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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm training every day. It was for the Janitor Janet people,
Janet Jes true true story. So you sometimes you don't know,
like when you're on the black top playing basketball, playing
you playing for Game seven of the NBA Finals. I
stopped myself in twenty eighteen ish and I'm like, am
I taking this Yes drink because I want to take
(00:21):
this such a drink? Or am I taking this syx
a drink to try to numb some because I had
the insight to deal with it. Somebody might just keep numbing.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Speaking about the mixtapes, I want to see if you
guys were the originators of this new term. We always
say why ends because you had a mixtape with Migos
called why are in Young Richness? So I'm like, hold on,
were they the actual originators of why n.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Man listen and recipes takeoff? Man? I think the Migos podcasts.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
More than the pard It's a lifestyle like style style
Yo yo yo, Welcome to the Higher Point Podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
This is a show for everyone who's willing to put
in the label to be greater, to reach the highest point. Now,
speaking about putting in the work, we got a very
very special guest in the building I'm talking about. We
have a pioneer, a trap music professor, legendary DJ, radio
and podcast hosts who is literally the epitome of longevity,
making his mark in each era in different ways.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I like to welcome none other than DJ Screen. What's
good with you, my brother?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's a good way to start today.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, man, it's just facts.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I just seen so much that you do.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And on this show, we like to focus in on
the journey of people because a lot of times people
see this finished product and think that thing happened overnight,
and no, sir, no way in the world happened overnight. Still, right,
A lot of ups and downs in the journey, and
we like to talk about those things on this show. So,
you know, I wanted to ask you, can you tell
the people you know, what where are you from and
(02:01):
what was your family dynamics growing up?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Oh? Man, I've been I've been everywhere. Man. Father was African,
my mom was from Montgomery, Alabama. They actually met in
New York in the record store right how I run it.
And basically that's the essence of like my family, you
(02:23):
got like African tradition and African morals and everything here
on one side, and then on the other side you
got that good down South morals and tradition mixed with
civil rights and struggle and everything like that. So that
all messed right here in Atlanta to cater Atlanta, whatever
(02:44):
you want to say. And that upbringing was one of
coming up in Atlanta. And then my parents decided they
wanted to go to New York, but they didn't really
want to raise me in New York. When they got
they like, nah, we don't know, we want to in
New York. But while I was there for this small
period of time, I got exposed to hip hop. And
(03:06):
I remember being like, I don't know, your first memories
four or five years old, and I'm looking. I'm like,
they're spraying graffiti everywhere, They're spinning on their hood, these
crazy people, right, you know what I'm saying. But I
always just had an interest in it. So when I
came back, we came back down to Atlanta. That's the
era of like your on TV raps, you know what
(03:28):
I'm saying, and even some of the local Atlanta music
shows like American Rap Maker, Shots That a Star and
all that, And man, I just always had an infatuation
for not necessarily the people in the front of the
videos what they doing back there. It's kind of be
a nosy you know what I'm saying, Like, Yeah, what
(03:49):
the Jazzy Jeff premiere? Like the people behind them, like
I'm looking at them. It was just something so long
story made short. Man, I just became like a music head,
which I was kind of born into it because my
mom listened to jazz religiously. My father listened to reggae religiously.
So you know, every every weekend morning, I'm hearing like
(04:12):
the record players the snap crackle pop in some type
of vinyl or record, so I'm playing with the records.
So I always got to say I was kind of
like purposely born into it, you know what I'm saying.
Like again, people be like you made that up for
your bio. Nah. My parents met in a record store
in New York City, like true story. So it's just
kind of like something that by the time I actually
(04:32):
got turntables right and then I put them in front
of me and put records. I've heard people say this
about basketball and other crafts. I felt at home. Wow,
it was just like the sense of calm and peace.
Even to this day, if I'm stressed out if I
get behind You never see me like angry behind turntables
unless I'm in the club getting harassed by someone. But
that's another thing. But you never see me like angry
(04:52):
when I'm in the act of DJing or behind turntables.
That's my piece.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, absolutely, that's dope. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Now with you having that for vision of hip hop
in New York kind of what was the difference when
you came to an area like Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That's a great question. You know New York was and
I'm in I'm in the heart of where it started.
We're in the Bronx. So down here. See what I
understand now, is that coming down here, if they were
break dancing up there, they was ticking down here. You
see what I'm saying. If they was, if they had
(05:29):
ciphers up there, here's somebody beat on the table. I
was one of them too. Yeah, what I'm saying, that's
their cipher. I don't know too much about. Well, there
is some graffiti in Atlanta. If you talk go through
the elements. Their DJ's rock out. One way. They put
(05:50):
R and B music over hip hop, right beat, we
put R and B music over booty shape So what
I kind of know now I didn't really know then
I was just spears, is that it's all the same.
And then there's there's there's a synonymous like even we're
talking about the streets, man, there's a synonymous slang word
everywhere you go. It's just a different word. It means
the same thing exactly. You see what I'm saying, like
(06:13):
money or scrilla, scriller of fetti or paper do or cheat,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, so what I've known,
what what I just learned just traveling the world, even
when I went overseas, it's like part of my friends, Like, yo,
it's all the same ship.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, it's got sound different, got a different.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Term, but it's the same hoods, the same struggles, the
same political bs, the same Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
It's why ends everywhere there's like that's how you're feeling
with religion too.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Man, It's like it's so it got so many parallels.
Why y'all got beef y'all really preaching about the same thing.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Because I've been on this thing and it's, uh, it's
probably a never ending journey. Read a lot of deep
hot Choker around COVID. Yeah, and a lot of Eastern philosophy,
and me personally has their own opinion. I think the
culporate to all our issues is ego, and I've been
attacking my ego. I'm not a big egotistical person that
(07:12):
it is, but I still have an ego. We all do, absolutely,
and there is a time and place for it. But
the thing is like, if you get rid of that ego,
become free because now you don't care. Now you don't
care about other people, right, you don't care what other
people think about you, Right, You're able to just soar freely.
So I think that anything you're talking about, religious division,
(07:33):
political division and everything, we all want the same thing.
If we really sit back and think about it, it's peace.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And when you're talking about ego, it's like, I feel
like your temperament has always been kind of even keel,
you know. It seems like you always could handle yourself
under pressure. And then we start talking about your mom
and your pop's background. I'm like, Okay, that sounds like
that got a lot to do with it as well.
But I did want to ask you as well though.
Even having a good temperament, we all come to crossbold
(08:02):
crossroads in life.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Can you reflect back on your youth when you were
presented in a in a crossbold situation?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Which way did you go?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And why I get presented with him every day? Youth? Yeah?
Oh you know when you.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Like a pivotal moment, Well when you But I was
blessed to live like I keep it.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Really, I was blessed to live through my childhood in
upper middle class neighborhoods. But I even say I was
blessed to live right over there on Ashby in the
West End, in the hood here in gunshots. So I
was blessed to see both sides of its. People say
blessed now, because I think that you need to see
(08:49):
that all exist. Think about that person in the Hollywood
Hills that's never seen any diversity when adversity comes, this
is why they cracked.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Absolutely never been through it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
So I've been through. Were good, We're in this nice crib.
Were good to Hey, there's an eviction notice on the door.
I've been drawing it. You do know what I'm saying.
So I say that just to say for me to
cross road was in those times of not having so
much then you know how got homies, and the homies
(09:19):
is like, yo, you know you ain't gotta be broke,
you know, so we can get it out of here. Man,
that sounds real good. But my mama said, yeah, yeah,
you know what I'm saying. And then the whole full
circle of that is and again the piece man behind
them turntables. I always just had this voice in the
spirit telling me just keep doing that.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
You're gonna be all right.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And when I think about those turntables and nineteen ninety fours,
twenty years of DJ Scream last year in twenty twenty four,
but I think about those turntables, man, I mean I
had a moment last year. It's turntables. Don't take me
to Canada, Africa, Wow, Paris, the Eye, Allens, every island
you can imagine. I was supposed to go to Asia
(10:05):
right before COVID happened. Hopefully that'll come back around. Probably
not going to go to Australia because the flight is
too down long, but who knows. But it's it's taken
me around most of the world. Definitely the United States.
I think I've been to every state except four of them.
You know what I'm saying, so a lot of people
can't say that for sure, And speaking back to the Crossroad,
(10:27):
it's just something always told me. I still get, I
still know when it's gonna be all right. I get
that voice meditated a lot and then I know, and
it's like, way, you might have some adversity, but you
got to push through it and stay in faith, you
know what I'm saying. So I've always listened to that
voice and been smart enough to listen to that voice,
even since I was young.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, but you know, we always had those two voices.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, we can get some money there real quick, right right,
And it's a struggle sometimes to not listen to that
one because a lot of time that other voice is
that quick and easy way you know, when you listen
to that voice, where you can have longevity is like
stand of course, like you were just talking about. And
I think that's very important and another reason why we
(11:09):
do this show man, so people can really you know,
tap into people.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Who has traveled these roads, you know, been where they are.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Seeing the ups and downs and so like, look, this
is how you need to navigate if you're looking for
longevity like you, like I said, and android, you're the
epitome of longevity that's seen you pivot and do so
many different things.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
How do you time?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It seems like you're timing is always right too, Like.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Like, what is it like, are you looking scared to sing?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Like? All, I pray a lot God first, that's the
first thing. And in addition to that, actually like reading
deep a lot of less effort, least effort. That's your shame.
And that's when it's like if you're trying to make
(12:00):
it happen so hard and it's not happening and it
ain't flowing, then it creates that this is supposed to happen.
Now I'm the best rapper or on this or this,
but this is like, man, I respect the timing because
I've had some amazing things happen.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
At the wrong time. What does that look like?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It looked like having your best moment and maybe not
being ready for it. That doesn't mean like like take,
for instance, okay you do a podcast. Of course, if
I leave out here and they say Barack Obama for
the come do an interview, you're ready, You're gonna do it.
(12:41):
She's like, damn, if I.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Would have had a light man, or if.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I would have you know what I'm saying. So my
thing is I want those moments now. It's one of
my biggest prayers, like please let them happen when I
cannot only execute them. Well, but I'm like, perfectly you
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
So that's I've had. I've had those moments. Like as
a media person, I was ready for the Janet interview.
I'm training every day and sometimes I'm like, well, I'm
not doing all these interviews. So of these people aren't
even talking about nothing, right, But it was for the
Janet interview because nobody took me serious and media to
the Janitor Janet people, Janet Jes true true story. So
(13:24):
sometimes you don't know, like when you're on the black
top playing basketball, playing you playing for Game seven of
the NBA Finals fast, but you got to treat So
every interview I'm treating like Janet. I'm not coming in
their bs and because you're not Janet, I'm doing my work,
I'm doing my research. I'm doing this day. Be like
how you know that? Right, I'm forgot about that because
(13:47):
I'm here to do my job. Right. You never know
who looking or who paying attention. So I say that
just to say. Oh, man, when they say patience is
a virtue and waiting for the right moment, that's such,
that's so important because if it comes, if it comes prematurely,
then it's funny. Like it's funny. I got you use
an opportunity so you can mess it up or not
(14:09):
execute to the highest of you know what I'm saying, Yes,
their ability. So that's the way I kind of look
at it, and I don't. I just go with the
flow of time. That's that's why it doesn't. That's why
it looks the way it does because I'm not I'm
not saying I'll try. I hustle every day, yeah, but
I'm not trying to make nothing happen before it's supposed
to happen or if it's not supposed to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, Like you trust the process, have to now, Man,
this Janet thing is just how does Janet Jackson come
across your table?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Like I just gotta I got a call. I thought
I was being catfished and pranked and everything with it.
She was in town. There's like Janet wants to do
like dj't screen Hoodidge radio, like she wow pitched the tours.
She's like I want to do something like that. I'm like, whatever,
what time i gotta be there. They're like seven am.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I'll be there at five.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Since Janet Jackson's coming. Yeah right, but I'll just tell
the stories. Is funny, man, Like, of course her security
came in. This is they have to sweep the room
and check them like tat me down, Like I get it.
I'm not offended, right, And then all after that it's
like Janet Watson And then this is like the air
(15:29):
just the energy changes. I'm not even exaggerated, bro, Like
I can tell you a few people we've done interviews
like that, but like the energy just changes. And she's like,
oh my god, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I'm late.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I'm so sorry you guys. DJ I'm like, you can't
be late. M hmm, right right, And she was early,
but maybe they told her another time, so you weren't
really late. So that was surreal and the interview was
classic and they had a big viral moments and everything.
And then when I took the picture with her, I
(16:02):
was like, Jane, to ask you a question and then
she was like sure, anything.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Script, don't say my name like that.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I was like, any advice you're getting somebody like me.
She was like, you're doing a great job. Just keep
doing it. That's all I need to do. Really, some
of the biggest people you have conversations with keep it
real simple, right, And that's what I'm learning, Like even
some of the most successful people in any journey, they
keep it real simple. Don't overthink it.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, we can't complicate things.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Human mind can complicate a lot, but you know what
is really complicated?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
What's that again?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It boils down the ego a lot. Now, how do
you navigate the anxiousness when it's such a big artist
comes in and sucks that air out the room? Like
or do you feel anxiousness or anxiety?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Because I don't look at myself like so celebrity, right,
But I've had I had a dude like shaking at
the gas station, man, bro, I got the same bills
as you. You know what I'm saying. But I know
that they're human to the world. The biggest people who
been in their own the biggest people millionaires, billionaires, whatever,
(17:17):
And again, like a lot of them keep it real simple,
and I know that they're human. And I have very
well off, wealthy friends that call me and they need
help regardless of how much money is, like, I need
a common person help here, right, Like, man, I won't
want more problems, right, But it just goes to show
you that they're human. And if you start to treat
(17:40):
celebrities per se like they're not human, then that's when
they start to act weird and you're weird, like, yeah,
I'm human. You know that's true. That is very true.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I'm definitely gonna take that advice as well, because sometimes
I don't know if it's just normal because I used
to be an artist as well, and then I pivoted.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
To a podcast them.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But you know, you have that little anxiety before you
get on the stage, but then when you get up there,
you you straight.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I think you gotta separate anxiety from adrenaline. Adrenaline when
it's time to go, Yeah we're doing the Big Facts
and it's one of the ones or were on stage,
I still get that adrenaline, that's yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah, adrenaline.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Fear is like a different feeling. They come from the
same place.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, but you just hear anxiety so much. Man, we
just think everything anxiety.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
You start to bottle up everything is anxiety, but everything
is not. Everything doesn't come from anxious or fearful places. Right,
There's no way you can be going doing the thing
that you envisioned and dreamed of your whole life and
not have some feeling, right unless you're just emotionless.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, absolutely what I'm saying so absolutely. Now we all
know that you are a legendary DJ. You don't work
with outcasts migos. Gee, I mean so many people now.
I did also want to understand through your journey with
you working with so many others, and it seemed like
(19:09):
you helped so many other careers. Was there anyone that
took you under their wing to help you in your
DJ and career or radio or podcast?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Mm hmmm, Like where.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Do you get? Who was your og? Who was DJ
scream og?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
What would DJ? And there was when I wanted to
learn how to DJ, that was a DJ in my
neighborhood shots to him named DJ Nino, And it was
funny because I was like, you got teach me how
to DJ? You teach me how to DJ? All right?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I got you?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I got you, got you?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So I'm like, all right, cool man, I want about
the turntables, Like, what's up? Go in there and figure
it out. I spend all money on this turntables, Like, now,
why would I teach you how to be like me?
That's why go figure out how to be you. And
that was literally my lesson of DJ, like I never
my partner, rig is my witness, Like I never had
(19:57):
a tutorial. We didn't have internet back then, and I'm
in there messing up figuring it out. But much to
the difference of a lot of creators today, it's like
that's part of that longevity because I don't DJ like
anyone else on the my radio show like anyone else.
I'm doing my mixtape like anyone else because I had
to build my own pyramid. Absolutely no, there was no
(20:20):
architect plans for that. So to be honest, I can't
say that I didn't have like what's the word like influences,
you know what I'm saying, Like I was telling you
watching your own TV raps and Rap City and everything's
massive amounts of influences. But personally, no, not till later
on when I got to build with people, went to college,
(20:42):
shots to like DJ Caesar, Jelly, DJ Jlly was somebody
always pick up the phone for me, DJ Nabs. You
know what I'm saying, People like that, but from the
shooting in the gym phase. Now I had to figure
it out.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Gotcha got your story? Yep, dope.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Now, speaking about the mixtapes, I want to see if
you guys were the originators of this new term. We
always say why ends because you had a mixtape with
migos called why Are In Young Rich Niggas? So I'm like,
hold up, were they the actual originators of hy N?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Well? They are definitely what the originators or yr N.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I don't know where to.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I don't know where the rich got lost, man, listen
and recipes take off. Man, I think the logos, the migos,
they they they created in the seeds for a lot
of ways, yes, fashion from you know, they made rap
groups cool again, the flow, the lingo, everything. So yeah,
a lot came from that tape. Yeah, a lot came
(21:44):
from that tape. And I think that was definitely the
seeds for the the y N thing. I just don't
understand where the r went.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, very true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Now when we see it on you guys pop as
Big Fast podcast with you throughout your career, you tended
to grab artists or interview them, get insight from them.
Before they became the big superstars.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
So you got this eye.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
For talent that is very interesting, and I wanted to
kind of get some insight from you. What are maybe
two or three consistent traits and people that you see
before they okay, they had a potential to be a superstar.
I wanted to have a conversation with them. Is there
anything that you see?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, the first one is being unique, you know what
I'm saying, being yourself and then just watching like I
remember we did the Golorella right before she took off,
But I was like, Gorella got it, Like I don't
have to hear too much music and uns she got
it because she's comfortable being herself, you know what I'm saying. Ah,
and I could go big fast does that a lot?
(22:55):
You know, she scream has done that a lot with
her radio. Like if somebody just being themselves and comfortable
being theyself, that's really the main thing. Like we can
get into other things. Of course, you gotta make good
music and so forth and so forth, but you gotta
be able to just be yourself. That's the biggest thing,
right And then you know, sometimes you look at a
(23:16):
sense of like fashion when somebody just has a unique look.
You know what I'm saying. That can help the whole
thing too. Like, man, there's something distinctively they do. This
person stands out from everybody else. While everybody else is
trying to look like other people will look the same,
this person stands out. Those are the things that just
you just know. Man, you just know when you see
a person that is you can use the word star
(23:38):
has it. I just call it the hit factor. They
know somebody has it. It don't matter if they was
playing sports or music or doing a podcast. They just
got it. They're gonna probably be somewhat successful or successful
in anything they do.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
They got it right factor.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
But everybody can't recognize it. It's only certain people that
have that eye. And it can be hard to differentiate
between what's authentic and what's real. But somehow, with you,
you have a very high success.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Rate at figuring that out.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So one quote that I live about that I saw
in a Jay Z interview is everybody has a genius
level of talent. You just have to tap into what
that is. So if you find yourself being good at something,
you should continue to nurture it and get better and
better and better at it, and our culture of the
(24:31):
problem is, See, this is the thing for me. I
ain't signed up for this to talk to people to
be I always thought I was gonna be the guy
back right right, you see what I'm saying. All but
like I said, guy has a funny way of saying no, no, no.
Even when we started a hood Rich it was like
(24:52):
we got a rap artist, this is all We're gonna
make screen big to break this rap artists to kick
and my Pott and the rip. You just had a
real conversation like bro, like you you're on fire, Like
you gotta gotta get out there. Yeah, dressing different, you
gotta start like you're the forefront right now, right. But
I always be that way right now, so you yeah, me,
(25:12):
I just signed up for that. I don't want to
be in the back, right, you know what I mean.
But that's so now you've got people that are great
at being in the back that I want to be
in the line, Like I want to be in the front.
So just just just I just just understand what you're
good or can be great at, and just push it
and flow with it.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah for sure. Yeah, Yeah, that's dope.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Now I think it's very important to nurture you know
what you're good at, what your your gifts are. And
then also it can take you to different places later too,
because like like you were saying, your idea was behind
the scenes, but somehow it pulled you right in the
front because you was nurturing that. Now Big Facts has
become like this very successful show. Can you tell us
(26:00):
a little bit about the dynamics of that? You three
when you on that show, kind of like who a
roll is?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
What?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Or do you even have rolls?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Rolls? My part in the bank of a long time,
a pot in the jade of a long time. We just,
as they're saying, kicking it, you know what I'm saying.
I think that's what made it makes us so good
because we don't know where the conversation's going to go.
We don't do traditional show prep. Of course you ever
know what's going on, but we don't do the traditional
show prep. It's just kind of like everywhere we go
(26:31):
has not been it don't be playing like it's like
when you go there. It's just organic, and I think
organic conversation is where media is going. Please do preparation,
don't like not know who you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Too, But.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, that's what it really is, man, it's just kicking
it in, banks say all the time, like, I can't
believe that we get paid to talk, right, we would
do for free. We would kick it in and talk
for free anyway.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yeah, so that's what it really is. Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
And then how do you guys build a relationship with
the Black Effect podcast network. I know a lot of
people from the outside looking in because they just had
a festival down here a few weeks ago. I came
down here and checked it out. It's real cool event,
a lot of very informative too. So kind of how
you guys developed that relationship.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I mean, always been a fan of Charlemagne personally. I
was on Breakfast Club when I was signing to Atlantic.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
MMG.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
We just did the work and they call true story.
I mean people did. Ah. Man, if you do the
work and the timing is right right, you'll get the call.
But enjoy the process. Wow, that's just a true story.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
So they don't even have to be a whole lot
of pitching going on, Like, focus on what you're doing,
be good at it, and opportunities will come.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Think about this, if someone calls you asking for something,
you treat it different than if you call them asking, right. True,
that's simple. That's what I always tell people, like, just
focus on focus on the process of your journey, and
stop trying to make it happen. When you want to
make it happen, the calls will come. Man. That call
(28:15):
I got was I honestly was thinking about going back
to like get a master's degree, and then Ross call,
so I'm like, man, I'm like, maybe I'll run my
music tenure. Maybe I need to. I don't know because
it's going well, but I wanted to go the way
I wanted to go, So let me maybe I should
just go get more education this that, and the third
(28:37):
Ross calls y'all fly down. I'm sign like four days later.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
So it's just like, don't try to control stuff. Man.
I try to tell people that, and again I want
to overdo it, but that ego says and I want
it now. This is I'm waiting too long, and they
they hain't on me, all right, but it's supposed to
happen when it's supposed to happen.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, very true. A lot of people be.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
In my times and dens like you just you won't
give us the real game. All right, I'm trying to
put you down.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Y'all ain't listening.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, y'all not listening over complicated death ears your story?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah, and for real, I want to pivot to this
segment we have in our show called love, loyalty or respect.
So I'm gonna give you a relationship and you let
me know what's the most important in that relationship, love,
loyality or respect. So since we're talking about big facts
a little bit, let me know what's the most important.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
And you all's relationship, love, loyality or respect.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I definitely say, oh, it's gonna be hard for me
to not answer respect for all of these, but respect
for sure. I mean it could tie with loyalty, okay,
but I think it's hard. It's hard not to be
loyal if you have a respect for It's very true.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
In my opinion.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So there's a lot of respect. Got a lot of
respect for when you say the name Big Bank, when
you say baby Jane, I got a lot of respect
my brother and my sister, like, it's a lot of respect.
I respect them enough to give it one hundred and
ten percent. You know what I'm saying I respect them
enough to love them and love me is telling them
the truth, good or bad. Oh, and I respect them enough, honestly,
(30:26):
loyalty to me.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Is like a genetic thing.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
So it's not like something like you should be loyal
like I don't understand that right like me to which
you aren't really too much in between. So that's the
best way I can answer that one.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, and I was asking my follow up question gonna
be what does respect looked like? But when you're saying
I respect them enough to let them know the good,
let them know the bad, you know, of course, present
it in a way that's digestible, you know, because sometime
we can get someone bad news and being.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Disrespect that's not respect. You can tell someone you don't
like something without trying to question first. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
If you're gonna learn three things in the African household,
you're gonna know about that. You're gonna do your schoolwork,
your studies as they call it. Yeah, right, you will
be diligent in your studies, right, and you gonna learn
about respect. My pops, rest is soul, then play nothing
about it. He was a gentleman, She was gonna respect it,
(31:30):
you know what I'm saying. So that's why I'm so
big on that because it'll take you a long way,
and it will just take you a long way.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Absolutely, is that something that kind of still lives with
you through your pops even though he's not here anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
That having that respect.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Absolutely, It is not respect like people be like, oh
you disrespect him. I'm talking about, like, really respect means
that not only you respected me, but you're respecting the
people are walk in with, respecting my family. It's respect.
It's not see people get respect kind of twisted up
with like trying not to curse so much on your platform,
(32:08):
but dick riding. Oh yeah, ain't nobody asking.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You to be a dick rider.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
What we're saying is respect people I respect. Like if
I say I don't want to come in here because
I don't want it to be smoke field because I
don't want to smell smoke, respect that, Oh no, you're
a bitch bright all right, bro, you're not respecting my wishes.
Or someone can say I don't want to come in
there because it ain't no smoke. I respect that. Cool.
(32:35):
Let's just part ways and respect each other's wishes and
that's it.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yeah, we can do a zoom meeting.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
We can do a zoom you know what I'm saying, like,
disrespect people and if you and if you have a
if you have a class, per se, findamental ground that's
still respectful. You know what I'm saying. For sure, there's
people like I be nothing up sometimes because I don't
eat pork. So I don't even want that don't mean right,
(33:01):
But I have to respect if you do. So I'm
not talking why. I don't want to talk about why
I don't eat it. Yeah, I don't want to smell it. Yeah,
So let's come to a common ground of how we
can You can enjoy consuming what you consume and I
don't have to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah, you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, she solid comes down to a lot of times,
it still goes back to that ego of.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I me me, me me, and.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
And then a lot of times the comments come out
and people start saying things about people and then it escalates.
So a lot of things I try to say to
the younger brothers, like a lot of conflict is just
based on you don't know how to have conflict resolution.
That's been going on since the nineties. When somebody will
step on your shoe and lose lose their life, it's crazy,
(33:44):
like there's some material item, bro real, you know what
I'm saying. So, yeah, you just gotta you just gotta
know how to handle those things.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
In my opinion, Yeah, absolutely all right. So next one, love,
loyal to, your respect? What's the most important When it
comes to your old lady, like your wife.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
She would probably say love. I would probably say loyal to.
But again, it's hard not to exercise love with the
respect is there. So it's another person that I respect.
We respect each other, we love each other, lord to
each other. But without the respect, you can be lord.
(34:26):
Disrespect the man is bad. Yeah, it's bad. Yeah, they'll
say whatever, they'll do, whatever they'll they'll tell you about yourself,
you know what I'm saying. So you gotta respect in
a union man, and respect is so important. But again,
you know it's a woman's nature to kind of focus
(34:47):
on love. Love is emotion, right, right, I love you,
I love you, I love you, and that's great. But
how many people have told people that they love them man,
they weren't loyal to them? Yeah, very true.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I want love. I need Lord, Yeah, you did what
I'm saying. So that's coming from a male's respective, But
I understand because I got sisters and everything like that too,
like that women are emotional beings and they operate like
love is part of their fuel.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Yeah for sure, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
So I get it.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah for sure. You got kids, one kid, one kid.
When it comes to the little one, love lords to
your respect.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And how oh she's three, so working that out. We're
still working that out. Uh, you know, I love her unconditionally. Yeah,
I think she she's she's getting the respect part of it.
But at three, Yeah, you know what I mean, But
I would want her to. Ah a woman, man, it's
(35:51):
crazy like a black woman. I don't think they understand
and I here to appreciated that. But how vital that
respect is? You know what I'm saying. Taking you far
as an understatement, you know what I'm saying, it's vital
(36:12):
for a black man or just a man, or just
a woman or just whatever outside of the race. But
that you got understand, like, oh, women build mental that
you build a reputation for sure. So depending on we'll
just say if said the person walks in we just
(36:33):
what did we just say.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
About Jennet Jennifer?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, you tighten up right now. If I'm not gonna say,
but there's people that I could have said that whatever.
Mm hmm, you know what I mean, like no direspect,
but yeah, you know they they probably were laid. I
was that Okay, cool? Whatever you command your your reputation
(36:57):
is kind of synonymous with that respect.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Absolutely, And it's.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Just certain names that you say, Like if I say
certain names, you just do this, right, If I say
Michelle Obama.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
And it's yeah, it's you straighten up more when it
comes to a woman like that than a man like
that too.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, because I'm telling you that there is there are powers.
There are powers that women have that men don't and
vice versa. Yeah, how it comes together so a woman
doesn't understand all the time, Like I'll be trying to
tell people like, let me trying to tell female DJs,
(37:31):
like your trajectory is crazy. Whatever I've accomplished, you have
no idea like you figure out DJing. It's different. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's a different thing.
You know the power of praying, woman, we all pray.
Now women get to praying. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, it's coming from a core of the heart that
I don't know if we can tap into or we
got to get to a different elevated level to be
able to get to that.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
They create life, right, right?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yeah, So we can say whatever we want back and
forth about men women and equal pay and yes they
should get equal pay and so forth, but they.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Can create life. I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
And I don't use the word can't. I watched my
wife create and bring a life in this world. I
can't do that, right they say, we don't use the
word can't. I am not built for that, right, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Planting seeds out here?
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Yeah, great that we can do that to see, but
I'm not walking around right for nine months, no, buddy. Yeah,
And you have a whole different respect for a woman
even if they haven't created life, but you know that
they can or they have something in them that.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Gives life, know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
So, so women out there command your respect, indeed. Indeed,
And I got a three year old too, man. She
turned four in the June, so it won't be too
LITLEGITVENI or cancer.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I think she had cancer June twenty sixth h yeah,
I said cancer got the answer because I wanted.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
To cancer energy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah, But you know, just having heard though, it's really
just made a difference in my life, how I look
at life, how much I want to work, and because
initially I always said I wanted a son, somebody my
junior and whatnot say. But when I had her, I
was like, Yo, this is I had it so wrong.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
The same story.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
You know what I'm saying, Like I had.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
It wrong, Like you're thinking that you can only your legacy,
legacy can only be passed down through a song.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
It's so flawed.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
And also we just were conditioned to think that ways,
like weird, conditioned in so.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Many wrong ways.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
But I didn't break that until you know me just
looking at us, seeing how she conducts herself, how she
look at me, I'm like, yo, why is you wrong?
I can't imagine you know, I can't imagine you being
no boy.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, it been the thing is you're me. Yeah, I'm
telling you to stop doing stuff that I do. So
I'm getting checked every day, right, I being stubborn? Hold on,
look in the mirror. Oh man, I feel weird here. Yeah, man,
it's it's it's a blessed all. And then I had
(40:21):
already had a dream about a little girl, So the
same thing. You want a son naturalism, man, but already
a little girl. What's coming and start hearing the story.
She's gonna hell your right around the fingers, she's gonna
run you, she's gonna do this, she's gonna do that stuff. Yeah,
those those stories is not false. Yeah, no, no, no story.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Yeah, some way they can look at you, man like yeah,
now going back again, One of my older brother's favorite
mixtapes was with Dobe Long Lived Man, Long Lived, Doughbe
and where the song go whatever whatever, whatever it's.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Like, it was just so dope. We Southern boys.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I'm from Carolina, North Carolina, and but we grew up
on a lot of the mixtapes that you've done, and
and a lot.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Of your your peers as well.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
But you know, even with Dobe, that happened so long ago,
and it seems like these are examples of him having
so much talent and being taken away from us. Our
culture still not learning from those mistakes. What is it
about our culture that still allow people to fall for
(41:36):
these traps? So even I feel like we be convincing them.
To man, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
You know the thing, bro, that's a very complex when
we get into these questions. It's very complex because if
you look at this like twenty ten and forward, and
you look at I'm gonna name people, If you look
at the Migos take offs no longer. Look at Dope
(42:05):
B when I deal with him, he's no longer here.
Look at young Dolph Podjasts I deal with him, He's
no longer here. Oh my brother, Showy Low.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
You know that's my brother.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
You know what I'm saying. So honestly, backgro Fresh in
twenty eighteen, maybe seventeen, I sat back. I was going
through the hard drive of the album I was working
on that never got a chance to come out, and
(42:34):
just hit me, like, you don't feel the same. Because
I talked to Dobe a week before you passed. He
was at my birthday party. Good brother, shout to Frank White.
You know, he put us together. And that's when I
started to I ain't really have nobody asked me if
I was all right, But I had to start asking
myself and my you know what I'm saying. So you know,
(42:56):
he here starts like your therapy journey and this that
and the third obviously stuff you gotta deal with too
as a man, but it just didn't feel the same right,
And then you have a little bit of survivor's remorse,
even though it's nothing you can do about, you know,
when it's someone's time. So I ain't figured that one
out yet. I do know that a lot of the
(43:18):
wise people in my family, you know, say, don't take
your gift for granted, you know what I mean? And
I think that all people that don't agree with this,
But I think that we just take hip hop culture
for granted. If you look at how many people at
houses and how many miles it fees and how lives
is saved, and we just celebrated fifty years of hip hop.
If you go back to day one too, now it's like, man,
(43:41):
don't take your yacht or that car, or that house
or your multiple houses and you're changed. Don't take all
that for granted because it'll be taken from you. So
I don't know where we land with that, and I
don't I honestly, that's one I don't have the answer for.
I know that there's a life cycle, and you know,
this is a journey and it's a temporary journey.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Man, Yeah, it's crazy, I mean because it's our culture
is far more of those tragedies compared to like other
music genres.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
I did see Ryan Coogler just say on Breakfast Club
that they do deal with it a lot in it's
a heavy metal culture or something a lot of amazing
like drugs instead of violence. Listen, man as an entertainer
and the creator, when you get to a certain place
(44:33):
and I'm not even that like the super Top, but
it is a stressful thing, you know what I'm saying,
and you have to know how to deal with it.
I found my way to deal with it. Like I said,
I stopped myself in twenty eighteen is and I'm like,
am I taking this extra drink because I want to
take this such a drink? Or am I taking this
syx a drink to try to numb some because I
(44:55):
had the the insight to deal with it, right. Somebody
might just keep numbing and when numbing, then it hits
a point and then boom. So now you're like dealing
with some real stuff because you never took time to
look at what does it look like? So one of
my first therapy sessions was to look like Wow. She
(45:16):
was like, I couldn't imagine all my coworkers dying tragically
and violently, to the point where it's like I told her,
I'll be known. I expected.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Mm hmm expected. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Like Yo, p and b Rock just got killed. Man,
could damn. I was just talking like what the take
got kill last night? Take off? Right, you don't mess
with huh. So then like when people wonder, why now
you got three year old coming to spot? Nope? Mmmm man, you're.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Ha going funny?
Speaker 1 (45:56):
You my daughter?
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Right, something happened to you because of your job, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
And then the anxiety that my wife has when I
leave the house. You know what I'm saying. So it's
just like we man, we take this ship for granted.
And when you take shit for granted, or when you're disobedient,
and some of this stuff is a spanking. Yeah, you
know what I'm saying. I hate the ricos, I hate
(46:23):
the violence, I hate all of it.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
For my brothers, yeah, but we're being spank Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
And all these trials going on right now, Diddy, who else?
Tory Lanes all this back and forth going on right now?
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Spankings. Hopefully we learn from the spankings and become obedient. Right,
That's what I say, because I don't wish death jail
on nobody, not That's not who I am. But you know,
you got to understand that what what were we doing
when everything was good? Are you giving back to the community?
(46:55):
Are you helping the young ones? Are you leading the
young ones astray?
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Like?
Speaker 1 (46:59):
What are you you? What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (47:02):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (47:03):
What are we doing with our We're winning the game
and we're celebrating, but are we taking care of everybody
that helped us win?
Speaker 3 (47:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Are we taking care of the water boy and this
and that? Are we paying homage to our fans? Right?
So we owe a lot to the people that I
don't take like this be weird to me. People are like,
I'm a fan of you, like I have fans like,
but I respect them, you know what I'm saying. So
all right, let me give them some motivation every Monday.
I do Monday motivation. Oh, let me wake up every
(47:34):
Monday even if I don't feel like it, and they
give them some motivation to go through their week. Let
me let me create a foundation, the screen foundation that
gets back to the community so that the young brothers
that want to do music, we can we can we
can kind of say, Okay, you want to do music,
but you need to be educated and talk to these
young brothers. Let me give back. This is again part
(47:54):
of when you say consistency. Yep, I'm blessed. I don't
be arrogant about it. I'm blessed that twenty some years
later you want to talk to me. Right, there's people
that you probably would want to talk to three years
ago that you won't talk to now.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Talk about big fact.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
I don't take that for granted. Bro.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Yeah, man, that's so true.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
And that's another thing where the reason I really wanted
to have a conversation with you, like I got to
be able to have this conversation with DJ Screen because
I feel like you have such an important voice, Like
your message is what people need to hear, especially when
we're going through what we're going the spanking that we getting.
You know what I'm saying, It's like people really need
(48:38):
to tap into what you're talking about, what your movement is,
you know, positivity, but also you know what, I'm enjoying
the culture as well.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
You know what I'm saying happened, that ear happened.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
That mindset that you have is so key, and that's
how people can reach the highest point. That's the meaning
of our show. So I definitely definitely wanted to, you know,
just tap in with you with that now with us,
you know, getting this spanking that we're getting. Sometimes things
(49:10):
get worse before it get better. Do you think that
might be what's happening.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
While hope and pray for Again, I don't think people
really sit down and do the math. But if the
rug was swept under hip hop culture right now, then
imagine we'll be back in eighty eight crack a lot
of people. Yeah, it's feed a lot of people, your
(49:34):
podcasts regardless, it's this offspring of hip hop culture. Absolutely,
the clothes we have on yeah, you understand I'm saying,
the fashion designers, the stylist, the managers, the publicists, the
bad boy, the DJ, the producers, the engineers, the interns,
the caterers, the jewelers that come on, man, this is printing.
(49:55):
This is an economy. Forget just it's hip hop culture.
It's an economy economy. Yeah, right, we troll all the
bottles in the club, we do we do economy. So
it's not just about that. But I hope and pray
because if not, by twenty twenty eight gonna look like
(50:17):
nineteen eighty eight. We don't want nineteen eighty eight. No, no,
it was alive. No, No about nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
Now, we talked about kind of like your history, all
the dope things you're doing well that you did, and
also we talked about the screen foundation a little bit.
Can you tell us what you see in the future,
CA You're known for making these different timely moves and
kind of evolving what you have going on to you
(50:46):
tell us a little bit about what you're planning on
in the future.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
Anything for me now, man, I think it's to preserve legacy.
I work really hard, man, I work like really hard,
sometimes as to a fault all and now it's it's
always about positioning other people, helping people achieve their dreams,
their goals. That's always been what has been my vitamin.
Speaker 4 (51:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
Like all I could have been people know, people that
know know, Like I could have been ran out on everybody.
I could be on the island by myself and be good.
You know what I'm saying. But I understand purpose. Yes,
So For me, it's just kind of like, you know,
as DJ Scream, I'm proud of where the turntables have
taken me, But as DJ Scream, I'm even more proud.
(51:33):
And I don't take credit for what they've done, but
I'm even more proud of what DJ Spins has accomplished
with swamps or has accomplished MLK and oh man, I
should have started, cause now I got but all fifteen y'all.
I'm proud of them and that I could do anything,
even if it's just give some game or open the
door or whatever the case is. Like, that's that's what
(51:57):
makes me happy. And I'm happy that Big Bank is
a media personality. Yeah, yeah, like that makes me happy.
Like I've been looking at it, like, Bro, you know
you're a media person what's that like, you're a journalist. No,
but he's he like.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
He dope, Man, I like I like, I like he
Like when you were talking about authentic, you can say
when you're listening, he's authentic. You ain't trying to be
nothing nobody else.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
And that's what it's about. Man. Oh, that's what makes
me happy.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
Bad.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
So if I could do more of that, yeah, throughout
the journey man, and do my part and do it
with a smile, but still let people know that I
go through stuff absolutely and I'm saying I'm human.
Speaker 3 (52:45):
Then cool bad.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
And of course your biggest project is kid now, so
I don't want to put too much more on the
table and not have time to you know, my biggest
project receive planners. Yeah, so you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah,
it's just it's just, uh, that's that's my thing, man.
(53:07):
So whatever whatever spirit leads me to do, entrepreneurship is
like big for me.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
You still got a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
The restaurant is coming any day. Oh, so that's important.
Entrepreneurship other ventures. I mean, there's entrepreneurship. There's quietly like
real estate stuff, there's financial literacy stuff, there's you know,
media outside of us, we have a media network, you
know what I'm saying. We're bring in some other pods
and hopefully can take them, you know what I mean,
(53:36):
to a higher level. And that's just it, man. Just
continue to kind of take it one day at a
time and just launch this progression. But with that progression,
the biggest thing I learned is like like patience, So
whenever it's supposed to happen. I'm cool with that. I'm
at total peace with that. I'm not even talking like
some people say stuff because it sounds good. I don't
(53:56):
be Russian.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
Yeah, I don't be Russian.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
Then set my food.
Speaker 3 (54:01):
Right, we get a hungry right right fast that I'll
be cool.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
All right, man, it's dope. Now I'm about to have
that moment like you had with Janet. I want to
ask you, you know, so, since you had this experience
and we appreciate you blessing us to have this moment
with you, what type of advice would you give me
in my podcasting media journey?
Speaker 1 (54:26):
I have a purpose for your when you do media
or you do anything, have a purpose for it. We
miss a little things because we weren't taught these things
like in school. But it's like when you have a
company or you have anything, you should have a mission statement,
even if if it's written down.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
But a lot of people have done they do music,
or they do pos. They don't even have a I
don't even know why. What's your podcast about?
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Well? We just be going up. Yeah, okay, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
Ah, But you know, in Big Facts, the initial conversation
with me and Bank, he was like, I don't want
to do all that like trying to get people to
beef with each other.
Speaker 3 (55:07):
I want to heal.
Speaker 1 (55:08):
They don't want to say. You know, I'm going to say,
we just big facts. Come speak your truth. Hope that
it's the truth all the time is not. But it's
your truth unless because you got to have difficult conversations
to get the healing. You know what I'm saying. That's
what we're about. So stay true or whatever your mission
and your purpose is. You can't break that for no
(55:29):
amount of money. You can't break that for no opportunity.
You gotta stay true to it, that mission and purposes.
Them your colors, and you stand on them colors and
them colors mean something to You can't let a billion
dollars come in and the change them colors. These are
my colors, bro. You take my colors and you take
what comes with my production or God got me. That's real.
(55:50):
And if you stay lord of that, that billion will
be two billions. The best I can tell you I've
been there, not that I have a billion or two.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
Billion dollars all out.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
That's context. We cash up a question.
Speaker 2 (56:04):
That's real, man. Y'all heard it here first man. That's
he gave the game on how to reach the highest point.
I definitely want to appreciate you joining us, DJ scream
How can the people tap into what you got going on?
Speaker 3 (56:14):
Follow you and all that.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
Good stuff, djscream Man all social media's TRIPLEW dot bigfaxpod
dot com, TRIPLEW dot the Djscreamshow dot com, check me
out on radio, your podcast, your mixtapes, your community events.
We out here man, and I appreciate you for the invite.
Speaker 3 (56:30):
Yes, sir, indeed man, thank you.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
Much respect to you and d.
Speaker 3 (56:32):
Until next time. You guys hold it down, don't let
it hold you peace. Sorry. Podcasts more than the pod.
It's a lifestylefestyle style
I'm training every day. It was for the Janitor Janet people,
Janet Jes true true story. So you sometimes you don't know,
like when you're on the black top playing basketball, playing
you playing for Game seven of the NBA Finals. I
stopped myself in twenty eighteen ish and I'm like, am
I taking this Yes drink because I want to take
(00:21):
this such a drink? Or am I taking this syx
a drink to try to numb some because I had
the insight to deal with it. Somebody might just keep numbing.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Speaking about the mixtapes, I want to see if you
guys were the originators of this new term. We always
say why ends because you had a mixtape with Migos
called why are in Young Richness? So I'm like, hold on,
were they the actual originators of why n.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Man listen and recipes takeoff? Man? I think the Migos podcasts.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
More than the pard It's a lifestyle like style style
Yo yo yo, Welcome to the Higher Point Podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
This is a show for everyone who's willing to put
in the label to be greater, to reach the highest point. Now,
speaking about putting in the work, we got a very
very special guest in the building I'm talking about. We
have a pioneer, a trap music professor, legendary DJ, radio
and podcast hosts who is literally the epitome of longevity,
making his mark in each era in different ways.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I like to welcome none other than DJ Screen. What's
good with you, my brother?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's a good way to start today.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, man, it's just facts.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I just seen so much that you do.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And on this show, we like to focus in on
the journey of people because a lot of times people
see this finished product and think that thing happened overnight,
and no, sir, no way in the world happened overnight. Still, right,
A lot of ups and downs in the journey, and
we like to talk about those things on this show. So,
you know, I wanted to ask you, can you tell
the people you know, what where are you from and
(02:01):
what was your family dynamics growing up?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Oh? Man, I've been I've been everywhere. Man. Father was African,
my mom was from Montgomery, Alabama. They actually met in
New York in the record store right how I run it.
And basically that's the essence of like my family, you
(02:23):
got like African tradition and African morals and everything here
on one side, and then on the other side you
got that good down South morals and tradition mixed with
civil rights and struggle and everything like that. So that
all messed right here in Atlanta to cater Atlanta, whatever
(02:44):
you want to say. And that upbringing was one of
coming up in Atlanta. And then my parents decided they
wanted to go to New York, but they didn't really
want to raise me in New York. When they got
they like, nah, we don't know, we want to in
New York. But while I was there for this small
period of time, I got exposed to hip hop. And
(03:06):
I remember being like, I don't know, your first memories
four or five years old, and I'm looking. I'm like,
they're spraying graffiti everywhere, They're spinning on their hood, these
crazy people, right, you know what I'm saying. But I
always just had an interest in it. So when I
came back, we came back down to Atlanta. That's the
era of like your on TV raps, you know what
(03:28):
I'm saying, and even some of the local Atlanta music
shows like American Rap Maker, Shots That a Star and
all that, And man, I just always had an infatuation
for not necessarily the people in the front of the
videos what they doing back there. It's kind of be
a nosy you know what I'm saying, Like, Yeah, what
(03:49):
the Jazzy Jeff premiere? Like the people behind them, like
I'm looking at them. It was just something so long
story made short. Man, I just became like a music head,
which I was kind of born into it because my
mom listened to jazz religiously. My father listened to reggae religiously.
So you know, every every weekend morning, I'm hearing like
(04:12):
the record players the snap crackle pop in some type
of vinyl or record, so I'm playing with the records.
So I always got to say I was kind of
like purposely born into it, you know what I'm saying.
Like again, people be like you made that up for
your bio. Nah. My parents met in a record store
in New York City, like true story. So it's just
kind of like something that by the time I actually
(04:32):
got turntables right and then I put them in front
of me and put records. I've heard people say this
about basketball and other crafts. I felt at home. Wow,
it was just like the sense of calm and peace.
Even to this day, if I'm stressed out if I
get behind You never see me like angry behind turntables
unless I'm in the club getting harassed by someone. But
that's another thing. But you never see me like angry
(04:52):
when I'm in the act of DJing or behind turntables.
That's my piece.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, absolutely, that's dope. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Now with you having that for vision of hip hop
in New York kind of what was the difference when
you came to an area like Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That's a great question. You know New York was and
I'm in I'm in the heart of where it started.
We're in the Bronx. So down here. See what I
understand now, is that coming down here, if they were
break dancing up there, they was ticking down here. You
see what I'm saying. If they was, if they had
(05:29):
ciphers up there, here's somebody beat on the table. I
was one of them too. Yeah, what I'm saying, that's
their cipher. I don't know too much about. Well, there
is some graffiti in Atlanta. If you talk go through
the elements. Their DJ's rock out. One way. They put
(05:50):
R and B music over hip hop, right beat, we
put R and B music over booty shape So what
I kind of know now I didn't really know then
I was just spears, is that it's all the same.
And then there's there's there's a synonymous like even we're
talking about the streets, man, there's a synonymous slang word
everywhere you go. It's just a different word. It means
the same thing exactly. You see what I'm saying, like
(06:13):
money or scrilla, scriller of fetti or paper do or cheat,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, so what I've known,
what what I just learned just traveling the world, even
when I went overseas, it's like part of my friends, Like, yo,
it's all the same ship.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, it's got sound different, got a different.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Term, but it's the same hoods, the same struggles, the
same political bs, the same Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
It's why ends everywhere there's like that's how you're feeling
with religion too.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Man, It's like it's so it got so many parallels.
Why y'all got beef y'all really preaching about the same thing.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Because I've been on this thing and it's, uh, it's
probably a never ending journey. Read a lot of deep
hot Choker around COVID. Yeah, and a lot of Eastern philosophy,
and me personally has their own opinion. I think the
culporate to all our issues is ego, and I've been
attacking my ego. I'm not a big egotistical person that
(07:12):
it is, but I still have an ego. We all do, absolutely,
and there is a time and place for it. But
the thing is like, if you get rid of that ego,
become free because now you don't care. Now you don't
care about other people, right, you don't care what other
people think about you, Right, You're able to just soar freely.
So I think that anything you're talking about, religious division,
(07:33):
political division and everything, we all want the same thing.
If we really sit back and think about it, it's peace.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And when you're talking about ego, it's like, I feel
like your temperament has always been kind of even keel,
you know. It seems like you always could handle yourself
under pressure. And then we start talking about your mom
and your pop's background. I'm like, Okay, that sounds like
that got a lot to do with it as well.
But I did want to ask you as well though.
Even having a good temperament, we all come to crossbold
(08:02):
crossroads in life.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Can you reflect back on your youth when you were
presented in a in a crossbold situation?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Which way did you go?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And why I get presented with him every day? Youth? Yeah?
Oh you know when you.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Like a pivotal moment, Well when you But I was
blessed to live like I keep it.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Really, I was blessed to live through my childhood in
upper middle class neighborhoods. But I even say I was
blessed to live right over there on Ashby in the
West End, in the hood here in gunshots. So I
was blessed to see both sides of its. People say
blessed now, because I think that you need to see
(08:49):
that all exist. Think about that person in the Hollywood
Hills that's never seen any diversity when adversity comes, this
is why they cracked.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Absolutely never been through it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
So I've been through. Were good, We're in this nice crib.
Were good to Hey, there's an eviction notice on the door.
I've been drawing it. You do know what I'm saying.
So I say that just to say for me to
cross road was in those times of not having so
much then you know how got homies, and the homies
(09:19):
is like, yo, you know you ain't gotta be broke,
you know, so we can get it out of here. Man,
that sounds real good. But my mama said, yeah, yeah,
you know what I'm saying. And then the whole full
circle of that is and again the piece man behind
them turntables. I always just had this voice in the
spirit telling me just keep doing that.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
You're gonna be all right.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And when I think about those turntables and nineteen ninety fours,
twenty years of DJ Scream last year in twenty twenty four,
but I think about those turntables, man, I mean I
had a moment last year. It's turntables. Don't take me
to Canada, Africa, Wow, Paris, the Eye, Allens, every island
you can imagine. I was supposed to go to Asia
(10:05):
right before COVID happened. Hopefully that'll come back around. Probably
not going to go to Australia because the flight is
too down long, but who knows. But it's it's taken
me around most of the world. Definitely the United States.
I think I've been to every state except four of them.
You know what I'm saying, so a lot of people
can't say that for sure, And speaking back to the Crossroad,
(10:27):
it's just something always told me. I still get, I
still know when it's gonna be all right. I get
that voice meditated a lot and then I know, and
it's like, way, you might have some adversity, but you
got to push through it and stay in faith, you
know what I'm saying. So I've always listened to that
voice and been smart enough to listen to that voice,
even since I was young.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, but you know, we always had those two voices.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, we can get some money there real quick, right right,
And it's a struggle sometimes to not listen to that
one because a lot of time that other voice is
that quick and easy way you know, when you listen
to that voice, where you can have longevity is like
stand of course, like you were just talking about. And
I think that's very important and another reason why we
(11:09):
do this show man, so people can really you know,
tap into people.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Who has traveled these roads, you know, been where they are.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Seeing the ups and downs and so like, look, this
is how you need to navigate if you're looking for
longevity like you, like I said, and android, you're the
epitome of longevity that's seen you pivot and do so
many different things.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
How do you time?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
It seems like you're timing is always right too, Like.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Like, what is it like, are you looking scared to sing?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Like? All, I pray a lot God first, that's the
first thing. And in addition to that, actually like reading
deep a lot of less effort, least effort. That's your shame.
And that's when it's like if you're trying to make
(12:00):
it happen so hard and it's not happening and it
ain't flowing, then it creates that this is supposed to happen.
Now I'm the best rapper or on this or this,
but this is like, man, I respect the timing because
I've had some amazing things happen.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
At the wrong time. What does that look like?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It looked like having your best moment and maybe not
being ready for it. That doesn't mean like like take,
for instance, okay you do a podcast. Of course, if
I leave out here and they say Barack Obama for
the come do an interview, you're ready, You're gonna do it.
(12:41):
She's like, damn, if I.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Would have had a light man, or if.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I would have you know what I'm saying. So my
thing is I want those moments now. It's one of
my biggest prayers, like please let them happen when I
cannot only execute them. Well, but I'm like, perfectly you
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
So that's I've had. I've had those moments. Like as
a media person, I was ready for the Janet interview.
I'm training every day and sometimes I'm like, well, I'm
not doing all these interviews. So of these people aren't
even talking about nothing, right, But it was for the
Janet interview because nobody took me serious and media to
the Janitor Janet people, Janet Jes true true story. So
(13:24):
sometimes you don't know, like when you're on the black
top playing basketball, playing you playing for Game seven of
the NBA Finals fast, but you got to treat So
every interview I'm treating like Janet. I'm not coming in
their bs and because you're not Janet, I'm doing my work,
I'm doing my research. I'm doing this day. Be like
how you know that? Right, I'm forgot about that because
(13:47):
I'm here to do my job. Right. You never know
who looking or who paying attention. So I say that
just to say. Oh, man, when they say patience is
a virtue and waiting for the right moment, that's such,
that's so important because if it comes, if it comes prematurely,
then it's funny. Like it's funny. I got you use
an opportunity so you can mess it up or not
(14:09):
execute to the highest of you know what I'm saying, Yes,
their ability. So that's the way I kind of look
at it, and I don't. I just go with the
flow of time. That's that's why it doesn't. That's why
it looks the way it does because I'm not I'm
not saying I'll try. I hustle every day, yeah, but
I'm not trying to make nothing happen before it's supposed
to happen or if it's not supposed to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, Like you trust the process, have to now, Man,
this Janet thing is just how does Janet Jackson come
across your table?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Like I just gotta I got a call. I thought
I was being catfished and pranked and everything with it.
She was in town. There's like Janet wants to do
like dj't screen Hoodidge radio, like she wow pitched the tours.
She's like I want to do something like that. I'm like, whatever,
what time i gotta be there. They're like seven am.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I'll be there at five.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Since Janet Jackson's coming. Yeah right, but I'll just tell
the stories. Is funny, man, Like, of course her security
came in. This is they have to sweep the room
and check them like tat me down, Like I get it.
I'm not offended, right, And then all after that it's
like Janet Watson And then this is like the air
(15:29):
just the energy changes. I'm not even exaggerated, bro, Like
I can tell you a few people we've done interviews
like that, but like the energy just changes. And she's like,
oh my god, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I'm late.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I'm so sorry you guys. DJ I'm like, you can't
be late. M hmm, right right, And she was early,
but maybe they told her another time, so you weren't
really late. So that was surreal and the interview was
classic and they had a big viral moments and everything.
And then when I took the picture with her, I
(16:02):
was like, Jane, to ask you a question and then
she was like sure, anything.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Script, don't say my name like that.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I was like, any advice you're getting somebody like me.
She was like, you're doing a great job. Just keep
doing it. That's all I need to do. Really, some
of the biggest people you have conversations with keep it
real simple, right, And that's what I'm learning, Like even
some of the most successful people in any journey, they
keep it real simple. Don't overthink it.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, we can't complicate things.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Human mind can complicate a lot, but you know what
is really complicated?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
What's that again?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It boils down the ego a lot. Now, how do
you navigate the anxiousness when it's such a big artist
comes in and sucks that air out the room? Like
or do you feel anxiousness or anxiety?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Because I don't look at myself like so celebrity, right,
But I've had I had a dude like shaking at
the gas station, man, bro, I got the same bills
as you. You know what I'm saying. But I know
that they're human to the world. The biggest people who
been in their own the biggest people millionaires, billionaires, whatever,
(17:17):
And again, like a lot of them keep it real simple,
and I know that they're human. And I have very
well off, wealthy friends that call me and they need
help regardless of how much money is, like, I need
a common person help here, right, Like, man, I won't
want more problems, right, But it just goes to show
you that they're human. And if you start to treat
(17:40):
celebrities per se like they're not human, then that's when
they start to act weird and you're weird, like, yeah,
I'm human. You know that's true. That is very true.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I'm definitely gonna take that advice as well, because sometimes
I don't know if it's just normal because I used
to be an artist as well, and then I pivoted.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
To a podcast them.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But you know, you have that little anxiety before you
get on the stage, but then when you get up there,
you you straight.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I think you gotta separate anxiety from adrenaline. Adrenaline when
it's time to go, Yeah we're doing the Big Facts
and it's one of the ones or were on stage,
I still get that adrenaline, that's yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah, adrenaline.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Fear is like a different feeling. They come from the
same place.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, but you just hear anxiety so much. Man, we
just think everything anxiety.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
You start to bottle up everything is anxiety, but everything
is not. Everything doesn't come from anxious or fearful places. Right,
There's no way you can be going doing the thing
that you envisioned and dreamed of your whole life and
not have some feeling, right unless you're just emotionless.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, absolutely what I'm saying so absolutely. Now we all
know that you are a legendary DJ. You don't work
with outcasts migos. Gee, I mean so many people now.
I did also want to understand through your journey with
you working with so many others, and it seemed like
(19:09):
you helped so many other careers. Was there anyone that
took you under their wing to help you in your
DJ and career or radio or podcast?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Mm hmmm, Like where.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Do you get? Who was your og? Who was DJ
scream og?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
What would DJ? And there was when I wanted to
learn how to DJ, that was a DJ in my
neighborhood shots to him named DJ Nino, And it was
funny because I was like, you got teach me how
to DJ? You teach me how to DJ? All right?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I got you?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I got you, got you?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So I'm like, all right, cool man, I want about
the turntables, Like, what's up? Go in there and figure
it out. I spend all money on this turntables, Like, now,
why would I teach you how to be like me?
That's why go figure out how to be you. And
that was literally my lesson of DJ, like I never
my partner, rig is my witness, Like I never had
(19:57):
a tutorial. We didn't have internet back then, and I'm
in there messing up figuring it out. But much to
the difference of a lot of creators today, it's like
that's part of that longevity because I don't DJ like
anyone else on the my radio show like anyone else.
I'm doing my mixtape like anyone else because I had
to build my own pyramid. Absolutely no, there was no
(20:20):
architect plans for that. So to be honest, I can't
say that I didn't have like what's the word like influences,
you know what I'm saying, Like I was telling you
watching your own TV raps and Rap City and everything's
massive amounts of influences. But personally, no, not till later
on when I got to build with people, went to college,
(20:42):
shots to like DJ Caesar, Jelly, DJ Jlly was somebody
always pick up the phone for me, DJ Nabs. You
know what I'm saying, People like that, but from the
shooting in the gym phase. Now I had to figure
it out.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Gotcha got your story? Yep, dope.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Now, speaking about the mixtapes, I want to see if
you guys were the originators of this new term. We
always say why ends because you had a mixtape with
migos called why Are In Young Rich Niggas? So I'm like,
hold up, were they the actual originators of hy N?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Well? They are definitely what the originators or yr N.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I don't know where to.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I don't know where the rich got lost, man, listen
and recipes take off. Man, I think the logos, the migos,
they they they created in the seeds for a lot
of ways, yes, fashion from you know, they made rap
groups cool again, the flow, the lingo, everything. So yeah,
a lot came from that tape. Yeah, a lot came
(21:44):
from that tape. And I think that was definitely the
seeds for the the y N thing. I just don't
understand where the r went.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, very true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Now when we see it on you guys pop as
Big Fast podcast with you throughout your career, you tended
to grab artists or interview them, get insight from them.
Before they became the big superstars.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
So you got this eye.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
For talent that is very interesting, and I wanted to
kind of get some insight from you. What are maybe
two or three consistent traits and people that you see
before they okay, they had a potential to be a superstar.
I wanted to have a conversation with them. Is there
anything that you see?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, the first one is being unique, you know what
I'm saying, being yourself and then just watching like I
remember we did the Golorella right before she took off,
But I was like, Gorella got it, Like I don't
have to hear too much music and uns she got
it because she's comfortable being herself, you know what I'm saying. Ah,
and I could go big fast does that a lot?
(22:55):
You know, she scream has done that a lot with
her radio. Like if somebody just being themselves and comfortable
being theyself, that's really the main thing. Like we can
get into other things. Of course, you gotta make good
music and so forth and so forth, but you gotta
be able to just be yourself. That's the biggest thing,
right And then you know, sometimes you look at a
(23:16):
sense of like fashion when somebody just has a unique look.
You know what I'm saying. That can help the whole
thing too. Like, man, there's something distinctively they do. This
person stands out from everybody else. While everybody else is
trying to look like other people will look the same,
this person stands out. Those are the things that just
you just know. Man, you just know when you see
a person that is you can use the word star
(23:38):
has it. I just call it the hit factor. They
know somebody has it. It don't matter if they was
playing sports or music or doing a podcast. They just
got it. They're gonna probably be somewhat successful or successful
in anything they do.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
They got it right factor.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
But everybody can't recognize it. It's only certain people that
have that eye. And it can be hard to differentiate
between what's authentic and what's real. But somehow, with you,
you have a very high success.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Rate at figuring that out.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So one quote that I live about that I saw
in a Jay Z interview is everybody has a genius
level of talent. You just have to tap into what
that is. So if you find yourself being good at something,
you should continue to nurture it and get better and
better and better at it, and our culture of the
(24:31):
problem is, See, this is the thing for me. I
ain't signed up for this to talk to people to
be I always thought I was gonna be the guy
back right right, you see what I'm saying. All but
like I said, guy has a funny way of saying no, no, no.
Even when we started a hood Rich it was like
(24:52):
we got a rap artist, this is all We're gonna
make screen big to break this rap artists to kick
and my Pott and the rip. You just had a
real conversation like bro, like you you're on fire, Like
you gotta gotta get out there. Yeah, dressing different, you
gotta start like you're the forefront right now, right. But
I always be that way right now, so you yeah, me,
(25:12):
I just signed up for that. I don't want to
be in the back, right, you know what I mean.
But that's so now you've got people that are great
at being in the back that I want to be
in the line, Like I want to be in the front.
So just just just I just just understand what you're
good or can be great at, and just push it
and flow with it.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah for sure. Yeah, Yeah, that's dope.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Now I think it's very important to nurture you know
what you're good at, what your your gifts are. And
then also it can take you to different places later too,
because like like you were saying, your idea was behind
the scenes, but somehow it pulled you right in the
front because you was nurturing that. Now Big Facts has
become like this very successful show. Can you tell us
(26:00):
a little bit about the dynamics of that? You three
when you on that show, kind of like who a
roll is?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
What?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Or do you even have rolls?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Rolls? My part in the bank of a long time,
a pot in the jade of a long time. We just,
as they're saying, kicking it, you know what I'm saying.
I think that's what made it makes us so good
because we don't know where the conversation's going to go.
We don't do traditional show prep. Of course you ever
know what's going on, but we don't do the traditional
show prep. It's just kind of like everywhere we go
(26:31):
has not been it don't be playing like it's like
when you go there. It's just organic, and I think
organic conversation is where media is going. Please do preparation,
don't like not know who you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Too, But.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, that's what it really is, man, it's just kicking
it in, banks say all the time, like, I can't
believe that we get paid to talk, right, we would
do for free. We would kick it in and talk
for free anyway.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yeah, so that's what it really is. Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
And then how do you guys build a relationship with
the Black Effect podcast network. I know a lot of
people from the outside looking in because they just had
a festival down here a few weeks ago. I came
down here and checked it out. It's real cool event,
a lot of very informative too. So kind of how
you guys developed that relationship.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I mean, always been a fan of Charlemagne personally. I
was on Breakfast Club when I was signing to Atlantic.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
MMG.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
We just did the work and they call true story.
I mean people did. Ah. Man, if you do the
work and the timing is right right, you'll get the call.
But enjoy the process. Wow, that's just a true story.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
So they don't even have to be a whole lot
of pitching going on, Like, focus on what you're doing,
be good at it, and opportunities will come.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Think about this, if someone calls you asking for something,
you treat it different than if you call them asking, right. True,
that's simple. That's what I always tell people, like, just
focus on focus on the process of your journey, and
stop trying to make it happen. When you want to
make it happen, the calls will come. Man. That call
(28:15):
I got was I honestly was thinking about going back
to like get a master's degree, and then Ross call,
so I'm like, man, I'm like, maybe I'll run my
music tenure. Maybe I need to. I don't know because
it's going well, but I wanted to go the way
I wanted to go, So let me maybe I should
just go get more education this that, and the third
(28:37):
Ross calls y'all fly down. I'm sign like four days later.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
So it's just like, don't try to control stuff. Man.
I try to tell people that, and again I want
to overdo it, but that ego says and I want
it now. This is I'm waiting too long, and they
they hain't on me, all right, but it's supposed to
happen when it's supposed to happen.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, very true. A lot of people be.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
In my times and dens like you just you won't
give us the real game. All right, I'm trying to
put you down.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Y'all ain't listening.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, y'all not listening over complicated death ears your story?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah, and for real, I want to pivot to this
segment we have in our show called love, loyalty or respect.
So I'm gonna give you a relationship and you let
me know what's the most important in that relationship, love,
loyality or respect. So since we're talking about big facts
a little bit, let me know what's the most important.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
And you all's relationship, love, loyality or respect.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I definitely say, oh, it's gonna be hard for me
to not answer respect for all of these, but respect
for sure. I mean it could tie with loyalty, okay,
but I think it's hard. It's hard not to be
loyal if you have a respect for It's very true.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
In my opinion.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So there's a lot of respect. Got a lot of
respect for when you say the name Big Bank, when
you say baby Jane, I got a lot of respect
my brother and my sister, like, it's a lot of respect.
I respect them enough to give it one hundred and
ten percent. You know what I'm saying I respect them
enough to love them and love me is telling them
the truth, good or bad. Oh, and I respect them enough, honestly,
(30:26):
loyalty to me.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Is like a genetic thing.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
So it's not like something like you should be loyal
like I don't understand that right like me to which
you aren't really too much in between. So that's the
best way I can answer that one.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, and I was asking my follow up question gonna
be what does respect looked like? But when you're saying
I respect them enough to let them know the good,
let them know the bad, you know, of course, present
it in a way that's digestible, you know, because sometime
we can get someone bad news and being.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Disrespect that's not respect. You can tell someone you don't
like something without trying to question first. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
If you're gonna learn three things in the African household,
you're gonna know about that. You're gonna do your schoolwork,
your studies as they call it. Yeah, right, you will
be diligent in your studies, right, and you gonna learn
about respect. My pops, rest is soul, then play nothing
about it. He was a gentleman, She was gonna respect it,
(31:30):
you know what I'm saying. So that's why I'm so
big on that because it'll take you a long way,
and it will just take you a long way.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Absolutely, is that something that kind of still lives with
you through your pops even though he's not here anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
That having that respect.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Absolutely, It is not respect like people be like, oh
you disrespect him. I'm talking about, like, really respect means
that not only you respected me, but you're respecting the
people are walk in with, respecting my family. It's respect.
It's not see people get respect kind of twisted up
with like trying not to curse so much on your platform,
(32:08):
but dick riding. Oh yeah, ain't nobody asking.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You to be a dick rider.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
What we're saying is respect people I respect. Like if
I say I don't want to come in here because
I don't want it to be smoke field because I
don't want to smell smoke, respect that, Oh no, you're
a bitch bright all right, bro, you're not respecting my wishes.
Or someone can say I don't want to come in
there because it ain't no smoke. I respect that. Cool.
(32:35):
Let's just part ways and respect each other's wishes and
that's it.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yeah, we can do a zoom meeting.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
We can do a zoom you know what I'm saying, like,
disrespect people and if you and if you have a
if you have a class, per se, findamental ground that's
still respectful. You know what I'm saying. For sure, there's
people like I be nothing up sometimes because I don't
eat pork. So I don't even want that don't mean right,
(33:01):
But I have to respect if you do. So I'm
not talking why. I don't want to talk about why
I don't eat it. Yeah, I don't want to smell it. Yeah,
So let's come to a common ground of how we
can You can enjoy consuming what you consume and I
don't have to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah, you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, she solid comes down to a lot of times,
it still goes back to that ego of.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I me me, me me, and.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
And then a lot of times the comments come out
and people start saying things about people and then it escalates.
So a lot of things I try to say to
the younger brothers, like a lot of conflict is just
based on you don't know how to have conflict resolution.
That's been going on since the nineties. When somebody will
step on your shoe and lose lose their life, it's crazy,
(33:44):
like there's some material item, bro real, you know what
I'm saying. So, yeah, you just gotta you just gotta
know how to handle those things.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
In my opinion, Yeah, absolutely all right. So next one, love,
loyal to, your respect? What's the most important When it
comes to your old lady, like your wife.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
She would probably say love. I would probably say loyal to.
But again, it's hard not to exercise love with the
respect is there. So it's another person that I respect.
We respect each other, we love each other, lord to
each other. But without the respect, you can be lord.
(34:26):
Disrespect the man is bad. Yeah, it's bad. Yeah, they'll
say whatever, they'll do, whatever they'll they'll tell you about yourself,
you know what I'm saying. So you gotta respect in
a union man, and respect is so important. But again,
you know it's a woman's nature to kind of focus
(34:47):
on love. Love is emotion, right, right, I love you,
I love you, I love you, and that's great. But
how many people have told people that they love them man,
they weren't loyal to them? Yeah, very true.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I want love. I need Lord, Yeah, you did what
I'm saying. So that's coming from a male's respective, But
I understand because I got sisters and everything like that too,
like that women are emotional beings and they operate like
love is part of their fuel.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Yeah for sure, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
So I get it.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah for sure. You got kids, one kid, one kid.
When it comes to the little one, love lords to
your respect.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And how oh she's three, so working that out. We're
still working that out. Uh, you know, I love her unconditionally. Yeah,
I think she she's she's getting the respect part of it.
But at three, Yeah, you know what I mean, But
I would want her to. Ah a woman, man, it's
(35:51):
crazy like a black woman. I don't think they understand
and I here to appreciated that. But how vital that
respect is? You know what I'm saying. Taking you far
as an understatement, you know what I'm saying, it's vital
(36:12):
for a black man or just a man, or just
a woman or just whatever outside of the race. But
that you got understand, like, oh, women build mental that
you build a reputation for sure. So depending on we'll
just say if said the person walks in we just
(36:33):
what did we just say.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
About Jennet Jennifer?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, you tighten up right now. If I'm not gonna say,
but there's people that I could have said that whatever.
Mm hmm, you know what I mean, like no direspect,
but yeah, you know they they probably were laid. I
was that Okay, cool? Whatever you command your your reputation
(36:57):
is kind of synonymous with that respect.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Absolutely, And it's.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Just certain names that you say, Like if I say
certain names, you just do this, right, If I say
Michelle Obama.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
And it's yeah, it's you straighten up more when it
comes to a woman like that than a man like
that too.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, because I'm telling you that there is there are powers.
There are powers that women have that men don't and
vice versa. Yeah, how it comes together so a woman
doesn't understand all the time, Like I'll be trying to
tell people like, let me trying to tell female DJs,
(37:31):
like your trajectory is crazy. Whatever I've accomplished, you have
no idea like you figure out DJing. It's different. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's a different thing.
You know the power of praying, woman, we all pray.
Now women get to praying. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, it's coming from a core of the heart that
I don't know if we can tap into or we
got to get to a different elevated level to be
able to get to that.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
They create life, right, right?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yeah, So we can say whatever we want back and
forth about men women and equal pay and yes they
should get equal pay and so forth, but they.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Can create life. I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
And I don't use the word can't. I watched my
wife create and bring a life in this world. I
can't do that, right they say, we don't use the
word can't. I am not built for that, right, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Planting seeds out here?
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Yeah, great that we can do that to see, but
I'm not walking around right for nine months, no, buddy. Yeah,
And you have a whole different respect for a woman
even if they haven't created life, but you know that
they can or they have something in them that.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Gives life, know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
So, so women out there command your respect, indeed. Indeed,
And I got a three year old too, man. She
turned four in the June, so it won't be too
LITLEGITVENI or cancer.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I think she had cancer June twenty sixth h yeah,
I said cancer got the answer because I wanted.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
To cancer energy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah, But you know, just having heard though, it's really
just made a difference in my life, how I look
at life, how much I want to work, and because
initially I always said I wanted a son, somebody my
junior and whatnot say. But when I had her, I
was like, Yo, this is I had it so wrong.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
The same story.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
You know what I'm saying, Like I had.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
It wrong, Like you're thinking that you can only your legacy,
legacy can only be passed down through a song.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
It's so flawed.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
And also we just were conditioned to think that ways,
like weird, conditioned in so.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Many wrong ways.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
But I didn't break that until you know me just
looking at us, seeing how she conducts herself, how she
look at me, I'm like, yo, why is you wrong?
I can't imagine you know, I can't imagine you being
no boy.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, it been the thing is you're me. Yeah, I'm
telling you to stop doing stuff that I do. So
I'm getting checked every day, right, I being stubborn? Hold on,
look in the mirror. Oh man, I feel weird here. Yeah, man,
it's it's it's a blessed all. And then I had
(40:21):
already had a dream about a little girl, So the
same thing. You want a son naturalism, man, but already
a little girl. What's coming and start hearing the story.
She's gonna hell your right around the fingers, she's gonna
run you, she's gonna do this, she's gonna do that stuff. Yeah,
those those stories is not false. Yeah, no, no, no story.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Yeah, some way they can look at you, man like yeah,
now going back again, One of my older brother's favorite
mixtapes was with Dobe Long Lived Man, Long Lived, Doughbe
and where the song go whatever whatever, whatever it's.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Like, it was just so dope. We Southern boys.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I'm from Carolina, North Carolina, and but we grew up
on a lot of the mixtapes that you've done, and
and a lot.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Of your your peers as well.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
But you know, even with Dobe, that happened so long ago,
and it seems like these are examples of him having
so much talent and being taken away from us. Our
culture still not learning from those mistakes. What is it
about our culture that still allow people to fall for
(41:36):
these traps? So even I feel like we be convincing them.
To man, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
You know the thing, bro, that's a very complex when
we get into these questions. It's very complex because if
you look at this like twenty ten and forward, and
you look at I'm gonna name people, If you look
at the Migos take offs no longer. Look at Dope
(42:05):
B when I deal with him, he's no longer here.
Look at young Dolph Podjasts I deal with him, He's
no longer here. Oh my brother, Showy Low.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
You know that's my brother.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
You know what I'm saying. So honestly, backgro Fresh in
twenty eighteen, maybe seventeen, I sat back. I was going
through the hard drive of the album I was working
on that never got a chance to come out, and
(42:34):
just hit me, like, you don't feel the same. Because
I talked to Dobe a week before you passed. He
was at my birthday party. Good brother, shout to Frank White.
You know, he put us together. And that's when I
started to I ain't really have nobody asked me if
I was all right, But I had to start asking
myself and my you know what I'm saying. So you know,
(42:56):
he here starts like your therapy journey and this that
and the third obviously stuff you gotta deal with too
as a man, but it just didn't feel the same right,
And then you have a little bit of survivor's remorse,
even though it's nothing you can do about, you know,
when it's someone's time. So I ain't figured that one
out yet. I do know that a lot of the
(43:18):
wise people in my family, you know, say, don't take
your gift for granted, you know what I mean? And
I think that all people that don't agree with this,
But I think that we just take hip hop culture
for granted. If you look at how many people at
houses and how many miles it fees and how lives
is saved, and we just celebrated fifty years of hip hop.
If you go back to day one too, now it's like, man,
(43:41):
don't take your yacht or that car, or that house
or your multiple houses and you're changed. Don't take all
that for granted because it'll be taken from you. So
I don't know where we land with that, and I
don't I honestly, that's one I don't have the answer for.
I know that there's a life cycle, and you know,
this is a journey and it's a temporary journey.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Man, Yeah, it's crazy, I mean because it's our culture
is far more of those tragedies compared to like other
music genres.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
I did see Ryan Coogler just say on Breakfast Club
that they do deal with it a lot in it's
a heavy metal culture or something a lot of amazing
like drugs instead of violence. Listen, man as an entertainer
and the creator, when you get to a certain place
(44:33):
and I'm not even that like the super Top, but
it is a stressful thing, you know what I'm saying,
and you have to know how to deal with it.
I found my way to deal with it. Like I said,
I stopped myself in twenty eighteen is and I'm like,
am I taking this extra drink because I want to
take this such a drink? Or am I taking this
syx a drink to try to numb some because I
(44:55):
had the the insight to deal with it, right. Somebody
might just keep numbing and when numbing, then it hits
a point and then boom. So now you're like dealing
with some real stuff because you never took time to
look at what does it look like? So one of
my first therapy sessions was to look like Wow. She
(45:16):
was like, I couldn't imagine all my coworkers dying tragically
and violently, to the point where it's like I told her,
I'll be known. I expected.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Mm hmm expected. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Like Yo, p and b Rock just got killed. Man,
could damn. I was just talking like what the take
got kill last night? Take off? Right, you don't mess
with huh. So then like when people wonder, why now
you got three year old coming to spot? Nope? Mmmm man, you're.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Ha going funny?
Speaker 1 (45:56):
You my daughter?
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Right, something happened to you because of your job, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
And then the anxiety that my wife has when I
leave the house. You know what I'm saying. So it's
just like we man, we take this ship for granted.
And when you take shit for granted, or when you're disobedient,
and some of this stuff is a spanking. Yeah, you
know what I'm saying. I hate the ricos, I hate
(46:23):
the violence, I hate all of it.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
For my brothers, yeah, but we're being spank Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
And all these trials going on right now, Diddy, who else?
Tory Lanes all this back and forth going on right now?
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Spankings. Hopefully we learn from the spankings and become obedient. Right,
That's what I say, because I don't wish death jail
on nobody, not That's not who I am. But you know,
you got to understand that what what were we doing
when everything was good? Are you giving back to the community?
(46:55):
Are you helping the young ones? Are you leading the
young ones astray?
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Like?
Speaker 1 (46:59):
What are you you? What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (47:02):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (47:03):
What are we doing with our We're winning the game
and we're celebrating, but are we taking care of everybody
that helped us win?
Speaker 3 (47:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Are we taking care of the water boy and this
and that? Are we paying homage to our fans? Right?
So we owe a lot to the people that I
don't take like this be weird to me. People are like,
I'm a fan of you, like I have fans like,
but I respect them, you know what I'm saying. So
all right, let me give them some motivation every Monday.
I do Monday motivation. Oh, let me wake up every
(47:34):
Monday even if I don't feel like it, and they
give them some motivation to go through their week. Let
me let me create a foundation, the screen foundation that
gets back to the community so that the young brothers
that want to do music, we can we can we
can kind of say, Okay, you want to do music,
but you need to be educated and talk to these
young brothers. Let me give back. This is again part
(47:54):
of when you say consistency. Yep, I'm blessed. I don't
be arrogant about it. I'm blessed that twenty some years
later you want to talk to me. Right, there's people
that you probably would want to talk to three years
ago that you won't talk to now.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Talk about big fact.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
I don't take that for granted. Bro.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Yeah, man, that's so true.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
And that's another thing where the reason I really wanted
to have a conversation with you, like I got to
be able to have this conversation with DJ Screen because
I feel like you have such an important voice, Like
your message is what people need to hear, especially when
we're going through what we're going the spanking that we getting.
You know what I'm saying, It's like people really need
(48:38):
to tap into what you're talking about, what your movement is,
you know, positivity, but also you know what, I'm enjoying
the culture as well.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
You know what I'm saying happened, that ear happened.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
That mindset that you have is so key, and that's
how people can reach the highest point. That's the meaning
of our show. So I definitely definitely wanted to, you know,
just tap in with you with that now with us,
you know, getting this spanking that we're getting. Sometimes things
(49:10):
get worse before it get better. Do you think that
might be what's happening.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
While hope and pray for Again, I don't think people
really sit down and do the math. But if the
rug was swept under hip hop culture right now, then
imagine we'll be back in eighty eight crack a lot
of people. Yeah, it's feed a lot of people, your
(49:34):
podcasts regardless, it's this offspring of hip hop culture. Absolutely,
the clothes we have on yeah, you understand I'm saying,
the fashion designers, the stylist, the managers, the publicists, the
bad boy, the DJ, the producers, the engineers, the interns,
the caterers, the jewelers that come on, man, this is printing.
(49:55):
This is an economy. Forget just it's hip hop culture.
It's an economy economy. Yeah, right, we troll all the
bottles in the club, we do we do economy. So
it's not just about that. But I hope and pray
because if not, by twenty twenty eight gonna look like
(50:17):
nineteen eighty eight. We don't want nineteen eighty eight. No, no,
it was alive. No, No about nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
Now, we talked about kind of like your history, all
the dope things you're doing well that you did, and
also we talked about the screen foundation a little bit.
Can you tell us what you see in the future,
CA You're known for making these different timely moves and
kind of evolving what you have going on to you
(50:46):
tell us a little bit about what you're planning on
in the future.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
Anything for me now, man, I think it's to preserve legacy.
I work really hard, man, I work like really hard,
sometimes as to a fault all and now it's it's
always about positioning other people, helping people achieve their dreams,
their goals. That's always been what has been my vitamin.
Speaker 4 (51:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
Like all I could have been people know, people that
know know, Like I could have been ran out on everybody.
I could be on the island by myself and be good.
You know what I'm saying. But I understand purpose. Yes,
So For me, it's just kind of like, you know,
as DJ Scream, I'm proud of where the turntables have
taken me, But as DJ Scream, I'm even more proud.
(51:33):
And I don't take credit for what they've done, but
I'm even more proud of what DJ Spins has accomplished
with swamps or has accomplished MLK and oh man, I
should have started, cause now I got but all fifteen y'all.
I'm proud of them and that I could do anything,
even if it's just give some game or open the
door or whatever the case is. Like, that's that's what
(51:57):
makes me happy. And I'm happy that Big Bank is
a media personality. Yeah, yeah, like that makes me happy.
Like I've been looking at it, like, Bro, you know
you're a media person what's that like, you're a journalist. No,
but he's he like.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
He dope, Man, I like I like, I like he
Like when you were talking about authentic, you can say
when you're listening, he's authentic. You ain't trying to be
nothing nobody else.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
And that's what it's about. Man. Oh, that's what makes
me happy.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
Bad.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
So if I could do more of that, yeah, throughout
the journey man, and do my part and do it
with a smile, but still let people know that I
go through stuff absolutely and I'm saying I'm human.
Speaker 3 (52:45):
Then cool bad.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
And of course your biggest project is kid now, so
I don't want to put too much more on the
table and not have time to you know, my biggest
project receive planners. Yeah, so you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah,
it's just it's just, uh, that's that's my thing, man.
(53:07):
So whatever whatever spirit leads me to do, entrepreneurship is
like big for me.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
You still got a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
The restaurant is coming any day. Oh, so that's important.
Entrepreneurship other ventures. I mean, there's entrepreneurship. There's quietly like
real estate stuff, there's financial literacy stuff, there's you know,
media outside of us, we have a media network, you
know what I'm saying. We're bring in some other pods
and hopefully can take them, you know what I mean,
(53:36):
to a higher level. And that's just it, man. Just
continue to kind of take it one day at a
time and just launch this progression. But with that progression,
the biggest thing I learned is like like patience, So
whenever it's supposed to happen. I'm cool with that. I'm
at total peace with that. I'm not even talking like
some people say stuff because it sounds good. I don't
(53:56):
be Russian.
Speaker 3 (53:57):
Yeah, I don't be Russian.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
Then set my food.
Speaker 3 (54:01):
Right, we get a hungry right right fast that I'll
be cool.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
All right, man, it's dope. Now I'm about to have
that moment like you had with Janet. I want to
ask you, you know, so, since you had this experience
and we appreciate you blessing us to have this moment
with you, what type of advice would you give me
in my podcasting media journey?
Speaker 1 (54:26):
I have a purpose for your when you do media
or you do anything, have a purpose for it. We
miss a little things because we weren't taught these things
like in school. But it's like when you have a
company or you have anything, you should have a mission statement,
even if if it's written down.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
But a lot of people have done they do music,
or they do pos. They don't even have a I
don't even know why. What's your podcast about?
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Well? We just be going up. Yeah, okay, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
Ah, But you know, in Big Facts, the initial conversation
with me and Bank, he was like, I don't want
to do all that like trying to get people to
beef with each other.
Speaker 3 (55:07):
I want to heal.
Speaker 1 (55:08):
They don't want to say. You know, I'm going to say,
we just big facts. Come speak your truth. Hope that
it's the truth all the time is not. But it's
your truth unless because you got to have difficult conversations
to get the healing. You know what I'm saying. That's
what we're about. So stay true or whatever your mission
and your purpose is. You can't break that for no
(55:29):
amount of money. You can't break that for no opportunity.
You gotta stay true to it, that mission and purposes.
Them your colors, and you stand on them colors and
them colors mean something to You can't let a billion
dollars come in and the change them colors. These are
my colors, bro. You take my colors and you take
what comes with my production or God got me. That's real.
(55:50):
And if you stay lord of that, that billion will
be two billions. The best I can tell you I've
been there, not that I have a billion or two.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
Billion dollars all out.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
That's context. We cash up a question.
Speaker 2 (56:04):
That's real, man. Y'all heard it here first man. That's
he gave the game on how to reach the highest point.
I definitely want to appreciate you joining us, DJ scream
How can the people tap into what you got going on?
Speaker 3 (56:14):
Follow you and all that.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
Good stuff, djscream Man all social media's TRIPLEW dot bigfaxpod
dot com, TRIPLEW dot the Djscreamshow dot com, check me
out on radio, your podcast, your mixtapes, your community events.
We out here man, and I appreciate you for the invite.
Speaker 3 (56:30):
Yes, sir, indeed man, thank you.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
Much respect to you and d.
Speaker 3 (56:32):
Until next time. You guys hold it down, don't let
it hold you peace. Sorry. Podcasts more than the pod.
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