WEBVTT - Episode 163 w/ Birdman 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:16.880 And his Drink Chas motherfucking podcast. He's a legendary Queen's rapper. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.279 He's agree is your Boy in o R. He's a 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.200 Miami hip hop pioneer. Up his dj e FN together 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.360 they drinking up with some of the biggest players in 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.880 the most professional, unprofessional podcast and yet number one source 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.400 for drunk drink chas motherfucking every day is New Year's Eve. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:45.320 That's time for drink champs. Trick up mother mother? Would 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.040 it good? Be hoping? Would it should be? This is 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.159 your boy in O R? What up is d j 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.520 e F and this drink Chance motherfucking happy our Max something. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.160 And when we started this show, we said we wondered 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.680 interview lets. We wanted to interview people that's in this 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.680 game ten years and more, that's making the mark, and 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.880 that's standing here when I'm still looking in front of 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.600 his brother right here. He is one of the most 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:14.000 remarkable CEOs. He has changed so many people from the hoods, lives, 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.880 made the millionaires, made them stars. Right now at the 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.720 three hottest people in the world still signed to him 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.320 right now, going through a couple of different decades, had 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.560 the original cash money and then now that everything that's 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.120 going on in case you don't know where then were 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:40.280 told ab that now you you were like the cash 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:45.679 money period, were like the inventors of like being independent definitely, 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.720 So how did how did how did you guys go 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.440 from like, you know, being in New Orleans being independent 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.000 and to you know, universe who getting wind of you 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.520 guys and then coming on and the difference between independence 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.080 before you guys, like the Ruthless records and the records, 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.320 but what was the difference from them to you guys. 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.000 I kind of studied all the guys who did it 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.880 before me, but just to bring you to the essence 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.120 of where I come from, how we come up, Um, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.440 you know, just growing up in the boys home and 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.920 you know, just being in the streets of my life. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.120 You know, we lost a lot. So I just felt 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.919 like when the university approached us, I was already five 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.440 six years independent, and I felt like we had blood 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.359 on this money already. So I refused to give up anything. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.560 You know, I was a young man and that was 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.600 my mentality to that. You know, Um, it wasn't about 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.440 the money. It was about me being able to own 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.959 my ship. And I just felt like we lost so 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.720 much the gang so little, so none of that ship 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.040 even didn't even matter to me. That's what it is, 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.200 That's what it's gonna be. If not, I could continue 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.480 doing what I was doing because I was making millions 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.840 of dollars a month anyway, So when I went up 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.960 to the New York to visit with whoever we were 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.359 gonna visit with, it was gonna be my way or 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.960 no way. I will no way. Per Wow, how did 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.640 you develop that mentality? Because so many people at the time, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.560 um baby was they were getting advances and they were 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.000 happy with that and going something, you know, a couple 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.239 of a couple of cars and sneak. How did you 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.280 see the bigger picture? Now everybody wants to be black, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.040 But she was doing this ship And when summers Ago 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.400 trying to say I came in the game, it was 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.359 just like I just felt like, you know, but I 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.280 lost so much, but I lost standing my whole family, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.400 and then much of my partners and all the niggas 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.360 to me died to see me be successful or see 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.160 us be successful. So I felt like, how could I 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.840 give somebody something that they didn't work hard for? Man? 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:52.280 That me was, how can I give anything up that 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.960 people died for So I went up. There was that 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.200 mentality and and there was gonna be that or nothing. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.360 He wasn't hurt you for the money. We was already 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.040 making millions of dollars a month. It wasn't about the money. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:08.360 I still wanted up great deal harder than that, because, um, 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.040 in the beginning, you know, hip hop was in the 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.680 East Coast and didn't win West Coast and didn't went south. 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.920 But even when it went south to the wild for 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.840 it to calm to Louisiana, you understand, I'm saying, So 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.920 how hard was that? Even when it went it kind 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.360 of like went to Texas first, and so how hard 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:24.960 was it? You got to see the ghetto boys? You 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.680 got to see them. Yeah, I was inspired through all that. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:32.400 Button New Orleans always had a culture, right. We was 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.440 able to about a week move and do what we do. 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:41.200 Drew out Old New Orleans, Texas, Atlanta, throughout the South 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.640 Alabama on the area. So for us, we were still 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.080 generating a lot of money, and it just we were 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.400 putting out a lot of music every month. So once 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.840 I got the hustle of it, and it was spreading. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.480 So you know, back in them days, you had to 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.440 do it from the turf. You had to be in 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.240 the ghetto with that ship, every neighborhood, every project in America. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.880 We didn't been in the motherfucker. So for me and 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.560 for us, we were just trying to really just get 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.280 out together, all right. And I found the house of 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.360 which was music, and we just stuck with it, kept it. Pemper, 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.320 who God damn you got that? You still know the 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.640 open up thame? You know it's a classic way of 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.720 open up champ and we don't gotta do it around 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.960 hood niggas. You you pressed down on it and you 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.880 open it up. It's no, you're just going right behind me. 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:30.520 Get my fucking yea man, you know things something bad. Brother, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.720 You're gonna get your life together. You know you come 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.600 up in this exactly. Yo, let me just tell you 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:41.320 something burn man. Yeah, Ever since my accounts with you. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:42.560 This is why I was important for me to do 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.960 this interview, because my account is with you. You're a 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.960 man of your word. If you tell me, yo, I'm 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.719 gonna do something. We have always did it. They want 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.200 day one and I got I gotta give this out. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.120 A lot of times I see people, you know, go 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.160 on the internet, their opinions, and their opinions is their opinions. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.720 I don't you know that's them. But I gotta speak 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:06.120 up for you. You know what I'm saying. I gotta 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.640 speak up for you. If every encounter with me for 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.520 twenty two years has been pleasant, it's been real nigger ship. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.560 I gotta stand by that. You know what I'm saying. 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.880 I can't sit around and just you know what I'm saying. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:18.760 Um see all the chip, let me get some a 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.920 little bit more. You ain't drinking champaign right now? You 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.040 got your own right, You guys got damn all right? 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.680 All right? Cool? And I brought you that bot so 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.440 I ain't gonna lie. I'm putting that in the crib. 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.360 I ain't gonna lie. I'm burman putting that in the crib, man, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:36.320 like I got these things here. Man, I'll deserve that bird. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:43.279 I I only deserved that the trenches. Yes right, let 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.120 me let me keep you, let me keep bigging you up. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.360 So I'm gonna tell you what happened. I went to 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.800 New Orleans and I was trying to I was trying 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:57.000 to get a record from Master Pier right, and remember 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.920 what this was like ninety seven of something fresh off 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.600 of Wordport or fresh off War Report and all is 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.200 not no, no, no, this is after and all because 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.680 the band. I remember, I was out there, some girl 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.840 said you gotta fucker cash money and I ain't here 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.040 niggas yet, So I was like what And she had 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:18.800 put me on the Juvenile. I think it was four 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.920 hundred degrees before the Um the hot, this before the 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.000 hot record, and I was motherfucking cash money down at 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.240 that moment. So then we I didn't find linked up 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.000 with you on the melbn Front album in New York, 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.560 and you told me I had just wanted Juvenile at 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.840 the time. You said, Nah, this little nigger right here, 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.760 it's gonna be the biggest thing in the game a 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:50.480 little little more. To be honest, he was shot back then. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.800 You don't remember he was he he he used to talk. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.560 So when I left, I just trusted you and I 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.000 believed you. And if if you remember that record, I 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.160 let little Wayne go first. You know what I'm saying. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.400 But you told me that years ago when juven I 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.280 was the hottest in the game. You how do how 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.800 do you develop? How do you developed? Foresight? And seeing 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.240 talent like that, I just think it's one of my gifts. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.560 You know, I can see that ship before they see 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.160 it in their selfs and and I believe in it, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.720 and I give my all to it, and then we 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.880 ride with it until we make it happen. That this 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.640 doesn't mean that it's gonna happen fast. And everybody, we 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.120 didn't come up in the social media era and you 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.560 had to do that ship in a different way. But 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.319 I think it's just one of my gifts, burning always, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.319 and I believe in it. If I feel it, I'm 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.400 going with it. I ain't gonna think twice about it. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.280 And I think one of my blessings I was was 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.440 an artist and I noticed how artists thinking. But they 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.800 need to paint how they paint their picture. And I 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.520 love the nigga through their thing and I get out 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:55.520 the way right, Um, now you're in juvenile they're doing 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.640 an album together. Now come back? So how how how 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.000 did that kind of come about? Drew it all? Man? Now? 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.760 Just stayed in touch, right And I just personally feel 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:10.360 like Julie, he's a nigger that's boring the rap It 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.120 really can wrap right man? Um? And I wanted to 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:18.319 you know, Juwish signed to Cash Money Runny now. Um, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.360 I just felt like, for now, it's a great way 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:24.960 to bring you back. I don't want to just throw 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.280 you out there because I think he got so much 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:31.439 to offer, and Towny wise, he a bad motherfucker. So 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.679 I thought this would be a great way. Let him 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.200 do this and then go do his thing, because um 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.040 he definitely boring the rap and he's gonna he's gonna 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.280 impress a lot of motherfucker's with this project and with 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.480 future projects that we're gonna do together. Julie a bad 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:49.360 motherfucker now, But you got right now presently you have 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.520 one of the number one records in the world, Bust 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:59.680 Down Tope, that's on Cash Money West. You can't stop. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:05.800 They got there, keep here here. So so so because 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.439 obviously you know from your affiliation, we see you know 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.920 whack who's where it's red, you wear red. How how 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.040 does someone come to you and say, this is a 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:19.360 young brother, I believe he's crib and does that make 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:24.920 a decision and or so it's about pure talent. What 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.120 Man and me was, um Man Wag always had a relationship. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.000 It started with the big thing you me going to 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:37.880 Caligora and I moved to California, and I say, you 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.280 know my love for music, I won't go over there 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.920 and start a vibe. Let's get a vibe going. So 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.840 I hit whack and say let's start cash money West. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.160 I want you to run the whole. You'll be the current. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.719 You do your thing, and you're from the turf. And 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.960 just to make the artist feel cool, I got one 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.079 of their own and represent what we're doing. And we 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.480 put the play together and Blue Face and Young Savages 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.760 the first two artists we signed from sim w wow wow. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.840 Blue Face is taken off. He took off, took off, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.920 make some noise of blue paper. I think I think 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.120 that's dope too, because um see us, you know, on 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.400 the East Coast, we grew up just thinking like when 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.559 the blood she's a cript, it's automatic, you know what 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.439 I'm saying. And nowadays it's it's it's it's it's more 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.920 like about the green Man. You know, I'm an old 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.600 head in this game. I ain't tripping and Young got talent. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.280 We're gonna do it well. That brol was the blueprint 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.959 of that as well. You know what I forgot about that. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:38.240 I forgot that Shi was actually you know, that was 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.960 a fact savvy and blue Face, both on crips both, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.319 But do you ever get slapping from like the like 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.520 the blue Bloods come back to us. I mean, we're 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.240 just looking for talent. I ain't man ship. We're trying 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.599 to make money. I ain't with the bullshit, man, I 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.840 ain't trying to be tied to the bullshit and heard. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.360 All we want to do is make money and do 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.640 great business with these youngsters and keep them, keep building 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.200 brands and turning them into millions, hunting millions into buildings. 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.599 That's the whole place. So when you're thinking like that, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.400 you ain't even got time for the small talk that boyshit. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.640 We're just trying to take this young man and make 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.040 him as successful as possible, build him to be as 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:18.559 big as possible. That's all that matter. Only got that 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:23.160 makes it looks for that got. I was your man name, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.000 the king, the King of r and B was his name. 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:33.000 What's up? He had hit a young man. I've been 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.400 working with Jock quis Folk going on five years, and 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.079 they one I saw start them in it. I just 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.719 you know, it's a process in this ship, you know. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.559 And I stuck when we believed in him, and I 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.880 think right now twenty nineteen. This is your for all 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.120 the hard work he put it in. Your great young man, 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.040 come from a great family, and I think he's gonna 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.319 be one of the best for a long time. And 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.160 not just saying in there because he with me, because 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.800 he's talented, He right, he can, right, he's going there. 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.079 You know, young niggas doing five, six, ten songs a day. Man, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.400 they're really chopping it down. So for me with him, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.160 I'm gonna work with him and we're gonna hustle real hard. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.800 He got his own company that I embrace called f 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.760 y B with his own artists. His single of his 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.400 new album come out on the twenty second, then his 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.880 album coming out either April or maybe whenever he choose 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.360 to drop it. But I really expect a lot of 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.520 big things out there, young man. And it's gonna be 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.960 the year and the turn to print. And we believed 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.080 in him day one, and we're gonna continue to believe 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.200 him and let him paint his pitch and do it thing. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.520 Is it safe to say games Game album will be 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.480 on Cash Money West? Say that again? Is it safe 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.440 to say the game I will be in? A game 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.280 is managed by running cash Money or West? Game is 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.760 one of my closest friends. I really like Game and 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.319 if I ever got a chance, as ever got a 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.040 chance to work with Game, trust me, it's gonna happen. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.679 So that's like almost, that's like maybe like I got 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:13.800 a chance because I think he's you could put a 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:19.320 game in a boat with the bang the Ken drew 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.000 a little drakes. This man is a real That's what 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.200 we said. This nigga boring the route. You got a 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.200 few niggas really boring the route. We kind of felt 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.440 like Game was was was super dope, but we felt 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.160 like he didn't need to take the certain tactics that 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.000 he was taking this route around like with the Kanye ding. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.040 We didn't agree with that because we dropped that game. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.480 It's too nice for that, Like he's too good and 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.280 literally he could get to that same my partner of 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.080 embracing let me do whatever the Funky wanted however he 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.000 wanted to do it. But I believe in this talent 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.960 and I'm gonna bring my expertise to the table. What 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:55.960 would I bring the table? I come with power with 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.040 this ship, and um, I think he's a superstar. Have 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:01.800 you have a dealt with something like that? Like where 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.600 um artist was gonna talk about artist that you may 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.520 be cool with, like you know, like like if it 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.440 was cool with Kanye and Game when that Kanye's wife, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.120 Have you ever been in the ball or something like that. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.400 We wanted to atom change something or something like that. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:19.200 You got other nigga business. Ain't minds alight, But I 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:23.640 got enough of the main got going on. That's on them, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.400 But I got nothing to say about it. They get 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.520 it out, they live, doug with it, whatever they want 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:29.800 to do with it. Fuck it, just leave it over there. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:39.760 Ain't got So in the beginning, there was a cash 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.160 money rough ride of tour DN widing my partner Swiss 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.240 on them as we grew up together in this game, 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.360 you just spick them up of respect. But I'm not 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.040 gonna lie to you. No one thought that tour was 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.720 gonna survive. That was you know, I'm about even like 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.280 the openers was killings, like everybody was just that fit. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.000 The cent opened up, that was he was the opening. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.560 That's what I forgot. I got sold out the fifty. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.520 That's one of my one of my close friends. Okay, okay, 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.360 so how how was that? How was cause what was 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.080 because you know again at the time, New York was 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.640 running ship so much that like they didn't really acknowledge 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.600 other places. But this is you, motherfucker's is the hottest 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.960 people on the motherfucking planet. How did that? You know? 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.160 Not only New York embracing you, but the world somewhere 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.120 looking at you know, New Orleans from here on that. 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.160 I hon't sleep, bro. We was young, and we didn't 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:35.080 give a fun. We were just young, excited to be 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.360 out of the project. I used to have a bus 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.080 with at least a hundred with me. My whole neighborhood 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.040 was whatever. So we wasn't already tuned into what we 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.720 was doing. We were just happened to be out together 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.480 making money and we could buy our mom's houses and cars. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.160 We wasn't tuned into after all, that ship. So like, 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.920 now let's take you know, we're gonna take this ship 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.240 serious and get jigged with it. Let's see that we 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.159 can make a hunting million, a couple of hundreds of 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.200 billion dollars in this ship. But when we was doing 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.040 them towards we were just running around having fun getting money, 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:16.719 not really the stores, popping chap We were just enjoying 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.440 that ship, just to be you're just like a dream 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.160 come true because the ship happened at a real young 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.680 age for all of us. But when we got all 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.800 that money like that nigga thought they was dreaming. Facts, 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.680 how old when you got the deal of just signed 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.800 my deal? I probably was nineteen making twenty. Why ain't 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.720 I've been playing with millions of dollars since there was 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:44.679 thirteen fourteen years old. Man, So we grew up in business, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.680 they've been. I've been with Universal twenty three years and 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.760 I was seven years independently before that. So you know, 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.119 it ship been like we grew our life up in 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.600 the music business and at a young age playing with 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:04.400 a lot of money. Wow. Wow that that that sucked 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.600 me up. Just now, that that sucked me up. So 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.800 at some point, right it looked at like like Juvenile 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.480 had laughed or turk Cat laugh for me he had left. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:19.080 It looked like it was just you, Manny and Wayne. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.200 At one point Did you have any doubt? You know, 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.000 because at the time Wayne was not the man, definitely, 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.560 and I remember him like somewhat put in cash money 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.119 on his back. But again that was like, you know, 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.359 it's like your son, So are you thinking like this 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:37.960 is the one or that I'm thinking this is the 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.280 one because this is my son. When all that ship 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:45.760 took place, bro um kind of fun with me because 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.440 I never thought it could have meeting people like you know, 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.200 we just go separate North hard, we come up and 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.880 we really started with nothing and not blessed. I gave 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.640 my life to this ship, and I honestly gotta put 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.560 my everything online. If I was gonna die, I was 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.560 gonna die, but I had to kill. I was gonna 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.679 whatever had to be done. I was with that ship. Um. 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.840 So when it did happen the same day, having Wayne 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.520 came to me like, because I was in my feelings 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.880 about this ship, like y'all niggas know what it is. Nigga, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.600 y'all know what it is. Y'all know what it is. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.320 He was like, Man, fuck them niggas. Man, I'm better 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.280 than all them niggas together. Anyway, that ship woke me up. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.639 I said, you know what, right, the nigga, let's go. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.760 And that ship turned me up. When you never looked back, 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.600 and what's the first record when you've seen, like from 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.200 that moment that you've seen Rain performed. He was like, 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.320 I just think it was right, and he right, he 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:43.600 was dropping mixtapes when I went to a show and 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.399 I'm thinking of the words now I'm just peeping him. 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.880 I'm just peeping him because I'm used to always being 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.880 on stage with him. So he was like, I got 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.560 this tonight, you chill, I want you to watch me. Wow. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.240 When I saw that ship, I was like, let's go. 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.240 I knew he had it, always knew he had at it. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.080 But honestly, you know, with all the love and respect 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:08.240 um situations diversity and make a man be a man 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.439 and make you stand and losing them man man waynet 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.240 just go harder. And there was situations. So it really 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.640 turned him into a monster because at first he had 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.240 the build monster, but when they left, he was gonna 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.480 eventually be who was gonna be. But the leaving ship 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.560 made a nigger just be more creative and do their 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.159 own thing. And one thing about cash money was like 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:36.919 um uh, like you said, he was influenced by Jay Prince, 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:41.920 like I seen y'all was influenced by excuse me, excuse me. 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.359 I was thinking he was in ghetto boys because me, 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:48.399 but um, you guys always somewhat did your own thing, 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.440 Like when we see you'll come out with the helicopters. 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.000 They think it's we're thinking like that because like helicopters 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:57.480 and um what what developed that was? It was? Was? Was? 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.479 Was it because they had other people who popping from 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:04.920 New Orleans like competition just our early days. But I 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:08.480 would just painting my life in our ether day. All 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.560 that ship was me just saying, fucking this is how 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.400 I'm living. That's what we're doing. Is how we're tuk 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.200 them with it. We're gonna get helicopters, all kind of 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:21.400 ships and puts in. But that was just a fantasy. 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.760 And Nigga head as a kid just want to live 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.399 life a certain weight. And I put that ship and 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.280 turned in into reality. Ever you ever thought it would 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:35.800 be this big though you you you have expectations, but 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.480 when you live in it, it's something totally different. In 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:42.080 our first expectation was just getting out together and then 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.480 as you live in you know, every day of life 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.879 is as an experience because I never lived life like this. 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:50.359 You know. I mean, I come from the slums with 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.119 this ship. So any one of these all this is 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.920 they come from the slums too. So every day of 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.440 life is an experience because Nigga never lived life like this. 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.400