Hello and welcome to the ITTT's weekly live stream. My name is Lisa and I'm super glad to welcome you at a new live session. So we are just about to start, but we are going to wait for some people to join us. So if you are watching this video as a recording, please skip this beginning in three minutes or so probably. Well, I'm going to introduce today's live session and stuff like that. But if you want to learn a little bit more about ITTT and about myself as a host of this sessions, stay here and let's do it together. So I'm super glad to welcome you guys. Thanks a lot for joining in. Let me know if you see and hear me clearly, because I'm not sure if my equipment is working, if my camera and mic are all right. So let me know via the comments section if the sound is okay and if you think the picture is all right as well. So yeah, let's do like that. Because I really want to make sure that there are no problems with this technical stuff. So let me know if you see and hear me well. And yeah, let me just quickly change the slide and introduce myself. So yeah, thanks a lot, Leo. By the way, welcome at today's session. I hope you will enjoy it and I hope you will find something useful for yourself. So my name is Lisa. You can see my full name on this slide. But I usually go by Lisa because it is easier. So my Russian name is slightly challenging, I believe, but it's the same as Elizabeth. So I'm an ESL teacher working online primarily. So I've been working online for two years already, starting in 2020, right before the beginning of the pandemic. And I'm also a TAPL and TESOL expert with ITTT. So where ITTT is a leading TAPL and TESOL provider, if you guys haven't heard about ITTT or if you've come across this TAPL provider and considering our courses, today's live stream is going to be exactly for you because I'm going to deliver a really popular question.  So stay tuned and let's do it together. So let's review the courses and probably outline a career track for you, your career development track. Before we move on, please let me know where are you guys from. So I am based in Russia in a city called Yekaterinburg. It's pretty far from Moscow and the weather today is pretty nice, although it's getting colder and colder and I have to put on this long sleeve and make myself comfortable with this warm drinks and stuff like that. So where are you from? Is it nice there? And yeah, let's just communicate a little bit before the session. Oh yeah, I see Philip from Manchester. I am glad to see you. So Philip is a fan of these live streams. Thanks a lot for coming again. So I hope today's session will be valuable for you. And there is also Faraz from Egypt. Glad to see you again by the way. I'm great. So it's 2 pm in my place. And yeah, I think it's time to start. And I also see a person watching on YouTube, which is great. I believe that there are not many people watching on YouTube like in the real time. So I'm always glad to see someone saying hello and yeah, showing, sending greetings from YouTube. Okay. And Leo is actually a native speaker. That's great to know. Thanks a lot. I'm actually really pleased when native speakers come to my sessions, because I'm a non-native speaker and I still have a lot to learn myself as a student. So thanks a lot for your support. I hope that this session is going to be valuable for you. And let me move on and change the slide. So let's jump right into the discussion. So the point of today's session is what tackle course to choose and how to build your career development. And before we start, before we consider the courses itself, it is extremely important to think about your teacher's development needs. So basically when non-native speakers or native English speakers ask me about some ways to start their teaching career, they are curious about getting certified and then they want to jump right into the work itself. But from my point of view, it's a slightly incorrect approach, because it is always important to think like in the future. So to think about your future perspectives, because if you consider teaching as just a side hustle, it's probably not practical at all to think too much about your professional development, although it is still important. So but in those cases, when you really want to make teaching your career, your lifetime career, then start thinking about your development needs as early as possible. And there are actually two approaches from my perspective. Think about your background and also consider your goals, your perspectives. So as for the background, answer the question. So are you a beginner teacher? So are you at the beginning of your teaching career? Or are you an experienced teacher already? So if you're that person who is just beginning this career path, then it is one way to build your career track. If you're experienced, then it's another process and you will think about some other needs as well. But at the same time, bear in mind that it is important to consider some specific goals related to the niche and the age group you're going to deliver lessons to. So basically, also think about who you want to teach, either children or adults or maybe you want to work with some specific groups like business English students or even special needs. So such special needs as, I don't know, dyslexic students or some other variants of special needs. So these goals should be in your mind when thinking about your development. And also choose between two modes of teaching online or in class. You can also combine somehow and many things related to in class teaching can be implemented in your online setting as well. So everything is interchangeable. However, when it comes to narrowing down your niche, you want to make sure that you're a professional in the specific field. And before I move on, I want to ask you guys, so what is your current situation? Are you a new teacher or you are an experienced one? And what are your career goals? What do you want to achieve? So let me know in the comments section. I will be pleased to know and I will also share with the audience. I will share your answers with the audience. And yeah, it's always interesting to know what are some thoughts and what is important to the audience. And I also want to draw your attention to this QR code at the top right corner of the screen. So if you guys are considering taking a TAPL course with ITTT, this QR code can give you a really nice 30% discount of any TAPL courses. And today I'm actually going to tell you about different options you can choose. You can look at while considering your career development. And yeah, I think that this incentive, this discount might be really helpful. And you can also just follow the link from the chat box. It looks like this. So if you think like doing the course, just feel free to copy the link and check out all possible variants. All right. And unfortunately, I can't see any comments. Maybe you guys are typing and it takes time. And for the sake of not spending too much time on it, yeah, oh, that's cool. So I'm not sure if it is a real name or not or just a nickname, but last says that he's starting a university degree to become a teacher. Oh, that's awesome. So you're a freshman, right? So if you think that teaching is something you're going to do for life, this live stream is definitely for you. And by the way, are you going to be an ESL teacher or just some general subjects? So let me know as well. And altogether, let's change the slide and see some options for different needs. So the first plan is going to be for early career teachers. So last, this slide is for you. And there is also a seat joining in. Nice to see you. A seat from Lebanon. Nice to see you at the course. So yeah, by the way, so last says that he isn't young. By the way, there are no age limits for taking a tuffle course or TESOL at ITT. And I believe if you start your university degree, it's also not a problem. It's not a problem as well. I believe that when you're mature enough and when you understand what you want to do in the future, it's always better than to be young and wild. That's actually what happened to me back then. And that was just how it was. But I feel like if I did something differently, it would be probably more beneficial for me. But anyway, so let's see what courses you can consider if you're an early career teacher. So basically at ITT we have several options. The first two ones, 50 and 60 hour teaching courses, they are related to those cases when you don't have any prior experience or education in the field. But you want to get some hands-on experience in planning, for example, or in teaching grammar and phonology. So the content of these courses is absolutely comprehensible for those people who haven't taught at all, but they want to understand what it is about and how to organize the experience in general. And they can be used as initial courses before getting any further education or starting teaching in general. But if you feel like you want to know the basics, the most important key points of this teaching job, then the 120 hour TEFL course would be more suitable for you. Because it is the most basic course that includes both things related to planning and also teaching some specific skills. But at the same time, it covers such things as, oh, I'm going blank, sorry. So it also covers stuff like classroom management and some organizational things as well. And also, I would like to mention that usually when you find a job, the general requirement would be to have no less than 100 hour course, 100 hour certification. So that is why the 120 hour TEFL course is the most popular option. So just because this is the general requirement all over the world, and if you get this type of certification, the chances are you're going to be eligible to work in various parts of the world. So the last certification listed in here is actually quite useful for those people who don't have any practical experience.  And we will provide you this special certification where you teach, and then you finish some specific assignments and then get certified as a teacher with practice. So this option is actually suitable for both experienced and not experienced people, not experienced teachers. So you can also think about this option. And as for these courses, the two courses above and the last one are specialized TEFL certification courses. And the one in the middle is a basic course. So it's a general TEFL certification, which is required all over the world. And employers usually ask you if you have at least 100-hour certification. Okay, so let me check out the comments section. So Asif asks which countries accept non-native speakers. So Asif, the thing is it is actually very subjective to specific countries. So if you, for example, want to work in a certain destination, what you have to do is go to their embassy website or any other governmental website and check out the visa requirements section to see what are some specifications for teachers. So there are countries where only native teachers are eligible to teach. But at the same time, there are many places around the world where non-native teachers are accepted as well. But also, I just want to remind you that getting a job doesn't mean that you have to hold a specific passport or to be born in a specific country. It's also important to be proactive and show your interest. That is why I always recommend trying whatever destination, even if there are certain rules in accepting some specific nationalities. So in my personal experience, that was in China. So I got a job in China several years ago. So I was a native speaker. Of course, at that time, regulations were slightly different, and it was much easier to get to China compared these days. However, schools actually preferred native speakers there. But those companies that understood how the ESL world worked, they accepted those teachers who had education, experience, and who actually wanted to develop as teachers. And in those schools where I worked, I actually got a lot of useful trainings. And I should say that my teaching development started at that time and was provided by my employers. So always think that it is on you to find the best benefits and the best place to work. Okay. All right. Yeah. So let me dwell upon this as well a little bit further. So I'm going to change the slide and answer this question. So Paris asks if these courses can be combined or not? Yeah. So let's see. Before I answer that question, I also want to add that there are some other options. So if you guys want to seek some further development, it is also possible. And it is always really good for you as a teacher. Because when you narrow down your niche, you have more career prospects, more career opportunities, and you can open your hourly rate, which is a really great thing for your career development as well.  Yeah. Hello, everyone who are joining right now. Thanks a lot for coming. So we are talking about different types of courses to choose for your non-native teacher career development. And on this slide, you can actually see three options. These are also specialized TEFL courses. But compared to the previous ones, these courses can't be combined. They can't be taken prior to the main general course. So if you haven't been TEFL certified, if you haven't got your basic TEFL certification, which is 120 hour course at ITTT, unfortunately, you can't proceed with these other courses. But if you are TEFL certified already, you can consider taking a business English course, a course in teaching business English, teaching young learners course, or teaching English online. So these three specialized courses are for those who have this primary TEFL certification. And let me now explain the thing with the packages. Of course, we have these great value packages. You can obtain several courses together as a bundle. They will cost a little bit more than this general certification. But in this case, you pay for the bundle, and you get this reasonable price, which is why these options will suit various needs and all budgets. The most general certification, the most general bundle would be number one, 170 hour TEFL course plus certification in teaching English online. So basically it's our 120 hour TEFL course, which is this general course, general TEFL certification. And then after completing the general course, you will be assigned with the teaching English online certification. So basically two courses together, but you pay less. The same about 2020 220 hour master package. So these course, this bundle includes a little bit different outline. Let me quickly check out the outline itself. So if you're interested, if you're curious in it, so basically 2020 hour TEFL course also includes this 120 hours certification. Yeah, let's just go to the special page on the website and let me check quickly. Because unfortunately, I don't learn it by heart and always forget. And recently we've also had some major changes in the courses outline. So they might have changed as well. So yeah, this package, the 220 hour master package includes the 120 hour TEFL certification and the 50 hour course in teaching English to young learners and also teaching business English. And there are two options for this package as well. You can do it on your own or with the help of our awesome tutor. So if you consider the tutor option, you can also get TEFL certification in teaching English online as a bonus. And as for the other packages, they also have some specific outlines and include more courses for less money. Just not to spend much time on explaining all these details here. Let me send you a link. So just quickly, I'm going to send the link to these courses right in the chat box. So if you guys are interested in the great value packages, check it out. And yeah. So and I'm going to answer the questions from the chat box. So let me see. So thanks a lot, Asif, for being so active. I really appreciate that because when someone asks questions, it is always easier to, you know, to deliver the session. Sometimes it happens like when I talk, talk and talk and then my throat gets so dry. I start, you know, my voice starts changing. All right. So which course I prefer? So several years ago, let me think when it was, so it was in October. Oh, actually, how many four years ago. So in October 2017, I took my TEFL course and it was the 120 hour TEFL course without tutor. So I wasn't that, you know, I didn't choose actually between the tutor support and without tutor support. I just decided doing everything on my own. But I believe that it was a mistake because it took me much more time than it could take. So basically, I had a lot of challenges doing the lesson plan, which was one of the requirements to get a TEFL certification. And these days, I'm thinking about suggesting you considering the option with the tutor support because if you have any troubles, if you have any questions, if you don't understand some contents, you can always reach out to your tutor and ask. And by the way, ITTT provides a 24-7 support. So if you have any issues regarding the technical aspects or the course itself, you can always get back to us and we will help you out. So this is what we provide for sure. And this is one of the advantages we offer to our clients. So if you have any, you know, troubles, we're always here to support you. What's next? So yeah, let me see Milo's question as well. So Milo is TEFL certified already. Congratulations. By the way, did you take your TEFL course with ITTT or not? So what course to pick next to increase chances? Well, so let me change the slide and show you these three options. So basically, if you want to continue your teaching development, your teacher career development, you can try to narrow down your niche, which is always a great idea because if you get more experience in a specific field, for example, business English teaching, it increases your chances not just to get hired but also to get paid more because specific courses, specific services always cost more. At least this is a trend in Russia. So tutors all over Russia try to narrow down their niche. If they are smart enough, you know, if I may put it like this, but the thing is many teachers still provide this general English courses to whatever students possible just to make at least some money. So those who want to, you know, develop the career, they change the approach and narrow down the niche, choose specific students to teach and increase their hourly rates. So in order to enhance your career perspectives, I suggest that you look at our 50-hour teaching business English course or teaching English learners course. And the last option would be teaching English online. Also, if you want to refresh your knowledge in planning, you can consider this 50-hour ELT academic planning course as well or teaching grammar and phonology. And I would say that teaching grammar and phonology might be really useful. And I'm actually thinking about this course myself right now because I have a group of non-native English speakers living in native English-speaking countries. And their problem is actually not the language itself. They are pretty advanced, but they still have some gaps in their grammar, which is why we have one group a week and work on grammar specifically. So this option also might be useful for those who want to change the career, somehow who want to set a higher price and stuff like that. And also, when you look for employment in some companies, being a specific field teacher is always a bonus because you can actually provide higher quality services to your students. In my perspective, being a general English teacher is your first step in the career. And then you have to move on and think about what suits you as a person best. That was my idea when I decided to work just with teenagers on exam preparation. And that is why when it comes to teaching young students, I work with teenagers only there from 13 to 15 years. And we work on the Cambridge exam preparation. And I would say that exam preparation is actually a great idea to offer services. And it is really popular these days all over the world. So consider it as well. And yeah, this teaching English learners, teaching young learners course can be suitable for this perspective. Okay, so I hope, Milo, I have answered your question. If you still have any doubts, let me know. And if you want to look at the courses a little bit closer, you can actually follow the link that I have just dropped in the comments section. And I'm going to answer Philip's question as well. So is Russia now becoming a good place to teach English? So it really depends. I would say that in Russia, we've got a really strong teaching community. But teachers are the Russian English teachers. So we have, you know, a pretty solid educational system regarding the teacher training. And then teachers who have this general degree, you know, in education, they also, if they are interested in teaching, they seek some some further career development ways, and all and constantly try to develop. So when it comes to offering private lessons, this market is actually boosting because like all over the world, because online teaching, and not just online teaching, but one on one teaching is a great way to, you know, for both students and teachers, it's a pretty convenient way and a comfortable way to work. So there are many companies that hire both native teachers and non native teachers. Those companies are online companies and also just this regular companies. I'm not sure about the visa process and stuff in Russia. It can be rather challenging for some specific destinations, just due to this, you know, relationships between Russia and the other countries. But generally speaking, yeah, there are many job offers within the country. You just have to research. And it's not that hard to get a job. Let me just quickly drop a couple of options you can quickly consider if you want to teach in Russia. So you can teach online basically for several Russian companies. And the most famous one is called Skyeng, like this. So you can Google it. And the other one is, yeah, I think like this, the other one is Yandex Practicum or something like that. But if you Google it, you will probably find the links. So these two companies are really big. And they work primarily with adult students. So if you feel like you want to try to work with Russian students, Russian adults, you can consider these two companies. So they are both huge tech companies in Russia. Just check their websites and see if such opportunities may work for you. But again, hourly rates might be really low in terms of your location and this company's market. So you always have to consider that, you know, Russia and many other countries have, you know, some some standard rates in terms of Russian rubble, for example, and American dollar. So exchange rates are pretty tricky here. And the life costs lower compared to the UK or to the US. That is why teachers may be paid much less than in first world countries, you know. So you also have to research this point as well. So if the country isn't the first world country, the chances are you won't get paid higher. And for this reason, I would suggest you trying to work as a solo teacher to work as a freelancer and see if there are opportunities to work for higher hourly rates. So that's probably it. And let me change the slide once again. So I don't have any further slides related to some career development and ITTT TEFL courses. So just a second. All right. So last last asks how to settle in a country. What country do you mean exactly? And could you give me some more specific explanations of your question? Because I'm not sure how to answer. It is really subjective, right? So if you consider moving to a different country, you have to basically research the life expenses, some possible life expenses, they might be really different in your country, in your mother land. Yeah, for example, if you are from the US, if you're a native speaker from the US, and you've charged like 25 dollars an hour, and you want to go to Russia, I'm not sure that you can get the same hourly rate in this country because the cost of life is much lower. It doesn't mean that the same thing will happen in some metropolitan areas like Moscow and St. Petersburg. So those places, they are rich and they offer more chances, more opportunities to teachers. Yeah, so it's really subjective. But basically what else should you consider is your cultural background. So before moving to a specific country, you have to research what rules they have, what cultural habits and stuff like that. Yeah, probably that's all. If you find an employer in your destination, in the destination of your choice, they will help to solve all things related to visa and whatever. So yeah, like this. Basically, that is all for today. I hope that today's session was useful for you. Let me know what you think by the way. And if you have any further questions, feel free to ask once again. Yeah, I am going to send the link once again. So this link contains the 30% discount or you can simply scan this QR code that you can see on the slide right now. Just follow the link from the chat box if it's more convenient for you. Yeah, that's it. And let me also say a little bit more about our live streams. So basically, we go live every week twice. I go live at the beginning of the week and my colleague Linda goes live at the end of the week. Linda is a native English speaker and she can also give you some hands-on experience because she used to teach in China, she worked in South Korea, and she also travels a lot around the Asian countries especially. So if you want to learn something specific related to the native English-speaking opportunities, just check out Linda's live streams as well. What else? ITTT is presented on various social media. So right now I am streaming on YouTube and Facebook, but at the same time you can find our profiles on Instagram and Pinterest and LinkedIn, if it is the most convenient social network for you. We share various useful information regularly there. So stay tuned and probably subscribe and follow to get notifications. Like, you know, click on this bell button to get updates. And as for Facebook, we actually share job prospects a couple of times a week, I believe, or maybe once a week. Check out the feed as well if you want to find some ways to teach. Yeah, that's pretty much, but I would like to invite you to my Facebook group as well. So I have a Facebook group on Facebook. It is for both non-native teachers and native teachers. And I'm trying to build this community and I'm going to share useful information related to teacher career development and language learning as well. So feel free to join in. And if you guys have any questions regarding table certification, teaching opportunities, ESL and stuff like that, you can always direct message me on Facebook or on Instagram maybe. So feel free to do that. And I will see you next week on the same day, at the same time. So I hope that we will get back together again. If you have any suggestions related to the live streams, to the coming live streams, if you want a specific topic to be covered, just feel free to suggest me as well. I will be really glad because I want to deliver the best services to my audience and help out as many people as it is possible. Yeah. Thanks again. Thanks for coming. Thanks for your support. It is very nice. It is very nice to work with you guys and have a great week. See you soon. Bye-bye.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily talks have taken place amongst the Everton board in the last 24 hours or so about board members taking a pay cut with obviously Premier League football still suspended and set to be suspended for some time, the members of the board are discussing whether that would help other members of Everton staff get through the situation. Obviously Everton do not want to get into a situation that other clubs have found themselves into relying on government schemes and want to pay all of the club staff and one of the ways to help that would be board members taking a pay cut. So that is something being discussed at the moment and I think for me personally that is the way to go start at the top and where he weighed down and the average members of staff really it shouldn't hit them at all. And it shouldn't be something that hits the football club either. It is a difficult time for football and the Premier League or certainly numbers have come out today surrounding the Premier League suggest that the Premier League could lose up to a billion pound with Everton looking to lose around 40 million pound. Other clubs obviously like Manchester United Liverpool could lose over 100 million pounds so there is an appetite to get football going once they can that would likely be behind closed doors but in the meantime football clubs have to find a way to keep cash rolling and for some that will be very easy for others not so easy so we will have to wait and see. And as I said the football as a whole is looking at the moment on what they can do. The FA have come out today and said they have to look at the bigger picture. They have to plan for the possibility of football not coming back this season. They hope they can but the most important thing is the safety of everyone really and everyone's health. So it's still very much up in the air but in the meantime football clubs are looking to see what they can do to make sure that the general members of staff are not hit by this and it should never reach that when you've got members of the board on a lot of money, footballers on a lot of money. It should never ever be left to the average worker to pick up the tab for the rest of the club and I certainly don't think it should fall to the taxpayer to pay for the rider so we'll have to wait and see but good positive steps from the Everton board talking in the right way starting at the top and I think we'd expect nothing less from Everton football club so we'll have to wait and see and as I said the Premier League and the FA are talking behind the scenes to try and get things in place for if they get the go ahead for football possibly starting around in June time whether they can get the Premier League done in a month behind closed doors and I imagine that's the way it's going to go. I can't really see football fans going back into a football stadium this season so that's just the way it is. I think now a lot of people feel like well if we can just get it done and get it over with and then that deals with any complications we can all get back to just football sailing, we can just get back to some normality as much as it possibly can but with this cloud I'm going over ahead of getting the season finished and the implications of that and it's not just the Premier League clubs we were rich, you've got to remember that on 91 currently teams in the football league who it will hit a lot of those hard so football will be finished this season in whatever fashion I don't know yet but there's far too much money at stake and far too many complications so same for the Premier League just getting those nine games done is the big thing now. Obviously we've been linked with a lot of players in the last few weeks it is open season it does feel like the pre-season you've got to fill the newspapers and the different news dailies with stories when possible. Another player that's been linked today is Irving Lozano, the Napoli winger obviously Angelotti's, one of Angelotti's players. He's been linked to Devon quite a lot in recent days and his agent Rheola has been aged to get him to Devon as well that would be an interest in the money, he does sort of tick a box for Devon, we've been linked to them in the past. Obviously Marcel Brands has got a history with the player, Carlo Angelotti's got a history with the player so it would seem to make sense the link but also it ticks a lot of box to create the link as well. We've been linked with him and obviously Alan as well is a Napoli team mate, quite heavily he is a player that Everton, saying he can't go on until he would really like it seems but at 29 would his value be too high? After all this is done and dusted who knows what the value of footballers are going to be anymore so we've been linked with those two players today quite heavily in the Italian press but it's a bit of a freak for all in the Italian press as well. Another player he's been linked with coming to Everton or coming back to Everton is Yannick Balasi, his agent has aged them to come back to Everton. Obviously he's been alone at Sporting, there's been in Portugal, it's not going the way he wants it to go, it was going really well till he got sent off for a phantom elbow in one of the games and he finds himself in and out of the team and obviously with the uncertainty of everything going on as well doesn't look like they're going to make him permanent so he's been aged by his agent to come back to Everton and maybe give it one more chance. Of course he would be coming back to a manager who's not seen him play before so who knows where the fresh start may be with a pre-season? I think for everyone it's best if he just leaves Everton and goes and starts his career somewhere else but who knows with the relaxing possibly of FFP that could help Everton get him in a few other plays out the door without actually losing too much money on them. If FFP is relaxed that would be a real help. I can't see how FFP can't be relaxed with everything that's gone on in the last month or so and what will continue in the next couple of months so he's been aged to come back but I would age Everton to get rid of him as fast as possible. There you go. This has been the Everton News Daily. I know you thought in the comments on any of the stories we've touched upon. Some great content on the channel at the moment. Great interview with Roger Benifam, Men and Blazers in Everton and over there in America. Blazing a trail in journalism and as an Evertonian. Make sure you check that out. He sat down with Baz from his home in New York. Make sure you watch that. 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Check it, check it, check it, this is your unique house, this is your boy, E.C.O. And I'm with the lovely, amazing, outstanding official, Mr. Mako, what's going on? Nothing, nothing, you know my dad will walk on? Man, we here today, man, this guy's a gem, man, this is my guy. Hey, man, I'm in ATL again, you already know what time it is, man. There is the shunt in the building. Yes, sir, Ski, right here in the flat. Man, what's going on, man? Man, I'm chillin', man, blessed, man, better than I ever been. Man, hey, man, you looking good, too. Thank you, man. Boy, that's what they do. Some of these niggas, when you come back, niggas, they don't look the same. Yeah, they get like that, that's all. Niggas fall off, man. Yeah, I came back on the right time. Yeah, I came back at the right time. That's it for sure. Man, last time we came down, man, we just enjoyed you, man. I appreciate you for always picking up that phone when we called, man. Oh, yeah, for sure. Always showing us love, bro. I mean, we came in this game, man. I ain't know if we're gonna be doing all this this long. I came in for COVID.   Yeah, blew up. Everybody like, nigga, I'm getting calls from all over the U.S., nigga, and other countries, nigga. Bless you. I'm trying to go with you when we go overseas, man. I ain't never been. You know what you come over there on. I ain't never been in no way. What? Man, I ain't never been in no way. You gotta go with us. I just literally just, for the first time, I like put in on the phone for my passport. Yeah. Where is the first place you want to go? Jamaica. The first, whoever booked me first. Really? The first, oh, they booked me. We need to get you to Jamaica, man. I'm with that, too.  You better go get that overseas money. We should just take the family and go be the first strip. Oh, yeah. So you don't have to worry about, you know, you gotta be here for one day and then leave. You can just go somewhere for the whole week. See, you know, me, I'm kind of like, I don't know the word, but it's a long sentence like, but me, we gonna turn all this into one thing. You feel me? That's him. Look, yeah, you feel me? That's him. I gotta show him Switzerland. Y'all need to come on, get ready, get them kid passport. We gonna stay for two days, okay? I be trying to make it count, man. He's like, this is the write-off. Yeah. You feel me? We ain't coming back. We in the party. Yeah, we feel to get it. Yes, sir. Man, so you, man, you a whole different species, man, when it comes down to what you do, man, it's a lot of cats that want to work with you. They've been coming through the show, man. Shout out, I think, who's at the other day that was on the show that wanted to holler at him? Buffy Johnson. Buffy Johnson. Buffy Johnson. You heard him? He out of Dallas. Yeah, I seen him in your show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He basically wanted to holler at you, man. He told me, he was like, man, that boy good, too. He sound good. That pain style is there. Appreciate it. I want to hear, I want to hear, I want to give a dream from the South, man. Let's get it. Hey, let's put it together. Man, that's crazy. He's like, man, I got to get with him, man. And you know, just... And T-Rail talked really good about you. T-Rail talked good about you. Yeah, that's my dog. That's all I brought up for Elvin. The nigga crazy, cause he say, man, E-man, I seen that nigga, Maree, man. I walked into him and said, man, why are you running from me? Hey, I seen that too. Hey, I seen that too.  That was so funny. But I love that about him, though. He's pulling up. He's pushing up. He's going to talk to you. You know, to get it. He's really genuine. Like, he love you. Hey, what's up, bro?  Yeah, we can stop now. Let's go to the studio now. Like, he only like... But I love that. But when I posted that clip, in my mind, I'm thinking, I hope people really get what he really means behind all of this and the fact that don't stop.  Come on, let's do this now. Don't get caught up in all this hype and all this other stuff. It's all about working, making that bread, doing what you need to do. Yeah. All the way. I just hope that they see the true meaning behind what he was trying to say. Some people, you know, some people going to think however they think, even if you break it all the way down for them, they still going to see it whole, how they want to see it. He didn't. Like I said, to me, it was like genuine and he was just basically saying, man, he want to work with everybody. Y'all see him out here. He pushing them up on me. And he don't give up. No, he ain't going to give up. Yeah, he's going to keep going. He say, though, when he was in there with the Rez, he said, that nigga, that ain't bagged down. That nigga, you got to come with him. Yeah, I'm different. I'm different. But he said he helped you and you helped him because he said he helped you with the hooks. I'm like, yeah, because you know, I get to him. He can sing, sing. I'm doing my thing, holding the note, but he can sing, sing. So yeah, we in there and he is coming there. Like I got some excuse. I mean, I got some stuff. We got, we working on the, you know what I mean? The whole part. That would be dope. So yeah, he was doing that. I come in, you know, I come in with the verses. He like, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, yeah, what in there? I never forget. I think me, him and like a couple of producers, we was in the studio. We booked the whole studio. Like, so we could work in this room, this room and this room. He was in there doing hooks. I was over here doing verses. We was rotate niggas making beats. When he get done with a hook, I come in and do a verse. We probably did like eight songs that day. Working. Man. Man. Man. Is it hard to find. It was in like two, three hours though. It wasn't even like a whole day. It was like a couple of hours. We had like eight songs. But not everybody can do that. That's what I was about to say. Right. Right. Everybody can do that. You have to have that chemistry to be able to do that. You got to have the chemistry. You got to have the want.  Like, you know what I'm saying? Anybody can rap, but you got to be able to make music. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. No, you wanted those guys, man, that you done seen it though. You done been in there. You done been through a lot, bro. Like you. I seen you come through a lot of different phases. You wanted those guys, man. Even the fact of even Rollo, the one that you, you know, was on the label, he locked up. Free my dog. Free Rollo. Holiday Rollo. Free Rollo. How's that? How's he doing? Oh man, he doing good. Good spirit still working. You know what I'm saying? He was recording in there. He ain't never trying to get through it. Yeah. He's in the drop. He got a phone going on. Yeah. I love that. I'm gonna say he put a drop. For sure. And I'm on now. You know what I'm saying? I love it, man. That's dope, bruh. Yeah. Like that's a real one. Like when you stay down like that, you know, most niggas forget about you, bruh. I don't know if you understand how hard it is for a nigga when he been gone two, three years. When my nigga was gone two years, you remember when my partner was gone, I didn't even help him for the first year. Because I say when these niggas fall off, he got a five. I got to roll with him the rest of the way. And that's what I did. You see what I'm saying? I knew niggas was gonna help him up front. But I knew I wanted to hold him all the way down. That's what I'm saying. They ain't helping up front. No, it's not like this was the immediate family. I've seen it. I know I'm like a book. I'm like when I come through, it's gonna be that push that's gonna, you know, make a difference. You know what I'm saying? I know folks getting there, ain't no help from the gate. I know folks, I don't help while they was in there. Get out. Ain't how they meet. Ain't say hi, nothing. Ain't seen them. Heard them. Really? But it makes you stronger though. You mean who's stronger? It makes you. I mean, you know. Fuck. Yeah, cause I'm trying to figure out too. Like, I'm gonna be stronger though. I ain't tripping. Yeah, I ain't tripping, but I'm glad it only took that to get you from around here. Exactly. But I'm cool with that. That's all. You coulda hit me for more. So coulda. You coulda hit me for more. No, no. You coulda hit, man. What? You coulda came home like, hey man, I need a 10, a 20 or something.  I gotta do it. This is my boy. Don't call me please. Run off. Run off. Man, so did you. No, what I wanted to ask you, cause I know a lot of time with mental health, you always talk about that. Yeah. And I see you post sometimes, you know, y'all show me some love, y'all check in. Yeah. I see you do that. How important it is to have your fans, to have your family friends or whoever is actually giving you that love on social media. How important is that for you? It's important, right? I'm going to answer the question, right? Straight up. It's important on social media, being that the world is kind of like social media first, like real life kind of second for a lot of people, not me, but a lot of people. So it's good to know that, you know, you could show and display that you having a real support system.  You really got fans that's right there behind you every step of the way, a real following, a real fan base, you know what I'm saying? So it's important to get the love, but in real life, it's more important to fear that love from a brother calling just to check on you or you know what I'm saying? Because mentally, artists we go through so much, but we can't display it all the time. So sometimes we do have a breaking point where we may display the wrong shit at the wrong time. And then again, it runs straight to social media and then they try to put this on it and that on it. So yeah, it's important to show social media, but also more important in real life. So you know, had those breaking points. Yeah, because one thing I was always saying that I'm happy that you're very transparent with that it's concerned because the first time I saw it, it made me wonder, I hit him up and I'm like, hey, check on the rest because I didn't like that post.  I'm mentally about to break or something like that.   A lot of times that's promo. I'm getting y'all attention like the song I'm finna drop there's like that right now it's called Save Me. That's why I'm, you know what I'm saying? I'm mentally about to break Save Me. You know what I'm saying? It's just getting ready for the new drop. But you got to be careful because to me, when you do that and you know it's promo, that's cool, but then for people who genuinely care about you it makes us worthy. Or not. Yeah, that's a fact, but that's cool. We activate everybody else. We activate the Lord. Don't call me Jackus you seem to force call me. Yeah, I'm good, but I like it. You feel what I'm saying? Yeah, we good. We always gonna be good. That's good. I can tell you right now, man, like I said, you one of those guys, man, you have me going, man. Like I said, when I hear the music coming I already know it's gonna be smash and it's gonna be something that I can sit back and vibe to. You know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. Be, be nods. Be nods. Be nods. Be nods all the way up to dirty mirrors now. What has changed with the rest of the show? Yeah. Everything. Every single thing changed. Talk to me about how this transition happened and let's just ride down through that. Because that early on the rest was, I was a different beast than the one we deal with today. You know what I'm saying? It was very different. So tell me what's the difference? I'm talking about very, yeah. Back then that was a hungry beast. You know what I'm saying? A beast on drugs. Real depending on drugs. Like for real, I couldn't record without taking some type of thing to have me going. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So I was into it. I was working. The work ethic was different. I was surrounded by a lot of different energies, different people. How did you stop taking drugs?  Oh yeah? Like honestly, my girl and my kid, like I had done relapsed and got back on a particular drug and she was like, you gonna be on that? You gonna lose her? We out.  So I was like, damn. So you tell me the love that you had for your family and my kids. And my kids, yeah.  And they have family. They have where the wife, kids, all of that. And it's like the drugs beat them. So I'm like trying to figure out how hard is it? It's hard. It's real.  You know, me, my family is the most important thing to me over anything.  Like, my family is the most important thing. We could live on the debris as long as I got my family on straight. How long were you on drugs before you actually stopped? How many years? I had an appeal, like an upper. You know what I'm saying? A milder, out of all something. Like the whole time, like my whole career. And the reason why I ask you that, because you know, you have some people who will be watching it and be like, oh yeah, he could get off because he was not in very long. So you know, I'm just trying. I've been on drugs since I ever started rapping. Like, you feel me like, and I ain't saying it in a way like that, but I'm going to just say that I was doing it before it was cool.  You feel me? Yeah, yeah. But now it's popular, so everybody's doing it. But yeah, I was doing it when it was like, nigga, what are you in there doing?  So that's why a lot of them end up taking drugs because you go through a whole bunch of stuff personally in your life, whether baby mama drama, girlfriend drama, whatever, family drama, you have to support all these people, you have to do all of these things, plus you got to come on stage with that happy personality, give the performance of a lifetime, which you don't feel it. Right. So a lot of people, I feel like celebrities turn to drugs just to get that buzz feeling. Just to keep going.  You're not on any of this stuff. How hard is it to do all of these things without that? It's hard. I ain't going to lie.  She done did something at school. I come here like for example, I can come right here. I'm trying to do an interview. You'll see it. Like it's on me like and I'm working on that that I need to be. But me knowing that I don't start taking like natural things like like right now I'm on alpha brain focus. Like so I'm feeling like I'm at all. Does it work? Does it work? Yeah. Of course it ain't going to be as intense. That's a real thing. Right. But it feels like yeah, it's a pacify. Yeah, that pretty much it just helps you.  Like your career has been you gotta have somebody you can be there and believe in you, bro. And my kid like all like my friends at the time they didn't give a damn.   That what he do.  He's gonna make a hit though. You know what I mean?  But that's a lot of people because I've heard people say stuff like that. Like for big celebrities, like I don't care what you gotta do. You just gotta push this out. Fast.  You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I'm just speaking on situation that I don't seen firsthand. I don't see motherfuckers off at all. Like, hey, man, what you need, bro?  What's up? Yeah. Yeah. They don't care about you that all like that. They want that hit.  Right.  We need you to work.  But you know already that as you go through these phases in life, man, you know, the most important thing is your health. The most important thing is your family. You don't understand how you're working because the most important thing is your kids. The most important thing and you can't see it.   That's right. All right.  Right. And continually make a hit. Continuously, right? That's what they say. Right? So then you got kids that you got them missed time with because you're always going. You're always working on that hit. You're always working on the video. You're always working on trying to be in the radio or somebody face like you're always trying to figure out how to catch that way so you can catch that shit so you can catch them shows so you can keep that money coming right. And that's what I was going to say. The biggest difference from from the old what I want to do like I'm going to do what I do to make me happy if I don't feel good I'm not doing that.  You know what I'm saying? I like that. If I want to be at my kid birthday party for three days nigga I'm going to do that because I missed a hundred birthdays already. That's for you. You know what I mean? And I know like you know my son be missing me. My daughter's like come on bro. Ain't nothing more precious. No I like that man I like that because that just it's so you know knowledge now. Knowledge yeah. Like I can go out here and do a show pass out and and and and not come home. What you talking about? That's the truth. But I been and my kids ain't got nothing to tell you when they say who was your daddy? Oh the director son? No. My daddy was fun. My daddy Lord was my daddy took us here. We did we did that. That's real. That's real. So if you meet a young talented upcoming artist right now who when you look at them because I know you all be bumping into each other sometimes at the studios and stuff like that and you can see them going down the same path or have the same misillusion to think that you have to do these things to be successful. How would you advise that person? That's a good question.   And the rollouts to how you doing this and if you don't read if you don't represent them well and Show them the love and support they need I knew they can put you in the back like and I learned that so from my personal relationship I mean I learned that from my personal experience now when I go meet y'all or something y'all can call me and I'm picking up Hey, what's happening? Yeah. Yeah, I put you up. No pressure. Yeah DJs. Hey, man, you'll do this on me. Yeah Yeah, we'll hey bro. We doing a show, but whatever day in such a such city. Can you come? Yeah, I got you. You got me. We got each other But I've had people who've been on the show who say that Independence it can only carry you so far But you need a label to get whether distribution or to carry you even further Again, it depends on who what artist you are and it depends on what you trying to do, right? What are you trying to do? I'm just doing what I love Like I ain't trying to you're trying to get if it having it having but that's not my that ain't my focal point Like I ain't like oh, I'm sure for the stars. I want to be drinking next year. Okay. No, I'm I'm doing what I love You know what I'm saying? I'm doing what give me peace of mind What therapeutically help me? um I'm making good money doing it my kids, you know, they they with it. They like yeah, that's my daddy You know what I'm saying? They proud of me. You know what I'm saying?  I became a successful person You know that ain't normal from where I'm from.  I'm grateful. Yeah You know, that's the the one thing about it. You can't the bible say no man look Going forward, you know, I'm saying grab an applaud and going forward Look back without running into something You got to be careful looking back once you've already traded through those different places You already accomplished that right so now it's time to move on to the next stage We in a phase now where it's back at it again.  Listen to me. I'm a whole other one I'm somebody the new music. I'm gonna drop the new things I got going on This new energy that I done Bumped into I don't need like I don't I just prayed I've been praying just for a piece of mind like when is the project coming? almost But you know, you know all likes and dates only because anything might happen. Yeah, but soon What So what month I had a time to have me in like a week. So, you know how that game goes. Give me three weeks October something we gotta get you to you got you coming to Texas.  Um, yesterday. I was at uh So I was a little done. We was at a little done a video shoot me and london j And I was in the back talking about where the gold mouth and we was discussing like My old like pain one is so legendary like yeah, yeah Well, I ever topped that right and I'm like, I don't know like I don't I don't never look at it like topping it because it's like this is pain one That's what that is. You know pain two is this This what this is pain three is this this what this is and I feel like all them shits classes and Legendary, but I don't know which one can you can't it's a whole different animal each time phases And you can't even try to duplicate or either go against it because these are different phases you in Exactly and this one this an album called bigger than me too. Hey, yeah, so this phase It's going down. Yeah, it's big and you gonna let us in on who gonna be on that thing, man Man, I'm working any features I've been trying like, you know, I've been getting features on there Like now, you know, I've been getting the yeses and we're gonna do it Let's lock it in send it.  I mean, I'm ready to drop. Yeah. So, um, I definitely reached out to a lot I know for show T real on them That my boy right there for show he on that nigga that bad boy.  I was the first one with that pain me I Say you agree with what?   That's how you pull the field But now nums don't lie We go to 2010 I just wasn't nobody at the time Exactly me like I've been doing it. I just didn't have a platform But who was it? This is an old school rapper that they they named zero That's a zero See and and I Rude too, I salute them. I salute all of them. All right, I do But I'm I'm saying you know how uh, I don't know how to like the proper Yeah All right, so it's like Since those guys Ain't nobody else been doing it. Okay. Got you. So you have so you're not saying you're the first Yeah, I am not the official first. Right. I'm just saying anybody doing it now. They're they're me crying me. Okay He said 20 what 2014 he said 1990 Though like I mean you but but like I said, I wasn't me. I wasn't the red the sun. Yeah, you can look up D Dads, you can look up Dbo. You can look up all of my old names and you'll see like oh damn He really been doing this been doing I've been over look the long time.  You know what I'm saying So that's when they came that phase with Dbo If y'all been in that area with me Dbo was on the gangster up. Oh, all right.  Let me just switch it I don't have to sing about girls. I can sing about my pain or I don't have to You know, I used back then I used to try to make an album Thank you.   What did you think when you first heard ride wave?  Yeah, I said he fine first thing I said I swore everything. I love What is it? What is it was called gospel something?  I never forget. I met my current manager, um, man, I'm in his house I'm like, damn, bro. You hear this? This need a fight. Oh, I gotta work with y'all.  He on the sign time.   Y'all been around each other? Y'all have words did you talk with him? Y'all moving there from y'all got your own Yeah, my fault. Like, all right, let's get out of here. Yeah I don't know when he gonna be here. I ain't finna stay for You got stuff too. You feel me? But yeah, I don't know. I mean Somebody should have connected to that. Okay. Um, now let's talk about Morey when you first seen him come See, yeah, how he came right how he came how I first heard him I was writing with that. But then when I heard him saying saying the gospel church saying I said, oh my god, I gotta learn how to sing, bro I gotta go taste some classic Hey, they done uh He did really really say it like yeah, like t-rea I said man, damn. I gotta go really get some pleasure. Did you take any? Not hell I just been kind of self teaching So, um, I see you were in that Jurassic Park necklace. What is that all about? Um, well from on the south side. That's what they call it Jurassic Park. Land of the Lost Oh, okay. I just thought you just loved the movie. Oh, yeah Nah Shout out to them. Okay. I did I was a young nigga and I used to large raspberry park. I got a dinosaur on my back. Yeah. Yeah, but um Yeah, no, um, yeah, that's all Yeah Was it a big big situation when you left when when you start moving and doing your own thing you left cash money Do you think that was the right thing to you know to do at the time? well Me personally I want to say shout out to everybody that I was with everybody that's family But I don't really talk on that subject because I don't really know how to Talk on that subject. Okay. Okay. You get what I'm saying? So, yeah, I don't I don't really yeah Have you seen them since have y'all talked? No, I just I I've been working. Okay.  I ain't seeing nobody talking about it I'm working I just like I said, you just I just know the chemistry was there. Uh, right. Oh, y'all y'all was all Niggas y'all broke up in the breakfast club.  I'm just saying when we talk about that, I don't know how to talk because it was other people involved That yeah, I honestly started to see where Like the different paid shit start happening. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? That's all I want to it's a lot of people involved when you're dealing with All of that is so many different moving parts to a whole mechanism when you're dealing with labels and Distribution and all the different ways that they can line out the paperwork I'm nearly said one time he felt like when he signed it deal he lost millions of dollars. I'm being real He could even know they were losing and he ain't know where it was going I'm I'm saying I'm being real this dude told like it could be You could be my manager She could be the label you could tell me one thing and tell them one thing and they tell you something You tell me a whole another thing because you in the middle working. Yo, you know, I mean So that's what I'm saying.  He always He was talking about megan with tea ferris and 1501 car and because how Tea ferris took megan to help her get that deal and took her from you know, carl and stuff like that So how close how true is that like? All right, I'm gonna answer to the label. Yeah, I'm gonna answer the question I'm gonna answer the question and then I'm gonna answer it like me. That's funny You know what I'm saying? It's important to be close to the manager and the label. Okay. Now My personal experience is why I say that because it can be communication problems. It can be You let's say you label he the manager you could say Um, we want to raise the die his hell rainbow and go do a show at the pride month or whatever Which I might be with But you not and you say hell no, he'll never do that I don't even know. I ain't even talk to you. I probably would You get it now that causes friction. Oh damn. I don't know we can We spend you never had to say so. I don't know what we can do with it and I don't know nobody Right me No answering any question You supposed to be close to the manager, but You don't let the manager feel like you work for him Like yeah, you don't be close to the manager where he feel like he Running you like no nigga. We help each other. We a team You know what I mean? I got something for you to manage You know not for you to take this name and thank you a ceo. You get what I'm trying to say So, yeah, that's how I feel about it. DJ chose said that When we talked to him he said he don't do paperwork no more with no manager He said all it is is a handshake. That's it.  Yeah, and that's all they get No, that's deep and and that's like a lot of trust like I mean for for on the manager bear, you know what I'm saying?    I salute my managers. I got to I salute them every day Why you need to They two different different machines. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? They're doing two different things I mean, we all on the same team trying to work towards the same goal, but This one do this hand of this beast on like paperwork computer shit all that This one the beast with The traveling and oh, so one is your old manager.  You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, but um I tell them every day because since I've been independent.   I call my mama already did it. I'm like, yes Man, I'm I'm sorry, bro. I'm gonna get better y'all But that's good because it it it makes it where you know what's going on You know what I mean?  I'm happy that you're still trying to check it And not just because that's what happened to a lot of artists It is leave everything into these managers hands and to say, you know, we'll forget I want to concentrate on being an artist being a rapper being a singer and I'd have to worry about Anything else which it should be like that like honestly, man I don't think so. I'm gonna tell you why because when you when you hire somebody to be your manager It's supposed to be somebody you trust definitely. You understand what I'm saying.   That's why I did what he said. Yeah, I might have to do this Hey buddy Hey Your two managers right now looking at you like no, I trust them though I gotta ask you this question man.  But then the media projects them after they see him go through something like he just experienced, you know for a zero go um With that situation, I don't know like how or what, you know, and I'd be staying out of other people being But me, um It's hard kind of like to come back from anything that's not What's going on right now like I mean, you know They letting certain people do certain things that ain't street, right?  I ain't trying to hold him down.   But being on the rest It's gonna be hard for me to Right and then the social media and everybody videoing in the heartbeat and seeing how to can sell the footage how I can get out there Yeah, but three or but for four or five people to tomorrow, you know, melvin former head, so that's Tray a crib he said, uh, what you gonna do about it, you know on the show You know, like I asked him I said, you know, I told like I just asked you the question and he was like What is he gonna do about it? What yeah, yeah, he's just It'd be gangsta, man. I don't like that. But they're not really cousins is what I'm hearing now. They're not even family Oh, I thought it was a family.  Why now what happened to spark this to happen? You know what I mean? And so openly when everything was going on And I'm gonna tell you something news. Like I said, it ain't nothing no hidden secret because it's so open and in the Yeah, I've seen It's on TMZ nigga. I was uh Zero went on TMZ Yeah, he told it I'll talk about on TMZ. I didn't know that Yeah, because I don't watch tv.  No, I've seen it on you I watch. Yeah, I watch But I seen it on instagram But I didn't know Like I thought it was me and my buddies be fine.  We good We finna go get in the car together like, you know, I'm saying so I don't know But that's what I thought it was. That's why I ain't never really look at it I can't have nothing to say because I thought I was spending like yeah a lot of um He shouldn't be like well, that's family business.  I can't be down here and I'd ask this question So a lot of people We have people bet my hey man shout out to my team who writing doc all type of stuff up but You had some guys to get arrested down here on the rico charge all type of stuff going on in the atlanta area And i'm just trying to understand, you know, like Really from the outside looking in how's the chemistry down here now after all this stuff is happening like that far as you You know, you are you good?  So I feel like it's bad first and foremost It's definitely bad.  Right. But it makes the industry look a certain way I don't know. It just looked like to me There's something going on down here. I don't know. It's something I don't think it's just here because in Dallas the undead Trying to sweep up some stuff in Dallas I've been out of the way a long time.  I don't I'll be by myself I think they trying to clean up where Rappers are concerned because it seemed like to me to seem like they're just attacking a lot of rappers I don't even think that I think we're having me for me personally, right? Because I rap, right? But I rap. That's what I do.  I don't hang around niggas on nothing else Are you too?  You know that's it.  I don't care what the niggas say. I know who I am I know what I came from. I know what I conquered. I know what I overcame You know I'm saying I'm out of the way.  Let's kick it. Let's hang. Yeah, we family But I ain't going on But every time I turn on like, you know, I don't watch the news hardly I jump on TMZ and see what's going on for news wise or on social media But it just feels like a lot of it like, you know, when they did that to Bill Cosby When they did it to R. Kelly when oh, yeah All of that and that's why I say it's something going on Yeah, I just saw that shit the day man They trying to get that boy life Life and and I interviewed I got an interview coming out that with one of his cousins The story that I hear behind it. I don't even know if we talked about it We talked about it off air. We talked about it off air, but it's more to people don't even realize what be going on But you only know what social media or what he was telling you Yeah I'll be like what so you didn't know he was arrested.  Is it about a month and a half a month and a half now. That's great man. Yeah, but um Yeah, it's all going on because even like I know what it is. I just had an idea the white bull just hit It Is cool because it's all black folks It's cool when them other people kids Round round listening and playing towards and all that and then they go back home to their other place But it ain't cool when this is what we come from for real This is how we live in for real and we rap about it now They starting to sell you influencing Timmy to become Correct. Yeah. Yeah, we gotta do something about this I don't want to raise a granddaughter.  That's what's happening. That's what it gotta be Yeah, they like hold on.   Yeah, exactly, but it was cool. It was okay. I mean not not. I ain't saying it's okay But nobody made no ruckus about it and it's after me doing more research It's a lot of more people Because if you think about it back in the days or even even now It's like a lot of if the parents give you consent And if your child is underage for a lot of stuff if the parents give you consent even to marry somebody who's way older That's consent that is given exactly that's between a parent and that person But that's what I'm saying. You got the people that sit here and I ain't saying that in no cold way or not I don't know who the people are. I'm just saying these people. You got people that sit here and can wake up the day and be mad because Daydaughter and change their mind right or whatever how it can happen Like you feel I got a son, right? And I had a scare with my son, right? How old is your son? He's nine and you already got a scare. I got a scare You understand me young for you to get scared man. That's what I thought you feel me, but I mean Without getting into too much detail, right? The girl was old, you know So she got embarrassed because somebody recorded it The mama try to oh hell no She don't she diss and that she don't even do that man Like the principal in them saw the video like well, we can't tell she's not uh You feel me and they having all schools or when you that's good that they said that exactly That's the part because if I told my son, I said, hey, bro, you nine is old Stop Let it go, man. Hey, bro, stop. I said right that should let you know right now It's all really good. So she can go crazy. Stop But we tell our kids all the time and I know a lot of parents do this to all their kids Don't do nothing. You don't want to come out on social media because number one You don't know who gonna record it right you take pictures take videos You send it to this person thinking that oh, they going to keep it to themselves There's no such thing as they can keep it themselves. They could lose their phone somebody can hack their phone So it can get out there. So do not put anything on social media that you do not I'm so I'm so don't record none.  What are you putting this camera out for? You know what I mean? Chill, man. Like Unless we're going to make all the fans Yeah It has good and bad The bad part is that right the good part because one thing he has always told me even before we started any of this Is the fact that record everything for the main fact that that's what she'd be all for the main fact that God forbid you're gone.  I don't I do a video Because we had back that's my favorite thing to tell people like yeah, he always would say that Man, you're right. I agree with that. I lost a lot of people earlier. You can't You can't hear your voices anymore. I can just hear a cd movement. I let my daughter see who never got to see My daughter by my wife never got to meet my mom My my son never got to meet my mom my older kids did but they can't remember She passed away with counsel and she was 46 And they was babies my son now that's 29 and my other daughter that's 28 That's that they were babies when she died, you know, so it's like if I had a video to show you see pictures But it's nothing like hearing hearing a voice or seeing a motion a movement So your kids will get to see that just to know like this is what you come from. This is why y'all this is why y'all have a goal Right.  Just like Just don't make an explicit one Let me tell y'all some She be doing some stuff. Wow, you know me.  Right. I come up. I come up the camera light on I see wants to really get freaky with you. I said, it's always I know baby don't stop. It's just so good. Hey man.  Let me tell you. I'm thinking you be letting my daughter She can lock it so she can She can lock certain footage that she nobody can get to oh for real. Oh, yeah. Well, I need to get that You need to figure that part out. Yeah facts because you because I what she's doing I'm not talking for her But and when you're not around she can still look at that and enjoy herself. No, that's fine. Yeah, do that That's what she be trying to kick. Oh, no, baby. You know, this just when you're gone. Yeah Okay, I'm going to ask since you brought that up here we go And I've never asked this question. No, you started it. What's y'all favorite position?  Who that nigga that working over there? Yeah, yeah to a dot and yeah, yeah, you did say that. Yeah, you got you got a family in here That's really hard until it stopped. So you she wants more you want more. Oh, well, I do You know, I said, I don't know. I might have to call one of these dollars again. I'm a cup of that Shit is So any of the kids in the music yet, man? Yeah, my son wanted to produce like he been making beats on the phone or whatever My daughter uh, claire, she want to she won't do everything though. She want to sing ballet. Is she good? Yeah Like I'm I don't know who I need to talk to to get on niggalody Uh, uh, uh, uh, what is it? What what what they got going on? They got a lot of different stuff, man. Disney.  Let me tell you something the way how anybody get this covered. Yeah, you can put it out there But start doing some skits start doing some singing have her post all of these, you know her singing We did guess what we got going on. We vlogging now. Right adventures with the linens. Yeah Where can they find that? I ain't I ain't I've been recording. Yeah, I've just been recording because when you gonna put it out I gotta I told you I don't edit it. Oh, so I'm trying to I gotta get my boy What's up doing the editing for Get your kids to learn how to do that edit so they can do it themselves. Yeah, my son edited, right So it's something that they can learn and know how to do. Yeah, just put it on them. They gotta get this done You can learn anything off of you too. My daughter asks to go to school. She in high school. She's going for um, Uh, whatever this is right here Yeah, perfect. So she should do that then. Yeah, but she the thing is she want to do clothes She want to create clothes. Yeah, that's in the class because that's what they gave her this semester Pale you got to pay nothing happens by accident. Yeah, you gotta pay her to do it.  No, no, no, they gonna be like no, throw me some Keep the money in the family Like damn man, they came over three of them programs right quick That's the way it be man. So man, we love you brother, man How can people get a hold to y'all always have to ask that right?  Yeah, because I wasn't on tiktok. Like I didn't know nothing about it. How's it going? I don't know. I can't you don't check it I'm not posting today It's rare. I ain't know about you. Bro, you both post 10, 20 times a day. I'm gonna be so honest with you. Am I right? Okay, hold on. You post on instagram on instagram, right? Right, like because I'm kind of like So anything you post on instagram just post it on tiktok. I've been It's hard to do it that way. I'm gonna tell you this this the secret I don't know. Maybe I might be about to expose some about the social media. Okay, go ahead But it used to be I could do the tiktok and click add to instagram and go straight up, right? Something's going on.    Let me get when we get done. I'll show you. Trump ain't in office. No, most things change After they can get in the white house They ain't real, listen to me The world all right, all right, let me say something.  It was real hard. I know it was hard for me. Yeah, what no show What? Man, it was all right, bro. It was tough.      But it was it was so crazy. I thought the show that somebody was on Then Kanye was up there.  Oh, yeah It was some niggas. Did you bring that pp? Don't it was like niggas got a million dollars something. I got a mil tick Yo, I seen niggas got like hundreds of niggas My father told me like niggas. I just got 90,000 niggas.  Where it's at? Where it's at? That's how it's shaked out.   Yeah, I'm gonna tell you the truth. I had an album I mean I had a song for this album specifically for him And then I don't know we just didn't do it too busy Busy that boy I work so I know he always he ever he all over the place, bro Last time I was over there that nigga rap man. He just in the kitchen with it. I loved it. I I'm like this nigga. He playing with these things. I'm talking about he ain't playing He doing the video. He's starting to bend it like bro going hard like he work He's somebody that I can respect um Business wise like from just waking up one day to saying I want to do this and doing all that shit managing himself setting up his own shows doing his own marketing shit Rapping because it's like a lot to wrap man To make a song that you want to let people hear it takes a lot When he when he came on the show the first time when he was talking about you he's talking about he said man He got what he say he say you had gotten shot and he didn't even know it I'm like, what got a nigga this nigga done got shot and he didn't know it for No, my was it something like that?  Oh, okay. So you didn't get shot.  I got shot up more than once and the first time he was standing right there with me okay, but He didn't like he was he was he was like, yeah, that's for somebody else man.  I ain't for us I'm like nigga my time you a hit Jals Like and I and honestly I thought yeah, you're right because I don't Ball's nobody. Yeah.  Like yeah, I'm a good nigga I'm a lord. I'm a respectful nigga. I'm a man. I respect everybody they sets they size how they living Like I respect it. So I'm like, yeah, that's your name for me. You're right.  Oh, I didn't know that This shit happenin one night so it's probably same people I know I know yeah, but but what I'm saying is He from that's all he can say like from that.  I thought Ross was in like, you know how you I'm in the track He I'm thinking rocks kicking up in the car He rocking it yeah, and then I'm like and now one hit you not Close so many times like all did you thank God? Thank you God every day still to this day Like I would never forget what it was like for me to go home and look at that How to tell my daughter like bruh That almost didn't come home night, and I want to know some Daddy gonna come home every night.   How did man? How did they handle that though? Well, when you told him that they just listen.  How did y'all get past that cuz I think he told us no I won't never mad at y'all though. No, I'm saying but in his heart. He felt like he let you guys you didn't That's what it was. Yeah, I never knew that No, he told us didn't he told us that he didn't talk to him He tried to call or something I ain't talking nobody, but he didn't know that but imagine that person It's called who he felt like he let you down Brutal, so I did what he's saying, but it it was Everybody nobody but he wouldn't know that but that's the thing like It was like this, right? He didn't go to the hood.  Yeah, change my name in everything. Yeah, cool. I don't want like it put me in a mental state like I Just don't even want to be around nobody like Just because yeah because bro like You don't know nobody Everybody making up different I heard a million different stories, right?  Mm-hmm. Now. I'm just like, yeah I'm good Yeah, I got being I don't care who don't like it. I don't care who don't want you know me.  Exactly. You know I mean I've been there like yeah.  I'm so not mad.  I did what I had to do with that. I'm done Yeah, I know I know He loved me. That's it. That's it man, and we love you bruh We appreciate you man. Like I said, I can't stress it enough. I'm getting you the Dallas nigga I try to see I wouldn't not tell I'm gonna fly this nigga Dallas and fly him back in one day Rocket one of my men's rockets over there. He right. Yeah, they were trying to take you to Dallas Time you've been to Dallas man. I ain't been a Dallas Cover my show.  I ain't really like working on the album. I'm gonna be a hunter I've only been taking shows if I like kind of need it.  So I just been living off What I know what I'm gonna do. So I just been like, yeah, let me focus on the album Let me finish the album.  I mean, so when the videos come through and beat the 10,000 That's right. When we need got them Ads and apps and shit and all that I'm paying for that. Yeah, you know, I'm saying So that's why I was saying early just to touch that, but if you become independent You better have your shit together I thought about what you saying cuz I was like, man, you know what man? You would have to have like you got some solid managers and some people really understand the dynamics of how to move in an independent situation You can be powerful as hell. You can but you got to have the right people on your team That's all right people if you got out of Venice to that's my own distribution.     Hang on stop. That's real. Yeah, no and and you back and then she back It's going down once again, man. Thank you so much for coming on the show I'm gonna in this thing like this man. You got anything else for the real the show Did we miss anything? Anything we know cuz we caught we let him talk. Oh, yeah All right, so the last man the new monster the most was different with me.  Yeah, you know, I'm so I'm happy I'm the most happy as I ever been in my entire life. That's good. You feel me most peaceful I ever been in my entire life most mentally stable.  I have some slips, but Rally Every time he talk exactly I go to video shoes. I get out of sprinter. It's me my kids When did it click when did it click man? That's what you needed because the last time when we did an interview I'm telling you you are in my prayers because when you started talking about your mental state and you know The days that you have and all of that. Mm-hmm. I was worried about you. I appreciate that. They helped to thank you I wasn't worried about it. I Know man, I just like I say I just pray I've been praying just for peace The reason I wasn't worried about it because we talked about his kids last time When he said that tear dropped and when you think about going to the school and when he's trying He's telling you that I remember that he's fighting through at that point for me I already know that he was fighting it, but I know I know My kids like I wish all of them would stay with me, but my other daughter back, you know, I'm yeah, yeah Yeah, I ain't tripping. Yeah talk more. We talk more.  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Then my other daughter cool way back.  I'm I keep the house clean I'm gonna be on my thing. I'm gonna move this around.  She see me Everything beautiful Graduate and leave not a house.   I know that part. Yeah, but Far as I'm going to college or whatever I'm gonna say this But it's not for y'all, right This is me my life my thoughts my kids Uh-huh.  Mm-hmm. That's what they want to do though do that I'm more into teaching you how to Survive no be a boss. No, you know me school to open the damn business You feel me? I mean now if you want to you know become Then how do you be in but I'm pushing my kids on what they want to do because they got somebody I never had which is me. That's real. I'm gonna open it up for you. What you want to do You want to be a rapper?  I ain't had about that open up the door for them real time.  I don't blame you I'm now niggas again. I'm learning that news getting paid means the dollars playing video games. Yeah. Yeah Come on DJ play. I am not gonna interrupt you Thanks Yeah, but that's that's that different monster. I'm happy. That's good. Yeah, I had another question But I forgot it came out in my head. That's how I love man. I can say this is family now I just told you come to Dallas think I'm playing no cap No kids get this nigga all the way to Dallas him and his wife took me around this camp. When's the date anyway? Oh, yeah, she keeps talking about Summertime like Like you nervous I Think that the wedding is supposed to be high over the white one Let's go I'm gonna go mode. I told you we could do it.  I think I've seen was it move move Who's this this guy you did a song money move money move? I mean like like who who's and I just mentioned him because I knew y'all did a song together But who down here is did you hear in the sound from that you like that?   Yeah, Huncho.  We're part of town.  Yeah me You know music and you really do this.  Yes in a heartbeat. You know either one. I know it is. I Believe I Know You and see H. Oh look him up Huncho Shout out to Huncho man. Yeah for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, shout out everybody though There's nothing got a lot of a lot of it's a lot of news coming out a lot of them coming right now Fat, but I'm just saying you know the one that you've been seeing that you've been hearing that sound that pain sound from yes Already I'm trying to get in there with him. Well, I'm gonna tell you right now. You get Huncho. Okay, and I'm I'm gonna say I got a nigga name What's the name? You're talking about Buffy John.  Okay We don't see Yeah, I want that nigga that I wish I could get that nigga I need get something for that nigga. I need to find link with that dude man For sure. Yeah, the reason being because I got one becoming in a couple of weeks back on the show Even What Huh, yeah, man, let me Do not know why was it maybe because we talking about Dallas or some shit, but Deon sounds man, what about it? You see how close prime. Well, I'm Me I'm me Dallas I'm gonna have to pull the coach I want to see you know your next level is to be that CEO that one that builds the way to Bring that wave to where you can help people to come through and not get treated the way you felt like you got treated Some of the situation that's your job. I feel like that is my purpose like that's what I put here for I swear cuz I do that even without music in my life in general. Yeah on my everyday speaking with people speaking with strangers That's it right there.  We can't do that cuz I I stayed with this not to happen that way exactly But now you gonna bump over here, but you won't bump like this Yeah, for sure bless you man. Peace and love we love you man It's been another great segment of boss talk 101.  Yeah, we out


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