Keeping Nipsey's Mission Alive & Prolific Album Update w/ Blacc Sam & Bino Rideaux

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to all the smoke Man. We got a really special one today. A long time in the making someone this normally, as far as I before, I he's always been behind the scenes. You never hear much from our next guest, but you know, he stepped to the scene and it's been beautiful to finally kind of hear his perspective and and see his business mind and his approach to everything.

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Speaker 2: So welcome to the show, Black Sam that Sir.

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Speaker 1: Nipsey Hustle Square officially dedicated in February. Knowing everything you guys went through to get set up there, to see your brother's name up there officially honored by the City of La What did that mean to you and the family man?

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Speaker 3: Amazing, just the journey and just knowing that that was some that was a place that was was big.

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Speaker 4: You know, our whole lives like w you know, I said at the thing.

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Speaker 3: We used to walk to school from my from my mom's house and walk by there and and catch the bus uh on that corner crenshawn Slawson. So you know, as teenagers and as adults, my brother used to be in that shopping center twenty four to.

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Speaker 4: Seven all day long. Hanging out and.

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Speaker 3: Then sold his first mixtape there and really just that was the reason why we even had the first location store there, cause that was his that was like his stomping grounds. And then to be able to have that as a launch pad to do everything for everybody in the neighborhood to support, you know, from people we grew up with, to the adults, the grandma's, the aunties, to just see the progress and to you know, for them to be there and help us with the stores and you know, being our first customers. Then just see the the the the growth of my brother's journal and you know, them having stories like, man, we remember you used to be out here hanging out and you up to no good And now y'all got the store and y'all you know, employing people and hustle, bringing GQ to the hood and buying a lot and opening the Marathon store and just so many different things that the community saw from the beginning. So for that corner to be named Nipsey Else was square, It's just you know, I think it was. It was the last kind of like stamp of you know, cementing the legacy for for for growing. I know he would have definitely been honored and appreciative, and the family was, you know, f you know, definitely appreciative, and uh yeah it was.

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Speaker 1: It was huge when you see that kind of support pour out, And it didn't really have nothing to do with colors. There was a lot of different people out there, a lot of different walks of life. What did that tell you about your brother?

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Speaker 3: Just that his mission I think, uh was fulfilled. I think a lot of times I didn't fully understand it speaking with him, but he always was like, man, my shit is bigger, bro, Like you know what I mean, we gonna get the money that shit. You know, I'm like, man, we gotta f he like, Man, that shit, we gonna get that.

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Speaker 2: Ma.

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Speaker 4: My shit gotta inspire people, you know.

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Speaker 3: I used to always be like, nah, you right, bro, But I fully didn't fully understand it. But just inspiration. Like we was young and a lot of the young dudes, just being able to look at people and be inspired, I think is the key. It ain't about what somebody giving you, or just to somebody demonstration and seeing the demonstration that works or that you respect that you can kind of model your character after.

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Speaker 4: I think it's important and for Hustle.

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Speaker 3: He wanted to always reinforce that on every step of the way.

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean, just being a street dude or a young dude what you respect.

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Speaker 3: But then you gotta evolve and how do you and how do you evolve from this? And how do you see somebody that people respect it on every level? Evolve and you also wanna follow that and evolve with them or you feel like it's okay to evolve.

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Speaker 4: So I think from from Hustle, that.

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Speaker 3: Was his main thing, Like he be like, man, I wanna u, I I gotta be right here for people could see like come on, like we you know, we could do this and it's not just this lang. We could take it to and everybody from every you know, s s s from.

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Speaker 4: Starting with LA.

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Speaker 3: I think from whatever hood it trans is it it got past that. It's like, nah, nigga, you inspiring people. So every you know, neighborhood, bloods, any any hood, everybody see the demonstration from Hustle and felt like, oh, we could.

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Speaker 4: Do that in our neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: And we could and and they speak on that and people would come to the shop that quote unquote wasn't supposed to be there but Hustle early on was like, man, I don't care where you from, like you you, you know, real recognized, real, if you're a real nigga, you coming to support, you gonna be welcome here. And I think that's what resonated from the from the from the street level, and then it just went worldwide and people just respect a story and a demonstration and somebody that was purposeful about, like the goal was to inspire people, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So take yourself back to February and right before they pull the cloth and the sign has revealed what's going through your mind.

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Speaker 3: Just long time coming and just appreciative and just you know, his uh son and and uh daughter were able to see it. It was just some type of positivity right there in that in that corridor. I think is important cause there was a lot of you know, negative you know, memories and just wasn't a good feeling when anybody would go through there. But now I think, you know, the family and his kids and just everybody could be you know, something else positive to look at, like the the the street has been named you know after bro.

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Speaker 1: When you think about how much both you and him and and and and whoever you're with, was harassed and targeted and and shot at and all the different things that happened in that area. To look at it now as a grown man and like knowing everything you had been through, what comes to your mind.

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Speaker 3: Just the journey I think, and you never know, you know, you never you never fully realize how things are gonna turn out in your life and just trying to put your best foot forward. And you know, I think our our story is similar to a lot of people's stories just in in you know, in these same type of cities wherever you're from. It's just it's kind of hard being young and trying to figure it out and really not having the avenues of where you gonna you know, you don't know what or how you gonna make it. So I think just staying positive and st and and and trying to stay aggressive and trying to just figure it out and not taking, you know, know for a answer, I think, and God gonna lead you, you know an a in in the right ways. But I think, just looking back at it, man, to to answer your question, it's just like us will always like, man, you know, I'm gonna be a star bro, you know what I mean? So and I used to laugh and be like, yeah, you know, you're right. But just watching his journey and trying to be our whole team, trying to just kind of like be supportive and also him pulling us with him, That's really what I look back at and be like, man, this is crazy, cause cause he was the visionary and I think he was very inclusive of the team and always was like, man, come on, we about to do this.

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Speaker 4: And he made you kind of like believe that it could be done.

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Speaker 3: You know, from his aggressiveness, from his demonstration, and from his knowledge and preparing and also like making you prepare too, like bro, like this what was like?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 4: So just seeing.

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Speaker 3: Everything that he kind of like led us to it, and also the things that he foresaw, also explaining to us about branding and brand and like I wanna, we gonna build this shit. Our shit gonna be bigger than this, and it's gonna be it's a lifestyle brand. You know, this is this And he was just telling us, pouring all these things into our head and and and it's coming true.

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Speaker 1: But it's I I I know it's crazy for you, but to to think what he was on and what he saw he was right yep about a lot of shit yep. And to see all that kind of coming to Fruition now, it's just incredible. So the original Marathon store location will be the home of the headquarters for the foundation. Yes, what do you feel what else needs to happen to continue to set our kids up to win?

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Speaker 3: I think, man, it's just opportunity, and I think education, but specifically like lanes of that people could know that this is how you could get money. I think for me is important cause when you're young and you're trying to figure it out, you're really trying to just get to some money. So that's why like even young we we always trying to go work at Taco bell or we trying to water grass or cut lawns or whatever. When you're young and you just trying to get some new Jordan's or get some clothes. And then when you get older and when you don't f when you don't have it figured out, or there's nobody to kind of like GUIDs you, like, hey, this you gonna.

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Speaker 4: Get a car, That's how you gonna get your apartment.

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Speaker 3: Those little simple things to me is like the disconnect because from that and then also if you got responsibilities, like if your parents ain't doing too good, or if you like you like, man, fuck it whatever you that's that's when you're gonna go into crime or you know, tryna figure it out, and then that's the trap.

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Speaker 4: Then you're getting put in jail.

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Speaker 3: And then you you know, even if you making it now, you it's levels where you like, damn, I'm I'm getting money, but you know I'm rolling the dice.

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Speaker 4: I'm uh, it's seven.

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Speaker 3: Year run, five year run, ten year run. What you you know, they gonna end up in the fairs or you gonna end up over here. So I think for us, it's just figuring out and training and when the when, when youth are there.

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Speaker 4: It's like, nah, look this is what you can do.

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Speaker 3: This is how you gonna get your license, your car, that's how you gonna get your apartment.

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Speaker 4: You know, you got a little female, you wanna make sure you can take her out. Those simple necessities.

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Speaker 3: I think for us, if we have systems and programs where like teaching kids how to do podcasts or make beats or do music, or even stack your money up and go do this and open up a clothing b like those little simple things, I think is what we need to be instilling and focusing on that, because you know, the difference from having nothing in your pocket and having a couple thousand in your pocket is everything, you know, just everything you know, you know, And I think that's what we wanna focus on. Even with the foundation. The hustle always was telling me and the team personally, Like Man, everybody that he used to go to a uh a music program. I always speak about it in wats. It was a free music program and they would teach him how to do beats, how to record himself, and he, like everybody who went to that program, ended up when they got older, pursuing music as a you know, as a career. Like Man, just that little bit of help went so long. He like, Man, I wanna figure out how to do that, you know, in our area. So that's one of the things that we working on right there. We're gonna have a studio and we're gonna bring Vector ninety back and so you have to do some s some studying tutoring to get you some studio time and then you know, we just gonna kind of start with that. But I think to answer your questions, just focusing on like aggressively, like putting something in place to once they get out of school, what's next. I think it's very important and it don't have to be college for something. Everybody not going to go to college after that.

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Speaker 5: Yep, I was intrigued to meet you, bro, because I looked at how you pushed on after losing Bro. You know, I lost my older brother when I was to the streets when I was sixteen, and I lost my little brother about.

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Speaker 2: Four or five years ago.

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Speaker 5: So people don't understand how hard it is to continue to push on in their name, but you know, do it the right way, you know what I mean. You you tempted a lot, you know, by a lot of different things. Me personally, I just wanted to command you, bro on how you stepping and how you moving in a solid name for your brother, Like it's a lot of ways people can do, but you're doing it a solid.

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Speaker 2: Way, and I had to salute you for that, Bro.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate you, Bro.

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Speaker 5: Marathon Burger speaking on that to my big homie for my own time, bum Bee doing the same thing with trul Berger. You know, I want to salute him too, but you just celebrate the one year Anniversaral Mail Roads.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, can you talking about that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And just to to what you're saying with Trill, that was a inspiration for us. You know, we seeing that and we like man, so you know, shout out to him. That was a major inspiration and just making us even believe that, you know, maybe we could do something with Marathon. But but yeah, it's been a one year anniversary. I think we've been blessed.

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Speaker 4: Man. It's people, people come out support.

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Speaker 3: We wanted to make sure that the food tastes good number one, and make sure that it's quality.

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Speaker 2: That's shit fire by the way, ye come on.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, And and just trying to keep the standards right. Like uh, Like we just down the street were doing a pop up with the UH with the food truck at the URBA and I went in there and it just seemed, you know, they wa they was kind of moving slow.

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Speaker 4: So I tried to get in there and help them.

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Speaker 3: I got my pants all wet, all up from the from the from the from the truck. But just trying to keep the standard right and make sure that we getting the food fast enough to the people and don't mess up what we got.

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Speaker 4: And we got a good opportunity.

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Speaker 5: I think let's say keep that standing going. Yeap uh Long Beach location with Snoop. How they come.

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Speaker 3: About, Yeah, Cordell Cordel, you know, was being friends of the family and close and we being very close with Snoop. Also Hustle had a good relationship with Snoop. But Cordella was hollering at the team and was like, man, I wanna figure something out if there's a way.

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Speaker 4: He he had came and supported and he liked the food. Same thing.

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Speaker 3: He like, man, everybody come to support, but then when they taste the food, like, hey, hold on, young god something you know, it's their opportunity. And you know, we was talking opportunity came he like, hey, Pops, may wanna help get involved and I wanna get involved.

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Speaker 4: And I'm like that's crazy.

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Speaker 3: We we kind of had Long Beach on the map, like, you know, we wanna figure something Long Beach. So he plugged us with the mayor and they just rolled it out for us. Showed us a gang of UH locations that were available to lease, and we figured out we found one that was perfect, we felt and we just went. They invested came men as partners and we just made it happen.

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Speaker 4: I was probably the fastest grand opening we got.

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Speaker 5: It seemed like everything is moving fast, and now you're going to get to out of state.

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Speaker 2: Locations New York and Vegas.

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Speaker 3: Talk about that, Yeah, New York, same thing, man. Somebody reached out somebody that was close to Hustle. They used to go out there and do shows, and they're in the food industry. They're like, hey, we got a perfect locations on Times Square, Like what yeah, so things just falling in our lap man.

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Speaker 4: That should be coming soon.

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Speaker 2: Though.

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Speaker 1: The clothing, I don't think people understand how many different hats you got you some socks. Indeed, I don't think people understand how many different hats you wear, from clothing to burgers, to real estate to agencies, foundation, publishing, music doc what I mean. But you also catch Sam any given day at marathon Burger flipping burgers, Like dude, it's just constantly grinding. How do you find time for yourself, for your family within again to Jack's point, keeping your brother legacy growing, not just going but growing.

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Speaker 3: For me, just staying busy helps, Okay, you know what I mean. Just staying busy and and having a goal. It's like, that's my keep me going, and that's like my high. So obviously on top of that, being able to do something you know, marathon brand or like do something big for marathon is is is is important. So and we kind of got an obligation. Man, we gotta just we we we gotta make this. We gotta take this to where it needs to be. So all those three things, I think, you know, you know, my family, they know man, they like, man, when you gonna when you gonna chill? Like, man, we that ain't that's not what we that's not what we do. That's not even what I like to do. I feel like kind of antsy. So it's perfect. It's it's it's perfect for where we at and having so many different things to be able to tap into. And then we got a strong team. So I think, if I'm answering the question, it's just it's just it's it's perfect. It's it's a lot going on, it's a big opportunity, and you know, our team is kind of like ready, ready for ready to attack.

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Speaker 1: Speak to the team's side, because your brother was always big on that. You still speak team. It's it's family, it's close friends, it's friends. That became family. When you're looking at because obviously you're expanding so much and you and you look for outside potential help, what are you looking for? What type of character are you looking for in people to possibly help continue to push that that that marathon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think for us it's important man, just having to write people with the right integrity that understand what the goal is. And you know, obviously we want to make sure that we're doing good business and were making money, but that's.

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Speaker 4: Not the top priority.

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Speaker 3: The priority is making sure that things is authentic and not looking or positioned in a money grab type of way. So sometimes, like we got to know, were walking from certain things, we're not doing this, and just having those people that understand that and aren't gonna try to do any slick things without us knowing it is very important.

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Speaker 4: So once we get.

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Speaker 3: You know, those right people around, we definitely like come on, you w you're part of the team. And then just having snipers also, people that are hustlers, people that understand the intensity and how important it is to you know, figure something out and and knock it out quick and not just like lasadaisical.

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Speaker 4: I think it's for our team.

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Speaker 3: So we like we are automatically when we see those type of characters, we like, oh yeah, well this is cool the building, like you know, building a sports team or whatever. You know, who the snipers are, the people that you can depend on. So that's how we kind of approach it. And then you know, just how things work, man. We always get those type of people that's coming around or people that is family or team members or whatever, and they kind of understand. Also it means more to them because they know how where this came from and they personally know hustle and know the team and they know the ups and downs and the journeys. So you know, we're blessed to have you know, the core team is people that been with us since they want and understand the uh, the opportunity and the obligation of us not to you know, mess this up.

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Speaker 1: You guys are coming to an end of a successful Puma collab with Jay recently collab with James Harden and LaMelo Ball collabse with Fear of God and Menchelness also SLATERD for this year. Similar question, when you picking brands or or or partnerships, what are you kind of looking for in those alignments for us.

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Speaker 4: We've been blessed.

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Speaker 3: Man, a lot of people had personal relationships with Hustle and you know, in our dope and in the industry and doing what they doing. They're like, man, we wanna you know, we wanna do something with you guys, or we wanna you know, we had an idea, wanna pay how much to brow and we're like, man, let's do it.

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Speaker 4: And you know, just.

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Speaker 3: Good people, easy fifty to fifty split with with the business.

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Speaker 4: We're not arguing and doing no weird things.

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Speaker 3: So I think, you know, for the most of the the the collabs that we've done has been smooth and they understand this is not you know, like you talking about it's nothing. We not doing nothing that looks like a money grab or no weird things. And you know, we've been blessed just to deal with real good people who personally have had relationships and and no bro and they're handling it the right way.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's the best, you know.

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Speaker 3: And then when it is something that is corporate, just making sure that the lawyers are involved, you know what I mean, and making sure we get some contracts right and make sure that we talking about it before and then once we locked the loaded. We wanna be you know, the best partner. We wanna you know, meet our obligations.

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Speaker 1: Was it true in twenty twenty people approach you about possibly potentially selling the brand for a big number.

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Speaker 4: Yup couple couple times. I think when it come to selling, we not even thinking telling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell everybody man, even even even potential business partners that come in or wanna come in with some money.

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Speaker 4: A lot of the time, and I understand this.

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Speaker 3: It's about you invest a certain amount and then there'll be a big buy out or a big sell out, and I'm like, hey, look, we not ever long time.

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Speaker 4: I'm not ever thinking about selling.

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Speaker 3: So it's about you know, building it and creating revenue.

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Speaker 4: I think for us, and it's important to do that.

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Speaker 3: And obviously we could bring some investors in and if they want to sell their percentage, that's fine, but us selling just all our selling was it's not even you could come with ten billion.

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Speaker 4: We ain't even thinking about it. It's not even option.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned it earlier, the LAPD from your early days of selling CDs and movies and the different kind of things you guys were trying to do to get off the ground. What was that like early on from police coming to seize your stuff to you know, low key being on the run whence they knew you were bootlegging too many movies? Like what was that journey like? Because when I was reading up in and watch some other stuff, I mean, it was a sun up to sundown.

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Speaker 2: Then you guys are up at the craw.

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Speaker 1: I could don six am out grinding until past midnight and then at at the same day.

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Speaker 2: What were those days like for you?

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Speaker 3: It was like, which is a once in a lifetime opportunity. And it was the type of money that was coming in that I you know, was new and we couldn't explain it, and it was like a sense of urgency and it was like, oh, hold on, like we gotta figure this out, Like we could stack a million out of this game right now, of of tens and twenties, Like what are we doing? So it was just you know whatever, And because of so many arrests and going to court and fighting this case and doing this and doing that, the time was r running out. Like it was one time I was out on like four or five bills shh. I had like four or five open cases and I knew the time was coming to where I was gonna have to turn myself in.

00:21:48
Speaker 4: And then it was like, alright.

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Speaker 3: It came to a point where so I was, I just gotta milk as much as I can, Milk it as much as I can. And at that point, I was maybe making like two three thousand dollars a day, and so I'm like, man, I'm staying out every day.

00:22:05
Speaker 4: Not coming in. I'm not missing one day.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to put up this much and you know, hustle put me on it, onto this, on onto the bootleg and shit. And you know, I we I couldn't believe it at first, cause you could spend a hundred dollars and make uh like ten thousand, you reup, you know, you keep ninety nine.

00:22:21
Speaker 2: You keep crazy, you keep grabbing it to a hundred.

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Speaker 3: It's like so all the money it wasn't having to re up. So it was different than any game we knew. Niggas was selling dope and selling weed. It was like unheard of, you like huh. And so it changed though, and you know, I ended up going to prison coming out and it was over.

00:22:42
Speaker 4: It was it was they they they were selling movies for a dollar. You know what I mean.

00:22:46
Speaker 3: They mess They messed the whole game. And then when I was out there was ten fifteen twenty not to.

00:22:50
Speaker 4: Belong with it.

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Speaker 3: But I think, mm, and this is anything when when when when you're young you figure something out, Like I tell everybody, man, you gotta get it, you gotta m milk it, whether it's whatever it is. And it's messed up when you're doing something illegal, because you know that could come with it's a clock on it, yes, a Closequen clock on it.

00:23:10
Speaker 4: But I think being able to.

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Speaker 3: Be in a position to change the game and come back out and have something legit to do what was important. And that was something that hustled. It was very important for Hustle too. Like I got out and he was doing the music. It was took it was taken off. He like, come on, bro, this's what we on And we had a goal before I went in. He was telling her this what we gonna do, Bro, come on it w and you know, he was doing a couple of shows and we had mixtape out posters.

00:23:40
Speaker 4: But when I got out, it was like fire. It was on fire, and he like, bro, that's what we gonna do.

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Speaker 3: The clothing the crunch, all hoodies, just everything that we were able to take and then put the hustle towards that came from Bro and you know him just like, come on, man, we about to do this. I'm about to set up my touring, I'm about to set up the merchandising. Were about to do this, and man, we got to create a brand. And so I.

00:24:05
Speaker 4: Think everything happened for a reason, man.

00:24:08
Speaker 3: And the one thing that I feel like kept us going was just everybody's like staying on it, you know, cause sometimes you up, sometimes you down. But if you just stay on it and don't relaxed, I think you know you're gonna you're gonna end up alright.

00:24:23
Speaker 1: So you sat down for two years, like you said, when you came out, they had fucked the game up.

00:24:27
Speaker 2: But Bro was on fire at that time.

00:24:29
Speaker 1: And when I was researching you, you're really big on adding value.

00:24:33
Speaker 2: You don't want to just be a part of something. You got to bring value.

00:24:35
Speaker 1: So what did you do once you got out and understanding what your brother's vision was, what did you start studying up on to make sure you were bringing value to everything he was doing.

00:24:45
Speaker 4: When I first got out, I was just trying to like sit back and figure.

00:24:48
Speaker 3: Out what was going on, you know, where the opportunities was at, and figuring out how I could, you know what I mean. So Hustle kind of was on it about the team figuring out emails and you know, he like, man, you gotta get an email.

00:25:07
Speaker 2: Bro.

00:25:07
Speaker 4: I'm like, alright. At first I was like, man, I ain't get no email. This they can call me.

00:25:10
Speaker 3: He like, nah, Bro, you f you know you got to get an email. So figuring that out, I think was important. Figuring out how and what the business was and you know, where I was needed was important for me. It took took a while, like I didn't want to be you know, like I'm trying to run it, run things or be in a button heads with bros. This is his thing and you know, so how can I add value? And I think he was very like, Okay, this, this is this is what we need, bro, this is where it is. And I think with the clothing is one thing where I remember there was an email or no. There was some my space that uh, my cousin Adam and him was checking for shows and so I was just listening to them and I just hear Adams like, man, we looking for shows or features, and uh, every every other message is about this crunch all crew neck.

00:26:04
Speaker 4: Where can I buy a crunchall krew neck? Where can I buy a crunch?

00:26:06
Speaker 2: That?

00:26:06
Speaker 4: Everybody asked them for this.

00:26:07
Speaker 3: So I'm like, huh, so that right there, I'm like, oh, that's what I'm gonna do. So then went me and facts and we just went and went all in on the crunchall crew necks, and then we had them, and then we were selling them at the shows and it's a hustle, like man, that shit taken off, and hustle came in with the bag and was like, man, go.

00:26:23
Speaker 4: Crazy to get every color.

00:26:24
Speaker 3: And so, you know, that's one thing we always wanted to do, show Bro that hey, this is working, it's actually working, and from there we feel comfortable with whatever money you know, he wanted to invest. It's not like us to come in with something like a dream like Bro, no, we're gonna we're gonna figure it out, We're gonna make it work. And then you know, you see it and it's like it's safe to invest in.

00:26:46
Speaker 4: And I think that was the dynamic. You know that that worked.

00:26:50
Speaker 3: And then obviously taking direction from Bro and you know, it's one thing for just printing up things that's selling, but it's like, hell, we got to keep up in the quality, and we gotta figure it this out because you know, we start getting bootlegged.

00:27:02
Speaker 4: Everybody's doing We're gonna figure this out.

00:27:04
Speaker 3: And he was genius with We're gonna put a tag on it that says marathon clothing. And now if you got the if you don't got the one with the tag on it, that ain't and you put the verse in if the tag ain't marathon, that crunched, our crunak is a knockoff. And we with the team sitting looking at Hustle like, man.

00:27:21
Speaker 2: Genius, motherfucker right.

00:27:23
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know, or they may, but your brother was very studied, read a lot. You know, I heard you talk about he was a genius at an early age. He had to fight to get tested for the gifted program. Talk to us just about obviously we know the persona that was portrayed out and about, but behind the scenes, he was he was He was a he was a learner, He was a student at all times.

00:27:44
Speaker 3: One hundred percent. I think Hustle was was just like a sponge. It didn't take hustle long any Anytime he saw something he really wanted to master it, so he would just fully educate himself, like over night, like I in whatever way, he's making phone calls, he's talking to people who may know, he's s searching youtubes and uh.

00:28:09
Speaker 4: He's watching things.

00:28:10
Speaker 3: When podcasts came out, he was like on it at first, telling me, I'm like, what is a podcast?

00:28:14
Speaker 4: He like like, no, you need to listen.

00:28:16
Speaker 3: So he was just on it in in books and he would always like make you do the same, like, bro, read this.

00:28:23
Speaker 4: I'm like alright.

00:28:24
Speaker 3: So I think he been like that since he was young.

00:28:27
Speaker 4: You know, he he learned how to how to build a computer.

00:28:30
Speaker 2: He was a a mess. Shit really worked.

00:28:33
Speaker 3: Huh man, that shit worked. That was the first bootleg. And he went and stole a a CD burner from comp Usa cause we couldn't afford it, and he was burning CDs and then so he told me, I'm flipping burgers that by you grill. He told me, came, I mean, I made uh like three four hundred today.

00:28:48
Speaker 4: I was like, what, I'm making sixty dollars a day? What you mean you made three four hundred?

00:28:51
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:28:51
Speaker 4: And I got about four five hundred. I'm making tomorrow. I got orders.

00:28:55
Speaker 3: And he was still a little younger than me. I'm like, alright, this is my this is mine now. So I took over to the burner. But you know, he so I'm doing there all night and show me that now I need to know.

00:29:04
Speaker 4: Tell me how to work this ship napster.

00:29:07
Speaker 3: And he downloaded shit before it come out, two weeks before it's even out. So that was the that was the that was one of the phases. But he been doing that. I tell everybody, he's been doing that since he was young, little kid. We're starving on the block. He could pull up like, hey man, I got a it's a it's a church down the street that's giving free food.

00:29:24
Speaker 4: We're like, what, like stop lying? He like, just follow me.

00:29:26
Speaker 3: So all the kids follow him on the bike. We walk up in there. They like, sit down. You're sitting down there bringing us food, juices, like, oh my god, hustle. You know, it's so many stories of just him being like the golden child, and you know he would he would always just make it happen and figure figure a way out.

00:29:44
Speaker 1: He would be forty or close to forty. Now what do you feel like he would be doing that the rest of us are missing.

00:29:51
Speaker 4: Man, I don't know. Man, Hustle was because he was always so ahead. Yeah, he was always on it.

00:29:56
Speaker 3: It was he would he would get into things that would shock me. Shot the team and we'll be like what. But he was very visionary. He would be just at the forefront of something, you know what I mean.

00:30:07
Speaker 4: He he he, he would.

00:30:08
Speaker 3: He would be a professional attitude. He would he would know about it. He would have been studied up about it, and he would be testing it out and telling us. So anytime I see something new, I joke with the team, I'll be like, yeah, Hustle, he he'll be on this cause he was always on it.

00:30:24
Speaker 1: You know the rock Star twenty eight hundred situation. Walk us through what you actually were thinking when you went out there.

00:30:33
Speaker 4: I wasn't thinking anything.

00:30:33
Speaker 3: I think, like, dude, I know I know him, and Hustle knows him, and and people don't know. We have had prior conversations, and you know, certain things got brought up and I had to look at him kind of like with Bro was saying, where it's like like huh, like Bro, don't care what the opportunity is we not doing that?

00:30:52
Speaker 6: Bro?

00:30:53
Speaker 4: And if you're doing that or.

00:30:55
Speaker 3: You feel that the opportunity is so big for you that you wanna do that, I'm cool. Don't don't trip do your thing, but you not a y. You You not gonna long yourself for what we doing. And it's all love. Man, don't see nothing happen to you, you know, but you y, I'm I'm definitely can't. You can't be in my presence with that type of energy. Go over there, and you know, it was a intense conversation, you know, if not to even be if if he could have voiced his opinion right there and it woulda got, it woulda got, it woulda went where it needed to go. And he like, no, nah, bruh, I understand. Al right, cool, And for him to go and still do what he did, I felt like that was like, alright, cool, I gave you a way out.

00:31:34
Speaker 4: I told you what it is cool. I ain't even mad at you. But then I even told the team like you.

00:31:40
Speaker 3: Know, I I I I hope dude don't pull up, and a team like, oh man, don't. I said, Man, fuck marithon Berger, fuck everything, I'm tripping.

00:31:48
Speaker 4: I don't care about.

00:31:49
Speaker 3: None of this shit like I s cause it d we not putting no money or no opportunity or th we not doing that.

00:31:56
Speaker 4: This shit don't be U.

00:31:57
Speaker 3: All this shit came from us and came from Hustle, and we gonna get it.

00:32:00
Speaker 4: Whatever it's ours, we gonna get.

00:32:01
Speaker 3: We ain't putting no opportunities in front of doing what we supposed to do, point blank period.

00:32:05
Speaker 4: And so then I'm walking.

00:32:07
Speaker 3: It's chaotic cause a lot of people I'm tryna, you know, be on my business shit and make sure everything is where it needs to be.

00:32:12
Speaker 4: And who do I see? I see bro walking up smiling like man, Nah, that ain't what we're doing. Brou get up out of here. Man.

00:32:18
Speaker 3: You can't come catch this Burger wave or catch us Instagram or do whatever you wanna catch. You know that we're blessed with to have a opportunity right here, and now you wanna come smiling and all that.

00:32:28
Speaker 4: Now y'all gotta press for Hustle.

00:32:30
Speaker 3: And then you wanna get part of this light and an in in affiliation.

00:32:36
Speaker 4: Or whatever you wanna call it. You know what I mean. You gotta you can't. You can't just come get this fake love.

00:32:41
Speaker 3: You gotta go really press for Bro, not knowing if we ever gonna open up anything else, like it gotta be in your heart. And then when we do, thank god, we opening a marathon Burger and now all all of a sudden, it's you know, maybe the the the it's back on us, like people looking like what's going on? And when we get the music, Ah, it's back on us. Nah, we go do what you was doing. So that was the that was the energy.

00:33:03
Speaker 4: It wasn't nothing, wasn't none, nothing major.

00:33:06
Speaker 5: Well, a lot of people don't understand it. It's it's certain standards and morals that that help you build what you're standing on right now. I said about our our show and our company too, like we ain't never going against that, right, you know what I'm saying. I don't care what it is. It's certain standards that we stood on to get to this point. Ain't changing for nobody, And a lot of people don't understand it is because one thing ain't never built nothing.

00:33:26
Speaker 2: Facts, you know what I mean. So it might sound it might sound like a foreign language to him.

00:33:29
Speaker 1: Let's welcome to the show now being Oh, come through, Bro's something to wife.

00:33:39
Speaker 4: Respect, came Shure.

00:33:40
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Thank you. Reckless.

00:33:44
Speaker 5: Talk about that produced by Mike and Keys, longtime collaborators who understood Nipsey's sonic and DNA knew I knew it sound I feel creating.

00:33:52
Speaker 6: That man Reckless.

00:33:53
Speaker 7: Uh, that was the time we were just all in the studio day after THEAY, I think NI blocked out the studio for like a month and have two months we was practically living in there. I'm talking about showering. Everything came to us. The vibes was just you know, constant. You know, somebody was in the studio working, if it was a producer or if he laid something, I laid something. So Reckless was just like a no burner, you know what I'm saying. Like the production was flawless. You know, like the sample just kind of put us in the vibe and it's it was one of the moments where it's like, you know, you kind of gassed out, but you kind of in the vibe still. Like I don't know, I get the moments a lot in the studio two in the morning. You know, I'm probably tired, but you know what I'm saying, that's when you really bring the best out. So Yeah, Reckless was just no burner, Bro, And I feel like as far as choosings for the single, it was it made the most sense, you know what I'm saying to take that step first.

00:34:43
Speaker 2: Set the thame.

00:34:44
Speaker 5: Like it's a lot of rappers that I really don't give a fuck about how they sound or how they prepare. I'm really interested in I'm really interested to say that first part I got. I'm really interested to know what is like with the vibe, like when Nip and the studio getting ready to create, Like because I you know, I do music too, but I want to know what that what that vibe like.

00:35:01
Speaker 6: Man, Bro. Honestly, it depends on the day.

00:35:04
Speaker 7: Like sometimes, like I said, I'll wake up in that studio and Sam was talking about this tour this example, I'll come in the studio in the morning, Nipper, I have a black and white German old movie on, like, yeah, we gotta watch this shit, and we spend that whole day in the studio watching that ship and they make a banger right out there. You know what I'm saying, But it's German. Were looking like we're watching this shit. Yeah, but it'll be some gangster ship and we all into it like, you know.

00:35:27
Speaker 6: What I'm saying. So, I don't know.

00:35:28
Speaker 7: The vibes was just always authentic, you know what I'm saying.

00:35:31
Speaker 6: Whatever we was doing that day.

00:35:32
Speaker 7: We spent a lot of life like outside the studio together, you know.

00:35:35
Speaker 6: What I'm saying.

00:35:35
Speaker 7: So it was easy. But yeah, it's just it was just whatever we was feeling that day. But Nip, he ain't no over thinking, you know, he jump straight in the booth, you know what I'm saying.

00:35:44
Speaker 6: That's kind of where I.

00:35:45
Speaker 7: Get that too, Like, just jump straight in the booth, just pop U volleyball. That's when your most authentic.

00:35:49
Speaker 5: So how many people can say they was on a prolific album?

00:35:53
Speaker 7: Yeah, man, I still question it, you know what I'm saying. Day, I still like, you know, it's like damn bro, bro fucking you know what I'm saying. Yeah, why you trust me in your world this much?

00:36:02
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:36:03
Speaker 6: I don't know.

00:36:03
Speaker 7: I'm just happy to sit here and represent you know what I'm saying.

00:36:06
Speaker 1: I want to go back to no Pressure. Is that where you guys first started to let you guys first kind of feeling each other out.

00:36:12
Speaker 7: As far as music goes, Yeah, a lot of the music on No pressures. When I first came around for sure, what was that experience? Like, Man, it was surreal. I even told Bro, you know, before I even met you, you know what I'm saying, You taught me how to be a man.

00:36:24
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.

00:36:24
Speaker 7: I feel like a lot of people from my generation, you know, from where I'm from, just watching you know what I'm saying, what's around him? Nipsey was like the archetype, you feel me, and so we all got game from him. So when he called it, when you make the call for us to come to the studio, it was just like damn, Like it was always what we thought would be the perfect fit for us, but you never really get exactly what you want, you know what I'm saying. And so when Bro calledus, it just felt like God, you know what I mean.

00:36:49
Speaker 1: And so tell me about Stuck in the Grind. That's one of my favorite songs.

00:36:53
Speaker 7: Man, Stuck in the Grind, that's a that's a record or no pressure that Honestly, I didn't even want to touch.

00:36:58
Speaker 6: Like Nipsey went so crazy.

00:36:59
Speaker 7: I'm sing he killed that. I'm just like Bro, like lead that alone, like that was the one.

00:37:06
Speaker 6: But Stuck in the ground.

00:37:07
Speaker 7: I feel like that's just efforlishly, bro, you know what I'm saying, just speaking.

00:37:12
Speaker 1: So prolific will drop this summer, Sam.

00:37:17
Speaker 4: I hope. I think I think it's I think it should be right.

00:37:23
Speaker 1: It should be obviously you're sitting on a lot of music, but there's a real process for you and obviously honoring your brother. As far as what's gonna come out and what happens, I got a chance to come by the studio, I think last month with Meazie and Hurt the compilation of the homies getting there, Like how do you choose what comes out and when it comes out?

00:37:43
Speaker 3: As far as music, I kind of wasn't in a space to even think about putting anything out, just because I feel it was like it wasn't right.

00:37:52
Speaker 4: Man.

00:37:52
Speaker 3: It's not like you know and other people not to they fault. It's fine how they they're like, oh, this is the perfect time, Like man, watch out, Man stop talking to me like that. I don't even want to think about that. But I think with the family and the team and even be Know and his team, they're like, man, when whenever it's right, we gonna know. And I feel like we felt like man you know what, I think, at least for me, I could now I could go and listen to the music and let's get the team together.

00:38:23
Speaker 1: And how long did it take you, I mean to cut you off? How long did it take you to be up, be able to be okay? We're hearing your brother, whether it be old stuff or stuff he hadn't released.

00:38:33
Speaker 4: Hearing it like thinking about like let's put a project out.

00:38:36
Speaker 1: No, just in general, just hearing your brothers because it's everywhere, right.

00:38:39
Speaker 3: I think it's still anytime I hear it my brother is hard. So but it's good. And you know, I think just as always mixed emotions.

00:38:48
Speaker 1: Anytime you hear it, Is it therapeutic at all for you to hear it?

00:38:51
Speaker 2: Sometimes?

00:38:51
Speaker 4: Man, I don't know.

00:38:52
Speaker 3: It's it's just hard, you know what I mean. It's it's hard. It's just it's crazy, man. It's it's mixed emotions. You get happy, you get you laugh the story that you know that really happened, you get sad, and it's just all so I go every time I hear it, I'm gonna go through every emotion. And you're not gonna not m you know me, You're not gonna not feel the emotion, so to go back to the music, it was timing like, man, let's let's let's sit down and let's figure this out. And everybody felt the same way. And then I think for this project and for and for Bro, I always was appreciative that, you know, Beingo a Hustle relationship was was was strong, and they was creating together and doing music, and I knew how much how easy it was for Hustle to do music with Beno and and so I'm like, man, this project is something that they already had done that Hustle you know, personally let me listen to it was complete, and Hustle was very proud about it.

00:39:52
Speaker 4: So I felt like.

00:39:54
Speaker 3: This is perfect because this is not us going in and trying to add the features or mixed some unreleased from unfinished songs together.

00:40:03
Speaker 4: You know, it's like like us piece and thing.

00:40:05
Speaker 3: This is an actual project that you know he did, you know with Beano, they did it together and they had it mixed and you know, we listened to us, so we're like, this is this is what we need to put out. As long as they team feels like it's time, let's go.

00:40:18
Speaker 1: Obviously, no pressure was the first time around. What was it What was it like the second time around? Getting back in them, getting back in the studio with them. I'll be both of you guys have grown since the last experience. What's the second experience like for you?

00:40:29
Speaker 2: Bro?

00:40:29
Speaker 7: Honestly, it was never no getting back. Like I put up that first day, I put up every day after that, never left.

00:40:35
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.

00:40:36
Speaker 7: Whether I was working, whether I was supporting bro campaign, whatever it was. You know what I'm saying, I'll be a flight on the world for Nipsey, you know what I'm saying. So, I don't know, we just a lot of that music from part two Part one was kind of made around the same time.

00:40:49
Speaker 2: Okay, you know what I'm saying.

00:40:50
Speaker 1: What's some of your favorite moments in the studio or some of the favorite songs that you've that you've you know, you guys have worked on together.

00:40:58
Speaker 7: Man, favorite moments We used to Uh, we used to go kick it at the Roosevelt Hotel a lot. You know what I'm saying, Just kick it by the pool, Uh, you know, play beats and uh, what's the.

00:41:10
Speaker 6: Maryland Monroe room.

00:41:12
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, Just vibe and just vibes like that, but it'd be the little things, bro, just waking up in the morning, go and get some green juice, you know what I'm saying, dropping it off, you know, just just a little shit, like I learned a lot, you know.

00:41:22
Speaker 8: The production and engineering team includes many of the trusted collaborators from like Legends, Mike and Keys, mixed by Ali Cyrus, Alex Foley, Axel Foley Lamar and Mars Edwards.

00:41:35
Speaker 2: Going at g Flinn talk about the production on the.

00:41:37
Speaker 7: Album, Man, it's like the Avengers, bro. Honestly, Like it's a lot of it's a lot of heavy hitters. It's a lot of plaques, you know what I'm saying, all in this one studio for this one coming goal. So it's like we literally cannot lose, you know what I'm saying. And you know, some guys came in for post production, you know what I'm saying, and just elevated the music even further. And it's all people who you know, I've literally seen nipse trust hardily with the music, you know, people who was always involved if they want so, Yeah, Bro, it just all came together how you would think it would.

00:42:07
Speaker 5: How much unreleased Nip, We're gonna hear on this thing.

00:42:12
Speaker 6: Man.

00:42:14
Speaker 7: It's uh yeah, this project is its fresh, it's new, you know what I'm saying. It ain't nothing that's been released, so you know, it's it's dope to even be a part of some music that you know, it's still around.

00:42:26
Speaker 2: For Bro or you know, everybody waiting on it.

00:42:28
Speaker 7: Yeah, somebody can stumble across, you know, and it's it's it's dope.

00:42:32
Speaker 2: It's good.

00:42:32
Speaker 7: You know, it's Nip stepping out of his element kind of doing you know, really experimenting, you know, and really giving you truthfully what he is.

00:42:38
Speaker 6: So the music is crazy.

00:42:40
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, is it an urban legend with the whispers with Victory Lap too?

00:42:45
Speaker 2: Is that just?

00:42:46
Speaker 4: Is that just gossip of what Victory Lap album?

00:42:49
Speaker 2: Yeah? I want to.

00:42:52
Speaker 4: I don't know nothing about.

00:42:52
Speaker 2: It might not be real.

00:42:55
Speaker 4: I think it's it's one Victory Lap, you know what I mean.

00:42:57
Speaker 3: Hustles, I think this lead there's a lot of music and we got a all money in compilation that we're working on a lot of these records which I didn't realize and I was talking to the gods were like, man, Hustle, just put one verse on this it's like Bro put another verse on it. But now I'm talking to the guys like man, Hustle left that for y'all. There's so many hard records that just had one verse, and so the guys are coming on putting were like and then even hooks.

00:43:24
Speaker 4: He got hooks where they're just.

00:43:25
Speaker 3: Open, and then he gave a lot of the guys hooks and so they I'm like, damn, I never heard this day. And so I'm like, all right, this is for this project. And so that's what we've been kind of working on. And then there's complete songs that we have also that I'm thinking for the soundtrack to the documentary. It's complete songs that are on every you know, stage of bro life.

00:43:50
Speaker 4: You can hear you can hear his voice like, oh he was young right there.

00:43:53
Speaker 3: But he's passiting artist for the doc because we could put we know when this was recorded, what we were going through, and you know with Hustle Man, he putting real life in everything.

00:44:02
Speaker 4: So I'm hearing certain shit.

00:44:03
Speaker 3: I'm like, just what he's talking about, knocking it out this one time. We just it's all different type of things. So you getting amped up listening to it. And so I know, like when we have the doc, the doc is almost done when you explaining that this this record is talking about exactly what we're just talking about. So I think that's in my head what the team is thinking about with a lot of the unreleased music, not putting together another album, calling it something. Hustle was very adamant and very like you know, stern about hold on man my music. Yeah, hold on, I don't even like this song doesn't go with the album, like man put the song hard put on it now, it don't go with the album. That needs to go for something else and sequencing and mixing and everything. So I think it's Victory Lap and then even Prolific. That's why I love Prolific because he did all that. They did all that together. He mixed did he sat with and gave it to Ali. You know, they sequenced it. Everything is just is how he wanted it.

00:45:08
Speaker 1: Do you feel any pressure kind of having a somewhat step in those shoes with the compilation and other stuff that's kind of going on that maybe there is one verse now you gotta add and now you kind of got to put that mind and had on. Do you feel any kind of pressure when you have to sit back there and listen to it.

00:45:22
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:45:22
Speaker 4: I just want people to know this is listen.

00:45:24
Speaker 2: This is not this ain't it no one.

00:45:28
Speaker 3: It's one project that Hustled put together. And there would never be anything to me like that because he's an enigma and he was very like about how you want to done. This is like even a soundtrack, Like for me, it's good, this is a soundtrack, this is a this is this is loose songs that he created that that go with certain times in his life. So to me, that's perfect, prolific. He did it, you know what I mean? So I love that this is him. There's all money in compilation.

00:45:56
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:45:58
Speaker 3: I tell the guys all the time, like, we gotta, we gotta, we got to hit this one out the park.

00:46:01
Speaker 4: And everything that we have from Hustle is amazing, the.

00:46:06
Speaker 3: Bars, the hooks, the beats, the production everything, so you know, yeah, we gotta, we gotta, uh, we gotta make sure that we do do.

00:46:15
Speaker 4: Right by it.

00:46:16
Speaker 1: The documentary a lot of talk about it. I was fortunate enough to see a sizzle and it gave me chills. What has it been like building? Because you guys, people don't understand how much footage you guys have and how long it goes back literally up until you know the time of his passing. And he did an e book that kind of does you know what I mean? So you guys are you got a lot of moving parts and and and to see you speak about it that day, which just so fascinating about you know, your vision and exactly how you kind of see things going. Can you share where that project is at currently? Yeah, I think it's really close to being finished.

00:46:54
Speaker 3: You know, we don't want to rush, and we brought in some some partners that helped us get it to where it is now. And you know, honestly, it was some offers being made and we kind of decline those because it wasn't finished. And then they were the people that were coming in, big companies coming in kind of like, hey we can only do three episodes, or hey you know the research doesn't say that, you know, and we like, hey, we walking, well, you're gonna turn this money down. Yeah, it's turned down, no disrespect, watch y'all. So you know, I'm to the point where I don't even want to talk money. I don't want to sit with anybody. I don't I just want to finish it, and you know, and I tell our partners and other people, I'm like, bro, how they gonna tell us something?

00:47:39
Speaker 4: They don't know Hustle.

00:47:40
Speaker 3: They don't know the story, they don't even know how much footage we got, and they haven't even watched what we have. How they gonna tell us it needs to be three episodes. They don't even need to be talking to us about this right now, because we're gonna do it the way it needs to be done, the way that we tell the story correctly, and the way that we inspire. And it's it's so, And people love Hustle, they have no clue. People that love Hustle don't even fully have eighty percent of it.

00:48:07
Speaker 4: They miss it.

00:48:07
Speaker 3: So when they see this, it's gonna be like, oh my god. And so that's our duty to do that correctly. And we're getting close. We about eighty percent done. We bring it in another partner to help us finish it and get it to where it is done, and everybody you know loves it, and then we're gonna go sell it or give it out for free.

00:48:29
Speaker 4: Like man, shut the fuck up and play this shit you're saying about money.

00:48:32
Speaker 3: I tell everybody this This doc is not about money, right, This doc is about putting what we need to do down for Hustle and cementing the story. And you know, you hear all type of slander and people saying this, saying this, it's the one thing. I'm like, all right, I ain't doing the There's been many times I wanted to go on the run and just interview and just but now it's like, this documentary is gonna tell everyone's one and it ain't me saying that. You gonna see it. You're gonna see Hustle young in the hood selling dope. You're gonna see Hustle with all the homies that shows.

00:49:04
Speaker 4: You're like, oh, man, like one of our.

00:49:05
Speaker 3: Guys that records for Hustle or recorded for Hustle all through Victory Lap tour and everything was with him, you know, laughing, joking, no Hustle. And he's seen some of the footage, and so we're watching it.

00:49:18
Speaker 4: You know, it's my brother.

00:49:19
Speaker 3: So I'm editing it with the editors and then so I look back and his mouth is to the floor with the footage.

00:49:25
Speaker 4: He like, he like, what the I never saw this side of Hustle. And so I'm like.

00:49:32
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you got Victory lap Hustle. You didn't know Hustle. You know, bullets ain't got no name. So he's watching it like, man, this is crazy. And so even with the editors, the editors sitting there like scratching their head, like bro, this is like, like this is crazy because they seeing you can see Hustle evolved, and you see Hustle at every stage of his life, and it brings so much more respect and context and clarity to when you see Hustle who you know, the Marathon store and GQ in the hood and Forbes right up, you respected, Grammy nominated. You respect it so much more knowing where it came from. So I feel, on top of that, it's inspiring for anybody that's from these same areas because you like, oh, hold on, bro, like it was right here, he just like us.

00:50:22
Speaker 4: So and then he shows you the steps and the journey. It wasn't just it was years and years and years and years.

00:50:28
Speaker 3: And on top of that, it wasn't just in a vacuum things happening in the perfect situation. It was shit, real shit happening, real hood politics and real like niggas standing up to certain individuals who were scared of and doing legendary shit, you know what I mean, socking niggas out the ring, and like shit that people know about that don't want to speak about or don't or hoping nobody speak about.

00:50:52
Speaker 4: Man, it's all in there. You're gonna hear the real and you're gonna respect it.

00:50:55
Speaker 3: And that's why everybody in the hood love hustle and respect the hustle and saluted whether they whether they was hating or not.

00:51:03
Speaker 4: It was like it was hands down like them because we didn't see it.

00:51:06
Speaker 3: We don't see it come and how he stood up and prevailed and always still kept it solid and was still.

00:51:13
Speaker 4: Like nah, come on, like and we ain't tripping, Like if we're trying to win, let's win together.

00:51:17
Speaker 3: It was always inclusive, so not to be going with it, but I feel that's our duty to make sure that that documentary fully tells the full story, inspiring takes people on the you know, emotional roller coaster, crying, happy, laughing, choking, because us as funny as hell too, you know, when people don't know, So the doc's gonna show you everything.

00:51:40
Speaker 4: And like I'm telling.

00:51:42
Speaker 3: People, like the reason why a lot of people like that Kanye Doc. We just got to look at the footage and just got to see him talking with his mom and just you seeing all that unseen footage was that was the That was the masterpiece.

00:51:56
Speaker 4: It wasn't all about editing and yeah, just of the rock. So we got all of that.

00:52:01
Speaker 3: Man, you got when my brother's daughter was born in the hospital, you know, you just got everything there. When we first went to Africa for the first time and met my grandma for the first time, met all my cousins for the first time, we got that. So when Hustle came back to Africa for the second time now with Victory lap out and they treated him like Michael Jackson, we.

00:52:23
Speaker 4: Got all that.

00:52:24
Speaker 3: So it's like it's crazy, and you know, I could talk for everybody, but I feel like it's coming.

00:52:30
Speaker 4: It's close, close.

00:52:31
Speaker 2: I love to hear it.

00:52:33
Speaker 1: Is there one piece of your brother's vision that hasn't been delivered yet to keep you up at night?

00:52:39
Speaker 3: Really, the doc, man, I've been telling everybody, like we got to put the doctor. We got to get the doctor, Like I get hit by a car tomorrow and we be in trouble, Like.

00:52:45
Speaker 4: I got to get this doc out.

00:52:46
Speaker 3: So I want to put this documentary out and then after that, I'm I feel like that's the most important thing for me because that just seements everything and just let everybody know, like Manu put some respect, like you got to understand.

00:53:00
Speaker 4: The journey, you know what I mean.

00:53:01
Speaker 3: And from there, I think even for his kids too, like you know, I could talk to them, talk the ear off, but actually see it and for them to really see it, you know, his son and for his daughter to really be like, oh nah, this is you know, and whenever they really want to sit and dive into it, because I feel like it's hard for them to really you know what I mean. But when they get older and they really listen to interviews, but then they have the documentary there is important.

00:53:25
Speaker 4: So that's the most important thing for me. That's what's keep me up at night.

00:53:29
Speaker 5: I want to say this to you, bro, because a lot of my older brother that I lost pum boys stead up telling me this. But he proud of you, Bro, Proud of you, thank you, definitely proud of you, like it's supposed to go, come on, thank you bro.

00:53:40
Speaker 1: Being there Before we get into this, what's one thing you took from no ego?

00:53:45
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, see I get into uger, I see how the eye with the driver. You know what I'm saying, none of that, but you know what I'm saying. We are here to do what we're here to do. You feel every man and man at the end of the day. So yeah, I say that, go into situations like that. I was a knucklehead at first, but yeah, I take that.

00:54:02
Speaker 2: I heard him say, treat the giant like you treat the boss. Say that exactly.

00:54:08
Speaker 1: All right, You guys could both answer, this is just quick hitters, top five l A musicians in your opinion.

00:54:15
Speaker 4: Ever, Yeah, man.

00:54:18
Speaker 3: I gotta go probably with we is raised on and I gotta make sure I'll miss anything. But I'm thinking, gotta go Cube, Snoop, put the pressure on you man, Snoop dre part be here.

00:54:38
Speaker 7: You got one. It's show more than fast. I'm gonna just say who he.

00:54:42
Speaker 4: Ain't gotta say hustle. I gotta put hustle.

00:54:46
Speaker 7: Man said we got sugar free, we got h.

00:54:53
Speaker 6: Smooth.

00:54:54
Speaker 7: I wanna say corrupt, corrupt, cold. I wanted to call this lyricism. She don't want to know.

00:55:00
Speaker 6: Say you gotta say that, you gotta say Kendrick.

00:55:03
Speaker 7: Sure in there, can I say the east Side is as a group one, Yeah, I'm saying the.

00:55:08
Speaker 6: East Side is as a group. We played that in l A right now is going. Yeah.

00:55:13
Speaker 7: Lastly, I'm gonna throw curve bo Tyler creator, you fool he put on for the West for sure. You know what I'm saying, ain't talking about enough, but what he then did coming from You know what I'm saying. I remember Tyler before this ship like you seen from Fairfax. But yeah, Tyler for sure far.

00:55:31
Speaker 5: The most underrated LA foodspy besides Marathon b Ship.

00:55:35
Speaker 7: You gotta shout out, Earl, Yeah, shout your earls out arrows?

00:55:41
Speaker 2: What so food? You call it that? Okay, just because it's Earl.

00:55:48
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, Get you a bomb ass bagger. You know what I'm saying, it's bro childhood crush me. Yeah, right, knee along So Food especially.

00:56:03
Speaker 5: She's talking today, she she just fo.

00:56:11
Speaker 2: Now you got. I'm not saying that that way. I'm just saying, like I never expect her to be talking like that.

00:56:15
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, shocked me? What about you? Childhood crush?

00:56:19
Speaker 7: I like Maya because she still she still looks good.

00:56:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, she still looked m J, Kobe Bron rank them.

00:56:29
Speaker 3: It's the it's the number one is the errors. So for me, I'm m J, I'm Kobe, I'm Bron and that and that can't change because of my era. But I'll be talking to the kids. And then it was Kobe before m J. But then I had to realize, oh, that's because y'all was the when y'all was watching basketball and shooting and trying to go in the backyard, y'all was saying Kobe.

00:56:52
Speaker 4: I was saying m J. Now everybody's saying Bron.

00:56:55
Speaker 3: So it's the era and sometimes the airs don't matter. But for me, the era is all right, it's m J, Kobe, Bron, and that's my era.

00:57:06
Speaker 2: The babies.

00:57:08
Speaker 6: Save to you, No, I'm going Kobe didn't. Uh m J didn't Bron. I love you, Bron, But.

00:57:14
Speaker 2: I'm with that too. I ain't got no that's how that's our brother.

00:57:17
Speaker 1: So I ain't got no problem with either one in either spot being the go brom not mad at that man guilty pleasure that we could talk about.

00:57:30
Speaker 3: I think I think just making something happen positive And you know, she putting something in the in the air as far as like are we about to do this? And then when it actually happens, and then for us to get there, sometimes it'd be rough, but get it done. Getting it done is like we everybody just from all us of how we had to kind of be aggressive and get there.

00:58:02
Speaker 4: Like I tell everybody, man, we're trying to win.

00:58:04
Speaker 3: We're trying to win the super Bowl, So niggas may have to get aggressive and yell at each other and hold each other accountable. But that win, everybody, like, we ain't even tripping on that, you know, So I think.

00:58:17
Speaker 4: That's what That's what the whole team know.

00:58:19
Speaker 3: Like, man, this ship is getting rough, but when we win, it's like it's.

00:58:22
Speaker 4: It's what it takes to get here. Yeah, be what about you gift the pleasure?

00:58:27
Speaker 7: Dam I like I like oldies, bro Okay, Like I don't really listen to like current music.

00:58:33
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.

00:58:34
Speaker 7: I listened to teddy Ken, you know what I'm saying, Like old ship, So Stan, you come around me. That's something that's gonna like you're playing ship from the seventies. It's my goodty pleasure bro.

00:58:45
Speaker 2: Sam.

00:58:46
Speaker 5: You can see one person on all the smoke, who would it be? But you have to help us get your answer on the show.

00:58:51
Speaker 3: Man, let me see one person all the smoke, probably ship Man. Y'all get jay On here Jay j Rock. So, yeah, that's my boy, jay z On here.

00:59:04
Speaker 2: Man, I thought he was talking about.

00:59:07
Speaker 4: My boy.

00:59:09
Speaker 2: It's a tall task, he said, jay z Rock.

00:59:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, fellas, we appreciate it, but stam in particular. Man again, it's been an honor to see the way you've been able to carry and represent. And it was from a distance at first, but getting a chance to know you over the last few years, bro, and and and everything you do and the way you do it with you know, dignity and morals and standards. Man, it's been a blessing to watch. So we wish both you guys nothing but continue success. Man, appreciate you. Guess how I got around black saying and be no catch prolific coming This summer doc is coming a lot, a whole lot of stuff coming, man. Make sure you stay tuned to the marathon as it continues. You can catch us and all the smoke? Was it you two in the draft Kings Network? If you put them ash she hass calves away. We'll see y'all next week.