i want you to know it's going to be a good one we're going to cover some throwback moments because today's show is the debut and it will be a throwback moment at one point in its own we're going to interview some people talk about some shows talk about some of their upcoming and how they will be so stick and stay right here on reminisce over you welcome to reminisce over you i'm your host dispute one we are on location downtown st paul at the bedlam lowertown this man this individual this character on my left your right is an all star he has a stable of the twin cities he has a st paul barrett to be exact you have the one the only glow representing the abstract pact was go with your brother how you do it i'm good man glad to be you now this is going to be a throwback show one day man i mean because this is the debut of reminisce over you where we talk about anything and everything that brings you back in time and you represent that to the fullest and being that you are a pioneer like myself to the twin cities scene here i figured we would talk about some real basic and real not too heavy something that helped us be who we are throwback television shows now we all know my favorite here is sanford his son sanford and son was the american dream or the ultimate hustler the junkyard junk man that ran his business what it would a serious series fis so for you brother being as influential as you have been what is your favorite throwback television show if i had to pick one it'd probably be good times good times i would have to say good song ok it's tell me a little bit about why that's your favorite showman so to see that dad be protective in securing and kind of like you know what i say kind of goes kind of deal not because i'm the dude is because i feel it was best for the fans so it wasn't about you know florida not being as important she was like the moral backbone the moral compass of the the set up was like mark just like my mother i love good times because james evans always was coming home with some kind of a issue going on j j was a hot mess michael was always getting in trouble with the kind of on a race aside and that's a big thing that's going on even right now today and then just even the characters that they brought me and my janet jackson when she was young and you know the little things that happened but i love good times we used to sit on a watch that it didn't matter what was going on in the house when it came on we all set out who was watching and everything so all this drama was beautiful so it was just a good show family togetherness because you know you're talking eighty to eighty three eighty four ish stuff like that that's when stuff started falling apart apart as far as family staying together and and so it was you know you know holding on to that of all the characters on good times if they were to do a where are they now which one would you really be interested in all come i think i would one know was going on with j all of them i mean he's probably around doing something but yeah that be awesome to know what he's got going on as we have a family would you know what is life like for him at this point and i'm sure he would have some kind of hilarious comment or something going that kind of fill that void a kind of told a story without having to tell your story my ultimate favorite is martin lawrence my favorite all right what about martin give me give me a moment on martin that that sticks out to you and why there are so many this really tell but i'll say why only because like growing up in my era comedy was rare and that was the first piece of comedy that i had growing up in my m and so martin just connery's to me and mine here yeah i really enjoy watching martin one of my things i remember about martin is every day the next day in school everybody coming into homeroom insan you know did you watch martin martin like i wanted to find of the female side of town but again that was my era you know now i can watch all of it and it's eco watch all of it and but you couldn't really talk about that in my household so once again you have reached reminisce over you i am your host dispute one currently we are downtown st paul at the bedlam the lowertown representing the debut of our show and i have next to me in entrepreneur who is doing his thing on the twin just release is called the chase is for the hip hop and r and b music and what i do is a more positive twist on music you know and i don't cuss in any of my music you know everything i do is uplifting motivating and i'm just out here trying to collaborate with some real know helping other people you know i do a little bit imagine here and there because you know and an artist development because i want people in my city not from minneapolis but i mess with same part too and i want i want people you know that to really come up and really know how to put a put a song together make music you know some are here just you know for the artistry actually it's a moment said he is the one stop shop for everything that you need artistically that's how he gets down so for you mr lyrics what is your favorite throwback television showing why shoot because it was it was hectic down there so i had to move up here to my dad where the environment is even better the the errors even cleaner and you know i got my mind right and that that show really means a lot to me fresh prince bel air my favorite show of all time ok was there any one moment in any of those shows that stands out where you just like i can't believe you did that of all things well i do remember specifically that one episode when he was talking about you know how come his dad didn't want him and and turns out behind the scenes that he really did break down on say in front of phil because you know if it really was happening in his life and i felt like that moment there just kind of touched a lot of people you know and and it  kind of goes to show that you know even people out here who are who are doing that thing don't always come from the best of backgrounds you know and so you know i think this is that was just what was really touching to me you know ok so what i'm getting as a theme from the many people that i've interview today is that a lot of these throwback shows are actually taking them to a moment in their lives where they didn't have that structure that support and it filled a void filled a gap in that since it was all about family it was all about unity it's not about some of our right yes that's right well a show with us sticks out to me as the fresh prince of bel air the show well every episode it was always that deep message behind the episode what i mean it was comedy you had a family a prestigious african american family but they were still down to earth and it was amazing because uncle phil represented a certain type of brother who made it but he helped out will smith you say but then will smith represent a certain type of brother i was from the streets of philly but he ended up staying with this prestigious family you know ended up making a song just showing the different angles of coming up and then making it was still stand down to earth and helping that's what it was all about someone else was so mad so it was all about enriching of the bow ownership it was black power  black love at the same time because there wasn't too much of that going on on television unlike current time it's very far few shows that you can really find and reach that you know so in the ninety's exact and the more you go back the more was you know so exactly with that being said his favorite show was the fresh prince it was definitely something i grew up on so i mean don't get me started now you're talking like forty five minutes and right right right  right let me know what's gonna happen what was your favorite throwback t v show back to use and let me know the impact it's had on you well i mean as far as like t v shows i mean i'm a huge like olds you know simpsons fan as fanatic but as far as like t v shows i would have to say is kind of a toss up between old in living color and may with children yes yes and i watched both of those i kind of got like a sixth sense of humor and it's like you look at me you look at me with children it was just so raw and i mean that's when for a long time i mean there were children had like almost three hundred episodes you look at a living color and look at how many people that that show gave starts to i mean from you know the wayne's family i mean they blew up after that i mean jim carrey i mean he became a multi like multimedia the you know jail oh you know you know sean jamie foxx to look at look over jamie foxx is right now you know and that you know we came from in living color and that show was so funny and so many different levels coming from you know no matter what kind of background you were you know with the topics that they touched on you know current events and stuff like that they had that kind of sick twist that they put on everything that just this is like wow i can't believe you been saturday night live on the way because it came on every saturday night and it was right before apollo because apollo was it was a throwback to i still love apollo i still always want to be an  shots my brother can see oh course you know our other artists orion superstar d j dan arche juju the id shout out to my kids you know raymond soraya eddie charlene you know daddy doing it you know my whole team is going to be coming up we're about to be the next what's good everybody money is dispute one i'm your host this is reminisce over you we are located downtown at the bedlam lowertown in st paul minnesota good interviews good opportunity today because today is our debut show so with that being said i also have one of the twin cities more larger independent labels we're not talking rhymesayers we're not talking any of that we're talking about pledge empire and i'm going to pass the mike and let them break down who they are and how they represent themselves is so what you saw was the four individuals here that make a lot of things happen with pledge empire and for the fact that they are pioneers it's only fair that we get them on a pioneering program and let them understand how this operates so today we're going to celebrate throwback television shows and that's kind of the key in the theme for today i wore my theme sanford and son i always feel that he was the ultimate hustler the junkyard man that had no wins no glass ceiling he made it happen he said  places you know what i mean and that was the key so you know so i want you all to think about a throwback television show that inspired you all to kind of be who you are that now won the one show be a little brief about it because i got a lot of brothers here and i want to give everybody some my time a kind of let me know what was your throwback t v show and what was so cool about it might have to be a living color to be honest with you it was a bunch of different different ways of coming at comedy and i was look at that as in life to you can you can come definitely meant everybody everybody loves bill cosby you know i'm saying the sweater on me well ma'am put googy on the map and had no stock in it whatsoever you know what i'm saying so all right you got to throw back moments from pledge empire all the individuals once again i'm going to pass the mike so they can name themselves off really quick i'm going to tune out and that's how we're going to operate missile we got one last time you got our land a walker says stay low ru prince called you got to spew one and we reminisce over you i'm here with my dreams and this is reminiscent over you mike tell me about this name my dreams with an ass i mean it's a noun and a verb i just kind of came i would have about five or six years ago just because i was really into the whole like dreamer thing about following goals and aspirations and then i also wanted a name that kind of had my real name in it and hybrid together so i was sitting in a show one day and i was like i'm going my dream in a kind of went from there so that's been the thing that stuck with me like that that's a great story so back to sort of your work a little bit i know i said we weren't going to talk that much about it but i'm reminisce over you we can talk about pretty much what we want to let's get back to where you got started you mentioned that you went to south high school for a while and then you went to berkeley and that's around your junior year i believe you said where you started writing and rap and you tell me a little bit about the first time that you got in front of an audience of more than five people to share your work you let me know about that experience what you were feeling it was a new experience for me just to be in front of people first you know those first time jitters and those you know you know it was to connect with the crown in figuring out how your craft can you know influence other people and inspire them so from then on a kind of expound upon it from there and so do you sort of build off the  energy or even the feedback that you're getting from your fans or the people who listen to your music as you go forward writing new work or is it just experiences from life that you're drawing from i think a combination of both i like to write about my life a lot  because mainly be because i like to put out what i'm feeling what i'm going through and see who were late and then that does help me when i hear back from somebody who said this help me do this or i can relate to this and that's always inspiring i think it's so vital for us as human beings to understand each other better and what better way to do and do music and are absolutely i have conversations with good friends of mine about the power of music and how it's universal and so i really appreciate you touching on that with your work especially at such a young age how are you i am twenty six twenty six years old and are you single yes i'm saying ok thank you so much for joining us mike for coming on reminisce over you i hope you enjoyed the show here at the bedlam theater and i have my dear friends now rachael i met her here at the bedlam theater rachael we were having a little bit of a conversation about your previous work and my work as a designer now but you used to work in a shop that altered wedding gown yeah i sold wedding dresses for seven and a half years ok so what i want to know about that experience for tell me a little bit about a story of a client that you guys had that sort of catapulted you into this whole other area of the land yeah so i worked with a bride who you know the moment that a woman finds her wedding dresses like a really kind of you know it's an epiphany of some sort and sees herself in her dress and all of a sudden everything else kind of falls into place that it's pretty amazing for this particular girl and there were certainly tears but they were different kind of tears she turned to me and said that she didn't think she was going to get to live to see this moment and i was taken aback i had no idea what she was talking about but she was twenty six and a breast cancer survivor and it still gives me goosebumps every time i say it but she she changed the course of what i was doing and i knew that i wanted to do something to help women like women with breast cancer we sent them on retreats where they could have group support and experience things like kayaking and canoeing so that you know their diagnosis didn't define their life and last before we sort of in this interview tell me a little bit about your last experience ok ok had a movie theater oh my goodness my last experience at a movie theater i went to go see rosewater it was jon stewart documentary about a man who is basically kidnapped and terror within his country and the element of social justice and documentaries is very important and helps to kind of educate but also bring like a real life concept to you know these sorts of issues and so it kind of looked at his life story a little bit and how like what the background of his character was in a way that you don't always get when you pick up the news and see these tragedies right you know it helped to kind of bring all those things humanize him make the issues like