WEBVTT - OT Genasis 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.000 R and B money. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:06.120 We are. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:18.520 Thanks. We are the authority on all things R and B, ladies, and. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.920 This the R and B the fucking podcast, the authority 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.200 on all things R and B. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:33.240 Listen, name in the building. Yeah, yeah, we got a brother. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:35.800 We gotta love one. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.599 We you know, we gotta start saying to the authority 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.040 on R and B, money, R and B, everything and 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.880 everything that come along with R and B. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.840 You heard it, he said that I can come from 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.319 now on because everything come come along with R and B. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.120 Listen, man, I'm not gonna make the intro too long. Man. Okay, okay, 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.600 the change you might make everybody mad. The change is 0:00:58.600 --> 0:00:59.640 big and the money is long. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:05.160 Come on, man, come on, man, come on man. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.600 First, first, let me say like this, let me say this, 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.679 let me let me get this off my chest. First 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:15.440 of all, O T is the nicest, nicest, funniest guy 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:17.800 in the world. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.040 When I say, in the world, in the world, always smiling. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:28.800 But don't play with it, don't play with don't play 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:32.280 with him, don't play with his people because for the 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:38.240 smallest thing, I'm talking the smallest thing, O T will 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:39.039 go there. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.319 I'm like, like, big bro, what's what what's going on. Oh, man, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:44.760 he brought me some cold fries. 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:45.240 Cold fries. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:50.680 God, who brought you the fries? God? Oh, it's just frighting. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.160 Ain't your fries. It's the principal girl. They taking your 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.080 kind of weakness. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.280 God, they trying to say you cold out here, you 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:00.760 hot out here the street. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.760 I'm gonna have a hundred niggas. It's just fright. It's 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:04.800 the principal car. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:12.040 He will go, Hey, listen, that's movie. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:19.680 Listen. He can really fight. That's the problem. That's the problem. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.799 But I love it because nigga, he's standing on all 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.160 the business. If he's fucking with you and he got 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.320 love for your nigga, he're not gonna let nobody play 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:30.920 with you. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:36.120 Yeah yeah, it starts there. Yeah yeah. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:37.120 Oh. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.160 This is a few incidents I could go into. I'm 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.120 just like, oh no, stop it, please, don't do this. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.799 I't let nobody play with my role. 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.280 Man, it ain't happening. We'll be having hit that switch. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:59.800 I don't be sad. I'll be sad for the other 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:02.919 We're just bowling. I'm a bonus nigger. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.040 I'll be having to go back to the people and apologize. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.600 I'm so sorry, my little brother you know, he laughing 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.000 like that because I really was like tired. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:24.320 To me? 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:27.079 What you mean? 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:35.520 He he just love heart. I'm sorry. I thought my 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.840 life was in it was, but don't worry about it. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.600 He's fine, man, oh man, I just had to get 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:45.360 that off of my chest. Man, brother, I appreciate you, right. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:46.600 Oh. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.760 You know, we've had many a deep conversation man, And 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.400 you know I think that for me, and of course 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.920 I can speak for Jay bringing you here on the 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.800 R and B Money Podcast, it's like, you know, it's 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.720 it's one of those things where you know, maybe maybe 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.840 maybe as an overall title, you consider yourself a rapper. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.400 I consider you a songwriter for sure. Yeah, I consider 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:12.680 you a hit songwriter. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:14.480 You know what I'm saying. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.760 And you've done that, whether it just be rap, or 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.280 whether it be melodic, or whether you go ahead and 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.479 just fucking sing, get your remix on to it, like 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.920 you've done all of that. And I think that that 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:34.160 conversation is and that information is important for everybody all 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.360 the across the border. So let's go. Let's go back 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.440 to the beginning. That's what what was what was a 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:45.040 little old tie them the beach? Yeah, I was, I was. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.479 I was in like I was in Long Beach, running around, 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:56.640 you know, shooting dice at school, you know, selling candy 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:01.720 for some money, you know, all that type of stuff. Obviously, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.960 like I'm from Long be so you know we have 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:07.760 a certain type of thing over there. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.040 I don't know if you say that on this part. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:11.800 For you. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.279 Yeah, so you know we come from like crypt culture 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.480 and everything like that. I wanted to play football, but 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.920 I was bad as hell, so I was always ineligible. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:26.920 You know, look, you know, look at you right now. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.520 I ball up nigga fast, he ain't got a grade? 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:42.240 Iigga fastest, well low hiszy grade, make sure he don't play. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.360 And so my grades was bad. But I never I never. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.680 I never got to like I'm one of the dudes 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.200 that like, I always used to get confused. And then 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.160 I start saying for school only because I. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.120 Like go there and I like, do I do good? 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:57.359 I do? 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.800 I finish all my homework and then failed all the 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:04.719 time because I would never like retain I can retain 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.000 the information. I'll just make sure I complete what I 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.159 need to complete, you know what I'm saying. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:11.159 And so. 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.279 And so I started doing music. Then like by the 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.080 time I'm like sixteen. But then I went to like 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.479 like seven high schools you went to I went to 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.360 like seven yeah, because I was yeah, because everybody wanted 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:26.360 me to go to their school. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.440 I'll be over there next week. It's not a party, 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.880 I pull up. No I got. I got kicked out 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.120 of all of all the schools I was. I was, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:42.040 I was going to it. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.120 So I got kicked out at every school that I 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.880 went to, and then I found in high school. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.159 Yeah yeah, yeah. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.000 Because I was getting I was getting kicked out of 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.920 like districts and so and so I would so I 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.760 would start like in one and then I go like, 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.160 I gotta go from me surreto. 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.800 We don't want you to go to any of these 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.480 ten schools, right, you can't go to none of it. 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:13.280 So what you're saying is you've been doing club hosting. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:23.720 You permitt he only had two hour requirements. He come 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:24.880 to his hour and a half. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.200 I was kidding so like because they were like I 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.760 was so bad, they were like, now we kick you 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.920 out of the district, not out of the school. It's 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.240 not gonna expel you from the school. You're gonna go 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.920 down there and do the same ship. So we get 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.640 kicked up whatever. But I was doing music and I 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.800 used to like go online and go, I want to 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.760 go back to something real quick, go to the music. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.000 I want to go to this. I was so bad 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:59.000 because I was really bad in school. Yeah, And I 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.160 don't know why I was really bad at school, Like 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.239 I was just up for whatever challenge, whatever another nigga 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.960 wouldn't do right right right before. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.360 It was before I got to high school, right before 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:16.560 I found the Lord. The Lord changed me, but before that, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.480 and the psychologists tried to give me, you know, all 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.440 these reasons as to why, and your parents and they 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.560 left you early and went overseas without you. It's just 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.600 your rebel. Like I was like, no, I'm not rebeling. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:32.400 The nigga just said do you want to fight? And 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.080 I was with it. Teacher said some bullshit and I 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.320 called him an asshole. I was That's just what. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:39.840 I was on. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.440 What was your thing? What was it that made you 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.360 that way? Was it just you were just like taking 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:45.080 all challenges? 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.360 Yeah, I was, especially when I left Long Beach because 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:49.880 when you kick me out of school, I'm like it 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.800 was kind of like I felt that like I was 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:59.160 already I was already bad because like like when I 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.240 had to I always had to catch the bus. So 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.040 I catch the bus when I get to like the 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:06.800 train station, like they're banging on you on a train 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.960 station for those who don't know what's like, where are 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:09.360 you from? 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.480 So you start to get it, you get in that energy. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.880 I already had that energy before you even get to school, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.440 you know what I'm saying. And then we like shoot 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.640 dice at the McDonald's outside of my school in the morning, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:22.840 like so we'll try to get with that's that that 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:24.240 that's what makes us get up early. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.559 You know you said, we gotta we got shoot dice 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.040 at McDonald's before we before we across the street. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:36.760 And so but but my, my, my, my, you know, 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.960 all through my youth, I have to catch the bus 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.480 and catch the training. That's when you run into niggas 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.040 and you run into. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.440 Whoop and where you're from. Oh oh damn. We gotta 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:52.319 get off on this stop because over there, you know 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:52.760 what I mean. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.280 And so so then when I when I left Jordan 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.040 My my my main school, that's like my homeschool across 0:09:59.200 --> 0:09:59.960 like down street from. 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.040 My and I left out of Long Beach. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.880 I'm always looking at other niggas different, you know, because 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.400 they looking at me and I'm like, you know, so 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.560 I'm instantly it's a it's a defense mechanism, you know. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.520 And but I'm like, I'm tripping, and I'm like I 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.520 always now now I'm I'm I'm always trying to prove 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.600 myself to somebody, you know what I mean, and prove 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.880 that I ain't no bitch, I ain't no that I 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.600 come from here. You know, So when somebody says something 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.000 to you here, even if it's not. 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:34.640 Even if it's not. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.600 Like really threatening like that, you take it like that 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.280 because you know, you come from a certain place. So 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.640 I can't the way I'm trying to collect this information 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:45.960 that you're telling me right now. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.199 It all it all feels, it all feel the same. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.800 Yeah, yeah, And so I mean by that, yeah, so 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.160 I would I would do that. I would do that, 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.160 you know what I mean. I had like I used 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.760 to have like my you don't have the eye, the 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.160 I seven thirty, the next tails and all that, you know. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.559 I used to do that, bring like yeah, call my homies, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.320 you know what I mean, Like bring guns to school. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:11.760 I used to have my little douce fires and my 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.840 little backpack and everything like that. Like I used to 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.520 be like I used to be like on bullshit too. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:17.560 You just really out of control. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.800 Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, but but. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.200 Yeah, but it was like because every time I get 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.559 on a bus stop and I get on the train, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.160 they got this thing called the Blue Line, right, and 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.920 they go from Long Beach. You got the Long Beach station, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.360 the Artisa station, then you got the Wilmington station, which 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.800 is Compton. Then you got the one hundred and third station, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.760 which is Wis you know, and your shit keep going 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.440 all the way from Long Beach or downtown to then somebody. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.800 So you're going through every hood and when. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.640 You get off, you get off the train, you know, 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.560 it's sometimes a niggas sitting outside. They just sitting outside 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.920 the train station tripping, you know what I mean, Like 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.680 just get nobody, want no money, no nothing. We just 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.240 hear trip you know what I'm saying. And so I 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.520 was always moving that way to protect myself. So I'm like, 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.080 I'm like overly protective by myself. But at the same time, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:19.559 I'm like I'm like I'm aggressive because I'm overly protected 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:20.000 by myself. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.920 And at sixteen, you can't turn that on and off. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.280 Yeah, it's not like, oh now I'm in a classroom. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.360 Now I'm ana turn. I'm gonna turn this, this this 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.760 tripping off. No, I'm tripping on. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.440 Everything because I gotta be like this to happen to protection. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.400 So I gotta be like this for nothing, nothing that 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.160 happened to me, you know what I'm saying. So you 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.360 got initiated, so motherfuckers. No exactly exactly him alone, exactly. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.800 I'm not waiting for a nigga run up on me. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.480 And I'm like, as soon as I get off, I'm. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.240 Saying it instantly. I ain't. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.600 And I always felt like I had to be that way, 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.120 you know, and that obviously that's what God me kicked 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.280 out of all these damn schools. You know, there's others 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.040 I gotta be. I always feel like I had to 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.480 be the breast, you know. So he was going into 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.679 the computer, into the music. Yeah, so so I would 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.520 I would look on online and I would see certain 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.480 things where on damn, what's that site? 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.680 Was it? Liire back then? No? No, no, no, no, 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.280 where they like sell stuff in cars. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:25.319 And and crazy right, and then like people were like 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.400 you know, and they just like people would put up 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.480 like shows into where you like, artists gotta sell tickets 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:32.040 and everything. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:32.960 And back then they. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.199 Had Shine Heagley, they had all this all this stuff 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.400 right where like that's what is that golden voice? 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:38.480 Yeah, I think it was. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:43.120 And so like they would have like artists perform, but 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.800 you had to sell like ten tickets, but what to 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.920 get on the show. So it's like if I sell team, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.800 he sell team, he sell t he sell got packed. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.200 We got a packed show and. 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.920 All our people was there. So I would that's what 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.200 That's what I would do whatever. But every time I performed, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.560 it was like, damn, you're a great performer. D We 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.480 love your music, Blase, but this is me young, you know. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.319 And I kept doing that, kept doing that, kept doing that, 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.280 and you know, you you start to meet people, and 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.640 you start to grow, and people start to grow, you know, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.320 as you guys are going up and and then I 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.320 start meeting people. That's like they're like, yo, we're gonna 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.160 put you on this show. And you know, you win 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:26.360 this contest. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.920 You you do. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.160 A song with Lil Wayne, you know what I mean, 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.840 Like what and then you know, then they have this 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.320 and then but the whole time they like they finishing 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.200 you your bread, you know what I'm saying. And so 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:41.880 they trying to figure out who can sell the most tickets, 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.280 so you can sell thirty, you know, thirty tickets at 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.240 ten ten dollars each or twenty twenty dollars each, you. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.360 Know, and this how the people how they was making money. 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:54.560 So so years after that go by and I do 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:55.359 a song. 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:57.000 Out here. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.119 It was a song called Touchdown that I did, and 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.000 I met this guy there and this guy so I 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.640 think it was a Jamaican guy. He was like, yo, 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.040 you signed and signing anybody. I'm like nah, He's like, 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:09.960 all right, cool, I got I got I got somebody 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.320 you know for you to talk to. I'm like, okay, cool. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.440 So so comeing to happen. The guy that he was 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.360 talking about was his name was Dino's name was Dino Devaye. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.480 So he had signed cast Money and he was trying 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.720 to sign fifty. But when he was trying to sign 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.840 fifty at University originally before fifty went to in the 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:33.160 scope and so he's still but University didn't want to 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.760 sign fifth because of all the shit the guns this, 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:38.520 so like we're not we're not signing him. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.640 So I guess so Fifth still. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.880 Kept a relationship with him because he was trying to 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.160 make something happen, you know. And then he sent over 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.680 the music. So Dino sent over the music to Fifth, 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.400 and then Fifth called me and I'm helping, Like I'm 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.200 helping my boy move. I got a refrigerator. Like I'm 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.920 on a dolly helping my homewoy move out of his apartment. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:00.680 You know what I'm saying. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.600 It's like, yeah, they like, yo, d da da da, 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.560 some guy get on the phone. I'm on the phone 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.520 then and then he goes, yo, yeah, yeah, that guy's fifty. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:11.680 What some one the phone? 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:12.120 What's up? 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:12.800 Niggah? 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:14.800 So now me and Fifth on the phone, we're talking 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:15.320 for like an hour. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.280 You still got a refrigerator. So so. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.120 Look I got the I got, I got all of 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.080 It's like we got all. We got the truck right there. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.800 We're really moving, bro, Like I'm really helping him move. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.440 And so Fifth it's like, yo, so we're chopping up. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.080 He's like, look, man, we gonna do something. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:31.640 So listen. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.080 When we got off his phone, I think he said 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.800 he was I remember he was like, we got the phone. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.360 Don't go around telling your whole hood you're rich, right, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:38.760 he was like the last thing. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.040 Yeah, he said, don't go around telling your whole hood 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.560 you rich, right, and so. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:44.240 He was like, I'm gonna come meet you in la 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.800 all right. Cool, So he can't meet me in l A. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.600 We chopped it up and then that's around the time 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.840 he was doing like his s K headphones, his energy dreams, 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.400 all that stuff. So we was running around. Me was 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:57.840 like me and him and Floyd. That's when him and 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:02.000 Floyd was like super tight. And but I didn't know 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.480 what a single deal was. You know what I'm saying. 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.679 You just know you got to deal. You know that 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:12.639 song for the exactly touchdown and so okay, boom. So 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.280 now that deal is over and I'm kind of like, yeah, 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.040 what's going on, what's going on? What's going But I'm 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.040 not knowing that this is a single dis this is 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:22.400 for one song you've been signed for. And I was okay, cool, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.560 But I always say it in contact with him, I 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.679 always check you know, I mean check in, check in whatever, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:28.879 So maybe I'm not. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.040 So I tell Dino who song came out. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.760 Yeah, it came out, it came out, Yeah, it came out, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:41.639 and it was all right, But then I tell Dino 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.240 became my manager at that time, if he made the place. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.040 So I'm like, what's going on? So you know this 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.080 is just a single deal, was like, this is how 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:50.879 things work or whatever. I'm like, I thought I was 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:52.480 fifty forever, you know what I mean? 0:17:54.280 --> 0:18:03.680 Yeah, yeah, chef is on Dad. You know, wow, man, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.800 you gotta come through. You gotta come through. So I 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.720 don't you know, I don't know. You know what I'm saying. 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:11.280 I don't know. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:15.800 I'm so I'm new to this and whatever. So I 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:17.960 just buggled down, kept recording. 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:19.200 And then. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:27.400 Three years later, I mean, playhouse out here and I'm performing, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.679 and then I meet Buster and Buster's like, yo, you're 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.679 starting to I'm like nobody. He's like, oh, let's go 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:36.760 talk to the studio. In the studio, let's go talk 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:37.280 about cool. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.080 Cool. And then when I go home, like, what's up 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.160 all these New York niggas? You know what I mean, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.639 I'm right here, you know what I mean? And so. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.000 And so I meet him at the studio. We start 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.879 chopping it up. We started talking about life and and 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.000 and principles and you know everything. I was telling him like, 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.960 as a man, like you know what, I go forward. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.639 I ain't going for a while. You know, certain things 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:05.240 like and and so be cool. So he goes to Atlantic, 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.560 gives me a deal at Atlantic, you know when they 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:11.560 give him a label deal. 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.200 They give me a deal, get a label deal. It 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:14.040 was to me. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:19.240 And so now they gave me some money. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.080 Nigga, I ain't recorded for damn near a year. 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.160 Right off for your advance. Yeah, I'm spending the money. Right, 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:29.320 I'm busy. 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.520 So I'm spending the money. Now, you got it. Now 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.440 you have a full record, right right right, I have 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.639 a full record deal. So now I'm not knowing that. 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.199 I just know they gave me some money. Nobody's teaching me. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:45.720 And why here is this? This is two thousand and fourteen. 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:50.720 Wow, okay, wait yeah, no, no, it's twenty thirteen. 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.880 It was thirteen. And then. 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:59.440 The December of twenty thirteen when it's happened, and so 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:03.399 it to like August and the A and R comes 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.040 my A and R Riggs. At the time, he came 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.200 with some verbage. I don't know what he's talking about, 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.520 so I did. I'm like what he's doing. They're like, oh, 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.919 they're saying that they're about to drop you. You know, 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:15.800 at the end of the year, you haven't put out 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:16.280 no music. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.960 It's no, no nothing. I'm like, oh, Ship, So I'm panicking, right, 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:23.840 so because you're not at this point, they just paid 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.440 you the party. Yeah, I was hoping, so. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.800 Look hoping that they gave me some money. I'm thinking, 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:33.600 look right now, I'm like, they ain't gave me some money. 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:35.800 I'm like, you know, y'all ain't you know? I had 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:37.200 to like hustle for Ship like this. 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.160 Like, y'all give me some money. Okay? Cool? And so. 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:46.480 We get into August. They gave me that conversation. We 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:52.640 get the September, I dropped I record Coco right, and 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.040 I record Coco and I was about to was about 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.440