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Speaker 1: Yo, hey, welcome to the Bootleg CAV Podcast. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what episode this is. We're pretty deep so far, though.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the homie Nams representing Coney Island. Nams

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Speaker 1: is on the podcast today. One of my favorite rappers.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to just the lines, he'd be saying,

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Speaker 1: this dude is fucking hilarious. Um. He's got a new

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Speaker 1: album out called Congo. His whole thing is fuck your life,

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Speaker 1: all right. You might have seen him on TikTok he

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Speaker 1: got crazy bars. Go watch the interview and the freestyle,

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Speaker 1: to listen to the motherfucking interview, but go watch the

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Speaker 1: freestyle on my YouTube page. He catches a fucking body.

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Speaker 1: and let's get into this. NAMS Interview Bootlet Cab Podcast

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Speaker 1: special guest Coney Island's finest in here. Yo, Yo, y'all,

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Speaker 1: fuck your life, bing bong, fuck your life man. Shout

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Speaker 1: out to guys. It's good to see you man. Likewise

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Speaker 1: in a few years, I know you know, we got

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Speaker 1: through the pandemic. You've been super active likewise. Uh and

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, you had an interesting rap show last night

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Speaker 1: with it was Brother Ali, Immortal Technique yourself? Who am

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Speaker 1: I missing? Supernatural? Was there Supernat? When I was a kid?

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Speaker 1: The first time I saw Supernat, I freaked out. When

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Speaker 1: I was he was like grabbing people's IDs out of

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Speaker 1: the crowd and shit and like free selling their name

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Speaker 1: and then he would like twirl around and then come

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Speaker 1: back as like another rapper's voice. Yo. Did he do

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Speaker 1: that last night? No, not to my life, but Yo,

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Speaker 1: it's like when I first started battling, he was the

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Speaker 1: host of these things and he doesn't look any I'm

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Speaker 1: not a day older than back then. I grew older.

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Speaker 1: He didn't, Yeah, he used to. And then and then

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Speaker 1: I thought he was like, you know, Supernat was like

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Speaker 1: in the backpack circuit. He was like every tour, Yes,

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Speaker 1: But then they put him on a Lincoln Park Hybrid

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Speaker 1: Theory tour, did that and he hosted the Lincoln Park ship.

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Speaker 1: It might have been the reanimation. It was one of

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Speaker 1: those Lincoln Parks. Oh yeah, And I was like, super

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Speaker 1: about the crossover. That's crazy, shout out Supernat, Supernat the

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Speaker 1: legend man. So what's up man? What have you been

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Speaker 1: up to other than obviously putting out a ship ton

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Speaker 1: of music, selling a ship ton of merch? Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: shipping on a ship ton of smokers in your neighborhood, right,

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Speaker 1: don't you ever disrespect? Yeah? We working on a comedy tour.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm bringing Gorilla Weekend to every city. Yo.

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Speaker 1: Remember where you heard it first? Because I know well

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Speaker 1: rappers ain't doing comedy. I'm gonna make it. One night

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Speaker 1: I do a rap show, the next night, I do

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Speaker 1: a comedy show, the third night, I do a pop up.

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Speaker 1: Every city's gonna have a Gorilla weekend. Like when I

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Speaker 1: least Congo in August, I had this thing called Gorilla

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Speaker 1: Weekend because everything was shut down during the pandemic. So

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Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I'm gonna fucking shut down

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Speaker 1: my block and Coney Island put barricades up and I

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Speaker 1: didn't get no permits nothing. I'm gonna have a flatbed

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Speaker 1: trunk pull up. I'm gonna make that the stage and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna fucking perform joints with the album since we

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Speaker 1: can't really get a venue right now. Wow. So I

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Speaker 1: did that, sold the merch and that was called Gorilla

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Speaker 1: Day and then uh, now we're gonna throw Gorilla Days

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Speaker 1: in every city any possible working on it right now,

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Speaker 1: you find or anything. Nope, I'm the mayor of Coney Island. Man.

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Speaker 1: Even the cops know the cops by merch from me.

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Speaker 1: People being yo. Man, I got arrested by this fucking

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Speaker 1: undercover war in your hat. I was like, town, fuck

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Speaker 1: your life. Wow, everybody everybody wears this ship. Man. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's crazy like Coney Island outside of yourself, Like, I

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Speaker 1: You're from You're from Brooklyn, but you're from a neighborhood

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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn that nobody ever blew up out of. Yet

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Speaker 1: you got And and even before that, I always everybody

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Speaker 1: the rides, that's where Stephan Mulberry is from, right, step On.

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Speaker 1: I always think of When I think of Coney Island,

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Speaker 1: I think of Stephan Mulberry's tattoo. Yeah, yeah, there's Stephan Maulberry,

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Speaker 1: Sebastian Telfair and uh Lance Stevenson. Shout out to Lance Sebastian.

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Speaker 1: But he paid. He faced some fed chargers with him.

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Speaker 1: I was with him two nights ago. He's great, he's

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Speaker 1: doing great. I saw all those names. I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know y'all, Yo, I was like fucking shirts Friday.

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Speaker 1: I was like, yo, back. He was like yo. He's

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Speaker 1: like yo minus set back for a major comeback. And

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Speaker 1: my whole life I known him. He's done nothing. But

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Speaker 1: he played for my sons for like a one season. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he played for probably every team in the NBA. But

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Speaker 1: you know he's, uh, he's one of my my closest friends.

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Speaker 1: He's he's he's one of my good friends. And uh,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get through it. Man. Just you know we're talking.

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Speaker 1: You were saying, how you know, previously in your music

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Speaker 1: used to say the N word. Yeah, for people who

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Speaker 1: don't know what is your racial makeup. I'm Puerto Rican

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Speaker 1: been around, but I'm I'm in New York. That's that's

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Speaker 1: how just people talk in general. Like even the white

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Speaker 1: up around in New York, there's no neighborhoods. That's just

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Speaker 1: to to somebody from Pakistan, and your next neighbors from

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rican. Some people see me some people think I'm Russian.

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Speaker 1: Some people think yeah, some people think I'm I'm Arab.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at me and see I'm white,

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Speaker 1: y know, I'm from the hard Nah, it's just if

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Speaker 1: what I don't want to give people a shot of

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Speaker 1: I'd rather laugh at you than joke with you. I'd

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Speaker 1: just the climate that the world is at right now.

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Speaker 1: I just was like, I'm cutting this off out of

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Speaker 1: That's my first album where I didn't use the word

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I could I could kill verses and

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Speaker 1: it's done. Talk to me about bing Bong and like

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Speaker 1: how the Knicks remix came to be and the bing

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Speaker 1: some games, I love it. But I just started off

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Speaker 1: just playing around. I would throw it on my stories

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Speaker 1: bing bong. And then it just took off from there,

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Speaker 1: it just was was certain player that like, now, what

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Speaker 1: Took all the Knicks fans just ran with it. And

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Speaker 1: then now I'm starting I'm doing all types of sports

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Speaker 1: talk radio, little type of Carton and Robbers. They're showing

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Speaker 1: me love, They're bringing me up there, and I'm like, Yo,

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Speaker 1: there's a whole new fan base and genre just right

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Speaker 1: now in the airport. Come here. At least three to

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Speaker 1: four guys that I know don't even listen to rap

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Speaker 1: came up to me and Yo, you had a bing

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Speaker 1: was he was like, Yo, my son their basketball team

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Speaker 1: is loves the Big Book cause you send me a

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Speaker 1: video my my, Yeah, no problem. You know I spent

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Speaker 1: doing the wrong thing. Growing up at the jail time,

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Speaker 1: was doing robberies, do all types of stuff. So it's

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Speaker 1: a good chance to switch it up, man, and bring

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Speaker 1: some positive stuff into the into the atmosphere. Now, do

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Speaker 1: you feel like Nott the Cama? I was gonna say,

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Speaker 1: And I did the whole of the fight club shit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, eight years is a long time. Yeah, Because

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00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,000
Speaker 1: it wasn't just that, It was that coke and the

421
00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,440
Speaker 1: xanax just make you forget everything. Like so, by the

422
00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,239
Speaker 1: end of the run, I was on everything. I was

423
00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 1: on probably about two bundles of dopeer day, five twenties

424
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:22,239
Speaker 1: of coke, and about five xanax every single day. It

425
00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,000
Speaker 1: wasn't like I was working, you know what I'm saying.

426
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,560
Speaker 1: I would wake up every day like, y'all, I gotta

427
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,879
Speaker 1: go out and get this money, however it means necessary robbing,

428
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:30,919
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, you feel like you were

429
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,480
Speaker 1: working to keep your drug drug. Absolutely, I had a

430
00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,359
Speaker 1: fucking three four hundred dollars a day habit with no job,

431
00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,840
Speaker 1: nothing that. So people always say, if you have an addiction,

432
00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 1: I'm sure like you probably apply to a sex addiction too. Like,

433
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,240
Speaker 1: if you have any sort of addiction, right, you got

434
00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,040
Speaker 1: to work on yourself constantly, work ethic to get high

435
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,200
Speaker 1: every day. It's exasing, right, It's like yeah, like imagine

436
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,040
Speaker 1: if like most people who had that work ethic to

437
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,240
Speaker 1: get high every day and still be semi like exactly,

438
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,480
Speaker 1: they applied it to literally anything else. That's what I'm

439
00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,880
Speaker 1: doing now. You never did you ever smoke crack? No? Never, no, never.

440
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 1: I just I've always I want to know what crack

441
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 1: feels like. Nah, watched I watched, I watched it. I

442
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,360
Speaker 1: watched that ship Franklin Safe when girl yeah yeah, yeah,

443
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:15,040
Speaker 1: she was hitting the crack pipe in the show, I said, shit,

444
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,600
Speaker 1: look like it's fire. But yeah. Now I'm at the

445
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 1: point where I've been clean over twelve years. It's longer

446
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 1: than when I was fucked up with you know what

447
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying, What was like for you? The breaking point

448
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 1: where you were like I gotta get the ship, take

449
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 1: care of the ship. Man. I had, like the fight

450
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,360
Speaker 1: club stuff was going on. I had a development deal

451
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 1: with Shady Records. There was like your names, you love

452
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 1: your music, like, but you're going in and out of

453
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,119
Speaker 1: jail because I would do besides the main ship. I

454
00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,480
Speaker 1: would do like little skid bids, like I would go

455
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 1: to Rikers for two weeks, Rikers for a month. Come out.

456
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 1: You know you're going in and out of jail. We

457
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 1: take you to places. Sometimes you don't show up. When

458
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,200
Speaker 1: you do show up, you fucking you run outside, you

459
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 1: rob people outside the studio. You're doing like I was

460
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 1: just like living crazy. Yeah, yeah, this is you never

461
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,440
Speaker 1: had any instance we thought you overdosed or gotten close

462
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:05,199
Speaker 1: to like this is back then. It wasn't like the

463
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 1: fetanyel shit now, like you know what I'm saying it was.

464
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,119
Speaker 1: It was different and I never when I dealt with people,

465
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,199
Speaker 1: I dealt with people I knew that I grew up

466
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:13,679
Speaker 1: with from Coney Island, you know what I'm saying. Like,

467
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,240
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like luckily I didn't have to go

468
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 1: through none of that. Was that getting off of the

469
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: shit hard, going through with draws and it was but

470
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 1: the last year or two of my of my my addiction,

471
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:25,919
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, I didn't want to do it. It

472
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,360
Speaker 1: It was just more like a job. It was like, yo,

473
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 1: if I'm ever able to stop doing this for a

474
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,360
Speaker 1: couple of days when I'm not sick anymore, like I'm

475
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,399
Speaker 1: never gonna do this again. I'm so tired of living

476
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 1: this lifestyle. But I also had given up on my

477
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,360
Speaker 1: dreams with the rap shit like I I didn't want

478
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 1: I didn't care about nothing but getting high, like and

479
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,679
Speaker 1: then it just had like a moment of clarity. One

480
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,199
Speaker 1: day I was on like a three week run, like

481
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: I hadn't slept, I hadn't shower, with none of that,

482
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 1: and I was like I had like a I don't

483
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 1: know if it was like coasist or like out of

484
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 1: body experience where I was like I could keep going

485
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: how I'm going right now, and I'm gonna be dead

486
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,199
Speaker 1: or going to be in jail the rest of my

487
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 1: life from doing something stupid. I could just stop right

488
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 1: now and live my dreams like like I had ready

489
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,239
Speaker 1: giving up on my dreams. And that night I went

490
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: to my mother's house. She was living in Staten Island.

491
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: I was in Coney Island. At the time, I was like, yo, Ma,

492
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: please let me just stay at your house. She was like, nah,

493
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 1: you can't. She been not letting me. She was, but something.

494
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: She let me stay, and uh, I just kept the

495
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: wheels going. I stopped one day too. I had to

496
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: go through it. And when I got through it, though,

497
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 1: I never touched nothing again nothing now, not a drink,

498
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 1: not we eat, nothing. So you've been totally sober. Ye

499
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 1: nothing nothing. Wow, that's that's real, big man. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

500
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 1: And and the evidence is there since I stopped that.

501
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 1: My whole fucking life is you know, like I bought

502
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: my mom's a house, got me a house. God fucking

503
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: right now they're putting us in ground saltwater pool in

504
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 1: my backyards right now. They're doing it as we speak.

505
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 1: And and you're still no, no, no. I bought a

506
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: house in stat which is like twenty minutes. It's close

507
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: enough that when I want to hang out and be be,

508
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: you know, be a hood bugger, do hood stuff with

509
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: my hood friends. You know what I'm saying, like, yeah,

510
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,239
Speaker 1: we we we cauld move over there. And and when

511
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 1: I want to be left alone, go to the crib,

512
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,199
Speaker 1: go to the crib. That's it. I didn't know you

513
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 1: had a developmental deal with Shady. Yeah. Yeah, I was

514
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: dealing with Riggs, Riggs and morales Man. So that my

515
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: guy was that who kind of found you. Yeah, he

516
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: because he was he was he started the fight club.

517
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,640
Speaker 1: Nobody really knows that he started the fight club, and

518
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,640
Speaker 1: so he was heavily involved with it, so he would

519
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: see he had like a front row seat too. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

520
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 1: how you got down. Absolutely. I still talk with Riggs

521
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 1: to this day. Man, he's always He's always shown love

522
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,479
Speaker 1: and been in my corner even like you know, without

523
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,719
Speaker 1: did you ever have any any any experience like meet

524
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: and him or am I didn't meet the rest of

525
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,439
Speaker 1: D twelve, fucked with Heavy, go to Detroit and the

526
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 1: regular Bazaar would take fly me out, Fucking Proof would

527
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 1: fly me out. Rest in peace. He's all of them, McVeigh, Swifty,

528
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 1: they all I still talk with Swifty, uh and Canive.

529
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,439
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like I fuck with them Heavy, like,

530
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: but I never met him. They always like em like

531
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: he's secluded, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's crazy.

532
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: He's like one of the only rappers that like made

533
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: it and just didn't leave. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but like

534
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: also feels like untouchable in the sense because you would think,

535
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 1: like if you're that big out of Detroit, you wouldn't

536
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 1: get the fuck out of the true fact he's staying

537
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 1: in fact, and like, no, I do know in Detroit

538
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: for me the limited times I'm out there, I don't

539
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: know the politics or street probably, but I do know

540
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: like a lot of people know each other. Mostly people

541
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: know each other. And Trick, Trick is really that guy

542
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:48,479
Speaker 1: out there. Sure, I'm saying crazy scene and Trick is close,

543
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So he's like something good

544
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: money you Fat Joe just showed you some love. They

545
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: asked him. We cracked. Who are what they asking? That's

546
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 1: pretty much who was like today's fat Joe. But they

547
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: asked him a whole array of who's the new whow this? That? That? That?

548
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 1: And they asked me, is there new? Yeah, there's a

549
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: new faedual. His name is names out of Corney Allen

550
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, that's crazy. So you you

551
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: and Joe got a relationship, Yeah, Joe, Uh, I mean

552
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: we're not super close. I've I've hung out with him

553
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: on different occasions, like we've gone to shows and through

554
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: my man Ufo feed. My man Ufo feed really made

555
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: the introduction and and me and Fever was doing a

556
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: lot do a lot of music. And when he made

557
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: the introduction with with with Joe Crack, I called him

558
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: crack you know what I'm saying. But when he made

559
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: the introduction with crack cracks and showed me love automatically,

560
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: and then from me being around him more and you

561
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: see how movie follows me, you know, and he's we

562
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: speak through the d m s and and even his

563
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: team like Uncle Dan and a couple of days they

564
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: fuck with me. They showed me mad love. So I

565
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: guess from just from him observing and watching and he

566
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's. He had told me that before

567
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: he said it on the TV, like you'd be like

568
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: your names you Mimy and me when I was younger man,

569
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 1: a couple of times he told me that. But for

570
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: him to say it on Rap City's first episode, yeah,

571
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,959
Speaker 1: I didn't even know he was doing that, and my

572
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: phone just started blowing up, like y'all fat Joe just

573
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: said that. Look, I said, Yo, that's I think one

574
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: of the only times in my throughout this Rap shit

575
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: that I actually like almost I didn't cry, but I

576
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: almost shed a tear out of just pure I grew

577
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: up listening to Fat Joe Big Pun is my favorite art,

578
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 1: especially being a Puerto Rican from New York. Like they

579
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: held it down, like especially in my era when I

580
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: was they was them guys. So when he said that,

581
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: it was more like validation, like from all this hard

582
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: work because me, I'm my own worst critic, I still

583
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: grind every day like I'm like nothing, Like I'm still

584
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: like nobody knows me, you know what I'm saying. I

585
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,640
Speaker 1: look at it like, bro, I have not reached where

586
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: I want to be in this music stuff, so I

587
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: still act like nobody knows me. And I got to

588
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: make an impression every single time, and I got to

589
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: put into work every single day to live my dreams

590
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: to the extent that I want to live it. So

591
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: when he said that, it was like validation, Like, Yo,

592
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 1: somebody's out there watching, especially somebody who especially one hundred

593
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: percent like and you know, I got a little watery ey.

594
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: I ain't shed a tear, you know what I'm saying

595
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: over here, But like it was it was like it

596
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 1: was one of the best moments of my career. Man,

597
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: what's next for you? Are you gonna keep just kind

598
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 1: of keep keep your foot on the gas with music. Well,

599
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: next is me and Scram Jones dropping the album. That

600
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: ship is ridiculous. It's just stupid, hard, just hard. I

601
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 1: think he's one of the slept on producers. Yeah, yeah,

602
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: I knew Scram since he was there from the beginning.

603
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: Like when I first started, I don't know, he was lapping.

604
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: Scram is nasty. A lot of people don't know. And

605
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: one of the things that's holding up the album is

606
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: like Scream, we gotta get a joint, me and you.

607
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: I'm not right and like Scam, let's go bro with

608
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: the verse on the ship. Let's go. But he's nice

609
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: and a lot of mcs that I know for sure,

610
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: but his beats and that's the next project after that,

611
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,959
Speaker 1: probably me a static selected nice shot static, and then

612
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: we're just taking it from them. There it is, man, listen,

613
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: congoes out out right now. Fuck your life, Fuck your life?

614
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: Is there anybody any Let me ask you this because

615
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: since the pandemic started, I feel like I always say this,

616
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:24,479
Speaker 1: like I feel like it helped with the bars in

617
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: terms of fans, wanting that or wanting more substance, or

618
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: wanting more from music, because motherfuckers weren't in the club

619
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: standing on couches popping bottles. So you saw Benny and

620
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: Westside Gunn and Freddie Gibbs, all these people have the

621
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: best years of their career. Royster five nine was nominated

622
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: for a Grammy. You know what I'm saying, Like, do

623
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: you feel like that the pandemic helped kind of like

624
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: correct the path that hip hop was on because it

625
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: feels like absolutely, man, absolutely, that's listen. Everything has its

626
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: cycle facts, you know. So it was already gearing back

627
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: towards the lyric in music and the stuff that I'm

628
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: show me and you grew up listening to. But the

629
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: pandemic pushed it forward like a little like made it

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Speaker 1: rapidly and speed up the process. Yeah, and it's great,

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Speaker 1: great time. I never stopped doing this, even when people

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Speaker 1: were snapping their fingers bouncing. I was always doing the

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Speaker 1: hype of music, man, And the people know that, and

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Speaker 1: and and and and they respect when the transparency and

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Speaker 1: you show consistency and just keep at it, something's gonna

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Speaker 1: happen out of it in the positive manner. Where can

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Speaker 1: people buy merch? Find your ship? Because you got so

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