Permission 2 Speak Freely Podcast

Nostalgic Tunes, 90s Sitcoms/Movies and the Art of Self-Improvement

• Chief Ali & Lay Loe Tha Mos • Episode 19

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What happens when you mix love, nostalgia, popular culture, and music? You get a conversation that's as enlightening as it is entertaining. Remember those nights when the only thing setting the mood was the rhythm of R&B? When the boundary between friendship and love was as thin as the vinyl record spinning on your turntable? We take a trip down memory lane and discuss just that, reminiscing about how music - specifically 90s R&B - played a pivotal role in our emotional and relationship dynamics.

Curious about what sitcoms have to do with your upbringing? Remember the cultural landmarks that were the 90s sitcoms like Fresh Prince, Martin, and Living Single? We certainly do and we discuss their profound influence on our lives. We also appreciate the multifaceted talent that is Jamie Foxx, and how his sitcom and music have transcended generations and cultures. And, we do it all while navigating the heart-rending narratives of critically acclaimed films like Rainey's Black Bottom and One Night in Harlem.

But we're not all about the past either. We also ponder about the powerful narrative of hip-hop music and how artists like Master P, Snoop Dogg, and Jeezy the Snowman have used it as a mirror to society. We recommend some classic, albeit dark-themed films, that teach us valuable life lessons. And as we reach the end of our journey, we reflect on personal growth, self-care, and how the concept of Research and Development (R&D) can be applied to our personal lives to enhance our relationships and productivity. So join us, for a discussion that's as rich in nostalgia as it is in insights and laughter.

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Speaker 1:

Say you can get this. How much I owe you 75, 75. Come on, man, you know how I give you 40 dollars. You know how you get that 40 dollars. Remember the chick he used to date Janine, her sister, jenny. Look that up, that's how I look. Permission to speak. That's one of them goons.

Speaker 1:

So one of the things in that, like that movie man which I thought was dope and cool, martin was a Entrepreneur of a night life. Him and his boys. Yeah, on nightclub. Yeah, bobby Brown, they was, was they? They was buying the club from Was the owner? The only name was was was a sunny. I'm giving him a name.

Speaker 1:

I forget his name Lou Lou Lou Schmittie, digging that old Schmittie. That's the only really dig in that old Schmittie. But they was a. He was taking on a couple of partners and he wanted to a little guy because they they promote. They was more so like plug promoters. You know I'm saying they get the. You know Schmittie was a order guy. You know Schmittie was Schmittie used to run the juke joint back in the day, you know I was gonna say, but he had the young guys promoting form, getting the ladies to come through.

Speaker 1:

You know what I mean, cuz that's really what you got to do when you promote that club. Get the ladies to come through, and what's gonna come with that? Get the ladies to come through a chocolate city. Come through, bring your girls. You ain't got a word about promoting to the fellas. After you got the ladies in there, plug on, promoted. So. So Schmittie was taking on a couple of partners, you know, and they like hey, you know, yeah, yeah, you know, don't move you up for show, for show man.

Speaker 1:

I actually, uh, as I grew up and I got a chance to watch that movie again, as being a heartbreaker myself, guilty, I don't even feel bad for my G Martin Martin is like one of my top five. Just personalities, you know, just personalities. And in that movie make everything fun. My nigga was, she was, she had warned him like I, my heart has been broken. Yeah, fuck with me, don't play with me. You know, my nigga, she got a plane of heart coming to try to beat, beat the bitch ass, shit. She was already hot class and on her own doing her own thing, but Some killer her. Remember some? Some double-dare shit night. Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, you're gonna have to tell it. You love, come on now, you know I don't break the rules. We'll never Tell him we love. That's what he said, man, but he had to tell it.

Speaker 1:

So, man, let me ask you this may have you ever caught yourself in that situation where you kind of saying emotional shit early or like, yeah, you kind of landed on real thick, as they call it also young shit man. I came up at a time where R&B was still running. This shit, hi, you know. So you know you kind of had to. You know, say some shit you didn't necessarily mean Just to try to. You know, lay yourself in a soft spot in a soft place. Definitely guilty of that. Man, you gotta say line a little bit to get the pussy some. She got it that. Hey, I think I I ain't saying I'm in love with you and nothing like that, but Think I love you. Don't like I care about you like a lot. I really don't know how to be a friend with the smart girl. Yeah, yeah, man.

Speaker 1:

So I'd have caught myself early day simping, early day simping, getting a little attention from the ladies and, as I learned now, like, amen, my love and my attention can be, it can be overwhelming. And I say is because I only got one woman. I'm just like I'm the Mary my glory. They only got one woman is satisfied. I'm the Mary my glory. I only got one woman is satisfied. And sometimes you like, only got one. You gotta get all of this. I'm like you gotta be. I only can have one woman. Right, you gotta be 30 different bitches. I gotta get a couple weeks few outfits, yeah, at least it. Glasses on or off, sunglasses, glasses with no frame. I'm gonna get you some scuba gear. We already touched on that on the corner, on the corner. So, man, but um, I Completely understanding to get it, man.

Speaker 1:

So when they, as a young cat, I didn't put myself in them situations, I Come up in that era. R&b as well, yeah, man, confessions came out when I was in the eighth grade, niggas. So you know which is still a fire fucking album? It's just a classic. You know, we don't throw the word Classic around like a lot of people do. These they, they be throwing out all that new song. So classic, nigga, this shit been out six hours for sure. So freedoms, because just for a second man do.

Speaker 1:

This is to all respect to musicians, artists of all kinds, of all walks, all kinds of creatives, due to the person being popular and then, for some reason, their lives are tragically taken away from them Due to the start of impoverished. He does not make this person in their music and catalog Classy, mm-hmm. Okay, not make them a legend. No, it's not make them a legend. You know saying Paco was already a legend before he died, and, matter of fact, thank you for that public service announcement.

Speaker 1:

Have you heard about the latest to parking? I have, and Now part of me rejoices within this. The I don't know man follow with me. People, the conspiracy theorists, and me is like what is the diversion? Is like the distract. What is it distracted? I still bump to park music now, and I was listening to the mansion. That's probably one of my favorite to park songs, man, and I'm sitting there and I'm getting KJ hip to stuff too, man.

Speaker 1:

So I let him hear the mansion and I let him hear California love, like just the flow of how To Park flow his flow from. I don't bail fresh out of jail California. I'm here screaming, feeding for money and alcohol the life of a west sound player. We're stopping some. We all fall. I got XDMD because that's. That's it, though, but I let him hear versatility Between the tracks of like, look at what he can talk about in thugs mansion and how he still sounds the same Compared to what he's talking about just having fun in California, love. And he was like I like his voice, like he got a voice. That's a huge part of it. He has a voice that people it mad. It has a voice that, uh, attracts man. So, that being said, man, I was able to let him hear music and communicate with him through the music and that be like our, our, our layer, our joint thing, man. So he, he's tapping into music, I'm tapping back into it.

Speaker 1:

But I come up in that era where music, you could use music to speak for you and you couldn't Hold your own and the conversation sometimes you could. I like Got this jacket, baby, I promise to you. And why would we let this thing go? So I came from there, what I like harmonized to the pussy a little bit, saying give that. Oh, you got, you can sing. I Can't say I do my time, I do my little thing, you know. So I got some vocal, I got some, got some little pipe.

Speaker 1:

I was the lead singer in the junior ush board Afterschool church. That church I would be on the basketball scene and me, my homies, we carry the most chairs downstairs in the basement after service. Six and this on my six and other other things, maxed out at four. That's just me. That's what I do. I do what I can for the congregation. You know, that's just me. I just. If you do my thing, y'all need anything. Okay, y'all have a good evening. You know how I go, for sure, bro, I grew up in the church but I rightfully identified as a heathen. My god know what he did. But other than that man, I'm me, actually.

Speaker 1:

This man, especially since we tapping on R&B who do you feel like is the R&B artists that you will play, the kind of like, set your mood for, like for the night. So give me an R&B artist that has set your mood for the night for like you and wife. Let's give me one, one, one artist that has set the mood for the Eve. It can be a old artist and new artists, but a artist that's like for her. It gotta be like a, not like a new, new artist, not like a, not like a 2020s artist, but it gotta be at least in 2000s for her, at least 10 years, yeah, cause I go putting on my shit from the 60s and 70s and she go ranking on the nigga and I don't like that.

Speaker 1:

So, um, it'll definitely be some some Jodicy, definitely be some. You know some some mid 90s Jodicy. For her man It'll be some. Uh, it'll be some early usher. You know some early usher man, some jagged edge, like you mentioned some of that shit that you know that weed that we came up with.

Speaker 1:

And if I'm putting on the record, um, you know, for my lady it's going to be coming from the, the male perspective. Like I got something to say to you. It's true, this another man singing this shit fummy, because I can't hit them notes the way he can. But listen, this is how I feel. I love the jaggedy CD, track four, and like the second verse, true Hill, that's, that's what I feel, like I can't say it, but he's saying it from me and like, just listen and tell me what you think. This made me think about you, but it'll definitely be some true hell in there. Jagged edge, jodicy. Yeah, yeah, tank, Take it early 2000s. But, thank, thank my dog man, really, he's free, thank my dog. I like tank.

Speaker 1:

I like I met not met tank, but I got hip to tank from, uh, jimmy Fox. Jimmy Fox had mentioned that him and tank had like, let's play football at school together and they used to sing and all kinds of shit together. But it was on an interview and I was like, oh man, I think that's dope, but I only had a hip. I was only hip to tank growing up from one song. Not he had a catalog, yeah, but it was like he had one song and it was like I always, always, saw some beautiful black woman playing.

Speaker 1:

Maybe I deserve some nigga that broke their motherfucking heart. Yeah, I deserve. Who out in the body of I was a fine. I don't think it enough for you to go out and find some other guy. Bitch, I'll beat you, ha ha ha To grab your neck. You better talk to people with the fucking idea wrong. Say it ain't true, it's my own insecurity, and I'll chase you down the street. Yeah, it ain't true, it's my own insecurities. Will you say, yes, I cheated on you. She is, you deserve it. But all I put you through, baby, I deserve, deserve, deserve, ha ha. Will you sleep around tonight Like, hold on, wait a minute, bitch, you better come to fuck on Real man. But that's a dope cut man. I actually got a kind of black ball in the industry at the time. I heard him talking like a killer. Nah, I think I heard that. Maybe he said he said he probably said he probably said that just on some funny shit. Like man, this nigga stay fucking.

Speaker 1:

You know taking right hits, yeah for sure, hits and hits and hits. You look at his catalog as a writer. It's kind of like, oh shit, taking touching everything, god damn, damn like he wrote. He wrote oh for Marion. Oh yeah, all that shit he wrote. He wrote naked For Marcus Houston. Yes, that's it. You hear it, don't you? It makes sense. And now that you mention it, I can listen and hear like, yeah, that's a, that's a tank. Yeah, it may be like the early 2000s when Neo became popular as a solo artist because he was already writing music, writing like a mother.

Speaker 1:

Once you got to hear his music, with him on it, you get to hear like, oh, he wrote. Yeah, bieber singing that. Because a lot of times how it goes is, you know, folks will hear. Even I just say, from Kanye, you know Kanye played beats for certain artists and go hey, man, this, you right here, this, this is you, I even got. I got a verse to it from when you want this, maybe like nine, but they feeling that fucking, four years later you end up fucking I use it and turn that shit into like, oh damn, that shit is hard, like yeah, sometimes you just got to hear it in song form all the way put together and it got to catch you. You know, but tank, definitely that dude on the right side, man, I can't run through all this catalog, but I know he done, he done put the pen to the pad and made some shit out of it.

Speaker 1:

Show man, if I was the which I would love to, man, freedmen, speakers, and I would love to, as an aspiring artist, as an aspiring podcasters and aspiring creative of multiple different talents and things, I would love to produce and make beats for local artists in Cleveland, ohio, 216, or within the nation. Anyone that's willing to connect COVID show that we can email and FaceTime across the nation. Man, I'm doing let's collab, let's collab. Most definitely man. But if I could get into the industry of musicianship, of music, I feel like the easiest way for me to get in would be to write. I feel like I not just I feel, I know I can I make catchy things. Yeah, I wanted to be. I wanted to work at Jingles 2000 with Jimmy Fox and Cole, miles and Curtis. I felt like I ought to help that trio. You're anxious? Yeah, get out of the house. Can you repeat that one more time? He's like Get out of the house, out. Why you saying it like that, trying to find things that rhyme with fungus Fungus Supposed to be a mongus. Yeah, yeah, man, remember that episode when they had to sing off in the office. Oh, my gosh, man Like, oh, playing white rice, t-i-boys, the Jamie Foxx show man. And you know if you're seeing the rumblings about this on social media. You know, I think, the Jamie Foxx show.

Speaker 1:

When you think about the sitcoms from the 90s, people tend to go Martin, fresh Prince, living Single as a big three, especially for Black. Yeah, for sure, as a big three, because you got friends and shit with fuck friends. They stole that shit from Living Single. The whole fucking concept of friends was stolen from Living Single. Living Single was canceled. Bang Friends pop out through the research. The whole concept was stolen from that Black show.

Speaker 1:

Other cast members come out and say that most definitely of the Erica Alexandria. She played Maxine Shaw, attorney at Law. And I love Max, just her character, like how I could eat. Yeah, one of them episodes she was like, hi, naughty, I am too. How are you? I'm like, look what's up Max, what's up Maxine. But she said that they stole the whole concept. They stole the attitude, the wardrobe. But because I guess it's even just the dynamic of them dating amongst even being the friends.

Speaker 1:

But hey, we can't have shit, we know that, fuck friends, I refuse to watch it. I refuse to watch it. I mean, even when it's on, I got I turn the channel, go back and just turn it again. So let me, let me, let me, let me not lie. I've never watched a full, complete episode of friend. If I come into the room and it has been on TV at work and I just sitting there and watch Ross or whoever, that's the only person I remember, just off top of my head, is Ross, that one, because he was done. I remember she was dumb, she was like Sinclair. Yeah, see, I'm saying he was dumb. And then I, I can't, don't give me the line, fuck him.

Speaker 1:

I know a OB. Yeah, he was the janitor, he was the, he was the super in the building. Basically, he broke my Cleveland Browns move. Oh well, that's a good, that's a good, that's a good. That's when that they had the Browns had sold. You know Art Mordeaux had sold the Browns and he's like, ah, broke. Mclean Browns move, oh well, they ain't gonna be around him. He from Cleveland, no, kim Culley, kim Culley, kim Culley, or the evil Kim Culley, which is like Jack A, one of them is from, like Kim Wittley Wittley, somebody from EC. Kim Wittley, look like you're seeing my sheet from EC. We're gonna have to do some research. Can we get get on that? Check that.

Speaker 1:

But um, but yeah, man, back to the as a big three name, real quick. Big three, 90s, black sitcom For me, yeah, for you, okay. Jamie Foxx show Jamie Foxx, wayne Brothers and parenthood for old shit people, yo, parenthood. Robert Townsend Hollywood show yeah, fucking love the parenthood. That's another. Like one of them forgotten ones, because when you think big three, it goes fresh. Prince Martin, give me a third, like the big living single, kind of be that third, one big three, you know what I'm saying. But then we forget about and family member, family members, family matters, kind of just into the late 80s, early 90s I think. I think that she came out 89. But, of course, went on to be like a 90s show.

Speaker 1:

A successful black show went on and I got a story to tell about and I think that and this is my thought, man, I think that a full house was pulled from family matter. Hey, that's just me, I ain't mad at. Full house was pulled from family. Having the little neighbor come by, little white boy, the annoying neighbor. Hey, dj, yeah, the annoying neighbor comes over. Yeah, I did watch full house, by the way, when as a kid, as a child, I didn't know how rude I didn't know. Well, we as a kid, we only could watch certain shit because we grew up in the household in the 90s, yeah, where the TV's have fat asses, yeah, they weren't flat. You might have color, you might not.

Speaker 1:

I had a black and white TV in my room with the motherfucking black. Yeah, I a I'm a old soul, I know some shit, and I had the two TV the first time I saw the video for Wankster. 50 cent was on that TV, black and white, with the pixels on that. Yeah, it was black and white. That shit was smooth, though, why, that shit was like a good knee to 70. I like it looked good for for old as TV.

Speaker 1:

The antenna had, you had a real and that is for you on the end, but we had the old wire hanger with the full loan there. And then we had like some rabbit ears. We had two. Yeah, I had the rabbit ears and my room was in the attic so I get a decent sick. Yeah, you up top, I had too much blocking you up top. Yeah, but we had the TV at the top and and don't quote me, but I'm trying to remember it's like. But go back and think I want to say the TV, the top TV, had three, five, eight, yeah, 19, and maybe 25, 20, 25, 43, 55, 61, spanish, yeah, tell them, and that was kind of it. That was it. That was it. You might get this fucking TV guy on channel 99, 98, some shit, yeah, but that's it. And then, funny thing about that black white TV.

Speaker 1:

You remember early in the bronze career they started wearing the hardwood classics jersey, right, we like the blocks on the side and shit. It's about three months. I had no idea what color them jerseys were because my TV wasn't black and white and the calves came on regular. Well, it is local now, but they came on channel 43. Yeah, the cash was that. That's when they that's low-cost public broadcasting, yeah, but like brown was here. But it's early brown, second season, third season in the lead. That was like because he came out, three Came in 03 03 04, 04 04 05. Like they get early brown had no idea what color them jerseys was.

Speaker 1:

You know how I find out and they happen to go downtown, saw some newspaper on the ground, like oh shit, the bitch is hard. That's just something like the opening of a movie, like a raccoon city. It was just different shades of gray. Where, where am I? Like paper, just blow up man, that black and white TV and I appreciated the shit out of yeah, yeah, yeah, man, we had the black and white TV.

Speaker 1:

That's why we're trying to get my kids to understand. They don't know how good they got it. They don't know how good they got it. When we was young we didn't know how good we had. Yeah, I feel like that's gonna constantly be the thing with the generation of.

Speaker 1:

We may be feeling like our children we're not tough enough or they're not handling the level of challenges, but I also feel like that our children grew up, growing up at the age of information, where life hacks is the new to get things through, and I gotta use the brain power more than just the brute string. Go outside, it's like not being inside. It's shit. And getting this knowledge on these left, learning this coding, that coding for Microsoft. Yeah, you want to cut this grass? I don't want. I programmed my room. But to cut the grass Now robust, break it and get this money, yeah, you so got them smart. It changed my stimulus to 10,000. Yeah, man.

Speaker 1:

But so I think that I think that, as we always talk about with our children, man, we're giving them grace. I know we've been really heavy on them looking for production and growth and I think that's gonna still continuously be a thing, but finding myself in the moment, at moments, giving him grace, giving my oldest son grace, yeah, because I get to see, I get to see the progression and I also want to give time to develop. I get to see the effort of like, hey, man, I'm trying and I'm doing this and I'm doing that, compared to say, for example, us as kids. Our parents may have looked at it like we weren't trying, but we really were. Just we weren't giving the time to really process. As we just stated not too long ago. Man, adult time is different than kids time because 8 30 bedtime to the kids sound like it's a bad, but to me 8 30 bedtime sound fucking great. Yeah, I remember.

Speaker 1:

I remember one year I asked my mom for a bike for Christmas. Wait a minute, can I get a bike? I asked for a bike. Now for Christmas, I asked for a bike just for a regular Thursday. Like ain't no, no gifting holiday coming up and you can't fit a bike in the Easter basket. So this shit got a big ass basket. But uh, say, man, I get a bike. And she got off. Okay, alright, maybe we get you one for Christmas. It's fucking March. How the fuck I got three seasons to get through? That's a long time. I better get a few bikes. We close the last Christmas, the next Christmas, what the fuck this bike gonna be a motorbike? Yeah, man, so that was one of the things. But now, like as an adult, ask me to wait a year for something. I don't know how it 8, 5 years. Sometimes it's like, hey, you know, I'll be able to make that happen. Like 5 years.

Speaker 1:

Adult time different from kid time.

Speaker 1:

Adult time different from kid time? Man, absolutely so. Man, freedom speakers chime in with us and let us know have you ever will start from here, failed victim to say some bullshit, a little bit too early and probably scared off a potential person? Also, give us some feedback. Going some R&B that sets the mood for you, yo, for yourself, your spouse, anything to be that panty dropper. Tray songs was my guy. It's a panty dropper. This right here's a panty dropper. That was that shit Tray. I put the Tray songs on. There was no my name, that the screaming tops the nether, yeah, man, but that was my nigga. I put the Tray on. Get to set the mood, get the, get the knocking backs out man all in scootin' beds.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I remember when Jamie Foxx like cause you knew from watching it we bouncing all over the fucking place, but you backs. When Jamie was singing on the Jamie Foxx show, when the singles and shit. I remember one thing he was in the studio, it was like a duet jingle and the shit was fly. So you know like, oh, look at as goofy as he is, ain't fucking sane. So when he was, say like when you first saw him appear on slow jams with Kanye and Twisted at least that was my first time see you in Jamie's show up On a record, like on one of six in part video, and it's like and we know Jamie already, we know Jamie from the Jamie Fox show, you know, and we young so we not listen to the foxhole, we don't, we ain't get that out here and we was too young to go to the comic show. So we know Jamie from the Jamie Fox show. You see him appear on slow jams and it's like, oh shit, we knew he could say he playing. I really thought he was playing to me. He's playing.

Speaker 1:

And then Smackers with unpredictable, which Unpredictable? And I want to say I was a, I'm gonna listen to that. I won't know my way home of the ninth grade. I was in like the 12. Yeah, I was. Technically I was in my second year of my 12th grade. I Superdoufus ain't. I was in the second year of my 12th grade and I thought that graduated. But I like schools so much and to go back, but I like here is the view was in the ninth, I was. So I was technically supposed to be out but I was a senior and I Remember bumping that CD Is that it be like oh, six, I don't know if I was sound. Yeah, sounds about right. I remember bumping that CD, singing, and at first, like I said, I don't even think that, I Don't think that he's serious, but the album was fired extremely, extremely underrated. Yeah, and Shout out, as we were talking about other writers, shout out the dream.

Speaker 1:

Who was? I'm a fan of the dream of right miss will like he, right hits as well. Sierra, rihanna, the honest, all these big, no, I wouldn't know nobody. Be honest, but I know Sierra Rihanna, a couple of the artists, and for Jamie Foxx. He wrote a couple hits for Jamie Foxx and when I'm just like, oh he, for real, he wouldn't got the dream, but I used to bump that Unpredictable album. I used to mean I mean when I say used to bump the brush that album actually Taught me how to sing or harmonize, like just because how clear I I felt like he's saying and how they always like, not today people, yeah, but just my man's of his talent and him getting with good producers, good musicians and putting it out there. It was one of them. I ain't man, it's nigga, really is talented.

Speaker 1:

Then, not too long after, unpredictable Ray oh shit, ray man like Ray, which is a not that that's not a movie that I watch, where I want to laugh. That's a movie that I watch when I'm really intrigued in art and I want to become inspired. That's one of them. That's one of them ones. I Told you this before, but I don't know if I told the freedom speakers. It don't matter what I'm doing, if I'm at home and let's say, I'm just flicking through to try to find something comfortable on TV. If Ray is on, I'm watching it. Don't matter if it just started. It's smack dab in the middle of the movie, it's 19 minutes left.

Speaker 1:

I'm watching because that man, eric Bishop, did an amazing, amazing job playing that character. Every little thing, even from the. He glued his eyes shut so he could be blind for real. Lot of people don't know that had his eyes glued shut, so when he is walking let's say if he's, if he's walking and somebody happens to be walking towards him, he wouldn't appear blind if he moved out of the way Because he just got the dark shades on, but he can really see, like I'm a little. He literally needed to feel To be as authentic man and that was something just voluntary for him. He met you and Ray Charles. Resting piece to Ray Charles passed away before the movie was completed, but Ray Charles knew who was playing him.

Speaker 1:

I Saw them sitting down at a couple of keyboards together. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I'm floating around on social media dope images, dope images and Jamie playing it was so. It was so funny, man, because you know, ray, you play some good blues when he'd get excited. But, yeah, man, right, yeah, ray. So Jamie Foxx, smack this with, I'm predicting, get him out of here, bring me a old Johnny girl. What the hell is an old Johnny girl Night? You were dreaming and I heard you say, when you know my name is rain. I believe I believe. Yes, oh, my goodness, show my nigga a track man, but no man with that. Oh, shit, man, that's a. So I'm one of them one. I'm on my Eric Bishop kick. Jb Fox, yeah, I'm gonna listen to the unpredictable album at home, and the next time I see the movie ray, I'm a most definitely watch it.

Speaker 1:

So me and my sister, we even to this day shout out to Queen Lynn, my sister, chris, that's my twin. Yeah, we always say to each other little shit from movie lines, like us over in the movie ray. We say to each other like scratch a lie, I Don't you let them make. You know, cripple Ray, don't you do that. Hey, man Say, look little shit, that a data, but just little shit from the movie man, but scratch a lie, find a thief was the one that we used to say.

Speaker 1:

I believe the young boy who played young Ray, he ended up. He played a couple downs and NFL from that mistake I think I did see you this was a while back that he he actually did take one like a career, football career. Yeah, I don't know if you went to the probe, but he, he went, like you know a lot of folk man, like everybody, not gonna be super, super, super star, you know I'm saying, but he played a few downs. Denzel Washington son played a few downs and NFL was nowhere near. Hey, we call you up for this game. I back down to the practice squad. But he played, he has pro stats, even if his six yards yeah, you know I'm saying he has stats, he's on the books in that room. Have you ever? Have you ever rushed against motherfucker old linemen? One and a half sacks, nigga, whole career. Hey, so, ray, he hit with Ray and then I Think he, uh, I Kind of think where else did he do? He did he did the soloist with Robert Downey Jr and that was a Cleveland, ohio base. Yeah, he went to the Cleveland School of Arts. He played a Was it the cellar Violin?

Speaker 1:

I think you played all that shit for real. He's one of them. He did all that, yeah, but, uh, yeah, man, it's that story. He is from, from Cleveland and that was another good one. Now, that movie Okay, I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1:

You know Jamie take his roles real serious Cuz. You know that that guy, he was a schizophrenic. So Jamie began to experience a lot of I, but he went so deep into the character he started experiencing a lot of, uh, symptomatic of schizophrenia, and to the point where they needed she's like, yeah, give me, get my kids out of here. I feel weird. Like, look it up, like you got you know the same with, like, heath Ledger playing the Joker in 2008, batman, which one was that? The dark night, yeah, yeah, that was him playing that character. It bucked with a mentally and Jamie playing the soloist Excuse me, I'll forget the, the gentleman's name. Uh, we was playing, but, um, it started fucking with him in real life. I've heard.

Speaker 1:

Well, at the recent Dave Chappelle show that was here in Cleveland Ohio, shot out to Dave Chappelle. Then everybody that came, oh, oh, thank you, chief, I appreciate that. Yeah, that's my man. I don't know that was, but no, he was here and shout out to him and the team down there, rolands and a few other great comedians but he had gave a story of he went to go meet Jim Carrey. Yeah, and Jim Carrey was playing I can't remember the guy name but the Truman show he was supposed to and he was Andy, something whatever.

Speaker 1:

Do not admit I even feel bad for messing up these great artists names where he they should be able to go see Jim. I mean, I'm gonna go see Jim Carrey, but Jim Carrey was so into Andy they called him Andy on set, whatever the great other comedian he was impersonating. He got so deep into the character that everybody on set called him Andy and though they should, it was like me. I got to see this great artist at work. He was like I would be hoping, wish I could have met Fucking Jim Carrey, cuz I meant Andy. He was so deep with. Just given that reflection of I. I respect artists who get that deep into the character, the culture, to give a great performance.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I feel like, mentally, when I wanted to be an actor. My son wants to be an actor. I feel like, with all the things that we're doing, creativity wise, I don't have to be On the big screen somewhere. But I feel like I got some acting chops. I can be in a to be moving. Yeah, I can do way better than them. So, but you know how many Christmas players I was in the church. I Got some roles in the little shop or I was tree number two in the back. Look at my credentials.

Speaker 1:

I sang at Memorial Middle School. I was in the eighth grade. We had a play card rent. I had to sing 525,600 Minutes. Shout out to Memorial Middle School. I went out there with my cousin Edwin Johnson.

Speaker 1:

How much time in that bottle? Was that a year? Yeah, if. How do you measure? Measure a year? That man? Sunset I got my coffee my little on in the troops that she Learned in the way that he cried in the bridges, she In the way that she oh, yeah, now to sing out though the story never let's celebrate and some, something, something in the back. Remember I, I Should have been there. I was in the 70 up.

Speaker 1:

I play, I play, I play Jesus stepfather a few. I play Jesus, stepdad, least twice, at least twice, okay, all right. So, yeah, man, I got, I got some throws out there. I went Jesus, you know what? Jesus, a red one, strong enough to be Jesus. So I wanted Even with our crabs. Now, man, let our children see the example.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so when it comes to acting, I feel like, mentally I know that it's on and off switch to be able to get so deep into the character that you give a great performing, because art emulates life and and you want to give a really good show, you need to be able to get the best artist that you can, the pieces together, man. So I feel like who's here? I respect those artists who can dig deep in themselves or expose themselves to different things to be able to become Equipped for the role. And I give you an example as we're stating, um, jamie Fox and Heath Ledger, all of these other, even a chat with bozeman. They will get themselves mentally prepared in different ways and Even study different things to be able to get an accent right. Kid, I think those are a lot of deep actors that care about the crafts compared to not to be negative, but to be some of the actors that may just hey, they need a little bit of fighting training, gun training. That still puts them in a physique to make it look good, but it's like Everybody an action star, did you? Uh, because you touched on Chad with both of them real quick. Rest in peace, chad. I'm pretty sure we've said that at least three times before already on this show.

Speaker 1:

Did you happen to watch my rainy black bottle? Yes, I did, yo that film. I Don't feel comfortable calling that movie. That's a film, yeah, yeah, it's. If the word film to me seems like a more like Spectacles, this is, this is art, this is art, it's art. It felt like that entire film was shot in one take. That's how it felt. You know saying it felt like theater. It didn't feel like anyone said cut At any point. It didn't feel like it felt. It felt very smooth, yeah, very Natural.

Speaker 1:

Even just the, the conversation, dialogue, when they down there getting set up to rehearse the song and shit. You know what I mean. They all did they, they around this talking shit. You know what I mean. And like it, just like. It's just like I'm watching that shit, like you know. It's like wow, how do y'all? It don't seem like y'all doing lines, not them kind of lines, but it don't sound like y'all reciting like, right, well, yeah, they're not. It don't sound like y'all reciting like, sound like y'all, just hey.

Speaker 1:

When Levy told the story about when you know, because they, because he was a young guy, you know, I mean they kind of getting on him. But when Levy told the story about what you know, kind of what happened with his mom and his father, you know, when he told I ain't gonna give it away here, but he was telling them a lead Levy alone. Y'all know what I've been through and he went in and told the story about what happened to his mother and the way his father Reacted and what happened and what he been through and what he saw coming up. Just lead Levy alone. I'm bothering nobody, oh, nobody, bother me. Oh, fuck me.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that movie reminds me of the Regina King produced movie and I want to say it was a One night Harlem Mmm, I think it was one night, I don't think. I've seen now it and I want to say it's a fictional or non fictional movie. Don't get me, I can't. It's fairly new, right, it's really not like I'm not gonna get into one or something like that, but it has a all-star cast of these people are had taken on the characters of Malcolm X, sam cook, I want to say Muhammad Ali, okay, and then it was Sam cook and Jim Brown, and oh, okay. So this was about the, the silver I know you at, yeah. So I want to say that it was a. The way the movie was scripted and written out was that the. If all of these gentlemen would have got together in one night in Harlem, what it could have been, but they pretty much.

Speaker 1:

The movie takes place in the setting of a hotel room and it's a lot of dialogue. It's a lot of dialogue, it's a lot of. You get to see the character chops of the person, more than some of the movies that you get to see now. Well, maybe you, you may be on scene on camera seven, ten minutes and then the rest of it is some CGI, computerized, some stuff like that, or some action, fighting, blowing up scenes. It's like, no, these people are really Drawing you in as a character. Um, but it reminds me of that, of like these actors are showing their dialogue, they're showing their chops, they're showing how smooth, like how they can be so embedded into a person.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, um, and I heard LaRan's take say this. He would say it. You know, as an actor, I have to be able to take these words and bring them to life. Like, I have to bring these words to life, I can't just read it, I have to actually feel it have to be coming. After. What do I think this person would do after, like, come up, I have to basically create this own character myself, yeah, somebody, body language them for with acting as well, mm-hmm, that's dope.

Speaker 1:

One of the biggest things to me, getting a C Doe, like the different movies from back then and even like the uh, the movies now that we're speaking of, that has the dialogue. It's it's giving um, artists a space to actually show what they can do, compared to some of the other art that's out here. Don't get me wrong, I'm a marvel moviehead myself, but they are great actors. But a lot of it is CGI because it's supposed to be science fiction and so on and so forth. But with these movies like Ray, there is that's that's all acting chops. That is Mincel that's being projected.

Speaker 1:

That is Good writing. That's good. Everything with the night in Harlem, that's good writing, good dialogues. I'm gonna have to check that out. Yeah, it reminds me just of like a movie with Taglin' Bozeman and what's the name of the big Rainies Black Bottom, my Rainies Black Bottom.

Speaker 1:

I think that's her song, my Rainies Black Bottom, my Rainies Black Bottom. But she had a song that was talking about that Southern Muddy Water music. Yeah, if you know the song she sang in that movie it on, and what it meant in just other songs that she has on other deep South, louisiana, mississippi. Now I'm out of gully that one of them, their music, has nothing to do with you. Yeah, well, what you like, some Mr Devil's hour ain't nothing going on around that joint. We need to come home. Gerald, I'm going to touch it.

Speaker 1:

Juke joint me and Squee, I'm Mary Agnes, what my name is? Mary Agnes, mary, mary Agnes, you're gonna let this nappy girl talk to you like that. Sit the day alone dinner table. What shout out to great acting, great movies, great lines. Before memes came out, kids, permissions, big freely, permissions, freely we used to just run up in each other's face and just throw movie lines. Nigga, we was memes. Before they start digitizing that shit. We're gonna run up in a motherfucker face and just be like Kobe. Yeah, shoot some shit. Kobe. Rip to him man, look what you did to my curtain. Yeah, you need to run up, say all kind of shit, man.

Speaker 1:

So tell me this man when it comes to certain movies that we watch that we find like funny or cultural, do you allow your children to watch certain things that were like funny and cultural to you? Almost, we're almost there. I mean I might, 11 year old. I want him to be familiar with the Friday movies here. However, I think about it like, yeah, I want him to see that part. You know what I'm saying. I'm telling you. I'm telling you shit was nasty. I pray for them titties. I don't want them seeing that shit. That's it. I ain't think it was that bad when I was a kid. You know what I mean. I'm showing this shit to my son. It's kind of weird. You know what I mean. But we got them black movies, like you know. Okay, the movies that are going to get your black meme. I'm talking about this lately the movies that are going to get your black card taken away. Oh, you ain't seen what you know. Send them type movies. Boys in the hood, men is to society. You know the Friday movies. You know what I mean. Fireheart beats the temptations. They can watch that shit. You know what I'm saying. But when it comes to Friday it's like ah, nah, nah, yeah, now we're smoking. Yeah, I ain't ready for my son to see that shit. They got three blunts Doing this shit. You know that's my only problem. This angel does Hold on.

Speaker 1:

Yo and I met my first time seeing Friday dude. First of all, I was in Alabama. I was in Alabama the first time I saw Friday and I ain't been to Alabama since like 1999. Got that Three, we're here. Friday Come on Like 94 or five. Think Friday and Lion King came out the same year, 93 and 94. I think 93 might have been like a little early. I want to say 95. But I will say I do know easy was still alive, easy died 95. I'm gonna say Friday came out 94. 94. But uh, but I seen it. But it's so weird, just like when I talk about like my mom ain't.

Speaker 1:

One is walking up to the corner store and we was getting going. We cool, they know us Right, we take our ass up there, get our little David K, chip Fago, do rags and shit. You know what I'm saying. And we come on back. Man, am I letting my kids walk up the hell. No, hell of a fuck. No, no, not in that neighborhood, no, not in that, no, no, let me know it's not gonna happen, man, but it's certain shit. We would, if you think like Mama, say alright, one day you gonna see, yeah, one day you gonna see. And I see so almost, at least with my oldest son that's gonna come check this movie out. Nah, one on the watch.

Speaker 1:

Life we working on harmony. But I think life is a nice clear one. You know I'm saying you're acting, yeah, you know comedy, but when you know you gotta be careful with them. Hood stories with the kid Friday boys, and you know I mean gotta be careful. So that reminds me of something real quick.

Speaker 1:

I was looking through my music. I've been turning my son on to a lot of different music. So we was listening to KRS one black cop, okay, like listening, like. So I'm like, oh, that's KRS one man, rain knowledge rain supreme over everyone. So he was like oh, oh, is that like? Oh, okay. And I was like man, people back then had all kind of different names that meant stuff. So I'm breaking down like, okay, we had KRS one man, king of a knowledge ring supreme over everyone yeah, a little cool. Jay was like ladies love cool. James I thought my amen for a while that thought I was a little Cool to my name was ladies love cool.

Speaker 1:

Okay, explaining that soon. But then We'll start. We, we start. I'm packing on the Wu-Tang clan, hmm. So then, so I'm gonna put a pin in the Wu-Tang clan, but then we so we went to Airbnb and rock him and don't sweat the technique. He saw me jamming it at a little bit and that's like oh, you like this song. She was like where's this on familiar? I'm like, oh, this was on juice.

Speaker 1:

I don't like movies like that and that's what kind of triggered us to start talking of Thousand other. I wouldn't watch one KJ to watch a juice per se, not until you get a little older where, hey, he's having probably some high school conflict. Yeah, hey, this is where day. So I explain something. This is what dad usually went through in school. I'm not sure if you went through it, but if he watches it or I show him to show him, it can be educational. But just, nick, I only watch that shit as an adult. Now I'd rather go watch the superhero save the world. I don't, I don't reduce the child to park me. Yeah, you know, yeah, this may be a look. I don't like juice. I've seen it Maybe three times in my life. I don't Dream soda, but I don't like, I don't like, I don't like juice.

Speaker 1:

I don't think anybody likes the movie. Juice like all this much. Yeah, we don't like that movie. I think it's just relatable. Yeah, it's a movie that you see and it's like wow, that's it. That's it crazy, mm-hmm. That's a while I was talking to my wife. My wife had never seen a paid full. Yeah, yeah, take her black card real quick, but she had never seen paid in full. Cuz I was watching the interview, the rich Porter's sister and she, you know, gave a whole herd from her point of view how the story went and that shit is just Heartbreak, heartbreak to what happened. A little boy man's real name, darn there, you know they call him sunny in the movie paid in full, but um, but that's one of them ones to like.

Speaker 1:

I don't like Painful good movie, yeah, great movie, good, classic shit, yeah, but like, especially being that it's a true story. You know, saying it's like yeah, I don't like this and it was fucked, that nigga ice. You know I'm saying like, ah, it's one of this, like, damn, that's they selling us, we buying into the trauma. Yeah, that's just relatable. Yeah, it's not like good, a good movie, shout out to the art. It's not, it's a good movie, the art like the artist every year. But then it's like this story, horrible story, we selling trauma.

Speaker 1:

But so juice? I wouldn't. That's not what I promote, that's a heavy one. I Wouldn't promote juice. I wouldn't promote New Jack City. I wouldn't Promote shoot you so bad, my dick's hard, I'll miss me. No, browns all over the city, all over the world. You know I don't do. I do say cancel that bitch sometimes, yeah, I say that, cancel that bitch like me.

Speaker 1:

Boys in the hood is the one that's on the line. Message because it's the message. Yeah, that's what say like message, yeah, I would. I boys in the hood is one of those, especially the relationship between A furious and sure, yeah, that black male role model that he needs and I feel like that movie did challenge the John Singleton in that whole squad are a piece of piece. John for sure that he gave a reality of our when he gave hope, yeah, and juice, when no hope, no. Jack City, when no hope. Blue Hill Avenue. No, what no hope. You know I'm saying a fool. What no hope. State property one and two. What no hope you know I'm saying wasn't no hope. So is In that movie he gave hope.

Speaker 1:

He gave. Ricky wanted to play football. Yeah, tray went to Go to school. Go to school, this lady. He got a shot.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, look at me about to steal this bitch man Punch like the old. Look at him. Does he have a girl? Yes, he do. Watch his ass. Man, that's the old boy. It's right they grew up. They like brother. He Work at the crash. She'll go crash on ma. Yeah, okay, you've been protecting yourself. Okay, oh, that's that's how you're in.

Speaker 1:

Double this one. All right, that's real shit. It's fucking old and you don't recognize this shit until you get older. But you like Snigger, snigger. Ricky was like 18 With a baby.

Speaker 1:

The mama got the living with the mama, yeah, living with his mom, mom, youngest fuck like mom. And like his mom like 32. I was like like, not much older. She just graduated 10 years ago. Maybe, not that I'm being, you know, I go like a. She was 18 when she had him, yeah, and she probably 36 now, cuz he bought. Like a, she was 16, 16 was your double. Yeah, youngest, fuck, you know, my, your daddy, don't come down here and play cars with us. No, mom, you need to go for us. It's furious down. No free styles, really, double a dad.

Speaker 1:

But I don't mind him watching that because I feel like that healthy male role model of what, uh, lawrence, first word, represent. Gave you that, yeah, and he's my baby too. He's a tray, hey, so when you give me the skins, what trade? This is still your mother. Oh, I'm sorry man, oh, hang on. Who this, who this?

Speaker 1:

But see, with just things like that, hey, that's a positive. And the checkers, they like check, do that how you answer them all. And why did you talk about getting some skins on the whole? Niggas Like, nah, I mean, ricky was going to go get some pork rinds, yeah, but um, so boys in the hood is one of those like, hey, man, it gives hope, I can, I can. It has at least a little bit of a sense of you know, it has at least that positive role model, and that's probably you know. I dig deeper later as I think about it. But what about menace to society? Menace to society, which I think is still a dope movie the. It still sells the trauma, but it doesn't have. It doesn't give hope, it gives the after effective, the wrong choice.

Speaker 1:

My grandfather asked me did I care about my life? Right now? I'd be too late. But he asked me do you care about his life? Broke it? No, I don't know. I don't know. And you care whether you live or die, I don't know.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, man, what sad is at a time in my life that was a legit answer, like I didn't know, I didn't. It was like I didn't care what purpose that I have when, what hope is there? I think it just got out of high school and got shot. The fuck up, white shot. Yeah, it stole somebody's gold deeds and made me feel like when I got my first car I wanted to play computer love, that was a shit man. Shout out to Robert Compton For Roger. But it was. It was a great movie. I mean it was a great movie. I mean it was a great movie. Shout out to Robert Compton for Roger. But it was.

Speaker 1:

It was stuff like that at our pool and say something, that movie, no, though they had different people. He was there right and he's like, yeah, he went, he played balls. Why he did this and he didn't hear reformed. That thug that got his life right, trying to get us right, fuck him. He swine, but it's giving you a reality, look, but it's still like no hope there is still. You don't see the success of somebody actually did make it out, yeah, and it shows like hey, it's.

Speaker 1:

Let me repeat that back and say it slowly one more time for our listeners, for the freedom speakers, and if you haven't noticed or paid attention that like, hey, we are black, descent or black. So when you get to hear people to black, descent or brown or Latino, hispanic, and you get to hear them say one of us made it out, one of us made it out, the question will be is what are we in first? Hmm, made it out of what? Made it out of what? So, as them, are we all in this reality that understand that what we are doing is limited? Bad man got her foot, got his foot on her neck.

Speaker 1:

We got to fight the power. What was that be? The power? Compared to what? Compared to this was compared to a man. We really let's start a revolution, let's get it moving, let's get it started, powerful shit, something that really can move the people, compared to some bullshit that just make you feel good for a little bit is all I needed, man. I'm a child of hip hop. I'm not wanting to disrespect anybody's craft or how they make money, but I come from a place of substance. Yeah, I'm from a place of substance with the music man.

Speaker 1:

So, freedom speakers, when you get to hear some of our artists and people that are speaking about coming out of something, keep in mind, man, you are still being sold a form of trauma. All right, making it out of the trenches is something that all of us are, most of us identify with, but the bigger skill of it is and it kind of just fades into the conscious. Rapper that would a backpack rapper, if you will that gives you the outlook of what system we actually are in, which brings you different films like higher learning that was another one too School days Wake up, but you know me. Soundtrack, you know me. You want a smoke crack. You smoke crack. My little name, he's hot, he's hot. Shit out there.

Speaker 1:

Movies with a message, man, still giving you hope, still giving you a person and a figure that cares, and this person is tough because they know life ain't gentle. That's right. I respect those, those roles, man. I think that's shit dope. I think that's things they need to be saying. I feel like those roles still affect us as adults.

Speaker 1:

Okay, freedom speakers, when you're listening to the music that you listen to and you like, pay attention to the stories that they're telling you where they're coming from and what they're doing, and even listen to see what they're doing back. So I'm a real big fan of all kinds of music, man. And when I get to hear the rappers and musicians and people become humanitarians, they give back, they build parks and things in the neighborhood, they give backpacks, they do food drops, a whole lot of shit that master P Dude shout out to master P, if you ever watched the interview with master P, I feel like I'm watching myself. I feel like I'm watching myself of like hey man, this is man. Look, this is how you get this together, this is how we unify together. And when you hear other big people who are successful, like Snoop Dogg, tell you like hey P, that nigga, he gave me the game, he talked me, coached me, educated me, money in my pocket, he put some money in my pocket Off of me. Hey man, he showed me, he set it up like a university man. I respect master P. He put his family on whoever he could. He looked out you know what I'm saying, whatever it was. But hey, he, the ice cream man. Yeah, hoody hoo, I remember that. Yeah, not those, I remember, hoody hoo, I remember. I remember.

Speaker 1:

I remember hearing a story I don't even know if P told the story himself, man, but it was a point where master P kind of moved the company out. Where's a branch out West, should you say. You think he got a call, got a call from shoes, and she said hey, man, the West Coast ain't big enough for the both of us. He said you might want to move it in, and what he told him, I'm like that It'll take a lot, it'll take much. Hey, man, you all right, where you going, where you moving, yeah, yeah, yeah, but they power houses, man, and much respect to those positions, man, most in that.

Speaker 1:

So I just say that of, like, whatever walk you come from, people and whatever story that you're telling, man, give the full circle story. Do not just tell the trenches, because we need to hear the climax of hope. Yeah, for sure as the fan, we need to hear the climax of hope of hey, yeah, I started here but I went there. So I give you example man, I'm a real big fan of Jesus snowman yeah, that's my man. If you get to hear the motivation one on one, from the progression to there to the recession to, you get to hear he just wouldn't. Latest album, my man just have. But you get to hear his growth from just snowman recession to think it was the recession to about he dropped something else, but don't pull me. But you get to hear the next all man with the base. Oh, yeah, I'm a root nigga.

Speaker 1:

Could even wear snowman t-shirt to school. Not at all, you could not. That shit was banned. You can wear snowman hoodie scully, none of that shit. And it looked like some South Park shit. Yeah, my niggas, a snowman with a face. Man, I'm wearing it. This is a symbol of selling. We know what the snow is.

Speaker 1:

Snowman, wait, you get to hear the progression of his music, of his artist craft. He's able to tell you like hey, man, I've started in this business and I moved on a bigger business and I've got to see my relationships with people dwindle and die and I got a chance to grow. And don't do multiple things and say in show like hey, man, everybody can go. I can talk about different things and move different things and it's just not the trap. So I respect artists that can give that. That. Give that full circle. Yeah, they get that full circle.

Speaker 1:

Man, shout out to GZ. Man, that's another one Can, let me see 2005. Like, the first time I smoked weed, I was listening to the young G. I remember that shit. I was at my well, it was my cousin house. Those are the band house anyway. But yes, my week for the first time, man, tmt, and it was either TM101 or 103. One of them. But, yeah, man, jesus, jesus, that dude, straight up that dude. What a time man.

Speaker 1:

We grew up with different music. Man Like I like the music of today as well, and you know what, man, I think it just depends on it depends on where you at. You know, listening to our music that we came up with it takes us to a time that we can reflect on and remember. So then we listen to the music of today and we don't connect because that just ain't what we was at with. It's not our time. Yeah, it ain't our time, you know, and I do enjoy some of my kids be listening to some oh shit. However, I'm OK with that because at least in their music at least the stuff they listen to right now, age 11, age 7, it's not giving them a message of what we were being given through the music. It's not promoting to them a snowman t-shirt, if you will. For sure you know what I mean. It's definitely not doing that Because I want my kids to have this little sprinkle of hood in them.

Speaker 1:

Mm-hmm, they grew up out here, I brought him out here and now maybe they be acting funny sometime. I told my son yesterday one of his friends a bitch ass nigga for telling on yeah, yeah, yeah. And first of all, son, make sure you pay attention, watch your hands. And your friend, a bitch ass nigga snitching. Oh right, one shit, what?

Speaker 1:

No big deal, but um, so real quick, freedom speakers, we would like to officially Launch a segment on permission to speak freely called R&D, research and Development. Now, I know what you think. You're not going into some science, shit, maybe, maybe it could go there. More chemistry, yeah, okay, it could go there. However, our definition of Research and development here is Researching within ourselves and developing with what we learned. So, chief, I Want you to kick this off officially. We've done it already, but this is the official launch of research and development and we want to keep this segment Frequent. It may not pop out every episode, but y'all gonna hear it every every now and again.

Speaker 1:

So, r&d, research and development what are some things in recent days, recent weeks, rather it being business as a father or husband, what are some things that you noticed research about yourself and then have taken the initiative to Develop them? You give, give us just just a story or two. Okay, we appreciate you Introducing me in like that man and giving me the place to be able to Give tips and pointers of things that I do, we do and that we teach in child, to educate people with. That helps us With our steps and things in the multiple hats that we wear. Man, so Frequently, I research and develop myself, especially when I'm feeling at a place where I'm uneasy.

Speaker 1:

I research myself and what it is that I need and I need to do. And within this research and development, this meditation time, I reflect a lot on me. I turn that mirror on myself to see what I could have done more, could have done better, that less on a soap work, but I get to the root of whatever's going on In this trend, in this phase of me researching, developing myself. I will reflect on my past week of Things that I've done, certain tasks that I complete, certain goals that I had. I reflect on Goals and things that I have moving forward. What do I need to do in order to sharpen this up or to get to this place? On and so forth. And I feel like being very goal-orientated keeps you pumping. It keeps you having a purpose.

Speaker 1:

If you just wandering for too long, you, you can't wander forever. But if you wander for too long, yeah, you might have wanted, might have made you lost. Yeah, after a no man is supposed to find something. Hmm, still man, no man still supposed to find something. What is the, what's the course of wandering for them.

Speaker 1:

So in my R&D, when I wander within myself in my mind until I find what I need, I'll go and say I'll start micromanaging myself because I don't like to micromanage the world. I'll have control over that, but I got control over me. So I'll micromanage myself and say in this R&D, I need to develop a better relationship with my son, because that makes me feel better, makes him feel better, it's healthy, I get to understand him. I want to make sure I'm having a. I am leading here and I am setting the tone of what it is to communicate, what it is the problem, solve what it is to Open up that door for someone to feel comfortable, to disarm them of you being a threat.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, just certain, certain, certain things like that I'll look with myself of hey, I need a lot of attention from my woman. Call it needy or what you want, but it's like I. I only got one, that's it. I only got one only. I signed up for just one, so I'm asking just one to give me all of her. So I'm at research and developing what I need from her and what can I give to her to be able to make this back and forth Between each other just that much more fair and mutual. And then I'll research and develop just within myself for what I need of my time, of my space, of aid. I need to Get better at my eating habits or sleeping or waking up or handling certain things before a certain time, but just All of it within growth of myself or research and development of me, not me sitting around critiquing somebody else or what more they can do for me, but like what more can I do for myself so I can feed more people talking, but I, so I can feed myself first.

Speaker 1:

So I say that that wife, you know I had a conversation recently and it was just one of those heart-to-heart conversations of Me feeling like, amen, I'm put on the back burner a lot. I'm feeling like Because I am so strong is like, hey, man, you got it, you good, you good, you okay. And it's like I don't want to repeat. Please do not ever feel like I'm okay. Don't feel like, don't, do not let my durability Blind you to a. I need some repairs. I need wounds licked as well. It's well said.

Speaker 1:

Some, some servitude. I like some hospitality and return that doesn't cost anything. Or I don't want to have to pay for us to go on a trip to get servitude right. You want to just be, treat you nice in a in a different location, just giving that man. Those are the key things of a family man, businessman, entrepreneur Of research and development, my family. How can I get tighter in there and gain that relationship with them and lead right properly? Open that door, up a dialogue. You know how can I make better With you? Know business man, open the floor up to the team. What is it that we need? Building relationships, communicating, exercising the gift of being vocal, and you know, you know unifying people, but then, as an entrepreneur man, get nothing to the world, making connections and gaining resources that I don't have and I need for Myself and for the people. Man, so I need to make sure I'm developing myself to be to a certain stature, I can speak a certain way. I got my books lined up right so that I'm making myself attractive in all kind of ways. It's shaping forms and I really feel like that's the basis of R&D is making yourself more attractive, more appealing, more like suit me. Just keep suping yourself up. For sure you know I'm saying so.

Speaker 1:

That's, that's my rundown of R&D man in the nutshell. Man. So tell me about you man, what is? Oh, man, I wanted to keep. I wanted to keep this Particular segment of R&D yours because you know we had, we had talked earlier, we mentioned that. You know you had some things on your mind. That's where, that's where research and development will come from. It's not intentional all of the time, for sure you know saying sometimes it's like hey, this happened. You know, last week, last month, I did some searching. This is what I find. You know, man, this is what I found. So tonight's R&D segment was For you. That was, that was yours. To give to the guys some more to give to the freedom I mean R&D. I got a cup about five to a moment. The R&D came to me. Do my meditation, yeah, through Before I went to because I offered counseling. So before I went to Council Counseling to where somewhere else, to give someone else my, my situation, to help me unpack. I used, I practiced what I preached and I'm help unpack things with myself.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and Believe, started to believe in that verbal dialogue. I needed to hear it out loud. You know, sometimes you like that's not better in my head or I'm writing shit. Well, they don't go to the beat, they can say that loud. So, but it's one of those of can I say out loud that I get to hear and put it into existence that I'm sorry, knowing like that's you ever? You ever tell somebody I'm sorry? Yeah, and you get to potentially see Just the anger or what this discomfort or whatever it is, just maybe start to Subside. Yeah, but that's a spell. Like I'm sorry is a spell. I love you Is a spell If you say I love you, I hate you.

Speaker 1:

If you say I love you to somebody, enough something will happen. You say I hate you to them, enough Something will happen, you know. So then to gay, the same outcome yeah, it's the same. Just say you know, but um, I I get a chance to Feed myself this information and be able to challenge myself and test myself to say Can I make amends with this person? And I hit a reset button with myself of how I'm feeling, counsel myself and say is this really that deep? Am I having a bitch? Yeah, my own. Some suckers. Am I having a suck attack? I need a Snickers. My acting like a fucking diva, you know, but I'll say that to myself and be able to counsel myself with that takes Strength and honesty within you to say like, hey, I'm not okay, you're not right, I need this, I need that, especially as a person who I'm fucking up. Yeah, I gotta learn, gotta learn, gotta do better. So we just that man.

Speaker 1:

I feel like the R&D portion of things that came to me. Meditation is really working, like identifying things with yourself, working on things that may be unsettling to you, or Challenging yourself to be the better version of yourself that you can be and healthy, pushing those around you by your demonstration, by your you being the example of, like a man I've been getting up in the morning around this time, or I've been drinking more water, I've been whatever it is and like, hey, I'm the results, these are the results. I can show you results, more than I'm waving my finger at you of what more you can do, I'm actually coaching you of what I'm doing for myself and these are the results, man. So that R&D is really, really crucial for myself and for anybody that Any listeners out there, permission to speak freely to y'all, paying find yourself. You can't, you can't navigate anybody else if you don't even have a source of yourself or where you want to go, or what you want to do or identity if you it's. We all are still searching for ourselves and we can layer ourselves to be all the great things we want, to be people. I know that we came and, however, being honest with you Self and having some goals that you want to reach really helps you find yourself and what it is that you want to do.

Speaker 1:

How do you know if you like something, if you not, if you afraid to try it, that you would trade the child. You're afraid to take that risk. You're afraid to even put yourself in that realm to make mistakes. It's like what kind of what? As we said before, women like the bad boys because they take risks, they gamble. At the same time, if he do fuck up, she could turn around and say nigga, one shit, no more. That's why I did the fuck shit I was doing so it just what do you like? It is one you, but Appreciate you people listening to us here at permission to speak freely podcast. You can follow me on IG at permission, the number two underscore speak freely podcast. That's the permission, the number two underscore speak freely podcast. Yeah, yeah, you can follow me like the most on IG at la y l o e dot th a m o s Freedom speakers. We appreciate y'all for listening and we will catch you next time. Permission to speak.

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