Welcome back, everyone, to the School of Greatness.

Very excited about our guest.

If you want to succeed, as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

We've got E.T. the hip-hop preacher in the house.

My man, welcome back.

It's been a while.

It's been a minute.

I got to say this.

Congratulations, man.

You know, I was saying when I was talking to you, it's like 10 years ago, you know,

and I remember because you were like, E, I went you on the show,

and I hadn't really started doing podcast.

So that was like one of the first podcasts.

And I was like, but my mother, my godmother was dying of cancer.

And so I was like, man, I can't leave and go, but I definitely want to, and you were gracious enough.

Like, where are you at?

I was like, empty sweets.

I like, drove out to anywhere out there.

I was like, I was like, let's get it.

And man, just to see your evolution, you know, over the years.

And like I said, it was a lot of us that started during

that time frame and to see kind of where you are today and you survive, the resilience.

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