Chris Gotti on Power of Independence, Honoring Irv Gotti & More!

Chris Gotti on Power of Independence, Honoring Irv Gotti & More 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
One baby. Chris gott is in the building. Man, thank
you for having me, Angie, thank you for having me. Chris.
Let me tell you something. It's always a pleasure to
have you here. You know, appreciate that. You know, I respect.
How's the golf game?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
The golf game is coming along quite nicely, and then
it goes into the toilet, then it comes back.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
You know, golf is the most unforgiving sport. Man. Are
you golf? You you did, but you go on and off.
I don't have enough time. I haven't had enough time
to be consistent. You think I have time. No, That's
what I know is up and down. It's an addiction,
is what it is.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
You know.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I know people may make a joke. But if I
don't lose the ball I did incredible.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh me too.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
If I have one ball eighteen, it's a great.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I'll be under a hundred success under one hundred. I'm happy. Yeah,
me too, and I'm great. I've never wanted to get
better than that. We have to put time in.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, mid mid nineties is a nice mid to low
nineties is a very happy spot for me.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I came in with my glasses because I'm in Hollywood,
now I want to talk about that.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
I have on my glasses because I didn't sleep with
last night because I was straight. But what's crazy is
you called me and I was excited for you because
you have this Toobe movie out, but and so then
we booked for you to come by today and I
didn't even realize that today is Irv's birthday.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Is shout out to IRV. I know he's with us here,
he's here, He's gonna be for me today.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
What would IRV say today about you doing this too
Bee movie.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
He wouldn't believe that I did it. He really so
shocked that I did. Why would he be shocked because.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's a lot of work, and it's a new field
and it's again you're dealing with so many different characters.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
But IRV knows you.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
He knows, he knows I don't stop. He knows better
than anybody. So yeah, he'd be super proud of me.
It's funny you mentioned that because my sister Angie, not
my sister you, and my other sister Angie said to
me she had a dream yesterday and the dream was
it was at a movie premiere and I'm showing my

(02:05):
movie and I'm on the stage talking and IRV comes
up and gives me a big hug, and she said
it was so vivid and real. She was like she
woke up, like he's still here, like started crying.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Ah thing, you know, so God bless. How's the family doing?
How is you know? The best you could do is
one day at a time. IRV is huge.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah. I don't know what better way to say it.
It's like and he was dedicated to the family. So yeah,
such a family him not to be around at such
a young age fifty four. No one could even figure
out how that's real. Yeah, I still don't if I
told you, I know. I put a post up today
with IRV. I haven't written since he passed. What do

(02:52):
you mean the words you read from on my post?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Is? I have a ghostwriter tie. She's out in Vegas
and she writes your posts. Why is that? Because I
haven't had the words to say, and I.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
She'll write, I'll give it a concept and she'll put
it together because I haven't been able to form the
words to actually do it. When at the funeral I
freestyped it was different, but I haven't been able to
put the words because I still don't really believe he's
not with me, Like physically, I know he's here, Like
I said, I know he's here, but I can't believe
he's not.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Grief is an interesting thing too, because when it first happens,
everybody calls, they check on you, they check on the family.
You're you're making arrangements. You Chris, Oh my god, you
took care of everybody. You made such a beautiful service
for your brother and you and you wrangled the family
and held the family up and such it away.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
I've been.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Since my dad passed. I've been even when Earth was here.
I'm I'm him for the family. And it's funny that
you mentioned that, because you're not the first. Jay Z
was the first shout out hove Man, and he said,
it was amazing to watch exactly what you're just saying.
How I greeted everyone and dealt with everyone and the

(04:10):
family and the words that I spoke, And again I
didn't know what I was going to say.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
I just spoke, and I was mad.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Remember if you remember I said I was mad because
they said I got two minutes.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Row everybody's time. What I got two minutes to tell.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
About my brother, I can't do it, you know. But
at the end of the day, I managed to do
the best I could. But I still haven't been able
to put the actual words from my from my brain,
my heart on the pen and paper to say all
the things I want to say. So she's just been
doing an incredible job because, like I said, I co

(04:47):
signed it. After she does it, I give her some
the ideas and she puts it together and everyone thinks
it's my words and she does a great job, but
it's really her.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I gotta give her. That's why I had to give
her a shout out for that. It gives me chills
that it's his birthday today, you know, it's.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Just like you would have been fifty five today.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, the double nickel.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
You know, in my post, I was like every time
when I think of him, I always he's always yelling.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
At me, like just loud all this is all. That's
how I hear his boy, I can literally hear it today. Yeah,
and thank you again for your words. You know, everything
is amazing.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean, you know, I was just happy to be
there and being in the presence of your family is
by the way, you got an amazing family.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
You know.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Everyone when they talk about my family. I love it
because I tell everyone we didn't have anything growing up.
We had love.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
I was blessed with Mom and dad. Most people are not,
you know, in our culture, we just don't. They're separated
or not. Mom and Dad's steak stuck it out. Poppy
stuck it out. And I asked him a question one
year when we're grown. You know, I'm a man in
my forties and I asked him, I said, why did
you stay? Most of the men in his eerror left

(06:01):
eight kids, no money. Bye, I'm going over here, And
I just asked, why did you stay? Like And it
was a Christmas right before Christmas time, and he said,
I could never do that to you guys or your mother.
And I said, I get it because that's what he showed.
Like actions speak louder in the words. His actions was

(06:22):
that Buss asked every day for nothing, just to keep
the lights on, let's say, and nothing more than that
forever until we made some real money.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
What a legacy. Though he leaves behind such a beautiful family.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Nero says, that's the best blessing you could have as
a man. He keeps saying that's how he wants to
pass when it's his time with his whole family, everyone
there taking care of him. And that legacy you're talking about,
you know, being an incredible father, always there for.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
You when you needed him.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
And again I get emotional talking about my father and
even IRV. It's like it's so hard. They're pretty close
as far as it's time that you left me.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I gotta imagine you're making them both proud boy, I
gotta tell you, Yeah, that's what I think.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
I talk to them every morning, every morning. I curse
her route every morning. I probably Angie, I promise you.
And why am I cursing them out is because we
had so many plans, so many things unfinished business man
like to get accomplished and do.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
And now I'm like you you.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Left me here by myself to finish this up, you know.
And I was like, I know you're watching out for
me like I was watching out for you. So now
you see everything, you can help me even better.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
You got an angel, Yeah, I gotta show them one another. Angel.
I have a few.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
It hasn't stopped your Like, I know you're still grieving
and you're still in it, but it hasn't stopped your
your hustle or your motivation to get things done.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
I made a joke outside. I said, that's the ditty
in me. Pause, Oh god, I can't stop, will stop? Right?

Speaker 3 (08:00):
But you think about it. That's the mentality. And he
said it, and he's the one who said it for
our culture. I thought, I told you we won't stop
like and that's the mindset we have. He verbalized it. Yeah,
and that's the mindset I have. He verbalized it.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
But I have that mindset like I'm not stopping.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
And now I have some help from above, you know,
to make things happen, and that's you along.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, that's beautiful. So you did this this movie for
two be out of Nowhere?

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah? Yeah, when did you even? When did you shoot this?
And how did you get it out so fast? Andie?
You ready to act because you could be? This is
these these are the things that we have to evolve into.
Have you not. I can give you.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I can send you my you already you already know
I could get I can send you my real right now,
we should have a conversation after this, and we will
have one.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Because there are things made, there are projects to be made,
and I'm.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Telling you, yes, I have one that's a monster for
our culture, but I can't say it. I'll tell you,
I'll tell you all here. But there's a monster story
waiting to get done. There's probably a lawyer that's trying
to block it. But I'm going to get through it
because even if I changed the name, everyone will know

(09:14):
what it.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Is is talking about. I have one too, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
And I can't talk right now because Brittany and I
are shooting a short at the end of the summer
based on a concept that I do I r L Productions.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
We need to really talk.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
I just I just directed. I just directed a documentary
that is pion for just like.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, we're in we using music. Okay for me, I
feel we was black balled. So we got thrown out
of music in my opinion, after the trial and everything,
and they didn't want to accept our music from us.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
That's just the facts. Universal cooperated with the.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Government against murdering and now we couldn't put out music.
I wasn't supporting it. Wow, Yeah, this is all facts.
This is not mean you're talking out my this is
just what it is. I accept all of these things.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
You know.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
I only could deal with things I control I can't
control with someone else does.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
So here we are we start natural progression.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
I started adventure music, empowering independent artists, keeping them. So
I'm still in music, if you understand. But it's under
my control now, not a label, let's say, and I
help artists own, operate, and monetize their business. Next step movies,
TV tales with IRV he said some crazy stuff. It

(10:29):
gets out of bats system for whatever reasonson her being earthing,
HERV being Earth. And then the movies. He has a movie.
He's finished that before he passed. He has it in
the can. It's called Made in America. Remember the jay
Z song with Kanye Yeah, we made.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
It in America.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Okay, that's just like Tales. He just made it a movie,
got it right. Tales was based on songs and it
will be an hour long TV show. Made in America
is a two hour basically movie of made in what.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
He feels hip hop and it was shot, shot and done. Wow. Yeah,
fave ye oh feign hold your head. He's one of
the characters in there.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
You know, uh Soraya you know again, I don't remember
all the names.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I'm sorry. Where it happens to that, right, now, but it's.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
In his company, Visionary Ideas and as Darcel and BJ
and they're working on getting it distributed and final touches
and but.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's all shot and done.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
He paid for it, he made it hisself, so it's
it's his movie and it's now just got to get
set up for a distribution, some type of system IRV.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
In his world, he wanted a theatrical release, and that's
why he wanted that so bad.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Wanted it so bad, and that's why he didn't put
it out. He was waiting to get a theatrical release,
and those releases are very hard to come by. Hollywood
still is got a stronghold on those theaters, even though
that you don't see a lot of movies out, no
movies they go right, whin't do it? I don't get it,
but hey, you know whatever their reason is, their reason
is me while we have a place like a tub

(12:02):
where Ballin is at and this is your movie, Yes,
my movie, my first movie where it's like mine. I've
been involved with other movies, but this one is mine
and and it's not just me.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
I have partners. I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Say like that, I have a rich black or Dwight
walk Walker out in Atlanta. Shout out Rich and Andy introta.
So ARC Films is our company. Arc is Andy Rich
and Chris So that's how we came up with the
name for ARC. Came up with a nice little intro
for the ARC film and I love it, and uh,

(12:36):
next we just went and started filming.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Rich wrote the script.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
It's about a basketball player that thinks his wife is
cheating on him and decides to hire a hitman to.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Kill his wife.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
And it's already out on t It's out on to
B now, L have I not seen this y three weeks?

Speaker 1 (12:56):
I'm so happy you're doing press on it now. Not
everybody knows I haven't did. This is really the beginning
of my promo run.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
And I'll give you why this is a real story
behind this is like look toob is absolutely the right
partner for black film. They have over one hundred and
ten million in subscribers. But it's really for our culture.
That's who's the subscribers. So when you put a movie
like this up, that's the culture that's gonna watch it.
Not saying it couldn't go to Netflix or these other places,

(13:25):
but that's not our culture. That's gonna get the volume
of views if that makes sense, And I'll give Dame
a plug.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
I say, I keep telling.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Everyone we need to support America new we need to
support this. Another girl named Vicki Alton, Philly that I
partner with called New Generation. These are distribution companies like
a toov that you could get your movies on. We
are filmmakers now that learn how to make movies at
a very inefficient price point so we could get it out.

(13:55):
Hollywood never thought we could do that. They never expected us.
You know, we give it lemons, we make lemonade. They
never expect that. And that's what we do every time
in our culture. And here we are able to make
movies with the best cameras and all these fl pennies
compared to what they spend, and then we get it
out and it makes millions of dollars and they's like,
how did they do this? And they don't realize it's

(14:17):
our culture. This is what we enjoy what we make,
even if it's flawed, right and there's someone still laughing
on the floor when they got shot and they're dead,
and it goes viral, We're gonna We're gonna make it
more viral. We're gonna repost it. It's like you just
see that and force people to go watch it. And
that's the burthen that really happened. That's how Too We
actually became as big as they are.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh, because it's because somebody was doing that.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
Court The movies that was on Too We originally would
be very low budget course and it would be again,
someone might have gotten shot and they were on the
floor and they're saying.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Is a takeover?

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yet they're supposed to be dead, and in that scene
would go viral and the next you know, boom, they're
making millions of dollars and they spend twenty make the
film and Hollywood's like, wait a minute, that's not that's
not right. Yeah, that's that's not gonna go now.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know, I always want to remember the guys who
did money in violence. Yes, they they they did the
same thing. So guess what, go check those guys.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
IRV is the first guy because when I brought it
to IRV, I said, Yo, you see these guys doing money.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Fine, he brought it right to jay Z. That's how
they got their original first Dear. IRV brought them to
Jay and J the same mentality, exactly right stories to tell.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
We might not have millions of millions of dollars, but
we'll get our stories to we did.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
We make an incredible film. That's the difference. So now
again I'm funding it. Me and Andy and Rich. We funded
these movies ourselves, and we got our first one. Really,
we got two in the can. Balling is already in
the can and out doing well on two. We go
watch it, you know, make some comments, tell me what
you like, don't like the cast I had. I used

(15:53):
Lance Stevenson. You know, it's a basketball movie so far,
incredible job. And you know Soari I want to clean
Safari up. I'm gonna say that too, because he has
a bad rap. He's such a good dude.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Off screen.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Everyone looks at it from loving hip hop and all
the chaos, and they don't realize love and hip hop
is acting.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
It's a scripted reality of performancey.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I don't know him off of off air or off
he's a good man, but I would imagine also he's
like a ambitious, like a hard worker, like like a.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Hustle, you know, like he's a super hustler.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, he has businesses you would never believe, like insurance business.
He owns a big insurance business and things like that.
And again he's been he's on Love and hip Hop
for ten years. He went was in La Miami, New York, Atlanta,
all three all four places for love and hip hop,
which is you don't see to act anyone else do that.
He's one of the ones that did it and he

(16:49):
has a big following.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
How they do in the movie. I haven't seen it again.
I'm going to watch it tonight. He's my stephen A.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Smith, So god shu got it. He's he's the sports reporter.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Got it. That's covering Lance.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well Casted, Yes, well Casted, that has relationships with I'm
watching this tonight. You have to opening. The opening part
is gonna get everybody. If you just watch the beginning,
you're like, wait a minute, I gotta finish this up.
That's how we did it. I did something to catch everyone,
you know in the very beginning, and that has to

(17:22):
do with Safari for sure.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Okay, we're gonna watch it all right, So where do
everybody catches it on to b Yes, and I know
you have a whole bunch of other things you need.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Let's let's get in promo mod let's let's we're here
the sound sound sound Chris Gotti. You know, so before
we get out of before we get out.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Of the movie soundtrack, Yes, okay, Lance Stevenson myself went
in the studio and I was gonna make just.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
A record or two for the soundtrack, not a soundtrack,
just a couple RECs to put in the movie, because
then you also get paid off, of course.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
But we ended up making a soundtrack, and Lance is
all over the soundtrack.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
I call him the Black Drake.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
So I brought out a part of lens of as
I think as an artist.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
I mean, he delivers absolutely.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
I'll put I'll put money up on it that if
you listen to the music and honestly judges, you're gonna
be like, wow, that's a really good record. Now, whether
you're taking and run with it or not because you
don't like Land or you like Land, whatever it is,
that's your business. I know, I make quality of music,
and I'm not gonna do it. I went in the studio.
He's never was, he was never in a big studio.
I brought him in the Circle House, locked out that

(18:32):
so we was shooting the soundtrack, I mean the movie
and then come and make the soundtrack afterwards.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Amazing, crazy.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
So the soundtrack is out now, also out on Adventure Music,
you know, independently.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I'm just good. You you you know how to put
it all together. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's amazing, you know.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
And so you know, with that being said, I want
to just finish my cast.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Trey Cheney. I'm gonna give him a shout out because
he had he.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Was his son was in him and his son was
in a hurricane or tornado in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Atlanta gets tornadoes. His son was thrown over three hundred
feet away. The house was on top of Trey. Trey
is from the wire. So he's really my main actor
is as far as who had real acting chops. But
just recently his son just got an ICU. He's doing
a lot better. He couldn't walk. He walking now and everything,

(19:29):
and again he's dealing with his own personal injuries from that,
but not as bad as his son. And he's very
dedicated to helping son. And I just want to send
my blessings over God bless.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
The Cheney family. But he was one.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
We have Rebecca who's also has a big following. She
did great as his partner in crime as detectives. They
are detectives that break the case.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
You're looking at cyber Larry Wait, came, I shoot the case.
I break they Can you shoot this? Oh man?

Speaker 3 (20:01):
We're over a year in almost two years since we
shot it to release. It was about a year in
seven months, eight months before it got released, me chasing
down with IRV wanted, which was theatrical and things of
that nature and different bigger deals, and the reality is

(20:23):
it wasn't ready for that. I'll just leave it at that.
It's you know, timing is everything. So I got my
situation with Toob and say let's go. We'll be on Peacock,
We'll be on Amazon. We're gonna be on multiple places,
not just to be. But it's like a process. It's
like one at a times. It doesn't happen like music
when I drop music. It's in every dsp imaginable. They

(20:46):
all have to go through their own quality control and
they move at their own rate and their own pace.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
And I'm dealing with the process. But I'm gonna get
it down. I'll crack this cold in a second. I
know I'm watching. I'm going to crack the code in
the second.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
But and our lead actress, which was Lance's wife in
the movie, is Brenda Paulino.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
She's just a model that I knew.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
From a Latina top models, and I brought it in
and I had to teach everyone acting. I have a
process for that. That's why I said, how do you
do that? It's not hard. As long as you could read,
you could act.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
My god, why do you tell them somebody who's never
done it it is hard.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
No, it's not.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
It's like the booth is. If you look, you made records. Okay,
it's the same thing you've been. I've also been in movies, Yes,
I did.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
I did a few of my own name.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
I know you got your what is that the IBM?

Speaker 1 (21:41):
I got to report if you joined? Honestly, you know my.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
First the movies, the first movies that I ever was
in was it's from the same mentality.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
It was Dame.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
It was Dame putting me in paper soldiers and state
property too. And when he was like, we're gonna do it.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Our way, but our budgets and our ideas, he was
was ahead of his time. He was ahead of credit.
And you said, and the other one paid in full. Yes,
I had a small little role in that.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
So his those were the first ones I did, and
then I went into like Brown Sugar and a couple
other ones like that. But it was Dame who put
me in was like, you can ask go ahead.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
I was like, I can, So there it is. Ok
he proved it.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Again, it's just if you're not embarrassed about being in
front of a camera, and you could do that part
and you could read, you could act.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
And I don't know that I agree with that, but okay,
it's surprised. So what I did.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
What I did was I did zoom calls. Okay, because
I'm spending my money in production, so I don't want
to waste money meaning to bring you to go shoot
and you're not ready to shoot, you.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Don't know your lines. So I did zooms and had
my characters and we went.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Over every scene, every part of the movie, and I
wouldn't go into production until I said you're ready. And
I had acting coach for each actor that's.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
In the movie to help them with their lines.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
And like Trey was the pro, he comes in, he's ready,
he understood his role the whole thing. The rest needed, Yeah,
needed a lot of coaching, and it took me seventeen
days to shoot the entire film. Oh wow, okay, I
could have did it faster, but my director had to
leave to shoot married j blah, shout out Mary, but
don't worry.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
You cost me a few dollars, but it's okay. Who
directed it ever?

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Beaumont and I hope I said his last name right,
But he had a project to do with Mary, and
he said, I have to leave, do you?

Speaker 1 (23:35):
So I had to stop keep everyone there in Miami.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
I shot in Miami, which is hotels and everything, so
it cost me a few extra bucks. But he came
back and we finished. But you know, he was an
amazing director. Again, he did incredible for his first time.
I gave him an opportunity, you know, I like empowering
people with a chance.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
To do things. But once you did the zoom, it
took me two months to do the zooms to Tea
tached them how to act, but only seventeen days to
actually shoot them.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Smart yeah, and that saved me a ton of money,
time and everything.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
But they all got it. And then once they got it,
I was like, all right, this time, let's say production days.
All right, Chris, I'm invested I'm sold. I'm going to
watch the movie. Please.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
It's on to b Yes, it's called Balling, Balling, nice
and easy to remember.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Not forget, You're not forget. Soundtrack is out. Soundtrack is out.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
And the last thing I want to really get to
is my Clash Pro Basketball. Oh man, I know we
talked last time. The last season was incredible. I got
Michael straighthand talking about doing the reality show and his
company Smackshot Out, Mike, let's finish that out.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
I'm using influences. I changed again.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
When you are entrepreneur and in business, you have a blueprint,
you say this is what I'm gonna do and this
is how it's gonna look. But when you get to it,
it's like this, it's not that clean. We all know
this as entrepreneurs. So I re evaluated the situation and
as the owner of the league, I have to sell teams.

(25:06):
Instead of selling the teams, I went influencer based. Robbin
from Balling Alert will have a team.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
In the league this year.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Shout out Robin and ball Alert, French Montana, Fat Joe, Joe, Ruhle, Jada,
kiss as Se.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Fat Boy, and Shiggy.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
And then I have a couple of spots left open
because I'm trying to close either Chris Brown, Yo.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
CB man, if you hear this, you called me that,
Chris Brown or j Cole, either one. You know. I
would also entertain.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Wallow and Kelly Yeah, because because he's a player, he
might want to play and own the team that he's
playing for.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
They don't put up no money. We pay for everything.
We pay for the players, everything, the gym.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
The whole thing. So all sadlers are pay from us.
All they have to do is promote.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
That's brilliant.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
And then once I get New York off the ground
and show everyone, I'm going into Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago for leagues,
not teams, so a full league in each one of
those states or cities. And it's all able to be
done because of supplying demand. We just seen the draft
last night. It's only sixty two college players and some

(26:25):
overseas players that could be Draft sixty four sorry, that
could be drafted in the NBA.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
And then everybody else, even if you go overseas.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
See, I have a lot of history because I have
sports management business, and I've had tons of NBA players
that I was in business with from a sports management
or co agent with so I understand the business side
of that, that basketball and the agent, and you only
get a couple jobs internationally per team for American players,

(26:55):
so it's still a very scarce.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Amount versus amazing, amazing players.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
So we have a place and then think of some
of the players that might have had a baby and
couldn't keep playing or whatever, got in trouble, got hurt.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Had to get a job.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
All of these things happened in your home and your
family life and everything that might have taken place that
kind of changes your course.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Of you know, your life.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
As far as a basketball player, I'm giving you an
opportunity to come get paid.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
How do people find out? Where do they go to
get involved?

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Clash Oh my goodness, you just man, it's Clashed TV.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
I mean Clash Basketball on Instagram.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Sorry, Clash basketball on Instagram and all social media platforms.
If you was the DM there, you'll get a response
right away. We have people to handle that all day,
every day.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Love that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
We'll be doing a combine in September. So if you're
a player, you got to be entered in the combine
to have the opportunity to get picked by coaches. I
eliminated agents. So in a music business, a lawyer is
like your agent. In the sports world, right, lawyers, if
you didn't get the rights lawyer, you may not have
got the best deal because the best lawyers have the

(28:06):
best relationships already inside of the labels.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
And it's just a barty system basically.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Uh, same thing goes for agents and all the gms
that's around. So I said, if I'm really trying to
empower these players that didn't get an opportunity.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Take that, take that DM.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Those coaches showing me a highlights, get in touch them.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
They're very accessible. Some of the leagues just started there
in every park in the city. Pull up on them,
talk to them. See, I'm gonna eat what you kill, guys.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
So I don't like when people sit back and want
someone else to do the work they could do. So
I take away the agent. Now, if you want to
play and you want to get paid to play, go.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Get it, go get it all right.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Well, too much going on with you, not too much
visual enough, just enohing.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
I'm glad you're good spirits. Baby. It's always good to
see you because that's on everything. My house is your house.
Happy birthday, to Earth. Happy birthday. We miss you Gotti.
We miss you Gotti. Chris Gotti in the building. Everybody's
about on the five point one