March 10, 2025 • 23 mins
What does real support look like in a world obsessed with likes and follows? Today, we're diving deep into the true meaning of support and why it matters more than ever.
Support isn't always financial – it's the energy and belief you direct toward others when they need it most. Whether it's sending an encouraging text, sharing someone's content, or simply being present during their darkest moments, authentic support can transform lives. Too often, we withhold our endorsement until someone has "made it," waiting for external validation before offering our own. But those who support you before fame arrives, who believe in your vision when it's still forming – those are the connections worth cherishing.
The contrast between hearing "I told you so" after a failure versus "I believe in you" marks the difference between crushing someone's spirit and planting seeds of resilience. Most creators and dreamers are already their harshest critics, analyzing every detail and questioning their worth. They don't need external voices amplifying their self-doubt; they need allies who see their potential even when they temporarily lose sight of it.
From supporting local businesses to lifting up aspiring artists, each act of encouragement reinforces the interconnected web that allows dreams to flourish. As I prepare to launch a new platform showcasing artists, poets, and content creators, I'm reminded that supporting others isn't just about helping them – it creates a community where everyone can thrive. Because at the end of the day, nobody succeeds entirely alone, and nobody is meant to walk this journey in isolation.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
hey, welcome to motivational monday with your
host, jack.
I'm a little late on thismonday it's raining, but I mean,
let's tell you shit, even alittle rain got done can flood
your plans.
Even a little things can derailyour trains.
(00:24):
But here on motivationalmondays, I'm sorry I'm a little
bit late.
It's like three o'clock in theafternoon.
I know I'm supposed to get thisshit out six o'clock this
morning, but I didn't have themotivation to talk about this
shit.
But I do.
I had to get up.
You know, drink me a little oj,cook me some and, you know, get
the ball rolling.
Support that's what we'retalking about today.
(00:45):
Support how you support thosethat support you.
So people think a lot of timesthat support comes with money.
Support don't come with money.
Support just comes with theenergy that you put towards
helping somebody, and no matterwhat light that they're in, no
matter whether it's like theydown on their luck, they need
(01:07):
help getting to work, or theyjust need encouraging words, or
they just need you to spread tothe masses that this person got
a podcast, or they just need youto like and review or some shit
like that.
Support comes in numerous ways.
Um, I'll tell you a little, alittle story.
Like my homegirl called me thismorning.
I told her the other day,sometimes it's just good to tap
(01:29):
in with those that fought withyou, um, and too many people
under don't understand this likeshe was goddamn freaking about
out about her son playing soccerand I was like what's so?
What's wrong about it?
She said, jack, it's coldoutside.
I said is this what he wants todo?
What did he tell you to get?
(01:50):
He said, mama, I just need somelong sleeves.
So I told her.
I said get him what he wants,just to support him, to show him
that you're behind him andit'll be okay.
He got a mouth.
He can tell you if he don'tfeel good.
So a lot of times you just haveto support those, even if they
want if, even if they're aboutto fail in their aspects, you
(02:13):
don't tell them that they'regoing to fail or that you don't
believe in them.
You let you.
Let you let the shit run itscourse, because it's never a
loss, it's always a lesson, andpeople have failed to realize
that, because a lot of timespeople are so worried about they
want to protect you fromeverything and not let you fail,
but support even in the darkestdays, even in failure.
(02:37):
I don't need a.
I told you so.
I need a.
I believe in you.
Because I believe in you go somuch further than I told you.
So, because a lot of peopledon't fucking understand how
like.
I don't need to hear that Itold you that.
I don't need to hear thatbullshit.
I need to tell you shit.
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I believed in you even thoughit's, even though it didn't work
.
What can we do to fix this?
Or what can we do to make itbetter?
Even though it didn't work?
What can we do to fix this orwhat can we do to make it better
?
And a lot of people don'trealize that Because they're so
used to the social media shitThumbs up, thumbs down, type
shit.
Instead of I believe you, I'mpushing you to become better.
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Don't push the negativenarrative on me, because I'm
already hard on myself.
I don't need anothermotherfucker being hard on me.
Also, I need somebody to grabme by my goddamn arm and say,
hey, you got this.
I believe in you, you're gonna,you're gonna make it through.
And even I I got a couple ofpeople that got down do this to
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me all the fucking time.
Like um, I get text messagesfrom my cousin, monique, up in
dc.
I get like some awesome.
Um, she listened to the latestepisode.
She was fucking with it she did.
She gives me like highcritiques on the shit.
Um, and I want to give a shoutout to monique um, pete mo, is
that what they call her?
(04:00):
Um, so hey, I just want to lety'all know shit.
Hey, if y'all know monique shit, she rocking with me 100 brand
um, even when I first bought thecases and I put them out there,
she told me she ain't asked methe price and nothing.
I told she said she wanted onein a specific color, the pink
one.
Um, and I told her what theprice was, she said oh my god, I
(04:24):
would never pay that much for acase, but just because it's for
you, I'll pay it, just tosupport you.
Then I got another partner Shit, that big V, that's my sir.
Like shit Till the wheels falloff.
No matter what I got going on,no matter what I post, she's
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always heartening and it goes soso, so far.
But a lot of people don't likelike.
They say you all the timepeople won't fuck with you until
the world fucks with you.
But those true, those trulygenuine people will do like
anything to just to see yousucceed, because your dreams
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make you a better name.
It's something that you enjoy.
So don't knock the next man'sdreams or aspirations or
anything.
Support they.
So support their businesses,support their dreams, support
their clans.
Um, like my boy, lamborghiniDrew, um, I want to go get a
haircut from the other day.
Um, and we was just sittingthere talking like we we have on
(05:38):
on um off the line talks and hepicks my brains about certain
things and ask me questionsabout things I've been through,
um, that aren't for typical forthe masses and I give my true,
honest opinion and sometimes welike what we hear, sometimes we
don't like what we hear.
Um, and long story short, hewas asking me about my like the
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fragrances I wear.
I told him, man, I don't, Idon't do fragrances really, I do
oils.
He bought one from me.
Next thing, you know, he wasback the next day to buy some
more.
Next thing, you know, he postedsomething.
Next thing, you know, he gotdown.
He, like he done, had likethree, four folks hit him.
Tell him on some.
Yeah, man, shit, where can I hitsupport.
And I even told him.
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I said, man, I really ain'tpushed to make it into a
full-grown business.
I just mean I gotta selectpeople to ask me for shit and
they enjoy the experience.
They just don't enjoy the ride.
They enjoy the experiencebecause you got to understand
when you take care of yourselfand you feel good about your
fragrance or your oil or thesmell, that you will you're,
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it's a confidence booster.
It's to, it's to it.
We ain't gonna say build yourego, because that shit, like,
like your ego, is already there,but the confidence in it
because if you, if you know yougot a clean cut, you smell nice,
you're going to be moreproductive and a lot of people
fail to realize that.
So support, support those thathave dreams.
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Support those that have dreams,support those that have goals,
support those that have a vision, because the world is already
already out here hard on themand they're already hard on
themselves, so they don't need.
They're gonna need a littlesupport, because even in my
podcast around shit man, a lotof times I look at this shit
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like.
This shit is hard, this shit is.
I don't have the drive to puttowards something and I get a
random text message from someyou got this, I'm waiting on my
next episode.
You slacking To me though those.
That's.
That's somebody applyingpressure to me that cares about
me, because they don't want tosee me fail in this aspect.
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They want to see me grow.
When I tell somebody I'm inschool, how much longer you got
Boy, you got this.
It's that support.
Everything does not have to beabout monetary value or
investing in somebody's dream.
Just telling them you believein them Isn't investment enough.
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And you got to understand that.
Because Investments?
Because those people rememberthat Every time they talk to you
, this motherfucker believed inme.
When I didn't even believe inmyself, they believed in me.
So why not give somebodysomebody that you actually fuck
with a true belief?
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But this is this the catch-22.
Be careful, because sometimesthat support might turn into
jealousy, because they see thatyou getting too big for them and
they don't know how to.
They don't know how to?
Um, honor that and keep thatsame emotion up, because a lot
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of times people turn to jealousybecause they're jealous of what
you have going on or somethingyou have and they're not.
They're not aptitude oraptitude.
What the fuck is aptitude?
Uh, they're not adapt in life.
Um, that means like you, theychange.
They means like they're notadapting to their culture,
(09:19):
they're not adapting to theirlives, they're not transitioning
to something greater.
Um, that's like shit.
I'll go ahead and tell y'all alittle sneak peek of what I got
coming up Artists, poets,content creator, comedians I got
some shit coming To where, likemy videos coming.
(09:40):
That's what one thing thaty'all got to realize.
I got a video coming, so y'allbe on the lookout for that.
But instead of them justsitting down on a couch, they're
going to do a performance andbefore the cameras even like
start rolling, they're going tobe doing a performance of their
music or their tracks, or do arendition, or they're going to
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tell a skit, a little 30 secondskit for y'all, just to get you
to know them.
That's my way of giving back,that's my way of showing them
support.
Because, if y'all haven'trealized, even when I break down
, like certain songs or certainmusic or whatever, whatever,
(10:25):
whatever, or I have a certainguest on there, I put all their
links under the description Ifyou scroll all the way down to
the bottom, to their socialmedias, to their YouTubes,
wherever, wherever they're attheir Apple Music, wherever.
Because that's my way of sayingthank you and I support you,
because there's no telling howmany people have come from my
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podcast just to go fuck withtheir music or fuck with their
emotion or they like somethingthat they hear.
Um, like, I got a couple guysthat sing.
I got a couple guys that doautotune.
I got a couple beat makerscoming.
I got a couple djs coming.
This is this is my way ofsupporting others to give them a
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platform to showcase themselves.
So support comes in manydifferent fashions.
It's not just a one way street,it's a.
I say two ways because that'slike my boy, landon Beginner
Drew.
He asked me the other day wouldI ever get back into shooting
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movies and shooting videos?
I told him I don't know,because that train has sailed
for me, because I don't.
I didn't receive the samesupport for me doing the work
and me putting all the effortinto it.
So it was.
It was like they posted one timethey don't share it.
(11:50):
They don't because it takes alot of work and a lot of brain
power to to organize thesevideos and to come up with plans
, to come up with uh, screentreatments.
It's.
It's a lot of work, but when Ijust do a running gun and you
just want a hold of a pistol andthis, that and the third, and
then you only share it one timeand think it's supposed to go to
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a million views.
That's not the way.
That's not the way the worldworks, sonny boy, you have to
push.
That's why I continue workingwith one artist.
There's only one artist rightnow that, well, two, I get two,
that I would actually pick mycamera up back up for, um, well,
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I take that back.
Three, three, um, because justbecause you want to shoot a
video, I don't like justshooting music videos.
I like.
I like going back to the early90s type vibe, the rap city, the
basement type vibes, to whereyou want a story behind it and
not just a video.
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Just because you just say youshot a video, it has to be a
process behind it.
I'm sorry, I had to take adrink, y'all got a little
thirsty, but it's.
It's a process behind it,because I want somebody to tell
a story with their music.
It's a process behind it,because I want somebody to tell
a story with their music, notjust, oh, I can do it, just
because I want to do it, and I'msorry, that's small minded, but
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it's how it.
Like somebody told me one time,but they still would.
You still get paid for it.
It don't matter.
I see your shit bigger than whatyou see.
I see a movie aspect to it.
I see a movie aspect to it.
I see a groundbreaking aspectto it, to where you're exposing
yourself to the masses.
You just don't want to be.
No, um, one pony show andthat's the way it goes.
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Um, and and it's hard to wrapyour heads around it, because
it's like I want you to sitthere and we're like man, this,
this shit, is a movie, it's notjust a scene, it's not just a
video.
Bro, this shit a movie.
This shit got meat to it.
It got meat and potatoes to it.
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It got character development,it got this, that.
And a third, because a lot ofmovies, when we watch them, like
I tell y'all one of my favoritevideos of all time, that's dmx,
heights going down and the wayyou look at that video.
He's telling you the good, thebad and the ugly, and you don't
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get it until you open your eyesto the shit.
That's like Biggie Pac, that'slike when Brenda's got a baby.
He's painting a picture for you.
So you ain't even got to gonowhere else and look for it.
That's what I enjoyed aboutvideos from the 90s and 2000s,
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because they told a story, theytold an aspect of it, they told
every rendition that you could.
It's like you didn't have tosit there and guess what they
were talking about.
You actually saw it they.
They drew this picture for you,they drew this masterpiece for
you.
It don't matter if it came fromthe director, it don't matter
if it came from the artist.
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You got the idea and you gotthe gist.
That's like um, like it's.
It's just a feel that you usedto get off that shit.
But it also came with adifferent type of support that
we don't have nowadays.
Like you don't have an mtv jamsanymore, you don't have a rap
city in their basement, youdon't have a 106 in park, you
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don't.
You no longer have that supportaspect.
Only thing we have now isyoutube, youtube and other video
streaming apps to where we cango and watch these people's
videos, because we can't turn on, uh, the tv at four o'clock and
you see rap city, the basementwith big tigger.
You can't see.
You got down 106 and park withaj and free.
You can't see yo mtv raps.
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You can't see trl, you can'tsee these different shows that
were out there to where we.
That's the way we got exposureto it and that's the way we show
our support, because we used togot knowing, like I show y'all,
tell y'all, look like this.
We used to hear music, we usedto hear songs that we fought
with extra hard.
You put that shit on yourvoicemail, hey, man.
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Yeah, you know the vibe, youknow the tunes, blah, blah.
And you hear this song comingin you talking over it.
Hey, leave your voice at thebeat, beep and and that's the
way you that you show the lovefor that song.
But do we, do we support eachother's dreams and passions like
that?
Like your local artists, yourlocal podcasters in the area
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that you live in?
How many people actuallysupport those?
Until the world supports them?
Like your local, some of yourlocal people around you will
talk shit about you and talk andlike shit.
Man, I don't fuck with God.
Man, that shit wackacking forthat shit lame before.
But as soon as you see theworld fucking with it, so you
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see the masses fucking with it,that's when you want to show
your support.
Man, that's some shit, that'ssome fake shit, but I guess
that's what that like it's.
It's.
It's so mind blowing to whereyou realize, like if I poke
something on social media, I get13 likes, and most of those
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likes come from people thatdon't even know me.
I see people share my shit.
They don't even know me.
I show people, see peoplethat's doing renditions of me.
They don't even know me Beforemy own people do, before my own
family does.
And what does that show you?
Does your family really supportyou?
Or do they really support youwhen you get that bag?
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Because they're going to comewith their hands out?
Support me now, when I'm broke,versus when I hit the big time,
because the only thing I woulddo is, god damn, show you how to
get your bag.
Also, because, like man, shit,this shit harder than y'all
think.
It is the whole aspect I'msaying.
I'm talking about the countlesshours of learning, the
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countless hours of research.
What am I doing to make myselfbetter, to make my, to make
myself grow to where I'm sittingdown watching an hour-long
video how to, how to be better,a better podcaster, how to be a
better father, how to be abetter, better parent, how to be
a better spouse and people failto realize that because you got
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to understand, like a lot oftimes that we see, we see so
much negative shit in our livesis where we can't go past, like
the front door of our house.
It's like why would I gooutside these doors if
everything's negative?
Until you get that one phonecall saying, bro, I listen to
your shit, I'm proud of you, Ineeded to hear that shit.
So lift your fucking head up,go to that fucking job, do what
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you gotta do, because guess what, scared money don't make money,
and so, and remember, slowmotion is better than no motion.
Because a lot of people fail torealize that on this road to
riches, where we're alwaysstruggling to get up that dirt
mound and we keep sliding backbecause we we get bad footing,
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we lose our grip, we don't, wewere unmotivated.
So sometimes it takes thingsoutside of us, outside of that
one person, outside of ourselves, to help lift us up.
Because, like I say, I saymultiple times in the world and
a lot of people know this, butthey won't help.
The individual that's makingall the content is your, is your
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biggest critique, or yourbiggest critic, because we're
hard on ourselves and we feellike we can do so much better,
we can grow so much more.
And it's like we were having adiscussion the other day about
somebody supporting somebody'smusic.
I was like, ok, shit, did youdo this, did you do this, did
you do that?
Did you share?
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Did you shoot a video for it?
Well, I gotta have this, Igotta have it.
I understand that, but where isthe drive behind the support?
Because you, the support ain'tgonna come from nowhere, the
drive ain't gonna come fromnowhere.
So a lot of things that we doin life are not just in the
midst of nowhere, we're in themidst of growth and supporting
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each other.
Because you got to look at thedifferent ethnic backgrounds and
the way certain shit works andcertain shit moves.
We gotta we gotta change thatstigmatism to say we don't
support our own.
Because in the military we'retaught this one valuable phrase
we, um, we take care of our own.
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And that aspect is like we takecare of our brothers.
No matter what branch you comefrom, no matter what struggle
you come from, you are are mybrother, because I've been in so
many instances where peoplewill see color and think, oh
shit, they don't look alike,they ain't brothers.
Nah, brother, that's my brother, because we've gone through the
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same shit.
We've sat down, shared a beeror two together and that goes so
much further than what y'allthink it goes.
Because a lot of people don'trealize that.
Because just because I say you,my brother's shit, through the
trials and tribulations like youmight, even got down like my
homegirl got a new car, shewrecked her shit and total her
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shit out.
So she was out without a carand she was saying people were
going out of their way just tomake sure she got to work, like
driving 30, 45 minutes out oftheir way just to make sure she
got there.
That's somebody saying theysupport you, that you didn't
know that you had a support fromSupport.
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People fail to realize how much,how much individuals in this
world need support from eachother, because without one
another we're just alone andnobody is built here to be alone
.
I know I'm talking in circles.
I'm talking in circles.
I'm talking in circles.
I'm sorry.
I just want to let y'allunderstand that without your
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support, everybody is nothing.
Everybody is individuals.
Stop supporting biggerbusinesses and support your mom
and pops.
Support these guys doingindividual lawn cares.
That's like the little man thatcame to my front door asking me
for 70 to cut my grass.
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I didn't give a damn what hewas going to do with the money.
I supported him because he hada dream and he had put a vision
to work.
Because you, without me havingfaith in him, or yeah, you might
make a little bump here, mumpthere, but guess what?
I still support you and I'masking Are you going to come
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back in two weeks?
I got you you come back in twoweeks.
That's to show him that thathis services are needed and that
I support his dream Becausehe's giving me a service that I
need Because if I'm not, my HOAwill be on my ass.
But we all need support.
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That's all I got to tell you.
But thank y'all for joining meon this late afternoon.
Motivational Monday I'm Jackand I'm out.
Peace.
hey, welcome to motivational monday with your
host, jack.
I'm a little late on thismonday it's raining, but I mean,
let's tell you shit, even alittle rain got done can flood
your plans.
Even a little things can derailyour trains.
(00:24):
But here on motivationalmondays, I'm sorry I'm a little
bit late.
It's like three o'clock in theafternoon.
I know I'm supposed to get thisshit out six o'clock this
morning, but I didn't have themotivation to talk about this
shit.
But I do.
I had to get up.
You know, drink me a little oj,cook me some and, you know, get
the ball rolling.
Support that's what we'retalking about today.
(00:45):
Support how you support thosethat support you.
So people think a lot of timesthat support comes with money.
Support don't come with money.
Support just comes with theenergy that you put towards
helping somebody, and no matterwhat light that they're in, no
matter whether it's like theydown on their luck, they need
(01:07):
help getting to work, or theyjust need encouraging words, or
they just need you to spread tothe masses that this person got
a podcast, or they just need youto like and review or some shit
like that.
Support comes in numerous ways.
Um, I'll tell you a little, alittle story.
Like my homegirl called me thismorning.
I told her the other day,sometimes it's just good to tap
(01:29):
in with those that fought withyou, um, and too many people
under don't understand this likeshe was goddamn freaking about
out about her son playing soccerand I was like what's so?
What's wrong about it?
She said, jack, it's coldoutside.
I said is this what he wants todo?
What did he tell you to get?
(01:50):
He said, mama, I just need somelong sleeves.
So I told her.
I said get him what he wants,just to support him, to show him
that you're behind him andit'll be okay.
He got a mouth.
He can tell you if he don'tfeel good.
So a lot of times you just haveto support those, even if they
want if, even if they're aboutto fail in their aspects, you
(02:13):
don't tell them that they'regoing to fail or that you don't
believe in them.
You let you.
Let you let the shit run itscourse, because it's never a
loss, it's always a lesson, andpeople have failed to realize
that, because a lot of timespeople are so worried about they
want to protect you fromeverything and not let you fail,
but support even in the darkestdays, even in failure.
(02:37):
I don't need a.
I told you so.
I need a.
I believe in you.
Because I believe in you go somuch further than I told you.
So, because a lot of peopledon't fucking understand how
like.
I don't need to hear that Itold you that.
I don't need to hear thatbullshit.
I need to tell you shit.
(02:57):
I believed in you even thoughit's, even though it didn't work
.
What can we do to fix this?
Or what can we do to make itbetter?
Even though it didn't work?
What can we do to fix this orwhat can we do to make it better
?
And a lot of people don'trealize that Because they're so
used to the social media shitThumbs up, thumbs down, type
shit.
Instead of I believe you, I'mpushing you to become better.
(03:19):
Don't push the negativenarrative on me, because I'm
already hard on myself.
I don't need anothermotherfucker being hard on me.
Also, I need somebody to grabme by my goddamn arm and say,
hey, you got this.
I believe in you, you're gonna,you're gonna make it through.
And even I I got a couple ofpeople that got down do this to
(03:40):
me all the fucking time.
Like um, I get text messagesfrom my cousin, monique, up in
dc.
I get like some awesome.
Um, she listened to the latestepisode.
She was fucking with it she did.
She gives me like highcritiques on the shit.
Um, and I want to give a shoutout to monique um, pete mo, is
that what they call her?
(04:00):
Um, so hey, I just want to lety'all know shit.
Hey, if y'all know monique shit, she rocking with me 100 brand
um, even when I first bought thecases and I put them out there,
she told me she ain't asked methe price and nothing.
I told she said she wanted onein a specific color, the pink
one.
Um, and I told her what theprice was, she said oh my god, I
(04:24):
would never pay that much for acase, but just because it's for
you, I'll pay it, just tosupport you.
Then I got another partner Shit, that big V, that's my sir.
Like shit Till the wheels falloff.
No matter what I got going on,no matter what I post, she's
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always heartening and it goes soso, so far.
But a lot of people don't likelike.
They say you all the timepeople won't fuck with you until
the world fucks with you.
But those true, those trulygenuine people will do like
anything to just to see yousucceed, because your dreams
(05:14):
make you a better name.
It's something that you enjoy.
So don't knock the next man'sdreams or aspirations or
anything.
Support they.
So support their businesses,support their dreams, support
their clans.
Um, like my boy, lamborghiniDrew, um, I want to go get a
haircut from the other day.
Um, and we was just sittingthere talking like we we have on
(05:38):
on um off the line talks and hepicks my brains about certain
things and ask me questionsabout things I've been through,
um, that aren't for typical forthe masses and I give my true,
honest opinion and sometimes welike what we hear, sometimes we
don't like what we hear.
Um, and long story short, hewas asking me about my like the
(06:01):
fragrances I wear.
I told him, man, I don't, Idon't do fragrances really, I do
oils.
He bought one from me.
Next thing, you know, he wasback the next day to buy some
more.
Next thing, you know, he postedsomething.
Next thing, you know, he gotdown.
He, like he done, had likethree, four folks hit him.
Tell him on some.
Yeah, man, shit, where can I hitsupport.
And I even told him.
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I said, man, I really ain'tpushed to make it into a
full-grown business.
I just mean I gotta selectpeople to ask me for shit and
they enjoy the experience.
They just don't enjoy the ride.
They enjoy the experiencebecause you got to understand
when you take care of yourselfand you feel good about your
fragrance or your oil or thesmell, that you will you're,
(06:45):
it's a confidence booster.
It's to, it's to it.
We ain't gonna say build yourego, because that shit, like,
like your ego, is already there,but the confidence in it
because if you, if you know yougot a clean cut, you smell nice,
you're going to be moreproductive and a lot of people
fail to realize that.
So support, support those thathave dreams.
(07:08):
Support those that have dreams,support those that have goals,
support those that have a vision, because the world is already
already out here hard on themand they're already hard on
themselves, so they don't need.
They're gonna need a littlesupport, because even in my
podcast around shit man, a lotof times I look at this shit
(07:30):
like.
This shit is hard, this shit is.
I don't have the drive to puttowards something and I get a
random text message from someyou got this, I'm waiting on my
next episode.
You slacking To me though those.
That's.
That's somebody applyingpressure to me that cares about
me, because they don't want tosee me fail in this aspect.
(07:52):
They want to see me grow.
When I tell somebody I'm inschool, how much longer you got
Boy, you got this.
It's that support.
Everything does not have to beabout monetary value or
investing in somebody's dream.
Just telling them you believein them Isn't investment enough.
(08:13):
And you got to understand that.
Because Investments?
Because those people rememberthat Every time they talk to you
, this motherfucker believed inme.
When I didn't even believe inmyself, they believed in me.
So why not give somebodysomebody that you actually fuck
with a true belief?
(08:33):
But this is this the catch-22.
Be careful, because sometimesthat support might turn into
jealousy, because they see thatyou getting too big for them and
they don't know how to.
They don't know how to?
Um, honor that and keep thatsame emotion up, because a lot
(08:57):
of times people turn to jealousybecause they're jealous of what
you have going on or somethingyou have and they're not.
They're not aptitude oraptitude.
What the fuck is aptitude?
Uh, they're not adapt in life.
Um, that means like you, theychange.
They means like they're notadapting to their culture,
(09:19):
they're not adapting to theirlives, they're not transitioning
to something greater.
Um, that's like shit.
I'll go ahead and tell y'all alittle sneak peek of what I got
coming up Artists, poets,content creator, comedians I got
some shit coming To where, likemy videos coming.
(09:40):
That's what one thing thaty'all got to realize.
I got a video coming, so y'allbe on the lookout for that.
But instead of them justsitting down on a couch, they're
going to do a performance andbefore the cameras even like
start rolling, they're going tobe doing a performance of their
music or their tracks, or do arendition, or they're going to
(10:05):
tell a skit, a little 30 secondskit for y'all, just to get you
to know them.
That's my way of giving back,that's my way of showing them
support.
Because, if y'all haven'trealized, even when I break down
, like certain songs or certainmusic or whatever, whatever,
(10:25):
whatever, or I have a certainguest on there, I put all their
links under the description Ifyou scroll all the way down to
the bottom, to their socialmedias, to their YouTubes,
wherever, wherever they're attheir Apple Music, wherever.
Because that's my way of sayingthank you and I support you,
because there's no telling howmany people have come from my
(10:46):
podcast just to go fuck withtheir music or fuck with their
emotion or they like somethingthat they hear.
Um, like, I got a couple guysthat sing.
I got a couple guys that doautotune.
I got a couple beat makerscoming.
I got a couple djs coming.
This is this is my way ofsupporting others to give them a
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platform to showcase themselves.
So support comes in manydifferent fashions.
It's not just a one way street,it's a.
I say two ways because that'slike my boy, landon Beginner
Drew.
He asked me the other day wouldI ever get back into shooting
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movies and shooting videos?
I told him I don't know,because that train has sailed
for me, because I don't.
I didn't receive the samesupport for me doing the work
and me putting all the effortinto it.
So it was.
It was like they posted one timethey don't share it.
(11:50):
They don't because it takes alot of work and a lot of brain
power to to organize thesevideos and to come up with plans
, to come up with uh, screentreatments.
It's.
It's a lot of work, but when Ijust do a running gun and you
just want a hold of a pistol andthis, that and the third, and
then you only share it one timeand think it's supposed to go to
(12:11):
a million views.
That's not the way.
That's not the way the worldworks, sonny boy, you have to
push.
That's why I continue workingwith one artist.
There's only one artist rightnow that, well, two, I get two,
that I would actually pick mycamera up back up for, um, well,
(12:31):
I take that back.
Three, three, um, because justbecause you want to shoot a
video, I don't like justshooting music videos.
I like.
I like going back to the early90s type vibe, the rap city, the
basement type vibes, to whereyou want a story behind it and
not just a video.
(12:53):
Just because you just say youshot a video, it has to be a
process behind it.
I'm sorry, I had to take adrink, y'all got a little
thirsty, but it's.
It's a process behind it,because I want somebody to tell
a story with their music.
It's a process behind it,because I want somebody to tell
a story with their music, notjust, oh, I can do it, just
because I want to do it, and I'msorry, that's small minded, but
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it's how it.
Like somebody told me one time,but they still would.
You still get paid for it.
It don't matter.
I see your shit bigger than whatyou see.
I see a movie aspect to it.
I see a movie aspect to it.
I see a groundbreaking aspectto it, to where you're exposing
yourself to the masses.
You just don't want to be.
No, um, one pony show andthat's the way it goes.
(13:41):
Um, and and it's hard to wrapyour heads around it, because
it's like I want you to sitthere and we're like man, this,
this shit, is a movie, it's notjust a scene, it's not just a
video.
Bro, this shit a movie.
This shit got meat to it.
It got meat and potatoes to it.
(14:01):
It got character development,it got this, that.
And a third, because a lot ofmovies, when we watch them, like
I tell y'all one of my favoritevideos of all time, that's dmx,
heights going down and the wayyou look at that video.
He's telling you the good, thebad and the ugly, and you don't
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get it until you open your eyesto the shit.
That's like Biggie Pac, that'slike when Brenda's got a baby.
He's painting a picture for you.
So you ain't even got to gonowhere else and look for it.
That's what I enjoyed aboutvideos from the 90s and 2000s,
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because they told a story, theytold an aspect of it, they told
every rendition that you could.
It's like you didn't have tosit there and guess what they
were talking about.
You actually saw it they.
They drew this picture for you,they drew this masterpiece for
you.
It don't matter if it came fromthe director, it don't matter
if it came from the artist.
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You got the idea and you gotthe gist.
That's like um, like it's.
It's just a feel that you usedto get off that shit.
But it also came with adifferent type of support that
we don't have nowadays.
Like you don't have an mtv jamsanymore, you don't have a rap
city in their basement, youdon't have a 106 in park, you
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don't.
You no longer have that supportaspect.
Only thing we have now isyoutube, youtube and other video
streaming apps to where we cango and watch these people's
videos, because we can't turn on, uh, the tv at four o'clock and
you see rap city, the basementwith big tigger.
You can't see.
You got down 106 and park withaj and free.
You can't see yo mtv raps.
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You can't see trl, you can'tsee these different shows that
were out there to where we.
That's the way we got exposureto it and that's the way we show
our support, because we used togot knowing, like I show y'all,
tell y'all, look like this.
We used to hear music, we usedto hear songs that we fought
with extra hard.
You put that shit on yourvoicemail, hey, man.
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Yeah, you know the vibe, youknow the tunes, blah, blah.
And you hear this song comingin you talking over it.
Hey, leave your voice at thebeat, beep and and that's the
way you that you show the lovefor that song.
But do we, do we support eachother's dreams and passions like
that?
Like your local artists, yourlocal podcasters in the area
(16:28):
that you live in?
How many people actuallysupport those?
Until the world supports them?
Like your local, some of yourlocal people around you will
talk shit about you and talk andlike shit.
Man, I don't fuck with God.
Man, that shit wackacking forthat shit lame before.
But as soon as you see theworld fucking with it, so you
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see the masses fucking with it,that's when you want to show
your support.
Man, that's some shit, that'ssome fake shit, but I guess
that's what that like it's.
It's.
It's so mind blowing to whereyou realize, like if I poke
something on social media, I get13 likes, and most of those
(17:12):
likes come from people thatdon't even know me.
I see people share my shit.
They don't even know me.
I show people, see peoplethat's doing renditions of me.
They don't even know me Beforemy own people do, before my own
family does.
And what does that show you?
Does your family really supportyou?
Or do they really support youwhen you get that bag?
(17:34):
Because they're going to comewith their hands out?
Support me now, when I'm broke,versus when I hit the big time,
because the only thing I woulddo is, god damn, show you how to
get your bag.
Also, because, like man, shit,this shit harder than y'all
think.
It is the whole aspect I'msaying.
I'm talking about the countlesshours of learning, the
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countless hours of research.
What am I doing to make myselfbetter, to make my, to make
myself grow to where I'm sittingdown watching an hour-long
video how to, how to be better,a better podcaster, how to be a
better father, how to be abetter, better parent, how to be
a better spouse and people failto realize that because you got
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to understand, like a lot oftimes that we see, we see so
much negative shit in our livesis where we can't go past, like
the front door of our house.
It's like why would I gooutside these doors if
everything's negative?
Until you get that one phonecall saying, bro, I listen to
your shit, I'm proud of you, Ineeded to hear that shit.
So lift your fucking head up,go to that fucking job, do what
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you gotta do, because guess what, scared money don't make money,
and so, and remember, slowmotion is better than no motion.
Because a lot of people fail torealize that on this road to
riches, where we're alwaysstruggling to get up that dirt
mound and we keep sliding backbecause we we get bad footing,
(19:01):
we lose our grip, we don't, wewere unmotivated.
So sometimes it takes thingsoutside of us, outside of that
one person, outside of ourselves, to help lift us up.
Because, like I say, I saymultiple times in the world and
a lot of people know this, butthey won't help.
The individual that's makingall the content is your, is your
(19:28):
biggest critique, or yourbiggest critic, because we're
hard on ourselves and we feellike we can do so much better,
we can grow so much more.
And it's like we were having adiscussion the other day about
somebody supporting somebody'smusic.
I was like, ok, shit, did youdo this, did you do this, did
you do that?
Did you share?
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Did you shoot a video for it?
Well, I gotta have this, Igotta have it.
I understand that, but where isthe drive behind the support?
Because you, the support ain'tgonna come from nowhere, the
drive ain't gonna come fromnowhere.
So a lot of things that we doin life are not just in the
midst of nowhere, we're in themidst of growth and supporting
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each other.
Because you got to look at thedifferent ethnic backgrounds and
the way certain shit works andcertain shit moves.
We gotta we gotta change thatstigmatism to say we don't
support our own.
Because in the military we'retaught this one valuable phrase
we, um, we take care of our own.
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And that aspect is like we takecare of our brothers.
No matter what branch you comefrom, no matter what struggle
you come from, you are are mybrother, because I've been in so
many instances where peoplewill see color and think, oh
shit, they don't look alike,they ain't brothers.
Nah, brother, that's my brother, because we've gone through the
(20:57):
same shit.
We've sat down, shared a beeror two together and that goes so
much further than what y'allthink it goes.
Because a lot of people don'trealize that.
Because just because I say you,my brother's shit, through the
trials and tribulations like youmight, even got down like my
homegirl got a new car, shewrecked her shit and total her
(21:20):
shit out.
So she was out without a carand she was saying people were
going out of their way just tomake sure she got to work, like
driving 30, 45 minutes out oftheir way just to make sure she
got there.
That's somebody saying theysupport you, that you didn't
know that you had a support fromSupport.
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People fail to realize how much,how much individuals in this
world need support from eachother, because without one
another we're just alone andnobody is built here to be alone
.
I know I'm talking in circles.
I'm talking in circles.
I'm talking in circles.
I'm sorry.
I just want to let y'allunderstand that without your
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support, everybody is nothing.
Everybody is individuals.
Stop supporting biggerbusinesses and support your mom
and pops.
Support these guys doingindividual lawn cares.
That's like the little man thatcame to my front door asking me
for 70 to cut my grass.
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I didn't give a damn what hewas going to do with the money.
I supported him because he hada dream and he had put a vision
to work.
Because you, without me havingfaith in him, or yeah, you might
make a little bump here, mumpthere, but guess what?
I still support you and I'masking Are you going to come
(22:49):
back in two weeks?
I got you you come back in twoweeks.
That's to show him that thathis services are needed and that
I support his dream Becausehe's giving me a service that I
need Because if I'm not, my HOAwill be on my ass.
But we all need support.
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That's all I got to tell you.
But thank y'all for joining meon this late afternoon.
Motivational Monday I'm Jackand I'm out.
Peace.
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