WEBVTT - Episode 338 w/ Jeezy 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.520 Welcome to Drink Champs, the production of the Black Effect 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:19.000 and I Heart Radio and it's drinks, motherfucking podcast. He's 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.840 a legendary queen's rapper. He's like Green is your boy 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.279 in O r He's a Miami hippop pioneer up his 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.120 DJ e FN. Together they drink it up with some 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:33.200 of the biggest players in the most professional unprofessional podcast. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.479 And your number one sorts for drunk drinks. Mother is 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:42.240 New year' z. That's time for Drink Champs. Drink up Mother? 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:49.800 Would it good? Be hope? You just want to see 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.239 this your boy in O r U, d j e 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.360 FN and this miditam of crazy Wall motherfucker Drink Champs Radio. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:01:01.760 Make some Now this guy's here that we got today. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.880 We talk about doug motivation, We talk about the hustler's hustler. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:10.080 We talk about a man that's grind after grinds, staying 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.199 the state, relevance, stay everywhere, stay with a hit record, 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.000 hit album, classic album, every whenever he wants to come. 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.120 I thought this a mixtape was about to talk about 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.160 but they said no, this is a full fledged album. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.360 Last time we had him on, we thought he was 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.679 going to depart from his label. But they're here and 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.360 this is going down. He is constantly. He's a bat 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:38.880 Award winner just like us. That's right, nominated for four 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.280 times the Grammys. But like I said, this is one 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.240 of the real ones. So we're gonna stand up. We're 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.080 gonna salute him at off top ef. We're gonna give 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:53.600 him his flower first thing we do first, the first 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:58.480 thing we're doing this because then your third time, this 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:04.240 is yeah career, they don't like it's better than the 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:10.160 granmy t I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead, pop my 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.200 champagne to be you know what I'm saying. So jeez, 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.519 you know I'm going through your photography. Um man, you 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.520 got hit after hit after hit. You man, you put 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.600 in a lot of work. Oh but have you ever 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.000 like came close to your career like people try to 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:29.720 cancel you? Of course? Really yeah all the time, I 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:34.800 think this morning didn't happened though I had a lifetime script. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.480 It's solid so um but the only the only thing 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.960 that kept me from getting canceled, you know, even though 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.959 they couldn't. And that's what the whole camp in the snowman. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.400 She came right in the schools. Yeah, I mean it 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.040 started there. You was like the first cancel, I forgot 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.520 that and I didn't even understand that because I was like, damn, 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.480 how y'all gonna stop people from wearing a T shirt? 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.520 You know what I mean? So that was confusing. But 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.040 as I went onto my career, are to realize, like 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.520 when you make decisions that you know it's gonna better 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.079 you or your team and the people around you, everybody 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.160 might not like that, you know what I'm saying. It's 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.520 just like is that crabs in the barrel syncerome. It's 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.600 just like, you know, everybody ain't gonna grease, so it's like, 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.200 let's cancel them. But see what they didn't know is 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.359 they put me in the position anyway. The streets put 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.800 me in the eisence and the streets. We don't cancel people. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.960 You just you just expire. Know what I'm saying. You 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.520 go to the penitentiary or you go into that wooden box. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.359 You know what I'm saying. I dodged one, which was 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.080 a penitentiary. So you know, I mean, you know, Snowman 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.960 is a mortal baby. It's like, this is real, this 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:38.600 is this is what it's about. You know what I'm saying, 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.720 I leave by example and and the moves that I 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.000 make so people like or the so so the real 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.320 the real ones like you an't gotta live by nobody 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.800 rules or nobody box you in because that's the standard 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.800 for them. And people want you to be the old 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.920 U all the time, so that makes them feel comfortable 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.800 being we all. You know what I'm saying, because I 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.560 couldn't sit down and talk to the old nor. He 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:06.120 probably had like five choppers right here. You different dues, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:11.760 So let's this is this is your own Yeah, your 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.840 name is no. I'm partnering up with some people out 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.520 of France. Okay, it looked like some friend ship. We 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:22.360 got coney jack, we got gin, we got vodka. Yeah, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:28.120 not all the expiracy, y'all give it up for that, y'all. 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.000 And if y'all didn't know my history when it comes 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.800 to drinks, so first I had that, I'll be no, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.880 but I had a great Goose situation. I had a 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:38.440 great Goose. Yeah, I had to deal with great Goose 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.680 and I peeped the earl's Like, so, y'all want to 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.240 give me a little money to go out here and 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.520 push your brand, but it's not mine, you know what 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.560 I'm saying. And where I come from, it's like that's 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.880 like somebody give me, someone can sign me. That's not mine, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.120 you know what I'm saying. So I wanted my own 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:55.960 brand and when I when I got out of that deal, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.479 I want to sat down with my my my business partner, 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.479 which one of my mentors, and we built Avian up 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.200 and Solda to panoa card and I got your face. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:17.880 So yeah, but it happened because I was like, oh 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.920 no about this rap ship um, but it talking me 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.440 because he went on to do uh Terramundo with The 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.960 Rock okay and Proper Thirdteam with Connor McGregor, and I 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.640 want on to do this with what I learned from him. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:33.960 So it's just like if you come from while I'm from, 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.040 it's like having the whole damn Lioker Stoke, you know 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.000 what I'm saying. You know what I mean? Like you 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.640 got gin Cone Yak and vodka like you know, so yeah, good, good, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.880 good move dogged in the Proper Thirteam. You ever tasted 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:51.680 that it's horrible, Yes, it's horrible. It's horrible. Whiskey a 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:56.200 Japanese whiskey guy. So I don't really like Scot the 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:05.600 old Nory went drange. Yeah, yeah, I said. So I'm 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:11.320 listening to the Preface Club, I believe yesterday and it 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.000 wasn't today, yesterday, I think it was yesterday and Freddy 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.400 Gibbs come on and then they say something, they say, uh, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.360 you know, uh, this is the first time you'll see 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:21.680 each other. I think you've seed each other in the 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.120 airport and you got to speak. So how was that was? 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.799 Was was that something that you wanted to do? I mean, this, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.479 this is the thing, bro, I ain't never had no 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.080 issue with gids Man, you know what I'm saying. Always 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.359 knew he was gonna pop, He's gonna be on and 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.240 what I think about all this in music, we're really 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.640 ended this ship streating anything and just be a lack 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.320 of communication. And he was wrong, I think, you know, 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:47.799 and I respect that, you know what I'm saying, because 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.960 I just I didn't understand it. But from where he 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:52.640 was coming from, that's how he saw it. But if 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.080 we communicated, I could have been like, no, Bro, that 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.240 ain't that. Ain't that you know what I thought? This 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.520 is me looking from the outside and that's an inside 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.080 I'm looking out right. I always thought that. I think 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.279 that how Ross was at the time. It was like 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.240 you and Ross was taking shots at each other, right, 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.960 and it felt like Ross. I felt like me kind 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:15.040 of had Ross back, and it felt like maybe Gibbs 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.400 one of that same thing for you, or you wanted 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.000 that same thing from games. I think that's where the 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.520 communication kind of you know what I mean. I think 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.480 I think what happened on my end is that you know, 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.000 I was trying to get him a deal, which I 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:33.400 wanted him to have, but I couldn't. So it was 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.720 a lot of frustration there, you know, right right there, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.440 and it's just like I didn't want to hold him up, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.360 and I'm like, bro, I don't trying this every weight. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.320 And it ain't that you're not gonna get a deal. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.760 It just I can't get it. But you've been young, 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.480 and that it says, you know what I'm saying, like, 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.160 because you know what it is. It was really like 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.560 the hottest thing and I'm gonna be I learned a 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.320 lot about that too, because I was I was in 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.320 my own bag, you know what I'm saying. So I 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.160 was doing things, but I was still trying to keep 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.400 my career with that too, So I learned a lot 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.680 from that experience. But I do feel like, you know, 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.000 if you really got an issue with another grown man, 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.040 when you see him, you're gonna feel like that. I 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.160 didn't feel like that, you know what I'm saying. I'm 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.880 just like, what up? You know? We it's like, yeah, 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.360 because we had some good times. It was the miscommunication. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.560 By the way, every situation I've ever been in in 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.720 the streets or music has been a miscommunication or either 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.600 somebody talking in between people. You know, like if I 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.600 tell you something, you tell him. By the time they 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.160 get over there, it's a different, different and he's like, 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.160 he said what you know what I'm saying, and that 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.320 ain't even what he said, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.960 So crazy to hear you say that. I'm listening to 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.640 your music, and then I think you admitted to you 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.679 being wrong in the Ross Beef like you was just 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.160 like like that was crazy for for for give us 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.000 to say that to you. But then I'm listening to 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.440 your music and I'm like, oh, ship, we kind of 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.880 went through. I feel again this miscommunication agive miscommunication because 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:01.040 again I'm walking down South Beach, you know, leaving the 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:05.319 club like three hundred deep. You know, I'm off that 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:11.600 we was drinking eight hundred back Quavo, I'm popping. Remember 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.960 this video King Malcolm X year coming out of cameo. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.240 I'm just talking, you know what I mean, whoever wanted 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:26.439 to get it next thing? You know? So you know, man, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:31.000 I'm not going it was an issue. Listen again with 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.000 no issue though when when I you know, Kelley shout 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.400 out to call made that right, call me that right. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.920 I ain't gonna lie a little bit, but me just 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.800 hearing y'all together, like listening to y'alls like, damn, I'm 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.959 so glad they squashed their beef. That's the thing, like 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.760 it ain't you know, unless his family or money, ain't 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.600 no beef. It's just misscommunications. But that's the problem with 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.560 the coach of the way it is now, like you know, 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.240 they ready to kill something about nothing. What I'm saying, 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.160 like ain't no integrity and that you know what I'm 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.520 saying that we don't win the war as a country 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.120 several times and and once you've done doing what you 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.280 gotta do, you still gotta figured out, but you gotta 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.600 co exist what I'm saying. So even with the ross thing, 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.960 I would say like it just took hip hop. You 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.440 know hip hop because I knew hip hop because he 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.040 was I was working at his studio and an actually 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:27.920 hipop the person in Calip because I trusted Calip. And 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.240 he was like, y'all just want to get y'all to 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.600 sit down. But it's just like, you know, it's just 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.280 like I'm thinking to sit down. It's like me and 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.680 like fifty of my home, whoever you brave, Like, no, 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.400 you gotta sit down, just you and Ross. And he 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.640 was wanting to do the world Ready record, and um, 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.160 you'll tell you the irony of that. So CALLI sat 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.880 us down immediately. You know, you know, if you feel something, 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.800 if it's an issue, it was like, oh you don't 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.839 say I was like, no, I ain't you know what 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.680 I mean. So now we had that, so we chopped 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.439 it up. You know what I'm saying. Took I had 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.719 avion back then, So we took each other's you know, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.600 two drinks, swapped them, mount two pictures like show lo right, 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.080 but then let me tell you the are any of that? 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.360 So we do the verse. You know what I'm saying. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:17.200 You know, I went Turkey ham on that. But um, 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.040 he wants to shoot the video. He wants to shoot 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.320 the video in New Orleans. I think it's like Super 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.800 Bowl All Star Game. Why when they sending the treatment, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.640 all the video is is us, us in people around 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.520 us shooting a bunch of real eight k's, but but 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.720 they got blanks at them. So I'm just like, so 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.480 you had the video see all the years, but it's 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.960 a already. So two people who just sat down, like 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.880 you know what it mean, it was like it was 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.680 it was tens you feel tense, real tests. But shout 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.200 out to Rolls though. Man like even we went on 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.520 tour and you know, got money together and we and 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.000 we shared game all the time because all of us 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.480 are not the same, you know what I'm saying. And 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.600 everybody got different skills set. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.360 He's good in his departments. You know I'm good in mine. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:04.880 You have other people that are good in this and 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.880 when you able to sit down, chop it up and 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.880 talk about business and future ship. It's bigger than just music. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.079 That's maturity to right, It's bigger than music. It's it's like, yo, 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.480 I'm doing this. You know what I'm saying. You know, 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.480 you know you want to support here you want to 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.280 get in and vice versa, and I think that's you know, 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:22.720 at the end of the day, really what it's about. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.120 You know, we gotta gotta have money to live, money survived, money, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:32.160 have fun, guys. So I'll tell you something. I see 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.120 you since you came into this game. Last time I 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.920 seen you, we was in l A. You were literally 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.480 by yourself and it was like it was the most 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.199 peaceful I've ever seen you in life, Like you were 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.920 literally comfortable dolo like you was. You walked in, you 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.960 had a little bit of uh tequilla, you were chilling. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:51.800 We we had to you shoot the side, we had 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.640 to drink me, you and Fat Joe, and then it 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.600 was just you just stayed the whole time just by yourself. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.400 Like I want to say, what is it? No, what's 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.400 it called? You en? Yeah? I felt like you had 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.560 a meeting with Phil Jackson. Yeah, and then you came 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:09.120 into this party like where's this new jeezy energy? Like 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.720 like I can feel peace. I don't need to get 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.160 like I never need a validation. But I think when 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.160 you stripped the stereo type down and go with what 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.280 it is being a man first, and I've been on 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:26.000 the front line with you know anything I've ever been 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.040 involved with. Some people were like Pablo esketball. I was like, yo, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.760 chopo on the front line, you know what I'm saying. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.880 And once I realized that, you know, when you get 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.200 them paying for enough lawyers, you know what I'm saying, 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.200 paying you know, lawsuits and all these different things because 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.040 somebody around you reacted to done something. You know, these 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.439 civil suits. You know you you know you're back against 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.520 the wall, people saying you know soon you're fifty sixty 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.800 million dollars. And it just dawned on me, like you 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.760 don't want to gonna make sure you straight, you know 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.360 what I'm saying. So I'm gonna take care of me. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.480 I don't need to. I don't need to get on 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.560 the front line for you. That's that's on you now, 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.880 you know what I'm saying. So for me, I just 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.160 really roll because I know I know I got there's 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.920 so much as mean, like I ain't took nothing from nobody, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.480 my man, integrity. You ain't going no hood, no block, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.240 I mean from here to you know a lot of 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:15.520 them people knew me before wrap on forgetting money and 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.079 being who I said I was, so they have respect 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.480 for me. So even if I'm in somebody's city, I'm 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.400 still good because it ain't no bad energy. Like I'm 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.920 done something. It took something from you. And then when 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.520 it comes to you know the other stuff like the 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.560 rap ship, I don't move like a rapper. I'm moved 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.680 like a grown ass man. You know what I'm saying, 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.280 Like I ain't playing. He feels me like that. That's that. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.880 You know, whatever it's gonna be, ain't gon in here, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:39.720 you know what I'm saying. So, but it has to 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.560 be some type of super growth because I remember me 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.240 first time seeing you and in Atlanta would be a 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.040 math all over. I'm it's be a math shirts all over, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.359 crazy all over, and like for you to go from 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.760 that be that comfortable there, and I can see that 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.840 same comfortability for you by yourself. I mean it's peaceful bro. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.440 Yeah dear with everybody else issues man, because I'm not 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:07.080 there yet almost yeah yeah, it's like every three of 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:13.200 the sea. Yeah yeah. But I mean I just feel 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:14.800 like you just come to a point where you know 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.400 you're just you're good with you. Man. It's like that's 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.600 real love, bro, Like you got self love. You don't 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.000 really need no validation from the outside. I just feel 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:23.720 like that, you know what I'm saying. I know I 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.440 like to do what I like to do. Everybody might 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.120 not be into that. You know what, I want to 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.800 go to a party doll and sip you know, Champagne 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.920 Na with Nori without it being uncomfortable, Like, yo, who 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.640 is all this? You know what I'm saying. Your people 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.640 there and you know fat Joe come around so with 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.920 an extra And when you get to a certain point 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.560 of the game and you risk it all like I have, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:45.800 and you don't want to lose it all. You don't 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.680 even want to play like that anymore because I don't 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.400 even take you one time you're a party, You're gonna 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:55.320 lose everything you got. I started to um appreciate being 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.960 lighter during during the pandemic because it would be like 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:00.680 you just it's just you and your lady, you and 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.120 your wife, no choice, You had no tricker to take 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:08.960 a test, no Atlantic. Yeah, Miami got wild. I'm gonna 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.680 be honest. Atlanta is loose like Atlanta. Listen to me. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.040 I love Atlanta. We just came and we just won 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:29.080 awarded congratulations. Yes, so man, uh, you know, moving around 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.680 because let's gonna get the quicktim of slime, right, Okay, 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.040 we gonna get the quick time. Okay, so we because 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.920 because GZ been on twice, but we didn't have I 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.640 don't think we didn't have we didn't have quick Can 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.680 you explain the rules on the event. So we're gonna 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.080 give you two names, two things. You pick one, and 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:51.480 we're good. You picked both or neither the political correct question. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.520 If you pick something, you're good good if you say 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.240 both or neither of them, meaning you opt out of 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.800 even answering. And we all drinking, but we drink with you. 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.080 We don't. We don't leave out. We're all drinking. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.160 we drink. We drink. What you do? What's it called 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.040 to getting? No? No, I ain't gonna lie. No, it's 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:15.040 out hall, it's all. It's not like something you drink 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.720 four m in Paris. You have some crapes. You know 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.640 what I'm saying. You pour it on your crepes? Are 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.399 you ready? Are you ready? You ready? Okay? Tupac or 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.960 d MX Tupac. Oh, that was easy? Okay? Jay z 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:38.760 or nas jay okay. Dungeon family or Woultan clans always 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.560 gonna left. You can never catch Atlanta with that question, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:47.520 Shorty Red or drummer board Shorty Red, we might not 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:55.040 take shots serious, okay, outcast or you g k g 0:17:55.200 --> 0:18:01.520 k okay, let's respect that young dog or future future, 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:09.080 little baby or Gunna little baby, no limit or cash money, 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:15.240 cash money baby, Magic City or Blue Frame Magic City. Man, 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:24.240 what're you're talking about? Take a shot anyway? He get? Yeah, 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:26.879 Oh you're taking a shot with y'all. Ain't skipping me. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.560 We went to the Magic City. I can't throw the 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.600 money correctly. I mean, like my ship I saw. I know, 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.199 I'm in New York, Old School New York. Yeah, I 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.760 was throwing a lot, but it was just taking. Everyone 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.080 was looking at me work. Even my wife was like, 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.880 come on, get your life. You gotta flick the risk 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.720 a certain Yeah, it just wasn't working for me. That 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:50.959 you're gonna give. You're gonna get somebody a concussion if 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:55.200 you met him in Yes, I wasn't ready for a 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.359 concussion at the Reckless round. Are getting cool? Cool? Cool? 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:08.439 Were we're drinking? Okay? Ze Tobin or Metro booming uh, 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:15.880 Metro woman, Metrial Woman, Blue Jack City or Minister Society, 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.080 Jack City. I'm about getting money okay, okay, yeah, that's 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:24.639 right because society was okay, all right, A T L. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.639 Jacob or eight oh eight Mafia, A T L Jacob, 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:35.440 DJ Collet or DJ Drama, DJ Drama. I got a 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.240 mixtape coming right now, mixtape coming. He's making this quick 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.760 time for real. Yeah yeah, when I got so so deafer, 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:50.880 bad boy, bad Boy Atlanta Airport gonna be real yea 0:19:51.200 --> 0:20:01.720 or for yeah yeah, loyalty or respect lordy loyalty? Why 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:06.960 this is easy? It's the first yeah, yeah, you know 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:12.359 your yeah, but why why loyalty? Because if if somebody, 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.200 if somebody respects you, they're gonna be loyal. You know, 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.560 somebody can respect you would not be meaning like somebody 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:22.280 have love for you, still not be loyal. There's somebody's loyal. 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:26.280 There's there's something there like you might not even like me, 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.680 you know what I'm saying, but you're not gonna do 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:30.240 nothing to cross me out because you're like, you know 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.760 what he brought me the game where he showed me something, 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:34.359 he gave me a craft. It's just like, I ain't 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.000 gonna do that, you know. When I'm from you know, 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.200 I would rather you know, That's what kept me alive. Loyalty. 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:42.400 You know what I'm saying. That's what kept me out 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.440 of the intentiary loyalty Like my my, you know, my 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.440 older cousin that did fifteen years for me for ten 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.320 years came out. You know what I'm saying. That was 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.480 that was loyalty. Wouldn't He didn't throw me under the 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.600 bus because he respected me. He was loyal. He was like, 0:20:57.880 --> 0:20:59.840 you got a shot. You know what I'm saying, You 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.200 you can be something. So I'm gonna go ahead and 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.600 you know, take this time to lay down and you know, 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:06.639 make sure you good. Some shout out to him for 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:12.119 making sure we're making sure y'all got a young jeezy 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.399 because if he wouldn't have sat down, there wouldn't be 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.919 no me. But I'm gonna take a shout. Okay, you're 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:22.040 still not ready to come on to being racist over here? 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:29.479 Giving me water man, I'm offended. Yeah, although I love 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.520 the water, so I don't know. I gotta love the boy. 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:35.159 You gotta love won jees Man. Salute to you, man, 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.440 Salute man, stot a little man. The team came. It 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:43.080 was ready hit a promotional truck out, So you ain't 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:44.639 playing around every time you come to dream and you 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.359 don't play around. Yeah, first time you came, you had girls. 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:55.639 What happened to the girls ship? They wouldn't loyal? Okay, 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.200 I'm just I just went to you this photography. You know, 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:07.760 I'm dyslexic. So yeah, so we got to Freddie Cibs question. 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.600 But back featuring Yo Gotti? Right, how did that record 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.560 come about? Got me and God? He came in the 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:16.679 game together. You know what I'm saying. You just performed 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:18.520 with his artist at the BT Bar. Shout out to 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:25.000 right there were on stage. Forget that, Yeah, yeah, don't 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:27.720 forget that. Yeah, shout out the guy, like you know, 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:29.520 like with Gotti man, me and got It and Me 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:31.119 and God he was sitting in the street like we 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:33.680 probably get money together. That's just how we cut. You know. 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.560 Inficent with Tennessee and George is like hand to hand. 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:39.320 But me and God, he came in the game together. 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:41.960 When I was running around doing my first mixtape, like 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:44.200 the streets, watching the Trap of Die. That's when I 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:46.960 met Gotti and Memphis. Yeah, I didn't know that that's 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:49.440 what he was doing. I knew him as a street 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:52.040 guy like he knew me. So we kind of just 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.800 grew up through the ranks and I always stayed in touch. 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:56.400 He's like, you know, like me and got to see 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:58.760 that we talk about life and don't really be about music. 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:01.159 You know what I'm saying as much and um, I 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:05.800 just hear him sometimes he hit me about um act 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:09.200 right and I was like yo, he said, you'll want 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:10.520 you to get on this record. I was like, yeoall 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:13.000 do it. But I just signed this artist from Cali, 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:15.280 which was why g I was like, you know, why 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:16.600 you gotta be on it with me? He was like, 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:19.119 who running? And I said one more thing. He was like, 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:20.760 what's that? I said, we got to shoot the video, 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:22.280 the video on the bay. We gotta go to East 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:24.159 Oakland and shoot the video. He's like, let's do it. 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:26.879 So all that happened like that. So that's the kind 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:30.879 of report we got. No no, no, no no. But 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:33.119 he but I brought y g Um. I had him 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.600 from death him and brought him over with me and 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:40.119 we did this first album. Um uh, his first album. 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:43.560 I think I don't might be two times platform it's 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:45.840 crazy my crazy life, okay, because I think it is 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:51.359 my crazy No No, he froosts. But you know, at 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:53.200 the same time, though you know, I didn't never want to, 0:23:53.359 --> 0:23:54.879 you know, say that, but I kind of felt like 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:56.840 that was an accomplishment of his own to even put 0:23:56.960 --> 0:24:00.920 up artists that was from you know, the West side 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:04.120 California in the mix that when you wanted to shoot 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:06.520 in the Bay though, because I knew it was gonna be. 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:08.720 I knew it was gonna be, like that's what you wanted. 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:10.920 You wanted that real the HiFi. And that was crazy 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:12.359 because it was like when we first went out there, 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:13.840 you know, were out there with the trailers, it was 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:16.679 like ten people out there. When the word got out 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:19.240 was like seven thousand. You know what I'm saying. People 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:21.360 are gonna dumb in the streets, you know, doing their 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:24.320 crazy you know, ghost riding the whip, you know what 0:24:24.359 --> 0:24:26.000 I mean. So it shout out to the shout out 0:24:26.040 --> 0:24:28.800 to the Bay for the love. But act right through 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:32.280 my act right but back. I hit Gotti up in 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:35.399 and he uh. I sent him the beat and he 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:37.880 just put a verse on it, and then I heard 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:40.320 something he said in the verse, and then I chopped 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:42.640 it up and made it the hook and then sent 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:45.159 it back and towing the verse on it, and then 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:47.080 I put the birth. So I put this song together. 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:49.800 So we didn't have a concept. He just said something 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:51.800 about back and I just put it together and talking 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:54.159 like that. Okay, so let's dress the other fit in 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:57.359 the boom. Let's go, let's talk about Snowfall. Oh yes, Snowfalls. 0:24:57.680 --> 0:24:59.240 That's that's a new album. Because by the time that 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:02.760 it out, it's out. It's out. Shout out, shout out 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:05.439 the DJ Drama. You know, I don't know how Man 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:06.919 and Drama got in the game. Like, by the way, 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:09.000 Drama didn't even want to do my first mixtapes. You 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:11.440 know what I'm saying. He was back there. Yeah, he 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:16.520 was tight. He was he was living in I understand 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:20.680 how yellow. You know. I came over his house. He 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:22.920 lived in the hood on Boulevard for for You know 0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:25.040 what I'm saying, I'm I'm getting money for real, say 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:27.720 four yeah, getting money for real. I'm living the buckhead 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:30.560 of the time, right, I live with you know, I'm 0:25:30.640 --> 0:25:32.399 living you feel me. I come over his house. He 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:34.240 asked me taking my shoes, I'll be staying in the hood. 0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:43.919 I'm like, it was just yellow and and and uh 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:46.040 we just he started doing my show takes for a 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:48.840 hundred dollars and and I kind of seeing what he 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:50.119 was doing. I was like, y'all want you to do 0:25:50.160 --> 0:25:52.639 a tape and he was like, nah, you ain't had 0:25:52.800 --> 0:25:56.879 enough shot. I got money that's hot, you feel me? 0:25:57.560 --> 0:25:59.640 And we went back and forth for months and months, 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:02.440 and then he just finally decided to do it, and 0:26:02.800 --> 0:26:04.359 I took him a bunch of songs over there and 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:07.240 we did Streets Watching, which was supposed to be called 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:09.399 geez Up at first, but I changed the name at 0:26:09.440 --> 0:26:12.399 the last minute. And when I done it, I was 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:14.760 already working on Trappic Die, just to tell him that 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:18.160 you know what I'm saying, so then you know, of course, 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:19.840 I went back in. I was just like, I put 0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:22.680 this this mixtape out and I started to see some 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:24.639 momentum and I'm like, how can I do it bigger? 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:26.520 So this is when I went and got all the 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:29.440 footage I had uh and made a DVD for trapp 0:26:29.480 --> 0:26:32.600 A Die, and then put Trapper Die out with the 0:26:32.720 --> 0:26:36.639 DVD and to this day like probably the best thing 0:26:36.720 --> 0:26:38.320 I've ever done. I remember being in the studio with 0:26:38.359 --> 0:26:40.639 Tricking Jazz Faye, like I'm about to put out a 0:26:40.680 --> 0:26:42.280 mixtape and they're like, you're crazy, why would you get 0:26:42.280 --> 0:26:44.600 your music away for free. You're talking. I was pressing 0:26:44.680 --> 0:26:47.919 up you know, five six hundred thousand CDs and passing 0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:49.879 them out. You know what I'm saying. It clubsed me, 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:53.960 you know what I'm saying, Bow and Yeah. I was watching. 0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:56.360 I was passing out of my frad. I go park 0:26:56.440 --> 0:26:58.400 my Friday to top, go out there with my little 0:26:58.440 --> 0:27:06.440 crew to who's passing out your mix tape? Yeah, to 0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:11.760 get signed or get yeah, okay, I just want to 0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:13.600 make By the way, I was doing Boys in the 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:15.680 Hood shows with Boys in the Hood and we're just 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:19.879 getting paid a thousand dollars together. It was coming on 0:27:20.200 --> 0:27:23.119 and it was so crazy. It's four of us in 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:27.320 the manager. You spent two hundred dollars a piece. I 0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:29.640 got half a million dollars in the front of the carn. 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:32.440 I'm like, I'm confused, you know what I'm saying. I 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:35.600 was like, you know what I'm saying that I'm being real. 0:27:36.080 --> 0:27:37.399 And it got to the point where I'll just let 0:27:37.440 --> 0:27:39.480 them keep the money, because like it wasn't gonna do 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:40.879 me any good, you know what I'm saying. But I 0:27:41.000 --> 0:27:44.280 wanted to my My pointing case was I wanted to 0:27:44.320 --> 0:27:46.760 do anything to get myself out of the situation I 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:50.639 was in. And we gotta take a shot for that man, 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:54.240 we gotta take a shot. And and and so Drama 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:58.520 Drama did trapa di And I think trapad made Drama, 0:27:58.640 --> 0:28:02.160 believe it. But it also, you know, saved my life. 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:06.720 It took me out the whole ship. That's that, that's that, 0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:12.480 that's that watermelon, that my badood with that Solottle solo 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:20.320 to you. Godamn. But if college and DJ Drama was 0:28:20.359 --> 0:28:24.119 the really battle on versus you're coming out with Drama, 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:27.280 I think I'm gonna be a space you have to 0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:29.760 be on both sides. They've got records. But you didn't 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:32.600 pick drama though, because I picked drama because we got history. 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:35.560 Not you trying to say Collus the l a d 0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:38.240 J though that's what you said. I look at Callia 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:42.040 Lord of Artists. Though for me, I'm Drama as an 0:28:42.120 --> 0:28:43.600 artist too. Now I think they they're kind of in 0:28:43.640 --> 0:28:46.120 the same vange. Drama don't like people not calling him 0:28:46.120 --> 0:28:54.040 an artist. That's what this whole thing is about. Both 0:28:54.080 --> 0:28:59.040 put out the album. Um, I rock with both of 0:28:59.040 --> 0:29:01.240 them because Kelli gave a shot too, So I'm gonna 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:02.920 be clear about that. I don't know. We was all 0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:09.400 at uh this club members called amnesia. Yeah about remember 0:29:09.400 --> 0:29:12.720 I was there. You know the irony of you saying 0:29:14.440 --> 0:29:16.240 record at the time, this is the irony of him 0:29:16.280 --> 0:29:19.280 saying amnesia. You're saying, I remember, that's the exact opposite 0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:22.800 of amnesia. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm trying to get 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:28.560 small buses. He came into buses and and I had 0:29:28.600 --> 0:29:30.520 to get money over here with bun b which was 0:29:30.680 --> 0:29:34.960 on the first mixtape Me and Drama that shout out 0:29:34.960 --> 0:29:36.520 to bun Be. He was one of the first major 0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:40.000 artists that gave me a feature. And I remember going 0:29:40.080 --> 0:29:42.000 to the bathroom. I was like yo with a bathroom man, 0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:44.120 and he's like upstairs, and I went upstairs because he 0:29:44.200 --> 0:29:46.960 was in amnesia. And I go upstairs and all I 0:29:47.040 --> 0:29:49.960 see is this I don't really know County, but I 0:29:50.000 --> 0:29:52.840 don't know. I'm standing on the on the counter. He 0:29:52.920 --> 0:29:56.760 going crazy everybody. So I go downstairs and I tell everybody, 0:29:56.760 --> 0:29:58.920 you know, it's a whole another club up there. So 0:29:59.080 --> 0:30:01.800 we all go up. There's cluding fabulous and all us 0:30:01.800 --> 0:30:05.280 go upstairs. Fab go holiday, Cali, Cali give him the mic. 0:30:05.360 --> 0:30:09.760 He rocks it right, So I'm standing beside fab I'm like, yo, 0:30:09.840 --> 0:30:12.480 ask him, can I get the mic too? Cali give 0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:14.400 me one of those you know what I mean? Like 0:30:14.920 --> 0:30:16.440 who is this? You know what I mean? And I'm like, 0:30:16.560 --> 0:30:19.440 I'm young jeezy, like who like won't know you. I'm 0:30:19.480 --> 0:30:21.200 just like yeo, man. So I get my man to 0:30:21.240 --> 0:30:24.080 give him the record. You know, I'm prepared to pay 0:30:24.240 --> 0:30:27.040 him to play the record. This is just Temple his 0:30:27.120 --> 0:30:30.920 birthday party. No this just remember that. Yeah, So I 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:32.560 think one of the homies told me I just play 0:30:32.640 --> 0:30:35.520 his record. He played getting Money over here with m 0:30:36.160 --> 0:30:38.680 with bumb This was probably one of the biggest records 0:30:38.720 --> 0:30:42.240 in the Magic City at the time, and the roof 0:30:42.960 --> 0:30:45.400 flips off and I remember Cali looking at me like, 0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:48.320 oh ship. That's how me and Cali got cool because 0:30:48.360 --> 0:30:50.880 he had to see it, and it just went from there. 0:30:50.880 --> 0:30:53.920 In Miami was just like already my second home. But 0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:56.640 that that ticket to another levels. Shout out to caliper 0:30:56.720 --> 0:31:02.200 that what I'm saying, big, but what your money is 0:31:02.280 --> 0:31:04.640 batting on even if you ain't gonna come out and perform, 0:31:04.880 --> 0:31:08.040 We're either one. He really wanted to what would you 0:31:08.120 --> 0:31:11.080 get as far as records, what would you bet who 0:31:11.120 --> 0:31:13.880 would win college or drama? I mean it's drama using 0:31:13.960 --> 0:31:17.240 mixtape record? How does this work? Drama? Think? So yeah, 0:31:17.680 --> 0:31:20.040 it's all go. I'll tell you what like not not 0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:23.840 because I'm I'm being neutral. I wouldn't want to see 0:31:23.960 --> 0:31:25.960 because I don't know. Let's take a shot for that guy. Yeah, 0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:29.840 I'm not. I'm being real, like so fair. I want 0:31:29.880 --> 0:31:33.760 to see that he is he gonna be in a 0:31:33.840 --> 0:31:37.120 huge JEZ record because it's yeah, that's that's That's what 0:31:37.120 --> 0:31:40.880 I'm saying, because, um, but what you're saying, it has 0:31:40.960 --> 0:31:42.440 to be his records, so that he made with you 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:45.560 though they can't just be a big stage and he 0:31:45.600 --> 0:31:51.600 took from somebody else. I'm heah, he's I mentioned right 0:31:52.040 --> 0:31:56.240 because Kelley has more bodies of work, probably more more 0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:58.920 a little bit of bigger work, more studio albums. Right, 0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:01.840 That's what I'm saying. So you got your shot ready? Yeah, okay, 0:32:02.600 --> 0:32:05.240 already see what's going on. And that's the Montica. Now 0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:08.920 what kind of the Monty Cristo, Monty Crystal I'm a 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:11.800 part of that's an anniversary. I don't know that part. 0:32:12.560 --> 0:32:16.960 That's that big boy, that's it's about seven hundred stick 0:32:19.560 --> 0:32:29.360 solid Jesus specific right, goddamn. M hmm. So do you 0:32:29.440 --> 0:32:37.160 watch BMF. I haven't. I've seen some passing um producer 0:32:37.600 --> 0:32:45.000 or produce, so all that on me, honestly consulting man, 0:32:45.120 --> 0:32:49.680 because it's too tricky. I know everybody for real, everybody's 0:32:49.720 --> 0:32:51.920 not gonna be happy with that, you know what I'm saying. 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:55.280 And for me, that's not my that's not my story 0:32:55.960 --> 0:33:00.320 to tell you what I'm saying. So, I mean, it's 0:33:00.400 --> 0:33:04.240 it's it's affiliated. Like whenever people here BMTH, they always 0:33:04.240 --> 0:33:06.680 say the first artists of being math was Jez. What 0:33:06.680 --> 0:33:09.200 I'm saying is not true, but it's not true, but 0:33:09.440 --> 0:33:13.360 I mean the national level, he was the first artist. Yeah, 0:33:13.360 --> 0:33:15.880 but he didn't break it. Was never a BMTH artist. 0:33:16.440 --> 0:33:21.640 He was directly a Bright but you was affiliated me 0:33:21.760 --> 0:33:25.520 and Meets was like YouTube, you know what I mean, 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:27.680 which means that I had you know, and I had 0:33:27.760 --> 0:33:31.160 my crew. Um, so they kind of it was like 0:33:33.040 --> 0:33:36.120 if you cool with Nori and all of us cool 0:33:36.160 --> 0:33:38.520 with Nori, then you're cool with them, you know what 0:33:38.560 --> 0:33:40.640 I'm saying. He got his own cool. Yeah, so it 0:33:41.120 --> 0:33:44.040 was like that. Then we come together like United Nations, right, Yeah, 0:33:44.080 --> 0:33:46.800 we got every gun and it was like we was 0:33:46.880 --> 0:33:48.880 hanging and being in the same spot. But like me 0:33:48.960 --> 0:33:52.160 and meets was really like like that though, meeting j 0:33:52.320 --> 0:33:55.680 BO like them with my you know, my guys. But again, 0:33:55.800 --> 0:33:58.080 like that's not my story, even when it goes back 0:33:58.160 --> 0:34:00.120 to the fifty Boys and all that stuff, Like I 0:34:00.160 --> 0:34:03.520 didn't even know him then, So that's not said Welcome 0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:07.760 home T. That's right, you said Welcome home T. He said, 0:34:08.200 --> 0:34:10.560 but you said some niggas might owe your money, but 0:34:10.640 --> 0:34:12.960 that ain't me. Yeah, So what was what was that 0:34:13.080 --> 0:34:15.960 line about? Because because there was people putting out narratives 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:19.160 as if I owed them, Oh, I don't owe them anything, 0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:25.200 you know what I'm saying. I've never done business, that 0:34:25.320 --> 0:34:27.880 type of business with them to owe him anything. So 0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:29.960 I just think the narrative was starting to be, like, 0:34:30.719 --> 0:34:34.400 you know, if it wasn't for that, it would be 0:34:34.480 --> 0:34:36.640 no meeting, know what I'm saying. And I just didn't 0:34:36.719 --> 0:34:41.359 understand that. And I don't really know Tea. I knew 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:44.799 of Tea because when I was kicking it with meat 0:34:45.440 --> 0:34:48.000 him and Tea with like beef and beefing. Oh, you know, 0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:50.239 like you know what I'm saying, And I'm glad they 0:34:50.320 --> 0:34:56.600 worked it out beautiful. But the two times I met 0:34:56.680 --> 0:34:59.200 T was what the two times talked to T was 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:02.399 the first time I was at a party with puff 0:35:03.600 --> 0:35:06.560 boys in the hood, party in Dallas, and I mean 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:08.799 there were puff in versus the boys in the hood, 0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:11.640 and somebody come over there, and you know, much of 0:35:11.680 --> 0:35:13.800 being mensane isn't like yo, TI want to talk to you? 0:35:14.400 --> 0:35:16.440 Me knowing what's going on with them, I'm like a 0:35:16.560 --> 0:35:26.400 boy myself and say, okay, your hats hold up a second. 0:35:26.640 --> 0:35:30.640 I got something to say. 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So I go 0:36:13.760 --> 0:36:15.879 over there He's like, Yo, I love I love your music. 0:36:15.920 --> 0:36:18.200 I love what you do fun with it, like keep 0:36:18.239 --> 0:36:21.040 going and that's up, Hub. And that was that. And 0:36:21.120 --> 0:36:23.160 at the second time, he was in the pend and 0:36:23.239 --> 0:36:25.319 some ship happened in the street and he just called 0:36:25.360 --> 0:36:26.840 a check on me, like, yo, you're good. You know, 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:29.040 I don't even worry about that the boot. And that 0:36:29.160 --> 0:36:31.080 was two only two times, you know what I'm saying. 0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:35.200 So when he came home, um, you know, you know, 0:36:35.440 --> 0:36:37.000 I got the call like to you know, I'm like, damn, 0:36:37.080 --> 0:36:39.040 that's what's up. But I didn't know him to like 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:41.920 reach out and be like, yo, you good because I 0:36:41.920 --> 0:36:43.279 didn't know him, you know what I'm saying. But I 0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:46.239 do I have love phone? Um oh, you didn't know 0:36:46.400 --> 0:36:48.880 him to be like in his mix, you know, be 0:36:49.239 --> 0:36:50.960 hit me. Of course I'm gonna pick up the phone 0:36:51.000 --> 0:36:53.400 because that's that's the bro. But I didn't know him 0:36:53.440 --> 0:36:58.200 to be like, you know, reaching out saying ship. Yeah, 0:36:58.280 --> 0:37:02.640 so that that's real. Let's see. OK, let's move on. 0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:06.759 God damnit smooth ye it's a for sunny Oh yeah no, no, no, no, 0:37:06.880 --> 0:37:11.600 yeah yeah yeah, Well, um, hold on go Okay, hold on, 0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:14.120 hold on, So so what what was the situation we 0:37:14.200 --> 0:37:16.440 actually talked about one the time you're here but for 0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:18.719 this episode. But Boys in the Hood and bad Boy 0:37:18.800 --> 0:37:22.560 and your involvement and when you kind of left that situation. Okay, 0:37:22.640 --> 0:37:26.480 so I never left. I was hot as fist, grease, 0:37:27.120 --> 0:37:30.160 Yeah you want me? Like was all the tapes that 0:37:30.239 --> 0:37:33.560 I was passing out out of my far you know 0:37:33.560 --> 0:37:35.879 what I'm saying, and all the promile was doing because 0:37:35.920 --> 0:37:38.239 I started guerrilla marketing, like I really was the one 0:37:38.239 --> 0:37:41.319 out here like pushing the line with like spending its 0:37:41.320 --> 0:37:44.200 own money. I spent, you know, millions to get on 0:37:44.480 --> 0:37:47.520 you know what I'm saying before I've seen anything. And um, 0:37:48.960 --> 0:37:51.600 we're boys in the Hood and it's Block Entertainment, right, yeah, 0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:55.160 this is blocked. So boys in the Hood, Um, God 0:37:55.200 --> 0:37:58.200 blessed dead. Kim Porter, which is a system of mine, 0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:04.319 which is Puffs kids. Mother knew the homie and her 0:38:04.400 --> 0:38:07.399 friend Erica I'm at Ebony sorry, which is my sister 0:38:07.480 --> 0:38:09.879 too hit me and it was like, Yo, you gotta 0:38:09.920 --> 0:38:12.640 come by the studio. Puff got this group. He wants 0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:14.520 you to do a song. So I went in the 0:38:14.600 --> 0:38:18.000 first song I ever did was them boys by the way, 0:38:18.080 --> 0:38:19.719 like I'm not I'm still not a rapper. I'm still 0:38:19.800 --> 0:38:21.399 ride rund in that Ferrari with a half a million 0:38:21.400 --> 0:38:22.440 in the front of you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:38:22.719 --> 0:38:24.239 I'm not a rapper. So I get in the room 0:38:24.280 --> 0:38:27.040 with these guys and they're doing this song, them boys, 0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:31.680 and I'm not a rapper, you know what I'm saying. 0:38:31.760 --> 0:38:33.960 So I'm in here with people who like spitting balls, 0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:35.920 you know what I mean. So it took me like 0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:38.080 an hour and a half to just write my verse, 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:40.239 and it took me like another hour to put it 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:43.040 down because I'm not so familiar with the studio. So 0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:45.600 by that time, everybody walked down because Trick was there, 0:38:45.960 --> 0:38:49.600 Jazzy Favor was there, and everybody was there, and I 0:38:49.640 --> 0:38:51.680 remember them like, you know, people in the hallway talking 0:38:51.719 --> 0:38:55.359 shit like man, he whack. So I remember I put 0:38:55.440 --> 0:38:59.319 it down and I walked down the hallway and told 0:38:59.360 --> 0:39:00.960 him to play it. And it was like, if it's 0:39:01.000 --> 0:39:03.600 taken too long to lock up. By the time the 0:39:03.680 --> 0:39:06.759 fourth bar, can't everybody that was outside the Talking Ship 0:39:07.320 --> 0:39:10.279 was in the studio going crazy, you know what I'm saying. 0:39:14.400 --> 0:39:16.040 I was like, yeah, I told y'all you know what 0:39:16.040 --> 0:39:18.880 I mean. But what happened was, you know, I was 0:39:18.880 --> 0:39:21.440 about my business earlier and I didn't need anything from anyone. 0:39:21.920 --> 0:39:24.239 And when Kevin Allows and l A Re signed me, 0:39:24.320 --> 0:39:27.960 the deaf jam Kevin left two weeks after he signed 0:39:28.000 --> 0:39:31.520 me to Atlantic to Atlantic Kevin Lows, and they never 0:39:31.600 --> 0:39:34.080 told me who the next president was gonna be. So 0:39:34.200 --> 0:39:36.920 when I was walking to deav Gym to go to 0:39:37.040 --> 0:39:39.040 the building, I've seen this black may back pull up 0:39:39.560 --> 0:39:41.400 and I'm sitting down. You know, you're running your credentials, 0:39:41.440 --> 0:39:44.719 So you get the past, give me d and the 0:39:44.800 --> 0:39:49.239 door open in his hole. He's like, yo, jeezus, what's up. 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:50.920 I'm like, what's up? You know what I'm saying. Hey, 0:39:51.000 --> 0:39:52.680 He's like, I'm onna walk up with me. You knew 0:39:52.760 --> 0:39:56.320 him to that. I've seen it, but not like that. 0:39:56.880 --> 0:39:59.880 We had no conversation in that little area that you 0:40:00.320 --> 0:40:02.960 put your idea, your security guard to get you a 0:40:03.000 --> 0:40:07.399 little bass. They say just such, and and said walk 0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:09.320 up with he already he was already to presidence in it. 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:11.360 He said, you know I'm up here. I got you, okay. 0:40:11.640 --> 0:40:13.200 I'm like, oh, ship, you know what I'm saying. I 0:40:13.320 --> 0:40:17.840 love Kevin lis mcdamn. You know this s started to 0:40:17.880 --> 0:40:24.279 make sense, Okay what I'm saying so um So when 0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:29.440 I got a hole, I instantly realized because I love Puppa. 0:40:29.520 --> 0:40:31.440 You know, I was. I had a little man syndrome 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:33.920 back then. So every time I was around Puff, I 0:40:34.000 --> 0:40:35.399 was trying to show him I got the same watch 0:40:35.520 --> 0:40:37.600 you say that my whole thing. I'm like, my chest 0:40:37.719 --> 0:40:39.600 was out, and he was just like, yo, man, you 0:40:39.640 --> 0:40:42.040 know what I mean. So he was just like, you know, 0:40:42.239 --> 0:40:47.200 so it took Jay. He was like it, what's going 0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:49.200 on with you? And you know what I'm saying, I'm like, yeah, 0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:51.759 you gotta know that U and not the whole time 0:40:51.800 --> 0:40:54.279 I'm talking shit, I'm not realizing that Puff is on 0:40:54.360 --> 0:40:59.239 the other end of the pool table. I didn't know 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:01.480 you was playing pool? No, no, so no, this is 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:05.799 like one day it was in He's like, what's going 0:41:05.840 --> 0:41:08.759 on with you? You know? You know I'm getting money? 0:41:08.840 --> 0:41:10.320 Well you know how that is? You street guy? You 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:12.759 feel like get money close to Jay Z down, it's 0:41:12.760 --> 0:41:14.520 like you're ready to go to war for for no reason, 0:41:16.120 --> 0:41:18.719 like you cool whatever. He's like, yeah, yeah, that's my man. 0:41:18.800 --> 0:41:20.440 And he was like and then he's like Puffs on 0:41:20.440 --> 0:41:23.160 the other end of the table. So me and Puff 0:41:23.200 --> 0:41:26.440 had already done the Boys in the Hood deal, but 0:41:27.080 --> 0:41:29.719 it was like it was a lot of things that 0:41:29.840 --> 0:41:32.719 happened during the deal that kind of like made me 0:41:32.880 --> 0:41:35.560 feel different, Like meaning like I'm going to Magic City 0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:39.080 and Puff is calling my phone to sign the deal 0:41:39.520 --> 0:41:42.120 for Boys in the Hood, but I'm telling them going 0:41:42.160 --> 0:41:44.320 to Matton City and he's calling my phone back to 0:41:44.400 --> 0:41:48.400 back and he like, go to Kinko's and signed the 0:41:48.480 --> 0:41:51.240 contract and send it back like with the Facts machine. 0:41:51.360 --> 0:41:57.600 By the way, kids used to go ship So for 0:41:57.719 --> 0:42:00.279 those of the Xerox, that's how you caught me something, right. 0:42:00.920 --> 0:42:02.600 So so so now I'm like, y'all ain't going to 0:42:02.719 --> 0:42:04.600 key cards. I gave you over there, so you know, 0:42:04.640 --> 0:42:07.480 I just had a tip on my shoulda. And it 0:42:07.680 --> 0:42:10.160 was when Jay was like yo, man, like you know, 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:12.200 he sat me and Puff down, we just you know talk, 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:13.560 you know. So I got a chance to really know 0:42:13.560 --> 0:42:15.960 because I didn't really I knew him, but I knew 0:42:16.040 --> 0:42:18.560 him through like meeting up so I only saw him 0:42:18.600 --> 0:42:20.879 in club setting. So I was like, I'm a street guy. 0:42:21.280 --> 0:42:23.000 You know you're gonna respect me. That was my whole 0:42:23.040 --> 0:42:25.200 inmo with any rapper or any entertainer because it was 0:42:25.239 --> 0:42:27.359 just like, I'm risking my life out here. Y'all ain't 0:42:27.400 --> 0:42:30.319 going through this ship. So anyway, puff Um and Jay 0:42:30.360 --> 0:42:31.880 sit there and I go, look, man, i want to 0:42:31.960 --> 0:42:35.120 do the Puff deal, but I'm only gonna do one album. 0:42:35.160 --> 0:42:37.200 I gave Puff a number and he was cool that, 0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:38.880 you know what I'm saying. And me and Puff been 0:42:38.880 --> 0:42:41.000 cool every since. That's my bro, like we chopped up 0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:44.520 my business, spirituality whatever. But he was like, I ain't cool. 0:42:45.080 --> 0:42:47.960 And now I got puffing Jay in the same room 0:42:48.480 --> 0:42:51.000 and they agreeing to let me do this Boys in 0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:54.359 the Hood album only one album pushed the Motivation back, 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:58.000 which is highly anticipated for a month your first album, 0:42:58.080 --> 0:43:00.680 my first album, right, the Motivation one on one. So 0:43:00.800 --> 0:43:02.880 in my mind, I'm coming off a trapper die and 0:43:02.960 --> 0:43:08.520 I'm using them boys is another marketing peace, you know 0:43:08.560 --> 0:43:11.759 what I'm saying. So now I got two deals and 0:43:11.840 --> 0:43:15.120 I'm I'm building this momentum that that was my mindset 0:43:15.880 --> 0:43:19.480 so right, and with the guys you know, and no 0:43:19.800 --> 0:43:21.959 disrespect to them. I just think that was a little 0:43:22.000 --> 0:43:24.440 more season when it came from business because I came 0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:26.040 out of the streets and I was used to dealing 0:43:26.120 --> 0:43:30.840 with said the guys boyhood, so they didn't understand, you 0:43:30.920 --> 0:43:33.960 know what I was doing because I'm thinking business. I mean, 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:35.920 I get the records, and I also knew that them 0:43:36.000 --> 0:43:40.279 boys was a hit. It's like like you like going 0:43:40.320 --> 0:43:43.920 for the selfish move or like I think that if 0:43:43.960 --> 0:43:45.920 I'm honest, and they probably tasted. I think it's been 0:43:45.960 --> 0:43:48.120 some situations where I kind of tried to put them 0:43:48.160 --> 0:43:50.279 on the game, but they probably looked at me like 0:43:50.360 --> 0:43:52.680 I was separating the group and you really wasn't the 0:43:52.760 --> 0:43:55.080 officially wrapper at that time year. I was the street 0:43:55.160 --> 0:43:57.319 guy who just had one good verse on the whole 0:43:57.400 --> 0:44:03.960 project and on the tour like like I was on 0:44:04.080 --> 0:44:07.200 too with Jody Brees. Jody Breese was the guy like 0:44:07.360 --> 0:44:10.280 all the girls left Jody like the bus like damn, 0:44:10.440 --> 0:44:13.399 Like I got on the Town Dollar roll, like you'll 0:44:13.400 --> 0:44:18.319 see this what's going on? But before you continue because 0:44:18.600 --> 0:44:21.759 I also worked the Bad Boy Records and he he 0:44:21.880 --> 0:44:25.799 was on or once a part of the street team too, 0:44:25.920 --> 0:44:28.440 and we ye, they was pushing we was the Miami 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:30.799 Street Team. I was running down here and they were like, okay, 0:44:30.800 --> 0:44:33.200 there is a South record, y'all gotta push this. But 0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:35.879 there seemed to be some confusion when that record came, 0:44:36.840 --> 0:44:38.719 because if it was like you're on you're in the group, 0:44:38.760 --> 0:44:41.040 you're not in the group, and I don't I don't 0:44:41.040 --> 0:44:44.480 remember clearly how it was the timeline back that the group. Yeah, 0:44:44.680 --> 0:44:47.440 I mean I'm record, yeah, the record? What the thing 0:44:47.719 --> 0:44:52.440 was that? Rightfully? So, I'm my own boss because I'm 0:44:52.640 --> 0:44:55.800 pressing on my own CDs. I'm paying for my own stuff. 0:44:56.200 --> 0:44:59.880 I'm signed to death. Cham Um, I got a public 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:03.160 in situation. You asked Big John, He'll tell you John 0:45:03.200 --> 0:45:05.799 that money, man, I didn't even cash my def Jam 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:08.880 and my Publician check. You understand, I'm saying, like I 0:45:09.000 --> 0:45:12.279 just had these checks in my house. What what the 0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:14.879 Publicisan check I lost in a pair of jeans, which 0:45:15.000 --> 0:45:17.120 was crazy because I had to figure that out because 0:45:17.400 --> 0:45:20.040 I didn't know. And then I had, um, you know, 0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:22.520 my def jam check that I didn't even cash because 0:45:22.520 --> 0:45:25.000 I had bread. And I remember Jay called me one day, 0:45:25.040 --> 0:45:29.080 He's like, Yo, what are you doing? Okay, okay, did 0:45:29.080 --> 0:45:31.240 you lose the Publicisan checking? You you don't even remember? 0:45:31.320 --> 0:45:33.480 You know? I lost it? And then I called Big 0:45:33.600 --> 0:45:36.719 John shout out the big John he had check. Again, 0:45:38.120 --> 0:45:40.359 he didn't understand what the hill because nobody can't take 0:45:40.440 --> 0:45:43.000 that check in cash. But I'm gonna be honest. You know, 0:45:43.080 --> 0:45:45.759 I'm a street guy. I had my money bags. I 0:45:45.800 --> 0:45:47.239 thought when he gave me the check that it was 0:45:47.280 --> 0:45:49.000 already somewhere. I need to go pick it up. I 0:45:49.040 --> 0:45:56.640 didn't know about Baker and it was a huge check 0:45:57.680 --> 0:46:00.320 check and me and John laugh about that, you know, 0:46:00.520 --> 0:46:03.840 just anyway. But the reality of it is I didn't 0:46:03.920 --> 0:46:05.759 discuss with the guys what I was doing on the 0:46:05.840 --> 0:46:08.560 business side, so they probably felt like that I was 0:46:09.040 --> 0:46:12.120 being selfish. But I had a plan, feeled me, and 0:46:12.440 --> 0:46:15.160 that was my plan because that was never really officially 0:46:15.280 --> 0:46:17.640 a group I had to get. I was. I was 0:46:17.680 --> 0:46:20.240 getting a label deal with Death Jam, which was CT 0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:23.760 then shout out to the new deal Corporate Thugs Entertainment. 0:46:27.040 --> 0:46:29.320 But but but I had a plan, and I wasn't 0:46:29.560 --> 0:46:32.200 trying to just be in a group, you said, saying, 0:46:32.360 --> 0:46:34.400 because I wanted to break my own artists and do 0:46:34.520 --> 0:46:39.040 my own things. So again communication, I didn't talk to 0:46:39.120 --> 0:46:40.800 them and say, look, this is what I'm trying to do. 0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:42.320 I was more so like I'm gonna do this, you know, 0:46:42.400 --> 0:46:45.759 y'all gotta figure this out. That's you know, probably why 0:46:46.160 --> 0:46:47.800 you know it kind of went a little left and 0:46:47.880 --> 0:46:49.200 to make it up, Mark, but I was working in 0:46:49.280 --> 0:46:53.399 death jammers, so then we're working Oh my god, he's 0:46:53.400 --> 0:46:56.080 working bad boy and okay, use one of them type 0:46:56.080 --> 0:47:01.799 of both sides in the middle. I'm taking a shot. 0:47:05.960 --> 0:47:10.520 It's hard. Don't drink that ship. I'm sorry, keep going, 0:47:10.560 --> 0:47:12.640 I keep going that man, Well, I'm sorry. I just 0:47:12.760 --> 0:47:21.839 this is a great joke, that's all. So I got 0:47:21.920 --> 0:47:23.960 the word that you're doing a new album. I'm saying 0:47:25.920 --> 0:47:29.040 I feel like Jesus got all the accolades, got all 0:47:29.080 --> 0:47:37.160 the success, got all the money, beautiful family, beautiful wife. 0:47:39.239 --> 0:47:43.920 Why even come outside, like why not staying eat peaches 0:47:43.960 --> 0:47:49.839 all day? Watermelon? You love it that I did that, though, Man, 0:47:49.920 --> 0:47:51.960 I can't. I'm not for feeling like that. Bro, I 0:47:52.000 --> 0:47:54.759 don't like. I gotta be happy. This is my this 0:47:54.880 --> 0:47:56.920 is my purpose. It ain't even about the money no more. 0:47:57.000 --> 0:47:58.960 It's about like I know what any about the money. 0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:01.320 It's it's it's about like, you know, even for the 0:48:01.400 --> 0:48:03.239 younger generation coming up, it's like, this is what you 0:48:03.320 --> 0:48:07.000 do when you're fifteen twenty years in you still you know, 0:48:07.120 --> 0:48:09.000 you're still who you are, but you've got a bigger 0:48:09.080 --> 0:48:12.200 mindset as you lead by example. And one thing about it, 0:48:12.400 --> 0:48:14.279 I lived enough in the streets to talk about it 0:48:14.360 --> 0:48:17.120 forever because because the game don't change, it's just only 0:48:17.200 --> 0:48:20.080 the players and the same thing. And I just feel 0:48:20.120 --> 0:48:21.960 like for me, you know, I ain't trying to preach 0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:24.080 and nothing, but I'm like, I got a few people 0:48:24.120 --> 0:48:26.120 that I respect, and I could sit the mentors and 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:28.800 we don't even communicate on the mental levels, just like 0:48:28.880 --> 0:48:30.799 I just talked to him about things, but I love 0:48:30.840 --> 0:48:32.759 the way they moved. So for me, it's just like 0:48:32.800 --> 0:48:35.560 I want to show these cats, even fifteen twenty years 0:48:35.600 --> 0:48:38.879 in the game, you still get moved. Like I'm well 0:48:38.920 --> 0:48:40.560 aware of my surrounds. I can tell you right now 0:48:40.600 --> 0:48:42.520 how many black T shirts over there who got white 0:48:42.520 --> 0:48:43.960 with you know what I'm saying. I know you know 0:48:44.000 --> 0:48:45.840 what I'm saying. That's who I am. But at the 0:48:45.920 --> 0:48:49.120 same time, with what what keeps me ful Field is 0:48:49.160 --> 0:48:51.319 to be able to connect with people from a personal level. 0:48:51.400 --> 0:48:54.200 Like on the way over here, I had used the bathroom, 0:48:54.239 --> 0:48:56.520 I opt out of the Walgreens on where that was that. 0:48:56.719 --> 0:48:58.480 You know what I'm saying, right in the middle of 0:48:58.520 --> 0:49:01.400 the hood before I could even get to the door. Everybody, jeezus, 0:49:01.719 --> 0:49:04.000 that's what I do it for because they love me, 0:49:04.080 --> 0:49:07.719 because I have values, I have integrity, and I have 0:49:08.120 --> 0:49:10.520 and I'm a visionary, Like I have a vision that 0:49:11.080 --> 0:49:13.600 street people want to have me. They want to come 0:49:13.640 --> 0:49:16.520 from somewhere, accomplish something and then take that in the 0:49:16.600 --> 0:49:18.719 compass something else. So even when I came in the game, 0:49:19.280 --> 0:49:21.719 you know, I only started rapping because I already knew 0:49:21.719 --> 0:49:23.520 what the streets was gonna do. But I'm not the 0:49:23.600 --> 0:49:25.680 best rapper nor ever I ever claimed to be, because 0:49:26.000 --> 0:49:27.960 if you really know about it, like music is my 0:49:28.080 --> 0:49:31.919 talent because I you know, jumped in the head first 0:49:31.960 --> 0:49:34.600 and figured it out. But business is my passion. I 0:49:34.840 --> 0:49:37.319 always wanted to do this and this and real estate 0:49:37.400 --> 0:49:39.320 and that and be able to sit here and have 0:49:39.440 --> 0:49:41.759 a real conversation about my business. Like when I say 0:49:41.800 --> 0:49:45.680 I only have for Atlanta, No, I'm yeah that serious. 0:49:45.800 --> 0:49:48.719 Oh yeah for Shore City blocks asks about me? Yeah 0:49:48.960 --> 0:49:59.880 straight up. LLLC, Yeah, that's all day. LLC on you 0:50:00.000 --> 0:50:04.280 when outside takes to come on, let's do it solo 0:50:04.440 --> 0:50:12.520 solo so cheers. Sticking to that subject real quick. A 0:50:12.600 --> 0:50:15.239 lot of people were shocked. I don't know if if 0:50:15.280 --> 0:50:17.360 you ever did an interview since this, a lot of 0:50:17.400 --> 0:50:22.080 people were shocked when they announced that you was even 0:50:22.160 --> 0:50:25.320 doing the verses right, not only are you doing the verses, 0:50:25.760 --> 0:50:28.640 but then who you was doing the verses against. I 0:50:28.760 --> 0:50:31.840 think the industry was just like, wow, I didn't you know. 0:50:32.239 --> 0:50:36.360 I remember me calling Swiss and me asking like for 0:50:36.440 --> 0:50:39.879 inside information, like sure this just can actually go down, 0:50:40.920 --> 0:50:42.880 and Swiss is like they had a private meeting. It 0:50:43.440 --> 0:50:45.319 was Was that true that you had a private meeting 0:50:45.480 --> 0:50:48.120 prior to that? I wouldn't lie. I'm gonna keep it 0:50:48.160 --> 0:50:50.120 the ball. Yeah, okay, because it just had to be 0:50:50.239 --> 0:50:54.120 some understanding. Okay, you know what I'm saying, and there's 0:50:54.160 --> 0:50:56.239 so much history and that you know what I'm saying, 0:50:56.280 --> 0:50:59.359 And for me, I just wanted to believe that weight 0:51:00.000 --> 0:51:05.960 all myself, because you know, contrary to people's beliefs, it 0:51:06.000 --> 0:51:11.680 ain't what they think. The whole situation however, it's that too, 0:51:12.120 --> 0:51:16.080 but values and morals, meaning that if I would say 0:51:16.120 --> 0:51:19.200 what really happened, I gotta throw somebody under the bus 0:51:19.280 --> 0:51:21.960 that I love. You know what I'm saying, like, I'm 0:51:21.960 --> 0:51:23.560 not gonna do that, so I had to wear that 0:51:23.719 --> 0:51:28.640 for fifteen years. So I'm just like, yo, at least musically, 0:51:29.000 --> 0:51:32.040 let's put this shit in the space where that part 0:51:32.160 --> 0:51:35.960 is at least good, just out of respect and and 0:51:36.120 --> 0:51:37.600 and a lot of people thought it was a game, 0:51:37.640 --> 0:51:41.399 but it is for the culture. It's like, Yo, that's 0:51:41.520 --> 0:51:44.480 unfinished business. But it is what it is. But when 0:51:44.520 --> 0:51:47.120 it comes to what we do is as far as 0:51:47.239 --> 0:51:50.840 leaders leadership, like it has to be some type of 0:51:50.960 --> 0:51:53.719 understanding or we're gonna be extinct out here, bro, Like 0:51:54.680 --> 0:51:56.960 you know rap It is like I'm like you, like 0:51:57.040 --> 0:51:59.200 why I come outside? You know what I'm saying. You 0:51:59.400 --> 0:52:02.200 still had a better chance going to Iraq. You know 0:52:02.200 --> 0:52:05.120 what I'm saying That in the rapper in today's world, 0:52:05.360 --> 0:52:07.960 you know what I'm saying. But it has to start somewhere, 0:52:08.200 --> 0:52:09.920 you know what I'm saying. Again, I don't want to 0:52:09.960 --> 0:52:12.080 be the type of person to preaching teach, but I 0:52:12.200 --> 0:52:15.239 feel like that moment just had to happen. People had 0:52:15.280 --> 0:52:17.560 to see us in the same room, and I'll be 0:52:17.680 --> 0:52:20.920 lying to say that we haven't seen each other, you 0:52:20.960 --> 0:52:23.840 know what I'm saying. Or rang that right, and like 0:52:24.040 --> 0:52:25.799 we both like, you know what I'm saying, because it's 0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:31.640 been so long, so many conversations, so much miscommunication, you 0:52:31.680 --> 0:52:36.759 know what I'm saying. And you know, if if you 0:52:36.920 --> 0:52:39.600 saw it, you know it's for your you know how 0:52:39.640 --> 0:52:41.719 many people and by the way, like Swiss need to 0:52:41.760 --> 0:52:46.080 talk to us because that was the highest view versus 0:52:46.239 --> 0:52:49.200 and as I can remember, right after that, they saw 0:52:49.280 --> 0:52:50.960 that ship, the Triuler, So yeah, Swiss and you know 0:52:51.080 --> 0:52:55.880 we're out here, baby, Yeah, let's be real. That's what 0:52:55.960 --> 0:52:58.919 I'm saying. But you know, at the end of the day, 0:52:59.040 --> 0:53:03.560 like you know, I can't speak on the real ship. 0:53:03.960 --> 0:53:06.279 But what I can't say is at this point in 0:53:06.320 --> 0:53:08.600 the game, you know, you don't work this hard to 0:53:08.640 --> 0:53:12.800 get here, and everybody got ship to lose, now, you 0:53:12.840 --> 0:53:15.400 know what I'm saying, a life that they always dreamed of. 0:53:16.480 --> 0:53:20.120 Just like, let's let's do the artist ship first and 0:53:20.200 --> 0:53:23.319 then everything else. So let me ask and you could 0:53:23.320 --> 0:53:25.719 answer this how you want to. So in this private meeting, 0:53:25.920 --> 0:53:28.239 was it discussed that you know that the Hill might 0:53:28.320 --> 0:53:30.680 say something that's going too far and you can say 0:53:30.719 --> 0:53:33.720 whatever you want. Was that discussed? All that was not discussed. 0:53:33.760 --> 0:53:35.000 It was just to see if we can sit in 0:53:35.080 --> 0:53:38.560 the same room, but the details wasn't was kind of 0:53:38.640 --> 0:53:40.680 sort of but now, but if you know, homie, you 0:53:40.760 --> 0:53:43.320 already know, like it's just what it is, you know 0:53:43.320 --> 0:53:47.560 what I'm saying. I kind of felt like it wasn't 0:53:47.560 --> 0:53:50.080 gonna go that way just based off what it was, 0:53:50.120 --> 0:53:53.279 because you're talking about some ship that happened, you know, 0:53:53.400 --> 0:53:56.120 so long ago on the streets that you finally getting 0:53:56.120 --> 0:53:58.920 a chance to be face to face, and it's taking 0:54:00.360 --> 0:54:04.560 uh Magic City for one, that was happening in magazine 0:54:04.800 --> 0:54:09.120 City for one, Apple for two, Switched Beats for three, 0:54:09.719 --> 0:54:13.359 Timberland for four. Talking when you say Apple, you're talking 0:54:13.400 --> 0:54:17.680 about a multip billion dollar company almost taking a risk 0:54:17.719 --> 0:54:20.560 on with two of them. Stacy Abrams came on and 0:54:20.600 --> 0:54:22.840 spoke before for that give me give a set up 0:54:22.840 --> 0:54:28.239 and stare because that way you'd never been bad for 0:54:28.320 --> 0:54:32.279 the campaign, and because it was crazy, because I see 0:54:32.320 --> 0:54:36.719 how calm you were. Almost was like and and again 0:54:36.760 --> 0:54:39.279 I'm outside of the that's an inside of us looking 0:54:39.320 --> 0:54:44.840 in from the outside. Um, it almost felt like you expected. 0:54:44.920 --> 0:54:46.719 It almost felt like I don't want to say you 0:54:46.840 --> 0:54:50.600 expected or you kind of knew that women beating honest 0:54:50.640 --> 0:54:53.359 with you, like, yeah, just giving the history of who 0:54:53.440 --> 0:54:58.400 he was were, I know he didn't know what they 0:54:58.400 --> 0:55:01.160 expect and I didn't even the because you know, like 0:55:01.200 --> 0:55:04.440 when you're pulling up and you know everybody out there 0:55:04.480 --> 0:55:09.200 with you guys, you know, semimachine, guns and tactics and 0:55:09.400 --> 0:55:12.320 like it's it's it's like, you know, it's like putting, 0:55:12.480 --> 0:55:15.080 you know, ship putting in the room with whoever they're 0:55:15.080 --> 0:55:18.759 beating within the UK just because you don't nine times 0:55:18.800 --> 0:55:23.440 out of ten it don't be you, but somebody is 0:55:23.480 --> 0:55:26.759 with you. It's just like nah, so nobody knew what 0:55:26.800 --> 0:55:29.640 they expect. But I can't tell you this again. This 0:55:29.800 --> 0:55:31.600 is what respect come in. And people who do it 0:55:31.760 --> 0:55:35.200 right shout out to Magic because Magic is a legend. 0:55:35.360 --> 0:55:37.040 He was one of the first people that one of 0:55:37.040 --> 0:55:40.120 the owns Magic City. But he's like our uncle. You 0:55:40.200 --> 0:55:44.319 don't disrespect Magic, you just do it because he's such 0:55:44.360 --> 0:55:46.400 a solid guy. What I'm saying. And it's just like 0:55:47.000 --> 0:55:49.799 if we was cousins and we had a disagreement, it's 0:55:49.880 --> 0:55:53.400 like being with your uncle, I'm gonna talk first, you 0:55:53.480 --> 0:55:55.680 know if you don't work out after that handy business, 0:55:55.760 --> 0:55:58.440 but not here, So it was that. But at the 0:55:58.520 --> 0:56:02.400 same time, um, nobody knew what Dick's fact. I mean, 0:56:02.400 --> 0:56:04.239 I'm gonna be honest with you. I was watching the 0:56:04.280 --> 0:56:08.680 Apple people. They were sweating. I was like, look, I 0:56:08.760 --> 0:56:10.520 was watching people there was supposed to be with me, 0:56:10.719 --> 0:56:13.439 like sliding over people supposed to be with him side. 0:56:13.640 --> 0:56:17.759 Nobody knew what side of standing up like I was home. 0:56:19.760 --> 0:56:22.640 I don't know what's going on, but but but you know, 0:56:23.000 --> 0:56:27.320 one time for the music man, because you know I 0:56:27.440 --> 0:56:30.440 haven't said and done. That's gonna be a part of 0:56:30.560 --> 0:56:33.759 history there everybody I don't remember, but it just had 0:56:33.800 --> 0:56:36.279 to happen, bro, Like, you gotta be the first too, 0:56:37.000 --> 0:56:38.399 you know what they say. To be a true leader, 0:56:38.480 --> 0:56:40.920 you got you gotta stand out there before anybody else 0:56:40.960 --> 0:56:43.560 doing take that lead, because you could have woke up 0:56:43.600 --> 0:56:45.560 tomorrow and they's been like, I'm good on home just 0:56:45.680 --> 0:56:47.360 because of that. You know what I'm saying, but you 0:56:47.440 --> 0:56:49.280 know it. And then ya actually did a tour together 0:56:49.360 --> 0:56:53.360 after that. Yeah that's the thing. It's just like but 0:56:53.480 --> 0:56:56.160 he apologized after that. Yeah, but I mean, but but 0:56:57.280 --> 0:56:58.799 you know, I don't know if this is right the same, 0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:01.200 But I'm just you how I'm on it. You know, 0:57:01.360 --> 0:57:04.360 he hit me because it was basically my tour. I 0:57:04.480 --> 0:57:05.800 was the front run. I was the first person on 0:57:05.920 --> 0:57:08.200 the tour and he hit me. He was like, yo, 0:57:08.760 --> 0:57:10.200 you know what I'm saying. You know, I want to 0:57:10.239 --> 0:57:13.320 get on this tour and you know, how have you 0:57:13.400 --> 0:57:15.680 taken I'm to be honest. You know where bro, I 0:57:15.800 --> 0:57:18.440 never blocked how you feed your family? It is what 0:57:18.560 --> 0:57:21.320 it is. I see that's after person. Yeah, I see that. 0:57:22.040 --> 0:57:23.880 What was that? But but I had to give that 0:57:23.920 --> 0:57:26.040 call because they weren't gonna let that go on if 0:57:26.080 --> 0:57:28.480 I said no, Well I was front run and I'm like, yo, 0:57:28.600 --> 0:57:31.280 I don't never get between you and your money. That's fine. 0:57:31.480 --> 0:57:35.840 I think we got know what I'm saying that because 0:57:35.840 --> 0:57:39.120 I think I think and y'all cord you like it's listen, 0:57:39.360 --> 0:57:42.200 I'm not gonna lie. You know what I'm saying, Like 0:57:42.400 --> 0:57:45.480 we we we um. It's in the space where we 0:57:45.560 --> 0:57:48.360 can we can coexist, and I think that's all that matters. 0:57:48.400 --> 0:57:52.680 Like looking for Yeah, nobody's looking for you know. It 0:57:52.840 --> 0:57:55.320 wasn't like before that. We was hanging out every day, 0:57:55.960 --> 0:57:58.920 you know what I'm saying? So, yeah, well what makes 0:57:58.960 --> 0:58:03.720 some nuch for growth back listen, real ship. So we're 0:58:03.720 --> 0:58:05.520 gonna bounce aroun. I'm gonn I'm gonna get back to 0:58:05.760 --> 0:58:12.160 um therapy for my soul. Okay, Oh it's a good Yeah. Yeah. 0:58:12.240 --> 0:58:16.600 You said something that we just had. The megoes up 0:58:16.640 --> 0:58:20.760 here and he said something about coach k right. You're 0:58:20.800 --> 0:58:24.400 on coach k right. Um, what exactly what you're saying 0:58:24.520 --> 0:58:30.320 right there? I'm saying that again, you know, communicating is key, right, 0:58:31.240 --> 0:58:38.160 I'm saying that when money is at plate and there's 0:58:38.320 --> 0:58:43.720 not the right type of communication, the lines team that 0:58:43.880 --> 0:58:47.960 seem to get blurred, and if you're not And this 0:58:48.080 --> 0:58:49.440 is another thing I want to say, and it's for 0:58:49.480 --> 0:58:53.120 anybody that's coming up in the game. There's no handbook 0:58:53.200 --> 0:58:55.840 or no template of how to do this ship. You 0:58:55.960 --> 0:58:57.960 give it your all, your risk of life, and then 0:58:58.000 --> 0:58:59.800 all of a sudden you wake up and your multimlion 0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:04.560 more power than you can grasp. And and and if 0:59:04.600 --> 0:59:07.400 you come for one from you already got your own trauma. 0:59:08.040 --> 0:59:11.400 People to them, try to do things to you, funk 0:59:11.440 --> 0:59:15.000 over you, all these different things. So I'm dealing I'm 0:59:15.040 --> 0:59:18.160 dealing with that one question. He's dealing with, dealing with 0:59:18.320 --> 0:59:22.280 artists that went left um, but at the same time 0:59:22.520 --> 0:59:25.320 he's part of your management. At first at the time, 0:59:25.680 --> 0:59:27.640 you know, Coach came to Like the craziest thing is 0:59:27.720 --> 0:59:32.840 Coach came to the studio because Dallas also studio in Atlanta. 0:59:33.200 --> 0:59:35.000 Because back then I was driving the g S four 0:59:35.200 --> 0:59:38.280 dred Lexus I had, I was iced out and I 0:59:38.400 --> 0:59:40.920 was spending cash money to get the studio and he 0:59:41.080 --> 0:59:42.840 was hearing about that, and that's how he came to 0:59:42.960 --> 0:59:45.760 the studio and started to be friend me. You know 0:59:45.800 --> 0:59:48.240 what I'm saying. And then over time he was just 0:59:48.440 --> 0:59:50.240 like somebody around it. I could be like, yo, can 0:59:50.240 --> 0:59:51.680 you take care of this? And he was doing it. 0:59:51.720 --> 0:59:53.120 Don't get me wrong, he's great at what he does. 0:59:53.720 --> 0:59:58.560 But there was a lot of conversations that didn't happen 0:59:59.240 --> 1:00:04.520 before the fame and the money came under understanding. It's 1:00:04.560 --> 1:00:07.120 like getting into a marriage and you don't talk about 1:00:07.840 --> 1:00:09.600 what are the yeah right, what are the things that 1:00:09.680 --> 1:00:13.560 are deal breakers? And you know what what things you 1:00:13.680 --> 1:00:17.280 don't want because it's now it's a relationship. And for me, 1:00:17.360 --> 1:00:19.760 I'm a street guy. If you do anything that seems 1:00:19.840 --> 1:00:22.960 questionable to me, then I just know how to handle it. 1:00:23.080 --> 1:00:25.240 How I handle it, you know what I'm saying, And 1:00:25.320 --> 1:00:29.400 again that ain't with the best communication. Ther lationship was 1:00:29.480 --> 1:00:33.720 what coach. It wasn't never Pete Pete. Now I didn't 1:00:33.760 --> 1:00:36.600 know p O. I only only knew Pe when him 1:00:36.640 --> 1:00:38.720 and co star, Right, OK, So just to get some 1:00:38.800 --> 1:00:40.960 clarity to it, some things went on. You know, I'm 1:00:41.000 --> 1:00:43.640 sound quite sure he would say different, you know what 1:00:43.640 --> 1:00:46.520 I'm saying, as he should, but I just you know, 1:00:46.680 --> 1:00:50.000 I didn't trust a lot of things that And again 1:00:50.040 --> 1:00:53.720 there's no handbook for this, so I don't even know 1:00:53.760 --> 1:00:57.600 how it's supposed to go. I'm just understanding what I'm assuming. 1:00:58.360 --> 1:01:00.400 And so if you're not communicating with some and it's 1:01:00.440 --> 1:01:02.000 not going how you wanted to go, of course you're 1:01:02.000 --> 1:01:04.480 gonna be like yo, like I ain't rocking like that. 1:01:04.680 --> 1:01:07.360 And then he probably thought, you know what I'm saying, 1:01:07.440 --> 1:01:09.240 ain't going high he wanted to go. So if you 1:01:09.320 --> 1:01:12.440 ain't have no understanding going into this, and it's like 1:01:12.720 --> 1:01:15.320 right now, we we're sitting here and we're drinking and 1:01:15.360 --> 1:01:18.680 we're having fun, and we got a podcast, and this 1:01:18.760 --> 1:01:20.320 ship just blow out of the roof and then somebody 1:01:20.360 --> 1:01:22.440 just come drop this big bag of money on the table. 1:01:22.800 --> 1:01:28.440 But we but we ain't talked about you know what 1:01:28.480 --> 1:01:30.640 I'm saying, because I'm like, yo, I'm spending millions like 1:01:30.720 --> 1:01:32.640 I'm not fifty, but sitting or doing like you know 1:01:32.680 --> 1:01:34.760 what I mean, like the risk of my life. And 1:01:34.840 --> 1:01:36.680 he's like yo, but I you know what I'm saying. 1:01:36.760 --> 1:01:40.320 So there was never no issue that we couldn't resolve. 1:01:40.680 --> 1:01:44.320 But I just think when it wasn't talked about pre 1:01:45.240 --> 1:01:49.920 right money and pre success, it's like there's a lot 1:01:50.000 --> 1:01:54.880 of expectations there, and you know how to go with expectations, 1:01:55.440 --> 1:01:57.200 you know, if if it ain't what you want, you 1:01:57.200 --> 1:02:00.600 to feel that down. So and I still got love 1:02:00.640 --> 1:02:03.720 for coach, Like I'm happy he's successful. I'm happy he's 1:02:03.720 --> 1:02:05.480 done what he did. I hear people all the time 1:02:05.600 --> 1:02:07.920 he's ain't putting nobody on but just looking around coaches 1:02:08.080 --> 1:02:11.479 on done, Canda Zone, Drama Zone, so, the Red Zone, 1:02:11.600 --> 1:02:15.040 the Drummer boy Zone, Justice League Zone. These all people 1:02:15.080 --> 1:02:18.720 that I dealt with before anybody else that listen, let's 1:02:18.760 --> 1:02:21.040 go to death jam is on. I did a feature 1:02:21.080 --> 1:02:23.600 for my you know time over I did a feature 1:02:23.640 --> 1:02:26.240 for every artists over there, including Rihanna, Kanye, we like 1:02:26.320 --> 1:02:28.640 you name it. There's nobody I ain't touched over there. 1:02:28.720 --> 1:02:30.920 It's just that I didn't want the money for myself 1:02:31.240 --> 1:02:33.440 because I'm a hustler, so I'm gonna do what I 1:02:33.520 --> 1:02:35.200 do for me. I don't have to do coming to 1:02:35.280 --> 1:02:37.640 this podcast and see how successful is and try to 1:02:37.680 --> 1:02:39.440 pull you to the side and go let making this 1:02:39.560 --> 1:02:41.480 to be a part of it, because I'm happy for you. 1:02:41.720 --> 1:02:43.440 It's like I'm happy for them. I'm happy for DJ 1:02:43.640 --> 1:02:45.880 Drama and all the success and the things that they're 1:02:45.920 --> 1:02:47.640 doing to my brothers. I want to see him sign 1:02:47.800 --> 1:02:49.560 and it's better that we didn't do business with each 1:02:49.560 --> 1:02:51.400 other because I love him. But you know, light skin 1:02:51.480 --> 1:02:55.480 Nig is different. Brother. I'm telling y'all steaking to the 1:02:56.360 --> 1:02:59.040 class sometimes. But but we're going on to be crazy. 1:02:59.080 --> 1:03:00.760 I love him and that's why we can come back 1:03:01.240 --> 1:03:04.280 now with all our success, all the ship that we 1:03:04.400 --> 1:03:07.640 got going on and still do some amazing like Snowfall. 1:03:08.200 --> 1:03:09.480 You know what I'm saying, because now we're in a 1:03:09.560 --> 1:03:13.000 different space and it ain't it ain't out of desperation. 1:03:13.120 --> 1:03:14.960 It's for the love, you know what I'm saying. It's 1:03:14.960 --> 1:03:17.240 for like, yeah, you know this is and the reason 1:03:17.280 --> 1:03:19.080 why I really wanted to do this project with him 1:03:19.600 --> 1:03:21.920 because I don't want expect taxes. I want to do 1:03:21.960 --> 1:03:25.600 what was drama. This is Snowfalls. Snowfall is me and 1:03:25.680 --> 1:03:27.960 DJ Drama. That's a mixtape or this is what I 1:03:28.000 --> 1:03:30.160 would call it a street album. And it's for my 1:03:30.320 --> 1:03:33.200 Day one and Don Cannon is exactive producer. And I 1:03:33.280 --> 1:03:40.040 got all my guys on there, that number one fan. Yeah, 1:03:40.280 --> 1:03:42.600 but I got all my all my producers that I love, 1:03:42.720 --> 1:03:46.080 you know, the Justice Leagues, the d Riches, that all 1:03:46.160 --> 1:03:47.800 those guys that I love, and I just wanted to 1:03:47.840 --> 1:03:50.160 get in and do something I wanted to do with 1:03:50.320 --> 1:03:53.000 no expectations, meaning that I don't have to put no 1:03:53.760 --> 1:03:55.920 you know, no top ten record on it. I want 1:03:55.960 --> 1:03:58.640 to talk crazy. You know it's Curls Ship. I'm back 1:03:58.640 --> 1:04:00.560 talking crazy. You know what I'm saying, ice Cube. When 1:04:00.560 --> 1:04:06.720 you say as cool, I'm back, don't know what a yeah, 1:04:06.760 --> 1:04:08.800 I forget, keep for getting, keep good. You gotta hear 1:04:08.800 --> 1:04:12.280 a good. Our demographics keep getting younger and younger. Young 1:04:12.400 --> 1:04:14.840 niggas saying what's up, Nori. I'm like Walmart Nick better 1:04:15.240 --> 1:04:21.600 not know why not we are live? You on your 1:04:21.640 --> 1:04:25.640 parents is crazy? You know? But um, let's move to 1:04:25.680 --> 1:04:29.400 put on. How did you and Kanye link up for that? Okay? 1:04:29.520 --> 1:04:33.800 So this true story. So Kanye did this record that 1:04:33.960 --> 1:04:36.120 was on the recessing because he said he's a fan. 1:04:36.240 --> 1:04:38.920 He knows. So there's a record on Recession called I 1:04:39.040 --> 1:04:41.880 Got Money with Me and t I. I put Kanye on. 1:04:42.480 --> 1:04:45.640 I send the record to Kanye. It's like, we can 1:04:45.680 --> 1:04:47.960 have before the album had to be turned in, right, 1:04:48.840 --> 1:04:51.680 and he says the record back a totally different record. 1:04:54.120 --> 1:04:57.200 He says it back with if you remember the record. 1:04:58.160 --> 1:05:01.160 I'm like, so I gotta turn it in. But his 1:05:01.360 --> 1:05:04.480 verse sounds like a totally different song. So I go, yeah, 1:05:04.520 --> 1:05:06.240 I can't use it. I just gotta keep me and 1:05:06.280 --> 1:05:08.400 Tip on it. And he was like all right. Cool. 1:05:09.600 --> 1:05:12.440 So about six months go by, you called me out 1:05:12.480 --> 1:05:15.160 of nowhere. What are you doing? He said, kind of 1:05:15.200 --> 1:05:16.400 talked to you for a man. I was like, yeah, 1:05:16.480 --> 1:05:20.880 for sure. He goes, uh, you remember that song you 1:05:21.000 --> 1:05:23.120 did that I did for you. I was like yeah, 1:05:23.360 --> 1:05:25.240 He's like, I want to keep it. I said yeah, whatever. 1:05:25.680 --> 1:05:27.640 He said, who produced it? And I told him that 1:05:27.720 --> 1:05:30.480 to produced it. He asked me for too Snumber. I 1:05:30.520 --> 1:05:32.920 gave him to Snumber. So that's what big brother. All 1:05:32.960 --> 1:05:34.800 those records he had on the album came from Tom. 1:05:34.920 --> 1:05:38.760 So I put to Kanye with right, yeah, yeah, what 1:05:38.800 --> 1:05:46.520 I'm saying he produced, So I put him with and 1:05:47.440 --> 1:05:51.520 and he called me after the fact he said, Yo, 1:05:52.320 --> 1:05:53.960 do you mind if I keep your adlets? Or? This 1:05:54.000 --> 1:05:55.840 is why I know he's genius. He said, do you 1:05:55.920 --> 1:05:57.400 mind if I keep your ad libs on it? I'm 1:05:57.400 --> 1:05:59.919 in passing. I'm not even thinking. I'm like whatever, yeah. Yeah. 1:06:00.480 --> 1:06:03.400 So the song comes out huge, like I'm not even 1:06:03.480 --> 1:06:05.960 expecting this, but my ad libs are in the song. 1:06:06.520 --> 1:06:08.600 So everybody listened to the song on the radio. Wait 1:06:08.640 --> 1:06:10.919 for my birth to come in. Yes. So everybody's calling 1:06:10.960 --> 1:06:13.240 me like, yo, there's this song out. It sounds like 1:06:13.280 --> 1:06:15.240 you're about to wrap it. You don't wrap. I was like, 1:06:15.520 --> 1:06:19.600 it's Kanye's record. So anyway, long story short, I going 1:06:19.680 --> 1:06:22.440 to London to do a show. I go, I go 1:06:22.560 --> 1:06:24.520 on to eight. I think Kanye goes on a ten. 1:06:25.320 --> 1:06:27.280 The first record he does in front of eighty thou 1:06:27.520 --> 1:06:31.760 people is um, wait till I get my money right, 1:06:32.240 --> 1:06:37.800 I'm watching eighty tho people. Uh, it's crazy. I look 1:06:37.800 --> 1:06:39.440 at because jay Z and Beyonce there and I look 1:06:39.480 --> 1:06:43.760 at him. I said, I think I funked up. He's like, 1:06:43.800 --> 1:06:45.200 what do you mean? I said, I gave Kanye that 1:06:45.320 --> 1:06:47.800 record I didn't know and he was like, yeah, it's crazy, 1:06:48.920 --> 1:06:54.640 so you know what I'm saying. So now I'm like, 1:06:54.800 --> 1:06:58.560 damn so and at this time, not not needed it. 1:06:59.120 --> 1:07:02.440 It's not the one, So I never forget. I was 1:07:02.480 --> 1:07:04.360 trying to call Kanye. I had this record call put 1:07:04.440 --> 1:07:06.720 on and I was trying to call Kanye and I 1:07:06.760 --> 1:07:08.840 couldn't get him on the phone. I called l a read. 1:07:09.560 --> 1:07:11.160 He's like, I'm gonna call him for you. Called me 1:07:11.280 --> 1:07:13.400 with Kanye in the phone. He said, Yo, Kanye, want 1:07:13.440 --> 1:07:15.120 to talk to you. He got on the phone. This 1:07:15.280 --> 1:07:18.800 is when his mother passed and he hadn't done any 1:07:18.880 --> 1:07:21.920 record system and we talked. We had a real conversation. 1:07:21.960 --> 1:07:23.760 He said, I'm gonna do it for you. So I 1:07:23.800 --> 1:07:25.400 sent him. I told him what put on me and 1:07:25.440 --> 1:07:28.240 in the South in Atlanta, he was like a word 1:07:28.640 --> 1:07:29.960 and then I sent him the song and then he 1:07:30.040 --> 1:07:32.400 called me back on his own line. He was wrapping 1:07:32.440 --> 1:07:34.080 me the verse. But you know, I'm like, go put 1:07:34.120 --> 1:07:36.280 it down, go do it now, like, don't wrap it 1:07:36.320 --> 1:07:39.439 on the phone and he went and put it down 1:07:39.520 --> 1:07:41.760 and he sent it to me. And I'm getting ready 1:07:41.800 --> 1:07:44.560 to go out out of town to do some shows 1:07:44.640 --> 1:07:47.920 for the weekend. Um, and I got all my homies 1:07:47.960 --> 1:07:50.000 on the tour bus. So it's like twenty of us 1:07:50.080 --> 1:07:53.120 on the tour bus, so a lot of choppers, a 1:07:53.200 --> 1:07:56.720 lot of choppers. And I and I gave it to 1:07:57.280 --> 1:08:00.040 V one on three to Gregg Street, right, but I 1:08:00.080 --> 1:08:02.720 didn't tell nobody Kanye was on the song. They heard 1:08:02.720 --> 1:08:04.480 the song in the studio, but nobody knew Kanye was 1:08:04.520 --> 1:08:06.480 on the song. So we're on the tour bus and 1:08:06.560 --> 1:08:09.680 we headed out of town and Greg Street brings the 1:08:09.760 --> 1:08:12.400 song back like a hundred times. I mean, it was crazy. 1:08:13.160 --> 1:08:16.160 And when everybody heard Kanye West, I just I watched 1:08:16.240 --> 1:08:18.240 their eyes because you know, you would you would think 1:08:18.360 --> 1:08:22.240 like and I knew right then and was hit and 1:08:22.400 --> 1:08:25.560 I never forget bro. I was like, we're back on 1:08:27.960 --> 1:08:30.000 We're back in the game. And I remember Ellie calling 1:08:30.040 --> 1:08:32.320 me like, man, he did it again, this is crazy 1:08:33.040 --> 1:08:36.000 and uh number one, and then Drake hopped on the remix. 1:08:36.960 --> 1:08:39.920 We did that on BT and the rest of his history. Man, 1:08:39.960 --> 1:08:42.400 and probably to be honest with you, I feel like 1:08:42.439 --> 1:08:44.400 it's probably one of Kanye's best verses ever. It was 1:08:44.439 --> 1:08:47.000 so crazy that jay Z got on it the remix 1:08:47.600 --> 1:08:50.639 if you remember, Yeah, so yeah, he had a record 1:08:50.680 --> 1:08:56.479 with Drake Kanye and Drake got on I Do with 1:08:56.720 --> 1:09:00.280 Andre three thousand and Jay C and I. You don't 1:09:00.320 --> 1:09:02.240 believe that I say that, go here there on Snowfall 1:09:02.840 --> 1:09:04.720 I got. I got more records with jay Z than 1:09:04.720 --> 1:09:08.680 Biggie Small. Let's be clear, you feel me, Let's be 1:09:08.840 --> 1:09:15.240 clear what I'm saying. Let's be clear. Ship that is crazy. 1:09:15.360 --> 1:09:21.040 Oh my god? Yeah, So who's your inspiration? On Bars? 1:09:21.040 --> 1:09:22.600 You're saying you didn't come in as an artist, so 1:09:22.680 --> 1:09:24.680 you say, but you obviously got You said you got 1:09:25.040 --> 1:09:27.639 hold on a new Snowfall to No, No, No, Nona. 1:09:28.640 --> 1:09:31.000 You got more records, and I got more records with 1:09:31.120 --> 1:09:34.120 jay Z than he does with Biggie Small, for sure. Okay, 1:09:34.160 --> 1:09:37.240 but you're gonna give us somebody that song Snowfall. Hey man, 1:09:37.320 --> 1:09:42.680 let me finish my question. Goddamn bad guy. Tell me 1:09:43.000 --> 1:09:45.759 you inspired by Bar Smiths. You have to be, because 1:09:46.080 --> 1:09:48.760 you're doing bars. You're saying you're not. You didn't come 1:09:48.800 --> 1:09:51.920 in as an artist like that, but you am seeing right. 1:09:52.320 --> 1:09:55.120 I think it's because of my love for music. But um, 1:09:55.479 --> 1:10:00.800 every morning before school I listened to all MASTERP, A, B, 1:10:01.040 --> 1:10:03.640 M j G. But my favorite was Tupac and more 1:10:03.680 --> 1:10:06.639 of my favorite was Tupac and still is to these days. 1:10:06.720 --> 1:10:11.080 Because he stood for something. He had values, he had morals, 1:10:11.160 --> 1:10:13.719 he had integrity, and I had never seen that before 1:10:14.120 --> 1:10:16.400 because my uncles are still twenty dollars out of socks. 1:10:16.479 --> 1:10:20.519 You know what I'm saying, People that I respect. What 1:10:20.560 --> 1:10:22.320 I'm saying was taken from you know what I'm saying. 1:10:22.360 --> 1:10:25.680 And I couldn't get any information out of him. So 1:10:25.840 --> 1:10:29.000 how I learned how to survive and navigate through the streets. 1:10:29.040 --> 1:10:30.880 And I want to say that because even when these 1:10:30.920 --> 1:10:34.240 guys is coming up, you know, nine of ten percent 1:10:34.280 --> 1:10:38.560 of it is music, of it is surviving and survival 1:10:39.120 --> 1:10:41.880 and navigating through what's going on. And the reason why 1:10:41.880 --> 1:10:43.960 I was able to navigate through a lot of things, 1:10:44.280 --> 1:10:46.560 but because I listened to Tupac as if he was 1:10:46.720 --> 1:10:49.600 like that was my bibles, how I knew how to 1:10:49.680 --> 1:10:52.600 handle sit in situations and it was embedter than me. 1:10:52.680 --> 1:10:56.160 And it's just like, you know, he was a revolutionary 1:10:56.240 --> 1:10:59.360 before I knew what that was like he actually had 1:10:59.439 --> 1:11:02.920 He's still something and and and and he would take 1:11:03.320 --> 1:11:06.920 those risks when everybody around me was so used to 1:11:07.040 --> 1:11:09.360 how they was living that they didn't want to try 1:11:09.439 --> 1:11:11.519 to live any better. And I was like, with Ship, 1:11:11.560 --> 1:11:14.400 I'm just gonna go take some risk. So my my 1:11:14.600 --> 1:11:16.840 bible at that time, you know, no dispect to the 1:11:16.880 --> 1:11:20.240 big homie was every Tupac our I would give by 1:11:20.280 --> 1:11:29.400 myself the home never I ain't never heard that, but 1:11:29.680 --> 1:11:33.920 I listened to um Tupac every morning before school. And 1:11:33.960 --> 1:11:35.920 when I made my assistant to drop out of school 1:11:35.960 --> 1:11:39.080 in the sixth grade, I did that knowing that I 1:11:39.160 --> 1:11:41.360 had to make away from my mom and my sister. 1:11:41.880 --> 1:11:44.840 But I did that knowing that Tupac did what he 1:11:44.920 --> 1:11:48.760 had to do. Sixth grade. Yeah, yeah, sixth grade. I 1:11:48.840 --> 1:11:50.320 got my g D. When I was locked up. I 1:11:50.360 --> 1:11:56.040 got one on you one once. I got one over alright, 1:11:56.080 --> 1:11:58.160 we went away. I heard what you said when you 1:11:58.200 --> 1:11:59.680 receive your award. He said, I don't know if I 1:11:59.680 --> 1:12:05.479 can read it's real, Ship. Seriously, I got lawyers, don't 1:12:05.520 --> 1:12:10.040 know if not your Yeah, the question mark after he's trying. 1:12:11.400 --> 1:12:14.400 Oh my god, man, this is so great. Man. Okay, 1:12:15.200 --> 1:12:19.120 sole Survivor feature at a calm A calm. Okay, shout 1:12:19.160 --> 1:12:21.519 out to Boucon. But by the way, you see Acorn 1:12:21.600 --> 1:12:24.200 new cut. We got to talk about this, his new 1:12:24.280 --> 1:12:27.360 haircuting his Barbara don't like him. Man, It's like, what's 1:12:28.640 --> 1:12:31.360 the African man? You gotta getting a pass. Let's do 1:12:31.479 --> 1:12:33.680 what did over there? I respect, I know that this 1:12:33.800 --> 1:12:38.720 is this. That's somebody we could have the first question man, 1:12:40.920 --> 1:12:43.000 like somebody put a bowl on your ship and you 1:12:43.120 --> 1:12:45.000 just cut around and like a car. You gotta get 1:12:45.040 --> 1:12:47.439 your life together. You gotta way too much money. And 1:12:47.520 --> 1:12:50.920 I think that might be Beijing patch. I think that's 1:12:50.960 --> 1:12:53.559 just going on. I said when I first came, my friend, 1:12:53.640 --> 1:12:58.439 I don't want to speak on nobody else, but you 1:12:58.560 --> 1:13:01.720 know this is true. Noticed what I'm taking a shot 1:13:01.800 --> 1:13:04.400 for that. Let me know what part are you taking 1:13:04.400 --> 1:13:08.760 a shot for the patch? Let me know what I 1:13:09.160 --> 1:13:11.599 want to know too. Yeah, he coming on. That's what's crazy. 1:13:11.640 --> 1:13:13.840 We had you coming on and then as we have 1:13:14.080 --> 1:13:18.600 you going up, they said, um um, so I just 1:13:18.720 --> 1:13:22.679 kept saying I'm gonna tell you that though, okay, pop 1:13:22.760 --> 1:13:28.519 it so boom, God bless you Dad Shkire Stewart Um 1:13:29.040 --> 1:13:33.320 A and R and confident at the time in bookon 1:13:33.439 --> 1:13:36.760 Bootcon is a cons brother, Yes, right, and they knocked 1:13:36.760 --> 1:13:39.680 out show. I don't know, yeah, I mean if he 1:13:39.760 --> 1:13:45.600 did yeah. Um. But Boom called me and I was 1:13:45.680 --> 1:13:49.160 a passwords working literally working, you know, I was doing 1:13:49.200 --> 1:13:53.640 both of my jobs. I was recording and um, and 1:13:53.760 --> 1:13:55.240 he said, I got this CD for you, the A 1:13:55.360 --> 1:13:57.200 content and he brought it over there and this was 1:13:57.360 --> 1:14:01.639 what CDs was A can already got locked up out already, okay, 1:14:01.680 --> 1:14:04.080 so you bring me the CD, and um, it's six 1:14:04.160 --> 1:14:06.519 songs on it. So I put it in. I listened 1:14:06.520 --> 1:14:08.360 to all six songs and the last one was Sole 1:14:08.439 --> 1:14:12.400 Survivor and I just started touring around with it because 1:14:12.400 --> 1:14:15.200 I had a party that night at Visions, and I 1:14:15.280 --> 1:14:17.080 told around whe I put the first verse on it, 1:14:17.680 --> 1:14:19.519 and you know, I'm just kicking this more. We doing 1:14:19.560 --> 1:14:21.840 what I do. And then Shakire pulls up because he's 1:14:21.840 --> 1:14:24.599 coming to the party with us. Shaquire was a vice 1:14:24.640 --> 1:14:28.240 president of Dead to him at the time, and he said, 1:14:28.240 --> 1:14:31.719 what you're working on? I played him Soul Survival. He's like, yo, guys, 1:14:32.080 --> 1:14:34.080 this this is it. This is I'm just like but 1:14:34.120 --> 1:14:35.680 at the top I had like trapped out, so I 1:14:35.800 --> 1:14:37.920 wasn't even thinking like that, and um, I thought it 1:14:38.000 --> 1:14:39.479 was a crossover record and I didn't want to do 1:14:39.560 --> 1:14:41.080 one of those. So we go to the party, We 1:14:41.160 --> 1:14:43.599 turned up, we drink, We come back and Shaquire goes, 1:14:43.800 --> 1:14:45.560 why don't you picking us the record that she was 1:14:45.600 --> 1:14:47.960 working on ACoM because I didn't have nothing to work on, 1:14:48.200 --> 1:14:50.320 so I knocked the record out. It was done right. 1:14:51.200 --> 1:14:52.680 He heard, He was like, yo, this is crazy. I 1:14:52.720 --> 1:14:56.200 didn't think none of it. Fast forward, there's an intern 1:14:56.439 --> 1:14:59.519 at Pats work. We'll talk about the lawsuit later because 1:14:59.520 --> 1:15:04.240 I hadn had my business. There's studio that's with studio's 1:15:04.320 --> 1:15:06.640 intern there that wanted me to use his beats for 1:15:06.760 --> 1:15:09.639 Thug Motivation. One on one. I didn't use his beats. 1:15:10.040 --> 1:15:12.720 I didn't know about masters back then, so I was 1:15:12.800 --> 1:15:16.040 just recording and leaving all my tapes and all my 1:15:16.120 --> 1:15:21.040 stuff at the studio. He gets all my songs, puts 1:15:21.160 --> 1:15:22.880 his beat on the frost. That's how we knew he 1:15:22.920 --> 1:15:26.800 did it. He puts his beat first like it's just instrumental, 1:15:27.080 --> 1:15:29.560 and then my whole album and then he leaves it. 1:15:30.680 --> 1:15:33.200 So Thug Motivation got leaked like four months before we're 1:15:33.200 --> 1:15:35.720 supposed to come out. So but I'm with the wrong 1:15:35.800 --> 1:15:40.360 beat stuffs with all the songs. Every song you heard 1:15:40.400 --> 1:15:43.240 on th Movace was on this leak. So now I'm 1:15:43.360 --> 1:15:46.920 like halfway in, halfway out the streets. My man called me, 1:15:46.960 --> 1:15:49.400 He's like, Yo, your album's leaked, and I think I 1:15:49.479 --> 1:15:51.679 knew who did it. So I jumped in my Porsch 1:15:51.760 --> 1:15:53.880 truck drive down to the studio. I got my a 1:15:54.000 --> 1:15:56.120 k this is this is no line. So they got 1:15:56.200 --> 1:15:58.320 him pinning up at the studio and I get there 1:15:58.880 --> 1:16:00.960 and my man like, y'all gonna just, you know, run 1:16:01.000 --> 1:16:02.680 from up. I said, no, I'm about to, you know 1:16:02.720 --> 1:16:04.840 what I'm saying. So, because now I'm thinking I gotta 1:16:04.880 --> 1:16:06.880 go back to the streets. Already went cold turkey. Ill 1:16:06.880 --> 1:16:08.400 don't told people. They don't even owe me the money 1:16:08.439 --> 1:16:10.240 that they owed me. You know what I'm saying. I'm saying, 1:16:10.280 --> 1:16:12.320 so now now this is it. You know what I'm saying. 1:16:12.760 --> 1:16:15.280 On top of the fact that right before I turned 1:16:15.320 --> 1:16:18.320 the al Men, I told my vocal cords, so I 1:16:18.360 --> 1:16:19.680 didn't even know if I was gonna be at the 1:16:19.720 --> 1:16:21.920 talk again because I had to have surgery, so I 1:16:21.960 --> 1:16:23.720 didn't even know if my voice was gonna be the same, 1:16:24.000 --> 1:16:27.080 you know what I'm saying, And we'll talk about that too. 1:16:27.200 --> 1:16:30.000 But and um so I get there, you know, I 1:16:30.160 --> 1:16:31.920 draw down on me and Slick pull it in up, 1:16:32.000 --> 1:16:33.720 you know what I'm saying, being the brakes off of them. 1:16:33.720 --> 1:16:35.400 I gotta go through this whole lawsuit, but I had 1:16:35.439 --> 1:16:39.720 to pay them and to getting the big homie. The 1:16:39.800 --> 1:16:42.080 best thing to ever happened to me because at that 1:16:42.200 --> 1:16:46.040 time there was the biggest bootlegging ring going on in 1:16:46.120 --> 1:16:49.080 the world in Atlanta. Like it was bootlegg and everything 1:16:49.120 --> 1:16:51.479 you can think, like it was busting bootlegs. So me 1:16:51.600 --> 1:16:54.360 and Slick Puller and a few of my homies rode 1:16:54.360 --> 1:16:57.439 around for at least three weeks with three vans a 1:16:57.520 --> 1:17:00.479 lot of choppers, and ran up in every bootleg trying 1:17:00.520 --> 1:17:02.960 to take the CD back. But what I didn't realize 1:17:03.040 --> 1:17:09.400 was the a absolutely one thousand per cent. And what 1:17:09.520 --> 1:17:14.240 I didn't realize was that the music was already out 1:17:14.800 --> 1:17:18.840 and it was spreading to Detroit, d C. It was 1:17:18.880 --> 1:17:21.280 doing me good and I didn't know that. And it 1:17:21.479 --> 1:17:24.200 wasn't until I went to do the Birthday Bass and 1:17:24.240 --> 1:17:26.479 they played Bottom of the Map and twenty thousand people 1:17:26.560 --> 1:17:31.400 lost in the first prom and then I wanted to 1:17:31.400 --> 1:17:35.360 go a trap of dives my single right by now. 1:17:35.960 --> 1:17:39.919 So surviving is huge in the streets, like it's crazy, 1:17:40.360 --> 1:17:43.200 some something I never expected. And how I knew is 1:17:43.240 --> 1:17:45.280 I'm going to a show and I think I'm going 1:17:45.320 --> 1:17:47.559 to Dallas. So I'm in the airport and I'm walking 1:17:47.560 --> 1:17:49.560 through the airport and her Motherucker said a kind of 1:17:49.680 --> 1:17:54.519 young Jesus what then? And then it would be like, 1:17:54.760 --> 1:17:56.479 you know, people from Africa walking up to me the 1:17:56.520 --> 1:17:58.599 airport like Jeezy, we love you man, you know, shout 1:17:58.640 --> 1:18:00.240 out to you. Ain't come like what the because I 1:18:00.280 --> 1:18:02.760 didn't never know a con was that big? And I 1:18:02.840 --> 1:18:05.360 knew he come from Atlanta. Yeah I didn't, I've never 1:18:05.439 --> 1:18:11.120 been to Africa. No, no, he said, it's true. It's 1:18:11.160 --> 1:18:19.240 TRUEMM called me and Secure called me. He said, Yo, 1:18:19.360 --> 1:18:22.200 this is your single. And I was sitting there and 1:18:22.240 --> 1:18:24.200 I was like, you know what to be crazy if 1:18:24.240 --> 1:18:26.680 I could shoot the video like pay them full and 1:18:26.760 --> 1:18:28.880 I was like, yo, anybody know cameeron and they're like 1:18:29.040 --> 1:18:31.559 what called cameraon up? He was like, yo, peace King, 1:18:31.960 --> 1:18:34.439 I'll be there. So called Cameroon a couple of those 1:18:34.439 --> 1:18:36.120 guys from there, and I remember going out there to 1:18:36.200 --> 1:18:39.560 do the video shooting single. Yes, I didn't have me, 1:18:40.720 --> 1:18:42.559 you forgot me. He was probably doing something. You had 1:18:42.600 --> 1:18:48.320 the biggest thing, and everybody came from me to jay 1:18:48.400 --> 1:18:50.560 Z and it was like the biggest thing ever that 1:18:50.720 --> 1:18:53.120 I heard and heard. JAYZ actually came to that. He 1:18:53.160 --> 1:18:55.120 came to the video shoot, came out trailing. He sat 1:18:55.200 --> 1:18:58.240 there and I'm gonna say it now because I don't 1:18:58.240 --> 1:19:00.479 know if he's ever heard it, but you know, shout 1:19:00.520 --> 1:19:02.720 out to Calm because that record chains my life, like 1:19:03.080 --> 1:19:08.000 it took me from being a ghetto trapped superstar to 1:19:08.160 --> 1:19:11.160 be world you know what I'm saying. And I had 1:19:11.240 --> 1:19:13.599 no idea that one song can do that. So shout 1:19:13.600 --> 1:19:21.639 out to Calm gets too paid, right, and that's it. Yeah, 1:19:22.000 --> 1:19:24.439 that's what It's cool. He's my friend. I can talk 1:19:24.439 --> 1:19:28.799 about it. He call always offered me a call to Africa. 1:19:29.360 --> 1:19:31.320 I thought you said you got one. Now my mind 1:19:31.400 --> 1:19:34.519 I do, but I was just go I'm gonna just 1:19:34.640 --> 1:19:40.120 go called. Are you af okay Boom? My president is black? Yes, 1:19:41.640 --> 1:19:46.519 my president right now is whack. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna 1:19:46.520 --> 1:19:48.560 be honest. He came and sat down and talked to me. 1:19:48.760 --> 1:19:51.640 I'll never forget it. We had a meeting with all 1:19:51.680 --> 1:19:54.720 the leaders of Atlanta. Time on time. He said, he 1:19:55.520 --> 1:20:00.040 just lost on us. I'm being honest, just ca. He 1:20:00.120 --> 1:20:01.640 came to see you want to talk to me, And 1:20:01.720 --> 1:20:03.439 he came and we did this this thing with all 1:20:03.479 --> 1:20:05.040 the leaders. You can see the pictures. They are there, 1:20:05.240 --> 1:20:06.680 and he wanted me to sit right beside him, and 1:20:06.720 --> 1:20:08.400 he looked at me the whole time. He ex questions. 1:20:08.840 --> 1:20:11.320 But I'm knowing he knew that I had something to 1:20:11.400 --> 1:20:13.880 do with his man getting in there, and that's why 1:20:13.960 --> 1:20:16.680 he did it. But we're talking about now, yes, yes, 1:20:17.120 --> 1:20:19.479 before he won, we're talking about Trump. Trump was whacked too. 1:20:20.040 --> 1:20:24.360 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, But I'm talking about Biden right now. 1:20:24.439 --> 1:20:27.920 You Biden about the dots just because Bro, come on 1:20:28.120 --> 1:20:36.600 dog saying that too, Hold on, hold on time. You 1:20:36.640 --> 1:20:41.000 said no stage, listen, listen, we want to bet stage. Jeez. 1:20:41.240 --> 1:20:43.439 They're like, tell him nor he can say whatever he wants. 1:20:44.760 --> 1:20:47.200 I said, Yeah, they didn't say that, you know. They 1:20:47.240 --> 1:20:50.599 did said be myself, beat yourself. That's saying whatever I'm 1:20:50.640 --> 1:20:59.600 saying just the same. They don't know nor, we don't know, 1:21:00.880 --> 1:21:03.720 be yourself. I go. I said, no, don't tell I go. 1:21:04.080 --> 1:21:08.000 I go, alright, go listen. Did you just see Afford 1:21:08.000 --> 1:21:12.400 the body? He about to die? Because because Biden, say 1:21:12.439 --> 1:21:15.519 said to the right, Mr President, he clearly made a laugh, 1:21:16.240 --> 1:21:19.360 clearly went the other way. I said to die. They said, 1:21:19.880 --> 1:21:21.320 do not tell North what you say? What do you 1:21:21.360 --> 1:21:26.880 want to say? A lot? They come to everything, They 1:21:26.960 --> 1:21:29.799 come everything. They say, okay, all right, that's the difference 1:21:29.840 --> 1:21:33.120 between But I'm gonna be honest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 1:21:33.120 --> 1:21:36.439 that's that's that make me nervous. We want to use 1:21:36.479 --> 1:21:38.720 the machine. Let's get the whole home, Let's get the 1:21:38.760 --> 1:21:41.519 whole room high. Let's get the machine. God damn it. Yeah, 1:21:41.640 --> 1:21:45.760 get that machine. Get that machine. We upgraded since you've 1:21:45.760 --> 1:21:50.880 been here. I'm a I'm a street guy. Man. I 1:21:50.920 --> 1:21:52.920 get a little paranoid when I see that much of anything. 1:21:53.960 --> 1:21:59.560 It's legal, it's legal, it's it legal. Yeah. Yeah, you 1:21:59.680 --> 1:22:02.200 was like early on a drink. Chance you came back 1:22:02.240 --> 1:22:08.639 again and this is the cha alumn. But I'm gonna 1:22:08.640 --> 1:22:10.280 be honest with you though, man like me and Nori 1:22:10.439 --> 1:22:14.520 talk yes time to time. Yes, I'm really just I'm 1:22:14.560 --> 1:22:18.479 proud of you guys. Man, I'm sorry you guys. Got 1:22:19.200 --> 1:22:21.320 you guys got the coach hat. It's like, this is 1:22:21.360 --> 1:22:23.439 a stop, this is a must stop. Think And as 1:22:23.439 --> 1:22:25.960 I see you guys getting outside of this music, I 1:22:26.080 --> 1:22:29.040 respect it more. You know what I'm saying. Respect a 1:22:29.080 --> 1:22:32.320 little salt and that's it. God smell right too. I 1:22:32.360 --> 1:22:34.439 got damn seven hundred dollars, got there, Get your life right. 1:22:42.120 --> 1:22:47.120 That's a rockets good. Mama Wana made in a tubbing 1:22:47.280 --> 1:22:51.960 kindle makes some notes that Mama Wana. Don't ever drink that. 1:22:52.280 --> 1:22:54.760 Don't ever drink that jeezy litten. Trust me, he's my friend. 1:22:54.800 --> 1:22:59.760 I love him, but he's crazy, Okay, I love it. Yeah, man, 1:23:00.040 --> 1:23:03.679 that was That was one of those things, just taking 1:23:03.720 --> 1:23:06.120 a chance on it. I remember getting the beat from 1:23:06.200 --> 1:23:08.960 DJ Tobi at this studio in the hood, and I 1:23:09.040 --> 1:23:11.640 went over there night by myself and I sat in 1:23:11.680 --> 1:23:14.000 the room with him one of his producers, for like 1:23:14.120 --> 1:23:16.479 four hours and listening to every beat they had, and 1:23:16.560 --> 1:23:18.720 the last piet they played was that beat. And I 1:23:18.760 --> 1:23:20.840 got this thing like the sixs because I don't like 1:23:21.120 --> 1:23:24.280 necessarily write music. I see it, you know, I can. 1:23:24.320 --> 1:23:26.000 I can hear it beat and see what it's supposed 1:23:26.040 --> 1:23:27.320 to be so I know what it's gonna be when 1:23:27.360 --> 1:23:29.960 it's doff you. Yeah, you just you just see it, 1:23:30.320 --> 1:23:32.839 you know what I'm saying. I just get music differently. 1:23:33.400 --> 1:23:34.800 And I was like, Yo, wait till I come back 1:23:34.840 --> 1:23:39.280 with this. And I did that, did that record and 1:23:39.360 --> 1:23:41.400 I played it for two and he went crazy, and 1:23:41.439 --> 1:23:42.760 I knew what it was because when I played it 1:23:42.760 --> 1:23:44.040 for l a read, he was just like, yoh, this 1:23:44.120 --> 1:23:47.200 is just a single. Or going back to my president 1:23:47.280 --> 1:23:53.080 is Black. I did that record five months before he won, 1:23:54.120 --> 1:23:56.479 and I put it on the album before he won 1:23:57.280 --> 1:23:59.600 because I had faith that he was gonna win and 1:23:59.680 --> 1:24:03.360 I need that. I just felt like at the time, 1:24:03.439 --> 1:24:05.160 we needed to change. So it's a lot of things 1:24:05.200 --> 1:24:08.920 that I did behind the scenes to really help him 1:24:08.960 --> 1:24:13.400 win in my opinion, like culture wise, right. But you know, 1:24:13.439 --> 1:24:15.360 I don't know if I told the story before it 1:24:15.439 --> 1:24:18.040 again got that he invited me to he invited me 1:24:18.120 --> 1:24:20.599 to a correspondence. Then this time he is Barack Obama. 1:24:20.680 --> 1:24:23.000 Barack Obama invited me to a correspondence. Then in New 1:24:23.080 --> 1:24:25.920 York I got there. How many times they searched you, 1:24:26.960 --> 1:24:29.680 They didn't even let me in. They told me I 1:24:29.720 --> 1:24:32.439 couldn't come in and watching trade songs walking Oprah, this 1:24:32.600 --> 1:24:36.400 one that one Kevin lows and I'm just sitting there, Yes, 1:24:36.960 --> 1:24:39.000 I got time for suit on that I spent way 1:24:39.040 --> 1:24:41.120 too much money for. You know what I'm saying, like, 1:24:41.200 --> 1:24:44.240 I'm I'm embarrassed. So I get on the plane. I 1:24:44.360 --> 1:24:46.680 go back to Atlanta on the same night. Long at 1:24:46.680 --> 1:24:48.200 flight ever, because in my mind, I'm like, Yo, what 1:24:48.320 --> 1:24:51.680 the funk happened? I said all these things, And that's 1:24:51.720 --> 1:24:55.599 what really reminded me that I just never ever ever 1:24:55.760 --> 1:24:58.960 lose touch with my people on my core because they 1:24:59.040 --> 1:25:01.680 appointed me, and I'm not always gonna be accepted in 1:25:01.760 --> 1:25:04.599 those likes because I come from to have not send 1:25:04.600 --> 1:25:08.680 the people to the demonize. However, I'm in London, I'm 1:25:08.720 --> 1:25:11.760 in Europe on tour, and I get up and my 1:25:11.840 --> 1:25:14.479 mom keep calling me. I'm like, what's going on? She's like, 1:25:14.560 --> 1:25:16.479 did you hear what the President said about you? So 1:25:16.600 --> 1:25:19.439 the correspondents dinner with him, and Trump had those words. 1:25:20.120 --> 1:25:23.880 He said, my first term, I went without green. My 1:25:24.000 --> 1:25:27.200 second term, I'm going with young z Z. So that 1:25:27.320 --> 1:25:28.920 was his way of giving me a little shout out 1:25:29.360 --> 1:25:31.760 because I forgot that my best friend used to be 1:25:31.840 --> 1:25:34.800 meat and I used to be. I'm saying, so I can't, 1:25:35.080 --> 1:25:38.800 I can't just stand beside you and you know and 1:25:39.040 --> 1:25:41.400 co signed you. So shout out to Barack Obama for that, 1:25:41.680 --> 1:25:43.439 and he still owes me a conversation, by the way. 1:25:43.439 --> 1:25:45.519 So I'm gonna just put that on out there. And 1:25:45.600 --> 1:25:47.360 I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of people 1:25:47.400 --> 1:25:49.080 at the White House. My man Rick Ross had a 1:25:49.160 --> 1:25:50.920 leg monitor. I'm like, what the hell is going on? 1:25:53.760 --> 1:26:01.639 I got a clean slate ung in there? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, 1:26:01.840 --> 1:26:06.160 did that be hard Obama? What's what's this? What's his name? 1:26:06.240 --> 1:26:11.240 They called him? What's his nickname? Barry? Barry bring your 1:26:11.280 --> 1:26:18.760 assid drink Camps. I'm working with divided and Barries just 1:26:18.800 --> 1:26:21.960 makes you a yeah. Yeah. You guys hosting that day, 1:26:23.400 --> 1:26:25.880 you had like a political show, like you was wearing 1:26:25.920 --> 1:26:29.120 turtlenecks and all that. Yeah, it was interviewing house. Like 1:26:29.560 --> 1:26:35.760 I said, Jesus you loafs. Yeah, taking it there? So 1:26:35.920 --> 1:26:37.600 what what was it? What was it? What was you? 1:26:37.760 --> 1:26:44.000 You was doing your black Chuckerson. I just think you 1:26:44.120 --> 1:26:45.519 so what it is? Don't you know what it is? 1:26:45.600 --> 1:26:49.120 Don't know? Like when you get knowledge from other people 1:26:49.200 --> 1:26:51.280 and you just start to understand your position in it, 1:26:51.960 --> 1:26:53.639 I'm gonna go all in, like I'm not a half 1:26:53.680 --> 1:26:55.760 for your person. But when I felt like I was 1:26:55.800 --> 1:26:58.200 helping the coach and helping the people, I'm gonna do that. 1:26:58.600 --> 1:27:00.280 You know what I'm saying, Whether you ran or walking, 1:27:00.320 --> 1:27:02.720 I'm with you, whatever I could do. But then I 1:27:02.800 --> 1:27:07.200 started to get in and realize, you know, the politics 1:27:07.360 --> 1:27:11.320 is like the craziest things ever You never it's worth. Yeah, 1:27:11.360 --> 1:27:17.000 it's worse than wrap. Yeah yeah, because I mean other 1:27:17.040 --> 1:27:20.479 than different prisons. But you nobody's ever telling you the truth. 1:27:21.200 --> 1:27:22.760 You know what I'm saying, Like it no matter where 1:27:22.800 --> 1:27:25.280 you're staying, it's not right. You know what I'm saying, 1:27:25.320 --> 1:27:30.240 It's just not right. And I still support people here 1:27:30.320 --> 1:27:32.519 and there, but I don't try to go I don't 1:27:32.560 --> 1:27:35.360 do the loafers no more for them, it's the state 1:27:35.479 --> 1:27:40.600 matter whatever. I'm not doing that. But you know it 1:27:40.680 --> 1:27:44.479 hurt my feelings because my people trust me, you know 1:27:44.520 --> 1:27:46.160 what I'm saying, Like when I'm going to these hoods 1:27:46.200 --> 1:27:48.559 and knocking door the door to get people to vote 1:27:48.560 --> 1:27:50.439 and doing all these things, like they trust me. They're 1:27:50.439 --> 1:27:52.880 like yo jeezy, Like yeah, I'm gonna vote. So it's 1:27:52.920 --> 1:27:56.400 just like, you know, even with Biden, like it was 1:27:56.479 --> 1:27:58.120 just tricky for me because it's just I just know 1:27:58.200 --> 1:27:59.680 all the things he promised, but then I have to 1:27:59.720 --> 1:28:02.839 rein myself that there's no one man that can help everybody. 1:28:03.360 --> 1:28:05.240 I can't even help everybody around me. So it's just 1:28:05.320 --> 1:28:09.160 like you almost setting yourself up fulfilling because you have expectations, 1:28:09.720 --> 1:28:11.320 you know what I'm saying. I'm saying it's like that 1:28:11.439 --> 1:28:14.160 woman in that White House isn't really controlling. No, he's 1:28:14.160 --> 1:28:16.400 not even telling the people, you know, it's more so 1:28:17.560 --> 1:28:21.400 he walked. It's a different thing. He might need some 1:28:21.479 --> 1:28:26.880 of them zeesy local little medical No, but no one's 1:28:26.880 --> 1:28:28.719 seen this for this where they're like, was the president 1:28:28.760 --> 1:28:30.880 of the right? He clearly he just goes the math 1:28:30.920 --> 1:28:36.880 footage of him shake hands and nobody Yeah yeah, yeah, 1:28:37.200 --> 1:28:46.600 looks like you're not. I mean, clearly it's not I 1:28:46.680 --> 1:28:50.000 mean at this point, but it would be able to 1:28:50.080 --> 1:28:52.920 see Kamala Harris, like you know what I mean, I'm 1:28:52.960 --> 1:28:56.280 not saying I'm wish it and then oh night seeing 1:28:56.320 --> 1:29:01.160 her be the first Yeah, like the one person. I 1:29:01.240 --> 1:29:03.360 do feel like it's genuine, know, if I'm honest, it's like, 1:29:03.520 --> 1:29:05.439 I don't know why, but just every time I ever 1:29:06.160 --> 1:29:08.600 been in the president so just even had something for 1:29:08.680 --> 1:29:16.439 her team, it's Michelle Obama President. Feel like she's like 1:29:17.080 --> 1:29:19.920 she get it right, you know what? Yeah, she like 1:29:21.240 --> 1:29:22.360 you know what I mean, it's just like you know, 1:29:22.439 --> 1:29:25.120 when you see a woman that's really like you know, 1:29:25.320 --> 1:29:29.000 and and by the way, like mont I get the 1:29:29.120 --> 1:29:31.600 Rocks PROCs too, because it's like, it's hard to be 1:29:31.680 --> 1:29:34.280 the first the first black president and the most powerful 1:29:34.360 --> 1:29:35.680 man in the world. What do you have to go 1:29:35.800 --> 1:29:37.400 through to get to that? Not even that you don't 1:29:37.400 --> 1:29:41.080 have no scandal, No, ain't no, ain't no scandal. And 1:29:41.160 --> 1:29:44.240 props to Michelle for that as well. Yeah, he probably 1:29:44.280 --> 1:29:46.760 knows she don't play. But yeah, and that's probably why 1:29:46.800 --> 1:29:49.040 she's so real because she wouldn't run in that field 1:29:49.040 --> 1:29:50.280 because she knows she don't want to be a part 1:29:50.320 --> 1:29:52.160 of that part of that. Yeah, I mean, I ain't 1:29:52.160 --> 1:29:54.240 gonna lie to I kind of because my man wouldn't. 1:29:54.240 --> 1:29:56.280 They're looking, you know, he came out Yeah great, Yeah, yeah, 1:29:56.880 --> 1:30:00.479 I don't what's that? Don't know. But at the end 1:30:00.479 --> 1:30:02.160 of the day, like if you kind of look at 1:30:02.200 --> 1:30:05.240 the history, you know, you exclude Barack Obama only because 1:30:05.280 --> 1:30:11.000 he handled himself presidentally and as a high value black man. Um, 1:30:11.479 --> 1:30:15.479 who's really who really done it? Like? Who really done 1:30:15.520 --> 1:30:17.680 it for us? Like? Who who do you feel has 1:30:17.720 --> 1:30:20.479 been the best president? I would say when when Reagan 1:30:20.600 --> 1:30:22.920 was in, they say the streets was cracking through, but 1:30:23.000 --> 1:30:30.439 that was illegally through. But then he just started the 1:30:30.479 --> 1:30:35.960 war on drugs too. Yeah, again and again, I was told. 1:30:36.040 --> 1:30:37.519 I was told one thing. You know what I'm saying, 1:30:37.560 --> 1:30:39.240 we can go, you know, back and forth. But I 1:30:39.320 --> 1:30:41.840 was told one thing very young, you never talked to 1:30:41.880 --> 1:30:44.400 people about religion and politics. You know what I mean? 1:30:44.680 --> 1:30:46.600 For me, I just social media blew that up and 1:30:46.880 --> 1:30:50.880 everybody just like Sleepless the movies. Yeah, what is it 1:30:50.960 --> 1:30:55.519 called sleepless the movies? The movie? Um, sleepless sleepers. You 1:30:55.600 --> 1:30:58.519 know I learned that about being locked up? Yeah yeah, yeah, 1:30:58.520 --> 1:31:01.200 that's the most drop. The first you don't talk about 1:31:01.240 --> 1:31:06.880 talk about religion politics But Atlanta, right though, I know, 1:31:07.120 --> 1:31:09.759 but this is a political question. I feel like Atlanta 1:31:09.760 --> 1:31:11.720 should be the first city were like killing Mike is 1:31:11.760 --> 1:31:20.000 the the governor, Jesus, the fucking mayor, city council smoke. 1:31:21.960 --> 1:31:26.200 But contrary to people's beliefs. Killer Mike is one of 1:31:26.240 --> 1:31:32.480 the most intelligent Black man I've ever talked. He's encyclopedia. 1:31:32.640 --> 1:31:35.720 He's like he knows his ship. Yeah, you know what 1:31:35.760 --> 1:31:38.200 I'm saying. And he's solid, we know that. But he 1:31:38.320 --> 1:31:44.880 knows anything historical about any government. He's consistent with That's 1:31:44.920 --> 1:31:47.559 who he is. Um. But at the end of the day, 1:31:47.640 --> 1:31:51.160 like we don't try everything else. So I think, so, 1:31:51.360 --> 1:31:54.800 I know, I feel like he should running at this. Yeah. 1:31:54.800 --> 1:31:56.360 I feel like I feel like Killer Mike could be 1:31:56.479 --> 1:31:59.360 the mayor of Atlanta. You know how dope is that 1:31:59.479 --> 1:32:05.040 to be like the mayor of killer I'm going out there. 1:32:05.040 --> 1:32:08.720 I'm getting apartment just about right to be there. I 1:32:08.880 --> 1:32:10.960 love Atlanta or Atlanta is the only place where you 1:32:11.000 --> 1:32:12.960 can come from anywhere and be anybody you want to be. 1:32:13.360 --> 1:32:16.720 It's so much opportunity there, um, and I think that's 1:32:16.760 --> 1:32:18.400 what makes it special, you know what I'm saying. So 1:32:18.479 --> 1:32:20.960 I wouldn't be surprised if one day we look up 1:32:21.000 --> 1:32:25.519 and it's something like that. But you ain't in the policy, man, 1:32:25.560 --> 1:32:27.679 I got, I got. I'm too honest, man, I'm gonna 1:32:27.680 --> 1:32:30.639 tell the truth. You know what I'm saying. It's gonna work. 1:32:30.760 --> 1:32:33.040 You know what I'm saying. I can't lie. You know, 1:32:33.080 --> 1:32:36.400 I'm always be transparent, so and I wouldn't even want 1:32:36.880 --> 1:32:40.439 that burden. I feel like what I do um in 1:32:40.600 --> 1:32:44.240 real life, it's a little bit of that because I 1:32:44.280 --> 1:32:46.639 could touch those people when a lot of people can't, 1:32:46.640 --> 1:32:48.960 and they trust me, you know what I'm saying, because 1:32:49.160 --> 1:32:51.680 of my anteguty and my values and my morals, but 1:32:51.840 --> 1:32:56.680 also being jeezy like who I am, I can get 1:32:56.720 --> 1:32:59.040 anything done in my city, you know what I'm saying. 1:32:59.040 --> 1:33:00.840 I'm saying, and I'd rather had that because I don't 1:33:00.880 --> 1:33:03.400 need no Grammys and wars and none of that. But 1:33:03.439 --> 1:33:05.559 as long as I got respect and I can move 1:33:05.600 --> 1:33:08.000 around my seat and people treat me like it's such 1:33:08.360 --> 1:33:10.720 as somebody that really put in work, and somebody's out 1:33:10.760 --> 1:33:13.400 here really thriving and striving and show people that what 1:33:13.520 --> 1:33:15.360 you can do, and that's all I need. I think 1:33:15.479 --> 1:33:19.720 being a politician would make you totally like you have 1:33:19.880 --> 1:33:22.519 to choose between the money and the people. I don't 1:33:22.560 --> 1:33:24.280 ever want to be in that situationause I'm always gonna 1:33:24.320 --> 1:33:26.920 chose people. Well, do you see this like new Black preachers, 1:33:27.000 --> 1:33:36.519 these niggas hood yeah, they got better than us. Rose Races. 1:33:37.680 --> 1:33:42.040 He had nothing in his closet. You know, he's opress. 1:33:42.360 --> 1:33:45.439 He's an impressed run like it's crazy like that. They 1:33:45.439 --> 1:33:47.240 have a press conference. You hear the press comperence and 1:33:47.280 --> 1:33:50.640 all that. We like this, it's ship is different now. 1:33:51.160 --> 1:33:53.439 But like the music, jeez, I'm not gonna lie to you. 1:33:54.200 --> 1:33:56.680 I didn't when when I'm sitting around with the young 1:33:56.760 --> 1:33:59.439 homies and they're breaking down me this new music or 1:33:59.479 --> 1:34:03.240 what's going on, and these guys basically telling on themselves. 1:34:03.680 --> 1:34:06.880 Like if you notice when we was making music like that, 1:34:07.320 --> 1:34:10.120 there was no names being mentioned, there was no blocks. 1:34:10.200 --> 1:34:14.040 It was like we're saying pretty much your imagination, you 1:34:14.160 --> 1:34:17.479 take the rest of it. They're not like that right now. There. Well, 1:34:17.600 --> 1:34:20.439 well let me say this because in the beginning I 1:34:20.520 --> 1:34:23.439 went through a lot of that too, because I was 1:34:23.920 --> 1:34:26.120 I'm not a carpenter, I'm not a mechanic, I'm not 1:34:26.200 --> 1:34:28.840 a roofer. I can't tell you nothing about those things. 1:34:28.920 --> 1:34:30.599 But I am a hustling. I come from the streets, 1:34:31.120 --> 1:34:32.880 you know what I'm saying. But when I was telling 1:34:32.920 --> 1:34:35.800 people what I was experiencing, what I was going through, 1:34:36.600 --> 1:34:40.280 it kind of felt like Drossnitch. I'm saying it wasn't 1:34:40.439 --> 1:34:43.519 because original Gangster Rapp would would have been like they say, 1:34:43.560 --> 1:34:45.880 it's a cautionary time. Well when you say hit the bricks, 1:34:45.960 --> 1:34:50.320 hit the lights, will they go to bricks? You know 1:34:50.439 --> 1:34:52.800 some people still has that like that, you know what 1:34:52.800 --> 1:34:56.160 I'm saying. So, but for me, it was my truth. 1:34:56.920 --> 1:34:58.400 And then you know, I think a lot of the 1:34:58.479 --> 1:35:01.479 things that I was saying, the guys who were already up, 1:35:02.320 --> 1:35:03.880 they felt it. But a lot of the guys who 1:35:03.960 --> 1:35:05.960 was trying to come up, like damn, like basically you're 1:35:06.000 --> 1:35:09.439 giving them the blueprint. But it was about survival for me, 1:35:09.600 --> 1:35:11.240 you know what I'm saying. That's all I really knew, 1:35:11.720 --> 1:35:13.280 you know what I'm saying. So it was nothing that's 1:35:13.360 --> 1:35:15.080 I can really say, Like I couldn't what I was 1:35:15.120 --> 1:35:17.880 gonna talk about, like I'm not. That's funny as hell 1:35:17.920 --> 1:35:21.120 because my first album, The War Report, after that, people 1:35:21.200 --> 1:35:22.400 had to come to me and say, you know, you 1:35:22.479 --> 1:35:25.840 could imagine some of this ship like you know, I 1:35:25.920 --> 1:35:29.000 didn't have to. You didn't imagine it. I didn't mean 1:35:30.600 --> 1:35:33.240 what you knew about that. I swear to God, Patchwork 1:35:33.360 --> 1:35:36.519 Studio the same thing. But I never forget. I'm working 1:35:36.600 --> 1:35:40.599 on thug motivation. T I comes to the studio, I'm 1:35:40.600 --> 1:35:42.240 sitting in the studio. He'll tell you if you have 1:35:42.360 --> 1:35:45.400 something accent, you know, I'm doing my thug thing. I 1:35:45.479 --> 1:35:48.360 probably got about two point five in the booth sitting 1:35:48.400 --> 1:35:50.360 with me. I'm sitting, I got the machine going everything, 1:35:50.400 --> 1:35:52.040 and I never forget. He came in there where I was, 1:35:52.120 --> 1:35:53.960 and he looked in. He's like, you know, Ledge was second. 1:35:54.360 --> 1:35:55.880 So he took me in the hallway. We walked in 1:35:55.960 --> 1:35:59.000 the bathroom. I'm like, we're in the bathroom. I just 1:35:59.120 --> 1:36:00.800 want to talk to you. You know how Tip is 1:36:00.840 --> 1:36:08.760 EI look under the stalls and everything likes and he goes, yo, 1:36:10.000 --> 1:36:12.560 you know you can't do both, right, Like what do 1:36:12.600 --> 1:36:15.320 you mean? He's like, you can't wrap and do what 1:36:15.439 --> 1:36:18.920 you're doing, because he said, and you're talented, you're gonna 1:36:19.000 --> 1:36:22.479 you're gonna blow at some point. And if you continue 1:36:22.520 --> 1:36:23.960 to do what you're doing, you know what I'm saying, 1:36:24.120 --> 1:36:25.519 I don't know how it's gonna work out for you. 1:36:26.439 --> 1:36:28.720 And I looked at him and say, with ship, but 1:36:28.760 --> 1:36:30.880 don't you do both because you're like you the rubber bandman. 1:36:31.000 --> 1:36:34.040 It's like, hell, no, you know, I left that alone 1:36:34.080 --> 1:36:36.840 a long time ago, and for me, it was like 1:36:37.240 --> 1:36:38.800 that was a real wake up call, you know what 1:36:38.840 --> 1:36:41.680 I'm saying, because I remember shortly after that, you know, 1:36:41.720 --> 1:36:43.840 I was having a lot of nightmares about you know, 1:36:44.040 --> 1:36:46.760 just trying to make it and this is one last thing. 1:36:46.840 --> 1:36:48.400 And I got caught up. And you know, I was 1:36:48.439 --> 1:36:50.559 losing a lot of weight because at the time Thud 1:36:50.640 --> 1:36:53.679 Motivation was coming out. You know, everybody started getting indicted 1:36:53.720 --> 1:36:55.760 and going to prison, like especially everybody was hanging out 1:36:55.800 --> 1:36:58.120 with So it's like a real dark time and I'm drinking, 1:36:58.160 --> 1:37:00.679 I'm smoking. My mind ain't clear, you know what I'm saying. 1:37:00.680 --> 1:37:02.639 So I'm doing I'm I'm having a lot of mistakes. 1:37:03.240 --> 1:37:05.439 And I just remember T was voicing my head saying that, 1:37:06.520 --> 1:37:08.040 and I remember I had this. I had like these 1:37:08.080 --> 1:37:10.759 two next tell phones, these churchs. It was like the photons, 1:37:10.960 --> 1:37:13.360 you know what I'm saying saying, And I rolled down 1:37:13.400 --> 1:37:15.000 the street one day and just do them out the window. 1:37:16.200 --> 1:37:20.080 I was done. That's like I was. I was like done. 1:37:20.439 --> 1:37:21.960 When I would see people in the street, they're like yo, 1:37:22.040 --> 1:37:23.880 and then owe your money coming, I'm like, no, you 1:37:23.960 --> 1:37:28.679 wan't mean nothing. Keep that I'm saying, live your life, 1:37:29.080 --> 1:37:31.680 I'm gonna do this, And it was so funny that 1:37:31.760 --> 1:37:33.479 people that I was really trying to be a rapper, 1:37:34.120 --> 1:37:36.000 like you wouldn't know how many homies laughed at me. 1:37:36.880 --> 1:37:40.000 I thought it was funny. And I never forget when 1:37:40.000 --> 1:37:42.519 I got that first deal and I got that first 1:37:44.439 --> 1:37:46.680 when them boys came on the radio, and then I 1:37:46.760 --> 1:37:49.880 was yeah, I was warming up and everything was happening. 1:37:51.200 --> 1:37:55.400 It was god, man, because there it wasn't me, you 1:37:55.439 --> 1:37:57.479 know what I'm saying. I wasn't doing anything different. I 1:37:57.560 --> 1:38:00.800 was just sticking to my guns and doing what I love. 1:38:01.280 --> 1:38:03.880 But it was all starting to happen. And the minute 1:38:03.880 --> 1:38:06.320 everybody started getting indicted it when I started blowing up, 1:38:06.800 --> 1:38:08.639 and it was like the craziest thing ever. Bro. It's 1:38:08.640 --> 1:38:11.160 just like I was like that, I'm supposed to be here, 1:38:11.520 --> 1:38:14.040 you know what I'm saying, and you know, shout out 1:38:14.080 --> 1:38:18.280 to that man, shout out to the big homie. Actually, 1:38:18.280 --> 1:38:21.680 so no, no, no, this is something even ella um 1:38:21.720 --> 1:38:23.840 I want to take a shot to it too. Woh. 1:38:24.600 --> 1:38:27.040 But g Herbo just dropped the album from the Vibers 1:38:27.120 --> 1:38:31.519 or More Yes, and it's something that's very very real, 1:38:31.960 --> 1:38:35.559 real because we all deal with that, because I'm sure 1:38:35.640 --> 1:38:39.439 you was a part of a bunch of different people. 1:38:40.520 --> 1:38:42.840 You're one of the thirty that probably made it, one 1:38:42.880 --> 1:38:47.640 of the hundreds that probably made it. At me, I 1:38:47.800 --> 1:38:50.160 just want to award right, that's right, don't forget that. 1:38:53.160 --> 1:38:55.200 And it was weird to me because I got a 1:38:55.280 --> 1:38:58.080 lot of calls. I got a lot of unnecessary calls 1:38:58.120 --> 1:39:00.960 that I never got before. And it started to start 1:39:01.080 --> 1:39:03.640 the dawn on me that it's like, damn, some of 1:39:03.720 --> 1:39:08.000 these calls I actually take because I have survivor's remorse. 1:39:08.200 --> 1:39:11.080 I'm like, damn, this guy, whatever be in my position, 1:39:11.439 --> 1:39:14.160 this guy. So this guy asked me for something I love. Yeah, yeah, 1:39:14.320 --> 1:39:16.200 I'm doing it. But I'm like, damn, this is too 1:39:16.320 --> 1:39:19.439 much for me. Have you ever dealt with that? Man? 1:39:20.439 --> 1:39:26.360 That's my whole story. You got stressed. I'm gonna take 1:39:26.360 --> 1:39:29.120 a shop for that. Come on, you should have seen 1:39:29.200 --> 1:39:34.400 your own face? Are solo sulo? I made At one point, 1:39:34.439 --> 1:39:36.719 I had my whole neighborhood living in my house. Jesus, 1:39:36.800 --> 1:39:38.760 my first man and I had my whole neighborhood lived. 1:39:38.760 --> 1:39:41.200 There was an open door, sixty seventy people in at 1:39:41.240 --> 1:39:43.680 the time. You know, what I'm saying. It was loose Jesus, Yes, 1:39:43.800 --> 1:39:45.519 yeah I was. I was, but but I just felt 1:39:45.560 --> 1:39:47.960 like when you from the hood, you really want to 1:39:48.040 --> 1:39:50.519 go to take everybody, put everybody on that was my 1:39:53.280 --> 1:39:57.920 and then um, you know, and as you start paying 1:39:57.960 --> 1:40:01.040 the law suits and things are happening, things are coming 1:40:01.120 --> 1:40:04.400 up missing, and nobody's taking responsibility. Everything is on you. 1:40:05.400 --> 1:40:06.880 You know what I'm saying, You're just like, wow, you 1:40:06.920 --> 1:40:09.599 know what I'm saying. You bound, people calls about watches, 1:40:10.240 --> 1:40:12.560 people passing on your toilet, all that ship, you know, 1:40:12.840 --> 1:40:16.320 and you're coming in and it's just like you still 1:40:16.400 --> 1:40:20.600 feel alone, you know what I'm saying. And then you know, 1:40:20.880 --> 1:40:25.320 I have a gift of being able to visualize where 1:40:25.360 --> 1:40:28.400 I need to be and what's the best way to 1:40:28.479 --> 1:40:33.440 get there from A to C without compromising my integrity, 1:40:34.200 --> 1:40:38.920 And every time I took a step towards that, I 1:40:39.000 --> 1:40:42.680 would see how people around me would react, you know 1:40:42.720 --> 1:40:44.639 what I'm saying. And it's just like, as the money 1:40:44.680 --> 1:40:47.000 start coming in, you know what money now, it's like 1:40:47.120 --> 1:40:51.160 you like everyone. Yeah, everyone's saying like almost like you 1:40:51.280 --> 1:40:55.320 like food, because you can't go by just for yourself 1:40:56.040 --> 1:40:59.840 without making sure you know what I'm saying, Like so 1:41:00.200 --> 1:41:02.720 it would be that way, and then it just went 1:41:02.800 --> 1:41:04.960 on for so long, like years and years and years, 1:41:05.400 --> 1:41:06.960 and I'm like, yo, what's going on. It was the 1:41:07.080 --> 1:41:10.320 last time that I got locked up in l A 1:41:10.520 --> 1:41:14.320 on tour, and I remember just had my a year 1:41:14.320 --> 1:41:17.600 old daughter and I got locked up on the Whiskalifa 1:41:17.680 --> 1:41:20.400 tour on the murder. They tried to put on me 1:41:21.240 --> 1:41:23.040 that I had they found the gun and your toy 1:41:23.120 --> 1:41:27.360 bus or something. Yeah, I found several, but none of 1:41:27.400 --> 1:41:29.840 them had my finger prints on. Right, So now I'm 1:41:29.880 --> 1:41:33.920 in the l A County jail and I ain't nobody 1:41:34.000 --> 1:41:36.320 taking care of my people, you know what I'm saying. 1:41:36.320 --> 1:41:40.120 I got ten people with me. It's a million dollar 1:41:40.240 --> 1:41:42.560 bill for everybody that women. They wanted to let you go. 1:41:42.920 --> 1:41:46.360 I think they came. They came to get me out, 1:41:46.720 --> 1:41:49.479 But I'm like, these people that are with me, they're 1:41:49.520 --> 1:41:53.439 not criminals. This is my staff. So of course I 1:41:53.439 --> 1:41:55.320 don't want to tell nobody how to get my paper, 1:41:56.120 --> 1:41:57.960 but I don't want to lead him here. So I 1:41:58.040 --> 1:42:00.400 stayed in there until I was able to well, I 1:42:00.479 --> 1:42:02.400 went out right and get everybody out the way we 1:42:02.479 --> 1:42:05.639 came in. But what I noticed is when I came out, 1:42:06.280 --> 1:42:09.320 I was mad at the world. I was depressed, I 1:42:09.479 --> 1:42:11.920 was angry, and I was really angry at the people 1:42:12.000 --> 1:42:15.000 that was with me because nobody did anything for the 1:42:15.080 --> 1:42:18.000 people I love. And that's when I made the decision 1:42:18.120 --> 1:42:21.439 that which was the hardest decision in my life, as 1:42:21.479 --> 1:42:23.559 I'm gonna walk alone, and that's what you're talking about. 1:42:24.720 --> 1:42:28.080 And every since then, it's just like it's me. Of course, 1:42:28.120 --> 1:42:30.920 I got people around me that I love, and you know, 1:42:31.080 --> 1:42:33.000 my staff and people that work with me and the 1:42:33.080 --> 1:42:35.639 people that I employed because we had the same vision. 1:42:36.240 --> 1:42:38.599 But as far just keeping people around the safe face, 1:42:39.240 --> 1:42:41.639 I can't do that anymore. Can that bring too much 1:42:41.680 --> 1:42:45.599 bad energy? And it's just like I don't need bad energy. Well, 1:42:45.680 --> 1:42:47.200 what I'm trying to do with my life, it's just like, 1:42:47.320 --> 1:42:49.840 you don't want that. And I feel g Herber because 1:42:49.840 --> 1:42:52.639 he's a kid from Chicago. It's going through some real things. 1:42:52.680 --> 1:42:55.280 You can tell that he's beyond the star. Yeah, so 1:42:55.400 --> 1:43:02.720 he's only said his knowledge is crazy. And when I 1:43:02.760 --> 1:43:06.200 started being around people that, you know, they really wanted 1:43:06.200 --> 1:43:08.880 to see me win or connect me with people that 1:43:09.720 --> 1:43:11.880 I really couldn't get in the room with That's when 1:43:11.920 --> 1:43:13.880 I started to see like, oh, there are people out 1:43:13.920 --> 1:43:16.360 there in the world. They're good people. You know what 1:43:16.400 --> 1:43:18.360 I'm saying, They're good people. Know what I'm saying, Like, 1:43:18.400 --> 1:43:20.479 I don't want to be nowhere in the situation from man, 1:43:21.120 --> 1:43:23.000 I got to sleep with two clocks, you know what 1:43:23.000 --> 1:43:25.160 I'm saying. Because the homies down still, I don't know 1:43:25.439 --> 1:43:27.000 what I'm like, you know what i mean, feel away 1:43:27.040 --> 1:43:29.720 about this or that, and I love my I love 1:43:29.800 --> 1:43:32.519 my my own boys. But it's just like we didn't 1:43:32.520 --> 1:43:34.800 have the same vision. We didn't want to be the 1:43:34.840 --> 1:43:44.240 same place. My palette is different, like yeah, like yeah, 1:43:45.120 --> 1:43:48.040 I'm with you, with you, So it's just like now 1:43:48.120 --> 1:43:51.880 you're weird, like different music now, you know what I'm saying. 1:43:51.960 --> 1:43:57.600 I'm like getting up in the store listening. It's just 1:43:57.680 --> 1:43:59.519 like he's bucking you know what I'm saying. You know, 1:43:59.680 --> 1:44:02.880 So now I'm I'm eating healthy, I'm taking care of myself. 1:44:02.880 --> 1:44:05.559 I lost sixty pounds. You know, where's all the gangsters 1:44:05.600 --> 1:44:07.680 in the front row? Now is women throwing pantis at me? 1:44:07.720 --> 1:44:09.960 I ain't going back, you know what I'm saying. I'm like, yo, 1:44:10.040 --> 1:44:14.479 this is it. And it wasn't until so imagine everything 1:44:15.160 --> 1:44:18.519 everybody at work I put out into the recession. It's 1:44:18.560 --> 1:44:23.240 when I told myself that you're still free, you're still alive, 1:44:23.680 --> 1:44:25.320 You're ad meant to be you'd meant to be a star. 1:44:25.880 --> 1:44:29.080 And that's when I started kind of sitting the access. 1:44:29.600 --> 1:44:32.360 But then when I got to what happened in um 1:44:32.960 --> 1:44:36.000 the Bay, that's when I really said, I'm not even 1:44:36.080 --> 1:44:38.880 gonna try to save face anymore. You know, I love y'all, 1:44:39.160 --> 1:44:41.320 and I can take care of people from a distance. 1:44:41.640 --> 1:44:44.200 You don't have to be with me every day for 1:44:44.439 --> 1:44:46.760 you to feel to love because we're not on the 1:44:46.840 --> 1:44:48.840 same path, you know what I'm saying. And that's that 1:44:49.000 --> 1:44:52.519 was the realization. And I'm not disrespect to anyone because 1:44:52.520 --> 1:44:56.600 I love everyone. But that's when my piece began. You 1:44:56.600 --> 1:44:58.400 know what I'm saying. I can see it. And if 1:44:58.400 --> 1:45:01.120 people love you, they want you to grow. Yeah, but 1:45:01.200 --> 1:45:03.479 then sometimes people are scared if you go, you're gonna 1:45:03.560 --> 1:45:05.880 leave the maham. You know what I'm saying, And that's 1:45:05.920 --> 1:45:08.200 like the most dangerous. That's why I think real Fresh 1:45:08.240 --> 1:45:11.000 ain't here. God what I'm saying, that's why Vonne ain't here. 1:45:11.920 --> 1:45:13.800 You know what I'm saying, that's why Adobe ain't here, 1:45:14.439 --> 1:45:16.160 That's why they're not That's why two PACs not you 1:45:17.240 --> 1:45:19.080 what I'm saying, that's why Big is not here, like 1:45:19.240 --> 1:45:22.479 because somebody was like, no, you can't go. You know 1:45:22.520 --> 1:45:24.760 what I'm saying, You really just think, I mean, come on, 1:45:24.800 --> 1:45:28.120 that's why Nipcy Hustle ain't here. Think about that. Hussle 1:45:28.160 --> 1:45:31.040 ain't do nothing but good. But he stayed in the hood, 1:45:31.439 --> 1:45:35.320 invested in his own book. There that felt like, I 1:45:35.479 --> 1:45:37.599 don't want to see you go anything. Try to lead 1:45:37.640 --> 1:45:39.880 by example, right, And that was that. But we spoke 1:45:39.920 --> 1:45:44.000 about our presidents black and what we did touch on 1:45:44.080 --> 1:45:46.439 is that nozzles on that record, Yes, but at one 1:45:46.479 --> 1:45:50.280 point now have at least the album called Dead. At 1:45:50.360 --> 1:45:52.919 this time, Atlanta is at the top of the motherfucker 1:45:54.000 --> 1:45:57.840 So I knew what Naz was insinuating. But he was saying, 1:45:57.960 --> 1:46:01.120 you know, the ethics of hip hop, but Atlanta being 1:46:01.200 --> 1:46:03.719 so at the forefront of the game, it almost felt 1:46:03.760 --> 1:46:08.360 like Atlanta. This shot was directed towards Atlanta, and you 1:46:08.520 --> 1:46:11.400 was wanting to as a whole with two stories. I 1:46:11.479 --> 1:46:15.479 met a nas in one twelve bathroom, just bathroom. I 1:46:15.560 --> 1:46:16.880 was in there with all my change, A lot of 1:46:16.880 --> 1:46:23.080 bathroom stories. Yeah, no, no, Once twelve the club's historical, 1:46:23.120 --> 1:46:25.320 and I met him in the bathroom, you know, bathroom 1:46:25.880 --> 1:46:29.559 the thing saying I'm not your jeez, You're like, yeah, 1:46:29.800 --> 1:46:31.720 what's up? But I kind of felt like, you know 1:46:31.720 --> 1:46:33.639 what I'm saying, Like you give me what I wanted, 1:46:33.720 --> 1:46:35.360 you know what I'm saying. So I was like, oh, 1:46:35.479 --> 1:46:37.920 you don't know me, So i'mnna use that for motivation. 1:46:38.760 --> 1:46:40.560 So when I finally got on, I'm on death to 1:46:40.640 --> 1:46:42.280 him on the same I think it was on death 1:46:42.400 --> 1:46:44.200 him at the time, I'm on the same label you 1:46:44.320 --> 1:46:48.559 on and I'm popping. So when I heard hip hop 1:46:48.680 --> 1:46:53.080 is dead, I immediately felt like, you know, like you 1:46:53.200 --> 1:46:59.240 basically saying because I'm on now, right, So they baited 1:46:59.360 --> 1:47:01.200 me in there's what do you think about? What he's said? 1:47:01.400 --> 1:47:04.800 Was like, ain't never bust this gun. I'm just going in. 1:47:05.640 --> 1:47:07.840 But I don't even know him, you know what I'm saying. 1:47:08.040 --> 1:47:11.679 And the craziest thing is there's a lot of people 1:47:11.720 --> 1:47:14.719 in this game that I don't have respect for because 1:47:15.040 --> 1:47:18.320 it's all of aacide. It's all about the money, it's 1:47:18.360 --> 1:47:21.120 all about the cloud, it's all about you know what 1:47:21.280 --> 1:47:25.559 they want you to believe. But the more conversations nas 1:47:25.640 --> 1:47:29.479 than I had, I feel like he's hip hop's a 1:47:29.560 --> 1:47:32.040 leap because he is the big home. But how does 1:47:32.080 --> 1:47:35.880 this conversation start from you disagreeing with his state? Because 1:47:35.920 --> 1:47:38.439 how you handle me? He called me? He said, Yo, 1:47:38.520 --> 1:47:41.320 what's up? You know? He called me, so so you 1:47:41.400 --> 1:47:44.560 go go crazy on on my phone? So calm. I 1:47:44.640 --> 1:47:46.479 was ready to go to war, but I was ready 1:47:46.520 --> 1:47:48.439 for him to say something crazy. I just couldn't wait, 1:47:48.479 --> 1:47:50.840 he said. He said, what's up? King? He said peace? King? 1:47:50.960 --> 1:47:52.600 I said, you know what's going on? He was like, 1:47:54.120 --> 1:47:56.320 I can understand why you feel the way you feel, 1:47:56.720 --> 1:47:59.080 and they just kind of walked me through with his 1:47:59.360 --> 1:48:02.240 thought process as wool and I feel so crazy on 1:48:02.320 --> 1:48:04.240 that phone. You know what I'm saying by the top 1:48:04.240 --> 1:48:06.000 of guys like yeah, you know I love your music. 1:48:06.040 --> 1:48:08.360 That's what I'm saying. We all to do a song 1:48:08.479 --> 1:48:11.439 together one day, you know. He was like, yeah, no, 1:48:11.640 --> 1:48:13.519 whatever you want. And when I called him for my 1:48:13.600 --> 1:48:15.720 president is black, he said, I got you. He sent 1:48:15.800 --> 1:48:18.720 that ship back and like and like and pulled up 1:48:18.760 --> 1:48:22.599 in Atlanta in the hood by himself with his driver 1:48:22.800 --> 1:48:26.160 to shoot the video and everything that I've ever done 1:48:26.280 --> 1:48:30.000 in life that was an accomplishment for me. It's like 1:48:30.680 --> 1:48:32.599 a top five people that give me a call. One 1:48:32.680 --> 1:48:36.000 is whole, the other one is not. He always he 1:48:36.200 --> 1:48:38.360 just he hit me the other days like peace King, 1:48:38.680 --> 1:48:41.400 that's it, you know what I'm saying. Or peace King, 1:48:41.479 --> 1:48:45.040 I see, that's it. And and to me, that's what 1:48:45.600 --> 1:48:49.200 leading by leadership is about, because if he would have 1:48:49.240 --> 1:48:52.920 got on my level and match my energy, who knows what, 1:48:55.280 --> 1:48:57.840 but not even just it being all bad, he would 1:48:57.840 --> 1:48:59.840 have still something me to make me be like that 1:49:00.560 --> 1:49:04.120 the next young cats say something about me the water right. 1:49:04.280 --> 1:49:07.599 So now I'm like, oh, yeah, you're not jumping him, 1:49:07.680 --> 1:49:10.320 not jumping at you forced you not to jump at 1:49:10.360 --> 1:49:12.799 like Freddy Gives or somebody else, because now I understand 1:49:12.880 --> 1:49:14.960 the frustration. You know what I'm saying. I'm saying, like 1:49:14.960 --> 1:49:16.960 ivery we all want to be on, we all want 1:49:16.960 --> 1:49:18.920 to be important, we all want to be a significant 1:49:19.000 --> 1:49:20.639 we all know we tellent. I told Freddy to give 1:49:20.720 --> 1:49:23.080 that the day one bro you got you don't even 1:49:23.160 --> 1:49:26.439 need me. Actually I'm in your way, but I'm gonna 1:49:26.439 --> 1:49:28.360 be honest, but I'm in your way, but I got 1:49:28.439 --> 1:49:31.760 too many issues out here. I got bad things that 1:49:31.880 --> 1:49:33.720 I need to iron out because I haven't been there. 1:49:34.240 --> 1:49:35.920 I haven't been the coolest guy with a lot of 1:49:35.960 --> 1:49:38.639 these exects. You know, I'm getting the business. So I'm 1:49:38.680 --> 1:49:41.599 still going off of my past or where I don't 1:49:41.680 --> 1:49:44.439 check these people and they never forgotten. Not in position 1:49:44.520 --> 1:49:46.320 is the powerty like I'm not giving him to deal, 1:49:46.439 --> 1:49:48.439 you know what I'm saying. So it's like I'm hurting you. 1:49:49.960 --> 1:49:52.439 I'm in your way. You got it and he did that. 1:49:52.920 --> 1:49:55.800 You don't look at it right. So let let me. 1:49:56.240 --> 1:50:00.800 You gotta record with Kendrick and J Cole, Kendrick and 1:50:00.880 --> 1:50:07.479 j Cole, Remember I got I got. Kendrick is on there. 1:50:07.600 --> 1:50:10.160 Jay Cole is on there. Okay, So Kendrick is my 1:50:10.280 --> 1:50:14.960 man um. Shout out to Kendrick, he's my guy. Jake 1:50:15.000 --> 1:50:20.120 Coles my guy as well. And I shot Jake cooler 1:50:20.200 --> 1:50:22.920 text sent them the record and he loved it and 1:50:23.000 --> 1:50:25.120 he did it. I was trying to get Kendrick to 1:50:25.200 --> 1:50:26.800 rap on the record, but he said he didn't feel 1:50:26.800 --> 1:50:29.080 it like that, so he would do the hook and uh, 1:50:29.520 --> 1:50:32.160 bread to something what he did and he did it, 1:50:32.439 --> 1:50:36.280 and I put it together and I was like, wow, 1:50:37.240 --> 1:50:40.439 you know because again you know for me, this is 1:50:40.560 --> 1:50:42.920 too hottest young boys. Yeah, now you're the O G 1:50:43.479 --> 1:50:46.760 right And how did you get that? Though? I mean, 1:50:46.800 --> 1:50:48.439 I just I think I out of just out of respect, 1:50:49.160 --> 1:50:50.360 you know what I'm saying. I just think out of 1:50:50.400 --> 1:50:53.000 respect and and and people seeing your visions as well, 1:50:53.200 --> 1:50:55.320 you know what I'm saying. Like, remember Kendrick hit me 1:50:55.360 --> 1:50:58.800 about when his records early on. You see Kendrick new 1:50:58.960 --> 1:51:07.320 dance and he did on stage, Yeah music, man, make 1:51:07.360 --> 1:51:14.960 it feel you know, I felt they do. This is 1:51:15.000 --> 1:51:18.240 a bigger It's just I can't move like he killed it. 1:51:19.320 --> 1:51:22.000 He felt like a South siddle you can put music 1:51:22.120 --> 1:51:27.600 right there right looking like yeah, Now, I just I 1:51:27.720 --> 1:51:29.519 think it's out of respect. I mean even Andre three 1:51:29.520 --> 1:51:31.720 thousand when I we stopped tuning for I do know 1:51:31.800 --> 1:51:35.080 Andre don't really do feature and he was just like, yeah, 1:51:35.560 --> 1:51:38.680 send it, knock it out. Can't pay, Andre, you can't pay. 1:51:39.040 --> 1:51:41.439 It's not about And even when he came out to 1:51:41.640 --> 1:51:45.320 do my tenure anniversary show, and he came out, it 1:51:45.479 --> 1:51:48.479 was like seeing a unicorn. And I remember the greatest 1:51:48.520 --> 1:51:52.800 thing I remember unicorn. I remember seeing him. I was 1:51:53.040 --> 1:51:56.719 twice so for the song. I'm coming downstairs Mr season 1:51:56.880 --> 1:51:59.880 l a the hotel and he said the elevator, like, Dre, 1:52:00.240 --> 1:52:02.280 what's going on? Said and talk fifteen minutes. I got 1:52:02.360 --> 1:52:04.280 this record. He should send it to me, knocks it out. 1:52:05.280 --> 1:52:07.920 This is like fast for or four years later, I'm 1:52:07.960 --> 1:52:11.120 at the same hotel. I'm in a lobby. He's coming 1:52:11.120 --> 1:52:14.479 down the elevator. I'm like, yo, he had a good talk. No, 1:52:14.680 --> 1:52:18.080 he had a flute. I think that that and he said, Um, 1:52:18.160 --> 1:52:20.960 I said, your dream doing this tenure anniversary next week. 1:52:21.439 --> 1:52:23.160 I would love for you to come out. He said, 1:52:23.160 --> 1:52:25.040 give me a number. I'll call you. He called me 1:52:25.160 --> 1:52:28.000 the day before. He's like, I talked to my homies. 1:52:28.040 --> 1:52:30.600 They said I should do this. I said, Yo, you 1:52:30.680 --> 1:52:33.760 gotta come. I had Yeah, I had Um, I had Yeah, 1:52:33.880 --> 1:52:36.800 I had dre um. The list goes on. It was 1:52:36.840 --> 1:52:39.599 crazy and he's like, yeah, I'll do it. He came 1:52:40.040 --> 1:52:46.200 and Drake no, yeah, and Okay, okay, Dre and you 1:52:46.280 --> 1:52:49.799 know boys in the hood. It's crazy. So my ten university. 1:52:49.840 --> 1:52:51.760 He came. He rocked when he walked out. Bro, It's like, 1:52:51.840 --> 1:52:55.320 I think people it took people at least a couple 1:52:55.320 --> 1:53:00.000 of minutes to realize, yeah, he's and it was crazy 1:53:00.000 --> 1:53:02.040 because he wanted to mate with the cord. You know 1:53:02.040 --> 1:53:05.720 what I'm saying, like you wanted. That happened to me 1:53:05.800 --> 1:53:08.280 twice in my carid because when I was on when 1:53:08.320 --> 1:53:11.040 I was on a Blueprint three tour with JA, we 1:53:11.160 --> 1:53:14.120 had Madison Square Garden, right, and all you heard on 1:53:14.200 --> 1:53:16.120 the radio is about little Wayne going to jail for 1:53:16.200 --> 1:53:19.360 his gun chars. That's all you heard, right. So I 1:53:19.400 --> 1:53:22.840 already had Drake and I had Nicki Minas to come 1:53:22.880 --> 1:53:26.920 out on my set right coming into London Hotel in 1:53:27.000 --> 1:53:32.519 New York, and guess who's on the elevator Wayne, And 1:53:32.600 --> 1:53:34.040 I said, damn man, I thought you had to turn 1:53:34.120 --> 1:53:36.640 yourself in today. He said, you never believe this. The 1:53:36.760 --> 1:53:40.880 courthouse flooded, So I gotta turn myself in tomorrow. I said, 1:53:40.920 --> 1:53:43.400 you gotta come out tonight on my set. He said, 1:53:43.600 --> 1:53:47.479 bat I'm there. So I bring Nicki Minaj out during 1:53:47.560 --> 1:53:49.559 my set. I know because I remember Jake peeking behind 1:53:49.600 --> 1:53:51.599 the curtains like what the hell because I'm me JA 1:53:52.080 --> 1:53:53.479 on tour. But I come out in the middle of 1:53:53.600 --> 1:53:55.960 Jay said and do my set and he comes back out. 1:53:56.360 --> 1:53:58.519 Remember j peek behind the courage, like, what the hell 1:53:58.640 --> 1:53:59.960 is going on out there? So I brought a Nick 1:54:00.040 --> 1:54:02.400 him in outs first, and then I brought out Drake, 1:54:03.080 --> 1:54:04.880 and then me and I brought Wayne out and we 1:54:04.960 --> 1:54:07.519 did I'm going in with Drake. And when Wayne came 1:54:07.560 --> 1:54:11.000 out there, man, the whole building was just like it 1:54:11.439 --> 1:54:14.719 was the crazies shit I've seen like as far as shows, 1:54:15.360 --> 1:54:17.920 and I was just like, damn, But the whole thing 1:54:18.200 --> 1:54:21.880 was everybody in New York thought he was in jail. Yeah, 1:54:22.080 --> 1:54:24.400 You's what I'm saying. The elevator is important. If you said, 1:54:24.400 --> 1:54:26.479 somebody come out of the elevator, you know, go ahead 1:54:26.520 --> 1:54:31.880 make that. You know what I mean. Terrible, But you 1:54:32.000 --> 1:54:34.960 got look at the names you're listing. It's like anybody's 1:54:35.000 --> 1:54:40.120 top five. You got Wayne Kendrick that you didn't work with. 1:54:40.200 --> 1:54:42.080 I would love. I would have loved work with Pocket 1:54:42.120 --> 1:54:45.040 before he passed. But the only other person I wouldn't 1:54:45.040 --> 1:54:49.200 want to work with this shot there. Yeah, because I 1:54:49.200 --> 1:54:52.960 always Maxwell was one. But one day I was in 1:54:53.040 --> 1:54:55.480 New York and I was just hanging out. I mean Maxwell, 1:54:55.520 --> 1:54:57.320 I got real cool. He just came pull up on 1:54:57.400 --> 1:55:00.360 me the studio and we did this record out of 1:55:00.400 --> 1:55:03.280 the Blue recorded the song and it's on one of 1:55:03.320 --> 1:55:05.440 my drives I've been looking for for like six years. 1:55:05.600 --> 1:55:07.560 You put it out, no, So I'm telling when I 1:55:07.640 --> 1:55:10.240 find that drive, I'm putting it out. But me and 1:55:10.320 --> 1:55:12.600 Maxwell got a record. He was one of the ones 1:55:12.600 --> 1:55:15.280 I wanted to do something, but sho and did you 1:55:15.360 --> 1:55:22.000 have a chord? The verses in the talk together, I 1:55:22.120 --> 1:55:27.560 just feel like Maxwell lace versus. Actually he laid his 1:55:27.760 --> 1:55:31.040 versus in the control room. He wanted up mike with 1:55:31.120 --> 1:55:33.840 a chord, and he's sitting there like he's performing. Okay, 1:55:33.960 --> 1:55:36.120 that's all. So yeah, I knew it was gonna be yea. 1:55:42.800 --> 1:55:45.120 But yeah, No, I had an amazing run. Like I 1:55:45.680 --> 1:55:47.720 feel like, and I'm just getting started. I feel like 1:55:47.800 --> 1:55:50.040 that even when I think about all the stuff me 1:55:50.080 --> 1:55:52.400 and Hovid done, and then's not just because it's top tier. 1:55:52.960 --> 1:55:55.520 It's just because we we got things that you know, 1:55:55.640 --> 1:55:58.320 people don't have, like meaning like we got history and 1:55:58.360 --> 1:56:01.120 our records and any that I've done a record with. 1:56:01.320 --> 1:56:04.960 You know, you take um, Kanye, you take hold, you 1:56:05.080 --> 1:56:08.400 take um. I mean you name it what I'm saying, 1:56:08.480 --> 1:56:13.720 dirt Drake Nas. It was always a point where we 1:56:14.200 --> 1:56:17.600 pushed the envelope a little bit and it made, you know, 1:56:18.560 --> 1:56:23.080 just something that was legendary. So I'm very happy about 1:56:23.160 --> 1:56:25.760 that because again, I didn't come into the game to 1:56:25.840 --> 1:56:29.640 be a rapper, right, I was trying to be a CEO. 1:56:29.920 --> 1:56:33.600 And now you're at the top, right. Yeah. And it's 1:56:33.640 --> 1:56:38.720 been times where, you know, I've been in the studio 1:56:38.800 --> 1:56:40.880 with people and I'm just like, yo, how on the hell? 1:56:41.840 --> 1:56:43.440 You know what I'm saying? Am I gonna And that's 1:56:43.600 --> 1:56:45.960 my best work because I've been with Jay you know, 1:56:46.120 --> 1:56:48.400 doing seen it all and you know, you see jay 1:56:48.480 --> 1:56:50.760 Z in the studio, they ain't you know what I'm saying, 1:56:50.800 --> 1:56:56.680 It's different even Ross. Yeah, but let's go to better 1:56:56.760 --> 1:56:59.880 believe it feature in boos Oh man, we just had Booty. 1:57:00.160 --> 1:57:03.320 Let's not even talk about the song, justence the experience 1:57:05.000 --> 1:57:06.760 boost is one of the kind of by yes, yes, 1:57:07.040 --> 1:57:12.120 we noticed, right. And I really respect Boosey's perspective because 1:57:12.240 --> 1:57:15.240 that's where aunts and Uncle's taught us. He's never forgot 1:57:15.320 --> 1:57:18.280 that though, you know what I'm saying, Like he understands 1:57:18.720 --> 1:57:22.640 that's what it is. And probably because he's so and 1:57:22.720 --> 1:57:26.400 this I'm gonna say this wrong. What y'all gonna mean 1:57:26.440 --> 1:57:31.000 what I said, Boosey reminds me of the fly that 1:57:31.440 --> 1:57:33.760 you know, the thing, the thing that when we go 1:57:33.840 --> 1:57:36.160 to your grandma house, she got the thing on the 1:57:36.760 --> 1:57:40.720 coming from the ceiling to get the f and the 1:57:40.880 --> 1:57:46.160 leather sofa, the plastic plastic on the sofa. It's old 1:57:46.240 --> 1:57:49.080 school moral. Listen, first of all. And I'm not saying 1:57:49.080 --> 1:57:51.840 because you know, I'm not preaching violence or whatever when 1:57:51.840 --> 1:57:54.560 I don't got Boosey called me when Boosey first Well, 1:57:54.600 --> 1:57:56.560 two things that I was with him when he first 1:57:56.600 --> 1:57:59.200 got out the last time he got out, and then 1:57:59.560 --> 1:58:01.320 he called on me when we did better believe it 1:58:01.400 --> 1:58:03.840 to come to bad Ruge. Well, he actually called me 1:58:03.920 --> 1:58:05.720 before that. I was head of the Texas or something, 1:58:05.760 --> 1:58:08.600 and he was doing a giveaway for some kids, and 1:58:08.640 --> 1:58:10.640 I told my tour bus driver to turn the bus around. 1:58:10.680 --> 1:58:13.160 We drove Baton Rouge and I went out there and 1:58:13.320 --> 1:58:15.480 um with him and gave away bicycles and all that. 1:58:15.560 --> 1:58:17.640 So that's how I knew how and bet he was 1:58:17.720 --> 1:58:20.120 in the community. That's that's who he is. Like he 1:58:20.600 --> 1:58:24.240 got a great heart. Um. But when we did better 1:58:24.280 --> 1:58:26.800 believe it, I came down and I stayed in this 1:58:26.840 --> 1:58:29.040 hotel in Bad Rules. If you know anything about Bad Ruge, 1:58:29.080 --> 1:58:30.800 I'm like, I'm a five star guy. I'm like, whole 1:58:30.880 --> 1:58:34.400 ship in the room service like what we're doing. And 1:58:34.920 --> 1:58:37.320 I go there and we do the video, and this 1:58:37.400 --> 1:58:39.360 is the first time I've ever seen an extend the clips. 1:58:39.800 --> 1:58:41.920 Every little guy that was with Boosey had him hanging 1:58:41.960 --> 1:58:43.920 out of his pocket, and I'm just like, what is that? 1:58:44.200 --> 1:58:45.920 You know what I'm saying, Like, what's going on? He 1:58:46.000 --> 1:58:47.560 pulled it out. I was like, oh, ship, you know 1:58:47.600 --> 1:58:49.360 what I'm saying. So I was just like, so that's 1:58:49.400 --> 1:58:51.400 the first thing I noticed about him. You don't got 1:58:51.440 --> 1:58:54.080 no security, it's just those little guys to be with him. 1:58:54.600 --> 1:58:57.760 But then what I immediately noticed was the type of 1:58:57.920 --> 1:59:01.240 respect that he had where he's from. This movie is 1:59:01.280 --> 1:59:04.080 just like a dot of battery, bro. Like I'm talking 1:59:04.120 --> 1:59:10.160 about like he's presidential. And we go do the video. 1:59:11.160 --> 1:59:13.560 Video goes well, So now I'm in Baton Rouge. There's 1:59:13.560 --> 1:59:16.240 no flight leaving out, so i gotta stay tonight. So 1:59:16.280 --> 1:59:18.640 what you're gonna do when you're in Bad Rules? He's like, 1:59:18.720 --> 1:59:21.120 let's go to the club. I'm like, yeah, bad come 1:59:21.160 --> 1:59:22.800 pick me up. So they come pick me up about 1:59:22.840 --> 1:59:25.120 ten fifteen cars deep, so I might be going to 1:59:25.200 --> 1:59:27.280 the club. I got my jewels. Oh my smell good. 1:59:27.320 --> 1:59:28.520 You know what I'm saying. I think we're about to 1:59:28.560 --> 1:59:30.800 go hit it. We pull up in front of a house. 1:59:31.000 --> 1:59:34.040 It's a million cars at this house. Went to a 1:59:34.120 --> 1:59:40.720 house party, bad roof, but this is the club. So 1:59:40.800 --> 1:59:43.560 we're talking this house. We're walking to this house. There's 1:59:43.600 --> 1:59:47.160 no lie. We're walking to this house and it's cracking. 1:59:47.560 --> 1:59:50.040 Do you walk through the house? Then you get to 1:59:50.120 --> 1:59:52.200 the backyard and that's where the club is at. So 1:59:52.280 --> 1:59:55.160 it's in the backyard in a fence, got a picture, booth, 1:59:55.400 --> 2:00:00.440 ball everybody out there. It's crazy club. It's the house though. 2:00:02.280 --> 2:00:03.880 It's like you're going to the house in the neighborhood, 2:00:04.200 --> 2:00:06.520 but that's the club. I'm just sitting around like, oh ship, 2:00:06.680 --> 2:00:08.280 Like this is the club. So we went in there, 2:00:08.360 --> 2:00:10.920 we had it, we lit up, we had a great time. 2:00:11.440 --> 2:00:14.240 And then, um, I don't forget. I told Booty when 2:00:14.280 --> 2:00:16.400 he got into trouble. I was like, yo, bro, you 2:00:16.480 --> 2:00:18.520 gotta get out of bad rules because it's like, really, 2:00:18.560 --> 2:00:20.520 you're too big, you know what I'm saying. And I 2:00:20.600 --> 2:00:23.400 think the last time he got in trouble. We talked, 2:00:23.640 --> 2:00:25.840 you know, I just remember him moving to Atlanta. So 2:00:25.920 --> 2:00:27.640 I'm just really happy that he got itself out of 2:00:27.640 --> 2:00:30.240 the situation because he was what it was in my eyes. 2:00:30.840 --> 2:00:32.200 I don't even know if he see it the same way. 2:00:32.200 --> 2:00:34.840 He's too powerful there and there was he said it though, 2:00:34.880 --> 2:00:36.640 he said most rappers get murdered, and they said that 2:00:36.720 --> 2:00:38.040 that's the reason why he got out of his own 2:00:38.080 --> 2:00:39.880 But I only think that. I think it was with 2:00:40.040 --> 2:00:44.120 law enforcement. He was too powerful and they wasn't gonna 2:00:44.200 --> 2:00:46.320 let that going for long. Because it was the last 2:00:46.360 --> 2:00:48.440 time I talked to Booty, he was like, he wrote 2:00:48.480 --> 2:00:50.520 me a letter and he said they was trying to 2:00:50.680 --> 2:00:54.080 give him the death penalty. So imagine you're reading the letter. 2:00:54.840 --> 2:00:56.560 You're sitting there and it's just like, yo, you know, 2:00:57.320 --> 2:00:59.120 this is what I'm going through, you know, and they're 2:00:59.120 --> 2:01:00.960 giving me the death pendal tea know, I'm just like, damn, 2:01:01.040 --> 2:01:03.040 like you know what I'm saying. So shout out to 2:01:03.040 --> 2:01:04.760 Booty for making it out of that. Let's take this 2:01:04.800 --> 2:01:08.080 whole you know what I'm saying, sh shid of for 2:01:08.720 --> 2:01:10.240 you know, getting back on his feet. You know what 2:01:10.240 --> 2:01:15.480 I'm saying, doing how to really was do it? Yeah? 2:01:16.760 --> 2:01:23.640 That was beautiful. I'll be okay man, welcome back. Yeah sir, 2:01:25.080 --> 2:01:28.520 when when when when did you? Um? What was that recket? 2:01:28.560 --> 2:01:31.080 But like who was your my friend? I mean it 2:01:31.240 --> 2:01:33.680 was like I did it for I did it and 2:01:33.760 --> 2:01:35.520 then I put on the mixtape as well, and it 2:01:35.600 --> 2:01:38.200 blew from there as well. Um, it was me, him 2:01:38.200 --> 2:01:41.360 and Webby and I just always knew that bumb and 2:01:41.480 --> 2:01:43.400 Pempsey had a real love for them, you know what 2:01:43.440 --> 2:01:47.400 I'm saying. And they had this whole chipling circuit thing 2:01:47.480 --> 2:01:50.480 on lock where they was like it was booked like 2:01:50.600 --> 2:01:52.640 every day of the week, and even when they came 2:01:52.680 --> 2:01:56.680 through town, it's just like every hood, every ghetto there 2:01:56.760 --> 2:02:00.280 was out, you know what I'm saying. We called at 2:02:00.320 --> 2:02:02.880 one point though he did Yeah, he said it wasn't 2:02:02.880 --> 2:02:06.400 even the same time zone, right. Yeah. I didn't never understand. 2:02:06.800 --> 2:02:09.520 Yeah I didn't. I didn't understand that either. I knew Bun, 2:02:09.960 --> 2:02:12.920 but I didn't know Pimpantill. Ok. Yeah, I knew Bun. 2:02:13.040 --> 2:02:15.600 I didn't know Pimp until we got out and when 2:02:15.640 --> 2:02:19.360 we did get throwed with me him and jay Z okay, right, 2:02:19.960 --> 2:02:23.839 and then everything was worked out. I mean it wouldn't. 2:02:24.480 --> 2:02:26.560 I didn't. I didn't have an issue, right, right, right, 2:02:26.600 --> 2:02:27.920 you know what I'm saying. I just think a lot 2:02:28.000 --> 2:02:31.000 of the things that he was saying, people kind of 2:02:31.040 --> 2:02:34.000 thought he was talking about me, But um, but I didn't. 2:02:34.040 --> 2:02:35.920 I didn't know him, so I didn't. I didn't get that. 2:02:36.040 --> 2:02:39.360 It couldn't have been about you, right, I didn't like that. Well, 2:02:39.640 --> 2:02:43.560 you know what, jeez, man, gonna be honest. Gave us 2:02:43.600 --> 2:02:45.560 every day. Man, I would like to take one more 2:02:45.600 --> 2:02:49.440 shot with you. Come on, let's do it hard, the 2:02:49.560 --> 2:02:56.240 hard no only Nori, yes yo, No, jeez man, I'm 2:02:56.240 --> 2:02:59.440 gonna be honest. Man, you're a legend. Your person that 2:02:59.560 --> 2:03:08.320 needs uh deserves to be my drink? Okay bad? Yeah, 2:03:08.360 --> 2:03:13.040 that watermelon? Um that needs to be respected. Uh, you 2:03:13.160 --> 2:03:16.800 paid your dudes, play the game right. You did everything 2:03:16.840 --> 2:03:20.840 you're supposed to do. We want to always salute you, 2:03:21.080 --> 2:03:22.880 we want to always respect you. That's what our show 2:03:22.960 --> 2:03:25.280 is about. Now, everybody else want to give out flowers. 2:03:25.560 --> 2:03:28.480 Everybody else want to We've been doing that. We've been 2:03:28.560 --> 2:03:32.920 doing that. And because um, your story is beautiful, man, 2:03:33.000 --> 2:03:35.480 your story is a real one. Your story needs to 2:03:35.560 --> 2:03:41.200 be repeated. So when it's the official snow forky one 2:03:41.760 --> 2:03:45.280 back in my bag. Let's expect humber greatness. Man, I'm 2:03:45.320 --> 2:03:47.560 really happy about this because again it's just like me 2:03:47.640 --> 2:03:50.880 and drama. He's hosting this, so this is this is 2:03:51.240 --> 2:03:53.720 he's hosting it. He's hosting it. Okay, you're gonna hear 2:03:54.120 --> 2:03:58.600 that good. That's all. And don't forget to check us 2:03:58.600 --> 2:04:01.360 on Patreon. Oh yeah, we hatreon dot com. Force Last 2:04:01.440 --> 2:04:05.000 Drink Champs. Let me just say something, Jess, when you 2:04:05.120 --> 2:04:07.600 do a non political podcast, we want to talk to 2:04:07.640 --> 2:04:09.960 you about it less because yeah, yeah, yeah, we want, 2:04:09.960 --> 2:04:12.200 we want, we want. We won't help you out less 2:04:12.320 --> 2:04:16.480 you help yourself. Yo, Man, you'll thank you all. Your 2:04:16.520 --> 2:04:19.040 whole crew was very professional, all of them. They can't 2:04:19.120 --> 2:04:24.680 make sure they make sure the product was there. I 2:04:24.800 --> 2:04:27.160 love your whole crew, even down to the secutest cutity. 2:04:27.240 --> 2:04:28.840 Want to make sure you know what the walk. I 2:04:28.960 --> 2:04:32.240 love all that. I love all that because you know why. 2:04:32.640 --> 2:04:38.640 This is my last question. Do you move different now 2:04:38.800 --> 2:04:43.560 that all of these rappers are disappearing? I wouldn't say 2:04:43.600 --> 2:04:46.920 move different? Is then I moved? How I know how 2:04:46.960 --> 2:04:50.400 to move because I know nobody's exempt that. I'm never 2:04:50.480 --> 2:04:53.280 gonna I'm never gonna let nobody to sensitize me because 2:04:53.320 --> 2:04:55.720 of my position. I know what it is. It's been 2:04:55.800 --> 2:04:58.240 that way since I jumped off the ports. Ain't nothing changed, 2:04:58.240 --> 2:04:59.800 you know what I'm saying, just a little more active. 2:04:59.840 --> 2:05:06.440 But I think God for being through the things that 2:05:06.520 --> 2:05:09.720 I went through on the street level, because I feel 2:05:09.800 --> 2:05:12.200 like that's what got me to where I'm at as 2:05:12.280 --> 2:05:16.280 far as you know, morals and not just flipping and 2:05:16.960 --> 2:05:19.040 doing crazy things. Of course, everybody got their you know, 2:05:19.160 --> 2:05:22.080 their stuff. But what I'm saying it is like I 2:05:22.160 --> 2:05:26.640 think that's the best gift I ever received is survival. 2:05:27.600 --> 2:05:30.400 You know what I'm saying, and what you're saying, it 2:05:30.440 --> 2:05:31.880 makes a lot of sense because when you met me, 2:05:32.080 --> 2:05:35.480 I was living for survival. You know what I'm saying 2:05:35.960 --> 2:05:38.480 out of survival and the reason why it's so thin 2:05:38.560 --> 2:05:41.760 because now I'm living not love meaning that you know, 2:05:42.080 --> 2:05:45.400 I employed people, you know what I'm saying. They get 2:05:45.440 --> 2:05:47.080 a chance to live out their dreams. You know what 2:05:47.080 --> 2:05:50.440 I'm saying. I I've accumulated things that you don't have 2:05:51.400 --> 2:05:58.720 to take no more shots, right what I'm saying. But um, 2:05:59.600 --> 2:06:01.880 it's differ living out a lot a lot of out 2:06:01.920 --> 2:06:04.560 of survival and and living out of love because just 2:06:04.720 --> 2:06:07.480 like I love what I do, I love my people, 2:06:07.600 --> 2:06:10.720 I love you know what I represent. You know, I 2:06:10.880 --> 2:06:14.640 love getting better, I love evolving, I love giving game. 2:06:15.320 --> 2:06:17.920 You know what I'm saying. I love surviving. So it's 2:06:17.960 --> 2:06:21.520 just like, you know, it's it's it's a different world now, 2:06:21.640 --> 2:06:24.880 meaning that you know when I said skies a limit, 2:06:25.040 --> 2:06:28.560 you know that was half the truth. Ain't know, you 2:06:28.600 --> 2:06:31.120 know what I'm saying that that's it. You know what 2:06:31.160 --> 2:06:34.240 I'm saying, And now I see that more than ever. 2:06:34.360 --> 2:06:40.040 So it's just like, but however, I don't forget what 2:06:40.160 --> 2:06:42.360 I'm a child of, where I come from, the cloth 2:06:42.440 --> 2:06:45.400 that I am, because that's what keeps me safe. And 2:06:45.480 --> 2:06:47.160 that's why I'm maybe to go in these places and 2:06:47.520 --> 2:06:49.600 be around these people. Because I I was in Detroit 2:06:50.000 --> 2:06:52.040 two days ago. I felt like I was home. You 2:06:52.080 --> 2:06:54.040 know what I'm saying on the block, you know, shout 2:06:54.040 --> 2:06:56.320 out to full one, you know, think of as Strathmore. 2:06:56.680 --> 2:06:58.960 But at the same time, I might head on the 2:06:58.960 --> 2:07:01.200 spiel was just like there us, you know what I'm saying. 2:07:01.360 --> 2:07:04.360 Because the police pull up, guess what, we're all together. 2:07:04.400 --> 2:07:07.760 They don't care that I'm jeasy, I'm saying, right. But 2:07:07.960 --> 2:07:10.320 at the same time, I love that because that's the 2:07:10.400 --> 2:07:12.480 one thing that I have when I walk in the 2:07:12.600 --> 2:07:15.560 room and do business with these execs that they don't have. 2:07:16.360 --> 2:07:18.640 They don't got that. They don't got that natural instinct, 2:07:18.680 --> 2:07:20.640 they don't got that know how to survive. They don't 2:07:20.680 --> 2:07:22.600 got that off the top of the head, come up 2:07:22.680 --> 2:07:25.760 with a solution like like that you don't even think about. 2:07:26.040 --> 2:07:29.600 They don't got that. Feelis um just feel its driving 2:07:30.080 --> 2:07:31.320 And it's just like when I sit in the room 2:07:31.360 --> 2:07:34.080 with him and we're doing these deals. They're doing a 2:07:34.160 --> 2:07:36.360 deal to get money. You know what I'm saying, That's cool. 2:07:37.040 --> 2:07:39.880 I'm doing these deals based off legacy, what I'm gonna 2:07:39.920 --> 2:07:42.720 leave behind and what's example? How can I how can 2:07:42.760 --> 2:07:45.240 I bought somebody up a part of my team? How 2:07:45.280 --> 2:07:47.720 can I make you the CEO? Now? How can I 2:07:47.800 --> 2:07:49.720 make you the CEO? Now? You know what I'm saying. 2:07:50.040 --> 2:07:51.560 How can I make you an A and al? Now? 2:07:51.800 --> 2:07:54.160 How can I make you a artists? Now? You know 2:07:54.160 --> 2:07:56.000 what I'm saying. And by the time that's come out, 2:07:56.360 --> 2:07:59.000 I want to shout out to um the newest member 2:07:59.040 --> 2:08:01.960 of the family. Haiti, baby, we just signed him to CET. 2:08:02.320 --> 2:08:03.960 We just signed to def jams and shout out the 2:08:04.000 --> 2:08:10.160 hat baby superstar. He's going shout out to nod Well. 2:08:10.440 --> 2:08:14.520 Everything we got going shut up, shut up to and 2:08:14.640 --> 2:08:16.880 let me just tell you jeez. You know, um hold, 2:08:16.880 --> 2:08:18.320 I'm gonna take this to a little I'm gonna take 2:08:18.320 --> 2:08:23.120 then m hm. So I'm gonna tell you something. This 2:08:23.240 --> 2:08:25.760 how Farrell into his interview. So I'm kind of in 2:08:25.920 --> 2:08:30.960 yours with this way for Rall knows me for a 2:08:31.080 --> 2:08:33.920 long time and me and he made history together. So 2:08:34.560 --> 2:08:37.000 looks and says, where's your wife had? And then he 2:08:37.080 --> 2:08:41.200 looks and he goes, he goes. His transition came for you, 2:08:42.160 --> 2:08:45.120 His transition came, he said, My transition came from her. 2:08:46.160 --> 2:08:48.280 And what I'm trying to say is I want to 2:08:48.320 --> 2:08:50.080 pick up your wife. I want to figure up show. 2:08:50.200 --> 2:08:51.960 I know that they don't want to go to through 2:08:52.000 --> 2:08:55.840 family issues, but as a fan, as a married street dude, 2:08:57.040 --> 2:08:59.400 I want to salute you because I gotta give it 2:09:00.000 --> 2:09:02.440 a white belt props because you got a lot to 2:09:02.520 --> 2:09:07.120 do with that as well. So shut and that's it. 2:09:07.720 --> 2:09:10.080 Come on, let's let's wrap this motherfucker. Listen, I got 2:09:10.120 --> 2:09:15.320 I got I got fifty. More questions are in the promo, 2:09:15.600 --> 2:09:24.840 but goddamnit. 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