The Real Report - Pop Smoke’s Mom & Brother on Legacy, Shoot For The Stars Foundation & Black Smoke Fashion Collection

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn is in the buildings.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Brooklyn is broke.

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Speaker 1: You got it, you got it today.

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Speaker 2: It's snow, it's snow.

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Speaker 1: Get out. Yeah, it's the talk of New York and it's the boy Uncle murder.

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Speaker 3: Well and it's the real report. Tell them who y'all are. You're not telling them who y'all are. Y'all gotta we're gonna do this different now.

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Speaker 4: Okay, it's myself, I introduced. I am Audrey Jackson, a k A.

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Speaker 1: My smoke.

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Speaker 4: Okay, my son is pop smoke.

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Speaker 1: Peace, pop smoke.

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Speaker 5: Come on, man, you already know who it is. It's BOSSI from the floor. It's the trip of three for your mom. Moved to the side and ain't got time for the lives.

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Speaker 2: Man definitely makes some noise.

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Speaker 3: Come on, make some builder today. Broke, Yes, Brooklyn, you got it, you got it today. It's no problem.

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Speaker 1: I know he had a he had a grievance with with queens. What's up with that?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 3: So it's just our friendly is here today, right broo?

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Speaker 1: Kin is it today?

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Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with that. Rest in peace, pop smoked.

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Speaker 3: So the first question I want to ask you, so my friend out I even He always calls me and asks me, yo, mental check, just to see how you're doing today. You know, you you dealt with a big loss. You know, we know him as Pop Smoke, but that's your son and that's your brother. How y'all feeling like, what's going on? Talk about the foundation, Let's just get into it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been I've been thinking about that and just kind of being in that place because you know, the nineteenth of last month was six years yes, and so that day was rough for me. And it was the first time that, you know, because normally we have things going on and then we go online from ten o'clock to twelve, and then we do something else in the evening. But I didn't have anything to do that morning, and so it hit me and it was it was hard, and so I realized I've been just kind of been on automatic from they came to the house, put me on the plane and took me to Calium and brought me back. I have been on automatic. And really that was the first day that I've not been occupied with something else, and that really it took a toll. Took a toll, but I'm here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 3: That's right, and how you feel, brother, because sometimes I see you crashing out on it in and I know I was just about to ask you, you see because you know black black folks. Black folks, listen, black folks, Let's keep it real. We never get therapy, I think, no, for real, listen, losing people. I lost a lot, I lost, you know, my dad, I lost you know, I lost like a lot of friends and family and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Losing people.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes we never think about therapy, Like Louise kids, nobody said, Yo, go out there and maybe talk to somebody. I've seen you on the net like crashing out like and I just That's why I wanted you on the show because I'm like, how do you feel like people checking on y'all to see how are y'all mentally?

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Speaker 2: That's it And I think big losses.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the right there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Yo, feel me like, I think people need to check in and see how mind them is doing.

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Speaker 1: There's some people shout out to you know, you know, uh, She's.

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Speaker 2: Like, who's that?

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Speaker 3: Keep it real, mom, So we'll keep it checks.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna if you ain't. If you don't want to name them, bro, you you ain't got the.

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Speaker 4: Name, So who's supposed to check in?

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Speaker 3: I think everybody's supposed to check in, Like how we're checking it now in due time. I agree, Like Droe told me about your foundation, and I'm like, yo, I need them on the show. When it's time to get to the podcast. We got our man ja o here doing some nice paintings for you. You want to show the first one, because we can't show the first one. Let's show them the first one. This is for you, This is for you, Mama smoke.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you've been.

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Speaker 4: Working behind them.

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Speaker 2: See I did this a while ago.

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Speaker 3: Okay, right, and it's so crazy. You make sure you get it on camera. Let's get that on camera.

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Speaker 5: When I heard the name of the foundation, I said.

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Speaker 3: You're letting the secret out. You're letting the secret out. That's that's for you. That is beautiful.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Shout to the camera, brother, so let the cameras shout to my man Jo.

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Speaker 2: He's one of the best out here. Y'all. Make sure you'll follow him on Instagram and everything, and shout to Mama Smoke.

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Speaker 4: We're going to put that in Pop's place.

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Speaker 2: Whatever y'all want to do.

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Speaker 3: That's yes.

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Speaker 2: And whatever you need towards the foundation, like more pains or whatever.

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Speaker 3: He's willing to work with y'all, tickets, y'all met.

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Speaker 1: There a lot of stuff with the young people.

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Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, absolutely, that's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That's dope, that's dope.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna shut.

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Speaker 5: Up, so we're gonna shout out to the We're gonna we're gonna give shout out to Yeah, Teddy Is.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 5: We got some of the people from on two that come through on uh, you know, on Pop Smoked Day. You know what I'm saying that show love some people from the church, you know, but the people that y'all would think should be tapping and not tapping in you know, academics already had an interview with five year already ran down on him on the internet frame.

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Speaker 1: Like just be but.

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Speaker 5: It's like you you out and this is what I'm saying, this is my You don't feel like I just got answers, Bro, I'm not afraid.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 5: Listen for me all praises. Listen at the end of the day when you say you look like, for instance, if I was to die right now, my friends don't come support my mom or my family ever.

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Speaker 1: Ever, that's an issue.

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Speaker 5: I'm not saying you got business and you flying now that you got stuff to take you. Everybody got to get their money, bro. I would never want to see a black man not getting all money. But if you talking about yo ride to die Yo, we a wool So for the start, got to tie it on me.

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Speaker 1: That's it got you.

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Speaker 4: So you see, as the first board, he has expectations and he also feels an obligation to cover his mother. I on the other hand, if you show up, you're supposed to be there. You don't show up, you're not supposed to be there.

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Speaker 2: Right, I don't.

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Speaker 4: Those were people who knew him, were a part of his world. I'm on the ride for whatever it is they were going to get from being there with him. Not mad at you don't abuse me, don't use me. Right, if you're not dealing with me, you're not dealing with me. But don't come through when you need a favor, right, Because it's about being real. So I am not as upset as he is.

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Speaker 2: He's upset, Yeah, he.

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Speaker 4: Is because you know it's his brother rights that's a different place. And so because he knows of them and he understands that if they are who they said they were, right, then they should cover us a little differently. But the fact that you're not covering says you were not what you say you are.

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Speaker 5: Forget us my mom, I'm my own person. I'm gonna take care of me. You feel me, Definitely his mom for me, though.

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Speaker 2: What are they whatever?

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Speaker 4: What you're supposed to do?

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Speaker 5: What you're doing the foundation and things of that sort. That's what we hear they showing up. That's what we're really showing about the foundation. How long did you have the foundation?

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Speaker 4: We started in twenty twenty one, like he started the paperwork before it happened, and then we formalized in about April of twenty twenty one, and so that's we started. That's when we started kind of doing things, you know, for the community twenty one.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, are you saying you ain't getting no support from like the rappers and the other type of But.

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Speaker 4: In all fairness to them, they were being blocked. Like everyone that I've met that I've had the opportunity to meet, every last one said finally, So it's like they were looking for me but couldn't get to met you. Because I think there was an intentional.

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Speaker 1: Me say block or you think was blocking them though, Oh we're getting too deep.

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Speaker 3: When I looked at Pop Smoke, what made him important was because it's like every couple of years, New York get this big star. And he was the big star, you know what I mean. He had the confidence, he had the look. The ladies loved him, you know what I'm saying. He was in shape.

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Speaker 1: He came home, he was doing this thing.

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Speaker 2: Everybody. Every song he put out was like a guaran.

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Speaker 3: Teen Smoker hit. So it was different from me. He had the city turned up. He was one of them. He had records with Travis Scott. Early in his career, he started doing movies. You know what I'm saying. Fifty loved him. Everybody loved him. I remember my first time meeting was what was a Tycoon weekend in Jersey and that was like my first time meeting him and seeing him, and he was.

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Speaker 2: Just blowing up, blowing up, blowing up. You know what I'm saying. He was doing this thing. So it's just it was just different. When we lost him, it was a different kind of loss.

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Speaker 3: So so in my mind, I'm like, let me get them on the show, because you see what they're doing Nipsey and the Marathon. I feel like y'all should get that push in that same promotion on that platform.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so who's blocking?

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Speaker 5: This did not make it as big as it needed to be, Like who's blocking?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 5: I don't think it's more doing what it needs to you know, people say in the industry, that's just like sometimes the world it be certain people behind like you, Just like you see how you're doing your due diligence right now you're bringing us on the show.

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Speaker 1: That's a step forward.

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Speaker 5: There's people who already got the muscle, who got the stature that you fellas got, who don't do that?

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Speaker 1: That's blocking in my eyes. It's not to.

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Speaker 5: Say, oh, don't go over there, but it's what's over there? Understand God, now we're quiet, WHI y'all love pop for me? But it's about this, about the intention of your heart, the characters that you have, the character that you of who you are, you feel me. That's what I'm referring to when I say when we say block.

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Speaker 1: Got you? Okay, I got you.

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Speaker 5: I just want to get a better understanding at least Panama, right, yeah, jail, what part of Panama?

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Speaker 1: Everybody what's that.

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Speaker 2: It's happy.

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Speaker 3: I can tell you the clock episode, even though I set it up. I mean, thank you, Joe, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: You know, Brooklyn, Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: May is in the building. Definitely good, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean so, you know, it's just we definitely wanted to have you all on the show.

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Speaker 1: You know what. I want to know my mama smoke. What was your favorite pop smoke record?

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Speaker 2: That's a good one.

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Speaker 4: Mm hmm. I tend not to listen because it's still hard for me. I've pulled out certain ones to do, Like when we did our first fashion show for the fashion line, I pulled out Demeanor because that's the one that woke me up in the night. That's I woke up and it was on the TV, and it's just everything just kind of you know, rolled down from there. I think, I like shake the Room.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I like shake the room.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's the one of the video frame when he was in Paris, right, that's the one. I think, Yeah, yeah, he was just I like the story behind that. You know, it took over somebody's restaurant and was just wild'n out and they loved him, and I like shake the Room. I just liked the concept of you know, we're gonna shake the room.

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Speaker 1: Did you get in here? We're gonna shake the room?

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Speaker 2: What was he like growing up as a kid as well as as well as.

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Speaker 4: They were regular children. They went to church, they went to school. I like to say that we went to a performing arts church. So there were you know, there were programs that were done where they got to dance and sing and drum and you know, you learn how to use all these things that you guys are using in here. That was just a part of what they did. That's part of what they did. They were regular kids, regular kids. I tried to expose them to as many things as I could. Right, it's let me throw it all again. So I want to see what sticks.

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Speaker 1: You know they did?

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Speaker 4: What did y'all do?

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Speaker 1: They did?

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Speaker 4: They've done the basketball, They did baseball. Uh, they did tennis because you know, the city had the free tennis.

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Speaker 1: They could.

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Speaker 4: I stopped short of the golf. I think they were gonna be like the Book and Chiefs football, you know, the football mom.

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Speaker 1: So I just tried to you know, keep them busy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and had the you know, had them covered by as many people as possible.

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Speaker 1: Got you got you. How do you feel when he first started doing the music thing?

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Speaker 4: I really know what was going on. I mean, I think he came home, like he came home and told me the story about the studio, right, He came home and he shared with me when he had a piece with David.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: But there wasn't a whole lot of not with me anyway, conversation about what was going on, you know. But my my philosophy is you give them the room to be, and when they become, you know, you're hanging there with them, definitely, right. So when I found out, it was like, Wow, the truth is the the bigness of it. I did not know until he was gone, Wow, that you know you could cut somebody could come to my house, stay, pack your clothes, put me on a plane, walk me through the airport.

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Speaker 1: I ain't got to go through nothing.

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Speaker 4: That's a thing. That's a thing. But I think it also speaks to the humility of him as a person.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: I think there was pop smoking, and there was Shah right, And I think he was intentional about keeping us, or at least me, because I know, oh bit see always wasn't separate, at least keeping me safe and I think it was a thing for him making sure I was good like his brothers, his brother, you know, Manton Man. They can take care of each other, take care of things. But as his mother, I think he needed to make sure nothing would touch me, right, And I think so the less I knew, the better off I am. Of course I was, And so I think that's how he kind of kept it.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: So the one two moments that he was really proud of, like he would feel like, wow, those got shared. But as a rule, he was just doing.

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Speaker 2: What he did.

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Speaker 1: Got you, Yeah, got you?

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Speaker 2: And is Stephen Victor reaching out to you guys.

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Speaker 4: Now, Stephen used to be on our board the first year he was on the board. The person who was really stood by us is Shift was really stood by us as Shift Shiv has been with us. Shiv is still with us. We had our first what I CA shareholders stakeholders meeting with his you know, staff, board members, and ship showed up. Ship got off a plane from Cali, went home, showered, shaved, and came through. Look right, So you know, you take I heard someone til you go with the goers? How do he gets upset that everybody who should come should come I'm.

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Speaker 5: Going with the folks that show up, Stephen Vig things sticking around a little longer.

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Speaker 1: Why why, I'm just surprised would get here.

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Speaker 2: What does it serves made a lot of money off.

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Speaker 4: He was no longer there, so that opportunity is no longer man, That's what.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, quick, I'm big on loyalty. So for me, it's just I'm not I don't want to call him out.

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Speaker 1: Nothing but calling them out that's kind of calling you on him.

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Speaker 2: I mean, well, that's your opinion.

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Speaker 1: This is my thing. He was calling.

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Speaker 2: Now, what's the what's the goal of the foundation with? Like, what's the goal?

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Speaker 4: Just you know, charld like to serve or pop me coming? What y'all like to call him? Right? His whole intent was to give back to the community, right to give back to kids. And you hear the different stories he took off the sneakers and give a little boy. His whole intention, he wanted to buy a whole set of laptops for you know, a classroom. His whole intention is to give back to different people. That's why even when he was up and coming in the industry, he would bring people with him and Stephen even Steven said to me. You know, he told him, you can't be bringing people in like this. They're gonna steal your stuff. And he was like, nah, you know, so people who got there, you know, got their come ups because he was like, I can.

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Speaker 1: Share this definitely, and he didn't.

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Speaker 4: It didn't block him.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: My understanding that there are times that people who needed just sounded like that first down payment on the car, he did that and then they were on their own.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 4: Look, he came to do what he did, and he did it. And so for those who want to participate, they can. Those who don't want to participate, don't block. That's all I'm asking. Yeah, that's all I'm asking. Just don't block. And if you blocking, you know, we can look at that.

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Speaker 5: We might put you on Yeah, exactly, gonna put you and we're definitely gonna put you on blasts if we ain't doing the right thing.

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Speaker 1: Her brother smoke ain't fitting.

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Speaker 5: A lot of you dudes, Well lot here listen, but no, honestly, shoot for the Stars foundation. Man, we're just here trying to television making that vision you know, come to life for real. You know, I've been with my mom throughout this journey. There's times where we butt heads, but I love it. That's my mom. I'm never calling Vasai feel me. And we've been in the community six years now. I've seen kids, some of the kids from around the way grow, They've had aspirations.

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Speaker 1: We've helped them.

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Speaker 5: We was in the back in the Direct center over there and Babe you one year how many years ago, Like.

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Speaker 4: When we first started, we had our summer program in Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So were helping kids.

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Speaker 5: We was giving them the arts, you know what I'm saying, dance and act and I was doing a little film with them, stuff like that, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: And music.

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Speaker 5: I was helping kids who wanted to rap and sing. I was just like, Oh, let's learn how to song. Right, I'm gonna bring my laptop because I went to school for audio engineering and stuff like that. So I was like, God, yeah, we're gonna do that. And that's all. That's what it's all about, bro, It's just about giving back because I know when Pop was here, that's what everybody in the hood would have. He would give you a story about how he came through and he was just showing love. God, do you feel me? So that's what we're here for got you got you definitely give back to those who you know what I'm saying, who are there for you?

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Speaker 2: Definitely?

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Speaker 5: Well, you think pop would have been feeling right now on music that's out there right now. We think he would have probably like embrace. Who do you think would have embraced?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 2: I mean he was doing records with Travis Scott Big records.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are we're talking.

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Speaker 5: About he's watching out from heaven? Like who he would be jacking? Or if he was here, who would he be? See then I'll be a different story because I feel like there would be it would be a different energy. You feel what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So I ain't jacket none of these dudes because he had that type of energy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So it's just like it depends like if he was here and then people would be moving a certain waiting, you know, I don't know, he probably still messing with the mind then, but I know stuffed out the drill died out. I think maybe cashco Bain probably would have. He would have vibed with you know what I'm saying with you know, Lola, you know what I'm saying. Sheep from Brooklyn too, right?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Uh, I can't. I can't really tell. I really don't. He's a revery diverse doing.

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Speaker 3: Records with Travis Scott, who else. He did features with Favo, Little TJ.

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Speaker 5: He didn't do too many features, you know what I'm saying, Like it would have it's just Quavo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like you just you probably would have kept those saying. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: He probably would have did something like in the Caribbean aspect, maybe Shensia and all of.

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Speaker 1: Them people like, but you never know. I don't know. I don't know because he was so diverse. It was hard to.

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Speaker 2: Say, what's your favorite pop smoke record?

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Speaker 1: Oh, Halcombe, awcome awkome earlier. That's right, come on early.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, Like it's something about that energy. Oh and brother man, because you know, it's just about morals and principle. That's what I'm saying. He's so different than all of these artists. He stood for something. You know, he stood for something when you listen into some people music nowadays, and y'all notice coming back from a place where music actually had soul substance.

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Speaker 1: Definitely, so staying on nothing bro.

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Speaker 3: So, I mean he has songs for the club, he has songs for the women. He had songs for the streets. So that's why fifty embraced him so much, because they think you put him in fifty next to each other and look like brothers.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: So they asked the christ question is no, he has something out there, But I ask him who his mama is. It's me and it wasn't you and me.

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Speaker 1: We got the same last name too. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy. So you know they dumm.

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Speaker 3: Remember he was in the office and fifty was saying Pop was on his on his phone and he thought he was texting.

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Speaker 2: He's like, He's like, no, I'm writing down, you know.

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Speaker 4: Fuctually he got that from his mother. If you're talking to me, I'm I'm right. So I don't have it. I walk with, you know, like a pad in the pant because I need to, you know. So when I heard that story, I thought it was thought it was funny.

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Speaker 1: Wow he was.

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Speaker 4: When you want to remember what people are saying because it's valuable and you want to remember how they said it right, and you want to be able to go back to it to refresh your memory, then you write it down. Unless you've got those kind of memories that you can you know, record the everything. But you know, if something is valuable to you, you want to take note in the remit what.

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Speaker 3: Do you need us to do for the foundation everybody, not just the whole culture.

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Speaker 2: What do you need well when.

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Speaker 4: We have events for people to show up? This we've intentionally last year I started to focus on sponsorship, right, because what happens is because I'm Pop Smoke's mom, no one thinks you need money to get the work done, right. But if my money pays for one worker, imagine what I could do if I had two workers.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: So that's your money that gives me that second worker.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: So the foundation piece is again basically said television. The curriculum that we have of the community is called Tell the Vision, and we work with young people about critical thinking and you know, just through the arts right to discover self and to be able to just kind of move from self and see how to see who you are in the world. Some of those young people that we had in the beginning, I remember one young man said he didn't realize he could write rap without cussing. That was deep for me because so then what he learned was if you rap you just put a whole lot of curse words, and that's a song as opposed to using words to describe what you're feeling and thinking. Now, that's content, right old school what his brother says, that is standing on something. Because if you just cussing, you just cussing and you know, put a little rhythm behind it and it's a song, or you express yourself and people really get something from what you're doing. So again, the sponsorship, come on out when we do things, when we holler for you to kind of come out and you know, do something for us. Just be you know, just be present.

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Speaker 1: We won't abuse you. But you know we were like industry guys. The rappers put some money up.

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Speaker 5: Money always helps Stephen Victor, you made a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Help out, push the t get your man to help out.

00:23:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, let's let's go.

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Speaker 1: Man's stay, let's just be real.

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Speaker 3: Man to shoot for the Stars foundation, y'all make sure support and show love, show love when you're not here, when somebody's not here, when somebody is here, show love, rest and peace.

00:23:24
Speaker 5: Pop smoke and we've got a black smoke collection. One of these rappers could come in and then bring in some new audience. We got the we got the fashion line. They could come do a we could.

00:23:32
Speaker 2: Do all right in the fashion could be a model real quick.

00:23:37
Speaker 3: And whatever you need from us, we got, y'all. I heard about that. You can talk about the fashion show.

00:23:41
Speaker 4: So Black Smoke h it is our fashion line. And this is we started in twenty twenty three. I said, we have the Pop Smoke Gala at the Brooklyn Museum. Okay, right, Uh so we do that. We've done that, like I said, for three years. And each year what we do is we put out a call for design We put the call for designers, and we interview them and then we go through them. Our designers must be able to sketch, right, you must be able to uh make your pattern, put it to muslim and make your sample. Now, if you can't do the patterns, we have people at this point that we have the creative director who can help out with that. But we really are looking for designers. It's no offense to those who can, you know, purchase some blanks and make it look good. That's one thing. But we're I'm I am looking to be a fashion house playing.

00:24:46
Speaker 2: And he can help.

00:24:47
Speaker 1: And this is also the Black smoke.

00:24:50
Speaker 4: Yes, this is this is this is your Yes, this is what this jacket.

00:24:54
Speaker 1: Mama smoke got right there. That's part of the line right there. Man. Of course stand episode people.

00:25:01
Speaker 2: That definitely black smoke jacket, black smoke jacket.

00:25:04
Speaker 3: Out down fashion show. We got to catch the next one smoking jacket.

00:25:09
Speaker 4: We're all we're a part of fashion week. Yeah right, fashion week.

00:25:15
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that jacket.

00:25:16
Speaker 2: Fire.

00:25:16
Speaker 3: Get yall's Roccie showing. We got the Rouccie. He's designed and closed. Now he's he's he's Roachie. He's the god to the stars. Fifty cents, Dirk, little baby, the baby, he's done jackets for everybody. Styles Pee Jada kiss. Make sure y'all get his number. Yeah, of course you're being gifted.

00:25:36
Speaker 4: I like it from here.

00:25:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all being gifted.

00:25:42
Speaker 3: Get my route man, and definitely we need y'all definitely can help y'all design anything y'all need.

00:25:49
Speaker 4: Dude, If that's not mine, I'm not talking to you.

00:25:54
Speaker 3: Come on, thank you, love us to stars. You remember I set this. I'll set this up this guy when you come on the show. Look, it's cool, you're doing fashion. Shout to black smoke now, That's just another connection for you guys, whatever y'all need.

00:26:18
Speaker 1: Definitely, man, definitely.

00:26:19
Speaker 3: So what does the legacy mean to you? Having your brother's legacy out there? What does it mean to you?

00:26:23
Speaker 1: What does it mean to me to have my brother's legacy out there? This means like what do you?

00:26:27
Speaker 2: What do you? What do you want to do with your brother's legacy?

00:26:29
Speaker 5: I just want people to remember him forever, you know what I'm saying. Whether it be streaming the music, whether it being supporting the foundation, whether it mean buying and supporting a Black Smoke collection, whether it mean being on the show with Tony Yao and Uncle Murder, you know what I'm saying.

00:26:46
Speaker 1: That's all that.

00:26:47
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying is black people supporting black people and people supporting people at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying. We've been having the gala every year, every every year since two twenty three.

00:26:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, every year since two down twenty three.

00:26:59
Speaker 5: July two twenty we got Pop Smoked Day, and a little bit before that is the Gallo No no.

00:27:04
Speaker 4: So he is a child born on a Tuesday. So the gal is going to be the third week of the July on the Tuesday, regardless of when his birth date is in that week, the galla will be on the Tuesday. And so the world has the Met Gala, right or Manhattan has the Met Gala, Brooklyn has.

00:27:26
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Brooklyn, Let's go. Let's Go, Brooklyn has the Pop Smoke Gala.

00:27:31
Speaker 4: And we've been fortunate to be able to hold it at the Brooklyn Museum, right, you know, So we've been doing it there. We do the fashions, and like I said, we invite the young people to submit their their designs, We interview them, and then we choose eight to do the show. And from the show, I try to keep it to four that I like, right, And so the four pieces that I like, we then have them do that full process of this at the all the parts, right, and then submit that and then we pay them for the design, and then we use those pieces as the main stay for the line and then add pieces to to go along with that. And so we've had an amazing group of designers that and I say, I was fortunate that the first sort of four that we that we had stayed with me through the whole process, so I didn't have to figure it.

00:28:28
Speaker 2: Out by myself.

00:28:29
Speaker 4: They stayed, they volunteered their time to make not only make their garment, but to make the accessory pieces that go with their garment and h So that's kind of like the pattern that we've we've kept in so this year and each year we have the previous year's designers participate in something else, right, So we've been fortunate to go to Spain. We were invited to Valencia and we technically we were We had our own fashion week in Valencia, sponsored by yours truly, and so we've done that, and so those designers got to come with us, right, and then the following year because now we've started something right, so we've got to go back. So we're in Valencia the first year, and then in the second year we were in Barcelona and we worked with a university, a fashion university, their Bau, and so we had it in their space and we had workshops with their young people conducted by me. It was just a wonderful opportunity and they want to not just do the fashions, because they do kind of the fantasy fashion, but they wanted us to work with their young people who they feel like they need a little bit more grounding and when they after they graduate with the fantasy fashion, how do you make that a business? How do you go into the world and make this thing that you've been studying for four years make money for you?

00:29:49
Speaker 1: Right?

00:29:49
Speaker 4: So we've done so, We've done Valencia, Barcelona, We've been invited to Portugal. We did Portuos just drop the space. Things drop right, things just dropped. We did Setubal and what they did with that show is that they gave us our own night. So you know, they had all the all the designers, but we had a pop smoke night and so that was all us, all our designs that provide the models. Of course, we had an opportunity to go to Equatorial Guinea, but that kind of fell through because just just sponsorship for them and they had to move it, and then when they moved it, it didn't work with our schedule. But we've been we've been blessed so like there have really been things that just drop in my lap and have had the ability to run with it, you know, to to to say yes and go. So it's been an opportunity not just for us, but I really also want to take the young designers who showed up and made their designs and take them with me. So this year when we go back to Spain, the young people whose design we used for this year's line, you know, one and two of them will get to go go with us, but again for the exposure, and we hoped developed the relationship with the university so even that level of exchange can be in place, you know, So really being intentional about working with young people and giving them an opportunity, which is what shar did, right. He really tried to give back in a way that gave people a start, you know, somewhere to go. If you've got it and you want to do something with it, here's an opportunity. Now you don't do anything with that's not on me per se, right, you.

00:31:25
Speaker 1: Know, but I'm giving you.

00:31:26
Speaker 4: I'm making that moment for you so you can see if you can do something with it. And so I've tried to keep that in my mind as I developed. As we go along, I'm trying to do all the things that he said to me. He wanted to do, all the things I understood he wanted to do. So Pop's Place becomes that second thing. Now Pops Play is a little bit bigger than he'd intended because he wanted just kind of a little restaurant that you can come through. You may be one table for you to sit down if you want to sit down. But we're going to have a really nice space that we're going to do a soft open at the end of March. While we're doing pop up shows today. Start the you know, clothing like moving getting it the word out there, because I think what we've done so far is that we've made a presence. Folks know we're out here. So now it's the tough to find out who our customers are, right, So we try to have an opportunity where we get pokes, some food, some good time.

00:32:15
Speaker 3: Appreciate you appreciate you'll make some noise for the Shoot to Pull the Stars Foundation, Mama Smoke, Brother Smoke, y'all know what it is like sheer subscribe. It's the real Report to Jacksonville, Rest in Peace, to Pop Smoke.

00:32:28
Speaker 2: We can't bearing gifts.

00:32:29
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00:32:33
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00:32:35
Speaker 1: It did just live on sets, your boy Auncle Murder live on set.

00:32:39
Speaker 5: We got Miss Jackson and the Bells and Brother Smoke and the bell that we outside.

00:32:43
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00:32:53
Speaker 2: At first that was afraid. I was petrified football Zova.

00:32:58
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