Episode 22: Rhythms and Realities: Vandam Bodyslam's Musical Journey and the Power of Community

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on?
Y'all tune in to anotherepisode of Exposure.
I be your boy, the Global Zo,and I'm with the gang, Draco
Mill, and we got our boy live inthe building.
That damn body slam.
So what it do.
So what it do.
How, so what?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
it do, so what it do.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Slam man.
What's going on, man?
How you feeling?
It's all about exposure.
You need the exposure.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
You got to touch the streets.
You need that streetcredibility.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
You need that promotion and that's what
exposure provides for the peace.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm a comedian that makes him sign.
I hear MIA Grinding.
Like I always do, watch theexposure.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Getting hit in the head with that exposure.
You know what it is?
Them down dollars.
Raylo Braylo, number one DJs,number one promoters for show
from Palm Beach.
It's exposed, it's wide open.
Now Y'all check it out.
You know what I'm saying.
Keep it locked all over Floridaand you are watching Exposure

(00:57):
man.
I'm cooling man, just livingman Continuing to make this
great music man.
And you know what I'm saying.
Put on for the city.
Really can't call it.
I'm like my minutes low.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, sir, and you know what's funny, man?
It was about a good year ago.
We kicked off our first sessionon exposure, man, you know
yourself, and One Hot came onand blessed us.
We had a great interview.
We talked about the movement,the city, uh, what we should be
doing, a lot of historicalmoments in there, and now we
back a year later checking inlegendary and I think everything

(01:30):
I said I was gonna do in theinterview I did yes, uh, yes, uh
.
I know for your birthday youusually drop a project.
Now, this, uh, this year yougave us love from a cancer.
I'm a cancer.
Shout out to all the cancersout there.
Yes, sir, so let's talk aboutwhat motivated love from a
cancer really it's like this.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
This, that's the type of music that I grew up
listening to.
My dad was when my stepdad wasa dj, so like, and my mom, all
we listened to was like r&b.
You know, I'm saying I used toride around with my mom and all
she listened to was r?
B.
So as a young and I ain't evengonna lie I used to watch r b
and like how they got the ladies.
That's how I wanted before Iwas rapping.

(02:12):
It's like they got the ladies.
You feel me.
And then the music is like it'stimeless.
You can play something rightnow and it's still gonna relate
to what's going on.
You feel me, like it's gonnabring you back to a time.
And that's what I'm trying todo for this generation give them
that same type of vibe.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
So that's what really motivated motivated me to give
them that so, like, for me itwas kind of different because it
was like you know, it's a lotof love records, right, it's a
lot of.
It's great for for both themale and female and I think you
know, coming from listening toyour, more of the storytelling
and more of the, the hustlingmusic or street music and the
music that you're used to doing.

(02:50):
That's why I love the approach,because it got the.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I got to hear a different side of you and you
sliding on the lady records too,you know so if you really go
back, like if you really go backto my career, I always had
female records.
It's just like I would do aproject and I have like one or
two of them, but they still waslike hitting, like I had that
one man you know what I'm sayinga couple of them before, like
every female song I had I hit,but I feel like I wasn't giving

(03:15):
them like enough of it.
So it's like I went into mylittle statistics and I was
trying to see, like what I wasdoing and what I wasn't doing,
what, what I was lacking andwhat I was good at.
So I can try to, you know, andit's like my street music was
here, my life music was here,and then it's like I got one or

(03:37):
two female records.
So I'm going to dedicate thisone to them.
And it's like you know how itis when you're a cancer.
That's real emotions.
They're my real emotions.
So it's like I'm really being meon it.
You know what I'm saying andthat's just what's coming out.
I'm really giving my real, realemotions.
It's my most personal project,to be honest.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh there you go Balance.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Okay, okay, yes, sir, for sure for sure Now.
Another thing I love is theartwork bro Talk to me about the
cover what?
Inspired, like it brought meback to the 80s you know what I
mean or even maybe 70s.
Like what inspired that.
You know the suit and youputting the artwork, the cover,
to look the way it did.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I've been doing artwork.
I don't really say it that much, but I've been doing my own
artwork for a little minute.
I've been doing other people'sshit too.
You feel me, I do otherpeople's shit too, but I gotta
feel it or they gotta reallywant me to do it and I'm like I
got an idea for it.
But I really look back into,like all the r&b artists and I
was like damn, whose storyreally relates to me?

(04:41):
Or like made me feel like damn,that's me like.
And the Bobby Brown it was likeyou know what I'm saying.
I can relate to that story likethe bad boy.
You feel me, like everythingthat he went through, the
struggles, ups and downs.
So when I went to the picture,the picture just worked like I
had a hot top fade back inmiddle school.
So it was like, damn, like thisreally what I grew up on, bro.

(05:03):
So like, yeah, I grew up on bro.
So like, yeah, I grew up on thepop, the Biggie and the Bone,
Thugs-N-Harmony and the rap shit.
But I grew up listening to R&Btoo.
So I just tapped into that sideyou know what I'm saying and
like, when I went and looked atthe pictures, I was like, damn,
this is going to look perfect.
I threw my face.

(05:26):
It just stuck.
It just stuck.
Like I gotta say, this is myphone contact, so when I call
you, that's the picture that'sgonna pick up.
So people be like yo what thefuck they like.
I seen this hard ass old schoolpicture.
You look like Bobby Brown, like.
So you know what I'm saying.
It just take you back to thatsame time.
It's like that's what I'mtrying to do for this era.
Like I feel like they don'treally got that like that.
You know what I'm trying to dofor this era.
Like I feel like they don'treally got that.
Like that, you know what I'msaying.
Like that timeless music whereit's real emotions and feelings

(05:49):
and shit.
Everybody just flossing andstunting and drilling.
And you know what I'm saying.
It's like I'm trying to givethem that and show them that I'm
.
Yeah, I can do that too, but Ialso can do this, you know what
I'm saying, that dope vinyl.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Look man, it really, it really.
Uh, pulled me in, I ain't gonnalie.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
I'm like, okay, let me see what he got here you know
, I went with the whole oldschool like a tape or vinyl.
I made like eight or sevendifferent creations of it.
So I had the content ready.
I've been had it ready, so Ihad this in the.
I just knew what I was going todo with it.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Another thing I noticed with the album and I
want to talk about some.
I got two records I want totalk about, but I also noticed
you had no features.
On a project like this.
You did the hooks.
You feel me.
You rapped all the verses.
Was that on purpose or thatjust happened to happen to you?

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, that was on purpose, because every time I do
a song and I get somebody on it, people be like, why you ain't
just do the hook, like why youain't keep yourself on there?
Like nah, I'd be like, damn, Iwant to get this song to a
person.
They'd be like, nah, you dothat bitch.
Like nah, you keep that.
Sounds very familiar sir, yeahman, man so trust me I know, you

(07:06):
know man, you gotta, you justgotta know you the one.
Yeah, it's still staying in mylane because, like I said, I've
been had the female records.
I just didn't give them enoughof it.
I feel so with this one I justtap more into it.
And I was like I'm gonna leaveeverybody else out of this, I'm
gonna do it myself.
So I ain't got nobody tellingme, oh, don't do this.
Yeah, don't put that on there,you shouldn't use this auto-tune
.
I actually mixed it down myselftoo, like ain't nobody touch

(07:30):
this project.
I mixed and mastered this wholeproject.
I recorded it everything.
Nobody touch this one.
That's why I said it's one ofmy most personal projects.
Nobody did the artwork nothing,Nothing.
Hey, you didn't do bad at all,bro.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
No, that's got to hit you.
I hit up Oscar.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
I got tips.
I was hitting up Oscar here andthere when I was mixing and
mastering songs and I waswatching videos and I did it
myself bro.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Oh man.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's what's up.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I ain't tapping to that.
We're doing vocals.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
And I've been doing this since I was 16.
I've been doing this.
I've been anybody that knows me, you know.
I've been doing this recordingmyself and doing my own artwork.
I've been doing this hit thebutton running the studio, drop
my own project.
I've been doing this likethat's what's up man, so I just
tapped it back back into whatI've been doing that's what's up
.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Thanks a lot.
And think about that how muchmoney you get to save if you're
recording yourself, you'remixing, you're mastering, you're
doing the artwork, you done,did a whole rollout, which is
the industry standard.
You're doing it on your own.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
I really did the research.
Don't get me wrong.
I wasn't just out here justdoing it.
I really was watching videos,writing down shit.
I really was doing the researchand, trust me, like I got a
whole notepad full of shit howto mix and master, so like I
ain't the best, but I know whatI'm doing.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
So shout out to that hey you.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
I always say hey you, you gotta start somewhere, you
gotta gotta start, man, to getit in your own boss.
I love that I love that.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
I love to be your own boss.
I love that movement.
I know you've been repping thatfor a hot minute man.
Um, inspiring people to tellyou go out there and get it
right, be your own boss allaspects.
That's what's up.
Uh records.
Any records stood out to you.
I like to go ahead.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
I like about you a lot yeah, that's, that's number
one yeah, that's one of thehighlight records too, like
that's one of the ones standingout right now, okay, okay, I
just looked at it like let mesee which one's popping, because
I don't like to keep lookingback at it.
But I look at it and that's oneof the songs is like top three
oh, that's what's up no, that'swhat's up so I feel like there's

(09:43):
a lot of truth in that record.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
I think that's why we all, you slid it and if you're
just listening to you on thatrecord, let me know like this,
coming from a, this coming fromthe heart, this coming from a
place you know, I'm saying anexperience, and I think that's
why we all can relate to thatrecord okay, that's what's up.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
That's what's up now, and I ain't do no writing on
this.
This was all going in punchingin, just recording.
I got my own setup, so itwasn't no writing.
It's just me going in realemotions, bruh, that's what's up
.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
That's what's up, and like ugh, the Soulja Slim
reference you know a little bitI slid to that one too.
So there's some influence therefrom Soulja Slim and the
Juvenile record Always.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
There's some influence there from Soulja Slim
and the Juvenile record Always,always.
I feel like I'm one of the Iain't going to say the first.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
First but one of the first to bring that flow to the
city.
Yeah for sure.
No dope record man.
Dope record, dope project.
Listen y'all.
If y'all haven't listened tothis album, you know, after this
interview or after this thisepisode, please go on any
streaming platform that youlisten to and go check out.
Stand Down, body Slam, checkout Love From A Cancer.
It's a dope project.
Definitely go check that thingout.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
R2 on the way soon I ain't gonna say when.
Okay okay, stand in linebetween Love and Hate From A
Cancer.
Okay, I like between love andhate from a cancer.
Okay, I was going to do hatefrom a cancer, but I'm like
that's too.
I can't make that the title.
I can't do the hate.
It's got to be thin linebetween love and hate from a
cancer.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
All right, I like it.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
All right, yes, sir, you can probably already see how
I'm going to flip the cover.
You probably already know.
You probably already got itdone, don't you?
I ain't gonna tell you I'mgonna have people hit me.
Hey, bro, you can do my cover.
I'm telling you it happened.
Yeah, I just got to be inspired, bro, like I gotta be inspired,

(11:36):
so I know how I'd be wanting tolook once.
I got a vision, I just startgoing yo you did a?

Speaker 3 (11:42):
um, I think it was a freestyle on the gram.
You posted on the gram andeverywhere.
I think you had the backgroundall blue and everything, but you
was freestyling.
I think it was a guitar in thebackground I can't remember what
it was or a piano man that shitwas so hard.
I downloaded it, I tried to getyour vocals and put it on a

(12:03):
beat and I tried to send it toyou secretly and I couldn't get
it done the way I really wantedto get it done.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
So I never came.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
I wanted to surprise you, though I wanted to surprise
you, though let me work on it.
I already started this was along time, even before the album
, I think.
You dropped that video, so Iwanted to surprise you with it.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
So yeah, let me work, let me work, let me work yeah,
that's when I was first buildingup, like I'm gonna get back to
doing more of those videos, likemore to, uh, live videos and
stuff.
I'm gonna get back to that.
I just had got on that at thebeginning and I was like let me
work on this album and put itout now.
Okay, yeah, yeah, no, that'swhat's up, that's what's up.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Good deal, good deal, man.
So what?
What?
Where's Van Damme?
Now?
You know, I'm saying a year.
We, you know, we see where youwas at.
We knew the things you wasworking on.
We talk about being celibate,you know, I mean we had great
conversations.
You know I'm saying it was a lotof information okay just
mentally, like, and physicallybecause I know you've been in
the gym too I want to like tellus, uh, what you got going on

(13:03):
what, what is your thoughtprocess and what has changed
from last time when we actuallyspoke outside of this album?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm still focused.
I ain't selling it, but I'mstill focused.
I'm not dealing with nobody.
I'm locked in on myself rightnow, like to be honest, that's
the stage that I'm in in my life.
You know what I'm saying Doingwhat I got to do for my kids,
whatever come with that.
You know what I'm saying myfamily locked in on myself.

(13:31):
Really, that's what it is rightnow, like this, the season to
lock in.
Yeah, I ain't gonna lie, likeI'm one of the OGs, big homies,
now you, yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
So that don't offend you.
If someone come up to you andcall you an OG, you don't find
that offensive.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Nah, I got a 19-year-old daughter.
That's in college.
I put her in an apartment, gother a new car.
You know what?

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm saying Hold up, man, shout out to that man.
Yeah, you said 19 in college,man, shout out to you.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
She about to be a flight attendant, so you know.
Oh, that's what's up.
Like niggas going to be in thenursing home, I'm going to be on
jets.
I'm going to be on jets, bro,I'm old boy.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yes sir.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, really that's what I'm locked in on Still
doing the music, but I'm reallyletting it flow Like I ain't
forcing nothing, no, like Iain't in competition with nobody
and I ain't trying to force nohits.
I'm doing what I love to do.
I'm back doing what I love todo.
I feel like everything thathappened got me doing what I
love to do again and doing itfor the love, not for nothing

(14:33):
else.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Really so.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I'm happy.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
I got to ask, man, the last time we had you on, you
had your hair.
You cut the hair.
Explain that.
What made you, you know, getrid of the hair, man?

Speaker 2 (14:47):
It was time for change, man, like it was time
for change, that's the best wayI could put it, and I feel like
that was the most drastic changethat I could make.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (14:59):
I feel like I was at a standstill, not in my music,
but in life, you know what I'msaying.
So it was like I want to leteverything go, let go of my past
, put everything in the past andbegin a new chapter.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Respect, no, no, that's good man, that's good.
We with it, we with it.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
And I got tired of looking like everybody.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
I got some niggas going crazy with the dreads
Niggas getting dreads put intheir head Like nigga, I yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
I got them though.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
I still got them, but they oh, oh man.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
But no, yeah, I'm done with the dreads.
No, that's what's up.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'm done with the dreads.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
I like my braids and uh, yes, my pots had a fro.
So really that's what I wasgoing for.
Really, I was never supposed tocut it to a low, low, uh cut, I
was supposed to just cut it toa fro my okay, I always rock the
fro, so that's what I was goingfor, but my dreads was locked
so much they was like nah, yougot to cut it low first.
So I cut that bitch low, andnow I'm going back to the froze.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Okay.
Okay, no, that's what it isWell, fam, this is a hot topic,
man, you know we can, all.
You know it's trending now.
It was in the city.
I don't know what happened overthe weekend, but you know, just
cooling, chilling.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
You know, minding my business, minding my business,
people calling me, peoplehitting me up and I'm going to
say this Okay, go ahead, goahead.
I'm not a Facebook person.
Anybody that know me know this.
I'm on Instagram, I'm onTwitter, here and there, but I'm
not on Facebook.
Anybody know me.
You want to talk some shitabout Van Damme?

(16:41):
Say it on Facebook, becausehe's never going to see it.
I don't go on Facebook.
It's nothing but people thatI've been knowing forever, for
years, talking about theirproblems and this, and that that
I don't go on Facebook, so Idon't keep up with it.
Honestly, somebody hit me upabout it.
Okay, like, how I feel about itis, if you let somebody's
opinion get you that mad, thenyou got a problem.

(17:04):
Oh, we got a serious problem.
Like, okay, I get it, butthat's that person list you know
what I'm saying that that's hislist.
That's how you feel.
Yeah, music is opinion based.
Yeah, somebody might saysoldier boy trash.
But soldier boy got fans,soldier boy get money.
I'm just using them as anexample, right, right, yeah what
I'm saying.

(17:24):
So at the end of the day,people is gonna be what they
listen.
You know, I don't get into thatbecause I know what I do in the
booth and I've been in thestudio with people.
People have been in the studiowith me, yeah, you know.
Yeah, oh, that's where I'm atwith it.
You know, I feel like it iswhat it is.
Man, you know what I'm saying.
That's his, that's how he feels.

(17:45):
Yeah, he's not somebody else'slist and like people going crazy
about it, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
So I guess that's where it kind of came up at is
like I saw the list created andI said oh cool, this is a top 25
.
So for me I'm like, okay, maybeit was a conversation that
happened and maybe they wantedto put it out.
I don't know the science behindit, but I think there was some
positive out of it.
You know, of course, therappers who weren't listed could

(18:13):
be in their feelings, and wecan understand, you're not.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
It's only 25.
We got way more.
We got way, but like, let's befor real, Like you know the
people that paid away is likeyou know what I'm saying.
At the end of the day, what arewe judging this on?
Everybody's going to judgesuccess differently, so at the
end of the day, it is what it is.
You just can't, I don't getinto that no more.

(18:38):
Back when I was 17, 18, oh yeah, bitch what.
I ain't number one, like yeah,but the me, nah, I that don't
matter, like to me that meansnothing outside of the city,
that list me nothing, anybody goto death jam and show them that
list like yeah so, at the endof the day, that list not

(19:03):
feeding your family is notstopping money from coming out.
Do what you do.
Get in the booth.
If you that mad, get in thebooth.
The people who on there like Ifeel like everybody put in their
work, like yeah you can'tdiscredit what people did so no,
no, absolutely not that's onething on.
You know my work.
Speak for itself, so I don'tgotta speak.

(19:23):
Anybody that know me, I tookhey van damme, somebody said you
something itself, so I don'tgot to speak.
Anybody that know me, I tellhey Van Dam, somebody said
something about you on fake.
Don't say nothing back.
Don't say nothing, even if Iknow I'm going to act like I
ain't seen it.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Because it don't affect me.
No, absolutely.
You can't deny what I did, youknow.
I put in the work.
It's the reason why my namereign.
It ain't just come out of thinair.
You can't make this up so youcan say what you want to say,
you can feel how you want tofeel, but the work is there.
I ain't got to speak.
I ain't got to go on and fightback what?

(19:55):
They saying I ain't got to dothat, get in the booth with me,
my nigga.
Put whoever you want in thebooth with me, my nigga.
Put your money up, my nigga.
It work.
The work is proven, so I don'tget into that.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
On that side, exactly what you just said put your
money up or let's get in thebooth.
We would love to just see thatcompetitively.
I would love to see thecompetitive side of all that.
You know how it is.
Everybody gonna be able to takeit like that.
So, um, competitively, I wouldlove to see it, that's what I

(20:36):
want to say, but I don't thinkeverybody can take it like that,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
It is what it is.
I mean, put your money whereyour mouth is, cause everybody
can talk the talk.
Everybody can talk it.
Everybody can type it.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
The work is there Put in the work At the same time,
if you are on the list or if youfeel some kind of way, this
would be the time to actuallytry to drop something and try to
get some motion, if you're noton the pitch what that mean.
You get what I'm saying, whatdoes?

Speaker 2 (21:08):
that mean.
I don't get how the uproarabout it.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Hey man, I'm mad.
I did this nigga, I did thatnigga.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
I got the biggest song they put.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
God in it.
They don't mean you the best,they don't mean you better than
the biggest song.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
They put God in my mouth.
They don't mean you're the best.
They don't mean you're betterthan the next person.
That doesn't mean, bro, it'sall crazy, it's irrelevant shit
bro.
But I don't feel like it'swrong because that's their
personal list.
That's how they feel.
You know, everybody got theirtop five.
Everybody got their top,whatever.
That's how they feel.

(21:45):
You know.
Everybody got their top five,everybody got their top,
whatever that's how they feelyou're not going to tell me who
I feel my top five is, orwhatever that's just how it is
bro it's opinions, but that'show the shit is and I feel like
for.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Palm Beach.
But unfortunately the bad whenit comes to drama or the bad, it
spreads way faster than thepositive, like you know what I
mean, because we still gotpeople dropping projects that
don't get shared and listened toas much, or you know,
accomplishing certain things.
They ain't talking about that,they ain't applauding you.
You know what I mean.
But when it's some drama, youget locked up and they got a

(22:20):
mugshot.
That's when they hiteverybody's timeline in a
heartbeat.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
People gonna choose who they choose.
Man, you can't get.
When it's my time, it's my time.
When it's not my time, I'm notmad, because it's this person to
, it's that person to Peoplegonna choose who they gonna
choose.
My brother, yeah, you know whatI'm saying.
So it's like you can't be madat the next person because they
say, oh, this person's betterthan you and you mad at them.

(22:46):
No, I'm with you.
That makes sense, but to goback you can't control the fans,
bro.
You can't control the fans.
It's like Drake and fuckingKendrick coming down trying to
argue with the fans.
Like no, I'm better than no.
No, I did this more.
You don't see them boys doingthat you can't argue with how
the fans go pick who they fuckwith.

(23:07):
That's how your homeboy go pickwho he fuck with.
That's just what it is.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
It's almost taking us back from that conversation we
had a year ago.
Man, you know what I'm saying.
That's tough man, but look, Ihave to say it again we got all
this talent.
If we had really been able towork together, bro, we should
have been done and gone out ofhere.
That was just one list.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
That's what I'm trying to say.
We got way more than this.
If we were really positive onthis oh, I don't want to turn it
into a negative.
It's just one person list.
It's only one person the wholecity is at just one person list
it's only one person the wholecity, people in the world.

(23:50):
I'm not saying it's notaccurate.
I'm not saying I don't like ithow did that?
Man is creating this.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
That's controversy like that's real how he feel.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Did it make me wake up and say you know what?
I'm gonna type on facebook?
Everything I did to make no, no, no, no.
I'm not on that bitch, I ain'tfeel no type of way, I don't
care because I'm on there.
That's how he feels yeah yeah,that's somebody else feelings
about how they feel about themusic scene bro about it, bro?

Speaker 1 (24:23):
no, 100, we'll see.
It was good, though I think itwas good, it feel like it's
starting to simmer down now andI guess we'll see what comes of
it.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Man, you know what I'm saying at the end of the day
, I hope some music come fromand everybody just get in the
booth.
Just get in the booth, get towork.
That's what I had to do, that'swhy, my name there.
I feel like I had to get in thebooth.
I had to get in the streets.
Wasn't no social media likethat back then?

Speaker 1 (24:51):
And now we got it in arms reach now, so you got to
get it.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
It's no excuse.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Keep it real.
I feel like I think I know thatit's a youngin' list.
You get what I'm saying.
So it's like some of theseyoung has been.
I meet some youngins and theydon't know who I am.
You get right I don't feel notype of way.
They from a younger generation,but if they hear the song, oh
okay, okay, you know, that's theyounger generation, like,

(25:17):
that's just how it is, bro.
I I learned the same thing whenI was growing up.
Looking up the trip, like triptold me you know what I'm saying
.
I gotta do some songs with youbecause you got the younger
generation.
Now it's the same way with me.
That's just how it go, bro.
These, some of these kidsdidn't listen to van damme or
triple j.
That's why I'm not sayingnothing wrong.

(25:38):
But that's just how it is, bro.
That's the reality of it.
Yeah, that's the reality of it.
They, they ain't grow up inthat generation.
So some of them go say shitlike who is this person?
Who is Van Damme?
Why you say they from anothergeneration.
That's just how it is, bro.
You can't feel no type of wayabout it.
At least I don't.
No, that's true.

(25:59):
Get in the booth and make somenew shit for them, right?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
No, that's true.
And now at least, with socialmedia.
I feel like the journey isbeing documented somewhat now
because, to your point, back inthe day we didn't have that.
So if you wasn't in the clubs,if you wasn't in the streets,
you ain't know who certain folkswas.
But now we got the internet soyou can Google or you can go on
YouTube and put some things.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Man, if we had social media like we did back then, we
was gone.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Like gone yeah, that movement like that, bro, like
come on man.
Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
No, yes, sir.
That's why I say like we gotsocial media right now.
It's no excuse, bro.
There's no reason why youshould be mad when you can go on
Instagram right now to yourfollowers or whatever, and do
your one too, I see people doingit every day.
I get on there and do it.
People might feel like I am whoI am, but I still get my ass on
there and do it.
So get on there, do your onetoo.

(26:57):
Don't be mad at the world.
No, that's true.
Some people feel like Drake thebest.
Some people feel like kendrathe best.
I'm sure neither one of them.
Niggas losing sleep from it.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
No, no, how you feel, nope it put way more money in
their pocket.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
So it's just yeah it is bro, so I feel like you know
it's a good thing and it's.
But I feel, like you said, palmBeach is going to make it
negative.
That's just how it is.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, that told me we got to keep going.
That's it, we just got to keepworking.
And, yeah, let the fansgravitate, let the fans speak.
I had the city woke.
That was the wokest.
I seen the city.
I seen Rohan make somethingabout the awards.
Why?

Speaker 2 (27:41):
we can't get behind artists like this.
Why we can't get behind artistslike this.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
We do this to ourselves all thetime.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Why we can't get behind artists like this
Everybody running the streams.
You know what I mean Everybodyquit talking about these other
artists from everywhere else,they doing this, doing that,
they doing that.
What you think It'll keephappening.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
We got to keep watching.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
We got to keep working.
No, it was good.
It was good Because then youknow, they did the top 25 songs.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
I ain't see anybody that really, really know me.
I ain't talking about you inthe school, I'm talking about my
family, my mom, mom talk shitabout me all you want on
facebook, and if I do somebodycall me, don't say nothing.
I ain't see it, that's how Ilive my life.
I don't play that.
I don't let what people pullyou.

(28:41):
I'm on your mind on facebook.
Facebook, it says what's onyour mind.
You started off talking aboutme.
I'm on your mind.
I don't got to respond.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
I won already Fuck it I have to go back and say
something that's what's good,that's what it is.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
That's how you got to live life.
If you can't do that, you ain'tready to be a celebrity.
People going gonna talk aboutyou all day.
People gonna come at you allday.
Look at some of thesecelebrities' comments all day.
It don't matter if you're agood celebrity or not.
People on your comments talkingshit all day.
They're not.
That's just what it is.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
And you can't respond to every single one of them
either.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
I don't even read it.
I was like, for what I'm likeLil Wayne he, I don't even read
it.
For what I'm like Lil Wayne he.
Don't listen to other artists.
Go read some head and shit.
For what I'm on this person'smind.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
I won already oh yeah , that's a different way to look
at it.
Yeah, I already won.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
If you woke up and went to typing and talking about
me, I'm on your mind.
Yeah, agreed on your mind.
Yeah, agreed, I already won.
There's nothing I need to sayback.
Yeah, I already won.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
No, that's what it is .
That's what it is.
Shout out to the city man,We'll see.
We'll see what we do about it.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
We got young artists man.
I like the young artists man.
We got young artists man.
I like the young artists man.
We got young artists that'sdoing their thing.
I ain't gonna lie, I like theway the city moving.
We just need to step it up withthe support.
That's what I feel like andmove as a whole.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Young artists, like when you mentioned, who are some
young artists that come acrossyour mind, I don't even want to
do it.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
No.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
I don't even want to do it.
No, I don't even want to do it.
Let's go start something.
He didn't say my name, why?
He say?

Speaker 2 (30:31):
his name.
I did more videos.
I got the biggest song out ofall of them oh lord, nope, I'm
all I'm gonna say is I like theyoung artists?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
I like the new artists that's coming the young
artists.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Okay, I ain't saying I like the old artists that we
but I like the young artiststhat's coming up, the new
artists that's doing their thing.
That's really working.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay, that's really working.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
They might not be the best, but the artists, that's
really working their moves Okay.
I like the young artists that'sdoing their thing.
Saying shout out to all theyoung artists doing their thing.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
I like the way they're doing their thing, but
we need, we need more support.
We need to support theseartists.
So how does a young artist like, just, are they coming across
your social media?
Or you, just you bumping intopeople?
How does a young artist I watch, I watch I'm a student of this.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
I love music all right I'm gonna be the next bad
damn, like, oh, I'm watching,like I'm watching for sure, for
sure, that's my be your own boss.
I'm trying to teach the nextVan Damme how to be your own
boss.
So you ain't got to go throughwhat I went through.
I'm trying to teach you how tomove, how to get straight to the
end, your end zone.

(31:39):
You feel me?

Speaker 1 (31:41):
That's what I'm on.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
So eventually, that's what I'm trying to tap into
helping the artists that want tobe helped.
Okay, I want to work that wantto be helped, that want to
listen.
I don't know everything, but Iknow I know a lot enough.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah you done, been you done, seen you done, been.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
You know what I mean and you going and you're still
learning so for sure I like theyoung artists that we got in the
city for sure everybody keepworking that's tuned in a fan of
exposure or working man.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Just continue working .
That's what we want to see.
Continue working.
We can have more guests on theplatform too, sharing them
experiences and them journeys,and to help that younger
generation coming up I feel likethat's the responsibility and
to help that younger generationcoming up, because we don't have
a lot of responsibility.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I feel like that's the responsibility, that's the
responsibility of this shit,like if you don't do that, what
you doing it for.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Right, agreed, but couldn't we just be some crabs
and be like well, fuck it.
We ain't get all that.
That ain't how it's supposed tobe.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
That's why we here right now.
I'm going to let everyone elsefail.
That's why we here right now,and we got to change that, bro.
We got to stop blamingeverybody.
It's the reason why every otherfucking place popping and we
not.
We got to take a look in themirror.
We can't keep always because,nah, nigga, it's the reason.

(33:01):
What the fuck we gonna do aboutit, though?
We gonna just keep lettingtalented artists just fucking go
by, fucking.
Nah, bro.
Nah, we gotta do somethingabout that.
We gotta do what we wanted ourbig homies to do, what we wanted
the DJs to do, what we wantedthe promoters to do.
Nah, we gotta change it.
We gotta.
If these other hick towns cando it that's right around the

(33:22):
corner and we can support themand help them do it, then why
the fuck we can't help ourartists do?

Speaker 1 (33:26):
it.
That's fact.
Why no, that's facts.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
We gotta have no ego man everybody else come through
this bitch and get money, whilewe can't help our artists facts,
no facts, bro, facts, I agreeevery artist know about palm
beach?
It ain't the artists that don't.
So what's the excuse, bro?
Like what's the excuse.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
It ain't got to be me .

Speaker 2 (33:49):
It ain't got to be one of us.
We got these young artists.
Like what we going to do.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Right, right and a few people got close, but it
seems like you just going toargue on.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Facebook all day about a list.
That's what we really going todo All day by the list.
That's what we really gonna do.
That's what we really gonna doAll day by the list.
Your cousin wasn't on that,bitch your homeboy.
Why he was on that, why hewasn't.
That's what's important, y'all.
Really, we seeing these fuckingartists blow up and change
their city.
That's what y'all.
What's really important is whatmatters.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
So so do you feel like the artist that's really
going?
You got to be able to make itoutside of palm beach to make it
in palm beach.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
no, bro, no no, no, but it's a possibility.
That is a route.
I'm not saying that it ain't aroute, but it is a route.
But it don't got to benecessary.
If you look at these otherartists, if you talk to any dj,
anybody from the industry, theygonna tell you what your
hometown looking like, all right.
What is your support of yourcity looking like?
If you do a video right now?

(34:52):
How many people coming out?
They wanna know this, they wannaknow this.
You gotta have support.
Yes, you do.
Yes, you do, you do.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, you do you gotta have that support.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
You do Do a video and have your whole city out there.
I bet them labels start calling.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Of course I'm like I think they're calling how these
things got his whole city behindthem yeah how you thank these
other artists out of these hittowns.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
You know, from nowhere blow they city rock with
them first.
That's, that's just how it go,bro yeah, no, that's what that's
these type of artists for thetype of music that we do.
That's how you can't talk aboutyou, a street artist, and this
type of artist and that that,but you don't got your hometown
like no, that's facts, that'sfacts I want to go back to your

(35:44):
crib I want to read yousomething from smooth.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
He said uh, one thing about my era we never hated on
each other, never had egos andnever had a list, because what
mattered the most was puttingPalm beach on the map.
Every interview, every magazinearticle.
It was never about Suave smooth.
Oh, it's about Palm beach, thebigger picture, Hashtag five,
six, eight era.
I feel it.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
That's deep, I feel it.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
That's deep, I feel it.
I can't say because I wasn't inthat whole era.
I was around towards the endingof it.
So, I seen what Suave was doing.
I wanted to get signed to Suavebefore.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yes, sir, oh, okay.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Okay, back in the days, me and kuke be freestyling
the west, where every damnnigga.
What's up with hq nigga.
Tell us why they saw me, niggaoh, that's what's up?

Speaker 1 (36:39):
yeah, yeah, she could have been real crazy, yeah yeah
, she could have been real crazy, for sure yeah, because I know
he was doing that thing,headquarter records.
You knew there was I grew uplistening to trip.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Don't get me wrong, but nigga suave and headquarter
records nigga fat nigga, yeah,nigga, jet ball.
Nigga like yeah yeah, niggagoats.
Yeah, we had real spitters,downtown so like yeah you see,
that's the history that I feel.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Uh, like you know, that's the history I don't want
the city to miss out on.
You know, because, like whentriple j talked about, once upon
a time, palm beach, we used tobreak dance.
You'd be like palm beach wasbreak dancing, like yeah, we
used to break dance, and it'skind of like that you got.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Like it's different generations, bro, right, right,
it's like you can't take awayfrom.
That's what it is.
That that's what we known as,bro, the whole Florida.
I don't give a fuck what yousay.
Booty-shaking music, that'swhat the outside Miami, down
south, oh, y'all make mebooty-shaking music yeah.
This is what it is.
This is what they going to sayyeah, this is what it is, this

(37:44):
is what it is gang, Come.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
This is what it is gang, Come on man.
We got the beaches, the palmtrees, the sun.
Come on, Come on man, Come onman.
So it is what it is, it work.
It is what it is, man.

Speaker 1 (37:55):

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Another thing I want to talk to you about, bro, is I
see you've been putting work inthat gym.
I've been doing a little thing.
I ain't gonna lie, I'll be inthere.
I'm not gonna lie, I'll be inand out.
That not, I was only heavy,heavy.
You know, I ain't trying to gettoo swole, it's just a mental
thing for me, like, really, likeI said, I was working towards,
still working towards myself,bro, like nice, really just
locking in on myself and reallyjust treat myself how I want

(38:27):
other people how I want to treateverybody else.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
And while you was doing it, you was creating
content too.
Man, that shit's what I love.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, bro, like I'm really being myself bro, like
I'm a funny nigga bro, I'm alike you know.
Like all the man, all the realniggas I done been around, hey,
funny niggas too.
You probably just didn't get toto meet him personally, but I'm
inhuman, bro, you think I'm?

Speaker 1 (38:48):
just Van Damme all day.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
I got kids.
You think I'm Van Damme.
To them, it's my baby.
You think I'm numb.
So what it do?
Nah, we love the game, playingregular life, chilling with my
dog.
I love music, but I love doingother things in life too, that's
what's up Got?
Five kids boy Like you got toget it, you got to get it.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
No, the working out is good, man.
It's good for the mental and westarting to see more of a
series of rappers getting ontheir health tip.
We see all that with Gucci.
We see it with Moneybagg Yo.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
You know what I mean, and it's.
We just seen david banner justlocked in.
He's doing this thing now too.
So no, it's really good man.
I enjoy your mind, bro, likereally just being able to go,
like you would think you can go.
And yeah, you do something likerun around and chase the doll oh
shit like oh what if you had tofight for your life, would you
be able to do it?
Like then you don't know whatcould happen.
I ain't talking about fightinga nigga.
Anything happen Accident, youmight need to pull yourself from

(39:55):
out.
Do you got the strength to doit?
Do you got the mind strength?
Maybe you got the body strength, but do you got the mind
strength to keep going?
That's what.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
I'm fighting for.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
That gym.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
get you ready for everything you know, what I'm
saying.
That gym get you ready for it.
That gym get me for everything.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Whatever I'm going through, I said that's what I'm
fighting.
That's what I'm fighting rightnow.
Van Dam, yeah, the mind part ofit.
Boy you starting and I'm likeooh.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
That's what it is, bro.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
I ain't about looking good.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
It ain't like I slow down, honestly, because I ain't
trying to get skinny, I'm tryingto gain weight.
So me, I need to eat more.
So I just need to eat more andchill less on the gym.
I go, but I try to chill lessand more on the gym and do more
calisthenics Type shit, Push-ups, sit-ups in and out of the gym,
type shit.
But I don't really hit it toomuch.
I'm trying to gain some weight.
There it is.
I ain't trying to lose too much.
I than that motherfucker toomuch.

(40:47):
No, that's what's up you get cut, but it ain't gaining the
muscle.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Keep it coming, bro Stay up in there, man?
No, stay up in there.
We probably got to figure itout one day and link up in there
and do a thing, For sure youknow.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
I've been telling you .
I've been telling you Back then, like when I was telling you I
was ready.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, I was ready, we got to make it happen, run it
back again, then I'll be, readyagain.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
I hear you We'll make it happen.
Well, yeah, I was on it heavybro, every day, every day, just
getting my mental ready.
I had the album coming, I wasgoing through stuff.
Like I said, I was trying tojust treat myself how I want to
treat other people.
I feel like my whole life I'vebeen treating everybody how I
should be treating myself and Inever gave myself to do that.

(41:31):
So I feel like this time thatI've been spending to myself is
like God just want me to.
Just that love you've beentrying to get at everybody.
Get to yourself right now Justtake some time to get that to
yourself because nobody elsecould give it to you.
So you got to get it toyourself and then maybe somebody
will get it to you.
Nah, I understand.
Like I know what I'm lookingfor.
Like this, be it Nope.

(41:52):
Like, uh-uh, she ain't finnaplay with me, nah, nope.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
That's real, bro.
It takes a.
You know it takes a.
You got to have a lot of, youknow, courage a it's easy to be
around the wrong audience.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
I do better when I'm by myself.
I do better when I'm by myself.
I can't hurt myself, I can'tcross myself, I can't harm
myself.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
I can't be a lawyer to myself anybody else can,
though, and they do what's dopeis what's dope is when you put
that energy out there and let'sjust say you posted whatever
like that, people they might notfeel it, but they see the
energy, and who doesn't want tobe a part of it?
If they don't want to be a partof it?
They're like, damn, I gotta dothis so I can get on this energy
too, because they see the, theysee the vibes.

(42:37):
You know I'm saying it'spositive vibes, I'll be on.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
I ain't gonna lie.
Some days I have negative like.
Some days I do go through stuff.
I'm a human, I go through stuffand I'm not gonna lie.
Like, if I be about to postthat I read, like I proofread
three, four times and I'd belike, no, I'm not even putting
that in the engine, I'm not evenputting that out, that let it
go.
It is what it is.
Don't post that.
You feel me.
Don't even bring the energyinto it.

(42:59):
Like let it go.
Like I've been, that's I'm.
I'm a number eight.
So I've been controlling my life.
That's what I know.
I know I can control my lifepath.
Whatever energy I want,whatever I want to bring into
this world, I'm gonna bring itin.
So if I'm focused on somethingmad, I'm be mad, so I don't.
I I'm careful with who I'maround and the things that I let
into my, my, my space.

(43:20):
Now I used to have a lot ofpeople around when they thought
I was gonna get on their way out, but now I'm just, I'm locked
in with myself now in my homefly my homie sean you know, but
yeah, I got a couple homies thatI rock with, but I'll be myself
now.
I still rock with the homies,but, yeah, on a day-to-day basis
.
I don't be with too many people.

(43:40):
No more like gotcha.
I try to keep too much energyout.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Oh, man, shoot hey.
And we see you moving andyou're looking good, you're
doing good, so man, just keep itgoing.
Yeah, keep it going.
I want to talk about thisjersey a little bit, because I
know you was a New EnglandDiehard fan.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
I ain't got the Brady New England right now.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
I just want to.
I want to be giving the history.
I could have brought out thethrowback.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
But I was like you know, mr Arrowman.
Nah, mr Arrowman, I wanted togive them the history I could
have brought out the throwback,but I was like you know, this
the era I'm in.
Nah, oh, okay, so all right, soyou don't know.
So let me we aging.
I'm doing what I want to doagain, so wait Before we get to
this.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
It's me, baby.
No, when did you convert overto Tampa?
That's what I'm trying to.
When Tom Brady came, I neverconverted over to Tampa.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Oh, tampa converted to Tom Brady.
That's what converted Tampaconverted to Tom Brady.
You turned that into Tom TampaBay.
All y'all niggas be talkingshit about Tom Brady.
Who's Tom Brady?
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:45):
yeah, don't shoot you , and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Yeah, yeah, y'all niggas.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh oh.
Y'all wishing Tom Brady comeback.
Nah, don't you.
Hey, listen, all we need is acourt man.
You can't take what that mandid, bro.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Oh, nothing, listen, I only.
I only disliked Brady becausehe was good Like.
I ain't gonna lie to you.
I only tried to give him achallenge, but I know I respect
him.
Why is the?

Speaker 2 (45:11):
world like that it's like the.
Warriors.
Why do the world love to seethem niggas lose?
I love to see them niggas win.
I love to see niggas win.
Why do niggas like this?

Speaker 1 (45:20):
This is coming from a cowboy, though this is just
coming from a the world be happythe world be If LeBron would
have lost the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Yeah, they acting like they was happy they won.
They would have been talkingshit.
Them niggas would have beenhappy the world love.
They love to see niggas lose.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Listen, I ain't knocking no.
I want to say like I appreciateand I know his greatness,
especially when he's down.
I'm the same way with LeBron Iwas just saying, like all of my
homeboys were Patriot fans,though, at the same time, so I
began to feel this like this,like dislike for him, because it
was like I was always battlingall the homeboys and talk about

(46:02):
Brady, brady, brady, brady,brady, brady.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
And I know not to bet on him.
My whole family Dolphins, mywhole family Dolphins, all my
homies, dolphins, all my homies.
You never been to Boston.
Why, the hell?
You like John Burton, I likegreatness bro, why y'all like?
Michael Jordan.
Why we?

Speaker 1 (46:18):
like.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Kobe.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Yeah, why the?

Speaker 2 (46:20):
world is hurt when we lost Kobe Because of the man.
Greatness, bro, this was true.
This is what I got inspired by.
This is, yeah, inspired by okay, going through the when people
want to see you down going, juststill going curry.
This man was doubted since hecame in the league the littlest

(46:40):
person on the court, yeah peoplestill try to take from this man
.
He prove again and again, andagain and again and they still
doubt this man, still will tryto discredit him.
Why?

Speaker 3 (46:53):
No, that man, he a different monster boy.
He proving it in golf too, bro.
One shot in the hole, bro, why?
Yeah, you right.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
You right.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Maybe it come up to that point.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
I did the same thing.
I ain't going to say the samething because I always respect
LeBron.
I never hated LeBron.
I was a Curry fan, so I didn'twant him to win against fucking
Curry, of course.
But people will try to use itas hate.
It don't mean you hate them,that's not the person I like.
I'm not taking away from hisgreatness, I just didn't like it
.
I wasn't a fan of LeBron, I wasa fan of Kobe, so I felt like

(47:26):
he was coming in and taking Kobeposition.
It's just like people who likeJordan, they go always say
Jordan over Kobe.
That's just how it is.
That's their generation.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
That's just how it is , bro.
No, that's what's up.
And they got a chip.
I mean, you know, Brady did histhing still.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Right, you know.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
You know, I feel like the Daw Well yeah.
Yeah, that's crazy, just bellycheck.
Yeah, I'm going to show you,boy, I'm going to leave in one
year.
Go to this next team thathaven't won in years, haven't
won in years.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
It's a simple system, boy.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
I got to show you.
That's the season I'm in.
I'm showing you.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
I'm showing you.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
I thought I showed you again and again, and again.
I'm going to show you again andagain, and again.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Yes sir, I'm really him.
Yes sir, I'm really him, yessir, yes sir, my dog say Tampa
converted to.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Brady, that's real.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
No, I know you a fan, I know you a diehard.
Win a chip right now.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Tampa win a chip right now.
Tampa win a chip right now.
Nah, shut up.
Oh yeah, them boys did Work.
Is there, bro?
Yeah, brady, work is there.
This man will show you hisrings.
We say Michael Jordan the GOATright.
Yeah, brady got the rings right.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Yeah, he got the rings, that's for sure.
The rings, that's for sure.
He elite, he elite.
Do you see, uh, somesimilarities in patrick mahomes,
or is it too early?

Speaker 2 (49:01):
different generation, bro, and I try this.
What I was trying to tellpeople about lebron.
I don't mean to go back tolebron, but but it's always
going to be another guy.
That's what you have to realize.
It don't matter if it's rapping,it don't matter if it's making
watches it don't matter if it'smaking chains, fucking, golfing,
swimming, it's never going tobe this one person, forever,

(49:22):
brother.
You got to get that in yourmind.
Everybody's going to face it.
Face, father time.
Face that down slope.
You're going to face it,brother, you're a human.
Yeah, they start figuring outhow to really make fucking
people robots.
You're going to face fathertime, brother, it's going to be
somebody else.
Time, that's just what it is.
You always gonna see somebody.
Oh, this record will never bebroken.
It's always gonna be somebodythat's gonna break that record.

(49:43):
Bro, records are meant to bebroken.
They're numbers.
Yeah, life is numbers righteverything is numbers, so
records will always be broken.
There's always going to besomebody come that do something
different.
It's always going to be that,especially in entertainment.
Bro, sports is entertainment.
No matter how you may look atit, it's entertainment.
They're making money off of itby entertaining the people

(50:07):
absolutely want to make surethey have another person to fill
in where brady was.
They've already been moldingthem before we even knew who
patrick mahomes was.
They knew this is our next guy.
We're gonna have him.
Lamar, go ahead, ahead.
It's gonna be this whole storylamar kind of losing right now
because he you gotta they makingit with my boy.
Gotta win one right now.
That's one with.
Right now I'm with my boy lam.

(50:27):
Got to win one right now.
That's one with.
Right now I'm with my boy,lamar, you feel me.
That's one right now Lamar.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
I'm rocking with Lamar man, you're rocking with
Lamar.
Home team, home team.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
I just feel like you got to get off the Ravens man,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Why you say that.
It's just what it is, brother,because the kind of offense they
have, or why would you say thatI just feel like that.
You feel like that, okay.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
You got to switch stuff up Like who am I?
I'm not saying I know what'sbest for Lamar.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Jackson.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
I'm not saying Lamar Jackson, I don't know what's
best for his family and hiscareer.
I'm saying from my perspectiveas a sports fan.
That's how I've always beenLike with the dolphins they just
need to fire everybody.
That's how I feel y'all beenlosing so long by the coaches,
the cheerleaders.

(51:16):
Fucking mascot, get neweverything.
You get all these good playersand they go somewhere to win,
but they can't fucking win here.
Everybody nigga.
Destroy the stadium, destroythe new one that you made, made
another one, everybody yearsthat them boys is cursed.

(51:37):
I've been saying the dolphinstoday, nigga, I will say
everybody that's connected tothe dolphins right now.
They cursed, they cut, they'vebeen cursed for the longest time
I finally ran into somebodythat agreed with me.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Thank you, bro.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Thank you, this is historic.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Them Dolphins fans going to come for y'all.
Boy, them Dolphins fans goingto come for y'all.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Them boys cursed.
They know how I talk.
I love everybody, but come onman.
I'm a Brady fan.
I'm a Florida boy too, but Ican't root for people that's not
winning bro.
I'm a fan of greatness.
I'm not going to be sittinghere every day with a sad face.
Every fucking Sunday I'mlooking sad.
No, nigga, I was talking thatshit.
Every Sunday, Super Bowl to theend.

(52:23):
They don't give a fuck.
We down 30 points.
But Brady will come back.
I know he can do it and that'sthe thing about him too.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
We knew he could do it.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
It was kind of like, oh, just wait till the fourth
quarter.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
You would be like just wait till the fourth
quarter.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Ain't nobody leaving the seats, they staying to the
end, and he makes it happen.
That's what the man was sogreat, he was a monster man.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
That's one thing I can say about him and LeBron bro
Like the last thing you want todo is make them mad.
I hate, when we're playingLeBron and niggas make them mad,
I'm like bitch, stop making himmad, keep him happy, don't let
him get mad.
Bitch, lebron take over, no,okay, taking it to the hoop
every single time.
And I can relate because I'mthe same way when I'm playing

(53:13):
games, brother, I'm the same way.
I hate to lose.
I hate losing in anything.
I'm competitive.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
I don't like losing.
I take my.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
L, but I don't fucking like them.
I would rather the W.
I'm the same way when Bradycome to that sideline and
fucking throw that L at me.
I'm the same way.
When I lose a game, my son'sthe same way.
They do the same way when Bradycomes to that sideline and
fucking throw that L, man, I'mthe same way when I lose a game,
my son's the same way.
They do the same shit.
My son do the same thing.
I tell him hey, nigga, youain't going to win every game.
Stop getting mad.
That's how it is.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
As we transition into gaming.
I do want to touch base alittle bit because I know, I,
I've heard, you know, and I kindof seen clips of you, of you
doing your thing.
But I think recently you musthave put a link in one of your
stories and I, I, you know, I Iwent ahead and clicked on that
thing and I was watching.
Well, I mean, I don't know thename of the games, don't, don't,
let me say nothing, crazy drago.

(54:02):
But I know you was in there andyou was doing your thing.
It was like like Florida mangaming 5-6-1.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Yeah, I started it up a little minute.
My tip is to give that to mykids.
Like my kids heavy gamers Allmy kids got PlayStation 5.
They all play Fortnite and theyall play the game I want
PlayStation 5.
So everybody play, we allgamers.
So I'm just starting it up now.
I know that's what we're goinginto.
So by the time they come of ageyou know what I'm saying when
they're able to be responsibleand hold it down.

(54:31):
Give it to them.
So I'm just starting it up nowmyself.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Look at that, that's different man.
You're already thinking future,future, because my son, he's
been bugging me on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
I try to tell people this is a reality, for cut on
his phone and they get paid.
That's the reality to them.
There wasn't no reality for us.
Mom, finna, get paid off ofMySpace what Nigga you don't
take your ass to fuck.
Go to the damn mall and fillout this application and I'm

(55:06):
gonna beat your ass.
There wasn't no reality for usGetting paid off of posting?
Nigga, Like what the fuck?
They don't know how good theygot it bro.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Well, some parents don't understand that.
Why?

Speaker 2 (55:20):
not Bring it to me.
Doordash Bing Pizza coming Onthe way.
Nigga, you want to go to yourfriend's house?
Doordash, fuck Uber.
Nigga Boop, I'm out of here,man, fuck that, I'm gone.
Yeah, right, it's a differentgeneration, new world they don't
understand that.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Some parents just feel like, no, you're just
wasting your time.
Uh, go find somethingproductive to do.
You're wasting your time onthat game or the internet.
They don't really understandthat some kids can actually make
a career or a living became arace car.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
The race car driving won the race, the race, the big
race by driving.
You've seen the movie or thatshit.
That shit, a real story.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Oh yeah, I didn't watch the movie, but I know the
film you're talking about though.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Yeah, bro, and that's even more of a reality.
So it's hard to say that rightnow and it's like why would you
want to take that away fromsomebody?
That's a part of their life,their imagination, their happy
place.
Why would you want to take thataway from somebody?
I hate when people try to saythat.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
Oh, why?

Speaker 2 (56:19):
you play games.
That's why you do what you do.
It's my happy placemotherfucker, I get on the game.
I do them in the whole world.
Why would you not want theperson to be happy?
That's what we did as kids.
We played football, fuckingvibing outside playing.
I used to whoop my uncles.
My uncles used to talk shit tome.
All right, bet, wait till weget on the game I got you bet.

(56:41):
I'm the young one.
You don't know nothing aboutthis game, you old school.
Come on, let's go.
You play tetris, thisplaystation come on, yeah, yeah
you didn't know.
Yeah, same thing when I playwith my kids, bro, my little son
, sj, bro, I get get on Fortnitewith that nigga Brady man.
They destroy me.
I be getting mad, I can't sayit, but I be, I can't beat him.

(57:05):
I can't beat him.
It's the new generation bro,hey you see this kid right here.
I know how to do this righthere, Nah, man, I'm getting back
awards on.
Man, I'm getting back toWarzone.
Man, I ain't cheating, I'mgetting back on the ground game
Come over here.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Warzone is a shooting game.
It's Call of Duty.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Call of Duty is a shooting game yeah bro Fortnite
got all that building andjumping and all that kind of
crazy man my son be putting awhooping on me.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
So Fortnite, call of Duty, and then you got there's
others out there, so it's abattle royale.
Battle royale is it may be 100players that drops into the
arena, like Fortnite has I can'tremember if it's 100, maybe 60
players.
Apex, the same thing.
So they come in by a ship orwhatever like that and they drop

(57:56):
in.
Okay, so the motive is land,loot and survive.
So you, you land, you got tofind a gun, so you're looting.
And then now, whoever come inyour area and where you have to
go, because the circle isshrinking, you got to survive.
So whoever's the last teamstanding or the last man
standing?
That's what became the new eraof kind of gaming too, because

(58:17):
they're they're also free to get.
So the way these guys makemoney is the cosmetics on the on
the video game.
So like a skin or a dog was onis on war zone people bought his
skin.
Yeah, people buy like fortnight,like they got all these marvels
, you know.
So that's how they make themoney, even though they pay for

(58:37):
the copyright.
But they're making 10 timesmore than I get it.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
I get it.
It's similar to Roblox becauseI feel like my son could blow
$30 every day if he wanted toman.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Prison time.
You'd be crazy about the.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
Roblox.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
He'd be 300 in Roblox .

Speaker 3 (58:56):
He got off of it 300 in Roblo.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Be crazy about the roadblocks.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Man 300 and roadblocks yeah, yeah, 300, 300,
300 all right no, because he'llblow it.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
No, like he'll blow 50 yeah just give me the money
if I did such and such playabout that type of stuff.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
Bro, let me explain.
My son been playing it for solong that, uh, he never had
asked me for money when you,when it's when your son, we went
to your son's birthday partyand, uh, my son's like, oh, no,
dad, he's like that.
It's like saying they're takingthe short route.
So, so my son grinded for years.
He's like, no, I don't needthat, I don't need that.

(59:39):
It's like people in the gameknow that They'll know if you
grind for it or you pay for it.
So, yeah, people, there you go.
People respect the grind morebecause you've been playing it
for years and you played to getwhat Like that's how I was on
the war zone.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
I ain't buying battle pass for a while, like I ain't
know nothing about that, I'mlike I'm just I'm grinding
everything, just getting.
I'm like why the fuck?

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
I'm just so when I mean it's grinding, so my, I
mean there you go, they, theyplay, they they play more hours,
more time, and it's pay to playeverything now there you go.
So not when you say pay to play, I mean you gotta pay this pay
to get this and pay to get thatweapon, but you can play the
game without paying to get thoseitems.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
So yeah, so they get you no place.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
So, like us, we work maybe 12-hour days and we ain't
got time.
We're like, damn, I want tokeep up with everybody else.
So that's how they get you.
Oh hey, just pay $20 to getthis and they go pay it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
They go pay it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
I don't see people that go crazy on that if
somebody bought it versus grindfor it because grinding you
can't get it instantly yeah, yougot to work for it if it just
came out today you know they payfor it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
To get it, this nigga got a skin I don't even see on
the skin person oh, okay, afterthat, time expires now you're
playing other times, get it.
This nigga got a skin.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
I don't even see on the skin person.
Oh, okay, okay, after that timeexpires.
Now you're playing other timesYou'll be like damn, I never
seen that.
They got it a long time ago.
They got it.
So it's not part of the gameanymore.
It's in the game but you can'tpurchase it anymore.
Okay, so, yeah, so that's thepart of it.
But, lil man, because you knowhe around here and there he be
like dad, can I get some Roblox?
You know he want to keep upbecause it's hard to keep up you

(01:01:21):
got to grind.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
They crazy about that Roblox money man.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Dang kid.
That's crazy.
The Roblox, though, is dope,because these kids create their
own game within the game, sothey got it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
But they said it's something crazy on there too,
though, that be going on I don'tknow if we can talk about that.
But they're saying it'sdangerous to be having your kids
on there yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
I've heard I don't know too much.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard.
I ain't either, but I seen itsomewhere.
I didn't really go too muchinto it, but I done seen some
stuff where people saying itain't really a good game.

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
So seen some stuff where people saying it ain't
really a good, a good game, yeah, um, so it should be monitored.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Pretty much it should be monitored, yeah, like they
do.
Warzone, bro, that shit greenman, why they don't run into
that?
They run into grown people.
You can't talk on warzone, bro,but y'all letting all this
stuff going on on the roadblocks.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
They're letting the kids come over to it, so it's a
competitive thing.
So roblox was safe for kidsbecause it's.
It's a place where they can gocreate a game within the game
and it gets popular.
Now you almost want to say yourkid got popular because they
made this game and now he getsbig on his social media, his
youtube, whatever like that.
But warzone a lot of kids wentover to warzone and they, like

(01:02:35):
kids, are competitive, so nowthey're playing with grown men,
man competitive they were foryou.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
Right, you older and smarter, you win the talking
trash battle.
They hurt you probably.
Tell them you go do their momsor something.
Now they report you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Now you block for 30 days, so now we can't talk
reckless.
We can't talk reckless no morebecause you Now you blocked for
30 days, so now we can't talkreckless.
We can't talk reckless no morebecause the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
You get blocked for 30 days, brother, and you can't
hear.
I think you can hear people,but you can't talk.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
One or the other.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
I don't think you can even hear people, bro.
Once you're blocked, I don'teven think you can hear people.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Do they need facts, though, to block somebody?

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
No, I, I'm not even much of a talker, bro.
I talk here and there, but myhomies, really be talking a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
I ain't going to lie.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
My homies school, that nigga.
They go in For me.
Bro, I see I get blocked.
I be like how did I get blocked?
What did I say?
I don't even talk like that,bro, like I barely talk.
How I got blocked you know I'mgetting blocked.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Dude.
Do you know it's seriousbecause they got a squad.
It was like, hey, man, help me,block this person.
So if you get a a load ofreports by one person like they
group up, like hey, help mereport this person, they group
up and they all report.
That's some crap and theyreally do that we get into an
argument during the game a dudewill really get off that game
and go report.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
You, bro, like real talk, like they will really do
that.
They'll talk trash, like sayyeah, bro, where you at, well,
I'm gonna meet you andda-da-da-da-da-da, and then
they'll say you know, you justreport what the fuck.
Yeah.
So a lot of the kids talkingcrazy, I just right a lot of the

(01:04:17):
things that they're grown.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
You know the folks will say they've grown, some of
them teenagers.
They say crazy, reckless stuff.
And now I didn't know.
They know the kids are playingit, so they're trying to keep it
, you know, clean a little bit,but we're playing.
We're playing a game with grownmen that's shooting people.
So I don't, I don't, I kind ofdon't understand it.
So so Microsoft cracked downbecause they bought the company
out.
So that's the thing too.

(01:04:39):
But they want more people toplay.
You can play the game withouthaving a mic.
Yeah, you can't really hear nomore.
It's harder because theinformation don't get by.
Some people don't listen to thecharacter.
If you ain't got a mic, I'm notplaying with you.
There you go.
Some people do that too.
So let's just say yo, girl.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
If you ain't got a mic, I'm not playing with you,
bruv.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
If there's somebody, If you ain't got a mic.

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
I'm not playing with you, I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
It's the lot, y'all niggas.
I know it's three questions.
Do you got a mic?
Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
Go ahead, do you?

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
got a mic, yeah.
Do you got good internet, nigga?
Uh-huh.
Do you got anything to do forthe next 30 minutes?
Because niggas will jump inthat bitch and then be gone.
What's up, you start dying.
Oh, I got to go to the store,bro.
Why the you started in the gamethen, bro, you knew you had to
go to the store.
Man, now we down one person andwe getting killed because your
ass want to leave the game, bro.

(01:05:40):
He talking about the squad.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
He talking about people he knows.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Yeah, bro, that's why I don't play with randoms, bro,
I try to stay with my squad.
I try to get my squad in it,bro you remember what we call
randoms.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
You remember what we call random?
We had the people who just.
Who you don't know?

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
You don't know, so we talked about when we have V on
here.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
Yeah, so a random.
Again.
You start the game.
You had three of us me, you andVan Damme but our fourth player
is a random.
We don't know him.
You got a mic.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Yeah, so now they'll ask those questions like Van
Damme.
You know what I'm sayingkicking them out the party bye.
You got five seconds, you got amic, and if you do, got a mic
and you ain't talking, I'mkidding, you know you know,
getting that good, you got a mic, and then you gotta do it in 30
minutes I love it I love it,bro, I love it 30 minutes, bro
you need, so people don'trealize this war zone.

(01:06:31):
I feel like war zone is likeit's about the team.
It's not really about whopeople try to make.
It about the kills, it don'tmatter how many kills you've got
.
It's about sticking with yourteam, bro, and you need the
numbers.
So, if somebody run down on youand let's just say it's two of
them, but it's four of y'all,who do you think will win?
Yeah, you get what I'm saying.
So, like it's a numbers game,it's a numbers game, so the

(01:06:53):
minute somebody jump out of thegame, you're dead.
You're dead.
There's no winning it.
You got people who got fourpeople on their team.
You're going to run down onthem with just us three and they
got four people.
They're going to beat us.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
You see how Van Damme talking about his squad, my
squad, hagman Ash, and we mighthave one more that we know Like
real life boys, these guys brokeheads like it ain't nothing, so
I don't play with them.
They're too busy arguing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Oh yeah, we have that .
They're arguing.

Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
Here's another part.
They're arguing but guess what?
There's always a lover boy inthe group.
He's on the phone and we'resupposed to be communicating.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
You talking about the other one, h-man, don't say
eight.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
H-Man the lover boy, h-man the lover boy, h-man the
lover boy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
No man, y'all there's always one.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Let me tell you, there's always one that's a
caker, that's caking on thephone, and you jump on the game,
y'all boys, y'all jumping,y'all playing, and we all group
up.
All right, bet, you got the guythat know they ain't supposed

(01:07:59):
to be playing.
They got the kids screaming andyelling in the background.
You got the area squad Bruh,bruh, bruh.
And then you got the other one.
He may stay on the game, hethere, like he there, but he may
get up, walk away, go get hisUber.
He may go get his Uber.
See Yo Vanell laughing.
He got, oh, you at bro.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
That's why we have breaks.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
We have breaks Before you start this lobby we having
a roll-up break.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Everybody roll up, do what you gotta do, we having a
break, do whatever.
If you gotta walk it out, dowhat you gotta do.
That's the type of stuff we do.
We all stay by each other, myhomies.
We all stay with we all rightby each other.
Hey roll up, hey roll up.
Hey take a break Right here.
Hey next lobby, come on.
Hey don't start it, don't startit.

(01:08:47):
We communicate with each other,bro.
That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
I ain't going to lie bro, you gotta have
communication.
It's even with life like itgets you exactly, with life
situations too.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
But when I say these boys bump heads global.
Yeah, we go, you go, have thatthough throats online on the
team bro at work, you gonna havethat, it don't matter.
We're just with multiple, butmultiple men and around doing
stuff and playing games.
Whether it's watching football,boxing, whatever it is, we can
be chilling.
It's going to be some arguments, it's going to be masculinity,

(01:09:24):
that's what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
The cool thing is they set it up for teamwork.
Right, they set it up forteamwork.
You could be the weak link.
You could be the weak link aslong as you hear the
communications and we're tellingyou where they're at.
You can't be too far from thepack because if somebody come in
, one guy can take out the wholeteam.
Once you got communication weset up well, we can take them

(01:09:46):
out.
That one weak guy.
He could have more kills thanall of us and it's normally that
he doesn't.
But some guys are worried aboutwhen he say kills, as in, he's
the elite, the dominant, butwe're not winning the game.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Bro, I had five kills .
I had 10 kills.
Bro, I had 12,.
Bro, you only had one.
What did?

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
you do, you lost nigga.
What the fuck does it matter?

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
We go out there, you score 50 points, nigga, in this
game and we lose.
What the fuck does that matter?
You happy about the 50 points,nigga?
We took the L.
That's the type of nigga I am.
I want the big win.
I don't give a fuck about the L, nigga.
If you got zero kills, you gotzero kills and I had the 10
kills, we did it, we won.
That's it, we won, we did it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
It don't matter, you walk away together.
It's telling what everybody did.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
I can have zero kills .
Yeah, nigga, we fucking did it.
We did it.
Nigga, bitch, I'm going tocelebrate like I had 10 kills.
I still played a part in it,nigga, it don't matter how many
kills I had, nigga, I was outthere in the field with you.
Nigga, I got that W with you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
A win is a win.
A win is a win.
Right, a win is a win.
There you go, that's what thatmeans.
So, with the streaming thingagain, uh, what van am just said
, we want to win.
It don't matter like, if youhave a squad, if you are elite,
you can get 15 kills.
It don't mean that we lose,because if we got people
watching us and you're known forwinning back to back to like,

(01:11:07):
like anything, you're winningback, like all right, I'm gonna
go watch him because he's goodat winning.
Now I can learn something fromhim.
It's not learn something.
I can learn something from hissquad.
If not learn something from him, I can learn something from his
squad.
And so that's how you get yourviewers.
That's what we hate.
To lose.
It bothers you because you wantto win and you're trying to get
them back.
You can win.
People are donating, left orright.

(01:11:27):
People are giving you thecurrency that Twitch got.
They're giving it to you.
So now, when you post, now youget hits on your social medias.
Now you get views on yourYouTube shorts.
You get like, no matter whereyou go, you grant you made this
following base.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Yeah, I just started getting it like going in on my
Twitch.
Bro, I ain't going to lie LikeI bet you know how you help me
set shit up.
So you know, I just be building, bro, and I really be doing the
research.
I go watch people games andwhat they doing.
I go watch their streams.
I see my character, what I'mgoing to roll with, how I'm
going to create my littlebackground.
I'm not just on that stream andI got a whole little.

(01:12:06):
You see my setup.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
I did that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
Nobody ain't do it.
I really did the research howyou make a foot, what's the size
of the screen, what size of thecamera show.
Okay, I can put my littleFlorida man in the background
and have me showing on this.
I really go do research onthese things, bro, and create it
myself.
Bro, and that's the thing thatI'm trying to teach everybody Be
your own boss, not just inmusic, but in all aspects of
life, bro.

(01:12:29):
If you put your mind to it, youcan do it.
If you can thank it, you can doit.
If can do it like, if you'rethinking about it, why pay
somebody else to do it?
When you got the vision, andnine times out of ten, your
vision is gonna be better thanthe person you paying, you gonna
like it.
But you just know.
I just know how I supposed tolook, I know how I supposed to
sound, I know how I want my shitto be.
So who better than me?
Then I want to see myself win.

(01:12:51):
I want to be the best versionof myself.
So why not do it myself?
And I feel like that's what godforced me to do right now, like
not even forcing, just guidingme to do.
I ain't even gonna say forcing,because I'm walking into it.
Yeah, I've been doing it before.
I just got away from it, but Ifeel like he just rerouted me
back into it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
So hey, bless you, man.
That's what's up.
But y'all boys just I donelearned some stuff, boy, about
this gaming world.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Yeah bro, it's real boy.
I try to stream every day.
Nah, I'm not gonna lie, I'll be, like once I get out of work,
you know what I'm saying.
If I can put in eight hours atsomebody else's stream, I can
get out of work and also put itto my stream, even if it's an
hour and I'm just on theretalking.
Let me go on there.
That's probably my first timereally posting it on Instagram.

(01:13:42):
I be streaming a lot.
I done been streaming every daynow for probably like a month
now, but I just don't post it onmy Instagram.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
I ain't really been posting on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
I made a post on Instagram and I be trying to
keep.
I be trying to keep the musiconly on.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
Van Damme Body Slam.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
I feel like I get too personal into that people don't
be caring about my future factsto Van Damme.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
But what I learned, what I learned?
I used to have two pages.
I tried to keep it separate too.
I learned that, um, um, I feltlike I wasn't being true to
myself.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
You know what I'm saying um see I let somebody
else run run van down for asecond though, like, basically
post on there, nice and I'm Idon't got the password for a
while, like I was just doing meon my personal for a while.
Like, whatever I want to post,I was posting on my personal and
they was.
Like, whatever I want to post,I was posting on my personal and
they was running my, my page.
Like, bro, you got to get backto posting music.
Bro, you got to post music.

(01:14:42):
Like this is what people wantto see.
They want to see content.
They want to see you rap it.
Well, fuck, you post it in myfucking right, right right bitch
, I'm going through real life.
Shit too, motherfucker.
I want to post that too.
They don't care about that, bro.
Your fans don't care about that, bro right.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
so what I?
What I did, bro, I I I put onmy personal page I I was like
you know what it being oneperson to control two pages,
especially if you're very activeand I know y'all do the music,
I do the music too but I waslike damn, I gotta separate.
I was like dog why I got toincorporate and try to put it
into one.
If you're going to rock, I saidon my personal page, if you're

(01:15:20):
going to rock with me, look, I'mgoing to be here and this is
going to be the only page Y'allgoing to really truly see who I
really am, because I was holdingback and I said that because I
mainly did that because I knowwomen.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
I love how you be posting man Like.
I love how you be posting moreand more.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
I appreciate that man , but mainly because it was, you
know I was fronting.
It's like the women, and whenthe women see a man play a game,
if you don't like it, you don'tlike it.
It filters the crowd.
For me, you know what I'msaying, it filters it.
If you don't like it, go theother way.
But I'm gonna show you trulywho I am.
So I do my music and I do mygame and this is what y'all
gonna get here, and then y'allgonna get my life when I'm out

(01:16:00):
partying with my boys and andstuff, like, yeah, I gonna get
that all there.
I'm gonna show you who I reallyam.
So but I, I do know when you're, when you're an, um, an artist,
uh, people, people tend, youknow, to make a personal page in
the in, uh, uh, you know theirmusic page because they feel
like the, the algorithm, theydon't mesh too well like, so I'm
having that problem.

(01:16:20):
We, when we spoke about that,yeah, like for me.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
I wouldn't even say it's like.
The algorithm is more like Isaid.
I was trying to get more intomyself, like you know.
No, I understand and like Ifeel like social media one of
them, things that had me tappedout, so like I'm not.
I'm not really too, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
So like I said, I got kids, now you, know from my
perspective, like I got kids ofage.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Now they ain't they.
They got instagrams.
You know I'm saying so.
I ain't on that bit smoking ablunt every second, like I
really gotta watch what I'mposting so to get get prepared
for all of that.
You know, I'm saying I made myown page and really locked it to
myself and I still postpersonal stuff.
Like you see, if you go on myInstagram, I'm back on there,

(01:17:03):
I'm back posting it myself.
So it's just, I took a littletime to get into myself more and
just focus on me.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Oh, I take breaks.
I'm sure you do too, global.
But yeah, you got to take thembreaks, man it.
But yeah, you got to take thembreaks, man.
It's exhausting at times, man,but you know, some people can
understand that and they won'tunderstand it because they want
the likes.
Even though I know I don't getthe likes, I know I got
everybody watching.
So even if I don't see it likeI don't really pay attention to

(01:17:30):
it, somebody might have to comeand tell me and be like yo, you
never come.
I'm like my bad man, I haven'treally.
You know, go back like that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
I I don't know how people be on instagram social
media period all day, like Ihave here and there.
Like when I go on break 30minutes I look at my shit after
that I'm doing what I'm doing,like I don't have time to be on
social media all day, no more.
I remember I used to post somuch and like I'd be looking
back like how the fuck did Ihave time to post?
What was I doing?

(01:17:56):
Even when I went back on theblock?
How the fuck was I on the blockfucking 24 hours, like I really
was out there all day gonowhere on the weekend
especially.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
I don't know about you boys, but on the weekend my
phone's down, my watch wouldtell me I get a call.
I put my phone down, it'd be inthe charge all weekend and
that's how I know.
I got no notification.
I don't even.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
I don't even got them on, bro, I don't know I don't
got notifications on on my phonelike, besides calling, calling
and texting.
That's it like calling,facetime and texting, but no
Instagram, no Twitter, noFacebook.
Like you can call me onInstagram all you want, I'm
never gonna see it.
I'll show you my Instagrammessages so much.
Facebook is so backed upbecause I'm just not a social

(01:18:41):
media person as far as being onthere every day.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
I go and post.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
I might post something.
You can go on my Facebook.
I might post something one timeand then I don't be on there.
I don't go on there and scroll,because what's on there is
what's on everybody's mind.
When I'm reading that, I'mgoing, I'm going through the
same thing.
I'm bringing in the energy I'mbringing it into the world.
They might post something thatthey mad about it.
Now I'm mad about it like damn,yeah, wait, yeah.

(01:19:05):
I just I feel like instagram islike just the picture, really,
like you know what I'm saying.
You just send people pictures,like you know.
So it ain't different.
It's I mean, it's differentfrom seeing what's on somebody's
mind and how they feeling likeevery other second talking about
this person, talking about thatperson, like what's going on in
the city.
I'm out of the loop on that asfar as like on facebook, like I

(01:19:28):
don't, I don't know nothingthat'd be going on and I feel
like it's good, like for me, mymental people tell me so I'll be
like what when, when thathappen?
Like what the fuck?

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
And.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
I be feeling good like damn bro.
I'm out of the loop with thatshit Like yeah, I remember I was
the loop Like nah bitch.

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
No like.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
That ain't what it is Like.
I'm from a different era, noteven from a different era, but I
saw a different era.
People that I was around wasalways older than me.
They weren't niggas who was onfacebook talking about what's on
their mind every day.
So to me, that's not a coolthing for a nigga to be
facebooking every day talkingabout what's going on, what's on
his mind, and that ain'tsomething that we do.

(01:20:07):
What's going on, who they gotbeef with, who don't like, who
you know?
When you see that person, youtell them that's, that's the
people that I grew up around.
We don't do that type of stuff.
So I I just I don't um, I'm nota facebook person, no more I get
on twitter a little bit.
Yeah, I just look at my tweetstweet and get off.

(01:20:27):
But facebook I agree.
Nah well, you want to knoweverything.
You want to find out what'sgoing on?

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
take your your ass on .

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Facebook.
You're going to find out beforeanybody else knows, it's on
Facebook.
That's where the drama at man,Anybody that know me, know this,
don't call me about that shit.
I don't care.
You better not say nothing youbetter not say nothing back.
Yo, nope, I'm on their mind,bet I won't.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
Oh man, that's what's up.
That's what's up, man.
Hey, man, it's been a pleasurehaving you all here.
Man, we're going to make this apermanent man.
We're going to have to bring aguest in and have their daddy
third.
I'm with it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
I told you, I'm with it, I'm with it, I'm glad.
I'm with it all the way, bro.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
It's a great conversation, man I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
We got to keep this going.
When y'all first brought me on,I was like, yeah, bro, this is
what we need for the city.
When y'all first saw me, I wasdoing it.
Yeah, we need this bro, we needthis for the city.

Speaker 1 (01:21:24):
Hey, listen and I appreciate you because you did
hit me.
You're like hey, you knowexposure.
You Like, yeah, we was handlingsome things behind the scenes
and me and Draco was talking andit was just like the timing was
perfect.
Because then I saw you and yoursetup.
I'm like, oh boy, I think we'llbe able to do something.
Man Draco was like, yeah, vanDamme already done, told me I'm

(01:21:44):
like, all right, then I see wecan lock in.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
Y'all really got something special.
Bro's really a platform.
Double salute, bro, for real.
Like this, the type of stuffthat we need in the city, that
we didn't have.
Like thank you if you droppinga project where you going like,
where you gonna go to promoteand talk like yeah we need these
type of platforms and you know,it's just, I love what y'all
doing, bro.

Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
We need more of it, hey appreciate you, brother, and
we're gonna we're gonna find away to integrate us all and keep
it going and as we do bring inguests, you know I'm saying
we'll be able to have a a wholeconversation and keep exposure
going, man yeah, man, allartists tap in any way tap in
support exposure.

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
Man.
Like we gotta just like I'msaying support these artists.
We gotta support the podcast,the blogs, the djs.
I ain't knocking nobody,everybody, bro.
We got to support each other.
It's that easy, bro.
I'm not saying nobody betterthan nobody and nobody.
We all need to support eachother, bro.
That's the only way it's goingto go.
That's how everybody else go,bro.
It's that simple.

(01:22:49):
Don't matter who first on thelist.
Second, let's make everybody onthe fucking.
Let's make everybody that rapgo.
That's all we gotta you knowwhat.
I'm saying let's be on the BETlist, let's be on the XL list,
and then let's fucking argue,let's get us up, let's get up,
let's argue later.
Don't even argue later, becausewe done.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
We done, made it right, hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
You tired of being a nobody Hell.
Yeah, you tired of being anobody Hell.
Yeah, I'm tired of that shit.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
I wanted to plug in this real quick, yo.
So I was chilling with Van Namone time and I didn't know Van
Nam was a foodie.
Van Nam like to eat food, bro.
What's your favorite dish, bro?
I wanted to ask.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
I ain't gonna lie, For right now it'd be the stewed
turkey.
I ain't gonna lie shit, Forright now it'd be the stewed
turkey.
I ain't gonna lie, Stewedturkey white rice Stewed turkey
white rice From what culture?

Speaker 3 (01:23:43):
No matter what culture.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
Oh you know, Zoe, that's it All right.

Speaker 3 (01:23:51):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
let's go Turkey fried rice, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
Yeah, man.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
I ain't gonna lie Right now.
I it's just a stew turkey.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
I ain't gonna lie.
Right now I've been doing astew turkey, I wasn't on a fried
turkey, but I'm on a stewturkey right now Okay okay, the
stew turkey got me chopping upbell peppers and onions not my
food.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Like what?
That is getting spicy now, LikeI'm like this is my flavor now,
nigga, I'm that nigga in thekitchen, bro.
Bro, I'm passionate abouteverything I do, bro, Everything
.

Speaker 1 (01:24:20):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
I do it with passion my nigga I be like I should post
this shit.
This shit looks so good bro,like I really be doing this shit
.
My old boy was a chef bro, solike I'm really him bro.
But, that stewed turkey got meputting bell peppers onions in
my food.

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
It got me acting real different you be seeing them
clips on the on the gram and yoube saying, yeah, yo, yo yo my
favorite thing to eat, bro, likeit's white rice, bro.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
I love white rice with everything, and I put
saison on everything.
I ain't gonna lie and it'sbeing like I say I put saison,
now everything.
Now, for the last maybe twoyears I've been putting saison
on everything.
I just love the season, I don'tknow.
Ah, you can put how much youwant.
Ah, turn it on.
Ooh, it look good ah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
You feel me.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
Oh damn, I'm like put your face on on the goddamn
stew turkey.
Why ain't you doing that?
I know you cooking.
I'm gonna do that this weekend,boy.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
I know you cooking.
I know you say you cooking, butyou got a favorite spot in New
York.
My meal prep, your meal prep.
Okay, you got a favorite spotyou like to go to.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Damn Like what.
What For the stew?

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
time.
Yeah, if you want to pick upsome food, like where do you go?

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
You got a spot that you like to go to I got.
Let's see.

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
What's your favorite spot?
Name that one.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
That's hard bro, yeah give me your time, okay,
rotation.
I go okay, okay for a while,and then I switch off that.
Then I go to like I'm not gonnalie for the maybe like the last
three years, bro, I haven'treally ate fast food like I
really been on my cooking shitokay, I eat fast food, maybe one
day on the weekend or if I'mlike tired, like damn, I don't
feel like cooking.
But I meal prep bro.
So, like on, like sunday, I tryto do it on sunday, I cook my
meals.
I cook everything.

(01:26:21):
Instead of cooking one thing, Icook the whole.
I bought the whole thing ofrice cooking whole thing of
chicken.
Whatever I buy, I cook it rightthen and I meal prep and I just
eat that for the week and thenon the weekend I might splurge a
little bit.
That's when I get to stewturkey.
Ladies.
Y'all hear that, yeah, I cookclean.
All that you ain't got to donone of that.
I cook clean, I do all that.

(01:26:44):
Whip it.
Hear me, I've been really bigon not eating fast food like
McDonald's, wendy's, fucking KFC.
I don't know what that tasteslike.

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
I haven't ate that in a while and I'm not saying it's
bad I just haven't just be gameuh eight piece uh chicken now
at kfc is twenty dollars.
So it is this what?

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
I do, oh duh.
Let's just say I'm at work,right, and I'm like damn, I want
chipotle, chipotle ten dollars.
I can go to walmart get somechicken for five dollars, some
rice for one dollar, get somebeans.
I got chipotle for the wholeweek.
If I'm not lazy if I just takemy ass in the kitchen.
That's what I'm on, that'ssomething like.

(01:27:31):
It's like why would I go buythis one meal for ten dollars
that don't come with a drink?
I buy, buy a drink.
That bitch going to be like $14.
I'm going to be hungry again.
Yeah, buy the whole chicken,buy the rice and beans and cook
that bitch.
It take like 20 minutes, 30minutes and I'm going to be like
I'm going to be like for thewhole week.

(01:27:51):
Yeah, see how I want, get theproportions that I want.
You want, get the proportionsthat I want.
You feel me.
So that's what I've been ontype shit, whatever I want, I
figure out how to make it Likeeven coffee for McDonald's.
Bro, I was buying coffee forMcDonald's every morning.
Every morning I said you knowwhat, get on YouTube, man, how
do you make McDonald's coffee?
What are the ingredients?
I was about everything that I'mdoing with coffee in my house.

(01:28:15):
Before I go leave for work,bitch, I'm drinking McDonald's
coffee for $3.99.

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
That's what I do now.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
I just try to figure out ways to just be my own boss.
Bro, do this shit myself.
Why I'm finna go pay this muchjust to be cheap, when I'm gonna
want some more, I can havefucking Dunkin' Donuts for the
whole week.
Why I'm going to fucking go buythis one, two donuts that I can
go to a fucking store and buy awhole bunch of donuts.
You feel me?
I have it for the full week.
That's just what I do.

Speaker 1 (01:28:42):
No, that's smart bro, that's smart man.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
But my favorite place is Chipotle.
Like, if I'm going to eat fastfood, it's going to be Chipotle,
it's going to be steak andshake.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
Oh damn, I ain't been in a minute.
It's going to be Chick-fil-A.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
I went on a polo tropical run for a while.
I eat polo tropical a lot, andthen I might go to Albert's and
I might go to Tropical Islandsometime.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
Oh, oh, oh, you already named the spots then.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
Yeah, I'm between both.
People try to tell me don't goto one, but I go to both.
Nigga, what you talking about?
Nigga, I go to both my niggas.
Shout out to Tribal Goose.
Shout out to Alvarez.
I go to both.

Speaker 1 (01:29:27):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
Ain't nothing wrong with that you did very well, my
nigga.
It depends on what side of townyou in.
Yeah, brother, yeah, those aremy spots.
Like for me to eat fast food.
Other than that, likeMcDonald's fucking Burger King,
I might eat Burger King Ihaven't had it in a long time
but McDonald's, wendy's, kfc,I'm going to make that shit

(01:29:49):
myself.
I'm going to go buy somehamburger meat and make sure my
burger is a burger and it'scooked.
Well done, my nigga.

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
There it is.
No, there it is.
There it is.
And so, for the people whohaven't logged in yet or tuned
in, slam, how can the peoplefollow you, man, and either
watch the gaming or music,everything is van damn body slam
.

Speaker 2 (01:30:12):
As far as like social media, that's Twitter,
instagram, apple Music, spotify,youtube, tidal.
Whatever you listen to music on, search Van Damme Body Slam.
Whatever you TikTok Van DammeBody Slam, all you got to do is
search Twitter, whatever socialmedia app Van Damme Body Slam.
For the gaming, it's Floridaman Gaming with two Gs.

(01:30:35):
Florida man Gaming with two Gs5-6-1.
Okay, there it is, and that'son everything Twitter, youtube,
twitch, tiktok.
Everything is the same.
Florida man Gaming two G's5-6-1.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
Oh, that what it is, bro.
So, man, y'all heard it fromVan Dale himself I be your boy,
the Global Zo, and I'm withDraco Mell and y'all tuned in to
another episode of Exposure andwe out Ha.

Speaker 3 (01:31:04):
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It's Exposure, it's Exposure.

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