October 5, 2024 • 20 mins
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Returning to the mic after nearly a year, we invite you to join us on a journey of reconnection and gratitude. Ever wonder what keeps the fire burning when life's demands pull you away from your passions? We reflect on how the past months have shaped us, offering sincere apologies for our absence and immense thanks for your patience. Together, we explore the undeniable healing power of faith and perseverance, while staying true to delivering truths with sincerity, and yes, even a little tough love.
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Thee Highest Chief Ali (00:13):
We back, we on, really, yeah, yeah, yeah
, man, back at it.
Man, I missed you, bro, Imissed you bro, I missed you, I
missed this.
It's been a long time.
It's been a good way I want tosay six, but I feel like it's
been more.
Man, six months, half a year,it's been about a year For us,
(00:33):
for us, for us, for us, for us,it's been about a year.
Nah, it's been about a year.
Freedom Speakers, we gonna needy'all to take some notes or some
tallies or something it's beenabout.
When was the last time thatChief Ali and Laylo the most got
together for an episode?
You know what comment?
(00:55):
Let us know something, man,john B.
Hey, freedom Speakers, we ain'tforgot about y'all man, and I
speak for both of us when I saywe sorry From the heart.
We sorry because we love y'allman, and we know we got a lot of
support from people out there.
Folks been asking us hey, what'sgoing on with the pod?
(01:16):
How's it going?
What's happening?
Hey, man, you know life been,life been, lifin' Lifestar, lif,
life and work get in the way.
You know what I mean the thingsthat we want to do, and
sometimes you don't get to dowhat you want to do.
You know what I mean, and Inever want to put permission to
speak freely on the back burner,for sure, for sure, for sure.
Like I'm excited, man youprobably can't tell because I've
(01:38):
got other shit going on but I'mexcited, man, to get this, you
know.
Get this therapy off, man, getthis.
Uh, you know, because that'swhat it is at the end of the day
, that's what we talk about, man, is it's therapeutic, not just
for us but for the people wholisten to it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, it's, um, it's heavy to be able to, to
(01:59):
vent.
Yeah, you know, I'm saying, alot of times you, sometimes
people use, they will say, a lotof times people use, use their
platforms to be negative to oneanother, for sure, to try to be
discriminatory to one anotherand be, you know, just ill if
you will.
And we can do that too, youknow sometimes, you know,
sometimes it come down to it,you know, because we speak
(02:20):
freely here.
Yeah, sometimes it's the toughlove, tough, tough, tough, tough
love, and sometimes that lessondoes most definitely have to be
brutal, but in most cases, man,it's really just, you know,
been with some of the ones thatyou do got to break, but we try
not to bash.
But we look most definitelytrue, to be real, not cutting no
corners.
Being very unapologetic in ourtruth don't mean you gotta just
(02:41):
like smear the shit, right, butyou gotta sure you gotta deliver
it.
That's a fact, man.
Sometimes, you know, sometimesit just got to come out the way
it come out, man, but how you,how you been bro, how you been,
since it's almost been a year,which is crazy to me.
Time fly, yeah.
(03:02):
Well, I'll say this man, answerone question at a time.
Man, I've been, uh, I've beenblessed to be alive, I've been
doing well, um, so I'm thankfulfor that.
God has most definitelymotherfucking, covered me, bro,
like God continuously to show so.
So, move shit for me, man.
So I'm very thankful for that.
Most definitely, man, thank youfor asking that.
(03:22):
Um.
At the same time, man, uh, overthe last, just say, year, um,
over the last 90 days, for thelast quarter, I'll say, I mean,
a lot has been revealing.
Uh, been asking god mostdefinitely like, show me things
that are just solely for me.
Um, give me the strength to uh,carry on and move on with
(03:42):
certain things and put myselfand my family in a really good
position, man.
But I know dominating like thatdoesn't come without battles,
man.
You kind of make some enemiessometimes when you just kind of
boss hogging for a second.
You know that happens, man, andI feel like that kind of came
my way.
But I've been preparing,conditioning for what, just been
(04:04):
getting myself ready Like, okay, some moves I gotta make.
That uh transpires across myentire life, man, not just who I
am at work or I'm at home orjust in the world, but it's it's
just like with everything, man.
So the last 90 days been veryrevealing, but I feel like the
our last episode kind of was oneof them.
(04:24):
Like it wasn't a farewell inthere but you could tell like,
hey, man, is this, this is aboutto get real.
Man.
I was watching movies with uh,with kj and nessa in the house,
and one of the movies we waswatching was, uh, bad boy.
So we watched bad boys fourfirst.
We watched Bad Boys 4 first.
(04:45):
We watched Bad Boys 4 first,and KJ was like he wasn't
familiar with like the Bad Boyssaga, yeah, like saga at this
point.
So some of the things that theythat Freedom Speakers, if you a
fan of Bad Boys, will Smith,martin Lawrence shout out to
them.
Shout out to fan of Bad BoysWill Smith.
Martin Lawrence shout out tothem.
(05:05):
Shout out to the whole Bad Boysfranchise.
If you know, there's certainthings inside of each of the
movies that they have.
It's like the cinematic thingthat's their symbol.
Yeah, such as that turnaroundkind of little look and they be
looking exhausted as fuck Withthe Miami in the background.
Yeah, so that they got the fastcars kind of thing that you
(05:26):
know Mike Lowry, known fordriving fast.
And then they got the my man'swith the Skittles.
So seeing in Bad Boys 4, willSmith get on Martin about the
Skittles when he was at the gasstation that made me take it
back to the first one with KJ.
(05:46):
And they like I blow you.
Then I blow you.
Like how can he put on?
Blow me what?
Like I kill before I kill again.
Yeah, man.
So it took him back to thereand was like you freeze bitch,
no, you freeze bitch, he's likeshit.
Like back up, put the gun down,give me a pack of tropical
(06:09):
fruit, bubble-icious and someSkittles.
So KD was like he still likesSkittles.
He still likes Skittles.
He caught that man.
But it was that connection.
It was like man.
Let me bring this nostalgicmoment to my child.
We binge-watched the whole BadBoys saga, like eight and a half
(06:32):
hours, yeah, and he a numbersperson too.
He was like the first one waslike 92 minutes, you know, it
was like 96, 98, something likethat.
And then Bad Boys 2 was, Ithink, think the longest one,
like that's still my favorite,still my favorite, still my
favorite.
We didn't get to watch that oneyet because he got turned up.
How, how long it was?
Funny thing, man, I think I'mnot sure.
(06:53):
No, I had them watch.
Uh, rush hour, we had watchedall the rush hour movies.
This was man, this was like twoyears ago kj was at the house
and um, y'all ever seen rushhour.
Because I feel like that's amovie to where, especially being
at the age they are, they kindof like that in between,
graduating from watching likecartoons to like get into some
(07:13):
real shit adult jokes.
Yeah, you find like.
So I feel like the rush houryou know movies is like a
perfect embed between it beingcomedic.
You know what I'm saying?
Sure, it's some, you know somelanguage.
You know what I'm saying Somenudity, you know what I mean.
Like they mean, like they'resaying the thing when it started
up.
But hey, when I was a kid I usedto watch the like when they
(07:33):
would give you like at thebeginning, and he'd be like
brief nudity.
I'm like, oh, I'm a while, yeah, I'm gonna watch this.
She's my drug language violence, my violence.
You know what I'm saying.
But it's good enough, likeniggas shooting machine guns and
shit.
You know what's your goddamnbutton.
You know what I'm saying.
It's like whoa, should we bewatching?
It's like, no, it's cool,you're growing up, it's fine.
(07:54):
But uh, along with the bad boysseries, like you said, and the
rush hour, I feel like those aregood, kind of you know pre-teen
graduation movies like yo,check this out.
That's why I used to watch,especially when you make a
connection between something newcoming out, like bad boys 4,
what's the fourth one calledride or die, ride or die.
(08:14):
I keep thinking bad boys 4,life is 4, but that's three.
So I get confused.
But, um, but bad boys ride ordie, um, but when they see all
this, the new one came out.
Man, it's like what year didthe first bad boy movie come out
?
Like 97, like between 96 98.
I think the bulls might havewon, it wasn't 99.
(08:34):
Yeah, because he was stillshooting.
Uh, he was still shooting freshPrince at the time.
Right, that's wild, that iswild.
And Martin, I think, was stillfilming, still doing Martin
Martin, that's crazy.
Hello, baby, I ain't hear you,baby, what you say.
(08:55):
Oh yeah, I'm sorry, werecording.
Oh yeah, I'm sorry, werecording.
You can get that so I can eatnow.
Nah, too late.
Hello, sorry, freedom speakers,I ain't mean for y'all to hear
(09:17):
that, but keep that you did.
That's how you keep yourmarriage spicy.
That's flirting.
That's flirting with your baby.
You got to use what you got.
You get what you want.
You got to use what you got.
Use what you got.
Ronnie Ho quotes yeah, yeah,hey, hoes, hey, man, I don't dog
hoes, I like hoes and I know wegoing a little bit off hand.
(09:40):
No, it's okay, but Mike Lowryhad a bunch of hoes too.
What'd you say yesterday?
This rehearse, this rehearse?
No, you said.
What did you say?
Retraining?
Yeah, yeah, we retraining maneight months.
I refuse to say it's been ayear, it's been eight months
because we've recorded in 2024.
I have to check the archives.
(10:01):
We might have, man, I have tosee it.
I won't lie and say none.
But I miss you, bro.
I miss you too, man, and itain't like you know.
We ain't beefing or nothing.
You know what I'm saying.
I see this nigga two times aweek.
You know what I'm saying.
So, freedom speakers, we want tomake sure to let y'all know
we're not breaking up.
(10:22):
There's not a divorce oranything.
But life is not fair to anybody, that's right.
Life gets in the way of whatit's doing to you.
Yeah, and this is fun, you feelme, we enjoy it.
We love to bring this to y'all.
We're trying to hit all themarkets that we can and how to
(10:43):
video the audio.
And you know everybody, youknow really get, get a chance to
.
You know, get get submerged inus and what we doing and what we
bringing to y'all.
But yeah, it's fun, but it is.
You know it is work.
It's work that come with it.
You know what I'm saying.
Like, even when we're donerecording this work on the other
side, shit that you're doingediting he's right, chief, he's
really into this shit.
(11:04):
He's really into a lot shit,almost to a fault.
It's like just run, it's good,it's good, leave it like all
right, what the fuck?
Let's go.
Like man, I'm timberland, gonnahear this one day.
But it's like no, I, I'm puttingmy passion on it, I care about
it, I do know where it can go,where it can take us.
(11:24):
Just got to stay consistentwith it, man.
But got to be consistent.
But life been like I said.
It's been life been preparingus for.
I was giving you background, ohyeah, I was going, I would go.
I was giving you background, ohyeah, I was going to go.
(11:48):
Timbaland, don't hear this.
Yeah, shout out to Timbo.
But no man, life was one ofthem.
Life was exposing me andpreparing me for what's to come.
Man, that's the way I want toput it.
The podcast was most definitelya good thing to do.
Get out information.
I always look at it as art.
Like man, this is my art, thisis another form of something
(12:10):
that I can do, but it alsohelped me, like, helped me
grieve a little bit, man, in thepassing of my uncle.
That was heavy to me.
You know, working things almostdefinitely in my life and my
relationships with people family, uh, mother, children, wife,
siblings, you know, co-workers,staff, but just making sure we
we on a healthy, good path.
(12:31):
You know I'm saying they lookto me to lead, so I want to make
sure that I'm correcting myselfand I'm I'm distributing the
best information that I can, tomy knowledge.
So I got to continuously feedmyself knowledge, absolutely.
So let's get into it, you know,because this is Permission to
Speak Freely.
Yes, sir, you know, let's notforget.
You know why we're here?
Because this may be therapy tothe listeners, but it's
(12:53):
definitely therapy for us.
Just sitting down and talking,which is something that we do
often, it's just a matter ofhitting record or not, you know,
and we fought that.
Sometimes, freedom Speakers, wetalk a lot.
We talk a lot, but we don't behaving the cameras around.
Sometimes some shit just for us.
That's a fact.
Yeah, yeah, all right, as muchas we would love to, we can't
(13:15):
give y'all everything.
Hey, yeah, it get heavy, but inthe last eight months, you know
what has been some of thechallenges that's come your way
Some of the obstacles, hurdlesyou had to get over, bridges you
had to get under.
You know Rivers you had to swim, you know white waves and all
(13:35):
that shit.
Like what were some things.
Because ultimately, you know,you come out on top, you come
out on top and come out on topas much as life send you through
shit or take you through shit.
You know, time and time againI've seen you.
You come out victorious.
You know what I'm saying.
So what were some of thosethings in the last couple of
(13:55):
months?
If you want to share, if youwant to share, that was like
that you want to give to thefreedom speakers and maybe they
can find something in it to getthem through what they're going
through.
For sure, for sure, man.
So one of the things I'd liketo say to you, russ, thank you
for having that view of mecoming out victorious on things
(14:16):
For sure.
I've heard in different spaceslike man, you seem like you
always got your shit together oryou pretty good at like holding
yourself together, and it's notwithout practice, it's not
without, it's not like withoutthought.
Man, you know what I'm saying,but I permission to speak freely
.
You already know my nigga.
(14:39):
I'm anointed like amotherfucker.
Yeah, god has always covered me, nigga.
So I love to go into battle,knowing like I got the biggest
motherfucker protecting me andI'm equipped to handle shit.
But because when you got aconfidence like that and you
roar like that motherfucker,really try to dim the light, try
to beat that shit up.
They'll try to.
They'll discredit any andeverything that you stand for,
(15:01):
assassinate your character, justbecause you believe in your
fucking self.
That's a fact.
Okay, so I had to remember whatI am and had to put myself back
where I was and not have tokeep fucking with the people who
I'm only beneficial for themthrough pain, like I'm only
supportive to them through pain,or they only looking for me
(15:21):
when they feel like I'm in afucked up situation.
But when you up, most peopledon't cheer for you.
You get you some of them.
Booze your boo.
To me, haters is just evil fans.
Haters are just the evil fans.
They, they gonna.
They gonna talk, they shit theygonna.
But remember, is is all press,yeah, it's all press.
(15:42):
They still giving your namepower, even if they speaking ill
on it, they still empoweringyou is how you choose to digest
it, man.
So being able to kind of havethat mindset and that
ferociousness, that that killerinstinct, that hey, that I don't
like to turn that on the peoplethat I love, but for for battle
, it's like, hey, what pox say,I ain't got no love for my
enemies, damn sure, ain't got nofucking love for me.
(16:05):
So it's mercy for some, butsympathy for none.
I can't feel for none.
You my enemy.
So when I'm viewed like that oryou put in a place like that, or
you attack like that, becausewhen you chosen or you gifted or
you choose to ride on yourindividuality on your own,
people will try to discredit you, belittle you.
(16:26):
And, man, when you do shine orit do look like, hey, you do,
come out on top, motherfucker,be mad that you came out on top
or at least it appears to beLike hey, as I expressed to you
bro, hey, I'll be down forrepairs and maintenance, as I
call it.
Like like, hey, man, I'm, I'mexhausted right now, bro, I've
been like pushing myself, I'vebeen doing this and I've been
doing that.
I need a recharge, I need avacay, bro.
(16:48):
I'm gonna take me a couple daysoff or a week off, whatever I
need, to just be able tomeditate and get my shit right.
But it really, it really put mein a place of like after each
battle, like damn, I can'tbelieve this really fucking
happened to me.
I gotta reflect.
So early in the year I knew wehad all this coming for business
.
Just for a second.
I had all this coming forbusiness, that's work.
(17:09):
I knew a that's paperwork,that's numbers and lines and
signatures and dot nines andcrossing t's.
That's as simplified as I canput it.
But I also knew where I was inthe space with my relationship
with my wife.
Like, hey, hey man, we workingon things.
I'm looking to fall deeper inlove with her, I'm trying to
educate her on me, I'm trying tolearn her.
(17:29):
We trying to not be yelling ateach other.
No, volume over six, don'tinsult each other Over six.
Yeah, but it's authentic trying, nigga, we authentically trying
.
And not that it's issues that wenigga, that people constantly
go through, that you're like, oh, I'm just trying, this
(17:50):
relationship is so hard.
It's like no man Sometimes youcan be, you can be agitated by
another issue and because yourspouse or your job or whatever
sometimes is the easiest outletto blame, that they can take
that punishment Indirectly.
You didn't mean to.
(18:11):
But it's like, hey man,motherfucker, just cut me off
and driving, are you coming?
Like man, you good, yeah, I'mgood, but I spilled something on
the floor.
I spilled the food on the floor.
Now you mad as fuck and it'slike you really not mad that I
spilled the food, unless it'sall flats barbed buffalo with
the ranch and I just spilledthis shit and that Asian chili
(18:32):
wings, whatever they like, man,don't drop it.
Whatever they like, they getyou lucky.
You know what I'm saying.
But that being said, man, it wasI had to bring this out like
that smooth, suave, like 89 to96 LL Cool J.
That shit had to go.
It was like, man, I had to be apart of myself.
(18:54):
That's gotten me to this,because it sometimes it don't.
It don't pay to be like, hey,man, I'm just, I'm a, I'm a be a
punching bag because it neverdoes.
I'm a be a punching bag becauseit never does.
To be honest, it don't pay tobe a punching bag or pay to be
around people who, man, theyreally not meaning you.
No, real fucking good, you getto kind of see how they treat
themselves of.
Like hey, man, I know peoplecan argue all day long and try
to pick apart what you say.
(19:14):
Like I wouldn't do that to you.
I don't see you do certain shitfor yourself, so I don't feel
like you'll treat me better thanyou treat you.
Yeah, that's just logic.
Like I don't think so, yeah.
So, that being said, man, I hadto reinvent.
Why don't we say reinventmyself, like this identity of me
is new.
(19:35):
I had to find myself again, bro.
I got, I got lost and gotconsumed and so many other other
things that, hey, man, I I hadto.
I think we talked about this,like, bro, like I had to remind
myself of who I am and what I am, regardless of how it makes
some people feel, of how I feelabout myself, I'll promote
(19:57):
everybody to have a certainesteem about themselves,
everybody to have a certainesteem about themselves.
Okay, like that's, that's a,that's a level of self love,
having confidence, having, likeyou know the world right now.
Man, you can't body shame nobody.
You can't tell nobody that'sright until the way they be
bald-headed.
You can't tell nobody, justcan't tell nobody.
Can't be honest, yeah, youalmost cannot be honest without
(20:20):
you're shaming man, yeah, yourbody's shaming.
These used to be consideredreally good jokes back in the
day.
You had some really good YoMama jokes.
Fat Yo, mama joke Some goodones.
Prademan Spakers, tell us yourbest Yo, mama joke.
No-transcript.
We back, we on, really, yeah, yeah, yeah
, man, back at it.
Man, I missed you, bro, Imissed you bro, I missed you, I
missed this.
It's been a long time.
It's been a good way I want tosay six, but I feel like it's
been more.
Man, six months, half a year,it's been about a year For us,
(00:33):
for us, for us, for us, for us,it's been about a year.
Nah, it's been about a year.
Freedom Speakers, we gonna needy'all to take some notes or some
tallies or something it's beenabout.
When was the last time thatChief Ali and Laylo the most got
together for an episode?
You know what comment?
(00:55):
Let us know something, man,john B.
Hey, freedom Speakers, we ain'tforgot about y'all man, and I
speak for both of us when I saywe sorry From the heart.
We sorry because we love y'allman, and we know we got a lot of
support from people out there.
Folks been asking us hey, what'sgoing on with the pod?
(01:16):
How's it going?
What's happening?
Hey, man, you know life been,life been, lifin' Lifestar, lif,
life and work get in the way.
You know what I mean the thingsthat we want to do, and
sometimes you don't get to dowhat you want to do.
You know what I mean, and Inever want to put permission to
speak freely on the back burner,for sure, for sure, for sure.
Like I'm excited, man youprobably can't tell because I've
(01:38):
got other shit going on but I'mexcited, man, to get this, you
know.
Get this therapy off, man, getthis.
Uh, you know, because that'swhat it is at the end of the day
, that's what we talk about, man, is it's therapeutic, not just
for us but for the people wholisten to it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, it's, um, it's heavy to be able to, to
(01:59):
vent.
Yeah, you know, I'm saying, alot of times you, sometimes
people use, they will say, a lotof times people use, use their
platforms to be negative to oneanother, for sure, to try to be
discriminatory to one anotherand be, you know, just ill if
you will.
And we can do that too, youknow sometimes, you know,
sometimes it come down to it,you know, because we speak
(02:20):
freely here.
Yeah, sometimes it's the toughlove, tough, tough, tough, tough
love, and sometimes that lessondoes most definitely have to be
brutal, but in most cases, man,it's really just, you know,
been with some of the ones thatyou do got to break, but we try
not to bash.
But we look most definitelytrue, to be real, not cutting no
corners.
Being very unapologetic in ourtruth don't mean you gotta just
(02:41):
like smear the shit, right, butyou gotta sure you gotta deliver
it.
That's a fact, man.
Sometimes, you know, sometimesit just got to come out the way
it come out, man, but how you,how you been bro, how you been,
since it's almost been a year,which is crazy to me.
Time fly, yeah.
(03:02):
Well, I'll say this man, answerone question at a time.
Man, I've been, uh, I've beenblessed to be alive, I've been
doing well, um, so I'm thankfulfor that.
God has most definitelymotherfucking, covered me, bro,
like God continuously to show so.
So, move shit for me, man.
So I'm very thankful for that.
Most definitely, man, thank youfor asking that.
(03:22):
Um.
At the same time, man, uh, overthe last, just say, year, um,
over the last 90 days, for thelast quarter, I'll say, I mean,
a lot has been revealing.
Uh, been asking god mostdefinitely like, show me things
that are just solely for me.
Um, give me the strength to uh,carry on and move on with
(03:42):
certain things and put myselfand my family in a really good
position, man.
But I know dominating like thatdoesn't come without battles,
man.
You kind of make some enemiessometimes when you just kind of
boss hogging for a second.
You know that happens, man, andI feel like that kind of came
my way.
But I've been preparing,conditioning for what, just been
(04:04):
getting myself ready Like, okay, some moves I gotta make.
That uh transpires across myentire life, man, not just who I
am at work or I'm at home orjust in the world, but it's it's
just like with everything, man.
So the last 90 days been veryrevealing, but I feel like the
our last episode kind of was oneof them.
(04:24):
Like it wasn't a farewell inthere but you could tell like,
hey, man, is this, this is aboutto get real.
Man.
I was watching movies with uh,with kj and nessa in the house,
and one of the movies we waswatching was, uh, bad boy.
So we watched bad boys fourfirst.
We watched Bad Boys 4 first.
(04:45):
We watched Bad Boys 4 first,and KJ was like he wasn't
familiar with like the Bad Boyssaga, yeah, like saga at this
point.
So some of the things that theythat Freedom Speakers, if you a
fan of Bad Boys, will Smith,martin Lawrence shout out to
them.
Shout out to fan of Bad BoysWill Smith.
Martin Lawrence shout out tothem.
(05:05):
Shout out to the whole Bad Boysfranchise.
If you know, there's certainthings inside of each of the
movies that they have.
It's like the cinematic thingthat's their symbol.
Yeah, such as that turnaroundkind of little look and they be
looking exhausted as fuck Withthe Miami in the background.
Yeah, so that they got the fastcars kind of thing that you
(05:26):
know Mike Lowry, known fordriving fast.
And then they got the my man'swith the Skittles.
So seeing in Bad Boys 4, willSmith get on Martin about the
Skittles when he was at the gasstation that made me take it
back to the first one with KJ.
(05:46):
And they like I blow you.
Then I blow you.
Like how can he put on?
Blow me what?
Like I kill before I kill again.
Yeah, man.
So it took him back to thereand was like you freeze bitch,
no, you freeze bitch, he's likeshit.
Like back up, put the gun down,give me a pack of tropical
(06:09):
fruit, bubble-icious and someSkittles.
So KD was like he still likesSkittles.
He still likes Skittles.
He caught that man.
But it was that connection.
It was like man.
Let me bring this nostalgicmoment to my child.
We binge-watched the whole BadBoys saga, like eight and a half
(06:32):
hours, yeah, and he a numbersperson too.
He was like the first one waslike 92 minutes, you know, it
was like 96, 98, something likethat.
And then Bad Boys 2 was, Ithink, think the longest one,
like that's still my favorite,still my favorite, still my
favorite.
We didn't get to watch that oneyet because he got turned up.
How, how long it was?
Funny thing, man, I think I'mnot sure.
(06:53):
No, I had them watch.
Uh, rush hour, we had watchedall the rush hour movies.
This was man, this was like twoyears ago kj was at the house
and um, y'all ever seen rushhour.
Because I feel like that's amovie to where, especially being
at the age they are, they kindof like that in between,
graduating from watching likecartoons to like get into some
(07:13):
real shit adult jokes.
Yeah, you find like.
So I feel like the rush houryou know movies is like a
perfect embed between it beingcomedic.
You know what I'm saying?
Sure, it's some, you know somelanguage.
You know what I'm saying Somenudity, you know what I mean.
Like they mean, like they'resaying the thing when it started
up.
But hey, when I was a kid I usedto watch the like when they
(07:33):
would give you like at thebeginning, and he'd be like
brief nudity.
I'm like, oh, I'm a while, yeah, I'm gonna watch this.
She's my drug language violence, my violence.
You know what I'm saying.
But it's good enough, likeniggas shooting machine guns and
shit.
You know what's your goddamnbutton.
You know what I'm saying.
It's like whoa, should we bewatching?
It's like, no, it's cool,you're growing up, it's fine.
(07:54):
But uh, along with the bad boysseries, like you said, and the
rush hour, I feel like those aregood, kind of you know pre-teen
graduation movies like yo,check this out.
That's why I used to watch,especially when you make a
connection between something newcoming out, like bad boys 4,
what's the fourth one calledride or die, ride or die.
(08:14):
I keep thinking bad boys 4,life is 4, but that's three.
So I get confused.
But, um, but bad boys ride ordie, um, but when they see all
this, the new one came out.
Man, it's like what year didthe first bad boy movie come out
?
Like 97, like between 96 98.
I think the bulls might havewon, it wasn't 99.
(08:34):
Yeah, because he was stillshooting.
Uh, he was still shooting freshPrince at the time.
Right, that's wild, that iswild.
And Martin, I think, was stillfilming, still doing Martin
Martin, that's crazy.
Hello, baby, I ain't hear you,baby, what you say.
(08:55):
Oh yeah, I'm sorry, werecording.
Oh yeah, I'm sorry, werecording.
You can get that so I can eatnow.
Nah, too late.
Hello, sorry, freedom speakers,I ain't mean for y'all to hear
(09:17):
that, but keep that you did.
That's how you keep yourmarriage spicy.
That's flirting.
That's flirting with your baby.
You got to use what you got.
You get what you want.
You got to use what you got.
Use what you got.
Ronnie Ho quotes yeah, yeah,hey, hoes, hey, man, I don't dog
hoes, I like hoes and I know wegoing a little bit off hand.
(09:40):
No, it's okay, but Mike Lowryhad a bunch of hoes too.
What'd you say yesterday?
This rehearse, this rehearse?
No, you said.
What did you say?
Retraining?
Yeah, yeah, we retraining maneight months.
I refuse to say it's been ayear, it's been eight months
because we've recorded in 2024.
I have to check the archives.
(10:01):
We might have, man, I have tosee it.
I won't lie and say none.
But I miss you, bro.
I miss you too, man, and itain't like you know.
We ain't beefing or nothing.
You know what I'm saying.
I see this nigga two times aweek.
You know what I'm saying.
So, freedom speakers, we want tomake sure to let y'all know
we're not breaking up.
(10:22):
There's not a divorce oranything.
But life is not fair to anybody, that's right.
Life gets in the way of whatit's doing to you.
Yeah, and this is fun, you feelme, we enjoy it.
We love to bring this to y'all.
We're trying to hit all themarkets that we can and how to
(10:43):
video the audio.
And you know everybody, youknow really get, get a chance to
.
You know, get get submerged inus and what we doing and what we
bringing to y'all.
But yeah, it's fun, but it is.
You know it is work.
It's work that come with it.
You know what I'm saying.
Like, even when we're donerecording this work on the other
side, shit that you're doingediting he's right, chief, he's
really into this shit.
(11:04):
He's really into a lot shit,almost to a fault.
It's like just run, it's good,it's good, leave it like all
right, what the fuck?
Let's go.
Like man, I'm timberland, gonnahear this one day.
But it's like no, I, I'm puttingmy passion on it, I care about
it, I do know where it can go,where it can take us.
(11:24):
Just got to stay consistentwith it, man.
But got to be consistent.
But life been like I said.
It's been life been preparingus for.
I was giving you background, ohyeah, I was going, I would go.
I was giving you background, ohyeah, I was going to go.
(11:48):
Timbaland, don't hear this.
Yeah, shout out to Timbo.
But no man, life was one ofthem.
Life was exposing me andpreparing me for what's to come.
Man, that's the way I want toput it.
The podcast was most definitelya good thing to do.
Get out information.
I always look at it as art.
Like man, this is my art, thisis another form of something
(12:10):
that I can do, but it alsohelped me, like, helped me
grieve a little bit, man, in thepassing of my uncle.
That was heavy to me.
You know, working things almostdefinitely in my life and my
relationships with people family, uh, mother, children, wife,
siblings, you know, co-workers,staff, but just making sure we
we on a healthy, good path.
(12:31):
You know I'm saying they lookto me to lead, so I want to make
sure that I'm correcting myselfand I'm I'm distributing the
best information that I can, tomy knowledge.
So I got to continuously feedmyself knowledge, absolutely.
So let's get into it, you know,because this is Permission to
Speak Freely.
Yes, sir, you know, let's notforget.
You know why we're here?
Because this may be therapy tothe listeners, but it's
(12:53):
definitely therapy for us.
Just sitting down and talking,which is something that we do
often, it's just a matter ofhitting record or not, you know,
and we fought that.
Sometimes, freedom Speakers, wetalk a lot.
We talk a lot, but we don't behaving the cameras around.
Sometimes some shit just for us.
That's a fact.
Yeah, yeah, all right, as muchas we would love to, we can't
(13:15):
give y'all everything.
Hey, yeah, it get heavy, but inthe last eight months, you know
what has been some of thechallenges that's come your way
Some of the obstacles, hurdlesyou had to get over, bridges you
had to get under.
You know Rivers you had to swim, you know white waves and all
(13:35):
that shit.
Like what were some things.
Because ultimately, you know,you come out on top, you come
out on top and come out on topas much as life send you through
shit or take you through shit.
You know, time and time againI've seen you.
You come out victorious.
You know what I'm saying.
So what were some of thosethings in the last couple of
(13:55):
months?
If you want to share, if youwant to share, that was like
that you want to give to thefreedom speakers and maybe they
can find something in it to getthem through what they're going
through.
For sure, for sure, man.
So one of the things I'd liketo say to you, russ, thank you
for having that view of mecoming out victorious on things
(14:16):
For sure.
I've heard in different spaceslike man, you seem like you
always got your shit together oryou pretty good at like holding
yourself together, and it's notwithout practice, it's not
without, it's not like withoutthought.
Man, you know what I'm saying,but I permission to speak freely
.
You already know my nigga.
(14:39):
I'm anointed like amotherfucker.
Yeah, god has always covered me, nigga.
So I love to go into battle,knowing like I got the biggest
motherfucker protecting me andI'm equipped to handle shit.
But because when you got aconfidence like that and you
roar like that motherfucker,really try to dim the light, try
to beat that shit up.
They'll try to.
They'll discredit any andeverything that you stand for,
(15:01):
assassinate your character, justbecause you believe in your
fucking self.
That's a fact.
Okay, so I had to remember whatI am and had to put myself back
where I was and not have tokeep fucking with the people who
I'm only beneficial for themthrough pain, like I'm only
supportive to them through pain,or they only looking for me
(15:21):
when they feel like I'm in afucked up situation.
But when you up, most peopledon't cheer for you.
You get you some of them.
Booze your boo.
To me, haters is just evil fans.
Haters are just the evil fans.
They, they gonna.
They gonna talk, they shit theygonna.
But remember, is is all press,yeah, it's all press.
(15:42):
They still giving your namepower, even if they speaking ill
on it, they still empoweringyou is how you choose to digest
it, man.
So being able to kind of havethat mindset and that
ferociousness, that that killerinstinct, that hey, that I don't
like to turn that on the peoplethat I love, but for for battle
, it's like, hey, what pox say,I ain't got no love for my
enemies, damn sure, ain't got nofucking love for me.
(16:05):
So it's mercy for some, butsympathy for none.
I can't feel for none.
You my enemy.
So when I'm viewed like that oryou put in a place like that, or
you attack like that, becausewhen you chosen or you gifted or
you choose to ride on yourindividuality on your own,
people will try to discredit you, belittle you.
(16:26):
And, man, when you do shine orit do look like, hey, you do,
come out on top, motherfucker,be mad that you came out on top
or at least it appears to beLike hey, as I expressed to you
bro, hey, I'll be down forrepairs and maintenance, as I
call it.
Like like, hey, man, I'm, I'mexhausted right now, bro, I've
been like pushing myself, I'vebeen doing this and I've been
doing that.
I need a recharge, I need avacay, bro.
(16:48):
I'm gonna take me a couple daysoff or a week off, whatever I
need, to just be able tomeditate and get my shit right.
But it really, it really put mein a place of like after each
battle, like damn, I can'tbelieve this really fucking
happened to me.
I gotta reflect.
So early in the year I knew wehad all this coming for business
.
Just for a second.
I had all this coming forbusiness, that's work.
(17:09):
I knew a that's paperwork,that's numbers and lines and
signatures and dot nines andcrossing t's.
That's as simplified as I canput it.
But I also knew where I was inthe space with my relationship
with my wife.
Like, hey, hey man, we workingon things.
I'm looking to fall deeper inlove with her, I'm trying to
educate her on me, I'm trying tolearn her.
(17:29):
We trying to not be yelling ateach other.
No, volume over six, don'tinsult each other Over six.
Yeah, but it's authentic trying, nigga, we authentically trying
.
And not that it's issues that wenigga, that people constantly
go through, that you're like, oh, I'm just trying, this
(17:50):
relationship is so hard.
It's like no man Sometimes youcan be, you can be agitated by
another issue and because yourspouse or your job or whatever
sometimes is the easiest outletto blame, that they can take
that punishment Indirectly.
You didn't mean to.
(18:11):
But it's like, hey man,motherfucker, just cut me off
and driving, are you coming?
Like man, you good, yeah, I'mgood, but I spilled something on
the floor.
I spilled the food on the floor.
Now you mad as fuck and it'slike you really not mad that I
spilled the food, unless it'sall flats barbed buffalo with
the ranch and I just spilledthis shit and that Asian chili
(18:32):
wings, whatever they like, man,don't drop it.
Whatever they like, they getyou lucky.
You know what I'm saying.
But that being said, man, it wasI had to bring this out like
that smooth, suave, like 89 to96 LL Cool J.
That shit had to go.
It was like, man, I had to be apart of myself.
(18:54):
That's gotten me to this,because it sometimes it don't.
It don't pay to be like, hey,man, I'm just, I'm a, I'm a be a
punching bag because it neverdoes.
I'm a be a punching bag becauseit never does.
To be honest, it don't pay tobe a punching bag or pay to be
around people who, man, theyreally not meaning you.
No, real fucking good, you getto kind of see how they treat
themselves of.
Like hey, man, I know peoplecan argue all day long and try
to pick apart what you say.
(19:14):
Like I wouldn't do that to you.
I don't see you do certain shitfor yourself, so I don't feel
like you'll treat me better thanyou treat you.
Yeah, that's just logic.
Like I don't think so, yeah.
So, that being said, man, I hadto reinvent.
Why don't we say reinventmyself, like this identity of me
is new.
(19:35):
I had to find myself again, bro.
I got, I got lost and gotconsumed and so many other other
things that, hey, man, I I hadto.
I think we talked about this,like, bro, like I had to remind
myself of who I am and what I am, regardless of how it makes
some people feel, of how I feelabout myself, I'll promote
(19:57):
everybody to have a certainesteem about themselves,
everybody to have a certainesteem about themselves.
Okay, like that's, that's a,that's a level of self love,
having confidence, having, likeyou know the world right now.
Man, you can't body shame nobody.
You can't tell nobody that'sright until the way they be
bald-headed.
You can't tell nobody, justcan't tell nobody.
Can't be honest, yeah, youalmost cannot be honest without
(20:20):
you're shaming man, yeah, yourbody's shaming.
These used to be consideredreally good jokes back in the
day.
You had some really good YoMama jokes.
Fat Yo, mama joke Some goodones.
Prademan Spakers, tell us yourbest Yo, mama joke.
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