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LaRussell brought the heat on Sway In The Morning with an inspiring conversation that broke boundaries! This hip-hop innovator shared the inside scoop on releasing 7 albums in just one year, creating his own blueprint for success, and rethinking how artists connect with their audiences. From backyard performances to redefining business models, LaRussell proves there are no limits when it comes to creativity and community impact. Joined by Dee-1, the duo dives into critical topics like social change, authenticity in music, and the power of staying independent in the industry.
Don’t miss this exclusive interview from Sway’s Universe featuring LaRussell, Dee-1, and the raw energy of a new era in hip-hop. Whether it’s addressing the culture’s challenges or celebrating its triumphs, this is the conversation every fan of real music needs to hear. Hit play and witness the movement that’s changing the game! #SwayInTheMorning #LaRussell #Dee1 #HipHop #SocialChange #GoodCompany #RoyalFlush #IndependentArtists #Malachi #BayArea #CultureShift
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
04:56 - For The Culture
06:34 - New Approaches to Live Shows
10:53 - Self-Care in the Music Industry
15:14 - Meet Malachi
20:44 - Positivity vs Negativity in Music
25:55 - Bay Area Music Impact
29:23 - Playing "Wigglin" by LaRussell
31:14 - Dee-1 Joins the Conversation
33:54 - LaRussell on Backlash from Elders
36:11 - Dee-1 on Jim Jones Reconciliation
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Oh man, I was smiling this morning. I woke up, gave thanks. Amen. Said, "Thank you, God. Another one.
0:06
Another one. Another 24 hours. Let's go. Are you kidding me?" My little bro hit me the other day and said, "Hey, I'mma
0:12
be in town. Can I come through the show?" And I was like, "Wait, yeah." And I didn't even think about the
0:18
schedule. I knew we had that. You wasn't thinking about. We had a lot of people on the schedule,
0:23
but it was just interesting. And I bumped into Lil John at when I was hosting the Red Bull World Finals for
0:29
the dancer style competition and all Lil John could talk about was
0:36
Lar Russell. Yeah. Wow. The entire conversation, that's all he could talk about.
0:42
And and John and my history goes back to the early 90s when Lil John used to come to the Bay
0:48
Area and we were doing it was a magazine called the Gavin Report. trade and we were bringing Tim Baka, Kelly Woo, Brian
0:56
Samson, all worked at that trade magazine. You might know Brian Samson from Empire now. Um, and we were doing
1:03
the show, the wakeup show on on KEL for two days. The first time they let us do two days straight and we had what we
1:10
call the Woodstock of Hip Hop and we had everybody there from Buju Banton to Red
1:16
Alert to Lauren Hill, everybody. This is like the early 90s and Lil John. And so
1:23
John and I became on the comeup friends, right? And we see each other the new
1:29
music seminar, the whole nine. And I think he was working with JD at that time. So our relationship is extremely
1:35
deeprooted. I haven't seen John since he got in shape. So that's been a long he's been in shape
1:41
for a long time. First thing John said to me, I've been working with Lar Russell.
1:47
Yeah. Right. Yeah. And I said, "Man, that makes so much sense to me because I see my brother has
1:53
been cross-pollinating his energy everywhere he goes." I'm speaking about you in a true traditional Bay Area way.
2:00
Who else can put out seven albums in in one year? I don't know. Okay. Um, who else? I don't even know
2:07
how many employees he has now, but a whole a whole conference a whole western conference showed up today, man. I was
2:14
like, what you brought up? The East Bay is all up in here right now. Who else can do that? Stand on his morals. I
2:21
watched this young man. By the time I caught up to him, he was already on the roll. But I love telling the story of
2:27
watching this young man take notes while while we were sitting doing an interview in San Francisco. And I couldn't take my
2:33
eyes off of him. Was Gazi uh was with me too. I couldn't tell. I was like, "Yo, this dude is got a pad. He got a pad and
2:40
a pen." And it was something about that that let me know that this dude is special.
2:45
His focus, his discipline, so on and so forth. To me, when people ask me, "What do I need to do to break in the
2:50
industry?" I tell them, "It's a template right in front of you. Is you have to create your own industry. You have to
2:56
create your own ecosystem. You can't be relying on others to do things for you. The template, the blueprint is right in
3:02
front of you. I literally send artists to follow you on your social media and
3:08
watch his moves and apply those moves to how they benefit you. It's not the same moves, but this man has figured out a
3:16
lane that I think we could all benefit from. Um, he's here today. He got new projects. He got seven of them and one
3:22
coming with Lil John. We trying, we're discussing that right now. To me, he if you ask me who's one of the most
3:28
successful artists in the business today, he'll be the first name that I name. And when you say today, I'm
3:35
talking current in the present state of things, right? Not somebody who was successful 20 years
3:40
for 20 years. Heather, you've been successful for 35. I'm a billionaire. Okay, that's Heather B. I would say his
3:47
name. Um, this is my brother. He's here to talk to us today. Ladies and gentlemen, artists alike, business
3:52
people, you don't have to be in the music business. some of the fundamentals they they they they cross over. Give it
3:59
up for the one and only Lar Russo. And he brought the village with him, y'all. I promise you that, man. Give up an
4:04
ovation, man. This guy brought the village, Tracy J. The intros is always it.
4:09
No, this is real, homie. I ain't even intro. This ain't even an intro. This just ain't my heart. Are you kidding me?
4:18
Bayer up in here. Come on. I brag about you. You ain't nothing you can do about it.
4:24
I'm proud about you. Hey, you know that love is so genuine. I was telling T the other day, I was like,
4:30
I love coming here and spreading energy and rapping because I see the energy in
4:36
our videos. I'll be like, man, Sway be out his seat growling like be waiting for it.
4:45
Oh, Ro, I tell you, man. Me and King Tech and I doing I don't know where this conversation go. I prepared a whole
4:51
bunch of stuff, but we just going to talk. All right. King Techch and I are doing this uh you mind closing that door for me too. King
4:57
Tech and I are doing this uh tribute show this weekend. We um rented out the region LA region theater in downtown LA.
5:03
It's our second one of this kind called for the culture and it was important I moved back to LA right have well back to
5:10
the west coast and uh we still buy coastal but it was important to uh come back here and create new energy.
5:18
M the word we use is activate our village. You know what I mean? So we've been
5:24
activating the village. We've done a lot of series this year. I know this is your interview, but you'll see how this goes. We done a lot
5:31
of live shows this year. The last one we're going to be doing this Sunday uh for the culture. We're going to honor Large Professor King Crooked Ras.
5:39
Um Prince Ken Swiftal from the original Rock Steady crew. supernatural people who came through the
5:45
wake up show in the 90s and early 2000s that we realize aren't going to get the
5:50
recognition that they deserve. Yeah. Right. From the power so-called powers that be right. And having doing this
5:58
show, putting it together, it reignited some of the initial feelings that I was feeling growing up in Oakland and
6:05
falling in love with the culture and utilizing what it is we do in the Bay in terms of being independent-minded.
6:12
When I see you and I see your collective here and all these young folks didn't
6:17
have to get up this morning, they got up early to be here. Yeah. I'm familiar with that vibration that
6:23
reminds me of how we grew up, how we came up. And here's the thing is how we still
6:28
are. So when I see you do it, I see a reflection of my of myself in many ways.
6:33
And I too are learning from you. So the Russell is here, y'all. Russell is here. I just thought I'd bring that up, man.
6:40
That's why I growl. That's why I get excited. You know,
6:45
you've been able to uh touch that cord in me to to get me there. And now you're here in LA. What brings you to LA,
6:52
man? Shows, you know, interviews. We we the studio, we we just wiggling, you
6:58
know, we got to we got to touch turf and spread the gospel everywhere. Uh-huh. What I what I love about you and
7:05
shows I I I remember when you started doing the shows in the backyard and and people were saying, "Ah, that's a good
7:11
idea, but it it ain't going to last. It's going to have a ceiling. It has to get bigger than that."
7:18
You stuck to your guns and you start building in the backyard, right? When you say shows, shows aren't the normal
7:26
shows, right? Yeah. When you say shows, what shows were you doing out here? The normal shows. the normal shows.
7:33
Not, you know, it's it's different because our shows, I like to call them experiences because it's really not a
7:39
show. Like, you're not just witnessing somebody get on stage and perform. like I'm really there talking and sharing and
7:48
we let the fans ask questions and we let them recommend songs they want to hear
7:53
and I share my life experiences and I'm walking around a room and shaking hands and like it's a real experience that you
8:01
can't get nowhere else. You know, show is such a limited term for what we do.
8:06
Do you feel um I feel like you looked at the and you could correct me where I'm wrong. I do this. I look at the the
8:14
because things are set up a certain way. Systems are set set up a certain way in the industry. Always kind of went
8:19
against it. Like your typical, you know, promotional tour might be you might hit four or five
8:26
cities, you go see the DJs, you get into the the local venues, so on and so
8:31
forth. You hit and then and then you run. I feel like you're creating a new way of
8:37
approaching that. Is Was that intentional? very, you know, even this year. This year I was like the whole
8:44
first half of the year I did cities that no one else goes to
8:49
because I wanted to really build energy and love and build lifelong fans, you know. And I look at it like if you could
8:56
sell 500 tickets in Davis, that's different than New York. You know, New York has a huge population and it's a
9:03
major market. You could do it there, but can you do it in Davis? Can you do it in conquered? Can you do it in Boise? Can
9:10
you You know, like we hitting these places where they don't even usually get this level of experience and we giving
9:15
it to them and still having the same impact. So my goal has been to just like
9:21
build community fully. Like I'm trying to really propel the region in a way that it haven't been done.
9:28
You do that too when when you do your promotions. like what people may not realize when this dude freestyled on our
9:35
show. He posted it where everybody could benefit from it, right? Which is the
9:40
first time I ever heard an artist do that like everybody can monetize, you know, benefit from the monetization of
9:47
that. How does that work in terms of shows? Do you cut different
9:52
type of deals with promoters or is it the Yeah. You know what's really dope? Uh
9:58
like we've been taking backyard shows to other cities too. And what I'll do, I'll find a fan or somebody who really rock
10:04
with us in another city and if they let us use their backyard, we'll do a revenue share on tickets with them. So,
10:09
it's the first time ever you could be a fan and you making money off of a show with an artist.
10:15
Wait, what's your yard look like? I'm in an apartment right now. Hey, we
10:20
turn that up. We can turn that up soon. Yeah. You hear this horse? You hear this
10:26
horse? This why we got to protect We got to protect Le Russell. They going to try, you know, we got to protect them
10:32
because he's, you know, you giving us alternative ways Yeah. of really celebrating and benefiting off
10:40
of our own creative processes, off our own IP. It's funny because when I think of you,
10:45
every time I see you, even when you walked in the door, you always have like the most beautiful smile on your face
10:50
and you always have great energy. But this industry can be a lot, right? It's just you talk about work. we always see
10:56
you with a beautiful team of people and um I'm like that in a lot of ways too. I
11:02
love being out. I love connecting with people, but I feel my energy being pulled sometimes in a lot of different
11:08
ways and it gets heavy and I have to retreat and go back. Are there ways or different things that you
11:14
do because you're around so many people and because so much energy is being pulled possibly? I don't know if you
11:19
don't mind sharing that. How do you take care of yourself uh spiritually and mentally with with so much that you do?
11:26
Do you make time for yourself with that? Yeah. Uh I play a lot of pickle ball
11:32
and uh and that's one of the thing. Hey, my homie was just telling me yesterday he was like, "Man, pickle ball is the
11:37
only time I get to witness you be mean, you know, because every all other times
11:44
I'm like, I handle everything with so much grace and patience that like when I get to pickle ball and I get to bike and
11:50
I get to play anything, I get to be fierce and competitive and I don't have to like, you know, tend to everyone."
11:57
Yeah. So, it's things like chilling with my kids and seeing my mama and just like
12:02
being that I'm at home so much. I feel like it keeps me really rooted as as
12:07
much as possible. You know, I'm a human so I still go through my my bouts, but being home really really it helps.
12:14
You know, when you're not somewhere isolated and everywhere you go, you famous,
12:20
it it helps. And at home, you know, I'm still me and I'm big, but I'm also It's just also like such a deep rooting, you
12:27
know, it's hard to be home around your family and around your people and not feel like who you are.
12:33
Yeah, that's good. Don't lose that. It's important. I think as much as you giving and giving and giving, you have to give
12:38
to yourself in that way. Keep playing pickle ball, keep taking out the garbage, you know, keep running around
12:44
on the floor with your kids, all of those things because it's a journey. And it is truly in the words of Nipy, it's a
12:50
marathon that we're all on, you know, and you just have to pace yourself and protect, you know, y'all protect each
12:56
other in all of this, too, cuz it's so much. How do you how do you prioritize what's for sale?
13:07
The merch, the music. How do you prioritize it? Everything for sale
13:13
except the soul. You feel me? Everything for sale. Yeah. Um really I I really go with the
13:21
flow. Like sometimes we'll have a moment like when we did Tiny Desk and I wore that custom jacket
13:26
and people was like, "Man, that jacket fly. Is it? Go on ahead buy you one."
13:33
You feel me? I'm I'mma move with the moments and with the wind. So So like we
13:38
listen to the people and to the audience and we always creating new things and dope things. Like I don't sit on too
13:44
many ideas. Cuz you know, I told my boy, I want a basketball. I used to always hoop. I want my own basketball. We've
13:50
been supporting Wilson and Spalding forever. I don't know them. I want my own basketball. So, we start selling
13:56
basketballs. You know, it's just like whatever I'm feeling, I I try to at least activate on it to see if I can see
14:02
success or not. Okay. And what's the name of the basketball? Good Company. Good company. The Good Company
14:08
basketball. Yep. Y'all don't even look like y'all got any game on the court. Wow. You judging?
14:15
I'm just I don't know. Well, I'm about to tell. Okay. So, I'm about to So, he join He just started
14:20
playing pickle ball. Can you beat him? Oh, man. Look, he wasn't even going to tell us.
14:25
He didn't He didn't want to He didn't want to put it out there. I'll tell everything. Come to me. It's
14:31
for sale. Oh, yeah. We get We get down every day. Well, you get down every day. We playing K Tech and I playing tomorrow. So, if
14:36
y'all around, I know y'all y'all around tomorrow. Yep. I'll be there. Look, he was hoping we y'all not y'all not y'all not flying
14:44
out. Y not flying out. We get down.
14:49
Okay, y'all get down. Okay. Uh when you say we I think one of the most important By the way, I I and I have connected
14:56
with this sneaker company that does a pickle ball shoe line.
15:01
So maybe there's some synergy there. Yeah. All right. Okay. All right. Unless y'all
15:06
making sneakers, too. It's coming. All right. What I love about you is I see the same people
15:15
around you. Yep. For years, man. And it's something to be said about that. Loyalty, right?
15:21
Uh longevity, all of those different things. And a lot of I like when people introduce the team.
15:26
Yeah. I like to give the team the spotlight. On my team, everybody has equal billing.
15:31
You know, who are these people? Who's this young man sitting next to you? What is his role, man? This Malachi right next to me.
15:38
Hello. What up? What's up? This is my little brother and he a protege and a phenom.
15:45
T actually found Malachi. Malachi is T's second ANR project. I'm her first. So,
15:51
she got two home runs from the go. Okay. T found Mali when he was 15 years old.
15:57
I brought him to my crib to do a live session and he was just so incredible. We took
16:03
him under our wing and Mi live with me now. like he he's learning, interning,
16:08
growing as an artist, getting the game, getting these opportunities. I share my light. He learning how to perform. And,
16:15
you know, he's the first person that I never had what I've been able to
16:20
cultivate. Like, he came straight out of high school. And I told him, you know, you can come live with me and grow and
16:26
build, but you got to meet these goals. If you don't meet these goals, you got to go home. He's exceeded every goal I
16:32
could possibly give him. And it's crazy because you know I'm 31 now and I'm just
16:37
now hitting my moment and he 18 19 like he the goal is for him to do it 10
16:44
years less than it took me to do it. You know some people want you to go through the same process but my goal is like no
16:50
you do it in 10 less and he going to have that opportunity to. Congratulations.
16:56
You living at his house. Do you make your bed every morning or is it that sort of thing? Uh nah. I'm not going to lie. I don't.
17:02
But you know, I rap though. I rap every morning. Where is home for you? Where where you
17:09
from? I'm from Merced, California. I'm from Merrced. Oh, yeah. I know. That's the old stomping grounds right
17:15
there. Merced. Yeah. Yo. Well, a long time ago, man. That's crazy. Mal, don't have me digging that crazy.
17:22
All right. Should make your bed every morning when you get up. Practice that discipline. It makes a big
17:28
ass difference right there. And so, what is it like living kind of like with your boss,
17:35
right? Um, it's crazy, man. I um Yeah, as he
17:40
said, I came straight out of high school, like I graduated, came over a week later. I was laying on his couch. I
17:45
had asked him before like, "How would you feel about me moving in?" And he was like, "I would I would be open to it." He literally came out in the morning. He
17:52
was like, "If you go clean that unit over there, you could live there." I went and grabbed the mop. I went and grabbed the rag. I did everything I had
17:59
to. You know, I got through it and I don't know, it's just amazing. It's a blessing. It's
18:04
God-given. Where's your family? Uh, Merced. Okay. They And they were okay with it, but they packed your bags for you.
18:11
Uh, you know, my mama wasn't cool with it. My dad didn't, you know, but I I had to. I had to.
18:16
What's your background? Um, where your folks from? Uh, well, yeah, they from
18:22
You say Merced, but they didn't they landed in Merced they? Oh, you're right. You know what? They from the bay. They from the bay.
18:28
They from the bay. Yeah. My daddy was in San Francisco when he was younger. He ended up like catching a train with his family.
18:33
Uh they came to Merced and uh they just like built a little community of whatever they could and
18:39
that's what I was born into. T What did you see in him? Let me get Oh, right there. Look at that
18:47
community. Um I saw what I what I saw on the Russell. Mhm.
18:52
It was just, you know, you hear a lot of hip-hop and you hear a lot of music these days and I was in a space where I
18:58
was like, I'm not going to participate in the destruction of our culture no more. I'm not listening to nothing that
19:05
talk about feeding drugs to the community, killing people who look like us.
19:10
And in that search, I didn't have nothing to listen to no more. And I stumbled across the Russell and I was
19:16
like, "Thank God." You know, at that time, it was literally just NIP and then Lar Russell. And then the next person
19:22
that I heard was was Malachi. I heard a song that he wrote called Hoodcry. And it was just like,
19:28
damn. Like, this is what's actually happening. This is what we're actually going through. This talks about things
19:33
that need to be spoken on. And when you hear something like that, you don't just walk away from it. You figure out how to
19:39
help. Damn. Damn, man. That's that's you're amazing, man. Um, what of course, right? And and
19:47
nowadays it's different. Like what people what a ANR person would have looked for in the '9s or early 2000s.
19:54
It's different than now, right? Are you not just looking at how he sounds or how a person raps or sings or like you got a
20:01
work ethic? Like what other qualities do you look for in an artist? It's really quality of person. Like you
20:09
could be you could be talented all you want, but if you're not a good person,
20:14
I mean, we see it often what what that could lead to. So, I mean, talent is one
20:20
thing and that and that's beautiful, but that can be cultivated. People can practice rapping all the time, but if
20:26
you're not a good person, then it's just it's going to be hard to really build with you or to be a want to want to be a
20:32
part of what you're building because if you're not a good person, then what you're building probably not going to be great either.
20:37
I love it. T, you keep speaking, man. You do that speaking tour. Let's let's monetize that, too.
20:45
Trace, you want to dive in? Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for sharing that, T. And Laro, man, you my guy. I
20:52
rock with you, man. For real. Both as an artist and as a human being. And when Heather mentioned your smile that we
20:58
always gravitate towards, it made me think like for the longest time hiphop
21:04
um it felt like in hip-hop choosing positivity was not the choice. You know what I
21:11
mean? Because it was maybe misinterpreted as having a lack of edge. I feel like a lot of folks wanted to be
21:20
did not want to feel accessible. They want it to feel intimidating because
21:25
maybe when you come across as positive, it doesn't feel like a safe place. Perhaps that has to do with environment.
21:32
That has a lot to do with mindset. But for those who still are of that thought,
21:39
who see a positive male spirit, especially as a weak male spirit, speak
21:46
on um how positivity can actually give you more power, choosing that instead of
21:52
choosing to be perceived as dangerous or dark or just identifying with your
21:58
shadow side first. Man, I truly believe I'm the strongest man
22:06
yet to hit my lineage. And it's because I've been able to
22:13
not just utilize my physical, but utilize my mental and my emotional to
22:20
achieve the level of success that none of my predecessors were able to. And
22:25
it's a tough thing because you know you got to deal with the when you choose to walk away from something.
22:32
Some people on the other end of that think you running away because you scared. But it's like I'm not walking
22:38
away because I'm scared of you. I'm walking away because I'm scared of what I could do to myself through you. You
22:46
know, and it's very important and vital to not get into those ego wars as a man
22:52
and not get into that pride war. Like I've been young and impressionable and malleable and I was never fulfilled like
23:00
I am today with the person I am, you know? It's just like
23:05
we we come from a very complicit, broken lineage, you know, and people made it
23:11
okay for so long. It's okay to sell dope. It's okay to pimp out young women, you know, like that ain't that ain't
23:18
pimping. That's sex trafficking. You're not dope dealing. You destroying your community, you know, but we made it
23:24
so cool and and like, "Oh, no, but they clean." Nah, [ __ ] ain't clean. That
23:29
ain't clean, you know. And it took me to a certain level to get to the point of awareness of like, you not fly. And I
23:36
gotta look at that with people that I came up under and and uncles and and and
23:42
people around the block that used to. It's like, "No, that's the guy." And it's like, "No, you not. You not like
23:48
you." We living out we living out the repercussions of what some people we
23:53
idolized before us did that we thought was cool and we made them think it's okay. And now we got all these little
23:59
homies walking around who misguided and lost. And it's tough because we've been
24:04
a very very complicit culture. We'll let a [ __ ] say and do anything.
24:10
Anything. We grew up with it and around it and and and man, so it it's taken a
24:16
lot of me as a man and as a human to have to step outside and be accountable
24:22
for myself and also hold people accountable that I came up with. And it's tough because you know all we know
24:29
is all we know at some point and that's like man it's not it though and I'm
24:34
really trying to be that change. I'm not trying to support that no more. I don't want that agenda to move forward. I
24:40
don't care if it make me look coiny or lame because I'm not supporting some [ __ ] that is
24:45
affecting my community and my people. Come on. Listen man why I love this dude
24:51
man. Yep. And that you bringing in the bay. That's a constant battle,
24:56
man. That's it, man. It's it's in us, you know, it's in
25:02
our DNA, right? And and when you step outside of that, some might consider you an outlier, but
25:08
one thing people always recognize is your strength, whether you're about what they about or not. Yeah.
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You know, exactly. They going to recognize your strength. It makes it easier, too, when you realize spiritually who you going to
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answer to. Mhm. The decision making becomes a whole lot easier. Who am I answering to?
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These [ __ ] this person, this that, who am I really answering to? Yeah.
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So, it makes it easier sometimes to walk away even if it's not popular. It makes it easier sometimes to say no. And
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people like, you bug like you turn down that what you you crazy. Nah, because I know what it's going to do. I know what
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this can create. So it it once you decide who you're going to answer to, ultimately the decision- making becomes
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a lot clearer. Yeah. What what do you think and I'm going to keep repeating he's top one of the most
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successful people in the music um business today right is Lar Russell right here. The formula
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he created built through his experiences and whatever direction he may have gotten. Um to me it's the template.
26:12
The Bay is always been a hodgepodge of just sounds, fashion, ideas, trends.
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We've been pioneers, vanguards. We've been everything. We've been everything.
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Yeah. Right. Yeah. Um and but we always ask a question, what does the Bay need to do to make the
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in kind of impact as other places? LA's had a good run this year. Salute to
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LA. Round of applause. They tripping. They act. They ain't set. They activated.
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They activated. They activated. It's activated out here. Atlanta, you know, has had it, you know, made it
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impact. The Bay makes impact, you know, in in spurts.
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Mhm. If you could gather all the talent in the music business in the Bay, what
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would you teach them? What would you say?
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I would make everybody seriously hone and invest in their craft.
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Um, in the Bay you're able to have so much regional success that you don't have to
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get better. And I think that that's where we miss it sometimes. You know, I've seen a lot of artists perform and
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it's not impressive. And it's like we have to we have to commit to this craft. If you want to win championships, you
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got to Curry shoot every day. Yeah, thousands of shots. We can't just go in
27:39
these clubs and grab the mic and let the backing trade. Like, we have to become an attraction, something people want to
27:45
see. Like, we already got the sauce and the style and everything. Now, it's like we have to hone this craft and we have
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to be the top of our our our our games. Not
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just in like how fly we are and how flash we are and how tight we move, but it's like, no, I could go shoot with the
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best of them. When people say, "Hey, who your favorite hip-hop artist?" We should have more names in that list.
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We We don't see Bay Area names in them list, you know? Like they they they come out
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every year and and you know, a lot of people skip over us because we don't get
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it's just the sword. Like we don't use our sword in the same way. And I think also the content and the subject matter
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like you got to really provide something to the world beyond just where you from.
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and and and like I say, the pimping and the and we got to provide a lot more to the world and we have some of those in
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the region of man when we do that in totality and everybody's on that wave
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and that you know it's like it's tough you know cuz every team have different types of players and role
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players and you just come together to to get that ring but like I said we've built we're built so heavily on
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independent culture that sometimes we negate the infrastructure or what we need to do as a unit to make this a
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global thing. Mhm. I love it. Lar Russell's here, man. Is it Malachi? Yes, sir.
29:08
That's your uh That's your artist name. Yes, sir. It's a powerful name. You know what that name means? Uh Messenger of God.
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Okay. Okay. Malachi. He don't make his bed, but he know what that name mean. I'm just saying, you know.
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All right. Listen, we going to open up the phone lines. cuz I want to play this song Wiggling which really
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to me is uh one of those Magnus Opus type songs that kind of tell your your
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whole journey. Yeah. You know, I learned stuff in that song that I didn't necessarily know. I didn't know if um if it was factual or not, but
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I figured it was. So, we going to play Wiggling. You've never heard this song. I'm the first This is
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a folder he sent me. You know what I mean? And so, we going to play that. Come back. Malachi going to do
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something. Malachi going to get busy, too. Hey, horse. Let's get D1, too. D1 here.
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We going to bring in We going to make it a room here. All right. That's coming up next. Shade four. Five.
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That goes hard, bro. Yep. Under. Yo, that that's hard right there. Hit
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your own button, Malachi. Listen, I I couldn't
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I I No, this ain't a intrusion. Not at all. This is an inclusion.
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Yes, sir. Right now, because the two of you in this room is um is is is heart tugging
30:32
for me, you know, because um this I like to hear I like to get out of the way of
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our conversations with you two, you know. I just like to provide a
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bridge, be a conduit, you know, a catalyst to more thought, right? That's coming
30:50
from your experiences. I'm talking about Lar Russell and I'm talking about the legendary D1. I call him legendary now.
30:57
He gets his legendary status. This man, this man been through so many battles, man. Give that man a round of applause.
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Appreciate it, brother. Appreciate it, brother. I got to stand up. I be having too much energy when I'm
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around here, man. And and the and the last time
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yo, it's crazy, man. Me and me and D1 bump into each other in the strangest just the most unlikely places, right?
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And u the last time we bumped into each other was in Nashville. Facts. Not that long ago at the Holy Smoke
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Facts conference that Mike LV. Yeah. Right. And John Keith and all those guys
31:37
put together. And we I didn't know you were going to be there. We just look at each other now. We saw each other in the
31:43
bay at the fight. It's just a look. That's what I told you. Yeah. It's just a look. We see each other and we go like this
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and then I see and I see moments that happen for you. We'll get to but I know you two
31:54
I remember seeing the interview you two was in together. Yep. Remember that the one been to the crib?
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That's what I'm saying. That's when we sat down and talked. Yeah. Oh, that's that same interview. That was at the crib.
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That was at your house. The compound. I pulled up I pulled up. I had a show at University of the Pacific out there in
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uh around Vallejo Stockton. Stockton. You heard me? And I was like, "Man, I got to pull up on the homie." So
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I hit him. He was like, "Come through." I ain't even know what we was going to do. We We end up making two songs that night, right? We end up sitting down
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having that conversation and it's bearing a lot of fruit. People stop me all the time. And you and Lar Russell,
32:29
man. You and Lar Russell, man. Y'all y'all, some of them don't even know that we know each other like we do. You know what I mean? It's just kindred spirits.
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You heard me? What' you learn from the Russell? I learned from the Russell to be relentless and to be unapologetic about
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whatever you standing on. You feel me? And to not be afraid to give the game up.
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Uhhuh. You feel me? Like when you got the game, they always be like, "The game is to be sold, not to be told. Cap." You heard
32:53
me? We out here. We We educating people. Cuz if if one of us, Lord forbid, pass away today. Then what we got left? We
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had all this knowledge stored up that we refused to give to the people cuz we was trying to get a buck off of it.
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I'm sure the Russell not hurting. I'm not hurting financially. God take care of that, man. But the knowledge that we
33:12
got, man, the world need this cuz the world is hurting right now. It's a drought when it come to realness.
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Mhm. You feel me? T just talked about um uh not wanting to support anything that would be a
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detriment to our community. And when she said that, it made me uh think of your your project um
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hypocritical hop. Yeah. hypocritical. Hop, as to what you were saying about, man, we celebrate a
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lot of our elders, a lot of our OGs for the wrong reasons, right? And both of
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you been peeling that back, man. What is it like when you meet up with some of those people that fit in that
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light, you know, that kind of been a detriment in terms of messaging? I'm gonna start with you, Lush. So, how have
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you dealt with that? Have you gotten backlash at all for that from folks? You know, I really now at this point in my
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journey, I really like pull people and ask questions. Okay. And I' I've noticed a lot of people,
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some people are such a product of their environment and their situation that they don't, no one's ever pulled them
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and been like, "Hey, you know, when you said that and did that, it was a little
34:27
little offputting." You feel me? And a lot of people, you know, when you go so high up the ladder of success, you stop
34:34
having people that could pull you and hold you accountable because everybody rely on you. You know, that's why I
34:39
really value T because no matter how high I get and how much she eat off what I do,
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she going to still come correct me and be like, "Hey, you was wrong. That ain't that ain't how we get down. That's what
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we doing now." You feel me? And a lot of people don't have that, which is why they can continue that process. So for
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me, we really been like, we going to pull you to the side and just holler. You feel me? And and it
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Have you had a good experience with someone with that that you wouldn't mind sharing? Who
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That's why I said good experience. If not, don't sweat it. But I'm just
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I'm not going to label them good or bad, but insightful. you know, like um Gazi is somebody that we have these
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conversations with. Like I I I told him I was like, "Do you feel like your impact was detrimental to the comm? Do
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you feel like you added to the detriment of what's going on right now?" And we had a real conversation. And he was
35:39
like, "Yeah, I understand my impact and value, which is why I do so much here because I do understand what I've done
35:45
as well." And I was like, you know, you have to be it's important for you to balance that and level that out. And we
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had them same convos with like the owner of Thizzler and you know it's really been
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I've been trying to go up high with people who empower the people to do so
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you know and even the youngest pulling them to the side but some of the youngest is like they're benefactors of a system that's been in place far before
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they even got a chance. Yeah. Yeah. D1 I've seen,
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you know, I've seen things come full circle for you. Yeah. You know, um I remember the the
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conversation we had that was the catalyst to you and Jim Jones getting into conversations and going back and
36:28
forth. And then you fast forward, I see you and Jim Jones at an event and y'all shook hands
36:33
at the Verses in Las Vegas at the Verses in Las Vegas. shook hands like men and he sat here right on on on
36:39
this platform and said, "If you ever see me, look the other way. Put your hand down." You know what I mean? And I know he meant that. I could see the passion
36:46
in him when he was speaking. So to see him for the first time in person at the verses in Las Vegas, you heard me. And
36:51
you see how I roll. It was me and I think I had one person with me and to see him and I respect that to the
36:58
fullest. You know what I'm saying? As grown men, we looked each other in the eye. We dapped each other off. We didn't even have a long conversation, but that
37:04
DAP and that eye contact say spoke 10,000 words right there. Yeah, man. That that was amazing. And
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it's not just to you and him, you know, like when y'all set these examples, you
37:16
make it safe for others who feel the same way, that's scared to speak up, you know, to be able to follow their hearts,
37:23
follow their, you know, what it is that they truly feel. I saw you and Birdman. Yeah. At the same time, Birdman said now he
37:29
wants to do music with you. Yes, sir. That's emotion too. Yeah, man. That's emotion. It's so It's so crazy what's going on right now. SW
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the other day I'm in Miami. I randomly run into Noriega. Nora come up to me.
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Man, I'm the biggest fan of yours. I'm just a silent fan. I'm a secret fan. I said, why are you a secret fan? He said,
37:48
you're right. I need to be more of a public fan. Right. He proceeds to talk to me for two hours straight about how,
37:54
man, you are leading this culture in a better direction. Keep going. While he's talking to me, somebody who's holding my
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phone recording part of this says, "D1, you getting a call from Birdman right now." I'm like, "For real?" So I answers
38:07
the phone. Birdman don't know that Noriega is right here. Birdman called me saying the same thing Noriega is telling
38:13
me. So I'm like, "Bird?" I said, "Man, I'm standing right next to Norie." I put him on speaker phone. They go to
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talking. It's just, man, God is real, man. Come on, man. God is real, man.
38:24
God is real. That was four days ago. I know. I'm up on I follow both of you four days ago, man. I might be a quite I might be a little
38:31
lightweight stalker. Yeah. I feel like the game really moving in
38:36
that direction. Like people are starting to realize more and more that like, man, this ain't what we want.
38:44
This ain't what we came up on. This ain't what we love. This not the hip-hop we fell in love with. This not the the
38:50
art that we like to consume. This not the shows we like to see. Like people is starting to wake up. And the more you
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know you have somebody yelling like, "Hey, nah, that ain't it." You know, the the more way and you got to take all
39:02
those arrows forward, you know, and you going to miss some of them opportunities. But, you know, the opportunities that the universe and God
39:08
give you for what you do is just it's tenfold. It's tfold, man. We got the Russell
39:14
here. We got the one and only D1 here. I just wanted to bring these two dudes together. Heather B, I know you know we
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were talking about that magic Lonnie Light. Uh we had a segment we was talking about sometimes you got to wait and let the magic happens, right? You
39:28
you can't force it. You two have done music together. You've been independent together. Uh not together, but you both
39:35
kind of have these similar paths. And you know, when I'm listening to Wiggling and other songs, um um Am I blurry?
39:43
You know, or I Got Flavor. And you know, you always dropping these gems.
39:48
One of the songs I feel like you said, "Have you ever spent 50k on an ad campaign?"
39:54
No. Then we are not the same. Then we're not the same. I still don't think people understand
40:00
how ad campaigns can benefit them, where to spend the money. If if you could give a quick course on that, what would you
40:07
tell folks? Man, I think ads is one of the best yields you can get for your
40:14
money in terms of spreading your awareness and and people need to understand like you
40:20
know I posted like I spent 150,000 in ads in three months. People like why would you spend that much? Why would you
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do not understanding like in that period I spent 150 I made 700,000
40:32
and that's because I spreaded my awareness everywhere. You know, you don't just spend frivolously. You spend
40:38
on things that's working. But if Google is a billion dollar company and they still think it's advantageous to to to
40:46
do ads and make sure people seeing their product, why do you in this little small town think that it's not to your
40:53
advantage? Ads all that do is spread what you spreading your gospel globally.
40:59
If you got something that everybody love in your city and in your town, then you have the chance to franchise it and let
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the world know, you know, and that's what the labels do. That's how you compete as an independent and you
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make sure that your name is in the same light and you reaching these same platforms. The reason the NBA came to
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the Bay for Allstar and Lar Russell was booked at the Allstar game and every
41:24
event around it is because they knew who I was. next to all these majors, they
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knew who I was because I'm making sure I'm doing the same thing that the majors is doing for them for myself.
41:34
And we will be seeing you in the same light around the Super Bowl. Amen. Say, man,
41:39
say man, say man. I'mma be there too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right with y'all.
41:46
I'm getting up early with the whole crew. Uh that's amazing. Um just to hear
41:52
this. Have you don't have a mic in front of you? What's going on? I I can hear you going. Yeah. sharing with my
41:58
I'm sharing with my brother D1. Okay. All right. Okay. I I think you guys um and I want to talk to you about
42:05
this D1. You mentioned Russ signing you to a deal at 26. Salute to Russ. Give that man a
42:11
huge round of applause. He been standing on his square. Yep. For forever uh uh
42:18
since day one. And I like the fact that he's one of those people too that'll say, "Hey, foul ball. That deal is no
42:25
good." I know Rock Nation is a big brand. Yeah. But that deal,
42:31
I would suggest you look at you look in other places. So that deal isn't any good, right? You know, Russ came out and
42:38
said that. Um, which I think is is brave to do, but what is a good deal?
42:44
Mhm. You know what I mean? D1, what would you say a good deal would be? A good deal is one to where you are
42:49
receiving the highest percentage possible of your masters, of your music that you are putting out, right? And if
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you're giving up a percentage, then it needs to be in in turn for something that's going to add so much value to
43:01
where your pie becomes bigger, right? If somebody is just like, I want a piece of that pie, but what I'm going to add to
43:07
you isn't going to make your pie bigger, is worthless. You feel me? So that that's that's that's what Russ
43:14
was basically saying. Like they want a piece of the pie. They don't want a flat fee. They want a piece of the pie, but
43:21
nothing that they're going to do is going to guarantee remotely that they going to make the pie bigger,
43:26
you know? And a lot of times we get blinded by the actual terms because of the name brands that are, you know,
43:32
affiliating themselves with us. Like a lot of us, man, coming up, we want a cosign when we
43:37
first get into the game. Lord knows, boy, I wanted a TI cosign so bad early in my career. I wanted a Wayne cosign. I
43:44
knew I wasn't gonna get the Lil Wayne cosign because I had the song J50 and Weezy, you know what I mean? Yeah. We was playing that a lot, right?
43:50
I took a lot of heat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm like, dang. But I was in search for like, man,
43:55
where's that cosign going to come from? Because you think that the cosign is going to make all of that person's fans
44:02
automatically start listening to you. And that's not the case. That's not the case. That's not the case. Right. You got that cosign. You got the
44:09
God cosign. Literally once I realized that I said, man, like God is my cosign,
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bro. God is my God is my provider of the blessings. So, I'm appreciative when a
44:20
person put their arm around me. But at the end of the day, I don't uh I don't need to compromise my purpose in this
44:27
game just to get somebody another human being to say, "Yeah, D1 is that dude."
44:32
Can't do that, man. Like, a shift is really happening right now. and swear. I think I think it I think it probably did
44:38
start with that interview I did with you two years ago, man. Listen, I think that's when it started, bro. Yeah, it's it's it's been I'll say it's
44:45
been outliers throughout the history for sure of the culture that's been in the same vibration, myself included. Um coming up
44:53
from the Bay, I can relate. I can empathize uh with La Russell's journey and say, "Hey man, I
44:58
get it, but that [ __ ] ain't cool." Right? you know, uh, but we all have our time and place
45:06
and that was such a loud interview conversation that we had. I definitely
45:12
believe that uh it's a catalyst to what we're seeing now. Rizza um um had a conversation
45:20
with Rizza not too long ago from the Wuang clan and he's truly the abbot.
45:25
this dude sees the future to me, you know, and he's told me Sway cuz I told
45:30
him I just came back from Holy Smoke and man, I was blown away. Holy Smoke is this, if you don't know, it's this um
45:37
it's like a what is it? A conf uh a festival festival u uh that's with artists who are
45:43
believers, you know, that that faith based faith-based artists. U Mike LV, John
45:49
Keith, U Miles came through, a bunch of different artists. No big deal. No, no big deal. And as long as I've been in
45:56
hip-hop, I've never felt what I felt being in that crowd, bro. Wow.
46:01
And like your backyard, I saw seven year olds rapping, you know, eight year olds rapping.
46:07
I love My favorite thing to see is when you have the kids come up and
46:13
with their rapping, they got as much swag as everybody else, but what they rapping is something that's powerful, right? And I had the
46:20
the the best experience I ever had at a at a hiphop concert
46:26
took place at at Holy Smoke. Right. Incredible. Yeah. And it's and and so Resza told me
46:32
that yo yo yo yo yo the next two to five years that's what you going to see. It's to what your point is. People want
46:38
something different. Man, the world is in shambles. Hey man, I got four words for everybody that's hearing this and they're still on
46:45
the fence because a lot of people hearing this and they like, "Yeah, we hear you swear." Listen, don't get left
46:52
behind. They got people that's hearing this and they going to be hard-headed. They're going to be like, "Nah, it's been the same way for the last 40
46:58
years." Nah, bro. A shift is happening. Don't get left behind. It's about to look so corny for you to be a senior
47:06
citizen still rapping about drugging and thugging and being ratchet. You heard me? It already is. It's so corny. And And it's about to be
47:13
even louder because people like D1 and Larosa gonna be like, you look at this. Look at this. But the thing is, speaking
47:19
the truth with love, you know what I'm saying? It's like, brother, I love you too much to not tell you that you
47:25
looking foolish right now. And just cuz you got a podcast and you're popular and people know you, doesn't validate the
47:31
buffoonery. You feel me? Don't talk about you wearing platinum if you wearing platinum but you ain't changed
47:36
no lives for the better. You feel me? So don't get left behind, man. This next two to five going to
47:42
change hip-hop forever. Because hip-hop turned into hypocritical hop, which is what that's why I had to come
47:47
up with the term, get the term trademarked because I'm like, hiphop has an enemy at this point. Who is hip-hop's
47:53
enemy? It's not a human being. It ain't East Coast, West Coast. It ain't Meek Mill, Rick Ross, Jim Jones. No, I love
47:59
them brothers. It's hypocritical hop, which is all the things we love about hip hop mixed in with greed mixed in
48:06
with evil and selfishness and turned up and mass marketed to seem cool to people. And then next thing you know,
48:13
people are like, "Well, it feels like hip-hop, but it's just disrespecting women. It's glorifying killing my
48:18
community and talking about popping pills and selling dope, but it still feel like hip-hop, so I guess I love it,
48:23
right?" No, brother. That's the devil secretly turning hip hop into hypocritical hop. And that's what we at
48:30
war with, bro. We got Lar Russell here. We got D1. We going to come back with Malachi is going to make his debut
48:36
in the Valley of the Hyenas. Let's go. 8887423345.
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Play that T1. The Russell put out seven albums this year. Crazy. Sold tickets.
48:50
Says backyard. Some people paid a dollar, other paid a thousand. Come on, man. Good. Good comp penny.
48:58
Yeah, good compan penny. You know it's been the movement. My man D1,
49:04
he just wrote on a new Public Enemy album. Congratulations, man. You wrote songs for How you writing for Chuck D,
49:12
right, man? Listen, man. It it it's just Public Enemy as a brand.
49:17
They've inspired all of the all of the the the shifters in hip-hop culture so
49:22
much that um honestly, you know, Chuck D is the type of person who
49:28
I'm not going to say I wrote for Chuck D. I'm say I'm going say I wrote for I wrote for you know Public Enemy because
49:34
I love that they are so unified. We so used to selfishness and division in hip hop that Public Enemy as a brand has
49:42
stayed unified all this time. And I was at Harvard, you heard me, you know, I'm a college professor as well. I was out
49:47
there at Harvard. That's when I end up running into uh I've been knowing Chuck D. End up running into Flavor Flave and
49:52
um that's one of the most unexpected friendships in hip-hop. D1 and Flavor
49:58
Flave. That's my dog. That's my dog. You think so, but it makes much sense to
50:03
me for real. Yeah. If you get to know Flavor Flave, you that might be one of the smartest people you ever going to meet.
50:09
Oh, he absolutely. He's a genius. But when we met each other, he said, "Man, you look like JCole." I said, "Man, you look like Lil Booy." I said,
50:15
"So, what's up?" And and we just we started off on that type of note. You heard me? But then, bro,
50:22
since then, man, that's my brother, man. Like, I I love that dude. So, end up getting in the studio and uh one of the
50:27
songs that I co-wrote for him is called uh the hits keep on coming. Uh it just got licensed by the NBA for the entire
50:34
season. You heard me? NBA and Amazon Prime. The whole season. The whole season, man. You getting that
50:39
that money that the Russell you did you you you tied in with pro sports too,
50:45
right? You doing some music. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've been getting it in. Come on. Talk about it, man. The NBA, the NFL, all that. You know, we
50:51
had the song for the championship last year and uh man, the SF Giants, we got the
50:57
anthem for last year. It's been We've been wiggling. Come on. Been wiggling, baby. We've been indep independently.
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Independent. And I'd like for y'all, it's not that they're bragging, but I want other artists to hear the accolade. The
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heights they've been able to reach. It's possible on their own autonomously. You know what
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I mean? And and and that to me, I think that's very special. D1,
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what's happen? You know, you and Lar Russell have all had to, you know, do the obstacle course here on Sway in the
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morning would have to be and Tracy G because behind it all, at the core of the core of it all, you know, it's about
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these these lyrics, these bars, bro. And I don't care people, I got a lot of
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people don't come to my show cuz they don't want to rap. Facts. A lot of rappers.
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Hypocritical hop, right? They call themselves rappers but be mad about rapping. I don't even
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ask them to rap. They just they come in. Heather tell you, right, Heather? They'll come in that screwy face.
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I haven't even asked them to rap. I really be happy to see people. But in this case, because that young man
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sitting next to you came with a a superior stamp of approval. The dude don't even pay rent.
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God, for real. He don't even pay rent. He lives with Lar Russell. Okay. Not yet. Not yet.
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Okay. Hey, this this how he pay his rent right here. That's how he this how he pay his rent right here.
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You better rap like that rent do. You heard it. Ain't no strangers to this citizens. You know what it is, man. The number one
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show in hip hop globally around the world. Has been for decades. We got Heather B here, the the walking
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icon. We got Tracy G, the Vocab Vixen. You know what it is when you come into our show. The Russell's done it before.
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D1 has done it before. But Malachi, this is your first time. Welcome to the Valley of the Hyena.
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Drop that beat on them. This is your headphones right there. You
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can turn your volume right there. Malachi, that loud enough for you. Come on, Mie. First kick him off. Yeah.
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I've been waiting for this. I've been watching this since I was 12. Come on.
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Yeah. I had to get back to the roots. I feel like Quest. I ain't going to always had
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a time. I'm on a quest, love. I'm giving you the best to me through the bars. Ain't got no expensive cars, but I do
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got soul galore and got my heart. And they told me that my heart is really golden. I know I'm really chosen. I do
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well to the door, then crack it open. I run away from the doen. That's just for momentum [ __ ] I'm about to drop kick
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this door in. I think I'm learning now. I don't need no validation to be me. I'm free to be whoever I want to be and you
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are too. And [ __ ] I'm about to shoot my shot. I'm clicking hard too until I t through the little target. It ain't hard
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to see who really got it in their pocket for real. Zoom in and see I'm loose lin. I'm in that pocket for real. I don't say
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it to say nothing. I'm just happy I could really do it. I spent my whole life thinking, can I really do it? Can I
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really write a verse and get it off the music ain't full? I deserved it. I might have forgot my purpose. I wonder more
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than many do. Something I got to prove it. Honestly, I walk this road. I might just really lose it. Who the lies? Who
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the jokers? And who really true? It's not my job to judge them cuz I know that I've been there too. Ain't got to prove
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nothing to them, man. Prove that [ __ ] to you but still be on your grind. Working from like 10 to 2. I'm in my room. Feel
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like I'm burning roof down. [ __ ] do so with a smile. [ __ ] with shots in Hennessy when me and pop sitting around
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spitting. I quit the drink before him. Know he probably a proud [ __ ] was doing the best he could. My father ain't
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giving much. Long live I ran free Raleigh my [ __ ] Bro, I told him hopefully when you free I'm a million up
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so we can get that thing you get from nations and divy up. If I can't get the gold, then shoot a hole in me. Send me
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up. I'mma work then watch the story unfurl. I don't know why I'm in my room
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breaking down when I know we are architects designing our own world. That's a lot of pressure. PS, I'm going
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to still get it. I bet you the nerd from grade school acting they fool. I used to hang with the homies. Now we ain't the
54:56
same fools and we can't be around each other. We ain't got the same rules. They expect us to build more but we ain't got
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the same tools. My [ __ ] on the drill and they got you screwed up. My [ __ ] got the hammer trying to nail your crew
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up. My [ __ ] in the jewelry. Start grabbing the loot up. My [ __ ] still my [ __ ] We just need to tune up a few
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bucks capital to go invest in new stuff. And who was going to get it for us if not I for real? Prosthetic. It's not I
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for real. I'm trying to heal a generation. Yeah.
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Keeping my brother. Talk your talk.
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Yeah. It's yeah
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with it man. Come on, man. Something feel wrong. They lacking the substance. Feel my way up the hill
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rolling and tumbling. I told them to pass the ball. Instead, they was passing judgment. Now I got rock in my hand. I
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understand you're compunching. I was taught real early, don't take for granted. Shorty told me things can't always go the way you planned. Mama told
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me when it's new to you try to understand it. I'm at the plate and they underweight throwing underhanded. My
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[ __ ] it's a home run. Buckle up cuz it's going to be a long one. And stop and stretch cuz it's going to be a long run. Time to go the distance. Back then
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they wasn't really trying to listen. Now we cooking and they all up in the kitchen. Ain't gold cuz it glistening
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glitter. Y dropping trash but I just pick up the litter. I've been a dog. I'm still a pick of the litter. I'm still a diamond a dozen. We still pushing like
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the end runners. Work like a slave for the way I'mma run it. Every tub of the to9 hating as we moving by. They don't
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understand that we all blind if it's alpha eye. I'mma pay my dues until I can't and it's just do or die. Love the
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GC and the Russell man that's a super guy. Super tie tank top either way cuz I'm super fly. Took L's to the chin.
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Can't worry about no loss and cry. Took L's to the chin. Then I practiced at home. I played man. Now I'm back in my
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zone. I was rapping at home man. I wanted it bad. I would trade all that I wanted for everything that I had. Now
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it's back to school shopping. Guess I'm back in my bag. You treating me like a donkey. I get to acting. I'm just
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kidding. We have to take a day at a time. We just living. get money. Go invest in a hood. We just giving so they
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can't gentrify us and they got to run it by the system is filled with lies that think of themselves as hives.
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We got to go out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go.
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Yeah, baby. Yeah. To watch a dream realize is a
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beautiful thing. It's a God's blessing. God bless you, young man. Dream real life. Got in the spirit right there, man.
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Yeah. Yo, man. That dude. Yo, that boy geeking out right now. That boy like dreams really do come true.
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I got goosebumps on my shoulders right now. Heather, help me. Yo, he still has a home.
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It's just I just love to see and I speak about this um not often cuz you don't
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see it all the time materialize, but you you know the work that goes into it. Some of us know and when you on that
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futon on that couch or on that floor and you trying to just figure out A to B,
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you can't even see Z cuz it's so far but A to B feel like a 100 miles away. And
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to watch God align you and bless you and and then step up to that moment. It's a
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beautiful thing. I felt the miracle and the joy and the answer prayer in your voice like so. God bless you, young man.
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And you're going to make your your parents are proud. They going to be so proud when they see this. Yeah,
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man. God bless you. Real talk. It's just a beautiful thing to see. Okay, move aside though.
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Move aside, man. Young man get in the middle. Uhoh. Oh [ __ ]
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Uhoh. That is time to clock in. Come on.
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Yeah. Yeah. Let me get that, too. Oh yeah. Let Yeah. You want D go first? My dog. Get some of that. I like that.
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He wanted it first. Let me get some. I'mma take them down south when I when I
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come. I already know what you going to do with it. Yo, Heather's hugging them Al Malachi. She'll never hug nobody.
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Deserve that. Same beat, John.
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Yes, sir. Hey, this fresh food too, Sway. It's still wiggling on the hook.
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Is it? It's still wiggling on a This This real fresh. This real fresh.
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You hear me? You understand us? Bay Area's finest, Lar Russell. Hey,
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2026 and beyond. Some [ __ ] wavy, some [ __ ] lazy, some
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[ __ ] still don't babies. But hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Roll it up. Roll it up. Start it over. Start it over.
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Let's go, brother. Let's clap them up. Let's clap them up.
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Some [ __ ] wavy. Some [ __ ] lazy. Some [ __ ] don't take care of their babies. But out here stucking we call that front
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and we not impressed. I'm like Phil Knight. I seen a lot of checks. Used to want the SC 4lex is like the rest.
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Thinking what's the likeliness of me seeing Hold on. This fresh food. I got to I got
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to hold on. No, no, no. Don't even let me let me let me I got to get it off the phone cuz it's fresh food.
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It's fresh food. It's fresh food, man. Fresh out the oven. I got you. Fresh out the oven.
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Hey. Hey. Look. Some [ __ ] wavy, some [ __ ] lazy. Some [ __ ] don't take care
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of their babies, but out here stunting. We call that fronting. We not impressed. I'm like feel night. I seen a lot of
1:00:31
checks. Used to want the SCX watches like the rest. Thinking what's the likeliness of me seeing seven figs. The
1:00:37
CIA that killed more [ __ ] than 9/11 did. My bad. I'm talking like I'm free.
1:00:43
No, I'm talking like I'm me. Russ ain't got masters, but Russ got masters. 700
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if I'm being exact. And that's not exact. Look at that. Young, rich, and black. Used to sitting back. Now when I
1:00:54
pull up the truck, black and I sitting at these labels kill so many [ __ ] I'm just getting back. [ __ ] knew Diddy was
1:01:00
being diddy. They was sitting back, watching, smiling, supporting, extorting. Everyone was all on one
1:01:05
accord. Accordingly, but not me. I can't not see what I see. I've seen black men in jail and white men running free. Oh
1:01:12
[ __ ] I get to talking like I'm trying to free the slaves. No [ __ ] I get to talking like this how I get paid. [ __ ]
1:01:17
want that real [ __ ] not the [ __ ] that they've been selling. If ain't nobody told and they found out somebody telling
1:01:23
I never been a fellon was way too busy excelling but I know Mexicans that is selling for a million trying to be
1:01:28
somewhere chilling up a quarter billing this Eddie Murphy house [ __ ] I ain't got a ceiling this that feeling you only
1:01:36
get when you make a killing now how you think I got this feeling come on man killing come on man
1:01:44
rest on the plate let's go look I took L after L trying to put
1:01:51
water in this well. I share spreadsheets to see my [ __ ] excel. Graveyard of jail. What's the options given? Trying
1:01:58
to be a millionaire while my pops is living. I'm charged up. I might just be in that mode. Keep it closed if you
1:02:04
ain't never turned a half to a hole. I spent half in a hole. Spins it all to the red. Feeling like I ran off with the
1:02:10
bread. Boy, this [ __ ] like a sled. Make sense. I blew up in that avalanche. My daddy sold a million units out of
1:02:16
avalanche. I walk in rooms, heads turning like an Allen ranch. Carrying a bay up on my back like a pile of ants.
1:02:22
Wake up, blowing his way in the morning. Them other [ __ ] had sway and this [ __ ] yaning. I never want to see a man
1:02:30
down. You are who you are when ain't nobody around and not just a man in the cell that's guilty. It's 50 other [ __ ]
1:02:37
around them that's filthy. Shout out 50 cuz [ __ ] wouldn't dare. Only [ __ ] who would is [ __ ] who really care. I
1:02:44
get to snapping like a poetry slam. Dope enough to charge 40 a gram. I could have caught me a lamb. I locked in and built
1:02:50
it all from my home. Quarter million a show from the yard at my home. We really outside. They just popping on the phone.
1:02:57
We really rap live. They go up and play the song. And [ __ ] just accept it. I can't respect it. We in this [ __ ] like
1:03:04
contraceptives. Them white [ __ ] took hip hop and made it pop. From rapping on the block to Fortune 500 stock and all
1:03:11
we got was half a acre in a drop. What in the dock? Did he kill big and pot? What?
1:03:17
What? Did he kill big and pot? What? Sway. What happened to hip hop?
1:03:23
Huh? Damn. Yeah. It turned into hip critical for real. My gosh.
1:03:30
Got the no
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talking about D1 hugging. D1 was hugging. Why you a say nothing?
1:03:43
traitor. That's that that's that vibranium. We exchanging that vibranium. That might have been the illst.
1:03:49
Listen. Yo, that one right here. That one. Wow, man.
1:03:55
And that's it. It was wiggling on the hook still, you know. Hook he just put that on the plate.
1:04:01
You hear me? Come on. [ __ ] Outstanding. Hey, [ __ ] ain't talking like that no
1:04:06
more. And that's the problem. Everybody got something to say, but nobody got nothing to say. And ain't saying nothing.
1:04:14
And begging to come on sway. You heard me? Begging to come on sway, but ain't got nothing to say.
1:04:19
Stop trying to get on sway in the morning if you going to come up here and have him yawning.
1:04:25
He's off the top. John, you ready? Just Just a second, though. Man, I'm six feet tall, man. I'm trying to raise this thing, man. Let me see.
1:04:32
All right. Lot of You got something for me? Hey, brother. I'm from I'm from New Orleans. Just keep that in
1:04:37
mind. microphones and nothing nothing to say. A lot of microphones out here.
1:04:42
Yeah. A lot of lot of mics, man. A lot of people behind microphones. Salute to those that got something to
1:04:49
say. Lar Russell, that was colossal. That was impre that was amazing.
1:04:54
Hey, we wrote that special for you, man. I appreciate you because I I still take pride in my writing. I'm
1:04:59
not embarrassed to get on that phone and let [ __ ] know, [ __ ] we get down. You know, I take pride in this. This is
1:05:04
something that's been a lost art. Yeah. Mhm. You know, [ __ ] ain't saying nothing in their raps cuz they just going in there
1:05:10
and they ain't jing nothing down and getting getting their thoughts out and you know it's important to me and vital
1:05:15
like [ __ ] it don't it don't you know like this is vital for me. This was special man. Love you family and that what you
1:05:22
said is special. They're going to study that. He's going to study that in his classrooms. Facts.
1:05:28
I teach a lesson on my brother. What you mean? What D1 is here. New Orleans King is stepped
1:05:33
into the building. Louisiana, stand up. Hip hop stand up. John, drop that beat off. We did it.
1:05:41
Look, look. You rather die over trip or live by the lake. Y'all killing for broccoli and mashed potatoes, but
1:05:47
there's way more at stake. Glorifying murders, a habit that we got to break. Most of the people we call real or real
1:05:53
fake. Yeah. Top five where I normally rank up. You got money in the bank, but you morally bankrupt. Colder than me.
1:06:00
No, you're not, boy. I got juven flow, dizzle, swag, wheezy, lyrics. I'm the holy hot boy. Turks hustle man is hard.
1:06:06
Slim common sense. Humble as they come, but I got bird man's confidence. It's been a long road to prominence. The
1:06:12
devil say I've been neglecting him. I took that as a compliment. I will change the world by the time I deepart. Your
1:06:18
music shallow. I can't relate. I got deep heart. Well balanced. I got book knowledge and I'm street smart. Homie
1:06:23
acting gangster, but deep down here a sweetheart. You got some nerve acting like you don't know who I serve. Even if
1:06:28
you think I ain't paying attention, I observe. You telling lies. You throwing shade on my name. But I don't complain
1:06:34
cuz to Jesus they did the same. I had to learn people ain't living life right. Just cuz they said they Christian that
1:06:40
don't mean they Christlike. But I love my enemies though. That's how I know I'm going. And the seeds I know I'm sowing.
1:06:45
Got the blessings overflowing. People not knowing where we going. You can't tell, bro. A lot of our favorite rappers
1:06:50
burning in hell, bro. I'm telling the truth. Don't buy what they sell, bro. These people scam. Don't buy what they
1:06:56
Look, I hope they hear me. When they hear me, I hope they listen. As long as you shine in your light, you ain't my competition. The culture shifted. People
1:07:03
know that it's needed. It's a spiritual war. God's army is undefeated.
1:07:10
I'm trying to tell y'all, man. I want everybody to be a part of the shift. Don't get left behind. You heard this
1:07:15
for the old heads. Look D1. If you old and you pushing poison, time to get out. Cuz we got brothers in
1:07:21
the hood still trying to get out. We got brothers in prison still trying to get out. Since y'all some senior citizens,
1:07:26
I'm going to make this discount. Y'all been around for a while, so we know y'all names. Y'all ain't never involved.
1:07:32
That's how we know y'all land. Y'all think it's cool to still come around and show y'all change. And your money funny cuz y'all dumbies blow y'all change.
1:07:39
Don't mess it up for these little ones. Got to point out the fake ones cuz we know who's the real one. People don't want to be humble so they got to be
1:07:45
humbled. You ain't kicking no game. You causing people to stumble. Stop thanking God for stuff God ain't blessed. The
1:07:51
devil elevated you. That's not real success. You still got time if you start to get the picture. It's best to do it
1:07:57
now. If not, death going to deal with you.
1:08:04
Hold on, man. Keep that going. Look. Look. He said, "Keep flowing. How they
1:08:10
do you hollow through then say hallelujah. Just another pop and his medulla. The blizz shizzy. Fresh white
1:08:17
tizzy trying to interrupt the cycle like a plan. Busy. These ain't no comedies, it's horrors. It's robberies in August.
1:08:22
Murders in September from his got revolvers. I done seen the corners. Poverty is enormous. We trying to lean
1:08:28
on fathers, but it's a lot of sin on them. And I don't mean the sorest. Heartbroken mas describe the scenes to
1:08:34
daughters. Plant eternal seeds and a lot of dreams to harvest. Make a jaw for noise. All we need is a mean guitar like
1:08:39
a clean guitar pick. We stacking more green than never seen for us, but it's temporary. Eternity is for us. This is
1:08:47
worldly. I'm trying to be where God sits. Always thinking I had to leave. I'm off it.
1:08:53
Y'all boys claim to be some soldiers. Ain't no Hold on. Let me get some. You want some of that?
1:08:59
Keep it going, John. Keep it going. 24. That [ __ ] is not the same. They call me LA and BK. That [ __ ] is not my name.
1:09:06
But I still throw up the tea. When I be out the way before I sit and get comfy, I throw the couch away. I done made
1:09:12
millions out the back. I'm belly in the black. I had to work on wild. That monkey on my back. They send love and
1:09:17
send racks when all my [ __ ] need it. Disculated, got defeated, but I'm not depleted. It 2012 when my [ __ ] got
1:09:23
deleted. It hurt my soul, but I kept working. I ain't even need it. That [ __ ] go viral. Running mad and then you got
1:09:29
to seated. I made free game Friday. I'm what the people needed. I've been a man since a fetus. I feel like Jesus. I
1:09:35
think I'm chosen. Composing. I keep reloading. I really do it cuz I love it. The feeling different. I ain't persuaded
1:09:40
by the public when I'm feeling different. I talk my [ __ ] and hold my nuts. Even when it's rough. My eyes open. She threw bluffs. [ __ ] on that
1:09:47
stuff. Grand handle kicks for me. He was acting tough. Ain't said a word, but yet I'm hurt. It's time to pack it up.
1:09:54
Y boys plan to be some soldiers, but you soldiers ain't no soldiers, man. I told you and I showed you. I'm a soldier for
1:09:59
life. Stop going dumb. Good versus evil. It's only two sides. Class in session. Y'all need to attend like my shoe size.
1:10:05
Murder music hit different. Somebody in my crew died. Biggest gangsters in rap got blind hair and blue eyes. We getting
1:10:11
pimp. What y'all want to do, guys? Your new single just dropped. Yay. Time to entertain us with new lies. Whoever said
1:10:18
I'm canled, I'm laughing in these people face. I work for God, dummy. My impact could never be erased. Tell America I'm
1:10:25
the same brother I used to be before y'all was introduced to me. Consistency ain't new to me.
1:10:32
D1 Russo, throw your headphones, man. Listen. Yo,
1:10:47
what the [ __ ] Yo, you whack rappers, the time is up. Your
1:10:52
time is up. Your time is up. It's ticking. If you ain't talking about
1:10:58
nothing, we ain't got nothing for you. Your time is up. We don't want to hear that weak [ __ ] no
1:11:04
more. Lusso, give him a big round of applause,
1:11:09
man. Tell them what to look out for. We got Lil John on the way. We got a lot
1:11:15
of life on the way. A lot of positivity on the way. We outside in our community impacting it still. We still giving
1:11:22
tickets out for the people getting in for a dollar, $5, $10, $20, $1,000. You
1:11:28
hear me? A recording million out the backyard. We still doing it our way independently. You know what I mean?
1:11:35
D1, tell them what's coming up, man. Man, we got Hypocritical Hop the album out right now. You heard me? Make sure
1:11:41
you go and get that. I'm on juvenile new single. Make sure y'all go get that called He Gone featuring D1 and Manny
1:11:47
Fresh. Man, we got D1 and Project Pat out right now. We got
1:11:52
I apologize right now. We got my class at Tus University. I see y'all in the spring semester, Professor D1.
1:12:00
And we just finished the hypocritical hop nationwide tour, man. And then we got the merch. You heard me? Gangster.
1:12:05
Growing and nurturing gifts, serving the almighty, redefining what it mean to be gangster. There you go, man. Look, I love y'all,
1:12:12
man. You guys keep us inspired. Indeed. Hey, look, Heather. We could do another 15, 20, 25 as long as they here. Yeah.
1:12:19
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. We still got to, you know, wait.
1:12:25
She gave him that look like that look deep. I love them. But I love my husband.
1:12:31
Another 15. Okay, man. Listen, man. I shout out to you guys. You are so important to our community.
1:12:37
Um, to the culture, the community even beyond the culture. You guys is extremely important to what it is we do.
1:12:44
And I just want to say this to the artists that's going to be watching this, especially the up and cominging
1:12:50
artists. This is what it is. Like this is what it's about. That feeling that
1:12:55
you spoke about her having that feeling that being prepared, that ready. Let me
1:13:01
let me talk. Let me speak. Let let me do my thing. This is what it's about. This is what we fell in love with. Your
1:13:07
energy is so important. what you around, who you around, who you choose to answer
1:13:13
to, what you choose to answer to. It's important. And to watch this today just
1:13:18
brought back a feeling and a love that I felt like was slipping away, like it was
1:13:24
just slipping away. Thank y'all for the hip hop hug this morning. Thank y'all for that hug this morning. We needed it.
1:13:31
Yo, thank y'all so much. And you should have saw what was starting to manifest. The two of these, you know, the two of these hyenas right
1:13:37
here, they was just going to keep going back. Right. Like I'm like, "Yo, let me grab Heather B."
1:13:45
What? Yo, thank you. I've seen them calling the play. Yo, but just be ready. Like you said, a
1:13:52
lot of artists come up here and just especially you up and coming. Let what you been doing? What you working on for
1:13:58
real? What you talking about? You know, thank y'all for building and cultivating a space for this to exist.
1:14:04
and artists, y'all coming up here know that like it's okay to be flawed and not have it.
1:14:09
You know, I'm I'm 20 years in my run. Sometimes I still got to get on the I got to get on the pin. I got and all
1:14:16
that's real. That's raw. A [ __ ] still can't do what I do. You know, that's raw and that's real. And y'all should come
1:14:21
up here unfiltered. This is a space where y'all allow us to be free. one of the few spaces where you can come up and
1:14:28
say some of the [ __ ] that we say and talk about what we talk about and they not gonna cut it out
1:14:34
and not gonna get removed off the clip. You know, I didn't did freestyles and places where I got pulled to the side
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after like we can't drop that. You feel me? So, this is vital and important and as an artist coming up,
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it's okay to not have it together to not man do whatever you got to do but get it in.
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The the worst thing you could do is not try. I'm glad you pulled out your phone because your phone showed that you've
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been working and writing. That's to me that's that's what it you got proof. The proof is right here. Like so if you had
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to pull out your phone, what what architect don't don't got a toolbox? Don't got a set. You building, bro. So
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So pull that thing out when you got to. I ain't mad at it. It's new food, too. New food. He said it was new. Fresh
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food. Still wiggling. Still wiggling. Still wiggling. And I want I got to work on my wiggling. I want I want the audience to know, man.
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If you watching this, I think we in an era where you need to get your heart right before you get your art right.
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Because this gang will exploit you so much if they figure that, oh, you got a gift, but you have no direction. You
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have no sense of purpose. You heard me? So, please get your heart right. Understand your why. For me, that always
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boils down to what's my foundation? Who's my creator? Oh, God created me. So, everything I do and every gift that
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I've been blessed with, I got to figure out how I could use it to make God be like, "Yeah, D, you killing it right there. Yeah, I'm a fan of how you using
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that gift. Cuz it ain't my gift. It ain't your gift. Artists at home. It's God's gift that he blessed you with. So
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get your heart right so that when you get in this industry with vultures and hyenas and people trying to pull at you
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left and right, you'll know what to say no to. I've had to say no to some deals that made me look crazy at the crib
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because people was like, "That's who we grew up listening to. What you mean?" Like that's that's who we all wanted to
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get with. And it was like, "Yeah, brother. That's when we was boys." But now that we men and I've matured, I
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realize I can still love people, but I got to be careful how close I I I I stand next to people.
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You know what I'm saying? And that's just stuff that I would say for any artist. We don't need
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any more music that's being created from a selfish place, but by very talented people. Cuz you're going to be the same
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person that I'mma beefed out with now. You know why? Because I'm like, dang, there it is. Right gift, wrong purpose.
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And since they using you now, you've become you become the MVP for the enemy.
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And don't think that just because you elevating, well, God must be blessing me cuz I mean, I just got a deal. I just got signed. No, man. Like I said in the
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freestyle, the devil elevating you. That's not real success. Success is like the the least common
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denominator of like, oh, you want success, we give that in a heartbeat. We want impact and we want change. I'm so
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happy that there's no hip-hop on the top 40 of the Billboard charts right now.
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Because we don't need anything up there, especially if it's misrepresenting who we are as brilliant, beautiful black
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people. So sometimes you got to sit down so you could regroup. I used to play sports. Sit down, get on the bench,
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regroup, and when you get back out there, you going to have your mind right so you're not just tossing up crazy shots. Cuz metaphorically, we tossing up
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crazy shots and crazy shots. You know what I'm saying? As hip-hop artists, it's just like, man, what can I do
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that's gonna get popular? It's not about being trendy. It's about being timeless, man. Hip-hop, hip-hop might not be the
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cause for all the problems in the world, but it can be the solution for the problems in the world.
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D1 y'all, man. Come on, man. L Russell, I love it. Malachi, get in the shot, man. Come on, Malachi. Where you at?
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Started off. You started the cipher off, man. Yeah, he did. I hope you had a beautiful experience because this was a special day.
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This is a special day. You should know that. This was a right of passage. Yes. Yes. It is.
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This was a right of passage. And you are officially a hyena.
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Listen. My man Malachi, y'all. Thank you team. Thank you to the whole team.
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Yeah. Thank y'all so much. These guys, he's your producer, right? Play Simon produce. Kenzo produce. Kenzo
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my DJ too. I got my business partner. Jason J. Everybody in this room, do something. We ain't got one [ __ ] in
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here who ain't got a job who contributing to the success of what we building. There you go. Period. That's the template, y'all. Love you,
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Lar Russell. Thank you, brother. Yeah, man. Tell the family I love them.
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You know, our our roots go deeper than rap.
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I don't know if y'all know. You see how T got to do you sometimes? That's how I got to do him. A lot of times tell them I ain't lying.
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Ain't lying. Them roots deep. Them roots are deep. They don't know about that. D1, I love you, brother.
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Every time we going to keep seeing each other in the spaces we supposed to be in. That's it. And we always see each other. I be by
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myself every time I see you. Yep. You be by yourself every time. One man army.
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One man army. We like David Keredine. If you ever used to watch kung fu and he used to walk the highways to
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different locations with his mask. Y'all going to Google that [ __ ] now. The
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whole room is like zoos. Not 50 years of hip hop.
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Not the history lesson from Sway on the way out. On the way out, y'all. Y'all take that, man. Stay on the right side of
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positivity. Have a beautiful day. And we have nothing left to