Speaker 1: Don't every day up waiting click your ass up the
Speaker 1: breakfast club.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm feelish for y'all.
Speaker 1: Doune morning.
Speaker 3: Everybody is DJ en Vy, Jess, hilarious, Chelamage the guy.
Speaker 3: We are the breakfast Club, Long and Roses here with
Speaker 3: us as well. We got a special guest in the building. Indeed,
Speaker 3: welcome home, ladies and gentlemen. It's Feddie.
Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: What's up are you feeling?
Speaker 3: Brother?
Speaker 2: I feel good man, You ain't.
Speaker 1: There's no push up. It's been eating your protein, taking
Speaker 1: full advantage of that time, a.
Speaker 2: Couple of checking packs and tunes and all that.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? How are you?
Speaker 4: First of all, brother, I'm blessed man. You know I'm blessed.
Speaker 4: I could ain't know whether if I can sum it up.
Speaker 4: I'm just blessed. I feel good to be back, you know,
Speaker 4: sleeping my own bed, eat some real food, see the family,
Speaker 4: make it all.
Speaker 2: I love man to.
Speaker 4: See everybody just just happy to see me like I'm
Speaker 4: happy to see them.
Speaker 2: So it feel good. I'm definitely blessed for that.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you need to get right back
Speaker 1: to it or like you know, do you want to
Speaker 1: just adjust and be human first before they you got
Speaker 1: to get in the artist fetti walk moved.
Speaker 2: Oh we allowed to do that.
Speaker 1: No, yes you are.
Speaker 5: You're allowed to, but not like you would have to
Speaker 5: make that decision for yourself.
Speaker 4: I mean, uh, for me, I don't know. I'll just
Speaker 4: you know, making music is just what I love to do.
Speaker 4: So I wouldn't say I wouldn't say it's like getting
Speaker 4: right back to it. It's just like something that I
Speaker 4: missed for the last four years of my life.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Definitely being in that studio, let that be my outlet,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying for whatever I'm going through
Speaker 4: at the time.
Speaker 2: So if that's getting back to it, then yeah, you
Speaker 2: definitely got to get right back to.
Speaker 3: Have you gotten in the studio yet? Yeah, you're back
Speaker 3: in there already here already you did.
Speaker 1: The first day out record na, na the first day.
Speaker 6: Excepted for a longer project or something.
Speaker 4: No, just you know, just like you know how you said,
Speaker 4: like you know, when when a box ain't been in
Speaker 4: the ring for a while, you just gotta I mean,
Speaker 4: you got to meet up real quick. So if you
Speaker 4: still got it, you know what I'm saying, like that.
Speaker 4: So that's all just just just feeling it back out.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say. So, you know, most people want to
Speaker 3: know what happened, right, and the reason they want to
Speaker 3: know is you had numerous platum multi platinum hits, numerous
Speaker 3: records that went through the charts. Now you had a
Speaker 3: run and not just urban charge mainstream. I mean, you
Speaker 3: were doing ball mixed.
Speaker 1: First.
Speaker 3: What's the Spanish when you don't know I am not Spanish?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? You did everything and then
Speaker 3: you want a different route. What happened? Like what was
Speaker 3: the disconnect for Fetti?
Speaker 5: Was it?
Speaker 3: Label?
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: I mean, well, you know certain things that I still
Speaker 4: you know, I can't really talk about like like that,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean, just for certain legal reasons.
Speaker 4: But I guess to sum it up, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, as far as the music saw, Like as
Speaker 4: far as the music saw, I just kind of, uh
Speaker 4: was going through something with certain parts of a different label.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say those names because I'm not
Speaker 4: interpational body.
Speaker 2: That's not what I do.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, But certain things just wasn't
Speaker 4: lining up. So I just you know.
Speaker 2: When they say, uh, you can't teach it? What is it?
Speaker 4: What is it say you can't teach it something like that?
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying to basically put it in
Speaker 4: a in a way where I don't you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean? So I just had to just I.
Speaker 4: Just did what I know how to do, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean when certain things was happening.
Speaker 3: So now when you got when you got locked up,
Speaker 3: did it make you love music more? Because I feel
Speaker 3: like at one time you didn't love music the same
Speaker 3: like you did when when you first came out they
Speaker 3: did it make you love music again?
Speaker 4: Being locked up did a few things from me as
Speaker 4: far as music, Yeah, of course, know what it is.
Speaker 2: Honestly, not being able.
Speaker 4: To record music was the was the was the biggest
Speaker 4: thing because you know we could You know, as an artist,
Speaker 4: you're gonna you hear a little better. You do a
Speaker 4: little bet on the table and you could just start
Speaker 4: the writing and you get the right stuff in.
Speaker 2: Your head or your humilodies in your head.
Speaker 4: But that feeling when you just im about to go
Speaker 4: to the studio like oh nah, I ain't about to
Speaker 4: go nowhere right now? You know what I'm saying, so
Speaker 4: it made me miss It made me miss the uh,
Speaker 4: it made me miss being able to, you know, just
Speaker 4: get up and go when I want to go do music.
Speaker 4: Definitely humble you a lot, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 4: stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so.
Speaker 6: When you got that feeling when you were locked up,
Speaker 6: did you just write?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 6: How did you?
Speaker 5: Because as a creative it's still there, like what do
Speaker 5: you do to release at that point?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: That's that's actually crazy, right because if you if anybody
Speaker 4: knows me, they know like I don't really write music.
Speaker 4: I just kind of freestyle, like I just go in
Speaker 4: there and do my thing. So to write a song
Speaker 4: it took me like maybe three weeks because I had
Speaker 4: to the problem with me with writing is I feel
Speaker 4: like it's not as authentic as it is when you
Speaker 4: just go in there because you got the option to
Speaker 4: change out things, say different things.
Speaker 2: I want to I will say this different. I don't
Speaker 2: want to say this.
Speaker 4: Like, so like when you're writing, it's kind of like,
Speaker 4: let me make it sound better, like you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, like, but when it's coming out, it's just
Speaker 4: whatever you're feeling out that it's like roy emotion, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying so like that, Uh, that creative
Speaker 4: process was basically the hardest thing for me.
Speaker 1: What did prison teach you about yourself? That that success never.
Speaker 4: Could what their person teach me about myself?
Speaker 1: Uh, that's success of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean honestly, well in that case, not really
Speaker 4: too much, not really too much. It just like made me, Uh,
Speaker 4: it just made me understand certain things in life, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. Like it made me understand like, uh,
Speaker 4: the value of freedom.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I don't think a lot of people understand how blessed
Speaker 4: they are to just wake up and do whatever they
Speaker 4: want to do.
Speaker 3: Well, let's slow you down from and I'm seeing interviews
Speaker 3: where you like, I go to store, be twenty of us.
Speaker 3: Everybody gets an Avera rex, everybody gets a pair of jeans,
Speaker 3: and then everybody gets a shirt. Are you will that
Speaker 3: stop you from doing that? Were those same those twenty
Speaker 3: people still there when you were locked up? Or you realize, damn,
Speaker 3: they ain't there for me like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Nah, yeah, that yeah, that is definitely the crazy thing
Speaker 4: is if they were there, it'll probably be the same mentality, No, no,
Speaker 4: no exaggeration, you know, what I'm saying. They were, it'll
Speaker 4: be the same mechality probably you know, let's get it.
Speaker 4: Let's get it, like we're back on you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. But you know, uh, when you behind that wall, man,
Speaker 4: everybody show you who they are. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You want their time now, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: And you gotta just take it how you want.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You want their time so they don't feel like doing it,
Speaker 4: it's done. And if they don't do it, well he
Speaker 4: he ain't coming home on tom soon?
Speaker 3: Was the industry there for you when you were locked up?
Speaker 3: And like who artists label people? Family? Family?
Speaker 2: Including family? Uh? Yeah, my family was there.
Speaker 4: Industry Nah man, Uh let me see, oh Coiler Ray,
Speaker 4: Coler Ray uh fifty uh Chief Keith.
Speaker 1: And like in what way like when you stay there
Speaker 1: with there if you like, what was it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Each of them? Like what did Coy do? Well? Coy?
Speaker 2: She actually she actually helped me out with a record.
Speaker 4: I put out an album called King Zoo right and
Speaker 4: she actually she featured on the record.
Speaker 2: She did a whole TikTok thing for me. She and
Speaker 2: she just did it off.
Speaker 4: The love like it was like, all right, fetty, I
Speaker 4: got you, don't worry like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And she, you know, she she pushed it as if
Speaker 2: it was her own record.
Speaker 4: So like things like that, I could never like, I
Speaker 4: won't even I don't even know how to thank her
Speaker 4: for that, you know what I'm saying, because she didn't
Speaker 4: have to do that. She was already she already, she's
Speaker 4: doing her thing, you know what I'm saying, you know.
Speaker 4: And she from Jersey, so that that was even more
Speaker 4: like like damn, like they have like this theory with
Speaker 4: people from Jersey where we like to pull each other down.
Speaker 4: So for her to help lift me up in my
Speaker 4: time with darkness, it was like, thank you a lot.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I'll be out too, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, I'll be all man. Uh you
Speaker 4: said man fifty Uh. So I don't even know where
Speaker 4: to start with him A lot for me, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. He uh. From from day one, it
Speaker 4: was like he reached out like yo, whatever you need
Speaker 4: to holler at me, you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 4: I'm like all right, And then it was like where
Speaker 4: is money.
Speaker 2: Going, I'm like what you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I ain't used to that.
Speaker 2: I'm used to It's always the other way around, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it was just like it was it was
Speaker 4: it was nothing like he whatever I needed, he was
Speaker 4: right there, Like he answered the phone.
Speaker 2: He he didn't shot you off. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: All the way down to the time I'm about to
Speaker 4: come home, it's how you getting home and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So like if anything like
Speaker 4: as far as as far as financial and like mental.
Speaker 2: Like help, he was probably there the biggest.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 5: Fifty was like helping you diversify like income and different
Speaker 5: things like that as well to what were conversations like
Speaker 5: about when Fattie wob comes home, fifty cent is giving
Speaker 5: you what advice of, like here's what you should be
Speaker 5: doing business, wid because the industry changed so much.
Speaker 2: I can't curse right yo, yo, stop sucking up. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I should have should have never stopped making music, like
Speaker 4: you should have kept going hard, like you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, that's fifty fifty fifty gone. He was gonna
Speaker 4: say what he wanted to say, Like you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. He ain't got no filter. So uh, it
Speaker 4: was good.
Speaker 2: It was It was everything he told me.
Speaker 4: It was just like, you know what I'm saying, just
Speaker 4: get back to it, like, don't don't waste no time
Speaker 4: this time.
Speaker 2: You only got this this this is my last chance.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: However, that however that sounds to people, But you know,
Speaker 4: if you're in this industry, you know what that means.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. So you gotta you gotta
Speaker 2: make a count.
Speaker 1: I remember the interview you did with uh. I think
Speaker 1: it was Academics before you had winning. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: was talking about, you know, going broke. What did what
Speaker 1: did going broke after making multi million dollars teach? You?
Speaker 4: See that's crazy because you know that was like clickbait.
Speaker 4: You know if you if you actually rewatch the interview.
Speaker 4: I never said that I was going broke. I just
Speaker 4: said it was slowing down.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's a big difference.
Speaker 2: Did Yeah, it was a big difference. Nah. I was
Speaker 2: just basically like saying I was. I was telling him.
Speaker 4: How I felt the transition from being twenty fifteen twenty
Speaker 4: sixteen fetiy Walp to being twenty seventeen twenty eighteen fetty wob.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So it's just like I guess the way they broke
Speaker 4: it up and like put it together, it was like damn,
Speaker 4: like but I get it though, you know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 2: It is what it is.
Speaker 3: But you blame yourself for that at all?
Speaker 2: What that transition and.
Speaker 3: Transition from sixteen to seventeen, Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2: For the most part, man, I just you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. I was young, man, I was real young.
Speaker 4: I was young, hot headed, and you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: I was just pro to gods man, Like you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like if it ain't me and my
Speaker 4: if it ain't me and my niggas, ain't nothing, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, straight like that.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. And you know I didn't
Speaker 2: show up to a few things about that.
Speaker 4: But na truthfully though, man, truthfully, man, I just you know,
Speaker 4: I had to grow up, man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Like I was still I was.
Speaker 4: I was young with all that money, man, like just
Speaker 4: having fun, making sure everybody eat and making sure everybody.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like everybody's shining, Like like
Speaker 4: how I'm shining?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: They told me a story the other day. Actually, they said,
Speaker 3: you pull up to sneaker store in Patterson, right sneak
Speaker 3: of Palace, You pull up there, you buy fifty pairs
Speaker 3: of sneakers, and it'd be like you'd have ten calls,
Speaker 3: ten of your cars outside, somebody driving a different car,
Speaker 3: and you would all get in and just drive to
Speaker 3: Atlantic City and gamble and going to party all night,
Speaker 3: and nobody else paid for everything. They was like FEddi
Speaker 3: would pay for everything. They said, they did this, damn
Speaker 3: it every weekend. Then there'd be a time. But like
Speaker 3: you didn't like to fly because it was like then
Speaker 3: you drive to Atlanta.
Speaker 2: I'm scared of hell of flying even Yeah, dang oh,
Speaker 2: just judts Man.
Speaker 4: The last time I was on the plane before I
Speaker 4: came home, I was shackled ankles and risks like that ship. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's another thing, like I told I kept telling myself.
Speaker 4: I said, looking first class. They let me out right now,
Speaker 4: you can put me in fifty two in the Middle Sea.
Speaker 2: Hey, y'all good, we.
Speaker 4: Think anything, you know what I'm saying, Get a little
Speaker 4: back of peanuts and some ship like you.
Speaker 1: Too big now you can't sit it all the way
Speaker 1: back there. Yeah, your shoulders too big for that ship
Speaker 1: at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Man, So outside of like showing up for things like
Speaker 5: what you when you get back to like the business
Speaker 5: of fetti WI, what else are you going to do differently,
Speaker 5: like label wise because you said there was like some
Speaker 5: issues with a label.
Speaker 6: Was that the r g F?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's some issuage with the label? You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying?
Speaker 4: Uh? Uh, this is like the best way I could
Speaker 4: put that without like being to that whole thing. Like
Speaker 4: I said, I don't like to bash nobody, and I'd
Speaker 4: like to have conversations while the other person that's present
Speaker 4: to to kind of you know what I'm saying. Uh,
Speaker 4: money complicates family and when when it gets to a
Speaker 4: point where.
Speaker 2: How can I say that? It's just like a money
Speaker 2: complicates things.
Speaker 4: You know, That's the best way I could put it,
Speaker 4: like you know what I mean, without getting it all
Speaker 4: all deeper to it. But yeah, money complicates a lot
Speaker 4: of things. So with that being said, uh, you know
Speaker 4: a lot of people. A lot of things didn't go
Speaker 4: right because of a certain situation. So that was just
Speaker 4: like that's one of the biggest things as far as
Speaker 4: the fedie. We obside with the label. But other than that, man,
Speaker 4: I'm still you know, I'm still. I'm just I'm just
Speaker 4: ready to make music, you know.
Speaker 1: I do. I do. I do hate when we do that,
Speaker 1: the artist, because I know you're ready to make music
Speaker 1: because you want to get back to it. But man,
Speaker 1: there's still a part of you that just has to
Speaker 1: be a human first, Like you just put your boots
Speaker 1: back on the ground, you know, family, Like, like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what was what was the hardest truth you
Speaker 1: had to face while you were locked up?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: I lived in my truth man, like I didn't. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: I just you know what I'm saying, Like where I
Speaker 4: come from. I'm from Patterson, bron You know what I'm
Speaker 4: saying from Patterson, Jersey.
Speaker 2: Man, Like you you know what I mean? You make
Speaker 2: your value out late.
Speaker 4: So it wasn't when it happened, it was like all right, whatever,
Speaker 4: like let's just get this ship over, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. Like it wasn't like damn, I wish I
Speaker 4: could have did this or I did that. Because I
Speaker 4: did it. I did it once, and that's what I
Speaker 4: chose to do. I knew the consequences, I knew it
Speaker 4: was gonna come with it.
Speaker 2: So that was that.
Speaker 1: Do you think you understand the lesson God might have
Speaker 1: been teaching you?
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: You want to share it?
Speaker 2: Uh? Uh take it?
Speaker 4: Take take advantage of your blessings while I'm giving them
Speaker 4: to you. You know, uh, you know this time we're
Speaker 4: gonna gonna show you what can happen. You keep playing around,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Next time might.
Speaker 2: Not be so lucky.
Speaker 3: Are you staying away from Patterson or you know you're
Speaker 3: out of Patterson? Are you going back home?
Speaker 2: Of course, yeah, you don't have to.
Speaker 4: I feel like that theory is flawed when they say, oh,
Speaker 4: if you go back home, this can happen. That can happen.
Speaker 4: It only happens if you're allowed. If you're a weak man, week,
Speaker 4: shit gonna happen to you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: When you stand on business, stand on business, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean. So I don't I don't follow crowds,
Speaker 4: I'll lead them, you know what I mean I wasn't.
Speaker 4: I wasn't the remy boys. I'm fetty wap, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Like I say what I'm saying, No
Speaker 4: disrespect to my guys, but yeah, I'm not the follower,
Speaker 4: I'm the leader. Have you spoke to the guys, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I spoke to a few of them. I spoke to
Speaker 4: the ones who spoke to me when I've been down.
Speaker 1: Did you have to did you have to forgive yourself
Speaker 1: for anything in order to come home free? Just mentally?
Speaker 4: I really I was. It's not more so me forgiving myself.
Speaker 4: I just I just hope in the future that my
Speaker 4: kids forgive me. Yeah, that's more so, like, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I took a lot of time from them, and.
Speaker 2: Four years a long time. You see, you see your
Speaker 2: kids go.
Speaker 4: From here to here, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 4: it's just like I miss birthdays, I miss Christmas, I
Speaker 4: miss doctor's appointments, I missed daddy school back, Daddy day
Speaker 4: at school, and basketball games, dances, basketball games, football games,
Speaker 4: my son first day of high school, stuff like that,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So more so, I just hope they forgive me.
Speaker 6: Spoke to the older kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I spoke to the old ones. Yeah, do they
Speaker 2: forgive you?
Speaker 4: I think they're just happy right now. They don't really
Speaker 4: understand yet they understand. Yeah, I don't think they really understand,
Speaker 4: but you know they for a while, we just try
Speaker 4: to play this, uh Daddy's away and then you know
Speaker 4: it's like.
Speaker 3: Back about thirty days, like all right now we ain't Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know the phones and you know they're on social media,
Speaker 4: so you know that is that in jail?
Speaker 2: You know like that?
Speaker 1: So how do you separate who you were from who
Speaker 1: the world still thinks you are?
Speaker 2: Mhm h. I guess I just separated about a time,
Speaker 2: like separated by time.
Speaker 1: Time.
Speaker 4: Time either is gonna fix everything or it's just gonna
Speaker 4: make it worse, you know what I'm saying. So for me,
Speaker 4: I feel like this time away fixed a lot of
Speaker 4: things from me, you know what I'm saying, especially with
Speaker 4: me and my family, Me and my sister, like we
Speaker 4: always had each other back. You know, that's my gym
Speaker 4: to one. You know what I'm saying. She June sixth,
Speaker 4: I'm June seventh. You know what I'm saying. Uh, my
Speaker 4: baby sister too, you know what I'm saying, my older
Speaker 4: brother like commissary every week. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: even if I ain't even need it, but I really
Speaker 4: didn't even need it. Like, but you know, any phone call,
Speaker 4: I might just be going I just might be going
Speaker 4: through something. I'm calling your sister.
Speaker 2: What you think? What you think they gonna think? They
Speaker 2: still gonna rock with me when I.
Speaker 4: Get home, you know what I'm saying, Like you know
Speaker 4: how you saying if I leave a game, that gets
Speaker 4: still gonna love me. You know, I'm like, uh and
Speaker 4: then uh, just learning myself man, Like you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like that detox and that detoxing and you know,
Speaker 4: getting your body together, especially working out, working out kind
Speaker 4: of like kind of got me together a lot too,
Speaker 4: you know that discipline, like being at like I don't
Speaker 4: feel like doing it, but still getting it done. Like uh,
Speaker 4: just watching, just learning from the old heads in there.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I was down with a
Speaker 4: few homies. That's you know that's not coming home no
Speaker 4: time soon, you know what I'm saying. Really probably no
Speaker 4: time ever, depending on if they outlast the years, I
Speaker 4: mean outlast the sentence. And you know, I got a
Speaker 4: lot of wisdom from them, man, and they all like,
Speaker 4: you know, the way you carry yourself, little bro. Like
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, way you carry yourself. I
Speaker 4: don't really lay everybody little broke me. But you know
Speaker 4: certain people that I respect, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: I call them big bro, And they just the way
Speaker 4: you carry yourself, the way you move. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. I see the way you move through here.
Speaker 4: You ain't You ain't full of yourself. You don't think
Speaker 4: you the ship. And you know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 4: when you get out there, man like, like like do
Speaker 4: it for the gods, but we don't want to see
Speaker 4: you back in here, man like, you got a lot
Speaker 4: of shit to look out to. And then you know
Speaker 4: a lot of people, Hey, hey, hey, hey, guess what
Speaker 4: I'm in here with. You know what I'm saying, Hey, Oh,
Speaker 4: tell them to send me a picture so you know,
Speaker 4: I'll take a picture for the gods. We send the
Speaker 4: autographs and shit like that. And yeah, me and my daughter, man,
Speaker 4: the man, I'm like, man, I don't even know your
Speaker 4: daughter knew I was, you know what I said? They younger, now,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So it was just like
Speaker 4: every every time I start to feel like I don't
Speaker 4: know if it's gonna be it is hey, yo, man,
Speaker 4: somebody saying, I'm like, well then, like I remember in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, like the top of twenty twenty five
Speaker 4: that was doing like the again thing with the JBL
Speaker 4: speaker shit. So and it was like that my sister,
Speaker 4: hey trending, I'm like, how the fuck what I do now?
Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, like what I do,
Speaker 4: Like I'm in trouble with some shit like but it's
Speaker 4: just like every time I started feeling down or feeling
Speaker 4: like like out of like like like it wasn't gonna
Speaker 4: be nothing for me when I come home, something always
Speaker 4: reminded me man like, So like I said, either Tim
Speaker 4: gon't either fix it make it worse.
Speaker 2: So but this for me, Tom made everything better for me.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, you know at your peak, everything
Speaker 1: was moving fast, right, but then when you in prison,
Speaker 1: everything stops. How did that shift your sense of purpose?
Speaker 4: It was much needed. It was much needed, for sure,
Speaker 4: definitely much needed. And a lot of people say I'm
Speaker 4: crazy for that, you know what I'm saying, But you
Speaker 4: got one day you downtown selling CDs, trying to make
Speaker 4: a name for yourself, and then you got another day
Speaker 4: you on you on, you on stage with Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. And then it's like you
Speaker 2: do so much.
Speaker 4: Everything was a blur, like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: Like I was moving so fast half the times. I
Speaker 4: don't even have pictures of everything out did I'm like,
Speaker 4: ain't send me pictures that you ain't got nothing, like
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So it was like, all right,
Speaker 4: let me see where I went wrong over here or
Speaker 4: what I did this, and you start to you know,
Speaker 4: you just take mental notes like you learn yourself, man,
Speaker 4: Like you learn yourself. Like I said, you're either gonna
Speaker 4: get better or you're gonna get worse. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. You're gonna give up on yourself? Are you
Speaker 4: going to go hard for yourself? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So for me, it's just like I gotta go harder, man,
Speaker 4: Like I can't. This can't be it for me right here,
Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, Like, ain't no way
Speaker 4: I'm about to just come home and just go get
Speaker 4: a job or some shit, like you.
Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying like I'm not going to target
Speaker 2: like you know what I'm saying, Like, I gotta do
Speaker 2: what I love to do. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: If I gotta, if I gotta, if I got a
Speaker 4: man up and take responsibility for the ship that I
Speaker 4: did to make to get me in this position, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And that's what I did.
Speaker 3: I did three hundred treat I seen you. You went
Speaker 3: to three hundred yesterday. How was that reception?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Man, you know it's it's love.
Speaker 4: And I've been with them for eleven year, oh ship, No,
Speaker 4: it was six for twelve years now. Yeah, we've been
Speaker 4: to goother for everybody left three hundred. When was the
Speaker 4: same people there right right? That Salam show there, right,
Speaker 4: that Salame show there. I think if I'm not mistake,
Speaker 4: I don't want to miss miss like uh but I
Speaker 4: think they're like the president or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yes, Seline, just I think you've got promote.
Speaker 2: Yeah sure yeah man.
Speaker 3: But so now what's your mind frame with doing music now?
Speaker 3: Is it one time you went straight street, another time
Speaker 3: it was crossover and party and music. So what's what's
Speaker 3: Fettie's feeling.
Speaker 4: Now, I don't have a I don't have a like
Speaker 4: a genre. Man, Like, whatever I feel, I just do it,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like I don't really have
Speaker 4: like a I don't want to be in a box. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Like I don't want to be like that that that guy.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. If it sounds good, if
Speaker 4: it feel good, I'm gonna do it. It's just it's
Speaker 4: all up to the people reception of it, of course,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. But I don't try to
Speaker 4: just stay you know what I mean, Because what I
Speaker 4: feel like personally, I feel like when you when you
Speaker 4: become a certain kind of artist, you have to follow
Speaker 4: a certain kind of uh movement, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So if you're a gangster artist, you gotta be a
Speaker 4: gangster all day. If you're a trap artist, you gotta
Speaker 4: really trap about this, you know what I mean, You
Speaker 4: gotta really know what you're talking about. If you're a
Speaker 4: pop artist, you know what I'm saying, you can't be
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like, you can't be you
Speaker 4: can't certain things you do. Like, But with me, it's like,
Speaker 4: you know, even when when I'm like when I'm in prison.
Speaker 4: A lot of people listen to the songs and they like,
Speaker 4: ain't no way that's the same dude that's singing these songs. Like,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, just by the way I
Speaker 4: carried myself. But then this is where I come from,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. A lot of people misconcept
Speaker 4: the artists for the person. So they're thinking like, oh,
Speaker 4: he's singing and you know what I'm saying, he probably
Speaker 4: this way, and they it was good. It was popping
Speaker 4: where the guys at.
Speaker 2: What that's funny?
Speaker 1: W you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Like, So for me, I don't want to be in
Speaker 4: a box. I don't want to be I just want
Speaker 4: to be a great artist.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Like, did your voice ever change? I think the first
Speaker 3: project to the second project, it felt like your voice changed.
Speaker 2: A little bit. Yeah, for sure that for.
Speaker 3: Something you did on purpose or was it from drinking
Speaker 3: and smoking?
Speaker 2: She just came from getting older. I was.
Speaker 4: Word, man, I was you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 4: there's certain ranges and shit, I couldn't It's kind of.
Speaker 2: Hogh dam, but.
Speaker 4: Hmm, I think more so more so for me it
Speaker 4: was just like I was trying to find a way
Speaker 4: to just do something different, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: because trying to follow, trying to follow these songs was
Speaker 4: damned the impossible. I'm stressing myself out trying to make
Speaker 4: another six seven, I try to make another Midway, try
Speaker 4: to make.
Speaker 2: Another Trap Queen.
Speaker 4: It's like this ship not gonna happen, bro, It's just
Speaker 4: it is what it is, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And the way they built, like the way that the
Speaker 4: song's hyped up, like I can't it's like, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, It's a lot of people don't get
Speaker 4: a Trap Queen record, so trying to follow that shit
Speaker 4: is like damned impossible, you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying it is, but that's tough, man. Like that
Speaker 4: feeling like the ship I was going through at that time,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2: I wasn't going through that no more.
Speaker 4: You know, like a lot of that plays and a
Speaker 4: lot of that plays a role, and you know, I
Speaker 4: like a lot of things. I'll be saying, like you know,
Speaker 4: when you follow artists from the beginning and once they pop,
Speaker 4: you kind of like, eh, I don't know what the
Speaker 4: hell you're talking about you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 4: I don't relate to that. And it was like the
Speaker 4: same thing happened with me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It was just like when we're doing trap quain, this
Speaker 4: is real shit, Like well, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: We we outside, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I'm we're looking through the little uh, we're looking through
Speaker 4: We're looking through such things.
Speaker 1: You like that? Me?
Speaker 2: I like that one. If I could get this one,
Speaker 2: I would get it in this color. You know.
Speaker 4: We we like that until and then it went to
Speaker 4: which one of these you want? You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: We're gonna take both of them.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Like life changes, so life experience change, so music change.
Speaker 4: So it was like from the Fetti Wop album towards
Speaker 4: the Butterfly Effect. You know, I was going through a
Speaker 4: lot of ship uh, a lot of personal things was happening.
Speaker 4: So with the when the Butterfly Fact, it was more
Speaker 4: so me telling my story than trying to make.
Speaker 1: A hit record.
Speaker 6: So what do you coming back to music? What do
Speaker 6: you focus on?
Speaker 5: Cause people want to hit, but you've got a lot
Speaker 5: of life to talk about at this point you spend years.
Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, I don't feel like that's important. Like
Speaker 4: like I did my time. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I did my time. It's a lot of rappers that
Speaker 4: went to jail. I mean, I hate to say it
Speaker 4: like that. They came home and you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: they want if they chose to talk about their jail shit,
Speaker 4: that's them, you know what I'm saying. Like me, I
Speaker 4: did my time with the guys in there, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, and they all bro leadership behind you
Speaker 4: and you walk out leave ithead. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: We trying to see you on TV. Everybody wanted. But listen,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell y'all something in jail. There's three things
Speaker 4: that you don't turn the TV from. Sports, news, love,
Speaker 4: and hip hop. That's just the three things in jail,
Speaker 4: you don't turn the TV from.
Speaker 2: Something might happen to you. You know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 2: you know that's just we want to see you on TV. Bro.
Speaker 4: We trying to hear on the radio. I know when
Speaker 4: you Bro get twenty days, I want to hear something
Speaker 4: new on it. On the computer, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: Like this is the type of motivation I was having,
Speaker 4: So I don't. I don't to come home and to
Speaker 4: talk about that shit. It's pointless. I did my time
Speaker 4: in it some.
Speaker 1: Because I'm wondering, like, will you're writing change now that
Speaker 1: you've lived such a real life consequence instead of success.
Speaker 2: I guess, uh. I wouldn't say it'll change.
Speaker 4: I guess it's always going to change, especially when when
Speaker 4: you're trying to be creative. But more so, I uh,
Speaker 4: I just feel like I just feel like I gotta
Speaker 4: I appreciate music more. I appreciate I appreciate life more,
Speaker 4: like just checking out, going to seven eleven for a
Speaker 4: bottle of water. You know what I'm saying, Like I
Speaker 4: appreciate everything, just to even just sit here without you
Speaker 4: know what i mean, visit over you.
Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying Like that, you know what I'm
Speaker 2: say saying for real? So you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: You're watching people walk out the song, You're looking at
Speaker 4: that exit sign like damn, I can't wait to it's
Speaker 4: my turn. You feel what I'm saying. So it's like
Speaker 4: I just appreciate everything, man, like I'm never gonna forget it.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I ain't gonna never forget it,
Speaker 4: but I'm not I'm not trying to make that my
Speaker 4: focal point. Like you know what I'm saying, I don't
Speaker 4: want nobody to feel bad for me. I'm knowing for
Speaker 4: making we're gonna have fun when these shits come on.
Speaker 4: Everybody want to grab it.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 4: I remember what I was doing at this time that
Speaker 4: I'm trying to keep that. I don't want that.
Speaker 2: Oh he talking.
Speaker 4: I lived this hit for real, like and if anybody
Speaker 4: that that was locked up with me, they'll tell you.
Speaker 4: Like Bro said on Business Like, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: I wasn't wasn't in there playing around, you feel me?
Speaker 2: So it was just like I ain't. I'm chilling with.
Speaker 1: The ever moment. You know, it was so noisy in
Speaker 1: your life before you went in with the ever A
Speaker 1: moment when you was in prison where you fell in
Speaker 1: love with the silence.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, definitely. I think I told my sister
Speaker 4: that a few times too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just like, man, I want to say, what year
Speaker 2: was that, twenty fourteen?
Speaker 4: I think we did. I think I did six seven
Speaker 4: nine On my birthday in twenty fourteen. That was the
Speaker 4: year we signed a deal with three hundred. I think
Speaker 4: like around November or September or something like that. I
Speaker 4: don't remember nothing else besides getting sentenced.
Speaker 2: Like from there it was just.
Speaker 4: A blurd yeah wow, Like I really, I think the
Speaker 4: earliest thing I remember with Southwest Southwest and the next
Speaker 4: thing I know, it was like I'm about to go
Speaker 4: to jazz, like for real, Like it was just like that.
Speaker 2: So it's like, like, damn with it.
Speaker 4: I was just twenty three years old, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, like in my thirties now mid thirties, Like,
Speaker 4: shit's crazy, you know what I'm saying. Looking at my son,
Speaker 4: I'm like, well he was only five years old when
Speaker 4: all this shit was happening, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 4: Like that, So it's just like, man, everything just happened
Speaker 4: so quick.
Speaker 2: It was just crazy. You know.
Speaker 1: There's a Bible scripture. I think it's a Psalm forty
Speaker 1: six ten. Be still and know that I am God.
Speaker 1: Nobody know. I know people probably said that to you
Speaker 1: when you said you you fell in love with the
Speaker 1: silence a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just I don't know.
Speaker 4: It just felt good to just hear myself think for
Speaker 4: a second, slow it down, take just take control of
Speaker 4: my own my own life.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: How you gonna keep that going now?
Speaker 5: Because like once things start going and you're moving around
Speaker 5: and you're touring and all that stuff, like the noise
Speaker 5: is gonna come comes with the celebrity life.
Speaker 2: Oh trust me, it's a lot in prison. It's live.
Speaker 2: As soon as they pop the doors, it's live. You
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: You just gotta whether it be you got your workout team,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, we hit the yard at
Speaker 4: a certain time, you know what I mean, we're gonna
Speaker 4: get our money, all you got. You just you know,
Speaker 4: you're getting you in your sad or your bunk and
Speaker 4: you just you know what I mean, Yo, Look how
Speaker 4: that later?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Like they gonna respect it,
Speaker 2: or you know what I mean, or you make them
Speaker 2: respect it.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of like the same thing for me,
Speaker 4: except this time I'm just going to go in the house,
Speaker 4: like going to.
Speaker 2: The crib, off like talking and take my phone.
Speaker 1: That's how did time the time away change your relationship
Speaker 1: with fame?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think everybody know, I didn't really care
Speaker 4: about being famous. I don't think that was like a secret.
Speaker 4: I didn't. I don't. That's that's that was never the goal.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like that was never the goal.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to make everybody. I just wanted to
Speaker 4: get a Ferrari, I said, And you.
Speaker 1: Got a few of those if being loved these all
Speaker 1: types of shit.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to ferrari. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I just wanted ferrari.
Speaker 1: About your mama house, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, they used to ride the motorcycles in the
Speaker 3: Atlanta house. Yeah I didn't know that and everything they said.
Speaker 3: I used to ride the motorcycles in the Atlanta house.
Speaker 2: Like my dirt bike chef. We just ride through the house.
Speaker 1: How much did you have in your account at the
Speaker 1: peak of everything? Like, what number did you look at you? Like, god, damn,
Speaker 1: at the peak of everything? How much did you have
Speaker 1: in your account?
Speaker 2: A lot? It was a lot.
Speaker 1: It was like hundreds of millions.
Speaker 2: I'm still trying to get to one hundred millions. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I had a few. I had a few.
Speaker 1: What part of your old lifestyle do you not want back?
Speaker 1: Even even if the money is there with it.
Speaker 4: Uh, the feeling the need to take care of everybody. Uh,
Speaker 4: everybody don't deserve me. Man, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: Like I'm I'm a real lord person, I'm real, I'm
Speaker 4: loyal to a fault in a sense, and I'm loyal
Speaker 4: to the court. When I love you, I love you
Speaker 4: to deaths Like you know what I'm saying, I'll go
Speaker 4: to the end of the world for you. Like you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Like it ain't nothing I won't
Speaker 4: do for nobody I love so, Uh, that part of me,
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't miss it at all. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: blocked him out. That was one of the main I
Speaker 4: guess you could say. No, I'm a geminar, so the
Speaker 4: other side of me, I blocked him out, and definitely
Speaker 4: so for that ship. Like yeah, if I don't, I
Speaker 4: don't feel like I owe nobody nothing. I did it already.
Speaker 1: You just got home yesterday, right, Uh on this Wednesday?
Speaker 6: Like forty eight hours?
Speaker 2: Yeah, seventh Wednesday.
Speaker 6: It was not real fast.
Speaker 1: This is a lot days.
Speaker 6: It feels like you've been here for about three weeks
Speaker 6: for sure.
Speaker 1: Do you even get some checks yet?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: You ain't even letting the band breathe weird.
Speaker 6: I saw Masika tweeting about, yeah, that whole situation.
Speaker 3: She wanted that I was going to.
Speaker 5: Ask a question regardless you all in his bedroom, but
Speaker 5: I mean, okay, some asking you. I saw her tweet
Speaker 5: about disappointment and I know you guys have a daughter together,
Speaker 5: like what's the plan for you or her moving forward?
Speaker 6: Because that gets loud.
Speaker 4: I appreciate her for you know, I appreciate her for
Speaker 4: making sure. She making sure that my daughter knew that
Speaker 4: I love her. She didn't she didn't try to keep
Speaker 4: her away at this time. You know, during that time
Speaker 4: I was damn uh. You know, whenever I called for her,
Speaker 4: she let me talk to her.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I don't got nothing bad to say about her, so whatever,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't be I'm not really a
Speaker 4: social media person.
Speaker 3: Would you jump back on the reality show? Would you
Speaker 3: do that?
Speaker 4: I promise my gods, I'll do it for them. But
Speaker 4: I don't you know what I'm saying. That's not that's
Speaker 4: not nothing that I would have chosen for myself. But
Speaker 4: like I said, when you when you're down, you just
Speaker 4: like damn, I should have did that, man, so I
Speaker 4: could you know what I'm saying, Like it's just a
Speaker 4: whole bunch of things you just wish you should have did.
Speaker 4: But yeah, as far as that situation, yeah, I don't
Speaker 4: have nothing bad to say about nobody.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, how do you plan to break cycles? Man?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like not just financially, but
Speaker 1: emotionally and spiritually.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4: Just like I said, man, with time, man, Like I
Speaker 4: know it's probably like a like a like a corny answer,
Speaker 4: but like like I don't know how to explain that
Speaker 4: to you, Like I really don't know how to make
Speaker 4: it sound like how I feel about it, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like just to have time to just
Speaker 4: it's just it's.
Speaker 2: A wonderful feeling man.
Speaker 4: Like it's a lot of people waiting for their time
Speaker 4: to come, you know, to come home, to be back
Speaker 4: with their family, like you know what I'm saying. Or
Speaker 4: like when you want to visit floor and you keep
Speaker 4: looking at the at the clock, like time, what's up?
Speaker 2: Like that word is powerful, bro, Like you.
Speaker 4: Know what I'm saying, Like, like to have time is
Speaker 4: a lot, so to take advantage of it. So you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Like to end my cycles, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do it with time, like when what time comes
Speaker 4: great things for me? Like and I noticed that no
Speaker 4: matter what, like I haven't had a I haven't had
Speaker 4: a single besides the Yams things in ten years, bro,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And somehow, some way, every
Speaker 4: year one of them songs just get Do you all
Speaker 4: remember when we just used to scream seventeen thirty? Like somehow,
Speaker 4: some way, if something happens, where they where's fetti?
Speaker 2: Like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And it just like like damn, I had to ask myself, like, bro,
Speaker 4: where you at?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. And with time I figured
Speaker 2: that question out. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So what kind of example are you most intentional about setting?
Speaker 1: Not at your home?
Speaker 4: Oh honestly, I just want to like show kids, like
Speaker 4: especially kids with disabilities. You know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 4: kids with disabilities, kids that's less fortunate, kids that like
Speaker 4: grew up without their pops or grew up without their moms,
Speaker 4: or grew up in a foster kid that you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, It's nothing impossible.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like I.
Speaker 4: Wasn't supposed to be able to drive, let alone even
Speaker 4: see I was born with congeneral black homer. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. It was supposed to affect both of
Speaker 4: my eyes, you know what I'm saying, But they save one.
Speaker 2: So like.
Speaker 4: I really want to do like a foundation for kids
Speaker 4: that's like to to to better them with whatever the
Speaker 4: disability may be. You know what I'm saying. Of course,
Speaker 4: you know I fight for the for the for the blindness,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. That's just you know, it's
Speaker 4: quite obvious why. But I just want to set an
Speaker 4: example that you know, no matter what you go through
Speaker 4: in life, like you don't have to let that define you.
Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, Like for years, you know,
Speaker 4: some people are going to say, oh, well he went
Speaker 4: to jail, and you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: You got him.
Speaker 4: Some people that that remind that remembers me from the music,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. But you have to set
Speaker 4: the standard. You have to kind of narrate what you
Speaker 4: want to be or who you're going to be. So
Speaker 4: I just want to, like I just want to be
Speaker 4: there for the people that don't got nobody, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. And if I could do that, then
Speaker 4: I feel like I you know, I did a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean one of the dopest stories I heard. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's true, but you said used to
Speaker 1: wear the prosthetic guy, but you stopped, Yeah, because you
Speaker 1: wanted to embrace the natural look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Definitely.
Speaker 5: When we got your statement when you first came home,
Speaker 5: I posted it and the biggest feed that feedback that
Speaker 5: I got from, like the audience who like pays attentions
Speaker 5: when I'm posting the stories, is people really appreciated that
Speaker 5: the first thing you talked about was doing stuff for
Speaker 5: kids and what you wanted to do with your community
Speaker 5: and the foundation and not music.
Speaker 6: Like people were like we love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know it's just like, first of all,
Speaker 4: I have kids myself, like and like I said, I was,
Speaker 4: I missed a lot of their life. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, I missed a lot of to me important parts.
Speaker 2: Of their life.
Speaker 4: Even if I see the phone calls, like sometimes it's
Speaker 4: not enough, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So and then like to.
Speaker 4: Before that, I'm running so much like I'm doing so
Speaker 4: much that I like, I really wasn't making time for
Speaker 4: my own kids, you know what I'm saying. And I
Speaker 4: feel like I feel like, no, I was fucked up
Speaker 4: for that, you know what I'm saying. No matter how
Speaker 4: how I tried to justify, Oh, I needed to get
Speaker 4: the money, so we've got the money. That might be good.
Speaker 4: I could make sure they always got rid of it.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, you know what I'm saying. One thing
Speaker 4: I learned that the most important thing you could do
Speaker 4: for these kids is give them time. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. Like there's nothing there's nothing bigger than time
Speaker 4: and showing up. And you know what I'm saying, Just
Speaker 4: comm here, let's watch Frozen, and you know.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You want let's go. You want to learn how to
Speaker 4: throw football, Let's go throw the football. Buying them Shit,
Speaker 4: ain't gonna do it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You're just gonna be You're just gonna be the nigga
Speaker 2: with the money like you're not.
Speaker 1: That, you know what I'm saying, gonna be the name
Speaker 1: of the new album.
Speaker 2: That sounds fired. But nah, I can't do that.
Speaker 4: Nah, time is just something that means a lot to me,
Speaker 4: man Like, that's just it. Just I learned a lot
Speaker 4: within these within these few years, especially about myself, about
Speaker 4: how I want to approach certain things, and like when
Speaker 4: it comes to like helping the kids, man like, it's
Speaker 4: something I always did anyway. You know, I'm just like
Speaker 4: I said, I'm real private. And maybe it's a bad thing,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, because you know I had
Speaker 4: that mind state like damn you why you gotta post everything?
Speaker 4: Like I used to always say that to me, Like
Speaker 4: why they always got to post it if they're doing
Speaker 4: the shit from the heart, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: And like I kind of understand now, like maybe some
Speaker 4: people want to see it.
Speaker 2: Some people don't.
Speaker 4: But for me, if everybody knows me, like I pull
Speaker 4: up all the kids around, everybody get one hundred dollars
Speaker 4: like little stuff like that. It was back to school drives.
Speaker 4: We do back to school drives every year, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Resting peace of my cousin Jay, like
Speaker 4: we did the rest of the back to school drives
Speaker 4: every year. Jday, we do like two thousand book bags,
Speaker 4: sneakers and school supplies without a post. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like this is what we do. Like no,
Speaker 4: it's no secret to the community, but it's a secret
Speaker 4: to the world. So it's like for me, helping the
Speaker 4: kids is something that I owe always been, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean.
Speaker 2: I know how I.
Speaker 4: Felt to go to school with some fucked up sneakers.
Speaker 4: I knew how I felt that, Like Damn, I don't
Speaker 4: really want to wear this because I just have. I've
Speaker 4: been wearing the same jeans for three days. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like I know that feeling. I know
Speaker 4: that feeling of like getting laughed at and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So when it came to
Speaker 4: when it was my turn, instead of me being there
Speaker 4: for for for my little ones, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, let me make sure they all flyers had
Speaker 4: like you know what I'm saying, so they don't have to.
Speaker 4: You don't got to worry about that feeling, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Just get me good grades and you
Speaker 4: know it's it's a it's a bigger gap than that,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So, uh, just that just
Speaker 4: just to be there and you know, let them let
Speaker 4: them see you, like you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 4: let them see you, let them be next to you, like, Yo,
Speaker 4: can I sit sit in the car my door open,
Speaker 4: go ahead like bro nose like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: like my doors to go ahead, sit in the car, sitting,
Speaker 4: take your pictures, do what you want.
Speaker 2: You can stand on top of this motherfucker. I don't care.
Speaker 2: It's just a material item, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So I just I just want to be the best
Speaker 4: I could be for whoever that's gonna appreciate me.
Speaker 1: I feel like in a way man, you know, and
Speaker 1: of course prison takes years from your life, but I
Speaker 1: feel like it also gave you the clarity to finally
Speaker 1: own your life.
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure, in the right way. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: I definitely agree with you on that.
Speaker 3: Well, we appreciate you for joining us, man, and I
Speaker 3: can't wait to hear new music. I know, ain't got
Speaker 3: nothing now, right, No, just double checking man.
Speaker 6: Post it on the foundation work too, the foundation work.
Speaker 1: For sure. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you absolutely. How do I do?
Speaker 1: Got a couple more questions? How do you protect your freedom? Now?
Speaker 1: Like I mean mentally, I mean financially, I mean spiritually,
Speaker 1: Like how do you protect that freedom?
Speaker 4: Like I said, man, turn that phone off, give yourself.
Speaker 4: It's just saying we got we got in jail, right
Speaker 4: if you could, if you could watch.
Speaker 2: TV for an hour, you could do anything for hour.
Speaker 4: So out of jail, of course, we don't have to
Speaker 4: be at certain things at certain times.
Speaker 2: Give yourself to our a day for yourself.
Speaker 4: Go in there, close the door, meditate whatever if that's
Speaker 4: what you want to meditate.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Do some yoga or some shit. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know how to do.
Speaker 4: Yoga and shit, I'm not flexible and shit. But for me,
Speaker 4: I like pull ups. That's what I do. I like,
Speaker 4: that's what I That's how I that's my thing. I
Speaker 4: throw the headphones on, put the music on, do pull ups.
Speaker 4: When I'm up there, I don't count.
Speaker 2: I think. I just go I'm all right. This was
Speaker 2: like get down, all right? Walking around next? Know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 4: We're in the line and every time I hit it,
Speaker 4: I just think about something else, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Then I go back, I sit down, you know, take
Speaker 4: my shower.
Speaker 2: This's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna do this. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do this. I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 4: You know, just you gotta find time for yourself to
Speaker 4: give yourself time to do things, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So that's basically how how I could keep my freedom.
Speaker 1: Do you believe the system, the prison system is designed
Speaker 1: for rehabilitation or just survival.
Speaker 2: The outside prison system or inside inside.
Speaker 4: M I don't know if I can talk about that, Like,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I can talk about that, but
Speaker 4: my personal experience, if I had to give you an
Speaker 4: answer to be no, yeah, not at all.
Speaker 1: How did I guess what I'm saying. Of course you survived,
Speaker 1: but how did you kind of rehabilitate yourself? Because I'm
Speaker 1: seeing I feel the older wives of Fetti like, so
Speaker 1: what did you do? You said exercise?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like to learn shit, man. So I talked
Speaker 4: to a lot of the old ads, you know, like
Speaker 4: what you did, how you how you fuck up?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, what you did wrong? You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, what you did wrong?
Speaker 4: And then you hear you hear like they got classes
Speaker 4: like so the state present and federal prison is two
Speaker 4: different things. You know what I'm saying so, and in
Speaker 4: federal prison, the prisoners run the jail. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying as far as let me let me rephrase
Speaker 4: that because I might get it wrong. Uh, the prisoners
Speaker 4: run the programs in jail. So if you like taking
Speaker 4: classes like I got my g D and uh uh
Speaker 4: in prison, thank you?
Speaker 2: You know we did I did that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: They have like stock classes or like what is it
Speaker 4: called S and P Fortune something like that, S and
Speaker 4: P five hundreds, and they teach you about the Billinger top,
Speaker 4: Billinger thing bottom, Bullaing, all of that stuff. If you
Speaker 4: if that's what you went to, they got whatever you want.
Speaker 4: If you want to learn Spanish, you could go in
Speaker 4: there and learn Spanish. If you if you don't know Spanish,
Speaker 4: you want to learn English, you go in there and
Speaker 4: learn English. Like it's ways to better yourself. But the
Speaker 4: actual system now it's fucked up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's got to be more fucked up for
Speaker 1: people who were actually rich and famous, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, you totally different.
Speaker 4: And that's that's that's the thing I always say too,
Speaker 4: Like you know that part, that part of being in
Speaker 4: jail was always the worst part for me, because you're
Speaker 4: not coming, Like, no matter what spot I was at,
Speaker 4: you don't just come in and you know, get yourself together.
Speaker 4: They know I was coming before I even knew I
Speaker 4: was going there, Like people knew I was coming weeks
Speaker 4: before I even landed on it, before I landed on
Speaker 4: the yard, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So it's like, all right, let's let's just get this.
Speaker 2: Let's just get this. Is straight to the.
Speaker 4: Point I be like, you know what I'm saying, I'm
Speaker 4: not about to be singing for nobody. We ain't about
Speaker 4: to be yelling seventeen thirty eight. But you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, like, no, you just you just be a man.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Be a man.
Speaker 2: Man. They gonna they gonna respect it. Man, they don't
Speaker 2: respect it.
Speaker 1: What do people misunderstand about incarceration if they've never experienced Oh.
Speaker 2: Hmm, wait, asked me a question.
Speaker 1: What do people misunderstand about incarceration if they've never experienced it?
Speaker 2: I think people think jail is like old jail.
Speaker 4: When I say that, like, I don't know if people
Speaker 4: are watching like the show to ows Man like like that,
Speaker 4: like in Jail's not like that, no more. It ain't
Speaker 4: like that no more. Don't get me wrong. It's violent,
Speaker 4: it's hell definitely violent. But state president and federal president
Speaker 4: is way different, like it was way way way different.
Speaker 2: Like it's way different.
Speaker 4: It's like goddamn government in there. It's politics, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean. You've got you this person. You're wrong
Speaker 4: with these people if you this, you wrong with them
Speaker 4: and you can't even do nothing. You can't even do
Speaker 4: nothing without accent this dude and he go to ot
Speaker 4: access and then it's it's it's different. People misunderstand, like
Speaker 4: you don't just go to jail and just think.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't even know. I don't even
Speaker 2: know how to answer that.
Speaker 4: But you know, I don't want to tell nobody to
Speaker 4: go to jail, you know what I'm saying. But if
Speaker 4: you want to figure out what it's like go to jail.
Speaker 1: What does redemption actually look like for you?
Speaker 2: Loving on my kids?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: Yeah, loving a my kids. I just want you know,
Speaker 4: when I'm able to just.
Speaker 2: Come on, let's go. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm in there watching I've never been on the cruise before,
Speaker 4: and I just seen like I was every day.
Speaker 2: The commercial come on.
Speaker 3: Just said the same thing when he was like the cruise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's something you just it's it be little
Speaker 2: ship like that.
Speaker 4: Like I swear when I was home, uh, Chick Filate
Speaker 4: didn't have mac and cheese yet, and so every day
Speaker 4: Chick Filate show macaroni and cheese. I'm like, what the fuck, Damn,
Speaker 4: I gotta get some macaronie. But you know it's like
Speaker 4: little things like that, you know what I'm saying. So man, Like,
Speaker 4: I just want to love on the kids. Man, That's
Speaker 4: what my redemption feel.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 2: I get them. I want to go on the cruise.
Speaker 4: I want to take them to Aspen in the winter,
Speaker 4: get a cabin, do the hot chocolate ship. I want
Speaker 4: to take them to Norway so they could see the water.
Speaker 4: I want to take them everywhere like Florence, my favorite
Speaker 4: place I been with Florence. I want to take them
Speaker 4: there so we go get some real Talian food. Like
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Just I just want to
Speaker 4: I just want to experience this shit with them, like
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Like I said, like I.
Speaker 4: Like, they deserve they deserve me, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Everything I gave these niggas, all them twenty cars that
Speaker 4: I let everybody drive and we out at Atlantic City
Speaker 4: all this time.
Speaker 2: And you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm telling myself, Oh no, you know I'm getting the money,
Speaker 4: so everything good.
Speaker 2: I could do this I deserve.
Speaker 4: That's that's bullshit, you know what I'm saying, Even when
Speaker 4: it comes down to what you asked me earlier, as
Speaker 4: far as my daughter's mom, like you know, like, no
Speaker 4: matter what happens, as a man, you stand up. So
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter what anybody says about me. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like you take care of my you
Speaker 4: take care of my kids. I'm a love you forever,
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter, like you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 4: I appreciate each one of my kids moms. You know,
Speaker 4: they all healthy, they all in school, they all breathe,
Speaker 4: then they're all doing anything. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 4: and uh you know, oh yeah, And I want to
Speaker 4: say I appreciate uh my daughter Lawrence mother too. She
Speaker 4: was she was there at the beginning of this bit
Speaker 4: for me, you know, when she didn't have to be.
Speaker 4: You know, she was going through her own thing, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. So yeah, I just I don't
Speaker 4: have time for negativity, man, Like I don't want to
Speaker 4: be a negative person. I'm not even gonna feed into
Speaker 4: no negative shit man. And and that's how I'm gonna
Speaker 4: keep it going from here. Like I'm just gonna keep
Speaker 4: going up.
Speaker 6: You're in the right place. What you give out is
Speaker 6: what you're going to track. You're in the right place.
Speaker 1: And I know it's only been forty eight hours, but
Speaker 1: you know what conversations with your kids, if you had that,
Speaker 1: that just hit different.
Speaker 2: Gonna. Son's funny as my oldest son, he's funny. Is yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a uh yo, I'm your height now, like chill,
Speaker 2: baby boy.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I have to do it.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. You know, man, but he
Speaker 4: gonna you know he that won't work out. Or the
Speaker 4: first day out. He took my chain, oh all, my
Speaker 4: my my nephew, my nephews, they took my chain and
Speaker 4: my hats.
Speaker 2: They took everything, the cloth and all. Yeah, they depot me.
Speaker 2: Were it up? So?
Speaker 4: Uh my oldest daughter she you know, she's she don't
Speaker 4: play no games neither. She listen to that. I don't
Speaker 4: know what you're doing, but figure it out. I need
Speaker 4: to see you.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Wow.
Speaker 4: So it's just it's just man, I'm just happy, man, Like,
Speaker 4: I'm just happy to you know, see their face when
Speaker 4: that face time came through and they.
Speaker 2: Who and you know, to see that reaction like, yeah,
Speaker 2: daddy home.
Speaker 6: You're surprising. They didn't know.
Speaker 4: Uh, some of them knew, but they didn't know exactly
Speaker 4: when I was gonna pop up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was like that, Oh, congratulations, man, I'm
Speaker 1: happy that you home and I'm happy to hear the
Speaker 1: clarity more soon than anything.
Speaker 2: So you know, thank you.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you. I'm sure you'll be up here with
Speaker 3: many some music soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I got you man.
Speaker 1: And don't rush through. Get some cheeks for us, these
Speaker 1: cheeks man.
Speaker 5: If you're not in your pocket here bedroom, get out
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 3: It's Fertie Wild. It's the Breakfast Club, Goring hold on every.
Speaker 1: Day a wake, pick your ass up, the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: I'm finished for y'all. Done