SPEAKER_01 0:24

Now I'm finna ask you that question I asked you already.

SPEAKER_00 0:27

I'm ready. Where the fuck you been? Where I been where you been? I've been worldwide, man, watching studios international, man. Yeah, we everywhere. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 0:37

A little bit everything. I've been I I seen I seen one of your like recent posts or whatever. And first of all, the picture game. Appreciate it, appreciate that. Uh the videos. Love. You know what I'm saying? Appreciate it. It was always nice like that. We'll get into it. I'm just trying to warm up or whatever. Just get started. I ain't talking about shit. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Well, you know, I've been in Thailand for like 60 days.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

I'm waiting on you whenever you open the door. I'll walk on in. That's the thing I seen. The shot off the rooftop bar in Bangkok. Yeah. That shit was fucking outstanding, bro. Yeah. Yeah. Y'all check out that man work, man. Go to that man page, look at that man work. I I think I caught it on a story or a post or something.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

Yeah, I think I did a reel to do. I'm doing a lot of little reels. I got a lot of content from uh Thailand. Okay. Thailand. You know, I went on a little smoke vacation, man. I feel you. I feel you.

unknown 1:30

Already, already.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Oh shit. You know what, man? Fuck it. I'm I think I'm about I I'm I'm I'm trying to let you off the leash, so hold on. Let's yeah, I'm gonna open the show. Uh for those of y'all who don't know, and those of y'all who do know, this is how this shit go.

SPEAKER_03 1:54

You understand? You feel me?

SPEAKER_01 2:09

This is your boy Jake. This is YBZ the podcast. As always, like share, and subscribe to the channel. You feel me? Anywho, right now I got uh oh yeah. Shout out to the day ones, you feel me? Need you, need you, yo. Y'all keep, you know what I'm saying? Y'all keep clocking in, y'all keep tapping in, y'all keep checking it out, you know what I'm saying? Uh shout out the big T. Uh I I'm all over the place. I I want to get started. I'm excited. You don't understand. I I know you're looking at what where we at. And if you don't know, we're at Niger. I'm saying it right, Niger. Niger, we're at Niger, and I'm so excited about this, what this look like. So I'm all over the place rambling and whatnot. That's how I speed it through the intro. But I'm not finna mess up this man over here. Uh, he hit me up, he wanted to be on some Drake shit. As usual. He wanted to be on some Drake shit as usual, and I was like, fuck it, you know what I'm saying? I I I I cannot waste this opportunity, you know, just talking about Drake when he's interested in his own right. Uh photographer, videographer, uh Anthropo nigga, you feel me? MC, uh uh uh M MC uh shit. You you you party promoter, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Do not disturb.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

And already, man, entertainment, you feel me? That's I'm that should cover the whole board from the from the time you get in to the time you motherfucker leave, and he'll send you the picture of what happened that night. Hey yo, this 1A1, you feel me? Hey, yo, appreciate you, man.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

Appreciate you too, Jay, man. Hey man, it's always a good time we come to YBZ, man. It probably the best podcast in fucking Okinawa, man. I stamped it. Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

Already. That's that's that's that's hot praise. I appreciate that shit, man. Yeah, that's hot motherfucking praise, man. I took my light from you. Get it to that's why I had to track that motherfucker down here, man. So I got him on here, and we're gonna I'm I'm I'm gonna interview him because I think everybody should know who A1 is. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, one time for Nigel for having us up here. This the spot is beautiful, this scenery is beautiful. You feel me? Y'all come check them out. I have to do so my damn self. Uh I'm gonna interview A1, man. I want people to know who A1 is. I I I it took me a minute, it took me a hot second, but he reminded me of somebody. And uh, I think I told him the first time I ever met him. I told him this story or whatever. He reminded me of this cat I used to run with named Chad or whatever, whatever. Especially now when you got him in your mouth or whatever, he his whole mouth was slugged up, you feel me? So, yeah, and hey he was he was you know he was just one of them people where you could just tell, you know, right away. Like I said, it it took me a minute, but I I could see it poking through paws. But I'm like, A1 alright, man. I fuck with A1. You feel me? I fuck with you too, man. Real shit. So I'm gonna skip through the the the usual because I'm pretty sure y'all know A1, y'all know how he got here. I don't even finna go in them parts. I'm finna go to the part that I know him for, and then we'll get into all the stuff that he's been getting into lately. Uh when and why the fuck did you pick up a camera, bro?

SPEAKER_00 5:22

My picked up a camera back in the day. It was probably like I say about 12 years ago. I was just outside with my dog, and I took pictures, and I just, man. You were taking pictures with your phone, or how what how that mean but like I had a little deal, a little Nikon camera, man. I just wanted to use it, try it out on the dog. I started linking with some other people who was doing it, and they taught me the ropes and all that. But really, uh videography and photography, it just found me, man. So, you know, uh, you know, just trying different things, you know what I'm saying? This would work for me. And when it started working, it started working good. I think I blew up in Italy. Yeah, yeah, Italy. I was in Naples for a couple years, man. I was in Naples and I brought my camera to a club. You know, I'm just filming just to show people what Italy is like. Because I'm from Memphis, I'm from the Gulf. Right, right, right. Yeah, Memphis the trenches, man. I ain't gonna lie.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

So I'm glad you said where you were from, so now you could put into context his story after he just fucking uh shit it on my head, talking about I took pictures in Italy. You know what I'm saying? So now you put that into context, he's he's coming from Memphis, and now he's in and now the story jumps to Italy and whatnot. You feel me? It's like the Michael story. Go ahead. We got the Memphis hat on, man.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

It's a 901 thing, man. I represent man. So, but yeah, I was in Italy, man. I took the camera to the club, and the owner was like, What you doing with the videos? I was like, man, shit. Just I'm gonna chop it up, make a little video and put it on my page. He was like, man, look, you make that video coming back to me, I'm gonna pay you for that.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

Man, who's talking to you at this time? Who who this person talking to you?

SPEAKER_00 7:15

It's like one of the biggest, he had a club called The Hood in Italy. Okay, so it's like one of the biggest RB hip-hop clubs in Italy. So he was like, you know what I'm saying, chop it up and bring it to me, I'm gonna pay you. He's like the first video. I ain't gonna lie, the first video was trash, but he liked it for some reason. You know what I'm saying? So I kept just doing it with him, and next thing you know, I'm touring around with the number one female DJ, DJ Carmela. Um, yeah, shout out to DJ Carmela, man. She had me on the Mafia Coast and yeah, fucking caves and shit and exotic. Like, if you go to my page, you'll see like all that and like my highlights and shit like that. She had me on like Mount Vesuvius, like a volcano. Like, you know, Mount Vesuvius is the volcano that destroyed Pompey.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, I'm I'm I'm listening to you talk, bro. Don't don't don't have my face fool you, bro. I'm listening to you talk, bro. I'm I'm really you're you saying some shit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

You say some shit. Go ahead. I know what my Vesuvius is. Go ahead, man. Yeah, so uh yeah, she had me on my Vesuvius, active volcano partying, you know, we turned up. So my came really big out there in Naples and main area since then. I just been taking off in the photography event, shit. So yeah, I just gonna keep that shit pushing, man. I'm 12 years in, I ain't stopping no time soon.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

So it started from there. You met you met the DJ, she took you everywhere. I mean, of course, if that is like the thing, you know, pushed it to the limit like immediately. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 9:01

And she was not, she wasn't like no light DJ, man. I remember one club went to and they shoot fireworks, it's about man, a thousand people in the crowd. It's like it's insane. I got Europe, I can imagine.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Yeah, I can imagine. I can fucking imagine. I can fucking imagine, bro. So I you so you it so you just you just it's not like it's just off to the races right away.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

Yeah, it was just in the plans for me, man. You know, destiny leads you to where you need to be, you know. Right. Cause in my younger ages, man, you know, I lived a rough life, man. I can't even lie. I lived a very rough life. But you know, I made it through them trials and tribulations just to be where I'm at now.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Well shit, I hope this interview, I hope by the time this interview, and I hope everybody out here when they see this and they hear you speak or whatever, I hope I play some part in helping you give your flowers. You feel me? Give you your flowers, you feel me? So, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, because it you from you're saying from where you came from and what you did, and again, I was giving you the look of interest. Cause I'm like, yo, keep talking, my nigga. You know what I'm saying? I'm pushing the thing back, like keep talking. I want to hear that shit. You ever shit? You ever thought about writing a book?

SPEAKER_00 10:11

I really want to do a movie instead of a book. Okay. I want a movie of my life because just of where it came from and where it landed is like, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes I look back and like, damn, bro, I wasn't even supposed to make it to this point. Because years back, most people don't know this. I was shot at, you know what I'm saying? I I got a bullet wound that goes through my hand.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

And I only, these two fingers, I can't even move. Um guy tried to kill me because I basically beat his ass. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 10:48

But that's sound like a sore motherfucking loser, that's all, man. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

Yeah, yeah. But you know how it is already when you're in the trenches. That's what goes on. But um, man, I think that I don't even feel sorry about that because that that moment in time in life is what really changed my mind frame from being a straight like thug to like, all right, man, it gotta be something better than life, then you know what I'm saying? Trying to portray this, you know what I mean, this hood ass image and shit, because you could really lose your life out here in these streets, man, playing. You know what I'm saying? Luckily, I didn't lose mine, right? And luckily, I learned from that lesson instead of mine going harder in that job. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 11:36

I I feel you, I I I do understand what you're saying. And shit, as we go on, because I let's let's we tell it how you want it. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, I'm here to praise you, I'm here to give you flowers and all that good shit. I want to talk about give me one of the wildest locations you ever shot at.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

The wildest location.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Or one of the okay, here, let me rephrase the question. Give me a location you shot at that you was like, I fucking can't believe I'm fucking where I'm at. That you act that you took a picture of. A picture or a video? Video, picture, hybrid. I mean, you shit, you you know more than me, goddamn. So I whatever, whatever image. You took an image of you were like, fuck, I can't believe I'm what I'm looking at.

SPEAKER_00 12:19

I would say uh here in Okinawa, when uh DJ Paul came down here.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

Okay. 36 Mafia.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Yeah, 3-6 Mafia. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, he came down here and it was like a full circle moment because it's like, damn, you know what I'm saying? This is a Memphis legend, man. He signed my drama rent jersey and everything, and it was like, man, damn, like, nigga, he from where I'm from. You know what I'm saying? We both doing big things. And a lot more like man, I say the young bloods. Uh we got my boy from the young bloods, you know. I'm talking about, uh, yeah, he did his thing when he came out here. Man, the mafia coast, Italy. Really, I just love everything that I shot. Man, I've been in Cali, you know what I'm saying. We throwing mansion parties in Cali. I did videos for that, you know what I'm saying. Man, celebrities, I shot for like six black. I ain't did shit. Even RB at the dark, man. You know what I'm saying? I ain't shot some, you know what I'm saying, major people with them, you know what I'm saying? So it's like, you know what I'm saying? I just Niger, even the spot we in the opening night, man, you know what I'm saying? Shout out to Mikey, man, because Mikey was like the first person when I got here who gave me an opportunity. We started at Central Bar. We did the things there, you know what I'm saying? We came here to Nigel. He even gave me the idea to shoot the you know, the epic video of gate two that's on YouTube, you know what I'm saying? So, you know what I'm saying? Mikey gave me a lot of big opportunities.

SPEAKER_01 14:02

Shout out to Mikey, man. One time, man. Mikey a real shit. I goddamn, I can't I y'all see it. You you looking at it, goddamn it. Yeah. For real, you looking at it. Yeah. Uh so okay. So let's you you talk about when you first got here or whatever. When you first got here, how did you like integrate yourself into the system?

SPEAKER_00 14:27

Well, you know, at that time, you know, I mean, uh, I think Flash was the biggest photographer and video. One time for Flashback. Yeah, shout out to Flash. One time for Flash, shout out for Flashback. Yeah, Flash, he me and him even collaborated on a video together with uh Sean. They did uh the remix of Teen Total Modi G remix for the Okinawa version. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We collabed on that and shit like that, but he was the main guy. But I think the main thing that got me in the dough was basically not hating on these people because they doing what I'm doing, right? But befriending these people and collaborating. And on top of that, you know what I'm saying? I was out here just on the gate with my camera shooting, you know what I'm saying? Free shit, take pictures of motherfuckers, right? You know what I'm saying? Edit them, come back, showing the pictures. They like, oh, this dope. They might uh well, I need you to do this. Or Mikey might see me like, shit, can you shoot a video for my club? Right, other club owners see that, you know what I'm saying? So it's like, man, just being a real person, a real genuine good person, and not being a hater, man. Gotcha. That's basically what got me in the dope.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

So it did sound like you just, you know what I'm saying? I I got a camera, I'm out here, I'm taking picks, I'm you just played your position, and and you know what I'm saying? You just you just you wasn't opposed to nothing. You just I'm I'll take your pick, I'll take your pick. I'm I'm here to take everybody's picture.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

So yeah, and mainly collaborate with um with people. Right. I feel like that's important in a community is like not looking at each other in a competitive way, but in a let's work together and get better together type way.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Yeah, especially when y'all interests aligned.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

Especially when y'all when y'all interests aligned, that's like the way. You know what I'm saying? So you you shit, you got it right away. I'm I wish more cats would come out here immediately and get it. But that shit, look what you just motherfucking said. So I don't expect nothing less from you. You know what I'm saying? I didn't expect nothing less to come out your mouth but what you just said. For sure. You know what I'm saying? So uh shit. Uh damn man, I what you doing now?

SPEAKER_00 16:34

Well, see, we doing some little things, man. You know what I'm saying? Some things in the work. I was just out here like two months ago before I went to Thailand. Right. We shot for Duke Deuce and Melanie's in Mimosa. Shout out to DJ Prime Time and what he got going on.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Okay, you know, already, yeah, DJ Primetime already, man.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Yeah, he brung uh Duke Deuce out there. You know, he's another Memphis legend and shit, and he gave me the opportunity to shoot for him. You know what I'm saying? So they got some he got something else coming this weekend, I think. Uh yeah, it's a real famous rap artist female that's coming out here, man. We might be doing some things with them. Okay, you know what I'm saying? A couple of clubs that hit me up already about shooting videos for them. So you know what I'm saying? We just networking and getting the boots back to the ground, man. You know what I mean, man?

SPEAKER_01 17:25

Because you you disappeared for a minute, which is one of the big reasons why I wanted the interviews. Like, man, I mean, let me let me talk to this man. Will you will you you say I've been to Thailand, I've been doing that. You I seen on the on the post you said you had a lot, a lot more picks coming soon, a lot more video coming soon of that trip or whatever. Oh, yeah, it's a lot of videos and stuff coming from that. A lot of so I'm gonna stay tuned for that shit, man. Um, because you again, I you know been here, be up, you know, been on here so many times, and every time is a good, like you said, it's a good motherfucker time, bro.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

Well, most people don't know. Uh I really had I got kicked off.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

Really?

SPEAKER_00 18:00

Yeah, I got kicked off.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

Okay, well damn. All right.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Well, is is is this is this an exclusive or what?

SPEAKER_01 18:06

What's happening?

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Yeah, this is exclusive. Yeah, nobody really too much know, but you straight? Yeah, I got into some legal trouble with the Japanese police. They on gate two, some things happened. They tried to blame me for injuring a police officer. I fucked up, which I didn't, you know. They came raiding my house like they raided my house.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

I okay. I don't want to get into the city.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

They can't raid in my house, bro. That's crazy. Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

Wait a minute.

unknown 18:36

Ha!

SPEAKER_01 18:38

I don't know where to begin. Uh I don't know where to begin. So where were you okay? I am are we allowed to talk about it?

SPEAKER_00 18:46

Yeah, it's over with now. I I end up uh because this is not a part of the interview at all.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

What part what would lead him to be even beginning to even think that?

SPEAKER_00 18:57

Well, you know, gay two get turned up sometimes, he'll get turned up drunk. I had a friend that was in a situation, I was just helping him out.

SPEAKER_01 19:05

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:05

Me and him didn't do nothing, but the people that was the aggressor tried to say that we were the ones who were doing uh aggressor things, and somehow undercover got hurt in the in the midst of it.

SPEAKER_01 19:19

So the undercover was somewhere where y'all was moving stuff around pretty much. They were in the wrong place, they was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Basically, he one of them got pushed by another cat and he hurt his leg. And you know what I'm saying? We got we didn't see it, we got out of there.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

Shame on you, undercover police. You know you weren't supposed to motherfucking be there. What you doing there in the first place? And he was old, man. He was like older. I mean, I mean they probably was in there looking anyway.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

But yeah, they had me um mine, they had mine took my phone, they came, raided the house, took some clothes, they had me going back and forth to uh, you know what I'm saying, the police station and all that, and they was saying the max I could have served like 22 years or some shit like that.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

For real?

SPEAKER_00 20:04

Yeah, that shit was crazy. God damn. Yeah, that was a max. But I don't know if they would have gave me that, but that was what the paper said.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

But I I'm pretty sure I'm because you sitting here now, I'm pretty sure they figured out like, nah, it ain't him.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

Yeah, they uh, you know what I'm saying? I I did I didn't I showed them that I proved my case. Like I said, it wasn't like yeah, you're guilty in proving innocent.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

I wasn't uh I wasn't I wasn't even at the what we were doing had nothing to do with you. You know what I mean? Yeah, that was, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't even know you were back there.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

And you know, a couple more things happened at certain spots, you know. I was just getting in a lot of altercations just because of who I am and my name. Uh okay, I'ma say this.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

And you are a big guy. You understand me? But never in a million years, to be honest with you, I would never think anybody would, you would be in any time kind of altercation. Because you always happy when I fucking see you. Yeah, I'm uh you always happy joking, even though be from my lab, my DJ lab. Yeah, so you always joking and laughing around and fucking around. So I would never know. Now I know now I ain't saying that you won't handle your business when if you gotta handle your. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna handle it for sure. But what I'm saying is I don't foresee you, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Star and shit. I don't star shit.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

Yeah, I don't star shit. You got a whole fucking camera, you know what I'm saying? Oh, you doing something, and most of the time when I I know you go out relief stress, yada yada yada.

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Yeah, but most of the time. I think uh my biggest problem was probably like mine getting involved and shit, and I shouldn't have been.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

Here, let me ask you a question. Uh I'm I don't I ain't finna take it away from now, I'm finna just just shift gears because we had this conversation a while back at Duplex. Uh and P we trust you feel me. Uh you've been away. Yeah. Now you back. Yeah. You've been outside, right?

SPEAKER_00 21:54

Oh yeah, I'm outside. I'm outside every day, every weekend, man. We outside.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

So I have to ask the question.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

I mean, it was definitely different from the people that was here now, but I think gate two is still uh the spot of all the I ask that because I I was I was here or passing through the other night and I was thinking to myself, so we we went to Naha.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

Right? We went to Naha and we was in Naha and Naha was just so fucking dry, bro. It was a lot of people though, but it was just so fucking dry, bro. So dry. And so I was out here on some humbug. I wasn't even out here to party. I think I was grabbing something, you know what I'm saying? And the thought crossed over me. I think gate two, honestly, honestly, and I know it's nice now. I honestly think gate two is about to be for a fucking renaissance, bro. Yeah, it definitely is. You know what I'm saying? It's time to try to get it. Yeah, I think it's time. Not saying not that the places that are here now are in place for this shit to be you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 23:03

And you gotta think gate two is more than just gate two. Gate two feel like a family because you can go to Niger, you can go down to Central, you can go down to Blue Cafe, you can go to Crown, you go to King, you know what I'm saying? You can go to culture, you can go to all these different like spots, and it's everybody treats you like family. All the owners of the club treat you like family, all the security of the club treat you like family, all the DJs treat you like family. It's like a big family here.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

But in that, gate two never changes. Exactly. Gay two never changes because when I was out here, that's how Gate 2 felt, especially if you was like like yourself, yeah, deep into you know what I'm saying, helping somebody out, looking somebody out, you know what I'm saying? So the the relationship I see you and Mikey have. I I'm listening to y'all talking or whatever. I I had that relationship back in the day with it with another owner in another club up and down the street. So it's not unfamiliar. Yeah, you feel me? It's not unfamiliar. So it's it's actually great to hear you say that. Yeah. Because it's like, okay, so the feeling never fucking left.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Nah, nah, no, no. This uh gay tool is family, you know what I'm saying? We just try to keep the you know what I'm saying, conflicts down, you know what I'm saying. When I came out here, I was kind of high-headed. So now I'm on a different mindset, you know what I'm saying? Like, we gotta keep altercations out the street, you know what I'm saying? Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

And you got bigger fish to fry any motherfucking way, exactly. You know what I'm saying? You got bigger things to worry about any motherfucking way. So I guess I'm I'm I'm looking at you, I'm looking at that. You know what I'm saying? You got you got other things to do, you feel me? For sure. So for sure. Uh, and that's why I appreciate you for doing this. You know what I'm saying? I appreciate you for shouting for for hollering at me, saying to do this and for us to do this. I I yeah, I've been seeing you, bro. You got bigger things to do, bro. Yeah, yeah. So I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah. So you got anything going on out here?

SPEAKER_00 25:01

Yeah, man. We might be doing a little something. We might be popping the do not disturb back up, man.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

You know, do not sure that that how long, how long it has that always been your thing, your label or whatever, do not disturb. Yeah, that's me. Oh, yes, do not disturb, right? Yeah, my bad, bro. Ain't me. I forgot to shout like do not disturb, man. That's that's that's his man. I I've been seeing it. When it popped up, I was like, Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, do not disturb, man. Fire ass name too. We just we just bringing like, you know what I'm saying, grown sexy, dog. I've been seeing that, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Turnt up shit, all that, you know what I'm saying. So I might do a little event soon, man. We'll we'll see what's going on. But uh man, yeah, we just keep pushing with the photography and the events, and you know what I'm saying. You a model, if you, you know what I'm saying, I need a video done for anything, you know what I'm saying? I do it all, man. You know what I'm saying? Got you, got you. I'm out here trying to, you know what I'm saying, make this money, man. Yeah, I feel you.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Here, let me give you one last one. This is the last question, because I want people to kind of I I want you to, I want you to speak about yourself. I want, you know what I'm saying? I know you can advertise yourself. I've I'm you know what I'm saying? I I I I got you. I I I can see it. But I'm gonna ask you a question because you know, just to away from the gate two, away from this, away from that. I'm gonna ask you this last question, and we can close on that shit. Younger you. What you telling oh what what you telling younger you you right now, what you telling younger you? What you telling, what you telling young A1, you feel me? What you telling him about this life you living right now? What you what you telling him? I mean shit, I I'm I'm I I'm about to take off and do it for you. What you telling him, man?

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Man, just uh, you know, I'm a Libra, you know what I'm saying? So I'm very friendly and I trust people a lot, man. Right. You can't trust everybody in the game, man. People, you know, younger me, I was trusting people, you know, I'm in the streets, you know what I'm saying. I'm doing a lot of stupid shit, you know what I'm saying. Most people don't know this, but I was kicked out of my house at 17. I'm still in high school, you know what I'm saying? I had my own apartment, you know what I'm saying? And we thug and you know what I'm saying. We got K's and SKs and that bitch, Mossberg pumps, you know, we having shootouts with niggas, and you know what I'm saying. We was really like man, deep in that shit, you know what I'm saying, robbing motherfucking drug dealers, and like we were doing dumbass shit, man, and man looking back on that shit and seeing how even being shot that would change my mind frame and what changed it. Yeah, I wish I would have had a different mind frame from the beginning. You know what I'm saying? I wish it wouldn't have took a traumatic situation or possibly losing my life for me to even be at this. But you know, it is what it is, you know what I'm saying? If that shit wouldn't have happened, I wouldn't even be here. So you know what I'm saying? But younger me, man, just man, do what's right, man. I know you see a lot of, you know what I'm saying, rappers and all these people that look influential and cool, man. That shit ain't cool, man. Right. That shit lame as hell, man. What's real is like what motherfuckers back in the 90s did. Get money. You know what I'm saying? Mess with the women, you know what I'm saying? Man, you know what I'm saying? All that beefing and popping pills and all the drugs and all that lame, man. Shit, this shit lame as hell, man. Get you some business about yourself. Be a business man, man. Cause uh shit, man. You know what I'm saying? It's like shit, it's not enough for us out here. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 28:54

You know what I think so? I think it's I think it's a lot for I I I think what it is, I think people don't realize it's enough for everybody to eat.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Exactly. It's enough for everybody to eat, but I feel like a lot of uh young people don't realize like man, they head down the wrong path. Right. You know what I'm saying? I didn't realize it because I was in the environment. It took for me to get out of the environment to see that it's more to life, like traveling the world, you know what I'm saying? I've been to Italy, Spain, I was just about to say I was just about to say, Young A1.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

Hey, the world is bigger than wherever the fuck you at right now. Young A1, the world is so much bigger. Just hold tight, my nigga. You're gonna get there, goddamn. I'm I'm looking at you right now, goddamn young A1. You hold on, my nigga.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Go ahead, young, go ahead. You know, I've been there where man. Right. So Ireland, you know what I'm saying? Seeing these places and meeting certain people and shit. Appreciate that. Meeting certain people and shit, man, is like man, it's bigger than the world, and it's not hard to do it, man. Cause I feel like people think when they see me, they get intimidated or whatever. It's not hard to do that shit, man. It's just, man, you gotta have the mindset for this shit.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Shit, dude, when when you when you when you when you go back home, right? Do people what what's the first thing people ask you? Oh shit, let me let me help you out. Let me I'll get we're gonna get back to that. What's the wildest thing somebody asks you? When you come from like overseas and you come back to the crib.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

Well, you gotta know Memphis got a lot of haters, man. Yeah, they really be like, don't nobody be fascinated?

SPEAKER_01 30:41

None of your homeboy be like, hey, yo, my nigga, like tell me, don't nobody want to know none of the stories, they don't want to know nothing.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

Well, I got a group of friends I that know what's going on, right? But you know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

But I'm pretty sure they want to hear it from you know, from when they see your face, they want to they want to hear that story right there from you, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 30:57

Yeah, they mainly just ask me what it's like, like how you do it, like is it cheap? Is you know what I'm saying? Right. And I'm the type of person, man, if you're a photographer, videographer, man, you know, I'm welcome in to tell you anything. I ain't no gatekeeping type motherfucker. Like, I helped a lot of photographers out here.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

Right.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

Like a lot. We had a group on Instagram called Okinawa Production Team, where I used to go around and find photographers. And hey, we come in this group, you here, we're gonna support you, you support us. You know, it's a family thing. You know what I'm saying? We don't, we ain't in no competitive mode. And you know, it's a lot of great photographers here, like Natsumi, like motherfucking Jport. We got my boy King John, we got we got like Skip, you know what I'm saying? It's uh Z, you know what I'm saying? It's a lot of like even females who do like portraits and family shit, like it's a lot, it's a big family out here of photographers who support each other. Just like it's a big family of DJs who support each other. Yeah, it's a big family of owners who support it, even what y'all do, man. I see y'all, y'all I see other podcasts pop up. Come on and show we're gonna come on y'all show too. Yeah, y'all support that.

SPEAKER_01 32:20

I you know what I would I would really want it to be that way way more than it is, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because I don't fucking mind. I don't fucking mind. I and I say it all the fucking time. If if you're another podcast out there and you know, you know, we didn't we didn't have uh uh uh with the antibiotics, we didn't have back poaching on here, you know what I'm saying? You know how many motherfucking times Frank was on here before he even started his podcast. I like to think, I like to think I'm one of the people that said go do that shit, you know what I'm saying? One time for Frank, you feel me?

SPEAKER_00 32:50

So Frank, you a fool.

SPEAKER_01 33:03

Whoa, hey yo. Last it last. Frank, where the fuck you at, bro? Where the fuck you at, Frank, man? One time for Frank, man. Shout out to Frank, shout out to Frank, goddamn.

SPEAKER_00 33:16

God damn. I think our podcast with them did the most number with uh with motherfucking Okinawal ambassador and all that shit did number, bro.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Yeah, it was it was a large undertaking. It was and and and to be honest, man, that podcast was so good. We were new, and and and I remember that, and and y'all were so matter of fact, pause and pause again, granddad. That's when I kind of like was like, I fuck with that nigga.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

Yeah, I fuck with that nigga, man.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

Hey, I remember that. Go back and watch that pie. You know what I'm saying? It's it's it's it's it's it's on all it's on YouTube and it's on all DSPs. You feel me? Just like this one gonna be, goddamn. Uh uh shit. You know what, man? Because we got we're gonna do something else, and I you I could sit up here, we could talk about bullshit all motherfucking day. I could pull a subject out of the goddamn sky and have a conversation. I believe it. I know you I know you have an agenda and I want and I want to stick to your agenda, but I thought, you know what I'm saying? This this would be the shortest uh interview I've ever done, but it it's it's fine. You done been on here so many times, everybody knows you. I appreciate you, A1. I swear to God, if you was here more, I would have you on fucking more.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

I swear to God, you know, I appreciate you, man, because you one of the people who gave me like that first publicity cup when I first came. You was already on fire when I nah that first interview, bro. I was kind of on fire, bro.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

When y'all after that interview, uh after that, me and me and fucking butcher, and you can ask him, you could text him and ask him this shit. We I think we did one other pod with you. We did two, we did two because we didn't went back to back. We did the one, it was uh Denise you, Denise. Uh I think Flash was on that one, and you was in the background at first. Matter of fact, not even that one. Shout out to Denise. Not even that one. The one, it was me and Flash, and we were talking about the fucking white time brady. Hey, find that clip. I'ma find it for you, goddamn. Oh my god. Hey, it's always a good time. So me and him were talking after that one, and then every because every time we posted, every time we put it up, like the I think it was that one, and then the one right after that one when man's came in there and drink all that tequila and shit. Um's put in there and drink all that tequila. So that one, that one, that one clip. I think you put up a clip, you you put up a clip, and then I came right behind you, put them at them shits went through the roof, like everybody, bro. And I'm looking at them like, who the fuck are these people? Like everybody from Memphis, from wherever you've been at, or whatever, yeah, people, you know what I'm saying? So we fought with A1, man. So I anytime I can have you on these channels, I'm you know what I'm saying. Yeah, for sure. So shit, we're gonna get out of here, man. Thank you. We we my bad. If the if the interview was all over the place, I just wanted y'all to get to know him and talk to him. I ain't I I ain't seen him in a minute, so he's been answering questions for me. That Italy story, like I said at the beginning, I'm fascinated. That's that was the face I was giving. I'm learning something about him too. You know what I'm saying? Which was the whole thing. So I hope that one little bit story, this little section of us talking can give you some idea. A1, if you see where A1 in the street, you know, I mean fuck with him, man. He all right, man. In my book, he is. You feel me? In my book, he alright.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

So yeah, yeah, yeah. I fuck with y'all too, man. Y B Z the Podcast.

SPEAKER_01 36:50

Anyway, we're gonna wrap this up, but uh, I ain't finna tell you about the other thing. I'm just gonna wrap this up. We're gonna wrap this up, man. This is your boy J. This is YBZ the podcast. I got A1. We in Niger one time for Mikey. You feel me? A yo, be easy.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Yeah.