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Peaks of the plane in Charlamagne the God Here and as we come closer the closing out this year, I just want to say thank you for tuning into the black ect podcast Network. There have been so many great moments over the past year. Take a listen to some of those captivating moments in this special best of episode.
Hey, We're welcome back to the eighty Fast South Shore. Yeah, man, we're doing our big fool today. Man, we got none other than the super talent.
We got to give them the.
Super dope, the super instrumental part of one of the hardest rep groups in REP history. Man, hey man, multi cultural kid make music all across the board, whether it be for the Hood, whether it be for South America, whether it be for Haiti.
It it ran for.
President I Ain't got one of the highest grossest selling albums of all times. Man, none other the legendary mister.
Respect New York.
You know that was you when you first touched down. But yeah, like, how did you feel when.
Were you already wy cleft?
When you got to go down down to Miami and see the presence that the Haitian people have down there, Like, were you already famous? So did you get to see that prior to you becoming the superstar.
So it's a deep question. So you hired two sets of brewing at the time. So we was in Brooklyn, Jersey the refugees, and the thing is, now, if you look back at the refugees, John Forte, who got the first pardon.
Now hold on that.
I gotta ask you that I had no idea who John Forte was, and he just showed.
Up on the y Cleft song. But we was rocking with.
Your ship so hard, just like Cliff.
Yeah, like today, like say, somebody you feel has talent, You're gonna put him on a feature, you know what I mean? So John was those John was always in the studio. He was part of doing the beans. He was part of the John was part of the brain trust or the fujis. So and automatically, definitely John had the vibe.
So I was.
Saying, like, when we look at it, John historically was one of the first rappers that got a pardon from a president for his charge. It was George Bush, right, So now I bring you there to show you like when when when we say like the refugees, it was literally taking a negative and making a positive out of it right without having a top bolt. So we was there. Then you had the Zoo Pound that was in Miami. Right, So so let me tell you the story, the real story. Give me a light, right, So do I get a lighter?
So blood cop.
So I remember we was doing the show with Boujou Bunton and Miami salute to the General. We was doing the show and uh, and I'm downstairs and keep in mind we bubbling but we're still not And then my man like, yo, my man Seana said, Yo, there's these dudes upstairs, you know, like they not gonna get off. You know, they on by the stage because my ro manager has to get them and say, yo, it's not gonna get off. Man to you, you know, they're just like they got to see you. So I go and we ktch and the minute I see Macca Zoe, Macca Zoe looks like my brother.
So literally, see the.
Thing about hated is tribes, right, So me and Max just start to hug each other and it's just an energy with kids, right. So the the idea of the refugees and the idea of like zoppound, it was a movement of struggle and like we're going to show like the world that we're on top and we could do better. So I was the first dude, no cap that put a festival together in Miami. This is long before Ultra and all these festivals. I'm the first one. The Carnival. The Carnival was the name of the festival, Aliyah, you could google it, Timberland Ussha, that's the first time. If Ussia's watching this, you know, that's the first time people thought Usher was Haitian. That's where the rooting started. It started on my festival because I had Usher say and every time we see each other, he'd be like, yo, you know it's because you had me say endless, I keep going and going going. So and I remember being in the audience with Macca Zoe when we both looking at each other and he was a like, yo, man, this is the vision. Man, Like we're gonna take this music thing to the next level. So he's a big inspiration because it was like brother talking to brother. So we like, in the middle of this festival, we're talking. So I'm gonna show you how deep it is. So when you watch a video I have, which is called MVP Kompa. MVP Kompa, you smoke about the Crayoll music that I do too. So when the intro that video, now, if y'all go back and watch it, the minute the song start, that's me and Macaso in the very intro andnoc in Crayle. So again, we was celebrating the idea of life, the idea of music, red eyes, all these guys. It was an idea of positivity. This is the start of everything, this is what it was gonna be. So the embracement was like this because we all was repping the flag, and it was sort of like it's like one set meeting another set, but part of the same service, you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, a big same flag because up on the one.
Yeah.
So free makers you mean, I mean freemacher.
Yeah.
Ask you this, what did you learn when you ran for president?
Like, because you this is real, you this top office old there.
What did you What were some of the lessons that you learned or some of the things that you didn't know about government that you came in.
Well, I remember calling like my closest friends and I was like, Yo, I'm going to run to be president and Haiti and all I heard was crazy click right, Okay, Nigga, I'll be at the funeral. Click right, Big gotta be at the funeral.
Click right.
I gave myself you know your dad smoke Snoop Dogg White Live.
This is a good ship.
I feel good.
I feel.
Yeah.
So here we go on the real talk.
Right.
So when I when I ran for president hit a real talk.
Right.
So we seen Kanye Rund Jordan Trump, I go way back like saying, like with Trump, I'm just showing you, Like I remember one of my early shows that I did, like for Donald Trump just before he was president, and I have like a picture. I'm just showing you. This is like at a time when I was running, right, So if I was under your princess, I'm just giving you a different things. The idea of a celebrity saying like yo, for office of a country.
They're like, yo, what you want? What you want?
Right, So there was like yo cleft Stoe money from his country.
Right, So they.
Start this smear campaign. Smearing camp's how they try to get you.
Right.
What made me run and what made me think I could be president is the most important thing, right, So let's get into it. There's what you see on camera and there's what you see behind the camera. I'm seeing so before I ran in two thousand and five, when George Bush gave the order for a colon power or ip to the general had to go to Haiti and literally kidnapped the president at the time, Aristive and take them out the country. Right, it's two thousand and five. I remember watching I was in Palas, I remember, and this was like past those dates. And I remember I'm watching TV and the kid comes on the TV in Parish and he says, the only person that could make us put our guns now is why Cleft Young? Now why he say that? Because even as a Fuji, the score the Grammys to put up my flag. Even when I'm on doing music for Sony, I'm still doing music and crayon and I'm sending it back to Haiti the same way Biggie would do music. And Brooklyn feels like he you know that Biggie is a Bible.
So I would do.
Music like that on over. So there was always that connection with them. So and that kid, his name is Haitian Tupac. Now let me show you how the gangs was working in Haiti.
Yeah, yeah, hear me.
And then I need everybody after this to go watch the Ghost of Set the Sole and get deeper. All of the kids that was in the seat the Sole at the time was inspired by hip hop, so they gave themselves hip hop names. So go watch the doc. You're gonna see fifty cent like he calls himself fifty he's a Haitian and it goes on and on. So we got a chance to do a doc. You'll see it on these kids. So I want you to get deep into the gang culture down there, just to understand where it comes from. So just to say that touched me when he said that, and I said, Yo, I'm done with music, Like, what other record can I possibly break? My people need me? Slum Dog Millionaire. I came from that village and I'm gonna go back and put my entire heart into that.
Now.
What didn't y'all see behind the cameras, me and Haiti with all the gangs at the time, saying look, I'm gonna put this. If y'all see any of these trucks coming and they have a yearly Haiti sticker, don't rob them, right, They here to work for us, They here to work for you, right. I was inside of these communities with like women giving money out and having them start small businesses. I was the one that was getting on the plane going from Haiti to Washington, d C. To negotiate what the gangs wanted with the UN. At the time, this is all me. This is before I ran for president. I was the one that went to Congress and was like, yo, dog like at the end of the day, I need you to pass this bill so that the textile can be on point and we could bring more job creations.
This is me.
This is not on camera.
This is what's.
Happening in real time. So when I ran, I knew I could do it because I felt like I was I was the face of the country.
I got one of my ogi gets here. He been all the way back to the Steve Harvest studio.
He got a hand.
All the studio ship upstairs.
But we just yeah that first time. I was like, okay, But if you can feel the energy, you can feel something that's going up, you can feel it that it was some people that was passionate about it. Look from the office to a whole goddamn, god damn fucking production spy around the whole studio.
New Netflix, specially.
On the way.
Right now.
You watch right now, it's going on on the ship. Uh, it's gonna they watching it right after the interview.
They might have watched it before because they're out birds flying high. You know how I feel, breeze drifting on.
By how you know how I feel. It's a new dom.
It's a new day, Negro spirit, new life for me.
You know.
I call them motherfucker done robins in this new days to the day. And yeah, a lot of them. It's a lot of talent that's just gonna be some great low talent because they too lazy to leave that motherfucker and build the profile up and go be seen in the in the room.
Man.
Yeah, a lot of motherfuckers hold theirself back with this.
You gotta go be uncomfortable. Yep, you be getting comfortable at the spots you go to, because you know this one thing. The more uncomfortable you can get, the more everywhere is fucking comfortable. You know what I'm saying.
I mean, what niggas need to do is shut the fuck up and write some jokes for the first I don't know what else. I don't know what else to say. Niggas need to shut the fuck up and write some jokes. Niggas need to shut the fuck up and get in the streets. Niggas need to stop talking about what the fuck they're gonna do and go do it. And niggas need to stop talking about what everybody else's motherfucking doing and go and do it, and go and go do it. Niggas need to stop making motherfucker's excuse us. And I ain't talking about anybody in particular, but it could be somebody in particular, But motherfuckers, who isody in particular? Ain't so many in particular? No, No, I don't know who the in particular is particular, Nicholas particular particular, it's particular, it's particular, is out here they everywhere? Son, It ain't one nigga, it's a whole bunch of niggas that particular.
Niggas They just talk and talk about.
What another nigga doing and don't want to do it theyself, like.
Motherfucker, because we only got to see the fucking cut in what happened.
You're talking about factory.
I'm talking about particulars, man, I was talking about that particular all these out here, and what you think about.
You talking about okay particular, just all.
Around and using these particulars, they talk about everybody else that used to be a particular because you grow from it. They talk about everybody else. And these particulars usually go for the most successful motherfuckers. They usually go for the motherfuckers that's doing it. They usually go for motherfuckers that broke down walls for everybody, They're usually going to do motherfuckers. They don't fuck with motherfuckers.
That's like Lord.
They go for the big dogs, and they make excuses for those people. They make excuses or he got this because of this, he got this because he did that. And this is not anyone in particular, but this goes for the industry. Motherfuckers So often when to sit back and talk shit and don't realize the way you make it is about having work ethics. The way you make it is by doing what the next nigga won't do. And I ain't talking about no sexual shit. I'm saying going harder, you got too old. I just I gotta say this because niggas be taking words and tipping on. Oh he did this and that mean man, after trying the world tell the world, ain't got this. This is all I'm time to say. Man, for all your young actors and comedians that's coming up right now. You don't have to suck a nick to make it. Can I say it any clearer than that? That's how you can make it. Okay. No, you ain't gotta kiss no ass. You ain't gotta kiss no ass. You ain't got to take it in the ass to make it. What you gotta do is go hard, has some work ethics, and be motherfucking good at what the fuck you do. That's what you gotta do. I mean, you're trying to be all calm, man, I'm sick of these particular ass niggas the fuck out my face.
Man.
Jay C said it winning Live and then Live but number joke. Oh No, I'm just saying I'm thinking of it. A nigga worked too hard, man, So know what you're talking about? Say it is not one, isn't it. It's these motherfuckers everywhere, brother, you seeing them. You see them in the games and they fucked up and you've seen them. It's these motherfuckers. It's these motherfuckers right here, always making excuses. They don't want to fucking put the work in, put the fucking work in nigga niggas, stop making excuses and blaming other shit. If you look at most motherfuckers in this business that are really good, you could probably callos. You could probably say, well, he didn't make it because of this, or didn't happen because of this. You of a lighte's choice. A lot of times as drugs right, A lot of times niggas get caught up.
In the bitches. You know what I'm saying.
You could, you could break it down, but you tell a motherfucker just focus, Like I get sick of motherfucker's talking. They do this to Kevin, and I ain't even here to defend nobody do this. They do this to Kevin. They do this, Uh todave they want to fuck with these What these motherfucker you understand is everybody's path is different. I can't let nobody say when they say Kevin Hart is a plant and everything. To me, that's bullshit. And the reason why I know is bullshit. When I was doing them nigga rooms, Peppermint Lounge and all them type of shit, I guess it was in them rooms Kevin. Kevin didn't fucking start up doing showcases and shit. That Nigga was in nigga rooms doing impression of monkeys.
And capa rats and ship. People know he's one of.
His best jokes.
He used to do this monkey.
He looked little, so he sold it. I don't know he did like this or something. He sold it right, I ain't send a nigga monkey.
He'll tell you.
He had a joke.
He used to do this thing like this thing.
He had a joke. It was a monkey currents and he did his hands like this, and niggas went crazy. They didn't know that this monkey nigga was gonna be an international movie. Stuff that didn't know monkey business was gonna turn in that ship saying that they would like this. He used to do the joke like this. He used to do like this and then he would run. I don't even I don't know if he said but he I don't know if he said.
Nigga was his joke.
Niggap at me like, I'm like, what to.
Be a monkey?
Yo?
He came up being that monkey nigga. They didn't know him me to he started being a monkey. Ask anybody, Ask anybody, anybody kept on her first joke he was a monkey. I've got saying this as race. He was like this, you would do like this, yo. He would do that, y'all think, Yo, he would do like this. This is what he did, nigga. Nigga, I'm talking like you do like this.
He was just talking.
He dow like this. You get like this, and then he throw his hands up like monkey hands. And then he'll do that again and then he go back over to the corner like this. That's what he did, and the nigga blew up, can Yo.
He did that.
He would never do that joke ever again.
And if you see this ship right now, if he with his friends, guess what they gonna do.
They're gonna be like, yeah, I.
Very tee you them niggas like when they get mad at him on the jets, when they get on the jets and they get mad at jealousy like this. Yeah, we remember he used to do monkey jokes.
Nigga.
You don't remember the monkey joke, but I do remember the.
Here's a point. The point I'm making, Hi, they try to discredit a nigga hustle. The motherfucker had enough sense.
He used to do this.
The nigga used to commute from Philly to dintle.
Just this story up.
They don't tell people. He used to do the go hard rooms, then he go do the mainstream rooms. He would mix it up. He used to come. I remember handing Kevin Hunt seventy five dollars for a spot. And he didn't really do that well in the room, you know what I'm saying, because his comedy wasn't edgy like that. He didn't do that well in the room. But it was just like a brotherhood that we all had, the comedians from the DC area, Philly and all that. We all of us had rooms. We used to swap rooms, you know how it is. You go do a run, and I saw this is what I'm saying. I saw his hustle, not just hustle for the streets, not just hustle for the streets, not just like I'm in these streets. He was in the streets, but at the same time he was like, I'm gonna cross that street and I'm gonna go talk to them motherfuckers too. And that's what people understand. They can say what they want.
This business.
Dude is a gatekeepers in this business. You motherfucker right? Is it people that block motherfuckers your motherfucker right, either you learn how to navigate your way around it, or you do your own shit. You ain't gotta I'm not saying you gotta do what they do, but if you don't want to work within what this system is, then go do it yourself.
Right.
These niggas keep talking about Hollywood. Fuck Hollywood, Move nigga, go to the country. If you got a problem with Hollywood, get the fuck out of Hollywood. Why you want to stay in a a an assessed.
Of shit like that?
And especially today we are now you can do your own shit. This show is an example of saying, fuck Hollywood, We're gonna do it our own way. And when you do that, and when you do that, guess what. When you do that, guess what Hollywood comes to you.
Ms.
Eric Banks is in the trap with us today.
First of all, how you doing you doing? You're looking like you're having fun with it.
I am nigga.
Can never do enough?
Oh please, never do enough? Police niggas don't do enough?
Why not?
What's enough? What is enough? Niggas just don't do enough.
I feel like everybody here is their own definition of enough.
Yeah, we'll take.
My definition of enough.
Where I'm not complaining a scene where or a situation where I'm.
A scenario a woman's not complaining.
What it's situations where women do not have to complain about nothing and they're satisfied and their men is enough because they're like, Okay, I'm satisfied. I'm never like spansing out.
He is enough. I don't have to like look any further.
So when you get up and go home to his wife.
What the well that mean he be doing?
Why the fuck don't we ever meet these men that be talking about? We know all the niggas. They are underground networks, and we never come in contact with these niggas.
Y'all talking?
What you mean.
You've had one obviously, right or you still got one?
No, I've had relationships.
I'm saying, like with a guy like that that you didn't have to complain with.
Yeah, but it was temporary.
Where is this nig great minute?
Where is he?
Because that's what you've been looking for.
You think there's a lot of upstanding.
You ain't about to find two of them.
You found the one you were talking about.
I never found you. If I found him, i'd be we see.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. These women go out here and find the exact nigga that they want and don't want him. So why we just pressure on yourself to change?
Don't you be out here?
You can't be this nigga.
She don't want him.
The niggas she wants.
She don't. You said it with Temple were I mean, you know everything, don't you know? You started complaining and left?
He said, you know what, I'm too good of a man for this ship. I'm out here doing everything I'm doing.
All treat me like ship.
You're still texting that nigga.
You still fall this mother Instagram.
It's funny because I had a I had an X like they knew it.
It was insane. If they just did it was just like intense.
Yeah flash back, Oh my god, that ship is painful, bro. But you see the fact even they know three niggas, who the nigga they like, that's the nigga they want and they don't want me.
Really think that's insane.
You just sat there and said you wanted a situation where you wasn't complaining.
He said, have you ever had that? You said, sure, temporarily.
So then once you didn't say the rest, they let me know.
That you funked it up because I would like if you were in a situation where you're not complaining that's you want some ship like that for life, you're supposed to shut the fuck up and just enjoy that.
I mean, you know, life happens, you know.
I don't know how many times you think you're gonna find this, these these people who gonna fit these standards in quality, I know the type.
I hope you got. What times in my entire lifetime.
That's like you was born in the late nineties, and you might get one or two more.
Jenson, I feel like I got faith in it.
He gonna see this ship, he watching it.
He probably, I mean, I don't know, he might, he might not, depends on what's happening to gis.
You know what I'm saying.
How you feel about relationships in the industry though, like you being a star by yourself, you feel like a relationship would be too demanding where you, you know, to get to where you're trying to go.
Absolutely right now, absolutely, of course, I mean it sounds great.
The thought is beautiful.
You know, at a letter time, I'm definitely interested in doing that. But at the time, like right now, probably not. Yeah yeah, But I'm always, you know, an open book, you.
Like, open to finding somebody and just saying fuck it.
I'm not saying fucking. I'm saying like, I'm open to, you know, dating, like I'm dating.
You know, I feel like it's cool today. Date is fun.
What's a good date?
I was just about a.
Yeah, yeah, cause you pick her up.
She show up with her goddamn chained with her whole name. I used to fuck out, what what.
Do you even take her?
I mean a nice restaurant. Of course, I can pick the restaurant. He don't even have to pick the restaurant.
That's good. But I know what I like.
Nas I got the.
Date already playing no, but I would appreciate that. But I mean, you don't have to, but it's appreciated, you know.
But I picked the place. If he don't know this, you know, And then you know, I'm really simple.
I just wanna eat, I wanna have drinks, and I just wanted to have a good time by the time we eating.
Because I don't order so much, I'm gonna be full of lay down eat.
You heard what she said, you gonna lay down. She's gonna be ready.
To eat and lay down. God damn it, she's gonna be ready to eat and lay down.
Hey man, hey, they do sound fun when you put it like that, you know, because it ain't.
They got way.
You can't even order enough ship that ain't then I'm gonna be like, that's too much ship, Go ahead, get something.
That's the problem.
Niggas is taking these women places and they ain't getting them full enough to lay down.
But I would hate.
I take them somewhere and get them to lay down the place, and.
Then there take the ship home and.
Put it in the house.
That's why women don't never eat all their food.
You giving up the game.
I just about something.
That's why a lot of these women go places and they be trying to get that ship to go cause.
They don't want to lay out, cause they don't be ready to lay down.
So Phelis, you can just start gauging about how much food she eat beeed up first, see if she get full. Fuck the rest of that day, she's gonna be ready to lay down.
So what's a good restaurant to take the whey they gonna want to lay down, they gonna get food or they gonna eat the food they can get fulled.
I've just been papados.
And what Dan Tanner and all that ship.
They don't get for you. They don't want to lay down. They leave up Dan Tanner's to have a ready to lay down.
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