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Adversity for sale. You gotta believe. I love this. First of all, I love the title. Yeah
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You gotta talk about what that means. Man, that means everything, bro
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It's like adversity is the real deal. It's where you learn. You know what I'm saying
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It's where you grow. It's where you, you know, they say they never met a skilled sailor in the calm sea
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You know what I'm saying? So you gotta go through it to continue to go through it. Right
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And that's what it's basically about. It's like, I'm gonna tell you about how many times I lost before I even knew what winning was. Right
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And the reason why I was able to do that and continue to lose and not get discouraged was
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because I believed. And that's when anything you do, I mean, anybody sitting successful at some point, you know
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they would believe in themselves. And you gotta really look at them though, because it's like, you know, you think Barack
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you know, you know, you had to know he told somebody he was going to be the first black president. Right
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And they probably like, yo, man. Yeah. And when you pull it off, you know, everybody's happy
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Everybody's proud. But nobody knows all the shit you went through to get there
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You know what I'm saying? I don't think nobody really, by the way, if I think if he sat down and told us, we'd all
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be shocked, blown away. You feel what I'm saying? So instead of waiting for that, I wanted to explain in my book, it's about a lot of things
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that I could explain to the best of my ability without incriminating myself
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And that's basically what Adversity of Sale is about. Right. Now we're going to unpack this into a movie
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I would love that. You jumped all into my questions. I would love that
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But in the way I would do it, it wouldn't just be about me. It'll be about everything that was going on
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Music at that time was like, it was golden. You know what I'm saying
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The city was golden. The clubs was golden. The nightlife was golden
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Atlanta was just, it was a different city. The vibe, you know what I'm saying
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So it would just be about all. It would be like a paid in full
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You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, when you watch paid in full, you just got to think about, you know, that
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city was lit back then. It was the stage. Right. It was the stage
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And the crazy thing is, is that there's a cast of characters in the book. I mean, it's literally like that, you know
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And a lot of them are mentioned in your music. So, you know, we've heard these names over and over and now you're getting the real backstory
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Well the ones that I could. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Well, sometimes you're saying, well, we'll just call them such and such
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Right, right, right. I mean, you know, cause I want to be respectful. You know what I'm saying
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But at the same, cause it's not, this is not me trying to throw nobody under the bus, get
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one up. It's just a story. You know what I'm saying? It was very therapeutic for me cause you know, it's like, you know, hip hop culture, we go
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through so much, man. We like, we like Marines that came back from a war
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You know, we all got PSTD. We all paranoid. We all got our thing
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And it's just like, for me, I was just unpacking that, writing the book and it was just like
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damn, like that, that did happen. Wow. And it's just sometimes when you sit back, you know, you've got to really just, you know
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give God the glory because it's just like, you know, you've been through so much and
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for a day like today for me to officially be an author, who knew I had to go through
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all that shit to officially be an author. Right, right, right. You know what I'm saying
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Like, that's crazy, right? Yeah, it is. It is. It is. I mean, how did you get to this point
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Like, I mean, you know, when I read it, I'm like, I'm reliving certain things cause I
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was, you know, I was there. I was not, not all of it, but I was there for the hip hop part, a lot of it, you know
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what I mean? And it was a crazy time. So I guess what I'm saying is you do get to a point in life where you're like, let me
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look back and let me, you know, like you said, unpack. It wasn't the smallest thing. Yeah. Yeah
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Cause I had to deal with a lot of it, like, you know, even when I was right or wrong
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you know what I'm saying? Then it was just like, you know, even back then, you know, I was smoking and drinking
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a lot. So it was easy to like, to put some shit in the back of your mind
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Like it was, it was easy. You know what I'm saying? Right. You know, it was a growing man
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It's like, when you got to face some of that stuff, it's like, it's trauma
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You know what I'm saying? It's like, ah, I never really unpacked
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Like, I never really unpacked when Shakira died. I didn't really, I didn't sit with that well
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You know what I'm saying? I dealt with that how I dealt with anything else
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And even when like a lot of the homies was dying, like I never really like took, I was
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on the move. I couldn't stop. Right. If I slowed down, I was too close to stop it
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So I think now that I got a chance to sit with it, read and you're right
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Like reading, writing the book was one thing, reading it for the audio book was a different
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thing because you're reading out loud and you got to go through the emotions of what's
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going on. So I did stop a few times and just was like, you know, it was hitting me
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And it wasn't no blunts and no drink dinner. You feel me
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I'm not there no more. So it's just like, I don't got nothing to self soothe and, and, and, you know, and just
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regulate myself. So I got to deal with it. You know what I'm saying? And not even in a bad way
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I should have dealt with it then, but I don't know how, but I got the tools now and that's what's dope
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And that's why I'm even out here kicking this to the coach because we all been through so much real shit, bro
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Like my story ain't no different from yours. You know what I'm saying? But it's just like, I'm just want the knowledge I've learned
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I want to sit at the light, you know, you can get better. Right
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You can't figure it out. You can't go back and fix some of this stuff. And you can, you know, as a person, like get in a space where you feel better about you
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Because it's like a lot of that stuff. I feel like, you know, it's awesome
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Just being real. Like, like I was cursed or something, you know what I'm saying
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Like, why me? Like, it's keep coming. You know what I'm saying? But now I'm like, try me
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You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not even tripping no more because I got the tools
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And that's what the book is really about. Having the tools and having the understanding and the crazy thing we kicked it off with
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Somebody gave me the book, Think and Grow Rich. And that changed my life. You know what I'm saying
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Like it changed. Who gave it to you? One of my business guys, man, out of LA
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He does insurance. He does very well for himself. He's like on a bunch of insurance companies
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You know, anybody with, you know, a couple of Rolls Royces in the house in Malibu
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I'm going. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying
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I'm just like, okay, so what are you saying? He's like, yo, you should read this book. And I read it
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And, you know, the first time I read it, I didn't really get it. And I kept reading it
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And I just started to pull things out of there. And I'm like, damn, like, it's a lot of knowledge in this book
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And that's what got me back into reading. And from then I just started hitting books
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And I was like, yo, what if I did my own? You know what I'm saying
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I talked about, you know, my life and put in a book for him
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First thing I had to do was call my lawyers to make sure, like, you know, I just want
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to make sure I'm talking about things I'm able to talk about. Within the outside of the statue. Yeah
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So, and so when that went through, I met Coach a couple of times. I had to change a couple of things
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But the message and the intentions wasn't to throw nobody on the bus
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It was like, how can I tell this story? Because it's fascinating. It's like where I came from, what I went through, what I stand for, how I've evolved in the
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game where you don't really see a lot of evolution. I'm the only person I can probably say off the top of my head that I've seen evolve in
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a lane like mine is Jay-Z. You know, a street guy. There's a lot, you know, some artists, like you think about Dr. Dre. Yeah
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You know, he's a producer, artist, but you can see him having a long career because he's
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a producer as well. Jay-Z doesn't produce. He's a guy that was from the streets and he makes music and he was able to sustain his
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career this long and then flip that into business. So when you see that, you're like, wow
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But what makes it interesting is when you start seeing his people like Emory and all
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them come home, you start putting Drew together, you're like, oh, he really, you know what
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I'm saying? Okay. Like, I get it. But what I'm saying is like, you know, just think about from my generation, there's nobody
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really like that. Right. And that's why I feel like I got to tell the story because you don't really see a lot of
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cats from my generation really having that jeopardy and sustaining and keeping their
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credibility going to other things that they're doing. Right. You know what I'm saying
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Because when you start talking real estate, you know, everybody might not want to hear
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that conversation, but it's real. It is. When you ate at Alms Inn, you better have something else going on
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You know what I'm saying? You better have some other businesses or some because you know how this game go
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You could be up today and down tomorrow, you know, and when you're down, ain't nobody
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you know, ain't nobody checking for you. You know what I'm saying
