Greg Clark Jr: You Can’t Learn This Online! Rates, Relationships & Getting the Call Ep. 20

Why do you think that's changed so much, man? Because I feel the same way.

There were so many times where we would sit down and the OGs would, hey, man, get up, but don't leave kind of vibe.

Get up, sit down, watch, hear some sticks.

Like, they would try to gang you up on the thing.

It wasn't sunning.

It also wasn't coddling, right? They weren't on some coddle stuff, but they weren't on some dismissive energy either.

100%.

100%.

I mean, the reality is there were some that was on that dismissive energy and, you know, the world has a way of full circling, but for the most part, a lot of them was like, you know, it will be situations where it will be, as you said, you know, get up, don't leave, need to watch this, or it will be a position where they will leave you in the fire and you got to, and you got to figure it out.

Like you really got to figure it out in real time.

And I wanted, I wanted to, I always say, I always say that the church environment, specifically the black church environment is one of the best, uh conservatories for a musician as a whole in general like it like we plan and weird time signatures and don't even know we plan it because it's just a song we grew up with but it's like praying with older musicians learning how to listen learning how to communicate on stage learning dynamics all those kind of things you learn that stuff playing in church and it's um And it's wonderful.

Like you don't appreciate it until you don't have it or you don't really have time to do it.

And I think it doesn't happen that often now because, you know, everybody, you know, in so many ways, everybody thinks like they are the guy.

And I'm a big fan of like, I'm a big fan of like, you know, think highly of yourself, you know, confidence.

Like, but you know, a lot of, a lot of times there's a razor thin line of, you know, confidence and arrogance.

And sometimes, the doper you are or the cooler your snare look, you can teeter totter and jump over that line sometimes.

Like it just, we all been there.

It's like DC, DC was a wild city to the point where people would get in arguments and the first rebuttal would be, okay, cool.

Let's go sit down.

Like, it got that wild at a time.

It got

to it.

And it was just like, I'm glad we didn't have the ability to, like, go live and stuff like that because we really was on some, like, you know, we was on some wild stuff then.

But it trained us in ways that's just like...

It was wild.

Why do you think that's changed so much, man? Because I feel the same way.

There were so many times where we would sit down and the OGs would, hey, man, get up, but don't leave kind of vibe.

Get up, sit down, watch, hear some sticks.

Like, they would try to gang you up on the thing.

It wasn't sunning.

It also wasn't coddling, right? They weren't on some coddle stuff, but they weren't on some dismissive energy either.

100%.

100%.

I mean, the reality is there were some that was on that dismissive energy and, you know, the world has a way of full circling, but for the most part, a lot of them was like, you know, it will be situations where it will be, as you said, you know, get up, don't leave, need to watch this, or it will be a position where they will leave you in the fire and you got to, and you got to figure it out.

Like you really got to figure it out in real time.

And I wanted, I wanted to, I always say, I always say that the church environment, specifically the black church environment is one of the best, uh conservatories for a musician as a whole in general like it like we plan and weird time signatures and don't even know we plan it because it's just a song we grew up with but it's like praying with older musicians learning how to listen learning how to communicate on stage learning dynamics all those kind of things you learn that stuff playing in church and it's um And it's wonderful.

Like you don't appreciate it until you don't have it or you don't really have time to do it.

And I think it doesn't happen that often now because, you know, everybody, you know, in so many ways, everybody thinks like they are the guy.

And I'm a big fan of like, I'm a big fan of like, you know, think highly of yourself, you know, confidence.

Like, but you know, a lot of, a lot of times there's a razor thin line of, you know, confidence and arrogance.

And sometimes, the doper you are or the cooler your snare look, you can teeter totter and jump over that line sometimes.

Like it just, we all been there.

It's like DC, DC was a wild city to the point where people would get in arguments and the first rebuttal would be, okay, cool.

Let's go sit down.

Like, it got that wild at a time.

It got

to it.

And it was just like, I'm glad we didn't have the ability to, like, go live and stuff like that because we really was on some, like, you know, we was on some wild stuff then.

But it trained us in ways that's just like...

It was wild.