No jumper, coolest podcast in the world, and today I'm very, very pleased to present you all

with an absolute legend in the game. I feel like a legend. Appreciate just you guys having me.

Silk the Shocker is in the building, ladies and gentlemen. I'm here. I'm here.

Glad to be here. Glad to be here. Glad to be here. Glad to be here, Michelle. How you feeling, man?

I feel good. I feel good. Fresh off of flight, but you know, coming to see you my guy, and I appreciate it, man.

What else you got going on in LA while you're out here?

I did a music book called Paid. I was seeing an ad for this. Okay. What does this all about?

Might as well get that out the way. It's a book. So what I did was, you know, people asked me a lot of

times about success in the music business stuff like that. So instead of having a time to always

tell everybody, you know, this, that the keys to why we were successful in stuff like that, I feel

like make a book, let them, you know, they don't have to ask as much. I can get more information like

that. So yeah, because I mean, signing to a label or getting involved in the music industry in

general is the kind of thing where it comes so naturally to people that they'll just figured out.

Like, oh, I'm gonna figure everything out. I'll sort of learn by experience. But then in reality,

in the music industry, that first contract you sign might basically dictate the terms by which

you're doing business for the rest of your career. So there's so much to gain for a young artist to,

to just know a lot in the beginning or to have somebody who has their back that really understands

the game. But more often than not, they have to learn through experience and they basically get

screwed in the whole deal. Yeah, because it's a learning, you know, it's the on-job process. So I'm

saying so, think about it was stuff that we had to go through that if we had somebody to tell us

what it was, we would have done better. But of course, we was good. But I think just having somebody to,

at least have a blueprint from somebody who kind of went through it. We did a lot of ups and

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