 Man, I'ma shift gears on you, man. Earthquake, man. Right. You know, Blackrod, he came in here and he was talking about, Earthquake was, you know, hooked him up and helped him out. A couple of dudes that been on here. Yeah, his daughter is my manager. Wow, I didn't know that. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk. Well, let me ask you this, man. I seen you on a Kurtbone TV shot out. That's a guy from DC, right? Yes, sir. You turned me on to it. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Looking through your stuff? Kurtbone is a legendary, legend in the city, man. I liked that. I was like, man, cause we everywhere, you know what I mean? And for him, y'all to lock in like that, somebody will see that and they'll understand it. Man, I might can do something. Or, damn, I never thought, cause if he been through what I've been through, somebody see him sitting there, they gon' be like, yeah, man, if he made it. Oh, yeah, but that's what it was for me, like, for him, when I met him, the fact that he knew me was like, Nicky, you know me, cause that was, you know, at a time in my life, that's what I aspired to be. Be, yeah. You know, I aspired to be a Kurtbone. Yeah. You know, one of them type of do the streets, like that was what we was into. Like I was into it. Like it wasn't no, you know what I mean? I ain't never been no thug, you know, but I was a hustler's hustler. That's it. That's like, you know, I don't, I never had a problem with a problem. I'm the epitome of a DC nigger to the core. But to see him embrace me in a way that he talked to me when I met him, let me know that, man, this is a real Nick. I like that. Beyond what he did and what he known for, he didn't approach me on none of that. He came humble to me when he didn't have to, you know what I'm saying? He didn't have to approach me in a capacity under what he did. He could have been, it could have been a situation where a lot of people don't understand, like you got to give grace to gangsters in a lot of sense, especially when you successful, because they really can, you know, make it hard for you. I come from out of the extortion game. Like it's, it can go down and they can motherfucking choose to give you problems instead of grace. So I always respect that. Whenever I come in contact with anybody that comes from out of that lifestyle, when they meet me, because I understand, because I come from it too, you know what I'm saying? So I appreciate another dude, Jojo Capone out of Chicago, like I appreciate when people come with love because I understand that that ain't what is being given out here, especially in environments that we come from. Love is pretty much the last thing that you get when you come from out of these places. So somebody like Kurt Bohn embracing me, it's like, man, whatever I can do to give you that love back, I'm willing to do because I know that for you to look at me as somebody that's representing a culture that you help set the foundation for, man, that's an honor. Man, I'ma shift gears on you, man. Earthquake, man. Right. You know, Black Ron, he came in here and he was talking about, Earthquake was, you know, hooked him up and helped him out. What do the dudes depend on here? Yeah. His daughter is my manager. Wow, I didn't know that. Yeah, his daughter is my manager, somebody who I would say, I don't even know how to put boss lady in the words, but like the most important person to me being able to be who I am totally is Natalia Strowman. That's all. All the way. So how did you meet Earthquake and how did that whole? I met Quake, which was crazy. I was emceeing at the Comedy Zone, which was my weekend job. It was a comedian named Tom Simmons. Okay. And Tom Simmons was just really impressed with me in my hosting skills. So in between shows, we do two shows every night, I go out in between the first and the second show and he was like, man, you're really good. You're just starting, man. Like, man, who are some of your influences? I'm like, man, Earthquake, my favorite comedian. He was like, oh, that's cool, man. That's cool, man. That's cool. So we had our conversation. I go back up, start the second show, bring the feature up. When I walked back outside, he hands me the phone and says, walk and talk. I'm like, hello? He like, hey, what's up, nigga? Like, who is this? Like Quake. I said, Quake who? He was like, Earthquake nigga. I'm like, oh, shit. Yeah, yeah. So it just happened like that. And when we had the conversation, he was like, you know, I told him I was from DC. You know what I'm saying? I was a young comedian. He said, well, Tom is somebody I gave a start to. And if he talking about you like that, man, when I come in town, I'm gonna holler at you. You know what I mean? You know, get your information, I'm gonna holler at you. You know, I was just excited to have the conversation. I am like, this nigga ain't finna holler at me. But when he came in town, and this was like six months later, he hit me up and was like, man, come to the show. They had a show at the Greensboro Coliseum. And he invited me to the show. I came and watched the show. He bought me backstage. Again, I'm just the nigga in the room. So I'm in the room. Everybody's D-Ray. I tease D-Ray about this all the time. D-Ray is my, I love that nigga. That's my big homie. I mean, from D-Ray to Samoa to Bruce Bruce and all of these different legendary people came in the room and I was just a nigga on the wall. And I don't know if you felt like I cared cause I didn't, but just when everybody left, Quake was like, Hey man, just to let you know, don't be, you know, don't feel no type of way cause ain't nobody talked to you. They had no conversation with you, none of that shit. Cause if you, what you say you is, and what Tom told me you is, you will see all these motherfuckers again. Yeah. And that's exactly what happened. Everybody that walked into that room is a peer now. You know what I'm saying? So Quake just, you know, it's somebody that gave me that inspiration in the game and I always give them credit for reaching out and touching somebody that he didn't have to reach out and touch it all, you know. Man, thank you. Thank you so much, man. Cause he here this weekend too. I didn't even know. Yeah. Man, go see Quake, man, go see Quake, man. That's the, that's the, that's the one. Cause I was just looking and I see, he already sold out. Oh yeah. Well, you know, Sunday is my birthday. Oh, happy birthday, man. Yeah, we might have to try to work that out, man. Get you in there, you know what I'm saying? But yeah, but you know, like I said, just the irony of it, I ended up doing a show at Southern University. Okay. And, you know, just, I, we talk about it all the time, you know what I'm saying? And uh, just, you know how you feel energy? You know what I mean? Lovely, just black girl just walked around the court. I'm like, she just had the biggest smile or if I'm like, who is you? She's like, hey, you know what I mean? I'm Natalia, nice to meet you. You know what I'm saying? And just you, I just felt like, uh, you know, you're a solid man. You can feel it immediately. And so, uh, this is my first time in New Orleans. I had never been in New Orleans. I didn't know. And New Orleans is one of them cities like Houston was like, like heavily influenced you on me in regards to the music. And, uh, we was having a conversation. We don't go there, we go here. We having a conversation after the show. And she was like, you know, this your first time in New Orleans? I was like, yeah. She was like, you ain't never been to Bourbon Street. I was like, nah, she was like, we going. So we drove from Baton Rouge to Bourbon Street and we out there kicking it, you know what I mean? Having a good time. And she asked me, you know what I mean? Like, who your favorite comics? I was like, man, Earthquake, my favorite comedian. She was like, yeah, that's dad. I was like, yeah, I feel like that nigga my father too. She was like, she was like, no, that's my father. I'm like, get the fuck out of here. I had no idea. I had no idea. That's just how, that's why I always say to her all the time, like, that's divine. That's why I know. Can't nobody tell me nothing about what I'm doing. I know God put me here to do what it is that I'm doing because of the way it come to me. I don't ask for any of it to just come to me like that. And when I tell you, like, every since I met her, like we started officially working together. Like when I was on Wild'n Out, I was doing all this shit by myself. Nobody really wanted to, you know, you know, the game is different. Everybody wanna, you know, they rock with who they rock with. And even though you might be better or more talented, they like, no, I'm not putting my hands on you because that's gonna fuck up who I'm trying to push. And I hadn't, you know, had anybody to talk to that understood the game. But she grew up in the game. She earthquake daughter. So she knew the game. So I reached out to her like, hey, man, you know, I ain't never had nobody look over this shit that understands what it is. Would you be willing to do that? So she wasn't doing that at that time? No, and that was the first person that gave her that ability to do that. Wow, that's dope. So that's how we got to getting like, you know, I'm telling you, man. She has more clients now too? Oh, yeah. Black Ron is one of her clients. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, she's a savant, man. I mean, literally one of the, you know, most brilliant people I have ever came in contact with in my life. And I, you know, I just have an affinity for black women. And I just, you know, anybody, you know, I'm not a judgemental person, but if I look around you and you ain't got no black women around you, I'm looking at you kind of crazy. Because it's a certain level of understanding that a black woman gonna give you that you ain't gonna get from no other woman as a black man. Somebody else said that too. Somebody else said they could not have a male. Who was that saying they couldn't have a male as that person? It won't come up. Yeah, I mean, it ain't even just 20 times. Because females is just something that a female can do. Yeah, she's going to. And she can tell you, get up, and you have this girl together and you will listen to that. But when you deal with a man, it's just the ego thing. Yeah, nah, I just, it don't even have to be, but you just gotta have some black women around you. Because if you don't have no black women around you that can tell you what to do and you listen to me, that means you're operating off strictly n***a s***. And that's gonna come crashing down no matter which way you look at it. You gotta have that feminine energy. And as a black man or black woman has to be present somewhere in this game, especially to be able to tap you on your shoulder and pull you to the side and say, ain't n***a, even if it's just straightened up. F*** you got going on. Or this the move you need to make. And having that level of trust, man, you know, I thank God for it every day.