I'm under pressure, underpaid, and working overtime.
I'll mix the pleasure with the pain, I'll make it rain tonight.
No one said it would be easy.
Even if you don't believe me, even on my darkest days.
I get knocked down, but I'll just keep my head up.
Get knocked on the ground, but I'll just keep my head up.
I got a headache and a heartache but it's summertime, I'm running circles trying to find another finish line, plug in that power system, light up that optimism, even on my darkest days, I can knock down but I just keep my head up.
I'm stuck on the ground but I just keep my head up.
I'm keeping my head up and I'm high.
I'm keeping my head up and I'm high.
I'm keeping my head up and I'm high.
No one said it would be easy, even if you don't believe me, even on my darkest days, I can knock down but I just keep my head up.
I'm stuck on the ground but I just keep my head up.
I'm keeping my head up and I'm high.
I'm keeping my head up and I'm getting my head up.
I'm keeping my head up and I'm getting my head up.
Durga ya told me you've been on some positive shit.
Lately I just want to show up and body some shit.
All my life, they be tryin' to keep me down
All this time, never thought I'd make it out
They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me
They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me
All my life, they be tryin' to keep me down
They be tryin' to keep me down, I decided I had to finish
But the media called me a menace
I done said with the mayor and politicians
I'm tryin' to change the image
You can't blame my past, no more, I come from the trenches
Some said I'd never be a superstar, but I know I'm different
I'm the voice, but the system ain't give me a choice
Know some people that's still undeployed
I know a fella who's tryin' to get foy
Child support, you only support
For a visit, I'm goin' through courts
Went to jail, they were shinin' me up
And you know that I'm famous as fuck
See, how you gon' joke about stimulus?
But they really had came in the clutch
I know some kids wanna hurt theyself
Stop tryin' to take drugs, I refer to myself
Tryin' to better myself, tryin' to better my health
He's tryin' to keep me down
They be tryin' to keep me down
See, I thought I won't make it out
Never thought I'd make it out
He's tryin' to keep me down
They be tryin' to keep me down
First generation ghetto nigga
Made it out of the city with my head on straight
Niggas keep shooting up the lead out
Yo, until the pill gotta get out
Cause the shit that I spit out
Is a cheat code like I'm facing a rego
And how a nigga put a hit out
And another one, and, and another one
I got like a hundred of them
About to laugh niggas so they think they're hitting me
But I'm really in front of them now
Some of them fumbling they bad
Fucking up the little crumbs that they had
A reminder to humble yourself
This shit could be gone in an instant
Me, I'm running long distance
I've been stuck between maybe retiring
And feeling like I'm just not hitting my prime
These days seen rappers be dying
Way before they even getting their shine
I never even heard of lil' buddy
To somebody murdered lil' buddy
Now I'm on the phone searching lil' buddy name
Got to play in his tunes all day in my room
Thinking damn, this shit wicked to get their names buzzed
Some niggas just gotta go lay in a tune
At media thirsty for clicks
If you ain't ever posted a rapper when he was alive
You can't post about him after he get hit
It's simple, it's the principle
On any tempo, I'm invincible
Don't even rap, I just fit to you
I'd rather that than an interview
Fuck em all like I'm goin' through a whole phase
Young niggas shoot out the whip like road rage
I pray all of my dogs they so pain
And the only thing to kill em is O.A.
They be trying to keep me down
Never thought I'd make it out
They couldn't break me, no, no, they couldn't take me, they couldn't take me, no, all my life, all my life, baby, trying to keep me down, baby, trying to keep me down.
I'm going to have another song.
Just make sure to go ahead and like and retweet the room.
I just took Cialis, but she only Molly.
Who you want to put up, who you want to party?
Molly's in the sun, baby, let's get in all it.
I can't help my tear, I can't help my body.
One, two, three, let's get in all it.
One, two, three, let's get in all it.
One, two, three, let's get in all it.
One, two, three, let's get in all it.
I ain't mean to hurt you, baby, I'm sorry.
Whipping Ariana Grande, I got iCardie.
I make no ladies, no T1, like I'm Sean Paulin'.
And I'm siding in an Audi, I could have bought a Rari.
But my mama told me to save that money like I ain't got it.
My brother asked me for some money, I told her I ain't got it.
And even though she know I got it, baby, I ain't got it.
Look at that, I'm sippin', baby, I'm just livin'.
I just took my air, I'm waitin' for it to kick in.
You might think I'm crazy, think I'm so retarded.
But I'm whatcha call it, I'm whatcha call it.
I just took Cialis, but she own a Molly.
Do you wanna boot up, do you wanna party?
Molly's in the sign, baby, let's get an all-in'.
I get out my tail, I get out my body.
One, two, three, let's get an all-in'.
One, two, three, let's get an all-in'.
One, two, three, let's get an all-in'.
One, two, three, let's get an all-in'.
One, two, three, bitch, I mocked them all-in'.
All my diamonds, they got ESC, cause they retarded.
Bitch, is you stupid, look what you just started.
Could've bought a Lambo, I got Asha Martin.
Low point, ooh, all my bitches, they comin' too.
And y'all so great, clean that fugit, put my dick in her own pussy loose.
Ooh, goddamn, I'm whoopin' up Sam.
Put my dick in her mouth, put her on the ground too.
Dammit on my neck, yeah, they light up like a lamp.
Woke up, stand up, in the boot camp.
Ooh, little bitch, I told you that you ain't important.
I ain't important, I ain't got no paper, so you got the potent.
Ooh, I woke up in the morning with another warrant.
Goddamn, well, bitch ain't gonna catch me, cause I'm still a Torrin.
I just took Cialis, but she own Molly.
Ooh, you wanna boot up, ooh, you wanna party?
Molly's in the sunny, baby, let's get an all-in'.
I get out my tail, I get out my body.
One, two, three, let's get an all-in'.
One, two, three, let's get an all-in'.
One, two, three, let's get an all-in'.
One, two, three, let's get an all-in'.
It is a wonderful, wonderful day.
Sun is shining in Oregon.
It tends to shine on Fridays, I've noticed.
It's like a nose that that's the energy that I need this morning.
So I really appreciate everyone coming out here today.
We are going to be discussing both current events,
stuff that's happening, stuff that's happening with NAREFDAO.
It's very exciting times, so definitely looking forward to this conversation
and helping to see where we can share and help you.
So I want to go ahead and introduce my co-host here, CryptoMedic,
while I get my disclaimer pulled up.
Thank you all for turning out.
Lots going on in crypto, or I don't know,
maybe I'm being told there's nothing going on in crypto.
I'm just glad somebody showed up today and happy to be here.
So we also have, I want to give a huge shout out to just everyone who's here.
Gunner, Cups, Bellabuki, Meatman, Pheromone from NOS.
I just, I appreciate you so much.
You guys know I love you.
And you know that you have my support and everything that you're doing too.
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We're not giving you advice.
You're going to do your own research.
We have a full conversation.
We lay things out of what we're doing and you decide what to do from there.
And that's the beauty of crypto Web3 decentralization is the information is out there.
You can get it and then you make the decision to act upon it.
But yeah, we've definitely have seen a lot here in the past week.
We're seeing more from the SEC.
I definitely wanted to touch on that, about the collections that they're going after.
I don't remember the exact name of it because it didn't make sense to me.
How can you not know the name of that project, Brian?
Because I blocked it out.
It's stoner cats, which is so funny.
See, that's probably why I don't remember it because I consumed copious cannabis.
Yeah, I was going to buy.
They went up too quickly.
But it was all about – they made a lot of promises.
They were saying this is going to be worth this at this point in time.
You buy right now and you're going to be able to double your money,
which is you cannot promise anything because the future is completely uncertain.
What you can communicate is what you've done,
what you have set up as far as in your infrastructure.
Here are the opportunities.
And we don't know what the future may hold,
but here are the steps and here are the things for you to get there
if you want to put in the work.
That is really what that whole message and the entire issue that I see surrounding it
is people being told that they're going to make money without any action from this NFT,
that it's guaranteed, that you know it's going to go up in value
and you're going to be able to flip it.
And with making those kinds of promises, claims, affirmations,
you just can't do that because we don't know what the future is going to hold.
The one thing that I can tell you is blockchain tech is here to stay.
That is what all of this is telling me.
The fact that we're getting more like rails,
we're getting more of a sort of guideline of what is and isn't okay is very positive.
The same thing happened in the cannabis industry
when California was the very first one to have a medical market
and the feds were going after them.
There were raids and all sorts of things.
It was a quasi weird gray market.
Other states started to have their programs with very strict, specific rules for compliance.
California ended up implementing theirs as well.
And we now have a growing, flourishing cannabis industry in the United States
that's going to different states.
And it's because of the rules were explained.
I mean, it is still kind of, it's a good analogy for me
because of the rules there are still ever evolving and ever changing.
So yeah, CryptoMedic, what are your thoughts on what's been happening with the SEC?
I just think it's interesting how you can use cannabis to explain anything.
But the SEC is doing, you know, I think what it has set out to do,
which is they're going to go after big name projects that clearly, you know,
were breaking securities, existing securities laws, right?
Forget about what rules need to be put into place for crypto,
need to be put into place for the entire industry, really.
There needs to be bumper rails.
You know, the big money is not going to come in until there's a set of rules.
But, you know, beyond that, just looking at what they're going after,
they're going after big names like Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher
because that's going to make the news.
People are going to see them.
And they want to send a message, right?
That if we're not coming after you already,
don't start junk like this because we will, right?
So, you know, I kind of explain it like the IRS in the United States, right?
So, if you don't pay your taxes, whether you're an individual, poor, rich company,
They want their taxes from you.
But, you know, if you owe $6,000, I can tell you right now,
they're probably not even going to take their time to send you a letter
because there's just too much owed and it's not worth the little time that they have
and the resources they have to spend it going after you for six grand.
They're going to spend it after some company, some rich person,
somebody who has evaded taxes for $50,000 or more.
And that's really what's going on here, right?
Like some of these other smaller projects probably duped people.
And they probably broke laws.
But are they going to take the resources to go after them?
They're going to go after the big names that are going to make the papers
and hopefully start to push out this idea that,
hey, we're watching even if there aren't rules.
Yep, that tells me of do things the right way and you have nothing to worry about.
That as long as you have the right intentions
and you don't make promises that you're not allowed to make,
ultimately you don't have anything to really worry about,
All right, so I want to talk a bit about what's been happening on Polygon
as we have been seeing just this explosion of additional collections.
We're seeing a lot of the kind of build-your-own-NFT,
more things that are in the sort of kind of long-term collector side
That's sort of where I would see of...
I've always been a collector.
Yes, I've looked at NFTs,
but ultimately I resonate with the art
and it's part of just my being a human that I like to collect things.
And I like things that make me smile and make me laugh
and are silly and quirky and goofy,
which is what brought me to the blockchain to start.
And over the last year, year and a half,
I mean, we've seen like just...
I mean, we saw new platforms
that were clearly geared towards traders.
Even the terms that we use are similar to stuff with stocks,
which is why there's the...
The SEC is coming in of...
I really look at them as different
because of use cases for access to things.
And that has always been the difference in my mind
between, okay, I have a currency
and I'm looking at the amount to come up
and I want to flip it at this time
versus I want to have fun experiences.
I want to be able to play games,
have fun, connect with the humans,
and get through what life is going to throw at us
Challenges are going to be ever-present.
That is the surprise of life.
It is about staying the course
and believing in that vision that you see
which will get you through those days
where things just feel like everything is thrown at you.
it's the people around you and the support.
have been a huge proponent of this
for everyone here in this room who knows me.
of I have put my passion and my heart
into everything that I do for you,
for what I see is going to create
a better quality of life for us
which ultimately leads to equal opportunity.
It's all about equal opportunity
and you'll see the benefits.
That is decentralization.
is here to share as much as possible
with the people who are with us
so the ships all come with it.
We know that the PFP craze
that happened in 2021 through 2022,
that was the kind of the,
that are art for art's sake.
Actually, I minted some on Polygon
because it was relatively affordable.
And I wanted to collect it and share.
that I'm already thinking of
because cute stuff is always trending.
CryptoMedic, yeah, go ahead.
I think that's a really important point
that I want to kind of focus on
Cute always sells, right?
NFTs have really only been around
of the actual technology, right?
I don't think really anybody
understands the full gamut
where this type of an asset can go, right?
But leaving that aside for a minute,
what the market has really been
not to say that that's a bad thing,
it's that we've been in a market
where the collectors within the market
a good feeling about the market
and about what's behind it,
It's just like Beanie Babies, right?
Everything was grand and great
and there were these events and things.
And when the company began
and the whole thing fell apart, right?
And so, that's kind of the space
The difference I think I see
is that people don't realize
that technology invented two years ago
that are taking that technology
that actually becomes usable
So, we're approaching that time.
and these are great places to be
and build during this time
for things that, you know,
about the price of an NFT.
They're building for the technology
that's going to take over technology, right?
And that's what excites me
in the space that we're in.
just kind of have to realize
that that's okay to be there
the board eight's floor is this
Like, that's such a small part
of what is eventually going to be
we just have to take a step back
Think of the dot-com boom
And that was the late 90s.
And then it was about three years
that things started to really
that Apple released the iPhone.
And then we just saw this
whole explosion of new technologies
oh, I have a computer in my pocket
and I can do all of these things
I know when I had my first iPhone,
before I really understood
what power of the technology
and seeing my little sister
using it for her subway schedules
and knowing when the trains
whoa, how have I not been
using this to that effect?
just continues to improve.
definitely anybody listening,
That's an interesting point
because we're on the verge
of the iPhone 15 coming out.
I think they were announced
coming out like next Friday.
the power of these things,
to a point with technology
we launched space shuttles
than is in one phone today
and it's just mind-boggling
to me where that will lead
had less processing power
So technology is always changing.
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