WEBVTT - G-Unit Interview 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:07.840 Real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast more than everybody 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.920 is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we are 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.400 the Breakfast Club got some special guest with us today. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.560 The original unit brought some liquor with us this morning 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:19.799 that I thought you was one of the one of 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:28.000 the Diddy boys. I am no longer, okay, but fifty 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.600 cent units in the building. It's good. That's all good. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.040 What's the fan vodka about fifth Evan? Like it was, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:39.560 it was organic, like the collaboration with me and being okay, 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.360 look together on that one, and then it's it's a 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.680 it's a good it's a good model. Like I um 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.120 Evan stands for the smooth and Dutch, you know what 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.280 I mean. It existed, it was already out in the markets. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.000 It's like five variations of it and it's already there, 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.120 and then I just came in and you know, put 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.400 behind it. You don't really drink like a healthy vodka 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:04.440 for I think everything's good modivation and I'm saying and 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.720 then occasionally I get to it like if we these 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.760 guys drink drink black black shirt, is it for me 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.240 and everybody around? Like like even when when we was 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.160 in the on in the neighborhood. It was more like, uh, 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.720 I didn't choose to do everything the same way at 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.000 the same case, them like, because I know I got 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:33.600 a real Uh yeah, I was like, leave fifty alone? 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:40.280 Was it? Who wasn't I forgot who wasn't man' asap Rocky. Yeah, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:45.520 I'm to leave that man just running. But for the 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.600 place he cool. He was at the basketball game, but 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.720 with him, he didn't really know you know what he's doing. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.400 He did that to everybody, said everybody the same time. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.000 What happened? He hit up tattered up Holly and I 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:00.400 guess you was in her DM was like, who w 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.639 w w now? Sent it to me? She said to you, damn. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.480 But she knows that the type of person you are, like, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.800 she knows it's not going to just be smooth. Well, 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.320 you know, I really don't care about you know, I 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.640 don't respond to anything connected to her like that. You know, 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.480 we just don't have that kind of friendship where it 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.760 would be like you're reacting over something so on saying 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.639 like if you guys someone to involved in nightlife, that's 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.120 where you go to meet people, right, Yeah, you know 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:25.760 what I'm saying hang out like that and then it's 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.400 not we don't have that kind of relationship anyway, So 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:33.359 don't matter. I totally leave fifty alone. Anybody else you 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:34.919 can ask for that. You ain't seen nothing wrong. And 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.240 I'm like, if you invest that kind of time money 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.760 into a female, hey, you have the right to speak 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.560 out and say stay away. But you know if you 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:47.560 I wouldn't say that that's the woman's job. True, you 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.399 know what I mean, like because I think the guy 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.480 like if you're not right there, like you can have 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.320 all of that, you have everything, it's just's your like 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.800 for your wife, who's the gig keeper. She got to 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.240 know from your communication what's acceptable and what's not acceptable 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.400 absolutely and move on that, you know, I mean everything 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.480 else is and that's that's like, that's not my girlfriend. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.880 They don't really. But there was another video where she 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.320 was I guess how to beat for another girl. They 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:14.880 said that you drove it to the fight that you 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:22.560 fail there, drove the fight for a family. I've been 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.239 trying to figure out, like fifty does not act like 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:32.440 a millionaire like world, I let's go shoot the FAMILYE. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:39.000 I ain't never gone just ever get born for you guys, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.360 like the promo runs, the press run. I love it, man, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.040 I love it. It's just part of life now, man, 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.240 be smart, stirt forget about that. You're doing these EPs fast? 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.240 Why so fast? Usually it takes a year a year 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.280 and a half, but you guys are really into this 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.320 music real quick. What's crazy is this was like the 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.480 first week. This music is from the first week that 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.640 we did when we did the Summer Jam, showing all 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:06.120 that following that the week after we recorded this this music, 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:11.280 first conversation we had that whole being the old beauty 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.240 and Beast that was spoken about in that first conversation. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.200 To see it playoff now, it's kind of crazy. From 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.039 a business perspective, Why the why the sixth song epiece? Well, 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.279 I mean, it doesn't do any damage to the overall 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.840 brand based on numbers, you know what I mean. So 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.880 it's better to just just give them something to keep 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.080 everyone active in new music coming out, and then it 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.600 creates a content that allows to continue to shoot the 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.360 music videos so we can stay current viral because a 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.480 lot of times people it's different. It's changing so dramatically, 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.159 like the people making different choices for entertainment, like they're 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.480 getting extreaming stuff and doing all kindstus like watching cable. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.200 How many channels are your cable? So we ain't seeing 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.400 everything that would traditionally we used to have to watch 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.160 up to channel eleven, you know what I'm saying, And 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.360 then we're doing the cable started coming and now it's 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.080 like a hundred channels. Channels you can thousand channels, and 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.479 I don't even have a schedule anymore. Of what I'm watching, 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.360 I just flipped through and took I see something I 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.640 want to look at, you know, I just wrote from that. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.520 Do you think numbers still matter? I don't. I think 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.400 when when I can't allow numbers to matter because of 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.320 what my numbers were, you know what I mean, like 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.680 thirteen million records and then ten million records, like they 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.760 are gonna have no artists to go diamond again, right. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.920 But that's that's gotta be scary though, because people now 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:29.840 not selling the amount of units, and people seem like 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.040 they're still looking at numbers, like the fans don't care 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.440 about it now. The more they look like what he 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.960 did first week, you gotta be I think so well, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.800 I mean I don't really, that's how impressionable the music 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.240 is like when I think and when you have momentum, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.960 it's easy for you to sustain it by being active, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.120 you know what I mean, Like I just watch and 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.080 see if you could create something that special, especially if 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.040 you haven't had that momentum at that point, then it 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.640 says you're in podcast or you got your finger on 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.000 the post of what's going on. But a lot of 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.080 the music that don't watch it now I'm saying it 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.000 it's backwards. Instead of it coming from radio and going 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.800 into the nightclub, it's starting in the nightclub and coming out. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:10.600 So like Cocole and Hot, these records are all um, 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.640 they're great album cuts and not single like it wasn't 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.560 written with intention to go to the masses, but it 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.920 becomes that cool thing that everybody's embracing. So as long 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:21.920 as you've got stuff out there for people to you know, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.719 to test and play with and you can have those 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:29.760 records happen. You think release dates are played out, Yeah, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.000 because an established artists, anyone who who's actually showed records 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.039 like you see when you see Beyonce released the record 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.839 in the middle of the night. Even Drake Slash record 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.360 came out and thinks the call of the mixtape, right, Yeah, 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.680 that was the That was the okay, in case it doesn'tselve, 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.359 you can't really gauge what Numbers is going to do 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.039 and you got to kind of momentum and exposure that 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.080 you need to be current right now. So they're just 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.120 gonna put that there and see what happens. This is 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.440 what Animal Ambition was and it but me making it 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.359 like a mixed state. It's the difference they said the 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.880 Drake albums for him to get off cash Buddy's getting 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.560 his films. I don't know why there's so much of 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.240 a problem over there. I think every time they bring 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.640 like they asked me about MTV about Baby and Way, 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.880 and I was like, no comment. And it's only because 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.600 your relationship with your pops he can forgive you, he 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.480 may not necessarily forgive me, you see what I'm saying. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.200 And then it's their personal thing. And I'm looking at 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.040 when you just see they had that father son type 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.440 of relationship. I think it's a tough thing for you 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.559 to uh, you know, from the outside to say something. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.160 But business wise, when everybody on the company say that 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.720 they're not making money or they haven't received royalty checks, 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.160 they gotta be Banks and y'all never I never heard 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.480 you complaining about money. Never, never had a problem. Fifties 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:57.320 a little crazy, but they all when I can't even 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.720 supposed to get paid, you know what? You know what 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.520 it is with Fifth like and with the whole unit situation. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.360 It's like even when I came home out of jail, 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.640 it was never like I went back to the hood 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.640 and had a chance for somebody to smoke you in 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.880 the hoods. Once you get a deal and you up there, 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.640 you already know how this game change. I moved straight 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.960 to twenty fifth Streak, right right down the block from 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.800 on Fashion Institute, and then from there me and Banks 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.640 had a call down Battery Park. They say I got 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.640 them kicked out, but it wasn't me. It was I 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:29.080 believe it was Fifth. It was nice. We had to 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.360 see the Statue of Liberty when we stepped out of Corndo, 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:32.800 So it was like, you know, we was good. I 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.120 was good when I came home. So in Connecticut and 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.600 Fifth and then they moved to their houses. They had 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.960 the condos in the city. They know basically even like 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.200 to be there in Connecticut, he didn't want to be there, 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:49.440 like I'm going to be nowhere and yeah, in the 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.920 beginning he was like like, he goes yo, I can't 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.680 see laugh. I'm a huge name, but I'd rather watch 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.120 the Nick game on my TV. That's the way I 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.480 react with Nique, you know what I mean. They're gonna 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.280 be like Banks, the cool guy we thought he was 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.200 as a mogul though, how do you not pay your 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.600 franchise all this though? If you're burn how you don't 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.600 pay what? Well? I think he paid them. I still 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.040 think that their relationship is different. Like I think if 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.600 you say I think that it can get blurry and 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.400 you can feel like this is our money because it's 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.360 father and son and he for a long time he 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.839 put in the Wayne like Wayne's hit. The album was 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.120 his sixth album, right like hen will already be out 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.360 of the game like any place else. Without having the 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.920 passion that our father has for a son, no one 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.400 would continue to pour money to you. Look, even with 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.840 marb did They'll look at it and say, our expectations 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.280 are five hundred thousand pieces, and then their budgeting goes 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.480 to the expectations of five hundred thousand pieces, not the 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.160 as soon as we get something, we're gonna go after 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.559 it to the maximum ability because they felt all we're hot, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.040 we're heating up, they're feeling you know what I mean? 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.600 He said he did stick with it. I don't think 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.480 it would have happened if it was he was with 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.760 another company. I think they would let him go by it. Yeah, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.000 how did he determine who gets what? Though? Like you said, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.360 you gave Yale too much money, A banks too much money? 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.760 Do you term who gets well? Now I did practice. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.040 The reason why in the scope then not on in 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.560 the scope is their contracts were designed on the old 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.080 music making too much money. Yeah. So it's like they 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:27.840 would have had to pay them seven hundred and fifty 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.679 thousand in advance for the next record, and they go, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:36.760 what we can get the new kid the transition of 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.000 the three sixty deal that hadn't happen after me? Yeah, 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.200 after after three sixty deal, can't they said that wasn't 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.959 gonna happen again, you know, like and it was like 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.199 when they implemented that thing in the deal, I thought 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.280 they would be expanding the building or trying to do 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.600 what Wanna was doing, because Wanna was paying for they 0:10:55.640 --> 0:11:00.800 were financing Chris doing a brand assets to try and 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.679 facilitate the deal making process to make more money. Right, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.040 So it's like, we're gonna do this through sixty deal, 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.800 but we have this arm that's gonna go find you 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.080 the deal. And they didn't even do that. They just said, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.760 if you get a deal, we get a piece. Do 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.840 you still love the music? Thal because you make money 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:22.640 from liquor underwater you knowends to make money. So why 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.200 is the music because it has to be the least well, 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.079 it may not be the biggest financial piece, but it's 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.240 still it's still a passion connected to it. It's the 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.440 reason why everything else I'm able to do all those things. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.480 And and it's you know, the feeling you got that 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.640 song to come on one o'clock in the morning, and 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:44.360 it's that song like I feel like I always I'm 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.839 always the record away because of how big my profile is. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.120 So you make a song and it shifts back to 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.400 you bet right back in the middle of everything that's 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:59.000 at the top of music culture. Right. A lot of 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.720 people have that hot song the moment, but they don't 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.720 have that hot song for life, Like Bable turned twenty 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:07.000 one yesterday and yeah, like that those records a timeless 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.520 They're gonna be there like it's just it marks a 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.000 whole period of of our actual music. It's like and 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.120 and Wayne has it for that period that the Carter came, 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.400 you know what I mean, And that Drake that that 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.000 first album is it's his spot. Like you don't have 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.440 artists come in and they don't have that period where 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.040 it's that's happening right in the music culture, you know 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.080 what I mean. And we gotta always because it marks 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:31.520 like it marks time, like you don't have a person 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.719 pickus that's that's our song, Like when they go out 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.280 of couples, that's their favorite joint, and then what comes 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:38.880 on it takes them right back to the things that 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.959 were doing back then, right, you know. And that's what 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.320 I think that when people stereotype the Unit a lot, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.240 I mean because when when we heard first heard fifty 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.960 it first heard the Unit, it was gun busting, shooting, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.040 punch you in the face, we mobbed an out, but 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:57.800 all that was really happening. But it was like you 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:04.160 already know the party's involved, right, But now that it's 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.839 hard now because it's like you're not there anymore. You 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.319 don't have to run around queens and punch people and 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.839 fight people. And now it's it's more diverse. Even the 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.120 second song off the I'm grown right but you know, 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.600 and it's it's a different like everybody. All the audience 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.319 got older with us, So the majority has to be 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.640 into the content of the material or they're gonna look 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.719 at it and go, what are you talking about? Like 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.319 you're watching in hip hop, they're trending so hard, like 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.959 the things that I fell in love with have felt 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.439 out of the culture, Like it was important for you 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.400 to have something that made the music you or made 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.280 it special unique from you. And now they're following each other. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.480 I hit New York artists say it's trapping out a band. Ugh, 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.120 you know what I'm saying, And I'm like, what is it? 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.360 Hold up? Okay, I got it. Took me a second, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.439 you know what I'm saying to get and there I go. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:14:00.920 It's yeah, you gotta even the hot hot record from 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.719 Bobby and him that sounds like drill music to me. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.680 That's Chief Free Bobby Smurder. You know what I'm saying. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.120 Why I didn't want to make Bell? Yeah? Why did you? Why? 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.559 If she was signing he would you have got him already. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.079 I had to. He would have been out of it 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.360 I got. I had I got guys that were an 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.679 artists that I built up. Man, Bobby would have been 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.240 out my little, my little, my son, like my my baby, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:27.600 Hove is my Trav's big brother is my baby. Every 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.280 time he got in trouble with my house, it was 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.000 like his bell was like a million dollars dollars and 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.480 he was hitting him like that and she's done blazing. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.200 He was connected to me, right, you know what I mean. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.560 So I was like when they did that, I was like, 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.720 get him. He don't look for trouble, but he warns 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.280 people that find trouble finds him in Connecticut, like you 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:52.560 gotta get in the car and drive. Mind from right, 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.800 Like he just he differently, like he went through something. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:58.760 When travel is saying the things that he was saying, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.600 you know what I'm saying, It was like what you're doing, 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.960 like you just pushed us away from you trying to 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.920 get a mixtape to work, you know what I mean. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.760 It's like he can't see me to talk about it. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.520 But the Travis, like I had none to do it. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.760 That kid like he's a little guy trying well. He 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.600 was actually trying to do what he see me doing 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.400 at different. But I kind of saw him saying that things. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.520 You know, if you gave him, you gave him motorcycles. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.440 Everybody in the project's motorcycles. He was the first one. Yeah, 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.080 I didn't even give one get a motorbike. You don't 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:30.800 think it's a little different with you though, because you 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.760 actually everybody knows you put in work in the street 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.240 and you had to be for real street dude. But 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.280 they come in and they see it work on a 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.520 rap formula and feel like I can do the rap formula. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:40.880 But then it gets real for them in the streets 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.240 because of that, right, and then it just you see 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.080 all the way across the board, like you see it. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:55.280 You see him choose, but they noticed understand it to 0:15:55.440 --> 0:16:00.520 go after a crazy nineties instead of to come to me, 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.000 you see what I'm saying, Like, and it's like, I 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:05.920 don't know why they did that because that didn't make 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.640 no sense at all to me. But I felt like 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.320 I was trying to brush the dirt off him from 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.400 what just happened by creating more conversation, like like about 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.880 something else that's going on. But you know it was 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.200 that was kind of sucking more. But I think that 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.760 it's just confusion right now with the g unit and 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.280 moving Gene around because it gets coarsely and everything is 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.760 it's more independent now. So so how does that work now? 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.080 Because before it was the label, the labels taking everybody else. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.040 We all go together. But now it's like it's it's 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.560 fifty in Caroline, So you gotta pay for the movement 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:41.320 of banks. Kid kid yae yo buck And like, you 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.400 know the other day, you know, I know you don't smoke. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.080 I walked to the car the other day. Man, when 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:48.600 I got home, my wife was like, you were smoking. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:53.200 I was like, this is just I just gave that 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.080 I stepped in the car. What I said it was 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:59.840 if I got pulled on it with a straight to jail. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:06.480 I didn't. We rappers, man, we do a rap not you. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:13.919 You're different. Let me tell you. Fifty Boo Boo always 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.119 been a dude on the block. Maybe like oh man, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.960 here he comes, Like that's just I'm used to it. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.440 And I was always yeah, but he he'd been in 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.400 the streets with the best of them. Like it's real, 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.720 Like it's not not bullying, you know what I think. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.800 Like they said the same thing about Joel by fact 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.040 Joe it's just prior to you know what I mean. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.439 And I never picked my shots. I just looked at 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.720 see they was helping. His loyalty made him help with 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.920 the honey guns, honey clips, y'all. And then I had 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:47.680 to make sure that that didn't we can do John, 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.040 so I went after him and Jada, you know what 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:51.960 I'm saying. But it wasn't personal, so it was able. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.560 He's able to resolve it as Chris passed. And then 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.680 he's not like, you gotta watch. You gotta watch the 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:00.640 person that you have an alter case. You gotta see 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.520 who they are, like you see me look closer into it. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.440 And then I knew that if it would be bumped 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.680 heads for relled, it would be something like we would 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.000 go back and forth. It'd be bad. You know. I 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.800 started looking through the crew a little bit and pictures. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:18.680 I'm looking in the background. I'm investigating, like who that? 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.119 But y'all cool? Though they said they said you was 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.040 at the Baby Faith concert last week by yourself. I ran, 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.280 I took my aut I took my aunt, Yeah, I 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:32.760 took my Joe's day boy. It was clean. As I 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.840 was like, yeah, okay, I said, what is going on? 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.119 I'm almost making deals behind the scenes on us. She 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.800 was going on here because he had but yeah, and 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.440 it wasn't he shortly I was she was smoking, you know. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.680 I hope that was the right thing for me to say. 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:53.879 I think that was his wife. I think so. I mean, 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.040 you just just look look like he's a good spirit. 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.880 You know. It's cool. Like um, the baby Face Show, 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.080 that was more fun than I expected it to be. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:07.040 Like I didn't realize how many records he wrote because 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.160 he went to that little part portion of his show 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:14.080 and it felt like thirty years of hits. Wow. He 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.639 was performing all night, hit after hit after hit hit, 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:18.920 and it was like it gets to a point like, well, 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.840 you know how like even now the music businesses like that, 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.840 like they go who Who's Who's high? Okay, let's uh 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.280 get hit boy or get DJ Mustard or get you 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.440 know what I mean, different joints like and I I 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:36.040 understand that, but I haven't operated that way. I've always 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.960 made records for guys that you didn't know them from nowhere, 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:42.600 and I didn't know him. I just they just had 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:46.000 something that inspired me. Like it was the kid um 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:52.600 rob Reef did what up? Gangster? Um? I get money? 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.200 The kid Ape that was his first record, Mini Mafia 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.960 twenty one. Question is different dangerous LLC? Like these guys 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.480 up the guys I worked with that didn't have momentum, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.920 just had the record I needed at the time, So 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.239 you know, you gotta kind of that's the only way 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.920 you find something that I feel like is it's new. Yeah? 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.960 Why why you never did the second album? I don't know, man, 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:19.520 it was just a lot going on. I think it 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:21.760 was politics with Interscope and it was just a lot 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.240 going on at that time. But I got advance for it, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:30.320 I got paid for I got paid to get contractually. 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.159 They had to Yeah, get that money, so got it, 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:34.880 That's what I'm saying to you. So they got paid 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.360 out like that, and then it was time for then 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:42.280 to spend more marketing dollars on it for that, you know, 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.960 to go into the next cycle. And it's like do 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:47.560 we want to do that or do we want to 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:51.760 change our model? Right with the climate of things is 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.280 then and they had to adjustments. Like I think any 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.800 business you have to do that. You have a lot 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.320 of people around you, you know what I mean. Like 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:00.879 I said, I be at a store and somebody like 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:02.159 your fifths on the line. You know what I mean, 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:04.560