Daymond John
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1,130 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Daymond John’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How did that form?
How did you guys get together?
And how did y'all, you know what I'm saying, persevere through those early hardships?
Well, as I said, I failed in 89, three times in 92.
I said to my friends, I want to start this.
They said, I want to be down.
Right.
We were coming up in Hollis, Queens.
And in Hollis, Queens, you had, like in many of our communities, you only had two things to do.
Try to become a rapper or a drug dealer.
Right.
Because even though there were many people who were professionals, they'd come out to Manhattan and work.
We wouldn't see them.
Yeah.
Right.
You come out of school three o'clock in the afternoon.
You don't see the professional because they're busy working, doing their job, trying to feed their family.
Right.
So we didn't want to be we didn't want to be drug dealers.
But my friends were all drug dealers.
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