Strawberry Danish with Rick Ross

On Episode 3 Dwyane goes into the studio to have a conversation with legendary rapper and record executive Rick Ross. The two discuss Ross's experience growing up on the streets of Miami Gardens, Ross talks about his days as an All Dade County football player and his health scares over the years. Ross tells the story of the time he bought 11 cars at once, why he decided to purchase 30 Wingstop franchises and then Ross turns the tables and asks Dwyane about the famous photo of him and LeBron James. Dwyane gives the full detailed story behind the photo for the first time, and Ross names the move... Strawberry Danish!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hey guys. Before we get started with episode three of
the podcast, I wanted to give you guys a head up.
You guys will hear a voice, and that would be
my guy, Bob mittell Us aka Fly on the Wall.
Bob and I have done many things over the years.
He's my photographer, my videographer. Bob has also done some
collapse and worked with the biggest Rick Ross including the

(00:37):
Port of Miami two album shoot. So I thought it'd
be cool now on need to have Bob there for
this conversation, but you also will hear Bob in other
interviews as well. Bob gives me an opportunity to break
He gives an opportunity to ask questions to me and
the guests as well to allow us to have a
little bit more conversation. So everybody please welcome my Fly
on the Wall Bob tell us. Welcome back to The

(01:07):
Why with Dwayne Wade. One of the reasons I wanted
to start this podcast was because I wanted to have
the opportunity to talk to people that I admire, that
I adore, to have relationships with that I feel that
that is at the level of greatness and how they think,
how they move and all the things, and so to
be able to be back here in Miami, be able
to be here in this studio, right here where a

(01:29):
lot of hits has been made, and to be able
to be sitting next to my brother, the Biggest. Everybody,
Welcome Rick Ross to the podcast. My God, my brother,
my brother for light. Now listen, So to start this conversation,
because that's what this is. I want to start it
right here.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yea, I hit that. Let's play that good.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
This was a night right here in Miami, great vibe,
give you all the setup, getting fatter, the biggest. And
I was at the same I was playing, he was,
he was on the court side, had a great game.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I walked over the game as.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Y'all feel us. Y'all can cut it. Y'all can cut it.
So man, I walked to you out of the game.
I had a good game. We had talked over the
before the season started about doing some things together in
my last season. So the first thing we talked about
was doing a collabe with my shoe Bran, which we did.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Legend of waiting for that believe it, they better believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
And then you turned me. You said, now can I
get you in the studio. You said, can we get
in the studio to gather can we drove one? I
was nervous, but I was like, for sure, for the culture,
for the city, and so we did that. So I
walked over to you after the game, I said, already
did tell him about the movie in the studio.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Man, man, it was just a good vibe, you know
what I'm saying. We linked up audio Vision, you know
what I'm saying, the legendary studio right here Miami. What
all the classic records been made. You know what I'm saying.
We get in the studio one time for you Dona's
you deep, you know what I mean. And once again,
and once again we was just celebrating my bro last lap.

(03:03):
You know what I'm saying. We were celebrating the last lap.
I want to say, the sixteenth season, you feel me.
So of course we had of course, the city had
a lot of things going up, but we just had
to do something from the music side. So we got
in the studio, pulled up a smooth beat, and man,
we just yeah, we shared a lot of laughs, you
know what I'm saying. We took pictures, kicked it and
it was just one of those vibes, you know what

(03:25):
I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
And d Wade, he handled this business. You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
He smoked this verse when we did it, man, we
dropped it and it just had a good vibe. Man,
And I'm glad the homie did that.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Man was love. And what I loved about is you know,
that's not something that I normally do. When I got
inside the booth, just all good. Just the conversation you're
diding that with me. We got the wing stop, you
know what I'm saying. We got the we got the vibes.
E Macklin. But at the same time, many y'all let
me get in there feel comfortable. And I got a
chance to get in there and just sound like myself,
you know what I'm saying, and really stuff sound off

(03:57):
the right way.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
I was expecting you to be horrible. I was ready
for it, but you surprised me.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
You went in there.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
And I'm gonna lety' all know the verse you hear,
it's damn there, the same thing from the first one
he laid, you know what I mean. And so when
you get in a booth like that, you usually don't
get that. You know what I'm saying a lot of
times motherfuckers sit in there and play with that verse
an hour, two hours, three hours until they actually comfortable.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Well, Bruh got in there and did that. You know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, bro, it was all fun. Man.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
So for me, Man, been in that booth, right, I'm
in there and I'm trying to figure this out in
this moment. I've never done this before, so it made
me respect even more of the greatness of people in
there that comes inside that booth. Because you want to
have your own sound, You want to have your own expression, right,
you know what I mean? You got one of the
most unique sounds that we've ever heard in it in

(04:46):
this industry. What what is this sound? What did this
this character of the sound come from? That is that
your voice? Do you talk like that all the time?
Was that when you get in the studio, you click
somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
When I'm in the studio, I do go somewhere else. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying, Because this is my sound.
But when I get in there and I want to
say certain things, it's just like we could say, yo,
I'm going to the stove. But when I'm in there,
I'm headed to this, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
it's because I just want to make sure they capture
that passion and what Rose saying.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
I'm not gonna lean too far away from you know,
the way I usually move, but I do make sure
I give them something different. So that's just like that
that classic ad lift. That's just me saying like, I
don't have a word that expressed the way I feel,
but this is the closest I could come to it.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, I'm not we jumping off the roof. Yeah, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
So that's that next level I go to, just to
make sure they feel that that vibe.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, that is that?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Like is that something as an artist that you need? Like, okay,
like Little Wayne he started that, he hit that lighter
before you go that, you hit that yeah, right, Jaya?
Like Jay got his thing that you know he coming
in right when you hear jay Z coming in? So
like is that a thing? Is every artist? You gotta
find that that thing that kind of sets you apart.
Like when we know Rose may be on some we

(06:09):
may not know and he's like.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Huh, I'm gonna say this.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
It may not be something that's required by every artist,
but those special individuals, you find something that makes them unique.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
You find something and they know.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
And once they get that connection with the audience to
fans in the streets, they know it's just like me.
Right before them, they gonna hear, huh yeah, give him.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
That, Mama, Mammy.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Maybe, yeah, let him know because we finish, give it
to him. We're gonna do them dirty too.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
And so when they hear that right before I come on,
that's usually that sign of that arrogance. I'm finna do
them dirty for no reason.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
So where are your where are your confidence come from?

Speaker 1 (06:49):
I mean born in Mississippi, yeah, but growing up here
in Florida, right, you have unique energy, you have unique swag.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Without a doubt?

Speaker 4 (06:56):
What is that? What do you call that man that
that comfordents come from?

Speaker 3 (07:00):
I believe just you know, walking home from school in
Carroll City every day, you gotta it's gonna make you
a soldier.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
It's gonna make you a soldier.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
You walking home from Miami God's Elementary, Caroll City Middle School.
By the time you get to the high school, it
don't matter who you w is, what race you is?
You you built because hey boy, they ain't gonna even
play with you. You know what I'm saying. My dad
from Florida, my mom from Mississippi. You know what I'm saying.
So you know that's how you know, we was always here.

(07:31):
So by the time, shit man, you know, and I
was a heavy dude, a big dude. So if I'm
walking home from school, and if we in the third grade,
it's the sixth grade that's gonna say, hey, fat boy,
check this out.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
So you gotta learn how to deal with people and
understand and know what it is.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
And so you know, it got to a certain point
where I just knew how to move anyone met It
could be a room, it don't matter. I'm built for it.
It don't matter. And so people kind of get it.
You know what I'm saying. I'm respectful at the same time, Yeah,
you know, we show respect, we give respect.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
We moved by a certain code of honor. You know
what I'm saying. When get money and.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Start changing and taking advantage in that wen, you know
what I'm saying. Ween fucking niggas wives and you know
what I'm saying, we avoid all that ship. We want
to handle our business. You know what I'm saying, Let's
make history. Let's not take this ship for granted. So
on all on all levels, we keep it balanced.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (08:30):
What is that secret sauce? Like we're looking at someone
in the sports world right now, right Lebron James. We
just got done looking at Tom Brady. These guys has
been around and it's been at the top for a
very long time. It's it's not easy to make it,
but it's damn show harder to stay at the top,
to stay plane.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
You can have a you can have a great season,
right you know, we we seen a lot of people
have an amazing season.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
A couple couple of good star team wants to say.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah, you can make all and damn you say, damn
what happened to Bruh, damn brother being out the league?
How long damn dog had that one commercial that would
call one, Yeah, Dog did the ducks and that's cool.
We call that trending. You could do it for a
little while, Na, but it's the coach. You're gonna pin
that ship to the top, you know what I'm saying.

(09:21):
So I think what we admire the most is, you know,
our level of passion and for what we do.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
We wake up. You see how you just told me outside,
it's bone to bone.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
That's how we go.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
We don't know no other way. We don't know no
other way. We go bone to bone because that's how
big our heart is and the love for the game.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
And that's just how it's a hustle. Yeah, hell yeah,
it's a hustle.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
You know how many times I was sitting on the
God damn caught. I'm sitting on the wood, nigga, And
you crashed through that way. Well, I say, boy, they.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Finished suit, finish, sue this mother figure on the five rolls.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
But that was the passion and you could see it.
You ain't got to explain it everybody else.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Soon as you walk God, y'all see God.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
That's what made them damn seats twenty five thousand. There
used to be four thousand that one time. Once you
start crashing, shit went on. That's what made it.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
I'm telling you that's what made it twenty five k.
But it spoke for itself. Your grind spoke for herself,
you know what I'm saying. To become an icon, and
when you're talking hall of fame, when you're talking about
being an artist that's going on your fifteenth album year
number twenty, and you still could drop projects when you
want to.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
You still could make noise whenever you want to.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
You know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's too good to
be true.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Say that, say that so so I feel that now.
I know that you were in a game way before this,
just like I was in the game way before this.
But I feel like you and I had a similarize
at the same time. Had to believe it two thousand
and six, two thousand and six. Every day, two thousand
every day I'm musty, damn mustling.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
In two thousand and six, I went final MVP. We
better believe it. I first believe it that first chip.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
And we both got it the same way every day.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
He say, grinding, grinding, grinding, And that was my first
hit record after game fifteen years. That's just like you
grinding in the game fifteen years before you get that
first ring.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
And not only for that, we shared that moment with the.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
City, the city with this. This was a big summer.
Oh man, that was a big summer that parade.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Man, I was smoking so good in one of them calls,
I was I wanted to be closer to the yard.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
But it was all good. The police made roadsext day back.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
But man, when I tell you the city city, you
know what I'm saying. One time for shock Diesel. You
know what I'm saying about just the whole squad. And
that was most definitely the beginning. And we knew that
was in the end. You know what I'm saying when
we said this, Wade County, we got a ring, it's
turned up.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
We're gonna keep going. And we did. We got three.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, we got trade. You got as we said on
that album, man, to have a city, to have a
to have Day County, get turned away County and and
you know what that was.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Let me tell you it's different this for everybody that's
from Dade County and Rose could say this. Let me
tell you something what Day County some of the most
hated motherfuckers in the world. I wish somebody would come
from somewhere else. They say, boy, I run Miami. Oh
my god, boy, it's gonna be five year olds. Key

(12:40):
in your car. Boy, for no, it don't happen. So
for everybody to be on the same page, I'm talking.
It was genuine love that wasn't no marketing. That wasn't
no gimmick, that wasn't no Miami heat. Let's give away
some towels. That said no, that was trying to say
that what Yeah, that was rose hain'ting. I'm saying that.

(13:02):
Everybody said that, and we still do, Homie when we
see you. We just saw you at the casino. But
that's the way what you already know what it is,
boy Wade County in the building. You know what I'm saying.
It's just genuine when you give it. You gave us
all you had, Homie. We couldn't ask for nothing else.
We got Trey rings, Baby, we can't ask for nothing else,
you know what I'm saying. And Homie, you did it
was so much class better believe it. It's too easy?

(13:25):
How does it feel?

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Because you're both kind of that grind like don't want
to saw those fifteen years before that two thousand and
six between both of you, they never do.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
And then when you hit it and you yeah, in
that celebration, like what's that like? Like you know, talk
to each other about like why is that?

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Like that's too easy for me when I hear that,
but me translating that let's say before I answer it,
that's like saying what it feels like playing those years
when you on the park, one on one in the
cold in the nighttime, in the morning, what it's like
when you go to a college that may not be
d one, it may not have the big TV games,

(14:04):
you know what I'm talking about, and what that feel like.
And then when you get that big check.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Well, it's definitely more rewarding that way, right when you oh,
when you the undergrowing.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
You, when you're the underdog and it's you versus you
going through that. Like I tell people all the time,
is this is when you get a little I get
a little bit more stubborn because I know that I
was there through this whole journey when nobody knew it,
when no one cared, no one, I was the one
that was there and I could and I didn't quit
on myself. And so throughout that journey, it's so easy
to quit on yourself because everybody else is thrown and

(14:34):
there's a lot.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
Of people names who this and that.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
And if you're a youngster and you hear it's d Wade,
he had a smaller college. You ain't hearing d wa
You hearing these other names, and you know some of
the names I'm talking about. Dang got rings. But that's
just the way it goes. But when you make it boom, yeah,
you get that big check. Boom, not even a big
check when you coming you shitting on them, give.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Meeting that when you get that respect, when you get
you get that respect.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Because like it was yesterday when I remember when we
signed d Wade. Okay, d Wade on me. Now, let's see,
let's see how hearty go. What y'all think he ain't
talking a lot like the mother dudes his hay. Ain't
that be like what he kind of quiet? He kind
of quiet?

Speaker 4 (15:20):
Oh yeah, he kind of.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
But you made it clip real quick. Oh dogs, solid
as a rock. I'm talking about that was right off
the rip. When you wait three seasons for that love,
for that respect, No, I'm talking about that was No,
we can't right, and yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
You know what I mean in the game with it
and people all the time. You know, it's like I
can smile, I can be so respond sometimes when that
ball go up, When that ball go up, that's what
I know.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
I was dirty. I loved it. I loved it.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
You know what I'm saying. It's like you you can
do all the things you do, but once you get
into this live, once you get into this booth, you
become the biggest you know what I mean, Separate the
boys in the men. There you go, so those lights
right there get bright. That's when you become who you are.

(16:15):
I had the luxury man of coming to your crib
in Atlanta, and it's been reported that it's two hundred,
three hundred eight whatever it is, two hundred.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Plus out acres. You and I walked walked the acreage.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
I was like, I was I was proud. I was
like I was a family member yours. I'm sitting there,
I'm walking acreage with you with my chest out. I'm
looking at horses, I'm looking at cows. I'm looking at
every whip that I ever thought I wanted to see.
But in the midst of that whole walk of seeing
that and being inspired by that, you said something to
me that has not left me. You said how you
were raised and we're talking about hustling. You talked about
your mom. So your mom told you if you getting

(16:49):
paid one fifty on Sunday, but they offer you thirty
k on Monday, go get that money. Don't think that
you need to be all. I'm making one fifty. I
only could show up for one fifty, and now go
get that money. We're going to get it no matter
of a Sunday Monday too. When you ain't doing none anyway,
go get it. And that I don't know why that
just stuck with me. And I was like, I know
why you go as hard as you go because you

(17:10):
raised with that mentality. Because everyone don't have that.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
That's that game my mama gave me from that Mississippi side.
You see what I'm saying that she come from a
side of living. You understand where you can't play with that.
It's people that don't make thirty k a year.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
You understand. So instead of just sitting at the crib,
keep moving. This ain't guaranteed to you, son, dah da
da da.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
So I applied that.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
I took that to my heart and I said, you
know what, we ain't gonna leave no money on the
table if we're doing business, were gonna find a way
to make it work on me. If I told you
I needed a hundred forty and you came in and
said I got forty nine, come on leave that forty
with me, and we gonna work out that of the sixty.
Were gonna find a way to make that happen. Because
if you make that a habit over twenty years, how

(17:58):
much money you done? Let walk out the off facts
and that same number you come up with rose done
got that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So
we ain't playing nothing. And my all, girl, that's who
gave me the whole game. So I hustle a little
old school. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I'm gonna
be flying when we come in the thing. But my

(18:19):
hustle is old school. We try to keep that calendar
on the go because at the same time we love it.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, we love it.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Y'all inviting us to the and y'all want to do
business at the casino. Oh that's easy. And we finished
shoot the dice. Ship man put it.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
That what we love to do.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
You know what I'm saying. We ain't coming to do
nothing we don't love to do, which is too easy.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
And just for you know, anyone who listens to this man,
it's like they see, you know, we're gonna see the glitch.
We gonn see that we gonna see the planes, we're
gonna see the cars, you're gonna see the houses.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
But they don't see that that Monday.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
They don't see that that, you know what I mean,
Like they see that the headlines, but they don't see
that on that Monday.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
When you going to hustle, you're gonna get something else.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
And so I just like to man bring that up
because to me as somebody who I feel like I
work hard in a hustle, but at that moment, I
felt like I was leaving stuff on the table, and
I was like, you know what, in my mind, I'm
like Rose said, and it's this conversation that you had
with it with your brother.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
And I'm like Rose said, go get that. You know what,
I take that. I'm gonna come and take that.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
That's easy. It's too easy. We chilling.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Let's get on, let's put on our fly give man,
let's go wrap our brand, let's go wrap our team.
And more importantly, it's homies that we got love for.
It's family members we got love for who actually need this.
It ain't even about us needing it. We know we
don't need nothing. We could just on some kickback up.
But that ain't even our style. We hustlers to the heart.

(19:44):
We're gonna get fly. Let's pull our highber. We won't ride.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Let's line them back to back to back to back
to back.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
We gonna tip Valet real nice this Valet night of
the year. You know what I'm saying. And let's do
what we do and it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Did you have that same hustling spirit when you play
sports when you were growing up? I did. It was
a football You played football, right? I played football?

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Now, tell me how I ain't seen no footage, No,
ain't know?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Were you nice?

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Oh man?

Speaker 2 (20:09):
I made all day?

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Okay city, y'all go to google it, Google it right now?
MINDI how all day?

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Okay night.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
I graduated nineteen ninety folk, so that's ninety three, Google
Ita ninety.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Four, Sonet ninety four.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
All day Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Offense and line offensive
line mixty.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
One, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Look at that picture. And when you see that picture,
yeah yeah yeah. I was the only one. I ain't
had no clicks on. I had sneakers on you for me,
that was the boss. And you gotta remember as a
young kid, I'm gonna say I rarely say this, but
I was a fat, overweight young kid, so to play football.
That was the only thing I really wanted to play.
I was too slow for basketball, goddamn it. But I

(20:50):
still I'll shake you one on one.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
No, no, the mike's on now, no reason, why not
on outside of the mice one on not a mice one.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
You can't lie now.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Now we had the conversation, but I'm just yeah, now
I'm gonna take advantage.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
This is right here.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
It's like.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
From bar I can't do that.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
No, no, no, you caps though, So I'm heavyweight. As
a youngster, I couldn't play Optimists. It was weight limits.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yes, I remember that. I remember that.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yeah, So I just sat around my whole life till
I got to high school. Once I got to high school,
I let all that energy out, I let all that
rage out. I was one of them people when I
first got my equipment on that first week. You know
my coach coach phrase, I love you. You know they
had to talk to what. Yeah, you gotta stay focused.

(21:45):
I've been waiting for this my whole life. What you
want me to do my senior year? You know what
I'm saying? Of course I made All City all day.
I did the shot put, I did this. I wrestled.
You know, to be a uh that that to have
the potential to be an all state athlete, you had
to play three different sports. So I did shot put,

(22:05):
I did discus, I did of course football, and I
went and rustled for just a few matches until I lost.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
I learned one move.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
I learned one move, and I said, I'm gonna beat
everybody with the one move. It was the one move
when you come and you put your head against your mind,
and I grabbed it back of your neck, and then
I grabbed the back of your.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Ankle and I flip you. I mastered that right now
for anybody else in the club. Don't let me do
that to you.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
I'll do you dirty. I ain't gonna lie you assume
me bad. But I mastered that hand behind your head.
I grabbed that ankle, I put that weight. I did
that for the first few matches. I just wanted to,
you know, get recognized as an all state athlete.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
You no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Then I wrestled a smaller, younger white kid from down south.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
He folded rose. This is my first time confessing that
history of time.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
He folded, Rose, I'm glad I have to ask you
because I was about to as.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
He did some ship that now he was on this
jake to snake ain man. Wherever yet, boy?

Speaker 1 (23:09):
You know he said, wherever yet?

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Boy?

Speaker 1 (23:11):
You know what's funny, man, My dad shout out to
my pops. My pops used to be a boxer when
he was young. Like nice Bill thought he was athletic.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Man.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
My dad got hit one good time. Yet they ain't never.
They ain't never, boy no more. I think he was
like I think it was like five six oh, and
then he got hit one good time. Yeah, And my
dad never put again.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Ain't wrong, ain't wrong, Ain't nothing wrong, Dad. You just
went in chill, ain't no wrong. Sometimes you gotta.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
So those those is anything that you took from the
or that you can pull it from sports in those
moments right that you can still look at and say,
it's a part of me today.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
It's a part of.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Without a doubt, without a doubt, that brotherhood, that teamwork,
make the dream work. That's still one of my number
one slogans. We can't do it together. Regardless of how
dope my balls is. Still gotta have a producer, make
my beast. I still gotta have my homie that record
the vocals, make some engine them, make sure they sound right,
make sure it's all balanced. To have that expensive sound

(24:10):
that rose. You can't do it alone. You gotta have
the marketing team. You gotta have the photographer. You gotta
have Bob to do the cover. You gotta have everything.
It's just teamwork, make the dream work. And when you
kind of understand that, you respect everybody the same, the
same way, regardless of if I'm the boss. We know
that we ain't talking about that. Now, come on, you

(24:31):
just as valuabley as I am. That's whoever behind the camera,
that's whoever behind the lens, that's whoever. God damn you
feel me. And that's something that I still apply. It
don't matter, it don't matter. It don't matter where I'm at,
what type of paper I'm getting, whatever it is, We're
still a team.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
We still a team. I still refer to us as
the Empire.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
It ain't just me.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
That's something I always did and I never just spoke
on that saying. When I say the Empire, double m
the Impire. It's bigger than me. This opportunity for everybody
to come. You know what I'm saying. When I come
kick it with d Wade, I keep it limited. But
the homies I know that know how to use that
energy you understand and make it valuable them the ones

(25:15):
you bring around and get that opportunity too.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
What do you do now as a leader, because we're
sitting here as leaders, right. You have your team around you, right,
and you gotta know which teammate. We're gonna use sports
terms of basketball, y'all know which teammate can make it
what shot. You gotta put them in positions to be
successful in their strengths. But what do you do in
those moments where you gotta be king? Well, then you

(25:41):
can't use your team. Decision gotta be made. You gotta
take the last sh shoot the ball, and you ain't
gonna say the trigger. I'm gonna pull the trigger. I
could depend on myself.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, I know it. That's why I go so hard.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Anybody look on my social media up, say five in
the morning, I'll be having real cute girls saying I
know you ain't up this early.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
You just went to bed for hours.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Now it's me just up, no alarm, I can't. I
can't help it. Your mind. I love this.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, your mind is.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Weak because.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
I can do all that.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
It's gonna come a time, But right now that ain't
what I want to do. It ain't like I wake
up and say, oh damn, I don't want it.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
Na, let's go.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Let's get to it.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Cut the music on, give me a blunt. Come on, man,
what we're drinking, what we're eating today, Come on, let's
have something. Come on, put me a glass of Luke Butler,
come on, get me my phone, let me get on
the story right now. Morning glory, Morning glory.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
God is great. Let's get right to it.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Get to it.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
And then between me just recording stories and all that,
I'm on the phone with homies, making calls and and
text How can we keep all this shit exciting? Yeah,
because I'm excited. So imagine if you excited, how can
we keep everybody else excited? That's our response. Yeah, let's
keep everybody exciting. Anybody that worked for you, even if
they're working at the piece of spot, if they working

(27:06):
at the wine, if that, whatever it is, we gotta
that's our responsibility to set the tone for them to
understand what the excitement is.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, and so we all have, like we all have
moments in life that you know, kind of snaps us
back into the understanding and that thought. Right, this this
live every day like it's your last type of type
of energy, right. And sometime we as people snatch, we
don't do that, and then we have these moments where
we snap back in. And so over the course of

(27:35):
your your rise, you've had those moments. You've had moments
of health scare, have those moments coming obviously coming back
from those moments, those moments give me even more of
a clear view of them.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
I'm getting up and I'm getting it today. I don't
have tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Man. Rose Done died three different times and came back
to life. My doctor told what it was game over.
I'm telling you I don'et woke up out of three
days later. You know what I'm saying, my mama right there,
I ain't leaving. I ain't leaving. I'm trying to tell you, man,

(28:13):
I Done died three times and came back. Rose Done
had attempts on his life multiple times. They'll tell you,
Rose boy, you crazy still being in the club right now.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
You're crazy to live your life is what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
We gotta live. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Everybody ain't gonna understand the way I move, and that's cool,
but I gotta do what I gotta do, and that's
what we're gonna do.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, you're doing it though. You're doing it.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
One of the things that I hit Bob, but I
wanted to make sure I didn't forget to talk about
it because we are We're dudes, man. You know what
I'm saying, When you were a man, there's certain things
that you like, and we're gonna go with the safe
one to talk about in the podcast is the car collection.
Talk to me about, bro, Like I went in you black, blue, white, red,
I'm talking about fleet twenty thirty forty plus in each fleet. Yeah,

(29:06):
I talked to me whatever had started? Where that came from?
I mean, obviously I understand the love for cars, but like,
where did that come from? You was like, you know what,
I'm about to have the biggest collection man.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Honestly, on twenty seventh Avenue, one eighty third Street, they
there knocked down that original car wash and made it
a wah wah. I was working at that car wash
right there, as a youngster thirteen fourteen years old. You know, dude,
pull up, they leave. You know, we had the flea
market right back there. So the hustles pull up, leave
their cars. Give you a little tip. They walking in

(29:36):
the flea market to go get Bally's whatever clocks, whatever
it is. Yeah, And you know I'm sitting down, I'm
just really daydreaming in their car. I'm just living in
another nigga call durn Yeah, man, that nigga look nigga
call on full da. You know that was a flex
as a young nigga cats anyway, just to have it

(29:58):
full for no reason. Not many niggas did that. You
pull up, you get that cell knowledge you're straight. Yeah,
So it was just as a youngster, I was just like, yo, man,
I love washing cars. I love to see them clean out.
You know, I've been on Washington car and still be
just wiping it down for no reason, but not like
a clean car.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
You feel me.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
I think I think that's where it began at And
I just, you know, kind of told myself. And so
as I start making my rise, I'm traveling everywhere them
in different cities, different places, and damn.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
What y'all doing with this. It's been sitting out there.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
My husband Jimmy said, Man, tell Jimmy, come here right now.
I want them all, you know, And I just that's
how I usually would do it. So the amount of
cars I got, I ain't even sure how many I got.
I got them spread it over eight different states. I
want to say. That's what you know, that's what they
told me, you know. But I would buy five, six

(30:57):
cars at a time, you know what I mean. Because
when they come to old school trucks classics, you may
see one or two you like, but man, you know,
you may be on the yard. Well they got so
many old schools and just say, I want that whole row.
That five, that's six, that's seven. I believe the most
ever bought was eleven cars at one time. OK, for
what I had to, I had to and that was

(31:22):
the homie and I bought that. That was down here
in Miami. It was on I want to say, seventh
Avenue and maybe sixty second. His name, Ted Vernon had
the big lot right off of I ninety five and
what that is seventy ninth and seventh Avenue, Ted Vernon.
I went there and he had so many you know,
he had one hundred and fifty cars on the lot,

(31:43):
and I'm just like, hey man, what we doing. I
bought eleven right then.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Damn I had to. I love with form.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Just let me get that eleven.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
I need them.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
I just want to love it. I just want to
love him.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Park him in the front yard and look at him
walk around it. This is gonna inspire me, This is
gonna motivate me. You know, we all gotta recharge our
battery some way. How you do it, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
I know me yo. I could wake up and just
feel like, yo, man, it's all the beginning once again.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Were not tied.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
We not this high back, not aching, we not did
you feel me?

Speaker 2 (32:21):
We up? Let's go do it? What you doing?

Speaker 3 (32:24):
You know what I'm saying? This art basal. I didn't
have no real personal art. Everywhere I went. It was
just out of love for the little homies who had
pop ups. I just showed up for fifteen minutes to
give them that energy. I'm supporting you, homie. Where you
came from? The homie k I why from up north?
He came down Boom my other homie, Boom Boom, I'm
just showing love, how tolerance, you know, the smoke vibes.

(32:47):
You know, it's just you know, we ain't busy, but
we gonna stay busy. And even if it's not about me,
it could be about you today. It ain't gotta be
about me every day. And that's all I showed the
homies doing the whole all about.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, just your mindset, man. You know, even when it
comes to business, right like you're one of the biggest
you know, entrepreneurs, you know that we have out here,
and just the way that you go hard for your businesses.
And you said this to me also when we were
at your career in Atlanta. Man, you talked about you know,
you get these contracts and they say, hey, we need
four posts, we need you know, they put this in

(33:20):
you like if I'm.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
They want It's a lot of times I do business
there asks for full posts in a month. Wow, that's offensive.
How the fuck were gonna make money doing full posts
in a month. We're gonna do that today, matter of fact,
while we're sitting in the meeting. But show me, send
it to me what we need to post.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
How dare you.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Before much?

Speaker 4 (33:49):
You know?

Speaker 3 (33:49):
And that's that just that dry yep. I wake up
every morning and we rep in the team. You know,
I asked my partners what you got going on?

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Send me?

Speaker 3 (33:59):
So send me something to post for you, because you know,
we live in a time right now where everybody want
to be so cool they won't even rep their homies
because they.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Don't want to.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
I don't want to like it that. I don't want
to post that. I don't even know how that is.
If you my homie, you my homie. I wake up
in the morning, our simple little champagne, I be smoking
a block. I'm not even listening to what you're talking about.
If I come cross, if that thing pop up and
then say, d Wade, I'm liking it. I don't even
give a damn.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
What that was.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
We ain't got time to listen to everything.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
But I know that's my dog. I know that's my homie.
We ain't gotta wake to all that. We ain't gotta look.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
In a prool.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Let me see what he winning today?

Speaker 4 (34:41):
Do I like? You know, it's these type of people
you really deal with.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
It's just man.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
If I'm rocking with you, that's why I'm following you.
If I ain't fuck with you, I ain't following you.
If I come cross it, I'm liking it. I don't
even know if the song was whack. I don't even
know if I ain't like none of that artwork.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
But guess what, I fuck with you?

Speaker 5 (35:01):
So both, y'all, there's some some damage in Miami. This
center sense of just being great. Like but like you
mentioned earlier, and you kind of mentioned like how like
when is Miami? Because I'm from Miami and you talked.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
About a lot of better better, We're crazy, we were crazy,
and we're very proud. We very proud, like of course,
and so like how Rod said, once you accepted, oh
we got you, ain't nobody can fuck with you.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
It's too good to be true.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
Then, So now just say just talk about like this
being from Miami, how different.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Being from Miami.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
For one, you talked to be a boss from when
you small from Yeah, yeah, you talked from the ogs.
And I mean I ain't just saying that to say
that I'm talking from a street perspective. The hustle yay
yo came from where it came from the Miami. First,

(35:57):
this swhere the entrepreneurs left Miami and went everywhere else
to get money. All I heard since I was a
shorty was the stories of when they came, they got sacked,
You took the homies, you wanted to go with you boy,
We're going to Virginia, were going to Carolina, were going
to La. We're Finla, go to Alabama, we finish. And

(36:19):
what happened was they became the bosses. And all I
heard was the stories when they came back. Oh boy,
I got all the money back. Oh boy, some niggas
tried to play with us. We had the yeah, yeah,
we had to. And it was clear what Miami meant
everywhere else. And so that level of aggression when it

(36:42):
came to whatever it was, it was just second or none.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
It still is.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
I go anywhere, we going to club. I don't care
what it is.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
And it ain't no pressure, it ain't no hate, because
that's the one thing about min that's that hustle side.
You will embrace some hustlers. You could be from wherever
you're from and getting money and we don't hate you.
We and that's that thing we got down and here
in Miami it's love. Ain't none of that believe in
one of that fit check in shit. I don't believe

(37:12):
none of that shit. We ain't never did none of
that shit. But what it is is when it's love
is love. If it ain't, it ain't. And if you
come from wherever you as, however successful you is, you
could come down here with twenty bitches, twenty Lamborghins.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
You could go get the beat. We ain't mad at that.
You a hustler, God bless you money.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
You know, I really love the way that the Miami
legends show up for each other, show up for you
like you know my time, you know, Trick, Trina, Uncle Luke,
you know, these legends of the game man, and they
continuously show up. And to watch them together, to watch
all you guys call it you you know my guys
Caught and Dre like all these guys who I look at.

(37:52):
It's like these Miami guys and watch all y'all continue
to be family, continue.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
To show up for each other. And it ain't gonna change.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah, bro, I mean it's incredible and it's not many
places like that.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
It ain't gonna change.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
And if anybody was next to me and said anything
about Trick, I'll slap him down with this half of
meion knowledge, Jacob Ring the Trainer, anybody anything that's that
you can't do that, then we don't allow it.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
That's just how it go. That's the three h five way.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
If we got some issues or something amongst each other,
that's amongst each other. Everybody else mind your fitness, shut
the hell up. But can't nobody else hate on the team,
you know what I'm saying. That's just like, soon as
we get opportunity, let's do something where we're going. We're
going to cooland dre studio.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
That's the fam. We're gonna keep it in the circle.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
So you so you go on record and say you
were a fat boy growing up, you actually have been
on record fat as effects as a fat sex symbol.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
Yeah, a fat sex symbol.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
So that means that from a young age you always
had that.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
You always had that you can spit that game.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
You always had. You always had women at a at
a high level. Because benefit boy, you gotta hide that,
you gotta be you gotta have a confidence. Yeah, you
gotta make sure you real sure you know. So this
sexiness that you got going on now in the world
with Rose is like ladies, man, that's you've been that.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Oh man, I always been a cool dude. You know
what I'm saying. This just bringing out that that that gear.
Just bring it out, you know what I mean. You know,
back then when you get a hair cut every three bus,
it's different then when you fly to barb In. But
most definitely I was always blessed, you know what I'm saying.
Let's say by the time I was in high school.

(39:35):
You know what I'm talking about. My my girlfriend twelfth
grade was one of the baddest. Y'all know what it is.
Y'all know who I'm talking about. Wherever she at, God bless.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
You smooth, I can see a young.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
We used to go to all the little cool restaurants.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
I used to take Shorty the Boston Market and Checkers
was our spot. Chili dog, cheese, the orange French fries,
this facts now, and that same Checkers that I loved
going to with my girlfriend. I went and bought that
same Checkers.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Talk about it.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Yeah, I went and bought that same one. Just because
we the football team will go play at Trashpoce Stadium
Friday night, go back to Karras City, get undressed, and
we'll go right up to the Checkers and all kick
it in the parking lot.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
You know, back then you and the homiees spent six dollars.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
That bag was heavy at Checkers, Wendy's, your ass only
get one combo Checkers.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
That bag was heavy. Them orange French fries will stick
it out on the top of that.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
That bag was greasy.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
That bag.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
We had a good time. So yeah, man, I just
that was just one of my dreams. And it was
a great invest too, you know what I'm saying. But
I just wanted to do it out of love. Yeah,
some things you just got to do out of.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Love your business, you know, acumenists like in our in
our community. You wanted to talk when it comes to
appreciate adversity, appreciate it and how you appreciate you put
your you know, yourself into these businesses. Man, talk about

(41:26):
I mean, you know, we we wrapped bell Air Rose
all day.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
You already know what it is.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
But all the things you in man, and how and
why why do you get a part of these brands?
And how do you take these brands from where they
are when you be a part of to where they
need to go?

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Cause nine times out of ten, if it's something I
want to be a part of. It's something I admire
you you know what I'm saying. And if it's something
I want to be a part of, if I see
the vision, I know it's something I could really bring
value to, meaning helping.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
That's just like yo, I'm good at what I do.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Let me do this.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
You see what I'm saying. That's the way. That's d
Wade wine. Let me see the wine. See a lot
of people wouldn't do this. That's beautiful. Three by way,
shoite en blank? You see that Cee Rose spent that
around shoin in blunk. Should in blunk?

Speaker 4 (42:16):
See?

Speaker 3 (42:16):
I said that three different times. It ain't many people
that say should en blunk back to Bay. So guess
what when everybody in the office said should en blank?
When they see that, they're gonna say, wow, we really
like Jose. And that's what I do with everything I do.
Let's introduce everybody. We can't take nothing for granted. Let's
plug it, let's wrap it, let's have fun, you know

(42:39):
what I mean. So, like I said, if it's something
I want to be a part of, Let's say, for instance,
I don't do no business with Jacob, but I've spent
enough money with Jacob, well, wow, I may want to
do a collab with Jacob. Jacob, I do not spend
ten million with you. You know, it's just one of
those things. We get fly all the time. We were
sneakers every day, so it's like us doing the sneaker
collab was just fun. We did the commercials and are

(43:00):
we just playing with the basketball just it wasn't It
was all love. So imagine when you financially gain and
doing things you truly got love. That's how we need
to feel in that way. You could wake up every
day and rep every brand. It's some people that feel like, man,
I did that last month, I'm gonna chill this some month,

(43:21):
I'm gonna do something else.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
You fucking up. I mean, it's not then it's not authentic.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
Right, even if they consider it authentic against somebody standing
next to somebody like me, it ain't gonna work because
we're gonna rep shin blank every day. And if you're
a part of I'm just letting you know. And it's
and it's that fly. But that's what we gotta do

(43:47):
and we can't be afraid of that. And if you
on the team, you gotta rep every day.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
How is it going through this, this journey you've been
going through, but at the same time, being a dad,
you know what I'm saying, trying to hold up that
higher standard as well.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
How is that?

Speaker 1 (44:00):
You know, as I the same thing here, trying to
be successful in one thing, trying to be the greatest,
but also trying to be a parent.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
That's trying to give that same to your kids, right right.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Right?

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Well, well, me being a father my kids is nothing
that mean more to me than that. And at the
same time, I understand the opportunity we have right now.
That's once again me getting that game from my mom
and my dad giving me that game, and understanding this
is not nothing that's guaranteed a promise to nobody else.
So I want to seize that moment. And this is

(44:33):
really the motivation my kids. So when I say the empire,
that's my low ones, you understand. So the investments I
make is really these are long term investments. Of course
Rose gonna shine, but my big and my major plays,
real estate, so on and so forth. Lord willing the
players for them to take over that and enjoy that.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Do they see that? Can they see that?

Speaker 3 (44:56):
I'm sure I know my daughter and my son. Do
you know what I'm saying, my other you know, my youngest,
you know, they youngster, so they don't know that chet,
but I'm gonna have that in place for them, you
know what I mean. And when it comes to the
mothers of my kids, that's I feel they understand that
and know this is the long term they on my team.
I got they back, they got mine, and it's far lews,

(45:18):
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
The reason I asked that is because you know, just
in our culture, man, just and know I had to
have this kind of realization with my son is you know,
we're taught us, you know, young black men and being
raised we got to go get it.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Don't get our own. You do, and you love that mentality.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
But at the same time, when you have a father
or you have a parent who goes and get it,
and it's not always like, oh I got to go
get my own highbout sometime it's looking inside of what
we what we went and got, what I went and got,
and say, oh, I'm gonna build that out, you know
what I mean. Pops did that for us. Let me
take that, let me take that to another level. Take
that that's what I'm saying. That's what you want, you wants,

(45:53):
what we need.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
That's what my my desires, and I pray that's what
the future owes for my youngs through that. Even sometimes
I's say when you miss you miss a game, you
miss this, you won't be here for that. I feel
that's something that as they mature and they get older,
they will understand that. I get it, because everything won't

(46:15):
be just as you know, easy as it will. You know,
It's just one of those things they'll appreciate the mature,
the older they get, when they begin running businesses, they
begin investing, they understand what the definition of sacrificing is.
That's something that they'll understand, you know, And hopefully you
have things in place. Hopefully I have things in place

(46:35):
where they, you know, they can really appreciate and love it.
You ain't got no stress. I don't want you to
have no pressure. And not just for my daughters, that's
for all my kids. I want you to be able
to really do whatever it is you love to do
because you ain't got no pressure.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
I took that off. You give me that credit.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
I'll hear that. Sometimes you got to hear from other people.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
That's the main wrong with pure Nah. Yeah I took
that off, Cause yeah, I took that off.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
You give me that credit, you know what I'm saying.
And rest in peace with my daddy. But I love
my daddy and you know, and he ain't have to
give me a whole lot. That ain't what make you
you know what I'm saying, just some words of wisdom.
You know, he ain't spent a whole lot of time
with me, but I love him just as much as
if he would have stayed with me every day, you understand.
So that's what's important to me. And that's something I

(47:25):
grew to understand because you as you get older, you
see this shit real and you realize, don't nobody owe
you nothing. You're gonna travel the world. Boy, you meet
a lot of people and god damn, oh boy, Oh
that doesn't make no sense, but oh, this shit real. Yeah,
And as they get older, they gonna meet a lot

(47:46):
of people and realize, oh man, it's different.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
That love was really genuine from.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
All boy, everything that you've done.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
And I know as an athlete, and I didn't come
in thinking this way, but eventually I got to this
place where I wanted it, and they come and thinking
that I want to make the Hall of Fame. But
I got to a point in my career where I
was like, Oh, that's what I want to get to.
I want to get to the Hall of fame. Right,
what about you? As we sit here, it's a hall
of fame. Is that like, yo, Rose, get to the

(48:15):
hall of fame that I'm then I know I'm stamped
this one of.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
The greatest in the rap game, in the rap game,
Rose in the Hall of fame. Say that that's what
out a doubt, that's what out of doubt. And anybody
question that you ain't gonna question Rose. Look at me
in my eyes. You understand they're not even serious. You're
underdig And that's stamped by the streets, which means more

(48:40):
more Yeah, yeah, yeah, that means more to me than
anything else, you know what I'm saying. The Grammys, the
awards and all that. That ship is most definitely cool.
Accolades are always cool. That's always cool.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
That's what the streets, the streets step for you at
its bigger than anything that.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Yeah, that could happen, and that.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
The streets, the streets got rose, the streets while rose
on Star Island. That's why I ain't putting no plaques
up Spot Island. Hang in no plaques the streets on
Star Island.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
That's what that is. Yeah, Yeah, the plaques ain't do that. Yeah. No.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
So as I started off this, you know, I said,
this is the white with Dwayne Wade, and I always
like to end my conversations with that question. Right there,
everything that you've accomplished to this point, and I know you.
I can feel your energy.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
You'r honger.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
It ain't no, you ain't comfortable. You're still homeing. But
going forward from where you are today, you know you're
you're a young man, you're under fifty years old. What
would be your Why? Why are you getting up every
day doing it? Why are you continuing to sacrifice kids? Yeah,
we got over two hundred cars. I got mentioned in shit,

(49:59):
I don't even know how many different places. Yeah, my
ten million dollar mansion in Houston. I stayed in it
maybe four times and then last year. But I do
it because of love, you know what I'm saying. But
the motivation is most definitely the youngsters. Because when I
talk about these things, when I talk about these real

(50:19):
estate investments.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
I've won in all of them. You know what I'm saying,
It's all a plus. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
See, y'll changes when we're young.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
It's about you know, you want to get them cars,
you want to get that money, you want to get
them women, you want to get this recognition.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
But now you said all that shit too easy. Now
let's do something that's gonna make us crazy. Yeah, let's
do something that twenty years from now, it's gonna be
a major thing, you know what I mean. When I
bought the promised land, I paid five point nine million
for it. It was estimated at over thirty million last
time we had it. You know, value that, So that's
a great investment. And once again I remember sitting there

(50:54):
talking to my mom like she's like, will the house
got a damn one hundred.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
And twenty What the hell you gonna do with one
hundred and twenty rooms?

Speaker 3 (51:04):
But I knew, as you know, as long as I
had that conversation with her, and I could convince her
because she got my back regardless. But when she stopped
questioning me and just looking at me and yeah, yeah,
because I don't know, I don't have to answer. Every
time I do something, I may pull up somewhere see
something and it's just I'm following my heart.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
I don't know. I don't know when I bought a
wing stop? What you doing this for?

Speaker 2 (51:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
I just want to take a pretty girl, you know,
in my neon green Lamborghini to get some living pepper wings.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
I just want to go on a date and just
walk in there. Yo, you know what I need?

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Baby?

Speaker 4 (51:46):
And everybody?

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Hey, boss, yeah, you want to live in the ten
P's Act Crispian with the Father's God. That just could
have been a Rose dream man. Shit that turned from
that to over thirty franchises. How do you plan that?

Speaker 2 (52:02):
You don't.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
You just follow on your heart. You buy your first
one and shit work. Let's get another one. It worked,
Let's get three more.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
It worked.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
By the time you on your eighth, you got your
first two. That's making a million dollars a year. Damn,
you only paid three fifty for the franchise and it
made one million in one year. Let's get tim On
right now, we get tim On. Let's get another ten.

(52:36):
That was never the plan. We just kept going and
like I say, once I sit down on my team,
which is my mom and my sister, they gonna be
whatever I'm with. And so once again, those the moves
that I made, that's those for my baby. I got
everything I wanted it. That's just like the last conversation
I had. You know, you know, i'd be hating to

(52:56):
hear that weak shit when girls, what do you get
somebody who had don't even finish that, don't that whack eye,
don't let's go for anybody.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
You got. And guess what, I always hated hearing that bullshit.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
But I ain't gonna lie. Maybe this year, for the
first time, I told everybody, i'mna be honest. Man, I
don't even want nothing. Let's just keep living. Let's stay healthy.
Let's stretch. Yeah, let's just get up out of the
middle of the day. Let's just stretch. Let's just stretch up.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Let's just do life.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
Let's just let's just live life. Throw my damn leg
on the damn counter and just touch my toes for
ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
You don't know, it's like that mentality, right, you know,
when you're growing up and you hear like and it's
been played on movies and all that. But you hear
people say, Man, I'm gonna start to start a family
when I get my stuff straight. Man, I'm gonna try
to do this when I get and keep people keep
for that moment, today, today, giving right now, you got
to live. I don't got no full plan. This is
what Rose dreamed about.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
What I just know one thing. I want to be happy.
Let's be happy. What makes me happy? That's just like
right before I came here. I called my mama before
I came here. Mama wants up. How you feeling, baby?
You're good? Yeah, call me later. We're gonna have a
few laughs that you know what I'm saying. The team
as long as the team good, we hustling. Hold on,

(54:28):
I got one, I got I got one.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
It's the question that legendary poster of you and Brad,
this one right here, that one. Was it rehearsed?

Speaker 4 (54:48):
Was it practiced? And if it was, how did y'all know?

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Y'all was finna do it right then? Because the picture
is just it was a perfect shot.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
I'm talking about. Who want to debate that photo? Who
want to debate it? Any blog? Anybody that's watching this.
If you got a marketing team, put the pictures up
next to them, side by side, whoever y'all, But come on, brothers, like,
come on now, come on, brothers, like somebody go get

(55:24):
me a strawberry d.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Come on, man, dog.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
Just it's just I'm like, oh, so come on, bruh.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
That's just like you know, how tyreak them and the
rest of the duff they get their ship ready for
when they score.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
But how y'all work on that and know that's gonna
happen like that?

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Yeah? That didn't that. That didn't We couldn't work on that.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
That ship was just natural.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
I was just in a moment and so and I'm
gonna tell you the reason I did this. So I'm
back in Milwaukee now. Everybody know I went to school
at Marque University, which is in Milwaukee. We're playing in
the Browley Center. I played all my college games in
the Browley Center as a college kid playing in as
the NBA player, my college jersey is up in the
NBA jersey in arena. So I'm one of the only

(56:12):
players that can go to opposite arena and see my
jersey hanging up because my college jersey is out there.
So this is this is my this is my spot.
I didn't done my damage right right right.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
So for some feel I feel what you feel where
you going at. So I kind of feel it, you know,
to feel you know, Strawberry damy.

Speaker 4 (56:32):
So you know the jersey. I get it.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
I sold you.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
So you get that.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
And then the game starts and they want to start
boring us. I don't get booed here this. I've never
been booed here. It's the first time I ever been
booted here.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
And so when we get that moment, we get on
that break and I see Bron, I hear Bron trucking
them nikes hitting the ground.

Speaker 4 (56:59):
What's that? Shoot?

Speaker 2 (57:01):
He guessed that.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
Swear to god, I just guessed that. So you hit him.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
I hear him coming out.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
So that's how you knew how the time?

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Yeah, so it's all I want.

Speaker 4 (57:11):
You to finish that. But you hear the sixteens coming,
to hear.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
The sixteens coming, I'm thinking in my mind, you know,
I'm like, all right, do I go off the glass
with it? Do I throw the live with it? And
it was a defender right there, So I said, nah,
I'm gonna hit him with this. So when I hit
him with this. I just took that quick look back,
and once I saw that left leg planet, I know
what's next, and so jumping and so he jumping, so
I know he taking off and I'm just like this,

(57:35):
what and what y'all boring us for y'all here to
see us?

Speaker 3 (57:39):
We gave you more than your we I'm gonna be honest,
that's the next video I'm gonna do. I may name
the song Strawberry Dames, what else?

Speaker 4 (57:54):
What else? What else you want from me? He heard
the side sixteens. This is this is the first time
you ever said this.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Yeah, I ain't went in to this detail.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Listen, listen. This is called a viralization moment. That's what
it's called. I can hear the sixteens now I am
we're talking about in a split second. He went through
three or four different options on how he could deliver
the ball. Come on now, He looked back, pulled the

(58:24):
trigger he's seen inside sixteen's lock, took off like the
motherfucking American Airlines, the Holy Ghosts. Guys, we're finna get
ready and wrap up. But before we go, I wouldn't
be rose. He passed me that Luke Belle evadu. Baby,

(58:46):
go on there, yeah, go hold that w you hold that,
you hold level for a second. Come on, we gotta
pronounce that one again. Let's pronounce it right the shinning.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Block, that block right here. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
It's that little yeah, this that shinning blunk. Everybody watching this,
take a screenshot were finnah, give you a.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
Smile, we use you know, give him.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Let's give him a laugh. On the countdown.

Speaker 4 (59:13):
We're finish.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Give y'all the count down, and it's the picture, y'all
post everywhere.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
I'm finished. Spread my arm like this, the strawberry Danish three.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Two one, the strawberry Danish.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
That's the new name.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
Man. That was man, that was legendary. Man.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Thank you for having me here. Bro anytime, man, anytime.

Speaker 4 (59:44):
This for life.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Man, you already know what is for the three or
five for my still Wade County life, Wade County fever.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Man, appreciate the biggest brick cross everybody.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Yeah, too good to be true. It's too good to
be true. Out now on all platforms. Make sure y'all
posting and streaming right now. Ricky Rose Meek Mill one