WEBVTT - Tech N9ne Interview 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.360 It's DJ Envy Angela Yee Sharloman, the God. We all 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:14.120 the breakfast club. We have the independent King in the building. Yes, sir, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.720 you know it was cool to be independent. Everybody keeps 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.439 saying that, man, everybody, it is the truth. Yeah. Well, 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.400 ladies and gentlemen, we have tech minie in the building. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.720 And you still haven't sold out and sold to a 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.200 signed to a major. No, never, never will. I mean, 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.760 I don't know, man, it depends on how many millions 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.159 even now, and this climate is like I don't really know. Man, 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:37.839 Like somebody just called and offered the sixty million one enough, wow, 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.559 sixty million. Yeah, I can't say who it was. I 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.800 need my phone to ring like that. I talked to 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.160 my partner. I talked to my partner, Travis, and he said, man, 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.040 but we're about to do this year. Sixty million a't 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:49.680 gonna sound like nothing. I was like, yeah, you're right, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.479 a deal worth sixty million, like advance everything up here? 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.680 Ain't nothing know for what for our blood sweat and 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.720 tears to me? I mean, I know, y'all sell a 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.240 lot with merchant and you gross a lot and show 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.160 how what kind of range were talking? Man? What do 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:06.600 you mean money wise, he makes the Forbes list, like all, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.600 I know, you know last year, you know, I was 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.560 on the fourth list for eight millions, so you know, 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.280 I don't know, we do we do? Okay? Yeah? To 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.080 turn down sixty million dollars, I'm sure yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.200 And I've never turned down sixty million. That was the 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.680 first time I ever did it. Day before yesterday was no, no, no. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.360 I was just flabbergasted, you know what I'm saying. I 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.360 was like, wow, that's what they want to say. And 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.320 he was like, man, but what we're about to do 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.959 after May fours, you know, after the album dropped. That's 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.640 not gonna sound like a lot of the money. I said, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.520 You're right, though. Was it an easy decision of easy? Hey? 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.560 It was really, it was really easy. We laughed about it, 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.039 you know what I'm saying. We laughed about it. Is 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:45.679 that bad? No? Yes? Yeah, you regular people absolutely. Oh 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:50.000 somebody last thought that was funny? Yeah yeah yeah yeah. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.400 But you know, things change all the time. Man. You 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.480 never know, somebody might call with the right number, and 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.200 it's probably easier for you to sell records, which makes 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.280 more money because of the internet, because yeah, it's doing 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:03.120 it before it was so easy to pres Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.840 we had to start, you know, like Steve Rifkin did 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.320 it when with the Big pun thing. You know, we 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.079 have street teams, we still have everything grass roots. So 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.239 it's like the internet thing got for it because I 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.520 wouldn't be able to go over to Australia like I 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.200 just did in New Zealand and Honolulu for the first 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.639 time and have all sold out shows, you know what 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.040 I'm saying. And you know, it really is important, I 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.799 think for an artist like Tech nine to show these 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.640 other artists how important it is to have a great 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.880 live show exactly. You know a lot of people don't 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.320 understand the importance of having a live show. They get 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.560 sold out with Without the live show, man, you're not 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.080 gonna last, you know what I mean. And back in 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:37.799 the day when we were on the road, like early, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.720 you know what I mean, it wasn't too many people 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:41.359 on the road, but toilet quality was on the road, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.840 you know, atmosphere was on the road, Citizen Cope stuff 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.040 people like that. But then in later years I got 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:50.440 to see Asap Rocky hitting the road with Danny Brown 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.680 and scoopboard Q and I was loving to see it 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.760 that the youngsters is getting out their touring now because 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.720 one thing to be real told me a long time ago. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.760 He said, they could try to take away djan and 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:00.760 buying on everything, but be able to take away the 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.080 live show. And if you have a great live show, 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.280 people will talk. Word of mouth really works, you know 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.480 what I mean. So when they say you gotta go 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.640 she tech now you gotta go see this. People come 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:12.840 and we're still on the incline because of that, because 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.240 we gave a damn about what the show is and 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:16.720 you did. Just don't ance your tour. Mers is on 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.120 the tour. Yes, I wondering was here. I had a 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:26.720 scriptle here for you to eat up. He's morderlized for that, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:33.639 and I feel responsible people what happened. No, I'm gonna 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.520 tell you what really happened. Okay, okay, because the truth 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.720 of the maddest people don't know. It's explaining to people 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.520 what happened. I had a show called Lift Service and Merds. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.360 I saw him at Rock the Bells, Yes, and he 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.320 told me, he said, bring some strippers up there. I 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:50.320 want to eat somebody out. He said that his mom 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:56.760 was there as well. Really close mouth, don't get fed, bro, exactly. Okay, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.680 you know, no problem. I set it up and I did. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.080 We had two shippers there for you. Yes, you came 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.280 through Roxy Reynolds. And still remember the name can Vine 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.360 Candas Vine. Yes, I'll never forget you ain't. Both of 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:14.040 the one was yeah, one one was you know, touching me. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.599 Another one set on you put your face in candas ones. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:24.840 But though yeah I didn't do that too as you 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.040 just get random. But it wasn't it was it smelled, 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.040 It smelled great. She was clean, very like you know, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.480 you inspect before you, you know, dive in you know what. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.320 I'm drunk. Nah, so I was okay, you a little crazy? Yeah, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.160 he was definitely nervous. Was this your first sexual experience? No, No, 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.520 first on air, you know, on live on the internet. Yeah, 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:46.800 I did too. I got I had to take a 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.240 sidebar with the boss. Mostly what most people get when 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:51.760 they come to a radio interview. All you got some 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:56.200 cheap coffee or whatever. Yeah, but then he ended up dating. Yeah, Roxy, 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.640 you did a good job. Anything good in her professional opinion. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.240 You know a lot of people do that for her barely, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.599 And I guess I weren't high up. Yeah, you make 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.960 it come in the studio. I don't know I should 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.400 I hope so. And I think he didn't do it 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.520 long en Afterno, No, it wasn't that. It wasn't that long. Yeah, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.720 but Murray says he's always told me that he gets 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.880 a lot of recognition for that. Yeah, people stopped me 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.160 with my wife. Now, I was a what did your 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.760 wife say? She hates that question because they'll just ask 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.960 me what it tastes like? What roxy Reyntals tastes like? 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.640 I'm here in the video. Yeah, she saw it all 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.920 before you got married, before he got married, some conversation 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:36.440 like babe, I want to shake you this just so 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.880 you know, she knew. She knew me who I was, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.160 so she knew what had happened. But it's still awkward 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.120 when you put going to Walmarts and a dude walk 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.360 right up to you. Hey man, what roxy Reryntals taste 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.920 like you? It makes her feel a certain kind of way. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.360 He was just talking about murders. I can't remember who 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.360 it is though. We're talking about what was it? Who 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.960 was it? I remember, I don't remember. Was it the 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.760 boss man? Who's the boss man? Be your own boss man? 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:05.720 I think it was. Yeah, Yeah, we have. What do 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.760 y'all got going on? No, I was. I was working 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.240 with him on this label before, while I was living 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.480 with him for a few few months. Got you and 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.360 up in upstate. Now I'm helping his son with the 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.320 cookie business. Me and his son are more more tight. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.360 I haven't taught the damon in a while. Oh, that's 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.440 what it was too. It was it was Lucan Lucan. Yeah, okay, yeah, 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.520 I might messed with them. Tell but well, Lucan Bookie 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:26.880 got a regularly what I think you got something coming 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.080 out on the lag? Yeah, I put, I did a 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.320 single form of years ago. No, it was done years ago, 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:32.960 and they're just now getting around to put because they 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:34.840 opened the restaurant. That's what you're saying. The tech now, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:36.440 you let him say saying it was done a long time. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.000 They've done a long time ago. You know, it sounds 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.320 like it just happened. Technic. Yeah, now Techno and this 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.240 new album you have special effects here. You're saying this 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.320 is going to be your biggest album to date. Yes, 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.440 I know for a fact. Everybody else is gonna know 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:49.839 after May fourth too, you know what I mean, not 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.400 just because of all the major um collaborations. But it's 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.440 just the music is bigger, you know what I mean? 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.640 The concept. You know, my mom just passed. H June 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.840 said to Lupus, you know what I mean. So they 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.320 asked me was my inspiration? I dedicated the whole album 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:09.720 to her, and everything I always wanted I got after 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.520 she passed, you know. So it makes me feel like 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.720 I really have a real angel. You know what I'm saying? 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.280 What did you right here? I wanted a lot of 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.560 things over the years of my music career. Man, it 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.880 just so happens when she left, all these things started 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.679 happening for my music. Like know what I'm saying, Um, 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.480 I can't really say, man, you know, it's just big, 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:32.040 big I'll say it like this, and almost every genre, 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:37.960 whether it's d M, whether it's hip hop, whether it's metal, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.680 it's all on my album. And we got the people 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.640 that are at the hilt of it the best collaboration. No, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.400 I didn't say that. Why does everybody get saying that? 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.000 Why does everybody get saying that? That's so funny? Now? 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.080 The truth that your fans gave you flat for being 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.200 on Jimmy Kimmel last year, Oh yeah, and they're giving 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:03.120 me flat for the two chain something Bob Money that 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:04.920 people don't want to see you do stuff because they 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.360 feel like you're selling out. Well, not all my fans, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.760 but some fans do not tech. Why would you do 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.400 something with two chains? He is not on your level lyrically. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.720 I'm like, listen, that's my bro. When he gets on 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.960 a track, it says party. Why wouldn't I put him 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.160 on that party track? It's beautiful? And he lit it up? 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.320 You know what I'm saying in my opinion, And you know, 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.440 it's like I've been on the underground for so long. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.760 A lot of those fans don't want to share you 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.240 with the mainstream, like, oh, he's tech technologs going mainstream. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.640 I said, no, technog would never go mainstream, but mainstream 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.319 will go tech and that's happening, you know what I mean. 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.760 I didn't have to change anything. I didn't have to 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.920 conform for no amount of money or nothing. You know what, 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.160 I'm sizzling. So it's like I just fight with him 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.959 on Instagram. Hey, they imagine did a song with a 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.240 little Wayne? Oh yes, oh yes, I mean I had 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.040 to really stand behind Wayne, you know what I mean. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.960 And after a while I went away. It always goes 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.760 away if I stand strong, and I'm always stand strong. Yes, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.679 I did Riker's Island. That's how y'all the relationship for him? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:00.000 because he says something about me out of the blue. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.400 I didn't know he knew me, you know. He said 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.880 something the mass reflection somebody I don't know, and said 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:05.240 he wanted to work with me. So when I came 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.400 out here for a press week like this week, I 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.200 went up there to see him. Ogs hooked it up, 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.880 you know what I mean, And I went in it's beautiful. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.320 Soad you explain the afair that Jimmy Kimmel situated, because 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:18.520 I would be happy that my guy who look oh 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.160 yeah yeah yeah. A lot of them, a lot of 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.800 them were there, you know what I'm saying. They got 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.320 tickets for that, you know what I mean, And a 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.560 lot of them were happy for me. But the ones 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.079 you said that, oh, he's on TV now, you know 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.240 what I'm saying. He's not underground anymore. It's supposed I 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.880 told him. I tell him, real music is supposed to 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.280 spread and shine, you know what I mean. And since 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.160 we started, me and my partner Travis o'gwen, when we 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:43.280 started this, our goal was world domination. You know that 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.920 means I want everybody to know the name Tech nine. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.640 You know what I'm sisling because I always thought I 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.240 had the talent to spread to everybody and something to 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.560 say to everybody, you know, And that's what we're gonna do. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.560 And in order to do that, radio and TV has 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.960 to happen. No matter how weird the face paint is, 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.959 no matter how weird the the scrub top and pants are, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.800 whatever it is, I'm just gonna beat me and it's working. 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.200 I'm questing that for a lot of people that don't 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.520 know your history, why did you decide to go independent 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.199 from the door and not necessarily stay looking for a 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.120 record deal? Well? I had major record deals, you know. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.360 I meant. My first one was in ninety three with Jimmy, Jemmy, 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:22.040 Terry Lewis Prospective Records. That did not work because they 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.320 didn't know what to do with a black dude with 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.480 a red spiked hair and face paint and whatever. You know, 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:28.839 what do you do with that? Where do you put them? 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:30.800 Tell you something stupid stuff like hey, why don't you 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.800 go wrestle exactly exactly? You know, really that would probably work. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:41.199 But in ninety seven, I gotta deal with Quincy Jones, 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:46.199 question Warner. The people he had working for him didn't 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:47.880 know what to do with me as well, you know 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.600 what I mean. Ninety nine we did a deal with 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:57.120 Interscope and Jacorp. They just totally destroyed the project and 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.000 canceled the video and everything. Man, and it just wouldn't work. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.880 And me and my partner Travis would say, you know what, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.280 We're gonna start Strange Music, our own label out of 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:10.520 Kansas City, Missouri. Man. And fifteen years well almost sixteen 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.000 years later, here we are, man, the number one independent. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.000 You know, you ever wonder why anybody ever signed to 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.880 a major, especially being with I know why people. I 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.520 know why people signed to a major. They try to 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.080 get up out of poverty, man, and something is better 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.560 than nothing. I know exactly why. They unfortunate to have 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.679 a great partner who was also a great business Oh 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.000 my goodness, to save my life. Man, How did you 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.120 meet him? I was doing music back in Kansas City 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.800 and he was funding some dudes that I knew that 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.760 did clothing Paradise Originals, and they were having a fashion 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.679 show with a lot of chicks and everything. So they 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.640 wanted me to come perform my song that was popping 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.400 on the radio at that time. I planned Rock to 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.760 Q and I came and did it. Everybody was going bonkers, 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.320 and Travis said, I want to have a meeting with him. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:55.760 I've been on his music for a long time. I 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.880 went to Travis's home the next day with my homeboy 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.440 George Forte, and he said, hey, tech Manum, I've been 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.200 a fan of your music for so many years, and 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.080 I wonder, like your music is better than a lot 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.880 of people out here on the radio. What does it take? 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.160 I said, it takes a lot. He said, well, I 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.760 have a lot. I own my own business, furniture works, 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.560 you know what I'm saying. And he's made up self 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.840 a millionaire by the time he was nineteen, and he said, 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.800 what do you think about doing a fifty fifty partnership, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:19.760 you know what I'm saying. I was like, Yes, I 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.200 want to call it strange music because I'm a doors fans. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.800 People are strange, strange days. Let's go you know, snake 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.240 in the bat And he was so smart he knew 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.440 to put it on a hat, or put it on 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.800 a g string, or put it on a belt, buck 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:34.280 or a money clip. You know what I'm saying, our 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.160 T shirt and people would be walking billboards. You know 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.200 what I'm saying, the people that believe what you're saying 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.240 in your music. And it's been happening for over sixteen 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.679 years now. The FTI movie, that's what Listeners were able 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.079 to legally download y albums through the artist website where 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.760 you charging for that. No, I gave it to him 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.600 for free. I gave it to him for free. Signs 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.400 they'll come to the shows. Well, this is what I believe. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.400 This is what we believed, and we proved ourselves right. 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.320 You know, Um, if you have a beautiful project, if 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.560 you have wonderful musicum, people will buy it. If you 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.920 let them hear it for free, they will support it. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.880 If you take time to do the music, if you 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.800 take time to do the artwork for the music, if 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.200 you make a collector's item something that they can collect 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.640 and keep for a long time. We prove that we 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.480 gave it away for free and people still bought absolute power, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.120 you know what I mean. And we knew this, and 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:24.600 that's what he was trying to tell other artists, like 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.480 if you just got one songs on the radio and 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.360 the rest of your songs a bunk. They're just gonna 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.280 download that one song. They don't want your album, you 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.120 know what I mean, make them want it. That's what 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.080 What do you think about Jay Z's News Screaming System title. 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.000 If it's anything like Spotify just panis pennies, I don't 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.720 care about it, you know what I'm saying. If if 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.200 it's anything like that to where the artist gets pennies 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.360 for their masterpieces. Um, I hope that he. I haven't 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:46.920 really looked into it because I've been busy. I've been 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.559 out of the country to fight. That's why he's doing it. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:51.800 If he's doing that, if he wants the artists to 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.839 make more money, that's kudos to him. Bro. Bro, you 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.079 know what I'm saying, Because what Spotify is doing, I'll 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.080 be ready to fight. I'm saying, seventy percent of a 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.319 fraction of a penny as a game crisis. Oh yeah, 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.720 that's how we Roberts. That happened to any other genre, 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.640 people would be in front of Congress. Oh my goodness, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.560 you know what happened. It's like the people were asking me, 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.640 you know, overseas, because that's where they where they get 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.520 their music, Like why isn't Fragile on Spotify? It's on 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:13.719 there now, you know what. I don't know how to 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.240 hell back, but it's like, um, why can't I get 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.719 your album on Spotify? I said, because it's a masterpiece 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.120 and I will not get pennies for my masterpiece, right, 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:22.840 you know what I mean? So if jay Z is 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.040 doing something to better that, uh you know what, what 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.520 artists get paid and I'm all the way forward. Yeah, 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.400 he's giving artists equity in the company and everything. That's beautiful. Yeah, 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.000 that's beautiful. Able to think of doing something Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:35.440 you know we we we do a lot of things 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.960 where our money and um, we're look into it, but 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.000 we're so swamped with everything we're doing. Man, we're so swamped. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:45.560 So oh FILET Tech nine yeah yeah, oh yeah. I've 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:46.920 been on to Jay Z and I sent him a 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.400 track for this new album too, and they said he 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.240 wouldn't doing music at this time, so he owed me, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.240 didn't reach out to you about title? No, no, no, no, no, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.080 not not yet. You know what, But I know that 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:57.880 Jay Brown told him that I sent him a track, 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.520 you know what I mean. He's like, oh, man, we 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.320 know tech Yeah, yeah, yeah, but we aren't doing the 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.640 music right now. Okay, I get you next time, bro, Bro. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.320 And when I sent him was hardcore too. And what 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.720 about the song you did with Ti? Was that something 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.240 that he wanted to do something with you or you 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.320 sent that to him? Well? I met him last year 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.920 when I was at Comic Con in Chicago. Trade the 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.680 Truth called me. Heard of was in Chicago doing comic Con. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.760 He said, we have a show here tonight, me, Tip, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:24.760 Wayne and two Chains and I was like, we're coming. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.040 Me and my partner Travis. Jumped in the car, drove 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.960 an hour out of Chicago or something like that where 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:33.520 they were, and Trade the Truth met us at the gate, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.880 got us right, took me right to Tip. I never 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:37.480 met him, and he said, Tech, I didn't even know 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.360 nothing about you until I was in prison and Arkansas. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.120 They put me up on your music. Man. I did it, 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.560 and I said we're gonna hook and we ended up linking. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.880 And next thing you know, I sent him a track 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.280 with Zeus on the chorus. You know what I mean. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.600 Zeus from Kingston, Jamaica. I love his music and he's 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.120 going on tour with me on this tour as well, 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.560 and uh, tip sent him right back, and then I 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.480 just shot a video in Atlanta and he showed up. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.280 I'm gonna tell you what he did. Man, this man 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.360 was at a LA movie premiere. Probably would get hard. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.200 I don't know what movie. Maybe he didn't getting hard, 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.720 I don't know. Okay, that's probably the movie premiere he 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:13.440 was at. Really the country, you don't, I'm gone. So 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:19.600 it's like he got on the plane. Uh, got to 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:25.000 at L seven thirty, went to his nephew's wake, and 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.400 still came to my video set before he went home, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.400 dressed in the clothes he was supposed to wear, man 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.520 and did that video for me, And I was like, Man, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.640 so much love to you, bro, I know that you're moving. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.880 He's like anytime anything you need. He brought so much 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.040 love and respect. Oh my god. And not just because 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.320 he did something for me, just a real you know, 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.320 a real dude when you meet fraudulent you know what 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.360 I'm saying. Now, you're very interesting to me because you 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.280 got the money. You know, you got a great career, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.560 but it seems like you still want more. But it's not. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.960 I don't think it's financial. No, I don't care about 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.080 making any more money. I m It's almost like you 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:58.880 want the fame kind of you want people to want 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.720 people to know that I give all my heart. You know. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.360 The only thing hard about it now is I still 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.440 like to go to Walmart. And it's hard, you know, 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.840 still I still like to fly regular, you know what 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.480 I'm saying. It's hard taking pictures with all the TSA 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.639 or and all the people flying in from Persia or 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.119 something like, oh my gold Technoine, you know what, I 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.320 got to take pictures with them, take pictures with the 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:18.960 regular people that are in the US. You know what 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.760 I mean. It's hard for me. You know, it was 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.760 so hard at Walmart that you know, I went and 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.159 got a Costco card. But it's the same. It was 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.879 the same thing at Costco. So I still go. But 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.440 me and my roommate Maxilla, we just make the chicks 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.639 chase us, you know, through the aisles, and if they 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.320 catch us, they can get pictures, you know what I mean. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.160 But yeah, it's fun. We try to make it fun. Man, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:44.440 Because I asked somebody on a higher level than me, um, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.040 does it get better? Do you still pump your own gas? 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:48.640 And this, that and the other. And he's like, man, 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.840 I used to pump my gass and I'm like, wow, 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:57.280 the artist. Yeah, oh man, it was somebody. Man, somebody 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.000 I'm cool with, you know what I'm saying, told me this, 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.080 you know, and I was like wow. So it doesn't 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.679 get easier because I need normalcy in the world that 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.440