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Speaker 1: Welcome to All the Smoke, a production of The Black

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Speaker 1: Effect and our Heart Radio in partnership with Showtime. M

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Speaker 1: h m hm, welcome back All the Smoke. Jack. We're

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Speaker 1: working back to back. They got us working this year.

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Speaker 1: We're back to back weeks in the studio. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Man to whom much is given, much is required and

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Speaker 1: the show giving us a list something, Yes, sir, well

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Speaker 1: introduce it to your man. Y'all, y'all go way back.

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Speaker 1: So my brother, yeah, we go way back. He think

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Speaker 1: he's nicer than me. And basketball always have been, uh

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Speaker 1: for some reason, and that's always been the problem. But

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Speaker 1: my dog, you know what I'm saying, My dog, dog,

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Speaker 1: Dog dog. You know what I'm saying with you say

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Speaker 1: at Steve Jack about the pack to change in the building. Yes,

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time, Bro. What's up? Man? Uh? Go ahead, Jack?

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Speaker 1: Start the show off? Who's gonna start with this? First off?

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Speaker 1: You see a video Chick going ham and Michael Jackson

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Speaker 1: or what you was thinking? What's going on through your

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Speaker 1: mind when you're looking at it? I mean she was

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Speaker 1: having it. She was obviously having a good time. I

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Speaker 1: was at the house game with one of my homeboys

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Speaker 1: because my kids can come, my wife can come. So

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Speaker 1: I took one of my partners, um, and she had

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Speaker 1: been asking him, um, you know, you know, to take

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Speaker 1: pictures with me. So I eventually took pictures with her.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, they always have something going on

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Speaker 1: during time out, so half time to keep the fans,

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Speaker 1: you know, motivated, and she was just really going in.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not a part of the viral

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Speaker 1: era or stuff for that of virus. Like I guess

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to learn what what viral is because I work.

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Speaker 1: I woke up to it being on many blogs inside,

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Speaker 1: so it was just it was a real organic You

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Speaker 1: just dropped the million dogs worth the Game single. What's

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Speaker 1: coming up after that? Million dolls worth a Game as

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Speaker 1: a single coming off my album called Dope Don't Sell Itself.

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Speaker 1: I'm dropping another video in the next week or so.

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Speaker 1: It's called pop Music featuring um Beat, King and money Bag.

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Speaker 1: And then I shot a video last night to the

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Speaker 1: song I have called Kingpin Ghostwriter featuring Little Baby. And

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Speaker 1: the idea behind that is how you always got those

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Speaker 1: like you know, you got very influential people in your

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Speaker 1: neighborhood who don't wrap, who be just like sometimes you

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Speaker 1: learn stuff from and you get ideas from. For me,

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Speaker 1: it was people that were that, you know, hustle and

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Speaker 1: we're like king pins and man, they would just say

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Speaker 1: a little slick lines and you know, they would stay

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Speaker 1: with me forever. So it just was a situation where

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Speaker 1: I tiled the song keeping ghost writer because like, if

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Speaker 1: you hung around hustas, you picked up some of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know, I definitely did. Ain't that slick to it?

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Speaker 1: Can all I'm telling College Park, Atlanta, Georgia, talk to

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Speaker 1: us about your upbringing to some of the ups and

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Speaker 1: downs of you growing up. Well, we all had ups

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Speaker 1: and downs. Man. I realized that, you know, it's it's

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Speaker 1: called life. That's what life is. You're gonna have like

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Speaker 1: a winning streak, and then you're gonna feel like you

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Speaker 1: like cursed. You're gonna feel like you can't do nothing right,

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Speaker 1: and then it's gonna be like this little yellow area

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Speaker 1: or the middle area of life where it's either like

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Speaker 1: you know, it's some good and some bad. I remember

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Speaker 1: when we were in this stuff is just popping up

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Speaker 1: and we were trapping. Me and my my brother Dollar,

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Speaker 1: right it was just like this might be ninth grade,

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Speaker 1: Tim Craig. We used to be walking to these apartments

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Speaker 1: and I wore a jury back then, right, look little

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Speaker 1: be saying, bro, you're gonna get us in trouble. You

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Speaker 1: being that type of hustler. And then you know, over time,

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Speaker 1: you know, I grew or started moving a little bit differently.

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Speaker 1: But you know, for the most part, man, I had

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Speaker 1: I had real patterns in my life where I just

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Speaker 1: But when God gives you a talent and you work

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Speaker 1: That says you're apart from everybody else. I was just

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Speaker 1: So I just I never looked like I wasn't a part.

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Speaker 1: that if it wasn't mandatory that i'd be at practice

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Speaker 1: other people that want to do something, deep down in

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Speaker 1: I just didn't know any other answer to say when

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Speaker 1: like getting traffic and go to work at eight or

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Speaker 1: early on. I had some run ins with the law.

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Speaker 1: I got, you know, I got jammed up my sophomore

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Speaker 1: this time, I wasn't even getting I wasn't even getting

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Speaker 1: come back to school. I do good. My eleventh grade year,

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Speaker 1: inconcentrated my twelfth grade year, like right before I took

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Speaker 1: could just have so many things for you, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And I even got a partner whose

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Speaker 1: I just was like, man, you know, I know it

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Speaker 1: So um, that's kind of like my pattern. I had

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Speaker 1: It's just like how you are, your characteristics. You know

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Speaker 1: Bro and now we're just like no better, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So despite all that, you ended up

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Speaker 1: may be practiced for these guys. Maybe one time they

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Speaker 1: You got no ide drips talk to people from do

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00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: do what we're doing? Um, I know how to entertain.

427
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,840
Speaker 1: You got a lot of do shows. It's just a

428
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,199
Speaker 1: whole lot of things, and so being around them, I

429
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 1: learned a lot of this stuff. I learned how to

430
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,360
Speaker 1: talk on the radio. I learned how to I learned

431
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 1: how to learn, you know, and uh, it was it was.

432
00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,520
Speaker 1: It was a brief error, but even in that era,

433
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: I felt like I was bigger than the situation I

434
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,919
Speaker 1: was in. No, you definitely you definitely what you definitely

435
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 1: thought that, Like, no, you were like trust me, yeah, no,

436
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 1: trust me, bro you say like that, No, this is

437
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 1: big Tony today Tony, but he was in his mind

438
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,879
Speaker 1: and now he dressed all that, it was still that.

439
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 1: It was still all that. Yeah, it was always been that.

440
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 1: It always been that the whole time, even before the

441
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,679
Speaker 1: music pop like that. It was always it was still that.

442
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 1: Now I'm still that respect that's what. Yeah. Yeah, I

443
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,399
Speaker 1: didn't want to no ten your challenge twenty I was

444
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 1: riding for in twenties. Yeah, them like, yeah, I still

445
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 1: got my shop. I'm a hoarder. You still got the

446
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 1: BMW No not that, and I still got the poort

447
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:50,439
Speaker 1: that we go back to had I had so my

448
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,240
Speaker 1: my my friends were so shy. I guess you can

449
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: call them friends, right, they shysty. I had a black

450
00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,720
Speaker 1: BMW seven four or five. And then I started getting

451
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 1: some money and I was like, you know they made

452
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: seven fifties. Now this around the Being of Time era

453
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,199
Speaker 1: where like you know, meet them my switching cars and

454
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 1: they just ruying thirty lambos at once, and I'm just like, man,

455
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: these are nice men. Him together, we're going to club,

456
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: that's what we're seeing. Yeah, I'm not going to pick

457
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 1: this out. So I'm like, man, I'm going to get

458
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: a new car. I go to the lot and I'm like, man,

459
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: I think I'm had to get another black one because

460
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: if they if I get a different color, they're gonna

461
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: know this a new car. And I'm from an era

462
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,439
Speaker 1: with there your friends are robbed you and then like

463
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:37,199
Speaker 1: help you look for the robiga that I saw some niggas.

464
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: I saw the car thieves in my neighborhood one time,

465
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: and my neighbor k Not said, they're trying to steal

466
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 1: your car. Come outside and the car thieves was coming

467
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,640
Speaker 1: up my apartments and hit the speedbump and they turn

468
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 1: on me. What's going on? What's going on? I said, Man,

469
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 1: somebody trying to steal my car. They're like, well, I'm

470
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 1: like I'm looking at them. I'm like ship man, and

471
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,040
Speaker 1: so I'm from that era. So I literally had to

472
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: beamers for like a period of time. That was like

473
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 1: I had one beam I had it brand new when

474
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: there was like twenty extra. You know, my friends would

475
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: look at say it looks different. Did you get new

476
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: rams or something. I'm like, yeah, it's new rooms. It's

477
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: new rooms. But it's just it's crazy. Who I saw

478
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 1: Peewee last night, you know what I mean? You know

479
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: he could talk, and I say, he said, you ain't

480
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 1: gonna he telling them? He telling the people. He went like,

481
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 1: how we was on the south side. Come on, he

482
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 1: was around, so he got to tell when we were around.

483
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: Yet him around. I was working with you and going

484
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,679
Speaker 1: state like was seven out there? Yeah he moved. So

485
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 1: he said some ship last night, Like, uh, man, you

486
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: always knew, you know, you always had your business. My

487
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: member used to come to the Gamblet house and now something.

488
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,199
Speaker 1: To be honest, you were so you were so nosy,

489
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 1: I said, when I was just dropping them bags off,

490
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,479
Speaker 1: I go back in the biouns in front of you

491
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: just to throw you off because I knew you talked

492
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: too much. I said, that's crazy. But but man, it's

493
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: just like man, come from where we come from. It's

494
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 1: like people smile. You could mean these your brothers. But

495
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: if people get down and out, man, they'll tie you up.

496
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,239
Speaker 1: Your brother you mentioned meet You know Jack had a

497
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 1: story about Beach but being from there in that era,

498
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: what was that now? Seeing do you have you have

499
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: your chance to see the show? Oh yeah, thoughts on

500
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 1: the show and how fit he put that together and

501
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,639
Speaker 1: a little meat and the job he's doing. Yeah, I

502
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: think little Mes doing that crub but superstar, you know,

503
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: shout out a little miets Yeah. Um, I speak to

504
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: meach often. I speak to the sister often. Um. You know,

505
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: it's a part of the show that I didn't know

506
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: him at You know what I'm saying, it's early in

507
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: their life, right, you know, I mean I just normally.

508
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: I remember when they came into one twelve, two hundred

509
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 1: deep Magic City, yeah, with you know, black bandannas, and

510
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: when we didn't even when you one twelve used to

511
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,959
Speaker 1: have to wear like at least Timberland boot. You couldn't

512
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,919
Speaker 1: wear like, you know, dickies and shorts, and them niggers

513
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: came in there at one time, and it seem like

514
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: they wasn't gonna never stop coming in it. I haven't

515
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: even never seen two hundred of people hanging together people, yeah,

516
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: every every weekend. And then you know it was some errors,

517
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: but it was it was some It was good to

518
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 1: be a part of if you were able to you know,

519
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: see it. It It was very um you know I used

520
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: this right here. Man, You either influence I mean you

521
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 1: either inspired by something of your hater one of the other. Yeah,

522
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: ain't know a great area, you know, so you see

523
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,679
Speaker 1: something you like, you'd be like, that's nice, man, I

524
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 1: like that. Oh you say some haying ship ain't no great.

525
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:27,400
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know what I mean.

526
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: So for me, when I see something, man, it inspires

527
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: me to want to work, you know, like I want

528
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 1: a bigger house in Cali. I want I want some

529
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: more stuff. I'm not content. So the only way I

530
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: know how to get this stuff is to work for us.

531
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: So I'm just staying up all night. I'm kind of

532
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: fatigued now. I came here with an energy drink because

533
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 1: I was up all night trying to get what I want.

534
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So Yeah. Supplied to band

535
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: Oh seven Drops deffel Back Boys take the World by

536
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: Storm featuring Little Wayne. How bad uh? That song come together.

537
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: I've been I was friends with a little one very.

538
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: I've actually met Baby actually met b G first, which

539
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: is crazy free b G. I met b G first.

540
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,479
Speaker 1: He was in Atlanta and then I was in UH.

541
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: I was in Patchwork. So at this time, I was

542
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: using my little hustle money to get studio time in

543
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:29,199
Speaker 1: a building where I thought on artists would be at.

544
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I just wanted to be

545
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: in the same building. It's real artists, so you know

546
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. At this time, I booked me some

547
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 1: studio time at Patchwork and they told me Baby from

548
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: cash Money needed some weed, you know what I'm saying.

549
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 1: In the eight room or so. I was in the

550
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 1: be room. So I um, I go see him, you

551
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,719
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And they looked, you know, like

552
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: they looked on TV largs and their life and I,

553
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 1: you know, like I served them. You know what I'm saying.

554
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 1: But this is crazy. I don't even know if you

555
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: remembers this. Like he asked me to take them to

556
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: the mall, like showing the local I wrote them to

557
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: the mall. He had like you know, people with them,

558
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: and they all would like getting dressed in the store,

559
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 1: like leaving the clothes they had there at the store

560
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: getting dressed, and I was just in the corner like

561
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: one of them like you're gonna you know what I'm saying,

562
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: You're gonna get something, and I was like, you know no,

563
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: I was just kind of chilling out, like I couldn't

564
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 1: remember my dad really buying me nothing at this particular time.

565
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: And it was like, you know, baby, like say, Slam,

566
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna get nothing, Like yeah, I guess, I mean,

567
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: I guess. You know, he's a little timla. I got

568
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: like a little outfit and I was like, damn it

569
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: bought me something, you know what I'm saying. So he

570
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: still hadn't paid me for the the week, you know

571
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So they was like going to New

572
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: Orleans and I was like I didn't know how to

573
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: really I knew how to ask him, but I don't

574
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: really know how to ask him. Like about my little

575
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: it was it was like full fifth at the time,

576
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Needed He's like, yeah, yeah, Slim,

577
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: you want to go to the world. In my head,

578
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: I'm like about this weed, I guess I am. Now

579
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: I go to fucking New Orleans. They got this before Katrina.

580
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: They got matches, they got a mansion for the crew

581
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: that he gotta imagine, you know, boom so Tom got

582
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: some kind of fast as poor she write down. They're

583
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: like that boy, you know they're talking about him. That's shorty.

584
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: So he end coming to the mansion and we built

585
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: a rapport off of that, you know what I'm saying,

586
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: because he was like the only cash money artist left.

587
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: Everybody else was gone, and they was trying to revamp

588
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: and do something else. And you know, I figure out

589
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: like I'm like, I got good weed. I'm down here,

590
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I mean, I'm just built off that.

591
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: And he threw my name in a song like so

592
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: long ago. I was like sitting in the line and

593
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: hurt my name in the song, like man, this nig

594
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: cool as hell, you know what I'm saying, And every

595
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: sinse then we just so he just really been there

596
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: for each you know, that's very similar too. He's a

597
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: little bit more different, but no, I mean he know

598
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: he ain't. But yeah, I mean after going everything you've

599
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: been through, the grinds you've been through, what was it

600
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: like really starting to hear your ship on the radio

601
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: all the time. Did you feel like you had made

602
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: it at that point? I still don't think I made

603
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: I love that, and that's crazy, man. I still be yearning.

604
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: I'm still passionate. I still want to, you know, feel out,

605
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: stay from the rain. I still want to, still won't.

606
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: I ain't lying, chick, And I'm in a position to

607
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: do other things. Man, I'd be knowing. I'd be talking

608
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: to people to be talking about it. I'm thirty six

609
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: million years. They ain't got nothing to do with music,

610
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: and I'll be like, what damned? Maybe you just need

611
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: to get up and put a suit on in the morning.

612
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: But I still love this right here. I do. But

613
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: I'm in a position. I'm in a circle now with

614
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: man people, investors, investments, you know what I'm saying. And

615
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: it looked like it would shot me away from there.

616
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: But I truly love what I truly love what I do.

617
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: Did you ever get your money from him? Well, that's it,

618
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: Yeah I did, damn little bit. I asked him about it,

619
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: Like damn. I can tell you how long ago it was,

620
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: bro y'all. Remember when they had the the this is

621
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: the Funnies Ship of the World. Remember the Cadillac was

622
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: then e X T or something. Yeah, I got one

623
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: paint of red and then he got like archy seats

624
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: or something in the right, and so he came in say,

625
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: slam go check out the swine. You know, he's talking

626
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: about swine on my seats all this. I'm like, damn,

627
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: it's nice. What is mom? But I end up getting

628
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: that in there. Uh, And you know, he ended up

629
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: being like Slick a mentor for some time. Man, baby

630
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: got plenty of wisdom, you know, And I'm just you know,

631
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: everything just happened for a reason. But it's some stuff

632
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: I can look back on and just tell. I could

633
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: tell somebody, man, you ain't been through it, for real,

634
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: you ain't did this. You ain't have to go through this.

635
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: Change your name. The two chains how they came about,

636
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was doing a mixtape with Bigger

637
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: Ranking and he was I was, you know, I'm saying

638
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: two chains all in my song. Man, this is just

639
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: really something that God really totally took control of because

640
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: you know, during and that's why I looked at the disturbing.

641
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: The peace era was like a little trial period because

642
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: when I you know, titty Boy was a name from

643
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: the streets. Tip my mom do call me that. So

644
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: when it was trying to wrap, I couldn't think of

645
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: like mc fucking whatever the funk everybody was. I can't

646
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: even thinking that. I just was like Tip, But I'm

647
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: not realizing when I go tell people my name is

648
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: Tito Titty, but they're like, oh, you know, they just

649
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: like like a book cover that they're just not sucking with.

650
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: They're just not even trying to open the book. The

651
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: outside of it so fucked up, you know what I'm saying.

652
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you know the too change. Man, I literally

653
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: got a pitch in the eighth grade with me wearing

654
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: two necklaces on, Like it's not photoshop. I literally have

655
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: been this kid that used to hustle and go to

656
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: the fleet market and by jury. My uncle rest in Peace,

657
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: who just died last year. Man, this thought he thought

658
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: he was them to miss the t That's how many

659
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: gold chains and diamonds he used to wear, you know

660
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, nugget rings. And I just have been

661
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: intrigued by jury since I could think of it. And

662
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: I don't know what a two change came from. I

663
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: don't know what dad happened. I don't know anything, but

664
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: when it happened, man, my life changed. Crazy. You released

665
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: a mix tape Tied the Tru True Religion, which became

666
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: your first mix tape to peer high on the music charts.

667
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: What was your decision to release that rather than the

668
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: studio album the mixtape that a regular album. What this

669
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: time I was going solo. I was still trying to

670
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: create a buzz in the streets. You know what I'm saying.

671
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: That was away at the time. Yeah, that was the

672
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: way that was to move, you know how mixtapes. It

673
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: was my gangster grills too. I hadn't done against the grills,

674
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: and I was using that really to get hot. I

675
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: was telling folks, I'm the hottest nigg in the city

676
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: without a gangster career. Let drumming them know what. I'm

677
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,719
Speaker 1: letting people know it, you know what I'm saying. Just

678
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: like now, I feel like I've done a lot of

679
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: things in the industry without some of the cheat sheets

680
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: have been they have been used in the industry. Now

681
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 1: I have used some cheat sheets obviously, Like I feel

682
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 1: like if anybody do a song with Drake is gonna

683
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: help your career. Kanye is gonna help your career. So

684
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: a couple of people. But it's a couple man, you know,

685
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,479
Speaker 1: industry cheat she said, I just ain't had a chance

686
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 1: to use just got through it. But truely, and that

687
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: was just the thing to do at the time. I

688
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: was hot with him. Yeah, absolutely, and I end up

689
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: doing um you know, at this time. It created so

690
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: much leverage when I went into these offices. When I

691
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: went into these labels, I didn't have to do a

692
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: three sixty deal. I didn't have to you know, I

693
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: damn that had a Ricky Williams football contract. Every touchdown

694
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: I was getting a bonus. You know what I'm saying.

695
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: I just set up some my own weight of my

696
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: own my own contract due to the leverage from from

697
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: the True Religion mixtape. Talk to about us about true

698
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: Life with Drake. He said he was one of the

699
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: cheat sheets and how big that was. It was life

700
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: different after that. Yeah, my life was yeah, my levelage,

701
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, I met I met Drake on tour Wayne

702
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: like maybe oh eight like before you know a lot

703
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: of it, well for a lot of us, you don

704
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: knew who he was or whatever. So I met him

705
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: then and we you know, just been been cool. And

706
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: I remember seeing him at an All Star game, maybe

707
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: around or something like this. And I had a studio

708
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: bus and I told him I had some from and

709
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: I sent it to him, which I didn't though, and

710
00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: he was like, sent him, like damn okay. So then

711
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,919
Speaker 1: I went to my bus and I used to do this, Man,

712
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: this is no lie. Man, I used to do this.

713
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,919
Speaker 1: I used to be like man, and I'm not God,

714
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: and this makes sense, I hope, don't nobody take this wrong.

715
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: But I used to really pick out beasts like man

716
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: who deserved this blessing. You know what I'm saying. I

717
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,439
Speaker 1: swear I used to be like that. And at the time,

718
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: I just it was Mike wheel Man. He just worked ethic,

719
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: was like through the roof. And I put up this

720
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 1: Mike wheel beat in the head, like a little part

721
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: of the beat where I was like, man, I just

722
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,479
Speaker 1: feel like trail, just you have a melody right here,

723
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: and it's just like man. So I did a verse

724
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: and I sent it to him, and you know, the

725
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: rest is just history versus history. And that was my

726
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: first plaque, and it was Mike Will's first plaque of

727
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: many since then, you know, from the door two thousand

728
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: seventeen you receive your your first Grammy for Best Rap Performance,

729
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: uh On a chance on No Problem featuring Wayne Um

730
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: after being nominated a handful of the time. So it

731
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: was it like to get your first one. Didn't you

732
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: perform that on Ellen too? Yeah? It was it was

733
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: It was a It was a It was a blessing. Man.

734
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: I always wanted to. I know, people don't really care

735
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,399
Speaker 1: about don't I do. I mean, albums come from where

736
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: I come from. I ain't never think I would get

737
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: my still and you know what, I still want one

738
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: on my own, you know, like one of my records

739
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: they have people on it. But you know, this was

740
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,919
Speaker 1: a chance record, and this is another scenario like where

741
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: I had, you know, kind of put the record together,

742
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: like he wanted tune on the song, you know what

743
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I just was like he loved a

744
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,760
Speaker 1: rap here in the studio every night. So I usually

745
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: call Way and it's some footage somewhere where I'm letting

746
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,720
Speaker 1: him know we gotta gram me somewhere skating at the Wars.

747
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: Happy is here, like, well, what's going on? Like we won?

748
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: And he don't even know what he on the ramp somewhere.

749
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: But if you're talking about the ashes blunting this grammar.

750
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, it felt it felt good if if

751
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: it was good to do that. August he did the

752
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: verses with Wick Ross. How did that come about it?

753
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: When was it? Like? It was cool? Man? I had

754
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: originally asked I had where I said meet Meal. At

755
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: first I said Meat, let's do it versus and then

756
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: either Swizz somebodw like maybe meet somebody would like, no,

757
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: We're not gonna do it, because it was you know,

758
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: when it first started off, you just wanted to get

759
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: get on there, and that was different. Like if I

760
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: do it again now, I think it would be more performance,

761
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: it would be more personality. At this time, it was

762
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 1: like a respect thing and it still is a respect thing,

763
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And so somebody called me

764
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: about Ross and I was like, man, let's do Ross. Man.

765
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 1: Me and him have been partnered since the white beam

766
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: of days, you know what I'm saying, and uh, because

767
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: he's literally stay on the south side, you know what

768
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying, used to stay on the south side or

769
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: whatever I still does. And so when I came about

770
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: it was was definitely in the middle of like when

771
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: COVID was like super uppredictable. Everybody backstage. It was very limited,

772
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: but everybody backstage maxed up um um. Some of the

773
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: things that you know staying that was you know, you know,

774
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: the strippers for me, him getting the massage. It still

775
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: has a little still had his and stuff going on,

776
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: but you know it was cool. Man. Ross is a

777
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: really dope artists as Meek mil you know what I'm saying,

778
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: and as myself, and I think people know, but I

779
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: still be like thinking people don't know. You know how

780
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 1: many plaques that are just like every time that I've dropped, Man,

781
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: I've been blessed enough to bring home a plaque, man,

782
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: And that means I have some real hardcore fans and

783
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: I just have um something that the people want. I

784
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: want to seek for a long period of time. I

785
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: think that's a bless longevity. Jay Z mentioned about a

786
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: month ago that he didn't feel like anyone could be

787
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: standing on the stage with him. Started a lot of

788
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: buzz at third through. Who's three people you feel like

789
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,280
Speaker 1: would be a good battle for Jay jay Is definitely

790
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: he definitely wanted you want to be kind um. You know,

791
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: he got the charisma stage president, he got the songs.

792
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 1: I think Wayne has the stage president charisma. I think

793
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: he got the songs. I think Drake got the stage

794
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: president Charisma, got the songs. So you got a few people.

795
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah got the stage President's charisma songs. So

796
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: you know, you get to the degree that we got.

797
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: We got a few artists that we are alive to

798
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: see right now. Just man, I said tune. I went

799
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,919
Speaker 1: on Instagram and I've been going out of the people.

800
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: I say, tune, got tune, got something Tune. He's gonna

801
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 1: get on it. He's gonna take his shirt off, he's

802
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: gonna start looking like he have. You know, he's gonna

803
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: be it's gonna be different. But hold, it's super charismatic too.

804
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: I just think I just think we're allied with It's

805
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: just real cool time either one of these people we

806
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: talked about drop a record of moronment. Yeah, crazy man,

807
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: But it's crazy to to to to really just appreciate it,

808
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: because most people don't. I feel like it's the same

809
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,760
Speaker 1: way in sports. Everyone wants to talk crazy about bronze

810
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: staph James instead of just understanding, like what your witness,

811
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: what greatness? Man step literally looks like he's throwing the ball.

812
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: It doesn't at some time it doesn't even it looks

813
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: like it becomes a form like after like when it's

814
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: boy the ram, it's like a goose s neck, but

815
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: from here it just looks like he watching that, like

816
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: to just know what a ram is every time? Man,

817
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: it's crazy. He literally can do this. I feel like

818
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: with one, I I feel like the mother get shoot one.

819
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: Not man, he knows where that mother is. He said

820
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: they got Laci too. Now you can see the rim better.

821
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: I think he got last year. I think, yeah, that

822
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: might be crazy if he was blind this whole time.

823
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: That's crazy, right, just to know that ship is that? Um,

824
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: hit after hit, you said you've been blessed to continue

825
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: to bring home plaques to this day. Can you pick

826
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: a favorite or the more special more specialty? Absolutely, I'm different.

827
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: And the reasons I'm different is because, um, when you

828
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: do a song, it has a hundred you know, publishing

829
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: whatever you want to say, right, the producer gets for

830
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: making the beat like and if there's no samples or

831
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: anything like that, they get. The other fifty is the

832
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: artist or who elp was on the song? That was

833
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,720
Speaker 1: just me, It wasn't nobody on the hook. Didn't nobody

834
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: give me a line, didn't nobody to say you ought

835
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: to talk about being different? I remember, I know where

836
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: I was when it went platinum. I was in London

837
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: and at this time I was on I didn't know

838
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: a lot that was plat my dear Mercy, that was platinum.

839
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: It was like I couldn't miss. But deep down there

840
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: my soul, when I looked in the mirror, I said, boy,

841
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 1: you ain't did this by yourself. You know what I'm saying.

842
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 1: I wann't trying to act like my ship and then start,

843
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They could do something with

844
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: one of the cheat sheets and act like this ship.

845
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: Don't staying like you know what I'm saying. So I

846
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: do know I'm different. It's just me, and it's just me,

847
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: and it's just my idea. And over a million people

848
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: liked it, over a million, over three million people like

849
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: this idea that I thought of. Counter you know what

850
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You know Drake did the hook on No Lie,

851
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: I didn't, you know, So let me let's just be real.

852
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: You know. I have a few more records solo, but

853
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 1: that first solo record, I feel like I got jumped

854
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: in the game. Yeah. Um, you've been blessed to work

855
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: with a lot of different people. Are there a few

856
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: people still you haven't got a chance to work with

857
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 1: that you'd like to? Yeah, it's cool. M m yeah,

858
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: anybody you want to name put that out there. I'm

859
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: through with that. That alright. Ufter this point, who's your?

860
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: You feel like you're in your opinion? Your Your funnest

861
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: collab was with my Fun Fun Fun Collapse. Let me see,

862
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: HOLLI grow one too. Anything I do it with Wayne

863
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: is fun. First of the new we're working on color

864
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: Grove too now and it will be ill. I don't

865
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: want to say April, but man, that was It was

866
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: really fun because we were in a room a lot

867
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: of times doing this and it wasn't just email and

868
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: what you think. We were actually watching ESPN or UFC

869
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: fight for hours and then like recording or going to

870
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: live the process of Yeah, man, this album is super fun.

871
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: I love working with Tune. I love working with you

872
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: because whatever you left it as it's not gonna sound

873
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: like that. So it's like just like wanting to know

874
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: what brother in to do. Yeah, you know, the boys

875
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: called me one day said like you know Mercy coming

876
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: out to Mark it's gonna be a single. And I

877
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: had done like when I first like started working with you.

878
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: Then it's like they booked the whole hotel out in

879
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: the whole top floor with studios, and the studio was

880
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: right across my room and everybody was in there, like

881
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 1: Tiana Side had like all the artists, you know what

882
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And yeah, he's not there. So it's like

883
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: he's almost like trying to give me like a little test.

884
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,479
Speaker 1: So you have some tracks pulled up that he wants

885
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: me to do, you know what I'm saying. So I

886
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: go through one track, I go South and can smoke,

887
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: and Jake called him like, yeah, he's done, him saying

888
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: like what you mean, No, Like no, he's done, because

889
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 1: like you gonna work on songs for like a year,

890
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: not you know what, like you're done, You're done done.

891
00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: Pull up this one, not that, but y'all, bro, don't

892
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 1: that man, Okay, pull up this one. So like four

893
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: records later, I am saying no, bro. You know, they

894
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: get asked me, do you you must have had all

895
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 1: these verses wrote down I already I said no, I'm

896
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: just doing I mean, you know, what I'm saying. I

897
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: don't care who in the room right now. I do

898
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: a whole song from all these people, you know what

899
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I did it. They called me, said

900
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: that song you did Mercy, I'm like Mercy. Which one

901
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: was that? Like it's gonna be a single? I said,

902
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 1: When I did, it didn't sound like it could be

903
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: no single. I said that you get on there, like, yeah,

904
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: you got on it. So they played to me for

905
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: me over the phone and it didn't sound on nothing left,

906
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: you know, it was my verse, but man, everything else

907
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: was and that at that point there, I started trying

908
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: to pay a little bit more attention to music, be

909
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: a little bit more detail. After I realized what people

910
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: who were kind of at the top, we're doing to

911
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 1: be at the top. You know. It just wasn't just

912
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: like taking this and being done with it. They it

913
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 1: was a process and they still was seasons and adding

914
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: different ingredients to it. And that was my first time

915
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 1: being a part of that process. Looking it up. Who

916
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: was some of the younger UH rappers in the game,

917
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: you like these days? Some of the young boys. Man,

918
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: my album thank You, I can start telling my my

919
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: new album don't sell itself. It's full because I had

920
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: put out a memo saying it's my last trap album Wanted,

921
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: which is not really my last trapped around, but just

922
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,720
Speaker 1: all of it being in one space. Don't don't sell itself.

923
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:36,439
Speaker 1: It's almost gen Z Base like Millennial base. I got

924
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 1: all the artists, and I would say they up and coming,

925
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: but they ain't going the way they're here. I got

926
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: money Bag, little Baby, Roddy dirk Um dry Queeze, my artist,

927
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: Sleepy Rolls. I have well SWEDEI sleep yeah sleep, I

928
00:47:55,560 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: have Swedee. I have Stove God he's from Syracuse. I

929
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 1: got Simble from the Worst. That's the Homy shout out Simble.

930
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah man. So uh am super happy about clashing

931
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: my o G veteran talk with the young with the

932
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: young flavor. You know what I'm saying. I'm really uh,

933
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to get some feedback off the new project.

934
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,320
Speaker 1: Talk about your basketball career, bro, and you're playing a

935
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: lot of slab games. I played the slab game for you,

936
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: but I think the one I played in was your

937
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: best one. Uh you performed in I don't know if

938
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: it was because I was out there and you was

939
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: trying to outdo me. But you really, you really showed

940
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: you really impressed me that game. Ever since then, I

941
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: don't know what happened. Ain't seen no good highlights now

942
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: because the game, because we were actually playing in the

943
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: game I played in which we was actually playing, like

944
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: you actually came warmed up, had to shoot like you

945
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: showed up earlier. It's good to play with people. How

946
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: do I say this? To really play? How do I

947
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 1: say this? All right, y'all are NBA players now this

948
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: is let me let me get in this. How you

949
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: NBA player imagine? And you this is just something you

950
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: can relate to because you have great passes. You come down, pump, fake,

951
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: behind the back, past, just go out of bounds. Do

952
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: you passed the two looking at you like, so that

953
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: happens you come down again? No? Look, now you're starting

954
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: to look crazy because can't nobody catch your path? Yeah,

955
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 1: now you look like why this guy that they even

956
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: saying you sorry? Yeah, you know what I'm saying. And

957
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 1: so for me, a lot of the cliff that you

958
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: see me put up is like the last game that

959
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: I put up, the last game that I actually played

960
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: that I can remember that I put up with this

961
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: summer when I played with with Trey and Brad and

962
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: and Carmelo and all these guys you know over here

963
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: with drew up in California. When I go play with them,

964
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: and you know, I had two or three buckers with them,

965
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: And it was because I think the level of competition,

966
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: because I know, I know they know how to play,

967
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: and I know I know how to catch the ball,

968
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: and I know if I thought it like, I know,

969
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: they got to hit you right in the mouth for

970
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: you to catch it right, I know you know how

971
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: to catch. It just makes me happy to play with,

972
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: especially people whose skill set is higher than mine or

973
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: something that, yeah, like mine. But if somebody really can't

974
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: play basketball that good, it's just just kind of take

975
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: my my energy away. You know. It's just and I was,

976
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: and I was for a long time, for a long time,

977
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: for a long time, Bran And I don't know, this

978
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: might be a problem with people might not know how

979
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: real ill I am in in the booth, but a

980
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: long time, that's how I treated the music game. I

981
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: did it according to competition. So if it wasn't like

982
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: Drake or Yeah or whatever, I wasn't like, you know,

983
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 1: all the songs with the big ones, I'm I'm mopping

984
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: the floor. But then I would get like a pop

985
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: record and not be like, man, I can't. I can't

986
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: give them all this, you know what I'm saying. When

987
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: in actuality, Lebron, don't water it down for no nobody.

988
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: You come out there not no doud. You don't get

989
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: your grass throw, you know what I'm saying. Kobe, don't

990
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: take He's not since you and it literally took me

991
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 1: years to do that. And then basketball, I still ain't

992
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 1: there yet. Like if you game playing, I can play,

993
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: I just don't even want to because somebody gonna get hurt.

994
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: It's just something ain't gonna be right. I'm just not

995
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: into it like that. But in music, if you ain't

996
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: all the way there, I don't care. It's exposure time.

997
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: I'm exposing. But once upon a time I could get

998
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: a record from an artist who ain't seen you know

999
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 1: what I mean. Maybe it's somebody that ain't got all

1000
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: the bars and I kind of playing around tiptoe with it,

1001
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But didn't have a record

1002
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 1: with you know, god knows who and really show up

1003
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: and show out. But now I'm at the point of

1004
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: my career in the last couple of years with no

1005
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: matter what it has to be. He was letting the

1006
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: run point. He ran point that day too, so he

1007
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: really thought he was magic Johnson there. You should have

1008
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: seen it, and you don't want to talk about legs

1009
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 1: all kind of he thought he the first thing he

1010
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: came here to challenge us to a shootout outside the

1011
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: first thing he did when he came here. Who the

1012
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: best celeft you played against in the game. I think

1013
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: Quabo can hoop? I think Chris Brown could, who Braisy

1014
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: and who? Like? Let me think it's a few people

1015
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: thinking actually whop if they you know, probably got us

1016
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: all together, there's probably be one good game because a

1017
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: lot of us, you know, smoke, It's probably one good

1018
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 1: on the second or third game. And started kind of

1019
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: understand like we get to smoke the whole entire season

1020
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: because coming out of the game training, but it would

1021
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,240
Speaker 1: be trained to do it. You trained, y'are not taking

1022
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: two months off then y'all still lose from the leg

1023
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: Actually was helping y'all and he was doing a full

1024
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,800
Speaker 1: workout there as soon as we was, before we even shower.

1025
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: We were smoking in the car shut off. That's got

1026
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: to do it. That's had a little bit. My partner

1027
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: did he want his parents and know he smoked. He

1028
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: taking ship out, put it in the back, back fold up,

1029
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: put the trunk under some ship man, she's still on

1030
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: You remember me calling you after the Jack Harlow and

1031
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: Quibo game man. So many people called me after the

1032
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: Jack Hallow man a game was worth like a million

1033
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 1: dollars or some ship man. Yeah, I I called this,

1034
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: go ahead, break it down to it. You broke it

1035
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 1: down to like, come on, bro it was it was

1036
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: we got, we got beat, we got we got definitely beat.

1037
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: Quite play good. Jack Harlow was more like a lamb

1038
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: Beer type of player. I just felt like he was

1039
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: just some like somebody in the middle, just like and

1040
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: then you know, maybe a player, maybe a player, you

1041
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Maybe just a player anything. He

1042
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 1: hadn't having boatloads of cash. Yeah million was like he

1043
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,919
Speaker 1: might even say some ship like I don't know, but

1044
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: um because I was like, I was like, you want

1045
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 1: to practice, you know what, like before the game, like

1046
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: let's just get together in the same court so we can.

1047
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,879
Speaker 1: And so I had been like maybe like a week

1048
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: a week before the game. I started shooting, just trying

1049
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 1: to get my rhythm back, you know what I'm saying, shooting,

1050
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: And then I think he came in with you to

1051
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech, Jim, and he came in and kind of

1052
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: warmed up the day before. Somebody that tried to get

1053
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: warmed up the day before. But you know what I'm saying,

1054
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 1: you know, you know you I was in for some ship. Yeah,

1055
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: and then walk in, he walked in like he's getting fifty. Yeah.

1056
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:46,879
Speaker 1: I mean you know that. That's the part of being

1057
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 1: from Atlanta. Yeah, that's it. That's it. Very very high competence.

1058
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: It's a high confidence rate in Atlanta, you know. And um,

1059
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 1: you know it was it was. It was maybe kind

1060
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: of frustrating at the time, but it was it was

1061
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: actually fun, and you know it was fun. I don't

1062
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: think I would have changed anything. It would have I

1063
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 1: would have had to be in really top shape to

1064
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,240
Speaker 1: really try to go at you know, both the guys

1065
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: those solo sip like that, and I would have had

1066
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: to have everything really working. J K package, the whole

1067
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: pack package. You gotta get a rebound, take it back

1068
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 1: and get them so then like they get them trying

1069
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 1: to sit up it still being like, damn, I just

1070
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,280
Speaker 1: gonna be a long time. But I would do it again.

1071
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: You know, I would do it again. I would do

1072
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:33,919
Speaker 1: it again if somebody wanted to do it. I still

1073
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: love Who would you pick as a teammate? UM? Probably

1074
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: probably probably quite boot him more than I. Who would

1075
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: you can't be quite because I got to go against

1076
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: him a hollow again right here on Harbold team. So

1077
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:51,359
Speaker 1: if I had to go, who else? CBS? Probably CB?

1078
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: I to go CB, C Ball, go c Man. I

1079
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: played the game with CB, and there's number of the

1080
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,760
Speaker 1: NBA Cats and the and CBR. They're going to work.

1081
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:05,359
Speaker 1: You gotta handle too. Yeah, I think with anything though,

1082
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:07,720
Speaker 1: man like a lot of a lot of the Cats

1083
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: begetting open runs, and that consistency keep you keep your

1084
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: joint open run. That's why I'm out of the NBA.

1085
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: We always catch you course side. At the Atlanta Hawks game,

1086
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: Trey Young is kind of giving you guys an organization

1087
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: some new life. What's it like, you guys? Uh? You

1088
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: quave A lot of rappers go out there, gooch all

1089
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 1: out their supporting. Uh. The Atlanta Hawks Slasher made a

1090
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: nice run to the Eastern Conference finals. Um trying to

1091
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: find themselves this year. But talk to us about the

1092
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: Hawks men. I mean, we want them to have a

1093
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:46,319
Speaker 1: good team. And you know, you've got so many people

1094
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: from Atlanta. We want to support that. We want them

1095
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: to we want them to be good. You know, Trey

1096
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 1: Young has definitely giving us a lot of life, a

1097
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: lot of energy. I know people didn't you know about

1098
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: the trade at first with Luca or whatever. You know,

1099
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 1: worked out worked out. I think it work. It worked

1100
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:07,839
Speaker 1: out for everyway right, it worked out. But Traded doing

1101
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 1: an excellent job in Atlanta, Man, he fissing perfectly. Not

1102
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: outside a lot of artists now artists, a lot of

1103
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 1: athletes that played for Atlanta. I'm sure Steve, you can

1104
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: attest it this. They'd be outside jerseys in the strip clubs. Yeah.

1105
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 1: But but but but honestly, man, you you don't see

1106
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: trade man traders traders that handing his business. And you know,

1107
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,479
Speaker 1: I can appreciate the passion, you know what I'm saying,

1108
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: like knowing behind scenes, like he's passionate about nice with

1109
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 1: some of the other young players you like to watch

1110
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: outside the tray brother Hawks A period period basketball, the

1111
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 1: younger Cash, the younger Cash the younger Cash. I like Garland. Now,

1112
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: I like, uh when you talking about younger cash, young kids,

1113
00:57:54,000 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: I like, uh right, my boy from Golden State Pool, Georgan,

1114
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: like you, Jordan's. I got a couple more that I

1115
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: just I like them. Um, And so you know, I

1116
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: got something to do with the G League. So a

1117
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: lot of these guys that came to the G I

1118
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: like with Gary Payton Jr. Is Doing. Are you like

1119
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: the grind if you talked to him to about that

1120
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: you are partial owner? Yeah, the college part of scott Hawks.

1121
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: So they like a byproduct of the Lanta Hawks. You

1122
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Kind of like for people that

1123
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 1: don't know, um G League. And this year, man, what

1124
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: I had due to covid Man, maybe three or four

1125
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: guys move up and get to play for the Hawks. Bro, bro,

1126
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: I remember you know what I'm saying. We're talking we

1127
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: got a new coach and everything. We're talking before the season,

1128
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: and we had a guy named our money went to

1129
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets and know how to another guy to

1130
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: get moved up. But see this is like, yeah, okay,

1131
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 1: so I didn't go to the league, but like me,

1132
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: being able to know somebody and get him in the league.

1133
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: It's just like me living by scariously through them and

1134
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: it just gives me like so much happiness. Right So,

1135
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 1: I'm in this room with people and only maybe three

1136
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: guys came back from the previous year, and I'm looking

1137
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: around and I'm I'm really thinking, man, I wonder who

1138
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: could go. But anyway, I had a conversation like, man,

1139
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: I want you to take this serious because you know,

1140
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: the only way to go from here is up. You

1141
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: could be in and I'm just saying this before you

1142
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And then you look up and

1143
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. A couple of them getting

1144
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 1: driss out on the bench and then they get to

1145
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: get in to say you really, it's on your resume.

1146
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that I started I started

1147
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: out the D League back then, for real, back then. Yeah,

1148
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: and like I called up to the Clippers and played

1149
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 1: fourteen years, that ten day turned out of that. That's

1150
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 1: what That's what I'm saying. If you take advantage of

1151
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: that right there, you know what I'm saying. If you

1152
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:03,919
Speaker 1: get in, man, I'm telling you, this ship could change

1153
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 1: your life. So I don't know, being a part of

1154
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: that it's like, man, so refreshing in the position. Yeah, man,

1155
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 1: And it makes me pay attention to guys who don't

1156
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: get drafted, guys who don't got a big name. You

1157
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's just it'd be certain circumstances

1158
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: that put you in the g leaguer. Ain't because you

1159
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: ain't having no game, you know what I'm saying. So um, Anyway,

1160
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: it's a lot of you know, New York cast that

1161
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: I'm fans of. I like, uh my boy from Houston.

1162
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 1: I like two three cats, Houston Boys, the Porter. Yeah,

1163
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: that Jalen boy. I like his. I like his motor.

1164
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: They already fly fly to be running. I like him.

1165
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: And those are something the guys I talk about. All

1166
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: the stuff you got going online and not just a

1167
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: sky Hawks. You got the basketball, you got the nel salon.

1168
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 1: You don't know what fifty plus properties like give them.

1169
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 1: You know. But Escobar made you miss your honeymoon, didn't it.

1170
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 1: That ain't made me miss a lot of ships. He

1171
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 1: came night, he came to Escobar after his I went

1172
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 1: back to the hotel is too high? Yeah, yeah, I

1173
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: came and uh so I have a restaurant and then

1174
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 1: I have a few restaurants in Atlanta, but they yeah,

1175
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 1: Escobar so Escobar is um a lounge in the top

1176
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 1: of the place. Has great food, great ViBe's great energy,

1177
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 1: and people actually go after their wedding. You can ask Steve.

1178
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: It's a nice place to go. Uh. Me and my

1179
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 1: partner Snoop have owned this spot. Snoop, We've owned this

1180
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:45,919
Speaker 1: spot for five years. I have another spot just had anniversary. Yeah,

1181
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: I had an anniversary for that. Then I had an

1182
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: anniversary from my spot called Esco Esco South South that's

1183
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: been open two years. And then we have another restaurant

1184
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 1: was only members only that we're revamping and we're about

1185
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: to name that Esco Slash. I can't even Esco Pizza

1186
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 1: be looking out for that. And then I have one

1187
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 1: called Esco Seafood that we actually opened during the pandemic. Yeah,

1188
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: and that that's doing real good. It's on Edgewood and

1189
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: it just has nothing but great seafood for all you've lost.

1190
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: The lovers like myself and uh nails. I have Pamper

1191
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: nails salon that mine ain't looking at all like they're

1192
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:28,160
Speaker 1: supposed to look right now. But I'm mentor like grooming

1193
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: and take care of myself. And it's for males and females.

1194
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 1: Everything is unique. So dope vibe Jack get a disking

1195
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 1: on his feet in there. Yeah man, they pull out

1196
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 1: the mom jumper cable jumped them boys off. But yeah, man,

1197
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 1: I have prose property wise, I own, man. I own,

1198
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 1: you know, apartment building that I'm about to start working

1199
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 1: on re rehabbing. Own. Yeah, own maybe seventeen properties. Um

1200
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 1: m hm, yeah, I own. I own some things, own

1201
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: some things business. I just like to highlight that because

1202
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: you know you're my boy. You know what I'm saying,

1203
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 1: and I I always knew your mind frame. So to

1204
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:15,280
Speaker 1: see you know what I'm saying, all this stuff coming

1205
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 1: to fruition, you know what I'm saying. It makes it

1206
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:20,160
Speaker 1: make me proud to thank you man. That's all for sure,

1207
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 1: quick hitters man. First thing to come to mind. Let

1208
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 1: us know if you could be remembered by one bar

1209
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 1: or lyric in your career, which one would it be?

1210
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:40,320
Speaker 1: And why one barred lyric in my career? Mm hmm man. True, true,

1211
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: I'll go for that. True. That's a good one. Top

1212
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: five rappers all time excluding me. Um, I like uh

1213
01:03:53,440 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 1: Wayne Hove based three k two sleepers and I'm going

1214
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: up package up pocket Biggie, you know, together excluding any

1215
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: of your art um one album you could listen to

1216
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:22,440
Speaker 1: with no skips. I mean, it's crazy, ship is man,

1217
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:26,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really laid back cat. It's probably an R

1218
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 1: and B album out there something, it's not. That's what

1219
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:31,320
Speaker 1: I would be going to me that Jackie Jack state.

1220
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:32,600
Speaker 1: I don't mean to cut you off. Jack stayed in

1221
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 1: my house a couple of months ago. I'm waking up

1222
01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 1: at eight in the morning just gangster something damn Jack

1223
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 1: that they didn't even know it yet. Jack is a

1224
01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: gangster though real life does not like gangster and s

1225
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 1: up at all. It was eight and there ain't no

1226
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: warm up and nut Violet Jill and stacking violence from

1227
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 1: from data from the Jack. We don't even have a

1228
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 1: breakfast yet. Bro. Yeah, I'm definitely not doing I'm not

1229
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 1: definitely not playing no ship like that. I am just

1230
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:05,160
Speaker 1: a calming individual. I have now like the past two

1231
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 1: weeks because I have such a huge problem sleeping as

1232
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 1: I've been going to uh which which funcks up my playlist.

1233
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: It's just crazy, but I've been going to sleep to

1234
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 1: these sleep sounds on the Apple and you know, so

1235
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: I guess they'd be on all night when I'm sleeping.

1236
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 1: So now like i get in my car bluetooth and

1237
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the fund is the wind? I get

1238
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 1: to looking around, realized my bluetooth is picked up last night.

1239
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:39,680
Speaker 1: But that's what I've been actually like listening to, like

1240
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: water and they've been listening to the ship just trying

1241
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:49,920
Speaker 1: to like you heard the new rain drop rain patterns.

1242
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 1: I've been listening to rain patterns that calm. Yeah, courtside

1243
01:05:55,400 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 1: ticket to any game in history? Which one would it be? Well?

1244
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 1: One of my favorite courtside games that I went to

1245
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 1: was the Cleveland versus Golden State game where Kyrie and

1246
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 1: lebron Broke had forty three or forty something point. What

1247
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 1: M that's a man you want to be at? Right there? Man?

1248
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:22,880
Speaker 1: My heart changing BPMS. Now, man about that game? Now,

1249
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 1: I know something I you know, wanted to be at

1250
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:29,840
Speaker 1: like Kobe's last game. You know, I wanted to be

1251
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 1: at that game. Um, you know, you know stuff like that.

1252
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:40,439
Speaker 1: And then you know, like coming up, I'm old enough

1253
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:43,800
Speaker 1: to like know when Jordan played, but like my family

1254
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 1: and my dad didn't have you know, like any resources

1255
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 1: to take me to go see him in live live.

1256
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: But I remember going to being able to, you know,

1257
01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 1: start going to see myself and I remember seeing a

1258
01:06:57,360 --> 01:07:00,040
Speaker 1: I play live and just how quick he looked in

1259
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 1: real life. To me, was was like something I had

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Speaker 1: seen before. And just like I remember, you know, seeing

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Speaker 1: him live and just but but you know, for them

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Speaker 1: for the most part. Now I'm in a position to like,

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Speaker 1: let's see what you want, do what I want to do.

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Speaker 1: I would love to go see I would love to

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Speaker 1: go see cause we never asked that question m J

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Speaker 1: when he got sixty three in Boston the playoffs. I

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Speaker 1: was a young year. That's like a second year, right,

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Speaker 1: all right, So if it had to be an m

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Speaker 1: J moment, I just always thought about, like I watched

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Speaker 1: that game. What about they lost that game? Bird was

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Speaker 1: on five? Yeah, they lost. They still lost five Dinner

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Speaker 1: guests dead or alive. I would want somebody like Dave

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Speaker 1: Chappelle there, so it could be some kind of learning,

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Speaker 1: like fun experience, perfect person, uh, somebody that seems like

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Speaker 1: they got it figured it out. I mean, my Denner

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Speaker 1: would definitely be everybody that I feel like I have

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Speaker 1: some type of knowledge that I don't have I just

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Speaker 1: I can't think of them right now, but it'll be

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Speaker 1: maybe Mark Cuban, friend of mine, somebody like that. Like

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Speaker 1: I'm probably putting something like that together as a couple

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Speaker 1: of bestments in a couple. Do you see people around

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Speaker 1: and some opportunities invest into somebody's some I'm putting them

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Speaker 1: in the room together. Maybe uh, I mean the name

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Speaker 1: some people in the VC space maybe uh, the black

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Speaker 1: being there, guy being um, I can't think his name.

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Speaker 1: He's into Adventure VC two. But it would just be

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Speaker 1: some money people. It will be some money people that

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Speaker 1: have opportunities. And I would want to be Bob, Robert Smith,

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Speaker 1: Robert Smith. Yeah, I would want Robert Smith there. So

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Speaker 1: we've got Robert Smith, Mark Cuban. I got to get

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Speaker 1: a female. I mean, somebody deceased. We gotta get you

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Speaker 1: love to be at the table, to get to know

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Speaker 1: somebody decease that we love that you would love to

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Speaker 1: have you sit because he he followed that whole hustle

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Speaker 1: grind the way we're thinking at this table. And then

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Speaker 1: we need a female so it won't just see like

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Speaker 1: it's male dominant. We need a female who just no

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Speaker 1: souper on her ship, you know, and I think it

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Speaker 1: would be a cool down him. If you could pick

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Speaker 1: one guest to be on all the smoke, who would

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Speaker 1: it be? But but the twist of that question is

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Speaker 1: you gotta help us get your answer on our show,

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Speaker 1: um my bat, I mean honestly, you know, Kanye would

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Speaker 1: definitely put up by himself Broby outside, Roby outside right outside,

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Speaker 1: even trying. It's funny now, man, Oh, y'all, I'm straight

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Speaker 1: for Broby outside. I ain't Broby outside whatever, Brobo outside whatever.

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Speaker 1: I gotta give you that he is outside. I think

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Speaker 1: of this president felt yeah, man, pressure on applying pressure man.

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Speaker 1: I like, I like, I like the single Carya, I

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Speaker 1: like I like this car. Yeah, this, y'all fun with

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Speaker 1: this is the heartless car. That's we had a great relationship.

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Speaker 1: Were brothers at the heartless. You know. I kind of

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Speaker 1: ain't talked to him in a while. But we're back

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Speaker 1: cool now, like we're back boards. This is the hardest. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's y'all with Yeah, it's still just crazy. Man. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time. Tell the people one more time? What up?

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Speaker 1: What up? Is your player partner checking in too? Chains

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Speaker 1: Big Tony himself and I have a new project, my

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Speaker 1: seventh album. It's called Dope Don't Sell Itself. Great production,

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Speaker 1: great features, a really great time. I appreciate all y'all.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the support. Tony Nolan, true yeah, shout out there.

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Speaker 1: UH got something for you. But we can't leave, you know,

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Speaker 1: without giving you a little something. Bro. We got some

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Speaker 1: new merch coming, so we're gonna say new merch coming,

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Speaker 1: but this is a thank you. In the meantime time,

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Speaker 1: we know you don't know how to swag it out.

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Speaker 1: You know you don't heat the only person I know

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Speaker 1: you might have on all the smoke hoodie with Balencia, y'all,

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Speaker 1: good y'all, all the way down. You know you're gonna

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Speaker 1: make it do with it. He's gonna he's gonna make

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Speaker 1: it look Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate yo. You know, go

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Speaker 1: gave me a companient. The last time I was in

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Speaker 1: the studio with y'all, said, go, man, Jack, you come

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Speaker 1: in looking like a young nigger. No, yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. This good old, good old fabric right here,

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Speaker 1: that's soft. Yeah, you know some soft material here in

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Speaker 1: l A in the studio all night that you go

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Speaker 1: right down. Yeah, we got some yeah, we got some

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Speaker 1: time for you. We appreciate you, man, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: your time for men's health. Tomorrow, they want to see

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Speaker 1: me in the gym. I might put the hood on something.

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Speaker 1: We want to do a few pull ups or something.

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Speaker 1: Y'all can get that at all the Smoke dot store man,

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Speaker 1: check us out man, a whole bunch of new merch

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Speaker 1: man when that's a rap. We appreciate your time, man,

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Speaker 1: best of luck and everything you continue to do. Continue

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Speaker 1: to stay blessed. Man. Appreciate my brother. You know what

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Speaker 1: it is you appreciate. Find us on Showtime Basketball, YouTube

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Speaker 1: and the I Heart platform Black Effects see y'all next week.

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