Hello everyone, I hope you guys can hear me. I'm Larissa and today we're going to talk about Taylor Deployment Strategies, our go-roll outs for diverse applications. But first, a little bit about myself. I'm a computer scientist with the Adobe Experience Platform Group. I've been mostly developing backend services but I've always had an interest in automation. And in the last year and a half, I worked at updating our CICD pipelines with tools such as Argo CD, Argo workflows, events and rollouts. Today we're going to talk about a used case of the last one, namely Argo rollouts. In Experience Platform, we've always had a focus on quality. Every change that we make, we actually take that through a series of various checks and validation before it goes to production. And everything is automated, of course. So you can see on the screen all the checks that we employ before we mark the PR. And we started a basic code verification. Then we go on and do a series of static analysis from vulnerability checks to license checks to code analysis checks and security scans. And if everything checks out, we then go on and deploy that code into an FMR environment and run a battery of comprehensive functional tests against it. We do all of these things to basically reduce the risk, improve confidence in our releases and reduce change failure rates. When it comes to deployment, we employ a secured approach. We have multiple environments up to production and we deploy the code in each of these environments and then test it. An automatic promotion to the next environment or an automatic rollback happen based on the result of the deployment and the test. And in production, we're even more careful and we deploy in groups starting with smaller regions first and continuing with the larger ones. Again, we do all these because we wanna reduce the risk. We wanna reduce the change failure rate and we wanna basically reduce the blast radius in case there is an issue. So you may be thinking that we're doing a lot of checks, right? And this should be good enough. Actually, it isn't because on one hand, as a growing business experience platform is looking at increasing its footprint and expecting to open up new regional deployment around the world. And with new regions, we'll have multiple parallel deployments, right? We cannot just deploy everything sequentially. It will take us too long. And yeah, monitoring them, it will become more complex. And on the other hand, we'll always be focused on stability. And although we employ a lot of checks, there are some use cases where the area of impact might be pretty big. So this was our motivation into looking into progressive deployment. And of course, a simple answer to that question was our go-roll outs. Why? Because it's cloud native, because it's very easy to learn and understand. Basically lets you configure every type of progressive deployment out there. But this thing of rollout being very flexible in terms of what you can configure, raises the question, what do we configure for our use case? What's the best strategy? And it was important for us to leverage the existing mechanism that we had today, like the test. Now I'm going to walk you through a simplified view of a feature. We have an experience platform, which is called audit. And we'll use the components implementing these features as our test subject. So today this is implemented like this. We have events produced on a Kafka topic, which are being consumed, processed, and ingested into a data store by this Kafka consumer component. From the data store, they are exposed through this RESTful web service. It's important to state that both these microservices are both backwards and forward compatible to each other. When it comes to testing that post deployment test I was talking about earlier, we are actually testing the entire system. So our functional tests generate data on the Kafka topic and they validate the entire system behavior through that RESTful web service. These tests are packaged in a container and they run as a Kubernetes job in the CICD pipeline. So let's see how we can apply rollouts to each of these components. And we'll start with the RESTful web service, which is a very good candidate for rollouts with blue-green deployment strategy. Why? Because it can be tested without any live traffic and we are going to reuse some of the tests we already have to do this testing. So we need to split up the test a bit and have the dedicated container with component tests for this API. These tests will be then referenced in an analysis template, similar to what you see on the screen. The important thing to note here is that the RESTful web server's URL needs to be added as a parameter and it needs to point to the preview service that's targeting the preview pod, basically the green part of a blue-green deployment. This analysis is then referenced by the rollout spec and it's referenced as a pre-promotion analysis, meaning that the rollout controller is instructed to make sure to run this test against the preview service before the preview service is promoted and receives any live traffic. Therefore, if there is an issue that can be captured through testing, we'll have no impact here. Another thing to notice here is that the preview replica account is set to one. This will help us not use too many resources when we run both the blue and the green deployment side-by-side and we're basically spinning just a single pod. We also, you can see that we don't set the replica account here because this rollout is managed by a horizontal pod autoscaler. HPA works great with rollouts because it will manage only the replica of the active replica so that's actually receiving live traffic. A takeaway from here is this approach is very similar to what we do with pre-prod environment. What we call the pre-prod was actually an environment very similar to production in terms of configuration but it did not receive any live traffic, just synthetic one. And the scope of pre-prod environment was to test basically production configuration with zero impact. But of course, pre-prod environments are expensive to run because alongside a new deployment of the service they require additional resources like in our case, a database. While you can get the same amount of validation basically with the blue-green and you will be running just a double amount of pods just before the cutover. Until that point, because we said that pre-replica account one, we're just using yet another pod. Now let's see how, what strategy can we apply to the streaming application, to that Kafka consumer. So if I were to apply the same strategy, blue-green and to create a new version of my application with the same configuration as the first one and this version would act as my green part of my blue-green or actually my yellow in the picture then I would have mistakenly deploy a cannery because if I deploy the same configuration on both versions of the application they will share the same consumer group and as a consequence they will share the traffic that comes through that Kafka topic. So let's say I change the consumer group. I intentionally change that then I will not be able to promote anymore my V2 application because the whole idea with using blue-green is to be able to promote a new version to be the stable one but if it has a different configuration than the stable one I cannot promote it anymore. So because blue-green is all about bringing new instances and test them without receiving any live traffic there's no fit here. Well you can say okay expose that new version of the application to the traffic through a cannery and test it like this. Unfortunately this doesn't quite work as well because of the same reason of shared consumer groups. I cannot target the V2 pods which are my cannery pods here with the test traffic because both the live traffic and the test traffic are shared by both my stable and my cannery deployments. So I have no guarantee that I'm actually testing the cannery deployment. So what we ended up doing is a cannery but with metric analysis. So all my pods are exposing a HTTP endpoint for metrics which is being scraped by a Prometheus instance and the cannery is running with the live traffic and we are assessing how well it's doing by using some key metrics. The key metrics for our use case are error rate which should not be greater than 1%. The error rate in our system means that we are not able to process the messages and we are parking them on a dead letter queue. And the second metric just assesses that we are actually producing event to that data store. You can see that both metrics have an initial delay of one minute to allow for the cannery pods to be up and running and to also allow for a first consumer group rebalance as the cannery pod is being added to the consumer group. These two metrics are then referenced from the rollout spec of my Kafka consumer rollout and they are referenced as a background analysis meaning that they will run for the entire duration of the rollout. But how do we exactly scrape those metrics and collect metrics from the cannery pods? I could use a service monitor which would target the cannery service. This will correctly identify my cannery pods during a rollout. However, when the rollout is promoted to the stable version. I have an issue because the cannery service will point basically to my stable pods too because cannery service is using rollout pods template hash to target the pods and the pod template hash will stay the same after the rollout is promoted because there is basically no change in the spec. So in this case, my second service monitor will actually point to the stable pods and will collect data from my stable version of the application. Apart from the issue that we are basically duplicating metrics, I have another issue if I want to run a new rollout because depending on the time window I use, my first data points might be skewed because they actually have data from the stable service. So an alternative to this would be to use a feature from rollout called ephemeral metadata which lets you basically define in the spec labels and annotation to attach to the cannery respective to the stable pods. Of course, of interest to us is the cannery metadata here which will be added by the rollouts during the cannery. Then I can leverage a pod monitor which select based on the labels I just added. Only the pods there are part of the cannery deployment. The good part with this approach is when the cannery gets promoted, my pod monitor will not select any of the pods anymore because all the pods have the label stable as the cannery label was an ephemeral one. Now let's go some, let's see some of the takeaways we've got from this running rollouts with analysis for streaming application. The first one was about how long to run the cannery for. Of course, it depends on the application. The answer is enough for the metrics to be scraped and enough to collect sufficient data points for your analysis. In our case, because it's a moderate traffic application, an interval, and we're scraping every 15 seconds, anywhere to five to 10 minutes is enough to assess that this rollout is okay or not. Another thing to take into consideration here is how frequent you do changes to that application because if you're running rollouts for days and you have frequent changes to the service, you might still want to test each change at the time so the speed delivery will be basically reduced. Another takeaway here was about the interval to compute metrics on because we need to be aware of consumer rebalances which happen every time we add new cannery pods. So time windows short like one minute might not be enough because you still need to wait for the rebalance to finish and also for the metrics to be collected. Another takeaway is, though metrics do help us reduce impact when we're talking about rolling out a new application, they are not comprehensive enough to test the entire functionality of the deployment so they are not a replacement for tests. So this is actually a second reason that we wanna fail fast and run that rollout for such a short time is because we still have tests afterwards to run. So we are still running the component test for this component but also the test for the entire system post deployment and a final note I wanted to make is running Argo rollouts with Argo CD. So, and especially discuss the rollbacks use case. So as you know, rollbacks, Argo rollouts will rollback your code if there is an issue by scaling down the replica set which has issues and scaling up the stable one. We actually do more than that. We follow closely GitHub's principle and basically we reflect that change back into Git through a Git revert. There are multiple reasons why you wanna do this. One of them would be that if the rollback is retried without having a fix for it multiple times and if that rollback is producing some impact with Canary for example, then you will basically be multiplying that impact with the retries you're making. Another reason to do this is you usually don't know what happened when a rollback does happen with rollouts. So you might wanna rollback all the other regions you have in production until you figure out what's the root cause and if it's actually a configuration issue or it's more than that. This was all from me. If you have any questions there is a mic up there. If not, we can take it after the talk. Thank you.


Hello and welcome to the craft box. My name is Brent.  And today we're on episode 53 of the Road to 100 series. I am joined with Finn today, and we are in Murkom Keep. How are you Finn? Yeah, okay, let's talk to Ulrich. Bjorn Ironclaws sent you. I have heard your name before. The folk of Grizzleheim, sing your praises. Let us see if they speak fairly. Scouts sent by the wolves are harrowing our forces daily. Even now they ready themselves for another attack. If you wish to test your courage and your battle skill, lend us your strength in this struggle.  It will slow them down enough for us to ready our own attack. Okay, let's go do this. Already defeating things. It's great. Finn's already here. Going in. Go in. Charge into battle, my friend. I did not get called. I did. Okay. They've got 550 health, which is an easy way to sandstorm. Let's belay. Hopefully we can hit next and kill. Nice. So how have you been Finn? This is the last episode. Which was like 10 minutes ago. I've filled my belly with usually bars because we don't have anything to make sandwiches other than bacon. I'm not keen to make bacon at the moment. Yeah, I understand. I had the same problem. I had to go to the freezer to get food. And I feel fat. The freezer doesn't end much in there. Our freezer's got a bit of a mark and I feel fat now. I take a pass. You take a pass? They should be dead anyway. Unless I'm dead. Which I could be, you know.  Do you want to keep the average of fizzles again? Or do you want to not do that? I had two fizzles last episode. Yeah, I had one. So we'll see how many we get this episode. And we'll make an average of this episode to see how many times people fizzle. It'll be great. We'll see how many people what scores fizzle the most. No fizzle so far. Who was bad? Yeah. Who was better? Balance or life? Well, that was easy. Now we talk to Osric again. Easy peasy. I think we've got a Defending Equest coming up soon, so I think it's next. Um, so we'll probably skip back. I see you came back unharmed. Good work there. The wolves will be slow to stick their snouts near this camp again. We have need of stones for our catapults, but the land around here is bare of them. We gathered the ones we could, but in the night the canyon ragers came and took all our boulders. Will you go and take boulders from the canyon when you have gathered enough of them? Take them to the catapults. It is heavy and difficult work, but necessary. Okay. I have an offer that I can't refuse in Old Town. Young Wizard, I have an offer you can't refuse. Come see me in Old Town when you can. Soon. Off camera sometime. So yeah, we will be back once we have collected the boulders. Okay, okay, we're back. We got the boulders. On the first try. On the first try, in fact. That's great. Yeah. And we're going to deliver them now. You place the boulders near the catapult. Here. And then talk to us right now. Once again, you have done well. Jorn was right to speak so highly of you. Our assault is almost ready, but we have yet to test their defenses. We have a saying, best to know the trees height before you start to plie.  So you will learn. If you go to their gate and provoke, go and inspect the wolves gate and test the skill of their defenders. Okay, let's go do that. Sounds lit. Okay. So yeah. So we found out what spells we're getting. I get an elemental and spirit defuse, which it dispels. And Finn gets triage. So we will be doing that sometime off-camera. Sometime they get pulled. Yeah. I'm too good to get pulled. Oh yeah. Okay then, Finn. Calm down, Mr Finn. Get that one. Where are we talking? They're sieging. Yeah, okay. I went right through the battle. I'm so pro. Okay, this way. You inspect the main gate of the wolf fortress. It is sturdy and well fortified. It will easily withstand any assault. Okay, let's defeat these guys. You ready? I mean, I haven't been pulled, but I'm in. I'm in. It's hard to say it like what. Okay, I'm gonna send Storm next. I know we did. This is actually really good about easy areas. I can literally just send Storm the second round if it did. It makes it go so quickly. It's actually good. Don't you think? Yeah. It's a good strat. It's so good. Like Storm wizards have their temperst and like... Fire wizards have their... Meteor strike, but balanced wizards. They're lit.  It's actually good. Okay. Nice reshield there from Storm. Nice plays there. Going defensive, I see. Draw a monster. You chant our sandstorm and boom, you did it. Yeah. Oh, the fizzle. Oh, the fizzle. The fizzle. The fizzle. You did it. The fizzle was great. Let's see. Correct. Oh, that's okay. Seven six eight. Two five. Two pro five you. Two pro five me. And the heal. Oh no, just the blade. Chicky blade. Okay. That was good. And now we talk to Osrik. Have you got a port now? No, I don't. This area is not too big until you get into Grindelgrofe. So that's when I'll start using ports, but we don't get into them until like next episode, I think. So, yeah. Yeah. How long do we have in the group to hunt, Brie? Well, this is the third area. We have two episodes here, and then two episodes in Raven's Scar, which we have to be level 44. So we need to do a few side quests. Fuck. No, you're not going to talk. Okay. Yeah, you just shield with completely different scores. That's fine. Nicole's on her. That's fine. No hate against Nicole. Hey guys. It's Nicole. Amazing. Okay. Bye. Bye, Nicole. Love your harm. Nice work. Did somebody join you? No, she was already there. And I got pulled into a battle, which is unlucky. Anyway, Osrik, hello. But we are better for knowing it. We must change our plans for the assault. That will take some time, so you can best aid us by gathering word about the camp. One of the wolves has joined our number. He does not believe the lies they say about us. He is called Wolfrik Fosbane. Go and speak to him. Okay, Wolfrik. What manner of warrior are you? Do not think I am a traitor. I am loyal to my people, but they are being lied to. So, I am unwelcome there. I do not believe the bears are allies of the Red Claw. A raven named Moonen Mistweaver came to us with a captive bear. Thane Ivar... Moonen claimed that Ivar was leading the Red Claw against the wolves and offered the Thane to us as a prisoner. It is foolish to trust a raven. So, I did not believe Moonen. This war between wolves and bears is wrong, and I want to end it. Many warriors are wounded without good cause. If you wish to help bring peace to our people, go and speak to our healer, Ingolf Moonheart. He will tell you what can be done. Okay, Ingolf, let's go. What were you trying to say, Thane? Oh my God, it's in the coal! Bay, let's add her. Just for bends. She's level 45. Let's see if she's gonna add. Is she gonna add? Is she gonna accept? Nope. Okay, that's rude. I think you're a quest as well. If she adds you before she adds me, I'll be triggered. I helped you, Nicole. Nicole, I helped you. You're just not accepting me. I feel really rejected right now. It's Nicole! You guys, it's Nicole. I have a level of 100 somehow added on here. Actually, no, that's Inger. That was Spins Bay. Back in Cropotopia. What? Brain. Hello? Hello? Hello? Your howlers carry suitable wrappings. And aloe leaves grow wild around here. Yeah, that's your bay from Cropotopia Angel. I remember it. I thought you'd like... Can't hear me. No, I was just listening to dialogue.  He's ignoring me. No, that's your bay when bay is stronger than you. That's awkward. Brooklyn Bay probably plays more than I do. Yeah, probably. That's awkward for him. You should really say hi to your bay. Or do you even have her added? Probably not. We'll be back once we've... Where are the aloe leaves? I stole the ones up there. We'll be back once we've collected all these things. Okie dokie, we are back. We just defeated all these guys. Level up, congrats, man. Finally, level it up. Wait for a short while. Engulf takes a few minutes to make some healing wraps out of the wrappings and leaves. If you would help me further, go and use these healing wraps of the Wounded Wolves in the villager. The Wounded Wolves are named Reinhard Eichmann, Rolf Mornsson, and Rurik Felbringer. Find them. Your aid will show them that the bears are their true allies and that they have been lied to by Moon in Mistweaver. When you are finished, return to Wolfric Fosbane and tell him what we have done. He will be pleased. Ok, let us head off to Rolf. Rolf. Yeah, well, in the 20 episodes we'll do that. We also need to get to level 40 before the end of next episode. Or in between the... Light. That wrap is a balm to this poor Wounded Wolf. I'm... I feel it feels great to be back in Wolves, dude. I actually really enjoy this game. Yeah. You've already talked to him before. I thank you for easing my pain. Yeah, it's been a while since you've played, like, seriously. It's been almost... Like, I realised that we recorded the last episode on, like, oh my god, it's Nicole. She didn't even add me. I'm upset. Hey, guys. I'm going to blank her now. If she ever talks to me, I'm just going to be like, no. I tried to have a decent conversation with Nicole when I got bored and she just nodded. You seem a wizard, but your hands are those of a healer. She nodded out.   Well, she's... She's 35. Like, she can't be judging me for my level. It's not the size of your level. It's how you use it. Sorry, I'm just choking on bad jokes. Thanks. Fuck, I nearly got pulled. Phew, that was close. Can you... then make it... because you made that joke, you make the title so clickbait that it's kind of funny? Yeah, I will. I'll say it's not the size that matters. Or something really clickbait. Brent asks, does size matter? Yeah. Was it 100? Episode, hashtag, 53. Brent asks, does size really matter? Hashtag... Hashtag philosophy. Hashtag gone wrong. Hashtag conceptual. The wolves will come howling for a month. The size matter begins. I went through the forest and felled several trees, but I was called away before I... You have done much to help our cause. There is much to do before there will be peace. Just to say. I know the strength of the wolf army, but they will defeat Otto. Wolves look to their strongest warriors for guidance. Higlack Shadow Stalker and Otto Winterwatch are the greatest wolf warriors. If you defeat them, the other wolves will be uncertain, but their courage will break.  Okay, let's go to Otto. I got a diamond. I got a diamond. I got a diamond. I got a diamond. Whew, okay. Great, like a diamond. We're actually making really good progress. This episode is going to be slightly shorter because last episode was, like, really long. So, yeah. But next episode will probably be a longer episode. I just like to balance it out, you know? You feel me? Yeah, it's not really balancing it out. Well, it is, if you have a logic. Yeah, and make sure you guys show support on our other series, like the new one that brought out. Noob's Try Games. Yeah, we need to do some more of that, but we'll do that next... when we have time. Next will be...  Ha ha! You had to play CSGO, but I'm... No, I'm not going to make you do. What manner of beast are you? I am a human.  Okay, go on. You're going to hit the boss. I am. Or I can, if you want. I can hit boss.  He's only got 1000 health. You can easily do that. Yeah, easy. Tower shield. To start off with. Noise, noise, noise. Okay. Yeah, I don't actually know what game I'm going to make you play. I have my games, why not? I haven't actually thought about it, to be honest. They're my favourite games. Like... Like I've had for a while. So yeah, make sure you go and check out some other series. Like the Pirate 101 Walkthrough, the RuneScape sort of walkthrough thing that I've started. Yeah, it's quite popular. That is. Surprisingly. I mean, Brent's solo series. Noise, noise, noise. Pirate 101 and RuneScape do really well. I don't know what you're talking about. Man. I don't know what you're talking about. Surring on average, they get more views than this. The series.  I enjoy Wizards, man. Great time. But I'm ready for the battle system on Pirate. Yeah, maybe I'll make you play Pirate. Just for LoLs. Hmm. Maybe. I don't know. Hmm. I don't know. All these things. All these things. Tune in. Tune in. To find out what game Brent makes me play. Yeah, coming in January sometime. Yeah, probably. Yeah. We jam. Probably jam. This was a long, long way away. Sorry everybody. This is episode 53. Which goes up this week on Friday. As we're recording this. Um... Same that some days like the start of the new week. So, um, it goes up on Friday and oh for fuck's sake, so it doesn't even kill. What the heck? What the heck? Yeah, they, um... Make the blade up. Yeah, the shield, I know. Yeah, um... Yeah, it's like a couple of weeks away. But you have Christmas to look forward to. I do. So, is everyone watching this video? Yeah. Unless you're watching it, like, in the future. Can you comment down below what the future's like if you're watching this in the future. Hmm. Are they like... Are they like Tommy Beards? I can... Nice work. I'm hitting next. Hopefully I get a powerpup. Okay. Okay, actually. Actually, why didn't I just use my squelkin? Oh wait, I discarded it up to my added. I'm just bad. Oh, sundry. Oh, it also hit fire as well, so that's why I didn't kill. So, that makes sense. I thought it would be a throwback. I know, right?  I remember that, that was scary. Nice work. We killed both of them. Yeah. I got the kill, I win the game. Okay, let's go to feet. The last one, which is... Hugluck. Hugluck. Did I do well at pronunciation? I am not Norwegian, so I wouldn't have a clue. But that's alright. How do you upset that I'm not Norwegian? Yeah, I thought you were Norwegian. I am not Norwegian, I'm sorry. Where am I going? I just went round the wrong way. I'm just picking up some misquit, because it's always good to have. Some mistwood. Some mistwood. What does mistwood actually do? It's used in crafting recipes sometimes. But not really much. It's just nice to find and say you got something. Okay, I'm there if you want to port, or you could run. I'm gonna run. I'm gonna exercise the bunny. Exercise the bunny? I'm exercising my carpet. You know, it's great. My birdie could come fly. Come fly with me. Fly with me. That bird is actually really cool. Like, it's actually cool. I've actually never seen that before. It doesn't do anything. Who dares challenge me? You'll pay for that.   See, I'm first, so I get it. First kill. Notify has something to say about it. Oh yeah, what are you gonna say about it? Cool. I'm gonna blade myself. That's what I'm saying. Same, I'm gonna blade myself three times in one go. I win. I'm being so aggressive, I'm sorry. Provide as a 40. You're only a 35. Haha. But if you add all of them up, then that's more than you. Yeah, but you can only hit one. I can hit all of them if I use Hydra. True. Do you have Hydra? No, I don't. I learned that at level 42. Exactly. Don't bully me. This is hate. I'm not hating. I know it is. I'm hitting the boss this time. I need to redeem myself. Redeem yourself. You're not getting a single kill. Yeah. I am looking forward to a lot of things in the future that we've planned, Brent. Yeah, same. Oh, by the way, did I tell you that? Next year's... Next year's gonna be a big year for the craft box. It is. So, you know, stick around. Watch what we're doing. Keep burning, tune in. It's gonna be great. Stay lit, fam. What are we gonna call our subscribers? Team Lit? The fam? The fam, yeah. Okay, we can do that. Stay lit, fam. It's my motto. I think we should call them Little Standishes. Nah. I remember that. That was great. All of a sudden, like, we were recording and you just popped down to that. And I was like, why don't you do that? And then I'm like, ah, appropriate ban for her. Profitopia banter. See that killed him, so pro. Okay, are you hitting? Kill that guy. Okay, let's see you do a billion damage. Oh, are you gonna... I was thinking faint or blade, faint or blade. Faint or blade. So I decided to faint because it signified. Better than 30, so... Cheeky. Yeah, I know! Up, up, up, up, up, up. Ah. Ah. Nice. Rip. Rip. Okay. Let us head back to Wolfric foes blade. Bane blade? Yep, sure. That makes sense. Bane. Foes bane. Foes bane. Okay. Oh man, what a legend! Finnegan Dawn Rider is online, apparently. That's Cheeky. No. No. Since we're in... I don't think he was either. So it's not just me, that's good. Okay, Wolfric. Nandera, if you want to. Your courage and battle strength are legendary. I'm honored to help you forge peace between the wolves and bears. There is another matter you can help us with. Many waterers were lost in the caverns trying to find their way past the fort wall. It would be a great help if you could go into those caverns and find those lost waterers and tell them how to return. This game only works sometimes. Okay, let us do this. Let's find off Doomhunter and the other three, two people that we need to do as well. Let's go. Let's go. Um... Going on a trip. Same, dude. Going on a trip in your favourite bunny mount. Geat. Bouncing through... Leaping through the lands of Grizzlyhine. Just because you said that I'm switching my bunny mount to my Scarab. You're going on your trip in your favourite Scarab ship. Soaring through the skies. Little Scarab guys. Little Scarab guys, amazing. But I'm going on a trip in my favourite magic carpet. Honestly, what should we call our subscribers, Brent? We need to discuss this. Leap suggestions in the comment and then we'll make a pop. Yeah, leave your suggestions in the comment and we will... Nicole has friends. There's two Nicole's friends. How is that possible? Are they both going to blank me and not add me? Dave and Thief. I'm actually really salty over Nicole and I'm really salty. I thank you for helping me find my way. She's a noob. It's okay.  Noobs going to blank. Noobs going to blank. Non-noobs. She's like, oh my god, I saw your mount. I can't accept you. You're too pro for me. Her mount's called an ounce. What is her mount? It's the dragon. Oh yeah, that's right. It's a cool mount, dude. How strange that a child shall lead me. That was easy. I understand you have got... I have gotten lost. You got lost. Don't get lost, dude. Don't get lost. You have found our lost warriors and sent them back.  You're certain you're not part wolf. You're welcome. You have shown no fear in the caverns and helped me find my way. You have helped me find my way. Hug the wolf. Hug the wolf. 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You know what I mean? This day is definitely dedicated to y'all.  Moms is who are the backbone to men all across the countries. Moms are the one that hold it down for the most part. Yes. You know what I'm saying? So shout out to all the queens, man. Shout out to all the queens. All the queens all across the world, man.  You gotta understand that you only get one of them, man. You know what I'm saying? You only get one of them. So, you know, no matter what y'all go through, whatever issues y'all might have, you only get one of them.      You gotta go through the things that you don't wanna go through just because it's your mom.  So I know what it is. Sometimes they have a mom that, you know, you don't always see eye to eye with it.  But, you know, me and my mommy, I see my mom coming off, she cool.   What? Sent a couple of hundred, she straight. She back to love at me, so.  You know, apologize, it's not that deep, man. You can get over it.  You know what I'm saying? So if you're going through something with your mom, even if you're not going through something with your mom, understand that you only get one of them so love them to death, all right? Let's get into me and ours worth a game. It seems to me that people in today's society is not really working for the long term. You know, the long term is not really, it's not really a thing now. Like when I started, I started giving out me and ours worth a game in 2011, 2012. You know what I'm saying? I got a video from eight years ago with me, Meek Mills, I mean 12 years ago. So that would be 2008, right? Yeah, 2008. And I'm in the studio. It's me, it's Meek Mills, it's Black DeNiro.   Oh yeah.  No, Meek, you gotta understand, Meek started popping at an early age, man. And Meek gotta be about 31, 32 now. Oh my God, I'm still looking at Meek like you. Something like that, right? Meek gotta be about 30, 31, 32 something. So you know, it's like back then I was saying on the video, you know, I gave me and I was riff of game for free if you needed just highlight me. And I said, damn, I said that 12 years ago. And then I look up and it's 12 years later and million dollars worth of game is a whole brand. It's a whole company. It's a whole movement. It's a record label, you know. And it's like, you realize that damn, I've really put work in, you know what I'm saying? We've really put work in to make this brand something that could last a lifetime and not something that's just here today and going tomorrow. But I noticed in today's society, a lot of people was all about the quick flip, the quick flip mentality. Yeah, that's the mentality. Everything is about, I think people look at whatever we doing, we look at it like society as a whole. We look at it like, I see what they doing. They making it happen. You didn't see the hardship. You ain't see the struggle.   So it'll be like, we want that quick flip real quick.  So I need about four months. So I need about 90 days.  So sometimes they start doing anything. Sometimes they give up.  Because it's like, we living in, like I said, we living in the instant, this microwave world.  Absolutely. As a matter of fact, this is an air fryer world. It should be done. Wham! You know what I'm saying? So it's like, I want it right now. I don't want to strategize with it.   You know, if you in the streets, you could be rich and no time if you really got a good hustle or a good angle, whatever. So some people take that mentality of what they seen in that world and try to transfer it into another world, not knowing that's not how you got to put work in here. They want instant. When you just changing lanes and shit, right? They want just instant success. Like enough and ever is instant, right? Like I said, like businesses when you build it, it takes three years to turn a profit. Not to be a big success, right? Just to turn a profit. So then it's like, when you look at something that's 12 years from an idea and now it's a company, most people don't got that type of patience to like see something through or just to keep activating it for 12 years. Most people at the third year, they'd have been like, man, this ain't really, it's not a movement yet. Why? It's not working.  You got to stick with it back in a day. They knew that they would like work a job. And they'd be like, oh, it's my 10th year with the company, you know, I'm moving up. And it's like, we have this mic, you said microwave mentality. I think internet changed anything because you could see people's lives too much. Yeah. And it's always this conspiracy to like, oh man, they doing this, they doing that. No. And it's like, yeah. Gile and Waluw, they popped off in months. No, it wasn't Gile and Waluw popping off in months. It was when I was in jail, what he was doing. It was when I came out, what I was doing. And listen, it took years to put that together, them two type of energies, them two type of engagements, them two type of attractions.  No, it's not. It took me 20 years to get myself together mentally.  And it took him all them years. You know, you got to think about. Now you just looking at all the years of his momentum that built up. Listen, since I first told him, listen, man, you can grab me going to studio, but 95, 96, he was rocking all the way to, you got to look at all of that. So a lot of times we just look at somebody else and be like, oh, that's easy. I could do that. And we expect it to happen now. We're not taking in consideration that. The work they put in. We're not taking the ups and downs that he went through, the ups and downs that me going to put in. We're not taking in all that to have a certain mindset to be able to roll things out a certain way. We don't look at that. They say comparisons to thief of joy. Like it will still your joy.  So this just isn't working. But it's hard not to. When you see everybody life in real time, you listen, I didn't know that this person, you never knew that this person started a company or whatever about whatever brand in Houston, Texas. You didn't know about that last year. And now they got six different companies all over Texas. You didn't know about that at one time. But that knowledge, you let you know everything with the click of it. Just type it on the key or on your phone. So now it's like, it's always gonna be pressure for everybody. A lot of people, that's hard. For people that's not measured their life with somebody else that they see.  I work in this lousy job.  And not understanding that you're in your own lane. You're not in nobody way. You know what I mean? And things could change quick. It could change quick. I always look at that clip you posted to Travis Scott and how he was playing like a little festival and he had like 20 people in the crowd. And I remember an old interview with Tupac talked about it. He said he was doing a show while he was doing poetic justice. And no, not poetic justice. What was the movie? No, that was poetic justice. Yeah, he said he told Gina Jackson to come. And she came and he said, I was so embarrassed. There was three people in the crowd. He said, but then before the end of the movie wrapped I had my album drop. This happened. The movie come out. He said, I did a show sold out. The club is sold out. You know what I mean? A couple of thousand people. It could change like that when you keep going. And you keep, but you keep looking at your like, the people aren't feeling me yet. It's like, that could change. The right post on shout out. Everybody wasn't up on Kanye. Now look, but he keep grinding. But look how long it took. If you look, even with Tupac.  When he was even, even Brenda got a baby and stuff like that was big.  But it was all that groundwork that he put in. And you gotta stand people ain't had social back then. So they hadn't appeared.  Where you had to sell an album. So it was so much, much more harder. Just imagine we had social media back then. He probably sold a hundred million records. Maybe. Or, or. Especially with his personality. His personality. Or it depended on the circumstances which some people do, based off of feeling embarrassed. Because people are watching. Because people are watching them not be super successful right away. It's hard. Yeah, because it's embarrassing. Because you're overthinking.   Nobody even paying you attention. Like a lot of times, even with the secret stuff like you had, people had this imaginary hate, this imaginary people hate.  Because people got bills they paying.  Why is somebody worrying about you all the time? You know what I'm saying? And motherfuckers gotta understand that the quick flip mentality is never gonna lead you to long term success. Because it's an impatient mentality.  But you know, you'll plant the seed, pour water into one time, go in the house as soon as the sun comes out. You're like, yo, what's going on? You not waiting down. I mean, let me wait for three more weeks. And it'd be that time, right when it might be ready to pop or right when that opportunity doesn't might be coming. Right when you tap out.  You sometimes say like somebody I heard somebody on Instagram say that no mean next opportunity. You know what I mean? I don't know who it is. You know what I mean? Shout out to whoever said that. It said no mean next opportunity.  Only thing you need in your life is about four or five yeses. You need yes to the person that you wanna be in love with, you know what I'm saying or whatever. You need yes to that move, the ladder. That person that's gonna introduce you to the ladder that puts you in the game, whether it's radio, whether it's fashion, whether it's music. Okay, this was the first person I connect with. He's the manager. And then, you know, a couple more and they'll set you for life. Right. All you need is like think about it like five of them and you'll be set for life or whatever you're trying to do. So I think a lot of people gotta just be patient and get away from that quick flip mentality because you gotta look at things. Don't think you could take one thing that's unorganized and turn it into something that's real, that, you know what I mean? This unorganized world, this anything goes world. You try to put it in the structural world. Sometime you might take the grind there but certain other things that right now, it just don't happen like that in real life. Right. So understand to everybody out there, understand man that quick flip mentality is never gonna bring you long term success, man. Anything that's worth having, you gotta work for. And you gotta work goddamn hard for it. You know what I'm saying?  And y'all probably will respect us more if y'all, you know what I mean? If you really knew like damn these niggas really put the work in.  They really put the work in. So I wanna talk about, you know people being balanced. You feel what I'm saying? Just keeping a balance. You know what I'm saying? And not letting success go to the head and not letting failure go to the heart. You feel what I'm saying? Because a lot of people achieve success. And then now you like, who is this nigga? I don't, who is this motherfucker? No, you gotta understand something. You know what I'm saying? So I'm gonna point it out. Did you say a lot of people, I can't speak on different place if I can speak on coming out the hood. A lot of they grind be fueled by revenge. They be fueled about people shitting on me or they did me this way.  They not trying to, like and there's some people they can't think about it.  Like, I think I believe a lot of people got less.  I'm like, what type of list you talking about?   Is everything is based off somebody else. So you can't think because it's emotional. It's emotion laced. It's laced with emotion. So you know, emotions cloud reaction.   But at the same time, when you're emotionally laced, you're not thinking clearly.  You know what I mean?  They still thinking about how they gonna flex on the ex? Wow, that is so cool. Like I'm gonna flex on my ex.  They looking at their page all the time.  So everything successful they got is more like, hi, look at me, you see me now. I'm John, and yeah, now what? Yeah, bitch, you left me because you was unhappy, but now look at me, bitch, now. Because listen. It's like, okay, she left you because she was unhappy. Because some people. And just because you got a new car and you got some money, that don't mean that's gonna make her happy. Yeah, cause you got some people out here, right? They just naturally, at the end of the day, some people naturally got that thing. They got that star quality.  I'm telling you, you can go see somebody, man, and they could be, they could be in a rehab, they could be in prison, they could be down, they could be JBM, just barely making it. And they just got this, ooh, this thing that oozes out of them, whereas though they just, they pose to be somewhere else and you see it in them. You see it in their confidence, their attitude, no matter where they're at in life, they just got this glow about them. They just glowing.  So you'll be sitting there, you'll be like, damn. And they'll have the person that they never had that. They not sure about themselves. So they leave with things. They try to, you know, everything is about grabbing attention from grabbing things, not from who they are because they really scared. Like a lot of people, you gotta stand, a lot of people is hide. And when I say hiding is, a lot of people throw, how can I say?  They think like, damn, you can see, you can see that they don't feel good about themselves. You can see that they insecure, or you can see that they think they ugly, and all this other stuff. And it's like, yo, it ain't even that deep.  Because a lot of times when you see people that's always speaking bad about people, like you got people, we all know people probably in our life, that do they hold life? Friendships always go wrong. They never get along with people. It's always somebody else's problem.  No clothes, no money, no jewelry, that's just who they are. That's within them.   You know how many people with money that's rich? You know how many people with money that's miserable? I didn't, that was crazy, that was funny. Yeah, that's crazy.  And because everybody think that it's gonna ease all your problems. And you would think because they got money that they not miserable. No, money gonna pay your bills. Money gonna pay your bills and give you access to a certain life or whatever. And resources, yeah. But it ain't got nothing to do with what you're going on inside of you. Money don't change what's inside of you. It's funny, it's like they say money is like alcohol. It just brings out who you are. It makes you more yourself. So if somebody, like if they get successful and they start acting crazy and like, oh no, they got a problem with everybody. Everybody got a problem with me.  You are a paranoid insecure person to begin with, right?   How this person's looking at me. How this person judging me. What they think about me, man.  They'll lose, they'll get embarrassed and they'll lose their courage to be able to start, try again. And I'm gonna tell you like this, man, if you show me 10 successful businessmen, I'm gonna show you 10 businessmen that failed at something in life. But they bounced back, game was notorious and glorious because they didn't lay down when they failed. When they failed, when they hit that speed bump, they hit that pothole, they got that flat tire.  That's what life is about. Life is about keeping it moving, keeping it moving, progressing. You feel me, anybody that come up with great ideas, your ideas not always gonna work, but you only need that one idea to work. You only need that one idea to work to change your life. You feel what I'm saying? So just keep the balance, man. Never get too high on a win. Never get too low on a loss. That's what it's all about. It's about keeping balance.   He can afford it.  I'm about to get 10 pairs at Lamborghini. I'm about to get 10 pairs of Da Vinci sneakers. I ain't, I'm about to get all types of goddamn Balenciaga sweaters and no, he's still the same person because he's able to maintain his balance. That should make me a breakman. I just want to wake up every day, have a good meal. I'm happy to be free.  And a side note, it's Givenchy. It rhymes with Ronchi, like Givenchy. Givenchy? Yeah. Oh, I thought it was Givenchy. I got a couple pairs of Givenchy sneaks, but Givenchy, I guess, you know. I guess it's, so is it Louis Vuitton or is it Louis Vuitton? It's Louis Vuitton. Because I heard Skanya say Louis before. Maybe he know I'm on a first name basis. I don't know. Oh, okay. Let's get into a million dollars worth of game. Before we get into a million dollars worth of game, million dollars worth of game is brought to you by our sponsor, Raycon earbuds. Listen, one thing about Raycon earbuds is like this. Listen. Very affordable. They're very affordable. They have for the price right here. Listen, first of all, look at the casing they come in. The easy casing, right? It's nice. I love the way they fit in the ears. All the overhead phones be falling out. If you see them, listen. Come in this. Listen, as soon as you put them in and say, pairing mode, pairing mode, go right in your ears. You can zoom out, you know what I mean? 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I just want to tell all the youngins out here, right? Your relationships is everything. Whatever you're trying to do in life, relationships is everything, man. Understand that.  Oh no, my aunt had worked down there at the, so she got me in. No, my cousin that knew some boy and he got me. Relationships is everything in life, man. And you got a lot of people out here that don't value relationships. You can meet a million dollar relationship and just because he don't do what you want him to do in a timely, when you want him to do it in a timely matter, then niggas get to talking. They get to running their mouth. And then, you know how many times this has happened? Where a motherfucker got a perfect relationship. They can take him out of here. They can take him out of here, but they don't understand that God got him. See, that's the one thing you gotta understand. God got you, not him. If he do something for you, that's because God put it on his heart to do that for you. And maybe have a million dollar relationship. Sometimes God put the people in your life too. Right.  Right. And they can have a million dollar relationship right here. And all you gotta do, all it's gonna do is take some time sometimes, but they patients don't allow them to let the whole race play out. And a lot of niggas trip right before the finish line, fall, streak, they chin up, three other niggas pass the finish line before them. They don't get a gold, silver or bronze.     Whatever he did to become a million dollar relationship, he put that work in for.  Because you know how to get through, you gonna put the work in and get through that door. And you gotta understand something that's very important. When you a movie maker and a shaker, you always gonna have, you always gonna have people, right? You always gonna have people that. Hey buddy, hey, what is you doing, buddy? Hey buddy. Come on man. No. Let's do it. It's a mutt. Hey buddy, man, what is your brand? Come here, buddy. Look, we got this, yeah, we got interrupted by the dog. Don't worry about it.  Dogs love me. But my whole thing is like this. You gotta understand, a lot of times, this is what you understand, a lot of times it's like this. That relationship with that, how can I say? With that person. When you a big, this is why it's so easy. Everybody is trying to jockey for position. So I'm gonna tell people this. There's no such thing as a secret. Because everybody that you tell a secret got somebody that they tell a secret. And they gonna tell somebody that they tell a secret. And the secret is no such thing as secrets.  What's very important is that it's not a secret. And it's gonna get back to him. So be mindful who you speak about. Matter of fact, don't even be mindful who you speak about.    So the bottom line is just like, listen, just focus, put your ground down and keep going, make it happen like that. Right, and understand that this man, and life man, 30% of life is about what you know, man. And the other 70% of life is about who you know. Absolutely. I'm gonna say this one more time. Waluwant met with Wack 100. He was in town. Waluwant kicked it with him. They was just busting it up.  Shout out to Wack 100, because Wack is a person that share information. You feel what I'm saying? Shout out to Charlamagne, the God. He's a person that shared information. Solid dude. You feel what I'm saying? You get some people in your life who understand that I don't want it all. And they see that you got a talent. They see that you capable of upgrading your brand and they pass the connects off to you. Or they give you information that you need because prime example, Waluwant talking to Wack. I had some things that had to handle. So Wack says, man, y'all heavy with the podcast, shit, man.  We talking to such, such, such, such, such, such, such. Wack say, why you ain't talking to Spotify?  Shaka Zulu. Shaka Zulu. We had no idea Shaka Zulu was over at Spotify. You feel what I'm saying? So we like, what? For real? Oh, one phone call. Shock picked right up. He said, I already was on it. I already was on it. He was like, I already was on it. I was already on it. I was going to call it y'all. So in life, in granted, we didn't end up signing with Spotify, but there was another door that opened us up. And when we didn't sign with Spotify, that's because that's what we choose not to do. You feel what I'm saying? So at the end of the day is like in your relationships, man, if we didn't have a relationship with Wack, we would have never found that out. If we didn't have a relationship with other people, we might not have never made it to Barstool. Relationships is everything.  Absolutely. You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. But I'm telling you.  Don't never disregard your beliefs and your value for just because a motherfucker's in position and can do something for you.  And because at the end of the day, I understand God got me. Yup. Not you, nigga. God got me. And if it was something that you didn't want to do for me and God wanted you to do it, you're going to do it, nigga. And if God is going to bring someone else in the picture, who's going to do exactly what you need? Absolutely. Absolutely. So always remember, man, relationships is one of the most important things in life and just in general, to being successful, to being happy. You feel what I'm saying? You know, all of those things, relationships is extremely important, man. Let's get into our next sponsor. ExpressVPN, where is it at, man? Hold on for a second. Okay, let's get it. This million dollars worth of game is sponsored by ExpressVPN. You being stuck at home these days, you probably don't think much about internet privacy on your own home network. You fire up the incognito mode, your browser and no one can see what you're doing. Right, no, you're wrong. 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You had people wearing the Detroit hat. You got me. So you got that. I know the Yankees hat is in there. The Yankees hat is in. The L.A. Dodgers is in there. Jordans. Absolutely. Oh, you tell me just all the names. Sportswear. Oh yeah, so Jordans. The top sportswear and hip hop. Were Jordans like the first, like when basic ball sneakers really started getting worn on the street? I think so. Yeah, yeah. All right, so are you gonna say the Yankees hat, Jordans? Definitely throwback jerseys. Like since I go with Fife Dog from Tribe and Big Boy from Outcast. You had Jersey's period. Jersey's period, right. Jersey's period. You had people wearing all type of from football, baseball, hockey. Yeah, hockey jerseys. They was wearing all type of stuff. And they still wearing them to this day. They still wearing them. They don't wear them as much, but they still wearing them. You got just seen Leaf Ward in his video. He had the hockey jersey on. All right, but listen, I'm gonna say this. You can say jerseys, right? Which is all kind. But it's like, it's certain things. Like if you say the Yankees hat, you can say jerseys, L.A. Dodgers hat.  Because you know you have. I say from a West Coast standpoint, Chucks. Mm, yeah. And Chucks used to be basketball sneaks. But definitely, that's like part of the uniform. Chucks, you used to wear Chucks religiously. I still got some in the cut.  How about basketball on the Chucks? Well, that's the case in sportswear. Wouldn't Vans be considered sportswear for like skating? I don't think Vans, not so much. I don't think Vans is in that. I'm talking about since back in the day. I definitely gotta put that Philly's hat in there. In the top five? Yes. That Philly's P? Nick, is you crazy? Yes, everybody brought that Philly's P. No, they didn't. Listen, they did. Oh, listen, listen, listen to what I said. I said, listen, I said the White Sox hat. That's in there? That's way, listen, the White Sox hat. No, no, no, before the White Sox hat, the Readers hat. All right, so you gonna say the Yankees hat? L.A. Dodgers, that's major. L.A. Dodgers is major. It is. So you will listen. That blue, that Nipsey blue. Listen, that Chicago White Sox hat. Atlanta Braves hat. Oh, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros. No, before the Houston Astros, I think the Oakland Athletics was more, you know what I mean, the Oakland A hat. I don't know. I remember the Oakland A hat, but it was green. I don't think everybody was right. Everybody was rocking that Black Readers hat. Everybody was rocking that, that blue Yankees hat. You know what I'm saying? The White Sox, Chicago White Sox hat.  Oh, don't forget ball shorts. It's almost like music. That's part of the Jersey's. It's like music and sports just is hand in hand with each other. You feel what I'm saying? It's like it's just. And it's like what represents where you from? Like the New York hat, got the NY, L.A. hat, got the L.A. and a locket. So it's like they can represent both ways. It seemed like the Jersey's is coming back. They are. They coming back strong now. You know what I mean? Me and Gil got a bunch of them already. You know what I mean? But it's like, it just seemed like the Jersey's is coming back like hard, like to where it's going to really be, it's ready to be crazy. Yeah, because they like got the colorways. People want what they like. I think the number one sports give all time in hip hop is the Yankees hat. And I say that because I say, Jay-Z probably is the biggest artist. Right? He made that Yankees hat popular, man. That is true. I'm gonna keep it all the way. Rob bought one. Now I'm fulfilling. I had a Yankees hat. We're part of New York you thought you was from. I ain't think I'll never thought I was from. You thought you was from Brooklyn. You think you was from Brooklyn, didn't you?  Get out of here.  Baby, baby. I did like these slangs though. Doc Quine, Ruck. Everybody from Brooklyn. Fat in the hole. Man, you know. Shout out to Brooklyn. But Starterjack is back in the day too. Yeah, Starterjack. But the young cats, they probably don't understand. They was like shiny and they had a team logo on there. Yeah. Whatever your team was, you had them. Yeah, they definitely was there. And they had a team colors. Team colors. And it was starting teams. You only wanted for the colors. Yeah. And I've seen something where ASAP Rocky say he made Air Force One's famous. And Nellie really had a problem with that. But even if we keep it in real, they was popular before Nellie and did a song about him. But they blew them up. But when Nellie did it, they went up 400%. Shout out to Nellie because nobody even thought about doing a song like that. You had, it was only a couple songs, hip hop, sneaker songs. You had My Deed is by Run DMC, right? You had Nellie had a joint and then What's Name had a jam. But it was more like he had a song called Lil Scrappy had a song called Forever I Love Atlanta. Basically, Phelous. What's Name had a song called Adita All Day I Dream. But it was really about all day I Dream about set. I think it was Killer Mike and Big Boy or something like that. Yeah. But it was like. Now that is true. Because it's like once they did the song, then it was like whether you had some forces or not, you had to get some A1s. You had to.  You know what I'm saying? But I think with the new generation, they wasn't really with so much rockin' the jerseys. And you know, like we was in our generation, I think it was more about the big sneaks and you know, this generation, and you know, the Gucci scarves. We do it go next though.  So we do it go. I think, I think, I think that's why I keep saying, I think it's going to go back to the jerseys. Because the jerseys is simplistic. You got to stand dudes walking around in a rap game. And we never seen that rap game used to be like, you can wear whatever you can wear. Right.   Do the uniform matter? Yeah, I think the uniform matters. Because it's a part of your vibe, your look. Do it matter.  Do it, do, do the way you rap, matter the style of clothes you wear.  Yeah, you can. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Because it's all about the image. You feel it's all about the image that you putting out there. You feel what I'm saying? Some people don't have no image. Some people is like, I'm just me. You feel what I'm saying?  Like a little baby, you know. Because they talk about, that's like a part of who they are in their songs.  They talk about having the best cars. They talk about having the brightest ice. They talk about, so they got to have that uniform. But it seemed like to me. Where's Talib Qalida and have that uniform. Or Kendrick Lamar don't have to. J. Cole don't have to. The biggest rappers of all time, like some of the biggest and the greatest known rappers from the NWA's to the Kendrick Lamar's. A lot of rappers, it seemed like some of the biggest ones the Dr. Dre's, the 50 cents.  Right. But then you look at the big ones like the Jay-Z, when he was always everything in iceberg and Biggie. Cooled you down to the socks. You know what I mean? It could be a whole, like they're like, they were rapping about their lifestyle. So. It was Tupac, Tupac. See, Biggie had to. You know what I mean? Black and ugly. However, I stayed mixing with him.    But Tupac, look at Tupac.  Yeah, because Tupac had a warrior's mentality.  And he's from West Coast. West Coast. No, he's not from West Coast. He's from Brooklyn. I'm just saying he's from New York. I don't know what part of it. New York, Baltimore.  Roll talk. Roll talk. But then Snoopin' them also had a gangster that was they thing, gangsters. And you know what it is? Let me ask you something. I'm gonna ask you both of y'all this question. Why is it that when it comes to a black designer, a lot of times our stuff is not, by us is looked down upon and it's not highlighted like we highlight the European designers. Like you know what I mean? Think about it.   Right. Dude, they was in play. And they supported Fubu like crazy, which was a great thing.  They look at them like, you know, cause you didn't classify the streetwear into the point, but it don't, but when we get classified as streetwear, it's not classified as the like, the superior streetwear like luxury and all that.  But you know what I mean? But I mean, Off White is his company. And that's still seen as, you know what I mean? Fear of God, Jerry Lorenzo's company. But you not still. But I know what you mean though.  And it's like, yeah, I'll wear that, but I ain't gonna wear the streetwear from down to do the gear Harlem. The girl that do the stuff in North Philly, my man that hooks stuff up in Bankhead. So I'm saying we gotta start, well, I think hip hop, the culture, they gotta really start powering the culture. But you know, you got a lot of people there with Milano. Yeah, you got a lot. Very true, very true. You write about that. And a lot of people there with Milano, it's all about how you walk your brand out. She walk her brand out like it's classy. Like it's doing something. Same thing with the velo? Right, same thing with the velo.  Yeah, but I feel you as far as in those price points, people will, they worship Fendi and everything. Where it could be a t-shirt and they're like, I'm gonna get there. And you're like, well, what makes this better than this? And it's all about like trying to wear your wealth. You know what I mean? Just like, oh well, people might, if they're not from, not just Philly, because a lot of everybody knows Milano, right? But they say, if I go overseas, people might not know this Milano t-shirt. Oh, but they know this Gucci and they know how much it costs. And they, I think it's like, sometimes as black people. You paying for a movement, right? Yeah. Because like Damon John, I had Damon John one time, we was in the car and he did a video for somebody. And he was just telling everybody like, yo, we get all our garments from the same place. It's just different movements. Absolutely. We take the tag out for us, so our tag's in. Sometimes we get to be ordering from the place, tag list, because I ain't gonna front. I remember one time, it was like a champion hoodie. And I put it right up next. I'm talking about the Dick Quali champion hoodie. I put it right next to the Gucci hoodie and it was the exact same hoodie, the exact same feel, the exact, when you turn it inside out, people didn't know the difference. So what I'm saying is like, a lot of times we gotta empower, like a lot of times we always talking about, oh, we ain't got this, we ain't got that, we ain't got that.  Yes. So a lot of times we gotta just look at these, like you could really feel like, if an artist wear somebody, because me, I'm gonna say, I'm guilty of it. I'm the one that wore, I'm talking about, I probably wore 100 different people clothing. And my videos, tagged them, all that type.  You could change, say a co-sign from a really big notable person could change somebody's career. And I challenge all artists out there, right? The core artists, find somebody, your city, your town, throw their stuff on and tag them. Because a lot of people is looking at you and just one time, I ain't saying you gotta keep doing it, but find somebody that you see that really need the help, you know what I'm saying?  Because a lot of times I'd have to pull stuff up with people. But then, but wait, here's the thing. No, there's the thing of limited additions, where people is like little limited amounts that if you can't get it, then it turns into this whole other resell market. Because most things are only hot because we agree that they are, right? So it's time for us to start agreeing about our entrepreneurs and our labels, especially when we see designers copy and bigger designers copy and they work all the time. Absolutely. All the time.  And they just be peeping swag and they go, these people go design stuff. And then you be like, hold up. They got it on the runway. I've just seen that down Harlem. Yup. I've just seen somebody in Harlem that dressed like this.  Or even fast fashion. There's a lot of local designers. I saw like Brittany Deschilds, she had a dress. Like two weeks later, fashion overhead it. They like straight will just rip the design. So it's just time for us to agree that like our designers are just as, I guess like, this is not even just as good cause it's not even that.  That's how people slept on Dapper Dan. And they always like this big movement cause Gucci gave them a cold sign, right? Or Gucci said, let's mend it. But it's like, did we really need, yeah, did we really need them to finally say? Listen, we always look forward. This is what we always look for.     You know what I'm saying? And show some support because you don't know. Brother sent me a shirt one time called, and Gil, Gil knows this. Called The Streets Don't Love You. So I never forget this conversation I had with this brother. I wore it on the corner and I was talking about it. He hit me in the DM and was like, can I talk to you? I called him and the brother was on, he from down the Tampa floor.  I ain't even had, I was trying to figure out things for me and my son and my kids and boom, boom, boom, boom, bang, I was trying to figure it out.  And I was so happy that I was a part of, you know, igniting his fire and the fire and you know, his whole brand and be able to, because he said, I only got a couple shirts, man. I'mma print some more. I'mma see you some more. Can you wear some more? I said, yeah. Cause you get gill. I said, yeah, man. And then he just would send some, I got something for freeway. I get free the shirts I get and then I just start seeing all athletes, rappers. I'm like, yo man. And I feel good every time I see him come down my timeline because I know all I did was just wear it, man. And do a video and everybody's like, I want that shirt. The streets don't love you. And it was like, so it ain't hard, man. And it's dope. So let's get into stories from the cell. Stories from the cell. Now, one thing about stories from the cell is like, I'm gonna say it again. Stories from the cell. One thing about stories from the cell is I'm gonna tell you some moments, right? And I try to tell people about my journey. Everybody else's journey is different cause everybody see life differently but I'm just real transparent and emotional about it. I remember it was some real stuff the first time I cried when I was in the cell, right? And it was like, I never forget.  No, it wasn't that. It was just, it was crying because it was like, I finally made it to the big house. I was in, you know, greatest fort and it's, you know, in the juvenile office, juvenile, we're not really juvenile side. It was really in a, what you call it? Oh, no, let me, it was like protective custody cause I was under age and I went to the penitentiary and they can't put you out on the population with everybody else cause you're not 18 yet. I had a cell in there and it was in the middle of the night, man.  And it was painful cause you couldn't do nothing about it.  And this is like, I, and I had the moments most, a lot of times doing my bit cause it was like a release. It was release of pain. It was release of, damn, I got this much more time to go, damn. I felt better after you cried.  It was like a release.  You gotta hold face.    It's like releasing the front.   You keep talking about it, it ain't about nothing. Like you just, you know, cause I felt as though I was a time machine. Cause I've been doing time my whole life. So it'd be, but it'd be like, damn. It'd just be like, damn, man.  And you know, it's a joint. I think it's a book called men cry in the dark.   And it is, but at the same time it was soothing and it was just a release and it would refresh my whole battery and I'd be able to start for the blows I had to take coming from the different let downs in life. Yeah. That comes apart with incarceration. But I, What else been doing in the dark? What? Oh my God. I don't know what you doing in the dark. No, I'm just asking you. What is you doing in the dark? What you selling? We use up the jail. I ain't do nothing in the dark. Don't ask me nothing about the dark. You just, it was a deep. Men do things in the dark, it was deep. No man. I just want to share that with y'all man. It's deep. It's very deep. And listen, I was locked up too. I ain't going to lie. I was only locked up for 10 days though and I cried. My woman was locked up across the street. Two was locked up right across the street. Somebody try you when you was in the joint. Like look at you like.  No, why you got to be so tough like nobody would try you. What you did? What you would have done it. They might not have been successful, but did they try? What would you do if somebody tried you? How would you handle it? If I came and said, hey, how you doing man? What's going on bro? How you be? And I just was in there like, you know what I mean?  Yeah man, this dude ain't that strong. Like the brash of this nigga down. Like what would you do if somebody had done that? Like how would you feel though? If somebody touched you.  So you would have walked into the cell with somebody and be like, all right. Like yo, can I howl at you man? Let me talk to you. You hungry? Yeah, hold on. Let me run to my cell real quick. I'll be right back. So would you into the cell? Cause it would have been the booby trapping in. You in the cell. I don't want right in there yet. Okay, first of all, fuckers you touching me for man. It'll be like you hold me. That's what I would have been. You cool? You just can't feel I got something for you. See, that's what it got you stabbed right there. What you touching me for man? So you stabbed me right here on the block? I'd have been like, let me go to my cell real quick.   I'll be right down. Yeah, knife in your back for all this. No, but what if I tell you to go in first?  What's up dawg?  All this filling in there, I can check them out. That's how they used to do you? No, that's how they did to me like this. He knew all the things they sizing him up. He wanted it at 17 years, like a little thin. He wasn't like this, he was thin.  No, no, got it. Oh, he ain't got it. Right in the cell, let me teach you something. Come here, let me show you how to get through your bit. Come here. No, he is. He is gonna cry for something else. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, he can't hear you, you got that.  What's the name, I got a bag for you, come down to the cell. No, I'm not getting no bags. I got you the bag, come down to the cell.     No, no, I'm just saying.  That's what they'll say to you.   What? You tender.  The one that snatched you off the top bump there.   What was the crack, what was the cracky, what was the cracky name? No, he didn't snatched me off the bump.  No, no, he's remixing, I don't listen to that. When you first came in, On the next, listen, we push you now. When the cracker, no, no, when the cracker first came in and you was like, listen, it's my rules and then he was like, all right, cool.  What was his name? You remember? Listen, but on the next episode of million hours worth of game, man.   It's already documented. We can go back and look at it. I already know, but that's, come on, man.  He just snatched you off the top bump and jumped in.  He definitely, but I ain't, it's cool. And you scared to death, he had to hawk, he had to Tony hawk in his hand, his way. I've done everything to ensure a lie. He was very slashy and dashy. Yeah, you thought your kicks was on the line, huh? I thought everything was on the line. You thought, oh, he was gonna take your innocence? No, I ain't think that. And nobody ever snatched your innocence in it?  You played that off good. Ain't nobody ever ticked up from me, man. It looked like your innocence was ticking. Hey, listen, man, we appreciate your opportunity to each and every week to the number one music podcast in the country. I go by the name of Gillie the King. I'm Wildo 267. And I'm Amira's John. I'm Amira. It seems corny to say my Instagram name like that. Amira's John. I'm just Amira. If anybody, she's single. If anybody wants to be Amira's John, just DM her. And it's just like that.  What?


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The Benner State Chairman of the whole Progressive Congress, APC Austin Agadar, has resumed duty as the state's party secretary in Maccordie, the Benner State Capitol. Agadar was restrained from parodying himself as the Chairman of Benway, APC by iCourt in Alialia, Aliada, where he's looking at an error after his suspension by his AirDraught 1 warder, Erxco, but was however reinstated by the iCourt Maccordie on Monday. Now, according to reinstated the Chairman, it's just time to move forward. The past few weeks have witnessed feverish but unnecessary cladestine plucks for the soul of the leadership of the AMC in Benway states. Thankfully, the judiciary, which is the statutory habitat for the Engadry Law and Order, on the 12th February, 2024, put a halt to this cladestine move. I only wish to assert that the APC under my leadership in Benway State is forging ahead on an irreversible train of service delivery to our people. And I call on all and some not to be left behind. Now, I'm going to follow calls for synergy amongst party members and those in public offices. As on the recently-incidentally concluded that Gouma Ward State consents by election, they said the APC is the special purpose vehicle that those who worked against the party and the Senate election used to get into public office. For synergy among all party members and those in public office to collectively deliver the APC campaign promises to the long-suffering people of Benway States. I cannot round off this press conference without Engadry, my heartfelt gratitude to party-faithfuls, the Benway citizen who recently took a mass to vote our great party in the just concluded Iran election for Gouma Ward State consents. So you get notified about fresh news updates.