WEBVTT - Pastor Troy Interview 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:08.119 Real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.040 DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomne the guy. We are the 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:16.119 Breakfast Club, special guests in the building, pt cruisers with 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.239 the gangs of y'all. All right, man, staying down with it. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.200 How you feel about to see you in a wild Yeah? Man, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:21.840 Good to see y'all boys. Good to see my boys. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:23.759 Shot ain't seen you said your birthday party down in 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.040 the seeing Columbia. Yeah, man, just kicking up what you 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.360 got going now. You remained relatively independent your whole career. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.440 Why is that, man? Um? It was I started off independent, man, 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.280 you know what I mean. Had some contract disputes that 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.400 made me have to go major for a little while. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:38.960 But after I was finished with my contract, I just 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.040 went back to my independent roots with a lot of 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.479 that major game with me. You said you had to 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.640 go major. I had to go major, man, because I 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.440 hooked up with this, uh, this guy Jane Griffin signed 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.480 a contract and it stopped me from having my own label. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.400 It was like I signed on to him. He turned 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.120 me over to Universal or whatever. It was cool, man, 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.520 it worked out for him. It was a good thing. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.600 I learned a lot being with the majors. But when 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.240 I went back independent, I was showing up Freddy. Now 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:05.000 everybody's trying to get back, so glad I've been here. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:06.560 Back then, a lot of people wanted to sign you. 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.960 Remember Scarface wanted to sign you the job South? Yeah, man, 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.560 you know he was holding at me. Man. I come 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.759 home one day, Man, Scarface sitting in the living room 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.399 with my parents. I'm like, what's going on? Yeah? Man? 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.800 It was so crazy, man, because everybody knows my father 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.640 is a pastor man, and that time Scarface really just 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.440 wanted to meet my dad more than he wanted to 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.679 meet me. But it was all good, man, real cool, 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.080 you know down South Man, I was telling somebody in 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.880 an interview yesterday, Man, like Backboning now was probably the 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.600 first solo artist to sign, you know, major deals in Atlanta, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.000 and Man, just after that, man, it just opened up 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:40.800 so many doors, man, you know what I mean. It's 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.480 still popping up down and now you know that same 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.160 kind of sound. I forgot why Scarface you didn't sign? Okay, 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.800 we ain't signed because he told the people at the 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.880 Universal they were like, what you want to do? What with? Who? 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.880 H Yeah? He got another album over here, you know 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:58.600 what I mean. So you got to be cool when 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.200 you're doing stuff like that, you know what I mean? 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.680 Got you Yeah, they they see intra like Puffy wanted 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.360 to sign me. Puffy go up there like yeah, Monte, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.280 what's up? Every year? I want Pastor Troy? What you 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.040 want Pastor Troy? Yeah? Yeah, he got another album over here? 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.440 Want to sign you? Yeah? Man, you know he was 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.079 trying to do the bad boy South stuff. You know. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:16.639 He used to come down and hang out at the 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.000 Bounce and stuff with me until it should be cool. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.840 That's crazy. Now, your father was actually a pastor, so 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:23.720 the name because because somebody asked me that is he 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.320 is he a reverend? Yeah? Yeah, my father, he still 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.160 is a pastor down to atl Man. That was one 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.520 of the most difficult things growing up with him being 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.079 a pastor. Man, rap was kind of taboo in the house. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.400 I couldn't listen to it like that, man, which really 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.760 made it really special to me. Man, you know what 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.240 I mean? In that college Man down to Paying College 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.000 in Augusta, Georgia. Man, about twenty twenty years old. Man, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.799 I stepped to my parents on the sophomore like, look, 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.760 I'm about to be a rapper and what did he say? 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.760 Are you crazy? You know? But you know it all 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.440 worked out. You know, I just explained it to him. Man, 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:54.920 this is just something I wanted to do. Man, something 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.639 I need to try at twenty as opposed to thirty. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.680 And you know, they was down. They was down with it, man, 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:01.919 game and they support. I had to go make a 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:03.919 pop off them. Man in the work, did your father 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.919 ever listened to any of the lyrics and be like, nasam, 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.079 we got to talk about you know what man vice 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:12.520 versa songs? Man? When I originally wrote that song, man, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.280 I say that as a poem in college, man like 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.959 a talent show man, they booted me out the building. Man, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.840 he Antichrist. He didn't see that, And I was like, 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.880 I really didn't understand those things. Man. You know the 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.720 song it's like what if Heaven was hell? And vice versa. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.000 So I had to hit my dad up, like, hey, Dad, 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.320 my friend wrote this song man called vera and he 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.640 talking about this, he talking about that. My dad just 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.240 really kind of explained to me, like, man, you know, 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.320 ain't nothing wrong with somebody's saying what hell? You know 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.120 what I mean? People can ask questions every day you 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:42.720 know what I mean, and just made me feel a 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.280 lot better about the record. Man. Two years later, I 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.760 finally heard the beat and I was like this to 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.760 beat for vice a verse. And then when I did it, man, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.120 everybody ended up loving that record. Man, it's crazy because 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.000 it description the Bible now that said it's gonna be 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:55.880 a time with good. It's gonna be made to look 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.840 like man, dog be made to look like See it 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.440 has not that song, and it makes more sense to 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.160 day than it ever has. Man, you know what I mean, 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.680 what the good was really bad? What the bad was 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.800 really good? What would you do? You know? Now? What 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.520 does the belt mean? For people who don't know you 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.760 always have the belt with Yeah? Man, I brought the 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.360 bulldog helmet out too, Man, Yo, Man, come to my 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.120 South Carolina boy in here. Man, they got to come 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.480 down the draw of the ship. We're gonna be death. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.360 We're gonna beat him to death. Hey ya, but check 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.159 it out the belt, man. You know, everybody know I 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.960 had the infamous beat for master P at the beginning 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.160 of my career and the big, my big event, Man, 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.520 my coming out party was the Birthday Badge. It's kind 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.520 of like the Summer Jam up here down in Atlanta, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.279 and uh, I was on the original bill. Man, this 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.000 one I was hot. This was my future, rich homing 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.960 quand days and everything. Man, master P being the big 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:46.640 dog in the game that he was, he ain't took 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.479 off the show. He replaced me, but he didn't know 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.359 that he couldn't replace me in a TL like they had. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:53.880 The people was ready to see me. Man, this is 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.880 gonna be my first time coming out with that normal 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.080 playing ga. Man. Uh, they put P on the show, 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:00.880 and man, he had a long day out there. Man, 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:05.960 I'm talking about people. Man. It really wasn't even beef. Man. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.200 I just came in, like with the song. Man, we 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.159 were just like we were going in anybody, everybody on 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.320 the top. Man, Yeah, I mean, and that's the strategy 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.719 a lot of people have used. Yeah after that, you know, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.160 go whoever is the hottest right now? Yeah, that time 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.080 you was just trying to sell record. Man. Yeah, it 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.240 wasn't nothing like that. Man. I respect Pete. Man, he's 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.040 the best, you know what I mean. You can't really 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.760 even be jealous of somebody unless you flatter by, you 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.039 know what I mean. So even now, Man, if me 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.120 and P did a song to day then joined a goal. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.880 You know what I mean, because everybody still knows the rivalry. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.560 Good Mom ended up bringing me out on that concert. Man, 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.640 that they brought me out on stage. Man, it's atl. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.280 We can't let nobody show us down. Come on out, Troy. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:47.960 Twenty thirty thousand people went retarded black balls after that though. Nah, 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:49.960 everything's been great, every sense to him. You know what 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.040 I mean. He ain't no holding Nah, he ain't. Man, 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.479 I really ran across men see murder Man. I'm glad 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.120 we never really hurt each other. Man, I'm glad we 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.599 were able to catch up after everything. It kind of 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.000 smooth things out. But it's all cool. So you never 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.279 had a conversation with Man. We don't even chopped it up. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.400 You know. He has signed on with Universal after that also, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.400 but they just kind of kept us separate. That's when 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:11.720 I knew it was time for me to get back 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.600 independent and out of the building. You know what I mean. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.400 He was running the building. Yeah, you know what I mean, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.400 Let me get up out of him. Man, do my thing? Now? 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.480 That phone call was that a real phone call? No? Man, Yeah, 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.919 we just did. They sold us about join the downtown 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:25.960 jokes said We're ready, let's go to what man dog? 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:27.960 But us just sitting in the studio Tripp and doing 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.159 that joint. Whoever would have thought that we would have 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.400 not mastered p you know what I mean, from just 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.480 some brothers in the studio trying to get on man, 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.200 it's great. A lot of dudes that came out of me, 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.000 came at me. They probably got some phone calls at me. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.920 But it just ain't working for him now while run 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.960 around the championship belt. Now, yeah, I caught what I 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:50.600 laid down at birthday bash that day, belt up boy 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.200 with him? No he did not, I had mine, I said. Yo. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.560 He was like, all right, Troy, Yeah, I know it 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.880 all right. You know now you had you had a 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.599 before Little John too, which I didn't know because I 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.840 mean you appearing on a bunch of so much as music. Yeah. Man, 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.320 that's why I was mad with a Little John man, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.560 because we was supposed to keep that pipeline going. I 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.200 love the majors to go independent, and I was just 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.520 gonna bank off of still doing the albums with the 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.960 guys who still had the major deal. Yeah, you know, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.760 but it just didn't work out that way, you know, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.760 And it's cool. You know, everybody grew up and learning 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.800 stuff like that. Man. I'm just glad my position with 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.720 the people always Moraine the same, y'all. Cool now John, 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.120 Yeah he's straight man. You know they got into the 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.040 d M and all that stuff, real hard man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:32.800 So that's a new lay Man. I got to check 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:34.640 out see what's going on over there. I know, my 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.600 voice to fit in with what they got going. Yeah, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.400 Walkers doing it too, man, what's up a little walk? 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.480 It was the beat for over though late, you know what, man. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.880 I was talking to John explaining the same thing to him. Look, man, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:46.920 that was a drastic move for me to you leave 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.440 Universal at that time, man, and go back independence. So 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.640 I was still gonna keep my presence by these records 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.200 with are just like him. So I'm talking to John. 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.160 He telling me, Troy, look, I gotta get you back 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.200 on this next album, man, when we get back to 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.640 the ATL I gotta get your verse, all right, cool man. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.120 I talked to Steve Gottlie but at the time the 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.960 prisident at the time of TVT, he was like, yeah, man, 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:09.840 John just turned his album. Man. Man, I was like, 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.000 where's Troy. I'm like he just turned to his album. Man, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.600 we're supposed to be recording this week, you know what 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.640 I mean. But that's how the game goes. You know, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.360 I understand how the game goes. Now, I'd be a 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.360 whole bunch of Hey man, I'm gonna call you next week. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.600 You know, I get it now. Then it was more 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.920 to the heart, but now I do it to people think. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.080 You think it was because like that whole crunk movement 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.960 that past You know what, man, it was the crunk man. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.880 You know what, I was a problem down there with 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.160 that whole that whole thing. Man. I was the one 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.360 that they kind of didn't want to be next to 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.800 when that stuff was going on. Man, because its pastoral Troy. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.559 I was kind of up here and those guys were 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.400 a little bit behind me with that. So like, man, 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.640 come on, throw it Up. It's crazy that record is. Man, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.960 we don't have any video classic to this day. We 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.040 didn't do a video for Throw It Up. Come Home, man, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.800 You know what I mean. That's the kind of stuff 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.320 that frustrated me. You know what I mean, you gotta 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:01.920 address some stuff like that. Man, we ain't got no 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:03.840 video for Throw It Up. I listen, man, that's my 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.000 I'm I like crunk music because I like when I 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.960 work out. I listened to Get You Going. I listened 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:10.640 to throw it Up three or four times a week, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.960 right now, get you going? That's good man, that's the 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.360 n man for those songs to still stick like that. Man, 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.480 like man, my my show set man hitting them with 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.600 coming out and throw it up, following it up with 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.480 vice versa, come back with are we cutting? Ending it 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.160 with normal playing Ga, you gotta have your show to 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.360 come out to pt man. You think that, you know, 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.199 as as an artist that made those kind of records, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.240 when you get older, you can still perform them. I 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:38.439 don't know how I'm gonna perform. Hey, man, I feel 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.240 like Frankie Beverly. Now that's what I Man. You know 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.280 I didn't really got to make a whole lot of music. Man, 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.679 my show set man dog after them twenty thirty minutes. Man, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:52.040 I'm about to die. It's all good with it. Hard 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.600 of you to adjust to the new sounds coming out 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.679 of atl because you came up in the crunk a man. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.280 What's really so surprising about it? Man, it is that 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.640 if really going back to that same old violence crunk, 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.280 you know, the jumping around and stuff like that, the 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.960 og makos and the stuff like that. Man, all that 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:10.840 Holland and stuff. Man, I've been doing that for fifteen 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.040 years now, you know what I mean, the heavy bass, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.719 the gunshots in the music, Man, that's old pt. What's 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.320 the difference of Atlanta now posted when you was running 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.720 through Atlanta crazy when your records was on fire? Man. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:27.040 The difference in Atlanta now is that it wasn't the 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.760 struggle that it was when I was trying to get on. Man, 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.319 come on, I was up here performing at the tunnel 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.719 and stuff like that, begging flexing them to play a 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.080 Pastor Troy record. Man, probably be the only song that 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.760 they played the whole night, that one South record. We're 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.760 gonna play one South record of the night, and that's it, 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.680 you know. And just to come up here now, just 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.520 even as I just saw people bouncing around the office 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.800 up here, Man, they're singing rich hommey Kuan just humming 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.200 it man, just to see host and change, man, you 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.040 know what I mean. I don't really think that they 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.719 really know what it really took to it to get 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.320 to that point where he said, Man, there was some 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:08.280 real sacrifices going on. Always the fashion has definitely changed, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.680 you know, but those things, it's a crazy man. I 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.920 was just talking about my responsibility with rapping man and 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.040 just looking at the music that's coming out of the Atlanta. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.360 Some of those guys never had They never really had 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.880 a responsibility in their music, man, you know what I mean, 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.800 So you can't expect them to make some responsible music, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.760 you know, kind of referring back to the Og Mako 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.040 and the Future thing. Og was like, you know, saying 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.760 whatever he had to say, He's not he doesn't make 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.000 that kind of music, so you can't expect nothing more 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.000 from him, man, you know what I mean. So it 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.280 seems real special. Man. I'm glad I got in when 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.120 I got in. Man, they have to respect future. What 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:44.160 do you think about some of the artists. What do 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.640 you think of Future now? Man? I'm really loving Future 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.880 campaign man because I hadn't seen them come up. Man. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:50.720 He'd been at this thing a long time too, you 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.959 know what I mean. People probably just see him the 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.360 last four or five years, but man, Future Man grinding 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.320 ten years plus, you know. Yeah. Man, So to see 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.040 those guys kind of get the shine o, Man, I 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:02.679 love it, you know what I mean? Guys, like that, man, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.720 because they still him him, are just like him walk 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.080 or stuff like that. Man, we really still kick it 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.640 a lot of those guys in atl Man, I'm still 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.520 a threat too. So you don't hear us on a 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.360 lot of records and stuff like that. Man, And I 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.360 get it. It's cool, but y'all don't woke up a 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.480 sleeping giant. Did they come to you for advice? Like 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.160 who would come to you and say, listen, can we 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.440 chop it up? And you know what, bank Roll Fresh 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.360 was one of the little artists. Man's been coming to me, 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.000 you know, howling at me, reaching out to me. Man, 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.680 paying a lot of homage to me. Man, I'm the 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.840 one that's running around getting that vice from artists like 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:33.880 eight Bolling, m J G and the stuff like that. Man. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.800 Those guys come out and hang out at my studio. Man, 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.760 just seeing them sitting in my living room in my studio, Man, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.720 where I listened to these guys and my head said, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.360 it just makes me feel like I did it all right, Man, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.800 maybe feel like a million dollars. It said that what 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.760 you said about the og maker on Future Things. People 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.520 getting flak for talking about drugs, But I mean y'all 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.960 era was straight violence. Yeah yeah, get guns, stomp you 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.319 at the club. Yeah. Man, it was totally different, man, 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.480 But I think it was more from a different place. Man. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.559 I think it was more from a different place. People 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.520 were enjoying the energy, man, you know what I mean, 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.320 enjoying the energy. It was a lot of fights and 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.960 a lot of violence that came with it, but it wasn't. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.800 My thing was being able to separate myself from the two. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.319 All Right. Pastor Troy does this kind of music. He 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.600 rasps about this and everything. But me, Michael Troy, Look, 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.080 I ain't gonna tell you to do none of that 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.280 stuff that Pastor Troy doing. Pastor Troy gonna get in 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.760 no trouble for that. Michael Troy is gonna get in trouble. 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.440 Like you're gonna get in trouble if you do it too, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.880 you know what I mean. Man. I just performed for 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:37.120 my parents, man, thanksgiving them last year. Last year. Man, 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.439 it was the only one that was safe for him 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.840 to come. We did something in Atlanta, Man. I performed 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:44.800 down there were like a live band, like a Pastor 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.360 Troy unplug and man, it felt so good to do, man, 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.560 because they know every weekend. Man. For fifteen years, every weekend, 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.360 I've been on the road doing this right, and it 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.320 was just felt good to setting them down and just 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.720 let them see what I do. You know what I mean. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.400 They enjoyed it many my mom and she's all the 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.360 way down with it. Man. She represents you know what 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.720 I mean. She got all those jams on her phone. 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.760 When I call a vice versa, she might answer the phone, Yeah, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.160 you know what I mean. So it's dope, man, it's dope. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.360 I want you to touch on what you was talking 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.720 about earlier. He said that the struggle that down South 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.319 artists had to go through with New York gardens and 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.000 the outcast got booted the soldier. Oh yeah, man, you know, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.360 they just wasn't giving us the time of day. And 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.640 I understand why. Man. It was like, man, the booty 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.640 shaking music was going on. Man, they ain't rapping about nothing. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.040 They don't really whole bunch of substance. Then we started 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:30.720 coming with something. I know that I'm one of those 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.600 defining artists that made artists from people from New York 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.680 telling me all the time, Troy, you one of the 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.400 first ones down South that made me say, all right, man, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:39.920 we got to see what they talking about. They might 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.760 be doing something down there, and I love that, man, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.120 you know what I mean. I doubt that would have 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.080 happened without me taking that step and sign them with Universal. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.440 When I did, Man, it just let me open it 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.720 up a little bit. But Man, Nori and just everybody 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.760 read Man. Just so many people from New York just 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.840 started showing me love. Man. They just love the energy. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.360 It was just so different. And now you come down 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.640 to atl Man, and it's just popping. Man, I'm talking 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.480 ab I got so many homeboards from New York to 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.920 live in Atlanta. Now. Man, I'm just glad that the 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.400 Civil War kind of ended, you know what I mean. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.760 Even when you talk about the DM thing, you kind 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.200 of experimented it a little bit when you did like 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.960 the cutting. Yeah, Man, it was cool. Man. Man, I 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:24.160 probably for form are we cutting five six times? To date? Man, 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.680 that album came out. It just ain't fit with the 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.680 rest of the Patrick Troy stuff. Man, come on, these 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.880 fools like, Man, we don't want to you know, we cut, 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.240 We want to hear kill somebody, you know what I mean. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.400 It just ain't fit into my playlist. So I love 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.520 the record. Did great at radio and stuff like that, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.280 but it just ain't fit in well with vice versa 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.080 and no more play. We got the label telling you 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.240 to do those of course, man, of course, and it 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.880 was cool. I just appreciate it for what it was, man, 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.240 you know what I mean. Who can say that they 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:52.400 had a single on a blockbuster movie like that? Man? 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.200 You know what I mean? Had a single for the soundtrack, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.200 So it was cool. Half a million dollars video shoots 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:58.680 and stuff like that. Man, A lot of people ain't 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.240 gonna be able to experience that, especially now you know 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.440 what videos. You know, it's crazy because don't seem like 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.080 it was that long ago. Yeah man, that's gonna buy. Yeah. No. 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.880 In the Wikipedia it says you the world's biggest scam artists. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.480 What the hell? I don't know. I looked back one up. 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.760 Yet that's a trip, hey man, Independent artists, Man, they understand. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.120 We're juggling out here. Baby, you better be ready, Jack. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.000 I remember there was a story about a woman that 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.760 said you scammed her and all this stuff. You she 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.720 took out all these loans for you. Yeah, man, she strike. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.160 We're still kicking in yellow now, you know, it'd be 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.560 those those hot days. Man, you do things that you 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.840 wish you can take back down, but they don't understand 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.360 how to end of that game go, you know, just 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.840 stull people put up by the frustration. It ain't done. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.320 Now you've said that, people still feel threatened by you. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.640 Other artists and having done songs to you, are they 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.440 people you've reached out to that you wanted to work 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.400 with And I ain't reached out to nobody. People reached 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.600 out to me. We did the songs, and that sounds 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.240 so dope on they still ain't using the songs, you 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.320 know what I mean. Some of the biggest records they 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.640 that took you over, not really the biggest fuckers they 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.639 took off or you probably ain't even Yeah, you know 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.120 what I mean? Yeah, man, that's cool. Though. I love 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.320 the competition man, because they boys know he ain't going nowhere. 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.280