WEBVTT - Episode 269 "Pleasure P" 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:04.160 World with me here. 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.040 You know, BT, she was so low shout O O 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.960 C T no what we see the whole game read 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:11.600 the bler beat something. Oh you can't stand on their own, sweet, 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.240 I already know you can't with me, because with the 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.720 squad of me they get at They called me. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:25.799 Hello, ball Alert, Welcome to the ball Alert Show. Podcasts 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.120 available everywhere you get your podcasts. Please continue to like, subscribe, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.120 and share our YouTube page at baller Alert TV. I 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:33.559 go by the name of Ferrari Simmons. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.400 I go by the name you know bt ce T 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:41.120 with that pleasure Pete in the building. 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:42.880 What's happening? What's happening? 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.959 We appreciate you pulling up owners. BT called you out 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.440 via text and you you responded. 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:49.360 So this is my dog man. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.280 Yeah we here, Yeah, thank you for pulling up owners Man. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:59.400 Where's Pleasure P from Miami? Okay, everybody know that Shody. 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.880 Know that here Florida boy too, Floridable. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:01.360 I knew that. 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.000 What people don't know who Marcus Cooper is, So tell 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:06.880 us about who Marcus was growing up. 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.840 I guess from a musical background. So my mom and 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.520 dad they both did music. They were in the band together. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.080 My father was He was in a group called Silver 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.240 Platinum along with Michael Sterling who did Lovers and Friends 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.200 record and all those records and stuff like that. So 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.319 I've just been around, you know, music my whole life. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.800 Your dad a singer, he plays the keys and he's 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.520 a songwriter. He's a composer. My mom she's a singer. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:32.240 How long? 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:34.679 How long have you been singing? Since I was nine? 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.960 When did you know? When did you know? Like, oh damn, 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.679 I could actually sing when I was nine? So, like 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.440 what happened? Do you remember, like did you just start staying? 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.759 The first song I started singing was I would never 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:47.680 lie by immature. I was just like trying to be 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.040 like immature. And then my uncle heard me in the shower. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.680 He was like, yo, I had me sing for my mom. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.920 Then they put me in the talent show. I won 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.279 first place, and ever since then, I've been a singer. 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.040 Did your dad started forming you guys together with you 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:02.560 and your brother? 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:02.880 Nah? 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.279 Nah? My my dad wasn't pretty much in a picture 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.080 like that, you know, okay, but you know we were 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.760 still from time to time. Now, was your name always pleasure? P? 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:11.720 Nah? 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:12.120 No? No? 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.720 So what was your first So my first artist name 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:17.560 was pretty Boy. So if you ever listen to ground 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.000 on Me, you'll hear Baby Blue say pretty Ricky, pretty 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.400 boy doing pretty good things. I was pretty boy back then. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.000 And then I was like, nah, man, we gotta do 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.040 something different. Your voice give for women pleasure, you know 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.200 what I'm saying. So you know what, let's start there. 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.600 And then guys called me peace, so it's pleasure and 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.040 Pete who said that? Just ladies and you know everybody. 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.120 It was like a group decisions, gotcha? 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.639 So back up? Okay, so you said you were not 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.440 doing music, and you know you grew up in that. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.440 Where did pretty Ricky come? Did you grow up with 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:48.080 those guys? 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:53.400 Or oh no, no not so along my journey, I 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.760 was bad as a you know, juvenile, so I went 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.840 to a juvenile prison. I wrote a lot of songs 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.720 in there, like Shorty, would you be mine Field? The 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.639 rush Age Ain't nothing but a number of stuff like that. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.360 When I got out, I was looking for a you know, 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.840 for for a label, and I was shopping my stuff everywhere. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.679 People kind of like knew the songs when I was 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.120 in school and stuff like that. I would, you know, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.960 hand out my demos and stuff like that. And I 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.519 ran into their father and he had a record label, 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.000 and I was like, the father, who's father Baby Blue Spectacular? Yeah? 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.240 They father his name Blue Blue Star. It's not an 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.560 album name. After So ran into them out of talent 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.000 show and it was like, yo, man, you gotta come 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.320 to the studio, whatever the case will be. Went to 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.040 the studio and the first song we recorded was grind 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.920 on Me. And ever since then, I was in the group. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:47.720 When is Slickham come in the group? Was he already 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:48.119 in the group? 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.520 It was already a group called the Mavericks. Okay, and 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:51.040 then you came. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.720 Okay, so Pretty Ricky and the Mavericks. So where did 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.880 pretty Ricky come from? Did you bring that to the table? 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:00.520 So Pretty Ricky was, well, okay, he's a he's like 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.520 our older brother. His name is well he was pretty 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.880 Ricky and him and him and the father got into it. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.640 It was like, I put too much money in the name. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.760 You know what, We're gonna name the whole group Pretty 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.360 Ricky so that people think that there's one person, but 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.040 then when they find out it's a different, you know, individual, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.240 they become more interested in Did you like that? Did 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:20.240 y'all agree with that? 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.600 Yeah, it was cool with so grind on Me was 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.680 the first record that y'all recorded together. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.520 Yeah, that's crazy. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.360 Let me tell you some Blue Star classic album Like, yeah, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.920 I agree. You said you wrote shorty would You be Mine? 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:33.960 Classic song? 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.200 He wrote, I wrote all those. 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.680 So wrote all the songs. How was that process? Did 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.160 you have them then you came in with that? 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.919 Or well some songs I had already and some songs 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:45.760 we just kind of. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.440 Wrote on the spot, you know, and I wonder why 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.840 they signed you and will be in the room or. 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:52.920 We just feed off each other. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:57.120 Static Major like that? Yeah, Static Major is a heavy hitter. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.760 What was a heavy heavy hitter you know, responsible for 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:04.159 like like you know the rock, the boats, Aliyah's sound 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.080 very you know with that album. You got that nostalgia 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.680 with that. That was classic album. I love that album. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.000 At first, it was like baby Blue and me recorded 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.479 like for a week. It took us to record ground 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.320 on Me because it was just he was he was 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.240 the engineer and it was just me and him like 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.240 Batman and Robin and there, you know what I'm saying. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.840 And then once we got signed, and that's when everybody 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.760 else came up. Pretty much before we got signed. We 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.479 pretty much had a lot of the songs already done 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:32.080 and completed. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.400 When the album came out, did you guys believe that 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.000 it was going to be received as well as it 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:38.560 as it did? 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.400 Yeah, we already knew it. Y'all new y'all was gonna 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.599 be stars. We was already running, like we would do 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.240 performances and stuff like that. We was already running from 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.479 girls and they'll come beating on our windows, and you know, 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.599 like we kind of seen the transition, you know, So 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.960 y'all was like local stars already. Pretty much. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.919 It was a lot of videos of guys doing the 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.960 little dances and humping the ground and humping the beds. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.719 Now, that was guys music at that time. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:03.640 You had to be two K. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.719 But when Pretty Ricky came, you guys were young, and 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.240 you guys were talking about, you know, the kind of content. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:09.760 You guys were. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.320 Talking talking about sex. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.600 And being the only I didn't hear too many like 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.240 young artists doing that, like you had B two K. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:18.799 But they were like teetering the line. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.520 They were very buttoned up. That's what we did at home, 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.080 Like what is that? What else is that to do? 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.159 What do you do in high school? And because some 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:30.400 people used to find it. That's the movies. You go 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.240 you take a girl to the beach or something like, 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.760 you know, just whatever. It's just like, that's what we did. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.400 We'll be right by. Stay tuned with more of The 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:44.359 Baller Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:45.400 The Baller Alert. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.120 Show with up is your man Pleasure Pete and you 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.840 would now tune into the ball Alert Show. But then 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.760 Pleasure p started making solo records. Well, we was a 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.080 group and everything was going good. In the middle of 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.640 let me see the middle of I want to say, 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.360 the Late Night Special album, that's another classic. That's when 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.680 things got a little. Egos started flying and amongst each other, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.680 people taking credit for other people work, and it was 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.520 a lot going on. And I just wanted my money man, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.000 to be honest. I was like, you know, I stepped 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.440 to their father and I say, yo, man, I want 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.920 to separate my money because we would be so busy 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.160 on the road. We don't have time to spend, no money, nothing. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.400 But when you get home, it's like you got to 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:27.960 stay in the house. You can't do this, you can't 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.200 do that. It's controlling controller and controller. I'm a grown 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:32.880 man from the streets. I got a kid on my 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.200 own at the time, I got family to to take 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.360 care of. So I said, I want to separate my 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.040 money and I want my own place. And he said, 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.840 you ain't got no money. I said what I said, say, yeah, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.120 you ain't got no money. That get costs for this that. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.240 So they gave me an itemized list of because we 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.920 all lived in one house. So if this was a cup, 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.680 he charged me one hundred dollars for this, This was 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.760 a fork, two hundred dollars for that. It was itemized. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.560 This was some bulls show. It was on some Don 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.720 Cheetah type some bullshit. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:03.440 In a house in Miami. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.720 Yeah yeah, yeah, the same house you're seeing on Cribs. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.640 If you ever seen Cribs, remember I remember the same house. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.400 What was your reply to that? When he was itemizing everything, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.160 I know you got you frustrated? Yeah, I was hot. 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.320 I was like, well damn well. You know then we 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.560 had signed the contract because he was like, you know, boy, Atlantic, 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.720 I need you all to sign this man because you know, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.320 we just that's that's the that's the old genius. Yeah, 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.000 because I'll trust him. Yeah, he a street nigga. You know, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.120 we never you know, he gave us the opportunity he 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:31.840 want to put up the money. To this day, I 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.240 still think him for that, but he you know, he 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:34.640 was wrong. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.600 How long was the contract? How long was it? 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.199 I think it was like five albums or something like that. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.640 Album that's that standard that was kind of standing back 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.240 in the five album. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.160 But the what the unfair part was? You know, he 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.840 was a part of our records, you know, like I said, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.160 so let's say four of us wrote the record. He's 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.360 number five on the record. You know, five on the record, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.480 so you know, because he put his money up. And 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.520 then you know, he owned half of the publishing. So 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.040 you know what I'm saying, It's like, damn, they own 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.600 half the master. Then this, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:07.840 And then then it's four of y'all in this of 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.000 us already, so now it's five y'all. Y'all got to 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.160 split the money five different ways. We didn't get to 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.240 split none. He took one hundred percent of everything and 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.319 then pay y'all. No, we ain't never get paid. I 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:18.520 ain't never get paid from him. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.560 So wait you wait, so it never got paid? Nah, 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.040 we aint know no better, bro, get get a B 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.000 in my check, he sign the back. What make sure 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.520 y'all wanty straight? What make sure y'all you know all 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:31.720 your y'all's gonna blow it? 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:32.840 How old were you guys? 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.520 I was in my early twenties. I was like twenty. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.320 But you guys were living a life that was different 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.120 from where you came from. So is that why you 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:44.480 guys did not question anything? 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.680 Yes, So they lived in the suburbs I come, you 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.280 know hood, you know what I'm saying. So he wanted 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.120 all of us. His excuse was he wanted all of 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:53.760 us death so that if we get a call and 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.199 gotta do something, we gotta go get one from over here. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.839 So we just kind of it was like a frat 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.000 house almost, you know what I'm saying. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.640 So when you got this information in the itemized list, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.679 kind of like when you woke up a little bit, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.280 kind of like ice Cube did in n WA. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:08.760 I was ice Cube, did you. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.680 Go back and tell your other group members? 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.880 Yes? I did. I did. I had a conversation with them, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.840 but they couldn't as they followed, so they couldn't understand 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.720 it at the time. So it's a tension between us 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.760 and then at that time I was doing records with like, 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.520 I had a lot of street records, so I had 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.480 to get you up with plies. That's my favor. When 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:34.000 Yo Gotti I had released Prostitute, Wayne wanted to sign me. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.400 So I was around wayning them all the time, and 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.600 I just kind of just stayed on the road. Did Jeroons. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.400 I put that out and that became Top twenty, and 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.600 you know, I did that independently, and then from then on. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.840 It was just like at this point there's has to 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.120 be tensions in the era. When you going back to 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.160 these guys and telling them what you've learned, they're not 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.000 believing you or they're they're so you know, they're very 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:01.640 protective over their father. What what happens next? Like how 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:02.520 do you get out of this? 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.679 I listen, I didn't even know what was going to 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.840 happen next. I ain't, you know. But my the type 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.560 of person if I'm unhappy about something, why would anybody 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.959 leave something successful? What I'm saying, like, come on, bro, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.920 you know what I'm saying. So after that it was 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.360 just like you know what, bro, Like we stopped talking 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.760 really and I went my way, so you just left 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.560 they went, So I didn't want to be solo. I said. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.280 All I said to them is, you know, I sat 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.600 down with Baby Blue in the studio and I said, bro, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.680 I ain't leaving the group. I just want my own 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.280 place because we're around each other tenty four seven, Like 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.360 I'm even my own space as kid, Yeah, growing up, 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.000 growing up. Yeah, I don't want to run train some 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.280 girls no more. I want my Oh. I don't want 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:53.600 to slick. I don't want to I'm nothing's enough right now, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:54.320 you know what I'm saying. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:54.960 What all. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:57.559 I was gonna say, it had to be a life 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.800 for you because you had a lot of success with them, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.440 but you had a lot of success on your feature game. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.160 Your future game was crazy. Yeah, the crazy thing about 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.959 it he was turning down the features. So, like, let's say, 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.160 bird Man got me on a song called Bossy right, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.120 it was only on his album, and he said one 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.120 hundred and fifty grand if you're gonna pay it, you're 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:17.959 gonna pay it. Not I gonna make him say no, 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.640 And that was would you get the money though for 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.080 the feature? No? Man, that's even sad. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.079 So he so he was kind of like suppressing, like 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.120 your career, Yeah. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.240 Sending let us to radio stations tell him not to 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.640 play my songs because because I'm signed to them. 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.600 Like, oh, kind of, that's what I was gonna say. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:37.760 It couldn't you couldn't just leave. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.560 No, Oh, I had to go through a whole litigation. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.520 And this was like death row. It was. It was 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.960 like death from minus the ass whooping because ain't nobody 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.559 wouldn't nobody put their hands on me? 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.000 But how did you get away? Like because you couldn't 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:51.440 just leave? 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.320 Oh? So I ran into Brian McKinney. He's a football player. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.800 He had just you know, signed like a seventy million 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.360 dollar deal with the Vikings. Play he play from? He 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.920 puts Miami Hurricane. Yeah, we played from yep. So we 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.319 started a record label called Swagger Entertainment. So I told 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.840 him what I was going through, and he was like, okay, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.319 seventy thousand, let's get the lawyer if he popping whatever 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.600 you need. It was just like whatever I needed. So 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.400 he bought you out of your contract? Yeah he did. Damn. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.600 Okay, so you get out your deal and yeah. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.480 We go through this litigation and all this kind of stuff, 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.160 and they were now going around saying, yeah, he signed 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.280 to us, so whatever he makes and I'm like, bro, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.520 I put this record out top twenty, and you know 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.840 I did all the work myself. So boyfriend number two, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.880 what are you talking about? You did you room? This 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:42.480 is okay? So then it's like he was with him 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.679 to settle, you know, settle out of the suit. I 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.840 was like getting so much money at the time. I 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:50.960 was like, you know what, if it wasn't for him, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.800 I wouldn't be here. So you know what, he go 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.120 five hundred thousand, you go, gave me five hundred thousand, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.200 you go your way, I go out. So I started 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.520 off a million dollar debt with my first album just 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.199 off of the recording, giving him that you know what 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.840 I'm saying, and now everything that comes with it, marketing 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.000 and promotions and stuff like that. You know. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.360 So so that your football home and he sent them 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.240 that money or was that with the net. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.680 That came from the label? Came from the label? Once 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.120 you know, he agreed to settlement, it was part of 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:20.600 the settlement. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.280 But now you're in the whole million dollars. Yeah, so 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.680 now you got to really get to get back in. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.320 So now I did you wrong? It is out? 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.240 When does boyfriend number two come out? 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:31.400 Right? 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.960 After that that, so boyfriend number two comes out and 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.200 Scott rockets number one and I know and I know 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:43.080 He's like, damn now, so now how how the past is? 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.760 They put out their record right, and then the next 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.880 six months I put out my record, So they got 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:53.040 their time to put out their record right. And during 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:58.560 the process of us uh you know, doing the litigation thing, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.520 you know, they ended up well he will the dad 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.160 what is it called? He tried to uh depose to 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.600 see all of Atlantic records after they gave him all 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.920 this money to do. He was winning, Like I, Bro, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.640 I couldn't even like one day, bro, I swould have 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:20.320 got we were we was doing, we was doing. We're 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.360 supposed to go to London and y'all I'm like, bro, 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.360 my rent do? It's like it's round this time, my 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.800 rent do? I gotta you know, pay my rent. He 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.000 never gave me the money from the shows that we 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.080 did or whatever the case may be. I need my money. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.280 He ain't give me the money, so I ain't making 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.480 the flight. So that the label calls, hey, why didn't 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.920 you make the flight? And I told him why. They 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.560 say how much your rent is? I say, twelve hundred dollars. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:51.040 That's all. Come on, you're platinum, you play you got 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.560 a platinum group. Now platinum we arguing on like when 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.040 you really look at it, bro, like our ridiculous? Is that? Bro? 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.760 So the label not even knowing what really going up 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.520 when they find out, they're like this man, this man 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:04.160 off his ship. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:06.280 He said twelve. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.080 I know you mentally got to be frustrated because my 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:11.560 nigga ego. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.240 And stuff like that was just starting to change everybody. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.000 That's when I learned everybody candle handle fame and start 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.240 because y'all superstars at this point right where then were 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.000 supposed to be arguing recognition everywhere. You did everything we're 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.680 supposed to do, made the right songs, did the right performances, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.720 did the interviews, you know for cities in one day. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.680 We did everything that were supposed to do. Brother to 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.160 what that was to me, that would that would be 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.720 my only issue. But outside of that, he's not a 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.120 bad guy. He was just you know, everybody makes mistakes, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.520 and he was making his transition into you know, when 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.800 does Pleasure Piece start making money and when are you 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:53.240 in the green? I'm already making money at at digit 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.120 Wrung and stuff like that because I'm hot in the streets, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.000 so I would just Yo, I'm on every show with 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.880 Yo Gotti Live. I'm the only R and B singer 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.280 on these tours and stuff like that. So that's what 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.359 made them like like the label, you know, back me, 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.720 like oh, so they put out they record, it flopped, 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.800 and then my record came out and it was like 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.280 a competition. I wasn't in competition with nobody, but people 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:19.400 was in competition with me. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:20.679 Because then they replace you. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:22.560 Yeah, I was just about to say that. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.800 I think that was the big confusion, and I think 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.520 that's what really costs you know, they records are kind 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.920 of not do well because it was like a random guy. 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.320 It was to replacement. Yeah, yeah, it was. But what 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.800 they couldn't replace was your songwriting. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.960 My sound, Yeah, because the group was about the sound 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.400 and the group was about the kind of songs. So 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.520 when they dropped that album, you can see the difference 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.840 between the two and them when I come out with 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.240 my album, you can see the difference between you listen, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:53.560 you can hear the difference between who did what. And 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.159 I think we was all confused as fans when we 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.840 was watching one O six in part and then this 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.640 random guy comes out saying, get in the group, Like, man, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.840 who the hell is this? Man? If you do this, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:05.920