Adrian Marcel: The Art of Balancing Fame and Family
Dr. Stance and Adrian Marcel dive into the heart of what it means to juggle ambition while being a dedicated family man. The main takeaway? Success is more than just career triumphs; it’s about building a legacy that your kids can be proud of. Adrian shares his journey, from the hustle and bustle of the music scene to the challenges of parenthood, all while keeping it real about the ups and downs he faces. We chat about the importance of being present for our children and how those experiences shape who we are as artists and individuals. So grab a comfy seat, because we’re about to get deep into the art of balancing life, love, and legacy with a sprinkle of humor and a whole lot of heart!
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Speaker B:What's up?
Speaker B:What's up, y'?
Speaker B:All?
Speaker B:It is Dr. Stance with turning your hustle into a legacy.
Speaker B:You already know.
Speaker B:I am here with the gorgeous twin of mine.
Speaker B:The two light bright.
Speaker A:You feel me with the pretty hair.
Speaker B:Don't care.
Speaker B:Mr. Adrian Marcel still, honey.
Speaker A:Yes, sir.
Speaker B:You know, I gotta say this today somewhere.
Speaker B:I'm on bag.
Speaker B:If y' all don't know, you better know this is that guy I will never forget.
Speaker B:I think I was in somebody's club.
Speaker B:Definitely shaking it.
Speaker B:Doing too much off that song.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:You created a definitely hit.
Speaker B:And what's up with you though, man?
Speaker A:I'm chilling.
Speaker A:I'm chilling.
Speaker A:You know, we got super bowl weekend going on right now, you know, out here in the bay, which is a lovely thing to witness, you know, everybody out here enjoying and the atmosphere and the vibes.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker B:What you doing?
Speaker B:Super Bowl.
Speaker B:I'm coming with you.
Speaker B:What you doing?
Speaker A:You know, I'm chilling.
Speaker A:I'm chilling.
Speaker A:I'm actually, unfortunately, you know, All Star was here and now super bowl and both of these, I'm booked outside of the bay, so you know what I mean?
Speaker A:Which I'm cool with.
Speaker A:You know, I just gonna say that's
Speaker B:not necessarily a baby.
Speaker A:I kick it here every day, all day, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So I'm not mad at going some other places, getting some chicken and you feel me coming back, you know.
Speaker A:But yeah, no, I mean, I mean, done a couple events, you know, so far out here.
Speaker A:It was a dope, dope event out in Napa actually, last night.
Speaker B:Shut up.
Speaker B:Percy was there last night.
Speaker B:He was the videographer there with Wapa La Vibe.
Speaker A:It was a vibe with that man.
Speaker A:Ended up.
Speaker A:Ended up hopping on stage and being a part of the show.
Speaker A:So that was dope.
Speaker A:I'm actually on some daddy duties, so I'm about to.
Speaker B:We like it.
Speaker A:I'm about to take my kids to the NFL fan experience, you know, let my son, he be balling out there on flag football, so he want to go see that.
Speaker A:So I'm going to take him to go to that.
Speaker A:Take my daughter and stuff, you know, so I'm, you know, we chilling, man.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:This is on the regular.
Speaker A:So, you know, I love that it's.
Speaker A:I love that it's people coming out here and enjoying, enjoying, you know, what we do.
Speaker A:But yeah, man, I'm taking it.
Speaker A:I'm taking it light.
Speaker A:I'm chilling.
Speaker A:I like it.
Speaker B:How many kids you got?
Speaker A:I got three single.
Speaker A:I got three piece.
Speaker A:Huh?
Speaker B:Are you single?
Speaker A:I'm married.
Speaker A:I like tell y.
Speaker B:Any man I ask every man that comes on this show, some stutter real, real bad, and it just.
Speaker B:It disturbs me.
Speaker B:So I'm calling you out.
Speaker B:This man came on.
Speaker B:You the first married man, actually.
Speaker A:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:Hello?
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker B:Married man?
Speaker B:What does that say about our.
Speaker A:You know, a lot of people, you know, a lot of.
Speaker A:A lot of dudes, like, I don't know, they.
Speaker A:They.
Speaker A:They look at it like it.
Speaker A:Which I don't understand why you shouldn't have did it.
Speaker A:Yeah, but I feel like it's the most player thing you could do, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Being on some married shit, like.
Speaker A:Cause, you know, if anything, it's like that.
Speaker A:What's that Shaft movie, You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:You think it make me more dangerous or less dangerous, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I like that.
Speaker A:I ain't tripping.
Speaker A:Like, I'm coming in here with no intention, so, you know, I really hold the power, you know?
Speaker A:But, yeah, I've been married for almost 10 years now, really with my wife for about 15 years, and yeah, we got three kids.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker A:She been holding it down for me since.
Speaker A:Since I was in the trenches, man.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:She was paying the rent and paying for.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Paying for.
Speaker A:Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker A:Paying for us to eat, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Now we're doing it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So we all holding it down as a team.
Speaker A:Like, you know, it's dope.
Speaker A:Cause I get to.
Speaker A:I get to really pour into my kids, too.
Speaker A:I'm real big on that.
Speaker A:Like, it's not just about, you know, my artistry or my career.
Speaker A:You know, I feel like once you have kids, you.
Speaker A:You know, that legacy has to transfer over, you know, and you have to.
Speaker A:You have to become the seed to their tree, you know?
Speaker A:And everything changed for me at that moment.
Speaker A:Before, I was just career driven, you know, and me and my wife, we had.
Speaker A:We went through our share of trials and things with just being pulled into the career and, you know, kind of the same thing.
Speaker A:Like, you don't really want to talk about being married.
Speaker A:You don't want that to affect the sales and all that.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:But today, you know, you understand, like, when you go through Covid, when you go through a world shutdown, when you go through all of that and you realize what's really important, like, all this could go away tomorrow.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Or when you Laying on your deathbed or your sick bed, like, who there changing your diapers?
Speaker A:Who there taking care of you?
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Your wife, your kids, and especially if you treating them right.
Speaker A:So with my kids, man, I really.
Speaker A:I bleed into them.
Speaker A:I'm the dad that I'm at the school every day.
Speaker A:If I'm here, I'm dropping them off, I'm asking teachers about grades and homework and what's this, what's this?
Speaker A:And da, da, da.
Speaker A:When they see me coming, they like, we let you know, we just ain't graded that yet.
Speaker A:So that's why it's not up there, you know?
Speaker A:But it's cool because for your kids to feel that and to also see you doing your thing, you know, my kids see that I'm 100% involved in my career and 100% involved in their lives and what they got going on.
Speaker B:And a husband.
Speaker A:How do you balance that?
Speaker A:It's tough.
Speaker A:It's tough as hell.
Speaker A:I ain't gonna sit here in front like it's the easiest thing in the world, but I feel like the key to it is you gotta wanna do it.
Speaker A:You gotta wanna do both.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A: 's something we want, we give: Speaker B:Correct.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker A:And when things are important, you give 1,000% to them.
Speaker B:Correct.
Speaker A:And for me, I feel like it's important that my children see me not give up on what I believe for myself and what I'm doing for me for the sake of them, but also giving them the time that they need to learn these tactics, to learn these strategies for themselves, too.
Speaker A:You know, everything I do, I know that I'm being watched.
Speaker A:You know, Should I stop smoking?
Speaker A:You know, because.
Speaker A:Because of my son.
Speaker A:You know, he's an athlete in every, every way.
Speaker B:How old is that?
Speaker A:He's six.
Speaker A:And the boy can pick up anything and learn it in seconds.
Speaker A:And not only does he.
Speaker A:Does he learn it quickly, naturally, but he goes and he studies it.
Speaker A:Like, my son is on his own.
Speaker A:Just last night, he told my wife, you know, she's like, you need to go change your clothes.
Speaker A:He's like, hold on, I'm looking at these highlights.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm watching these moves, you know, like he's.
Speaker A:And then he gets on the field and he does this stuff.
Speaker A:He applies it.
Speaker A:So he plays.
Speaker A:He runs track, he plays football, plays basketball.
Speaker A:We about to get him in baseball.
Speaker A:I just seen him pick up a baseball for the first time and good at it.
Speaker A:Knock it like, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Just like.
Speaker A:So I want to keep him in everything just to see what else he does.
Speaker A:My daughter does volleyball and gymnastics and cheerleading.
Speaker A:My oldest daughter, she plays varsity flag football, you know, in high school.
Speaker A:So, I mean, it's.
Speaker A:All of them have like this athleticism and, you know, kind of like the same drive I have when I got into something, I was in it.
Speaker A:And it just so happened for that to be music, you know.
Speaker A:So for them, you know, I think that it's so important that they do see that I'm still an individual.
Speaker A:My kids know that I do not make all my decisions based on them.
Speaker A:You know, I make decisions based on me being my own person still.
Speaker A:I'm still as a family.
Speaker A:I'm living my life still.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I'm living my life still.
Speaker A:I'm still.
Speaker A:I tell them all, I'm still young, so don't.
Speaker A:I'm 36.
Speaker A:I'm 36, you feel me?
Speaker A:I'm young buck.
Speaker A:But, you know, I want them to know, like, I don't.
Speaker A:I ain't gave up on my life just for them.
Speaker A:I'm teaching them that for everything you want, there's going to be a million things you want in life.
Speaker A:And you got to figure out how to make all of the.
Speaker A:Give them all 100%.
Speaker A:And I don't complain about it.
Speaker A:You know, I'm out till 4 or 5 in the morning, whether it's the studio all night recording or whether it's.
Speaker A:I got a mob out here for this show in Fresno or whatever, and then mob right back because I gotta get up at 6:30 to wake them up, to get them dressed, get them together, get them to school, go do what I need to do.
Speaker A:I don't go to the studio until after homework is done, until, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So it's just, you know, you get.
Speaker A:We can get caught up in these, in these, in this dream, in this phallus idea of what our career and artistry is all about, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But it's really what we make it today.
Speaker A:We live in a time where it's like, you can honestly do it your way.
Speaker A:There is no wrong way to do anything, period.
Speaker A:I like that I make it a thing for me that success means nothing if I'm not surrounded by the people that I love and that truly love me.
Speaker A:If I look up and I look around me and I don't Know, nobody around me.
Speaker A:I messed up, I did something wrong.
Speaker A:Regardless of whether I got to the destination, I didn't hit the check marks I was supposed to hit.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So I think that it's just important to figure out, if you want it, you gotta work for it.
Speaker A:I want my family.
Speaker A:I want my career.
Speaker A:So both of them, neither one of them, lose the importance that they're supposed to have.
Speaker A:I fight to make sure they're on the same plateau.
Speaker B:I'm curious, what was it like growing up in Oakland, like, as far as your childhood?
Speaker B:I always ask my guests that because hearing your story, you being a marvelous father.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker B:Excuse me.
Speaker B:A marvelous husband.
Speaker A:Let's go.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker B:Not too many of them.
Speaker B:You know, I feel like you thrive and you strive to be both a good father and a good husband.
Speaker B:What was your childhood like?
Speaker B:I'm extremely curious because you just.
Speaker B:You're highly intelligent, you speak very well, and mostly, and most importantly, you, like.
Speaker B:I feel like your life is your kids.
Speaker B:And like you said, you make your own life story.
Speaker B:Tell me, what was your childhood like
Speaker A:growing up in Oakland?
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, born and raised here, born and raised East Oakland.
Speaker A:I lived in almost every part of the bay.
Speaker A:And I grew up watching my mother and father together.
Speaker B:Got it?
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I saw that.
Speaker A:I saw them work as a team.
Speaker A:You know, their relationship wasn't just, you know, these two people love each other, but they love each other in their business.
Speaker A:You know, my father.
Speaker A:My father was into property management and also construction, and my mother was an architect.
Speaker A:So they.
Speaker A:They came together to bring those two into one, you know, And I have.
Speaker A:I'm the baby of six, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:So my older brothers and sisters, they did all the reckless.
Speaker A:All the reckless things that.
Speaker A:To where.
Speaker A:By the time I came, my parents were a lot older.
Speaker A:And they were trying to make sure that whatever mistakes were made before, you know, those.
Speaker A:Those voids were filled, you know, so in a lot of ways, you know, I didn't have all the free time as a kid.
Speaker A:You know, my father.
Speaker A:Every weekend, I'm building on our house.
Speaker A:My dad was very big on, you know, you know, doing things himself, you know, whether it was tearing down half the house and building up a new spot.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:We were doing that.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:My friends hated coming over.
Speaker A:Cause it was like they had to know how to.
Speaker A:How to pick up a wrench and a hammer and get to it, you know, it's like, bro, I thought we was gonna kick it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:After this, though, we gotta do this.
Speaker A:This is how we get the money to go to Marine World and go kick it with the you feel me?
Speaker A:You with the you feel me's.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:And then on top of that, my mother was just extremely involved in my life.
Speaker A:Extremely involved, just to say.
Speaker A:And that's where I learned it from.
Speaker A:The reason why any school that my children are in, these parents, these teachers know me, the faculty knows me, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:And not only know me, I know them well, you know, I'm involved.
Speaker A:If there's volunteering, if there's anything like that, I'm there, You know, I make time for that.
Speaker A:I make sure that's a factor because that's what she did.
Speaker A:Her and my grandmother, rest her soul.
Speaker A:Every school I went to, my grandmother found a job there, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And her thing was to make sure I can see what they doing with this boy.
Speaker A:And I can see, I can put eyes on him, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:If it was packing lunches, I got an extra lunch in mind, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:My mother was a part of every pta, every, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:Just involved.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And I saw the importance in that.
Speaker A:I saw also what it did with teachers, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:They wasn't playing with me, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:There wasn't no room to play.
Speaker A:They respected it.
Speaker A:They respected that boundary and everything.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But she also saw something in me.
Speaker A:She saw this creative thing and what I enjoyed with it.
Speaker A:And because of it, she's like, okay, well, you're going to be in piano lessons, you going to be in vocal lessons, you going to be, you know, doing this every weekend.
Speaker A:And, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:She kept me busy and kept me out of the streets.
Speaker A:I found my way, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I still found my ways to it dibbled, you know, and luckily I had an older brother, I had cousins, I had enough that I was able to see to where it's like I still learned the game and still learned how to, you know what I'm saying, carry myself and really wiggle, you feel me?
Speaker A:And not just be, you know, a nerd, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, but I always say I'm a, you know, I'm a street square, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:I understand how to maneuver and how to move out here, but I'm still a square I'm not out here, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, I wasn't driven by the streets.
Speaker A:She gave me something to fall in love with.
Speaker A:More than kicking it in the streets.
Speaker B:That's funny you say that.
Speaker B:And that's exactly why I asked you what your childhood was like.
Speaker B:Because I feel like I'm opposite.
Speaker B:Because you being the youngest, I was the oldest.
Speaker B:And like you said with your parents.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:It's unfortunate, but this is just reality.
Speaker B:Two people with six kids in multiple ages, one of the kids gonna get overlooked.
Speaker B:Not intentionally, period.
Speaker B:That's just what it is, period.
Speaker B:How do you divide one person into watching six people?
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker B:It's impossible.
Speaker B:Someone's gonna get overlooked.
Speaker B:So since you were the youngest, you got most.
Speaker A:Look, I got most looked at.
Speaker B:But this is where it came into your life as a benefit, because look at you with your children.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I say with.
Speaker B:I think it was opposite.
Speaker B:I was overlooked because I was already in the street.
Speaker A:Already in it.
Speaker B:But my baby sister came out successful faster than I did when it came to education, when it came to, you know, having morals and not being in the streets and stuff.
Speaker B:So I really take my hat off to you because you're rare.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:And it's unfortunate because not coming from the two parent home.
Speaker B:It's a lot of kids that are, you know, that come from multiple siblings that get overlooked.
Speaker B:And it's not intentional with us parents.
Speaker B:It's just.
Speaker B:It's life.
Speaker A:Well, I think that too, you know, with my oldest daughter, you know.
Speaker B:And you got three, right?
Speaker A:I got three.
Speaker A:My oldest daughter's 17.
Speaker B:Ooh.
Speaker A:So I had her when I was 19.
Speaker B:All by the same baby's mother.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:So I had.
Speaker A:So her mother and I together first.
Speaker A:And then I got with my wife later on.
Speaker B:Got it.
Speaker A:And we had two.
Speaker A:But I always, I talk to my kids like.
Speaker A:Like they already understand.
Speaker A:Whether they get it or not, eventually they will understand.
Speaker A:It'll make sense later on.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Right, right.
Speaker A:But, you know, when I had my first daughter at 19.
Speaker A:Shit, I'm a kid, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I remember sitting there talking to myself like, I'm not ready for this.
Speaker A:I'm not ready to be a father.
Speaker A:I'm barely getting a foot in the door of what I want to do in life, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But she's here, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And a lot of my decisions were made out of confusion where not knowing, am I supposed to make this choice, am I supposed to not do this or.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:And luckily I had again, parents that were able to step in and give that relationship that I couldn't, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:My daughter was my first daughter, was almost like my little sister for the longest, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:For the longest she would be with my dad, you know, that was his right hand for the longest.
Speaker B:And which is not a bad thing at all, at all.
Speaker A:These are the people who raised me, correct, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And you look at today, there's a lot of kids that don't have grandparents and it shows.
Speaker A:And you know, her having that and me having that blessing, you know, allowed me to still kind of grow, make my mistakes.
Speaker A:And as she got older and even today, again, I don't hide that from and act like I'm the best.
Speaker A:My son, my six year old son gets the best father out of all three of them, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:He's the only one I was prepared for.
Speaker A:He's the only one where I got that, that fairy tale movie.
Speaker A:Correct, you know?
Speaker A:Oh, you serious?
Speaker A:We about to have like, you're the
Speaker B:best version of yourself at this point.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Even my middle daughter, like, she's 12 and you know, we were in Atlanta, I'm just getting off my first tour and all of this.
Speaker A:And you know, it was like, okay, I gotta move you back to the bay.
Speaker A:I can't have you out here in Atlanta by yourself.
Speaker A:I'm constantly on the move, you know.
Speaker A:So again, yes, she got a closer father, but my son got the best version.
Speaker A:But I tell them all, I'm like, look, no matter what you guys may think, there is not neither of you that I love more than the next.
Speaker A:Correct, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:You all get a different version of me, though.
Speaker A:I tell my daughter, my oldest, I said, you, you taught me how to be a father for these two.
Speaker B:Ooh, I love it.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So when you see.
Speaker A:So though we are not together every day, like I am with them two, you are always with me because you are the reason I'm able to be who I am to them, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:I tell my middle child, you will never have the relationship that me and your older sister have because you have never gone through what me and your older sister have gone through, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Living in Atlanta and she's living in the Bay Area.
Speaker A:Visiting me once every six, seven months for a week.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Her crying and on the phone and having those type of things.
Speaker A:Me crying, me sitting back, like, am I being a good father right now?
Speaker A:Like, am I doing the right thing?
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And I tell both of them, you will never have the relationship that I have with my son.
Speaker A:You guys, this is my boy.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And I tell the other two, you will never have the relationship that me and my middle child have because she is my girl.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I tell her, I'm harder on you because I know what I missed.
Speaker A:I know what I should have been for your older sister.
Speaker A:So unfortunately, you get that.
Speaker A:You get what I got from my parents.
Speaker A:There's things that happen that I say no to you for a reason.
Speaker A:It's not about me just because I said so.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:These are things that I didn't do right, and I'm getting them right with you, you know, so all of them have a different version of me.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker A:And just like you said, regardless of whether you grow up with two parents, one parent in the household, if you have more than one kid, unfortunately, every one of those kids has different parents.
Speaker A:And that's just what it is.
Speaker B:That's just what it is.
Speaker A:You cannot be mad about it at all.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:And I tell them, as you get older, anything that you do hold against me, and I'm fine with you holding against me again.
Speaker A:I teach them, I am an individual.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna regret anything I've done just for the sake of how you see me.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But when you get older and you get into your life and you start making your decisions out there in this world, it's gonna come back and be like, damn, I get it.
Speaker A:And I'm gonna be here, like I told my wife then, because, you know, me and my oldest daughter went through a rocky phase, too.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker A:And I told her, I said, listen, one day this girl is gonna walk in this door, and she's gonna want to be a part of.
Speaker A:And I said, our biggest thing is to, you know, not do the church thing.
Speaker A:Where you walk into church, it's like, oh, where you been?
Speaker A:Or you decided to show up.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:No, we're not gonna do it like that.
Speaker A:Welcome.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker A:We've been waiting on you.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So
Speaker B:it's just my seat in my collar.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's like that.
Speaker A:And that day came, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:And even in the midst of that, again, being able to take this blended family and say, listen, whatever happened, has happened.
Speaker A:Whatever I need to be blamed for, blame me.
Speaker A:Put the blame on me.
Speaker A:Whatever you need to.
Speaker A:If it gets us closer to healing, let's do that.
Speaker A:I'll take all the scars, I'll take all the wounds.
Speaker A:It's cool.
Speaker A:I can handle it.
Speaker A:But what has to happen is these three children have to be first and they have to all have a relationship as one.
Speaker A:So with the mother of my oldest, it's.
Speaker A:These are her siblings.
Speaker A:And anybody you get with and any child you have, these are their siblings, too.
Speaker A:We are all one family.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I don't want to be involved when something needs to be planned as the mothers, y' all come together and work that and figure that out and figure out how to make sure this family is doing it together.
Speaker B:Correct.
Speaker A:You know, we need to be on whether it's double dating or whether it's family dates or whatever it is, we have to work as a team to make sure that this blended family doesn't never feels broken.
Speaker B:I like that.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Because that's how I'm going to be able to go out as a man and have my sanity and continue to do what I'm doing.
Speaker A:Because now as I'm older, I understand the responsibility, I understand the importance of my role for.
Speaker A:For all of them as a whole.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:I love that you saying that.
Speaker B:And I'm sure we'll get to that.
Speaker B:You being in the industry and, you know, having, you know, wife, kids, I know that was difficult being away from them.
Speaker B:I want to talk about, though, with Rafael Sadiq.
Speaker A:Yeah, okay.
Speaker B:With that number one hit that had you on the map, I want to know what was that like for you?
Speaker B:You know, because, listen, I was laughing.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker B:Listen, I was really excited when you agreed to come.
Speaker B:I think that people need to see the vulnerable side of me.
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:Because everybody has this outer outtake on what celebrity or what a hit maker may do, but you just a real person like everybody else, you know, like you said, going to these schools, you know, homework, calling teachers, you know, got your siblings and, you know, some industries, some not you.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:You're a real person.
Speaker B:You go through real life things.
Speaker B:So getting picked up by Rafael Sadiq, now I gotta Just say it multiple times.
Speaker B:That's what I'm Tony, Tony, Tony.
Speaker B:For those who don't know, lay your head on my pillows.
Speaker B:That was so extra.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, but I feel like I know that was life changing for you.
Speaker A:Oh, for sure.
Speaker B:Oh, I know.
Speaker B:She was just.
Speaker B:What was that moment like, walk me through that.
Speaker A:It was up and down.
Speaker A:It was up and down.
Speaker B:Really?
Speaker A:What was the ups?
Speaker A:Yeah, because you, I mean you work hard, you put your all into, you know, going to a new place.
Speaker A:I went out to Atlanta.
Speaker A:I moved on a whim, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I was supposed to be out there for like, I think it was like two weeks.
Speaker A:Ended up living out there for four years.
Speaker B:Wowzers.
Speaker B:I did not know that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I went out there, I stayed in the basement for like six months, you know, living in.
Speaker A:My manager at the time I moved in and was living in his basement.
Speaker A:My homegirl, Jane Hancock, you know, we was on the phone, I'm telling her, I'm like, look, these are type of songs he want written.
Speaker A:He trying to do, you know, I'm gonna send you these beats, pin some records like this so I could keep playing them for him.
Speaker A:And I played him a couple of them things and next thing you know, he flew her out and we was living in that basement together.
Speaker A:We was both sleeping in the booth.
Speaker A:The booth was about like half this room.
Speaker A:And we was on a little cot right by the mic and everything.
Speaker A:We were sleeping in the booth.
Speaker A:I was recording, recording in every day.
Speaker A:And the plan was to record 30 records.
Speaker B:Geez.
Speaker A:And then that's a lot.
Speaker A:Yeah, 30 records.
Speaker A:And then we were gonna go and push for a deal.
Speaker A:And the thing about it is 30 records isn't really 30 records.
Speaker A:30 records is like 60 records.
Speaker A:Because you gotta do.
Speaker A:You gotta go through the phase of figuring out the sound.
Speaker A:So you're recording, but it don't mean it count yet.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:It's like this song is okay, this is okay, but ah, we need to.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:It's all these different things.
Speaker B:I'm going with this sound.
Speaker A:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:And then also trying to find out what the sound was.
Speaker A:What is the sound.
Speaker A:We were recording a bunch of songs and we think this is dope.
Speaker A:But it's like.
Speaker A:Yeah, but this T. Pain got this.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Chris Brown is doing that.
Speaker A:Yeah, so and so's doing that.
Speaker A:So eh, you wanna be different, create your own.
Speaker A:Exactly correct.
Speaker A:So crazy.
Speaker A:It was a song that we had wrote in high school and Jane pulled it up and we had another beat from St. Nick, and she ended up putting those words onto that song, onto that beat.
Speaker A:And we recorded it.
Speaker A:And everyone sat in the studio for about, I think, two or three hours that night, listening to it over and over again.
Speaker A:And everything we did before that, we was like, squash it.
Speaker A:This is where we start from.
Speaker A:This is the start point.
Speaker A:That song was actually waiting.
Speaker A:That was the song with Wale on Seven Days a Week.
Speaker A:And that was the first song that created the sound for us, for Adrian Marcel.
Speaker A:Adrian Marcel.
Speaker A:And we went on to record all these other records and stuff, and we flew out to LA to go holler at Universal Republic.
Speaker A:And we were meeting with a cat named Tab, you know, A and R and actually Coach K set it up.
Speaker A:And we went and we hollered at Tab, and we sat at dinner, we talked and started playing him some music.
Speaker A:And immediately he was like, stop, stop.
Speaker A:Turn it off, Turn it off.
Speaker A:He was like, two days from now, I'm gonna set up a meeting.
Speaker A:I'm gonna set up a session at the studio.
Speaker A:He's like, I need some women.
Speaker A:I need women.
Speaker A:So we gotta bring about 10, 15 women in there.
Speaker A:I want to see how they vibe to this music, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And we gonna do it like that.
Speaker A:So two days later, we go to Patchwork Studios and out there and about 15, 15 girls in there, and they tell me, all right, we gonna perform all these songs.
Speaker A:I'm like, in the studio, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But I just went to work, you know, I'm from the town, you know, this ain't nothing new to me.
Speaker A:Whatever.
Speaker A:This is what I was doing in school, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So, you know, we kicked it in.
Speaker A:We did it, you know, and then he asked me a couple questions, and next thing you know, you know, we was getting a call to come out to Back to LA and actually meet with the company.
Speaker A:And what happened was before we went, we were going to Rafael Sadiq's studio to holla at him about something totally different.
Speaker A:Had nothing to do with me.
Speaker B:Wowzers.
Speaker A:Had nothing to do with me.
Speaker A:It was about another artist.
Speaker A:And I was just there, you know, and he like, okay.
Speaker A:He was like, what's up with you?
Speaker A:What's up with his music?
Speaker A:Da da, da.
Speaker A:So we ended up playing the music, and that just kind of sparked, like, oh.
Speaker A:He's like, you from the.
Speaker A:You from the bay, you from the town, period.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:So that connection got built.
Speaker A:Went up the block, went to go meet with Universal Republic instantly was just like, okay, let's do it, you know.
Speaker A:So the deal, you know, the deal happened, you know, within a couple weeks, but the deal happened.
Speaker A:And from there, man, everything just started just taking off.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And it took a second.
Speaker A:You know, we tried, you know, with any new artist, the labels, which I had to learn, I'm like, man, they're super excited about all these songs.
Speaker A:But once you sign, it's like, we need a song.
Speaker A:It's like we played you 30 songs that you went crazy for, that you signed me for.
Speaker A:But we need something big.
Speaker A:And so it took some time.
Speaker A:And one of the people that worked up at Universal was close with my manager and they were, they were, they had a, they had a writer, a songwriter that they were managing and his name was Chrishon.
Speaker A:And he had a song with another cat, Kyle, and Aunt Franks.
Speaker A:And they brought it to me, they brought it to us and played it.
Speaker A:And I hated it.
Speaker A:I hated it.
Speaker A:I was like, hell no.
Speaker A:I'm like, no, we got waiting.
Speaker A:We got my life, we got, we got all of these records that are touching people that are, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:We did this sound, we got seven days a week.
Speaker A:Like we done started a thing, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I was hopping out of cars at Spelman, at Clark.
Speaker A:Even out here, I'm hopping out of cars with CDs, giving my CDs away for free.
Speaker A:Like, here, take this.
Speaker A:Boom.
Speaker A:And even out here, Shayla Bang and dope only, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Rod Campbell, those were the people that put them CDs in they bags and at they events and that spread it out here in the Bay Area, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:And that's how that seven days a week Adrian Marcel era really took over.
Speaker A:You know, it was a village.
Speaker A:And then you bring me this song and I'm like, fuck is this?
Speaker A:I hate it.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:I hate this.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:And I would not record it.
Speaker A:I wouldn't record it.
Speaker A:Every time we were supposed to record it, I wouldn't record it.
Speaker A:So one night, it was about midnight, manager calls me and it wasn't far fetched from him to call us in the middle of the night like, y' all not working.
Speaker A:What's up, man?
Speaker A:Y' all supposed to be at the studio right now.
Speaker A:Like, come on, bro.
Speaker A:So he like, man, I need y' all to come to the studio right now.
Speaker A:Like, I feel that we gotta do something, we gotta do something.
Speaker A:So, you know, we drive you know, drive from our little spot that we had, drive over to Snellville to the studio, and these motherfuckers then pulled up, they flew out here from la, okay.
Speaker A:And they in front of the garage.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:And I'm like, what's up?
Speaker A:They like, yeah, so we finna record the record.
Speaker A:I'm like, y' all gotta be kidding me, bruh.
Speaker A:Like, they put me against the wall.
Speaker A:Like, I had to do it.
Speaker A:So the whole time I'm recording a song, like, I'm trying to sing it.
Speaker A:I'm trying to do this thing, and it start pissing me off.
Speaker A:Cause they like, ah, you singing too much.
Speaker A:Can you.
Speaker A:Can you do it like this?
Speaker A:Can you do like this?
Speaker A:So what happened was I.
Speaker A:What happened was I started mocking the song in the booth, and I started mocking it as we were recording it, and as soon as I was in, it was like, that's it.
Speaker A:That's it right there.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's the take.
Speaker A:Let's.
Speaker A:Let's.
Speaker A:Let's.
Speaker A:I'm like, oh, gosh, this is just getting worse.
Speaker A:You know?
Speaker B:But obviously.
Speaker A:But what happened was they left it was what it was.
Speaker A:Left it at that.
Speaker A:I didn't think nothing else of it.
Speaker A:And I was coming out here for a show and flying back out here for a show, and my brother, and this is the person who put me on to, like, music for real.
Speaker A:Like, he was like, my scale of what slaps, you know?
Speaker A:And I'm literally.
Speaker A:The plane is landing, and you know how your wife, your Internet come on and your calls start coming through, and it's the first ring that happened, and I answer.
Speaker A:I'm like, bro, I'm here.
Speaker A:Da, da, da.
Speaker A:I'm going to be.
Speaker A:And he like, hey, hey.
Speaker A:They just played yo to the radio.
Speaker A:Hey, that just slap, bro.
Speaker A:Hey, that's a.
Speaker A:That's a hit, Dre.
Speaker A:That's a hit.
Speaker A:I'm like, what's on?
Speaker A:I'm thinking.
Speaker A:He talking about waiting.
Speaker A:I'm like, for real.
Speaker A:I'm like, we cracking.
Speaker A:He like, yeah, bro.
Speaker A:2:00am I'm like, oh, hell no way.
Speaker A:And it.
Speaker A:It from there, we went on tour.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:Keisha Cole tour.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You were everywhere.
Speaker A:Every city.
Speaker A:Every city we went to.
Speaker A:As we get to the next city, soon as 2am Come on, they starting to sing it.
Speaker A:They know the words.
Speaker A:I'm like, oh, shit.
Speaker A:So it was taking off.
Speaker A:So at that point, I accepted it.
Speaker B:You had no choice.
Speaker A:I had no choice, you know, and
Speaker B:that's word of advice.
Speaker B:When you in the industry, like, you know, I know you may didn't like it and you hated it, but that actually became your biggest hit.
Speaker A:You gotta leave room for God.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker A:You gotta leave room for God to do what he do.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Because we have a vision, we have an idea of what we want to do, but it's never as big as his, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So he took over.
Speaker A:And, you know, like I said, there was ups and downs to it.
Speaker A:Like the button got pushed immediately after that.
Speaker A:So for me, where life was really recording studio, home, kicking it, it went from that to different states, different cities, interviews and radio and this and that.
Speaker B:It's a fast life.
Speaker A:It just happened quick.
Speaker A:And with that, you know, you start to lose track of the personal, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:You start to lose track of life outside of that.
Speaker A:At this point now, shit, my license is suspended.
Speaker A:I'm going through it again.
Speaker A:My wife, my girlfriend at the time, she's pregnant.
Speaker A:I mean, all these things are happening.
Speaker A:We're funking, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Because again, you around all these women and you gone, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So it was just.
Speaker A:It was all these things happening.
Speaker A:And, you know, I had to.
Speaker A:I had to get a grip on life, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:We had to.
Speaker A:You know, it was just a lot.
Speaker A:It was the ups and downs to it.
Speaker A:But luckily, man, through the grace of God, like, all those things that were going on, I had enough people around me that were able to always knock me back to reality, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, mom's calling me, like, I don't care about none of that shit that you doing right now.
Speaker A:Why is your license suspended?
Speaker A:So, like, I don't care about none of that.
Speaker A:Like, why is this happening?
Speaker A:Did you do your taxes?
Speaker A:Why haven't you?
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, what's the deal with that?
Speaker A:Are they one one, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:So it was always just still those factors happening around me.
Speaker A:I tell my wife all the time we wouldn't be together had she not been the one holding on, figuring it out, you know, I definitely made some mistakes, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I definitely, you know what I'm saying, did my share of mistakes.
Speaker A:But you know what's mistakes?
Speaker A:Cheating, you feel me?
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Getting caught up.
Speaker A:Getting caught up with.
Speaker A:Getting caught up with the shit like you around all these video girls and all of that shit.
Speaker A:And you know, it Seemed like.
Speaker B:I want to know about that.
Speaker A:It seemed cool.
Speaker A:Like, it's cool.
Speaker B:They be at.
Speaker A:It's cool.
Speaker A:Like they be at you.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:It be at you, but.
Speaker B:But they be at you, at you, like in your room, like in your bathtub.
Speaker B:No, for real.
Speaker A:Cause I be trying to.
Speaker A:I mean, it's like, you know, at the end of the day, man, everybody looking for the come up.
Speaker A:Everybody looking for the next thing.
Speaker A:Real weird, you know?
Speaker B:Real weird.
Speaker A:Now I'm from a place where I like to call this.
Speaker A:This is the home of the players, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So we handle things a certain way, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:So I was never just on some like.
Speaker A:Oh, anything.
Speaker A:What.
Speaker A:I'm not used to women being on me.
Speaker A:Like, I've been doing this since high school.
Speaker A:I've been doing this since middle school.
Speaker A:You know, I was in.
Speaker B:Well, then, if that's the case, why you cheat.
Speaker A:The thing is.
Speaker A:But you ain't doing.
Speaker A:But you ain't at a level where it's like.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker A:It's not them, it's you.
Speaker A:It's you feeling your.
Speaker A:You feeling yourself.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:You feeling.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:You got the trailers, you got the.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker A:The moment lights, camera, action is on you.
Speaker A:So it's not you.
Speaker A:It could be any of you.
Speaker A:I could replace you and put somebody else right here.
Speaker A:It's gonna be the same thing just because it's me.
Speaker A:So do you feel me?
Speaker B:You feel you act a little different because you got that lights, camera, action, like you switched up a little bit like, you know, like that guy.
Speaker A:Well, I feel like I'm also from a place where your card will get pulled real quick too.
Speaker B:Real quick.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker B:That's why.
Speaker A:Relationship.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Because I'm here.
Speaker A:Relationship with God, Relationship with really being from this place, really being from the town.
Speaker A:You know, you can't come in here and be on no high side now, you feel me?
Speaker A:Cause it'll go left real quick.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker A:So I still never lost that side of it.
Speaker A:It wasn't that.
Speaker A:But I would say though, with the women, with that side of things, obviously, you know, you get a little caught up with those.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:But luckily we, you know, we were able to work through a lot of those pieces of it.
Speaker A:I never, never did nothing that was detrimental like, you feel me?
Speaker A:I ain't got no kids and all of that.
Speaker A:And you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But again, it's because I wasn't.
Speaker A:But it wasn't them.
Speaker A:It wasn't like I was crazy over it.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:It was just, this is what the life is right now, you know?
Speaker A:But again, you learn what's important.
Speaker A:You learn how to be responsible with it.
Speaker A:With great power comes great responsibility, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And me having once I had my daughter, and then my second one, I started to get, like.
Speaker A:Feel like.
Speaker A:Okay, I feel like God is really testing me right now.
Speaker A:Like, he won't give me no boy, because I'm not.
Speaker A:Because I'm not out here doing what I'm supposed to be doing, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And, you know, it was facts.
Speaker A:Because I feel like the time when I finally got my boy, I was a different man.
Speaker A:All the things.
Speaker A:All the things that I thought I would.
Speaker A:I would do with him and be how I would be with him, I'm not.
Speaker B:So now you can say that you would want your daughter to date a man like you?
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:I like.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:First man absolutely said that.
Speaker B:You know, every other man, same.
Speaker A:Nah.
Speaker B:I think shout out to Prezi, my guy, he's like, I don't want nobody dating nobody like me.
Speaker B:He just said in my line, my man, he just said that here you are going to the, you know, school, going to, you know, being with wifey, doing the family time.
Speaker B:And I asked you that question.
Speaker B:You like?
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Well, I say that because, two, I'm also a realist.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker A:I'm not.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I don't set my daughters up for failure.
Speaker A:I don't treat my daughters like princesses.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Maybe if I have another daughter down the line, she might get the princess treatment now.
Speaker A:But my daughters didn't get that from me.
Speaker B:Well, I don't think they should, to be honest, not in today's society.
Speaker A:Cause it's not.
Speaker A:It's not realistic.
Speaker A:It's not realistic.
Speaker A:No man is gonna treat you the way I'm treating you like this.
Speaker A:And I want you to see the real thing.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I don't hide anything from my kids.
Speaker A:They ask me questions.
Speaker A:I tell them the truth so much, sometimes my wife don't like it.
Speaker A:But it's like, I can't do that to them.
Speaker A:I can't hide the truth from them.
Speaker A:So with that, I'm a Gemini.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker A:I'm a Gemini, you know?
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:My wife is a Leo, and my daughter's a Leo.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Love me in Air Sign.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Guys are really like, the list can go on.
Speaker B:You know, I don't see the Hive and Jekyll with y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker B:You know how they always say the two sides.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:To me, y' all probably one of the most authentic and real people.
Speaker B:For me as a Leo, I think you guys don't care about nothing.
Speaker B:You're pretty much mean.
Speaker B:Let me explain that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Meaning you don't let a lot of things get to you.
Speaker B:Meaning somebody can be, you know, all up in your face.
Speaker A:You're like, nah.
Speaker B:He's just.
Speaker B:You gotta let it.
Speaker B:Very cool.
Speaker B:Calm collective.
Speaker A:We got two minds to think about both sides of the spectrum.
Speaker B:Correct.
Speaker A:Of how to move and how to maneuver.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So that's good.
Speaker B:Y' all together forever.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Nah, with that, I like just showcasing to my daughter that you're not gonna find a perfect man at all.
Speaker A:If you gonna be with somebody, you gonna find somebody you vibe with.
Speaker A:And I preach it to him.
Speaker A:Have a bunch of friends right now.
Speaker A:Like, right now's the time to date and not be controlled by nothing.
Speaker A:Right now, I said, if you have friends, can't nobody tell you where you can go and where you can't.
Speaker A:Who you can be around and who you.
Speaker B:I guess I ain't nobody.
Speaker A:Do that.
Speaker A:Do that.
Speaker B:I'm just playing.
Speaker A:Do that.
Speaker A:And as you get older, you'll find out what you really like and what's for you.
Speaker A:You'll go through different people and everything, and you'll be able to make the right decision with somebody that you can work with, that you can build with.
Speaker A:They not gonna be perfect.
Speaker A:A man is gonna be a man.
Speaker A:And you.
Speaker A:All you can do is handle what you can handle.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker A:And how you handle it is gonna be everything correct.
Speaker A:And how you gonna show you.
Speaker A:As long as you show this man how to treat you and he follows those rules, those guidelines, then all that other shit in between, you gonna have to give him room to be him.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:And that's me.
Speaker A:I'm not looking for somebody to be a perfect man for my daughter.
Speaker A:Cause I wasn't a perfect man to somebody else's daughter.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:And with that, they held on.
Speaker A:We held on.
Speaker A:We figured it out, you know, and we still working.
Speaker A:Mistakes get made.
Speaker A:We got a long.
Speaker A:When you talk about forever, that's a long time.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:That's a long word.
Speaker A:That's a Long word.
Speaker A:So when you talk about that, you gotta know that change comes with that, all of that, you know?
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Yeah, you know, I definitely.
Speaker A:I wouldn't mind my daughters being with somebody like me, you know, Me too.
Speaker A:As long as they care about them.
Speaker A:As long as they care about them and they love them, you know, it's all good.
Speaker A:My biggest thing is don't put your hands on them and don't leave them
Speaker B:nowhere or even disrespect just in general.
Speaker B:But I have to say this.
Speaker B:I want to one congratulate you.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker B:One for your career, your success.
Speaker B:Most importantly for me, though, is fatherhood.
Speaker B:You being a good father, you setting the tone for a lot of men out here.
Speaker B:So I feel like you gifting your family with your presence, your love, your patience, your time.
Speaker B:Yeah, I. Dr. Stan, from Turning hustle into a legacy, I want to give to you.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker B:I got to even be honest with the people.
Speaker B:I done messed up and already told them this.
Speaker B:I am messed up.
Speaker B:But, you know, thank you, but you already know the drill.
Speaker B:I want you to look under your seat.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Please.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Look under there and see what we got.
Speaker B:You already know Versace.
Speaker A:Versace.
Speaker B:You the first.
Speaker B:You the first to say Versace.
Speaker A:Versace.
Speaker B:That's the Versace.
Speaker B:Hello.
Speaker B:I like it period, from Dr. Stant.
Speaker B:And I also gave you a copy from my Hoda CEO.
Speaker B:My book.
Speaker B:Please make sure you.
Speaker A:Hello.
Speaker B:This is my life.
Speaker B:This platform, though, is for you guys to tell y' all story, but so you can get to know Dr. Stantz.
Speaker B:I wanted to give gift you a little piece of me and your family.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:But we want to thank you for coming.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker B:And y' all know I got my event February 13th.
Speaker B:Mr. Marcel will be there, and I is a lucky.
Speaker B:So, you know, I'm excited to see you.
Speaker B:I got gifts there.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:It's a family event.
Speaker B:Bring your family.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:We would love to see that, but we thank you for coming.
Speaker B:And of course, it's the beginning of the year.
Speaker B:I may just have your butt back.
Speaker A:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker A:I'd love to be back.
Speaker A:We have good conversation.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:If you free February 20th.
Speaker A:You know, I'm at Yoshi's.
Speaker A:You know, February 20th.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:I'll text information.
Speaker B:Are there tickets?
Speaker A:You know, there are.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We got.
Speaker A:We got.
Speaker A:We got some tickets left over.
Speaker A:Yep, we got.
Speaker A:We got.
Speaker A:Tickets are limited, so.
Speaker A:Man, get your tickets now.
Speaker B:I need mine.
Speaker A:Yoshi's February 20th.
Speaker A:Myself.
Speaker A:We got the live band.
Speaker A:We got some Special guests coming through too, as well.
Speaker A:This show is.
Speaker A:Is dope because I'm going through the timeline.
Speaker A:Just like we sat here and we talked about, you know, how it started.
Speaker A:This is the first show where I'm bringing all the projects together for one to really not only showcase the music, but to showcase where I was in this timeframe.
Speaker A:To me, it feels more of a musical almost.
Speaker A:I like it, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Because I want people to understand the story of how these songs were kind of created, you know, without actually, oh, well, I did this song back in, you know, without all of that, but in a sense of just understanding, like, the growth, seeing the growth, feeling it, hearing it.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So this is started years ago, man.
Speaker A:Some of these.
Speaker A:Some of these songs I've never performed.
Speaker A:Some of these songs I haven't performed in years.
Speaker B:Make sure I get my tips.
Speaker A:So, yes.
Speaker A:So it's.
Speaker A:It's dope.
Speaker A:I'm excited.
Speaker A:I'm excited about this one, man.
Speaker A:And it's at the legendary Yoshis, man.
Speaker A:That's a huge thing.
Speaker A:So 9 o' clock show.
Speaker A:Doors open at 9.
Speaker A:Show starts at 9.
Speaker A:30 is definitely gonna be a zoovie.
Speaker A:So you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Bring your best.
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker B:I'll be there.
Speaker B:Well, we thank you.
Speaker B:We love you.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker B:And we want to thank y' all for tuning in with Dr. Stan's turning your hustle into a legacy.
Speaker B:We will holla.
Speaker B:And that's a wrap.
Speaker B:Let's go.
Speaker A:Yeah.
