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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Twenty twenty five b E T Awards, Media House eighty five,
Self Show, Navgreen, Broken Play.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now. You know, I only like talking to ghetto legends.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I only that's all. That's my a ghetto legend.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is a real ghetto legend, bro.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Like for the kids who was coming up in the
early two thousand.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
We weren't even supposed to be listening to it. I
don't think they're supposed to be saying that shit.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
They weren't some young grown men, hey man.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
But we're sitting down today with a real ghetto legend,
none other than Spectacular himself.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, how you been I've been spectacular, man.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That's that's a great way.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
That's why the name I've been feeling good.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
I've been feeling good. Life has been good. God has
been blessing me.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hey man.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You were part of one of the biggest groups, and
it's like seeing how young y'all were navigating the music industry,
ups the downs, the journey, but then seeing how y'all
can still get together and put that shit together.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That that's that's commendable.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Bro, especially when you have so many personality types exactly
everybody think the way they think and.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
You'll be surprised. Coming up with the smallest.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Agreements would be a conflict, right, But when we know
each other, we can kind of say, that's on you.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You make the decision.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
That's on you.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
You make the decision, and then everybody play their lane,
and that's what makes a great team. I know that
I'm not gonna be under the goal if I'm the
point guard, and if you the center, you ain't.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
At the top of the key.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
But then it's like, I wanted to ask you this too,
because everybody, everybody's active on social media these days, and
like the kid, like I said, not when I say kids,
I'm not saying like the youngsters, but you got a
whole generation of your peers who hold.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Y'all like your music is their R and B. It
was their first.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You give what I introduction to it?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, the first introduction to like real relationship, having a
real boyfriend, girlfriend type shit. So I didn't make you
feel to know that you played a vital role in
a vital part of people's lives.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I never thought about that real like that, like to
the newer generation, like we are they Keith Sweat, I
never thought about that.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
That's how I knew I was getting older. They like,
I'm going to put on some old school R.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And the pretty rick.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah. But what I'm saying is like they got y'all.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
They hold y'all to the same high regard as like
my generation, like Jodasy.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
N I never thought about that, man, It never crossed
my mind.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
But you know, man, you're right because I was just
around some young it was like twenty something and it
was like, oh my god, spectacling and I was like,
how old are you? They was like, I'm twenty one,
Like this is all twenty year anniversary. So when we
came out, you was number you was one.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Weren't even walking for real.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
You wasn't even walking.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
You just said not die. So it did let me know, like, yeah,
they are growing up with me. And just like my
mom used to play twelve play when I was in
the Global League, projects cleaning the house up put me
on kills. So I guess we that foot makes sense, Okay,
I never thought about.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It, hey, man.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So, like I was saying, all the ups and downs
and ship being in a group that's that's a tough
environment to be in, where like you said, so many
different egos clashing and shit like that, Like, what are
some of the some of the like, I guess I
would say principles that even as a group in the
midst of the turmoil, Like how did y'all keep that
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shit together?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Number one, we gotta all get to the point where
we can agree to disagree understanding that it's a group
vote and whenever we all say this is the vote,
no matter if you like it or not, you will
be one hundred percent. And that's that always been us.
Like if you disagree wholeheartedly, like one thousand percent, I
do not want to do that, And if you get
out voted, you gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And when you have that type of camaraderie, it's it's
hard to break that because it's loyalty at that point,
Like it's it's.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
A if you just want to go against the ground.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
You you can't because you outvoted. And this is a brotherhood,
So you can't outvote everybody because you don't want to
do something and we all collectively want the same thing.
But it's gonna be a time where I get out
voted with something I whole hardly do not want to
do and everybody out vote me and now I gotta
be ten toes down.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You ever have one of those moments where it's like
maybe you wouldn't with it, but then you've seen it
actually working you it's like.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
All right, that'll happened before. Yeah, but that's what anything
you think, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
But the reason why it's a vote system is because
nine times out of ten to three, no more than
the one most of the time.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Let me ask you this when it comes to the music,
was there ever song where you was like, I don't know,
I don't know, maybe that ain't and then it became
a hit?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yeah, Because what we do is when we hear the hit,
you play it over and over and over and you
feel the same way when we played when we when
we made Your Body, we drove all the way home.
We we lived like in the outskirts and the suburbs.
When we start getting to it, we would play that
song back to back to back the back.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
That we was like, yo, this is it.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Same thing with on the hot Line. When we first
played the beat before we even wrote one lyric, we
listen to that beat.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
For like two hours. Man, they playing Hotline at the
college is now Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's what I'm saying, this is the soundtrack that you
have a favorite song to perform though, oh the performed juicy,
because I'll be giving them that lap dance.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You gotta go.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Ahead and freaking spectacle. You gotta give sexy spat. You
gotta get what they came for. You know, that's one
thing about when Pretty Ricky hit the stage. We want
to give you more than your money's work. Yeah, like
to entertainment and give them what you won't see on
a normal basis. Everybody go up there and seeing dance
two step, but ain't nobody freaking.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Somebody play your music and get that vibe.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, but you were able to find some success outside
of music.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Also, Man, what's that journey been?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Like?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Oh, my goodess, that's been.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That's been the most beautiful thing for me because it's
one thing being on stage.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
That's my hobby.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Well, my real love is helping somebody say, Man, I
quit my nine to five job and now I'm a millionaire,
or or I had a company I was struggling with.
I was about to go out of business, and you
gave me the accountability, the scalability, the systems, the processes,
the mentor ship and now I make three million dollars
a year.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Like what just for the.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
People who don't know, let them know what your other
business is.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yes, So I have a school called Spectacle Academy and
we have systems, processes, social media marketing. We teach all
the framework on how to build and scale a business.
So no matter where you are, if you just starting,
we have a blueprint for that. If you had a
million dollar one hundred thousand dollar mark, we have a
blueprint for that. You a million trying to get the
ten million, we got a blueprint for that. If you
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had ten million to get to one hundred million, we
got a blueprint for that.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Hold on, what show was that that you was on
and they was talking about your people didn't know that
you was getting to the paper like that.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Well at the beginning, they didn't really take me serious.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
You gotta understand, I'm the guy with the baby all on,
Like I'm the guy with the shirt on My wardrobe
is a towel.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
You gotta switch.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Yeah, So like I'm literally Bruce Wayne, Like I'm in
a boardroom and then I'm putting on the Batman costume.
I'm like going to fight crime. But this is like
go ground on girls like and that was the thing.
So when I transition, it was hard to take me
seriously even though intellectually I was there. Status wise, I
wasn't there in the business world, but now they called me.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Why they need it?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, they already had viewed you a.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Certain time, you know, yeah exactly, so you gotta break
out of that.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Did you want to scale back from the music when
you start seeing that happen? Or you were like, it'll
organically happen, because.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I know, I always just did it in parallel. I
never like met made one affect the other. So that's
what kind of led to me a master p partnership
and had him come in. He was like my unofficial mentor,
just like put me up on game all the time,
teaching me the ropes. And I realized, like this is
the key to success. Like he told me one thing,
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he was like, spec, don't do that. I'm like, man,
get out of here, man, Like I'm the new man
around here now like the game, I'm like game done.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
One year later, Bruh, you was right, bro.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I lost three hundred and fifty thousand dollars from one
sentence from him. One sentence he told me not to
do and he guess what he said. He said, all right,
well cool, I'm gonna see you in the year from now.
You let me know how that worked out for you.
And I had to keep it one hundred with him.
I say, bro, that you told me not to do.
I still did it. Bro, I lost three hundred and
fifty thousands.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's accountability.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
I gotta be accountable. I came back with my, with my,
with my, you know, vulnerable and just letting.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Them know, like it was right though you would have,
but you would have popped your ship.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
But watch this, watch this. You can't beat wisdom. And
he so if it had worked out and the wisdom
told you it wasn't, it was pretty much wasn't gonna
work out because he'dn't been there, done that already, Right,
he has the blueprint to success.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
He already been there.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
He'd haven't been on the top of Forbes, he'dn't been
through his peaks, his valleys, right, everybody go through his
entrepreneurs Like, that's how it worked.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
So if he can tell.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
You something save you the time, energy and money, and
shortcuts you to the front of the line, why would
you say like, nah, bro, I got the right way.
It's like, nah, I don't think like that. When he
said something I listen, I don't.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
I ain't got. But this is now.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
When I watched peep this, it was the best three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars I lost in my.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Life because he learned from it.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I looked.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I learned.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Never take your eye off the prize, the thing that's
meant making you the most money. You don't try to
create another source of income off of something else that's
not working. You double down on what is working, and
you put one thousand percent any energy into that. Because
what happens is you go through the honeymoon phase when
(10:21):
shit is going really good. You're like, oh, I'm making millions,
I'm good. Let me go launch this other new thing. Now,
let me create another source of income. Because they tell
you got to have seven strings of income and become wealthy.
So my dumb ass going out there thinking I need
to create these multiple streams of income instead of taking
my same company that's making millions and just tenx in
my energy, tenx in my accountability and go all in
(10:45):
on that thing and then take the revenue that I'm
generating from that, and then invest in the other people
and let them do the work while I stay focused.
And then I make the mailbox money with you. You got
a company, I make the mailbox money with you. I
poured my ideas that I got to start another business.
I give it to you that already have the business.
I'm the advisor. I give you the money and I
(11:07):
make money off the profit share.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
See this shit turned into a crash economics.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Now you know he's passionate about the shit.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Now to get the mail.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Box from you lost. Before we wrap this up, we
gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
We gotta do our segment.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
So for the twenty twenty five BET Awards, me and
have created our own segment.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And it's called what the fuck.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You got on? And you just let us know what
you got on? You pop your ship.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Man, hey man, listen, I just put it together.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I did.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
It's how I feel right now, and whatever I felt like,
I made them tailor it up, tailor it up. I say,
that's the one. Stylists say this the piece. I say, okay,
let me see all right. I don't want to do
the black. I want to do the white. I want
to do the cream.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
And then I came in.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I was like, all right, not too many jews, just
enough to shine and yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
That was the play. What you went on your feet?
What Gucci's on the field? Gucci?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
You know I had these I had these shoes for
two years and couldn't never find nothing when to go
with it. I was like, that's this the moment, this
the so a minute. Right now, you got the Cardier's look.
I made this bracelet spectacular ice. I got my chain
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right here just in case they peeking, if they're seeking,
and I'm right now.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
You gotta smell.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Good, look good for like a million dollars mixed up
a few little I don't want to throw my sin
out there. Everybody can be smelling like me. Now it's
like I want to be like, what is that you
got on?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You know?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
And I don't.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Once somebody called me out one time said, oh you
got on that, Louis. Imagine that you ain't gonna get
me no more.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Hey, you forgot dependent though.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Yeah that's the spectacular stars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, that's
the movement.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
And with the movement, see that it represents strength, and
then the star represents finding your purpose a man.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
So yeah, so I make sure what.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
They're looking too close, they seeing all that.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Yeah, and then on the chain say health, wealth, family,
and faith.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So that's what I focus.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
On for sure, Health, wealth, family, and faith.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That's hard right there, man, Well, look, much love and
success to everything you got going forward. You're part of
a historic group, freddiy Rick is gonna always be in
the conversation, man. BT Awards twenty twenty five. Spectacular. That
boy and nav Green were out of here.