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Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning Breakfast Club Morning.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We

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Speaker 1: are to Breakfast Club A special guests in the building.

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Speaker 1: It's up up back again. I knew he was gonna

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Speaker 1: say it like that. I mean, it's only right. You know,

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Speaker 1: any places I went around the street, people I got

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Speaker 1: so tired of people doing anything. But you know when

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Speaker 1: they come to me and they'll be like, YO, do

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Speaker 1: the thing. Good morning, everybody is d like it's it's

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Speaker 1: the same thing. It becomes your signature. Yeah, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: is what it is. So how are you feeling, man?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, a couple of months ago you

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Speaker 1: had COVID you said you lost forty pounds. Yeah, talk

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Speaker 1: about that a little bit, because that was right around

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Speaker 1: the time that Rest in Peace k Sleigh had COVID.

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Speaker 1: Man Kase Slay got sick at the same time, and

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Speaker 1: he went in the hospital and I didn't um, and

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Speaker 1: I was talking to k I was talking back and forth,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I remember him telling me he said,

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Speaker 1: O kid, I almost checked out last night. And then UM,

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Speaker 1: I stopped talking to him and I started talking to

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Speaker 1: his MS and me and Hub were going back and forth.

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Speaker 1: I was checking to make sure he was all right,

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Speaker 1: and then I said, let me just lay off of

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Speaker 1: him for a while. I know she's probably gone through

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Speaker 1: with him. Let me just lay off. And then next thing,

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Speaker 1: you know, find out that he was he passed. And

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Speaker 1: then when I spoke to it, she said, I can't

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Speaker 1: even going the woman look at him. Wow, she couldn't.

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Speaker 1: His vole manager or somebody was over him playing, but

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Speaker 1: she couldn't even go into him the same. It was

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Speaker 1: just sad. It was sad. Man. Did you have all

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Speaker 1: your shots or did you? Did you go through the

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Speaker 1: shots and the boosters all that? I sure didn't, So

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Speaker 1: how do you feel about that now? Would would you

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Speaker 1: have got your shots? Now? Was one of those things?

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Speaker 1: And why didn't you get the shots? I didn't. I

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Speaker 1: didn't understand. I didn't. I wanted to see where it

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Speaker 1: was going. Man, you know I didn't. I still don't know.

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Speaker 1: You know, um, I will say since the boosters and

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Speaker 1: sister shots came, everything did go down as far as

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Speaker 1: the COVID's concerned. But I just didn't what I wasn't

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Speaker 1: fully convinced yet. I didn't really understand. This is the

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Speaker 1: second time a quarter two. Wow. Yeah, the first time

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Speaker 1: a quarter was it was way worse. I caught that

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the OVID and it was bad.

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Speaker 1: I understood why people died from me Fred to Godson.

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Speaker 1: He was sitting in my carib but a month later

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Speaker 1: he was dead. You know what I'm saying. This dude

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Speaker 1: was dancing around my house and happy. Um, but I

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Speaker 1: just felt like, um, it just wasn't something I was

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, he when I when I

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Speaker 1: got sick the second time, he sent me see mass

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Speaker 1: He sent me different days, and people from around the

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Speaker 1: country send meself. So I was taking care of and

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Speaker 1: I was good. You know, I just didn't see myself

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Speaker 1: taking them shots shre. I just I don't know. And then,

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Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, certain dates that I was

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Speaker 1: supposed to do, certain shows, I was supposed to have

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Speaker 1: to cancel because I didn't have a shot because you

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Speaker 1: didn't have the car. Yeah. Yeah, So but I feel good,

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Speaker 1: I feel healthy, I feel strong. Yeah, man, I didn't

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Speaker 1: have no issues. Everything is beautiful. Man. I was saying

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Speaker 1: I'm like wow. She was like I can't smell the perfume.

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Speaker 1: Wow tested her, she had COVID. I tested all my kids.

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Speaker 1: Nothing tested myself, nothing tested the nanny, nothing tested the baby,

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Speaker 1: little moody, but nothing too crazy things. So it's not

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Speaker 1: the entertainers and all the different people that I knew

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Speaker 1: that passed from this man, it was. It was a

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Speaker 1: been scary for your family too. Absolutely, And when I

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Speaker 1: I shot everybody that did that. But it was a

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Speaker 1: scary moment because you know, you don't you don't know,

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Speaker 1: It just pops uporing you, And how do you deal

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Speaker 1: to see him going right now, for him to not

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Speaker 1: some people that you just you know, everybody's gonna go

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Speaker 1: one day, but it's some people that you just see

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Speaker 1: it's not that way, and you're in Bisiness Markey have

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Speaker 1: such a rich history together. Biz Markey gave me my

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Speaker 1: I wasn't even trying to be a rapper. I got

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Speaker 1: that's why I didn't do one every year. My next

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Speaker 1: record wasn't until seven years later, which the soundtrack in

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Speaker 1: twenty something years later after that. So you think if

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Speaker 1: records back then, it could have been your bread and butter. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it could have been. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to deal with clamasses. I didn't want

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Speaker 1: I did album, when I started helping the Battle Rappers,

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Speaker 1: So I win't got the Battle Rappers that did the

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Speaker 1: Treat me like an artist. I have to be good

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Speaker 1: So when I would get on stage with this platinum

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Speaker 1: what am I going to do? I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: better than that dude on that stage because I had

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Speaker 1: to be because the imagery of the DJ was we

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Speaker 1: So my whole thing always been to make the DJ

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Speaker 1: or being held to regard as somebody that, like a

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Speaker 1: Stevie wanted that plays keyboard. I'm playing the turntables. Why

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Speaker 1: can't that be an instrument as well as a keyboard?

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So that was my mindset.

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Speaker 1: So to see the DJ elevate to where it's at

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Speaker 1: right now, that was always in my plan from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Where the downside is is that when you got signed

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Speaker 1: Now it's to the point where anybody could grab a

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Speaker 1: was asked to do it. Um, I felt like, you know,

426
00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:24,680
Speaker 1: it was bigger than me, and it ain't about me

427
00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,399
Speaker 1: and me just going to do the event. It's about

428
00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,119
Speaker 1: these guys. I want to see them get their flowers.

429
00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:29,600
Speaker 1: Let's just make it happen. So when I got to

430
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,320
Speaker 1: the venue, first thing I did was seeing scratching. I

431
00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,280
Speaker 1: hugged him. I was like, Yo, we're on rock right now,

432
00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,359
Speaker 1: but you know, I love you and we'll see how

433
00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,560
Speaker 1: the later on. At some point and I walked away,

434
00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,920
Speaker 1: I was it was that was the end of it.

435
00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,439
Speaker 1: No lost, and it was about the event. Let's do that.

436
00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,359
Speaker 1: And the whole time, he had a whole setup where

437
00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,639
Speaker 1: he was trying to shoot on me in front of

438
00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,160
Speaker 1: the whole world. Like he took that opportunity to do that,

439
00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,760
Speaker 1: which wasn't a smart thing first of all, because I'm

440
00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,760
Speaker 1: not the dude you do that to take my talent

441
00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,920
Speaker 1: and you move it to the side. I don't have

442
00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,720
Speaker 1: a record of being bad to people or treating people foul,

443
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,960
Speaker 1: or doing bad business or any of that. So I said,

444
00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,480
Speaker 1: it's on the drink chairs right there. You lose just

445
00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,239
Speaker 1: because of that alone. Let's take my talent. Move it

446
00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,159
Speaker 1: over there. Now you got to deal with the talent,

447
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,879
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I hadn't been up

448
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,440
Speaker 1: against a lot of great people, you know what I'm saying.

449
00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,440
Speaker 1: And Scratch is one of the great people. He is

450
00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,639
Speaker 1: who he is. But nothing intimidates me. Nothing's going to

451
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 1: make me fold, nothing's gonna make me feel like this

452
00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:28,840
Speaker 1: person's going to be better. Even if they are, I'm

453
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,840
Speaker 1: always going to have that attitude that I'm the greatest

454
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:34,520
Speaker 1: on stage no matter what. So for him to do

455
00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,840
Speaker 1: what he did in that setting, it was like a

456
00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:43,680
Speaker 1: smack in the face because it wasn't about me and him.

457
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,800
Speaker 1: It was about Carerest and Kane. It was about making

458
00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:47,399
Speaker 1: sure there was right now. How they came to me

459
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,360
Speaker 1: and say, your kid, there's a battle situation you want

460
00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 1: to get I would have saying, hell, yeah, you know

461
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,199
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, But that's not what was told to me.

462
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,160
Speaker 1: What was told to me, kid, I need to do assignment,

463
00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,639
Speaker 1: come out there and tell that shit down when you

464
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,480
Speaker 1: first come out, and then do the care Rest thing.

465
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,639
Speaker 1: And that's what I did. So when that happened, it

466
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,119
Speaker 1: was an awkward moment. That's why I started rhyming. I

467
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 1: did a little wax scratch because it was an awkward moment.

468
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,160
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do. It was like dead there.

469
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 1: But in that moment, I was pissed off. I was

470
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 1: really really hot because I'm thinking like, oh, why would

471
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,040
Speaker 1: he even do some shit like that, like why where

472
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,880
Speaker 1: did this come from? And then you know, Carest gets

473
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 1: at him, Kane gets at him, so it was just

474
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 1: all wrong. It was wrong, But mainly it was about

475
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,239
Speaker 1: Kane and Chris, and that's what I wanted to do.

476
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:33,880
Speaker 1: Like I said on the Dream Chams, I got sucker

477
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 1: free clothingline. I could have wore sucker free shirt, sucker

478
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,400
Speaker 1: free hat. I could have warred the day. But in

479
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,159
Speaker 1: every situation, it's not about me. It wasn't about me.

480
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 1: In that situation, it's about Kane and Chris. It wasn't

481
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 1: about me. It's kicking free. I'm here, look at me.

482
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 1: I did what you asked me to do, and that

483
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 1: was my job of keeping mine. I've been asked to

484
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 1: do versus four different times before that, and you know,

485
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,880
Speaker 1: normally somebody would have took that opportunity because it's dead.

486
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,879
Speaker 1: I don't take opportunities because his dad. I take it

487
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,679
Speaker 1: because it's the right thing to do at the right moment.

488
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:04,920
Speaker 1: Like the caress and the Kane thing was, have you

489
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:10,120
Speaker 1: spoke after Scratch? No? No, no, And here's the thing,

490
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:16,200
Speaker 1: after it was all over and everything happened right because

491
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 1: we had a meet in the Kane's room and you know,

492
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,959
Speaker 1: but after it was all over, it if Scratch were

493
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 1: to call me him and like your care you know

494
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 1: what that was found with out there. But even if

495
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: you don't rock me like that, that was just foul

496
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 1: with I. Did you know what I'm saying. I shouldn't

497
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 1: have did that. And I apologize. I just say, you

498
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 1: know what, Scratch, I love you, but only worry about

499
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 1: lets go fix this shit up and now have been

500
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 1: able to fix it up, but it was on our way. Instead,

501
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 1: he goes on the net and he lies against me.

502
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 1: He says that he said the first thing he said

503
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,920
Speaker 1: was the vine I said was about Kane. Yeah, that's

504
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,159
Speaker 1: not the truth. What are you talking about. If I

505
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 1: didn't tell Kane, I wasn't gonna do it with him.

506
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,400
Speaker 1: You wouldn't even been on the show. Kane's my man.

507
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 1: My mom used to cook for Kane. No, it was

508
00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 1: about you. Danny said, Chickie Prie don't want DJs the shine.

509
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 1: That's why he brings DJ's on the road with him. Well,

510
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: ain't that making DJ shine? If I'm bringing DJ's on

511
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 1: the road, paying the more this money, they've seeing the world,

512
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: they're having a good time. They ain't got to worry

513
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: about nothing. Ain't that making DJ shine? Like? What are

514
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,719
Speaker 1: you saying? Like he tried to say everything to get

515
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 1: him out of that situation. And I understand that, But

516
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 1: then I don't because I'm somebody that you talked to

517
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: all the time. We talk to call me your kid.

518
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: You know what kind of dude I am. I'm not

519
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 1: a dude of you to call me and be like

520
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 1: your kid. Nah, hung Nah, Let's work it out. And

521
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. So when you when when something

522
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: like that happens, it's like, damn, man, whare's gonna come

523
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: from next? Who's next to shit on you? Who's the

524
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 1: next one to like mad at what you're doing? So

525
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 1: now they're gonna come at you this way? And and

526
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: it makes you shut down against everybody. And I'm not

527
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 1: I'm not naturally like that. I'm an easy going dude.

528
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,119
Speaker 1: I love I want everybody to win. I want anybody

529
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: to do good. I want anybody to be happy. And

530
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: that's my life. That's that's why God has blessed me

531
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: the way he is blessed me, because I have greatness

532
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: in my heart for everybody. Now that you said they

533
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: approached you about a bunch of verses, who did they

534
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: want you to do verses with? One of them was

535
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 1: keep sweat? Do you mean you sit and keep sweat?

536
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: You the lights can keep sweat? What you mean? No? Yeah,

537
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: he one day wanted me to back him up. Right now,

538
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: they wanted me to back him up. But my thing was,

539
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: he's the mighty keeps sweat. Come on, he is who

540
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 1: he is, and he's hauled them on top of that.

541
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 1: But I'm a DJ battle, I thought, no, it was not. No,

542
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: there's never been a DJ And that's another thing. That's

543
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: another thing too, in the history of versus, there's never

544
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 1: been a DJ battle, correct, So for Scratch to do

545
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: what he did, he didn't make sense. And they just

546
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 1: had a Spanish one this weekend this weekend. Yeah, but

547
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: but up until this weekend that has never been that.

548
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: So that's why I didn't make no sense. Me and scratch.

549
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 1: Don't do what each other do. I don't have sparks

550
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 1: and or I don't do that. But that didn't make sense,

551
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: It just didn't. He came there to kill me, that's

552
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: what he came mere to do. So but it's all good,

553
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: it's all good, it's past. But the verses. Yeah, the

554
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: one thing about versus, when you come there, make sure

555
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: that you there to work and really get it in.

556
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 1: Don't come there playing around, man, because that's that's your

557
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: all of your legacy in one spot at one time,

558
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,120
Speaker 1: and the whole world watching it. So you can't come

559
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: in there playing shout the red, shout to jo see

560
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: what happened. But you know, I don't think they have

561
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: took it as sibious as they might have thought. What's

562
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: your relationship with Flex? I love Flex? I mean Flex

563
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 1: act the where you act with me. But I love

564
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: them like you know, I tell the truth, man. I

565
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 1: would love for me and Flex to be super cool.

566
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: Me and Flex could have made me and Flex could

567
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 1: have made so much money when I when I gave,

568
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: When me and Flex had all the little situation going on,

569
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: which time, which time? Kid? The last time I always

570
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: had the big one I called Flex. I see a Flex,

571
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: You know how much money we could have made, we

572
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 1: could make to take because at the time I was

573
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,719
Speaker 1: doing givey Kid Foundation for the kids. I was going

574
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 1: around the country take care or the kids around the country.

575
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: So I said to Flex, we could have made so

576
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: much money to take care a bunch of people that

577
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: needed flex more. Flex thing was more of I don't

578
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 1: want to shine or for me than let's take care

579
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: of other people. Because I said to him, it's not

580
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: about the DJing, it's about the opportunity that we could

581
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 1: create for other people. Right, But he felt like I

582
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: gave him pleasure. He felt like it wasn't the right

583
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: time at the time. You know, whatever the case may be.

584
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 1: But here's my thing, man, I don't want no beef,

585
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: those issues, no nothing with nobody. I just want to

586
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: do good in what I do. I just want to

587
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 1: have fun, make my bread, create opportunities for other people,

588
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: and keep doing what I've been doing. I'm not into

589
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: if I'm better than this dude, to this dude's better

590
00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: than me, or as carry your spot. I ain't got nothing.

591
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: I think that'd be great for versus though we could

592
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: if they could figure out that he will never do

593
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: it because it's not about who's batter who's not right,

594
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: it's not it's never it's the culture, right, it's the

595
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: It's the same thing as you know mixtapes back in

596
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: the day, but envy. That's when when I told Flex

597
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: let's have a little bad let's battle, it was about

598
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: the culture. Keep in mind I didn't get on the

599
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 1: same thing about his family, girl, his radio station, his friends.

600
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: I said, baddle, that's battle for the culture, and that

601
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 1: was it. That man got on the sod I fell off.

602
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: He said all these different things. So I mean, I

603
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 1: guess in battle, that's a part of it. But that's

604
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: not where my head was at. My head was, you know, skills,

605
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: it's just skilled. Let's just do it and this half fun.

606
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: It wasn't even about the skills. It was because it

607
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 1: take it to take the truth angel. Anything gonna went

608
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: wrong that day, bad equipment for me. Nobody want to

609
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: hear excuses. They weren't the results. So I could have

610
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: had a bad day, would equip me sound man messed up?

611
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: Whatever that happened in Flex with the one, it's not

612
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: about that. It's about what we could have did and

613
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: the opportunities we could create the open doors for other people.

614
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: That's where my head is always about. You know what

615
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's always bigger than me. It's always about

616
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: how can we make things better. Now, let's talk about

617
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: this album. Love first album in twenty four years. Yep,

618
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: he must have been board at home during pandemic. No

619
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: what it was. I've been on the road from eighty

620
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 1: eight to the pandemic. No time over but most that's

621
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: been my bread and butter. Eighty eight to the pandemic,

622
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: I've just been going and going and going. So I

623
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: never had a chance to sit down and focus on

624
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: anything else. Even when I did the soundtrack the Streets album,

625
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: I kind of had help because I had track masters

626
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: with me, But I never had a chance to sit

627
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: down and just focus on other things. So on the pandemic,

628
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: I did four albums. Well did the fifth album or

629
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: it's five albums or the five albums? I did the

630
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: real We opened the real estate, we opened up the

631
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: fucking free clothingline, started um started another business. So that's

632
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: what I say. I had a chance to sit down

633
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: and just focus on stuff. So when I did this album.

634
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: One of the reasons why I did this album was

635
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: I seen a little pump disrespect eminem No nobody listened

636
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: to you, old nobody listening to you. I'm like, Yo,

637
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: what's up? It's calling people old and like, does that

638
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: mean they're not capable? So on one of my records,

639
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: The Business, on the album, I say that, I say, um, um,

640
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: y'all better stop back and like the old js ain't capable.

641
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: Get your ass crushed on that stage. I say that

642
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: on the record, right. So when I seen the pump

643
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: say what he said, that kind of contribute to me,

644
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, I said, you know, let me do that then.

645
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: And then I started seeing some of the older statesmen

646
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: and the music being too scared to put their music

647
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: out because they're scared about what the young DJ's is

648
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: going to do. And Um, I just said, you know what,

649
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: let me just let me just write slack he I

650
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: wrote slap Cam my first joint. I just wrote it.

651
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: And when I seen that, I was like, Wow, did

652
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: the record came out good? And then I did the album.

653
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: So when I put sla Key out, my thing was

654
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: if people don't accept this record, if I get any

655
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: kind of negative or this record, the album's never going

656
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: to see the light of the day, even though I

657
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: knew what I had, even though I knew I had it,

658
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: And with this album, I could have asked any of

659
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: my producer friends or any artists that I know would

660
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: come getting this album I did. I produced the world everything.

661
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: I just did everything, and I wanted to show the

662
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: world that I'm not just DJ Kikapre. I'm everything. But

663
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: DJ kick Kapri is where I got big as I

664
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: got to Grammy on my wall with jay Z, I

665
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: got different accolades of records I produced, but I got

666
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: biggest kick compre DJ, so they never looked at me.

667
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: In another way, I don't get a lot of credit

668
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: for writing or producing, so this was part of the

669
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: reason for me to do it. So I put my

670
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: mother on the front cover. I put my daughter in

671
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: the arena in the uptown record, and I made it

672
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: about the love. I mean about the love of the

673
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: career and the music and everything that should be going on.

674
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: How you should listen to music, how body of work

675
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: should be made. It should never just be just one

676
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: thing because that one thing is hot. Make it everything,

677
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: so it's layers to it, you know, and um what

678
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: likest the most DJs put out albums, it's like a

679
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: compilation situation. Yeah. Well the first album like that of

680
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: his Car was marbum soundtrack of the Streets, right what

681
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: other DJ? But then you have DJ Quick who was

682
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: ah of what I'm saying, you have Run was a

683
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: DJ um who else? Diamond D, DJ producer, you know,

684
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: Q Tips, you know what I say. So you have

685
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: people that is, you know, But for me to sound

686
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: the way I sound right now, after all the time,

687
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: my last album and at my age right now, it's

688
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: pretty dope, you know what I'm saying. The beats, everything,

689
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: the way I write, the way I perform it. I

690
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: haven't got one complaint since I put this album out

691
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: now one person said, Okay, you shouldn't have did this,

692
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: or this record is whack, or that reck is week.

693
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: I haven't got one complaint. The only frustrating part for

694
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: me is I know that everybody doesn't know what's there.

695
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: Because I'm independent. I don't have no big machine mihama.

696
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: I'm doing it myself. I try to make it as

697
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: good as possible so that it will have life on

698
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: its own, whether DJ's on the radio played or they don't,

699
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: or if you get the big backing behind it, I

700
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: wanted to make an album that people will really like, say, Yo,

701
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: this is really good, and that's all I've been getting.

702
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: That's that's that's that's what the feedback ben. So you know,

703
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: I shot three of the videos I did a slap

704
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: key or the Uptown I did Why to wake those out?

705
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: Now I'm doing more videos to it. And another thing,

706
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: a lot of people put their their projects out and

707
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: after a month for their project being out there, offer

708
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: to the next thing, like their project ain't work for

709
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: them putting the time to it. I'm never scared to

710
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: go back to the beginning. I'm always going to work.

711
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: I have no problem with working, and I'm going to

712
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: continue to promote my album as long as I need to.

713
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: I own it as mine, you know. And this is

714
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: a This is a message to a lot of people

715
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: out there. Sixty thousand records come out of day on Spotify.

716
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: You're us. You could get lost and everything. So it's

717
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: up it's up to you to make sure that people

718
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: know what's there. Now. Every radio station is going to

719
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: take care of it. You ain't gonna not everybody's gonna

720
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: have two hundred, two hundred fifty thousand dollars to promote

721
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: one record on the radio and across the board, So

722
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: you have to make it as good as possible and

723
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: then be able to take that cool thing about you

724
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: push to the side and work it and make people

725
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: know what's there, and keep pushing it and keep nothing

726
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: people knowing, and be cool with the DJs and be

727
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: cool with people that can help you and in return

728
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: return them favors back to those people don't get on

729
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: like a lot of artists do when DJ's helped them,

730
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: and once they get where they're going, they don't even

731
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: call the check to see if you're healthy. They don't

732
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: even see if you are right, if you need anything,

733
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: not that I do, but a call you'll kill you good,

734
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: you're right. You called me every day when you needed something.

735
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: So that's what kind of made me kind of shy

736
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: back from people too, Like I didn't help so many

737
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,719
Speaker 1: people know same people I help. I can't even get

738
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: a phone call to say you'll kill you good or

739
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: who checks up on you? But when you're done and that,

740
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: who calls you? Like for myself, I know, I know

741
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: Fat Joe's gonna call, I know Fab's gonna call, I

742
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: know Norry's gonna call. I know Buster's gonna call. Oh

743
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: my gods, I love Buster. Um trying to think who

744
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: else calls all the time? Those are the brothers that

745
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: will call me all the time, besides clueing you, that

746
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: make sure I'm good? Who reaches out to the kid?

747
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: I remember to be honest with searing me. Not a

748
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: lot of entertainers When I got sick, A lot of

749
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: entertainers reached out. You know, a lot of actors, a

750
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: lot of different people. When my mom's died, people like

751
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: Terry Crews and people like that reached out. But and

752
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: and you know what, I don't know if I have

753
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: a type of a type of imagery that people think

754
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 1: I'm all right, like nothing's never wrong, or like I

755
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: got everything under control. I'm as human as anybody else.

756
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: I guys feelings like anybody else. You know. I want

757
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: to be checked on too. Give me a call your kid?

758
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: You good? Because this is how I move. I remember

759
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: one time Busters said to me, your kid, you never

760
00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: asked for no? You called me. He's like, Yo, you're

761
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: never ask for nothing. I said, ask for no because

762
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: I always call a check on them, CV healthy whatever.

763
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: You never asked form no? I said, why do I

764
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: need to ask for something because I know you got

765
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: that got my own. Like I called the check on

766
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: you generally because I care about how you're doing, if

767
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: you're healthy, if you're eating everything, so are you moving around?

768
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: You know, you don't think about these things sometime and

769
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna say now, I say, I get it. You

770
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: used to people having their hand out all the time.

771
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: So when somebody don't, they're looking out for you. You

772
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: know you used to that. I get I can't stand

773
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: what people call and they don't tell you right away

774
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: what it is if they want, but they try to

775
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: act like they make a small talk. But you know

776
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: this person is calling me for a reason. Let's just

777
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: get to it. Yeah, but it's it's it's dope. When

778
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: somebody called yo, you are is everything straight? Like you

779
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like and and and and that's

780
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. That's somebody that really care about

781
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: what you're doing and care about well being and how

782
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: and you know you can have your life in their

783
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: hands and then and you're straight. But now you know

784
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: then fortunately we live in a business. We're in the

785
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: business where we love the business. We love we get

786
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,720
Speaker 1: out of it. But it's not for everybody, but everybody

787
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: wants to be a part of it. And some of

788
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: those people that are part of it, their heart is

789
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: not in the place where my heart might be. And

790
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: I used to get confused with that. She say, Yo,

791
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 1: why nobody think the way I think? Why nobody see

792
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: this the way I see it and take it personal?

793
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: But you can't. You can't. Everybody's their own individual you

794
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Let me ask you this, if

795
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 1: all the artists that you've worked with and helped you,

796
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 1: what are you most proud of? Like what collab would

797
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: you say? This is the one that I'm like, this

798
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 1: was a defining moment. I'm really proud when Madonna called me.

799
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: When I did Madonna Madonna, I mean, jay Z have

800
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: everybody I worked with, I'm very honor But when Madonna

801
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: called me, that was weird. That was that was It's different.

802
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: It's all the way with that side, because that wasn't

803
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: even somebody I had a relationship with. Right and she

804
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: called and asked me to produce Masterpiece for I did that,

805
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: and then she asked me to do the record. She

806
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: wanted me to redo the record with her Nicki Minaj

807
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: that she had out, but she already paid L M

808
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 1: FAO to remix it. But she still gave me the

809
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: same amount of money that she gave me for Masterpiece

810
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: to put to remix this record, just to hear I

811
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: would come out. And she never got the record, never

812
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: asked for the money back, never came and got the record. Nothing.

813
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: I still have the record. So I said this on

814
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: Drink Champs. Nobody better ever talked bad about mcdonna. She's

815
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: all right with me. The top of the lists, and

816
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: she got that bag in a big way. So let's

817
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: let's play record off the album. What you want in

818
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: now you can play her type, her type, her type.

819
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: And we appreciate you for joining us to legend the

820
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: og kick compression love for us your daughter, give us

821
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: an update on Na. Also, she's working on her She's

822
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: in the studio all the time, man. And you know,

823
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: I don't have no dealers with how she do a music,

824
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: guy in and to nothing as y'all let her rock

825
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: and do her thing. But she's really really works hard.

826
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: She really works hard, as she every time I talk

827
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: to you. A matter of fact, she's in the studio

828
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: more than I see her, you know. And it's it's

829
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: it's that business. You gotta be consistent, gotta stay hard,

830
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 1: you gotta really work. And when she started show me

831
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: that she could sing, it was more than just to sing,

832
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: and she had to show me. I knew that she

833
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: would be able to handle the business how it goes,

834
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: you know, when you know how it is out here.

835
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 1: But more than that, she could treat people good and

836
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: you know, really perform and really work hard and show

837
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: me a lot. So she's she's doing that thing, man.

838
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: And then one last thing I wanted to ask you.

839
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,320
Speaker 1: DJ Premiere was up here the other day and we

840
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: were talking about hip hop turning fifty next year, So

841
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: do you have any big plans, oh, anything that you're

842
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: planning to do, because that is a big deal. Yeah,

843
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: I gotta think of that. I can't let that go

844
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: that day go without me doing something. I'm gonna figure

845
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: it out. I've been so busy with everything, man, It's

846
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:25,760
Speaker 1: be hard to keep up with a lot of stuff.

847
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Speaker 1: But you're right, I gotta definitely start and so many artists.

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Speaker 1: I gotta start planning on that. And this big rock

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Speaker 1: the Bells thing is coming up to that. L just

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Speaker 1: asked me to be a part of um to tell you,

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Speaker 1: I just want to see the show. This is gonna

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Speaker 1: be crazy. I did, but I wouldn't be a part

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Speaker 1: of it too, So it's gonna be dope. But I'm

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Speaker 1: doing my own festival and my own my first you know,

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00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: I've been on the role forever, but I never had

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Speaker 1: my own kick a pre tour. So now I'm putting

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Speaker 1: that together, now, putting annual festival together. We're working on

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00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 1: that right now, and it's gonna be big. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: trying to make it as as big as possible and

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Speaker 1: make it as make it a lot of fun. The

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Speaker 1: festivals in New York or Yeah, well we're gonna try

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Speaker 1: to take it around to different places. I gotta do.

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Speaker 1: A matter of fact, got the big thing with the

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Speaker 1: sound stage of Katona Park coming up August fourteen. From

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Speaker 1: doing that me being a love in the hoodies, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be real big. So everybody's out there in New

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Speaker 1: York come to Katona Park that day. Katona Park is

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Speaker 1: the legendary park where you know hip hop started, see

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Speaker 1: the park where hurt. But Katona Park is just as

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Speaker 1: important as that park. So make sure y'all come through

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Speaker 1: and have a good time with this man. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be really dope. All right, Well, this kid could pray.

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Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,