I knew I wanted to be something and it
was important to me to be something it
was it was important to me that I didn’t
fail but by the way and if I did fail at
least a bit what was also important was
a lesson and I didn’t realize that until
I got older because you know when you’re
in it you’re in the grind you don’t
really recognize those things when
you’re younger but I could recognize
them now and the importance of them now
and it just in terms of drive and the
determination a lot of it was experience
to get your ass kicked
get back up and you put the gloves back
on and you swing away
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are you surprised by your success at all
I don’t want to say I am because then I
think that means you’re doing something
for for a lesser benefit you know I
think you do anything to maximize your
potential in whatever realm you put
yourself in with entertainment there’s
so many doors that you can go through I
mean you’re literally looking at 15 to
20 doors I saw myself going in a
direction where I would be able to make
people smile and instead of comedy is
one thing that I need I will be able to
put me in that position
I wanted to entertain I didn’t when I
was 8 years old I thought I was a
combination of these guys I thought I
was a combination of Chuck Norris
Richard Pryor Harrison Ford and Rocky
Balboa and Harrison Ford from Indiana
Jones so I was like all these guys in my
oh and Elvis Presley – Nate Wright
already built the ambition yes exactly
so I knew at that time when I was 8 I
wanted to be an entertainer and I loved
the idea of that and what it meant and
when I was 8 I saw Indiana Jones for the
first time and I loved that character
like wow that guy’s so heroic and he
kicked ass
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everybody’s successful a the boot for
now you lay the boot for now you know I
can go down a little from comedians to
actors entrepreneurs to self-made mobile
we look at Russell Simmons you look at
jay-z you look at Tyler Perry you look
at Punk
I mean you’re looking at people to start
off with a small vision and that vision
manifested in something beyond
expectation so what I did was from the
people around me my mentor is Eddie
Murphy Chris Rock prior that’s where
I’ll surround myself with a constant
reminder of who is great back to me I
come down and steps every day I look at
Richard L he’s great
I see Eddie he was great I see Chris
Rock he was great it’s a constant
reminder what am I trying to achieve I
want to be great so that motivates me so
we’re taking separates me is my drive my
drive is other people’s success
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but the goal is to become a better actor
and so for me in order for me to do that
I had to work in all different genres so
I wanted to explore family movies comedy
action comedy family comedy mixed drama
into as well so that was important to me
which is to get better
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life is too short and I feel like
everyone unit we know the laugh and
understand like you know you’re costly
involved they the copy change is very
popular Brittany couldn’t people of this
is where you can get better and do that
we’re doing a lot better a lot better
you want to have bumps in the world you
want to have things about it that make
you have a hiccup and a question are we
going back but that’s why that’s the
course of life but you know I’m I’m
gonna I’m a positive person I’m a
realistic and positive person so I see
where we are
I’m happy where we are and I know where
we can be in five or ten years where
it’s inconceivable
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early generally I have this thing where
I like beating the Sun up not just in
terms of what something I have to get up
and how do I do it it’s just important
to find balance and I try and do things
really that I really enjoyed doing and a
lot of times you know it’s like in life
right life brings like drama and you got
to deal with this person and your
relationship here is all they think
you’re trying to kind of balance them
out as best I can I got a great team
around me by the way who really really
helps me well and helps me allows for me
to come in and work 12 hours a day 14
hours a day get up at 3 o’clock in the
morning
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me you know what I believe hard work
pays off you know when you say it’s been
it’s been my year it’s my time you know
Hollywood has a way of making everything
seem like holding my success oh my god
where does that come from all this kid
who is he look I’m a star
18 years in the business you know he put
in your 10,000 hours with it I’ll put in
my time you know I got I got dudes that
that have been paid and paid again
payable more time after that I said
she’s not dream and by doing that
eventually became truth
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I’m not cocky I’m so confident I’m
confident of Who I am
I’m confident in the person that I am I
just don’t believe I don’t believe in
change I don’t believe in doing things
to manufacture my body to appeal to what
I think people might like this is that
really a lot of giving there’s my
playing card we’re playing poker I got
to make this hand work yeah this is it
to me and this is what I’m going to
write out so how do you not embrace it
get one like yeah one in one life
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yes I get up there crazy hours whether
it’s three o’clock in the morning by the
way when we’re talking in London I was
reading up to three guys had to be on
set by 4:00 I’m sorry by 7:00 so
whatever time might call climate I tell
this to Studios and directors and our
producers whatever told my call time so
my call times event seven then you back
your clock up four hours and then that’s
when I get up and train twice cardio and
breakfast and I’ll go hit the weights
clanging and banging we call it Jack and
iron
I come from a heavy place even in my
place is dark I’m happy yeah I’m happy
simply because I have no reason to be
angry life is too short to the edges so
the things I do a little certain type of
way about it I may get upset about I let
it out I get our own stage and I allow
her to keep you keep judging and laugh
at and the reason why you’re laughing is
because I’m being honest
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I keep attended forever how happy of a
person I am I can’t express how
inspiring and I guess you’d say
motivated my life and the people around
me are I don’t care how bad how severe
it is after this happened I guarantee
you laughs do not say to yourself I’ve
tried everything at the ball if you
tried everything you have what you want
why I would write everything when I
tried millions of things Million number
them name them
well maybe tens of thousands tens of
thousands name of thousand well maybe
100 name on it well maybe I did these
two things over and over again but don’t
work okay but we start saying I’ve tried
everything we tend to incant that don’t
we we make it an incantation then we
believe it and since we think we’ve
tried everything we just give up
that’s garbage it’s not true hey let me
ask you a question how long would you
give your average baby to learn how to
walk before you shut them off and can
let me try anymore yeah what are you
crazy
like it’s going to keep trying until he
or she walks ah magic formula knowing
almost everything the whole world walks
okay so this is the ultimate success
form that comes down to knowing what you
want why you want to take a massive
action none of it’s working and simply
changing your approach until you get it
that’s it anyone who succeeds does this
and then I call it Robin’s open with the
first one who I guarantee they did it
Anna Coren example Thomas Edison these
lights in here did this guy knows
outcome yes or no yes or no he was
absolutely clear without knowing the
outcome you couldn’t have built that in
million years it didn’t exist before he
had to decide he want to create this
result without the use of candles did he
know why you want to do it you bet you
read his writings this man had a sense
of incredible purpose and drive
did he take massive action yes or no oh
yes tens of thousands of experiments did
he notice what it wasn’t working and
learn from it yes or no they keep
changing his approach that’s why right
now in this room we hold snow
candlelight
right now if you know the old story of
him was written about him early in his
early days if it’s got his best friend
with them he’s doing this experiment and
as he’s doing he faced a small explosion
which shakes the room scares multiple
very very severely and then at the end
of that he gets up and his friend is
totally shaken freaked out he pulled out
his journal he starts writing and his
buddy says to him what’s the matter you
and saying almost killed us you’re gonna
wake them 10,000 failures for you give a
stupid idea up and Addison’s response to
him was I didn’t have failure there you
go that’s your 9000 1999 failure he said
no it’s not he said I discovered the
9999 thwe not cement electrolyte Bowl
but I did discover how to create a small
explosion which may be useful in the
future somewhere else not interesting
right because he understood with
response this one hey did through
Springsteen use this do you think you
just want went out use this gravelly
voice and said a baby born to USA and
everybody went yeah you’re at man that
what happened know what really happened
if you know his story was that all the
agents of evil went to John book was
dead just play the guitar and keep your
mouth shut
your voice is gross sounding it’s
gravelly it’s irritating no one’s gonna
like the stuff keep your mouth shut and
play the guitar but he knew what he
wanted he had all the drive you can
imagine why I wanted took massive action
kept changing his approach so he got
what he wanted how about a slice alone
semester still on rocky rocky story is
there even write applies disputes I was
good friend of mine and when I first met
him years ago listen to my tape some
stuffing bad meal for dinner we started
talking I said you know I’ve heard your
story from other people but I really
love to hear from the horse’s mouth I
don’t know how much is mythology and or
urban myth and how much is true
he told his old story said the essence
of it though was he said he knew his
whole life what you want to do since
it’s very very young he wanted to be in
the movie business period I mean not for
TV movies and he said why was for him it
was a chance to have people not only
escape but to inspire people by the way
that drive is what made most of his
movies inspired people to what they’re
capable to overcome unbelievable
obstacles because in his own life he
felt like he did that when he was born
he’s pulled out by the forceps that’s
why he looked lead in so I talked
deleted and he said so I really want to
do that and he said I knew why I want to
do it I wasn’t willing to settle for
anything out thanks ed what happened was
I wouldn’t have to try and get jobs and
it’s not like I went her dream in what
you yours far it didn’t work out real
well they looked at me and said hey
you’re stupid look and do something else
you know whether the loser cookie will
do this there’s no place for you in that
stuff you’re never going to be a star in
the movies you’re insane no one’s gonna
listen if somebody looks tobe
and box outside of their mouth right and
got no after no after no after now he
said I was thrown out more fifth more
than 1500 times of agents offices in New
York I said one 15-minute agents in New
York I said I know I’ve been on five six
seven eight nine times he said number
one guy I went in there and I got in
there at four o’clock and he wouldn’t
see me so I stayed there and I wouldn’t
know how leave I stayed overnight to him
back that’s what I’m still sitting there
he’s that’s how I got my first job the
guy said fine come in here
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he said the one thing I love most in the
world was my dog he said I love my dog
cause he gave me unconditional love I’m
like my wife and he said so when Apple
was though we were so broke good to
survive I couldn’t even feed my dog so I
went to a liquor store there was the
lowest day of my life and I stood
outside a liquor store trying to sell my
dog to strangers
so try to sell my dog for 50 bucks and
he said to finally there’s one guy
negotiating with me and bought my dog
for me my best friend art for $25 he
said I walked away from there and I
cried he says the worst thing that ever
happened my life he’s a two weeks later
I’m watching a fight between Muhammad
Ali and Wepner and this white guy that’s
getting bludgeoned but just keeps on
coming even though I get the hell beat
out of it and he said I got an idea he
said I soon as the fight ended I started
writing he said I wrote for 20 straight
hours I did not sleep I wrote the entire
movie in 20 hours straight right then
saw the fight wrote the movie whole
thing done he said I was shaking at the
end it was so exciting so I really knew
man I knew what I wanted I knew why I
wanted he said just like he teased out a
formula he said but I said man I took
the action now it’s time to deliver and
so he said I went out started trying to
sell at the agents and they all would
read it and they’d say you know this is
predictable
this is stupid this is sappy he said I
wrote down all the things they said and
I read them the night of the Oscars when
we won it was really good the greatest
revenge is massive success they did so
what happened was he said I have going
to sell it on a cell and there we going
I’m broke I’m starving he said finally I
meet these guys they read it and they
believed in the script and they love it
and they offer me a hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars for my script I
said oh my god he must’ve been out of
your mind
he said I was I said just one thing
though guys you got a deal based on one
thing they said what that he said I got
a star in it they were
we talked about your riders – no no I’m
an actor no no you’re a writer no no I’m
an actor that is my story and I am
rocking that I got to play it you know I
got to be the head person I’ll be the
starring role
there’s no way when I go to $125,000
take some no-name and stick you an
answer our money away we need to start
now and they want to have Ryan O’Neal
play Rocky
give me a picture can you imagine after
they did right and so he says no way
Riedel kneels and rocky I’m Rocky would
you this whole thing right they finally
he said they said we’ll take it or leave
it
he said I left the room I said if that’s
what you believe you don’t get my script
he left here’s the man with no money
none totally broke offered $125,000 won
money seen his lifetime he walked away
because he knew his real life news real
life and why wanted he was committed to
it
so he said they called him a few weeks
later and they came to buy the back and
they offered him a quarter of a million
dollars not the star in his own movie he
turned it down
$250,000 they came back their final
offer three hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars they wanted this thing
he said not without me and they said no
they finally compromised and they gained
him $35,000 and points in the movie
because I said if this is going to
happen that you’re going to take the
risk with us
and the bottom line is we don’t think it
will work for at least one spend a bunch
of money on you and they only spent a
million dollars to make Rocky and it
grows two hundred million dollars
thought I’m just done pretty well but
what’s interesting about this is here is
he I said what you do me even thirty
five dollars it’s not a quarter of a
million I’ve a lot of money when you
don’t have 25 bucks I said what’s the
first thing you did I hear you went out
party to something said I went to that
liquor store for three straight days and
hoped with the man who had my dog
frequented the store because I want to
buy back my dog
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people who succeed in any situation have
a pattern of what they do to succeed and
it doesn’t matter whether that person is
succeeding at a business context on a
relationship context doesn’t matter what
the environment is the fundamental
lessons or laws for succeeding are very
very basic so if we’re looking for the
ultimate successful anger the very first
thing we have is you have to know what
you want which we call no your outcome
you’re going to succeed in anything it’s
hard to succeed hard to hit a target
when you don’t know what it is and as
simplistic as this sound you know see
most people really know what they want
what do you think yes or no at least not
consciously they don’t alright and so
it’s going to be very very difficult to
achieve what you want waited – haven’t
defined it but this is going to become a
question we’re going to want you to ask
yourself a lot what is my outcome in
this situation I even have a time
management system that I developed it’s
really a life management system which we
call opa because the first Oh sounds for
what’s my outcome because you can come
up with a question like what should I do
and you’re going to end up with a long
list but as you do all these things what
will happen is you can cross something
off your list and still be unfulfilled
not really achieve anything that matters
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most of you don’t you put attention to a
small number of things if you could
right now notice what millions of things
you can notice my voice you could listen
to what I’m saying you can notice what’s
going on a background the screens you
could hear the air-conditioning you
could smell your neighbor I’ll call that
jumping up and down notice that right
you can feel the navy little sweat
trickling across your chest or whatever
was going on after all that jumping up
and down you can feel the blood maybe
vibrating or circulating through your
left eardrum but you don’t think about
those things so maybe I mentioned them
or something triggers it so this part of
your brain that’s responsible for
deleting most of our thoughts and most
of the things that are going on around
us that part of our brain you know what
it knows what you want it makes you
notice those things you suddenly see
that car because it’s important it’s
called a reticular activating system you
don’t have to write all the down for
sure it’s called Ras the reticular
activating system tells your brain what
to pay attention to so when you say this
is what I really want that anything that
relates that that you would have noticed
before will start popping up into your
focus and a lot of times people say it’s
amazing I decided this and was kind of
you know synchronicity these things
started popping up all these things are
probably around you before but you never
notice them because you haven’t decided
your outcome
now when you know your outcome you’re
ahead of 95% of population but that’s
not enough that’s not your thing ever
now a lot of times you know your outcome
but you lose your drive you know you
want something but you forget the most
important thing which is know why you
want it know why you want it
you gotta know the purpose in our open
training system people are managing
their lives we haven’t asked what’s my
outcome and then why do I want this
because any person success or really
successful knows exactly what they want
in a wife
the reasoning under why is remember I
said yesterday reasons come first
answers come second giving the reasons
you can get a big enough one you can
figure out how to do about anything but
you got to have purpose because purpose
provides right now if you know what you
want you know why you’re lightyears
ahead of most the population but you got
to go to the step that most people seem
to avoid and that is you got to take
massive what that’s right and the key
word there is massive massive action can
be a cure-all when you know what you’re
after and you know why you want it you
know you’re after when you take action
you won’t just be expending energy
you’ll be moving yourself in the
direction or something you really really
want by the way last night we call
taking massive action personal white
power which means utility take action
and what stops people from taking action
primarily what fear and the way you get
over that fear is what do you think is
the number one fear most people have
failure the reason is they feel if they
fail they won’t be loved
they’ll be rejected they’ll be hurt
they’ll be judged so they really are
afraid of his losing love and they think
that this rejection or should say this
failure will lead to that rejection or
loss of love the truth of the matter is
you can’t fail well as you don’t try you
try something doesn’t work you just
learn from it and that will make you
better the next time you go about it now
if you know your outcome know why you
want and take massive action you’re now
the most small percentile of people on
the planet so what’s the next step
though well you can take a lot of action
and get caught up in a pattern like
become so determinate you became like
tunnel vision like I know this is going
to work and so you keep running east
looking for a sunset with total
certainty a lot of beliefs high
standards still doesn’t work so what you
have to be able to do to succeed so you
don’t get caught up in some old pattern
is you’re going to know what you’re
getting know what you are know what
you’re getting
word we use for this as for sure is we
call it sensory acuity sensory acuity is
the idea that you want to become acutely
sensitive to whether what you’re doing
is working or not you don’t want to just
say okay I know what I want to know what
I want and I’m just going to make it
happen it’s how I’m going to do it you
keep hammering and hammering and
hammering it doing something that
doesn’t work and people do this all the
time right do the same thing over and
over again expecting a different result
that’s called insanity you can’t do the
same thing again and again expect a
different result when you can see it it
doesn’t get the result but we get caught
up in our pattern so we want to get
really sensitized acutely sensitized
sensory acuity to whether what we’re
doing is working or not
and by the way sensory acuity is really
the measure of a person’s intelligence
what I mean by that is how we measure
intelligence intelligence is a measure
of the number and quality of
distinctions you have in a given
situation like for example if you talk
to Eskimos that’s actually not the
politically correct term anymore I guess
it’s in a way you talked in in a way
what we fondly called Eskimos you find
out that in a way have more than a dozen
words for the word snow more than a
dozen now I’m from Southern California
guess how many words I have there’s no
one I don’t see anything it’s called
smell baby right but they got to know
what kind of snow they’re going to make
more refined distinctions to be
effective in the world to get their
outcomes they don’t know what kind of
snow you can build an igloo out of what
kind of snow you can take your dogs
through what kind of snow you can eat
all right what kind of snow you’re going
to fall through so who has more
intelligence who has more power in that
snowy environment the Eskimo army which
one else can know because they have more
sensory acuity they have more refined
distinctions about what each of these
elements mean purrs I to see it as smell
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no matter how much you feel like you’re
prepared for something it never happens
on your time but when you think you’re
ready
it’s supposed to happen it always
happens when it’s supposed to happen
because the period that you feel ready
and people are not acknowledged in the
material the way you feel like this show
because it’s good it’s the timing to
actually develop skin thick enough to
survive and it does work first of all
you have to make sure that this thing is
for you and it’s who you are and you’re
built for this you know and then you
have to give it the passion that’s
necessary you know like I said I don’t
do it for the money the money is going
to come I do it because of the love that
I have for it you know I’m saying if I
was a plumber or something like that I
still would make hip-hop records that’s
how much love I have for it you know I
feel like right now I’ve been in the
game close to 27 years and I’ve actually
thought about this just recently out of
the entire twenty-seven by 27 year
career there’s only been two weeks that
I’ve been out of the studio
I’ve never been out of studio longer
than two weeks in my entire career
that’s how much love I have for this
thing that I do so that’s the thing just
a passion that you have for it and
really really put your all into it and
make sure that your word is the last
word that way you don’t you know you
don’t play the blame game or anything
like that if it comes out hot it’s on
you if it doesn’t come out hot it’s on
you you’re I’m saying that’s all it is
to it
I was reserved and I was shy and had it
in me but wasn’t quite sure how to bring
it out yet I wanted people to hear me so
bad I want to do much it but it was like
you know them jitters and them
scared not scared that whole struggle
and everything especially early on for
me which I love being on stage and stuff
like that once I got a mic I was cold
but it was that prompting needed to do
it and get up there and not be scared to
grab that and just and just cry I feel
like anybody can do anything except
emergency it depends on how bad you
wanted and I wanted to do it you know
it’s a stage of my life I don’t feel
like there’s too much that I can’t do on
media sound cocky but if I really really
want to do it I don’t give up that easy
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everybody shines and different things
and a lot of things I can’t do I can’t
play basketball like every other black
person in America but I can act I’m not
a go to that shoe spider myself because
I’m there every day I can be me I can be
whoever because I’m to me I can go to
new so even a lot of people black white
Mexican young or old fat or skinny have
a problem being cancer itself they have
a problem looking in the mirror and
looking directly into their own souls
the reason I fell six million records
the reasons not to go to jail and come
out without a scratch who’s not to walk
around or even I am lying today that I
can look directly into my face and find
my soul there’s not sold I didn’t sell
it still within you still feeling my
heart still connected to my body
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there’s nothing that can actually
compare to one is right what it feels
like when it is right music is just dead
right and it’s like that energy is dead
manual that’s all suspicion kind of hot
it can get addicted to and you chase it
for the rest of your actual career when
you feel like feeling what is your first
album second out and third album just a
single there’s a lot of artists have a
career long enough for one song you know
but we’ll feel what that feeling is you
ain’t gonna replace it you know will you
make music you got to please yourself
you know that’s the only way you’re
gonna continue to drive yourself you’re
doing this for so long
and if you don’t agree or like what you
know the type of records that’s you know
being made no saw the stores you can
walking we understand we do this for the
people that’s in line when we pull up to
the vendors we do this for the for the
fans that was love that was standing in
line last night a self-made through
Steven comes me and those are the
targets you know the other one
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the first time I grabbed the mic like
though like in front of actual people
that mattered you know Stanley get it at
a club I got boo remember that scary
traumatically secret to my longevity I
think is the fact that I’m a
perfectionist you know and I listen to
everybody they know I mean even RD I
listen to classical music sometime I
listen to heavy matter I just listen to
everything you know and really I listen
to you know the stuff that’s not selling
you know it’s easy to pick up a hit
record and know what people are buying
I’m not going to sit inside of a
corporation for 20 years the time is now
the time is now to express and for
people to believe in themselves the time
is now for it to be okay to be great
people in this world shutting people for
being great for being a bright color for
standing out but the time is now to be
okay to be the greatest you
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you know when when they see me they know
that every day when I’m breathing it’s
for us to go far you know every time I
speak I want to keep to come on you know
every time I speak I want to ship you
know I don’t want them to be like they
know what I’m going to say cause it’s
polite they know what I’m going to say
it even if I get in trouble you know I’m
saying that ain’t that what we’re
supposed to do it’s I’m not saying I’m
gonna rule the world or I’m going to
change the world but I guarantee that I
will spark the brain that will things
were and that’s our job is to spark
somebody else watching us we might not
be the one but let’s not be selfish and
because we’re not gonna save the world
let’s not talk about how we should a lot
of things but I know if I keep talking
about how dirty it is out here
so am I gonna clean it up you know
you’re going to love me you’re going to
hate me but I’m a dealing like always
with anything you’ve got to take the
good today you know
I don’t ever feel the responsibility to
impress people with with my music I do
feel like I gotta get in I do
do my music to the best of my ability
you know I feel like I’m my worst critic
you know if if I’m not digging it
the critics out there can basically like
kiss my ass straight up because they
know nothing about what goes into this
they’re just people with a nine-to-five
know just following my heart really
everything that I’ve really done up at
this point was something that you know
something I really you know something I
really had love or passion yeah because
if it’s lifestyle I feel like you know
we’re gonna win that another man at this
you know fashion is this you know
something to deal with you know because
we give a lot of Gabby this way
I think one of my greatest inspirations
were things that our feed off of
basically was just obviously people not
believing and you know the cloud of
doubt that kind of I felt hung over my
head and wanted to just prove everybody
wrong you know I mean I wanted to make
it when I was going to make it
regardless of what anybody said
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I think people are limited because
they’re very well influenced by people
that surround them or people that’s in
the ladies you know you see somebody
criticizing something you’re not going
to do that you know I’m saying I don’t
think like that I’m only going to do
what I like
you know I had to convince myself that
I’m going to make it you know regardless
to how people felt at that time and what
it does is it makes you feel like what
made me feel like there’s going to be
points that people don’t mistake my
confidence for arrogance because I’ve
had they don’t understand the process on
it and how much I had to believe in
myself in order to make these things
happen I kind of I felt you can will
yourself so good scary things are meant
to happen will and you’re believing
yourself enough you can help yourself
learn you can inspire yourself in
different ways we can actually
discipline yourself
you know to the point that you can
become good enough like from 97 like
when I started writing it was full-time
everyday I’m frightened because I had no
choice if I was gonna stop puffing and
then how was I going to provide or
create continue the lifestyle that I
created for my son’s mom my son and
myself
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was important to me to be something it
was it was important to me that I didn’t
fail but by the way and if I did fail at
least a bit what was also important was
a lesson and I didn’t realize that until
I got older because you know when you’re
in it you’re in the grind you don’t
really recognize those things when
you’re younger but I could recognize
them now and the importance of them now
and it just in terms of drive and the
determination a lot of it was experience
to get your ass kicked
get back up and you put the gloves back
on and you swing away
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are you surprised by your success at all
I don’t want to say I am because then I
think that means you’re doing something
for for a lesser benefit you know I
think you do anything to maximize your
potential in whatever realm you put
yourself in with entertainment there’s
so many doors that you can go through I
mean you’re literally looking at 15 to
20 doors I saw myself going in a
direction where I would be able to make
people smile and instead of comedy is
one thing that I need I will be able to
put me in that position
I wanted to entertain I didn’t when I
was 8 years old I thought I was a
combination of these guys I thought I
was a combination of Chuck Norris
Richard Pryor Harrison Ford and Rocky
Balboa and Harrison Ford from Indiana
Jones so I was like all these guys in my
oh and Elvis Presley – Nate Wright
already built the ambition yes exactly
so I knew at that time when I was 8 I
wanted to be an entertainer and I loved
the idea of that and what it meant and
when I was 8 I saw Indiana Jones for the
first time and I loved that character
like wow that guy’s so heroic and he
kicked ass
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everybody’s successful a the boot for
now you lay the boot for now you know I
can go down a little from comedians to
actors entrepreneurs to self-made mobile
we look at Russell Simmons you look at
jay-z you look at Tyler Perry you look
at Punk
I mean you’re looking at people to start
off with a small vision and that vision
manifested in something beyond
expectation so what I did was from the
people around me my mentor is Eddie
Murphy Chris Rock prior that’s where
I’ll surround myself with a constant
reminder of who is great back to me I
come down and steps every day I look at
Richard L he’s great
I see Eddie he was great I see Chris
Rock he was great it’s a constant
reminder what am I trying to achieve I
want to be great so that motivates me so
we’re taking separates me is my drive my
drive is other people’s success
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but the goal is to become a better actor
and so for me in order for me to do that
I had to work in all different genres so
I wanted to explore family movies comedy
action comedy family comedy mixed drama
into as well so that was important to me
which is to get better
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life is too short and I feel like
everyone unit we know the laugh and
understand like you know you’re costly
involved they the copy change is very
popular Brittany couldn’t people of this
is where you can get better and do that
we’re doing a lot better a lot better
you want to have bumps in the world you
want to have things about it that make
you have a hiccup and a question are we
going back but that’s why that’s the
course of life but you know I’m I’m
gonna I’m a positive person I’m a
realistic and positive person so I see
where we are
I’m happy where we are and I know where
we can be in five or ten years where
it’s inconceivable
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early generally I have this thing where
I like beating the Sun up not just in
terms of what something I have to get up
and how do I do it it’s just important
to find balance and I try and do things
really that I really enjoyed doing and a
lot of times you know it’s like in life
right life brings like drama and you got
to deal with this person and your
relationship here is all they think
you’re trying to kind of balance them
out as best I can I got a great team
around me by the way who really really
helps me well and helps me allows for me
to come in and work 12 hours a day 14
hours a day get up at 3 o’clock in the
morning
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me you know what I believe hard work
pays off you know when you say it’s been
it’s been my year it’s my time you know
Hollywood has a way of making everything
seem like holding my success oh my god
where does that come from all this kid
who is he look I’m a star
18 years in the business you know he put
in your 10,000 hours with it I’ll put in
my time you know I got I got dudes that
that have been paid and paid again
payable more time after that I said
she’s not dream and by doing that
eventually became truth
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I’m not cocky I’m so confident I’m
confident of Who I am
I’m confident in the person that I am I
just don’t believe I don’t believe in
change I don’t believe in doing things
to manufacture my body to appeal to what
I think people might like this is that
really a lot of giving there’s my
playing card we’re playing poker I got
to make this hand work yeah this is it
to me and this is what I’m going to
write out so how do you not embrace it
get one like yeah one in one life
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yes I get up there crazy hours whether
it’s three o’clock in the morning by the
way when we’re talking in London I was
reading up to three guys had to be on
set by 4:00 I’m sorry by 7:00 so
whatever time might call climate I tell
this to Studios and directors and our
producers whatever told my call time so
my call times event seven then you back
your clock up four hours and then that’s
when I get up and train twice cardio and
breakfast and I’ll go hit the weights
clanging and banging we call it Jack and
iron
I come from a heavy place even in my
place is dark I’m happy yeah I’m happy
simply because I have no reason to be
angry life is too short to the edges so
the things I do a little certain type of
way about it I may get upset about I let
it out I get our own stage and I allow
her to keep you keep judging and laugh
at and the reason why you’re laughing is
because I’m being honest
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I keep attended forever how happy of a
person I am I can’t express how
inspiring and I guess you’d say
motivated my life and the people around
me are I don’t care how bad how severe
it is after this happened I guarantee
you laughs do not say to yourself I’ve
tried everything at the ball if you
tried everything you have what you want
why I would write everything when I
tried millions of things Million number
them name them
well maybe tens of thousands tens of
thousands name of thousand well maybe
100 name on it well maybe I did these
two things over and over again but don’t
work okay but we start saying I’ve tried
everything we tend to incant that don’t
we we make it an incantation then we
believe it and since we think we’ve
tried everything we just give up
that’s garbage it’s not true hey let me
ask you a question how long would you
give your average baby to learn how to
walk before you shut them off and can
let me try anymore yeah what are you
crazy
like it’s going to keep trying until he
or she walks ah magic formula knowing
almost everything the whole world walks
okay so this is the ultimate success
form that comes down to knowing what you
want why you want to take a massive
action none of it’s working and simply
changing your approach until you get it
that’s it anyone who succeeds does this
and then I call it Robin’s open with the
first one who I guarantee they did it
Anna Coren example Thomas Edison these
lights in here did this guy knows
outcome yes or no yes or no he was
absolutely clear without knowing the
outcome you couldn’t have built that in
million years it didn’t exist before he
had to decide he want to create this
result without the use of candles did he
know why you want to do it you bet you
read his writings this man had a sense
of incredible purpose and drive
did he take massive action yes or no oh
yes tens of thousands of experiments did
he notice what it wasn’t working and
learn from it yes or no they keep
changing his approach that’s why right
now in this room we hold snow
candlelight
right now if you know the old story of
him was written about him early in his
early days if it’s got his best friend
with them he’s doing this experiment and
as he’s doing he faced a small explosion
which shakes the room scares multiple
very very severely and then at the end
of that he gets up and his friend is
totally shaken freaked out he pulled out
his journal he starts writing and his
buddy says to him what’s the matter you
and saying almost killed us you’re gonna
wake them 10,000 failures for you give a
stupid idea up and Addison’s response to
him was I didn’t have failure there you
go that’s your 9000 1999 failure he said
no it’s not he said I discovered the
9999 thwe not cement electrolyte Bowl
but I did discover how to create a small
explosion which may be useful in the
future somewhere else not interesting
right because he understood with
response this one hey did through
Springsteen use this do you think you
just want went out use this gravelly
voice and said a baby born to USA and
everybody went yeah you’re at man that
what happened know what really happened
if you know his story was that all the
agents of evil went to John book was
dead just play the guitar and keep your
mouth shut
your voice is gross sounding it’s
gravelly it’s irritating no one’s gonna
like the stuff keep your mouth shut and
play the guitar but he knew what he
wanted he had all the drive you can
imagine why I wanted took massive action
kept changing his approach so he got
what he wanted how about a slice alone
semester still on rocky rocky story is
there even write applies disputes I was
good friend of mine and when I first met
him years ago listen to my tape some
stuffing bad meal for dinner we started
talking I said you know I’ve heard your
story from other people but I really
love to hear from the horse’s mouth I
don’t know how much is mythology and or
urban myth and how much is true
he told his old story said the essence
of it though was he said he knew his
whole life what you want to do since
it’s very very young he wanted to be in
the movie business period I mean not for
TV movies and he said why was for him it
was a chance to have people not only
escape but to inspire people by the way
that drive is what made most of his
movies inspired people to what they’re
capable to overcome unbelievable
obstacles because in his own life he
felt like he did that when he was born
he’s pulled out by the forceps that’s
why he looked lead in so I talked
deleted and he said so I really want to
do that and he said I knew why I want to
do it I wasn’t willing to settle for
anything out thanks ed what happened was
I wouldn’t have to try and get jobs and
it’s not like I went her dream in what
you yours far it didn’t work out real
well they looked at me and said hey
you’re stupid look and do something else
you know whether the loser cookie will
do this there’s no place for you in that
stuff you’re never going to be a star in
the movies you’re insane no one’s gonna
listen if somebody looks tobe
and box outside of their mouth right and
got no after no after no after now he
said I was thrown out more fifth more
than 1500 times of agents offices in New
York I said one 15-minute agents in New
York I said I know I’ve been on five six
seven eight nine times he said number
one guy I went in there and I got in
there at four o’clock and he wouldn’t
see me so I stayed there and I wouldn’t
know how leave I stayed overnight to him
back that’s what I’m still sitting there
he’s that’s how I got my first job the
guy said fine come in here
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he said the one thing I love most in the
world was my dog he said I love my dog
cause he gave me unconditional love I’m
like my wife and he said so when Apple
was though we were so broke good to
survive I couldn’t even feed my dog so I
went to a liquor store there was the
lowest day of my life and I stood
outside a liquor store trying to sell my
dog to strangers
so try to sell my dog for 50 bucks and
he said to finally there’s one guy
negotiating with me and bought my dog
for me my best friend art for $25 he
said I walked away from there and I
cried he says the worst thing that ever
happened my life he’s a two weeks later
I’m watching a fight between Muhammad
Ali and Wepner and this white guy that’s
getting bludgeoned but just keeps on
coming even though I get the hell beat
out of it and he said I got an idea he
said I soon as the fight ended I started
writing he said I wrote for 20 straight
hours I did not sleep I wrote the entire
movie in 20 hours straight right then
saw the fight wrote the movie whole
thing done he said I was shaking at the
end it was so exciting so I really knew
man I knew what I wanted I knew why I
wanted he said just like he teased out a
formula he said but I said man I took
the action now it’s time to deliver and
so he said I went out started trying to
sell at the agents and they all would
read it and they’d say you know this is
predictable
this is stupid this is sappy he said I
wrote down all the things they said and
I read them the night of the Oscars when
we won it was really good the greatest
revenge is massive success they did so
what happened was he said I have going
to sell it on a cell and there we going
I’m broke I’m starving he said finally I
meet these guys they read it and they
believed in the script and they love it
and they offer me a hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars for my script I
said oh my god he must’ve been out of
your mind
he said I was I said just one thing
though guys you got a deal based on one
thing they said what that he said I got
a star in it they were
we talked about your riders – no no I’m
an actor no no you’re a writer no no I’m
an actor that is my story and I am
rocking that I got to play it you know I
got to be the head person I’ll be the
starring role
there’s no way when I go to $125,000
take some no-name and stick you an
answer our money away we need to start
now and they want to have Ryan O’Neal
play Rocky
give me a picture can you imagine after
they did right and so he says no way
Riedel kneels and rocky I’m Rocky would
you this whole thing right they finally
he said they said we’ll take it or leave
it
he said I left the room I said if that’s
what you believe you don’t get my script
he left here’s the man with no money
none totally broke offered $125,000 won
money seen his lifetime he walked away
because he knew his real life news real
life and why wanted he was committed to
it
so he said they called him a few weeks
later and they came to buy the back and
they offered him a quarter of a million
dollars not the star in his own movie he
turned it down
$250,000 they came back their final
offer three hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars they wanted this thing
he said not without me and they said no
they finally compromised and they gained
him $35,000 and points in the movie
because I said if this is going to
happen that you’re going to take the
risk with us
and the bottom line is we don’t think it
will work for at least one spend a bunch
of money on you and they only spent a
million dollars to make Rocky and it
grows two hundred million dollars
thought I’m just done pretty well but
what’s interesting about this is here is
he I said what you do me even thirty
five dollars it’s not a quarter of a
million I’ve a lot of money when you
don’t have 25 bucks I said what’s the
first thing you did I hear you went out
party to something said I went to that
liquor store for three straight days and
hoped with the man who had my dog
frequented the store because I want to
buy back my dog
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people who succeed in any situation have
a pattern of what they do to succeed and
it doesn’t matter whether that person is
succeeding at a business context on a
relationship context doesn’t matter what
the environment is the fundamental
lessons or laws for succeeding are very
very basic so if we’re looking for the
ultimate successful anger the very first
thing we have is you have to know what
you want which we call no your outcome
you’re going to succeed in anything it’s
hard to succeed hard to hit a target
when you don’t know what it is and as
simplistic as this sound you know see
most people really know what they want
what do you think yes or no at least not
consciously they don’t alright and so
it’s going to be very very difficult to
achieve what you want waited – haven’t
defined it but this is going to become a
question we’re going to want you to ask
yourself a lot what is my outcome in
this situation I even have a time
management system that I developed it’s
really a life management system which we
call opa because the first Oh sounds for
what’s my outcome because you can come
up with a question like what should I do
and you’re going to end up with a long
list but as you do all these things what
will happen is you can cross something
off your list and still be unfulfilled
not really achieve anything that matters
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most of you don’t you put attention to a
small number of things if you could
right now notice what millions of things
you can notice my voice you could listen
to what I’m saying you can notice what’s
going on a background the screens you
could hear the air-conditioning you
could smell your neighbor I’ll call that
jumping up and down notice that right
you can feel the navy little sweat
trickling across your chest or whatever
was going on after all that jumping up
and down you can feel the blood maybe
vibrating or circulating through your
left eardrum but you don’t think about
those things so maybe I mentioned them
or something triggers it so this part of
your brain that’s responsible for
deleting most of our thoughts and most
of the things that are going on around
us that part of our brain you know what
it knows what you want it makes you
notice those things you suddenly see
that car because it’s important it’s
called a reticular activating system you
don’t have to write all the down for
sure it’s called Ras the reticular
activating system tells your brain what
to pay attention to so when you say this
is what I really want that anything that
relates that that you would have noticed
before will start popping up into your
focus and a lot of times people say it’s
amazing I decided this and was kind of
you know synchronicity these things
started popping up all these things are
probably around you before but you never
notice them because you haven’t decided
your outcome
now when you know your outcome you’re
ahead of 95% of population but that’s
not enough that’s not your thing ever
now a lot of times you know your outcome
but you lose your drive you know you
want something but you forget the most
important thing which is know why you
want it know why you want it
you gotta know the purpose in our open
training system people are managing
their lives we haven’t asked what’s my
outcome and then why do I want this
because any person success or really
successful knows exactly what they want
in a wife
the reasoning under why is remember I
said yesterday reasons come first
answers come second giving the reasons
you can get a big enough one you can
figure out how to do about anything but
you got to have purpose because purpose
provides right now if you know what you
want you know why you’re lightyears
ahead of most the population but you got
to go to the step that most people seem
to avoid and that is you got to take
massive what that’s right and the key
word there is massive massive action can
be a cure-all when you know what you’re
after and you know why you want it you
know you’re after when you take action
you won’t just be expending energy
you’ll be moving yourself in the
direction or something you really really
want by the way last night we call
taking massive action personal white
power which means utility take action
and what stops people from taking action
primarily what fear and the way you get
over that fear is what do you think is
the number one fear most people have
failure the reason is they feel if they
fail they won’t be loved
they’ll be rejected they’ll be hurt
they’ll be judged so they really are
afraid of his losing love and they think
that this rejection or should say this
failure will lead to that rejection or
loss of love the truth of the matter is
you can’t fail well as you don’t try you
try something doesn’t work you just
learn from it and that will make you
better the next time you go about it now
if you know your outcome know why you
want and take massive action you’re now
the most small percentile of people on
the planet so what’s the next step
though well you can take a lot of action
and get caught up in a pattern like
become so determinate you became like
tunnel vision like I know this is going
to work and so you keep running east
looking for a sunset with total
certainty a lot of beliefs high
standards still doesn’t work so what you
have to be able to do to succeed so you
don’t get caught up in some old pattern
is you’re going to know what you’re
getting know what you are know what
you’re getting
word we use for this as for sure is we
call it sensory acuity sensory acuity is
the idea that you want to become acutely
sensitive to whether what you’re doing
is working or not you don’t want to just
say okay I know what I want to know what
I want and I’m just going to make it
happen it’s how I’m going to do it you
keep hammering and hammering and
hammering it doing something that
doesn’t work and people do this all the
time right do the same thing over and
over again expecting a different result
that’s called insanity you can’t do the
same thing again and again expect a
different result when you can see it it
doesn’t get the result but we get caught
up in our pattern so we want to get
really sensitized acutely sensitized
sensory acuity to whether what we’re
doing is working or not
and by the way sensory acuity is really
the measure of a person’s intelligence
what I mean by that is how we measure
intelligence intelligence is a measure
of the number and quality of
distinctions you have in a given
situation like for example if you talk
to Eskimos that’s actually not the
politically correct term anymore I guess
it’s in a way you talked in in a way
what we fondly called Eskimos you find
out that in a way have more than a dozen
words for the word snow more than a
dozen now I’m from Southern California
guess how many words I have there’s no
one I don’t see anything it’s called
smell baby right but they got to know
what kind of snow they’re going to make
more refined distinctions to be
effective in the world to get their
outcomes they don’t know what kind of
snow you can build an igloo out of what
kind of snow you can take your dogs
through what kind of snow you can eat
all right what kind of snow you’re going
to fall through so who has more
intelligence who has more power in that
snowy environment the Eskimo army which
one else can know because they have more
sensory acuity they have more refined
distinctions about what each of these
elements mean purrs I to see it as smell
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no matter how much you feel like you’re
prepared for something it never happens
on your time but when you think you’re
ready
it’s supposed to happen it always
happens when it’s supposed to happen
because the period that you feel ready
and people are not acknowledged in the
material the way you feel like this show
because it’s good it’s the timing to
actually develop skin thick enough to
survive and it does work first of all
you have to make sure that this thing is
for you and it’s who you are and you’re
built for this you know and then you
have to give it the passion that’s
necessary you know like I said I don’t
do it for the money the money is going
to come I do it because of the love that
I have for it you know I’m saying if I
was a plumber or something like that I
still would make hip-hop records that’s
how much love I have for it you know I
feel like right now I’ve been in the
game close to 27 years and I’ve actually
thought about this just recently out of
the entire twenty-seven by 27 year
career there’s only been two weeks that
I’ve been out of the studio
I’ve never been out of studio longer
than two weeks in my entire career
that’s how much love I have for this
thing that I do so that’s the thing just
a passion that you have for it and
really really put your all into it and
make sure that your word is the last
word that way you don’t you know you
don’t play the blame game or anything
like that if it comes out hot it’s on
you if it doesn’t come out hot it’s on
you you’re I’m saying that’s all it is
to it
I was reserved and I was shy and had it
in me but wasn’t quite sure how to bring
it out yet I wanted people to hear me so
bad I want to do much it but it was like
you know them jitters and them
scared not scared that whole struggle
and everything especially early on for
me which I love being on stage and stuff
like that once I got a mic I was cold
but it was that prompting needed to do
it and get up there and not be scared to
grab that and just and just cry I feel
like anybody can do anything except
emergency it depends on how bad you
wanted and I wanted to do it you know
it’s a stage of my life I don’t feel
like there’s too much that I can’t do on
media sound cocky but if I really really
want to do it I don’t give up that easy
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everybody shines and different things
and a lot of things I can’t do I can’t
play basketball like every other black
person in America but I can act I’m not
a go to that shoe spider myself because
I’m there every day I can be me I can be
whoever because I’m to me I can go to
new so even a lot of people black white
Mexican young or old fat or skinny have
a problem being cancer itself they have
a problem looking in the mirror and
looking directly into their own souls
the reason I fell six million records
the reasons not to go to jail and come
out without a scratch who’s not to walk
around or even I am lying today that I
can look directly into my face and find
my soul there’s not sold I didn’t sell
it still within you still feeling my
heart still connected to my body
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there’s nothing that can actually
compare to one is right what it feels
like when it is right music is just dead
right and it’s like that energy is dead
manual that’s all suspicion kind of hot
it can get addicted to and you chase it
for the rest of your actual career when
you feel like feeling what is your first
album second out and third album just a
single there’s a lot of artists have a
career long enough for one song you know
but we’ll feel what that feeling is you
ain’t gonna replace it you know will you
make music you got to please yourself
you know that’s the only way you’re
gonna continue to drive yourself you’re
doing this for so long
and if you don’t agree or like what you
know the type of records that’s you know
being made no saw the stores you can
walking we understand we do this for the
people that’s in line when we pull up to
the vendors we do this for the for the
fans that was love that was standing in
line last night a self-made through
Steven comes me and those are the
targets you know the other one
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the first time I grabbed the mic like
though like in front of actual people
that mattered you know Stanley get it at
a club I got boo remember that scary
traumatically secret to my longevity I
think is the fact that I’m a
perfectionist you know and I listen to
everybody they know I mean even RD I
listen to classical music sometime I
listen to heavy matter I just listen to
everything you know and really I listen
to you know the stuff that’s not selling
you know it’s easy to pick up a hit
record and know what people are buying
I’m not going to sit inside of a
corporation for 20 years the time is now
the time is now to express and for
people to believe in themselves the time
is now for it to be okay to be great
people in this world shutting people for
being great for being a bright color for
standing out but the time is now to be
okay to be the greatest you
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you know when when they see me they know
that every day when I’m breathing it’s
for us to go far you know every time I
speak I want to keep to come on you know
every time I speak I want to ship you
know I don’t want them to be like they
know what I’m going to say cause it’s
polite they know what I’m going to say
it even if I get in trouble you know I’m
saying that ain’t that what we’re
supposed to do it’s I’m not saying I’m
gonna rule the world or I’m going to
change the world but I guarantee that I
will spark the brain that will things
were and that’s our job is to spark
somebody else watching us we might not
be the one but let’s not be selfish and
because we’re not gonna save the world
let’s not talk about how we should a lot
of things but I know if I keep talking
about how dirty it is out here
so am I gonna clean it up you know
you’re going to love me you’re going to
hate me but I’m a dealing like always
with anything you’ve got to take the
good today you know
I don’t ever feel the responsibility to
impress people with with my music I do
feel like I gotta get in I do
do my music to the best of my ability
you know I feel like I’m my worst critic
you know if if I’m not digging it
the critics out there can basically like
kiss my ass straight up because they
know nothing about what goes into this
they’re just people with a nine-to-five
know just following my heart really
everything that I’ve really done up at
this point was something that you know
something I really you know something I
really had love or passion yeah because
if it’s lifestyle I feel like you know
we’re gonna win that another man at this
you know fashion is this you know
something to deal with you know because
we give a lot of Gabby this way
I think one of my greatest inspirations
were things that our feed off of
basically was just obviously people not
believing and you know the cloud of
doubt that kind of I felt hung over my
head and wanted to just prove everybody
wrong you know I mean I wanted to make
it when I was going to make it
regardless of what anybody said
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I think people are limited because
they’re very well influenced by people
that surround them or people that’s in
the ladies you know you see somebody
criticizing something you’re not going
to do that you know I’m saying I don’t
think like that I’m only going to do
what I like
you know I had to convince myself that
I’m going to make it you know regardless
to how people felt at that time and what
it does is it makes you feel like what
made me feel like there’s going to be
points that people don’t mistake my
confidence for arrogance because I’ve
had they don’t understand the process on
it and how much I had to believe in
myself in order to make these things
happen I kind of I felt you can will
yourself so good scary things are meant
to happen will and you’re believing
yourself enough you can help yourself
learn you can inspire yourself in
different ways we can actually
discipline yourself
you know to the point that you can
become good enough like from 97 like
when I started writing it was full-time
everyday I’m frightened because I had no
choice if I was gonna stop puffing and
then how was I going to provide or
create continue the lifestyle that I
created for my son’s mom my son and
myself
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