WEBVTT - Ludacris Interview 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:08.079 I'm real, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.200 DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the God. We are the 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:13.600 Breakfast Club special guests in the building. One of my 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:19.079 favorite artists. Highly underrated in my opinion. Yeah, hell you underrated. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:20.720 You sold twenty million records. Now you know why we 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:22.799 sold twenty million. I want to say he sold twenty 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:28.240 million quietly. There's no sense thing you can back his lyricism. 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.920 I think we'll say that personal. It sounds like you 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.120 don't respect all. He couldn't have sold twenty millions quietly 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.479 if I knew about it. Oh yeah, Yeah, that's a 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:39.240 good point right there. That's definitely a good point of 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.840 food here. It feels good to be back. It feels 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.840 good to be back. Still, good crew. I like seeing 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.760 you when you come around because I always see shocker. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.319 for all the money y'all made, you have thought y'all 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.440 to fell out. And by the way, we've never had 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.200 a signed contract ever in our lives. Never, So I know. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:56.720 I know y'all get a lot of artists in here. 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.320 I'm here to let y'all know we've never signed anything 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:05.000 that's loyal. He right, there. That's dope. Absolutely, So what 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.760 do you get a standard temple? Now he gets a percentage. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.160 But you know that's what we don't have to talk about, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.559 that he gets a percentage, but the fact of we've 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.679 never had to do any paperwork, because that's how strong 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:21.200 to bind with nobody playing with Ye I mess up, 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:26.160 I might How you trust somebody in the beginning? I understand, 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.759 you know, in the beginning, How do you trust somebody 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.480 to say that we came from the same humble beginnings, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.039 We came from the same radio station. Man, I don't 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.559 you know what it is. It's like, I literally feel 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.720 like he's my family. Even though we're not blood, we 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.360 are family, and I know family goes through certain things. 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.039 So at the end of the day, it is what 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.280 it is. But I was right, you know what I mean, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.360 We've gone this long and we still don't need any paperwork. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.640 I never fight, never tussled, never nothing, nothing. Now we've 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.559 never had to, never had to. We've had some extremely 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.680 great conversations where we can agree to disagree on certain things. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.200 But in terms of fight, Nah, what shock used to do? 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.160 The station seven nine? Right? Yeah? Yeah, he was hot 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.320 ninety seven five. He was the music director. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.400 and it was back end of the days when you know, 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.960 it was like a house, so we didn't have any money. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.480 This is right when Radio one started, right, and so 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.480 there was no money, and you know, we had to 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.760 kind of keep some keep some things around us. And 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.519 he used to do to tend to two shifts at night. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.760 So of course, you know, it was just like all 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.680 it wasn't any rules whatsoever. A matter of fact, we're 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.040 trying to bring up a movie script about that, and 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.280 so pretty soon we're gonna shed some light on this 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.320 radio playing all the ludicrous records. That was kind of 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.920 piola in a way. Nah, noa, it wasn't. That was 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.520 let me tell you something. That was the day I 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.560 know I made it because I had to fight so 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.639 hard to get my records played, not only on the 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:46.680 on the station because they made me work for it. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:48.600 The day I knew I made it is when they 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.559 played my record on the opposing station on the competition. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:59.919 So you know, that's why I was like, I know, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.760 oh man, you get too much money for me right now. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.960 I don't know, if you work at the station and 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:05.959 you're doing music, it kind of feels like we can't 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.800 just play this guy's record because it Man, that's exactly 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:10.799 what it was. It was the exact opposite of what 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.639 people would think. It's like, you would think they would 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.080 support me to a degree, but they made me work 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.080 for it because they didn't want anybody at the station 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.440 feeling like they just playing his record because he works here, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.280 and so you know, that was part of the grind 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:26.120 coming up. Anything that I go through makes me a 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.360 better artist when it comes to, you know, challenging me. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.919 That's it your last album, defire. I got one more 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:32.919 after this, man, And you know what I'm gonna tell 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.119 you right now, I will never take five years off 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.560 to drop an album ever again. They realized it was 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:38.960 five years. I didn't realize you have been in the 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:44.119 game fifty Yeah, hey man, I missed myself during this time. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.800 I hadn't realized it's been that long either. But you know, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.080 it's like, besides the fast five, fast, six, fast seven, 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.400 for the first time in my life, you know, it's 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.080 like I dropped damn near seven consecutive albums. So with 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.280 that being said, I just wanted to take a little 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.720 time off. I wanted to enjoy the fruits of my labor. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.960 I wanted to travel the world, you know what I mean. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.640 I wanted to spend some of his money, and by 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.240 doing that, I kind of lost contact a little bit. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.720 So I had to kind of bring myself back up. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.920 And we all know how the music game is right now. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.800 It's like the attention span, out of sight, out of mind. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.720 So it's like, of course, people looking at me as 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.239 more of a movie star than in music right now. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.360 And what it was, I had to dig back in. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.560 That's why I started putting out all these Luda verses, 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.839 because once you hear your favorite rapper or a rapper, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.960 you can hear it in his tone and in his aggression, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.480 whether or not he's still hungry or not. So I 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.320 had to start doing it. I dropped the EP, and 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.320 I did that quietly on purpose because I kind of 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.560 wanted to just build this foundation and build back up. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.200 So to me, this is my eighth album, however it 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.560 feels like it's my first. This is a rebirth. And 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.360 when you start listening to these records, you will completely 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.479 understand what the hell I'm talking abofe Hit the hungy 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.480 and call your bluff. It sounds like you're talking to somebody. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.840 Absolutely there's no, there's no one. There's no one person 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.160 in particular. Man. It just gets to a point in rap, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.600 and I know you can relate to this where it's 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.640 like people they talked so hard behind a microphone, and 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.800 I'm letting everybody know. I've never claimed to be the 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.919 hardest artist or the hardest dude. But when it's like 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.279 when you start messing with a man's family or you 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.080 start messing with him, that's what I say in the record. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.560 It's like, you mess with me, you're messing with my family. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.279 And so I hate when people talk so tough on 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.159 the microphone. But you see him in person, and this 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.880 happens all the time. See him in person, it's like, oh, no, 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.440 you know, I ain't mean it like that, or everything's 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.400 all good, it's just all entertainment. No, it's not. It's 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.960 not entertainment. No, said, I just told you. I'm not 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.680 talking about anybody in particularly Me and Drake had our 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.520 thing though, But you know he came to me and 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.120 apologize like a man. He said, no, man, you you 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.040 god body, you got body. That was the first time 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.960 I heard it. Is the first time I heard somebody 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.640 to call me god body. I was like, Okay, well, no, 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.720 it's all good. Me and Drake, Me and Drake. Drake 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.400 don't study in lessons. I know everybody wants to write 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.360 Drake office that dude, but we were Okay, how did 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:54.800 you feel when he said your name and that? How 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.440 about now when he said he was playing his music 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:57.960 for the chicken and chickens like, turn it off, you're 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.080 listening a little Yeah? You know what? Nah? You know 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.000 what's crazy is I think it's it's a little bit 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.640 of a true story behind that. And his girl was 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.520 listening to lush. His girl at the time, with all 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.960 due respect, was probably doing a little bit more than that. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.599 But it's a true story. And I think that's why 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.040 he said that. And you know, people can respect this 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.599 man for for being very honest, don't record very open. Yeah, 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.760 and and it was a it was a chick in Toronto. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.159 And at the time I didn't even know that she was. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.159 You know, I guess I didn't. I didn't know what 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:33.760 was going on, But goodness, I know absolutely I did 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.440 not know. That's really what it comes down, the drudge 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.120 all the way to the rap game. You know, I 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.400 don't I don't know what's going on. Man, Like I said, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.320 I don't know, but I do remember that that time 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:48.039 in the period of my life. Yeah, that was was 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:49.520 that the thing when you said you and you know 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.040 your squashed thing? That was the thing? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.239 And I mean he had said some things in public, 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.360 but then you know, he apologized privately, and I was like, well, 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.120 you need to apologize in public the same way you know, 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.760 you said it in public. And that was the issue 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.440 that I had with him. And I'm one of those 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.520 artists that anybody that knows me. Again, I don't claim 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.720 to be the hardest, but it's like, I'm a man, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.440 you know, like you gotta it's about respect. Man. You 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.880 can't go and do something publicly and then come and 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.240 quietly say, oh, you know, I'm sorry. You gotta apologize 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.320 as a man and say it the same format you 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.480 put it out on. That's the same format you need 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.320 to continue on or I'm gonna do the same thing. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:32.400 But I'd rather just get swung on. Hey, I'm not 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.640 mad at that either. I'm down for that too. Is 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.480 that why you took it to the Hey, look, mister 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:42.480 Jimmy swing on me. I'm talking about in general, I 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:47.240 apologize and didn't say the same thing I say, and 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.400 you swing on this morning. There's so many people that 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.360 go to the gym that will get they asked Woods 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.520 on a daily basis, because muscles don't mean a damn thing. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.240 I can walk to walk up to you and kick 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.000 you in your knee and the fight is almost over 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.200 because you can't. You don't out of your balance. So period, 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:02.880 that's the bad thing with rich guys. They've been all 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.720 around the world. He might be over in China studying 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.720 some old pressure points. But now we talked about this man. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.440 You over here messing with some some some some street 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.920 marshal arts. You know. I'm messing with some street things too, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.480 So you know I respect that. Now. Is that why 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.160 you in the call You Bluff video you took it 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.680 back to the street, to the aid to let people know, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.920 like looking, man, listen, if it's anything that I love 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.880 right now is taking it back like I called it. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.520 This album is back to the basics. So again I 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.640 listened to the fans when they say they want the 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.160 old Loot. I get that, you know. It's like I 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.080 can always do that, But at the same time, I 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.120 have to be the new Looder. I have to be progressive. 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.280 I have to evolve. There are new things that have 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.840 happened in my life that I always have to you know, 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.520 I pretty much have to talk about. But at the 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.199 same time, this album is like the old Louder mixed 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.600 with the new Looder emerging it perfectly together. Can you 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.400 really give them old looted or like you can't be 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.280 twenty five against different? Listen to the album No, No, 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.120 I see what you're saying, because there's different things to 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.400 talk about. However, I think what they're talking about isression 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.840 and kind of like the flow patterns and and doing 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.800 different things. So when you hear call your bluff and 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.880 you hear me instantly come on there and just start 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.560 going crazy and just beasting out on people, that's really 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.839 what it's about. Because I watched the show and I 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.800 hear y'all constantly talking about how the game is forever 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.520 changing and ever evolving. And right now we're in an 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.280 era where you can pretty much put out just content, 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.439 music with content, and just flow and just do you. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.600 You don't necessarily have to worry so much about I 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.520 need a radio record or I need something that spends 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.319 this this much. Dudes, back to rapping exactly. So that's 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.640 what this album is. It's back to rapping. It's not 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.360 trying to format one record to be like this or 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:38.960 one record to be like this. This is something you 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.880 can listen to from beginning to the end, and it's 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.520 what everybody's wanting me to do. And just beast the 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.320 hell out. You ever sound like Good Loving and then 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.000 you have a song like call your Bluff, Yeah, completely different. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:51.880 See Good Loving was on the EP and it just 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.559 carried over because of its popularity. So that's about. That's 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.559 probably the only record on the album that I would 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.920 consider you know that carried over. But everything else is 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.760 that was a very reflective song for you. It definitely was. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.000 I think everybody can relate to that because you know, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.920 it's it's it's being honest and men talking about their 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.280 feelings in relationships because you don't hear that from a 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.720 man's perspective. So I get more guys coming up to 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.439 me like randomly saying, yo, I really feel that record 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.360 than I do girls. And that's crazy because, like I said, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.480 you know, guys don't want to admit when they break 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.839 up with somebody that, look, I didn't mean to break 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.079 your heart, you know what? I mean, and when you 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:31.160 in retrospect, some guys do purposely just completely mess something up. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.040 But then there are times where you look in retrospecting 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.360 you like, I didn't just purposely mean to break you 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.800 like that. And that's really what that record is all about. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.040 It's just basically telling you a lot of guys were different, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.800 you know what I'm saying. In relationships, we're going through life, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.960 we're living in the fast lane, and we don't really 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.240 understand what we've done until years later and we look 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.679 back and like, damn, that was kind of messed up, 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.560 you know what I'm saying, at least about how good 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:01.080 absolutely making radio formatted record, yeah, kind of hard. If 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.680 you got Shocker, who's a formal music director, right, he'd 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.240 probably the person telling you gotta make a radio record. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.640 You gotta make a radio record, No man, Shaka, you 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.880 gotta understand even though radio hits too, I did. And 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.600 that's that's the thing. Like, that's part of the reason 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.960 being in the game fifteen years, and we're coming up 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.760 on the fifteen year anniversary in October, being in this 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.240 game for so long, having so many radio hits, having 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.680 so many Grammys, having so many you know, awards and 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.680 just accolades. It's like I've done that and I don't 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.240 necessarily have to do that again. I just want to 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.640 give the people what it is that they're asking for, 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.280 especially since I have one more album after this one 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.679 on deaf Jam. Let's go to want to talk deaf Jam, 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:43.040 because you talk about let's do it. You got through 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.840 unions when they're not there anymore. So yeah, after this, 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.920 my contracts still the same. I know you, But for you, 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.920 when your contract is over, does it make sense financially 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.839 to keep loot because you know they can't afford the 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.920 big count. I mean you was grandfather did almost Yeah, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.680 you know what, I'm not gonna give it away, but 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.280 I just feel like there are so many other opportunities 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.560 out there, so they would have to really entice me 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.200 in order for me to continue on. And like we 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.320 always talk about how the game is changing, I just 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.920 feel like it's it's new. It's there's some new things 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.640 going on and it's going to completely change the entire 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.400 music industry. And I like to stay afloat of what's new, 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.040 especially because the timing is coming up on me coming 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.360 out of my contract. Has anybody disrespected you and asked 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:32.920 you to sign a three sixty deal. Hell no, that's 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.920 when we would have to swing on somebody for real. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.360 Don't don't ever disrespect me with the three sixty. Luckily, 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.760 I came into the game, and a lot of people 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.040 don't talk about this. I came into the music game 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.080 where I feel like artists got the most out of 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.160 juicing the industry in terms of I came into the 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.440 music game where I could sell def jam forecasting me 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.160 to sell half a million records on my first album 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:56.760 back for the first time. I went on to sell 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:01.880 three million, second album, three million album, three million. People 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.720 of course are not selling three million records anymore, so 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.600 during this era, I could not be more blessed and 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:09.880 more thankful that I came into the game at a 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.720 time where everybody was selling records, getting money from those records, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.439 and also doing so many different things because nowadays it's 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.240 not considered smart to just be a rapper, right, you 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:20.920 can't do that. That's why I didn't even know that 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.200 you hadn't put on music in five years, because like, honestly, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.400 how important is music now when you're doing movies, when 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.040 you're doing network television. Yeah, you got a brand it is, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.440 But I do feel like music is still important because 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.360 this was it was. It's what got me here. You 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:37.160 know what I'm saying, Absolutely extremely passionate, and I can 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.079 never forget what got me here in the first place, 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.840 and I'll never take four or five years to drop 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.960 an album ever again. Now it has to be difficult 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.679 for you because you've been all over the blogs and 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.160 the tabloids and absolute and I know you're not used 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.120 to that because you are normally a pretty private person, yeah, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:53.720 you know, minding your business when it comes to your 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.960 personal life. How has that been for you to have 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.160 to deal with all this public life going to cored. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.840 That's a great question. And what you just said was 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.680 I'm not used to it, and I don't like being 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.400 in those in those tabloids in that way. And I 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.320 think that each of us here and everybody watching for 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.560 that matter, no matter what you don't really like, I 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.319 feel like the world is going to force you to 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.320 deal with You gotta address it at least once. Yeah, no, 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.800 you do, and I completely understand that. But basically what 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.280 I'm saying is I never was that person, and now 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.920 this has forced me to become a person that has 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.960 to kind of sit back and I love how people 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.440 hear all these different things and some of them are true, 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.960 don't get it twisted. However, a lot of them are untrue. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.560 And so since I sit back and just watch, it 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.400 allows me to have a position of people are judging 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.120 me based off a lot of things that are not true, 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:49.800 and you know what's crazy about that? You know what, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.080 you know what's crazy about that? I absolutely love it 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.840 because I know the truth. God knows the truth. And 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.680 as long as as long as that's the case, then 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.440 it's almost like you get to watch and let people 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.800 judge you based off of things that you know are 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.200 not true. Does it affect your relationship with with your 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.160 home life? Absolutely not. That's the best because we know 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.160 the truth. Let me just say that, myself, my wife, 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.280 and God, we but we all know the truth. So 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.600 with that being said, it's almost entertaining. It's just as 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.920 entertaining as everybody looking at me being entertained by what 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.840 they are saying about me. We're just as entertained watching 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.720 you judge me by listening to this false information. Sometimes 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.400 it has to make you want to retaliate, like sometimes 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:39.200 in your head you have there you yeah, I love. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.320 I love that I love. No, it's it comes through 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.920 the music, you know. I think we all have situations 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.080 where we have to we have to use, uh like 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.120 it's therapy to go do certain things. Some go to 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.040 the gun range, some go you know, practice martial arts, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.360 and some go box, some go running and exercise. But 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.520 for me, somewhere else. And yeah, but I put it 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.200 through my music. Man, I put it through that as 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:02.880 a man. I don't know what you did wrong. I mean, 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:04.200 if the story is what I heard, you had a 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.200 baby on a break for what, let me tell you something. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.200 I've said this before. I'm not perfect, and I know 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.560 a lot of people out there. No one is perfect. However, 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.800 everything that I'm going through is perfect for me, and 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.840 it's made me a better person. It's made me a 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.040 better man. And what's to come, it's going to be 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.440 the absolute best thing that could ever happen. And it 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.400 already has happened because a blessing came out of it. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.880 And I can't necessarily talk, you know, specifics, because anything 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.560 I say can and will be used against me in 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.600 the court of the law, because there's still current litigation 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.160 going on. But at the end of the day, just 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.240 generally speaking, the best thing that's ever happened to me 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.040 in my entire life. On the way I do, I'm 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:45.840 trying to catch up with you, like this is my goal. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.880 Like I'm trying to catch up with envy. And that's 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.480 really what it came down to. Mad. You know, it's 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.920 crazy because like I had an endorsement deal from this 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.960 company called Breakaway Condoms, and then they just they pulled out. 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:00.600 They pulled out on me at the last minute. So 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:09.480 I don't but it's just the last moment they pulled 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.840 out on me. Can you believe that? Can you believe it? 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.920 We made the man who made what's your fantasy when 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.359 you talk about having sex in about a thousand different places, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.399 finally lock it down and getting married. Man. You know 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.000 what I always say this, I think life is about timing. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.480 And what I mean by that is there's a time 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.479 where you could get married and it's not gonna be right, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.880 and you could be the same person and years later 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:30.760 you get married and I know, you know what I'm 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.639 talking about it and it's gonna be right. It was 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.240 just the right timing for me. So you know it 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.280 took me seventeen years. I'm the same girl seventeen years 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.440 finally didn't September damn. Okay, look when I say timing, 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:49.080 I don't mean that. Damn damn that. Yeah, applaud you 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.399 were married already anyway. It was always rooming. Oh they 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.600 already gotten me again, that's all, you know, people putting 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.159 stuff out, and we never feel the need to have 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.720 to always defend ourselves because it's entertaining just watching people 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.840 judges based off or whatever. But with that being said, 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.440 it's like it was that time, man, and I can 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.760 honestly say that so far, so good, and I hope 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.679 it continues so far so good for you, or you 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.040 just don't know yet. Oh man, I don't know. I'm 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.160 waiting to find out my damn self. Yeah, I heard 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.239 you got upset in my little bro Pete Davidson at 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.600 the Just to Be Be Comedy Central rules. Oh man, 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.280 you made some Paul Walker jewel. Yeah, let me tell 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.159 you something. And I wouldn't even repeat those jokes because 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.760 of how disrespectful I feel they were. But I was 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.879 definitely upset about that, and you know, like I was 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:36.320 to the point where I was about to go a 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.080