WEBVTT - Episode 174 "YOUNG DRO" 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:12.039 Hold up, Hold up, ladies and gentle, this here show 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.520 balla love BALLA love Ball Alert. Welcome to The Batting 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.119 Show podcast, available everywhere you get your podcast. I go 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.400 by the name of Ferrari Simmons. You know ten Tina building? 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.119 What's packing? Uh? Who solo is out today? She was 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:29.880 on vacation. No, no, she doing some teams vacation vacation. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:38.920 She's on vacation. Got it? Um? Well, you know who's 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.000 not on vacation? Who that? Uh? My boy? What's his 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:46.159 dude name? Orlando Brown? Brown is not on vacation. He 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.880 disrespecting my brother bown was the last time you watch 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.280 one on sixtion part? Last time it was hot with 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.360 Little bow Wow? Who was on there? You got a 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.240 problem A little I ain't got a problem, a little 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.840 little ba got some bob mass pussy. Orlando Brown definitely 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.520 stay off the meds or get back on the Mad's BT. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.319 Turn off your damn phone. People always have a phone 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:11.840 on solid. Orlando Brown definitely has an issue. He was 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.560 going to church. He had the baby and new baby 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.280 stopped taking his meds doing so well. I know, I 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:18.840 said you get off the meds. He needs to get 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.480 back on his prescribed medication. What is he like, is 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.559 he bipolar or something? When you do whatever he needs? 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.360 You said, he's off the med So I'm just like, 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.960 you know, he listened that that man is not that old. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.760 He too wrong to be looking at Oh that is drugged, right, Yeah, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.760 I agree, he looks like drugs. I feel like he 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:43.000 maybe do you take medication for for having bipolar disorder? 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.240 And maybe he stopped taking it and when you don't 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.560 take it for a while, don't don't make any like that. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:51.520 But I never know he was diagnosed, but they could 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.760 make people I don't know. To keep in mind, this 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.240 is all something's wrong with him. Everybody got an uncle 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.840 like Orlando Brown and acts like that. That's this looks 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.160 like a form of bipolar disorder. So I'm just gonna 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.360 go with the ladder that he has. He's bipolar and 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.360 he stopped taking his meds, and this is what we 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:15.440 get when he doesn't take his meds because it happened before. Okay, speculation, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.959 but it's all cat. That ship just seems and looks 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.760 and he sounds like cat. What are you talking about? 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.239 What he said? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know he 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.880 was talking about you know, the crazy thing about it 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.920 diagnoses there's something wrong with him. Yeah, okay, drugs. I 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.680 think it's drugs too. This drug there's no way you're 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.200 acting like that. I think he like relapsed or something. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.400 Thank you. That's what I think he did too, because 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.600 I talked to Funny Marco. Shout out to Funny Marco Um. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.240 That was the guy that was an interviewing him. Marco 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.800 was happening in UM. He said, like when he said that, 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:55.720 you can hear in the audio people in the back 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:00.760 of life. Was he like really fidgety there? And I 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.040 mean he said he said like the interview like he 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.840 was just like, you know, just throwing just like blurn 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.160 like you know it kind of like he got schizophrenic 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.440 or something like he's just like just if you watch 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.200 the interview, he was said a bunch of stuff about 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.280 a bunch of other people. That was just that part 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.880 just went super viral. I watched the interview, I was like, yeah, 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:23.760 this they ain't know bipolar disorder, that's drugs. How I 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.240 did address addressed it by the tweets since when Legends 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.399 got to speak on fucory, I'm feeling my new TV show, 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.880 My dog is always feeling a new TV show, Uh 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.080 neither here nor there, and preparing for a sould out 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.119 show at the Old two Arena for the Millennium Tour 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.640 in London. I'm a thirty five year old father. I 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.840 don't play the type of games you do. Know, this 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.600 is bow you're talking to, right, I am a boy, 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:50.080 damon speaking of I'm a boy. It is a boy 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.440 to Chloe and Tristan Thompson there having a boy. He 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.640 is Sarah getting everybody going crazy on the social media 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.880 is because this just came out. But I will say 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.560 the time stamp is as accurate as the surrogate. This 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:09.320 hasship has to have happened during the relationship prior to 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.640 the kid with the trainer. So the baby is already here. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.920 Yeah it's a boy. Yeah the baby is here. But 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.000 you know he you know, he probably got two girls 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:23.880 pregnant that ghetto twins and he has now two kids 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.480 with son and a daughter. I just think at this 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.760 point she just want the same daddy. I'm just saying 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.279 you could do bad. I am confused, but at the 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.480 same time well aware that this is clearly something that 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:43.280 she invites into her lifestyle. This is ghetto. I'm just 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.400 saying this this some ghetto ish that you hear in 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.880 the hood where you like, listen, they're not together, but 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.400 you know, but it's kind of like Courtney, she knew that, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.280 you know, what it was with her and Scott, but 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.400 she wanted her kids and she you know, have the 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.800 same other, same father. Yeah, that's what I'm guessing. She 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.440 only wanted the same years. Yeah, but she knew they 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.800 weren't gonna get married or there wasn't a future with him, 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.240 but she wanted her children. She was you know, her 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.479 biological clock was probably ticking, and she wanted the same father. 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.679 So she just went on ahead and had all her kids. 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.640 I mean, now she's in a different situation with her 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.560 husband that she wants a child with, so you know, 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:24.080 that's a different situation. But I can only imagine with Chloe, 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.120 like she probably knows that there's no future with Tristan, 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.440 however she wants her biological clock is ticking, and she 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.400 you know, trying to get her kids by the same daddy. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.240 That's that's weet, speaking of the same daddy. It's so 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:44.039 many good segues. Elon Musk's dad, Everal Musk, reportedly welcomed 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:49.839 the unplanned second child with his step daughter. Nasty, nasty, nasty, 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:59.880 that's nasty. So that's crazy him. Now, hold on, guys, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.360 reportedly welcomed a second child with his stepdaughter, so he 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.880 already had one with her. He became her stepdaughter, her 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.719 stepdad obviously when she was four years old after married 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:16.479 her mother. And yeah, that's such a predator. That is 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.560 just they also have two biological children. So then so 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:24.240 now the two biological children that he has with his 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:31.640 stepdaughter's mother is is now her step daughter's uncle brother. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:37.279 This some Kardashians uncle brother. This sounds like, sounds about right, 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:44.479 sounds about right, sounds about white. And uh man, my boy, 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.560 little boozy is outside being outside getting arrested, and he 0:06:48.680 --> 0:07:00.480 just went just spast take a listen. I'm gonna make 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:12.160 you are. You're gonna be soon like a ready all 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:17.040 the way ready down to New York. The first white 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:22.680 boy what're doing now isn't from a friend on that 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.840 bea goddamn badass, And I soon him right by you. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:32.600 He read I'm ready. I'm sing he ain't ready because 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.080 he had such a long sentence before. We didn't even 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.600 know he was when he was gonna get Yeah, I 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.400 think that's what I think. That's what tweaked in his head. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.400 I think something snapped in his head because he said, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.880 I'm tired of this move to the I'm sam ship. 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.080 I think Little Boozy is ready to die. And I 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.240 don't mean like he wants to die. I feel like 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.160 he's ready to die because I feel like a lot 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.960 of gangsters, especially his age, I've seen them, been around them, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.160 they feel like they're on barrow time, so they be 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.200 like ship whatever, I'd have made it this far, fucking 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.200 I could tell that. I could tell us temperament was like, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.160 I'm ready to go funk. What you're talking about? It 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:09.880 is what it is. Did you hear when he said 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.400 I had death on my back in prison when he 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.400 beat that murder charge, because he was like, yo, that 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.320 was That's what I'm saying. With that in the back 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.480 of his mind when he wasn't certain that he would 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.520 get out, you know, you think his attitude will be different, 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:31.160 you know. I feel like, again, I don't know Boozy personally, 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.360 but I've been around him a few times and I'm 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.280 definitely a fan of him enough to know that I 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.800 can definitely tell that a lot is always on his mind, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.640 especially with things like that, because you know what outside 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.840 back in the day, now you don't nothing, don't forget 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.000 who Boosey used to be. Facts And I don't think honestly, 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.400 anybody that's been to prison for a certain amount of years, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.679 I don't think that ever leaves their mind, you know 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.160 what I mean, like in the back of the head, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.360 because you've seen we've never seen we always seen Boosey 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.880 just fun. We ain't never seen this type of boosty 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.240 to where you know, even the guy that was with 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.440 him was kind of like, damn boosty, Like you can 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.640 tell you like, damn man, calm down. It's already tell 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.600 him to calm down. So yeah, uh at one time 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.000 for your Miami and uh did day in Paris? I 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.680 don't know. I'm going on the top and going in 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.040 and going in. Oh and uh speaking to your Miami 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.320 her and Kevin Gates, Uh show can we play the 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.280 clip O c T. Don't let them holes get in 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.520 your end. Tell you ship about me, don't be over 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.920 the hopitalizing at the end of the night. You know 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.880 one thing, don't know Aboudy hold you like me really 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.240 your cousin. She pulled me to the side, said baby 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.920 that's your cousin. I ain't stop. What is you really 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.680 like that? Or I want to stick my whole tongue 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.640 in this bitch and I want to our ears, hold 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.040 my mouth, stick my whole tongue and down twirling bitch 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.440 because I got a big long air tongue. Can I 0:09:54.480 --> 0:10:00.280 see a tongue? You looking feet about the few gonna 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:10.200 did were about your shout to breathe through your Oh 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.080 my god, I'm speechless. I think she meant her match 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:18.240 with him the way that she. You know, something sometimes 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.720 with Miami, just say stuff and it's like it's a 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.320 it's a shocker. I feel like she just made her 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.520 match with him because he offered Chavin Gates has no filter. No, 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.120 I think Karaia ain't got no filter, but Kevin Gates 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.640 is just like it's just like, that's what I'm saying. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.480 I feel like she didn't met her match with him. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.240 She was speechless. She said, that's a that's a one 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.280 day on one day type of situation. That's a I 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.679 can't wait to uh to go watch the full thing. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.320 So that's super dope and I'm excited. But I got 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.520 a question to you, who do you trust the most 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.520 to make your y'all mac and cheese. Mama, grandmama, wife 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.079 New Bay or the church mother. Well, I mean, I 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:59.359 don't know about wife, but I would say my mom. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.640 Who pay? Yeah, I'm going my mom. Man, I'm going 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.360 on my grandma one time for my wife though, because 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.560 my wife and my grandma made the same macaroni and cheese. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.439 But you, my wife's macaron and cheese tastes almost as 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.840 good as my grandma's macaron cheese. And my mom makes 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.199 not my mom's macaron cheese. Ain't that good? Sorry, Mama. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.280 My mom's oxtails at on point. I eat her oxtails 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.640 over everybody but macroon cheese, and my mama rory ain't 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:29.360 no grandma Grandma is to go? Alright, P I would 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.400 love you and I miss you. I know that's right. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.640 I love you and I miss you. Mom. All right, 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.240 let's go. Let's take a commercial break. When we come back, 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.000 young drowers in the building, I got talked to him 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:40.920 one on one right here on the ball of the 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.400 Show podcasts available everywhere you get your podcast. We'll be 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:50.640 right back with more of the Baller Alert Show. You're 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.800 you're listening to The Alert Show Man, I feel like 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.840 a living legend has pulled up on me. Man, how's 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.360 it throwing? Sir? What's my brother? My brought Young Drows 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.000 in the building. What's going on with you now? You 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.960 tell me, man? What has young drove Ben? Man? Oh? Man, 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.679 I've been now hibernating that it's men like a big barry. No, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:17.000 but I've just been actually, man, I've been Ashley just 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.360 in the gym, leaving the gym, going to the studio. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.960 You know what I'm saying. I got these cheering together. Man. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.400 You know what I'm saying, being a good dad, you 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.880 know most of the time, and staying in the mix 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.160 though on the road most of the time. You Drow 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.960 is a living legend in my personal opinion. Um, do 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.320 you feel that way? I feel that way sometimes I 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.920 do when I when I when I get out and 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.920 see all the loves I get and when people give 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.840 me their stories about how they you know, grew up 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.000 on stuff and you know how they look to me 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.920 for you know, be partying and kicking it and what 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.240 songs got them through. Yeah, I feel like I let you. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.880 I spoke you up the other day. I'm I'm from Florida. Um, 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.800 I went to College of us F and Tampa. And 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.080 it's a song that you did call high five, and um, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.720 that's one of the songs that we always did when 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:18.240 it was somebody's birthday or whatever. And um, I always 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.480 I was like man drove always. I always went to 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:27.880 Drove for some colorful palette swag wearing bars. Um, where 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.760 did that come from? Uh? When I first started, when 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.679 I first got into the music industry, a lot of 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.360 people thought I was from Florida. I don't know them 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.679 colors and you know, if my family actually comes from Tampa. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.800 My mom, my mom's um, brothers and sisters did from Tampa. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:51.560 But what when I get that front, I think I 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:56.240 think being being poor, I guess you know what I'm saying, 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.840 made me think colorful thoughts. And you know, wanted to 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:04.000 be I wanted to be something that was that stood out, 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.440 you know what I'm saying. Because I'm from I'm old 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.520 enough to be to add a black and white TV, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.679 you know what I'm saying. And I always wanted color 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.199 in it, you know what I mean. And I thought 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:20.440 that you know, um, bright colors really complimented my darts 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.000 and complexion. You know what I'm saying, okay, young draw 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.280 on the building up. Now. I want to take it 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:30.880 back to the beginning of your career when now did 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:35.400 you first become signed when you signed to Hustle Gang 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.440 or did you have a situation before you were sign up, 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.800 because the first time I heard you was on you 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:49.080 Hustle correct. No, No, I kind of went through to UM. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.120 I went through like a couple of drog dealer's hands. Um. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.200 I remember wrapping. So you were signed before you went 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:01.680 to grounds? Yeah, they're no that. Yeah. I was signed 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:07.720 to Rain the Dream, didn't know tit for Life Records, 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:14.360 and Roco came and bought the contract from Rain the Dream. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.680 I think, did you still go by Yon Drove? That 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:22.320 was you just drove? Um? I think my first album 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.360 was I got to Draw, Yeah, and then by the 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.280 time I got to Rocko, I was young Drop okay, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.800 and I remember rock buying the contract back and we 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.520 were celebrating the Blue Flame, you know what I mean. 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.760 And that was that was that was a big moment 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.560 in my life. You know what I mean to be 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.520 for for somebody to come pay some money for me, 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:47.680 you know, when I ain't having a really a deal 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.640 like that. That was still independent, but I felt pretty good. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.840 So you're signed to Rocco. And at any point did 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.360 you feel like, Okay, I need a bigger push because 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.400 you were signed independently, I'm assuming correct. Um, when did 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:08.320 grand Hustle come into play? Um? I actually the bigger 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.400 push was there. It's just that we wasn't that much 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:15.320 experience in the music, um, because I had songs with Monica, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:23.440 Juvenile Turd, Bone Crusher, Um, Jazzy Fame. Yeah, I had 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.400 all this done with Rocko Okay, so we just wasn't 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:32.360 that experienced the pretty much young young guys just out 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.840 there and I just still had my My lyrics was 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.040 very good though, and I had a voice for it. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:43.480 And after that, that's when Grand Hustle came around. Yeah, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.360 Tip Tip came to the studio one day and he 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.520 asked rock Um. He was like, I gotta I need 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.040 my ball here with me. You know what I'm saying, 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.720 don't want you on him? And it was it was 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:57.560 I guess they told me to get out so they 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.080 can talk about it. But that happened like that and 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.200 so um, after they got to talking, something happened and 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.040 it really didn't go that way. So Roco came and 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.240 grabbed you from and then Tip came and grabbed you 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.679 from Rocko or something like something of that. Just like that, Okay, 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.679 and then now we we we blow up and shoulder 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.200 ly and comes out. Yeah. Yeah, that's arguably one of 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:23.920 the biggest records of the year when that came out. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.560 And remember that. Yeah, so we we was we was 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.840 actually we had momentum of the day one the gangster 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:35.000 grills were dropping. So when it was out, man, it 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:36.840 was that was a trip for me. You know what 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:38.679 I mean? That was Now people see you. When they 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.640 see you, they know who you are. Stopping for pictures, Yeah, 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.480 stopping for pictures and you know, are you making uh 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.359 I want to I call a street money. Are you 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.800 making like hand to hand? People ask you for feature money? Uh? 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.600 You are getting booked in the local clubs money? Are 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.359 you making money at this particular moment? What year is this? 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:04.160 This is like thousands and like five four? Okay, okay, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.440 you're feeling me um not really feature money because we 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.080 was kind of sting you with our features back It's 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.760 why you didn't like. But I was making some money, man, 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.800 I had made like I got my advance and then 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.560 I really couldn't spend it. You know what I'm saying, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:25.000 because I was just in a whirlwind and making money. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.159 So I, Um, I used to have this draw that 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.960 I used to keep the bread in it, and it's 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.360 stacked up. That ship that looked like hunt cake. I'm 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.000 really making some money. Okay. So I got damn ship 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:42.280 after that millions. Okay. So now Shoalin is out and 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.480 I believe that charters on the billboard. Correct me if 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:49.359 I'm wrong, Yeah, charted number one. Okay, excuse me. I 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.760 I apologized. Um, so it goes number one on the 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.800 billboard chart. Who is young Drow at this particular moment? 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.800 Because now I see you on BT one on S 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.320 some part, You're on MTV, You're on You're on TV 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:08.240 now TRL all that, Howards, life has changed. As soon 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:13.160 as you get to where you're from West Side Atlanta, 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:19.399 it's not the same Drow. Correct, Um? It got different? 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.280 Do you have to move out of where you grew 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:28.879 up at? Yes? Um, we would move downtown to the 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:34.119 twelve top floor in North Atlantic Station, twelve top floor. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.560 We will be there, and uh it was. It kind 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:43.240 of changed for me, man, and I think I think 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.080 it changed. It changed like my attitude. I got a 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.040 little bit more gressive, a little bit more cocky, you 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.080 know what I'm saying. I'm not saying that all of 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.679 it was good, but most of it was. It was 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.320 coming from a good place, you know what I'm saying. 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:04.639 But in time, I'm it counted. Guy wicked. Okay, yeah, okay. 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:08.600 So now we outside and young drows doing this thing. 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:12.440 The remix comes out. Um, you're everywhere, You're getting booked 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:17.240 everywhere mentally, whereas your drawer, Um, because I know you said, 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.200 you know, you get a little cocky, little arrogant mentally. 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.639 How are you dealing with people asking you for money? 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.400 Family members saying hey I need this, um such as such, 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.480 make saying I need that. And now you know, I 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.400 see the kids is a little bigger now, so I'm 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.479 assuming they're they're super young or on the way at 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.600 that particular moment. Yeah, so all my just had my 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:39.879 well I had my first daughter already, she was like 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:45.000 four or five. Okay, so everybody asking for money, I'm 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.680 giving it. Um. I remember going to the bank and 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.760 taking out eighty thou all dollars just to you know, 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.840 make sure everybody straight. And sometimes I would just take 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:57.720 these stupid amounts of money out of the bank and 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:00.480 I'll be like, well, I'm gonna take has had this 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:02.639 for myself, go to the mall with this, And I 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.359 got this for you know, people that you know, because 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.399 I'm my heart as biggest Georgian you know, and I 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.560 made sure I always made sure I gave money to 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.600 the people like kids or whatever, or girls that that 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.119 wasn't stumps or whatever with their kids and trying to 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:19.920 get you know what I'm saying, make sure they asked 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.160 some for school, and if you really didn't have nothing 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.880 for Christmas, I would, you know, That's what I made 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:29.439 myself available for. And I think that I kind of 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:33.679 drowned in that because I was trying to actually I 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:35.920 think trying to play God a little bit, you know 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:39.040 what I mean, so to speak, because I would make 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:44.840 sure that after I came from Hollywood or something, you know, 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.000 or we was in l A or outcome all the 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.600 way back down and you know, spread the love. And 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:54.160 also I would get actually caught up in those places, 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.560 you know, other situations would present their selves, you know 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:00.240 what I'm saying. So you will be like, man, seen 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.440 drove a little bit too long, you know, what I'm saying, 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:04.600 and then you know, and also the drugs, you know 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:07.520 what I'm saying. So it came from a girl. These 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.439 people now that maybe you have helped out, Are they 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.120 appreciative if you still now or I don't. I don't. 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.160 I don't see most of them, you know. I think 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:20.600 the ones that I do keep in contact with, they 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:24.280 were appreciative, But most of them was drug addicts, you 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.480 know what I'm saying. So I wouldn't say that they 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:31.920 were very appreciative because we actually all threw the money away, 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:35.280 you know at some point you um, then you know 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:37.399 it's but it's a lot of people that really really 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:39.520 you know what I'm saying, Hey, little I used this 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.239 for the money. Um, I actually got through school. You know, 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:44.399 you gave me some money to actually give me some 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:47.200 shoes that probably at that point in time that you know, 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.000 those those a pair of shoes might have really mattered, 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:54.440 you know what I mean. Two thousand two, young Drove 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:58.520 has been through a lot um Again, I will say 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:00.280 this is all blue in the face, purple and face, 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:03.359 your liver legend in my eyes, look up to you, 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:07.440 being benefit of you. Since I was a young young 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:10.240 guy trying to figure it out. Definitely use your lines 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:14.120 for lines that I thought people needed to hear, because 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:16.480 I will come up to Atlanta in the summer and 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:18.639 then I will go back down to Florida and just 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:20.959 come back with the lingo to drip the whole sauce, 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:23.560 like you were the first person I saw in the polo, 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:28.200 Which leads me to this question, what is your infatuation 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:31.800 with polo? Ralph Lauren? Do you know this man? Have 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:36.280 you met this man? Something that you just came up with? 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:38.520