Niggas in London A conversation with a homie in London
Caption on the token: “This homie blessed me with some bud and also shared a bit of his spliff with me before heading off to work. He gave me a bit of an insight on the prison system there and how it is undermining the youth in London. Shoutout to a real nigga. hope to see this brother soon.”
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0:00 Do you do tiptoes on that? Nah, but I'm trying to document my adventures more. So I go to a lot of crypto conferences and I interview black people. I would say probably the biggest black crypto podcast. But I try to also interview people like rappers, producers. I started my podcast because I wanted to be a rapper and I wanted to build more of a network. Because imagine, you see, oh I like this guy's beats. He's like alright, give me $300 for the beat. I'm like bro, I like you as a producer, I want to build a relationship. I don't just want to go into debt
0:29 And so I tried I got into crypto and saw there weren't really any good people Talking about it for people of color There was nobody else really black doing podcasts about it Or like educating And so I started doing that I found an angel investor in the fall of last year She's been kind of paying me to help me scale my media company Which is We Them Media, that's what the sticker says And so trying to help more people understand Trying to build a platform And ideally it's like community owned Yeah, yeah That's why I came over I was like, oh, a person?
1:02 I saw the weed too, I'm definitely a weed person
1:09 How old are you? Do you know what I'm asking? 20 20? Yeah And so how is it being 20 here in London? I mean, probably years ago, it was very different You're on the phone? Yeah My fault, man Probably years ago You show me your ID? Oh, you were locked up? Yeah So how does that impact your day-to-day life now? Like your job, prospects, stuff like that? I'm very blessed in the fact that right now, I can actually work on D3 and you know, I saw this, it's time, it's time for me, it's time for me Yeah, what was like the, what's like the, the charge?
1:47 Oh yeah, I was actually going to ask what like the, you were in prison? Yeah, yeah, yeah I was going to ask what the experience was like there, like the condition, the quality You know what, it's better than you guys, you guys don't even have a TV You had a TV? Yeah, we had a TV, we had a, when we bought a Facebook, we didn't have a TV I was up there a lot of times, I had a lot of people who saved me, saved me for that You said what? I'm saved, so other people? Other people, yeah So I got into a problem a lot of times, you know, for my steps here and there
2:31 When I was in, I was like, look, with the football coaches, with the rats, with the rats and stuff like that, it was more like you guys, you know, that was shit, I'm up in the lab, but on a good day, you know, we have our TV and we're demanding, you know, it's outside, on social, exercise yard, we're chilling, sometimes we smoke and like, bro, I'm up in the lab, you know, it was alright, you know, times were alright, you know, I came out, like, that's the best day, and we went through those days, my parents were waiting for you. I was on the phone as well, I didn't know when it was good, I went straight to my grand though
3:07 You said your grandpas? I went straight to my grand though, I went straight to work, so I can't learn Oh, to your grind? I understand, I thought you said straight to my grands, like I was like, oh that's nice I used to do grandpa before that as well, that's like, I got pissed off at my parents' house I noticed what happened Yeah man, well it was nice to meet you, what did you say your name is? Jay, what is it? Jay, Jay? Nice to meet you, man. Are you about to go? You on Instagram?
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