WEBVTT - #4 - Mozzy 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.320 We own a motherfuck a bootleg care podcast. We own 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:08.400 a motherfucking boot lig care podcast. That's right, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.639 First of all, got a shout out everybody who's showing 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.639 us love. Man salute episode number four. If you missed 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:18.239 episode number three. I really didn't do a lot of 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:24.000 promoting of episode number three, but it's doing pretty well. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.960 Just want to shout out everybody who showed love to 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:32.000 episode number three, which was not an interview based episode. 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.680 It was just a me and my boy Wheck shooting 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:40.680 the shit, my best friend talking hip hop, talking current events, etc. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.559 You could go check that out if you didn't. So, 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:49.519 I have been in quarantine for like three weeks with 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.919 COVID nineteen. If you've been listening, you know I got 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.720 the COVID. I feel better as I sniffle, I do 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.320 feel better. I don't have any symptoms, so I went 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.560 and got retest yesterday. Unfortunately, because I've I've been quarantined up, 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.040 I haven't been able to record any new episodes whatsoever. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.000 I'm trying to do as many in person as possible 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.520 before we start going heavy on zoom, because there's obviously 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.720 gonna have to be a lot of stuff done over zoom. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:20.600 So let me explain this next episode with the homie Mazie. 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.679 Before we talk about Mazie, I got a shout out 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.760 to our sponsors, Vapin. 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I just threw that out there, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:14.160 shout out to odd Socks. Anyway, Mozzie. So let me 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.360 tell you this, this episode is like it's pretty old. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.160 It was recorded in May, right after Mozzi's album came out, 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.720 and it was actually supposed to be the first episode 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:30.760 of the podcast. Unfortunately, uh, some things came up and 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:35.280 we didn't end up putting it out, So, uh, it's 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.440 it's it's I guess it's dated in the sense that 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.600 we talk a lot about Mozzi's album, which has been 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.000 out for a couple of months. But it is a 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:46.360 good conversation. Mazzie is one of my favorite artists. I 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.839 think he's a great dude, man, just the epitome of independence, 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:54.600 brilliance and hip hop and man, we had a great conversation. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.079 Like I said, it's a it's a couple of months old, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.720 so you won't hear us talking about anything that's going 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.359 on in the world right now, as far as George 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.239 Floyd or Black Lives Matter or any of the protests 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.200 and stuff. That's obviously something that I would have loved 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.880 to have spoken with Mazzi about. But it was recorded 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.360 mid May, around the time Mazzi's album came out, and 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.400 I actually wasn't gonna put this episode out even though 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.520 it's fire. I just you know, like I said, look, man, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.320 I got the COVID, so we're dropping the Mazzi interview. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.440 It's fire. I love Mazzi. If you're not a fan 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.480 of Mazzie, listen to the interview and you probably will 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.680 end up being a fan of Mazzi. If you're a 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.720 hip hop head, if the Freddy Gibbs interview brought you 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.080 here and you're still not tapped in with Mazzi, that's fine. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.600 You should go tap in with him because the dude 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.600 can wrap his ass off and he's saying some real shit, 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:57.000 real real shit. So if you're not up on Mazzi yet, 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.600 listen to the interview, you'll like him after the interview 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.560 a lot more than before if you are a fan 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:07.600 of Mazzi and just enjoy it all right. Also, gonna 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:13.120 be dropping since I'm, like I said, since I've been 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.280 kind of on lockdown and I haven't been able to 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.599 get in with some face to face action pause tomorrow 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.720 or the next day, I'm gonna drop on a Dre 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.039 London interview from about a year and a half ago 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.160 when we originally were gonna launch the bootleg HP podcast. 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.839 Drey London is Post Malon's manager, and I just think 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.560 that there's obviously it's there is some dated shit in there, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.880 but it's Also, if you're in the music industry, you 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.680 want to be in the music industry. There's so many 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.960 gems in that. So I'm gonna just throw it out 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.240 there for y'all to listen to. Uh. That's later this week. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:50.440 Make sure you hit subscribe. Rate, please rate the podcast 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.560 if you're on Apple, if you're on Spotify, follow it. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.599 But if you throw that rating my way on Apple, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.120 I'd really appreciate it. Let's get into the Masi interview. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.359 Are we six feet apart? Six? About six ft? All right? 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.960 We got a social distance, bro, it's good though, you 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.039 know we're gonna make it work. Hey. First of all, mighty, 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:12.880 the new album is out, and I gotta say, man, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:18.000 I feel like, uh, you've leveled up every album quality. Why. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.400 I just feel like you're getting better man. Nah, for sure, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:26.479 I appreciate that, uh fully my intentions. Yeah, Like you know, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.040 being first of all, I'm assuming there's been a lot 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:34.839 of opportunities where you could have gone major. Uh why 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:39.359 why at this point are we still staying independent? Shout 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.400 out the empire because we got a plaque. There's a 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.320 plaque right here. Oh, we got one of them. You 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.000 know what I'm saying. You gotta you got. That's that's 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.520 that's your name on there one up top ikey something 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.880 stocky in the chappie huh. Now, I think, you know, 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:57.000 I'm just comfortable. I'm comfortable with the independent lifestyle, you know, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.440 and uh, I just know how to tweak it to 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.520 where it been fits me in mind. So I'm just 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.719 I'm gonna just squeeze it for what it's worse. I 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.640 feel like over the last couple of years, the mainstream, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.720 like the taste makers, have really started to embrace what 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.120 you're doing. What do you think was like the point 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:18.080 in time where the narrative change where you were like, okay, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.159 I'm like, you know, I know the Black Panther soundtrack 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.039 had to be one of those moments. But leading up 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.640 to that, I feel like finally you were getting a 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.160 lot of a lot of the respect that you've been 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.839 deserving for a few years. We came overlook the Kendrick 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:33.520 Lamar shout out either I think, you know, just seeing 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.279 the embracement of others. I think, you know, people just 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.000 see other people embracing other people. Them sent me of 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.360 their statue embrace, you know, the up and coming and 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.960 they follow suit. That's it. You know, if somebody get 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.720 if somebody starts sizzling right now and we pick up 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.479 on him and embracing, you see other people that's in 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.919 my lane pick up on him and embracing. So I 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.080 just feel like people just following suit, and you know 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:04.040 they actually it's they're exposing. So you know, by others 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.360 embracing it, they exposing me to you know, their fan 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.400 base and the crowded people that that that function with them, 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.600 and so you know, they they pick up on so 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.600 they fan base, they pick up on that new that 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.120 new sound, or they pick up on something they like 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:23.320 and they start functioning with it and exploiting it to others. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.680 It's stuff like like double XL freshman covers, that kind 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.520 of shit, those kind of accolades like matter to you 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.960 at all. Hell, yeah, I was hot, said I ain't 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.960 get Freshmen of the Year. I felt like I was worthy, 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.360 and especially out of ten man list, out of ten, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.240 That's what I'm saying. And yeah, you ain't in minds 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.440 ain't up there, and then you got you know, no disrespect, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.840 but you got a couple of Theodoreks and peons up 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.200 bunch of bullshit. You know what I'm saying. And uh, now, 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.840 you know, I just feel like it turned political. It 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.120 just turned political. But double XL is my people, and 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.440 I love them dearly. You hear me. I just take 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.720 them a little, you know, I take it on the chin. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.080 I take it on the chin. Evidently you know I 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.120 wouldn't politically tied in or I didn't put in enough 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.640 work either or And I don't blame nobody but me. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.280 So I go back to the drawing board, get it in, 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.600 bite down, and find that hunger drop and make him 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.120 respect something. So your album's coming out, it's obviously it's 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.680 out today. Day's the day they I'm dropped. Last night 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:30.520 Drake announces he's putting out a project. Howevo? I mean 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.200 you do shout out to Drake, but like that's got 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.520 to kind of be like, well, fuck man, like n 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.480 I ain't gonna lie, wasn't really tripping. I heard it, 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.760 I seen it, and I really didn't react, you know, 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.559 shut out to Drake. He'd do what he won't when 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.479 he won't. And I got that same type of attitude. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.920 I do what I won't when I won't. And you know, 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.839 I don't care who drop. You know what I'm seeing 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.800 me on the day that I drop, you know, it's 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.079 it just makes it more memorable. It give it more. 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.720 You know, I don't mind Drake dropping that. That's big 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.880 MINSI and Drake drop. You got me in the same conversation. Yeah, 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.319 and you got and you gotta fanger so rude. You 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.160 got some shit to get sensitive too, and you got 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.920 some gangster ship. Nah. Yeah, I got it on it. 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.079 It's on there man, and that. You know, if if 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.720 y'all comparing my album to Drake Nigga, your album is better, 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:16.120 I can't do nothing but smile, my boy. Yeah, you're 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.080 not out. The Drake album is a great body work, man, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.600 appreciate it. On the project, you were saying, if people 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.240 mistaking you just being a rapper, that'd be a mistake. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.640 That'd be a mistake. Man. I'm much more than that, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.319 and I you know, on the on the album, I 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.280 was referring to it as a you know, as a 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:38.160 street politician, but in actuality, just period, point blank, in general, 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.280 I'm much more than that. I'm much more than that 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.079 to my family, I'm much more than that. To the 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.840 streets of Sacramento slash oh Pork, I much more than 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.360 that to you know, the West coast alone, because you know, 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.559 when I get to test the people, I really touch them, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.240 and you know we all identified with the same struggle, 0:09:55.320 --> 0:10:01.640 so they considered me one of theirs. The quarantine shit 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.520 with this COVID nineteen shit, how has besides live shows 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.280 and ship like that, Like, how has it affected your life? 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:09.679 You know what I'm saying, Like, I mean, you look 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.280 like you're healthy, you look like you're doing well. All 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.120 the prices want a prices on the tissue. You know 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.120 what I'm saying, prices on the napkins price is not. No, 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.560 You're right though. Listen, bro, you go to seven eleven 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:28.240 right now and you had a se sanitizer. Come on, nah. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:33.120 But outside of that, first and foremost semi cadulesist love 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.960 respect to the family that lost family during this time. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.240 I know it's a serious you know this is this 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:44.080 is something serious, man, and I take it seriously. But 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.160 you know I ain't been highly affected. I'm an entertainer, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.400 so my check been rolling in and if somebody in 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.960 my family has been affected by it, I assist, you know, 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.040 with with what I can, and so we all Gucci 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.280 and Gabana, the schools. I'm you know, my daughter at home, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.720 so she her being out of school, that affects, you know, 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:08.920 spend more time with your daughter. Yeah, but nah, I'm 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.880 enjoying it. I ain't gonna lie. I'm enjoying the whole process. Man. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.800 I wouldn't mind if the world stay like this. Uh 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:20.520 we because you it's less value on materialistic things and 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.599 uh you know, we just it's more family oriented oriented. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.959 So man, I'm enjoying it. Man I I ain't got 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.560 no complaints. What's been the wildest shit? I mean, I 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.560 think I feel like I've watched all of Netflix. But like, 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.080 have you been binge watching any TV shows or like, 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.440 what have you been Like? I've been tapped THEE and 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.480 they got one called U first and Foremost. I've just 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.559 watched that last night What is it? All day and 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.680 the night? Oh they got some of the hell Gang 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.560 music in there. Shout out to the production team and 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.360 everybody behind that. But I've been watching first forty eights Fire, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.120 I Slide in the house and where we turned on? 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.640 Oh did you see the top Tiger King? Yeah, tweaked 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:08.480 on that Joe Exotic, that's my boy. Hey, yo, I'm 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.319 not sure if I'm not sure if that was him 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.920 really singing. But if it was he could sing, he 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.000 was doing his douggie. He was doing his duggie. I 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.440 think it might have been him lipsticking somebody. I don't 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.400 know if he could sing that well, I would you do? 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.559 Would you do a record with Joe Exotic? Right now? Running? 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.640 You know what I'm saying, cook up you feel me? Uh? 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.880 Gang related jungles that should be crazy off of ap 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.120 gang related jungles. You know what I'm saying, Yo, it's 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.040 crazy because I remember the first time I met you 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.560 was like twenty seventeen. You came up to the station. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.559 You remember, you freest out over Triumph and who tank 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.840 be for us? Huh? And at that time you were 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:53.679 this was like Mazie leaned out on a cloud, Masie 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.120 I fell asleep on Yeah, you was like in another world. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.760 No I was. I was in the hall another world 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.839 man during that whole time. Yeah, And I remember like, yo, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.240 he's like you killed it. But I remember I remember 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.280 talking to you know, talking to Gazi like, man, this 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.120 if this guy could get his ship together, like he's 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.040 a star, you know what I'm saying. Like, and then 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.079 what I thought was so dope, man, was you were 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.720 the first rapper to really make it okay to like 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:25.000 kick the cup. You started that, You started to kick 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.480 the cup challenge for sure, most definitely, And I feel 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.480 like it was needed because like that wasn't cool at 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.880 that point in time, and it was like somebody, somebody 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.160 needed to step out and be like, yo, man, you 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.480 know it's it's okay to kick this ship now. Yeah, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.840 they banged me upside my head for that too. I 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.600 remember them. They bashed me upside my head, all types 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.600 of people. But I wasn't mad at it based on 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.880 I feel like it benefited more than than anything. It 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.040 benefited a lot of people, you know what I'm saying, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.079 more than anything. So I wasn't mad at it. Man. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.400 I take I take the lit. And this was prior 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.480 to like you know, obviously a lot of people are 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.480 trying to get clean now because a lot of people 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.120 have passed away. You know, Juice wrld is before all this, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.680 before this, when it wasn't cool, when it wasn't bully 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.920 bull to kick the cup. It's when it was nigga 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.600 with you talking about kicked the cup. Nigga, I'm seeing me. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.040 You know. They was tweaking on me, But I ain't 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.160 mad at it. Like I said, I take the lick. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.400 I'm seeing me if somebody could benefit off of it? 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.560 Was that still? Is that still something you struggle with 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.720 because I know that that's you know, recreational around. I 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.720 just said it in my song. Man. You know, at 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.520 least I don't promote it on the GRAM. This is 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.360 my addiction, though. He said I told the road I quit, 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.200 So I forgot how I go told the road I quit, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.320 But I ain't. Oh told the road I quit. It's 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.360 hard to kick it though. At least I don't promote 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.840 it on the GRAM. That's my addiction though, And nothing 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.640 the pain that I be going through. Who are you 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.160 to judge? I miss you, Brenda Usha, Without you, I've 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.240 just secluded love so nah. Yeah, you know I had 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.600 a little bar in my song where you know, I 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:57.080 was admitted to admitting to relapsing, right, but you're not 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.000 glorifying it. Nah, But I don't glorify it, man, don't 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.880 on painted is this is something that somebody So these 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.440 is my real struggles. This is what I deal with. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.280 These is my everyday struggles. I'm a real human being 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.960 and I'm seeing me and I go through things and 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.680 I find methods and ways to numb it, and uh, 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.600 you know this is my battle. He's one of the 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.200 battles that you know what I'm saying me, I'm in 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.720 a ring with and I gotta face. But I wouldn't 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:25.000 advise nobody I love, nor nobody you love to indulge 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:29.600 in them type of activities lyrically like on some MC shit, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.520 I feel like you're like top notch man. I feel 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.520 like you're especially on the West Coast, Like when I 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.400 think of like Ella, Yeah, like when I think like 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.520 like who can melt somebody on the sixteen, I'm like, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.760 all right, Mazzie's one of those guys, like who is 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.320 somebody who you respect on that level as like a 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.640 rapper who like even like Yo, man, I like if 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.160 you were to do a record with you might be 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.160 you guys did a whole project together, whole project. He 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.840 one of them people that I get in there and 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.280 you know, it's a spicy situation, you know what I'm 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.000 saying me, We it's spunky smoke, you know what I'm saying. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.000 And uh, you know, I know he gonna dish it 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.560 out and so I gotta return fire. He go brazy. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.560 Who else I respect on that level outside of my camp. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.280 What I'm saying, because you know the silly rules he 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.720 go break, I'm saying, eat my snubs. This them them 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.520 they are competitive and they make but yeah, I say surfing. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.520 You know Nick, I used to feel that way about 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.640 Ni g O D. Like I got a tweak when 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.600 I get in here with him. I can't ain't no 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:37.080 playing with it. Uh it was one more Oh my boy, 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.640 Jay Rock. I respect, of course, I respect rocking the 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.000 way he rock out. It's a couple. I respect a 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:44.680 lot of people that be shooting that is a man. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.880 I ain't gonna lie. There's some people that that can 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.920 dance in that booth you talk about j Rock. Obviously, 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.560 Kendrick putting you on that Black Panther soundtrack was a 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:58.000 big look. Man. Was there ever any dialogue of you 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.560 signing with TD or is that discussion ever happened? Like 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.880 did they ever like show interest? Because I feel like 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:04.919 you were to fit in TD function with me. I 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.720 ain't gonna a lot. They done through me so many 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.159 other ups, man, and I can't wait to return the favor. 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.240 G O. D. I feel like I'm in dead with 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.840 them people, man, love them. Was there ever like any 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.000 discussions that you signing signing with them? No, it was 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:20.880 you know, I was, I was throwing that out there. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.960 You know what I'm saying, me tapping Top Dog was 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.920 had Bretta brother. But uh, we sel family oriented that 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.679 you know it it it nobody. We ain't never pressed 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.320 play on that. And you know, I'm so bumfortable and 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.120 bully boo with my little situation that I never really 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.919 entertained anything outside of it, but for show, I function 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.679 with the whole TD camp and uh, that'd be dope. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.399 You talked about like, you know, your relationship with Empire 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.720 shout out to Ghazi. Uh what is it about working 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.320 with Ghazi that, like you you don't think because a 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.239 lot of you know, I feel like Empire is this 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.119 island in the middle of the music industry that some 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.080 people know about, but other people are like what is 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.119 going on over there? Like what is it about working 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.240 with Empire and Gazi that to you is like special 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.119 and sets sets that company apart? Because I know Gazi's 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.040 one of the smartest guys I know. So coming out 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.920 the trenches, I felt like when I talk to Inner, 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:22.560 I mean record labels, my main request was, you know, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:28.400 just freedom to do whatever I want as far as creatively, 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.159 and that's what they offer. They tell me I'm entitled 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.320 to do whatever I want. They ain't try to change 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.480 my music, they ain't try to dilute it. They ain't 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.800 come with no like, look you should do this. And 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.680 you know, they don't even suggest things that it's out 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.240 of my lane, you know, and they let me be me, 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.639 they let me do me. I'm entitled to drop that wheel. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.480 The fact that everything is so transparent, you know, all 0:18:54.520 --> 0:19:00.360 the deals is transparent. It's like, you know, I said, 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.040 twelfth grader can understand the whole. If they sit down 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.400 and talk with you and you're a twelfth grader, they could. 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.680 They could bust it down. Somebody who's new to this business, 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.400 never done any type of work in this business. They can. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.440 They'll make it transparent for you to understand, and then 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.119 they'll follow through with that. It's not like you know, 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.280 you know how fine print. It's everything is clear. And 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.920 I was able to comprehend and understand it and see 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.280 that this is the situation best, it's best for me, 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.679 it benefits me. Of course, I wanted to take the 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.840 long way. I didn't want to jump on the elevator. 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.919 I wanted to run the stairs, so you know, and 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.960 they and they assisted me with that, and they got 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:46.360 behind me, man. And like I said, they word is platinum. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.760 Anything they say they gonna do, they follow through when 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.720 they come with these deals or you know, however, it's 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.280 it's I feel like I feel like they family. I 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.720 feel like if I go broke today, I can call 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.600 guys in and say better better send me from me 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.080 one of them. Emberly's man, right, right right, You're gonna 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.040 work it over, you feel me. I feel like I 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.240 could call name name team. I need a hunter k 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.600 like today though, and he had worked that over and 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:15.480 that's I just it's crazy the relationship that I got 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.160 with him. So you know, anytime I can, I can 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.480 persuade somebody in it. Not even persuade, man, anytime I 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:25.800 could recommend you know what I'm seeing me or refer 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.119 somebody to Empire, Man, I for surely go about it. 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.879 You've like, throughout your career you've been extremely active, Like 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.400 if we don't have a MASI album, we'll have a 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.359 collab project with you and gun Player, you and Sue 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:42.840 or you gotta stay lit man, that's what we're in it. 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.479 Fo Yeah, Like I feel like that that you know, 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:51.240 just your activity has a lot of a lot to 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.119 do with your success, right, Like, sure, what what is 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:58.520 some some some advice you would give the independent artists 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.520 because I feel like you've been building this for so long, 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.680 but like I've noticed, like I'm like, yo, this guy 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.920 don't give fans like a chance to forget. Like he's 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.800 on top, he's on their neck. Like consistency is key. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:13.640 Consistency is key, and you know, know who your market is, 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.960 and reciprocate the love. Make sure you give back man 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.440 as much as you receive straight up, like the smallest 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:25.119 things in the world. It go a long way with 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:29.680 the fan base. Just imagine you having an unconditional love 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.040 for an artist and you push up on him and 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:35.240 he's stiff on you. Right, You're gonna feel some type 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:37.199 of way. You might not feel the same way you 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:41.240 felt about that artist again. You feel me, So you know, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.679 I see the love, I recognize the love, and I 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.679 reciprocated when I see it. I make sure you know 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:52.399 I dish out the same energy. I make sure make 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.160 sure I treat them. You know, I treat them like 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:57.399 like if it was the other way around, if I 0:21:57.520 --> 0:21:59.920 was the fan and this was somebody I listened to, 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:02.320 and how how would I want to be, you know, 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:05.880 treated in this situation. So even when I'm tired, even 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.480 when I'm exhausted, al I'm with my daughters and I 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.400 don't feel like doing this shit. I'm tired of taking pictures, 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.199 I'm tired of sign this ship. Watch out feel me. 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.880 This is me time, my time. I still go out 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.840 my way, Still go out my way, and make sure 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:25.960 you know that that that they leave satisfied. And it's 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.199 worked for me. It's benefited me. Man, It's worked for me. 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.360 And the crazy part about it is it's not it's 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:35.880 not hard or it's not a task when when you're 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:39.240 genuine about it, when you genuinely felt like that, you 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:41.320 know what I'm saying, the same thing with this music, 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:44.760 it don't feel like work when you're passionate about this. 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:47.240 This is this is I do this for free. I 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.080 would love to come do this interview. You know I'm saying, 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:51.639 this is this is me, this is what I this 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.080 is what I signed up for. I've been waiting on 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:56.600 this day. I pray for this day. I sat on 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:58.960 a bunk and prayed for this. So now that I'm 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.439 here man, I am break said wholeheartedly. And you know, 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:04.920 at anything I do, man, I give it my awe. 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:10.400 So I just I say, stay, stay consistent, and you know, 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:13.720 just reciprocate the love. Man, even I don't care how 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:17.360 small it is. If it's somebody reposting your ship on Instagram, 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:20.320 if it's somebody at DJ shouting you out man on 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:22.959 the radio out of nowhere, just make sure you know 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:26.560 you you you get at love right back, and yeah, 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:28.879 build your build on top of that. That's something to 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:31.840 build on. You talk about getting locked up. I know 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:35.080 the last time you you you you were down. When 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:38.440 you got out, you had a battery in your back. Yeah, 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:41.399 that was kind of what kind of like was was 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:46.040 was that motivation to really get on this campaign? For sure? 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:49.639 Take us back to that, that that mentality when you 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:51.639 when you went to jail last time and you was 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:54.880 sitting in yourself thinking about like, damn, I can't take 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:56.800 what I got for granted, because I remember talking to 0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:59.639 you and you were like, motherfuckers knew who you were 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:01.439 in jail, and shit, you know what I'm saying now, 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:03.960 for sure they'll get on me too, Like the Homies, 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:07.040 the Homies, be, they'll be devastated when I slide through. 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:10.679 Usually you know it's a celebratory situation, right one of 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:12.960 the homies come in, gang man, that you ain here 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:16.120 for wile you lightweight, you know what I'm saying, undecoveredly 0:24:16.200 --> 0:24:18.280 hoping the nigga got a little time so he can 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:21.959 come big it with you, right, kick with all. They 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:24.320 be disturbed when I slide in there, like you know 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:26.360 what I'm saying, what is you doing? And I'm talking 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:29.440 about the ones that genuinely love me. Anybody else they 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:31.840 happy to see me. But the ones who genuinely love me, 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:34.320 the ones who watched me struggle and what I'm saying 0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:38.560 and watch this marathon take place. You know, they they 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:42.160 they feel some type of way man, and I appreciate 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:44.960 that and that go a long way. So when I 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:47.560 be in there, I just it be like Bret, Nigga, 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:50.480 you better get it together. Don't double back here, nigga, 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:54.080 You double back here? Nigga is up. And you know 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:58.080 I be in there playing, plotting, strategizing, writing down what 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:00.640 I'm gonna do, how I'm gonna do it, how long 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:02.600 it's gonna take me to do it. You know what 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:05.200 I'm saying and and and when they cracked the gates. 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:07.240 But I'm sitting in there. I'm sitting in there and 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:10.439 I'm impatient. I want to do it now, anything that 0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:13.000 I can do right now. Over this phone, I'm calling 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:15.040 home and I'm trying to get it done. Bro. We 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:17.479 gotta do this. Bro, Bro, we got it. You know. 0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:19.520 You know it's ugly for me right now. But as 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:21.239 soon as I get out, I'm telling you, Bro, I 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:23.520 need to hold this and we gotta do this. Hey, 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:26.280 hit dude and tell dude this. So it's like a 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:28.760 machine and moving and you're trying to keep it afloat 0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:31.359 and you're impatient and you can't wait because you could 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:33.840 taste it. And then they crack them gates, man, and 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:36.200 you get the child down, or you get to bite down. 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:38.880 You get to prove it. So when I came home, 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:41.960 I already knew I was fake. Waight, gang, I was 0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:44.720 like like, gang chief, you know what I'm saying, And 0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:47.800 that's how that's how the gang task was teached. Treat me. 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:50.679 So you know, the suckers was on my line like 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:53.000 you know, I'm here at Honcho, we gotta clean him up. 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:55.760 And I was so I was you know, I was 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:58.439 they knocked it, I got shot at a lot, whatever 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:04.240 the case. But been going through CPS, fighting CPS, fighting probation, 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:07.520 I'm saying, getting into it with the homies because you know, 0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:12.080 I'm shooting up. So it's just like all odds against you. 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:16.920 It's like, it's crazy. And I was still able to juke, 0:26:17.040 --> 0:26:21.240 move and hurdle, jump over them hurdles and them obstacles 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:25.160 and and and still overcome all the all the negatives 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:28.239 and everything that was against me, man and find and 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:32.080 find my niche. And so it's just crazy. It's crazy. 0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:37.000 Hella thankful, beyond blessed, and I'm grateful a lot of gratitude. 0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:39.720 So I try to give back in any shape and form. 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:41.920 Like I feel like every time I see you, bro 0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:44.320 like or just over the years, man like, I feel 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:48.560 like you're somebody who's always improving, like as a person, 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:51.359 you know what I'm saying. Sure, whether it's maturity, whether 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:54.200 it's the way you conduct yourself, whether it me know, 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:56.760 you're always leveling up. You know what I'm saying. God too, 0:26:56.840 --> 0:26:58.760 you got so that's what we're getting it for it. Man, 0:26:59.040 --> 0:27:01.760 I'm raising girls, So I'm raising girls, and you know 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:04.679 I can't. I can't. I can only give them the 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:08.640 best of me. So if I'm not better in myself, 0:27:08.680 --> 0:27:11.520 then I feel like I'm cheating them, I'm giving them less. 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:14.760 So I gotta you know, it's time. You gotta educate yourself. 0:27:15.080 --> 0:27:19.760 You gotta stay, stay focused, determine. You gotta make sure 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:23.920 you financially if you if you financially literate, what kind 0:27:23.920 --> 0:27:26.760 of good game you gonna pass on to your kids? Facts? Hey, 0:27:26.800 --> 0:27:29.240 you know what I'm saying. So I just try to stay. 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:32.000 I try to stay because my little girl's damn, they're 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:36.400 smarter than me doing homework. Six that's the one I'm 0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:39.359 talking about. But I got one six and another one too, 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:43.800 but smarter than me. Bro, We're doing homework. And if 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:45.960 she trying to tell me, like, this is the right answer, Dad, 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:48.960 I'm like, nah, I don't think that's right. She's right, 0:27:49.480 --> 0:27:52.480 She's right. So now you know, I just got to 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:54.800 stay on my toes. But hell yeah, I appreciate that. Bro. 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:56.840 That's what we're in it for. Man, A whole lot 0:27:56.840 --> 0:28:00.359 of growth. Man, that's you know, I'm embracing. I'm in racing, 0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:05.320 uh that og status you talk about financial financial literacy 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:07.920 which I feel like all of us usually learn the 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:10.800 hard way, whether it's fucking off money we shouldn't have 0:28:10.840 --> 0:28:15.040 fucked off, or like owing the taxes or whatever it is, 0:28:15.119 --> 0:28:18.000 like what is for people watching? Like what do you 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:19.680 what is like one thing you could say to them, 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:21.480 like they should be on their toes about when it 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:23.040 comes to bread, because that's not something that gets taught 0:28:23.080 --> 0:28:26.320 in school. I just feel like you should. You should 0:28:26.359 --> 0:28:28.840 treat it the same way you treat anything else. And 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:31.840 for female wan her breast done, I'm seeing me, she 0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:34.600 gonna go tweak on a doctor. She gonna look at 0:28:34.640 --> 0:28:38.000 all types of pictures and makeovers, she gonna study it. 0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:40.800 She gonna look at what with with what causes? With 0:28:41.040 --> 0:28:42.960 how I can get ugly for it? You know what 0:28:42.960 --> 0:28:45.520 I'm seeing me. If you want to become an attorney, 0:28:45.760 --> 0:28:48.800 you get study, You go study, bro. I feel like 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:50.719 that's the same thing. You want to get rich. You 0:28:50.760 --> 0:28:53.440 need to study. You need to study financial literacy. You 0:28:53.520 --> 0:28:55.440 need to know the ins and outs of the game 0:28:55.480 --> 0:28:57.640 that you plan. You need to know how to how 0:28:57.640 --> 0:28:59.760 to how to manage money. You need to know how 0:28:59.800 --> 0:29:03.400 to you know invest money. You just it's you gotta 0:29:03.480 --> 0:29:05.560 learn money that's it. I just feel like you have 0:29:05.640 --> 0:29:09.959 to educate yourself. We wouldn't know our math, our additions, 0:29:10.040 --> 0:29:14.280 nor subtraction if nobody educated us on that, and so 0:29:14.920 --> 0:29:16.800 we won't know how to deal with money. I don't 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:19.320 care who you are, what you think, you ain't gonna 0:29:19.320 --> 0:29:20.840 know how to really play with money, man, if you 0:29:20.840 --> 0:29:23.960 don't educate yourself on it, if it doesn't you know, 0:29:24.000 --> 0:29:26.480 if it don't come natural. I remember when you posted 0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:31.480 that screenshot of your bank account that everybody was like, yo, yeah, 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:34.960 I needed I needed some financial education. Then man, I 0:29:35.000 --> 0:29:38.440 was tweaked out. What did he do? But now you 0:29:38.480 --> 0:29:41.320 know I was trying to I was just yeah, I 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:43.840 was just trying to motivate the young man that it's real, 0:29:43.960 --> 0:29:46.320 Like it's you know, because it I could tell you 0:29:46.360 --> 0:29:48.560 I got a million dollars, A rapper can say you 0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:50.800 got a million dollars, and you know that's what I'm 0:29:50.800 --> 0:29:53.080 seeing me. That's well, look at that as an opinion, 0:29:53.200 --> 0:29:55.880 not fact. That's an opinion. Yeah, like, yeah, you might 0:29:55.920 --> 0:29:58.800 have a million, but you might you probably sold all 0:29:58.840 --> 0:30:01.400 your jewelry. Yeah you I even touched a million dollars, 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:03.560 but you ain't got a million liquid? Yeah, you ain't 0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:05.560 got nothing, man, come on, And so I just wanted 0:30:05.600 --> 0:30:08.360 to show my youngest and send them trenches because you know, 0:30:08.440 --> 0:30:11.200 I still pull up like regular fella. I'm pulling up 0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:14.600 regular real nigga. I'm jumping out, I'm him. I'm still 0:30:14.680 --> 0:30:18.440 in places where you shouldn't be. You got a million dollars, 0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:20.960 and I just want to show them like niggas like 0:30:21.040 --> 0:30:23.280 us me And you know what I'm saying, we the same. 0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:25.560 And if I can go get that in belet you 0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:29.400 can go get that embly. It's it's, it's, it's it's attainable. 0:30:31.040 --> 0:30:35.400 The album title beyond Bulletproof, talk about why what, what's 0:30:35.440 --> 0:30:39.240 the significance of that time the loved one? Unconditionally beyond bulletproof. 0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:44.400 It means bulletproof. Man, I lay your boy layer bulletproof. 0:30:44.720 --> 0:30:46.600 I mean it's you know, the love that I got 0:30:46.680 --> 0:30:50.560 for you is it can't be penetrated. Man, can't none 0:30:51.040 --> 0:30:53.240 is teflne ain't nothing. You know what I'm saying, We 0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:55.280 ain't nothing going through that can't not disturb what we 0:30:55.400 --> 0:30:58.320 got going on. Man can't then penetrate the surface. So 0:31:00.280 --> 0:31:03.440 you know that's bulletproof. I'm letting you know it's beyond bulletproof, man. 0:31:03.800 --> 0:31:09.000 And that's I'm specifically talking to the forgotten, the overlooked, 0:31:09.600 --> 0:31:13.160 the you know, the ones that we tend to unconsciously 0:31:13.240 --> 0:31:16.680 forget about, the ones that send themselves them jail cells, 0:31:17.040 --> 0:31:21.800 the ones that's I'm seeing me less fortunate? Is that? 0:31:22.160 --> 0:31:24.080 Is that what the story behind the album cover too? 0:31:24.160 --> 0:31:25.800 Like who's in the car with you? And yeah, that's 0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:28.480 the less fortunate. That's my people them unking. I'm gonna 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:31.560 call them unking them, that's unking them. I pulled the 0:31:31.760 --> 0:31:34.920 skared rod, told them get in, slid through the trenches, 0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:37.760 slid through Hollywood, smoked some good dope with them, took 0:31:37.800 --> 0:31:41.640 them to Bostonova's buzzed down. You know what I'm saying 0:31:41.680 --> 0:31:44.400 me little chicken on fires, and then jump back in 0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:46.520 the load. Took a couple of photos. You know what 0:31:46.520 --> 0:31:49.040 I'm saying me, went on about my day. My Pinta 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:51.840 sent me the photos. They was plattinum velvet. I'm like, 0:31:51.920 --> 0:31:55.280 what's this? You know this looked like album cover material? 0:31:55.600 --> 0:31:59.160 Right ran to play. That's him beyond bulletproof at explain 0:31:59.280 --> 0:32:02.160 everything that's going on in the cover. I love you unconditionally, 0:32:02.240 --> 0:32:07.840 no matter your circumstances, beautiful one. We talked about you 0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:10.920 doing a lot of cloud projects. You obviously I love 0:32:11.040 --> 0:32:16.920 slimy individuals. Ooh, that's my boy. Shout out big Burn. Yeah, 0:32:17.080 --> 0:32:19.160 I mean ship logic was on there, y g was on. 0:32:19.280 --> 0:32:21.400 I mean it was it was as Burn too that 0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:23.920 I ain't gonna lie. Not only was I'm saying me, 0:32:24.520 --> 0:32:26.480 not only did we go half on the project, but 0:32:27.080 --> 0:32:29.840 he won one hundred percent on production. Hell yeah, he 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:34.200 ran every play, autumn plays a beat was that's his selection, 0:32:34.800 --> 0:32:37.880 every feature. That's him tapping into his men's in them 0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:42.960 pull up. He went brazy man shot studio. We went 0:32:43.000 --> 0:32:45.920 to his studio where he recorded that. I'm saying he 0:32:46.000 --> 0:32:49.280 smoked all his weed. I mean he's got a lot 0:32:49.280 --> 0:32:51.720 of weed. That nigga. I ain't gonna lie. He made 0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:54.800 he made my job. He's a hella. Extra easies come in. 0:32:54.960 --> 0:32:57.720 Do what you doing? Yeah, watch out, I got the merch. 0:32:57.840 --> 0:33:01.160 I take care of that. Well. He did his dougie 0:33:01.200 --> 0:33:03.080 man shout out to Burn. We're fin the double back. 0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:05.240 On the double back to its gonna ask you what's 0:33:05.400 --> 0:33:07.760 like another? Who's who's an artist that you would like 0:33:07.800 --> 0:33:10.080 to do another? Like? Do a collab project with that 0:33:10.200 --> 0:33:13.680 you haven't yet. It's hello artists out there to name 0:33:13.760 --> 0:33:17.960 a few. You know you got the Little Babies futures. Yeah, 0:33:18.360 --> 0:33:20.840 I fuck with Atlanta Tough, Me and Luchi. We got 0:33:20.880 --> 0:33:25.040 something on the way way on the freeway. Uh. I 0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:28.600 like to do something with who out there? Oh, you 0:33:28.720 --> 0:33:30.800 know Dave, he's be talking that ship. Oh you and 0:33:31.320 --> 0:33:34.400 would be perfect. You guys have worked together. You guys 0:33:34.480 --> 0:33:36.000 this album came out on the same day a couple 0:33:36.000 --> 0:33:39.480 of years ago. Yes, my dog, I let it do 0:33:39.560 --> 0:33:42.920 one with Anthony Hamilton's just a whole soulful album, Anthony 0:33:43.000 --> 0:33:47.240 ham That would be some all time ship. Yeah. Who 0:33:47.320 --> 0:33:52.160 else have you tapped in with the Griselda guys yet? 0:33:53.600 --> 0:33:57.080 I just say Bennie just tapped in with the Butcher. 0:33:57.760 --> 0:34:00.800 That'd be crazy. I just tapped in last night. You know, sir, 0:34:00.840 --> 0:34:02.800 if he tapped me in better better that you need 0:34:02.880 --> 0:34:07.400 to funk with the Okay? Yeah, Benny's like, I feel 0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:10.080 like what you are for the West coast those guys 0:34:10.160 --> 0:34:13.640 right now for the East coast. Hell yeah, that's that's squad. 0:34:13.719 --> 0:34:16.719 I function with him. Uh, and I want to hear 0:34:16.760 --> 0:34:19.479 you and Freddy Gibbs wrapped the same. That's my boy. 0:34:19.680 --> 0:34:23.240 Come on, Gibbs, big dog. I function with him heavy 0:34:23.719 --> 0:34:26.000 here a fella now, it's it's a lot of people. 0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:27.680 I let her collab with Man a lot of R 0:34:27.719 --> 0:34:30.359 and B too, So getting out Eric Bellinger's on the album, 0:34:30.360 --> 0:34:34.600 that's what I mean. You guys did the remake with you? Yeah? 0:34:35.880 --> 0:34:38.320 That was that? An easy sample to get cleared. I 0:34:38.360 --> 0:34:40.720 don't know. I think they beat us upside our forehead 0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:44.600 about that sample, g O D. I think they beat 0:34:44.680 --> 0:34:46.279 us up side our foehead. But you know what I'm 0:34:46.280 --> 0:34:49.040 saying that gang LAMB made a shake man, so we 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:52.480 we here. It's president. Make sure y'all gonna snatch that too. 0:34:52.600 --> 0:34:54.799 Which sample was harder that one of the Tupac one. 0:34:58.160 --> 0:35:00.640 I didn't want to touch Tupac want to touch it. 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:03.200 They forced me to do that. I didn't want to 0:35:03.280 --> 0:35:05.120 touch it. So you didn't want to do that record. 0:35:05.280 --> 0:35:07.000 I didn't want to touch it. That's pack. I don't 0:35:07.000 --> 0:35:08.920 want to touch nothing they got to do with pac Man. 0:35:09.080 --> 0:35:11.200 That's I just got that type of respect for him, 0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:12.839 like I don't even want to I don't even want 0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:15.160 to play with it. So I mean that that was 0:35:15.200 --> 0:35:17.080 a dope record. No, it was a dope record and 0:35:17.239 --> 0:35:19.000 the whole role out of it, it was a dope play. 0:35:19.040 --> 0:35:20.919 I functioned with the whole play, but it was something 0:35:20.960 --> 0:35:22.640 that you felt was a little forced and something that 0:35:22.719 --> 0:35:25.120 you really didn't feel when I did it. I loved it, 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:28.360 fell in love with it. I was juice ecstatic about 0:35:28.600 --> 0:35:31.920 how it turned out. The you know, the response from 0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:35.880 the people, the whole nine. But you know, before I, 0:35:36.120 --> 0:35:37.880 before I even wrote to it, when he pulled the 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:39.680 beat up, I'm like, I don't want to I don't 0:35:39.680 --> 0:35:41.799 want to play with it. And they, you know, they like, well, 0:35:41.800 --> 0:35:43.480 I'm telling you this to play. We get WOOTI woo 0:35:43.520 --> 0:35:46.840 woo woo woo had WOOTI woop slode. I'm like, all right, 0:35:46.920 --> 0:35:49.320 let's run the play because you know, I'm I'm not 0:35:49.400 --> 0:35:52.279 that combatic with my with my team, you know, if 0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:54.440 they if they recommend something and they feel like it's 0:35:54.480 --> 0:35:57.360 a good look, and I ran to play and it 0:35:57.520 --> 0:36:01.360 was a good look. Man. Is that a record you regret? No? No, 0:36:01.880 --> 0:36:04.719 I just the record with the record. I just didn't 0:36:04.719 --> 0:36:06.800 want to touch it. Before I touched it, you know 0:36:06.800 --> 0:36:09.400 what I'm saying. And after I tested, I appreciated it. 0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:12.120 It's the closest I can get, the pac Man closest 0:36:12.239 --> 0:36:15.120 I'm seeing me as far as you know, given a 0:36:15.239 --> 0:36:20.160 dedication and without without directly giving a dedication. So it 0:36:20.320 --> 0:36:23.279 was dope, man it. I loved it and everything. I 0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:25.719 appreciate everybody that was involved. You know the same dude 0:36:25.760 --> 0:36:29.239 who played Pa was in there in the video. Yeah, 0:36:29.440 --> 0:36:32.279 my boy, so it the whole killer kid man. I 0:36:32.360 --> 0:36:34.239 loved it, but it was crazy. You know you did, 0:36:34.360 --> 0:36:36.160 you did right by it. Like that's like, you know 0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:39.879 Mac dre record, I left Matt, that's Mac a Jack 0:36:39.920 --> 0:36:46.440 of Record, big dog. Who's who is like your top 0:36:46.520 --> 0:36:55.000 five all Timezzi, top five hours, Pa, dribble Pot. I 0:36:55.040 --> 0:36:57.200 don't want to leave nobody else. So it gets spunky, 0:36:57.239 --> 0:36:59.040 and you know, I'm from the eighties, but I'm gonna 0:36:59.040 --> 0:37:00.960 just give it to you rang. You know the snoops 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:09.040 bock snoop wang d MX DMX is he don't get 0:37:09.080 --> 0:37:16.880 mentioned enough in that conversation. Uh, somebody else too, somebody 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:20.200 else something about DMX and his like his ability to 0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:23.160 convey pain through his voice. That's what it is. It 0:37:23.320 --> 0:37:26.080 is crazy, that's what it is. Bro. Like those prayers 0:37:26.120 --> 0:37:29.359 on his albums. Ship Man, I was crying to one 0:37:29.400 --> 0:37:33.239 of his songs that Nigga said. I forgive what it was, 0:37:33.360 --> 0:37:36.920 but I cried. I cried even on the slipping I'm falling, 0:37:37.040 --> 0:37:39.759 I can't get up. That's my when that come on 0:37:40.320 --> 0:37:44.080 that whole Belly, when he played Belly, when he played Tommy, yep, yeah, 0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:48.960 that's I function with dude, heavy, straight up. And then 0:37:49.000 --> 0:37:52.400 he got the beautiful struggle he endured. You watching him struggle, 0:37:52.719 --> 0:37:55.160 whether through the drug abuse, through the going to jail, 0:37:55.280 --> 0:37:59.200 blse a real one. He's just naturally a real one. 0:37:59.320 --> 0:38:01.680 You know what I don't I hate about our generation 0:38:01.920 --> 0:38:04.239 is like like a lot of people try to shame 0:38:04.320 --> 0:38:08.239 DMX because of his demons, but nowadays it's like that's 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:11.719 just a normal business. That Nigga said, she with me, 0:38:11.800 --> 0:38:14.640 then she hugged me, kissed me on my forehead, told 0:38:14.680 --> 0:38:17.160 me that she loved me. I saw that and her too. 0:38:17.280 --> 0:38:19.480 More than it hurt me. I'm thinking, damn, man, how 0:38:19.600 --> 0:38:22.360 bad could this hurt be? I know now that what 0:38:22.560 --> 0:38:25.200 you did was all out of love. What I wouldn't 0:38:25.239 --> 0:38:29.440 do for one more hug from grandmom Baby, It's gonna 0:38:29.480 --> 0:38:35.640 be okay. Yeah, that's my shit right there like that, 0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:38.680 just that type of shit. Before my grandmother passed. That 0:38:38.840 --> 0:38:41.640 was my favorite song when my grandmother past. It's saw 0:38:41.840 --> 0:38:46.160 I slacked crazy. Ye shout out to DMX that I 0:38:46.239 --> 0:38:48.400 feel like that's something that's in the room of possibilities. 0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:52.040 He'd be hopping on. He'd be hopping on people shit sometimes. Nah, 0:38:52.040 --> 0:38:54.120 I'm finna go get him. You know, I don't even 0:38:54.200 --> 0:38:56.520 buy versus. I don't pay for versus. That's what you've 0:38:56.600 --> 0:38:59.680 never paid for first thus far, man, I'm like, a 0:39:00.120 --> 0:39:02.520 all this rip is you know, don't I ain't got 0:39:02.600 --> 0:39:05.640 shit clear, We ain't gonna let's keep that clear. Yeah, 0:39:05.640 --> 0:39:07.839 I didn't got some ship clear man. I didn't pay 0:39:07.920 --> 0:39:10.160 for Niggs to come show up for the video player. 0:39:10.360 --> 0:39:13.759 I'm saying, get them right, But I'm I'm majority of 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:18.680 my features and collaborations, it's people that I genuinely fuck 0:39:18.719 --> 0:39:21.080 with and they genuinely fuck with me. Yeah, so I 0:39:21.120 --> 0:39:23.239 don't never I ain't never really went out my way, 0:39:23.560 --> 0:39:27.200 but a DMX, Erica Badou my dog just got the 0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:31.080 Anthony Hamilton them like my three that I I cast 0:39:31.200 --> 0:39:34.200 out on spot. Let's go. I just want to work 0:39:34.239 --> 0:39:38.480 with you, DMX because that's my childhood. That's when he 0:39:38.560 --> 0:39:41.239 when I feel like you, I can hear DMX and 0:39:41.320 --> 0:39:44.719 your sh that's my Erica Bado. That's my childhood. I 0:39:44.960 --> 0:39:48.600 just that's what we was. And then you know, Anthony Hamilton, 0:39:48.680 --> 0:39:51.440 that's Grannie. I ain't know nothing about it, Anthony Hamilton. 0:39:51.480 --> 0:39:54.719 Granny took me to a show, a little concert, and 0:39:55.000 --> 0:39:56.319 you know, I ain't even want to go with her. 0:39:56.400 --> 0:39:58.360 I'm like, you know, that's old folks. Shit, she already 0:39:58.440 --> 0:40:01.759 doing oh O G. I was raised by Granny, so 0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:05.160 she'd go to old restaurants, old shows, and I ain't 0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:08.160 got time for this. I'm seventeen, sixteen, seventeen or something. 0:40:08.360 --> 0:40:11.080 I'm thugging, you know what I'm saying. I'm banging old work, 0:40:11.160 --> 0:40:14.160 Fourth Avenue, Bluff. I'm right, yeah, I'm not aware. I 0:40:14.280 --> 0:40:16.239 go to the show now, coming from where I'm from, 0:40:16.280 --> 0:40:18.799 album was crazy what I go to the show? Bray 0:40:18.880 --> 0:40:21.760 took me to church for sure, coming from Round Front album, 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:26.000 I know that whole album. Today, Classic album did a 0:40:26.040 --> 0:40:29.840 lot of yeah. Yeah, that's my dog though. Anthony Hamilton, 0:40:29.920 --> 0:40:33.479 he just knocked something out for me too word oh shit. 0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:36.440 A song for it dedicated to Granny. It was supposed 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:39.160 to make the album, but I'm saying me my management 0:40:39.200 --> 0:40:41.719 pump fake know I'm a highlighting about it, Fucking Dave. 0:40:43.719 --> 0:40:45.000 I mean how much? I mean, I already know you 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:47.480 already got most. I mean you gotta be how many 0:40:47.560 --> 0:40:49.600 records you're sitting on right now, bro, at least a 0:40:49.760 --> 0:40:53.560 forty pip nine. I'm just talking about dope shit, crazy shit, 0:40:53.600 --> 0:40:57.320 at least a little fody pip I'm talking about album material, 0:40:57.400 --> 0:40:59.799 shit that I approved, like, yeah, we could put something 0:40:59.800 --> 0:41:02.120 together other thing, you know, outside of what I approve, 0:41:02.200 --> 0:41:04.200 I got crazy shit. I just you know, it be 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:06.799 what you call them, like scraps. They just be all 0:41:06.880 --> 0:41:08.759 types of scraps where niggas just go in there, do 0:41:08.840 --> 0:41:11.319 a verse in the hook and never do it, never right, 0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:13.840 and then pull it up four years later, like no, 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:17.239 sh it was fire, nigga. We could have made a 0:41:17.280 --> 0:41:19.200 heat out of this YO with this album. I feel 0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:22.560 like this has been the I feel like y'all's roll 0:41:22.640 --> 0:41:25.160 out this go round has been so crazy, and it's 0:41:25.200 --> 0:41:27.120 so crazy because we're in the middle of a quarantine. 0:41:27.239 --> 0:41:30.719 You hear me, though, They lucky niggas is a lucky quarantine. 0:41:30.840 --> 0:41:33.640 Slid up and shut shit down because they would have 0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:36.600 got spunky. I'm talking by it. It got spunky on 0:41:36.719 --> 0:41:40.080 them radio runs on this tour. It you know, we 0:41:40.160 --> 0:41:41.840 would have caused here. It would have gave a lot 0:41:41.880 --> 0:41:44.959 of niggas a lot of problems. Man. But I ain't 0:41:45.040 --> 0:41:47.000 mad at it, man, I'm loving to support a lot 0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:50.080 of people in the industry getting behind it. I'm just 0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:54.120 I'm beyond appreciative. I let a whole album. It's really me. 0:41:54.560 --> 0:41:57.360 It's an album that you know, if you ask nigga, 0:41:57.400 --> 0:42:00.720 what album would you recommend if you're first time listener 0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:04.440 of Mazi, it'll be beyond bulletproof. And not because it's 0:42:04.880 --> 0:42:07.560 not because it's new right now now it's great. Not 0:42:07.800 --> 0:42:11.479 it's because it's great. I got a lot of ship 0:42:11.560 --> 0:42:15.040 where O G person they hear it and and with 0:42:15.320 --> 0:42:19.360 mind their kids listening to it. You feel me versus 0:42:19.560 --> 0:42:21.120 just you know what I'm saying, because it's some ship 0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:24.240 that they they they ain't functioning what they come from. Mazie. 0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:27.040 You know all that body for body right right right right, Nigga, 0:42:27.080 --> 0:42:30.279 body at the body body ship they like, come on, man, 0:42:30.320 --> 0:42:32.920 we not you know what I'm saying, But this beyond bulletproof. 0:42:33.360 --> 0:42:35.000 It just got a lot of a lot of a 0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:38.160 lot of just good game. Bro. I can't stress it enough, 0:42:38.320 --> 0:42:40.359 a lot of good game. Do you feel the need 0:42:40.480 --> 0:42:43.040 to move a little differently because I feel like, now, Mazie, 0:42:43.040 --> 0:42:46.320 you're like, you know, you're that guy bro, like on 0:42:46.400 --> 0:42:49.200 the low. You know what I'm saying, Like, like that's 0:42:49.239 --> 0:42:51.480 the way I know you know you say you'd be ware. 0:42:51.480 --> 0:42:53.680 A lot of these motherfucker rappers won't go. But I 0:42:53.760 --> 0:42:56.040 think you know, we've seen that that can that can 0:42:56.120 --> 0:42:59.840 turn ugly. You know it could get ugly. But like you, 0:43:00.000 --> 0:43:02.520 I'm saying, these are the sacrifices we make just based 0:43:02.560 --> 0:43:04.920 on these are people that's like, you ain't going to 0:43:05.000 --> 0:43:07.799 your family reunion because it can get ugly. You're gonna 0:43:07.800 --> 0:43:09.920 you're gonna you're gonna skip out on the family reunion 0:43:10.080 --> 0:43:12.000 and going to see Granny and them because it can 0:43:12.040 --> 0:43:14.640 get ugly. Nah, nigg I'm finna go see my people. 0:43:14.680 --> 0:43:16.759 I'm finna go see my family. I'm finna go see 0:43:16.800 --> 0:43:20.080 what with with what I consider home was close to 0:43:20.200 --> 0:43:23.160 my heart with with the people who met that matter 0:43:23.600 --> 0:43:26.000 that I could see the whole royal smile. But that 0:43:26.080 --> 0:43:28.520 don't do nothing to me. I'm affected by seeing those 0:43:28.600 --> 0:43:31.440 that I love dearly smell. That's what That's what that's 0:43:31.520 --> 0:43:34.239 when it counts, that's when it makes sense. That's when 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:36.719 it's like, Okay, now we onw this something. I ain't 0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:39.200 just do this for the benefit of self. I did 0:43:39.280 --> 0:43:41.439 this so so we can all you know, I'm saying 0:43:41.440 --> 0:43:44.520 me benefit from this situation. And how how how can 0:43:44.600 --> 0:43:47.880 everybody benefit from the situation. If I'm scared to pull up, 0:43:48.120 --> 0:43:50.080 if I'm scared to tap in, if I'm scared to 0:43:50.160 --> 0:43:52.400 lock in with you, if I'm scared to vibe with you, 0:43:52.480 --> 0:43:54.200 if I'm just scared of your kind, how can I 0:43:54.320 --> 0:43:56.600 be afraid of my own kind? This is what I 0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:59.279 do it for. So you know this, And that's why 0:43:59.520 --> 0:44:02.560 I funk with Nip so much. He died behind you, 0:44:02.719 --> 0:44:05.320 that Nigga died behind him. That's what he exactly about 0:44:05.320 --> 0:44:08.880 what I'm talking about about not being afraid that the 0:44:09.000 --> 0:44:12.600 function amongst your own kind. So uh, you know, that's 0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:14.719 just the risk we take, man. And I felt like 0:44:14.800 --> 0:44:17.319 I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't have a lot, 0:44:17.360 --> 0:44:20.080 I didn't gambled a lot a lot more for a 0:44:20.160 --> 0:44:25.719 lot less. That's fair man, have you because you know 0:44:26.000 --> 0:44:28.520 you've been in your your fair share of beefs per se, 0:44:29.520 --> 0:44:32.600 Now that you're at a certain level of success, do 0:44:32.719 --> 0:44:36.640 you feel like you like let certain shit go or 0:44:36.800 --> 0:44:38.839 like maybe like man Mozzi from three years ago might 0:44:38.880 --> 0:44:41.160 have did this, now, I let a lot of shit go, 0:44:41.520 --> 0:44:43.960 not only to my success, just because Yeah, you're right 0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:47.000 due to the nornoriety. Man. You talk about being like 0:44:47.080 --> 0:44:48.560 your self improved, Like I feel like you know what 0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:52.560 I'm saying. You're right, man, I let a lot of 0:44:52.600 --> 0:44:55.680 shit go, man, because I understand my position. I understand 0:44:55.719 --> 0:44:59.360 what I mean to my people, and you know it. 0:45:00.080 --> 0:45:02.359 I can't afford to go to jail them. Nigga's losing out, 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:05.000 So I let a lot of shit go straight up man. 0:45:05.080 --> 0:45:08.239 And you know, but at the same time, I stand firm, 0:45:08.560 --> 0:45:12.000 I stand on my principles. I stand firm, and you 0:45:12.080 --> 0:45:13.840 know I'm gonna hold my own ground. I hold my 0:45:13.920 --> 0:45:16.719 own ground, and Nigga play with me sentimental value. Never 0:45:16.800 --> 0:45:18.680 said the thing you gave to me? Hey, who the 0:45:18.760 --> 0:45:21.160 king of macamental? They gonna say, it's me. I ain't 0:45:21.200 --> 0:45:23.040 trying to end up in the ping That shit gay 0:45:23.120 --> 0:45:27.319 to me? Year mean that whole, that whole boy right there, 0:45:27.400 --> 0:45:30.759 explain it? What's your favorite song on the album? All 0:45:30.880 --> 0:45:33.600 of them motherfuckers. Every day anytime somebody asks me that. 0:45:33.719 --> 0:45:37.440 One day it'd be Nigga behind I mean, bulletproofly, the 0:45:37.560 --> 0:45:40.200 next day be betrayed. Then I'd be like, nah, today 0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:42.920 Nigga unethical and deceitful. Then they'd be like, nah, the 0:45:43.000 --> 0:45:45.719 homies want to know. Really the hardest. But I'm functioning 0:45:45.800 --> 0:45:50.160 with that. You it's crazy, I can't it's whatever. Whatever 0:45:50.280 --> 0:45:55.120 I'm feeling. So right now, what I'm feeling is the 0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:59.000 homies want to know. Okay, yeah, the homies want to know. 0:45:59.040 --> 0:46:01.480 We're Finnah drop the vio to that. I feel like 0:46:02.719 --> 0:46:06.520 that that explains everything. That explains everything about the Alpum. 0:46:06.560 --> 0:46:08.680 I mean, that's that's the core, that's the heartbeat of 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:10.640 the album. Is it harder to shoot the videos now? 0:46:11.000 --> 0:46:12.680 If you have, like like the record with Polo G 0:46:12.840 --> 0:46:15.800 or the record with Herbo, Like, are those like because 0:46:15.800 --> 0:46:18.279 of what's going on? Like, it's fellow harder. I just 0:46:18.360 --> 0:46:21.560 shot a Quarantine video. You gonna see that, motherfucker. But nah, 0:46:21.640 --> 0:46:24.120 it's it's it's it's most definitely been a disturbance in 0:46:24.200 --> 0:46:26.600 the videos due to the quarantine. It's a lot of 0:46:26.680 --> 0:46:29.920 niggas I wanted to shoot with that, you know, the 0:46:30.040 --> 0:46:35.399 quarantine didn't enable us to shoot with so. But it's 0:46:35.480 --> 0:46:37.680 good though, because I got a lot of work down 0:46:37.800 --> 0:46:42.160 before you feel me, before the virus even hit. I 0:46:42.600 --> 0:46:47.080 cooked up and I got a lot of just good, good, good, 0:46:47.200 --> 0:46:51.279 memorable moments for the roll out, and so I'm satisfied. 0:46:51.680 --> 0:46:53.360 I ain't tripping it and the rest of it, the 0:46:53.440 --> 0:46:55.360 rest of the songs I could do to the necklace. 0:46:55.680 --> 0:46:57.800 So it's been gucci. I made it work in my favor. 0:46:58.160 --> 0:47:02.279 We ain't gonna make no excuses. Well the album is out. Uh, 0:47:02.960 --> 0:47:06.279 great body of work, man, beyond bulletproof. Y'ay snatch, go 0:47:06.400 --> 0:47:10.799 get that mother immediately. You heard better. Better man, great 0:47:10.880 --> 0:47:13.040 body of work, great body work, the dopest ship that 0:47:13.120 --> 0:47:16.000 I've dropped thus far. Just that one or one up 0:47:16.040 --> 0:47:19.200 talk for me for sure. That's my boy. I needed 0:47:19.239 --> 0:47:23.160 somebody to tell me that. No, no, not the I 0:47:23.200 --> 0:47:25.160 mean I think they're on part with each other, Yo, Mazzi, 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:28.200 thank you for coming through. Brother. Appreciate the plaque too. Bro, 0:47:28.440 --> 0:47:30.400 mom man, you know you're the fella fella, man, you 0:47:30.520 --> 0:47:34.160 already know I appreciate the unwavering love and support y'all 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:37.080 have been functioning with me. It feels like since day one, 0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:39.800 not a dead every time we interview somebody, I always 0:47:39.840 --> 0:47:41.560 try to figure out a way to bring you up, like, 0:47:46.640 --> 0:47:50.640 appreciate you broney all day perfectly boom