WEBVTT - French Montana Interview 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:05.840 Wake up in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:09.680 DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the Guy. We are the 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.840 Breakfast Club. We got a special guests in the building. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:16.720 It feels like it's been like a decade since you've 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.239 been up here. For real, on, guy, it's been a 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.040 long time. What's been going on with you? French Man? Working, working, 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.360 staying out the way acting music. Yeah, yeah, just finished this, 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.440 finish this project. Getting ready to drive today, you know. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.800 So that's about it, just staying out the way. You're 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.360 back into because you know, you gave up liquor, you 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.600 gave up that life. Yeah, you still gave it up. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:45.240 Are you still away from that? I'm still drunking high 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.880 from from from before. Yeah, I'm still drunk high Friday 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.199 something something someone loose. But yeah, but you know I 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:53.840 had to. My body couldn't take them while I did it, 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.400 I couldn't take them one. I think that's like, you know, 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:58.680 you know, I just took a little break trying to 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.000 get something real, some real money got you. Did you 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.480 feel better now that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, for a million 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.000 times better. You know. I feel I feel that, you know, 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.760 I feel the accomplishments I feel the losses. I feel everything, 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.200 you know, at one hundred percent back then, you know, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.560 you just anything happening. You know, we're celebrating every day. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:14.800 You just take a shot to go to the next 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.240 celebration for the next up. Yeah, especially like in LA 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.600 and New York, because like every day somebody is celebrating 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.120 something every day. You know, you'll come through here. You know, 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.880 I just dropped my cologne. Come through here. I just 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.200 dropped my water, you know what I'm saying. So it 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.600 was back to back, So you haven't slipped up at all. Nah, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.480 that's good. That's amazing testament to willpower. I saw you 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.240 a celebrating your album released with our mayor Eric Adams. 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.640 Shot Yeah, shot the Mayor Eric Adams. I think I'm 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.679 the first one in New York to ever have the 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.720 mayor come to the album listening to party. I wouldn't 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.480 have to second that. I think so too. I haven't 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:50.920 heard a si thing. But he also has to been 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.240 mayor that long either any mayor. He's the mayor of 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.920 New York City. Shot the Eric. You know what I'm saying. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:02.000 He's you know, he's he's a cool dude, man, He's 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.440 and he's trying to make a difference, you know what 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.840 I'm saying, and um, and you know, just just for 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.239 everything that he's been doing so far and just having 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.320 like the right people, you know what I'm saying, and 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.160 supporting the right people that influenced the the youth. I 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.600 think that's very important. Did you tell to him about 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.560 not using lyrics to indict people? Yeah, definitely definitely brought 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.840 that up, he said. He I mean, he said he's 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.880 gonna make everything, you know, I mean, he's one of us, 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:29.840 you know what I'm saying, He's one of us. So 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.120 he's definitely trying to, you know, try trying to help 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.119 the kids. Here's want to make sure that the kids 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.160 is not going to do the same thing again. Now, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.600 are you still sign a bad Boy? No? No, no, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.160 no notice on the bad Boy? You just I mean, 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:41.960 I'm sure your contract was something you just I think 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:48.600 I'm the first one to complete a contract with bad Boy. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.880 Shot the puff Man, Shot the puff He was definitely, 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.760 you know, a mentor. He's still a big brother. Love 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.639 him to death. Now, No, I said, I think it 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.360 was in the Blue Chail song you said that you 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.320 passed up that beef with Did he and Drake. Um, 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.880 I think I think it was. It was something going on, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.280 Like I didn't really know exactly the details of it, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.080 but I know, Um, I had a birthday party that 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.400 Iggy is earlier two for me on a boat and um, 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.320 when I got there, Drake was there waiting for me, 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.360 and and Puff Hack came in his own little boat 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.040 and that was the first time they met. Um after 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.600 it was going to Yeah, but I was already talking 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.160 to Puff before that. I was like, whatever y'all got 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:27.959 going on, y'all need to that that. You know what 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.840 I'm saying. They're both like my best friends, so I'm like, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:32.840 y'all need to det that. So I'm glad that they 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.600 didn't even know that each other was coming to the 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.800 party when they came to just spent the whole night 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:38.320 talking to each other. And I was like, see, like 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:39.880 you know what I mean. I think that's better anyway, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.720 because when when you're planning to meet somebody, yeah, a 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.360 bunch of people, but if it's just a night out, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:45.600 you might come in one or two and then you 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.240 could actually have a conversation without people around you. Yeah, 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.000 I didn't tell Drake Puff was gonna be there, and 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:51.760 I didn't tell puff Drake was gonna be there. So 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:53.960 I waited until they got there, and you know, and 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.120 there was and it was good, you know, good friends 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.840 before that. So when they got there, they just sat 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.400 down and they just you know, spoke the whole night. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.720 And I'm like, you see, that was best friends to 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.200 start with. And as you squatch a lot of your 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.839 beefs that you've had it and throughout the last couple 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.400 of years, because it was with a gym and cam 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.240 and fifty and so why do you think you had 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.880 to do that? Now? Was you just over it or 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:16.960 what made you say, you know what, let's just let 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.640 it go. Um. You know, it's just like when you 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.159 beefing or you feel handicap, you can't hand do nothing. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.960 You can't you know, you can't move here, you can't 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:26.840 do this. It's like you feel like, you know, you 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:28.760 stuck to a little space. And I'm saying I wanted 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.920 to expand autumn beefed my whole career since you know me, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.279 since you know me, I've been beefing whatever these kids 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.640 is doing, whatever's going on, I don't did it. I 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.080 don't ran circles around it. I didn't did it. Ten times, 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.680 you know what I'm saying. So, so I know what 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.480 beef could bring you. But then I know what talent 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:52.040 and what you know, longevity could bring you, and what's 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.720 showing love could bring you know what I'm saying. So 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.800 I know both. But it doesn't mean that you know, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.880 you're gonna let anybody you know, say whatever they want. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.200 But it's just you know, you rather pick the money 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.560 and pick you know, the love. Yeah, what about did 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:06.960 you ever get a chance to talk to a th 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:08.560 because I know your thug were going back and forth 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.080 at one time. Um yeah, definitely me and Thuugh Me, 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:13.840 Me and Thu, got no problem. That's watched it out too. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.320 Yeah yeah, definitely free wise, self free, free gun up 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.599 for everybody. Yeah, and you also survived the Kardashian curse. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.400 You talk about that. Not too many people survived that 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.920 Kardashian curse. I was I was basically saying that, like, 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.320 you know, there is no curse. That's why I'm still 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.320 doing my thing. I think that's I think that's what 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:32.920 I was saying in the song. I was like, there's 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.400 no curse, so I'm doing my thing and Travis doing 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.360 this thing. You know, I just feel like you know 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.279 um and and shout out to them. I just feel 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.360 like when you go out with them or have a 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.920 relationship with them, with anybody out there caliber, I feel 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:50.039 like that, um, you know, the media start picking up 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.440 on your relationship life and forget about you. You know, 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.000 your talent life, you know what I'm saying, your music life, 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.760 you're acting life, or whatever it is. If yeah, it 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.720 overshadows everything you come this reality start. Well, that's not 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.839 really the goal, you know what I'm saying. It could 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.000 be playing basketball or do whatever it is. It takes 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.800 away from your game and they'd be like, Yo, this 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.039 guy is now this this because he go out with 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:12.599 this this. You know what I'm saying, So that label 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.919 just changed. This used to be funny to see you 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.080 on the Kardashians that I'm not gonna lie always French, 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.039 you never changed. He used to be bad, funny, like 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:28.360 Yo Franchis on Yeah, I might be tied two, He's 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:34.240 not two, man. Honestly, I just I just feel like, Um, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.560 I can't give whoever it is the time they want 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.400 because I'm just so focused on doing what I'm doing. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.080 You know what I'm saying, And I know and I 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:41.720 know some of them be like, nah, you know you 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.400 need somebody to ride with you and be there with 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.800 you until they right there with you, and you'd be like, yo, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.040 I gotta go on these thirty days. You know what 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.120 I'm saying, shows and this and that after club it's 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.120 like it's it's hard and you want to give somebody 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:54.400 you all when you go out with them, and I 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.240 don't feel like I'm I'm in that space right now. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.720 You think you've ever been in love? Um, yeah, I've 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:05.640 been love before. Heartbroken, Yeah, of course, plenty of times. 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.640 Yet breaking nah, because you know you gotta go through 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.400 that early because if you go through that late. You know, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:13.640 I'm saying, you don't want to be going through the 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.040 heart breaks after after you're thirty, Like you ain't gonna 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.360 know how to handle it. I feel like you're the heartbreaker. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:23.280 I can't now, I really don't. I really don't. They know. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.440 I mean, they know what it is, you know what 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.440 I'm saying. Usually just just be you know, a little 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.640 a little tap kids and I'll keep going. Now. Now, 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.800 you usually play with with with music and sounds on 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.120 your albums, whether it was one of the first to 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.240 do the afrobeat sounding records or one of the ones 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.280 to sound to do the drill sounding records before I 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.000 heard other New York artists with Drake and Beyonce and 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.400 a bunch of people changing the direction a little bit 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.120 with with house sound and music. Are you dabbling and 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.360 dabbling with that as well? Um? I think that was 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.800 something that me and Max be started, you know what 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.440 I'm saying. Like with me and Max, me was doing 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.200 it from back in the day, since Kolke Wave, you 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:58.680 know what I'm saying. And it's just like you know, 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.680 as soon as Max heard Drake, he was like, yeah, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.760 it's my swack, you know what I'm saying. I think 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.680 that that that that sound you know from we used 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.280 to grab Britney Spears song and and and and redo 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:11.880 them and do a whole bunch of stuff. I think 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.760 it's it's it's it's a Jersey DC vibees and you 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.320 know it's just a wavy vibe I think. And Drake 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.680 could do whatever he wants, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.920 He could do whatever because he he playing this week, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.240 could drop proudly, you know, a rap album right after. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.160 He always do it right, Yeah, I mean he did 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.920 that with Um with the controller and all that at 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.880 that one point when he just tested the music. You 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.000 know what I'm saying, But yeah, I think it's definitely 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.640 something different. Max. When we spoke to you, I think 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.480 a while ago we was was praying for good news. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.760 You said Max might be released soon. Yeah, we're here 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.120 in the camps now, so that's that's that's a step down, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.160 you know. But you know Bergen County, when you give 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.320 you seventy five years, they don't want to they're letting 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.400 you write out. So yeah, so so he fighting free, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.200 Max b Have you ever healed fully from you know, 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.079 Max and Chinks? And I heard one of the songs 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.000 now was like you still feel it to this day? 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.839 Have you feel healed fully from any of that? Because 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:09.760 you got you gotta think about it. Me, Max, b Um, Chinks, 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.760 even Zach my brother, like we always just you know, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.640 the same clue making music, you know, so you go 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.960 through it, Max speaking seventy five years, Chinks die, my 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.280 little brother get deported. It's like I'm the only one 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.680 making music. So it like it wasn't feeling the same, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.000 you know what I'm saying. So you know, definitely, I 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:28.880 mean I don't. I don't feel like I don't probably 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.920 get my time time to heal about it. I mean 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.880 from from from from the thing. I don't think I 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:35.880 get myself the time. What makes you still want to 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.840 do music going through all of that? Because music, music 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.600 is something that I do to get away from my job, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:47.760 which is music. So I kind of making music about 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.720 making music. It's like, you know, that's why I find, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.040 you know, my sanity. That's that's like, you know, that's 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.680 my therapy. So you know, it's like that's that's what 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.480 keep me, you know, going, and that's what gave me longevity. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.760 To the love from music. I think none I could 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.200 take that away from me. I don't know. I don't 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.400 know what else I would be doing. Blue Chairs. It 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.880 seems like a very therapeutic song for you. Yeah, so 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.240 when when you wrote that, like what was going on 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.000 with you at that time? Um Man shot to Harry Fraud. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.520 It's just everything came back full circle and everything was 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.000 going back to that, you know, to that sound. I 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.280 feel like, you know, I feel like I went I 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.320 went down south to Atlanta. I heard nothing but Atlanta music. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.040 I went to La I heard nothing but music that 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.560 had the g funk sound in it. Then I came 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.560 back to New York and I was sounding like I 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.880 was in London, and I was like, nah, like as 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.320 me being one of the pillars in New York. I'm like, yo, like, 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.440 let me try and know what I'm saying. I'm bringing 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.440 that wavy sound back with Harry Fraud. And when I 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.360 went in the studio, it's just, you know, I just 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.360 I just spoke how I felt at the time, and 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.600 I'm saying everything that I went through, everything that happened 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.600 for the past couple of years, and I put it 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.320 and you know, put my pain to the music. Do 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.240 you ever missed that twenty year old a twenty two 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:01.359 year old French Montana from the Bronx with you wasn't 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.280 a huge star. You could still move around and you 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.080 could enjoy life a little better. Do you ever miss that? No? 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.040 Because I would have been shot or killed. You know 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.240 what I'm saying. You know I would have been shot 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.040 and killed. Rest in piece pop smoke, rest of the 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.800 piece nipsy. You know for sure, you know what I'm saying. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.839 You know, um, we're praying for a little t J. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.160 It's like I would have been you know, I would 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.920 have been shot because I felt like everybody loved me. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.680 I felt like everybody loved me. I wasn't moving on defense. 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.680 I was moving on offense. I was you know, I 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.160 thought everybody was happy I made it, and it was. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.760 It wasn't that. It was the other way around, you know. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.599 And your greatest threat come from the inside, you know 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:43.240 what I'm saying. And I'm glad that you know, I 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.199 moved to LA for a little bit, you know what 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.400 I'm saying. I'm glad I did. I did certain things 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.960 because I could have protected me from something, you know. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.040 But yeah, but I'm I'm glad I learned the game 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.640 and just and just you know, now, now when I moved, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.200 even though I don't know problem with nobody, I moved on, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.200 I got a problem with somebody. Me having me having 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.439 be for people kind of helped me, you know what 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.559 I'm saying, because I was always on point. I was 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.040 going to ask that, you know. I was talking to Jim, 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.080 and Jim says, you know, probably one of the toughest 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.600 jobs to him is being a rapper because you're always 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.200 on target, like you're a targeting It's like everybody knows 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.080 where you're gonna be right. If you're on a club 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.400 promoter flyer, if you're at a party, if you're performing, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.600 if you're at a concert, whatever it may be. Do 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.280 you feel that way and how do you make sure 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:25.880 that you're not that target? What do you tell some 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.640 of these younger artists out there? Um? I know this, 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.920 I know this, this said um Um twenty one Savage 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.480 said that Jay Z said get a chef, get a lawyer, 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.719 and get something else. I think he spent all your 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.600 money on security. I think that's the number one thing. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.720 You know what I'm saying. I think that's security. I 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.679 mean when they caught Pop smoke and have no no 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.440 security with him, you know what I mean? And I 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.200 think all the young artists just need to know you 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.840 need security. You need like you need like one of 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.839 those it's gonna take a bullet, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.880 And honestly, and I do mean your homeboard's neither because 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.200 when you have your homeboys with you and you're thinking 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.040 that's security, that's not. That's just the case. Who are 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.079 going to happen? You know what I'm saying. Like, and 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.280 you don't want you know, you don't want that Burger 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.840 on your back. What about when it comes to women. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.280 You know, as you said, you were to tap two snipers, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.640 but you have to be careful with that too. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.960 of course, of course. I mean we targets. We targets 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.960 from every aspect, from every angle. All the women are 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.360 looking for bags. Some of them that they think that's 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.240 the way they get paid. You know, some you know, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.960 some people, you know, they've been taking their whole life. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.800 You know what what I'm saying. Robbers we come from you know, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.360 you come from there. I come from there where you know, 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.400 people have been robbing their whole life. And you know 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.760 if you look sweet, they're gonna grab you, you know 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.640 what I mean. Some people, you know, they just push 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.360 the limits something. I call them suicide bombers, but they 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.120 don't really care. What was your biggest mistake? You'd have 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.480 to say, in this industry, what's the one thing you 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:54.280 said there? I shouldn't have did that. My biggest mistake 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.120 was not forcing Chinks to stay with me in La. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.679 Because he was with me in La. We were supposed 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.319 to go to it was supposed to go to um Coachella. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.280 I remember I was, I mean, I was still going 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.479 out with Chloe and he was and he was um 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.440 and he was with me and Maliko was there, and 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.800 he was we were supposed to go together, and I 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.120 kept on telling him like, yo, let's go, let's go. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.120 She wants you to go, like you know, let's trying 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.600 to put them together. And I'm saying, hooked them up. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.480 And he was like, na, I gotta go home. I 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.480 got my daughter, this, this, this and that. You know. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.360 He came back and that happened like two days right 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.280 after that, the day after that, So that was my 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.560 biggest mistake. I should have just forced him, but we 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.520 was all drunk and I not let my you know, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.160 my pride and might eagle to all you want to 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.480 stay over me? All right? Fuck out there, you know 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:45.960 what I'm saying. So he came back and it was 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.080 just like a sad situation. What do you think is 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:53.880 the smartest decision you've made? The smartest decision I made 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.480 was rapping, start rapping, pick up a mic. I think 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.080 that was a smart decision I made. And let me 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.800 ask you this. So you also recently were a type 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.280 of a conversation because the Basketball Wives, right, DJ Duffy 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.000 is on this show. Yeah, and she had a baby 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.640 she's engaged, and she was saying that she might take 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.400 some time off from being on the road. Yeah, and 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.800 you were like, all right, you can't come back then. Yeah, 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.080 so let's talk about that for a second, because I 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.840 saw that was a big topic on social media. Yeah, 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:29.200 I think that. Um, you know, when you come into 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.480 this game, a lot of people don't understand that it 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.480 comes It doesn't come with your own schedule. It comes 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.120 with sacrifice in order for you to be the best DJ, 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.080 will be the best artist, will be the best basketball 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.640 for basketball players and you know they're on the road 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.600 for most of the year, you know what I mean, Like, 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:47.840 you have to you have to be able to make 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.320 certain sacrifices. If not, then you can't be in this game. 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:52.880 Say you can't just come in, come in the game 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.360 and just expect to make all this money, to get 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:56.840 all this fame, be this, you know what I'm saying. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.200 Then you just want to stay home. It don't happen 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.720 like that. Fine, fighting, you gotta sacrifice. But if somebody's like, okay, 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.360 I just need like you know six, especially a woman 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.640 who had a baby, yeah, which she did have to 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.880 take time off because yeah, yeah, yeah, you know of 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.040 course that time, then I can come back. No, that 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:15.840 time she had to take off, but she was taught 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.800 about she was going to retire, right, Yeah, she was like, 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.080 she was like, you know, I want to, I want to, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:25.680 you know, I'm confused. I'm don't be confused because there's 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.560 people that want to be in their position, right, don't 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.880 be confused. That's the crazy thing about that is is 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:35.000 you know, and this is when you start people getting upset. Right. 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.120 The new generation feels like, I feel like a lot 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:42.120 of times things should be given right now. Maternity leave 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.640 is totally different. Right you have a baby, Absolutely you 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.080 deserve maternity leave. Some fathers out there paternity leave. But 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.360 I think we lose the grind, right. You figured, like 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:53.960 if we look at French and we've seen all the 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.960 stuff that French did, the sacrifices. French was was taping, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.560 you know, taping you know what was cocaine city stuff, 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.480 and he was at the clubs, he was traveling. He grinded, 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.919 didn't sleep, just to any other. So now when somebody says, hey, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:08.720 you know, I'm gonna take a couple of months off 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.760 to see if I'm a retire or not. If you 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.880 take if you take that time. If you leave me 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.560 while I'm working, I gotta find a replacement. I'm not 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.760 gonna find a replacement for a week or a month 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.480 till you figure out what you want to do. I'm 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.919 gonna find a replacement to replace you. I don't think 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.199 there's anything wrong with that, do you. Well, I just 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.679 think it's I think he was honest about it, you know, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.239 because somebody could have said, do what you gotta do 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.239 and then they get replaced anyway. Yeah, and so, but 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.120 I also feel like you never know what could happen. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.200 He could have got somebody else and then she could 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:39.520 have been ready to come back, and he could have 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.639 felt like, man, she was better, and you know, you 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.959 never know what had happened. Yeah, but it's still up 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.560 in the air to me. But I do think that's 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.480 an honest thing to say to somebody, because yes, you 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.000 do still need to have Yeah, of course, man, you 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.680 gotta let them like when you tell them that, that's 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.879 when they have to make a decision. Do I really 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.000 want this? You know what I'm saying That decision have 0:17:58.119 --> 0:17:59.800 to be made one at one point in your career, 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.560 because if you don't love whatever you do, you're gonna 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.760