Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to another edition of Club Shasha. I am
Speaker 1: your host, also the proprietor of Club Shasha and the
Speaker 1: guy that's coming by for a drinking conversation to day. Wow.
Speaker 1: I got a good one, guys, and he really doesn't
Speaker 1: need any introduction, but I'm gonna introduce him anyway. Grammy
Speaker 1: nominated rapper, multi platinum songwriter, New York Times bestselling author,
Speaker 1: record labor executive, the biggest boss in the game. You
Speaker 1: know him, Miss Rose Rinsel Rick Ross, all my life,
Speaker 1: the grinding, all my life, sacrifice, hustle back price one slice,
Speaker 1: got the Broner dice to swap all my life. I've
Speaker 1: been grinding all my life, all my life, the grinding,
Speaker 1: all my life, sacrifice, hustle back price one slice, got
Speaker 1: the BA dice to swap all my life. I've been
Speaker 1: grinding all my life. Mister three h five hill, my
Speaker 1: yae yo, what dude? Who man? I'm mapp you could
Speaker 1: be here, my brother. You've been shining in a long time,
Speaker 1: and I'm mapp you can come with you. Bro, I
Speaker 1: really appreciate this. I'm gonna ross. I'm gonna be all
Speaker 1: over the place. I'm not going to any particular direction,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna be all over the place, so just
Speaker 1: bear with me. And like I said, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for stopping by giving me a few moments
Speaker 1: of your time. Man, I'm with you. Let's go, let's
Speaker 1: do it. Let's first, I want to thank you for
Speaker 1: turning out the vote in Georgia because for the first
Speaker 1: time Georgia went for a blue press, a democratic president,
Speaker 1: first time since ninety two. We got a Democratic center,
Speaker 1: first time in two decades. And you and t I
Speaker 1: and Luda Keisha last bottom, Stacy Abrams, uh Latortia Brown,
Speaker 1: you guys turned up, showed up, showed up. So I
Speaker 1: want to thank you for that from the bottom of
Speaker 1: by heart. Well you know that's what I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna just let you know me being who
Speaker 1: I am and in a position I am, it's always
Speaker 1: about my people, know what I mean. I'm going with
Speaker 1: the voice of the people, and that's what they wanted,
Speaker 1: so that's what we had to do. Also, can't leave
Speaker 1: by Killer Mike, because you know he's always been boots
Speaker 1: to the ground trying to do the right thing by
Speaker 1: by the people in Georgia, especially the African American community
Speaker 1: and the minority. So Killer Mike can't forget you, bro
Speaker 1: without a doubt. Rick, Let's start with your business ventures.
Speaker 1: You got you, You got a lot of irons in
Speaker 1: the fire. You got wing stops. I think you have
Speaker 1: over twenty five wing stops, checkers, you have your own
Speaker 1: strand of marijuana cookies, Uh, you got the way of
Speaker 1: the Waves or collab with d Wade? What made you
Speaker 1: decide to get involved in so many different businesses basically
Speaker 1: right away? Honestly because it felt natural to me. It
Speaker 1: didn't really feel like no work. Right. If you notice
Speaker 1: everything that I ventured with uh, I made a partnership
Speaker 1: with it was something that came naturally to me or
Speaker 1: something that I possibly was already doing, just wasn't doing
Speaker 1: it the right way right in the first opportunity I got,
Speaker 1: Why line myself up with some of the greatest in
Speaker 1: the business. When you speak of cookies, cookies and Burner,
Speaker 1: that's number one in the business. You speak of my
Speaker 1: my sneaker partnership with d Wade, that's number one in
Speaker 1: Miami and worldwide. But just d Wade when he brought
Speaker 1: to my city worldwide is where as well as the
Speaker 1: bad app, the Bumboo, rum My Jet Dot, the health app.
Speaker 1: Everything that I'm doing is really coming natural to me,
Speaker 1: So it's nothing I have to go out my way
Speaker 1: to represent a dude during the day. So you were
Speaker 1: in the game doing some things that probably wasn't on
Speaker 1: the up and up. So you already had from a standpoint,
Speaker 1: you already understood how business was supposed to operate correct
Speaker 1: most definitely, without a doubt. I understood you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta step out here and take again. So I think
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing Roth because a lot of people
Speaker 1: are afraid of failure, and I think if you're afraid
Speaker 1: of failure, you're never gonna succeed because you're afraid to
Speaker 1: take that step because you're like, man, I might fall,
Speaker 1: well climbing to the top. You will fall. You gonna fall,
Speaker 1: But you gotta get back up, dush your knees off,
Speaker 1: make sure your shirt looking good, and get right back
Speaker 1: on the track because you will fall. That's what comes
Speaker 1: with the game except that. But just make sure when
Speaker 1: you get back up you learn from that and you
Speaker 1: don't fall back in the same place. Ross. I heard something.
Speaker 1: I heard you say something about when you did your
Speaker 1: businesses and what you did for your family, you say
Speaker 1: that you put them on so therefore you don't have
Speaker 1: to constantly come out of your pocket and give them money.
Speaker 1: You gave them an avenue so they can do their
Speaker 1: own thing right, most definitely. And that go for my
Speaker 1: my little ones as well. I'm teaching my younger ones.
Speaker 1: You gotta put yourself in a position where you can
Speaker 1: decide your income. You can make as much as you want,
Speaker 1: versus just waiting for you know me. And that started,
Speaker 1: of course with my family, my immediate family. And I
Speaker 1: was blessed to have a mother that was highly intelligent.
Speaker 1: She had made degrees in so many different things, as
Speaker 1: well as my sister. Now, okay, let's put all those
Speaker 1: skills to use and let's turn up. And that's what
Speaker 1: we did. I empowered my mom with the empire of
Speaker 1: my sister. She's doing her own thing and we all
Speaker 1: win it. Well, Ross, you have a very small family.
Speaker 1: But as you start to branch out, how did you
Speaker 1: abhorid the jealousy? How did you abhorid you the family members? Like? Ross?
Speaker 1: You got it? Let me get it? Well, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: I think for one of the person I am and
Speaker 1: the person I was before I got paper. It was
Speaker 1: always about honor. It wasn't necessarily about the money. You
Speaker 1: could have been my my big cousin and the family
Speaker 1: who went to the league, and we wouldn't eroded you
Speaker 1: like that because that's just how my family was. It
Speaker 1: ain't really about the you know, it's about going fishing
Speaker 1: on the weekend and all that. So you just gotta
Speaker 1: if if I feel like a person is weak, if
Speaker 1: they just succumbed the jealousy, you gotta exclude them about
Speaker 1: the equation, right, and you can't even think twice about that.
Speaker 1: But sometimes ross you don't know that us until you
Speaker 1: get something for them to be jealous about. See, if
Speaker 1: you still on their level, there is no jealousy because
Speaker 1: you right where they are. It's when you start to
Speaker 1: move without them, that's without of doubt. And that's something
Speaker 1: that you just gonna have to learn as you go.
Speaker 1: But that's something you can expect and uh, you ain't
Speaker 1: necessarily got to anticipate it, but expect it. So when
Speaker 1: they present itself to you, you deal with it and
Speaker 1: keep going. Was it hard to say no because a
Speaker 1: lot of you see obviously talked to I know a
Speaker 1: lot of athletes and from myself. It's sometimes it's hard
Speaker 1: to say no because you know, you get that boy,
Speaker 1: I change your diapers. Boy, you remember that time I
Speaker 1: took you to the story about those shoes? Man, you
Speaker 1: remember I bought you the pack of cooking that guilt
Speaker 1: trip you or it's half five hunter, leave me alone?
Speaker 1: How do you say no? Ros I don't I don't.
Speaker 1: You know, I make sure I was always in a
Speaker 1: position where I showed love. Right, it wasn't really necessarily
Speaker 1: my move if he was playing chess, right, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: always a player head. And so if you come you know,
Speaker 1: if it comes to a time where you feel like
Speaker 1: you gotta say no, don't even think twice about it.
Speaker 1: Follow your heart. What was the very first business you
Speaker 1: ever started? Be illegal or illegal? Oh? Man? Man, you
Speaker 1: know it's I didn't tried too many different things. Man.
Speaker 1: I always considered myself to be a boss. I was
Speaker 1: always willing to start at the bottom, you know, like
Speaker 1: I like I say. I started working at a car
Speaker 1: wash at thirteen from eight in the morning at eight
Speaker 1: pm on the weekends. I made thirty dollars plus tips.
Speaker 1: You know, but in a month or two I knew
Speaker 1: how to if you was a big dope boy, I
Speaker 1: knew how to go feel your car for you. I
Speaker 1: had your CDs organized, your cassettes organized for you. I
Speaker 1: got back, you know, so I went out the way
Speaker 1: and that just applied that everything I did, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go a little further than maybe the next person did.
Speaker 1: Ross always tell when I talked to kids, I say, look,
Speaker 1: experience a lot of different things, have a lot of
Speaker 1: differ for jobs, because what you do as a child
Speaker 1: will let you know what you don't want to do
Speaker 1: as an adult. See, when I did businesses, I knew
Speaker 1: what I didn't want to do. But Roth, unlike you,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I really ever truly said, you
Speaker 1: know what, I want to be the CEO. I want
Speaker 1: to be a boss. I might you know what made
Speaker 1: you say, you know what, Working for somebody's cool, But
Speaker 1: if I wanted to have people working with me, that
Speaker 1: would be even doper. Oh man, I knew that once
Speaker 1: I started working at the car wash. You wash, Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I was working at the car wash, because once
Speaker 1: you you you. Once I started working at the car wash,
Speaker 1: I realized how to boss. It's certain, dudes, it's certain
Speaker 1: clients that are pulling the ones who pulled in in
Speaker 1: them big lexus is that's before we even knew how
Speaker 1: to pronounce lexus right the laser. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When they pulled in, he picked certain people to wash
Speaker 1: those cars, the ones who got the biggest tips. Right.
Speaker 1: So by me being one of your to the youngest
Speaker 1: out there the car wash at the gas station, Oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm they sending me to the Toyota sellacus.
Speaker 1: Well you know, they got them two dollar tips. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna still lock them in too and make sure
Speaker 1: when mom come back next week, she gonna request me too.
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to work my way up to the top. Right,
Speaker 1: So what was your first loss in business that you
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, that was a mistake talking that went
Speaker 1: up to the game. I'm gonna learn from that. You know,
Speaker 1: possibly when I started cutting grass with some of the
Speaker 1: dudes in the neighborhood, I don't went out and cut grass.
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, they was a it was a
Speaker 1: successful lawn service, you know, two three blocks over from him.
Speaker 1: They had them three four big trucks. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It was one of them type of situations.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, yo, okay, I want to go work
Speaker 1: with y'all. You know what I mean? They like, ween, Sure,
Speaker 1: we'll let you know when we need you. You know,
Speaker 1: they they'll put you on that waiting list. I'm I
Speaker 1: waited a month and when they finally told me, come on,
Speaker 1: you could come get on the truck tomorrow morning, I
Speaker 1: forgot the ass how much I was getting paid. Oh,
Speaker 1: they did a number on your hug. What they worked
Speaker 1: this shit out of rows day. Man, they worked this
Speaker 1: shit out of me that Saturday, that Sunday, and they
Speaker 1: paid me the following week. Right. Oh, when I got
Speaker 1: that envelope, that envelope was so thin. I couldn't execute
Speaker 1: none of them plans I had. But that made me say,
Speaker 1: you know what. I was young too, and I said,
Speaker 1: before you do anything else, you gotta make it clear
Speaker 1: how much they gonna get you. What's the pay, what's
Speaker 1: the hours? Oh that's mandatory, because definitely that that was
Speaker 1: mandatory at a young age, because I see what it's like,
Speaker 1: because I went out of sacrifice. Man, I was so tired.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about I went home, ain't even play Nintendo,
Speaker 1: and I got you know, what I'm saying, I laid
Speaker 1: straight out that's two days in the row. Waited a
Speaker 1: whole another week to get that check. Man, I might
Speaker 1: have got fifteen up. They definitely caught you slipping ross
Speaker 1: because you know, when you're doing a job like that,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to get paid after the job. That ain't
Speaker 1: supposed to carry over the whole week. I want That's
Speaker 1: what I said. They took advantage of young Rothers day.
Speaker 1: But you but that was valuable teaching. So now when
Speaker 1: you go in the business, whether it be a building
Speaker 1: or you're trying to get a building, or you're trying
Speaker 1: to start something. Okay, what what are we doing here? Now?
Speaker 1: So this is the price, and this is the size
Speaker 1: of the building, and this is this, and this is that.
Speaker 1: So you learn from that experience I did. And now
Speaker 1: when I go and sit down and meetings, the first
Speaker 1: thing I let him know is what excites me? Right,
Speaker 1: And nine times out of ten it's a dollar figure.
Speaker 1: If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I just what you know. We may be able to
Speaker 1: work something out, but I gotta be clear, make it clear.
Speaker 1: This is what excites Rose. As soon as I say
Speaker 1: that number, it's like a bot go off in the
Speaker 1: COMFITTI falls. That's your question, because don't you want me excited? Yea,
Speaker 1: they want they're battle. They had you there for me
Speaker 1: for a reason, you feel me. Have you ever thrown
Speaker 1: out a number and they say, well, mister Ross, we
Speaker 1: appreciate your service and we appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 1: But that's not where we are right yet. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't throw a number out several times, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Sometimes and then came back around. A matter
Speaker 1: of fact, is a lot of times we come back
Speaker 1: around and we connect, and a lot of times I
Speaker 1: may I'm threw a number out there before they moved
Speaker 1: a little slow and I went up on the number.
Speaker 1: Oh well okay, and they met me there. I actually
Speaker 1: had a film that was filmed that in my state, right,
Speaker 1: and I threw a number out there. I say, this
Speaker 1: is a huge production. This shouldn't be much. Hey, I
Speaker 1: understand what you guys need. That's two point five ms. Yeah,
Speaker 1: two point five million, Yeah, most definitely, that's it. Oh
Speaker 1: and it's low walking. Oh yeah, they moved a little slow. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you pick the pay us up. So you picked
Speaker 1: the pay us up on them. It made him catch up.
Speaker 1: It made him catch up. For you, Oh man, if
Speaker 1: we tapped down at two point seventy five, baby, Okay,
Speaker 1: you'll see, I see. If you ran from the beginning,
Speaker 1: you'd say it's a quarter meal. It's just like it's
Speaker 1: just like it's just like playing chess. You gotta make
Speaker 1: some good moves. But saved your best. You understand because
Speaker 1: when you go down and you negotiating, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of ways people and brands and companies negotiate. A lot
Speaker 1: of companies use time right because they had because here's
Speaker 1: the thing, they have the money. They counting on you
Speaker 1: to becoming patient in the left and what you're probably
Speaker 1: worked because like you said, they have time. They have
Speaker 1: They look at it like we have what he exactly? What? What?
Speaker 1: What's your today? What's your pride of a business venture? Well? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I love everything I do. I
Speaker 1: can't I can't even refront you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Everything I put my heart into it all. But my
Speaker 1: latest business venture my jet dot which is a health app. Okay,
Speaker 1: talk thought us about the health app. You already know
Speaker 1: my jet doc. This is a health app. You know,
Speaker 1: ten years ago I went through a U having seizures
Speaker 1: back back, you know, and so what what it did was,
Speaker 1: you know, I started working out, I got healthier. But
Speaker 1: the experience that touched me the most throughout the whole
Speaker 1: situation was the older people that I would meet sitting
Speaker 1: in the doctor's waiting room and the office. You know,
Speaker 1: the type of doctors I'm going to see us for
Speaker 1: your brain, and so the situation a lot, it's a
Speaker 1: lot serious, you seeking with a lot older people. Older
Speaker 1: people want to talk to the youngest dude in the room,
Speaker 1: and the conversations we would have, and so this would
Speaker 1: really made me want to be a part of this
Speaker 1: new app, my jet dot jet dot dot com. In
Speaker 1: three minutes, you could have a doctor virtually on your phone.
Speaker 1: You describe in your situation, Yo, I just slip and fell,
Speaker 1: this is how I'm feeling. Or it could be a grandparent, Yo,
Speaker 1: my heart is feeling like this. I need to talk
Speaker 1: to somebody right now. Or it maybe a situation like
Speaker 1: mine where you pretty much know what's going on, but
Speaker 1: you just need some personal advice and then you could
Speaker 1: go get the prescription right up the street. There. I
Speaker 1: have the filter up waiting on you right up the street.
Speaker 1: So my jet Dot this is my first app, my
Speaker 1: first technology, and I feel it's really for my people,
Speaker 1: and my people need this. So if i'm if, I'm
Speaker 1: if I'm reading you correctly, and I think I am
Speaker 1: a situation. A lot of the things that you become
Speaker 1: involved in if through personal experience. I mean, you like
Speaker 1: wings hell, let me start a wing stop. I like
Speaker 1: dif Caudi beverage. Let me start this Caudi beveridge. I'm
Speaker 1: going to feel a doctor about YadA, YadA, YadA. Let
Speaker 1: me start this exactly exactly. That's just me following my heart.
Speaker 1: That's just something that's Oh, I'm with that's eat, let's
Speaker 1: do it. I'm with it. I don't feel like Yo,
Speaker 1: I'm not going out my way. That's just a part
Speaker 1: of my I'm gonna talk about my jet doc all day.
Speaker 1: I just left the gym. I'm over here, I'm over there.
Speaker 1: That's a part of my conversation. Because so many people
Speaker 1: opened up to me after I went public saying, yo,
Speaker 1: I suffered from seizures. You'll be surprised. I mean, the
Speaker 1: artists pulled me to the side, YO, become me. They
Speaker 1: had a seizure and they found me on the toilet
Speaker 1: eight hours later. I never told nobody this is the situation, yo, man,
Speaker 1: I never knew that, you know what I mean? I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, it's just certain things we gotta
Speaker 1: converse about. We gotta communicate, And that's why I felt
Speaker 1: I had to do this. So you know, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that want to be private. They don't
Speaker 1: want to walk into the emergency room. They don't want
Speaker 1: to go and get this prescription. They want to do
Speaker 1: it in the privacy through their own phone. I get
Speaker 1: it here. It is jet dot. You mentioned your health
Speaker 1: right where you Is that one of the reasons that
Speaker 1: you decide to say? You know what, I'm accomplishing all
Speaker 1: of this. I'm I'm accumulating this. Well, I got all
Speaker 1: these possessions, but hell, my health is in the trash
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna be around to enjoy it. Is
Speaker 1: that what fourth Rick Ross? To get in shape? Better shape?
Speaker 1: Of course? Of course? Why I accumulate everything you can
Speaker 1: imagine just to drop dead and have a struggle. You
Speaker 1: gotta man, I'm one of them people who want to
Speaker 1: call my shots. So I'm gonna enjoy life right. I'm
Speaker 1: still gonna get that ten piece of lemon pepper, you
Speaker 1: feel me, that fried coin, you know what, cheese on
Speaker 1: the French fries too. I'm gonna still do that. But
Speaker 1: what I gotta do those other six days out the
Speaker 1: week's pushed myself right in the I gotta push myself
Speaker 1: in the right direction, and that's what I've been doing.
Speaker 1: I'm still happy. I'm much healthier. I'm eighty five pounds lighter.
Speaker 1: I gonna stop having seizures. I'm just sharing. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm doing and what's working with me for everybody
Speaker 1: that come to my platform. Do you believe had you
Speaker 1: not had the medical emergencies that you had, you would
Speaker 1: have changed your diet, you would have changed your lifestyle.
Speaker 1: I doubt it. I doubt it. I was an all
Speaker 1: city athlete. I made All Day class of nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1: I was always healthy my entire life. So when I
Speaker 1: had a seizure, I said, you know where that come from? Me?
Speaker 1: Not resting, me, not sleeping, me sipping lean in the
Speaker 1: studio to seven am. And you know, once I told
Speaker 1: the doctors the way I was sleeping two to three
Speaker 1: hours at the most of night, he'sai. I'm surprised it's
Speaker 1: not much worse, but you know, the conditions and the
Speaker 1: things that came about, I most definitely told myself I
Speaker 1: got a change right now, Rose can't. They can't zip
Speaker 1: Rose up in the bag. I looked too good. I
Speaker 1: got too many places to go. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that you were all Day County Miami. You
Speaker 1: got a scholarship the Albanis State. I know about the
Speaker 1: all Bnis State because if we used to play them,
Speaker 1: that's right. Did you go to Albenis State and other
Speaker 1: things became a distraction and you left or what transpired
Speaker 1: with that? You know what it was is I got
Speaker 1: a scholarship to Albany State College. I was the only
Speaker 1: one to leave Miami. I went to Albany State. And
Speaker 1: this was the first time I really went out of town,
Speaker 1: in the first time in really few years that my
Speaker 1: big homies in my community. You know, they weren't around
Speaker 1: me when I came up where I came up from,
Speaker 1: I was embraced, you know, I played football, I was cool.
Speaker 1: They dressed me up, kept money in my pocket. This
Speaker 1: is the first time I'm out of you know, I
Speaker 1: couldn't put that burden on my mom. So I'm out
Speaker 1: of town, ain't got much. I'm really starting to have
Speaker 1: the wrong ideas. I'm gonna bring the wrong energy to
Speaker 1: the campus. I told myself, before you do this and
Speaker 1: you make a big mistake, just go back and follow
Speaker 1: your heart, write your music. You know, I know, you
Speaker 1: know football in your heart. I'm a dude that felt.
Speaker 1: I'm the same boss mentality. I'm going to the league.
Speaker 1: I'm going to the league. I'm gonna play two seasons,
Speaker 1: turn up, and I'm gonna go to the league. And
Speaker 1: once I realized, you know, that wasn't that my heart
Speaker 1: wasn't there no more. I came back home and just
Speaker 1: focused on the music. You know what I'm saying. All
Speaker 1: being it, Southwest Ruin Georgia is a lot different than Miami.
Speaker 1: A big was a culture. It was I was I
Speaker 1: ain't know what was going on. I'm like, yo, you know,
Speaker 1: they had just had a flood, so they had trailers
Speaker 1: set up and it's like, yo, I'm out there. I'm
Speaker 1: a freshman. They call you crap. You're a freshman, You're
Speaker 1: a crap. That's a black college thing. Only HBCUs do that.
Speaker 1: They don't do that at major university. That's what they do.
Speaker 1: That's what they do at HBCU. When you come into
Speaker 1: frad for your crab Beth Belie came out dad, and
Speaker 1: they called me a crap and told me to hold
Speaker 1: the water button while all the seniors and Georgias drank
Speaker 1: water while we drank what oh? I say, whoa? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what's up? Whoa? But you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. You know, I understood the brotherhood and
Speaker 1: I appreciated it. You know what I'm saying. But it's
Speaker 1: just when I went into that trailer at night by myself,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. The last time you ate
Speaker 1: during the day was what three pm? Four pm. I'm
Speaker 1: laying in that trailer hungry. I say, see they gonna
Speaker 1: make Rose, gonna do something round that. I don't need it.
Speaker 1: So you already so before you left and with all
Speaker 1: so were you writing music? Was music a big part
Speaker 1: of your life? Before you in high school and before
Speaker 1: you went to Albany In high school? I was just
Speaker 1: making tapes, Okay, you know what I mean. But I
Speaker 1: most definitely was playing with music. I was playing with music.
Speaker 1: I knew I wanted to get money, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So we was just moving around in the
Speaker 1: streets youngsters, but uh, you know, it just looked prosperous.
Speaker 1: I followed my heart. I went up to Albany State,
Speaker 1: stayed maybe two months before I came back to Miami,
Speaker 1: and then you know, I just got back into what
Speaker 1: I was doing. You know what I'm saying, Ross, I'm
Speaker 1: actually glad you did that because I believe had you
Speaker 1: not did that, you would have probably had regret for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life. Because that's what my brother.
Speaker 1: I thought about not going to Savanna State, and he says,
Speaker 1: go down Bary. At least go down there. Tried If
Speaker 1: you don't like it, said, you know what, I went
Speaker 1: to Savanno State. It wasn't for me. You did something else.
Speaker 1: You going to Albany State. At least you tried it.
Speaker 1: You realize, Man, my heart ain't in this. My heart
Speaker 1: is in this like it is music. Let me pack
Speaker 1: my stuff up before I do something crazy and take
Speaker 1: my butt back to Miami. That's exactly what it was,
Speaker 1: my brother, And that's so everything. I feel the same way.
Speaker 1: I think, God, you know what I'm saying, I followed
Speaker 1: my heart and stepped out there. I most definitely loved
Speaker 1: the experience. I still stay in touch with a lot
Speaker 1: of the homies that I met, some of the older classmates.
Speaker 1: I'm doing yeah, yeah, yeah, I still stay in touch
Speaker 1: with them. You know what I'm saying. You know them
Speaker 1: dudes crazy, Yeah, crazy football playing dudes. You know they're crazy.
Speaker 1: And I just let them know. I leave the door.
Speaker 1: They got an open door policy with me. They could
Speaker 1: hit me up. I'm always online social media. Just hit
Speaker 1: me up. You know what I'm saying. Make sure you
Speaker 1: represent and I'm gonna pay attention. Ross. I tell people
Speaker 1: all the time, I said, everybody should get at least
Speaker 1: as amester of an HBCU to experience what it's like
Speaker 1: to go to play phase, to be in the student union,
Speaker 1: to be to walk and see the step shows, to
Speaker 1: see to it. You got to experience that. It's like,
Speaker 1: it's priceless. It's priceless. And the older you get, when
Speaker 1: you realize, how do you really how do you really
Speaker 1: value your life? Yeah? A lot of times it's based
Speaker 1: on memories and experience. Yes, where have you been? What
Speaker 1: have you seen? And those step shows walking through on
Speaker 1: that campus, when walking on your albody from everywhere else,
Speaker 1: athletes from everywhere else. When you see the all Americans,
Speaker 1: how they barely speak. When the ones that, oh, this
Speaker 1: side of this got Okay, I get it. I get it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I love it. And I still apply that same
Speaker 1: mentality and hustle to everything I do today. Born in Mississippi,
Speaker 1: raised in Carol City, Florida. Talk about your upbringing in
Speaker 1: Carol City. What was it like? Well, you know, my
Speaker 1: mother from mississ it be my father from Florida, and
Speaker 1: when they got together, you know, they moved straight to Florida,
Speaker 1: and uh, growing up in Miami, that's the heart of
Speaker 1: you know, right in the three or five they call
Speaker 1: it Miami Gardens now is right there where the hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium, home of the Dolphins at Yeah, I grew
Speaker 1: up right there, two three blocks away from there, and
Speaker 1: you know, just growing up right there, Uh, it was everybody,
Speaker 1: every different ethnicity, every background, and every culture, every race
Speaker 1: was on my block. He was hastiing, you was jamaking,
Speaker 1: you was from Honduras or from Cuban, you was wipe,
Speaker 1: you was whatever. So I always knew how to get
Speaker 1: along with every race. It's to me, as long as
Speaker 1: you had you were solid, you had those morals and principles,
Speaker 1: you could get it on with us, you could kick
Speaker 1: it with us. Straight up. Tell me talk about some
Speaker 1: of the values that you learned growing up in Florida
Speaker 1: and some of the things that your mom and your
Speaker 1: father instilled in you at a young age that you
Speaker 1: carry over to and today it's like and you partake
Speaker 1: some of that wisdom on your own kids. Well. Growing up,
Speaker 1: of course, on my block, it wasn't about your money.
Speaker 1: It was the way you moved. It was the way,
Speaker 1: you know, you made people respect your household, your family.
Speaker 1: Because right next door to me was you know, some
Speaker 1: Jamaicans that I got a lot of wisdom from. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I mean, on the fourth of July,
Speaker 1: two days before the fourth they're bringing the goat home.
Speaker 1: I knew we was gonna have some curry goat. You know, Okay?
Speaker 1: That was yeah, yeah, straight up. So it was just
Speaker 1: the way you live. It was your principles and the
Speaker 1: way you moved. As you got older, I understood what
Speaker 1: getting money due. I understood when I was riding at
Speaker 1: my daddy back seat of abet it we called scrappy
Speaker 1: and my homie Jabbar his daddy had that five hundred
Speaker 1: sel Diesel Binds Pipers on the head school I was.
Speaker 1: I remember standing in front of that damn car, just
Speaker 1: looking at it, like, boy, what I gotta do to
Speaker 1: get this? Oh? I get it, you know. And it
Speaker 1: was just one of them things. And I still apply that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I still kick it with
Speaker 1: my same I still go through my same block. I
Speaker 1: still see my same homies in and I let them
Speaker 1: know it's ain't nothing change. Ain't nothing changed my drive,
Speaker 1: my hunger where we're from. Don't never let getting money
Speaker 1: make you think some nobody don't change getting money if
Speaker 1: they want, that's what they wanted to act like they
Speaker 1: was changing. Get money, don't change it. That's what I
Speaker 1: tell people all the time. Money makes you more of
Speaker 1: what you already are, dirt. You become a butthole. Only
Speaker 1: it might change your It might change your area code,
Speaker 1: it might change your VIP culture bank account, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't change the person, not at all. And that's what
Speaker 1: I let my homies know. Ain't nothing change. It's I'm
Speaker 1: the same one. You know what I'm saying, and I
Speaker 1: love when they make me feel like it ain't changed.
Speaker 1: I let me the same way we used to. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, That's what I love. I don't
Speaker 1: get home much Ross, but they tell you the things
Speaker 1: that I like this, Like, man, Sharp, you hadn't changed.
Speaker 1: You treat up the same way. If I fool with you,
Speaker 1: I fool with you. If I didn't, I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: wait till I get into my fifth is to start
Speaker 1: fooling with you. If I'm up with you in high school,
Speaker 1: in elementary were cool to this day. If I did day,
Speaker 1: we're not going to pick up. We're not going to
Speaker 1: pick up in twenty twenty one then where we didn't
Speaker 1: pick up in nineteen seventy five. No doubt it. I
Speaker 1: doubt it. Not, I doubt it. You're cutting into the
Speaker 1: ones I really loved and the ones who've been loyal
Speaker 1: to me forever time. Right, So you you your heart
Speaker 1: was in the rap game. Give me some of the
Speaker 1: rappers and some of the groups that influence Ross and says, Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to do that. I want to move like that. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up in Miami really floored the period
Speaker 1: dancing was our culture, right, So watching what Luke did,
Speaker 1: watching what JT Money did, that was something. But they
Speaker 1: better know about JT. They better know about JT Money.
Speaker 1: They better know about that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And it's like, it's like, uh, that's that's not true.
Speaker 1: But my mind frame was on getting money, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I knew I was the fat dude
Speaker 1: couldn't dress. I knew I wasn't gonna be on the
Speaker 1: dancing vibe right to be the one that came to
Speaker 1: the party. Once I got that sel DC, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And so once the music changed from it,
Speaker 1: you know they called the booty shaking, we just called
Speaker 1: it Miami. The vibe Luke did and what JT did.
Speaker 1: JT played one of the most important parts in Miami history.
Speaker 1: Trick Daddy took it from there and tricked past the
Speaker 1: baton to me. And that's when I said, Yo, every
Speaker 1: damn hustle, We're gonna get some money. We're gonna line
Speaker 1: the Mercedes binds up. We're gonna get man, We're gonna
Speaker 1: get real estate from here all the way to the
Speaker 1: West coast, back to the East coast and anyway in between.
Speaker 1: We want any businesses, we want everything that we want it.
Speaker 1: We want it. We gonna go get it. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: I bought the Checkers right across from the gas station.
Speaker 1: I watched cars at the check I ain't go to
Speaker 1: Wendy's as a youngster. You got the windies and spend
Speaker 1: eight dollars that bag with life. If you went to
Speaker 1: check Us you got two bags, you might have that
Speaker 1: third with you aslutely right up there telling you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So when we put that change together,
Speaker 1: the car wash, we finel amen, we finlih get some
Speaker 1: to eat. Who going you put your two three dollars
Speaker 1: in there? You know, somebody go to check us and
Speaker 1: bring it back and we all bust it down. So
Speaker 1: that was the very first Checkers. I went back and got, well,
Speaker 1: you know, if we do, hey, I tell you what
Speaker 1: if you fly, I buy, you know, we gotta get
Speaker 1: somebody go feel me yea if I fly, I ain't
Speaker 1: putting that there. I'm just going to get it, go
Speaker 1: brag it back. We gonna do what we do. We're
Speaker 1: gonna eat this up. We're gonna bust it down. That's
Speaker 1: how we do it. We family, We're gonna bust it down.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the Florida Rappers. Obviously, Luke is where it
Speaker 1: all started. You mentioned JT. Money sixty nine boys. Uh,
Speaker 1: you tricked that in dollars. What about some of the
Speaker 1: West Coast, some of the New New York rappers, Well,
Speaker 1: you already know I had. I was. I was into
Speaker 1: it from everywhere, even when I didn't even listen to
Speaker 1: the music. I remember being a youngster walking into the
Speaker 1: store buying the vinyl of a West Coast rapper. I
Speaker 1: still never listened to this album to this day, King
Speaker 1: t Okay King T. He had an orange six folk
Speaker 1: chrome datings on the front. I bought the album just
Speaker 1: because I did that with run DMC walked this Way
Speaker 1: I sing the vinyl. It was some graffiti with a background.
Speaker 1: It wasn't one of my best songs, just for the artwork.
Speaker 1: And that's what I love the music, from the underground
Speaker 1: artists to the mainstream artist. When I was real young,
Speaker 1: elementary listening to KRS one whatever it was, Ice Q
Speaker 1: was one of my, uh you know, most influential artists.
Speaker 1: I just got Easy tattooed on my thigh last night. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's last night, you know what I mean. So really
Speaker 1: I just listened to everything a try car Quest. It
Speaker 1: don't matter, Jack Diller, it don't matter. It could have
Speaker 1: been got damned from it, don't I just listened to it.
Speaker 1: If it came on and it had a vibe, back
Speaker 1: it up. I want to hear the kid. What is
Speaker 1: your response to people saying your style, your stature, your bill,
Speaker 1: the way you move reminds them of Biggie. Well, I
Speaker 1: can't do nothing but take it as a compliment, but
Speaker 1: I won't play myself. Big was on something else. I'm
Speaker 1: saying Big was on something else. Big was just some
Speaker 1: special that error, the energy that Tupac, that big error,
Speaker 1: that big error that jay Z imagine what that that
Speaker 1: cipher was like wow yea. And so when I think
Speaker 1: of the records that they put together, the time frame,
Speaker 1: you know, just the love that was put into that music.
Speaker 1: You know, Big, it was most definitely possibly my greatest
Speaker 1: self because when you look at it, you look at Big,
Speaker 1: he was unbelievable. But he didn't have the He should
Speaker 1: have had a longer run. You look at what a
Speaker 1: five year period because he came on to see what
Speaker 1: like ninety three. It may have been less than that
Speaker 1: might have been. It might have been three or four years.
Speaker 1: It may have been three or four years. That's what
Speaker 1: I mean by his impact and influence on the world
Speaker 1: in such a short time that shit can't be compared.
Speaker 1: And it was really it was really that vacuum feel
Speaker 1: of that Biggie Tupac error. Yes, at one time, you
Speaker 1: couldn't talk about rap if he wasn't talking about big
Speaker 1: in Tupac, Right, It's just that entire era of rap music.
Speaker 1: Everything else was just some sideline shit. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like Bird and Magic. You can't mention Bird without talking
Speaker 1: about magic. You can't say magic without saying Bird. When
Speaker 1: you talk about Bigger, you can't say. You can't go
Speaker 1: without being Tupac and Tupac they go, they pecked up,
Speaker 1: but you got to have them together. You gotta have
Speaker 1: them together. And of course they untimely demise. Man, it
Speaker 1: marked you know, it's just the intensity and the fucking
Speaker 1: the love hand me that was right around there. That
Speaker 1: ship couldn't be matched. It still won't be matched again.
Speaker 1: Let let let's talk about that. Why is it that
Speaker 1: the ramp game is like that? That everybody you know,
Speaker 1: when you look at some of these, you know, these
Speaker 1: young rappers that you know, uh, that's that's losing their life.
Speaker 1: Why is it like that? Roth No other make of
Speaker 1: music have this kind of beef. R and b artists
Speaker 1: are not getting at each other, you know, pop singers
Speaker 1: are not getting at each other. Just what is it
Speaker 1: about the rap game that make it that that guys
Speaker 1: want to get at each other? Even the gals have
Speaker 1: beef that they shouldn't have beef with. Man, I know
Speaker 1: when I asked myself this, and I'm just on some
Speaker 1: reflecting of myself, why you know, why is it like this?
Speaker 1: And I would go back to the beginning of music
Speaker 1: and I would ask myself and reflecting myself and me
Speaker 1: personally a lot of times growing up and you don't
Speaker 1: have nothing. Music is all you have, right, And I
Speaker 1: know I'm speaking for me in my homies. I remember
Speaker 1: when we on one block had to share one of
Speaker 1: my homie Nintendos. Put it in the plastic bag, walk
Speaker 1: it down here, you know, But we had our own music, right.
Speaker 1: You got you, you become a fan, you become a supporter,
Speaker 1: you become whatever it is. And now where we at,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of people that still have nothing but
Speaker 1: music and they opinion. And now with this platform, people
Speaker 1: get to add their opinions to what's going on in
Speaker 1: this music. And once again, a lot of times you
Speaker 1: talking about young dudes making music who don't got nothing
Speaker 1: else but they music. So want somebody try to tell
Speaker 1: that music down. Shit. They ready to go burn something down.
Speaker 1: They ready to run in the capital. I remember when
Speaker 1: LLL and cool mo D. You know they had a
Speaker 1: little baby, you know, coolmo D said lll' stad for
Speaker 1: Lord level, lick loft, the last least low life, Lord level.
Speaker 1: I was okay, it was just bun, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I want nobody talking about clapping nobody uh
Speaker 1: ross nah, I want nobody doing that. Then it was different.
Speaker 1: Then it was different. It most definitely was a different time.
Speaker 1: You know. I remember the LLL and uh cool mood.
Speaker 1: You know, girls behind me jacket blindman, No need to
Speaker 1: remind me who I am. I know you know me.
Speaker 1: That was just one of those things, man, And now
Speaker 1: it's just a little different. Home mean this shit. These
Speaker 1: mothers bugs, they don't sense or nothing. They speak in
Speaker 1: their mind. They own I g live, I'm a kid.
Speaker 1: You I'm a clappy, I'm gonna do this. Somebody else
Speaker 1: feel it's only right they respond to it and this
Speaker 1: and that. Now we moved a little different. We moved.
Speaker 1: You still gotta move in silence and that you know what?
Speaker 1: Social media is a blessing of a courage ross because
Speaker 1: you get guys, Okay, some people are not willing to
Speaker 1: work for what they want. I see such and such
Speaker 1: guy that I've been to run up in his house
Speaker 1: and go get his m you know. And and that's
Speaker 1: always been going on a photo wrap game, right, you know,
Speaker 1: motherfucker's been running their houses be photo wrap game. But
Speaker 1: now it's glamorized, yeah, by the rap game. And it's
Speaker 1: the young Brothers that's done. It's the young Vaughn that's done. Right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You seeing their family members
Speaker 1: for weeks behind, you know, grieving their death, other dudes
Speaker 1: celebrating it, you know. And it's just something that's being
Speaker 1: fueled once again by the platform. Because I wouldn't know
Speaker 1: these things if it wasn't for the platform. And when
Speaker 1: I wake up and you hear that and this and that,
Speaker 1: and damn, you could be in a bad mood. You could,
Speaker 1: God damn be emotional. Oh, they're responsible for that. I
Speaker 1: want to see something happen to them. Just based off
Speaker 1: a post your first record deal you signed with wild
Speaker 1: House Records. How did you get noticed by Tony Draper?
Speaker 1: I actually drove out the Texas. I drove out the Texas.
Speaker 1: I never forget when I heard eight ball m JG
Speaker 1: coming out hard, coming out hard, and I the beats
Speaker 1: the production. I was like, who making them beats? Oh,
Speaker 1: they say it's the dude T mix where he from Memphis.
Speaker 1: I got family in Memphis. I got family in Mississippi.
Speaker 1: Where they at there in Houston? Eight Ball from Memphis. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm driving a driving to Houston. So you just got like,
Speaker 1: hey the beat. I liked the beats. I need to
Speaker 1: meet him? Yeah I didn't. So you just getting you,
Speaker 1: just getting the whip and just hit the road. I
Speaker 1: just hit the road badly, had gas money, pull over
Speaker 1: back the rest stop, rest area, sleep, get back on
Speaker 1: the road. We gotta make it happen some way, That's
Speaker 1: all I want to do. However, we gotta do it.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. So you meet you. Obviously you end
Speaker 1: up doing a hit with an eight balling him JG.
Speaker 1: So what was that like, because you I mean to
Speaker 1: meet somebody that you hear and to meet them and
Speaker 1: you on a track with them. What's that light? Man,
Speaker 1: that's next level. That's it's unbelievable. Just like when I
Speaker 1: went to Houston and I met Tony Draper, I had
Speaker 1: one of my homies who was in the penitentiary hit
Speaker 1: one of his homies that they knew, told him I
Speaker 1: was in the city. I pulled up, played some music
Speaker 1: and it went from there. That same weekend, somebody introduced me.
Speaker 1: I pulled up to the restaurant where Scarface was at,
Speaker 1: you know, scar Face at the Ghetto Boys. That was yeah,
Speaker 1: I know maybe you know, Yeah, that's unbelievable. So and
Speaker 1: it just took time. I came back years later, did
Speaker 1: a collaboration with eight Ball, m JG, did a collaboration
Speaker 1: with scar Face, and I brought these same memories up.
Speaker 1: Y'all remember sitting in a car with me, Man, Man,
Speaker 1: I just pray, I just pray ain't come off as
Speaker 1: a crazy young nigga man, and y'all just knew it
Speaker 1: was in my heart, and I just was trying to
Speaker 1: tell y'all, boy, I ain't gonna stop till I'm mom.
Speaker 1: So have anyone done to you what you did? Just
Speaker 1: pull up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, that's one
Speaker 1: thing I always told myself, because it took me so
Speaker 1: long to get on, I told myself that I wanted
Speaker 1: to help as many artists just on some cool shit.
Speaker 1: We ain't gotta get money. You could just come to
Speaker 1: the studio. We could smoke, we could listen to beats
Speaker 1: and vibe, and once I got in a position, that's
Speaker 1: what I began doing. I remember when I first reached
Speaker 1: out the Winds before he was before he had a
Speaker 1: hit record. He said he thought he was being catfish
Speaker 1: when I came at him on to it. He didn't
Speaker 1: even believe me. I flew him out. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: I flew him out. I flew currency out. I flew
Speaker 1: him out. At the same time, we did a remix
Speaker 1: just ride around in the bins to one of my records,
Speaker 1: Super High, when I flew Niek out, when I flew
Speaker 1: Wila out and the let's just go on. And that's
Speaker 1: how I did most of my collaborations. I mean, you
Speaker 1: gotta understand ze wrongs. I get. I think that's why
Speaker 1: you've been blessed because you paid it for it. You
Speaker 1: didn't have to do that, and for you to take
Speaker 1: it upon yourself and say, hey, come on out here,
Speaker 1: let's get together, let's link up. We ain't got to
Speaker 1: do no music. Let's just hey, let's just vibe. Let's
Speaker 1: just let's do what we do and just and we
Speaker 1: go from there and forget to turn out to what
Speaker 1: it the way it has and and and to me
Speaker 1: and still to this day. Hey, I know it's like
Speaker 1: being a young artist. It ain't gotta be about no music.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in Miami right now. Roddy Rich came
Speaker 1: to my house. It wasn't even a week ago. Him
Speaker 1: and his crew came to my house and we just
Speaker 1: sat in the studio, not playing no music, just on
Speaker 1: some kicking it, some game, some advice. If I was,
Speaker 1: Oh this your first year, second year, third year, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, just to play, oh think about doing this this.
Speaker 1: And we just spent hours having a conversation just on
Speaker 1: some different ships, you know, just investments, different ventures, and
Speaker 1: not even on no music. It ain't just gotta be
Speaker 1: about music. Every time we get together as artists, we
Speaker 1: ain't gotta try to profit the benefit off each other.
Speaker 1: We could just share a game. Your next deal. You're
Speaker 1: with Slipping Slide Records, Trick that applies training a pit ball.
Speaker 1: What was it like working alongside them, and what was
Speaker 1: it like touring with and a Trick? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I was writing. I was sitting in the studio helping,
Speaker 1: you know, just writing for years. You know, Trainer, she
Speaker 1: always been super cool. She always been a beautiful spirit
Speaker 1: find his hell when she walk in and just you know, giggle,
Speaker 1: real cool. So I always she always met a one
Speaker 1: on my list. Trick Daddy, you already know what it was.
Speaker 1: He took me out on the road a couple of summers,
Speaker 1: you know, and it was just it once it was
Speaker 1: time for me to step up. It was either it
Speaker 1: was either time to boss up. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying straight up, it's time to go now. I'dn't been
Speaker 1: in the game ten years, still behind the scenes. It's
Speaker 1: time to get some money. It's time to make my
Speaker 1: own records. It's trying to do, you know, touch the
Speaker 1: people in my own way. And that's what I finally did.
Speaker 1: But other than that, just being on the road with Trick,
Speaker 1: you already know it. That's like, yeah, you know, you
Speaker 1: get to go in the club, see what it's like.
Speaker 1: Niggas throwing bottles, nigga's coming up by that thing, you know,
Speaker 1: and then just seeing what real fan loyalty is. Trick.
Speaker 1: Used to get booked every weekend in Tampa and I'm like,
Speaker 1: damn folk kids. In a month, it's the same motherfucker's
Speaker 1: coming to the ah Man, it's something different. I could
Speaker 1: get put in the same city four times a month.
Speaker 1: This This was treat Daddy did. It was a certain
Speaker 1: part of Carolina and Temple. After working behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: what gave you the courage or what made you say,
Speaker 1: you know what, damn behind the scenes, I need to
Speaker 1: be in the front. I need to be on the track.
Speaker 1: You know, that was always in my heart. I just
Speaker 1: felt like the time that came, you know, I had
Speaker 1: did a lot of writing for a lot of different
Speaker 1: artists from New York all the way down, and you know,
Speaker 1: I ain't get no joy out of that. Always time
Speaker 1: to really step up, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: you know for the pieces that fell together that every
Speaker 1: damn hustling shout out to the runners. That was that
Speaker 1: first record that kicked that dough in for me. And
Speaker 1: after that just all my experience of writing records and
Speaker 1: how easy it was for me to write songs, you know,
Speaker 1: because I could write a god there album bulk of
Speaker 1: material in one night. If an album fourteen records, I
Speaker 1: could do fifteen records in twenty four hours span. And
Speaker 1: by me doing that for so long, once the door
Speaker 1: got kicked open from me, that's when the major te did.
Speaker 1: This for artist is when the producers want to work
Speaker 1: with you, right, that's what's gotta happen. The producers got
Speaker 1: to say, I'm going to give you this heat. Because
Speaker 1: you could be a young artist and go sit with
Speaker 1: a producer. He not gonna play you that a shit,
Speaker 1: He's not gonna do it right, even that for jay
Speaker 1: Z and Naas, for Kanye, for for real, for Rick Ross.
Speaker 1: And once I got that first door kicked, then the
Speaker 1: producers came to the table. And that's when I went
Speaker 1: to writing all the records, man, and we took off.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the song they got it all started. It's
Speaker 1: still all the song you've done. Ross, that's my jam.
Speaker 1: I still play that. I don't really listen to a
Speaker 1: whole lot of music when I work out, but if
Speaker 1: hustling comes on I'm gonna move some weight about. I'm
Speaker 1: about to turn up in there because that's them forty five.
Speaker 1: That white on white. Hey, I rick it Ross, that
Speaker 1: white on white man, that white on white. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you something, that white on white. What inspired me
Speaker 1: to get that? I may have got that BMW maybe
Speaker 1: a year before we actually filmed a video. But when
Speaker 1: I was a youngster, the Dolphins player, they had an
Speaker 1: offensive alignment by the name of Richmond Webb. I know
Speaker 1: where he came out with me. I know where. So
Speaker 1: I was a youngster and when the Dolphins used to practice,
Speaker 1: when they left all of us on the block, used
Speaker 1: to just come standing there and watch them ride by. Right.
Speaker 1: Well had of bins white on white with the white rooms.
Speaker 1: When you talk to him, he don't even know he
Speaker 1: inspired that. And I said, boy, when I get some paper,
Speaker 1: the AMG white two those bands he had. That ship
Speaker 1: blowed my mind. He blowed my mind. Richmond Webb, he
Speaker 1: was a left toe. Yeah, I know, Web' say up
Speaker 1: there and take us say there. We came out together
Speaker 1: the same draft nineteen ninety Oh man, Ross, check this out.
Speaker 1: The thing about that what I love white on white?
Speaker 1: But boy, you can't wear no blue jeans because your
Speaker 1: blue jeans gonna blue bleed on them. Damn the hots
Speaker 1: and now your feet blue. Yesterday, you can't watch. You
Speaker 1: had to put that town dout on that hand. To
Speaker 1: put that town and that you had to let them
Speaker 1: girls know. You can't piss on these seats. Maybe you
Speaker 1: can't do it no day. You gotta be, You gotta
Speaker 1: have over. You gotta have a cackett, put a tower down.
Speaker 1: The white shorts. Anything with color gonna bleed on the feets.
Speaker 1: It's gonna bleed on them seats. That dinner was most
Speaker 1: definitely gonna bleed on them seats. You ain't live when hustling?
Speaker 1: Did you? Did you know hustling what's gonna be? What
Speaker 1: it was? I did because when I got the beat,
Speaker 1: I drove up to a training show and I wrote
Speaker 1: the first verse on the way to the show. When
Speaker 1: I got there, I really didn't have my own show
Speaker 1: to perform. I told the DJ to play the beat,
Speaker 1: play track number seven. Okay, he put it on. That
Speaker 1: thing came on blah blah blah, and I wrapped the
Speaker 1: first verse, and I never forget how it was. One
Speaker 1: dude in that crowd and how he looked at me.
Speaker 1: He looked at me like, boy, You're gonna be the
Speaker 1: biggest to ever do this. So I took the record,
Speaker 1: went back to Miami, finished the song. It was on.
Speaker 1: Once you got that taste, Once that that recorm hit
Speaker 1: the airways, it was over. Roth's life has never been
Speaker 1: his old. I knew it, never knew y'all had the
Speaker 1: family Raymond Noodles too long. It was time of that
Speaker 1: rainbow trout. It was time for them Limon pepper wings.
Speaker 1: It was time for that finish differ from Houston's Baby.
Speaker 1: I said, ain't going back. I need that brand zin
Speaker 1: no fish. Okay, you end up fighting with JV death Jam.
Speaker 1: If it true that there was a bidding war Jeff
Speaker 1: death Jam murder ain't bad boy. Yeah, How did you
Speaker 1: ultimately decide to go with Jake? Well, it was it was.
Speaker 1: It was a huge bidding war. Jimmy Iveen, Tom Wally
Speaker 1: over at Warner. It was a bunch of different names.
Speaker 1: But ultimately when I went and sat down with jay Z,
Speaker 1: it was jay Z La Reid, my brother DJ khalat
Speaker 1: Uh he was in there, and you know, I just
Speaker 1: basically told him, you know, just for everybody that may
Speaker 1: think this a one hit or one album Wade, y'all
Speaker 1: better know this a whole another type vibe right here,
Speaker 1: Rose fin the outlast. Everybody, I'm finna going I'm coming
Speaker 1: in the game. I'm kicking in the door. Whoever they
Speaker 1: think the biggest, I'm gonna diss them just to get
Speaker 1: everybody's attention. And then I'm gonna let my talent speak
Speaker 1: for itself. And that's what. And so they would have
Speaker 1: once and said, okay, because I've now you gotta understand.
Speaker 1: Now you're sitting there, you're sitting after Jay. Now you
Speaker 1: know what Jay is at that point in time in
Speaker 1: the game. You know, he he's considered the dog, He's
Speaker 1: considered the gold standard, right without a doubt. That's what
Speaker 1: out a doubt, That's what out of doubt. And when
Speaker 1: we when it sat down and we had a conversation,
Speaker 1: he most definitely seen my vision too. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I've seen his He's seen my vision. You know,
Speaker 1: that's one of the one of my favorite lyrics. He
Speaker 1: didn't want took me to Fleet Child for the first time,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, And I never forget
Speaker 1: when I got there, I tried them chicken saltees. I
Speaker 1: loved him, but I wanted that wing stop. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie. Hey, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: nice to get that old fancy and stuff. They put
Speaker 1: all that stuff on the knife play to play the
Speaker 1: stars and all that. I understand, but sometimes it's okay.
Speaker 1: They got that stop for old too. Now, well you
Speaker 1: gotta drink up that stop from but that stop from
Speaker 1: the ice cold for hours. Hey, you said you didn't
Speaker 1: spend any money when you first signed with Death Jet. Why.
Speaker 1: For one, I wasn't sure if it was gonna come
Speaker 1: back this bid. And for two, I knew I didn't
Speaker 1: want to go back to the bottom. I wanted to
Speaker 1: make some positive moves. I wanted to get more money.
Speaker 1: I knew I wanted. I had to get some more money. However,
Speaker 1: I was gonna make that happen. I knew I had
Speaker 1: to do that. So once I got the bid and
Speaker 1: war settled, I got a huge advance. I didn't spend nothing.
Speaker 1: I went in there shows. I was so damn busy
Speaker 1: that first year. I was doing four five performances a week.
Speaker 1: My off days, I was recording, I ain't spend nothing
Speaker 1: because you were either you either you you within the
Speaker 1: studio or you was on stage. Yeah, I most definitely
Speaker 1: was was was hustling, grinding, But you know, I ain't
Speaker 1: want to spend nothing. I wanted to see what its
Speaker 1: stacked like and come back the next year, see what
Speaker 1: it looked like, to give myselves that many more options
Speaker 1: of your albums. Part of Miami started it all, Triller
Speaker 1: deeper than rapped, heplon don Hood, Bellion there Port, I
Speaker 1: mean rep what I'm gonna say, I'm gonna take I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take part of Miami, the first one. I'm taking
Speaker 1: that off the table because I know that's your baby.
Speaker 1: I know that that got that started it all. So
Speaker 1: you always gonna be parking towards him right of the ref.
Speaker 1: What would you say if Raw's work, to me, deeper
Speaker 1: than rap spoke values. And the reason it spoke values
Speaker 1: is because I was trying to explain to my fans
Speaker 1: and people who really loved me that I was a
Speaker 1: different situation from a lot of other artists I've seen.
Speaker 1: It is deeper than wrap. When I tell y'all I'm
Speaker 1: really hustling, I'm gonna show you and don't take my
Speaker 1: word for it. Now, Wait teen years from now, Wait
Speaker 1: fifteen years from now, five years from now. If I'm
Speaker 1: not the biggest that ever did it, I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you to pay some on the things that I'm playing
Speaker 1: and plotting. I'm gonna be the biggest ever rolph. How
Speaker 1: do you pick a beat? What are you listening for?
Speaker 1: M Well, it's hard to explain what I'm really listening for.
Speaker 1: But one way I could try to do it is
Speaker 1: when I listen, I'm listening in colors. Every every sound
Speaker 1: is a different color. And if I let an instrumental
Speaker 1: come on and I play an instrumental in a room
Speaker 1: for let's say four or five hours, the room to
Speaker 1: be filled with these colors. So when I walk into
Speaker 1: the room, it's like if you walk in and smoking,
Speaker 1: you know how I go buy you. I wanted to
Speaker 1: surround me and I want to be able to see
Speaker 1: the cords, the sounds, and to me, it just make
Speaker 1: the words come that much easier to me because when
Speaker 1: I could see the colors, it's it's touching my mind
Speaker 1: in a different way. So now my heart got to match.
Speaker 1: It ain't nothing that I'm I'm trying to come up
Speaker 1: with some words. Now my heart got to feel that
Speaker 1: in so let's turn it up. Let's go. So where
Speaker 1: do you where do you like to write? Where is
Speaker 1: the ideal play for Roster to write? To write? To
Speaker 1: write a song? Well, it depending on what chause I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm in Miami right now. So where I'm sitting right now,
Speaker 1: it's where I love to get up six am. Cut
Speaker 1: cut an instrumental on and start my smoking process maybe
Speaker 1: simple love champagne and start talking my shit that I
Speaker 1: want to talk. And uh, you know you you don't
Speaker 1: take too long. But I've been wrote a song or
Speaker 1: two by the time I have my my turkey drizzle
Speaker 1: in the morning. By eight in the morning, I've been done,
Speaker 1: had two songs written, you know, straight up. So you
Speaker 1: you just sit around, I mean, so, how so you
Speaker 1: got stuff all ready to go, already package ready to go?
Speaker 1: Right now? Yeah, I'm putting the final touches on my
Speaker 1: my new album, Richer than I ever been, right right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get ready and drop that get ready. Uh
Speaker 1: it's maybe no later than March. I'm putting the final
Speaker 1: touches on it as we speak. Where is where is
Speaker 1: the craziest place you recorded the song where were you
Speaker 1: when you wrote you say you hustling? You was driving
Speaker 1: up to a treat of concert when you recorded the
Speaker 1: first the first line, where are some of the craziest places?
Speaker 1: You wrote a lyric man. I then came with ideas
Speaker 1: for records in the middle of having sex. And I'd
Speaker 1: have been looking at myself, looking at a post like damn,
Speaker 1: this is all right right here, And I come up
Speaker 1: with something right then and say, well, you gotta remember that,
Speaker 1: you know, And and really I love to draw ideas
Speaker 1: from everything that I'm around. It could be something that
Speaker 1: I'm listening to, it could be something, because to me,
Speaker 1: that's the best things to make music and speak about
Speaker 1: what's going on. That's the only reason the album may finish.
Speaker 1: It's so many different things that that happened in the
Speaker 1: last few weeks that I gotta address in my music.
Speaker 1: I gotta address what's going on in the capital, what's
Speaker 1: going on in DC. I gotta say something about that.
Speaker 1: And when they you know, when they hear it, you know,
Speaker 1: people know how rose they get down. I was reading something.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's true or not. You can
Speaker 1: correct me, you can confirm it. To not that you
Speaker 1: got enough music with Drake and Nah that you can
Speaker 1: do a project. It may be possible because those are
Speaker 1: two artists that we've both discussed doing a project together. Me. Nas,
Speaker 1: We've had that discussion. Me and Drake had that discussion
Speaker 1: as well as ME and John Legend had that same discussion.
Speaker 1: And it's a great possibility Me and John may do
Speaker 1: that first. But you know, me and Nas have collaborated
Speaker 1: multiple times, and you know I may have spoke to
Speaker 1: him about a recent collaboration within the last month or two.
Speaker 1: How does rals decide who you're gonna collab with? How
Speaker 1: do you determine who you're gonna get on the jump
Speaker 1: on the track with or who's gonna jump on the
Speaker 1: track with you? Well, first and foremost, it depends on
Speaker 1: the production and the sound. You know, it's not personally
Speaker 1: what's what I want, But what does this record need
Speaker 1: to you know, touch the streets, the service purpose to
Speaker 1: the streets and to the Rose listeners. What's gonna really
Speaker 1: touch them in a special way? And that's what I
Speaker 1: start with first, and then my personal opinion may come
Speaker 1: into play as to who gonna do that the best,
Speaker 1: But it's ultimately about the record and what we're doing
Speaker 1: on the record, and who's gonna bring you know, this
Speaker 1: this energy to the record, that's that's needed. I've had
Speaker 1: Snoop on the show. I've had ice Cube on the show,
Speaker 1: and they say when they jump on a feature, even
Speaker 1: though they're not that's not their album, they actually trying
Speaker 1: to show the dude up that they they like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you had me on here. When you jump on the feature,
Speaker 1: you trying to you trying to get him that work. Oh,
Speaker 1: he already know he's gonna get it from Rose. It
Speaker 1: ain't even the fact that if I'm trying to, he
Speaker 1: already know he's gonna get it. How you how you
Speaker 1: take over? How you take over the man? How do
Speaker 1: you take over the track? How you gonna dominate the
Speaker 1: man track? And I'm gonna tell you how. Nine times
Speaker 1: out of ten, when they reach out to Rose, it's
Speaker 1: because the sound telling them to reach out the Rose
Speaker 1: and the sound is something that's a Rose vibe. It's
Speaker 1: no way you're gonna get around me not shining on that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shine and that's my job, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I'm gonna enjoy it. Who is who
Speaker 1: haven't you worked with that you would like to work
Speaker 1: with the number one artists that I would like to
Speaker 1: work with his shade. I want to see her in
Speaker 1: concert so bad. I want I would love. I want
Speaker 1: to see her in concert. I want to see in
Speaker 1: concert bad. I want to see in the studio. I
Speaker 1: just want to see a kick her shoes off. And
Speaker 1: for some reason, I just think she records sitting down
Speaker 1: Indian style. Yeah. I may be wrong, but I just
Speaker 1: see that in my mind, and that's what I want
Speaker 1: to see. I would have never I would have never
Speaker 1: guessed that. Now I love I love Jail Scott, I
Speaker 1: love INDI r Red Michelle and Dagiel Kello see Ross.
Speaker 1: I love rap. But now at my rifle age almost
Speaker 1: fifty three, I just want to go sit down to
Speaker 1: the concert, maybe take a cool look some sandwich is
Speaker 1: you don't have us the water and I want to
Speaker 1: fit back. And I wanted, you know, I wanted to
Speaker 1: just I want to go there. I'm with you, I'm
Speaker 1: which you right there, I'm with you. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a little bit of a stick of that cookie right there,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I don't wish you. I'm gonna sit back,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna relax, and I'm gonna enjoy that concert the
Speaker 1: same way. Big, What's the what's the key to longevity
Speaker 1: in this game? Consistency? Consistency, It's easy. Uh. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of artists that have came and went since I
Speaker 1: came in the game, since my day six. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of artists that that came and had three four
Speaker 1: hit records back to back to back, and now they're gone.
Speaker 1: But I think what's important is ultimately the consistency, and
Speaker 1: that's what affects your body or work. You may have
Speaker 1: a hit record, you may have you may be cool
Speaker 1: with a homie who hot who could give you a
Speaker 1: hit record, or you might have be alright with a
Speaker 1: homie that you a verse or sing one for you
Speaker 1: that you love. But consistency is when they get a
Speaker 1: certain level of heat on every record and that in
Speaker 1: turn turns out to be every album. So now we
Speaker 1: want every album that he released, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And if I am going on my eleventh album, and
Speaker 1: the thing is row, Yeah, you can have guys with features,
Speaker 1: and you can guys have guys the single hook, but
Speaker 1: at some point in time, you have to stand alone.
Speaker 1: It can't be it can't be all features, it can't
Speaker 1: be a long wait. You gotta carry on weight. That's
Speaker 1: where the consistency come in that. You know, we all
Speaker 1: love to him Drake sing that hook. We all love
Speaker 1: to him jay Z spit that sixteen Kanye, but you
Speaker 1: most definitely got to carry that package yourself. You Uh, wheezy, Drake,
Speaker 1: you Young Money, How did y'all? How did that come?
Speaker 1: How did that come about? Ultimately? Realistically, DJ Kalett played
Speaker 1: a major role in that whole you know, team coming
Speaker 1: together because Cash Money was in Miami. You know, they
Speaker 1: was recording over that hit factory. You know, we was
Speaker 1: in Miami. Of course we was doing our own thing.
Speaker 1: But Callet was, you know, cool with a stunner, Wheezy
Speaker 1: the whole team. He'll go over there, vibe with them
Speaker 1: the next day, come back vice versa. And he began
Speaker 1: taking you know, my record over there, bring a Wheezy
Speaker 1: record back vice versa, and uh, you know, once met Drake,
Speaker 1: Wayne all us started working with each other. It was
Speaker 1: just one of those things where if you send something,
Speaker 1: it's done same day, and it's and it's been the
Speaker 1: same sense. Ross I don't know how much you talked
Speaker 1: about this, but celebrating your thirty seventh birthday, you were
Speaker 1: a target of a drive by run at the time.
Speaker 1: What's going through your mind? And You're like, man, I
Speaker 1: tried to leave this. I tried. I thought I had
Speaker 1: left that BF behind. And how I am doing good?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm Rick Ross, I'm a boss, and I got it,
Speaker 1: and I and and y'all brought this back to me.
Speaker 1: You know. It was one of those things where you just, uh,
Speaker 1: something you gotta deal with. You know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk to reckless, you know, rose they could get reckless. Yeah, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't get reckless. Yeah, get reckless. But it was one
Speaker 1: of those things that I said, Okay, you know, I
Speaker 1: see what it is. You know what I mean, because uh,
Speaker 1: as an entrepreneur, you know, I'm moving right and and
Speaker 1: and that's that's that next level of envy jealousy, you know,
Speaker 1: And and I get it. I understand. And that's why
Speaker 1: some dudes they get to a certain amount of money
Speaker 1: and they want to tap bricks. That's when they move
Speaker 1: to Hawaii and they stopped getting money. And I get it.
Speaker 1: I understand, But man, I gotta keep going. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep going. It's gonna inspire me. This is gonna push
Speaker 1: me even harder. Whoever I pissed off, you really do.
Speaker 1: I'm fucked up now. You really doesn't messed up? After
Speaker 1: that day? What changed the Rick Roth's life? It was
Speaker 1: just the way I moved, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I had a young lady in the car with me
Speaker 1: at the time. I'm sure that changed her life. She
Speaker 1: never even spoke about that. I salute her for that.
Speaker 1: She a queen. But it's it's not just yourself, but
Speaker 1: it's everybody that surround that you love who be in
Speaker 1: these situations. And so that's what you gotta take in consideration,
Speaker 1: and you gotta adjust the way you moved, and most
Speaker 1: definitely I did that. Ross. I'm gonna read a few
Speaker 1: lyrics and you tell me what goes through your mind
Speaker 1: and why did you write this? You said, I'm happy
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump became president because we have to destroy
Speaker 1: it to elevate it, right, And that was I said
Speaker 1: that basically just based on the people who believe somebody
Speaker 1: with the lack of experience could take over the modern world.
Speaker 1: And if you really believe this, and if you're gonna
Speaker 1: stand on this, well, let's do it. Then. So when
Speaker 1: he telled his ship down, your motherfuckers could have a
Speaker 1: new optimistic where you're looking at things. Now you see
Speaker 1: the value of Obama. Now you see what goddamn Obama
Speaker 1: eight years and how wow this could have happened with
Speaker 1: but it didn't ride right Now, y'all can appreciate greatness.
Speaker 1: I mean something a part of me, I'm conflicted because
Speaker 1: rows I look at it and I said, I'm glad
Speaker 1: because what he did is that what he showed what
Speaker 1: black people have been feeling, the anxiety that they're talking
Speaker 1: about they experiencing. Now we're telling you the exact anxiety
Speaker 1: we've been expending for four hundred years. We've been experiencing
Speaker 1: this for hundreds of years. I spoke on Donald another
Speaker 1: time on the album called Black Dollar, and he had
Speaker 1: my album pulled from Walmart, pulled off the shelves. I said, wow, homie,
Speaker 1: got time to do this. Mmmm, it's saying a lot
Speaker 1: about dude. Here we are you spoke about you spoke
Speaker 1: about the gang violence. You said, let's fight our own war.
Speaker 1: Chicago has been out of hand to say they lost
Speaker 1: soul holding guns on the ground. What what what? What
Speaker 1: can we do? What can we do about this? What
Speaker 1: is it about? I don't I don't get it. You're
Speaker 1: fighting over something that you don't own. You talk about
Speaker 1: this my turf. You don't own one spec of grain
Speaker 1: of saying on that turf. You don't own one block
Speaker 1: or one one cement block, one nothing on that block.
Speaker 1: You don't owe that. Why are you fighting over something
Speaker 1: someone else on? We're fighting over something we don't know own.
Speaker 1: You know, majority of these gang members don't even know
Speaker 1: where the gangs was created from. They don't even know
Speaker 1: who created these They don't even know what the colors represent.
Speaker 1: They don't know what streets, what country they really originated in.
Speaker 1: But it's just something that that's on my heart, on
Speaker 1: my mind, and I put it in the rhymes, and
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully somebody riding to it and it across
Speaker 1: their us and say down. You know, nominated, nominated, never
Speaker 1: want to grab me, but I understand they'll never understand me.
Speaker 1: What is it about? What is it about the grammy,
Speaker 1: the people that nominate, the people that vote. What is
Speaker 1: it that they don't get? Because there have been times
Speaker 1: that you guys and and Kanye Album the Year that
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift one. And I don't have anything against Taylor Swift,
Speaker 1: but I think sometimes because it's rap, man, can we
Speaker 1: really give a rap song album of a year? Can
Speaker 1: we really give it Soul of the Year. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: most definitely without a doubt. That's the same way they
Speaker 1: voted trumping. It's the same. It's the same over loffice.
Speaker 1: They're sitting there right there. Should we give Rick Roston
Speaker 1: Kanye West this Grammy cause that because that's forever, because
Speaker 1: we're gonna look back, we say in the year twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: Album other Year or Song of the Year? Rick Ross
Speaker 1: and Kanye oh Man, And a lot of times for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, they'd rather go without that. They're
Speaker 1: rather live, you know, just fuck up something and just
Speaker 1: go without doing what's right. Let's talk about sports. You're
Speaker 1: a big sports fan, right, you love it all. You
Speaker 1: love basketball, you love football, you love your you love
Speaker 1: your Miami, you love your heat. They went to the
Speaker 1: NBA final last year. But you know Broun had to
Speaker 1: go ahead and put that thing. He had to put that,
Speaker 1: We had to put that away. You ain'tbody get Broun
Speaker 1: still get that Miami Heat. Love from Rose. He can't
Speaker 1: even brought the rigs down there to us. I'm love you, baby,
Speaker 1: I'm love you. You love the Dolphins. The Dolphins have
Speaker 1: been and been bad for a while. It seems to
Speaker 1: be on the uptick. Are you happy what you're seeing
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins? You're happy what you're seeing with the Heat.
Speaker 1: I'm happy with I'm seeing with the Dolphins. I'm happy
Speaker 1: with coach Flores, I'm happy with our starting quarterback tour.
Speaker 1: I'm happy with my new Dolphins. Sweet, I just got
Speaker 1: last week for the next three seasons. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And so you want to the boat, So
Speaker 1: you know the boat in Tampa. So you can, so
Speaker 1: you go, so you you you, you all in. You
Speaker 1: all in, oh Man Gate City Athletics, rose Gate City Athletics.
Speaker 1: We all in. We're gonna be there, just holding down
Speaker 1: the city, representing the city. Hold on, hold on, you
Speaker 1: spend half your time in the ad. So I know
Speaker 1: you gotta see Sweet and Mercedes bid. Do you know
Speaker 1: what we might have to do that next, big homie.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. Yeah, I'm talking you gotta get
Speaker 1: one of them. I'm talking about shot shut what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, Baby, we might have to do that next.
Speaker 1: Who who do you like this? You you like winning
Speaker 1: the championship? B You saw the big blockbuster trade. James
Speaker 1: Harden goes to the nets paired with Kyrie Kevin Durant. Man,
Speaker 1: you like the Lakers, you like the Clippers, you like
Speaker 1: the Nets, You like Boston, you like feel it? Who?
Speaker 1: Who are you? Who are you liking to take it
Speaker 1: all in twenty twenty one? I'm gonna go back with
Speaker 1: the heat. I'm gonna go back with the heat. Roy
Speaker 1: can't say the heat. You can say Boston. No, no, no, Boston.
Speaker 1: You think Tatum gonna put that on his beat. But
Speaker 1: you hey, that young day, that young and coming. Now
Speaker 1: you're coming. That's why I said his name. Boss said
Speaker 1: his name because he heard that, he heard that strike.
Speaker 1: That's why I said his name. But he gonna have
Speaker 1: to do it by myself. So look a man, look
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat, we solid, We solid. I don't know
Speaker 1: y'all might have that might have been y'all golden opportunity,
Speaker 1: but you know, y'all, I mean, look, you know what,
Speaker 1: That's what they said about us last season. So that's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you feel that way, because they said most definitely,
Speaker 1: and we made it to the first wave of damn playoffs.
Speaker 1: Will y'all right, well guess where we ended up at. Baby.
Speaker 1: But if you know they're gonna be no bubble now,
Speaker 1: you know, team the guys shooting a guys been shooting
Speaker 1: a little different out of the bubble as opposed the
Speaker 1: end of the bubble. I'm sure they're shooting a little different.
Speaker 1: They're getting to go home and see their girlfriends at
Speaker 1: night and got damn doing they're supposed to do. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're shooting a little different. They should shoot a
Speaker 1: little different. But like I said, you know, I'm a
Speaker 1: root for my big Homers, the Lakers. Most definitely. We
Speaker 1: got some good things going on. But what you think
Speaker 1: about that, James hard Man, I mean, I'm disappointed to
Speaker 1: James because ross the way I believe. I believe you
Speaker 1: should always maintain a level of professionalism, especially when you're
Speaker 1: in a professional environment. For him to allow himself to
Speaker 1: come out of shape, for him not to hustle, for
Speaker 1: him not to play hard, and he basically forced the
Speaker 1: hand after last night, after what he said after the game,
Speaker 1: the way he's been playing the last week and a
Speaker 1: half of the season. They didn't really have a choice.
Speaker 1: That's the only problem I understand. Sometimes, you know, you
Speaker 1: wrought you, you were You're welcome out there. They get
Speaker 1: tired of you, you get tired of them. But just
Speaker 1: maintain a level of professionalism. I'm with that. I agree
Speaker 1: with that, and I respect that most definitely, because two
Speaker 1: weeks ago they had me trending when he walked out
Speaker 1: on the basketball court. They said he looked like Rick Ross.
Speaker 1: They had me trending for forty eight hours. I say this,
Speaker 1: damn Twitter or something else? Man, Well, did you see
Speaker 1: him last night warming up? I call him James Hardy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had the Bakers like he had like four or
Speaker 1: five bakers with cheddar Burgers. Nah, Man, that could have
Speaker 1: been the big beautfics from Checkers. He had something. But
Speaker 1: hopefully he's happy now, you know Kyrie. Hopefully Kyrie at
Speaker 1: his situation resolved. But I'm looking at him. They got
Speaker 1: a lot of offense, they don't have any defense. They
Speaker 1: gave up Jared Allen, they gave up the best bench
Speaker 1: player and Karris LeVert tell on your Prince wing. They
Speaker 1: got a lot of offense, but I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how do they play together without stepping on each
Speaker 1: other because two of the three need the ball in
Speaker 1: order to be successful. Kyrie needs the ball. James Harden
Speaker 1: needs the ball. Now, I've seen Kevin Durant played without
Speaker 1: the ball a lot in Golden State win championships. But
Speaker 1: can those other two guys play without the ball? And
Speaker 1: you know they say Ross, well, you remember what he
Speaker 1: did when he was an old KC. But that James
Speaker 1: Hard and o k s it was totally different. This
Speaker 1: is a different animal. Now, there's different between a pub
Speaker 1: and a full grown lion. That's true. That's true. Man,
Speaker 1: But get the ball. Y gotta get the ball. You
Speaker 1: gotta get Kadie the ball. I'd rather have Kaka had
Speaker 1: the ball goddamn than anybody else because here's the thing.
Speaker 1: James Harden for the last decade has been the man.
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irvin left Lebron James because he wanted to be
Speaker 1: the man. K D has been the man since he
Speaker 1: walked into the league. Now, you can't have three three men.
Speaker 1: Somebody's ey, somebody got to be the CEO. I think
Speaker 1: Kyrie may be the one that come up short. Kyrie
Speaker 1: may be the one coming up. I don't go well
Speaker 1: because James, k D, k D and Harden. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put my money on them. Man, You're gonna put your
Speaker 1: money O, KAD and Harden. Yeah. I asked this a
Speaker 1: lot everybody to come on the show. So I want
Speaker 1: to hear from you. Give me your top five basketball
Speaker 1: players of all time, and I want to know who
Speaker 1: the goat is. The goat is Michael Jordans. See there
Speaker 1: you go. See we we we I don't even know
Speaker 1: why we don't even go go any for other you
Speaker 1: know who to go? The goat still play in he
Speaker 1: in La, hold On, hold On, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1: Lebron James, Yeah, James what they call it. Lebron James
Speaker 1: came to my city, Miami and turned my city up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: out of doubt. You know, Shock did it with d Wade,
Speaker 1: Wayne tripping. Yeah, Lebron most definitely came and turned my
Speaker 1: city up. But when we say the goat, now we're
Speaker 1: talking about that's abbreviation for greatest of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what it is, not the apperiment. Yeah yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just making sure we're on the same page. And
Speaker 1: that's what Michael Jordan is you know what, you know what, raw,
Speaker 1: you know what, but you know what time it is. Okay,
Speaker 1: of course I know what. Lebron is. Lebron gonna come
Speaker 1: number two. Okay, Well, so I put out fell out,
Speaker 1: fill out the rest the other top five. Who you got?
Speaker 1: You got Jordan one, you got Bron too. I got
Speaker 1: Jordan one, I got Bron too, and number three I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Barkley. What. Yeah, that's my I like
Speaker 1: certain kind of players. I love. Oh geez, I love.
Speaker 1: That's why I love. That's why I love about Jordan
Speaker 1: so much. Jordan was hard. He looked like he was
Speaker 1: a goddamn college student, but Jordan really was harder. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you got Barkley in the three five, so I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the last two. Or you might
Speaker 1: you might have a uh a new bowl uh in
Speaker 1: the fourth spot. Nah, because I won't say him a
Speaker 1: new bowl. He was soft. I say, shot, okay, shack
Speaker 1: in the fourth fire. To talk about sinners, I say
Speaker 1: shot okay, right. Oh, number five, you got but one
Speaker 1: most five left, so that means lad Bird, Magic, Johnson,
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, uh KD, somebody getting left off. And I
Speaker 1: just Oscar Robinson, Will Chamberlain, Bill Russell. So I want
Speaker 1: to know how I hain't gonna go to Bill Russell.
Speaker 1: And then when I started saying Bill, I was a youngster.
Speaker 1: When Bill Russell, I let y'all hand to all the stats,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the youngsters that we used to see
Speaker 1: do that thing. But I'm so that means Kobe Bryant. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's why I was gonna say, that's what I gotta
Speaker 1: be Kobe. I'm gonna take Kobe over Larry Bird. What
Speaker 1: about magic? Magic? You know most definitely was an og,
Speaker 1: but I was a shorty. My mama was screaming at
Speaker 1: the TV when they was watching it. Okay, we know
Speaker 1: you love that, We know you love the Dolphins, but
Speaker 1: who the goat? Football player the goat? It's easy, Damn
Speaker 1: Marino loves said rosson man, you shot shot. You couldn't
Speaker 1: even catch one of the Damn Marino fifteen yards pass?
Speaker 1: Come on, shot, You know you don't hurt My receiver's
Speaker 1: on the trade. Just from practicing with Marino, I played,
Speaker 1: I played a couple of probos with Daddy. He could
Speaker 1: definitely throw the football. So you're gonna take you you're
Speaker 1: taking him over Montana eighty Manning breeze alway, Damn Marino. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I triggered Dan, the one who created the big Foot
Speaker 1: with the Nike shoe, the one who only rans. How
Speaker 1: come me the eight yards total for twenty seasons? Yet
Speaker 1: know how he had to have a m Rose could
Speaker 1: have ran for more yards than Dan. And guess what,
Speaker 1: Dan had that ship on his back falling years. That's Dan,
Speaker 1: That's Dan. They had the mullet. Yeah, sell it? Selling
Speaker 1: iSER totles in Florida. How you sell gloves in Florida?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't even know. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: They answered it out on that man so iSER Totals
Speaker 1: in Florida. I don't even know how that would go ahead.
Speaker 1: But what what made you start your own music label?
Speaker 1: May Back music that was really from the desire? Amy
Speaker 1: You're in with easy Eat, deal with Ruthless, with Luke
Speaker 1: did with Luke Records, being a shot caller, knowing how
Speaker 1: much I love making records and putting myself in a
Speaker 1: position where I could be able to make music whenever
Speaker 1: I wanted to and whenever I've seen an artist I believe.
Speaker 1: Then Yo, Okay, what's your name. That's meek Mill. I
Speaker 1: believe in you. Meek Mil, come over here. Let's do
Speaker 1: this while I believe that you owe me. Let's do
Speaker 1: this gun play. Let's do this, you know. And that's
Speaker 1: what it's about. When I come to that ladder. You know,
Speaker 1: I still got my place in the ladder. I'm in buckheair.
Speaker 1: Let you boy hit that. Let me let me get
Speaker 1: that that bell hair. Let you boy hold that bell
Speaker 1: up for a day. Man. You let me know which
Speaker 1: ones you want, what colors you want, because you know
Speaker 1: we got over a dozen of them, old school class. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. Now you coming. I got you, I got you.
Speaker 1: I gotta get I gotta get your super Bowl teams.
Speaker 1: Who you like going to the super Bowl? Who you
Speaker 1: got winning? I'm going with Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: What I'm going with? Tom Brady? My dog a b
Speaker 1: I love seeing grunk out there. I love that. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm a Florida boy. I can't help it. I
Speaker 1: got you, Ross. I appreciate the love that grow. I
Speaker 1: really appreciate you hopping on with a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: I love you, brother man. Anytime, anytime, I'm withciated much
Speaker 1: love all my life and grinding all my life. Sacrifice
Speaker 1: Hustle back Price. One slice got the broller dice to
Speaker 1: swap all my life. I've been grinding all my life,
Speaker 1: all my life and grinding all my life sacrifice Hustle
Speaker 1: Baby Pricing. One slice got the brolla dice to swap
Speaker 1: all my life. I've been grinding all my life.