 Big shit, big shit, big shit, big shit. It's a unique hustle nigga, big shit. Big shit, big shit, big shit. Name another podcast like this. Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle shit, boy. E-CEO and I'm here with the lovely, amazing official, Mr. Mako. Well, go on, you know my dad. Man, hey man, check it, man. Hey, man, we in here today, man. I got a special guest guys, man. You gotta understand, man, this my home girl. Me and my home girl talk. I don't play about this one. At the end of the day, a lot of times, you know, I know this ain't easy for her to do because she usually don't even come to the forefront. But she had to do it today, man. The L.D. is in the building, what's going on? Hey, hi guys. How you doing? Up and down. Up and down, you know. Now, and I know, you know, just so people understand what's really going down, you know, my boy Strap, BFG Strap, they had a ceremony today, right? They did, and we did. And at the end of the day, it was a private hell ceremony. It was. You know, the thing that gets me the most is, you know, he was gone too soon, you know, he only 22. Definitely. I lost water too live, he was 21. Sitting the same seat and it messed with me because I only been doing this a year or something. Right. And God put this in my life for something, you know. But the one thing I knew when I met the young man was, he was in good company with you. Because of the way that you, I knew he had you there as a buffer. Somebody who, you know, who thought reason. You know what I'm saying? Who was more seasoned to understand different situations that he was dealing with. And we dealt on a lot of different things me and you after we met, we became friends. And I, you know, and me and him became friends. Like I said, I hit him up about maybe three months ago, just checking on him like I do. And when I first heard about it, you know, I called you so in real time when it was going on because, because I love y'all, you know. Once I, once I link in with people that God put in my life, because I've been through so much already, I noticed my ministry to be sitting here talking to y'all. Right. Every time, even the clip that I put up, every time the biggest thing that God showed me is did I get to talk to him or say anything about God. And that's why you seen the clip I put back up about us talking about God. You know, about me, you seen the clip. I had to go back and see the clip that you put up. Yeah, I just put it up in my memories. I haven't really been on social media like that. After that. Outside of my, outside of what you was. Yeah, cause you know, I know it's a lot of. It's a lot out there. Yeah, that's a lot of untrue. Yeah. You know, infactual things out there. So I've been trying to stay away from that and stay focused on everything at hand. You know, and to be dealing with these young people, you know, you know already how it is when you're young. You know what I mean? Like it's a different world than where I'm at now. But I was young once. I was in the streets once. So at the end of the day, I had always showed love and respect to the young folks cause I never forget where I came from. That's right. So I don't understand sometimes when older people say things to them or talk down on them or, you know, this internet thing is something else. Soon as it happened, certain people jump up and start speaking in the wrong manner. All this different stuff chaos because the devil is busy. If it was not, what do you think, babe? Yeah, you're right. Because people, because they don't know the facts, they're gonna guess and spell. They don't know who to call to find out what's going on and whoever they could call might not even tell them anyway. So because of that fact, they're gonna say whatever, whether because they're trying to get clout, they're trying to get soundbites, they're trying to get, you know. I was gonna say that someone like looking for facts. Exactly. Someone looking for clout. Exactly, because even when something happens, like people in today's society pull out their phone and start videoing because they wanna be the first one to have it up on social media because whether somebody might buy the footage or it's just a money-making venture. People are not thinking about the welfare of that person and what saddens me about a lot of this, you know, because like if somebody passed away, normally the news doesn't even put it out until they contact the family. Social media does not do that. They quickly hurry up, take it up, put it up. A lot of people find out about death on social media quicker than the police even coming to them or anybody even giving them a call and that's sad. Because that's a terrible way to find out about it and I'm so sorry about what happened to him and what you're going through and what the family is going through, but I'm happy that you're here to speak on it because there's so many people who go through this on a daily basis. This is not just a one-case scenario. This happens all the time and a lot of times people back then didn't talk, they didn't have a voice, they didn't have a platform to come to to speak on it. And a lot of people hurt and silent, a lot of people go through depression, a lot of people commit suicide, I mean, do crazy things to damage their future. You know what I mean? Instead of healing and a lot of times we don't take advice from people face to face because nobody likes to be told what to do. So being that it's on YouTube, on all these different platforms that you can find us on, people can watch it in the privacy of their own home and learn from you, learn from anybody who come on this platform who's given advice, who's really trying to reach out to help other people because they've been through things. And I really believe, I'm not at all, but going through different situations you realize that, first thing people always say, why me? Why him? Why this? Why that? And I really believe that we go through things to help other people because other people are gonna go through it in the future, maybe even the same exact thing. And because you overcome it down the line, you're able to comfort somebody who's about to go through it as well. You know what I mean? And whereas anybody passing away, this is how I look on death. Always say when you lose somebody, treasure the memories that they gave you because that's one thing God is not gonna take from you is the memories. Enjoy those. I mean, why do anything else? That's the one thing that can take away from you because even somebody who have Alzheimer's do you realize that as older people get Alzheimer's they can remember everything in the past when they were younger? So God don't take away those memories. You know what I mean? So I look at that, because when I lost my dad, I changed a lot of things that I did and try to build memories because yes, you can go out here and work, work, work and supply for your kids and supply for other people and give them money and all of that. But if you're not building memories, when you're going, the only thing they can say, oh, they gave me money. You're not gonna hear, well, they instilled this value into me. They went fishing with me. They took me here. They taught me how to do this. Those are memories. Those are things that nobody can take away from you and it helps you to make you a better person. So you always want to do things to keep that person's memory alive to say that this is what he did for us. Let me ask you something, L.D. What was the last thing that, the last time you spoke to Straub? The last time I spoke to him was the night before. It was really the morning of. He was up late, you know, most of that night playing the game. And we just had this thing about his game. And so he got locked out of his game and he couldn't use his card. So he used my card and, you know, I was like, why does thing keep charging or whatever? So we kind of went back and forth about that. And he was like, well, I took yours off and put mine back on or whatever. And, you know, I was like, no, you didn't because it's still charging or whatever. And he was like, I don't know why that thing keep doing that. So that's kind of the backstory. So when he called me, he called me and said, well, you got another card that we could just use for it because it's not accepting mine or whatever it was. Because I think once you do certain things, it'll lock that card out or something. I don't know. But that was the last time I like spoke to him, but we shot a video that night. So that was like a few hours. That conversation was a few hours after the video shoot. What was the video for? What song? Streets in New York. Okay, Streets in New York. And I know they'll be dealing with his projects, or you'll be dealing with his projects, but just, you know, what were some of the things that he aspired to do while he was dealing with his music that people might not know? Well, we were, as far as music, because we were working on some things outside of music as well. Okay, I like your voice as well. You go ahead and elaborate on that too. Yeah, so we were in the process of getting ready to get into real estate. Okay. A lot of people probably wouldn't know that. Right. Strap just really wanted to make it for his people. And I say his people because not just family, but his friends, more so than he, because, you know, he just, he was like a big light, big energy that just couldn't be denied. So he couldn't help that, you know, to walk in a room and just, you know, it wasn't that he was being cocky. He just had big energy. He was really humble. Very humble. And he, his biggest thing was making it for his people. Wow. I know. You know, most of all. Me and him, like I said, when he first brought him over here, I was telling you how much I love this music and how much, you know, I would think about little babies and different people that I felt like his music was just, if he, the more he put it out, the better it would be for him, for me. It's like, this got to keep putting it out because I knew he had something, you know? Shout out to Dallas Global. He, Terry would say that he was his favorite artist, you know? Yeah. And, you know, we talked about it. Me and Terry have this thing, man. I don't know, even when Woody had passed away, me and Terry talking, like it's, when you were in the middle of this, this world that we live in, you tend to, you gravitate to certain individuals. Yeah. And Strap was one of those type of people. You know what I mean? I mean, Terry came to one of our video shoots. Yeah, he said he was a big fan. Yeah, made him and he's a good guy from what I can tell you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, when you think about like, you know that God is using you, have used you to be a part of his life, you know, to shed light in dark situations where he might've been in a dark situation before now. And y'all was hearing y'all was there and y'all was working and doing things that made sense, you know, as far as for his career or just for him, as far as growing up as a young man, you know what I mean? So, you were, as I told you this when I talked to you the first when this was going on, you know, God is using you to help the young people around you, you know? And no matter what bad stuff may be happening around you, no matter how many things may seem to be crazy around you, that don't matter. Right. What happens is you have to show people by walking it in front of them how life's supposed to be. We've been married for 20 years, you know? When I talked to one of the young men whether it whoever it may be, they know what I'm about now. They know where I came from, they know where I'm at now, they can respect me more now. But not when I'm talking crazy to them or trying to preach to them, nobody wanna hear that. You know, they wanna see the result, see what you're gonna do. And that's the best teacher in the world. You know what I mean? So that's what I aspire to do for the youngsters and I see that in you. Yeah. You know what I mean? When God puts you in position, there's nothing you can do about it. That's right. At all. So I actually, you know, I shared this, which Strap and I know, cause we talked about it, but I've shared this recently. I actually saw him before I started managing him. Okay. And just didn't know he was gonna be my artist. Wow. Yeah. A few months before, maybe about six months before. And how long have you been managing him for? Two and a half years. Two and a half years. Yeah, going on. It was going on two and a half years. That's long in the management world. Yeah. So it was just kind of crazy because I got introduced to him by a mutual friend of ours was busy telling him about me and telling me about him. And we both, we laughed about it because we were both kind of doing the same thing. Like, you know, okay, cool. I don't know about that. You know, we'll see. And it was funny when we talked about it because not knowing he was over there doing the same thing. So I just know and the things that he shared with me because it was more than just business. I became like a confidant friend, manager, second mom, all of that. The things that he shared, I just know that the reason is why that put me in place. And even though it hurts, knowing that I feel that void as much as not allowed before he passed. Yeah, that's real, man. I just, like I said, I know that when this thing was going on, you heard all kinds of crazy stories coming out. This guy, you know, he was the one on the ground. I heard all kinds of stuff, I'm being real with you. This is what they were saying. You would see it, they were showing this picture all over saying it was him, all kinds of stuff. What do you do or how do you handle that mentally when something like that's going on and people are doing this? Cause this internet world is different now. It ain't like it used to be. When I was young, you didn't have these resources to do all that. There's conflicting stories, then there's people jumping on there, campaigning about the situation in a way that as if they're involved, all kinds of stuff is going on. And it's not just with Strav, but everybody's doing this. This is a trend that young people are doing. Where do you mentally do you fall when something like that's happening? Cause I hadn't had to experience it. Well, of course I'm human. So, you know, the first thought was, oh God, why, you know, what, you know, what? You know, I'm looking at, cause in the beginning I was before I removed myself from social media. So I'm like, what? Right. Like, that's crazy. Like, how do y'all come up with some of the stuff? Now, you know, the picture thing, that's one thing, but the stories, you know? And at first I, I just heard about it. I didn't see the picture. So I was like, oh my God, they got this picture, you know, but I didn't see it. But you heard about it. I heard. Okay. And so my thought was, oh God, they got his picture. But then as the day went on or what not, I found out that that's not what they had. So, you know, it was running rampant, like lives travel fast. So. People rather entertain them. Yeah, yeah. Did you, did you, did they ever find a guy who did the shooting? As far as I know, no. Okay. As far as I know, you know, the only thing that I know is that he was basically somewhere when he was, you know, on that street, a street that he frequented and was standing back and got caught. Yeah, it wasn't even for him from one of you. I heard the same thing, you know, that it wasn't even a situation where this was even meant for him, but it ended up being something that kind of happened that way. So with our audience watching, what is it that you want them to know about Strap or even the situations that happened that day? Just, well, as far as the situation, I'll address that first. Believe little. Yeah. Believe little. And you never really realize how that goes until you're facing it, you know? And it just made me rethink situations with others that passed away. It made me question. Is it real? Is it true? Like a whole lot of blogs or so-called blogs, YouTubers or whatever, trying to get clicks and make a little money, just say anything. So it just made me really realize, okay, well, the others that I, the things you saw probably wasn't the truth. Wow. You know, cause it was so, so many lives, just crazy lives. To try to get somebody to see it and figure out a way to where they can be a part of it. All this stuff is people, you know, I never, that's one thing, like I'll post what me and him had, but you'll never see me speak on something that I don't even really know about or even knew the guy or person. That's because you're respectable. I have to be. And you have integrity. But not even that, even if you know something, it's not our place to say it. Yeah. What I mean, if you're like, I had a question that someone asked about a blog or whatnot and we were kind of discussing it back and forth. And I told them, you know, news is news and you know, the job is the job. But when you're personally being messy, then that's when I have an issue with it. Not that I can necessarily do anything about it, but that's when I have an issue with it. And I won't, you know, have anything to do with those type of bloggers or whatnot because what's for you is for you. And if you're supposed to be in this business, you don't have to go down to the gutter to make profit. They said, what God have for you, nobody can take from you. You know, I want to see these people you got with you. That's what I did. Y'all, come on, all y'all, come here. All of y'all, all of y'all, get up. You know, I'm old. Yeah, all of y'all. You know, when you, oh, you say it like that, you know, it don't mean nothing. You know what I'm saying? You too, where you at, man? Just stand in the back of them glasses. Oh, you were late coming in. You were late coming in. I just want to say, man, you know, I'm definitely sorry for your loss, man. You know what I'm saying? And I definitely want to say, man, you know, we got to give, we got to do a moment of silence for my boy strap, man. On ballstart 101, it's a lot of love, but we definitely want to show that, hey man, this guy meant a lot to us. We would not stop pushing his music. We would not stop pushing the people that he loved to standing around this panel. Anything that we can do. ALD already knows she got me on speed now. She called me and we talk about anything. She might get on me too. I might get on her. We don't know. We just, that's what friends do. You know what I mean? So, man, let's do, have a moment of silence, man. Man, like I said, you his brother. That was your, you was his oldest brother. Anybody else family? I mean, we are family. Of course. I'm talking about the, you know, the immediate. You was with him that night when he came. This is my close friend, brother, he's other brother. Yeah. Yeah, they are. They all in, and you know, one thing I can tell y'all, man, you got to, like I said, my thing is, is I got to tell you to keep God first. Cause if it wasn't out of Christ our long time ago, you know what I'm saying? I'm old now. I once were young, but I'm old now. So that mean that I made it through and you guys can do that too. You know what I'm saying? But if not, all I'm saying is put God first, bro. You know what I'm saying? And I know already it's a lot of times stuff like this, have you angry? Stuff like this, the last time we was at the other spot when we dealt with the other situation, temperatures was flaring. People were saying this and saying that. Same way, they came to Boss Talk. You know what I'm saying? Cause Boss Talk is about love and bridges and trying to help our people. Y'all are people, man. We love y'all, man. This ain't nothing new for me. My wife, 20 years ago, I was teaching at the shell at the North Dallas, my boy Solo got shot four times. I was the only one I went to his wake and his mom came and talked to me because he used to have Bible study with me after they be hustling. So this ain't nothing new for me. I've been doing this. I take it for real. Now we gonna cut up and have a good time. I ain't gonna play with you. Y'all know ever since we've been there, been laughs. But we're gonna always keep God first for show, man. You guys are dope. Y'all stand up, man. And LD, I'm gonna be honest with you. I just wanted them to come up because this just shows the love, how God put these young folks in your life and these people around you period and it's opportunity that where you know already, you have to move by the spirit in order to articulate which way to go next. And whatever happens, God is the one in control and nobody else to be honest with you. We, I hate this strap is gone. You know what I mean? I love, like I said, I love his music. I love the way he was. He was a humble, he respectable. You go back and watch the interview, you'll see he showed us the utmost love, man. And you don't get that out of everybody that come on these panels. We done had little niggas in here. Yeah, we're smiling. Little niggas in here texting and acting disrespectful. I got and had it in here, bro. Having them. But you know me, I'm checking that too. But at the end of the day, but at the end of the day, I'm still trying to influence them by showing them a golly walk in front of them. And like I said, man, love y'all brothers, man. The music don't stop that music, man. I know you next, we gonna see first, nigga. I'm waiting on you, nigga. Nigga, I'm coming for you. I know the audience in here too. Oh, yeah? Boy, y'all say that, but boy, when you get behind that mic right there, tell them, I'm calling for you, nigga. I'm playing the music. We all drop 16, all that, it's serious. And he gonna tell you what he really thinks. Yeah, for sure, man. But at the end of the day, it's in love. I wanna, so what's gonna be next, LD? Can you give us a little bit of insight? So, of course, such an unexpected. It's very unexpected. He left us with some things. Yeah. Yeah, so my plan is to keep his memory alive, of course. Real talk. Because that was, whew. All I'm saying is, listen, listen, LD, you gotta be strong, man. You know what I'm saying? You gotta be strong for these cats right here, man. You know what I'm saying? I know it hurt. I know it hurt. At the end of the day, like I said, from the day everything happened, God had me on that phone with you. God had me trying to make sure that I was there for you. If you need me, whatever I can do. You know, it ain't much you can do, but be there for a person when they're going through something like this, man. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So it's gonna take time, but at the end of the day, God gonna make a way. You understand that? God gonna make a way he always does, man. And I know you might not like the way things is right now, but you'll see. God gonna, he gonna figure it out. It's gonna be something greater later, I promise you. He never, he never failed me yet. I lost my mom and my dad and my best friend. Everybody gone, but he never failed me yet. No matter how you look at it, you can look at it, you can look at it any way you want to, but I'm telling you, I'm still here. I'm a living witness. My partner got out the car with me. Next day he was dead, his uncle cut his throat. I can keep going, story after story. I found my uncle dead at 13. Different stuff, I can keep going. That's why I'm telling you, God don't fail you. Only time you failed is when you give up. Keep his memory alive through his music and through his visuals. That's the one thing. When you look at back in the days, we didn't have all the visuals. People couldn't afford having a camera or to videotape because even like your father, grandfather, whatever. You had pictures. You didn't have videos to hear the person's voice to see them all the time. Like they're still here. You have all of that to keep him alive. You know what I mean? Definitely gonna keep his memory alive. When new projects come out, you'll be here. You'll definitely be coming through here. You know what I'm saying? Y'all will be sitting down at this round table. And like I said, you guys, you just don't know, man. I know it was a big loss, you know? But I just know God is big enough for the job, man. And I know sometimes people are like, God, why? Listen, man, I understand you don't understand why it happened and why he let it happen, you know? Or he did it and all that. But let me tell you something, man. God's still God, y'all still here. I don't even ask why, cause you're not gonna get that answer. You got younger people that's watching y'all. Shrop had young kids watching him. I know. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, he was. Yeah, we. God, he was. He was, too. Then he would turn down about that, man. Yeah. Yeah. He was, I mean, his talent just superseded him. He left us with great music. I know a lot of his fans, he touched a lot of his fans, had a lot of fans in my DM. And just reaching out to me on the business line. Yeah. So he was really loved. And that love just overshadowed any hate. Any hate. All the hate. Listen, man, there's a lot of it out here. You know, some things. I remember when we was here, and you was like, man, watch that right here. And watch that. You was so protective over my love. You was very protective over what was going on with Strav. And hey, man, it was like, she was telling me, don't do this. We can't do that. We don't, that's when you know somebody really looking out. She ain't just coming here like a lot of these managers. You gotta realize how many managers come in this thing. She came in here saying, don't do that. We don't want that. We don't want that. That's like mama bear. She was not trying to hear it guys. And that's why she here today because I respect that so much. You know what I'm saying? That she really care about y'all. That she really care about what's going on. And she ain't gonna, she ain't gonna fold. She gonna be there with you. And that's what I love about L.D. That's why we did this because we know already this is what Strav will want. You know, Strav will want them guys, man. And it just, man, like I said, he was just a good guy, man. And I know that in all of us keep his legacy alive, we gotta stand in front of you, Mike. You said something early on. We was talking, it was like, you gotta think about it, man. And you were saying something. If we don't do this, then the lie gonna excel all of this. If we don't stand up and say something, then people don't have nothing but to lie. So I had to put this together so we can say something. That's what this whole panel was about. Because if we don't say something, man, nigga be out there telling all, you've seen all them lies came out. These niggas will be talking, my dude. Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. But money, though. Yeah, but y'all, I want y'all to, A, I want y'all to focus on the music. Be that voice. You understand what I'm saying? That's what he, that's what he will want. Be that voice, put it on the sounds. Let it be known, man. That's why you gotta go with it. And then also don't deny the fact that you hurt, that you have to heal. You have to keep that in the forefront. Cause sometimes we cover it up. That's what men do for show. We don't talk about nothing. We ain't through the cry with you, nigga. We only, nigga, nigga on the floor, nigga. But at the end of the day, I'm telling you, man, give yourself some healing time. And understand that what you're going through is tough. Cause you'll find yourself doing things out of order if you don't give yourself that time to heal. If I don't say nothing else, I gotta say that. You know what I'm saying? And keep on, keep on smiling, keep on hustling, man. Keep on handling your business, man. Nigga got this necklace on, making mine look bad, but it's cool though. You niggas running around with it. Yeah, you niggas, yeah. You niggas got these necklaces on, nigga. You know, smelling good, smelling like, uh, uh, itching, man. I'll give him bone number nine. A Ventus Creed, nigga. Yo. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Man, we love y'all, man. Same, man. If it's anything, did I forget anything, guys? Y'all got anything? Y'all want to say this mic wide open. Yeah, nigga, back up, y'all nervous. I knew it. I knew it. I knew you, nigga, were nervous. I don't want to say something too fast. I don't know what you want to say, okay? You know, it's strapped me. You know, we doing it. We doing it for the strap, ultimately. And we don't ever let his name die. That's real. Oh, yeah. Man, the biggest flag flying. Y'all know how it's going, man. Already. So, Spazzy World, for real, we going to keep this thing going. We going to keep them flags in the sky for real. Man, that boy must know that mic on, nigga. I hear you good. I want to say, man, like y'all said, bro, all the lies y'all keep it to yourself. All the fake blogs and the like, the blogs that want to post them down, and want to hop on the wave, man. Cloud Chaser. Cloud Chaser. Trolls and money, you know what I'm saying? Because I seen one in particular, but I ain't going to say a name, but he was really Cloud Chasing and doing that on. He was really slamming in my brother's name for a whole two hours. Hold down a little bit. For two hours? Two hours long. Two hours long. Like, he was slamming in my brother's name and I ain't like that, but you know what I'm saying? Like, don't do that. Don't do that. Like, you know what I'm saying? My boy was four, four eight, hard of a line, like standing seven foot. You wouldn't think of you four eight when you're real. I see it in him. Man say, like, that's all I gotta say. Man, I want you to keep that music coming. I want you to keep that legacy alive. How, okay, the mother, how's mom? Is she? She's doing what she do. She's up and down day by day, yeah. One day at a time. Yeah, we just love her. I'll see her a little later. Already, man. Thank y'all for coming on the show, man, I hope I did y'all justice, man. You know already how I do. I don't change, I don't stop. I'm, we're gonna keep pushing. Yeah. For strap. BFG strap, we gotta keep pushing. You feel me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anytime y'all need me, nigga. I gave y'all my ne- My card, nigga. Can't even my card, nigga. I already used the card. Yeah, I'ma say it, nigga. He quiet, nigga. You know I'm on that nigga neck, nigga. I been on him ever since anybody can get it in here. Anybody in here, you gotta remember that face that you seen. I remember, I remember him. Remember this man right here, though. Remember that face that you seen. Okay, he coming. He hot. Yo, shit's on. Hey, that producer? Everybody already know how we... Yeah, that's right. Yeah, he got the guy that was the one that was the one that was the one that was the one that was the one that got the glasses on. Let's go, let's go. Hey, the flag on. Already, man. Check it, man. Hey, man, it's been another great segment. R.P., man. Strap, man. B.F.G., we love him, brother. Strap, man. Strap, man. Strap, man. Man, it's a music world for life, man. Boss talk 101. Now we out.