One Million Dollars (King Green) The Play It Loud Podcast S3E5 | Now YaTalkingNetwork

This episode of the "Play it Loud" podcast features a deep dive into King Green's 2024 single "$1 Million." Host Jay Solo provides background on the artist, a Haitian-American rapper from the DC area, and analyzes the song's themes of wealth, success, and financial freedom.  The discussion covers how money can provide personal liberty, the benefits of accepting multiple payment methods, the challenges of collaborating with high-profile artists, and the fulfillment of building a business from scratch. The host also shares his perspectives on topics like consumerism, private prisons, and leaving a legacy for future generations. Throughout the conversation, Jay Solo offers insights and personal anecdotes that relate the song's lyrics to real-life experiences. This episode provides an engaging, thought-provoking look at the intersections of music, entrepreneurship, and the pursuit of financial stability and independence.

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Timestamp
00:00:00 Play It Loud: One Million Dollars Song
00:03:32 Seaweed Drinks
00:06:37 What's the Most Satisfying Part of Seeing Your Personal Investment Pay
00:10:37 King Green: Don't Be a Rapper, Be a You
00:15:38 Wu Tang

Transcript

When it comes to getting money, I be interracial. I be mixing euros with the dollars and the pesos. What up, y'all? Welcome back. This is another episode of the Play it Loud podcast. I'm your host, Jay Solo, and on this episode, we got a song from King Green with his 2024 single $1 million. Before we get into the episode, I want to give y'all a shout out. Thank y'all for coming back, finding us rocking with our last couple episodes, man. I know we had a little hiatus or whatever, but thank y'all for tuning in. Uh, we got a lot of positive feedback, man. We here to talk about music and break down the lyrics, how they relate to us in our real lives. Let's get into it. So, before we break down the song and get into the bars, let me give you a little background about King Green. King Green is a rapper of haitian descent from the DC area. Born in Boston to haitian immigrant parents, he spent his development years in Nice, France, but his family returned to the states during the golden age of hip hop in the nineties. What an era to return to, man, shout out to King Green, man. Let's get into what the song is about. The lyrics focus on the theme of wealth and success, with the title suggesting a goal of aspiration of earning $1 million. King Green shares his journey to achieve this goal with verses that highlight his hustle, determination, and confidence. The song also touches on the theme, like financial freedom, luxury, and the lifestyle that comes with it. Yes, sir. So let's get it to the boss. I hate comments when I see them. This ain't a song about money. This a song about freedom. I like this bar, man. Cause sometimes people feel like you sold out once you prioritize money. And I understand, you know, money isn't everything. You can't do everything for money. But I do also understand it's definitely essential to have your little money in the United States of, uh, free enterprise. You got to have some money, man. The country is built off of it, man. You gotta have your couple dollars out here in these streets. Let's get into the question that go with the bar. How can money provide you freedom, financial security? You ain't got to worry about your essentials. Short term, long term. You can have ten bathrooms and sh. All day. Like lil Wayne said, um, your time, you definitely can do whatever you want to do at your time. You can go back to school. You can learn about stuff that you always want to learn about. You can sleep in, you can do whatever you want, man. Like your time is yours to do whatever you want, and you can do whatever job you want to do that don't, uh, you. It could be something you passionate about, but, you know, it don't pay a lot of money, but you already got the money, but you still want to do the job. Like, I'll be doing crazy random stuff to just keep me entertained. Like, I'll probably go be the chuck, uh, e. Cheese rat for a couple weeks just. Just to mess with the kids. Oh, uh, man, you can do whatever you want, man. Like, it's a lot that comes with achieving financial freedom, man. But, like, once you get there, it's a lot of stuff open for you, man. You can do whatever you want, man. You can do whatever you want. Let's take a quick break from the show to give a shout out to our episode sponsor, Divine. Promoting generational health. Divine immunity have multiple flavors of sea moss drinks and lemonades ranging from lemon, mango, blueberry, strawberry, lemonade, BlackBerry, raspberry, and many more. Their sea moss drinks are available in gallons and premium 16 ounce bottles. Here are a few benefits of drinking sea moss. Boost immune system rid the body of mucus healthier lungs improve breathing purifies the blood helps regulate blood pressure increases energy aids in women's health improves sleep healthier hair, skin, nails, and teeth assists with allergies better moods mental health helps with joints muscle pain helps digestive issues aids in thyroid health improves sexual performance. Ooh. Shout out to divine immunity. Getting people right all across the Tampa Bay area. Make sure y'all hit them up. The link will be provided in the description. Make sure y'all check them out, man. Divine immunity. Let's get back into the episode. When it comes to getting money, I be in a racial. I be mixing euros with the dollars and the pesos. Yes, sir. Uh, I like this bar right here, man. Question, um, that go with it. What's the benefit of accepting all forms of payment? I want all the money. I want cash, credit, debit, paypal, cash app, zelle, Apple pay. What else? All forms of payment. I don't got Apple on route with iPhone, but my partners do. Send it to them. They'll send it to me. I want to accept all forms of payment. If I got a product or, uh, service that I'm trying to sell and offer, I'm accommodating to accept all forms of payment, man. That's why I rock with this bar, man. Shout out to king green. Next, uh, bar. I made a song with eminem. I made a song with pharrell. They up a hundred m's. But my shit didn't sell. I rocked with this bar, man, because sometimes, you know, you do stuff to collaborate with people, network with people, thinking it'll be a win win situation. But sometimes it don't work out that way. Because at the end of the day, it's up to the customer, it's up to that fan, it's up to that individual. If they gon rock with you, sometimes it do. I'm gonna say majority of time it don't. You know what I'm saying? Because it's really up to those people. And it can be equal advertising and promotion on both ends. But if the people don't rock with you of that fan base or that customer base that they have, they don't rock with you and your services. They not going take the services or buy the product. That's just how they go, man. So collabing could be good. Sometimes it don't, sometimes it don't work. Let's get it to the next bar. I net 200,000. Did it all by myself. So I make another hit, but I'm promoting it till I get $1 million in the bank. Yes, sir. Question that go with this. What's the most fulfilling part of seeing your personal investment pay off? So I know everybody, not, um, entrepreneurs or business people or just don't want to put the effort into, you know, creating stuff from scratch. But, like, this is something that's in my DNA. I feel like this is in me to where. And I want this for. If I could get this feeling for everybody. It's something unexplainable about creating something from scratch, from zero, creating a product or service. And people are paying you money for it, and you can pay your bills and provide for your family from it. Like, that is a feeling that I wish I can have everybody experience, man. Because to me, that's life for me. That is life for me. Something that I done created out of nothing and built it into a product and business or service that provides for me and my family. That's. Oh, man. To me, that is what everything life is about, man. Life is about. I wish everybody could experience that. But like I said, everybody, not entrepreneurs or business people like that, they won't get it. They won't get it. It's a lot that comes with it. But I'm all for this, man. Invest in yourself until you get $1 million in the bank. Let's get it to the next bar. I need higher wages cause of this inflation. Every time I make it, spend it on a payment. Listen man, don't become a slave to your payments, don't become a slave to your consumerism cause you will pay it out. And on top of that, the inflation of money. Listen, if money is not moving, it is dead money. And it's slowly going to zero, man. It's slowly going to zero, man. So try to have your plan, man, to grow your money while you sleep. Cause you gotta try to beat inflation. And don't be a slave to consumerism, man. Don't be a slave to it. Don't be making a payment out of your lifestyle, man. Let's get it to the next bar. I understand they built a prison and called it capitalism, but the only way to some freedom is dollars. So I get them. Very controversial right here, dog. Hey, King Green. Very controversial right here, my boy. But I'm with you, I get them. I get them. Cause on the way to some freedom is some dollars. So I get them. Question that go with this bar. How do you feel about people making money off privately owned prisons at ah, the end of the day, I mean, somebody got to do it, man. Somebody gonna benefit off of this. That's how I feel. Somebody got to do it. But I don't know, you know what I'm saying? If I could sleep at night knowing I'm invested in privately owned prisons, I don't know if that, you know, if uh, that'll sit right with me. I say this, if anybody know any plugs on privately owned prisons, let me invest in it for a year and see if I can sleep at night or not. Hit me up, man. If y'all know somebody I can plug, they can plug me in with these privately owned prison, man. I invest for a year, see if I can sleep. If not, I get out, you know what I'm saying? Let's get it to the next bar. Got no pension for penicillin. I gotta get a million. If I don't leave nothing for my children, then I'm gonna be a villain. That's facts right there. I'm with this bar right here, King Green. I'm um, um. With this right here, my boy. Question that go with this. Do you consider it a priority to leave something for your children after you are gone? To me, I really feel like I have no choice. I would hate for the next generation to grow up hard. Y'all know how I feel about that. If you've been tuned into the podcast, I ain't with all that growing up hard foolishness. If somebody could do something about it. I'm gonna do something about it. I wanna be one of them ancestors down the line that's talked about three, four generations down the line. Like granddad solo set us up. You know what I'm saying? I, uh, try to lead my foundation, lead money, lead jewels, lead the information, man, to change the family history dynamic three, four generations down the line, man, I wanna be that cool granddaddy. If not, though, I'm cool with that, too. Cause I ain't here. If, uh, they blow up all the money that stay there, then they gotta go back to growing up hard, simple. But I rock with this bar. Leave something for my children. So I'm not the villain. Don't be the villain. Let's get it to the next bar. I told you, don't be a rapper. Be a youtuber. Uh, get your coin. Like you jumping on a coop trooper. Before I get into the youtuber part, I think he talking about the Super Mario brothers jumping on the turtles to get the coins. I think that's what he talking about. King Green, let me know. I hit you up in your Instagram video. Actually, the question you ain't hit me back in time to record this, but I think that's what you're talking about. Kook trooper. I think. I think that's what it is. As, uh, far as the YouTube part, man, I think you can't just be a rapper no more. Like, I think the music and the rapping has to be a part of what you do. Cause I think it's more about, um, people investing in you and your brand. And you just so happen to make music or you use music, like, as your backdrop or something. I do. Because I feel like they didn't kill. As far as making money off of just the music. Unless you're getting the, um, royalty checks and placements off of soundtracks and movies and video games. You got to be on that road. I think, um, 50 cent, y'all know I rock with 50. I think he mastered this, man, because a lot of stuff he do now is not even music related. Like, he's kinda into politics now. He do the movies and all that. I think he uses his catalog as, like, his theme music for all the business that he do now. Cause he got songs for, like, everything that he's doing in business now. I feel like that's what it's gotta be. You gotta be more than just a rapper or, uh, artist now. Don't be a rapper, be a youtuber. Then. You just gotta sell your brand and music. Just gotta be a part of something that you do. Let's get it to the next bar. Tech. Getting all the money here in modern times. So I'm, um, about to switch up for a dollar sign. I think if you want to make money, you're trying to make money now. I think you gotta tap into the tech world, man. There's so many ways to make money in tech. You don't gotta be the app developer or nothing like that, but there's so many apps and places and stuff. You got Airbnb, you got turo, you got Amazon stores, you got shopify, e commerce, all that. You tap into your niche. I think the potential and the amount of money you can make is unlimited, man. Like, you gotta tap into that tech, man. I'm, um, with this bar all day, man. You putting people on game King Green in the building, man. Shout out to you, man. Uh, let's get into the next bar. These are my wages. They itemize. I get two k a month from Spotify, 50k from a deal that I'm about to sign. Airbnb, getting me another five. I like this bar right here. I rock with this bar because I'm all for multiple screens of income. I feel like you got one. You kind of committing financial suicide in this world, man. Cause you gotta have more than one income. You got to have something, dog. Like, it's like an army of safety nets you gotta have with multiple screens of income. I'm all for it. And I think, um, if you have the money, resources, support team, I feel like everyone should try to at least have one side business, not side hustle, side business with the LLC, set up tax id, all that. Because that side business will actually help you with your, uh, w two, far as taxes and all that type of stuff like that. This is not financial advice. I am not a, uh, tax expert, financial guru, none of that type of stuff. But I'm just telling you from my personal experience, having a w two and a tax id side business, boy, you get all kind of write offs itemized. Let's get into the next bar. This at the end of the song. It was funny. I don't know if you got this. I don't know if this original content or this, like, from a comedy sketch or something like that. This rap's funny. If you act like a dummy and rap about money, you attract all the honeys. If you rap about something other than stacking your money, they gonna say, your little rapping is corny. That was funny, though. So I ain't gonna sit up here and say I didn't wanna hear 50 cent. I get money when it came on cream by Wu Tang. I just say I wish it was more balanced of what was getting pushed in hip hop and music and all that. I just say I wish it was a little more balanced than what was going on. Cause I'm all for the money talk. Cause King Green, you made you a money jam. I'm all for the money talk. But, like, I still wanna balance or something else, too. You know what I'm saying? Everything can't be the turn up. Get money. Give me something else, too, man. There's a lot of other stuff you could talk about in life, man. Let's get it to the next bar. You the man to fear till they see you hanging from a chandelier. That's a bar? Yeah. Another tear. All I got to say about that bars. Let's get into the next bars, man. I tried being humble. Humble gets no respect. So before this ship bubble, let's double up all the checks. I really. When people say, be humble, I really don't know how to take that sometimes, man. Let's get into the question before I get my answer on or my input on this bar. How do you feel when people say, you should be humble or be more humble? I'm gonna go ahead and read the definition of humble, and I feel like I check off a lot of these boxes. Definition of humble. Being humble means having a modest and realistic view of oneself, one's ability and one's accomplishments. It involves recognizing one's limitations and weaknesses. Being open to learning and growth. Valuing others perspectives and contributions. Avoiding arrogance and self importance. Showing appreciation and gratitude. Being willing to listen, learn, and adapt. Embracing mistakes and failures as opportunities for growth. Humility is about striking a balance between confidence and modesty. It can lead to stronger relationships, greater personal growth, and more realistic self awareness. So I read all that to say this, man. Um, if that's the definition of humble, I don't think that's what people mean. Cause I know people. You know what I'm saying? That checks off a lot of these boxes. Majority boxes. And I've witnessed people tell them they should be more humble or they should tone it down a little bit. Like, tone down what? People can't have confidence. What do you want them to tone down? I feel like people want people to dim their light down or come down to their level so they can relate to them and stuff like that. I get it. You know what I'm saying? Nobody should be out here just being a complete about stuff like that. But, like, I don't know, man. I kind of struggle with the whole be humble stuff. You know what I'm saying? I think it's mixed up also with people that's down to earth or laid back. I don't think that has anything to do with being humble. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know. I don't know. I'm kind of torn. I'm kind of torn with this, man. Um, I kind of think that's about people own personal insecurities, man. When they be telling people to be humble, when the people are just confident in what they do and what they done done, you know what I'm saying? Why can't you, you know, confident and be proud of stuff you done and accomplished? Why I got to tone down what I done did to make you feel comfortable? I think I'm gonna drop a t shirt once the website drop. That's called humble a holes. Cause I feel like that's what we are, people that feel like me, how I feel about this situation. I feel like that's what we are. Humble a holes. Leave us alone. If you don't agree, don't buy the shirt, and the shirt is not for you. You know what I'm saying? All right, so that's the last bar, man. Shout out to King Green. This song be jamming. This is going to be one of my favorite songs for the summer. Cause I be jamming this boy hard. Shout out to King Green, man, you also got a song, one of my favorites, man, method man. You can see it back here. I got Takao back there, one of my personal favorite albums back there, man. Shout out to Method man. Might be my next song that I do. Um, again, thank y'all for tuning in. It's your boy j solo. This is the play it loud podcast. Let's go.