WEBVTT - Troy Ave Interview 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:08.520 Real people, real celebrity, real time morning. Everybody is DJ 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.160 m Vy, Angela Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are the 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:18.000 breakfast club special guests in the building. My name, I'm 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.520 good Man. I didn't do this in a while, mad, tired, 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.720 but good I'm black. Yeah, you need to be here 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:25.120 because you know you had to end of that going 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:31.920 nuts last week. Bro, you sold records allegedly, that's what 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.920 they said, thirty physical copies right now. With those numbers accurate, 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.640 I don't know they wasn't accurate, you know what I'm saying. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.720 I think Billboard wrote like an article after about what 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.400 exactly happened, because you know, that was really my first 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.440 time going selling stuff. Like the other time I had 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.479 New York City the album, I put it up for 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.080 self for twelve hours, and in after that I put 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.160 it out, you know, for free on a lot of mixing. 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.280 It was with that pivot whatever. But this was the 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.720 first time I went and did it full out. I'll 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.760 go cap it best bout whatever. What happened was, I 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.560 dropped the album on Friday. Usually albums drop on Tuesday, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.800 and the physical copies wasn't supposed to come out till Tuesday. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.720 You feel me. So what happened was between Friday to Monday. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.240 I guess sound skin is reported from Friday to Monday. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.800 So from Friday to Monday, I sold like forty three 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.000 hundred or whatever, under forty five hundred, you know what 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.040 I mean, in those two days or whatever. And then 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.840 on the or was it on Tuesday. The thirty copies 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.399 that were sold, they were so illegally, Like I don't 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.399 give a fuck there so illegally because I just want 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.679 my music out. But basically it was like the mom 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.840 and pop stores that had them and if people came 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:39.640 and asked for them early, they were just giving them. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.720 And it was really this one one store in the Bronx, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:44.240 you know what I mean, and sold the thirty copies, 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.200 but shout out to them, they got my music out. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.520 I ain't chipping its forty five hundred records sold a 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.880 flop for the independent artists first week? Hell no, hell no. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.480 You gotta think like I seen everything going in the 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.960 uproar and all that, and it said out, so forty 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.600 file any records, But if I'm getting ninety five percent 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.320 of my bread and that within that week, from that 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.480 Friday to the it wasn't from Friday five, any Friday 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.040 to Saturday or whatever. I made a honey twenty bands, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.680 you feel me, between the record sales, between thirty thousand 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.360 singles between you know what I mean doing hosting. So 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.200 like when you're independent and you really self made it, 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.400 self paid independent, and it don't matter, it don't matter. 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.320 You gotta get the slow ground, like the reasonable doubt ground, 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.000 like you know what I'm saying, Like they're gonna catch 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.920 the later and they keep picking up and picking up 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.840 and picking up. And at the end of the day, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.000 I'm here to make money. I'm here to get the paper. 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.519 And now I understand what jay Z meant by can 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.760 you really match a triple platinum artists buck by Buck 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.160 with only a single gon goal? I could really match 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.720 a platinum artist buck by buck with not even a 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.120 single going goal. You feel me? Because what usually happens 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.000 is an artists they get a deal, and they're regular deal. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.799 They get fifteen percent of every dollar a little more 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:54.920 if they hot, you know what I'm saying, And now 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.600 with me, I'm getting ninety five percent on every dollars. 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:01.040 So if an artists get fifteen percent of dollars, they 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.040 sell a million singles or whatever. They supposed to be 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.560 old one hundred and fifty thousand, but the record label 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.399 then spent two fifty three hundred to make them hot. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.040 So really, what happens if they spend two fifty the 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.480 artists old one hundred thousand back to the label? You 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.360 feel me with cho you have? It don't cost me 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.520 nothing to make no album. I got my own producers, 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.920 I got my own art graphic design. Na, I don't 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.920 got when you got the respect. When they see you 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.000 coming up and they see you like you're the boy, 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.320 they're gonna do that with the strength same way I 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:32.639 do it. You know what I'm saying. If I see 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.800 somebody moving, I'm gonna do that over the loving everybody 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.480 you see on there, like yo, we're rocking with you. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.720 What you need or shoot me back a feature or whatever. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.520 You know what I'm saying, Like y'all just have five 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:48.960 in yo, whatever you need. Know what I'm saying. Yeah, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.040 So what I was saying is like if I if 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.680 I turn around and I sell a hundred thousand records 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.600 or whatever, like I'm getting more money than somebody who 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.320 went platinum. You know what I'm saying. And I'm just 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.120 talking about les and singles, be moving everything. Just BSB 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.320 get off that coming up. Of course it's gonna sell 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.200 more than forty five hundred over time. But how much 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:11.360 the BSB get over that? Get we get ninety five percent? 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.240 You know, five percent go no, ninety percent, five percent 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.240 go to my lawyer, and then five percent go to 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.120 the distributor. But I'm so ill that I negotiated it 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.719 where I need to distributed it pay two point five 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.960 or my lawyer percentage. I pay the other two point five. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.599 It's all about getting having a leverage man and do 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.040 what you want to do. And he's an independent artist 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.800 at the truest for him, meaning he doesn't ray doing radio, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.480 he doesn't have help doing everything comes out of his 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.920 own pockets. But he pays for radio promotion, he pays 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.360 for touring, he pays for everything. Usually when when the 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.560 artist is they independent, they get a little help from 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.120 a label and they only get up they got a 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.760 little secret development deal or something like that. You know, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.080 it's it's so ill that. Look, look how I came here, y'all. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:54.760 Remember when I first started, he was like, yo, go 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:56.920 signed to a label? Sign He was like yo, how 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.320 long or whatever? Whatever, and then I just still here, 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.880 and I I stood the test of time. I stayed 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.880 focused on what I was gonna do. I told you 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.080 I'm gonna buy me. I'm gonna buy me a crib. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.320 I'm gonna give me a RRI I'm gonna do. I'm 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.120 gonna do this thing independing. You know what I'm saying. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:11.800 I don't get me wrong, I still want to go 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.080 to a major, But as he joined Venture, I want 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.440 to do with with Rockefeller had I want with murdered Ink, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.840 with bad Boy like you know that's you have two 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.200 and two fifteen. Do you really need that? I mean, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.919 it puts you on with me. It's like hustling. Like 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.240 I was a heavy hustler, So I always result everything 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.520 back to that. That's that's my mom frame. So if 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.880 I'm hustling on a honey blocks and I'm making a 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.960 thousand dollars a day, whatever, say I'm making a thousand 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.040 dollars a day off for one block. Now record label 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.320 gonna put me on a thousand blocks, but they want 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.560 to take fifty percent. I ain't tripping. That's still more money. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.360 I gotta give up half, but I'm getting more money 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.760 instead of me getting a thousand dollars. Now I'm getting 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.480 what's a thousand tons five with five hundred thousand and 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.000 fifty thousand, whatever it is, I'm still getting more money. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.760 And at the end of the day, we ain't greedy. Now. 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.880 People had a lot of jokes after they put that 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.800 out there with the sales and everything. A lot of me, 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.120 a lot of things, right, A lot of people commented, No, 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.760 it don't affect like, yeah, I come from the dirty 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.919 I come I come from. I'm self made and self paid. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.680 I can't say that enough. The real things that affect me, 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.000 like jokes and all that that don't affect me. That's 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.640 to me. That's like it's like I'm like Jackie Robinson 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.560 and a racist fan, you know what I mean? Hey, 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.320 or whatever, Michael Jordan when you see him putting his 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.600 hand up and it's somebody in the crowd, you whatever, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.560 it don't matter at the end of the day, because 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.680 if you look up at the skull board, I'm still winning. 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.120 You feel if I was broke, or if I was 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.120 if I if the show started slowing up, or I 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.120 just came from my I'm dead tired, you know what 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.479 I mean. But I know I gotta work. It's a 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.799 big platform. I gotta be here. You know what I'm saying. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.200 I just came from Miami. Ain't my life. He ain't crazy, 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:51.080 like crazy about with your confidence. But I also think 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.920 I'm gonna taking the crazy part not to catch you up. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.920 I've seen somebody say, y'all, I don't like Joe EV 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.800 because he's too confident with type No. I seem too. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:01.839 But I was like, all right, people had it on. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.680 When somebody say too confident, that don't make no sense 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.239 to me. That's just other people's insecurities. That's me shying 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.200 a spotlight on it because of my confidence, you know 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.680 what I'm saying, And it's making them insecure, like it 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.480 don't What happens is they try to like you, try 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.600 to tear choy av Dan. It's like, you gotta look 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.520 at the people that's writing stuff. It's either people that 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.320 I came in contact with and for whatever reason, they 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.280 don't like me for a personal reason, so it's a bias, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.120 you know what I mean, or whatever they call you, 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.120 they call you Troy Average. I had a song I 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.560 heard somebody called me CHOI average. Well, let me tell 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.920 you about this average to the Ford. What I say, 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.880 I'm talking to the four new holes on the average, 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.840 and it ain't a half to domb on an average. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.280 Every show I get it down on an average, and 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.720 my downs about eighty one carriage. You know what I'm like, 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.360 It don't affect me. You gotta think when these people 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.640 tear down Choyav, it's like, who else do we got 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.480 from the city that's doing it this way? You tain't. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.600 You ain't just trying to tear down me, trying to 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.560 tear down the generation of people. You want them to 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.840 lead and follow somebody else. You want them to be 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.880 drug addicts, or you want them to have I represent ambition. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.080 I represent grinding, coming coming from the bottom, when people 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.000 tell you can't do nothing. You can't now, you ain't 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.840 gonna be this or you ain't gonna be that. Y'all 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.880 all went through the same struggle. Look at the platform 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.640 and each other. Had you feel what I'm saying, Like 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.640 everybody came from I'm pretty sure Amby had to carry 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.760 crates or whatever. You know what I'm saying. People got 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.760 more pride than money, and I'm willing to take risks. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.720 I put my pride to the side. I put my 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.160 money with my mouth is I put my work ethic, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.199 I sacrifice to be where I'm at. So for somebody 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.000 to try to tear me down and slam to me, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.480 it's like damn me, like modern day slavery, like you 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.040 know what I'm saying, Like to the point where they say, um, 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.160 you know what Troy as doing too much? He's not 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.400 like a humble or a type of a yes of 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.880 bass typing, you know what I'm saying, So we need 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.520 to tear him down, you know what I mean? Not 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.880 comparing myself to Malcolm Mamatin, but they told that, they 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.960 told him down Michael Jordan, definitely, because they're great. Shit, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.080 you better get pay yourself to the grace if you 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:05.640 want to be great. But do you think part of 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.680 its comments that you've made about other artists too in 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.800 the past, because people have been be dealing facts, I'll 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.760 be dealing. I never even like Colin, Kendrick Lamar or Weirdo. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.200 And I know you ask me if I think Kendrick 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.120 Lamar is a widow one of my one of my 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.760 pos at the end of the day, at the beginning 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.360 and end of the day, when you independent and you 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.240 like I am, I don't. Nobody built me up, so 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.640 can't nobody tear me down? So I don't. I'm not 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.080 held to the same restraints as artists on a major 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:32.960 who might not be able to say something because they're 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.640 on that label with that person, or they might need 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.280 this person for a feature. So let me dance around 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.560 and be politically correct like I just dealing facts. Smike 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.720 say Choyavis Dawskin, that's a fact. I can't get mad. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.040 You can't get mad as Smike for reporting the news. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.600 You know. I never said Kendrick Lamar was whacked. He 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.679 made whack music. I just said, they said, you think 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.120 Kendrick Lamar's a widow. I said, yeah, he's a widow, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.440 and that was it. I ain't saying in a malicious 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.280 way because I don't care. At the end of the day, 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.680 you could be a widow. I don't care what you 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.480 are as long as don't affect me and mind, I 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.800 don't care. That's the only reason people are slandering the 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.800 way that is. Nah, they try. They trying to tell 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.640 me down because I represent everything that they not and 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.480 and my and my my confidence that makes them become 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.720 insecure because if you got people like me who ain't 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.360 afraid to say, Yo, I'm that, which Lebron said, He's 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:25.959 he's gonna win because he's the best in the world, 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.000 and it was an uproar. Why you can't say that 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.679 when Michael Jordan don't think you should have said that? Everybody? 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.679 Why not? I think why not? I think you should 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.960 allow other people to speak for you. You can't. You 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.040 can't because what if they don't speak for you, then 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:41.840 what if they don't speak for you, then what does 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.400 that mean? Hell no, you got you gotta put you 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.360 gotta put that out there. When Little Wayne was saying 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.200 he the best rapper in the world or the best 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.200 rapper alive minus jay Z being alive, if he didn't 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.000 say that, I wouldn't have been thinking that. And then 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.800 what happened. Little Way end up be getting hot and 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.040 he became the best rapper to a lot of people. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:10:59.960 You know what I'm saying. Sometimes you can't wait for 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.320 somebody to give you a Just dude, you gotta take 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.040 it it. Feel me. It works when you got the 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:05.840 actions behind it to prove it. You got it. You 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.480 gotta keep working. You can't just say it. You gotta 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.360 have to work. You got you gotta have a work ethic. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.200 But when you know, when you know what you're gonna be, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.120 you do that. You put it out there. I remember 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.600 I was talking the meat shout shout the Meek. I'm 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.840 talking to meet and I'm like, we're talking about just 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.599 rappers in the same bunch of chucks or whatever, and 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.680 they don't got. I don't talk about nothing. I don't 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.360 got And then I was like, yeah, I don't even 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.400 be talking about having Ferrari's lamb. I'm getting the Arrari 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:34.600 me and you was talking Yeah. I was like, I 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.000 was like, yeah, I don't be like that, and Meek 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.199 was like, man, I ain't gonna friend. I did, but 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:40.880 that's because I knew I was gonna get it. I 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:42.559 knew I was gonna be that. I knew I was 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.160 gonna have that. I was talking about, you know what 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.760 I mean, And you put it out in a universe, 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.280 and if you go hard and get after it, it's 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.280 gonna happen. So a lot of other artists do show 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.640 your respect and have been working with you, wanted to 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.000 collaborate with you, time with you. Yeah, But for some reason, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:58.880 I don't know why your haters are so vocal, Like 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:05.679 I go online just because of the attitude, which is 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.679 I'm not coying. I'm confident. Man. I know. I'm not 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.520 saying that I could do nothing that I can't do 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.880 or that I haven't been doing. I told everybody I 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.280 was gonna restore the feeling in my city. I did 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.760 that on the last album. I like the New York 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.440 to but a lot of people from New York feel 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.320 like you didn't. They're like, what have you done to restort? 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.840 What have I done that? I just I saved the 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.600 whole generation of people from being drug addicts and turning 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.600 up and winning tight pants and feeling like they gotta 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.080 they can't be, they can't have hometime town pride. That's 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.280 what I did. I look and I sound like New York, 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.280 and I kept it one hunting all the way through, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.000 and you feel me in and all that out and 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.719 and majority I get a majority of support. So that's 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.440 why I ain't another chipping. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.080 People from wearing tight pants. You got, I mean you 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:52.400 got to, because look, look if you start dressing feminine, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:59.079 what's next. Listen, man, that's crazy. Anything that happened I 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.840 gotta stack all about Troy av scared that his son 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.480 might be gay. No, I didn't even have a son 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.080 when they wrote that. Yeah, I know what they were. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.480 You were doing a lot of tweets about like okay yo, 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.920 that's another thing. They'd be digging up my tweets from 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:16.080 two thousand and eleven tho type of stuff. Like it's 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.559 case said, I said, Kanye rust ain't fly. Somebody just 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.280 dug it up and put it out there, like all right, 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.640 Like what do they hope they trying to? I'm telling you, 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.000 they just trying to tear troy As down. You're committing 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:27.800 a very dangerous crime right now. You gotta do this 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.880 with the nikes on. First of all, I'm gonna tell 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.080 you about that because I'm gonna tell you it's so ill. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.319 It's so ill that you don't even know where that 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.319 came from. As me, I'm the one who put that 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.719 out there. You can't mix and match brands. I put 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.959 that out there. You could check the video. It's from 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.080 like three four years ago. But now it's certain sneakers 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.160 that you could wear. You can put the camera on. These. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.560 These ain't regular sneakers. It's certain classic joints. These are 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.440 the hot Top Air Force ones. They're a little more 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.679 money than the low top. I wouldn't do the low top, 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.920 you feel me, or certain Jordan brands. You could do 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.160 this like I'm one of the flies ones moving. You 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.400 know what I'm saying, And I ain't saying that way. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.840 I'm just dealing in facts. I got people wearing check 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.000 pains from Adidas and this is from Wexu was saying 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.040 that this is Wexa Thedidas saying sales have spiked in 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.600 the Dida's track pains since we did a deal with Troya. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.240 I just dealing facts. I like to keep it black 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.400 and white. No, no, they checked the soccer pains. Paul 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.920 Chack sus, I ain't got people wearing those. I ain't 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.840 gonna chuck you like I've been doing that. But the 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.840 soccer uniform wasn't nobody win. That wasn't nobody wining soccer jerseys, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.200 you feel me? And then I came through burning it up. 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.160 But yeah, you can wear Adidas with UH with hot top, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.760 air Force ones with the strap or like Jordan's and 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.360 stuff like that. But you can't just be wearing on 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.360 Nikes with a regular Nike check. You can't wear amats. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.960 Now you can't. That's just a note. That's no bueno. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.640 You gotta get some shell toes and just keep it cool. Man. Now, 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.040 how did you in fifty end up making amends? Because 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.480 I know at first he felt a little bit weary, like, Okay, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:15:00.240 this guy's try nails that whole thing up. Man. Now Nah, 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:06.920 look who's up? Man? Look Look at that Bill cubing 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.320 on his drinks were getting money? Man? But how did 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:10.960 that come about? Like? How did you and fifty end 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.080 up having a conversation and I know now you're supposed 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.440 to do some dates with him, possibly from the road, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.600 did a song together. How did y'all finally make some amends? 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.800 It was just it was it was actually at like 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.720 your own like a Chris Brown concert at the Barkleys, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.040 And um, I was supposed to come out. I end 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:29.760 up getting it a little late or whatever because I 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.440 found our last minute. So Paul, I mean when I 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.680 get to the spot, yeah, Barkleys. When I get to 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:40.040 the spot, I see fifty in a joint in um 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.920 whatever that underground job whatever it is. Job were joint 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.960 and on parking the parking lot, indoor, the arena. And 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.000 then like I'm the type of person you ain't gonna 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.200 hear like I don't. If somebody had a problem with me, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.240 it ain't gonna be like I'm not gonna be in 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.800 the same room as them and and know nothing happened, 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.440 or you know what I'm saying, Like I don't. Just 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.640 I ain't a passive person, you feel me. And that's 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.240 probably another reason why I get I began some slacks sometimes, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:07.520 but I mean, I'm confident whatever. So anyway, after the 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.360 whole thing, you know, with the with the gun in 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.640 a in a Lloyd Banks and then whatever, and then 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.160 y'all asked me how it felt or whatever, and then 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.400 M fifty says something I got on who it was. 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.480 I said, Man, when I see his I'm gonna pull 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.440 them to the side. I gotta chop it up, like 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.400 real talk, like you know what I'm saying, which is 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.400 a very dangerous thing to situations. I mean, it's it's 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.840 dangerous for some people like but I ain't. I ain't 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.720 a coward, you know what I'm saying, And I know 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.920 who I am. So when when I seen him, like 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.600 I just had real talk, I pulled him to the 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.120 side and then we kicked it. Because that's more than 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.400 anything fifty was that that was my favorite rapper growing up. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.200 You feel me? So like for that type of that happened, 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.600 I felt like, Yo, you're supposed to embrace me, you 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.360 feel me, you know what I'm saying. And he was like, Yo, 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.240 you know what you You're right. It was other ship 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.240 moving around that happened with that, you know what I mean. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.000 And it wasn't the energy wasn't directly towards me. And 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.440 he said, matter fact, you know what, take my number, 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.840 hit me tomorrow, whatever whatever. So I'm going through the airport. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.280 I hit him. We end up talking for like forty 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.840 five minutes, a forty five minute conversation, and end up 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:13.320 till a fifteen thousand dollars check. I ain't really yeah no, 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.960 I ain't really asking no questions. I was you sometimes 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.880 sometimes you just gotta close your mouth and open your ears, 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.080 you know what I'm saying, especially with somebody that been 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.119 in the game, that you respecting and have been doing anything, 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:25.719 you know what I mean. So it wasn't a lot 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.440 of questions. I was just kicking it with him, just regular. Really, 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:30.840 I'm gonna put your soul on power, you know what 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.320 I'm saying, Like what you're doing, et cetera, et cetera. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.400 And then you know, we just took it from then 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.320 and forging relationship and then and then once like I've 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.840 been consistent no matter if fifth says something that I 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.320 think it was funny or whatever, I'm gonna hunt it, man, 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:44.840 I'll keep it all the way rail. So I'm like, 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.720 all right, whatever he said that, but regardless of anything, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.399 that's still my favorite rapper, and that's who influenced me 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.520 to be doing what I'm doing now getting all this 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.560 money where I'm at. And then what happened to me 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.600 and went to dinner, I mean with the dinner, we 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.080 went at the spot that you be at. You be 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:01.840 in my spot? Yeah, yeah, I just shout in my spot. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.520 So I said, I can't go there and to the 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:13.720 spot now. So I'm like, what come ahead, yo, I go. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:15.960