
Speaker 2: The last one, but that seems like this vibe because
Speaker 2: it comes off as a dick and the one other
Speaker 2: thing people know about this dude, he was one of
Speaker 2: the main guys trying to steal the election for Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: but apparently he doesn't want to talk about that anymore.
Speaker 2: Johnson is a Stauns Trump ally who recruited Republicans to
Speaker 2: sign on to efforts to.
Speaker 1: Overturn the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 5: I asked him, if he stands by that vote, can
Speaker 5: you help me?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Someone can get there, Nana.
Speaker 1: So at first, when I saw that reaction, I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: that was a lot.
Speaker 2: But then I learned the reporter who asked the question
Speaker 2: was black.
Speaker 1: That didn't be order to make a little more.
Speaker 2: Sense, especially when I found out the shut up lady
Speaker 2: is named Virginia and she represents North Carolina.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of Southern heritage right there.
Speaker 2: I bet you she was born in some small town
Speaker 2: named Plantationville or something.
Speaker 1: Where was she born? Oh shit? Oh? She from the
Speaker 1: BX wow BX day. Wait yo, I remember her?
Speaker 4: Yo?
Speaker 2: Yo?
Speaker 1: She used to be on the block. That's Jimmy for
Speaker 1: one four nine yo.
Speaker 2: We went to high school together. She got old as shit.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I see you. Let's kick things off with
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court justice who's accepted more gifts than'll make
Speaker 2: a wish kids, Clarence Thomas. So every day there's a
Speaker 2: new story about Thomas accepting lavish gifts from his rich
Speaker 2: ass friends and not reporting any of it.
Speaker 1: And now Thomas is in morhot water because someone Boughheima Jacuzzi.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. It was RV.
Speaker 6: Clarence Thomas has been an RV evangelist for decades, traveling
Speaker 6: the country in a forty foot luxury motor coach that
Speaker 6: he purchased in nineteen ninety nine after borrowing more than
Speaker 6: a quarter of a million dollars from a wealthy friend.
Speaker 6: But a new report from Democrats on the Senate Finance
Speaker 6: Committee alleges Thomas's friend forgave a substantial amount of that
Speaker 6: massive loan, and nine years later, his friend forgave all
Speaker 6: the debt. The IRS considers debt forgiveness as a form
Speaker 6: of income, but Thomas never reported it on his financial
Speaker 6: disclosure forms, a likely violation of federal ethics rules, and
Speaker 6: he never reported it on his tax returns, potentially owing
Speaker 6: money to the irs. There's longtime friend Anthony Welters who
Speaker 6: loaned him that money. He is defending this arrangement, saying, quote,
Speaker 6: I loaned a friend money.
Speaker 4: We've all been on one side of the other of
Speaker 4: that equation.
Speaker 1: No, we have nots Okay, I've never had a friend.
Speaker 1: Just give me. I don't know two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Hell, last week I bummed a cigarette from my guy Tommy.
Speaker 2: He sent me a Venmo request. I do have a
Speaker 2: question for Clarence's rich friend. You want to hang some
Speaker 2: song like yo, this catch a Knicks game? I got
Speaker 2: Courtside season be paid for them, but Loki, I'm disappointed
Speaker 2: in Clarence. If you got to take a bribe, it
Speaker 2: should be extravagant, like gold bars and diamonds.
Speaker 1: This is depressing.
Speaker 2: You bear on abortion because you want someone else to
Speaker 2: let you drop a bus. Also, they said that driving
Speaker 2: RVs a Clarence thomas favorite thing in the world. Look
Speaker 2: at my man face. This is what Clarence Thomas looks
Speaker 2: like when he's happy. I'm enjoying this. Hurray now, if
Speaker 2: you know anything about me, I am a real New Yorker.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if any of y'all are real
Speaker 2: New Yorkers. So I hit the street to find out.
Speaker 1: You're what up? It's your boy, Jesus is nice.
Speaker 2: We're here in New York City talking to New Yorkers
Speaker 2: about what makes them a real New Yorker. We're gonna
Speaker 2: find out if it's about being born here versus the
Speaker 2: experience you had here follow me or this?
Speaker 1: Hear some chop cheese stories? You consider yourself a real
Speaker 1: New Yorker? Definitely?
Speaker 2: Yes, we're born here. I was born here for Green
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Brooklyn Hospital. That's how you know he's a real
Speaker 2: New Yorker. He told me the hospital. I did not
Speaker 2: ask him. Okay, this is what we do. We are
Speaker 2: ignoxious like that. Are you a New Yorker?
Speaker 1: I consider myself in New Yorker? You can consider yourself
Speaker 1: in New Yorker. I moved here from Hong Kong when
Speaker 1: I was four years old.
Speaker 2: Is there like one event that happened and you're like,
Speaker 2: damn it, I went through that I'm a New Yorker
Speaker 2: Or is it just the whole experience?
Speaker 7: Really?
Speaker 4: The whole experience.
Speaker 3: I mean even this itself, it's an experience I would consider.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you feel is the most New York
Speaker 2: thing you've ever seen? Probably when Jay Z brought over
Speaker 2: the lawsuit ship.
Speaker 1: Boy as a New Yorker? What borough has the worst guys?
Speaker 4: The worst guy?
Speaker 1: I would say, the Bronx. How do you have to trade?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with the Bronx?
Speaker 4: I just feel like the Bronx is dirt, you know offence?
Speaker 2: What about Hopetown and the Bronx you have been I
Speaker 2: don't freak with the Bronx.
Speaker 1: Bro even go with the It's just far bro as
Speaker 1: far as training ride, as far, the most crazy I
Speaker 1: said I've seen.
Speaker 7: I was on Fordham Road in Grand Concourse and a
Speaker 7: crackhead went right in the middle of the street and
Speaker 7: it just took a ship.
Speaker 8: That's the most craziest shot I've seen it so far.
Speaker 1: To be fair, is that crazy for Fordham Road? Nah
Speaker 1: Na lebron At. Every New Yorker has one of these.
Speaker 1: I have to ask you what your your goal?
Speaker 4: Order?
Speaker 1: Chop Chop cheese. Yeah, that was the Hero roll. It
Speaker 1: was a morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me get a boch mayonnaise, so pepper extra tomato.
Speaker 1: You longing to see a baking nugg and cheese. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't that stereotypical.
Speaker 4: So you want me to say if.
Speaker 2: You said that, that means you're a transplant or undercover cop.
Speaker 2: We're not falling through which will leads to ratings. If
Speaker 2: you think is a better rating an A or a C,
Speaker 2: I'm saying you passed that.
Speaker 1: A means just clean. The rats that work there have
Speaker 1: benefits that conduct. You know what the C means.
Speaker 2: No, it's supposed to me and the place is disgusting,
Speaker 2: it's probably rat here in the food wrong, it means
Speaker 2: it's probably some of the best food you have, succument.
Speaker 1: You're gonna eat that chicken off the phone? Which is
Speaker 1: the best restaurant? Grave? Come on off the river, off
Speaker 1: the river, okay? Amy clean by?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know, if they ain't give you no attitude and
Speaker 2: they ain't got to see on the front door spot
Speaker 2: with the big chicken wings be stands for best?
Speaker 1: Are you a Knicks fan?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Come on, baby? Do it die in the Mexican right?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know we wait in a minute, but
Speaker 1: we think we got this year.
Speaker 4: We got got a baby.
Speaker 1: Oh die hard let's New York clicks all day, baby.
Speaker 1: That's what I love about New Yorkers are optimists.
Speaker 2: But when the Knicks winner championship, what are you going
Speaker 2: to vandalize me?
Speaker 4: Personally?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna flip the Christopher Columbus statue of fifty ninth Street.
Speaker 1: Get him out of here, Get him out of If
Speaker 1: you got one piece of advice for anyone about to
Speaker 1: come to New York, what would you What advice is
Speaker 1: mind your business? And you won't get mine?
Speaker 4: Your business? Min your business?
Speaker 1: Mine?
Speaker 4: I got the business.
Speaker 1: I think you were passed the test. You are real
Speaker 1: New Yorker. Man.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you about to go put on a fresh
Speaker 2: Yankee fit Air Force one on man. Even though you
Speaker 2: completely destroyed the Bronx and you called its dirty, you
Speaker 2: said we're fatherless.
Speaker 1: I recognize you are true New York here.
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: Using the talent that was given to me by Juliani,
Speaker 2: I now proclaim you a true New Yorker.
Speaker 1: This guy is the real deal right here. Pleas one day.
Speaker 1: Let's go, Baby, Let's go mex Let's go, Niggs. What
Speaker 1: does it take to be a New Yorker? In your opinion, you.
Speaker 3: Have to have a lot of grits, and you have
Speaker 3: your work hardly heard. And also you just have to
Speaker 3: be opinionated.
Speaker 2: Pulled your own you know what, using your own standard
Speaker 2: of definition of a New Yorker.
Speaker 1: You passed the test, Sam Oh, thank you. You are
Speaker 1: now a true New Yorker. I want you to walk
Speaker 1: down the street.
Speaker 2: And bump into someone and not apologize.
Speaker 1: Here we go, here we go, can't be back.
Speaker 2: My guest tonight represents New York's fourteenth Conversional District, which
Speaker 2: includes parts of the Bronx and Queens. Please welcome Congresswoman
Speaker 2: Alexandria Cosio cartoon.
Speaker 1: Aot listen. Always good to see you.
Speaker 8: Always good to see a Bronx site, Always good to
Speaker 8: see at introduction.
Speaker 1: How you've been I've been good.
Speaker 8: I mean it's been a little, you know, crazy, and
Speaker 8: it's been.
Speaker 1: A wild time in Congress. What's in Rod been like
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 2: Because I see you on social media and you can
Speaker 2: just be like, hey, it's a sunny day and people
Speaker 2: are like I hate you.
Speaker 8: You know, it's not that different than the six train
Speaker 8: at midnight sometimes got you. So you know, you get
Speaker 8: that practice.
Speaker 1: Right, but you still love what you do.
Speaker 8: I do in fact, I think I love it now
Speaker 8: more than ever.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have to ask you about the House speaker debacle.
Speaker 1: Yes, from the outside, I have no idea what's going in?
Speaker 1: Could you just really quickly explain it.
Speaker 8: So Republicans kicked out their speaker and now they can't
Speaker 8: find a new guy to run their group projects. Yes,
Speaker 8: and they're all like fighting with each other about it.
Speaker 4: Got you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now for a local in the Bronx, how does
Speaker 2: this affect them?
Speaker 8: So in terms of how this affects the Bronx, we've
Speaker 8: got a clock ticking on a government shutdown. And if
Speaker 8: this gets us to a point of a government shutdown,
Speaker 8: I mean that's real, right, that's when we start seeing
Speaker 8: TSA and airports get affected. That's when people could potentially
Speaker 8: miss their checks. So this is something that's really important
Speaker 8: for everybody to make sure that we get that pressure on.
Speaker 8: But also we need to make sure that we don't
Speaker 8: have people like Jim Jordan or extremists, because whoever takes
Speaker 8: over the House could potentially put our democracy in danger
Speaker 8: when it comes to certifying or re certifying an election.
Speaker 4: And so on. Got you?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: You know people say Congress doesn't really get anything done
Speaker 2: right now because of the shutdown. What were you guys
Speaker 2: getting done before? Because I know you've been doing something.
Speaker 8: Okay, that's an excellent question. I will say from when
Speaker 8: Republicans took over to now, they provided a lot.
Speaker 4: Of meme content.
Speaker 8: Yes, But before that, when Democrats were in the majority,
Speaker 8: we passed the largest climate package in American history. How
Speaker 8: we capt the insulin at thirty five dollars for people.
Speaker 8: We made sure that you know, when the pandemic went through,
Speaker 8: we started the program of child tax credits. Now we
Speaker 8: had some folks in the Senate shut that down, but
Speaker 8: when we take back the Senate, we want to make
Speaker 8: sure that we re establish and expand those programs back
Speaker 8: again too.
Speaker 1: So okay, we're able to do some things.
Speaker 8: They're on the struggle box for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Did I put some respect on my name? I feel you?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: So we just did a piece about the people running
Speaker 2: for House Speaker.
Speaker 1: Who are you voting for?
Speaker 8: None of them? I can tell you I'll be casting
Speaker 8: my vote for Hakim Jeffries, all right.
Speaker 2: So you know, talks of our parents, all the parents
Speaker 2: immigrants are the lifeblood of New York City. Our Mayor
Speaker 2: Eric Adams. He said, we can't handle anymore in here.
Speaker 2: You represent one of the most diverse district in Congress.
Speaker 1: What can be done at a federal level to help.
Speaker 8: Well, here's the thing is that I think, whether from
Speaker 8: all parts of the political spectrum, one of the biggest
Speaker 8: issues that we have when it comes to immigration is
Speaker 8: the fact that we have an undocumented population. Now, you
Speaker 8: can fix that by trying to build a wall, or
Speaker 8: you can fix that by trying to document people and
Speaker 8: create a path to citizenship. And we'll have folks that
Speaker 8: might say, look at these systems. You know that our
Speaker 8: shelter system has weight and things like that. But one
Speaker 8: of the reasons that our public systems experience weight is
Speaker 8: because people don't have a documented and reliable path to
Speaker 8: work and sustain themselves, just like all of our ancestors
Speaker 8: did and our grandparents and great grandparents. You know, I
Speaker 8: always love when people talk about like, oh, well, you know,
Speaker 8: my great grandfather came and he wrote his name wrong
Speaker 8: on a book book and now he's a citizen, And like,
Speaker 8: can we.
Speaker 1: Put two and two together?
Speaker 8: That that our processes today are so difficult that they
Speaker 8: make our immigration process difficult. But that doesn't mean that
Speaker 8: immigrants do not create a positive contribution to our country
Speaker 8: and our economy and our society. And so the answer
Speaker 8: should really be, we should make it easier to be legal, documented,
Speaker 8: and a citizen of the United States.
Speaker 4: And I'm right there, right there.
Speaker 2: What was great talking to you? Thank you for coming.
Speaker 2: Give it up for Congresswoman Alexander.
Speaker 1: From the bel My guest tonight is a.
Speaker 2: Grammy nominade rapper whose latest single is called Work Hard,
Speaker 2: Play Hard.
Speaker 1: Please Welcome to Homie dc W.
Speaker 8: What's that?
Speaker 4: Brother?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: You walk no good?
Speaker 2: So you teach Spanish and music theory in Inglewood High School?
Speaker 4: I did well.
Speaker 7: I taught Spanish at Inglewood High School. Okay, ultimately I
Speaker 7: ended up teaching music theory.
Speaker 2: And then you have to show the Netflix show Rhythm
Speaker 2: and Flow absolutely and you are I did Okay?
Speaker 1: Did any of your students come back like yo? I
Speaker 1: couldn't even know. I didn't even know you could spit
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 7: Man, I run into my students everywhere, because if you
Speaker 7: think I talked for over like seven years and stuff
Speaker 7: and so.
Speaker 4: Exag and each each.
Speaker 7: Year you have anywhere from one hundred to like two
Speaker 7: hundred students and.
Speaker 4: So they're all over the world.
Speaker 7: They're adults now, and so you run run into them
Speaker 7: o hiking trails and they're like, wow, mister Ferris. It
Speaker 7: was like you was a good teacher, but you're a
Speaker 7: better rapper.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: Also, if your students are on hiking trails, you're a
Speaker 1: good teacher.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. You know, they processing.
Speaker 2: Reason all right, we just did a segment about bullying
Speaker 2: schools and they actually said California is number one for
Speaker 2: bullying while you were teacher.
Speaker 1: Who is worse in bullion? High schoolers or rappers?
Speaker 7: I'm gonna have to say high schoolers easily. High schoolers
Speaker 7: they're nah, man, They're they're heartless sometimes, you know. And
Speaker 7: and I think that the teachers sometimes are easy targets.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: They're like, oh, you have a job to protect and
Speaker 7: all that. So they're just they're shoot at the teacher.
Speaker 7: And sometimes you just got to take the teacher hat
Speaker 7: off and be like.
Speaker 4: Man, that's why your mama, no, you know, let me
Speaker 4: just shoot back. You know.
Speaker 7: You know what, It's crazy because when you when you
Speaker 7: when you take off the cool hat and you shoot
Speaker 7: back at the students.
Speaker 4: Then they're like, okay, he's not playing. Just let me respect.
Speaker 7: Their biggest fear is the fear of being embarrassed, so
Speaker 7: you you might have to pick at it one time,
Speaker 7: you know, and not of course not overboard, but let
Speaker 7: them know that you you're there, you in the moment,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 4: You got you.
Speaker 1: So your family's in the business musical family.
Speaker 4: Your brother is sir, My brother is sir.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you familiar?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How does that work?
Speaker 2: Having a family member also sertainment, like like if you
Speaker 2: want you on a remix, is you's like, so, brother,
Speaker 2: you go through a no, we go direct, We go direct,
Speaker 2: but after the music is.
Speaker 7: Done, it's still got to go through like the proper channels.
Speaker 7: But you know, there's a lot of respect there because.
Speaker 4: We're not a group.
Speaker 7: You know, we're our own artists and and we just
Speaker 7: admire each other so much that we we choose the
Speaker 7: right moments to put our songs. And that's where this
Speaker 7: single came about. It's like, is the time And we
Speaker 7: both looked at each other, it's like, yeah, it's time.
Speaker 2: Work hard, play hard, work hard, play brother, you're working
Speaker 2: on ya novel?
Speaker 7: Yeah, young man, there's so many acronyms in my head.
Speaker 7: I'm like, why, you know, I used to work.
Speaker 4: On the library.
Speaker 1: So I'm being like a wild nerd.
Speaker 7: Right now because I'm like, ya, don't they call juvenile
Speaker 7: hall y a?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but wow.
Speaker 7: That's I went to ya for three years.
Speaker 4: It was hard.
Speaker 2: But shout out to you because you know, like having
Speaker 2: as a black man writing a ye a novel, you
Speaker 2: feel like you have more teaching to do.
Speaker 7: You have more absolutely if you absolutely. I'm an educator
Speaker 7: by trade. I'm an educator at heart, but I'm also
Speaker 7: critical of the education system.
Speaker 4: I won't go into it.
Speaker 7: It's just, you know, it's not necessarily the best circumstances
Speaker 7: under which to reach people, you know, like you have
Speaker 7: to do certain things, you know, Whereas the things that
Speaker 7: really impacted me the most, there are certain books that
Speaker 7: changed my life, one of which was The Alchemist, you know,
Speaker 7: And for me, I'd like to believe I've written the
Speaker 7: Hood Alchemists, you know, and so yeah, so I'm super
Speaker 7: proud of that.
Speaker 1: Gotcha.
Speaker 2: And now, in this current musical environment, what advice could
Speaker 2: you give a new artist if they're really trying to
Speaker 2: stand out? Because it' assuming new artists out there.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: I mean I always tell artists two things. I tell them,
Speaker 7: extend a runway, right, give yourself more time than people
Speaker 7: tend to. Everybody's trying to hit home runs.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 7: Everybody wants to blow up. But if you grow up,
Speaker 7: nobody can take from you what you built.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 7: If you blow up, it can happen. Then you're try
Speaker 7: to figure out where you at.
Speaker 4: You know, so.
Speaker 7: Spet the runway, grow up, be consistent. What changed my
Speaker 7: life is what got me on Rhythm and Flow is
Speaker 7: that I was putting something out once a week consistently
Speaker 7: with a visual. So I'm talking about if it took
Speaker 7: me putting a tripod down and filming it myself and
Speaker 7: the editing it every friday, you was gonna get a
Speaker 7: new piece of content. And I knew what my creative
Speaker 7: advantage was. I spoke Spanish. I was just I'm not
Speaker 7: gonna wear I was a black man from Inglewood speaking Spanish,
Speaker 7: said gotcha, gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 4: And I knew people hadn't seen that.
Speaker 7: So I'm like, let's demonstrate that and mix it with
Speaker 7: some of the contents, some of the message and do
Speaker 7: it once a week. And then we started getting the
Speaker 7: phone calls, so a lot of people think, oh, rhythm
Speaker 7: and flow puts you on, Like, no, they called us,
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying to be a part of that,
Speaker 7: so gotch.
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