 They might be just good people. You might see them hustling everywhere. Everywhere. It's for two years straight, you know what I mean? They might not just be musically good. No, I feel you. I feel you. What you think, Lou Dunn? You know, I think, I'm looking at it. I agree with what he's saying, but I also look at it like I'd be saying compared to where we was at. I feel like we are in one of the greatest positions we've been as far as musically because, per example, you got Fam right here, right? You know what I mean? For famous people. Of course. You got Bobby Sessions, right? Famous people, you know? You got J. White did it doing stuff. Yeah. Juju on the beat. You know, you got all these people in the city actually making some, some hell of a noise. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk. Check it, check it. It's a unique house. It's your boy, E.C.E.O. And I'm here with Hey Man, Say Man. I got a couple of guys out. They don't need no introduction. These guys right here, man, for me is legend. Not only in Dallas, man. You might say, hey, the Earth is they turf, man. Lou Diamonds in the building. Hey, Little Runny Mother Elf is in the building. What's going on, man? I'm blessed, bro. You know what I'm saying? Y'all like, this nigga be high for nothing. Just a high. Yeah. Man, how y'all doing, man? Good. You good? Another day up on the ground. Man, you know, when I put this together, man, for the podcast, I really to be honest, which I be trying to break all the rules. I don't go by the rules, man. You know what I'm saying? Because at the end of the day, I think the rules are being taught as you go. You learning as you go. People don't know what they got. I don't know if y'all remember that movie, Facebook movie. You remember, it was a social, it was Facebook. The movie, Facebook. I think I seen that. And the boy had the show going. And he was like, he was like, we need to sell it. You know, they want to give him a lot of money. Million. He was like, nah, I'm not ready yet. I don't know what I got. Sometime you don't know what you got. Being real. You just trying to figure out what it is, right? So you guys, man, y'all been watching Dallas for a long time, been putting in work for a long time. Both of y'all patriotic when they come down to the studio. Me, I'm just a nigga under the tree. That's what I call myself, the under the tree nigga. You know what I'm saying? I'll be sitting out there. Man, that goes such and such. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, more than that, but I. Now I like to just have a natural conversation, man. So at the end of the day, I'll be like trying to get the right people with me and say, hey, man, what's up with this? What's up with that? But where do y'all see music? Any one of y'all can answer this. In Dallas, like how do y'all feel the music and the whole vibe is right now in Dallas for the grind? And you know, holiday season is coming up. I feel like it's personally, it's re-sculpting. Okay. It always re-sculpt like every five, six years. Every five, six years. Yeah, and I feel like it's re-sculpting right now. You know, we got a bunch of new young stars coming up and out of there. Yeah, yeah. I feel like it's re-sculpting and it's just more so about us seeing them like, you know what I mean? Like you said, us being the older dudes doing it, just seeing the youngsters that look like they're potentially going to be here. Because one thing about it is everybody don't be here. Everybody do it. Everybody jump in and try it. But when you look to your left and your right in five years, a lot of people be back at FedEx. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. That's crazy, but it's real. You know, a lot of times people have a good run. You know, walked it out. You know what I'm saying? But that was it. It's been a few like that, that you might see them, hey. But I ain't even talking about them. See, it's a world of people that don't even get records. But they can't even get a big one. They might be just good people. You might see them hustling everywhere. Everywhere. It's for two years straight. You know what I mean? They might not just be musically good. No, I feel you. You know what I'm saying? I feel you. You know, I think I'm looking at it. I agree with what he's saying, but I also look at it like I'd be saying compared to where we was at, I feel like we are in one of the greatest positions we've been as far as musically. Because, for example, you got Fam right here writing. You know what I mean? For famous people. Yeah, of course. You got Bobby Sessions writing for famous people. You know, you got J. White did it doing stuff. Yeah. You know, you got all these people in the city actually making some hella fine noise, some stuff that it may have been happening back then, but I wasn't seeing it and I wasn't connected to knowing like what was really happening. But now to see it's multiple people, not just one holding it down. It's like, man, you know, it's in a, I see it's in a great state. We had a very great position. We have a good opportunity. How different is the tangible world versus the digital world that we live in today where everything is direct to consumer? And, because I was saying the other day, like, man, I wanna, you know, I remember that time we handle nigga this and give me this and I'm moving on from the car. I'm moving on from the, you know what I'm saying? I'm at the club in the front, man. Giving out this and that. Be honest, bro. Still like that. Still like that. The only reason I said I'm just speaking, it just switched. It might not be the physical disney. I might be merch, you know what I mean? Okay, okay. I'm gonna tell you something else where they can get to the digital, you know what I mean? Like, so that hand in hand still there, people still wanna touch you. So people still wanna be there and buy from you. They wanna support, you know what I mean? Cause I didn't, I didn't have people coming in, but I mean, I ain't buying that shit off the internet. I don't know if that's going to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're gonna buy something from you, like for real, you know? That's, that's wild. That's wild cause, cause people still feel good to get something from you. And I told you last time when Pimp and Ken was here, how he come in here with them damn DVDs. I told you, I don't bother. I bought it. I bought it with Pimp and Ken. The same one. I bought it right now. Yeah. Just because I'm supportive. You know what I'm saying? So you came and be like, E-man, like if you to show it up today, I'm like, E-man, I got this new CD, nigga. I'm selling it for sale, just say I'm gonna buy it. Cause it's respect. And that's the way a lot of y'all fans is cause that's the way they're programmed. And I think a lot of times we miss it because we so caught up in into what's going on now that we forget about the yesterdays, but they still prevalent. But see the digital, see where a lot of people get caught up in this digital world. You know, they don't think they got to lead a house no more. You know what I'm saying? Cause there's so many people blowing up right there on their couch. So, you know, they don't think they got to get on the road and go, like you said, we used to have to get in the car. These folks ain't hear about you till you was in front of them. Exactly. Yeah. Like I for sure did that. Every chilling circuit, like one way in, one way out. Yeah. You hear me? And nigga, you hope you don't say the wrong thing cause this they town. You dig on, you know what I'm saying? You in a small towns and like it's so many towns out here that people don't understand it. Like what I always try to tell the young artists, like everybody can't be drink. Yeah, yeah. It's different levels. Like, like you can't say you're not a podcaster cause you don't have this many millions. Like no, he do it. It's just he do it on a different level. Correct, correct. It's the same way with promoters. Promoters might not have 50K to get money bag, yo. But they got by to get loop. Yeah, yeah. They got by to get me? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So it's just you want to be getting something.