 Yo, Buffalo, New York, get those tickets. Now, I'm gonna be at the Helium Sunday, March 10th. And yes, I will be doing them my 600-pound life life. This is the last year I'm going on tour doing that. So grab those tickets. March the 10th, Helium, Buffalo, New York. Grab the tickets they don't sell now. My last year doing this 600-pound life. So go ahead and get them tickets. I mean, in Jersey, he couldn't even read English, but nigga was a farmer and a fisherman, right? I see my dad make corn in a project. Like, that was another, like, defensive mechanism. Like, niggas wouldn't fuck with my dad. He was like the OG, like niggas the top. So one day, he's a mechanic too. That's where my car game come in. And he's driving a car to bring to Jersey that he just fixed. And he can't read English, but he look and it said, God didn't stay back way. So he come back and said, we go to the God didn't city. We go to Jersey. So in his brain, he's thinking like, it's the farm city, the garden. Like, you know what I'm saying to you? Niggas, we get straight to Newark. We're a red bar from like, you know, Brick City. We get straight to the Brick. But this is all our reality. And in a Brick 11-0 East South Orange Avenue, a burnt down funeral home right in the hood, my dad has a vision in his head and says God told him that's where the church gonna be at. So my, we all think he crazy. So my dad buys this funeral home. And now we live inside of a funeral home, by nigga 11-0 East South Orange Avenue. We live inside of a burnt funeral home, right? And now we gotta live all the way downstairs. And the car fans and everything out, right? Because he got a vision that we build it, right? But people, we didn't see his vision, right? His vision wasn't even that. It was a fucking parking lot, right? So nigga ended up having the biggest parking lot. And if you want parking, you got a rent. You get what I'm saying? So that's how nigga played chess. So when did you realize, like coming from Haiti, getting to America, when did you realize that y'all really didn't move up? Y'all just moved around. Like, when did you realize I was still impoverished just in a different setting? I would say the first thing I realized was prejudice. Not with white people, with black people. Cause when I came from, I thought we all was the same on some Chakazulu shit. You feel what I'm saying? So I would go to the block and I'd be like, I don't like boy that's, I don't like boy that's. I don't like boy that's. Snigging chill, poop ass soul, son. Fuck this bra with the snake, snake is speaking in cursive, big. Yo, double sack. And I was like, yo, why do you treat me like, I thought we was funny, you know what I'm saying? Like you said, I love my bread ass. Scared the shit out of y'all. Niggas was like, yo man, go back to Jamaica, bro. And I was like, I'm not Jamaican, but I do. It was like, ah nigga, everybody that got an ax in you Jamaican. So it was sort of like, you know, understanding that. And then one day my mama gave me food stamps and was like, go to the store with that. I don't know, it looked like money to me, monopoly money. So I'm in the line, you know what I'm saying to you? And then I can't hear all the other kids, you know what I'm saying behind me. They're like, food stamps, food stamps, mama, I'm well fed, food. You know what I mean? And you don't know what that means. I don't even know what that mean, my nigga. Cause it don't matter to me where I come from. My mama sent me to the store. So now all of these realities just slowly start to make sense. You know what I mean? My dad bring us in Brooklyn cause we always like Jersey, Brooklyn, back and forth. There was a department store called Jax in Brooklyn. And so my dad bought us the Jax. We came from Haiti. He was like, yo, good sign and take as many sneakers as you want, you know? Right. So we go to Jax, my nigga. And I'm like, oh shit, $100 in 99. And my pops at $200 for a pair of sneakers. And he told us go, my nigga, I grabbed every color, green. Yellow. You feel me? I'm top of the top. But then I get back home proud of myself. And I know my yellow joints, and then I get in the school and I hear these kids start to say, jeepers. To make your feet feel fine. Jeepers, exactly, right? Yeah. And then, you see, I can't even make this shit up. I'm just telling you, see? And he's backing it up. Cause we this our first time talking. But it's all these stories. So he, exactly, exactly what he was doing. So you see the cross culture. So niggas was like, yo, so what was $200 in my head was a dollar and 99 cents. But none of that mattered to me. You see what I'm showing you? I'm just showing you all of this was a reality and that became the whole thing. So I would have talked shit. I was naked last week. Right. Exactly. That's how I went from naked to having a heart attack. Shoot, man. Trying to kill, trying to kill, trying to have a slingshot. You ain't never ate a nerve. You kiddin' ate you, man. You tell your Asian party. Yeah, man. You said you puttin' naked. Cookie don't. This is how we do it in my house. Yo, man. Butt ass naked. Yo, that done. Ain't no harm. Man, that was the reality. And it goes on and on and on and on. So it's like, what, this is, and I'll show you something. Shug Knight comes out. Right. And the whole industry is terrorized. Yeah. Asked me one time, you ever seen the Fuji's with a bodyguard? Never. Never. Like we our own clique, we our own movement. Right? Because at the end of the day where I come from, a man is a man. Like, you know what I'm sayin' to you? And your mom, God forbid you get jumped and then you come back in the house and you talkin' about you just got jumped. Your parents gonna be like, go back outside and get what they took from you. Automatically, so they instilled that 1804 revolution, zone mentality. So all of that at a very young age. So for us, what was more important was how do we code the music in a way for the world to get it? That's why we was a different kind of author. Cause I was like, nigga, we already know. We got guns in the hood. We got drugs, we know that, we from that. So the whole Fuji mythology was like, they form a right was like, how do we write for the world to look at us in a different way to know? Like we scientists, we intellectuals, like we Monts and Moons, like we are conscious that even though you put us in this little environment as a whole, everybody gonna rock. So that's why the lingo was always different than just the direct. And y'all put a lot of that in the music cause a lot of people don't know the Haitian history and how much they've been influential in. I'm talking about the first revolutions, the first people to stand up to hypocrisy and slavery. And I mean, you look at Haiti and they have been instrumental in so much. So I can imagine y'all coming over here and seeing what we think is the ghetto and y'all like me, shit, this ain't, this ain't nothing compared to- I was naked, dude, in that shit. I was naked last year with a swing shop. Yeah, exactly. Even dirt, hell nah. So why is it Haitians and the Dominican Republic? Why is it some type of beef when y'all on the same island? Y'all literally neighbors. Yeah, like Mexico and California. Before it was California, it was all Mexico, correct? Tokyo talk, nah. Right, so geographically. So, and then if we just talk about the Caribbean as a whole, that's North America. It's North America, most people don't know that. Now, if we talk about to your point, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, that's Espanola. So one thing, now let's go step deeper. Key talking. Haitians got the independence in 1804 and who helped the Dominicans get the independence. Haitians. But again, conquering the vibe. It's always, they do it here. It's about the idea of conquering, dividing the politics, the rhetoric, whatever you instill in a youth as a child, they gonna grow up into it. Now I'm gonna tell you something that people don't even know. My uncle, his name is Raymond Joseph. He was born in the Dominican Republic. But my boy, he's just born in Espanola. So the point is, the love has to start with when the kid is small and he's growing up that you don't do that. It's like, you can have beef with, like Cuban can have beef with a Puerto Rican, right? Or they can be like, you know, they can have beef with a Mexican. It's almost like they put this rhetoric within us. It's just that the instill of the prejudice that when you grow up with, so, because the idea is like, imagine if the Dominican Republic and Haiti can just unify and be one thing, right? And then imagine if they take that same unification to Jamaica, take it all around, right? Yeah, so you gotta think, but that rhetoric, my man, it starts off with the politicians. It start off with a nigger who's like, this is my land and this is my turf. And he get a bunch of niggers and say, okay, we gonna fight these niggers over this. So now what happens, right? So through bad policy, Haiti gets failed, right? And I hope these Haitian leaders watching this shit too. A lot of them is Okidok fuckboys. So these Okidok fuckboys, what they do two at times, they sell their own Haitians to the Dominican Republic. This is true. So at the end of the day, where does it start? It gotta start with us. Like, you know what I'm saying? You gotta hold these leaders accountable. You know what I'm saying? So to your point, we watch it here too. Conquer and divide. Think about this. I get my independence in 1804. And you in America, they hanging y'all. They burning y'all, you watching him get hung and you shaking and hanging him, you watching. You know you next, you shaking. But what happens if you got to me? I'm in Haiti. They won't let me have a conversation with you. Because I'll just be like, yo, man, I'll be like, you know what we just did to these dudes? We'll just shook the whole Napoleon and boom. And then that information go with you. Then you will have more Nat Turner's. They don't want that. Nah, so again, information is power. I always say that, you know what I'm saying to you? But so then I pushed, I even pushed forward now and try to become president of Haiti. I wish you got it. That's correct. Hey, hey, J-O-N, it's about that time, man. Let's do that. I tried to be president. That's correct. You gonna be president. That's correct. I was president. I'll get elected on Friday. Assassinated on Saturday. Bear me, don't shout out to Dave Chappelle. That's the first time I did that. That was pretty high. That was fire. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about all the legends, man. But I got to ask you this one. You work with Dylon. Dylon. Dylon, Dylon, Dylon. You work with all the goats, man. High fire. Yeah, and then you already know. You can eat them. They always ask me. I think it. They always ask me my top five. And I'm like, why y'all even bothered to do that? Y'all already know it's Dylon, Dylon, Dylon. Dylon, Dylon, Dylon, Dylon. Dylon, Dylon, Dylon. Hey, man, welcome back to the 85 Self Show. Yeah, we are. Man, man, we doing our big move today, man. We got none other than the Super Talents. We got to get them on go. Get them on go. The Super Dope. The Super Instrumental. Yes, sir. Part of one of the hardest rap groups in rap history, man. Yes, sir. 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, either ran for president, ain't got one of the highest grossest selling albums of all times, man. None other than the legendary Haitian, Mr. Wyclef. Wyclef. Mr. Wyclef. What's up, man? Mr. Wyclef. Mr. Wyclef. Get your respect. Come on, man. Come on, man. Let's go. I always wanted to ask you about this, man. You and a legendary hood movie, Shotas, man. They actually playing a gangsta in there. Now, you Haitian to the bones. There's a whole lot of, right. Whole lot of Jamaicans in that movie. You know, it was a white man, a black man, and a Chinese man, you know? You know, and it was easy to say that joke and as Richie Efton just merc dangles without you see it coming. Right. You know what I'm saying? All I got to do is that was not hard for me. Right. Because coming from Haiti, grew up in Brooklyn first, and at the time, every Haitian wanted me to make it. That's what I was going to ask you. That was a reality. That was the reality. What was the feedback for you? Every Haitian wanted me to make it. There you go. Every Haitian that's watching this, that's my age, know that at that time, you had to have a Jamaican accent. Why? Because the Jamaican was making it powerful. Even my man watching this right now in the DR. Like, understands this. Like, at the end of the day, because them Haitians was no joke. Right? Right. So, it was so crazy because in times in Brooklyn, the neighbor would be like, yo, I'm a black, black Jamaican, might not do it, you know? Yeah. See, I might not pull up, and then trust me, man. You see? Yeah. Let me just talk like that. Right. I'm a black Jamaican, so go ahead, play a chameleon, man. So, yo, when the idea of doing shout-outs and what I loved about that flick, though, shout-out to Seth. This is one of my favorite things about shout-outs. So, I'm about to fuck y'all for a minute. So, I actually started off me, Miss Hill, aka El Boogie. We was in an off-Broadway play, right? This is like 30 years ago. It was called Club 12. And then, of course, you see Miss Hill winning. She was doing sister acts and still doing her music, right? So, and she was saying this the other day when we was on tour, and then prize. 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Beauty. -♪ Talking about pride in the far south, far south. At one time, too, right? Because you just, so literally there's an article that said we did Hamilton 30 years ago. Me, Miss Hill, MC Light before Hamilton was Hamilton. So now, the thing about acting, which we loved about shotters, everything you saw was improv. A lot, you know what I mean? You have a script, but the script is all improv. So when the director come, there you go. All right, boy, you gon' be in a yellow Lamborghini. Yeah. And you already know, man, the one you're gonna murder, the boy. But you can't let the audience know that you're murderin'. Roll the blood clad camera. You know what I'm sayin'? Camera's broke. You know what I'm sayin'? No, there was a white man in the black. And then, so the idea of the improv and the feeding off each other is one thing's like, actors and actresses thrive off, you know? Still till today, these improv classes and that natural vibe. So for me, shotters have a lot of that. You know what I'm sayin'? That's what was amazing about it. That's what I was asking, like what was the, like from a Haitian, what was the feedback? Were they proud of the representation that you put out there? Yeah, I mean, Richie F's is in more places, more famous than what I clapped. You know that, right? Yeah. Do that thing again. Why, Richie F? Nah, it's Y Clef. Nah, man, you're Richie F's man. That's like one of those things that you can't shake. The shotters movie, whether if it's, the child is 15 or 50, like somehow that movie got across everybody. I just watched it two days ago. You came to America and came to New York. You know, that was when you first touched down, but like, how did you feel when, were you already, Y Clef, when you got to go down to Miami and see the presence that the Haitian people have down there? Like were you already famous or did you get to see that project and you becoming a superstar? So it's a deep question. So you had 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, I gotta ask you this. I had no idea who John Forte was. He just showed up on the Y Clef song, but we was rocking with your shit so hard. We just like, all right, Y Clef, pardon. Yeah. Like today, like say somebody you feel has talent, you gonna put them 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 Fuji's. 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 we say like the refugees, it was literally taking a negative and making a positive out of it, right? Without having to talk about it. So we was there. Then you had the zoopound that was in Miami, right? So let me tell you the story, the real story. Give me a light. So don't want to get a lighter, so. Blood cock, lights out what? So I remember we was doing a show with Buju Banta in Miami, Salute to the General. We was doing a show and I'm downstairs. And keep in mind, we bubbling, but we still not. And then my man like, yo, my man, show him and say, yo, there's these dudes upstairs. You know, like they not gonna get off. You know, they on by the stage cause my role manager has to get them. I was like, yo, it's not gonna get off, man, to you. You know, they just like, they gotta see you. So I go and we kids. And the minute I see Macazo, Macazo looks like my brother. So literally, see the thing about Haiti is tribes. So me and Mac just start to hug each other and it's just a energy with kids. So the idea of the refugees and the idea of like zoopound, it was a movement of struggle. And like we gonna show like the world that we're on top and we can 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 was the name of the festival. Aliyah, you could Google it. Timbaland, Usher, that's the first time, if Usher is watching this, you know, that's the first time people thought Usher was Haitian. That's where the rule started. It started on my festival. Cause I have Usher say Sakpa say it. And every time we see each other, he'd be like, yo, you know it's because you have me say endless. I keep going and going and going. So, and I remember being in the audience with Macazo when we both looking at each other. And he was like, yo man, this is the vision, man. Like we gonna take this music thing to the next level. So he's a big inspiration cause 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 Compa. MVP Compa, you spoke about the Creole music that I do too. So in the intro of that video, now if y'all go back and watch it, the minute the song start, that's me and Macazo in the very intro. And it's in Creole. 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 was 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 sorta like, it's like one set meeting another set but part of the same set. You know what I'm saying too? Big change flag because we all up on the one. Yeah, so try to see the free Macazo. You mean that? I mean free Macazo. Free Macazo. I'm gonna ask you this. What did you learn when you ran for president? Cause you were, this is real, this top office over there. What was 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 of Haiti. And all I heard was, nigga, you're crazy. Click, right? Okay, nigga, I'll be at the funeral. Click, right? Nigga, I'll be at the funeral. Click, right? You hit my blood? You hit my blood? You hit my blood? You hit my blood? Nigga, I got Snoop Dogg's white clip. Nigga, Marat, you next. Nigga, oh, I can't wait to tell my son, but you know your dad, Snoop Dogg's white clip, right? I feel good. I feel good. So how do I say? How do I say? Yeah, so here we go. On the real talk, right? When I ran for president. Look like a bullet. There, there, there. Don't worry. Got you. So when I ran for president, hit a real talk, right? So we seen Kanye run. He did. 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 was for Donald Trump. Just before he was president. And I, 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 thing. The idea of a celebrity saying like, yo, I'm gonna run for office of a country. They're like, yo, what you want? Right. What you want? Right. They go, I watched the whole world turn on me in seconds. What you mean? They was like, yo, Clef stole money from his country, right? They took your whole people. They started doing what you, now you see it in politics. It's called a smear campaign. Right. So they start this smear campaign. And then with the smear campaign. The white girl said, yep, sure does. I think I don't stock a cat with a white woman. Leave that nigga alone. How long you been with your white woman, sir? Today. Five years. What's the best part about it? Free wrenches. Yep. That's what I thought it was, DC. I ran for president and y'all saw how they came at me. Now we know what that's called. It's called a smear campaign. Smaring campaign. That'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. There's what you see on camera and there's what you see behind the camera. Behind the scene. So before I ran, in 2005, when George Bush gave the order for Colin Powell, R.P. to the general, had to go to Haiti and literally kidnapped the president at the time, Aristene, and take him out the country. Right? It's 2005. I remember watching, I was in Paris, I remember. And this was like, past those dates. And I remember, I'm watching TV. And a kid comes on the TV in Paris. And he says, the only person that could make us put our guns down is Watt-Cleff-Jean. Now why he say that? Because even as a Fuji, the score, the Grammys put up my flag. Even when I'm on doing music for Sony, I'm still doing music in Crayol, and I'm sending it back to Haiti. The same way Biggie would do music in Brooklyn feels like he, you know, that Biggie is a Bible. So I would do music like that, I don't know. 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, hell of a nigga, right? Yeah. It's a street name for your head. Yeah. You hear me? And then I need everybody after this to go watch the ghost of C.T. Soleil and get deeper. All of the kids that was in the C.T. Soleil at the time was inspired by hip hop. So they gave themselves hip hop names. So go watch the doc, you're gonna see 50 Cent. Like he calls himself 50 Cent, 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 all 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, you know, I'm done with music. Like what other record can I possibly break? My people need me. Slumdog 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, DC to negotiate what the gangs wanted with the UN at the time. This is all on me. This is before I ran for president. I was the one that went to Congress and was like, yo, dawg, like at the end of the day, I need y'all 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 the face of the country. Let me put y'all up on this last game. 250,000 people under the rubble, right? What made me think I could do it? And where am I gonna get the money? Because Haiti is tied to the World Bank and the IMF. You're clapped, nigga. Where you gonna get that money from? Well, I'm gonna get that money from the environmental fund. They said, what's that? Carbon credit. Literally through carbon credit, I could have built my whole country over. You know what I'm saying to you? And that literally probably go over some people's head, just Google carbon credit. That's what I was about to ask you about. Go back to Haiti being tied to the World Bank and the IMF. That's right. What did that mean, like Haiti being, yeah, it's so funny. They called me the lawyer to hook. I break it down both ways. And my brother's the real lawyer though. So, what'd that mean? Real simple, nigga. All right, so here you go. There's a house. Go ahead, man. I'ma give you this house. You can go ahead and live in it. But you making absolutely no money at all. Glad you could live in it. But you gonna pay me $100 a month, literally for the rest of your life. It's almost like I set you on a structure to fail right from the gate because where you gonna get that money? So if you really wanna help Haiti, the first thing I would say, clear Haiti's debt completely. From the French, right? From the clear, clear the debt. World Bank, everybody, you clear the debt. Because if you wanna really help me, you gotta start from scratch. But why wouldn't you do that? You wouldn't do that because you'd be like, hold up. If I clear Haiti debt, then I gotta clear this person's debt and that person's debt. So by design, feel me, that's how the shit's set up. So again, I am politically savvy, my nigga. So now I'm fighting against a system that I can't see. You feel what I'm saying to you? So I got a few mentors at the time. One is Harry Belafonte. Right. So I gotta reach out. And I go to Harry and I'm like, yo, he says, look, you gonna be fighting the invisible hand. Well, he said, if your hands is clean, you gonna come off balance and you gonna be able to help your people. So for me, past that experience, what it is is they took me out to race illegally. Did I have power at the time to push a button and Farrakhan and shit up? Like when Farrakhan put a million men out there, did I have, yeah, I coulda did that. But I felt like I ain't want blood in my hands. So I told the youth, he who fights and walk away, live to fight another day. So it was like at the end of the day, what did I learn? I said, man, I need good government because if I'm investing money in Jamaica, I'm investing in Africa and I'm investing in Antigua and in different places, why can't I build my own Punta Cana in my own country? I got enough connections and I have enough ways. I'm smart, I know how to raise money. I do it in other countries. So for me, the lesson that I learned is we need better governance to move forward. Now they try to make it seem like Haiti is so poor, right? But it's this, I can't remember the name of it. It's this, I think I wanna say it's a rare element that they make microchips out of that they only get from Haiti. Yeah, Haiti has a lot of things. Haiti has a lot of minerals there, like natural resources. Okay, natural resources. Yes, so what I'm gonna tell y'all about Haiti is this. And keep in mind, you said some earlier, which was ill. So in five percent of, you know, you might hear Jay-Z say peace guard, right? Or different peace guards. So we have something called knowledge itself. So knowledge itself is like, you really understand what's going on. So at the end of the day, King, this is what I want you to know. Wherever you see, they say, is the poorest place in the world. Remember when they used to say Africa, the poorest place in the world. And if we didn't wanna go, you know what I'm saying? First time I went to Africa, I was so like into like the Black Power Movement. I showed up with Daeshiki. Niggas is wearing rockerwear. They're like, nigga, what year are you from, right? Because I thought, you get what I'm saying? You feel me? I just got back from Ghana. It's this, you go over there and see how they live in. And you have this perception that these people are flies on the face in the arms of the angels. No, they don't like that. No, they get money over there. They get money. They get money. Benzes, everything. Yeah, but to your point, King, natural resources is the game. So what you've seen Africa has started to do now is the youth have declared that they want the natural resources back. That's what's going on. So now, so now in Haiti, and I know all the Haitians are watching this and I must say this, we have a puppet prime minister right now in Haiti. You know, and I know he's watching this. So this is perfect. So his term was supposed to be only for four months. After they went in, they assassinated the Haitian president, the Colombians, they went in, right? 22, whatever they set up, whatever. And again, I think the Colombians was just upon for the bigger picture of what was going on. So this dude that's literally been here four months, he's been here three years, going on three years, supposed to be four months. We have asked for him to leave. So we're demanding that he leaves because we don't need the country to get into a crazier situation. You know what I mean? Because what are the youth demanding now? The youth want the natural resources back. What are they demanding now? They want education. Like if you find a situation to give a nigga a job, he gonna put that gun down, he gonna come work for you. So that's sort of like where we at now. You feel me? You said they tried to assassinate you too. It's all online. You saw how quick. We ain't doing it. Y'all they just trying to kill me on the show. Y'all don't do that. We ain't do that. You could read up on it. Yeah, we got one. You could read up on it, you know, when I ran and tried to fraud me. Right here. And that's just how it goes. And then, you know, again, there's what social media, thank you, love. There's what social media that could amplify something. And there's always the reality. Because you got the conspiracy theorists online. This is true where they'll try to paint different pictures of what happened. Yeah, they try to assassinate me. That's what happened. And it's obvious. All you gotta do is look at what they did to the president. When they rolled up in his crib. But again, beyond the fact of whatever they did at me came at me. Why the fuck would a nigga try to run to be president of a country that they call the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere? Because I know that that's not true. That place is wealthy and resource, man. Gold, oil, copper, lithium, the people. You heard that? The people are what you call, right? And then they under like 20, the new millennials, it's insane. And guess what they want? They just want job creations in education. So I feel that in a course of history, cause we live in our lives now, 200 years from now, they're gonna judge us. So some things you do now ain't gonna be popular to the public. They just not gonna get it. But in history, my nigga, that's right. So when you look back in history and you go 2012, whatever the year was at an earthquake and you'd be like, where was Clef? Where was why Clef? That nigga that came from the village that was riding the donkey. If it's like, oh, well he was shaking his hips with Shakira and he was with Santana. But we never saw him on the island. And in history, cause the only thing they're gonna care about is this. How you move the culture forward. That shit called Iridium. Iridium. Yeah, Iridium. Well, we could talk about Iridium. So Iridium, no, I got you. So, and then we're the second in the world, largest with Iridium. I got a shaking hand on that. Now everybody that's watching that, Google this word, Iridium and Haiti. Okay, this is some of the fight. Why? Because as we move forward into the future, here's another Jew for all the kings and queens watching. Iridium is gonna be needed. Cause now you're moving into a green environment. Everything is friendly. You're gonna need that for your cars. For all of like, where are we going? Electric vehicles and all of that. So you're gonna need all of that. So as we speak, this is what's happening right now. So no, we're not the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. We're actually one of the richest countries in natural resources. We're being ripped off. That's what's happening. But that's crazy. But, cause when we talk, I found out I got Jamaican in my blood and my native. So do gang. You feel me? Yeah. It says I love hearing about the Baroons and just about how y'all fight for the rights. And like you saying now that the young millennial was like, we just want our resources back. We just want to create. And it's like, it always seems like what's stopping us is the government. And just to hear you say, we just need a clean government. If we have a clean straight government, we'll be straight. Yeah. Y'all need a clean government. You said something earlier, Jamaica and Haiti with the shotters. How do we feel about that? Just a little historical fact before I move on. Bukman was from Jamaica. He was barely 12. He was a Jamaican who went to Haiti and was part of the Haitian Revolution. You wouldn't have the Haitian Revolution without having Bukman. That's what makes us closer and more separated. But they didn't want to give us that in history. You know what I'm saying to you? To your point, we said we need cleaner government and cleaner governance. How do we get to that? Y'all, we get through that to y'all. Y'all got to demand it. So that's what we tell the youth in Haiti. Nobody is bigger than y'all, the people. Y'all hit the streets. Y'all can't like back up. Like, you know what I mean? You saw what happened in Sri Lanka. Like, you literally, if you got to run up in that White House and tell the people that's what we want as a unit, that's how you got to move. And the power is within the youth. And of course, yeah, I do know a lot because you ain't just gonna run for president without understanding what the backside channels are and how they move. But nobody is bigger than the people, my friend. They can't murder a million people, period. Man, they getting back to the music. I gotta ask, man, because you are a part of one of the biggest groups in hip-hop and music history. Like, and y'all getting back together to go back on tour. Like, when, you know, one of my favorite lines in any music is, then the Fuji's gonna break up. And every day I wake up, somebody got something to say. Like, just that power that you had as a group, when did you realize that y'all were at the status where people loved y'all worldwide the way that they do? Fuji's is short for refugees. And right from the gate, we ain't wanna do music. We wanted to do a movement. We called it refugees so we could touch you if you were in the States, but also in the Sudan. We'll touch you too, you're in a favelas in Brazil. Touch you too, you're in South Africa. So it became bigger than us, it's not us. It's like, that's why last year if you show up at the tour, we barely did promotions. Everything is sold out, stadium, right? Because when people show up and we make you feel good, right? Cause what happens is, like when you listen to Bob Marley, like you feel good, it's like, what happened to that energy? So that's sorta like how it started off for us. It was more, we wanted to be a movement, you know what I'm saying too? And guess what? When you get like older, you get wiser. Like meaning like, it's so deep to me now. Cause it's like you create something. And I don't think people understand. Like when we say, like we bought, we took hip hop and the way we bought hip hop to Europe, no one has ever, it's like, we harry a tub in it, right? So that it's like, okay, we're out there and it's like, okay, well, who's gonna open up for us? Let's bring Jay-Z to open up. Let's bring Nas, because at the end of the day, we felt like that the energy and what the people should be getting is what's real because it is gonna start to circulate around the world. And because where we come from, it was created from where we came from. So we needed people to get that organ. And long, yeah, yeah. And before us, you know, you had like the belly males and those guys that was going out there. But I felt like when we came in, and another thing we killed was the stereotype of hip hop is a microphone and two turntables. Fuji's killed that. So that was another thing in Europe. Like it shocked them. Like when they see motherfuckers showing up playing instruments, when they hear Lauryn Hill singing and they see me playing keys, it's messing them up because they have an ideology of what hip hop is. And again, as keepers of the culture, we wanted to show them that, nah, hip hop is everything. Think about, I remember when we was coming out, people was like, it's not hip hop. They said it's alternative because we were singing in melodies. And now look, today, look what year we in. You know what I'm saying? See you got to do it. It's all you got, nothing but me. If you don't have, if you can't walk it out, if you can't walk with the melodies, you ain't saying nothing. Now you've generated billions of dollars globally. Where did you learn the music business from? It's so funny that you say that. So we're in 2024 now, right? And I was looking and I was like, oh wow, over a billion views for Shakira Hipstone Line, right? Then I was like, okay, over a billion views for Avicii. Avicii's my God. He actually started EDM, he was a genius. And this is what I want kids to know. This is the facts. So we produced Killing Me Softly, Miss Hill aka El Boogie sang it. Killing Me Softly before I'm my generation was the Roberta Flack generation. And y'all know the Lauren Hill version, right? So, but who wrote it? We ain't write the shit. So here goes the game. Now we gonna get into financial literacy. Let's talk about it. So here goes the game. We ain't write it, but we performed it. And it was amazing. And we made somebody $8 million, right? So that mean that whoever was the composer who wrote it was literally sleeping in this bed and he made $8 million like that, right? And then now look at how big that version is. So that person copyright has generated them millions and millions of dollars. So this is the game. So royalties, but bigger than royalties, publishing. The game is to own your own copyright and your own composition. The game is the power of licensing. Dig, your publishing is your real estate. So your publishing is your real estate game because you know how once you invest in real estate it could be 30 years down from now. Like you still gonna get money from that property, you could flip it, whatever you wanna do. So in saying that, I was like, okay, I need to be on the other side of the game. I need to be on the side of when I'm 54 I could be sleeping. And then I don't have to worry about picking up an instrument. So I'll just give you one example. So the phone goes off. Yo, man, what's up my brother? You know we the best, right? Reggie, I'm Khaled. We go way back, right? Two days of shot. Exactly. He said, yo. He was kidding. Yeah, and then you know, so my brother is very excited when he has visions. Yo, I got this vision, man. Remember the song you wrote? Maria, Maria, man. I got this vision, you know? Think you can get Santana and boom, boom, boom, boom, right? But I owned the majority of the song. So I hit up the Godfather, Santana. And I just put them with Khaled, right? So, but keep in mind, the actual composition itself, right? Is a Y Clef Jerry Wonder composition. So that means that now we're talking big now. But we talk about we own the building. So now you got to pay rent for the building. So now watch this. So now, of course, G.J. Khaled gets Rihanna, Ice and Teller. These makes the shit a hit. I was a baby and I sat on the keyboard and was like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Right? Now what does that mean? That's a billion streams. So what does that mean? When I'm at the Super Bowl and I'm going in this countless images of this thing. So you look at it and say, well, what does that mean? Every time that it could be a billion streams of Khaled and Rihanna, but the composition itself is the real estate. So that means that this is what you call, you got to teach this in financial literacy. So the way that you get wealthy, everybody's popping when they 20 and 21 and 22. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I was my own Mayweather at 21 and 22. You know what I'm saying? But I'm 54. So what used to matter to me doesn't matter. But when I'm 25, the ice that I wear, like it matters to me, you know what I'm saying to you? But now at 54, the ice has to translate into buildings, into small islands, into, you know, investments. So how do you get there? And the way that y'all get there is y'all got to make sure that y'all have ownership. It could be, and don't think of it like music, think of it as intellectual property, my nigga. If you say one phrase, I remember, Pete this, I freaking was doing one song one time and all I wanted to say was, let's get ready to rumble. And I did niggas was like, yo, you got to go clear it. I was like, I didn't know you could patent a slogan. Do you know how, let's start with battle rap. Do you know how many slogans is in battle rap? That if they understood that and they went and patent their own slogan, that little, cause that's the culture, they take those languages and it becomes, it's like Shakespearean. So I ain't just talking about just music, just everything in general, you know what I'm saying to you? All the way down to his generation, one generation, you got a retirement plan. Now, the thing is when I was your age and I saw somebody retiring, I was like, oh, they about to die. They're gonna go to Miami, get a little condo, live out their life in a beast, they're gonna die. No, I'm 54, I ain't even start living yet. Go ahead. Right? So the thing is, or somebody gotta be like, yo, start saving that bank when you 20 something, look up the policies, look at the benefits that you can get at your age. All of this is important because you, if you constantly want to maintain that fly lifestyle, you constantly want to live it, then you gotta start early and start saving early. You gotta start saving, you gotta start, stack, save. Stack piggy bank, early. Yeah. Yeah man. Now, the score, my bad love, the score, why the score, why that name for that classic album? Well we felt like we had to come and settle the score because we felt like we was, is the word underrated? Underestimated. Underestimated. And we felt like, when we did Blended on Reality, you know, that album, the first, so the freshman album went copper. You know what I'm saying too? And then it went copper and we felt like we was misunderstood. And the reason why we felt we was misunderstood, off camera, I was telling y'all, the Fuji's was signed to Le Gym. That's a cool in the gang brother production team. So Khaliz Bayon, my man that did R.I.P. And then he passed away. Jungle Boogie, cheese fresh, exciting, celebrate, every bar mitzvah, celebrate, come on man. Ladies night. Ladies night, come on. They producing, you think I'm gonna say something? So, you know, and he's like, yo, this is the direction at the time. So at the time, there was a group called Onyx. What's that? Onyx. I'm about to put your skirt up. Yeah. Remember? That was it, boy. So being like we had an energy when we was performing live, he wanted to translate that to the album. And that didn't go off well with the hip hop audience in America, not in Europe. I'm just giving you an example. And then on, so on that album, I remember I asked him, I was like, yo, can I produce one song? And he was like, what? I said, I have an idea. Just an acoustic guitar and ramen over an acoustic guitar. And I ended up being vocab. And then Lauren was like, can she get one? And hers ended up being some, some Sikh stardom, you know, but they forget Harlem. And then, so when you listen to those two records, you could just see like, if we had that shot, meanwhile, while that's going on, we get back to the bullet basement and the hood. We cooking on that MP. You know what I'm saying? Like that ready or not, you hear? That sample came from a sleepwalker. It's a, it was an old sample from sleepwalker. We up in the hood, I was smoking and I fell asleep. To that sample, the end your shit. And it was in a movie on a VCR. And then I remember waking up, I remember Spud McKenzie, woke up to the dog, Spud McKenzie with one front. And then it hit me, I was like, yo, if a dog could be famous in America, ain't no way we ain't gonna be famous. I remember like, again, simple record took time. This what people don't understand. So now you can do a whole album in your basement. You can do it in your room. You can do it anywhere. You know where we did that whole album at 30 years ago? Right in the hood, in the Booga basement, my uncle's basement. That's another part of us. We engineers. So imagine like we gotta get the rooms, build the patch babies, build. I'm talking about the whole OMCI board. Take everything. Like we was our home computers at the time. When you listen to like all that joint, I'm like this, roll the tape. I'm pulling when the bass come out so all of the math is in my head. I'm doing hand automation. It's not on no need. So at the end of the day, it's like that's what I'm trying to tell people like the Fugees are architects, scientists. Because think about what everyone's doing right now. You can do it with a laptop, my nigga. We was doing that shit with no laptop. So you can have an artist who's a dope rapper. You can have a dope artist who's a dope businessman, a good singer, whatever. But I'm telling you what you heard? We built it from our hands, like from scratch, guttering the basement, putting the panels up, building the patch base, going to junkyard sales. I'll take this, I'll take that. And from this, it birthed a score. So we did that cause we was like, we come to settle the score. That's great. 50 years of hip hop, man. Did you ever think you would see it? 50 years of hip hop. You make a billion dollars rapping. 50 years of hip hop is amazing. And I think that we all are awoke now to a whole other level. And what I want everybody to look at is, as we move into these next 25 years of hip hop, being a billionaire is not like they're giving you a gift. You deserve to be a billionaire. Because you've consumed and have made companies billions and billions of dollars. So at the end of the day, understanding that what's amazing to look at the next 25 years is how savvy this generation is. And how, remember when Jay was like, I'm gonna make y'all pay for what y'all did to the Co-Cross. You see what I'm saying to you? So it's like, at the end of the day, it's like we've leveled off in positions of power, all of us in the different sectors, right? But it's really only a few of us. Like it's really a handful. But we came in with hundreds and thousands of them, right? And it's a handful. So the thing is, when we look at the next 25 years, what we wanna make sure is when he's my age, it's like there's no longer a handful. Like it's a complete movement. You know what I'm saying to you? Where it's like, okay. Yeah, I think we'll be some. That's right, because they balanced out in a way of like generational wealth. Like Rothschild style wealth. You feel me? Chico was talking about earlier about the Jay Z Land. We said, and then the Fuji's gonna break up. So clearly that had fucked this day up. No group wants to break up. How did you deal with that shit? Knowing that you got one of the dopest groups y'all that sold the most albums, musically y'all just in sync. Like, how did you deal with that? Well, I mean, when I look back at it, we was child stars. We was kid stars. Like, I can see it now. And I look back, but when I'm a kid, I don't know I'm a kid, right? So what do you gonna do? You gonna make mistakes. Now, when you become wrong, what do you do? Reconciliation. You apologize for everybody that you did wrong. Because now you start to understand it. Because it's not just my story, right? It's long before me, there was somebody else. Long before that person, there was somebody else. What it did was it made the reconciliation even more stronger. And you gonna understand what I'm saying. For probably the next 12 months, right? So, but it's like, we see the mountains and shit and be like, yo, this mountain is dope. Yeah, you know, you climb the tree and you're like, yo, that's dope. But my nigga, if we would still like smoke a L and then sit back and then jump on some science shit on how the mountain became the mountain. You know what I'm saying? From the convulsions and all of that, we'd be like, oh, so at the end of the day, of course, it fucked everybody up, you know what I'm saying to you? But it's sort of like, sometimes you can question what happens at the time, but then later, it all makes sense, you know what I'm saying to you? I felt like, if that happened, you wouldn't have got the Miseducation. I was just about to say that. Which was a very insane and important album. You wouldn't have got the Carnival. You wouldn't have got, so again, like you wouldn't have got someone please call 911. Think about the Miseducation. The Miseducation was an album that is like a Bible. Yeah, one of the greatest albums ever. Come on. It's a rumor that I've always heard. I got to ask you directly, was you just lost one, a diss song to Wyclef? You might win some, but you really lost one. It's funny how money changes the situation. Is that a diss song to Wyclef? I mean, I couldn't answer that because I didn't write the song, right? But I'm a battle rapper. So I'm going to address you direct when I address you. So do I think the song is about me versus that's a different question? Well okay, do you think that the song was about you at the time? No, sorry, it's about me. Ha ha ha ha. As opposed to like a set up, that was a bar. That was a rock bar, you like that, right? Huh? reaction when you heard it and you really just sat there and listened to it. I said, fuck, this shit is hard. That's how you gotta let it go, that's good. Yo, you take an L, you gotta take the L, keep it moving. Yeah, that's it. You can work with anybody, bro. You can go from Shakira to Ying-Yang twins. I love Ying-Yang. Motherfucking Santana, bro. I'd say you got a new joint with Lola Brook and Pusha T. Yeah, so this chapter two, I'm inspired again to start to put work out. So for me, it starts off with my production brain. So I got approached by a company called TIA. We was talking earlier on getting your paper right. And I was like, who can convey that message in a way like for the youth to don't feel like I'm preaching to them? You know what I'm saying? So I put a scenario together, like as a producer. I was like, okay, let me get Lola Brook, Flage, Pusha T, Capella Gray and just put a combination together. Flage, if a man lets you, that's hard. You heard what he said. Yeah, he's crazy. All right now, I'm sorry. Let me ask you this. Remember, she was the one, she was doing ready or not on a ready or not beat. That's what made her come out, crazy. She's fire. Now, we talk music all the time, like as a producer, who's produced some of the biggest hits. When you get a track, do you still just, do you just lead that bitch or do you have to produce a little bit, no matter who you get it from? I don't get tracks. I built them from scratch. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I get this point. So I built it from scratch, but you can call me and say, I got a track and I want you to come and be on it. So one example is Young Thug. You know what I mean? He got the White Clef John. Yeah, he's the White Clef John on the Jeffrey Island. That's a bit crazy. So really, you know, start with prison reform and when we say free to slime, we really mean that. Like at the end of the day, we all could have been within that situation period. So, you know, Thugga brings me to the studio. I remember it was his birthday and we catching a vibe and they have to beat, you know what I'm saying to you and it's there. And then, so certain things I can feel right on the spot. You know what I'm saying to you? So there's things that you produce and then there's things that you wish you produced, right? You feel what I'm saying to you? So come on, I could go to every Dr. Dre song. Every Kanye song. So at the end of the day, as a producer, you hear things and you're like, yo, that shit is so great. And it inspires you too. You know what I'm saying to you? So as a, we always pushing the envelope. So I think with this new joint that we have, again, it's 2024. I started the production on this record. It's called Pay For Right. I'm in a vibe. I'm in a zone and the zone ain't going to stop. We have, we feel it again. How do you, how do you get on Wycliffe radar? Just like Lola Brooke, Flage and then you put the pusher T there. That shit just crazy. You got to also be a fan of them. Yeah. How did she get on Wycliffe radar, man? Because you be over there building wells with Bono. You and Haiti running for president. I don't know, man. I just might have to spit some bars because based on what you just said right there, you said nigga be building wells. Like I don't have time for this shit. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. But when you're a fan of the culture, you're a fan of the culture. So it's like, if I tell you, like, if Murder Mook is watching this, he'll tell you, like, I was in the studio with Murder Mook. It was like 20 years ago, just doing records with him. Right? You know, like, so it's like, I love, remember I was telling you, I didn't really want to be famous. I keep saying that. I wanted to be like Quincy. You want to be a composer. So people be like, yo, man, how do you feel that you ain't the top five best rappers of all times? Right? I said, I said, nigga, I'm a composer. So I need you to judge me as a composer. Like as a composer, who does what I do? I mean, I just showed you some shit offline. Like this long before everybody, whatever, I was in Carnegie Hall with the tucks conducting the Philharmonic Orchestra. You're tall. You feel what it is? So that, that to me. Yeah, that's what we are. You know, I play drums in the orchestra, nigga. You know the vibe, man. You know that, nigga. You know, I'm like, maybe I should brag more as a rapper. I don't do that. But Carnegie Hall. You might just have to remind me of first time. Yeah, Carnegie Hall. But it's history. That's why you got it. Carnegie Hall. That's the one. I'm the first rapper ever. Boom. Philharmonic Orchestra. One night with Wild Clef. Everybody is there and I reroute everybody's music. Destiny Child. They there. Stevie Wonder. We there. Whitney Houston. She's there. Charlotte Church. She's there. Eric Clapton. He there. And everybody came for me because I wanted to redefine Carnegie Hall because I felt like when I was younger, I felt like that hall was intimidating to like us. They felt like we couldn't be in that hall. So literally, and so when I show, when you look at this, Wild Clef and friends at Carnegie Hall, my front band is all kids. So literally the oldest one is 16. So, and I was calling them Clef kids because in high school as a jazz major, you know what I'm saying? I felt like I was super advanced. So at Carnegie Hall, I bought all of these kids and I gave them that chance, you know what I'm saying? To you and a little bit of hip hop history. My first music video ever, I was an extra for Eric being Rock Kim. Upright bass. Don't sweat the technique. That's an art. That's an art. And I got it because I knew the fingering of the upright, right? Because I played uprights. I was going to say that did the Clef come from the Clef, no. Man, man, it was crazy. My dad was a theologian, man. He was just a RP to him, but he was just like religious crazy. So, so why Clef John? He actually named me after the reformatator. The first translation of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John by why Clef John from England who inspired the Lutheran doctrines later. So that's how the nigga named me. Why Clef John? So he always thought like I would pick up after and be a minister or something. I got it. I got it. In the first one to do Carnegie Hall, I don't know if you've noticed that everybody's doing that now. I just hosted something for Wale at the Kennedy Center where he did a live band tip, just did a live orchestra. So you go back. Yeah, go back. Everybody's doing it now. So you was the first one to ever do that. And then not only being at Carnegie Hall is one thing, but the orchestration, writing all the sheet music. Like I'm saying like each instrument. Yeah. And then being a conductor. Man, you don't know how hard it is. You wrote the music. Yeah. Yeah. You write the music and every like if I'm doing a back piece, I'm going to construct it from backwards to forward because I hear it a different way. I'm just going to say. You know when the flute's off. Yeah. So if I'm going, yeah. So shout out actually to my music teacher from high school because she's the one that literally started teaching me how to read music and get into it. So that's really me. Like at the end of the day, I was that kid from the hood that could define anything. I didn't want to do what the average was doing. It's almost like a niggle pick up a golf stick. Right. And they go, well, you're not supposed to wear this jacket. It's green. It's a master's jacket because of the color of your skin. You feel what I'm saying? So it's like when you when the reason why he's he's amp like that a composer is not addition or subtraction. It's like calculus. Like you're doing the highest level of math and you're moving at real time. I'm not going to put all this shit together and make it sound. Make it one sound like that. When you hear gone to November. Yeah. Okay. So gone to November. That's the the Philharmonic Orchestra. So I did. So again, that's a that's a hip hop record with a symphony. So I put orchestra inside of hip hop music. So there's all this stuff that I do and continue to do. I probably just got to talk about it more because niggas be happening. 911 send you a thank you letter for that goddamn song you wrote. Someone please call 911. 911. You know how hurt you had to be niggas to call 911 knowing the police be killing people. You like still show up. Yeah. So how do you look at it now because just hearing about you saying you're a composer. I love music. That's my passion. So just to hear people takes on certain levels when it comes to the music. When you say I'm a composer, when it was important at a time when you had to learn to read music, you had to know all 12 scales. I'm about to put you up on that. And then now you see that it's computerized and motherfuckers can cheat it. And it's not really somebody will put some xylophone sticks in your hand and be like play me 12 skills. I don't know what you're talking about. How do you how do you try to manage that and be like, you know what? And still keep your authenticity on it. So the first part of the orchestration come from your head. Right. It's changed round. One of the greatest composers. Right. He ain't play an instrument. You can look at the nigga and be like this is the part. The bass is going to go like this. So again, nothing is going to be a nigga can cheat as much as you want. But a nigga who got you got the shit in your head. Then you can tell the computer what to do. So man versus machine is the AI smarter than you or you smarter than the AI. Right. So because if you smarter than the AI, what you're going to do is in your brain, you'd be like, I got a freaking orchestra here. I got a bass man. I got a guitar. I got these background vocals. But in your brain, though, you're going to be here. And then so the computer, you can go on freaking arcade. And you'll be like, okay. Exactly because it's already in your brain. So nothing beats the orchestra. So nothing beats the composer. So it don't matter if it's a computer or a nigga. I always say that if anyone's complaining, they're going to be like, oh, nigga can cheat. Yeah. But the computer can't write 911. It just can't. You know what I'm saying? I could be like. If I knew that there was something because it was already in my head. So if I had a program where I could have grabbed that and saved me five minutes, I would just did that. But if it's not here, then it would have, you know, because I learned that from Michael Jackson being in the studio with him and how he moved his body, you know, drumming and just every sound that he's hearing and the orchestra and every tech that you see, we are the Asiatic. There's nothing that is out there underneath the sun that's not us. So a plug-in before the shit was a plug-in, it was from a patch bait. And from the patch bait was converted like we. So it's like, what came first, the chicken or the egg. At the end of the day, without the human being, nothing is possible. So it's like, we got to push ourselves. We are huge Michael Jackson fans. We got to get that Michael Jackson story. So Michael Jackson, I remember, I remember I was coming off tour and and then my phone goes off. Right. Right. And when my phone goes off, it's like, hello, it's Michael Jackson. And you gave him a little bit more bass in the book. My voice was deep for real. It was. So so Michael hits me, but in the hood, man, we like, I'm a pranker. So I'm always fucking around with my friends. We always playing around. So and I was like, yo, get the fuck out of here. And I hung up on Michael Jackson. I hung up on Mike. I hung up on Michael. Get the fuck out of here. You ain't no Michael Jackson. Yo, man. Yo, this dude, yo, and then Michael calls back. And I ain't going to lie to y'all. And Michael's like, hello. And when my brain computed, that was Michael. My voice. Me first. My voice. My voice. My voice. My voice. And then he told me he was in some country in Asia and this song came in going to November and then he saw the orchestra and then he told his people who was that and then he got my number and he had to call me and he said, yo, I'm going to be in New York and I want you to come to the studio. And it was freaking. How that is to get a n***a number back there. Like just to be like, and who's that? Get his number. And random go five. Give me his number. I got to go outside. The words they had to call the whole phone. But yeah, I'm trying to get him to tell some white clap. White clap. N***a. Yeah, so he definitely when I got in with him again just a short time that I spent with him. It's like a whole day. He literally changed my perception and it was like that's how I knew like whatever you do just keep doing what you do because people are going to find you. They're going to find you. Before you go, we got to talk about this Netflix documentary that they did on your life. Like what is that and when can we look forward to seeing it? Yeah, man. So Netflix is doing an animation film on Prince of Port-au-Prince which is me. We talked about how you escape poverty through imagination. So it's on the level of like a Rio, a Lion King because I wanted my first film to be about that village like what we talked about because when you see shit from the eye of a kid like from the eye of an adult, you know what I'm saying? So all I could do is tell you is when we, when y'all watch this make sure y'all bring our children with y'all. And then be like, yeah, this is a real dude. Like he literally is from the hut. So anything that you want to do you can do. I'm very excited to about what that score will be for that. So I'm working as we speak with choirs and Haiti. See, choirs and Haiti I'm also working with conductor who's working with these kids building an orchestra and these kids are in a village so they get an instrument and they build it. So a lot of this score I wanted to be like on the level of Lion King right. My ultimate dream man is to be in the Oscars with all those Haitian kids from that village playing these instruments and going crazy. And I'm gonna cry if that happens. You said it on this couch so it's gonna happen. One thing we gotta do before we get you out of here while cleaning, you gotta sign the table for us. Anything you want to leave them with. Anywhere you want. Oh that's a dope instrumental. J-O-N-A-D. That's hard. Let that play. I got you. I'ma ride with you. Yeah. I can rhyme. You can hear me? Yeah. Okay. Remember I tell y'all you used to battle rap? Yeah. I'm the one. Yeah. I know what you thinking me too. But in my game of numbers they could only be a few. I'm the trinity. That's the little kid. One man on two sticks with that. The crucifix. But they told me in Sunday school forgive my foes. But I was pointed at Pelopio's nose. That's the number of completion. Adam ate the apple. So they cast him from the garden to eat him. Jealousy got him waving his nine king kills able here. Ten man. You know it's fun. Pump soil. Two ones. Ain't enough to make it rain. Microphone check one two. Rap lives in my veins. I'm from the ever dudes. Scrap with their hands. They say Friday the 13th get covered by the slam. But my nephews don't use their hands. In 14, in 15 guns and roses pointed at your sweet 16. And I was on October 17. That's the day they killed my leader. Jean Jaude Sallee. My mom told me there's monsters under my midday 18. Big mouth for Max the 19th. I was my enemy. 2020 vengeance ain't a good day. I had to check that. That's how I made it past 21. Ow! Let's go! We got it. You know I want to get one. Let's go.