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Thank me later man. Hey man. Listen man a guy we got here today y'all I'm you know y'all if y'all watch boss talk 101 y'all already see the posters and stuff in my store I've been supporting these hold this whole death row movement the old one not the new one. I don't know the new one Yeah, wow New one Oh, I'm from the old school like man. Listen man. This guy right here man.  It's popping man. Like I said, but just to be able to you know sit down with you here in Chicago Third time welcome to the city doing a boss talk one-on-one. Yeah check it man I'm gonna let mr. Maker. She go she gonna start this thing. All right, man. Let's get you guys because you know He loves the music he loved all of that, but I like to get to know you as a person Cuz I I do love music especially singers love it, but Born and raised here in Chicago, right? Yes. What part the west side of Chicago. We call the west side, Illinois I do Cuz I hear people talk about the south side What's the difference between the south side and the west side? Oh, man the way that we The way we move. I mean, you know to me, I guess you have to be from the city We're all alike so to say but like you kind of know like if you from Chicago It just take a few minutes just kind of way that we talked some of us talk Absolutely, and and just kind of where we act. Yeah. Yeah, I mean back in the day south side was a little more bougie Than the west side was known as a like, you know the middle of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but uh, you know things so bad It's it's all the same now. Okay. I'm from Chicago Stomped down. Yeah, so when you born and raised with your mom and dad in the household. Yeah born and raised with my mom Yes, I am cuz you know how that is not common. All right. Oh, yeah, it's tough. We'll talk about that. Yeah So and you how many siblings I had seven Seven symbols with my mom and my dad. She has a daughter my sister I lost two. Yeah, I lost two sisters back in I think 2010. Wow.   Well, I guess I guess you can say that you know what I mean coming up in that day anybody that was kind of older and You know what I mean kind of had like that that parent Movement with you. They can tell you to go to bed and get in the house and things like that All of my sisters and brothers are older older than I am But my mom was pretty sick when I was coming up really so I had a lot of Adult-like responsibilities What was wrong? Do you mind? Absolutely. Um, she suffered seven strokes when she was pregnant with me And seven strokes pregnant with you, but of course it didn't affect you Yeah, absolutely. I never heard that before. Yeah, she had seven strokes and it left her with a speech impediment and out of all of my Siblings and actually out of my mother's siblings I was the only person to really kind of understand every word. So it was like That's crazy like a blessing. Oh, absolutely. I was in you understood every word. It was nothing she could say That I maybe I just like uh, what was that and she was saying? Oh, she just said this that's what you said. Yep, exactly. So I can see why you were probably so close to her because of that Yeah That's like that's like touching to me. Wow So, um So you're very protective of her too. I was back then she's still here. No, she passed when I was 16 years old When you were 16. Yeah, she passed. How did that affect you because oh my god. I was um Such a big effect because you know, I think I was in my second year of being around death row records And uh, you know, when you when you young you always dream of the things that you wish to do for your parents, right? And uh, you know while being there in california recording She got sick, but she was suffering um during this time From heart failure and heart problems. So she had had triple bypasses and You know a few things going on with her heart. Yeah, my dad had a triple bypass and he lived for some years till he eventually passed away But did she pass away in her sleep? Because uh, so no, she actually had a heart attack February the f february the 8th Of 95. Yeah, my dad in 96. Really? Yeah, we canceled. I was there. Yes. It's something So you weren't even here when it happened you were in california. I had to fly back Wow fly back And uh come to that. Yeah Man, it's sometimes I know some people never get get over that You know, some people can't understand how to feel that void even though you left here to be an example Sometimes people can't figure it out. You know what I mean? but because a lot of people tend to in life when we In loss or in anything that we do as human beings we tend to always look at a negative We don't ever try to dwell on the positive because with you talking and saying that The first thing I thought about is that at least she was here to see you get your deal To see where you were going. You know what I mean? I thank god. Um, I think Well, I'm blessed that he allowed her to see me safe If that makes sense like you know to be 16 years old and to be the last Of her children to Like I guess it probably looked promising to her right. I mean, uh, okay, cool. Yeah singing He's doing something that he want to do and I was able to Bless her bless her, you know with a few gifts in the beginning. She didn't want much. She wanted me to be fine Most parents because you're a parent right now And to me monetary things are not, you know every day I pray for my kids. I always pray that you know God just keep them safe and keep them happy. That's a big whoever comes around them because they're gonna have people coming around them Oh, yeah, and whether it be false pretenders or people who really mean them good or whatever That they're able to discern this with these people and that they can find that happiness and that love That's the only thing that you can give them. You know what I mean? Because that's all you want for your children.  Oh, no, so you have to figure it out as you go Oh, man, and it's a it's a journey.  Look how you've accomplished all the things you've accomplished and I'm grateful History you wrote books you've done things that a lot of guys will never do in their lifetime You've been with park you've been with uh snoob you've been with sugar all of the the dog pound You've been everywhere. You know, you met a lot of people outside of that jamie fox.  It's amazing to share the journey But I have one question about your okay So when she passed away and I said, um, how did it affect you? um I'm Not always in that moment, but sometimes as you're older now you can look back and say oh, that's the reason why I acted out in this way after You know so far did you go through that period where? Absolutely. Um, I don't think that effect Never stopped especially You know in in our community in the black community uh, we don't We don't know how to grieve Um, we just grieve the best way that we can Um, if we get an opportunity to grieve that's true, you know, usually we just deal with The passing of a loved one um Well, we go to the service the repass You know and we we still cry For the for the person that was closer to the person we still cry daily But you know what I mean next week you got to get back to work And uh, I think just over the years um, even as a grown person it I I didn't learn until I was about Maybe 30 something Where I where I was at least at peace I was at peace at least like well, you know, she's she's no longer here. You know, my birthday was other day Yeah, I can't say that.  Yeah So I think you know, it's something you never get over I can relate Yeah, because I'm like when you're talking about grief I'm like is there even a proper way to grieve There's no such thing as a proper way to do the best way that we can and right And I guess I guess I say With our grieving process we don't I think get the attention that's needed You know, I mean I think when you lose someone Counseling and therapy and group sessions and Speaking with other people that's been in that position is is much needed. Yeah, and but but you hear as an example Yeah, so so you basically have been through things so you can help others to get Oh, yeah, so you basically went through what you went through so that you could have others who lose mothers in current time Oh, yeah Fathers in current times. That's a part of our journey. That's what a testimony does Especially when you put it to fire, you know what I mean you think about I met a girl at the airport And she broke down crime because she was traveling to see her father and Who passed away passed away traveling to bury him here in Chicago and Me being able to understand it because I've been through it. I lost my mother and my father I believe that helped me to be able to talk with her and help her to deal with her issue at this time at that time Right, you see with him, but if I hadn't never done that I couldn't have ever talked to her like that So for this appointed time, I believe that's why that's amazing, you know, how are you and you lost your dad Um, my dad died in 2011 February the eighth. Okay. He passed the same day as my mother. Whoa Um, 18 19 years later same day same day That's crazy That's why that's a date. You'll never forget. Absolutely Wow You have you have some likes Wow, yeah, man, you know, um, like I said, man, we just blessed to have you on on the show today, man Boss talk 101 man. We've been around for a couple of years now And you know, we strive at trying to figure out like man Who can we bring on so our people to be able to you know, feel what we're trying to give them?  So you're your your grandkids.  Yeah, they'll be able to go That my granddaddy did that and that's hard to me. I mean, you know what I'm saying I love it, bro.    You see what I'm saying? Do you know how I am about the music man? No, you see, I'm an R&B. He's rap. I don't know. I do it all. I do it all. I don't stop playing. Well, I'm all R&B.   Well, I'm thankful to that to should And to pot, you know, I mean like, you know to shoot for signing me to the label with 15 You know really being the R&B cat and round death row, you know outside of, you know, the guy I should say or the baby R&B guy because Nate dog was there and well But being able to do that being connected to him and then you know with the with the pop stuff You know him invite me in the studio. I was working on my album I could be we had an a and a b studio and I don't care if I'm in b back there working or a working Pox running in the studio while I'm on the mic So, you know, just just to I could I see those visions now Wow, as a grown man and to know that he invited me on those records Let's go back a little bit boy though like like you were actually going to the prison To see or to be around the fact that Poc was coming out to be oh, yes I want to talk about that because to understand that time he was locked up It's like everybody turned their back on him to me. It's like he was just there and nobody couldn't help him After all the accusations, he's just stuck. So you go down there. What are what are your thoughts as you go down to the prison? so, um After after my mother passed or you know, even during the time of my mother being sick Sugar became my legal guardian Okay, okay. So almost everywhere wherever sugar was You know, I'm near the day. I'll be there tomorrow. Wow um, so yeah, I company him on the trips of of preparing to bring Poc home And the day of bringing Poc home. I never did get an opportunity to go into the jail You know, I just remember going across the street.  Absolutely. Well, what was that like? So, uh, man, you know, you ride with Poc. Again, my introduction to hip hop is Snoop Dogg and You know those guys, uh, I come up around crucial conflict.  What shout out to wild style. Okay. Okay. That's here though, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah crucial conflict from Chicago My cousin wild style was the first person to put me in the studio But to be able to go there and work around those guys, you know what I mean and and you know, uh Just see the atmosphere of what was going on, you know and Poc getting out getting out of jail and You know us being in the car and getting on the flight, you know coming back I think the biggest thing for me is remembering the flight Poc was just so damn happy You know to to be out of jail to be out, right? You know what I mean? And we had girls and we used smoking weed and partying in what's the first thing yet What was the first thing if you remember, I think some ticket That's the first thing people Put a little weight on to he had to put a little bit of weight on he was short and you know, you come out I don't even think he ate enough though because I remember when when he we arrived to California I went to the house and then we were waiting for Poc to come To the studio and he got to the studio and got to the back door And before he got to the door, he just fell flat first Really fell out. Why they had to they had to wake him up and he'd get up Was he drunk? Oh man, I guess he hadn't smoked and drank too much Man, so when you think about because now kiffy d. Oh, we got to talk about that when you hear that they are Congratulations to him. Oh, that's what I'm saying Can tell me how you felt when you seen them raid his house and then they say, you know what? Now all we're writing is how we we we opened in this case back up. We're arresting him. What was that like? um I didn't really follow the case, you know, I had heard that this house had been raided and That just sounded weird by it being so many years. That's what I said, you know that had gone by but uh I noticed in the last few years How famous kiff have made himself. You know what I mean? I'm so from the book congratulations.  They were supposed to give everybody else that he's talking about So congratulations It's a book like about this whole situation and it's like he's putting it in front of everybody I don't know who everybody known for that. That's what I'm saying I heard he was sick or something.  Come on there You know what I mean? You just you know what I mean? You could sew your lips up And and if it needs to be shown And it needs to be seen, you know, god is a perfect person to Um magnify what we think we're exposing. Yeah. Yeah, that's right So he put it under the light. Nobody was paying attention to him.   So to live his last days if if they convict him or whatever this plan is to live those days out in jail If this makes him a little more comfortable Congratulations, so be it, right? Yeah, I wish you all the hard He the thing is that people people maybe as like what you're saying I never thought about it that way. He wanted to make himself right with god before it was time to go So he had this con fashion Well, you know, I just I just hope that he's safe I'm in because he talked a lot about, you know, you know different gangs in in vagus and said how weak they were All of the real gang bangers is in l.a.  He's telling the guy like you You know, I mean I think he wanted to be known especially to be talking like that. I mean, what else would he be known for?   Wow.  You you uh, as a young let's stay in that young boy state, man You you something else, you know, I got to bring the marriage a thing up I got to bring that up You know as a young dude because I was clubbing at a young age I was like 11 and 10 and 12 at the club So when I heard your story, I was clubbing for was clubs. I was lounging.  My daddy was born December the 25th 1926. So maybe you took marriage fast. That's what it was You it was you. It was me. I was a grown man and it's not He had a whole song that book your book man when you wrote it and decided Oh, yeah, straight on death row You decided to open up about all of these things. Yeah When you when you decided to open up about that you knew it was gonna cause some It was gonna run for some time. You know some people got mad, but I don't know. Did it really ruffle things? Well, you told your truth. Yeah, that's all it matters.   I did it too fast But I want to talk about it because back then it wasn't I came out. I had to fight for this But do you think when you were early on you was messing with Mary? Okay What did you feel like?  She was young too And that was Mary J blotting when I bought that story up because A lot of people thought that I was like trying to meet you I mean, I wouldn't use her Got somebody I could meet too if I want to But it wouldn't be Mary.  And I was like, whoa, wait a minute. No, what? No, it was my girl It was my girl, right?   Like you got kicked off the tour. Yeah, was that Was that concerning the fact that you was, you know doing things I think I was making moves around there well that between that too, I think after after It became so big, you know on the tour bus where everybody, you know with joke, you know, they'd be a man I just read the book last week.   Well, I still depend on you Damn, and I can't I couldn't you know, I looked at them as friends And um, you know after a while I was fired. You was actually singing for jojo, right?   I've I've been a lot of places. I've I've seen a lot of money I've I've been on private jets the difference between the jet that you're on now is The jet was probably made in 92 and I flew in in 95 And you might still be flying on that same damn jet. They got jets inside there 30 years old still in the air Yeah Oh, it's nothing new And even when you're talking about Mary J because when I heard the story and stuff like that And for some reason I even looked I was on TMZ and I seen where another young lady talked about she Had sex with Michael B. Jordan and so what I'm like, is it becoming such a thing because me growing up It was like you don't talk about certain things. You don't put that out there But it's now it's like everybody's oh, I slept with this person I slept with that whether it was a man or woman saying it But it's like it's just everybody's just putting it out there like why well, you know again You know for me saying it especially at the point of where I was in my life You know, I mean a lot of people knew that You know that after the demise of death row, you know, I was struggling and Yes singing backgrounds and things like that, you know At that point that was my That's my trophy out. That's my trophy. That's right. You know what I mean talking about You know, I wish Instagram were I wouldn't be less than my followers My followers would be up there crazy stuff that I've seen and done So, you know, when I shared that moment, it was I was sharing some things out of the book. Yeah Just to push it Not just to push it just to you know, I don't I don't tell people to tell all us to share them I'm proud of it. Man.  I was still with death row and death row was kind of Like really going up and genuine album hadn't came out. So I met genuine and Timberland and Magoo and missy. Yeah, missy was with a group sister and You know, she wasn't, you know, all of the acclimates that they have now now they didn't they didn't have So, how did you how did you guys interact? Was it was it cool? I remember being cool I was there to work with with divante And the person that I really Connected with the most was genuine. Okay. Yeah. That's my homie. That's my brother genuine. I've been following.   Yeah, slip-and-slide hard. Thank you Y'all did that out of the country too And into that video to you to see to see Everybody kind of walking something that I felt was rightfully mine.  Oh, no, I'm talking about now I'm talking. I guess after that. Yeah, you talking Oh, but during that time, like I don't I don't you know, I don't complain or I would Would never um Not talk about or forget what death row or what shouldn't I done for me? Did you ever run into like Timberland them after all those years or you never seen him again? Uh Every now and then I may have seen Timberland and missy like once or twice But nobody after everybody make it, you know, they all go into a state of I don't remember you.  Don't you think that's god shielding you? Yes I don't I don't want to you know I guess I'm I'm made I'm made for this but I'm not made for hollywood.  You know what I mean? Like I've probably you know telling my truth and Speaking how I speak, you know what I mean?  Have you always been like that because vocal? Yeah, because no, no Because in the beginning you might have been vocal but they're like like, okay And I'm saying this like the white howl right now going through his situation. He ain't able to speak He's he's all these innuendo you even say but think about it. You would you when you first Start coming into my sexuality.  There you go. Okay.  No, no, like I've been in trouble since I was little like Like now that I'll be looking at some of the things that like that you did Then I do now and now some of the interviews I've seen some interviews I'll be like, man, shut up Don't say that like I try to tell myself But you know, this was stuff that I remember the principal telling me In the day I was a bad kid, but you wasn't just going to tell me Some shit and if it ain't real and ain't right I'm not going to listen to that or if I believe something in my heart Even as a kid, I'm getting a whooping and I'm still saying I that's not right.  I'm a crowd That's still wrong. It's wrong. So when you talk about sexuality and how you you came out and everything like that and it's so um everything is so bold now especially with Everybody but then why are there still some people in the white hour?   That's what he said.  Oh, that's that's crazy, man. Sorry at this time.    And it is okay. You know, but yeah, we our community is so judgmental and You know, it's so funny that a lot of people I feel sorry for the white because there's so many people that's locked Uh That's locked inside of themselves and living for other people. That's what I was just about to ask Did you see that sense of freedom? Oh my god, my skin changed my cut my tone of my skin I felt like my life I got a lighter Like sneaking in hotels and like, okay, you meet me here and I'll meet you there and I'm running and I'm grown Out of hard work money That I work for I've never asked anybody to can you help me get a room?  I'm paying for but I'm hot And in the midst of that I've lost um great people That wanted to be dated out loud That wanted people to know that you know, they was with this this guy or awesome guy. I wanted them to know and I'm like No, I can't do this. You know, who wants to live that kind of life Did you lose friends or family who feel who said that well? I don't agree with Oh, yeah, a lot of people changed on me. Uh In a lot of those relationships Some of those relationships, you know, haven't been rekindled and the ones is some of them been rekindled and it ain't the same Uh, I used to be close to people in the family and and now it's like I'm not Uh, but it don't bother me.  If your mom was here, what do you think she would have told us? I think you think she knew absolutely Yeah, my mama knew me because even though all though you had baby mama girlfriends all of that like She's still your mama. Your mama know you Your mother know you and uh, quite frankly, I think my daddy knew You know, he passed before I came out, but My dad my dad I think he knew he would always say every time he met a girl with me man Man, she pretty man. I thought I thought I thought this boy was gonna be gay. That's what he was saying He telling me take me at the I used to take him in the stairs and give him a suit and the girl tried to put his suit on me crying Wow, that's crazy He telling me girl man, man, I gotta ask you about uh, man just She'll ignite man.  Oh man snoop.  Come on. Oh my bad My bad What was the what was what do you think? I know he had nate to rely on for like I don't know what snoop. You kind of hear the dog pound kind of talk about it It's like, you know, they say they interviews about what we had nadin Did I don't know if that that's what snoop felt I didn't feel like that because nate and I don't sing the same At all at all like and I'm not gonna even play with myself to play like it Yeah, yeah, we do two different things.  Yeah, that was a r.r.p To him, but uh, I just think that the time You know, uh, there was two sides of death row at that time And you know, I was mostly close with chug and Pock was around chug. So that's who I work with Didn't really get that opportunity to work with snoop. But I look forward to that real soon How was Two-pot and chug's relationship at the end. This is a gloomy place for people, you know How was it? Were they friends? Were they Was there a dilemma? Were there a drama even snoop? You hear all these stories? I've asked I asked, can you wear that? I've asked a lot of people I've interviewed about their relationship. You asked who? Can you wear that about about pock? She says none of them all of them went out, you know, what she said She said that she basically was saying that he was because she was around. Yeah, she was around. She said finish She basically would tell a story like, you know, she was she was there poxing her before he passed away He was in good spirits. You know where? She was there that night at the fight. Okay. Her and Nate's uh, White mama. Okay. Yeah, uh, baby mama at the time may have been white But she just she seemed like there was a good place there for snoop. She said snoop was not in a good place with pock when he passed Okay, so was that about right? She knew that. Yeah, she told me that I say she knew that is not what I Oh, she said she that's what she told us so evidently. That's what she knew I don't know.  I mean again, you know, um I want to hear from your perspective. We had our sides and You know, I mean like so when I hear a lot of people and I'm not saying pock was just privy to with shugged people but when I hear people saying Things like let's say for instance if pock wasn't getting along with shugged so to say She wouldn't have known that Okay Why because her baby daddy wouldn't have known that Snoop wouldn't have known that that's real because that's dad because he's hanging because he's hanging with bloods, right?  That makes sense Why would he because I would have been a problem.  You would have told him fucking.  No nigga. We nigga. Why you ain't happy? Those are the kind of meetings we had What? He had guardianship on him. Yeah, so they had a close relationship.  There was an intense meeting Give me a story on some of the meetings. You just got me thinking now Our red room meetings and our death row.  If things and you know, if something go right on snoop snooping them side or You know, I'm shooting them side You know snoop was the one To fix it and snoop people was the ones to fix it.  It's gonna beat on these crips and these crips gonna beat on these bloods It was organized organized. Shit. Like the homies checking the homies You know what I mean? And when things wasn't right, we were sitting in a room and You know, we were pulled off things right as men But everybody knew what death row was about. It wasn't we weren't men that was You know meeting in the corporate office. Oh, these was niggas Exactly meeting in the office, you know about millions and millions of dollars and dreams and and and it turned out to be Some brilliant niggas that I had to be in that room Because that work showed it. What was the last thing you said about And what was the last thing you said? What was your conversation like?  I would say I mean, you know us talking was Maybe the set of toss it up. Okay. That was the last video then. Whoa I wasn't happy with pot because of that video.   We here Is he always late anyway? I'm the latest person. Yeah So what was that like the energy that that that was a big that was a that was a nice video Oh, man, that man out. They told us if he's not here in the next 30 40 minutes, we're gonna scrap it Big budgets on these videos.  Yeah, I always say something me and Pocke always had like, you know words Like and I don't even know if they were true words. This was Words.    I was super serious about this company do my video Damn, uh, Jojo and Casey here.  Yeah, you should have been here You thought he would have learned this the slip of slide video. He was sitting there like he enjoyed it.   They were calling, you know Pocke say without a great gas Dray It was all kind of stuff said being said you heard you was there. So you know, what was that like?  Well, he just flipped like that. Like they were kicking it on california love and I think he kind of felt Pocke Pocke kind of felt that Dray wasn't participating with You know, the artists as much and you know, everybody should be working and nobody bigger than the next nigga around here You know and and dray was when even when dray came to the studio. It was like You know, the dean is here or He was an arrogant Quiet in the hallways.  It was real studio time. Shit when dray came into my business But he was serious too. You I think a look at looking how he is now I mean, man, I think it was serious and you know, and it's in this b studio.   I don't know You had that part and straight out of coaching That's what I thought about when he was saying that where he came out and he was telling sugar Like they were out there messing around or whatever and he was like man He was trying to record. Was it park was in the inside Yeah, I got parking here. Yeah, like y'all need to be quiet y'all out here messing around That move with that crazy.    No, I think it's all eyes on me movie. Oh my god. Oh, it was crazy horrible movie Why did you like it?  Not even five percent of it was true I mean, you know, it's hard for me like how you make a movie and don't talk about danny boy in it Like in my homie made that movie. They just wrote you out of it. Why would they write you out? Again, you know Sugar was being You know black wall. That's right. Anything that kind of had anything to do with sugar or the resemblance of him You know, I inherited a lot of his problems and um It's just still weird To be left out of the story. Like I would watch things um, even when working a job and and and anticipate on sing my part Or sing would you know, the little small part because I the a lot of people be like, man, you didn't know park that alone It felt like forever Yeah, but the work that we've done and the things that we've done It's a magnet. You couldn't it's a lot of people that won't experience that in a lifetime Do you think it's cause you from the west side of chicago and they was from l.a. And I happen them niggas ain't from l.a. most of them more than what Because I know I'm saying they be saying that and they like l.a. man. Come on, bro. Where you from? I'm just like you. I came from chicago with a vision and a dream Don't hold it against me.   I'm from chicago Which is hard.   It's kind of harder.  I just I guess that's why I'm blessed I go places You respect people You respect you respect.  You can't jump on.  So that's why we're my own books stranded on death row I don't need anybody to tell my story. I tell it to myself. Yeah I want to ask you about michelle a jumping from shoe to what from draiders shoes. I want to know how you was Oh, you know, I love it.  Like damn, you know Sexy red For real oh jazzy bell So i'm just giving history of um She was not we can go way back. Who was not what? Michelle a jazzy bell. Yeah, I'm just saying like we can go back. It's the spirit. The jazzy bell spirit That spirit jumps on whatever I mean she obviously she was because I mean it was said that she messed with I mean, we know she was in draped then we don't know if she messed with easy Right, we don't know then pop They say I don't know did you see him find at the studio drape? Did he hit her like that? No, come on, man. Oh, I never seen that shit, but I was around. I went around. I went around, you know, that part of it But you know what I mean? I don't put nothing past.  Yeah I mean, let's we wasn't there but she it she went from draid or should that uh She didn't hide that in her movie because she when she did a movie she couldn't hide it She couldn't hide it.  She hit it a long she hit it long enough She hit it and she was sneaking around is what he said when she was sneaking when they were sneaking You seen it all every last bit of it every last bit of it I was surprised how she made it sound like the reason why she did it because Because I how draid treated her and then he was there Oh nice movie That's the movie right there. I didn't let the butterflies out of now But she was telling her story No, no, no, you see don't want to be looked at like she got like 50 70 bodies. She was sneaking she was sneaking around with sugar draid was leaving Draid didn't have a bag right Where that's right because he didn't leave with no money. They said right there. So she called herself going with the winner But at that time but but but she portrayed um She portrayed him as being This man who was with all these different women while he was with her Draid so was sugar and everybody else. I'm like, that's real. It's the business we in That's hard when you just say it. So you think about it, man When you look at the way that these things are are When you look at the way that these things are happening man for as you know At the time when you own you when you're dealing with this You a young kid you 16 17 15 no 17. Yeah about 16 17 17 I think that's man. That's the hard part right now for you to be able to you know Being a mix of that boy. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall.  I've had uh, I've had a fun of my life, man The most the best fun of my life And you and I see why you was offended and y'all call me on the phone You you call me on three-way. We call. Yeah, y'all call me. Um, a leak had uh, basically Let's talk about that. Yeah, but we gotta talk about that because that happened on my watch, you know on my show We was in Las Vegas And I had really I was trying to understand because I didn't you know I love Malik too talking to him. I ain't gonna lie here for as the conversation He don't the poem to write everything about him when he come to what he do hard. So He's okay. He's a poet. Let's talk about it, man. So you basically the bullying part That struck a nerve with you a big nerve and I didn't understand why No, I didn't understand why because I'm on the outside looking in but now that I hear your story Can we state what we said? It was like he was being bullied and and somebody called me Basically you he had to come down and and really, you know, like So we'll straighten these out.  Okay, let's talk about it Great poet great poetry great words Has nothing to do with nobody I know from this city He's gonna call him. I don't know a nigga in this city that have called them when they got a problem Unless they have a problem with writing or literature That's one thing I gotta say this In his defense when I looked up his stuff like I looked up yours It was this guy that came on the breakfast club and I cannot remember his name But he spoke highly of the fact of he came to interview in Chicago And when he did Malik got all of the all of the gang members together Everybody put all of the major players together.  I packed this motherfucking block up That don't mean nothing. Wow Now I'm on the gating away from what he did but to say that like Everybody I know I'm for sure is more powerful than the niggaz, you know Wow period Every nigga I know is more powerful than the niggaz. He think he know Is that just I don't need him to call nobody for me as a matter of fact I don't know a nigga. I need to call somebody for me So I never needed a nigga call for sure Sure, it's not around right now, man. You know my hometown why I work I work in a funeral home. Wow Why I'm comfortable when I say I'm comfortable play it I don't need nothing. I've never needed no niggaz like I'm I stand my hand when I'm that don't mean I'm tough But I do know that when at the end of the day when it's time to leave here We all go in that back room in that cold room. That's right And I'm more than likely I'll be dressing they ask before somebody be dressing me Wow man, I just like I said The way that store because she'll he had gotten shot in the leg that even came out on my shirt He didn't shoot you he didn't get man.      No, wait a minute now Now my boy my boy crying because he feel like okay.   No way what they're gonna do man. That's your audience. Do you think you can whoop him? Probably not That's the embarrassment.  That's a big nigga And so that's why you do you think that's why he crying no disrespect Do you like being called a nigga?  I don't know him like that, but I do know Nigga crying man. I was tripping off that. I'm like, damn man. He getting emotional about that, bro He probably just scared man when you scared like because again, I People say stuff about people all of us now.  He better say something Ain't nothing like getting closed down if you're getting closed down by us Then ain't the lgbd shutting you down.   They don't they will come to a gay party And clean it out No, not today And i'm grateful for that. No, that's I don't brag up man. I think it's about how you treat people You know, I mean everything that I've said in interviews is my story. You matter about how I talking how I said Flip the channel That's real. That's what cunny said fast forward fast forward I like cunny I do too like that With social media the way how it is right now where everything is so in your face because people are so addicted as much as people It's so funny People will be watching these interviews and they don't like something that you say And they're in the comments saying all this other stuff and whatever But they refuse to get off of the channel And find something else. Oh, yeah, well, I love it.  That's whack 100 I mean, I guess What? Where did they come from? What did you say? What's up with whack 100? Now this ain't the only person that could talk about like people's lifestyle and like only this privy to do that Nobody should be privy to do that. But black 100 he is. Why is he? I don't know I don't know.   It's crazy. I love it So I gotta ask you about that come for to get you out of jada and jada wrote a book. You wrote.   Go ahead. I'ma finish. Go ahead. She's a promo queen. Like she basically I think it in my opinion I'm thinking it's all for the book all of this stuff. I hadn't been with wheel Uh, I got alopecia and two part got it. You know, I want to hear her like do they help you? I got alopecia to my albums out of my car You don't want to. I got alopecia to those Shit, if it's gonna work I got it too So tell me what did you think like like when you when you seen her start talking about Park wasn't her soul made and she wasn't practice. What was that? I hope Because I do a lot of interviews And I'm just now getting the opportunity to be known for the music again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Um, I just hope that I don't look How she looks.  I think it's for attention And I was with it all the way up until I think I seen her say She gave her pox ashes Or something like that in you know what and you close to that situation So what I just don't know. I won't why would she say that and you know it comes to the red table just to see the time frame Because I know the pox ashes was separated and he knows about him stuff like that So the last time I seen the I was probably the outside of the person that delivered him the second or third person to see his ashes And I just don't know how they went from sugar to his mother I think one of the securities maybe to Jada That's heavy.  What okay, so what kind of relationship did She have with two pot that I don't know. Did she go get him out of jail? No, no, why? She didn't have a million dollars. No, you don't think she had a million dollars to spend for for him. I'm just saying she had it She didn't have all these resources I don't know, but you were around them. So you saw their relationship. I'm trying to see what I was never around them You're never never seen Jada. I've never seen him during this death. Never seen you never seen them together I think everything she's talking about is Baltimore and And that was it and that was the whole time it was just as long as me just yeah I mean, she had the right to say it because she knew him, but You know all of this love What was everybody at when Paco was locked up? They weren't sitting across the street like you a lot of people a lot of people turned their backs on him You know, it's sort of like the R. Kelly thing like when that light got shine on him that he raped somebody A lot of people left Paco alone So I think those are the parts she should share in the story. Let's talk about that part Those are parts that they should say this is where I was during that time Don't try to fit yourself in during You know the good time So do you feel like her and will is going to be just totally because I know they're separated according to the whole You know, do you think this divorce? Will is will whatever they got going on. She's good She's good because she can say anything and and will come out and he say that you love her and You know, that's I guess that's one thing man.   I gotta I gotta get him out of here It's over now To this song that whole stretch Whoa What's the difference Danny boy? I always ask these crazy questions like what's the difference in that Danny bar? To that this song guy, it's over now written and produced by babyface. I'm grateful for that, obviously um Just around death row You know, those are my growing years You know, I mean finding myself as an artist I knew that I could sing Um at that time, I guess I didn't know what to do with it or You know when to put this chop here or there so a lot of stuff that I probably hear when I was younger I'm thinking like oh my god. I can't believe I did that. I'm cringed by it but um The growth I call it death row university first I learned a lot from death row and To take that and to get into master's classes, so to say these struggles along the way Uh, I sing about things that I've went through or experience and that's close to me Uh, this black heart album You know, just it means the same thing as the red emoji of a black heart or the red Emoji heart mean love The black heart of my album is why I named it that Because I believe in black love Um, I don't believe that, you know, just out of living this life. Everything isn't going to be Great all the time I mean even in love ship friendship You know, I mean me and my best friend we we're not gonna agree and Be on the same page me and the love of my life. We're not gonna be on the same page The the part is is how do we make it through? How do we get to the next page? Or to the next chapter and and to be able to sing about that now Um certain things I just wouldn't sing like songs. I wouldn't even with rappers I'm not a part of certain songs and what I've done that already Um, I I'm I'm grateful for the gift that God has left me with and sustained So I'm I'm pretty careful on how I use it and and with that Um over the last year from releasing the album. I made it to top 10 on the billboard. Yeah, I seen that Man, congratulations, man. How does that feel to be back in a mix like that, man? I mean to to to be forgotten for so long and Uh, man, I it's overwhelming when I'm out in the crowd and I'm singing the song sometimes and I see People singing the words to wow, you know to know that wow, they're finally paying attention to me Uh, you know, I had that little Five 50 five to 15 seconds on aim attitude and to get that attention At two minute and 30 second attention Is amazing and to hear it on the radio and we just dropped another single called just friends From the album and I'm getting a lot of love So I'm just you know, it's still not where because I'm I'll be like, oh my god When the promoters gonna start calling I'm ready to sing and ready to go out So I'm still waiting for a lot of those parts to connect, but I'm grateful um for so many years to have passed And to still be able to you know, I feel fresh Wow, I mean, I feel like I could sing I have the energy And uh, I'm ready to do it. So thank you so much. I have one last question It ain't gonna be the last because I got my R&B because you know people some people say R&B is that right Um, do you think R&B because growing up in the 90s all of that R&B was like to me the peak like I love R&B. Yes. Will R&B ever come back to that point like what it was I know cycle goes around and come back again. Do you think it's going to ever come back? Uh, when what will it take? I think that we're on the right track With R&B coming back It's definitely on the on the uprise Um And and and I guess while I say it like this, uh, the worst Unfortunately the worst off that we are in the world It seemed better For R&B and gospel because people need that healing And R&B music and soul music blues Uh have and gospel has always served as a as a piece of healing For people, you know when people was working in the cotton field there were songs that they sang To make them get to the next day I'm sure the guy that's sitting in the cell. There's a song that he sang every day to help him count those calendar years Um, I don't know if the happy birthday song would be as exciting if it was just a letter and not saying All right, so for us to get back to that moment. We're going through so much in the world Where you know that song is a lot of that hill and a lot of people is searching for healing and I'm not saying that a rap song can give you that a poetry can't give you that But you got to go to one of them lose the records of the Marvin Gaye records Man when you deep hurt in love you go to those records you Said something that I laughed about when you said that Sid and I say you should have been and came out And if you had a came out and did some of the things that he told you to do you really blow He's like, I'm gonna tell you what you should do though She's always playing that's all right, man. I I um Speak with him every now and then. Oh, yeah, that's cool. My phone line is open to him. That's good forever in a day That's and how is he doing in there? He's in jail. I know he isn't jail. That's I think he's comfortable. That's what I was trying to see He's doing a podcast or something podcast going he's probably Really calls. Yeah, have you been on this podcast yet? He's gonna have to pay me Yeah, he's definitely but y'all lawyer to one another man. He was with him as a kid Don't mean I won't get with snoop dawg You're rock out with the new devil man. I'm so excited about this death row thing just the possibilities because I feel like it's unfinished business It's a place that you know what I mean? I I was there And I definitely want to be home. That's all I want to finish some I know some records that was left in the vault Yeah, I can't I would love to get in the vault and yeah, and uh, everybody knows snoop is a part of everything Top three top three artists of all time dead or alive and any genre. We're getting him out of here now That's that's the wind down. Donnie. Donnie hathaway. Can you say donnie hathaway? Give me something man For all we may never meet Again But before Make this moment Can you make it sweet? It won't say Good Talented God bless you man. Where did you get that time from your mom? Your dad? My mother was a singer And I just think that God left me with the serousability of the talent So I have her voice and my aunties. I come from a singing family. So god killed that bro Give me the second one bro. I gotta get the second boy. That made me forget about my top three We're coming back. I need the next one number two. So donnie hathaway Um, you killed stokely williams of make william of make condition That boy bad. Oh my god. That's that's my mentor That's like who I look up to. That's the one that say we fell in love Yeah I went to their concert one time. So I was hurt behind that concert. I was with you You wouldn't you know because of it was the music man. So can I tell you what?  Yeah, I like one of my favorite kind of man I'm gonna be honest with you. The reason that night kim clowned that night with me Kim kim a beast man that night. He's a story. I like sleeping man It was just I think of charlie wilson was that charlie wilson. So it was a wild blend Man, so my last one, uh So we got stokely of mid-condition Uh, dining hot the way that last one. I was on steve one steve one did. Oh, yeah You were the daddy of music. You've met him I met him once but um, I met him once when I first signed the death row But since I released this single he showed me a lot of love. Uh, shout out to the station and in LA And I was calling into the station to speak with someone on the radio and she was like, um He'll a voice is something he's like, man This song man, this song is incredible and I'm like, thank you so much and And the lady was like, uh, that's the mr. Stevie Wonder and I'm like, whoa, whoa, wait And he talked on the interview on the phone with me for about 10 15 minutes That's awesome. It was just to hear the stuff that he was saying. Thank you, daddy That probably made that's And maybe want to sing much longer so y'all got to do Yeah, what did you sing the gmy v when you sung to him? Uh, that was a song that was called, uh Drive by what made you sing this? So I just you ain't got a so no That was one of the songs that I when I was going because I was there to meet with another label Okay, and we had a series of songs put together for the auditions Okay, and that was one of the first songs.  Hold up He's but before I sang he knew I was going to meet and he's like, but something he thought I was going to rap And I sang and he was like, hold up.  Do you still you don't even talk to him anymore? I haven't talked to jimmy in some years, but that would be an interesting conversation Yeah, it would be and for you to sing for jimmy javeen. It's like he was the rock and roll dude But he was the one to usher daddy In right. Yep. That's crazy out of all your songs that you have which one is your favorite song I gotta say right now for my album right now. I'm the black heart album. It's always It's called crazy. Why is that one your favorite?  So it tells my mom You're a good guy man. Thank you show man. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Shout out. How can people get How can people get a hold of you if they trying to link up with any boy? Y'all can find me get all in my business on instagram. That's danieboy steward. I'm always on there Um, you can follow me on facebook, which is danie steward and to follow everything Just go on to your website and search go danieboy.com I'm gonna tell you something. Complement really is the fact that I didn't have ten to scoot up. He's used to this I'm so happy how you have to be yourself in this area I was talking about that before we got here People being on my nerves Why don't you set up as you had you got this figured out I gotta find your show. We don't thank you. I gotta check it out You know, like whenever you doing I have a radio station. It's called fmp and it's an internet radio station So we're still building it up. So we'll talk man. Maybe I can come do a second Yeah Yeah, y'all can do some work. We'll holler. Let's talk. Okay. Give me some of the news second with me Thank you so much, man boss. I want to one more the bosses talk. Can we out me?


We have already discussed about the main reproductive part of a flower and we looked deep down into how the anther looks, what is inside the anther and the detailed cross-sectional structure of an anther. And the main purpose of that video was to see how the microspores are formed here. So let me bring this part outside. So this is the one which has sporogenous cells, the spring cells that you see inside are sporogenous cells and we saw how these sporogenous cells divide meotically to form microspores. Now in this video we will look into what are the changes that takes place inside these microspores so that a pollen is formed and then how this anther bursts and pollens are released. So let's begin. Let's begin by talking about the changes that takes place in the microspores and for that we will have to look into this part. So the tipatum layer and the pink cells that you see inside which later forms microspore. Let us enlarge that part now. So here it is. This is the tipatum layer. Let me write down. This is tipatum and why is it so important because the cells here are big. It has a lot of cytoplasm and it provides nourishment to the cells that's growing inside. Along with that it has many other functions and we will discuss about them when we come across those functions. So inside this tipatum layer we will have microspores which are formed by meotic division and therefore they are haploid and we discussed how these cells are formed in our previous videos already. Now we will look into the changes that takes place in the microspores and for that let us just keep one cell and look into the changes that's taking place in that cell. So let's get rid of all these cells and just keep one. Here it is. This is also a haploid microspore. Now this microspore has a membrane which is just like a cell's membrane. So it is similar to plasma membrane but around this plasma membrane this microspore now starts secreting another layer which is called the intine. This intine is made of cellulose and cellulose plus pectin. Okay so these are the substances that makes up this layer and who produces this intine this microspore itself. Now what is the need of this microspore to even produce a layer outside it because it already has a plasma membrane right? So what is the need of another layer? What do you think? Well the answer is this microspore which later will turn into a pollen now will be released outside in the environment to go and fuse with the female gamut right? So to protect the content inside the microspore it needs layers outside so that it is not destroyed when it is released in the environment. Now this tipatum layer which is outside which provides nourishment to the to the growing cells inside this tipatum layer thinks that this intine layer is not sufficient for the microspores. So this tipatum layer now secretes a substance which is called a sporopollenin. This sporopollenin aggregates around this microspore producing another layer which we call exine. So this exine is secreted by this tipatum layer and this sporopollenin this long biological term is actually a chemical substance which is one of the most resistant organic compounds known and this sporopollenin makes up the exine so imagine the kind of resistance or the kind of protection this microspore or the pollen gets. So if an animal happened to ingest this pollen this exine will make sure that the digestive juices of this animal won't digest the pollen and also if this pollen happened to fall on parts where it should not fall like on water or on soil then this exine layer will make sure that this pollen is not degraded or destroyed. So these two layers are basically to protect this pollen when it is released outside and now with two layers on the outside of this microspore this microspore is now called a pollen. We have already been calling it a pollen but any microspore that has an entine and an exine outside it we call it a pollen so now it has become a proper pollen. Alright now as we have discussed about the different layers that is outside a pollen it's now time we look what's happening inside. So this pollen which is formed from a microspore is also haploid because microspores were haploid and we have not seen any cell division here so this will also be haploid but now mitosis will take place inside the cell and like any mitotic division first the nucleus will divide so the nucleus will divide into two but things happen differently when it comes to the cytoplasmic division because the cytoplasmic division is not equal. As you can see a large cell is formed which has more cytoplasm and more cellular content and a small cellular section is formed which gradually gradually forms a complete cell that floats inside this large cell. Now as we can see that this cell is divided into two one large cell and a small cell. This large cell is now called the vegetative or the tube cell. Can you guess why we call it a tube cell? Well this is because this cell can rise to what we call a pollen tube. So if we consider this to be a pollen and here are the eggs of a flower then from this this part of the cell pollen tube develops. So this is the pollen tube that reaches the egg and through this tube the male gamutified travels. So this is the cell the tube cell which give rise to this yellow color long pollen tube that you see here and we also call it vegetative because it do not directly take part in the fusion or it do not give rise to the male gamutified. So this vegetative or the tube cell we just saw give rise to a long pollen tube. Then what is the job of this smaller cell here? This cell we call it the generative cell because this cell give rise to the male gamuts and most pollens are released in this stage. This two cell stage one which we call vegetative or tube cell and the other one which we call generative cell that gives rise to the male gamutified. So in this in this stage the pollens are released. Now let us see how these pollens are actually released. And for that let us bring in the transverse section of the anther again and as we have discussed this pink sporogenous cells inside finally grows into proper pollen and we and we saw how pollens are finally formed but during the course of the formation of pollens the layers outside the pollen particles slowly becomes fibrous and and somewhere here and here on both sides the the tension kind of increases and the anther bursts out releasing the pollen and that is how we see the pollen being released outside by the anthers. So this was all about how pollens are formed from microspores and how the anther bursts and releases the pollen outside.


Hi everyone, my name is Saurabh Hirani, I'm working as a DevOps engineer at BlueJeans and today I'm here to talk about transitioning your monitoring systems from manual to automated to a distributed one. Now a lot has been talked about benefits of automated monitoring, distributed monitoring but not much has been said about how do you go from taking your manual setup to an automated or a distributed one. We are going to talk about that and all of the learnings that I'm going to share are going to be backed up by demos which are present in the GitHub repo of this talk so that you can also try them out on your own. So let's begin. We'll start this talk by asking a very interesting question, which is your favorite server monitoring tool and which is your favorite server monitoring tool and why is it your users, right? So if your users are alerting you before your monitoring tool is, it means that you have a monitoring system which is not in pace with your infrastructure changes and in most cases it's a manual monitoring setup, right? So a manual monitoring setup is basically a demo setup that overstayed its welcome. You wanted to do some monitoring for your organization, you played with a few monitoring tools, you set up a demo system to show it off to your team and you never got around to operationalizing it and that is where it stayed. It is currently monitoring your production setup but every now and then you run into problems. Some major problems are your infrastructure team added 100 new hosts yesterday. How do you start monitoring them? You have to log into the server, open up a config file, add 100 entries and then you are monitoring. But what about the time gap in which you have to make this manual change? You lose monitoring in that time gap. Worse yet, what happens to hosts when they are removed from your infrastructure? This means that if your hosts are decommissioned and if they are present in your monitoring system you will still get alerts about them and they will be false alerts. So you decide to fix this, right? So you try to go on to the next step which is automated monitoring.  So you are like, I am not going to make any manual changes, I will see to it that I auto discover hosts and when hosts get added to my system I start monitoring them, when they get removed from my system I stop monitoring them. How we achieve that? We are going to look at that in a demo but now you are set. Everything is automated. But still there is a major problem here.  You don't know what state your infrastructure is in. So you try to go on to the next step, distributed monitoring. In that what you try to do is that you have multiple checkers and distributed checks which means you don't rely on one host to do your monitoring. You have multiple hosts which are doing the monitoring and if one of them goes down the checks are redistributed across the rest of the host, right? So that works for you plus you also get the feature of horizontal scalability which means as your infrastructure grows you can also grow your monitoring system with it. Now this is all hand waving. I have just talked about manual to automated to distributed monitoring in less than a minute. But an important observation can be done here. As you saw when we are at manual and then we want to automated and then we want to distributed the feature set that we require from monitoring system starts becoming more and more apparent. In the first state all you needed was an ability to log into the server and make manual changes in manual one. And then in the automated setup you needed some way to discover hosts and generate configs out of them. And you probably need some rest APIs also for you to monitor the monitor and all of those things. And in the third state you need some level of inherent clustering abilities in your distributed setup, right? So as you keep on going from each state to the next state the requirements for your monitoring tool starts becoming more apparent. And at this point I will call out the distribution that I have used. For manual monitoring I have used icing a 1.x which is basically a Nagios compatible version. If you have ever used Nagios you will feel right at home with icing a 1.x. And for automated and distributed setup I have used icing a 2. Because icing a 2 provides me with the features of distributed checks and all those things. Now the tool set that you might have might be very different from these things but the learnings that we are going to have are going to be common across everything, right? So enough of talk let's start with the demos. How do you make the transition? You had a manual setup and you want to go to the next level which is you know automated monitoring, right? So the first step obviously is to audit the manual setup. Find out what you have, right? So before we start with the demo I'd like to point out an important thing. No matter how manually your setup is, see to it that you audit it in an automated way. And this might mean using tools, libraries, API, writing one of dirty scripts to do your job but don't log into the server to get that information. Because if you constrain yourself through an interface, if you constrain yourself through a specific way of getting information then the scope of human error is reduced, right? So let's look at a manual setup first. This is the GitHub repo of the stock. What I have done is that I have a simple docker container running icing on one dot x. All you need to do is do pseudo start container and you'll get the setup. This setup is populated with these config files. This one config file, right? One big config file which is present in your manual monitoring setup. What it is doing is that you know you have three app nodes. App one, app two, app three, which are a part of host group app. Obviously these are dummy nodes because they have local host IP, right? A host group basically is a group of hosts which share the similar attribute. In this case, app one, app two, app three are app nodes. So if you go down, you have Redis one, Redis two, Redis three, which are your infra nodes. And you have some checks running on your app nodes, some checks running on your infra nodes, and some checks running on both app and infra nodes. So you have this configuration. You put it in a machine, you reload Icinga, and you get something like this, right? So this is a, you know, don't go by the UI. This is a very simplistic representation, but it gets the idea across. You have app one, app two, app three running some checks. You have Redis one, Redis two, Redis three running some checks, right? So your manual setup is ready. Now you have to audit it.  The tool that you might use might differ. But we are doing something very simple. So if I do discover host list, right? I get three nodes. App one, app two, Redis one, Redis two, Redis three. And there is no magic happening here. If I just open this script, all I'm doing is I'm making a call to a specific API and getting some information out of it, right? Similarly, you can get information about your host groups, right? App host groups has app one, app two, app three, infra host group has Redis one, Redis two, Redis three, and so on, right? So this way you capture the information that is required for you to know.  What is the chain that has been made over the years? So now that you have this information, you are ready to move on to the next state, which is building a parallel automated setup. Now remember, you cannot do anything manually here. I mean, you should not do anything manually here, right? So what you decide to do is get the host information and generate these configs that you have in an automated way. How do you do that? Every organization has, you know, host information spread across multiple databases. You will have some hosts present in your config management system, like Chef, Ansible, Puppet, et cetera. Some hosts which are not Chef, but which are in your cloud, you know, cloud providers like AWS, which means you have elastic load balancers, you have RDS instances and everything, and you will have some nodes which are neither in AWS nor in Chef, your network devices, switches, routers, and all of those things, right? So the information about these hosts is present somewhere, and if that, and that somewhere is called an inventory, a host inventory. And if you can tap into these host inventories in a programmatic way, then you can very well generate the configs. So for an automated setup, I have, I've written a simple Chef cookbook, and for those of you who are not worked with Chef, Chef has this fundamental concept of recipes. Recipes are basically Ruby scripts which run on machines and do something. In this case, we have three recipes, configure AWS nodes, configure Chef nodes, and configure XYZ nodes, right? Where AWS, Chef, and XYZ are your host inventories, which means these are the places where your host information resides. Now if you open one of these guys, let's open the configure Chef nodes, right? This is a very simple Ruby script. What it does is that it looks at all of the target environments. Chef has a concept of environments also which are very similar to your normal QA prod stage environments. All that I'm saying here is that go through all of the environments, find out all of the hosts in those environments, go through each of these hosts, and for each of the hosts, generate the monitoring config for it. This is a programmatic equivalent of doing this. So now if I have to add 100 new hosts, I don't have to log into a machine and change the config. The next time my Chef runs, or the next time my config management tool runs, it will detect that 100 new hosts have been added in my config management system, I have to add them here. If hosts are removed, they'll be removed from there also, right? So that way you achieve some sort of auto discovery of hosts and auto removal of hosts, and you can try out the Chef recipe by just doing a simple way grant up to get this information. So now you have host configs which are automatically generated. Then comes the next part of adding the checks. So out here we had added checks on host groups. We wanted some check to be run on all app nodes. So what we did was that we took all the app nodes, put them in a host group, took a check, applied it to the host group. This means that this checks get applied to the app nodes which are present in that host group, right? But when you're picking up hosts from inventories, you are no longer limited by this abstraction of putting hosts in a host group. Nodes in inventories themselves have very rich information. You have information about what OS they are running. If you have worked with AWS nodes, you have information about, you know, which region are they in and all those things, right? You should be able to tap that information to generate configs. So another example here, out here I'm generating the configs. Now don't worry about the syntax that you see, I'm just using a function which is getting some parameter here. So the check HTTP check is running on all the nodes which have the role app, but it is being ignored on one node which is app three. The check procs check is running on all infra nodes. The check users check is running on all nodes which have the OS Linux. And this last check is running on all hosts which don't have the OS Linux, right? So now you see we are not tied to host groups to generate checks. We are directly adding checks through host attributes, right? So through that you get the programmatic equivalent of this. So tomorrow if a new check gets added and you want to apply it on some parameters, you don't have to change the config, right? It gets applied to new host as long as a masses attributes. If you add 100 new Linux hosts, then the 100 new Linux hosts get the checks which are applied on the host OS. So through that you get a second set which is this. This is the automated setup. I'll just call this out. Just in a pointed 127.001.2 automated monitoring transition and manual monitoring transition. This is my Isingar host, this is my Isingar to host. Now if you see there's a difference here, this mute sign. What I've done is that if you have two monitoring setups, we audited the manual setup, we build a parallel automated setup. Now what we need to do is that we need to, we should see to it that we don't have alerts coming from both the systems because if things go wrong, you don't want your automated setup to alert you right now because you're just trying out stuff. So that's why I was just disabled notifications here. So audit of manual is done, parallel is built up. Now comes a part of progressive cutover. Now you have to start cutting over manual nodes one by one which means that you have to take a set of manual nodes, cut them over to the automated setup and start moving on. So for the cutover, and this is important, the progressive word is very important because you have to show some progress to your stakeholders. You cannot just shut down your role monitoring system and bring up a new one. Because this is your monitoring system we are talking about, it cannot have a downtime. So in the progressive cutover, what we need to do is a typical scenario, you want to disable one guy and you want to enable the other guy. So what you do is that you take a set of nodes, right? You enable notifications on the new guy, you disable the notification for the same set on the old guy and then you rinse repeat, right? So you take app nodes, you enable on the new guy, disable them on the old guy and then you take infra nodes and do that. So let's try doing that, which means I'll be enabling notifications for the app nodes here and disabling notifications for the app nodes here. So if we do that, again, these are just using simple API calls. So if I do manage iSinger2 notifications by host group, I have to enable app nodes on iSinger2 enabled and I have to disable iSinger on, right? So if you look at this UI now, let's refresh this page, right? So the notification go away for the app nodes, which means I have enabled notifications on this guy and we go to the manual setup and if I refresh this guy, yeah. So you have disabled notifications on the old guy, right? So this is how we do a progressive cutover from a manual setup to an automated setup, right? Now comes the next part of doing a distributed setup. If you have done your automated setup in the right way, then you get static distribution of nodes as a side effect. To understand that, let's look at the same recipe that we had looked at earlier about generating host configs, right? So you look at this parameter stage one, stage two. This is obviously a configurable parameter. You can say that monitoring host A will monitor only QA nodes. Monitoring host B will monitor only app, stage nodes or you can take it to the next level. Monitoring host A will only monitor QA nodes having the role app. Monitoring host B will monitor only the QA nodes having the role infra, right? So that way you can have static distribution of nodes. You can have two different set of host, monitoring two different set of, two different monitoring host, monitoring two different set of nodes, right? But if you want to have advanced feature sets like dynamic distribution or high availability or failover, you need to choose your tools wisely. Icinga 2 in that context is pretty cool. It has great integration with Chef. It has a very solid REST API. It has features like distributed monitoring and high availability just out of the box. You can enable them and work with it. And you should definitely try it out, which is pretty cool. I have a link to Icinga 2 cluster here, which is basically a set of two vagrant VMs which are working in a master slave mode. So that is how you do your distributed setup. Now, throughout all of these stages, you have to remember to monitor your monitoring system also. Which means you have to see to it that it consumes resources less than the capacity that you have provisioned for it, right? Because if your monitoring system is not being monitored and for monitoring it, you can do cross monitoring. The stage can monitor prod and all of those things, right? So that's about it. These were the things that I wanted to talk about. There are a few other learnings that I had to skip because of time constraint. Catch me and we can talk about it. And the resources are present here. Click on it and you can try out the demo setups. And thank you for your time. Questions? I just want to know, it's okay. I just want to know, this is only for node level monitoring or we can use application metrics monitoring or some other services, right? Yeah, you can do that also. So what I did here was, you know, if you look at it, I'm doing a check called check users or total processes. You would be better of capturing this information through Grafana or doing some metrics level monitoring, right? So in icing.


Missing a flag up here. There it is. We've got some placards out. A big welcome to Georgia. Let me hear you. One, two, three. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, accompanied by Senator Mack Mattingly. He's always there. He's honest. He's trustworthy. And he's present. But they can't argue with our success. They want to ignore their record of failure. The greatest president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I enjoyed that six more years chant very much. That other one, that other one, there's a little constitutional provision involved there. No, I'll settle for two more years of a Republican Senate. You couldn't hear that. That was a plug for my wife to run. Well, thank you, Mack, for that kind introduction. And let me say hello to the mayor of Columbus, Bill Feitner. And to your next mayor, John Gauze. And having been the drum major of a boys' band in Dixon, Illinois, let me also say hello to some great bands, the Hardaway High School Band, the Shaw High School Band, and the LaGrange High School Band. I love all of you, believe me. And before I get started, let me mention two of Georgia's and the Congress' best, Newt Gingrich and Pat Swindle. And let me also mention the governor for Georgia's future, Guy Davis. And to those of you who've come here over here today from Alabama, I just want to say that you have a true American hero for your senator, Jeremiah Denton. And I'll be seeing him in my next stop in Birmingham later today. And, you know, looking at all these signs and everything, you forgive me, I have to mention one. It was way back in a little school called Eureka College in Illinois many years ago, a fraternity named Tawkapa Epsilon. Not only made me a member, they gave me a job waiting table or I couldn't have gone to school. I can't help but see the young people who are here in the audience, and I have a special message to all of you from my roommate. When it comes to drugs, please, for yourselves, for your families, for your future and your country, just say no. You know, it's wonderful, it's wonderful to be here in Georgia.  You know, I probably couldn't do this much traveling when Congress was in session. As mathematically will tell you, that's because some of those folks need watching. Now, I have great respect for the institution. It's just some of the individuals that Mac and I criticize as he has already. Some of them need watching, really. Some of them remind me of that little story about three fellows who came out of a building and found they'd locked themselves out of their car. And one of them said, well, get me a wire coat hanger and I could straighten it out and figure out how to trip the handle with it. And the second would say, you can't do that. Someone will see us and think you're stealing the car. And the third one said, well, we better do something quick because it's starting to rain and it drops down. And that story says so much about the tax and tax and spend and spend policies that left our country just a few short years ago with negative growth, double digit inflation, the highest entrance rates since Get Ready, the war between the states. And so as a part of that 1980 cleanup crew for the worst economic mess since the Great Depression, Mac Matigly and I headed for Washington.  We slashed regulations. We cut income taxes, yes, almost 25%. And today we're enjoying one of the longest economic expansions in history. In the last 47 months, we have created over 11.5 million new jobs. More jobs than Western Europe and Japan put together have created in the past 10 years. Inflation, as Mac told you, has come down. It's plummeted from more than 12% to 1.8%. The prime interest rate has fallen by two-thirds. Mortgage and auto loan rates are down. And you know, I got the idea that it was working. Our ideas were working when the opponent stopped calling it Reaganomics. Now, just a few days ago, we learned that the figure that represents the country's economic growth, gross national product GNP, and some other indicators show our economy gathering momentum for even more growth, higher take-home pay and more new jobs. In short, we're headed for a second boom. And I'm determined to see that those who still are not sharing fully in our nation's prosperity do so. I give you my pledge, neither Mac nor I will be satisfied if this expansion reaches every sector of our economy and until every American who wants a job has a job. To broaden our expansion, I signed into law last week the most sweeping reform of the tax code in our nation's history. For more than 80% of Americans, it means a top tax rate of 15% or less, and that's why I call it tax cut two. But wouldn't you know it? Even before this fair share tax plan reached my desk, the Democratic leadership in Congress was saying that they wanted to break faith with the American people and turn tax reform into a tax hike. You know, the truth is, those folks never met a tax they didn't like. When it comes to spending your hard-earned money, they act like they've got your credit card in their pocket, and believe me, they never leave home without it. But you, the American people, you know the truth. We have a deficit because we're taxed too little. We have a deficit because Congress spends too much. Now, isn't it about time the Congress started protecting the family budget instead of fattening the federal budget? The contrast between us and the leaders of the other party is just as apparent when it comes to judicial appointments. Now, you know, President appoints judges, but they have to be confirmed by the United States Senate, or they don't become a judge. When we began appointing federal judges to be approved by people like Mack Mattingly in the Republican Senate, the federal judiciary has become tougher, much tougher, on criminals. Criminals are going to jail more often and they're receiving longer sentences. Over and over, the Democratic leadership has tried in the Senate to torpedo our choices for judges. And that's where Mack Mattingly can make all the difference. Without him and the Republican majority in the Senate, we'll find liberals like Joe Biden and a certain fellow from Massachusetts deciding who our judges are. I'll bet you'll agree I'd rather have a judiciary committee headed by Strom Thurman than one run by Joe Biden or Teddy Kennedy. Now, I can't resist telling another story here. There was a Democratic fundraiser and when the people were coming out of the affair at the end of it, there was a kid outside with some puppies. He was holding up these puppies one by one. He held Democrat pups for sale and two weeks later the Republicans held a fundraiser in the same place and the same kid was there with the puppies and he was now holding up Republican puppies for sale. And a newspaper reporter who had seen him two weeks before said, hey, kid, wait a minute. Last time here, two weeks ago you were trying to sell those puppies as Democrat puppies. Now you say the Republican puppies. How come? Kids said now they got their eyes open. Gentlemen, we've come now to an issue that transcends in importance even all the other crucial matters that I've mentioned. My most solemn duty as president, the safety of the American people and the security of these United States. Here too, because of the support of men like Mack Mattingly we've been able to restore America's strength as he told you. There's nothing I'm prouder of than the two million young men and women who make up the armed forces of the United States. The only place where our opponents try to cut spending is with regard to the defense budget. And let me tell you, if we ever have to ask those young people to put their lives on the line for the United States of America then they deserve to have the finest weapons and equipment that money can buy and we're going to see that they get. Because of our young men and women in uniform things really have changed around the world. You know, America used to wear a gun around his neck. We threw that sign away and it now reads Don't Tread On Me. And today, every nickel and dime dictator around the world knows that if he tangles with the United States of America he will have to pay a price. One other thing I'm especially proud of after six years of this administration not one square inch of territory has been lost to communism and one small country Grenada has been set free. And finally there's another special accomplishment. We must never forget that it was our decision to move ahead with SDI, that Strategic Defense Initiative the Defense Initiative Against Ballistic Missiles. It's that that brought the Soviet Union to the negotiating table the bargaining table and today we're dealing with the Soviet Union from a position of strength and let me pledge to you today our goal today is to save the West from mutual nuclear terror to make ballistic missiles obsolete and ultimately to eliminate them from the face of the earth. In Iceland we came closer to real arms reduction than ever before but Mr. Gorbachev decided to make progress hostage to demands that we kill SDI. I had to remind him that SDI is America's insurance policy to protect us from accidents or some madman who might come along as they have in past history or just in case the Soviets don't keep their side of the bargain. And I had to I had to remind Mr. Gorbachev of my pledge to the American people to never abandon SDI and that in America when you give your word you keep your word and that. Thank you. Well, and keeping my word I'm going to try to do in Iceland what we need in Washington is a Congress that won't give away at the conference table what we refuse to surrender at the negotiating table in Reykjavik, Iceland. Now no responsible president should rely solely on a piece of paper for his country's safety. As a matter of fact a good friend of mine and a great student of history has written a book I recommend in public life. It's called The Treaty Trap and it is a history of treaties going back clear back beyond the birth of Christ and history shows that any nation that depended on paper a treaty to protect its interests instead of keeping its hardware up that nation didn't stay around very long to write many more pages in history. No no responsible president should rely solely on a piece of paper for his country's safety. The record on Soviet treaty violations is clear we can either bet on American technology to keep us safe or on Soviet promises and each has its own track record and I'll bet on our technology anytime. I know this crowd couldn't be here in this place unless among you there were a number of Democrats and no I want you to know no I know that during these past six years as president I've relied again and again upon the support of Democrats like those who would be present at this gathering and I thank them as you may know I was a Democrat once myself until I learned that the liberal leadership of that party had gotten completely out of step with a hard working patriotic members of the Democrat party the rank and file who make up that party across the nation now I know how tough it can be to break with tradition but remember what Winston Churchill said when in the British parliament he changed parties he said some men change principle for party and others change party for principle. Here in Georgia the choice couldn't be any clearer this year while Mack and I have been a team Mack's opponent has voted against me more often than any other member of the Georgia delegation he was the only Georgian opposed to the balanced budget amendment and he voted against the B-1 bomber the peacekeeper missile strategic defense and 13 times against helping the freedom fighters in Central America and according to the veterans of foreign wars he voted against veterans more often than anyone in the entire United States Congress ladies and gentlemen the eyes of America are on you and your great state will you choose the Democratic leaders who in 1980 weakened our nation and nearly brought our economy to its knees who raised your taxes and announced their plans to do so again who oppose our efforts to build a defense to protect us from attack by nuclear ballistic missiles or will you choose to give the cleanup crew of 1980 a chance to finish the job just to be sure where you stand I thought I'd conduct an informal poll so speak up loudly and let all America hear do you want to go back to the days of big spending high taxes and runaway inflation do you want Ted Kennedy or Joe Biden controlling the confirmation of federal court judges do you want to return to policies that gave us a week in vacillating America now would you rather have low taxes, low inflation and low interest rates would you rather have an America that is strong proud and free and do you want Mac Mattingly as your senator from the great state of Georgia thank you you just made my day and you didn't make Mac unhappy either you know my name will never appear on a ballot again but if you'd like to vote for me one more time you can you can do so by voting for Mac Mattingly six more years if you mean I should live four more I'm with you but as important as this election will be to me it'll be even more important to you and especially to you young people for it'll shape our nation's future every poll shows that the age group from 18 to 24 has the highest percentage in support of us and what we've been doing but every poll also shows that that same age group 18 to 24 has the lowest voter turnout so do all of you young people here exercise your sacred right as an American participate in shaping history itself by going to the voles and casting your vote and also when you leave here if it's your intention to do that go out as missionaries and buttonhole your friends and tell them to get to the polls and vote they're needed I was gonna ask if I could count on you but I thought you've already given me that answer you know back in World War II General George Marshall then the chief of staff of our army was asked by someone as we entered that terrible great war if we had a secret weapon and if so what was it and General Marshall said yes and our secret weapon is just the best blankety blank kids in the world once again the best blankety blank kids in the world well well it's time to go now but before leaving I'd just like to say that people my age deeply believe that it's our duty to turn over to you young people you young Americans the same freedom and opportunity that our parents and grandparents handed on to us sometimes those of us my own generation and those generations between mine and yours sometimes we slipped up and let things get out of hand as we did several years ago but that has to be our sacred pledge to you when we see your openness your enthusiasm for America and for life itself it gives us heart my friends in casting your vote for Mack Mattingly you will be winning one for yourselves for Georgia and for America yep thank you God bless you thank you very much Mr. President very small present you know I've been pursuing a lot of things the United States Senate but one thing that we think you deserve is the same thing that 43 governors out of 50 states have and when I come back to the United States next year we're going to make sure that you get is the line out of veto Mr. President