WEBVTT - #544 - Akon 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.000 Yeah, check it out, man, This is your boy akon. 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:03.880 Y'all know what time it is now check me out 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:05.560 on the Bootleg CAV podcast. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:06.320 Peace. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:06.720 Hey. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:08.920 Before we start the episode, we're gonna remind everybody, man, 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.280 we got one of the biggest radio shows in the country, 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.200 syndicated in almost one hundred cities all over. Shout out 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.239 to iHeartRadio. All right, some of the latest cities that 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.120 we've been able to add. Man, We want to give 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.079 a shout out to ninety three point nine to Beat 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.560 in Honolulu. 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Bootleg CAV Show 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.480 special guests in here, akon the legend, Welcome. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:01.480 What's up, daddyo? 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:02.240 What's up man? 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:02.760 How you doing? 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.320 Oh man? Amazing as usual. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.280 I feel like you obviously got a new record that's 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.000 going crazy at radio. This is your second one in 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.480 like a year. It's feeling a little two thousand and 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.360 eight us in here. What it's been like for you 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.200 to be like fully activated and like just fully you 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.080 told me you're out here working on finishing up your 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.720 new album. Does it feel good to be fully like 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.960 back just I mean wearing because you obviously have had 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.440 so many business ventures. You've been behind the scenes with 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.679 so many people's careers, but it feels like you're in 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:33.479 your bag right now. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.119 No, man, Honestly, this is probably the best I felt 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.560 in a long time. It feels real good to be 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.119 honest like especially knowing, Okay, now I can allocate all 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.640 my time back into music because before I had one 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.680 foot in, one foot out, having a bunch of business. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.000 But then I would make time for the music, you 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.520 know what I'm saying. But now I was like, Okay, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:51.880 I'm not worried too much about the business stuff. All 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.920 that's turnkey on cruise control. Now just focus on music 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:55.720 full time. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.400 Yeah, how's the album sounding? 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:58.760 Oh my goodness, I'm excited. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.080 Is there any any features? 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.120 The first album, it won't be no features because I 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.840 need to give the audience back the experience that I 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.320 that I kind of deprived of them. But then the 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.320 second album is called Iconic, which means every song from 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.440 top to bottom would have like iconic features on them. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.520 Oh fire, Yeah, I feel like telling some of your 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.600 biggest I mean, most of your biggest songs you by yourself. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:20.480 Yeah, they are. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.359 Most I mean but that's the funny thing is most 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.400 people would need you to be on there right, to 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.880 be back in the day. It was like, because like 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.880 I need a hit, I'm gonna call Akon, I'm gonna 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.320 call t Pain, I mean right. It was really kind 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.760 of Yeah. Were you able to see Pain's Coachella performance 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:39.959 that it's been going viral? 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:41.000 A lot of people have been talking. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.440 About and listen, I've been waiting for the world to 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.000 see Pain at its highest peak. This ship made me proud, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.000 to be honest, I just know how he is. Like, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.639 I know, Pain has always been the most amazing performer, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.360 but he never had the real big outlets that most 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.120 artists have because he never got the flowers that I 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:56.400 felt like he deserved, you know what I mean. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.040 Yeah, I felt like right around the time, like that 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.919 was the timing for that was would have been right 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.880 the Death of Autitude and jay Z's song came out, 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.640 and then people kind of like turn. I felt like 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:12.280 people like got weird about T pain It just in time, though. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.480 I feel like we've like everyone's kind of appreciated, like 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.880 T Painty could do this. Both of y'all could do. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:19.600 The super Bowl. Yeah, without a question. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.880 If y'all could be man, y'all do that super Bowl. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.960 Shit, man, we would like the super Bowl up. 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.760 Yeah, promise you no, I'd be crazy. Last time I 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.240 saw you was in Thailand. Yep, you had to show 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.400 out in Thailand, which was that rolling loud. It was 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.720 a good time. Thailand is one of the craziest places 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:39.680 I've ever been, very crazy for good and bad. I mean, 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:40.720 I mean mostly good reasons. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:41.400 I loved it. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.000 I love How long were you out there? 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:44.920 I was there for four days? 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:46.840 Okay, Okay, you don't think about going out there. You 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.120 had that time difference to fuck you up because it's 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:50.080 like a whole day ahead. 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.280 It's a whole day head because I was I was 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.760 in Bali for New Year's Eve, and then I stayed 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.520 in Baldi long enough to be able to do my 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.560 Thailand date. So I just stayed out there and then came, yeah, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:01.280 showing you something. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.760 Ye, Thailand's amazing, man, it's a good time. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.920 What is your biggest like outside of the US? What 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.680 country would you say is like your biggest streaming market? 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.960 Man? Honestly, I haven't even looked at the analytics like that, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:15.680 but if I had to choose, I would probably say 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:24.440 India and Brazil Africa. I think US is probably the last. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.839 Oh really, because Europe comes after that, So US Latin 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:32.279 America technically yeah, technically Europe out of the big ones, 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.279 US is probably the last I saw. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.680 You said that you were considering or you're gonna re 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.880 record your catalog with country the country genre version. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.560 Huh yeah, listen, wait till you hear it. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:47.839 Though you already started working. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.480 I already started, Like it's it's monstrous, like. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.400 So, what songs have you tweaked for country so far? 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.360 Well? This this thing? Because I got Trivia. I got 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.840 Trivia's coming out this week. When is this? Errand because 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:00.560 I I want to give it up. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.640 This will this will probably drop Monday. Today's Wednesday. So 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.440 we've got we're gonna get through the weekend this week. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.320 So to drop Monday. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:13.039 Drop, to give up the trivia is to give up 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.280 the trivia. But just know that all of the hit 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.719 records all but been redone or actually I'm currently re 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.359 recording now in country. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.520 Just like with country producers. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.839 No, so so what I'm doing, i' went to Nashville 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.160 to actually do it, Like I'm going to think of 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.320 what country play like, I know what's going on, right, 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.640 I'm just I just love country music and if I 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.279 represent it from on my classics, I want it done 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.440 with the people that this is what they do and 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.200 the people that I'm a fan of, from the writers 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.960 to the producers to the arrangers, like the environment I 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.920 want to in golf, all of that. So we got 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.120 the first one actually that I'm actually going to be 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.000 announcing through a trivia question on which record will be 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:51.640 the first one that I do and who I plan 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:52.400 to feature it on. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:53.960 Can I get the trivia questions, see if I can 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.760 answer it. Give me the trivia, let me see if I 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:58.360 could past. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.479 Okay, So the first trivia. I'm actually gonna play the 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.080 first song that I'm doing in country backwards. Oh, so 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.080 you got to guess which one it is. Then the 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.320 second trivia is who do you think is who do 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:10.880 you think I'm featuring on that one? 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.279 A country artist? So all of these songs like country. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.760 Artists, and they're actually legitimate Top ten Billboard country artists 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:19.520 on these bad boys. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.240 Have you linked up with Jelly Roll yet? 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.480 Damn? He's a trivia question too. I can't. I can't 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.680 see so you have linked up with Jelly Roll? Oh 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.919 I can, I can. Well, the question is ship, So 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:32.880 man ca, have you messing up my You messing up 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:33.600 my whole trivia? 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.240 Have you hung out with Jelly Roll in your life? 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.520 I can't ask you spend any time with Jelly Roll? 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.720 I can't ask you haven't spent time. You can't tell 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.320 with him. Have you been in a recording studio with 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:44.440 Jelly I can't ask. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.400 The Jelly Roll questions because he's a part of my trivia. 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.279 So he's so Jelly Roll is a part of your trivia, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:49.960 which means he's a part of the country. I can't 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.360 say wow, shout out to Jelly Roll, man. I can't 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.760 say shoreboozy, I can't say man soboo. 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.400 Cut it out, man, you gonna give it up my 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.440 damn past Man, don't do it. You're gonna give it. 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:06.200 Up a little Morgan Wall maybe Bro please. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:07.920 Man, you're too many names right now. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.200 So what you're trying to say is by next year, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:11.320 you're gonna be on stage coach. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:16.000 By next year, I'll be on a uh probably CMA's 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:16.480 for sure. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.280 Well, you gotta do stage coach because one hundred percent 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:20.000 whiz did it? 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:20.520 T Pain? 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:20.800 Did it? 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.280 Promise you? I'm doing stage coach? 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:22.960 Yeah, Pain. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.080 I think when Pain covered that Chris, he did all 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.040 them covers even Actually I don't. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.520 Want to speak for Pain, but I think one of 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.160 the purpose of doing all those covers was to go 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:32.040 and kill stage Coach. 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.600 And I also feel like it showed people. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.040 How versatile he was to that he's such a beast 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:37.840 and his voice. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.200 If you strip away that autoitude, it doesn't matter. 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.320 Yep, it don't even matter. He's still killing him. 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.360 Nah for sure, for sure, you in Pain, still in 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:48.000 contact for regular that's my dog, my lit bro. I'm 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.679 surprised we never got like a joint album from y'all. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.120 We've actually been talking about it. We me and have 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:55.520 been talking about doing that for a minute. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.280 If there's a t pain Akon joint album sometime in 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.520 the next like year or two with a tour, you 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:05.000 guys are selling out that it'd be crazy. You stir 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.120 that up and you get the super Bowl buzz. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.520 Going a thousand all that's coming in my Trevius. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:17.760 Show. I can't wait to hear the jelly Roll song. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:19.760 Jedyal is a good guy. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.200 I like jelly Roll a lot. Yeah, Like he's a convict. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.920 He is a convict and actually just saw he's one 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.720 step closer because obviously he can't vote in Tennessee where 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.000 he's from, but they the courts are one step closer 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:38.320 from fully pardoning him as a felon because he's been 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.240 doing so much work to help like you know, people 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.840 incarcerated and and all that, and so yeah. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.000 Aw, it's amazing, man, he deserves it. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.360 Convict for sure. Convicted Akon and and the convict jelly 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:50.880 Roll On a song together coming soon. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.280 Yeah, I think like what uh, what would be? It 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.000 would be that I feel like locked up with jelly 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.520 Roll would be crazy. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.400 Statae tick. I can hear Jelly's tone doing this. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:09.440 Please God, I can't go fuck up my goddam what dude. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.800 I can hear I can hear Jelly saying it in 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.080 his tone. It's gonna be good. If that ever happened, 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.200 that would be great happen. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:17.720 I'm gonna give you credit for making it happen. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.840 Shouts to Jelly, man, are you going to stage Coach 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:20.320 this weekend? 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:20.640 No? 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.000 No, I won't be on Unfortunately, I'll be in a 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.640 studio working on my album for next years. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.559 What is uh sonically like? Do you feel like you're 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.040 just kind of like, are we getting Vintage Acon? Are 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:31.040 we getting World of Acon? 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:31.960 What is what is this? 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.440 Yeah? You get you getting? You getting Vintage Acon with 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:35.800 a twist of Tomorrow's Acon. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.560 Okay I like that? 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.080 Yeah, Yeah, that's that's dope. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:41.400 U man? 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.360 What what what inspired you to want to do the 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.920 country ship? Because I think a lot of people, I mean, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.400 you're a singer songwriter, so country I feel like country 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.760 is the one genre right now or if you're looking 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.160 for like strong songwriting, you're gonna find it like no. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.840 One interestingly enough, Like a lot of people don't know 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:01.559 that my first album was written based on country music, really, 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.080 I swear to God, and I wanted to do a 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.440 country remix album at that time, but the label would 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:06.680 never let me do it because they thought it was 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.199 it would break away my audience and I want to 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:13.240 be looked at as a sellout. Wow, So it kind 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.080 of crushed my dreams and I just realized I couldn't 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.199 do it. And then, lady lately, I'm saying to myself, Okay, 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.560 now that music has now kind of all came together, 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.400 I think now it's probably the best time to do it, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.679 if any to take those classics and actually do it. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:27.280 I love that. 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.439 Yeah, yeah, I think like, yeah, back then, if you 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.200 would have did that, I tried people to look at 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:32.880 thought I was crazy. People would have looked. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.079 At you crazy. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:35.599 I mean when Nelly did it, people thought he was 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:36.160 fucking crazy. 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.240 I thought it was genius. And I actually envy Nelly 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:39.560 because he was able to do it and I couldn't. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.120 Yeah, and he was able to do it to like 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.320 he just put out a whole country album like he 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:44.079 he was able to like. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:45.880 That pocket before any of us. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:46.360 For sure. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.920 Ya shot to Nelly, man, talk to me, uh, what 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.079 is your you? Obviously you're a fucking og you've been 0:10:54.120 --> 0:11:01.400 dealing with. I mean, I don't know you've had multiple wives? 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.439 Is that KIV? Next question please. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.120 Yeo. Hypothetically, if you had more than one wife, how 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:12.760 do you deal with that without wanting to kill yourself? 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.200 I wouldn't kill myself. I would live life happily, So 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.680 it's fun. I think I think most guys would like that. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.280 Would you set up a schedule like a Google spreadsheet, 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.880 Like it's Tuesday, it's you and you, it's Wednesday, it's Friday, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:26.520 it's all of us. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:27.320 Is that how you do it? 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:31.200 I don't know. Maybe, or or it'd be like a 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.360 color system where like you're green, you're purple, you're purple, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.240 you're green, and then we're just gonna hit ram, We're 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.720 gonna spin away on whatever color. It's purple day, Come 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:38.400 on in baby. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.559 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, your life would be interesting. I 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.480 would definitely watch it. Yeah, if you had. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.760 A really show or if you had a reality show, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:46.280 it would be great. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:47.840 No, no, no, my life is too interesting? 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:48.679 Is it too interesting? 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:49.040 Too interesting? 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.200 What are your thoughts on that? Have you been paying attention? 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:52.160 What's going on with Shannon Sharp? 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:57.160 That was interesting to watch? Yeah, that was interesting to watch. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.280 Yeah, it's pretty crazy. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.959 No, that's pretty crazy. Like have you seen like. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.880 The texts and some of the voicemails. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.280 Well, I heard the call. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.880 So you heard where he said, big black man choking 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.800 a little white woman in public. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:11.760 Wait I didn't hear that. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:13.840 Oh yeah, that's. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.079 Just rand new mixtape just dropped this morning, that new 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:19.040 Shannon Sharp tape. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.320 No, come on, bro, why are you doing shadd like that? 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:22.560 Man? 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:29.480 Bro, I'm gonna player for you because you this ship 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:34.319 is raising also, like, oh here it is, hold on. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:48.280 You're coming to La tomorrow. Yes, well, I don't know 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:49.440 why you want to go out. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.480 Wait, it don't make sense by the way, she sounds 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.320 so boring. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:15.880 Okay, okay, what well, I'm not really interested and getting choked, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:17.280 so I guess we're going. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:30.880 Okay, I may choke your above me, big black guy choked, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:31.920 small white bubby. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:41.840 You're my old things like oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:44.559 I don't even like that man. Listen Shannon Sharp all 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.280 whatever happened to side. I'm just a little disappointed that 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:49.800 this fifty four year old man didn't think that a 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:51.280 nineen year old white girl was trying to set his 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:52.400 ass up. What the fuck are you doing with a 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:53.280 nineteen year old girl. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.200 Well, listen, guys, at the end of day, there's a 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:02.120 lot of elder that's living their prime years with younger women. Right, 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.000 let's just be honest. Men like younger women. Right now, 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.000 you go too far, then, yeah, you went too far. 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.520 But for the most part, I just feel like Shannon 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:11.400 is getting set up. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.880 He's I feel like he's getting six. But he walked 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.079 right into the trap and was like, I like it here. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.360 He's like, yeah, I'm gonna say some crazy shit on text. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.040 Mean some of the text menage. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.120 I don't think he knew he was being recorded either, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.600 because all all them spaces in between a convers No 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.840 conversation ever has that many spaces unless there's a conversation 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.760 being on as being muted, and with today's AI, you 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.760 can delete the voice and allow the background to keep playing. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.640 That's one thing. Number two. I believe that him and 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.880 her always have these kinky type of conversations. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.960 Oh yeah, I mean some of the times that she 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.360 said to him about them, because you. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.640 Don't yeah, you don't, you don't. You don't go from 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.560 are you gonna be in LA tomorrow? To I don't 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.920 like being choked? As your next response, like it does 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.360 don't makes sense? Like, wait, what did I got to 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.320 do with him coming to LA tomorrow after that long 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:04.880 ass gap? 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:05.560 Yeah? 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.560 You know what I mean. I feel like Shannon's got 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.440 to be more self aware that like I think he's 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.760 gonna I think he's more than self aware now. But 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.280 like this all happened after he went on live and 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.360 was with Michelle or what was the girl's name? Was 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.960 it Michelle? The girl? He was fucking yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:22.920 Shannon's got for being an old head man. He got 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.360 to reel it in a little Yeah, he got to 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.600 reel it in dog like you're a thirty year old. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.000 You know what I'm saying. Shit, Monique said it best. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.120 He said, you need a fat, oh bitch to rub 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.320 your feet and cook you. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.320 Jesus, it's a dangerous time. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.760 Man. Last time we did an interview, people were mad, 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.280 I didn't ask you you did the hair transplant only 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.920 to cut your Hair's what's the point? 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.640 No, no, no, no, no, no, that wasn't I didn't do 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.560 the I didn't do the hair plant plant to cut 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.960 my hair. I did the transplant to grow hair. Okay, 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.120 the problem was my hair wasn't growing so I said, 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:00.880 fuck it, I'm just gonna keep cut to keep it even. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.640 But I actually like it better than now this way. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.480 Yeah, I mean it looks classic income. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.120 Yeah, this is better man. It makes I look younger. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.600 I feel better. Yeah, I mean I miss the waves though. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.960 But yeah, I mean the waves are there. Your hairline 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:13.920 was a training. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:22.440 Topic that shit kept be relevant the whole fucking What 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:23.720 was that during the pandemic? 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:24.800 Wasn't it something? 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:25.920 I even had fun with it? 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:26.080 Man. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:27.480 We used to put stuff out there just so I 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.160 can I can laugh. And I think it was you 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.880 that broke the store. Probably it came from your show. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:38.920 Yeah, uh was is it true back in the day 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.040 your brothers would fill in for you at shows? 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.000 No, it was just it was well Bou used to 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.920 feel in for me and shows, and then my other 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.840 brother Omar. He would just debo like straight take a 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.840 show like I'll be in New York and next thing 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.920 you know, you see, I'm getting a fly from Baltimore 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.000 that I'm performing live. This is a Oh, would just 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:00.880 book the show and keep the money, like, wouldn't even 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.800 tell me like about as you. He would go as 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.480 me was oh yeah, oh, mom was straight gangster but. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.600 Oh man, and this is like before I guess, like 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.639 the internet was like super readily availed. Yeah, this is 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.840 this is so people could be like, I guess that 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.119 is ain't con No, No, they would not know the difference, 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:17.480 right because there was no YouTuber. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.960 Right. And when you see me and my brother separately, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.280 if you didn't see me in person, you would definitely say, okay, 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.480 one thousand percent for a thousand. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.239 So you're older or your other brother was running it up. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.600 He was almost running it up. Yeahs running up. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.280 And then you you would send Boo sometimes to fill 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:35.200 in if you couldn't be there. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.760 Yeah, that was back then. I had two shows at 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.080 one point, you know, I send boot to one. I 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:39.639 took the other. 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.680 One, and so would just sing like he would up 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:44.600 his lips. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.040 Wow, he looks like hustling. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:49.040 Nobody ever called on. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.320 It was a beautiful time, no, I mean, but then 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.440 Boo just got too popular. Yeah yeah, you know, he 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.760 got big got we laugh about it today. It was 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.000 a one point was like, bro, why you tell everybody? 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:01.920 Everybody ask me about the shit? Why you got to 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.480 tell everybody said, relax, we had fun with it over, 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.520 you know. But he was he was like man, I 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:07.960 didn't want abody know that I was playing you. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.639 Yo. Obviously your brother used to manage Kanye. Yeah, he 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:13.399 worked with Kanye very closely. What are your thoughts on 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.120 some of the new Kanye tweets that have been floating around. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.680 Well, I mean, I mean, it's it's it's yes, yea yeah, 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.000 ye has his own specific I think he's in his 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.840 He's in his truth. He's in his truth right now. Yeah, 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:28.639 And I think his truth is rubbing a lot of 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.400 people a certain kind of way because they can kind 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.760 of remind I think his truth speaks to a lot 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:33.520 of people. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.879 Right specifically, I'm talking about like, you know, the stuff 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:38.479 with his cousin, Like a lot of people went through that. 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.920 I mean, bro, it takes a lot to come out 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.960 and say, or admit for that matter, but just to 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.840 repent in a way to where you're not repenting to 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.600 the priests or the e mom. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:54.760 You're repenting to the world. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.439 You're repinning to the world. Like I think he's in 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:01.159 that space where I think he's kind kind of like 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.000 this is a space that no one could really understand 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.320 if you're not there, right, So I don't try to 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.879 explain what he's doing. I just try to explain it 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.240 from a perspective of how I understand it, and I 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.679 think he's in a spiritual space, from his understanding that 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.920 he needs to do these things and reveal his truth 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.359 to the world to reset you know what I'm saying, 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:19.120 If that makes sense. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.800 Yeah, I feel like to like, you know, the thing 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.120 like him trying to get access to his kids he's got. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.480 It's obviously hurting him, you know, Like I feel like 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.320 he's a guy who's going through a lot of a 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.160 lot of shit, and he's going through it in front 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:31.000 of our own eyes, you know. 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.880 Like, yeah, but I think the parenting part is something 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.119 that every man goes through, depending on how difficult the 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.600 woman chooses to be that you're with, Right, how. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.600 Many kids you got? I got enough more than ten? 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.000 You know, don't speak about my kids. 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:45.280 Stop playing man. 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.840 You know this already going on. 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.400 No, No, Nick, Nick got about he got he got 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.000 a few more than me. Yeah, Nick's outside, No's he's 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:53.520 doing it right. 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.600 Yeah, I saw the new thing Trump's talking about doing 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.840 is giving five grand Trump's talk about giving five grand 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.320 to to women have babies to stop the birth rate 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.200 from going down. To Nick Cannon's gonna be out here. 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.600 But I don't think he's talking to minorities. He's talking 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.480 to white folks, you think so, Yeah, because the white 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.120 folks they're not they're not breeding enough. This is why 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.120 they're the white race is slowly diminishing. They're not having any. 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.040 Which obviously don't even feel like it's a bad thing. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:18.719 I feel like we're all just kind of fucking each 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.080 other at this point. So who gives a fuck? 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.720 Yeah, I mean, the white folks don't fuck outside of 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:23.080 the race. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:24.560 I got two Mexican babies. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.399 No, but I I'm talking about in the South. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:29.840 Oh yeah, in the South. I don't know. Man, You'll 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.240 see some of these young ladies, Like did you watch 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:35.520 Drew ski show on YouTube? Yeah, he had these two 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.080 like country ass white bitches who only fucked black dudes 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.040 on the show, and you could tell both of their 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:45.680 parents have said the herd are recently, it's almost like 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:47.560 the internet's gotten rid of like if you're like a 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:52.359 certain generation like of person, you're you're you're even if 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.679 your parents are like hardcore crazy racists, like you know, 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:02.480 your black culture is America like it is like all 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.359 of us. Yeah, but no, you're right, You're right, it is. 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:06.679 It is. I think it is a thing, like we 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:07.880 need more white babies out here. 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.680 They need to they definitely need to make more, you know, but. 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.080 Five thousand of pop. Like I wonder if I gave 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.359 my wife another one, you know, like it be half Mexican. 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:20.040 Do I get twenty five hundred half white, half Mexican? 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:20.600 Right? 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.600 Do you get half? That is an interesting question though. 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:25.800 I would actually ask as a trivia and see what happened. 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:27.720 Yeah, like what about a mixed race baby, you know 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:29.840 what I mean? Half the money at half, you know, 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.600 like you get at twenty five, I'll take the tax break. 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:40.000 Crazy times, man, this is crazy. I'm curious you obviously, 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:43.639 being from you're from and you having the reach you 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:48.439 have in Africa, what is your thought process on uh, 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:53.200 just all of this. You know, I feel like we've 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:55.840 gotten to the point where there was like a problem 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.800 with immigration where the border was wide open. So obviously 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.600 you know, yeah, short, like the border should be wide open. 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:03.280 Peoplehouldn't be able to just walk into the country. There 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:04.200 should be some sort of process. 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:04.879 Yeah, this should be. 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:07.600 Then the pendulum swings the opposite way, in which it's 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:10.240 like people are just like getting rounded up with no 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:12.760 due process. People are getting snatched up off the streets 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:15.119 because they're critical of Israel and then they're getting sent 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:17.720 to prisons. I just told you they're talking about building 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:21.160 a prison similar to Alsabado and Rwanda, which is it's 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:24.160 just a crazy time to be an immigrant in America. 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:26.480 Yeah, this is unbelievable, especially when you look at America 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:28.399 and America was built on immigrants. 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:30.399 Like while the Statue of Liberty is there. 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:32.800 I mean, everybody, believe it or not, everybody in America 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:35.199 is an immigrant because America, I. 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:38.080 Mean the Chinese built the railroads, you know. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.280 Like I mean the Indians were here before whoever was 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.520 officially American claimed to be American to be here. So 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:45.240 we're all immigrants and when you look. 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:46.800 At it, it's just a scary time, man. 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.080 You know, it's so super scary man. 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:51.840 Yeah, I just feel like there's just like the empathy 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:55.200 is just and they doesn't exist. Yeah, it's gone. Man. 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:57.960 It's really all about the money and control and power, 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.760 like it gotten to the point where money was more 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:02.879 important than human life. 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:03.560 Yep. 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:05.080 That's when it gets scary. 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:06.920 That is when it gets scary. 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:09.560 Yeah, in Florida. They're I think they're bringing back child labor, 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:10.479 which is fucking nuts. 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.360 Child labor. Yeah you mean what. 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:16.800 Yeah, they got rid of the child labor restrictions in Florida. 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:17.720 What purpose with that? 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:18.040 What? Like? 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:18.639 What how does that? 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:20.520 Who's gonna pick the oranges? We're gonna have twelve year 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:23.800 olds out there picking fucking oranges, man, because all they're 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:25.800 deporting all the motherfuckers working in the Orange Viele. 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:28.919 Right, that's true. Yeah, So for all the deportees that 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:31.840 you're sending out, who's gonna replace those jobs? So now 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:33.399 we're going to the point now where we have to 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:35.600 violate kids to get that done. Like, that's crazy. 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:37.160 It's a wild, wild times man. 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.600 We're living in like a black Yeah, it's a black 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:43.600 mirror episode for sure. Yeah. It's like every time I 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:45.960 turn the TV, I'm like, what the fuck, don't let 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:46.719 me check my crypto? 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:47.880 My cryptos melted. 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:53.800 I'm looking at my Ethereum'm like, God, this motherfucker was 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:55.360 supposed to be the crypto president. 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:56.240 What the fuck. 0:23:56.800 --> 0:23:57.920 You still have a lot of crypto? 0:23:58.320 --> 0:23:59.320 Yes, still got a crypto? 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.000 What are your what are you a main holder of bitcoin? 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:02.840 Bitcoin? 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:03.200 Yeah? 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:04.440 Bitcoins can always be fine. 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:06.920 Yeah, that's it. Just focus on bitcoin, everything else going 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:07.360 up and down. 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:10.120 Bitcoin on state where it's at, and concoins to God 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:12.560 for good God for coins still floating around. 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:13.800 No, I don't even talk about my queen. 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:16.920 In October, we got an update on my coin is over. 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:18.720 I saw you in October. What's the update on the 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:21.240 city and that's some process that's still happening. 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:22.280 Yes, that's in process. 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:24.439 Is it hard for you to like because you know, 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:26.280 there's a lot of people who like say that, Like 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:29.439 if you watch there's like many YouTube documentaries about your 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:31.960 city and how it's like a big scam? Is it? 0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:33.359 Do you care about the naysayers? 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:33.560 No? 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:34.320 I know the truth. 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:36.440 I don't care about that because in the end, when 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:38.760 the city's actually up, they're gonna feel like assholes. 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:39.120 Yeah. 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:41.160 Is it different if it wasn't happening. 0:24:41.240 --> 0:24:43.640 What has been the most difficult part of that project? 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:45.600 Because it is a big thing to take on. 0:24:45.720 --> 0:24:47.760 The biggest I think the most difficult part was fighting 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:51.400 the opposition, realizing how much interest that other governments had 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:54.160 in Africa, specifically in that area, and why they would 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:56.840 want to tear my project down. And that was a 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:59.080 big because I thought I was doing something to help, 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:01.320 but I didn't realize as much as I'm helping the people, 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:06.520 it's about the resources exactly. The oligarts that control with 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:09.479 certain areas, they feel like I'm going to interrupt what 0:25:09.520 --> 0:25:11.800 they're doing over there as far as just robbing people. 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:15.120 So like in that area, what would be like an 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:18.480 oligarchic or a foreign government's interest in that area? Is 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:19.240 it resources? 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:19.600 Is it? 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:22.760 Yes, it's about resources control, Like that area is a 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:25.439 huge area for future developments and where they want to 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:27.920 build the new ports and stuff like that. 0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:30.480 I feel like too, like they want to keep these 0:25:30.520 --> 0:25:31.760 countries as poor as possible. 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:33.520 That's exactly what happens, So that's. 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:35.400 What they want, Like the goal is to keep everybody 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:37.159 in poverty over there, so they get what they want. 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:39.439 They can take advantage of a hundred of the minds. 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:43.160 They could take everything else because if everybody wakes up 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:45.000 or not necessarily wakes up, because I think people are 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:49.080 very like self aware. But if if it flit, an 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:53.359 alternative universe is created, an alternative path, right, then you 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:54.640 can't take advantage of You. 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:57.720 Can't take advantage you know, because when people are actually thriving, 0:25:58.119 --> 0:25:59.840 they're not going to make starving decisions. 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:02.280 Yeah. Like if you think about some of these like 0:26:02.560 --> 0:26:06.120 minds in Congo, they're like it's like literally modern day 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:08.720 slave ye, and like all of our phones are fueling 0:26:08.800 --> 0:26:09.360 this trade. 0:26:09.440 --> 0:26:12.919 You know, our tesla is are fucking yep. Yeah, it's crazy. 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:13.960 It's crazy, bro. 0:26:14.160 --> 0:26:17.040 It's definitely like I think, I think the last few 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:20.520 years what I've at least you know, sometimes the Internet 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:21.280 is a good and a bad thing. 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:22.560 Uh. 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:24.960 There's a lot of brain rotten, crazy shit on the 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:28.359 Internet that fucks up our kids and you know, lowers 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:31.000 our society. But the good thing about the Internet is 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:34.080 that there has been we got to see people are 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:37.640 able to see what's going on in Gaza, right a transparency. Yeah, 0:26:37.720 --> 0:26:40.040 people are able to see some of these videos from 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:41.680 some of these minds in the Congo where you're like, 0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:44.440 wait a minute, there's like a lady with three kids 0:26:44.440 --> 0:26:48.120 on her back while she's working you know, eighteen hour days, Like, yeah, 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:48.880 this is insane. 0:26:49.000 --> 0:26:52.160 It really exposes the mistreatment of human beings for sure. 0:26:52.240 --> 0:26:54.280 Yeah, it's like a good and it's like there's a 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:56.320 gift of the curse. Yeah, the gift and the curse 0:26:56.600 --> 0:26:59.960 for sure, Yo is there is there a new or 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:02.280 artists that you're a fan of that you would like 0:27:02.320 --> 0:27:04.199 to work with that you're just you've been paying attention to. 0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:09.200 I've kindly, I've worked with man. I don't know if 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:11.879 there's one artist specific though, that I said to myself, 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:15.399 this kid got something crazy and I would definitely be 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:16.960 an honor to work with him. And that's Friday. 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:18.159 Friday's fire. 0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:21.159 I love Friday. I think out of all the newest 0:27:21.240 --> 0:27:23.919 artists that I've seen so far, he's the one that 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:26.639 I would say, Okay, I can count him in to 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:27.720 be around for a little while. 0:27:28.119 --> 0:27:30.359 Yeah, he's got in the same way you do. That 0:27:30.440 --> 0:27:33.480 kid's special, a very unique tone and voice. Yes, because 0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:35.560 a lot at the end of the day with auto tune, 0:27:35.600 --> 0:27:37.320 like so many people kind of sound like similar, but 0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:38.520 Friday's voice. 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:40.840 Yeah, he's different. Yeah, he's different. 0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:41.760 Yeah for sure. 0:27:42.640 --> 0:27:43.480 Have you reached out at all? 0:27:43.760 --> 0:27:45.400 Yeah, we spoke, Yeah, we reached out. 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:47.560 That would be hard, Yeah, Yeah, you got so much 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:49.800 going on in country album, hopefully a Tea Paint album. 0:27:49.880 --> 0:27:51.040 You and T Paint got to make that happen. 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:54.159 Oh no, it's one hundred percent coming. You know, you'll 0:27:54.160 --> 0:27:55.200 be the first I now sent on you. 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:57.040 That's big for the court. 0:27:58.680 --> 0:28:00.000 Speaking of super Bow, would you think of super Bow 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:01.440 have time show with Kendrick? I thought it was I 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:01.960 thought it was a. 0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:03.840 Piece of art. Man to me, I loved it. I 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:06.080 loved it. I loved the way Kendrick, you know, put 0:28:06.119 --> 0:28:08.520 it together. I love the simpleness of it and the 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:12.080 dynamics of those little you know, uh you can say 0:28:12.119 --> 0:28:13.360 eight coins that they put. 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:15.159 In there, ye a little like Yeah, there was like 0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:16.080 very you know what I mean. 0:28:16.200 --> 0:28:18.119 I love there was a piece of art, especially for 0:28:18.200 --> 0:28:21.000 what Kendrick does and how it was wrapped around his truth. 0:28:21.040 --> 0:28:22.639 I think it made all the sense in the world, 0:28:22.680 --> 0:28:23.240 to be honest. 0:28:23.440 --> 0:28:24.960 Yeah, I saw people complaining he didn't do some of 0:28:25.000 --> 0:28:26.680 his bigger songs. I'm like, it wasn't about that. It 0:28:27.000 --> 0:28:29.320 was it was about presenting a piece of art. 0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:32.080 Absolutely. It was not about the songs, because the songs 0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:34.479 you can play right after super Bowl, but it's like, 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:36.760 what what is the message? And I think people forget that. 0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:39.720 Yeah, crazy to think like the stadium like he's doing 0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:44.560 stadiums with Sizza and I mean Kendrick for for better 0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:46.640 or worse, like the whole entire like obviously the beef 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:50.000 to me was great for hip hop. I mean shit, 0:28:50.120 --> 0:28:53.640 Drake's doing fine. No Kiy is on fire, but it's 0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:55.720 been dope to see, Like, damn, there's a hip hop 0:28:55.800 --> 0:28:59.320 artist doing stadiums right Like, that's crazy. Chris Brown is 0:28:59.320 --> 0:29:01.200 doing stadiums right now. Shots to Chris Breeze, he celebrate 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:01.800 twenty years. 0:29:02.000 --> 0:29:03.720 Chris, Chris definitely deserves it. 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:08.520 I tell people, Chris Brown is our Michael Jackson, Like, 0:29:08.760 --> 0:29:10.960 without a question. I think he's one of the most 0:29:10.960 --> 0:29:12.800 talented human beings ever walked the face of there. 0:29:12.840 --> 0:29:13.680 I promise you he is. 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:17.720 And when it comes to longevity, when it comes to 0:29:18.200 --> 0:29:23.480 talent and just music records, he's our MJ without a question. 0:29:23.520 --> 0:29:27.240 And it sucks because it's like one mistake always like well, 0:29:27.360 --> 0:29:29.560 like it kind of prevents people like to acknowledge that. 0:29:29.600 --> 0:29:31.160 But stop playing with. 0:29:31.200 --> 0:29:33.160 Chris Brown, can't You can't man that, boys. 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:34.680 This guy's one of the greatest of all time. He's 0:29:34.720 --> 0:29:37.880 on one of the greatest. Shout to Chris Breezy, man 0:29:38.000 --> 0:29:40.480 big shots. Yeah, I gotta get to that that stadium show. 0:29:40.480 --> 0:29:44.640 I think it's like him, Bryce and Tiller and Summer Walker. Yeah, 0:29:44.760 --> 0:29:47.200 something like that, right, yeah, it should be dope. Uh, 0:29:47.520 --> 0:29:49.040 any other investments you got work? I know, the last 0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:50.640 time you're here talked about the Godfather's feech. So you're 0:29:50.640 --> 0:29:51.840 working on anything else you got cooking? 0:29:52.080 --> 0:29:53.480 Yeah, I mean right now, you know, we've got the 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:56.000 new album coming out, Not Guilty, that I'm really really 0:29:56.000 --> 0:29:56.560 excited about. 0:29:56.720 --> 0:29:57.760 Not Guilty. That's a great name. 0:29:57.840 --> 0:29:58.760 Yeah, it's gonna be nice. 0:29:58.880 --> 0:30:01.360 Yeah, I can't wait to hear that. And then this 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:02.240 jelly roll song. 0:30:05.800 --> 0:30:07.560 That man right there put that together. If you hear 0:30:07.600 --> 0:30:09.280 it is because it gave me the idea. 0:30:09.520 --> 0:30:12.040 There it is. It is so Not Guilty. You're wrapping 0:30:12.040 --> 0:30:12.360 that up. 0:30:12.560 --> 0:30:14.640 Yeah, I'm wrapping that up currently now. Never really matter 0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:16.160 at the first single that, I mean, second single that 0:30:16.200 --> 0:30:18.480 dropped off of it, we just dropped last week, is 0:30:18.520 --> 0:30:19.400 doing really really well. 0:30:19.440 --> 0:30:21.880 And so it's crazy too because the first single, Beautiful Day, 0:30:22.000 --> 0:30:22.920 is like an older. 0:30:22.640 --> 0:30:25.480 Song, Yeah, that like leaked. I had leaked and ended 0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:27.280 up ended up redoing it just to put it back 0:30:27.280 --> 0:30:28.080 out of the marketplace. 0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:30.160 And then this newer record is a new record. 0:30:30.160 --> 0:30:31.880 It's a brand new record. Its featured Sime as a 0:30:31.920 --> 0:30:33.760 new girl group that I'm about to present and I'm 0:30:33.840 --> 0:30:36.080 introducing them to the world on this record. That's the 0:30:36.120 --> 0:30:36.960 ones on the choruses. 0:30:37.080 --> 0:30:37.520 That's dope. 0:30:37.600 --> 0:30:38.400 Yeah, they're killing it. 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:39.840 You're still actively with. 0:30:41.680 --> 0:30:43.840 Oh yeah, Now now I'm signing artists like it and 0:30:43.960 --> 0:30:47.880 know tomorrow. Yeah, we're going super stupid. I'm signing artists producers. 0:30:48.360 --> 0:30:50.320 We just picked up press Play, who's one of the 0:30:50.440 --> 0:30:52.680 lead producers that we just picked up recently Monster. 0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:56.080 So yeah, I mean you're one of the most prolific 0:30:56.320 --> 0:30:58.200 CEOs ever if you think about all the people who 0:30:58.240 --> 0:30:58.960 came through your label. 0:30:58.960 --> 0:31:00.800 Man, Man, we just I'm just happy to be a 0:31:00.840 --> 0:31:03.920 part of, you know, being a contribution to the culture. Man, 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:05.440 that's I'm happy enough for that for sure. 0:31:05.800 --> 0:31:08.480 How many Lady Got albums came out through Convict. 0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:13.320 The first it was the first, It was the first two, 0:31:14.880 --> 0:31:18.040 the first the first two was mine, and then I 0:31:18.080 --> 0:31:20.400 was in collaboration with the third one, and then I 0:31:20.480 --> 0:31:22.200 was out by the time the next ones came out. 0:31:22.280 --> 0:31:25.120 Wow. Yeah, those checks still coming in. 0:31:26.160 --> 0:31:28.040 Yeah, it's still working. Yeah, he's still working. 0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:30.280 Still feeding you got like poker Face was like on 0:31:30.320 --> 0:31:30.840 the first album. 0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:32.160 Yeah, that was the first album. The first album was 0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:34.840 the biggest album. Yeah, that was the one that gave 0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:36.800 her all the accolades. 0:31:37.560 --> 0:31:40.320 It's crazy too, because like the dynamic between like a 0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:42.800 song like just dance her first song You're on, and 0:31:42.840 --> 0:31:44.600 then drast forward to like some of her other ships, 0:31:44.600 --> 0:31:47.360 like yeah, this girl so just an alien man shot her? 0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:49.520 Yeah, yeah, she's she's one of She's brilliant. Man. 0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:50.880 When was that time you guys have talked to her 0:31:50.920 --> 0:31:51.440 ran into her? 0:31:51.600 --> 0:31:54.040 That's about it's about probably been about I would say 0:31:54.040 --> 0:31:56.440 part of a year. Yeah, I think it's part of years. 0:31:56.480 --> 0:31:58.000 I think it was one of her shows. I went 0:31:58.040 --> 0:32:01.240 and saw her backstage, said, hello, a brief it's been 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:01.800 about a year. 0:32:01.840 --> 0:32:03.520 Was there any what was it? What was it about 0:32:03.560 --> 0:32:05.920 her that you heard or saw that you were like, 0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:08.120 we got to figure this out. 0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:09.320 I can help you out. 0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:11.040 I don't see how anybody could have seen her and 0:32:11.080 --> 0:32:13.640 not see it, Like she was a star off the gate, 0:32:14.440 --> 0:32:16.640 and then her talent as a songwriter, as a performer, 0:32:17.240 --> 0:32:20.120 and then she had her own style, like nobody looked 0:32:20.240 --> 0:32:22.720 like her, and she was so fearless, like willing to 0:32:22.760 --> 0:32:25.200 do things that no other artists would do. But most importantly, 0:32:25.280 --> 0:32:29.000 she had such a hard working like she's she's like 0:32:29.960 --> 0:32:33.520 she's a I mean her, her work ethic was just unmatchable. 0:32:34.000 --> 0:32:35.440 She kept up with me, and that's when I knew 0:32:35.440 --> 0:32:36.000 she could work. 0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:37.400 Yeah, I can only imagine. 0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:39.000 Was there ever an artist that was close to signing 0:32:39.040 --> 0:32:41.080 a convict that for whatever reason you missed out on 0:32:41.320 --> 0:32:42.200 or just didn't work out. 0:32:42.720 --> 0:32:44.520 Oh, it's just a lot of I will be here 0:32:44.520 --> 0:32:45.160 all day. 0:32:45.360 --> 0:32:45.880 Give me one. 0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:47.000 I will be here all day. 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:48.840 Can you give me one? 0:32:49.040 --> 0:32:50.840 Yeah? But they too popular now and I don't want 0:32:50.840 --> 0:32:53.360 to take that glory away from them. I had a 0:32:53.440 --> 0:32:55.760 chance to sign the first What about someone who wasn't popular, 0:32:57.680 --> 0:32:59.000 who wasn't popular. 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:00.520 Work out? 0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:03.400 Because you've had, like, well, the one, the one, the 0:33:03.480 --> 0:33:06.200 one that I did I think was going to be 0:33:06.360 --> 0:33:10.480 really really big that I till this day believe it 0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:12.600 could have been. I just don't know. What didn't click 0:33:12.680 --> 0:33:13.360 was Red Cafe. 0:33:13.880 --> 0:33:15.400 I was about to say, you had Red Cafe. 0:33:15.600 --> 0:33:16.960 He was the one that I just knew was gonna 0:33:16.960 --> 0:33:17.240 be bigger. 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:20.920 And Red Cafe ended up signing with everybody. Yeah, he 0:33:21.000 --> 0:33:22.400 ended up. I think he was with cash money for 0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:23.520 a little bit, right he left. 0:33:23.400 --> 0:33:26.240 You after what happened was when he was with me. 0:33:26.960 --> 0:33:30.360 I ended up doing the joint venture with Diddy with him, 0:33:30.720 --> 0:33:33.080 so then it was me and Diddy. Haven't read. And 0:33:33.080 --> 0:33:35.440 then after he left that situation, he went on to 0:33:35.640 --> 0:33:36.280 do other things. 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:37.600 But very talented guy. 0:33:37.720 --> 0:33:40.840 No, oh my god, Red, it is so fucking dope. Yeah, 0:33:41.880 --> 0:33:43.520 he was so dope. But I think at that time 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:46.280 he was young, he didn't really have the patience that 0:33:46.360 --> 0:33:50.120 it took to develop him globally because he wanted and 0:33:50.160 --> 0:33:52.000 he all he cared about at that time was New York. 0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:53.840 He's wanted New York to love him. 0:33:53.880 --> 0:33:57.360 And you know who figured that out quickly was Floder. Yeah, 0:33:57.400 --> 0:34:00.240 because floor Rider was like an underground Florida rapperd that 0:34:00.240 --> 0:34:02.920 Birthday song. And then as soon as he figured out 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:06.200 that global ship, he hit the switch and turned it, 0:34:07.000 --> 0:34:08.360 you know the black pit Bull. 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:13.200 Flow figured it out real quick. 0:34:13.200 --> 0:34:15.440 Well, he figured that ship he's gonna eat forever. 0:34:15.560 --> 0:34:17.680 Yeah, Flow figured that out real quick. I was actually 0:34:17.680 --> 0:34:20.080 the first one to take him international and open that 0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:22.680 open his eyes up to what that was. And interesting enough, 0:34:22.800 --> 0:34:24.719 I was the first to take pit Bull international two. 0:34:25.400 --> 0:34:26.839 That's why it's my brother till this. 0:34:26.880 --> 0:34:28.840 Day, pit Bull man Il Pitt. 0:34:29.040 --> 0:34:32.080 What he's done with his career man unbelievable. 0:34:32.239 --> 0:34:35.000 The greatest person to ever pull up No one's ever 0:34:35.000 --> 0:34:39.560 pulled off the white pants like him. He got that 0:34:39.640 --> 0:34:40.400 white pants. 0:34:40.200 --> 0:34:42.359 On Lone Pitt. That's that Cuban saying. 0:34:42.360 --> 0:34:45.000 Speaking of guys who could do Super Bowls, Yeah, this 0:34:45.080 --> 0:34:46.880 guy's just got two hours straight ahead rack. 0:34:46.920 --> 0:34:48.440 He's another one that could do Super Bowl easy. 0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:49.960 Yeah, shout out to pit bull Man. 0:34:50.160 --> 0:34:51.680 And then you worked with wiz Kid a little bit 0:34:51.680 --> 0:34:52.040 early on. 0:34:52.080 --> 0:34:54.080 Ye whiz was my first afrobeat artist and I signed 0:34:54.120 --> 0:34:54.960 back in two thousand and eight. 0:34:55.280 --> 0:34:56.799 Yeah, damn two thousand and eight. 0:34:56.880 --> 0:34:59.680 Yeah, we actually developed the whole afrobeat saying, that's crazy 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:00.840 sound seen everything. 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:02.960 It's got to be cool to kind of see it 0:35:03.080 --> 0:35:04.200 grow into like this global. 0:35:04.400 --> 0:35:06.840 Yeah, No, it's amazing, but I mean it was Excuse me, 0:35:06.920 --> 0:35:08.759 it was hard work though, trying to get just the 0:35:09.120 --> 0:35:11.080 US labels to even understand what it was because at 0:35:11.120 --> 0:35:13.440 the time they thought it was reggae, right, So as 0:35:13.440 --> 0:35:16.680 I'm shopping him, shopping, David Ough, shopping all these artists 0:35:16.680 --> 0:35:17.920 I had Peace Square at the time that I was 0:35:17.960 --> 0:35:20.080 also trying to shop on the side, it was like 0:35:20.080 --> 0:35:21.400 they didn't understand what it was. 0:35:21.960 --> 0:35:24.640 Have you ever connected with David Oh's dad. Uh Yeah, 0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:26.840 because his dad is his dad is very very wealthy. 0:35:26.880 --> 0:35:28.759 He's in the oil and gas. Yeah, him and I 0:35:28.760 --> 0:35:32.919 were talking. His dad has helped with I think he's 0:35:32.960 --> 0:35:35.719 providing like fifteen percent of the electricity in Nigeria. 0:35:35.920 --> 0:35:37.320 He's a big dog over. 0:35:37.200 --> 0:35:39.200 There, big dog, big dog. I feel like, if you're 0:35:39.200 --> 0:35:40.840 going to create a city, you got to tap in 0:35:40.880 --> 0:35:41.959 with David Oh's dad a little. 0:35:42.040 --> 0:35:44.120 In Nigeria. You can't move it out talking to David 0:35:44.120 --> 0:35:46.160 Thoh's dad, I mean, I wouldn't. You wouldn't be smart 0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:48.960 if you try to go around right. And he's not 0:35:49.000 --> 0:35:52.040 as he's a good man, but he believes in the youth. 0:35:52.719 --> 0:35:55.000 Like if he sees something that's worth investing in, he 0:35:55.040 --> 0:35:55.920 will definitely invest. 0:35:56.200 --> 0:35:58.759 I love that. Yeah, it's been dope to just see, like, 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:00.680 like you said, a lot of people you know. So 0:36:01.000 --> 0:36:03.120 I think back to the dance hall ship where there 0:36:03.200 --> 0:36:05.799 was that wave where Sean Paul broke through and it 0:36:05.800 --> 0:36:07.719 became like pop, but it was dance hall. It was 0:36:07.800 --> 0:36:10.680 dance hall, right, and it's like now with like Afrobeat. 0:36:10.600 --> 0:36:11.839 Took that, but they just burn. 0:36:11.880 --> 0:36:14.239 A boy has broken through on broken level. Whiz Kid 0:36:14.280 --> 0:36:15.960 has broken through on that level, and it's like and 0:36:16.000 --> 0:36:18.759 then there's been like specific records, rama and you know, 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:20.480 certain things like that, but it's been dope to see 0:36:20.520 --> 0:36:23.640 for sure. Absolutely, man, Yeah, it's it's it's not like 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:24.920 a new genre either, like no. 0:36:24.760 --> 0:36:27.280 No, it's been Yeah, it's it's been around for a minute. 0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:32.640 What has been your coolest live performance moment where you 0:36:32.680 --> 0:36:34.759 were just like this is crazy. There's amount of like 0:36:34.800 --> 0:36:36.480 whether it's the amount of people, whether it was maybe who 0:36:36.520 --> 0:36:39.200 was in the crowd, like you're your craziest show. 0:36:39.960 --> 0:36:42.760 My craziest shows. I would definitely say it was in Africa. 0:36:44.200 --> 0:36:50.279 It's like I don't even know how to start to 0:36:50.440 --> 0:36:53.640 explain it, Like right, it's it's it's a different type 0:36:53.680 --> 0:36:56.560 of mania over there. And I feel like a rock 0:36:56.600 --> 0:36:58.680 and roll star when I'm on that side because I 0:36:58.680 --> 0:37:00.480 can jump off the top speaker into the crowd to 0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:03.120 know they're gonna kiss me, right, you know what I mean? 0:37:03.200 --> 0:37:05.359 Like it's that shit, like I could you could crowd surf. 0:37:05.440 --> 0:37:08.160 They got you one hundred percent, that's fire. Yea. Was 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:12.520 there ever a record of yours that you gave away 0:37:12.920 --> 0:37:15.359 because because it helped me understand like when you're doing 0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:17.520 all these hooks whether it's Soul survivor, whether it's I 0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:18.719 mean any millions. 0:37:18.440 --> 0:37:19.440 Of hooks you did for people? 0:37:19.920 --> 0:37:23.000 Were you sending these out or were artists sending you beats? 0:37:23.000 --> 0:37:25.040 And then you would like, because I'm I'm assuming you 0:37:25.200 --> 0:37:27.120 just had ship too where you were like, oh, so 0:37:27.160 --> 0:37:29.120 and so was working on an album, let's send them 0:37:29.120 --> 0:37:30.440 over a few to choose from. 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:32.440 So at that time, in my peer everything that you 0:37:32.520 --> 0:37:35.080 heard me or I produced, because I was a producer first, 0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:36.200 then song write a second. 0:37:36.200 --> 0:37:38.879 So so did you produce a Survivor? Oh shit, yep, 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:40.959 crazy record produced that one. 0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:43.520 That's one of the records that I Afterwards, I was like, damn, 0:37:43.520 --> 0:37:47.359 I should have kept this one. But then I realized, nah, 0:37:47.360 --> 0:37:49.440 I wouldn't have been the same if it was just me, Well, 0:37:49.480 --> 0:37:51.520 anybody else wouldn't have did it the way Jeezi did it. 0:37:51.719 --> 0:37:55.720 And that record is what broke Jezi through because because 0:37:55.840 --> 0:37:57.839 uh and then what was was like his first single 0:37:57.880 --> 0:37:58.359 off that album? 0:37:58.360 --> 0:37:59.799 I think, yeah, that was that was his first break. 0:37:59.880 --> 0:38:03.000 But but Soul Survivor was like the record that changed everything. 0:38:03.080 --> 0:38:05.319 Yeah, that changed it changed the direction to where he 0:38:05.400 --> 0:38:08.040 was going. Because one thing about Jeezy, he was probably 0:38:08.040 --> 0:38:11.000 the first artist that I can ever remember that became 0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:13.680 a household name of Atlanta through it just a mixtape. Yes, 0:38:14.040 --> 0:38:16.560 Like his mixtape would play from top to bottom, the 0:38:16.600 --> 0:38:19.120 whole mixtape in the club. They never would play just 0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:21.719 one Jes song. They would play his whole mixtape. Yeah, 0:38:22.440 --> 0:38:25.640 like literally like it was. It was unbelievable. 0:38:26.520 --> 0:38:30.520 Was there ever one of your records that you did 0:38:30.600 --> 0:38:32.440 keep that almost with someone else's? 0:38:33.880 --> 0:38:36.399 Which record that I kept? That was almost? Oh yeah, 0:38:37.200 --> 0:38:40.320 I want to love you. Because so when I originally 0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:43.400 did it, I did it for Trick Daddy originally, and 0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:45.920 I sent it off the Trick Daddy and then somehow 0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:49.640 Plies got a hold of it, add his verses on it, 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:53.160 leaked it, and then it was a big old controversy 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:54.719 with the with the label and everything else. Then we 0:38:54.800 --> 0:38:58.080 went back and snatched the record, I added my verses 0:38:58.080 --> 0:38:59.320 on it and put Snoop on it, and then we 0:38:59.400 --> 0:39:02.520 put it out. Such a big song, such a big song, 0:39:02.560 --> 0:39:04.120 but that shit went through a ringer. 0:39:03.920 --> 0:39:06.160 So there was like this damn, I guess this is 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:08.120 probably like this is prior before like the internet was 0:39:08.120 --> 0:39:10.920 like super super crazy. So there's a Plies version of 0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:11.719 that song that's out there. 0:39:11.719 --> 0:39:13.680 Oh yeah, that was the Plais version was the biggest 0:39:13.760 --> 0:39:15.160 version in Florida at that time. 0:39:15.400 --> 0:39:15.760 Wow. 0:39:16.040 --> 0:39:17.520 Plis man, he killed that ship. 0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:18.480 Damn. 0:39:18.960 --> 0:39:21.200 Yeah, and it was I just thanks to Plies, we 0:39:21.280 --> 0:39:23.680 knew that record was a hit because his version had 0:39:23.680 --> 0:39:24.520 already popped off and. 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:28.160 Were like, nigga, I'm talking to put snoop on this exactly. 0:39:29.840 --> 0:39:31.520 Yeah. So if for one of Plies, I wouldn't even 0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:32.520 know that record was a smash. 0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:33.960 That's the kind of record too, where you're like the 0:39:33.960 --> 0:39:36.480 O G version, You're like, we gotta recut this whole 0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:38.759 thing because it's not gonna work at radio. That was 0:39:38.800 --> 0:39:40.839 what I want to fuck you. It's just not gonna work. 0:39:41.360 --> 0:39:42.440 I want to love you. 0:39:43.160 --> 0:39:44.359 That works perfectly for radio. 0:39:44.480 --> 0:39:44.719 Damn. 0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:46.880 That's crazy man, that's a great record. What was it 0:39:46.920 --> 0:39:48.360 like working with Minem. 0:39:48.000 --> 0:39:50.239 Ohm was amazing. Him taught me a lot. He made 0:39:50.239 --> 0:39:51.880 me kind of I think it was working with him 0:39:51.960 --> 0:39:56.040 that helped me separate the industry form my life because 0:39:56.080 --> 0:39:59.239 he was the first person through not teaching me it, 0:39:59.320 --> 0:40:02.800 but watching him taught me that you gotta have moments 0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:06.239 for your life, Like music can't be your life twenty 0:40:06.239 --> 0:40:07.000 four hours a day. 0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:10.359 Yeah, he's very it feels like he seven rates the two. 0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:12.800 No, he did it, And I was like, whoa, because 0:40:12.880 --> 0:40:14.799 when I went to go work with him, the nigga 0:40:14.840 --> 0:40:18.000 took he took a break for lunch, went to lunch, 0:40:18.080 --> 0:40:19.120 came back like it was a job. 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:19.560 Job. 0:40:19.840 --> 0:40:22.160 At five pm, the nigga was gone. I couldn't find him. 0:40:22.200 --> 0:40:24.000 I'm looking everywhere for the studio, Like he went home. 0:40:24.160 --> 0:40:26.239 I said, what why so early? Oh, he goes. He 0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:29.080 goes home every day at five pm. That's that's his 0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:31.600 cut off. And mind you, while he goes home, I'm 0:40:31.600 --> 0:40:33.879 in the studio all night till he returns the next day. 0:40:34.239 --> 0:40:35.839 He's looking at me like, nigga, you're still here? 0:40:36.280 --> 0:40:39.720 Yeah, And I'm like, yeah, this made a smack that session. 0:40:39.760 --> 0:40:40.160 Yeah, it's a. 0:40:40.120 --> 0:40:44.920 Smack that session crazy damn. And you're one of like 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:50.040 obviously like that's that's uh. Not everybody getting the eminem verse. Man, No, 0:40:50.680 --> 0:40:51.839 that was a tough thing to get. 0:40:51.880 --> 0:40:53.560 I know that was a special moment when I got it. 0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:55.720 Yeah, yeah, that's also all time great. 0:40:55.840 --> 0:40:59.040 Uh if you go to a white bar, oh yeah, 0:40:59.080 --> 0:41:01.760 that record is just the whites love smack that dude, 0:41:01.880 --> 0:41:02.600 They love it. 0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:08.879 No, you have no idea, want no you have an idea? 0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:11.680 Yeah? All right, So new album coming out soon. You're 0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:16.520 oh about about nine finishing touches going on it, right? 0:41:16.680 --> 0:41:20.040 She touches right now, mixes masters, all that never really 0:41:20.040 --> 0:41:22.120 mad at future. The Simians is out currently right now 0:41:22.160 --> 0:41:23.399 doing amazing. Uh. 0:41:23.520 --> 0:41:25.319 Then a whole other album coming out with a bunch 0:41:25.320 --> 0:41:26.120 of features. 0:41:25.880 --> 0:41:28.719 Whole of the album after this album, but that'd be 0:41:28.760 --> 0:41:29.759 a different, different. 0:41:29.480 --> 0:41:31.720 Conversation, and then the country stuff and then the country 0:41:31.760 --> 0:41:33.239 album's feature in Jelly row yep. 0:41:33.520 --> 0:41:43.000 Oh my god, this motherfucker got it out of me. Yes, 0:41:44.040 --> 0:41:45.719 he got it out. But I ain't gonna tell you 0:41:45.719 --> 0:41:46.759 which song. I ain't gonna tell you. 0:41:46.760 --> 0:41:49.839 It's gotta be locked up. It has to be. It's 0:41:49.880 --> 0:41:53.719 locked up. It has to be. It literally can only 0:41:53.760 --> 0:41:54.440 be locked up. 0:41:55.239 --> 0:41:56.960 You're not hearing it from me, That's what I'm saying. 0:41:57.640 --> 0:42:01.120 My god, Jelly's got a fucking iced out, handcuffed chain 0:42:01.239 --> 0:42:05.160 around his fucking neck performs it's locked up anyway. Look, con, 0:42:05.200 --> 0:42:06.239 I appreciate you pulling up. 0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:09.560 Absolutely, that was somebody interrupting you from giving. 0:42:09.360 --> 0:42:17.800 Up all the Yeah, it's Jelly Roll calling. 0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:20.359 That's actually that's actually he's the one that. 0:42:22.400 --> 0:42:27.000 What an idiot I mean, shout out the cart like 0:42:27.080 --> 0:42:30.480 hated it. Go okay, yeah, motherfucker, I'm here. Well listen, man, 0:42:30.480 --> 0:42:33.680 I appreciate you pulling up always new album coming soon, 0:42:33.680 --> 0:42:35.400 hopefully before the end of the summer. Obvious he's probably 0:42:35.440 --> 0:42:36.280 dropping summertime. 0:42:36.880 --> 0:42:38.800 Yeah, I'll give you the exact day. 0:42:38.680 --> 0:42:40.880 So okay, cool a con my guy. I appreciate you, 0:42:40.920 --> 0:42:41.400 but I didn't know