28-Jun-23
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[00:00:24.000 –> 00:00:28.239] I’m going to be a little bit I’m going to be a little bit I’m going to be a little bit new shit is awesome I love it. Thank you thank you thank you man thank you I um by the way I should tell you also you are the run the Jules playlist is the
[00:00:28.239 –> 00:00:32.359] playlist we play at the club before the show gets started. I’ll hype people up
[00:00:32.359 –> 00:00:36.280] thank you and that that is credit to Tony Hinchcliffe and this is years ago he
[00:00:36.280 –> 00:00:39.780] said this to me goes run the Jules is the fucking best music to play before a
[00:00:39.780 –> 00:00:43.439] show thanks to everybody gets hyped up yep you know and then it’s just it’s
[00:00:43.439 –> 00:00:47.759] perfect it’s like a lot of energy carries you running to the show. So I saw my rap part in LP
[00:00:47.759 –> 00:00:52.560] Who’s like probably like chilling his puppy’s right now. I love L2. He’s a great guy
[00:00:52.560 –> 00:00:57.840] He’s talented as fuck to him and his wife M and shots out to them and their dogs. Yeah. Yeah, I um
[00:00:58.560 –> 00:00:59.759] I don’t even know what to say
[00:00:59.759 –> 00:01:02.560] I’m just honored to that to be a part of that group and
[00:01:03.119 –> 00:01:08.540] If run the jewels is is like the X-man, I tell people this Michael album, it’s the Logan
[00:01:08.540 –> 00:01:09.540] origin story.
[00:01:09.540 –> 00:01:14.680] So the badass swagger and black motherfucker in the group, you get a chance to see the
[00:01:14.680 –> 00:01:19.959] true story of what became, like how he became who he is.
[00:01:19.959 –> 00:01:24.439] So you did this, you had a concept when you created this.
[00:01:24.439 –> 00:01:27.760] Well yeah, what happens is at nine years old,
[00:01:27.760 –> 00:01:29.879] I just wanted to be a badass motherfucker rapper, right?
[00:01:29.879 –> 00:01:32.000] I just wanted nine years old.
[00:01:32.000 –> 00:01:33.760] My mother was 16 when she had me.
[00:01:33.760 –> 00:01:35.079] So you gotta think about it.
[00:01:35.079 –> 00:01:38.840] Disco and rap, disco was fading out and rap was fading up.
[00:01:38.840 –> 00:01:40.640] So that’s what she was playing around.
[00:01:40.640 –> 00:01:44.159] She was playing like, who Dini, Curtis Blow, shit like that.
[00:01:44.159 –> 00:01:45.640] You know, it was like, it was like I liked it, but they still dressed like disco people. They still playing like who Dini Curtis blow shit like that. You know, it was like it was like I liked it,
[00:01:45.640 –> 00:01:47.719] but they still dressed like disco people. They still dressed
[00:01:47.719 –> 00:01:50.680] like my mom’s band. You know what I’m saying? And did I get a
[00:01:50.680 –> 00:01:53.359] chance to see Run DMC and the fact first I saw the fat boys.
[00:01:53.359 –> 00:01:57.680] I’m like, Oh shit, like like I’m Chubby. They’re Chubby. They’re
[00:01:57.680 –> 00:02:01.439] fresh. And then I saw Run DMC was over. I’m like, I’m in. And I
[00:02:01.439 –> 00:02:04.280] told my mom I’ll never forget him just like, Mom, I want to be
[00:02:04.280 –> 00:02:05.939] an MC and she had a joint she was like
[00:02:07.280 –> 00:02:09.280] Fuck it
[00:02:09.479 –> 00:02:11.479] That’s what we’re doing
[00:02:13.400 –> 00:02:17.300] So shots out the niece man, that’s leaving amazing advice
[00:02:17.840 –> 00:02:21.199] Honestly, anybody nobody can deny that’s amazing advice
[00:02:21.199 –> 00:02:26.840] I have a theory that if a child is given the confidence to know that they’re competent early enough
[00:02:26.840 –> 00:02:29.479] There’s nothing they can accomplish. That’s absolutely true
[00:02:29.479 –> 00:02:34.400] And also children need to know and this is a very difficult thing to say, but it is true
[00:02:35.599 –> 00:02:39.319] If someone out there is doing something you can do it
[00:02:39.319 –> 00:02:44.539] Don’t let anybody tell you any different someone out there is a musician if someone out there as an artist someone out
[00:02:44.539 –> 00:02:47.639] There’s an author and people tell you it different. If someone out there is a musician, if someone out there is an artist, someone out there is an author, and people tell you it’s too hard,
[00:02:47.639 –> 00:02:51.639] don’t listen to those motherfuckers ever. It can be done. It can be done. You know,
[00:02:51.639 –> 00:02:55.599] 100% can be done. Now you got to figure out doing it. I’m taking this jacket,
[00:02:55.599 –> 00:03:00.560] I want to stay cool. I want to tell kids, like you got to figure that part out.
[00:03:00.560 –> 00:03:04.479] Like my mom didn’t buy me studio time, she didn’t put me in, she was just like
[00:03:04.479 –> 00:03:07.680] motherfucker, you want to rap? She bring me for the friends rap.
[00:03:07.680 –> 00:03:08.680] Wow.
[00:03:08.680 –> 00:03:13.800] You know, but by the time I got 13, 14, I figured out how to get in studios and stuff like that.
[00:03:13.800 –> 00:03:17.180] My friends would take me and shit. You know what I mean? So I’m just like, okay, now I
[00:03:17.180 –> 00:03:21.300] get my older homies would take me. So now I got it. But you know, I just tell people
[00:03:21.300 –> 00:03:25.560] like kids, man, Nick Jordan Peterson said something,
[00:03:27.400 –> 00:03:30.639] he said, boys don’t get to be, but they don’t learn because we’re putting them in this box
[00:03:30.639 –> 00:03:33.280] and we’re saying learn and boys don’t learn like that.
[00:03:33.280 –> 00:03:34.240] They learn by being out.
[00:03:34.240 –> 00:03:36.439] And by, I believe that with all kids,
[00:03:36.439 –> 00:03:37.479] but with especially little boys,
[00:03:37.479 –> 00:03:40.680] you gotta let their imaginations just go fucking crazy.
[00:03:40.680 –> 00:03:42.360] And my mom was good about that.
[00:03:42.360 –> 00:03:43.199] You know what I mean?
[00:03:43.199 –> 00:03:44.020] That’s amazing.
[00:03:44.020 –> 00:03:46.159] So shots out to Denise, God bless the dead man.
[00:03:46.159 –> 00:03:47.319] Yes sir.
[00:03:47.319 –> 00:03:49.439] Yeah, boys need exercise too.
[00:03:49.439 –> 00:03:50.719] They need to run around.
[00:03:50.719 –> 00:03:52.479] Like they’re filled up with testosterone
[00:03:52.479 –> 00:03:54.840] and they’re little maniacs and they’re turning it
[00:03:54.840 –> 00:03:57.319] to little men and they have new powers.
[00:03:57.319 –> 00:03:59.280] I mean, you know when you’re a 16 year old boy,
[00:03:59.280 –> 00:04:02.240] you six years ago you couldn’t fuck anybody up.
[00:04:02.240 –> 00:04:04.159] You know all of a sudden you can fuck people up.
[00:04:04.159 –> 00:04:06.560] This is like a whole new gift you got from the universe.
[00:04:06.560 –> 00:04:08.800] That’s usually when your dad has a slammy on your back
[00:04:08.800 –> 00:04:10.960] one time to let you know like grown man,
[00:04:10.960 –> 00:04:12.439] strength is still, it’s still a lot.
[00:04:12.439 –> 00:04:13.280] It’s real.
[00:04:13.280 –> 00:04:14.680] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:04:14.680 –> 00:04:18.079] I got a picture of me and my high school principal.
[00:04:18.079 –> 00:04:20.839] Whereas he was like a Joe Clark like figure in my life
[00:04:20.839 –> 00:04:22.279] like Dr. Hill, if you’re out there,
[00:04:22.279 –> 00:04:23.600] well I know you’re out there.
[00:04:23.600 –> 00:04:24.600] I know you’re gonna end up watching,
[00:04:24.600 –> 00:04:26.160] but I love you, oh man.
[00:04:26.160 –> 00:04:27.160] There’s a picture.
[00:04:27.160 –> 00:04:28.160] I was 16.
[00:04:28.160 –> 00:04:31.639] I never realized how much taller than him.
[00:04:31.639 –> 00:04:32.639] I was.
[00:04:32.639 –> 00:04:34.879] So that’s me with my arm around him.
[00:04:34.879 –> 00:04:36.800] Oh, wow.
[00:04:36.800 –> 00:04:38.839] And all those little, all those little guys around her.
[00:04:38.839 –> 00:04:40.560] So like that was the crew to posse.
[00:04:40.560 –> 00:04:44.199] It was like Alan Temple posse, like, and I was wanted to be a little asshole because
[00:04:44.199 –> 00:04:45.180] I grew up in the houses
[00:04:45.180 –> 00:04:47.839] I wanted to fight and shit like that and um
[00:04:48.279 –> 00:04:54.040] He he at some point just decided that this kid is smarter than he’s acting
[00:04:54.040 –> 00:04:57.720] So let’s do this. He’d come get me out of Spanish class out of his blaze class
[00:04:58.079 –> 00:05:03.199] He’d make me stand next to him at lunch and and eat my lunch. So pretty much everybody knew
[00:05:03.759 –> 00:05:08.519] You know, he’s the principal’s guy now. Don’t go fucking around. So all my homies that were just
[00:05:08.519 –> 00:05:12.660] on the bullshit in school were just kind of like, we’ll see you after school and
[00:05:12.660 –> 00:05:16.399] it really helped change my direction in terms of where I wanted to go and what I
[00:05:16.399 –> 00:05:20.839] wanted to do so. Shout out to Don. That’s amazing that he knew to do that. That’s
[00:05:20.839 –> 00:05:24.560] the value of a really good educator as opposed to someone who’s just doing that
[00:05:24.560 –> 00:05:28.759] job. So when it really looks at a kid and goes, I think I can
[00:05:28.759 –> 00:05:33.839] steer this young person in an amazing direction. Man, the old man, I’ll never
[00:05:33.839 –> 00:05:38.600] forget, he brought me into his office and he said, you know, he said, you know,
[00:05:38.600 –> 00:05:42.560] Michael, I’ll never be a doctor or a lawyer in the sense of a medical doctor,
[00:05:42.560 –> 00:05:45.680] a lawyer, engineer, all these things. But it really touched me.
[00:05:45.680 –> 00:05:50.800] He said, but I’m going to be all those things through you and the students that I have here.
[00:05:50.800 –> 00:05:55.079] And when I tell you that man, that high school was a national school, it had only had two
[00:05:55.079 –> 00:05:56.079] principles at the time.
[00:05:56.079 –> 00:06:00.759] Dr. Butts before him was my mother’s principal at the same school and then later me.
[00:06:00.759 –> 00:06:06.500] Now since the principal, they’ve had multiple principles in the school that is kind of falling, but they got a great principal over there now,
[00:06:06.500 –> 00:06:07.800] a female principal who went up.
[00:06:07.800 –> 00:06:10.199] Me and T.I. are very involved in helping the school,
[00:06:10.199 –> 00:06:13.500] kind of return the glory, but that man changed a lot a lot.
[00:06:13.500 –> 00:06:16.100] He put a lot of people through that school.
[00:06:16.100 –> 00:06:20.000] 1995 NCAA Champion Cameron Dollar, his dad was a coach there.
[00:06:20.000 –> 00:06:22.000] He went on a UCLA, went to NCAA Championship,
[00:06:22.000 –> 00:06:26.399] Chief Judge, Aisha Jackson, you know, he’s a dean of technology
[00:06:26.399 –> 00:06:28.800] at Georgia Tech, Rahim, B.
[00:06:28.800 –> 00:06:31.160] All these people encountered this man,
[00:06:31.160 –> 00:06:32.480] and he put a lot into us.
[00:06:32.480 –> 00:06:33.319] That’s incredible.
[00:06:33.319 –> 00:06:34.319] Thank you for it to this day.
[00:06:34.319 –> 00:06:37.480] Yeah, people like that are so valuable in a kid’s life,
[00:06:37.480 –> 00:06:40.759] because just one different perspective, one different,
[00:06:40.759 –> 00:06:44.439] you don’t realize even when you’re saying it, I guess,
[00:06:44.439 –> 00:06:46.839] probably that the kid’s gonna have it that way.
[00:06:46.839 –> 00:06:50.040] I had one science teacher that was really good.
[00:06:50.040 –> 00:06:52.600] And he was an interesting guy, like Vietnam vet
[00:06:52.600 –> 00:06:55.000] and just kind of hard-nosed sort of dude.
[00:06:55.000 –> 00:06:59.279] And this was a bad, I was in Jamaica Plain,
[00:06:59.279 –> 00:07:01.199] which was, it’s kind of a gentrified now,
[00:07:01.199 –> 00:07:07.439] but back then it was a very low income area outside of Boston.
[00:07:07.439 –> 00:07:08.439] Gotcha.
[00:07:08.439 –> 00:07:09.720] And so the school was rough.
[00:07:09.720 –> 00:07:13.920] Like we had 17 year old kids that would show up the first days of school because they had
[00:07:13.920 –> 00:07:15.079] been back something.
[00:07:15.079 –> 00:07:17.279] I was 13.
[00:07:17.279 –> 00:07:20.120] And so there’s kids that have failed four years and are on there still like, let me
[00:07:20.120 –> 00:07:21.120] try one more time.
[00:07:21.120 –> 00:07:23.519] Yeah, we had some 21 year old graduating seniors.
[00:07:23.519 –> 00:07:29.139] So there was that kind of shit, right? And this guy sat in front of the class and he said,
[00:07:29.139 –> 00:07:31.220] if you ever really want to hurt your brain,
[00:07:31.220 –> 00:07:33.660] he goes, go outside at night and look up
[00:07:33.660 –> 00:07:35.779] and realizes no end to that.
[00:07:35.779 –> 00:07:37.220] And you take that for granted.
[00:07:37.220 –> 00:07:41.139] And you think about it, you’re just kind of,
[00:07:41.139 –> 00:07:43.459] except that space is above you.
[00:07:43.459 –> 00:07:46.519] But you don’t really think that that goes on forever.
[00:07:46.519 –> 00:07:48.480] Think about what infinity is,
[00:07:48.480 –> 00:07:50.120] that there’s no end to that.
[00:07:50.120 –> 00:07:51.279] And I remember being in that class,
[00:07:51.279 –> 00:07:52.279] being 13 years old, I was like,
[00:07:52.279 –> 00:07:54.839] holy shit, nobody ever said that before.
[00:07:54.839 –> 00:07:57.199] And I’ve been obsessed with it ever since.
[00:07:57.199 –> 00:07:58.800] I definitely feel you.
[00:07:58.800 –> 00:08:01.360] Like I had a lot of great teachers.
[00:08:01.360 –> 00:08:03.680] In summer still, my teachers, Mr. Murray,
[00:08:03.680 –> 00:08:04.800] who was an art teacher,
[00:08:04.800 –> 00:08:08.759] but now teaches his former students to grow their own food and he
[00:08:08.759 –> 00:08:12.480] makes you come out to his yard and plant and pick when his pick and season
[00:08:12.480 –> 00:08:16.519] like but he was one of the first people that kind of pushed me to think past
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