WEBVTT - Episode 192 "DJ DRAMA" 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:13.119 Hold up, Hold up. This is welcome to the Ballor 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.599 Alert Show podcast available everywhere you get your podcast. I 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:20.560 go over in the name of your best dec you know, BT. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.640 I'm in the building with that oh special guests today 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:29.040 and all Red. How's it going, Mr DJ Trauma, what's up? Family? 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.200 What's up? Gang? How are your feeling? We appreciate you 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.560 coming to our studio interview with us. Thanks for having 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.720 me you you guys having an amazing beautiful facility here 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:40.839 over here in mean street. This is this is this 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:42.519 is beautiful. We actually get a lot of love for 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.640 the studio. We have a wall of great artists that 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.680 come by check it out. All that in the little 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:51.400 side of run saw that too. That's offices. We got security. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.479 I mean we've kind of decked out, but don't that. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.720 Don't get the inside joke. This is really his studio, Atlanta, Georgia. Okay, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:02.520 DJ Drama Grammy Award. We are not only in the 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.080 room of greatness. We are in a facility that hosts 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.800 a million great people. You probably had a million amazing 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.959 verses come out of the studio. A lot of amazing 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.920 stuff has come out of the studio, one being the 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.720 ball l podcast. Um, you know this room that we're 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.800 in now actually was the first room that I built. Here. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.400 A little backstory, like, so when I first built the studio, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.039 you know, I have went to Serious XM and I 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.920 was like, yo, like maybe I should you know. I 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:37.240 was at the time myself, Green Lantern, Nina nine Screen, 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.360 We all had shows on on Serious and I was like, 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.479 you know, if I build a studio, when you guys 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.160 partnered with me like maybe making like a serious XM 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.160 South or something, and they were like, yeah, we're down 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.440 to do that. So I went ahead and built this 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.960 room right here and did it. And then I was like, hey, 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.680 look guys, I did it and they were like, yes, 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.920 it's nice, but we don't really have any money. And 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.000 I was like damn. So I was like, you know, well, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.440 um I incurgent right. I was like, well, fun it. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.800 I'm gonna keep on building. So you know, we built 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.080 the the B room which is next door and everything, 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.679 and I kept going and like when I would we 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.960 would do our show in here, that's how I would 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.160 I would introduce people to the studio. I was like, yo, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.360 f well, I like, you know, when people were coming 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.120 as a guest and everything, um. I would show him 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.040 around and just kind of get them to like, you know, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.880 try to do work or or you know, use the studio. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:26.800 And then I started. Then I was building. I had 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.440 this beautiful building and nobody was really working out of it. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.480 And then one day I just called Metro booming and 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.160 I was like, yo, bro, like you know, I got 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.280 the studio. Um, I'm just give you some free time 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.239 and what have you. And Metro came over here into 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.840 the b room and then you know, he started working 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.720 out of there. And this is around the time when 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.840 the was really but this is this is like twenty 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:55.519 I originally started building twenty I bought. I bought the 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.720 build in twenty eleven, really started building it out, and 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:04.320 then like um, Metro came in. And then because the 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.280 Metro came in, Thug. That was my first time meeting Thug, 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.960 and Thug came in and that was you know, our 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.120 first interaction, and he was like this this is your studio. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.720 I like it. I like it. You know. Then Thug 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.760 started working out of here, and then you know, around 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.440 the same time, it was when I did my deal 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.440 at Atlantic and I came on as an A and 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.480 R and uh co on prey through KP was vice 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.639 president of k Chard KP and you know, I was like, hey, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.080 by the way, you know, I'm building a studio in Atlanta, 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.280 Um if you guys might want to partner with me, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.280 So they set KP over here um to check it out, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.440 and KP was like, yeah, it's dope, it's a great idea. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.640 So when I came on in Atlantic, you know, we 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.119 got them. I started using their money and built out 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.160 the rest of the building, you know, um around the 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.560 corner of the ink side and the other room. And 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.120 you know, the back room actually wound up turning out 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.320 to be like the Sunny Digital metro booming room at 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.280 the time when they did this deal. But you know, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.320 like the room next door here, like is in the 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.800 photo shoot, the photosome room, but before that was that 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.640 room right there was the original room where I had 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.920 before we had all this equipment. I had all my 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:08.840 stuff in there. I used to do radio, my my 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.080 mixtapes in there. I did. I did h True Religion 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.400 in that room to chains and it wasn't the anniversary. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.280 It is actually the anniversary of True Religion eleven eleven 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.880 years I did. UM. I think I did Dream Chasers 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.400 maybe one over there in that room and this before 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.360 everything was built, and then you know, like uh, when 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.800 it was when we first saw Uzi he came down 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.680 here for his first time meeting. Thug was in there, 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.279 and you know, Susy did the whole Love His Rage 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.520 and that b room that was his room. Nipsey, you know, 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.840 the Nipsey Rest in Peace of Nipsey, the Nipsey and 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.760 Thug records. Nip Nip was working out of here. Playboy Cardi, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.760 Cardi B did her whole album Invasion of Privacy a 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.720 lot in this building. It's been some legendary stuff in here. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.960 I mean, you know, just the way that the way 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.080 the building is set up, like you know, people were 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.680 running to people in the in the in the um 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.279 in the an area and like you know, gonna gonna 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.080 with just being there chilling it before he was quote 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:11.040 unquote Ghanna um Bad and Bougie uh was made over there. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.160 It's been a lot. It's been a lot through this, 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.000 but I mean Main Streets has become quite legendary, and 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.520 you know, in an Atlanta fixture, So I'm pretty proud 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.480 of it as you are yourself legendary. Thank you very much. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.680 I appreciated. I want to take our time to give 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.800 you your flowers. Um, your name is DJ Drama Man, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.120 Like that's a household name as a DJ in a 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.120 world where DJs tend to be local. Yeah, um, and 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.920 they could be popping locally. I don't want to make 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.440 it seem local, like local was a bad thing. But 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:44.440 when a DJ's recognized nationally, that's a and you globally. Um, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:45.760 that's such a big deal. So I just want to 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.599 take our time to thank you. Flies. Are you ready 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:53.120 because we're gonna We're gonna know I'm here. I I 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:54.400 wanted you to bring it to that. You should have 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.599 told me. I would have brought it. Man, definitely would 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.080 have brought it. I got I just built this, like 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:05.760 you Standford case, glass case. I did. I drunk um. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.280 The first time I drunk out of it was on tour. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.719 When I first I first got it, I drunk. I 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.600 think I took a shot at Cosimigos. I was when 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.960 I was on the Whiz tour this summer, in front 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:17.960 of like the whole crowd, I drunk out of it. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.839 And then like when we dropped Snowfall, uh Me and 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.359 Jeez were on Live and you know when we played 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.240 the song Grammy, I took a shot out of it 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.960 um on on live when I was in I was 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.320 in my uh my little trophy room, well before the Grammy. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:33.960 I just want to take it back. I want to 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.000 go back to Philly. How was hip hop growing up 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.000 in hip hop at that time in Philly, you know, 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.800 before Atlanta, before college and all that. It was. It 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.159 was great. Ironically enough, I just ran in the Omar 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:47.560 Epps last week, and you know he's like one of 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.039 my biggest inspirations for being a DJ. Yeah, off the 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.160 movie Juice. You know I went to go see Juice 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.080 when I was in about to go to high school, uh, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.560 the summer between eighth grade and ninth grade. And you know, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.880 before I was big, before I became a DJ, I 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.880 was I was really in the skateboarding, but I was 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.520 I was trash and like in Philly at the time, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.400 they used to there was like this this like um 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.480 this this this little scene of like black skateboarders that 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.400 used to kind of congregate downtown in the spot called 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.920 Love Park. Um. I'm not if you're familiar with Stevie Williams, 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:25.160 but you know he started d G k UM internationally known. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.120 You know, I grew up. Me and Stevie came up 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.080 together and everything. So out of all the you know, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.640 young black skateboarders, I was like the worst. So I 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.600 was trash, thankfully. So when I saw Juice, I was like, man, 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.400 you know that that's that might be something I want 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.520 to do, like, you know, as a hobby. So I 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.400 started DJ and I came up, um you know, like 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:50.360 in Philly. Um, I literally watched the Roots like kind 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:55.080 of that was my first example of like watching somebody 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.920 really get on and like make it in the music business. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.520 Like I watched them go from like local talent to 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.840 getting their record deal to turning on Rap City on 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.640 two raps and seeing distortion the static video to you know, 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.880 going to their um album really or signing party where 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.040 you know they were on tour with the Fuji's and 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.440 opening up and you know, like, um, quest Love. I 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.560 used to run into him just like downtown playing video 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.240 games or Black Thought used to and Emily be Rust 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.040 and Beach used to like do freestyles for me on 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.800 my little mix tapes and everything. So um yeah, I 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.520 mean Philly had a nice little buzzing hip hop scene. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.240 Another person that really put me on. Was this UM 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.800 female artist in Bahamadia who was actually like my next 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.520 door neighbor to where my dad lived in West Philly, 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.160 and she she was signed to Guru from Gang Star, 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:46.760 and you know, she kind of took me under her 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.320 wing early on and used to take me like to 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.080 New York and go to like, you know, a little 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.199 industry parties and everything. So I was before I came 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.280 to college. I was making a little local name for 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.400 myself and I was making like little local mixtapes Philly 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:06.160 and everything. Yeah, I got that name UM. I think 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.960 I was like fifteen sixteen. Where did it come from? 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.559 So I had these two friends I used to I 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.160 used to work for this organization that did UM like UM. 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.480 It was called Reconstruction, and it was like an outreach 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:22.360 program for UM not for young black men who were 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.280 coming out of prison and looking to you know, get 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.120 back uh into society and what have you. And so 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.840 I was doing like you know, kind of like internship 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.640 type work for for that organization. I had these two 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.719 homeboys that worked with me there, and one was named 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.199 Hakim and one was named Bakari. And Hakin was like 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.120 the biggest Tupac fan ever I just always remember that 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.240 he was super tuer. Bak Fan McCary was from Senegal, 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.880 So his name was Baccari Drama and he used to um. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.280 He used to like sell like mixtapes and incense and like, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.079 you know, dabble a little bit in DJ. And he 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.240 used to sell sell stuff on like Broad and Gerard 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.439 and Philly. So I came used to always call Bacari 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.320 DJ Drama because his last name was Drama. UM, and 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.000 I was like, damn, that sounds like that's a fire name. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:09.920 And at the time I didn't really have a DJ name, 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.040 and Barry wasn't like real, he wasn't like taking his 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.480 DJ ship that serious. He was like the name I 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.439 asked him. I was like, yo, with what you're doing 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.840 with that? You're using it? He was like, no, you 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.480 can have it. So he gave me. He handed me 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.680 over the name DJ Drama. The name I want to 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.520 ask about. How you feel now you gotta grammy, how 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:35.240 do you like? Does that change? Come say hi kid? 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:40.160 Then come on, come on hi Gollo. Yeah, speaking of 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.800 Don Cannon. Uh you where y'all met? Right? We met you? 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:48.880 So I met kennon my sophomore year. Um. He was 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.319 you know this this tall lanky kid that just came on. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:11:00.040 He did he played basketball in high school ever, and 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.640 play Cannon's gotta be six eight six nine. He's uh, 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:11.160 I think he's might never man. So Cannon used to 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.920 like kind of try to like befriend me on campus 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.040 and everything. And I had this other homeboy, Kyle, and 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.319 then went to high school together. So Kyle had kind 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.040 of put in my head that Cannon was a nut right, 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:26.320 like he was like he was like not no, just 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.640 like that's Philly slang, like he's a nutball. Like so 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.319 Cannon used to you know, you know, I had already 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:38.199 I had a little rep on campus already, like by 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:39.920 you know, after my freshman year, and me and me 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.040 and since used to do all the parties and everything together. 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.079 So finally, so finally, one day Cannon was like, Yo, 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.880 I want to give you my bat C D and um, 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.280 he gave me his bt c D and I went 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.599 home and that ship was fired. Like ship. He was 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.719 like baby premier. And the next day I was like, Yo, 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.640 this ship is hot, bro, and like we should be friends, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.880 you know what I'm saying. So um, and then you know, 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.760 after that, we just you know, we were inseparable. I mean, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.320 you know, it's literally been twenty well I want to 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.720 age myself too much, but you know, two decades plus 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.000 that you know, we've been We've been um friends and partners, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.560 business partners and working together and everything. But yeah, we 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.640 literally met on CU campus. And I I don't think everybody 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.320 knew that you went to a Yeah, yeah, I went 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:24.920 to Clark, Atlanta. I mean that was what got me. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.080 That's that's why I came to Atlanta. Like you know, 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.280 I came um to Atlanta to A ten Clark and 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:31.839 like the way when I was in Philly, I always 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.400 thought I was gonna wind up in New York, um, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.720 you know, living in Brooklyn, like on the Brownstone, you know. 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.680 And but I came down to visit Atlanta a couple 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.319 of times with my pop, and I just loved the culture. 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.760 Like you know, anybody that comes down here you can 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.560 see like it's just a place of you know, as 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.920 we call it now, Wakonda. But you know, it was 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.640 just like you can you can feel the vibrant energy 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.600 of it was amazing in the nineties, like you know, 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:02.840 just young people of color everywhere into everything, and it 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.280 was it was the place to be, and I came 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.520 in like the right, I came into very Tail and 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.560 Freaknick and even like the first Freak Nick, so I 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.880 came in ninety six, and so they say that like 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.719 the last Freaknick was literally like ninety seven, and in 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.920 ninety seven for Freak Nick instaid of me, like, you know, 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.600 I've always been a hustler, So like I bought, I 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.120 bought a bunch of T shirts wholesale, and during Freaknick, 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.120 I was hustling T shirts. So everybody used to know 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:27.920 me as like hustle man beating back in the day. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.520 Come on us, man. So you come to Atlanta already 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.760 established as DJ Drama. You're doing the mix tapes, and 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.600 we know that there's probably a lot of like Philly 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.040 sounds from New York sound, but I feel like the 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.720 South was still trying to figure out, like what is 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.480 our staples? Now? How did you find yourself in the 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.800 mix of Atlanta music? Because you know, Atlanta is a 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.920 we are a bubble, right absolutely, you know, we accept 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.880 what we want to accept, right, So I mean, thankfully 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.960 enough for me coming down here and becoming to school 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.760 because I was very very East Coast stubborn and a 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.160 lot of ways. Um I was. I had always been 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.880 a big outcast fan for sure, like even you know, 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.800 even before I got here. But you know, going to 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.520 school in the a u C. You have kids from everywhere, 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.760 like all over the country, and everybody wants to be pleased, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.840 you know, especially in college parties like DC niggas wanting 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.520 here go go Florida want to hear base at the Tom. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.320 West Coast niggas won da hear West Coach sh it. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.720 You know, Texas want to hear they ship, like Louisiana 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:31.440 one to hear they ship like New York Try State. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.880 Everybody wanted to hear their ship. So it trained me 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.680 how to be very well rounded as a DJ in 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.200 that sense. And then but I still was kind of 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.440 like you know, I was. I was still I still 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.320 had my backpacker roots too, So you know, there used 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.000 to be this thing called Lyricist Lounge, and like you know, 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.880 my my roommate at the Tom was was best friends 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.640 with Live Quality. So I came up like you know, 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.280 hanging out with Black Star when they would come to Atlanta. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.880 So I was, you know, I was. I was kind 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.600 of like a renaissance man in a lot of ways. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.160 So then when I started doing mix tapes, you know, um, 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.920 or when I when I got back into mix tapes 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.560 when I was in school. You know, I would set 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.800 up on campus and you know, literally sell my own 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.240 my own tapes and then turned into CD. So I 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.560 would have like East Coast tape, Reggae tape, and Neil 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.160 Soult tape. And then when I did I finally did 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.400 a South tape, like that ship just took off like 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.640 hot cakes. And you know, I remember like my first 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.440 South tape ever, the first song on there was like 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.920 Bling Blaine. So this had to be about ninety and 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.120 ninety nine, around the cash Money era run And when 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.280 I got to Atlanta, um, it was in the midst 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:41.760 of the Big Own dominance. So shout the Jelly Monte, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.640 you know, like Big when it came to the mixed 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.600 mix tapes and mixed CDs, they ran the South and 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.240 they ran Atlanta like that was that was it, Like 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.120 Big was everywhere. They had their own stores, you know, 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.920 and you know that was literally like that that was 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:03.000 the sound of of the mixtape scene in Atlanta. So 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.360 just to fast forward a little bit, when I when 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:10.600 I started Gangster Girls, and like I remember people telling 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.000 me like, yo, if you do a South mixtape, like 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.080 you know, they don't want to hear people talk on there, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.160 or they don't want to hear new music or no 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.560 freestyles or none of that ship like and because that 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.440 was they were kind of used to a certain sound 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.880 just based off what people were doing. And even at 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.200 the time, like um camping, then they didn't really have 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.240 like covers or you know, they would just like have 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.840 their CDs with the number, you know, whatever number CD 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.680 it was and what have you. And then I kind 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.040 of just went against the grain like of what people 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.960 were telling me, nigga's in the South want to hear 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:48.480 and I really like applied like up North formula to 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.080 Southern music. So I was you know at the time, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.480 like having a host was was something that was popular 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.840 up north from the East Coast. So you know, I 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.680 got a little John the host. That's how the Gangster 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.160 Girl Drop was born. And then I started just like 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.760 kind of talking on tapes and I was like getting like, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.679 you know, local artists. Local at the time, nigga's like 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.760 Tip and you know, David Banner and Killer Mike to 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.199 like do freestyles and stuff, and you know, and I 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.960 was putting a lot of effort into the covers and 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.359 things of that nature, and the ship just took off, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.840 you know. And so basically like you know, me going 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.359 against the grain of what people told me, niggas wanted 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.040 to hear, and me, you know, trying something different. It 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.960 worked and at the time, nobody in Atlanta or in 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.560 the South were making tapes like what Gangster Whels was 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.840 and then ship took off. Okay, wait, so my big 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.919 dog Jessy was on Drink Champs earlier, um, and he 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:48.520 said you didn't want to do his mixtapes. You said 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.879 he wasn't hot enough. Now you are on the Baller 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.520 Show podcast. Do you have a rebuttal, sir? Or is 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.359 this accurate? And yeah, that's not that's not all the 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.840 way accurate. That's not all that's not what happened. Um. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:05.639 So the part that's true was he definitely used to 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.000 make I used to make show CDs for him, and 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:14.280 I didn't make him charged in my hundred dollars d First, yeah, 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.040 hundred dollars was driving the land but it was nothing. 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.240 Then yeah, I was living in the full for it 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.320 in the duplex, which is still there. Did you make 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.680 him take it I didn't make him taking shoes. That 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.400 part of the story is true. I made him take 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.399 I made him taking shoes off to coming to my 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:34.359 my humble about four for and I would make I 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.000 would make a show c ds for him. And everything 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.760 about the part about me turning him down to do 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.119 a tape, that's that's not true. What really happened was 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.280 I was I was making gangster Grills and you know, 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.280 I was getting some buzz to it. And then I 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:53.120 had did a party Shout the Cloud nine and Batty 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.800 uh By we did a we did a gangster Grills 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.040 party in Buckhead at the time, and that was my 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.120 first gangster grills already. I had tip posting. I think 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.920 Um bone Crusher was there. I think Fab was Fab 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:10.760 was there? Um? Who else was that? Maybe maybe Scrappy? Yeah? 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.919 So and Jez was there in the cut. You know 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.720 he wasn't you know Jeez the superstar rapper yet so 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.320 coaching jeez Um told me they wanted to take me 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.080 to lunch and have a meeting. So we went to 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.480 harry AND's sons and we sat down and Jeez told me, like, yo, 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.919 I was at your party. I don't know if you know, 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.159 but the streets really funk with you, like and I 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.280 was like, oh, were like you know, and you know, 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.760 I was in the streets like doing mixtapes, but I 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.399 wasn't in the streets, so he was telling me the 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.280 streets funk with me. So um, he was like, look, 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.399 I got this idea, like, you know, I got this 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.399 vision to do this project. And that was Jez was 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.480 the first person to ever pay me to do a mix, 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.879 to do like a gangst grow so so they gave me. 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:54.560 They gave me a thousand dollars. That was the first 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.080 time I got paid to do it against growth and 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.280 you know, but I was like, he told me, said, 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.040 I got a vision. This is what my movement is. 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.159 And you know, originally the tape was called geez Up. 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.720 Before it was called Streets Is Watching, but Scrappy's crew 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:11.919 was called gee Up, so we wanted up changing the 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.280 name of it to the Streets Is Watching. But at 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.040 the time, you know, I was like, all right, whatever, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.320 you know, he's trying to pay me for a mixtape. 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.840 I'm cool with it, you know. Um. And then I 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.440 went into the tape and then you know, my man 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:30.040 rolled up on me on the on Glenn Iris Glenn 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.800 Irish when I was on Glenn Irish after this Streets 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:34.879 Is Watching and he was like, Yo, that new the 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.600 Geez tape. That's the best gangster grills ever. And I 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.880 was like, what like the new nigga? You know, like 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.800 I just did like a t I tape And I'm like, huh, 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:46.760 And you were never paid for like t I tape. Now, 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:48.840 I never got paid for nothing before that. I was 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.760 just doing tapes like you know, I was, I was 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:55.160 selling them, but nobody ever paid me to do just 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:59.440 like their tape. And then, um, yeah, you know, next thing, 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.480 you know, fucking Streets Is Watching is the hottest thing 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.680 in the South East. You can't go nowhere without hearing 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.240 that music. And you had to hear me all over 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.479 it because that was the only place that existed was 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:15.359 on that you know, on that platform. So um so yeah. 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.240 The part about the part about me telling him now 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.960 you're not hot enough, he he fabricated that a little, 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:27.639 but I'd say seventy five. So I gotta I got 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:32.000 a question. So do you feel like DJ Kelly is 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:37.080 duck in the smoke? Um? Yeah, is he duck in 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:39.840 the smoke? I don't know. I mean because you've been 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.960 calling him out. I ain't been calling him out. I've 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.280 been calling anybody out, like I'm just not running, you know. 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.919 I guess I guess the difference in the interviews is 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.439 that in the interviews that I've done, you know, his 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.720 name comes up, So I guess the difference needs to 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:01.760 be you know, whenever he gets on a platform, you know, 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:05.919 someone specifically needs to bring my name up, you know 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.159 what I'm saying. So you know, I don't know, I 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:11.360 you know, I mean, I don't know if my name 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:14.000 came up and drink Champs, you know, when Nori did 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.040 the interview. I don't know. We have to ask Nori. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:21.399 But you know, in the interviews that I've done, obviously 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.840 his name has came up, and I've said that I'm 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:28.240 with all the smoke, you know what I'm saying. So um, yeah, 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:30.560 I think that that I've already answered it, you know 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.200 what I mean. I think that's more of a question 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:35.119 for him. Someone needs to bring my name up, and 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:37.040 you know, and it's all love. I think at the 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:39.320 end of the day, like it would be great for 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:42.439 the culture, you know what I'm saying, to see DJ's 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.520 on our level, like you know, as we know, versus 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:47.640 to be a celebration, you know what I'm saying, Like 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:49.760 you know, and it's all you know, hip hop is 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.920 a very competitive sport. I don't I don't care where 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:58.280 it is. Like I'm I'm I'm coming a ball, you 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:00.359 know what I mean? Like you know, like I haven't 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:06.359 an extreme catalog, you know, um as does calid. You 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:09.199 know what I'm saying. So um I think it just 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:11.120 it would be a great time, you know what I mean. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:14.200 So I'm with I'm with all, I'm with all the fun, 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:16.560 and I'm with all the smoke, so we can go 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:19.199 whatever way with it, you know what I mean. I'm 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:22.400 I'm ready to bless anybody else. There are so many 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:26.040 people that just don't understand why mixtapes were so big, 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:28.879 so important in two thous and for those of you 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:31.400 that don't know, you didn't really need clearance like you can. 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:33.760 It was like the wild West. Yeah it was. It 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:36.840 was a free for all and that's what mixtapes so 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:38.359 great because you did not have to go through the 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:43.240 regality or not. And it was great until the cop came. 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.840 It was crazy back then. Why were they on you 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:53.040 as hard as they were? Um? I mean, you know, 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.600 I was the top of the food chain, like you 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:59.560 know I was like when I was the mixtape king, 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:03.520 Like yeah, it was. You know I was when you 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.160 when you watch the footage and they came and confiscated 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:10.280 fifties six thousand CDs like you know, we were, we 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:13.399 was getting to it, you know what I'm saying. So, um, 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:15.359 I don't know why they want me so hard because 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:19.199 at the time, like I was, you know, I was 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.520 working directly with the artists, Like I wasn't a bootlegger, 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:24.679 you know what I'm saying. It wasn't like I was 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:28.320 stealing Nigga's music and putting it out or labels couldn't 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:32.560 control it. They couldn't exactly, and and the labels weren't 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:37.320 all the way into cahoots. So like the promotions department, um, 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:39.879 and you know the marketing department I was, you know, 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:43.280 they haraled to me, but you know, the legal department 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:46.800 or the other side probably didn't understand, like why are 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:49.800 we giving this guy this music or allowing our artists 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:53.080 to you know, use his platform and put these CDs 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:56.000 out that are not you know, sanctioned by us. You 0:24:56.040 --> 0:24:58.879 know what I'm saying. So um, yeah, it was. I 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:00.520 think it was just at a time, um, in the 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:02.840 space where the music industry was going through a lot 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:06.359 of hits and you know they were watching like their 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:11.439 their bottom dollar kind of um, kind of not making sense, 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:13.840 and you know they came after me, you know what 0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:16.760 I mean. And yeah, it was. It was a crazy time. 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:18.920 You know. Um it was the gay the day the 0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:21.800 game change, you know, the mixtape game. And I was like, 0:25:22.560 --> 0:25:25.760 you know, for me, like because growing up such a 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:28.720 fan of mix tapes and mixtape culture, like you know, 0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:30.920 I felt a lot of guilt at first, like damn, 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:34.119 I can't watch this culture like die on my shoulders 0:25:34.160 --> 0:25:36.560 that I you know that I that I grew up 0:25:36.960 --> 0:25:39.160 loving so much. And then I become you know that 0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:41.840 guy and then here they try to you know, destroy 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:44.040 it or take it down while while I'm in control. 0:25:44.160 --> 0:25:47.240 So um, but yeah, I mean, you know, and it 0:25:47.320 --> 0:25:49.440 was crazy. It's like if you watch the reports sty 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:52.600 you know, when they're going to news, the cops says, normally, 0:25:52.640 --> 0:25:57.320 any situations we find guns and drugs. Um, this circumstance 0:25:57.359 --> 0:26:00.480 we didn't like. Thankfully, they came on like a Monday morning, 0:26:00.640 --> 0:26:02.960 like when we just got back from m oka weekend. 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:06.720 They didn't find one split, one handgun, no nothing, just 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:09.119 CD s, you know, so they tried to make it 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:12.240 out obviously you know the criminalization of hip hop and like, 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:14.159 you know, I don't know if they thought they was 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:18.199 gonna really like come us some big ass, you know, 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:21.679 crime organization, like because you know, they really hit me 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:24.760 with the rico, like you some real ship, you know 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:28.480 what I'm saying. And I was like, what making I'm 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:31.000 making mixtapes. Yeah, I'm a sucking DJ. Like what are 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:34.960 you talking about until monetize? I do have a question. Um, 0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:38.000 we never really I don't know. I haven't seen anyone 0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:42.399 to ask you this question. Affiliates, Okay, I always wanted 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:44.800 an affiliate change because I was I remember I was 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:47.520 around at the time, and I was like, damn, that 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:49.639 was actually one of the reasons why I wanted to. 0:26:49.680 --> 0:26:55.320 I started doing mixtapes watching You have a Crew, and 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:58.800 I remember I was at compound. Um. I wasn't supposed 0:26:58.800 --> 0:27:02.680 to be there. Um, I was old, had to be eighteen, 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:07.240 crazy um. And I saw all these affiliate change in 0:27:07.280 --> 0:27:09.119 the building. Then I saw you walk past me. I 0:27:09.160 --> 0:27:12.320 was like, whole ship, that's DJ drama and I've just 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:17.160 seen everybody needs affiliate change. Where did that name come from? 0:27:17.240 --> 0:27:19.160 And like, I want to talk about that era because 0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:20.720 that was a that was a nice little era in 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:23.439 the pocket you was in on that they were all 0:27:23.480 --> 0:27:26.560 they were colorful and long. There was the Long Change. 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:33.240 Um yeah. So basically it was actually after the CU days. 0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:37.800 We were out of school and at the time we 0:27:37.800 --> 0:27:42.000 were part of uh crew called the super Friends. UM 0:27:42.320 --> 0:27:47.240 where that was you know shout the DJ Mars, DJ Trauma, UM, 0:27:47.560 --> 0:27:55.159 DJ Doc, uh Cowboy Rock Fahrenheit. Um. Yeah, it was 0:27:55.960 --> 0:27:58.159 so and they were like older than us, so they 0:27:58.160 --> 0:28:01.239 were like, you know, they were pretty much to go 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:06.280 to DJ's in Atlanta, you know, um um, and you 0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:09.840 know Mars, Mars and Trauma were like kind of we 0:28:09.880 --> 0:28:12.760 were me Cannon and sense kind of like looked up 0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:14.359 to them in a lot of ways. You know, they 0:28:14.400 --> 0:28:17.760 were like somewhat mentors in a sense and what have you. 0:28:17.960 --> 0:28:23.000 And and we they made us part of the super Friends, 0:28:23.080 --> 0:28:25.800 so we became like kind of the youngest members of 0:28:25.800 --> 0:28:28.960 the super Friends, and we were you know, super friends 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:32.040 were on fire in Atlanta, like I guess from like 0:28:32.400 --> 0:28:35.920 you know, good Oh one too. You know, those those 0:28:35.960 --> 0:28:40.080 those years formidable years before the Affiliates came along, So 0:28:40.560 --> 0:28:44.320 at the time we were having some differences with them, 0:28:44.600 --> 0:28:49.840 and um, the main fallout. Um. Then my version of 0:28:49.880 --> 0:28:54.360 the story, um was that basically Jacob York offered the 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:59.080 super Friends opportunity to do an album and he was 0:28:59.280 --> 0:29:01.640 going to give them like fifty grand or something to 0:29:01.720 --> 0:29:05.360 like do a super Friends album, and we were so 0:29:05.720 --> 0:29:08.080 I remember we used to have meetings and everything. So 0:29:08.120 --> 0:29:10.160 then when they when they came to the table, they 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:11.800 were like, all right, well, if we do an album, 0:29:12.040 --> 0:29:14.080 we need to we should call it Gangster Grills because 0:29:14.120 --> 0:29:17.080 that's like the hottest brand, you know. But they were 0:29:17.120 --> 0:29:21.120 like really party like, like very focused on parties, and 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:24.400 we were trying we were focused on mixtapes, and you know, 0:29:24.440 --> 0:29:26.480 at the time, they like kind of told us like yo, 0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:29.840 like Jelly Monte oomed camp, like they got the mix 0:29:29.880 --> 0:29:32.480 tape ship, like when it comes to like getting sponsorships 0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:34.960 and everything, we need to use this money towards parties. 0:29:34.960 --> 0:29:36.720 So we were kind of like, damn, we can't get 0:29:36.760 --> 0:29:39.600 no money to sponsor our mix tapes because all the 0:29:39.600 --> 0:29:42.440 money was going to the parties. So I didn't really 0:29:42.440 --> 0:29:46.280 want to use Gangster Grills as the title for the 0:29:46.280 --> 0:29:49.840 album because I was, you know, feeling somewhat indifferent at 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:53.840 the time, and um, they pretty much kicked me out. 0:29:53.960 --> 0:29:56.040 They were like, well, we can't use Gangster Girls you 0:29:56.040 --> 0:29:59.840 know for the title, like, you know, they removed they 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:03.760 don't come to the bowling party. The next we were 0:30:03.800 --> 0:30:06.520 having we were having some with some I was having 0:30:06.560 --> 0:30:09.800 some issues with them the management at the time of 0:30:10.520 --> 0:30:13.560 you know, just just the management of of the super Friends, 0:30:13.600 --> 0:30:15.800 Like I just was kind of, you know, we weren't 0:30:15.840 --> 0:30:17.840 seeing eye to eye, and I just was like, yo, 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:20.440 you know, gangs Girls was my baby, Like I didn't 0:30:20.440 --> 0:30:23.480 want the super Friends album to be the Gangster Girls album. 0:30:24.000 --> 0:30:27.760 So yeah, so they pretty much like you know, kind 0:30:27.760 --> 0:30:30.840 of kicked me out. And then you know, Sentin Cannon, 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:34.440 you know, those being my brothers, you know, they were like, yo, 0:30:34.480 --> 0:30:37.479 if job goes, we go. So we left. We had 0:30:37.640 --> 0:30:39.440 we had this other friend of ours that I've known 0:30:39.560 --> 0:30:42.320 literally since like sixth grade. His name is Ace McLeod 0:30:42.360 --> 0:30:45.040 E's from Philly two and he was pretty much like, man, 0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:46.840 funk that ship. We don't need them, Like, let's do 0:30:46.880 --> 0:30:48.800 our own ship, Like we could start our own group. 0:30:49.240 --> 0:30:51.000 And he came up with the Affiliates, and the A 0:30:51.240 --> 0:30:55.920 was for Atlanta and Affiliates spelled it, yeah for pH 0:30:56.040 --> 0:31:01.320 I L L was that was tipped to debt. So 0:31:01.360 --> 0:31:04.360 we started so because because we left the super Friends, 0:31:04.400 --> 0:31:08.080 we started the Affiliates. And interestingly enough, there was this 0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:10.800 little magazine that was coming to do a story on 0:31:11.280 --> 0:31:13.600 us being super friends, and we told him like, yo, 0:31:14.400 --> 0:31:16.720 we're not super friends no more. Like we started this 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:18.720 new group and they were like, all right, well cool, 0:31:18.720 --> 0:31:21.200 we'll put you all in the covers the Affiliates. So 0:31:21.760 --> 0:31:25.960 you know, like next thing, you know, it was like, um, 0:31:26.720 --> 0:31:28.680 the Affiliates were like you know, the new kids on 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:31.840 the block, you know, and Gangster Girls was was heating up, 0:31:31.880 --> 0:31:34.360 and you know what I'm saying, and you know, super 0:31:34.400 --> 0:31:36.760 Friends and Affiliates we went. You know, we had little 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:39.920 competitive back and forths and all types of you know, 0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:42.960 little things here and there, which again this is twenty 0:31:43.080 --> 0:31:45.760 years ago, so we're all homies now to this day. 0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:48.640 Like but but yeah, but I mean, yeah, that was 0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:51.080 literally how we came up with the Affiliates because we 0:31:51.120 --> 0:31:53.520 wound up leaving the super Friends and starting our own ship. 0:31:53.760 --> 0:31:56.160 And then you know, around that time and it was. 0:31:56.360 --> 0:31:58.080 It was tough. I just sit on um when I 0:31:58.200 --> 0:32:01.120 when I sat on Seti's tape, like yo. It was 0:32:01.160 --> 0:32:04.720 literally around that time, I was like going broke and 0:32:04.760 --> 0:32:07.880 almost moved back to Philly because I was like, you know, 0:32:08.400 --> 0:32:11.560 Gangster Grills is lit. Gangster Grills was just getting lit. 0:32:12.160 --> 0:32:15.360 But I wasn't seeing no real money like I was. 0:32:16.200 --> 0:32:18.600 You know, like the bootleggers was making way more money 0:32:18.600 --> 0:32:21.000 off gangs girls than I was. I was just just 0:32:21.400 --> 0:32:23.800 breaking even type ship, you know, just making them. But 0:32:23.920 --> 0:32:27.040 the Gangs girls was was still a thing. But I 0:32:27.080 --> 0:32:31.400 was like, yo' I'm not you know, yeah, I couldn't. 0:32:31.480 --> 0:32:34.200 It wasn't enough to really cover the bills. And almost, 0:32:34.680 --> 0:32:37.320 you know, I almost went home and then and then 0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:39.880 you know, one thing led to another that affiliates started, 0:32:40.000 --> 0:32:43.760 and then Gangster Grills just like took off. I feel 0:32:43.800 --> 0:32:46.360 like with you DJ since don Kan, I think what 0:32:46.520 --> 0:32:48.760 you guys were able to accomplish is so amazing. It 0:32:48.840 --> 0:32:51.360 kind of reminds me of like Ja Big and Bigs 0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:54.960 and Dame Um how they stuck together and got their 0:32:55.000 --> 0:32:57.640 stuff together. And I just think that it's just amazing. 0:32:57.680 --> 0:33:00.520 I think your story is amazing and you have like 0:33:00.560 --> 0:33:04.920 a documentary later on or anything. I'm working on it. Um. 0:33:04.960 --> 0:33:09.479 I've had numerous production companies and numerous people come to 0:33:09.480 --> 0:33:12.840 me about telling my story and the documentary. So, um, 0:33:13.040 --> 0:33:15.760 I'm actually in the process of doing it now, just 0:33:15.800 --> 0:33:21.600 trying to do it accurately, um and tell the right story. 0:33:21.840 --> 0:33:23.840 And there's a couple of different stories to be told, 0:33:23.840 --> 0:33:27.920 but I'm definitely working on it. But there's like, so 0:33:28.000 --> 0:33:31.400 there's an NPR, there's a Tiny Desk podcast that kind 0:33:31.440 --> 0:33:34.080 of tells somewhat in my story, but a lot of 0:33:34.120 --> 0:33:36.680 the focus is about the raid. And then like you know, 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:40.760 like Hip Hop Evolutions did an episode on this on Netflix. Um, 0:33:40.800 --> 0:33:44.240 so there's different pieces here and there, but like at 0:33:44.280 --> 0:33:46.920 some point I'm definitely gonna tell like the DJ drama 0:33:46.920 --> 0:33:49.600 against the Girls story for sure. And then you know, 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:52.160 like you said, like you know, just myself and Cannon 0:33:52.240 --> 0:33:55.000 and Sense and even Lake show, like you know, we 0:33:55.000 --> 0:33:58.560 we we all know each other since college, you know 0:33:58.600 --> 0:34:01.280 what I mean, And like we say, we're a prime 0:34:01.320 --> 0:34:04.560 example that friends and business can mix, you know what 0:34:04.560 --> 0:34:07.720 I mean, Like we've literally been friends for twenty plus 0:34:07.840 --> 0:34:11.239 years and been in business for you know, just that 0:34:11.320 --> 0:34:13.640 amount of time in so many ways, and like we 0:34:13.680 --> 0:34:16.400 know each other's strengths, we know each other's weaknesses. We 0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:19.279 crack jokes about each other all day, Like you know, 0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:22.600 we have internal arguments and you know, don't always see 0:34:22.600 --> 0:34:24.359 eye to eye at something. You know, it was a 0:34:24.360 --> 0:34:26.399 time and space for me and Canada had fell out 0:34:26.960 --> 0:34:29.719 and then you know we came back together. But um, 0:34:29.880 --> 0:34:33.200 but yeah, I mean, you know, similar to you know, 0:34:33.400 --> 0:34:36.879 the the origins of of Rockefeller, Like you know, us 0:34:36.880 --> 0:34:39.560 coming up together like that definitely is a is a 0:34:39.600 --> 0:34:41.719 dope story that I think needs to be told. Sure, 0:34:42.000 --> 0:34:44.680 do you feel like a new sense of energy around 0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:47.680 your career legacy? Because I don't know if it's just me, 0:34:47.760 --> 0:34:51.840 but noticing like Usher and like all these people that um, 0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:55.440 you know have had amazing careers are like really getting 0:34:55.440 --> 0:34:58.160 their flowers. Us it's on a whole run, making a 0:34:58.200 --> 0:35:01.359 whole new bag old. So right, what do you think 0:35:01.360 --> 0:35:02.960 this is? Do you think the hip hop community is 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:05.919 just little better about giving flowers? Are we just paying 0:35:05.920 --> 0:35:08.719 more attention to our leaders? What do you think this 0:35:08.800 --> 0:35:12.680 new energy is? Um? You know, I think everything just 0:35:13.400 --> 0:35:16.839 comes full circle or it has his moment of nostalgia, 0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:20.200 you know, So I think that you know, I'm in 0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:23.719 a space of you know, after there's a there's an 0:35:23.800 --> 0:35:26.680 error of that like literally grew up on me. You 0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:28.279 know what I'm saying that there's a there's an error 0:35:28.360 --> 0:35:30.000 that came up with me, and there's an arraa that 0:35:30.040 --> 0:35:32.560 grew up on me, like one of those being Tyler 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:35.279 for an example. You know. So for him, it was 0:35:35.280 --> 0:35:37.880 always a dream of him, dream of his to have 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:41.360 a Gangster Girls or you know how influential Gangster Grills 0:35:41.520 --> 0:35:44.120 was to him, like the Farrell tape or you know 0:35:44.160 --> 0:35:46.279 the Wayane tapes and everything. So for him to make 0:35:46.360 --> 0:35:49.799 his album into Against Girls album and then for us 0:35:49.840 --> 0:35:53.000 to you know, go ahead and it you know, be 0:35:53.160 --> 0:35:56.560 this amazing body of work. Um, and then you know 0:35:56.680 --> 0:36:00.799 the space that I'm in right now, Like I know, 0:36:00.840 --> 0:36:05.120 I feel in uh an energy, you know, just myself, 0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:07.839 you know, with what I've what I've done and accomplished. 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:09.440 And you know, for me, it was like even when 0:36:09.440 --> 0:36:11.320 I first got on, like you know, I was like 0:36:11.400 --> 0:36:13.520 all right, like you know, and it I felt like 0:36:13.560 --> 0:36:15.400 it took me like a good Like I started DJ 0:36:15.480 --> 0:36:17.880 at ninety two. I feel like I got on maybe 0:36:17.920 --> 0:36:21.239 like oh four oh five, like so that was like 0:36:21.600 --> 0:36:24.320 twelve years of like grinding it out, you know what 0:36:24.360 --> 0:36:26.080 I'm saying, And it was like, all right, now that 0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:27.960 I got here, like how do you stay here? Like, 0:36:28.440 --> 0:36:30.000 you know, how do you stay relevant? You know what 0:36:30.040 --> 0:36:34.319 I'm saying. So to be in two after you know, 0:36:35.120 --> 0:36:38.080 thirty years of DJ and or after like you know, 0:36:39.160 --> 0:36:42.280 after really making a name for myself at oh five, 0:36:42.440 --> 0:36:45.239 and to be like probably like you know, we talked 0:36:45.239 --> 0:36:47.760 about this last week, like having one of the hottest 0:36:47.800 --> 0:36:50.600 moments in my career. Like he's a real testament, you 0:36:50.600 --> 0:36:54.680 know what I'm saying. So you know, it's like it's 0:36:54.760 --> 0:36:57.640 it's like on top of all the legacy of what 0:36:57.719 --> 0:37:01.040 I've already accomplished, and then too then go after after 0:37:01.120 --> 0:37:04.399 the Affiliates and Gangster Grills and then start generation now 0:37:04.520 --> 0:37:06.680 and then you know, to be part of the success 0:37:06.719 --> 0:37:10.440 of Oozy's career and and and Jack Harlow and you know, 0:37:10.520 --> 0:37:12.759 and now just for Surgeon a gangster Grills just like 0:37:13.360 --> 0:37:15.440 it's a whole new life. I mean, it's give your 0:37:15.440 --> 0:37:18.359 way to a lifetime achievement war you know, one day 0:37:18.600 --> 0:37:20.800 and then then I still got a lot to accomplish, 0:37:20.840 --> 0:37:23.600 you know what I mean. So I'm you know, I'm 0:37:23.640 --> 0:37:25.120 loving it. You know what I mean, I'm I'm I'm 0:37:25.200 --> 0:37:27.759 forty four years old, and even just being on it, 0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:29.640 like I said, like I went on tour Whids and 0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:31.719 Logic this summer and I was walking. When I walk 0:37:31.800 --> 0:37:33.880 out and do my first set, these kids are literally 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:37.760 like chanting my name and like he's like eighteen, nineteen 0:37:37.960 --> 0:37:40.359 twenty year old kids, and you know, and then my 0:37:40.400 --> 0:37:43.760 first set, I'm playing Tyler and I'm playing I'm playing 0:37:43.880 --> 0:37:47.239 stick off the dreamvill tape and everything, and you know, 0:37:47.400 --> 0:37:49.360 or my daughter, my sixteen year old daughter showing me 0:37:49.400 --> 0:37:52.880 text messages of her friends like hype off the NBA, 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:56.000 young Boy, Gangster Grills, you know what I mean. So um, 0:37:56.680 --> 0:37:58.840 it's it's it's a great space to be in, you know. 0:37:58.880 --> 0:38:01.200 And it's just again it's a it's a testament of 0:38:01.239 --> 0:38:04.400 how much like I love the music, I love the 0:38:04.440 --> 0:38:06.400 culture like I love what I do, you know what 0:38:06.520 --> 0:38:09.320 I mean, Like, it doesn't matter if I was making 0:38:09.360 --> 0:38:14.640 no money or you know, eight figures, nine figures, like 0:38:15.000 --> 0:38:19.440 I love hip hop like to its very core and 0:38:19.480 --> 0:38:21.840 its essence. And it was always a point for me 0:38:21.920 --> 0:38:25.560 to show how invested into the culture I am and 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:28.680 have been my whole life. It's a legendary DJ drama 0:38:28.680 --> 0:38:31.839 on the Boiler Show. Um, I got a question, so 0:38:31.920 --> 0:38:33.879 after I just wanna go back to Jeezy real quick. 0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:36.600 After he paid you for that, did you get paid 0:38:36.640 --> 0:38:39.839 for the Wane tape next? Or were they paying you afterwards? 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:42.480 So I didn't I didn't pay for Wane tape? So Wayne, 0:38:42.560 --> 0:38:46.200 after I did the G I did Jeez Streets is 0:38:46.239 --> 0:38:50.040 Watching and then that popped, and then I did we 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:53.319 did Trapper Die, and then I didn't get I didn't 0:38:53.320 --> 0:38:55.239 get paid for Trapper Die. I don't think I gotta 0:38:55.239 --> 0:38:57.839 pay for TRAFFI paid from Trapper Do Why I made 0:38:57.920 --> 0:39:00.440 money off of trapper Dot? Oh god. So by that 0:39:00.480 --> 0:39:03.280 point we had already like made it. You know, trap 0:39:03.680 --> 0:39:06.200 was crazy? Yeah, we was. We was no, no, no no. 0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:10.520 When the dedication comes, So basically after I did Trapper Die, 0:39:10.520 --> 0:39:12.600 I was like, damn, what the funk I'm gonna do next? Like, 0:39:13.080 --> 0:39:16.160 how am I going to top this dedication and the 0:39:16.760 --> 0:39:20.680 dedication to how many years? Now there's seven dedications because 0:39:20.680 --> 0:39:23.719 there's six and there's a six point five? So is 0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:26.040 my favorite? Yeah? She is my favorite? To two is 0:39:26.160 --> 0:39:29.600 two is incredible? Um, so yeah, so I was you know, 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:33.759 the dedication series came. The first dedication came right after 0:39:33.840 --> 0:39:37.239 Trapper Die, like literally dropped within months of each other. 0:39:37.680 --> 0:39:40.439 But so I didn't I didn't get like I didn't 0:39:40.520 --> 0:39:43.520 charge Wayne for a tape. But then they were already like, yo, 0:39:43.560 --> 0:39:46.400 Gotti paid me for a tape. Um, so you're charging 0:39:46.440 --> 0:39:48.800 at this particular moment. So I started charging, like people 0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:51.520 started paying me for gangster girls after after that, probably 0:39:51.719 --> 0:39:56.359 a lot. Alright, So I mean legally, can you say, like, 0:39:56.680 --> 0:39:58.919 what's the number? He was about to say, you're about 0:39:58.920 --> 0:40:01.960 go ahead? I can. Yeah, I think God mean God's 0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:05.800 first tape. I think God he gave me like sism. 0:40:05.880 --> 0:40:08.360 So that was early on, and then like the numbers 0:40:08.360 --> 0:40:12.200 went to like tens, they went to tens, they went 0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:17.799 to fifteen, they went to twenties. Just cover to here 0:40:17.840 --> 0:40:24.799 talking some with the number now crazy all right, so 0:40:24.840 --> 0:40:29.359 what about snowfalls? How much? This is? What's the number now? Sir? 0:40:29.640 --> 0:40:35.160 What's that? The numbers now? Yesterday price? It's not two 0:40:35.280 --> 0:40:38.160 days rice snowfall? How did that have because you know 0:40:38.200 --> 0:40:41.520 that's my guy, you're my guy. How did this conversation happen? 0:40:41.760 --> 0:40:44.480 So can it happen without me, and I'm I'm perplexed. 0:40:45.080 --> 0:40:48.600 Plex God, I'm perplexed. I I'm over here, like wait, 0:40:48.680 --> 0:40:51.359 it's been in discussions for like over a year now 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:55.120 that we've been planning this. Um. It really started between 0:40:55.200 --> 0:40:59.680 Cannon and Jeez. They had gotten back in, you know, 0:40:59.760 --> 0:41:02.879 can came up with the title UM and you know 0:41:03.120 --> 0:41:05.520 they were you know, working on working on the music 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:07.600 together and everything. They brought me in about a year 0:41:07.600 --> 0:41:10.600 ago and it's just like, Yo, you know, I think 0:41:10.800 --> 0:41:13.320 it's time, like you know, let's let's make it a 0:41:13.360 --> 0:41:18.280 Gangster girls. And I was like it's been time. Um. 0:41:18.320 --> 0:41:20.319 So yeah. So then you know, we went through a 0:41:20.360 --> 0:41:25.760 little tweaked hearing are over the last maybe six seven months, 0:41:25.760 --> 0:41:27.839 and then we got back in a couple of months 0:41:27.880 --> 0:41:30.799 ago and just really like buckled down and got on 0:41:30.840 --> 0:41:34.960 the project and like you know, it's like ship feels 0:41:34.960 --> 0:41:36.680 like oh five oh six again, And it was just 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:40.360 it's just amazing, Timmy, you know what I'm saying. Um 0:41:40.440 --> 0:41:43.439 that you know, it came out just you know when 0:41:43.440 --> 0:41:47.600 it came out, and it's fire and it's crazy. How 0:41:47.600 --> 0:41:49.120 do you how did you link over NB A young 0:41:49.160 --> 0:41:54.520 boy that nigga just but young Boy, don't funk with nobody, 0:41:55.239 --> 0:42:00.040 man with nobody. My nigga shout the fee um on 0:42:00.200 --> 0:42:04.320 fee forever, you know from from Young Money days, and 0:42:04.320 --> 0:42:08.239 if he just randomly hit me and was like, um yo, 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:10.040 young boy, w why do you want to haul at you? 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:14.040 That's crazy? So we got we got on the phone 0:42:15.080 --> 0:42:17.560 and he was just like you know, he you know, 0:42:17.640 --> 0:42:22.240 he talks in a very like um um way and everything, 0:42:22.760 --> 0:42:24.480 and he's just like, Yo, I got this new tape. 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:27.520 I want you to do it. And I bet he 0:42:27.640 --> 0:42:29.960 was like, damn, I got like two other tapes coming out. 0:42:30.640 --> 0:42:32.520 You did Want with Snoop, I Did Want with Snoop 0:42:32.560 --> 0:42:35.040 and I did Jeezy. And then I literally got the 0:42:35.080 --> 0:42:40.520 call like the week of fuck it about it. It's 0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:43.799 about to be Gangster Grill season. So people knew that 0:42:43.840 --> 0:42:48.440 the the Jeezy and the and the Snoop tape were dropping. 0:42:48.920 --> 0:42:51.280 Nobody knew about the Young Boy, and I was like, yeah, 0:42:51.320 --> 0:42:53.200 I was. I was the shock when that came out, 0:42:53.239 --> 0:42:56.400 Like fun, these niggas up, like Nigga's gonna be like 0:42:56.440 --> 0:42:59.560 hold on wait, Trum just want to grammy Trum just 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:02.240 got these Yeah the year and this thing is dropping 0:43:02.320 --> 0:43:05.960 three gangster girl. No, this is not fair like this 0:43:06.040 --> 0:43:08.759 is this is this is getting unfair. That is not fair, sir. 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:11.720 We have a game. We have a game, a game 0:43:12.040 --> 0:43:16.560 called Baller Bliss Handler to you, oh ct are you ready? 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:19.160 We got the legendary DJ drama. We're gonna dig into 0:43:19.160 --> 0:43:21.680 crates a little bit. I'm gonna do five songs. You're 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:25.040 gonna let me know what sample uh is sampled out 0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:30.200 of the song. So alright, first up, Beyonce, break my soul? 0:43:30.560 --> 0:43:35.480 What is the sample? Um, isn't it Robin s is? 0:43:35.600 --> 0:43:43.560 Robin s Um? I forget the name Robin is? Alright? Cool, 0:43:41.400 --> 0:43:49.040 al alright? Second, we got Burner Boy. Last last, that's 0:43:49.040 --> 0:43:53.799 a sample he gave he gave I didn't know that. Yeah, 0:43:53.920 --> 0:43:55.680 he gave her, He gave her the he gave her 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:59.919 the publishing I believe too. Right, here's a clue. That's 0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:05.279 rhymes Relaxton. Oh oh Tony Braxton. Yeah, okay, man enough 0:44:05.320 --> 0:44:07.640 for me? Oh it's man oh man enough for me? 0:44:07.760 --> 0:44:10.480 Oh yeah, you're right? That is that? All right? It's 0:44:10.480 --> 0:44:13.279 sound good. Here you go, Here you go for the 0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:18.040 third one. Jack Harlow first class, Um, I wonder what 0:44:18.200 --> 0:44:22.000 that is? Furgo this ship shot, the shot the furging 0:44:22.040 --> 0:44:23.799 on that one. Yeah. I tried to pull all the 0:44:23.840 --> 0:44:25.880 dog on that one and shout to what I am on. 0:44:26.000 --> 0:44:28.520 I thought that was glamorous life. It was glamorous. Like 0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:32.279 I'm just saying, okay, it's glam it's glamorous life. Yeah, 0:44:32.680 --> 0:44:36.240 saying her name. All right. Fourth, we got MEGANA Stallion 0:44:36.280 --> 0:44:42.080 playing b um um. Oh that's freaking you Joe to 0:44:42.120 --> 0:44:46.160 see right? Yeah all right. Last one maybe a tough one, 0:44:46.719 --> 0:44:50.840 Drake Jimmy Cooks. Damn, I don't know that yet. I 0:44:50.840 --> 0:44:54.640 don't know that one either. I don't know that one. 0:44:55.160 --> 0:45:01.600 That is you were gone by Brook Benton six that 0:45:02.040 --> 0:45:06.720 was digging into crate with the legendary DJ. Yeah. Yeah, 0:45:11.160 --> 0:45:15.960 you gave me the toy. Yeah yeah. We'll be right 0:45:15.960 --> 0:45:24.920 back with more of the Baller Alert Show message. It 0:45:25.120 --> 0:45:32.600 is time for Baller Male Deir Baler Show. I've been 0:45:32.600 --> 0:45:35.480 married for twelve years. Beautiful kids, beautiful wife. I absolutely 0:45:35.560 --> 0:45:38.440 love her and adore her, but I believe she's cheating 0:45:38.600 --> 0:45:42.799 on me. She texts me by accident last weekend and 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:47.000 said that was the greatest sex ever, and her and 0:45:47.040 --> 0:45:50.280 I haven't had sex and over two weeks I applied 0:45:50.320 --> 0:45:52.040 to that text, and she wrote that she was talking 0:45:52.080 --> 0:45:54.960 about a sex scene on p Valley in her female 0:45:55.000 --> 0:45:58.440 group chat. She refused to send the screenshot to the 0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:04.440 conversation threat. What do you guys stay? Twelve years? Twelve 0:46:04.560 --> 0:46:09.640 years kids, beautiful wife. I adore her and I love her. 0:46:10.520 --> 0:46:13.319 I mean that's not bad though, two weeks, like for 0:46:13.440 --> 0:46:16.120 married couples after twelve years, Like I thought you was 0:46:16.160 --> 0:46:19.680 gonna say, like a year or like six months. I 0:46:19.719 --> 0:46:22.560 know people that's married that don't have a lot of sex. 0:46:23.280 --> 0:46:29.480 So well, have you ever been married? Yeah, I mean 0:46:29.600 --> 0:46:33.320 you know, married, but not that long. How often do 0:46:33.400 --> 0:46:36.959 you have sex if you don't mind sex? About twice 0:46:37.000 --> 0:46:42.879 a week? Okay, how long you've been married? Yeah, I mean, 0:46:43.239 --> 0:46:46.520 you know they say as the time, you know, everybody's different, 0:46:46.560 --> 0:46:48.600 but as the time goes, like you know, when you 0:46:48.640 --> 0:46:50.480 get married, it's a lot of other things. You gotta 0:46:50.560 --> 0:46:52.879 have kids, like you know, the kids are there, Like 0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:57.040 you know, sex is not always at the forefront. I 0:46:57.080 --> 0:46:59.279 mean it's it's a very important thing. And we're to 0:46:59.480 --> 0:47:03.200 looking at like man that like you are you saying 0:47:03.200 --> 0:47:05.959 that she'mating him? No? No, no, no no, I'm not saying 0:47:05.960 --> 0:47:09.200 she's not cheating on him. What I'm saying is the 0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:13.759 fact that it's only been two weeks, like you know, 0:47:13.880 --> 0:47:16.800 I mean, first she should address her you know, and 0:47:17.000 --> 0:47:19.640 you know, now if she if she continues to lie 0:47:19.719 --> 0:47:22.920 on it, it might be time to hanging up. But 0:47:23.520 --> 0:47:26.879 you know, if she admits to it, you know, things 0:47:26.920 --> 0:47:29.879 happen in relationships. Maybe they should go to counseling and 0:47:30.000 --> 0:47:34.520 you know, see if they can work through it. M Now, 0:47:34.560 --> 0:47:37.279 if she's a habitual cheater, then it's like, oh, yeah, 0:47:37.280 --> 0:47:39.200 you gotta chunk up the duce because you only get 0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:42.080 one life. Only get one life, so nobody wants to 0:47:42.080 --> 0:47:46.760 be unhappy. Your wife needs sex. Your wife wants sex, 0:47:46.800 --> 0:47:49.399 and if you're not giving it to her. But where 0:47:49.600 --> 0:47:52.480 you're saying, but two weeks is like, that's not that long. 0:47:52.560 --> 0:47:56.000 Clearly she needs sex, clearly, Like if she couldn't wait 0:47:56.040 --> 0:47:58.359 for her husband, then clearly I'm not. First of all, 0:47:58.360 --> 0:48:01.160 she should. Yeah, she that came doing first and like 0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:03.719 y'all like, And she may have and he may have 0:48:03.760 --> 0:48:06.320 ignored it because he said, what you said, we got kids, 0:48:06.360 --> 0:48:10.080 we got jobs. Honestly, she may have said it and 0:48:10.120 --> 0:48:12.560 he may have ignored her needs. Takes a lot for 0:48:12.560 --> 0:48:16.319 a woman to cheat. It takes a lot, so you 0:48:16.400 --> 0:48:19.760 may not have been listening to her. Sir. Again, cheating 0:48:19.880 --> 0:48:21.640 is not right. If you get to some point that 0:48:21.680 --> 0:48:23.200 you feel like you gotta cheat, pull your partner to 0:48:23.280 --> 0:48:26.600 the side of that baby, I need to stick, Like, 0:48:26.680 --> 0:48:29.120 what's the problem. I need some passion, I need some love. 0:48:29.280 --> 0:48:31.920 Where twelve years? Should they hang it up if she 0:48:32.080 --> 0:48:34.160 if he finds out she is cheating? No, I think 0:48:34.200 --> 0:48:35.480 they should work on I think that they should have 0:48:35.520 --> 0:48:38.280 a real conversation. What are her needs? What are his needs? 0:48:38.760 --> 0:48:41.040 How do as your wife? How can I make you 0:48:41.080 --> 0:48:44.640 more comfortable to want to be intimate with me? And 0:48:44.719 --> 0:48:49.040 vice versa. It's gotta be something. You say, He hasn't 0:48:49.280 --> 0:48:51.359 ejaculated at all in two weeks, like you don't think 0:48:51.360 --> 0:48:55.600 that he may be pleasured himself. A man can go 0:48:55.680 --> 0:49:02.279 two weeks, two weeks. Mom, to you, what are your thoughts? 0:49:02.440 --> 0:49:05.359 Please speak it to the micro sir, one of two 0:49:05.360 --> 0:49:08.000 weeks for you? Two weeks, I can't go along, I 0:49:08.040 --> 0:49:10.359 can't go I can go two weeks, two weeks. I 0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:14.759 think women, y'all really just does is she cheating on him? Yes? 0:49:14.880 --> 0:49:17.600 Or no? You said, what is she cheating on him. 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:21.160 She's definitely cheating on him. Somebody definitely pushed push that 0:49:21.239 --> 0:49:25.279 box back. That's all I'm gonna say. If I was 0:49:25.400 --> 0:49:28.560 him and I get a text, man, she said, that's 0:49:28.560 --> 0:49:32.480 the best sex ever. Whatever guns is in the house, 0:49:32.520 --> 0:49:33.959 you might not want to come back because I'm about 0:49:34.000 --> 0:49:38.640 to be standing outside like what he had. Bring up 0:49:38.640 --> 0:49:41.839 to the house. You ain't gotta hide that baby, put 0:49:41.880 --> 0:49:43.560 the kids sleep, You tell your little friend to come 0:49:43.560 --> 0:49:48.440 home and tires up too. I'm gonna be on that 0:49:49.000 --> 0:49:51.120 bring your friend. Oh, you ain't gotta hide that baby. 0:49:52.680 --> 0:49:54.480 Doubt I doubt it was. I doubt it was a 0:49:54.480 --> 0:49:56.840 woman that. I doubt it was a woman too. And 0:49:56.880 --> 0:50:00.080 she had the best sex ever with so. But so 0:50:00.160 --> 0:50:04.040 basically the question he's asking is, Yeah, he's just asking 0:50:04.040 --> 0:50:06.399 if she not asking us, if he needs to leave 0:50:06.440 --> 0:50:12.120 her or none of that. Yeah, she his his insecurities 0:50:12.200 --> 0:50:15.200 has spiked. Man, Listen, women do First of all, women 0:50:15.239 --> 0:50:17.840 don't make mistakes. Don't make mistakes like they're sending the 0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:21.560 wrong text message. That's what dudes. We do something like that, 0:50:21.560 --> 0:50:25.080 that's careless like that, or she might have wanted him 0:50:25.120 --> 0:50:29.200 to She might have wanted him to investigate, dagn to 0:50:29.360 --> 0:50:35.120 it and then have toxic sex. They got a TV 0:50:35.160 --> 0:50:40.279 show about that too on Netflix. Could be toxic. What's 0:50:40.320 --> 0:50:43.799 it called sex life? For us to get up out 0:50:43.840 --> 0:50:49.000 of here, to be toxic. Women like that toxic she 0:50:49.080 --> 0:50:52.600 holds be toxic. That's why people like brad Fire asks 0:50:52.680 --> 0:50:54.600 lit because the whole want to hear that toxic ship. 0:50:54.640 --> 0:50:56.719 They like starting fight. So you're getting mad at him 0:50:56.719 --> 0:51:00.319 and choke him out, and you choking him and so 0:51:00.520 --> 0:51:04.560 come on, you know, like, don't act like you ain't never. 0:51:04.680 --> 0:51:06.080 Don't act like you ain't ever try to make a 0:51:06.120 --> 0:51:08.240 nigga math so you grip you to funk up sounding 0:51:09.000 --> 0:51:11.520 you know you like that ship. I don't know you 0:51:11.600 --> 0:51:13.520 have to take a math for that. I thought you 0:51:13.520 --> 0:51:17.839 could just ask for it. Okay, to get up out 0:51:17.840 --> 0:51:22.520 of here. We'll be right back with more of the 0:51:22.560 --> 0:51:37.040 baller Alert Show. Thank you DJ Drama for coming. It's 0:51:37.080 --> 0:51:40.080 a pleasure. Give us some shout out, sir. I'm man. 0:51:40.080 --> 0:51:42.560 Shout to y'all. Man shout to y'all for you know, uh, 0:51:42.760 --> 0:51:45.360 holding the ball Alert podcast down, for doing your things 0:51:45.960 --> 0:51:48.839 as a unit and individually. You know, I know all 0:51:48.880 --> 0:51:51.080 of you are very well and you know you're all 0:51:51.120 --> 0:51:54.279 doing your think uh in your respective careers, and I'm 0:51:54.360 --> 0:51:57.279 very proud of y'all. Uh. You know, skies not the limit, 0:51:57.320 --> 0:51:58.920 skies what you just stand on, the reason to be 0:51:59.000 --> 0:52:01.520 on and you know this is our first time really 0:52:01.800 --> 0:52:04.960 interacting but the same as well. And you know, I 0:52:05.000 --> 0:52:06.840 just uh, I salute to you all man, thanks for 0:52:06.840 --> 0:52:10.399 having me appreciate that. It's it's definitely a tough week, 0:52:10.440 --> 0:52:13.680 a tough day for hip hop. We have lost yet 0:52:13.719 --> 0:52:17.280 another young man had not even seen the age of thirty. 0:52:18.719 --> 0:52:21.480 I don't want to get a baby. Um. Definitely been 0:52:21.520 --> 0:52:26.000 praying for the Megos and their families all day. Um, 0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:28.680 this is tough, praying for de Vito who lost his 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:31.640 three year old child. Just celebrated the third birthday. So 0:52:31.960 --> 0:52:34.120 it's an honor to have DJ Drama here and give 0:52:34.160 --> 0:52:37.000 you your flowers and the flesh. Thank you for doing 0:52:37.080 --> 0:52:40.720 what you do and for sumporting us. And please go vote, 0:52:41.360 --> 0:52:43.920 go vote, go vote, go vote, and tune into the 0:52:43.920 --> 0:52:47.360 Bothers Our Show podcast available wherever you get your podcast. 0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:50.480 I do want to say, you know Resci pieces take 0:52:50.520 --> 0:52:57.640 off for sure, um, um if anything, dedicate this to him. UM. Yeah, 0:52:58.600 --> 0:53:02.640 it's definitely a tough day, you know, another cloud over 0:53:02.680 --> 0:53:05.680 the city. You know what I'm saying, Um, take was 0:53:06.120 --> 0:53:09.200 you know I've known him, I know him for since 0:53:09.200 --> 0:53:14.680 he was eighteen nineteen. Great kid, you know. Um. So 0:53:14.840 --> 0:53:16.960 he will be missed and you know we definitely will 0:53:17.040 --> 0:53:19.720 keep his legacy alive. Yeah. Man, I just want to 0:53:19.760 --> 0:53:22.040 shout out you Drama for coming through. We know you 0:53:22.320 --> 0:53:24.920 extremely busy and you know we appreciate you coming in 0:53:25.040 --> 0:53:28.040 rocking with us. Uh yeah, And I'm just shout out 0:53:28.040 --> 0:53:32.680 to you Drama, so again. Um. I I don't want 0:53:32.680 --> 0:53:37.080 to have taylored my entire how you articulate yourself, how 0:53:37.120 --> 0:53:39.480 you carry yourself. But I look to you as a 0:53:39.520 --> 0:53:44.359 motivational purpose because very very seldom like because my parents 0:53:44.400 --> 0:53:46.960 didn't understand what I was trying to do. So I 0:53:47.000 --> 0:53:48.160 was like, I want to be a DJ, I want 0:53:48.160 --> 0:53:50.239 to be on the radio. They didn't understand it, and 0:53:50.600 --> 0:53:53.480 I didn't really have anybody to look for look towards 0:53:53.520 --> 0:53:55.719 to kind of say that's who I want to be 0:53:55.800 --> 0:53:58.440 like that in my case, that was you, you d 0:53:58.719 --> 0:54:03.480 holiday um screen Um, and I saw your guys as template. 0:54:03.560 --> 0:54:05.880 You guys kind of had a template, even Cannon and 0:54:05.920 --> 0:54:08.760 so I just appreciate our friendship. We'll talk to you often, 0:54:09.040 --> 0:54:12.040 play pool, we need play I phone pool ant, but 0:54:12.080 --> 0:54:16.080 I think I was busting your ass like too much. Yeah, 0:54:16.120 --> 0:54:19.000 because I went on a run. Remember that run right, Yeah, 0:54:19.680 --> 0:54:23.000 we're running back the hell of a run on them. 0:54:23.040 --> 0:54:25.680 But I appreciate it. It's so funny because people don't 0:54:25.760 --> 0:54:27.880 don't think that we talk as often we do, but 0:54:27.920 --> 0:54:30.879 we actually talk pretty often often. And I appreciate you 0:54:31.120 --> 0:54:34.480 just for your friendship because you have no idea how 0:54:34.560 --> 0:54:38.040 much that motivates me. Just a normal conversation and you 0:54:38.080 --> 0:54:39.560 know that means a lot to me. Bro. You know, 0:54:39.719 --> 0:54:42.560 just just to hear stories like that. You know, I 0:54:42.640 --> 0:54:45.239 know me coming up and I tell you all my 0:54:45.280 --> 0:54:47.359 accomplishments when I get them every time I do something big, 0:54:47.600 --> 0:54:49.960 and I love to hear and so and it's like, 0:54:50.000 --> 0:54:53.600 you know, for for me to to be inspiration to 0:54:53.800 --> 0:54:56.680 someone you know, and I'm someone that loves to give 0:54:56.760 --> 0:54:59.480 flowers and to you know, to pay homage to people. 0:54:59.520 --> 0:55:02.920 So you know, for you to to to look at 0:55:02.920 --> 0:55:05.400 me for that like that, that that's part of the 0:55:05.440 --> 0:55:08.399 greatest gift of what I do. To think that Dan 0:55:08.560 --> 0:55:11.359 somebody like I wanted to become a DJ because of 0:55:11.360 --> 0:55:13.000 what I was doing. You know what I'm saying. So 0:55:13.280 --> 0:55:16.879 you know, so to you, yes, I would definitely say 0:55:16.920 --> 0:55:19.799 your story is legendary, like just researching it. I'm just 0:55:19.880 --> 0:55:21.920 like I'm a student of the game. So I just 0:55:22.000 --> 0:55:24.719 love to I love documentaries and I can't wait when 0:55:24.760 --> 0:55:26.880 yours come out because I want to know about the 0:55:26.960 --> 0:55:29.560 drama Philly. I want to know about the hip hop 0:55:29.600 --> 0:55:32.640 back then all the way up into now. It's just 0:55:32.719 --> 0:55:35.160 amazing and I just want to say we appreciate you. 0:55:35.400 --> 0:55:37.880 And um lastly, we have work a word from our 0:55:37.920 --> 0:55:41.000 ballers today. You are our baller and it's just an inspiration, 0:55:41.640 --> 0:55:44.840 uh speak to anybody coming up, just like a Ferrari 0:55:44.920 --> 0:55:47.719 said in your Footsteps or anything like that you can give. 0:55:47.920 --> 0:55:50.800 You know, I always I tell people this all the time, 0:55:51.040 --> 0:55:54.640 Like you know, for anybody that's coming in the game 0:55:54.680 --> 0:55:56.719 and wanting to be in the game. You know a 0:55:56.760 --> 0:56:01.000 lot of times, uh we aspire to like you know, 0:56:01.120 --> 0:56:04.960 to reach the top or you know, the highest of 0:56:05.000 --> 0:56:08.200 the high where people have to realize, like hip hop 0:56:08.360 --> 0:56:13.480 is is built out of like you know, movements, like 0:56:13.480 --> 0:56:16.040 like organic movements, you know what I mean, And like 0:56:16.600 --> 0:56:19.440 you know now in today's world, it's very easy for 0:56:19.480 --> 0:56:22.240 someone to try to like d M, d J Drama 0:56:22.360 --> 0:56:25.560 or d M Young Jeez and say, yo, I wanna 0:56:25.920 --> 0:56:27.560 do this with you or do that with you. But 0:56:27.600 --> 0:56:29.520 it's like, you know, look to your left, look to 0:56:29.560 --> 0:56:33.080 your right. You know, if it wasn't for people like 0:56:33.200 --> 0:56:36.200 Tip and Geez who were you know, coach ca Lib 0:56:36.239 --> 0:56:39.879 around the corner from me, like um, Jason Jeter who 0:56:39.880 --> 0:56:42.399 was tas manager, got my my number off the back 0:56:42.400 --> 0:56:44.759 of a c D you know, a mixtape in the 0:56:44.760 --> 0:56:48.800 barbershop and brought this young kid through. Like it's about 0:56:48.840 --> 0:56:52.600 creating movements. So before you try to, you know, go 0:56:52.800 --> 0:56:57.160 and d M your favorite artist, who's you know already 0:56:57.239 --> 0:57:00.759 a list or like the people around you are the 0:57:00.800 --> 0:57:03.520 ones for you to come up with and to to 0:57:03.640 --> 0:57:06.680 make those movements with movements with And I tell people 0:57:06.680 --> 0:57:09.640 that all the time, Like that's that's out of anything 0:57:09.640 --> 0:57:12.120 what people respect about our culture and about hip hop 0:57:12.280 --> 0:57:16.439 more than anything. Prime example, the meks you know, who 0:57:16.440 --> 0:57:18.440 would have who would have known if or if they 0:57:18.440 --> 0:57:21.920 would have known that you know, you know um uh 0:57:22.200 --> 0:57:26.240 three family members you know would create this this sound 0:57:26.320 --> 0:57:29.120 and this style that all of hip hop would go 0:57:29.240 --> 0:57:32.480 on to mimic and try to do you know some 0:57:32.560 --> 0:57:34.480 neig is from North side of Atlanta. You know what 0:57:34.520 --> 0:57:37.520 I'm saying that change the world, you know, change culture. 0:57:38.120 --> 0:57:40.720 So you know, yeah, that would be my my ball, 0:57:41.160 --> 0:57:44.920 my ball advice. All right, did you drama the ball Alert, 0:57:44.920 --> 0:57:48.920 show the shape. I can't get enough of baller Alert. 0:57:49.000 --> 0:57:52.120 Follow us on all social media platforms at baller alert, 0:57:52.520 --> 0:57:54.480 going to baller alert dot com.