Speaker 1: The real people, real celebrity join the Breakfast Morning. Everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, special guests in the building. Mister Trader,
Speaker 1: Truth Trader, what's up, my brother Bless I'm living them tired.
Speaker 1: It's about that time of year again, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: most definitely Trade a Trade album and album comes out
Speaker 1: right after July twenty seconds. Trade A July twenty fourth
Speaker 1: is the album one of them. I got a salute
Speaker 1: envy for that young point. That's right about Trade a
Speaker 1: Trade Day. Of course, you know they're giving them about
Speaker 1: the man in the City of Houston, but instead of
Speaker 1: me kind of celebrating for me. You know, I'm making
Speaker 1: a day about the the kids. You know, I give
Speaker 1: them their school supplies, immunization shots on HIV tests and backpacks, giveaways,
Speaker 1: game rides, you know, just normal big homy stuff, and
Speaker 1: a lot of artists come down and perform. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I bring a whole bunch of I bring a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of friends, people that you know, because it's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that I don't think people really realize.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people in the struggle that may
Speaker 1: never have that money to go to a concert and
Speaker 1: really only know y'all face from TV or the internet.
Speaker 1: So when they able to be able to touch the people,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and be right in front
Speaker 1: of him and kick it with him, you know that
Speaker 1: that can care him for a lifetime. I like how
Speaker 1: you Bunce back from trade too, because it at one
Speaker 1: point where he was trying to make it out to
Speaker 1: seem like trade was violent. Yeah, I mean that he
Speaker 1: never stopped doing it because you know, there's life. Man.
Speaker 1: I think I overcome a lot of obstacles. That's what
Speaker 1: makes me meet you know from it. It's been almost
Speaker 1: six years band world wide, I'm still relevant. So you
Speaker 1: know that ain't the easiest thing on earth. But I
Speaker 1: think you know when you when you built and come
Speaker 1: from the bottom, you know you gotta adapt to your environment,
Speaker 1: whatever that may be. You still feel the band, No,
Speaker 1: I mean you got ninety seven beat beholding you down,
Speaker 1: you know most definitely then that's their official sponsor for
Speaker 1: so but uh but yeah, you know I get it
Speaker 1: here and there. You know, it's something I'm used to.
Speaker 1: You know, you in certain markets, if they're dominant, you
Speaker 1: know you can't really do concerts with me, or you
Speaker 1: can't you can't deal with me too? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember we were talking about this when it was happening,
Speaker 1: and we had a long discussion about it, and I
Speaker 1: was saying, the problem is that there was just one
Speaker 1: radio station, you know, and now there's no longer just
Speaker 1: one radio station in Houston that can play your music.
Speaker 1: And I was saying, you know, there's so many other
Speaker 1: markets you could be in, but it's hard when it's
Speaker 1: your backyard as your hometown, you know, and Houston is
Speaker 1: such an important market that was made it difficult back then.
Speaker 1: But a lot of artists have stood by you anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most definitely, And it's gonna kind of speak for itself
Speaker 1: even with this album because the situation with the album,
Speaker 1: I really I wouldn't go on the feature everybody on it,
Speaker 1: but it's like it turns out to me having so
Speaker 1: many difficult abortions because it's like everybody rooting for me.
Speaker 1: It's like everybody in seeing me go through so much
Speaker 1: over and over time and time again and still bounce
Speaker 1: back fighting. So now they feel like, man, we need
Speaker 1: to give them a shot. This one of the care
Speaker 1: who actually genuinely deserve it. So yeah, I heard the
Speaker 1: future in Boossey song you Got Them Together on Something. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: most definitely I did that song. Actually when um, when
Speaker 1: Boosey came home. As soon as they came home, we
Speaker 1: was in We were in New Orleans meet him his
Speaker 1: brother and he had the personal family event before they
Speaker 1: did all the media stuff. That was one of the
Speaker 1: first ones we did. Now now Trade Day. I was
Speaker 1: talking me last night and trade to try to get
Speaker 1: an elephant. Ah yeah, yeah man, freedom homey man, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, but you gotta think it's like,
Speaker 1: for one, everything that I do, because you know, even
Speaker 1: in Houston don't snow like that. So at trade that
Speaker 1: you know, I bring snow everything. You know. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: once they showed me they can make it all right,
Speaker 1: come on, let's get it. And last year I bought
Speaker 1: a camera. This year, of course, I I know, I
Speaker 1: got another camera. I don't know what other animals they got,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I tried to get an elephant. Elephant, but man,
Speaker 1: he was talking. It was just so random. The day
Speaker 1: that I tried to bring the elephant, I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring it through the hood. It was booked sook so yeah, look, look, look,
Speaker 1: that's what's so crazy. So my thing is we even
Speaker 1: were trying to offer a little more money, but it
Speaker 1: was already obligated. So what they say, Well, we got him,
Speaker 1: we got another route you can go. We can bring
Speaker 1: an elephant from out of town. We're gonna charge you
Speaker 1: the same price, and we're gonna charge you the mileage
Speaker 1: and how long it take to get there. It was
Speaker 1: I don't even know the price, but it was far away.
Speaker 1: So it was like, Man, by the time I do that,
Speaker 1: I might as well bring some super extravagance. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wait till next go around to try and make
Speaker 1: something happens. The elephant you had to pay for? It
Speaker 1: was he traveling, you know, man, You never the way
Speaker 1: I look at it is that was a free look
Speaker 1: for the train or whatever, because right out the gate,
Speaker 1: I think he was charging me maybe either five or
Speaker 1: six grand just to that's just to bring him out there,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So if you imagine that's
Speaker 1: what he was charging me, imagine what that mileage was
Speaker 1: plus that. And man, look that part, that part wouldn't
Speaker 1: know me. Man, usually I do it that reliant. This
Speaker 1: ship said sam Houston Race Park. This is my first
Speaker 1: time actually dealing with them. I don't know how that's
Speaker 1: gonna be. Yeah, it isn't that nervous, nerve wracking, Like
Speaker 1: I hope they be all right with me. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: But I think, man, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: once everybody experienced that, that whole event, you know, it
Speaker 1: turned out to be a good thing. Yeah, besides me
Speaker 1: and dj Y, who else is coming? Man? You talked
Speaker 1: about last I ain't Anno'm gonna tell y'all because I
Speaker 1: just made a post on my Instagram and I want
Speaker 1: to really make it to what people understand. It's about
Speaker 1: making sure those and needing them kids get there to
Speaker 1: get what they need to get back in school and
Speaker 1: get the help that they need, as opposed to let
Speaker 1: me see who else are and get my Instagram photos.
Speaker 1: But let me see you know that. But I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be more excited when they're out there kicking
Speaker 1: it with me and then you see all these people
Speaker 1: popping up. But I'm I'm gonna make the announcement just
Speaker 1: probably maybe a week a week or close prior. But um,
Speaker 1: I could say it would be about ten real important
Speaker 1: artists at the least does it cost you a lot
Speaker 1: to do this rather than people if you're coming off
Speaker 1: the screen. Um, yeah, yeah, most definitely. Man Um. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Ben Gordon. I'm actually he out here right now.
Speaker 1: He donated, Schary Lewis donated my Pottinger, Clint Dempsey, um
Speaker 1: from the World Cup, he actually donated. And um, me
Speaker 1: and the homies we just you know, we do we
Speaker 1: usually do this ship. Actually it was a little least
Speaker 1: stress on me, you know, because I usually mainly handle
Speaker 1: it all by myself. But this ship, people are coming forward.
Speaker 1: But he really does because he really books all the
Speaker 1: flights himself. I gotta thanks to Angel Little. I was
Speaker 1: supposed to been had hers books. She might have. I'm
Speaker 1: will get her last minute first class right now because
Speaker 1: I still ain't got an info. You can pay for
Speaker 1: an you can pay for an assistant to help you book.
Speaker 1: You have to change your company from ABN to something else.
Speaker 1: No I got No, I got ABN and my nonprofit
Speaker 1: is Angel by Nature. So yeah, I'm on it. I'm
Speaker 1: on top of it. This new album, The Truth, it
Speaker 1: started off as a mixtape and evolved into it what
Speaker 1: it is gonna be a double album. Well, two part album, Yeah,
Speaker 1: two part now because they feel people attention span is
Speaker 1: not not theill to go through twenty four songs. I
Speaker 1: was gonna go against the grain, you know, I'm always
Speaker 1: going against the grain. But yeah, it was a mixtaping
Speaker 1: and me and j Cole's chopping that up, and he
Speaker 1: just felt like it's just a lame for me. People
Speaker 1: see me featuring on so many people things, and I'm
Speaker 1: dropping mixtapes here and there, and the fact of me
Speaker 1: even being able to stay relevant so long with ills
Speaker 1: against me, just felt like people take the album most
Speaker 1: serious and you know, if it's just another challenge in
Speaker 1: the obstacle I got to come across. I feel them
Speaker 1: one that like at this point, why I dropping mixed it?
Speaker 1: You can drop rather hear album, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I think I think in most artists case, you know,
Speaker 1: they used to be worried about the outcome and if
Speaker 1: it's gonna do numbers of this and that. But you know,
Speaker 1: when you when you've been in it so long, like
Speaker 1: how we have, and and you're doing it for yourself
Speaker 1: and those who believe in you, and you're not really
Speaker 1: caring about the opinions of others. Didn't make it a
Speaker 1: little more comfortable, you know with me. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I know I gave out with this app.
Speaker 1: I don't care if I sell a couple of our
Speaker 1: selve a million or whatever it is. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I feel like my music is gonna
Speaker 1: spread itself. You know, sometimes everything don't don't jump out
Speaker 1: the gate and blow. Sometimes it take time. But when
Speaker 1: it catch, it handled, it do what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah, most definitely. Um, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to independent route. So it's me and Tip and with
Speaker 1: Empire Distribution at the West Coast. They um, they got
Speaker 1: troy a, Um, they got they got stalling a few
Speaker 1: more people, so you know, they working doing their thing.
Speaker 1: And plus the independent hustle. I mean that's where I
Speaker 1: started from. So why everybody panicking trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what to do because they still used to people pacifying them.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go outdare hand on my own relationship with now.
Speaker 1: Yeah most definitely. Um we aces um he thought my
Speaker 1: we got my listening party and Houston Saturday. We just
Speaker 1: did want to LA for the BT Awards. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you're real supportive at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: he kind of letting me jump the front line, you know,
Speaker 1: like as far as the album, you know he he
Speaker 1: heard it that there was already turned in, you know,
Speaker 1: like put together and stuff. You know, because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day he supported, he feeled just like
Speaker 1: I feel he normally got outdare handle my business just
Speaker 1: as well as I know he'll handle Hills. So you know,
Speaker 1: when they comes to us, is just more supporting the
Speaker 1: brother whatever they got going. So and you know what
Speaker 1: I like about you is I see you working so
Speaker 1: much with other established artists, but you helped out a
Speaker 1: lot of new upcoming artists most definitely. Man. I was
Speaker 1: actually thinking about that the the other day. We were
Speaker 1: talking about like even who would ever imagine when I
Speaker 1: had that song I'm on I had crit on the
Speaker 1: Kendrick Cole bo b Um Jaylor like a little everybody man.
Speaker 1: But like I tell people, it's just I just love music,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So when I'm in that
Speaker 1: zone and I'm doing what I'm doing, I just getting
Speaker 1: that element. Now, you know what I was. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you about my friend of mine and in
Speaker 1: front of yours, Juliet, but Beverly. She just basically did
Speaker 1: a book about I've been seeing people. I haven't got it.
Speaker 1: I ain't ran across here, but I know she is
Speaker 1: gonna be a trade day and she says she's gonna
Speaker 1: be giving them out so big as books. You probably
Speaker 1: don't got a backpackage. But but you gotta think, Man,
Speaker 1: one thing I know about my homie Heiler, Yeah, a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of interesting days. So yeah, yeah, yeah, most definitely. Man.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people man within within media
Speaker 1: and just whole perception. People make things way more than
Speaker 1: what it is. Man, he was he was solid, just
Speaker 1: like we solid. He gonna tell you what he feels,
Speaker 1: just like I am. And sometimes within the industry and
Speaker 1: being around people like that, people tending to fit that
Speaker 1: because you know they used to people fabricating the baby
Speaker 1: in them and ain't what we're gonna do. If we
Speaker 1: feel your boots, I'm gonna say you both, then we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep it moving. I just I just I just
Speaker 1: hate the fact that Pency never got to use social
Speaker 1: media man been Yeah, because you gotta think it's so
Speaker 1: many people on Instagram and Twitter that just from them
Speaker 1: doing little things that they could take them. I was
Speaker 1: actually talking. I was talking to the little homies. I
Speaker 1: was telling them. Man, nowadays Twitter can, in no matter
Speaker 1: of seconds, can either make your your life clean, because
Speaker 1: you know, it's like it's like the court of public
Speaker 1: opinion on social media. So you're guilty before you even
Speaker 1: get a chance to be like nah, nah, that ain't
Speaker 1: true and it's stuff because you nobody would never really
Speaker 1: know the truth. But they don't even care. They don't
Speaker 1: even care about the truth. They don't get about truth
Speaker 1: to live or entertainer. Right, we were just talking about
Speaker 1: Tiger and these pictures he sent out, these Penis pictures
Speaker 1: that he allegedly sent two at I don't even want
Speaker 1: to talk about this. Not my cup of team. But
Speaker 1: does that make you feel like with all the social
Speaker 1: media and stuff, you gotta be careful too, with anything
Speaker 1: that you sent out as far as text messages, phone calls,
Speaker 1: you never know who's recording something. No, not with me,
Speaker 1: because I think anything I got my phone I stand behind.
Speaker 1: So I ain't gonna I'm not gonna even play myself
Speaker 1: team and put myself in that situation, right, you know,
Speaker 1: because you gotta you gotta understand, man, When people used
Speaker 1: to say, what, what's in the doc come to the light.
Speaker 1: It's always I don't know when it's but it's gonna come.
Speaker 1: So prepare yourself. Just don't do no shit like that.
Speaker 1: Relationship with all the all the Houston artists out there, Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I help a lot of I
Speaker 1: help a lot of the up and coming, you know,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, I feel like
Speaker 1: I want to see I want to see the wind,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And even not just with
Speaker 1: just Houston artists, just with new artists paid like, I
Speaker 1: still even be cautious to the point to where I
Speaker 1: can guide and give them game because you still gotta
Speaker 1: understand with that band and stuff I got going on,
Speaker 1: if you deal with me, they're automatically gone move ye
Speaker 1: out the way, you know what I'm saying that. And
Speaker 1: I hate even talking about that situation, but I mean
Speaker 1: it is what it is, you know. I mean, what
Speaker 1: about now that things have a lot I think a
Speaker 1: little bit smoother, you know, for you than they used
Speaker 1: to be have some of those artists before, because I
Speaker 1: remember coming to trading and I'm like, where's all the
Speaker 1: Houston artists? Add It's always still been the same. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, of course, you know bund support or jail,
Speaker 1: I will support poker, you know. Other than other than that,
Speaker 1: you know, people don't really as far as within the
Speaker 1: element of the ones I came up with it. You
Speaker 1: And though now they don't come, I ain't mad that
Speaker 1: they don't come. They don't owe me nothing owe them.
Speaker 1: Let's say Drake does a Houston week and it seems
Speaker 1: like all the artists come out and support him. But
Speaker 1: there you are, somebody from Houston, and some of those
Speaker 1: artists don't. Man, you gotta understand when when you come up,
Speaker 1: how we come up with, how I come up, it's
Speaker 1: like a certain ship like that don't even matter. Man,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't sit up daily and worry about
Speaker 1: why somebody doing this for that person and ain't doing
Speaker 1: it for me. You know, it is what it is
Speaker 1: for those who rock with me, rock with me. I
Speaker 1: think it would be great if they just pop up
Speaker 1: this year that I mean. I mean, I'm just putting
Speaker 1: it out there. I'm you, and I think everybody entitled
Speaker 1: to their own opinion, and one I think I think
Speaker 1: the biggest thing with me, even as far as artists
Speaker 1: and just my situation in general is once I start
Speaker 1: letting go, because you got to realize I had a
Speaker 1: lot of anger and a lot of animosity with a
Speaker 1: real big chip on my shoulder. But as I as
Speaker 1: I let go, you know, I tend to be able
Speaker 1: to live and relax a lot motives days or well,
Speaker 1: I ain't even really worried about that. That's just like
Speaker 1: with the with the music, like I'm I'm I'm in
Speaker 1: a place comfortably and now what I'm just doing me,
Speaker 1: you know, and I feel long as I do me
Speaker 1: shit and ain't nothing I really needs to complain whine
Speaker 1: about because like with me, whine and what that's gonna
Speaker 1: do for me? You're gonna do goddamn Yeah, cartoon, I
Speaker 1: used to love that. Oh yeah, yeah, I was with
Speaker 1: with the Funny. The contract was up with that soul.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're just free agents, um pushing it. We're
Speaker 1: pushing it back again to hold we land on the network.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, since we're right on the Power Club
Speaker 1: a dull swamp, somebody needs are gonna come high let
Speaker 1: me because shit, they're doing a lot of animated hip
Speaker 1: hop shoals right now. But it's it's so crazy. I've
Speaker 1: been doing this shit so long, and the artists actually
Speaker 1: they want to be part of my Like I did
Speaker 1: one for twenty with snoop Um and riff Raff. I
Speaker 1: got the new episode Finna come out as with me
Speaker 1: and bo B. I had one with Duval. By the
Speaker 1: fact you've been on there, I need to do one
Speaker 1: with y'all because you know it's simple for us. The
Speaker 1: first one I saw was the Ozone The Words with
Speaker 1: Mike Jones. Oh man, that was hilarious, a little throwback
Speaker 1: where I don't know, I know, man. They did a
Speaker 1: Welcome to Houston show recently, um Funny. I was the
Speaker 1: only Houston artist that wouldn't invite it. But I was
Speaker 1: mad about it. You know. I congratulate. I congratulate them
Speaker 1: doing their thing, but I know he was part of it,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's good to see him trying to
Speaker 1: do it, do it staying handle's business, you know what.
Speaker 1: With me As far as how a lot of other
Speaker 1: people being man, I ain't really in the whole. No grudges.
Speaker 1: That was it was what it was then. You know. Now,
Speaker 1: salute niggas moving just just handling your business because it's
Speaker 1: about feeding family right now. It's funny as an artist.
Speaker 1: If I was an artist in Houston, I wouldn't care
Speaker 1: with another radio station thought simply because there's another station
Speaker 1: in the market, but even bigger than that social media
Speaker 1: like like they didn't let that one station dictate how
Speaker 1: they move and who they move with. I like your
Speaker 1: way of thinking. That's my response to that. Man, you know,
Speaker 1: and I you know it's crazy. I ain't even mad
Speaker 1: at them, you know when I see them, When I
Speaker 1: see certain ones, I still speak. I keep man at
Speaker 1: the end of day, if you ain't feeling, if you
Speaker 1: ain't trying to quit me and my family, I stopped.
Speaker 1: O't you know I'm supposed to be my bad I
Speaker 1: ain't got yell a few fines my bed. It's like,
Speaker 1: if you ain't directly missing with me and my family,
Speaker 1: are stopping what what I'm trying to do or throw
Speaker 1: off my plans? It is what it is. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Well, the twenty fourth is the truth,
Speaker 1: part one, truth part one. The twenty second of course
Speaker 1: it's trade yeah and dj MB and I will be there.
Speaker 1: I just look at flight flights as expensive as hair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we might have to fly give it a private jetty
Speaker 1: the main might be that we I mean, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have a conversation. Do you gotta understand me him have
Speaker 1: a relationship on side all this, So me and him
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna hollow. Man. I just wanted to experience.
Speaker 1: You know, it's different man Like when you get to
Speaker 1: see how the kids' faces be little up. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. From from the time and start to
Speaker 1: the time at the end, you know that can change
Speaker 1: the personal life. And this is Envy's first one. Yep,
Speaker 1: so we're excited. That's my second one. Okay, Well I
Speaker 1: know yours. You you gonna, I mean, trust me, you
Speaker 1: or you will be coming back. Everybody would come come
Speaker 1: back and everybody love. I mean, it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a good event. Man. They gave what they actually told me.
Speaker 1: They got a whole bunch of um more awards to
Speaker 1: get me from the city Houston. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they are. I mean, I got a lot more than
Speaker 1: that though, I got. Man, I gotta get awards like
Speaker 1: crazy for just some of my stuff. I do as
Speaker 1: being a big homie out there, but I don't do
Speaker 1: it for that. So I've never really just focus on
Speaker 1: what I'm getting married. Okay, Well, can people donate now?
Speaker 1: If they want to donate? Where can they go if
Speaker 1: they wanted to donate? Somebody asked me about that recently.
Speaker 1: I don't even I wouldn't even do it, right. Can
Speaker 1: we please? We need a website something I just actually learned.
Speaker 1: Let's ask every artist appeared for a hundred. Now he
Speaker 1: can't come and sharing game one hundred, troy a game
Speaker 1: one hundred, Cheer to connect, game one hundred. You should
Speaker 1: give a hundred to trade run on the kids. You
Speaker 1: should give one hundred dollars right now to trade the
Speaker 1: truth forty kids. I don't have one hundred dollars on me.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna donate. I don't have the money on me. No,
Speaker 1: I don't. Actually you got paidal account. Nope, you don't
Speaker 1: have one of those guys if kids, But I don't
Speaker 1: have in your pocket, I run your pocket. It's traded.
Speaker 1: You breakfast, clothed, hearted,