WEBVTT - Maino | ROC Solid w/ Memphis Bleek 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.520 What up, y'all? This your main man, Memphis Bleak right here. 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.840 Welcome to Rock Solid, a production of iHeart Radio and 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.920 the Black Effect Network and partnership with my guys over 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:10.840 at Drink Champs. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.240 Yeah yeah, y'all you already know what it is. Back 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.799 with another exclusive. And like I told you, you see 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.279 many people sitting at this table, but not everybody is 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.119 like everybody. And this man to the left, for me, 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:29.040 is not only my brother, but he's definitely a Brooklyn Slid, 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.800 one of the guys I respect from the beginning, ever 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.000 since I met him. There's nothing but love between us. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.600 And I watched them tell me I'm gonna get in 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.280 this bitch and I'm gonna make my mark. And you 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.800 did that, my jeekes. That's welcome. Heto to the building. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.199 You know what I mean? Brooklyn in the building? What's up? 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.840 My brother? What's the same grind? Different time? Man? Hey, shit, 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.760 He'll see you shine and still head before you my brother. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:56.400 Appreciate that. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:56.680 Yo. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.600 You probably don't even remember the first time I met you. 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:01.920 I do remember you remember it was in the love 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.440 We was here, it was in Brooklyn. It was it 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:09.480 was off a rockaway. Yeah, Yo, what of the grammiest 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.400 clubs ever. I remember I'm sitting in the dressing room 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.760 and rest the piece shout out to the homie from 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.080 Usie Billy's Shoe Shine as we walked in with and 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.440 she was like, Yo, I want you to meet somebody. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.360 Bleak This nigga's nice man from Brilliant just came home. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.760 Trust me. Got that ship and that's how I first 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.680 met you. Remember that night the form Yeah, yeah, I 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.759 forget that. That ship was crazy and my and they 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.520 let them rockets off when we left Louis. It was 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.360 a rough That was a rough spot. I forgot the 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:41.399 name of that spie too. That was like Rockaway Parkway, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:46.000 Rockaway Ae Trenches. It was Trenches though it was it 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.920 was definitely her. It was big m you know, yeah, 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.160 I definitely remember that man. Yeah, man, And from that 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.720 day I respect because you told me that day you 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.560 like bleak Man. You know, I just came home. I'm 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.960 trying to do my thing in the game. I'm gonna 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.840 do my thing. Say Billy was talking highly of something 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.320 there is just saying, uh that come home energy is 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:13.519 unlike anything I believe. And Shoe Shine made rest in peace. Man, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:18.000 My brother, he was. He was like at a time, 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.239 very early on, like my biggest supporter. You know what 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.000 we was, We was coming up in the ranks in jail. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.800 I wasn't. I was never rapping, so nobody knew me 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:34.519 for rap. So when I started rapping when I got 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.000 out of the box, the first jail I went to 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.040 when I when I got out of the box after 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:44.040 I was rapping was Elmira. I went back to Elmira 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.360 and and me and him. You well, he came in 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:53.040 and we wound up being next door neighbors. So I 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:54.760 would be like, yo, listen to this, like you know 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.160 what I mean. So we had that bond and when 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.919 I came home, he was like, yo, yeah, let's go, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.000 you know what I mean. So he was he was 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.240 my he was he was my he was my guy man. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.000 That's what rest of Peace shoes. So it was a 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.359 monster and a rebel. And he had that energy man 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.960 that motivation then definitely motivated he did. He was telling 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.960 my guys like, oh yeah listening, Oh you know, listen. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.519 He was the same way in the hood. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.720 Used to tell us the same shitting mass yo, main 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.200 that nigga and telling you why you gonna take this 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.920 ship over Zoe and then I watched you grind my 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.280 g and then here come High absolutely yo. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.400 Before I hated it was Woumas though only from Little Womas. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.040 When it was the song when I was talking about 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.120 old the Woman's that's the song that actually got me 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:45.400 signed first. That was the song that kind of changed 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.440 the game because before that it was like the mixtapes 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.520 and the DVDs. It was that error. We was end 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.960 up talking crazy yo. The way going back there, he 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.560 just spuked the memory. Man. I remember back then too. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.680 That's when they used to be like, Yo, I ain't 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.200 gonna front. It ain't no squeezing all the dj is 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.200 he putting Yoda in on everybody net and nigga in 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.280 the club like this, Yo, let me high at you 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.080 rekick HOLMEI niggas say you with the old everybody in 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:13.640 the cippy you know what. I hear that so much right, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.560 And I'm like, I don't feel like it was like that, 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.160 Like like I don't think because niggas, you know, I 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.520 was smacking DJs up. And then I'm like, nah, I ain't 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:28.599 never ever putting my heads on a on a DJ. Okay. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.480 Maybe a couple of promoters but oh yeah, no, DJs. Right. 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.880 But the thing was is like sometimes we got it. 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.560 I was coming from a world where it was like 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.760 it was aggressive. I've been in two places in my 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.040 whole life. It was the streets and I've been in prison, 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:43.400 and I went after the person. I went back to 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.719 the streets. So my, my, my, my introduction might have 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:52.359 been a little aggressive because the energy of just coming home. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.279 You gotta you gotta understand the mentality of a nigga 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.200 that just been in prison all this time. Its energy 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.600 is up because we sit in the day won like 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.760 damn fantasize and your brother. Let me tell you, man, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.640 I used to sit in the day one and watch 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:14.880 y'all understand this perspective of of of seventy people in 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:19.560 the day one watching TRL or Rap City and they 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.320 doing Rockefeller Countdown or whatever it is, and we're just like, man, 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.600 I touched down right like and you could just fantasize. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.040 And I tell proof all the time, I'm like, man, 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.760 we have to be down with rock and fellas. You 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.599 know what I'm saying, Like, I want to like because 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.120 everybody like you have these dreams. You have these dreams. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:41.919 I tell over a lot, man, I don't think he 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.919 understands that he know. I ain't gonna say he don't know, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.640 but I think at one point, bro, we could have 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.640 signed the whole New York City absolutely, one hundred absolutely absolutely. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:57.040 You know what y'all did for for people coming from, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.800 especially where we come from. We're from the Star. Like 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.359 when you see somebody doing that, you absolutely relate to you, like, man, 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.440 it gives you some hope that you could change some 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.440 of this shit around and your life, you know what 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.440 I mean. And back then, a lot of these kids 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.920 don't understand because it's all you gonna say. It's easy, 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.159 but it's easier than it was for us back then. Again, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.640 in the game, you could create a YouTube channel, I 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.719 g Twitter, write your following up, and they see a music. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.680 Back then, this ship was like telling a nigga you 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.960 going to the NBA's like, no, you know, if you 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.479 had a major record deal, it was because you was 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.560 that good. That's right, right, it had to be you 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.320 was that good, and that's what it said. It was. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.359 It was more prestigious. It was like it was a 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.800 because you had to meet a standard, like because everybody 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:52.200 wasn't getting record deals. Yeah, and there's certain people got 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.679 in because they got vouched for right, but it was 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.960 it was still who you knew though that the fact right, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.080 which wasn't wasn't easy because everybody have act sess So 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.400 it wasn't like now where you know, the technology made 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.159 it to where it's like you can go your grandmother 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.000 basement and make a record and then uploading on your 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.240 Instagram and your YouTube page and then you just you 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.240 just a rapper, right, And I say this all the time. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.840 Rap is like the only you know, you know industry 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.240 where it's no standard. You don't have to meet a requirement, right, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:25.800 you know what I mean. You just can't be a 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.440 professional boxer, you know, you can't just be no. You 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.520 can't wake up and just yeah you're gonna get your 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:37.080 Nick Bright. You can't just be a professional basketball player 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.440 like nothing. You can't wake up and get in the 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.760 no League nothing. Just can't just be a doctor, you 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.960 got it. Can't just be alloyer like you have to study, work, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:51.040 study school master, right, yeah, rap you can like, man, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.680 you know what, I got four thousand fowls. I't be rapping, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.200 that's a fact. I'm going to the studio and then 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.400 you know I'm gonna be lit. You know what I'm saying. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.440 In the way it's good and bad because in the 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.000 way it oversaturates the game, that's too you know, accessible 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.560 for everybody. But then the good side is more. Man, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.960 it's making a lot of uneducated people that they qualified 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:18.600 to get jobs, able to feed and provide. I'm always 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.280 love that. I love that. I'm always lost shaw that 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.160 it not only give you a give gives people jobs, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:29.880 but it gives you something to do. Yes right right. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:35.040 The thing is, it's like it brings down the value 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.200 of what it devalues the product because if you got 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.520 a bunch of bullshit, it's just like selling work, bro, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.079 you know, you you fleck the black or trash. They 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.080 not gonna make it to the guy over here who's 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.040 out of the head banger right feel me? And it's 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.000 the same thing over here. It's or saturated. It devalues 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:56.680 even the idea of being a rapper because everybody is one. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.720 It's like, I don't even want it. I don't add 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.559 me that. But it's not even saying that. That's why 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.280 I have two sayings. Man, Even with producers, like I 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.800 feel like in this game there's beat makers and there's producers. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.680 The beat maker is nigga who's gonna send you thirty 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.960 beats and expect you to do his job finding the 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.240 hot one producer will sit with you, come with the 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.720 long a idea he's gonna create that goes to your point. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.240 Not a rapper, right, you're an artist espe. Oh there's rappers, right, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.880 and then there's artists indeed who this is the art? 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.480 So speaking on that, how did how would you say 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.839 how Hayter changed your life? What it was the first 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:41.040 sonic that that really went that went for me? Crational? 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.280 You know what that feel like? Bro? Like this is 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.640 a dream come true? Right? Five years before that I 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.560 was I was walking the yard. You understand, like this 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:56.960 is unbelievable, like a hit, and you gotta understand like 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.240 it was nobody nobody had done really what I had. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.600 But nobody had came home after you in ten years 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.959 in jail and came up. You know what I mean? 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.160 Half these rappers that are rappers that go to jail 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.920 with come home, come home trash right like so to 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.959 come home link, Yeah, it hadn't happened like that for 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.440 nobody prior to that. So I was just like, man, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.640 it was a dream come shootover bro, like just to 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.480 just to make it that far. And I will always say, man, 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:32.400 if it if it ended now, over overachieved because I 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.320 did what they said that I couldn't understand. Like you know, 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.520 I wasn't never supposed to even get this fall like 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:45.120 I was the whole inmate nigga, real blood packs. Fact 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.520 that I met that's so crazy man, that I met 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.880 you after you came home, that's right to meet you before. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.440 And we got so much mutual friends, my chiirs, like 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.319 we know, the whole Brooklyn is the same and it's 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.520 like yoh with the fun. Yeah, I'm from those yeah, 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.440 Marshy right down the black set, like literally right down 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.240 the block, my gee. So I would say to you, right, 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.480 what's the most important business lesson? You would say you 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.840 learned and gain you would give to these young don't 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:19.880 take none personal business same personal That's a fact. Sometimes 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.720 you can do business with with with personal people yours. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:28.600 But the business and the moves that you make, it's 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.480 not a shouldn't come from a personal place, you know. 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.679 And you know a lot of times we we uh 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.480 we tired by emotions with certain things. I see a 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.640 lot of artists get mad at the people that they 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.720 were signed to. I thought he was my man, though, 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:46.760 I thought he was like you know, you see a 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.040 lot of you know, people puff for getting flat for 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.000 certain things with artists or whatever. Right, man, I'm just like, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.640 no black man contract was worse than the white man contract. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:04.439 No nobody. And I'm educated myself a little bit in 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.880 the game a little bit, so I'm saying, nobody did 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.440 no business different than they's been doing than what they've done. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.000 Everybody like gotta remember, I feel like people gonna do 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.640 what onto others, what was done to that loom, you 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.200 know what I mean. If we learned the game in 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.320 a negative way, you're gonna repeat the game in a 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.679 negative way. And it's just that's just how we come. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.120 It's like you gotta give to get right. You're not 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.720 always gonna have what you want when you want it. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.520 But the opportunity is bigger than the chap you go 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:43.079 the town the opportunity. That's why it's sugar crazy to 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:44.800 say that, because I had I was just talking to 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.800 Norry today and he was telling me about it's a 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.720 viral video going on with Steve Harvey where he says 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.079 about yo when the person lose their fathers when they 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.400 realize that's the only man whoever wanted you to be 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.559 better than him, that there's no other man that you're 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.360 gonna meet in your life that wants you to be 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.520 better than them. Like you know what I mean, nigga 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.719 wants you to look good, but not better than them. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.360 And I'm telling nor of that's true. And I'm the 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.440 type of nigga. Of course I want my niggas. I 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.120 want to be the best. But if I know setting 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.560 you up to get the wind for you, it's gonna 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.200 make the win for me easier and we'll let you 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.320 be there. He was like, you're bleeding. Not everybody is 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.840 like that. So I'm saying with your point is we 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:30.600 need more niggas that's willing to sacrifice the w for 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.520 the one because it makes the road easier for the 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.240 for the many. Because if we don't feel like for 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.040 this other you, then yeah, but then we gotta learn 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.600 how to work together and learn with your what your 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:47.040 power is, and learn with the See that's the only 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.800 way that happens. And yes, strips might be might be 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.040 a weakness for me, My weakness might be a cerin 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:53.840 for somebody else. You know what I'm saying. But if 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:58.600 we come together, then we then we then we play 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.840 to our strengths. That's right, right, and that's how and 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.440 we balance that. That's that's why I love what you 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.440 and Jim did with the lobby boys, like I respect 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.880 that because in New York, man, you know, they paint 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.120 the picture on us that we don't fuck with each other. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:11.400 Man. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.560 And and I'll just I just said that, I don't 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.200 think we get enough credit for FLA actually kind of 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:23.280 like brushing that backwards because it's like we we traditionally 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.160 known as the people that don't get along with each other. Yeah, 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:31.080 here we come. You know, Brooklyn hallm linking up and 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.240 bab and East and all of us, all of us 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.880 is building this this this friendship and then building business alignment. 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:42.000 You understand, like and and that and that comes by 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.440 that comes without ego. That's the only way that's gonna happen. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:50.080 That's right, right. Every as a as an artist, as 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:54.640 a rapper, we tend to think everything is about us. Man. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.760 You know what, why they ain't let me come out, 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.320 that's you know what I mean? Why you ain't called 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.760 me for that verse? While everything you're always gonna be 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.480 about you. That's a fact, and you gotta learn to 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.880 get there. So sometimes I come out it's just support. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.720 It ain't about that. It ain't the boss, right No, 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.440 And then sometimes some nice it is about me and 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.320 the homies is just support. That's right. They gotta they 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.480 got this right or that's right. That's that's how they go, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.440 y'all moving. I love what your did. It started with 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.640 the working now y'all niggas have me. Yeah, just working 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.000 out with Jim Man, like yo, now you fit flashier 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.000 show world up. And then the fucking the artist to 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.360 artists man, but that artist artists artists started, But then 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.320 we did we branched out into the owners. Let's rap 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.400 about it. Oh yeah, that's what is. Let's rap about it. Yeah, 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.480 my bad bad promote too shows artist starters and let's 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.200 rap about it. Check out both for them, you know 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:51.880 what I mean. But yo, y'all niggas be shooting yo. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.120 It's like everybody got the sniper right for like what's 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.800 that word? Words? Everything? And it's a fashion shows up. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.240 Oh yeah, y'all, y'all all go. They could afford the flies. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.840 The New York get in the room together y'all niggas 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:11.040 is just major, major battling old cameras quiet too, that's 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:15.560 a war niggas coming there outfits. Yeah, just but that day, yo, 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:21.120 I Couldn't's crazy man, I'm like that fly guys who's 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.680 on that next level ship. YEA been on there. You'll 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.560 be going hard to with the grab You'll be on. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.720 I'll be trying to have my you know what I mean, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.960 Like you know it's it's It's cool though, and because 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.000 that's who we are, like yo, so and what makes 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.280 the show good is that we really got that relationship. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.920 It's that chemistry. Yeah, man, man, that's dope. Yeah. So 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.640 I say that's why I did this show because a 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.400 lot of people think thinkgas don fuck with each other. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.920 That's like, man, I got a lot of relationships that 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.400 niggas don't even know behind the scenes. Me and such 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.680 and such, kicking and me and such and such, vacation, 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.160 me and such and such boys since being little like 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.840 think about it, Like one one of my main homies 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.040 is a VL crew, and I remember the first time 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:09.200 I seen them ride around like yo, yo, proof you 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.800 ko be now and you're like, yeah, blizz, I'm kao 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.320 B But I've always getting low. Man, I'm like, that's right, Peter, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.080 But bro I knew proof since proof was like fucking fact. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.480 We talk about y'all all the time. We heard and 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:28.640 we talk about you know how y'all you know Rockefeller 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.159 get low. We talk about all that. Jeter. Then you know, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.320 you shout out, Ja, shout out to juz k Man, 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.760 shout out, shout out, shout out to my man, Piso Successes, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:42.320 because you know Piso. When I came home, took me 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.080 the Jeda k House and we snatched Gita up because 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.399 I was hungry. I wanted to do a song with whoever. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.520 And you gotta understand, you gotta look at it from 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.720 my point of view. All y'all lit to me. That's right, 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.560 All y'all licked to me. Everybody. This lady was on fire. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.600 Jeda was on Cody all without us do long. I 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.400 never been on the tour reflex. Jeter was. We went 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:08.159 to Cheetah House, word, wake up, nigga, let's go, let's go, 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:09.880 let's go, We're going to the studio, and he had 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.800 forty rhymes where we was ready and yeah and and 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.280 and those those those memories. Man Like it was like man, 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.760 I gotta get on like I. You know, so you 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.119 shout out, shout out to so we always we always 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:25.280 be reflect on that and I'll be like, man, Man, 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.320 I wanted to be Rockefeller. Man, I wanted to be 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:35.440 down them days. Man, I ain't gonna front Bro Rockefeller. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.760 I think I took them days for granted. White said 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.159 that because I was young, and you know, when you 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.600 ain't prepare for the ending, you don't see an end this. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.840 He told me the same thing. Yeah, like you don't 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.400 see an ending, bro, Like it's like this is forever. 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.600 So I didn't cherish it like one day this can 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:58.560 be gone. Like I feel like that situation is trained 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.920 me to realize that everything ain't forever. Because I really 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:06.040 believe Rockefeller was forever, this thing of ours. I could 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:07.960 see that, like you know what I'm saying. Remember I 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.480 was fourteen years old, Bro, I didn't know anything else 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.000 but Rockefeller, you know what I'm saying. So when it 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.920 was coming to an end, that shit was devastating. You 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.800 didn't even see it though, No I did. You've seen it, bro, Yes, 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.840 you know. I used to be trying to town niggas 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.360 and nigga used to be looking at me like blizz Man, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.640 we get Maddy shut out. It's like, okay, okay, let's 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.679 see like word, I used to be trying to put 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:34.719 niggas on and it just say you feel like because 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.800 me and him had these talks, Me and men living proof, right, 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.200 I'd be like, man, I had to work for every 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.760 everything I got. Bro, I'm like, nobody gave me. Now 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.160 I had to bind every bit of it. So he said, 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.960 that's the difference. He say with us, you know, a 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.600 lot of it was given to us. And when you know, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.520 I appreciate it, appreciate like this, dude, think about it. Bro. 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:02.119 We had a studio Baseline Student where it's two rooms. 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.000 You can go to this studio anytime of day. I 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.760 don't care if you showed them at nine in the 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.639 morning or four o'clock in the morning. And there's just 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:17.679 Blazed Guru Bink Kanye West in the studio. And we 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:22.240 don't have too level of records at disposing. This is 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.399 what I'm saying. Like, and we in there playing obs 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.280 something y'all. But he was telling y'all like, y'all need 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.560 this is what I'm saying. It was too I think 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.480 we were too young seeing too much, too fast, Bro, 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:38.520 and me thinking, yeah, we all from Marci, each my niggas, 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:42.919 they watch me grow. What this ship forever like? But 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:47.840 as far as like position in the team, that wasn't 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.679 given because it's a lot of niggas that was on 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:51.720 the team that never got a chance to drop an album. 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:53.920 What you mean like think about it? Oh, skin on 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.880 Sparks never dropped the p d Krack never dropped the album. Oh, 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.080 they only was on the Snake Pro each cell tracking 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.959 out and I wanted these guys to drop albums. But 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.680 that's what I'm saying. We niggas was on tour so much, 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:11.159 already had changed, already had bends his houses. It was 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:14.160 like nigga we named It's what we rapped for from 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.600 the from the outside looking at that, it just looked 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:21.400 so tremendous. It was Bro, it was by that movement 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:27.120 was just so tremendous. It was Brooklyn and Harlem Halem. 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:31.679 We had Philly Philly Yo and didn't think we mop 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:37.240 O dB rest in Peace. We've had the singers Nicole 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.719 Ray yeh Yo. Bro, we had everybody. Man, we was 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:42.560 we was low en up. That's what I'm saying. We 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:46.480 could have signed everybody man like for real, but enough 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:50.760 about us. Back to you man, you or the major 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.639 like you stepped into this media wave like I'm fresh, 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:56.920 I'm new, I'm the rookie, your whitelock. I'm not gonna 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.000 act like because I've been in the game for years. 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.960 I know this media spa. I'm the rookie on the block. 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:05.040 You are the veteran on the block. You better than 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.959 this shit, nah, Bro, You've been doing it from kitchen 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:11.960 talk right love and hip hop, hosting the radio show 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:14.840 and angela ye you know what I mean than doing 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.760 the part with the homies right now? Like, what's that 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:21.200 journey been like for you? I'm a hustle man, and 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:26.000 the thing about it is like it never was easy 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:29.159 for me, Bro, Nothing ever was easy for me. I 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:31.320 had to work for everything. Bro. I had this rhyme 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.600 for everything, everything that that people see me accomplished. I 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:36.159 had to really go get it. 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:36.879 You know. 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:38.879 I gotta be on time, I gotta make sure I'm 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:40.479 near because I don't want them to use that as 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.399 an excuse. So I feel like I'm I was always 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:47.800 coming from a deficit, you understand. So I just feel like, 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:51.160 you know, we all got talent. It's just tapping into 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.280 different things. You know, we all got things about us, 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:58.959 you know, and as far as you know, media or 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:04.360 television or radio, that ship personality. Let that shine. That's right, 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:07.080 it's shine. You understand how to talk, that's right. 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:07.919 You know. 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:10.639 I was nervous of this. Yeah, I did it, nor 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:12.600 they told me. I'm like, man, I don't think I 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.040 do it. Got it though? You got it. You got it, 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:17.199 though you've been holding it down. You did it so 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:21.080 much like and you like a pioneer in my eyes. Bro, 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.040 Like I said, Bro, you started first the kitchen Talk move. 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:27.240 Like I should have never stopped Kitchen Talk. I stopped 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:31.280 that because you know, I see a lot of people 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:33.960 that you know, Oh you did kitchen talk and it 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:36.240 didn't work. No, it did work, but it worked so 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:38.680 well that I actually got a deal with Kitchen Talk 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:41.840 that we I did with Fox with Fox Soul. But 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.560 then the problem with that is that once I did 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:51.920 that deal with them, it stopped being a podcast and 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:55.320 I didn't. And I was only doing it now when 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.760 you got my check. So if you got my six figures, 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:02.920 I gave these ten episodes. What he's doing this on now, right, 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:05.760 it's not. It's not about if being a podcast no 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:09.280 more so once that stopped, it's like you know, sometimes 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:11.920 sometimes it's hard to go back and pick something back up, 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:15.480 you know, But I learned a lot and I'm glad 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:18.840 I did it because it allows me and it helps 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:20.600 me to do what I'm doing to day. It's right, 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:22.639 you know what I mean? So every day everything that 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:25.520 means is like a step. It ain't no book falls bleak. 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:28.800 I don't know, nobody tell us how to do something. 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:30.960 We're gonna figure it out since like you give me 0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:33.760 like a like a little bit, like something small, like 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:36.760 just an opportunity. That's all I need. That's all I 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:39.919 need is the opportunity. And like me, I feel like 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:42.919 we've been on the same path at even though we 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:45.879 never collaborated on music, well, we've been on the same 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:48.639 path in music. So I never been able to really 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:51.159 ask too many people this question, but I ask you 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:55.400 this because I know, Dily, how do you feel? Because 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:58.000 we stay in ten toes, you know, that's the that's 0:24:58.040 --> 0:24:59.840 the code we was raised by. I don't know if 0:24:59.840 --> 0:25:03.760 it's the area like parents, the niggas we grew up with, 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:07.880 like the trauma you lift through. But we always been 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:12.040 say what you mean, mean what you saying? Stair ten 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:15.119 toes on you. And they call that keeping it one, honey, 0:25:15.240 --> 0:25:17.479 keeping it real, whatever they want to call it. I 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:20.640 just call it being the mad. How do you feel 0:25:21.000 --> 0:25:23.720 or do you feel that has helped or hurt your 0:25:23.760 --> 0:25:27.240 career anyway? It hurt me a lot. I feel the 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:33.359 same way because we don't look. I'm a very principal person, 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:38.639 and I'm a very prideful person. I probably swallowed my 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:41.480 blood before I swallowed my pride. That's right, you understand, 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:45.520 And sometimes you know that's not always good because this 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:48.400 is business, right. I had to learn how to tell 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:53.080 my guys. I said, listen, we can't out real these niggas. 0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:57.000 The reason why guys like us are losing. And he 0:25:57.160 --> 0:25:59.639 be like, why all the goofy shit is prevalent is 0:25:59.640 --> 0:26:05.119 because they don't have no parameters. We out here saying Okay, 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:08.240 we don't do this, we don't do that, We don't 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:09.359 go back and forth with the inter of it that, 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:12.520 we don't do the inter of that, we don't do that. Right, 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:18.240 if you're not gonna win, that's right. So so the 0:26:18.320 --> 0:26:23.760 thing about being a principal person you're gonna stand with 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:27.000 in your space, and everybody may not get it, and 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:31.000 the time you know you you may have to not 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:33.879 be here for them to really feel that. Because sometimes 0:26:34.480 --> 0:26:36.600 it's like the world that we live in it is 0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:39.080 not about that no more. It's just like everybody's just like, 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:43.560 you know, what do you mean? I don't understand? Like 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:47.119 what like you don't have defensive the sciences? Man, everybody's offended. 0:26:47.320 --> 0:26:50.720 Every nobody has principals, nobody standing on mora rules. It's like, 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:56.000 and nobody cares about true right because on the Internet 0:26:56.040 --> 0:26:59.040 now it's just about entertainment. It's just about content, whether 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:01.199 it's true or not. That's what thing I love what 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:03.600 Charlae Maine saying, Man, why they care about the truth 0:27:03.680 --> 0:27:05.840 and the lives knowing the tak This is what I'm saying. Hell, 0:27:05.920 --> 0:27:09.040 it's when he said that, I'm like, it's kind of 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:12.240 it's kind of lies entertainer, that's what they're going with. 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:14.359 These people want to be entertained and I'm out here 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:20.119 trying to be that is not true, trying to be real. 0:27:20.280 --> 0:27:23.120 We can't out really, we can't out real a game. 0:27:23.720 --> 0:27:28.080 We're going to always lose, Like that because this is entertainment. 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:31.880 This is not We're not gonna win award for being 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:35.399 real nigga. It's no category for that, right right, But 0:27:35.440 --> 0:27:37.600 you know the awards that come with being a real nigga, 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:43.720 like hell casketch stars. That's Reglars just star. Either either 0:27:43.760 --> 0:27:50.040 either either you scar physically, scarred, mentally mentally emotionally scar 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:53.600 on your soul right because you you you want to 0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:55.600 stand on business. You want to stand on what you 0:27:55.680 --> 0:27:59.080 feel like. You you what you represent. But the whole 0:27:59.119 --> 0:28:02.920 world doesn't see them with you retroceived. They don't even 0:28:02.920 --> 0:28:04.600 care a why they care about it. They just want 0:28:04.640 --> 0:28:06.440 to get over the next day. So I'm not out 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:09.000 here trying to be the real sniggers, you know what 0:28:09.080 --> 0:28:11.119 I mean? Because yeah, they didn't won't get us, no 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:15.320 one why Astra That is because I never forget Bro, 0:28:15.920 --> 0:28:19.320 Young save man, shout out young saf You know out 0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:22.399 here got the Loler brook girl Blamar thing move. It's family, 0:28:22.440 --> 0:28:26.719 say yea, yeah, that's family. Like he told me something 0:28:26.880 --> 0:28:29.399 twenty years ago, Bro, when he was an intern and 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:32.080 depth in turn, that's why nowful he was an intreat 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:35.280 His brother is with that man school man rest. 0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:37.560 So I don't remember them from being as fucked soo 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:39.320 man all that sad man school man. 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:42.400 Yo. He told me something. He was like, yo, bleep, 0:28:42.600 --> 0:28:44.960 you know why you ain't gonna never be successful, bro, 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:48.440 like you dream to be because you keep it too real, lorgie. 0:28:48.560 --> 0:28:50.480 These white people don't want to be They don't want 0:28:50.480 --> 0:28:52.480 to hear the real. They want to be lied to it. 0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:54.959 They want to hear that it might be like this 0:28:55.040 --> 0:28:57.840 so you can possibly do this. They don't want to 0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:01.640 hear that is is real. And he was like, yo, 0:29:01.720 --> 0:29:04.360 you never And I'm like, yo, bro, I don't know 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:06.200 how to lie to one nigga. I don't know how 0:29:06.240 --> 0:29:10.360 to shucking jive front to these people like that's not me. 0:29:10.520 --> 0:29:12.920 But I didn't understand what he was talking about. And 0:29:12.960 --> 0:29:16.000 now now you see, I see, bro. We niggas was 0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:20.800 too too standing on sit right. You're standing on this, 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:24.800 this this moral mountain that you're ben built for yourself. 0:29:24.960 --> 0:29:27.080 It only exists in your projects or on your block 0:29:27.720 --> 0:29:30.480 with you in like ten of your homies. That's it. 0:29:30.520 --> 0:29:32.320 And them niggas ain't never in the room with you 0:29:32.360 --> 0:29:39.440 when you negotiate it neither, sit right. They ain't not 0:29:39.720 --> 0:29:41.520 in the room with you with you have. But you know, 0:29:41.600 --> 0:29:44.600 the great thing about it is though still being here, 0:29:44.920 --> 0:29:48.440 being alive, being room to figure that out. That's what, Bro, 0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:50.640 That's my next thing to you. I was gonna sayo, Bro, 0:29:50.720 --> 0:29:53.840 you lived through hell man, being in concerrated. You know 0:29:53.880 --> 0:29:57.080 what I mean, coming home enjoying all this shit. Man, 0:29:57.120 --> 0:30:01.560 where you say your strength behind all that bit resilience man, 0:30:02.040 --> 0:30:05.240 resilience worth Like I'm a strong spirited person, bro, Like 0:30:05.400 --> 0:30:10.920 I ain't gonna lie. I'm gonna push through. You understand, 0:30:10.920 --> 0:30:13.880 we all still deal with with with the things that 0:30:14.080 --> 0:30:18.840 like throws at us, right, But I'm gonna always always 0:30:18.880 --> 0:30:22.440 push full man, no matter what you understand, and no 0:30:22.520 --> 0:30:25.280 matter what the situation is, I'm gonna figure it out. 0:30:25.400 --> 0:30:29.440 This is why I'm still here in this error. That's 0:30:29.480 --> 0:30:32.080 a fact. Like that was one thing too. I was 0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:34.440 gonna say, I you stay ground because we all go 0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:36.120 through a lot of ship. You know, you look on 0:30:36.160 --> 0:30:40.320 the internet, it's Joe Smoe from over here, Joe Smoe 0:30:40.400 --> 0:30:44.800 from over there, this girl from over here. Everybody just 0:30:44.920 --> 0:30:49.680 got some opinion something to say. Everybody grounded and blocking. 0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:52.160 Gosh it up, Let's get these people some advice who 0:30:52.280 --> 0:30:55.240 just love to crash out. God, hold lo listen, I 0:30:55.320 --> 0:31:01.280 got a hold homeless ky two drug addict shit going 0:31:01.400 --> 0:31:04.440 at me, talking crazy on the internet, mag it up 0:31:04.480 --> 0:31:08.040 stories on the Internet. It's at least made up stories. 0:31:08.080 --> 0:31:12.840 And it's just it's just a lot of noise. Yeah, man, 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:15.600 like I gotta block it out. You gotta block it out. 0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:19.360 You got it, especially now when we we already see 0:31:19.400 --> 0:31:22.479 what the emotion is. Okay, I'm gonna say this and 0:31:22.480 --> 0:31:25.800 get clicked, so I commnd time my mind, size my 0:31:25.880 --> 0:31:28.560 page and my go virum and get money. So everybody 0:31:28.680 --> 0:31:32.040 is just saying everything and anything just to just to 0:31:32.080 --> 0:31:34.640 try to get these these odds on their pages. And 0:31:35.120 --> 0:31:38.640 I just I just like at this point, like because 0:31:38.680 --> 0:31:41.680 I used to get bothered by the things that that 0:31:41.920 --> 0:31:45.640 wasn't true, and I was always trying to like what 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:49.920 nigga answering, correct, I was the same way you can't. 0:31:50.040 --> 0:31:53.120 Now I learned to laugh it off. Yeah I joke. 0:31:53.240 --> 0:31:55.920 I ain't even read this. Yeah, I joke it off because, 0:31:55.960 --> 0:31:59.440 like I said, Bro, nobody's gonna be more disrespectful than 0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:01.960 the niggas we grew up. You know what I'm saying, 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:05.200 my friends, was the most disresplectful. Like I said, nigga, 0:32:05.240 --> 0:32:08.240 you came out no clothes off, no new sneaks. First 0:32:08.240 --> 0:32:11.960 they score easter. Nigga, your mom's a crackcats, right, how 0:32:12.000 --> 0:32:14.120 she what? She spends all the money on that pack. 0:32:14.480 --> 0:32:17.520 She couldn't buy you those sneakers. I got the us, 0:32:17.640 --> 0:32:23.040 you couldn't get it. I'm thinking. That's what I'm saying. Smoke, 0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:27.680 It's what I'm saying, And that's farming throng and thinking 0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:30.560 that's coming from a nigga who just what's playing the 0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:32.720 tendo with it. And there you turning around and tell 0:32:32.760 --> 0:32:37.240 you your yes, yeah, oh y'all crack you smoke too. Probably 0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:41.200 you know, yo, you've seen the game like me, from 0:32:41.200 --> 0:32:45.680 every angle, you know what I mean, from past to 0:32:45.840 --> 0:32:49.000 in the our time to present. How do you think 0:32:49.000 --> 0:32:52.320 it changed for better or for worse? Bro? I mean, 0:32:53.000 --> 0:32:55.600 we talked a little bit about the fact that the 0:32:55.680 --> 0:32:58.600 game is now is just so accessible that it doesn't 0:32:58.600 --> 0:33:01.680 have the same value. They don't feel the same as 0:33:01.720 --> 0:33:06.280 far as like you know, calling yourself a rapper. You know, 0:33:06.520 --> 0:33:08.280 you know, we we every day we wake up, we 0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:10.920 see somebody in the paper for something like this rapper 0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:14.080 and he's like I never even heard that, so that 0:33:16.320 --> 0:33:18.800 I hate that about the game, the fact that it's 0:33:18.880 --> 0:33:24.080 just the value of the job, right you got you 0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:26.280 have a certain limit and be like, oh, he's just 0:33:26.320 --> 0:33:28.480 a rapper, Like it's just and you got niggas in 0:33:28.480 --> 0:33:30.400 the street. I can wanted a rapper, serve. It's just 0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:35.440 trying to take what what that is? You understand because 0:33:35.520 --> 0:33:37.400 it was a time you work hard to be that 0:33:37.480 --> 0:33:41.480 because that was a way out, you know. Now it's 0:33:41.560 --> 0:33:44.800 just like it's just so accessible. So I don't like 0:33:44.880 --> 0:33:47.840 that for the game, but I always and I'm gonna 0:33:47.960 --> 0:33:54.600 always love the fact that the game gave opportunity to 0:33:54.720 --> 0:33:59.280 so many people, you know what I mean? Yeah, definitely, Man, 0:33:59.480 --> 0:34:04.000 he ain't because without getting I don't like if I 0:34:04.000 --> 0:34:07.200 didn't had a game, where would yo? Bro? I always 0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:09.920 say that too, Where would I be if I didn't 0:34:10.000 --> 0:34:13.799 have this opportunity? I have no clue. This is what 0:34:13.800 --> 0:34:16.000 I'm saying. If I had a game, It's like I 0:34:16.000 --> 0:34:19.000 would be probably like a fucking serial killer, Like yo, 0:34:19.160 --> 0:34:22.000 this is raised I'll probably be ill, probably be walking 0:34:22.040 --> 0:34:25.360 to y'all. This is what I'm saying, Like, I serious, No, 0:34:25.600 --> 0:34:28.040 that's a fact, bro. Without this what we was gonna do. Niggas, 0:34:28.040 --> 0:34:30.040 ain't we not colling to this? I'm not a plot 0:34:30.040 --> 0:34:32.520 I would have been out here like good with my hands. 0:34:33.480 --> 0:34:36.480 I'm not a fight iceman. Then not a mall a 0:34:36.560 --> 0:34:40.560 loan like Yo, one of my homies, right, Yo, i'anna 0:34:40.560 --> 0:34:42.360 tell you some funny shit, he said, like what we 0:34:42.480 --> 0:34:45.000 gonna do? I remember when our first moved to Florida 0:34:45.040 --> 0:34:47.760 around I'm telling the Holmi. I'm like, yo, I gotta 0:34:47.760 --> 0:34:50.200 find some landscapers to come through cut the crib. You 0:34:50.200 --> 0:34:51.600 know what I mean. I don't not doing none of 0:34:51.600 --> 0:34:53.640 that ship. I was like, Yo, yo'll know a motor law. 0:34:53.680 --> 0:34:56.040 That nigga was like, Nigga, you see these hands. These 0:34:56.040 --> 0:34:59.160 shit's getting manicured. All these hands do is write checks. 0:34:59.280 --> 0:35:02.120 I know how to do anything that a check paid for. Yeah. 0:35:02.280 --> 0:35:04.120 It was like, Yo, that's what they're good. That's what 0:35:04.920 --> 0:35:07.480 it was like. No, I know how to do everything, 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:10.000 you bugget. Once I pull this check book out, it's 0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:12.560 get done it. So I know how to do everything. 0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:16.719 So when my be like, yo, you know it's getting done. Second, Yeah, 0:35:17.200 --> 0:35:22.799 called the hall met, Yeah it's done. I'm on the 0:35:22.800 --> 0:35:25.879 same sign. I don't. I ain't with the manual label. Man, noah, man, 0:35:25.880 --> 0:35:28.560 I ain't with the manual label because I showed you 0:35:28.760 --> 0:35:31.600 like y'all, I ain't want to man, you know, like 0:35:31.640 --> 0:35:34.879 a man's man like that, you know, lift my car 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:38.320 up and take the wheel off and fix the flat tire. 0:35:38.920 --> 0:35:42.040 She we will leave a call there. She called the 0:35:42.120 --> 0:35:43.960 nigga that we got to help that. You know what 0:35:43.960 --> 0:35:47.319 I'm saying it COVID roads, yeah, roll side, all these 0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:53.040 roadside roadside and if you got on Star it's automatic, 0:35:53.040 --> 0:35:55.520 sort you push that button. Stop playing. I ain't. I 0:35:55.560 --> 0:35:59.080 ain't going past you know, I ain't going past hanging 0:35:59.080 --> 0:36:01.719 off a picture or something. No, that's a fact. And 0:36:01.840 --> 0:36:03.920 sometimes I might nigga niggas to do that because I 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:07.840 want it, like organizing a certain pattern. Right, my my 0:36:08.080 --> 0:36:10.640 hanging might be a little as a little bit a 0:36:10.680 --> 0:36:12.799 little degree off. You need to want me to come, 0:36:13.160 --> 0:36:16.040 my man, jay No, mistery no Wi is right here, 0:36:16.080 --> 0:36:20.680 come and bring his love lever. Y'all did the level 0:36:20.800 --> 0:36:25.600 up right, and that's it. I ain't gonna see that 0:36:25.640 --> 0:36:29.120 little bubble hit the middle. He got it exactly. He's like, 0:36:29.640 --> 0:36:32.719 you got it. I do got a drill though, I 0:36:32.920 --> 0:36:36.719 gotta drill. I think he got the drill just in 0:36:36.840 --> 0:36:39.080 case he like, I get one of you niggas, I 0:36:39.160 --> 0:36:42.600 clap you and live, I'm a drill your ass. That's 0:36:42.680 --> 0:36:46.000 not the dum when you had to drill some ship though. 0:36:46.040 --> 0:36:49.160 You know what I'm saying that Yo, usually there to 0:36:49.360 --> 0:36:52.000 fill up or flag. You be feeling like a major 0:36:52.160 --> 0:36:55.080 limit sitting there like this. That's why I know I couldn't. 0:36:55.360 --> 0:36:57.960 I wouldn't have survived. Man, if this didn't work, I 0:36:57.960 --> 0:37:00.560 wouldn't have survived. So gave the game, gave. He gave 0:37:00.680 --> 0:37:04.360 us all opportunity to yeah, eat our families and you know, 0:37:04.480 --> 0:37:07.840 make our parents proud, you know, fact and and and 0:37:07.960 --> 0:37:11.400 do things that we never dreamed of doing, like you know, 0:37:11.560 --> 0:37:16.280 traveling right, been a Japan five times, you know Africa, 0:37:16.480 --> 0:37:20.719 like crazy toys, you're you're paying toys and you know, 0:37:20.920 --> 0:37:24.800 just awful music, yo, and what you said, like just 0:37:24.920 --> 0:37:28.439 kicking off on that making our mom proud. Bro, rest 0:37:28.480 --> 0:37:30.200 the piece. You know, I know you lost your mom. 0:37:30.280 --> 0:37:32.560 Not too long will go mad as you know you 0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:35.160 do the main old day we all birthday and sweat 0:37:35.640 --> 0:37:38.440 right every year and brook and then it be one 0:37:38.480 --> 0:37:41.399 of the illness turnouts because all my niggas is there 0:37:41.520 --> 0:37:43.399 for I hear it all the time. No matter where 0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:46.040 I'm at night. I don't call anybody at Brooklyn, what 0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:48.680 you doing there, I'm at Maine Off. This is so ezy. 0:37:49.280 --> 0:37:51.200 That's the door. I love that you do that for 0:37:51.320 --> 0:37:54.040 the community. Yeah that Yeah, we gotta do that. So 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:58.759 the uh, the main old day is a real day. 0:37:58.800 --> 0:38:01.080 Like I'm actually got the day from the city. The 0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:03.360 city gave me to day because I was going my hood. 0:38:03.400 --> 0:38:06.200 I was doing the cold drives, I was you know, 0:38:06.239 --> 0:38:09.200 I was doing as much as I could, just trying 0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:12.360 to you know, get get that motivation. So they really 0:38:12.400 --> 0:38:15.080 gave me the day, you know, the Brooken ball president. 0:38:17.040 --> 0:38:20.640 So I didn't want it just to be like, you know, 0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:23.080 like a day just throw a basketball. I wanted to 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:25.560 do something meaningful. So I was like, we need to 0:38:25.560 --> 0:38:28.239 block these streets off. I don't want to have a 0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:31.600 stage set up over here for the for the local artists, 0:38:31.600 --> 0:38:35.280 and I want to have, you know, stuff for the kids. 0:38:35.320 --> 0:38:37.239 I want to have venice. I want to have it's 0:38:37.320 --> 0:38:44.920 like a block party, festival event give back for kids. 0:38:44.960 --> 0:38:48.319 So you know it's it's huge. Yeah, I block off 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:50.759 I block off Green all the way to Lafayette. I 0:38:50.840 --> 0:38:53.080 know it's to your locks, bro. They talking about it 0:38:53.080 --> 0:38:57.040 in the paper. Yeah, radio, yeah, news, confridge everything. That's 0:38:57.080 --> 0:38:58.840 amazing you've been doing that. I think, what is this? 0:38:58.960 --> 0:39:01.160 Your four foot murder gonna be the third? It's gonna 0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:03.440 be a third. Yeah yeah, man, See that's amazing, bro. 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:06.799 We need more people like that. I want to, you know, 0:39:07.040 --> 0:39:09.960 show the community it's other ways, because I feel like 0:39:10.040 --> 0:39:12.759 we were shown. We were shown in a negative way, 0:39:12.880 --> 0:39:15.319 but we still were shown because think about it, the 0:39:15.440 --> 0:39:18.359 drug dealers and our error was getting money. Indeed, they 0:39:18.480 --> 0:39:20.600 was getting money, and that's what made us want to 0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:22.759 get money. Like wait, we ain't know what to do 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:25.360 with the money, but we knew we needed to get money. 0:39:25.560 --> 0:39:28.000 And that I feel like we the generation showing the 0:39:28.040 --> 0:39:30.719 young kids who getting money what to do with the money. 0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:33.439 I tell, I tell your little niggas. I'm like you, look, 0:39:34.000 --> 0:39:38.799 your opportunity was way greater than mine. That's a fright. 0:39:40.040 --> 0:39:42.120 Niggas only had when I was your age. Nigs only 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:44.799 had cracking the gun for me. That's a fact. You 0:39:44.880 --> 0:39:48.480 asked for some advice. Here you go cracking him down. 0:39:48.719 --> 0:39:53.799 That's it, right. So that was that was our opportunity, right, 0:39:57.120 --> 0:40:00.719 you gotta not just tell somebody. I feel like the 0:40:00.840 --> 0:40:02.800 lessons that was taught to us was like, Yo, you 0:40:03.000 --> 0:40:06.040 gotta do the right thing, and you gotta if you 0:40:06.120 --> 0:40:08.400 want to tell me to put down what I'm what 0:40:08.480 --> 0:40:12.040 I'm doing, give me something else, show me, show me, 0:40:12.160 --> 0:40:14.000 show me better than you could take. And that that's 0:40:14.040 --> 0:40:17.480 still applies. Kid, Just tell these kids stop sharing the 0:40:17.640 --> 0:40:20.520 go and shall stop whatever, yo, al and put the 0:40:20.560 --> 0:40:22.880 gun down back then set up. It was just like 0:40:23.000 --> 0:40:25.879 me Sha his ms on drugs, he ever met his father, 0:40:26.040 --> 0:40:29.279 he lived with his grandmother, he in the gang. It's 0:40:29.320 --> 0:40:35.360 the same story. So you gotta actually give them something 0:40:36.280 --> 0:40:38.480 and the and the problem is that we don't have 0:40:38.520 --> 0:40:42.000 no more senses and stuff like that. Remember that I 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:44.879 was a little voice club and I am c all 0:40:44.920 --> 0:40:46.920 of that, man, the kidding me. I just have a 0:40:46.960 --> 0:40:49.279 school all of that. The ship, the b r C 0:40:49.520 --> 0:40:51.759 out there Eastern New York and all of that. Man, 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:54.680 it's no more sillers you right, ship, it ain't even 0:40:54.680 --> 0:40:58.320 know yogi been yo. You know, I found you know, 0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:01.520 I found out that that was one family who funded 0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:04.600 that that wasn't from the city. Really, Yes, that was 0:41:04.719 --> 0:41:07.239 one family, like as if you and your wife for 0:41:07.719 --> 0:41:10.520 me and my wife just paid. That was one family 0:41:10.560 --> 0:41:13.760 who funded. We needed to shine light on them because 0:41:13.840 --> 0:41:17.520 they between that and free lunch in the summer time. 0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:21.040 Oh my god, that big came up Saturday morning, Saturday waning. 0:41:21.160 --> 0:41:23.960 It was that. But I am up front that bus ride. 0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:27.480 You had to be certified, was taking your candy. It 0:41:27.560 --> 0:41:30.960 was glad to be certified. We're going away to bush 0:41:30.960 --> 0:41:35.920 with Yeah. It was well, yeah, whole stop. That's the fact. 0:41:35.960 --> 0:41:39.359 The whole sto got bus like this, what you got? 0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:42.560 What's it that bad? Now? Now you're there? You big 0:41:42.800 --> 0:41:45.319 was kind of land into what spotted you feel like 0:41:45.400 --> 0:41:51.080 later on you understand, Yo, that bus ride was serious. 0:41:51.239 --> 0:41:54.080 Then you get to the center. Member, everybody's from all 0:41:54.160 --> 0:41:57.640 the hoods, isn't it? You went just two three homianes. 0:41:57.719 --> 0:42:01.480 They linked up. Y'all need to go get a lot 0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:04.799 of relationships and plums came out. Yogi Ber Beer, I 0:42:04.840 --> 0:42:07.120 got cool. I got cool with a lot of a 0:42:07.120 --> 0:42:08.720 lot of a lot of a lot of other kids 0:42:08.719 --> 0:42:12.040 from n og Yeah in Yogi Beer, I guess we 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:14.680 was in the same route, you know, like Yogi Bear 0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:17.759 was that ship and you're talking about free lunch man. Now, yo, bro, 0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:20.920 big Apple was it? Remember they were yo, this was 0:42:20.960 --> 0:42:23.080 a time where they was shut down. What was it? 0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:25.880 I think it was the junior high schools because it 0:42:26.000 --> 0:42:29.759 was thirty three, even even higher seventy, but even in 0:42:29.880 --> 0:42:35.480 certain public schools because my fifty six yety six was 0:42:35.480 --> 0:42:39.879 open gross the street from Marsypool lunch in that yo. Yo. 0:42:40.000 --> 0:42:43.840 You see our always said I wanted to be in 0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:49.600 the era of how big Marsypool become Marsy Pool. And 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:54.240 it's not in Bossi Marcy, Yeah, but it's deep Calby. 0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:58.440 Now listen Bossy Pool. Oh we was you sell you 0:42:58.640 --> 0:43:04.640 monsoo pools. You would lose sneakers. You only there if 0:43:04.680 --> 0:43:08.200 you wasn't certified and you took them sneakers off. It 0:43:08.400 --> 0:43:12.160 got in that pool, you got out. He was in 0:43:12.239 --> 0:43:16.720 their mind. And we was in Massapool fighting everywhere, fighting 0:43:16.719 --> 0:43:20.040 the lifeguards like you was in there. Oh my god, 0:43:20.200 --> 0:43:24.919 it was robberies going down like it was injuries. Yes, 0:43:25.120 --> 0:43:26.880 now that I heard, they got it on the timer. 0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:29.479 Now yeah, remember how you were in the Metropolitan pool 0:43:29.480 --> 0:43:33.400 because remember Metropolitan, that's the inside one. Yeah. Let everybody 0:43:33.640 --> 0:43:35.440 that they used to give a time that. Yeah, I 0:43:35.440 --> 0:43:37.640 ain't y'all to come back at two thirty. Yeah, I 0:43:37.680 --> 0:43:40.319 heard that's how they Yeah, now you know that's the pool. Yeah. 0:43:40.360 --> 0:43:42.360 We used to actually go to Mansa pool when it 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:44.960 was clothed. When it was clod climb the gate. Climb 0:43:45.040 --> 0:43:47.760 the gate in there with your little joy and cops 0:43:47.760 --> 0:43:49.800 coming around ya flashing the flash. 0:43:50.920 --> 0:43:51.080 You know. 0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:54.800 They had another part that was closed off. I guess 0:43:54.840 --> 0:43:58.520 it was open years ago, right, the deepest pools deep right, 0:43:58.560 --> 0:44:00.839 and we used to play on the top of that. 0:44:01.600 --> 0:44:04.520 They have fence on top and we used to was 0:44:04.760 --> 0:44:07.120 I never got I f I ain't never get on 0:44:07.120 --> 0:44:08.880 one of the holes and it was dirty and the 0:44:09.040 --> 0:44:11.920 one of the hole and stop watching. Yeah, one of 0:44:11.960 --> 0:44:14.759 my homies dropped his stop watching and went in there 0:44:14.760 --> 0:44:17.120 and got it. Oh he is sad. It was filthy 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:20.759 year size of it. Oh yeah, savage Joe, I ain't 0:44:20.800 --> 0:44:22.879 gonna from one of the wireless pools. I ever been 0:44:22.920 --> 0:44:30.120 to a Brooklyn, this Vessio and fucking Brownsville that I 0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:33.120 know that was nigga listen. I was too young to 0:44:33.120 --> 0:44:35.200 be certified. I was in there with my cousins and 0:44:35.280 --> 0:44:38.240 the used to be in there front yo, bro Western 0:44:38.280 --> 0:44:43.399 f Shaw Price rock steal my cousins, Yo, bro, these 0:44:43.480 --> 0:44:46.239 niggas used to be in there going crazy wold and 0:44:46.239 --> 0:44:48.359 and I'm a short he just like. I remember one 0:44:48.400 --> 0:44:50.200 day sitting in Vessie at pool. I'm sitting there with 0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:52.120 my Mom's just on the cot on on one of 0:44:52.160 --> 0:44:55.320 the little bleacher stands, three on the tower. Whatever. A 0:44:55.440 --> 0:44:59.920 nigga climbed over the fence in a hoodie jeans tail, 0:45:00.719 --> 0:45:03.879 jumped in the pool, swim to the other side, got 0:45:03.920 --> 0:45:07.200 out and walked out. Yo, or mind me. I was 0:45:07.200 --> 0:45:09.840 a shorty, like yo, what was wrong? What's wrong with 0:45:09.960 --> 0:45:14.920 the media? He was hottest? He was from Brownsville. Yeah, different, 0:45:15.000 --> 0:45:19.960 so different, different DNA. That's a different deep different DNA, 0:45:20.520 --> 0:45:25.200 Brownsville different. I used to tell people because you know, 0:45:25.280 --> 0:45:28.359 going to school growing up in Brooklyn, that's one thing go. 0:45:28.640 --> 0:45:31.200 You know in the summer when you go back to school, 0:45:31.560 --> 0:45:33.319 you know, all the kids used to be like the 0:45:33.360 --> 0:45:35.480 teacher be like, yo, so what y'all did this summer? 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:37.160 You know a lot of kids be like, yeah, I 0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:39.720 was in Virginia with my cousins. You asked the phrase 0:45:39.800 --> 0:45:48.240 I was in Jordah yo, like that, Oh my god, 0:45:48.560 --> 0:45:52.279 I spent my sow intil the Marcus Garvey and right, 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:54.759 you know that was like a third world country. Bro. 0:45:54.880 --> 0:45:58.200 It was another word mother glass and still look crazy. 0:45:58.840 --> 0:46:01.239 Imagine what it was like then. Yo, it was yo, bro, 0:46:01.320 --> 0:46:05.359 it was the terror Dome. My grandmom's God bless us so, bro, 0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:07.480 My grandmoms used to pull out the Bible when I 0:46:07.560 --> 0:46:09.840 was to be like, I'm going out, Sonny, don't mind me. 0:46:09.920 --> 0:46:12.319 She used to be uncutting to me. I better watch him. 0:46:12.400 --> 0:46:16.279 You gotta think though, it was what what what it 0:46:16.560 --> 0:46:20.560 was for mother, oh grandmother fall in the eighties that 0:46:20.600 --> 0:46:23.680 they had kids in the ghetto. It was no phones, no, 0:46:23.880 --> 0:46:26.400 there was no cameras. There was no cameras. You let 0:46:26.480 --> 0:46:29.480 your kids go out. You could just all you had 0:46:29.480 --> 0:46:31.360 to do was all you could do is praying that 0:46:31.400 --> 0:46:34.480 they men and her. That's right, and it was broad. 0:46:35.880 --> 0:46:38.440 That's my first time seeing the body was in the veil. 0:46:39.080 --> 0:46:42.280 One hundred percent this way walking the fence was the ship. 0:46:42.680 --> 0:46:44.360 But you was it shorty like, yeah, I'm want my 0:46:44.440 --> 0:46:48.080 ninja ships walk the fi I see two niggas arguing. 0:46:48.239 --> 0:46:51.160 But in Brownsville back then, they had like the logs. 0:46:51.200 --> 0:46:53.799 It was like the tree like the tree cut out 0:46:53.800 --> 0:46:56.080 and there was the logs around. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm 0:46:56.160 --> 0:46:59.520 walking that. I see two niggas arguments like nine in 0:46:59.520 --> 0:47:02.520 the morning. I'm the only nigga outside. They arguing. I 0:47:02.560 --> 0:47:05.520 ain't paying no attention to it. I get around the 0:47:05.560 --> 0:47:08.040 other side. So I just hear a niggas say what 0:47:08.160 --> 0:47:11.319 motherfucker take that? And then you know, I'm thinking, no 0:47:11.400 --> 0:47:13.759 not he run off. It's like, Yo, it's nothing. That's cool. 0:47:13.800 --> 0:47:16.359 Hey arguing and help me run off? It's cool, y'all. 0:47:16.400 --> 0:47:19.960 Get around, walk around. May not look the nigga had 0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:22.759 a knife in his neck. Yo. Bro jumped down and 0:47:22.800 --> 0:47:26.839 ran to the crib with too my coussin. Yo, T way, yo, 0:47:26.960 --> 0:47:29.080 every they just stabbed somebody and we come down and 0:47:29.120 --> 0:47:32.560 bro body in the body in the park. And then 0:47:32.800 --> 0:47:35.120 that's what police used to be like anybody saw anything, 0:47:35.200 --> 0:47:37.960 like I ain't cause you bet not telling I So 0:47:38.200 --> 0:47:41.160 I wasn't outside. Way he was on camera, Yo, it's 0:47:41.200 --> 0:47:44.239 doing the only way you guys the nurst time ever 0:47:44.320 --> 0:47:47.360 seeing it go down, and I was like, oh, he 0:47:47.480 --> 0:47:50.160 left the knife and his neck was crazy. What's the gangster? Though? 0:47:50.480 --> 0:47:53.719 Left it in his neck? If you leave your knife 0:47:53.840 --> 0:47:56.880 knife in a nigga neck. You definitely a gangster. You 0:47:56.880 --> 0:48:02.239 you old fu leaving it? Then you gotta understand what 0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:04.600 leaving the knife and the nigga left. That's what I'm saying. 0:48:04.640 --> 0:48:06.879 You left your prints everything. As a kid, I ain't 0:48:06.880 --> 0:48:09.319 think nothing of it. But now it was like, take 0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:13.200 that he wanted to go down? Yeah, I see that 0:48:13.280 --> 0:48:14.840 was a bad nigga though. Yeah he was on some 0:48:14.920 --> 0:48:18.319 ship they was and we'll see that now. No he 0:48:18.440 --> 0:48:21.080 caught you know that all these DNA forensics shar is 0:48:21.160 --> 0:48:25.120 ass this book. Man. Yeah, that was my first first 0:48:25.120 --> 0:48:27.440 time seeing it go down. It was probably like nine 0:48:27.719 --> 0:48:31.879 g like what the fule or? But back to this man, 0:48:32.520 --> 0:48:35.640 so man like, when it's all set and done, man like, 0:48:35.719 --> 0:48:39.160 you did so much my g from the movement, like 0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:42.279 I said, from being in concentrated, coming home, taking over 0:48:42.320 --> 0:48:45.520 the gag, the media space, everything. When it's all sett 0:48:45.520 --> 0:48:48.040 and done, what you want people to say about meing though, 0:48:49.560 --> 0:48:52.759 that's what I'm building now, bro, legacy. I feel like 0:48:53.440 --> 0:48:56.799 I feel like I haven't done enough. Mmmm, it'still work 0:48:56.800 --> 0:48:59.600 because then it's still working in progress. You know, everybody's 0:48:59.600 --> 0:49:02.359 story different. But I feel like now we're talking about 0:49:02.440 --> 0:49:04.600 legacy so now when we talk about main O Day, 0:49:05.400 --> 0:49:09.320 that's legacy ship. That's right. The music is in entertainment 0:49:09.400 --> 0:49:12.560 is you know you could do all that and pass away. 0:49:12.600 --> 0:49:16.680 They won't They won't remember you. But when you're doing 0:49:16.760 --> 0:49:20.800 things like what I'm doing main O Day and building 0:49:20.840 --> 0:49:25.680 some stuff, that's legacy ship. You understand, Like, that's that's 0:49:25.680 --> 0:49:28.760 when we be here. When you're going music to correct, 0:49:29.000 --> 0:49:32.799 music will be there right what they may they may 0:49:32.840 --> 0:49:38.759 not remember you, it's you right like and what for 0:49:38.880 --> 0:49:43.680 for something? Right? Like? What who are you? Like? Why 0:49:43.840 --> 0:49:46.360 wat should my kids know about you? Because you had 0:49:46.400 --> 0:49:49.440 a couple of songs? Well it's too many rappers nigga, Yeah, 0:49:49.600 --> 0:49:52.600 you understand, so would you different? But you're not in 0:49:52.680 --> 0:49:56.200 that too many rappers. You made an impact by saying 0:49:56.200 --> 0:50:01.359 I'm trying to cheap making a impact that's gonna last weather. 0:50:01.760 --> 0:50:04.560 You did, bro You did make an impact gonna last 0:50:04.560 --> 0:50:07.520 five for Brod's trusted me. They like, my nigga. What 0:50:07.600 --> 0:50:10.759 you did for Brooklyn just either just think of fuck 0:50:10.800 --> 0:50:13.239 the rap game. They think of how Manx came out 0:50:13.239 --> 0:50:17.520 Brooklyn to even be on that Litz, for I named 0:50:17.520 --> 0:50:20.919 to be on that litz to be mentioned we accomplished something. 0:50:21.000 --> 0:50:23.480 We didn't even think it was possible broke because it 0:50:23.520 --> 0:50:26.319 wasn't they always was it was. It was fucking we 0:50:26.400 --> 0:50:29.480 did the impossible. Literally, what you mean you're gonna come 0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:32.680 home and wrap? Even our mom said that. Even my 0:50:32.800 --> 0:50:35.400 moms used to be like, boy, put that notebook away. 0:50:35.880 --> 0:50:38.840 Fuck you better put out that homework. I bet you 0:50:38.920 --> 0:50:41.040 moms won't ever ut of those words to me. Now 0:50:41.120 --> 0:50:47.839 she's like they could put that book back out. Yeah, man, 0:50:48.000 --> 0:50:50.600 Like I used to get shipped on. My brother was 0:50:50.680 --> 0:50:54.279 my number one hater. Really what it used to be like, Yo, dre, 0:50:54.400 --> 0:50:56.759 how to say last it sound like a pack of 0:50:56.840 --> 0:51:02.480 ass you trash yep from My brother used to shit 0:51:02.600 --> 0:51:05.680 on me. It wasn't until I dropped mine right with 0:51:05.840 --> 0:51:08.279 him and his mill. This is even after you was 0:51:08.680 --> 0:51:12.279 bleaks all that and the trash. I'm telling my brother 0:51:12.360 --> 0:51:15.160 was like me and my brother used to fight with it. Bro, 0:51:15.360 --> 0:51:17.879 that's right, thinkings hated. So that's why I know if 0:51:17.880 --> 0:51:20.279 he likes something that is really really it was one 0:51:20.280 --> 0:51:22.520 of my favorite songs. I grew up just a regular 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:25.680 cat my brother. That's when I favorite on man that 0:51:25.680 --> 0:51:28.319 that song came about. Man, Shout out Jay Runner and 0:51:28.360 --> 0:51:30.120 what you think of that? I love what you think 0:51:30.160 --> 0:51:32.799 of that? And Yo, them two songs you bringing up 0:51:32.920 --> 0:51:35.480 is crazy because there's a movie behind both of those songs. 0:51:35.480 --> 0:51:37.960 Man rested piece of my Man's skins from Marci, you 0:51:38.000 --> 0:51:40.680 know what I mean. That's how regular Cat came about. 0:51:40.760 --> 0:51:43.080 That's why I say the ship. He was a dude 0:51:43.080 --> 0:51:45.640 from the hood nobody had to like and nobody seemed 0:51:45.680 --> 0:51:48.080 to like him. That was my dog, so nobody had 0:51:48.080 --> 0:51:51.360 to like him like he was. He was one of those. 0:51:51.400 --> 0:51:53.200 But he was one of my guys. You know how 0:51:53.360 --> 0:51:56.359 like everybody parents try to tell your mom, Yo, your 0:51:56.400 --> 0:51:58.759 son should hang with him like you were trying to 0:51:58.840 --> 0:52:00.719 kill him. He's a getting It's like, I think, I 0:52:00.760 --> 0:52:03.200 don't care what that's what's my dog. And that's how 0:52:03.239 --> 0:52:06.279 that song came about because I lost the homie and 0:52:06.320 --> 0:52:08.279 what you think of that? Shout out the bub wow. 0:52:08.400 --> 0:52:10.960 But Wild did that and we that was supposed to 0:52:11.000 --> 0:52:14.400 be the first single. There wasn't no myth Bleakers. I 0:52:14.440 --> 0:52:16.400 went all like, did y'all put it out as a single? 0:52:16.480 --> 0:52:19.839 First song? It was a second It came after myth Bleak. 0:52:19.960 --> 0:52:22.680 Is the story about that is we couldn't clear the sample. 0:52:23.320 --> 0:52:25.719 They wasn't clearing the sample. It wasn't no j verse 0:52:25.760 --> 0:52:27.840 on it or nothing. I had three verses on what 0:52:27.960 --> 0:52:30.160 you think of that? So then Jay, we took one 0:52:30.160 --> 0:52:32.040 of my verses off. Jay heard the record like, yo, 0:52:32.120 --> 0:52:33.520 I'm gonna put a verse on it. He put a 0:52:33.600 --> 0:52:36.520 verse on it. They cleared the sample, and we already 0:52:36.719 --> 0:52:39.839 did the video and then myth bleak is already So 0:52:39.880 --> 0:52:44.920 that's why we went with that first crazy no. Yeah, 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:49.239 your businesses, I I always, I always. I was sitting back, 0:52:50.160 --> 0:52:53.120 you know, being the student of the game. My brother. 0:52:53.320 --> 0:52:56.600 You know that's trying to you know, show my reach, 0:52:56.920 --> 0:52:59.200 you know, because that's back then when the game everybody 0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:03.080 was on some make your major gangster ship. You drewing car, 0:53:04.000 --> 0:53:10.320 you job linking a lot steal my rather that song 0:53:10.440 --> 0:53:17.080 on his album Murder for Life, Murder, Murder for Arrested, 0:53:17.080 --> 0:53:20.040 Piece of Earth, Gandhi, he produced that Android Yeah, Murder 0:53:20.080 --> 0:53:24.080 the whole Life for that first JAU album is classic. 0:53:24.880 --> 0:53:26.920 I love that album classic. I don't think a lot 0:53:26.960 --> 0:53:30.600 of people give them credit that. Yeah, that Oh my god, 0:53:30.680 --> 0:53:33.840 it's like they erased that for John and Jay, remember 0:53:34.200 --> 0:53:36.719 like put it on like a girl Records you know, 0:53:36.760 --> 0:53:39.040 it's like they didn't. But he had melody and all 0:53:39.080 --> 0:53:42.840 that on that right, it was different. It was different 0:53:42.880 --> 0:53:44.960 tho it was more street. Yeah, that album was there. 0:53:45.080 --> 0:53:49.800 That album is I think it's my favorite Jabu album, 0:53:51.480 --> 0:53:55.040 the Misi. You know man, you know that album was it. 0:53:55.239 --> 0:53:57.520 I tell you to this day, bro, that's my dog 0:53:57.600 --> 0:54:00.880 that album is it. It's just you know, once he 0:54:00.960 --> 0:54:03.840 got that commercial success, he went to it like nigga, 0:54:03.880 --> 0:54:06.000 you got to take to that commercial that reckon with 0:54:06.080 --> 0:54:09.920 TK man, you t you just pla my dagger. You know, 0:54:10.080 --> 0:54:15.279 me got that great boy back to Brooklyn. So what 0:54:15.320 --> 0:54:18.200 I'm saying, should get that radio run there. That's a 0:54:18.360 --> 0:54:22.200 different love. Different. Yeah, That's why I'll be trying to 0:54:22.200 --> 0:54:27.560 talking with artists that that viral YouTube Spotify you got 0:54:27.600 --> 0:54:31.840 a million streams, is lit, but that radio hit run 0:54:32.560 --> 0:54:37.080 is different. It's yeah, yo, it's nothing compared. It's like 0:54:37.160 --> 0:54:40.800 they can't escape, you know. So now that you're with nowadays, 0:54:41.360 --> 0:54:44.600 you got artists that are like stars. But you'll be like, 0:54:44.640 --> 0:54:46.239 I don't I never heard of him. I don't know 0:54:46.280 --> 0:54:50.120 those music. Yes, when you when you on that radio 0:54:50.600 --> 0:54:57.719 and it's like city the City, National hands down undeniable 0:54:57.840 --> 0:55:01.880 smashing record. Nobody they can escape. You know you're coming. 0:55:02.040 --> 0:55:04.560 They all know where he is coming on morning on 0:55:04.600 --> 0:55:09.040 the night, whether you requested it or not. And that's 0:55:09.040 --> 0:55:11.200 why I tell these kids, Man, that's what you want 0:55:11.239 --> 0:55:14.200 to experience, because that's why Bro send you there. He 0:55:14.360 --> 0:55:16.640 might not have an experience that because the game is 0:55:16.680 --> 0:55:19.640 so different nowadays with them. Because these kids this they 0:55:19.880 --> 0:55:22.400 ship on the radio. Y yeah, Bro, it might right you. 0:55:22.600 --> 0:55:25.760 You we need the DJs. Remember DJ's and the rapper 0:55:25.840 --> 0:55:28.120 go together. Bro. Right, it's like a center and the 0:55:28.120 --> 0:55:30.800 point guard. Like a point guard ain't ship without a 0:55:30.840 --> 0:55:33.319 good power forward or center, and they ain't ship without 0:55:33.320 --> 0:55:36.840 a good point guard. It all goes together. Bro, it's teamwork. 0:55:36.920 --> 0:55:43.319 But now because of YouTube streaming platforms, the radio is 0:55:43.360 --> 0:55:47.280 not the place where where where people discover new music 0:55:47.320 --> 0:55:50.320 from them all. No, because you don't have to go. 0:55:50.480 --> 0:55:52.640 You could just put your music to your fans where 0:55:53.080 --> 0:55:58.839 it's cool. But radio still pays the modest. Bro. Look 0:55:58.880 --> 0:56:02.399 at a publishing check, but it's like this, what's yeah, 0:56:02.640 --> 0:56:07.200 what's the company think for the digital stuff? That sound exchange? Bro, 0:56:07.960 --> 0:56:12.160 that's all digital. My sound exchange check is never not 0:56:12.239 --> 0:56:14.839 like what ass cat or be it right, because it's 0:56:14.840 --> 0:56:19.759 all radio, but sound exchange can be good if you 0:56:19.840 --> 0:56:25.080 had all the digital yeah right, So I mean I 0:56:25.160 --> 0:56:28.840 just think the feeling of having that that radio smash 0:56:28.920 --> 0:56:32.839 and you not being nobody escaping you. You know, it's 0:56:32.880 --> 0:56:36.640 just different. Different what it feels like nowadays it is 0:56:36.680 --> 0:56:39.040 like you late, you got, you got all these streams, 0:56:39.080 --> 0:56:41.759 but everybody don't even know who you are because the 0:56:41.840 --> 0:56:45.239 member the promoters ain't on Spotify, they're not on YouTube. 0:56:45.640 --> 0:56:47.640 I mean, that's the ship. I think. I think that's 0:56:47.640 --> 0:56:50.080 starting to change though. Look at look at and be 0:56:50.120 --> 0:56:52.520 a Young Boy. No, n be a Young Boy is 0:56:52.520 --> 0:56:54.920 a phenomenon that that's a different. Like what I say, 0:56:54.960 --> 0:56:59.320 the people start, yeah, he's anomaly, yes, they just it's 0:56:59.400 --> 0:57:02.399 just they have to set the new for the new. 0:57:02.440 --> 0:57:06.120 It's the one that pushed the envelope for everybody else 0:57:06.160 --> 0:57:10.040 to follow. Now what people follow up is because as 0:57:10.080 --> 0:57:14.240 big as what NBA did, who knows, maybe not bigger, 0:57:14.320 --> 0:57:17.560 but but they now they realize. I think that they 0:57:17.640 --> 0:57:23.840 realize now that these kids can actually be stars in 0:57:23.880 --> 0:57:27.840 their own right without the radio. But it's a difference 0:57:27.880 --> 0:57:34.800 with NBHA because remember his influence and this is just 0:57:34.880 --> 0:57:38.320 my opinion, Like I don't know too many NBA Young 0:57:38.400 --> 0:57:42.080 Boy records, but I know who the fuck NBA Young 0:57:42.160 --> 0:57:46.080 Boy is, So that means his influence is bigger than 0:57:46.120 --> 0:57:49.120 the music. More kids want to be him. I will 0:57:49.160 --> 0:57:52.480 go outside. All these niggas look like NBAH with the 0:57:52.600 --> 0:57:57.640 music resonates though the concert. No, I see the videos 0:58:00.160 --> 0:58:06.240 eight thousand in the Barclays bro in the bar, first 0:58:06.240 --> 0:58:09.520 of all, hold on, you want to talk. I didn't 0:58:09.560 --> 0:58:14.720 even know we had that many Wayians in Brooklyn's. This 0:58:14.840 --> 0:58:18.120 is what I'm looking at the videos, like where the 0:58:18.200 --> 0:58:22.840 fun I knew three or four records, everything else, going 0:58:23.000 --> 0:58:26.680 crazy world for world, some of my some of my 0:58:26.760 --> 0:58:32.240 young boys living diebox. Yeah, yeah, I know. He's just 0:58:32.280 --> 0:58:35.760 so how I relate. So what I'm saying is that 0:58:35.760 --> 0:58:40.120 that mode of of not having radio hits and and 0:58:40.360 --> 0:58:45.440 and being so strong orline it's here. No, definitely, it's definitely. 0:58:45.480 --> 0:58:49.040 I'm just saying the pay is differently once they figure 0:58:49.080 --> 0:58:54.720 out how to compensate artists equally for the stream broadcasting, 0:58:54.840 --> 0:58:59.720 do nothing like you because it's no, it's like I 0:58:59.760 --> 0:59:03.360 don't know, I'm stam and get thirty five exactly. That's 0:59:03.400 --> 0:59:05.760 what I'm gonna saying, bro, I think how many artists 0:59:05.800 --> 0:59:09.200 gonna get a billions stream? Right, it's not gonna happen 0:59:09.240 --> 0:59:12.360 for any like it's not gonna happen on the gag. 0:59:12.480 --> 0:59:17.680 The gag in that way is definitely is done. Yeah, man, 0:59:18.120 --> 0:59:23.440 So just what would you what's what's your words to 0:59:23.520 --> 0:59:27.720 the generation coming behind you? What would your message beating him? 0:59:27.760 --> 0:59:31.280 Before we get up? Body? Keep going, man, keep going, 0:59:31.320 --> 0:59:34.840 take it to another level, that's right, Take whatever was 0:59:34.880 --> 0:59:41.880 already done to another level, you know, and live man, right, 0:59:41.960 --> 0:59:45.439 Just so so you know, you know, when we're young, 0:59:46.400 --> 0:59:48.920 it's just like we don't see the world where we 0:59:48.960 --> 0:59:51.160 see it now. So a lot of these young niggas 0:59:51.200 --> 0:59:55.400 they think being young is like they're gonna get award 0:59:55.480 --> 1:00:01.320 for it. Nigga, you should want to be one of 1:00:01.360 --> 1:00:04.440 these niggas one day, because the name of the game 1:00:04.560 --> 1:00:08.120 is to grow, live rugged old, not die young, Steve. 1:00:08.640 --> 1:00:10.840 Name of the game is the growth. That's a fact 1:00:11.080 --> 1:00:14.440 you should want to live. Ain't nothing more cooler than 1:00:14.520 --> 1:00:16.959 be alive? Right now? That's a fat bro. Ain't nothing 1:00:16.960 --> 1:00:19.560 more cooler than being alive? Being freaking money? Ain't nothing 1:00:19.600 --> 1:00:22.600 more cooler than that? Yo? I said all the time. Man, 1:00:22.720 --> 1:00:25.880 like I give bro, I give all the money away, 1:00:25.960 --> 1:00:27.920 so some of my homers can see the niggas that 1:00:27.960 --> 1:00:29.680 I lost as a kid, can see some of the 1:00:29.720 --> 1:00:31.680 ship out and live. You know what I mean, I 1:00:31.760 --> 1:00:33.760 give all the ship back. If imagine that I'm back, 1:00:33.800 --> 1:00:35.840 and live this shit with me and we'll go get 1:00:35.880 --> 1:00:39.280 it together. And that's what these kids better know, man, 1:00:39.440 --> 1:00:42.840 Live and live live man, they enjoyed this life. Were 1:00:42.880 --> 1:00:46.320 only here for a minute. That's it. When that number 1:00:46.400 --> 1:00:49.440 get called that it can't put that call on home, 1:00:49.640 --> 1:00:52.880 ain't no more. It ain't no I'm gonna call you back. 1:00:52.960 --> 1:00:55.680 Niggas be able to call y'all thaw you back. So 1:00:55.680 --> 1:00:59.480 so live you should. You should embrace you know, you know, 1:01:01.320 --> 1:01:04.840 further than your journey. That's right, you understand, like because 1:01:05.240 --> 1:01:08.400 that is what we're supposed to be doing anyway. That's 1:01:08.440 --> 1:01:09.960 a fact, man, that's love. 1:01:10.080 --> 1:01:10.240 Man. 1:01:10.360 --> 1:01:13.680 I appreciate you pull do. But you know, brother, man, 1:01:14.120 --> 1:01:16.560 you know what it is. And we got real Brooklyn 1:01:16.640 --> 1:01:20.600 in the building, Kobj, you know what it is. We 1:01:20.720 --> 1:01:23.880 outside man in this rock solid and we always going 1:01:23.960 --> 1:01:26.120 to be solid. And you know when you see Main 1:01:26.560 --> 1:01:29.240 he wanted the last solid niggas level out here, man, 1:01:29.280 --> 1:01:31.919 So put that respect on him and show that love. 1:01:32.400 --> 1:01:37.160 He honorary Rockefeller Member because I said so. Tell high 1:01:37.200 --> 1:01:44.360 love me man, get my shame. 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