Speaker 1: This is what you were drinking last night. Is now
Speaker 1: to clear the whole building. You're ready to move some
Speaker 1: furnish all my life, the grinding all my life, sacrifice,
Speaker 1: hustle back price one a slice, got the dice to
Speaker 1: swath all my life. I've been grinding in all my life,
Speaker 1: all my life, the grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle
Speaker 1: back price, one slice, got the dice to swadd all
Speaker 1: my life. I've been grinding in all my life. Hello,
Speaker 1: welcome to another edition of Club Sha Shay. I am
Speaker 1: your whole Shannon Sharp. I'm also the proprivat of Club
Speaker 1: Sha Shay. And the guy that's stopping by for conversation
Speaker 1: and a drink today is one of Atlanta's hip hop pioneers.
Speaker 1: He's a three time Grammy Award winning artist, record executive, producer, songwriter, actor, entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: I am father, trap music pioneer, hip hop icon music mogul, damn.
Speaker 1: He even changed careers, went to stand up comedian King
Speaker 1: of the South, Mister rubber band Man, Is it Tip
Speaker 1: tr hair A Ti Tip Harris? Whoever it is? Ti?
Speaker 1: How you doing? Brother? That was going on at A
Speaker 1: on five and the Baby Bank heads on absolutely yeah,
Speaker 1: how you being bro? Man, I'm chilling, man, I'm cooling, man.
Speaker 1: Anytime we get somebody from get you saw? Okay, actually
Speaker 1: this is my connact all right, it's a vsop. All right,
Speaker 1: this is what you were drinking last night? Is now
Speaker 1: to clear the whole building? You're ready to move some furnish?
Speaker 1: No at all? That was just right last night. Mm
Speaker 1: hey man, you're showing them the boots when jam made
Speaker 1: for walking up right now? No? Man, so welcome to
Speaker 1: the club. How you being man, I've been chilling. I
Speaker 1: can't complain, man. I'm glad I family made it here. Man,
Speaker 1: I've been looking at it on TV. Yeah, I'm glad
Speaker 1: you made I've been trying to get you for a minute.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad you were in the in the area. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can stop being it real player in here. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: nice little lines, a little nice little feel. They got
Speaker 1: the vivid ropes right here, keep keeping them, keeping the riff.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, we got a real vi ip. You
Speaker 1: did what I'm saying. When you hear three time Grammy
Speaker 1: winning artists, what does that mean to you? It means
Speaker 1: I was considered and acknowledged for the hard work that
Speaker 1: I put in man and the thoughts that I put
Speaker 1: into words that I put on too music, and the
Speaker 1: people that helped me push it out into the world,
Speaker 1: that we were being considered acknowledged, to celebrated by by
Speaker 1: peers and constituents amongst the elite, right. And I appreciate that,
Speaker 1: you know, but that was that year. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, It's time to do something. Evolution is imminent.
Speaker 1: Have you ever you know a lot of we've heard
Speaker 1: I've heard You've heard a lot of people like they're
Speaker 1: out on the Grammars, especially if they don't get nominated,
Speaker 1: they don't win the war when they think they should
Speaker 1: have won. Have you ever been in a situation like, damn,
Speaker 1: I know I should have won for this album or
Speaker 1: I should have won for this song, and I didn't
Speaker 1: get the condition that I deserved. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean
Speaker 1: I think that that that that that's like a rite
Speaker 1: of passage. Okay, you know what I'm saying. That's a
Speaker 1: part of of of being in this business. You have
Speaker 1: to Not many people come out and everybody learns about
Speaker 1: them all at once at the same time. So you know,
Speaker 1: you you take your wins where you can get them.
Speaker 1: And just you know, take your lumps and bumps and bone.
Speaker 1: But I think that one moment for me was the
Speaker 1: King Album. I was nominated for Best Rap Album for
Speaker 1: the King Album, and I believe that that that that
Speaker 1: that award went to went to ludicrous Okay, but it
Speaker 1: stayed in that level. Okay, Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: What what are some of your your fondest memory. You've
Speaker 1: been in the game for two decades, a lot of ups,
Speaker 1: some downs. What's some of your fondest memories. Uh? Man,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of them, I say. I say. I
Speaker 1: would definitely rank the the Birthday bash back in Atlanta
Speaker 1: when I was just getting out of I was Jay
Speaker 1: getting out of jail, and people weren't expecting me to
Speaker 1: show up, right, so I showed up surprised the city.
Speaker 1: That was an incredible moment. It's definitely the week we
Speaker 1: released atl and King in the same week as the
Speaker 1: What You Know About That premiered, and and the film
Speaker 1: atl also premiered. That was a pivotal moment. I have
Speaker 1: to say, Swagger like Us performance on the Grammar stage
Speaker 1: that was a phenomenal moment. Live your life performance. Uh
Speaker 1: believe that was the VMA's I'm not mistaken right. That
Speaker 1: was a phenomenal moment. Uh performing with my son, Uh,
Speaker 1: performing with my son. So I just recently my last
Speaker 1: album that I dropped called The Libra Uh. It features
Speaker 1: a song that features my son the Money, and it
Speaker 1: was also produced by my oldest son, Okay Messiah. And
Speaker 1: you know, we've had the pleasure of performing that song
Speaker 1: together just ladies at the TV one Honors the Awards show.
Speaker 1: We performed that song together and that's kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: a huge, huge moment for me as well. With it
Speaker 1: always within in the back of your mind, we see
Speaker 1: a situation where Lebron wants to play with his son Brownie.
Speaker 1: We see ken Ken Griffin Senior played with Junior. It
Speaker 1: doesn't happen very often that a father gets to do
Speaker 1: something in the same profession as its sons side by side,
Speaker 1: especially with like the music or sports. Obviously a doctor lawyer,
Speaker 1: we see that a lot, you know, father son day
Speaker 1: and business together, but we don't see that in the
Speaker 1: music business. Well, that always at the back of your mind.
Speaker 1: You know, what if my boys, you know, want to
Speaker 1: do this thing and to be have them side by
Speaker 1: side with me, But to be honest with you. Man.
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to say that I never
Speaker 1: wanted any of my kids to ever pursue it. Really
Speaker 1: the music being is nah Man, I never did. I
Speaker 1: never wanted any of my family too, just because me
Speaker 1: being in there, I know how much treachery sharks don't
Speaker 1: know how much lab it is, you know, and I can't.
Speaker 1: And while I'm focusing on doing my thing, I can't
Speaker 1: really focus on everybody else and making sure to keep
Speaker 1: knives out of all live backs at the same time.
Speaker 1: But it's always a blessing to see your child find
Speaker 1: his true passion. Right, So if he find his passion
Speaker 1: and film and in television and music, if he or
Speaker 1: she finds day passion here, I want to support it.
Speaker 1: I want to celebrate it and embrace it as much
Speaker 1: as I can. I just know it's gonna be some.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be some. THELFNNA be some felf out there.
Speaker 1: But have you prepared him for that? Have you told him? Like, look, you,
Speaker 1: I see, I know you see what your dad has now,
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of water and minds that
Speaker 1: your dad had to navigate. Just understand you just don't
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get all the way to the other side.
Speaker 1: I'm scathed. Yeah, you know, I think he. I think
Speaker 1: he's seeing it. I think he's see in the first hand. Okay, because,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, the money I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: he he his skill set is so elevated, and he
Speaker 1: has such a just an eloquent delivery, and and and
Speaker 1: he's respected amongst lyricists, but not considered notice or acknowledge
Speaker 1: amongst you know, major labelska as they looking for artists.
Speaker 1: Uh So he kind of peeping gain and understanding now
Speaker 1: that it's a different it's a different road to travel
Speaker 1: from him than it was for me. You mentioned that
Speaker 1: everybody sees you now and what you've been able to
Speaker 1: accomplish in this business. But it didn't start off all
Speaker 1: peatures and cream. You got dropped by a label. And
Speaker 1: then so when the label dropped you, what went through
Speaker 1: your mind? You're like, day help, I'm just getting in
Speaker 1: the middle of they drop your ball already. We see
Speaker 1: the thing is uh. I think a common misconception is
Speaker 1: that I got dropped, you know, due to a lack
Speaker 1: luster perform I requested to be released. Okay, after my
Speaker 1: first album came out, and it didn't. Of course, it
Speaker 1: didn't achieve the kind of the the magnitude and success
Speaker 1: that I had expected, right, and probably the label either.
Speaker 1: And this came at a time where La Reid had
Speaker 1: you know, sold the face, right, and you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, he he accepted a position as the president
Speaker 1: of Airsta Record, Okay, and all of the roster that
Speaker 1: was on the Face got kind of bound over, okay,
Speaker 1: and now, uh, instead of it being La Reid in
Speaker 1: Atlanta with this boutique label, kind of like a motown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, now it's like we got to go out
Speaker 1: way to New York to the Airsta building to get
Speaker 1: stuff done, departments, heads and so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: So the album came out and it was a cult classic,
Speaker 1: Like people loved it as soon as they heard it, right,
Speaker 1: And I just did a lot of uh uh self promotion,
Speaker 1: self marketing, driving from Tallahassee to Jacksonville, to Memphis, to
Speaker 1: Chatanooga to the Greensboro, Augusta, Savellana, all of the neighboring
Speaker 1: cities and rural areas and just hand the hand in
Speaker 1: my product and and I just kind of created a swell.
Speaker 1: You know, they got the attention finally of the people
Speaker 1: up in New York are stiff. But when I got
Speaker 1: the call, uh, myself and Jason Jeter, we kind of
Speaker 1: took the position of man, we kind of been funding
Speaker 1: this movement ourselfs and we've been operating as an independent
Speaker 1: So for us to go into a second a second cycle,
Speaker 1: we'd like to renegotiate, and we want to we want
Speaker 1: a JV fifty fifty right uh or or or and
Speaker 1: we want two millions. So we could do it ourselves, right,
Speaker 1: or you could just let us go. And you know,
Speaker 1: we went to lunch. LA say, you know what, I
Speaker 1: see what you're saying. I get it completely. Let me
Speaker 1: think about it. I'm gonna go to lunch. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, yeah, cool, that's a good sign.
Speaker 1: We're going to lunch. They were like, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to lunch. You go to last right.
Speaker 1: I was like, I right, pizza, it is right, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And uh, but what were you think, Well, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to lunch, you're going to lunch, but we're
Speaker 1: not going to lunch together. I didn't have no thoughts
Speaker 1: at different. I'm like Okay, cool, we got him, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking. Ok, I got him. I started spending
Speaker 1: the money already, what I'm saying. So we leave and
Speaker 1: come back, and uh we would greeted by uh the
Speaker 1: VP at the time, I believe Mark Pitts. Okay, Mark
Speaker 1: Pitts say all right, man, I thank y'all. Gonna be happier.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, oh oh, going in there and
Speaker 1: they say, all right, I'm gonna give you what you want.
Speaker 1: I'm letting you go. Call on dog. Not like I said, Bro,
Speaker 1: you didn't even have to call me back in here.
Speaker 1: You could have called us on the phone right anything now.
Speaker 1: But uh, but he let us go. And that was
Speaker 1: and that was the most uncomfortable elevator ride back downstair
Speaker 1: because Jason was just looking at me like, you know,
Speaker 1: I could just be like why why why did you say?
Speaker 1: Why are you giving that third option? You know, renegotiate
Speaker 1: the deal, give us two millions, or you can just
Speaker 1: release it. Why you had to put the third option?
Speaker 1: Why not just go with the first two? I mean,
Speaker 1: because I felt like the stakes had to be raised,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. He had to understand, you know,
Speaker 1: just just the magnitude of the moment, but to beyond
Speaker 1: it with you, Man, that was the greatest thing anybody
Speaker 1: in the business ever did for me. I was on five,
Speaker 1: you know, I was making like thirty thousand a show.
Speaker 1: I already had my my my first single for trap music,
Speaker 1: which was twenty folds in rotation on radio stations in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and uh, I mean, that was really the best thing
Speaker 1: that could have happened. I wouldn't got two point three
Speaker 1: from Atlantic, and they ended up doing the deal I wanted,
Speaker 1: giving me the equity that I did I asked for right,
Speaker 1: you know, I just couldn't get it there in that build.
Speaker 1: But he did. Man, he was a real solid cat,
Speaker 1: still my brother, my mentor to this day. I still
Speaker 1: considered myself among La Face University, and he let me
Speaker 1: go and allowed me the opportunity to be a free
Speaker 1: agent with a fair market at fair market value. And
Speaker 1: I went out there and made my own way. And
Speaker 1: that's you know, the evolution began from there. And you're
Speaker 1: riding the elevator down. You're no longer with La Face.
Speaker 1: What are you saying, man, did you give yourself a
Speaker 1: timeline like I gotta get to another label? I gotta
Speaker 1: start doing mix tapes. I mean, so, what what was
Speaker 1: your thought process that you're riding the elevator? You said
Speaker 1: it was a long long here. Yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, we was already doing mixtapes, okay.
Speaker 1: So we had already had our gangster grills with Drama. Uh.
Speaker 1: We had some mixtapes dropped in New York. Were like,
Speaker 1: we were really asserting guy selves and becoming familiar with
Speaker 1: the market. And it wasn't never about how long and
Speaker 1: until we get another deal? Okay, you knew that was
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Yeah, it was a boat make the right
Speaker 1: making this next decision the best decision for the next
Speaker 1: phase of our career, okay. Uh. And we put ourselves
Speaker 1: in a position to to catch the eyes of all
Speaker 1: the labels. But we felt that we were the best
Speaker 1: fit for Atlantic, you know, because because they needed us
Speaker 1: as much as we needed them, right you know, And
Speaker 1: and they embraced us, supported us, uh, and you know,
Speaker 1: gave us the platform and the resources to be able
Speaker 1: to push through and break break through the other side
Speaker 1: of mainstream success. Did your confidence waiver because a lot
Speaker 1: of times we get released, we get fired, something traumatic
Speaker 1: something bad happens, You're like, damn, am I as good
Speaker 1: as I thought I was? I mean, cause if I
Speaker 1: was this good, this wouldn't have happened. Did your confidence?
Speaker 1: Did you? Did your confidence ever? Waiver nah man? Because
Speaker 1: I remember there was something that I asked for, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I remember, But did you really
Speaker 1: ask for it? Like if you don't give me a
Speaker 1: if you don't give me the raid, I'm leaving. I please,
Speaker 1: don't get please give me a raid, I don't leave.
Speaker 1: I mean no, don't get it wrong. I was asking
Speaker 1: more so for to me either way though, like you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm I'm I'm standing in it. We
Speaker 1: got the role with it at that point, and we did,
Speaker 1: and we wasn't in like the worst It was the
Speaker 1: worst position ever because of the work, the groundwork that
Speaker 1: had already been put in as to the reason why
Speaker 1: we were called up up to New York to have
Speaker 1: the discussion anyway. Yeah, So when you start your own label,
Speaker 1: Grand Hustle, if that's something that you are, you always
Speaker 1: wanted to have your own record label, to be on
Speaker 1: your own label, to have artists under you. I mean,
Speaker 1: I always wanted to provide an opportunity, uh for other
Speaker 1: artists to to to share their story through their art,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I always wanted to
Speaker 1: introduce new talent to to to to market. I mean,
Speaker 1: we grew up looking at cats like man Russell Simmons,
Speaker 1: Uh Puffecy Jay Prince uh easy shoot, Luther Campbell, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and Tony Draper. We just grew up watching
Speaker 1: cats that came from from nothing turned into moguls bye
Speaker 1: bye by leading there that like the the their peer
Speaker 1: group into an industry, which was the music then. So
Speaker 1: we just understood, like you know what I'm saying, looking
Speaker 1: at Master p, looking at Baby and Schlam like okay.
Speaker 1: So the the the natural evolution of a successful rapper
Speaker 1: is to evolve into you know, uh, the owner and
Speaker 1: operator of your own label and introduced talent to the
Speaker 1: rest of the world. When you opened the door? Did
Speaker 1: you end the bad deals? We'll hear about these six
Speaker 1: three sixties? Can you explain to our listening audience what
Speaker 1: the three sixty deals or and what are some of
Speaker 1: the bad deals that you see artists sign back then
Speaker 1: and even today. What's a three sixty? Let's start with
Speaker 1: that a three sixty means that you have accepted something
Speaker 1: from the label that has given them the right to
Speaker 1: accept a percentage from everything you do of all of
Speaker 1: your they call them ancillaries, all of your ancilary businesses.
Speaker 1: That means your your tool of money. That means your
Speaker 1: your if you got sponsorship dollars, huh, your sponsorship, you
Speaker 1: gotta do with them. That ain't no, no mute an celary.
Speaker 1: Now now people actually sign that, of course they do.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, to be honest with you, most times
Speaker 1: most artists are only looking for what they're getting right then, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They feel not looking down there,
Speaker 1: looking right now, right here, what I can see because
Speaker 1: you know, what we always have is ideas, and what
Speaker 1: the industry has is access. Okay, so we usually exchange
Speaker 1: our ideas for their exit. And that's how we usually
Speaker 1: get ourselves. That's why we end up on the short
Speaker 1: end of the stick until we have created the leverage
Speaker 1: for ourselves where we can kind of you know, tip
Speaker 1: the scales in the other in the other direction. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So by doing businesses, doing business with big business, how
Speaker 1: did that help you become a better business man? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean to be honest with you, Well you had
Speaker 1: all you already had a business, but it was you know,
Speaker 1: I had been you already. Well it's quite it's quite different.
Speaker 1: But nah man, I had already been researching and reading
Speaker 1: and kind of familiarizing myself with the business. I read
Speaker 1: books like hit Man, okay and all you need to
Speaker 1: know about the music in this Uh you know, I
Speaker 1: just already read books to kind of taught me what
Speaker 1: a good deal was, a bad deal was, what publishing was,
Speaker 1: what mechanical rights was. I'd already like research And this
Speaker 1: is when I was like nineteen eleven years old. I
Speaker 1: was challenged by my uncle. He said, if this is
Speaker 1: what you wanna do, you learn everything it is to know,
Speaker 1: and I make sure you had the money and the
Speaker 1: responses to get you where you wanted to where you
Speaker 1: want to go. But by the time I read the books,
Speaker 1: he had then called a ten year centate. So I
Speaker 1: had all this information and I still had I had
Speaker 1: no bagging. So you know, cut too. When I'm nineteen
Speaker 1: and I get my first record deal, I already know
Speaker 1: what I'm looking for, Okay, I know what I'm supposed to,
Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to be receiving and what not to
Speaker 1: give away. And at this point in my career, I
Speaker 1: find it honorable to be able to tell new artists
Speaker 1: when they come up to me, you know, man, twenty one, savage, thug,
Speaker 1: you know, like a lot of them coming to me,
Speaker 1: a man, chack, give me a meal, your tip, chack,
Speaker 1: give me a million. Man, I don't care what you do.
Speaker 1: Just give me a million and let me handle it
Speaker 1: from there. Like, Nah, I ain't gonna do that. I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna because if I give you a million, I
Speaker 1: gotta take back something that's gonna be worth way more.
Speaker 1: And we ain't gonna be able to be friends, no, right,
Speaker 1: And you know, and I and I always tell him
Speaker 1: and don't worry about the money up front, because it's
Speaker 1: gonna come right. I mean, I remember telling that the Slime,
Speaker 1: I remember telling that the the twenty one, and and
Speaker 1: even Savage. Every time you see me now, he'll hit
Speaker 1: me and say, hey, he came right, you know, and
Speaker 1: and that and that that put a smile on my
Speaker 1: face because I just know how how impactful every generation
Speaker 1: as the opportunity to be even more than the last.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that you had been reading since you're nine,
Speaker 1: ten eleven about what you wanted, the process of the
Speaker 1: music and what goes into it, and well the music
Speaker 1: company is surprised at nineteen year old and your knowledge
Speaker 1: or the inner workings of how the music game went.
Speaker 1: Those that actually had an opportunity to to to engage
Speaker 1: with me, they were, uh, I mean I think that
Speaker 1: I think that we are expected to just jump on
Speaker 1: the first thing that comes to us. You know, I
Speaker 1: believe I even see now you know, deals that are
Speaker 1: that are presented to certain artists and we just expected
Speaker 1: to just take, you know, the first thing that that's
Speaker 1: a turned down three to five meal till I mean,
Speaker 1: were you and you at I mean, you ain't had
Speaker 1: no money till man, you know that thing you'll tip
Speaker 1: you eat them? King bottom of Little Cornplex hadn't listened.
Speaker 1: He fol turned it down three that they they take
Speaker 1: it three and five thousand. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like three to five five That's what I've seen deals.
Speaker 1: I've seen deals like yeah, they offered the day they signed,
Speaker 1: the way they write some perpetuity for like five teen
Speaker 1: you know, just like tendish paper. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And I'm not criticizing right, because some of those deals
Speaker 1: go on to support some of the largest, most successful,
Speaker 1: most kind of artists that this industry is known. Uh,
Speaker 1: but you just got to believe that that that if
Speaker 1: somebody offering you this money, they gotta think you worth.
Speaker 1: It's obviously working. You know what I'm saying. Anybody getting
Speaker 1: away free money exa one thing people ain't getting away
Speaker 1: free money exactly. You wear a lot of free things
Speaker 1: for money. You ever seen somebody like, hey, I didn't
Speaker 1: even know free samples the mixtape in the mixtape game,
Speaker 1: you you mentioned you gotta go to Savannah, you gotta
Speaker 1: go to Columbius, you gotta go to Columbia, South Carolina,
Speaker 1: you gotta go to all these little small so now
Speaker 1: you gotta put miles on the car and you gotta
Speaker 1: pass it out because it's world of mouth. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: was that for you? Like? Damn if this thing I
Speaker 1: stul hope this payo offf man, I ain't never even
Speaker 1: think about it. I enjoyed the precess, I enjoyed the journey.
Speaker 1: I had fun, like you know, it was. It was
Speaker 1: sort of like when you was in college, go out
Speaker 1: from game to game together, enjoyed to come right aready,
Speaker 1: the teammates you enjoyed, you know, going in another town
Speaker 1: and receiving the energy from the people who act to
Speaker 1: whether it's positive or negative, you know what I'm saying, right,
Speaker 1: whether it's the love or the other side, right, you know,
Speaker 1: it's all just it's it's it's a it's a a
Speaker 1: part of the journey that we appreciate. And I never
Speaker 1: even thought about whether or not it we would pay out.
Speaker 1: I was just like, man, I just want these people
Speaker 1: who heal with that, who who heal what we got
Speaker 1: to say. I just want them to I want him
Speaker 1: to receive it properly, right, I want him to receive
Speaker 1: the the art the way we intend. You know, it
Speaker 1: was never Affodward thought about I hope we get rich
Speaker 1: off of this, right like that. Right. Money was never
Speaker 1: we want the money because it takes money to make money.
Speaker 1: But man, it we always operated on principle. Man, we
Speaker 1: really always wanted the opportunity that had let more and
Speaker 1: more people hear what we got to say, because we
Speaker 1: knew once they hid, they were gonna fuck with it.
Speaker 1: DJ Drama made the big return in twenty twenty too.
Speaker 1: He's obviously one of the greatest DJs. How did you
Speaker 1: end up? How did you meet DJ Dramma and how
Speaker 1: did you this thing go for? Well? Between you two
Speaker 1: m I believe Jason introduced me to Drama. I don't
Speaker 1: recall exactly how they met. I know drum you know,
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in Atlanta at the AU.
Speaker 1: He went to Clark. Yeah. Yeah, they don't know about
Speaker 1: the Brown Morris Brown making a just uh incredible return.
Speaker 1: They just got their creditation back. Yeah. Yeah, got a
Speaker 1: phenomenal a phenomenal president down there working. They working, they move.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so he spent a lot of time at
Speaker 1: AU and him and and and Uh and DJ Cannon
Speaker 1: and since in them they were putting the crew together
Speaker 1: and they started like just DJ and and doing mixtapes.
Speaker 1: He caught me in the freestyle on the mixtape. Okay,
Speaker 1: and have that ever happened before? Yeah? Here and there? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: mostly in New York though what wasten in New York
Speaker 1: was one of the first time. Man, it happened in
Speaker 1: the left okay, you know. Uh, so I came in
Speaker 1: a freestyle and then I I said King of the
Speaker 1: South and the freestyle and he kind of raised his
Speaker 1: head like whoa, what what is that? What'd you say?
Speaker 1: I said, you heard what I said? You heard what
Speaker 1: I said? And you know, we just had a conversation
Speaker 1: about that and he gave me like, okay, you know
Speaker 1: one of them, and I think that became the first
Speaker 1: gangster grills. Right, I'm not gonna step I'm looking so
Speaker 1: the DJ in twenty twenty two, like I said, DJ
Speaker 1: Drama worked with Tyler creator Jack Harlow, A little easy bird, Jeez,
Speaker 1: j Cole, when you and I'm looking at your your
Speaker 1: collab bro Hold three Stacks, kend you, Lamarm Rock, Courage,
Speaker 1: Jamie Foxx, Justin, timber Lake, Drake Usher, Lady gard Goat,
Speaker 1: Bridget Sperits two Chain, Future, newly A Fat Rock, Luda, Jeez,
Speaker 1: Little Wayne, Rihanna, Mary Jake, Damn dude, I mean what
Speaker 1: what It's been twenty one years. But when they call, okay, Paul,
Speaker 1: who I want you on this? Right? We I want
Speaker 1: you on this? So so what what? Who was the
Speaker 1: first big guy, a big person to call you and
Speaker 1: say I need you on this feature? Man probably desting
Speaker 1: the child, probably desting the child for soldier. That's probably
Speaker 1: one of the biggest features I remember getting the call
Speaker 1: for Okay, okay, they call this they we want you
Speaker 1: on this feature. So what's going through your mind? Now?
Speaker 1: We on the way? What we going? But you know
Speaker 1: me now you want me do it? Now? You know
Speaker 1: I was excited. I was excited, man, just especially because man,
Speaker 1: we grew up listening to records, you know. Uh. I
Speaker 1: remember waiting to hear the Bone Thugs and hum In
Speaker 1: It and Biggie record, right. I remember hearing like a
Speaker 1: snippet you couldn't wait to hear the whole song. I
Speaker 1: remember here hearing UH the Scarface Tupac record. I remember
Speaker 1: hearing Uh California Love with Drean Park. I remember hearing
Speaker 1: two of America mo wan It with Snoop and Park.
Speaker 1: I remember hearing H the record with with with Big
Speaker 1: and Jay and just so many collaborations, and I remember
Speaker 1: the energy, you know, like eug K and Jay, z
Speaker 1: u g K and outcre EUGK and UH and c Murder.
Speaker 1: Like I just remember waiting to hear this music because
Speaker 1: I I appreciated these collaborations so much so when people
Speaker 1: called me to collaborate, I just want to create that
Speaker 1: moment right for the listener, like you know, like that
Speaker 1: mumore create it for me. You want them to feel
Speaker 1: when they hear you on a feature like you felt
Speaker 1: when you heard those other guys on the feature Never Scared,
Speaker 1: Bone Crushing. That was really the one, that first one.
Speaker 1: That was the one that like, okay, the first one
Speaker 1: this TI yeah yeah, well actually it was one before that,
Speaker 1: probably nobody probably never heard. It was an R and
Speaker 1: B group called co Ed. Okay, there was a signed too.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, I think, uh whitfield label. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I was at work,
Speaker 1: yeah past where I was working. I would working at
Speaker 1: pass work and happened to have a label. They heard
Speaker 1: me coming up. It was like look, quiet rumbling and
Speaker 1: they were like, man, let me get this gap real
Speaker 1: early while I could just slide him a quick fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred and get him on that. That was my first
Speaker 1: paid feature. Right, you call yourself the King of the South.
Speaker 1: Now you know when you call yourself the king or
Speaker 1: anything down now it had listen, call earned the right
Speaker 1: the car. But you already know where to come with that.
Speaker 1: Now you give yourself a title. Pressure, Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 1: either bus pipes or make damn right it made dam
Speaker 1: so well. So when you call yourself the king of
Speaker 1: the South, and you know, there's some heavy hills in
Speaker 1: the eight because it come back, I mean like during
Speaker 1: the nineties, and that was that way that started coming
Speaker 1: you yourself and the and the and the luders and
Speaker 1: the tis, and to get them and not to get
Speaker 1: them a good m Yeah, all you sleeping brown, all
Speaker 1: you guys started coming. It's like, all right, and you
Speaker 1: say I'm the king of the y'all know what. Let's
Speaker 1: see this is the thing. So like a lot of
Speaker 1: common misconception is taking place because we're all we're always
Speaker 1: meet luder Jez. We're always kind of grouped in the
Speaker 1: class before us, right with like uh, sleeping brown, good
Speaker 1: outcasts and so on and so forth. Those are I
Speaker 1: would pred ourselves, right, you see what I'm saying there,
Speaker 1: Like they came before us and opened the door for us.
Speaker 1: But we were a whole nother class meeting luded Jez gucci,
Speaker 1: Like we were a whole other class. Uh. And and
Speaker 1: when I came and said King of the South, it
Speaker 1: was never you know, it wasn't about this. It wasn't
Speaker 1: by their respect, but it like but it wasn't against.
Speaker 1: I spoke to just about everybody that I had access
Speaker 1: to that came from the class before me. I spoke
Speaker 1: the big boy Andre three K. I all looked at
Speaker 1: him up. I spoke to uh Scarface Bundy, who passed
Speaker 1: message to PEMPC. He was he was locked up at
Speaker 1: the time, eight ball m and I spoke to all
Speaker 1: of him right, asked a man, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about me calling myself the king of theself just out
Speaker 1: of respect? Right? And everybody tell me, man, go on here, man,
Speaker 1: do what you feel right because they knew I was cold, right, Uh.
Speaker 1: And they they they kind of they kind of seen
Speaker 1: a lot of theirselfs in me. I remember Scarface saying
Speaker 1: something like, man, you can have it. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be king, you know what I'm saying? And and uh,
Speaker 1: I remember three K Andred three thousand. He was like,
Speaker 1: so what does it mean to be king? Really? Let
Speaker 1: you say king? Like, what does it really mean to
Speaker 1: be king? And h I remember a big Bud telling it, man,
Speaker 1: now you know you say you're gonna be king? Can't
Speaker 1: be looking for no favors? Now, I'm like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: you're okay with it though, right? I don't care what
Speaker 1: they feel like you straight though, right? And but he
Speaker 1: said something real like, you know, he basically told me
Speaker 1: you're gonna be putting the bulls down on your back.
Speaker 1: You might become a target, right, you say, you king?
Speaker 1: You know the game. The name of the game and
Speaker 1: chance is to kill of the king, right, And you
Speaker 1: know I came to find that to be exactly the case.
Speaker 1: But I just let everybody else know that it was
Speaker 1: okay to say they was king, right, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I ain't say I was the only king, right?
Speaker 1: I was your first one? Yeah. I was just the
Speaker 1: one to let you know that this okay to call
Speaker 1: yourself did I'm looking at it? Definitely Child Soldier with
Speaker 1: Little Wayne Robin Thick blurred lines in the for real
Speaker 1: way of pique. The number one were taken over. I
Speaker 1: love that. Fat Joe, Rick, Roth Bird, Wayne and Fwaggle
Speaker 1: like Us featuring Kanye Hold a little Wayne, what's your
Speaker 1: favorite feature? I can't say you ain't got one, but
Speaker 1: now yes I can. The one feature in my son
Speaker 1: the Money that would produce I must's kind of family
Speaker 1: connect off of the Libra album. That's that's got to
Speaker 1: be my favorite. I can't even cap when you on
Speaker 1: a track, you on a feature and you got hold
Speaker 1: and you got bird, well, you got somebody. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like when we go to the Pro Bowl, you
Speaker 1: go to the All Star Game. I gotta let you
Speaker 1: know where I'm here. That's right now. I gotta let
Speaker 1: y'all know where I'm on this feature now. So hey,
Speaker 1: I just just so we know, yeah, I do this now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of getting in the blender. Hold you know.
Speaker 1: I mean you're here like we easy. Don't write in
Speaker 1: thing down? Hold down, writing thing down? You go. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it? Do you write
Speaker 1: things I've done? I'm ambidextrous. Okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I've done it both ways. I uh but it was
Speaker 1: healthy competition, absolutely absolutely. I uh so I went through
Speaker 1: a period. And it depends on what type of song
Speaker 1: we're trying to me right. You know, we make son
Speaker 1: like you don't know me, make songs like twenty folds,
Speaker 1: songs like uh even bring them out, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Certain songs or more about divide right and
Speaker 1: and and the flow, the cadence, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: not as wordy like you know, songs that I actually
Speaker 1: wrote down was like live your Life. Yeah, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just other more meticulous flow. You know, I had to
Speaker 1: kind of take pen to paper. You know, it just depends.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't think of talk my head the
Speaker 1: one you did with justin timber Lake, My Love? Is
Speaker 1: it My Love? Or Dead and Gone? Yeah They're gone? Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah they gone? Is that a different vibe? Dead and gone?
Speaker 1: As opposed to being on something with Kanye in a
Speaker 1: little Wayne It is. It's more reflective, you know, it's
Speaker 1: more reflective and and and and it pulls from past experiences,
Speaker 1: and it's definitely something that takes more time, more energy,
Speaker 1: and it just it has to have more intention, right.
Speaker 1: You know, most times when we when we put words
Speaker 1: to music, we're really kind of capturing a vibey like
Speaker 1: this is telling a story. We're trying to kind of
Speaker 1: I'm trying to to deliver a message, right, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's a little bit different, So I take it.
Speaker 1: I take a different approach everybody probably now the two
Speaker 1: people that everybody wants to get on a feature huh
Speaker 1: whole uh weezing, Right, you have both of them how
Speaker 1: do how do you pick up the phone if it hoole,
Speaker 1: I need you, I need you because they not they
Speaker 1: not picking they not they not calling everybody back. They're
Speaker 1: not picking up the phone for everybody. Yeah, I think bruh,
Speaker 1: it was a moment in time. It was. It wasn't
Speaker 1: really more I need you in man, they get it
Speaker 1: to the people right now. True enough, I did need them.
Speaker 1: You know. However, I feel like, you know, if I
Speaker 1: presented to something that's mutual advantageous for both for both
Speaker 1: of us, and it's something to celebrate you know each
Speaker 1: other and get the fans what they want to see. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a different conversation than just having a one way
Speaker 1: conversation that me just need you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You can ask your question. And relationships, Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: build great relationships because down the road they might need
Speaker 1: you and hey, I need this. I try to beat
Speaker 1: there whenever the people need me, man, and that that
Speaker 1: that have been there for me. I try to reciprocate,
Speaker 1: you know, all levels of of of positive energy. I
Speaker 1: can let me put in some sports context, if Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: let's just say Michael Jordan, because Lebron is still playing right,
Speaker 1: every current player like man, Mike, that's Mike. Yeah. Hold.
Speaker 1: Do artists feel that way when they meet whole like
Speaker 1: people feel like the NBA players feel like when they
Speaker 1: meet Jordan. It's hard to say, I'm gonna tell you something,
Speaker 1: And it really difficult because although I was introducing the
Speaker 1: world a rep, although I was you know, I I
Speaker 1: I value my presence in position in the world a
Speaker 1: rapid help. I just feel like that's my introduction, and
Speaker 1: I had so much more going on, right, and I
Speaker 1: I kind of divide my my elfas energy and attention.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if I am looked at as
Speaker 1: a second coming of anything because of how much other
Speaker 1: stuff I do, right, the amount of attention that I
Speaker 1: paid to the actual music portion or my career. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know where they placed that, cause I don't
Speaker 1: know how many other people who do the same amount
Speaker 1: of other things that I do right, uh at this
Speaker 1: present moment in my career. Uh. At one time, I
Speaker 1: would call it the jay z or theself you know,
Speaker 1: and and that was that was a a a a
Speaker 1: phrase that was coined by for real. I I see myself,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, like as a hybrid a hybrid kind
Speaker 1: of between I guess Jay Park, uh Puff and and
Speaker 1: like uh a snoop, you know what I'm saying, sort
Speaker 1: of like, you know, I kind of hop yeah, and
Speaker 1: I take pages out of the Book of Legends. And
Speaker 1: I've been fortunate enough and and and just blessed enough
Speaker 1: to be able to have the relationship where I could
Speaker 1: sit and engage and and soak up game with people
Speaker 1: like Efted, people like Too Short, people like i Q,
Speaker 1: people like master P, people like Jay Print, people like
Speaker 1: Russell Simmon, people like Puff, people like Jay You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, I'm able to soak their game up,
Speaker 1: so I could just take a page out of the
Speaker 1: book when necessary, you know what I'm saying. Uh And
Speaker 1: And I don't have to anything exactly. I don't have
Speaker 1: to just settle in one shadow, right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I can hop in and that of as as needed
Speaker 1: for mine, for my career, and I feel like that's
Speaker 1: what I've been blessed and able to do, fortunate enough.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at some of the producers you work with
Speaker 1: for real, Williams, Kanye, Doctor Dre Javie Faye ATLS on
Speaker 1: Swizz Beats, and then you look at doctor Dre Right. Uh,
Speaker 1: all these guys with doctor Dre. When it comes to
Speaker 1: with it color the producers, right, d D D d
Speaker 1: R E. Is is it right? What are some of
Speaker 1: the similarities and what are some of the differences, Like
Speaker 1: when you go into the studio, then you know what
Speaker 1: to expect when to each individual guy. When you go
Speaker 1: into a studio, say with Jazz Paye or Swizz or
Speaker 1: Dre or any of those guys, what's your expectations and
Speaker 1: then what are the expectations that they have for you? Well,
Speaker 1: I go into it with more of an appreciation than
Speaker 1: I do an expectation. You know what I'm saying. Uh,
Speaker 1: I just appreciate the opportunity to be working amongst the elite,
Speaker 1: right you did? And the list that you name, I mean,
Speaker 1: I value, respect and and appreciate all of from the
Speaker 1: top to the bottom of that list. But I can't
Speaker 1: move forward talking about producers without acknowledging. Uh. DJ took right,
Speaker 1: because that's you know, that's the guy who was the
Speaker 1: very very very first professionally, you know, to come in
Speaker 1: and say, hey, I think he don't take me under
Speaker 1: here wing give me his beats, and I kind of
Speaker 1: introduced me to the world. So that's my doctor Drake. Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So what we had when
Speaker 1: we built, I think it kind of shaped and molded
Speaker 1: a sound and a genre for generations, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. However, you look at Pharrell. Farrell was the
Speaker 1: first like superstar, a list producer who would say, you
Speaker 1: know what, I liked the guy, I'm work with him.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm I'm gonna give him
Speaker 1: access to to to my skill set, to my talents
Speaker 1: and my efforts. Uh. He did that my first album.
Speaker 1: And then he start to you, well, no, he said yes, okay,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But at the same time
Speaker 1: he said yes when he was getting a hundred some thousand,
Speaker 1: I was a track and I couldn't afford to pay that, right,
Speaker 1: So he had the kind of light just in the
Speaker 1: sense of sports. He had to take a pay cup. Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. He had to take a
Speaker 1: hair a cup of the thing to fit in the
Speaker 1: candle so we could play together, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And he was gracious enough to do that, uh, time
Speaker 1: and time and time again until we grew the track
Speaker 1: that he was that he was getting maybe more, it's
Speaker 1: more now, yeah, of course, hold on, he can't blank
Speaker 1: checks at the point, so hold on. So you have
Speaker 1: you have an album that man do twelve songs that
Speaker 1: one point two, So I mean you better fail about
Speaker 1: three four million, Cobby, I mean, listen, Okay, we're getting
Speaker 1: the hell that I see. First of all, if you
Speaker 1: get twelve track from for Real for one album, it's
Speaker 1: usually gonna be on his label. Okay, you did. Yeah, However,
Speaker 1: if you get two or three, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you can expect the part ways without the consideration, Okay,
Speaker 1: without a downward departure consideration. You could expect the part
Speaker 1: way with about a half of me, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Uh. And and he you know, he found
Speaker 1: way exceptions are made for exception of circumstances. Yes, and
Speaker 1: he found reason to make the exception. And he fitted
Speaker 1: in my cap my first album, and we just developed
Speaker 1: the relationship and and we've been working together ever since. Right,
Speaker 1: And that's a that's one of the dopeing producers I've
Speaker 1: ever worked with. Jazz and fans. Well, yes, I see
Speaker 1: doctor Drey Solder's catalog for two hundred plus million. Are damned?
Speaker 1: Are you looking to get up off your catalog? No?
Speaker 1: Well well well okay, okay, listen everything at the price.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say that now. I think that
Speaker 1: there are many ways to uh utilize the benefit and
Speaker 1: manipulate your catalog. One of them is selling it out
Speaker 1: right right, and another is licensing. Right. You can license
Speaker 1: someone the use of your catalog for a period of time,
Speaker 1: eased on what it's earning right now, and the same
Speaker 1: way they do other companies, you know what I mean? Right,
Speaker 1: if I have an interfere, you can turn into an Airbnb.
Speaker 1: You did? I mean, like for instance? Right? So, so
Speaker 1: if I have a let's say an intellectual property, okay,
Speaker 1: club shah, Yeah, you own an intellectual property I do,
Speaker 1: and all of your episodes, let's call it a hundred episodes, right,
Speaker 1: that's under your ownership. Yeah, you can license it the
Speaker 1: ESPN right for ten years based on what each of
Speaker 1: these episodes have earned you over a course with an
Speaker 1: eight X or a ten X or a half a
Speaker 1: minute X. You can license it the Fox. You can
Speaker 1: license it, you know what I'm saying, And you can
Speaker 1: get the money like that and there's a reversion period.
Speaker 1: So after that period it reverted back to you and
Speaker 1: you get the and I can tell the point. I
Speaker 1: can let them have it again some more something. Nah,
Speaker 1: I won't hold on to it because I see what
Speaker 1: y'all doing. I'm gonna do it myself. You feel me? Yes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm on one way to skin a cat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're in the Hollywood. Yeah, we're going about it all wrong.
Speaker 1: I ain't say that because everybody got to make their
Speaker 1: own decisions as you did. You been this man, I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, but they got it. But
Speaker 1: you gotta know what's right for you, because you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They say, Okay, we could do it
Speaker 1: like that. You just want't fifty right now. It just
Speaker 1: depends you did Hollywood million right now. I'm I'm ever
Speaker 1: get up on it. I ain't gonna like time to
Speaker 1: be about legacy. It don't be about money, you see it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I don't want to be doing away with that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, ce ce Cee. We don't
Speaker 1: want people just being able to just toss us around,
Speaker 1: right and put our face in our name and I
Speaker 1: logos up on anything but I input, you know what
Speaker 1: you know? And you said that because I was thinking about,
Speaker 1: you know, my knyact. I said. Then someone asked like,
Speaker 1: would you sell it? And I was thinking if I
Speaker 1: sold it one of it because it's name my grandmother
Speaker 1: La Portiers poured in and so I did. In print,
Speaker 1: I said, so what did they took that off? There?
Speaker 1: And then I ain't got no legacy. All I got
Speaker 1: is this money that I made off of it. But
Speaker 1: what I really established started this for is gone. So
Speaker 1: what does that work? Integrity to me is more valuable.
Speaker 1: Can't put a price on that hard and it can't
Speaker 1: you know, I say the true measure of wealth is
Speaker 1: by the amount of things someone has that money can't buy.
Speaker 1: You did, yes, uh? Because some people look poor all
Speaker 1: they have is money? Right you did? You know? How
Speaker 1: much respect? How much family? How much love? You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, how how many priceless things do
Speaker 1: you have? Right? I think that's you know, that's that's
Speaker 1: what I kind of try and incorporate into my decision. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at young girls say. He recently revealed that
Speaker 1: he spent five million on clothes and could not wear
Speaker 1: the same thing every day for two straight years. That's
Speaker 1: my brother. Yep, spend five million on clothes? Are you not?
Speaker 1: No more? Oh? Not no more? Oh? I don't did it?
Speaker 1: What was someone? I give you some of some of
Speaker 1: the wasteful things that you spend your money on, all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff, man, I mean jewelry. I mean on
Speaker 1: my twenty fifth birthday. This is something that I remember
Speaker 1: with great detail, vividly. On my twenty fifth birthday, I
Speaker 1: bought a estonmar Vanquish and uh uh uh a McLaren SLR.
Speaker 1: Bought them both, had them dropped off the same time
Speaker 1: the same day. Then they both got out there, paid
Speaker 1: for them cash right, and then they both got out
Speaker 1: three quarter of a mile Yeah, yeah, yeah they so.
Speaker 1: So when they got there, When they got there, I'm
Speaker 1: walking around them when they like, you know, they loading
Speaker 1: them off the truck, driving them out, handing me the keys,
Speaker 1: signed for it, and I'm signed there. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: can't drive both of these cars at the same time
Speaker 1: at the same time. What the hell am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: You know? Then I told to me because my wife,
Speaker 1: well she was my my girlfriend at the time. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: he'll drive one of us. She said, nah, I want
Speaker 1: to ride with you. I said, what the hell did
Speaker 1: I just do the Remember that it was the damage. Damn,
Speaker 1: you got two cars, but you canna drive one and
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But you know it was just
Speaker 1: our canister. I overpaid for a house. We wanted to
Speaker 1: stay on the lake so bad. I want then this
Speaker 1: was it. I was just proving the point. It's a
Speaker 1: lake called Lake Spine. I've been in Atlanta, yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's the only sports lake like within like the metro area.
Speaker 1: And if anybody nobody Atlanta, it's it's landlocked. It is
Speaker 1: ain't no water for a good thing. Because can you
Speaker 1: imagine Lanta with a beach? Man, I smelled the salt water,
Speaker 1: you know. Can you imagine when freak nig with that
Speaker 1: if height in the nineties, if they'd had a beach,
Speaker 1: if Peachtree was on the water. Can't you imagine if
Speaker 1: it was No, I don't wannamagine. I don't want to imagine.
Speaker 1: But so okay, So we wanted to stay on this
Speaker 1: lake so bad. It was her dream to stay on
Speaker 1: the water, to stay on the lake. And we're looking
Speaker 1: for houses and she just you know, she was rich
Speaker 1: before me. So you know. When I got my paper,
Speaker 1: she showed me how to spend my money. Yeah up,
Speaker 1: and we wanted We found this house. It was almost finished, right,
Speaker 1: and uh we we had fell in love with it.
Speaker 1: I had already put it in an offer. They'd accepted
Speaker 1: our offer. We were gonna get this house. And then
Speaker 1: I don't know if a neighbor came out and saw
Speaker 1: us looking at it, or some some kind of way
Speaker 1: got worried back to the owner of the seller of
Speaker 1: the house. They wouldn't sell it to us. They like,
Speaker 1: they just wouldn't sell it to us. I I I
Speaker 1: don't know it cause I was a rapper, because I
Speaker 1: was young, cause I was black, combination of all the three,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But they wouldn't sell to us.
Speaker 1: And I just saw, like, I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was paying a disappointment or just the anguish on her faith.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, we're gonna be on this lake now.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be. Now I'm taking this ship perfect Yeah. Yeah, man.
Speaker 1: We started knocking dough the dough man, I started running around,
Speaker 1: found the house and I stayed there. We pulled up, Hey,
Speaker 1: that would sell y'all house? And uh we found one
Speaker 1: the one that I mean now on the lake. It
Speaker 1: was Ah, a middle aged Indian fam well Indian man
Speaker 1: who had a family, and he had just built the
Speaker 1: house maybe two three years ago. He said, you want
Speaker 1: this house? I was like, yeah, and uh I paid
Speaker 1: him by five hundred thousand over what it would work right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And that was one of
Speaker 1: the dumbest things that I've you bought Oprah, I did
Speaker 1: that was open? Did over? What up the modesty? Know
Speaker 1: how wasn't people say you're not on the door? The
Speaker 1: people left? We did that? Did? I just remember looking
Speaker 1: at him like so like like like he looking at
Speaker 1: me like you, uh, you you really gonna give me
Speaker 1: this much? He gave me the number like I know
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna get it. I know he ain't gonna
Speaker 1: give me there, right man. The folks stayed in the
Speaker 1: hotel for three months so we could buy this house.
Speaker 1: You feel me. That's one of the dumbest things I've done.
Speaker 1: But I still but we had so many memories in
Speaker 1: the house right raised the family, children grew up. It's
Speaker 1: the house that y'all see on family Husbands. Yep, that's
Speaker 1: what I want to talk to you about what about it?
Speaker 1: Because you're a great family man. I see you how
Speaker 1: you blended your family together. And it's not easy. And
Speaker 1: that's what I want to ask you about. It's not
Speaker 1: easy having your life play out in front of everybody
Speaker 1: to see, cause everybody, Oh, I wouldn't do that. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't talk to my kids. I wouldn't get this to
Speaker 1: my kids. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is it hard having your life play out for others
Speaker 1: to judge? If you are going to be emotionally attached
Speaker 1: to how they receive it, if you're going to have
Speaker 1: any emotional attachment to their opinion of what you're doing,
Speaker 1: if you gonna if you're gonna care about what they're saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard. Uh, But if you just kinda
Speaker 1: take from it what you want from it, right and
Speaker 1: if it don't apply, let it fly right and you can,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, kind of who saw yourself
Speaker 1: outside of the public opinion? Then I think you know
Speaker 1: because I tell you what, I have the greatest, most
Speaker 1: extensive family photo album I can document and like I
Speaker 1: could go back to when King was Heriss's age, I
Speaker 1: can go back to when major was my granddaughter's age,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't have been able to do that if
Speaker 1: it wasn't for family hustle. That it does come with
Speaker 1: some you know, it's some adversity. It's some adversity to
Speaker 1: come with that. People get in your bid. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: but you're a private manor I try to be man,
Speaker 1: you know. But at the same time, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: hard to be a private man in the public lightheart.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna live my life in a bubble for
Speaker 1: some up because of some other person's uh, I guess
Speaker 1: lack of awareness. Okay, you can't give people with the
Speaker 1: least amount of information the most consideration. Okay, wow, you did?
Speaker 1: You did? I know, you know the absolute least of me,
Speaker 1: So why would I give you the most consideration. You know,
Speaker 1: you're just talking about what you know, and what you
Speaker 1: know is it's it's a it's it's it's a minutia.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you. The the transition atl takers get
Speaker 1: hard identity thief and man. How were you able to
Speaker 1: make the transition so seamlessly from being a rapper to
Speaker 1: going on the big screen. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: were exactly call it seamless. Uh. My first film was
Speaker 1: atl I had the pleasure of acting in it because
Speaker 1: you know, coming up amongst the ranks and in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: it would bring me into the company of all of
Speaker 1: the legends in the in the city. And I could
Speaker 1: not meet all the legends without coming into contact with
Speaker 1: Dallas Auston. Okay, and Dallas Austin was a huge, huge,
Speaker 1: huge producer or something I forgot about him. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: just just an incredible talent and an incredible mogul. And uh,
Speaker 1: he was getting in the films and he had this
Speaker 1: one film and it was I was working on my
Speaker 1: first album. He was telling me about this first film
Speaker 1: and you know, I was always like, yo, brou put
Speaker 1: me in it. And he was like all right, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: say less and he sent me to go read and
Speaker 1: I read. They were like, man, you got to learn
Speaker 1: how to play the drum. I was like, man, I
Speaker 1: could play. I could play like I could play the drum.
Speaker 1: And was like, nah, you gotta learn how to Like man,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. I just didn't want
Speaker 1: to commit myself to it at the time. It wasn't there,
Speaker 1: you know. But I read and I didn't get it,
Speaker 1: you know, and that movie went on to be drum Line. Wow,
Speaker 1: you know you gonna be Nick Cannon? Yeah? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was reading for Nick Cannon boyd. Yeah. So you know,
Speaker 1: some nobody came and got there. I'm looking at you.
Speaker 1: You was gonna move American gangster. But that but look though,
Speaker 1: that opened the door for me to do ATM. Yeah.
Speaker 1: After after I didn't get the role for drum Line, Uh,
Speaker 1: I went back to Dallas and say, man, Nick, time,
Speaker 1: bro Jay, give me the rod. I ain't going to
Speaker 1: read or nothing. Ja, give me the road. He was
Speaker 1: like cool, you know, and he just gave me the
Speaker 1: role for Rashaw and atl and a lot of time,
Speaker 1: Nick Kennedy and I, you know, we'd be going back
Speaker 1: and forth, you know, and we get we get on
Speaker 1: each other. I'd be like, yeah, man, you took my role.
Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, but how to traded you for
Speaker 1: your role? You know what I'm saying. I said, you
Speaker 1: couldn't have did my role right, And we just you know,
Speaker 1: we have that kind of a rapport. So I'm happy.
Speaker 1: You know, all things happened for a reason with God
Speaker 1: got for you can't no one and take from you
Speaker 1: you got two of them. Get you out here on
Speaker 1: two things you did to meddle with our American gangster
Speaker 1: with Denzel Brouh. That's I mean, if you're in a movie,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't ask for a battle Dotter to
Speaker 1: be in the movie with. I had no idea. Why
Speaker 1: the hell they called me? For real? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. At first, right, I was like, you sure
Speaker 1: you won't me? You know not? I mean, you had Denzel,
Speaker 1: Ridley Scott Rizzle, you had Ruby Deve had uh Coming,
Speaker 1: you had tu A Tael, you had just so much
Speaker 1: phenomenal talent, uh, Cuba Good and Junior. Yep. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm like and the like, be y'all
Speaker 1: me you for real? And I remember the scene well,
Speaker 1: I was we was preparing we had the the the
Speaker 1: camera blocking or or rehearsal for the scene that that
Speaker 1: d Dug and I were about to do together. Oh
Speaker 1: d dub that this Zel, Yeah, that was I call him.
Speaker 1: I call him. I'm no, I'm just joking. But we
Speaker 1: but we had they got uh this rehearsal for this scene.
Speaker 1: As we rehearsing, I'm pacing back and forth, pacing back
Speaker 1: and forth, and he say, what's what name? You nervous?
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I'm just just making sure I don't
Speaker 1: mess it up. Man and say, hey, man, listen, listen y'rself.
Speaker 1: They could have had anybody here doing what you're doing
Speaker 1: right now. They could have had anybody in the world.
Speaker 1: It could have called anybody right here to do what
Speaker 1: you're doing right now, can it? I say, I say yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he said they called you here for a reason, didn't it.
Speaker 1: I say yeah, he said, you know what that you
Speaker 1: know what that reason is? I started thinking. I say yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah I do. He said, I hate then
Speaker 1: they could do that, and you ain't got no reason
Speaker 1: to be nervous. I read that you had a famous
Speaker 1: sack to get mad at. You're doing a table. Read
Speaker 1: what happened. Say no the drugs, Say no the drugs? Man?
Speaker 1: I uh yeah, that was Morgan Freeman man. Uh And
Speaker 1: and and just to be honest, I I I wasn't prepared.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't prepared. And you know that was an opportunity
Speaker 1: I should have taken more seriously. And I completely accept
Speaker 1: accountability and I've grown from that. Uh. But I will
Speaker 1: say he made me feel this me. I mean no
Speaker 1: like you you see you see lean on me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm on the roof. Yep, chump, smoke crack, don't you chump? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Uh. But I feel like, man,
Speaker 1: that was something that I needed, right, that was something
Speaker 1: that I needed on my on my on my journey
Speaker 1: because that it was like a shock to the system, right,
Speaker 1: you feel me. It was a shot to the system
Speaker 1: to let me know, Man, I ain't never gonna putt
Speaker 1: myself in a position to have you know, nobody be
Speaker 1: able to chastise me and set your way right, uh
Speaker 1: and all and our Man, I really do feel that,
Speaker 1: you know, I could have contributed to the movie and
Speaker 1: made it right better than it was. But I put
Speaker 1: myself in a position, but that opportunity was taken from me.
Speaker 1: And there's nobody's fault but my own. Tell us about
Speaker 1: the movie, man. The movie is called Fear. Fear is
Speaker 1: a psychological thriller. Dione Taylor wrote, directed, produced it. It's
Speaker 1: an ensemble cast myself, Terence, Jay, Joseph's Acorra uh king
Speaker 1: Batch Ruby uh Anie and and and and others and
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's about some friends who meet up
Speaker 1: at a large during the height of the pandemic and
Speaker 1: they don't realize that the large is hunted, is hunted
Speaker 1: and it responds to your fears. You acknowledging fears. And
Speaker 1: when you acknowledge your fears and you you feed into them,
Speaker 1: they bring those fears to life. So how each person
Speaker 1: responds to facing their fears is really that's that's the
Speaker 1: nucleus of this film. Wow, best of luck with the film.
Speaker 1: Thank you congrass on all the success and man. January
Speaker 1: twenty seven. I need you to you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I needs you to show up and show out the
Speaker 1: way you do. You know what I'm saying. You know,
Speaker 1: like you. It needs you to That was that was
Speaker 1: a it off. It needs you to show up and
Speaker 1: show at you know. Now now you gotta like man,
Speaker 1: you gotta skip as too. Now that's seen you get
Speaker 1: out you don't you know, see? But I did so
Speaker 1: I maintained my cool and that I pride of myself
Speaker 1: and then I let my emotion because I can't. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say that it was some people say that's
Speaker 1: not me. No, that was last night. That was that
Speaker 1: was you that would give me out of character. But
Speaker 1: that was me. I mean, man, listen, I think what's
Speaker 1: important to always understand for everybody. We all fall short
Speaker 1: of the glory you do. Ain't none of us perfect.
Speaker 1: No humans are followable. I flesh is weak. Uh. If
Speaker 1: you're a Christian? What you what you understand? Dear? Uh?
Speaker 1: Through repentance and acceptance, you're able to get a chance
Speaker 1: and a choice every day. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And shouldn't nobody be pointing no fingers and anybody who
Speaker 1: try to maintain a perfect image and try to make
Speaker 1: it seem like you don't make no mistake. And as
Speaker 1: soon as you step outside line, that's when it's gonna
Speaker 1: be such a big deal. I already let you know. Listen, man,
Speaker 1: I didn't mess up to date, but if I do,
Speaker 1: God gonna forgive me. So why would I hold your
Speaker 1: words or your your criticism more than I hold to
Speaker 1: the lords? And I think, man, that's what we got
Speaker 1: to all get into. Man, We got to we can't
Speaker 1: keep on just holding each other under a microscope, expecting
Speaker 1: us not to step outside the lines of affection, because
Speaker 1: that's something that anybody could have held against them at
Speaker 1: any time. We get out of comedy. I mean, outstanding rapper,
Speaker 1: You've been great in movies. What the hell made you say?
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm gonna try this man as a well.
Speaker 1: First of all, I didn't plan on it, Okay, you know,
Speaker 1: I've always had an enormous amount of respect and admiration
Speaker 1: for any of the arts, for the art form of comedy,
Speaker 1: and comedy like going to see comedians. It's always been
Speaker 1: with me and my wife Life did a lot of things.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll go out, We'll hit the comedy clubs.
Speaker 1: I've even had like big, big open mic nights, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: tripping on Sundays, tripping on Tuesdays. And it wasn't until
Speaker 1: January twelfth, two thousand and twenty two, I went to
Speaker 1: see k Doub who was a partner of mine, happens
Speaker 1: to be a comedian, and he had an open mic night.
Speaker 1: I went to support him. It was somebody on stage
Speaker 1: having a horrible go of it, right, and we could
Speaker 1: agree that he was not doing well, but we couldn't
Speaker 1: agree exactly why. I felt like, you know, the guy,
Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't connected with the audience, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's just his confidence level were lower and and k
Speaker 1: double like now, he telling them boaring that story. Ain't
Speaker 1: get into the jokes. And we were going back and
Speaker 1: forth like that at the bar, and he finally looked
Speaker 1: at me with a menacing scowl and said, well, I've
Speaker 1: been doing it twenty years. When you're gonna get on
Speaker 1: stage since you know so much, I man, come on
Speaker 1: and stop playing you trick. And so I go back
Speaker 1: down and sit with my wife. He go up to
Speaker 1: the stage, get the mic from dude after he finished
Speaker 1: his sick And when you get the mic from dude,
Speaker 1: he said, all right, coming to the stage. Whether he
Speaker 1: know it or not, he put you on the spot
Speaker 1: life time for real, bro, you know. And and uh
Speaker 1: so I I you know, first I was just you know,
Speaker 1: trying to shine off and then you know, yeah, but
Speaker 1: you're crazy. You're crazy, next comedian, y'all come on quila,
Speaker 1: And they started clapping so loud, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I just had to think of something from the
Speaker 1: seat to the stage, and I went up there and
Speaker 1: really just talked about my day for real, right, talked
Speaker 1: about my day, got my first laugh, and I would
Speaker 1: hook you hook and I freestaff for like thirty five
Speaker 1: minutes and I get off stage and I see Kad.
Speaker 1: He like, man, you probably need to come back, and
Speaker 1: I sit down. I knew I did something right because
Speaker 1: my wife said, how did you do that? She's never
Speaker 1: impressed anything right, dude. Uh, And I've been I started
Speaker 1: doing it every day ever since. Man, and it's now
Speaker 1: fifty fifty four weeks in comedy right now. Your family,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the thing is that you document
Speaker 1: that you're not perfect. Your family is not perfect. You
Speaker 1: have issues like a lot of people have with your
Speaker 1: kids and you, you know, I think Keen, you's the
Speaker 1: one that that that's on social media to have a
Speaker 1: little issues right now that my twin and you like, bro,
Speaker 1: you know, I've done everything I possibly can. But something
Speaker 1: like my grandmother's to say, boy, you don't know how
Speaker 1: bad somebody head hurt until you bump your own. You
Speaker 1: digg what I'm saying, and so you like, he gonna
Speaker 1: have to find this out. I've told him the same
Speaker 1: role that he's doing. I've been down there. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to tell him to keep it from going down. I
Speaker 1: understand been down the road he was he because I've
Speaker 1: never had access to means yeah yeah, yeah, just kept
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I understand that he don't
Speaker 1: want to be like in talking to him because I
Speaker 1: have a you don't like being lectured to talk to her.
Speaker 1: Not really, just that I have an excellent communication with
Speaker 1: all my kids. I try to list as much as
Speaker 1: I speak to them, right, And his from his position there, man,
Speaker 1: I don't just wanna be celebrities kid like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to live off of y'all success. I don't wanna
Speaker 1: have to just be in y'all shadows. And he really,
Speaker 1: he really want to be kind of looked at as
Speaker 1: his own man, not just as his own man, but
Speaker 1: he he want to go through the different challenges and adversities.
Speaker 1: He want to be tested and be graded on his
Speaker 1: response to whatever his skill city is in that area.
Speaker 1: Not oh well he did he did bad because he
Speaker 1: ta oh he did good because he tight it tiny son, Right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. He he just really wanted,
Speaker 1: he wanted, he wanted, he want a clean slate. And
Speaker 1: I try to tell him, you'll never have that, son,
Speaker 1: You'll never have that because you know your dad and
Speaker 1: your mom can't give it back. You were born with it.
Speaker 1: You can't give it back. You mad with embrace exactly.
Speaker 1: And you know, but I love him and I understand
Speaker 1: he has a strong sense of marvel standards and integrity,
Speaker 1: a fabric that most people in his generation don't really
Speaker 1: necessarily carry with them, right, So I appreciate that. Try
Speaker 1: to take the good with the bad, and yet let
Speaker 1: him know, you go into prison if you keep it up.
Speaker 1: I don't wish it on him, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't wish it on him, And I love him
Speaker 1: through it. Whatever he going through, I love him through it.
Speaker 1: And I can't say he a great kid enough. But
Speaker 1: the media don't talk enough about the good poems, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. All they do is focus on
Speaker 1: the bad because they get them more clicks, right, And
Speaker 1: you know, I try to make him aware of that.
Speaker 1: And you know, when we're young, we kind of talk
Speaker 1: about things based on how we think they should it
Speaker 1: be right, rather than acknowledging them for how we know
Speaker 1: they are right. And I just try and you know,
Speaker 1: walk walk him through to get better every day though. Right.
Speaker 1: And another thing I'd like to say I want to
Speaker 1: say about about about King Right. Yes, as much criticism
Speaker 1: as I received about my son, I would like to
Speaker 1: share light on the fact we all got bad ass
Speaker 1: key that listen, don't they can seem like I'm the
Speaker 1: only one. I don't hear who got badass key? We
Speaker 1: all go through. You feel what I'm saying. If you
Speaker 1: ain't got no bad ass kids, you got one and
Speaker 1: you got lucky. You hit me. Anybody with three or
Speaker 1: more multiples, you got one that you don't know what
Speaker 1: to hear? You gonna do? You feel me? So I
Speaker 1: just wanted to take you just take the time to
Speaker 1: say that tea, you can you walk in the shoes
Speaker 1: or like what wire sail is going through? I mean
Speaker 1: I ain't going through, but you know you spend some
Speaker 1: time you know you was doing. You didn't get that Rico,
Speaker 1: You didn't get that Rico hit the put on you
Speaker 1: if you could offer them some advice, because what is
Speaker 1: what is art? And then what do you talk? Bro?
Speaker 1: You did that and now you singing about it? First
Speaker 1: of all, I take it when I make a point
Speaker 1: out to do and talk about nobody case, right, I
Speaker 1: don't talk about nobody case. Everybody got their own journey.
Speaker 1: Thugger happens to be somebody and then and deal in
Speaker 1: my hard right, you know what I'm saying. He one
Speaker 1: of the ones that really I have a very very
Speaker 1: very close connection with, and I hate to see him
Speaker 1: going through it cause I know how good it's hard.
Speaker 1: It is, right. I've seen him just be so selfless
Speaker 1: and think about nothing but about the other person, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I've seen them give give thousands
Speaker 1: two cats just to keep them out of trouble. I've
Speaker 1: seen them, you know, just just throw his his his
Speaker 1: his earnings to the community in such a way. I
Speaker 1: just hate to see him going through it, man. And
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. Just you know, keep
Speaker 1: your cheering up right, keep your chests out. Then remember
Speaker 1: you got people out here to love you. Because that's
Speaker 1: really the that's the truth, that's the true intention. Make
Speaker 1: people think that they locked in a dog hole, and
Speaker 1: you know they don't have no support, you know, like
Speaker 1: you cut off from the rest of the world, make
Speaker 1: you think like you're going through it by yourself. And
Speaker 1: I just made I just want to make sure that
Speaker 1: you know that he ain't going through it by myself,
Speaker 1: and he got people to still love him. One thing
Speaker 1: you're out of him been for real. Walker said something
Speaker 1: very interesting. He says, like, once you become somebody, you
Speaker 1: can't continue to try to prove that you still down
Speaker 1: from that neighborhood. That you can't wear like shooting dice
Speaker 1: and playing cards and going to do it all those
Speaker 1: things because you're not that same player, that same person
Speaker 1: that you weren't. You look at takeoff and it was
Speaker 1: looking a very unfortunate situation. They're rolling dice. I mean
Speaker 1: when when I mean, I mean, obviously you you're from
Speaker 1: bank here. First of all, I ain't seen him shooting
Speaker 1: no day. I ain't seen him shooting no day. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened, right, I wasn't the right So
Speaker 1: that's what we're being reported. But yeah I knew it.
Speaker 1: I knew it. But see that's the thing, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't see it, right, I just tried I to
Speaker 1: focus on what's important. Man. We lost the life of
Speaker 1: an I card, right, you know, and even more than that,
Speaker 1: a brother, a son, you know what I mean, uh uh,
Speaker 1: A nephew and and a valued member of the community.
Speaker 1: And I just want to celebrate his life, what he meant,
Speaker 1: his legacy. I don't want to get into no speculation,
Speaker 1: hopping in and out of opinions. On what should have
Speaker 1: it shouldn't have? Man, that ain't got nothing that that
Speaker 1: it to me, that's not even important once we're talking
Speaker 1: about the loss of life, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I just man. I feel for his family, I feel
Speaker 1: for his partners, I feel for i Offset, I feel
Speaker 1: for Quavo, I feel for Pe and Coach and everybody involved. Man,
Speaker 1: because I know what it was like. I didn't been
Speaker 1: in partner, I lost my partner. I didn't have had
Speaker 1: to come home and tell somebody, the family that they
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna make it back, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And immensely, immensely, I feel like that was that that
Speaker 1: was the beginning, That was the epiphany. With that that
Speaker 1: I wake into what that I opening moment for you.
Speaker 1: It was the furred domino, you feel me, It was
Speaker 1: the furred domino man. And I think because that led
Speaker 1: to the paranoia, the suspicion, and h the heavy heart
Speaker 1: that I had that caused me to make the decisions
Speaker 1: that led to my wrists and which led to you
Speaker 1: know the next part of my my my career. And
Speaker 1: in the next phase of decisions I would make, I
Speaker 1: know how traumatic and how how emotionally taxing it could be.
Speaker 1: So I just feel for everybody going through it, you know,
Speaker 1: And I just hope to be able to share whatever
Speaker 1: I could share it to help in any way I can.
Speaker 1: But I ain't. I just the number one way I
Speaker 1: it help and not add on, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I just ain't got hm but some positive energy
Speaker 1: and some good thoughts to to share to the world
Speaker 1: or they Oh boy, love and respect, appreciate the sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying. It flew back. It the tequila.
Speaker 1: The tequila had it fly back. You don't even look
Speaker 1: that much I had left, No No Shannon drunk all
Speaker 1: the hells all my life, the grinding all my life,
Speaker 1: psycri fice, hustle back price, wanna slice? Got the brotherer
Speaker 1: dice to swad all my life. I' been grinding all
Speaker 1: my life, all my life, the grinning all my life, Sacrifice,
Speaker 1: hustle back to price, right, wanna slice? Got the brother?
Speaker 1: Dice to sware all my life. I'll been grinding all
Speaker 1: my life.