WEBVTT - Albee Al | ROC Solid w/ Memphis Bleek 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.080 What up, y'all? This is your main man, Memphis Bleak 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:02.520 right here. 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.880 Welcome to Rock Solid, a production of iHeart Radio and 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.920 the Black Effect Network in partnership with my guys over 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:22.880 at Drink Champs. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:25.400 Yeah, y'all, you already know what it is. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.840 Yours truly back with another exclusive, and this one right 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.360 here is as real as it get. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.640 I got my guy in the building. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.080 And when you say New Jersey to me, the first 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.240 name I thought of was Tretched because he made me 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.599 want to be a gangster even more when he came out. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.479 And now my old last trying to be gangster when 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.760 I throw his music on. Now, let's welcome to the building, 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.680 my g i'l be al New Jersey's finest king of 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.320 Jermys hole in the streets down And if you don't 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:54.720 know get it tuned. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:59.680 What's upbod Easy or my brother? You know me? Jersey 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.200 marrying projects and it's more fun. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.000 I'm dead ass serious man like Tretch was the first 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:07.920 artist that made me feel like they I gotta work 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.240 out and get on some gangster ship with the bitches. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.960 But then you're not listening to your music. You talk 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.120 that pain, you talk that real struggle. That like so 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.640 almost like through your music, I feel like I'm from 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:22.120 marrying projects with you. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:23.320 I could. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.520 I respect the hustle to struggle and what you're doing 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.440 and how you pushing it. So before we get into 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.800 the new ship, let's go back speaking of marrying projects 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.680 Jersey City in the building. You already know what's up man. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.119 What was it like back then growing up? 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:39.920 You know what I mean? To give you the what 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.080 inspired you to even start this movie? 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.400 Like first of all, that that shit already Like my Pops, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.560 my Pops was like was like a uh was He's 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.160 a legend in his own right, you know what I'm saying. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.080 Everybody know that, Like he came up with like Dougie 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:55.880 Fresh and all of those ship so he was running 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.880 around with like like Dougie Fresh was to be running 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.680 with them. My pops, my pop is like ill MCS 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.000 back in the day. I mean, he died when I 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:07.320 was young though, but Popsy he legendary though, like you 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:08.959 know what I'm saying, Like, and it's crazy, I ain't 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.119 really know about my pops like that because he dies 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:12.960 as I was so young, you know what I mean? 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.000 And tiy like I was going to jail when I 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.120 was going to jail. I'm seeing old heads and in 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.040 my name, we got the same name. So they like, yo, 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:21.600 they just look at me, they like. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.079 You ain't albi abi, like a a your pops and 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:24.799 niggas tell. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.800 Me mad stories about my father, Like I had like 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.480 the most, the most respect from all old heads, old 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.720 head fiends in the county, all. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:33.040 Of that shit. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.080 Man, they just treated me like yo, man, your pops, 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:36.960 your pops, you feel me, so you know what I mean. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.600 So it was already in me, you know what I mean, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.360 But like when it started coming out, I say, just 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.520 the just the atmosphere of being in the hood, man, 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.520 like watching and watching the dope boys in the hood 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:46.440 in the parking lot. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.440 They used to be freestyling off of beats and shit. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.360 And I used to be a young nigga just sneaking 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.960 around listening to them niggas and waiting for my turn. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:54.720 One time they let me rap me off the head 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.160 and I made some shit have it. They was like, 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:57.920 you need to do that, ship you feel me? 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.960 So I just start sucking with it in school, just 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.320 and wraps in school, and it just it just it 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:03.280 just became this. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.440 It took a while to get it or but yeah, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.560 hell yeah, man, you know how you know the grind? Man, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.560 The grind never easy, man, you rind can't sleep, that's right. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.240 A lot of these kids think you just pick up 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.200 the pen tomorrow. You gotta deal. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.200 They don't know it takes ten years to be an 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.799 overnight success. Not for real. And it's expensive. You got 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.200 better on yourself. That's a factor in an expense. Don't stop. 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.240 The more you get famous, the more they expense. Absolutely, 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:26.000 you know what I mean? 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:26.959 Like, shit is real. 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.519 Like do you remember like your first freestyle or joint 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.000 that you recorded or released and you was like, man, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:35.520 hold on this really good work. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.360 Like no, no doubt, Hell yeah it was. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.480 We had like mixtapes in my City go Crazy and 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.080 I was on my man, my man DJ Simmons, Simmons 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.400 from the Hikes DJ Simmons. He was like he used 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.840 to have the mixtapes and ship. So yeah, we did 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.520 that ship like on a like a microphone and like 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:57.360 a Pentasonic world out like we did that's like on 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.560 the microphone and I spied some ship off for Oh 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.280 I don't even remember what beat it was, but I 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.600 went off that beating it just they start fucking with 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.440 that shit in the hood, the projects going with it, 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.560 you know what I'm saying. It just became with the 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:10.160 little raps. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.400 Yo, that's crazy. You bring up the mic and the panas. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.520 I remember my first mic recording, Nigga had the headphones 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.320 the whole the other side so it don't give feedback 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.240 and wrap through the other end of the headphones. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.159 Yeah, the first mic I ever used word up. It's crazy. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:25.479 That's crazy, but that's dope. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.000 Like early mixtape movements, like you was definitely on it. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.640 I could say, your independent grind is one of the 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.680 things that attracted me to you, right, you know what 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:34.040 I mean. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:35.160 They hear you pushing so. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:41.360 Hard and dropping classics like everyday June thirtieth, telling them 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:42.240 about that man. 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.160 A day June thirtieth, Like that's like, that's like my uh, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.159 that's my first like mixtape that I ever put out 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.240 like that. I put on like a streaming platform, you 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.279 know what I mean. And that ended up being like 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.640 one of my biggest mixtapes, biggest, like like I got 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.240 I start doing series on it. But it just it 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.360 stands for like the pain from losing my brother, so 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.400 you know what I mean. My brother got killed on 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.359 June dirty. If you feel me so, I want some 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.719 shit like a day the same day, a day I 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.480 feel the same way like, So it's like every day 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.560 June dirtyth Like, no matter what it like today, June dirty. 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.560 If my me in the day go by without me, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.400 think about my brother and what happened to my brother. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.440 So that's where all the pain with the music and 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:19.440 all of that shit come from. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.560 That's real, man, that's real. Rest of peace, bro man. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:27.479 Every day June thirtieth, Classic classic run. If you haven't 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.960 tapped in, make sure you tap in, man, classic classic 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:36.360 records like ten Toes Down. Don't compare me became I 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.640 don't want to say street anthems, just became trystate bangers. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.800 Everywhere you went out here. It didn't matter at New York, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.960 New Jersey. You heard those records, all the young boys 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.560 blasting them. You know what I'm saying. When did you realize, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.760 like it was bigger than just Jersey City. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.240 When I realized that, I think, I think when I 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.400 start traveling, I start traveling, like when I go places, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.960 when I like, I'm like, when I start traveling and 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.880 going places and I'm getting recognized and ship and people 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.159 seeing me I'm like, oh, ship, you feel me like 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.719 every time I go somewhere, I go there again, it's 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.560 always different and bigger love. And that'd be the ship 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.599 right there, that'd be having me like yo, damn Like 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.039 but that ship definitely like it got it got so 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:18.919 bigger than Jersey. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.440 It's crazy like Jerseys is home pace. You feel me 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.440 like you know how that should go. You feel me. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.800 But when I ship, when I start traveling moving around, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:27.640 I'm like, oh, I'm like I was in. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.640 Where the funk I was that one time? Cali? I 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.360 was in Cali one time. I'm thinking I'm low. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:41.279 I was so not low, Like oh this ship, I'm thinking, 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:42.680 I'm I'm so not love. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.599 That's a that's a fact. When you think they watching you, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.599 they not. And when you think you low, I swear 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:55.800 like that in the game, people. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.400 Were sitting there a way for me outside the store, 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.640 like ll be out. I'm like my sitting Yeah, I'm like, damn, 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:03.640 why we could do something with this ship. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.960 This sh could go somewhere in the fact, like coming 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.640 coming from the streets, being outside, putting in pain, doing 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.280 whatever we had to do to survive. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:12.520 You know what I'm saying. That's what I call it 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.560 survival tactics. That going from that. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.080 To this people walking up to you, Yo, I fuck 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.560 with your music, Yo, I fuck with you recognizing you. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.360 I know that got to feel like damn, this is 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.440 this is what I do this ship for, for the 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.920 people to feel my pain. Like, so is that surprising 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.880 to you or was that something you was looking for? Nah? 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.800 Like it's always like I'm always like overwhelmed with this ship. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.200 Like is like that's a that's that shit made me 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:38.960 feel so good? 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.960 Like like I had an overseas overseas tour last year, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:44.840 Like for me, I had some I supposed to went 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.960 to the UK, but they stopped me from going to 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:47.320 the UK. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.440 They didn't let me in. They started some like started 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.240 moving like Canada type shit. No way. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.280 But I had other stops like in Paris, Amsterdam and 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:55.800 all that shit. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.480 So I'm in Amsterdam. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:07:59.880 What I mean, Like that ship comes from like the 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.880 history books in school. You feel me with with the 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.440 so you know, I'm going out there to a stem 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.240 like let me see what's going on. I wanna go 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.520 to an frank house so we get to like the 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.400 Uber we're going. The Uber driver just kept looking back 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.720 and ship so I don't know. I mean, I'm no 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.560 matter where I'm mad, be trying to be comfortable, but 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.880 I still be paranoid because of the movie d I 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.880 mean trauma traumatized for watching take it. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:33.320 You know, I just watching this. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.040 So the uber driver is keep looking back and ship. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.320 He just keep looking back and ship. I'm like, sull 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:39.240 with this nigga. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.559 Show, like, bro, keep looking back this human traffic shit 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:43.920 they working today. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.640 So he's like yo. So he's just like are you 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.040 are you? Are you him? Are you? I'm like He's like, 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.000 are you him? Are you him? 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:51.280 Here? 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.480 Like he listened to like he got my music and 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:54.880 the ship that's fire. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.600 I'm like, I'm like, yeah, that's me. He's like, you 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.960 look just like this guy. You look just like I'm like, yeah, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:08:59.600 that's me, that's me. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:00.960 He like a way, no way. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.480 I'm like he's like yo, He's like yo, me and 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.240 my wife was looking for you all the time. They 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.400 said you was like yo, it was crazy that ship 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.880 in Amsterdam, my nigga, Like you know what I mean. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.680 So it's like this this is how I feel about it. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.719 Like before all of this ship was going on, Like 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.800 I'm like, I like you ever felt like you so close, 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.280 but you so far At the same time, of course, 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.560 I'm like, yo, I can make it. But because everybody 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.160 telling me I can make a niggas believe in me. 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:25.800 And that's and that's what you don't want to followers. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.840 You want to believes you know so. But just to 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.960 see that right there now, it makes me feel like 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.920 it makes me feel like I fucked this ship up. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.640 You get what I'm saying, Like like, like, Nigga, you here, 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.080 you like you you in the game, It's no, it's 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.640 no longer you're trying to get on Nigga, you on 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:43.560 your rows. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.920 You You get what I'm saying. I'm like, yeah, you on. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.320 So anything that happened from this, like you could call 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.560 me stupid, whatever, what the fuck it is? 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:51.280 I deserve that. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.440 Before it was like, Nigga, you don't even know, like 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.640 when I went to jail last time, man, the fuck 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:56.760 out of here. You don't even know what the fucking 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.880 nigga really was going through you type shit. You get 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:00.320 what I'm saying. But this time is like you go 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.200 to jail right now, Nigga, you're an idiot. You feel 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.960 me your opportunities so they ain't gotta be worth it. It 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.320 got to be worth for you, for me. You know, 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.840 I ain't talking my tail ever, but it's just like it. 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.160 Gotta be worth it. Though it's like you're not gonna 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.520 just jump out the window. I pray you don't. Like, 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:21.240 you know, the opportunity here is greater than it ever been. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:21.720 Man. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.719 Back in my day, doing the things y'all do was 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.840 what we dreamed of. We dreamed of having these brands 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.760 behind us, these sponsorships at the shows. Remember they didn't 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.760 fuck with us. We used to just rock clothes or 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.080 reper brand and that was it. You wouldn't see us 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.040 in the commercial. Well y'all got that path. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:39.880 That's crazy. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.839 It's like, man, take full advantage of all the. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.720 Money they want to give it more trust me. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:52.320 Like I wanted to say, like your project coming from 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.240 maryon it felt bigger than the mixed tape. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:57.960 It's like it's like album. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.320 You know what I'm saying, Like I felt like that 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.280 stamped your your impact, your movement, who you are, what 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.760 you represent? Like, how did that making that project? What 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.120 was that thought process for you? 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.080 I was really in like I was. I was really 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.120 an album mode too. I'm glad you peeped at You 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.120 Feel Me. I was an our mode. I was just 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.720 even like with the intro, the I'm for Marrying intro. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.760 It's just I just wanted to feel like like cause 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:24.360 first of all, it was like for me to name 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.680 the album after where I grew up at. I had 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.520 to come like that, you know what I'm saying. I 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.560 had to put on for the hood. So I was 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:34.200 just an album mode. I just wanted to give them 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.199 that ship, like give them my story. It's like when 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.199 I'm when I'm putting a project together, it's like it's 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:38.840 like building it. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.319 It's like a making a robot human. You feel me for. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.120 Me, so it's like you need the legs, you need, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.360 the arms, need the heart. You feel me, you need 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.240 you need, you need to create that ship. So I 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.760 don't like to just put like anything in. I try 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.040 to have something on it for every aspect of the 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.480 you feel Me. Of course I'm gonna give you that 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.160 core Albia hardcore ship, pain ship. But I also like 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.319 to give them everything because like I'm all around artists, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.400 like so like as far as like I could talk, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:04.760 I could do shit for the bitches. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:05.640 Because the nigga fuck bitches. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:11.160 You know what I'm saying. I ain't afraid of like 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:12.320 this pocket myself. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:13.560 I could do shit for the bitches. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.880 I could do shit for the club nigga like partying, 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:17.720 you feel me so, And I could do shit for 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:18.960 the street because I'm really from that. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:20.880 You get what I'm saying. So I ain't afraid to 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.679 like go all around with this ship. You know what 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.120 I mean. I don't like to just stay in like 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.360 one lane with that ship. You feel me like? You 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:26.760 know what I mean. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.040 I'm gonna tell your cheat hold that I found out 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.640 about records with women late in life because I used 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:33.559 to look at John and. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.800 Be like, damn, this nigga killing it. Put it on me. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:38.480 What would I be without you? 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.640 It wasn't until I got married and I wrote it 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.720 and I'm looking at my wife and I'm sitting there 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.240 writing a record and I'm like, Oh, this motherfucker yoah cheated. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.839 Oh this nigga being married this whole like he was 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.720 just looking at his wife. Yeah, what would that be 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.720 without you? Like motherfucker? I called them like nigga. I 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.560 got the cheat cold too. I'm all now, I'm gonna 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:06.839 give it to the young You gotta really I feel like, 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.920 you gotta really get those records. You gotta really care. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.559 That's why I made records like it's that your big 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.600 right right right, I was kicking them out. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.040 I couldn't make up for it. I didn't know what 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.000 that felt. I could relate to that. I understand, I 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.000 feel you, I feel you. You know what I'm saying. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.040 So when you say I'm making the bitch records is 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:26.280 left No, No. 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.480 I feel like because at the same time, like ship 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.960 like bitches be like because I make good songs for 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.920 the females, like they love when I do that, right, 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:36.920 But so they be like if you need to put 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.400 more that shit on your album, like you need to 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:39.840 do more that shit. I'm like, I really ain't got 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.480 the emotions like that no more. I'm really like, y'all 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.800 bitches like I'm not doing. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.640 You gotta really care to write those records. Because even 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.960 when you look at DMX and he got those records. 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.079 It was really married. He was really married. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.040 You know what I'm saying, These niggas that be making 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.320 those records be they got shorty away. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:57.560 You're saying I need to get married. 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:04.120 Noa noa no, not said jump the broom. That's not 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:09.280 invice something giving life, and when time is right, you 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:10.400 will make the decision. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:15.679 Say that ain't right right now, don't you came from Amsterdam. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.480 He took you to the red light. Say that you've 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.720 seen that ship out there. It's easy right ship like 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:23.640 by James. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.160 You won't believe that ship in the window. Let me 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.360 get that right there sides And he had a vision 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.360 of people that never been there. You know how you 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.520 walking in the mall, you know what I'm saying. And 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.800 you see that you see manne kinds dressed up, no 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.280 is moving, read ready like like. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.120 Come on, they moving. They looking at you like come 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:48.800 in pain to yeah whatever, you bro whatever. The human 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:54.120 pooring site out telling you waiting to get picture. That's 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:54.640 a fact. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.960 Some of them got to It's like it's like up stairs, downstairs, 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.160 you just walking that ship. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.320 They say you can't cor you know, I'm from Jersey. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:06.600 I'm like, oh now, you gotta be careful. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:06.800 You know. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.040 They roughed up like some of my guys from the 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.000 rock guy dam and them got some ship out there. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.960 Dang went yeah bigs, dang. 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.920 It was out there recording the Red Light and the 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.040 gangsters was like, yo, turn them cameras off, you know, niggas, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.560 Nigga New York whatever, they rumbled, niggas up, rough niggas up. 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.560 I ain't gonna lie because I remember getting the call 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.160 niggas was getting stitched up. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.920 Niggas up out there and the yeah, like the niggas. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.200 It's two worlds in Amsterdam. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.880 You know at night, right you see in the daytime 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.120 is mad your opinions. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.600 Ain'tbody right right around? Mad? White face is cool when 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.200 the sun go down? Who outside? All the Africa? Like yeah, 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.440 it looked like taking. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.520 All the Africans like this without man. What you need 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.200 you need smoke, you need director, what you need was 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.480 rough out there. But like, yo, don't go out there playing. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:15:59.640 They just discuff you. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.000 It ain't nobody there to help you either. I don't 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:05.520 see no police or nothing. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:05.720 Bro. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.960 No, they don't regulate none of that ship. It's just 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:10.000 free world, man. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.680 It's like, ahead, do your thing man like and go 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.280 to rid of damn. That's one of the reasons I 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.720 like Ireland because it's that old school before the pistol gag, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.880 because I feel like pistols we all heybody fighting, that's. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:24.680 Real, ya heart. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.880 You gotta you know what I mean put that rumble 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.960 in and then Dublin they're scuff you up to. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:42.160 Them. Niggas love the scuffle. What they live for a fight? Yo, 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:43.480 get it back. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.800 When you started getting looks from platforms like my brother 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.000 sway you know what I mean, shout out swaying the morning, 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.360 that's my guy, you know what I mean? Ship like that. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.880 Then you got the major distribution through Empire. Did it 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.920 feel like the world was finally catching up to you? 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:00.440 Yeah? Hell yeah, Like. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.720 It's it's like I'm always been like like like it'd 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.359 be glimpse of that ship you feel me? And that 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.480 be the weird ship with the industry too, like because 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.160 I be seeing like niggas I see like the top 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.600 rappers you feel me that like that or top industry 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.800 person period and they run it too me and they 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.639 just show me mad love and shit and I'd be like, yo, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.320