Donnell - The Donnell Rawlings Show Episode #082

Episode Date: May 14, 2022

A joke could be too soon, but it could never be too soon for a funny observation. Thanks to our special guests: Lincoln Salazar @cigarandspirits https://cigarandspirits.com/, Jonathan Powell @theelordpowell, Peter Velloza @petervelloza La Contento NYC visit them at www.lacontentonyc.com Special thanks @nikigolightly, @latoyalrucker @Samson Crouppen @juliuslikeaboss, and @csikmixing http://www.donnellrawlings.com Like, Subscribe & Follow Donnell on: YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnXf59H6e99fQpWYM5uvEQw?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/donnellrawlingsofficial Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/donnellrawlings  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Donnell Rawlings Show, live in your face! Fuck out bitch ass nigga, you'll never take my place! so When you think something has been stolen, who's the first people you think of that probably stolen? I personally think it's some brown person. What? She said brown. Yo, so you automatically think it could be a brown person. Yeah.

Indian brown or what type? And I still look at what they're wearing that mean that's a good oh yo you've judged me about what they're wearing don't you so wait a minute they had a nice suit on you're not gonna look at them for a twenty dollar it's so funny it's so funny you said that it's so funny you brought up a nice suit and that you wouldn't you wouldn't um i wouldn't look at you like you stole a $20 lighter. So, so if you really wanted to steal shit, what you're telling me is just wear a nice suit. Oh, totally.

I would never, like, yeah. What? If you look good, people don't think you steal. Like, if you go into a nice store. So whoever doesn't have a suit on in here probably stole our motherfucking lighter. Yeah, I'm glad it's a white dude that fucking stole the lighter. He's kind of brownish.

But not that brown. When you say brown, say it. You know what you mean. Because a lot of people are like, brown, it'd be a dude like this. Are you talking about me? I'm not stealing one lighter. That's the brown joint, too.

I'm not on lighter. I know y' joint, too. I'm not on lighter. I know y'all be looking at me looking at the swag. Y'all see me giving up the goddamn Chris Rock picture. Yeah, you ain't ready to fight, right? You ain't going to fight in that. I know. Look, I feel good. Is this sexy enough?

I know people listening to this don't know what's going on right now. What color do I have on? This is like a nice rose color suit. It has a little accents of the pink. Oh. Oh, the flamingo pink. Flamingo pink. The gay pink.

The gay bird. The little leg up pink. The gay bird, yeah. Yes, and then the nice striped white shirt with the blue. And look at the buttons. The buttons are so detailed. Oh, it's all about the buttons. Hold on, hold on.

Stop for a second. Let this podcast stop for y'all niggas watching it. Here you go. Give me a moment of silence. Can I do that? For the wooden buttons. People, quiet. I need a moment of silence for how nice this suit is hitting.

Can we get the explosion? Bitch, give me my motherfucking moment of silence. See, this is the problem. And I'm not saying it's people of brown people like yourself that give me this problem. It's the queens. But you did not want to be quiet enough to let me get my moment of silence for the dress. I thought it was long enough. For the suit.

Bam! Those wooden details on the shirt and on the suit. It's good, right? I feel like I'm a different person right now. Bam! Those wooden details on the shirt and on the suit. It's good, right? I feel like I'm a different person right now. I feel like I laugh light skin. I might borrow that from you. When I think about getting swagged up like this,

I think this type of dress makes you want to do certain things that you wouldn't normally do. Like? Sit in a cigar lounge with my legs crossed like uh bill cosby is that at the knee or the ankle you know where it is you know what the fuck i'm talking about one of my friends is back john is back it's like this it's you can't see this but it's the knee the knee on the knee the knee on the knee it makes me want to go damn motherfucker. Can you put your ankle in the shot? Look, look, look, look. That is bad, man. Where the lotion been? I saw you over there struggling to get the lotion out the jar for your hands, but dang.

Oh, y'all got to get a close-up on this. I'm waist up. I'm like Charles Barkley at TNT. I'm waist up. We'll get a photo. But this make me want to do different stuff, smoke cigars. On this episode, and I was featured in this magazine, and the magazine is called Cigar and Spirits.

Whatever you say, spirits, you feel like you're going to be around somebody fly and joining us today. And we never have guests. But I've always said if we have guests, I just want the most interesting people with the most interesting stories to join us. And some people are like, Donna, why are you changing your language?

But on the show today, we have a cigar and spirit nigga. Lincoln Salazar. And I mean it in the most non-Trumpy way. I meant like, you know, you got like suit niggas, like jean niggas and everything.

Then you got wine and spirit niggas. And he's on the show today. The editor-in-chief. CEO and publisher. All of it. All of it. No, no, no. I'm not editor-in-chief.

I can't take credit because I'm not the writer. I can barely read or write. But you can smoke. I can smoke and I can drink. Okay. That's why we started the publication. You started the publication because all you was doing with your life was wasting it away, just smoking and drinking.

So you said, I might as well start a publication. You said do something you love. Right. So I said, why not cigars and spirits, right? I love them. Yeah, I know. So, yeah, we've had it for about 11 years now. Right.

So it's distributed in about 14 countries and nationwide. It's top 20% in luxury and lifestyle. We've had amazing covers of Leonardo DiCaprio, 50 Cent. We just had G-Eazy. We got, geez, we had everyone. Did you have Donnell? We're on our way. I think we just sat down and talked about some of that stuff. So that's what's exciting. We did. Yeah-Eazy. We got G's. We had everyone. Did you have Donnell? We're on our way. I think we just sat down and talked about some of that stuff.

So that's what's exciting. Yeah, we did. He just sat down with our editor, which we're all excited about. All right, first off, I'm going to be straight with y'all. I'm not a cigar motherfucker. I fuck with a cigar every once in a while. It's like if a cigar's around and shit, I'm going to do it. I don't know what type of tip to cut.

I don't know none of that. I don't know robust. I don't know that. I just want to do this. And how the fuck you a cigar motherfucker and I ain't got a cigar? I have one. They gave me one, a nice gold one. That's so disrespectful.

You all walked in. Can you tell me what you gave me? I really. Can I have a cigar? In my introduction. Give one of the upmans. What you call it? An upman.

An upman. What is an upman? That's what I have. So this one is made in Nicaragua. This is made by. That word sound racist as shit, son. Yeah, it's a beautiful smoke. It sounds Nicaragua.

Where it is? Don't say it, son. It's Nicaragua. Don't say the N-word. You can't say. You can't say the N-word of this show. Nicaragua. You can't say anything that rhymes with Negro.

No, it's okay. So this comes from where? That's from Nicaragua. And what is it? It's made by AJ.J. Fernandez. See, I don't know any of these names. Talk to me. So there's a bunch of famous names in the cigar industry.

We call them, like, Cigar Leberties, to where these are some of the most craftsmanship and artesian guys that make these cigars. I mean, the craftsmanship that goes into it is like wine. It's like whiskey. It's like whiskey. It's like anything else. It's completely different, like cigarettes, everything. That's aged for months to years in a humidor. Can I get a lighter? Is it wrong for me to light this with a lighter?

No, that's fine. Just use the tip of the smoke, though. A lot of people will use the full light to light the thing. That sounds sexual, man. Can you describe it some other kind of way? It's sexual. You said just use the tip, man. Don't say that.

And then just put it in your mouth as you're lighting it. Come on, man. Don't talk to me like that. Yo, you got to say no almost, son. You don't think you like to toast it first? You don't like to toast it? Yeah, you toast it first. You got to toast it first.

You got to warm it up first. Yo, come on. Don't do that, man. Get it nice and hot. Nasty-ass publisher-ass motherfucker. Come on. Go ahead. Say it.

You toast it first. Burn it a little bit at the tip. I did that. This part, right? No, not the part on your mouth. Come on, man, with the mouth jokes, man. It's too tight. I can't even. Hold on.

Can somebody get that light up for me? Like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. All right, here we go. All right. Toast it, right? Toast it. So you got into wine experience because that's what you enjoy. So you said, let me come up with an idea where I can get people around

and share the same things that I share, right? It's a blessing. We've had it for 11 years now. And when we started the publication 11 years ago, we started out of a small little office. And it took us almost a year because we started getting so many shipments of cigars and spirits free to feature in the publication. So it

took us a year of partying and just sampling everything and trying to make it much better. Why are everything a party, son? Everything is a motherfucking party, son. That's what cigar spirits is about. It's about a lifestyle. It's about a camaraderie. Where's your office? And when we first started, it was in Newport Beach. And we were right on the peninsula. I was in my early 20s. You don't inhale. You don't inhale. You can't inhale.

The pressure said that. That's why you don't fuck with cigars. You can't even inhale them. Don't inhale. Just put it in your mouth. Right. Come on, man.

Lick the tip. Yeah. No swallowing. I mean, no inhaling. Yo, we've been very disrespectful here, son. Very disrespectful here. You're Italian, right? I'm Spanish and Italian. And actually, a in here, son. Very disrespectful in here. You're Italian, right?

I'm Spanish and Italian. And actually a quarter Korean, too. And you're speaking in Korean? No, my grandmother was adopted. Nah, that ain't what your grandma was doing. You know what your grandma was doing. No, I'm joking. I'm just joking, son.

So you got into wine. Damn, this shit tastes good. What the fuck am I smoking right now? So that's an H. Upman. It's made by A.J. Fernandez. It's from Nicaragua. That's actually new to the market right now. There you go with the N-word again.

Go ahead. That's a new one to the market. Nice and peppery. Yeah. Flavorful. You should be getting a little bit of pepper. Very smooth. It's good to pair with a good whiskey, a good scotch.

You could say bourbon. Or bourbon is great to pair it with. We do food pairings, scotch pairings, everything like that. We do an event, actually, in Newport Beach. It's about over 1,000 people. 50 Cent came last year. Why do you keep saying 50 Cent, son? I know. What's up with 50?

I like 50. 50. Why do you keep talking about 50? Tell us a 50 story. How did you meet 50? You keep talking. He's my boss. But he's my, you know.

He was on one of our covers. And then him and I, we had an event for golf, so we went golfing one day. And he doesn't drink very often, but he was drinking with us that day, and we just had a great time. I mean, we ended up leaving on the ninth hole to go down and have lunch, and he's come to our events, and he's got his Bronson Cognac. He's been blowing that up on everything, yeah.

Yeah, so he's been promoting that, so we've been working hand-in-hand with him on that. Like, we've worked with Mario Lopez and Oscar De La Hoya with their tequila. We're working with Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley. They've got a – Did you and 50 Cent talk about killing anybody? No, we didn't get that far. I like that answer.

If you did, you was like, what kind of question is that? You know what I'm saying? Like, that was a nice – we know the business side. But why is he – you know him. You consider him your friend? I consider him a friend, yeah. I consider him my boss. I'm on a show that he produces called BMF, right?

Yeah. Yo, why he go so hard, son? Why is he so fucking relentless, son? Why don't he won't stop? This motherfucker going in on somebody, he just won't stop. I think you have to be. I mean, I think in all business you have to be. You got to be real on this.

You got to have tenacity. It's the only way to make something work if you don't, especially if you're passionate about it. That's one thing I actually really liked about him, admired about him, is he was so passionate about it. Because I know that. I mean, I started from nothing. My first marketing company, I had $800 in my pocket. This publication's in 14 countries now. I came from nothing. The family

I'm from, there's 100 people in the town. I mean, they just literally got pavement and piping in the 90s. So it's a very poor town. So I respect anyone that has that ability to have that tenacity to go fight for it, to go out every day, and you have to, man. And the more people you deal with and the bigger you get,

it's the more you have to fight. So your publication has been out for 11 years, right? Correct. And when I think about wines and spirits, the first thing I always think about is men, always men. You know what I'm saying? But what is it that separates your magazine, even your ideas, from what anybody else is doing? So our publication is very much about camaraderie, but it is about a 95, especially cigars.

Camaraderie! Fuck them niggas, man! Fuck friends, man! Let's get this money! No, okay, camaraderie. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go back to camaraderie.

Say camaraderie. I think there's a balance to it. But, you know, one thing that separates us is we do reach a little bit of a younger demographic than, let's say, some of our competitors. Like, we've had GEs on the cover as well. So for us, we want to make sure these cigars that have been passed on from generation to generation, from grandfather to father, we want to make sure that people are still understanding the craftsmanship that goes into it,

the love that goes into it. And if you ever get a chance to go to dominican republic i've been to cuba multiple times the love that goes into making these cigars the passion of the families the passion of people are smoking them it brings people together you know it's a time for people to sit down for an hour and have the opportunity to actually sit and be able to share a you know a scotch together a drink i've been up till four or five in the morning with friends and family and having cigars all night how we know you've been up or did you ever go to sleep is the question. No, sometimes not. Okay, there it is.

No, we did not. But, you know, that's what it's about is being able to slow down for a little bit and be able to take in the good things in life and the blessings you get to have, you know. Yep. Leonardo DiCaprio, you say you had him in the magazine, right? Yeah, we have. What was your connection with him? Was it about a friendship?

Was it about a cigar? Was he, like, talking about his drink? How was that? At the time we were doing it, we were in the process of a merger with another company. How the fuck did you get Leonardo there? That's a hard motherfucker to land. When we had the merger with I-5,

Wolf of Wall Street was coming out. So we reshot the studio. You got money, son. You got money, son. So they're promoting the... You got money, son. You got money, son. That's like I was going to Sacramento, the merger to I-5.

When I hear merger in anything, I'm like, oh, did he just merge something? Like, you said, so that's when we went in our first venture. We merged with IT&T or something. You're like, the nigga's merging shit. They're that big? They can merge? Which we eventually merged out, by the way. You have merged out?

I don't like, I'm not a big fan of corporate America. You know, our team's more cowboys. You know, I'm not a big fan of corporate America. I, you know, our team's more cowboys. You know, I just, that's the way we've always ran. You know. Cowboys?

Where do you get that background from? No, I'm not a cowboy. I'm just saying more cowboys. More gun straps and don't give a fuck.

We just kind of, we like to, you know, we've started from nothing. They're gangsters. We're a close team. Not like that. No,

not gangsters. He's talking about Dominican Republic going to Cuba and cigars staying up to five drinking. She about to drink

some bourbon. This is going to be a wrap. You already know I am. How important do you think even like with you and being into the wines and spirits how

where do you think that fashion plays with that? Because a motherfucker could be like yeah I'm going to smoke a cigar but I'm going to do it and fuck with a sweatsuit on but how connected is fashion to it?

Fashion is huge. You have the smoking jackets for cigars, suits. I mean, especially when we started the publication, we're always in suits, especially when we're out. Our team is required to wear suits. We've got a lot of custom suits like these ones that we have on. They're beautiful. We've got custom suits too.

Yeah. You ain't the only one getting measured and shit, son. El Cotido. I always say it wrong. La Cotita. Yo, I always say it wrong, son. We've got suits back there too, son. El Cotido. I always say it wrong. La Cotita. Yo, I always say it wrong, son. We got suits back there, too, son. That's what I'm saying.

But that's, you know, fashion is subjective. You know what I mean? But there's a lot of people, you know, the event we do in Newport, which is over a thousand people that show up, it's on May 7th in Newport Beach. But we have people all the way from wearing full-on custom suits.

Everyone comes out bling to people that are in Tommy Bahama, to people that are in shorts. So it's just a huge gathering. There's over 80 spirit brands there. There's over 20 cigar brands that are there. Everyone goes and grabs cigars and drinks. It reminds me of a golf tournament when you have the dinner afterwards and everyone goes back after all day of golfing

and then you go get dressed up and come out, smoke cigars, drink, mingle. It's a little bit like that, but it's a little different, too, because people go around and they sample all these different 80 spirits. So they're sampling the whole time. We have snake charmers, stilt walkers, Cirque du Soleil people. So after five, though, are they really tasting anything? I don't know. It depends. Do you think wearing a suit makes you less aggressive as a man?

Yes. Really? It was funny you ask that because when I was younger I was always in suits and I felt like I was putting on a cape like Superman

because I was so young and I'm trying to go with these guys that are 40s and 50s and 60s that are trying to do business and they won't even listen to me.

So I have to put on a suit so at least they took me serious. So it was like Clark Kent to me. It really was. Yeah, man. So you wasn't fighting in them suits.

Yeah, it's like you're getting ready to fight. Big question. Could you get smacked in the suit? I don't want I know I want to be the dead horse, but I don't know. First rock. We all know Chris Rock. I think it happened. Yeah.

Yeah, but you know what it was. And this is what I said before, is that you got to keep the button undone. Yeah, because you couldn't swing back. Yeah, you can't swing back. You know what I'm saying? That's how I tell you. You know, they back. Yeah, you can't swing back. You know what I'm saying? That's how Italians do it. You know they're about to fuck a motherfucker up when they undo that button? They're like, oh, shit, we're about to whoop some ass and we'll come right back.

I'm not saying whether the slap was right or wrong, but I'm saying that was kind of like a friend slap. I don't know. I mean, I have friends that if- What? You got friends that slap the shit out of you? Slap me. I guess you got that- Not that slap you, but I mean, you could have that friend.

I don't know. No, slap the shit out of me. I don't have none of them friends. I don't know. There's no slap. I don't have none of them friends. I don't know. I got a friend might like hit the shoulder or something, but just slapping. Yeah, my shoulder puncher. The shit out of you? I don't know about that shit.

This whiskey right here, he started showing off. Somebody came and said, I got you this whiskey, and it had Biki in it. What's the name of this? Kamiki. Kamiki. Can I smell it? Oh, yeah. It's beautifully done.

Not to be confused with Habiki. That's what I was saying. I just knew one Biki word. I smell it? Oh, yeah. It's beautifully done. Not to be confused with Habiki. That's what I was saying. I just knew one Biki word. I knew one Japanese word, and I thought it was that. Oh, I'm going to take a sip of that if I can get a glass. You can smell it. Don't keep it. We don't know where the lighter went.

Chug from the bottom. We don't know where the lighter went. Don't look at me. You know I didn't steal nobody's lighter. Nikki got her titties in a day normally them joints is outside I mean we can cut that old me too or whatever but usually like she's what is she's like with the whining spirits there were my spirits come out that's when you know well now this city still be awesome I know you like what really good yeah it's beautiful how old is

it smells pretty old like 18 or something that one one, I believe, is aged 12 years. Okay. Yeah, it smells really sweet. But you didn't ask my question. How was it with DiCaprio? How did you get him in the show? What was that experience like? That was through the company that we were working with at the time.

So we had a contact at the studio, and that was not as hands-on of a shoot. This was Wolf of Wall Street 2014-2015 so we just got a quick 10 minutes to talk and things like that and then got some photography from the studio for that one so that that wasn't as involved as a lot of the other ones we've had um when we got our new editor-in-chief Randy Mastronicola who's done a wonderful job that's when we started doing more of the photo shoots and stuff like that. We had Charlie Sheen was actually our Marilyn Monroe. Wait, what? Really?

So Charlie Sheen was our first cover. It was during the Two and a Half Men days. This was Dragon Blood? Was this Dragon Blood period or before that? This was right at the time. Because it was one time. That motherfucker had everything, everything crazy. Let me taste this. Go ahead.

What were you saying? You're not allowed to drink a gift that you gave somebody. I'll take something else. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just playing. Finish your thought. Yeah, Charlie Sheen was one of our first. I say he's our Marilyn Monroe.

Playboy had Marilyn Monroe. We had Charlie Sheen. Okay. Because Marilyn Monroe is what kind of launched Playboy, right? So when we were launching Cigar and Spirits, we had... Cheers, by the way. Damn, this shit is fucking warming me up like a motherfucker. Yo, I'm about to unbutton

one of these buttons. Yo, oh man, I'll tell you something. This shit is real deal. Ooh. I just took one sip and said, plan your day accordingly. That's what I said to myself i was like you cannot do this your day you're going to be in a having a nap people like what the fuck happened okay so

this is my next question with all of these um a-list celebrities that uh you've been connected with right so that means that you have a sense of people that you like, right? Those are the people that you work with. My next question. Why in the fuck did you choose me to be in your publication? Well, we know you have a lot going on right now. Oh! No!

White people in full effect, son! You see that? You're hot right now, Donnell. Okay, you're totally hot right now. Also, we talked with, I think, Lori. She spoke very highly about you. We did a lot of research. We did a lot of research on you.

One thing we look for, I won't say a name, but we actually had someone come to our office one time. He so and he was he's big he was so rude he was so disrespectful to women oh he was so out of line i i actually asked him to leave the office and said we'll never do a cover with you did you unbutton your button is the next question oh i had to get one of these fine suits right right told me to be casual Oh Please be casual. I'm gonna wear the suit. Can we get that person socials? Yeah, what about persons initials? She always want to know the inside shit. We're here for the tea. We're here for the I hear from the tea I'll hear from you. I want to know I can't wait. I don't tell me after no, I don't need to know after maybe I

Don't but shit is falling out out that's a big thing to us is the person's character you know we do believe in being a gentleman we do believe in being a lady we do believe in a certain level of person

that we want on the cover whether they're hot or not at the time it's we want someone that a quality person a quality person is our brand it's kind to people

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Go to liquidiv.com, use the promo code ASHI and save 25% off your order. You want to get hydrated? You want to go ashy to classy? I know y'all said, Donnell, are you the ashiest person out here? That's why I stay hydrated with Liquid IV. LiquidIV.com, promo code ashy. This is so good. I thought you was going to say, I'm glad you said that, just like it's people we like.

And that's why I'm going to be a part of the public. It's people we want to work with. It's people that we want to... When you was digging up, son, real talk. When your team was getting information and stuff from me, right? What did y'all dig up? I know you were in the military. Yeah, what else did

you dig up? I don't do most of the digging. Who's the digger? Yo, we want to know the digger. We want the digger? Yo, we want the digger. Yeah, come over here, digger. Come on over here. Come on, digger. You had to dig. You're going to look like the guy that stole the lighter

earlier. He has the hat on. He doesn't need a suit jacket. He has the hat. Oh, man. How are we going to do this? Yeah, we don't got no fucking rules. Sit right here. I hate when my cigar is ash. I like to try to get them to go all the way down. All right, come over here.

Yeah, we bootleg shit. So you're the digger. You did an interview on me, right? And you were digging up and trying to get some back information on me. What came up? For me and you, we talked a lot about female energy. We've talked about cannabis.

We've talked about your projects, your growth as an artist, and what you wanted to put out to the world, how you bring people up, and the fact that you're also so charged up by being a dad. Yo, come on, man. What's the female energy? I want to know about the female energy. This just sounds salty shit, man. All right, never.

We don't need you, digger. He's wearing pink, and you said, we talked about the female energy. Get off the show, man. What's the female energy? I want to know about the female energy. This shit sounds soft and shit, man. All right, never. We don't need you, digger. He's wearing pink. And you said, we talked about the female energy. No, get off the show, man. Get off the show. I thought you was about to make me feel gangster and shit, man. Like, we talked about how, Donnell, you try to restrain from violence and you thought about shooting somebody.

Then he said, we talked about your gentle side, being in touch with nature, and being the father. Nothing for the image I wanted to portray. That is your image. You know it is. We love you for that. That is. But good people.

Sounds like your whole vibe is good people connecting, having a party. 100%. And that's what it's about. It's not to be taken too serious. It's a lighthearted thing. It's cigars and spirits. It's a lifestyle type thing. It's not to be taken.

It's about love. It's about camaraderie. It's about sharinghearted thing. You know, it's cigars and spirits. It's a lifestyle type thing. And it's not to be taken. It's about love. It's about camaraderie. It's about sharing great moments together. That's what it's about. And dealing with people that can't handle their alcohol, too. You deal with that quite often. Is there, like, a brand or anything that has, like, really, like, cornered that market? For the cigars?

Like, okay, who runs this cigar business? Like, okay, I'll put it like this. You mean what country? No, this may sound crazy. When you think about hair weave. Yeah. When you think about hair weave, stuff like that, who usually runs that? The Chinese.

Korean! Korean. Both of them. My hair's from China. I'm sorry. Yo, that was just racist as shit what you said. No, my hair is from China. That's where I get mine from I

thought it was Korea a lot of the Asians have the hair the Vietnamese the Malaysian like a lot of them have the hair they got the hair and the Indians Indians have the good hair so is there like is it like the cigar spirit Elaine is it like do like Italians run that completely or is it like a mix for everybody Dominicans Cubans I would say. Mostly Latin America. Right. Yeah, mostly Latin America.

But there's some really big companies out there, too, that run a lot of it on the distribution side. But mostly Italians. Not Italians, I'm sorry. Cubans, Dominicans, Nicaraguan, Honduras, Latin America. I'm thinking, does the tobacco just grow better in the humidity? Yeah, you have to have a certain temperature. It's like anything else. You're growing.

And everything that's in a cigar is all natural. There's not chemicals put in like cigarettes, things like that. You're using the best part of the tobacco leaves. And it's all subjective if it's better from Cuba, Nicaragua, or anything like that. Man, what is that big joint? R. Kelly had a cigar in a viral video. It was a big-ass cigar.

And then he just started fucking choking. Everybody was laughing because the cigar looked, you know what I'm trying to say. What is the big, you know what I'm saying? Was it a cigar or was it a blunt? It was a cigar, but that shit was girthy. Like, is there like a level of cigars? Like, you know, when you go to Starbucks, they got grande and all those sizes. Yeah, it's actually called grande, right?

Grande, adobe. Yeah, adobe. Sometimes I like the little petite ones. So I can smoke them all at once. They have petites, they have robustos, they have Churchill's. Churchill's my favorite side. Oh, I do love it. I just like that size.

I got a question for you. Would you do a show with Tekashi69? Is he a good person? Don't let him answer the goddamn question, son. Would you do a show with Tekashi69? I mean, is he hot right now? What are his numbers? Yo!

He is hot right now. But I mean, there's a... In a good way. Well, I'll just put like that. He's hot where he's drawn interest. People want to hear his story. He's making money. That's another interesting question.

If you don't actually believe in somebody's moral beliefs or how they run their life, can you still can you still work with him? Can you still work with them can you still work with somebody that's something we're we're talking about now is because just this whole generation changed so much of the youtube generation and the tiktok generation everything like that so now we're looking at who is the who's catching as as a public figure what is the new public figure because before it's movies radio television but now it's youtube especially people in their you know early 20s early 20s it's people that are on tiktok they're on youtube or instagram so we're looking at that as are they you know we have this we have this internal struggle

all the time it's like okay do we want to put someone on youtube that's got 50 million followers but have they really done anything that's accomplished anything other than catch attention you know yeah but that's what I'm saying. Some guys walk around with a goose all day. I don't know if that's worth our stature. But what is it? Because it's got 50 million followers. That's what I'm saying.

I think it comes down to who generate the numbers. And we get to a point like we don't care how those numbers are generated as long as they're generated. All press is good press. All press is good press. All press is good press. That's why a person like Tekashi69 and some more controversial YouTube people, it doesn't matter if you love them or hate them. It doesn't matter. Either way, love them or hate them.

Even if you love them, you got to click on and check them. If you hate them, you're still going to click on and check them. So it's just a win situation. What do you think? Because you're an artist. Right. You're an artist. What do you think about this new generation?

I think the new generation. Of the public figure. I think we should. There's a couple of ways I think of it. I think of some of them that don't have talent that I knew of. You know what I'm saying? But their talent is, and this is what people forget when you talk about these YouTube stars, the commitment you have to have to become a YouTube star.

Yes. You know what I'm saying? It's work. It's a lot of work. It's a whole different level of operating. It's a different mind frame that, like, it's hard for someone like you or I to, like, jump into that. But you have to have the consistency. Yes.

You have to be built for it. It's not going to start. It's not going to be the best. But those people think of they set goals they're really like if they start getting programmed if i do this i'll get this i'll do this i'll do this so if you mix the opportunities that the young generation have as far as promoting their brand i respect that some of them that don't take the artistry especially what i do serious you serious, you know, it's whatever. But that's the

main focus of it is have integrity with the shit you do. Like that bad baby girl, she made $50 million in the course of two years on OnlyFans. That's the bitch that said, check me outside, bitch? Oh yeah.

$50 million. And I was inquiring, what do I need to do to make 50 million on only fans but no so she did a lot i'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do but she did a lot of private like people you got it no she did a lot of private i found out she did a lot of private where people were like um they'll send in special requests like oh let me see your feet and so she'll charge whatever and it'll be a private message to that person. And she'll just make some money. I'm in the wrong business.

I'm like feet. I got feet. I got feet. I got shoulders. By the way, that's called quick cash. But she's been for two years. Most of those people, only 1% will actually keep the money that they've actually spent. You're right.

That's called a hustle. But $50 million. A lot of people will not make that in their entire life working for the state or whatever. How many people have you seen blow it, though, too? They have fun like a motherfucker, though. Yo, I know this. I'm just saying. I'm going to tell you, son.

I wouldn't want to blow shit, but I'm going to tell you. Them niggas that blow money, I wish I was at the party before it was all gone. Yeah. Nigga, you know Mike Tyson parties, nigga. James Brown, all of them. I want to go to all those parties before motherfuckers lost everything. Them motherfuckers like, nah, do all that shit.

It's whatever. What you want, what you want. You can have whatever you like. That's like the new boxing. You know how they, Triller. What is that? What do you mean, like Jake Paul shit? Yeah, like the Jake Paul stuff.

The YouTube celebrity boxing. Yeah, the YouTube celebrity boxing. It's bringing the new generation back to boxing, but are these really boxers with integrity? Can I say something? I got to tell you this because you said that. I was with Dave Chappelle when Mayweather did his first exhibition fight. Dave Chappelle, and I'm not throwing his name out.

He's just my nigga. He's a boxing enthusiast. You know what I mean? Fly to the fights. You know, he's one of the motherfuckers that watched the fight, but I just, oh, left. You know what I mean? You know motherfuckers that do this shit when they do it?

Like, oh, bam, bam, overhead cross. He do that type of shit. And we was at his place watching it, and the thing, it was, and everybody, it was a spectacle. Everybody's like, the Mayweather fight. It was a spectacle. It brought people, the Mayweather fight. It was a spectacle. It brought people together. It brought wines and spirits together.

And it was like a boxing night. The fight went on. However it ended, you know, Radio Raheem, he's a boxing enthusiast, and he interviews people. He was like, this is disgusting, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was like, this is not boxing. I don't know why he would do that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I don't know why he would do that. And I'm like, one thing it did was it brought attention to boxing. Yeah. So even if it brings attention to boxing where this is garbage or whatever, it makes you want the real shit. Yeah. It's bringing interest into the sport of boxing. Whatever you feel is important to it, we were talking about a boxing event.

And what I explained to him, you in entertainment, it creates a night of having fun, spending money, and a spectacle. So on that side of it, it wins. Yeah, I agree. You know? I agree. It's entertaining. And what it will do, that type of stuff will force motherfuckers

to take real boxing more serious. And he's like, okay, this is garbage or whatever it is. But here's your option. You can't say this is fucked up. It don't give you an option. I agree. You know, like, yeah, don't watch that shit. But don't you know, we all want to reason a party, too.

You're like, what's coming on TV? What's on pay-per-view? Come on over. It's bringing boxing back. I mean, not that it's gone away, but it's not, you know, it's starting. It's really bringing a new generation to it, and that's what they're looking for. The young people that you talk about. That's what we're looking at

at the magazine. How do we get this adult generation, a young adult, into cigars and spirits and understanding them? You know what? It's a whole cultural thing. It's a whole mindset. I'll say to the extent of like,

even with me, people say, Donnie, you're going through a transition in your life with your attitude, with everything, taking things to serious, and your dress. You know what I'm saying? And I get what you're trying to say. It's like, these things that you thought were supposed to be so snobbish or whatever,

these things that are about culture and expanding the way you think, we have to make them cool. You know what I'm saying? Like, usually, especially in my, where I'm from, the only time a nigga wears a suit is funerals. You know the, you can name them. You name them.

And maybe a wedding. Maybe. Maybe a wedding. If your top three, alright here's a question. Your top three, your top three times a nigga would wear a wedding. Maybe. Maybe a wedding. Maybe a wedding. All right, here's a question. Your top three times. A nigga will wear a suit. You don't have to choose anywhere. I did.

Your top three times where a person. Wedding, funeral, court. There it is, son. And court. And they call it. And a lot of times not even court. I know. But then whatever the ones you do the most of, that's what they call a suit.

You know what I'm saying? You bring it out like, oh, you bring your funeral suit out. You got it. Oh, you got your marriage. Your good shoes. Yeah, it's only one motherfucking suit. When I was young, I spent a lot of time in court. But really.

I always wonder, like, when I've been in court. They had their T-shirt, and I go, oh, gosh. When I've been in court and I've seen people, I'm like, you really wore that? Oh, good luck. Yeah, some people I know that's so you go to court some you just look at what they got on you know the worst you're going to jail you know a quarter listen you know a is going to jail when a come yo yo this thing is going to jail right here this dude right here with the blue suit. This dude right here. This dude right here with no suit.

Guilty, son. He did it. But then you see the motherfucker. He's like, oh, that motherfucker got some money. He in there like this, pow. And the button button. Trying to motherfucking beat that case. How do we make fashion, damn, this is not for you, fashion, fun,

energies. How do we get people to reconnect with just basically, when I give a conversation, to have a good time. How do we get people to have a good time? And a classy good time. How do we, you're pitching to America right now. You're throwing a party for America. You're throwing a party

for America. I think anything's done by example. I think anything's done by example. What'd you say? I think anything's done by example. Right. Just as the custom suits we have on now, the whole team walks in, they're a brand, they're dressed that way, they look that way, they stand out in a room, you know, makes other people want it, right?

Yeah, the guys in the sweatsuits. Yeah, exactly. The suit niggas right there, I got three of them. The guy in the sweatsuit, they'll look at the guys in the suits going, ooh. The devil's in the detail. It's from the glasses, the tie, the shoes. It's from head to toe.

It's not just you can't have a $3,000 suit on and $150 shoes, right? What you trying to say, son? I know. I love you. Can't. Yo, D. Joe, what you trying to say? I love a suit and a converse. What you trying to say?

I love a suit and a converse. Come on now. No, no. Yo, y'all can still fuck with my sneakers. My ankle's fucked up. These still Alexander McQueen's, nigga. Stop playing games with me. Put them on the table.

Put them on the table so the camera can see. But they a little dirty. Those are not $100 shoes. Those aren't. Yeah, those are. Wham, wham, wham, wham. Those are more than $100. Right.

Don't be playing. These ain't no Reeboks. But the Converse and a nice suit will get me too. Converse and a nice suit, I like that. Yo, but it's my ankles. It's fucked up. Your ankles look like your shoes. Stop talking about me like that.

I've been disrespectful. You see this? He thought they were socks. Are you supporting a guest joke? You just tagged him up? I didn't know. Yo, you son of a motherfucker. But it was funny.

Why don't you go with wise and spirits and get the fuck out of here? How you feeling about that? She did like this. She laughed at his joke. Cigar and spirits. Yes. What did I say? Wine and spirits.

I was like, cigar and spirits. You know, cigar and soup niggas. That's what I said. You laughed at his joke and did like, you was like. Am I supposed to only laugh at your jokes, Donnell? 1,000%. Is that what our relationship is? You see his crew? You see his crew?

They haven't laughed at none of my fucking jokes. Look there was one. You got them there. You got them there. No, they didn't laugh at so you focus on laughing at my jokes. Alright, let his crew focus on laughing at his jokes and then we'll be one big fucking happy family. You see this?

Is it safe enough to say that? Yeah, always safe enough. This is Donnell Rawlings from the Donnell Rawlings Show, and I'm on my way to the post office. Because I need to send off packages for my merchandise. And I'll tell you what's frustrating about dealing with traditional way of shipping packages. It's never personalized. I don't have time to do everything. I need something that's going to do everything.

I am tired. I need to focus on other things. Like for me, it could be for you. ShipStation.com. Let me explain something if you are tired of doing all the work you're too busy you want one central location dot cons already work with people like amazon fc and shopify if you want to don't want to go to the post office go to shipstation.com use ashy as the code you didn't tell me what your ideal party would be, though. Your ideal party.

Fucking party. My ideal party? No budget. Oh, shit. That's a good question. That would be good. Would it be on a yacht? Would it be on a private island?

To tell you the truth, I think when we do a party with our publication, I think it's my ideal party. It's not about money. But it's bitches. Do. It's not about money. But it's bitches. Do you have bad bitches at your party? No, I'm just... Why you laugh, man?

I'm just saying, what makes your party? Is it the bitches? What type of bitches be at your party? I love bad bitches. That's my fucking problem. What type of bitches

be at your party? We got great women. Do you have queens there? We got queens. We got queens there. That's what's walking around. It's queens. So what makes these queens?

They come dressed to the nine. They come dressed to the nine. Right. What's the answer? Are they thirsty? When they walk in, they look great. Are they thirsty? Thirsty for whiskey.

Some are thirsty for whiskey. I like it. Yeah. I like it. No, but yeah, they're a little. No, we have amazing women. Wait, no but yeah they're a little no we have amazing women wait finish that they're a little

no no they've got a great amazing women that come yeah we do yo I just want to I know I know what type of bitches come to your party

yo no homo I can look at your face and I know the type of bitches that come to your party and Newport Beach and Newport Beach I'm going to tell you they everything son

they everything they got nice teeth all of them no bitch your party, son. And Newport Beach. I'm going to tell you all your energy. I'm going to tell you everything, son. Everything. They got nice teeth. All of them. No bitch that come to your party got a raggedy mouth. Right? Nothing. No, they got nice teeth

and they don't laugh like, laugh like, ha ha! They laugh like, ha ha. Yo, do like this, or they'll do like this.

I would have been there until the laugh part. Yeah, but they're bad. Laugh gives me away. They're bad. They're international. Some of them, English is a second language. Right?

Some of them. More on the East Coast. Yeah. They got Ukrainian accents and shit. No, no, no. Actually, mostly Latin. Latin, but they got the accent. Mostly Nicaragua.

Mostly Dominican Republic. Wait, they got that. Spanish. Mostly Spanish. A lot of Spanish. Don, I was trying to say say you have high class escorts at your parties. That's all I hear.

No, I ain't saying that. I'm saying I know you got bad bitches at your party. That's what I know. I don't know what they do for money, but they at your party.

I know people think that's an inappropriate way for me to describe it. Maybe in Newport Beach a little more. Yeah. Big age gaps. I know.

I know that they be fucking fire at your party I can tell he's had big age gaps yeah when is it time when is it when is the

when is the party over when is the party over when is the party over you know it's your life and people's life you had one time like oh I was turning up we was having the best time

and it's like oh I love this when is the party over do you ever see the party being over? It's slowed down from when I was younger that's for sure. You have kids now or something? No I'm actually getting married in September

Oh congratulations Your fiance's here right? Yeah she's here. No disrespect Jose, she looked like one of the ones that would go to your party That's where we met. Nigga, I'm telling you. I know what the fuck I'm talking about, son.

I know what I'm talking about, son. They're like, you know what? Like, them right over there, those. The ones that look like that right over there. That's what the fuck I'm talking about. The other one, she's worked with us for 11 years. She helped us start the brand. She's been like my right hand, and Rick's been with me. What country are you from?

You look Swedish. Texas. Texas, okay. Texas, what part of Texas? That's why he said cowboys. What part of Texas? What part of Texas? Fort Worth, she said.

She's been with us since the beginning. Her first day, we were younger then. We had her line up a bunch of shots, and she had to make faces with all these different brands. So she couldn't make a face, because you could be sitting with the owner of that brand, so you can't be like, you know, you can't be doing that. So we had her try all these shots,

and then we took her out with a couple guys we had working with her, and we went to the strip club. Strip nothing but good nothing. You can't do that anymore. You can't go to strip club no more. You can't do none of that. I'm going to tell you, I'm not a strip club. Strip nothing but good nothing. You can't do that anymore. You can't go to strip club no more. You can't do none of that. I'm going to tell you, I'm not a strip club dude. I'm not either, by the way.

I'm not either, but I know this is going to be crazy. I don't know if this is prevalent in white strip clubs. I go to the strip clubs for the lemon pepper chicken wings, man. Oh, that's in Atlanta though, right? No, I think that every black, I don't give a fuck. Yeah, the black ones. Yo, I don't give a fuck. Your pussy can black ones. Yo, I don't give a fuck. Your pussy can be clapping in my face.

Clap, clap, clap, clap. I'm like this. I need a double order, all flats, Christmas, dry rub, bitch. I don't give a fuck. Black strip club. What is your preference? Black strip clubs or white strip clubs? Miami.

Or the Latin black mix? Mix. Yeah, the black mix? Mix. Yeah, the black one. Just motherfuckers. I mean, you know. Well, because they got the booties still on there. No, no, no. But the only reason I go is not the women.

Especially Miami is because I could smoke, I could eat, and I could drink. You can't smoke anymore anywhere. So I could sit there, a little entertainment. It's the only thing that's open past 2 o'clock. Back in my day. Yo, man, you answered that question like a politician man yo he asked that question like a hostage like i'm about to that question was so politically politically correct i like to um uh wrap it up with this i do a a story, I talk about being pussy whipped, right?

The definition of pussy whipped is when you decide that you don't want to have a certain lifestyle anymore and you're done. When did you feel that? Probably the last two, three years. Last two, three years. And then I think when you meet someone that is on the same, you know,

we have a lot of fun. But I think it's just you've done so much, it's like you want to settle down a little bit. You like going home and not being out all the time and rolling in at 3 in the morning. And, you know, I enjoy having more of a normal lifestyle, still balancing with what we have to do every day. But probably the last three years, I'd say, you know.

I call that shutting the pussy down. I like the way you did it. You explained it with a cigar in your head. I mean, the frequency. Now I believe I have the best. Yeah, there it is. I'm telling you, that's when you get to a point like this. But not only that you have the best,

I think you get to a point where you don't even want to look for the best anymore. You're just happy. You're just happy where you're at. You're happy where you're at. Happy where you're at. You're not looking elsewhere anymore. At certain points, I didn't use none of these. That's right, everybody. Usually when you hear this noise right here, you know it's the start of the podcast.

We did something a little different this time. This is not the end of the podcast, but this is a transition of the podcast. We've been talking about wines and spirits all day. We also know that he has the baddest bitches at his party. Women at his party. I tried to end the show

with a question for you. But in closing, do you have a question for me? I have a question for me? I have a question for you we ask this to everyone not everyone but everyone that's that's significant to the publication as well

and new friends what is the legacy you've done amazing things and you're going to continue to do amazing things what do you believe your legacy is on your last day you want to leave behind? I know that's deep. It's a two-part question.

On the human side of it, as a man, my legacy I would like to end with, he was the dopest father. He was the dopest father. He was a good dude. He was the dopest father. I don't need the accolades for that part. You've seen him on. If you want to remember him by anything, that

would be first and foremost. The second part would be he made a mark. And I had this conversation with your reporter. He made a mark. He had a time in history. A time in history for me, I had a publication.

It was Entertainment Weekly or Entertainment, one of them, and they said, 100 top shows in the history of television, right? And I'm like, damn. You think of it like it's 100, that's a lot, but if you think about the people that wasn't thought of, it's millions. And two shows that I was a part of made that top 100. The Chappelle Show and HBO's The Wire.

Wonderful. And with doing other things, those are the two implants or whatever. Those are two things that I showed that I was a part of that will be forever talked about. Let me get one more question. In your career. Fuck that. Fuck that.

That's it. You only get one. No, I'm just joking. Put the music on. Go ahead. Let me go on. In your career, at your lowest point, what made you keep going? I don't really. This just not being cocky, I don't really feel I ever had a lowest point.

I don't feel like I ever had a lowest point. I had some times where, you know what, all right, things might not gives me in terms of being able to self-employed, you know, don't have to answer to anybody, you know. I don't think I haven't had no low points. But recently, the thing that I would entertain of, entertain, what would make you go harder or whatever your sense of responsibility, that's being the dad. Fantastic. You know what I'm saying? That's it.

Wonderful. Yep. Thank you guys so much. I appreciate it. Thank you for joining us. I feel like I just got off your show. Yeah. Thank you for joining us.

We appreciate it. I'm going to be doing a podcast called The Hustler, The Entrepreneur, and The Businessman. It talks to three differences of that and all the struggle people go through. And the women. Well, that's what we're talking about, too. We're just businesswoman, businessman. The bitches. The business bitches? No, the queens.

The queens. There we go. Some people, I'll just put it like this. Some people will appreciate the way your description. Some people will appreciate my description. I don't think nobody's going to ever go to a party like, yo, y'all see them bad women or ladies over there? Never once have I said that.

Yo, that party has some bad bitches. Sorry. You guys clean it up. That's my responsibility. You have a suit on today. Come on. I got a great suit on. Speaking of which, I want to talk to the suit nicks.

Thank you, guys. Thank you for joining us. And thank you for this great whiskey. It's beautiful. Can you tell us the name of the whiskey again? It's Kamiki. Kamiki. Yo, this suit got me saying thank you a lot.

More than thank you, I just want to say thank you and beg your pardon. Yeah. You're grateful. It's an inspiration. It's a vibe. We don't got nobody to say escort our guests or anything. Man, we so motherfucking low budget. We're no budget.

I just want to say this. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. That shit was dope. And you got the fucking tailoring joint. Yeah, it's nice. With the brown. Of which, about two years ago,

people started seeing the transition in me. Donnell. Donnell. Donnell. Donnell. I can't do an introduction. Donnell. We have another chair over here.

For the last couple of years, and the questions for these people probably ain't even going to do nothing with me because Nikki's like a motherfucker in a suit, right? So people have been seeing the transition. Donnell is going from ashy to classy. I see you. Go ahead, Silver Fox.

All right, you look good, and I've been looking fly as shit. Two of the people that are responsible for that. There's a white nigga in a suit and a real nigga in a suit. Pietro? Yes. It's Peter. Peter's fine.

I like the Pietro. Did I say it right? No? Pietro. Pietro. No, first off, I have not heard him speak with an accent. No. It's Italian.

Third out. I don't think it's Italian. I think motherfuckers speak with accents when they're speaking to women. It sounds sexier. Yeah. They'd be like this. How do you get to the store? This sounds better.

The store, how do you get me? Well, he did say he's like yeah he shifts into viva he saw his yeah how do you say it's he did say my name is peter but it's actually pietra i know he did such and we also have jason here oh that's jason oh but my suit okay my jays i I'm sorry My La Catento men Has two J's No The two J's

That's why we say you shouldn't drink that Kuniki or whatever it is Well no but my La Catento That's why we shouldn't try to drink that Uniki or Kuniki Or whatever the fuck it is Whatever it is Just focus I look at these motherfuckers as two nice dressed motherfuckers that don't just represent like some motherfuckers um wear suits to try to get pussy facts some

people wear suits because they're trying to um get a job no not well that's another reason get a job or not go to jail and some people like to wear suits because it's a vibe, it's a culture, and it's the way you feel about something. These two motherfuckers right here feel the same way. Why? My question, and I'm going to go, judging from Jonathan first, why is fashion so important to you? Wow.

Why is this? Can we take a moment to look at that? Let them talk. We see the soup. That's the spring, honey. Yes. I was going for Baskin Robbins. Oh, ice cream scoop?

Okay. With a chocolate drip. Come on here. Can we focus on the rest of this? Okay, sorry. Later. I'll be back. What is this? Later. I'll be back. What a session.

It's a lifestyle. You know, I was always impressed with older people watching older TV shows and everything. And I was amazed. People went to the mailbox in tuxedos i watched harlem nights i had never seen i mean eddie murphy richard everybody was dressed and that was a lifestyle and um that was that was attractive to me before it became cool when I was doing it was very nerdy I went to school with a briefcase it was very cool so basically what you're trying to say is when you dressed up you saw how bitches bitches loved it right I said I mean women somebody stop me somebody stop yourself okay good good

Queens love you saw the reaction you saw the reaction that women had to and the Somebody stop me. Somebody stop me. Stopping yourself. Okay, go ahead. You saw how Queens loved it. You saw the reaction. You saw the reaction that women had to. And the quality of women that love that suit, right? I'm telling you. So it became a thing, and then I found out there was a world of it because I just knew a little bit about a little bit. Then I found out there was a whole entire world,

and now it's become a thing. Well, what makes it okay? Why isn't, I mean, people look at fashion in different ways. You have a hip-hop culture. When you talk fashion, it means like a sweatsuit or whatever. You know what I mean? It doesn't have the same definition. Let me say this.

Do you think that hip-hop contributed to people not looking at fashion as being respected, as being a distinguished gentleman? Well, I think it's been an evolution. You know, it started off hip-hop mirrored certain pieces of the business lifestyle, you know, certain jewelry, certain name brands, certain cars, things like that. Now suits have come back around,

and we're combining. You're doing suits with sneakers. That's totally, you know, we wouldn't have done that 20 years ago. David Letterman was the only person doing it. But now look, it's become a thing. So it's migrated. It's evolved. And now it's become a lifestyle. And you can do it very casually

as I'm doing right now. Why you change your voice though? Because you have the Kanye. Kevin Samuels voice. What's the dude that be shutting chicks down? I am not Kevin Samuels.. What's the dude that we shut and chicks down? I am not Kevin Samuels. Kevin Samuels. Don't even mention him on this show.

Kevin Samuels. You do kind of remind me of him. So what do you look like? Whoa, I said yikes. I didn't say that though. Kevin Samuels. You're kind of a dealer. Yeah, you've given up Kevin Samuels.

Kevin Samuels, I look at your face like, okay, he'll be like this, how much do you weigh? And they try to skip the subject. They be like, it's not all about that. You know, I'm in the gym. I'm vegan now. And he'll be like, yeah, okay, baby. He call him Myrtle or something.

He has a name, Shirley. He call him Shirley. Yo, Cheryl. He'll be like, Cheryl. I'm sorry, if your name is Cheryl, you're watching this. if you're not 300 pounds, fuck Kevin Samuels, right? But he'll be like, okay, Shirley. And they could try to say, let's talk about something else. I got two beautiful kids.

He'd be like, okay, not about the kids, but how much do you weigh? And they'd be like, 180. He was like, that's the problem. You expect, they expect. Oh, man. No, yeah, you expect. that's the problem. You expect a man you expect you finish it.

You expect a man to take you with your two kids 285 pounds not having sex behind. You want him to wait after you gave this cootie cat

two of them. I mean, and then say, that's your problem. That's your, oh my God. And women continuously call him. I'm like,

why do women call him? No, they pay. They pay? They pay to have him abused him. Yes. Gaslight him, all that.

But is he wrong? No, you know what? Here's the thing. Sometimes he is wrong. Yes. Gaslight him, all that. But is he wrong? No, you know what? Here's the thing. Sometimes he is wrong. Sometimes. I know this is going to sound crazy. I know this is going to sound crazy.

You said sometimes he is wrong. For the record, I've been following him for a very long time, and he's never been wrong. And the reason why I say he's never been wrong because he doesn't speak

with fucking no crazy emotion. Like, it doesn't get him mad. That's another thing. Like, he just, like, when you have that type of, okay, listen, okay, I understand that. People like that, they don't get into, they don't enter battles they don't really think they can win. You know, people, hot-headed people just like, okay, and then you think about it. But his shit is like this, okay, she said this, Shirley has said this. She said that, no, she's going to say this.

I'm going to say this. And these are the facts. That's why it's so hard for people to take him. He's talking for a certain type of man, first of all, when he's talking. Men like him. And there's many men that don't fit into the category like him and think like him. That's all. I don't know.

That's all I got. I know. No, I'm saying. I'm telling you this. However he gets his message out, I know he represents all men. Somewhere. Somewhere. Many men.

Some men, but not all men. You ever seen the men that love the 280-pound women? That's what they get off on? Yeah, but ain't nobody knocking at it. If you like big bitches, you like big bitches. Ain't nobody tripping overpping over that he's telling the women you're never gonna find anyone like you I'm gonna tell you that comes in girls okay I will tell you this I will tell you this except for Lizzo

hey yo we've really shit I see thedest. I see the baddest nigga with Lizzo. Where are we going? Right. Where are we going with this? Just like, oh, I can't say it. Yeah, where are we going with this? Maybe we should stop. No, we're not going to stop because I'm telling the fucking truth.

Okay. There's certain shit like, nigga, I ain't going to go for a certain bitch. First off, if I'm seeing with a certain bitch, I don't, first thing, like, oh, that nigga must got money. Oh he funny as shit I'm I ain't searching for that motherfucker so a lot of shit that he says it's like don't get your hopes up so high because you know motherfuckers of certain standards and status they look for different shit in women they don't look for the simple shit did you see they look for lady look just women. They don't look for the simple shit that you see. They look for,

they look straight up and down. Alright, bitch, how you gonna look after you had kids? And let's also be honest. Women do the same thing. Yes. They do look to see, hey, is this a man that's worth letting him... Can you change your voice

when you talk to me? Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Joe, talk to that soothing shit. You say that to her. Say something soothing to her. I was reaching for you. Say soothing to her. Look at her and be soothing, nigga.

Don't be looking at me with a pinky ring on, nigga. And you would like to say what? Because with the soothing voice. No, I was just going to go back to these nice suits that these men have on yes the nice suits the suits are nice and if is is that wind chimes is that mine my soft no oh sorry yo we have no rules on this show certain places you go you get fined for that been having ringtones on our show motherfuckers been making cigar deals in the background they don't have no fucking respect for us motherfucking team not laughing none of my jokes

he took off his whole jacket he a whole different motherfucker I feel like I'm about to be smacked he's about to come up and be like keep my cigars out your motherfucking mouth I don't want any problems but the whole thing was I started to dive into fashion a little bit. Still haven't dove into it.

I'm like just spin whatever. But I like the look. I like the way people respond to me. And Peter doesn't talk a lot. That's true. He's waiting for your turn? You know what's so funny? It's so funny, like, people that go to the page, they don't see the personality or whatever,

and like your shit, you're not acting like you're acting in your poses. Oh, no. No, in your poses, you giving up Brad Pitt. You doing like model shit. And he's loving the jewelry. The jewelry and the suits. He has this look. He'll do like this.

He'll be like this. I'm like, what the fuck? He just did it right here. Yes. He just did it. I know it's natural. And I'm like this. Who is directing this pose?

I'm like, first off, who is making him look? Is it a bird? Whatever's up there. And then we have you. Now, it's like the Instagram just like to shoot you off the page. And now you don't got shit to say, son. La Contento, NYC, y'all. I'm just absorbing.

I don't know. Okay, let's put it like this. There's a lot going on. I have all type of nigger-oggers on this show today, right? Nigger-oggers. I'm qualified to say the real thing. I just want to. The real thing. The real thing. The real thing is that. Do you say it soothing or do you say

it towards him when you say the word? Depends on who I'm talking to. Yeah, that's right. We're talking about Peter. Oh, great. Yeah, trying to get the focus. You have in everything, you have people that are experts in certain shit. People that are experts

with wine. People that are experts with fashions. But going along with this whole growth and transition, what I found out that's very important to this is your watch game. Yes. I did not know how important your watch game is. Certain motherfuckers, they break down until they say you look nice, and then they say, let me see your wrist, right? You are a sommelier of watch a what horology

horology it's a whole legion yeah what is it called what is it called uh horology horology let me take time to start the show over one time ladies and gentlemen we didn't give a fuck about the first guest because he just get bitches with his suits. But this next guest, he took time out to go to school for something to put le G at the end of it. Niggas didn't know what watch nigger really meant. But on the show today, I don't know if I'm saying this right,

we have a horologist that study in horology. He's gonna break down his watch I got right now you're gonna watch this watch has history and the beats about to stop fuck the nigga the light blue suit we're going to horology Yeah, no, I did a horological program with Patek Philippe. Oh, what? And, yeah, I mean, I grew up in a jewelry store doing it. And then, like, when I was coming to the end of my undergrad, I was like, do I really need college? So I was like, ah, let me try to get a side hustle. So I did a horological program.

And then, I don't know, kind of just. How much money, how much of your money of your parents you spent before you said, do I really need college? Oh. Because I ain't give my son shit if that nigga want to be an artist. Oh, we have. Go ahead. No money. But no, I didn't use any of my mom's money or anybody in my family.

Oh, I profiled you. Sorry. I know. Your parents are also jewelers? I'm sorry. It's a suit. You say your parents are jewelers? You were raised in the jewelry store?

My uncle was a jeweler, and my mom has two other kids, so she was like, ah, fuck this one, and just left me there all the time. So I grew up in the jewelry store. Like a black family, yeah. I, like, grew up in the jewelry business, just hanging out at the shop, and then, yeah, I, like, thought that that was what I wanted to do. I ended up going, like, kind of a different path. I went into banking,

which is also how I got into it. Oh, you a merger nigga! You merged. You went to banking. Oh, yeah, then you gotta you went to bank oh yeah then you gotta have that look wall street you gotta have that look yeah yeah well i i like i still am in banking actually but um yeah i mean i i started repairing watches for like southerly's auction house and a few different wholesalers around the city and then um i met la contento and now i started doing who is la contento a lot of, we see the name. Who is La Contento? We're going to break this shit down.

La Contento is G-Son and Rebecca over there. G-Son? G-Son. G-Son. G-Son. G-Son. Okay, y'all know about my accent,

G-Son. He's Korean, motherfucker. Oh my God, he's so... Look at him. Yo. G-Son, come on. Come on, yeah, just come up here for a second.

Look at his hands. Come on. Come, come, come. You look too good to not be in... Get a picture with these niggas. Come on. Yeah, just come up here for a second. Come on. Come on. You look too good to not be. We get a picture with these niggas. Come on. Let's go. Oh, this is so inappropriate. All right. Whatever. But anyway, all right. Fine, Taylor.

Okay, we have to do it. The picture. We got a picture of him looking sharp. All right. Here you go. Come on. Get on here. Look, just look at the face. Look at the face. Look at him. Look at him right here. God damn, son.

He he's a career. Got a fucking career pop star. Yo, yo, yo, yo. Dumb squid bitch get those squid game bitches about to go crazy. And Rebecca, can we see the inner lining of Rebecca's jacket here? Oh my God. I'm talking about Oh my God. No, this is fashion.

This is fashion. This is our friends. And then look at his posture. Look how he sits. He sat down. I fixed my posture when I saw him sit down. I'm like, oh, let me pop my back. Can you tell me, can I tell you my connection? Yes.

With this? My man Jason introduced me to these people. And Jason, though, I'm just okay. I'm all right, right? For my standards where he was like, yo, son, you need to fuck with these suits, right? And I'm like, I'm not a suit motherfucker like that. He was like, I don't know. I'm telling you.

And I went there. I went to their shop, right? And it's not just, you just don't go in a shop. You got to make an appointment. I mean, when I tell you their shop, right? And it's not just, you just don't go in a shop. You got to make an appointment. I mean, when I tell you this experience, it was a spread, it was a spread, it was champagne. It wasn't like one of those fittings, like one of those cleaner fittings.

It was like, this motherfucker was looking at me like a microscope, son. He was looking at me like, I kept on saying, no homo, right? Because he looked at everything. He like looking up and down, making me push my shoulders down. The hardest part I had was he kept telling me to suck my stomach in, right? Because he looked at everything. He looked up and down, making me push my shoulders down. The hardest part I had was he kept telling me to suck my stomach in, right?

I was like, you need to get it right here, son. I'm going to lose this, man. I'm going to lose this. Whatever it is, just give me this room right here. Give me two buttons, right? And the first time, when I put that suit on, I was like, oh, shit. But bigger than that, the story was everybody knows that I was in the military. I was stationed in Kunsan, Korea.

First duty station. And one of the things we connected with was fashion over there because it was so many tailors over there. It was so many motherfuckers. That was one thing was the biggest moneymaker in Korea. It was tailors. It was people that could make whatever the fuck you wanted to make where your imagination could go crazy and what we would do we would just have a gq magazine we'll find out taylor and we'd be like this yo can you make this and this is what they always said

can do easy yo like yo i'm telling you some real shit can do easy and listen y'all i am not mocking anybody this is my life this is the culture i was around and around and this is how they talked don't get me like why you mocking no these was my korean i'm like yo kim can i get this no no problem no problem can do easy i'm like can you make a blue arm and a red arm no problem can do easy and the imagination people used to use it was niggas in there with like psychedelic shirts one mother had a nike suit and adidas suit and one suit it was like just give me all the suits my question question is, how long Let me finish this. With that said, they've been in fashion at a different level. And I was thinking,

I was like, I want to have our paths cross in a sense of fashion. Basically, with me, I designed some of my own suits or whatever. I'm like, is this going back? Is this like a period of my life where it does. I'm like, is this going back? Is this like a period of my life

where it does not be funny every time I talk to y'all, y'all say Ken Doeji. Like we could have a do. Does your family have a connection with hip hop and black people?

That's a question for you, Rebecca. Your dad. Yes. I want to hear. He was in the same industry and black people? That's a question for you, Rebecca. My dad. Yes. Oh, your dad. I want to hear it. He was in the same industry, and then I just learned from him.

He grew up in the jewelry store, and then I grew up in that. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. So you've been doing it your whole life. Yeah. So when you say your dad, your dad was a tailor, or he was in the clothing business?

He's not the tailor. He making the whole of he was in the clothing business? He's not the tailor. He making the code of the production of the clothing, like hoodies or something. You told me this, but what was, at the time, you had told me this in the conversation. What was his biggest client? Oh, yeah. One of his biggest clients that the Snoop Dogg. Oh, yes. OK, I'm sorry. You don't know how excited. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. He made the one line of his clothing, I think. You told me when Snoop Dogg started getting into a clothing line, your dad did Snoop Dogg's first clothing line. I think he was the manufacturer in Korea, and then there was another agency between them, but he was the one man who producted their clothing line. What is, when you see me, when you see my friends, what is your relationship with, why do you want to work with me, and why do you want to be around me? Of work with, I just like you. Nigga, yo, come on, son. Yo, we got to get back to like, yo. And real likes, not just for social media. Yo, yo, yo yo we gotta get that was the most realest

like of all the likes it wasn't a like that you have ready because some people just get you like just to say i was here that was the realest like because you like me and i like i like y'all so much. Your husband is so dope. Look at him, y'all. He does not move. So you both? Yo, yo. Wait a minute. Like, people was like, touch him. They got a real mannequin.

He talks on camera. He does talk on camera. Yo, that motherfucker is Mr. Mannequin. Yo, I'm sorry. Mr. Mannequin said, like, I'm telling you, whenever I see a picture of you, I was like this. I'm never going to be able to stand with that much confidence. That confidence is like this. That confidence is this.

You see what I have on right now, right? But I'll kill it again. And I'll keep killing it like this. Bam. Keep killing it like this. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Our editor's going to put all the shots in the suits. Pow! Pow! Pow!

But y'all got me looking and feeling sharp. And not just with the fashion. People could easily say, oh yeah, they got the hookup, they got the cheap prices, but I feel the same connection. I like y'all, right? Whenever I talk to y'all, I can just see how bad y'all want something, how bad y'all want y'all. I can see how y'all look at other products and be like,

that shit is garbage. But wait till they see what we can do. And I don't know if you know this. Did you breathe? Oh, he's not breathing, Jason. Have you been in fashion your whole life, too? Yes. Listen, yo, I got to get mannequin breathing technique.

But as soon as you said that, he actually exhaled. Yeah. I can't do it now. It's not a time. You don't do it now. You wait for the cameras. The cameras never offer me, right? All right. I just't do it now. You wait for the cameras. The cameras never offer me, right? All right.

I just want to say this. This episode, it was all about something. It's growth and everything. Food, fashion, spirits, or whatever. The people that you saw on this podcast today are good friends of mine, good energy of mine. And we're going to see some. What we want to do is make a certain lifestyle cool again.

That's it. I love this lifestyle. That's it. Why you do Marilyn Monroe's shoulders this year? I don't know, because I love old Hollywood, too. I thought you were about to say like old niggas. I thought she was about to say old niggas. All right.

With that said, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Donnell Rawlins Show. We want to thank all our guests. Rebecca, you're looking at me like, Donnell, why are you talking like that? Because I have a microphone and your husband will not take a breath until I finish this show. So in conclusion, I want to thank everybody who was our sponsor. Thank us, Spirits and Cigar and Spirits. Lacante. What am I saying?

Lacantento NYC. Lacantento. You know what I'm saying. Lacantento NYC. And you guys say, oh, that's what I try to say. But y'all know what I say. A joke can be too soon, but it never could be too soon for a funny observation. We about to turn up.

What up, suit niggas and suit bitches? Suit queens. Man, fuck them queens. I said it. Suit bitches. Good night. Thank you.