WEBVTT - #80 - G Herbo 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:16.160 You check check check Yo, it's the Bouleg Cap Podcast. Welcome, Welcome, 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.200 Welcome to another edition. Man. Listen, we got a dope 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.880 episode today. Got a shout out to the homie g 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:28.160 Herbo g Herbo Man. Chicago's finest new album is out, 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.680 the Guys on Fire album. Did Numbers had to sit 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.159 down with him, So we're gonna get into that in 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.440 a second real quick. We've been slacking on the audio 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.360 on the podcast, so there's gonna be a whole lot 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.680 of episodes just updated at once. But that will be fixed, guys, 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:51.640 all right, I promise that's gonna get fixed. Promise all right. Also, 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.920 shout out to our our sponsors odd socks man. 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The 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.840 guy just dropped his album Man twenty five is out, 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.840 Man out ge Herbo. What's going on? Kid? I saw 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.000 a meme and it was a pentagram made of air 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.360 Force ones and there was one black one in the middle. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:48.480 One in the middle said trying to say, so g 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.080 Herbal to get the album? Really, yeah, that was some 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:55.800 funny shit. Clean was dirty? How many pairs of Air 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.920 Forces do you own? Because there was the video you 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.920 go into the store and just buying like a team, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.680 like a truckload of them. Oh I just I just 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.200 threw like probably like two hundred pairs out like that 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.040 because only win once, like probably two three hundred pair, 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.280 like eight nin trash bags full of them, business like 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.080 threw them. Just why ain't throwing away? Actually I told 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.079 my assistant to just go get him away, about to 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.639 say that that'd be that'd be socially responsible for you 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.240 to throw away some brand new air Force I gave 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.040 him away. Actually, I ain't even throw them away. I 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.120 just gave him away, like when you're one and done 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.799 on the forces. Yeah, yeah for sure. Yeah, but you 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.160 might like a lot right now though, I just about 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.239 like sixty something. Could you wear a pair like for 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.120 like two days straight though, like if you're like in 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.280 Grindmoon recording running around, I just got jogging joggings or 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.520 something like that. Yeah, but if I'm going out like 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.120 with a fit, I wanted doing. How many pairs of 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.280 Air Forces in your life do you think you've purchased? 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.280 I don't know. I'm in bandaged since I was like 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.120 a kid bro over over a thousand for sure. Heah yeah, 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.680 probably with bad thousands ship and a couple years. That 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.680 shit's crazy, man. Maybe a few three hundred and sixty 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.560 five days, yeah, probably like and then and these are 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.840 just strictly all whites, Yeah, big roll said, ran through 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.520 a million and a bit. That's how doctor Dre is though. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.400 Dre's like that. Dre got his his uniforms, the black tea, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.839 the black pants, and he only wears Air Forces once. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.600 Yeah forces, Yeah's I know. I didn't ran through a lot, 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.400 though I've been wearing them since since like a kid, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.280 literally never dabbling the Black Forces though, yeah, I ain't. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.040 I used to wear Black Forces too, though. That was 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.799 the time in your life though, when things might have 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.760 been different, right and we were stuck, and I used 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.240 to wear black ones. I definitely used to wear black 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.280 Talk about this new album, man, I think, Uh, you know, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.080 you've been through a lot in the last twelve months. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.120 It's been public, and I feel like this album is 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:46.920 an important one for you and your legacy. Man, how 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.160 are you feeling about it? Oh? I'm excited. Man. You know, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.600 I woke up and I got my first number one album. Bro. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.720 I feel good, man, I feel real good. Congrats, Thank you. Bro. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.560 Twenty five? What made you want to go with that? Uh? 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.120 You know I turned twenty five back in October, and 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.480 you know, it's just just life. And you know the 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.000 position I'm in right now, it's a real bro, because 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:12.920 I lost a lot, you know, along the way. A 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.640 lot of course people I love didn't see twenty five 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.679 years old. Like when I was I always be saying 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.440 like I didn't see it more than one time, like 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.920 when I was eighteen seventeen years old, and like one 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.279 of my older guys, like from the neighborhood. To turn 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.560 twenty five, we will start calling them og like yeah, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.400 you OG status now, which is crazy. It's crazy. It's 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.080 hard to see twenty five, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.560 Where I come from, it's a real milestone. So for 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.960 me to be twenty five years old and accomplished so 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.240 much and reached as much level of success in my 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.159 life and to still be modest about it because I 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.279 know it's so much shit out there that I still 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.520 want to do. You know what I'm saying. I feel 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.720 like just where I'm at and all the emotions I 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.760 went through recording this project and just you know, beating 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.640 so much shit, like everything, every obstacle it came out 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.479 way in life, Bro, I just found a way to 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.560 get through it, like not complain or not want to 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.640 give up or you know what I'm saying, like not 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.080 wear that shit publicly. You feel what I'm saying. I 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.760 just I just deal with it, you know what I'm saying. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.919 And I think when I turned twenty five, bro, I'm like, 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.080 I'm not lying, Like it's like a switch just went off. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.599 I just I just start thinking different and everything. Like 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.840 literally as soon as I turned twenty five. It was like, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.200 I ain't gonna say I changed, but it was like 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:31.479 some immy just made me think about everything differently. Bro. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.719 So yeah, man, I feel like, you know, amongst your peers, 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.640 like in you know, at least my perception from a 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.880 fans perception, it's like you seem to have your head 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.440 on your shoulders real straight. Like you know, the last 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.520 few years, you really don't hear your name and no 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.400 goofy shit, you know what I'm saying. And the same 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:49.720 can't be said for a lot of the guys who 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.440 are around your same age doing the same thing, you 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.840 know what I mean. So kudos to you because I 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.400 feel like you've been on your grown man shit. You 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.640 know what I'm saying for show, I always been mature, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.320 you know what I'm saying. I always hit a level 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.480 head and know thought about shit a little differently, you 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.400 know what I'm saying. I take pride in that, Bro. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.839 I ain't trying to be known for no goofy weirdo 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.400 bozo artists. Especially in this industry. Man, A lot of 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.360 shit like that take place, man, you know, like niggas 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.640 be having gimmicks and shit like that, and it just 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.520 I don't know it don't really it don't work. Bad Yeah, 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.279 bad for them, bro. So it's like I'll just be 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.680 trying to focus on me. I don't chase nothing. That's 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.680 not funny, you know what I'm saying. I'm not trying 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.520 to be like the next artist. I'm just trying to 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.800 be me, bro, like the best beat I could be. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.960 And I win doing that, Like fuck all the other ship. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.120 I feel like right now we're kind of you know, 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.719 Chicago's had so many waves of success from the nineties 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:47.320 till now. Obviously Twist the Common Kanye, you know all that, 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.720 then Chance and and Vic Manta and then and Chief 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.360 Keith and all that was kind of going on around 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:54.960 the same time. And you you were a part of 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.080 a lot of the Drill scene. But I feel like 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.840 right now between you Dirk Polo g, like it feels 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:06.200 like this has been the biggest that Chicago hip hop 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.040 has ever been. Like it feels like it's crazy. It's 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.640 a crazy thing to say. Now, No, obviously Kanye, I'm 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.280 not trying to take away from Kanye as being the 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.920 biggest artists in the world. But I just mean, when 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.800 you look at the landscape of who's the hottest motherfuckers 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.320 in hip hop right Like, it's a lot of Chicago, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.680 and it's never really been like that. It's always been 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.200 like one guy. But it's like y'all really running sit 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:30.880 up right now in a way that's like not fair 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.880 to a lot of other regions. And what's dope is 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.600 you and Dirk just y'all evolution since you started. It's 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.119 been so special to see because you guys have grown 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.840 as musicians, grown as rappers, grown as man, you know 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.120 what I'm saying. And the longevity there's something to be 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.040 said about that as well. Man, No, I've been hearing 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.640 that a lot, though I'm not even gonna lie, like 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.720 you're not even the first person to say that. You know, 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.240 just from the outside looking in, maybe it looks a 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.840 little different. Yeah, I don't know. I like what everybody 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.160 or you know what I'm saying, But it's just something 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.400 different about Chicago, bro. We grind differently, you know. You know, 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.720 it's not no quitting us like and I always say 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.440 that I'll be telling people like, man, you can't really 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.360 like take none of this ship personal in the industry 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.600 when you go through ship all adversity that come with 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.440 a long as we didn't mention Juice World too. Yeah, 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.560 of course, brother, man, you know that's that's a that's 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:26.760 a given, like automatically, you know. But Chicago just I 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.640 feel like we built for pressure. We built for pressure. 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.360 We don't really you know, brust under pressure and those 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.880 people who last the longest, especially in this industry, because 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.760 it's gonna you're gonna be under pressure, you know what 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.200 I'm saying. So I think that's what's stand out the 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.280 most to me about you know, being from Chicago and 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:48.120 seeing other Chicago artists like succeed and shit, how's you 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:52.320 know obviously a heere yours. Dirk is having the best 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.040 year of his life, but he's also faced a lot 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.840 of personal losses recently. Have you been in contact with 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.280 him recently? Oh? Yeah, you know, I'll reach out to 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.000 bro on the record the basis so you know what 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.680 I'm saying, especially you know recently after after the you know, 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:10.200 the untimely past Nights Bros. I reached out. Yeah, hell yeah, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.360 you know we lucked in. How big of a loss 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:16.120 do you think, just you know, two opposite sides of 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.880 the spectrum, but losing Juice World and then losing King 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.640 Vaughan within inside of twelve months for the city. Man, 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.439 It's it's crazy. It's different, bro, Like we take a 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.320 lot of losses in Chicago. Man, I don't know. It's 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.880 like maybe it's a dark cloud over that bitch or something. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.599 That's why I don't really I don't know, Like you 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.560 can't take it personal though, Like it's like I don't 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.679 know something about this. I feel like when you do that, 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:42.920 you fall under it. You know what I'm saying. You 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.040 gotta like just try to keep pushing, you know, Like 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.880 I don't know's I'm not gonna say it's a bad 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.120 thing like going on in Chicago. I never really I 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.640 can't really speak bad about Chicago as much as I 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.720 be wanting to, you know what I'm saying, But I 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.960 mean it's home man. Yeah. Yeah, you recently gave the 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.520 Key props for giving you like one of your first 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.520 biggest breaks with the Shyrack record, you know, to beat 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.679 me up Scottie tape dropping, Like, how how much did 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.800 that kind of change your world initially when it happened. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.319 Because her fans are crazy people shout out to the bars, 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.840 you know what I'm saying. Their Ryders a real crazy 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.319 crazy But how did that initially happen? Like, how did 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.920 she reach out? Give me the story behind that Shyrack record. Man, 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.959 I was I probably was like seventeen or something. This 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.000 when I used to be just thugging, bro, I wasn't 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.520 really like chasing music trying to make a real career 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.480 out this ship. But you know, I had already made 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.960 a name for myself as far as like lyrically and ship, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:41.520 you know, and shit I was in the studio, bro, 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.200 like falling them on and some shit like that. It 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.080 was latest fucking like and she had they reached out. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.600 They had called my manager at the time like yeah, 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.360 you know, uh it's Nikki. These are you know, these 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.800 nikky people. We want we want her to slide, We 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.800 want her to come from to La and do a record. 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.040 You know, we fucked with him and we were so high, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.440 like it's falling them one and we have a leen 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.760 and heat all type of shit, and we ain't even 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.520 think it was for real, Like, man, it ain't no 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.320 fucking nikky hang up, man, it ain't them people. And 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.160 they called back like a couple of days later, like, man, 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.080 what the fuck is y'all on? Y'all not trying to 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.280 come out here and do this record. We're like, damn 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.880 they for real. It's really them. Man. She put me 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.920 on a plane immediately. I came out there like two 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.080 three days, met up with a gout in the studio. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:32.920 She told me how much she fucked with me, and 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:34.640 she pulled the record up and I did that bitch 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.520 right on the spot. That ship's legendary. Yeah, that it 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.040 was crazy. Did she bring you out at Summer Jam 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.480 in New York? Because I was. I was on the 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.040 side of the stage for sure. That was like Summer Jam. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:48.199 That was twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen, twenty fourteen. Meek was 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.760 on that show. I think Drake was there, Drake, everybody 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.920 was Yeah, No, I was there. That ship was special. Man. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.080 I met Wayne for the first time. Wayne was there. Yeah, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.160 Young Money had that big showed up for show. That 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.520 shit was crazy. I had to be insane coming out 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.880 as a kid Summer Jam stage. Bro, I ain't gonna lie. 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.760 It's so crazy. I never it was like surreal to me. 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.760 It ain't. It didn't even like hit me when it happened, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.160 you know, I wish I was like how I am now, 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.920 like real focused and like confident because it didn't hit 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:18.680 me like. I ain't even really feel like I was 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.440 dere bro like even being on the stage. I couldn't 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.599 even see all the fans. I like blacked out. I 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.240 was so damn nervous doing some shit I can imagine you. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.079 I just came out there, did it real quick, and 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.199 then tried to get off the stage as quick as possible. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.760 I ain't gonna lie to that's gotta be that nervous. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.440 That's the bucket list shit. Man. Hey interrupting the interview 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.840 to tell you about our good friends and odd socks. Now, 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.959 as you can see, I always have my odd socks on. Baby. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.720 You know what I'm saying, Shout to my bony ass knees. Listen, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.480 go to odd socks official dot com. They got all 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.920 the craziest socks. These are the outsiders. You know what 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:57.240 I'm saying. They got SpongeBob, they got Cheating Chong listen, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.839 breaking bad Godfather. 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You always tap 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.880 in with the West Coast like you've worked with Mazi, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.880 you work with Burner g YG. I mean, we can 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.920 go down the list. What is it about like guys 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.120 like Mazi, like Burner, like you know where? Because these 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.839 are independent artists, you know what I'm saying. A lot 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.679 a lot of guys. You know, when you're independent, you're 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.200 from I feel like the West is kind of an 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.440 afterthought a lot in hip hop unfortunately. You know, I 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.400 understand the independent grind because I'm still independent. I'm an 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.480 independent art right with just some people know this new 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:06.160 album is independent? Yeah for sure, man, you know, shout 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.800 out to my partners man Universal Republic and and Grooves right, 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.800 but yeah, you know, I understand the independent grind. It's 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.720 a grind. And with with me knowing that I try 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.440 to like connect with as many artists as I can, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.160 you know what I'm saying, to expand my horizon, you 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.320 know what I'm saying, and whether they independent or not. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.160 You know, I fuck with Mazzi though, is one of 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:33.200 the coldest man me and Mazzick being for sure, that's 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.040 my real dog. But I'll be trying to like connect 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:41.080 with our artists because I feel like that's what it's full. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.840 But you gotta build like relationships first of all. Like 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.240 you know, I don't really just want to just jump 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.960 on songs with people, fuck with a nigga, like oh yeah, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.280 I'm gonna jump on this and fuck with him because 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.280 it's hot, or fuck with this because I feel like 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.800 I'm hot at the moment. Like I ain't never really 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.440 wanted to be one of them artists that just got 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.280 songs with a bunch of niggas that I don't funk with, 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.920 you know what I'm saying, right, So that play a 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.600 big part in it too, Like if I funk with 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.440 you and your movement, then it's nothing like it is 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.640 what I'm gonna pull up to the studio, rock out, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.200 pull up to your hood, shoot the video pull up 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.520 to my hood whatever the kid. How hard is it, man? 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.440 You know, without getting into the details of your situation, 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.240 but like having something like that out there and something 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.520 like that kind of floating over you, how hard is 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.720 it to stay focused and finish an album under them circumstances? 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.520 Cause I've been in similar situations where if it just 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.480 feels like a cloud over your head, no for sure, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.760 because you don't know what's going to happen. You're waiting 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.400 for this for you just waiting for to see what 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.000 I've been there, you know what I'm saying. So I 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.080 can only imagine how hard it is to just put 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.440 your head down and get to work. You know what 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.560 I'm saying. It's tough, man. But like I said, Bro, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.800 I've been under pressure my whole life, so I'll be 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.040 feeling like I'm built for this shit. Bro, it is 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.800 what it is. I don't really like be tripping over ship, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.400 you know what I'm saying. I know I'm cool, so 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.600 at the end of the day, I just wake up 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.120 here to day and just do the best thing for me. Bro, 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.000 I get up go to work. It is what it is, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.000 you feel I'm saying, like, I don't really I don't 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.360 feel like one situation or that situation in particular what 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.240 happened underpression. You know what I'm saying, Like, I'm gonna 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:13.840 just get up and do the right thing. Has there 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.040 been times when you think if you find yourself thinking 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:17.760 about it too much, that it kind of puts you 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.440 in like a like a weird funk or depression. No, 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.760 I really don't. I ain't gonna lie. That's that's that's 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.880 one thing. That's that I mean, it's like a strength. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.160 I don't dwell on ship, bro. I don't think about 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.640 that ship. I'm not waking up stressing over like ship 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.560 like that. I got too much shit going on in 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.040 my life and already other ship. Well, you just had 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.160 a fucking baby too. Yeah, so I don't really be 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.400 tripping off ship bro. To be honest, bro, I don't 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.720 dwell on situations. You know what I'm saying. It's child 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.440 number three for you, right to child number two? Boys? 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:52.400 Two boys? First one with your girl? Yeah yeah yeah 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.400 yeah yeah. How how's how has it been the second 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.360 go around now that you've already been through it once? 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.360 Because I know having a kid is crazy, No, I 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.160 mean I don't I love kids, so it's it's ship. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.640 It's just easy. It's regular. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.320 I just wake The only thing is shit, we got 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.600 a brand new baby. You learning the baby again. That's 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.080 the only ship. Like you got to clean the diaperson. Yeah, 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.480 I mean that's easy. That's the easy, right, It's really 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.840 like comforting them. The hardest part is to get the 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.280 kid on a sleeping schedule. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.880 Like just the comfortability of it. You know, you got 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.080 to really learn your kid again, what he liked, what 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.680 put him to sleep. You know what I'm saying, How 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.840 you need to rock him to sleep and how many 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.879 hours of sleep to get and then you got to 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.080 sleep when he sleeps so you could get some sleep. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.440 You feel me, that's the only thing that you got 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.439 to really like adjust to everything else that shit be simple, 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.959 Like is it? How? How because you know, having uh 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.359 two baby mamas and having two kids who are very 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.080 much so in your life, does everyone get along all 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.359 the time for the most part, Because I feel like 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.760 you and already have like been extremely cordial at least, 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.200 Like you know, it's smooth, bro, It's smooth, bro, because 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.440 a lot of times it's the other way. You know 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.159 what I'm saying, Like, if I feel like that, that 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.080 speaks a lot. I was saying earlier that you just 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.000 a real mature motherfucker. You ain't smooth, Bro, I ain't 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:05.679 gonna lie. I should be smooth with me, Bro, I 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.359 won't be tripping. Ship. Don't nobody really like tripping? How 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.879 you feeling about about the finals? Man? My Phoenix Suns 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.760 made MANU with it, Bro, ain't gonna I'm happy for 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.600 booking for Chris Paul both for sure. I'm definitely happy 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.879 for both of them. Man, if they play the Bucks, 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.240 that's not far from Chicago. No, it's not. I'm gonna go. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.080 I'm gonna go to a finals game anyway, do I 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:26.800 got to? I want to go. You gotta go watch 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.960 Chris Paul when the ring, because he's going to fuck 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.000 with Chris Paul. You know, I actually want I want 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.960 to see him in book when you know fun too, though, Man, 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.400 I hate to see him out, you know, you want 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:39.600 to see him hurt hisself and ship. But all I 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.119 know is if the Hawks do make Phoenix, if the 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.480 Hawks make the finals, Atlanta's gonna be fucking upside down 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:50.439 for sure, you know what's crazy. Really, that's why I 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.160 want to go to the finals, though I hope, I 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.640 hope Atlanta makes it so I have an excuse to 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.239 go to at l I like Treon for sure if 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.000 they if the finals is in Atlanta, I'm definitely going 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.440 yeah for sure. Yeah, but you're going for the Suns 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.800 officially we have that on the right of the Suns 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.560 if they play the Bucks, okay, okay. Otherwise you're going 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:12.360 for the Hawks. I want to see Trey win too, 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.360 though I ain't. I mean, I'm I'm either way, honestly, 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.399 Like you know what I'm saying, Like if if if 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.240