I’m going to tell you the truth. Most people doubted that Kamasi’s record was going to do anything because it had 11 minute, 13 minute, 15 minute solos. That’s not what’s going on in the world. It’s two-and-a-half minute hip-hop grooves. But one day I heard a knock at my door. I saw four or five people from NPR. “Hey, does Kamasi Washington live here?” “Yeah.” “Well, we came here to kind of chronicle what he was doing.” I looked around and say, “Come on in, come on in.”

They came in and they said, “Okay. What you guys doing?” They started writing things down, asking me questions, asking Kamasi questions, asking Terrace Martin questions. They followed us around and they saw that it was real. This wasn’t fake. It wasn’t about the money. It was about the conviction of a heart.

The conviction of a heart. It’s about what? It’s about your desire. It’s about who you are in the inside. It’s about what you trust. Do you trust yourself or do you trust the dollar? Because if you trust yourself, the dollar will come.

Because those who have will give to those who don’t, if there’s a reason. That’s the truth. Those who have will give to those who don’t if there’s a real reason for it. If you’re really about something and you’re not fake, if you end there every single day dreaming, working towards your goal and you’re the best at what you do, you have a chance for real.