Rapper and Entrepreneur Xzibit | Hotboxin' with Mike Tyson | Ep 27

[Music] [Music] episode of hot fox and i'm mike tyson i'm evan britain and the guest today is the one the only exhibit yeah how you doing I'm good how are you I'm doing well how are you man man um you know about five years ago we had been you know trying to do other things as far as being in the cannabis industry it was my first time like really trying to figure it out I had like a edible that I created first was some partners of mine and then you know we went on to you know creating a brand napalm out of some flour and then I just kind of tested the waters and then the vape thing started really happening and so two other business partners in mind we set out of my studio and um pretty much kind of came up with the idea of let's create this bait that we feel like we can you know really dominate the market you can have your fate with you doing with you that I didn't bring it with no yeah because I you know that I was uh I was really more interested man it's honor to sit here with you man I want to tell you one of my heroes you know I don't know how many times I didn't use you as some of my records oh yeah name dropped you off no it's a testament to your power man and your presence brother and I'm really blessed to be here man we talked about it many times the the integration or the close tightly knit relationship of Mike and hip-hop yeah yeah a little bit more about that I mean I think it was you know it was a combination of how powerful he came into the scene and how viciously he disposed of his opponents and it's like as a as a hip-hop artist as somebody that wants to have that same kind of presence it was like the comparison was so it was like the go-to thing you don't know saying it so you know people still understand the importance of sports and hip-hop and how it goes hand-in-hand is there's a running joke that sports you know basketball players want to be rappers and rappers want to be basketball players all right right and so it's so I think with Mike it was just so so powerful like I said and so legendary what his career created and you know it's like it's never be duplicated you know so that that's why hip-hop was so intrigued with that you know yeah yeah you know I never um never looked at my life from that perspective I didn't know hip-hop was a way of life that we were living and normally all the people when hip-hop when I first heard hip-hop I was a I was locked up in a reformatory and we heard it on the radio and a bathrobe rapper's delight' all right and so um we were absolutely crazy to before then we were always bring our turntables out in the park or somewhere the center and we would play our own music music that everybody hated normally everybody playing the stylist was if we were screaming but it's not we were just making our statement not be known to ourself we were making a statement yeah without even knowing so hip-hop kind of came the earliest of it was off at the end of disco that era like wait 70s yeah it was the beginning of hip-hop yeah I was born in 74 right and so my first encounter with hip-hop was like rapping Duke da da da and then do you know don't don't don't don't those were like my first encounters were hip-hop and then as I got introduced to it my older brother he brought he was the first one to bring home the Run DMC racing hell cassette it was a green cassette and then I started listening to that and then he had a Kangol that I you know he would I was never allowed to you to wear his Kengo or use his way for us but every time he left that's exactly what I did I put it out and take off my shirt and I try to emulate you know LL you don't know saying like those were like the real grassroots approach that I learned that pop remember when Biz Markie and Fresh Prince I'm Will Smith was on the same crew yeah yeah yeah I went to see them perform on their part was 1986 85 was in Hartford Connecticut I went to see him perform was everybody was there crazy bro oh yeah I love to hear how Mike you know you you were so influenced by hip hop in the the relationship was mutual in that way well listen we were all that was dumb if you were listening to hip hop in 1982 85 86 back to aid back then if you listen to the back then you're pretty much um and outside in society you know I mean different person who listened to music no one knew what these people were saying and now it's the biggest John were it's taken over pop music it's it become it's become the new pop music DJ's have definitely developed and evolved over time credible yeah there's a fan there now the frontman you know yes whatever the back means exactly and that's all work side that's just all from the um my belief all this stuff is comes from the universe you know me nobody's gonna be second everybody's gonna be first but because it's gonna be in their time yeah it's gonna have their chance to be first anyways I'm not going to be number two or in the backseat forever yeah yeah absolutely man can i fire one of these I should have offered I think I think let's look at it right hip hop is what the 20th century really well this I think it's one of the biggest inventions in the 20th century yeah absolutely it's designed by people who didn't have much and who didn't have the access to the big equipment or the big marketing or the big promotion it was kids that wanted a voice and created something with what they had and with that it just turned into a whole beast and it's been you know saving families telling our stories being able to to get things out into the open and issues that we have that nobody else was paying attention to you know before the internet it was music and music told those stories and it and it told about the environment of what these people were going through and so we we've inherited something that wasn't there before and that's really dope that's that's kind of what Mike was saying um you know it definitely changed people's lives you know hip-hop give people more than any other music I've heard so far besides some drave type of music right it gives people um it gives them soul yeah you know next time we yeah so people who never really possess the so people who appeared that they didn't possess is so awesome become soulful yeah you know yeah whatever the situation is so Goldy its peak he become social energy could be how it turns out so yeah I totally know what you mean I think what's really interesting about the evolution of hip-hop right now is that for a long time we didn't understand it it was a music business and we were just excited about making music right but now there's more interest in the business side of things that we have more people that are started to invest in themselves and I think owning the business is something new for us and so going forward I'm pretty sure it's going to be a step up from you know what we've been doing in their 90s and early 2000s late 2000s his ownership is is more prominent in hip-hop so you got people that are starting these labels making more favorable deals being able to do more for their communities with these things in these entrepreneurial ideas that they have is so um I'm interested to see what the next 10 years is gonna look like with that my state with that attitude when it comes to hip hop in and its artists you know you are a super influential piece in the transition of hip hop as counterculture into the mainstream you were helping people and making like [ __ ] dope ass cars out of these like shitty some dude as a sheet and you turned it into just like the ultimate I don't know that's just how I wear you fun well I was born in Detroit the 74 like I said and then my mom passed away when I was like 9 and so my dad got remarried they wanted to live in Albuquerque New Mexico so I spent about seven years in Albuquerque and then after that I left Albuquerque at like 17 they came to California and I've been here ever since Wow yeah yeah only mom passing you at night yeah no it was uh I mean you know a changing moment absolutely different yeah yeah I mean at nine years old you're like really different you can't we can't really wrap your head around death at nine you don't know how final it is you know um and once once she passed it was like difficult for me too get past that cuz my dad got married like right away you know and so I didn't have time to grieve or have time to really you know get through the process of grieving and being able to go forward and so I was kind of stuck in this pattern for a long time and I was very angry I was very violent I was doing a lot of you know [ __ ] that kind of made me um like hard to approach you know and so I carried that anger with me for a long time until I found hip-hop and I was able to kick and scream and yell and curse and get those feelings out you don't have sin and be able to translate all that anger and pain into the music and so it's like I had pieces of my mother that I know resonate through my through my creativity and because she was a teacher she was an English teacher and she like brought home our lesson plans and like used them on us and before she used the monitor students and so that's kind of where you know the pieces that I take from her I realized what they are and I think her for my gifts you know so I was able to come to terms with it to get to a place where I could actually be at peace but later on in life but when it's it's it's weird to lose a parent like that it's not supposed to happen that way so the looser that early was really a tough place for me to be but but my father was there and I think it was harder on my sister then you know as it was for me but she didn't have a role model at least my father was there I was able to look at him find his mannerisms and try to you know try to try to relate and and and and listen to his guidance but you know it's difficult for him for my sister to see that in the same way you know she had her dad but she needed that womanly you know encouragement and development and you don't said so I think it affected us two different ways but it was regardless of the fact losing a parent that early is something very difficult to bounce back from yeah I'm gonna say something but you did it yeah absolutely did it and I don't even know st. Angela we don't know we did it you know sometimes we think we we overcame something because he succeeded in something you know and I don't know if we ever come Nestor I lost my mother 16 I've never overcome that never some time thinking about the relationship we had after while we didn't have a healthy relationship mmm because of our situation and think about that I think about my mother a lot more than I thought I would be yeah yeah I mean it's it's I mean there's people in your life and then there's family you know I have a big family and and on my mother's side of my father's side you know my father just died recently and so now the you know I've had conversations with people to say you're not really an adult until until both your parents are not here with you because now you got a sterile your own - you got a yeah you got it you got it you're an adult now you don't have anybody to fall back on and ask for advice you know exactly what to do you know what's right and wrong it's up to you to execute you know so that's where I'm at with it man I got two boys I got you know a family of my own now and I get it you know and I'm just trying to be the best man I can be for them you know that's what we can do you know sometimes I do some self-evaluation and myself and I wonder who's the first me who was the first man who was the first me on the first Mike Tyson that's the first guy that's the first male of my jeans who was that guy how far does that go back how far as my jeans exist yeah yeah yeah we've been talking about reincarnation a lot yeah and you know we've talked about this and I think that you know it's [ __ ] crazy as this might sound I've definitely lived many lives here before yeah my wife is that old tell Matt himself Hugh says I've been a conqueror I'm in the slaves yeah yeah I've been I've been um you know I won that some time concepto my wife sister baby if you really believe that do you believe my wife is just such a paranoia about flies roaches stuff flying in our house until she freaks out right sorry baby you think about that one of these slides one of these roaches that you're trying to kill her this is freaking you out there's nowhere near you but it's in the house we're doing is freaking you out and it I do think they're so like okay so I'm not a really religious person but I do know I am in touch with my spirit you know and I know that that is a real thing and and I feel like the lessons that we don't learn in a lifetime maybe you be sit back here you can't go to the next level you can't go to the next step until you've learned that lesson absolutely that important thing that makes you whole yeah and I don't think any of us can go forward in this life for the next without being a complete you know yeah representation of yourself you know and that has to be that has to be from from inside and you know what's right about you you know what's wrong about you it's about you know entering and rising tonight occasion you know and making that change yeah if that's what you want to do some people live in dark and they stay in the dark yeah and they don't care about coming out the dark and that's right yeah I'm flying through nice lines and it's up to you to make that decision of who those people are and either you can disconnect yourself from them or you know you can keep him at arm's arm's length but still you got to know what's right and what's wrong for you I chose not to stay in a place of negativity or depression or or or just trying to be around people that I feel deserve that kind of respect when I'm not even respecting myself so it's like you have to make those decisions for you I'm not really care about who it affects but the people that care for you and love you you know yeah do this getting deep yeah well my question is like if we come back how do we know we visit a decision you make from me I'm asking the questions you come maybe you come back no my wife was looking at this guy right watching it's what yeah and that would be an ultimate universal lesson yeah that you would have to be exercising sit your ass down that's no I dude I totally were that resonates with me big-time about you know every whatever it is if we are coming back here lifetime after lifetime it's about figuring out be coming home you know I think why did we become the way we become like I said my one time listen right he's surprised to [ __ ] read books about tyrants and stuff Achilles Alexander the Great discrete you know I mean Charlemagne all these guys clovers Belisarius all these great warriors right oh man I ain't seen him in tights Oh what's that power what the hell and I and I used to focus mean I wanted to fight great to see this especially time to conquer I'm the best in the world I'm just another man that's planning our brave that can be all the crazy stuff and all that listen right and all that stuff led me to really evil people will despise real parents of their countries all over the world yeah I would go to Russia she's got to pick me up I know who the cooking had me getting a car come meet these guys right knee thumb just for my energy I had I would meet these guys and I realized no I'm not these people they don't care about nobody but they cared about me thinking I was dumb them somebody like them they say wow I'm somebody that probably should be around I was like then I realize I wasn't like those people and I didn't want to be like though hmm that's what I ever wanted my whole life that people fear me and power and all that stuff and then I thought that real people that won that do I want to be like whoa mmm yeah I could imagine that's a that's a crazy realization dude yeah but that's like I said man you got it you gotta be able to know who you are yeah I think if you don't get to know who this is right here I think that's a wasted life ya know what's in here you don't get all I've got it what it bring you I think your life is wasted yeah couldn't agree more couldn't agree more well back to your earliest question Mike about the earliest version of yourself yeah I feel like when I was a little kid I always had this blueprint of who I knew I was even though you know five years ago I'm I was not the same guy I am now there was still at least the slightest vibration of something consistent from a long time ago you know and that's what's really gotten me on the path that I'm on now you know where it is all about me you know it's all about what's going on in here you know that's a really special journey to be on I feel blessed to be in that and I really like that and I know what else what I did the toad way I did it and I think it's not good I've done to acid I've scored but every time I told to do anything I always worried about my family if something might go but once I did the toilet not worried about nothing my own entity was just me and my own existence nobody else existed hmm you know I must have did that [ __ ] wrong I did mushrooms what I did mushrooms twice it every time I think I did it wrong [ __ ] he thought took too much or what's not good with your experience oh [ __ ] dude really man it was it was it was a terrible experience man first time I did mushrooms it was I was I was a kid and this this guy gave me a whole bunch and I didn't know you know it was you weren't supposed to eat the whole thing so I took I took like a handful and then I drank some orange juice cuz he said it intensifies the the the what whop and then they were see gave me a vitamin C pills so I was laying out of control it was very bad yeah so long story short we drive about an hour to this party this house party and so um you know it hit me at the party and so I heard her go to the bathroom and then on the floor I saw the flow go and settle back down I was like oh [ __ ] man and so my friend he was you know my friend breasted peas Lamar he was with me and I know if I was freaking out he'd never need never didn't even smoke weed so I know he was tripping right so by the time I got out there he had you know been sitting on the couch and waiting on me and I could tell he's freaked out and some somebody said some to him and it was like slow motion he stood up and I knew he was boxer puncher and he sucked his well he sucked his person and so it just so happened it was the owner of the house and a whole football team was there as well at the party so we're tripping on these [ __ ] shrews and if we try to fight our way out this party we get into this car and so they throw him bottles and stuff in the car so keep in mind it's my first time doing much so we're driving back on the way back to the crib and if you've never done Truths before it takes you on this emotional roller coaster if you're not prepared for it or know to expect and so wieszczyk we was like oh man you suck there brother so we crying and laughing and crying it like we just like really really beaks of it yeah it's intense dude yeah and so I don't even know thank God we're in the middle of the desert so we couldn't really hit anything so we just driving down this highway we get to the house and and you know at this time it's full-blown and I'm calling them I was like how you stop this [ __ ] man shut up drink some milk he's like nah man so then I'm like okay I just got he's just heated said man relax it's gonna go away just just relax your understanding and just chill so I was like okay I got to be safe I got to be safe let me make the house safe so I had a shotgun okay I had a shotgun and I I was like I gotta take the bullet side of this the shells out of this right now could to make the house sing so I take to save the up I'm dumping the shells out you know and so I thought I had dumped all of them out because I died in my hand I counted six but in reality it was only five right and so did I drop the chambers back right hand put my hand on the trigger drop the chamber boom oh my god [ __ ] that [ __ ] went off right next right next to my my right foot did it had it was a carpet was carpet in the room so it was a lot of smoke a lot of dust it was like conch it was a big concrete chip right next but nothing nothing hit me you don't say nothing hit me no shrapnel no rocks no nothing it was just boom my ear oh [ __ ] and so I drop I dropped a update I you know I I there was a house full of people right so I go out there like I'm okay look it's a chair swinging just like her [ __ ] was out they was did nobody come around that corner to see if I was all right right and so so I'm just like you know that [ __ ] shrooms man I'm doing I got a prostitute with me I'm with the over this house we have this house and it's some white people that seem pretty harmless so I go over there we do mushrooms and I'm yes and at this time we shake people were taking shifts coming in the house you know first of this nice little white crew came in there cool dony black guys really harmless and I'm like and then later on the morning boom there's some brothers in there I didn't know this white guy knew any but they got to different kind of energy right so eventually I go hey guys you want anything and then my [ __ ] radar yet [ __ ] freaked out of my mushroom whoa they want some [ __ ] trouble my ego he didn't say no champions okay champ I love you sure he didn't say am i eager ones in there like bow down say some [ __ ] babe I know you make me feel confident make me feel comfortable to my [ __ ] eagle with a boom right one of them was looking at the prostitute I was with right and she I think she's smoking she said baby I think one of them gave me a [ __ ] down or something oh yeah a Mickey or something and once they did the gospel a [ __ ] off club yeah I thought the Gulf nice to live dude on the man Brad boom right through the guard took our other one locked himself in the bathroom I'm trying to get him to come out here coming through the door baby baby grab me out I'm something crazy man of the mushrooms had me freaking you gotta be out in nature for this and then we went in the car to try the car we couldn't ride it couldn't see I get in over the light on the street yeah so pretty much yeah that solidifies it yeah yeah I'm cool man I'm cool your head difference yeah from the era where it was like 40s and and blunts and in marijuana like that was the co2 you don't I'm saying and now it's like hardly and then when you had money you got champagne and hard liquor and [ __ ] like that but now it's a whole different thing I don't understand in the lien I don't understand the pills I don't understand you don't sound like that's that's coming that's coming in the young generation know how that got attractive I mean we did we had our share of [ __ ] and then there was people yeah it's people - did coke you don't say back in the day but it wasn't like yeah the lien and it wills there you know weird man yeah you know I worry about little Wayne they say he's using that stuff yeah I mean I was worried for a while yeah I don't know man I just didn't see the appeal you know yeah and the pill [ __ ] either I mean I want to be awake I want to see [ __ ] I don't want to be knocked out you know yeah yeah I want to be able to see it the brain flowin you know when you think about it you know I can't believe this [ __ ] I used to do human species is the only species that takes you that they know is gonna kill them well no there's no animal does that or nothing we don't only species that takes you that we know is gonna kill us hmm that's interesting animals know to go leave a certain amount of time the first thing they do is multiply and then they die you know me gratefully yeah yeah some people treat life like they you know like they don't respect it or you know it's who are you yeah why are we here yeah what are we gonna do about it mmm what's the real purpose I know we all have lives yeah my black why is hurting people like the skin to me you know I mean why some people 80 why people have different cultures to me if my purpose here is for my ego to leave something behind for people to remind me I remind anybody else who I was hmm what was the real grand scheme of things you know Who am I and what is my purpose here like have you heard of the hermetic alchemy what alchemists sound like alchemist yeah okay so alchemist is supposed to be able to make turns turn let's go wait yes thank you main and all those guys yeah it was started by this guy Hermes trice megistus back in Egypt he came from Greece and he was supposed to be the reincarnation of the Egyptian god of wisdom Thoth the Ibis the god of wisdom and magic and his whole thing is about how the universe is just a mind it's all in mind it's all consciousness like the universe and everything he has these seven principles and you know one of the principles is that everything is just energy because this whole thing started with a vibration sound and then energy developed or came from that and we are all this is just like a weird perception we have that things are solid but on a microscopic level everything is just particles and molecules and energy and we were all really connected and I've come to this idea or you know it's come to me about how our lives are really nothing more than these physical manifestations of the greater consciousness being exercised in this physical form in this physical realm the universe just wants to see what it's like to be Mike Tyson I don't know man it's super deep it is you know it's silly I'm really having a pot conversation but your ass no but I agree I agree man I you know I like I said I'm not a religious person but I know the spirit is real and so I guess the only thing I can do instead of trying to cuz it'll it'll it'll drive you to something and I and I don't want it to be rushed into believing what's what everybody else is you know I think I'm the leap system it's inconceivable right Anna man you brought your brain is making this [ __ ] up right Yeah right think think you can't believe your mind can do this yeah so I just try to be a good person man and after if when I pass a good person a good person is it's just you know trying to try to be cordial and respectful to as many people as possible until proven otherwise that your experience is a good person no no not necessarily I'm just not talking about me because I Know Who I am you know it takes a certain person to to want to murder somebody and then it takes a different person to want to murder somebody behind their back you don't I'm saying without them knowing and you know then there's a different person that doesn't want a murder at all you know I know in my spirit I don't want to murder you don't know saying but I mean I'm gonna try to live my life towards that way as much as possible and so funny that you said that because driving here talking like that and for my experience that having this conversation and talking about the evolution of people and thinking of people that were all capable of will come from savages who all have that in this yeah yeah absolutely are there but the laws I all just made is put it in captivity you know we're afraid of laws and stuff and on but that's who we are exactly yeah I mean we all have the potential for violence we all have the potential for doing harm but it's a choice you know it's a choice you have to make for yourself and whether you do it you know some have to work harder than others you know but for me you know I I know that I want to be creative that I want to leave something of a legacy that people will be able to relate to and expand on and that's what I'd like to do that's that's for me trying to be a good person that what happens after I pass who knows if I get there and you know there's a god or energy source or a black hole or I'm reincarnated as a rock you know regardless I want to be prepared for that next step you know and so I think having your karma clear having your spirit you know clear um and we all make mistakes we all do things that you know we regret over time but trying to realize what those are what those were and navigate past them and you know in the future you know how do you forgive yourself oh you have to what steps do you go by doing that what do you say to yourself under forgiveness I mean it's like I think making amends to people that if you can helps and then being able to know that you've acknowledged that I think acknowledging your wrongdoing is half the battle you know knowing that you did it saying you're sorry to know apologizing to someone that you may have done - or you may have just done it to yourself you know you have to realize that okay cool I did it I know I can't get that time back some things you can never repair but be okay with that and realize what it is accepted and move forward you know and like I said in the future try to avoid making those same mistakes again that's the only way you can do it but it's so necessary to be able to get past that and respecting that and forgiveness being able to forgive yourself is being able to acknowledge it and not do it again I can dig it yeah I don't know man but being able to forgive is powerful and forgiving yourself you have two men again carrying things you know forward past where they need to go is something that we all used to I mean we all do it yeah it's just something that you mean it takes a lot of energy to hold a grudge yes I personally have done Gus and I don't have the bandwidth to do that anymore you know I have things that there's more people that appreciate me than don't yeah and so instead of focusing on the people that don't you can never stop some people are never gonna like you and that's all right I don't have to focus on you but there's more people that like me than don't so I'll focus on them and keep my energy there because we spent so much time talking about haters I got haters and haters dissing yeah [ __ ] that yeah these people don't are probably fans in the first place yeah and just don't have no other way to communicate right you know believe it or not hate is the lowest form of love you don't saying yeah you're existing in their mind yeah yeah existing in the existence yeah you know I was throwing one I hate you if they even think of it why would they want to give you that in yeah going out of my way to go shout at people I don't like yeah you know and obviously you are bringing some kind of energy my way because you don't know how to say it no other way right you know but but I move forward to it and that now I'll only focus on the people that appreciate me to love me I'm not worried about converting anybody or making them like me because you can't do it it's impossible yeah love who love you yeah sometimes you can't take that hate and anger and pain away forever so what you have to do is figure out how to channel it like I said earlier when I was when I when I knew what I was going a certain route I was like when I found hip-hop I was able to channel that and yeah it didn't go near I was still angry but I got I found an outlet where it didn't harm anyone and I was able to like kick and scream and fighting and say crazy [ __ ] that I want to say instead of saying it to people like I said in this forum where everybody was kind of speaking their feelings and speaking their truth and I wasn't gonna be reprimanded or locked up for it I was actually gonna create a little negative into a positive and have a career that was gonna sustain and you know we're still here so it's like those feelings may not go away you may have a legitimate reason to be [ __ ] mad yeah but you got to find that outlet that that that is going to be somewhere where you can get it out but at the same time you're not gonna be hurting bringing harm to yourself or others yeah and that's that's the challenge and that's really difficult to do for sure like what do you think no I think this is interesting release speaking like a dick that shirt both you guys have dope-ass song well I being shout out to roots of fight oh yeah they're cool I got the champ on the shirt hell yeah hell yeah yeah come on man Mike what do you see when you see that guy right hey that guy's too good a guy he's know who that guy is so when you look at this guy this guy is just some a [ __ ] insecure kid afraid of everything and one somebody to be afraid of him cuz he's afraid of everything he thinks everything comes from fear cuz he's been bullied all this life and [ __ ] picked on his [ __ ] Wow but she was on top of the world and we didn't see that that's so crazy we didn't see that we might what we saw you fight man it was like this is like what it is is like he's going in there with purpose and [ __ ] when we [ __ ] love him we didn't see the here we didn't see all that we just saw [ __ ] beast mode like knock that [ __ ] out that's what I was for the next thing I did there [ __ ] you're next wow man well it's the most amazing thing ever in perspective is everything yeah you know yeah yeah perception you know it's about who you are what made you become a rapper has been something that's a Hey no it's listen listen yes in boxing as well him I mean right we see a [ __ ] we don't know nothing about him and our whole life that that's one going to be don't know nothing about no no the intersections of what he did who he is what he's about but what that image I want that that's what I want to be and that's just I know [Music] that's what I wanna be [ __ ] who I am now like I feel [ __ ] like I want to be out leave well man I I when I was when I was coming up man like I said I looked at all the rappers that were like really like out there like Eric beer mark him Big Daddy Kane NWA into Ice Cube era I I was a fan I studied these these artists you know ll poor righteous teachers you mean you name I studied all aspect of music and enough hip-hop especially and so what I actually got to work with dr. Dre and work with Snoop and worked with it with em and and all these guys and you know III came up reading the back of NWA records and now I'm in the room working with dr. Dre and Snoop I mean it was incredible and so we always you know you know push ourselves as always I mean it's but I know we saw that but what was it about them that what is it that you wanted that they had the something that they had that you want it well I mean it for me well when I first came up the the whole money thing was not real prevalent in hip-hop it wasn't like the thing it was more conscious it was more society related and the gangster stuff came in and and then it was kind of like even then it was kind of like the lowriders and it was never glorp money was never glorified so my attraction to them was the creativity of being able to hear a story then close your eyes and just hear the music and you could damn near see everything that they're talking about the creativity of being able to put words together the way they did and my comprehension was really high again like my mother was a was an English teacher so I was very intrigued by the smarter the rapper then the more intrigued that was because he was able to put words together that we're not what's not easy to do so that was kind of like my draw to it and then when I found out that you know a lot of these people you know had writers and a lot of you know a lot of you know said it's like okay well I've trained myself and home myself for in order to be that you know so - so I don't have to fake it or get people like that so it just empowered me once I figured I once once I got the The Wizard from behind the curtain I was like oh I see what it is now so okay cool well I just I'm I'm more better prepared to take this journey so I was attracted to the creativity of it and then once I got behind I got to see all the you know stylists and dress you know and all the lights and the cameras and the bells and the whistles it's like oh so I just really came in and started working with them with raw talent then I learned how to do song structure I learned how to do you know like hooks pre choruses verses and get more creative with the writing and they they really like sharpened me into an artist you know I came in raw and then I was around those guys and I learned how to be an artist so that's what drew me to it initially and then all the other stuff happened afterwards Muhammed Lee was champion I am a taste and I'm so awesome during this time like when during this fight thing people will faint they were fainted baby they be out through the whole fighting mr. whole fight pain that's excitement crazy it was almost like godly stuff in this guy you can't you have you ever met him no I do oh it's me he's just the humblest man and all that he's done and said stuff he's just it was just special yeah what was the first time you met him right I met him I was in reform school around 76 how old were your family 7 or 10 11 oh wow Wow you met him at young Oh 12 year he was come he came to visit us before you even sorted boxer and I was good about boxing in my life never knew anything about boxing Wow yeah man we watch the movie the greatest and he came in he's talked to us for why we asked and I said I listen I want to be like him Kemp and never got in trouble again I turned after their institution I met somebody another institution needs to be a professional boxer he taught me how to bark and I got to good so he said my take you to coffee they take you to the next level and this is why I'm here now wow that's so cool dude well I never knew that yeah how many people know that I don't think I've told my book my story I think a bigger that's that's why I remember but then everyone thought about being a fight that's why I was like the moment all those people come in there so it's big tough car like a little girl terminus and I saw all the crying I really knew we was what did he do to get these people to do this didn't he that's amazing powerful there yeah when you can reach out and create that lane for yourself you know and now you know you consider it one of the greats like you know yeah I mean regardless of how it is I mean the world loved you man you know and I'm honored to be sitting across from you man I gotta tell you man you you one of my heroes you know I gotta keep saying that Thanks yeah I know and yeah absolutely absolutely but you know as somebody coming up you know that's how we looked at it I mean but that was what we loved that was it I mean this rough right there it's rough out there and you represent it being you know you represented us like you came in there with no fluff no shiny [ __ ] black trunks town [ __ ] black boots whoop-ass let's go home let's go home that was it man and we loved you for that man and we still love you for that because of what you represented man and it's the same principle in the basis of hip-hop man you coming from nothing you make it something and that's all it is that's where it starts that's where it stops for me you know we all have ups and downs nobody I'm not looking at that you know understand cuz the first man with no sink it skidding cast the first stone and you know they ain't gonna be dang he'll be no stones thrown you know so that's how I see it Mike that's that's the truth you know and like I said but I'm very proud of what you've done I see you know I've started reviews on a one-man show ality undisputed and now you got Tyson ranch you know saying he's breaking into and representing this cannabis space well because there's not many people that look like us in this space and and and we it we get from we open up to absolutely man whatever you need for me Mike I'm there for you this time absolutely man I saw I saw the renderings I know you got a big big big big project coming and whatever you need for me brother well from brass knuckles will be that you were grass knuckles I see brass knuckles all the time on the thing yeah absolutely tell me about that I always ask me about breath the guys with the vapes yeah yeah yeah I got two other partners we created brass about five years ago yeah are we in business with them do we know that yeah that that's I got two other business partners we started about five years ago and we created this how's it doing after they don't work I'm hearing about it it's great man the brand awareness is really well you know we're gonna roll with the punches with you know the regulations as they roll through and change every week every day every month and you know but we created a brand that we're really proud of it's in California and it's in Nevada and now we have plans to you know expand go across the country and I mean it's been a great experience for me because I didn't say exhibits brassknuckles for a reason we wanted the brand to be the star you know and so once we put it out and we it we became a lifestyle brand and something that can be very recognizable not only just in the cannabis space but just as a brand period and so as we expand across the country it's gonna be exciting because this is you know but before the big boys come in and and the big you know form the money and you know tobacco money comes in there's a real opportunity for the people who really are into the culture and from the culture to come in and actually build these things that you know show it how can be done the right way and attract the right people who want to come in and be part of this this wonderful community man but it's the tobacco people a people I mean they're gonna come in regardless because once it's federally recognized it's gonna be you know they're already all hands on that yeah they're there sneaking in yeah and they're coming in through these corporate you know like catalyzed you know stock Bisons and and stock you know exchanges and you know but it's until it's federally recognized it won't be time to play hardball yeah but right now there's a time to go out and really create they want the the infrastructure to be set first and then they're gonna come in and that's what they're allowing us to do yes you know the saying the infrastructure then come in and and buy out the biggest people worse yeah well I mean you know it doesn't mean that they can't come in and do it the right way - right right now right but I mean they're gonna they gonna throw their weight around yeah of course they are but but again I mean it's like that meant that matters not if you determine you have a dope vision it's gonna work you know you know we started with with six thousand carts you know Wow and then created brass knuckles as it is today so you know shout out my partner's Mike and Dave you know yeah um we've really created got some brass knuckles yeah man it was it's been it's been a rollercoaster but it's been fun - man yeah yeah that's awesome music yeah you know a lots changed since I came out and I know that you know I don't want to make trap music I know that's very popular um but I I feel like I just need to do what I do really well so you know I got a I got a I got a buncha guys around me that you know range from the classic artists all the way down to the new guys coming up so I could hear it and I know different energy is is in the youth now you know and so I have to respect it you know do you think is talent they have do you think they have time in it in their way in their way yes you know what I'm saying because because in my way you got to think about it and it has I think this is gonna sound [ __ ] up but it has to do with the education and the and being able to retain information now kids have this pseudo technology that they don't have to retain anything like we did we I had encyclopedias and I will have two right hand right all my essays and school reports and all that stuff by hand um we had the the most the most we had was a typewriter right but now these kids have this pseudo intelligence they at any at any second you could ask them a question and they can google it and they could know the difference that the distance between Earth and and Saturn to the exact thing or or they could take pictures of their dicks no or their food or their cat and so they have this extra brain that they have to carry around with them and so it makes it so that you okay so so I'm smarter than you because I have this technology right what what it really does it kind of like it kind of handicaps you it is you you're now in a place where you relying on this thing and I do the test i how do you know if the phone's lying to you now yeah it's new you don't even know if it's true information but I took all the phones out the studio and I said okay guys write down four phone numbers that you know by my let's write a call your mom without the diamond we didn't have them phone books and phone exactly yeah and so that was my point okay so because you have this technology doesn't make you smarter so I think we came from being able to okay whether you want to learn it or not as you do in your reports you're gonna look over words and you got your comprehension and your word what you learn right now we don't want now it's like okay so I don't know a kid that doesn't necessarily understand what that means or have the patience to figure out what that means they don't want to hear that [ __ ] you're talking [ __ ] NASA to me bro I don't want to hear about the medical pharmacal in the end I like [ __ ] I wanna feel the beat magic library that's what they want [ __ ] bed in the corner to live baby so I talk to these guys in the studio and it's like you know I just want the vibe I want to feel the energy and that's and that's it but that cool to be able to speak to that energy is a talent sure because I will come in a different way you don't have said but they know how to speak to that generation and so yes it is a talent because when I came in the way I we we got we share music that was for our generation we could understand the language now it's different now it's a different thing there's people that sit in this room and love hip-hop music and then they'd be like okay what do you say well I don't care about the words I just like the beating yeah now it's about the beat right yeah what do you say yeah they just want to hear to beat and so now it's so so everything goes in cycles you know there's right but now people will eventually get tired of that and want to hear something with some Eric yeah right no what's the most important thing in the world in the universe has ever been is information when four as time goes on we give more information now yeah too much at times yeah and through it and eventually we come to the stage where we stop lying and you tell the truth yeah that'd be nice even the the process of having to dig through books or textbooks to learn something or to write a report to compared to just googling it right and it's just pop so hard part of learning is that process right going through it repetition you know being able to you know after you know know what where in the alphabet the words you need to look up literally be able to you know phonetically get down to where you need to and then find the definition write it out it's there's something about writing and and retention of information yeah and and that's it man is yeah I bet you're on that process is gone it's gone and so now it's kind of like you see you don't even know have to have to know how to spell correctly yeah you know it's so now is kind of like we're relying on this pseudo technology this this zoom pseudo intelligence I'm sorry I'm lying to it yeah yeah that's probably you know that that's kind of you know you know over time being able to be swerved and curved either to the right or to the left you know depends on weight it depends on who who's in your your website right you know in your Google so it's a different thing yeah yeah I just I still read books I still you know right yeah you know because that's what I know I mean just because it's there I mean is coolest convenient you know I could write notes I could make phone calls but you know I'm not gonna put my put my bet on there you don't know saying yeah I don't want to become that dependent where I just stopped using this yeah and depend on this yeah [ __ ] man you think we're good well how'd you get the name exhibit how'd you come to that actually it came from well when I first started writing I was 13 years old and it was like ice-t Ice Cube you know all these guys you had ice or MC in front of their names MC Hammer MC serch you know MC ran you know I'm saying young MC it was like MC was the go-to just like it was like that times little you know like everybody knows little less a little less know right I was like why do you wanna be little so at that's how yeah at that time it was MC this right I'll MC that or ice something you know I'm sayin so I was like I want to go to the the opposite end of the spectrum and so I was at a battle one day I still hadn't figured it out and that was it we used to battle at lunchtime so I was battling in this this guy named Tony I never forget Tony and David David used to beatbox and Tony Miss this country dude they used to try to rap like but he was seeing other people [ __ ] like he was seeing the wraps off the radio and he had his tiny bow like like and so I it's so much and so one day I wrote my own rap and I said that rapping it was like all right I said his name and he's like yo man you said exhibit a you know and then um and so that's where it started one of the things in was exhibit a because my real name is Alvin right so I was like oh yeah I'm gonna just use that exhibit a and then I spilled it regularly with the e first exhibit a and then I dropped the a and then put an X and a Z when he bollocks came to play and so it just became exhibit and then that's what I started riding under so it were a development over over over time you know great name thanks man yeah it's dope as hell bro you're on the right team at the right time to back in the day when I was cool that day just really many but I think I seen it before I know we're never that close to them before that's crazy bro well thanks for coming man thanks for having me thank you all right Mike another great app brother yeah take this out dude all right man hey everybody thanks for listening to another episode of hot box and subscribe to our YouTube channel hot box and with Mike Tyson and on iTunes Hey when people know we're yeah how to get in touch with you anything absolutely thousand people are cool at exhibit X Z I bi t on all social media platforms you're awesome man yeah well thank you again thank you guys man man yep awesome everybody we're out of here yeah [Music]

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Published: Mon May 27 2019