WEBVTT - Episode 326 "Young Dro"

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<v Speaker 1>Word with me here.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, BT know how it goes, shout at oct

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<v Speaker 2>no color, what we see? Whole game? Wait the butler something.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, you can't stand on the house to see. I

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<v Speaker 3>already know you came with me because with the squad

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<v Speaker 3>of me, they get a little They called at me. Hello, Hello,

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<v Speaker 3>reporting live from Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to the ball Alert Show.

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<v Speaker 3>I go by the name of fil.

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<v Speaker 1>I go by the name you know, BT.

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<v Speaker 3>Want to see where that who the devil doed.

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<v Speaker 1>Is in the village or walked in done? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 4>Drod has a flip phone. Joe has a flip for well,

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<v Speaker 4>I've seen the flip phone for a while. I don't

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<v Speaker 4>remember the last time I seen a flip phone. The

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<v Speaker 4>last time I seen the flip flowd.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, hold on, Joe, what you got going on?

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<v Speaker 4>Man? Because I texted him. I thought he gave me

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<v Speaker 4>the wrong number. It was a it was a green bubble.

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<v Speaker 4>I said, Yo, what's going on?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? So I mean, well, my ADHD and that phone

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<v Speaker 2>and like you're talking about with iPhone, yeah, previously, like

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<v Speaker 2>you know, all on those apps and you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean.

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<v Speaker 3>So this does not have any apps.

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<v Speaker 1>No, it takes along the text. Man, it was like

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<v Speaker 1>I got to hit the numbers.

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<v Speaker 5>A couple of times, so you know, you can't even

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<v Speaker 5>do a voice note.

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<v Speaker 1>Damn you like that aspired shot.

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<v Speaker 2>No, it's just it keeps my attention off of everybody else,

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<v Speaker 2>and it keeps me, you know, like like information I

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<v Speaker 2>try to intake. I try to make sure that there's

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<v Speaker 2>some you know, something that's other than what everybody else knows.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. I do get information from

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<v Speaker 2>people they oh boy, you heard it, like okay, but

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<v Speaker 2>you know, instead of me just taking it all in,

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<v Speaker 2>because once I get through looking at all those apps

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<v Speaker 2>and all that information, and I get to taken it in,

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<v Speaker 2>and if it ain't good information, that's what I spit

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<v Speaker 2>back out, you know what I mean. I spit back

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<v Speaker 2>out the stuff that I intake, and most of that

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<v Speaker 2>stuff ain't good. So half of the time I don't

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<v Speaker 2>had any good to say, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>If I'm all in that app and looking at everybody

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<v Speaker 2>living their best life.

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<v Speaker 5>You've really been doing the work on yourself. You know,

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<v Speaker 5>when did that start?

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<v Speaker 2>When I went to rehab, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 5>I kind of like, was like, how many years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>Was that three three years April sixteenth?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, third year ye sobriety yeah yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So back when I did that, I was like, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what, I felt like I couldn't do the stuff

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<v Speaker 2>I used to do and get ahead from where I

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<v Speaker 2>was at, you know what I mean. So if I

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<v Speaker 2>was going to go to rehab, then I was going

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<v Speaker 2>to have to change the women, you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>because all of this stuff went with each other, like

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<v Speaker 2>the drugs, the women, alcohol, this the hanging out, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, the friends that I chose. So

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<v Speaker 2>I had to cut everybody off. And I love I

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<v Speaker 2>love the people that I cut off. I still think

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<v Speaker 2>about them and stuff like that, but it hinders me

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<v Speaker 2>to go back and repeat what I already done and

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<v Speaker 2>already see the results for it, you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>So change the number, got a new phone, got off

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<v Speaker 2>social media.

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<v Speaker 3>But you still someone still posts for you.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm supervised, so you know, if it's something that I

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<v Speaker 2>need to know or I have to do drops, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying, stuff that's you know, leveling me up,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. We all sit down like

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<v Speaker 2>this and they be like, this is what you got

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<v Speaker 2>to do, boom boom, boom boom when I get through

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<v Speaker 2>phone back.

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<v Speaker 3>And so there is a designated phone for you, you

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<v Speaker 3>just don't use it.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, it's a designated phone for me. But I have

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<v Speaker 2>to be supervised because if you walk out the room,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, you know what I'm saying, I'm not disciplined enough.

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<v Speaker 3>Is that your phone?

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<v Speaker 4>But you just don't have it or somebody has it

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<v Speaker 4>and they put all your stuff on it, meaning like

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<v Speaker 4>you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I have my own phone, but I don't have

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<v Speaker 2>my own phone. So and then like I make sure

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<v Speaker 2>that everybody has the code, you know what I mean, everybody, everybody,

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<v Speaker 2>like my management team, my lawyer, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>My lawyer was got in on it. You know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. You wanted to hey, look man, you can't

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<v Speaker 2>do this. And I'm making sure you're not doing that.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know what I'm saying, No, I don't want

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<v Speaker 2>to fall back into what that was. That's a rabbit

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<v Speaker 2>hole that nobody wants to go down, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean. Like, you know what I mean, Like it's

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<v Speaker 2>almost like a nightmare that I woke up out of

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<v Speaker 2>that if I if I go back into it. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going back to the nightmare and it's just not it's

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<v Speaker 2>not healthy for my mind, you know what I mean?

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<v Speaker 5>Do you feel better?

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<v Speaker 2>How are you? One hundred?

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<v Speaker 6>That's good for the people like that don't understand how,

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<v Speaker 6>you know, dealing with addictions and stuff like that work.

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<v Speaker 6>Could you talk a little bit about, you know, when

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<v Speaker 6>you went to go get sober kind of like what

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<v Speaker 6>was your process and everything? To kind of help a

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<v Speaker 6>lot of people that really don't know the direction to take,

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<v Speaker 6>you have.

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<v Speaker 2>To have a support team, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't believe I could have done it without great management.

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<v Speaker 2>Sierra's my manager and also she's run for office, by

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<v Speaker 2>the way, running for office man Forton County Commissioner District six.

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<v Speaker 2>But she's also a doctor and she has a doctrine

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<v Speaker 2>in behavioral and mental health, so she was able to

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying, like something wrong with you?

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<v Speaker 4>Bro?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like what? Because blunt? What a blunt and a perk?

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<v Speaker 2>And you know what, Selean won't fix you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying, Because I could just drown this out, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>medicate myself, like I thought was you know, I thought

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<v Speaker 2>that was the way, so that process. What meant like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, well, I'm gonna get your family together, the

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<v Speaker 2>ones who do care, because you know, you would think

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<v Speaker 2>that everybody in your family is on board. That's not

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<v Speaker 2>true for me, you know what I mean. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know for anybody else, but everybody didn't believe it. You know.

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<v Speaker 2>I had some family members liked it the way I

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<v Speaker 2>was because I gave a lot, you know what i mean,

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<v Speaker 2>how all the time you could just pretty much take

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<v Speaker 2>advantage of me, you know what I'm saying. And that

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<v Speaker 2>was the same thing that went with in public, my friends,

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<v Speaker 2>you know people that was around, what could we get from?

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<v Speaker 2>And he got a show. Let's everybody pile up. We

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<v Speaker 2>about to go to the show. He gonna give almost

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<v Speaker 2>all his money away. You know what I'm saying. We're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna get high, we're gonna get drunk, and we're gonna repeat,

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<v Speaker 2>and we're gonna do this for what twenty years?

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<v Speaker 5>You know what was your breaking point?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, the repeating of it. And then when I saw

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<v Speaker 2>my child, you know what I'm saying, and I felt

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<v Speaker 2>like that's that was a low blow. You know what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. When I seen my little girl like that,

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, man, I can't tell her not to

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<v Speaker 2>get high. No more. Car I'm still having it in me,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. So the best thing I

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<v Speaker 2>could do is just go ahead and change myself. And

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<v Speaker 2>then she saw it and she actually cleaned them question yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>yeah clean? And uh you know I was talking to

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<v Speaker 2>her the other day, man, and she was just she

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<v Speaker 2>was in her daughter mode, like you know what I'm saying, Dad,

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<v Speaker 2>and I just started crying. I was like, man, I

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<v Speaker 2>praised so I wish I could have pressed a button.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought it was a dream. I was like, what

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<v Speaker 2>did I do to deserve this? You know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I thought about it and I was like, I

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<v Speaker 2>took my mom through the same thing. You know what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. You have to humble yourself and see what

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<v Speaker 2>you put people through, you know what I'm saying. And

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<v Speaker 2>once you see that, you be like, oh, I get it.

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<v Speaker 2>I needed to learn this lesson, you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>But my kid, what you do show up in your kids,

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<v Speaker 2>like the kind of person you are and the things

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<v Speaker 2>that you do. If they're good things, and good things

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<v Speaker 2>to show up in your kid. If they're bad things,

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<v Speaker 2>they're bad things will also.

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<v Speaker 4>So having been through all of these things to be

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<v Speaker 4>where you are, do you feel like you waste the

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<v Speaker 4>time when you were, you know, on the drugs and

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<v Speaker 4>all that stuff, or do you feel like this kind

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<v Speaker 4>of was a journey that took you to where you're at.

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<v Speaker 2>Now kind of in the middle. You know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you remember? I mean, I have a moment? Can

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<v Speaker 3>I share?

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<v Speaker 1>I a moment? Man?

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<v Speaker 4>I was hosting Compound and you didn't even know what's

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<v Speaker 4>going on. It was your album release part.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I remember that day because Roco was trying to

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<v Speaker 2>give me some champagne and they was like he said,

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<v Speaker 2>he was just was definitely there. He was just tapping

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<v Speaker 2>me and I was just out of it.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I turned. You know, this dude like Slick

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<v Speaker 1>raised me. So I turned and then he was like,

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<v Speaker 1>I was so out of my mind, you know what

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<v Speaker 1>I mean.

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<v Speaker 3>And that's when I got worried. Yeah, I forgot what

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<v Speaker 3>the year was that That year.

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<v Speaker 2>Was one of those moments that I was like because

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<v Speaker 2>when I when I when I got the feedback off

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<v Speaker 2>that night, they was like, yo, he was just standing there.

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<v Speaker 2>And then I had this thing, this myth thing about

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<v Speaker 2>me to when people used to be like, man, he'd

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<v Speaker 2>be out of it. But when it's time to wrap,

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<v Speaker 2>I just used to you were amazing, But I would

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<v Speaker 2>miss the best part of you know, the experiment, the

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<v Speaker 2>people well, the love, the paying attention, the want to

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<v Speaker 2>collapse and you know what I say, you have the

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<v Speaker 2>success part. And then you know, and then when I

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<v Speaker 2>wake back up the next day, I would again, just

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<v Speaker 2>do it again, and I'll be like, you know, they'll

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<v Speaker 2>be like, well, this person tried to talk to you.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you know, you you said something of this person,

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<v Speaker 2>you ignored this person, You said some real cruel stuff

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<v Speaker 2>to that person.

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<v Speaker 1>Yah.

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<v Speaker 7>Man, Well, you know, unfortunately that's a lot of artists

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<v Speaker 7>journeys like drugs and all that stuff because they feel

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<v Speaker 7>like maybe they are better as an artist or whatever.

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<v Speaker 7>So it's just so great to see you come out

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<v Speaker 7>of that and just be who you are.

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<v Speaker 5>We're so proud of you.

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<v Speaker 8>We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.

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<v Speaker 8>You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey take this out minus your boy you on Joe

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<v Speaker 2>on right here on the ball Alert Show kicking it

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<v Speaker 2>with for Ririe Simmons, Oh, C T and BT.

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<v Speaker 1>You dig what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 4>Now, Young Doe was actually signed before TI. Yeah, bigger

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<v Speaker 4>record deal, bigger situation before t.

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<v Speaker 2>I the same amount like the people were No, it

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<v Speaker 2>was actually Roco. It was a you know, Monica was

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<v Speaker 2>into on it, like because she always has given me

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<v Speaker 2>big support. So the Roco thing, right, it was it

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<v Speaker 2>was crazy like because I wasn't a superstar yet. I

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<v Speaker 2>just had the pen, you know what I'm saying. Good

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<v Speaker 2>with the pen, and Roco was like man and I

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<v Speaker 2>used to just go around and be rapping for different

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<v Speaker 2>people in the street and you know what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 2>And it was so it was so good. Roco was like,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm been and put the house on shot. So he

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<v Speaker 2>built the studio for me, you know what i mean,

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<v Speaker 2>southwest over there by Green Brown, you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>And so when he built the studio, you know him

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<v Speaker 2>and Monica. You know, Monica was always supportive. I remember

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<v Speaker 2>me and her first song was You Deserve We redid

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<v Speaker 2>the he May Hail Mary beat with Tupac and and

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<v Speaker 2>Man Rocco had me with I got a song with Juvenile.

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<v Speaker 2>Back then, you had some big records. Yeah, I had

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<v Speaker 2>one with Jazzy Fay, Bone Crusher, Turk bunt Be, a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of more people, Monica of course. But this was

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<v Speaker 2>all on one tape car respect to connect it. And

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I was just feeling this way through it,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. And I think he pressed

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<v Speaker 2>up so many of those CDs and he forgot to

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<v Speaker 2>put the barcode on it. It was crazy back then.

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<v Speaker 4>That was the time when they when people actually bought

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<v Speaker 4>physical CD physical city. You were selling them in the

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<v Speaker 4>streets too. How much money were you making?

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<v Speaker 2>Uh? Well, we used to charge like ten dollars of CD.

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<v Speaker 2>But Roco gave me, like I think Roco gave me

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<v Speaker 2>like twenty grand cash for my advance. Wow, without even.

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<v Speaker 5>Being what'd you do with it?

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<v Speaker 2>I blew it.

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<v Speaker 4>I wasn't.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what most artists do it.

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<v Speaker 2>But to be honest with you, I was so into

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<v Speaker 2>my drug habit. But it was bad then because I

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<v Speaker 2>was trying to hide it. And then like on the

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<v Speaker 2>way back then, yes, like but because drugs had been

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<v Speaker 2>in my family for a long time. My dad, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>my dad been using, my dad using for like fifty years.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, my aunties and uncles all died off of drugs.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean. They didn't live. Nobody lived

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<v Speaker 2>to be over sixty five or something like that. You

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<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. So, and my grandmama like had

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<v Speaker 2>like seven kids, all of them smoked dope self for

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<v Speaker 2>my mom, you know what I mean. So for me

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<v Speaker 2>to be on drugs, you've been like, oh figure, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying, because that it had been embedded

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<v Speaker 2>in my family.

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<v Speaker 3>That you see it when you were younger, Yes, you

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<v Speaker 3>saw I had to.

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<v Speaker 2>I had to go buy it. You know what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 2>Like my aunt ties and uncles will come over and

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<v Speaker 2>they'll send me to go get it. You know what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying, Like I knew where to go get their

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<v Speaker 2>drugs from.

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<v Speaker 5>When was the first time you wanted to indulge it?

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<v Speaker 6>Or did.

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<v Speaker 2>Twelve? I started smoking? We ad twelve, You know, I

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<v Speaker 2>felt a junkie was out there. Man. And my one

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<v Speaker 2>of my friend's mom she was she was smoking. She

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<v Speaker 2>was like, I ain't no boy, that we gonna lead

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<v Speaker 2>to something else. I was like, get out of here

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<v Speaker 2>and law and ball.

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<v Speaker 1>She was right, she was correct.

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<v Speaker 5>Introduce you to something heavier.

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<v Speaker 2>Or yeah, I was introduced to something heavier by just curiosity.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like looking at my friend and I was

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<v Speaker 2>wondering why they was acting, you know, more chill than

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<v Speaker 2>everybody else. And I felt like, you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to indulge in that. And you know, of

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<v Speaker 2>course everyone nah, man, you good, and I was like, nah,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to try it, not not knowing that.

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<v Speaker 2>I just thought they was having a good time that night.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know that it was going to ruin my life,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. I saw it, but I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, you know what I'm saying. I knew what

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<v Speaker 2>my aunties and uncles was doing. They was doing heroin

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<v Speaker 2>and cracking, you know what I'm saying. You know stuff,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. So when we went out

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<v Speaker 2>back when I was coming around, you know, X pills

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<v Speaker 2>and cocaine and weed, and you know what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 2>that was young people were doing that, you know what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. Then once I saw that, I was like, well,

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<v Speaker 2>this ain't that, you know, because we used to be

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<v Speaker 2>at big parties and you know, everything was going on

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<v Speaker 2>and everybody was indulged, and I was like, oh, it's lit.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying, It's just everybody just having

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<v Speaker 2>a good time tonight. And you know what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 2>Once I win in that rabbit.

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<v Speaker 5>Hole, it just when how old were you then when

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<v Speaker 5>you when you went there, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Want to be I want to say eighteen. I would.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what's crazy? I was the same age my

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<v Speaker 2>daughter was. You know, this is the generational curse thing

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<v Speaker 2>that I broke.

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<v Speaker 3>But then you started making a lot of money. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>so now you can support your habit and it gets worse, correct,

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<v Speaker 3>it gets worse.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know what I prayed. You know when I

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<v Speaker 2>first wanted to do music, you know, I really asked God.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, I really don't care about money. I said,

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<v Speaker 2>I just want to have longevity. And you know, and

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, but if I don't get rid of

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<v Speaker 2>this drug habit, I said, it's probably gonna kill me.

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<v Speaker 2>You feel what I'm saying. And it changed. I started

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<v Speaker 2>morphing with the drugs when something went out of style,

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<v Speaker 2>like when X pills was like popular those became I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, the X pill was just stuff for so

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<v Speaker 2>much stuff. I was like, okay, this was enough. In

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<v Speaker 2>that time passed then Molly came, you feel me then

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<v Speaker 2>when Molly came. But and then you know, I spent

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<v Speaker 2>five years, six years on X pills, like eight years

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<v Speaker 2>on this and they didn't come to perksn't come to Zans,

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<v Speaker 2>they didn't come to Lean then you know, alcohol, and

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<v Speaker 2>we stayed there, you know what I'm saying. So it

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<v Speaker 2>was just I was just morphing into different druggies, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. So and by that time, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I guess you know, God just kept his hand on me.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, because for somebody to survive that, and this

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<v Speaker 2>goes out to anybody that's using and you still living,

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<v Speaker 2>that means that it's still a purpose for you to

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<v Speaker 2>do because you can overdose.

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<v Speaker 4>Do you have any lasting effects, like does like your

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<v Speaker 4>ReBs heard or do you have like stomach problems or

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<v Speaker 4>I'm good?

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<v Speaker 3>Do you have no stomach problems? Like random headaches?

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<v Speaker 5>Did a Rocco ever intervene with your or did he

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<v Speaker 5>ever say anything?

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<v Speaker 2>I hit it from him. I was able to mask it,

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<v Speaker 2>like because I thought, well, clothes was my creep out thing,

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<v Speaker 2>like if I got fresh, you know what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 2>Because there's a method behind how I dress. Now you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying because I saw it in school.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, clothes keep people off from the attention

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<v Speaker 2>about what's really inside of me. You feel me long

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<v Speaker 2>as you long, long as you can see me fresh

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<v Speaker 2>and not my interior.

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<v Speaker 6>I was good on that, like a distraction, Like a

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<v Speaker 6>distraction when people won't expect somebody that's dressed nice and

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<v Speaker 6>that's room to be heavy on drugs.

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<v Speaker 2>Ultimately, that hurt me more than anything because everybody was like, alright,

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<v Speaker 2>he dead fresh, You know what I'm saying. And I

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<v Speaker 2>wanted that. You know, I didn't want you to look

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<v Speaker 2>at me any different. You know what I'm saying, because

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<v Speaker 2>I I'll be and I'll say to myself on some

0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.879
<v Speaker 2>arrogant stuff like what she would say, somebody me and

0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm cleaning than you. You know what I'm saying, Like

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<v Speaker 2>like that, you know what I'm saying. But like the

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<v Speaker 2>way the way it tore up friendships, the way it

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<v Speaker 2>the way I did, you know how like you know,

0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.399
<v Speaker 2>breaking girls hearts and lying and you know, lett my

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<v Speaker 2>mom down, and you know what I'm saying. And people

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<v Speaker 2>I made some people who cared. You know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>That that was like you know, like Ferrari or somebody

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<v Speaker 2>that saw me like that genuinely cared that. You know this,

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<v Speaker 2>this guy is tripping, you know what I'm saying. But

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<v Speaker 2>at the same time, it's other people wanted me in

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<v Speaker 2>that position because it benefited them.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, nobody cares about a rich junkie.

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<v Speaker 2>Nobody cares about a rich junkie if he's good looking.

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<v Speaker 6>Now, when you was, when you was doing drugs, did

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<v Speaker 6>you did you need the drugs to create the type

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<v Speaker 6>of music that you was making because you putting out

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<v Speaker 6>a lot of hit records at the time.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, still all to day.

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<v Speaker 6>But I always just wanted the does artists always feel

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<v Speaker 6>like I need to get high to get in the

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<v Speaker 6>studio and create this type of music that people are loving.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's that's I think that's the trick that

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<v Speaker 2>the devil has, you know what I mean. He tried

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<v Speaker 2>to convince you that God didn't give you everything that

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<v Speaker 2>you need to you know, be the best person you are,

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<v Speaker 2>and I had to fight with that for a long time. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I do want to say that it did stimulate, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>my brain and make me you know, think, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>harder and concentrate, because that's just what it is, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. But to say that that's true,

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<v Speaker 2>that's not true. You know what I'm saying, Like you

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<v Speaker 2>have you are equipped with everything that you need to

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<v Speaker 2>be the best person on this earth that God. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>the gifts that God gave you, those are the best gifts,

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<v Speaker 2>not drugs.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>I just seen the famous quote that Wayne May when

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<v Speaker 6>he put out a documentary. He said, people are telling

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<v Speaker 6>me to put down the cup, put down the lian

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<v Speaker 6>and he said, I ain't putting down nothing, because this

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<v Speaker 6>lean got me more rich and more successful. So I

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<v Speaker 6>just always thought about there, like for a long time,

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<v Speaker 6>I'm like, does every artist do drugs?

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<v Speaker 1>You know to make this popular music that were listening to.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you can lie to yourself, you know, you

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<v Speaker 2>can a lot to yourself. But the truth is I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not on drugs now and I do great music, so

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<v Speaker 2>I would be telling you I'll be lying there. I

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<v Speaker 2>did a lot of myself and made me make myself

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<v Speaker 2>believe that that that that I needed that. But that

0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.119
<v Speaker 2>was the crutch, Like that was the that was the

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<v Speaker 2>move that the devil played. You know what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 2>you need this, you know what I'm saying you need me,

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<v Speaker 2>you need me, you know, well actually you don't.

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<v Speaker 3>Man, Hey, Dree, So one of my favorite songs you

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<v Speaker 3>ever did. I always wanted to ask you this question.

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<v Speaker 3>I actually never asked you this in private, so I'm

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<v Speaker 3>asking you right now or revoked TV ball alert.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't fuck with y'all.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, because I'm a big Can we talk about that

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<v Speaker 4>record and making that record? So I saw you perform

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<v Speaker 4>that live at the Pearl on a Tuesday night and

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<v Speaker 4>dug at the Pearl. It was a it's a club,

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<v Speaker 4>It's no longer there, Green Brier. The Green Brill was

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<v Speaker 4>at South Southwest. Yeah, right, the Green bro Mall long

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<v Speaker 4>live Johnson because that was his party. Yes, And I

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<v Speaker 4>was there on a Tuesday night one time, a DJJ one.

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<v Speaker 1>He was the DJ.

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<v Speaker 3>Didn't smoke or drink. Meanwhile, the club was lit.

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<v Speaker 4>Bit job over there lit, and I never forget dro

0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.400
<v Speaker 4>performed this song. I was in general population, just looking.

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<v Speaker 3>Up like, yeah, this is the reason I'm here, this

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<v Speaker 3>is the reason why I love Atlanta. Were talking about

0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:39.040
<v Speaker 3>that song.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that that era was you know what I mean,

0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.640
<v Speaker 2>heavily inspired by I want to say young La man

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<v Speaker 2>he kind of like, you know, showed me a different

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<v Speaker 2>way of doing things because I used to rap so

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<v Speaker 2>hard back then and it was like before it's time,

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<v Speaker 2>and I was like, I can dial it down a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit. But you know, I decided to dial it down.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, you know, younger lay made me feel

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<v Speaker 2>comfortable in that in that in that state, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. And when I recorded it, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, some of him lingo were like, what's up

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<v Speaker 2>it out? You know what I'm saying? Always like big dog,

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<v Speaker 2>Like everything was big dog. You know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>And when I said when I was talking about, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the lingo in there, I was really referring back to

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<v Speaker 2>Atlanta culture. You know how we how we you know,

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<v Speaker 2>how comfortable we are with how we talk. And I

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<v Speaker 2>was slag and you know what I mean, and all

0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:39.000
<v Speaker 2>that bow and all that stuff that we was. It

0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.159
<v Speaker 2>just fit, you know what I'm saying. And when I

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<v Speaker 2>decided to do the video, it just got Big Man

0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:46.959
<v Speaker 2>Mike Epps came. I had him in Chapel for as

0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.560
<v Speaker 2>on the West Side I'm talking about. He was out

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<v Speaker 2>there with one shoe on what you all big and

0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.159
<v Speaker 2>bugers I was like, this guy is super real and

0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:58.080
<v Speaker 2>I ain't. It wasn't nothing that I called. I ain't

0:21:58.080 --> 0:21:59.320
<v Speaker 2>even have to call him, you know what I mean,

0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:01.680
<v Speaker 2>just pulled up with Droyd. I'm on the way, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. I was like, man, this lit

0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:07.639
<v Speaker 2>Mike ELPs over in the hood man, So that that

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<v Speaker 2>that was that and that that was the first video

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<v Speaker 2>that had a filter on it.

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<v Speaker 3>If you look at the video, I don't know what's

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<v Speaker 3>the filter, like the.

0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:20.720
<v Speaker 2>Filters on Instagram, like the color, the color of it.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying, Like, how you can you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying?

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<v Speaker 4>It was? It was?

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<v Speaker 2>It was lit? Man.

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<v Speaker 5>When did you meet t I?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, we weren't famous. I think it was like it

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<v Speaker 2>was a rap.

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<v Speaker 3>You said that he stayed up the street from you

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<v Speaker 3>or somebody, so.

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<v Speaker 2>We were so we both was from Bankhead, which was

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<v Speaker 2>I stayed in the projects. He stayed in Center Hill.

0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:50.840
<v Speaker 2>So in hindsight we were already on the West Side together.

0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:56.680
<v Speaker 2>He just was up the street. In reality, we ended

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<v Speaker 2>up moving to the same spot in Riverdale.

0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:02.080
<v Speaker 1>So when I that's weird.

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<v Speaker 2>So when I got over that, I just you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I seen everybody kicking it and when nobody really kicking

0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:08.000
<v Speaker 2>it like us. Hold, that's so I'm looking like. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>like he had like somebody, I know, you know what

0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:13.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. Then it just it came together, you know

0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:15.520
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. And he was hustling and you know

0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:17.359
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, doing the thing, you know what I'm saying.

0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:19.280
<v Speaker 2>And I used to I used to go down in

0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:21.440
<v Speaker 2>his house. You know, her mom used to be cussing up. Hey, y'all,

0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:24.560
<v Speaker 2>y'all do my living room more than purnature. I'm like,

0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:27.520
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. But actually we just connected,

0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:29.640
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. He I seen him how

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<v Speaker 2>he was moving it, you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 1>And I knew.

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<v Speaker 2>I knew how we sold drawers in the city and

0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:37.960
<v Speaker 2>I've seen how they were selling draws out there. And

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<v Speaker 2>he was telling me, boy, it's triple out of him car.

0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:42.040
<v Speaker 2>You know our dins out him.

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<v Speaker 1>They thought it out of here.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, oh, lik, you know what I'm saying. So basically, man,

0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:47.400
<v Speaker 2>we connected.

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<v Speaker 5>Sixteen was y'all wrapping in or no, we was.

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<v Speaker 2>I was just doing beats man, Okay, he was. It

0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:58.440
<v Speaker 2>was like doing he was a producer, like he was

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<v Speaker 2>producing beats, serving serving service.

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<v Speaker 1>You're producing big serving and boy, yeah, just do back man.

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<v Speaker 1>And me I was just healing up because I had

0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:15.640
<v Speaker 1>I had got shot like a year two a year.

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<v Speaker 3>Why did you get shot?

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<v Speaker 4>Ah? Man?

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<v Speaker 2>It was crazy man, just I mean being in being

0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:24.359
<v Speaker 2>in the wrong place, doing the wrong things.

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<v Speaker 4>Man.

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<v Speaker 2>One of you dude tried me when I was young,

0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:32.720
<v Speaker 2>and it kind of like I want to say, it

0:24:32.760 --> 0:24:35.960
<v Speaker 2>shook me a little bit, but I knew I wasn't

0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.280
<v Speaker 2>gonna suck out, So I was like, Okay, you tried

0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:40.600
<v Speaker 2>me like that. Bit. I'm finna go. I'm finna go

0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:43.440
<v Speaker 2>to bankhead Cole really went from the area right there.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm finna go to bank had get my get my connect,

0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:48.040
<v Speaker 2>and we're gonna come back over here and straighten it.

0:24:48.119 --> 0:24:49.879
<v Speaker 2>And then when we went back over there and straighten it,

0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:52.359
<v Speaker 2>you feel what I'm saying, we did. We did and

0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:55.119
<v Speaker 2>on the way out, somebody came up to the car

0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:57.119
<v Speaker 2>and shot me in the back, you know what I mean.

0:24:57.480 --> 0:24:59.560
<v Speaker 2>And I had to wear like colossomy bag. You know

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. Man, Yeah, I was using the bathroom

0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.879
<v Speaker 2>for myself and like at a young age, I was

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<v Speaker 2>out in my mind. I was like, what the world

0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:10.440
<v Speaker 2>just happened? Because I just thought we was going to

0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:12.600
<v Speaker 2>do some you know what I mean. Next thing, you

0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:14.320
<v Speaker 2>know that that was on me, you know what I'm saying.

0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:16.680
<v Speaker 2>So by the time I met Tip, I was I

0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:18.720
<v Speaker 2>was heeling up for my stable. I had like fifty

0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:21.120
<v Speaker 2>six staples and I had you know what I'm saying,

0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:24.000
<v Speaker 2>I had just got the bag reversed. You know what

0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:26.280
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. I think I was sixteen turning about to

0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:26.920
<v Speaker 2>be seventeen.

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<v Speaker 1>So you got shot at sixteen fifteen fifteen?

0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:32.600
<v Speaker 2>Wow, you know I had to you know, of course

0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:34.920
<v Speaker 2>I had the bag. So once I went through that surgery,

0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:37.840
<v Speaker 2>I had to wear the bag till I was like

0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:38.640
<v Speaker 2>a year and a half.

0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:41.080
<v Speaker 3>The bag is you using the bathroom and it goes

0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:41.680
<v Speaker 3>into the bag?

0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:44.720
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, wow, Yeah, that's a lot of That's something that

0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:46.840
<v Speaker 6>a lot of people don't talk about, you know, when

0:25:46.880 --> 0:25:48.920
<v Speaker 6>you hear people getting shot in all this stuff, because

0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:51.040
<v Speaker 6>people try to glorify that in the streets, but people

0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:53.920
<v Speaker 6>don't know the aftermath of what you know, people actually

0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:55.160
<v Speaker 6>have to go through or getting shot.

0:25:55.320 --> 0:25:58.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, see my drug have it burst from then, Like

0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:03.000
<v Speaker 2>I believe because I was on some strong such stuff

0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:06.040
<v Speaker 2>in the hospital, right, and they used to give me

0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:08.560
<v Speaker 2>this stuff called demarol, and they used to be hit

0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:10.960
<v Speaker 2>me and then like and I used to be ringing

0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:14.760
<v Speaker 2>the button all the time. And then the lady, the

0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:17.040
<v Speaker 2>lady found that out. She was like, he's addicted, you

0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:19.600
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean? And I really didn't know. I

0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:22.000
<v Speaker 2>just kept saying I'm in pain. But most of the

0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:24.680
<v Speaker 2>time I wasn't in pain. It was just that that

0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:27.200
<v Speaker 2>stuff used to knock me out. It was opious, like

0:26:27.560 --> 0:26:30.119
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. So and behold when I

0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:32.879
<v Speaker 2>got to the hospital and then and and I was

0:26:32.920 --> 0:26:34.639
<v Speaker 2>asking him, I was like, is y'all gonna give me

0:26:34.680 --> 0:26:36.800
<v Speaker 2>that that same stuff? They was like, no, we can't

0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:38.440
<v Speaker 2>give you that, Like on the way out, like we're

0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:40.400
<v Speaker 2>going to give you some stuff, you know what I'm saying.

0:26:42.240 --> 0:26:47.360
<v Speaker 2>It wasn't it good stuff? So when I got out, man,

0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:53.399
<v Speaker 2>I was looking for that too, that high. I wanted

0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:57.159
<v Speaker 2>something to medicate me because that was addictive to me.

0:26:57.560 --> 0:26:59.920
<v Speaker 2>I had addictive personality, like you know what I'm saying,

0:27:00.119 --> 0:27:03.520
<v Speaker 2>Like I wanted that fix again. So that's when it

0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:06.760
<v Speaker 2>burst too. That's when I was like, Okay, when I

0:27:06.880 --> 0:27:10.080
<v Speaker 2>found something to have me sedated like that on the street,

0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:11.720
<v Speaker 2>I was like, oh, what is what it felt like?

0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:14.240
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. So yeah, So by the

0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:16.480
<v Speaker 2>time I met Tip, I was healing up from that,

0:27:17.240 --> 0:27:17.800
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean.

0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:20.280
<v Speaker 5>But then you went and got to deal with Rocco

0:27:20.480 --> 0:27:21.159
<v Speaker 5>before no.

0:27:21.359 --> 0:27:23.800
<v Speaker 2>I had to deal with Raheem the Dream, so it's

0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:24.520
<v Speaker 2>very okay.

0:27:24.520 --> 0:27:27.840
<v Speaker 5>So now the Raheen drinks I knew dream was first.

0:27:28.160 --> 0:27:30.760
<v Speaker 2>You feel mean because you know, we was on the

0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:33.480
<v Speaker 2>West Side and I was rapping at my cousins. He

0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:36.120
<v Speaker 2>was doing something on the bank at the bank which

0:27:36.240 --> 0:27:37.879
<v Speaker 2>was the Bounce, you know what I'm saying. So I

0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:40.199
<v Speaker 2>went in there wrapping it at his show and Raheem

0:27:40.320 --> 0:27:43.800
<v Speaker 2>saw it. He came and got me in. He signed

0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:45.800
<v Speaker 2>me in. You know, I had this song called yes Sir.

0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:49.000
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying this when every you know

0:27:49.480 --> 0:27:52.080
<v Speaker 2>today people were saying yes Sirski you real me? But

0:27:52.160 --> 0:27:55.640
<v Speaker 2>I had an actual single call this in two thousand. Wow,

0:27:55.880 --> 0:27:57.880
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying, Like twenty some years ago,

0:27:58.200 --> 0:27:59.680
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. That was my first single

0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:02.320
<v Speaker 2>call Yes sir, you know what I mean? Uh, Greg

0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:09.800
<v Speaker 2>Street broke it great, Dan, So that was that was

0:28:09.880 --> 0:28:12.320
<v Speaker 2>the thing. And you know I had to deal before Tip.

0:28:12.440 --> 0:28:14.640
<v Speaker 2>That's what That's what it was. You know what I'm saying.

0:28:14.840 --> 0:28:16.560
<v Speaker 2>I was on the radio. So by the time he

0:28:16.600 --> 0:28:19.560
<v Speaker 2>got on radio, I had already saturated on the radio.

0:28:20.040 --> 0:28:22.400
<v Speaker 2>And I think I think he was at the radio

0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:26.080
<v Speaker 2>one station one day and I called up there. I'm

0:28:26.119 --> 0:28:28.120
<v Speaker 2>telling girl, I'm like, hey, Greg, you know what I'm saying.

0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:30.639
<v Speaker 2>I was like, that's that's Tip. And then Tip like

0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:32.280
<v Speaker 2>who were that? And he was like, I was like,

0:28:32.359 --> 0:28:35.000
<v Speaker 2>this drove And then he was like you know what

0:28:35.040 --> 0:28:36.840
<v Speaker 2>I mean because he was doing you know what I'm saying.

0:28:37.480 --> 0:28:41.480
<v Speaker 1>He was like, you drove. I was like, you know

0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:43.880
<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying. He was like I had no because

0:28:44.160 --> 0:28:46.040
<v Speaker 1>my voice and stuff got heavy.

0:28:46.160 --> 0:28:46.800
<v Speaker 2>Like how you say that?

0:28:47.520 --> 0:28:48.080
<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm saying.

0:28:48.160 --> 0:28:50.040
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, man, So when I met Tip where we

0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:54.120
<v Speaker 2>wasn't we wasn't we wasn't rappers, were just kids.

0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:57.920
<v Speaker 8>We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.

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<v Speaker 8>You listen to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey take this out minus your boy on Joe on

0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:06.560
<v Speaker 2>right here on the ball Alert Show, Kicking It with

0:29:06.640 --> 0:29:09.280
<v Speaker 2>for Ririe Simmons, Oh CT and BT.

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<v Speaker 1>You dig what I'm saying that With.

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<v Speaker 5>The Barler Lip Show, we got young Droe.

0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:16.040
<v Speaker 1>And the Bill Gi Yeah, fresh as always.

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<v Speaker 5>He's talking about TI.

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<v Speaker 7>You know, Grant Hustle years y'all was off the charts,

0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:22.760
<v Speaker 7>and I feel like that was Do you feel like

0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:23.880
<v Speaker 7>that was the peak of your success?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? I mean yeah, the bigger part.

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<v Speaker 7>Because when Shoudaling came out, I feel like it took over.

0:29:33.080 --> 0:29:34.320
<v Speaker 7>It's still about today.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's actually playing the dope thing about you, and

0:29:39.240 --> 0:29:42.320
<v Speaker 4>I feel like you guys are those legendary artists. Your

0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:46.040
<v Speaker 4>music is coming back because how radio is working now

0:29:46.240 --> 0:29:49.120
<v Speaker 4>is they're playing all those hits from the early two

0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:52.840
<v Speaker 4>thousands to two thousand and eighty ten's, So you're gonna

0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:56.040
<v Speaker 4>hear Droe, I heard whatever you liked the other day

0:29:56.080 --> 0:29:58.440
<v Speaker 4>on the radio. I heard Shoudeling the other day on

0:29:58.520 --> 0:30:00.760
<v Speaker 4>the radio. So it's starting to come back, which I

0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:01.560
<v Speaker 4>think is a dope thing.

0:30:01.600 --> 0:30:02.400
<v Speaker 2>How does that make you feel?

0:30:02.920 --> 0:30:03.400
<v Speaker 1>Pretty good?

0:30:03.520 --> 0:30:03.680
<v Speaker 6>Man?

0:30:04.280 --> 0:30:09.120
<v Speaker 2>I always wanted to make music that like classical music,

0:30:09.200 --> 0:30:10.720
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. Like, I listened to a

0:30:10.800 --> 0:30:13.320
<v Speaker 2>lot of alternative music, you know what I mean? And

0:30:14.080 --> 0:30:18.760
<v Speaker 2>those those songs are around today. You know what I mean.

0:30:18.920 --> 0:30:23.520
<v Speaker 2>Hip hop is the only genre that that says, Okay,

0:30:23.560 --> 0:30:25.320
<v Speaker 2>we're done with this, you know what I mean. But

0:30:25.400 --> 0:30:28.600
<v Speaker 2>you still can hear a John Bon Jovie song that's

0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:31.320
<v Speaker 2>still popping, you know what I'm saying. You still can

0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:33.920
<v Speaker 2>hear you know, those kind of songs still popping today.

0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:37.360
<v Speaker 2>And I felt like, since I have a sense of

0:30:37.480 --> 0:30:39.320
<v Speaker 2>that kind of music, I kind of had it in

0:30:39.440 --> 0:30:42.520
<v Speaker 2>my spirit to make stuff that I you know that

0:30:42.640 --> 0:30:45.240
<v Speaker 2>you still got you know that you can still play today.

0:30:45.480 --> 0:30:49.040
<v Speaker 5>You have an interesting story about how Shoudoline was developed.

0:30:49.080 --> 0:30:51.960
<v Speaker 5>Can you give us that? Can you share that story?

0:30:52.240 --> 0:30:54.720
<v Speaker 2>It came from us not dancing because the whole the

0:30:54.800 --> 0:30:57.680
<v Speaker 2>whole city was dancing, like and you know, I ain't

0:30:57.760 --> 0:30:59.880
<v Speaker 2>knocking it, you know what I mean. I used to

0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:02.840
<v Speaker 2>wish I could dance, but I couldn't picture myself dancing.

0:31:03.120 --> 0:31:07.320
<v Speaker 2>But we was like trying to fit in, you know,

0:31:07.480 --> 0:31:10.320
<v Speaker 2>trying to you know, not beat so much of an

0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:12.760
<v Speaker 2>art ball, you know what I'm saying. So when till

0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:16.720
<v Speaker 2>when Tip came to it was like, hey man, it's lit.

0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:18.560
<v Speaker 2>You know, faboed him got lafty tappy.

0:31:18.640 --> 0:31:20.280
<v Speaker 3>But originally it was Tip song right.

0:31:22.640 --> 0:31:25.960
<v Speaker 2>Originally he when he did the when he did the

0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:30.080
<v Speaker 2>hook right, he was going to carry on, you know

0:31:30.080 --> 0:31:32.120
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. And I was like, well, well, first

0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:35.080
<v Speaker 2>of all, we knew that we wasn't dancing. And he

0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:35.960
<v Speaker 2>was like, man, we could do.

0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:36.680
<v Speaker 1>This, We could do that.

0:31:36.760 --> 0:31:38.840
<v Speaker 5>I'm like, no, trying to convince you to dance.

0:31:38.920 --> 0:31:40.920
<v Speaker 1>You was about to do some snap stuff.

0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:45.480
<v Speaker 5>Because you had fall then you had the franchise.

0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:48.760
<v Speaker 1>It was lit.

0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:50.880
<v Speaker 2>But I was like, well, you know, I ain't never

0:31:50.920 --> 0:31:53.080
<v Speaker 2>seen you dance, you know what I'm saying. He was like, man,

0:31:53.120 --> 0:31:54.640
<v Speaker 2>we can just do something. He said, what you think

0:31:54.680 --> 0:31:54.960
<v Speaker 2>about this?

0:31:56.960 --> 0:31:59.160
<v Speaker 1>And I was like, you know what, go ahead. Then

0:31:59.240 --> 0:32:02.080
<v Speaker 1>when I heard them, I was like, I got this, bro.

0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:04.160
<v Speaker 5>But was the beat already made when he was doing that?

0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:08.280
<v Speaker 2>Because Little See Little c was there too, but Little

0:32:08.280 --> 0:32:11.320
<v Speaker 2>See what he was He Tip did this like a cappella.

0:32:11.520 --> 0:32:12.640
<v Speaker 5>And Little See is the producer.

0:32:12.760 --> 0:32:13.800
<v Speaker 1>Just Little See came with.

0:32:13.880 --> 0:32:17.040
<v Speaker 2>That beat man, and I remember hearing it and when

0:32:17.080 --> 0:32:19.680
<v Speaker 2>he when Tip put his voice on that beat, and

0:32:19.880 --> 0:32:22.000
<v Speaker 2>it was in little Seek because Little he did the

0:32:22.040 --> 0:32:27.440
<v Speaker 2>beat around what he was. You feel what I'm saying.

0:32:27.840 --> 0:32:31.440
<v Speaker 2>I heard that and I had this. I had this

0:32:32.320 --> 0:32:35.920
<v Speaker 2>like a dream, like a vision. I was like, man,

0:32:36.000 --> 0:32:38.600
<v Speaker 2>when I when I wraped this, I'm gonna say how

0:32:38.680 --> 0:32:41.200
<v Speaker 2>fresh I am. And I could just see myself back

0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:44.720
<v Speaker 2>in the crowd up and showing off my feet on cleaning.

0:32:44.920 --> 0:32:51.600
<v Speaker 2>It was almost like it was almost like a book. Man,

0:32:51.640 --> 0:32:52.120
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying.

0:32:52.160 --> 0:32:56.080
<v Speaker 5>That's so classic. He said, go to the club and

0:32:56.160 --> 0:32:57.960
<v Speaker 5>you was that you had to finish the song.

0:32:58.680 --> 0:32:59.920
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they wasn't there when I did it.

0:33:00.560 --> 0:33:02.320
<v Speaker 2>Nah, they wasn't around when I did it, so back

0:33:02.360 --> 0:33:04.920
<v Speaker 2>when I came. So when I got through it and

0:33:05.080 --> 0:33:09.320
<v Speaker 2>they heard it, man, Tip and was like man, So

0:33:09.720 --> 0:33:11.200
<v Speaker 2>we ended up. He was on tour.

0:33:11.640 --> 0:33:13.240
<v Speaker 1>We drove to Jacksonville, Florida.

0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:17.280
<v Speaker 2>This is what the song was his birthday because at

0:33:17.320 --> 0:33:19.880
<v Speaker 2>first it was just amongst us like so they were like, okay,

0:33:19.920 --> 0:33:22.440
<v Speaker 2>that's Joy's high man. We got the Jacksonville, Florida on

0:33:22.520 --> 0:33:24.640
<v Speaker 2>the tour bus and we had like a bunch of

0:33:24.720 --> 0:33:26.920
<v Speaker 2>girls come up. Everybody was on the bus and were

0:33:27.000 --> 0:33:29.800
<v Speaker 2>having a good time. So Tip was like, put this home.

0:33:30.920 --> 0:33:31.120
<v Speaker 4>Man.

0:33:31.400 --> 0:33:33.520
<v Speaker 1>When they put that song on, broke we on it

0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:39.600
<v Speaker 1>was like it was lit.

0:33:39.720 --> 0:33:41.160
<v Speaker 2>Bro we knew.

0:33:42.400 --> 0:33:45.800
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So since we're here, this ends up being your

0:33:45.840 --> 0:33:47.000
<v Speaker 3>biggest record today.

0:33:47.160 --> 0:33:49.720
<v Speaker 1>Yes, well no, I think FDB was bigger than that.

0:33:49.840 --> 0:33:55.080
<v Speaker 4>Okay, I know, but but did did FTB chart higher

0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:58.520
<v Speaker 4>than Shoulderling? Which one made you the most money?

0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:03.120
<v Speaker 2>I think that FDB is a more bigger song because

0:34:03.240 --> 0:34:06.960
<v Speaker 2>it's everybody. Everybody feels that, everybody can relate to it

0:34:07.120 --> 0:34:11.080
<v Speaker 2>all all all skin, all skin tone of people feel that.

0:34:11.239 --> 0:34:12.840
<v Speaker 1>You me and a lot of people know.

0:34:12.920 --> 0:34:18.640
<v Speaker 2>Shoudling show Lean went one two right then I sold

0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:22.080
<v Speaker 2>two million ring Tones, So that's like four million, you

0:34:22.120 --> 0:34:22.840
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying.

0:34:23.680 --> 0:34:25.280
<v Speaker 3>At the time when Big.

0:34:25.400 --> 0:34:28.160
<v Speaker 2>Tones was big. So so I know, I know it

0:34:28.200 --> 0:34:30.080
<v Speaker 2>went platinum twice, and I know I bought it, you

0:34:30.120 --> 0:34:31.640
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. And then like you know what

0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:35.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying, So I got a ring Tone Award for

0:34:35.239 --> 0:34:36.840
<v Speaker 2>that song, you know, you know what I mean. I

0:34:36.840 --> 0:34:38.880
<v Speaker 2>remember a kind giving me that, you know what I'm saying. So,

0:34:39.640 --> 0:34:41.359
<v Speaker 2>and I was the first one to get a ring

0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:42.160
<v Speaker 2>Tone award.

0:34:42.360 --> 0:34:44.080
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Yeah, don't let Soldier War hear this.

0:34:46.719 --> 0:34:48.719
<v Speaker 5>But then you had we Be in the City. That

0:34:48.880 --> 0:34:50.640
<v Speaker 5>was another big one that my.

0:34:50.640 --> 0:34:52.960
<v Speaker 2>Favorite I heard that played at the Olympics. That was

0:34:53.000 --> 0:34:56.840
<v Speaker 2>a pretty big song. I heard that somebody sent me that.

0:34:57.160 --> 0:35:00.239
<v Speaker 6>You beat's always crazy. Man, you got you you got

0:35:00.320 --> 0:35:01.480
<v Speaker 6>a ear when it comes to beats.

0:35:02.960 --> 0:35:05.320
<v Speaker 3>I also like when you perform that song because you

0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:07.880
<v Speaker 3>let it cut off and you go a compella. You

0:35:07.920 --> 0:35:08.560
<v Speaker 3>go a compella.

0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:10.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I try to let you know, you know, I

0:35:11.080 --> 0:35:13.560
<v Speaker 2>you know, that's when I try to show people how

0:35:13.680 --> 0:35:14.960
<v Speaker 2>much I like music.

0:35:15.440 --> 0:35:16.080
<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm saying.

0:35:16.480 --> 0:35:19.520
<v Speaker 2>People people like you know, you hear stuff on the radio,

0:35:19.600 --> 0:35:23.680
<v Speaker 2>you hear people record, But a live show shows how

0:35:23.800 --> 0:35:26.960
<v Speaker 2>much you're embedding into what your craft is and how

0:35:27.280 --> 0:35:29.800
<v Speaker 2>you want it to be. Come out to the people,

0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:30.360
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm.

0:35:30.200 --> 0:35:33.040
<v Speaker 1>Saying now the showder Lin come out before Fat Joe.

0:35:35.840 --> 0:35:37.960
<v Speaker 6>Laying back, because I remember he was talking about like

0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:40.600
<v Speaker 6>people in the South took you know, his song and

0:35:40.719 --> 0:35:43.279
<v Speaker 6>everybody just kept, you know, remaking it.

0:35:43.760 --> 0:35:47.760
<v Speaker 2>That whole bacle was weird because I don't I don't remember.

0:35:48.400 --> 0:35:51.040
<v Speaker 2>I can't tell you that I heard Fat Joe and

0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:51.879
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean.

0:35:52.040 --> 0:35:53.960
<v Speaker 1>I just always wondered that because I seen him make

0:35:54.120 --> 0:35:54.279
<v Speaker 1>you know.

0:35:54.440 --> 0:35:56.200
<v Speaker 2>He I saw that that was kind of weird, you

0:35:56.239 --> 0:35:58.279
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. I seen it was.

0:35:58.320 --> 0:36:01.360
<v Speaker 1>Because it was a lot of lean song. After you know.

0:36:02.600 --> 0:36:04.799
<v Speaker 2>But the thing about it is, I don't even think

0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:09.640
<v Speaker 2>that anyone knew of anyone doing it, you know what

0:36:09.680 --> 0:36:13.880
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying, Like, I don't think franchise you know, you

0:36:14.000 --> 0:36:16.719
<v Speaker 2>know knew drou was doing it, or I was was

0:36:16.760 --> 0:36:18.160
<v Speaker 2>aware of it. Was like, oh, I'm gonna do a

0:36:18.280 --> 0:36:21.040
<v Speaker 2>lean song. I didn't know.

0:36:21.800 --> 0:36:25.640
<v Speaker 3>Now you've had some You've had a very high profiled relationship.

0:36:27.680 --> 0:36:30.320
<v Speaker 4>Can we get any type of who else have you?

0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:32.279
<v Speaker 4>Were you in a relationship with that was kind of big?

0:36:32.360 --> 0:36:34.160
<v Speaker 4>That may have went under the radar.

0:36:35.320 --> 0:36:38.359
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, I actually that was the only thing.

0:36:38.520 --> 0:36:41.120
<v Speaker 3>Is you famous folks be having relationships?

0:36:41.200 --> 0:36:43.799
<v Speaker 2>I actually, man, you know what, I'm a hood. I'm

0:36:43.880 --> 0:36:47.200
<v Speaker 2>a hood dude, you know what I'm saying. I for

0:36:47.320 --> 0:36:50.000
<v Speaker 2>the most part, I was I was all about a

0:36:50.160 --> 0:36:53.160
<v Speaker 2>fine chip from around the way tight, you know what

0:36:53.200 --> 0:36:56.640
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying, Like because it fit my persona, you know

0:36:56.680 --> 0:37:00.279
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. Even though a lot of you know

0:37:00.320 --> 0:37:02.359
<v Speaker 2>what I mean, I smashed some stuff. I won't say,

0:37:04.560 --> 0:37:06.080
<v Speaker 2>keep it a peak. I won't say. You know what

0:37:06.080 --> 0:37:08.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. Whatever they did see it went public. You

0:37:08.920 --> 0:37:11.800
<v Speaker 2>can have that, but I wouldn't tell what was it?

0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:15.080
<v Speaker 6>Anybody that you was like, man, I can't believe you

0:37:15.200 --> 0:37:17.040
<v Speaker 6>know this shorty doesn't hit me up. You know, this

0:37:17.200 --> 0:37:18.680
<v Speaker 6>was somebody that I always wanted.

0:37:19.239 --> 0:37:20.880
<v Speaker 2>Of course, okay, yes.

0:37:20.960 --> 0:37:23.440
<v Speaker 5>Or anybody now or do you want to be married?

0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:27.680
<v Speaker 2>Or I mean, well right now? Man, it's I'm working

0:37:27.719 --> 0:37:29.880
<v Speaker 2>on myself and I just was.

0:37:30.080 --> 0:37:36.040
<v Speaker 1>I just had to to separate myself from spreading myself thin.

0:37:36.239 --> 0:37:36.879
<v Speaker 1>You know what I mean.

0:37:37.600 --> 0:37:39.520
<v Speaker 2>I've dealt with some cheeks. You know what I'm saying

0:37:39.600 --> 0:37:42.120
<v Speaker 2>that you know, some real good women. You know what

0:37:42.120 --> 0:37:44.520
<v Speaker 2>I mean, And I mean real good women. You know

0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:47.920
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. But you know, once you once you

0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:52.719
<v Speaker 2>done had your share, whatever you pick and choose. You

0:37:52.760 --> 0:37:54.560
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. You might you know, you want

0:37:54.600 --> 0:37:57.000
<v Speaker 2>to just make sure. I want to make sure when

0:37:57.040 --> 0:38:00.239
<v Speaker 2>I jump back into this relationship whole. You know what

0:38:00.280 --> 0:38:02.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying, You ain't gonna get nobody else need to

0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:05.040
<v Speaker 2>get high and you're not working on itself. And it's

0:38:05.120 --> 0:38:07.480
<v Speaker 2>it's some stuff. I went to the rehab because it

0:38:07.600 --> 0:38:09.680
<v Speaker 2>was stuff I needed to regrab. You know what I'm

0:38:09.680 --> 0:38:12.480
<v Speaker 2>saying about myself that I need to be doing. How

0:38:12.560 --> 0:38:14.120
<v Speaker 2>much of a man that I need to, you know,

0:38:14.280 --> 0:38:15.920
<v Speaker 2>be to give to this relationship.

0:38:16.200 --> 0:38:17.520
<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm saying. I don't want to short

0:38:17.600 --> 0:38:20.200
<v Speaker 1>change the next person. Gotcha? So could you ever date

0:38:20.239 --> 0:38:21.280
<v Speaker 1>a woman that drink or smoke?

0:38:24.160 --> 0:38:24.319
<v Speaker 2>Nah?

0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:25.600
<v Speaker 1>Wow?

0:38:26.480 --> 0:38:28.200
<v Speaker 3>So she can't drink or smoke.

0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:32.279
<v Speaker 2>I mean you can drink, but you can't be an alcoholic.

0:38:32.360 --> 0:38:32.799
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean.

0:38:32.880 --> 0:38:33.520
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.

0:38:34.040 --> 0:38:37.759
<v Speaker 2>I ain't ever thought chicks who smoked weed was attractive,

0:38:38.280 --> 0:38:42.880
<v Speaker 2>like we do it later. What you talking about?

0:38:43.000 --> 0:38:43.040
<v Speaker 6>You?

0:38:45.000 --> 0:38:45.160
<v Speaker 4>For you?

0:38:45.800 --> 0:38:48.440
<v Speaker 2>It's not triggering. It's almost embarrassing, like to just have

0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:49.719
<v Speaker 2>a check that. You know what I'm saying.

0:38:50.400 --> 0:38:51.719
<v Speaker 5>Anybody who can drink.

0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:54.000
<v Speaker 3>You don't think this is gonna bother the women who

0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:54.640
<v Speaker 3>smoke weed.

0:38:55.520 --> 0:38:57.279
<v Speaker 1>I just it just ain't for me. You know what

0:38:57.280 --> 0:38:57.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying.

0:38:58.160 --> 0:39:00.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm not knocking it. It's it's just ain't you know

0:39:00.400 --> 0:39:03.360
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. Because women be so beautiful, you know

0:39:03.400 --> 0:39:06.360
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, Like smoking is not good. You know

0:39:06.400 --> 0:39:08.640
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying in so many wait words?

0:39:08.640 --> 0:39:09.239
<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm saying.

0:39:09.680 --> 0:39:13.840
<v Speaker 2>If you look at it like because I got children

0:39:13.960 --> 0:39:16.319
<v Speaker 2>to raise, and then for me to be saying, oh

0:39:16.480 --> 0:39:18.400
<v Speaker 2>you ain't gonna be smoking nothing, and then mama and

0:39:18.480 --> 0:39:20.279
<v Speaker 2>there like come on, man, I cut it out for

0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:22.320
<v Speaker 2>my son, you know what I'm saying, So own't on

0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:24.800
<v Speaker 2>him saying I got this from dad. You know what

0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:27.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. You know I went through that with my child.

0:39:28.120 --> 0:39:30.360
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. It's just not your preference,

0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:31.280
<v Speaker 2>not my preference.

0:39:31.360 --> 0:39:34.240
<v Speaker 1>And everybody got a preference to your preference is polo.

0:39:34.560 --> 0:39:36.600
<v Speaker 7>I was gonna say, how was Joe the father today?

0:39:37.960 --> 0:39:40.359
<v Speaker 7>Are you in all the baseball games or at.

0:39:40.320 --> 0:39:41.360
<v Speaker 1>The basketball games?

0:39:41.440 --> 0:39:44.360
<v Speaker 2>And I had to learn how to be dad and

0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:47.399
<v Speaker 2>stop wearing jewelry because I used to be culled three

0:39:47.440 --> 0:39:49.400
<v Speaker 2>four chains on pulling up in these you know what

0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:51.680
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. It was like look looking at me, like

0:39:51.920 --> 0:40:01.000
<v Speaker 2>you just dad today, man. But I had to humber myself.

0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:06.239
<v Speaker 2>Stop wearing jewelry to the games, stop dressing up so

0:40:06.719 --> 0:40:09.399
<v Speaker 2>you know, because sometimes I just go to these games

0:40:09.440 --> 0:40:12.640
<v Speaker 2>and people be like why, I don't know. I got

0:40:12.760 --> 0:40:14.520
<v Speaker 2>to learn how to turn it off. So right now

0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:17.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm more conscious about what I let him see, or

0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:20.800
<v Speaker 2>about my attitude, about what I accept, what I don't accept,

0:40:21.120 --> 0:40:23.120
<v Speaker 2>what's around me. You know what I mean, letting what

0:40:23.160 --> 0:40:25.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm letting him see, what I'm letting him listen to

0:40:25.440 --> 0:40:27.160
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, it's different.

0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:28.960
<v Speaker 5>Do you see a lot of yourself in him?

0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:31.120
<v Speaker 2>A lot of it? And I have to correct it.

0:40:31.480 --> 0:40:34.239
<v Speaker 2>And I believe, I truly believe. This is one of

0:40:34.320 --> 0:40:36.759
<v Speaker 2>the reasons why I'm not on drugs because I'm able

0:40:36.840 --> 0:40:39.520
<v Speaker 2>to see it now. If I was under the influence,

0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:41.680
<v Speaker 2>I would let my child grow up to be exactly

0:40:41.880 --> 0:40:43.600
<v Speaker 2>like me. And that's not the goal.

0:40:44.440 --> 0:40:46.960
<v Speaker 5>So you don't have two kids, I have three. Three Okay,

0:40:47.880 --> 0:40:50.759
<v Speaker 5>do you see music in their future or anything like that.

0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:55.080
<v Speaker 2>My son is going to be great at something. I

0:40:55.120 --> 0:40:58.560
<v Speaker 2>think sports, you know what I mean. He's he just

0:40:58.640 --> 0:41:02.160
<v Speaker 2>turned eight, and he's so smart in basketball. He had

0:41:02.239 --> 0:41:04.759
<v Speaker 2>to have this information at five or you know what

0:41:04.800 --> 0:41:09.239
<v Speaker 2>I mean. He knows so much about basketball to you

0:41:09.480 --> 0:41:11.120
<v Speaker 2>it would trip you out, you know what I mean.

0:41:11.200 --> 0:41:13.759
<v Speaker 2>And his body, the way he built like I see him,

0:41:14.120 --> 0:41:15.719
<v Speaker 2>I see myself and him. When I was young, I

0:41:15.760 --> 0:41:18.040
<v Speaker 2>would cut up and I played football before I got shot.

0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:22.640
<v Speaker 2>But he has a football physique, but he loves basketball.

0:41:22.920 --> 0:41:26.120
<v Speaker 2>So I know he's going to be big. Mark my words,

0:41:26.160 --> 0:41:27.160
<v Speaker 2>He's gonna be famous.

0:41:27.440 --> 0:41:27.919
<v Speaker 1>That's good.

0:41:28.160 --> 0:41:30.960
<v Speaker 4>Now, does Droe do you work out? Like what did

0:41:31.000 --> 0:41:33.440
<v Speaker 4>you change about your life. Are you doing something that

0:41:33.520 --> 0:41:35.920
<v Speaker 4>you've never done before that's kind of like new?

0:41:36.080 --> 0:41:39.080
<v Speaker 2>Or yes, I get up every morning and that workout

0:41:39.719 --> 0:41:40.279
<v Speaker 2>every morning.

0:41:40.440 --> 0:41:41.160
<v Speaker 1>Never did that before?

0:41:41.360 --> 0:41:45.239
<v Speaker 3>No, Like do you job to hit the elliptical?

0:41:45.320 --> 0:41:46.239
<v Speaker 4>What do you do?

0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:51.880
<v Speaker 1>I walked five miles? Wow, every day, every day, five miles.

0:41:52.680 --> 0:41:53.640
<v Speaker 3>That's a long time.

0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:54.920
<v Speaker 5>Changed.

0:41:55.360 --> 0:41:59.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well it changes because I don't want to still

0:42:00.160 --> 0:42:01.040
<v Speaker 2>spicy dog meat.

0:42:03.320 --> 0:42:06.520
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I mean like I can't eat exquisitely. You

0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:07.040
<v Speaker 1>know what I'm saying.

0:42:07.040 --> 0:42:10.359
<v Speaker 2>I can eat you know, the alligators and the dover

0:42:10.560 --> 0:42:13.239
<v Speaker 2>the dover fish and stuff like that, squid and sea

0:42:13.360 --> 0:42:15.040
<v Speaker 2>arch and you know what I'm saying. I can eat

0:42:15.080 --> 0:42:17.640
<v Speaker 2>that type stuff because it's not too heavy. But I

0:42:17.760 --> 0:42:20.920
<v Speaker 2>do try to eat right so I can help out

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<v Speaker 2>the five miles.

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<v Speaker 5>I don't want to be eating too much, too tired.

0:42:25.760 --> 0:42:27.759
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I got a little gym. Put it in

0:42:27.880 --> 0:42:30.399
<v Speaker 2>my put it in the garage. I go work out.

0:42:30.560 --> 0:42:32.839
<v Speaker 2>Do that. I do that every morning, And that's that's

0:42:33.000 --> 0:42:36.080
<v Speaker 2>tough to get up at seven point thirty every morning,

0:42:36.680 --> 0:42:37.239
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 5>So, now, do you have a studio in your house?

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<v Speaker 2>No?

0:42:40.000 --> 0:42:40.640
<v Speaker 1>I try not to.

0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:42.959
<v Speaker 2>I don't I don't have. I don't play the radio

0:42:43.040 --> 0:42:47.799
<v Speaker 2>at home literally because my choice of you. I don't

0:42:47.800 --> 0:42:50.120
<v Speaker 2>want my son to end up picking up the room stuff.

0:42:50.320 --> 0:42:52.040
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. Even though I make that

0:42:52.200 --> 0:42:54.719
<v Speaker 2>kind of music, I don't. And if I do listen

0:42:54.760 --> 0:42:57.239
<v Speaker 2>to music at the house, it's alternative music.

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<v Speaker 5>So how did the Glorilla remix come about when you

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<v Speaker 5>got on that?

0:43:01.480 --> 0:43:03.399
<v Speaker 3>Because you brought that raspy voice back.

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<v Speaker 2>Man.

0:43:05.600 --> 0:43:09.200
<v Speaker 1>You know what, when I be walking, I heard Gloilla

0:43:10.000 --> 0:43:11.560
<v Speaker 1>rip the beat so bad and.

0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:13.399
<v Speaker 2>It was a good way.

0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:15.680
<v Speaker 1>I mean, she killed it in a good way. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So it was inspiring, you know, you know some

0:43:18.280 --> 0:43:21.799
<v Speaker 2>some stuff she was saying about about you know, quit thinking,

0:43:21.880 --> 0:43:24.160
<v Speaker 2>quit overthinking, and you running circles around these people.

0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:25.840
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, get them glow, you know what I'm.

0:43:25.680 --> 0:43:29.480
<v Speaker 2>Saying, And just just how you know, just to hear

0:43:29.520 --> 0:43:31.840
<v Speaker 2>the young generation and just to hear it, hear in

0:43:31.960 --> 0:43:34.560
<v Speaker 2>her voice like she was commanding the beat, and I

0:43:34.680 --> 0:43:36.920
<v Speaker 2>was like, I can command that beat like that, you

0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:39.200
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. So and then and I just

0:43:39.280 --> 0:43:42.520
<v Speaker 2>found myself saying, yeah, drove all the time. And then

0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:44.320
<v Speaker 2>and then dude looking at me, was like, you did it?

0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:47.120
<v Speaker 2>I was like, Nah, I ain't did it. I was like,

0:43:47.200 --> 0:43:49.320
<v Speaker 2>you know what, Big Jon was like, go ahead and

0:43:49.400 --> 0:43:50.640
<v Speaker 2>do it. I was like, I'm gonna do it.

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<v Speaker 1>John, have a big jump.

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<v Speaker 4>Man.

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<v Speaker 1>Now how much you think over the years you spent

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<v Speaker 1>on polo, man, it's.

0:43:58.440 --> 0:44:02.319
<v Speaker 2>Over a million, over a million, because, like I used

0:44:02.320 --> 0:44:05.919
<v Speaker 2>to have to be some serious you have some stuff

0:44:05.920 --> 0:44:08.480
<v Speaker 2>I've never seen before. It was a serious sickness with that.

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<v Speaker 5>Have you a deal yet?

0:44:10.480 --> 0:44:10.640
<v Speaker 1>Nah?

0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:13.000
<v Speaker 2>I mean I actually was up for it, and then

0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:15.800
<v Speaker 2>I got into some trouble and stuff, you know, and

0:44:15.920 --> 0:44:19.000
<v Speaker 2>I think, you know, everything is you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 6>You know not Ralph Laurydy got to call you a

0:44:22.320 --> 0:44:28.560
<v Speaker 6>million dollars in polo. It's crazy, man. Listen in the

0:44:28.719 --> 0:44:32.360
<v Speaker 6>first little section of my life. You know what I'm saying.

0:44:33.200 --> 0:44:35.200
<v Speaker 6>I want to say, when it was starting out, I

0:44:35.280 --> 0:44:37.520
<v Speaker 6>had just did like quarter of it, you know what

0:44:37.560 --> 0:44:39.239
<v Speaker 6>I'm saying, A quarter of me. I want to say,

0:44:39.239 --> 0:44:41.040
<v Speaker 6>it's well over that. You know what I'm saying. One

0:44:41.120 --> 0:44:42.880
<v Speaker 6>hundred thousand on Ralph is easy?

0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:43.880
<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean?

0:44:44.080 --> 0:44:45.560
<v Speaker 1>Two hundred thousand is easy.

0:44:46.719 --> 0:44:48.520
<v Speaker 4>You were wearing the most expensive so I used to

0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:51.000
<v Speaker 4>I remember walking into basis at the ball, whatever the

0:44:51.040 --> 0:44:52.440
<v Speaker 4>ball it was, and like that.

0:44:52.480 --> 0:44:54.640
<v Speaker 3>Stuff wasn't special. Like that jacket right there, Bro, I

0:44:54.880 --> 0:44:58.759
<v Speaker 3>know that, ain't you know what I'm saying, it's out

0:44:58.800 --> 0:45:01.680
<v Speaker 3>out jacket. Oh my god, Conor Rod over its side.

0:45:01.719 --> 0:45:05.200
<v Speaker 6>I'm gonna say this. You influenced a lot of people

0:45:05.280 --> 0:45:06.520
<v Speaker 6>in the culture to wear polo.

0:45:07.239 --> 0:45:10.359
<v Speaker 3>Them Polo boots, and I was Atlanta was wearing Polo boots.

0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:13.399
<v Speaker 6>And I'll never forget I say the money I saved

0:45:13.400 --> 0:45:15.600
<v Speaker 6>them like two paychecks. I was working at Route twenty

0:45:15.640 --> 0:45:18.799
<v Speaker 6>one and I bought some Polo because you have.

0:45:18.880 --> 0:45:21.640
<v Speaker 2>The numb I definitely you know. The no ones went up, man,

0:45:21.680 --> 0:45:22.880
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying, Dude, you used to be

0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:26.160
<v Speaker 2>telling that I'm just like Droe instead of saying the brand.

0:45:26.360 --> 0:45:28.799
<v Speaker 4>You know what, I went to Marshalls and would get

0:45:28.800 --> 0:45:30.719
<v Speaker 4>the Polos when they was thirty nine out of his side.

0:45:32.480 --> 0:45:33.680
<v Speaker 3>I got to know what I'm talking about, Bro.

0:45:33.760 --> 0:45:35.680
<v Speaker 4>I used to go to Marshalls and or I will

0:45:35.719 --> 0:45:38.640
<v Speaker 4>wait till they'll be right before back to school tax free,

0:45:38.800 --> 0:45:41.000
<v Speaker 4>and they went down before the new ones come in.

0:45:41.520 --> 0:45:43.560
<v Speaker 4>You know, the old ones will be like nineteen ninety

0:45:43.640 --> 0:45:44.000
<v Speaker 4>nine no.

0:45:44.160 --> 0:45:47.320
<v Speaker 5>Tax that so you got the polo. I hope you

0:45:47.400 --> 0:45:48.239
<v Speaker 5>get a deal.

0:45:48.920 --> 0:45:50.040
<v Speaker 1>We kept paying it for a deal.

0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:50.960
<v Speaker 5>You can get that.

0:45:51.560 --> 0:45:55.120
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, you deserved that second chance. But so you had

0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:58.120
<v Speaker 7>the PSC project that you did. You had a couple

0:45:58.160 --> 0:45:58.920
<v Speaker 7>of songs with them.

0:45:59.320 --> 0:46:02.240
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be, man, the PSC got a big project

0:46:02.280 --> 0:46:05.600
<v Speaker 2>coming out with DJ Drama. Man, and it's just that's

0:46:05.760 --> 0:46:08.920
<v Speaker 2>going to be that has some real dro stuff on it,

0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:10.759
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. And after that, I think,

0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:12.800
<v Speaker 2>you know what, me and going to do a joint album,

0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:16.960
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. I think I think we

0:46:17.160 --> 0:46:17.960
<v Speaker 2>owe that to the.

0:46:22.640 --> 0:46:25.840
<v Speaker 1>Coach. Yeah, we need that.

0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:29.440
<v Speaker 5>When is the book coming out? Because you have a story, Yeah, the.

0:46:30.640 --> 0:46:33.920
<v Speaker 2>Book actually, man, you know what. My manager is an author.

0:46:34.480 --> 0:46:35.760
<v Speaker 2>Doctor Sierra is an author.

0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:37.280
<v Speaker 5>Also doctor Sierra.

0:46:39.200 --> 0:46:44.640
<v Speaker 2>She she actually wrote a book before we, you know

0:46:44.640 --> 0:46:48.360
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, got doing business together and she's a

0:46:48.440 --> 0:46:50.719
<v Speaker 2>great writer, and she was like, I'm going to write

0:46:50.719 --> 0:46:55.279
<v Speaker 2>your story and she she you know, she documented, she

0:46:55.400 --> 0:46:58.719
<v Speaker 2>has she has a lot of stuff like, hey, look man,

0:46:58.760 --> 0:47:01.080
<v Speaker 2>I've seen this happen. I seen the boy go through this.

0:47:01.400 --> 0:47:03.440
<v Speaker 2>I seen him overcome this. He came out of that,

0:47:03.920 --> 0:47:06.480
<v Speaker 2>he got stuck right here, and it's just you know

0:47:06.520 --> 0:47:08.640
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. And she she got the book together,

0:47:09.080 --> 0:47:12.680
<v Speaker 2>and I think the book should be ready by twenty five.

0:47:13.040 --> 0:47:15.239
<v Speaker 5>I'm excited for I'm so ready for today. Where did

0:47:15.280 --> 0:47:15.640
<v Speaker 5>you meet her?

0:47:15.680 --> 0:47:17.520
<v Speaker 1>By the way, man, we have been knowing each other

0:47:17.600 --> 0:47:18.239
<v Speaker 1>for twenty years.

0:47:18.320 --> 0:47:18.440
<v Speaker 6>Man.

0:47:18.520 --> 0:47:20.800
<v Speaker 2>Actually I grew up with her brother, Meatball shot the

0:47:20.840 --> 0:47:23.359
<v Speaker 2>Camilton road print. You know what I'm saying, print locked

0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:25.320
<v Speaker 2>up right now. You know what I'm saying. He actually,

0:47:25.640 --> 0:47:27.799
<v Speaker 2>unfortunately he went down in the bloody summer. He has

0:47:27.880 --> 0:47:29.759
<v Speaker 2>life in prison. You know what i mean. We grew

0:47:29.880 --> 0:47:32.160
<v Speaker 2>up together. You know what I'm saying. Meatball is a

0:47:32.719 --> 0:47:35.120
<v Speaker 2>very important person in my life. Her brother, you know

0:47:35.160 --> 0:47:37.520
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. So when it was only right that

0:47:37.719 --> 0:47:40.560
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying, I let her manage me

0:47:40.680 --> 0:47:42.280
<v Speaker 2>and drive my career.

0:47:42.480 --> 0:47:43.759
<v Speaker 3>And she really cares about you, bro.

0:47:44.840 --> 0:47:47.040
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, so we're excited. Anything else that you have coming up?

0:47:47.400 --> 0:47:53.520
<v Speaker 2>Me and Zaytoven got a project comes, yes? Yes, man.

0:47:53.640 --> 0:47:55.720
<v Speaker 2>They Toven is one of the people that I actually,

0:47:56.360 --> 0:47:59.600
<v Speaker 2>you know, took a liking to that was on my level.

0:47:59.719 --> 0:48:02.439
<v Speaker 2>You know, clean, stand up guy, you know what I'm saying.

0:48:02.520 --> 0:48:06.440
<v Speaker 2>He still you know what I'm saying. He don't do

0:48:07.280 --> 0:48:09.840
<v Speaker 2>He's wanting drinking, ain't doing no smoking. So when I

0:48:09.920 --> 0:48:13.080
<v Speaker 2>got a rehab, it was like God sent me to him,

0:48:13.160 --> 0:48:15.279
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. And he's been a great

0:48:15.360 --> 0:48:17.600
<v Speaker 2>person and he's been perfect, you know what I'm saying

0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:19.520
<v Speaker 2>for what I'm going in life.

0:48:19.440 --> 0:48:21.400
<v Speaker 5>Right now, Joe, We are so proud of you.

0:48:21.520 --> 0:48:21.680
<v Speaker 1>Man.

0:48:21.760 --> 0:48:23.759
<v Speaker 5>We thank you for always talking about the ball up show.

0:48:23.800 --> 0:48:24.680
<v Speaker 6>It is for you.

0:48:24.920 --> 0:48:25.120
<v Speaker 2>Man.

0:48:25.360 --> 0:48:25.799
<v Speaker 8>Be clean.

0:48:27.040 --> 0:48:28.719
<v Speaker 1>Hey, I had to dress up today too. I have

0:48:28.840 --> 0:48:29.879
<v Speaker 1>to make sure you know what I'm saying.

0:48:30.480 --> 0:48:30.879
<v Speaker 2>Get right.

0:48:31.040 --> 0:48:33.279
<v Speaker 5>So Man, before we get out of here, we do

0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:35.920
<v Speaker 5>have a pep talk boy, and I just.

0:48:35.960 --> 0:48:39.200
<v Speaker 2>Want to say this, Man, if you don't stand on anything,

0:48:39.320 --> 0:48:41.799
<v Speaker 2>make sure you stand on principal. You know what I mean,

0:48:42.360 --> 0:48:43.160
<v Speaker 2>Nothing else matter.

0:48:43.239 --> 0:48:45.439
<v Speaker 1>If you get the principal right being you good.

0:48:45.520 --> 0:48:48.200
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. Put God first and everything

0:48:48.320 --> 0:48:49.759
<v Speaker 2>else is a walk in the park.

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