Let's talk one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk, we gon' have fun. We be on fire, we be lit, lit.     Name another podcast like this. Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy, E-C-E-O. I know money most about a wedding.  Hey, man, hey, I'm here, man, with my guys, man. You know what I'm saying? Hey, man, I'm glad you pulled back up, man. You know it's hard to get you on the show. You be moving around. I got kids. I got kids. I got my boy, Barrio, and Blake in the building, man. What's going on, man? Same old. Man, same man. So, same man, I've been looking at your music because I was looking at everybody else's music, right? Yeah. So, when Y.S.N. Flip came in here, and a wedding came, you know what I'm saying? I seen you the whole time. Matter of fact, when we was here that day, he told me like, you gotta give Barrio, you know. He already had spoken into existence that he wanted me to interview you. You know what I'm saying? Of course. So, I just thank God that I'm able to pull it together. I knew already, when it went down, I was like, man, I gotta give it with all them boys, man. You know what I'm saying? Right. And the thing is, man, it's crazy how life feels, bro. You know what I'm saying?  And somebody hit my deal and were like, R.I.P. Warden.  You know what I'm saying? So, then I hit my son. I'm like, man, trade, and he out of town. So, I'm like, ain't nobody talking to me. So, I had to wait all the way to about five, 36 before I talked to your mom. You know what I'm saying? Trying to figure it out. But I was already up, I was just editing, man. But that hit me hard, bro. And then see y'all so young, man, at that funeral, dude.  It threw me for a loop, man. Because y'all so young, bro. You know what I'm saying? Y'all the future, really. So, I really just, you know, that mess with me. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But my main thing is to say, man, how do you move past this, man? How do you do it? Day by day. Day by day. Like, I tell you things all the time. Like, as I can remember, I've been in two funerals. Wodies and my daddies. You know what I'm saying? So, I don't really lose people like that. Like, you know what I'm saying? Thank God. I don't really lose partners. I don't really lose family members. Like, I mean, close family members, but this is my family. You know what I'm saying? My partners. You know what I'm saying? I don't really got, I mean, I got family, but they ain't family. You know what I'm saying? This is my family. So, yeah, day by day, to answer your question. Yeah, I actually, Blake name came over me and Ward, it was talking here. Because I was like, nigga, I usually don't let niggas get on my show if they've been shot in the last two years. You remember I told them that? Yeah. I said, yeah. Yeah, I said, I don't even want them on my show. It's like a probationary period, niggas. Right.  For two years, you know what I'm saying? But I know you went through something and it wasn't even for you, it's the way I heard it. You had gotten to a little situation and I was asking Wardy about it. You remember that? He's like, Blake, good, Blake, good. He kept on telling me that. But then I'm telling him, you know, about, you know, God give you different warnings and ways and signals, man. You gotta take heed to it. You know what I'm saying? Right. So I understand, I've been the shooter. You know what I'm saying?  That's why I can relate to the young like I do. That's why I put this together because I come from that. When you done been through what I done been through and I know old niggas say that but these niggas really came back it up. You know what I'm saying? A lot of niggas came back. A lot of niggas just be talking. They just talk. But I really, you know, you can check my track record. I don't even want to go into it. But at the end of the day, I do know I've been young. So God put me here so that I could talk to y'all. And I know that. So I appreciate you guys for coming on the show. I appreciate you too. Appreciate you all for coming to the film. Oh, come on, man, the show. Bro, I'm pulling up. That's big love. I don't play like that. We're not going no more criminals. I said that too. Yeah, I had told Rain, what if out of new mode three whoever nigga, I'm pulling up. I don't run around here like that. I'm a real cat. I don't play, bro. Like if it's my, and I hate to say it like that when it's your time to get up out of here you gonna get up out of here, bro. I walk in faith. So it's a whole different way you walk. I ain't scared down no more. You know what I'm saying? Right. So that's the whole game. But for me to meet him, that was a blessing, bro.  And it was like, man, I want to bring him on the show. I really didn't know who the nigga was.  My son kept on, he do it all, bro. He don't never talk. That nigga just get people. He's like, I'm gonna call Blake. We don't get water. We don't get them. We don't get wires and flip. We don't get these. I'm like, who have these niggas, man? It's a good time of her two years. Yeah, I was like, I said, I knew Blake. I'm like, they gotta be all right. They with family. And they could, yeah. No, but y'all do it and the music is dope, bro. Appreciate it. So do y'all have any projects that's gonna come out with Wartie? I could drop a project with me and him, but I'm gonna try to keep it. I'm gonna try to keep it just him. You know what I'm saying? You know, just play it like we features. You know what I'm saying? Cause I got a lot of songs that's mine. And you know what I'm saying? A lot of songs that's his that I'm on that flip on Dolo, you know what I'm saying? That's the whole two-fold that rap. You know what I'm saying? We got two-fold members that don't speak on a mic, but you know, I got a lot of music. I got a lot of music here that's coming out for show, for sure show.  I know y'all, you weren't there that night cause you guys don't really move and go out and stuff. But just where were you at when you found out that Wartie had passed over? Bro, somebody had called me and told me such and such had shot Wartie.  You know what I'm saying? That don't happen.  So I knew it was serious. And the hospital was literally four minutes where I could have took out running to the hospital. But I grabbed my girl. I think we grabbed, was Jadis with us? Yeah, we grabbed my little daughter too. She was just born. Wartie didn't get to see it yet. But I grabbed my little girl and we went to the hospital and it's when we got to bed at noon. Okay. And Blake, where were you at when you found out? I was at the crib, sleep. It's crazy cause they called me at like one o'clock. He like, man, there ain't no way Wartie didn't went out without us. Hell nah, I'm like, it's already one or something. I know the club closed at two. I'm like, it's too late now. We are already at the crib. So he like, babe, I'm just going to eat tomorrow, brother. And I did go to sleep. He just started blowing my phone up at like three in the morning. Who? Zade. Okay. One of my members, man. He just started blowing my phone up. I'm declining, declining. Piss. He keep calling. I'm like, bro, why didn't he keep calling? Not knowing, I'm on FaceTime. Somebody tell me the answer. It could be a part. I answer. He said, damn, Ben-Man just shot Wartie.   Not knowing, like, I don't even know. Whatever, whatever's going on, you don't shoot. It wasn't that important. Nah, it ain't important to all these people here, nah. But then it was true shit, Ben-Man shot Wartie. Yeah. Well, the one thing I can tell you is, were you about to say something? Yup, go ahead. Let the pride get in the way. Like, especially if that's your partner and you know y'all been rockin' like that. Why would you let him get that for? Like, people are like, hey, we can't even do this right now. You talk about this later. Hey, we get into a scene. We get into it about everything except girls. I heard y'all be fighting. Your mama tell me that.  Yeah. Hard. Yeah. I'ma pass him out back with 30 seconds left until I tell him I love him. Every time. Every time, that's how it happened. Every single time. But that nigga, like, he wasn't one of us. You know what I'm saying? Like, we didn't know him from growing up. You know what I'm saying? We didn't know him like that. You know what I'm saying? That was Wartie. We brought us around him. You know what I'm saying? How did that connection happen, though? Was it a little jug or whatever? Was that his homeboy or something? I mean, yeah, but I don't really want too much talk about it, bro. You know what I'm saying? But that was cool. You know what I'm saying?  You know what I'm saying? How it happened, but yeah. I don't really want too much talk about it, bro. We can talk about Wartie, though, for sure. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, like I said, everything takes time, bro. Yeah, for sure. Time heals everything. You know that, right? Yeah. I know y'all, right now, everybody, you know, it's intense. You know what I'm saying? When you lose a loved one, somebody that you care about. But the most important thing is you hear, and you gotta find a way to stay here, to stay free, to not get caught up in nothing the way you go. I know you gotta key it. She gotta key it, you know what I'm saying? Right. It's a bigger picture, man. You gotta think smart. Right. These streets is something else that eats you up and spits you out. For sure. You know what I'm saying? So you just gotta be, you gotta watch how you move. And niggas will come for you. This is what, this is the environment we in.   You know what I'm saying? Cause like, we don't move sloppy.  Like, what y'all got going? You know what I'm saying? It's one of us will learn that. And everybody, I always say this, but I know this for a fact. One of, if a two-fold member was there, it wouldn't happen like that. But nobody in two-fold was there. You know what I'm saying?  You know what I'm saying? I feel like if I was there, I would know I would have had my car. So he would have been in my car. If he was there, he would have been right behind him. So he shot a gun, he would have got shot too. For sure. You know what I'm saying? Like for sure, for shit show, I can be in my last dollar on it. And I got a whole bunch of them. Yeah, yeah. I'm waiting man, don't start. I got a whole bunch of them and all that. Here that come from me. Bagged up, bagged up, bagged me. And they got plenty of money. You heard it.  Ain't never done that. Gambling and stuff, that's a damn gambling house.  He didn't work, they ain't ever bit me. Okay. No, I know it's in his blood. I do know that about him. And I'm not even in action back too. Sure. No, I just. I want the action. So, just moving into the music, man. What made you, let's talk about you. Where are you from originally? I'm from Dunkinville, but I tell you because I'm from Dallas though, because I grew up in Oakville, South Dallas. Pleasant Grove, you know what I'm saying? But originally I went to school in Cedar Hill, but I'm from Dunkinville though. Dunkinville, yeah. And what made you get into music? My partners, I had a partner, a dollar that was rapping. And then my big brother was rapping. My big brother, he was a young nation. So I kind of already kind of got the gist of it. I've been seeing the mics and the stage and all that. So when my partner was rapping, there was nothing to just rap, you know what I'm saying?  You just get good. And then Water came around like my first year of rapping, you know what I'm saying? Me and him did a song that how it went up. Honey K views on SoundCloud. You know what I'm saying? So it was just that one thing. When Water was here last time with you, he said that he wanted to get y'all the platform to where y'all could put all y'all music on the same platform instead of going through other people. Are you gonna continue to pursue that? Yeah, for sure. Because that's what you, and I was in agreement. I agree with him. What he had did, and this is why I love my brother so much. What he had did, his YouTube was worldy too live. He changes to worldy too foe. Wow. You know what I'm saying? So I'm gonna leave it like that. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna still drop on everybody else pages, but I'm gonna still drop music on his page. I got like two or three of his videos.  Cause he going crazy right now.  Not here to see it, but he going crazy. I don't TikTok, Trilla, YouTube, Instagram. You can't miss him.  Yeah, I know man. It's crazy cause like always when you pass, you gotta be like that. It can't never be like that when you're alive. And that's us. And if he was here to see that shit, bro, he would still be here. You know what I'm saying? If he was here to see his music, doing what he wanted his music to do, he wouldn't have been there. He would have been at the studio. You know what I'm saying? He's crazy cause that night, we all got a studio together. You know what I'm saying? So the earlier that day, I had picked up the rem money from him for the studio and I was telling him that we got to the studio. You know what I'm saying? I'm in it every day. You niggas need to be in it every day. Like, you know what I'm saying? He told me, bro, I swear to God, bro, come give me, bro, and go to the studio. I never came and got him. Fuck, I fucking, that shit's up. I'm on my mama, that shit's up.  You know what I'm saying? It was destined to happen. It had to be, bro. It had to be, you know. But the one thing I can't say is, you got to go hard for the music. You know what I'm saying? For him now. And that's why everybody kept telling me like, everybody like, like, bro, y'all got to drop, bro, y'all got to, but you know what I'm looking at?   I'm just now releasing it.  So I'm trying to get back into it, you know what I'm saying? But it's all right, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, cause you got to do it. I got to, though. See, you know the person- That's what he would say. That's what he would say. 10,000 person would say that. Yeah, cause that's what he would want. That's exactly what he would want. I know for sure. That's what he would want. So you ain't, it's a no brainer. Right. You know what I'm saying? Just moving a little forward, man. So that's been a, like I said, there's a lot of different things that's going on in the music, man. When you look at, what do you like what the music is at right now? With the stuff that's dropping, the NBA young boys and all the stuff that's coming out? Yeah, I'm a fan of, I love, nah, I love them. But I'm a fan of the music that's dropping right now. Music changed. Yeah, it does. Like hell, so, you know what I'm saying? I'm young, so I keep up with it, but- Who the hardest right now? I'm sorry about yourself. I'm a big future fan. Future, you like- Big future fan. I've been listening to Future since I was- I just need to- You think you're the hardest now? Huh? You think you're the hardest now? I hadn't even heard no Future songs lately, bro. Everything, you ain't heard them lately. I hadn't, I hadn't been tapping in. He probably have, he had the club.  You can't tell me. No, no, no, no, no. You can't. You can't tell me. I ain't talking about it. No, no, you don't like Future. He talking about the same stuff over and over and over and over. You don't like Future. I ain't finished with you talking about Future. Now, we want to hear him. I want to hear him. Tell us why. I've been listening to Future since I was seven, eight years old. So tell us why. Tell them why he the best rapper. Yeah, that's what they need to hear him. I'm 22. No. He been doing this since I was eight, seven. So you rock with him. I need to make some banging songs. Hold on, hold on, hold on. They say it's time to talk about Lil Durk. Lil Durk rapper, 10 years. I haven't heard Lil Durk since this year. No, I'm 31. No, Lil Durk. I'm 31. That's what I'm saying. I'm 31. You can't tell me that. No. No, but Lil Durk. I never heard of Tintil. Tintil, uh, Lil Durk. I never heard of Lil Durk. Lil Durk. Lil Durk. Lil Durk will tell you he baby Future. Really? Like Lil Uzi, baby Pluto. These niggas, it's Future, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? The Drake's, the Young Boy's, Lil Baby's. Drake's nigga, it's only one Drake. Don't just think Drake. Yeah, you can't tell me. He's saying don't even, he's like, don't even put him in the Drake album. He's not treasured at all. He drop music. Drake, yeah. Nah, Drake, the greatest rapper in the world. You don't listen to him, though, brother. You don't listen to him. I don't listen to him. You don't listen to him? But you cannot disrespect him in that type of way. No, I'm not disrespecting him at all. Because you know he's up top. He's up top. He's up top. He's salutified. He's a rap guy and like, he's a rap guy. But Future's salutified and rap guy.  I don't want to get on. I love it. I love it. Future's cool, but I don't want him to be like, Drake's not no nigga. Future's a nigga, like, Future's a nigga. He break it. Oh, hey.  Yeah, he's cool. Future, Future Rock, Future Rock. But then, Drake's like, that's something. I'm not comparing him on the money. No, no, man, that's not a great thing. Who make the biggest song? Drake.   Don't do that, man. Don't do that. Drake's like, rap generation, like, Drake wants to go to the club. He wanted the club. I wanted the club. I mean, so Drake, so Drake, Jam and Harder than Future in the club. Yeah, I'm not saying he Jam and Harder, they play him more. So it's like, you're going to hear him more. So it's like, they grow on you, but he's not. He got number one songs all around. He just dropped, he didn't just, didn't just, just drop. Why though? Yeah. Drake got there because he's a fan. Drake got different coaches, that's behind him. Yeah, yeah, that's why he's the number one. But, but, but NBA young boys locked up and they say his stuff going harder than everybody. It's because he's a kid. Like, kids, young boys, he locked up. You can't say that. You can't say that. No, I'm with them a lot. You can't say that. Listen, listen, listen. Okay, how many kids, how many kids under 18 got a phone? Right now.  Thank you. That's what it is. Who, who, who, Jam and Harder's? How you see it, how you hear it? Everybody, everybody, everybody. Everybody go look at him up. Everybody go look at him up.  He's a young kid that's staying in the club. I'm listening to him, but I ain't just Jam and Young Boy. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm Jam and Future. I ain't fishing here with that. I'm Jam and Young Boy. They gon' Jam on. You right in my club. You right in my club. He right though. Do I Jam Young Boy? Do I Jam Young Boy though? They gon' Jam on Young Boy and song with the Future. Me? Me? Me? Everybody. I'm talking about me. So, you gon' Jam on Young Boy then? Yeah, she's a young boy fanatic. More than Drake? Yeah, Drake, Drake, don't get, Drake, I'm listening to fire.  Like, we ain't folks or girls? You should've said that with him. You should've said that with him. Drake, we're not listening to him like this. We know Drake got going. It's other coaches. Like, we know Drake got going. Drake, Drake, Drake got going. Like, Drake, Drake, yeah, Drake up there. Who's the youngster that's coming up that's hot right now in the music? What about Poo Shirested? Too funny. I don't know Poo Shirested. I don't know what I'm saying. But I'm saying Poo Shirested, did he have any music on your left? Yeah, Poo Shirested got a lot of music. We got a song with Jack O'Hullo. That month when he was locked up, that I like, but uh... He ain't doing what he was doing when he was... I don't think he was recording like that. He was with Gucci, so Gucci was controlling his music. I feel like Poo Shirested... Nah, Poo Shirested, Poo Shirested liked it like Poo Shirested.  Poo Shirested ain't a rapper like that. I feel like he ain't got a lot of music like that.  And the music ain't coming like that?  I know he got his, you can chill. You can chill for a moment. No, you both have some music coming up, right? Cause you was working. He put a smash that guy is good. He put a smash that guy is good. He not that good? Poo Shirested? Because he ain't rap about one thing.  Who tired of hearing that shit? Rap about something else. Me can't rap about what that guy is good at. Me can't rap about nothing like lifestyle, unless you want fake rap. That's what, that's what I wanted to say though. That's what I wanted to say, I'm not going to be in the studio if I'm broke, I got to go get some money.  That's all the songs he got.  Who was that? Poo Shirested. He doing all of that. You gonna entertain the fans for sure, but like he ain't capping down one of them. They had the video, nigga. They had the video.  He not capping, though. I understand that. You saw that one. Gucci a real nigga. Gucci wouldn't even. I'm gonna tell y'all something. If y'all sign that shit, it'll be fake. Go do an order with some, or R&B somebody. Cause that song gonna blow up more than rappers. That'll make a song with rappers. I'm serious. But I'm just told you. It don't matter. It don't matter. It don't matter. You can't get that song right now. I'm not saying it just once. I'm just talking about just. You got a song with Jack Horlow, though. You don't say it one person, though. Ain't Rob Wave. Rob Wave. Is he a rapper? Is he an R&B singer?    I ain't talking Rob Wave, bro. Is he a singer? Singer.  I'm asking you what is he, though? Singer. Is he a rapper? I've never heard him rap. Is he a singer? Is he a rapper?  All I'm gonna ask. I can't get a guy to answer. He's an emotional rapper. Emotional rapper.  Is he a rapper or an R&B singer? He's not R&B, cause it's love. Emotional rapper. Emotional rapper. Emotional rapper. Can be awesome, too. Emotional rapper. I can't get it. I can't get it. I ain't just no sad nigga like that. You can't ride with him. He put you in a sad mood.  He'll make you want to cry if you got demonetized. Do you know what I'm saying? Marae, you listen to Marae. No. Hey, listen, he hard. He hard. He hard. What song you got? That song with Mode 3. Who you talking about? Oh, him. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that nigga. That nigga right there. He hard. Hey, no. I said something. I said the same exact thing. Mr. Brown would kill me. Hey, you got to listen to me. Y'all niggas some thugs, nigga. I see what's going on here. Y'all not listen to me. I jam everything with Marae. Marae doesn't listen to me, bro. So you can't listen to him, bro. I can't do it. I can't do him, bro. I don't listen to him. You listen to him, cause she'll... No, it's not Marae. They not listening. It's not sad. It's motivation. It's pain music. Oh, time to sing. Nigga, talk about Toon Stones. I feel like that all the time.   That's from... You see it's a female.  So fly. That hoe is not the same. Y'all like raw wave. You're not going to get in the car. Y'all like raw wave. Y'all like raw wave. It's a raw wave. Yes, we like it. Hey, I play raw wave. So right now, nigga, everybody needs to get to see. Y'all go home. I'm going to get to cry. Y'all don't make sad music. Yo, you just future. That's it. No, no. I'm not. I'm not. You don't bang all night. I'm really on the young nigga music. That nigga not young, brother. Future. That's what I'm saying. We're talking about the goats, though. You hear me? Future's a goat for sure. You're not going to say he's not that different. I didn't say he ain't four. I'm saying top five. For sure. Top five. In the game. And nobody can disagree with that. Period. Period. Top five. Damn. For sure. You got to give it to him. He ain't on my playlist. No, he's a little booze. He ain't on my playlist. I don't have any. I don't have any. One year he was.  I ain't from the south, man. I'm not. Future from the south. Future from the south. I don't listen. I can't get jiggled through. It's like it's crying. You need to stop saying that out loud, man. That nigga banging. That nigga banging. Trust me. I ain't worried about nobody. Future. Nobody's going to come in. Future. That nigga made some good music. Future. Future.  Future. I got a nothing. I mean, I'm with it. Yeah.  Them boys did a thing. I think you're better than Future. Who? You think he's better than Future? Yeah. Appreciate it. I hope I get there. You said Future. I ain't saying that. Listen. I think y'all better than Future. Because it's like y'all music. I can't grasp it.  Like he'd be crying. Yeah. Yeah.  He had a lot of waves though. He had a wave. You know what I'm saying? He talked about the trap. Now he rich. You know what I'm saying? You see the growth. You know what I'm saying? Free being gang. You know that? Free being gang. Now he talk about more zealots. So what about Dallas?  Dallas Fort Worth. All into Grand Prairie. What the hell's going on? What can we do? How can we keep people paying the bag right here instead of paying niggas to come here and get the bag? I'm tired of that. First we gotta come and get them together.  How come the city can't get behind somebody? They gotta get behind them. I'm telling y'all.  That's just what I listen to. Now you be listening to something here. I'm done with that. What I'm saying?  They gotta get behind this. They gotta get behind this. So y'all gotta be more consistent. Y'all ain't putting out enough. Y'all gotta put more work out. I'm putting out. I'm putting out. No, that whole got to be coming all the time. Visuals, the music, everything that y'all see y'all romantic. Y'all in there playing the music and loving it. You got stuff that you had three, four years you never put out. You're too romantic with the music. I bet y'all love a lot of stuff. You gotta put these projects out, man. I think the one who put the most content out is who win. Yep. I'm being real. That's real facts, though. You know, when I seen DSR a long time ago, that music, I did not really, I couldn't rock with that, but they kept putting it out every damn week. Right. Every other day. So now we got the visuals and stuff we have. I don't think people working hard enough. Right. What do you think? Barrio, you know you. You in the middle of it. I just feel like. See what I'm saying? See, the young people say you don't even make you happy. They're gonna have something to talk about with me. They're gonna have something to talk about with my mom. I don't know. I just feel like, like, I don't know. I don't know, bro. I can't even explain why I don't drop that much. It's just, I be feeling like I don't want to just put it out then they don't do what I want it to do. You can't be real man. You can't let that thing go, man. You right, though. I gotta get out that. Yeah, because at the end of the day, the more you put it in their ear, the more you mesmerize them and you gonna get them niggas. I promise. Right.  You don't drop no good dope. How you gonna know to go on it? Right. Yeah, but the way your voice sound as it keeps coming you keep doing interviews. You keep doing music. You keep doing, you go and do shows.  Right. That's the only thing the radio do to you. Some of it will be horrible. You keep hearing over and over again. Just like their future song, Drake. That song is trash to me, but they play it over and over and over and over and over. Which one? Uh, two sixes. What's that, boys? That song? What song is that? They don't get no bigger than Drake. They don't get no bigger than Drake Future and Young Thug. That's what they do.  That's a track you talking about.  I can't get jingles out. Young boy gonna be better than Young Thug and Future like. He gonna be, I can see that. Stop it. I can see it because he consistent. Hell. If not no industry rapper. If he get out. That's what I'm saying. When he get out. When he get out. When he get out. If he produce at the level he was producing that before. If he go industry.  I always say that. If he go industry, he gonna be right.  He got 20 in the show. You got too much money in the show. Talking about paper rock, you ain't talking about a Doth. Nah, I ain't about a Doth. Your nigga's nine.   Your nigga's nine.    I ain't got it. Number four. That ain't Doth.  He ain't doing, he ain't. He just falling Doth for it still. They good over there. They get money. They get money.  That's got it. That's what I'm saying. We on the gotty side. Like, not like, not on some picture size, but like on the music. No, on some picture size. You just said it, nigga. On the music. On the music, on the music. I'ma say that. We on the gotty side. Money bag, yo, some young niggas, she got push-ice, I mean, big 30 and push-ice, like, hey, young niggas. Dauphinem ain't got like, come on, man. They got this one little young nigga. I can't think of the nigga name, though. Who? He got a young nigga. I seen a young nigga, but he ain't did nothing. I seen, got him, got a few young niggas. You came in, you came in, ain't it? Dauphinem. It's one more dude came into their camp.  Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about. I can't think of nine, too. Yeah, it was one more. Dauphinem, yeah. But what I trip off of is like, how the city just embrace everybody else, but they own, man. That be on my nerve, bro.  I hate it. Hate is always in your own. I'ma tell you something. I tell y'all this, cause I love you. It's the niggas that's on the microphones and dancing and hanging out with these niggas when they come to town, just keeping it going down that way. We gotta stop that, bro. We gotta embrace the ones who are here for us. DJ's. Yeah, all that. I'm not with none of that.  Yeah, they're trying to charge everything. But they doing it, they doing it because it's keeping money in they pockets. Hang on to the fact where it's just like, nigga, how much you want? Like, nigga, what you want, please? And that's the wrong amount to the hell going to DJ's, cause that's what they don't want to do. It is. It is. Damn. You gotta pay them to get caught, nigga.  We just gotta pay them, but what happened is as soon as y'all blow, then y'all just knock them off cause y'all already paid him, so you don't need no more. So it's like, if you build that gene with, if you build that gene, it will burn. When I go up, I can't get it.  If you doing everything for free. Boss talk, boss talk want to come meet us. That's right. I'm going to come see you. All right, look.  Right.  Go hard, put your music out, don't worry about these niggas, they're going to come around. It's other cities out there that your stuff might hit in Pittsburgh or somewhere, if you just keep pushing it. But I think what happens a lot of the time is we get caught up in our environment and we be worried about it when we should be pushing our music, putting money behind it, for as you know, when we push it out there and sponsoring it, you know, little ads and stuff, you got to do that, man. That's the reason why I said make a song. It'd be more strategic. You know what I'm saying? I'd be paying for little, say cheese posts and stuff like that. Yeah, you're right though. I got, I just had a manager that was helping me, but I don't think so. I don't think she goes to the media. I think she goes to the smalls and let them grab to gravitate towards you. Then go to the big ones. That's another thing, what I'm going to start doing I'm going to put your own press round with it. So even say cheese, he done been on this show.  Yeah, you will. No, you don't. Niggas mess with money.  I promise you. They mess with money. He post me every time I pay him. Yeah.  But I think the most important thing. What do niggas do like to pay? Like niggas pay? Here's the most important thing. If he ain't for you, don't worry about it. Exactly. You got Trial Talk, No Peel Talk. You got Dallas Global. You got Mogul Media. You can post stuff and deal with interviewing on all these platforms. You ain't got to do it with it. You can, And then you can go, you guys go to ATL. You can pay money to go get on offer for it. $500 or whatever. Now that's what we all do. You know what I'm saying? That's what we all do.  You don't even say rest in peace. Come on, man. That ain't real. Yeah. But the thing you got to understand is. Because you said he bought it. Like if you bought it, you don't owe no lawyer to it, really. That's right. But I think the man's right. But you're right though. You're trying to say an example for these rappers out here. You're not doing it. It's cool. You're not doing it. You understand. I understand. That's what you gotta look at. Look at it. Go, go, go. Look at his interview. He even said it's no lawyer to it. He even said it's no lawyer to it. He don't even think about it. He said it's his own self. So, The game is sized. That's cause he ain't met too far a gag.  I ain't got a lot. He ain't get, I don't know. He know what's going on though. Yeah. I think it's more, and he love y'all youngsters too. So I don't see why he didn't. No, no, nobody love us for sure. We get it. No, no, no. He love the young, like he do with most of the young. I do everybody. He only deal with young, the youngsters. That's it. Right. You see when you look at all the people that be on this platform, you don't deal with the old cats. Most of the time, if you either million up or you don't deal with you deal with the young. You know what I'm saying? And I'm cool with that. That's why I'm here. Nigga, just wait. I ain't been there for seven months. Nigga, we getting to it. That's what I say.  Whatever you do, whatever you want to do. When they bring us that bag, I'm gonna be sick. But you got to be consistent too though. Right. I told you that. Y'all doing music and he, hey listen man, what it was like, man, yeah man, I want, but I ain't, no, you got to keep that music coming, bro. Like you got to be coming. Like, what y'all gonna? I just dropped something though. What's up, what's up? I just dropped something like three, four days ago. I seen that. But okay, what was that song? Let me go back into this one. Mike Chick. Mike Chick, yeah. What made you drop that? My nigga D pulled up on me at the chase while I was getting wicked. Okay. And it went down right there. Went down right there. He put it with the camera. You had the microphone outside, by the bank nigga. I seen it. Don't think I ain't seen it. Yeah. Well you was outside by the bank. Hanging up on that thing in the tree nigga. Switching it. Huh? Can't get a game man. I didn't think that was you. You had a mask on, I didn't really think it was you. Man you went in on that thing man. You went in bro. Like it wasn't no game. I knew it was him. Right. That's how you gotta do it. You gotta come different right? Yeah. So what we doing next time? You don't give it up? Huh? You don't give it up? Yeah.  So, you know what I'm saying? Nobody made an R.P. song yet? Yeah. I don't know. No, they just, you had what's the name? I don't know man. I know you. I know you. I know you. I know you. Can it be the one? Yeah. But it wasn't real R.P. song. I was just showing what happened. He was just showing it. Oh boy, so the best time to do it. Now he's fresh. So whenever you record it, you're gonna hear your feelings. You gonna hear it? Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna get back in there. Yo, that'll probably, y'all making me get back in there for, I'm gonna get back in there for the week over. That should be the first song you do, so you can get out the way. Yeah, you gotta get that one done. That's gone. Yeah. And then go. And you need to be on it too, nigga. You did one song. I ain't getting enough. I could find you with one damn song. That's all I found. Listen, rapping ain't for everybody. You gotta feel it. This nigga quit rapping every week. He'd come back in here disappointed. I ain't doing it no more.  I'm gonna go around. I had my own stoop, it was easy. I can just get up and go on the studio and record. Yeah, that's what I'm on. I got to have my own stoop. Well, I got my own stoop, but I'm in a rather changing it, though. So I'm gonna move it and then get back to it for sure. What's your top three artist of all time? One, two, it's two. Out of time, I'm going future. You heard that, he's still on that future. For sure. Damn. Future. Number two. Right now, all the time. All the time. Any genre. Any genre. Look how she says, she put that any genre on that. Like, you could pick Angela Winnbush or something down by the any genre. Who was that camera? Patti LaBelle. I can't know. Number two. I don't know all the time. I'ma get you right now. Number two. I'ma go future. Little baby. Right now, that Wally jamming too hard to me. Y'all know that Wally jamming too hard. Wally jamming too hard. That nigga Wally jamming. Wally jamming. I want you in top three. Future. Hell nah.    Who's your number one? Not my top three, my boy. No cap. Shit. Wally. Okay, that's number one. Shit. Mario. Okay, that nigga up. That nigga did it right. That went a nigga down with his team. He ain't playin' no game. There's been a couple of niggas that come on and do that. I love it every time cause they show the genuine love, bro. For the team, man. You know what I'm sayin'?  So how did you meet Wally? How did I meet Wally? I went to GP like my ninth, 10th grade year. Dodie, did my best friend back here, Dodie. Him and Wally Cousins. So that really how Wally came around. Oh yeah? But yeah, I met Wally one time. Really, he told me the first time he seen me, he was gonna sneak him. Really?  What? He told you that? Yeah, he told me that, but it was funny cause I knew what he was talking about.  So yeah, he just seen you. He was like, I don't like that nigga. Yeah, but he knew I'm rollin'. I'm rockin', rollin'.  No! Wally though. Wally, cool.  So y'all went to school together? Yeah, we went to school together. Yeah. Yeah. I noticed when he passed away, you put some crazy texts up, your mom sent them to me.  She was like, talk to my son. Stop playing. I was like, I'ma call him. He never answered. The nigga was straight. And I understood too. Yeah. Cause I knew, I know how mama think, but I know how it is when you lose somebody you love too. So I'm lookin' at both of the factors and I'm like, it just gonna take time. I respect the hell out of real friendship. I lost my friends, so I get it. You know what I'm sayin'? Right, yeah. They're like my second best friend though.  I don't know what you talkin' about. Yeah. I can't get it. So you're first and 90 more, it work? Nah, grandparent my best friend died in Currie when we were like 16. Wow, you've been through a lot. I've been chillin'. Yeah, but, hey man, so how? What about you? How you gonna move differently? Are you still gonna move exactly the same? I'm movin' with my people. Yeah. That's how I'm movin' with my people.  Yeah. It's hard to get in touch with me. Just get close, kind my people, so. That's what's up, man. So do you feel? I'm out here though. I don't got them out here. Don't let them tell you we not out here. No, I know you out here. Nigga, I heard you was over a big demo. Wasn't you over there with them the other night? Yeah, we was over there with Big D. Yeah, and then y'all just neglected Boss Talk. I couldn't believe it. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. Nigga, I had to pay for all this stuff.  I'm like, damn, I know me and Blake better than that. They were havin' my fault before Wally died. Like, before all this happened, I was supposed to go on a tour. You hear me? And since Wally died, we was still gonna go, but my boy had a show we had to perform at the show because it was already permanent before Wally didn't die, so he let us perform a shit, so it was all good, but that's what we had to do. I know how things go. I knew for sure we were gonna get this Boss Talk when I wasn't in, man. Come on, man.  No, for sure. Man, so do you, hey, look here, man. Who you on the phone with over there, Nigga? You got an important call, man. I know, I got an important call. I need to hear my... So what's your favorite song that you feel like, you know what I mean? Don't say the last one, I don't like that. You don't say every nigga say the last song, I mean with the best song, lady. Nah, I got, right now, it's called Better Me. Okay. I said, I probably don't say cheese and stuff like that, put a little bread behind it. I gotta put some more bread behind it, but... So you like to say cheese, but what about a hand paint? You don't ever use this platform? Yeah, I use this platform a few times, but... What you got to say about hand paint? Here we go. I think we have hand paint. But look, my boy Kenny say he on the way, man. Don't forget about him. Oh, he coming? Yeah, he coming. Kenny on the way. Kenny B. So he coming tonight? Yeah, tonight. Okay, cool.  Yeah, I got another guy that's coming, the spirit. Yeah. Kenny, come on. I gotta get home. My kids, man.  About two years ago, this nigga work for damn, man, this nigga is a good man. I got four buns. I gotta go home. God, dang, that nigga B, Sammy. God, for real.  When you think about what we can do to bring the city together, what kind of, y'all need shows here? How can we set it up? Y'all niggas want a lot of money up front, probably. That's what the problem is. Right now, nah, I need some paper, I need some paper in this. We just like them. See what I'm saying? Nah, nah, we gotta figure out a way. You set up, we put them all free. Bro, I just had 10, how many?  Something like, I had, what, three or four? Two or three from Houston. Three or four from East Texas. And some from out here. Yeah, man. So I'm doing it again, though. I'm gonna do it again, cause I'm bringing, every time I do it, I'm gonna do it to where we can come together. If I talk, you get some set up, we put it down. You already know that for sure. All right, I'm gonna set it up. Anybody is, they're making me pay for it. Nah, I'm gonna make sure, I'm gonna pay money to make it happen, too. Yeah, for sure. Because I just want to see us keep something going for y'all, bro. I even got the chocolate lounge, right? I can rock with him. So we can do some. Right, that's how I'm doing it. Huh? Well, you can tell me that.  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.  Hey, I got people coming in town, we can pay for the, to get some money. Yeah. I don't work good, no. Yeah, I got, yeah, I'm, I'm just linked in with the nigga we just started getting cool. Like, I'm a cool nigga, like, I'm like, yeah. But we gonna rock out, like, I got some stuff that I'm gonna go and have a meeting and I'm gonna set it up to where y'all can come through and do your thing. We gotta do it. We got to. Because that's what's happening. Like, people ain't performing, they ain't going to these places and doing stuff no more. They ain't gonna kind of chill. Nigga wasn't paying the money like they were. They're like, hell, now we ain't doing nothing else. You know what I'm saying? I'm performing at one o'clock or now we can get it at the time. So we got that slot open from one to five. I mean, from one to one o'clock. What you gonna do? I don't know yet. You a rapper? Nope. Sometimes, every nine then, he don't rap all the time. We went to Vegas, he rapped. Did we come back? I don't rap no more. See, what happened with Vegas was I was making that beat for, that beat on Mode 3, make that song Who Beat Them Up. Let me hear it. I'm here. I don't talk about it, man, I don't talk about it. I was making the beat. Oh, you a producer too? No, I can make the beat. He do it all. I make it like him. And it's like, I was making that song Who Beat Them Up and that morning, Mode 3 had dropped that song.  Long live Mode 3, man. So how did you, how was y'all with Mode 3 though? Was that, do you feel like he was, he was... Okay. I'm a little bit Blake speaking about Mode 3. Yeah, I'ma say he was. Yeah, y'all say what you want to say. I'ma say something wrong about Mode 3. Okay, you got Mode 3. My sister love Mode 3 though. Hold on, you got Mode 3 and you got a what's that boy named Bobby Billions. Rain, they been tripping about that. He was just on this show. I just posted it today. I seen Bobby Billions tripping.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Hell nah.  You don't count your blinks. Y'all made a hit song? Y'all made a hit song with Mode 3 there to study y'all leave that alone.  That hat, that hat. He really didn't know Mode 3 though. But he just said, he made a song with Mode 3. He didn't have to just do all that. You hear me? He said he put Mode 3 on with that song. Yeah, he said he fed that family.  Mode 3 was already a meaning for you to make that song. Mode 3 was already a reason. That's what I'm saying. And Mode 3 was, that song was not gonna come out before he died. That song would come out if he would have died. I mean, if he would stay alive. So I would know it came out. Well, all I'm gonna say is he didn't know him, but the song wasn't a bad song. Nah, it was good at song. Don't play yourself in the saying that song was bad. That's why Mode 3 picked the song. Nah, it's your question. You know what I mean? Did he deserve it? Deserve what? The die? Mode 3 did he deserve to die? Yeah. Hell nah, lonely Mode 3, man.  I understand it. I understand it. You live your life, you post it. You know, you get some money. You get away. He didn't have to be down here, you know what I'm saying? But you never know what people got going on, situations and stuff. But once you the money maker, man. They coming for you. They coming for you. So how important is it to leave where you from when you get on? Really important. It's hard. How's you from the streets? You niggas from the streets. Hell nah, I'm gonna practice how I get some money. You gonna leave? Get up at this. I'm gonna leave. You ride them out, you out. Out. Out.   Nigga, all y'all go to ATL. I might just go here. You might just go to Houston. Four hours away. Ain't nobody out there. That really ain't bad. That ain't bad. He's bigger than Houston. Get in the bathroom. This is widespread. But I like L.A., man. I like it. You become a target. I need to ask you a question instead. Go ahead. You can always, if when you move, like if you're in the streets and you're doing this and when you move, you're gonna change your attitude or what you're doing or you're gonna change everything you're doing. My attitude? Been changed, right? Been grew up. No, I'm just saying, like he's saying like people from the streets that's always trying to move when they give money. You saying like, Thank you. Yeah. Some people just, some people just can't change who they is.  The reason why I'm saying this is because of a young boy. The same situation. He moved. It's still the same situation he in. Like every time he moved somewhere, he out in the same situation. It's because of him. Then why I'm saying, then why I'm saying once you get money, you become a target. It's like a trap.  But you want to get, that's what's getting you money though. Tell them that that's what's getting you paid. No, it's not getting him paid. He's dropping music.    Remember that? He had the wackest contract in the world. And he still made money.  Like vision like that. He just dropping his music and people gravitating towards it. So he ain't gotta be like that. He just wants you. That's him though. Let me ask something. Do you think that they said, did y'all watch Boots when he was on a breakfast club? Yeah, I seen. Do y'all think that he was set up? Yup. When he went up there and they had the gay guy.  Yeah.  No, but they set him on the panel. Like if y'all came in here and I'm like, and you knew I had a full deal against something. They know Boots is black. Look, to black people. It seemed like it just.  You hear me? We can walk through and see gay people. What we gonna say?   They are. Black people, that ain't nothing. Boots, you don't see it like it's nothing.  But when they got on that panel, when they got on that panel, they start bringing up the fact of him being a straight guy who be talking down on different situations with like a gay phobia. Yeah. It means you sat here.  And me and you straight.  It'll be a thing, but like it's different for black people. You just gotta know people like. Right.  No, I think what they would do is boost it. Every time they boost it, he can't force his kid not to be straight.  Yo, they're telling him. They say. Yeah, you can do that. I can tell my kids anything. And black parents. They tell him he can't do it.  But they telling him he can't do it. Yeah, you can't do it?  He can't. They telling him he can't do it.  No, not in my house.  Well, not in my house. You can do it when you leave. But as long as you're here under my roof and I'm paying these bills, you're gonna have to do what I ask you to do.  Yeah, when you leave, we cool. But you don't bring it to my house. Yeah. That's the way it's gonna be. I mean, you can do what you wanna do in your house. And I think that's what boost it was kind of trying to allude to. Boost is saying he ain't letting his kids be gay. Well.   He's not going to give his daughter a way to go off.  That basically you saying you going to get some. You going to get some what I said. But do you think that, okay. One of my, one of my Trio Talk, no Pio Talk came on here and he pulled up a, what's that boy, Nas X. And it was soon as he put him in, it came up with not, when he put in something for the kids, he put in kids and he put in baby. No, baby videos.  Nas X a clown. I'm just telling you what happened.  If you look up baby. He was, listen to that song.  When that big hit song came out with the white man. Listen to that song.  Listen to that song, listen to that song. That's old T.  No, no, it probably do, but I ain't listen to it because he gay, but like. Did you hear it? Nah, don't want to see it. You will never know. I didn't. It's a man talking about riding a horse. He wasn't talking about riding a horse. Bro, bro.   It's not him. Would you? It's not him at all. For the money, if somebody props you up, would you ever be pregnant? No. For the money? No. So mean dollars, if I ain't got it. I can't say it. Nigga, if I got it, hell nah. Hell nah. I don't need it. I ain't got it.  If y'all be a damn fool and y'all friends and y'all be talking about him. I'm a clown. I ain't talking about him because he got ain't talking about me, because I got that.  Just put on the makeup and just put that stuff.  I ain't doing it. I ain't doing it. I ain't doing it. You know I'm not doing it. If you was pulled out there and somebody come off and do it. I'm not doing it.   Yes I don't believe it. I don't believe in it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I'm about to be an aluminum. I listen to what you think. Tell me about it. Nick gets some money, Nick gets some money. I'm telling you. I'm telling you.  There's nothing behind his head.  Listen, listen, listen, listen. Hold on, hold on, listen to what I'm saying though. He's saying that promoting gay stuff on TV.


We all know neutrals are one of the big fashion trends for spring, summer, 2021. But if you've ever wondered how to style neutrals to really get the best out of them, this video should help. In today's lookbook, I'll be sharing my effortless neutral outfits from chic head to toe beige to statement pieces you can pair with your favorite pair of jeans. Essentially, there should be a little bit of inspiration and outfit ideas for everyone. I'm gonna talk you through the essentials you need, the tips I reach for to make my neutral outfits feel elegant and effortless and featuring a whole mixture of brands and price points to suit everyone's budget. If you like this video and you're not already, it would be lovely if you'd like to subscribe. And at the end of this video, follow the link in the description box below to follow me on all my other social channels. Right, lots to get through, so let's get straight to it. When I think about how to style neutrals, it helps to have a clear idea of the color palette you're choosing from. A neutral color is essentially any non-color. These are some of my favorite neutrals. You have your typical whites, beiges, grays, and blacks, but you can also spread out into tan, olive, and camel. Even a touch of the sorbet trend for spring summer 21 would work. There's a sense of minimalist calm about neutral tones that I personally really want to. They just seem to make an outfit feel elevated and effortless with that infamous understated chic about them. And the fashion world has adopted this trend so heavily of late, there are now lots of beautiful pieces to choose from. I see neutrals as the core of my capsule wardrobe. I can add in a pop of color or print from time to time, but it's these pieces that I tend to reach for on a day-to-day basis. As you'll hopefully agree from this lookbook, they blend together so beautifully. It actually makes your wardrobe work much harder for you. Not only will they mix and match with each other in so many different ways, but you'll find the neutral pieces will go with so much more than say a printed bold color you might have. Don't forget to let me know your favorite neutral outfit idea in the comments section below as we go along. Well, perhaps you've got some styling tips yourself that you'd like to share with the other subscribers. It's always really nice to hear from you all. There's two elements to quality over quantity that I think are important to address when it comes to how to style neutrals. Firstly, when I'm investing in a piece, I pretty much always, I'd say 99.9% of the time, invest in the neutral variation. Fashion trends will come and go as they do on the carousel of style. And I'm personally not rich enough to invest in a handbag, for example, that will be out of fashion by this winter. So when I'm splashing out on a statement piece I've saved my pennies for. I mostly tend to play it safe with a neutral tone. One that I know will mix and match with the majority of my wardrobe. And number two, thinking about the quality of the neutrals you do purchase can make a huge difference to the overall look of your outfit ideas. I would much rather one beautifully made blouse in a lovely natural fabric than say five made from polyester. For spring and summer, I'd invest in linens, which are particularly on trend. Crisp organic cottons, silk if it's within budget and tensile as a really affordable alternative. Investment pieces mean something different to everyone. So I would just stick with the highest quality you can afford. That could mean choosing from the conscious range at H&M or the positive edit of Farfetch. Just focus on quality and your outfits will always feel effortless and elevated. Some of my favorite neutral outfits are when there's a heavy mix of tones. And remember virtually everything I showed you on that color palette before would work nicely together. You could go solely with whites, beiges and cream or mix it up a bit. And as you'll see in this look book, olive, camel and a sprinkle of a crew, for example, feels really relaxed and effortlessly chic for spring, summer and combined together looks really sophisticated and polished too. It's actually quite hard to get a mix of neutrals wrong in an outfit.  And I'm imagining you'll be surprised at just how many different outfit combinations you can make. And I think about how to style neutrals, especially for spring, summer. I can't help myself but add in a sprinkle of earthy tones. It really suits my personality. It feels beachy and carefree. And I think they have that understated elegance that I just love. So that's something I tend to reach for when an outfit isn't quite right. For example, I was styling this neutral outfit and it felt like something was missing. I had a little play in front of the mirror adding in some earthy tone pieces until I felt I'd got the balance right. Adding in that coffee tone, it gave my outfit the visual punch it needed. And this idea could easily be recreated with a pair of trousers, a coat or even a handbag. So when you have those moments where you're thinking, my outfit's not quite there yet, try adding in some earthy tones to see if that's the contrast it needs. For work, why not use neutrals for a softer take on power dressing? I found some beautiful neutral workwear on the high street and with the designers recently that would create some hugely elegant outfit ideas. Actually, I love this outfit so much, it made me envious of those who do get to work in an office. Shoulder and statement sleeves are a big trend again for this spring summer. And that would be an easy way to elevate your workwear. And of course, there's always a blazer, the perfect finishing touch for me with any outfit idea. I often think workwear needs to tick so many different boxes. If you have that boss who happens to whack up the air conditioning, it can feel positively arctic. So that's when a touch of layering can come in handy and still look chic. If I'm visiting an office, I will always keep a jumper or a cardigan over my shoulders or over the top of my bag, just in case. When I'm creating neutral outfits, I try and add at least one textured piece into the mix. So if I'm dressed head to toe in cotton or linen, I'll add a straw bag, for example, to really center the look again. Think about the knitwear pieces you have in your own wardrobe. Could you add a cardigan over your shoulders to bring in another tone and texture? Perhaps a scarf tied around your handbag or worn in your hair, a leather handbag that complements your outfit. Playing with texture in your outfits is always a good idea. But with neutrals is especially important because it will add that extra level of interest to a simple and effortless look. I've heard the odd person say, oh, neutrals are really boring, but I honestly think they are anything but. If you focus on finding those really clean, crisp cuts and there's lots of them out there, you can create some really stunning outfits. Tailoring and neutrals are the perfect combination for me. Find yourself a beautifully cut blazer, maybe in a soft white, beige or camel even, or maybe a pair of pleated linen trousers for spring. And I challenge you not to be able to make at least 20 different outfit ideas with them. So keep your eye out for interesting and flattering tailoring, along with your palette of neutrals. And I promise you they'll become some of the most versatile and elegant pieces in your wardrobe. Neutrals are no longer the support act. They're now taking center stage. So think about adding a statement piece in a lovely soft tone to really finish off a look. Take this outfit idea, for example. It has that calm minimalist approach, but when I add a soft-toed statement handbag, it makes the whole outfit feel complete. And the same would apply with a beautiful statement coat. Again, as you can see in this lookbook, I played it safe with a camel tone, but the juxtaposition of a piece like this against the softness of those fabrics underneath really blends together beautifully. I always love a little layering in my outfit ideas, and it's a style I do feel very comfortable in. There's just a naturalness to layering that instantly makes an outfit feel effortless. I don't really think about it too much, to be honest. I just tend to keep adding pieces until I feel like I've got the balance right. Mixing in tones and textures as I go, I'm forcing myself to try out unusual combinations. It's often the least likely piece that can work the best. So don't be afraid to give items a try. Effortless chic shouldn't feel stressful. So just go with the flow, and you'll know deep down when balance feels right. I'm thinking we've all had that moment where we're worried an item is too loud or too bright for a certain occasion. But an easy way to balance that and create the perfect effortless neutral outfit would be to simply add a pastel tone over the top. It reduces the metaphorical noise and centers the outfit back again. Also, of course, enabling you to add a pop of color into your outfits. I might add that I'm not adverse to color at all, but my core classic pieces in my wardrobe are often made from these lovely soft pastel tones. With all this lovely layering going on with your chic neutral outfits, don't forget about balance, especially this season, as we're seeing a lot looser fits when it comes to trousers. If you opt for a wide leg pair of trousers, think about something slightly more fitted on your top half or a big puff sleeve blouse would contrast well with something more slimline on your bottom half. When I'm on the beach, I'm happy to wear a giant floaty caftan, but out and about that sack look is pretty hard to pull off. So don't forget to give yourself some shape when styling and layering your neutrals. When it comes to how to style neutrals, you don't just have to go with those clean, crisp cuts. You can definitely go with some floaty shapes too. In fact, there's so many beautiful options about in this style at the moment. It'd be a shame not to embrace it this season. And don't forget, you can add a neutral print too, which can make a really beautiful effect. I shared this dress the other week that I got from Mango's sustainable collection. The main of the fabric is in a light beige and the polka dot print is in a camel shade. Aside from loving the shape of this dress, it's really nice having it in a print as well, but one that feels effortless and suits my natural, subtle style. I particularly like these sorts of shapes when it's hot. It can feel really uncomfortable if a dress is too tight and it's boiling hot outside. But a floaty linen is not only hugely breathable in its very fabric nature, but the shape also lends itself to that warmer weather too. If you're not keen on the idea of going head to toe in neutrals, simply adding a soft tone accessory can create a really beautiful outfit. I do feel very lucky to have a lovely selection of handbags. A lot of my handbags have come from the Parisian brand Palin Paris. Their color palette is actually perfect for accessorizing with a neutral shade. Or you could add a pop of neutral with your shoes. Some nice strappy sandals and a soft pastel, for example, can often be that finishing touch to a really elegant outfit. Another idea to balance out your outfits would be to add a neutral scarf or Pashmina. The softness really shines through for me and aside from practicality of having a scarf with you, I actually really like the addition that it can have in outfits. Essentially, accessories can be the star of the show when it comes to creating your neutral outfits. So it's worth taking another look at your own wardrobe in a new light. There's probably a few pieces that you already have that you might have forgotten about that would work perfectly. I really hope you've enjoyed this how to style neutrals video. I've shared a lots of outfit ideas today, so don't forget to let me know your favorites in the comments section below. And if you're new here, thank you so much for watching. I hope you'll stick around and subscribe for more styling videos like this. And to everyone who's a regular to my channel, thank you as always for all your support. Have a wonderful week, everyone, and I'll see you next Sunday. Take care.


Hey, this is Darius, R.A. of Ancient Rome Live. Today, we're gonna talk about the Gladiator, the Gladiator in Rome specifically. And this is part of our ongoing webinar series on Sundays. And everything that we do ends up on our YouTube channel, but there's even more information per lecture with bibliography with more of a write-up on the Ancient Rome Live org platforms. So do check it out because we're really enhancing it this summer and putting a lot of content as well, new videos every week. You can support us. Go right to AncientRomeLive.org slash donate, share it with your organizations, your colleagues, and if you're interested in setting up any kind of special relationship with your organization, we're happy to have a conversation. So today, again, Gladiator. And what's behind me is the famous Borghese Mosea. I thought we'd just jump forward here in time to about the middle of the 4th century AD. This is something found in about 1834. And it's on the Via Castellina, a property that's excavated. Of course, you find something magnificent like this chopped up into pieces in transfer to the Galleria Borghese. And it was originally about 28 meters in length. And what we see here are a bunch of gladiators and different kinds of breasts. And we also see their names. So immediately, we don't need just the movie Gladiator to know that gladiators became famous and become superstars. Here are some superstars from the middle of the 4th century AD. And we can see some names that stick out. So we have Atelomonius, Cupido, and Cupido is dead, because you have that theta right there and that circle with a line through it. And the guy killing him, the letter phones. And then we have, let's see over here, I'm blocking Arius and below. And then off on the side there, Meliagra, which might be Meliagra. That's gonna be an abbreviation. So here are some people, slaves, trained to be killers who are so important enough that they are recorded in a rich person's private estate. And that says already a lot about who the gladiator was. How did he come on? How did he train? What was the life of a gladiator? That's what we're talking about today. And we'll get into it in many different ways. For example, these guys are professional trained fighters. That's the whole point of being a gladiator person trained to use a gladius as sword. We know there for the most part, people that have been enslaved. So that is people that are conquered in war and then they're sold off and acquired by someone eventually trained to fight for entertainment. They're also people that are condemned criminals. So you've lost your right of being a citizen. And now you are without that status, you are property and you're sold off and you are in this case here forced to go into a school to learn how to fight to then ultimately perform for someone's entertainment is the two main ways. How long did they last? How long were you? And that's a big question. We look at some of these excavated gladiator grave sites. We got a lot of estimates, a lot of scholarship, a lot of ink has been spilled. And it's a really great open-ended question. And it goes from mortality rate in the arena, one in 10 down to one in five. And no matter what though, they're not great odds.  That's what it really seems. And you have a lot of scholars that have really addressed this issue and no one can really do it with, I think any satisfactory conclusion because just like so much in archeology, we have small samples here and there. We don't have enough of a sense really of getting realistic numbers. But it is definitely something much more in the face of danger than any sport I think that we have today. I can think of stunt drivers and you can think of race car drivers and you can think of the cage fighting and wrestling and football players getting concussions and whatnot but everything is gonna pale in the face of people fighting with sharp swords and other devices. So again, the majority of people don't have a choice. They've been forced into this line of work as it were. Although we do know that on some occasions freed people do go and fight. They do this largely to gain a fortune or pay off their debt because if you imagine all the betting that surrounds this kind of activity in the amount of price they will fetch on a high level stage, something in Rome versus off in the provinces then a pretty penny you could make of course you had to live to survive to enjoy it. And then of course we do have on occasion the citation of women also fighting as gladiators. So you can think of them appearing not, it's not that they're not commonplace but it's more of the novelty. As would be an ambidextrous gladiator or a lefty and a left-handed gladiator. So there are different ways in which as we move forward in here we'll see that there's this interest in maintaining the interest and showing you something that you hadn't seen before. Okay, so we talked about people were slaves, enslaved people, people whose village, whose province, whose kingdom or whatnot lost to the Romans and then a portion of the population was sold off to slavery and some of those people, right, condemned the mines, condemned to the fields could also be forced to learn the ways of the gladiator and train. So there were gladiator schools and we'll get to that as well. Okay, let's just back up a little bit. What did they eat? How did these guys, look at these guys, these big buff men, right, looking very dangerous. So we have some ancient sources. We have plenty of the elder talking about being in a barling match. Where's that big steak diet you might be asking, right? Where's all that meat? But it seems that with recent research and looking at the sources and so forth, a lot of these guys, and actually the physician Galen, a very famous physician, the most famous physician from antiquity, starts off as a doctor, a physician for gladiators in Pergamon. He talks about, he's not in love with this kind of diet because it makes them kind of flabby. So you think about the flabbiness of that layer of fat that could come with that kind of diet would be that protective fatty layer, protecting the vital organs. That's kind of standard thing when we're talking about gladiators about what they ate and how they train and so forth. Not necessarily always what you see in the movies. And the second thing that came out recently, more recently, is the issue that they had a kind of, let's call it ancient Gatorade, which is charred plants rich in calcium, great for strengthening your bones. And we have that kind of evidence. Again, in a clinic of the elder saying, if you want to be healthy, try this drink with a lot of plant ash. It's great for you. And you can see how gladiators as well are replenished after fighting. So it's kind of like this pick me up kind of thing, but essentially it's giving you components in your diet and your regime that help promote calcium growth. So it'd be like drinking a glass of milk or something. So that's something to consider when we're thinking about these gladiators, what they're eating, not just how they're training. Let's pop in here for some questions would the estate owner have owned those gladiators? That's a great question. Yes, that's within their own possibility. Why did gladiators not continue the profession after the end of state sponsorship? And we'll get to that, but definitely it is ultimately something in the Christian era, it takes a while for this to happen, but by the beginning of the fifth century, that's when you really have real pushback about why should we have slaves fighting. So slavery is allowed for a very long time. Beyond Christianity being legalized under Constantine, but eventually it's this push from the Christian component society, the clerics saying, hey, I don't think it's as good to do to our fellow man. And that really leads the end of having men fighting against men to the death. And the final step in the sixth century is finally to eliminate the other great spectacle in the amphitheaters, which is man fighting against wild animals. So obviously no one was there in the fifth and sixth centuries for a long time saying, oh, the poor animals. First it was man against man, no good. Still kill the animals and then finally, no, we're not gonna do that either. Was it always to the death could they gain the freedom? Absolutely, it was not always to the death and they could, yes indeed, gain their freedom. Just as we talked about the enslaved peoples of the Roman Empire just the other week, again, they too, the Pruculium there, stipend they could also buy their freedom. Betany Hughes, recent program, top 10 that Pompeii talked about them being stew diet. Yep, and how fat-protected muscles and showed modern equivalent being made absolutely tasty. I'm not super thrilled at living off of something like that, but, you know, the Romans think about when we're talking about experimenting, thinking about when they're implementing something like the creation of the Pantheon. And we look at it today and say, wow, they're really exaggerated over the top. Those walls are so thick, they didn't need to be that thick to support the weight of the dome, but it's that exaggeration that led to the success of a structure that's 1900 years old. So too, we can look at something like the diet, think about how they're looking at what the gladiator, this investment over hundreds and hundreds of years. This is better, this is not better, we gave them this, this is a work. So just, again, I think when we look at these things and people are writing about on ancient times, when we're doing discoveries and we're studying the bones of the deceased and so on, there's really a lot of experimentation and evolution of a practice in the ancient Roman world and we kind of see those results. Okay, so we're just gonna zip through a number of things here. We talked about who the gladiators were, some examples we can talk about. The key ones were the man wearing a fish on his helmet, a fish helmet, that's the murmur alone and we have the Sam Knight and we'll talk a little bit more about them, but essentially it's a fighting style, they're heavily armed and have a long shield. You can see a big long shield up above my head and the Thracian has a round shield and a curved sword and then the Ritiaris is lightly armed and has a trident and you can actually see the trident right behind me as well. It looks like it will be the deceased right there, Ritiaris. So we have four main kinds and of course you've got the guys on the horseback and the guys on the chariot, the Isidari and they'll fight with different kinds of props and be forced to be in scenarios of history and mythology and so forth that add to a lot of the pageantry, but essentially it's really about a man fighting against another man. Don't think of it as football teams at all, think about it as one, predominantly one on one. Okay, where's the idea coming from? Scenes that it comes from the Etruscans, we have artwork in the sixth century that show people fighting or being put to death on the occasion of the death of someone. So funerary games and Nicholas of Damascus in the first century tells us that it's an Etruscan concept. We have Etruscan art, we have great videos on the Etruscan museum that you can look at on each one of them lives and check those out and seems to verify that, that there's a Truscan concept involved around the funerals of people and then we were told by Livy that a lot of the games, some of the earlier games are surrounding the victory against the Sammites of Sammite Wars. The Sammites were a brutal opponent of the Romans to conquer much of the peninsula of Italy and ultimately you round a lot of them up and put them to fight as entertainment for you. And when we jump into Rome and we jump into what's really happening in the city, you go to 264 BC for the first games that are recorded in the Forum Boarum and they are funerary games of Brutus Perra and then we jump to 216. And that's only three pairs of gladiators fighting and 216 BC is the funeral of Marcus Amidus Lepidus. 22 of pairs will fight and then 200 BC, Marcus Valerius Lavinius, 25 pairs will fight and 200 BC of progression here. 200 BC, funeral Pobius Likinius, 60 pairs will fight. Titus Laminius and his dad's funeral has 74 gladiators fighting over three days.  Those are private individuals and they've got these obligations or duties, duties to be met, the moon or out. And they're gonna conduct them largely during the funeral of somebody, but over time by 105 BC, it's picking up and surrounding Ludi state games, festivals honoring the gods. So it's becoming something a little more official, but for the most part, it's private individuals, not officials and the real tie is gonna be with someone dead. The new add-on can be the occasional victory or triumph, but what happens is, this is the interesting thing, this is kind of like the kicker, is that when you start to honor somebody, when you're getting into the end of the republic, you can honor them, but it doesn't have to be exactly at the time of the funeral. It can be put off and it becomes implemented when it's convenient for you, when you are running for political office, when you're trying to get elected, when you're trying to get people to follow your lead and a famous case of all, most famous case of Julius Caesar. So he's bowing these games in 65, but he can't ultimately, and we don't know what kind of game exactly he was intended for his aunt, but he does ultimately have 320 pairs fighting in 45 BC to honor his daughter who had died eight years before. So again, that just really nails the lid on the coffin here, that there really was a lot of leeway in which you could implement those mooner, these obligations, I mean, I got them, poor soul of Julia waiting to be honored as it were eight years later. But let's remember, let's remember, there are a lot of slave revolts between 170, the most famous of course, Spartacus and Capua, and breaking out of a slave school for gladiators called Lutus. And let's face it that at the end of the Republic, we're really getting into about 120 and thereafter, so serious are these gladiator schools that they are becoming the blueprint from which the military, the state, the soldier is now being trained. It's not the other way around. It's not that the military school for training the Roman citizens in the army is so amazing. It's adopted by the gladiator schools. Actually, it's the entrepreneurs as it were. It's the guys that are trying to really in a cutthroat competition of having the best trained gladiators for these performances, they up the game as it were. And the military says, that's actually very good. And we know what they're doing there. They're practicing with weighted wooden swords. They have that kind of dummy, they have obstacle courses, they're doing calisthenics and so forth. This kind of boot camp is then going to be adopted. No one ever forgets the danger of the gladiators, the danger exhibited by Spartacus. We can move forward in time and we can think about Augustus and he is passing some limitations. So he says the preters, it only hold two games a year with maximum 120 participants at a time. It's further restricted by Tiberius. And when we get down to the mission, the mission who is the younger son of the Spasian who built the Colosseum, he's saying the only people that can have gladiator games in Rome, only Emperor. So it's really getting restricted and outside of the provinces. If you want to hold gladiatorial games, you need official approval. So this is something that is the ultimate, is the ultimate of display. And so you're going to regulate and you're going to monitor because whoever's going to fund this stuff and it ain't cheap, they want to be recognized, they want to be as somebody in society. So they're always a potential danger, let's say within the given social order. And when do they have these games? The big annual games really focused on December end of year and it's looking at the kind of end of year, beginning of a new one. And it's also about funerary games and remembering the dead. And of course you have the Saturnalia that's also taking place. And it really is a great turning of the page. So let's kind of clean out house and start anew. Of course, there can also be the funerary occasions, there can be the state triumph, but it really isn't something ever like a football schedule. And it's something that really depends upon victories and anniversaries of the emperors, when they want to hold games and of course December is the big one of the year. So the inauguration of the Colosseum was huge under Titus, with 9,000 animals killed and 10,000 gladiators fighting. But the most of all, the most massive gladiator spectacles ever under Trajan for his Dacian triumph in 107,000, 10,000 gladiators and 11,000 animals were killed. So we spent quite a bit of time talking about man against man, but of course man against animal is a whole other conversation, the bestiarehi. And it's a big deal, very exciting. And when we think of the four gladiator schools surrounding the Colosseum, we have the Lutus Madness, the Dacian school, the Gallic school and the Matutinas Lutus. So that is the morning show. So you have the bestiarehi, finding the wild animals in the morning. Noontime is execution of criminals and the gladiators that made events after lunch. So you have the trainers, the Lannista. You have the gladiator schools. You have such a popular event that people go to the Lutus Madness. It's large enough to hold several thousand people to watch kind of spring training and to see these superstars practice. And then you go right across the street or through the tunnel into the Colosseum to watch it all. Now, before any match, there's a pompa, which is a big kind of parade through the city. So it's kind of like a tic-a-tac parade for these guys that are facing death. And of course, when they go on the arena, there is going to be a, there's going to be always a referee, the Sumerutus. And it not long sticks to kind of direct and break up the fighting and so forth. So how long does it last? Maybe 10, 15, 20 minutes, something like that. They don't last very long because they're wearing a lot of heavy armor and they're joining themselves a lot. And then what happens when the event is over? So you've either outright killed somebody or you can acknowledge that you've lost by raising a finger, and then the editor, the person who's funding the games, the private individual decides whether or not they're put to death. Of course, the crowd is in it as well. And there's the issue of, is there going to be an opportunity of missio? Is there going to be an opportunity to spare the life of the gladiator or not? And as we move forward in the period of time, there's more of this advertisement for, hey, there's not going to be any missio, scene ain't missio without missio. So you really, when the guy loses, he's going to die. So you're upping the ante over and over and over again. And of course, when the editor says, yes, this guy is going to die, it's the famous Pauli Giverso, the turn of thumb, and of course in the movies, we all see this, but it doesn't seem to be the case in Latin. And in ancient times, that's how the movies are given to us, but they definitely turn the thumb in some way it's turned. So we have some conjecture about that, maybe even like this, right, the jubilatio. So we're not exactly sure. And of course, there's entertainment to the max, music is playing a lot. So we even have some great mosaics that show there's music accompaniment kind of crescendoing as the battle moves forward and so forth. So there's a lot of really interesting, a lot of interesting details that we get from mosaics from the ancient sources themselves from funerary release of gladiators and so forth. Now, again, there are famous amperes that participate in these games, Coligula Titus, maybe even Hadrian, Lucius Verus, Catacannala, and of course, our buddy, Commodus, is going to be like a gladiator in the Coliseum itself, killing bears, decapitating ostriches and stuff like that, not killed by Russell Crowe and gladiator, but he is strangled by one of his gladiator friends in the bands in his villa, either on the Via Appia, the Via de Quintiri, or on the Palatine Hill, and essentially, it is a bad way to go. So you probably don't want to be frequenting and hanging out with your buddy gladiators because they can be very deadly, but that's what Commodus apparently did. And when there's an all-end again, we said in 4.23, that's pretty much the end of the gladiator game, the end of the Pagan Munara in Rome. Thank you very much, Theodosius. And it really is, and the Norris, it is a push, it is a struggle, but ultimately, the games are finished and the gladiator is no more. Was the average gladiator better trained fighter than a legionary? That is an absolutely great question, but let's definitely say that ultimately, their fighting preparation and training was going to be very similar. Of course, we're talking about the big bolting up of the gladiator versus, I could think about, the marching and the running and the horseback riding that the legionary does. I probably want to think that the legionary guy is in better shape. Electrolyte Drink was diluted vinegar. Was that reserved for soldiers in the ashrink for gladiators or the interchange or even mixed? Yeah, I've heard of both as well, exactly. The gladiator, to say it, collection of the little board of gaze is great. Why are there so many in that one side? What's the history of the collection? Pretty much they're all found of one time in 1834 from that one property in the Casalina and sliced up and brought into Galeria Borghese. I remember in the 19th century then, in 1834, so much had been robbed out by Napoleon. So this is like a late addition to kind of replenish the Galeria Borghese and eventually a lot of the work spark, you know, come back. Yeah, they've got their underwear. You can see what we're really focusing on right now in these mosaics is a lot of armor, shoulder armor, and shin greaves and stuff like that. But a lot of the body is exposed, so there will be blood. Yeah, so yeah, this whole Yugo Latio thing is one other idea with that. Yes, I note them up, them down, per se. We don't think, we know it's turned, but we do not think, right? It's like in the movies. That's just something that's made up. But, you know, hey, that's Hollywood. And of course, from these great movies, Spartacus, Gladiator and so forth, we can be entertained and we can be engaged. And, you know, they're thinking of making a Hollywood movie of talking to your contemporary audience as well to make it resonate. And that cuts both ways to be as accurate as possible and not. And that's the reality we get from movies, but a lot of them are great, even if they're not the most accurate. So thank you guys very much for joining me. It's been great to have you here today in Rome Do check out ancientromelive.org. We've got videos dropping every week. We're filling in ancient Rome live content as well on the website. And you'll see more of that in the coming months. And do take a look at Darius R.A. Diggs and my YouTube channel. Today, happy Father's Day again. I was inside the pantheon for the solstice and it was a beautiful view. I hope you guys enjoy what we're offering you. So many different views on Rome. I don't think honestly anyone else is anywhere near what we're doing for you with the webinars and with what we're sharing on social media and then the videos, the ancient Rome live platform. We do hope you can share this and we hope you continue to share your enthusiasm. Thanks a lot.


Income tax 2021-2022, child tax credit and other dependent credit Excel worksheet. Get ready to get refunds to the max, diving into income tax 2021-2022. Lassert tax software, you don't need tax software to follow along, but you might want to have access to the forms and schedules, which you can find on the IRS website at irs.gov, irs.gov, we're gonna primarily be focused on the schedule 8812, credit for qualifying children and other dependents. And that's gonna feed into the form 1040. Let's look at the general scenario on the form 1040, single filer Adam Smith, living in Beverly Hills, 90210. We've got the one dependent that we're gonna start out with, Sam Smith, son, qualifies for the child tax credit. We're gonna start with the 60,000 of the wages. And then we have the 12,550 standard deduction that gets us to the 47,450 taxable income. Let's mirror.


Hi, I'm Nancy. What do you do for work? I am a product manager. I am a product owner. You must have seen the job openings between product managers and product owner. You're quite confused. What are the differences between those two roles and which offer should you choose? In this video, I'm going to share with you what are the differences between product managers and product owners in terms of the hierarchy, responsibilities, and the salary differences. Make sure to stay until the end of this video. I'm going to share with you the secret salary differences between these two roles. And it's also the first video I filmed since I'm returning from the maternity leave. I'm very excited to come back. Let's get started. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee, a director product from drnancy.com. I help people transition from worker B to product manager and business leader. If you want to learn the most effective way to become a product manager, please subscribe to the channel, hit the bell button, so be notified every time I post a new video every Wednesday. Recently, a lot of student mind got offers as product manager and product owner. They use the following methodology to understand their differences and help them to make decisions on which offer to accept. Step number one, you need to understand the hierarchy differences between product manager and product owner. Generally speaking, product owner is at the end of the totem pole. If you line up all the different titles of product management career, it looks like this. Product owner, product manager, senior product manager, group product manager, direct product, we peer product or chief product officer. If a company gives you a title as product owner and they also give another person title as a product manager, it's very likely product managers will manage the product owner or mentor the product owners. For some companies, they don't have those two titles, they merge both of them into the same title, which is product owner. In that case, you need to play the both role of product owner and product manager for your current company. The title in different companies are very confusing. Let me give you some examples. They really vary based on each company. In Microsoft, they do not have a product owner title and their entry level product manager are considered as product manager. However, the same type of people, if you get a job in Google or Facebook, their title will be associate product manager. For some other companies, if you're entry level product manager, they might give you a title as product owner. However, those roles are very transferable. If you're a product manager, you really need to master the skills as a product owner in order to succeed in corporate America and continue to climb up your career ladder. If you want to understand the in-depth description of different career paths of product managers, please make sure to check out this video where I describe in details what are the roles and responsibilities and title differences that's coming from the entry level product manager all the way to the cheap product officer. I'm going to link the video in the description of this video. Number two, product owner and product manager have different responsibilities. In general, product manager has a bigger scope of responsibility. Their differences are mainly laid within three aspects. They are the size of the team, the scope of work, and the business impact. Now let's learn about the responsibilities as a product owner. Product owner is a term that's invented in the agile product management development process. In the agile process, there are three key people, product owner, scrum master, and the developers. They are inside of the golden triangle and their relationship are very critical with each other. It is the responsibility of the product owner to ensure that they are delivering the most value. The business is represented by the product owner who tells developers what is important to deliver and the trust between these two parties are very critical. And there are five different kinds of responsibilities that product owners need to do. Number one, manage product backlog and stakeholders needs. Product backlog is a specific term inside of the scrum and spring process. You can learn more about the agile product development in my upcoming video. Number two, product owner prioritize user stories in scrum. Number three, product owners manage the release of product features through the end to end process to make sure it's delivered on time and on quality. Number four, product owner manage the stakeholder expectations. Number five, product owner leads the engineering team to execute on the product vision. On the other hand, the product manager is responsible for guiding a product to success. They lead a cross-functional team that works on a product and improve its features. Product managers also have the following five responsibilities. Number one, product manager decides the why and what and when to launch a product from concept to execution. They set the vision of the team and lead the whole team to execute on the grand vision. Number two, product manager manage the product roadmap from success, product launch. So they're mainly responsible for understanding the concept and involving with the business and technical part until the end to end product launch and bring it to the hand of customers. Number three, product manager also prioritize product features and user stories. This is very similar responsibilities as a product owner. Number four, product manager manage a much wider business aspect of product management. For example, product manager will work with sales and marketing team to launch and sell the product. It will also design the pricing model, business model. It will also conduct market research and competitive analysis. Number five, product manager manage both the internal and external stakeholders, especially from the external stakeholder aspect. Product managers are responsible for managing the relationship with customers, maybe do some customer demos and also train the sales and engineering team to sell the product to customers. This is mainly lacking in the product owner's responsibilities. By now, you must be excited about the product owners and product management role. If you want to know how to best package your prior experience and turn into a product manager and product owner resume, feel free to download the teeter product manager resume where it helps hundreds of product managers to land a job as a product manager in the tech industry. I will link the cheat sheet in the description of this video. Number three, let's also talk about money. The salary differences between product owner and product manager is not significant but it's very obvious. Product manager in general are getting paid about 10% higher than the product owner, which is very similar to what I described earlier that product owner is an lower part of total pool compared with the product manager. Let me give you some specific examples. If you look up the general product manager salary in San Francisco area, the product manager base salary is about $140,000 per year and the product owner's base salary is about $127,000 per year. And this salary doesn't include the stake, the stock options and equity. To be honest, if you work for Google and Amazon, those big tech companies, the stock option is going to make sure your salary is going to double or go through the roof. As a product manager, sometimes your salary can go all the way up to half million dollars. I made a specific video telling you the detailed example what the salary differences at different levels of product management and what the differences between different locations and different companies in terms of fan companies and the startup unicorn. Feel free to check out this video and download the salary cheat sheet in the description of the video. Now let's also think about which offer would you choose if you get both per manager and product owner offer. Here's the thing, I wouldn't see the big salary differences as a deal breaker because if I were you, I would focus on how can I negotiate higher salary and getting a better offer in better company. I published many negotiation videos, check out those videos right here, which helps hundreds of product managers to get higher salary over there. Now, if you have both offers, I would really consider product owner at the entry level to product management career path. If you're able to land a product manager title with very good team culture and you love the kind of product you're going to build, I would definitely take the product manager offer. Of course, product owner offer is also something I highly recommend for the entry level product management positions so that you can kick off your product management career very quickly. If you have made the decision to become a product manager or product owner, you should check out this free webinar where I teach you how to land a product manager job very quickly. And on top of that, learn about the product manager accelerator where I have helped hundreds of product managers to land their dream job in the tech industry. I'm going to link the webinar in the description of this video. If you want to continue to inspire more product managers, please make sure to like and comment on this video so that more aspiring product managers will be able to hear about this organic content. This is Dr. Nancy Lee. I'm going to see you next time. Bye.