 You just want a little 267 man million dollars worth of game bar stew podcast man I'm right here with the one and only the legend don't see listen man listen you got Philly You got Chicago We're gonna get straight to the point because we're gonna talk about some shit a lot of people don't Sometime they don't talk about who you picking up cross-colored car. Can I a major damage? You just you won't go right in like that. I go Carl cannot because Man, I just respect I still see car work So that's why I gotta give it to him but but but would you fuck back then though? Yeah, yeah back Oh back Chicago was a little different Um, I didn't really do none of them heavy because I thought I was on some real fashion stuff even back there Was you fucking with it like Gucci? It like ain't great. Oh you was a bad motherfucker like not really because I was broke So I'll have to ask my grandmother like grandma cuz my parents forget about it like I go to my grandmother and be like And I remember she was like, okay do this and it was like something like she just wanted me to fight for a great graduation She got me the Gucci bag. So then it just introduced me to like all count you was on the level you was on some shit Yeah, not the level. What year was this about? 1990 The cry the game you would come out. Yeah, you was riding Gucci. I mean just a bag But then I had like the fact. Oh, no, I'll tell you real I had the loafers to the year after that and I Really really remember this because I remember I stepped on my block with some Farragamo loafers But this may be later than this by five years late like 95 and I had also Farragamo loafers and I live in the hood I'm from 79th and Southside Chicago. So People don't to this day. Ain't no other Farragamo loafers been on my block with these And so I'm about to some Farragamo loafers and one of my homies was like, bro I only heard Nas rap about that. He was like, how you think of that? And I was like, man, I just heard somebody rap about it. Oh, one minute. Stop before we even get any farther forward So I didn't properly introduce you so the audience in just in case the audience don't know you is tell them your orders Tell him who you tell him who you affiliated with tell him who you who you played the party and tell them all it Tell these people out here that shit, please Man, I'm Dorancy from Chicago I'm Just a creative that makes products I know people know maybe my brand because we're gonna indicate all-star weekend. I do stuff with Basketball companies the NBA shoe brands Tell them some of the brands. Tell them some of your sneakers. So Nike converse and Jordan and Yeah, I'm just a Mitchell and that's new era, you know Mostly sneakers and sports because that's what I'm really into but I'm also in the fashions But I'm I don't look at myself as a fashion person because I'm primarily Embedded in sports the bottom line is down see is from the hood and here producer fly shit If you don't know that that that could sum it all up Oh, but go back to the you know go back to how you was killing them coming up, you know Man just trying to be fresh and trying to represent as funny I did a talk with my friend. I've been earlier today and I've been drew a very important point to me He said what made us different honestly was we were hip hop we were the first crew that Took hip hop from Chicago like me and my peers everything Chicago is a city that's cemented in house and dance culture in gang culture That's what you the gangbanger or you a dance do we came in like we hip hop and I remember originally people was dissing us like And I said probably not New York we Chicago we just hip hop. We're just Chicago hip hop And so that's what I think made us special and from hip hop came all this other stuff We're experiencing today. So hip hop is really the core. I think that's the dominating Factor that makes the things that move today move is it's all you say hip hop because it's a mix Hip hop music is the culture. Yeah. Yeah lifestyle of hip hop like Yeah, I mean, you know dj The and not just rap music is not hip hop. It's like yo Exactly the hip hop music going to hip hop clubs So we was like the first one is do hip hop parties in Chicago like before us It was just house and people from the house community They thought we was dick weird But we thought they was weird, you know because it was like we not we didn't identify with house music like that But in the ghetto everything that's not With the majority is doing it's weird shit So you could be doing the dovish it in the world But that's when you know you really doing some dope shit in the ghetto when a by laughing at you and talking about you crazy I got teams and I got called names for being in the fashion now these same guys are Begging me for drops like oh, man, bro. Let's come out this day. And I said, I thought I was You know, but it's all good I'm happy that more people jumped on and the community is bigger because now it just makes it funner You know if more people participate more people delivering doper product more people encouraging each other to make they something better So it just makes the whole game better when everybody's participating. All right, which one you pick him You only could pick one you got a rock these for the rest of your life I would never show this you got it. You got it. You got it to pick one. This is one of this The Charles Barclays see the CV to Jones the Dion San is with the flames on there Okay, all the pennies the number two I'm gonna go to bark because I'm a force basketball head. So All right, you only gonna listen to one of these groups for the rest of your life. Oh, no And w a public enemy brand new band tribe called quest daylight so Answer you try it was easy to who sang and tribes. So you say Cuz for me it's for me is who tried Component or a this is like my favorite hip-hop. What about my feet? Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Okay. All right, okay Okay, you got that stuff on that one. I'm tripping. I kind of forgot about my deep. I'm tripping. I was gonna say ultra magnetic Okay. All right, so hold on. Nah, I love ultra magnetic, but for the consistency of the whole body of work. I'ma go who Tried my being CNN I ain't that old so they didn't Like I'm just being real like the 90s is my era. So public enemy. You respected them. It's like oh geez, but You didn't want to be around them. Like I don't want to be Well now not but back then that's what I thought they didn't hear me like you man Yeah, cuz I was on some young Yeah, so you gotta let people do what they do and mature on a level So, you know, even when I look at guys today when people say like on this dude did this the whole thing When people canceling people is the worst thing in the world because when people make mistakes We supposed to be there for them so to cancel a person So anytime people do stuff that looks in the public like it's messed up I'll be having empathy for that person cuz I'd be like man this person they like me They just made a mess they they just messed up and they don't want people to like cancel them for messing up That's the point when you really need your people. So anytime people go in the down. I'm there to encourage you, bro I don't want people like out here Even if you mess up and you you could do whatever the most messed up thing in the world on up to it And come on back man. That's what it's all about redemption is one of the best things ever Yes, so if we cancel people we've never allowed nobody to redeem themselves I respect I respect dying for that, you know, they know my story you probably know my story down But when I was 17 I got since the 19 and a half to 52 years I did 20 years in prison when the prison is 17 came out 37 been home for 36 months Would it be three years February 18th, which is a couple days They made sure they should happen took the cell phone And I realized that you know technology changed my life I was the came home living in my my grandma middle room on the twin-sized bed the same size as the one I was in the joint And I just I just went to Instagram a day I told you know told the hood about my story and I told the hood that it costs too much to be a criminal I also told the hood to be you you some saying because I went to the penitentiary Because I was married to the streets of Philadelphia because I learned that growing up in the ghetto Attention is God and the only way you get attention is through through money through jury through clothes So I had to go get that shit you some saying and in the process of me going to get that shit I got caught up But I that was some real shit that you said, you know a lot of people would just say oh It's over for you because it is You breathing you could be the best person on the planet earth We all got the same opportunities and that's why a lot of people that come from my hood They be like oh don't see this. I tell people I say man, bro Me and you we are absolutely no different. We come from the same block. We have the same opportunity I have never been given any opportunity you haven't been given. We can say it's just that I'm working every day Mm-hmm, and I want to encourage you to do the same That's what I tell my homies from the neighborhood. I like they'll hit me when it's a party But they won't hit me ain't none of my boys from neighborhood hip But if this was the party tonight, they will all be right here I'll kind of be encouraging them like bro y'all got to show up for work sometimes because it's probably opportunities in this setting That's way You go Tonight now, let me ask you I need you to do me a favor beans though, you know million dollars worth of game This is what it is. Uh I need you to get some game to that cat out there to that girl out there That's going to get these shit still scream that that's trying to sell it But everybody ain't buying these shit all the time out of their family boy They shit it's slowed down. They want to give up they don't understand design They don't understand what what what type of encouragement what type of game that you can get them to keep pushing They shit do they need to try to find a collab or do you know because we control cool? I mean one thing about a we control cool So do they need to get with somebody else to make them the shit like give me some game Get a person that's watching this game is making a shit. Um The encouragement I could give that person is like Keep absolutely keep doing what you're doing Keep tweaking The formula when you're making something if it's a little too sweet if it's a little too bitter you tweak the formula a little bit So you keep testing your product and then tweaking the formula and keep doing that and a guy came to me earlier today He said man boy, I got my own clothing line. He gave me some encouragement on how to push it I said is this jacket your clothing line? He said oh no, it's off white. I said that's my first piece of encouragement You billboard or something else, you know, I just gotta keep it real I'm like right now. I could be checking your thing out But I'm looking at this off-white hood you already seen before, you know, and so that was my piece of encouragement Let me play this Paper brown bag. This is my homeboy out of Philly shit, right? You see this this all this my this my brand or we control cool This is my logo street shotgun. You see the back. He's the shit. He's from Philly He's making a habit check all all all his shit. This is my head. This is my logo This is my brand me and I was wherever game shit trademarked all that, you know, me That's what it's about too that That's your ip like in the world we live in. Tell them what ip is so they understand intellectual property That's your real estate from a design perspective. So that's a real big one Like I'll be seeing some of my young guys they do incredible work and then they realize like oh, bro I got a cease to desist or hey, bro. I uh, man. I didn't even know This other company took this from me. So that's one thing really important. You got to be on top of your business, too That's why research is so important. Like we can educate ourselves on our phone google google We can like literally on your phone instead of On posting selfies and all that you could be doing research, man Like looking on your phone educating yourself about what you want to do Educating yourself about the business because that's another thing. I'm about to start like really switching up how I want to Uh, just try to help people with information Like people always come to me like I want to get my brand. I want to get my design out and what we lacking is uh financial Brains we're lacking uh executives in our community. Everybody is creative And so I just want to put a call out. We need some non creatives or some people that care flex They creative ability through Uh, as you keep yeah Like be creative with that spreadsheet With that deck or with your trademark man all type of business And so that's the one thing because I do feel like as much as I'm so happy that our community is like growing And we doing it if I was I'm one of them type of shorties I used to be looking back and like people would be applauding all the NBA players And I would be looking back like man NBA players make 200 million a year. Man, why they don't own the NBA then, you know, I'm just I'll be sick as hell. That's right, man. And so that's how I think about us when I look at us I say man Y'all killing it, but why y'all don't own everything. Why y'all why? So that's the importance I want to put out there now Like as much as I appreciate the big corporations coming in to latest platform for us here We got to partner with the corporations. We got to make them our partner and not just give them our IP Because if they giving you a check for your IP that means your IP works more than that Because this is a smart business entity. They about doubling and tripling they paper So they're not going to hit you with nothing that they just going to get their paper back on Whatever they hit you with mean a 10 time in that So we got to think like that and tell them we thinking like that Like be open and so that's that's the script. I have with the people that I work with I tell them like, hey, this is on my brain now. So one of the main things I can personally say what I'm into is like I'm trying to learn more about real estate because it's a lane that I haven't we always talk culture and and and uh creativity through but part of culture is money We got to learn it man. We got to learn how to manage the money We got to learn how to grow the money and let the money stay in our community And and make the community bigger because it's all about uh the the super Jewel, I feel I should drop here because somebody dropped this one on me today And I want to share it really good is that the number one asset we have in our community is our culture We have to figure out how to monetize our culture more Other people from outside of this community are the ones that are eating off this culture that we have created cultivated and flourished And other people are eating off of it now. The only reason they haven't stolen it from us It's because we evolve it all the time As soon as I come up with a word if you want to try to take my word and make some money on it I'm a flipping bouncing to come with a new word So you can't steal the culture from you But you could get paid off of it and we have to figure out how we getting paid off of it But we never have to worry about it getting stolen But what about the cats is that is us from the culture that get in position And they don't do shit like like you're saying we got to try to come up It's always going to be we have to help encourage those people because they're in a good position So don't like I said earlier don't cancel them. I ain't counseling. I'm not gonna man. I'm just saying man, bro How I feel about you is you from this and you in a position to help Can you do so? Can we have that open dialogue because you might not know their point of view too? They might not be in a position to help like you think they are, you know It might just be cat. Yeah, so it's all and at the end of the day we all The common goal is that we're all working to feed our families Yeah So I ain't never trying to make nobody feel bad on what they doing to put food on a family table Because I will wash a toilet bowl and proud for me. I won't give me yeah I ain't praying about my mom because if I if my family got to eat i'ma do it So we got off the key I guess with this but I want to I think it's important because it's necessary It's not just you get a game that you just basketball is everything is everything is encompassed. Yeah, and that's what I came for But listen, I appreciate you man. I like your spirit a lot man. I like uh bill with you We won't do that, bro. We won't connect man down C. Chicago, Philadelphia, man This should we control cool. Remember that made ours with a game bar soon. It's just like that All day see y'all