Hey everyone, welcome back and today we've got an important topic to discuss. It's easy to get caught up in all the changes happening on eBay, but are we paying enough attention to our own business growth and well-being? Let's look at the risks of focusing too much on eBay's platform changes and explore how we can strike a balance. But first, if you haven't already, don't forget to hit the subscribe button and ring that notification bell so you never miss a future content. Now let's get into it. So we've broken this down into five sections and we'll go through them one by one of course and the first one being the Obsession Trap. It's no secret that eBay loves to mix things up, algorithm changes, policy updates, you name it. But here's the catch, spending too much time obsessing over every eBay tweak can lead to major productivity drain. It's like falling into an eBay rabbit hole. Let's talk about why it's essential to be aware without becoming obsessed. So this is the lore of eBay changes. All right, so let's start by acknowledging the lore of the eBay changes. It's like a constantly evolving puzzle and as resellers we want to crack the code to maximise our success. eBay's algorithm updates, policy shifts, they all add a layer of excitement and challenge. But here's the thing, getting too caught up in the minute details can lead us down the eBay Obsession Trap. Being focused is essential, but we need to avoid falling into the trap of spending every waking moment dissecting every eBay tweak. You've got the productivity drain. As resellers we love staying on top of eBay changes and that's fantastic. However, spending excessive time analysing each update can become a significant productivity drain. I mean let's be honest, there's only so much we can control. There is a fine line between staying informed and losing precious hours that could be better spent on growing our businesses. We need to strike the right balance and avoid getting sucked into the vortex of constant eBay monitoring, breaking free from the rabbit hole. Okay, so we've acknowledged your lore and we get it. eBay changes are fascinating, but how do we break free from the eBay rabbit hole? Some practical tips and tricks to maintain a healthy distance are setting specific time limits for eBay related research and embracing a quality over quantity approach. Learning to enjoy the eBay journey without letting it consume our every waking moment. After all, a balanced approach is the key to sustain success in the reselling game. Building a solid business foundation. Now while eBay changes are inevitable, building a robust foundation for your own business is just as crucial. You need strategies to ensure your business is resilient in the face of eBay updates. And diversifying your product range to cultivating repeat customers. Let's focus on what you can control and how it contributes to your overall business growth. Diversification strategies. Now that we've covered the potential risks of eBay Obsession, let's shift our focus to what really matters. Building a rock solid foundation for your reselling business. It's important, the importance of diversification, sorry. No, I'm not talking about just products. We're talking platforms, revenue streams and even sourcing channels. Diversifying your business operations can act as a buffer against the uncertainties of eBay changes. Nurturing a repeat business. Sure, eBay is an excellent marketplace. But what about creating your own customer base? We often overlook the strategy of nurturing repeat business, from providing exceptional customer service to implementing a customer loyalty program. We'll explore the ways to turn one-time buyers into devoted customers. After all, a sustainable customer base is like a safety net, providing stability when eBay wins, sorry, start blowing in different directions. Now the strategic adaption to eBay's updates changes the only constant. It's not about reacting to every eBay update with panic by strategically adjusting your business model. You need to incorporate flexibility into your operations so that you're not just weathering eBay changes but thriving in spite of them. Stay ahead of the game without sacrificing the core of your reselling business. Section three, mental health check-in. Now let's shift gears and talk about something equally important. Your mental health, constantly worrying about eBay changes can take a toll on your well-being. Learn to see the signs of burnout, stress and how to implement self-care strategies to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Let's have a look at that in a bit more detail. So there are signs of burnout. All right, let's get real about something we often don't discuss enough of, our mental health. Be aware of the signs of burnout, the constant pressure to keep up with eBay changes, manage inventory and deal with customer inquiries can take its toll. You need to recognize the early warning signs of burnout from physical fatigue to emotional exhaustion. It's crucial to know when to hit the pause button and prioritize your well-being. You need to implement self-care strategies. So let's look at the importance of these strategies. Now, from setting realistic workouts to incorporating mindfulness practices into your daily routine, you need to put it in place actionable steps to recharge and stay resilient. After all, a healthy mindset is not only essential for your personal well-being, but also for the success of your reselling business. You need to strike a work-life balance. Balancing the demands of running a reselling business with personal life is an ongoing challenge, as I'm sure you know. Explore strategies for striking a work-life balance. Understand the importance of boundaries, both physical and mental, and how establishing clear separation between work and personal time can contribute to a healthier and more fulfilling life.   You need to find that sweet spot. Now, the next section is adaptation versus overreaction. Now, you have to understand change is inevitable, right? But it's not just about adapting to eBay changes. It's about doing so with a strategic mindset. So that you need to explore the fine line between adapting to stay relevant and overreacting to every eBay update. Needier reactions might not always be the best approach. So the art of strategic adaptation. So as resellers, we hear no strangers, sorry, to change. It's about being proactive rather than reactive. Staying ahead of the curve can be a game changer. What steps you can take to anticipate changes and adjust your reselling strategy accordingly can make a massive difference. So let's embrace the power of flexibility and resilience in the face of the eBay updates. Assessing the impact of changes. Not all changes are created equal. And in this part, you should assess the impact of eBay updates. Learn how to differentiate between minor adjustments and game-changing shifts. It's about avoiding knee-jerk reactions and taking the time to evaluate the potential impact on your specific business. By understanding the nature of the changes, you can make informed decisions without unnecessary stress or overreaction. You need to build a contingency plan. No one likes surprises, especially when they come in for the form of unexpected eBay changes. How can you create a robust strategy that acts as a safety net, ready to deploy when needed? It's important to have contingency measures in place, ensuring that your business remains agile and resilient in the face of an eBay curveball. Strategize for success. Fostering positive community. We're all in this together, aren't we? Sharing experiences, tips, supporting each other can make the reselling journey more enjoyable and less stressful. So let's dive into how fostering a positive community can contribute to your mental well-being and business success. So we have the power of shared experiences. Community is everything. We all face similar challenges as resells. And by connecting with others, we create a support network. We can share our triumphs and setbacks and insights. After all, the reselling journey is more enjoyable and less stressful when you know you're not alone. Tips for building a supportive network. Now, building a supportive network doesn't happen overnight, but it's worth the effort. You need to foster a positive community from joining online forums and social media groups to organizing virtual meetups, explore ways to connect with like-minded individuals, a supportive community not only provides valuable insight, but also becomes a source of encouragement during challenging times. Collaboration over competition. In the reselling world, it's easy to fall into a competitive mindset. Working together with fellow resellers can lead to a mutual growth and success. From cross-promotions to joint projects, a collaborative approach can create a positive and uplifting environment within the reselling community. After all, a rising tide lifts all boats. So in conclusion, remember, eBay changes will keep coming, but your business growth and mental health are in your hands. So let's stay informed, adapt smartly, and always prioritize our wellbeing. If you've enjoyed the video, don't forget to give it a thumbs up, share it if you're a reseller and you have other friends that may benefit and comment below with your thoughts and experiences. Until next time, happy reselling, take care and remember, keep it real.


Every time you land in Rome, look out the window. You might catch a glimpse of the port city, Ostia Antica, there it is, along the Tiber River that feeds into the Mediterranean. We're going to go down today and explore this imperial brick city, the port city of Imperial Rome. Hey everyone, we are in the heart of Ostia Antica. We are in the Forum area, and this is the Hadrianic Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. Panning to the space of the Forum Piazza. And on the opposite side, it's the temple of Augustus and Roma, which is Tiberian in date. And on this side, we have the Forum Baths, and we're now walking up to the Basilica. So this is a walk through Ostia Antica with Ancient Rome Live. And we are your guides to Ancient Rome and Empire. Today, we're taking a brief look at some of the phenomenal spaces of Ostia Antica, which is the port city of Rome. And it gets magnificently built up, particularly in the first and second centuries AD. Beyond the Basilica, we're walking now into this area known as the Augustium, because beyond this large piazza, you have stairs leading up to a round temple, a temple which is considered to be a pantheon-like structure, where a lot of statuary was found, of members of the imperial family, members that get deified. So this was once a domed structure, literally a miniature pantheon. Keep in mind in Rome, the pantheon was also all about the deification of the emperor and what took place in this magnificent piazza. We think, according to most recent studies, that it was a place where slaves were once auctioned off. So we want to think about these spaces, not just as places of worship, but also spaces where business activity was thriving in the imperial period. We're also going to get a sense of some neighborhoods as we make our way through the city. And because it was so crowded, just like Rome, people are living in apartment buildings, rather than in domed structures, like you see in Pompeii. So heading away from the Forum, we're heading at this point toward the coastline. And we're going to jump into a particular neighborhood where we can get a sense of those apartments. So we have our main streets here. We're on the Deco Manis, which runs east-west. You can see here we have many options, many directions to go. This street would take us to the Porta Marina Gate. We're going to deviate onto Via della Faulce. And Via della Faulce is this path that's cutting through directly to the mouth of the Tiber River. So it's one of those early arteries of importance in Ostiantica. And as we walk along here, we see countless shop fronts. So business was brisk in antiquity, looking down at the Republican layers of the Sanctuary of Hercules, which is currently under restoration. We're going to make our way to a structure that's preserved to some elevation, and that's going to be our Casa Giada di Serapide, where it refers to a shrine honoring the Egyptian god created by the Ptolemies, known as Serapis. But as we go along here, do you understand that Ostia, like Rome, is built in layers, so we're looking down at the Republican levels of this Sanctuary. There's the back end of that Temple of Hercules, and then here's the Imperial levels that we're walking on right now. There are plenty of great reconstructions. We can see where we are right now in Ostia. We can see the original route of the Tiber River, which has been diverted after a flood in the 16th century. This is where we have the Tiber River today. And this is an idea of what the city looked like in this neighborhood. And we're going to make our way into one area that was a domestic space, and it's particular because it's going to have its own bath complex. Across the way is the so-called Baz of Mithras, which has an underground Mithraeum. On this side here, we see Reconstructed a semi-elevation here. It's impressive, but a lot of this is reconstituted and built up as the big chunks of vaulting and walls were actually found. As you can see here from this photo. And we're entering into the Casa Jata di Serapide and it's an apartment building. In this particular area there are the stairs where we can't go up. We can't admire the spaces from down below. We can admire the Stucco Shrine of Serapis recently restored. And we can even admire this frescoed figure of Fortuna Tike Iside Isis right there. And here is our altar in front of this shrine. This just I hope underlines so much the importance of coming to Ostia. Also you get a sense it's a tranquil place. It's a place that you can explore. We have here in this courtyard a fountain where you can draw water from. We're going to make our way into the contiguous baths known as the baths called the Seven Wisemen named after some frescoes which are not accessible to the general public. But they're fun depictions of philosophers from the Greek world with their sayings in Greek and then Latin quips that are quite vulgar which make it a lot of fun. And what we have here is this bath complex which we're now walking through beautiful beautiful once domed space with these gorgeous black and white mosaics of wild animals. You can see how the dome has collapsed. We have here plunged pools that are not heated. And we have in this case a number of the vaulting areas preserved. Here is Venus and see creatures that you could have had for lunch decorating your cold plunged pool. So we're really in the heart of this bath complex which is quite extraordinary and a lot of second century frescoes preserved. So the bath complex that's heated, that section is over here or behind not accessible to the public. A little overgrown but we also understand that slaves are stoking a fire so we can come down below where the slaves once worked with a sense of those underground chambers and of course if you stoke a fire here the heat passes through these voids and you have a nice heated pool experience in the Caledarium. Some of the ways in which a trip to Ostiantica can be very rewarding and can ultimately bring you close to the lives of those people in the second century AD.


At the beginning, whenever my grandpa Wilson first found this place, and that was back in the 40s. He'd come down through here, of course all this wasn't the hill, we still had the tracks, but he brought my grandma down here and he'd come across the tracks, and they went down this road and they went down this field and saw the farm, and he got back to town and grandpa said, well, what do you think about that? And grandma said, I wouldn't have it if you wasn't trying to give it to me. And he said, that's good, but we just bought it. And so that's where it started. This is over south farm down here, and we gone ahead, and like I said, that was in the 40s. It wasn't very long after that, and he put up this barn out here and he had some cattle. And he started raising some cattle along with crops. And so he had his hands in both pots, so he still maintained a little bit of a herb, but he died when he was 45 years old. That was in 1955, 46 years old maybe. But after his death, my dad was 20 years old. He took over the farm and it was just trying to raise the cattle, and the grains was just a little bit much, and he really didn't have a big interest in cattle, so he got rid of them. But we maintained the barn, and we're trying, we've got a couple of horses out here right now, and we try to keep it up because it is a landmark, so to speak. It's been here since the early 50s at least, I know it might have been the late 40s, but I'm thinking it was the early 50s, and we're trying to keep it up and maintain it kind of as a landmark to the farm. A farm now is mostly grains, and we raise rice and soybeans mostly. We have raised wheat, and we have raised corn, and that's something I might be interested in getting back into with the fur irrigation and all of that, if you get your ground precision level and get it to where you can fur irrigate it, it works well. This is the latter part of April, and we're just, we're not really behind in our crops as far as getting things planted, but we're not ahead either, we're just kind of right in between. Normally we'd like to try to start planting around the first of April, and so in that regard it's been wet, it has been wet the last few years as far as trying to get the crops in, but we are making progress. We've got the drills going right now, we've got the other field preparation going, trying to get things ready to go ahead and get our rice in the ground. Now, beans will be coming along the latter part of May, the first part of June. That's normally whenever we try to plant our beans. We've got some of our rice planted, we've still got a lot of acres to go yet. Lord's been good to us, we've had some good weather here lately and we've been able to go ahead and work our fields and get them ready and just start putting it in the ground.


Yeah, you know the song Check it check it check it that's a unique house. It's your boy. He's CEO and I'm here with the lovely amazing Official miss Jamaica. What's going on? No, no, you know my dad walk man, you know what man anytime You see a bunch of niggas standing around, you know already the niggas got sticks on them You know I'm saying I'm watching these it's a bunch of niggas in here man Say man, but he's the right niggas man. Listen man. This guy right here man. He he been on the show before he was here But he was low-key the nigga were low-key when he were here last time I didn't even know it was the niggas song I would dance into I was just in this whole going and now I want to go back and look I say they say that's the niggas song Joker in the building jokers Man so you Nigga you don't jump ship I don't even know who you went right now. Let's just go and get all the way into it You were with a different group of people last time you was here nigga. It ain't but three of y'all that I knew now What's going on? Who are you with are you are you with? C4S are you with 15-01? What's going on talk to me? I'm with I'm with 15-01 But we carrying the stuff on the same way as we did like when I was with C4S We still carrying on the business side. Okay, okay, and keep working the record, but I'm working on becoming a solo artist So, okay, when did this happen? When does this transition happen? Right when I sign them papers. Yeah, like how long ago? Probably like two months ago. Okay. Well, I seen you you was with old boy Prince and Unique music and all of that group and it was a bunch of mo faces and that guy was here It was two people that's here now and I see and Y'all was y'all was the movement was strong. You know what I'm saying the tic-tac was going down I mean I seen it and it was like man, you know, but I did not know that was your song.  I did not know. I'm just dancing nigga. I don't know I'm just happy to be in the dance. You know what I'm saying When I came I was just dancing nigga, I didn't know what was going on. You know, but come to find out This is your song and I'm thinking that Erica Banks jumped on it. Did you man? That's big. Yeah, she made it even better so just let's talk about this for a minute like like Baby Joker who is baby Joker? Baby Joker is misunderstood. I'm a dancer at heart. I fell in love with music two years ago And I'm trying to come better than I was Wow, how did you fall in love with the music like who inspired you because people fall in love because they heard somebody or they saw Somebody who inspired you think my story is different. I Never knew I could do music. I moved to Seattle and like I Used to go to like the studio with my family like my cousin I just watched to make music cuz I knew it was fun. So I wanted to see how they was doing it But so one day I just jumped on one of the tracks and then after that I got I got in touch with the dude I was recording them and I started going by myself really they like just see if I could do it Mm-hmm, and I freestyle my first song. So I was like is it me and once you did it when you heard it You're like, dang I can do this. Yeah, and then the response it always depends on the response of the crowd Well, how people gravitated to it. So how what was the response the first time you put it out? Like the response was it wasn't all the way good one all the way bad It was like fifty-fifty But like if you don't have anything bad to say about it in that don't mean that it can grow So I still like that too. I like when people tell me like what I need to fix and what areas I need to carry on I like that. So you take constructive criticism very well. I'll fix it Where you from Dallas report? No What parts kill me I deal you Trace right now skimming I did He's trying to say y'all messed it up Was clean one in dog, but then y'all next to it through there. Yeah, it's shut down now boards on the one in Bandos over there Like so, you know and that's something that you know at over time it does You know, I could say this much just because I'm older cat It ain't really the fact that it we ran it down It's just the fact that the city and the people don't upkeep it for us Let's be real for me. Yeah When you look at playing on when you look at rock wall and you look at all these other surrounding cities They keep them cities up, but when it comes down to where we from where we at They just pretty much don't take care of our areas like they do the others. Let's be real. Oh, y'all with a real one now Oh, get it twisted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we know the real deal, but that's why I keep running to the I don't give a damn. I'm going where my people are regardless on me, too You know, I know I came from already I never forget it. Let's let's talk about let's let's talk about this song What a freak let's talk about how you even came up with that I got a refresh my memory. I was just um, I Think it was right after a party. I went like to throw the house.  So it was just sitting there just cooking And I think it was like it's like the second or third be made. I just like nah Let me hop on that right now As soon as I hopped on and I kept it because I ain't like yeah, I was like, maybe I need to fix it Something then I forgot about it. It sat in my nose for like three months Showed it to Prince and uh, it's Mackay. I knew artists coming up right now. I saw them that song And then said that was getting on my eye. Wow Man, did you know it from the jump it was gonna be that one? You didn't know now like it took us to put it through tiktok Of course to know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we put it through tiktok that first night It did look some but then like boogie and top made a dance tour the next day And then it took kp to redo it They got a million views Wow so You and kp and all y'all built this up together but then at some point You end up on 1501. How does that happen? it was just like Even though we was all building everything together like the main goal was for like So somebody to branch off and get the light To become a bigger light so we could shine on everybody else Yeah, that was the whole plan. Okay. It doesn't always work that way. But that was the plan Yeah, so are you still connected to those guys in any way? Do y'all still do anything together? We do shows and we pop out for like the radio We do school paper. I was like, we just did a show together today Okay, how was that skyline, right? No, we did it Is it linking and linking? Yeah, that's what he told me call told me it was gonna be linked Is it going viral right now? So when you guys were over there so c4s and y'all was there And how did that how did that work out like like y'all do do y'all come together or y'all split or how does it work? it was more so kind of you know saying Gravitational split it but like We still working slowly, but surely like trying to get everything back.  So when people see you when people see you they still think c4s don't they yeah They don't realize that you are an individual artist by yourself Somewhere else. Yeah, like that's something I didn't like but I ain't look abundant like I was like Like I like I hated it like because I still became c4s and they still helped me grow But I just also wanted my recognition for my music for your own individuals Yeah, so you got it a lot just like how he said that hearing that song. He didn't know it was you Did you get a lot? I get that every day That people didn't know was your song Even when I'm at car house dance to that hope Really? I got down to that hope nigga.  Yeah, I need another song to hit. Yeah, that's on it And then they don't know what's the next song that you're gonna have that's bigger than this go Really? Is it out yet? No, it's not out, but we already got the media already working it I already got a video shot for it. We should finish with the music. When is it coming out?  Y'all got a dance to it and everything. Yeah Yeah, we already have. You got a choreo too? So am I gonna hear a little bit of it? I don't have to hear all of it, but can I hear a little bit?  Yes, sir. Yeah, go. Yeah. No, you know that whole sound like it's gonna do it You got me hyped right now No, like so, I mean like when you signed the deal and you said you was going With 1501 how hard was that being that you had such a connection with C4S? At first it felt kind of hard Because I felt like that I was just like I didn't want to make them feel like I was just like leaving them behind But at the same time I had to look out for me. I got kids too I can't keep waiting And then you never know like you might get that deal in your face today It might be going tomorrow. So how did you how did you let them know? Did you tell them? I was just about to say did you have all boyfriends about it and all of that before you signed? I made a mistake I ain't I ain't let nobody know nothing why I felt It was just like some personal stuff like we had like conversations about and it made me kind of Like kind of question my movement. Yeah, and I just acted like without thinking I just I just reacted but but it's a part of I mean when you think about just You know communications everything of course, but then Sometimes you you you do things you do you pray? Do you do you believe in God? I believe in our power. Okay. And so at the end of the day, you know, like when you make a move You just go with what you because it got to come from inside for me Y'all nobody nobody else But I got to be like I got to look in the mirror myself You know I'm saying when I can look at myself in the mirror and you know the eyes is the interest to the soul And then I'm good with it.  I mean It's really the mastermind concept when you deal with a lot of minds thinking in something powerful It's going to happen anyway Whether you with this group of people or that group of people anytime you get a lot of people together minds come together That's where things start to happen And if you're a smart businessman, then you know that You know, I know, you know, I ain't gonna say that because I thought about some shag said But You know, he said he told Kobe, you know, you know, I I and team, you know, but he said, but there's a me in that mother Because he wasn't past the ball But the thing you got to understand is man when you when you Basically put a lot of good people together or anybody a group of people together They come together with a common goal man some electrifying is going to happen So at the end of the day, I think that's important to know how to build a team And to know there is going to be some ups and downs some heels and everything else But you got to be able to make it through that something special going always rise to the top, you know that, right? So this is the whole game man. So now what is the what is the what is the game playing? What's going on this last quarter? Yeah, you was at Lincoln today, nigga, but that's over What we got next week, nigga? Let's go next week. We uh week after next or Christmas or the holidays or Thanksgiving What's going on? Oh, no, I'm scheduled all the way up to December, but like this next month the whole month We don't meteorize. Oh, yeah And we're in North Carolina going to Memphis going to ATL a couple times And we're just gonna keep running the bookings because the bookings been coming in left and right But I've been turning down paid bookings. Why? Because the other bookings was better looks okay for like the content for like to like to bring like bigger bookings I ain't I ain't greedy. Yeah You play smart. Yeah Yeah, like it's just not checkers. It is Prince taught me that Wow, I mean when you think about uh being on on on the team we call uh, there's been a you know, he got uh had a lot We had a lot of his artists here. Um And just uh being what was special what made you make that the choice to to join that group? 1501 is that the first um label I reached out to you? From my knowledge. Okay. Yeah, because you had other people working So I never really I think like a couple of them reached out. They weren't really even talking about nothing He wasn't gonna bring into my attention the waste of my time Yeah, but but like when car came in and bitch, I just knew it was It was genuine because I got to know him as a person first before we even got to talk about business Yeah Yeah, because y'all were going down there at c4s doing different promo runs and stuff like that. So you got to know him got you How about uh, how how it Okay, this the producer for real this nigga lion Me and my second Kobe. Okay. Now that's good. Was he with c4s as well? So you was in houston and how did you guys how do you because this go you did something with the go Okay, how did you how did you feel dealing with a different producer than what you normally had dealt with? No, like I still do it was through the so thriller with you still Is he with 1501 as well? Okay. So y'all got so how many producers over there? Damn, I mean And then y'all got over there with the music beats I seen I was in the studio niggas got three four flow niggas. Yeah Yeah, so I know y'all doing it. So how many y'all got 20? Now it's 30 And now from my knowledge, all I know is Like my two producers I deal with and uh, sorry sergeant. Yeah, that's my boy. You know that already And that's family. So at the end of the day just to see y'all all coming together I know it's going to be something special call got a call You know when they come down to Megan the stallion and and knowing how to you know Erica banks or you know smoothie smoothie over there, too Going crazy smoothie call me yesterday wasn't your day for yesterday for yesterday. Yeah smoothie He's somewhere doing something. I know where yet. I just think I'm gonna put it be in the side of the street No, but I mean how is it you guys gonna link up and do something y'all label mates now? No, yeah, yeah for some that's already in the works Yeah, I already got a song with D-Raw. I'm making a couple of them D-Raw He was on here too.  Where the hell is he at man?  You know that? I don't know. Everybody be doing it. I don't think we all be busy You know me. I'll call a nigga in a minute. Nigga. Just what's up nigga? What you do it over there? Yeah, I'll do that in rb, but at any rate y'all got a good one together y'all you think it's one. Yeah You know you nigga. I feel like y'all funny. I feel like everything I make though is like that's yeah Yeah, that's the new one. Yeah, every time you make one don't debate every time I make a new one I think it's better than the last one. That's what they do. It says every artist It says everybody.  Who gives a damn? Niggas don't act like that in the hood. You know what I'm saying? Everybody get to talk. You know what I'm saying? Where did the name Joker come from? Why'd I call you Joker when I was dancing? Means I got a big brother. It's like my twin like we look alike Like he been looking after me ever since like I was growing up. I was homeless. I was living with him and everything but Like when we was so he's not a biological brother.  Yeah, but blood can make us closer But me and him like we had like a Like a twin thing going like religious like Say like you wouldn't be able to tell But like he was big joker and I was baby joker But we both misunderstood And we both like just like DC comics. So like we come up with like like an image And that's where it came from. Wow, but I really kept it going and kept it alive. Oh, okay You know, you forgot to change it. I got to talk about that one was up there.  Yeah And and I and she just she rest in peace and she just said that you didn't even You never even disclosed that when you was trying to make your way and I thought we just talked about that on here Before you got here. It's gonna come out. But yeah, she she really big up that the fact that you wanted to pave your own way That's that's hard Most niggas will ride anything they can get on either anything they can in a band wagon Niggas chunking everything to get a like out of here. And this whole is crazy out here I feel like nobody like would like respect who I am. Yeah, I did that.  Where was your dad? My dad's been locked up since I was 10. Okay. He's still locked up now. How many years did he get? Like 30 30 years He got charged under like the king pan statue and and I would have input So have you ever seen him? Have you went to visit? Any of that? Do you have a relationship with him? Does he call? He calls? I want to go like like Like last time I seen my dad was when I was like 16 And how do you feel about that? Did it affect you when you're a kid growing up? Yeah Because you have kids now so A lot of times we try to make up for what we didn't have when we was younger With our kids Mm-hmm. You want to talk about that? You hear my nigga now? I make my nigga emotional in this business Here Nala I focus on my daddy But same as on my dog You put it down.  Yeah, you don't you do what you don't But that's life because even like with friends and people, you know one minute we Enter them the next minute we not people are human beings. Nobody's perfect people make mistakes and there's always time to grow We always say, you know Sometimes we are who who we see A lot of times as we get older We blame our parents for different things because we don't know what they had to go through when they were younger And until they open up and I'm gonna say yeah, I'm older but then People before me never talked about feelings They kept all of that in it wasn't my place to ask them certain questions Because I have cousins who'd be like I could never ask my mama that you crazy And I'm like you have to heal if you don't want to carry down that generational curse to your kids You better ask them questions. Whether you get an answer or not You got to say I forgive you you got to say I love you because even when you don't mean to pass that on to your own kids It goes on sometimes And you have to Well, you know one thing about it Really, you just you got to understand man. Everybody go through something for a reason When you done faced life You really done been I'm a real real street.   Yeah, I'd be nervous Think about it. It's not for us. Yeah, so you think about that How easy it is for our people to get tricked up, bro And as long as you're still here You have a chance to To to fix stuff. You know what I mean? Because once a person is gone You're gonna be like man. I wish I did I wish I made that call. I wish I took that call You don't want that keep passing that phone man, because I'm telling you right now society Man that uh, man That da down there he got so many black people out of jail When he got in the office down there because they had put fake drugs and all kind of stuff on black people, bro Y'all better stop playing man.  I don't care a nigga. I'm keeping him You know I'm saying that's me. I'm keeping that nigga no matter what that nigga look like us when he looking in the mirror, bro And at the end of the day if he going through something the way he's saying crazy stuff Okay, is y'all gonna leave in there? He could evolve.  Yeah, they ain't looking to help us So if you see somebody trying to take something down you I might ought to think why are they doing it? Do your research? Yeah, well, he said this he said that it don't matter They still if he didn't say nothing, he's still a nigga You know So, um, my other question was when you said you were homeless, how old were you when you became homeless and why? I was like 15 16 my mama like Me and her was bumper hairs a lot Because I understand why she would come home with an attitude every day And like, you know, he just cuts out us and like like mis-treaters But he was also like three boys one woman. So I know like we was overwhelming. I know that now Yeah But back then I didn't understand it. You were the oldest?   Yeah. Yeah Man, everybody go through stuff with their parents, bro. This ain't nothing but normal.  I was in there cutting up every day. She passed away I felt bad on some of the stuff that I done as a youngster because I couldn't go back and fix it She died of counsel, you know what I'm saying? I was 23 24 at the time she was 40 46 So at the end of the day I can't go back and fix it now Because I was not trying to hear it at that time.  But you got your career now and that's what we're about to jump back on You know, I just want to say it's commendable, bro for you to even get a song to go as far as this song is going It's a lot of niggas out here. They dropping every day. Nigga. I didn't my inbox nigga It's in there nigga they in there. I promise deep. It's a bunch of every day Trying to figure it out.  Damn I Do it happens all the time I had one of the moments like when I first started rapping I always think that I was supposed to be doing something Everybody's the homing me real quick But we always educate we always tell people all the time I say if you're not working as hard as we are if you're not dropping content five six times a day on every single platform Then why you think you need to be on here? Let me tell you something man. Y'all know it You already know it. John Jackson's on here. He said you post you post you post a post 30 times a day 30 that's on all platforms all different platforms accumulated You see what i'm saying probably do that five to seven on this one six on this one four on this one But that whole supposed to be going every single day continuously These are the people that come on here now You know you gotta believe them because they're making four hundred eighty thousand dollars a month when they come sit in front of me I've got to believe them. You know what i'm saying? Look back at that John Jackson that John Jackson and go back and watch that interview. He would contouring them They're making millions. They don't they independent. They self self proclaim. They they've made they self that you know what i'm saying They don't need they don't you can't go tell them what to do and how to act Because they they grown I went down under houston and they had 37 hundred in that arena didn't 37 hundred and two people maybe three people three acts and they are on the contouring That's his money So what i'm saying is if you post consistently like that every day At the end of the at the end of next year or about this time next year Watch what happens everybody'll know your name Because you putting it in a well you think boss talk doing how the hell we doing 12,000 subscribers a month consistency niggas I was putting it on This was boss talk yields though that's why we going hard because We understand that help our people and the more you give the more you receive So niggas and sitting back hiding it like I told mr. Hit that today niggas where it's at niggas. What do you call it? What's that he calling me shot the niggas um chitchat would hit that hit yeah hit chitchat would hit that or whatever niggas where it's at niggas You know Yeah, we call this this is what I do Uh, we always we always tell people we always tell people about niggas niggas I talk that talk niggas you're Where I said i'm telling this to the world niggas we gotta go get it because we don't they you know Others gonna get it. There's enough for everybody to share. Yeah Why not pull everybody up with you? Why are you gonna hate on somebody else just because they even might be doing the same thing you're doing You have enough fans out here. There's billions of people in the world Most people get too too caught up in one thing too Like niggas niggas start a cooking show niggas Because it's content It's content over create quit trying to be so creative and romantic with your content. Just push it up Y'all not ready man At midnight I drop I drop phase on last night. I'm gonna drop something else tonight some rerun the tv rerun and everybody watch it I think I did two or three thousand on that thing by the time I woke up Because you're billion fans every day people go and you train in their mind So they know that niggas gonna drop tonight and your new fans your new fans haven't seen your old You see what I mean your new fans don't know nothing about your old stuff So why not bring your old stuff back so your new fans can see that too because one thing about people If they see your craft and they like it, how many y'all go through somebody's youtube and scroll down to the first thing that they put out Everybody do it. Nobody does that. I'm talking about everybody do it when it comes down when you go on somebody's instagram I'll be nose. I'll be looking at niggas, but you don't go to back down But youtube will be sure if you put it back up root. They'll start So you got to keep doing this I'm giving it up tonight. I'll be doing that. We're like, uh, I like what instagram do Okay YouTube video I dropped it like five times a year But it's like the exact same video, but yeah And it increased every single time because you're building your fan base So at first when you first dropped it, you might have had like say 10,000 now you have 50,000 there come any more people seeing it Yeah, and it gave me more of a chair. I dropped that uh klc the other day when I first dropped it It did about a hundred two hundred views two three hundred views I dropped that hold up night. He did 70 right quick on youtube.  I think people are getting they're not they're not working like that They're they're too busy trying to create stuff and not using all the stuff. They already create I tell I tell like all my friends as artists too like everybody talented It's just they put their whole head into I got to be in the studio every day be in the studio every day. No, I mean work song by song. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Everything pushed out for one song then go to the next what you do? So you got kids you said you got how many three or five three be working and he's all boys And nigga right at the house. I got two boys and one girl. Are you done?   I'm way too. I'm by like About 35 I was about to say because have you um actually called to find out what the requirements are How old you got to be you got to be like 30 and you you got to like You gotta actually like You have to sound like a Go with this car like a waiver like a waiver No, the reason why I was asking I didn't know requirements for men But I know women say like you got to be they raised it it used to be 25 But now it's like 30 and you have to be married To be able to do it. So I didn't know it. I think that's one of the things Listen, I ain't checked on that I ain't checked on that because I'm not going up to let them folks be cutting none of them But I heard that it does something to the men My white home boy did that my white home boy did that but I Mean, I ain't never did that. I heard that if the men do it. Um, it does something to y'all sex drive What?    They say, oh, yeah, we dead. We dead.  I don't even know what that is I don't know nothing about that. I'm choreographer in this thing, you know Y'all gonna see we're not really gonna talk.  This is what this happened in my day. Your dancing is different from the dancing now I'll get out still there. There's my boy talking there. My boy talking there. Go back and watch the video nigga. I had a little something He talked me he talked me into it. I was like, hell no, they all lost me so fast on that whole man I backed up and looked at her.  I think when we posted on facebook, it went up No, that's all about having fun, man, I think you guys are doing something that's needed man, what y'all doing I will youth man. I'm so happy man when I see all of y'all man Y'all don't even know that's why I get y'all hell as soon as you see me that isn't going in Because I already know I love you man.  You know, I'll be like that niggas talking no longer to them. Yeah What is it? Oh, well, she's doing great. Oh niggas stop that niggas come on. We gotta go, you know Right So that's the cold part about it man. They ain't gonna get home.   Come on man, stop playing. I'm kind of because I'm kind of glad my brothers ain't have to do all that Yeah, gotta turn that different. Yeah. Yeah, that's real. So you don't know when I left home They stayed home. Yeah, but look at you. Look at what god doing for you. That's the reason you had to leave You ain't really left me. Let me tell you something the steps of a good man is all about the lord You ain't had to leave it's already been written.  Yeah That's real No, it's just well that y'all gotta watch balls talking go down think about a thousand and some episodes I've been talking this talk for a while now. We always talk about god Yeah, we got to because that's who we are but then we don't we not we not come on man You're not in heaven today nigga. We could have talked about everything You know, but we still gonna talk about god, but you know, you gotta understand man. We still here So people too. Holy, you know how you act by thinking about you ain't any of them be trippin don't do that. Oh How's it riding? Is it cool? I would go. I went to Chicago to buy one of those if they try to screw me over Uh It was like a party That's coming nigga real old nigga do stuff like that. It's really gonna be a vacation for me. You just a ride around It's coming. You know, I'm saying Vacation I just want to get away In style, you know, but that's a whole nother like trend like that's something small for y'all to do It's something i'm gonna do. Yeah, like go city to city that yeah, we already do that.  We did everywhere. We did Why don't y'all come to the mansion To the 1501 to the studio go look we did we did interviews there nigga.  We don't need to be over there with y'all. I'm gonna be in there with you dance and talk about where the freaks All on tables, nigga.   Yeah, so so what what uh, what would you like for people to know about you and and far as the Legacy that you would like for people to know uh after you leave boss talk today like What's big what's big for you big for me is like Making my music Elevate because I don't always want to be like rapping about twerking and doing all the club stuff all the time I want to make real music Like what tell me what you like. I like I like like like melodic I do r&b too. You can sing Nah, I do like I use my I like my raspiness. Okay. I don't like just sing but I know how to carry a melody.  He got that voice 18 mic up Him and him and gone Another life can do and it could say who it's it's him and another life can do that. I have that same type of voice Yeah Tell me his name. It's like they sound like both three like reborn. Oh you talking about he's talking about Gunamizi Yeah, man. Yeah, he been on here too. He just was here. I mean hard. Yeah, that nigga right there He rapping nigga. What's going on in houston though? What y'all nigga from houston?  I'll probably say I'm not some guapo Guapo Jeremy he fat. Yeah, he was here the other week. Yeah, uh, I got a surprise coming It's some hard females. It came to those Monalio, you guys. I know Monalio guapo. Oh really? He did something with him. Yeah coming. Oh, Kenwin. Oh, yeah All right, uh, uh What's that girl named? Yes, she hard That's what's her name. Uh, uh, Dizzy Miyake. I interviewed him from houston that film by Miyake He from houston He ain't from houston. He from detroit, but he live in houston and he'd be doing all of them All the artists out there houston or he'd be putting them on if they going in. That's why I see him at You know what I'm saying? So yeah, that's big But at the end of the day, man, so where Who can we you know, what who next on 1501? I'm gonna get all in y'all bidding now If anybody else y'all got you the newest one, y'all the newest one How you feel about it nigga?  It's gonna be so hard to keep that traction But if you make a name for yourself don't matter what you call yourself Real Yeah, honey, it has changed it just straight to you. Yeah Y'all can't even notice honey.  Let's go any John rewind it down now Okay Oh What's do we listen to on youtube all the time we watch his performances Uh, what's his name? Yeah Aaron Har Who? Aaron Har never heard of him. No, y'all never heard it. I haven't I miss you.  I don't always know the sleep at night.  I'm a real music. Yeah, I know the song I just don't know the name of the person. Yeah. I'm gonna go all the way in that hard. That's hard. Nigga, you just did that. I'm like what he used to be as a crazy Yeah, but our killer told that nigga, let me go.  Look out of the key. Look, okay. Okay. That's that's who you that's your third It's my inspiration right now. Wow. That's it. That's it Man, so man, I just just a shout out man Just one at a time. What's your name? Right there in that mic.   Let's go It's your girl. Kyari.  She is date. Hey Who else who else we got? Let's go waste town. Y'all know it's the one and only Say no, no, nigga.  Nigga. Come on. Yeah, nigga.  She outside smoking Damn We didn't miss it. No, what's your name? You yeah, my name is Jay. Jay money. Is it Jay money? It's Jay man. Jay man. Got it.   My name is Ray. Ray? I could have guessed it No, man, it's big love man.  Nigga.  No other way. Nigga.  You know what I'm saying?  You don't know nothing about that. I'm not gonna do you like that But you're moving up. Okay. Thank you. And I just want to say thank you for coming on boss talk 101 What a boss is talk man Uh, you guys man, how can people get a hold to you if they're trying to link with you? Yeah, everybody's trying to link with me. Y'all gave me on all platforms One of them baby joker if anybody trying to get any bookings any features and just hit up onyx 244 Man, thank y'all so much man. I hope you guys enjoyed as much as I did man And anytime y'all got something going y'all tapped in now. Follow me on e underscore ceo underscore Also, follow boss talk podcast 101 on instagram.  Damn Man, you guys are special man. Say man, it's been another great segment Oh boss talk 101 what


All this death is the fault of the Western press notes from the edge of the narrative matrix Israel is reportedly preparing a ground invasion of Gaza very soon in response to Saturday's Hamas attack We can expect things to get much much bloodier from there Meanwhile, the US has deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean in support of the coming Israeli military Operations on top of the additional military aid Biden has already pledged to Netanyahu At the same time the Wall Street Journal claims that the Hamas operation was coordinated with both Iran and Hezbollah This war has the potential to expand in some very ugly directions in the coming weeks Whenever something like this happens Warmongers always seize on the emotional frenzy of the moment to shove through insane acts of warmongering and scream vitriol at anyone who questions them Then later when all the facts are in people start slowly realizing that something went very wrong and that they were deceived After 9-11 anyone who didn't support multiple full-scale ground invasions of sovereign nations Was a terrorist sympathizer and a Saddam Apologist we were told Al Qaeda were evil irrational actors who attacked because quote They hate us for our freedom and we need to support a war on terror against any nation deemed threatening because all such monsters Understand is violence Now both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are regarded as colossal mistakes by anyone who's honest When Russia invaded Ukraine anyone who wanted peace talks instead of a rapidly escalating proxy war between nuclear armed nations Was a Putin lover and a Kremlin shill We were told Putin invaded solely because he is evil and hates freedom And we need to support a war against him because all such monsters understand his violence Now the counteroffensive failed the US Congress is having trouble getting funding and even the head of NATO acknowledges that this war was provoked by NATO expansion and now we're facing another instance of intense emotional frenzy and We're being told that Hamas attacked Israel completely unprovoked for no other reason than because they are evil monsters who love killing Jews We will be told to support any act of war deemed necessary because all such monsters understand is violence Someday we're going to have to stop falling for this tired old song and dance The Western press are largely to blame for all this If they just told the truth instead of running Palestinian child walks into bullet headlines this whole time and telling everyone that boycotting Israel is genocide Political pressure could have long ago been brought about to force a peaceful and just resolution to this mess If they'd just done their jobs and reported the facts to the public There never would have been enough public consent for the US Empire to back a brutal apartheid regime Which cannot exist without non-stop violence and peaceful resolutions would have become unavoidable Instead they hid all those abuses from the public for generations Creating an environment where peaceful resolutions are impossible and giving rise to Palestinian factions Which understandably see violent force as the only viable answer This is their fault They created this mess with a mountain of lies and obfuscation and now those lies are being paid for with rivers of blood The Western press are war criminals. They've committed crimes against humanity Israel apologists will seriously be like why is everyone so obsessed with the nuclear armed Colonialist apartheid state which plays a pivotal role in US warmongering in the Middle East The only possible explanation is that they all harbor some weird hatred of Jewish people I see no reason to speculate whether the Hamas offensive was allowed to happen at this time when coming events will show How likely that was If there's just a lot of violence and then it goes back to more or less the status quo Israeli intelligence probably did just massively face plant and miss extensive Properations for an attack which included training for air and sea assaults If new agendas are rolled out that wouldn't have been consented to without the attack Chances are much higher that it was allowed The more far-reaching the agendas the greater the likelihood It's getting harder and harder to argue that the US-led world order brings more peace and stability to the world Than the war and instability it causes As more and more force is brought to bear against nations and groups who refuse to submit to Washington's dictates We're seeing more and more conflict and chaos Russia's refusal to lie down before Washington resulted in the Ukraine war and all the nuclear brinkmanship that comes with it Hamas Hezbollah Ansar ala Syria and Iran refusing to prostrate themselves to the US power alliance results in constant violence in the Middle East As the imperial crosshairs move to Beijing we're now faced with a terrifying prospect of a hot war with China At a certain point you have to ask If the US-led world order requires more and more violence and nuclear brinkmanship to maintain What specifically is the argument for maintaining it in the first place? Does it not at some point begin to cease looking like order at all and Instead like a tyrannical empire trying to rule the world no matter how much death and destruction is necessary to subjugate it