Speaker 1: Word with me here.
Speaker 2: You know, BT know how it goes, shout at oct
Speaker 2: no color, what we see? Whole game? Wait the butler something.
Speaker 3: Oh, you can't stand on the house to see. I
Speaker 3: already know you came with me because with the squad
Speaker 3: of me, they get a little They called at me. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 3: reporting live from Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to the ball Alert Show.
Speaker 3: I go by the name of fil.
Speaker 1: I go by the name you know, BT.
Speaker 3: Want to see where that who the devil doed.
Speaker 1: Is in the village or walked in done? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Drod has a flip phone. Joe has a flip for well,
Speaker 4: I've seen the flip phone for a while. I don't
Speaker 4: remember the last time I seen a flip phone. The
Speaker 4: last time I seen the flip flowd.
Speaker 1: I said, hold on, Joe, what you got going on?
Speaker 4: Man? Because I texted him. I thought he gave me
Speaker 4: the wrong number. It was a it was a green bubble.
Speaker 4: I said, Yo, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I mean, well, my ADHD and that phone
Speaker 2: and like you're talking about with iPhone, yeah, previously, like
Speaker 2: you know, all on those apps and you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: So this does not have any apps.
Speaker 1: No, it takes along the text. Man, it was like
Speaker 1: I got to hit the numbers.
Speaker 5: A couple of times, so you know, you can't even
Speaker 5: do a voice note.
Speaker 1: Damn you like that aspired shot.
Speaker 2: No, it's just it keeps my attention off of everybody else,
Speaker 2: and it keeps me, you know, like like information I
Speaker 2: try to intake. I try to make sure that there's
Speaker 2: some you know, something that's other than what everybody else knows.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I do get information from
Speaker 2: people they oh boy, you heard it, like okay, but
Speaker 2: you know, instead of me just taking it all in,
Speaker 2: because once I get through looking at all those apps
Speaker 2: and all that information, and I get to taken it in,
Speaker 2: and if it ain't good information, that's what I spit
Speaker 2: back out, you know what I mean. I spit back
Speaker 2: out the stuff that I intake, and most of that
Speaker 2: stuff ain't good. So half of the time I don't
Speaker 2: had any good to say, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: If I'm all in that app and looking at everybody
Speaker 2: living their best life.
Speaker 5: You've really been doing the work on yourself. You know,
Speaker 5: when did that start?
Speaker 2: When I went to rehab, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: I kind of like, was like, how many years ago.
Speaker 2: Was that three three years April sixteenth?
Speaker 3: Yeah, third year ye sobriety yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: So back when I did that, I was like, you
Speaker 2: know what, I felt like I couldn't do the stuff
Speaker 2: I used to do and get ahead from where I
Speaker 2: was at, you know what I mean. So if I
Speaker 2: was going to go to rehab, then I was going
Speaker 2: to have to change the women, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: because all of this stuff went with each other, like
Speaker 2: the drugs, the women, alcohol, this the hanging out, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, the friends that I chose. So
Speaker 2: I had to cut everybody off. And I love I
Speaker 2: love the people that I cut off. I still think
Speaker 2: about them and stuff like that, but it hinders me
Speaker 2: to go back and repeat what I already done and
Speaker 2: already see the results for it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So change the number, got a new phone, got off
Speaker 2: social media.
Speaker 3: But you still someone still posts for you.
Speaker 2: I'm supervised, so you know, if it's something that I
Speaker 2: need to know or I have to do drops, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, stuff that's you know, leveling me up,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. We all sit down like
Speaker 2: this and they be like, this is what you got
Speaker 2: to do, boom boom, boom boom when I get through
Speaker 2: phone back.
Speaker 3: And so there is a designated phone for you, you
Speaker 3: just don't use it.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a designated phone for me. But I have
Speaker 2: to be supervised because if you walk out the room,
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what I'm saying, I'm not disciplined enough.
Speaker 3: Is that your phone?
Speaker 4: But you just don't have it or somebody has it
Speaker 4: and they put all your stuff on it, meaning like
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Well, I have my own phone, but I don't have
Speaker 2: my own phone. So and then like I make sure
Speaker 2: that everybody has the code, you know what I mean, everybody, everybody,
Speaker 2: like my management team, my lawyer, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: My lawyer was got in on it. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean. You wanted to hey, look man, you can't
Speaker 2: do this. And I'm making sure you're not doing that.
Speaker 2: And you know what I'm saying, No, I don't want
Speaker 2: to fall back into what that was. That's a rabbit
Speaker 2: hole that nobody wants to go down, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. Like, you know what I mean, Like it's
Speaker 2: almost like a nightmare that I woke up out of
Speaker 2: that if I if I go back into it. I'm
Speaker 2: going back to the nightmare and it's just not it's
Speaker 2: not healthy for my mind, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Do you feel better?
Speaker 2: How are you? One hundred?
Speaker 6: That's good for the people like that don't understand how,
Speaker 6: you know, dealing with addictions and stuff like that work.
Speaker 6: Could you talk a little bit about, you know, when
Speaker 6: you went to go get sober kind of like what
Speaker 6: was your process and everything? To kind of help a
Speaker 6: lot of people that really don't know the direction to take,
Speaker 6: you have.
Speaker 2: To have a support team, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I don't believe I could have done it without great management.
Speaker 2: Sierra's my manager and also she's run for office, by
Speaker 2: the way, running for office man Forton County Commissioner District six.
Speaker 2: But she's also a doctor and she has a doctrine
Speaker 2: in behavioral and mental health, so she was able to
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, like something wrong with you?
Speaker 4: Bro?
Speaker 1: I'm like what? Because blunt? What a blunt and a perk?
Speaker 2: And you know what, Selean won't fix you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Because I could just drown this out, you know,
Speaker 2: medicate myself, like I thought was you know, I thought
Speaker 2: that was the way, so that process. What meant like,
Speaker 2: you know, well, I'm gonna get your family together, the
Speaker 2: ones who do care, because you know, you would think
Speaker 2: that everybody in your family is on board. That's not
Speaker 2: true for me, you know what I mean. I don't
Speaker 2: know for anybody else, but everybody didn't believe it. You know.
Speaker 2: I had some family members liked it the way I
Speaker 2: was because I gave a lot, you know what i mean,
Speaker 2: how all the time you could just pretty much take
Speaker 2: advantage of me, you know what I'm saying. And that
Speaker 2: was the same thing that went with in public, my friends,
Speaker 2: you know people that was around, what could we get from?
Speaker 2: And he got a show. Let's everybody pile up. We
Speaker 2: about to go to the show. He gonna give almost
Speaker 2: all his money away. You know what I'm saying. We're
Speaker 2: gonna get high, we're gonna get drunk, and we're gonna repeat,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna do this for what twenty years?
Speaker 5: You know what was your breaking point?
Speaker 2: Well, the repeating of it. And then when I saw
Speaker 2: my child, you know what I'm saying, and I felt
Speaker 2: like that's that was a low blow. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. When I seen my little girl like that,
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I can't tell her not to
Speaker 2: get high. No more. Car I'm still having it in me,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So the best thing I
Speaker 2: could do is just go ahead and change myself. And
Speaker 2: then she saw it and she actually cleaned them question yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah clean? And uh you know I was talking to
Speaker 2: her the other day, man, and she was just she
Speaker 2: was in her daughter mode, like you know what I'm saying, Dad,
Speaker 2: and I just started crying. I was like, man, I
Speaker 2: praised so I wish I could have pressed a button.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a dream. I was like, what
Speaker 2: did I do to deserve this? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Then I thought about it and I was like, I
Speaker 2: took my mom through the same thing. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. You have to humble yourself and see what
Speaker 2: you put people through, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 2: once you see that, you be like, oh, I get it.
Speaker 2: I needed to learn this lesson, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But my kid, what you do show up in your kids,
Speaker 2: like the kind of person you are and the things
Speaker 2: that you do. If they're good things, and good things
Speaker 2: to show up in your kid. If they're bad things,
Speaker 2: they're bad things will also.
Speaker 4: So having been through all of these things to be
Speaker 4: where you are, do you feel like you waste the
Speaker 4: time when you were, you know, on the drugs and
Speaker 4: all that stuff, or do you feel like this kind
Speaker 4: of was a journey that took you to where you're at.
Speaker 2: Now kind of in the middle. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Do you remember? I mean, I have a moment? Can
Speaker 3: I share?
Speaker 1: I a moment? Man?
Speaker 4: I was hosting Compound and you didn't even know what's
Speaker 4: going on. It was your album release part.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember that day because Roco was trying to
Speaker 2: give me some champagne and they was like he said,
Speaker 2: he was just was definitely there. He was just tapping
Speaker 2: me and I was just out of it.
Speaker 1: And then I turned. You know, this dude like Slick
Speaker 1: raised me. So I turned and then he was like,
Speaker 1: I was so out of my mind, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: And that's when I got worried. Yeah, I forgot what
Speaker 3: the year was that That year.
Speaker 2: Was one of those moments that I was like because
Speaker 2: when I when I when I got the feedback off
Speaker 2: that night, they was like, yo, he was just standing there.
Speaker 2: And then I had this thing, this myth thing about
Speaker 2: me to when people used to be like, man, he'd
Speaker 2: be out of it. But when it's time to wrap,
Speaker 2: I just used to you were amazing, But I would
Speaker 2: miss the best part of you know, the experiment, the
Speaker 2: people well, the love, the paying attention, the want to
Speaker 2: collapse and you know what I say, you have the
Speaker 2: success part. And then you know, and then when I
Speaker 2: wake back up the next day, I would again, just
Speaker 2: do it again, and I'll be like, you know, they'll
Speaker 2: be like, well, this person tried to talk to you.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, you you said something of this person,
Speaker 2: you ignored this person, You said some real cruel stuff
Speaker 2: to that person.
Speaker 1: Yah.
Speaker 7: Man, Well, you know, unfortunately that's a lot of artists
Speaker 7: journeys like drugs and all that stuff because they feel
Speaker 7: like maybe they are better as an artist or whatever.
Speaker 7: So it's just so great to see you come out
Speaker 7: of that and just be who you are.
Speaker 5: We're so proud of you.
Speaker 8: We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.
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Speaker 2: Hey take this out minus your boy you on Joe
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Speaker 2: with for Ririe Simmons, Oh, C T and BT.
Speaker 1: You dig what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Now, Young Doe was actually signed before TI. Yeah, bigger
Speaker 4: record deal, bigger situation before t.
Speaker 2: I the same amount like the people were No, it
Speaker 2: was actually Roco. It was a you know, Monica was
Speaker 2: into on it, like because she always has given me
Speaker 2: big support. So the Roco thing, right, it was it
Speaker 2: was crazy like because I wasn't a superstar yet. I
Speaker 2: just had the pen, you know what I'm saying. Good
Speaker 2: with the pen, and Roco was like man and I
Speaker 2: used to just go around and be rapping for different
Speaker 2: people in the street and you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: And it was so it was so good. Roco was like,
Speaker 2: I'm been and put the house on shot. So he
Speaker 2: built the studio for me, you know what i mean,
Speaker 2: southwest over there by Green Brown, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And so when he built the studio, you know him
Speaker 2: and Monica. You know, Monica was always supportive. I remember
Speaker 2: me and her first song was You Deserve We redid
Speaker 2: the he May Hail Mary beat with Tupac and and
Speaker 2: Man Rocco had me with I got a song with Juvenile.
Speaker 2: Back then, you had some big records. Yeah, I had
Speaker 2: one with Jazzy Fay, Bone Crusher, Turk bunt Be, a
Speaker 2: couple of more people, Monica of course. But this was
Speaker 2: all on one tape car respect to connect it. And
Speaker 2: you know, I was just feeling this way through it,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And I think he pressed
Speaker 2: up so many of those CDs and he forgot to
Speaker 2: put the barcode on it. It was crazy back then.
Speaker 4: That was the time when they when people actually bought
Speaker 4: physical CD physical city. You were selling them in the
Speaker 4: streets too. How much money were you making?
Speaker 2: Uh? Well, we used to charge like ten dollars of CD.
Speaker 2: But Roco gave me, like I think Roco gave me
Speaker 2: like twenty grand cash for my advance. Wow, without even.
Speaker 5: Being what'd you do with it?
Speaker 2: I blew it.
Speaker 4: I wasn't.
Speaker 1: That's what most artists do it.
Speaker 2: But to be honest with you, I was so into
Speaker 2: my drug habit. But it was bad then because I
Speaker 2: was trying to hide it. And then like on the
Speaker 2: way back then, yes, like but because drugs had been
Speaker 2: in my family for a long time. My dad, you know,
Speaker 2: my dad been using, my dad using for like fifty years.
Speaker 2: You know, my aunties and uncles all died off of drugs.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. They didn't live. Nobody lived
Speaker 2: to be over sixty five or something like that. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So, and my grandmama like had
Speaker 2: like seven kids, all of them smoked dope self for
Speaker 2: my mom, you know what I mean. So for me
Speaker 2: to be on drugs, you've been like, oh figure, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, because that it had been embedded
Speaker 2: in my family.
Speaker 3: That you see it when you were younger, Yes, you
Speaker 3: saw I had to.
Speaker 2: I had to go buy it. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Like my aunt ties and uncles will come over and
Speaker 2: they'll send me to go get it. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like I knew where to go get their
Speaker 2: drugs from.
Speaker 5: When was the first time you wanted to indulge it?
Speaker 6: Or did.
Speaker 2: Twelve? I started smoking? We ad twelve, You know, I
Speaker 2: felt a junkie was out there. Man. And my one
Speaker 2: of my friend's mom she was she was smoking. She
Speaker 2: was like, I ain't no boy, that we gonna lead
Speaker 2: to something else. I was like, get out of here
Speaker 2: and law and ball.
Speaker 1: She was right, she was correct.
Speaker 5: Introduce you to something heavier.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, I was introduced to something heavier by just curiosity.
Speaker 2: I was like looking at my friend and I was
Speaker 2: wondering why they was acting, you know, more chill than
Speaker 2: everybody else. And I felt like, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: I wanted to indulge in that. And you know, of
Speaker 2: course everyone nah, man, you good, and I was like, nah,
Speaker 2: I don't want to try it, not not knowing that.
Speaker 2: I just thought they was having a good time that night.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that it was going to ruin my life,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I saw it, but I
Speaker 2: was like, you know what I'm saying. I knew what
Speaker 2: my aunties and uncles was doing. They was doing heroin
Speaker 2: and cracking, you know what I'm saying. You know stuff,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So when we went out
Speaker 2: back when I was coming around, you know, X pills
Speaker 2: and cocaine and weed, and you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: that was young people were doing that, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Then once I saw that, I was like, well,
Speaker 2: this ain't that, you know, because we used to be
Speaker 2: at big parties and you know, everything was going on
Speaker 2: and everybody was indulged, and I was like, oh, it's lit.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, It's just everybody just having
Speaker 2: a good time tonight. And you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Once I win in that rabbit.
Speaker 5: Hole, it just when how old were you then when
Speaker 5: you when you went there, I.
Speaker 2: Want to be I want to say eighteen. I would.
Speaker 2: You know what's crazy? I was the same age my
Speaker 2: daughter was. You know, this is the generational curse thing
Speaker 2: that I broke.
Speaker 3: But then you started making a lot of money. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so now you can support your habit and it gets worse, correct,
Speaker 3: it gets worse.
Speaker 2: And you know what I prayed. You know when I
Speaker 2: first wanted to do music, you know, I really asked God.
Speaker 2: I was like, I really don't care about money. I said,
Speaker 2: I just want to have longevity. And you know, and
Speaker 2: I was like, but if I don't get rid of
Speaker 2: this drug habit, I said, it's probably gonna kill me.
Speaker 2: You feel what I'm saying. And it changed. I started
Speaker 2: morphing with the drugs when something went out of style,
Speaker 2: like when X pills was like popular those became I
Speaker 2: was like, the X pill was just stuff for so
Speaker 2: much stuff. I was like, okay, this was enough. In
Speaker 2: that time passed then Molly came, you feel me then
Speaker 2: when Molly came. But and then you know, I spent
Speaker 2: five years, six years on X pills, like eight years
Speaker 2: on this and they didn't come to perksn't come to Zans,
Speaker 2: they didn't come to Lean then you know, alcohol, and
Speaker 2: we stayed there, you know what I'm saying. So it
Speaker 2: was just I was just morphing into different druggies, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So and by that time, you know,
Speaker 2: I guess you know, God just kept his hand on me.
Speaker 2: You know, because for somebody to survive that, and this
Speaker 2: goes out to anybody that's using and you still living,
Speaker 2: that means that it's still a purpose for you to
Speaker 2: do because you can overdose.
Speaker 4: Do you have any lasting effects, like does like your
Speaker 4: ReBs heard or do you have like stomach problems or
Speaker 4: I'm good?
Speaker 3: Do you have no stomach problems? Like random headaches?
Speaker 5: Did a Rocco ever intervene with your or did he
Speaker 5: ever say anything?
Speaker 2: I hit it from him. I was able to mask it,
Speaker 2: like because I thought, well, clothes was my creep out thing,
Speaker 2: like if I got fresh, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Because there's a method behind how I dress. Now you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying because I saw it in school.
Speaker 2: I was like, clothes keep people off from the attention
Speaker 2: about what's really inside of me. You feel me long
Speaker 2: as you long, long as you can see me fresh
Speaker 2: and not my interior.
Speaker 6: I was good on that, like a distraction, Like a
Speaker 6: distraction when people won't expect somebody that's dressed nice and
Speaker 6: that's room to be heavy on drugs.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, that hurt me more than anything because everybody was like, alright,
Speaker 2: he dead fresh, You know what I'm saying. And I
Speaker 2: wanted that. You know, I didn't want you to look
Speaker 2: at me any different. You know what I'm saying, because
Speaker 2: I I'll be and I'll say to myself on some
Speaker 2: arrogant stuff like what she would say, somebody me and
Speaker 2: I'm cleaning than you. You know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 2: like that, you know what I'm saying. But like the
Speaker 2: way the way it tore up friendships, the way it
Speaker 2: the way I did, you know how like you know,
Speaker 2: breaking girls hearts and lying and you know, lett my
Speaker 2: mom down, and you know what I'm saying. And people
Speaker 2: I made some people who cared. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: That that was like you know, like Ferrari or somebody
Speaker 2: that saw me like that genuinely cared that. You know this,
Speaker 2: this guy is tripping, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 2: at the same time, it's other people wanted me in
Speaker 2: that position because it benefited them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody cares about a rich junkie.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares about a rich junkie if he's good looking.
Speaker 6: Now, when you was, when you was doing drugs, did
Speaker 6: you did you need the drugs to create the type
Speaker 6: of music that you was making because you putting out
Speaker 6: a lot of hit records at the time.
Speaker 1: You know, still all to day.
Speaker 6: But I always just wanted the does artists always feel
Speaker 6: like I need to get high to get in the
Speaker 6: studio and create this type of music that people are loving.
Speaker 2: I think that's that's I think that's the trick that
Speaker 2: the devil has, you know what I mean. He tried
Speaker 2: to convince you that God didn't give you everything that
Speaker 2: you need to you know, be the best person you are,
Speaker 2: and I had to fight with that for a long time. Now,
Speaker 2: I do want to say that it did stimulate, you know,
Speaker 2: my brain and make me you know, think, you know,
Speaker 2: harder and concentrate, because that's just what it is, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. But to say that that's true,
Speaker 2: that's not true. You know what I'm saying, Like you
Speaker 2: have you are equipped with everything that you need to
Speaker 2: be the best person on this earth that God. You know,
Speaker 2: the gifts that God gave you, those are the best gifts,
Speaker 2: not drugs.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I just seen the famous quote that Wayne May when
Speaker 6: he put out a documentary. He said, people are telling
Speaker 6: me to put down the cup, put down the lian
Speaker 6: and he said, I ain't putting down nothing, because this
Speaker 6: lean got me more rich and more successful. So I
Speaker 6: just always thought about there, like for a long time,
Speaker 6: I'm like, does every artist do drugs?
Speaker 1: You know to make this popular music that were listening to.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can lie to yourself, you know, you
Speaker 2: can a lot to yourself. But the truth is I'm
Speaker 2: not on drugs now and I do great music, so
Speaker 2: I would be telling you I'll be lying there. I
Speaker 2: did a lot of myself and made me make myself
Speaker 2: believe that that that that I needed that. But that
Speaker 2: was the crutch, Like that was the that was the
Speaker 2: move that the devil played. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: you need this, you know what I'm saying you need me,
Speaker 2: you need me, you know, well actually you don't.
Speaker 3: Man, Hey, Dree, So one of my favorite songs you
Speaker 3: ever did. I always wanted to ask you this question.
Speaker 3: I actually never asked you this in private, so I'm
Speaker 3: asking you right now or revoked TV ball alert.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't fuck with y'all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I'm a big Can we talk about that
Speaker 4: record and making that record? So I saw you perform
Speaker 4: that live at the Pearl on a Tuesday night and
Speaker 4: dug at the Pearl. It was a it's a club,
Speaker 4: It's no longer there, Green Brier. The Green Brill was
Speaker 4: at South Southwest. Yeah, right, the Green bro Mall long
Speaker 4: live Johnson because that was his party. Yes, And I
Speaker 4: was there on a Tuesday night one time, a DJJ one.
Speaker 1: He was the DJ.
Speaker 3: Didn't smoke or drink. Meanwhile, the club was lit.
Speaker 4: Bit job over there lit, and I never forget dro
Speaker 4: performed this song. I was in general population, just looking.
Speaker 3: Up like, yeah, this is the reason I'm here, this
Speaker 3: is the reason why I love Atlanta. Were talking about
Speaker 3: that song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that era was you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: heavily inspired by I want to say young La man
Speaker 2: he kind of like, you know, showed me a different
Speaker 2: way of doing things because I used to rap so
Speaker 2: hard back then and it was like before it's time,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I can dial it down a
Speaker 2: little bit. But you know, I decided to dial it down.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, younger lay made me feel
Speaker 2: comfortable in that in that in that state, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And when I recorded it, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, some of him lingo were like, what's up
Speaker 2: it out? You know what I'm saying? Always like big dog,
Speaker 2: Like everything was big dog. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And when I said when I was talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: the lingo in there, I was really referring back to
Speaker 2: Atlanta culture. You know how we how we you know,
Speaker 2: how comfortable we are with how we talk. And I
Speaker 2: was slag and you know what I mean, and all
Speaker 2: that bow and all that stuff that we was. It
Speaker 2: just fit, you know what I'm saying. And when I
Speaker 2: decided to do the video, it just got Big Man
Speaker 2: Mike Epps came. I had him in Chapel for as
Speaker 2: on the West Side I'm talking about. He was out
Speaker 2: there with one shoe on what you all big and
Speaker 2: bugers I was like, this guy is super real and
Speaker 2: I ain't. It wasn't nothing that I called. I ain't
Speaker 2: even have to call him, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: just pulled up with Droyd. I'm on the way, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. I was like, man, this lit
Speaker 2: Mike ELPs over in the hood man, So that that
Speaker 2: that was that and that that was the first video
Speaker 2: that had a filter on it.
Speaker 3: If you look at the video, I don't know what's
Speaker 3: the filter, like the.
Speaker 2: Filters on Instagram, like the color, the color of it.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, how you can you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4: It was? It was?
Speaker 2: It was lit? Man.
Speaker 5: When did you meet t I?
Speaker 2: Oh, we weren't famous. I think it was like it
Speaker 2: was a rap.
Speaker 3: You said that he stayed up the street from you
Speaker 3: or somebody, so.
Speaker 2: We were so we both was from Bankhead, which was
Speaker 2: I stayed in the projects. He stayed in Center Hill.
Speaker 2: So in hindsight we were already on the West Side together.
Speaker 2: He just was up the street. In reality, we ended
Speaker 2: up moving to the same spot in Riverdale.
Speaker 1: So when I that's weird.
Speaker 2: So when I got over that, I just you know,
Speaker 2: I seen everybody kicking it and when nobody really kicking
Speaker 2: it like us. Hold, that's so I'm looking like. I'm
Speaker 2: like he had like somebody, I know, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Then it just it came together, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And he was hustling and you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, doing the thing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And I used to I used to go down in
Speaker 2: his house. You know, her mom used to be cussing up. Hey, y'all,
Speaker 2: y'all do my living room more than purnature. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. But actually we just connected,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. He I seen him how
Speaker 2: he was moving it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I knew.
Speaker 2: I knew how we sold drawers in the city and
Speaker 2: I've seen how they were selling draws out there. And
Speaker 2: he was telling me, boy, it's triple out of him car.
Speaker 2: You know our dins out him.
Speaker 1: They thought it out of here.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, lik, you know what I'm saying. So basically, man,
Speaker 2: we connected.
Speaker 5: Sixteen was y'all wrapping in or no, we was.
Speaker 2: I was just doing beats man, Okay, he was. It
Speaker 2: was like doing he was a producer, like he was
Speaker 2: producing beats, serving serving service.
Speaker 1: You're producing big serving and boy, yeah, just do back man.
Speaker 1: And me I was just healing up because I had
Speaker 1: I had got shot like a year two a year.
Speaker 3: Why did you get shot?
Speaker 4: Ah? Man?
Speaker 2: It was crazy man, just I mean being in being
Speaker 2: in the wrong place, doing the wrong things.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: One of you dude tried me when I was young,
Speaker 2: and it kind of like I want to say, it
Speaker 2: shook me a little bit, but I knew I wasn't
Speaker 2: gonna suck out, So I was like, Okay, you tried
Speaker 2: me like that. Bit. I'm finna go. I'm finna go
Speaker 2: to bankhead Cole really went from the area right there.
Speaker 2: I'm finna go to bank had get my get my connect,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna come back over here and straighten it.
Speaker 2: And then when we went back over there and straighten it,
Speaker 2: you feel what I'm saying, we did. We did and
Speaker 2: on the way out, somebody came up to the car
Speaker 2: and shot me in the back, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And I had to wear like colossomy bag. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Man, Yeah, I was using the bathroom
Speaker 2: for myself and like at a young age, I was
Speaker 2: out in my mind. I was like, what the world
Speaker 2: just happened? Because I just thought we was going to
Speaker 2: do some you know what I mean. Next thing, you
Speaker 2: know that that was on me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So by the time I met Tip, I was I
Speaker 2: was heeling up for my stable. I had like fifty
Speaker 2: six staples and I had you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: I had just got the bag reversed. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. I think I was sixteen turning about to
Speaker 2: be seventeen.
Speaker 1: So you got shot at sixteen fifteen fifteen?
Speaker 2: Wow, you know I had to you know, of course
Speaker 2: I had the bag. So once I went through that surgery,
Speaker 2: I had to wear the bag till I was like
Speaker 2: a year and a half.
Speaker 3: The bag is you using the bathroom and it goes
Speaker 3: into the bag?
Speaker 6: Yeah, wow, Yeah, that's a lot of That's something that
Speaker 6: a lot of people don't talk about, you know, when
Speaker 6: you hear people getting shot in all this stuff, because
Speaker 6: people try to glorify that in the streets, but people
Speaker 6: don't know the aftermath of what you know, people actually
Speaker 6: have to go through or getting shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see my drug have it burst from then, Like
Speaker 2: I believe because I was on some strong such stuff
Speaker 2: in the hospital, right, and they used to give me
Speaker 2: this stuff called demarol, and they used to be hit
Speaker 2: me and then like and I used to be ringing
Speaker 2: the button all the time. And then the lady, the
Speaker 2: lady found that out. She was like, he's addicted, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? And I really didn't know. I
Speaker 2: just kept saying I'm in pain. But most of the
Speaker 2: time I wasn't in pain. It was just that that
Speaker 2: stuff used to knock me out. It was opious, like
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So and behold when I
Speaker 2: got to the hospital and then and and I was
Speaker 2: asking him, I was like, is y'all gonna give me
Speaker 2: that that same stuff? They was like, no, we can't
Speaker 2: give you that, Like on the way out, like we're
Speaker 2: going to give you some stuff, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It wasn't it good stuff? So when I got out, man,
Speaker 2: I was looking for that too, that high. I wanted
Speaker 2: something to medicate me because that was addictive to me.
Speaker 2: I had addictive personality, like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Like I wanted that fix again. So that's when it
Speaker 2: burst too. That's when I was like, Okay, when I
Speaker 2: found something to have me sedated like that on the street,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, what is what it felt like?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. So yeah, So by the
Speaker 2: time I met Tip, I was healing up from that,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: But then you went and got to deal with Rocco
Speaker 5: before no.
Speaker 2: I had to deal with Raheem the Dream, so it's
Speaker 2: very okay.
Speaker 5: So now the Raheen drinks I knew dream was first.
Speaker 2: You feel mean because you know, we was on the
Speaker 2: West Side and I was rapping at my cousins. He
Speaker 2: was doing something on the bank at the bank which
Speaker 2: was the Bounce, you know what I'm saying. So I
Speaker 2: went in there wrapping it at his show and Raheem
Speaker 2: saw it. He came and got me in. He signed
Speaker 2: me in. You know, I had this song called yes Sir.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying this when every you know
Speaker 2: today people were saying yes Sirski you real me? But
Speaker 2: I had an actual single call this in two thousand. Wow,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like twenty some years ago,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. That was my first single
Speaker 2: call Yes sir, you know what I mean? Uh, Greg
Speaker 2: Street broke it great, Dan, So that was that was
Speaker 2: the thing. And you know I had to deal before Tip.
Speaker 2: That's what That's what it was. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I was on the radio. So by the time he
Speaker 2: got on radio, I had already saturated on the radio.
Speaker 2: And I think I think he was at the radio
Speaker 2: one station one day and I called up there. I'm
Speaker 2: telling girl, I'm like, hey, Greg, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's that's Tip. And then Tip like
Speaker 2: who were that? And he was like, I was like,
Speaker 2: this drove And then he was like you know what
Speaker 2: I mean because he was doing you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He was like, you drove. I was like, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He was like I had no because
Speaker 1: my voice and stuff got heavy.
Speaker 2: Like how you say that?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So yeah, man, So when I met Tip where we
Speaker 2: wasn't we wasn't we wasn't rappers, were just kids.
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Speaker 5: He's talking about TI.
Speaker 7: You know, Grant Hustle years y'all was off the charts,
Speaker 7: and I feel like that was Do you feel like
Speaker 7: that was the peak of your success?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean yeah, the bigger part.
Speaker 7: Because when Shoudaling came out, I feel like it took over.
Speaker 7: It's still about today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's actually playing the dope thing about you, and
Speaker 4: I feel like you guys are those legendary artists. Your
Speaker 4: music is coming back because how radio is working now
Speaker 4: is they're playing all those hits from the early two
Speaker 4: thousands to two thousand and eighty ten's, So you're gonna
Speaker 4: hear Droe, I heard whatever you liked the other day
Speaker 4: on the radio. I heard Shoudeling the other day on
Speaker 4: the radio. So it's starting to come back, which I
Speaker 4: think is a dope thing.
Speaker 2: How does that make you feel?
Speaker 1: Pretty good?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 2: I always wanted to make music that like classical music,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Like, I listened to a
Speaker 2: lot of alternative music, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 2: those those songs are around today. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Hip hop is the only genre that that says, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're done with this, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 2: you still can hear a John Bon Jovie song that's
Speaker 2: still popping, you know what I'm saying. You still can
Speaker 2: hear you know, those kind of songs still popping today.
Speaker 2: And I felt like, since I have a sense of
Speaker 2: that kind of music, I kind of had it in
Speaker 2: my spirit to make stuff that I you know that
Speaker 2: you still got you know that you can still play today.
Speaker 5: You have an interesting story about how Shoudoline was developed.
Speaker 5: Can you give us that? Can you share that story?
Speaker 2: It came from us not dancing because the whole the
Speaker 2: whole city was dancing, like and you know, I ain't
Speaker 2: knocking it, you know what I mean. I used to
Speaker 2: wish I could dance, but I couldn't picture myself dancing.
Speaker 2: But we was like trying to fit in, you know,
Speaker 2: trying to you know, not beat so much of an
Speaker 2: art ball, you know what I'm saying. So when till
Speaker 2: when Tip came to it was like, hey man, it's lit.
Speaker 2: You know, faboed him got lafty tappy.
Speaker 3: But originally it was Tip song right.
Speaker 2: Originally he when he did the when he did the
Speaker 2: hook right, he was going to carry on, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. And I was like, well, well, first
Speaker 2: of all, we knew that we wasn't dancing. And he
Speaker 2: was like, man, we could do.
Speaker 1: This, We could do that.
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, trying to convince you to dance.
Speaker 1: You was about to do some snap stuff.
Speaker 5: Because you had fall then you had the franchise.
Speaker 1: It was lit.
Speaker 2: But I was like, well, you know, I ain't never
Speaker 2: seen you dance, you know what I'm saying. He was like, man,
Speaker 2: we can just do something. He said, what you think
Speaker 2: about this?
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what, go ahead. Then
Speaker 1: when I heard them, I was like, I got this, bro.
Speaker 5: But was the beat already made when he was doing that?
Speaker 2: Because Little See Little c was there too, but Little
Speaker 2: See what he was He Tip did this like a cappella.
Speaker 5: And Little See is the producer.
Speaker 1: Just Little See came with.
Speaker 2: That beat man, and I remember hearing it and when
Speaker 2: he when Tip put his voice on that beat, and
Speaker 2: it was in little Seek because Little he did the
Speaker 2: beat around what he was. You feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I heard that and I had this. I had this
Speaker 2: like a dream, like a vision. I was like, man,
Speaker 2: when I when I wraped this, I'm gonna say how
Speaker 2: fresh I am. And I could just see myself back
Speaker 2: in the crowd up and showing off my feet on cleaning.
Speaker 2: It was almost like it was almost like a book. Man,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: That's so classic. He said, go to the club and
Speaker 5: you was that you had to finish the song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they wasn't there when I did it.
Speaker 2: Nah, they wasn't around when I did it, so back
Speaker 2: when I came. So when I got through it and
Speaker 2: they heard it, man, Tip and was like man, So
Speaker 2: we ended up. He was on tour.
Speaker 1: We drove to Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 2: This is what the song was his birthday because at
Speaker 2: first it was just amongst us like so they were like, okay,
Speaker 2: that's Joy's high man. We got the Jacksonville, Florida on
Speaker 2: the tour bus and we had like a bunch of
Speaker 2: girls come up. Everybody was on the bus and were
Speaker 2: having a good time. So Tip was like, put this home.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: When they put that song on, broke we on it
Speaker 1: was like it was lit.
Speaker 2: Bro we knew.
Speaker 3: Okay, So since we're here, this ends up being your
Speaker 3: biggest record today.
Speaker 1: Yes, well no, I think FDB was bigger than that.
Speaker 4: Okay, I know, but but did did FTB chart higher
Speaker 4: than Shoulderling? Which one made you the most money?
Speaker 2: I think that FDB is a more bigger song because
Speaker 2: it's everybody. Everybody feels that, everybody can relate to it
Speaker 2: all all all skin, all skin tone of people feel that.
Speaker 1: You me and a lot of people know.
Speaker 2: Shoudling show Lean went one two right then I sold
Speaker 2: two million ring Tones, So that's like four million, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: At the time when Big.
Speaker 2: Tones was big. So so I know, I know it
Speaker 2: went platinum twice, and I know I bought it, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. And then like you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, So I got a ring Tone Award for
Speaker 2: that song, you know, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 2: remember a kind giving me that, you know what I'm saying. So,
Speaker 2: and I was the first one to get a ring
Speaker 2: Tone award.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, don't let Soldier War hear this.
Speaker 5: But then you had we Be in the City. That
Speaker 5: was another big one that my.
Speaker 2: Favorite I heard that played at the Olympics. That was
Speaker 2: a pretty big song. I heard that somebody sent me that.
Speaker 6: You beat's always crazy. Man, you got you you got
Speaker 6: a ear when it comes to beats.
Speaker 3: I also like when you perform that song because you
Speaker 3: let it cut off and you go a compella. You
Speaker 3: go a compella.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I try to let you know, you know, I
Speaker 2: you know, that's when I try to show people how
Speaker 2: much I like music.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: People people like you know, you hear stuff on the radio,
Speaker 2: you hear people record, But a live show shows how
Speaker 2: much you're embedding into what your craft is and how
Speaker 2: you want it to be. Come out to the people,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm.
Speaker 1: Saying now the showder Lin come out before Fat Joe.
Speaker 6: Laying back, because I remember he was talking about like
Speaker 6: people in the South took you know, his song and
Speaker 6: everybody just kept, you know, remaking it.
Speaker 2: That whole bacle was weird because I don't I don't remember.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you that I heard Fat Joe and
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I just always wondered that because I seen him make
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: He I saw that that was kind of weird, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. I seen it was.
Speaker 1: Because it was a lot of lean song. After you know.
Speaker 2: But the thing about it is, I don't even think
Speaker 2: that anyone knew of anyone doing it, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like, I don't think franchise you know, you
Speaker 2: know knew drou was doing it, or I was was
Speaker 2: aware of it. Was like, oh, I'm gonna do a
Speaker 2: lean song. I didn't know.
Speaker 3: Now you've had some You've had a very high profiled relationship.
Speaker 4: Can we get any type of who else have you?
Speaker 4: Were you in a relationship with that was kind of big?
Speaker 4: That may have went under the radar.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I actually that was the only thing.
Speaker 3: Is you famous folks be having relationships?
Speaker 2: I actually, man, you know what, I'm a hood. I'm
Speaker 2: a hood dude, you know what I'm saying. I for
Speaker 2: the most part, I was I was all about a
Speaker 2: fine chip from around the way tight, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like because it fit my persona, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Even though a lot of you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, I smashed some stuff. I won't say,
Speaker 2: keep it a peak. I won't say. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Whatever they did see it went public. You
Speaker 2: can have that, but I wouldn't tell what was it?
Speaker 6: Anybody that you was like, man, I can't believe you
Speaker 6: know this shorty doesn't hit me up. You know, this
Speaker 6: was somebody that I always wanted.
Speaker 2: Of course, okay, yes.
Speaker 5: Or anybody now or do you want to be married?
Speaker 2: Or I mean, well right now? Man, it's I'm working
Speaker 2: on myself and I just was.
Speaker 1: I just had to to separate myself from spreading myself thin.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I've dealt with some cheeks. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 2: that you know, some real good women. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean, And I mean real good women. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. But you know, once you once you
Speaker 2: done had your share, whatever you pick and choose. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. You might you know, you want
Speaker 2: to just make sure. I want to make sure when
Speaker 2: I jump back into this relationship whole. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, You ain't gonna get nobody else need to
Speaker 2: get high and you're not working on itself. And it's
Speaker 2: it's some stuff. I went to the rehab because it
Speaker 2: was stuff I needed to regrab. You know what I'm
Speaker 2: saying about myself that I need to be doing. How
Speaker 2: much of a man that I need to, you know,
Speaker 2: be to give to this relationship.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I don't want to short
Speaker 1: change the next person. Gotcha? So could you ever date
Speaker 1: a woman that drink or smoke?
Speaker 2: Nah?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: So she can't drink or smoke.
Speaker 2: I mean you can drink, but you can't be an alcoholic.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I ain't ever thought chicks who smoked weed was attractive,
Speaker 2: like we do it later. What you talking about?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 4: For you?
Speaker 2: It's not triggering. It's almost embarrassing, like to just have
Speaker 2: a check that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Anybody who can drink.
Speaker 3: You don't think this is gonna bother the women who
Speaker 3: smoke weed.
Speaker 1: I just it just ain't for me. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'm not knocking it. It's it's just ain't you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Because women be so beautiful, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like smoking is not good. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying in so many wait words?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: If you look at it like because I got children
Speaker 2: to raise, and then for me to be saying, oh
Speaker 2: you ain't gonna be smoking nothing, and then mama and
Speaker 2: there like come on, man, I cut it out for
Speaker 2: my son, you know what I'm saying, So own't on
Speaker 2: him saying I got this from dad. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. You know I went through that with my child.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. It's just not your preference,
Speaker 2: not my preference.
Speaker 1: And everybody got a preference to your preference is polo.
Speaker 7: I was gonna say, how was Joe the father today?
Speaker 7: Are you in all the baseball games or at.
Speaker 1: The basketball games?
Speaker 2: And I had to learn how to be dad and
Speaker 2: stop wearing jewelry because I used to be culled three
Speaker 2: four chains on pulling up in these you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. It was like look looking at me, like
Speaker 2: you just dad today, man. But I had to humber myself.
Speaker 2: Stop wearing jewelry to the games, stop dressing up so
Speaker 2: you know, because sometimes I just go to these games
Speaker 2: and people be like why, I don't know. I got
Speaker 2: to learn how to turn it off. So right now
Speaker 2: I'm more conscious about what I let him see, or
Speaker 2: about my attitude, about what I accept, what I don't accept,
Speaker 2: what's around me. You know what I mean, letting what
Speaker 2: I'm letting him see, what I'm letting him listen to
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, it's different.
Speaker 5: Do you see a lot of yourself in him?
Speaker 2: A lot of it? And I have to correct it.
Speaker 2: And I believe, I truly believe. This is one of
Speaker 2: the reasons why I'm not on drugs because I'm able
Speaker 2: to see it now. If I was under the influence,
Speaker 2: I would let my child grow up to be exactly
Speaker 2: like me. And that's not the goal.
Speaker 5: So you don't have two kids, I have three. Three Okay,
Speaker 5: do you see music in their future or anything like that.
Speaker 2: My son is going to be great at something. I
Speaker 2: think sports, you know what I mean. He's he just
Speaker 2: turned eight, and he's so smart in basketball. He had
Speaker 2: to have this information at five or you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. He knows so much about basketball to you
Speaker 2: it would trip you out, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And his body, the way he built like I see him,
Speaker 2: I see myself and him. When I was young, I
Speaker 2: would cut up and I played football before I got shot.
Speaker 2: But he has a football physique, but he loves basketball.
Speaker 2: So I know he's going to be big. Mark my words,
Speaker 2: He's gonna be famous.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 4: Now, does Droe do you work out? Like what did
Speaker 4: you change about your life. Are you doing something that
Speaker 4: you've never done before that's kind of like new?
Speaker 2: Or yes, I get up every morning and that workout
Speaker 2: every morning.
Speaker 1: Never did that before?
Speaker 3: No, Like do you job to hit the elliptical?
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 1: I walked five miles? Wow, every day, every day, five miles.
Speaker 3: That's a long time.
Speaker 5: Changed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it changes because I don't want to still
Speaker 2: spicy dog meat.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean like I can't eat exquisitely. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I can eat you know, the alligators and the dover
Speaker 2: the dover fish and stuff like that, squid and sea
Speaker 2: arch and you know what I'm saying. I can eat
Speaker 2: that type stuff because it's not too heavy. But I
Speaker 2: do try to eat right so I can help out
Speaker 2: the five miles.
Speaker 5: I don't want to be eating too much, too tired.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I got a little gym. Put it in
Speaker 2: my put it in the garage. I go work out.
Speaker 2: Do that. I do that every morning, And that's that's
Speaker 2: tough to get up at seven point thirty every morning,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So, now, do you have a studio in your house?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I try not to.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't have. I don't play the radio
Speaker 2: at home literally because my choice of you. I don't
Speaker 2: want my son to end up picking up the room stuff.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Even though I make that
Speaker 2: kind of music, I don't. And if I do listen
Speaker 2: to music at the house, it's alternative music.
Speaker 5: So how did the Glorilla remix come about when you
Speaker 5: got on that?
Speaker 3: Because you brought that raspy voice back.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: You know what, when I be walking, I heard Gloilla
Speaker 1: rip the beat so bad and.
Speaker 2: It was a good way.
Speaker 1: I mean, she killed it in a good way. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it was inspiring, you know, you know some
Speaker 2: some stuff she was saying about about you know, quit thinking,
Speaker 2: quit overthinking, and you running circles around these people.
Speaker 1: I'm like, get them glow, you know what I'm.
Speaker 2: Saying, And just just how you know, just to hear
Speaker 2: the young generation and just to hear it, hear in
Speaker 2: her voice like she was commanding the beat, and I
Speaker 2: was like, I can command that beat like that, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So and then and I just
Speaker 2: found myself saying, yeah, drove all the time. And then
Speaker 2: and then dude looking at me, was like, you did it?
Speaker 2: I was like, Nah, I ain't did it. I was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, Big Jon was like, go ahead and
Speaker 2: do it. I was like, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: John, have a big jump.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: Now how much you think over the years you spent
Speaker 1: on polo, man, it's.
Speaker 2: Over a million, over a million, because, like I used
Speaker 2: to have to be some serious you have some stuff
Speaker 2: I've never seen before. It was a serious sickness with that.
Speaker 5: Have you a deal yet?
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 2: I mean I actually was up for it, and then
Speaker 2: I got into some trouble and stuff, you know, and
Speaker 2: I think, you know, everything is you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: You know not Ralph Laurydy got to call you a
Speaker 6: million dollars in polo. It's crazy, man. Listen in the
Speaker 6: first little section of my life. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I want to say, when it was starting out, I
Speaker 6: had just did like quarter of it, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, A quarter of me. I want to say,
Speaker 6: it's well over that. You know what I'm saying. One
Speaker 6: hundred thousand on Ralph is easy?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Two hundred thousand is easy.
Speaker 4: You were wearing the most expensive so I used to
Speaker 4: I remember walking into basis at the ball, whatever the
Speaker 4: ball it was, and like that.
Speaker 3: Stuff wasn't special. Like that jacket right there, Bro, I
Speaker 3: know that, ain't you know what I'm saying, it's out
Speaker 3: out jacket. Oh my god, Conor Rod over its side.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say this. You influenced a lot of people
Speaker 6: in the culture to wear polo.
Speaker 3: Them Polo boots, and I was Atlanta was wearing Polo boots.
Speaker 6: And I'll never forget I say the money I saved
Speaker 6: them like two paychecks. I was working at Route twenty
Speaker 6: one and I bought some Polo because you have.
Speaker 2: The numb I definitely you know. The no ones went up, man,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Dude, you used to be
Speaker 2: telling that I'm just like Droe instead of saying the brand.
Speaker 4: You know what, I went to Marshalls and would get
Speaker 4: the Polos when they was thirty nine out of his side.
Speaker 3: I got to know what I'm talking about, Bro.
Speaker 4: I used to go to Marshalls and or I will
Speaker 4: wait till they'll be right before back to school tax free,
Speaker 4: and they went down before the new ones come in.
Speaker 4: You know, the old ones will be like nineteen ninety
Speaker 4: nine no.
Speaker 5: Tax that so you got the polo. I hope you
Speaker 5: get a deal.
Speaker 1: We kept paying it for a deal.
Speaker 5: You can get that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you deserved that second chance. But so you had
Speaker 7: the PSC project that you did. You had a couple
Speaker 7: of songs with them.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be, man, the PSC got a big project
Speaker 2: coming out with DJ Drama. Man, and it's just that's
Speaker 2: going to be that has some real dro stuff on it,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And after that, I think,
Speaker 2: you know what, me and going to do a joint album,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. I think I think we
Speaker 2: owe that to the.
Speaker 1: Coach. Yeah, we need that.
Speaker 5: When is the book coming out? Because you have a story, Yeah, the.
Speaker 2: Book actually, man, you know what. My manager is an author.
Speaker 2: Doctor Sierra is an author.
Speaker 5: Also doctor Sierra.
Speaker 2: She she actually wrote a book before we, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, got doing business together and she's a
Speaker 2: great writer, and she was like, I'm going to write
Speaker 2: your story and she she you know, she documented, she
Speaker 2: has she has a lot of stuff like, hey, look man,
Speaker 2: I've seen this happen. I seen the boy go through this.
Speaker 2: I seen him overcome this. He came out of that,
Speaker 2: he got stuck right here, and it's just you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And she she got the book together,
Speaker 2: and I think the book should be ready by twenty five.
Speaker 5: I'm excited for I'm so ready for today. Where did
Speaker 5: you meet her?
Speaker 1: By the way, man, we have been knowing each other
Speaker 1: for twenty years.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: Actually I grew up with her brother, Meatball shot the
Speaker 2: Camilton road print. You know what I'm saying, print locked
Speaker 2: up right now. You know what I'm saying. He actually,
Speaker 2: unfortunately he went down in the bloody summer. He has
Speaker 2: life in prison. You know what i mean. We grew
Speaker 2: up together. You know what I'm saying. Meatball is a
Speaker 2: very important person in my life. Her brother, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So when it was only right that
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, I let her manage me
Speaker 2: and drive my career.
Speaker 3: And she really cares about you, bro.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we're excited. Anything else that you have coming up?
Speaker 2: Me and Zaytoven got a project comes, yes? Yes, man.
Speaker 2: They Toven is one of the people that I actually,
Speaker 2: you know, took a liking to that was on my level.
Speaker 2: You know, clean, stand up guy, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: He still you know what I'm saying. He don't do
Speaker 2: He's wanting drinking, ain't doing no smoking. So when I
Speaker 2: got a rehab, it was like God sent me to him,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And he's been a great
Speaker 2: person and he's been perfect, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 2: for what I'm going in life.
Speaker 5: Right now, Joe, We are so proud of you.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: We thank you for always talking about the ball up show.
Speaker 6: It is for you.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 8: Be clean.
Speaker 1: Hey, I had to dress up today too. I have
Speaker 1: to make sure you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Get right.
Speaker 5: So Man, before we get out of here, we do
Speaker 5: have a pep talk boy, and I just.
Speaker 2: Want to say this, Man, if you don't stand on anything,
Speaker 2: make sure you stand on principal. You know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Nothing else matter.
Speaker 1: If you get the principal right being you good.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Put God first and everything
Speaker 2: else is a walk in the park.
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