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SOHH

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00:00 - This guy over here said I'm a little tolerant person.

00:02 - Yeah.

00:03 - Steve and Samuel, SOHH.com, take it away.

00:06 - All right.

00:07 50, several years ago, SOH.com, we interviewed you

00:11 and you told us exclusively that if Kanye West

00:14 sold more than you, you'd stop making albums.

00:16 - Yeah, yeah. - 2007?

00:17 - Yeah.

00:19 - Fast forward to 2015, do you have any bets with us

00:22 on power versus empire?

00:24 - Well, you know what?

00:29 I do, I do.

00:30 Even at that point, I was utilizing the two releases

00:33 to build enough energy to make the largest selling week

00:37 for records between me and Kanye.

00:39 We did it that week.

00:41 And creating a competition between two shows

00:45 that are extremely different and that aren't even

00:48 on the air at the same time is a great competition.

00:51 You know, so the power show versus empire

00:55 is like watching R-rated storytelling versus PG-13.

01:00 - Got you.

01:03 - You know, so it's extremely different.

01:05 - Okay.

01:06 Actually, Joe, we have a question for you.

01:10 A lot of these questions are from the users on the site.

01:12 - All right, okay.

01:13 - So, the streets say that Tommy is a cool white boy,

01:17 meaning that you're accepted.

01:18 What do you think of that?

01:19 - That's not what I hear from the streets.

01:21 - No. - They love him.

01:22 - Nah, I'm joking.

01:23 - They love you, man.

01:24 - Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:26 Got a lot of love in the streets.

01:28 - Okay, okay.

01:29 - It's 'cause he with the shit.

01:31 Whenever they see somebody that's with it,

01:33 they can identify with it because they know the guy,

01:36 whether he look like Tommy or not, that was with it.

01:39 And then they go on, 'cause ghost characters,

01:42 like, at a crossroads and dealing with the struggle

01:46 of did I do things the right way?

01:47 Could I have been successful doing it a different route?

01:50 - Okay.

01:51 - You know, like, they look at him like,

01:53 cool, but not like the guy that is totally with the shit.

01:57 Like, you know what I mean?

01:58 And that's the way they registered Tommy's character.

02:00 - And I think that Tommy was also written

02:01 with this great history and some of it reflecting

02:04 50s on past of never giving up on that hustle.

02:08 Sometimes Tommy reminds me of the guy

02:10 that would have said, one of my favorite scenes

02:12 from Get Rich or Die Tryin' after the guy's like,

02:14 get out here with that change.

02:16 It's like, they didn't take change, I did.

02:18 - I took change.

02:19 (laughing)

02:19 - And it's that, however, I'm gonna make it to the top,

02:21 I'm gonna make it to the top,

02:23 which is one of his biggest disillusionments with Ghost,

02:27 when he's just like, what do you mean?

02:28 You don't wanna get there.

02:29 But I'm working, this is what we've been working for.

02:33 - Right.

02:34 - You promised me.

02:35 - Yeah.

02:35 - You're breaking a promise.

02:36 - Exactly, okay.

02:37 Business-wise, what are you guys looking

02:41 to accomplish with season two of Power?

02:44 - Well, I believe season two is maybe five

02:47 or 10 times better than season one,

02:50 'cause it actually gets into,

02:52 the intensity level goes up so high

02:54 during the second season that I think

02:56 it's gonna really surprise people how we're able to keep

03:01 the energy that you felt from the finale

03:03 throughout the whole season.

03:05 - Because season one was so solid,

03:07 and we got to explore the characters so much,

03:10 that now that people really know the characters

03:12 and who they are, they get to see them,

03:14 especially with Kanan getting out of prison,

03:16 we have an established idea of Kanan,

03:18 the dynamicism that he is, how smart he is,

03:21 now we get to see how he's gonna utilize that

03:23 now that he's back in the neighborhood.

03:25 - Okay.

03:26 We would like to know if there are gonna be

03:27 any spin-offs of Power, maybe take another character,

03:32 put him in a separate show.

03:34 - Well, there's a strong possibility

03:36 they see different things happening.

03:38 - All right, and then we'd like to know

03:41 what would you say are your five keys to achieving Power?

03:47 - The five keys to achieving Power is influence.

03:51 So finance is a part of it, but having the influence

03:55 and some sort of leadership skills or ability.

03:59 When you're able to manipulate people

04:02 and have them follow you in a really passionate way,

04:07 you can take things, you take things over.

04:11 - So what was it, influence, finance, choices,

04:16 leadership, and passion.

04:18 - Got it.

04:19 All right, thank you guys so much.

04:20 - I'm good at repeating.

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