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Speaker 1: we are back at it all right. Gotta give a
Speaker 1: shout out to everyone who's been rocking with us. We
Speaker 1: got a dope episode for you guys today. All right.
Speaker 1: We gotta Conway the Machine. Conway will be on the
Speaker 1: podcast with us today. Actually got to go tapping with
Speaker 1: Conway in Buffalo, New York. I'm gonna have some real
Speaker 1: dope content coming out with Empire. We're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to check out the whole tour, his hood and all
Speaker 1: that good shit. But we got to sit down and
Speaker 1: record a podcast while I was out there as well.
Speaker 1: Crazy episode. We actually found out about DMX passing during
Speaker 1: the episode, so it was pretty wild. Man. He's got
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Speaker 1: Let's get into the episode with Conway. All right, episode
Speaker 1: number fifty five of the bulet Cap Podcast, Yo bule
Speaker 1: Cap Podcast. We're live in Buffalo right now, man, first
Speaker 1: time in the city too. This guy showed me a
Speaker 1: lot of hospitality today. Conway. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Conway. The
Speaker 1: new album or album whatever we're calling this next Friday
Speaker 1: or yeah, next Friday, just calling that great music. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fuck up the pronunciation. I'm gonna rive lie
Speaker 1: my sina close. That'll do. That was close enough mocking
Speaker 1: by mocking. I see I might be saying it wrong.
Speaker 1: I think you might be. I'm trying to say the machine. Wait,
Speaker 1: we got a Mexican in the house. He's saying it right, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Mexican approved. Shout out my guy Cooked, shout
Speaker 1: out to my guy. Nah. Yeah, I mean shit, you
Speaker 1: just dropped the ship with ghosts this year already. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: project number two. Yeah, you know, no, I can't be
Speaker 1: still man, you know what I'm saying. You know, Idle
Speaker 1: Hands is the Devil's workshop, man, so I try to,
Speaker 1: you know, stay busy. Man. My son texted me in
Speaker 1: the middle of the interview and shout out to bootleg
Speaker 1: Kevin Junr. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy because that's kind of
Speaker 1: been your guys, is in like the whole camp's entire
Speaker 1: like approach to the game, right, it's just NonStop pressure
Speaker 1: like from the jump, like and and now the fans
Speaker 1: almost expect you know, you guys have more output than
Speaker 1: most artists, especially you, Like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like we get a lot of Conway music. Is it
Speaker 1: come easy? Like like I know you've been like for example,
Speaker 1: the Shady Records album, I know it's been it's been
Speaker 1: done or a version of it has been done for
Speaker 1: a while. Yeah, it's been done for like maybe probably
Speaker 1: like a year or two yeah, close to a year.
Speaker 1: Two yeah, closer two years. Honestly, damn shit been done.
Speaker 1: But it do come easy to me because, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not in there really like going to the club
Speaker 1: and going out and partying and you know, fucking off
Speaker 1: and a bunch of the other ship. Like I find
Speaker 1: my fun and my excitement in the day is you know,
Speaker 1: creating a new song or just being around music and
Speaker 1: being in the studio. So it's like, you know, it
Speaker 1: definitely come easy for you, But lately it ain't becoming
Speaker 1: easy for me. Man. Honestly, I've been having like some
Speaker 1: kind of like writers block or just not I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's just writer's block or is it just
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, It's like I'm kind
Speaker 1: of getting bored with this whole shit kind of I
Speaker 1: needed a new challenge. So that's why I started this
Speaker 1: drum work ship. I needed to do find something else
Speaker 1: to challenge myself and push myself, you know, to to
Speaker 1: just keep killing shit. Man. And so I haven't been
Speaker 1: recording to answer you a question, and been kind of
Speaker 1: like it ain't been easy. Like the last shit I
Speaker 1: recorded before I started working on this tape, was I
Speaker 1: want to sing the Stefan Diggs song off the from
Speaker 1: King to a God Deluxe. And that was in like December.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like a couple of months,
Speaker 1: couple of months off we've been kicking it and not recorded.
Speaker 1: I haven't been recording. I haven't been really been doing nothing,
Speaker 1: you know, here and there sporadically, but I ain't really
Speaker 1: been really into it all like that. Like I've been
Speaker 1: just kind of chilling and kind of like you know,
Speaker 1: trying to you know, uh, detach myself from music. I
Speaker 1: hadn't really been listening to music and none of that shit.
Speaker 1: I like that, Like I just did you find it
Speaker 1: that kind of TV? Did that like help like with
Speaker 1: with with kind of refreshing your enthusiasm? Yeah? It did. Man,
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta, you know what I'm saying, you gotta
Speaker 1: take a step back to take two forward, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And you know, sometimes you got a
Speaker 1: more fucking uh deprogrammed so you can reprogram, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I kind of needed that, man.
Speaker 1: I needed to just kind of because I was just
Speaker 1: so high pressed on you know, like I just wanted
Speaker 1: to I just wanted. I just want it so bad,
Speaker 1: like I just want to be the best. I want
Speaker 1: people considering me like one of the illest, like they
Speaker 1: will talk about you know whoever in their top five
Speaker 1: right right right right being that conversation and and then
Speaker 1: I just you know, I just overthink shit a lot,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, especially like I get the
Speaker 1: feeling like Slider and Ship like being left off lists
Speaker 1: and if I'm not number one on us such just
Speaker 1: this nigga list, so that like I just over and
Speaker 1: then that ship just was kind of like just you
Speaker 1: know what, man, let me just fall back for a second,
Speaker 1: because it's like I feel like I've been saying some
Speaker 1: of the like the ill ship man, the ship like
Speaker 1: niggas is coming with. But it's like I agree if
Speaker 1: it ain't you know what I mean. You and you
Speaker 1: had this conversation, and you had this conversation when there
Speaker 1: was that best verse of the Year conversation and no
Speaker 1: one talked about the verse you had on the the
Speaker 1: fire in the Booth ship, which is like one of
Speaker 1: the hard I revisit that freestyle, I feel like once
Speaker 1: once a week, like yeah, well fuck them the idiots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I do feel like though last year, you
Speaker 1: got a lot of love on a lot of lists
Speaker 1: when it came to the best album of the year,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the love too. I feel like people
Speaker 1: were giving you your flowers last year. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I need that. I needed that, man, and
Speaker 1: I needed like you know, this is a ship that
Speaker 1: drives me. You know what I'm saying, being left off lists.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, being second or third or
Speaker 1: fifth or not on the list, Like that's the ship
Speaker 1: that you know. I pay attention to everything. I just
Speaker 1: don't respond to everything, and even if even and then
Speaker 1: sometimes I do respond to it, but that don't mean
Speaker 1: it's like a response like a comment or or a
Speaker 1: direct verbal response. It's me. I respond by going the
Speaker 1: studio and I'm gonna show y'all, show these niggas. That's
Speaker 1: how I do. That's always been my attitude with everything.
Speaker 1: And you know, like I said, like you said, like
Speaker 1: niggas been giving me my roses and all. I respect that. Man.
Speaker 1: I just I just appreciate. I need a battery in
Speaker 1: my back to just you know, to just strive for more.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm always striving for to be better
Speaker 1: every day kind of like I feel like it's like
Speaker 1: Tom Brady type shit, right, Like I feel like Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: it's so much juice from everyone every year talking about
Speaker 1: he's falling off or whatever the fuck, Like it's really
Speaker 1: some sports type shit, like some of the grades like
Speaker 1: are when they're doubted or second guest, that's how they
Speaker 1: that's how they perform best, you know what I'm saying, right, See,
Speaker 1: like you know, having six like like fear of not
Speaker 1: making it and not taking them there drove me. It
Speaker 1: drives me more than you know, because if like I
Speaker 1: don't want to let people down. I don't want to
Speaker 1: let myself down. I don't want to let my niggas down,
Speaker 1: my family down, my son's down. So it's like I
Speaker 1: kind of like people just not you know, in my
Speaker 1: mind giving me my flowers or just like you know,
Speaker 1: respecting this shit like it make me go even crazier.
Speaker 1: So you said earlier you were like, yo, I like
Speaker 1: obsessed because I want it all. I want to be
Speaker 1: considered in those conversations, right, So I feel like that's
Speaker 1: almost and you say you also pay attention to everything,
Speaker 1: So I feel like if you pay attention to everything.
Speaker 1: It'd be kind of hard for you to like come
Speaker 1: to peace with like because no one, not everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: feel like you are in their top five or whatever,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it could either drive
Speaker 1: you crazy, you could always you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: or it could keep fuel with you, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, because even that's I mean, you know, not
Speaker 1: to cut you off. But that's that's the that's actually
Speaker 1: the fun part because you're knowing like nobody's in everybody's
Speaker 1: top five, right, It's not no rap niggas. That's really
Speaker 1: like you could go across as about fifty niggas in
Speaker 1: this room, like you you can go ask any of them.
Speaker 1: The top five is going to be all be different, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's just like it is what it is. Man.
Speaker 1: Everybody ain't gonna like the same restaurant. Everybody ain't gonna
Speaker 1: like the same that's Lebronic gonna be the best and
Speaker 1: everybody's top five Jordan ain't gonna be the right. Like
Speaker 1: it is what it is. But that's the ship. Like
Speaker 1: what if I could get to a point to where
Speaker 1: you're that body you ask It's like, Yo, Conway is
Speaker 1: the best so that's what you're striving for that up
Speaker 1: that night. I mean, and look if you put if
Speaker 1: you can pull that ship off, if you could pull
Speaker 1: that ship off, then you pull something nobody's put off.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean exactly, because then that's the
Speaker 1: undisputed exactly. You know what I'm saying because there because YO,
Speaker 1: think about what we were talking about Jordan. I don't
Speaker 1: think you'll find anyone who would ever not have Jordan
Speaker 1: in their top five and the top five, right, like
Speaker 1: what it gets a point where like subjects like Lebron
Speaker 1: No, no no, no, I think I think, but I think
Speaker 1: I think when we're talking about top five, you you
Speaker 1: would be hard pressed to find anybody who knows anything
Speaker 1: about basketball say that Jordan wasn't in their top five. Now,
Speaker 1: you might find some people who said Lebron wasn't, but
Speaker 1: those are their haters. What's your Lebron thoughts? Okay, I
Speaker 1: just gotta make sure I didn't say hater because they
Speaker 1: don't got Bron the top live because something like the
Speaker 1: NBA as well as like Rapman, there's so many incredible Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, I'll be thinking all the time, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: how many players don't get like Devin Booker and Dame
Speaker 1: Lillard and all these guys that we don't they don't
Speaker 1: even get to love that they deserve because they're playing
Speaker 1: at the same time as Steph Curry and and Johannis
Speaker 1: and you know, James Harden and Ship, like that's a
Speaker 1: real ship. So with this album, like, uh, is this
Speaker 1: kind of like, uh, you know, a layover until we
Speaker 1: get the Shady Records project? Is this? Like I like
Speaker 1: the way you put that exactly. It's the layover layover man.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know you layover, man,
Speaker 1: you gotta you got a one hour layover in Buffalo, man.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And you know that's what
Speaker 1: this album really is, man, it is I'm just having fun.
Speaker 1: I'm just rapping, you know what I'm saying, like with
Speaker 1: no care, like I was just saying earlier, Like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You know in twenty nineteen and
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, like I was driving myself crazy trying to
Speaker 1: trying to win that you know, I should be on
Speaker 1: on the list. Why ain't on? A little like I
Speaker 1: don't this year and going forward, I'm not spending no
Speaker 1: more energy, you know what I'm saying dwelling on that
Speaker 1: and tripping on that shit. You feel me, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm just having fun. I'm just being trying to just
Speaker 1: be free, free my mind and just get back to
Speaker 1: the to the front of this ship. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. The wrapping of it, You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And it's partly a lot of it is from working
Speaker 1: with someone. You know, the artists and shit that I
Speaker 1: work with, you know what I'm saying. You know, these
Speaker 1: motherfuckers inspire me. Like I'll be here and they ship.
Speaker 1: You said about the artists on your label or just
Speaker 1: in general in general, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: some of the collapse I'm doing, the features and ship
Speaker 1: that Nigga send me in and all that. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying it. You know, it's definitely inspired me, man,
Speaker 1: because I've been you know, the last few months. I
Speaker 1: want to say, since like November, probably even before that. Man,
Speaker 1: But I just gotta you know, I know how to
Speaker 1: like keep ship bottled in and I don't let shit
Speaker 1: affect me on the surface because I don't want my
Speaker 1: energy to affect nobody else or nobody else's day and
Speaker 1: none of that shit. But like mine ain't really I
Speaker 1: ain't really been in any of this shit, man, Like
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You know the people that reached out to me for
Speaker 1: a feature, and you know the artists that I'm working
Speaker 1: with now on this drum word shit, they probably don't
Speaker 1: have no idea how much what they're doing for you.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that the state keep my
Speaker 1: blade sharpened and still hang going to that love I
Speaker 1: got for this hip hop shit. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was the last collab that got sent over to
Speaker 1: you that kind of help helped inspire you a bit? Uh? Really?
Speaker 1: Like I said, all of them ships, but when I
Speaker 1: did that Juicy J joint, when Juicy Jay sent this
Speaker 1: ship over, that ship just took me it just because
Speaker 1: I was like, like, wait a minute, Juicy J want
Speaker 1: me on. I heard the beat he sent me three.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying to h like, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: get on one of them ships, whatever one you fucking with.
Speaker 1: So I did two of the three beats. I was
Speaker 1: gonna do the third one just to be you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But I did those two and like right,
Speaker 1: then and there on the spot like maybe like that
Speaker 1: hour hour or two just spreaking, and I had both
Speaker 1: of them, both of them ships, both of them just done,
Speaker 1: and I kind of just like lost my zone a
Speaker 1: third one, but I sent them bitches in, but like
Speaker 1: just hearing them and hearing a response from me rapping
Speaker 1: on ship like that, and yeah, like that ship kind
Speaker 1: of like that's that was one of the ones, like okay,
Speaker 1: let me, let me, let me, let me get in
Speaker 1: my bag man, I'm playing. Yeah, I feel like anytime
Speaker 1: I see you on someone else's ship, I feel like
Speaker 1: if you come extra crazy like that like that j
Speaker 1: I D record you. You went in on that ship, man,
Speaker 1: And he's also someone who's fucking incredible tality. That's my nigga.
Speaker 1: I don't want to let niggas down, man, because you
Speaker 1: know what they're coming to you for, like yo, like
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like they're coming to you
Speaker 1: because they know what you what you bring to that
Speaker 1: guest versus. And I would hate for me to send
Speaker 1: a nigga some ship and then he's sent it back
Speaker 1: and that ship ain't and ain't you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: it ain't right. I would hate to have to tell him, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this ain't making a cut home. You played me some
Speaker 1: ship earlier. Uh with Russ, that's not out. Russ is
Speaker 1: obviously someone who's tapped in with Griselda. I mean, Benny
Speaker 1: was supposed to go on tour with him. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I think I think when when people like Russ, who
Speaker 1: we don't really kind of expect to like have his
Speaker 1: ear to the street. And mind you, I'm a Russ fan.
Speaker 1: I know Russ, so I know better than that. But
Speaker 1: I think that the perception is amongst like generic hip
Speaker 1: hop fans is that that's not the case. I think
Speaker 1: he shout shut a lot of those people up with
Speaker 1: that Chomp project. But talk about him reaching out to you,
Speaker 1: because he's obviously had a relationship with Benny, but like
Speaker 1: like him tapping in with you, Like you know how
Speaker 1: that how that happened? Man? It was dope, man. You know,
Speaker 1: I think you know on the Instagram, you know, we
Speaker 1: chopped it up on the Gram and exchanged numbers and
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and we kind of like
Speaker 1: just you know, keep in touch and ship and you
Speaker 1: know that's a cool nigga. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: and show love. You know what I'm saying, I show love.
Speaker 1: And when he sent me the joint, he was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: I got a jointment, I think you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. We could suck him up right quick. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, sending that ship through and you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Oh yeah, you blacked out that that's
Speaker 1: something else, Like niggas don't be understanding. Like when niggas
Speaker 1: reach out to me and like send me records and
Speaker 1: like have me in mind to get on they ship
Speaker 1: like that ship just like it brings out the Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll be forgetting who I am, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like I'll be forgetting like, yeah, I don't really like
Speaker 1: the machine like people people fuck with me. People like
Speaker 1: sometimes my niggas should be having to tell me like yo, bro,
Speaker 1: like get your yog you gotta get outside, bro, you
Speaker 1: gotta move around. Fuck with you right like you you
Speaker 1: the machine. You know what I'm saying. Like so it's
Speaker 1: like because I get into like my little you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like damn this nigga us want to
Speaker 1: do a joint with you on the joint bro? That
Speaker 1: shit crazy, you know what I'm saying. So that ship
Speaker 1: that should always take me there, like what I was saying.
Speaker 1: So when he said that, I was like, damn, like shit, niggas, niggas,
Speaker 1: niggas fuck with my niggas, fuck with my flow, like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, Nah, it's crazy too.
Speaker 1: In that verse, you had mentioned something that I think
Speaker 1: I heard you mentioned before. It might have been, uh
Speaker 1: you you talked about the essentially the people who are
Speaker 1: hitting protests just to take an Instagram photo, right, Like
Speaker 1: That's something I feel like you might have talked about
Speaker 1: on another record. I feel like there was a record
Speaker 1: where you kind of had a conscious take last year
Speaker 1: that we had talked about. I don't know if was
Speaker 1: it a Jim Jones record? Was it was it? But nah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think I did a lot last shit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's crazy because we in twenty twenty one now,
Speaker 1: you know, I think last year, you know, the country
Speaker 1: went through a lot, you know what I'm saying, But
Speaker 1: I didn't. I do notice nowadays, like it's a lot
Speaker 1: of fake, woke ass motherfuckers, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like that woke shit turns into a trend. It's
Speaker 1: just trending. Yeah, and then it's kind of spending the
Speaker 1: like just the cancel culture shit that's going on. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: it's like people are really out here, like looking for
Speaker 1: opportunities just to look good on Instagram and or just
Speaker 1: to ship on somebody's life. It felt like that's that's
Speaker 1: what it feels like. And that's what you know, that
Speaker 1: line came from, that bar came from. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It do feel like that, you know. But
Speaker 1: you know, I just mind my business. Man. I stay
Speaker 1: out of the the politics and all that shit, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I use my voice through action,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I will see like you know,
Speaker 1: proclamations in the cities, Yeah, every county legislator, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, and the man all type of you know,
Speaker 1: you don't got to advertise what you Yeah, and a
Speaker 1: lot of example, I don't even post all the things
Speaker 1: that I've done right right, right right, and you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because that ain't what I do it for.
Speaker 1: Like I always hated them type of niggas, that motherfucking
Speaker 1: a nigga homeless and sit in front of them and
Speaker 1: then fucking videotape them giving them money or something like
Speaker 1: what do you do phone while they're handling them a dollar?
Speaker 1: Like I hated niggas like that, and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't care nobody, like I said, like, I really don't
Speaker 1: care nobody think of what I do and all that shit.
Speaker 1: I just always want to be remembered for my character,
Speaker 1: just being the world nigga, being solid man and just
Speaker 1: always I'll give them. I give my people the shirt
Speaker 1: off my back. Man. I just I just got a
Speaker 1: big heart. I don't know how to tell people know sometimes,
Speaker 1: so you know, I don't even remember the word. The
Speaker 1: question was no, no, no, I mean you you pretty
Speaker 1: much nailed it, you know what I'm saying. Yo, We
Speaker 1: were at we were at gun store earlier. You know,
Speaker 1: you got the Buffalo Kids Gallery, which was a very
Speaker 1: impressive place. That shit fly, that shit is crazy. But
Speaker 1: we were kind of making fun of the fact that
Speaker 1: there's been this narrative about you know, you Benny and
Speaker 1: him kind of growing apart, drifted apart, you know, et cetera,
Speaker 1: and how funny it was, like those conversations that happened online,
Speaker 1: do they ever like get frustrating because it's obviously not
Speaker 1: the case. You know what I mean, like, is it
Speaker 1: ever somewhere You're just like, yo, what the fuck? Like
Speaker 1: people are bored or what. Honestly, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You know, the people love Griselda, man, like you know
Speaker 1: this Griselda shit. Man, this thing we built, we ain't
Speaker 1: even see it being well. I knew without you know,
Speaker 1: it was gonna be special and that we was gonna
Speaker 1: be like you know what I'm saying. You know, I
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna work. And I knew because I know,
Speaker 1: I've always believed in what we was bringing on the
Speaker 1: table and the talent. But I don't even think me
Speaker 1: and Wes knew what this ship was gonna be when
Speaker 1: we started this ship up, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so some fans love us, man, and more than
Speaker 1: we know sometimes, you know what I'm saying. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's concerns, man, genuine concerns and questions from fans, like
Speaker 1: you know, when they're seeing certain little ship from the
Speaker 1: outside looking in. That's probably not the norm from what
Speaker 1: they what they're used to for us, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And you know a couple of my tweets
Speaker 1: that I put out there probably didn't help things, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yeah, right, throw the dog on
Speaker 1: the fire. Yeah, and you know, but the truth of
Speaker 1: the matter is we have grown apart. Man, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like we ain't you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We're not really the young boys no more, you know,
Speaker 1: just hanging out and you know, chasing the dream. And
Speaker 1: we all like like grown grown ass men with families
Speaker 1: and you know, response abilities and people to take care of.
Speaker 1: And we haven't. Everybody got their own brands and other
Speaker 1: things that they you know, expanding and and and and
Speaker 1: and fucking with too that you know, time is very limited,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You might not see us
Speaker 1: together all the time. You might not hear us on
Speaker 1: the same album all the time. Nigga might just genuinely
Speaker 1: didn't have time to get the worst done. Nigga might
Speaker 1: just genuinely didn't have time to pull up to the show. Right.
Speaker 1: It just you know what I mean, Like we're getting
Speaker 1: you knowldis, it's getting bigger than what we even were
Speaker 1: have thought. So you know, I could see where that
Speaker 1: you know them, you know them questions and concerns come
Speaker 1: from from like the fans and ship when I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep it on thousand and two, like this is real
Speaker 1: roal nigga time. Like some of my tweets and ship
Speaker 1: probably didn't help ease their you know what I mean
Speaker 1: right right. And the funny shit is like some of
Speaker 1: my tweets was like most all of them, shi, It's
Speaker 1: really just like some of them ships was like just
Speaker 1: like verses I wrote, like bars right that I written,
Speaker 1: and you know, weren't even nothing that I thought in
Speaker 1: my mind, like what would get taken that way right
Speaker 1: right right right right, Because I'm not no Internet dude,
Speaker 1: Like I don't even really write. I'm not the guy
Speaker 1: that's just gonna just be having Twitter, like just going
Speaker 1: crazy on Twitter, like you know what, you know, we
Speaker 1: we we family in real life, so that don't go away,
Speaker 1: that don't go away and ship forever. Yeah, I think too,
Speaker 1: Like it's unfair for fans to not expect you and
Speaker 1: Benny to grow your own brands and like you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like and and the and to level
Speaker 1: up your own ship because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like like you said it in uh on a record
Speaker 1: where you were like, uh, yeah, west Own is the land.
Speaker 1: But I did the construction. But now you got your
Speaker 1: own land and you do and you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And it's drum work, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: Benny's got BSF and that don't mean that Rick Hyde
Speaker 1: ain't fam And you know, everybody's everybody's in the next room.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I met Rick with you
Speaker 1: for the first time. Yeah, so you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's like I just think, like I think a
Speaker 1: lot of hip hop fans are conditioned that our favorite
Speaker 1: groups never last. And I know you guys aren't necessarily
Speaker 1: a group. But you know, we came up and Bu
Speaker 1: Tang had their issues and Dip said, obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: like a lot of our favorite groups didn't necessarily, you know,
Speaker 1: last as long as we like. But I think that
Speaker 1: with you guys, I'm not sure that that's the case.
Speaker 1: I just think it's like you said, it's just natural growth,
Speaker 1: natural growth. You guys are all popping as fuck, all
Speaker 1: busy as fuck. We have a businesses, we have an
Speaker 1: artists that we gotta work with and get them, you know,
Speaker 1: off and running and all that shit, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just it's just business. It's just life.
Speaker 1: We've grown, man. But you know it's just interesting too
Speaker 1: because like, yeah, we never we're not a group, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It was a group like when
Speaker 1: sine Gum was alive, was you guys are a label? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we turned into a label and like everybody was
Speaker 1: their own entity the artist like Ben he was, yeah
Speaker 1: he was Hey, shot out y'all. Y'all got nominated for
Speaker 1: Best Hip Hop Group of the BT Wars. Crazy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: not being a group, Yeah, just we just all collabed
Speaker 1: on the tape, you know what I'm saying. So I
Speaker 1: didn't even think about that like that. That's the fact.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, right, Like we weren't even a group. We
Speaker 1: got nominated for group. We just collabed on some records
Speaker 1: and you know, but you know what I mean, we
Speaker 1: together stronger and we're always gonna be strong. Dog and
Speaker 1: you know them that's family, bro' you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: They on an album, We are an incredible record. On
Speaker 1: the final final song on the album, right, there's the
Speaker 1: last record. I look at the track list and of that,
Speaker 1: I think I think it might be the last one.
Speaker 1: I forget forget. Yeah, I'm curious man, because uh, you
Speaker 1: and I are similar in age, and I don't know
Speaker 1: how much DMX meant to me coming up, and you
Speaker 1: know he's going through his health situation and hopefully you
Speaker 1: know what what it X mean to you, Like from
Speaker 1: hmm he passed. Yeah, man, I shit fucked up man,
Speaker 1: That shit fucked up man. That nigga X man X
Speaker 1: was a legend. Man. That dude was like a superhero
Speaker 1: to me as a kid. Man Like, I always always thought, like,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, nobody could really fuck with
Speaker 1: X like like no cap Like, I always thought, like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's niggas that I probably like, you know,
Speaker 1: albums and ship who I might have liked more and
Speaker 1: all that shit. But I'm just saying, like, face to face, X,
Speaker 1: pull up on you. You You know what I'm saying, You're
Speaker 1: not fucking with X Man. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I was twelve, I went
Speaker 1: to the Hard Knock Life tour and I left after
Speaker 1: DMX got off some stage. I did not even stay
Speaker 1: X Man. I did not stay for Jay Z's perform
Speaker 1: five Shuls. He definitely he did that prayer ship. Niggas
Speaker 1: couldn't fuck with X Man, no wype man, no nothing, Bro,
Speaker 1: I was so rough rided out as a kid. I
Speaker 1: used to tag up that r on my ship. Fuck
Speaker 1: that shit, true man, wresting peace, x Man, rest in Peace,
Speaker 1: dark Man, x Man. That's tough man. Damn shit fucked
Speaker 1: up too, Man. We did joint. We just on his
Speaker 1: hours and drop a new album. You guys got a
Speaker 1: record together that was supposed to come out on the
Speaker 1: new album. Damn record that ship Winnie switch joint. How
Speaker 1: was that experience? Man? I didn't get to say him, Bro,
Speaker 1: I never got a truce to bet my life. You
Speaker 1: ever talked to him on the phone or but he
Speaker 1: was he had to be a fan to get you
Speaker 1: on the album. Yeah, I seen an arm a clip. Well,
Speaker 1: Benny was down there with him and normally and all
Speaker 1: that listening to the ship and all that. So he
Speaker 1: met Benny. I don't know if west Manton, but I
Speaker 1: never met I never met the O G Man. And
Speaker 1: being on that record, I was dying. I just I was.
Speaker 1: I was hoping that Nigga would be there Atlanta. That's
Speaker 1: not get in the studio. But he was like sick
Speaker 1: of some ship and he ain't make it. That night,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So we just did our
Speaker 1: verses and left. But damn, man, I hope that ship.
Speaker 1: You know what, man, that's crazy. Man. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how to react. He died to do what Man,
Speaker 1: that's wild. DMX my when I was for about two
Speaker 1: years of my life as a kid, he was my
Speaker 1: favorite rapper in the world. Man, that's right too, that's
Speaker 1: fucking wild. I don't even know where to go from here. Really,
Speaker 1: like we look at your album's coming out, r I
Speaker 1: P the DMX, Man, that's crazy. Fuck just fucked me up.
Speaker 1: That fucked me up to anything else you want to say. Man, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you really don't feel right they talk about anything that,
Speaker 1: man like, that's crazy. Rest in peace to the dog Man.
Speaker 1: Think about that two album run this Darking Hell is Hot,
Speaker 1: Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, both in
Speaker 1: the same year. Come on, man, old number ones, Come
Speaker 1: on he brought ay? When did he had the shiny
Speaker 1: shoes popping? DMX came and shut all that ship down. Bro,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, damn yeah, it was crazy man. I
Speaker 1: was a kid, biggie and pop. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When that shit happened, like so I don't really know
Speaker 1: how to be out with this ship, this, this this
Speaker 1: fucking me up right here. Yeah man, we look rest
Speaker 1: in peace to DMX man that you know Conway got
Speaker 1: an album coming out next week. Yeah yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: like mocking that man dropping that bitch April sixteenth. Man,
Speaker 1: there it is.