Speaker 1: Hmmmm.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to a special edition of All the Smoke
Speaker 2: Coming to You Live from the College Football Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame on behalf of the Rocket Foundation and my brother Quavo.
Speaker 3: Man, this is a long time coming.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 2: We've been trying to connect for like four years to
Speaker 2: get you on the show, and we're finally here. Man,
Speaker 2: really excited. Man of many hats. We've partnered in legends
Speaker 2: and talked about doing some other things. So why are
Speaker 2: we out here? What you got going on today?
Speaker 5: We're celebrating the Rocket Foundation. We're doing the Rocket Foundation,
Speaker 5: of course, but we celebrate my nephew birthday. We putting
Speaker 5: it all in once, calling the summit, and we're just
Speaker 5: doing this for a purpose.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 5: It should take our legacy. His name still alive and
Speaker 5: we gotta be front line and do something about it,
Speaker 5: you know, from the politics sides and.
Speaker 4: In the street side.
Speaker 5: So like we just merging this together and building this
Speaker 5: big old foundation, this big old family, this big you
Speaker 5: are not alone crew, this big superhero group. Like I
Speaker 5: feel like we just here to just embrace all that
Speaker 5: energy of like when you when you lose a love,
Speaker 5: when we're here for you.
Speaker 3: Introduce us to who's to your right.
Speaker 5: My dog, Greg Jackson, you know what I'm saying, President
Speaker 5: of the Rocket Foundation. I'm lett him break it down
Speaker 5: on how he, you know, started and came here and
Speaker 5: with me.
Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about your background, too, great,
Speaker 2: because we ran across past.
Speaker 3: What year was that, Yeah, White House?
Speaker 2: When I came into the White House, because I worked
Speaker 2: with the group Advanced Piece, Advanced Peace. Forgive me, we're
Speaker 2: out there in California. But yeah, tell us how you started,
Speaker 2: where you started with the Biden administration, and how you
Speaker 2: moved your way with Cuevo.
Speaker 6: Well, my work on this issue started in April twenty thirteen.
Speaker 6: I was leaving the club with my cousins and just
Speaker 6: like so many moments, we got caught in the middle
Speaker 6: of across fire.
Speaker 4: Bullets rang out and I was hit.
Speaker 6: The bullet hit me, hit two arteries, nearly cost my life,
Speaker 6: and I got within thirty minutes of dying from blood
Speaker 6: loss and went through six surgeries six months of recovery.
Speaker 6: But in that moment, I just kept telling myself, if
Speaker 6: I could ever get back on my feet, like, I
Speaker 6: want to do everything I can to make sure no
Speaker 6: one else goes through what I went through. And since
Speaker 6: then unfortunately, I've lost a couple mintees and a few
Speaker 6: friends to gun violence. It's just a huge issue that
Speaker 6: keeps raging forward. But I've been an outspoken activist for
Speaker 6: now over twelve years, fought to pass policy in Washington,
Speaker 6: d C. We passed the first bill in thirty years
Speaker 6: on gun violence, the Bipartis Is Safe for Communities Act.
Speaker 6: And then shortly after that I met Kwavo, and you know,
Speaker 6: unfortunately through tragedy, but he was determined to make it triumph,
Speaker 6: you know, and to make it make sure that there's
Speaker 6: power in the loss that happened.
Speaker 4: And we went to the White House. He went to
Speaker 4: the White House, sat down with the Vice.
Speaker 6: President, We met with members of Congress and said, hey,
Speaker 6: we need a team that can help address this issue
Speaker 6: every day. And President Biden and Vice President Harris answer
Speaker 6: and created the first ever White House Office of Gun
Speaker 6: Violence Prevention in twenty twenty three. I don't know if
Speaker 6: it was you that did it, but I got hired
Speaker 6: and so I was a deputy director there for about
Speaker 6: a year and a half, and in that job, we
Speaker 6: moved forty two billion dollars into gun violence prevention. We
Speaker 6: did fifty four executive actions, and we fully implemented that
Speaker 6: big law that made gun trafficking and federal offense that
Speaker 6: added more money for victims of violence and really added
Speaker 6: more resources for mental health and youth programs and a
Speaker 6: lot of the programs that now the Rocket Foundation is
Speaker 6: working with. And so it's been the honor of my
Speaker 6: life to serve in the White House. And you know,
Speaker 6: I just thank God every day that he got me
Speaker 6: out of that hospital bed.
Speaker 3: So what is the goal?
Speaker 2: And you guys can take terms kind of telling what
Speaker 2: is the goal of this, because I know we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk a little bit later on the panel, but you're
Speaker 2: kind of setting up a situation where people can get
Speaker 2: a hold of you, a coalition of athletes and entertainers
Speaker 2: and ecosystem where people having issues with with with with
Speaker 2: gun violent taking call you up and you got boots
Speaker 2: on the ground. Explain to us a little bit more
Speaker 2: about that situation.
Speaker 5: Right we just like you said, it it goes around
Speaker 5: the world. You know what I'm saying. It happens every day,
Speaker 5: It happens in all cities. Man, I'm pretty sure y'all
Speaker 5: background y'all had to you know what I'm saying, Seeing
Speaker 5: it or been in it, and so we just you know,
Speaker 5: kind of becoming those those big bros and those those
Speaker 5: those leaders who just like you can get on the
Speaker 5: phone and and and and figure something out instead of
Speaker 5: going retaliate, retaliating in the streets and being like doing
Speaker 5: it the wrong way. It's like we we need to
Speaker 5: go to the big way. We need to go to
Speaker 5: the White House. We need to you know, try to
Speaker 5: change some laws. We need to link up together and
Speaker 5: get frontline and really like and go hard about this.
Speaker 5: Cause you see, like other family members and theyvey won't
Speaker 5: like change, They won't like they want some to be done.
Speaker 5: And you just can't, you know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 5: can't just lead a house and just crash out all
Speaker 5: the time. So like I feel like I had to
Speaker 5: put like my patience, my time, my heart, even even
Speaker 5: my ego. I had to sit aside, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. It's hard every time I do to these summings,
Speaker 5: I feel like like one I was there, This's my nephew,
Speaker 5: so I'm always like supposed to take care of him
Speaker 5: and bring him home at in any situation. So starting
Speaker 5: from like I said, starting from this in the foundation
Speaker 5: is just it's the only way I think I know
Speaker 5: right now, and and I'm just looking for Like, I'm
Speaker 5: I wanna be that vessel. I wanna be that answer.
Speaker 5: I wanna be that guy that you can call on
Speaker 5: that's been through it too. So that's that's what I'm
Speaker 5: at with, you know what I mean, I'm I.
Speaker 4: Wanna say this like I think it's I think it's
Speaker 4: a beautiful thing. Cause like even with my situation with
Speaker 4: George Sayd, like if I knew I had a group
Speaker 4: of people already sat in place where I know I
Speaker 4: can call and I already got a teen together where
Speaker 4: I know I can move with. What you're doing is
Speaker 4: very beneficial, bro, cause instead of having to get up
Speaker 4: and find people that that's like minded, that want that,
Speaker 4: that care about it, you already have that. So when
Speaker 4: it's time to move, y'all already moving one time. That's
Speaker 4: a beautiful thing. Bro. I gotta salute you fortreciation, right.
Speaker 3: We we know not to cut you off.
Speaker 2: We know that obviously having someone as big as Quavo
Speaker 2: and and him using his celebrity and his money and
Speaker 2: his platform policy is what really moves the th the
Speaker 2: needle and that's a space that that that you've been in.
Speaker 2: How important it is teaming up with someone like him
Speaker 2: and then also moving on the policy side as well
Speaker 2: to see actual change.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's the policy, but it's also the resources, right,
Speaker 6: Like what Cuevo described and what Steam described, man is
Speaker 6: having those big bros to go to. There are thousands
Speaker 6: of organizations across the country that are doing this work.
Speaker 6: You know, Safe Streets in Baltimore, Advanced Piece in La A, Detroit, Yeah,
Speaker 6: Life CA, yep, Force Detroit, Life Camp in New York like, uh,
Speaker 6: I mean, every city has local organizations that are working
Speaker 6: hard to do that hope hustlers here, right. But these organizations,
Speaker 6: most of them are underfunded. Most of them don't have
Speaker 6: the you know, a big communications team and they're working
Speaker 6: every day to connect with folks in these hard times,
Speaker 6: but they don't have the support. And that's what makes
Speaker 6: Rocket such a big deals because Quabo can shine a
Speaker 6: light on these programs and strategies. You know, we've already
Speaker 6: granted to over ten organizations here locally to help them
Speaker 6: build their program, but more importantly tell the story of
Speaker 6: how they're helping to save lives.
Speaker 4: Because the last three years we've seen.
Speaker 6: The steepest declines and homicides in American history thirty one percent.
Speaker 6: And the big difference was not the big laws, it
Speaker 6: was the resources going to the community groups and they
Speaker 6: can expand and connect with more folks that are need right.
Speaker 6: And so we went from you know, small organizations that
Speaker 6: didn't have resources to now they can get federal money,
Speaker 6: state money, city money. They're getting support from foundations, they're
Speaker 6: getting support from corporations, and that's because we're able to
Speaker 6: tell the story of how impactful they are. And I
Speaker 6: think that is something huge. I mean even this year
Speaker 6: in Atlanta, homicides or eleven percent, right, So we know
Speaker 6: that if you pour into the community, and we know
Speaker 6: access to guns is a big problem, but if you
Speaker 6: pour into the community first, you can reduce violence by
Speaker 6: so much. And that's where policy meets culture, right, and
Speaker 6: policy meets.
Speaker 4: The voice, and then they and the way that we
Speaker 4: can change the narrative. That's what That's one thing we
Speaker 4: did go to a command. There's a loutderstanding. I understand
Speaker 4: about policies and laws like it, but I did ask her,
Speaker 4: how can we get the money in the fund into
Speaker 4: these real grass roops that we know that's doing the
Speaker 4: right work, you know what I'm saying. I think that's
Speaker 4: a big problem because they want to do things to
Speaker 4: help out, but you don't know the actually people that's
Speaker 4: doing the word work because you're not in that you're
Speaker 4: not in that situation, we know, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So some kind of way, the people that's willing to
Speaker 4: put the money in, they need to give them money
Speaker 4: to the right people to get to these grass roups,
Speaker 4: organization that's doing the real work, and just just fairbody's awareness.
Speaker 6: The term that we we identify for these groups are
Speaker 6: community violence Intervention Organizations or CBI and and these groups
Speaker 6: are doing everything from street outreach. Some of them are
Speaker 6: doing therapy with families, some are are providing behavior change approaches,
Speaker 6: but also coaching a football team right right, or working
Speaker 6: with young folks in sports or different actions and and
Speaker 6: they come in different styles, but at the end of
Speaker 6: the day, they're focused on those who are most at
Speaker 6: risk and just supporting them, you know, so that in
Speaker 6: that tough moment of crisis, they don't have to turn
Speaker 6: to a gun or turn to harm in somebody.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: That's why I work with the group Advanced piece up
Speaker 2: and stocked in the Sacramento. They they talk to the
Speaker 2: people that are most likely to be sh doing the
Speaker 2: shootings or being shot like they have the ogs to
Speaker 2: get out of prison and come back and talk. And
Speaker 2: we take them to games and raise funds and give
Speaker 2: them different experiences because we could tell people, tip, we're
Speaker 2: blue in the face, put down the guns.
Speaker 3: But what are we replacing the guns with?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: You gotta replace with opportunity, right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So until we really start doing that, that's when we
Speaker 2: start seeing change. So great, thank you for your time.
Speaker 2: We're gonna catch up with you a little bit later
Speaker 2: on the panel, and man, you can catch the rest
Speaker 2: of the panel conversation.
Speaker 4: Let's start from beginning, bro, the NAF. Yeah, I had
Speaker 4: a blessing uh to be called on and off. Come
Speaker 4: hang with y'all a couple of times. Talk about your
Speaker 4: a uh, your upbringing and what does atail rep mean
Speaker 4: and represent to you.
Speaker 5: I was originally born in Athens, Georgia, and about about
Speaker 5: like sixth sixth seventh grade, we moved to Gwenett. We
Speaker 5: called it the North and shit, we were just some
Speaker 5: five thirty young niggas just just having fun, making music,
Speaker 5: doing sports and getting in trouble.
Speaker 4: Yeah, trying to figure it out.
Speaker 5: Trying to figure it out. You know, everybody stayed at
Speaker 5: my house. Uh, that's that's Mama crib. We call it
Speaker 5: Mama hunch o. Everybody stayed there. And then and downstairs
Speaker 5: we had came up on this laptop and and like
Speaker 5: a bluebird mic and so I hooked it up downstairs
Speaker 5: and we had this like gymnastic Mac hooked that thing
Speaker 5: up downstairs and that thing. You know, we were just
Speaker 5: in there, just recording, going crazy.
Speaker 4: Everybody called Mama Mama. You was raised by Mama Dad,
Speaker 4: Wasn't there a similar smile upbringing a lot of people
Speaker 4: don't know the what a mother that's raising a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of kids and all the kids in the neighborhood,
Speaker 4: what she go through a day to better sacrifice She
Speaker 4: make talk about you know what your mom meant to
Speaker 4: everybody around y'all because even you know, some of your
Speaker 4: groupmates said talk about how she was a father figure
Speaker 4: to everybody and she and she gave everybody the real game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she just let everybody inside. All the doors always open, always,
Speaker 5: you can always get some food. The best cooking straight up, raw,
Speaker 5: uncut advice. Even like you know, sometimes parents other other kids,
Speaker 5: parents had like strict ways on like not letting you
Speaker 5: outside and do like just crazy stuff. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, My mom be like how your parents not
Speaker 5: let that you do this and that in the third
Speaker 5: and so sometimes we'll like the kids used to like
Speaker 5: run away and just come stay at my house because
Speaker 5: she was just so cool and caring. But at the
Speaker 5: same time, she still ain't let you just do no nothing,
Speaker 5: since like you couldn't just be able to disrespecting the spot.
Speaker 5: And I just felt like it was a level of respect,
Speaker 5: and it was a level level of like, Okay, we
Speaker 5: all growing up as young men, we got responsibilities, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, And she just always instilled it
Speaker 5: and just always made sure we, you know, kept God first,
Speaker 5: and watch for the haters, watch for the jealousy, keep
Speaker 5: your brothers, you know what I'm saying, keep your brothers.
Speaker 5: Everybody looking good. We share clothes, s same shoes, same shirts.
Speaker 5: We gonna we gonna always make sure we look good together.
Speaker 5: So it was just that commoditiy of it just together.
Speaker 5: It's like that what shoes on.
Speaker 4: Your sister said he didn't get whippings like we did.
Speaker 5: Oh nah, I'm the only boy. I ain't really get
Speaker 5: in trouble like that cause I was on I was
Speaker 5: the only boy she love on the son. I I
Speaker 5: think she get that from my grandmoma though, cause my
Speaker 5: grandmoma had five girls and one boy, and so they
Speaker 5: used to just always make sure the boy was straight.
Speaker 5: Uncle both Yeah, I got one uncle. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: What kind of music did you listen to growing up?
Speaker 4: I know y'all all turned down was wrapping up around
Speaker 4: that time. I was out here when y'all was coming up.
Speaker 5: Growing up, we was listening to hot boys a lot.
Speaker 5: I was a real big T Pain fan. That that
Speaker 5: kind of how I get the tune and the melodies
Speaker 5: and shit young l A J. Money.
Speaker 4: They don't know how it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was huge us Gucci of course, Yeah, Gzy
Speaker 5: But like the ship that started the sauce in the wave,
Speaker 5: I feel like we go Features and Leland and d J.
Speaker 5: That was like kind of gave us our our template
Speaker 5: and palette on on where to go with with the.
Speaker 2: Swag football music first two loves, but your your first
Speaker 2: love was football. Quarterback always had a ball in your
Speaker 2: hand as a youngster, had the Gwynette County record for
Speaker 2: the most consecutive passes completion twenty eight until somebody in
Speaker 2: the NFL, Taylor Henkey, came and broke that record.
Speaker 3: Was he? Where'd you say?
Speaker 2: Is that June the Chargers with the Chargers so and
Speaker 2: a young up and coming NFL player broke your record? Uh,
Speaker 2: you could really play football. Talk to us about the
Speaker 2: passion of the quarterback position and kind of while we're
Speaker 2: here today at the College Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: Of course, I always played sports growing up. Quarterback came
Speaker 5: real late to me. I wonder I didn't play quarterback
Speaker 5: growing up. I played receiver, corner, a little bit of
Speaker 5: tight end, and they would throw me at quarterback every
Speaker 5: now and then, like sprinkle me in because I was
Speaker 5: left hand and I was.
Speaker 4: Just everybody left and I think they sweet, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So they and I had that like just that little
Speaker 5: itching it and then ship like the first I want
Speaker 5: to say, ninth grade, we lost one of my third quarterback.
Speaker 5: I think he broke his collar bomb my other quarterback.
Speaker 5: He was game banging. He just went cross street, got suspended.
Speaker 5: And then they were just like doing tryouts in ninth grades,
Speaker 5: so like anybody come up there. So I seen I
Speaker 5: seen my one of my buddies. He was a rob seef.
Speaker 5: He went down and he's like, I got it, don't
Speaker 5: worry about I got He came down neck broke coming
Speaker 5: back they like nah boom. So I was kind of
Speaker 5: like I want to say last as I'm just like
Speaker 5: fuck it, I do it. And when I went over there,
Speaker 5: jail natural it j click. And then ninth grade, I
Speaker 5: think I played jav I got like most improved player
Speaker 5: that year, and then like shit, the next year I
Speaker 5: was I had to compete with a young nag. He
Speaker 5: was His name was Zay Bridge. I'll never forget you, boy,
Speaker 5: you still fire. He like six six, crazy young, just
Speaker 5: had it all, Like look him up top top to bottom,
Speaker 5: had it all and just like he went out there.
Speaker 5: But I think I don't think he was a quarterback.
Speaker 5: I think he was like a safety or something. But
Speaker 5: like anyway, he was a cold blooded over. He can
Speaker 5: do anything he wanted to do on the field. So
Speaker 5: I guess spring game he just ain't having him that
Speaker 5: day he got them. They threw me out there first
Speaker 5: player of the game. I threw a touchdown and.
Speaker 3: It was the first player the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll never forget it. We played Collins Hill.
Speaker 4: That's dope.
Speaker 2: What kind of influence did Mike Vick have on you
Speaker 2: once you became a quarterback?
Speaker 5: Of course I would, and I'm gonna sell him. I
Speaker 5: was big, was my favorite player. I felt like when
Speaker 5: he left Atlanta, all the soul left alone. So it
Speaker 5: was kind of hard for me to be a Falcons
Speaker 5: fan again after that. But now I'm back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you play any hoop or was just off football?
Speaker 5: I played ball? I played Yeah, I played basketball. I
Speaker 5: really was good at basketball.
Speaker 3: Was like organized basketball.
Speaker 5: I played a little league growing up middle school, and
Speaker 5: then when I got to high school, I couldn't never
Speaker 5: like get over that spring progress support. I could never
Speaker 5: get over it. Every time I every time I pulled up,
Speaker 5: I was feeling. So that's how how they would cut
Speaker 5: me and then I get mad and then do all
Speaker 5: spring sports. So I just to keep me like in
Speaker 5: school and doing my work. I went to play baseball
Speaker 5: for the first time and I played pitcher in left
Speaker 5: field and ship. That's what kept me with my grades.
Speaker 5: When I was rolling over to basketball, I meant rolling
Speaker 5: over to football and then ship after that right back again.
Speaker 5: I'm feeling again. It was just like a like a
Speaker 5: cycle bro like every DC. I couldn't catch that basketball
Speaker 5: try out report card flip. So it just I was
Speaker 5: just like, I'm just gonna be a spring football and
Speaker 5: baseball guy. But I did it all though.
Speaker 2: The athlete mindset, that's something we talked to Kobe about.
Speaker 2: We recently talked to Ryan Coogler about about just how
Speaker 2: do you change that mindset from sports to business and
Speaker 2: your example of music, how to be an athlete help
Speaker 2: you transition into those spaces.
Speaker 5: Most definitely socially, help you to learn how to be
Speaker 5: a leader. You know what I'm saying, Take charge, control
Speaker 5: the room, go through ups and downs. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, a lot of things don't go your way.
Speaker 5: You gotta be able to you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: stand in it and uh that's what I think in business.
Speaker 5: And then patience, patience, you know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 5: won't a lot you even like when you're working out,
Speaker 5: you thinking that you can go get big tomorrow, but
Speaker 5: you gotta you gotta stay at it. So like that football,
Speaker 5: sports communicate with you know what I'm saying, Having that coach,
Speaker 5: that father, figures, that big brother, it kind of like
Speaker 5: shape you get you ready for the outside world. So
Speaker 5: that's why I be trying to like tell kids, like
Speaker 5: you should for show you like all three sports to
Speaker 5: see whatever you wanted, you know what I'm saying, But
Speaker 5: that one like if you doing one sport right now,
Speaker 5: you better know you going on the way and like
Speaker 5: getting it together. But that's how I feel like it
Speaker 5: shaped me.
Speaker 2: When did music surpass sports? As far as ma'am, this
Speaker 2: maybe something I could do.
Speaker 4: Shit.
Speaker 5: After I dropped out of high school, I had playing
Speaker 5: A didn't work. I went playing B and that was music. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and but ill we was always good. We was always good.
Speaker 5: Like we're fucking around and just make songs for the school.
Speaker 5: They'll love them. Make songs for the for the for
Speaker 5: the football team. They're like it. I passed my mixtape
Speaker 5: out in like eighth grade, me and tape. Everybody laughed
Speaker 5: at us, you know what I'm saying, But they they
Speaker 5: knew it was that only one nigga pulled up to
Speaker 5: the captier like, hey, bro, that Mick Tay matter if
Speaker 5: I get on him? And that was all set that's
Speaker 5: how it happened in the cafeterias.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: So they all knew it, but he was the only
Speaker 2: one that really show love to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but Take though, Take always been rapping. Yeah,
Speaker 5: been the one. But he's just no music front to back,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Like he used to get
Speaker 5: in trouble for singing the Turk album left the top
Speaker 5: the bottom, and he was a kid like then coming there,
Speaker 5: cuss doing all that cuszing man. Mama came in there
Speaker 5: and took the whole CD in there thing. He was sick.
Speaker 5: But like he was just such a student of the game,
Speaker 5: and like he knew every word to every song. He
Speaker 5: knew my words to my songs. He knew like he
Speaker 5: was just such a sponge. It was like, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: I was blessed to be in the studio with you, Gucci,
Speaker 4: the whole Migos or Juice and Dog at the same time,
Speaker 4: and you and you were in the booth. This just
Speaker 4: to call he was you was in the booth. He
Speaker 4: came in there, helped you with some stuff, and we
Speaker 4: was all in the chilling. But when he went in there,
Speaker 4: all of us was in there like like like who
Speaker 4: this guy here? Like he was he just took that
Speaker 4: people at there present like he was the best. Every
Speaker 4: time I seen him in the studio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, he was like that
Speaker 3: bro over but chill though, Yeah, because.
Speaker 5: That's how he got his name though take Off was
Speaker 5: really called his first. It was like one take, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like we started, like when we
Speaker 5: was rapping, I used to record on this thing called
Speaker 5: Windows movie make it. It's like a long time ago,
Speaker 5: and like you had to set it up to where
Speaker 5: like you put the I had to put the track
Speaker 5: up there where the movie real would be, and I
Speaker 5: put and it had like this narration thing so you
Speaker 5: can just narrate the real you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So it was kind of like a song, you get
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So but you got it, Like but
Speaker 5: you started, you gotta keep going. You can't suck up,
Speaker 5: Like if you fuck up, you got to delete the
Speaker 5: whole game. So like I would be fucking up, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, And like we had to start over,
Speaker 5: start over. But when that man got on one take,
Speaker 5: one take every time, and then I take off, he
Speaker 5: got his name that's dope.
Speaker 2: I was in the studio the order then, like they
Speaker 2: did the l a Leaker ship and I like remember
Speaker 2: that night and I brought you something and I was
Speaker 2: just sitting there like this ship is dope shows.
Speaker 3: Just sit there and see it.
Speaker 5: We need to crack that strand we need to get
Speaker 5: we still we got business plays and stuff going on
Speaker 5: over here. Man, he's my god. These are big bro
Speaker 5: cat like serious.
Speaker 4: You're known as the leader of the of the migos,
Speaker 4: But it was true that take off was really the
Speaker 4: one that got you in the boot for the first time.
Speaker 5: He was the backbone. I feel like me and him
Speaker 5: both was always the fans of just music, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Like I said, Bro, we used to
Speaker 5: ride on our glasses like like soldiers. I used to
Speaker 5: be crump boy. It used to be God Damn forgot
Speaker 5: what his name was.
Speaker 4: The light. I can't think his name.
Speaker 5: I would know my name, Crump well he was. He
Speaker 5: used to be like dope boy, like for a week.
Speaker 5: Even we had to sweet you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: Like we just always just been in that. But I
Speaker 5: was playing sports, so I thought that I would go
Speaker 5: and he was like or we just get put over.
Speaker 5: He was fourteen years old, and and asked him what
Speaker 5: he did. He was like, I'm a rapper. Cops would
Speaker 5: be like, yo, come in real quick, man, come listen
Speaker 5: to this man, tell him what you do. Said, I
Speaker 5: wrap straight up and like so he always knew that
Speaker 5: we was gonna be a rapper. And that's why I
Speaker 5: said the playing b didn't feel like, no, no hard job,
Speaker 5: because he was already.
Speaker 4: Y'all been wrapping back in the days, y'all was putting
Speaker 4: my sticks to the microphones.
Speaker 5: Socks over mics over oh nail, nail, the mic to
Speaker 5: the nail, the mic to the wall. No MIC's staying.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like hanging off the corner of the wall.
Speaker 5: And then you just put like ten socks over it
Speaker 5: and then make it like and it make it sound
Speaker 5: like a real mic. And this is like and this
Speaker 5: like little stick mics at Walmart.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, y'all remember.
Speaker 5: Those deth mics like the stick ones.
Speaker 4: You just.
Speaker 5: Get the rapping had to.
Speaker 4: With all that, y'all had to find a way to
Speaker 4: one take everything.
Speaker 5: We had to find a way to one take everything.
Speaker 5: And we just started getting good at what we you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying all the time at libs one
Speaker 5: take verse, one take. If not you, you're gonna mess
Speaker 5: up the whole song. What's crazy. I used to hate
Speaker 5: being at the end because I knew I'm a fuck up.
Speaker 5: So if I'm at the end of you did your versus,
Speaker 5: you did your versus, and I gotta come in in
Speaker 5: and and I fuck it up, you gotta start over everybody,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So that was that was
Speaker 5: that was I'll never forget that.
Speaker 3: That was the pressure to get you better though.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, Polo Club for Polo Club, p O l O.
Speaker 4: Talk about it.
Speaker 5: Man, they had us burned. That's what I said, the
Speaker 5: j futuristic of LA You know what I'm saying, that
Speaker 5: whole Bay by bayh world. We were bowed out extra
Speaker 5: by who Polo Club.
Speaker 4: It was burned out, big horses.
Speaker 5: On God, the Bigger, the Rugby, the Levi True Religions.
Speaker 2: It was Trim couldn't tell you shit, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: The Polo Club mixtape was met with mixed feelings. It
Speaker 4: was mixed feelings about.
Speaker 5: A while cause it was I feel like it actually
Speaker 5: didn't have it was another member in there shout up
Speaker 5: with my boy Nick Man.
Speaker 3: Nick didn't make the cup.
Speaker 5: Huh nah, he had asked. He was just going hard.
Speaker 5: He ended up doing like fifteen mm. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. He just took a different route. But yeah,
Speaker 5: it was just I think we was a little bit premature,
Speaker 5: like we weren't ready yet. I don't think we were ready.
Speaker 5: I think I was like seventeen sixteen. It was. It
Speaker 5: was sparking, but we weren't ready yet. I I'm glad
Speaker 5: that we didn't take off cause I thought cause I
Speaker 5: was really thought we was ready. Like I'm like, it's crazy,
Speaker 5: but I'm we were just brewing brow and brwing. Then
Speaker 5: it like that migo shit came. It was just like, okay,
Speaker 5: north Side Gwenett, we got the migos living here, We
Speaker 5: got the you know what I'm saying. We the only
Speaker 5: it's like black and brown everybody in the school week. Okay,
Speaker 5: cool we migo game. How we gonna we going to
Speaker 5: migos black? You know what I'm saying. And like I
Speaker 5: thinks long lived street Scooter God damn j Money OGD.
Speaker 5: When we came in, they were like, oh, y'all boy
Speaker 5: looked like y'all boy got it. Out, it's already dressed.
Speaker 5: We ain't got it. It's over with, And it was
Speaker 5: just once we got that official stamp, it was just
Speaker 5: we were gone.
Speaker 4: When during this time, when y'all figuring it out, y'all
Speaker 4: making the music, y'all growing any og step in and
Speaker 4: give y'all some game, or y'all learned everything off experience
Speaker 4: when we was recording.
Speaker 5: That's what that's I'm glad that's a good question. You said.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 5: We we walked in the studio with other folks. I
Speaker 5: feel like we was ahead of them, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, cause of the punch in, because of the
Speaker 5: one takes, cause of the We was just punching in,
Speaker 5: punching in, punching in. So we walked in the studio,
Speaker 5: I was like, damn, bro, we doing it right. You
Speaker 5: ain't never cause y'all y'all pro so, y'all probably fifteen
Speaker 5: sixteen doing motherfucking superstar NBA workouts that you don't don't
Speaker 5: even know that you was doing til you walked in there.
Speaker 5: Over there to the gym, You're like, oh, damn, we
Speaker 5: shooting three hundred fifty y'all? Do I do that at
Speaker 5: the crib every day. You know what I'm saying, We
Speaker 5: do in and outs across the pit, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So like the formula was o. We was
Speaker 5: making the formula. We was having the formula already, it
Speaker 5: was already ready. So when we walked in, we just
Speaker 5: looked like we was just.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you some names.
Speaker 2: Tell me the first thing to come to mind, or
Speaker 2: any good stories about them, outcasts.
Speaker 5: Greatest group, greatest group of all time for sure.
Speaker 3: That what did they mean to Atlanta and you growing up?
Speaker 5: First ones to kick the door down, having something to say,
Speaker 5: the first verbal ones and not you know what I'm saying, unapologetically,
Speaker 5: and the Dungeon the basement, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: All that, it's the same. It's just like the boys
Speaker 5: outside and like having you know what I'm saying, telling
Speaker 5: them folks to Nigga having something to say, like Nigga
Speaker 5: having swag and they dripped was just out of here.
Speaker 5: Two different, two different worlds. And that's how of course,
Speaker 5: of course they Andre and Andre big Boy out the
Speaker 5: whole Dungeon family. You know, they they set the tone
Speaker 5: for sure for Atlanta ti Ya ti Ya to.
Speaker 4: Goat the king Ken you go to trap, sure, question
Speaker 4: about it? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that going down three sixteen run when we were
Speaker 5: moving from Adding to Gwenette. That was our tape of
Speaker 5: motivation cause I saw I didn't wanna leave at it.
Speaker 5: I ain't wanna leave at all.
Speaker 4: He might too.
Speaker 5: It might be my favorite rabbit from Atlanta all time.
Speaker 5: The show You had a fough too, Jeez, the goat
Speaker 5: snow Man, ad lib King, he most definitely the ad.
Speaker 4: Lib King dominated this era too, especially out here in
Speaker 4: the Sure A.
Speaker 5: Little scrappy, shrill young nigga. You feel like he set
Speaker 5: the tone for that, that marsh pit music, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Like that stuff that Cardy and Kenndam doing.
Speaker 5: You know, they were going ahead, bust of music. Little Johns,
Speaker 5: you can get it up like it was just I
Speaker 5: think they they started leading leading that way.
Speaker 3: Soldier Boy, he trimmed too.
Speaker 5: He one of the first ones that ever called the
Speaker 5: migos over. He wanted the first rappers that ever dealt
Speaker 5: with us, you know what I'm saying. Actually, that's how
Speaker 5: I met trave at Soldier House, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: That man traffic went on to dne t you know,
Speaker 5: he not said this ship.
Speaker 4: Go viral, because you want to say you the first everybody.
Speaker 5: The first rapper pulled up on them with J money,
Speaker 5: but the first big one for show with soldiers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Future, the Wizard, the Go Too.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, that motherfucker ever got infinity life.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, You're gonna walk it down,
Speaker 5: You're gonna do whatever it's ready to roll.
Speaker 2: What was your first international trip, asked migos. That just
Speaker 2: blew y'all mind.
Speaker 5: I wanna say somewhere ain't no niggas really went like that,
Speaker 5: Like Australia was crazy. Australia actually was one of the
Speaker 5: best times of my life cause we went from like
Speaker 5: Africa to Australia. But year was just about I wanna
Speaker 5: say twenty A culture too, twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, ten
Speaker 5: for real, twenty nineteen. Yeah, and I end up like
Speaker 5: we end up making Narcos in the studio, but we
Speaker 5: got kicked out the hotel because the flight was the
Speaker 5: next day, and so I guess we couldn't stay there.
Speaker 5: So we just stayed in the studio from like six
Speaker 5: to six, like six am. Tol R The next day
Speaker 5: and it was just oh, man, man, I don't even
Speaker 5: know his name. I just heard him in like in
Speaker 5: the in the other room just playing the saxophone. He
Speaker 5: was just playing the shit out the saxophone. I'm just like, bro,
Speaker 5: we need you to come play this shit. And I think
Speaker 5: we end up doing Narcos in two player for the
Speaker 5: com relation take. And I just think, like those that
Speaker 5: moment right that just was was too dope for me.
Speaker 5: It's hard to explain, cause like it wa you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying it It was just the the studio
Speaker 5: fucked up. We couldn't we like it looked like you
Speaker 5: didn't have no inspo there, and we found a a
Speaker 5: major smn Chis record. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: At least expect Travers Traf.
Speaker 5: Oh nah, you to you to go for sure? Trave
Speaker 5: That's my brother. He We feed off each other. It's
Speaker 5: like Batman Robin when we when we get in there
Speaker 5: and we just I just feel like he me and
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm him. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I wanna ge ask his questions off uh keenon Streets Classics.
Speaker 4: What was I wasn't making that album? I mean that
Speaker 4: song to the street. Lucher pulled up rest in Peace School.
Speaker 5: Her Peace School for sure. Think it was just one
Speaker 5: of the nights in QC.
Speaker 4: Y'all was all in up. When y'all made that all.
Speaker 5: In there, he five, Lucher came in. We was already
Speaker 5: working on one.
Speaker 4: Me school.
Speaker 5: We we were doing like three. I think Flipper got
Speaker 5: on one. The uh team. What you think it is?
Speaker 5: Doff ye playing with it? Phlipp flipping me Flipper. We
Speaker 5: all we got on one and then Luther came in
Speaker 5: I think like a hour later, and then out you
Speaker 5: like he.
Speaker 4: Pulled, we pulled who made to be jeans and make
Speaker 4: that big anyway?
Speaker 5: We When I walked in, I was kind of like
Speaker 5: that at the end of him, I'm like, man, I'm
Speaker 5: really ready to do you know what I'm saying, turn
Speaker 5: it in. But Luke came in, so I'm just like,
Speaker 5: all right, cool, I got it prepping and get right.
Speaker 5: So I walk in there, I'm just like, I got
Speaker 5: money away before that. This put my bitches and new man.
Speaker 5: But I'm saying it like that. She's like, man, come
Speaker 5: on out, I got something to say right now and
Speaker 5: leave that. He go right in the look like your bam,
Speaker 5: and then after that it was just magic. Every time
Speaker 5: I get into like a no I want, I want
Speaker 5: to say, don't want to, but like not in the
Speaker 5: vibe when you think you not, it make a smash
Speaker 5: every time off the goat. Well that's my dog. I
Speaker 5: missed Off for sure, that Nigga one thousand, always hoigh, spirited,
Speaker 5: always loved and always god damn laughing like a motherfucker.
Speaker 5: He just ready to work. I got some I got
Speaker 5: some shit with Off too.
Speaker 3: He is a good dude overall though, to.
Speaker 5: Show gonna get you anything, buy you anything for real.
Speaker 4: Always done by his paper. Talk about the early days
Speaker 4: promoting that the promote migos at the Pink Flamingo, he
Speaker 4: said it back.
Speaker 5: And started at that's crazy, that's where it started at
Speaker 5: because DJ ray g he he said. And he used
Speaker 5: to be Cardi and set DJ but he still set DJ.
Speaker 5: But he was in Plink Flamingo, And we had this
Speaker 5: song called Bando and jumping out the gym, and we
Speaker 5: had Bando before we even got sign before we even
Speaker 5: came up to the city. Bando was the first song
Speaker 5: that like started like brewing into town anyway, but like
Speaker 5: to get the niggas to play the song, we would
Speaker 5: have to like go up there with the DJ, smoke
Speaker 5: a blunt with them, buy him two drinks or the
Speaker 5: Blue Motherfuckers y'all remember that the Blue Motherfuckers that and
Speaker 5: just smoke some weed and ship. He gonna spend it,
Speaker 5: but we gotta make sure he spend it prime time.
Speaker 5: Can't spend it when the lights come on, can't spend
Speaker 5: it when of the vibe going down. We need this
Speaker 5: shit hot and fresh like at the top of the
Speaker 5: top and shit, I wanna say, before we hit hit Bando,
Speaker 5: we gave him like two records that wasn't really catching.
Speaker 5: He wasn't moving the folks like that. But when we
Speaker 5: dropped him off for the Bando bro mm, then I
Speaker 5: knew like they was coming up to us like yo,
Speaker 5: this this the one. And then so he started like
Speaker 5: the DJ would like move spots you like yo, f
Speaker 5: So Friday he would do like Thursday, He'll do Peak
Speaker 5: for me. Go Friday, He'll do Obsession, Saturday he'll do Mansion.
Speaker 5: And we was just following that, nigga, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. An every time he DJ here, we come
Speaker 5: with that blend in that joint and we all had money.
Speaker 5: We all have paper. You know what I'm saying, fresh,
Speaker 5: deepest hell, pull up, Camaro charges back to back.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: We seventeen eighteen years old. And then key Motion did
Speaker 5: he shoot our videos? And he shot all the QC video.
Speaker 5: He was just out there with a camera like, Yo,
Speaker 5: can I just shoot this shit? This ship look good
Speaker 5: and I'll just shoot it. And then that's how it happened.
Speaker 5: We just go from club to club following our DJ.
Speaker 5: And then that thing, you know, we put him on
Speaker 5: the tape made him the DJ. He been on the
Speaker 5: road emotionally, been shooting videos for Wham and the old
Speaker 5: QC City Girls, everybody, all the startup crew since ever
Speaker 5: since then, everything been like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: like good money.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Would you ever produce Amigos documentary?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, we're actually working on that right now.
Speaker 5: We got a lot of footage.
Speaker 3: You mentioned all that footage that's people would love to see.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got a lot of footage.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: We got something.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, gush, we got put up for Tammy, put up.
Speaker 5: We got one road for.
Speaker 4: You too, good ones. Tell me if you agree with
Speaker 4: this statement in Atlanta, A local hit can be a
Speaker 4: shortcut to the national stage.
Speaker 5: Absolutely easy call, easy easy.
Speaker 2: What was the first hit y'all heard on the radio?
Speaker 2: Like that y'all did was like.
Speaker 5: Oh, sh bando for sure, Bando I'm talking about band
Speaker 5: was like band knows. So beginning it's like we used to.
Speaker 4: Do nobody lived. When they're talking about nobody, I don't
Speaker 4: care we we lived in a mansion or a broke
Speaker 4: down house or everybody lived in bandos.
Speaker 5: And ain't nobody knew what it was nobody.
Speaker 3: But you live in it.
Speaker 5: But like when we dropped that song, bro we had
Speaker 5: the battle. We dropped that song in Hot one on
Speaker 5: seven nine, where you'd be like song number one and
Speaker 5: number two, like we winning about it every week, winning
Speaker 5: about it. Oh nah, we like that number one? Man?
Speaker 5: Keep that band no going all right? Bet calling number
Speaker 5: number one to two? Bando, Man, that's it. And then
Speaker 5: like ship, we were just like booming. Then I ran
Speaker 5: into it, like I'm saying, we were following ray g around.
Speaker 5: So we go to O sessions and god damn, while
Speaker 5: this song going on, I'm walking in the section, bump
Speaker 5: a nigga, I look him up and down he looked
Speaker 5: me up and damn, it's Aytova. Were like, damn, this
Speaker 5: this is Aytova. He like, man, he don't lie, Man,
Speaker 5: what's up? B y'all?
Speaker 4: A band?
Speaker 3: No boy?
Speaker 5: He been looking they used to call a band, no boy.
Speaker 5: We've been looking for y'all like you talking about like
Speaker 5: him and Gucci. That's all I want to say. Like,
Speaker 5: not even a week later, he got damn hit real
Speaker 5: and what I'm saying who I wanted us to come
Speaker 5: to the studio, but I was so mad that like
Speaker 5: just rap because I felt like I felt like we
Speaker 5: had did it. I felt like we on the radio.
Speaker 5: We winning. God, damn this shit working everybody. We banned
Speaker 5: no boys around the town. This ni Guchie. Don't want
Speaker 5: to holler us manad you know what I'm saying. I'm like,
Speaker 5: don't don't call me that boys shit real? He like, man,
Speaker 5: no real. So I hit Zay cause I got his
Speaker 5: number one out. When he said they were looking for us,
Speaker 5: I said, hey, ja, is this added us right? He
Speaker 5: said this motherfucker sound about right? And we jumped in
Speaker 5: the car, went straight to the East Side and like
Speaker 5: everything then it was the rest of history.
Speaker 4: Shout out my boy Icond of line got bricks like
Speaker 4: shack at the free throw. Basketball rappers already always intertwined.
Speaker 4: Give me some of your favorite lines you use one
Speaker 4: or two of your favorite lines that you included with
Speaker 4: basketball players all the basketball games I just did.
Speaker 5: I just did a new one. Yeah, I say, little bro,
Speaker 5: pull up ball player James. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You got a little bro you pull up ball player
Speaker 5: Brandon James. Yeah, that's my favorite one right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The art of the musical group rap group? Which
Speaker 4: rap group? Which rap? Our musical group inspired you and
Speaker 4: the Migos Vision rap group. Yeah, because a lot of
Speaker 4: people rap, but everybody don't. Don't conquer the whole the
Speaker 4: whole aspect. Yeah, the entertaining part, the offs.
Speaker 5: I was just talking to Metro about this the other day.
Speaker 5: Saint Lordan Tex was kind of with the swag and everything.
Speaker 5: Talked about them, I want to say. And then I
Speaker 5: seen like a clip from like the Cash Money Millionaires
Speaker 5: when they did they when they used to all get
Speaker 5: on station back in the day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was crazy, that was it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that would put us to that level, like, alright,
Speaker 5: that's how we wanna do it, you know, what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: that's the ball. And then we used to always talk
Speaker 5: about like movement. Gotta have your movement right, gotta explain.
Speaker 5: You got to get 'em what you're saying. You feel
Speaker 5: I'm saying, she can't be right here rapping and just
Speaker 5: with your head down. You gotta you know, at them
Speaker 5: words out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they paint that picture.
Speaker 5: Mama, mama, mama.
Speaker 2: The order, the hook, the hook god, yeah, the hook God?
Speaker 2: Where'd that come from?
Speaker 5: Beating them niggas to the studio, beating them to the booth,
Speaker 5: going making five six songs while everybody go outside?
Speaker 4: What's that hook? Lade?
Speaker 5: It wasn't damn personally. I would just I was just
Speaker 5: sitting in the stool, bro and make like five six
Speaker 5: of 'em and ship like three, two or three of 'em.
Speaker 5: They want 'em and they want to get one.
Speaker 4: But like.
Speaker 5: I used to, just always work, always work, work, work, work.
Speaker 5: I made it kind of easy for the guys.
Speaker 4: Is always the hardest point.
Speaker 5: I just made it easy for the guys. You know,
Speaker 5: take gonna come clean up everything I set, gonna chop
Speaker 5: it down, you know.
Speaker 2: So how did the relationship between QC and you got
Speaker 2: yourself start it.
Speaker 5: Started when grew up, grew up, Pad went in and
Speaker 5: we just felt like when he had like like I said,
Speaker 5: he when when he came and signed us, I was
Speaker 5: life changed instantly boom, and like when he went to
Speaker 5: jail and start trickling back to like that and all
Speaker 5: side ship. We were like, oh, hell no, we can't
Speaker 5: go back. We just we just we just velt it.
Speaker 5: You feel what I'm saying. And we just got I
Speaker 5: got a call from Pee long way. He was just like, bro,
Speaker 5: pull up, just pull up, red did em? And it
Speaker 5: just pull up and I pulled up. He was talking
Speaker 5: about p But a month before go out went to jail.
Speaker 5: People putt me, I mean go up with me in
Speaker 5: the car with Pete. He was like, I got my
Speaker 5: buddy coming over here. Don't say nothing to him, don't
Speaker 5: look at him, don't say no words, y'all. Just get
Speaker 5: in the car and JT ride. So I'm like, what
Speaker 5: the hell type of fucking oh geez lord, this here?
Speaker 5: We just we me and take we just looking like
Speaker 5: so we get in the car, when we ride go
Speaker 5: through hit the city. We ain't say too much. He popped.
Speaker 5: He was like, ded my new arty to Migo. God damn,
Speaker 5: I want you to play the music. He played the
Speaker 5: music in the car p J Ryde. He don't pay
Speaker 5: no attention. He on the phone getting on the fun
Speaker 5: So I'm thinking he he ain't fucking with it. I
Speaker 5: get out the car and leave my phone in the
Speaker 5: car and and he was like, I say, go up
Speaker 5: and love my phone. And he said where you love
Speaker 5: your phone in the car? I just told you don't
Speaker 5: do nothing crazy in there. Man call you the So
Speaker 5: I'm like, man, hell no, fab forward. That's how I
Speaker 5: met him. So I get the car from him long
Speaker 5: way long way, like I'm like, alright, cool and shit.
Speaker 5: We walk in the studio. He had a brand new studio.
Speaker 5: Ain't nobody recorded, and he like, I just built his
Speaker 5: own know what to do it? And so I hit,
Speaker 5: I hit grew up for R I hit go on
Speaker 5: like we going that way? He like, alright, bet that's
Speaker 5: the best bet. Folk caming over with a trad bag
Speaker 5: full of money and we're like, don't tell me, I
Speaker 5: dug this up for nothing. I look, I looked down.
Speaker 5: I did like then n it it's time to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah hum. That's his history Culture album twenty seventeen Legendary
Speaker 4: debuts number one on the charts. The album has bad
Speaker 4: and bullsry t Shirt, Slippery, get Right with his name,
Speaker 4: a few some legendary producers on the album as well
Speaker 4: metro Booming. Is they Toven without hurting any feelings? Which
Speaker 4: one of them boys is the hardest.
Speaker 3: Who you gonna have the best chemistry with?
Speaker 5: And they told they Toven started it off from the church.
Speaker 4: They told him, of course, ain't he a good dude too?
Speaker 4: I like about Zay.
Speaker 5: It just struck again with the women. Yeah, he ain't
Speaker 5: gonna never You gonna keep striking.
Speaker 4: Yeah. You on the tourist for recording his songs in
Speaker 4: thirty forty minutes. What are your best memories grinding the
Speaker 4: studio pumping out song? Like the best memory that you had?
Speaker 4: You think about them. You know, you still got a
Speaker 4: long career left. But I noticed that one moment where
Speaker 4: you sat in the studio and he was like shit stop. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like man, I came still still kind of surreal to me.
Speaker 5: Gotta go gotta be there for Satyr moment.
Speaker 4: M gotta be for Sachi.
Speaker 5: We was all downstairs in the basement and you dropped
Speaker 5: the s we dropped the beat and Bruh, we was
Speaker 5: just I was just fasachi and set say up aside
Speaker 5: you and take saupiside, and I say upisides you again.
Speaker 5: Then I went back in and I recorded it and
Speaker 5: I came out. I'm saying, are we s br I
Speaker 5: think I'm saying fasata too much? They like, Noah, keep
Speaker 5: like that. We gonna do it just like this and
Speaker 5: then everything you know, God damn, I met. I. We
Speaker 5: was in birthday bash. That boy Drake pulled up. He said, bruh,
Speaker 5: I love everything y'all doing. From Pronto Pasachia Bandoh he like,
Speaker 5: send me either one of them. So I sent him too.
Speaker 5: I sent him Pronto and Pasachi. He sent that Pasachi
Speaker 5: and he was gone.
Speaker 4: Drake off.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: What's it like working with Draken?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that boy the goat with it go. Like
Speaker 5: I said, I always cook up shit first, like even
Speaker 5: with Drake, like even with Walkie Talking Portland, all of
Speaker 5: these songs be cooked, like I cook him up, and
Speaker 5: then I just sent him off. I sent him off
Speaker 5: and like shit jet be. It's just great chemistry. I
Speaker 5: know what Draken get on. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I know where the trap to get on, so I
Speaker 5: just tap in and shit like that when I sit
Speaker 5: on in the boot.
Speaker 4: When you go there.
Speaker 5: You wrote any songs in the RB artists, I wanna
Speaker 5: say the biggest one we did was eight Shit with
Speaker 5: Jay Z and Beyonce for sure. Yeah that was life
Speaker 5: changing too, for real.
Speaker 4: Set that up. Yeah, n I would love to write
Speaker 4: for like.
Speaker 5: R and B artists and get in that bad for sure.
Speaker 4: Twenty ten's two thousand was CAU was a great year.
Speaker 4: It was the introduction of basically the rap scene in Atlanta.
Speaker 4: You know, I remember, I remember not too long ago.
Speaker 4: You know, I followed you sposted a picture or you
Speaker 4: take offset Kwan Thug when Thug was going to a situation.
Speaker 4: Looking back now, bro, A l A lot has changed.
Speaker 4: I know me growing up, A a lot of people
Speaker 4: that I wish was here with me now and the
Speaker 4: plans we had everybody didn't make you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: And some niggas din't stay down, some of 'em with
Speaker 4: the bullshit route, you know what I'm saying. To be
Speaker 4: here to now and seeing where it started and you
Speaker 4: here now any reflection, well, I'm still a lot of Change's.
Speaker 5: A lot of that change, and I just look back
Speaker 5: at Jim I c I can only just thank God,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, and just thank God that
Speaker 5: I'm still here, and just thank God for keeping my
Speaker 5: antennas connected, you know, allowing me to do stuff like
Speaker 5: the Rocket Foundation, because if I can erase it, if
Speaker 5: I can go back, you know what I'm going back
Speaker 5: to do. Yeah, no question is just I'm just trying
Speaker 5: to still figure out the this, this formula, this answer.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, that what God wants me
Speaker 5: to do and what my what my nephew want me
Speaker 5: to do. I feel like before he left, we used
Speaker 5: to talk about like stuff like like him like us
Speaker 5: going going to different worlds and like tapping into like
Speaker 5: frequencies and energy. So like before he before he was gone,
Speaker 5: already knew like damn, he finna be up there really
Speaker 5: putting one in for me, feel me. So now I
Speaker 5: got to like I got to keep my antennas clean.
Speaker 5: I can't be going too craze, getting too drunk. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. You gotta cause when you go
Speaker 5: to see Sleepy processing all this THATFF. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, He come to you in your dreams, you know,
Speaker 5: So I just want to make sure I'm I'm more
Speaker 5: super clear and sometimes people being aware of that. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. Your but is your partners and
Speaker 5: if if they can't, you know, try to plug in
Speaker 5: the same way you trying to plug in. It ain't
Speaker 5: no smoke. We just gotta go on different paths. I
Speaker 5: will bring you to the top. Just let me go
Speaker 5: off and go v fiting for the team. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: come back and grab the squad out regardless. I can't
Speaker 5: never look at you. I'll never look at you on
Speaker 5: the side of no road and not do nothing for you.
Speaker 5: It's oh, you know what I'm saying. So we gotta
Speaker 5: allow that space. You know what I'm saying, And that's
Speaker 5: what and that's why I'm at and it fit. It
Speaker 5: feel great because bruh, I will I was, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, like every night, you know, crying trying
Speaker 5: to figure out why this even happened. And now I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: I'm I'm uh, I see why and I'm in a minute,
Speaker 5: and I got to stay in there and and it's
Speaker 5: trying to you know, it's time to take charge.
Speaker 4: You in there for a reason, Bro, almost three years now,
Speaker 4: I lost with my little brother and my little sister
Speaker 4: two months apart. Dang, So it ain't gonna never get easy,
Speaker 4: But you got that's our motivation to keep pushing. And
Speaker 4: let me say this too, cause I'm older than you, Bro,
Speaker 4: I don't ever hesitate the cry because that's the only
Speaker 4: one we could show people that we love that's not here. Yeah,
Speaker 4: to show 'em the way we love him in the physical.
Speaker 4: It's bout dropping him, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 4: I just I I see the strengthen you and I
Speaker 4: see you pushing from him. But that's why I'm so
Speaker 4: admired by it. That's why I l I L I
Speaker 4: love talking to you, love being around you, because a
Speaker 4: lot of people don't have that natural strength to keep
Speaker 4: pushing on. Yes, sir, you know what I'm saying. With
Speaker 4: everything that's on 'em. Yes, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So y you doing something that a lot of people
Speaker 4: are not built to do. Bro, So understand you different
Speaker 4: than you here for a reason? Man pre facts. Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: let's talk about some of the Migo's most iconic moments.
Speaker 4: Child's gotta being no shot of yard on Bad and
Speaker 4: Bougie the best song ever after winning the Globe of
Speaker 4: Golden gold board in Atlanta. How big was that man?
Speaker 5: Crazy our songs, I don't wanna say number three or
Speaker 5: number two. And when that man got on.
Speaker 4: That gloden globe, it took off.
Speaker 5: No, he ja, we just needed that lad little extra
Speaker 5: push on that rocket. That thing he made at number one.
Speaker 5: But child's game, you know, he from he from Stoneman on,
Speaker 5: he from Geordi, from Atlanti from we said enough. But
Speaker 5: he always been a student of the game, bruh. And
Speaker 5: he always like kept us in the loop. Like he's
Speaker 5: always just pull up, come to the studio and just
Speaker 5: soak it up and just so like the skits for Atlanta,
Speaker 5: Like I don't know, man, I just think like we
Speaker 5: his formula to his whole setup, but in a good way.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying the first season Atlanta.
Speaker 5: I'm just proud to be a party whole flips man.
Speaker 5: He keep it real and keep it solid.
Speaker 4: Look at my dad forty million views on the views
Speaker 4: on the music video, asked my daughter, I'd be in
Speaker 4: the car home and I'm still dad. How you feel
Speaker 4: about that? Even with Cam Newton, I just feel like
Speaker 4: we should have just everybody. Yeah, I don't know that
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 5: Overly Dad was always just dripped. So when we said
Speaker 5: look at my dad, it was like, look at my drip,
Speaker 5: look at my swag. And we was on the stage
Speaker 5: us just like the first QC group Us Jose.
Speaker 4: Flip with.
Speaker 5: Even Duke the e p A. What I said, we
Speaker 5: used to be on stage and like we all had
Speaker 5: Emmitt Smith was the song that Emmitt Smith and Fuck
Speaker 5: the Rap Game was the song that we started like dabbing,
Speaker 5: but we all just dropped one time at the same time,
Speaker 5: so everybody, you feel me, and so they were just
Speaker 5: like what that is, Like, man, we're going dad, look
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So it was just like
Speaker 5: it's the swag and so ship just went God damn
Speaker 5: nuts and man, I wish I would have made them
Speaker 5: Christmas sweaters like two chains. Like we were just so
Speaker 5: young and JA Rock started out. It was just were
Speaker 5: just dropping sauce and leaving. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: And I think, like Dave is that you could have made.
Speaker 4: Some real money. They got so bad when everybody when
Speaker 4: they talked, they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the height telling just do this all the
Speaker 2: time dog burnt out with that ship.
Speaker 5: That's the lobby run the ship man. That's all livey
Speaker 5: run a long way, Like you said, mis all them boyd,
Speaker 5: they've been running that lobby man. That's the lobby running stuff.
Speaker 4: Sure anyone else we did name that? You feel like
Speaker 4: a new level of fan Excuse me got to.
Speaker 5: Go to Rich Kid. Yeah, got shot that boy, risky kid,
Speaker 5: he never gave up. Yeah, that motherfucker he the real
Speaker 5: for next kid history is insane.
Speaker 4: He come from a bag though, don't he know he
Speaker 4: don't okay, okay, I thought one of them, one of them,
Speaker 4: I don't know. It was a rigid kid. I want
Speaker 4: him too, kid to say came from a band.
Speaker 5: Rich from Haiti. Yeah, that boy came through the skateboard,
Speaker 5: just running around the city. But how we met him,
Speaker 5: he got damn. He said he had a whole He
Speaker 5: said he had a whole deal and didn't have it.
Speaker 5: That nigga just a line like a motherfucker. But I
Speaker 5: looked his ship up. He had more followers than us. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he had a blue check and that nigga had loads
Speaker 5: of beats. So I'm like, man, bring your ass to
Speaker 5: the studio. And ever since then he never left the basement.
Speaker 5: And then he walked in. I walked him in. Nigga
Speaker 5: gave him a deal. They gave Skipper, they gave skip
Speaker 5: with a dial. So any any one of my homeboys
Speaker 5: were walking, they just give me give him money for
Speaker 5: just being apartment.
Speaker 4: Now you got Albam Wayne.
Speaker 5: You feel what I'm saying. God, Now you got Albam
Speaker 5: Wayne and one with Kendrick.
Speaker 4: Oh God, that's grave.
Speaker 2: When you sit back obviously you're still young. But when
Speaker 2: you sit back and think, I think there's a lot
Speaker 2: of rappers, a lot of successful rappers, but y'all elevated
Speaker 2: from rappers to rock stars. Like when you sit back
Speaker 2: and come, you think, have you been able to kind
Speaker 2: of sit back and process with everything else going on
Speaker 2: just where your guys space and history is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I really had a lot of time
Speaker 5: to reflect, Like now you know what I'm saying, because
Speaker 5: I'm looking at the memories, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 5: my boys and looking at my boys, I'm like, why
Speaker 5: ain't nobody to tell m who was on that right there?
Speaker 5: I felt like, yuh, we was going so fast that
Speaker 5: if I felt like if someone would have just said yo,
Speaker 5: you know, after you get a number one song, this
Speaker 5: what happens, or you know, after you get a number
Speaker 5: one album, this will happen, or you know, after you
Speaker 5: do a tour, just the way after you do Drake
Speaker 5: and stuff, this will happen. I think like we was
Speaker 5: running so fast that we didn't I don't think we could.
Speaker 5: We couldn't hear that, or I don't think nobody even
Speaker 5: just said like, y'all three niggas coming for you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And I be looking back at that.
Speaker 5: That's why I feel like I don't regret it. I
Speaker 5: just feel like we should have just locked in so
Speaker 5: we can sustain on what we was gonna. We only
Speaker 5: did Culture three, We only did three albums, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And I just felt like it was
Speaker 5: more to the guys, you know what I'm saying. Still
Speaker 5: more to the guys. We got a lot of in
Speaker 5: the ball. But I'm just saying, like I want, I
Speaker 5: want here, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you in a good space right now to
Speaker 2: work on music?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, ship Center. It's being good, No real, Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: sounding great.
Speaker 2: In twenty years, when you look back and you guys
Speaker 2: are inducted into me hopefully won't be that long into
Speaker 2: the rock and roll or that that was it the
Speaker 2: rock and Roll Hall of Fames. What do you want
Speaker 2: people to know about your group?
Speaker 3: The Beat Ghost? What do you want them to say
Speaker 3: about your group? What message?
Speaker 5: The boys was hungry? The boys really came from nothing.
Speaker 5: Them boys keep God first, you know, always gonna always
Speaker 5: gonna keep, always gonna keep the rocket alive. We wouldn't
Speaker 5: even be here if you want for the rocket. And
Speaker 5: we love our mamals and just trend setters. Boys and
Speaker 5: Boys came through and changed the game. And we only
Speaker 5: needed three albums.
Speaker 3: Crazy, you know what I'm saying. You don't really think
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: I didn't really think about it till you said it's
Speaker 2: really only three albums. Quick hurt his first thing to
Speaker 2: come to mind. Let us know one album you can
Speaker 2: listen to with no skips.
Speaker 5: On my young Nigga way. I'm going Ken Carson, Ken.
Speaker 4: Carson, Top five Atlanta Athletes of all Time, Top Atlanta. Yeah,
Speaker 4: before before you answer that, tell me how you got
Speaker 4: the tied up for your album that you're finish.
Speaker 5: Drop sat just like like my Renaissan ship Rent a
Speaker 5: sun man. They can do everything, multiple hats on the
Speaker 5: trend set of the Hook God, the Hook King, the
Speaker 5: Chrome God. Don't forget where this flavor came from. And
Speaker 5: then at the same time Life of course it's my
Speaker 5: favorite movie, you know, Claude and Ray. It's kind of
Speaker 5: like you know what I'm saying. So we just always
Speaker 5: just had that vision. And when we be playing and ship,
Speaker 5: we see it like how race out the boom boom.
Speaker 5: I feel like that's a black thing, like do our ideas.
Speaker 5: We see that ship like that before we even got there.
Speaker 5: So that's how I feel like that. That's what I
Speaker 5: feel about saying.
Speaker 4: Top five athletes all.
Speaker 5: Time, Top five athletes Atlanta, Atlanta. Yeah, top five Atlanta
Speaker 5: Ship Nigga might get on me about there. I gotta
Speaker 5: go cam New, Gotta put the white in the Hall
Speaker 5: of Famer, Gotta go Josh Josh Smith.
Speaker 3: I was just for John's last night.
Speaker 5: Gotta go to North Side legend lou Will Will. He
Speaker 5: came from a little outside and Quay quite Yeah.
Speaker 2: Great, you talk about yes, sir, M J. Kobe Bron
Speaker 2: Wrinkle h ship.
Speaker 5: Uh gotta do Broun Bron first, how are you thirty? Four.
Speaker 3: I like to Yeah, I like to see first.
Speaker 4: Just a heavy second.
Speaker 5: I go Kobe second and m J third, only because
Speaker 5: ninety six I wanted ninety one, you know how, Like
Speaker 5: I didn't get the I didn't understand that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when I.
Speaker 5: Watched the clips, I understand why y'all call him. It
Speaker 5: was the only skilled guy that was doing everything. But
Speaker 5: like if you put him a bunch of whole, like
Speaker 5: if everybody, I don't think.
Speaker 4: He do the same thing you put you on in
Speaker 4: the league. Now he's gonna have forty five.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. I don't think so everybody do
Speaker 5: the same. We all they all eat, you got shape
Speaker 5: like all of them. Yeah, but you can't touch him,
Speaker 5: but you can't touch him. He fought through all. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but I never I'm sorry Black number two. I don't care.
Speaker 5: I don't kill Black number two. I go Lebron first,
Speaker 5: Black second, and then long lived Kobe Man, the hummy child,
Speaker 5: crush Sierra.
Speaker 4: Everybody. So everybody had one around the time. Yeah, away
Speaker 4: from Atlanta. Yeah, if it was one, guess you could
Speaker 4: see on our show who would it be? But you
Speaker 4: have to help us get your answer on the show.
Speaker 5: You said, what said one.
Speaker 4: Time one time. Sometimes get confused, who would you like
Speaker 4: to see on our show?
Speaker 2: But you got to help us get him on the show.
Speaker 2: Who you think would be a good guess? It only
Speaker 2: took us four years to get you.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: Gonna tell pull up man, y'all won't pull up man?
Speaker 4: I say, no, that's even better. You gotta make the call,
Speaker 4: and so he might do by business my boy.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, We'll be back out of here for Major
Speaker 2: League the Baseball All Star and playing are you the
Speaker 2: celebrity game?
Speaker 3: That's dope.
Speaker 2: I'm playing in, Uh Mookie best got a game on
Speaker 2: June teenth the Dollar Stadium I'm playing in before we
Speaker 2: get out of.
Speaker 5: Here, back to the eight. I'm glad we missed all.
Speaker 2: Your coach legends, Scott. The partnership of business, how legends
Speaker 2: is legends does help you with your your youth league
Speaker 2: and all your foundations.
Speaker 5: Legends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, speak speak to speak to that partnership in Scott.
Speaker 5: Since day one, legends of Scott been you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like my family, they came in and did
Speaker 5: all my hunch o days. My hunch o days is
Speaker 5: what my pride. I put a lot of my pride
Speaker 5: into I kind of like chilled off this year, but
Speaker 5: it's more like about like bringing the community, putting everybody
Speaker 5: in my town, bringing all my my guys. I think
Speaker 5: Stack came a year we just you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: just showing them that we all could be touched and
Speaker 5: filed and heard and reached, you know. And and Scott
Speaker 5: is the main one that you know, makes make sure
Speaker 5: everything happened. He dripped my guys, He dripped the team,
Speaker 5: He dripped Team Huncho. He dripped anybody. I want him
Speaker 5: to drip you know what I'm saying. Keep them straight,
Speaker 5: he keep them lazy, keep all the kids who coming
Speaker 5: in the draft, lace and legend stuff. And his events.
Speaker 5: He throw crazy, big events. Me and Matt we threw
Speaker 5: one in l A at the Mumba Academy that was incredible.
Speaker 5: We need to run that back down the way.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 5: We had Floyd Snoop.
Speaker 2: This nigga Snoop came into played in the old school
Speaker 2: high top Chuck Tailors came in and got like six
Speaker 2: that was the best one. Six rebounds and left one
Speaker 2: quarter in.
Speaker 3: He bounced.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they did that one, and then I did another
Speaker 5: one out here right in Atlanta. Jes Be was here,
Speaker 5: so like Legends.
Speaker 2: Is yeah, we do it. Funny story how we did it.
Speaker 2: So when Scott launched the brand, we're kind of thinking
Speaker 2: the faces of who could do what?
Speaker 3: Who could do what?
Speaker 2: And I was just thinking young up and coming who
Speaker 2: was in l A And I thought Kyle Kuzma. So
Speaker 2: we pitched Kyle Kuzma because he was hot with the
Speaker 2: Lakers at the time, and his business manager past I'm like,
Speaker 2: let's go get Quavo's.
Speaker 5: Like when I walked in there, it was you, Scott. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you said the same stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we said.
Speaker 2: We set on the meeting in Capitol Records. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: went and pitched him the whole idea of being the
Speaker 2: face of the brand.
Speaker 3: And we was like, what seven years now?
Speaker 2: Seven years? Yeah, right right when I finished playing, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm ready. I'm ready for Legends to go. Nike Man,
Speaker 5: let's go, man, let's lock in. That's how big it is.
Speaker 3: Let's go big. Yes, sir man, we appreciate your time.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Excited to be here and get to the panel. That's
Speaker 2: a wrap, yes, sir, So we're here. Before we get started,
Speaker 2: I want to say one more or send some more
Speaker 2: love to Mama take off and Mama hancho, and we
Speaker 2: love you, We love you, guys, praying for you, guys.
Speaker 2: Kwaivo to the Rocket Foundation, talk to us a little
Speaker 2: bit about it. Obviously we know why we're here, but
Speaker 2: talk to us about the inspiration behind it and the
Speaker 2: ultimate goal of the foundation.
Speaker 5: It's all powered by the Rocket. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I don't want to say long live the Rocket and
Speaker 5: we just uh, we just I'm just looking to be
Speaker 5: a vessel, you know what I'm saying to my family
Speaker 5: and looking to prove and and and step with my
Speaker 5: chest up and my head he head here high for
Speaker 5: my my nephew, and just try to make change the
Speaker 5: best way I can. And that being said, I want
Speaker 5: to like commedorate all the guys that's in the community
Speaker 5: that ever lost like someone doing gun violence. You got
Speaker 5: somewhere to come to, You got somewhere to you know,
Speaker 5: talk to somebody, and you got some people that's gonna
Speaker 5: pull up front line with you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So and that's us, that's Rocket Foundation.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Obviously, you being a superstar in this space, why was
Speaker 2: it important to use your voice, your platform, your resources,
Speaker 2: you said you want to create a hub of your peers, rappers, athletes,
Speaker 2: to like to be able to use all of our
Speaker 2: voices together to hopefully help with this gun violence. But
Speaker 2: why was that just what was the key to that
Speaker 2: and what was it like? Also on a two part
Speaker 2: question going to the White House. Obviously you have a
Speaker 2: huge platform, you speak your mind, you use your resources,
Speaker 2: but we know that to get real change it has
Speaker 2: to be policy driven. You've been able to do that
Speaker 2: with your partner, Greg, But tell us a little bit
Speaker 2: about that journey as well.
Speaker 5: It's a tough journey, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 5: if you're gonna do something about it, you got to
Speaker 5: start with the with the head. You got to start
Speaker 5: at the top, so only and you can't go the
Speaker 5: opposite where you can't go to the streetway. So I felt
Speaker 5: like being frontline the political way and just trying to
Speaker 5: get like change and policies and stuff going there, I
Speaker 5: feel like was a better approach and I felt like
Speaker 5: we got a lot of stuff done and a lot
Speaker 5: of grants and stuff, but most importantly, like I'm just
Speaker 5: here just being an instrument for my boy take.
Speaker 4: I'm definitely inspired by by what you're doing in the
Speaker 4: Rocket Foundation.
Speaker 3: A lot of y'all don't know that.
Speaker 4: George Floyd was like a close friend of mine, and
Speaker 4: I was able to experience some things, and I was
Speaker 4: able to lead the biggest civilis rights civil rights movement
Speaker 4: ever in history, with eighteen countries in all fifty states
Speaker 4: protests at the same time for my friend. So what
Speaker 4: Quapo's doing is something that everybody should take serious because
Speaker 4: you don't want to have to wait until you lose
Speaker 4: somebody to stand up and do what's right right.
Speaker 3: So what Quapo's doing right now is bigger. It's bigger
Speaker 3: than music.
Speaker 4: It's bigger than anything he's ever done because he's doing
Speaker 4: something that's that that that that's bigger than him. So
Speaker 4: y'all pay attention to this and not just what we're saying,
Speaker 4: but watching all of his actions and what he's doing.
Speaker 4: It's bigger than what we're talking. Okay, music, let's touch
Speaker 4: it on a little music. Tell some of these kids
Speaker 4: out here growing up who inspired you musically?
Speaker 5: Growing up? Who inspired me? Was a hot boy's cash money?
Speaker 5: Of course, that was like the foundation, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. And then once I got older, as like
Speaker 5: a teenager, I started rocking out the futuristic way, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. I was burnt out by the
Speaker 5: young la, the Jay Moneys, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: the polo world. So we had came up with a
Speaker 5: group called Polo Club, you know what I'm saying, before
Speaker 5: the Migos. So that was mainly my inspiration. Of course,
Speaker 5: Gucca man Tip Future, he was a little bit ahead
Speaker 5: of us, and we would just look at them like
Speaker 5: rock stars and we got to get there.
Speaker 4: Being that you from this area, you're from atl why
Speaker 4: you think it's so important that you continue to be
Speaker 4: involved with the youth and start these youth programs.
Speaker 5: Because it start with them, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: While you're in I'm a young rich you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So I got to give back to my guys,
Speaker 5: and it's important I give back to the youth, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. I got my school high school
Speaker 5: football team.
Speaker 4: In here, which my cousin, my cousin coaches you know BYO.
Speaker 5: I got a huncho elite in here, some of them
Speaker 5: guys in here, all myself unself guid and like shit
Speaker 5: that that signed that hunch O sign that came from
Speaker 5: hunch O Day. So it's important that I give back
Speaker 5: and just sean that yeah, you can touch me even
Speaker 5: though this get big, but we all come from nothing
Speaker 5: and we need each other.
Speaker 2: But also talk to us about I mean we were
Speaker 2: talking about in the back, these programs that you're putting on,
Speaker 2: these youth programs in the football space, the basketball space,
Speaker 2: the community events. That shit takes a lot. It's a
Speaker 2: lot of hard work and it's tiring. And obviously they
Speaker 2: just see the star you and moving around. But tell
Speaker 2: to us a little bit about what the processes of
Speaker 2: keeping these programs going and strong and getting kids opportunities.
Speaker 2: You'll tell us you got kids going to college now.
Speaker 2: Your first group was five years ago, so you're freshmen
Speaker 2: are now going to be freshman in college.
Speaker 3: I mean, how proud does that make you? And what
Speaker 3: kind of work goes in behind that?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 5: Super probably with It takes a lot of work, and
Speaker 5: like I said, this is my first time, so I
Speaker 5: ain't really know what I was doing. I was just
Speaker 5: doing what I love because I love the game and
Speaker 5: I wish I had a big brother that can you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Help me out with some cleats
Speaker 5: or some shoes or some jerseys or whatnot, and it
Speaker 5: started becoming like a whole thing. So I'm just like,
Speaker 5: let's do it. We gonna go hunt you or elite,
Speaker 5: but I gotta make sure I pay for everything. Make
Speaker 5: sure I pay for they travel, their food, they everything, everything, everything,
Speaker 5: even they off the field problems and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: But I look at myself like, cause I ain't. It
Speaker 5: was tough for me too. It's tough for me and Mama.
Speaker 5: I kind of like missed the miss the point where
Speaker 5: we moved to going it to a situation we ain't
Speaker 5: had no you know what I'm saying enough for me
Speaker 5: to play. So I always just just looked at that like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I got to be here for these kids and do
Speaker 5: it for the youth, you know, do it for them.
Speaker 2: Music obviously heavy sports background, but music became center stage.
Speaker 2: Talk to us about you and takeoffs early, just back
Speaker 2: and forth, musical passion, love and how gifted he was
Speaker 2: and how you said he just had one of them
Speaker 2: brains where he spoke everything into existence. He knew y'a
Speaker 2: always gonna be stars when you guys are teenagers.
Speaker 5: Oh god, we was fourteen years old. It's a crazy story,
Speaker 5: but I think he was about fourteen. I had to
Speaker 5: be like fifteen, seventeen, seventeen. I'm seventeen. Yeah, okay, I'm
Speaker 5: three years old. I'm tripping, all right. So then we
Speaker 5: get pulled over by the police and I'm the police asking.
Speaker 3: Him what he do.
Speaker 5: He said, I'm a rapper at fourteen old, and they
Speaker 5: was joking about it, but he was dead serious. And
Speaker 5: that when I knew he was gonna be something. But
Speaker 5: at the same time, he used to be like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you can have that sports stuff. I'm gonna go to
Speaker 5: the Boothman record And he always knew songs left and right.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. He always did everything in
Speaker 5: one take. That's how he got his name Takeoff, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. Like we would do songs in
Speaker 5: one flow. Sometimes I mess up, mess up the whole song.
Speaker 5: He not messing up here, not skipping a beat, walking,
Speaker 5: And I just think like he just the youngest in
Speaker 5: a sponge and a student of the game and know
Speaker 5: exactly what he wanted. He didn't have a plan beat,
Speaker 5: he didn't play sports, and he barely went to school,
Speaker 5: but he knew how to wrapt. Yeah, that's my bull racket.
Speaker 5: We was outside to stay in school.
Speaker 3: That's not good. Stay in school.
Speaker 4: We was talking to the outside about business and when
Speaker 4: you know, we was talking about taking the guns and
Speaker 4: guns down, and you was talking about you have to
Speaker 4: put something in the hands. You was talking about building
Speaker 4: the studio, showing them how to record. How important is
Speaker 4: it to say one thing but also give them something
Speaker 4: else to be positive and to go forward.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's my dream. My dream goal is to like
Speaker 5: put community centers the stuff that I had, Like back
Speaker 5: then it was basketball and you know, after school programs.
Speaker 5: But now I'm thinking like bigger, like game systems, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, and streaming spots place you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Places where people can learn how to
Speaker 5: make beats, places where people can play the piano, learn
Speaker 5: take piano lessons, just some extracurricular after school, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So my goal is to start start there,
Speaker 5: don't I do want to do the courts and stuff,
Speaker 5: but I think like kids got they route when they
Speaker 5: comes to sports. I think like activities and learning how
Speaker 5: to be you know, active in this world, in this
Speaker 5: new streaming world, and you know, just doing classes like that.
Speaker 5: So that's my main goal right now that I want
Speaker 5: to do for the youth.
Speaker 2: Obviously succeeded in music, but you've also been all over
Speaker 2: TV and in the movie screen.
Speaker 3: What is your passion from for acting? Come?
Speaker 5: Just Jack's are all trades man, just watching watching TV,
Speaker 5: looking at looking at stuff and being like, yeah, I
Speaker 5: can do that, seeing if I can do it, and
Speaker 5: then once I get into that, into the field of it,
Speaker 5: I'll be like, Okay, I want to do it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I don't never limit myself to nothing, to just being
Speaker 5: a rapper or just being a once for an athlete.
Speaker 5: I always try everything just so I can see what
Speaker 5: I really want to do and it could be another
Speaker 5: career after you get done doing what you're doing, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So that's why I always keep
Speaker 5: my arms and everything.
Speaker 2: Who are some of the bigger actors you got a
Speaker 2: chance to work with so far, and I'm gonna put
Speaker 2: you on the spot. What was your favorite project you
Speaker 2: worked on as far as acting.
Speaker 5: I've been blessed to jump out there with the big guys.
Speaker 5: So I got John Travolta, Robert de Niro, John Malkovich,
Speaker 5: Queen Latifa. She was the first one who brought like
Speaker 5: emotion out of me. And it's uh so, I was
Speaker 5: just I would just learn on set and just wing it,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And I just, like I said,
Speaker 5: I was blessed to be around them, and I'm just
Speaker 5: studying and being a student of the game.
Speaker 3: You got a favorite project you've worked on. I saw Norcos.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe.
Speaker 5: I was like, hold on favorite project. I got to say, uh,
Speaker 5: praised it. That's my favorite one.
Speaker 3: You look a little bit too natural on nar coas Bro.
Speaker 5: Narcos was fired too. Narcos is great. Hunt your weekend,
Speaker 5: talk about it. We're doing what we're doing, hunt or
Speaker 5: down or off, you know what I'm saying. We bring
Speaker 5: all the kids, Like I said, we bring all the
Speaker 5: kids from the town. We bring all the athletes, all
Speaker 5: my celebrity friends. We host the game. We either do
Speaker 5: flag football or basketball, depending on what the weather like.
Speaker 5: And we put we get shuttles. If you don't got
Speaker 5: a ride, we get you picked up. We got booths,
Speaker 5: scholarship grants, we give our checks and we just have fun.
Speaker 5: And and this year I just took a break because
Speaker 5: I've been mainly focused on the Rocket Summer, the Rocket Foundation.
Speaker 5: But our premise next year we'll be back and it's
Speaker 5: gonna be another energy and we're gonna be back the
Speaker 5: Ball and a half for fun.
Speaker 3: Talk about the album that's coming out, the.
Speaker 5: Album coming out this fall called Sachamo and I'm I'm
Speaker 5: ready for it.
Speaker 2: You talked to us a little bit, and I asked, obviously,
Speaker 2: with all the stuff that's going on mentally, you're in
Speaker 2: the right space right now, you feel like to really
Speaker 2: get out there and jump back into the music thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm ready. I'm always dropping hiss every season, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So it ain't stay consistent, but
Speaker 5: you know, I gotta stay consistent, and whether whether I'm
Speaker 5: down or not, I still got to feed my people
Speaker 5: and make sure I got to lift somebody else up
Speaker 5: when they listen to my music. So I can't just
Speaker 5: be super owned myself and just being in a shell.
Speaker 5: But like just the best I ever felt, and I
Speaker 5: feel like it's going back to like the essence, but
Speaker 5: I feel that power and I feel that the power
Speaker 5: would take in the steward and I can hear them
Speaker 5: coming through me out the songs and it's just feel
Speaker 5: it feel like, and I got all the other stuff
Speaker 5: out the way, and I can see clear. Sometimes you
Speaker 5: got to get a lot of things out the way
Speaker 5: to you know, to move forward and go to the
Speaker 5: place you need to be. Young guys, you know, saying
Speaker 5: some of your home was and stuff like that. Y'all
Speaker 5: gotta figure stuff out. Sometimes you gotta do it by
Speaker 5: yourself to go up through there. And then you ain't
Speaker 5: leaving them. You just gonna come back and get them
Speaker 5: and tell them this how I was trying to do it.
Speaker 5: If you didn't see the vision, So I feel like
Speaker 5: this vision is going into this project Satimo, and I'm
Speaker 5: on one.
Speaker 4: I want to talk to the youngsters that's here. I
Speaker 4: just want to give y'all a quick message while we're here.
Speaker 4: I know we're talking to Quay and you know we're
Speaker 4: here to honor the Rocket Foundation, But I want to
Speaker 4: give y'all just just some advice because I wouldn't be
Speaker 4: myself if I didn't one. Everything you need to be great,
Speaker 4: everything you need to be great successful is already in you, right,
Speaker 4: It's already in you. You don't need to look to
Speaker 4: social media. You only need to look outside yourself. Are
Speaker 4: the mirror for somebody to tell you great, for you
Speaker 4: to believe it. When you wake up every morning, you
Speaker 4: look in the mirror and tell yourself and believe you great.
Speaker 3: That's all the affirmation you need.
Speaker 4: When you looking for through social media and and everywhere,
Speaker 4: and you looking for advice, are positive stuff to look at.
Speaker 4: Be careful of what you look at on the internet,
Speaker 4: because everybody's not giving you positive advice, and everybody's not
Speaker 4: leading you the right way. So be careful with what
Speaker 4: you're watching, what you believe in, what you listen to,
Speaker 4: because it's a lot of people out here. We call
Speaker 4: the blind leading the blind, and it's a lot of
Speaker 4: people that don't want to see you ahead or see
Speaker 4: you do better than them. So always believe in yourself
Speaker 4: and believe that the competence you need to be great
Speaker 4: is already in you, and you don't need nobody outside
Speaker 4: that mirror to tell you great.
Speaker 5: Appreciate you overully.
Speaker 2: As you continue to push through for gun violence. Do
Speaker 2: we see in maybe ten years you doing the next
Speaker 2: ten years more political work. Obviously you have a huge voice,
Speaker 2: a huge platform. When people like you put their heart
Speaker 2: and soul into projects like this, good things happen. With
Speaker 2: the success of this gun violence campaign and mission and
Speaker 2: foundation moving forward, can we expect more other projects in
Speaker 2: a similar space.
Speaker 5: I'm just doing what God asked me to do. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, he driving, I'm just ryding so
Speaker 5: you know, I'm here to just complete the mission. Like
Speaker 5: I said, I just want to be connected and keep
Speaker 5: my antennas you know, clear, so I can speak to
Speaker 5: my guy and just make sure what it is he
Speaker 5: wants me to do is just you know, push forward.
Speaker 5: But it ain't even my control. And if it's on
Speaker 5: the desk and it's in front of me, I'm open
Speaker 5: and I'm ready to do it.
Speaker 4: Love it.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take some questions now, anybody got any questions
Speaker 2: for anybody up here, for Kavo, for myself, for Stack,
Speaker 2: don't be scared.
Speaker 7: My name Andrew and from uh from I'm from Cleveland, Avenue.
Speaker 3: I wonder you got young boy number?
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 5: I do gotta know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, y'all tell him about me.
Speaker 5: I'm a bit fan.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I wasn't no, no done with my real question,
Speaker 3: he said, I ain't done.
Speaker 7: Hold on, Yeah, and I like your h that little
Speaker 7: studio you did with all set take off and uh so,
Speaker 7: y oh you you y'all are you wrapping in that studio?
Speaker 7: Ye'ah me's with that, y'all?
Speaker 5: Thank you, little bro. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Anybody else, anybody else? Gee, we got you on the move.
Speaker 8: Ge Hey, my name is Brianna. I went to come
Speaker 8: up project and Sweet Soul. I'ma trying to form it
Speaker 8: as a do you in the future, like see yourself
Speaker 8: changing going more towards a message against anti gun violence
Speaker 8: in your music, Like I feel like your voice, like
Speaker 8: you said, like that's that's the biggest blessing that the
Speaker 8: most I gave you. You know, the money came from that.
Speaker 8: So do you see yourself using the original blessing as
Speaker 8: a way to also advocate for the exact thing that
Speaker 8: the Rocket Foundation is doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I feel like it's a fifty to fifty
Speaker 5: because I feel like I still got people around me
Speaker 5: or what us came from nothing, still living that, still
Speaker 5: going through that all the time every day. So it's
Speaker 5: kind of like it's like I have to still let
Speaker 5: these people know what's going on. If I just go
Speaker 5: all the way left and don't let them know, then
Speaker 5: they my guys won't be able to listen to me
Speaker 5: about what's going on out here outside for real. So
Speaker 5: I try to, like, I try to like, I try
Speaker 5: to like split it. So I do I do records,
Speaker 5: and you know, I do like country records and records
Speaker 5: with Atlanta and records with uh Luke Bryant, and I
Speaker 5: try to like take it to another on a on
Speaker 5: a country level, but like on an advocate side, I
Speaker 5: don't feel like I haven't checked that box with a record,
Speaker 5: But I think I should do a few. I think
Speaker 5: I think it'll work.
Speaker 3: It's a good question. Anybody else We got time for
Speaker 3: a couple more.
Speaker 9: Hey, I'm Ashley Johnson. I am the founder of the
Speaker 9: Street Widows Foundation. I'm from Louisville, Kentucky. But I lost
Speaker 9: my husband February nineteen, twenty twenty in De Cab County.
Speaker 5: He was shot and killed at a gas station.
Speaker 9: I also want to raise up that he was the
Speaker 9: fourth person killed at that intersection in February of that year.
Speaker 5: My question is for U.
Speaker 9: Kwavo in your loss, when you had those feelings of vengeance,
Speaker 9: of wanting to get revenge for or street justice for
Speaker 9: your loss, what did you do with that What did
Speaker 9: you do with those feelings? I feel like a lot
Speaker 9: of our kids deal with that. As a widow, I
Speaker 9: dealt with that, and especially like with your platform, how
Speaker 9: did you deal with those feelings?
Speaker 5: I'm still going through that. You know, it ain't no
Speaker 5: timing on that. You know, it ain't no timing on
Speaker 5: any of that you just asked for. So sometimes you
Speaker 5: could just be super patient and your revenger come or
Speaker 5: through God, or your revenger come through triumph and politics.
Speaker 5: Your revenger come through going through the White House. Your
Speaker 5: avenger come with passing these laws, changing lives in other kids' life.
Speaker 5: So like you just you just gotta just sit in
Speaker 5: it and be ready for it. Your game's gonna come.
Speaker 4: I want to touch on that too. My brother was
Speaker 4: killed when I was sick. My older brother was killed
Speaker 4: when I was sixteen, and at that age I was
Speaker 4: really in a difference. I'm a totally different person now,
Speaker 4: but what the people around me, who I provided for,
Speaker 4: who depended on me, forced me to not think that way.
Speaker 4: You know, So when you have responsibilities, when you have
Speaker 4: people relying on you, then that that is especially as
Speaker 4: a mother. I know you understand that you got other
Speaker 4: people relying. It's easy for you to make the right
Speaker 4: decisions and you're not being selfless. So I can see
Speaker 4: you right now, I see you, a strong black woman.
Speaker 4: I see you, I see I know. It's a lot
Speaker 4: of people that depend on you, and you got to
Speaker 4: make those decisions for those people that depend on you.
Speaker 5: And it's okay to feel that way, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So you okay, you know, so you just
Speaker 5: it's gonna come.
Speaker 3: Trust me. Thank you. We have one last question here.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 10: My name is doctor Cynthia Willy and a grief and
Speaker 10: trauma therapist. The biggest thing I kind of wish that
Speaker 10: when we get in people get into this arena we
Speaker 10: have so many youth around us, is just sharing that
Speaker 10: before they get to that anger spot which takes them
Speaker 10: to want to pick the gun up. How important is
Speaker 10: it that now that we've had to deal with that
Speaker 10: loss for you all was devastating for you as a family,
Speaker 10: but even myself being a mother who's buried a child,
Speaker 10: finding that most people just don't talk about it enough
Speaker 10: right and therapy is so definitely needed. But the biggest
Speaker 10: thing is empowering everybody that touches the kid to make
Speaker 10: sure they have the therapy so that the kid knows.
Speaker 5: How important it is for them to have it.
Speaker 10: How has the mental health factor changed for you, your mom,
Speaker 10: your sister, everybody has known. We followed the story for
Speaker 10: so long, But are y'all really okay?
Speaker 5: I mean, you know what I'm saying. We just we
Speaker 5: going through it still. It's only the second year, you know,
Speaker 5: so it's still fresh, and every day is in it out,
Speaker 5: you know. You know, it's it's like we we damn
Speaker 5: there something on these days like this, we really don't
Speaker 5: even want to pull up, you feel me, because it's
Speaker 5: not fun. It's not great talking about this, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. It's kind of like I said, I
Speaker 5: was there and this this is my nephew, and my
Speaker 5: responsibility is to make sure we all get home. Ever
Speaker 5: since I was a child, and it just couldn't happen
Speaker 5: that way, And and I feel like when I come
Speaker 5: up here, I don't like it, you know, at all.
Speaker 5: So I'm still I'm still in it. But like I said,
Speaker 5: like I'm not, I'm not I'm not driving, so I
Speaker 5: can't be acting out on me. So I gotta act.
Speaker 5: I gotta act for the folks, and I gotta be
Speaker 5: here for my for my for my sisters and my
Speaker 5: my niece and my nephew and my mama. So and
Speaker 5: I gotta maintain the house. So you're either gonna lose
Speaker 5: it all and you're gonna act crazy, gonna go what
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, or you're gonna stand up
Speaker 5: and be a man and just stay in it.
Speaker 3: We all right, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 6: Sorry, I know he said that was the last question,
Speaker 6: But I got this young man here, probably the youngest
Speaker 6: person who wanted to ask questions I couldn't say no.
Speaker 6: Come on, please introduce yourself and you get the final
Speaker 6: question for the panel.
Speaker 3: I'm Lyric.
Speaker 11: I am ten years old. My birthday's February tenth. And
Speaker 11: what about kids like me? I used to do pro
Speaker 11: tunes and yonkers and I work in rough riders, So
Speaker 11: what about more kids like me that do piano and drums.
Speaker 5: Well, we need to go ahead and get you in
Speaker 5: the studio, sir, with some big guys, and we got
Speaker 5: to hear you sound I like that, and you just
Speaker 5: got to keep working. And I think it's time to go,
Speaker 5: you know, so keep going in and if you are
Speaker 5: already edit We're gonna put you in the studio somewhere,
Speaker 5: my guy.
Speaker 3: I love it, Yes, sir, Thank you all. Thank you
Speaker 3: for your questions.
Speaker 4: Everyone.
Speaker 2: I think what I think at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: The I mean from that question alone, you see there's interest.
Speaker 2: There's one. They just needs to be the resources. And
Speaker 2: we've touched on this before. We you know, we're telling
Speaker 2: the youth to put the guns down, but what are
Speaker 2: we replacing the guns with. We need to replace the
Speaker 2: guns with opportunities, with the resources. And that's why, you know,
Speaker 2: it was so important for us to come here today
Speaker 2: because that's exactly what this foundation is doing. So we
Speaker 2: want to thank everybody for coming out today. Quavo, you
Speaker 2: and your entire family. I know it's not easy. We've
Speaker 2: all lost people and the courage and the strength and
Speaker 2: the will to keep pushing. Like you said, this day
Speaker 2: by day, there's no manual on how to grieve or
Speaker 2: the right or the wrong way to grieve, So grieving
Speaker 2: your way, make sure you keep God first.
Speaker 3: We love everybody and thank you guys.
Speaker 4: Y'all