Mr. Carter Block joins Dr. Stance for a vibrant and impactful discussion that dives deep into what it truly means to lead with intention. Right off the bat, Carter emphasizes that being a CEO isn’t just about chasing profits; it’s about making a real impact in the community and nurturing the next generation. They explore the importance of entrepreneurship with purpose, creating safe spaces for youth, and breaking the cycle of generational limitations. This conversation is a heartfelt call to action for all the builders, leaders, and visionaries out there who are committed to uplifting our youth and making a lasting difference. If you’re ready to get inspired and learn how to turn your hustle into a legacy, this episode is a must-listen!
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Speaker B:Well, I guess welcome to turning a hustle into legacy with Dr.
Speaker B:Stanch.
Speaker B:Y' all babbling with me.
Speaker B:And I got my.
Speaker B:The hostess with the most is which is me.
Speaker B:And I got my guy.
Speaker B:I'm gonna let him introduce himself D. I call the nigga D. It's my brother D. What's going on?
Speaker B:But what's D about?
Speaker B:Tell us What's D about.
Speaker A:Mr. Quarterback Young Bird himself.
Speaker A:You hear me?
Speaker A:You hear you?
Speaker B:First of all, CEO, okay.
Speaker B:Of Carter Block, for those of you that don't know, okay?
Speaker B:He's one of the top producers in motherfucking Oakland, okay?
Speaker B:His son Lil duty, period, okay?
Speaker B:I'm saying that's another figure.
Speaker B:He gotta come on the show too.
Speaker B:But me predominantly want to really talk about what I think me and you both got in common is entrepreneurship and just starting a business.
Speaker B:One, we got people under us, which a lot of people that are not in that position don't understand.
Speaker B:The motherfucking movement and the stress and they got all these expectations like yeah, we know we that guy.
Speaker B:But God damn, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Do you have them days sometimes where your phone just non fucking stop?
Speaker B:It's overwhelming as an entrepreneur.
Speaker B:Like we don't have a 9 to 5, so our minds think differently because our check ain't for show in two weeks, right?
Speaker A:Facts.
Speaker B:So the way we think and process shit is different, man.
Speaker B:So a lot of people that ain't in the industry or have their own business or CEO and you know, built a multi million dollar company, they don't understand.
Speaker A:They don't understand.
Speaker B:Help them niggas understand.
Speaker A:They don't understand, man.
Speaker A:You know, image, branding, content, you know, being a people's person and bringing your vision of life is everything to a person that understands entrepreneurship, you know?
Speaker A:You know, but when you don't, it can get very frustrating at times because you jumping into a field that you might not understand, it's just like jumping in a dope game trying to sell dope and you don't know how to cook it or provide it to the goddamn clients, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So, you know, fact, I think that a lot of people tune to jumping things that they're not ready for due to the lack of knowledge.
Speaker A:You know, our people don't take the time out to.
Speaker A:To educate they self on anything that it is to make they self be a greater person or just a greater aspect in life, you know.
Speaker A:And I'm serious about them type of things.
Speaker A:Like when it come to my brand, I Go the extra mile because I believe in.
Speaker A:I'm just as big as in people like puff daddies and 50 cents and all of this.
Speaker A:I just look at it like they just got a machine but behind them that's making them be as big as they are.
Speaker A:But if you take that machine away, they sometimes can be lower than what we are.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Facts.
Speaker A:I understand that in a very, very, very, you know, entrepreneur aspect.
Speaker B:Like, yeah, just be.
Speaker B:It's different.
Speaker B:I think a lot of people pull on us too.
Speaker B:Like, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Like, we gotta.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:Like, even the program that I run, you know, me doing the transitional housing, I feel like sometimes people, like, even with the kids, you know, they be texting me and calling me all throughout the night.
Speaker B:And I'm only one person.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:It's only one doctor Stance.
Speaker B:There's only one Carter Block.
Speaker B:So for, you know, tell the people.
Speaker B:Like, this is just.
Speaker B:I guess for me, it get over fucking whelming to where some days I be like, you know, fuck all this shit.
Speaker A:It do.
Speaker A:It do.
Speaker A:I mean, at times my phone do not start ringing.
Speaker B:It don't.
Speaker A:It never does.
Speaker A:Even when I'm at home trying to give my family life to my wife, I don't really get the time to have that time because I'm so.
Speaker B:You busy.
Speaker B:You working?
Speaker A:You pulled on.
Speaker B:You need it.
Speaker A:You just.
Speaker A:I love it so much.
Speaker A:To where it's kind of hard for me not to have a response to something that I love so much.
Speaker A:Just like my family, you know?
Speaker A:Cause I didn't put so much blood, sweat and tears into entertainment itself.
Speaker A:It's hard for me not to put even an inch of my thought into it when people call me.
Speaker A:Because sometimes it's not even just about entertainment.
Speaker A:It's about real personal lives.
Speaker A:Sometimes it's about their credit.
Speaker A:Sometimes it's about, you know, family matters.
Speaker A:Sometimes it's about just going through shit on a daily basis, you know?
Speaker A:And one thing that I try to build between me and my friends and family members around us is build a brotherhood to where we can express how we feel without having judgment, you know?
Speaker A:Cause a lot of times with men, we don't really have a safe space.
Speaker A:So I try to do that on my life, on a daily mission to be able to give that opportunity to share how we feeling throughout the day when times we might not.
Speaker A:Don't be feeling good.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Wake your ass up.
Speaker A:I be saying it every time I.
Speaker B:Put my alert Wake your ass up.
Speaker A:I put you on my alert.
Speaker B:When you go live, sometimes you want to tap in.
Speaker B:I'm like, nah, it's all niggas.
Speaker A:I'm a bitch.
Speaker B:They ain't gonna talk.
Speaker A:Nah, we be needing that.
Speaker B:I'll tap in on the live for show.
Speaker B:Cause I be know I done tapped in a few times.
Speaker B:It's all men and stuff.
Speaker B:You know, I'm like, y' all needs a bitch on there.
Speaker A:You know, we used to, we used to have a lot of different women on there.
Speaker A:But sometimes I think the viewpoints was getting too far because a lot of people are not open minded as far.
Speaker B:As the men or women or both.
Speaker A:Both.
Speaker A:You know, when it comes, I think, to certain topics, you know, certain topics can get real touchy.
Speaker A:And I think a lot of people might not understand how to evaluate the conversation with the right type of answer that people don't really get too up knit and uptight about.
Speaker A:Because it happens a lot.
Speaker B:Really.
Speaker B:See, and that's why honestly I created this space.
Speaker B:I felt like for conversations like this, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:Like for instance, you know, I'm sure, like even if we even get personal, you being married, you know, it's hard giving her that time when you out trying to build a legacy.
Speaker B:Facts, right?
Speaker A:Facts.
Speaker B:That's what my title is.
Speaker B:You turning your hustle into a legacy.
Speaker B:And being married, you know, especially, you know, I love yp I met her and your kids and stuff like that, you know, I respect her a lot because it's hard to have.
Speaker B:You're considered an industry man.
Speaker B:I mean, it's facts.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's facts.
Speaker A:There's no way around it.
Speaker B:Yeah, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:You're dealing with rappers, you're dealing with game from the game.
Speaker B:You're dealing with so many different personalities and genres of people that you pull left and right.
Speaker B:So I know when you come home sometimes you bring that home.
Speaker A:Oh, a lot of times.
Speaker B:Yeah, I know.
Speaker B:And I know she, you know, she's endured that.
Speaker B:And I know y' all been together for hella years.
Speaker A:Yeah, 20.
Speaker A:About to be 26.
Speaker B:26, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker B:And you know, I unfortunately, I think I was married to my husband for a year, divorced that, like I said on the last part, pondered the ring and went, give me a bus down the.
Speaker B:Is crazy.
Speaker B:Yeah, I did that.
Speaker B:Matter of fact, November 3rd, I did it three, four days ago and was in the jewelers throw that same motherfucking day.
Speaker B:And then the wedding was December 3rd.
Speaker B:Libby and them bridesmaid.
Speaker B:I could I all that.
Speaker B:Okay, So I take my hat off to men and women that stay in lasting relationships, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:She endured, I'm sure, a lot and stayed and vice versa, I'm sure.
Speaker A:I mean, she took a lot of.
Speaker A:A lot of me acceptance, you know, when I was still learning how to become a man.
Speaker A:See, a lot of times men be thinking that they man because of the age that they are, but we still have irresponsible values with not how to carry yourself as in a man.
Speaker A:Because we be too focusing on being a real nigga, you feel me?
Speaker A:For the streets being a real nigga basically keep you in the pocket to where you either gonna be dead or in jail.
Speaker A:But a lot of times that be the mission that a lot of people is chasing.
Speaker A:Because when you come from poverty, you don't really see too much, you know, ahead of that, you know.
Speaker A:And I know you've helped.
Speaker A:She fought.
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker A:She fought and made sure that I stayed on my journey so as having great parents as well, you feel me?
Speaker A:But she was there with me when a nigga used to be sitting in front of the fucking video game all damn day, you feel me?
Speaker A:Betting money and buying cars and giving them to people and you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Doing little dumb childish nigga shit, you feel me?
Speaker A:Instead of being a grown man.
Speaker A:But now that I'm of age, I can understand where she was coming from, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So I always tip my hat off to her just to be able to put up with my ass.
Speaker A:Cause it ain't no easy slay, no matter how men portray that we do what we do.
Speaker A:But that shit is hard, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Especially being in entertainment, you know, I've been in entertainment since we've been together.
Speaker A:So I was a rapper, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I was a producer turned into a A R to a manager to a full CEO.
Speaker A:I always been a CEO since the beginning because I always run my own brand and my own company.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But actually giving my all into it the right way has, you know, made her feel a lot better, you know, when it comes to me being doing my business and pushing this brand.
Speaker A:Cause she know this is my life, you know, When I was a rapper, I gave up my rapping status to put my son in the position, you know, because I didn't want to be a father or just an entrepreneur that's holding the ball from him when he had the light to glow, you know.
Speaker A:And I think sometimes people, you know, do that very often.
Speaker A:No matter if it's a family member or as in, it's just a business, people are scared to see other people excel in this game.
Speaker B:You know, I don't understand it.
Speaker A:So I just wanted to pass the torch to my little man at the right time.
Speaker A:And it's crazy that he was 10, 10 and a half, 11 years old at that time.
Speaker A:So to see him actually be 18, about to turn 19 and turning into a young man, it made me feel good that I did a pretty damn good job, you know.
Speaker B:And he did more than a good job.
Speaker B:He did an amazing job.
Speaker B:Like this ain't.
Speaker B:First of all, I got to take my hat off to you on that too.
Speaker B:Cuz a lot of men, you know, don't put their ego aside to put their kids first.
Speaker B:Let's just be real, you know, n do not fuck with their kids like that.
Speaker B:Cause they so busy trying to be in the street, so busy wanting an Instagram clout or all this shit.
Speaker B:But me personally, like, that's why I respect you a lot.
Speaker B:Because you put your shit aside to make sure your kids shine.
Speaker B:A lot of niggas don't do that.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:So I take.
Speaker B:Definitely take my hat off to you.
Speaker B:And I see the future of him too.
Speaker B:He be all on 106 and billboards every fucking where in the town.
Speaker B:That's not average.
Speaker B:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:So that's all you, though.
Speaker B:That's you behind all of that 1,000%.
Speaker B:So at the end of the day, like, kudos to you.
Speaker B:That's why I got some nice gifts for you.
Speaker B:Cause I feel like, you know, a king deserves to be treated like a king.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:And I think that you set the bar for a lot of fathers.
Speaker B:First off, black men and just a man in general.
Speaker B:Like how you rock with your kids.
Speaker B:Cause a lot of people just don't do that.
Speaker B:And you let him shine.
Speaker B:I see y'.
Speaker B:All.
Speaker B:I'll be seeing you, bro.
Speaker A:At the time that I was doing it too real close knit with my son, everybody was scared to have really that type of relationship with their kid in an open eye, you know.
Speaker A:But that's just us without.
Speaker A:On the camera, off the camera, that's just us, you know, and me and him.
Speaker A:Me and both of my sons.
Speaker A:Cause my oldest son, you know, we all grew up real close, you know.
Speaker A:And I never hid nothing from my kids, you know, because when they tuned together of age when they got into the real world, they can know how to survive, you know, Even though we shouldn't just teach survival skills, but those skills are known to be taught when shit go wrong.
Speaker A:You can know how to survive, you know.
Speaker A:So try to give them both hands of the table to where you got, you know, a good upbringing with a good living.
Speaker A:And then you also can have the same circumstances where you can lose everything that you value the most.
Speaker A:So I try to give it to him as much as real, as raw and uncut real as possible.
Speaker B:You know, I talked to my daughter about sex at 6, 6 years old.
Speaker B:I told her about sex and men and dicks and put like dead ass.
Speaker B:I showed her pictures of shit and.
Speaker A:No facts because it had to be.
Speaker B:I knew about that shit at seven.
Speaker B:I'm humping bitches and boys at seven years old because me being exposed to sex so young.
Speaker B:So I think that us as parents, sometimes people are scared.
Speaker B:Don't tell the kid.
Speaker B:No, nigga, tell her everything.
Speaker B:Tell him everything.
Speaker B:Because it shapes them and prepare them for the real world.
Speaker B:Because I feel like if we don't show them, guess who don't show em the real world.
Speaker B:And I rather like even with my daughter, she 18, I told her this facts.
Speaker B:I told her I want to be the first one to take that hoe to the strip club.
Speaker B:I swear to God, I want to be the first one to take my daughter to a strip club because she's bi.
Speaker B:So she liked the girls and she liked little baddies and she like boys.
Speaker B:So I said, you know what?
Speaker B:While she's in her confused state, let me go and take you see some strippers so you can see what you like and what you don't.
Speaker B:I want to be the first to do that.
Speaker B:I was the first to take her out the country.
Speaker B:I was the first to.
Speaker B:You get what I'm saying?
Speaker B:So I think us as parents, or I'mma just say me and you.
Speaker B:Cause it sound like we're the same.
Speaker B:We exposed our kids to reality so the world wouldn't do it first.
Speaker B:Because I feel like if we don't do it, the world gonna do it.
Speaker A:Differently, 10 times worse.
Speaker B:And then it's gonna be worse and it fucks them up.
Speaker B:And now they don't know how to navigate in the.
Speaker B:So for me, like I said, I take my hat off to you, bro.
Speaker B:You a good father, you know, good in the community.
Speaker B:You do a lot for the fucking community.
Speaker B:First of all, let's start with that.
Speaker B:Cause I did my little Research, you know, first of all, I'll say this.
Speaker B:What turned.
Speaker B:What made you want to start Carter Block?
Speaker B:Like, what gave you the ignite or the ammunition to want to be a rapper?
Speaker B:Because it's a lot of niggas out here that think they can rap.
Speaker B:And everybody either want to be a rapper, a stripper, or a goddamn drug dealer.
Speaker B:So what made you wanna be a rapper?
Speaker A:I always loved music since a kid.
Speaker A:It wasn't no song that came on TV or the radio that I didn't know word for word.
Speaker A:But I also had a lot of different tools around me that made me motivated to do it, you know.
Speaker A:So by me growing up in the dubs, I was able to see some things and I was also able to visualize some things that wasn't, you know, brought to life.
Speaker A:That I was able to brought to life.
Speaker A:So what I'm saying is Adrienne, man was my next door neighbor.
Speaker B:Oh, shit.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:End up having to be like a family member, you know.
Speaker A:And when Three Times was coming about, he used to be rapping hella much in the hallway when I was a kid.
Speaker A:And I used to be asking him, what are you doing?
Speaker A:He used to be talking.
Speaker A:He'd tell me I was florammatically speaking.
Speaker A:So that's what they called the lingo on how they rap was formatically speaking.
Speaker B:Wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker A:I used to just sit there, barta come through.
Speaker A:Keith could come through and age, they be over there just in the hallway rapping.
Speaker A:So when the Stackin Chips album actually came out, I heard a lot of that from Adrienne, man, before it even dropped.
Speaker A:Because they used to be playing this shit in the hallway.
Speaker A:And then he used to tell me one day he was gonna be on bet, they was gonna be on tv.
Speaker A:So when they went on TV and we seen him, when I was a kid, when the Keep it on the Real came, when they was all in Vegas and running to shoot the dice, I was like, damn, this crazy.
Speaker A:This is my nigga, this is my family right here.
Speaker A:So I tuned to just try to keep that great energy going on.
Speaker A:And then around the corner, a Jamaican artist by the name of Rankin Screw was over there.
Speaker A:And he used to have people like E40 come through AP9 and a lot of the things at that time.
Speaker A:So I was just getting engaged with Loving It.
Speaker A:So then my oldest brother used to do.
Speaker A:He used to manage with gospel with my grandmother.
Speaker A:And he also did some.
Speaker A:Some side managing with Casey and Jojo when they came to Northern California.
Speaker B:Oh, shit.
Speaker B:Jodecy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I tuned and just had all of this information, and I used to just see that, and I just, you know, utilized it as much as I could.
Speaker A:So as I grew up, I started figuring out how to, you know, do things my own way.
Speaker A:So my neighborhood, it was East 21st and 25th.
Speaker A:The apartment building, we used to call it the Carter.
Speaker B:Got it.
Speaker B:Got it.
Speaker B:That's where Carter Block came.
Speaker A:So we used to call it the Carter.
Speaker B:So I like it.
Speaker A:As time, you know, progressed.
Speaker A:One of my little cousins got killed.
Speaker A:It was Mark Rohn.
Speaker A:So Mark Rohn was more like Birdman and I was more like Slim.
Speaker A:I was more quiet.
Speaker A:You know, I do my stunt and stuff, but I never put it out the way that he did.
Speaker A:So when my cousin Marrone got killed, my mind was in a delusionary mind state to where I didn't know if I wanted to be on some negative shit or some positive shit for sure.
Speaker A:So I was, you know, tuned to every other day for a minute for like the first two years on the Crash out, like.
Speaker A:Cause it was new to me at the time.
Speaker A:I was fresh out of high school.
Speaker A:No more than like two years, a year and a half, really.
Speaker A:Cause he was just graduated that summer.
Speaker A:And it put me into a heavy depression for a minute.
Speaker B:That was your first, like, real death.
Speaker A:To a client, like, for a close, close person, you know.
Speaker A:And this was in 03.
Speaker A:So it fucked me up a lot.
Speaker A:And I had took it.
Speaker A:I took it to.
Speaker A:I took it to God and just let him deal with it, you know.
Speaker A:And he told me, like, instead of pushing your vision into a negativity thing to where people can keep losing their life from, won't you spit your passion and your feelings through some music?
Speaker A:So I remember all the shit of me being around three times and all that shit.
Speaker A:And I just took it like, okay, my hood called the Carter.
Speaker A:I'm gonna make it to Carter Block.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So I took the Carter Block and started with like little friends and family and cousins and shit in my neighborhood.
Speaker A:Started with them first.
Speaker A:A lot of them was they always wanted to rap, but never had the business mindset as me.
Speaker A:So I took them first.
Speaker A:I moved out the way and started another company called Redline Entertainment with my godbrother, the Kid.
Speaker A:So we created a group called the Sluggish.
Speaker A:Started doing hella little shit around the town in the Bay Area and shit.
Speaker A:And I got hella close knit with DLO and Sleepy when they was the HBR clique.
Speaker A:And I had a few dollars getting some money, you know, So I started throwing little.
Speaker A:Little tours and shit like.
Speaker B:That's smart.
Speaker A:D Lo went to jail.
Speaker A:I did a free DLO tour for him.
Speaker A:Ended up being one of the hottest artists in this world today.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker A:In Northern California.
Speaker A:In California, period, you know?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I fuck with DLO and.
Speaker A:It just put me into a real entrepreneur, CEO mind state.
Speaker A:So I just started seeing, like, okay, I can bring people together.
Speaker A:And it was able.
Speaker A:I was able to bring Gitcha Gotcha with us at the time they was doing music.
Speaker A:I was able to bring the HBR click.
Speaker A:And then, you know, just to see from there to where it transitioned into other things, you know, and it was a beautiful, beautiful journey.
Speaker A:So as the time progressed, like you said, I started putting on a lot of different people, you know, from production to management to just helping out, period.
Speaker A:No matter if it.
Speaker A:Just leading somebody in the right direction.
Speaker B:And getting them out the streets, just showing something different.
Speaker B:So you definitely accomplished that.
Speaker B:How many artists you got now?
Speaker A:Like 13.
Speaker B:Dang, bro.
Speaker A:13.
Speaker A:I just picked up two more, so 15.
Speaker A:15 artists.
Speaker A:Shout out to.
Speaker A:Gianna.
Speaker A:Shout out to.
Speaker B:I think I seen her on the little cue, and I can't even think about her song now.
Speaker B:A little light bright.
Speaker B:She brown.
Speaker B:Like big.
Speaker A:She brown.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I got Chrissy Cola, she from San Francisco, one of the dopest MCs out.
Speaker A:She spit hard as fuck.
Speaker B:Tag me.
Speaker B:I want her to call her.
Speaker A:I got a. I got Gianna Farron, she from Chicago.
Speaker A:Been out here in the Bay Area probably, I think about three years.
Speaker A:I got another female named Big Cindy.
Speaker A:She from North Carolina.
Speaker B:And how do you get these people?
Speaker B:Do they just reach out to you?
Speaker B:You pick them up?
Speaker B:Like, how do you guys.
Speaker A:As a producer, I actually.
Speaker B:I'm scrolling.
Speaker A:Huh?
Speaker B:I'm like.
Speaker A:I actually.
Speaker A:I push a heavy brand and I'm serious with how I put it out there.
Speaker A:So a lot of people don't know that.
Speaker A:I got other chapters across the United States that are just here.
Speaker A:So I got an Atlanta chapter.
Speaker A:I got a North Carolina chapter.
Speaker A:Oh, you know, I got a Bay Area.
Speaker A:Multiple Bay Area chapters.
Speaker A:I got one in the Central Valley.
Speaker A:I got one in Vallejo, Sacramento.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So we got Quarterblock City.
Speaker A:I got Quarterback Valley.
Speaker A:I got Quarterback Atlanta.
Speaker A:So I expanded my growth on a quiet skill without making it so obvious, but obvious at the same time.
Speaker B:That's why I said, nigga, you bigger than what I think you bigger than me.
Speaker B:I said that.
Speaker A:I just start, you know, Utilizing my mind frame from just seeing people like Master P, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Being in the Bay Area and using his mind frame or taking our game and putting it somewhere else and seeing what it was attracting.
Speaker A:So I started kind of doing the same thing.
Speaker A:And I found a young kid named Dray Pot.
Speaker A:He actually was on the boat crew with Damon Lillard and Brookfield Deuce.
Speaker A:So Brookfield Deuce didn't have the time to really work with him, with him and Damon Lillard.
Speaker A:So he was like, I got a boy that's real close knit.
Speaker A:My boy Bird, he got this label called Carter Black.
Speaker A:Maybe I know he can do a little bit more for you got the time.
Speaker A:So I got on the phone with him on a FaceTime.
Speaker A:They on the cruise on the other side of the water.
Speaker A:And I. I answer the phone, we talk and whatnot, and we go into conversation.
Speaker A:I'm like, where you from?
Speaker A:He like, I'm from Atlanta.
Speaker A:Instantly clicked on my.
Speaker A:You from Atlanta?
Speaker A:I'm like, you in school?
Speaker A:Like, yeah, I'm in college.
Speaker A:Like, you in college?
Speaker A:He like, yeah.
Speaker A:I'm like, what college you go to?
Speaker A:He like, I go to Kensaw State University.
Speaker A:So I'm like, you go to Kensaw?
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:I'm like, so outside of this, what you think about doing?
Speaker A:So I motivated him to get into media.
Speaker A:So he ended up working at the radio station, running a radio station at the college.
Speaker A:From that, I started a promotional company called College World.
Speaker A:So College World, we started throwing a lot of the parties in Atlanta for the colleges.
Speaker A:So for, like, Clark Atlanta, Kensaw, all of them, Georgia Tech, we was throwing the event.
Speaker A:So he also worked at a little bar.
Speaker A:So we do, you know, conjunctions between the bar and, you know, the school and outside parties.
Speaker A:So this is what I did on another genius thing.
Speaker A:So I got a company line for my business.
Speaker A:So each person that's in my business have their own line.
Speaker A:Extension line.
Speaker A:No matter if you're an artist or if you work, you got your own extension.
Speaker A:So I gave him his own extension.
Speaker A:We turned his extension into a party line.
Speaker A:So when you wanna know when we having a party, you gotta call the phone to get the information.
Speaker A:So I started utilizing that.
Speaker A:We start, you know, making bigger.
Speaker A:Bigger moves.
Speaker B:That's still happening right now.
Speaker A:Yeah, bigger moves.
Speaker A:So that's dope, bro.
Speaker A:We actually, you know, like, we doing bigger things.
Speaker A:So now he actually started another business off of the businesses that I had him start.
Speaker A:Start, you know, so.
Speaker A:And that's what I mean by you know, making my.
Speaker A:My main thing is if I can't make some people around me eat like I'm trying to eat, then there's no need for us to rock with each other in no type of way.
Speaker A:Because as a leader, I believe in the people around you should feel good about messing with you and should feel good about us sitting at the same roundtable to be able to eat.
Speaker B:I say that all the time.
Speaker B:Like, as far as, unfortunately, it sucks, but you do gotta pay for loyalty, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:And that's how I feel too, in regards to my team.
Speaker B:Like, I overcompensate so I can get better results.
Speaker B:Because, you know, with my company too, I oversee 50 people, right?
Speaker B:And that's a fucking lot.
Speaker B:Like, whether kids, staff, you know, the operations of the company, they all rely on me.
Speaker B:Just like I'm sure your team rely on you to always constantly create and do things, and phones ringing all the time.
Speaker B:So that's why I was saying, that's why I really wanted you on the show because you, like, are a leading entrepreneur right now, and you're constantly creating, you're constantly building, and most importantly, you.
Speaker B:I don't fuck with nobody.
Speaker B:Say, as far as all these other niggas, I ain't naming no names, but you really giving back to the community, you get what I'm saying?
Speaker B:And the proof is pretty much in the pudding, just like me.
Speaker A:But no funding too.
Speaker B:Same my nigga.
Speaker B:Look, ain't nobody gave me shit I said when I was on the news.
Speaker B:I said that shit got it.
Speaker B:When I was on the news, I said that, you know, nobody's giving me funding.
Speaker B:Nobody.
Speaker B:Everybody want to fund the bullshit, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:Let's work with people.
Speaker B:Like, you're putting artists, you're helping people live out their dreams.
Speaker B:You get what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Just like I'm helping housing foster you.
Speaker B:It's all in alignment with just giving back to the community.
Speaker B:However people want to see it.
Speaker B:That's what the fuck we doing.
Speaker A:You know what's so crazy that you just said that about giving back to dreams, right?
Speaker A:So a lot of times you don't understand it until you see it happening outside of your circle, right?
Speaker A:So when I started doing the thing with the billboards, right?
Speaker B:Thank you for mine.
Speaker A:At first it was just for my company.
Speaker A:That's what I paid for, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And I took a look back.
Speaker A:Something told me to step back from myself and just see what it looked like from the outside looking in.
Speaker A:So One day I stepped back away from myself and seen what it looked like.
Speaker A:And to me it looked like a nigga is taunting people like, I got something.
Speaker A:I got a business that y' all don't got.
Speaker B:I can understand where you coming from.
Speaker A:So as this going on, we also keep hearing things as there's no infrastructure.
Speaker A:People don't fuck with each other.
Speaker A:It's politics, it's bullshit.
Speaker A:Everybody hella fake.
Speaker A:Ain't no real OGs.
Speaker A:Niggas be doing this sabotaging shit.
Speaker A:So I don't know that is facts.
Speaker A:So I had a talk with one of my cousins and I told him like, I'm about to try something.
Speaker A:And N was like, what you about to do?
Speaker A:I'm like, man, I'm just gonna say fuck it and just start putting niggas up.
Speaker A:So people within my camp started just blurting people out.
Speaker A:So one of my cousins, Scarface, he was just like, well, let's do Dee Dee.
Speaker A:My other cousin was like, let's do Messy Marv and fuck it, let's do rapper Folte.
Speaker A:Let's do this.
Speaker A:Let's do the legends of all Oakland.
Speaker A:Let's do.
Speaker A:So I'm just like, fuck it.
Speaker A:This is bragging barriers that a lot of CEOs have never thought to do or would never will do because they feel like if they don't have no attachment to it, if they not receiving no residuals from it, then fuck it.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker B:That's fucked up, to be honest with you.
Speaker A:So I just said like, man, maybe this shit can stop.
Speaker A:A lot of the politics was going on between all this little fake ass gang infrastructure shit.
Speaker A:Maybe it can just start opening people mind saying up to where they can look at it like, damn, we got a bigger light of glow.
Speaker A:If we just put it on us in a light to where people can receive it the right way, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:A lot of times when people put these images and these auras out, it's not wrapped in plastic the right way, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:They got crinkles and folds in it.
Speaker A:So when you give it to the people, you expecting them to answer in the way that you want them to and not in the way that it's presented for them to respond in the way it needs to be.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker A:So I just started looking at it on all angles of the table, like, okay, this helping these young men.
Speaker A:And a lot of these young men start telling me this was my goal, this was my dream, this was something I always wanted Since a kid.
Speaker A:Like, I started bringing light to people that didn't have a light.
Speaker A:I started bringing light to situations that was looking at that might be looked at and be shunned upon because somebody is helping them, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But at the end of the day, I started looking like, man, fuck that these kids is dope.
Speaker A:They might be taught wrong, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:We all come from a place where we've been taught wrong.
Speaker A:And sometimes you gotta reiterate and reciprocate it so they can learn how to receive it the right way, period.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And there's so many OGs that's not trying to be elders because they too busy trying to be of age as the people that they trying to teach.
Speaker B:Or keep the game to themselves, you.
Speaker A:Know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:And we get a lot of that in the town.
Speaker B:It bothers me.
Speaker A:I don't fuck with it like that.
Speaker A:So I'm looking at it like if I'm going, I can't tell another man's child something that I won't even tell my own damn child.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker A:So I just start, like I said, opening the doors and just whoever.
Speaker A:I didn't give a fuck if they politicking and they're part of gang shit.
Speaker A:Because a lot of people don't want to help these people because they are involved with gangs.
Speaker A:But at the end of the day, they only there because a lot of the OGs left their problems in the streets and did not tell these motherfuckers the right aspirations shit to where all this bullshit came from.
Speaker B:So funny you say that.
Speaker A:I just look at it like, fuck it.
Speaker A:I'm a show with value.
Speaker A:I'm a show with action.
Speaker A:I'm a show with, you know, not just being in word.
Speaker A:Cause there's too many people just talk and don't walk the walk.
Speaker A:So I'm walking the walk so people can understand my talk.
Speaker B:You know, I go through the same struggles and we gonna close out in a bit.
Speaker B:But I go through the same struggles with my foster youth.
Speaker B:You know, we got different genres of kids.
Speaker B:We got probation, we got mental health, we got social services and these programs.
Speaker B:That's just other programs like mine, but I am leading number one.
Speaker B:But there's other programs like mine and they really fine tune on the kids that they take.
Speaker B:And that fucking bothers me.
Speaker B:I take every fucking kid that called my program.
Speaker B:I don't give a fuck if they murderers, rapists we got fucking sex offenders, we got all that.
Speaker B:I take every fucking kid because in my mind I feel like everybody deserves a chance.
Speaker B:Nobody gave us chances like that.
Speaker B:So for me, I wanted to be that person, to give them a chance.
Speaker B:Because I just had the other young lady in here, you know, she was a prostitute, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:A real one, stomping grounds like she was down there out there more than me, to be honest.
Speaker B:But you know, nobody took her literally.
Speaker B:They hunted me down to take this little girl and I took her fucking ass.
Speaker B:And y' all seen her here crying and you know, she loved me to death.
Speaker B:So I think it needs to be people like us that, you know, start a new trend by one, you don't have to be a gatekeeper.
Speaker B:Like, it don't cost to teach people what the.
Speaker B:Like, give it.
Speaker B:You're going to get blessed.
Speaker B:When you give, you get blessed.
Speaker B:But so that's.
Speaker B:I, I just respect you a lot on that level of just helping the community and not want nothing in return.
Speaker B:But your return.
Speaker B:You getting the blessings God's already.
Speaker A:They say the game is to be told, not sold.
Speaker B:Hey, but I.
Speaker B:And I tell it, you know what I mean?
Speaker B:And I.
Speaker B:And I don't even sell it, cuz I don't need it.
Speaker B:I'm all right, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:I ain't even sell financially.
Speaker A:Highly, period.
Speaker B:Mentally, I'm good.
Speaker B:A lot of people ain't got.
Speaker B:They mental.
Speaker B:We'll close out.
Speaker B:And I wanna give you something.
Speaker B:Cause I think he's so special.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker B:But as a CEO, what would you tell new and upcoming CEOs and entrepreneurs like what would be like in a short sentence, the game you will give them.
Speaker B:And where should he look so they'll know the people.
Speaker B:Look right there and let that camera know and tell them who you is and where you come from.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker A:So you know what I tell a young black entrepreneur, or entrepreneur itself is keep God first.
Speaker B:Ooh, I like it.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:If it's meant to be, it's gonna work.
Speaker A:If not, then it ain't.
Speaker A:You know, don't be in a rush to get to somewhere where you can take the stairs and you can make it count better.
Speaker A:You know, the elevator don't always work for everybody.
Speaker A:So tune to respect yourself like you want others to respect you.
Speaker B:I love it.
Speaker B:And where can the people find you at?
Speaker B:Shout out your Instagram.
Speaker A:You can find me on Instagram, Mr. Carter Black.
Speaker A:You can find me on Facebook, young bird.
Speaker A:You can find me on Twitter, Mr. Quarterback.
Speaker A:You can find my company on Instagram, Facebook, everywhere, everywhere.
Speaker A:Billboards all in the quarterblock.
Speaker A:Entertainment everywhere.
Speaker A:You can check out, too, our nonprofit, Creating Black Excellence.
Speaker A:The same acronym cbe.
Speaker A:You know, I know that one is Creating Black Excellence.
Speaker A:You know, that's my thing to focus on and make sure with excellence at showing the people.
Speaker A:Man, if there's a will, there's a way.
Speaker A:It ain't where you come from, it's where you're going.
Speaker B:And that's.
Speaker B:Oh, it ain't where you come from.
Speaker B:And guess what?
Speaker B:You didn't definitely turn Joe Hustle into a goddamn legacy.
Speaker B:So hats and kudos off to you.
Speaker B:I wanted to bless you with something.
Speaker B:Cause to me, you're luxury and you that nigga, so you deserve this.
Speaker B:So go on and open that up and see what you get.
Speaker B:And I bless you with a nice little book.
Speaker A:It's a blessing.
Speaker A:Oh, shit.
Speaker B:Look, I just love these reactions every time you see it.
Speaker B:Show the people you see what I'm saying, Period.
Speaker B:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Well, you know, we try to get the kings what they deserve.
Speaker B:And our queens.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:This is my first one ever.
Speaker B:Really?
Speaker B:Yeah, I like it.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So he got the Versace robe.
Speaker B:You know, coming from Dr. Stank, coming.
Speaker A:From the doc herself.
Speaker A:I like it.
Speaker B:I wish I could sign a goddamn robe.
Speaker A:And you can.
Speaker B:I got you the book.
Speaker B:You good with the sign?
Speaker A:You signed the book for sure.
Speaker A:Y' all seen this?
Speaker A:From a house to a CEO.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Make sure y' all follow my sis, man, period.
Speaker A:We doing great things for the community.
Speaker B:I didn't want to know.
Speaker A:Great thing for this new podcast that y' all see, she got.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:Hey, she different.
Speaker A:Two chains.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:She different.
Speaker B:Man, I'm dying in the Gucci stove.
Speaker B:Know that, nigga.
Speaker B:Bury me in the Gucci stove.
Speaker B:All right, well, we'll holler back.
Speaker A:Thank you for having me, sis.
Speaker B:I love you, bro.
Speaker A:You know, period.
Speaker B:It's my brother.
Speaker B:So we love y'.
Speaker B:All.
Speaker B:Thank y' all for tuning in.
Speaker B:And once again, we didn't turned our hustle into a goddamn legacy, y'.
Speaker B:All.