Speaker 1: I'm real, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is
Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the God. We are the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club special guests in the building. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite artists. Highly underrated in my opinion. Yeah, hell you underrated.
Speaker 1: You sold twenty million records. Now you know why we
Speaker 1: sold twenty million. I want to say he sold twenty
Speaker 1: million quietly. There's no sense thing you can back his lyricism.
Speaker 1: I think we'll say that personal. It sounds like you
Speaker 1: don't respect all. He couldn't have sold twenty millions quietly
Speaker 1: if I knew about it. Oh yeah, Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: good point right there. That's definitely a good point of
Speaker 1: food here. It feels good to be back. It feels
Speaker 1: good to be back. Still, good crew. I like seeing
Speaker 1: you when you come around because I always see shocker. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: for all the money y'all made, you have thought y'all
Speaker 1: to fell out. And by the way, we've never had
Speaker 1: a signed contract ever in our lives. Never, So I know.
Speaker 1: I know y'all get a lot of artists in here.
Speaker 1: I'm here to let y'all know we've never signed anything
Speaker 1: that's loyal. He right, there. That's dope. Absolutely, So what
Speaker 1: do you get a standard temple? Now he gets a percentage.
Speaker 1: But you know that's what we don't have to talk about,
Speaker 1: that he gets a percentage, but the fact of we've
Speaker 1: never had to do any paperwork, because that's how strong
Speaker 1: to bind with nobody playing with Ye I mess up,
Speaker 1: I might How you trust somebody in the beginning? I understand,
Speaker 1: you know, in the beginning, How do you trust somebody
Speaker 1: to say that we came from the same humble beginnings,
Speaker 1: We came from the same radio station. Man, I don't
Speaker 1: you know what it is. It's like, I literally feel
Speaker 1: like he's my family. Even though we're not blood, we
Speaker 1: are family, and I know family goes through certain things.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. But I was right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: We've gone this long and we still don't need any paperwork.
Speaker 1: I never fight, never tussled, never nothing, nothing. Now we've
Speaker 1: never had to, never had to. We've had some extremely
Speaker 1: great conversations where we can agree to disagree on certain things.
Speaker 1: But in terms of fight, Nah, what shock used to do?
Speaker 1: The station seven nine? Right? Yeah? Yeah, he was hot
Speaker 1: ninety seven five. He was the music director. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was back end of the days when you know,
Speaker 1: it was like a house, so we didn't have any money.
Speaker 1: This is right when Radio one started, right, and so
Speaker 1: there was no money, and you know, we had to
Speaker 1: kind of keep some keep some things around us. And
Speaker 1: he used to do to tend to two shifts at night.
Speaker 1: So of course, you know, it was just like all
Speaker 1: it wasn't any rules whatsoever. A matter of fact, we're
Speaker 1: trying to bring up a movie script about that, and
Speaker 1: so pretty soon we're gonna shed some light on this
Speaker 1: radio playing all the ludicrous records. That was kind of
Speaker 1: piola in a way. Nah, noa, it wasn't. That was
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. That was the day I
Speaker 1: know I made it because I had to fight so
Speaker 1: hard to get my records played, not only on the
Speaker 1: on the station because they made me work for it.
Speaker 1: The day I knew I made it is when they
Speaker 1: played my record on the opposing station on the competition.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's why I was like, I know,
Speaker 1: oh man, you get too much money for me right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know, if you work at the station and
Speaker 1: you're doing music, it kind of feels like we can't
Speaker 1: just play this guy's record because it Man, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what it was. It was the exact opposite of what
Speaker 1: people would think. It's like, you would think they would
Speaker 1: support me to a degree, but they made me work
Speaker 1: for it because they didn't want anybody at the station
Speaker 1: feeling like they just playing his record because he works here,
Speaker 1: and so you know, that was part of the grind
Speaker 1: coming up. Anything that I go through makes me a
Speaker 1: better artist when it comes to, you know, challenging me.
Speaker 1: That's it your last album, defire. I got one more
Speaker 1: after this, man, And you know what I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you right now, I will never take five years off
Speaker 1: to drop an album ever again. They realized it was
Speaker 1: five years. I didn't realize you have been in the
Speaker 1: game fifty Yeah, hey man, I missed myself during this time.
Speaker 1: I hadn't realized it's been that long either. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, besides the fast five, fast, six, fast seven,
Speaker 1: for the first time in my life, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like I dropped damn near seven consecutive albums. So with
Speaker 1: that being said, I just wanted to take a little
Speaker 1: time off. I wanted to enjoy the fruits of my labor.
Speaker 1: I wanted to travel the world, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I wanted to spend some of his money, and by
Speaker 1: doing that, I kind of lost contact a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I had to kind of bring myself back up.
Speaker 1: And we all know how the music game is right now.
Speaker 1: It's like the attention span, out of sight, out of mind.
Speaker 1: So it's like, of course, people looking at me as
Speaker 1: more of a movie star than in music right now.
Speaker 1: And what it was, I had to dig back in.
Speaker 1: That's why I started putting out all these Luda verses,
Speaker 1: because once you hear your favorite rapper or a rapper,
Speaker 1: you can hear it in his tone and in his aggression,
Speaker 1: whether or not he's still hungry or not. So I
Speaker 1: had to start doing it. I dropped the EP, and
Speaker 1: I did that quietly on purpose because I kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to just build this foundation and build back up.
Speaker 1: So to me, this is my eighth album, however it
Speaker 1: feels like it's my first. This is a rebirth. And
Speaker 1: when you start listening to these records, you will completely
Speaker 1: understand what the hell I'm talking abofe Hit the hungy
Speaker 1: and call your bluff. It sounds like you're talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: Absolutely there's no, there's no one. There's no one person
Speaker 1: in particular. Man. It just gets to a point in rap,
Speaker 1: and I know you can relate to this where it's
Speaker 1: like people they talked so hard behind a microphone, and
Speaker 1: I'm letting everybody know. I've never claimed to be the
Speaker 1: hardest artist or the hardest dude. But when it's like
Speaker 1: when you start messing with a man's family or you
Speaker 1: start messing with him, that's what I say in the record.
Speaker 1: It's like, you mess with me, you're messing with my family.
Speaker 1: And so I hate when people talk so tough on
Speaker 1: the microphone. But you see him in person, and this
Speaker 1: happens all the time. See him in person, it's like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: you know, I ain't mean it like that, or everything's
Speaker 1: all good, it's just all entertainment. No, it's not. It's
Speaker 1: not entertainment. No, said, I just told you. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about anybody in particularly Me and Drake had our
Speaker 1: thing though, But you know he came to me and
Speaker 1: apologize like a man. He said, no, man, you you
Speaker 1: god body, you got body. That was the first time
Speaker 1: I heard it. Is the first time I heard somebody
Speaker 1: to call me god body. I was like, Okay, well, no,
Speaker 1: it's all good. Me and Drake, Me and Drake. Drake
Speaker 1: don't study in lessons. I know everybody wants to write
Speaker 1: Drake office that dude, but we were Okay, how did
Speaker 1: you feel when he said your name and that? How
Speaker 1: about now when he said he was playing his music
Speaker 1: for the chicken and chickens like, turn it off, you're
Speaker 1: listening a little Yeah? You know what? Nah? You know
Speaker 1: what's crazy is I think it's it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a true story behind that. And his girl was
Speaker 1: listening to lush. His girl at the time, with all
Speaker 1: due respect, was probably doing a little bit more than that.
Speaker 1: But it's a true story. And I think that's why
Speaker 1: he said that. And you know, people can respect this
Speaker 1: man for for being very honest, don't record very open. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and it was a it was a chick in Toronto.
Speaker 1: And at the time I didn't even know that she was.
Speaker 1: You know, I guess I didn't. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: was going on, But goodness, I know absolutely I did
Speaker 1: not know. That's really what it comes down, the drudge
Speaker 1: all the way to the rap game. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know what's going on. Man, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I do remember that that time
Speaker 1: in the period of my life. Yeah, that was was
Speaker 1: that the thing when you said you and you know
Speaker 1: your squashed thing? That was the thing? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And I mean he had said some things in public,
Speaker 1: but then you know, he apologized privately, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you need to apologize in public the same way you know,
Speaker 1: you said it in public. And that was the issue
Speaker 1: that I had with him. And I'm one of those
Speaker 1: artists that anybody that knows me. Again, I don't claim
Speaker 1: to be the hardest, but it's like, I'm a man,
Speaker 1: you know, like you gotta it's about respect. Man. You
Speaker 1: can't go and do something publicly and then come and
Speaker 1: quietly say, oh, you know, I'm sorry. You gotta apologize
Speaker 1: as a man and say it the same format you
Speaker 1: put it out on. That's the same format you need
Speaker 1: to continue on or I'm gonna do the same thing.
Speaker 1: But I'd rather just get swung on. Hey, I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at that either. I'm down for that too. Is
Speaker 1: that why you took it to the Hey, look, mister
Speaker 1: Jimmy swing on me. I'm talking about in general, I
Speaker 1: apologize and didn't say the same thing I say, and
Speaker 1: you swing on this morning. There's so many people that
Speaker 1: go to the gym that will get they asked Woods
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, because muscles don't mean a damn thing.
Speaker 1: I can walk to walk up to you and kick
Speaker 1: you in your knee and the fight is almost over
Speaker 1: because you can't. You don't out of your balance. So period,
Speaker 1: that's the bad thing with rich guys. They've been all
Speaker 1: around the world. He might be over in China studying
Speaker 1: some old pressure points. But now we talked about this man.
Speaker 1: You over here messing with some some some some street
Speaker 1: marshal arts. You know. I'm messing with some street things too,
Speaker 1: So you know I respect that. Now. Is that why
Speaker 1: you in the call You Bluff video you took it
Speaker 1: back to the street, to the aid to let people know,
Speaker 1: like looking, man, listen, if it's anything that I love
Speaker 1: right now is taking it back like I called it.
Speaker 1: This album is back to the basics. So again I
Speaker 1: listened to the fans when they say they want the
Speaker 1: old Loot. I get that, you know. It's like I
Speaker 1: can always do that, But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: have to be the new Looder. I have to be progressive.
Speaker 1: I have to evolve. There are new things that have
Speaker 1: happened in my life that I always have to you know,
Speaker 1: I pretty much have to talk about. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, this album is like the old Louder mixed
Speaker 1: with the new Looder emerging it perfectly together. Can you
Speaker 1: really give them old looted or like you can't be
Speaker 1: twenty five against different? Listen to the album No, No,
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying, because there's different things to
Speaker 1: talk about. However, I think what they're talking about isression
Speaker 1: and kind of like the flow patterns and and doing
Speaker 1: different things. So when you hear call your bluff and
Speaker 1: you hear me instantly come on there and just start
Speaker 1: going crazy and just beasting out on people, that's really
Speaker 1: what it's about. Because I watched the show and I
Speaker 1: hear y'all constantly talking about how the game is forever
Speaker 1: changing and ever evolving. And right now we're in an
Speaker 1: era where you can pretty much put out just content,
Speaker 1: music with content, and just flow and just do you.
Speaker 1: You don't necessarily have to worry so much about I
Speaker 1: need a radio record or I need something that spends
Speaker 1: this this much. Dudes, back to rapping exactly. So that's
Speaker 1: what this album is. It's back to rapping. It's not
Speaker 1: trying to format one record to be like this or
Speaker 1: one record to be like this. This is something you
Speaker 1: can listen to from beginning to the end, and it's
Speaker 1: what everybody's wanting me to do. And just beast the
Speaker 1: hell out. You ever sound like Good Loving and then
Speaker 1: you have a song like call your Bluff, Yeah, completely different.
Speaker 1: See Good Loving was on the EP and it just
Speaker 1: carried over because of its popularity. So that's about. That's
Speaker 1: probably the only record on the album that I would
Speaker 1: consider you know that carried over. But everything else is
Speaker 1: that was a very reflective song for you. It definitely was.
Speaker 1: I think everybody can relate to that because you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's being honest and men talking about their
Speaker 1: feelings in relationships because you don't hear that from a
Speaker 1: man's perspective. So I get more guys coming up to
Speaker 1: me like randomly saying, yo, I really feel that record
Speaker 1: than I do girls. And that's crazy because, like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, guys don't want to admit when they break
Speaker 1: up with somebody that, look, I didn't mean to break
Speaker 1: your heart, you know what? I mean, and when you
Speaker 1: in retrospect, some guys do purposely just completely mess something up.
Speaker 1: But then there are times where you look in retrospecting
Speaker 1: you like, I didn't just purposely mean to break you
Speaker 1: like that. And that's really what that record is all about.
Speaker 1: It's just basically telling you a lot of guys were different,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. In relationships, we're going through life,
Speaker 1: we're living in the fast lane, and we don't really
Speaker 1: understand what we've done until years later and we look
Speaker 1: back and like, damn, that was kind of messed up,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, at least about how good
Speaker 1: absolutely making radio formatted record, yeah, kind of hard. If
Speaker 1: you got Shocker, who's a formal music director, right, he'd
Speaker 1: probably the person telling you gotta make a radio record.
Speaker 1: You gotta make a radio record, No man, Shaka, you
Speaker 1: gotta understand even though radio hits too, I did. And
Speaker 1: that's that's the thing. Like, that's part of the reason
Speaker 1: being in the game fifteen years, and we're coming up
Speaker 1: on the fifteen year anniversary in October, being in this
Speaker 1: game for so long, having so many radio hits, having
Speaker 1: so many Grammys, having so many you know, awards and
Speaker 1: just accolades. It's like I've done that and I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily have to do that again. I just want to
Speaker 1: give the people what it is that they're asking for,
Speaker 1: especially since I have one more album after this one
Speaker 1: on deaf Jam. Let's go to want to talk deaf Jam,
Speaker 1: because you talk about let's do it. You got through
Speaker 1: unions when they're not there anymore. So yeah, after this,
Speaker 1: my contracts still the same. I know you, But for you,
Speaker 1: when your contract is over, does it make sense financially
Speaker 1: to keep loot because you know they can't afford the
Speaker 1: big count. I mean you was grandfather did almost Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not gonna give it away, but
Speaker 1: I just feel like there are so many other opportunities
Speaker 1: out there, so they would have to really entice me
Speaker 1: in order for me to continue on. And like we
Speaker 1: always talk about how the game is changing, I just
Speaker 1: feel like it's it's new. It's there's some new things
Speaker 1: going on and it's going to completely change the entire
Speaker 1: music industry. And I like to stay afloat of what's new,
Speaker 1: especially because the timing is coming up on me coming
Speaker 1: out of my contract. Has anybody disrespected you and asked
Speaker 1: you to sign a three sixty deal. Hell no, that's
Speaker 1: when we would have to swing on somebody for real.
Speaker 1: Don't don't ever disrespect me with the three sixty. Luckily,
Speaker 1: I came into the game, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't talk about this. I came into the music game
Speaker 1: where I feel like artists got the most out of
Speaker 1: juicing the industry in terms of I came into the
Speaker 1: music game where I could sell def jam forecasting me
Speaker 1: to sell half a million records on my first album
Speaker 1: back for the first time. I went on to sell
Speaker 1: three million, second album, three million album, three million. People
Speaker 1: of course are not selling three million records anymore, so
Speaker 1: during this era, I could not be more blessed and
Speaker 1: more thankful that I came into the game at a
Speaker 1: time where everybody was selling records, getting money from those records,
Speaker 1: and also doing so many different things because nowadays it's
Speaker 1: not considered smart to just be a rapper, right, you
Speaker 1: can't do that. That's why I didn't even know that
Speaker 1: you hadn't put on music in five years, because like, honestly,
Speaker 1: how important is music now when you're doing movies, when
Speaker 1: you're doing network television. Yeah, you got a brand it is,
Speaker 1: But I do feel like music is still important because
Speaker 1: this was it was. It's what got me here. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Absolutely extremely passionate, and I can
Speaker 1: never forget what got me here in the first place,
Speaker 1: and I'll never take four or five years to drop
Speaker 1: an album ever again. Now it has to be difficult
Speaker 1: for you because you've been all over the blogs and
Speaker 1: the tabloids and absolute and I know you're not used
Speaker 1: to that because you are normally a pretty private person, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, minding your business when it comes to your
Speaker 1: personal life. How has that been for you to have
Speaker 1: to deal with all this public life going to cored.
Speaker 1: That's a great question. And what you just said was
Speaker 1: I'm not used to it, and I don't like being
Speaker 1: in those in those tabloids in that way. And I
Speaker 1: think that each of us here and everybody watching for
Speaker 1: that matter, no matter what you don't really like, I
Speaker 1: feel like the world is going to force you to
Speaker 1: deal with You gotta address it at least once. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you do, and I completely understand that. But basically what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is I never was that person, and now
Speaker 1: this has forced me to become a person that has
Speaker 1: to kind of sit back and I love how people
Speaker 1: hear all these different things and some of them are true,
Speaker 1: don't get it twisted. However, a lot of them are untrue.
Speaker 1: And so since I sit back and just watch, it
Speaker 1: allows me to have a position of people are judging
Speaker 1: me based off a lot of things that are not true,
Speaker 1: and you know what's crazy about that? You know what,
Speaker 1: you know what's crazy about that? I absolutely love it
Speaker 1: because I know the truth. God knows the truth. And
Speaker 1: as long as as long as that's the case, then
Speaker 1: it's almost like you get to watch and let people
Speaker 1: judge you based off of things that you know are
Speaker 1: not true. Does it affect your relationship with with your
Speaker 1: home life? Absolutely not. That's the best because we know
Speaker 1: the truth. Let me just say that, myself, my wife,
Speaker 1: and God, we but we all know the truth. So
Speaker 1: with that being said, it's almost entertaining. It's just as
Speaker 1: entertaining as everybody looking at me being entertained by what
Speaker 1: they are saying about me. We're just as entertained watching
Speaker 1: you judge me by listening to this false information. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it has to make you want to retaliate, like sometimes
Speaker 1: in your head you have there you yeah, I love.
Speaker 1: I love that I love. No, it's it comes through
Speaker 1: the music, you know. I think we all have situations
Speaker 1: where we have to we have to use, uh like
Speaker 1: it's therapy to go do certain things. Some go to
Speaker 1: the gun range, some go you know, practice martial arts,
Speaker 1: and some go box, some go running and exercise. But
Speaker 1: for me, somewhere else. And yeah, but I put it
Speaker 1: through my music. Man, I put it through that as
Speaker 1: a man. I don't know what you did wrong. I mean,
Speaker 1: if the story is what I heard, you had a
Speaker 1: baby on a break for what, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I've said this before. I'm not perfect, and I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there. No one is perfect. However,
Speaker 1: everything that I'm going through is perfect for me, and
Speaker 1: it's made me a better person. It's made me a
Speaker 1: better man. And what's to come, it's going to be
Speaker 1: the absolute best thing that could ever happen. And it
Speaker 1: already has happened because a blessing came out of it.
Speaker 1: And I can't necessarily talk, you know, specifics, because anything
Speaker 1: I say can and will be used against me in
Speaker 1: the court of the law, because there's still current litigation
Speaker 1: going on. But at the end of the day, just
Speaker 1: generally speaking, the best thing that's ever happened to me
Speaker 1: in my entire life. On the way I do, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to catch up with you, like this is my goal.
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying to catch up with envy. And that's
Speaker 1: really what it came down to. Mad. You know, it's
Speaker 1: crazy because like I had an endorsement deal from this
Speaker 1: company called Breakaway Condoms, and then they just they pulled out.
Speaker 1: They pulled out on me at the last minute. So
Speaker 1: I don't but it's just the last moment they pulled
Speaker 1: out on me. Can you believe that? Can you believe it?
Speaker 1: We made the man who made what's your fantasy when
Speaker 1: you talk about having sex in about a thousand different places,
Speaker 1: finally lock it down and getting married. Man. You know
Speaker 1: what I always say this, I think life is about timing.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is there's a time
Speaker 1: where you could get married and it's not gonna be right,
Speaker 1: and you could be the same person and years later
Speaker 1: you get married and I know, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about it and it's gonna be right. It was
Speaker 1: just the right timing for me. So you know it
Speaker 1: took me seventeen years. I'm the same girl seventeen years
Speaker 1: finally didn't September damn. Okay, look when I say timing,
Speaker 1: I don't mean that. Damn damn that. Yeah, applaud you
Speaker 1: were married already anyway. It was always rooming. Oh they
Speaker 1: already gotten me again, that's all, you know, people putting
Speaker 1: stuff out, and we never feel the need to have
Speaker 1: to always defend ourselves because it's entertaining just watching people
Speaker 1: judges based off or whatever. But with that being said,
Speaker 1: it's like it was that time, man, and I can
Speaker 1: honestly say that so far, so good, and I hope
Speaker 1: it continues so far so good for you, or you
Speaker 1: just don't know yet. Oh man, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: waiting to find out my damn self. Yeah, I heard
Speaker 1: you got upset in my little bro Pete Davidson at
Speaker 1: the Just to Be Be Comedy Central rules. Oh man,
Speaker 1: you made some Paul Walker jewel. Yeah, let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. And I wouldn't even repeat those jokes because
Speaker 1: of how disrespectful I feel they were. But I was
Speaker 1: definitely upset about that, and you know, like I was
Speaker 1: to the point where I was about to go a
Speaker 1: little crazy, and then all of a sudden, all the
Speaker 1: executives and producers started lining up coming to me, apologizing
Speaker 1: and assuring me that they were going to take those
Speaker 1: jokes out. So you know, I can respect that. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, those jokes will never
Speaker 1: see the light of day. And Tyre said, you guys
Speaker 1: had a conversation, and he was like, it's a good
Speaker 1: thing I wasn't there, because ye know the reason would
Speaker 1: again reason is not that type of person. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to Paul with either one of us, because
Speaker 1: I don't think people know how close we really were
Speaker 1: too Paul, me and Re started in too fast, too furious,
Speaker 1: and so this was twelve years ago. That was in
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, And I mean, I always tell people,
Speaker 1: you know, this dude's birthday was one day after mine.
Speaker 1: We were virgos. We had the most in common out
Speaker 1: of everybody. Me and Tyres are close. For me and
Speaker 1: Paul were extremely close. And he was one of those
Speaker 1: individuals where he just wanted to be regular. Even though
Speaker 1: he got these Hollywood checks, think about it, you would
Speaker 1: never really see him out and about it different functions
Speaker 1: or trying to be a certain way. He just liked
Speaker 1: to be regularly. He loved to have fun. He liked
Speaker 1: to surf. He had a place out in Santa Barbara
Speaker 1: away from everything. He wanted to keep away from all
Speaker 1: of the bs. And so I'm the same type of way. Man.
Speaker 1: When you see this album covering, you see me driving
Speaker 1: this ninety three accurate legend and still having that plane
Speaker 1: in there. But at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: just feel like we had so much in common. And yeah,
Speaker 1: if Tyrese was there, it would have been a problem.
Speaker 1: A jet man looted on guy five million. Bro. I'm
Speaker 1: glad he said that, because y'all everybody messing with me
Speaker 1: about having a private plane. And I think I said
Speaker 1: this last time I was on here. I was like
Speaker 1: sometimes we were land in different private airports and I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: look at how much bigger that private plane is than mine.
Speaker 1: And my chef looked at me and said, man, either
Speaker 1: you in from seven. My seven looked at me and said, man,
Speaker 1: either you're in the plane game or you're not in
Speaker 1: the plane game. And I can respect that, so I understand.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know what what's going on with Crefalo.
Speaker 1: I think he just wants a bigger jet. He has one.
Speaker 1: I guarantee he has one. He said it was old
Speaker 1: and something happened to mechanics. Yeah, so it come to
Speaker 1: the road. You know, that's the energy of a roast.
Speaker 1: No I do. And I hadn't seen that many roles
Speaker 1: before I did that one, So I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you. It's like I checked out little little bits
Speaker 1: here and there, but apart from the Paul Walker jokes,
Speaker 1: great roast, and I think it's I think it's a
Speaker 1: great thing for people to get roasted because a lot
Speaker 1: of people are scared to be made fun of. And
Speaker 1: I don't take myself too seriously, and I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: tell y'all like this, it's definitely one of the best roast,
Speaker 1: if not the best roast that comedy centrals had, because
Speaker 1: nobody was safe, like everyone was free game, and we
Speaker 1: cracked on Justin Bieber for hours and hours of time.
Speaker 1: This was four hours worth of material. They had to
Speaker 1: condense it down to I think two hours for television.
Speaker 1: So you know, once we were roasting him, he got
Speaker 1: a chance at the end to go back and get
Speaker 1: everybody else. So you know, there it was some low blows.
Speaker 1: You know, they got me. I got some people, you know,
Speaker 1: you think about this. Snoop was in there, Shaq was
Speaker 1: in there, Martha Stewart was in there. Everybody was talking
Speaker 1: about how old she was and how dry Snatch was,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it was some It
Speaker 1: was some low blows around this piece. Trust me. Was
Speaker 1: there any hesitation to jump on Bieble's record back in
Speaker 1: the day, I mean, a little white pop singer. That's
Speaker 1: a damn good question. And I'm gonna tell you why
Speaker 1: there was no hesitation. It is because I'm one of
Speaker 1: those artists and I'm one of those individuals that I
Speaker 1: don't care so much what people think about the decisions
Speaker 1: that I make. I make decisions based off of how
Speaker 1: I feel. And when I heard that record coming from radio,
Speaker 1: I knew that it was a hit record. It didn't
Speaker 1: matter to me that he was, you know, twelve or
Speaker 1: thirteen years old. It didn't matter to me that he
Speaker 1: was white boy. It didn't matter to me any of
Speaker 1: that stuff. I just listened to the music, and so
Speaker 1: all of us here it's like, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: just limited to rap music and hip hop, you know,
Speaker 1: we listened to all kinds of music. I listened to
Speaker 1: rock and roll, I listened to eighties hair metal sometime,
Speaker 1: so I mean, like, it's never about the person or
Speaker 1: how old they are, it's about the music and let
Speaker 1: alone this this song went on to make history. And
Speaker 1: with that being said, till this day, after I endorsed
Speaker 1: Justin Bieber, then all everyone else started endorsing them. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You got Kanye Wu, Tang Clay.
Speaker 1: Everybody's like cool with Justin Bieber all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: So you gave him that first shot. He caught it
Speaker 1: messing with me. Yeah, there you have it. Well, then
Speaker 1: on purpose that you decided to put out Lutiverse at
Speaker 1: the same time Fast and Furious seven, did you say
Speaker 1: timing White great idea? It just it kind of just
Speaker 1: worked out that way because a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: understand that this movie shut down. The production shut down
Speaker 1: for like four to five months because of Paul Walker's
Speaker 1: untimely death. So if I had planned to put it
Speaker 1: out before that, but this entire four to five months
Speaker 1: of production shutting down, it just shifted my entire schedule
Speaker 1: an entire year because once production shut down, then we
Speaker 1: had to go back and start shooting the movie again,
Speaker 1: and that took another four to five months, So my
Speaker 1: entire life was kind of shaking. But again, everything happens
Speaker 1: for a reason, and it happened for the better. And
Speaker 1: I what I don't think people really understand also is
Speaker 1: that he was about eighty five percent done shooting his
Speaker 1: parts in the film before his untimely death. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I know people have heard that his brothers stepped in
Speaker 1: and there was a lot of cgi and things that
Speaker 1: they had to do in order to finish the film.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, that's only like two scenes
Speaker 1: in the movie. So when they see this, then the
Speaker 1: integrity is there. And I guarantee when you watch this
Speaker 1: movie his how we honor him, and it's it's an
Speaker 1: entire it's just the movie is dedicated to this man.
Speaker 1: But the way that it ends, even the gangster of
Speaker 1: all gangs is gonna be well enough. At the end
Speaker 1: of this damn movie. He basically tell him as he
Speaker 1: dies in the movie, Nah, he don't die in the movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're making me give it away right now, But he
Speaker 1: doesn't die in the movie. But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's done in such a creative way that you still
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna feel a certain type several times throughout
Speaker 1: the movie. Man, I'm gonna tell you straight up, I'm
Speaker 1: a grown man. But because I knew him the way
Speaker 1: that I knew him, the way that they showcased him.
Speaker 1: At the end of this movie, it was over, and
Speaker 1: I took my thirteen year old daughter to see the
Speaker 1: premier in Atlanta. We was both in tears. Period. Does
Speaker 1: it Does it feel real? Because I mean, for me,
Speaker 1: I don't deal with death well because it feel I'm
Speaker 1: the same, like going to funerals, none of that, because
Speaker 1: I don't want to. That's not the last time I
Speaker 1: want to be And you have more in common than
Speaker 1: I thought. Man, doesn't feel real. It didn't feel real
Speaker 1: at first. And then when when we flew to LA
Speaker 1: and went to the crash site where I know y'all
Speaker 1: heard about like fans coming out and ringing candles and
Speaker 1: all these different things, and then the family was there,
Speaker 1: that's when it hit us and me Tyrese then everybody
Speaker 1: breaking down and it just I mean, it hurts, man,
Speaker 1: It hurts to know because it just didn't feel real.
Speaker 1: And when that moment hit us, we just realized that
Speaker 1: this is this is it is what it is. How
Speaker 1: are we going to deal with this? Asked the same question.
Speaker 1: Is it hard to heal now? Because you want the
Speaker 1: promo toil? You see the commercials all the time, people
Speaker 1: asking you about them. It's hard to heal. But the
Speaker 1: most important thing of why it's the hardest is to
Speaker 1: see the end of this movie. I don't think that
Speaker 1: you know how you know they say time heals all wounds.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, like this, if I watched this movie
Speaker 1: and watch the end of this movie, no matter how
Speaker 1: many times I see it, it's going to get it's
Speaker 1: going to get the same emotional feeling from me. Like
Speaker 1: talking about it, I'm starting to feel a certain way.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's definitely hard to deal with. So
Speaker 1: I was reading. Also, there's going to be like the
Speaker 1: possibly three more after this. Yeah. First of all, let
Speaker 1: me just make note. I don't know if Tyrese said this,
Speaker 1: I'm glad that the two black men in the movie
Speaker 1: have not died yet. Yeah, because nah, But think about this,
Speaker 1: if you look at all the different ones everyone else
Speaker 1: has died and some of them have come back, they
Speaker 1: were in there, like this is a beautiful thing. Right now,
Speaker 1: we're not dead yet we keep it in alive and
Speaker 1: another thing. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm at
Speaker 1: the breakfast club right now. So was ducking us for
Speaker 1: a little while him, No, hell now, I was just
Speaker 1: being a father for them. I kept seeing Ludacris is
Speaker 1: in New York, he's here, He's I would never duck y'all. Man,
Speaker 1: I come from the radio game, so I completely understand it.
Speaker 1: But nah, man, like I I, we always let the
Speaker 1: fans dictate if there's going to be another one, and
Speaker 1: we always listen to what they're saying. And right now,
Speaker 1: it's one of those times where you respect like respectfully
Speaker 1: have to give kind of a moment of silence. You
Speaker 1: can't just at the end of this movie be like okay,
Speaker 1: and here it comes the next one. It's everything just
Speaker 1: needs to Like when you see the end of the movie,
Speaker 1: you'll understand what I'm saying. It's just like, let's just
Speaker 1: chill for a second. If there is to be another
Speaker 1: Fast and Furious, then let let a little time go
Speaker 1: pass before we just up and just go back and
Speaker 1: do it. Now, let's let's talk sports. Floyd Mayweather, Yeah,
Speaker 1: listen to me. This is gonna be a tough one. No,
Speaker 1: I do. I love that, but I'm a little biased,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why. I did a video with
Speaker 1: Roger Mayweather and Floyd away back, and I was able
Speaker 1: to train with Roger Mayweather and I was able to
Speaker 1: go to the gym. And this was maybe about five
Speaker 1: or six years ago. So fast forward. I had a
Speaker 1: show in Vegas about three weeks ago, and I went
Speaker 1: back to the gym to go hollid at everybody. And
Speaker 1: when I went there, it just so happened that Floyd
Speaker 1: was in there about to spar with somebody. And I
Speaker 1: didn't know who, but I see the gym filled up.
Speaker 1: I know this is his second week of training camp,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of like, you know, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be as hard as fight. So as soon as I
Speaker 1: walk in there, I see Zab over there to the
Speaker 1: side putting his gloves on. Yeah, so I'm looking and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, so that's what's going on. I happen
Speaker 1: to get there right on time, because as soon as
Speaker 1: I got there, two minutes later, they in the ring.
Speaker 1: So of course you all know that zab Jui South Paul,
Speaker 1: so we know that he's fought this man before. And again,
Speaker 1: this was only three rounds because they just sparning, they
Speaker 1: got the head gear on, they got everything. So I'm
Speaker 1: in the side of the ring and I'm just watching
Speaker 1: this fight and I'm just extremely happy that I just
Speaker 1: so happened to come on the day in the time
Speaker 1: when both of these are fighting, because I just wanted
Speaker 1: to see I wanted to look in Floyd's eyes. I
Speaker 1: got a chance to say what up to him. And
Speaker 1: it's like the same way I keep talking about rappers.
Speaker 1: When you hear their tone and they aggression, you can
Speaker 1: tell whether they're hungry or not. When you look in
Speaker 1: the fighter's eyes and you feel that energy, you realize
Speaker 1: where he's at. Floyd has never been a punk when
Speaker 1: it comes to training camp period. I have never in
Speaker 1: my life seen him this focused and training this hard.
Speaker 1: So let's just say if he usually runs five or
Speaker 1: six miles a day, he's running eight or nine miles
Speaker 1: a day. If he usually is in the gym and
Speaker 1: sparring and he's you know, working out and exercising for
Speaker 1: four or five hours, he's doing six seven hours. He
Speaker 1: knows that everything is on the line. Okay, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you whatever's hap. I don't know if this I saw
Speaker 1: the TV camera, So I don't know if I'm if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in trouble for telling what's happening, or
Speaker 1: if it's actually gonna come on one of them twenty
Speaker 1: four seven joints. But the first round Floyd did like
Speaker 1: he always does in a real fight, took it easy,
Speaker 1: kind of study. See where fill it out, See where
Speaker 1: Zaba is at. Second round you start to see zab
Speaker 1: jue to getting a little fatigued, and then you know
Speaker 1: Floyd started getting a little more aggressive and getting a
Speaker 1: little more comfortable. Third round it's a rap Za I mean,
Speaker 1: Zab is definitely all the way fatigued and Zach I mean,
Speaker 1: and then Floyd Mayweather is just just taking advantage of him.
Speaker 1: At that point he actually started round And that's what
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. I'm telling you like this, The
Speaker 1: thing about this fight is we all know that the
Speaker 1: first three rounds Floyd Mayweather, he kind of takes it
Speaker 1: easy and he studies. But the only thing about this
Speaker 1: fight is he has to be a little more aggressive
Speaker 1: because we all know that Pakia is going to throw
Speaker 1: punches and this is about points, and so if he's
Speaker 1: not going to knock this man, out, then you have
Speaker 1: to get more points than him. So Pakia is gonna
Speaker 1: be throwing, and I feel like Floyd knows that he
Speaker 1: has to throw some stuff too. And if Pakia wants
Speaker 1: to knock Mayweather out, it has to happen in the
Speaker 1: first three rounds. If you're going to stagger him, if
Speaker 1: you're going to do anything that is going to completely
Speaker 1: mess up the rest of the round, it has to
Speaker 1: be in the first three round period. I mean, I
Speaker 1: got kids take care of. I ain't putting up no
Speaker 1: money right now. I'm good. I ain't betting on this one.
Speaker 1: You know, I always wondered about you Loud, did ye
Speaker 1: or did you and your team? I will say, let's
Speaker 1: cross over? Or did everything happen organically? I think, honestly, um,
Speaker 1: I don't. We never said we need to cross over.
Speaker 1: I think everything happened organically, Like when I got in
Speaker 1: the studio with Timberland and did roll Out and that
Speaker 1: was like a crossover song, Or when I got in
Speaker 1: the studio with Kanye and I did Stand Up and
Speaker 1: that crossed over. It was all organic in the studio.
Speaker 1: We weren't just sitting there saying we want to we
Speaker 1: want to cross over. None of that ever happened. So
Speaker 1: I think it was just a combination of me doing
Speaker 1: a lot of feature you know, feature songs, and just
Speaker 1: me doing me. That's the one thing that I can
Speaker 1: say is that we never were like, we need to
Speaker 1: do this type of record, yeah, because you know, none
Speaker 1: of those were traditional radio records. Move bitch exactly what
Speaker 1: opitality stand up? Those aren't singing song hooky traditional And
Speaker 1: that's where the best music comes from, when someone is
Speaker 1: not trying to make a specific type of record, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and that's when people change music is when
Speaker 1: you are doing you like I feel like Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 1: is one of those individuals, and it's like now he's
Speaker 1: got a certain amount of followers where now he can
Speaker 1: put out whatever he wants and people are pretty much
Speaker 1: gonna follow it. But you think about putting out albums
Speaker 1: that you can listen to from beginning to end and
Speaker 1: putting out content, that's what it's about right now. So
Speaker 1: the last time you asked me kind of like what
Speaker 1: I wanted to be remembered by, you know, how I
Speaker 1: want to be known, And it's versatile, so if times
Speaker 1: change up, I can change up with the times, and
Speaker 1: when I tell you this Luti Versal album is a
Speaker 1: testament of how extremely hungry and how great I can
Speaker 1: change with the times in terms of being myself and
Speaker 1: still being fluid and beasting out. That's what this is
Speaker 1: all about. And speaking of beasting, you know, we're talking
Speaker 1: about sports and all that I had Mars Shawn Lynch.
Speaker 1: You know, we just shot a video to a song
Speaker 1: called beast Mode that's on my album and literally there's
Speaker 1: no hook. It's just all bars, bars, metaphors and everything.
Speaker 1: It's three minutes straight. So we shot a video. I
Speaker 1: met this dude for the first time. It felt like
Speaker 1: I known him for all of my life. So I
Speaker 1: have a new friend. We were just out in La
Speaker 1: together and this is another guy that inspires me so
Speaker 1: the same way he's, you know, mowing down people on
Speaker 1: the field. That's how I felt like I do in
Speaker 1: the rap game. And we were shooting this video and
Speaker 1: I had to ask him. I was like, Yo, why
Speaker 1: didn't they give you the damn ball? Was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know why they didn't give me
Speaker 1: the damn ball. I was one during the same damn thing,
Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's just funny man. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's interesting to get prospective from so many different people.
Speaker 1: And I love that I'm friends with people that I
Speaker 1: look up to and that inspired me because he was.
Speaker 1: He just inspired it. And I was just like, everybody
Speaker 1: say they want Luda Chris to be stout and beast out.
Speaker 1: So I was like, let me just beast molded, let
Speaker 1: me just let me just go out. Do you tell
Speaker 1: anybody though, because I was watching, Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: people I was watching because I was watching the old
Speaker 1: YouTube video of that old show Methron Redhead. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I was trying to explain to somebody how punk stole
Speaker 1: that I did from they did man, thank you, thank you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, why a little at told him to
Speaker 1: be was white? Let me tell you. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you why because I was. I was fresh in the game.
Speaker 1: I had just got started. And if there were any
Speaker 1: two individuals that I looked up to more, there's nobody
Speaker 1: that I feel like like Red Man was is and
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite rapps off that tree. Absolutely
Speaker 1: that in common. So with method Man and Red Man
Speaker 1: to together, I was in it. I was kind of
Speaker 1: in a fan zone. So I wanted to believe that
Speaker 1: they wanted me on this record R and so this
Speaker 1: is how they premised it, and this is how they
Speaker 1: edited edited that particular version to make it seem to
Speaker 1: make me believe it. But then when you saw it
Speaker 1: on TV, it just made me look a little crazy. However,
Speaker 1: so they told me they was like, this is for
Speaker 1: the movie how high. So everybody's smoking weed in this
Speaker 1: particular scene, so it makes sense for it to be crazy,
Speaker 1: and you hear a frog noise. So this is how
Speaker 1: they premised it. But then when they showed it on television,
Speaker 1: they cut through all of that stuff and it it was
Speaker 1: just like Ludacris rapping over a frog beat. And that's
Speaker 1: how I did. But they made me believe it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. I remember reading that Man was supposed
Speaker 1: to have that role you had in Um and Fast
Speaker 1: and Furious originally. I don't know. I never heard that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Hey, man, Look, if there's anything I
Speaker 1: can say is that I'm sure any actor would kill
Speaker 1: to be in a franchise like this where you know,
Speaker 1: you got another paycheck on the way without you really
Speaker 1: having to do anything. But is it retirement money? Man? Definitely? Man,
Speaker 1: you know it, don't you know what. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it depends on what people do with
Speaker 1: their money. People can have millions, tens of millions, hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. It's not about how much money
Speaker 1: you make. It's about how much money you spend. Man.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing that anybody with money has to learn. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And as y'all continue to get four, five, six, seven
Speaker 1: jobs a piece, I'm sure you understand what the hell
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. The kids to take it though, I'm
Speaker 1: telling take it. But all them cars, you gotta take
Speaker 1: it to man. Man, Man, if anything depreciates, it's them
Speaker 1: damn cars when you drive them off the lot. So
Speaker 1: you need to chill out. Man. Let me let me.
Speaker 1: Let let me tell you something. I follow all of
Speaker 1: y'all our Instagram. I had to stop following Nvy and
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell it to his face right now.
Speaker 1: I apologize to you. It's too many damn advertisements on
Speaker 1: this dude's Instagram. Man, I see, But you know what
Speaker 1: it's you know with me, it's big business, like you know,
Speaker 1: especially with the dealerships. You know is if you're a
Speaker 1: DJ and you have a strong following and you could
Speaker 1: promote their dealership, they might give you a call for you.
Speaker 1: I agree. So you know, sometimes it's not what you
Speaker 1: think somebody spending on. It's them being smart. No, and
Speaker 1: that is smart. That though, that is my real man.
Speaker 1: Would never let a man let them have a call
Speaker 1: for a year, you know. Okay, on that subject, let
Speaker 1: me say one thing. I'm just gonna I'm gonna divulge
Speaker 1: a secret to everyone in the industry about money. I
Speaker 1: don't usually do this, but this is the breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: so I fail to need to do this, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you in on a real secret. You know,
Speaker 1: people make fun of individuals and rap music for leasing
Speaker 1: cars in the music industry. If you are a rapper
Speaker 1: and you travel a lot, lease in a car is
Speaker 1: the smartest thing that you could ever do. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you why, because they only give you a certain
Speaker 1: amount of miles to drive, and it's way lower than
Speaker 1: actually buying the car. Ludacris, I own a lot of cars. However,
Speaker 1: I lease a lot of cars too. You know why,
Speaker 1: because I'm on the road so much. I never use
Speaker 1: the amount of miles that they want me to use.
Speaker 1: Because the only way they can charge you money is
Speaker 1: if you go over those miles and then second in
Speaker 1: the next two years, you're gonna want the new car
Speaker 1: any damn way, So what are you talking about. That's
Speaker 1: the only that's all I'm giving y'all right now, that's
Speaker 1: for that same reason, because I know, I go ahead
Speaker 1: and Lisa car for two years and get the new
Speaker 1: one and two more. I have a two dolland three
Speaker 1: escalated escalad. You had one. You haven't leave it at
Speaker 1: that that is probably too broken down on the on
Speaker 1: the side of the block over there. Yeah, man, you
Speaker 1: have another. You have some nice you have And meanwhile
Speaker 1: he's talking about Liason cars, but he had a twelve
Speaker 1: thousand dollars bottle of liquor on Instagram. Oh man, that
Speaker 1: was amazing that McCallan, m like age fifty years plus.
Speaker 1: That's my new thing. By the way, what's that? That's
Speaker 1: my that's my vice, like buying like the liquors that
Speaker 1: have been aged in barrels for so damn long. I know,
Speaker 1: I know you got the Remy, the Remy V and
Speaker 1: then I know, you know what's the what's the top
Speaker 1: of the line Remmy that y'all get seventeen seventeen thirty eight.
Speaker 1: So look, every alcohol has different top of the line joints.
Speaker 1: So while people out here, you know, drinking thirteen actually
Speaker 1: at the top of the line for Louis the thirteenth,
Speaker 1: but they have the Louis cast, which is the black bottle,
Speaker 1: which is like thirty thousand dollars. Thats why I'm telling
Speaker 1: you about. That's that's my vice. I have to drink
Speaker 1: that and people will call me stupid for that, but
Speaker 1: damn it, it's just it's that's my vide. I remember first,
Speaker 1: remember's birthday, Shocka's birthday. We were all drinking. He has
Speaker 1: some type of bottle stashed away with the bartender that
Speaker 1: no one else. He'd be over that because he on
Speaker 1: that tequila. Man, what is it? The the nineteen forty
Speaker 1: two He was like, can you get me in nineteen
Speaker 1: forty two? I asked, and they were like, it's this
Speaker 1: for Shoka. That's his castle. Drag on that. There you go,
Speaker 1: this tequila. This is great. Let you got the movie in.
Speaker 1: Let's do that. We can do that on camera the
Speaker 1: Botlet want to open this right now. Special occasions. Man.
Speaker 1: At this point, listen, it's like they take all of
Speaker 1: the impurities out of stuff. It's more like medicine. It's
Speaker 1: not even it's not even alcohol. You wake up the
Speaker 1: next day feeling better than you did if you did
Speaker 1: not drink anything. All right, well, let's do it. It's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, it's Luda