WEBVTT - Episode 249 "Flau'jae" 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:05.640 Borrow with me here, you know, BT, it's so low 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.800 shout O O C T calor what we see whole game? 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.560 Read the baller something. Oh, you can't stand on their own, Sufi. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.239 I already know you can't with me because with the 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:16.759 squad of me, they get at that. They called me. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:26.400 Hello, ball Alert Welcome to The Baller Show. Podcasts available 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.520 everywhere you get your podcast. Please continue to like, subscribe, 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.720 and share our YouTube page at baller alert TV. I 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.239 go by the name of Ferrari Simmits, you. 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.440 Know BT with that oh man superstars snap. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:45.199 Champions here, I like that thing. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:45.640 What's up? 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:47.080 What's going on? 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:53.920 I can't remember the last time I watched the woman's 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.880 national uh uh n C double A championship game. More 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.440 and more locked in then you're a game. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:02.800 Yeah, yeah, it was crazy. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.000 That was my first women's basketball game that I've ever watched. 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.440 Yeah it was. It was a hell of a game, 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.200 more so because I know you. Yeah, and I've known 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.880 you since I corrected age sixteen. Yeah, you came to 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.319 the radio station. Jermaine Duprix brought you to the radio 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.040 station that I previously worked at. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.759 Right, Actually, that probably was when I was younger. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:27.160 Than so you were you was she younger than fifteen thirteen? 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.200 So you were you were up at the radio station. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:31.440 You're definitely not this tall. 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.920 No, no, you were on the. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.680 Now, which season were you on? 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:38.920 I was on season three? 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.679 So which what were the names that were on season three? 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:47.280 It was me Nova, d Roscoe, Roscoe Tally. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.880 I didn't even know you played basketball, yeah, yeah, until 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.680 until I saw was it aau or what was it? 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.880 It was a It was like clips on your Instagram 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:58.840 and I was like, oh wow, she hooped h and 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.440 then you into l s U. Can we take it 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.160 back to the rap game first? 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:04.920 Let's take it back. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:06.080 Let's say, where are you from. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:11.520 I'm from Savannah, Georgia to Atlanta around like fifth grade. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:12.040 Fifth grade. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.080 I could, like, you know, start my rap career in 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:15.239 my basketball now. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.640 Of course, your dad is a very well known rapper, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.200 one of the biggest rappers in the beginning ages of 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:27.799 Southern rap, Camouflage RP, the Camouflage. You are his only kid. Yeah, okay, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.720 and you weren't born yet when he passed away, correct, 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.240 And so how was it like for you? 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.280 That's how it all started, like in the city, Like 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:39.880 my mom didn't tell me my dad was. At first, 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.160 I just like found out the people telling me, like 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:43.880 you feel me like that he was a rapper, you 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.239 know what I'm saying, legendary rappers, legendary rapper. See, I 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.040 didn't know you know what I'm saying until like I'm 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.040 walking around, I'm getting like a little special treatment. They're like, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:51.840 oh you flage daughter. I'm like, yeah, you know what 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.520 I mean, And I want to go listen. And I 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.799 did my research and I'm like, hey, he was hard though, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:58.640 like you know what I'm saying. He wasn't like regular 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.359 and man, so I heard that, I was like, man, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.920 I'm finna wrap like it was just it was that 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:08.400 the ending of his name camouflage flage, yeah in that. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.280 So I just heard that and I was inspired to Matt. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.560 I just got chill bumps, like you know what I'm saying. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:14.840 How old are you at this time when you're learning 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:15.520 who your dad is? 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:19.280 Seven six seven? And then one day me and my 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.640 uncle was on the floor putting CDs and and the 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.640 DVD thing and it played played the instrumental and I 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.440 just started rapping over like the raps ain't made no sense, 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:28.880 But I was like, I like this beat, and my 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:29.839 uncle wrote me a song. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.920 It was over it. How did mom get involved? Because 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:33.320 she hesitated at first. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.640 Or what She'll always was all in like, no, you're 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.200 not rapping, you know what I'm saying. She was like, no, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.320 go read a book, go to school, act regular, you 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:42.840 know what I'm saying. And I was like, no, I 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.040 want to rap, like I'm a rapper, Like I gotta rap, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.280 you know what I mean. So I was like, I 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.360 was like yeah, and I kind of me and my 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.040 uncle we convinced her because he like wrote me a 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:53.520 song and I wrapped it to her on the bed. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.160 I was sitting on the standing on the bed rapping. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.640 I was like, she laughing in the background. Just sounds 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:58.119 pretty afric. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.560 I was rapping on the bed. She recorded it, man, 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.480 I was like, man, this is my song. I went 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.520 to the studio, made a little EP and I put 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.360 it out and then I performed at my dad birthday 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.680 party she do every year for him, and like my 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.400 aunties and uncles and they so you know, they was 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.320 turning me up, hyping me up. But I was rocking 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.040 the stage like for real, and they was like, but 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.680 she got something. So my mama posting on YouTube. The 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.719 clip when a little viral like in the city back then, 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.480 probably ten thousand views, like that was a lot of views. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:32.360 Yeah yeah, the whole population right right right, but you 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.520 know how y'all let but no, it was like it 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:36.960 was like I'm lit. So they was like does she 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.280 do birthday parties and stuff like that? 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.880 And I was like yeah, like are you performing for 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:41.839 people's birthdays? 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.800 Yeah? So she went from not wanting me to rap 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:45.640 to being like, yeah, we take bookings, you feel me? 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:46.120 So she. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:52.159 Became she became mama during an instant and ever since 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.440 then she quit a job. Like when we moved to 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.279 Atlanta to go in the rap game, she quit her job. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.839 Wow, so moms quit her job to become for you 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:01.039 to come on the rap game. 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.000 Full time, Like because we was in a rap game. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:04.400 People don't know. We was in the rap Gann House 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.880 for three months straight, like we just had to move there, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.159 you feel me? So like was she gonna tell her job? 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:10.560 Like you know what I'm saying, Like she had to leave, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.120 so she became full on mama. She went from Dennis 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:14.679 to manage that's wow. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.520 Yeah, it was a lot of people's parents there, a 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:18.640 lot of kids, parents not. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.480 So the only person like parent was there was Roscoe. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.359 I think, if I'm not mistaken, everybody else came with 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.799 their sister, they uncle and stuff like that. But my mama, 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.800 like my mama. Yeah, and King Roscoe shout out to 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.640 Mama DJ. They risk it all late. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.240 They Mama still be texting me Mama Rosco. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.400 Yeah, they still I love Mama DJ. But yeah, and 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:39.400 they was the only two. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.400 So how'd y'all get the call to to be on 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:42.000 the rap game? 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.279 So let me tell you. I seen the commercial the 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.360 first one. When the first one came with like a 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.600 Loto peach little Nico, I was like, oh my god, Mama, 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.160 I won't be on that, Like you know what I'm saying. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:52.960 It was like it was big because it was the 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.400 first thing with kids as rappers. I'm like, that's me, 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.200 Like you feel me. I want to be on that. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.040 So the second season hit him up. They was like, nah, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:02.920 show that one. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:03.440 No, he was. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.560 He was on the one after me. So the second 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.839 one they was like, she don't really fit the storyline 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.680 because they had like big city so it was like Brooklyn, Chicago, 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:13.640 you know what I'm saying. Stuff like that. So I'm 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.000 from Savannah. They was like that ain't gonna work. Like 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.120 all right, cool, third season they had me in consideration, 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.159 so I'm doing these zooms and stuff and then they 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.120 was like, no, you ain't make it. But you were 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.680 alternate though, so like something happened if somebody drop out 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.920 and you can come. It happened like somebody dropped out 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.159 and we did an interview. They was like, we love you, 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.200 get welcome to the show. And it happened like that. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:34.640 And at that time, I was like, man, but get 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.600 y'all y'all want me on the show anyway? My mom 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.480 was like no, do it, Like you know what I'm saying, 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.400 the best thing she ever said. So you know, I 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.800 make it on the show. And like that was like 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.560 that rest was like history. How did your world turn around? 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:48.440 Oh? 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:48.760 Man? 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.719 Like I don't think people understand the magnitude of like 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.120 that show. Like we were like every Friday you watched 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.560 the rap game like in the Black household, like that's 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:00.880 where it was. I was like, you know what I'm saying, 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:02.880 Like it got to a point one time, remember when 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.160 our races was so high that the golf the Masters 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.039 was on and then we passed the Masters, Like you 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.480 know what I'm saying, viewership, So it was that big 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.560 and like that right there just stamped my face. You 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.120 know what I'm saying in the culture, you know what 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:15.960 I'm saying, and the kids and the parents and everything. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.600 I still to this day, I Onlyn look the same 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.640 from the rap game, you feel me so like it 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.760 was just such a big platform and I wanted to 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.240 shout out JD for that because he really put kids 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.520 in the position to be able to be like noticed 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.640 on this large scale. Yeah, I just hit him. I 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.520 was like, Jay, you we gotta do something like for the culture. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.400 And man, it was so big for me being a kid, 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:36.720 because it was no way I was gonna get my 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.440 music out there because nobody wanted to re listen no 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.440 twelve year old rap. Like my voice was screaky, screechy, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.720 and like, you know, I wasn't really talking about nothing, 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.760 you know what I'm saying. So it was just a 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.000 good way to put my face out there for. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.760 Yeah, I see JD was talking about that about how 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.400 you know he feel like that kids don't get the 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:54.680 recognition that they used to. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:55.400 Back in the day. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.560 It was different me because we was getting a little 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.000 bad because like I on the TV show like they 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.560 were throwing that bag. Like kids shows was a big market. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.040 It ain't as a big, biggest market as you are 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:07.440 gonna be when you like you know what I'm saying, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.160 But it's still a big market because it's like a 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.000 whole bunch of little kids and when they come to 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:12.360 the show, they got to bring their parents, so that's 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:13.000 an extra ticket. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.920 So were you getting booked to like perform across the country, 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:17.520 like for birthday parties and stuff like that. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.920 Birthday parties little kids showed, they used to put on 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.080 that little theaters, like you know what I'm saying. And 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.520 they actually did a Rap Game tour, but they left 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.200 me off. I was so mad, Bro, they got me 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.000 on a tour, but it was a dope tour because 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.160 they were doing amphitheaters and you know what I'm saying. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.280 So it was a big market and people were really 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:33.840 coming to see it. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.880 It was dope. So you're you're you're this big superstar 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.400 from the Rap Game and then all of a sudden, 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.480 I just start seeing you on my timeline hooping though, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.160 Like when I'm talking about like hooping, like I'm over here, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.920 like you crossing folks over late with the lay leg 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.760 I'm over here, Like, Yo, why didn't I never see this? 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.280 Like are you still hooping when the rap game is 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:54.679 going on? 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.240 Or you just everybody think I just started hooping and 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.280 rapping out of nowhere. I've been doing this my whole life, 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:00.920 like you know what I'm saying. I've been hooping before. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.120 I've been rapping for for like with the boys at 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.000 the Boys Club. So I've been doing it my whole life, 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.320 but I never put it on the camera, like you 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.320 know what I'm saying, Like no nobody knew. And then 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.280 I was hooping at LA Fitness, like you know what 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.160 I'm saying. So I'm playing against dudes every day, like 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:14.920 I'm going to the gym every day. I'm playing against 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.880 grown men, like going at it, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:19.720 So when it was time for me to go play 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.440 with the girls on AAU, I'm running through them. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:23.800 But your girl. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.360 But the teams that I was on, they was like 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.720 they were no high seed teams or we were no 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.240 big eybl teams. So I wouldn't get no recognition until 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.000 like my damn, my junior year, you feel me, And 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.160 that's the last year you could play. Yeah, in high 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.120 school over aau because the next year you were seeing 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:41.560 you're done. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:42.360 Oh gos right. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.200 So my sophomore year, I was playing on Bounced Nation 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.439 right with Jay. My uncle Mon got in contact for 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.160 street is six. So he was like, yeah, bro, fly 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.480 like you could play in college. And I'm right now 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:55.960 I'm getting a little bit of rapping. When I'm like, bro, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:57.520 I'm rapping, I'm finna get a deal. I'm gonna go 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.360 to LA. I'm not worried about college right now. He 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:00.920 was like, if I get you on the phone, this 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:02.680 coach and she tells you she offer you a scholarship 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.600 what you're doing, or like, give me on the phone. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.000 You know my first offer taught to coach you know 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.600 from Old Miss. She like, hey, this coachyo at Old Miss. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.760 We offer you a full scholarship. Damn, Like this is real, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.720 Like you know what I'm saying, Like college, Like I didn't. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.640 It didn't register because I'm like, bro, like what girls 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.120 do in college? They don't hoop for real, Like you 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.920 know what I'm saying because like just like half the 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.800 rest of the country, I ain't watch remming basketball for 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.200 real for real, you know what I'm saying. And so 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.199 I was like, girls ain't talking about Like I only 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.600 knew boys go to go to college and go to 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:31.840 the lead and get it. Pray. I ain't hear no 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:36.320 girls doing this. I'm like, did my research, Dang, like 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.520 I could play in college, Like you know what I'm saying, 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:39.839 this could be something like I never knew I could 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.560 play on this stage. Like yeah, next thing, you know, 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.040 my offer started racking up, racking or racking up. I 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.360 got every offer in the country, like except for Yukon 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:48.720 in South Carolina. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.760 Like she remember, oh yeah they come out to South 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:52.880 Carolina with them dogs. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.160 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had every I did not get 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.040 the offer from South Carolina or Yukon. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.760 Though, like the two ones right there. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.480 Yeah. She called me and then she like she was 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.120 like so, she was like, so, look, I like your 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.120 game whatever, but I ain't gonna offer you yet. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:08.319 And I was like what. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.160 And it's the time I got the big head because 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:16.800 I'm getting every from South Carolina name Don the Phone No, no, no, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:21.600 coach Don legendary. But I was like, I was like, 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.880 all right, man, scratch that off the list. So I 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.920 was like, because in this moment, I'm like I'm getting 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.599 every off I won't you feel me? Like, but I 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.400 still ain't know where I was going to go to college. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.640 And next summer I met Donald American played the Jordan 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.760 Brand Classic. I Want m v P Slam Classic. I 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.040 want m v P and he a the top girls 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.120 then and I'm ranked fifty five, like you feel me. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.240 So I had a little chip on my shoulder like 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.400 I'm coming here and like it's like they bringing on, 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:47.320 bring me here because they know me and they know 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.400 my namely from the rap game, but they really want 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.240 to see, like what she talking about coming here? And 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.800 I'm marking them, folks, you got no more player here. 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.160 I don't want her on my team. Put on the 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.920 other team, you feel me. M v P. Snatch that 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:02.280 Emmy that yeah? Yeah, literally, yeah number one? Play on 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:03.960 that team. Oh yeah, I don't even want to play 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.480 with you. Let's go scratch that. Give me that m VP. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:07.079 You feel me? 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.640 So yeah, yeah, yeah yeah talk that. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:11.680 I had to let him know, like I'm not to 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.079 be played with, you know what I'm saying, And that 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.320 was just building that foundation in that rep as a 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.360 basketball player, because I ain't have none. They've been playing 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.600 on the circuit since seventh grade. They getting scouted and 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.760 you said, seventh grade, I'm rapping. I ain't. You ain't hooping. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.079 So I had to get it out the mud. And 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.040 then I became like the number six guard in the country. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.120 What made what made you select l Su? 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.280 We'll be right back with more of the Baller Alert Show. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.600 You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.800 It's fly J and you're now tuned into the Baller Alert. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.480 Shout what made you select l Su? 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:46.320 Man? 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:51.360 I seen coach Mogi on TV acting crazy like she 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.319 wasn't popping it back then? How she popping it out, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.840 but she still had her orange bright blazer. She was 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.160 cussing out the ref like, man, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:12:59.520 I was like, I need to play for her. And 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.719 then I already knew her resume, so I told my 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.320 coaches because she won where before Baylor twelve chips in 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.880 a row, Like you're in her conference? Like who does that? 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.760 So she had three national championships Hall of Fame coach. 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.160 I'm like, I'm going to play for her, like you 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:13.720 know what I'm saying, Like that's what I need. But 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.520 at that time, she was at Baylor moving to LSU 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.200 and I was like, this is perfect, Like nobody over there. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.360 I can help build something, you feel me like I 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:22.959 was the first person to come over there. That was 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.160 the first McDonald American, you feel me. So I was like, well, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.960 I can build something with her. And then like coaches, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:30.679 they didn't really want to take a chance on me 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.080 in basketball, like they always asked, like what what you 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:34.400 want to do? Most though, like you know what I'm saying, 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.240 what you love right as soon as they say that, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.000 scratch you off because you a done deal. You know 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.160 what I'm saying. But the different coach mooke you was, 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.280 she was I ain't putting in no box Like on 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.280 my visit there, she took me to the studio. You 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.840 feel me, Like, yeah, she took me to the studio. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.160 She said this one you're gonna record that, Like you 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:55.679 can sign me up right now. This lady with three 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.319 championships telling me this and you win. You ain't got 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.800 no championship. You telling me that you I can't even 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.200 because you know, she see what she sees. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:02.839 You know what I'm saying. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.839 She said, in the season, you mine off season, go 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.120 do what you want, be the biggest rap star. You 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.160 know what? I'm saying, and I respected it, and we 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:12.160 weren't good quick questions. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.880 So now you were a freshman, right, correct me? From 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.520 I know, it was kind of the upper classman was like, man, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.560 hey man, you know what I'm saying. She ain't gonna 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.720 come over here and take my spot a rapper. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.000 They ain't give me a hard time. They just give 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.520 me a little side out because they knew I was 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.360 gonna come in. They was like, bro, she's gonna come 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.280 in acting boogie ye y. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:33.680 Yeah. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.000 But nah, I'm like, bro, I'm kicking it like I'm 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.040 from Savannah, Georgia, like you feel me. I'm from the city, 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.480 like I'm you know what I'm saying. So I came 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.560 in there, but I came in there like yo, you 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.840 know this this me like you know what I'm saying. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.000 I met Donald American. I'm coming here this you know 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:49.520 what I'm saying. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:50.480 Yeah. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.360 This is also Angel Reese's first year too, because she 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:55.680 transferred from Maryland. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.200 Yeah, so in my head, but you this how you 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.760 think though In my head, I'm like, I'm a freshman, 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.720 Like this is gonna be hard like that they're gonna 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.440 be hard. How I'm gonna how I'm gonna start. How'm 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:08.800 I take over the team? This is my head like, 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.960 but out there I'm telling them, yeah, what's up, like 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.640 you know what I'm saying, popping like that, but it's. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:13.960 I'm like. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:20.440 Dog, so you know, it was like a respect thing. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.360 But I came in and I was talking crazy, like 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.560 first crazy, I'm like, mater, none of y'all can't guard me. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.200 Let's go line it up like you feel. That's where 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.000 my head was at, and I was popping it like 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.800 I was crossing up talking Cray. It got to a 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.040 point where like they didn't wanna play with me, like yeah, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.280 I was talking too crazy like a ball. But I'm like, bro, 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.920 but this on my mindset was at tell you why man, 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.120 I worked too hard? Like I'm up five am. I 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.040 got another train in that team. I got another train 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:47.400 that one. I got another train that you know what 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.480 I'm I'm doing four days, I'm shooting a thousand shots today. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.240 You ain't gonna tell me I'm not finna shoot the ball, 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:54.240 like you know what I'm saying, cause I feel like 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.200 my percentage gonna better because I shoot more shots. And 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.640 that's when my head was at, like Kobe had filled 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.760 up my head. You know what I mean. But I'm 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:03.160 putting in the work and I don't see none of 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:04.480 y'all in the gym with me. So it is what 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.480 it is, you know what I'm saying. And I had 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.960 to learn, you know. Andrew had to tell me, like 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.000