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CHAPTERS:
05:49 - The Pete Rock & Common Show
09:41 - Scoring a Movie
11:28 - How No I.D. Met Derek Dudley
17:12 - Dismantling the Music Industry
22:00 - Importance of Energy in Music
26:50 - Technology's Impact on Audience Experience
28:20 - Collaborating with Cee-Lo Green
32:04 - Michael Rainey Jr Insights
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Z Rino that's my favorite fish got your favorite fish um that and Seabass that's
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my actually favorite pish tooo yeah BR Xeno C and and bran Zeno you know it it
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it started with like catfish and of course those things but then all the Bottom Feeders the black classic exactly
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the black classic yeah the black classic then once I got exposed to bran Xeno and my daughter love bro she likes bro yeah
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man I'm a I'm a little I'm sorry fellas I'm a little more advanced oh oh yeah well you tell us tell us what you like
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what you like on Peter I'm I'm big on Norwegian halib oh hell he
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goes pet I'm not sure of you no I I think I've had it once when I
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was somewhere in Sweden or something like that yeah you got to go there to get it yeah it's not the say bro I'm I'm
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big on deep deep sea fish you you mean I'm a blue fan you know what I'm blue
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fan blue fan I'm blue fan you ever D Rod the rod you ever heard of D yes that fish out of what ocean I'm
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exposed you to the Mediterranean Sea males
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baby levels today and rebuttal sway my brother tried to stun on me right there
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I'll take for 200 hour but when I was in the Horn of
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Africa take it to the yeah I I I I I did have some Lim
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fish anything any other fish you had brother I was on 87th Street on the south side of
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Chicago Red Snapper in Jamaica you know okay nice King Fish you got to have a
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king fish in in a repertoire right funny as long as I known these dudes we have
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never had this conversation this is what happens when we sit down with family and friends
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let's talk about [Â __Â ] we don't talk about come on man we got common and Pete Rock up in here man it's
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but wait are you vegan now I'm vegan vegan you're completely I'm like p p p
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what do you call pescarian pescarian yeah like a pescatarian but I
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will say I I miss fish when y'all when I see them eating little BR Xeno you know
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a good Snapper or something you know especially when it's I like every type
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where it's Jamaican like you know I love when you know like the esav what's your favorite like vegan
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meal then well I mean actually I'm I like vegan Burgers man to be honest yeah but and um
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and I love like it's this place called Avon Garden that I go to a lot they have like they have G this like toast with
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like it's it's um what type of uh avoc choke Sun choke on it and it's like it's
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really Exquisite food like even people that don't like vegan foods be like wow
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this is some of the best food that I've had so they got a great spaghetti um this that's not it's not normal just Mar
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marinara sauce or whatever it's it's not normal it's not normal said a Gard the
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sauce is not normal or the sauce is not normal it's a different type of sauce uh and it's you know just the way they
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freak it man it's like the way you season it man you could tell when the chef is putting some ump into it and
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they putting that love you know about spicy Moon spicy Moon spicy moon is great ate that last night that's like
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yeah I Hae that last it's right around the corner yeah yeah right it's t it's Tai vegan
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food I'm going have some tonight again yeah you yeah that stuff no let me tell you since you know the days when I first
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was vegan yeah man things have changed the foods have gotten so much much and
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it tastes like food you got more access to like vegan style restaurants now those weren't around no they weren
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around the late 90s early 2000s I was like starving and that Tempe and all
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that it wasn't good but I just adjusted my that's when you became vegan yeah in the early 2000s but then I started
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eatting fishing 20 to um like about eight years later and then went back to vegan what are the physical benefits you
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find from being a vegan and no longer being a meteor well I find like I have
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more energy my my brain is clearer um like my thoughts I just feel clearer and
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lighter as a like I don't I don't think I take even things
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situations is heavy it's like food is like sometimes can weigh on the body
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like emotionally too um and you know I just find that balance of energy like
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you know I'm jumping around that stage and like doing or you know still getting my workout saying and doing things
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because I think of think of it as like a way of just really investing in myself loving myself so yeah I definitely feel
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that I like that def investment Pete you've been looking real um phys physique lately man been maintaining
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your St wearing smaller shirts is that what it is you doing something too though right what are you doing I'm I'm
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eating eating you know right trying to I eat fish that's it that's it no
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vegetables PE come on yeah veg no no no no no no I eat everything
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I'm supposed to eat you know what I'm saying but then there's times where I I'll cheat and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich okay oh you work out too
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yeah yeah how often y'all working out cuz y on tour and y'all look give them a round of applause these guys full of
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Vitality M I will say I wore the jacket today the black radio F jacket today
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because that's the last time I saw him and I only got a chance to talk to kmen for a second about it P we didn't really
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get a chance to talk about it how do I say this man um just as a
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lover of the music and the culture you guys allow me to be a fan again you know we we we hosting you know
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there people pulling me all directions I'm trying to comate you saw my family was there I'm trying to commodate everybody yeah but y'all allow me to be
6:11
a fan again and we need that yeah BR while we work right and if you see this show that Pete Rock and common does I've
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never seen a show like that and it's the kind of show that I felt like rap shows could evolve to right and you guys are
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there so you're leading the way and I think it's important for us who' been around uh to make sure we're telling our
6:34
story right and the The Narrative throughout their entire show is you're
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learning about their story right whether it's songs that Pete has something to do with songs from Common's past and then
6:46
you're hearing the context in which these moments took place and then it's being done on this stage that looks half
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wrapped half Broadway yeah like [Â __Â ] really coming through doors like you know what I mean like
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wait a minute they got a doorbell a living room it was so good
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a carpet a couch thank you the flower kept falling the idea is to bring Pete
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Rock's basement to the stage and that's what we doing oh it does look like exactly what what's going on yeah the
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basement and also like except you can't fit a pool table I had a pool table
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can't fit that on there and you know so much of hip-hop started in the basement P rock that was like the stamp for p
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Rock they the basement but I like I started break dancing and listening to a lot of hip-hop in the basement like when
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we first got the like the SP 1200 Derek Dudley he got it and no ID we all went
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to his basement so we we kind of looked at that as a place where we always
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created from and then we wanted to bring I love that you said you know be able to tell our stories because I really looked
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at like our celebration for the 50th year I felt like we were really telling our story like it was us saying these
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are the people we celebrating in hip-hop and I was appreciating the fact that because hip-hop is like one of the
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truest things that black and Latino Americans created that we are always
8:13
have control of even though record labels blah blah blah but they don't control what we say yeah like and they
8:18
don't control what's really dope and what we um say is man this is what we deem as being the dopest stuff and they
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have not nobody's been able to control that so I'm looking like man historically when people look look at
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people of our time they going to look at hip hop and be able to know who we are and what we were and and all this
8:39
experience the Dynamics of it so I show man we we want people to have fun we
8:45
want people I'm a fan of hip-hop like you said I'm still a fan of the music I'm a fan of Pete Rock like when each
8:51
when when I'm up on that stage and I'm getting to be his hype man for certain songs when he rapping shut him down or
8:57
jump around I'm like damn this a joy to be like these are verses that I used to say in my car and now I'm ad living with
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him so I want the the the enjoyment of the music we want the enjoyment of the music to come out and the theater aspect
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because y'all know Point Blank I'm I'm an actor you're a fpan John
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Wick come on John Wick yo get started on John Wick go to John
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wi man get TV on for me go let get in there I mean we we spoke
9:32
about John Wick last time we came out cuz I told you I'm a huge fan we just had Hal Barry on who was also part of the franch and everything and I wanted
9:38
to ask about soundtracks though like doing movie soundtracks I know can be a great way to expose people to new
9:44
artists and also just do something there that isn't associated with the project so was that ever anything you guys
9:50
wanted to explore working together maybe to do something for one of your films I'm I'm glad you brought that up because
9:56
every sometimes when me and Pete was on the tour bus I'll be like man we got to do some scoring not only just a s like
10:03
not only do a song for a movie but scoring a TV show or a film is something
10:08
that I think P Rock would be amazing at and I feel you know like I've been able to do it with with a couple like kareim
10:15
and a couple Brothers like put together a score for this show called the mo show which is on Netflix um and then I did a
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film that I was in but me and Pete man it would be crazy because I I feel like
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as a I'm not the one that's going to to produce I'm not the Quincy Jones but I can sit there and be like yo Pete this
10:34
scene this is what we need in this scene this is the tone of this scene and like and this is what we could do and like I
10:39
know when it's right and I've seen how music changes like storytelling so I I
10:45
feel like that's the next Plateau for us as we continue on this Auditorium I mean I got music but I
10:51
would just need his Direction you know that's really all I would need okay and guys I'm I'm I'm down too so
10:59
what you going to do he going to play himself in the RO in the SC execution common ain't going to
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execute I got you bro hand the business I'm good man I'm manager now
11:12
good luck your manager can't be called sway that means something that means
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right the table that's that's a little yo sway here man you know get us indoors dog yeah exactly
11:25
they might get scared and SL here they going to be like oh [Â __Â ] right man you brought up Derek Dudley man we
11:31
were having this conversation um um because I always saw Derek in the beginning and um how we how our teams
11:38
get formed and started you know and the longevity that we have in our teams man but just even saying that Derek Dudley
11:46
got the sp1 1200 yes brother damn I ain't even know Derek was up to it like
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that how did he get it 1200 is how would do the drum machine or it's a drum
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machine but I mean you know like to get your hands on something like that they're very scarce now but they have
12:04
the new one out e design made all medals very heavy and I love it but original
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let the people know on the SP that's what you created freaking straight out
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everything okay everything you heard from 1991 up until
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[Music] 207 uhhuh what that was on the and then I switched over to the MP yeah yeah man
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we we we we were we were at the Grammy Museum bro we were at the Grammy Museum and and we went to the hip-hop section
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and they had Pete rocks sp1200 and and it was like I mean they had everything from slick Ricks like
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um yeah they had Diller beat tapes it was amazing Tupac's Tupac's letter about
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um Revolution he wrote an essay all in this museum museum and when we seen Pete
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Rock's sp1200 we both were standing there but obviously he got a whole another connection I was like man you made the
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world is yours on that you made shut him down remix you made like on this one machine man man I don't know so wow yeah
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so Derek so Derek the the reason why he was able to get it his fam had a little more money than us so he was able to
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purchase it and though he learned it a little he wasn't trying to produce he knew that no ID and Twilight tone were
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the producers so he just purchased he got the the P that's and we would go to
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his basement that's crazy that's a reason to work with him yeah and he just had that manager thing
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he had it he's always been that and he's always been behind the scen once you buy that thing it's like a magnet it draws
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people you know and then he probably did that you know to draw people to see
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who's who around here that's a great Point that's a great Point those things cost about 2k back then though right
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2500 yeah that was about 23,000 do you know how I knew this because emu who
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makes them Y is in Santa Cru yep yep and me and Tech not
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just dumb about it think and we read the back of one and said oh it's in Santa Cruz we going to drive out there and
14:17
show up no he's in Santa Cruz but not well we
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drove to Santa Cruz thinking we going to bump into a building that was going to give us a
14:30
wow man D us that's how we just thought with you right when we like when I when
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we was younger man I used to just think I would see them and be like okay once I make a record I made it like I would see
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them in videos and think like man well Big Daddy Kan he they got this so so
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it's just when you ain't around it and you ain't in the business you don't know man like I was I was sending my tapes I
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was looking at the back of sleeping bag records a profile and sending my tapes
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and I mean maybe some people got signed like that but now I think about it that's a tough way to try to get signed
15:06
theom he used to bring us leather jackets and and and finyl and oh at
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sleeping back sleeping back oh shoot when I was on when I was on BLS back in the day and look at that he just threw
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out that gym know what I mean like was playing a lot of EPMD I was
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playing a lot of that stuff I play like every cut off the album like what was the show called then in control in
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control in control mly M shout out to Molly M wow you was on BLS at an amazing
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Renaissance time 14 years old man 14 on BLS how hard was it to get rap played on
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radio at that time I mean we was playing everything at what time of night uh 9:00
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to 12 midnight really yep every weekend me and Clark H once a week yep okay no I
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would have the whole weekend I'd be like on there with Marley from Friday and Saturday then he would rotate different
16:02
DJs who walked in what was some MC's that walked in I met Mike Tyson I met K and play I met you know everyone salt
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and pepper I was just a little dude you met Mike Tyson at 14 yeah how intimidating was that no he was hanging
16:16
with a homie from My Hood named Craig Boogie and so Craig brought him to the hood one time and everybody went crazy
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you know we was just with Mike all day like where's your book it's coming it's
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coming yeah cuz yo yo I can only imagine the rooms yeah man a lot of stories like
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I was like when sometimes I'll be talking to Pete and he'd be like man I was at Heavy's house and and then heavy
16:40
Heavy D's house who' you say came through there like Sher Headley from when coming to to America was like super
16:47
hot just came out she's down the block I'm like what so we ran down there to
16:53
meet her and I you know I walked and I just I kind of held my chest and was like
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you know yeah she she was pretty I was young I was young was
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smitten yeah I was very young wow and I love that
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movie minute that hey what so you know what's kind of sad I guess is kids ain't
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gonna get a chance to send their demos to sleeping bag records or Tommy Boy or
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profile especially with all the the the dismantling that's happening right now in the music business what what are
17:32
y'all thoughts on that Comm what are your thoughts that the executives are leaving companies are merging artist to
17:39
drop it's heartbreaking yeah yeah I mean man I got to say I I appreciated some
17:45
aspects of just the record label structure as much as we used to say man who your anr you know like we' be like
17:53
confronting the labels cuz label but I also understood that they like most of the people that would be in that company
18:00
structure they understood music or they at least like were targeting towards music like what I think is when a lot of
18:07
companies come and get involved in the music industry and don't have like like
18:13
targets or or a whole a whole company focused on that meaning like when I to to get signed you
18:20
had to have an anr that would say okay this is worthy of being signed right and then they would sit and work on the
18:27
project to help develop it to get you to a level where they felt like the record is worth it and then you got people
18:34
sitting down saying man we going to take time to Market this we GNA take you to each market that's how I got up to to to
18:41
Sway and Tech that's how I got up on the Wake Up Show cuz Muhammad Ali M God bless his soul brought brought me you
18:48
know but but they planned that and they took me all around and that was part of the process I think it's something in
18:54
that in building an artist it's something in that that um that labels did that was right in that way and for
19:02
the that structure to be dismantled I mean it's been dismantled now I feel like we losing certain elements of of
19:09
good ways to get music out to the people but and I know people feel like man the internet is the best the best way but I
19:15
do think um sometimes you could be like just over saturated with stuff and not
19:21
able to concentrate I always say man I knew when each when everybody's album
19:26
was coming out we knew those Tuesdays mhm dropping then we knew that Tuesday I'm going to get this biggy Alum right
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here I'm getting this new mob deep or I'm getting this there was anticipation
19:38
it was anticipation so I think you know I do think some labels do it right I
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must say like L Vista did right by us that's the Indie and it and it was our
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teams too our management shout out to Chris V Kevin wolf and our teams um but
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cuz we tried to approach it from a slow Road like the way labels did like let's release this video remember how us to
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put 8 to 12 weeks before you know roll out missed that we missed that yeah we
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we did that to a certain degree cuz we we finished our album in March and me and Pete was like man we want it out
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before Pete's birthday which is in June we wanted out we wanted it out on my birthday yeah and then they was they was
20:19
like look let's take time with this let's release these songs so that process I think now we got to build our
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own structures um and have people that are really educated in this like the dere dudes like the sway you can
20:33
actually manage yeah you change your name homie I got change my name if I do
20:38
it change your name no don't change your name the name is you know you get every room with your name yeah sway here what
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do you want what do you think about Pete a lot of
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producers um use the internet you know to get their music used by other artists
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you know it's always some um some convolution in it because when they put the music out the dealings aren't proper
21:04
it didn't start that way okay you know it started where you had to physically be in front of each other yeah and
21:10
playing beats which is what I loved because you can see the person's reaction right then and there and you
21:17
know if they're going to use the beat or not but um internet is a great source to
21:22
do what the young guys are doing um you know playing beats online I I like to
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hear it you know cuz I get to discover talented producers you know and um
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there's a lot of them that I like that do that online but um you know as long
21:38
as they have a way to that people respect their music and everything's copywritten and no want to run off with
21:44
your beat like some joeo dude talking about produced by such and such who
21:49
didn't produce them who didn't even give them the beat so that's the only you know bad side of the internet when it
21:55
come to like putting your Beats out there P Rock man look at P rock head to toe man y'all be having like wardrobe
22:03
battles I know y both dress you know mean tell the truth yo you was looking nice at Nappa though bro you had
22:09
something on that was like yeah bro you had that short set thing I was like at
22:15
your dude man by the way the hats what what who Lany ly Laney yes Lany Head
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Trips I love those with Z I need to get more of those I a forget that you you want more definitely want more of those
22:29
okay I'mma put y'all in connection yeah I'm going do I'm going do the DM connection is that you on your IG cuz I
22:35
be getting strange messages is that you yeah I'm going to make sure it's you it's me and somebody else I
22:44
swear I don't know what that was you ever been hacked thank you thank you I feel I don't think I don't want to talk
22:50
about it man cuz I I Happ S I don't I don't recall it but
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okay yeah all right yeah all right we going to drop that up all right man you want to jump in here man give me no I
23:04
think just to add on to the conversation you guys show it's nothing against anybody else that was on the
23:10
festival for three days it was amazing shout out to Rob everybody my guyo jazz festival
23:17
black radio experience black radio and we signed up to come back next
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year we fun man but y'all show was the only show I watched from beginning to end wow I couldn't help it like it was
23:31
just that entertaining the energy your hipop oh
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well you know what I'm saying y hip hop so it was that M it was just the connection and I watched it from
23:43
beginning to end some of the shows I started and I was like okay let let's rest in between here we got another but
23:49
I could not leave the stage and the minute I moved back something else came on and I'm jumping and SC it was just so
23:56
dope and based on the conversation y'all were having I think energy is missing in
24:01
a lot of Technology that's here because you don't have to get in the studio with a person anymore and some of my best
24:08
memories of hip-hop is being in the studio with people all right change this out we should do it like you know that's
24:14
not there anymore and so I think that adds to some of it you said with the saturation the oversaturation and
24:20
College radio tours are missing wow that we used to do College radio runs and it was fun cuz I would meet DJs and then
24:27
somehow they ended up on a radio a a terrestrial Station 3 or 4 years later and it's like yo he worked his way here
24:34
I remember seeing him at this school he went to Howard he went there he went there that's missing as well in the structure so some of it needs to come
24:41
back to y'all's Point well I have one experience sorry I didn't mean to interrupt you but when I did don't curse
24:46
everyone was under the same roof that's on that record well that's why it s but it sounds like you know that's what made
24:53
it more fun than why it came out the way it it came out the way it came out now were you in the studio with Run DMC for
24:58
down with the Kings yes of course dope of course songs don't sound like that and
25:04
for you to get you had Big Daddy Kane Heavy D P Q Co G Rap On don't
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Cur like come on man yeah I think that's a big part that's missing too I think that energy when you say energy that
25:20
that hit me because it's like I feel like one of the things that we've been
25:25
getting a great response to our album right and I'm super grateful thank thank you for that in the shows but one thing
25:32
I didn't know was like it's just about the energy too like just the connection
25:37
that that Pete Rock and I have the like who we are as people but our love for
25:42
the music and just sometimes people just connect and it's an energy and when we come to these shows man we want to we
25:49
want to express that energy and I will say I'm so glad I ain't going to front I
25:54
was geeked to see y'all over there when we was performing
26:00
to the side I was like there go have the be she right over there she right over there got to do good I saw y'all stayed
26:05
there the whole time and I was like I know what it take to stay and watch the show like yo y'all stayed there the
26:12
whole time so only thing I was disappointed we had a little technical difficulties our show Pete usually is
26:19
makes a beat live on stage oh gosh y'all started I felt like it started it
26:25
started but we couldn't get cuz it was cuz we didn't get a you know when you doing the festivals you don't get a proper sound check but but but overall
26:33
what you're saying is so important the energy like that's being able to be in the presence of somebody and be like man
26:38
let's try this or no let's try this and they and you fill that out it makes it just makes it pure and just truer to the
26:45
essence of these two people coming together or having many people collaborating 100% I love it Pete Rock
26:51
and common are here Tracy G yeah I was going to say does it throw y'all off now seeing because you have seen your stage
26:58
shows the audience evolve throughout the years and the technology is now like an
27:04
extension of an audience member's hand yes does the energy kind of shift where you have to get into a different gear in
27:11
order to look out at a crowd and see so many cameras CU we've had a lot of artists who have commented on that who
27:17
make requests put your phone down you know we've seen Busta make requests like that so what do y'all think I don't I
27:25
don't mind it for me it's like however you want appreciate the show one of the things that's been I've been enjoying
27:31
about the shows is seeing like people our age and then they have their kids at
27:36
the show with them or like sometimes intergenerational like or we seeing some 22 23 year olds at our show like singing
27:44
the words to the new album to our join like what wow man oh that blows my mind
27:49
but so so if if there like experiences I want to put the phone up too but I I
27:55
found we don't have that a lot to be honest like and I mean it would be dope to Dave chappella and just make
28:02
everybody put their phones up and lock them up but that's not like you know where we are and I think it it does in
28:08
certain ways get the the um show out there get the word out they see that hypeness man yeah man I'm I'm not mad at
28:14
comment and Pete Rock are here Pete I saw shout out to
28:19
Nori uh over at Dr champs yeah um those guys do a great job over there um and I
28:27
saw C on there and he was making his plea you know was like man I I would
28:32
love to get back in the studio for the fans what are you what are your is that maybe I don't know about now you're
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doing something but I I just think he's best on his own okay it's simple that I
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just think he's good by himself he there's a million producers that will do something with him you know what I'm
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saying um I'm I'm good yeah that's I mean we everybody's at different stages
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of life we we all evolve and it sound great in theory but if everybody ain't
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aligned it doesn't happen energy you know how it goes energy energy that's the most important
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energy that's one thing at at at um when you speaking of energy hether too again it's like one of the things that I I
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don't know I got to a point I don't know if it early 40s or whatever where I was like man I want to work with people that
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I like just want to be around you know what I'm saying like like uplift uplift me in life I can uplift
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them in life and this has nothing to do with c and P I'm not speakings that but but um uh like and even in in films and
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stuff I'm like man if I get around the wrong energy I'm like man I don't want to be a part of that man it ain't worth
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it for me like life is too important to I mean we all have bad days you know and
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like you know I I'm not like in Judgment of somebody but if if if ultimately you
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like you consistently just bring a negative energy or just you know always talking about what somebody else
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doing and bring I ain't for that like I just man I just you know and we can talk
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[Â __Â ] we can go back and for but it's it's about the energy of it you know what I'm saying and that's so so
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important amen shout out to DJ efn too that's my brother TAPS in all the time with efn I love you man you always tap
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in check it in shout out to Nory I love what y'all doing shout out to drink Champs drink Champs we see you we see
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you Nory got the the got a nice look going for himself too Nori so you guys got a big show
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Friday at Webster Hall yeah man you know why I feel like we have to give New York
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a full set you know um like we've been doing around the world before we got
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here to New York yeah they need to see it they need to see it cuz we we sold out like we been doing these shows where
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we have two more shows at well four more shows at the Blue Note uhhuh um so so we were like man we got to have we got to
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do another show like because we you know we couldn't get our whole set Into the Blue Note so it was like man we honestly
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in the last minute Webster Hall came through we we and and our and our um booking agent shout out to Mary and just
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our teams was just like let's make this happen so we got Webster Hall on Friday we going to do the full show probably
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have some few special guests maybe but regardless it's going to be the the Pete Rock and common experience so the
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auditorium W some people need to have guests y'all don't y'all don't y'all don't have to have one guest but you
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know what surprisingly you saying that you're right but do something the
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audience won't expect they probably expect hey they don't need nobody and then boom Ghost Face walks out oh ghost
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face Friday what up what you say p I'm not I'm just saying you know like you
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know everyone loves ghost face but that would that would be a really nice thing
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I think it can happen gentlemen I love you man I love you because
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um um I want to bring in our next guest because his first movie was actually
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with you yes I remember that you remember that I do we went to go see it which
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movie is this we going he don't know who it is but I'm do I'mma go ahead and put not Common's first movie the young man's
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first movie oh yeah was with Comm remember I say comm's first movie
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you and you didn't sounded like's let's bring him in man he's a big star now
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yeah he's a big star Now ladies and gentlemen you see him s bring them in
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they're talking hold on oh sh okay hold that [Â __Â ] I was about to be a ill ass
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set Power give it up for
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[Applause] mq I'm going to kill
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you wow look how big this guy
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[Applause] [Music] [Applause] get yo bring them in yo yo that's
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beautiful man with him do presenting and all of
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that that's right oh that's great man yo
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yo and look at you now man hey Michael Randy Jr is here come on looking like Hollywood's
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aist right now P out that last that last season of power man come
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Onis left I got goosebumps when this dude walked
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Ino on the mic
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man yo Mike you do got beats right got and you got bars I don't rap I could
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rap but I don't rap come on man where you at Dog Annie Jama and
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Jama and you got a restaurant too right we'll talk about that you got you got
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any vegan food for me listen we can't have we can have some got we got some vegan stuff on the menu we might have to
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make a old vegan first time you met common talk about that real quick first time you met
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common Michael first time I met Comon was was it the the chemistry read for love yeah it was the chemistry read for
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love and um and we just killed it like that that read was crazy we was crying all type of
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stuff in that read and then wow you know they just made decision like yeah this is this is going to be our two Leading Men and then after that it was just
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history you know we got to set um man this this D this dude was like one of
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the most talented is one of the most talented but at at that age I was like this is one of the most talented actors
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I ever around and I've been I mean it was I was my mov I did some things I was
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like this dude is really special I mean he was speaking Italian there he was making beats he was but his acting too
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was just superb man and it was like I at that chemistry read I was like I was
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like it it ain't can't be nobody but him you know what I'm saying you just know like it's got to be this person like and
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and you know I don't want to hear nothing else that's what I that's how I you did that no because that makes a
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difference though no for sure wow man congratulations man I
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come on K you know what we do here man stop all right no they got a show Friday if you in town they performing at Wester
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hall right yeah come through pull upull up Michael Randy Jr is going to pull up
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Michael Ry J y'all made it all right all right man kment rock love y'all man see
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you Friday thank you fellas for coming in the auditorium make sure you get the is incredible we got Michael Rainey Jr
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