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When I tell you, man, we got a show going over here. We got a show going over here, man. And listen, man, when I heard your story, when I seen everything from the bullets, charged to everything that you've been through, which we about to get into all that, but I know my wife gon' take it back further than that. But boy, you got a story, and thank God that you made it through, bro. Thank God, and I thank you for that. Man, come on, man. You family now. Once you hit the dope, once you hit the dope. Locked in now. It's over. So Derzai, first of all, where you get that name from? I'm from the Desire Projects, and my nickname is Derity. Derity. The Desire Projects, one of the biggest projects down there. One of the biggest projects in the world. I never heard of that. How big is it? You said in the world? How big is it in the world, yeah. Why is it so, like, how big is it? What are you saying in the world now? Yeah. How big is that project? Well, I don't know exactly. You don't know square foot? Yeah, exactly. You want to know the name of the square foot? I know, but what you said is about, it's about 18 miles long. Who you gonna come up with, man? It's the biggest in New Orleans for sure. Oh, okay. It's bigger than the Cali-O? Yeah, it's bigger than all projects. Wow. So tell me what makes, other than the size, what makes that project different from all the other projects? Well, ain't too much different. Life in a project is life in a project. We might have a few different experiences because of the unique people that's there. So there was people that's there, not there. So that's what actually just makes the difference. As far as they're living, growing up and together with the ghetto. I noticed y'all accent sometimes, depends on the project you're from. It's a little bit sometimes, a little bit deeper sometimes, it's not so strong enough. I just love the New Orleans accent. I'm telling you, but they said, it just depends on what part you're from is how you speak. Yeah, because we all have our different lingo and things, you know, how we communicate with each other. Just by certain things a person say, you could tell what part of the city you're from. Who has the strongest accent down there? Because somebody told me, it's when you really down there in the swamp. That's when you have that strong accent down there. Yeah, well as far as that Cajun accent, you know what you were saying? I think our accent is more of ebonics. Oh, okay. You know, we create our own way of saying things. Like when you say it was down. It was down. It was down. That's just what's happening. But we merge it all together and make it just one, one. Right. Shout out to my boy, Big Boz, man. Like Boz was one that he had a deep accent when I interviewed him. Boz worth, man, like I said, you could tell he ain't letting it go. He won in the warrants, man. And no limit is, you know, you heard of Boz. I know you know Boz, man. Come on Anthony. Boz got one of the warrants, man. So like it'd be crazy to me just the work and everything that come up down there and the way when I visit down there just to be hanging out down there, just the history, even pre-Katrina and after Katrina cause we went before Katrina and then I went after Katrina. I just didn't have Boz talk one on one, you know, before Katrina, but I just had this two years, but I'm just saying, far as the podcast go, still have been there 17 years. But just coming down there each time, the culture is so thick, man. Bourbon Street and all that stuff, man. You get to experience another part of it every time you come. Every time, the food crazy. You get to experience the last time. Yeah, she was pregnant with our first daughter who's 18 now. So that was 18 years ago when we first came down and me and her was together come down there and just enjoyed the Bourbon Street and just the first, you know what I mean? Just getting to know the culture and just eating the food and just hanging out. And then of course we've been back several times since then, but love New Arthur. Yeah, I don't travel around and every place have, you know, something special you'll find about it that made you like it. And, you know, I'm kind of biased because I'm from New Orleans, but I'm gonna just go off among the tourists that come to the city, you know, every year. Like, New Orleans is a vibe. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Survive, because it's party, 24-7. Yeah, let's get into the background. And, but let me ask you a question because I know that some people would say in New Orleans there's a lot of people who speak French. Yeah. But does everybody speak French? No. It's because it's a part of y'all's life, right? Yeah, it's a part of New Orleans. New Orleans. It's not a part of my life. Okay, so is it a certain part of New Orleans? No, that's really old in New Orleans when New Orleans was founded, you know, back, this way back, you know, when the French actually was, you know, in control of New Orleans, but their influence is still, you know, felt throughout New Orleans. Right. But it would really take like a person older than myself who would be there. Well, Bob's broke it down to us. Yeah, who would be there? No, no, but we didn't talk about speaking French, actually. Yeah. No, I don't even know anyone that speaks French. That speaks French down there. No. Okay. Okay. See, y'all niggas ain't worried about no damn friends. I was just asking. See, y'all niggas worried about trying to ramp, go down there and have a good time whenever the city turned up They ain't trying, they think having a great life. They's not trying to figure out the history of what happened with the French. Were you raised with your mom and dad? Yeah, I was raised with both parents. With both parents? That's a blessing, because a lot of people don't. I don't bless them. I've been blessed from the beginning. God already had them pick me for His purpose already. That's why all the things I went through is just was Him building me, building my character, building my strength, building my faith, you know? That's all I look at so that I can accomplish His mission. You have siblings as well? Younger brother, younger sister. So you're the oldest? I'm the oldest. Wow. How much younger are they? Mm, my sister. We're each like four years apart. Okay. Okay. So what did you, as a child though, because you know how as you get older you realize how fortunate you were as a child with mom and dad growing up in the same household. But as a child, did you realize that? Yeah, because none of my friends had their father living in a household with them, so it was noticeable. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. So, okay, so growing up, did you always want to do music? What did you want to do when you were growing up? When I was growing up, I really didn't want to do anything. None. The type of person I am, I just want to travel. But you got to have money to travel. Yeah, that's why I own businesses. How old did you start your first business? Oh, when I first came up with the concept for Project Music, I had to probably be about 18, 19 years old. I got it tattooed on me years before I actually got the company. I didn't get the company until 2005, but I got the tattoo on me out there in Houston when I went out there after Katrina, because I knew I was going through that. Wow, I said pre-Katrina and post-Katrina. You dealt with both of those. Yeah. Wow, that's hard. I was a rapper, pre-Katrina. Wow. Already, with a group called the YG's, L-O-G. Well, okay, and how did you guys create your music? What you mean? I mean, for us to produce it, how did y'all get it out? It was produced by Sinister, you know, Sinister on the tracks? Yeah. Sinister on the tracks. The whole project was produced by Sinister. It was with Gaila Teenian Records. Yeah, and he was really under L-O-G. Okay. And he the one that presented us. We was two artists from the Desire Projects and two artists from the Florida Projects. Okay. So he took those four artists and put them together and made a group. How old were you? He also stopped a lot of conflict between the Desire and the Florida Projects. That's so big. How old were you at that time? 18. Oh, so everything started at 18? Yeah. Once I graduated from high school, it was, you know, now I gotta figure out what I wanna do and when the opportunity they presented itself, I done it. But was it good? There's a, I don't come here with no idea. Was it good? I was doing it. During that time, was it going down? Let that play around. Hey, man. Was it good? Yeah, I got a song, well, I ain't gonna say me. We have a song called Florida Desire. Right now they put on in the club and it's gonna go. And I'm still gonna go, you're gonna go. I'm still getting paid to perform that song. Wow. That's big. So you're still making money off of that? That's huge. Cause after, how many years was that? That was been, that's been since 99. Ooh. And you still, they singing word for word down there? That's, that's stapled in, you know, because at a time when the hot boys was emerging. Yeah, I remember. He was the downtown group emerging, but you know, cash money wind up. Blowing up. Yeah, doing that thing, you know. Did you ever have run-ins with any of the, like, like, what, what, when I say run-in, just really, did you ever work with them? Did you ever have dealing with soldier slim or any of those guys? Yeah, soldier slim with my partner, man, new soldier. You met him before and everything? Yeah. Okay, so he was in Magnolia, right? Yeah, Magnolia. How far is Magnolia from? Design. No one in New Orleans is only 30 minutes away. It is, it is. I thought everybody said, no, this is a small area we talking about. It's not like out here where you drive in way not. Okay, give me a soldier slim story and something that sticks out for you. Yeah, my partner, Hog, Free Hog, he brought me up there in the Magnolia to meet soldier slim, you know, because he already had a relationship. But I already had a relationship, like with chaotic, you know, with Bob, Callio Bob. But he took me up there to the Magnolia to meet soldier slim. So when I get out, you know, me being bragging those, I'm telling slim man, look, I got the baddest mouthpiece in the city. So slim, you know, hugging me around my neck and we walk up the street, let me hear something. So I'm rapping for him, rapping for him. He turned around, he said, hey, this could be the only downtown that I don't cut your committee. Wow, that's a big, that's a big up. You know what I'm saying? How did that make you feel to hear him say that? Then you were just, we just talking. I felt solidified. Wow. Felt solidified, big dog just asked me. Big dog said, you know, I could be a part of this team and I'm from downtown. Wow. That's crazy because a lot of people had those stories where they connected with him. When you think about, we're going to talk a little bit more about soldier slim. What, when you think about soldier slim, like what's the best song, the one and the one that stick out for you? Well, the one that I used to always be bumping is, that's Mahu. That resonated with you. I felt like that was my song at that time, you know. I'm dealing with females and that one, I used to like that one. Wow. You're a ladies man. Oh. I'm just a gentleman and ladies are attracted to that. My mom raised me right. Oh, okay. That's hard, man. So when you think about just, you know, being from Louisiana and just all the things that the history and everything that it foretells, like is it something that basically when a person come to New Orleans, is it something that they got to go, somewhere they got to go, something they got to do? What sticks out when you come to New Orleans? Well, the food for sure. The food for sure. And you got to go like visit the French Quarter area. Yeah. Yeah. That's what the party going 24-7, especially if you're going around a certain time, like if they have, you know, an event in the city, you know, Beyonce just recently was El Vidal. Was in the city. So the city was, you know, and if you go around the Suba Dome area or the concert area, you go to Canal Street, you got people all over. So Canal Street is one thing that you need to visit. I wouldn't recommend you visit in no neighborhoods. Everybody say that. Yeah, I wouldn't, you know, I like, let's go see the Magnolia. Right. I wouldn't recommend it. Is it dangerous? Just the day before yesterday in New Orleans, the DA and his mother was called Jack. Wow. The district attorney. And everybody know who it is. Damn. You called Jack the district attorney? Come on, man. So, you know, that's where we are. Murder capital. To another place that people like to go to for some reason I have never been, I don't know if I want to go, is the cemeteries. The cemeteries? Well, yeah, a lot of, because they got a lot of important people that's, you know, buried in the cemeteries. And then also the cemeteries themselves are unique because they're above ground cemeteries, you know. Most people are buried in the ground in New Orleans, people are buried above ground. Where else, where else do you know of that they bury people above ground? I don't know anywhere else. It's because of where they're located. It's below sea level, so, you know, it's prone to flooding. I guess they had experience with... Body stones coming up. It's coming up out of the ground. Yeah, ground. That's saturated enough. On that documentary, you've seen soldier Slim, little soldier Slim, shout out. Go to those, you know, to the, that's where he did his part of the documentary and you could see, you know, where they had all the, you know, the tombstones. It's crazy, man. Let's get into your whole accident because me and you talked about it on the phone, but we gotta go just go down through there, you know, like, anyway, like, we gotta figure out what that was about. From the start to the beginning, I don't want the version, I want to hear everything that had been leading up to it for some reason. You know what I'm saying? Well, I can't give you the information because... Is it still? No, because it was a situation that I had no knowledge of. That's what you told me. All I was doing was giving a friend and his girlfriend a ride. How long ago did this happen? It's 2020, December 3rd. Okay. I just was giving my partner and his girl a ride. Now, I didn't know the situation that it was in. You didn't even know they'd be in this at all? I didn't know they'd been in this at all. What made you pick them up? That's my partner. Is it partner? My partner since little and then you with your, your woman ain't no way I'm gonna refute it. Was he known for having issues with people? It wasn't his issue. It was the female issue. Really? Female was supposedly testifying against someone. You know how that goes? Somebody else wanted out of here. And... And you didn't know that she... That was going on? I didn't know her like that, you know? I just know her from... That's his, his girlfriend, you know? I never built a relationship with her or anything like that. Because this was, this was in a short period of time that we talked about. So I never even really any acted with her as, you know, that... And she's from down there? Yeah, she's from down there too. But whatever this situation happened with them, they spotted these people. And instead of them informing me of that, they just come and ask for the ride, trying to get a ride from round up. But here, when they get in the car with me, I stopped at the, we get off the interview on the interstate, all the way get off the interstate. When I stopped at the red light, a truck put on the side of me, dude jump out and they were shooting in her window, shooting her, but the bullets was coming through the back of my seat. She was sitting, you know, right? She was sitting behind you? No, she was sitting behind him. Behind him? Yeah, so when they're shooting, they're shooting and they come in a cross to my seat. Damn, I got hit nine times. Nine times with a chopper? Where did it hit you? With an AK-47. With an AK-47? Where did it hit you? Where did you get hit? Most of them was in my back. Two of them hit my wrist. That's why my hand had to be amputated because it was broke. So it was the rig? Yeah, it hit right here. It hit right here. Like actually just two all that, you know, two it up. Yeah. It wasn't no bigger than this right here, my arm. Yeah. So just imagine two AK-47 rounds hitting this. It was just hanging like this. So I'm driving, trying to get to the hospital, like, cause I didn't know I was shot all them times. I felt like I was shot, but I didn't know I was shot. The drill was still rushing. Yeah. My mind would have magically clicked the survival move. But you lucky you can even stand a walker. You said, so the seven other shots hit you all in your back? No, one hit me in this arm right here. And it took me, it's the one that bled the most. It couldn't stop bleeding. It was just a little nick on the. It because of where it hit? Probably. And then the other ones? Yeah, the rest of them was in my back. But it didn't hit your spine, it didn't hit any of that sort of stuff, huh? But one of them did come through my back right chain. Come out my heart. Wow. Come out your heart? Yes, they had to crack my chest open. I have a plate that's holding my chest, my rib cage together. The dude served you on my heart. Man, people saved my life. From the story, even me hearing it myself, I'm like, oh, that's number God. If I say anything else, like, I'll just be lying. So the girl, did she survive? She didn't survive. Did he survive? He survived. He got hit because he jumped from the passenger seat to the back, you know, my girl. Oh, he trying to protect her? Yeah, but see that was also the thing that, cause I didn't remember what happened when I first woke up. But as my memory came back, the thing that I remember that made me know he know what was going on. When the shots went off, you say my girl. Wow. Me, you, and your girl, what make you think when shots go off is directed to your girl? Right. Yeah. You already knew what the situation was. How many times did he get shot? He just got hit, grazed. Like, he was nothing major. Nothing major. He took himself out to the hospital. So he was nothing major. And he went out of town and I haven't seen him since. So you never seen him again? No. I talked to him, but I haven't seen him. Hold on, what was that conversation? I didn't tell him that we're not partners no more. Wow. So he was like, man. He called you or you called him? He called me. He kept trying to contact me, contact me. And I'm, you know, I ain't trying to deal with him. So when you finally talked to him? Look, cause he say, man, look, I just need to highlight you, even if it is on some dumb shit. So I'm like, what's up? What's happening? Face time? What's up? What's happening? Man, man, you know I have, but I say, look, fuck all that. I say, no, check this out. You not my partner no more, man. You not my partner. I said, your partner Dirk that you know, you got him killed. I have a tattoo on me right here. You say, old Dirk died, 10, three, 20, man. Your partner that you know, you got him killed. Dirk with a one hand and you don't know me. You never even saw me in person, man. Like, look, stop contacting me, man. You know, leave that alone. Yeah, cause he, cause that pretty much changed everything. Changed everything, man. And y'all been knowing each other for a long time since I was a kid. Man, since we was there, man, it's my partner, my brother. He should have knew not to do that is what you're saying. Of course. You know how the game go, man. When he ran into me on some, she wasn't, you know, man, she ain't, I ain't really know she wasn't telling me this, that, and the third. But like I say, when the shots went up, you holler, my girl. You ain't think they were shooting you. You ain't think they were shooting me. You thought they were shooting her. Yeah, cause you understood what was going on. I didn't know what was going on. Y'all too knew what was happening. And I never heard that female say not one word unless the first boy that just killed her cause she never hollered, screamed, nothing. Wow. So, and that's crazy. Did even her family, did they try to contact you? Nah. Did you ever see them? You don't know her like that. I don't know her like that. For her family to contact me or anything. Did you tell old boy, you knew that girl, whoever this cause, and he was like, he telling me like, man, she didn't, but then he also in the midst of the conversation, he said, man, I saw that truck out there. I know you did. Of course, I know you did. Wow. And so how long had you been at the hospital when he made this call to you? Nah, this call was just this year. Oh, this call was recently. Yeah, this call was just this year. Cause you've been trying to keep him away from, he keep trying to get you to know. I called him when I first woke up, when I first got, you know, well enough cause I couldn't talk. I had to learn how to talk again. Yeah, we gon' get into that. How long were you in the hospital for? I went in the hospital, I got shot in December and I came out like April. Okay. Okay. So, but you couldn't talk. So, at the end of the day, you had to build yourself back up to even be able to talk. Yeah, I had to go to these different therapy and stuff. How many surgeries did you have? Well, I had six to close my stomach up. Cause you got a scar right here on your stomach, don't you? Yeah, it run from my pelvic area all the way up to your, to your heart. Yeah. That's crazy cause you know, I always think that if you get shot in your heart, you done. Yeah, that's why my skull is like an autopsy skull. You ain't even thought I was gonna make it. They told my parents, they let my parents come see me with the open up. Really? Yeah, cause they figured, you know, it's saving me enough to where my family could come in with a, but they just don't know my goal. Come on, man. Hmm. Let's talk about, let's talk about the surgery. Like when you went in, you only couldn't go by what you heard after that they put you out. I was out from, when I passed out in the cold. How long did, you pass out in the car? Yeah, I passed out, I didn't make it to the hospital. Okay, let's talk about that. What happened? You crashed? Yeah, I was losing too much blood. I was shot nine times. And he was in there too. And he was trying to drive to the hospital, but he was back there crying in, you know, mourning his, his girl. So when y'all crashed, the ambulance came. I don't know what happened when I crashed. Cause you even hear her, you ain't even knowing her. Nobody hasn't told you? I obviously didn't hear the ambulance came. That's okay. Yeah. But they didn't tell you like how long it took them to come all of a sudden. He was able to get out and flag someone down. But the crazy part is he flagged the people down and they say, my girl. Hmm. It took for someone to pass and say, hey, got someone behind the wheel too. Wow. And how do you know that? You heard him? No, this is, you know. No, he's already passed out. Somebody told you. Somebody told. Yeah, this was from the, you know, the people. The people that got you. I gotta ask. So what, what street, when, okay, cause you said this was a stoplight when you stopped on the truck, you know, pulled up. What street did this happen on? Crowder. Crowder. Crowder Boulevard in New Orleans, East. And then when you drove, what street did you have that wreck on? How far did you get? I drove a right, so crowded. I turned down Lake Forest and I drove all the way to Lake Forest and Reed, which would be the next, you know, across street. Okay, and that's where you had the wreck? I didn't expect it if you was getting off the interstate. Yeah, cause the hospital is right there to my right. Oh, so you was not far from it? I was almost there, but they said, good thing I did make it there because I probably would have died. The hospital don't have a trauma unit. That's not the type of hospital. So when they came and picked up, they had to take you somewhere else. They had to bring me to the University Medical Center, the main hospital in order to save my life. But they were able to transport me from where I was at in New Orleans, East, all the way to, like, around the Superdome to the hospital. Kept me alive. It kept me alive. It saved my life. Wow, cause when you think about the time for you to get there, you out. No. No, when the ambulance picked you up, you out. How long were you out? How many surgeries did you go through before you woke up? But what, a total surgery, I don't really know. You don't even know? Nah, see, cause that shit, I never even, like once I was alive, man, I just worship and go and pray and thank God, man. The rest of that don't matter, you know? But it's information for, you know, for the people, so that, yeah, yeah. But I don't have to ask my mom, she was, She was there. Yeah, she knows everything, everything. She was there? Yeah. And praying. She said she never felt like I was gonna die. That's hard, man, that's fake. Because I went to the hospital and she had COVID at the time. Wow. Well, she had my own COVID. And they let her in there? Full-blown COVID. And they let her in there? Yeah, but we didn't disclose to them that she had COVID. They didn't disclose to them that she had COVID. They knew they was a stopper from the COVID. She had to get to her baby. She had to come. But when she got to the hospital, she told everybody, hey, stop all that crying. Y'all ain't about to cry about y'all away. She's strong in faith. That's why I'm strong in faith. That's real. You told me how to pray. So you get, when you come, when you come to, tell me about that. When I come to, I raise my head up and I look around. And I'm fucked up. I don't know what happened to me. Who was the first person you saw? Her. Nobody. Nobody was in there when you? It was COVID. No visitors, no, none of that. So I woke up. But my mother was there. My mother was there. I looked up. I look around. I see my hand going. Like this, it was healed. Yeah. Already. Already healed. It was healed. When I saw it. But the staples and just the cut is still open, but this was healed. So you haven't been in there a while? Yes, well, I'm telling you. Look, I had just got a fresh haircut. Like, I was before this happened. And when I woke up, I had a bushy head. I had a whole hair for it. I had a bushy head and everything. And then Michael Jackson. That's how long I was out, man. But you came alive. And I thank God for it. And when you woke up, man, I had to be different. I woke up. I saw my arm was gone. I thought I was tripping. I just lay it back again. And I raised it back up again. And I moved. And when I moved and it really was gone, I guess the look on my face made my mother be like, wondering what happened to your hand. And I'm like, yeah, you know, I can't talk. So I'm just shaking my head. She was like, you don't remember? I'm like, nah, so you don't remember? No, no, no, no. So she said, just why you just cut. So she didn't tell me anything, which kept me up every night. She's like, I never went back to sleep. I never went to sleep. She's like, what the hell happened? I never went to sleep. She used to call the hospital three o'clock every morning to check on me. And every morning they tell her, oh, he's not been up? My mind, I couldn't figure out what happened to me. And I'd never been hurt like that before. Yeah. Like, I'd never been. So you couldn't remember back till the shooting or none of that? Not at that time. At that time, initially waking up under medication and things like that. I don't know. You were drawing a blank. But how long did it take before somebody actually told you what happened? The police. When did they come in? They wanted to question me. OK. But they had to wait till I was able to start talking. How long did it take you to regain your voice? I'm not sure. Like, to give you an exact time to hear. I don't really know. All of that shit just kind of a situation that I just leave where it's at. And your voice went because of where the bullet hit? No. First went from surgery. Surgery, man, one of my kidneys, they removed my kidney. They removed my kidney, my spleen. So the hand is just the damage that you could see. But it was a lot more damage done. A lot more damage. So they removed all of that because it was damaged? That was damaged. Because of shot? I had a colostomy band. You did? I was able to get it reversed. The doctors couldn't even understand how it was healing up. Why? To a little more hard. As God. But, you know. You told them? Yeah, because the head trauma surgeon told my son, man, your dad, like a superhero, like Wolverine, because they couldn't, they bringing students into my room and you know, going through my case, they couldn't understand. I'm sitting up, eating my talking to them, and like, wow. This nigga, healing back. Man, that was awesome, man. Then, come on, man. He also made me. I'm sure you see. I'm talking about to be able to, he get hit nine times. Five times. Lose his arm. Yeah. And look, and still, he understand that God was the reason for the season, man. A lot of people lost, man. If you don't believe there's a God, you're crazy. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Your faith kept you going, didn't it? You're going to suffer more than you think you suffer. Yeah, yeah. It's coming to a time where all you're going to have is God and people without God, it's crude. Want to be left standing, the other one will be taken away. Some people would even ask, like, did you, I know a lot of things you say you don't remember, but something like that, maybe I watch too many movies or some, but did you recall ever having like an out of body experience or anything like that? No. They ask me, you ain't saw such and such. Right. And yeah. You like, hell no, I ain't seen nobody. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to get back together. I ain't saw nobody. Probably knew why I ain't saw nobody. Why? I never crossed over. Already. I don't even know what. Like my mama said, my son is still in there. My faith is already done. And she rolled with that. Now you got to think about it though. Let's talk about it, man, for a minute. Trying to get back to walking, trying to understand how to use your arm with what you got now. How was that? How did you figure it out? Because we see you now. I hug you when you come through the door. You move it. Everything seemed to be all right. Listen, God already had me pre-programmed. Wow. Pre-programmed. He prepared me for the situation. When I didn't even know he was preparing me for the situation. How did he do that? Wow. By already implanting me the confidence. See, because that's what it be. It be that lack of confidence to have a person not wanting to do this or not. Like, not me. Not even for a moment. When they told me I couldn't walk, I was like, damn. They say, no, not. You're not paralyzed or anything. They say you just been laying in a hospital so long you haven't used your legs. I say, oh, well, I'm going to walk. I know that's like, I'm not paralyzed. Oh, yeah, I'm going to walk. I'm going to walk. Man, man. So how was it getting up for the first time? It was a struggle, wasn't it? It was a struggle, man. Somebody had to help you up, and you were helping me up. I take a few steps, and I'm like, because they didn't have to know your core. Your core is with you. That's right, that's right. My core is damaged. Damaged. It's sore, isn't it? So that's affecting the strength that's going into your legs and all that play a part. Your body is made to work in unison. When you take a part of that or mess up a part of that, your body is out of unison. Wow, man. Until you just get back one with God, and then you back one again. Wow, and so when you say from the time that you were starting to get helped up to the time you was able to walk properly, how long did that take? I'll let you know. Oh, you still working on it? Yeah, I'm working on it. Come on, man, because now you start to look at being sore or having those pains certain times. Do you ever have a... Ever. That's right. Oh, is that something you've been telling me? Yeah, yeah. I'm going to deal with this forever. Ever. But I accepted it. OK. Is it worse in the winter time? Of course. The minute the weather changed, I felt it. Because this is going to let me know. This is very sensitive, you know, by being sensitive. It's picking up on the breeze or like anything. That's why you got it covered like that? I got it covered. My mom made this for me. So it'll cover you? So it'll cover you? It's just a sleeve, just a cover. It's a sleeve, yeah. And it keeps you warm. It's thick, is it? It's thick. Wow, did that ever mess with you mentally, like when you just say, man, now I got one of my limbs missing? You was always confident. He said, this is a God. That's hard. I don't question God, man. Do you ever catch kids looking at you or anything like that? No, see, this is what I respect about kids. Kids going to ask you. Yeah. They there and show you. See, I catch adults staring at you. That's what I don't like. You don't like the don'ts thing. But the kids going to say, what? Kids going to say, what happened to you? And I tell them, I got shot. Stay out of the streets. So that it become a testimony to help people. That's what it's all about. I'm alive to be a testimony to help people. That's hard. Not for me. Not for me to do my thing to be doing podcasts and all that. That ain't what it's about. That's just, you know, a part of the journey. That's right. Yeah, but that ain't what it's about. When you think. Well, what I like, sorry, but hold on. But you know what I like about the fact that you said testimony is the fact that it wasn't you weren't the one in the streets or doing anything bad or anything like that. This could have happened to any body. And that's what people don't understand. People think that I'm not out of stuff. Bad. That's why you were to accept it. OK. It was just my turn. So you had already experienced this. You had things that was programmed for this. So I got shot and didn't panic. I drove to the hospital. Hospital right there. Yeah, yeah. In the streets. So I want to talk about. So you could talk. You could help a lot of people because of that. I want to talk about like the people that did do the shooting. Did they ever catch them? You don't even know. Never even try to find out. Never try to find out. Because he didn't see who they were or nothing like that. Correct. But it could have been somebody around. But you know, you never know. People talk. Investigators. Nah. You never even came back to me through the streets. Who shot me? Wow. Never even came. Because they use it. That's a cold lick there. Because the streets is worried. The streets. Come tell me about who shot everybody. That's what's crazy. I understand. It wasn't for me. Why suffer consequences if I don't have to? I totally understand. If I don't have. Hey, look, that wasn't for you. But you was in the car with the girl who was testifying. You know what I mean? Like, if you're in the streets, you know. You know what I did. I took my lick. OK, that's what it goes. I can't be against the winners' beneficial. Yeah. But when it's bad, then I'm not. It is what it is, man. What was the advice that Booby Black gave you? Yeah, man. Still do anything you want to do. Wow. And he shows me, you know, through his way, his living. Like, being experienced, you know, the situation and his life driving. That's right. So it made me think mine should be any different. For people like me who don't know who Booby Black is, who is that? Booby Black is an OG from Uptown, Magnolia Projects. He also was shot up and had, you know, unamputated. Oh, wow. Yeah. So that's coming from somebody who's already been there? No. Somebody who's been there. Been through it already. Was it important? How did he even link it? He knew him already or he just found you? Well, we have mutual people that we don't know. Back again to my same partner, Hulk, who I was telling you. Yeah. Free Hulk who hooked me up with Soul to Snap. He also hooked me up with Booby Black because he's Magnolia. So he had connections to these people. And he also was, his family is from the Florida Project also. So he's, you know, we have connections to both. He was able to connect. Did he come to the hospital or did you see him in the streets? Nah, he was in the streets. In the streets? We had a cover football game. And he just walked up to you and told you? No, we know each other. Oh, y'all, OK. Like, what's up, nigga? Talked on the phone, you know. See each other at certainly events. And, you know, it was before my situation. So then when I had the situation, nothing changed. It's the same thing. But I love it. It's all good, you know. Yeah. Just do your thing, man. Still do your thing, man. That don't stop nothing. It stopped nothing, man. It didn't stop nothing yet. Wow. What about, like, when you think about the kids and your kids? How old are your kids when it's happened? I only have one kid. How old is he? I have a 17-year-old son. And he about to be Mr. Junior tomorrow. He play for Madison. Come on now. Number nine. Number nine. That's why you have the nine around your neck? No, no. Night warrior, night warrior. Everything is nine. Number nine is the last number, man. There's no other number bigger than nine. So when you shoot and die, shoot nine. Come up, it's a problem. I'm betting whatever. Hey! I always bet no nine, baby. I always bet no nine. When I lose, I'm betting again. Wow. BG comes on. Yeah. He home now. Music and everything. He's getting back to it. Like, definitely, were you excited to see him come back to, you know? Most definitely, man. After 13 years, I love it. I really want to, you know, be able to go through that situation and be with these bags of their family, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And especially when you go through your situation and stand on it like the way he did, you know? You got to understand this BG, man. You know, BG, I have a lot of information if he wanted to indulge in any of it. Stand up God. You'll never hear anything about anything. And I respect that. Wow. When you look at, like, today, like, down in New Orleans, who would, who, the music wise, who do you see and who really, like, when you see it, you're like, damn, he doing this thing? Nine for nine. Damn show he is. Nine for nine. And then you have another young man in a city called Y.D. The Hillis. Know about Y.D. The Hillis? I've heard of it. Another up and coming. I could see it buzzing. I could see it back at him. Wow. When you think about, like, the Cash Money movement, I got to ask you these questions. The Cash Money movement, when it first happened, being that you was in music, how big was it for you to see, you know, Berryman Slim, them come from the trenches like that? It was very big, because, like I said, when the hot boy was coming out, we had the YG coming out. So we really trying to accomplish the same thing. Trying to find the same blue plant with babies. They do the same exact thing. But downtown. But downtown. Wow. So do downtown and uptown, they don't do they rock or? They don't rock. Like I just told you, like, Caliobar, chaotic, all uptown parties. Caliobar, you been there? Little soldiers, Slim, that's all my homies. That's hard. So do you, when you think about it, you know, Mack, we had him on the show as well. Mack. Mack is different, man. He did 21 years, right? Yeah. But when you see him, you know, he still has his confidence. He never lost his confidence. He still speak with integrity, and he still, he has forgiveness, and you can see the humbleness all through his heart, man. How is it, how big is that when you seen Mack come home? Major. Since we, Mack, that bring me to, I have a movie on the way that I wrote it, I wrecked it. It's called Sidewalks to Movies. It's the same for everybody, why they made Sidewalks, you know? And Mack is in the movie. Mack in the movie. Mack in the movie, Caliobar in the movie, Wacko, Skip. They in the movie? Mack, everybody in the movie, man. Snipe. Really? Then Ace, Ace in the movie. Then they can wiggle up. You know, Ace, he be with Bart, Ace, you know, Ace, Caliobar, Ace have a movie on the way. They do have, yeah, they came in. Superish. Yeah, man. Y'all working down there. Working down there, man. New Orleans as a whole, we working, man. Wow, that's crazy, man. I love it, though. I love the fact, man. So, like, what type, like, I said Mack, but no limit, I know the older, but Fiend and all those guys, you remember seeing them when that movie was going on as well? Yeah, and they were celebrities. Wow. That's how they always was going to be looked at as celebrities, because I always was going to their concert. Wow. So, it was a celebrity. Wow, yeah. Shout out to KLC, that's my boy, man. Shout out to KLC. Love KL, man. KL, show me mad love. One of my other... I did some KL at the Mack concert. Did you? Mm-hmm, we took a picture and talked, because he saw one of my other interviews that I had done. And he was like, man, I like how you... Energy Elves. It's, who was I going to say? D1, man, D1. You know D1? No, I don't... Well, I know D1, because I have met D1 before, but me and D1 never built a relationship. Never built a relationship. Because he younger, too. I see everything that he's doing, and I salute him for, you know, for being that opposed and adverse to, you know, the things that really deteriorating the mindset of our young black people. Wow. That's real. That's a real one. Man, now, who you got with you today? Who is this guy right here? Man, right there. That's my little brother, Rivers. Rivers? Y'all got some projects coming together, you say? Man, man, Rivers got a project coming called Dirty Rivers. Oh, yeah? Yeah, man. What made y'all link up? Man, that young boy, Beast, man, only coming rapping, man. Oh, yeah? Yes, indeed. How did y'all even know each other, just in the same neighborhood? No, we was introduced to each other through my other homie, King Mike. Shout out, King Mike. He is the lead character of Big Bank in my movie, Sidewalks. Wow. That's crazy, man. Y'all be just linking and working. The work bringing y'all together, nigga. It's the work. Little songs in the movie. Everybody here in the movie, too. You go back down there to jump in the movie? Everybody in the movie, man. Because it's film down there, right? Yeah, it's film down there, man. Shout out, SMG, Jig, Uptown, Jig, each other city. Let me ask you something, man. And this is something that I think about on time, with Baton Rouge being just 45 minutes to an hour away. How have you ever linked with any of those artists? I always think about how that separation is there, but it's really not that far. No, I never really had a connection to anyone from Baton Rouge, too. It's not like I wouldn't. Yeah. It just never was connected. But you heard Boosin' him. You heard Webby and Boosin'. Baton Rouge are hard artists. NBA Young Boy. And I like that they have these songs. You know that's Baton Rouge when you hear these artists. You feel me? You can tell. And they stand to the crowd. They sound, and that's what I respect. But I never had a chance to link with them. Link with anyone. Because you got to think, I was really in the streets of New Orleans. I really wasn't linking with nobody or doing anything. I just was, I was doing music, but... New Orleans. New Orleans, you know? Because I don't really like to go nowhere. I can't bring a gun. So I wasn't really going to many places, but now I'm a mature, I'm a grown man. I'm able to go places, conduct myself in a different manner. But that's why a lot of things, you know, I'm not a part of. Like, even when they had the New Orleans Exposed and they was going around, like, at this time, I'm in the street. I'm not even about to get one in the camera. Wow. Do you, when it comes down to Sea Murder, did you keep up with that? Man, free sea. Like, you hear all the controversy surrounding him. I definitely, everybody from Silk to Shark, I interviewed him. You know, that's his brother. You know, it's a free sea murder movement. It was going down, I interviewed Kale, everybody, you know. Want to see Sea come home, man. That's going to be crazy, man. I know that he going to make it home, bro. Yeah, they going to have to let him home, bro, because from my knowledge, brother, man, didn't do that. Everybody see that. Like, the streets of New Orleans, you know, the streets. The streets from day one, say, nah, but those people had their agenda on, you know, what they was trying to do. Yeah, and I think make it out that situation. Yeah, he wouldn't. He wouldn't want to trigger man. Now, but at the end of the day, and he ain't going to speak on what happened in that situation, not his place. That's for the police to find out. But in it, but they're holding him just because of that. That's got a lot to do with it. And that's why we need these laws to be different, man. Like, well, you can't just do that, man. Why? Look at it. Look at the time you taking this man away from his family, the memories, the experiences, the birthdays, the debts. And then to let him go. No, there's no reparation for that. No. Like, you know, but they're doing it so freely because us as a people, we really making them, not making them. You know, we ought to make them do whatever we want to do. And we have to make them see that we are together. That's the only way. No, because they know I could put you against you and you against you. Be happy with that. They ain't going to never unify. They ain't going to never. But if they unify, wow, that's why they fight so hard to keep it, you know. Yeah, I had Konto on here from down there. And Konto was locked up for twenty eight and a half years. And then, you know, he was exonerated because they had him wrong. Great. And, you know, I had George on here, which was the brother of the guy who got killed, which was the one that died in West Bank with C murder and all of them was at the club. And I didn't so just near me. They were there. You came later. I couldn't ever understand that part of it. But at any rate, one thing he told me was like, man, I got the paperwork, the paperwork, you know, it don't lie. And I was like, no, the paperwork do lie because I can't trust that paperwork because I'm interviewing you today. But just not even a week ago, I was interviewing Konto, who been exonerated and was in prison wrongly accused for twenty eight and a half years. You see what I'm saying? And he had paperwork on him just like you got paperwork on C in the situation he was in. So I had to break that down. That was a tough interview for me because I wanted to make sure I didn't want to go be one sided. But, you know, I wanted to let George speak to because that's his brother and he lost the brother that you're trying to. But then both of Massapy and George lost brothers when this incident happened. Nobody won in the situation. Nobody. Only one one was the killer. The killer and the system. Yeah. But the which is the ultimate killer, the killer one because they focused on one person. They're not even looking for me. You see what I'm saying? That's real. The killer is like, oh, man. Probably sad that he murdered had to go down for it. But I'm glad he's not looking for me. And then if he's passed away now, it'll never change. If he's dead now, he'll never speak up. Part of it. They never even try to see if they had another person. They felt like they had a person. And that's just what they want to be investigation to prove your pain. Yeah. Now just going straight off facts. Like if you go straight off facts, then that's different. But now that you already have just picked this one person, you're going to build, you know, the facts around. Wow. Do you ever? In your what about Juvie Tuesday down there? I hear about Juvie Tuesday. You ever enjoy Juvie Tuesday? Juvie Tuesday. Every Tuesday, man, shout out to Juvie, man. You're the Ben Juvie Tuesday. Every Tuesday I used to be my spot. You know, say what you say about Birdman. But all of those guys link back with Birdman in some type of way. You know what I mean? They say this or Birdman and Slim or Cash Money, but they all respect it and separated. They separate. Yeah, that's right. Because they didn't understand business early on. Birdman understood the business early on. He was taking care of the business. They wasn't understanding the business of it. I don't fault Birdman because that's business. And well, and usually when you put your money up, you're a boss. And if you put the money up first, you're going to be more attentive to how am I going to recoup what I'm putting up? So it makes you educate yourself first and foremost so you don't lose your money. Or all this don't understand that these people give you this check for this amount of money. Your album have to make that amount of money first before you see any money from anything. But see what's happening is the game they got so many young rappers now that's talented with no knowledge. It's getting them, getting them, putting them under. And, you know, these dudes' career, even if the ones that do make it, then they wind up on a podcast, talking about how the situation was. But just think about all those that didn't even make it to that point. To the podcast, even just tell you that that happened to them. Damn, like this is this is a shady business, man. It's worse than the streets because people could legally play you legally. But is it I'm going to bring up some because a lot of time they say so just slim, they say he was the two pocket New Orleans. And recently, Keith E.D., after almost 30 years, 27 years later, he's arrested for the murder of two pocket like. What's up with that? I tripped when I seen it. Could you believe that happened like 30 years later because he done wrote books and jumped on podcasts. Like he was just saying, you kept saying pocket, he done jumped on the damn podcast and then with the talking. Yeah, but he was talking in a way to I'm quite sure he had to know that these was incriminating statement that he was making. Or you were if you didn't, you don't have nobody around you that'll tell you I got on TV, but I still saying the wrong thing. That boy going to be stopped me. Hey, hey, hey, like, you know, you know, you know, like I could just get caught up in it and just go to talk. And I, you know, just say, even though I'm mindful of it, but I guarantee you that boy. He goes like, man, what are you doing, man? Man, what you doing? Man, because you got to think about it. Keith E.D., though, they said he had counsel or something. And that's why he thought he was going to die. But he didn't die. He said he survived. They told all this stuff, man. They got him locked up. He said, God, going to be with me. You have what he say. I'm still going to be with him. Locked up or not. Locked up or not. He might walk out them doors. You don't know what these folks are going to do, man. But it's all about what God wants for his life. That's right. That's right. And now they talking about they're going to come get my boy, Pete, did it behind and even give out a million dollars. These folks is like they coming up with all kind of ways to make this this situation. I trip off all the brothers that begin, you know, like major people. And then something happened like the way it be like, no, no, no. He here's something we're going to get some money. It's like somebody trying to take these people out of these positions, man. I think you understand what I'm saying? It ain't like I think it's intentional. I think none of this is coincidence. And that's why I have to watch what I say. And when I'm doing these interviews, that's why I say I'm mindful. Very intelligent. Got a lot of things I can speak on. But I don't feel like I'm in a strong enough position to to hold myself down if. Reprocussions were to come from. Speaking out about certain things, you know? Yeah, I'm still a little small fry, you know, it's too easy for them to crush me. Yeah, I got a hole in my tongue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, thank you so much for coming on the show, man. Like what what how can people get a hold of you? First of all, I mean, contact me through Instagram. There is our D.I.R.T. Z as in zebra. I R.E. at gmail.com. Top three all the time, too. There's I.R. Just regular. Oh, you're going to the ground. There is I.R.T. Just put it in, you know, in the streaming platform. I ain't never heard the name before. You about to hear from now on. That's what I'm saying. You got the only you the only there's I.R.T. And this is everything about me is original. Wow, because I have to. I have to be what God wanted to be in order for people to receive me. I have to be original. If I come like something else, you going to just brush it off as like that, that we see me. You got to tune in. You got to see what it's up new. Yeah, um, it's a top three artists of all time that are alive. Any genre, top three. Oh, this is okay. Number one, Lil Wayne. Stop playing. One is the way number two is going to be so disloyal. And number three me. How do you go do it? You should you deserve it. You're I got another question because all that you've been through, um, if you will, if someone is supposed to do a documentary on you, what would you want the main focus of that documentary to be about? Like, oh, it's good that see the documentary of Delph more into my personal life and you would see that I used to be a drug addict, heroin and cocaine. We didn't even get into that topic. But these things that the documentary would delve into, like I have my autobiography called blessed and didn't even know it. And look, man, y'all got to stay tuned. And there is. I'm going to stay coming out. You could always come. You don't know what it hasn't been written. My life is just that is developing. OK, so you haven't started on it. No, it's started, but not started because that that port is right down. But man, I've been life and and I've been loving it. I'm alive. So whenever you had your accident, were you on drugs at that time? No, I've been off drugs. I've been off. I've been clean about to be like 16 years. I've been clean off drugs. But I was on drugs for like 17 years. My whole 20s 20s. What inspired you or what to to to get off of it and to stay off of it? My son. That's the biggest motivator that I could have had, my son. Like once I had a child, it was more than me. When it's just me, I could live reckless. I could do things like, you know, if I hurt anybody, it's going to be a grown up. I feel like they can handle it. They've already before that child. That's your responsibility, you know, but I know so many people, I know so many people who are adults, who have kids and struggling with that drug addiction. I didn't want to rehabs. I went to my grandfather, my grandfather, have a rehab. My grandfather is a preacher. Mm hmm. He's superintendent, John EPL at Living Witness Church of God and Christ, where I'm a member. And I was in that program where I met King Mike at. It was a six month drug rehabilitation program. And through that process, he told me one thing that helped me because I hadn't been in rehab so many times. Every time I felt like I wanted to stop, I went to rehab. But then sometimes I relapsed back to get loaded. But he told me, you can go to rehab, you can go to jail, all that he said, but nothing beats a man of mine. And that resonated so powerful with me to, well, I live by that. Nothing beats a man. If you want to do something and you make up your mind to do it, you're going to do it. And I done that. So you don't believe in, because I hear people talk about, well, because where we're located right now, right? The next door is at AA, right? For meetings and stuff like that. And I've spoken to some of them before and they're saying that some people just have that addictive personality where they just can't get over certain things as easy as somebody who is. Long as that person think like that, that person will have a addictive personality. The minute they stop thinking that I have a addictive personality, you won't stop having an addictive personality. It's all on you. A lot of people want to get off drugs for other people. Not for themselves, because of the family, because of the kids, because of the wife, or because of the job, or because of whatever. So they'll get off drugs, but they'll never get off drugs. Just stop using for that mean time to please whoever it is they're trying to please. And behind, they're moving and shaking and still doing the same thing, which eventually going to show itself because they never like to make a fool out of you in front of God. I agree with you, because I always tell people who I know that in struggling with stuff like that, is the fact that number one, you have to know your triggers. Number two, you have to because you get clean because of that person. But as soon as that trigger come around or something happened, that person pissed you off, you going right back. According to A.A. means I shouldn't be drinking. I shouldn't be smoking weed, because all that could trigger me back to getting loaded. I call bullshit. Man, I was looking at some of your older songs. Everything ain't for everybody to do. That's true. I was looking at some of your older music, man. Like, like what I'm going to go back and listen to some more of it. But like, what's the when you look back at your older music and you think back to those time, what what comes to mind? Like the older, older, the older music, the older videos. Just the people that's not here with me on my journey. Yeah. That's that's what I see the most. A lot of people that's in my videos, a lot of people that's in the movie, a lot of people that they just they're not here anymore. You know, and some of the content I've been holding back on putting out because, you know, some of those ones are still first to people. People, you know, and before I just take my, you know, do my thing with it. I'm always going to be respectful, you know, but I'm still going to do it. But I'll be respectful. That's hard, man. But that's the way it's supposed to be, man. Thank you so much for coming on the show. That's our man. We love you, bro. We appreciate you for coming on our show. Man, you can always come here in the project. You trying to drive whatever you're doing, you put you got my number. All you got to do is holla. I'm going to give you some cars and whatever else you need. Man, like I said, you're a stand up guy. I knew God had me on a mission when I first talked to you on the car. Man, GDP is one that you got to shout out because, you know, I always call. That's my that's my fact check guy. Like I call doing too much of major stuff. Bro, I'll be calling that dude anytime somebody can do all this. Reach out to me who's sweeping G the under the rug. I don't think nobody is. I think it's you. You said in a mouthful throughout all this interview, you kept talking about God. Put people what they need to be. What GD is need to be right there where he exactly because he's helping so many people and then his brother is locked up. So he's there in a situation where his brother can be helped in his situation to know he can have a much bigger platform for the amount of people that he helped in due time. I think we don't know what's coming up in the future. But I think he's doing a lot more than we giving credit to like I'm not going to because I'm giving credit. No, I'm talking about far as the people that he touched and helped. It's some people. What's that little kid that passed away? B2Y. Exactly. Like think about how he was in his life and he connected the dots for him. He's also helping. Why did it? Yeah, but with the other kid that's locked up that came on our show, Jay Merck, Jay Merck, all these people. When I called GD, he'd be like, man, I'm going to get on the phone with Jay Merck. You know, there was a scripture that says I was in prison and you didn't visit me. Right. He's fulfilling a visiting situation in his lifestyle that a lot of people ain't even touching. You're putting you putting something that people very rarely do and making it something normal for yourself. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. It's major, man. He's supposed to be getting more recognition for these type of things. But man, come on, let's talk about it for a second. The game is so fake right now and so watered down to the fact that being real is is is is is just being pushed to the side. But then some some foolishness, like say his name, get caught up in the scandal. He'll be on. But I think you know, bro, because you got to realize, man, this dude just went crazy viral. Him and Birdman was on a day. Both him and Birdman was on a person. Yeah, but she didn't have to go viral. He is viral. I get it. But no, everybody is getting on no FaceTime with Birdman and TMZ and everybody's sharing it. That's more major than more niggas will see their whole career. You got rappers and everybody trying to do that. So when we look at GDP, we see what's going on. We we understand it. People see it. Most people don't acknowledge anything, but you got to the Bible. So you got to take it by force. Of course, you got to take it. So I think that's the main thing I think. But when you look at a GDP and you look at what he's done in New Orleans, being that spokesman, man, shout out to my boy, Dallas. No, no, no, no, I say cheese. But China say cheese, too. But Big D, the mogul, because he the one linked me with with GD. And and and I'm just, you know, like when I went to New Orleans, the first thing I did was called had to be God. I called Big D and Big D said, you need to highlight GD. As soon as I highlight GD, well, I highlight KLC first and ran a check on GD. He didn't know that I ran a check on it with KLC first because KLC was my reason for coming. So I was like, yes, it was GD. And he's like, he just spokesman, you know. And so at the end of the day, you know, he checks out. He is a guy that checks out. Everything checks out, man. So I think I thank God for GD, man, because without GD, a lot of the New Orleans stuff you see popping off from Bostock 101. It wouldn't be happening like that, man. I'm saying, man, shout out to GD, man. Yeah, man. Man, thank God, man, again, for you being here, man. We had shut down and started back up at that craze. That's how that spirit be. Nobody know which way it's going to go. Come from you on top of it. Just stay open. Man, you make it to where people can't make excuses. You can't say you can't go on. Because of people like you, people. My leg might be hurting a little bit. I still got to keep going. Because that's what you told me. You that's what Booby Black told you. Yeah, you still do you. Don't you still do you. That's hard, man. Check it, man. Hey, man, thank you for coming on the show. Bostock 101. What a boss is told. But a boss is told. Man, check it, man. Another great segment of Bostock 101. And we have.