The Voice Within: Faith, Success & Self-Trust

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Speaker 1: Calling all my sweeties to the forefront.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Christo and this is the Keep It Positive, Sweetish Show. Welcome to the Keep It Positive, Sweetish Show, a place where we heal, grow and learn together. Today's guest is Grammy winning rappers, songwriter, actor, entrepreneur, television hosts, and now author with his debut memoir, The Voice in My Head Is God.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad to be sitting with Two Chains.

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Speaker 2: Today's guest is someone whose journey has evolved far beyond music. Known around the world as an artist, entrepreneur, and cultural voice, He's now stepping into a new chapter as an author with his book The Voice in My Head Is God and It he reflects on faith, intuition, family, and the inner voice that guided him through everything from childhood to success in the music industry. Kiss Familey, please give a very warm welcome to Two Chains.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, I'm good, happy to have you here. Yes, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: We first met a few years ago my fourth birthday. I called everybody, ain't Mama, do you hear me? Because you know, it's always like six degrees in Atlanta's like two degrees of separation. I was like, okay, you cool with him? Can you ask him?

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Speaker 1: I really try to get him at my birthday party and we finally closed the deal.

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Speaker 2: And when I tell you to this day, people are saying that's still like the best birthday party they've been to in Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: I ain't know what I was walking into.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know my friend in the gym, Yeah, Mark.

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Speaker 3: He was like, man, my sister, Man, you know, shout out Mark. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And I showed up and it was just a beautiful crowd. I really didn't know what I was I was showing up, but I'm glad. I'm glad we did it because I think we built a relationship from that.

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Speaker 3: From that event.

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Speaker 4: You know, I know you was booking me as like talent, but then I started learning more about you and what you doing. So then I became a fan of yours.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Yes, it's been love ever since. I appreciated.

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Speaker 2: Happy to have you here to talk about your new book. The voice in my head is God.

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Speaker 1: When you hit me about it, I said, oh, we got to have you on the podcast. We have like a it hasn't been a fish.

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Speaker 2: We have an unofficial book club, so anything I posted, I'm reading my Sweeties or go buy it. So we're gonna add this to the book club. We're gonna read it, says shall get it, and we're gonna talk about it for sure. I'm super excited to get into that. But before we get into it, we're gonna do a quick game.

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Speaker 1: Of rapid fire.

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Speaker 2: I want you to tell me the first thing that comes to your mind. All right, flats are drums?

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Speaker 3: Flat?

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Speaker 1: Okay. One thing people always get wrong about.

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Speaker 3: You, People say, look mean. I don't think I'm mean.

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Speaker 1: No, you're not your go to late night snack.

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Speaker 3: Almens.

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Speaker 1: Oh healthy, that's.

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Speaker 3: A good one. Okay.

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Speaker 2: See mine is salty caramel ice cream with the cons first thing you do when you get back home after a long road trip, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, hug and kiss the wife, you know, say what's up to the kid is take a shower and get in my.

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Speaker 2: Own bed, nothing like your own bed, and shout out to the wife, Keisha, who's in the studio with us today?

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Speaker 1: Hagar All right, do you enjoy the studio or the stage?

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Speaker 3: Man? That's all so hard, but I think I might. That's so hard. That's so hard for me.

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Speaker 4: Like I've been on stage just going crazy and just loving the energy from the crowd, I done looked up and.

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Speaker 3: Thank the Lord, and then.

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Speaker 4: I don't have been in the studio and I said something so hard that I don't thank the Lord. So I don't even know.

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Speaker 1: We'll take both of them.

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Speaker 2: What is the most expensive thing that you have bought that had you looking at the receipt like, all right, that was a little.

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Speaker 4: Crazy, probably, you know, homes, cars, homes and cars.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes, you know, sometimes it is crazy.

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Speaker 1: It is, but it's a blessing. Another thing I love that God is good.

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Speaker 2: So looking back at your journey going from college Park to now you are a global success. Looking at the little boy and you what do you think he'd be most surprised at now if he could look into the future and see where you are.

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Speaker 4: Now that I'm still going that I'm still very much passionate and energetic about, you know, getting up every day and what the day may brings. And still I'm still enjoy learning new stuff. I still enjoy me new people. So even though I'm growing and maturing, even age wise, I think internally.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited about life. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Overall, what does a normal day and two change life look like? You say you're excited to wake up every day. What does that look like.

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Speaker 4: I don't sleep at night, so I probably go to sleep around maybe like seven o'clock in the morning. I get up around twelve or one. I go to the gym at around two twenty two thirty because I work out with a with another person that is like taking a lunch break, So it's like we're trying to get that one.

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Speaker 3: Day in to work out. And then.

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Speaker 4: I have a smoothie, then I shower, then I eat. Then I picked my son up from school, take him to train, and take him, get some comeback, drop him off, and then I watched basketball and I might take like an hour and nap or something like that. Because I start working every night around from like twelve to six. I record I'm in the studio. Wow, And it's very habitual. It's very just like I do that basically every day. I mean, this book tour, this book run has definitely thrown off my gym schedule and thrown off the time that I was using to, you know, make sure I get my son from A to B. But overall, it's been so much good feedback from the book. People showing up. You know, it was my aspiration just to like affect one person. And man, when I tell you it exceeded that expectation already, it's not even been a week. And how this young lady just booho cried and in my arms in Dallas last night, like boohoo like, and how the book helped her and how she reads it at seven in the morning and she plays the audio book why she reading. I'm like, I've never you know, did it like that? But audiobook it's in my voice. So yeah, it's in my voice. And it's like something that is new and innovative that you know, and I don't know anybody that has production in their audiobooks. Like my audiobook. You can actually hear the scene that I'm describing that I'm reading. Yeah, yes, So it's like that I just brought something different.

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Speaker 3: It's like, man, I still took elements.

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Speaker 4: From the you know, me being a you know, an artist, musician, and you know, you see you hear albums and they have skits and stuff in it. So when you're reading a book that sounds like it could be a skit, why not have the anyway? So I know y'all gonna take that you can have. This is what I do. I come in the game, I leave something behind, and y'all try to add like I ain't.

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Speaker 2: Doing it, but right, we heard it here first year. I've never heard of that, But I do. I read books and listen to audio because sometimes I don't want to put this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I hit out a lot what they do to us, Like why does everybody say that I hear this? I hear this every day. I hear I got a d I hear this every day more than I hear somebody saying excuse me and thank you. I hear I hear like, man, I got a little bit of a little bit. Somebody just can't lock in sometimes, so you do the same thing you do audio and mind.

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Speaker 1: I do that with my Bible, like when I'm reading the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I listened to it on the Bible app where it's reading and I'm reading along with it.

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Speaker 1: But it helps me stay locked in.

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Speaker 4: I can see it there too, because I think sometimes so even recently, sometimes I just I might just take the Bible just look. I'm sure I'm not the only one to do. This is just open it up and like God reads something from here right hard, like some words that's like the language is what I'm saying. Sometimes I feel, yeah, so I think that that way, and I do know they have all the literature that breaks down stuff and lay in.

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Speaker 1: Terms of yeah, that's what I need you.

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Speaker 2: But no, I love that, so I understand why she does, and I think that's dope that she listens and reason like she's really getting it. I gotta listen to that because I love how you added the elements of production in so hard.

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Speaker 3: It's so hard.

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Speaker 4: I'm about to take this to another level. Man, I just feel like this is a New York Times best self.

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Speaker 3: It will be.

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Speaker 4: The voice in my head is God? Is something that I actually struggled with really even talking about because I'm not I mean, I'm sure when I when I when I trace it back to it, it got to be intuition before then I'm thinking, I just got a voice in mind. I really just thinking because I'm really hearing something that's telling me to go this way or put that on or walk over there, and like it's been navigating me a lot, and when I follow that voice, it leads me ultimately leads me to success. So I started talking to people about like his voice, and then it's like it's subconscious. Then it started going back to like, it's really something that we all have, which is intuition. It's about when you like, when you find it, when you become tapped in and with the chap that I got in there called women are superheroes and my and my book is solely opinion based, right, I didn't reason search y'all. You know, like reading my book is like purely my beliefs.

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Speaker 1: Yes, in your experience.

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Speaker 4: So I do believe women are superheroes. So I just like, like the things my wife know before I have my mom, and they don't. They do it unconsciously, but like I feel like women are just in tune to intuition before man. They mature before man anyway.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, no, that's crazy when you look back at your younger self. In your book, the Voice in my head is God, which is I love the title you talk about how the voice in your head is guidance that everyone has access to if you just slow down long enough to hear it. How young were you when you realize, wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: This is God talking to me.

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Speaker 3: So I don't put God.

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Speaker 4: I don't put God to it too super recently, So what happened with the book is I wanted to write a book about something, not just an autobiography, and I wanted it to have some type of substance, and I also wanted it wanted it to tap into an audience outside of hip hop. So me having a concept like intuition, I'm telling some stories, and when I tell the story and I trace it all the way back, it's a voice that told me, boy, you ain't got no business going. It told me before I got there, or it told me to do. So a lot of this stuff I thought about was either like whether it was a trauma or even a celebration. I trace it back in my mind and it literally and so then I started. Then you start hearing you made in the image of God, and God is in all this stuff. And then another thing that I felt like was super relatable to people is like how we say, you know, man, something told me I was gonna run in something you know, you feel something you know. I just feel like, what if that it's like whatever you believe in obviously, but what if that's God like in you, like whispering or whatever, just saying like, man, you know this ain't it's time to go. It don't mean somebody finish, shoot the place up.

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Speaker 3: But sometimes time to go or something like that.

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Speaker 4: I'm liking somebody that just abruptly like like my team just be like what you're going, what we're doing?

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Speaker 3: You know, I just get.

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Speaker 1: Up out of here.

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Speaker 3: And when I don't.

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Speaker 1: Do it, let's talk about that.

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Speaker 4: But I say, man, I knew I should have left. Bro, it just happened to me not too long. I thought I was gonna miss something. So I'm sticking around before I know they don't turn the lights on. That the part I don't like that kind of part where the lights and there everybody's sitting around looking crazy. Then you know, you know, then they they say we're gonna start the part about the whole time. I said, man, I should have been left this, you know what I mean. So that's something about a club. I'm just saying in.

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Speaker 2: General, and for sure I definitely can attest to times where I should maybe left somebody alone.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, That's why I say, y'all be knowing y'all just do.

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Speaker 3: It like y'all y'all.

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Speaker 4: I gotta I gotta chop to call the boys that women do a lot too, like we do too. Women do that too, but we had a voice too, like sometimes and and and when we do something out of the boys, it don't mean that it's always going to be a bad outcome, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Some things gonna be just like because we do it off of like just impulse, like I want to do this, I'm gonna do it, go for it.

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Speaker 4: The boys deal with like the very the human part of you, the part that so I say, God is love, God equals love. So they if you want to differentiate, like the voices, like if it got something to do with like love in it, this may be him whispering to But if you got to do what you like, crashing out, going to his house, busting his winders out.

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Speaker 3: And all that stuff, and like you like something.

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Speaker 4: I read your book, change something told me go over there. I went over that and caught it. Whatever. I don't like that, don't think home, I don't think. I don't think he told you to do that one. You know, but we all got that voice, and we all got to live off experience to this book is very much an experience base. It's not like a religious book. It's me talking about God through like my experience, my journey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, and you talk about your mother, your grandmother, your wife being superheroes. What was it something that you may have not understood as a child, but now as an adult man, you understand about your grandmother or your mother.

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Speaker 1: When you're growing up.

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Speaker 4: Man, you know, your mama always going to tell you who she feels like it is right, the right crowds and right places and stuff, you know, be around then. You know, we always gotta find out, don't know, we all Yeah, Mama tell you when they hit you, sure, and they just like and you like, yeah, got it, you know, thank you, you know so much it comes back. Yeah, But I wasn't changed. I wouldn't change a lot of the mistakes I made because like, they gotta happen too. The book ain't about like living a perfect life. It's just about taking the time and connecting with that divine guidance, that internal navigation, you know what I mean. It's not about like never making mistakes.

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Speaker 1: Right for sure, Listen.

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Speaker 2: I'd always say that every mistake I made has made me the woman I am today, you know, because you learn from it.

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Speaker 1: It's a lesson.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I feel like it makes some of the best people, you know, because we can also help other people.

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Speaker 1: Before they have to fall down the same path.

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Speaker 3: Sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now you talk about your dad being incarcerated and always telling you a woman can't raise a man.

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Speaker 1: You touch on that in the book. Let's talk about that.

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Speaker 3: Just raised by.

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Speaker 4: Old school kind of man's man. You know, was in the army, used to do airborne jump out of planes. Oh wow, yeah, that was his thing, and did a little prison time. So he was like a man's man. So like I tell people, I'm kind of from the boys, don't cry error.

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Speaker 3: Like you gotta be like.

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Speaker 4: Whatever it is, it's just like you just can't cry. But the part is like when he passed, I literally needed like windshire of wipers on my eye.

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Speaker 3: I cried so much. I was like I was balding.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I saw her. You said the reservoir had dried up. And then when your father I.

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Speaker 4: Used to be like, man, I mean, I used to tell my hon I'm dehydrated by I can't crack like well, you know what I mean, and what it is.

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Speaker 3: You become numb.

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Speaker 4: You become so tough that whatever hurt you just kind of you kind of like you know what I mean, just kind of like to my breaking bones and everything. You just kind of you just so you know, he just one of them. Man, It just sticks with you. But he was a but somebody, you know, as a father. You admire him and then you hear these stories and these tales about him, and you know, you know what I'm saying, you got that DNA inside of you and you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It's like he was a superhero to me too, you know.

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Speaker 4: And he stayed with me the last maybe seven years of his life, and we just build a real great bond and he ultimately passed right in front of me at the hospital. And uh, it's something I think about all the time often, you know. Yeah, but I still sometimes I maybe hear him, who knows, maybe it's him talking to me. Yeah, but I feel him. And then my son has a lot of I don't know, they just have a lot in common.

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Speaker 1: And they you see a lot of your dad.

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Speaker 3: I see a lot of Yeah, I do.

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Speaker 4: So that's what I tell everybody, like, hello, my best friend. Man, you love me so much of my pops, you know, I love that.

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Speaker 2: How did your relationship with your dad's shape how you are with Halo now, especially those last seven years spending with your.

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Speaker 4: Father, Well, it makes me want to not like skip anytime with Halo, you know what I mean. I can't imagine skipping twelve thirteen years.

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Speaker 1: Or something like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it just makes me want to be just beat there for him and give him some kind of game and some pointers on navigating life. Make sure I'm instilling confidence in him, Like you know that black boy confidence is a It's a weapon in itself, you know what I mean. So just teach him how to use that weapon when you comforting in the room and you just making people uncomfortable as a ten year old or.

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Speaker 3: Whatever it is, you know, just.

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Speaker 4: Making sure that he's a better person than me, you know what I'm saying, Just like, dedicate my life to making.

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Speaker 3: Sure he's ten.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, I love that. I ran to y'all in the parking lot. You go to your season ticket holder, the Hogs.

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Speaker 2: I always admire you when you're with your wife or your daughter's courtside and your son.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, that is dope.

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Speaker 2: Like my dad took me to McDonald's for breakfast. That was our daddy daughter time.

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Speaker 1: I'm like that was good.

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Speaker 4: At least you remember I'm trying to think, Okay, my daddy let me think because he I ain't even talking about like he wasn't nothing trying to sink what he took me that was like our thing. Yeah, maybe it hit me before, so, but I think it's important that you create them experience. Yeah, like even a McDonald thing, it's something like it's inexperience every morning.

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Speaker 1: After because he worked nights and then he would come pick me up to take me to school.

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Speaker 4: Get some biscuits. I remember now, I remember my grand my granddaddy used to get the biscuits. I'm trying to think what me and my pops did. I can't remember right now, but you know, but.

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Speaker 2: I love what you do with your kids, Like it's so dope, and that daddy daughter time, that father son time is so important. Yeah, man, like I it definitely shaped the relationship. Like I still call my dad to this day.

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Speaker 1: Like, Dad, what you're doing? You know? Like that's just like that's one of my best friends.

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Speaker 4: So did you ever have because I have two teenage daughters, was it ever time that you were not like this with your dad?

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Speaker 3: Was it ever like you've always been? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I feel like when I was in college, I may have had a look of wild face where I was just kind of like I don't want to talk to nobody, like I want to do my thing. But as I got older and then just realizing that time is fleeting and you kind of look up when you're like, wait, like I ain't not have them here that much longer?

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Speaker 3: You oh not.

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Speaker 4: The funny part is when you get the age that you remember your parents was a yeah. I used to think the old yeah, because I remember my dad.

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Speaker 3: Man. He used to Man, my dad was like he would get out is my dad?

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Speaker 4: It was like and the trapping and all this hustling and buying work and selling the work. I'll be rying with him. Man, he have these cut off Jordash Jean shorts and damn the no shirt on him when he get out that car. I should be like I used to get a little like this because I ain't even want nobody to see man, Like, man, won't you put a put some What are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Bro?

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Speaker 4: That man used to be out there, hey, hollering at somebody across the street, like, man, man put some put a shirt on anything. But yeah, yeah, we gotta you know. I got the two teenage girls, and they really like one is on the way to college, and you know, basically I don't know any know that much, and I can't be that cool. I'm only like two chains and by the way, like two chains, yeah, probably probably showing that probably don't even like nobody even need to know that.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: And then I got my thirteen year old who is into like drip. So that's the way we do connect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's y'all's bonded.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm said, but it could be times when you know, I don't know what the heck I'm talking about either, which is insane.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think that's every parent child situation at some point. And like I said, that college time, like that's the time where they're trying to figure themselves out.

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Speaker 1: And it's a lot, it's a lot. Yeah, but you'll be fine. I promise you. It'll be over before you know it, and then you'll be back. Bessie's yeah for sure, No, for sure. So I love that.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about that intuition, and can you share with us a time where you heard that voice and it completely changed the trajectory because you listened, it changed the trajectory of your life just from taking heed to it, And then share a time where you look back and like I should have listened.

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Speaker 1: And what happened in that moment.

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Speaker 4: A time where I listen to my boy, this is when I got out like my first record deal, I just you know, I ain't know I was gonna make I'm Different her birthday. I didn't have these songs recorded. I didn't have anything. I just knew I wanted to be an independent. I wanted to be on my own. You know. It wasn't so much I was leaving the situation to get back in another situation, right, but I thought I had build enough relationships and learned enough information to try to do it on my own. And just woke up one day and it wasn't like like it was gradual, like I kept like threatening it to like you keep playing more, you know, it was none of that. I spoke up one day and I said, you know, I just I didn't say it like this, but basically like a voice told me, like I need to be out here doing this, yeah, you know. And then a time where, uh, at the time I didn't listen. Man, I've been I don't I done got smacked for it a couple of times for not listening.

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Speaker 3: To that voice.

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Speaker 4: Been in the wrong place, at the wrong time when I actually but you know it, yeah, you know, you know, you know, yeah, you just don't. It's hard to when you can't see things. It's hard to believe something you can't see anyway. So it's hard to believe that run the red light and cause an accident until you can run a bunch of them, until you know you cause you called, and but you can't see that before it happens, you know. So that might be a poor example, but that's basically what I mean about, Like you gotta like navigate off trusting yourself first. Like, yeah, that's this is how I navigate. I do have like somebody I talk to a manager and all of that that start with me first.

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Speaker 2: For exactly, No, for sure, talking about obstacles and being autimistic. You are a very autimistic person, and talking about your getting out of a record deal and you deciding that you didn't want any more three sixty deals, Can you explain to the people listening what a three sixty deal is in the music industry and why you didn't want to sign that.

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Speaker 4: At the time, it was very new. Three seasons are very prevalent right now. At the time, I had so much leverage that I think. You know, labels were just trying to get me on the roster at this time, but a three sixty deal was created, I don't know, maybe fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 3: It's basically for artists that.

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Speaker 4: Make a stream of income outside of it may have to do with music, but it's safe. For instance, like you get paid for like a Pepsi commercial, the label gets a percentage of that. Now, what happened is what used to happen is and I understand both ways. Really, when I think about art, a label give you somebody to put you on. You shoot a video, somebody says I like this guy, and they give you a million dollars in the label, Like bro, you wouldn't even know this person to being shooting.

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Speaker 3: So then labels figured out a way to get paid off of artists generating like sponsorships and stuff like that. This was on my.

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Speaker 4: First deal. I just had like a I don't know, I just had a deal that you only can really do when you have leverage.

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Speaker 3: You just can't go in right now.

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Speaker 4: If I had to do a deal, I'm independent right now. But if I went back and got a deal with a major, I'm positive i'd be like this is how it goes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean if I was signing you, I feel like.

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Speaker 4: Ya want three because you know I'm gonna go get a bag somewhere else. You're looking at you, looking at you know, you know no, but you're finna do something.

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Speaker 3: I know you. But I still might use the leverage of but I'm already this.

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Speaker 4: I might still go back though. Yeah yeah, I might pick and choose. I might have to figure it out if I had to really negotiate that, Like I am not like a newbie that if you put me on MTV Awards, then you know my phone been ringing for a couple of decades.

00:27:22
Speaker 2: It has Let's talk about like how you say so relevant? People don't last decades in this industry, and you have found a way to stay relevant time after time.

00:27:34
Speaker 1: People are still calling you. I'm seeing you. You do so many different things. What is the secret sauce to doing that?

00:27:40
Speaker 3: Listening to the voice in my head, that was good. You set it up.

00:27:49
Speaker 1: It's so good. I love that.

00:27:51
Speaker 2: So you did a fifty city tour, a fifty state tour independently in a wheelchair.

00:27:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was crazy.

00:28:01
Speaker 2: Let's talk about that because most people that you said the voice in your head. People were telling you cancel it, don't do it. But it's another moment where you listen to the voice in your head. And I want to know that at that point in time, you were turning down deals.

00:28:13
Speaker 1: You're like, no, I'm gonna do this on my own.

00:28:15
Speaker 4: It was really like it was either the voice in my head or or the morphine they give you in the hospital.

00:28:23
Speaker 3: That the button you press that button right, they say, you'd be talking crazy.

00:28:29
Speaker 4: I done broke my leg on Sunday to start winning these folks all by my bed.

00:28:35
Speaker 3: But what we're gonna do, What we're gonna do.

00:28:37
Speaker 4: I hit the button to sleep again, and man, I don't know. I don't know if it was a morphine dream of God telling me. But I already got the concept, like, just like with the bullet, this is about intuition, you know. So my album called pretty Girls like tropp Me, so I didn't got this whole concept of like trying to make the trap like a positive connotation. So I got like a pink trap house. I got like I was pretty everything. I'm just trying to like put both worlds together. And so something told me. Something told me, that's what I'm saying.

00:29:16
Speaker 3: It got to be to me.

00:29:17
Speaker 4: He said, Man, say, why don't you just get the pink wheelchair and get the nurses to be like background dancers. And I always christ Man, I always get like five ideas, but I got a chap to call ideas occurrence. I feel like that's that's like some people people with no ideas. I'm like, I'm sorry. I like, man, it's gotta be hard. It's be man. I came up with this idea and man, within a day or two. Man, the turnaround was crazy. The turnaround to get the wheel chairs. Man, put this wheel chair together where you keep because I had to keep the leg elevated and they got like rims on it and manage and found like these dancers and they got these little nurse costumes. And I don't have nothing to do with the choreography. They just giving them the songs I'm doing on tour. So I literally meet these dancers that end up touring with me the night of the show, like you know, the one that's gonna push me around with you.

00:30:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, we ain't did it together. Yeah we ain't did none of that.

00:30:18
Speaker 4: I'm all I could do is kind of sitting in front and you know, use a lot of upper right go on.

00:30:25
Speaker 1: But you had an arm too, one of your arms isssing up.

00:30:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, well listen my arm. When I brought my arm the same night, but they put it back in place the same it was just located. But I go out, I do half the show. You know what I'm saying, I'm making this, you know all this really like moving a lot.

00:30:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it kind of like.

00:30:46
Speaker 4: Make the show go by smooth because you're not move you know what I'm saying, moving back and forth. So sometime the girla move me, move me stop, they do whatever they do, move me, movement.

00:30:54
Speaker 3: And then I.

00:30:57
Speaker 4: Because I got I got the pink trap house on stage, I got nurse. So in my mind I'm like, I'm so creative that the fans might think this part of the show. So I stopped the show. I go, yeah, you know they clear, I say, man, yeah, man, I broke my leg on Sunday, y'all, and I still wanted to be here performed for y'all. And man, I hope I ain't let y'all down, but I really right now, I can't even walk, y'all.

00:31:27
Speaker 3: Man, them folks go crazy yeah, I said, Oh, we back there, get this money.

00:31:36
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, they gone this. It was it was like I believe in you know what I'm saying being optimistic. I feel like, man, how you turned this around. I'm so man, I'm so mad at myself. And it just man, it was just a fluke accident. I fell out this four wheeler.

00:31:56
Speaker 1: But like, man, that you've probably written a million times on Man, I'm.

00:32:02
Speaker 3: Just like, and it just happened.

00:32:04
Speaker 4: And so then you look at like this is sign God telling me sit down from tour. I said, no, man, let me get this money. And then the guy that made them wheel chair for me before the two over, man, the man pass away. I never even meet him.

00:32:17
Speaker 1: Are you serious?

00:32:17
Speaker 4: Man, I'm like, this gotta be an angel. He like, they tell me die from a motorcycle accident. So I'm like, I'll be on my headline. So I couldn't even put a face with the person who did it because I never met the person, so like I couldn't even like I was couldn't even like really like even really get sad about it, cause I'm like, man, God just send somebody to do this in the short period of time.

00:32:42
Speaker 1: That's how he works.

00:32:44
Speaker 2: That's crazy because so many people in that situation would have definitely like cancelor, I you'll just.

00:32:49
Speaker 4: Take me home, you know, come back and we see it happened on People do cancelor tours all the time.

00:32:53
Speaker 1: All the time and don't have a broken legs.

00:32:54
Speaker 3: I think I think.

00:32:57
Speaker 4: I think when they said, like we probably to get that left million back, I think I just was like, we ain't. I think that's what it was. I think no matter what the voice was telling me, that wasn't gonna get nobody to level me. It was something like that I heard, to get this left men like who we're finna pull up on the love?

00:33:17
Speaker 3: You wan to dance? And it chall all all too And that's what we did.

00:33:21
Speaker 1: Man, Oh my goodness. That Yeah, that's definitely I love that story. I really do.

00:33:27
Speaker 2: So many people chase the success of hope. You what I'm saying, just wish they can get to where you are now. If there's somebody out there that's watching this right now, and what you just explain is discipline, it's fortitude, it's just doing it no matter what the circumstance is. What would you tell them any type of advice to get to try to get to where you are. If they want to succeed in this industry, you have to do it though.

00:33:50
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good. You gotta do it.

00:33:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The only way it can't happen, if is if you don't try. So just always say that, and you know it's easier said than done. I know it's like so cliche to be like you, but really you have to try. Yeah, you have to try.

00:34:12
Speaker 4: And some people that do have ideas, it's important that you align yourself with people that can help you bring those ideas to fruition because most people that have ideas don't know what to do with Yeah, I get that too, but like I found like people around me that I can actually funnel some of this stuff too and kind of bring them to light the pink, trump the pink like that. Sometimes that would be somebody's idea and they just don't know how to even who to contact who. And I'm just I'm fortunate enough to have, you know, a team that's like I don't like right now, if I need a dancers tonight, I don't even know who to much less sum it's gonna customize some nurse outfits and on point when these songs drop like this is so it's big.

00:35:00
Speaker 3: Then it's bigger than just you.

00:35:02
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, that team is everything. I'm with you on that. That's good.

00:35:06
Speaker 2: Now, you have been very open about your struggles with lean abuse, talked about how you still can't do eat any citruses like lemons, oranges, all the things.

00:35:16
Speaker 1: How did you get to that? Was it something that you were dealing with? You know, sometimes we as artists, a lot of times.

00:35:22
Speaker 2: Even successful people, we lean on certain things to suppress whatever maybe feeling. Was it something that you were trying to suppress at first, so you become numb to something or did it? Was it just like society, you know, because sometimes just like everybody doing it when it's a part of the culture, you know.

00:35:37
Speaker 4: No, I think my stomach was when I'm thinking about it now, I think my stomach was messed up before I started drinking it. Drinking stuff ain't gonna lie used to make it feel better? Really, Yes, bruh, I gotta I got an indoor whatever they call it. When they put a camera in your stuff, and man, I would just go dazed. Well, I would just be feeling nauseous, and I never forget they had they had this drug. It was called like next him. It was like a sample drug. Yeah, it was like a delay. And they kept giving me that, like these little sample drugs. I never I never took them, and they do the they do the until one day I took one. I felt good the whole day, you know what I mean. So then the doctor pushed this. I never forget it. I never forget. He looked like Obama, bro, doctor did. And the last thing I remember when he put this thing in my stomach is me saying, bro, you you look like Obama. And then I just went to sleep and I woke up and they had pictures of my stomach and I had all serves and acid reflux together, and so I had been drinking a little lean. But after I get that picture of like this stuff of my stomach and everything, they telling me that the prescription is prometheesinge and but they have to give it to me in a capsule because people are taking advantage of the syrup. Come.

00:37:04
Speaker 3: So I heard that, and then I leave.

00:37:06
Speaker 4: I call on my friends, like bruh, because when you get this so with the lean and everything, people don't know it really coming from like a source like a pharmacy. It's not like somebody's making it in the tub. It's just people abused by putting a lot into a drink, change the color, and then making it so. But it's really like a medicine. It's for something. It's for something. So it's for nausea and some more. That's what it's really for.

00:37:31
Speaker 3: I don't know this.

00:37:32
Speaker 4: I'm just when I drink it, I just I keep telling people this is no boy, This is no boy. They used to tell my Rod. Imagine, I feel like I'm eighteen again.

00:37:40
Speaker 3: I would drink it.

00:37:41
Speaker 4: Go on, staye jump up and down, cause you know, like I'm flying, I'm you know, early on, I'm so busy.

00:37:49
Speaker 3: I'm flying.

00:37:50
Speaker 4: I'm doing too maybe two flights a day to go here here, here, and I'm eating something that I'm not used to.

00:37:56
Speaker 3: My stomach just been super weak.

00:37:58
Speaker 4: So then like I feel nausous again, Like so I need something now, I like keep some zulfron somewhere. You know, my mama gonna keep some zulpron from me if I need it.

00:38:08
Speaker 3: Or something like that. But my stomach just been like something and it's probably the word. You know why I eat so healthy. But you know, early on I was told I couldn't. I don't.

00:38:18
Speaker 4: I don't drink no orange juice. I don't something that's kind of like, I don't know if you call pineapples. Now, I can I eat pineapple. I drink pineapple juice, but like lemonade, none of that.

00:38:31
Speaker 3: Man.

00:38:32
Speaker 4: I tried Chick fil A lemonade about about ten years ago. Man, I feel like somebody just felt like I did the front with flipped Man.

00:38:43
Speaker 3: My STUFFA was so stuff like that, I can't eat, and then I have to sleep on like.

00:38:49
Speaker 4: Two pillars, like can't just be laying flat, you know what I mean? So I have to keep my head elevated.

00:38:54
Speaker 3: But I hadn't had like a.

00:38:57
Speaker 4: Stomach like relapsing long time. And I've been stopped drinking, like I stopped drinking the third stuff. I think that stuff. I think the SYRD was giving me like a It was giving me like a little attitude sometimes.

00:39:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, it had me like a little growling type things.

00:39:15
Speaker 1: Sometimes would you recognize it or did somebody else said?

00:39:18
Speaker 3: Hey, you people will tell me, But I think I just be irri Yeah, but what you want now?

00:39:26
Speaker 4: Come on her take the picture. But but I hadn't done nothing like that in a while. I still, you know, self medicaid with the little things that I do. But ultimately, man, I'm not even like a really big drinker for real, I drink. I've been on my wine stuff. I try a little wine. I take a shot of tequil a little bit. Then I'd be kind of like I'd be I'd be like straight, I had enough.

00:39:52
Speaker 3: I had enough. So you know, yeah, it was. It was definitely a trend. But it's something I put the cup down many men.

00:40:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I love that and I'm glad you got ahead of it because a lot of times people don't.

00:40:05
Speaker 1: Get to see that side of it. Yeah, so that's good.

00:40:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, you said you healthy, diet, all the things, How important you work out?

00:40:14
Speaker 1: How important is maintaining that wellness a part of your life to do what you do at the level you do it at.

00:40:20
Speaker 3: I feel like entertainment is a what we do is really like another form of sports.

00:40:27
Speaker 1: It really I'd be telling people that all the time.

00:40:29
Speaker 2: I was a competition cheerleader, and a lot of the same structure and the discipline that I use in sports like I use it now.

00:40:36
Speaker 4: It's like sports. But you can't just not giving them about what you put in and think you finish. Go on stage to perform for an hour, and you'd be seeing people pass out and all, Like I do it show for I don't even drink water. I only like for the fan, even think I'm like them anywhere near like a human like them. Like I'm up there for hour, They're not sweating, really leaving myself and saying that great shap what else you guys ain't up there all?

00:41:03
Speaker 3: What else? Gods you you know, trying to whole body moving talking to the crowd. You just so I ain't on that. So I take it very.

00:41:11
Speaker 4: Seriously about like how I condition myself because I feel like it's just gonna be up all night. I'm gonna record. I'm I gotta be able to like I mean, you know I do. I might sound stretching everything.

00:41:23
Speaker 1: That's not crazy, especially we have to, Yeah, that's important.

00:41:27
Speaker 4: Especially, Yeah, we we in our fortiest stretching before I go. Man, got everybody look man howl on the stage.

00:41:35
Speaker 3: Let me get that.

00:41:37
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Because I ain't gonna sit in one spot. Yes, you know what I mean, And I ain't no telling them what I might do once I get up there. That's where I get the holy ghost.

00:41:44
Speaker 3: So you want to be like I be ready, man.

00:41:49
Speaker 2: I love that you talk about in your book how substances can also mute your inner voice.

00:41:55
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that because a lot of times people feel like I'm in control, I got it, I know what I'm doing. But what is that muting? How do you know, like when that's coming in.

00:42:05
Speaker 4: Anytime, when fear show up, you're gonna be just straight off you. When fear ego, Ah, that's you. Oh, that's you.

00:42:19
Speaker 3: But sometimes you gotta have it.

00:42:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, in our and our feel of work, I think sometimes not to say that you should just be on set like you know, a diva or beyond stage like a d but I.

00:42:34
Speaker 3: Think a little piece of ego not bad. The fear stuff, fear stuff.

00:42:38
Speaker 4: Trust issues is another part of like the feel we in you kind of gotta be scared of these folks will do all, especially men, especially the men. It's like I have mastered my little side hug all that.

00:42:53
Speaker 3: It's just like.

00:42:56
Speaker 4: You know, so yeah, you know, sometimes it ain't no voice. And when you get to just being in your head so much about this, you're just really going off your own and that's normal. It's normal to fears are real emotion.

00:43:11
Speaker 1: No, for sure.

00:43:13
Speaker 2: One of the most moving parts that I loved about your book was your father and the eagle metaphor and being a father and letting your child fly. We talked about your daughter, you're about to let her fly going to college, but how do you use that metaphor with your children now?

00:43:30
Speaker 3: It was very interesting. I read that. First of all, I let it was like from two thousand and three.

00:43:34
Speaker 1: Really yeah.

00:43:35
Speaker 4: When I was working on the book, is like it opened up a portal. Well, I was just fine and stuff. It was like, I can add this to the book. But I went back. It was these letters from two thousand and three. My father birthdays on Christmas, so this was around Thanksgiving. It was just it was like all these letters from like the end of two thousand and three. I'm talking about football, and he started putting these analogies in here, and he's telling me, you know, I tell you what you know, you can you can call me this Like it was just like, first of all, he's so sarcastic. I don't know if he's serious or not. I'm like, man, I don't I don't know. He talking about Yeah, we the Eagles, man, you know, we saw I'm Bill Eagle. And then he's telling me like you're this you know what matter?

00:44:18
Speaker 3: Fat? You call me Bill? And I'm like, what that?

00:44:21
Speaker 4: But you know, two thousand and three, it was you know over, you know, twenty years ago. So I was at a different place mentioning everything. I'm way more mature and ain't even looking at his letters and seeing God is Love on the back of the envelope. I used to just rip him and get to the letter. I ain't even paying no attention to the God. It's love that's written on the outside. But then I thought about what that meant, and it was just right in my face the whole time. It was just saying like God is like love. It was like, what is God's like, It's like love?

00:44:52
Speaker 3: Like oh, and then like oh.

00:44:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, yo God, cause he ain't gonna mess with no hate stuff like. But yeah, So that's my personal opinion. So that's what I thought it, man. And it took me this long and some old letters defined to put that together to really hit it, like, because it just sounded like a frank God is love, God is God is dope, shout out my home like, God is this.

00:45:20
Speaker 3: Oh no, So that's what I took from him.

00:45:22
Speaker 1: I love that.

00:45:23
Speaker 2: So another thing I wanted to ask you about is you're saying like you're going through these letters, you're finding all these things.

00:45:28
Speaker 1: It's been there the whole time.

00:45:29
Speaker 2: And you also talk about at the end people say I might need he might need therapy. After writing the book, you said it was therapeutic for you.

00:45:36
Speaker 3: This is my first therapist, man, this book?

00:45:38
Speaker 1: Yes, Now are you open to it?

00:45:40
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:45:40
Speaker 4: Because music is very therapeutic. And then I did a short film called Red Clay. So this might be my third therapist. Let me refrain, this is my let me rephrase it. This is my third therapist. Music was my first. It's just and then I did a short film called Red Clay that it just took a lot. And then this book is my third therapist. And they all different people. They are It's not like my third time going to therapist. This is my third therapist.

00:46:14
Speaker 1: Right, that's fire.

00:46:15
Speaker 3: I love that.

00:46:16
Speaker 1: Are you open to therapy? Do you feel like you're good?

00:46:19
Speaker 3: I've been going back and forth. I don't know.

00:46:21
Speaker 4: I'm still like old fashioned. Don't want nobody to take my little edge off. I want to be the crazy old man still. You know you everybody got them in the family.

00:46:30
Speaker 3: And you know what I'm saying, you need that energy, bro, somebody to do it.

00:46:35
Speaker 4: In my mind and I know this probably sounds crazy, I hope the therapist really helps me DM me and be like it's not like in my mind, I feel like I'm gonna come out of therapist and be like, it's okay, you got it, you want it's okay.

00:46:46
Speaker 3: No, you know what life is viewed like, God is, God is loved y'all. Just keep no no brother, brother. But I don't want to.

00:46:53
Speaker 4: I be wanting a little edge on me, just a little bit bit. Yeah, And I just don't want them to be like, we're going to fix this. The reason you have this and what I do have a psychology degree, right, so okay I do. Or I have identified some of my triggers personally through self evaluation.

00:47:13
Speaker 1: That's good.

00:47:13
Speaker 4: I could tell when something like you know what I mean, and it could be some small stuff, but I could tell like if it's done it, if it's happened to me.

00:47:22
Speaker 3: More than once.

00:47:22
Speaker 4: I'm like this this kind of triggers me. Yeah, And I can identify with some of them, and I'm trying to work on that.

00:47:29
Speaker 3: That's good.

00:47:30
Speaker 1: That's good because some people can't even identify.

00:47:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta know what make you turn up, and you gotta know.

00:47:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta know. And you also you gotta know yourself.

00:47:40
Speaker 3: You say that.

00:47:41
Speaker 2: So this season for Keep Pot Sweety, our theme is unapologetic. What is to chains being apologetic about right now?

00:47:48
Speaker 3: In this season? Apologetic?

00:47:50
Speaker 4: UNAPOLOGI unapologetic, unapologetic. I'm not I'm unapologetic about I'm not apologizing for that parking spot where I park for the Hawks. Sometimes I be taking up a couple of spots. I'm not apologizing for that. I'm parking right when you be seeing me right there. I don't know why they hit me, but I know you can relate because you see me. Sometimes I'm back in there and they have changed up, and I man, y'all, they whoever coming, they're gonna be out of luck. So I'm not apologizing for that. I'm a real Atlanta lative. I'm a fan and I literally have to pay for my tickets. Yes, y'all, I'm not apologizing for that. I'm not apologizing for.

00:48:41
Speaker 3: Saying no.

00:48:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, you know you be like man, I'm sorry, man, but I can't do it. Man, I just ain't gonna do it, like that's that's what And I ain't gonna say like, I'm working on this. I'm working on saying no without apologizing or giving context on why I can't do because I found myself explaining, Man, I got to do Man, I.

00:49:06
Speaker 3: Got to do all that when I'm like, so that's real.

00:49:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that.

00:49:11
Speaker 2: Speaking of Hawk Tickets, you are also a big investor you have I just saw something where you invested in SpaceX. You have ownership and is it Scott Hawk's g league? What made you like I want to start investing in these different things because I was like, wow, I had no idea.

00:49:34
Speaker 1: You are a myth. There's so many different things that we don't know about you.

00:49:41
Speaker 4: Coming from hustling, that's what. That's what hustling. You buy this pack, you make more off of it. You put this to the side, you buy, you make more. It sounds like people, just a lot of people only get caught up.

00:49:54
Speaker 3: With like.

00:49:56
Speaker 4: What it's doing to the community, which I definitely understand as a list really an extension of a business man. You meet somebody, you create a relationship, with them.

00:50:05
Speaker 3: You have a.

00:50:09
Speaker 4: Clientele, audience, fans, whatever you want to call it. Direct to consumer. Been doing that, you know, been doing direct to consumer, and then you got to have you know, you you got to go out, You got to meet people, You gotta develop, you know, that trust thing. And you know, and now when I grow up, I'm not I can't. I don't want to buy a pack or something and selling.

00:50:33
Speaker 3: Now I'm just then investing in.

00:50:37
Speaker 4: Properties and things like that, and then also being in the right rooms and I don't know, maybe getting the trust of people who who are looking to invest in you know, I believe, I believe.

00:50:50
Speaker 3: Man, it's trees or dollars like that.

00:50:52
Speaker 4: It's just that junt just it is looking for somebody. It's looking for people, you know what I mean, being in the house that it ain't gonna find you. So for me, I'm in the room now. I'm not just hopping from you know, brunch to brunch, but I'm in the right rooms and and I'm me, you know what I mean. I think it's very important that I'm transparent and I'm me and they like you know, I like you. When they say they like me, anybody say they like me, I know they not they liking a real version of me because I'm not putting that on, you know, like they like I like you, like I'm gonna have to keep this personality. I have to remember what personalities is because somebody said, you know, man, it's just you know, I like you, and it's just it's genuine.

00:51:33
Speaker 1: That's who you are. I love that to change. Thank you so much. Absolutely.

00:51:38
Speaker 2: Enclosing, we do what is called positive outcomes, where our audience writes in we give them advice.

00:51:42
Speaker 1: This is a quick one.

00:51:44
Speaker 2: Her name is Natina Chapman from Charlotte, North Carolina. She says, how do you chase big goals and success without losing your peace in the process.

00:51:55
Speaker 4: I'm a dreamer. Yeah, to this day, I'm a dreamer and I'm not content. And it's okay to be content. Like if you finally get your house and your dog whatever, and you're like, this is what this is all I wanted.

00:52:09
Speaker 3: That's cool.

00:52:10
Speaker 4: My vision exceeds that, Like my vision exceeds a glass ceiling. I just right now with the stuff I have and the car whatever whatever. It's not like I want more cars and I just want more life. I want more of something, you know.

00:52:24
Speaker 3: What I mean.

00:52:24
Speaker 4: I don't know what's around the corner the west side there, but I do seek and I put that enji out there. I still I'm still fishing for more success, more opportunity, you know.

00:52:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, And for me, I would say, Natina, if it is like something that is for you, it's not gonna You're not gonna lose your piece over it.

00:52:44
Speaker 1: It's gonna feed it.

00:52:45
Speaker 3: You know.

00:52:45
Speaker 2: I feel like anything that caused you to lose your piece isn't something you should be chasing after anyway.

00:52:50
Speaker 3: Facts, I like that look at you.

00:52:52
Speaker 1: You know, I give a little bit. Thank you so much. This has been amazing. I appreciate your time. Guys, make sure you get this book right now. Listen, get into it. Sweeze.

00:53:11
Speaker 2: You already know we're about to buy all of the coffees. We're gonna make this a New York Times bestseller. Please to change you that you're gonna.

00:53:17
Speaker 1: Do another book?

00:53:18
Speaker 3: Please and think am I gonna do another book?

00:53:20
Speaker 1: Just the first of many?

00:53:24
Speaker 3: Who never say never, never say never? I love it.

00:53:27
Speaker 1: I could also see like a biopic movie.

00:53:31
Speaker 4: Listen, guess what I'm gonna do. Guess what I'm gonna do. This is gonna really throw you out, throw you off. But you got to know that this is this is a great idea that I'm trying to put into fruition right now.

00:53:44
Speaker 3: Okay, I want to do a play.

00:53:51
Speaker 4: And the name of the play is something told me and it's off chapters of the book. And I already got in my head how I wanted to start and everything, so we may have to I know, you know people, I know you be in the room and you know people. Yes, but I'm very serious about it, and like that's some two chain stuff, like you know, we're gonna dress up.

00:54:15
Speaker 3: Wine and a real play that has like production.

00:54:19
Speaker 4: And like like the way that I'm the way that because I did, like for my maybe what anniversary for True Religion made my tenure anniversary for True Religion? I incorporated the play within the show like it was like a player. I had somebody playing my mom, me, me, the whole thing, wearing true religions, the whole.

00:54:39
Speaker 3: Thing, and just how that went. And it was like, okay, stage play, this could be something for me.

00:54:44
Speaker 4: But then, like even sitting here with you, I was not gonna mention it and we were just about to get off, and then you said this could be the bio And I'm like, short, if you only knew what I'm thinking about doing and taking it up or not. So yeah, Like I just want people to just really know that when it's time you get that invite on putting on something clean, then I'm gonna have a real experience for you.

00:55:07
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a real experience and it's.

00:55:08
Speaker 4: Gonna be something that people are gonna talk about for years after that, for real, like this idea I'm talking about.

00:55:15
Speaker 3: Like yeah, but here in the city, yes, oh.

00:55:20
Speaker 1: Fox Theater, that's what. Okay, listen, the voice in my head was just got he said that.

00:55:26
Speaker 4: I said Fox though, that's crazy, all right, And this is the last thing I'm put out there. Okay, I want Terrence Howard to play my Pops. I gotta talk loud so that they can he can hear it. Yes, put it out there so he can hear it.

00:55:42
Speaker 3: Because my dad was.

00:55:42
Speaker 4: A little red, a little red like that. He's just like a little red, you know what I'm saying. But even the way his voice is and all that, he can really like he can make it happen. But like imagine Terrence Howard doing a play. I ain't talking about for them. I'm to my own stage doing like that. Yeah, so that's how my mind works.

00:56:07
Speaker 2: You have a brilliant mind, and I cannot wait. That's gonna be crazy. We're gonna be front row and center.

00:56:12
Speaker 3: I'm gonna beat to use this for like some type of archave.

00:56:14
Speaker 4: We're gonna better to go back and like it's some things happen sooner than others and maybe later, but it's something like when I really put my mind to it, like I'm.

00:56:23
Speaker 3: Gonna make it happen.

00:56:24
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get sure even if it's not, Like I ain't even gonna say, don't say all right, let's let's do it.

00:56:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's let's get out of here, y'all.

00:56:32
Speaker 1: Yes we are Wow.

00:56:39
Speaker 2: What I appreciate most about this episode is a reminder that growth doesn't always come from the loudest moments in our lives.

00:56:46
Speaker 1: Sometimes it comes from learning.

00:56:47
Speaker 2: How to be still enough to hear the inner voice guiding us to change. Thank you for sharing your story, your wisdom, and this moment with us today. Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is simply listen to that voice within and trust that it's already leading us exactly where We're meant to Go. Thank you for tuning to another episode of the Keep It Positive Sweetie Show. Be sure to grab your copy of the Voice in My Head Is God wherever books is sold.

00:57:12
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00:57:14
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00:57:36
Speaker 1: I'll see you guys next time.