 Cause there's no point in my life that I ever think I would be in the same space as Redman. And then who else all was there? Redman to live, Jadakiss, Dave Chappelle, which was a cool pop-up, just believe. So it was cool to see that. And then the room was so intimate when we got in there. It had to only be like a hundred people in there. It's the same thing that I would do like on Spring Break where I go someplace like with, I don't know, in college. You go, fill it out. And then you start meeting people. And then you ask people, Hey, what are you doing? What's up? What are you doing? All right. Where are you going? What are you doing? What have you heard, right? Whether that was like a party or a club or something back in the day here. He's like, all right, what event? Is there anybody in particular that you're here to see? What do you do? Maybe we're worth like continuing to know. So that's the strategy. All right. If you want to go to anything, period. That's probably going to help you out with it, especially if you're going to for free. Like you just ask it, ask it, ask it. That's the important part. If you're going for free, you have to talk to them and everybody coming around. Cause if not, you're like, well, the paid events are pretty clearly laid out, you know, in the app and stuff. But, you know, which I thought we were going to kind of get into the, usually the more fun stuff or not even just fun, but the stuff is you can tell is going to probably have the most high quality people there. You're going to learn about it. Just by talking to people. Like a real party bro, like, man, I've talked to 10 people in eight of them. He talking about his one event. Shit, as regards to his one event, you know what I'm saying? Exactly. And seeing what's cracking there. And if not, if we go back to the one to the other to be brought up, see what that joint looks like. Because you can judge whether the event is worth going to based on the quality of the person you're talking to. Yes. Quality of person doesn't mean just this is their role or already popping or not. You might not even know them. It's literally just how they're presenting themselves. They seem like they got a good head on their shoulders. And do they seem to be on the same type of time you're all. Yeah. Right? I think you could be a major label exec. Got a good career, but a male of really, I'm just here to kind of like chill. You know, I'm going to speak on my panel and keep pushing. Like, so it's not like they're not going to know where to go or they know where to go. It's not necessarily going to be in the mix that you're specifically trying to be it to. Yeah. So yeah, feeling people out now. I can't tell you all the exact way to do that because I don't know what type of time you're going to be on in that moment. Right? But finding somebody who's on the same type of time that you are on, right? You could all vary different times at night, different times of day, right? So that's the rule. Now on top of that, though, then, of course, you got to start doing the weight of things. What's up there? All these events. I got all these people that said go here and there. Then it's logistics. Like, which of these events seem like their most worth going to? What's the distance? Do I have a car or not? Do I have a scooter or a not? You know what I mean? Is it cold or not? You know, when you start weighing in every single thing. Like, do I get dug, dug it out? Do I need to push through, right? Which might go like skipping ahead. The night where you went to go see Hannibal Burrs. Well, shout out to Hannibal, man. I still ain't, oh. Yeah, you got to admit it's a cool guy, man. It's a cool guy. I still ain't, like, obviously met you a person or even had the phone combo, you know what I mean? But the short exchange we had and knowing that you were a fan of the pie, I really appreciate that, man. And this was the mentality when I say, again, like weighing in moments of logistics and stuff. But you and I were going, like, you know, I was asleep. Yeah, you were hunked for a go. And we were waiting here back. We were pretty much out for the night, except for if he had hit us up, all right? Then I'm like, hey, by the way I feel, I'm just going to have to sleep because it will suck to be up for like two hours and hit us up. And then we got to go and I'm just, I'm hurting. You know what I'm saying? Well, I'm a sleep and then, or I'm up for two hours and then nothing happened. And then I'm still hurting, you know what I mean? Well, I'm just going to go to sleep. And I'm a rare, like, napper sleeper type person. Yeah, so usually I don't go until I'm just out for the night. But go to sleep. It's our point. You're like, hey, yo, I might go out to be Hannibal. I bet, man, you got him glad. So glad it's two of us. Power in numbers, baby. With him with back to sleep. Which is important. And important, too. Well, like, hit these events with multiple people. Yes. Yeah, but sometimes you've got friends that are just better at making friends than you are. Sometimes you've got friends that got better. Now they can manage night better than you can, you know what I'm saying? They're more like that type of time. Like, it sort of helps, bro. Conquering the divided country. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like, better at things, no different topics better. Like, whatever it is, whatever it is. And, you know, then, because you wake me up, I slept for a decent amount, but it was, like, broken. So I actually woke up. I probably wouldn't have woke up if you didn't wake up at all. You know what I mean? So I woke up. All right. This is that wake up where you really should be going back to sleep. You kind of, am I going to wake up or not at all? No, no, no. Patty, it's Corey Luffy. Say, when goes again, well, let me go see. I'm not going to go to this. It's like, don't you Corey got this? Good. But at the same time, Danesha, you know, you're not going to be here forever. You know what I'm saying? It's only, that was technically last night, right? Last night, Dan, I'm a fan of Hannibal. I really thought you, you know, you know, I just know it's commonly growing up. I didn't know much about the music side of, I mean, he didn't really have it out there, but I was like, a fan of like, so it'll be dope to meet him if that does happen. But even if I don't make, like, you know, should just be happening at night sometimes. So you got to go. Or even not just at night, like, stuff just to be happening. So you got to go. And you only, you're here for a reason. I get up, let you know, I'm gonna get there. You tell me, you will, you end up sending me a location or whatever. I think you're still talking to Hannibal at that time. And then hop on the scooter, cause I'm like, dang man, school that night is a little different in a city. I know. Bree, you start ripping through your jacket, man. So ripping through the jacket, bro. I really know. And I'm like, ah, everything felt like safe ish that I was in and around. We rolled schools before. So everything should be all good or whatever. You know, cause I'm, look, I always had this one rule. You don't just go to anybody hood. You don't think like my hood is good enough. I don't think I'm hard to just go up to anybody. Like trying to, they ain't the chance you take. Yet somehow I'm riding this scooter. I'm like, huh, this is taking me in a direction that we haven't been yet. Wait, what the fuck? Not going to a bridge, a highway pass? The bridge, I was like, I was like, okay. This is interesting. You know what I mean? I see some, a couple of people that, you know, that obviously weren't well. You know what I mean? They look like they might bite you. You know what I'm saying? I was like, all right. You know, I'm on the scooter. And this is like, there's no protection. And I'm fast. And I'm, I'm, I'm, I might believe basically I don't have no problem. I'm like, hey, someone jump at me the scooter. Like it just is what it is. You don't have to like engage. You know what I'm saying? And you can't up the scooter for me. And I could catch a scooter on foot if I wanted to. So I know there's other people that could too. All right, well whatever. You know, you know, you just got to think you always, you never stop scoping. But I'm just like, all right, cool. Cause this, this is looking very different. And what we were before, I get off on a scooter. Well, after I like pass all these police and I don't know what was going on. And get off. I'm like, it's nobody outside but me. However, I'm in the middle of a place that don't look great. And I'm like, you know how, have you ever like put in an address and it'll be the right address? Somehow it's on a different side of town. It might be something like Southwest versus Northeast or something. I'm like, I don't know. Ain't no way in hell is your Corey here. And didn't warn me. Corey was there and didn't warn me. I mean, you shouldn't say like at least look sketchy but you were in the right place. That's all. Cause in my defense, right? When I went, I was riding behind a group of other people on a scooter. So we was, we was in numbers. See that gang. Yeah. So they were like ahead of me. So I'm like, all right, I know if anything like fucked up were to happen or come, like they will react to it before I would see it. And I could just make my decisions based off of that. So I didn't think about it being a sketchy place until like you call them like, man, like was it in this place in the sketchy place? And I was like, kind of sketched out here. Like it was like a bridge right there. There was like a homeless dude around the corner. 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I'm like, this don't look right. Well, I'm starting to have to wake up. Then I was outside. Then that's a long breath after I pass like a bunch of home. Because you came out late, like, yeah, so, yeah. And it's probably like one in, something like that. Like, I don't, and I didn't hear no activity. I didn't hear the music around the corner. Like that wasn't even, I don't, I guess it hadn't technically started yet. Right. The one man was going to be formed, but he wasn't there. Yeah, not bad at DJ's since I got there. So, yeah. Oh no, man. You can't get nothing out there, man. Absolutely. So you tell me, oh, you walk around the corner, I walk around the corner, I started seeing people. But I'm good, cause at least I see there's some people out there. And then get to the door. Oh, buddy, at the door, tell me it cost $70 again. $70. Whoa, exactly. And I'm like, yo, yo. I came out late at night. I'm really just here to like chop it up with Corey and Hannibal and like, go back. So, and y'all, I know y'all been talking for a minute. So I'm thinking like, I'll probably be in there for 10 minutes. And again, not that I don't have $75. I didn't plan to spend $75 though. So, hey, oh man. Now what shy are you here? You just say something, technically anyway, there's all this business, everything here for. Oh, that's what I'm saying, man. See, that's what I'm saying, man. I was like, man, this is a damn, man. What was, what would Grant Cardone do? He was in the 75 and right it off. Hey, you're about to be careful with the, what was Grant Cardone? It was the way he been moving lately, but. I'm bullshitting. I'm bullshitting, I'm bullshitting. I thought as I was standing up, it was too late. It was too late, you know what I mean? It happened. Well, I'm really like, I was at the door when I got there, it was like, cause the, I walked up to it, similar experience to you, area being a sketch you all have. I was like, damn, what the fuck is the big deal? And I'm like, I walked to the door that, I don't know if you saw that front door to the venue, but it was like locked. And this guy on the door was just like, well, okay, yeah, go to the other side. Yeah, when I get there, the security guard's about to fight this dude. Like, you know what I'm saying? I don't know if he saw like the really large guy I saw at the door. I really was like. The security guard? Yeah. Yeah. I see the dude he was going to fight. Well, yeah, because by the time you got there, that explains the energy he was going to meet up. Yeah. He's in the very bad for that. But when I got there as him and the guy, we're about to fight. I'm like, mm, just walk between y'all and get over here to the door. And then the girl's like, oh, you got a ticket? Like, nah, you need a ticket in no time, play stupid. Nah, you know, I have one told me to pull up. We need tickets for it. Yeah, yeah, they can buy tickets online. Okay, great. Let me step to the side real quick cause my service, my service was terrible. I don't know if your service, right? But my service was like on and off and that shit. It was crazy. So in this area, I didn't have the greatest of service. So I still had to like walk around to the front to get some bars, download the app to then just see that this ticket is $75. And I'm like, damn, I could just get back on the scooter and ride back to the hotel right now, save myself the embarrassment. You know what I'm saying? She think I walked around the building, you know what I'm saying? And check on my phone. She don't know I'm double thinking about the 75. And then that's when I sat there and thought, I was like, man, I'm already here. I'm already rode the scooter 12 minutes to get over here. You know what I'm saying? I feel back to be disappointed. Like Sean, I'm gonna ask about it. I can see you now. I'm like, how was it? They didn't go in, man. That's just same ball. I was like, yeah, I would be like, bro, come on. So I said, fuck it. And I paid for it and I wear it. And it was cool. I have a personal rule with events that I pay for that. Cause this event had an open bar. I should throw it out there, which made it better. And I'll personally exact my revenge on the bar. Like I'm like, all right. I thought it was, if this wasn't an open bar, these drinks probably about 12 to 14 dollars. So that's about five to six drinks to get my money's worth. I mean, anything beyond that is just icing on the cake. If I can get five to six drinks and get like three connections, this same five dollars would be worth it. That's how I look at it. I had, for those of you wondering, I had eight drinks. Yep, I had eight drinks and I met like five or six people. So it was worth it. Hey, me on the other hand. I wasn't paying that sitting five dollars. I was, I did start to pay. I was, I was right there. Shit, it was the security guard's energy. That made me say, let me go ahead and like, try to pay for this. Yeah, now you, he was blown, bro. He was in a really bad mood. And I was like, I ain't trying to start not to wear it, no matter what. He just said, I can't get off, get in off of the strength that he don't fuck. Yeah, I'm always, you know what I mean? I don't care what you got, you give your money and like, nah, so I was like, all right. Let me like, at least open my phone, like start checking it out. I put my credit card information and I put some button and it wasn't like letting me like, go to the next part for the pay page. And I was like, man, let me step back, man. I'm gonna rethink this. God didn't want that to happen. I just kind of tried to pay. God said, nah, so I stepped back and like fell into this group of people. I saw this girl come out and give God this little band or whatever, bracelet band and then keep moving and he was standing there. And then dude was like, hey, man, I'll give you this band for 50 dollars. And I was like, nah, bruh, nah. And even though I was like, I'd rather pay the 75 dollars. Sometimes I didn't move where I just don't want to deal with new people, but I'd rather just pay the money to deal with someone I don't know and then possibly be finessed or feel like we have a relationship where I OEM or just know how I deal with them. You know what I mean? Cause I was already, I'd already been through what I had been through. But then this girl comes back and she had a couple more bands like she had went to the car, came up and she was like, I'm usually going one. And she was giving it to me for free. I was like, oh yeah, of course, of course. You know, smiling, chopping up with her and then she gave it to this other guy. And then she like put her hand back on him. It was in my hand. And his hand, she put her hand back on him. Like she was about to take him out. And she said, hold up. Do y'all love black women? I said, hell yeah, I love black women. Like, and I'm looking at buddy like, bruh, you taking too long to answer. Like, I don't understand. Like, do you want to get in or not? Like, let me be clear. Shine loves black women, shine loves black women at all times. But at this moment, I don't even understand why you would even think. All right, so I already had the reflex just because I grew up with a black woman but like, all right, I'm already going like, you asked me that, it's a trigger and it's a reflex. So it was nothing for me to think about. But when I know this buddy, like, not answering, I'm like, bruh, what's wrong with you, though? I'm like, yeah, just get your band and keep moving, bruh. So got that. And then I try to, you know, go get in again. Like, I put it on. And then I got to, and I, you know, I put it on my phone to my ear, tell the security guard, like, hey, yo. My, like, I'm talking to yours at my homie said that I actually could get in with the band. So basically, say, make it seem like, oh, I just didn't know I could get in with this. And I just like showed him my wrist, whatever. He was like, what? He was like, no, like my homie said I could get in, man. Like, for real, man. He ain't really trying to look at my hand because he's just in that bad mood. And then these two, you know, white woman over like the door letter ends, she saw there was some energy going on. She was like, hey, what's going on? What'd you say? And I was like, oh, yeah, like my homie said I could get in with this or whatever, all these issues. Like, oh, at first she was like, oh, no, it's something different than she looked at it. She was like, oh, yeah, come on in. I'm in for free and I'm good. All right. Which I was happy because I didn't get to meet Hannibal. You know what I mean? So I'm like, the reason I'm even here, I would have mad if I paid $75, you know what I mean? And then like, yeah, because I'm not here just to have fun at that point. Like, cause I just woke up, you know what I'm saying? I could just stay asleep. But there you go. You read the energy and then you put yourself in the right position. Yet again, you can make your way in for free. Love navigating those moments. And then like, that was a cool night. We'll get into like some specifics. I know y'all are eating a lot of story right now, but this is our first time really getting a chance to recap, recap. Yo, that was a cool night because in the line, I heard people mention red man. Well, it was some red man, but I don't know red man. So I'm thinking some other different red man. Cause there's no point in my life that I ever think I would be in the same space as red man. I would actually be willing to go to like an event, knowing that he said like there's a little concert and I had the opportunity. I was free and it wasn't too expensive. I would pull up, but still in no point in life that I ever thought that I would be in the same space as red man. And I didn't even know he was out here moving doing shows and stuff like that. That's right. So, oh wait, it's actually red man over there. And then who else all was there? Red man to live, Jadakiss, Dave Chappelle, which was a cool pop up. Just Blaze, which I feel like just Blaze. Like it was in a different way. I know and had plenty of respect for just Blaze where it's career. But I really realized the set and the way things are set up is like, you know, they all performing with just Blaze, really. These are different artists and people up there, but really they just on just Blaze tracks. He's running all of this. So it was just cool to see it in that way. Almost like you're a producer doing some type of verses and you bring all your folks out. You're like, I did all of these collabs or whatever. So it was cool to see that. And then the room was so intimate when we got in there. It had to only be like a hundred people in there. I was like that. I was like at max. We became like maybe four. Yeah, max maybe like 400 people. We first got in there, it was close into a hundred. When we first got in there during, who was performing when you came in? Cause I was in tacos when you first got there. I was eating. So I don't remember. I don't know what you saw at that time when you walked over. It was free. I don't think you really even started. I think he was about to start. Or he was just mad. It was something when I got there, it wasn't like packed out yet. But it was like a good amount of people. It wasn't that many people. Point bullet. So it wasn't that many people. And then to see them all performing in a more intimate environment. And then being in the same role, Dave Chappelle doing his thing. And it's still such an intimate environment. It was cool. Cause I felt like I was a part of one of those random nights that you always hear Dave Chappelle pop another somewhere random. Exactly, bro. That was cool. Hey, I mean, it's not even like he took over. Like he was his show or anything. He didn't do like a full special. But it was just cool to have him around it and see him. I part of saying he was lit. He was having a good time. He was hot. You know, I just like to say if he will have a good time. His audience know what's up. So we got sugar coated. He was mad. Yeah, he was gone. But then, now reeling it back in. Like, so that's the same type of mentality of just like figuring out, like, all right, how can I make song work? How can I make a shake? And then the go anyway type of mentality. I for sure could have just stayed my butt in the bed and look, stay as long as you can. Cause you for sure would have been gone if I didn't get there late. I was about to leave when you got there. I know. You're like, what's up, baby? Taco, bro? I'm about to here. But I was like, well, I'm only here for a few minutes. Let me wander in there. And then we end up staying or whatever. And you got more drinks, so it was good. So, you know, made it more worth it.