01x08 - Low-Key Privileged

[bunniefuu]

[BLXST'S "g*ng SLIDE"]

♪ It was a midnight
g*ng slide ♪

♪ I had to pull up,
get right ♪

♪ A stick and move
on the Westside ♪

♪ 'Cause you know you give me
the best high, ayy ♪

♪ It was a midnight
g*ng slide ♪

♪ I had to pull up,
get right ♪

♪ A stick and move
on the Westside ♪

♪ 'Cause you know you give me
the best high, ayy ♪

♪ ♪

♪ If we were made
of dreams and things ♪

♪ We would live
somewhere in between ♪

♪ Stars in
a brand-new world ♪

♪ Something like a fantasy ♪

Literal twins.

Smile and see
how much we look alike.

[MELLOW POP]

- Ladies, he's single.
He helps with hair.

♪ ♪

- Look at my shoes.
Look at my shoes.

- Yeah, boy, fresh.
- ♪ And this is what ♪

♪ It sounds like ♪

♪ And this is what
it sounds like ♪

♪ And if I made a song
for you... ♪

Thank you.

♪ And this is
what it sounds like... ♪

Look at my friends.

- ALL: Whoo.
- Wow, with your masks on,

you look like twins.

- Okay.
- Oh, my God.

Girl, this is
my brother, Brycen.

Hi, nice to meet you.

- Hi Brycen.
- And Amanda.

I'm excited for Brycen
to come to girls' day out.

I just really want my brother
to just see

like the luxurious side of L.A.

Brycen, would you say
that Bri has changed

since moving
to L.A. from Kalamazoo?

- Oh, yeah...
- We wanna hear this.

- She way more bougie now.
ALL: Ooh.

- Wow.
- She used to be

a little more hood rat.

- She was a little hood rat.
- Like how, though?

- Just like her style.
- Style?

When she explains her life,

she doesn't shy away
from that...

- No.
- At all.

Like yeah, like we was
in the hood with it. Like what?

- So, what else? More bougie.
Please do tell, 'cause...

But that's why I'm saying
like, what do y'all

want to know that's different?

Did you look up to her
when you were little?

Oh, yeah, that's... that's
my role model still.

Me and her's relationship
has always been the same.

Aww. I wish I had siblings.

Brycen just really lifts
my spirits.

It just feels so good to really
just to have someone

from back home
acknowledge and recognize

like the difference
between like Kalamazoo Briana

and L.A. Briana.

It just really like opened
my eyes, like, okay, b*tch,

I'm really doing some sh*t now.
Like, I bossed up.

Do I see shots?

- Wow, period!
- Shot up!

Listen, this is the last
girls' night of the winter.

Last girls' night
of the winter? This is special.

And we have my little
bro with us.

- Yes.
- We're going for the summer.

I can always count on Bri
to tap it before she takes it.

- ALL: Period.
- Half a tap.

I feel like it's been
a minute since I saw you all...

I know.

- Mexico.
- It was so fun.

Honestly, for some weird-a*s
reason, P'jae chose

to pull me aside,

have a conversation with me
about how you want to like,

just chill on
what we have going on.

When we get back to L.A.
Like, I just think

there's a time
and place for everything.

And then he was like,
with all the guys

and he was just like
dapping them all up.

Yeah, like, I'm all... I'm free.
I'm just like, boy,

why are you acting like we are
in a whole relationship

and I had you locked down
for 50 years?

- Right.
- I don't get it.

I just feel like he's always
trying to

put on a show
for the homies.

P'jae was already
a dead-end for Rebecca

and then that whole drama
with me and Jordan

and then Kim in Cabo.

Like if I couldn't take
a hint before,

like this is my f*cking hint.

Like dating friends
never ends well.

From now on,
I am cool on that sh*t.

I'm good.
Count me out.

When I talked to P'jae
one-on-one,

- he's really cool as f*ck.
- No, he is.

He's really tapped
into things where I was like,

I hold him at a level
that's like, damn,

everything that you're doing
is f*cking tight.

But when it comes down to you
intermixing with my friends

and the way that I'm seeing
you moving that way,

that kinda f*ck up my view
on you regardless.

Why don't men hold
their friends accountable?

I was about to say
me and my best friend

at a point where I can, like,
we... if I do something wrong,

he gonna tell me like,
bro you f*cking up.

You doing something stupid,
you know what am saying?

- No yes men.
- It's just side-eye for me.

To P'jae, like I'm never
going to trust him again.

He disrespected you, right?

Like what are you
going to do about it?

♪ I was down on love ♪

♪ I was stuck,
I was struck ♪

♪ You ain't even budge,
you ain't give no love ♪

♪ You ain't give no f*ck ♪

♪ You was in a rush ♪

♪ Left me in the dust ♪

- ♪ But I got it out the mud ♪
- Okay. Out the mud.

♪ Outta the mud,
kinda stuck here ♪

♪ Every time I see you,
mama... ♪

Okay, and when that beat
come in, though?

You know where, OK? OK.

Yes, sir.

Bro, that was just fire, bro.

I'm thinking that's why we
gotta make these right moves.

Get down to business.
We... we got the product, bro.

We just gotta get it
to the consumers.

You know what I'm saying?

I manage a artist
by the name of Griff Tyler,

and right now, we're trying
to come up with a master plan

to get Griff to the next level.

Our first step is
to get Blxst,

one of the biggest artists
in L.A.,

and his manager Vic here
to check out the new track.

- What's up, bro?
- How you doing, bro?

Yes, sir.

♪ I'ma run it up,
run it up ♪

♪ Run it up, run it up ♪

♪ Run it up, run it up ♪

♪ Run it up,
run it up, yeah ♪

♪ 'Cause you was in a rush ♪

♪ Left me in the dust ♪

♪ But I got it out the mud ♪

♪ Outta the mud,
outta the mud ♪

♪ Kinda stuck here,
every time I see you I'm... ♪

Yeah, man.

How do you feel about
the record... you f*ck with it?

- Yeah, that sh*t hard, bro.
- 'Preciate that.

- Was gonna say run it back...
[LAUGHTER]

sh*t, we can
run this sh*t back.

Blxst is a fire artist and
he's f*cking with the music,

so that mean
we doing something right.

- You shot the video for that?
- No.

That's... that's what
we trying to figure out.

Our plan is like, all right,

how do we take them
to the next level?

We feel like this song
could do that,

but we're just trying
to make the right steps.

When you get the business,

you really just creating
your alternative world.

And then you just kind of

like bringing people
into your world.

So, whatever that is, that's
gonna provide more value to it.

The video, the merchandise.

If you got that sh*t
mapped out on the calendar,

it's a little bit easier
to project, like, okay,

I need to do this by this time,
this by this time,

so that by the time
this song come out,

we done hit
all these checkmarks.

It's dope to have
Vic shed some light

on what they've experienced,

but if we wanna be
on the same level as Blxst,

then we gotta go big.

You got freedom
of creativity

to do whatever
you want to do, right?

As long as you not
selling yourself short

- and not half-assin' it.
- Right.

♪ ♪

♪ One look at you ♪

♪ And my heart... ♪

Think you got room
for everything?

- A little bit.
- I think this is

the last of everything.

[BLXST'S "GOT IT ALL"]

♪ Not the type-a n*gga
to brag ♪

♪ But my lady got it all ♪

♪ She poppin' but never
poppin' off ♪

♪ Plus she bad and bougie
to top it off ♪

♪ Tell whoever trippin'
they can knock it off ♪

Oh, we gonna force 'em left.

Force 'em left.
Force left!

Oh, we there.
We there.

- Bucket.
- Aah!

That's a bucket!

- Good job, bro.
I let you have it.

King of Ladera, brother.

- Chill out.
King of Ladera?

- That's me.
I'm really him.

- Here you go, bro.
If I make this...

- I'm really him.
- If I make this, I won.

Oh!

- Hi. How are you?
- How's it going?

Can... can I get a cup?
Thank you.

Thank you so much.

That's some good fruit.

I'll bring one of these
to Cheryl.

Is that what it's like, bro?

- Yeah.
This is why you single.

You... you broke up
with Becky on the boat.

Hey, yo, Becky.
I wanna break up with...

- Then straight back to...
- Hey, hey, I'm outta here.

While we sitting
in the middle of the ocean...

Jumping into the ocean,
there's nobody here.

- You can't go nowhere.
She you can't go nowhere.

You couldn't have did it
some place better.

Bro, that felt like
it was now or never.

You know I had a talk
with Jordan and he barely...

Basically, he just like
prepped me up for it, bro.

'Cause you know,
he kinda like, "Do it."

He kinda dealt
with the same situation.

So, he was like...
He gave you the SparkNotes

- on what to do.
- Yeah, but at the end

of the day, bro, it kind of
helped me just like grow.

We gotta find you
a girlfriend

out here on these streets.

I'm trying to find somebody
for Jordan.

You like setting them up
on like...

Setting him up
with the homegirl Jade.

- For real?
- Yeah.

- Oh, wow.
- Damn, bro, she fire.

I kinda know his type.

I think they'll get along
really well

because she got a lot
going on for herself.

She will never feel like

she needs to be hitting up
Jordan like 24/7.

She don't need Jordan
for nothing.

That's... that's
what Jordan needs.

- Yeah.
- You might have like

a potential side hustle.

Huh, I could be Hitch.

So, bro,
how everything been?

I got a lot of stuff that
I'm working on right now.

- What you got, bro?
Talk to me.

You know how I was doing
my podcast, kinda like

put it on the back burner.

So, I wanna get back to doing
that real consistently.

We need those spaces

to be able to talk through
those problems with each other.

And that's what I wanna create.

People get anxious,

and they feel like
it's just them.

- Yeah.
- You know what I mean?

- But it's not.
- That's what we need

more of too,
just like young Black man

having positive conversations.

I didn't see that growing up.

- Yeah.
- Can I be on it?

Yeah, that's what
I was gonna say.

I want to do like
a friends and family episode

with like...
Oh, that'd be fire.

Jordan said I can host
it at his crib.

So, it'd be me, you, Kof,
Jaylenn and Rob, bro.

- Bro, I can't wait to do that.
I'm excited, man.

♪ Single as f*ck ♪

♪ Single as fu-u-u ♪

♪ U-u-u-oh ♪

Hey man... bro, I'm on this
blind date right now, dawg.

I'm nervous.
I gotta take a sh*t.

[LAUGHING]
This is bad.

Help me.

♪ La la la ♪

- I need a breather.
Ah!

- Hello.
- Oh, sh*t, damn.

- Hey, how are you?
- Hi.

- How's it going?
- Good. How are you?

I'm Jordan.
I got you some flowers.

- Wow.
Okay, thank you.

I'm like sh*t, Jerrold,
you did your thing.

- They're beautiful.
- I don't know what

your favorite color was,
was so I figured like...

- I like all colors, actually.
- Really?

I don't know if you drink,
but I got drinks for us coming.

- I would love a drink.
- Yeah.

Wow. Thank you.

Would you actually mind
holding her flowers for her?

We can't play golf and hold
flowers at the same time.

- Let's do it.
- Yeah, let's do it.

Mm, like the tequila's good.

Mm-hmm, it's very cool.

I know, so I gotta drink
some more of it.

- I'm nervous.
- Why?

- You don't gotta be nervous.
- Okay.

Don't tell me you 'bout
to get a hole in one.

Oh, my God.

You're like Tiger Woods
out here... look.

♪ I don't wanna change
after this ♪

♪ I just wanna play
with a check... ♪

Ooh, ooh!

Now the pressure.

Well, pressure makes
diamonds, so you got it.

- Oh!
- Oh.

- Oh, my gosh.
- What do you do?

- I do a lot of things.
I create content.

We have Instagram, OnlyFans.

- You have a OnlyFans?
- I do.

- Really? How you like it?
- I love it, actually.

- Really?
- It's a way for you

to access me,
and I can monetize that.

- It's really tight.
- Yeah.

You can still post
the explicit content.

I personally... don't.

I never, like, tell people
what I do or don't.

You kinda have to just
figure it out for yourself.

You're like just pay 5.99
and you'll figure it out.

- You'll figure it out.
I'm working.

- Yeah, that's crazy.
- I'm trying.

I wanna be a Oprah.

Jade is fire.

She work hard.
She look good.

You look at her Instagram,
she got a million followers.

You know,
we could be the next

billionaire power couple...
Who knows.

If Jade trying to be Oprah,

then I'm trying to be Stedman.

I see it now.

You're gonna be giving out.

Benzes to everybody...
Teslas,

'cause they're good
for the environment.

Hey, look, if it makes
you feel any better,

- I drive a Tesla model X.
- Wow.

- Navy blue.
- Beautiful car.

I actually just got
a new car, but...

What kinda car'd you get?

I got a Porsche.

- Whoo, whoo.
- Yeah.

- Whoo, whoo.
- Not whoo.

Whoo, you have to flex
on me like that, huh?

Hey, look, I'm blessed to be
in your presence right now.

- This is true.
- I feel like a lucky man.

- You know what I'm saying?
- You are... but I am too.

- This has been cool.
- I appreciate that.

♪ I just wanna bop
that beat ♪

♪ Hop up in the jeep ♪

♪ Put the little b*tch
in drive ♪

♪ f*ck my 9 to 5... ♪

We're not coming,
we here, baby.

Believe that... we here.
We busting through this door.

[MELLOW MUSIC]

- Where you at, sis?
Hello?

Hey, you look so cute.

- Thank you, so do you.
How are you?

- I'm good.
Just getting situated...

P'jae hit me up
to help him plan

what seems like a really
big release party for Griff.

He wants it to be memorable,

and he said
they got the budget,

so I've enlisted Amanda
to help us out.

Thanks for like
looping me in.

This is gonna be exciting.
I love...

Thanks for getting a degree.

I'm dead.

No, you know,
I love what I do.

Like I'm very passionate
about PR.

Literally, I was a kid,
like I want to be a publicist.

You wanted to be a publicist
when you were little?

So bad.

- That is so boring like...
- [LAUGHS]

I'm glad
you're helping out, sis.

- Yo.
- Hey, P'jae.

- What's good?
What's up, what's up?

Good to see you, brother.

How you doing?

- I'm good.
Yes.

- Hey, P'jae.
- Amanda is here.

- What's up, Amanda?
- How are you?

- How you doing? How you doing?
- Good to see you.

Thanks for this opportunity.

I feel like it would be cool
to see business P'jae,

but I think before
we get started,

personally I just kinda have
like some small beef with you.

I'ma just throw it
on the table...

- With me?
- Yeah.

I felt like the situation
with Becky on the boat

was not cool at all.

Like, what... what wasn't
cool about it?

One, we're on a boat for my
birthday which is like, yeah,

you could end things,

but it was the like dapping up
the homies after, like...

I expected Ty
to stick to business

and keep things professional.
This ain't it.

You know, I'm not paying her
to press me

about my personal life.

I get it.
Like, yeah,

the boat was probably
not the ideal place to do it.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, as far as like
with the homies and stuff,

I don't agree with that.
To kind of put an end to it,

like, let's not have
this conversation again.

I don't want
the Rebecca situation

to get in the way
of this event at all.

Regardless
of the personal sh*t,

like, business is business.

This is a great opportunity
for a house party

and a pivotal moment
for my brand.

And so, I'm just happy
to throw an amazing event

and move past all of this.

So, Amanda is here.

She does a lot of like
corporate external PR work.

You want this to feel like
a label is behind it, right?

- And I think...
- Yeah.

What's big with that is how
we promote Griff hourly,

so I can assist in that.

So, do you have
any experience like... like

in the industry of music?

Like, do you have
any connects with people?

Label heads, anything?

I do like full suite
of communication.

So, like internal, external,

and then also like executive,
like, thought leadership.

I know what I'm doing.
Like, I got you.

Can you give me
some more background

on who Griff is?
'Cause I don't want him

to step into the space
and he's like, this isn't me.

Yeah, all right, well, just
start off like where he's from.

He's from Inglewood.

So if we could do the event
in Inglewood,

in his home city,
that would be fire.

Like, we're looking to make him
seem like he is L.A.

I actually know some people.

I can definitely
make that happen.

Inglewood is my city
for real.

Not only do I live there,
like I have connects there.

I can bring a lot more
than just like PR expertise.

- All right, Amanda.
Okay, I see you, I see you.

This is important
for Griff's career,

my career,
all of our careers.

Like this is the next step.
We're friends, right?

If I see something
that's not right,

or if I see you slipping,
like I'm not going to hesitate

to let you know,
like, yo, get it together.

[MELLOW INSTRUMENTALS]

♪ ♪

- You're sitting next to me?
- No, ma'am, right across.

Direct eye contact.

Petiri is someone I met
through a mutual friend.

We had kind of been talking,

but like never
really anything serious.

And it was just kind of
the right time to like finally

go on a date to step
outside of my friend box

and like date someone new.

I'm getting hot and like
very nervous and like,

low-key a little sweaty.

There's no reason
to be nervous with me.

- Okay.
- You can be yourself.

- You're good.
- Thank you.

I appreciate that.
Where you from though?

- I'm from Harlem.
- Okay. Period.

So, what are you doing?

- Right now?
- Yeah, for work.

I'm in a procurement
department at Bloomberg,

and I knew
I just wanted like experience

- from a reputable firm...
- Mm, okay, mm-hmm.

And I was like,
you know, the money was good.

- What's your sign again?
- I'm an Aries.

Wow, interesting.

- When is your birthday?
- Scorpio, October 28th.

Ooh, I heard a couple
of things about y'all.

- What'd you hear?
- A little crazy sometimes.

I just feel like Scorpios
are passionate.

- So, passionate fire.
- Yeah. Let's get a reading.

Like let's go tell someone

if we're going
to be soul mates or not.

Okay. Well, you know,
maybe I could disclose that.

- We'll see.
- Okay.

I feel like
a natural maturation

happens around this age.
Now, are you figuring out

what you like
if you don't already know?

I feel like
I have a good idea.

- I started Buttered By Bri.
- I peeped!

I peeped you bought
some sh*t.

- Who'd you buy it for?
- My mother

- and my little sisters.
- I remember you said

- you had hella sisters.
- Listen, man,

I got six sisters total...
I love that for you.

- A seventh on the way.
My mother's pregnant.

- Stop it.
- Yeah.

Do you talk to your sisters

- like about your dating life?
- For sure, 'cause, you know,

- you gotta get vetted sometimes.
- Did you like send them

my Instagram or no or like...
Oh, for sure.

- Stop it.
- And my mother.

- What did your sisters say?
- They were like, "She's cute,

She's really cute
and she got a body."

- Period. Thank you.
- So, they honest with me.

I been in the gym kinda.

And I work out too,
so I feel like...

- I have noticed.
- If you want to get it right,

- come with me.
- I don't think I like to

work out with someone
that I'm involved with.

- Okay.
So you telling me

- we involved already.
- I mean, I'm just saying.

- You ju... it was a forewarning.
- Yeah, just in case.

Unless we're like boyfriend,
girlfriend,

- then maybe no.
- Okay.

I feel like not
in the beginning.

That's good to know.

Petiri has like
the perfect answer

for every single question.

He's being really
smooth with it.

It sounds too good
to be true, honestly.

Why are you single though?

It's honestly by choice.

So have you f*cked
with someone like you

would maybe be
in a relationship with?

- Previously?
Yeah, I think like

those are the people
who were either

like close to me
and my girlfriend or work.

And then so what happened?

Well, you know, we were
just on different pages like,

you know, typically
dating older women?

What ages?

My last girlfriend was three,
four years older than me.

- Damn, okay.
- Yeah, oh, yeah.

We just kinda movin'
in different directions.

Like I had one boyfriend,
all of college.

One boyfriend,
all of high school.

I don't know
how to f*cking date.

I don't know how to like,

exist in like this space
of relationships.

I think you need to like,

you know, be a little
bit nicer to yourself.

Like, I don't think you need
to put any pressure on yourself

or act like there's, you know,
a path to follow.

Just... just be you.

I feel like you probably have
like a better view of women

'cause you have sisters,

but like a lot of the times
like girls, women,

like we're just naive
because we like someone so much

and we just wanna see
the potential in them.

So, you can look past
like red flags

and things that would otherwise
show you...

Not anymore, but definitely
in the past, like, yeah,

I don't see a f*ck' red flag.

Like, that sh*t
is orange to me.

- I got you, I got you.
- And we're moving forward.

- I heard you.
Well, we like the growth.

- Yeah.
- But yeah, I think that,

you know, having sisters
kind of expedited,

you know,
my maturation into a man.

My mom raised me, you know,
mostly as a single mother.

I really was raised right.

And, you know, she told me
how to treat a woman.

- Okay, I appreciate that.
- You know.

Am I tripping, like am
I hearing this correctly?

A man treating women
with respect?

I'm just trying to figure out
like where men like this

have been
my whole life for real,

because this is new to me.

I'm not even ready
for the night to end.

- Me either.
I'm off tomorrow.

- sh*t, me too.
You ready to go?

♪ Let me tell you,
I like you a lot, bae ♪

♪ I wanna start at the top
and the bottom, bae ♪

♪ Now you on the sheet with
the red at the bottom, bae ♪

♪ You know I like when ♪

- It was very fire.
- You know I got you.

- So, thank you.
- Always. Always.

Okay. This is you?

- It's me.
- Period.

- I got you.
- Oh!

So, you had a good time?

I had an amazing time,
honestly.

- Let me get you home.
- Thank you.

Thank you.

♪ If we hop in the Benz,
is that okay ♪

♪ Is it okay if I call you
my Prada bae ♪

♪ I ain't no player, I just
got a lotta baes ♪

♪ But let me tell you
I like you a lot, bae ♪

- Do you mind taking me home?
- I got you, shorty.

- Okay.
Go ahead with it.

♪ You ain't gotta deal
with ♪

♪ None of these n*gg*s
no more ♪

[RELAXED MUSIC]

♪ ♪

You're so focused on
this mic building, bro.

Jerrold's first podcast.

This definitely
isn't my first podcast.

They grow up so fast,
brother.

Man, f*ck you.

[LAUGHTER, CHATTER]

- Yo.
- Hey, you ready.

I'm ready for anything.

[CHATTER]

- Oh, lookit!
Hey, look.

Just in time!

- Shots.
J... just walk into shots?

- Yeah, bro.
- You doing very well, my boy.

[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]

- What we cheersing to, fellas?
- I appreciate y'all

for pulling up
to be on the pod.

- 100%.
- We gonna talk some sh*t.

We... we gonna talk that sh*t
and let's go get it.

We gonna get
the tequila in us.

Cheers, man.

- Oh sh*t, my bad.
- Yeah, bro.

Welcome back to the
"Basketball Adjacent" podcast

brought to you
by the Bleav podcast network.

And I got my brothers here
with me.

I wanna use my podcasts now

to... to kind of open up
the floor to you guys,

to talk a bit about the things
that you deal with

and how... how
that affects you mentally.

You know what I mean?
Like we, as Black men,

don't get the opportunity
to talk through this

in groups like... like
we're doing right now.

What I want us to talk about
is kind of like the anxieties

and the pressures
that... that come

with, you know, us as people.

You know what I mean?
We on the pod.

I...

openly, candidly...

Anxiety,
I feel like the anxiety

that I'm des... describing,
y'all know what the word means,

but y'all... y'all don't know
what my anxiety is.

I don't know
what y'all anxiety is.

Sometimes I-I get
that feeling in my stomach

that... that shoots up
to my chest and then... sh*t,

I low-key got it right now.
Like, just talking about it.

- Yeah.
- I feel like we, as Black men

are initially conditioned
to be like,

you go out and you get it.

And I don't wanna...
I don't wanna hear

about the... the scars
that you get along the way.

I don't... I don't wanna hear
about how you feeling.

Everybody has
a different situation.

And a lot of people
gotta figure this sh*t out.

And this is a great space.
This has never been done.

- You know what I mean?
- For real.

When Black people like,
talking about mental health,

'cause this sh*t is pivotal.
You know what I mean?

And it's just like the fact

that you're going
through anxiety growing up.

That's like something that
you don't have the answers to.

If I start... if I start
sharing now,

n*gg*s is gonna look
at me different.

I don't ever want anybody...

I don't ever want
nobody to feel like,

even if I have these anxieties,

I can't take care
of them myself, bro.

If it ever gets to the point
to where you feel like

you're debilitated, broken,

we're your village
for a reason.

Like, we're here for a reason.

Because we love you.
We f*ck with you.

And that's never
going to change, you feel me?

I have the like utmost
respect for you

opening up right now, bro,
because me, I cannot like...

Emotionally, bro,
I am like f*cked, bro.

Like, I can't... I don't know
how to express, like right now.

I don't know how to express
what I'm trying to say to you.

Like I haven't... I've never...

I've never seen my dad
or my mom hug, bro.

Like, you know what
that means to a kid, bro?

- Like to never see them hug?
- That's crazy.

I never seen 'em smile
at each other, bro.

Like it... it f*ck
you up mentally.

Seeing Jerrold open up,
you know,

it made me realize like,

yo, this is a safe space
to be vulnerable

and to say what's on your mind
and what's on your chest.

I'm thankful for this platform
and being able to open up

and be comfortable enough to
let people know

how I really feel.

We need to get more broad

with just how we're Black men

and that space of mental health

and how we kind of deal
in a world that we live in.

We don't have... especially
as Black men,

we don't have very many options
presented to us

for success cases aside
from being a rapper,

being a basketball player
or athlete or an entertainer.

So even with my business,
for example, I made clothes,

but growing up, I even had
my family telling me,

stop doing this and go
to college and get a good job.

Forget the business
that you're doing.

It doesn't matter
that you're making XYZ.

Just do this because
this is something

I can see and understand
a little bit more.

People only align themselves

and put their... their own
pressure of themselves...

- And their own fears.
- Own fears into yourself.

Me, personally,

I think a lot of it roots
from finances.

When you look at finances in
general, the average Black man,

I think makes like $30,000
a year on average.

- 42.
- 42. Exactly.

Even, same point in the case.

There are plenty of Black men
that are happy.

There are plenty of white men
that are happy.

There are plenty of
relationships that are happy.

Finances are not
the foundation of that...

But it's a big part.

- [OVERLAPPING CHATTER].
- That's a huge part.

It's like 90% of crime
with a Black man is... the reason

is because
of I'm trying to get money.

I feel like you're...
You're put with pressure

on "you need to make money
to be successful,"

and you may not have
all the resources

and the foundation to do that.

You may have all the passion
in the f*cking world,

you know what I mean?

But you don't have
those resources

to even
f*cking... to build something.

And bro, and I'm not
saying money is everything,

but I'm saying money

allows you to do the things
that you wanna do.

And I... and... and, bro,
a lot of people may not have

that... that... that foundation
that you had.

That's a privilege.

No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no.

Don't even say...
Don't even say that.

I don't even appreciate
you saying that

because you don't know
my family situation.

My mom has... her situation
where it's like just because

you have a good job
doesn't mean you make

- a bunch of money.
- Like, I hear everything

you're saying, but you've been
fortunate enough

to get to that point.
For people who are trying

to get there
and your whole life,

all you're doing
is trying to get there,

you think that this money
is going to help you out...

- But it do... but see.
- It may not. Now, listen...

But the reason
I can speak from that though

is because
I came from position.

You guys don't know
my background.

It's easy for you to assume...

No, I'm not throwing that
on you, no.

No, no, no,
I'm saying that in response

to Jaylenn's point...
It's easy for you

to assume like, oh, Jordan's
mom had this great job...

That's privilege. Period.

No, no. It's not that.

That's just an example.

[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]

Yes, my mom having
a good job plays one point,

but my mom made
a lot of sacrifices.

I'd argued that my mom

made more sacrifices
than most of these people...

Agreed. Agreed.

- To this... to this day.
- Right now, right now.

You have them... no,
but I think you have to see

that you have a mom
that's making sacrifices.

I'm not saying she funded it,
but it's a lot of people...

What about... what about people
that don't have a mom?

Who don't have a mom at all.

I don't have the support
from my dad.

- I agree. I agree.
- I don't have the support...

But that doesn't
mean you're not privileged.

But I'm speaking
from a perspective, bro,

where I'm speaking,
not even just for me,

but where
my close group of friends,

you know what I mean, bro.

We're waking up
and we're going to skid row

and we're hustling.
You know what I mean?

Like of people are not
doing that, but in your mind,

it's like I need financing
because, bro, I have a dream.

People don't know that.

People don't even understand
that perspective.

People don't even know that...
But they do. They do.

Everybody deals
with the same thing.

No, bro. 'Cause none of y'all
was going to skid hustling.

But, you don't know that,
though, you don't know me.

You don't know me.
I've had... I don't.

- I didn't see you out there.
- No,

I wasn't on skid row, but I was
hustling just like you.

I am where I am
because of my work ethic

and how much
I've worked though.

You're basing
your perspective off just you.

And the way that you're talking
to me right now, is a product

of your understanding, bro,
and your perspective.

I am more successful than you
because I work harder than you.

You don't even know the f*ck
you're talking about. I'm done.

I'm done having a conversation
because you're not even...

- You're not listening.
- You're not even conscious

of what you're saying.
No, him.

He's not even conscious
of what he's saying.

I gotta leave before I do
something I'll regret.

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♪ ♪

- How was the podcast?
- Everybody opened up.

But I ended up getting into it
with Jordan.

It got into
the word "privilege."

So, Jordan explained his story,
you know what I mean?

Like he started the business
with his mom.

- Mom helped fund it.
- Mm-hmm.

Whenever I pointed that out,
like, man, that's a privilege,

he got kinda in
in his feelings like, nah,

like you disrespecting like,
what my mom, what we all did.

And I'm just like no, bro...
No.

- I'm privileged.
I'm hella privileged. But...

I'm privileged
in certain ways.

You have to acknowledge that.
I was really about to go left

because all I'm hearing
from what Jordan is saying

is key words like,
dumb, work harder.

You don't know what
you're talking about.

And this is about
mental health.

At the end of the day,
it was just like,

it... it got weird.

Like that n*gga did get weird
on me, but I kept it real.

Like, real holy.

I'm curious to hear
what his friends were saying.

Were they actually
challenging what he said

or they were like...
No, they weren't

challenging...
So, it's like for me-

- And it's kind of... Rob,
he was kind of there for me.

You know what I mean?

But Jordan had gave
a P'jae a chain.

P'jae was kind of like, man,
I can't even...

I just got a chain, I can't...
You know what I mean?

- This is my crew.
- Got it.

And then Kofi's for sure
gonna be on the Jordan side.

How was Jerrold during
this whole discussion

between you and Jordan?

- Silent.
It was just kinda like,

he can't... he can't
really like...

He don't want to step
over Jordan's feet...

Yeah, you know what I mean?

So, they all are
a bunch of yes men.

That's the kind of vibe
I got.

Like you can't just...
I'm cool.

I don't need friends
like that.

I don't need people
in my circle like that.

It's like, Jerrold,
you're a moderator.

If you can't even have
a podcast

and have a difference
of opinion,

then why are you
even in the business?

- Yeah.
- This group of guys

allowed Jordan
to tear down another man

that I thought
was their friend.

And nobody said a word
to make Jaylenn feel empowered,

to make Jaylenn feel safe.
That's a non-negotiable for me.

I'm always going to stand
by my... by my,

you know what I mean?
My experiences.

You know what I mean?

And I can't let nobody
ever belittle that.

You're more of a man
than any of them n*gg*s.

All them n*gg*s are trying
to live up to Jordan.

But when you move
in that herd mindset,

then you're f*cking weird
to me.

These people are nobody
that I thought I knew.

And if they wanna level up,

they have
no business to do with me.

- Yeah.
- Cause I don't f*ck with that.

All of them
are some weak-a*s men.

- So f*ck them.
- ♪ Never know who real ♪

♪ Till you see their
true colors ♪

♪ This a party
only meant for my brothers ♪

♪ Run up, I'ma blow,
won't fold under pressure ♪

♪ Heart too cold, so
I always keep me a sweater ♪

I'm just trying to highlight

resources and foundation
that everybody don't have.

I'm not knocking nobody's
grind, struggle, hustle.

- Yeah.
- But you still gotta

acknowledge
the ones that really gotta...

Really get it out the mud,

and that's not something
that needs to be bragged about.

It's something that needs
to be changed.

We can't keep
letting sh*t slide

and then charging it to the
game as a personality trait.

- Shout out to my boy.
You know what I'm saying?

Word to Jerrold Smith.

This man is the matchmaker
right here, man.

I can even fit you
in the frame because...

You want me to hold you
in my arms?

- Yeah, you need to.
Wait.

I wanna see what
what I look like from your...

- My POV?
- Yeah.

♪ Party only meant
for my brothers ♪

♪ Run up I'ma blow,
won't fold under pressure ♪

♪ Heart too cold so
always keep me a sweater ♪

♪ Walk through a storm,
I ain't need no umbrella ♪

♪ Switch the b*tch sh*t,
I can get a Beretta ♪

♪ sh*t can get wicked,
put you on a stretcher... ♪