Episode 372 "Promotors Part 2"

Episode 372 - “Promotors Part Two” Feat: Ferrari Simmons & You Know BT Produced by: Baller Alert

Topics Include: Response To Criticism, DJs, Promotors, Venues, Clubs

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
They get a list called me broadcasting live from Atlanta, Georgia,
Walking to the ball or show.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I go by the name of Ferrari.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I go by the name you know, Big T dream.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
K by building into the show, fellas, you had a
lot to talk about.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Singing Yeah, because you called me.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
He was in this episode.

Speaker 5 (00:28):
Is here.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Roy saying you know what, bring your ass on the
show since you got something to say.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
No, you literally stopped.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
We stopped.

Speaker 6 (00:36):
We was doing, we was talking to you. But before
we start, I have a lot of respect for you
three brothers. I want you to and it briefly, as
briefly as you can. Introduce yourself and tell him what
you do. If you own, talk about what club you own,
and if you promote, talk.

Speaker 7 (00:51):
About what you promote for show. I go by the
name of Dream. What that is my name? Name Dream?

Speaker 8 (00:55):
I go by certified Dream. I represent the North side
of Atlanta. The owner of Dreams at L started as
a promoter, been rocking out here in Atlanta for twelve
years now and made a lot of people a lot
of money.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
So I decided to open up my own You always
and he with my camera. He pays on time.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
He definitely.

Speaker 6 (01:19):
Right yeah, it's gonna be some fives and tens in that,
but you.

Speaker 7 (01:24):
Know, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Oh man, uh K Bachi partner with Sauce Buckhead n
barat Lounge on Auburn Avenue brand curation over twenty years,
experience in nightlife, entertainment, clubs, festivals, reality, television, radio.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know, man, did it all?

Speaker 6 (01:46):
I like to say with you, we have synergy because
we kind of came up at the same time.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:51):
It was literally at the time it was only three
hosts four. It was Kenny Burns, Obi the promoter, me
and you.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, that's it. I actually was thinking
about that.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
You came. What was that first liquor deal we had?

Speaker 7 (02:05):
What was it?

Speaker 5 (02:05):
Hennessy?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
No, it was before Hendersy. What something else?

Speaker 7 (02:08):
Bro?

Speaker 6 (02:08):
What's the long word post some type of vasia or
some ship like that.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Actually, Cavosit for me came after Hennerson.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
My first thing was was Hennessy.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
So we did do Hennessy. Okay, we did?

Speaker 7 (02:20):
Okay, Okay.

Speaker 9 (02:21):
Sure some time, uh J atl been promoting prayer probably
surprisingly like fifteen years, Bro. I got to see Atlanta
really like I went from teen parties to eighteen to
kind of under people to leading things like Manchin the
line on Friday and seeing all those developed and now

(02:42):
I'm kind of doing my own thing and really bringing
Atlanta back into what it was then. You know, don't
you got a big as billboard in the city, show
a couple of couple of billboards.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I really be on the you know, the BMF type, Yeah,
Gorilla market.

Speaker 7 (02:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
And then Finn to open a spot on Edge with a.

Speaker 6 (02:59):
Hey, Okay, you're You're very important to the fabric of
the culture of Atlanta because you do the parties that
you do. I feel like they're still parties. We'll get
into this, We'll get into this in the conversation. But
I feel like everybody want to get fucked up at Joe.
A lot of people, a lot younger. And what do
you want to do when they go out? They want

(03:19):
to turn up dance.

Speaker 7 (03:22):
They don't care about no sections.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
They don't care about no section and the sections are
damn their cheapest. Fuck.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Until later on or left. I was like, wait, okay,
so go.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Ahead BT all right, So mister l BATCHI, what do
you have to say?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
What What was the part of the interview that you
did not like or discipline.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Listen, let me say this first and foremost, I'm not
I'm an equal opportunity when it comes I'm an equal
opportunitist when it comes to, you know, giving people they
flowers and the things that they do in our business.
And I've known you guys for a long time. I've
seen both of you develop, you know what I'm saying,
respectfully into your craft and you know kind of how
many your skills and you know, year after year continue

(04:04):
to elevate. But I guess the the issue that I
had is that when I was watching certain interviews, I
kept hearing like the same sentiment, like it kept going
back to the promoter, as if like for one reason
or another, we were kind of like the issues like
whether it was the DJs, whether it was the owners.
Remember y'all had my older brother on here with shout

(04:24):
out my bro batching long story by the name Abe
and Biddy, and so you know, I watched that dope interview.
It kicked off the conversation, and then after that you
had the DJs, and then from there it was the
Penny Lane Sugar she and the other young lady, and

(04:47):
I kind of kept hearing like a similar storyline, like
everybody has their experiences. And I remember thinking back there
was this it's this age old argument. It happens like
once a year on you know, social media. Definitely who's
more important the only the promoter or the DJ And
then the answer would be, well, when the dj unplugs
the music, then there is no party, And I'm like,

(05:08):
how you get to that point? And so yeah, like listening,
and to be perfectly honest, I hate the term promoter
because it's so much more to the business and the
skill set in which we bring to the table to
just be simple labeled as a promoter. Yes, we do
promote the event, but in its essence, we're curators, you
know what I'm saying, We're creatives, and so I think

(05:29):
I agree with that. I think sometimes the position in
which we play, don't we don't get our just due,
you know what I'm saying. And I think over time,
me being from it, you know, from the city. I'm
from College Park, south Side, born and raised here, although
you know my parents are African, but having seen the
city transition through so many errors, the content has always

(05:49):
been the need for promotion. I don't care how big
the DJ is, I don't care how pot in the
club is, because we all know in here clubs have
a very short shelf life. You might get five year run.
But guess what I can always do as a curating,
as a promoter for your shit slow down, I'm gonna
go to the next spot. We're gonna turn this spot up.
And when that, you know, you you lose your look

(06:11):
of license that don't follow me, I'm gonna go to
the next spot. And so we develop and build a
fan base in the audience that follows us because we bring,
you know, a certain level of quality quality to the event,
and I think sometimes it gets lost and in all
of the bs that people tend to talk about, what
struck me particularly that made me even get my Twitter

(06:31):
fingers going is like, and I'm gonna say this because
I don't know how y'all gonna try to edit this up,
but like, I have no issues when nobody. I love everybody, man.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Say what you want to say.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
It was like I overheard the DJ saying, oh, then
the promoter, I'll try to tell you, you know, to do
this and and play like that, and I'm like, yo,
at the end of the day, I've I don't think
more people have hired promoters than what we were doing
when I was doing Bookerloo. You know what I'm saying.
I did Boogoloo for ten years and we had a
five DJ rotations.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Every Sunday, y'all, two on this side.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
One Sunday you had like twenty people, you see what I'm.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
Saying that, And it was just going back and forth.
So we would have three on the main side, two
on the other side. And so I'm gonna study this
shit because you know, this is how you know what
I'm saying, This is how to take care of my folks.
And and I would look at and be like, Yo,
half the time, the DJ y'all not even paying attention
to the crowd. You know what I'm saying. I'm not
saying every DJ, but a lot of DJs they're so
consumed within themselves, like Yo, stick your head up, put

(07:29):
the hookah tip down, put your drink down, and look
at the crowd. Nobody's bobbing their head but you. So
I have to understand, like, when it comes to hiring
the DJ, who am I going to pick that that
makes sense to the crowd that I'm bringing in I
know my crowd better than you do for sure.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
So I want to I want to give them some time.

Speaker 9 (07:46):
So my thing we're speaking on DJs, I just feel
like the DJ nowadays is either you cloud chasing or
you money hungry. And it's a certain circle of DJs
that are you know, they don't do that, and that's
who that's who we're gonna hire forever.

Speaker 7 (08:02):
Real.

Speaker 9 (08:03):
It's not about the price, it's not It's about yo.
If I I book a DJ, right, we're gonna go
on a run. We're gonna do this party. We might
be six months in next thing.

Speaker 8 (08:12):
I know.

Speaker 9 (08:13):
Man, he on tour with such and such that happens.
They don't think about, Oh well, what about Shanika that's
gonna be twirking in the front row. She can't talk
to my music no more? What about Jamorrow? Who gotta
Now I gotta find a new DJ. And guess what this?
I can continue the same thing or they money hug
you where. But it's one o'clock and I'm hearing Joe
blow from down the street music because he done d

(08:35):
M you and now he done paid you five hundred
a week to play his music. Yeah, bro, so like
I don't think they understand like you know, we care
about it. It's not about like, oh, I'm I'm gonna
take who's who's burning who or who's gonna cut this.
It's like nah, Bro, it's just about who's gonna stay
consistent because you're gonna have your off nights.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (08:54):
I don't expect Lebron or nobody go out there and
drop forty every game, but I expect consistency.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Bro.

Speaker 9 (09:00):
Right, if I'm if I'm feeling on the sideline, I
need you to be Jordan in the in the club, Bro,
that's it. And if you're not gonna be Jordan, okay, cool,
I gotta guess what, Bro, I gotta go find another one.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
And that's it.

Speaker 9 (09:11):
And then when you find another one, that's when they
get to, oh, you want to hire somebody because they cheap,
or you want to hire this something now, Bro, Like
you said, I want to have somebody that's looking at
the crowd or cares about it, somebody that before they
text the Knicks, before you take the Knicks booking the
next dollar, You're like, dang, I built over there, let
me you know, let me be lawyered over here for sure, that's.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
It, and not looking at it like just to check too.

Speaker 8 (09:31):
That exactly My thing with the d With just elaborating
on DJs is that like everybody plays a part.

Speaker 7 (09:39):
It's like the inside of a clock.

Speaker 8 (09:40):
If you open the clock up, it's big gadget, small gadget,
but no, the clock cannot move without every gadget working,
you know what I mean. So DJ's for my problem
is this is my party. I don't care who club
this is. This is my party. I took a lot
of time to put this event together to make sure
that not just the DJs happy and the owner is

(10:00):
happy about making money. But when people come there, they
come and they release the stress that they're going through
throughout the day.

Speaker 7 (10:07):
That's what my brand stands for, Party with Certified Dreams.

Speaker 8 (10:09):
When people come to my events, they come there they
just had death, they just had divorces, they just lost babies,
and all.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Kind of crazy.

Speaker 8 (10:17):
On the flip side, they could be celebrating, and when
they come in there, they forget about everything that's going
on on the outside world because because the way I
make them feel, I'm the type of promoter that I
literally speak to everybody. If I can't end the venue.
That's just how I am. I speak to people. I
told you, hey, my name is dream I from the part.
I appreciate you coming out.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know too much.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
We're gonna talk about that for sure.

Speaker 7 (10:38):
But that's just me, you know what I'm saying. That's
just me.

Speaker 8 (10:41):
So it's like when the DJ come in there and
get to play other artists music and all of this
type of stuff, and then when I go there and
I ask them, ay man, can you play the song?

Speaker 7 (10:49):
And then I gotta wait ten songs for them to
play a song.

Speaker 8 (10:52):
Like I pay you respectfully, like for these for these
two hours.

Speaker 7 (10:56):
You work for me like I'm your boss. You get
what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (10:59):
So, like I need need you to assist me in
doing what I need to do to execute my party
the way I want to execute it, not the way
you want to execute it. Put the hookah down, like
you see it just DJing like this with headphones on.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
You don't know what's going on.

Speaker 8 (11:11):
You're playing a song thinking it's lit, and the crowd's
just sitting down, nobody's sweating, nobody's dancing.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah, a lot of DJ they're paying attention to the crowd.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I would like to insert. Man, that's why I loved
working for AG.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
You couldn't do that for sure. It was a whole
bunch of structure. I'm not saying anyone lacks structure, right.
It was a communication chain to what we were doing.
Matter of fact, I can remember me and DJ Ace
we were doing Prevail on Friday. I will talk to
him at seven pm that night about what we were
going to do that night because we had such and
such coming that night, and then we're gonna play some

(11:43):
new shit. That shit gonna be like towards the end
of the night. It ain't gonna be prime time or
close to prime time. I'm only saying this because I
feel like because I am a DJ, a host, whatever,
and those are my guys. But you guys are my
guys too. Where do you guys think the disconnect is
between the DJ, the promoter, and the owner. Where do

(12:03):
you guys do the keyword disconnect? What do you guys die?

Speaker 8 (12:07):
I get a lot of Yeah, I get a lot
of kickback when I go to the DJ and be like, hey,
switch it up, turn up a little bit more.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
It look at me like, who the hell are you? Like? Yo? Bro?

Speaker 8 (12:17):
Like the people ain't partying right now, Like turn up
or go Caribbean, Like you've been playing trap all night,
You've been playing TWK music all night. Give me some Caribbean,
give me some Afro beat, like make people have fun.
This isn't just about boom boom boom, boom boom the
whole time.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
I think a big part of it is everybody doesn't
recognize the event as part of a business for sure,
you know what I'm saying. Like, I know, for me,
coming up, we and I'm probably well, we might be
around the same age group, but I know, like I
started in high school and then went on to college.
So for me, it was like it was a hobby
that turned into a hustle that manifested into a career.

(12:53):
So everybody didn't have that same pathway, so they don't
view it as the same thing. Like some people just like, yeah,
I got a regular nine to five, I do this
on the weekends, you know what I'm saying. But no,
I take care of a lot of people doing this
thing that I do. So it's like you have to
respect it and treat it like a business because when
you do that, you have a different level of appreciation.
So if I'm the curator of the event. You don't

(13:15):
know what I put into getting these one hundred people
on this side of the club. These three hundred people
are getting these people on this couch, you know what
I'm saying. And to the DJ, they may feel like, Yo,
you're not the DJ. Let me do what I do.
You hide me for a reason, understandably so. But part
of that reason is to ensure that when I was

(13:35):
sitting in my room trying to come up with this theme,
this gimmick, this idea or putting this celebration together, I
had you in mind, but you are a part of it.
You're not the whole thing, right, And then you have
the owner that feels like, well, I pay the bills,
you did, you know what I'm saying. So I needed
to go the way I wanted to go, because when
y'all leave, I'm still stuck here. And I think if

(13:58):
everybody had the same idea, like, yo, how do we
officially run this business? Because it's I've met some very
very super intelligent people in this line of work and
they could have ran fortune five hundred companies and did
a whole lot of other things. You know what I'm saying,
but treating it like a business and not like a
hobby or a hustle. I think in part that's where
you start to see the disconnect.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, disconnected me.

Speaker 9 (14:19):
I'm gonna I'm gonna say pride and self awareness too,
but I'm gonna take it a step further, just from
what I see on my end.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Of stuff, uh age.

Speaker 9 (14:30):
I don't think a lot of people realize, Like I
don't know, they say, like parties are dead or stuff
like that. But the problem is, it's not that parties
are dead. It's the fact people socialize different. You don't
realize when they was gonna shut down TikTok, but we
we've seen it on every news site every It was
really like CNN is talking about yeah, but CNN is
like just.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Shutting out time out your flyers.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Bro. Yeah, I'm gonna take the risk. I always know when.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
I saw any type of trending topicad.

Speaker 9 (15:14):
Respect, but now, like, people socialize different, bro, And I
feel like, but you might have DJs that can he
might drop a jerk set and this you know, he's
flipping the club. He might drop A young boy said,
then you got a DJ that will play straight TikTok songs.
That you might not know what the hell going on,
but the owner over there like the fuck is this?
But the crowd enjoy it, and the promoter depends on

(15:34):
his age, is like yo, what like what's going on?
So when I say age like to me, it's kind
of like I keep going back to basketball teams, but
you ever realized, like when the Warriors was winning or
the Calves was winning, They're like, okay, see now they
got a chemistry. I feel like your best like promoter
DJ on the combo, it's people who hang out outside
of that. You know what, I'm done, We're done with

(15:56):
the club. Cool, We're gonna hit We're gonna hit the
club together. Guess what, talking to the same women, we
know what they're into. We listen to the same shows
that we're taking in the reaction to other people. And
now that we all like we kind of living life
the same, bro, we know what type of event we
going into. Absolutely, And then when you got that chemistry
outside of the workplace, that's when they're affixed inside of
the workplace.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
You brother, listen, you're going crazy.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
I mean, it takes a certain level of pride in
your craft to really you know what I'm saying, like,
want to give it that type of attention. Like I
used to tell certain owners all the time, It's like,
if this is your night club, or your venue, your
event space, whatever it is. If you in this bitch
five to seven days a week, what time do you
have to go anywhere else to support any other establishment

(16:40):
and see the type of vibe that they got outside
of looking on Instagram?

Speaker 2 (16:44):
You know what I'm saying, Like, got to be a
student of the game.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
I had an owner that I had a long relationship with.
I used to tell them that all the time. I'm like, Bro,
the one time in the blue moon that you go
out with me. You get upset when people don't roll
out the red carpet, But Bro, they don't know you
for sure. You in the house, the house meaning your club.

Speaker 8 (16:59):
Right.

Speaker 5 (16:59):
So as a as a curator, as a promoter, I
might hit four or five spots in the city in
your week. So I gotta report with everybody from the
valet to the bouncer, to the to the service you
know what I'm saying, The service crew, the boller girl,
the damn barback. We built that relationship. But you you're
you're stagging it and staying in your place, so you
don't understand like the nuances that may come. I'll say this,

(17:22):
I remember at a point in time, me and day
They used to do parties back in the day together
and shout out to day They and I remember like
we had the libra going crazy at a point in time.
And this is still in between, like you know, we
about to leave college, is still in college. And I
remember a group of promoters came and they started doing
dollar parties and we was like, what are you doing?

(17:45):
Line down eight blocks and we're like yeah, cause this
shit is free, you know what I'm saying. But for
us it was like we this is how we get money.
So when they came and changed the game, like everything
switched and now free getting into the club became like
the new thing. But I say that to say, have
we not been around to kind of see that, then
we understand it, like damn, why twenty dollars at the

(18:07):
door ain't working no more? Why forty dollar vip ain't
working no more? Because this is a younger generation, they
probably can't afford a twenty or forty. They got a buck,
they got a five, and so now we're like, damn,
that's the energy, and you know, Instagram wasn't popping at
the time, so yeah, it's it's Twitter's Facebook. Oh you
know this this is live over here, Like we need

(18:27):
to switch it up and so like you know, and
I put this, you know on the owners is like
you have to kind of take your pride and ego
out of it and be willing to go be continue
to be a student at the game and go to
other places.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
And then they got to travel more.

Speaker 7 (18:39):
He was rocky.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
You could tell about how clubs look.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
They don't travel no where everybody because.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
It's like and it's the same person building every club.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Too.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, I'm over here, Like you could.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Tell the person that's building a club, he don't travel
no where because if you go to different cities, I'm like, oh, man,
like you you might go to a club in Miami.
You might talk to and they're like, man, would you
get this idea to build this?

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (19:09):
Man?

Speaker 3 (19:09):
I went through I partied and Belieze or somewhere, and
I saw the lights and I was figuring out how
they got those lights, and I'm taking it back to
where I'm going.

Speaker 9 (19:17):
I'm like, oh, that's how you build something.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
That's me.

Speaker 8 (19:22):
I go to venues, and I literally just stare at
things all day long, you know what I mean. My
shorty asks me like what are you looking at? Like
why are you always touching stuff? I'd be walking down
the hallway touching.

Speaker 7 (19:33):
Why to the ceiling? Or why is this is like
this this like that.

Speaker 8 (19:37):
But like what Bacha was saying, shout out to my manager,
you got to have a good team as an owner
to leave your venue and go to other establishments. So
like my manager Bubba will always tell me, like, go
be dream you know what I'm saying, Like, go be dreams.
So every night I make sure I go out. I
go to Jamari parties, you know what I mean. I
probably myself to Bachi like five times, Like hey, I'm dreaming,

(19:59):
right Like man, I know ways saying that.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (20:03):
I don't want to boogerloo. I don't want to mansion.

Speaker 8 (20:04):
I don't went to every club and patronize it and
pairs a customer. You know what I mean, to see
how they move and what's hot, what's not hot, What
DJs is hot, what DJs is not good?

Speaker 7 (20:14):
What promoters is good? Who I can work with? Who
I want to be Like because.

Speaker 8 (20:17):
Every everybody wants to be like someone, regardless of how
hard people say.

Speaker 7 (20:21):
You know, I did this on my own. I'm self made.

Speaker 8 (20:23):
It's somebody that influenced you, was influential to you to
make you follow the trend.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
You know what I'm saying, A GS top of the list.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (20:34):
You got people like batch you that's in the reality
world that can bring these top notch people to evenues
the top of the line, as I would say, ballers.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 8 (20:45):
Men and women with money. You got Jamari that you
can go. You want you want to see a crazy
college crowd.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
You want to you want to see the line wrapped around?

Speaker 1 (20:56):
How did he get that line?

Speaker 4 (20:58):
Like?

Speaker 7 (20:58):
What is doing guys? Study the games?

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Study the game? Oh no, no, I had a question.
What club do you guys?

Speaker 8 (21:07):
Miss?

Speaker 6 (21:08):
That is no longer here?

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Man, Look, I could go first.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
When we go first, I miss Velvet Room telling my age.
But let me tell you why when you walked in
Velvet Room. First of all, you couldn't even get to
the DJ both it was a big ass plexiglass. You
had to do sign and say I want to hear,
and then big ass dance floor and the VIP was

(21:34):
up out the way and it was small. That's what
everybody did, danced and they had an early crowd.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
I missed that ship. I missed the early crowd, and
then I missed being a y n and being in
the parking lot.

Speaker 7 (21:48):
Nigga.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
The parking lot was crazy.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
Sometimes if you didn't have the bread.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
You could chill in the parking lot.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
I got my first piece of atl ass And for
me and the motherfucker in the parking lot.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
I'm too young to get inside that motherfucker.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
I'm vel if I shoot, I'm gonna say.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (22:06):
Mansion, which used to be dreams Ats, Yes, originally everybody
got trying, but yeah, for Mansion, I think it was
more like that was right in the era of like
dance floor was still lit, yes, but but hookers were
now coming into.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
A place and slowly creeping was started.

Speaker 9 (22:32):
Kind of gotta get sections because I want to sit down.
But the dance floor still lit, but you still the
VP was up, was up, yeah, so you could still like,
I don't know, you still see who was on the floor.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
You might go mingle with somebody now, but just straight sections.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
That was Drake and it was to look down upon
at that time, to like feel like not being in
Like yeah, you go the Mansion and you're like, I
don't want no sections.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
I can hit the bar exactly. And then the time
that Mansion was lit with just like it was like
an explosion for Atlanta.

Speaker 7 (23:02):
Bro.

Speaker 9 (23:02):
Every artist was was was coming out and it was like, damn,
bro and everybody. Now it's like and this is why now,
like domain, you know what I'm saying, That's what I
do on Fridays now. But you're starting to see that
resurgence again, like we're booking artists that the twin one
that market probably has no idea who they are, but
they packing this ship two thousand plus people and it's like, damn,

(23:23):
but we're finally getting the resurgence again of Atlanta artists
and just ra.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Making people. History repeats history always, and then you.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Age that a little bit Thay.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
On Thursday.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Thursday.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
Then niggas, I think.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
So yours was magic.

Speaker 6 (23:57):
That's tough, because come on, bro, you gotta make a
decision eras changed.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
Okay, So if I got a pick between two, I'm
saying Mansion for my era before they start doing the
college night and club Miami Brooah.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Park Lite for show.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
Because here's the thing about it, Like when you think
of when you break down like what night life was
at a certain time, right, it's the music and the erasure,
and so I really wanted to say liber but that's
another story. But when you think of the eras of
the music, right, it was like when during that Club
Miami time, I felt like that's when Atlanta was creating

(24:36):
that identity partying, right because we had the trap era,
you know what I'm saying, Like when Tip jumped out there,
when Jeez jumped out, when was doing this thing. But
as we get to Club Miami, now we're thinking, like
Travis Porter, you know what I'm saying, that's still in
my college days. And so seeing that it was in

(24:58):
Club Miami wasn't big and that was a beautiful thing
about it, right because that shit felt so intimate and
personal on a party level.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
But then with it was DJ.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Who's the DJ at Miami days?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Go ahead, they'll keep going, I'm gonna find it.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
But even some of those guys, right, they weren't doing
like the big, big nightclub. They weren't doing the compounds
in the velvet room. So It's like you had that
niche of people where if it was three hundred people
in this bitch like we was having the time with
Mansion prior to the eighteen and up. I think one
of y'all mighty said it wasn't no sections, you know
what I'm saying. And honestly, that was probably the club

(25:36):
that really really stamped me as being the host and like, yo,
we can have fifteen hundred people in this bitch and
they rocking, whether it was celebrity in there or not.
This is taking your shirt off and stand on top
of the country, you know what I mean. So for me,
I felt like that that era of people really really
partying and not caring too much about sections because you
got a dance for that can hold seven hundred to

(25:57):
eight hundred people.

Speaker 8 (25:58):
Like when we lost, we lost a big part of
So you know, I'm from the North, so I can't
I've been to these clubs. I've never been in the
Velvety Room. I never been to Club Miami definitely mentioned
the line, you know what I mean. But for me
on the North, it was a club called Pink Flamingo.
Hey one time, yeah, for show, So like that's when

(26:21):
like you had the unit. You had Ray g Charlie
Brown and all them guys, you know what I mean
for show, so.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Like Joseph and.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
That Joseph Final, the first one one, Yeah, the original original.

Speaker 8 (26:35):
But I started Pink Formingos where we ain't even had
no sections in there, you know sections, but we probably
hold like six hundred people, you know what I mean.
And that was the first party that the North welcomed
me to, you know what I mean. I took it
over when Crazy it was Dreaming the dream Girls. But
that's when we had like when the Migos was just
some of these young niggas in the North and I

(26:56):
was running the party. You had the Migos, you had
Michael Montana, the boys, Q yeah, Q, you know what
I mean. You had Sony Digital, you know, all them
guys on the North Side. So like Pink Famingo was
the stamp for the North Side far as you know
from my from my era. I heard it was something
called blue Cheese before then. But I don't know about

(27:16):
blue che either, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (27:17):
So, but Pink Famingo was it.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
This is.

Speaker 7 (27:21):
It was unpleasant Hill.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
I mean, I think the party and the club that
I missed the most is saloon on Sunday, damn. Yes,
but the early saloon, the early okay, so the saloon
when it was, when it was when it was a
mixed crowd, when I when I got there, it was

(27:43):
when I got there was a number of white people
in that national show. And then I remember, I said,
I went there one Sunday. I said, Who's who's the
promoter of this today?

Speaker 4 (27:51):
It's like, oh, is this guy? I said, hey man,
you gotta be yeah, no, no, it was. It was
it was Kenny and I forgot.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
The you say, he like like I don't know what
he did, Like yeah, yeah, he shouldn't have sold the
club because he I don't know where he at now.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
But anyway, I went.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
I went up to Kenny. I said, hey, man, you
got you got a good party early the early day.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
When it was nothing but white people throwing napkins like
you would be black and you're been there, like this
is what the hell.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Is going on?

Speaker 1 (28:18):
You playing hip hop music a little bit?

Speaker 7 (28:20):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Yeah, it was it was mostly em music.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
But anyways, I went up to the promote I said, man,
you got a good party, but it sucked and he
was like.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
He was like, what the fu you mean? Like this
ship packed out.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
I was like, man, I know what you're trying to do,
but you lack flavor. Let me let me, you know,
get integrated in here and show you what you could
do with it.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
And he was like all right.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Bet So they had like one guy, some host he
was He was so bad. I said, Bro, this dude
should never talk on the mic again.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
He did the sound that's why.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, yeah, he did the sad and I ain't know
that Bunck and saloon.

Speaker 7 (28:52):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Nobody cared.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah, but because nobody drinking. Nobody cares because they don't.
They don't even know they like drinks.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Early early a regular bar, it was no section to
have a DJ.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
It was people. People would fight.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
People would literally fight over to get a little round
table to like like you know what I'm.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Saying, Napkin wars or after it was napkins, but it
was no Napkin Wars.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
See what people A lot of people don't understand.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
It was like.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
It was to cleanse your ears.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, like it was straight.

Speaker 6 (29:27):
It was straight like ed music, Sunday, this, this, this, Yeah,
you gotta go cleanse your ears out real quick. To
hear some different ship about you gotta may have a
business meeting with somebody.

Speaker 7 (29:39):
That of lights and people jumping around.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
That's that's that's how it used to be.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
And like was it was good for me because I
would get introduced to like ed M artists that was
big because they was booking like Miley Cyrus sister, you know,
Brody Jenner from this reality show.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
And then they were like, pull up on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
And I I'll be like, They'll be going crazy, and
I'm like, damn, So I'm getting relationship with these people.
So now I'm going to Vegas and I'm hitting these
ed M DJs and I'm going, you know, getting.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Introduced to a whole different crowd.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Of people, you know what I'm saying. And I was like, damn, man,
this is what Atlanta was missing. So then when I
started bringing the celebrities in and stuff like that, and
the ship.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Would just go viral. But now everybody does you know,
how Atlanta do you do? One thing?

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Everybody?

Speaker 4 (30:28):
People don't even know what napkins Throwing napkins originated from.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
It's a lot of it's a lot of things that
I love about the city, but it's a it's a
lot of ship that like I just was never a
fan of. It was too much monkey see monkey dude.
Social Media played a big part in that, because now
you don't have to be creative, you know what I'm saying,
Like I can go and well not me, but somebody
can go online, Oh and see what this this person's doing. Damn,
I'm gonna do something like that. And it never happened

(30:54):
war and it watered It just waters the brand down
for everybody.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Now, now now think about this.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
What experience it are you gonna get if you go
If you go somewhere on a Monday, right, and you
go somewhere on Tuesday, and it's the same party I
looked at. I saw in Houston they got a thing
where they shoot like basket basketball.

Speaker 8 (31:13):
You make the shot, you get a nineteen forty two.
If you miss it, you gotta buy nineteen forty.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Now imagine it.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Now, Look imagine if you started doing that at your club.
Everybody in Atlanta would do it. It's sad for sure, everybody.
But there's only one club in Houston that I see
on Instagram that doesn't. Nobody else Inston does.

Speaker 7 (31:32):
It for sure for show for Shure, and they don't
see it, But this weekend I was.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I'm about to say I was. I was in Houston
this weekend.

Speaker 7 (31:39):
Two.

Speaker 9 (31:40):
Houston is like, I don't want to say it's Atlanta
on steroids, but it's twenty sixteen Atlanta on steroids. Twenty
sixteen Atlanta is like, yeah, before niggas had to be cool, Yeah,
now you gotta.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
I gotta buy a section. You ever said you ever?

Speaker 7 (31:54):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (31:54):
I want you to go in the club, won't you
pay attention? Right to do? When niggas get their bottles
and they climbing on the sections.

Speaker 9 (31:58):
It's almost as if niggas, Bro, Bro, we get in
the club and damn near play tetris of trying to
stand on the highest point we can in the club.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
It's like this niggas not no couchit.

Speaker 9 (32:09):
I'm gonna go to the back of the count This
nigga standing on the bar ship, I'm gonna hang from
the goddamn the ceiling.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
It's like, Bro, why we gotta be cool?

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Get the fuck down what Houston got, bro? Houston has
a lot of working class people.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
Yes, that's what.

Speaker 9 (32:23):
And when they go out, Bro, I go hit the bar,
I hit the dance floor. I don't got about that section. Okay,
you buying this ship.

Speaker 7 (32:30):
That's on you.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
I'm still cooling being me, bro. We not cooling being us. Bro.

Speaker 9 (32:33):
That that's that's where the boiled down to. It's even
how niggas socialized.

Speaker 7 (32:37):
Bro.

Speaker 9 (32:37):
You know why niggas was scared of TikTok shinned down
because you gotta be too cool and rich for Instagram.
So nigga's like, Bro, TikTok, I could be myself and
that's what that's that's where parties went to. You could
no longer be It's okay to go to that bar
and order that. I'm really sour blue motherfucker whatever you
want to drink.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Bro, It's okay.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Bro.

Speaker 7 (32:55):
I love when I go out of town.

Speaker 8 (32:57):
When I go to town and it's just like me
my lady, Like I really just go to the bar,
like because in Atlanta, you just gotta beat.

Speaker 7 (33:04):
You just gotta do so much.

Speaker 8 (33:05):
And if you don't do it, if I don't have
a section, if I go to a regular right, give
me anything. I go to Rose Bar and I'm at
the bar, nigga walking and be like dreaming at the bar,
fell off. I just want to get a dream a point,

(33:36):
nigga taking pictures of you, posting you in the group chats.
I done got another people like you don't at the
bar dream I'm chilling, nigga.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
But listen that that that matters to a point. It
depends on your audience and your demo. You did what
I'm saying, like events that I do now, Like, Bro,
you was there. You was there when we was going
through the gauntlet of we gotta be in somebody club
on the microphone for five days out the week. We've
grown and matured out of that space. We still operate

(34:03):
within the night life space. I like to say entertainment,
but like that shit matters to a certain audience of people.
When I go and do events, I'm in a three
p suit right for sure, it's sections in here. But
don't nobody give a fuck about you sitting down there
the show at the table. You know where they're gonna go.
They're gonna go to the bar, because at a certain
age they're gonna look and say, like, why the hell
am I spending five hundred dollars on the bottle that

(34:23):
I would pay fifty bucks for out of clips and
have people at my house entertainment And I have and
entertain them, and I have more fun doing that for sure.
Like my people's like, we have more fun being at
my crib. Oh, one hundred dollars on groceries, one hundred
dollars on bottles. We don't have a time. Even though

(34:44):
I'm still in this industry, I still understood like I
had to mature out of that. You know what I'm saying, Like,
I don't really have the crowd of people that care
about spending two thousand dollars on the table. But guess
what they're gonna do. They're gonna spend a couple hundred
dollars on a suit. We gonna spend a couple hundred
dollars on a gown. Go get hurt, hair done, nails done.
You dig what I'm saying. Go buy one hundred dollar

(35:06):
ticket to come to this event because it's more quality.
And the people that are there, they don't care about
standing on couches. And I do miss that error. We
made a ton of money doing this shit, but I'm
not gonna be fifty years old standing on the couch.
You dig what I'm saying. So I think it to
your point, it depends on the audience and the demographic
of people that you're catering to. You know, in twenty

(35:27):
twenty five, shit is different.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
Question to all you guys here, what is the evolution
that you see yourself ten years from now? And what
should like someone in the night life that you guys,
that the seats that you guys hold. What's just someone say, Okay,
I'm gonna start here.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
But I want to end up here?

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Like what's that?

Speaker 5 (35:49):
What does that look like?

Speaker 6 (35:50):
Because before us, I don't know if there was every
job descriptions of what we did before I know it
was never one of creating this shit.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
We've been creating it.

Speaker 6 (35:57):
So what's the what's the like the down the line
playing I feel like you kind of already in it. Yeah,
for sure, you guys are all in it, but I want.

Speaker 7 (36:05):
You to say it.

Speaker 8 (36:05):
I think that that's I think that I never wanted
to be a club owner. I wanted to be I
wanted to have a franchise of restaurants, you know what
I mean, Like that's my end goal to have a
franchise of restaurants. I sleep at night and I say
I want to have fifty restaurants, but I'm cool with ten, you.

Speaker 7 (36:24):
Know what I mean?

Speaker 8 (36:25):
So if I could open up moving forward a restaurant
a year for the next ten years, Like, that's my goal,
you know what I mean. So I put a lot
of time into my food. Like dreams, ATL is a
restaurant slash lounge, just not a nightclub, and people think
it's a nightclub. Where I put a lot of time
into food. I traveled to New York, I traveled to Vaga,
I traveled to Miami. I flew chefs from all different
kinds of places to create my menu, to create my recipes,

(36:47):
to buy and own my recipe. So reality, so who's
cooking my food? It'll be the same every time, you
know what I mean, because I owned the recipe. So
for me, it's being one of the biggest black owned
restaurant franchises in the world in two years. So that's
that's my goal. The nightlight club crap, it's like I
don't even care about it, you know. I tell people
the time, all they gonna do is come in here,
jump on my shit, fuck it up, and leave.

Speaker 7 (37:09):
Like that's all they gonna do. Bro, You know what
I mean.

Speaker 8 (37:12):
I spent a lot of money into it. So when
I've I bring artists and celebrity and friends. I pushed
the food people coming back, let me get some honey
out wings and fog. I don't sell wings. I got lobster,
I got I got red snapped of, head on, head off.
I got collagraogs, macao and cheese, candy aams.

Speaker 7 (37:26):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 8 (37:26):
I have versus my dishes, and my menu is very versatile,
so I can care to say anyone that comes into
my establishment.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
I think we started thinking about that question maybe ten
years ago. You know what I'm saying. For me personally,
you know, I had the mindset of, man, I want
to get into the restaurant space right primarily because it
seemed like a similar pivot to what we were already
doing with nightclubs and lounges. But on the flip side
of that, like we spoke on earlier, when the liquor

(37:56):
branding opportunities came about, it gave you know, a different
from type of light bulb went off. So now it's
about branding, producing production to an extent, you know what
I'm saying. And so I think with the experience that
we had and being in night life, we saw things
that other people didn't see and different you know, what
I'm saying, like genres of work or entertainment. You get

(38:18):
every type of person that comes into the club, whether
it's a doctor, lawyer, politician, your maya's you know what
I'm saying. Crities, celebrities, dope boys and all that, and
all these people come from, you know, different walks to
life in different careers and so like for me, it
was like, Yo, how many relationships can I build and
can I have in this? I foresee myself being in

(38:39):
politics right maybe five years down the line, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
And it's not I can see I can see you.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
Yeah, it's not the pivot that you would think. Right.
So when shout out to the Book Bank Foundation, our nonprofit,
when we started doing community cleanups, we would always have
these big turnouts. And one of my mentors, doctor Glenn Tolb,
he was like, why you get all these people? I say, Bro,
I pull them out the club.

Speaker 6 (39:04):
Like that.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
If I can stand on the couch with you, if
you can call me every year for your birthday or
when this artist or this manager can blow my phone
about the mixtape release or album release, why can I
get these same people to come and get back to
their community by way of service, you know what I'm saying.
And so once we started seeing that, even when I
did Love and Hip Hop, my first episode, we was
off your fave cleaning up the neighborhood, you know what
I'm saying, feeding the homeless. But you know they didn't

(39:26):
want no cap on that, Like that wasn't made for TV. Shit,
that was real life. And so the pivots from nightlife,
for me, they're endless. It's just about what is your focus?
Who are you meeting while you're doing this? And you
know what I'm saying, Like I look at y'all on radio,
and most people might think, oh, yeah, we if you
do the club, you do reader, but not necessarily. You've
done television, you know what I'm saying. Like you've done production,
you know what I'm saying. And so it's like ten

(39:48):
years from now when you're doing movies or scoring movies
and you know, you got your whole entertainment network. Yeah,
we might have started in the club, but we pivoted
to other things, you know what I'm saying. So for me,
like that's how I look at it, and that's the
It's like, this shit is not a one trick pony.
Regardless of how people think of us as promoters, curators
or whatever. It's like this shit is endless with us
and I love it.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Facts.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (40:09):
Tenure goal for me is actually like reel in your face, Bro,
I want to run my own ticketing platform. And it's
for like if you really think about like data, Bro,
data is endless.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
That is what you pay for.

Speaker 9 (40:21):
Ads of what you pay for, whether it's TV ads
or Facebook ads anything, Your biggest people that you're gonna like,
those are people that could. That's the foundation of things
that are never going nowhere. So ticket masks and stuff
like event bright Bro, go to check out. When you
check out, whatever the price was, you're gonna add your
tax on it. Then people adding the tax that's who eat.

(40:42):
So right now what I've been doing like no matter
how it plays out of whether it be packing the
parties of club. That's why I build off the masks
because it's data, Like Bro, I got two hundred thousand
phone numbers, no matter who it is, it's somebody's number.
If we're collecting off right in through the lines, even
down to the logo, you don't peep it's a ticket.
That's why it's clean That's why I clean crowded functions
ticket Bro, because event it's gonna be a ticketing platform.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
That's the reason this.

Speaker 9 (41:05):
But it's friendly whitewashes hell, we want, we won't want
scare nobody what I'm looking for, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
So that's what I want to do, Bro, end of
the day, it's gonna be data and analytics.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
Like I throw this too, sitting that the thing that
I admired about him was like our eras might have
been a little bit different, but when I started seeing
the transition of like what he was doing, when you
started popping your shit a little bit, and its event
bright numbers right, Like I've done concerts, I've done festivals
and understanding like everybody always talking about live Nation. But
that's that's the that's the real big win, you know

(41:36):
what I'm saying. So when I started seeing what Bro
was doing, I'm like, damn, that shit was inspiring like
a motherfucker, you know what I'm saying, Because you're seeing
the growth from it. Like it's not like I want
to put a couple of hundred people, you know, in
a nightclub. No, I want to go fill up an arena.
You know what I'm saying. So now you're not looking
at me as the promoter, like, no, I'm a real business,
legitimate business that can not only do this ship in Atlanta,

(41:56):
not in Houston. We can go do this ship in Ghana, Nigeria.

Speaker 7 (42:00):
I got that data.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Bro we're looking at.

Speaker 9 (42:03):
We talked of his name that came a couple of
times a bro, all due respect, you're looking at a
g toring bro. You don't realize like Bru's packing out,
Arena's going anywhere torn and.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
He's not bro.

Speaker 9 (42:14):
He can't dap up a fifteen year old and have
a conversation you don't care to. But guess what they
buy his tickets?

Speaker 6 (42:20):
Yeah, that's power And he's getting the data that's power
from And this shows the level of a business he owned.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
He's standing on it and shout out to you know
all you guys are coming on the show. I know
promoters get a lot of bad reps, are doing bad business.
And you know one thing I said about you guys
like I ain't never had no bad.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Business with y'all. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
The people that the people that that did me wrong,
I don't even see him no more. Anybody showed me
on some money, I ain't.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I ain't.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
You know what I'm saying. They they probably working at
Chuggy Cheese somewhere.

Speaker 6 (42:53):
So you just want wantall flowers man, Definitely most respect
for one of y'all.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Y'all too bro like yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's my camera. Hey,
Jabar Cash.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
Yo talks always and he will never come on the show.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
But listen, But wanting like that's by guy.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
Jar has been in the business, so you know that's
my guy.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
He knows, he knows I'm trolling him. However, I'm gonna
pick on.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
It right now.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
You over here, like, bro, you gotta have an insight.

Speaker 7 (43:31):
I want to I want to say this right.

Speaker 8 (43:32):
I watched one of the interviews I did with dealing
with the promoters and the owners and the DJs, and
I've seen the guys get up here and say things
like the game ain't the same, it's trash now promoters,
I don't know who they were, I don't.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Know you're talking about.

Speaker 7 (43:47):
This was biddy night, was.

Speaker 8 (43:52):
The night like down this trash it ain't the same.
Need to go back to this, need to go back
to that, need to go back to this. My thing
is y'all old niggas. Is the niggas that really slick
allowed the game to change. You get what I'm saying,
Like y'all seen something, y'all seen a gold mine. Y'all
seen this section and no more dance floors, and y'all
allowed it to happen and groom people like myself. Now myself,
I'm a section seller.

Speaker 7 (44:13):
That's my following. I don't have a large general population people.

Speaker 8 (44:19):
You know, a lot of people know me, but I
could sell twenty tables by myself anywhere from five hundred
to five thousand, like That's what I'm great at doing.
But if you ask me to bring people to the bar,
I can't do that. But I'm a great businessman, So
I'll hire somebody like my brother north side Bama that
could bring two three hundred people.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
To the bar. Now now we're rocking, You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (44:35):
I'm gonna sell all the table Bama gonna being to
people and we gotta sold out night we get into
the bad. But like how y'all old niggas gonna say
the parties is when y'all the one that showed us
the game, y'all allowed the game to transition. Y'all didn't
tell us like, oh, y'all shouldn't do this, you should
balance it out or do this or do that. Like
I didn't understand the where they were coming from was
saying that our parties now and this generation is trash

(44:57):
and it needs to get back to this.

Speaker 7 (44:59):
But y'all allow to get to this.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
I'm gonna give my two cents because my brother went
in the old niggas you're talking about.

Speaker 7 (45:05):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, respect statement, because I understand.

Speaker 5 (45:14):
That also from an era that you're not from.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
So they see ship differently, you know what I mean.
So like you got a couple of you got a
couple of like Catt that was like either even when
we were young, we were still with the ogs of
this industry, if you want to call it that. So
I understand, like you know what I'm saying, both sides
of the game, because the ship is different. I always
tell people like Yo, if you partied in the late nineties,

(45:38):
early two thousand to the teens, you don't have the
same experiences in mindsets as the the Yian's. That's that's
partying that I don't even socialize the same. But when
we came up, like we had AOL America online, do
you know what I'm saying, Like ship was dolling up.
So if you was out having motion and doing events,

(46:00):
but you had to hand the hand with with flyers
and go get a number, like you had to know
how to go bag a chicken, get a phone number,
and may come want to come to the shit that
you was doing. So now they don't really have that,
you see what I'm saying. So it's like it's just
a different time as far as like people wanting to
go out and vibe the kicking. Now you do have
some older cast. They are outdated in the mindset in
which they think. But you're still in the same line

(46:21):
the work. You haven't elevated beyond nineteen ninety nine. And
you know what I'm saying, two thousand and three of
them were partying, So with that I agree with. However,
they come from an error where party was different and
this nostalgic. Why do you think everybody does R and
B parties because people want to it's nostalgic. They want
to remake the nineties era, the early two thousands era.

(46:43):
When I come to your shit on Wednesdays. Right, y'all
might play some new music, but the crowd get moving
when Jodason come on, when Johnny Gill come on.

Speaker 7 (46:51):
You get what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
So, ladies of R and B, R and B, you
know what I said, Shout out to the Cocks next Masterday,
Bluetooth that nostalgic field.

Speaker 4 (47:03):
Listen.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
I always tell people, you're gonna be older way longer
than you're gonna be younger. Hell, so some of that
ship is gonna always stick around and stay around the
songs out here. Now, Bro, we're not gonna give a
damn about that ship in five years. It's not gonna stick.
And the people that's listen to it now, guess what
they're gonna become. They're gonna become the old heads. You
know what they're gonna tell you.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
I remember were listening.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Just keep waking up, wake it up.

Speaker 7 (47:29):
I gotta crazy.

Speaker 9 (47:30):
I just gotta just gotta realize they're getting older. And okay,
you know what I'm saying. The party is not the
same as its cap like, Bro, they're still outside. Just
like you said, your mindset don't want to be with them.
They don't want to subsize bro the era even I like,
I'm not your I think I'm around your age. But Bro,
these young niggas is out here in ski mask thinking
it's cool and not ever breaking walking up on me

(47:53):
like that, look at you. We don't do that like
so it's like, bro, just be your k and being
older like bro, the people still outside.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Yeah, old versus young.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
I think me and you was talking.

Speaker 8 (48:08):
I'm like.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
Mine.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
With our culture we put and there's no knock on you.
But I don't understand why our culture we put a
knock on getting old, you know what I'm saying, Like
when you think of just musically, right, when you think
of these old rock bands, Ruth Springsteink can come out
tomorrow and gonna sell this bitch out if he gonna
do it right. But if I come out and say
I want to do a worldwide tour like man, yeah,

(48:33):
why don't. Why don't we give the flowers to all?
It's starting to happen, you know what I'm saying. Like
a couple of years ago, I'm sure Nelly was doing
what he was doing, But now Nelly can still go
pack on and sell out of arena because we're starting
to get there, but it's like, but.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
Keep it in mind, Nelly. Nelly is also country to
so Nelly is kind of like, you know what I'm saying.
Nelly is like an alien, just like Ludacris.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
A little bit. But everything coming back right now, everything.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
It never went nowheret yes, Yes, if Rolling Stones dropped
some ship, I don't even know if they still live,
but if I hope there is. But if Rolling Stone
dropped some ship, they gonna sell some ship out.

Speaker 6 (49:11):
Look at our legacy artists now think about Geezy, Gucci
Man them, niggas.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Is still it's the way we treat But at the time.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
People was acting like they was washed up because they
got older. Everybody ain't gonna die young, bro, But.

Speaker 9 (49:24):
It's the mindset of us though. It's like it's the
same thing in the club. You don't got a section,
not even think he fell off or it's dirt. It's
a dirt liver like get out the club. But you're
touching thirty. It's like Nigga thirty is when niggas really touching.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
That's but he's saying that now, But he's saying that
in reference to the why he is that's in the club.
That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get the hell on.
I don't want to party with him. I can't relate
to the same ship. You know what I'm saying, Like what,
I got a mortgage.

Speaker 6 (49:56):
C before we get out of here. U start with
you Dream, tell them how to follow you, give me
some shout outs all that.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (50:03):
You can follow me on Instagram, certify the biggest, but
definitely follow my business page Dream atl Man. We located
on the north side Atlanta off for Pleasant Hill. We
are in a beautiful establishment of Southern cuisine. Let me
let me Damn, my mind is just running, man, but
too much. I'm telling you everything. Host all events, you

(50:31):
know what I mean? I host all events, Man, I
host all events. One of the biggest on the north
side of Atlanta, one of the top promoters in the
state of Georgia.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
You know, thank you brother for sure. Man Kbochi uh
is far as social media goes. Follow me on social
media whatever platforms. Business wise.

Speaker 10 (50:50):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
We just renovate a sauce bucket, so you know we
redoing that. That's opening up this weekend. We got mbar
on Auburn av still working with different liquor brands I'm
still doing you know, nonprofit work, getting giving back and
getting back into the community, festivals, concerts. You know, we
want it all politically all that. So yeah, that's what
we own.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (51:12):
Jamar Jones A t L is the same name on
every platform. That's what you can follow me far as business,
like I said, were opening up this spot called icons
on Edgewood. Uh, it's funny we brought up Matin Leelanka.
That's actually who I'm going to business with. Some of
the old gms from over there were partnered on that.
Far as business partners got shot out, it's a brand

(51:32):
name Pariah brand about his girl named Somebody. It's an
all female thing, an any type of you know, sponsors,
anybody want to throw out do that fly style. That's
actually the young promoters that came from under you that
you were saying, not under but behind you saying throwing
the dollar parties. It's one of my business parts. Two
shout out to Brian and yeah that's that's that's up.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
We appreciate you pulling up y'all.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Hey listen.

Speaker 7 (51:55):
One thing I can say about y'all. I call you all,
y'all always pick up.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
Times Christ Ishmael j.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
You know what I'm saying, rock that.

Speaker 8 (52:10):
Complain, you gotta get, you gotta get the oldest man,
got the rock, that couchie man.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
That's back. They need flowers bro even that that and
got supporting supportations.

Speaker 7 (52:24):
Yeah, they went crazy.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
From five.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Ain't a bit of to loon go to.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
And I know we're wrapping up, but I want to
make this point and the beautiful thing about what we
deem as promoters. Look at all the spots that were
shotting out, mostly all of them came from being promoted
Cream Loud, come on, manless Moland.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
You know that was six rotations.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
It's hungry a f You know what I'm saying is
is Saut's m C k Yo like me, I met
lucky in them from doing stuff with j Bon. So
some of these premier black own establishments, you know the
owners came from being promoted. You know what I'm saying.
Everybody doing the bigger.

Speaker 9 (53:06):
Curate brout stop opening up spots with the grass wall.
That's why I like to like you study it. And
it's literally like they went to Mexico and had the
time and they brought it back and everybody's not It
looks different broad curators.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
You get.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Episode curator.

Speaker 7 (53:27):
Curators app.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
And I noticed that no hookah, but y'all at least
ask outside.

Speaker 7 (53:40):
A lot of people don't.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Is a lot.

Speaker 7 (53:46):
That's a lot for my first restant level, that's a lot.

Speaker 8 (53:49):
I did amazing without hookah. People used to coming back
with the air was cleaner, it was more fresher, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (53:54):
People don't want to come in there that.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
They're smoking.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
That full ship, the stud that all alert

Speaker 5 (54:05):
MH.