WEBVTT - #525 - Nelly 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.040 Check check check. Yo, y'all know what it is. 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.600 It's your man, Nelly I and were rolling out right 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:06.160 here on the Bootleg Cavs Show. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.920 Hey, before we start the episode, we're gonna remind everybody, man, 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.240 we got one of the biggest radio shows in the country, 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.160 syndicated in almost one hundred cities all over. Shout out 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.200 to iHeartRadio. All right, some of the latest cities that 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.080 we've been able to add. Man, We want to give 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.080 a shout out to ninety three point nine to Beat 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.520 in Honolulu. That's right, Hawaii, we over there going crazy. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:27.639 I also want to give a shout out Hot ninety 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.400 eight three and Tucson. Shout out to Tucson going crazy. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.200 Also want to give a shout out to Wild ninety 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:36.240 four one in Tampa going crazy. We just got Richmond. 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.479 We also just got the good folks in Bakersfield at 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.760 Hot one O four to seven. So we're going crazy 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.680 on the radio with my partner James Andre Jefferson Junior 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.120 for the Bootleg cav Show. So make sure you tune 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.279 in and you can listen anywhere on. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:50.680 That iHeart Radio app. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:51.360 That's right. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:56.400 Let's get into the interview, all. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:57.560 Right, man, Bootleg cav show. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.200 We got a special guest, an absolute legend, Nelly is 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:01.760 in the building. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:02.840 What's up, Nelly Man? 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:03.440 How you doing? 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.160 I'm good, brother, I mean, I gotta tell you bro. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.440 First of all, Country Grammar was a very important album 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:09.040 in my life. 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.440 Thog, thank you congratulations. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.320 I know it's been twenty five years for a couple 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:14.960 of years were twenty seven years now. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.679 Well, the song actually came out in in ninety nine, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:21.200 but the album. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.160 Came out thousand. Album the album Right came out in 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:24.720 two thousand. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.399 But we are okay because I saw you it redropped 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:29.480 a couple of years ago. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:31.800 But so the song yeah. 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:36.759 And We're Crazy, the song nationally is dropped in ninety nine, 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.600 but the song locally was originally did in like ninety eight, 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.160 and then I re recorded it once we got the 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.720 deal with Universal Right, and then we put that out 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.200 in ninety nine, and then the album was in two thousand. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.240 So Country Gramma the song actually been out for a minute, yo. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.680 So the best part of the iHeart Awards for me 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.960 yesterday was seeing the Saint. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.160 Lunatics Whatch You Gonna Stay? 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:00.520 Man? 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.960 Which is so fire because Free Cities was by ship 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.040 Oh man, such a slept On album too. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.760 Thank you brother, thank you. Yeah. Man, those are my brothers, 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:11.200 you know. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:16.480 And it's crazy because me and City I always the 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.680 City is my little brothers. Say that, but that's why 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.639 I used to wear a band aid for obviously. But 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:27.040 Keywan and Murphy Lee or real brothers biologically you should 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.120 say that. And I've been knowing Murph and Keywan since 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.960 Murf was like eight years old and Keiwan was like 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:39.840 eleven twelve. So we grew up literally together, you know 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.280 what I mean, doing other shit, and we just didn't 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.519 know that music was going to be, you know, where we. 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.359 Would make our impact on the world. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.400 But man, when you got that family base, yeah, you 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:55.440 go through shit, right. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:56.760 I about to say it was good to see because 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.440 I know last year there was like, you know whatever, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:02:59.919 stories around, so it was good to see. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.920 When I saw that, I was like, hell yeah yeah. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.200 But it's I think, you know, it's it's sometimes confusion 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:12.080 because when you're going about things and you're not paying 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.840 attention to certain things, you have no idea what's happening, 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:21.320 you know, But then as you get older, you're assuming 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.600 what happened. But then when you find out, oh, man, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.800 that wasn't the case. Then It's easy. We just needed 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:27.960 to have a conversation to be. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.120 Like, bro, lack of communication. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.440 Bro, that's not what happened. This is actually how that went. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:37.960 And at the time, you know, Mirph was super young. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.520 He had just graduated from high school basically, or probably 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:41.160 about a year and. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:42.040 A half removed. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.280 And yeah, man, I mean, you know, things happened so 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.400 fast as well. I just we just needed to have 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.120 a conversation to and everything needed to be explained. But 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.520 at the end of the day, I love for one 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.320 another will never subside over business. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.120 I mean well always it would always. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:08.720 Yeah, yeah, were you and your wife's initial like like reuniting? 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:10.480 Was it at the versus? 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.520 This is the thing when I went to Versus, I 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.720 actually I had somebody with me right when I went 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:19.760 to when I what I'm. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.159 Saying, but you guys shared the stage, and you know, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.240 the internet was like oh ship at the same time I. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.520 Was, I didn't want it tints. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.000 And when I walked in, her mother has saw me, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.080 and I knew that Mom was gonna go back and 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.640 let her know that I was in the building. So 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.360 we was here to celebrate with these brothers two of 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.240 my cats, yep Joe and joh And to celebrate their music. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.520 So I didn't I didn't want a tints and we 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.120 didn't even talk. I just went over, you know, we 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.000 got the hug, rate, the eyes, and boom and we 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:57.160 didn't talk for probably another almost eight to nine months 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.760 to a year. We didn't have a conversation. That was 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.920 that And you know, but everything happens for a reason. 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.840 I think that's awesome. I think it's so dope. And 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.000 by the way, kudos to you guys figuring out how 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.360 to hide a wedding. How hard was that for that 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.159 not to get out until after it happened. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:18.360 Well, once I found out that, once we found out 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.479 that she was pregnant, it was just like, yeah, I 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.840 didn't want this to be. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.440 Not a I don't want to say like a child. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.599 We exactly Well, you guys are probably already planning, you know. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.200 Well, we hadn't talked about it. We hadn't talked about 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.640 any of that yet. I hadn't, you know, But I 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.479 was like, yo, you know what, let's just knock this 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.240 out because we're going to be doing so much and 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.200 everything's moving so fast, and I didn't want to yeah, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.720 I didn't want her to be, you know, a baby mama. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:53.719 I like, because we already knew where we were in life. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.120 And you know, if we're back like this, this must 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:58.960 be what this supposed to be. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:00.440 You know, I love it to be cares like. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.680 Sometimes people's timing is off, whether it's like points in 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.440 your life, doesn't mean it's the wrong person, but maybe 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.599 it's the wrong timing exactly. So you go through whatever 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.839 you go through, whatever she goes through. You guys evolved, 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.600 but you guys know each other yo, and love. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:15.040 Each other well. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.120 Any relationship, man, I based any relationship on does this 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.760 person bring more good to your life than bad? Any relationship. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.000 It could be your relationship with your parents, your kids, your. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.240 Homie, anything. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.400 Does this person bring more good to your life than bad? 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.920 And if they do, then great, you know what I mean. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.320 And then but if they don't, then you know that 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.320 you might need to remove this person from being able 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.119 to get some of your time. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.479 And that's what I think for me and her. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.680 After we got a chance to look and was like, Yo, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:46.760 a lot of the shit that we was bitching about 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:48.159 we cool. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.280 Yeah, for sure, I love it, man. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.279 We were way more happier than we thought being pissed off. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.160 Was how cool? Because I know it was a surprised 0:06:56.279 --> 0:07:00.640 that she introduced you. She had a dope speech for you. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.600 Man, I didn't know she was doing that. I had 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:03.080 no idea. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:04.880 I thought she was going to the seat because we 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.760 had just left the dressing room, and you know, she 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.359 was like, go killing bag, look okay, boom boom. She 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.280 was like, they're going to their seat. And then I'm 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:12.920 backstage and I got you know. 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.080 My ins and you hear her ins and I'm like, 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:16.960 I know that voice. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.800 And then I looked to the screen, I'm like, wow, wow, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.480 that got be like yeah, but it was dope, man, 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:24.239 it was dope. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.320 Yeah, that's my that's my baby. Man, she did a thing. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.920 I want to go back. You're one of the greatest 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.960 selling hip hop artists of all time. I feel like 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:38.440 you truly evolved the genre in a way that is 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.200 still her today. I don't think we get future. I 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:46.040 don't think we get some of these melodic artists without you. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.720 I mean, damn you. You influenced fifty in my opinion, 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.320 you know what I mean, Like, well. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.920 I think we all influence each other, right, So without 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:59.240 Celo without good soulful green, there's no there might not 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:00.680 be no Lelly without. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.000 Even both thugs back in the day arrested development. You 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:05.679 know what I'm saying. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:07.880 And you get a lot of you know a lot 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.280 of the people that are you know, melodic, and it's 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:14.080 about influence, because we all influence each other. So I'm 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.960 just happy that I can pass on inspiration and like 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.600 you're saying, make it so that it's it's it's not 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:22.240 hearing something. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.760 Irregular to be on the radio. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.640 And then you got brothers like t Pain and Acon 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.960 that just take that ship to a whole nother level, man, 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.000 because t Pain is. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.599 The goat, Like he's a goat man. He's one of 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.599 the most alien level talented people. Man. People don't realize 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:41.360 that guy. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.400 Damn that his mental his knowledge of music, the way 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.679 he can put ship together. Like you know, I grew 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.400 up in music my whole life. I'm not even the 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.440 first one in my family to even do a record. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.640 My uncle Rudy rest in Peace, did an album and 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.040 nineteen eighty eight, and he's the one who taught me about, 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.480 you know, just music in general, and how to count balls, 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.640 how to do certain things and I was in band. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.280 I did the drum line thing. Yeah, I played the 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.000 trumpet for a little bit and all of that. Even 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.120 when it was church, I was in the choir, the 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.199 kids choir. So music has always been around me. So 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.600 when you see somebody like pain and the things he's 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.839 able to capture, man, he's incredible. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:31.400 Do you feel like because when it comes to prolific runs, 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.839 I think of your run from Country Grammar to Sweatsuit. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:37.840 I mean the fact you're able to drop two albums 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.600 on the same day and they each went one and 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:44.560 two on the chart Nellyville in between that it's one 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.400 of the greatest runs in history. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:47.839 Thanks. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:49.840 Do you feel like you get your flowers? 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.520 When we talk about the goat conversation, I don't trop 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:53.200 off of it like that. 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:54.520 Yeah I don't. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.520 I literally don't like I talked shit with you if 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:01.280 you want talk, But because somebody else, I don't worry 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.760 about it. I always say, you know, long as they 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.000 they can put my flowers on my grad you know 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.200 what I'm saying, And that's cool with me because my 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:14.240 job is first is the fathers, the husband is the 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.559 you know what I'm saying is protecting and providing and 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.880 setting changing the course of what my family was doing 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.160 because I was blessed to be in that position. 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:25.280 So that's what I care about. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:26.400 First. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.960 If it comes, it comes, and I feel like a 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.080 lot of times it may not be the right time. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.520 Like we talked about timing, Everything is timing, you know 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.440 what I mean. Like sometimes you got to look back 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:44.560 to understand what somebody like a Terrell Owens did or 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.760 meant to the league, or what a Randy Moss meant 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.040 to the league, because you know, when they're doing it, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.520 it could be little things that make you overlook them 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.640 for some reason. But then when you think about the 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.920 game and you go back and you be like, damn, 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.880 Doe was beasted, you know what I'm saying. So if 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.839 that happens like that, then that's that's cool. And from 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.880 where I'm from, we used to getting over look, like 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:09.040 from Saint Louis. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.320 I'm somewhere like Saint Louis. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.280 Yeah, I mean for people you cut that light off 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:18.480 for quick head, it keeps blinking. That's fine, speaking of 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.280 Saint Louis. Saint Louis recently obviously, it's it's it's been 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:23.520 in the neuce for the wrong reasons. It's one of 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.600 the most dangerous places in America, if not the most 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:26.640 dangerous place in America. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.920 You know, country Grammar. While it was Ride with Me 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.320 and a lot of hits on there, it was also 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.160 a lot of street ship on there. Still the show 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:35.720 was on there. 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.840 You know, what point in time did you realize, because 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.640 I feel like you had a real conscientious effort to 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.480 be like, you know what, I'm I don't want to 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:50.360 limit myself in this box. You had to, you know, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.080 I mean the come up was quick, but I feel 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.080 like you have like a real conscientious effort to try 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.400 to kind of like make sure you weren't just stuck 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.480 in a box there that immediately or was it like, oh, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.560 we got something here and then some of the pop 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.000 looks started coming in and. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:10.040 Period like, but I didn't understand the whole thing of pop. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:11.560 It wasn't like I was trying to go pop. I 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.280 just did the records, and you know that's what That's 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.440 what the label does. That's their expertise of saying, Yo, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.440 this can play her, this can work her, and this 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.560 can work there. It's not like I'm going into the 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.319 studio make a pop head. I don't know how to 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:24.959 fucking do that. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:26.440 I don't know. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.760 I just go in there and if I hear a beat, 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.679 I like, I'm gonna do what I can do on 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.360 that beat. Now, I grew up hustling anyway, and you 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.760 know when you hustle as you always trying to keep 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.600 a door open. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.600 But obviously I've. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.600 Sold drugs, but I've sold every ding. I sold burnout phones, 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.720 I sold T shirts. I said, you know, could whatever 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.800 it's in demand, That's where I was putting the energy. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.760 And it wasn't no different with this music because I 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.880 feel like, yo, if I can get it, hit her, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.440 get it hit her, get it, get hit to her. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.559 Because if you look at all the songs, none of 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.079 them sound the like Country Grandma. Don't sound like e 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.240 I Yeah, don't sound like batter Up, batter Up, don't 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.560 sound like they're all different. Man with Me, don't sound 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.280 like Hot in here, Hot Sure, don't sound. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.080 Like Dilemma number one sounds different. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:16.640 Yeah, one, Air Force one, Yep, Pimp Juice, Grills, on 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:17.160 and on and on. 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.719 Yeah, justin Dream, all of that ship is different. None 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:24.200 of those songs. Another slept On, Classic bad Boys Too soundtrack. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.160 None of those songs sound alike. 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.920 And when you are able to have that type of options, 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.400 you know what I'm saying, you can always find an outlet. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:33.800 I feel. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:38.120 Yeah, have you heard the Playboy Cardi album? He sampled 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.960 Ashanti's Only You record? Have you heard the song? No, 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.440 I haven't, but I heard that he did. It's it's 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.200 crazy because to me, that's one of the best beats, 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.240 like ever, like that beat his fucking insane shout to 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.480 your girl because that song's crazy. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.079 But yeah, like he did it. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.559 At Rolling Loud And when I tell you like crazy, 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:55.720 the place exploded. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:57.280 It was it was crazy. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:02.240 Yeah, it was yeah, man, Yeah, she's you know, I'm 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:03.280 a fan of my wife. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.080 Would you and your wife ever do like a Jay 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.400 and Bay type of album? 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:14.680 I think if it organically comes, if like if we're working, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.079 we're doing songs in the studio and we start putting 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.200 the pieces together and it comes like that, I think 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.120 definitely possibilities. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.040 We do a lot of shows together as well. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:26.240 For sure. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:27.920 Yeah, you guys are in a lot of shows together anyway, 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.880 because like if you're going to book a dope show, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.880 like for guys like me. 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:39.960 I mean it's even we even discussing potential residencies in 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:45.280 Vegas together and things like that. We're trying to you know, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.240 the options are there. We're just trying to make sure 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:50.480 things are what they need to do. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:51.520 I always wonder this. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.120 I feel like from a fan's perspective, there was always 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.640 like a like it was. It was probably made up 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.120 by by me and my friends, but I always felt 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.440 like this like rivalry between you and Ludacris, because you 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.240 guys were very simultaneously like cracking at the same time. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.480 Legend. And then he ended up but he ended up 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.000 signing Chingy from your city. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.960 Well yeah, him and but more so Shaka, right, more 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:18.680 so more so Shaka. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.800 But it wasn't a here's the thing. I was happy 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:23.480 for Chingy. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.920 It was other people that was in the in the mix, 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.680 that was in. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:29.240 Your on your side. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:30.280 Yeah, yeah, that. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:35.160 Was manipulating the situation because they weren't a part of 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.480 what's going on. And because me and Chinky was cool, 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.400 Chingy was cool with all of the tics. If you 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.960 look at that video, Keywan and Murph is in that video, right, 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:45.840 you know what I'm saying. I didn't really have a 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.640 problem because I told CHINGI yo, bro, I got to 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.600 put out MRF like murf is my is my focus 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.160 right now, and I would never knock. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.800 So he went on and ran with that and. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:58.520 Had a good run. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.280 Man, are you crazy? That's that's that's another one of 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.840 my little billows. Man, he's actually going on tour with us. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.280 Yeah, I mean, dude, Kingi's got records. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.560 Yeah, Man, Saint Louis got put on the map that 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:09.600 around that time on. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:10.640 One hundred huge way. 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.080 Man, you were just I know you met Sexy Read 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.800 last night, but I saw you guys just chop it 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.480 up in the other room in there. How cool is 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.000 it to see, like, first of all, Saint Louis have 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.360 somebody like Sexy Red. That's like on the fourth floort 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.640 of pop culture right now. She got a big record 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.520 with Bruno Mars. Like now, Saint Louis is known for 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.680 because it's Nellyville, but it's Sexyville kind of too right now. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.520 I mean, you know she's she's doing the thing. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.720 Man. You're just so happy for her because she's honesty. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.440 Whether you you know some people you may agree, you 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.760 may not agree, but the thing about it is you're 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:47.800 not You will never say she isn't real. She's honest 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.920 and coming from where she's come from, and she's she's 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.640 feeding a lot of people from where she is, and 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.160 she's also appealing to fans all around the world and 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.560 people who accept her for who she is. And you 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.560 always want that for anybody, man. And like I said, again, 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.040 that's our little system. And it's our little system I'm 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:07.960 talking about Saint Louis. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.000 Yeah, we hold we we hold. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.920 Littles down and she's she's doing a great job. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.639 What I used to have some Vocal obviously back in 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.000 the day, Back in the day, they used to be 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:20.960 at Burlington co Factory going crazy. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:22.840 Yeah. 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.040 When it comes to fashion, dog like the band Aid 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:27.640 vocal clothing. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:28.960 The backwards jerseys. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.320 I mean you had your fingerprints all throughout, just like 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.320 fashion trends for real, Like when you go to these. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.159 Two thousands parties, people be dressing like, yeah. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.920 Well, I was always told, man, you're you haven't made 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.840 it until you're a costume, until until somebody's dressing up 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.920 like you on Halloween, and you know that's what and 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.760 then Nelly costume, that's when you know, Yeah, man, everybody 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.320 had their own stamp on it. So I mean, yeah, 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.800 I mean, you're thankful, bro, You're grateful and. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.000 You've touched a lot of people. So that's what that's 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.000 what being an artist is. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:01.320 Talk to me about. 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.119 Uh, you know, over the years, man, you know, country 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.280 music has obviously become more pop culture than ever, but 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.119 you were the first person in hip hop to step 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.080 into that genre with Tim McGraw over and over obviously 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.800 huge record. But now you see guys like, you know, 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.400 my brother Jelly Roll, who was a rapper for years 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.399