Imagine navigating the tumultuous sea of adolescence, while grappling with the harsh realities of life that force you to grow up sooner than most. This episode is a journey through those complexities, where we sift through our own experiences, the lessons learnt along the way, and how they shape our understanding of responsibility in society. We discuss that defining right from wrong isn't a universal process and often depends on one's unique circumstances and exposures. The internet provides an unprecedented avenue for income generation, nevertheless, it's crucial to remember that no two people's experiences are alike, and judgment must make room for empathy and understanding.
Our conversation takes a profound turn as we examine the darker corners of life's choices, deciphering the motivations and repercussions that may lead to addiction. As we underscore the importance of understanding potential risks, we recognize the merits of gaining exposure to a spectrum of experiences for personal growth. We also delve into the world of music celebrities, often the subjects of harsh judgement when battling personal struggles. Through these narratives, this episode aims to foster in our listeners a sense of empathy, a heightened awareness, and the ability to engage in critical thinking.
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Imagine navigating the tumultuous sea of adolescence, while grappling with the harsh realities of life that force you to grow up sooner than most. This episode is a journey through those complexities, where we sift through our own experiences, the lessons learnt along the way, and how they shape our understanding of responsibility in society. We discuss that defining right from wrong isn't a universal process and often depends on one's unique circumstances and exposures. The internet provides an unprecedented avenue for income generation, nevertheless, it's crucial to remember that no two people's experiences are alike, and judgment must make room for empathy and understanding.
Our conversation takes a profound turn as we examine the darker corners of life's choices, deciphering the motivations and repercussions that may lead to addiction. As we underscore the importance of understanding potential risks, we recognize the merits of gaining exposure to a spectrum of experiences for personal growth. We also delve into the world of music celebrities, often the subjects of harsh judgement when battling personal struggles. Through these narratives, this episode aims to foster in our listeners a sense of empathy, a heightened awareness, and the ability to engage in critical thinking.
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Are you? Are you? Do you count? When you say grown, you saying immature, right.
Speaker 2:
When I'm saying grown, I think it would be, you don't? Know, you can't. So not every. I mean you would think I would say a majority of people are mature, but then I know grown folks who are all the way mature, so I know it exists, but I would say, in this scenario, grown and mature Absolutely.
Speaker 1:
Because I struggle with knowing what it means to be grown, knowing what it means to be an adult.
Speaker 2:
when you take and consider, when you take into consideration honesty, I can't speak for everybody, so let me give you my example. Why I say that I left my parents' house at 19 years old. I never had to go back. Was I ready? I don't think I was. But when I got out that door and I packed my stuff, because of what happened Grown, I was grown Yup. Instance I had to figure it out. Instance I knew I had to hold on to a job. Instance I knew I had to find some of the sleep. I knew I knew how to find how to eat. I had to pay my car insurance. I already started. All these bills came in my head and I just said oh, I said I was leaving.
Speaker 3:
That was that Figure it out. You never got in trouble as a young man, so you was grown for those reasons.
Speaker 2:
Absolutely so I can.
Speaker 1:
There's eight-year-olds. That's, in some situations, what we say they grown.
Speaker 2:
But the come on what you mean? Doing exactly what I did. I'm not at eight.
Speaker 1:
Basically having to. I know people that their childhood was very rough, so you would say you basically raised yourself.
Speaker 2:
We can all I think we can if we literally all go back. I'm sure I mean I grew up a certain way too. I don't give that as an excuse to crutch on nothing. Parents they migrated from Haiti. Everybody was working when I was growing up. How you grew up? Neighbors, cousins?
Speaker 3:
friends.
Speaker 2:
That's the reality of my upbringing. My dad was working all the time, my mom was working all the time. So my siblings. So when you caught onto whatever you was exposed to, I still had to know right from wrong at an early age. But I still knew if you touched the stove while it's hot, I knew I would get burned. So I didn't touch the stove, but I know some now my brother he got a from the iron his whole life on.
Speaker 2:
We grew up in the same household. I knew that was hot. Apparently he knew too, but he still said let me see, did it anyway? We're at the hospital. So that's how I kinda look at that particular situation. We just it just happened to be two different people, but mature. I mean, I get what you're coming from, but I think our circumstances were all a little different. But at 19, I know people in their 20s who still struggle with certain things and I can't hold that against them, cause I'm just like at 19, I had to figure that out Like that's not too bad.
Speaker 2:
But you got more resources, you're more. You know the life of change expenses. We have so many things in our disposals that back in the day we didn't have. I can find things on the internet and Google how to, how to do this, how to make money on this, how to cut grass. I couldn't do that 10 years ago and say I'm gonna make $20 right now just by cutting some of these grass, knocking on the door and saying, hey, let me cut your grass. You ain't really do them kind of hustles back in the day.
Speaker 2:
But I mean, my parents worked hard, so I can't blame. They were working. They were providing you got a roof over your head, you good, that's how I grew up, like hey, and we're gonna give you some food. You know what I'm saying. So when I went to McDonald's that was that was like dining in at a five star restaurant. I used to like come home from school some days and pray my mama didn't cook so I could have a happy meal. Right, it was just like nothing wrong with Haitian food. But you just like, oh shoot, I can get chicken, McNuggets and fries. Please don't cook. And I'm waiting for my dad to come home late and be like she didn't cook and he know he had to take us to McDonald's and bring us back home and he would take it in. But that was the life. My mama worked till 11 o'clock most of my life. So when I got from school, there's no mom, right.
Speaker 3:
And then when I went to bed.
Speaker 2:
That's when she was coming home, so you know what I'm saying. I don't know if you had that, but the.
Speaker 2:
Haitians. Man, they tried man Back in the day, they really tried. But my older brother, he kind of. You know, there's a lot of things he discussed to me now and he's in his 40s and I'm like that was so long ago. But he, you know, some people hold on to certain things and I'm like I just had to accept it and say this ain't no joke, but I'm like that was 20 years ago, like in my mind. I'm like we should be able to move forward and he's slowly gotten better. But where he's at now he blames a lot of that on those experiences back in the day. So I guess I'm more. I guess I consider I'm more sensitive to people's feelings and what they're going through. I don't assume everybody to just make it happen.
Speaker 3:
Snap your fingers and you should make it happen. But John Boyce bumping in our Kelly.
Speaker 1:
What are the issues?
Speaker 3:
Y'all good, I am man, I'm not a liar either.
Speaker 1:
Okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 2:
I respect that. No, I respect that yeah.
Speaker 1:
I feel like for celebrities. They go through and they take on more than we give them credit for, and when they putting themselves out there, when they making music, sometimes a lot of times, we are the reflection of the music they making, and when they hurting or when they in pain, we cancel them Like that's now to me that look, that seems very unfair how we enjoy all the good and what they contribute and then, as soon as we find something out that we don't like or maybe they struggled with or they didn't get to express, and we just turn our backs on them, and the nature of the industry isn't designed to protect them. So the only people they have is us, and we are the fans and the followers. The listeners are a major part of who they are and where they even know to be in this world. That's why a lot of them end up going crazy or certain situations end up happening, and so when I look at our Kelly situation, I'm like we, we responsible for a lot of, for a lot of that.
Speaker 2:
Cuz a lot of people you say we but like maybe the people that knew.
Speaker 1:
We heard, we heard, we heard, we heard stuff. Everybody heard about the lea thing every.
Speaker 3:
But everybody said oh, everybody's music is not off there, sometimes their music, like when us should did the confession.
Speaker 2:
It was. We all thought that was true. No, it's just Jermaine Dupree.
Speaker 1:
Story that was yeah, he still get messed from that as if that was yeah, yeah, it was a good roll out like it was a good roll out.
Speaker 3:
Music is good music like it's tough.
Speaker 2:
He is a musical genius. I'm not taking away music, it was just really hard for me to right, still listen to it. When I think about them, girl, like I don't know, I'm different. Man Like woman is off limits, bro, like I man, he could, he could have knocked out 10 grand paul's and I probably would bump our Kelly. But because you talking about women and they're young and I feel like they probably didn't know, like you said, if they, maybe they pencil like this, a lick man, you can get what you are. Kelly, like we said, if you give you five thousand dollars a week, no, I see that yeah no, none of that.
Speaker 2:
I think maybe if the parents were held accountable to, maybe it'll be fair game. You know what I'm saying to your point, and it was all.
Speaker 1:
It was something that was outside of us, because think about how long it took before the public decided to talk about it. It was like no, we don't, we don't get the, we don't get to put throw somebody under the road. I'm sure but it still took so long before we decided to act like we care.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, cuz we like to, we like them so much, I think sometimes we're brought up to mine I bit like.
Speaker 2:
I felt like, until it played out, some of us didn't have the resources to even know what's factual right. You know how we all kind of grow up money on business. If it ain't your household or your family, you kind of look the other way. You know, I'm saying but and I kind of felt like what, at least for me, when things started speculating, you like what?
Speaker 3:
Okay, he's the only one I got caught. We don't know who else is like that a lot of them.
Speaker 1:
Okay, I know people who.
Speaker 3:
Bump like crazy. Let's, we can listen to anybody Bumping it like crazy. You don't even know. Mr Robert, just got caught.
Speaker 1:
I mean, we listen people who glorify killing.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say the same thing, yeah, so like when you said can you? Here we come, boy real big.
Speaker 2:
No, but like, no, I'm sick.
Speaker 2:
Like I want to say like to you know, when we talked about trip, how he kind of say he was, he wasn't glorifying it, like telling people to go do it.
Speaker 2:
But can you understand as a man, if you, if you put it in a rap, is like, if you come up on me late night, creeper, I keep that thing on me? I might just, but like I guess it depends on how we're saying it, like, I think for me as a rapper, when people are painting these pictures, I heard you hear GZ talk about trap or die, right, and to me it's almost like and the word trap has changed so much, and but I'm almost like, did you go trap or die or did you not like, look at it like man, he did everything he had to do under his circumstance to make it make. Yeah, but I guess killing someone I hear killing I feel like I've heard rap, I've heard against the music, but I've never I'm trying to think I've never really heard no rapper. That made me feel like, oh, I need to go out here and in QQ, right, we know what's right from wrong, man, we know.
Speaker 3:
We know what's right from wrong you're not gonna go out there.
Speaker 1:
You know, you know, I know, but not every, clearly not everybody know there's a lot that you you heard what Tripp say. That's real. For a lot of people these songs become the theme music to a person's life and their actions. It'll drive you to do some of these things and it's also a test. We want to see if they're going to actually act on these things. Let's see if it's is anybody home and inside of that body that's going to know not to do that. Somebody, somebody here, yeah, so you, you can listen, you can enjoy, you can vibe with it. You're not going to do it, but somebody else, the, the, the vibration will actually drive them, because what's in you ain't in them. Somebody can hear a song and actually go play out the activities, their environment, their neighborhood, their peers. It's actually mirroring the music they listen into. Then that's you just come. That's a direct communication with the, the material body. That's the matter. You, you're going to walk and do those exact things.
Speaker 1:
So you have to be real grateful when you won that it can't penetrate you. You can't tell the globe was or anything. You can't tell y'all anything.
Speaker 2:
So what about a movie? So you apply that to a movie as well. When I'm watching extortion like, for example, with guns and they, he got to blast every corner. Does that go for them too?
Speaker 1:
They got to be held accountable when you're making a movie. You want to give you a perfect example. Okay, I've porn, I've watched some videos and I try to do exactly what I've seen. I've seen some movies, man.
Speaker 2:
I've seen, I've never. I tried to do what was there. I try. I think every human probably done. I mean, most males have been exposed to porn.
Speaker 1:
We all have once upon a while.
Speaker 2:
But you now you probably learn, but you don't think somebody going to cop a chopper. It could be a simple, that's a small influence. I don't think that's as crazy, though you might try something, because but I don't still, I still don't see it all the way. So you're saying a week, somebody who is not as strong in the mind, whatever they're consuming, whether it's musically or it could be our video, like visually, they will reenact it.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and okay, somebody will. The statistics show that if it's out there, somebody will fall victim to it. Just like crack make crack. Not everybody going to do crack, somebody going to do the crack, somebody going to get hooked.
Speaker 2:
I would like to know the percentages on that, though. No, I thought about doing crack. No, oh Lord.
Speaker 1:
Why? Because when you see people get hooked on it, you like how could anybody get hooked on that little piece of whatever that ain't?
Speaker 3:
No, no, no.
Speaker 2:
Just Google and read the side effects. That's all you need.
Speaker 1:
That wasn't enough. It's the same thing. So it went to not want to do. It is also to have the you resonate with doing it. So you're thinking about what you're not going to do, but you have to you. In order to know what you're not going to do, you have to process what it would be to do it. That's the only way you know you're not going to listen. If something with lick you wanted to you. You trying to drink all the bottles right now just cause you see it there.
Speaker 3:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I've always wanted to try bamboo, right I? Want to always want to try bamboo right and I haven't yet. So yes, because I seen it, I do. I do want to try, but I've always wanted to try because I wanted to know what the flavor, you know how it tastes and not wrong with that. Right To see how, where it's going to make me sit and if I'm going to let go. What I really like for that, it's more than just the podcast, it's the exposure.
