WEBVTT - Benny The Butcher | ROC Solid w/ Memphis Bleek 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:15.840 Yeah, y'all, you already know what it is. Yours truly 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.439 M Greasy back in the building where the exclusive got 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.799 my g's in the building is rock solid. These niggas 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.360 is the most solid niggas coming out of New York 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.400 City right now. You know what I mean, y'all, niggas 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.680 know what it is. Man. We got BSF and the 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.519 motherfucking building, my brother Benny the butcher in the building, 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.559 and Fuego base in the building. You know when they 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.120 in the building, bars is up. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:40.960 You know what? 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.600 Big time? Man, I gotta step my shit up after 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.400 this interview. That's how real these niggas is. I feel 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:51.479 like I'm slipping. What's up, my guys? Man, how y'all been? 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:51.880 Man? 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.360 Same grind, bro Man, good seeing y'all. Man. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.800 You know that man, same grind ashes in the safe 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.840 out right now, that's right, ashes in the safe. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.640 My g We was just talking off camera. I'm like, yo, 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.640 I just was getting due. I just finished, you know 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.360 what I mean? Stove God dropped some shit. Thirty eight spets. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.040 You in thirty eight spets drop like three projects back 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.360 to back. Then you drop this joint, you drop summertime. 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.319 But like my nigga, How the fuck do you do it? 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.120 I do this shit because I'm still having fun doing 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:23.920 it right first, because you know, you gotta still be 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.119 having fun to do it at this rate. We're still 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.560 having fun. I ain't sick of this shit yet. And really, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.760 what I was saying was after the Depth Jam deal, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.200 I gave dep Jam that album, and before I put 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:35.959 out an album before that. It was almost two years 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.440 before I put some shit out. So I catch my 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.720 I have my spurts where I fall back ever since then. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:42.960 You know what I'm saying. You know, you gotta wait. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.320 You gotta wait amount of time that's up before you 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:46.200 could drop some ships. 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.840 Right, Yeah, they make the label be on some bullshit. Yeah, 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.840 it ain't that period. Your window be closing a little 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:52.880 bit if you don't stay on time. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.520 So you see, while the windows still going on, I 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.240 just start dropping a whole bunch of independent shit, whole 0:01:58.240 --> 0:01:59.360 bunch of independent ship. 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.560 You know, man, So how you and forego base link up? Man? 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.800 Because my guy from c T in the building. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.240 Man, Yeah, man, my nigga based man from Harvard, Connecticut. Man, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.400 I met him through my dog, Steve Starks. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:10.560 Man. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.320 You know what I'm saying, we gained the relationship, you 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.480 know what I'm saying it, And there's some business and 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.320 he wanted the persons he introduced me to, you know 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.200 what I mean. And this nigga was dope. First time 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.359 I heard him. I'm like, Okay, this nigga crazy. You 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.240 know what I'm saying. Fuck that, this nigga crazy. I'm 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.040 gonna end up. I'm gonna end up like trying to 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:26.720 you know what I'm saying, sign this nigga. But I 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.880 had to get my situation right first. Yeah, that's right. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.079 I was like, for you, my g linking up with 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.400 one of the hottest crews coming out the city, you 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.320 know what I mean, moving, shaking shit up, restoring the feeling. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.400 Man hit mo fucking blessing. Man, I ain't called it. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.760 I ain't know this is gonna happen, So I'll just 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:44.600 be happy to be here, I honestly, man. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.160 Mm hmm. Facts like this ship right. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:47.800 Here, even like this. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.400 I grew up on Bleak, you know I mean, you 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:53.040 know what I mean. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.560 This nigga all the time, This nigga no like all 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:57.320 the same jigga. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:58.320 This is little nigga. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.120 Please you Motherfucker's Live from the streets, you know what 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:02.600 I'm saying. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.720 And I'm like like, so like. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.520 This shit be like I said, I'll just be happy 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:06.919 to be here. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.120 Bro, Now you always was pushing the pin or or 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.240 like how long you been in the in the like 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.120 you know, feeling like yo, I could do this ship 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.040 my dream man. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.440 I shot a video just to say I did it. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.120 Like I said, like my man was telling Butcher I'm 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.280 nice or whatever, I guess or whatever. But when like 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.519 I did that video, I guess he saw it. Then 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.560 he commented on it. So I was like, oh, ship 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.520 like that nigga think I'm nice. Like that was kind 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:31.760 of the beginning of it, you know what I mean. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.440 It's a process after that. But at that point, like 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:40.360 that ship forever you Like, I was just like like 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.240 I went through some personal ship. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.600 I broke my legs and ship, and I would watch. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.320 These niggas while I'm in the bed and I was 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:49.920 just I broke both of my ships. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:52.440 You jumped out the window from the. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.120 Yeah that's what they say too, Like that's exactly what 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:55.640 they said. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.080 That sound you know what I'm saying, But like, yeah, man, 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.400 you know my ship was broke, so to minute to 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.120 get my shit back together. So in the mix of that, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.720 like they had put the band in my crib and 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.480 different shit like that. And I would just watch these 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.920 niggas like when the flag shit came out and all that, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.480 they was going crazy and then like a couple of 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.760 armies like bro, like man, you could do that shit 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.600 like and you know, I shot my shot, Like I said, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.000 he's seen it so like I still ain't believe it yet, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.920 you feel what I'm saying. But like from that point, 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:26.920 it was like, man, okay, it's signing there. I kept 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.279 trying to make more reps. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.360 Know that's what's up, man, I told you man off record. Man, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.240 I feel like the Griselda gang bsf y'all niggas is 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.520 just manufacturing talent over there. Like yeah, niggas got the 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.279 Coca Cola recipe with the Guardess safe and the guns 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.200 over there. I just tell these niggas plug in play. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:45.839 We licked. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.400 I mean it's a lot of it's a lot of spinners, man, 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:49.880 you know. I mean this shit that we do, the 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.120 kind of music that we do, it attracts a lot 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.360 of niggas of that cloth with the bars and you 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:55.840 know what I'm saying, it's a bunch of niggas who 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.400 I could just name who from all type of different 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:00.599 cities who be here me up who. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.880 I would love to work with. That nigga A hard look. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:08.200 That nigga's crazy, you know what I'm saying. Crazy, He 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:09.200 just one of them niggas. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.239 You know what I'm saying. It's a bunch of niggas 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:12.599 who they should have tracked, you know what I'm saying. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.680 And when I get the opportunity sometimes, man, I just 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.680 feel like it's the right thing to do, you know 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:17.839 what I'm saying, because. 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.040 People got to hear this nigga. It's crazy. So one 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.000 of the things I always wanted to ask you, like, 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.960 coming from Buffalo, you know, I'm from the city, Like 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.919 so I know, once you leave the city and go 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.760 up state, people, you know, they look at y'all different, 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.680 like y'all really ain't from New York. So that pressure 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.120 of putting Buffalo on the map and representing New York 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.560 as the state and the whole what was that like? 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:41.280 You know what I mean? 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.120 For you, man, it almost started out thinking it was 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.560 gonna be a disadvantage, but it happened to be an advantage. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.880 You know what, I'm saying, coming from coming from somewhere 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.080 different where we're not involved in the New York politics. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:55.520 You know what I'm saying. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:56.880 I always say that shit, you know what I'm saying, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.680 that helped us, you know what I'm saying, and uh, 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:01.760 bringing something new to the you know what I'm saying, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.200 new to the game. You know what I'm saying. Niggas 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.640 here and Buffalo niggas talk the way we talking, dressed, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.599 the way we dressed, wearing the jewels and shit like that. 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.760 You know that, shit like that haven't been seen far 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.520 as the rap game. That's right, what I'm saying. I 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.320 think that was interesting to the whole world to see, 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.560 like damn niggas up there giving up like that, or 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.200 they talk like that, or they do that up there too. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.680 So some people knew, a lot of people didn't know. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.000 So that turned out to be an advantage, like putting 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.960 the world onto something new, you know what I'm saying. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.840 So, Yo, you know what's crazy about up there? Like 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.400 you saying the world didn't know, but every dope boy 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.400 from the city knew, because think about it, how many 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.440 niggas you know that was in the game. Tell you, yo, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.039 I was getting money out of town. Niggas that go 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.080 up state and tell you they out of town, know 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.760 you not, nigga, you still in New York, stop bucket. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.760 The money just feel like it's side of town. So 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.479 both of ya niggas is on the on the line 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.520 of where that yo, that money was flowing ct Buffalo, 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.360 all beneath Schenectity. I remember I went up in scnnect 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.560 years ago and I was like, I just say for me, man, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.200 these niggas just they hustling like this not I need 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:07.040 the projects? Like what was that like growing up? Like 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.280 how did that the Griselda movement even come together? Like 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.960 all y'all from the same hood, neighborhood, how y'all linked 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:13.600 up like that? 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.880 We family, you know what I'm saying. We all family. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.520 And Wes and Conway they been doing this shit way 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.080 before me. Wes always was a curator. Conway always was 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.320 like the best spinner in the hood, you know what 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:25.800 I'm saying. And then you know when I came up 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.560 and I was rapping, you know, niggas included me and 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.760 this shit, and then it just evolved to this. We 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.560 was four runners first and then we were street entertainment. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.160 You know what I'm saying, And now it was Griselda, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.120 you know what I'm saying. So it was like this, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.720 this is the evolution of what we used to do, 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.480 Like in ninety five, you know what I'm saying. At 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.400 the crib, niggas used to rap on the tape recorders. 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.920 Then we first started going to the studios, started going 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.360 to Spoon Studio and started going to a seasoned studio 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.440 and a whole bunch of niggas who had the hood 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.320 studios and putting out tapes and shit like that. Niggas 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.160 just you know, I mean, play at school or whatever. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.760 You know what I'm saying. So this is basically the 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.280 evolution of that. Like I don't want to put this 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.080 title on y'all, but I'm gonna say, y'all, trajectory is 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:07.880 going that way because I hate when niggas try to 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.560 put a ceiling on niggascase you can probably pass, be 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.360 great or be equal. But I look at y'all like 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.760 how I looked at Wu Tang. It was a bunch 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.120 of niggas and none of them soundedlike. Everybody had their 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:23.400 own identity, and that's what I respect, and that's what 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.440 I respect. On y'all keeping that wave going, especially for 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.840 the city, so it makes the city look good New York, 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.480 you know what I mean. Niggas be trying to say 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.559 New York ain't on the map, and it's like, are 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.320 you kidding me? You're not listening to Griselda BSF. These 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.199 niggas is killing the world. So like, so carrying that wave, 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:41.840 I know, even for you, I want to ask you 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.160 this because you knew to the squad, Like yeah, I mean, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.120 you the new hitter on the squad. So being around 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.560 all the hitters that put in that work, being the 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.760 new guy, the pressure of knowing, damn, I gotta spit. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.880 I can't come with no wag shit. These niggas is killing. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.560 Like I know that's some pressure because at the Rock 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.960 it was on my nigga. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.400 Hell he is pressure, Like I keep saying that, like 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.079 this nigga the best rapper in the world to me, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:08.760 So you feel what I'm saying. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:09.600 And it's like. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.360 Some of the other best rappers is my label meets 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.040 like you feel what I'm saying, Like all of them 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:14.880 talk that ship. 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.440 So I was like, you got to be on point over. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.560 There, man, right top of the tack of wolves. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.920 You know what I mean is definitely some pressure. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.080 You know what, that type environment build that built good music. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.920 That's right, like being confident, still shop and still bright 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.560 world up like and that's a fact, and like you 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.040 know what I mean. I hate to see the issue 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.400 going on with Stove and his deal and all that shit. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.080 You know, but like us being young, the money, these exacts, 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.560 they take advantage of us. So you know, I just 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.760 wanted to know, like not even know, just tell you 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.679 as being the new guy to the crew, patience, bro 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.079 it's greater later. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.960 I'll be chilling, bro chilling. I don't even know how 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.720 I got here. That's so I'll just be chilling. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:57.720 I just let it go. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.360 I let it flow because I feel like the industry, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.760 you know this, my gee, they they dangle that fruit 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.240 in front of you, and you you know what I mean. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.240 I always felt like if a person want to give 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.440 you this upfront, you gotta always question what's being made 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.880 on the back. There's no one is going to give 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.800 you money up front to go broke, you know what 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.520 I'm saying, Like they don't want to make their money back, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.640 so they know they're gonna make it back ten times. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.600 So you gotta be on point. So I don't like 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.960 to see that shit going on. And I know hop 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.160 in them reached out see if they can help or whatever. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:27.160 And that's dope, man. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.360 That's dope man, because that's a that's an unfortunate situation. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.560 Streets need that stove, man, Streets need that. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.360 You need that, Like ge, I've been waiting and it's like, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.040 I hate to see the young guys going through that 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.280 that the industry is still built like that, that we 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.040 got these niggas still in here trying to trap niggas. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.559 That's town crazy, Like I can't even believe. It's like nigga, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.400 I thought that shit died in the nineties, early two thousand. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.920 Dollars, but that's where these niggas be from. They still 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.720 be using the nineties tactics, you know what I'm saying, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.400 And it's crazy. But to them, I'll be thinking that's 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:58.880 part of the game, you know what I'm saying. I mean, 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.360 they think that's part of the game, and they think 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:01.640 that's how the game supposed to be played. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.400 So it's just crazy, man, Like, So like, what was 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.319 your thoughts, like, you know what I mean? Knowing all 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.240 that and being in the game like you went to 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.840 Death Jam first, you was doing it independent, and you like, 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.920 you know what, fuck it, I'm gonna do the major deal. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.440 What was that transition? Like it was a it was a. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.160 It kind of was a smooth transition, but it was like, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.880 everybody know, I'll be with uh rock Nation. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.400 I'm signed the rock Nation bs Roselda. 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.160 So it's like I already got I already liked and 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.520 my shit is like made from the bottom, so I 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.040 already got like a big team, So it was like 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.800 adding more to the team, you know what I'm saying, 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.000 and shout out everybody at Death Jam and that was 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.760 a dope experience, you know what I'm saying. But if 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.520 I if I had an opportunity, I don't know if 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:46.320 I would do that again. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:46.960 You know what I'm saying. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.240 I don't know if I do that again, I probably 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.720 would have kept it independent or you know what I'm saying. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:56.439 Oh yeah, like what you what you feel the benefits 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.240 in cons of independent? And because you did that Indy, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.720 I never got a chance to do Indy. You know. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.920 Once I came up Ragafeller, there's no INDI right right, 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.440 you know what I'm saying. So I don't even know 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.880 what that is. I'm in it now, but I'm not 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.080 that nigga right now, you know what I mean, I 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.680 ain't gonna cap like, yeah, I'm getting a million streams. 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.280 My ship is on the major wamp wamp on the 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:26.520 come up. I mean people that people, Hell yeah, I'm 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.200 saying I'm going to come up. I'm getting some more 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.360 respect from the young guys. You know, they like nig 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.800 I'm an old hand kid tangle, you know what I mean, 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:34.560 and independent ship. Man. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.199 You know it's it's I feel like I feel like 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:39.920 you know what I mean. It's it's a little bit 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.640 more clear than it was back in the day. Uh, 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.400 the artists understand it more, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.400 It's a little bit more transparency now because the Internet 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.960 and and a lot of us built our own ship 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.520 up before we got an opportunity to to do beness 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.040 with these with these distribution. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:56.680 Companies and ship like that. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.080 Uh man, you know, the same people, the same people 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.559 that work with these labels. Is like, you know what 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.400 I mean, they for hire. You know what I'm saying. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.800 Outside of that shit, it's a fact saying. It's about 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.600 knowing who's who and what's what. You know what I'm saying. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.880 It's a fact. It's just like the man, the world 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.360 got a price, Everything in it got a price. Don't 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.800 ever forget that money talk bullshit, run the marathon. They 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.440 don't make them says for nothing. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.000 Hell yeah, man, But that independent shit is just it's 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.520 just you do a lot of the work yourself. You 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:25.880 know what I'm saying. I mean on a lot of 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.240 phone calls. I know, these rap niggas don't be on 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.360 as many phone calls as I be on. I mean 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.400 on the phone calls, on the zoom meetings, trying to 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:34.199 put everything together. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:34.760 You know what I'm saying. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.319 Involved in a whole bunch of shit far as the merch, 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.440 what we're doing with the other artist, as far as. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.680 What I got going on. You know what I'm saying, 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.200 that's dope. And that's another thing, y'all niggas change the 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.960 gang with the merch too. Like as an artist, I 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.080 never if Rockefeller didn't make up, if it's bleak t shirt, 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.080 it never got made my niggas. So I don't even 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.880 know what that's like. Like the merch game, like explain 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.360 and that how is that? That's a whole nother avenue 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:03.920 besides rap. You know what I'm saying. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.080 Man, You know I always I always got to get 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:07.880 a shout out to West first when we talk about this, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.000 because the ship that he I remember that sho God 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.280 even be signed to Griselda. I remember when he originally 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.600 pulled up with the with the hoodies and ship with 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.199 the hitler. Uh where's her mess? Hoodies and ship? I 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:19.800 was spent like four hundred dollars one of my bought. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.360 Everybody on my team them ships, they saying, and then 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.000 you know that ship ballooned to what it is today. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:27.720 So you know what I mean. 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.960 People love the quality product. And you know, you know, 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:32.640 we take paintings and we put them on the ship. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:33.000 We do. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.320 We put shit on the shirt that means something to people. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.200 You know what I'm saying. It might be undertone. Everybody 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.360 don't know. Everybody might be some if you know, you 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:39.920 know ship, you. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.280 Know what I'm saying. So I think people fuck with that. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.760 I think it's like I think it's like some something 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.800 grimy about wearing like a Griselda hoodie. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:53.320 You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I represent the struggle 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.040 to up, the up and coming, coming and coming to 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.640 age story that I got it from the bottom. You remember, 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.760 no one starts a number one. Everybody started from the 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.800 bottom and gotta climb up. Y'all represent that path, you 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.280 know what I mean? And that's from a fan speaker 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.880 and a homie, like real talk, like let's get back 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.240 the ashes in the safe man? What was that like 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.720 creating that my g Like, was that your idea or 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.960 he came with the verses already? It was like, yo, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:25.040 lace me. It was. It was basically because I know 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:30.480 how y'artist be, Hey just sixteen already, Like sixteen, what records, nigga? 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.920 We need your verses? Yo. It was. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:34.560 It wasn't like that, but it was like that because 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.240 it was my idea only because he has so much 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.000 music and I wanted to get some of that ship out, 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:40.680 you know what I'm saying, and a lot of that 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.080 ship that he had it on, I had to get 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:43.400 on it. I had to get on it because it 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.320 was his ship, you know what I'm saying. That's what's up. Yeah, 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:46.840 it was like, man, this nigga got shit, let's put 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:47.400 these records off. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.040 You know what I'm saying. That's that's dope. Man. I 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.240 respect that man, Like I want to know more about 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.600 your story, my guy, because you the new guy to 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.280 the crew. And now I said, man, tell me, yeah, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.440 like you you just came from let Field Spin because 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.160 we just getting used to thirty eight and Stove and 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.480 then now here you go. Man, I've been chilling now 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.120 all night niggas is just chilling. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.000 I've been chilling. Man, I've been in the shadows. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:13.160 Man. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.440 I've been working though, like you know what I mean, 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.040 Like this is what I've been. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.680 Doing, honestly, Like like you know, like I've been blessed, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.120 Like I've been like figuring out how to make some 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.960 paper or whatever without doing nothing that I don't want 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:25.160 to do. 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.880 So that gave me the freedom to just be creative. 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:28.080 Bro. 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.520 So like when my when they call my number, I 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.120 be ready, I be over prepared. 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.720 I got two power or cards, Like I don't do nothing. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:36.800 I rap right. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.000 I would have loved to do that at a different 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.280 point in life. Like so now it's like, you know, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.880 I cherish that it's loaded up. They be like you 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.000