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Yeah, you've been like That's 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.840 what I was awesome to say. Man, Like you're you're 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.040 usually in la a lot. It's been a while obviously. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.760 How has uh everything that's going on and just affected 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.320 your business? Like like, like, are affected your besides having 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.880 to stay inside and all that shit just was it 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:03.000 was their plans is that you know touring or I 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.320 know Karma three's coming was Did anything get put on 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.760 hold or delayed because of what's happening? Yeah? I did 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.280 the Drop Survival with November. Yep. The whole month of 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.520 December we did the European tour, and then when we 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.480 came back from that, we were supposed to start the 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:22.880 West Coast and like, uh South and Midwest Legative Toy 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.680 were supposed to start that in March and all shut down. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.159 Have you? Uh? I gained quarantine weight because I was 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.520 eating all kinds of I was just bored, bro. First 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.320 like month of the quarantine, I was just at the 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.719 crib bored a ship before in the morning I'd be 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:42.320 fucking micro waving some noodles or some shit. I know, 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.480 you're like a really healthy guy. That was your health 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.440 ever like affected? Like were you eating like eating worse? Sir? No, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.000 just I couldn't go to the gym, so that made 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.320 it a little different doing push ups at the crib 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.599 and ship. You had to get back on pull up 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.800 and push ups at the crib the rough riders work 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:04.720 out to call it. Yeah, other than that, I'm heating 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.320 this thing. I'm a heating still still still still smoking 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.640 good all that. You're a pretty healthy guy when it 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.440 comes to what you put in your body. I remember, 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:13.880 I think the last time you came to the station, 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.160 you were drinking a bunch of random crazy juice. Oh yeah, 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:20.960 you gotta you gotta gotta watch what you put in 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.080 your body. I feel like, if you want to be here, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.000 at what point in time did you start to like 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.839 give a fuck about your health and like started to like, 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.799 you know, do some research about the you know, getting 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.120 into the juice and shit, and like probably when my 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.320 daughter was born, so like twenty sixteen, so I was 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.520 what like twenty six I was. I was drinking lean 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.280 a lot at that time. Right, what I'm saying, I 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.080 was heavy on a lean and I don't know, I 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.320 just went through like that was like the first time 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.480 a drug affected me. You know what I'm saying. I 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.520 never did no other drug. But that should me waking 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.840 up sweats or that. If I didn't have it, I'll 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.240 be mad, Like that is a drug, you know what, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.560 right you'd be like, oh shit, this is this Really 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.039 I really could become that guy I understand. Fiend Like 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:05.520 I'm like, oh, I get it, Like you know what 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.680 I'm saying, you be needing it. So once I was 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.080 able to shake that, I didn't want to do nothing else, 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:11.520 you know what I'm saying, Like nothing, I've been on 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.640 champagne and weed. Champagne and weed. You do drink a 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.280 lot of champagne everything. Every time I see you have 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.040 a bottle, I mean, look at it. I don't even 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.919 know what time it is. What is it three? You 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.120 know why? Because it don't. I mean, if you drink 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:26.960 enough of it, you'll be twisted. But it's a you know, 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.839 just keep you in a good it's a good vibe. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.960 Have you all look at you bet? Yeah? I mean 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:33.599 for me, every time I drink champagne, I just feel 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.920 bloated as fuck. Then I ain't gonna front lately, I 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.680 guess because I drink a lot of I've been feeling 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.760 like heartburn like something here. See that. It's that. And 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.880 you're also getting older too. We're getting old, bro, you 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.400 know what I'm saying. Karma three, I know you've been 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.200 working on it. You've put out man a few a 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:56.640 few videos. The Karma series is, you know, I think 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.080 an important part of your career and your legacy. What 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:04.080 what is the coach to this project and just that 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.280 series in general? When you know that like something's gonna 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:10.160 go in that Karma series, Like, do you approach it differently? Yeah? 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.680 I feel like it's more uh me, or like more 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.400 of more of me, not really caring about like the 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.560 standards sort of, you know, or I need this type 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.440 of record, or I need this that just beat me 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:28.520 just in my own zone, working with different producers and 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.640 just trying to, you know, get some gift constantly let 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.280 people know I could rap what y'all fell in love 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.600 with me for from the beginning. Yeah, I'm always shock 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.160 with that. So I feel like the Karma Karma series 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.920 gives me opportunity to to kind of mix it up, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.080 you know, have some big records on there, but then 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.280 have some ship for the streets, has something for the 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.120 fans that that's into that, that's into what I do. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.440 You know what I mean? I was gonna say, did 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.880 you feel okay? Because when you first came out, man, 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.520 I remember being like, yo, this dude was like hearing 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.840 your early ship. Like I remember finding you on two 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:08.080 Dope Boys early on and uh and that was what 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.600 you were known for. And then ladies discovered you and 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.120 now to change the game plan and now and now, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.120 well now you're you know, shout out to all the 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.920 women that are all of a sudden listening to some 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.040 like some dav ship that they would have never have 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.960 listened to before in their entire fucking life. But because 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.240 you're Dave's and you're their man crushed Monday, you're bringing 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.800 them into that world. Like what did do you remember 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.120 when you noticed, like you be you were becoming like 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.480 a thing with the with the women. Oh yeah, me 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:42.080 after perfect Chris Brown. When I first linked with Chris 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:47.199 Brown and that went like public, it was over it changed, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.760 It changed up. I g ship everything. It switched up. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.319 Not that it was bad before, but you know, after 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.599 after you got a record with Breezey, it might it 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.560 might change. Would you say that? I think most of 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.120 the people who are fans of your music right are 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.160 probably like me or you know, the homies, right because 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.200 the kind of shit you make. But would you say 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.079 your fan base as a whole now probably encompasses more 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:19.080 women than anything. Yeah, I feel like coming in, like 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.960 you said, it was more you were like a breath 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.400 of fresh air to hit the hip hop the people 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:29.200 that loves lyricism, like that crowd. Then it transitioned into 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.240 the girls, and then I start doing the acting. So 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.360 I feel like a lot of my fan base is 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.280 I feel like a lot of my fan base might 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.240 not even know my music or that's what I was 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.439 gonna ask. Yeah, I think I feel like some people 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.760 just follow you because, OK, they're just trying to like, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.680 you know what, Come on what I'm saying, it don't 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.080 hurt it, don't hurt me at all. No, I mean, 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:54.240 and obviously I'm sure it. Hey, you'll take any following 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.520 you can get, man, especially in twenty twenty, talk about 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.800 like I just saw was it? Last month? There was 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.480 this narrative going around on Twitter that you you're bad 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.079 at picking beats? Did you see that? I don't even 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.600 be on Twitter, but you know I think somebody did. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.880 They tagged like they put it they posted on Twitter 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.600 and then they tagged me in it on Instagram. Well 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.560 what's what's interesting about that? First of all, I don't 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.360 agree with that, but second of all, you nas Co 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.079 signed you and and the big hang up on nas 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:26.080 historically is that he's bad at picking beats. What do 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.480 you think do you think? I think people are there 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.040 for the lyrics, same thing with nas, but do you 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:32.600 think you have a good ear for beats or do 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.000 you think? Yeah? You know what's funny about that post? 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.760 I know it was one beat. It was like some wow, 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.600 and I was on my Instagram live like just freestyle 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.120 into the ship. But the beat was just some loud 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.680 ship that somebody loaded up and it sounded crazy. No 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.920 I heard it sounded crazy. It took that and it 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.200 was like, oh, his beat selection is hard, like, man, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.720 go listen to my music man bad beat selection. Hey, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.640 I don't think Na's got bad beat selection. It's just 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.520 it's what you're into he let Chris web produced a 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.719 few beats that he could He probably could have kept 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:07.839 on Chris Weaver's laptop. You know, I know you're a 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:12.760 big sports guy. NBA being back is a blessing, especially 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.280 for me, who I gamble a lot. So that a 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.920 gift and a curse that ugh? Oh yeah, like what 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.319 am I supposed to gamble? Bookies? Old? I know. That's 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.040 been a tough time. Korean baseball, like Bill for real, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.920 that that was actually happening. Korean baseball was the only 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:29.960 thing going on. But how how they gonna do that? 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.040 Like they gotta we won't watch it from home. You 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.720 can't go to the games that they doing that. What 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.160 are we talking about the NBA or Korean baseball? Just 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:42.920 sports in general? Yeah. The bubble. They got the bubble popping. Oh, 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.319 I'm all the way out the loop. What the hell 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.720 is the bubble? Really? Yeah? We can't go watch them? 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.040 Yeah on TV. Oh, but you can't be at the 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.480 game of course. Not that's weird. They got the bubble 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.920 in Orlando, so everybody is in uh a contained space 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.240 in Orlando Disney World. So they have all yeah, every team, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.760 twenty two teams, the other teams that did. They just 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.000 didn't make it, but all the games are going to 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.200 be played there and they can't leave, Like like okay, 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:18.000 Lou Williams left for family reasons, and then they found 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.520 him at he was in Magic City two nights ago 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.520 in Atlanta eating hot wings with Jack Harlowe. So now 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.839 he's got a quarantine for like ten days before you 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.680 can go join the Clippers again. The Clippers are trying 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.400 to win a fucking ring and Lou Williams is eating 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.840 hot wings in a magic City. It's crazy. But and 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.240 then like there was like some you know, you know, 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.320 I mean, come on, dudes, are gonna try to sneak there. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.520 We're talking NBA players here. They're gonna try to sneak 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:45.760 the bitches on into the bubble. Some some known Instagram's 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.800 thought here in La was posting pictures inside of the 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:54.960 bubble and Instagram Instagram by like like point of Elimination 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.679 found the only NBA player that was following her and 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.400 realized that's who she was there to see. And yeah, 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.319 it's crazy. Yeah, basketball is a wild Well I was 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:05.480 gonna ask you, like, what are you? I mean, you 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.080 don't even know what's going on. I was lost with 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.199 that one. And you know what, I kind of heard 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.360 something about that my boy Brick Brick was telling me 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.040 about that. But how they can't leave. Yeah, it's crazy, 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.040 like a camp for some ship. They can't straight up, 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:22.600 that's crazy, super crazy. Yeah, the bubbles. Uh, we were 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.640 talking off off off camera. You were telling me, Benny 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:30.040 the Butcher's on Karra three, shout the Benny shout Old 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.800 Griselda Conway, what's not gonna with them? Yeah, I was 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.800 gonna say, like, I do feel like there's, you know, 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.000 a small group of artists and you're in that group 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.280 that I've kind of kept this rap shit alive for, 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.280 you know, for for guys like me, for people who 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.240 really appreciate bars and that grimy ship. And I feel 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.200 like Griselda has you know, Griselda shout out to Freddy 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:53.800 Gibbs and mad Lib and you know, there's just been 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.280 a lot of dope shit going on in hip hop 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.280 the last few years. But I do feel like it's 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:01.360 starting to become like all the weirdo internet ship is 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:06.400 starting to die out and it's getting back a little bit. Man. 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.160 You know, like Griselda got nominated for Best Group of 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:10.840 the Year to be a TA Awards, which is crazy. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.760 So they're paying attention to what people saying again, and 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.760 I feel like it's it's it's great for you because 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.960 you've you know, you've always done that. I mean, like, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.880 you know, I think you've dabbled in some more radio 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.320 type ship over the last few years, obvious, but you've 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.440 never left your sound. And I never was in this 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.720 ship for the Cloud or nothing like that. I feel 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.840 like that was the wave for the last like five years. 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.880 Like this cloud. It's the worst ever you could do 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.640 to get something right, Like you know what I'm saying, 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.880 Like I just now all these guys are falling off. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.320 J Cole said the best right about little pumping those 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.640 guys and now these like and and now what happened 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.880 like smoke purpose five thousand units at it. You can 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.120 get in this ship make enough money to even if 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.080 you if you're smart with your money, if you're smart, 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:55.760 if you get it, even if your ship is some 0:14:55.800 --> 0:15:02.680 trash year those bags sad with that brand, these motherfuckers 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:07.360 buying lean and and all kind of crazy ship. Yeah, 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.560 I focused on the music. Man that the ship that 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.720 got me got me here, you know what I mean? 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:16.080 The music what is obviously working with Benny on the project. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:20.440 Who else is on Carmen three? Uh? I got a 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:26.000 Popcorn on there record with Popcorn, I got Mary J. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:32.680 Bligh ship and Mary got a joint Trey songs. Uh huh. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.680 Trying to think who was rapping on dough. I got 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.920 Dope Boy on there. We just shot the video matter 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:44.920 of fact, a couple of days ago out here. Think 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.360 you know the expectations for that Merry record as gonna 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.640 be crazy since you played method man, it's one of them. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.200 But you played mathe Man in the in the show 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.440 on you know what I'm saying, saying, yeah the whole 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.440 yeahbody from Wu Tang on the on the project. Nah, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.880 I ain't not this one, not this one. It's crazy. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:09.880 Me and Meth got a new record though static selective Static. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.120 Is that guy in Meth going crazy on that ship. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.480 He got to put that out though, status a static record. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.320 Static got the record, Yeah, yo, Static man. I just 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:18.880 want to give some props to him because he's like 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.280 our modern day primo bro and he's been one thing 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.080 I could salute, salute the status. He's from day one, 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.680 always been like the same way with me, like before 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.240 the na situation. He was always in tune with me, 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.000 you know what I mean, the static. I just saw 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.400 you were shooting a video of Jstone. Yeah, we're doing 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.440 another one today. I'm locking in. We're putting a little 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.920 little little project, little a little ep, you know, because 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.240 you know me, and it was gonna do on, you 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.480 know what I mean. Guarantee we was was already talking 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.560 about that. So I'm gonna do I'm doing. Yeah. Shout 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.320 out to Stone man. I think I think you know 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.040 he was always like slept on for sure, and Stone 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:57.680 are good, just a good, good nigga, you know what 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.880 I'm saying. Like I just just vibe like we uh 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:02.640 we vibe good, you know what I mean. And the 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.240 and the music, y'all hear the music. That's why I'm 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.440 just just trying to knock out. How many records you 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.480 guys got that right now? I think we maybe like 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.760 three or four, three or four in. We shot the 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.440 video the other day, uh in his hood, and then 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.200 we shoot him one today. You you and Nipsey were 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:20.960 supposed to do a project. I remember we talked about 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.439 that before. Did you guys have any music that you 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.480 that that's just sitting on a hard drive somewhere that 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.879 y'all never released. How many unreleased songs do you think 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.840 you got? Nick? Maybe three? It's one with me and 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.080 him and being on whover put out with being overdel 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.439 being on Calma three two that was another shout out 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:44.320 to Beano Bino's Fire by jam Uh and then me 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.720 and him got two two joints. I had one record 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.920 that I was gonna put on Calmba three. But yeah, 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:51.439 I was gonna ask you, like, is it is it? 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.239 Obviously you're tight with his team, but like, is it 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.760 like kind of weird putting something out with your like 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.480 with him after he passed. You know what I'm saying, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:05.879 I feel like super weird, Like the the the excitement 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.840 is going behind it. I'm still excited to do it, 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.760 and you know, let it be known that we did 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.640 that and created that. But the phone call because red 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.440 a job, like, oh that's going you know, I mean, 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.640 so it's it's definitely weird. You. I think a lot 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.280 of people have always kind of said, you're kind of 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.880 like what Nip is to what Nip was to La, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:29.400 to your hood, to Harlem, right to to like New York. 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.679 Somebody who is like a man of the people. Somebody 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.720 who's never really damn, I got my ring tone on 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:41.400 un professional, but somebody who uh who? You know, when 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.720 I think of Davies, I never ever ever thought of 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.439 goofy ship or I think of integrity. I think of 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:49.440 you know, when it comes to music, when it just 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.760 comes to you as a person, like what was you know? 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.399 Obviously you know you've done a ton of interviews since 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.480 Nipsey past, but we're going on a year and a 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.760 half since he died. What is the one thing you 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.359 think since he passed that you've carried with you and 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.560 that you're like, like from nip to this day because 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.159 you know, shit, man, I can't even believe it's been 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:18.639 a year and a half. I would say, just his 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.320 model marathon, you know what I'm saying, Like the shitty 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.320 lived by the shit. He always said, don't stop, you 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.679 know what I mean, Like, no matter what what come 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.240 your way, you gotta keep keep rolling, you know what 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:35.120 I mean. In the fact of ownership and turning your 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.719 brand into a business and and just being more than 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:39.240 a rapper, you know what I mean. So that's what 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.280 really stuck with me the most, and just trying to 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.359 build my brand from just being Dave East, you know 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.120 what I mean to where that shit being something else. 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.679 I want to build an empire. Have you been dabbling in, 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:54.200 like getting involved in other like avenues, like like other 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.120 streams of revenue coming in outside of music. Yeah, I've been. 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.679 I've been heavy on the designer to I just I 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.720 just dropped a pair of glasses, did a collabe with 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:08.080 a company called New Vintage. I got the clover line 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.439 on the way. Besides from the merch I'm doing for 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:12.200 the Coma three, So I got my own line coming. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:19.440 I'm about to drop a cognac based like a liquor Yeah, 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.359 like a but not but it's gonna be like a 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.640 like almost like a soda almost like it's not something 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.159 that you ain't gonna be taking shots of it, like 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:29.920 you could say. So it's like a pre mixed drink 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.080 like yeah, but it's gonna be a coonnac base. So 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:33.399 when you pull up to the liquor store, it'll be 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.639 already be in the fridge like you just crack it open. Okay. 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.960 So I've just been trying to, you know, use my 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.679 brand and what I done got my name to to 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:46.760 just jump into other avenues, you know, what I'm saying, 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.840 other avenues I can make money off of, and you know, 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:51.760 just build that future for my daughter, you know what 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.879 I mean, for my team without me rapping, like the 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:56.640