1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: But all right, job. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 2: All across the USC Compton, Watts Bay to LA. Come 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 2: on to California yes day. From Rowley the Valley. We 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: represent that Keller County. So if you're keeping it real 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: on your side of your town, you tune into Gainst 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 2: the Chronicles Chronic Goals. He gonna tell you how we 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 2: goal If I lie my notes will girl like Pinocchio. 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: We're gonna tell you the truth and nothing but the truth. 9 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,919 Speaker 3: Thanks the Chronic Goals. This is not your average shows. 10 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: You're now tuned into the rail mc ain't Big Steals 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 2: the streets. 12 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 3: Hello, Welcome to the Gainst the Chronicles podcast, the production 13 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 3: of iHeart Radio and Black Effect Podcast Network. Make sure 14 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 3: you download the iHeart app and subscribe to Against the 15 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 3: Chronicles for my Apple users, hit the Purple Michael your 16 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 3: front screen, subscribed Against the Chronicles. Leave a five star 17 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 3: rate the comment. We like to welcome you to another 18 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,839 Speaker 3: episode Against the Chronicles podcast. It's your boy Big Steal 19 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 3: with jeer. Hey, Hey tonight man, we got a special 20 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 3: guests man. I would like to call him special guests Man. 21 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 3: That sit sounded like. 22 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds like we're motherfucking on the mother shows. 23 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: It's like this ain't the mother shows. 24 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely not ascial guests. We have homies to cream. 25 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Home used to push through 26 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 4: and pop up. That's what we got. 27 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,839 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, what's hiding? What's hiding? 28 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,839 Speaker 3: One of Inglewood's fighters? Man, feel me stop playing? 29 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: Yeah years find this man. 30 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 3: We canna get into a whole lot of that Inglewood history. 31 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's funny though, that's how you know, you 32 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 3: old man. I remember when I used to have to 33 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 3: get him in yeah oh yeah yeah yeah, me and 34 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 3: man when he was just local man. Then he just like. 35 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: That ship was like that. That whole grind though, that's 36 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: what niggas was doing. Like I remember gg sweets. You 37 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: remember that? Oh girls, she used to throw them shows. 38 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: A lot of nigga have to pay to get on em. 39 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: It was another nigga at the at the I forgot 40 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: the knitting factory. I forgot what that full name was. 41 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: But we used to have to pay to get on shows. 42 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: But then I'm like, I started beating glasses and fab 43 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: and problem was the dude baby bang loose. It was 44 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: a lot of names that was like popping. So I 45 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: get on with them and I remember one day, Glasses like, Nigga, 46 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: you ain't never paying to get on those shows. Nigga, Fuck, 47 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: if you you're gonna go right in front of me, 48 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna go on my set. And that was in 49 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: and out of town too, Like it was the first 50 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,239 Speaker 1: nigg to give me the microphone. They let me get 51 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: busy in Houston and then it kind of got a 52 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: lot of exposure off BITCHI, Slick Glasses, Malone and mister 53 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 1: Fab they was like and Jay Rock. You know what 54 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: I'm saying, These was like my main guys that embraced 55 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: me when I was just jumping in the niggas just 56 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: knew me from the streets here and there. You know 57 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. When I'm like, oh I'm a rap 58 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: and nigga, see I'm serious, I got CDs on showing 59 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: up the show and I'm really doing my one to 60 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: two all my footwork, they like na come on back that. 61 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,799 Speaker 1: Back then, Glasses was the biggest nigga next. 62 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 3: The game, right, you know what I'm saying. Definitely was 63 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 3: was so. 64 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: I forever, Like I don't forget ship, you know what 65 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: I'm saying, that's forever My niggas. 66 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 3: Roses real quick glasses. He put a yeah, a lot 67 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: of people on. He tried to bring up as many 68 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 3: people as he could. 69 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, he really brought the Bloods and the crips together. 70 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: It was like in division. Then he like Nigga read 71 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: division because it was him and Mac. You know what 72 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it's like, Nigga, we all like that's all. 73 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,119 Speaker 4: You gotta correct motherfuckers because a lot of people want 74 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 4: to say, you know the homie Kendrick, you're unified. 75 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 3: The man Nigga's been getting down with each other for 76 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 3: a while. 77 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 4: Man, I know the home I know the homie from 78 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 4: way way back back when the homie resting piece and 79 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 4: the guy. 80 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: Was you homie Recipe pieced dul Gang. That nigga was cold. 81 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: That was the coldest gang. I ain't gonna see the 82 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: say blood that was the coldest gang member I've ever 83 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: seen in my life. 84 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 3: I brought you today to this day. 85 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 4: I said, my Nigga was the true representation of what 86 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 4: you saw a gang bang. I'm talking from head to 87 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 4: toe and the heart to back it up, like, yeah, 88 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 4: he was a crazy. 89 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: Man and me coming up, me coming up, I'm like 90 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen around him, all the way up until he passed. 91 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 92 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 3: He passed. 93 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: I was eighteen, you know what I'm saying. It happened 94 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: like maybe a few days before my eighteenth birthday and 95 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: shit and he got shot. You know what I'm saying. 96 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: But Bro, he been shot multiple times. 97 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 3: Pack out on me, dope boy today. That was the 98 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 3: true when the motherfuckers say, man that Nigga had nine lives. 99 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: Bro, that Nigga had nine lives. I ain't think that one. 100 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: When the big homie died, That's when I'm like, Damn, bro, 101 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: ain't nobody untouchable? Because I thought he was untouchable? Like 102 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: you couldn't you feel me? 103 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 3: Like he ain't. 104 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: He ain't going nowhere. I didn't seen him get shot 105 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: and bounce back the next day in the set like yeah, when. 106 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 4: We all like to the Tupac shit, you're like Tupac 107 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 4: after him at Tupac, I'm like, yeah, a lot of them, 108 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. 109 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: Anybody, can you know what I'm saying. 110 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to go into that, man, because you 111 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 3: was definitely running around with some wolves in Inglewood. 112 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 4: Yeah. 113 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, from a little kid like I've been outside for 114 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: like twenty eight years bro, I was a full criminal 115 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: at thirteen years old. 116 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 4: You feel me, thirteen that's sometimes that's how you that's 117 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 4: how you got to come up to set yourself for 118 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 4: you know, you go through walks of life like that. 119 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 4: Especially niggas don't understand these these these Cali streets. Man, 120 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,119 Speaker 4: is it's born in bread, you know what I'm saying. 121 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 4: Just growing up in the hood, you following those footsteps, 122 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 4: and so a lot of people get it confused about 123 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 4: how the lifestyle is over here. Man, that shit is treacherous. Well, 124 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 4: once you go through it and you able to come 125 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 4: out on the other side in the end, you have 126 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 4: a whole respect for you know, Oh. 127 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: I got a whole respect for. First off, I'm not 128 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: playing with the young niggas because it's like when I 129 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: grew up, Nigga will fight for fun. I remember the 130 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: homies used to you used to pick us out, like, hey, 131 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: you you a active young homie. You were active young 132 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: y'all get down and we'll fight. You know what I'm saying, 133 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: Where Nigga go to fox On fight niggas. But now 134 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,919 Speaker 1: you you could win a fight and Nigga still trigger. 135 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, nigga still want to smoke you. 136 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: You feel me like you can't even fight no more. 137 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: So yeah, nah, you could fight your homie and your 138 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: homie gonna want to get at you. It's like, bro, 139 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: we just got down. This don't this could be a 140 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: secret really and. 141 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 3: You know what it is though, I'm gonna tell you 142 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 3: what it is. Four eyes wouldn't on you now everybody 143 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 3: wanted to pick out. 144 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: Yeah it's the phone shit now right right at one 145 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: on the phone. Oh yeah, yeah, the pride kicking really yeah. 146 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 4: The pride goes up triple notches, man, because of social 147 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 4: media and you being put on blast or what might 148 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 4: be in bass. Like you said, back in the days, nigga, 149 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 4: you fade with a nigga, you wear something, you lose 150 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 4: something and something it wasn't like, oh damn. 151 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 3: This davy nigga. 152 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 4: Now for to let a million people Okay, but that 153 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 4: was the code of the streets. 154 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, that for real is the bras because they'll be 155 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 3: on there. 156 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean nowadays it's civilians are walking by 157 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: and the first thing they do pull they phone out. 158 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: You see. Look Trump just got busted on and you 159 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: see the ladies she don't even duck. She pull her 160 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: phone out like everybody they phone. Oh yeah, I'll be 161 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: seeing sometimes, man. And I told all the homies one day. 162 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: I think it was me and Glass. We was coming 163 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: back from Bakersfield and something that just happened. If somebody 164 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: got whooped on, right, you know, yeah, I saw swooped 165 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: on somebody, and you saw all these people out there 166 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: with their phones. Yeah, I told all the homies in 167 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: the car, I said, if I'm remember getting my ass whooping, 168 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: y'all niggas, don't fight them y'all phones. I'm fighting every 169 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: last one. Yeah, yeah, for sure, everything content now. 170 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 3: Nigga gonna be like shit fuck helping nigga. 171 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 4: I'm finna get me about one hundred thousand fuse and 172 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 4: get me a paid check. 173 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 3: Looking at niggas still, I know what's that. Oh it 174 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 3: don't be for no paycheck, man, You're all for social currency. 175 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: Nigga don't even want no money no more. They want 176 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: some clout and followers status. Man, I gotta bills every month. 177 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: They gotta get some money. 178 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 3: Definitely that man. So you started running with some kids, 179 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 3: you was, I'm. 180 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: Smooth, Yeah, y'all, do'st the hummying you. 181 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not like you old. 182 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: Huh I'm old. Oh so you got to be a 183 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: little kid running around with yeah yeah, no for sure. 184 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: I'm like I said, like, shit, Dulo, Big two eleven, Taco, 185 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: all these was big bros that raised me. These niggas 186 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: raised me like the guy really raised me in the streets. 187 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, the homie whack he breake. 188 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: These niggas is all NHPs that raised me. So I 189 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: went through gladiator school like I fought damn near all 190 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: the niggas I just named, Like I fought Dulo at 191 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: sixteen years old in front of all the families and 192 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 1: all the older homies in front of the park beat 193 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: my ass. But you know what I'm saying over some 194 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 1: work that I was, it's a little kid trying to 195 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: figure it out. Nigga gave me the work and the 196 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: money back. Like Nigga better ain't hit me back. You 197 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm like, Damn, that's all I 198 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: gotta do. So that triggered me, like I never really 199 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: had no fear, cause Nigga, this was like the biggest 200 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: nigga I ever even seen on some shit and long 201 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: as I get my shit off, I'm good. Winn't lose 202 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: a draw, like you said, like nigga, however long as 203 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: you you know what I'm saying, Like how balls say 204 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 1: on the movie, Nigga, long as you get down, nigga, 205 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: long as you we'll lose a draw. Niggas long as 206 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: you get down, nigga. And that's how I was raised, 207 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. 208 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 3: So I wouldn't lose. 209 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: No, you know what I'm saying like it's I wouldn't 210 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: I had no fear, you know what I'm saying. But 211 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: now nigga older, it's like I know how to pick 212 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 1: and choose my battles in it's smarter way, you know 213 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But shit, I'm not participating with the 214 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: young niggas and what they got going on. I'm older. 215 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: This is really the gaatesest shit that like the game banging. 216 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: Like I tell I told Miami, all this shit was 217 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: created by a bunch of thirteen or fourteen year olds, 218 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: and niggas is keeping the keeping this shit going. So 219 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: and if a nigga thirty and forty years old nowadays, 220 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: you really can't apply the same rules because it just 221 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 1: got re rocked in every decade. It's now the young 222 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: niggas don't even follow suit. Now it's like, fuck old niggas. 223 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: I remember when I was coming up, it was like, 224 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like nigga even with squeak 225 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: like with squeak rule shot out the big hommy squeak rule. 226 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: He used to take me around and I wasn't never 227 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: like nigga, you older, you a old nigga, don't know 228 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: what you're talking about. I'm wh like, nigga, give me 229 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: the game, big hommy, you feel me. And he took 230 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: me around the studios and showed me how to just 231 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: move in the industry as being a member. 232 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:29,839 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 233 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 4: I said something's wrong with Something's wrong. I want to 234 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 4: say something was wrong with him because we was all young, 235 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 4: but we was taught differently as young hood niggas. 236 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 3: When it came to. 237 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 4: The old the old g's you give me, I never, 238 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 4: you know, went through the era of the fuck this 239 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 4: old ass nigga. 240 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 3: Fuck I never do that. Probably get the shit whooped 241 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 3: out of you. 242 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: I respect my gummies right now, the ones that are 243 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: still you know what I'm saying, are live, active, moving around. 244 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: Whether they change their life life or didn't, it's still 245 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: a respect level right there, because they paved a way 246 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: for me, you know what I'm saying. 247 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 3: And you know, you think, what do you think that 248 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 3: plays with? Though? 249 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 4: Why the transition of Because we was always taught to 250 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 4: respect our elders. I don't give fuck what it was, 251 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 4: whether it was the streets, whether it was your your uncles, 252 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 4: your grandfathers, or even just the older motherfucking man or 253 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 4: adult period you give me. 254 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 3: I think we are in dangerous species as it is. 255 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: Man. 256 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 3: You know, you hear about if you see a white 257 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 3: person lived to fifty, you know they're not considered old. 258 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 3: But in the hood you can see forty. 259 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, you get this, thirty something they like you are 260 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: old and thirty five the old. 261 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 3: Eight people checking off so early even either on a 262 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 3: prison for a lady sins and if you go to 263 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 3: prison for forty years, you may as well be dead, yeah, 264 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 3: because you you're not never coming back. People for be 265 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,199 Speaker 3: dead that you know, if you do make it out 266 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 3: of there, most people you know, gonna be dead, right right. 267 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 3: So that's like that right there. You know, we got 268 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 3: the screeches taking like your songs say taking people under right. 269 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 3: So I think with these young cats man, most of 270 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 3: them in the neighborhood that do have that mentality, they 271 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 3: don't see their self living past through. Yeah. 272 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: I mean when I was a young nigger, I didn't 273 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: think about tomorrow. You feel me. I was just thucking. 274 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 3: Think about their future because their future is real, honk 275 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 3: like to them a lot. 276 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: They're living in the moment though, they're living for that day. 277 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,079 Speaker 4: You know what, why why why go fuck your old 278 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 4: g though? Where does that mentality come from us? Because, 279 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,839 Speaker 4: like you said, I was young. You were young even 280 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 4: though whatever the situations may be, I was still on. 281 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 4: I don't this stuff that make honey like you. 282 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 3: Not to get them no political stuff, man, But it's 283 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 3: almost that Willie Lynx shit, Like we've always been picked. 284 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,439 Speaker 3: This ain't new man, We've always been pitted against each 285 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,319 Speaker 3: other somehow, right, you feel what I'm saying. It's always 286 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 3: been real device and like it's it's like as simple 287 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 3: if you got a brother that opened up a store, right, 288 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 3: Like you got a store, Yeah, how many brothers are 289 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 3: walking your store? Man? 290 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: Discount that's every day, every day? 291 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 3: Right, But they go to Macy's or. 292 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: Where McDonald's won't ask a nigga for a discount. 293 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, hell nah, Yeah. 294 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 4: They watched the motherfucker you know they want to floss 295 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 4: with the reds bottoms all this South. 296 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, they gonna go Scout two. I'm not gonna support you. 297 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 3: I want you to damn to give it to me 298 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 3: for free. 299 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'll be telling motherfuckers like support. So the 300 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: definition of support is doing for something for somebody without 301 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,199 Speaker 1: getting nothing back you. This is a transaction. You feel me. 302 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: If I have some weed, then you bought some weed 303 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: from me. You ain't doing me no faivor off. Somebody 304 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: else gonna buy some weed from me. So it don't 305 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,959 Speaker 1: act like you're doing me, like you supporting supporting to 306 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: just become give me the money and be like, hey man, 307 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: that's to the that's to the cast, that's the support 308 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: word posted. You ain't even got to buy nothing to support. 309 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: You could just go in there and be like following 310 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: my homie store and blah blah blah blah. 311 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, right right, because they go 312 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 3: to the other people's stores and hell, no worth they 313 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 3: have to. 314 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 4: You're gonna walk right next door in the liquor store 315 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 4: and buy a motherfucker drank for the tell that motherfucker act. 316 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 3: We get a motherfucking discount on this, your ten dollars. 317 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: What can you do for me on this? Man, Dude, 318 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: look me at look out for me on this. 319 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 4: Or we're gonna shit. I'm mother fucking w all this bread. 320 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 4: So when you think about it, a we've been programmed. Man, 321 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 4: it's like a tee with cycle, right. 322 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 3: Oh. The average mentality of the person today that's in 323 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 3: the inner city, in the ghetto, it's like everything. You know, 324 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 3: every man for himself. Yeah, every man for himself. A 325 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 3: lot of hatred. You know, a lot of self hatred, man. 326 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 4: And it's unfortunate because you got a lot of niggas 327 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 4: who can collaborate and do shit and it won't never 328 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 4: be that. And that's why I always talk about respect 329 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 4: over loyalty and shit, because when niggas respect you, man, 330 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 4: they won't even come. Oh man, please man, give me 331 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 4: that you feel me the homie nigga. I went to 332 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 4: the homie store and I already know what a T 333 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 4: shirt costs. I already know what the shit you know 334 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 4: you put the shit on there, I know what it costs. 335 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 4: But when the homies said it's thirty bucks, I'll say, here, 336 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 4: you feel me? 337 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, I you I'm trying. 338 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 3: To respect your hustle. Shit. 339 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 4: I'm hustling too, So yeah, nigga. If I put out 340 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 4: a CD or something and the nigga tell me, yeah, nigga, 341 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,479 Speaker 4: I got coppted, that's the same shit I'm trying to reciprocate. 342 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 3: You feel me, you know, I think that's the problem. Hey, 343 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 3: I just think, man, we as a people, man, we 344 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 3: got a lot of growing up to do. Man. We 345 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 3: gotta like it's like we take twenty steps forward, man, 346 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 3: it didn't take forty steps backwards. Kind of feel what 347 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 3: I'm saying. So it ain't these kids fought, man, it's 348 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 3: what they've been kind of conditioned, man, because as a man, 349 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 3: I think it's a black man with the way stuff 350 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 3: feels now, you kind of kids are brought up in 351 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 3: addition to hate somebody's older them, because first of all, 352 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 3: they usually don't have a father in the life. 353 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 4: I didn't have no dad, and my still mom told 354 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 4: me I had to respect older motherfuckers. And that's that's 355 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 4: the attitude I kept. You get me, so I get 356 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 4: what you're saying, but who who is is leading the 357 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 4: generation to go, nigga, fuck your elders, like that's your 358 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 4: attitude fuck them niggas like or is that just because 359 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 4: of the respect level? 360 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 3: We don't respect no older niggas. 361 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 4: Because the generation right now looks at old as a 362 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 4: disease or something. 363 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 3: Shit. Some of these motherfuckers don't warn no respect if 364 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 3: you look at the bullshit that's going on out of here, man, 365 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 3: Like just to thay, like even with the Internet, the 366 00:16:50,760 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 3: most active niggas on the. 367 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: Some niggas needed to take Mike took you fel be 368 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: more ship man, a super duper messy man. 369 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,399 Speaker 3: The motherfuckers is somebody's grandfather's dog. 370 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it beat it be the older niggas that 371 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: be crashing out on the internet though. It's just they 372 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: get that phone and they just don't stop, Like come on, bro. 373 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 3: That's man to me. I just feel like that they. 374 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 4: They found a new way to try to hustle a 375 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 4: game with your bread and so now it's like I 376 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 4: don't even give a fuck about the respect level of being. 377 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 3: A o G. 378 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 4: I guess nigga, I need some money. So it's at 379 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 4: the level now, Like I tell you. Everybody wants to 380 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 4: be in a position of I gotta be famous or 381 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 4: some shit. 382 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 3: I don't want to be normal even think the money 383 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 3: because some of these motherfuckers don't know nah nah, because 384 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 3: but they think they do. That's the problem. 385 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 1: And niggas don't know. Instagram don't even make you no 386 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: money like. 387 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 4: That's they just think because of certain motherfuckers who get 388 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 4: on put their face on screen and do shit that 389 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,640 Speaker 4: nigga niggas is pulling up and Ferrari's and all kind 390 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:10,880 Speaker 4: of shit. 391 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 3: They see the fascination with that shit. 392 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 4: Niggas go just like everybody can't be a motherfucking rapper, 393 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 4: but every nigga. 394 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: Will Tryga want to be a rapper. 395 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 3: To me, the other day, he said, steal all this 396 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 3: bullshit is your fault. You know. They fucked around and 397 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 3: got a deal and every go they're thinking, nigga gonna 398 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,639 Speaker 3: do this. I said, no, it ain't my fault because 399 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 3: it was bound to happen anyway. 400 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, niggas was gonna bound to find the 401 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 4: motherfucking access to the game that they feel that's making 402 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 4: everybody breath it. 403 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 3: I'm won't get in that shit too. What I gotta do. 404 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 4: Just sit up and talk some shit and talk about, Oh, 405 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 4: this nigga ain't This nigga ain't authentic. 406 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 3: This nigga ain't authentic. This nigga ain't authentic. 407 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 4: And nigga's gonna be curious to go, well, why ain't 408 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 4: he authentic? And everything is your opinion and shit. 409 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 3: Now think about this to eleven. Right, Yeah, you were 410 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,120 Speaker 3: older as man, you got a penitentiary record, you ain't 411 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 3: got no job experience. Yeah, and you come home out 412 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 3: of prison. You see as these young kids had h 413 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 3: Yeah you see it ain't even popping. Yeah it was 414 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 3: a buster. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I already 415 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 3: get in the fact they figure they gonna move in, 416 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 3: they gonna start doing you know, they got their grand 417 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 3: kids or they kids hooking up some cameras and they 418 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 3: on there wooing the old ass stories. 419 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 1: Me personally, I wouldn't do no shit like that. I'll 420 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: go for what I know is even being that that old. 421 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:36,679 Speaker 1: If I'm fifty and sixty just getting out of prison 422 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: and man for they gonna give me a job and 423 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 1: live my life. I'm not even trying to be seen 424 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: on no camera like I'm trying to go what I know. 425 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: I mean from my from my experiences. Every time I 426 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,479 Speaker 1: see another nigga doing something and I tell myself, oh, 427 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: I think I could jump in that, likeane, now, I'll 428 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: stay in your lane. Do what you know? I mean, 429 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: unless you got the time and the money to invest 430 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: and take a loss here, because it's everything is that 431 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: highly you know what I'm saying. If you ain't informed, 432 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 1: you could take a loss. So you just jumping in 433 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: and you crashing out. You're spending money, you investing money 434 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: and equipment and all that at ninety percent of the time. 435 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 1: Nigga's whole problem that they can't succeed is because they 436 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: ain't consistent. So a nigga buy all this shit, do 437 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 1: five episodes and be like, fuck it, I ain't made 438 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: no money yet. 439 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 3: Nigga. 440 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: You neigga, you just wasted your motherfucker time. Like you 441 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. 442 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 3: You know what, this internet stuff is funny because you 443 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 3: was indirectly a part of one of the biggest videos. 444 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, nah for sure. 445 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 3: You know, not being eight, I know you to test 446 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 3: all messy stuff. I'm talking about what rous Moe was 447 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 3: out there, you know, dancing with the homie biscle. Yeah, 448 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 3: you know, you like some shit, so I can't watch 449 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,639 Speaker 3: your ass sometimes. I ain't gonna say that the boscle, 450 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 3: it's the homie bicscle. Cool. You' all cool? Not right, man, 451 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 3: it's whatever whatever, Okay, So I'm gonna leave that alone. 452 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 3: I'm aside step that one. I'm a side step that one. 453 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 3: But that was a big mom on the internet. Yeah, yeah, definitely. 454 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 3: It's a big one on the internet. So you run 455 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 3: on with these dudes, man, because a lot transpired from 456 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,159 Speaker 3: that little bit of time when you first started. Man, 457 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 3: it may seem like a long time. 458 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 1: I had different little levels, levels and ship. 459 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 3: You your linked up with Jez for a minute run Yeah. 460 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was in the beginning beginning, So I wasn't 461 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 1: I was just fugging around and then ended up meeting 462 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: them and ended up meeting them, and I was barely 463 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: a rapper. I was learning. I was around Shug first, 464 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And it was kind of 465 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 1: like artists development. That was like around Tod Pete. Pablo 466 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 1: was over there, okay, you know what I'm saying that 467 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: as Squeak brought me around. Squeak was like the first 468 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: shout out the homies Squeak group. We Squeak was the 469 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: first one to be like, I made a little tape 470 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: for the homies in the hood, you know what I'm saying, 471 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: and burn some CDs for you know what I'm saying. 472 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: Niggas at the park and shit and and Squeak and 473 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 1: the homie peee Rest and Peace was like, Nigga, you 474 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: got We're finna take you artists development. They took me 475 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: to studios, got me learned how to write sixteen bars 476 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: and do a hook and you know what I'm saying, 477 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: all this shit. Then they introduced me to a sugar 478 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 1: neck ball shout out to them niggas, and immediately them 479 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 1: niggas like it. Come to the studio. 480 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 3: Nigga. 481 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 1: I was making songs and songs, just learning, you know 482 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And then something happened with him, and 483 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 1: then I don't see him for a minute. Then I 484 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: started running into j Z a lot. You know what 485 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And when Jeezi told me, like, you know 486 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that don't pan out. You know we 487 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: got places for you over here. You got home over here. 488 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,360 Speaker 1: So when they didn't pan out, I'm calling down there 489 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, what's up? And they 490 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: used coming back and forth from LA, and then I 491 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: just started being over there learning how to And it 492 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: took me like two three years to even figure out 493 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 1: how to make you know, like semill of these music. 494 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: I had to get in the flow because I wasn't 495 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: no rapper. I was, but I wasn't. I had a 496 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: deal and everything, and I had no project out, you 497 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So it took me like two 498 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: three years. But being around that nigga and the people 499 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: he had, and watching like going to sessions, watching Little 500 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: Wayne and how Calid and all these motherfuckers move in 501 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: the studio and TI different motherfuckers. You know what I'm saying, 502 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 1: I'm like, damn okay, sitting there watching they work ethic 503 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: and how they record and pro tools. Come back to 504 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: LA by my own studio, record myself, and you know 505 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is being around that shit got me, 506 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, learning how to rap? 507 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 3: He during the BMF period, Oh shit, oh radio. 508 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,159 Speaker 1: Oh, I kind of came in like when everybody the 509 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: time period, it was like everybody was going to jail. 510 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 1: So I came in. I started hanging out in Atlanta 511 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 1: like five and then six I got into the rap shit, 512 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,239 Speaker 1: and like into six o seven he signed me and 513 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: then I probably even put a project out until the 514 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: end of seven and eight. You know what I'm saying. 515 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: I knew like both sides. You know a lot of niggas, 516 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, from here and there and all. 517 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, all in Atlanta. Atlanta was booming, definitely, 518 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: that shit was like, so you. 519 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 3: Was never approached by old banging. 520 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,360 Speaker 1: I was, though, but nah Me and Max so I met. 521 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,200 Speaker 1: I've seen Mac at the park a whole bunch of times, 522 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But I guess where him 523 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 1: as Squeak was going through what they was going through. 524 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: It was like I never had nothing to do with 525 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: whatever they was going on, but it was like this 526 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: my close big homie right here. So you know what 527 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: I'm saying. I really I was with him coming around, 528 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So when they had they separation, 529 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: I really didn't see Mac like that. So I remember 530 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: we was on a show. It was like I think 531 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 1: it was Mac ten Jeezy and what's said nigga named 532 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 1: mister Cheeks, and we was on like a baby tour, 533 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: like down the down the tenth Freeway, all the way 534 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: to twenty all. 535 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 3: The way back to Atlanta. You try to be real courageous, 536 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 3: call yourself mister Cheeks. 537 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 1: That's hella pause right there, Hella paus uh christer Cheeks. 538 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 3: You yoh yeah, They're all good, biggie. 539 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 4: But hey that beamers jeeps and the ship that used 540 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 4: to back. 541 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: And now he had some bangers of lost boys and ship, 542 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 1: and so I met all them and then I remember 543 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: that maybe the second night, I'm like, damn mac ten 544 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: on the ship and I walked through they through their 545 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: gray room and introduced myself. He's like, nah, I heard 546 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: you whoop. So we got exchanged numbers. And this is 547 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: how I had to learn the rap game too. I'm like, yeah, 548 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 1: may can I get a song and get on the song? 549 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 1: Niggas like you know what I'm saying. I got this 550 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: from a lot of people too. You know what I'm saying. 551 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: Like when I was first beginning, They're like, man, no 552 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: get he like get popping bro for shore, gonna reach out. 553 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: I'm just a young nigga. 554 00:25:59,359 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 3: Man that nigga. 555 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: How niggas ain't tripping off of that nigga, But it 556 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: was just it was me. So by the time that 557 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: I started making some noise, he was one of the 558 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 1: first niggas like, yeah, ye a young nigga. You what's hadding? 559 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, You're making some noise? Let's 560 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: get it? What else? Boom sending them songs? So I 561 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: got a few songs with him, and he been when 562 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: we run into each other, give me a lot of game, 563 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: and he embraced me a lot. You know what I'm saying. 564 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: These in these Yeah, shout out the Mac. Definitely, we 565 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: were sliding over here to all old school Mac all 566 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: your ship. Even when you was on Who Banging? You 567 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:34,719 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I used to buy all them 568 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: album Yeah, yeah, it was a good time. 569 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 3: Yeah. 570 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: But we talked about how niggas was putting niggas together. 571 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: I forgot who he was talking about. But then we 572 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: go back to Who Banging and it was from West 573 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 1: Side connection to Who Banging? It was bloods and crips together. 574 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 4: Says it's in no disrespect you know, Kendrick, my nigga, Like, 575 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 4: but we've been linking up for a while, man, Definitely, 576 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,679 Speaker 4: we been knowing how to collaborate and come together to 577 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 4: try to chase this motherfucking dream of being out of 578 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 4: bullshit and making money on that. 579 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 3: You feel me. Yeah, it's been going on for a 580 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 3: long time. Yeah, that's just like an outsider's perspective though, 581 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 3: because they don't really know what's going on out in 582 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,159 Speaker 3: the West Coast Riot. 583 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 4: It always it's always somebody in the It's always the 584 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,360 Speaker 4: media motherfuckers who you know, who fail to do research 585 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 4: on the real activity of niggas in the neighborhoods and shit, 586 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 4: they just go off of what they see. And then 587 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,919 Speaker 4: you know, Kendrick is so motherfucking large and popular or 588 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 4: he united the gangs and and he brought him to 589 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 4: get it was a good scenery. 590 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 1: But at a time in the in the in the 591 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 1: city right now. I mean it's not like it's done 592 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: every year. I mean certain niggas hang with certain niggas. 593 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: I hang with crips every day, Like, don't mind right 594 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: hand niggas be TF and Jprico. You feel me al 595 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: with these niggas every day, you know what I'm saying, 596 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: these my guys. But like I think it's you know, 597 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: every time you put it on a big scale and 598 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 1: it'll turn into that. But like you know what I'm 599 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: saying outside with the industry talking about and with the 600 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: phone talking about, we do this every day. But at 601 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: the same time, where it's sat in La, it's like 602 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: the city on fire and it's been on fires. Says 603 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: after pandemic. Niggas is running wow, like wow, our West 604 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: out here, niggas are doing anything, taking anything, tripping on anything. 605 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 1: So I think that was like a perfect time to 606 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: even even if it wasn't that or was that like 607 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,159 Speaker 1: to put that on a big scale cell out for 608 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: the city because behind the scenes, niggas is like everybody 609 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: clicking up, like niggay nigga, we need to drop it. 610 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 4: You think that's uh, you think that's the youngsters or 611 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 4: that's just everybody trying to get I. 612 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: Mean, it's whoever want to fall in. Because some niggas 613 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: is like fuck that shit, fuck with the wool and 614 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: with the wolf nigga. We still you know what I'm saying. 615 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: So you can't really. 616 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 3: No type. 617 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, well some you know, sometimes scars run deep, man, 618 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 4: you get me. Sometimes shit be personal and scars run deep. 619 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 1: And sometimes niggas ain't got shit else to do and 620 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: that's all they got. You feel me, So you know 621 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 1: what I mean. And at the end of the day, 622 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: you gotta respect. 623 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 3: I know a couple of them. 624 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I talk it to the hommy in jail yesterday. 625 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: I don't like nigga been coming down out of jail 626 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: twenty years, bro, And I get this call every time 627 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: you finish come home. Man, I'm finna woo. I'm like, 628 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: come on, bro, what you're really gonna do, is you 629 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: finna get all your business or usually just finna be 630 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 1: big pa ru Man. I'm always gonna be pot cut 631 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,720 Speaker 1: them off right there? Yeah, there you go there. I 632 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 1: don't even ain't no butts about it, so I can 633 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: know where we I can expect you feel me if 634 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 1: I'm expecting better and what you're telling me and you're 635 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: coming home at forty talk about niggas po U nigga 636 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: Like I got you gotta respect. 637 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 3: With it, especially if you're in a different place in 638 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 3: your life. 639 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 4: You get me like it's always gonna be love of 640 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 4: hood and love to set and respect. But I'm want 641 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 4: some shit different right now. Right I'm really in a 642 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 4: different lane and my money is right, you know, people, 643 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 4: and I ain't having no issues and everything. 644 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 3: And I can't. I can't. 645 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 4: I just can't be around some ship that might uh 646 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 4: jeopardize my situation. 647 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: Man, That's how I'm thinking. Me like you, you do 648 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: what you want to do. But I know how I moved, 649 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: I know how I talk, and I know what type 650 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: of business I'm conducting, and it's like I have made 651 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: it this far. 652 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 3: Nigga. 653 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 1: The conversations is even different from certain niggas. It's like, 654 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna be you know, you know, I 655 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: know how to talk. But then it's like I can 656 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: only be around shit for certain for so long. It's 657 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: like a nigga be like shit, I got money on 658 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: the line, trying to bust some move. Only can't you 659 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, be around some bullshit or listening 660 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: or talking about some bullshit for only so long? Bro? 661 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 3: The tolerance for that type of shit? Yeah right? Yeah? 662 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 3: So you he was rolling with Zzy and he back 663 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 3: and forth. When did you decide to cut times? The situation? 664 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: My final eye and cut ties on my head twenty 665 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: times time I was there, But like I think the 666 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: final was just twenty eleven. You know what I'm saying, 667 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: It's just a deal didn't go the way it was 668 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: supposed to go. And then I just felt like, you know, 669 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: I just tried my own thing. And I was already 670 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: over there for like four years. It was like, you know, 671 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: but I didn't know. I didn't know the difference. I 672 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: was still young, though, so I didn't know the difference 673 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: between homie shit and the music business. You know what 674 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, this is my homie shit. But if 675 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: we don't payer we talk about shit and shit, you 676 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, business and how we finish do something, 677 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's really that oh anything else. 678 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 1: So you know what I mean. When I figured that out, 679 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: you know, I just had to come back home and 680 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 1: just get on get on my own thing. And I 681 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: didn't quit nigga a hundred times. I quit rapping a 682 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: few times. I quit rapping at one time, Nigga for 683 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: like two years. And then watching my young homie Sean 684 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: Mack and Roochie and them on, like, man, my young 685 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: homies inspire me and motivated me. It's like, nigga, you 686 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 1: kicked this off of us. Get back outside, right, I 687 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,239 Speaker 1: got back outside. Let me turn it up. 688 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Definitely got a luck cracking though. 689 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 3: There's a lot of talent nowhere. 690 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, for sure, Yeah, for sure, it's generation. 691 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 4: He is, man, it's the areas of struggle that produce 692 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 4: motherfucking real talent because niggas be hungry and they strive 693 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 4: to get out of motherfucker shit. And when niggas thinking 694 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 4: of shit that can put them in a better situation 695 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 4: and put some money in my pocket, and I can 696 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 4: niggas gonna niggas gonna really create some motherfucking stories. That's 697 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 4: from Inglewood, that's from Compton Long Beach. I mean, just 698 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 4: look at us in southern California in all kinds of aspects. 699 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 4: Football players, basketball players, motherfucking When you come from struggle, man, 700 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 4: you strive hard to get out of that shit, so 701 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 4: it makes you go to a different place when it's 702 00:32:59,280 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 4: about your huff. 703 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 3: So you fell with me produce some people. Yeah for sure. 704 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 3: Hell yeah, you know what I'm saying. When somebody fighting 705 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 3: to get about, Hey, I'm trying to get the fuck up, body, 706 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 3: and I. 707 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 1: Worked best with my back against the walls. 708 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 3: Soon when you was missing around with Jeezy, right, you 709 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 3: said it was a homie situation. 710 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he became. He became. I came in 711 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 1: as as the homie, you know what I'm saying. And 712 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,719 Speaker 1: then he rapped, Yeah, I rap right then. You know, 713 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 1: he seen me moving with Sugar and I was a 714 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: young nigga having a little bit of a little little 715 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: baby paper, you know what I'm saying. What I thought 716 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 1: was some paper. 717 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 3: Because do you think that sometimes people from out the 718 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 3: state try to attext theyself to certain people out of here. 719 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: Well, he was already attached to my homie Twin, you 720 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So Twin was was my big bro, 721 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 1: and he kind of just brought me in. Me and 722 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 1: the homie Rocket, you know what I'm saying, Carson and 723 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: Ship and we came in together. So even back to 724 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: the Blood and Crip like the homies East Coast, you 725 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So we came in together, you 726 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And the way we was moving, 727 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 1: We'll go to Atlanta and come back, and that nigga 728 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: was just so cool to me. It was making all 729 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: your homies get all my homies, which you probably won't 730 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 1: even see today, Nigga, and it be nigga, a hundred 731 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,400 Speaker 1: East Coast niggas and hundred Powreu niggas and Fat Inglewood 732 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,399 Speaker 1: Family niggas. And we're moving going doing shows or going 733 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 1: to parties and shit, you know what I'm saying. And 734 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: you know, some niggas is with it, some niggas ain't 735 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,360 Speaker 1: with it. But off the respect that he had with 736 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 1: his homies and respect I had with my homies. Stay 737 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,280 Speaker 1: like nigga, if you say it's good, that's how we pushing. 738 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 1: And then we used to be pushing like that going 739 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 1: outside doing concerts all that. So back to what we 740 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,959 Speaker 1: was talking about, Yeah, I was over there and yeah, 741 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,239 Speaker 1: it was just yeah he I just came in as 742 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 1: like a homie and then it turned into artists, you 743 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But Rocket was signed too at 744 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,360 Speaker 1: the same time, and he was like light years ahead 745 00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: of me with the He knew what he was already 746 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 1: an artist, so you know what I mean. And I 747 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 1: just had to figure out my way in the music game. 748 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,839 Speaker 1: I ain't no ship about, no music game, no car 749 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,439 Speaker 1: I even read my first contract. They was like, yeah, 750 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: signed this, we got changed for you see. 751 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 3: You know I asked that, man, is I be really 752 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,399 Speaker 3: thinking that them dudes be having like a legenda when 753 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,839 Speaker 3: they signed somebody from out here, like yeah, he said, 754 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 3: you know they moving the way they moving through the city, 755 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 3: that just make him have a little bit more clouk. 756 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying, right, yeah, man, you know Rocke, 757 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 3: I'm young Jeezy was out West Many. 758 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 1: No, it did make it did give him a look though, 759 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,600 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It definitely gave gave him 760 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: a look for sure. 761 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,400 Speaker 3: So you think about it, you know you're looking at 762 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,319 Speaker 3: it like she looking you up. Man. He just call 763 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 3: hisself man a million dollars worth of promotion, yeah, feeling free, 764 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 3: free promo. 765 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 4: Yeah. 766 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 3: Yeah. Then when Atlanta like man, no man. 767 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:59,479 Speaker 1: He yeah, and this way he was like yeah right, 768 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,399 Speaker 1: and when he come out here, that's what it be. 769 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,040 Speaker 1: It be hella homies and then hella you know what 770 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 1: I'm saying, cribs and ship and it was just it 771 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 1: was looking good and that brought us. It brought us 772 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 1: together though, like I ain't gonna lie like it brought 773 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,319 Speaker 1: niggas together, which we probably wouldn't even linked up now. 774 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:19,200 Speaker 4: So if you yeah, yeah, right exactly, as long. 775 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 3: As you know, ain't nobody get as long as you 776 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,439 Speaker 3: come out of the situation better than it was before 777 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,959 Speaker 3: you went in. Because if you real man, in that's life, man, 778 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:30,319 Speaker 3: almost everybody using somebody, yeah yeah, especially in that that 779 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,240 Speaker 3: business right there, everybody is you ain't nobody with nobody 780 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,759 Speaker 3: just because they for the most part, you might find 781 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,239 Speaker 3: them situations here and there to wear some genuine love 782 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 3: or host apartment man. Everybody. Yeah. 783 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 1: I remember we got into it one time, maybe like 784 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,640 Speaker 1: two years after my initial signing, and we kind of 785 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 1: like got into it, had like a you know, it 786 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,399 Speaker 1: wasn't really no fallout. I was just like I'm cool 787 00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,239 Speaker 1: on you niggas, And they called back like, bro, we 788 00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:58,840 Speaker 1: got a little plan for you to come out here. 789 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,840 Speaker 1: We're gonna resign you thought you a little bag and 790 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 1: Tarrio shit up on YouTube and all this other shit, 791 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,120 Speaker 1: and I was I was a good six months just 792 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 1: flaming hot. Ain't nobody really know behind the scenes situation 793 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 1: that go back to who banging shit? Matt called like, yeah, 794 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: was sun you on fire right now? I got a 795 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,200 Speaker 1: fifty piece for you. Woot the wooty wool nigga, we 796 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 1: finish do this and do that. But I'm like, damn 797 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 1: you the hummy. Let me not like lie to you 798 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,759 Speaker 1: and shit, bro, I just signed with these niggas for 799 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 1: a thirty piece, like like five days ago. But I 800 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,560 Speaker 1: take that fifty and then look, I get these niggas 801 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,480 Speaker 1: whatever they need, and I'm gonna come out there and 802 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,239 Speaker 1: do whatever you need me to do. Let me run 803 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 1: it up. I probably should have been I should have 804 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,600 Speaker 1: probably said nothing and came out of her got that 805 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 1: fifty you feel me and been an eighty piece up nigga, 806 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,799 Speaker 1: feel me with both chains on Cete who banging. If 807 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,240 Speaker 1: both of the niggas wouldn't know shit, dad, he wouldn't 808 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:55,640 Speaker 1: have been the first nigga to do some shit. 809 00:37:55,800 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I have homies. I'll leave lameless right now, 810 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,799 Speaker 3: y'all man not putting his business out there. One is 811 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,879 Speaker 3: money to big record companies. Man, They was on his head. 812 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,920 Speaker 3: He said, y'all come, y'all spent it already. Yeah, get it. 813 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,560 Speaker 1: But this wasn't no record company, these like niggas that 814 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:11,920 Speaker 1: I know. 815 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:12,120 Speaker 3: Now. 816 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,839 Speaker 1: If it was like fucking Warner and Sony and something, 817 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,000 Speaker 1: I would have been here. 818 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 3: Let me get that. 819 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,000 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you call it. I don't even know who 820 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,960 Speaker 1: giving me the money. The check that this is a check, 821 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,399 Speaker 1: you feel me. So it was like even with CT 822 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,239 Speaker 1: eat them, niggas gave me a thirty piece in the 823 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,120 Speaker 1: motherfucker Ace of Spade Bag, I ain't get a check. 824 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,600 Speaker 1: It's like Nigga Boom, you know what I'm saying. So 825 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,879 Speaker 1: I'm I should have doubled back for that fifth Man. 826 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 3: Oh shit, yeah, especially with Man. 827 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,279 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. I don't think I would have think 828 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: it would have been the same situation, Bro, I would 829 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 1: I don't think he would have putt nobody out, just 830 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,360 Speaker 1: like dude, ain't putting nobody out like you know. 831 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:46,839 Speaker 3: What I'm saying. 832 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,799 Speaker 1: Nah, he put who Bang It out? Nigga when they 833 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,320 Speaker 1: was out, these niggas was dropping records, were just riding 834 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: up here. Me and Homie Stroke like that. Nigga was 835 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:58,959 Speaker 1: dropping two three albums a year. 836 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,719 Speaker 4: We drop projects on Who Bang And the only situation 837 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:10,600 Speaker 4: with that is probably the lack of promotion on the 838 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:17,480 Speaker 4: part of Priority and whoever was in charge of promoting 839 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,799 Speaker 4: the groups, because I sometimes I guess the fallout of 840 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,120 Speaker 4: some people was they didn't feel like they were getting 841 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,319 Speaker 4: they just do as far as you know, you know, 842 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:37,960 Speaker 4: when niggas, when you sign and you expect shit as 843 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,279 Speaker 4: far as when you see other motherfuckers getting shit and 844 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,440 Speaker 4: then you feeling like this is a big money machine, 845 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,560 Speaker 4: like here, give me, how come I. 846 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,400 Speaker 3: Ain't got that? You give me. 847 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,200 Speaker 4: So and so is getting that, but I ain't got that, 848 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,880 Speaker 4: and so and so got that. And then I go 849 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,640 Speaker 4: to on a promo tour and show up and I 850 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,759 Speaker 4: ain't got no product in the store. Now, you know, 851 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,719 Speaker 4: there's certain ship that makes motherfuckers feel like they're not 852 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,839 Speaker 4: getting the prop, they're not being valued. 853 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,080 Speaker 3: As an artist. And that's what you want though. Ship. 854 00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:19,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, and especially when you when you linking up with 855 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:24,520 Speaker 4: a homie, you feel the whole No, you feel the 856 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,480 Speaker 4: homeie shit. No crazy that that you give me. You 857 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,759 Speaker 4: know what's up, nigga? You you got records cracking and 858 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 4: many ministry. That's sometimes that's what the fall is because 859 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,160 Speaker 4: that nigga signed the motherfucking the label. You know, now 860 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,440 Speaker 4: I'm going to sign to you, and I don't know 861 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,680 Speaker 4: how that bread from the trickle down and how much 862 00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,759 Speaker 4: promotion I'm finna get, you know, because at the end 863 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,919 Speaker 4: of the day, when Warner come hand you that check 864 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,319 Speaker 4: for a million, they giving that check to the to 865 00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,280 Speaker 4: you as the label. 866 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,360 Speaker 1: You five than that? 867 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:00,680 Speaker 3: Shit. 868 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,000 Speaker 1: Fuck, what a nigga get an M for his budget 869 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,200 Speaker 1: and another M for his artists. 870 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:10,400 Speaker 3: You're like, nigga, I'm well, you blowing down and throw. 871 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,120 Speaker 1: The niggas three throw three artists three hundred thousand. Y'all 872 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,839 Speaker 1: gotta split this three hundred up nigga pocket in this seven, 873 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,799 Speaker 1: I'm a buy two videos and that's it. 874 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,600 Speaker 4: That's when the home element gets involved because the nigga 875 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,520 Speaker 4: be like, well, damn, nigga, the budget was a million. 876 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,719 Speaker 4: Nigga told me you took four hundred thousand off the top, 877 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,839 Speaker 4: not even for those services, and shit, get this. 878 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,239 Speaker 3: Four over here for me. Then I'm gonna take this 879 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,359 Speaker 3: other three for this right here because all these are 880 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:41,279 Speaker 3: features on his arm. 881 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, but you can't tell me the budget a million 882 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,239 Speaker 4: motherfucking dollars. And then I look up nigga and I 883 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,799 Speaker 4: can't get a video and shit, man, I ain't got 884 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,800 Speaker 4: no radio promotion, nigga. 885 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:51,880 Speaker 3: I'm I'm nigga. 886 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:56,320 Speaker 4: I'm sharing promotion with three other d and shit, and nigga, 887 00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 4: you got a million for me? 888 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,200 Speaker 1: Damn. 889 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,279 Speaker 3: It's the trickle down effect. Man. 890 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,560 Speaker 4: Sometimes niggas don't value and I don't want to say 891 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,360 Speaker 4: it like that, but that's just in the nutshell, nigga, 892 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:10,279 Speaker 4: nigga I'm doing. 893 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,480 Speaker 3: I'm doing just what you doing, maybe even fucking better. Yeah, yeah, 894 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:15,160 Speaker 3: you give me. 895 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just heard some shit that nigga said. Yeah 896 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,440 Speaker 1: ninety one nigga, and this motherfucker I'm like, Damn actually 897 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:21,399 Speaker 1: came out in ninety one. 898 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,200 Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, hey, let me ask you this all labels, 899 00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:25,759 Speaker 3: you fucking what was the best label? He was a 900 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,640 Speaker 3: when I was able to control shitting myself. So that's 901 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,680 Speaker 3: what you're doing right now? Yeah, or it was. 902 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,239 Speaker 4: It was good when I was able to take over 903 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,840 Speaker 4: from unknown, when I got when I was able to 904 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:43,799 Speaker 4: deal with Sony Direct. You know to me like you you, 905 00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,600 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say it's not good to fuck with 906 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,920 Speaker 4: a nigga, but a nigga has to be truly invested 907 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:55,960 Speaker 4: in you as his artist and has that sense of 908 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:01,360 Speaker 4: He doesn't have that sense of an he's afraid of competition. 909 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:06,319 Speaker 4: You get me me as a label, I don't give 910 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,600 Speaker 4: a fuck. If you're gonna project it, you gonna sell 911 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,279 Speaker 4: two million, and my new record is only finna do 912 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:16,480 Speaker 4: three hundred thousands because I don't want you to get 913 00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:21,000 Speaker 4: more attention than me. That's what That's what happens with 914 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,359 Speaker 4: us here. You get me instead of a motherfucker going, 915 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,400 Speaker 4: I put this motherfucking nigga out and he gonna sell 916 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,800 Speaker 4: two million, and Nigga, I'm finish double trip on my ship. 917 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,080 Speaker 4: Nigga look at it like, man, it's nigga gonna sell 918 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,640 Speaker 4: two million. He gonna be here and I'm gonna be here. 919 00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:37,440 Speaker 3: Now. They can't have that. 920 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:42,640 Speaker 4: When i'm you know, when when i'm when I'm when 921 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,600 Speaker 4: i'm that you give me. When you're a real motherfucker, 922 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,799 Speaker 4: you do like the white motherfuckers and go, I don't 923 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:48,359 Speaker 4: give a fuck. 924 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,080 Speaker 3: That ain't fnna do nothing but help us here. Yeah, 925 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,080 Speaker 3: So when you start fucking with jeez, where you go 926 00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:55,719 Speaker 3: after that? Um? 927 00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:01,800 Speaker 1: I went to Empire, Nima shout out, Nima Empire. He 928 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,279 Speaker 1: reached out. And this was twenty thirteen. I dropped the 929 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,560 Speaker 1: BIX tape and he hit me like, damn you getting money. 930 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:09,799 Speaker 3: For that shit. 931 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,920 Speaker 1: I'm like, nah, it's all free down loads. It was 932 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,080 Speaker 1: just as streaming would start trying to get you know 933 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,200 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He like, bro, just upload that shit 934 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,520 Speaker 1: over here, you know. Woo whoop like that, because back 935 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:24,520 Speaker 1: then you couldn't get paid like like nigga anytime before streaming. 936 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,879 Speaker 1: The only way you could get money is a record deal, 937 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,279 Speaker 1: some shows or verse. Right, that's it, you feel me 938 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,080 Speaker 1: or nigga's paying you to come do walk there, if 939 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,440 Speaker 1: you pop it like that, walk throughs and. 940 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,720 Speaker 3: Shit, you know you ain't get no money from sales. 941 00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,920 Speaker 1: Nah, you ain't getting me. You'll have to sit out 942 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,760 Speaker 1: in the truck and go outside every day on the daily. 943 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,200 Speaker 1: I've done it, but I never sold my records. I 944 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,080 Speaker 1: won't always want the niggas to hear my shit. 945 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,960 Speaker 3: The independent game in the physical days, man, people always 946 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,919 Speaker 3: talk about how much money it was. Definitely it was. 947 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,440 Speaker 1: It's a lot of work and it's dangerous. You feel 948 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,640 Speaker 1: me work every pinion that you gonna get doing that stuff. 949 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,680 Speaker 1: And then you got to worry about a distributed paying 950 00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,839 Speaker 1: you for your product. You might have said you might. 951 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,239 Speaker 1: That's why if I already had people who got real 952 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,400 Speaker 1: big preorders, Like if somebody in a pre order of 953 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,759 Speaker 1: twenty thousand, I send them tea yeah about to see 954 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,520 Speaker 1: the twenty thousand cities. I'm a senior tea. 955 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,640 Speaker 3: Yeah. I rather had them because I know we gonna 956 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,839 Speaker 3: go through these being what appened. There's people to get 957 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,200 Speaker 3: your twenty or we go hold onto this money that 958 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:29,160 Speaker 3: you got returns. Yeah, I'm holding that twenty percent for retires. 959 00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:33,399 Speaker 3: Look at that sounds. Man, the records is gone. Kick 960 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:33,880 Speaker 3: that money. 961 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,239 Speaker 4: That's all right, that contract, say I get the whole 962 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,120 Speaker 4: twenty percent with reserve money. 963 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:40,640 Speaker 3: Man, it's a whole lot of stuff. I had to 964 00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:44,040 Speaker 3: company file bankweptsy Man on me, and I was distributed 965 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,920 Speaker 3: and das dealers and stuff I was doing DAZZ. I 966 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,560 Speaker 3: had all Europe and we was making the killer man. 967 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,040 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, I just got it. I just got 968 00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,840 Speaker 3: to check in for like seventy five, right or wire 969 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,200 Speaker 3: transfer seventy five, and I you know you expected some 970 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,920 Speaker 3: warm way the next month. I one, but wow with 971 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,160 Speaker 3: that one seventy five because I said I got. 972 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,160 Speaker 1: One bigger co twenty thousand copies. 973 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:11,279 Speaker 3: Man, it was like man, no, this was like oh 974 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,400 Speaker 3: in England, we was working this exchange rate right, Oh definitely. 975 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,879 Speaker 3: So we was getting paid in British thirling over there, 976 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,160 Speaker 3: mom getting paid the American dollars. And I think back 977 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,440 Speaker 3: then the pound was like two to one, so I 978 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,919 Speaker 3: think we was getting like fourteen dollars to see them something. 979 00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:32,760 Speaker 1: M Now, nigga over here stuck getting mo fucking shit 980 00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,600 Speaker 1: and more fucking YouTube and streaming in that Spotify shit, 981 00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:37,120 Speaker 1: that shit. 982 00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:37,719 Speaker 3: But it ain't. 983 00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:39,359 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you just gotta play the game. 984 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,279 Speaker 1: Ain't nowhere around it. But now and days and nowadays, 985 00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,319 Speaker 1: it's a thousand more rappers. When I was coming around, 986 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,800 Speaker 1: it was like nigga rapping ass nigga, he rapped, nigga. 987 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,279 Speaker 1: Ain't no rapper nigga Like that was the thing, right 988 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,320 Speaker 1: you feel me in as the cameras came and it's 989 00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,600 Speaker 1: now everybody, every nigga on the corner rapper. Sometimes I 990 00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,800 Speaker 1: don't even want to tell the nigga. I'm a business 991 00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,200 Speaker 1: man exactly, a motivational speaker. 992 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,319 Speaker 4: I feel like you tell them, moucker, you rapping, you 993 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:06,759 Speaker 4: like the cluckhead and the ud. 994 00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:08,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, nigga, everybody rapped. 995 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, nigga, get away from me rappers. Ain't 996 00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:14,480 Speaker 3: that blue Divince dude from out there? 997 00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:19,240 Speaker 1: Who that? Oh? Yeah, I think he from He's. 998 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:24,120 Speaker 3: From out here, mis stirred out here. I don't know. 999 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,480 Speaker 4: I wasn't around, you know, I don't be doing that 1000 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,960 Speaker 4: you love throwing some little ship out, Uh, you love 1001 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:36,720 Speaker 4: throwing some little subliictlict. Okay, this motherfucking dick, this nigga 1002 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,680 Speaker 4: steal is a goddamn fuckle. 1003 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,279 Speaker 1: I do Blue de Vincere a little bit, but I knew, 1004 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,960 Speaker 1: I knew baby Blue. Baby Blue was a that nigga 1005 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,520 Speaker 1: was a firecracker. He passed away like the Gold six 1006 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,799 Speaker 1: or something like that. That was it. He was a 1007 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,000 Speaker 1: homie though. I fucked with him, but he was like 1008 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,640 Speaker 1: nod that niggas probably. I don't know how old he was, 1009 00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:58,960 Speaker 1: but he was young when he passed though. But that 1010 00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,439 Speaker 1: nigga was on some shit. I fuck with him though, 1011 00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:02,439 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. 1012 00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:07,719 Speaker 3: Shit so young, Yeah, twenty five, twenty four years old, 1013 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,200 Speaker 3: up like damn, they ain't even got to live their 1014 00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:12,080 Speaker 3: life yet. A mother fucking thing. When I was twenty 1015 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,960 Speaker 3: four twenty five, it's it's it's it's the code of 1016 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:16,879 Speaker 3: the streets, man. 1017 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,399 Speaker 1: And I was on some paper, nigga twenty four twenty five, 1018 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,319 Speaker 1: I thought I thought I had it all together. I 1019 00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,200 Speaker 1: was in Vegas, man, I got to Atlanta, I said, nigga, 1020 00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,000 Speaker 1: everybody rich, I ain't never going back to La nigga. 1021 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:31,080 Speaker 1: This is some money. Ain't nobody Trippa Atlanta different right now? 1022 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,080 Speaker 1: But when I got there, it was like Nigga Black. 1023 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,600 Speaker 3: It was different now, man, but everybody still seem like 1024 00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,520 Speaker 3: they got money over that. They seem like biggas. 1025 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,680 Speaker 1: Nah, niggas is that shit baby La. Right now niggas 1026 00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,440 Speaker 1: is shooting in the club. Outside the niggas is shooting. 1027 00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,600 Speaker 1: They shooting and robbing just like La. Like when I 1028 00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,239 Speaker 1: was there, you it was unheard of, like niggas get 1029 00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,160 Speaker 1: busted on here and there, but it wasn't the thing 1030 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:54,239 Speaker 1: you ever feel me. 1031 00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,920 Speaker 4: A young generation is yeah, real wild wild westman, where 1032 00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,319 Speaker 4: it's just open fire and open case airy and nigg 1033 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,879 Speaker 4: I'm I'm shooting at any and everything that's moving fox and. 1034 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:06,480 Speaker 3: The crucial magags. When I would, you know, I'd go 1035 00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,600 Speaker 3: down there, quite the biggest moms down there exactly. So 1036 00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,000 Speaker 3: last time I was down there, man, this dude pull 1037 00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,799 Speaker 3: up behind me. Man, he and the hellcat. Right. I 1038 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,399 Speaker 3: guess I was going too slow for the tesla. Right 1039 00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,600 Speaker 3: he get by, He pulled up to the side and 1040 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:24,960 Speaker 3: then start going like this. He was mean mugging. Why 1041 00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,759 Speaker 3: I told Chris, I told Chris Christ, I said, But 1042 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:33,640 Speaker 3: I said a motherfucking thing. I said, Hell yeah, Oh 1043 00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:34,279 Speaker 3: Death Ray. 1044 00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:37,879 Speaker 1: And niggas get away with ship out there and then 1045 00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:42,600 Speaker 1: and then Georgia's and Texas and Louisiana. Ain't no laws. 1046 00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:44,799 Speaker 1: Even if you got a permit in l A, You're 1047 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,680 Speaker 1: finna go to jail and they finna figure it out 1048 00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:50,360 Speaker 1: while you're entertained. Ain't no ain't no permits. 1049 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:58,520 Speaker 5: You feel me. Motherfucker's up man, Hell yeah, real. So 1050 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,000 Speaker 5: you know, Empire got a the people. Empart got a 1051 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:02,560 Speaker 5: lot of people. 1052 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:02,840 Speaker 3: I was. 1053 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,319 Speaker 1: I was like one of the first on there as 1054 00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,480 Speaker 1: a distribution I have it just before they was even 1055 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,600 Speaker 1: doing record deals. I still got the same distribution account. 1056 00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,239 Speaker 1: So I don't have a record deal with them at 1057 00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,760 Speaker 1: the moment. I have a distribution account. 1058 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:18,359 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 1059 00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,280 Speaker 1: I mean, shit, I don't know how much a record 1060 00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,799 Speaker 1: I just see. Man, I just put the whole ship 1061 00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,239 Speaker 1: is right now. You can't really calculate that ship. Man, 1062 00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:27,040 Speaker 1: they got this ship. 1063 00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:27,600 Speaker 3: Motherfucker. 1064 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,880 Speaker 4: You can't, like if you in the music if you 1065 00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:35,640 Speaker 4: still in the music game or or whatever, like you said, 1066 00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:39,799 Speaker 4: you can't calculate with this ship. You just got to 1067 00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,040 Speaker 4: put out quality music if that's what's in you to 1068 00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:46,120 Speaker 4: put out and you just have to play the game 1069 00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:47,800 Speaker 4: like it's being played. 1070 00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:48,920 Speaker 1: I play the game. 1071 00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:53,839 Speaker 4: Until a motherfucker either either we result back to CDs 1072 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:57,520 Speaker 4: and motherfuckers is like fuck that I'm not streaming those 1073 00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,279 Speaker 4: ship and go back to see or niggas figure out 1074 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,920 Speaker 4: of way that artists can uh, you know, be compensated 1075 00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,399 Speaker 4: for all these plays and these records that they got out. 1076 00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,759 Speaker 4: You give me because it's a shame when nigga turned 1077 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,120 Speaker 4: around and drop album back to back to back and 1078 00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,239 Speaker 4: you end up getting a couple of dollars and shit, 1079 00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:16,640 Speaker 4: feel me, I. 1080 00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,640 Speaker 1: Like it better like this though, because you ain't good man. 1081 00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:20,120 Speaker 3: Niggas. 1082 00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:24,240 Speaker 1: Don't nigga the patient where niggas has CDs. Niggas, ain't 1083 00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,600 Speaker 1: we getting no money? You like one in a million 1084 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,960 Speaker 1: that caught a plug out of the country, or you 1085 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,479 Speaker 1: feel me, niggas wasn't doing that, bro, you like it better? 1086 00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,600 Speaker 3: No, I'm used to dealing the physical product. That was 1087 00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:39,239 Speaker 3: me too. I hated the transition CD. Don't get me 1088 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,359 Speaker 3: this much money, these twelve hundred press. 1089 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,200 Speaker 1: I mean I was one of those still going though. 1090 00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,120 Speaker 4: I was one of those when Empire first started. Who 1091 00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:53,840 Speaker 4: was approached and I couldn't. I couldn't do it because 1092 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,719 Speaker 4: I was so stuck on the physical and. 1093 00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:58,080 Speaker 3: And you know our nigga. 1094 00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,399 Speaker 4: I had a record deal, niggah, yeah, different, I had 1095 00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,960 Speaker 4: a record deal. Nigga was signed to Sony and Ethic 1096 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,000 Speaker 4: Priority and ship like that, and nigga I put our 1097 00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:12,120 Speaker 4: physical CDs and had autograph signings and went on pointing 1098 00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:12,760 Speaker 4: out tapes. 1099 00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,200 Speaker 1: You got tapes, hey, you phel me. 1100 00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,600 Speaker 4: So yeah, it was hard to make that track because 1101 00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:20,840 Speaker 4: nigga didn't know what nigga, I don't finna make some 1102 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:25,240 Speaker 4: money off of this ship would And I'm I'm still 1103 00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:29,279 Speaker 4: considering myself like a regular nigga, Like I ain't got 1104 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:33,640 Speaker 4: no tools to download no motherfucking music and ship. Ain't 1105 00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:37,040 Speaker 4: no regular niggas really rolling around unless they hip on 1106 00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:41,120 Speaker 4: the motherfucking game of it. I didn't have no iPod 1107 00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:41,480 Speaker 4: and no. 1108 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,960 Speaker 1: Ship like oh yeah, y'all had that little shit on Spotify. 1109 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,520 Speaker 3: It seemed like he racist than the Moffuers. 1110 00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,719 Speaker 1: And all these motherfuckers racist, the presidents whoever, all these 1111 00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:51,320 Speaker 1: white people. 1112 00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,040 Speaker 3: You know what he said on X the other day 1113 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:59,600 Speaker 3: of Twitter whatever they call it. He said that making music. 1114 00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,000 Speaker 3: Don't call off the content creators. Nothing. He says, like 1115 00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:06,239 Speaker 3: it's just nothing. He looks at music as a way, 1116 00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:08,359 Speaker 3: as a thing, as a tool to keep him rich. 1117 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, see it, he said music. What now 1118 00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:15,480 Speaker 4: he said? He pretty much said it. Oh, it don't 1119 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:18,800 Speaker 4: take them. It don't take much to do music. 1120 00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:22,520 Speaker 1: And then they told him out was he like in 1121 00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,400 Speaker 1: like a court looking setting. I think I've seen that. 1122 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:26,319 Speaker 1: I thought it was fake. 1123 00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,880 Speaker 4: Bontically, he's saying, it don't cost you. It don't cost 1124 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:33,160 Speaker 4: you that much money to make the music that you 1125 00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:34,040 Speaker 4: make it any much. 1126 00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:35,959 Speaker 3: You don't see the value on it. It's just a tool. 1127 00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:37,640 Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you. That's what happens when you get 1128 00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,319 Speaker 3: tech people in the record industry and well don't care 1129 00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,080 Speaker 3: about music. These are mostly tech people coming here and 1130 00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:44,360 Speaker 3: start these companies. 1131 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,920 Speaker 4: There because he's a tech motherfucker who knows that all 1132 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,320 Speaker 4: I gotta do is go in there and press a button. 1133 00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,840 Speaker 4: And I got a microphone right here, and all I 1134 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:54,080 Speaker 4: gotta start doing is doing this and the music right 1135 00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:57,000 Speaker 4: there and want It's not what we used to do. 1136 00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:01,160 Speaker 4: It's not the creation of music. You get me, I 1137 00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,040 Speaker 4: could get a beat right now already done. Ready to 1138 00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:07,720 Speaker 4: go womp the wont and spit lyrics for five fucking minutes. 1139 00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:12,600 Speaker 4: Song is done. Upload that motherfucker. That shit didn't take 1140 00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:17,080 Speaker 4: me twenty minutes. As back in the days when slipping 1141 00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,680 Speaker 4: them was digging in the crates looking for sounds and 1142 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,400 Speaker 4: eight and half in the five shit and create or 1143 00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:27,040 Speaker 4: a musician like half in the singing keys and come 1144 00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:30,960 Speaker 4: up with writing the music and doing is different now. 1145 00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,279 Speaker 1: I don't he kind of right though? It don't cost 1146 00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,319 Speaker 1: no money to make all shoes. Mohomie mahomie three one 1147 00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,200 Speaker 1: oh baby. That nigga got one of the biggest records. 1148 00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:42,200 Speaker 1: Soak City Man. Nigga made that ship on the phone 1149 00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:46,120 Speaker 1: with an earpiece phone with an app on the ear piece. 1150 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:47,640 Speaker 1: This nigga got the biggest song. 1151 00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:49,880 Speaker 3: But when you hit, you go get all the money 1152 00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:54,680 Speaker 3: because under that notice, he's probably own right now. 1153 00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:55,960 Speaker 1: Shout out to that o man. 1154 00:54:58,040 --> 00:54:59,839 Speaker 4: I come from the days where it used to call 1155 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,960 Speaker 4: you one hundred grand to shoot a video show. You 1156 00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:07,360 Speaker 4: understand me, No if ange butts nigga get picked up. 1157 00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:12,200 Speaker 4: My fucking get busy and bingo don't need a motherfucker 1158 00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,600 Speaker 4: for shit. Yeah, for the shoot the video right now, 1159 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,680 Speaker 4: bing bing bing bing dun Bing had a shit uploaded 1160 00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,680 Speaker 4: and motherfucking in hour and it be just as crystal 1161 00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,520 Speaker 4: clear as a motherfucker Hike Williams fucker. 1162 00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,279 Speaker 1: And you could throw that motherfucker in some type of 1163 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,239 Speaker 1: program and it'll render in color code all that shit. 1164 00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:33,040 Speaker 1: Get it back and uploaded on whatever Spotify. 1165 00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,640 Speaker 3: Unless you downloaded the program free. 1166 00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,840 Speaker 1: You understand now, the exposure is the issue. 1167 00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:43,040 Speaker 3: That's his, that's his frame. Now. 1168 00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:47,040 Speaker 4: To us, we're putting our hard and show we writing 1169 00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,279 Speaker 4: the song. We're trying to come up with something that's 1170 00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:53,000 Speaker 4: you know, that's quality for a nigga to be able 1171 00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:58,600 Speaker 4: to spend his nine ninety nine right yeah, But we 1172 00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:02,440 Speaker 4: as far as taking is concerned, that's how everybody get 1173 00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:07,920 Speaker 4: their music now, So he's he's working that. You get 1174 00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,080 Speaker 4: me now, If you want to sell your shit for 1175 00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,120 Speaker 4: ten dollars, then press your shit. 1176 00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:13,479 Speaker 1: Other shit going on hor. 1177 00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,439 Speaker 4: Shit, but you But if a motherfucker want your shit 1178 00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,759 Speaker 4: on my service, then I'm charging it and I'm not 1179 00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:20,960 Speaker 4: giving you money for that. 1180 00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:25,080 Speaker 3: And I heard, you know, he said that you're not 1181 00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,239 Speaker 3: getting paid for a thousand views on if you got 1182 00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,000 Speaker 3: just views, you're not getting paid. 1183 00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I can understand that A 1184 00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:33,000 Speaker 1: thousand strain he's saying. 1185 00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:37,440 Speaker 4: And I remember that with the in tube shit, they're saying, 1186 00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:41,120 Speaker 4: you gotta be a motherfucker that's generating views. You can't 1187 00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,680 Speaker 4: be no nigga brand new and then get a thousand 1188 00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,239 Speaker 4: views and be feeling like fuck that shit. 1189 00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:50,520 Speaker 1: I takeing up space. I'm taken up data space. Nigga. 1190 00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,279 Speaker 4: You gotta be a nigga. That's like, Okay, you got 1191 00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:57,120 Speaker 4: thirty thousand on this video, you got fifty thousand. 1192 00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,080 Speaker 3: On another one, you got one hundred thousand. 1193 00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:01,440 Speaker 1: No, man, you ain't get I think they should give 1194 00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,280 Speaker 1: niggas thirty days, nigga, if you ain't got two thousand 1195 00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,440 Speaker 1: thirty days, nigga were swelling that shit. You wasted space, nigga. 1196 00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:09,759 Speaker 1: It's a year. 1197 00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:13,279 Speaker 4: Yeah, hell click on videos to nigga should be up 1198 00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,800 Speaker 4: there for five years unless she got eighty nine. 1199 00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:18,760 Speaker 1: Views and shit, nigga, you waste this space. 1200 00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,080 Speaker 3: Nigga, Get up out of here. I tell you some dog. 1201 00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:21,480 Speaker 4: Yeah. 1202 00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,760 Speaker 3: I think it's a lot of rappers now, it's a 1203 00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:27,560 Speaker 3: hell yeah, even more rapers than podcasters. Nah, I'm gonna 1204 00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:29,080 Speaker 3: turn around. It's a new podcast. 1205 00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:32,040 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, but that go back to consistency. Now, 1206 00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:36,360 Speaker 1: podcasts is it's another beast, bro, you gotta do that shit. 1207 00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,240 Speaker 1: Don't be the one that be going live like the 1208 00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:42,240 Speaker 1: homies back on figging them. Them niggas working, They working, working, 1209 00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:45,400 Speaker 1: Like I watched the process from day one until now and. 1210 00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:48,760 Speaker 3: They go, dag, you. 1211 00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,160 Speaker 1: Gotta but you gotta be consistent. So if a nigga 1212 00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,000 Speaker 1: down the street say I want a podcast, man, you 1213 00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:55,919 Speaker 1: gotta be here Monday, Wednesday, Friday going live. They're cutting 1214 00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,680 Speaker 1: the clips of uploading them, putting the words on there, 1215 00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,440 Speaker 1: come back and do some promotion. Like from what I 1216 00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,400 Speaker 1: from my knowledge is it's like, yeah, you're gonna do 1217 00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:06,600 Speaker 1: to get the stream check when you get popping, but 1218 00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:12,840 Speaker 1: you gotta start taking what do you call it? Nah No, 1219 00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,600 Speaker 1: Like you gotta start getting people to sponsor you with 1220 00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,680 Speaker 1: and you you know you get sponsored Oh yo, okay, yeah. 1221 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:25,480 Speaker 3: Right. Everybody think this stuff is easy until they start 1222 00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:27,960 Speaker 3: doing it. He realized, Man, I gotta go up there 1223 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,800 Speaker 3: every week for fifty two weeks. Hell yeah, and I 1224 00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:33,720 Speaker 3: gotta think it's a fresh stuff to keep people watching, 1225 00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:37,440 Speaker 3: and not just that I gotta upload this stuff. I 1226 00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:41,560 Speaker 3: gotta hell yeah, I gotta make sure this video. If 1227 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:43,240 Speaker 3: this is going on over here, I gotta put it 1228 00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,240 Speaker 3: out at five o'clock this time because to see all 1229 00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:46,120 Speaker 3: my people's. 1230 00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:49,120 Speaker 1: On Yeah, nah, for sure. 1231 00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:49,440 Speaker 3: It is. 1232 00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:54,600 Speaker 1: Some niggas that just be like fuck it, turn the 1233 00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:56,880 Speaker 1: camera on them. Start a podcast and we just talked 1234 00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:00,320 Speaker 1: messy or we just podcast about other people pod cast 1235 00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,240 Speaker 1: that ship Cory is fuck to me, that's the weakest 1236 00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:06,080 Speaker 1: shit ever. I'll go on one podcast and they talk 1237 00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:08,160 Speaker 1: about some ship. You go on the next podcast they 1238 00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,400 Speaker 1: talking about what they was talking about, So how do 1239 00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:13,680 Speaker 1: you like? What do you call that? When you talk 1240 00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:14,960 Speaker 1: about somebody else? What do they call? 1241 00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:15,960 Speaker 3: Got the term for it? 1242 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,360 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, we're gonna review or we're gonna review 1243 00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,200 Speaker 1: what they was talking about then, and they was reviewing 1244 00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:24,520 Speaker 1: what somebody else was talking about. And we didn't watch 1245 00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:29,280 Speaker 1: five podcasts talking about the podcasts. 1246 00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:34,600 Speaker 4: And Nigga said, my nigga, my show is nigga. My 1247 00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:38,720 Speaker 4: show is here to talk about other show. That's that's 1248 00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:39,800 Speaker 4: the basis of MYSS. 1249 00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,280 Speaker 1: But the other show was just talking about other than 1250 00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:43,360 Speaker 1: another show. 1251 00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,360 Speaker 3: Do that want to do like a side show? Like 1252 00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:49,720 Speaker 3: we come on every day every. 1253 00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:53,480 Speaker 1: Other talking about other nigga shows, be like, yeah. 1254 00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,880 Speaker 3: There, y'all saw so and so podcast, but it is 1255 00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:57,560 Speaker 3: a motherfucker. 1256 00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:00,880 Speaker 1: And then they'll play the podcast in the little box 1257 01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:02,919 Speaker 1: and be talking about it and then pauses. So get 1258 01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:05,480 Speaker 1: so you see when he said Wootie woolf you know 1259 01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:08,120 Speaker 1: Wootie Wolf really don't like Wootie Wolf. Play it back? 1260 01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:11,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm here that dag, Now that's what that's 1261 01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:13,720 Speaker 4: Those are the reaction video reaction. 1262 01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,120 Speaker 1: That was the term I was talking about. Yeah, let's 1263 01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,440 Speaker 1: do a reaction video on the podcast. 1264 01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:20,560 Speaker 4: I was talking about the other podcast, and they gonna 1265 01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:21,959 Speaker 4: play fifteen minutes of your. 1266 01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:26,600 Speaker 1: Ship ship and be pausing the motherfucker too. 1267 01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:30,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how they do that whole show. They let 1268 01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,000 Speaker 4: two seconds play, they pause it. Oh did you see 1269 01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:34,680 Speaker 4: what that nigga just said in two. 1270 01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,600 Speaker 1: Seconds and they'll breakdown when he says, so he really 1271 01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:38,640 Speaker 1: talking about. 1272 01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,720 Speaker 3: Why that back right here? Nigga, you just started like 1273 01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:45,800 Speaker 3: two seconds ago. You already rewinded back. And it's the 1274 01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:47,800 Speaker 3: biggest con in the world. You know what that is? 1275 01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,640 Speaker 3: Let's say we get a hot ass video, right, we 1276 01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:54,480 Speaker 3: gotta video a couple of hundred thousand views Yeah, he's 1277 01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,720 Speaker 3: gonna take that video exactly on his chin. He's gonna 1278 01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:01,600 Speaker 3: put it on this he's gonna cost it's the reaction. 1279 01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:03,640 Speaker 1: Nah No, he can't. He can't do my music like 1280 01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:05,680 Speaker 1: that nigga Empire taking that ship down. 1281 01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:07,440 Speaker 3: You feel me react? 1282 01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, ad this nigga ship and he said, yeah, I'm 1283 01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:12,760 Speaker 4: just gonna play your ship and listen to what still 1284 01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:15,360 Speaker 4: saying and then hold up, hold on if you're here, 1285 01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:16,880 Speaker 4: what this nigga just said? 1286 01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:18,800 Speaker 3: Hold up, let's rewind that shit. 1287 01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:21,000 Speaker 1: It's weird on the podcast ship, but when the nigga 1288 01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:23,640 Speaker 1: uh do do it on the music, that's really like 1289 01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,960 Speaker 1: they s shit down. They shut it down. Or it's 1290 01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,200 Speaker 1: like free promo because it's a way that you could 1291 01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:30,680 Speaker 1: do it to where it won't get took down. A 1292 01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,200 Speaker 1: lot of my music got reviewed or you know what 1293 01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:37,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying. What was the term reaction the reaction to 1294 01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:40,680 Speaker 1: projects we dropped, and that's free promo for the music. 1295 01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:42,680 Speaker 1: So they either go, I would rather a nigga be 1296 01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,680 Speaker 1: like that ship whack as fuck. You go listen, go 1297 01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:47,760 Speaker 1: listen to this ship. That ship whacks fuck it. Then 1298 01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:51,920 Speaker 1: there's twenty niggas that listen to you knew what it was. 1299 01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:52,840 Speaker 3: Think that's something though. 1300 01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:55,720 Speaker 4: Let me say that's something that Karen told me though, 1301 01:01:56,080 --> 01:02:00,200 Speaker 4: because he saw that you had put up something about 1302 01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:03,480 Speaker 4: niggas posting or ship and blah blah and you was 1303 01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:06,160 Speaker 4: gonna get it flagged. He came to me and he said, 1304 01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,560 Speaker 4: why still do that? He said, don't you know that's 1305 01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:11,720 Speaker 4: how y'all go viral when other people push your ship. 1306 01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:16,720 Speaker 4: And I said, yeah, but well I want niggas coming 1307 01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,120 Speaker 4: up making money off of ship that we doesnet do. 1308 01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,360 Speaker 1: But you don't know who making money or not making 1309 01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:24,080 Speaker 1: a lot of niggas ain't monetized. A lot of niggas 1310 01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:25,880 Speaker 1: on there just talking shit on camera. 1311 01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:29,120 Speaker 3: People sharing and stuff, and they doing it the right way, right. 1312 01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:31,600 Speaker 3: But the dude that don't took the time to blow 1313 01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:35,360 Speaker 3: the screens up to take the gangs of chronicle logo walk, Yeah, 1314 01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:38,000 Speaker 3: just some crazy angle of the show and the show 1315 01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:39,760 Speaker 3: look all crazy. He had already. 1316 01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:44,880 Speaker 4: I'm like this, yeah, yeah, and it's like the wall 1317 01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,920 Speaker 4: is just to steal this video and that's it's a reaction. 1318 01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:52,960 Speaker 3: And let him do it though, Yeah, hit them up, 1319 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:54,680 Speaker 3: and I tell them I ain't gonna flag, just take it. 1320 01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:57,640 Speaker 3: Din't know what they're doing right this one dude told 1321 01:02:57,680 --> 01:03:04,080 Speaker 3: me you and I said, oh, you're not saying for 1322 01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:09,000 Speaker 3: these studio time. Yeah, yeah, you know. And somebody, you know, 1323 01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:11,640 Speaker 3: Charlottage told me that too. He said, Man, that's just promotion. 1324 01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:13,920 Speaker 3: I said, everybody because you. 1325 01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, they gonna take it anyway. 1326 01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:21,160 Speaker 4: That's and like I said, I mean, that's the same thing. 1327 01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:24,440 Speaker 4: Karan said, Man, stop telling it. Stop flygging niggas. Man, 1328 01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:28,440 Speaker 4: That's how y'all go viral is when other people post 1329 01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:31,080 Speaker 4: your ship and do ship read it. 1330 01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:31,520 Speaker 1: See. 1331 01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,440 Speaker 3: I knew about all that, and I'm cool with all that. 1332 01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:35,120 Speaker 3: I'm talking about the people that just be. 1333 01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:40,400 Speaker 4: Just yeah, they like, fuck, it's it's free promotion. They 1334 01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,000 Speaker 4: love y'all niggas. Let them have that ship. 1335 01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:51,200 Speaker 1: So I know you got your storeopping Yeah, yeah, the 1336 01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:54,240 Speaker 1: Level up store fourteen o nine sitting there Avenue. You 1337 01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:57,120 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Yes, indeed, yeah, so should I've 1338 01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:59,840 Speaker 1: been putting my everything into that, you know what I'm saying. 1339 01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:01,120 Speaker 3: Name, clothing shit. 1340 01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:06,120 Speaker 4: So it's like really like one of those things. You 1341 01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:08,760 Speaker 4: know a lot of niggas try to get into. How 1342 01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:12,800 Speaker 4: do you how have you made it successful? As far 1343 01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:15,760 Speaker 4: as the continuing run you have had with left. 1344 01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:19,640 Speaker 1: So basically, even since a little kid, I always be 1345 01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:23,240 Speaker 1: infatuated with clothes and shoes. And I was I was 1346 01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,520 Speaker 1: like a young fly nigga all the way coming up, 1347 01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:29,720 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And and you know, so 1348 01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:33,520 Speaker 1: really I was already on clothes. I'll spend a budget 1349 01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:35,720 Speaker 1: on clothes a month, you know what I'm saying. But 1350 01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:39,360 Speaker 1: how I got into the place was I'll drop projects 1351 01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:42,240 Speaker 1: and have my my album merch. You know what I mean, 1352 01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:44,040 Speaker 1: out the truck. You know what I'm saying, Pull up, 1353 01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:46,439 Speaker 1: grab this so I have it at certain stores or something. 1354 01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:48,800 Speaker 1: One dam in sitting in the restaurant and I see 1355 01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:52,160 Speaker 1: this place just an open opportunity, and I'm looking at 1356 01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:54,560 Speaker 1: thirty people in the parking lot. I'm like, damn, but 1357 01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:57,040 Speaker 1: I got people coming up here to meet me to 1358 01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:00,480 Speaker 1: buy T shirts for me, And shit, I'm like, one, Damn, 1359 01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:02,560 Speaker 1: I'm like that. Let me go next door and figure 1360 01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:04,720 Speaker 1: out how I could get in this spot. And then 1361 01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,360 Speaker 1: I mean when I got in the spot, I basically 1362 01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:11,080 Speaker 1: just took a page out of Nipsy book with the 1363 01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,520 Speaker 1: Marathi store mister Fab with Dope Era and it was 1364 01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,680 Speaker 1: also a store on Fairfax called the Dope Store. 1365 01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:18,560 Speaker 3: I think that was. 1366 01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,360 Speaker 1: Dj il Will's store something like that, one of them 1367 01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:25,760 Speaker 1: something like that over there, and he had they own 1368 01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:29,800 Speaker 1: shit mixed blended in with the hot brands. I'm like, Dan, 1369 01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:31,800 Speaker 1: that's how I want. I want to look like this. 1370 01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:35,360 Speaker 1: I wanted my ship in here, but I want the 1371 01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:37,320 Speaker 1: brand so they could come in here and this will 1372 01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,880 Speaker 1: be like Men's Land. You know what I'm saying. Right, So, 1373 01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,120 Speaker 1: so you know, after my initial move in and I start, 1374 01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:48,640 Speaker 1: you know, selling my own merch along with getting brands, 1375 01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:51,920 Speaker 1: and then the music and the closes and fashion is 1376 01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:53,920 Speaker 1: hand in hand. So when I get in and I'm 1377 01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:58,000 Speaker 1: doing promo on Instagram, I got a store off of 1378 01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:00,480 Speaker 1: music shit just being around jez and and back in 1379 01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:02,520 Speaker 1: the day, I runt it to somebody I used to 1380 01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:05,040 Speaker 1: look us up with all larg You know what I'm saying. 1381 01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:06,880 Speaker 1: My boy Cypress like, hey, bro, they say they know 1382 01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:09,720 Speaker 1: you are Ethica. I don't know. You know what I'm saying, Bam, 1383 01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:12,160 Speaker 1: I get a you link in with the old Larg 1384 01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:14,720 Speaker 1: people they working at Etica, get an account with Etica 1385 01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:17,080 Speaker 1: people that I used to deal with at Crookson Castle. 1386 01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:22,640 Speaker 1: They gave me an account so I can whosletsale clothes. 1387 01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:24,080 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I knew them from back 1388 01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:26,680 Speaker 1: in the day, but they had something else called leverage. 1389 01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:30,320 Speaker 1: They sell all embellished jeans and certain jeans and T shirts. 1390 01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:33,000 Speaker 1: And with that group, they kind of laced me, like 1391 01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,760 Speaker 1: start coming to magic shows, you know, the magic show 1392 01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:37,919 Speaker 1: in Vegas every twice a year, you know what I'm saying. 1393 01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:40,800 Speaker 1: So I'm just showing up and just being consistent. I'm 1394 01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,800 Speaker 1: on this every day. Plus I'm still outside, so I'm 1395 01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:46,640 Speaker 1: looking for a retirement player like this retirement this is 1396 01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:48,880 Speaker 1: my next my next life right here. You know what 1397 01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:52,080 Speaker 1: I'm saying is fashion. Let me just go all the way. 1398 01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:55,560 Speaker 1: And we just hit six years this month. So yeah, 1399 01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:59,640 Speaker 1: So and and really Pandemic was a was a boost 1400 01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:04,520 Speaker 1: for me. Pandemic was Yeah, that was the test if 1401 01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:06,320 Speaker 1: you was going to stand or fall, you know what 1402 01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:08,440 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I stood through. They closed down in 1403 01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:12,080 Speaker 1: the malls and the manufacturers kept working and I ain't. 1404 01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:14,240 Speaker 1: Nobody had no choice but to come to me, you 1405 01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:16,520 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So, and I had to learn 1406 01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:19,560 Speaker 1: as I go because the place was already a print place. 1407 01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,800 Speaker 1: So I just took over the print place and turned 1408 01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:25,240 Speaker 1: it into a clothing store, did my promo, did my upgrades, 1409 01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:28,600 Speaker 1: and just learned the game as I went. You know 1410 01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,200 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Every day, I'm learning shit. Every day 1411 01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:33,960 Speaker 1: I meet new people, going to certain functions that I 1412 01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:37,240 Speaker 1: never heard of functions, went to Paris for fashion week, 1413 01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:38,920 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and just I was just 1414 01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:43,280 Speaker 1: so inspired in Paris, Like I really do this shit 1415 01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:45,120 Speaker 1: every day. Matter of fact. This my clothing brand, and 1416 01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:48,960 Speaker 1: Corey Drives, you know what I'm saying. So I'm learning quality, 1417 01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:52,840 Speaker 1: I'm learning GSM, I'm learning the ounces, I'm learning cuts cutting, 1418 01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:56,840 Speaker 1: so I'm learning fabric, I'm learning everything. And I really 1419 01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:59,680 Speaker 1: manufactured other brands, you know what I'm saying. And help 1420 01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,360 Speaker 1: other people, my my homies that got clothing lines, I'm 1421 01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:05,320 Speaker 1: helping them, just putting my input in and you know, 1422 01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:08,400 Speaker 1: I'm putting just just just my all and my ship 1423 01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:16,640 Speaker 1: and they ship too. So yeah, Pross, oh yeah, this 1424 01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:18,800 Speaker 1: ship ain't hard though. I mean shit ain't easy though. 1425 01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:21,600 Speaker 1: This is a money pit. You just gotta get outside 1426 01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:24,400 Speaker 1: and you gotta get some afflorencers. You gotta be outside, 1427 01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:27,639 Speaker 1: right place, right time for a clothing brand. See I'm 1428 01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:30,280 Speaker 1: doing both. I got clothing brand and I have a 1429 01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:33,000 Speaker 1: clothing store, so it's easy for It's kind of easy 1430 01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:35,559 Speaker 1: for my brand because I could just throw ship, make 1431 01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:39,000 Speaker 1: your brand, which I got the hottest ship that's out 1432 01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:41,320 Speaker 1: right now, I don't have. I got I got like 1433 01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,880 Speaker 1: two racks that's runway ship. And then everything else is 1434 01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:46,720 Speaker 1: like street clothes. You know what I'm saying. They just 1435 01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,280 Speaker 1: go from the highest level all the way down there. 1436 01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,519 Speaker 1: You know, you could come get something, you come get 1437 01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:52,360 Speaker 1: something on here. 1438 01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:53,000 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 1439 01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,120 Speaker 1: Everybody dressed different, got their presence. 1440 01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:57,200 Speaker 3: On what they I try to You got a flavor 1441 01:08:57,280 --> 01:08:57,799 Speaker 3: for everybody. 1442 01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:59,599 Speaker 1: I gotta try to. Yeah, yeah, just here. I try 1443 01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:01,920 Speaker 1: to set fire everybody that I can, but you know 1444 01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:04,519 Speaker 1: you really can't do that at the same time, just 1445 01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:07,240 Speaker 1: keeping my brand as what it is, you know what 1446 01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:12,320 Speaker 1: I'm saying. So after six years, you know, yeah, I didn't. 1447 01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:15,720 Speaker 1: This is all I do is music and fashion. I 1448 01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:19,840 Speaker 1: don't do shit else, thank you. Like it's not an 1449 01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:22,439 Speaker 1: easy ice. Watched my son do a drop. He sold 1450 01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:26,439 Speaker 1: through all this stuff, but he kind of panic. 1451 01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:31,200 Speaker 3: Yeah. Luckily, you know, it kind of took off of 1452 01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:31,799 Speaker 3: the worked. 1453 01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:33,320 Speaker 1: Out for him, But shit, he's selling like that. He 1454 01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,360 Speaker 1: must be nice cause niggas don't sell, you feel me, 1455 01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:39,479 Speaker 1: Niggas give away for free. Yeah, certain niggas would be like, 1456 01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,880 Speaker 1: you know, for me personally to spend my money, that 1457 01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:45,400 Speaker 1: shit gotta be hard, bro, because I'm only thinking on 1458 01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:47,920 Speaker 1: what I'm wearing. You give it to me, you know 1459 01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:49,160 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You can give it to me. You 1460 01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:51,240 Speaker 1: never know. I might throw this on or I might 1461 01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:52,760 Speaker 1: not throw it on, you know what I'm saying. But 1462 01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:55,040 Speaker 1: you always got to give your shit away, you know 1463 01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:58,400 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But for you to get sales and 1464 01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:02,840 Speaker 1: they hitting you and and shopify and you selling out 1465 01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:04,000 Speaker 1: like that's major, bro. 1466 01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:07,240 Speaker 3: So here you gotta put me on. 1467 01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:08,479 Speaker 1: Let me check your ship out. 1468 01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:11,599 Speaker 3: Because you know he got his NFL friends and stuff. 1469 01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,240 Speaker 1: Man, that ain't no cheat codes. Man, it's the hustle. 1470 01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:17,880 Speaker 1: His niggas be having all these advantages and all these 1471 01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:20,840 Speaker 1: person they don't even take advantage, you know what I'm saying. 1472 01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:23,080 Speaker 1: So that nigga be is a nigga be their own 1473 01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:24,519 Speaker 1: worst enemy, you feel me? 1474 01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:27,960 Speaker 3: Yeah? With with your Instagram, man, where can. 1475 01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:31,160 Speaker 1: People instagram to eleven? You know what I'm saying, the 1476 01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:35,320 Speaker 1: number two E L E V N. Go follow me. 1477 01:10:35,439 --> 01:10:38,479 Speaker 1: That's on all the socials. Uh go follow my store, 1478 01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,360 Speaker 1: the level Up Store, at the level Up Store. You 1479 01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:46,160 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We got all that ship sad. Yeah, 1480 01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:48,960 Speaker 1: come on, like a whole fi axs for you. You 1481 01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:51,240 Speaker 1: gotta slimmed up from the old steal. You know what 1482 01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:53,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying. When you was throwing niggas off stage, Get 1483 01:10:53,920 --> 01:11:00,200 Speaker 1: niggas with microphones and ship back. They still with the 1484 01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:02,439 Speaker 1: base back of the day even live. 1485 01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:05,000 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you hear the stories about his ass. 1486 01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:08,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I watched. I watched up hands on you 1487 01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:08,920 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. 1488 01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:16,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, that's all right, nigga shire that's all. That's 1489 01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:19,160 Speaker 4: all right then, yeah on some of them leather pants. 1490 01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:22,200 Speaker 1: Yeah he set the leather pants. 1491 01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:26,160 Speaker 3: Yeah that note. 1492 01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:26,880 Speaker 4: Yeah. 1493 01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:31,720 Speaker 3: Well, shall cast next week The Gist Chronicles Jill Jill Well. 1494 01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:34,559 Speaker 3: That concludes another episode of The Gainst the Chronicles podcast. 1495 01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,920 Speaker 3: Be sure to download the iHeart app and subscribe to 1496 01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:40,200 Speaker 3: The Gangst Chronicles podcast for Apple users. Find a purple 1497 01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:42,280 Speaker 3: Michael on the front of your screen. Subscribe to the show. 1498 01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:45,240 Speaker 3: Leave of comment and rating. 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