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Speaker 1: What's up, Joe? How you feeling man? Pretty good man?
Speaker 1: How you doing yourself? Oh? Well man, fresh per usual. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We would expect nothing less.
Speaker 1: I'm on the salamander sandals. Actually these are lizards. You're
Speaker 1: going with the movies? Listen today, Man, I feel like
Speaker 1: we need to have a conversation to get to know
Speaker 1: the real young Drow. I mean, you do a lot
Speaker 1: of You've done interviews and you know, you have conversations
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but let's just be let's just
Speaker 1: have a family conversation. So the first day I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bring up is like, where did it start for you?
Speaker 1: Even before you was young Joe and you was rapping,
Speaker 1: Where did it start for Joe? Who are you before Droe?
Speaker 1: What was your name? What was you? What up? The
Speaker 1: one I think in in in middle school um. When
Speaker 1: I first hit me at Criss Cross Yeah he was
Speaker 1: friends with Yeah. Yeah, he's sitting like right in front
Speaker 1: of me, pass and stuff backwards too late. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: went on did the backwards things. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We was it was like my first time being I
Speaker 1: was already introduced to music, like through my my grandmom,
Speaker 1: like in the choir and stuff like that. I might
Speaker 1: sing in the church, you know. She she she gave
Speaker 1: me the song the saying um, and I felt became
Speaker 1: to a lot of people don't know that. Yeah I
Speaker 1: do a little I do a little hum and you know,
Speaker 1: I do a little something something. Yeah. So it started
Speaker 1: back then and it was I think I was in
Speaker 1: a group. I was in a group called L H. D.
Speaker 1: It was Leroy, Harrold and Dwan uh like a century
Speaker 1: and I think it was. It was like and it
Speaker 1: was like I was in the eighth grade, sixth grade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I was in the sixth grade. And once we
Speaker 1: once I seen how Cris Crosshead was doing it, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh man, let's form this group and h
Speaker 1: my name is the one. So I went with D
Speaker 1: one and I got to cut the back of my head.
Speaker 1: I had the finger ways, you know what I'm saying. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's where it really started. So it started. It started
Speaker 1: in church saying with one grandmama and she used to like,
Speaker 1: she was like, baby, if you're saying, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: you like gold cap, you know. So I got one
Speaker 1: gold Captain and I sung another song. I got another one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go to the little cap you put on. And by
Speaker 1: the time I got through singing like, I had like
Speaker 1: a mouthful of them. And then I was like, I
Speaker 1: want the permanent one now, damn. You know. He went
Speaker 1: on from there. How did it evolve into, um, what's
Speaker 1: your first deal with Ryan Dream? I was at the Bounce.
Speaker 1: Um they had Talented winnsdays. My cousin had this. He
Speaker 1: had a show. My cousin screed, he had a show. Um.
Speaker 1: He was like, man, I'm gonna let you come up
Speaker 1: on my sit man, and you know you can get
Speaker 1: off your little versus your little song or whatever. He said.
Speaker 1: But you ain't got that long. So when I got
Speaker 1: out there and started rapping, I think I went over
Speaker 1: the time. And when I went over the time, everybody
Speaker 1: who with me they were just laughing. He was like, bro,
Speaker 1: it's old woo, I'm not just killed rapping. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I had all these some green slacks and
Speaker 1: like a vents a polo vests with a shirt coming
Speaker 1: up out of you know what I mean. I was
Speaker 1: in there and so Raheem saw me that day and
Speaker 1: he was like, who was that? Just was on the mic.
Speaker 1: And then from then on drama your drama fabow timy
Speaker 1: gun it was. It was. It was a couple of us.
Speaker 1: So what type of music you were doing in the beginning, um,
Speaker 1: in the beginning gospel? Then it went to like trapped,
Speaker 1: like trapped music, like rapping, like you know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying about the stuff we've seen in the projects and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Yeah, what were you always fresh back then? Yes?
Speaker 1: You are okay, I really I really had. Was polo
Speaker 1: your first choice? Where you're ever not a he'll figure
Speaker 1: I went, I went in natka um he'll we We
Speaker 1: used to rock time me until we heard that tim
Speaker 1: Me didn't like back right, and you've just seen us
Speaker 1: throwing our stuff all out the car and not the
Speaker 1: window because we used to wear the time of here
Speaker 1: with the polo skip the po and then and then
Speaker 1: he used to kick the Linen with the Marii's like,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, he really was like all
Speaker 1: of that back then, like back in the day. That's
Speaker 1: how we used to come across. What you missed most
Speaker 1: about that era of Atlanta like just then, what you
Speaker 1: missed most about it? I miss the gatherings, like the
Speaker 1: project gatherings. Despite you could pull up at everybody be
Speaker 1: outside without day, you know what I'm saying, without being
Speaker 1: shot up, Like you can just really have everybody could
Speaker 1: be outside without sixteen people getting killed. You know, we
Speaker 1: could have freak nick you know what I'm saying, without
Speaker 1: too many casualties or maybe no casualties back there, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. People want to know, like what
Speaker 1: drove being? What are you being? Just been? I've just
Speaker 1: been multitasking, rapping, being my literality, just being you know,
Speaker 1: It's it's a lot of things that that I have
Speaker 1: been Like No, it's like you pop up, you pop
Speaker 1: up every a couple of years with a hit and
Speaker 1: you have you just have the talent is under now,
Speaker 1: But what is it that's getting in your way to
Speaker 1: keep the consistency, Like well, every month, every like we
Speaker 1: see drove everywhere every just had TikTok and it was
Speaker 1: out of here and then you just got quiet. What
Speaker 1: through through what people we forget Like I was introduced
Speaker 1: to drugs like through like peers, and when we introduced
Speaker 1: to these drugs, we don't have an idea that it
Speaker 1: could really SPADs out what I'm saying. You'd be just
Speaker 1: one night of fun, everybody. You don't take that answer,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and you'd be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: everybody outs happy, we having a good time. But like
Speaker 1: it becomes a habit. And once it becomes a habit,
Speaker 1: you get to feeding that monster and it gets bigger
Speaker 1: and the talent becomes secondary because you're mostly into drugs
Speaker 1: at that point. And uh, you know I indulged, and
Speaker 1: you know, by the grace of God, I was able
Speaker 1: to you know, make it through and keep myself up.
Speaker 1: And you know, but actually the business part it kind
Speaker 1: of like went left. You know, sometimes I'd be available,
Speaker 1: sometimes I won't, but when it most counted, I wasn't available.
Speaker 1: So you know, you know, everybody in this room got
Speaker 1: a lot of genuine love for you, like not not
Speaker 1: just talking because we're on TV and where are you
Speaker 1: at with that now? Uh, I want you to rehab
Speaker 1: like a year ago. So I've been straight for since
Speaker 1: I flew to um l A. You're indulged in nothing
Speaker 1: for a year. You're you're clean. Yeah, yeah, we're happy
Speaker 1: about that. But like, how was that process like initially
Speaker 1: for you with like was it hard starting that or
Speaker 1: were you able to just kind of like understand this
Speaker 1: is what I need to do, or was it like
Speaker 1: an adjustment and like some real ship you had to
Speaker 1: go through to finally get to the point where like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I have to stick with this so that I can
Speaker 1: be better for myself and my kids. Yeah, both, I think,
Speaker 1: what for my health, you know what I mean? I
Speaker 1: I was, I was to a point where I was
Speaker 1: still dabbling a little bit and wasn't wasn't doing exactly
Speaker 1: what I used to do. And then I saw myself
Speaker 1: about to go back that route, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, let me just take this flight.
Speaker 1: So I bought a teeth the l A and uh,
Speaker 1: like right, I could see the Hollywood sign like that
Speaker 1: had is like a debt smack in the middle of Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and it was it was a good thing, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I flew out there. I think that should
Speaker 1: be the now you know, what's that nigga thing they
Speaker 1: can hand to that ship when they own it. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like she I'm good until you
Speaker 1: have you have to really hit rock bottom them say
Speaker 1: you ain't good. Yeah, that's that's exactly what it what
Speaker 1: it what it did because you know my dad isn't
Speaker 1: isn't he's fighting his his addiction also, and yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's that's what I wanted to touch on because once
Speaker 1: you look at that family tree, and I just everybody
Speaker 1: in my family had an addiction problem. From my grandmom
Speaker 1: had like what seven kids, six of them did it
Speaker 1: and like five five of them it's dead off of it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like really was using. Like
Speaker 1: it's only my mom and my auntie left. So um,
Speaker 1: and my dad is in his addiction. And also my
Speaker 1: daughter had started to use, and she's just like it's
Speaker 1: really bad. So um. I offered to go with my daughter.
Speaker 1: You know she's nineteen, yeah, and that offer, but she
Speaker 1: was she's so out, you know what I mean, out
Speaker 1: of it right now. She's indulging them right now and
Speaker 1: it's heavy. So I was like, well for the sake
Speaker 1: of my kid, you know what I mean. I offered
Speaker 1: to go with her, but she spassed out him, and
Speaker 1: so I went on and went so I could be
Speaker 1: strong for her. So yeah, so when I when I went,
Speaker 1: it was it was it was a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that I didn't know about addiction, about why I started,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and where it came from
Speaker 1: the root, the origin of it, and and why why
Speaker 1: was I using the way I was using? And I
Speaker 1: was just running from something that I had been facing
Speaker 1: since a child. Do you think you have a clearer
Speaker 1: mind now in the studio with your music? Are you
Speaker 1: happier with your music now with with without the substances?
Speaker 1: Or what's your thought on that you keep it real?
Speaker 1: I mean, like what's your what's your thought now? It's
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard because when I was under the influence,
Speaker 1: it was I could just fly through ten songs, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, you know me as a
Speaker 1: told and he's working on this project it's car recovery.
Speaker 1: But you know, the last project we did was Hellcap
Speaker 1: and I did it in a day. So when I
Speaker 1: got out and I was telling that we was gonna
Speaker 1: work or whatever, I was like, I'm not the same
Speaker 1: person that you saw the first time. So I was
Speaker 1: just gonna take a little take a little while. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just bad with me. You know, it's still the
Speaker 1: same kind of music, but it takes a minute, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's actually a better trip, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean that the uh, the journey is better.
Speaker 1: You know, the studio times are more cleaner, you know,
Speaker 1: um my girl, don't gotta worry about crazy stuff like
Speaker 1: getting those calls like what draw up his spas and
Speaker 1: you know he's smoking all in the studio and he's
Speaker 1: just bringing all these people in here. So it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a better feeling. Now. How what
Speaker 1: type of relationships you feel like? Oh, I got hurt
Speaker 1: in the process of you going through yo, know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Um, a lot of a lot of relationships.
Speaker 1: What I just wore people all out, you know, it
Speaker 1: was a lot of people fighting for me. Like you
Speaker 1: know when you see when you see how I was
Speaker 1: turning out, You're like, well, I just can't keep standing
Speaker 1: up for you, Joe. You know, I'm telling these people
Speaker 1: you talented, I'm telling you, and then one minute you
Speaker 1: straight then the next minute you you black out, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So I burned a lot of
Speaker 1: I burned a lot of stuff. I burned a lot
Speaker 1: of people out, you know I mean. It's for as
Speaker 1: uh Atlantic Records E one, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like they was giving me a lot of chances, and
Speaker 1: the talent kind of prevailed through, but the person wasn't good,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. That's why when you hurt
Speaker 1: those hits and I would disappear, they would give me
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt of putting me out and
Speaker 1: you know, giving me advances and stuff like. Now, I
Speaker 1: would make good money, but I wouldn't be focused, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, in order to maintain the startom
Speaker 1: that I was receiving. So now that you're in a
Speaker 1: better space, Um, some of those relationships that were damaged
Speaker 1: when you were under the influence, have you had a
Speaker 1: chance to reach back out to those people and kind
Speaker 1: of like try to make amends about the previous situation.
Speaker 1: I have to I have to show. Um. I would
Speaker 1: love to reach out, but it was it would kind
Speaker 1: of be like boasting, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 1: so I would rather show show them, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? And hope that they're seeing. If they don't,
Speaker 1: then so be it. You know, I'll just continue. You'll
Speaker 1: be okay with that because you know, like it was
Speaker 1: a situation that was out of your control. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: your whole no resentment because you knew it was all
Speaker 1: on you. It was all on me, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And that person, that person is not around anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you, man. Good Yeah, thank you. Y'are
Speaker 1: making me blushing. So what's thanks for? Draw? So now
Speaker 1: that you got a clear mind to clearly see and
Speaker 1: to clearly think, like, what what are you ask rations now? Currently?
Speaker 1: And moving forward? Um? Self and family right now? Because
Speaker 1: I let a lot of my family members see some
Speaker 1: stuff that wasn't supposed to be seen. I have a
Speaker 1: son now, um, and my daughters they have gotten older,
Speaker 1: and it's it's all about rebuilding what's what God gave
Speaker 1: me and then um stepping into you know outside of that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, but what God gave
Speaker 1: me is my my family, my daughters and you know
Speaker 1: my girl, you know my mom, and you know, just
Speaker 1: rebuilding that and want something good with my house? I
Speaker 1: can go outside right exactly. Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: So what's up of these like activities you just do
Speaker 1: maybe to just keep your mind off the bullshit like uh,
Speaker 1: no social media. I haven't been on social media for
Speaker 1: like at least six months. And I know you're happy. Man,
Speaker 1: I've want to get outline, no form like anything. Just
Speaker 1: I look at t in that's it, um. And do
Speaker 1: you do any activities? Yeah? I work out. I wake
Speaker 1: up at like seven six, take my son to school
Speaker 1: and go work out and then that kind of like
Speaker 1: if that and then you know, and I stay on
Speaker 1: the road, you know what I mean. And that's just
Speaker 1: that's just my regiment for right now, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, working out, no social media, in in the studio.
Speaker 1: Can you travel at all or like yeah, vacations, Yeah,
Speaker 1: go to being in Hawaiian and Puerto Rico and you know,
Speaker 1: just yeah with the family taking them out and let
Speaker 1: them get to know the real dad and the real one.
Speaker 1: Music music like your first love and your passion. But
Speaker 1: you ever thought about like going into movies TV. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always get approached with comedy and you know, being
Speaker 1: being in hilarious. I gotta give it to you, like
Speaker 1: you're funny. But it was it was all about the focus,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know, all these things
Speaker 1: was you know, the making or whatever. But I never
Speaker 1: was focused to actually sit down and do the work,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: jump into bed with you know, with that and not
Speaker 1: prepare so right now, Yeah, I would like to look
Speaker 1: for it to do and stuff like that. So it's
Speaker 1: a lot of young artists that's probably in the space
Speaker 1: she was in or gonna go through the similar journey
Speaker 1: that you did. Like what what would you say to them?
Speaker 1: Like if they're partaking in the same substances that you did,
Speaker 1: or maybe more so therapy. Man, I think you know
Speaker 1: somebody to talk to outlet, you know, because black men
Speaker 1: we tuck it down and we tuck it in and
Speaker 1: we can have a drink or something, you know what,
Speaker 1: drink this and smoke that. Then you know you could
Speaker 1: go through your problem. Is like that, that's totally a lie.
Speaker 1: You know. Um. It's some stuff that needs to be
Speaker 1: brought out of you that you need to be aware of.
Speaker 1: You know. Some of it is family orientated, you know, um,
Speaker 1: and the people in places you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like we all we are you know, a person to
Speaker 1: pass you or pass your appeal, but they won't tell
Speaker 1: you that actually this can ruin your family or you know,
Speaker 1: this can actually take you out. Bro. You can get
Speaker 1: their own peal and you can kill you, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So I would tell them, you know, like,
Speaker 1: whatever you're going through, find somebody to talk to, you know,
Speaker 1: because just like us sitting here talking, this is therapy
Speaker 1: for me, you know what I mean, Like being able
Speaker 1: to So when I walk outside, I'm like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it was like a breath of fresh ships, like a
Speaker 1: deep breath, you know what I'm saying, Like I'm able
Speaker 1: to breathe. And I talked about it and instead of
Speaker 1: having boggled up and then trying to deal with it
Speaker 1: and then go somewhere and then taking a drink or
Speaker 1: taking a peal, trying to keep smashing it down in
Speaker 1: the inside and all of a sudden it erupts, you know,
Speaker 1: So I would I would say, if you could, if
Speaker 1: you could find an outlet or somebody to talk to,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, that would be the best
Speaker 1: thing for you to do. You know. The best thing
Speaker 1: I could have did was spent my money on going
Speaker 1: to Cally and getting the help and figuring out that
Speaker 1: I actually had trauma as a kid because I've been shot,
Speaker 1: you know, my mom's been shot five times. My dad's
Speaker 1: on drugs, and and it's a lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: you don't talk about, and you think you're okay, but
Speaker 1: you're not. You know what I mean. Don't incorrect me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. I feel like a lot of people
Speaker 1: that like abuse substances and that do drugs and stuff
Speaker 1: like that are using that drug as an escape from
Speaker 1: you know, everything that they're going through, but they don't
Speaker 1: understand that that escape is trapping them even further into
Speaker 1: like all of the ship that's going on around them.
Speaker 1: If you could say one person that, just like Neaver
Speaker 1: gave up on your road out with you, who would
Speaker 1: that be? Um? Tip two? Would he wouldn't? He would
Speaker 1: always be like, you know, bro, you gotta get your
Speaker 1: ship together. Bro. You know what I'm saying. You know, um,
Speaker 1: And people wouldn't see it, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of times he hid, he
Speaker 1: would hide it. You know what I'm saying, Like if
Speaker 1: I would, if you wouldn't mention me in a lot
Speaker 1: of places because you know, the light would be on
Speaker 1: me then, you know what I mean. Um, and most
Speaker 1: of our God wouldn't give up for me back your
Speaker 1: relationship with him now it's kind of rockey, but it's cool,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Because I had an episode
Speaker 1: the last time we were together, and and it kind
Speaker 1: of he was kind of pissed at it, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And but and that's when I went
Speaker 1: on and went to it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It was just it was just time, you know, And
Speaker 1: and just repeating that and repeating it, it kind of
Speaker 1: burns out of person, you know what I mean. We'll
Speaker 1: forever be family, you know what I mean. And it
Speaker 1: took man up and straighten my life. I don't think,
Speaker 1: you know, I should be trying to come around and
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because it's kind of embarrassing almost,
Speaker 1: you know, it's sad and embarrassing to you know, have
Speaker 1: a strong person, you know, not showing that they're strong,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So you go get yourself
Speaker 1: together and you know you can make it. You can
Speaker 1: make anything you happen. So as far as the music
Speaker 1: scene in Atlanta, do you feel like you personally get
Speaker 1: the credit that you deserve for developing the futuristic sound. Nah,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Nah. I mean, well, and they're like,
Speaker 1: it's it's cool, you know what I mean. People don't
Speaker 1: get Jesus to credit for what you do. But what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, who am I? But I I kind of
Speaker 1: like I roll with the punches. You know, I know
Speaker 1: in my I know in my head and my heart.
Speaker 1: You know what I've contributed to the culture. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And I know what the culture contributed
Speaker 1: to me. You know what I mean. And and once
Speaker 1: you're good with that, you're just good with that, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You just can't go here with
Speaker 1: like I brought that out I started broke makes a
Speaker 1: little bit of like the mad rap nigger or some ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who's some of them like new young niggers that you're
Speaker 1: working with that you feel like keeping the torch going,
Speaker 1: the the vibe of young drow being able to wrap,
Speaker 1: having bars and all that type of ship. Like who
Speaker 1: some of the people you think going for it? Uh?
Speaker 1: It goes about saying like a little baby for sure,
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like I can actually see that, you know,
Speaker 1: I could see myself like that you know what I mean, Future,
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. It's just it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's people that that I know, like because open city
Speaker 1: up the street. You know what I'm saying. Future just
Speaker 1: be rock. So you know what I mean. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's good to see it. It's very good to
Speaker 1: see it. And thugs, you know what I mean. We
Speaker 1: all come from, you know, the same realm, and it's
Speaker 1: it's it's good to see young cats doing what they do.
Speaker 1: Why you think, like some Atlanta artists don't just well,
Speaker 1: let's flashback. We all remember the Andre three thousand. The
Speaker 1: Southeast something to say. Ship in Atlanta been running shipped
Speaker 1: for years, in decades and decades and decades. So why
Speaker 1: do you think it is that the South still hasn't
Speaker 1: completely gotten their like industry credit and all that type
Speaker 1: of ship mm hmm don't. I don't. I think because
Speaker 1: we're in the South, you know what I mean, and
Speaker 1: the rest of it is running elsewhere. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I think we got it. I think they
Speaker 1: just trying to hold onto it. They did different coasts
Speaker 1: in different states, but they knowing Atlanta got this ship,
Speaker 1: South got it, they know. But overall forever. We've had
Speaker 1: it longer than everybody do. We just say it's like,
Speaker 1: at a certain point, whatever you feel like, it's us,
Speaker 1: but what you wanted to do, just give it to
Speaker 1: us to say that suck it, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But how do you how you feel like they ain't
Speaker 1: trying to release it? We got it, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You got it, But well sometimes it's like you want
Speaker 1: to hear them say you got it. See what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's still like now I'm telling you so and so
Speaker 1: and so and so and song. So that's cool. We
Speaker 1: got love for everybody, but song, song, song, and so
Speaker 1: sound like that from Atlanta. I've seen the god damn um.
Speaker 1: Somebody I think New Faces posted a picture with like
Speaker 1: Andre three thousand of um um big well with the
Speaker 1: coach and they had all the non a wrapper. I
Speaker 1: ain't even know that with that men and niggas. We
Speaker 1: don't rent it since nine whatever you know, we don't
Speaker 1: rent it. Ain't Nobody can't fun with the city, bro,
Speaker 1: but especially like the last like ten fifteen years, like
Speaker 1: there's nobody sucking with us period, Doug, Really, if you
Speaker 1: want to go Yeah, who motivates you though, Um, what
Speaker 1: the guys I just named seriously with the future really
Speaker 1: motivates me. I think I did a mixtape and it
Speaker 1: just had like six or eight future songs that I
Speaker 1: just remixed and did myself thug like gonna um on
Speaker 1: phone key uh, A lot of a lot of yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and I would have used all pis Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So if I think I
Speaker 1: think we went because of unity too, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, it ain't It ain't never for one of
Speaker 1: us to see each other and go straight in and
Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot going on in the city,
Speaker 1: but when it's time to come together, we do yeah,
Speaker 1: without any politics or any extra like red tape or
Speaker 1: like what's your live show looking like? Oh my last
Speaker 1: showed like an ouderall I think, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, like that's one of that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that I I really really like to do, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like when I tell a person
Speaker 1: when they were like, well, it's like, I don't consider
Speaker 1: myself as having a job because I really love what
Speaker 1: I do. So when I'm out at a live show,
Speaker 1: my boys get a chance to be hurt differently than
Speaker 1: it does on uh M P three player, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, or coming through your speaker, like you
Speaker 1: can actually see the veins in my nick and you know,
Speaker 1: see me giving off energy that that I've been holding
Speaker 1: in waiting to get to that city. So has you
Speaker 1: so has your live show changed at all now that
Speaker 1: you are completely like not under the influence of anything,
Speaker 1: because you know a lot of people say that, you know,
Speaker 1: the drugs help them like go crazy on the stage
Speaker 1: and help them perform and last longer, and you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, all that kind of ship. So now
Speaker 1: that you're free, Like, what's the is there a difference
Speaker 1: or no? Yeah. When I got out of rehab, I
Speaker 1: came straight to birthday Badger, I was scared, Like I
Speaker 1: was like, well, I was like, I usually feel like this,
Speaker 1: or if I'm at show Man, let me get a
Speaker 1: couple going, you feel me? Theything? No. I got out
Speaker 1: and then I had a red bull in my hand.
Speaker 1: I was like, but this is weird, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, and doubt. And then when I got through,
Speaker 1: nobody was around handing me nothing, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I had a sober I had a sober guy with
Speaker 1: me a sponsor, you know what I'm saying. He was
Speaker 1: standing my boy Dank, My boy Danny was standing with me,
Speaker 1: and he was like, you got it, you got it.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh so, but actually it came out.
Speaker 1: It came out good, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 1: now you know you just change the rider, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And if and if my road man
Speaker 1: did you want to you know, have him, you know,
Speaker 1: indulge or whatever, they could do that. But in my
Speaker 1: in my uh, ice and water, ice and water and
Speaker 1: Red Bull or something like an energy drink. You feel like,
Speaker 1: you like, at this moment, you're trying to build trust
Speaker 1: back up for somebody to be able to offer you
Speaker 1: to come on a tour or something to actually know
Speaker 1: that you'll show up and ship. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying that, Well, um, I I want to build up
Speaker 1: trusting myself, not for sure. So when I when I
Speaker 1: was like, because if I can't show myself, I almost
Speaker 1: definitely can't show you know. So I'm like, okay, so
Speaker 1: get it right in my own head and then I
Speaker 1: hope you're hope you're watching, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I rely on. I hope you're watching
Speaker 1: more than me coming to you explaining you that, oh
Speaker 1: I'm clean, I'm to show you. So I just let
Speaker 1: it show through the work. Yeah, I usually be on time,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So you try to be
Speaker 1: straight up and down, you know what I mean, so
Speaker 1: I can actually gain that back. But like one thing
Speaker 1: that's in my head, that that I'm sure of, like
Speaker 1: with God got for me, nobody could take it like
Speaker 1: and whenever, whenever it's ready, you know it will still
Speaker 1: be there, you know what I mean. So once you
Speaker 1: get it, once you get it right with God and yourself,
Speaker 1: everything comes after that and in ten time fold, once
Speaker 1: you sacrifice giving that up, you know, it's like God,
Speaker 1: God has something like behind his back and then he's
Speaker 1: asking me for what's in my hand, you know, and
Speaker 1: if I give it to him, he gives me, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So I'm waiting on my trade
Speaker 1: out right now. In fact, I think the biggest, biggest
Speaker 1: part is you know, sometimes we'll be we'll be focusing
Speaker 1: on like I gotta forgive others. Most of the time
Speaker 1: we have to forgive ourselves. Look inside yourself. Sometimes you'll
Speaker 1: be you'll be down on yourself so hard from the
Speaker 1: thing that you don't put yourself through, you can never
Speaker 1: come through that ship. Yeah, and that's what I was
Speaker 1: fighting with there for a long time, like trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how to please the people, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, Oh, I'm gonna look like this for
Speaker 1: this when this person comes around and look like this.
Speaker 1: And actually, once you do it genuinely, they'll see it,
Speaker 1: you know, because they're watching. They'll be to tell you
Speaker 1: to get something funked up. So you should be able
Speaker 1: to tell me if I'm doing the right thing. You
Speaker 1: think the fans forget sometimes that people are human, because
Speaker 1: it's like they just won't drove for what, they won't
Speaker 1: draw for, you know what I mean. And they're forgetting
Speaker 1: that you're an old human the whole family and feelings
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And is that one of the
Speaker 1: reasons you jumped off social media? Yeah? I jumped off
Speaker 1: social media because, um, I didn't think it was a
Speaker 1: problem into until like, you know, the attention and the
Speaker 1: gratification from people, you know what I mean, Like you'll
Speaker 1: be trying to figure out will You'll be looking at
Speaker 1: other people live these lives and I be like, well,
Speaker 1: he still smoking and the white ain't he wasn't as
Speaker 1: worse as you and I. And you know, I try
Speaker 1: to try to make my life line up with another
Speaker 1: person's life. You know what I'm saying. I see everybody
Speaker 1: out having like, well, God, you know why why I
Speaker 1: gotta be so white? Why you gotta be so hard
Speaker 1: on me? Because God be on me, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: get it right or I'm not blessing you anymore. And
Speaker 1: I'd be like, well, why but this guy's he has
Speaker 1: three women and you know he's smoking. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Why he ain't like they like? Because
Speaker 1: I think because a lot a lot of time I
Speaker 1: have favor to with God, you know, because I could
Speaker 1: have been I supposed to being gone, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm supposed to being gone. And it's all
Speaker 1: in your prayers. What you don't told to you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, You ain't filling suite, and then it
Speaker 1: would be your life like nobody else has your problems.
Speaker 1: These are my problems. You know what I gotta do
Speaker 1: to get out of this has nothing to do with you, Okay.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you like ever talked about
Speaker 1: this in an interview or whatever. But back, I don't
Speaker 1: remember how long ago. I think it was maybe like
Speaker 1: a year possibly two ago. You had a situation with
Speaker 1: some bandana putting right, and it was blown out of proportion,
Speaker 1: like you know, it made to be like such a
Speaker 1: big deal to the point where, um, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: like law enforcement had to get involved, and it was
Speaker 1: like this whole big thing. But I want to know,
Speaker 1: like what actually happened with that ship, because they made
Speaker 1: it seem like it was just some of the most
Speaker 1: unbelievable ship and it didn't even make sense like the
Speaker 1: way they were explaining it was and they I mean
Speaker 1: the media people or whatever. Yeah, it was fourth of July. Um,
Speaker 1: me and my baby mom, you know, we was having
Speaker 1: a cookout with the kids and it was you know,
Speaker 1: in the banana putting was just very good. So we
Speaker 1: was at we got into this, We got into this argument,
Speaker 1: and you know when we was arguing, we kind of
Speaker 1: like let it go because the kids was around. And
Speaker 1: then we both was at the refrigerator and I was
Speaker 1: grabbing the banana putting and I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I was agitated coming down off something and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, what was that ship you were
Speaker 1: talking about early, and so we're arguing. So when we're arguing,
Speaker 1: you know, I had you know, I'm getting mine and
Speaker 1: she was getting hurt. So we ended up letting it
Speaker 1: flow outside. So we're arguing. So when we got outside,
Speaker 1: you know, my ego got in the way. I went
Speaker 1: to yelling and you know, and everybody was outside, so
Speaker 1: she threw it. When she threw it, though, it kind
Speaker 1: of like hit like right here, so I kind of
Speaker 1: like mine, you know what I'm saying. And then when
Speaker 1: I threw it, it got right here. Yeah, in the
Speaker 1: in the neighbor saw it, and the neighbor called the cops.
Speaker 1: And when the cops came, my my baby mom was
Speaker 1: looking at black I can't call the police and then
Speaker 1: like that. But you know, he was like, what's in
Speaker 1: your hair? And then she was like, well he hit
Speaker 1: me with the banana puliny and he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: put your hand like your bad, like what you gonna
Speaker 1: charge me with? So he was like, so should we
Speaker 1: sitting in the back of the police cause she was
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to find out trying to find a charge,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I was like, yeah, this on this
Speaker 1: on a simple battery, battery and you could throw a
Speaker 1: water bottle, the simple battery. But I totally deserved it
Speaker 1: because of the verbal abuse that I caused, Like that
Speaker 1: I said in front of the kids, like accountability. Yeah
Speaker 1: it could it could be like verbal abuse can also
Speaker 1: be worse than physical abuse, if you you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So it wasn't. It wasn't like I didn't
Speaker 1: deserve what I got, you know. And when I went
Speaker 1: to Right Street, I was down there and it was
Speaker 1: just you know, you know, you know the you know,
Speaker 1: the Scared Straight program. Yeah, my my, it's a sheriff
Speaker 1: down there. That's cool with us. She was like, Joe,
Speaker 1: can you come and talk to the kids. I was like,
Speaker 1: with a banana putting charge, like you know what, bring
Speaker 1: them on. So they came in. They were like um.
Speaker 1: It was like she was like, y'all know who this is.
Speaker 1: And it was like nah, she was like this young
Speaker 1: drove and then there was like what you charge with?
Speaker 1: I was like, well, throwing some banana putting and they
Speaker 1: just stop. I was like, you know, but I said,
Speaker 1: but you know, the kids, anything can lead you in here.
Speaker 1: I like, keep your hands to yourself. You know, this
Speaker 1: ain't nothing like, you know what I mean, Like, this
Speaker 1: ain't nothing to be looked over, because this can escalate
Speaker 1: into something serious. It's embarrassing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But even in my moment of shame, I still put
Speaker 1: myself out there for the kids to see. And you know,
Speaker 1: when they went home, they probably looked it up and
Speaker 1: was like, oh, we just saw dude, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So yeah, I used that to my advantage. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm always that. I'm glad we were at clarity in controversion. Man,
Speaker 1: when you look at modern day like fashion, how do
Speaker 1: you feel about it? Do you feel like, oh, it's dope.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like a lot of what's going on,
Speaker 1: or do you look at it like some people just
Speaker 1: be reaching just to be different, or how you look
Speaker 1: at fashion enough? I like? I like fashion to the
Speaker 1: point where I like but I mean, like currently, when
Speaker 1: you see it now, it's it's still fashion. It's like
Speaker 1: the weirder it gets, like, the more I'm interested, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I've always been a restaker with
Speaker 1: an outfit, you know what I mean, Um as far
Speaker 1: as color going stuff like that. But when I see
Speaker 1: fashion the day, it's dope, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: especially gonna like you know, I see how he you
Speaker 1: know he got it in the headlock. A lot of
Speaker 1: people play, but owt to be having that ship on,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, regardless of what somebody talking
Speaker 1: about and I and I've heard those sayings, oh well
Speaker 1: only joking, pull that off, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And you know I could see where where it's going.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, how nigga go get fresh?
Speaker 1: If having no money, like if he can't go to
Speaker 1: Nimes and section all that, what would you tell her?
Speaker 1: You some little tips on getting fresh? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's gotta be. You gotta have that. You gotta have
Speaker 1: a body for you know what I'm saying, Like the
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say like because I used to take hand
Speaker 1: me downs, bro and make them look good. You just
Speaker 1: gotta It's about the mindset, you know what I mean. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, and how much time you put into it,
Speaker 1: Like when you come on my house and it's a
Speaker 1: big event, like last night, this was laid out on
Speaker 1: the bed. You know what I mean. I was and
Speaker 1: I tried it on. I was. It ain't gonna look
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, But you wouldn't see that, and then
Speaker 1: when I when I come out, You're like, well you did,
Speaker 1: friends like you do harder work, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think I think fashion is always you know,
Speaker 1: exciting because you and draw walking Marshalls and come out
Speaker 1: fresh because you drew walking Walmart, and just like I
Speaker 1: match up stuff out of the gas station with you know,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. One day I had this
Speaker 1: jong suit on them, but it was some stuff in
Speaker 1: the gas station that really matched it. Glasses and allow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I would go in the club and stand right
Speaker 1: next to whoever and get more teachers. So ly don't
Speaker 1: matter where it comes from, you can you can actually
Speaker 1: have it's sauce. You know, I got moret sauce than
Speaker 1: the three day barbecue. You know what quotable? Quotable we
Speaker 1: need to draw to sign it. So it's I love fashion, man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that I was able to obtain. Broke,
Speaker 1: but you got no money and so looked at you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So that's how I was coming up.
Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about developing your own clothing line?
Speaker 1: I did, but mentally I was ready again, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, these things take time, and like you
Speaker 1: gotta really put your mind to these things, and all
Speaker 1: these all these blessings I was blessed with, I was
Speaker 1: never able to venture off into because of you know,
Speaker 1: the use of drugs, you know, and also you know
Speaker 1: the use of drugs, um it leads to the wrong friends,
Speaker 1: the wrong environment. So it wasn't just the drugs. I
Speaker 1: started hanging with the wrong people. I picked the wrong
Speaker 1: girl to date, I picked the wrong best friend, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So if I could tell a
Speaker 1: person that's that's in the industry and you're young, it's
Speaker 1: not just the drugs that's that you have to overcome.
Speaker 1: It makes you pick everything wrong because you're high, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And once you how you just
Speaker 1: maybe I don't think I don't think that you get
Speaker 1: to dance with the angel and the devil's then, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, I don't think you. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're prone to the best things, you know, doing
Speaker 1: the worst things, you know what I mean. So once you,
Speaker 1: once you kick that, you know, and there's nowhere around it.
Speaker 1: Drugs are not good. Man. You can't I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't tell you. And then but you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like it's messed up because hip hop is built
Speaker 1: around if you're in the studio kicking that you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna be the only one kick Yeah, but guess what,
Speaker 1: you'll be the only one lived to you eighty ninety.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You know, so if you
Speaker 1: want to if you want long gevty in life and
Speaker 1: what and what what God got? The offer, man is drugs,
Speaker 1: ain't it? Man? And eventually it's coming down? Trust me?
Speaker 1: Do you feel like marijuana is drugs? Like for people
Speaker 1: if if somebody waken bakes every day and they don't
Speaker 1: ever participate in no other type of drugs. But my
Speaker 1: name drove so right now at this age, I think
Speaker 1: it's levels to everything if you're young and you you know,
Speaker 1: in moderation when you're older, like you know, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say it's a bad drug, but it makes me now
Speaker 1: if I you know, once I got older, it makes
Speaker 1: me feel like, well, I want to go. I want
Speaker 1: to go and work on building something like Oh, I
Speaker 1: want to go. If I got a dog, I want
Speaker 1: to go in the backyard and build him a doghouse.
Speaker 1: If I smoke a blind I'm gonna be like, well,
Speaker 1: I build the mar you know what I mean, just
Speaker 1: because of how it relaxes. Yes, because eventually you're gonna
Speaker 1: get tired of just you know what I mean, because
Speaker 1: especially if you you know, smoking one every five minutes,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. After while, you're like, well,
Speaker 1: get a drink, and then when you have to drink,
Speaker 1: you was like, now, once your mind is altered with
Speaker 1: the drink, somebody can walk in offer you something and
Speaker 1: then you don't have the right mind and say no,
Speaker 1: you know, because you're drunk, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So yeah, a little bit. But a junkie told me
Speaker 1: Bro mid Jane. I was in Kimberly the Court and
Speaker 1: I think I was I think I was thirteen, and
Speaker 1: I was smoking and she was like, okay, now, she said,
Speaker 1: after that, you're gonna want something else, might not be today,
Speaker 1: she was like, and eventually it was something else, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So that's why I just cut
Speaker 1: it all out. Because when I first went to rehab,
Speaker 1: the lady was like, so what you're not gonna do?
Speaker 1: Stopped doing? I was like, oh, I'm I'm smoke weed,
Speaker 1: you feel me? And then when I got in there,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, maybe we ain't all that no more,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, so yeah, so what what? What? What? What?
Speaker 1: What are the goals moving forward do you have? I
Speaker 1: know you said, I know you said like family is
Speaker 1: important and you know, re establishing your name and your brand.
Speaker 1: But deeper down in that drove subconscious like, I know
Speaker 1: it's some big ship in there that you want to do,
Speaker 1: and I know there's some things to be done before
Speaker 1: you get there. Just give us a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: I really want. I want my own record label, which
Speaker 1: is an indie label that I'm starting with my cousin
Speaker 1: you know, um my cousin Duty Too Rich, my cousin
Speaker 1: Ya Sha, and um my cousin Scoop. And it's just
Speaker 1: like I wanted to be family orientated because I wanted
Speaker 1: to be able to have the trust of me taking
Speaker 1: you on a journey without bombarding you with money and
Speaker 1: saying that I could. You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: want somebody with me to know where you know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna start out without you know what I'm saying, without
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like without all the shrubbery
Speaker 1: around it, and you know, just work from the ground up,
Speaker 1: and um, I have a TV show that I'm editing
Speaker 1: right now called a Bad Girl Booty Count, which is yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Me and my sister Trade Man Trade We from joy
Speaker 1: Land Man and she just got a bunch of girls
Speaker 1: together and we we decided to shoot the reality show.
Speaker 1: And actually I'm the executive producer on it, and I'm
Speaker 1: also in it. You know what I'm saying, Me Trey
Speaker 1: and Brian and Marcello. Um, it's actually being edited and
Speaker 1: busted all the way down to I got the trailer
Speaker 1: be coming out in like a couple of weeks, and
Speaker 1: it's about just empowering women of you know, different walks
Speaker 1: of life. Some strippers, some are some sale plates, some
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, and we and we
Speaker 1: are venturing. We were venturing off into Atlanta to where
Speaker 1: most celebrities wouldn't be seen, you know, or you know,
Speaker 1: I like, I don't glorify being in places that I
Speaker 1: don't supposed to be, but it's also a place that
Speaker 1: I go that most people just won't go because you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Yeah, So I'm gonna be in
Speaker 1: I'm gonna actually give you a part of Atlanta from
Speaker 1: my my point of view, from my eyes, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And so we go around. We might
Speaker 1: have a kickball game or you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: We might be we might have a spelling be you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We might have a lot a
Speaker 1: lot of things that we're trying to put out and
Speaker 1: we And the reason why I do this because I
Speaker 1: want to. I want to take it to Zeus and
Speaker 1: try to get it. Once we get done, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take it up to Zoos or whatever network want to
Speaker 1: pick it up. And so so the women can actually
Speaker 1: I believe that it can be another CARDI B and
Speaker 1: I would love to be a part of a woman
Speaker 1: actually being a phoenix coming out the ashes and prevailing it.
Speaker 1: You have you ever had that feeling like this is
Speaker 1: your last shot? Droeah? Yeah, I've all you know it's
Speaker 1: it always hunting hunts me that this could be it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But that goes back to
Speaker 1: what God gives you. It can't be it, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. If not this, then something. But I
Speaker 1: feel like if you think that way, you won't go back,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, I ain't got no
Speaker 1: more trying. Thank you God for get me one more.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, You gotta take advantage of this.
Speaker 1: So you know what I'm saying. When you out there
Speaker 1: always thinking like I can do something later, that ship
Speaker 1: kind of fuck you up. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like I can get clean later, or I can got now,
Speaker 1: I can drop take Nick Shiell. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I did with the habit, that it
Speaker 1: was about to be it. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: That was when I went out there bro it wasn't
Speaker 1: nothing else I can come up with. I was leaving
Speaker 1: on my own understanding. I was trying to make sense
Speaker 1: of it. And if you caught me out of my
Speaker 1: habit me and you got the argument because I didn't
Speaker 1: want you to call me out like I wanted to
Speaker 1: be able to notice my problem before you. You need
Speaker 1: to get together, man, Chill, I don't do it as man,
Speaker 1: do you know what I'm saying. But when when when
Speaker 1: I left Broke, it was we was kinding, we was
Speaker 1: running down the street. I was like, that's it. I
Speaker 1: was like that, I don't got any more solutions. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I gotta I gotta get into
Speaker 1: solution instead of looking for one, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So that's what I did, man, And when I went
Speaker 1: when I went bro for the first month broad, I
Speaker 1: probably cried every session, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 1: they were just pulling stuff. I'm like, well, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that was you know what I'm saying part of
Speaker 1: the reason. They were like, yeah, he just deep dieg
Speaker 1: dig and he was making me act out how I act.
Speaker 1: They asked me how much money I spent, and once
Speaker 1: I sat down and had a clear mind seeing the
Speaker 1: numbers and I was coming up with I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I came out here. And if I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have came, y'all probably would be talking about rest in
Speaker 1: peace drove, you know what I mean? Because right now
Speaker 1: fitting all is just everywhere and you can get your
Speaker 1: hands on it and it can actually damage. And I
Speaker 1: think that God didn't want my ind all to be that, know,
Speaker 1: so I didn't, you know what I mean? So yeah,
Speaker 1: I felt like that was it? What what you feel
Speaker 1: like your purpose is now? I want to I want
Speaker 1: to teach habit. I want to teach music, but I
Speaker 1: also want to teach about the habit, you know, And
Speaker 1: black young men and about getting help man, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, and being in a fellowship. I want
Speaker 1: to have a fellowship of you know, it's gonna sound
Speaker 1: corny to the average street person, but actually to save
Speaker 1: your life, you know what I mean. I want to yeah,
Speaker 1: and I want you to see it from the standpoint
Speaker 1: like you know how preachers tried counselors in school and
Speaker 1: they don't be you know, go through it. I actually
Speaker 1: got bullet wounds and stuff like that. You can see,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that you know, relatable person
Speaker 1: like man dro Ro did that. So you know, I
Speaker 1: want to I want to teach music and also teach
Speaker 1: about drugs, and that comes along with my book that
Speaker 1: I'm writing. It's called Rap and it's it's about rap,
Speaker 1: but all of the stuff that was around it, you know,
Speaker 1: the shootouts and the friends and you know, making it
Speaker 1: in the music business, keeping the same friends, and how
Speaker 1: bad that could be. You know, you can be like say,
Speaker 1: for instance, they can this can be a spot and
Speaker 1: I'm the only rapper in here, and the cops can come,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. When the cops get here,
Speaker 1: everybody goes to jail, but only I'm gonna get you know,
Speaker 1: put on the news, you know, the notoriety. So you
Speaker 1: actually have a platform and you're using it for that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that's the wrong way to
Speaker 1: do it. So I want to I want to teach,
Speaker 1: teach it and you know, actually be a role model
Speaker 1: for for my from form my time, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, ro dro we probably man, you know,
Speaker 1: continue to embark up on your journey. You know, you
Speaker 1: got support here if you need it. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Your family is anything you just want to
Speaker 1: say to the big Facts supporters and the Droll supporters
Speaker 1: before you slide. Oh man, Um, didn't stuff coming out?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. We just I just dropped
Speaker 1: the tape mixtape UM on my own. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Um, Redline is my new record labor Redline
Speaker 1: Music Group. Me and Sierra got that and we dropped
Speaker 1: in February and me and Ze Tobin is actually working
Speaker 1: on our project. Um. It should be coming out with
Speaker 1: our first thing gonna be at the end of a
Speaker 1: called money ons. You know what I'm saying. Money like
Speaker 1: you know the word cash and so we got money
Speaker 1: on coming out here. This on everybody had money on.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, and uh we we The
Speaker 1: name of the name of our project is gonna be
Speaker 1: called recovery. You know what I'm saying. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: from the eyes of a person that was just like you, saying, like,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, So you won't so it
Speaker 1: won't be too too shabby. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I ain't listening that, or you're gonna listen to me
Speaker 1: called If not, I'll wrap your glass. Then watching somebody
Speaker 1: like Gucci and him going in and coming out kind
Speaker 1: of that inspire you to listen. And Gucci got out
Speaker 1: broke me and Gucci like this, now you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like he like. But you know when he
Speaker 1: first was on his his UM journey, he reached out
Speaker 1: to me and I wasn't really ready, and boy, he's
Speaker 1: he started going out jointing what you goddamn more. I
Speaker 1: can't let you get me back. Every day we talked then,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And then once I once
Speaker 1: I went on and got straight, I didn't call him
Speaker 1: to let him know what I did this. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to see you know what I'm saying, So you
Speaker 1: know that's that's a big support of mine and and
Speaker 1: it's and it's a great it's a great thing. That's
Speaker 1: why one of the reason why I went and did it,
Speaker 1: because I was able to relate to him do it,
Speaker 1: you know, And I know when you see this, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be like, oh you went. I appreciate him a lot. Man.
Speaker 1: Him and Keisha, they was they went from well they
Speaker 1: went from trying to get me straight and I lied
Speaker 1: to him and him and it started showing that I wasn't.
Speaker 1: Instagram really was showing them. They was looking like it
Speaker 1: was like you ain't straight up, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, and I was like, Okay, let
Speaker 1: me just cut the Instagram stuff off and all social
Speaker 1: media off and actually get the help. So I'm doing
Speaker 1: the work right now, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys calling me out to show you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, what's going on. We're gonna check in on.
Speaker 1: We're gonna push for you and pray for you. King
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