WEBVTT - #51 - Carl Crawford 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.920 Hey, it's the Bootleg cap Podcast, episode number fifty one 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.280 with Carl Crawford. Hey, shout out to Carl Crawford, Man, 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:09.600 I had no fucking idea that the guy from fifteen 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.840 oh one Entertainment aka Meghan the Stallion's label was Carl 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.440 Crawford from the fucking Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.400 Bay Rays. But I figured that out about two seconds 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:25.680 into the interview. So real dope interview with Carl Crawford talked, Baseball, talked, 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:32.600 h Town, talked his ongoing situation with Megan the Stallion. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.280 There's obviously been some highly publicized lawsuits going on between 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.159 those two parties. 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Let's get into this episode number fifty one 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.480 of the Boutlet Heap Podcast with Carl Crawford Man Boutlet 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.880 Cap Podcast. We got fifteen oh one in here, mister 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:19.320 Carl Crawford had man. First of all, congratulations on the 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.560 success of just everything you know. But right now you 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:27.079 got Erica going crazy for people who don't know who 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.000 you are. Man, kind of give us a rundown on 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.680 who you are, what you do and uh and you know, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.000 just kind of some of your background. Man, love yup, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.040 you know called. My name is Carl crawl from Houston, Texas. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.359 I actually started out playing baseball, a fourteen year career. Well, 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.600 I ended up playing my last three years hit with 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:49.799 the Dodgers, decided to retire from baseball and got into 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.799 the music. I did not realize you're the same Carl 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:56.799 Crawford to play baseball. You don't know that? No, yeah, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:03.359 oh shit, yeah that's wild at the time I get there, 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.280 because you know, not a lot of people go from 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.000 the sports thing to the rap shit in the works. 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.280 None of them like Zach Randolph. A lot of people 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.880 know Randolph's kind of low key behind money bag yo. Yeah, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.639 me and him, we talked about it. Me and him 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.320 always like like, you know me the only ones kind 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.920 of pulled out. Yeah, because Mellow tried to do it 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.880 in a fair a lot of Mari Stodamighter had a 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.079 label and it didn't work out. Wow, you know what 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.200 I'm saying. So it's like, sit, I just you know 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.640 what I'm saying. I felt like I can do it 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.720 because of my connections in Houston, and I decided to 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.800 take it serious. And yeah, you do. You got the 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.200 right recipe whatever you're doing, something about female talent, you 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.000 know how to find that. Yeah, I mean, you know, 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:46.520 it's just the talent period. Yeah. Yeah, So it was 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.320 like one of those dreams to have, Like you say, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.680 for some reason, sports and hip hop go together. Yeah. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.600 They always want to do what we do. You notice 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.240 they always come in to the state and want to 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.000 do what we're doing. We want to do what they do. So, 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.200 I mean, look at Lebron he just said he want 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.880 to put a for the whole album. Yeah, like some 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.600 DJ called type Ship. Yeah for what Bro, You're You're like, 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.080 you gotta just gotta do it. So it's one of 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:12.720 those things. So what year did you end your baseball career? 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.400 And in twenty sixteen, So that wasn't not that long ago. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.480 Had you already started the label prior to and like 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.400 like leaving baseball, I hadn't. I hadn't started it yet, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.800 but the idea had already been in my head for 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:31.680 a few years quite some time. When I retired, I 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:36.000 just immediately went right into it. I didn't. Was Megan 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.360 your first artist? No, Megan wasn't my first artist. She 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.719 was she was like like my six or seventh artists. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.680 She's the first one that really really like one took out. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.359 That's crazy, and uh, you know it's a lot of 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.880 people who might have had six or seven artists prior 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:55.640 would have been like, all right, you know what, I 0:04:55.680 --> 0:05:00.400 tried it, it didn't work out three and just yeah, 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.760 I mean it's just that when we had her, she 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.560 was steady going. So you know, as long as you 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.839 got somebody got one person that's you know, kind of 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.599 going up. You can kind of keep managing the others 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.240 and hoping that they do the same thing. At some point, 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.600 do you feel that, you know, obviously, having a successful 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.039 baseball career, you have the finances that a lot of 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.360 other people might not have the break an artist Oh, 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.280 for sure, because that's one thing I learned. You know 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:25.960 what I'm saying, it costs a lot of money to 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.560 be in this game. You know, it's a lot of 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.599 it's not cheap to break an artist, and then you 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.239 gotta deal with the finessas like you know, as an athlete, 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.919 nobody gonna take us seriously, So you're gonna deal with 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.600 a lot of people that can tell you this and that, 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.680 and they you know, they gonna take the bread and 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.359 do whatever they want with it. So it's like you 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.000 have to be careful for all that. So yeah, it's 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.080 like a lot of people don't understand. You know. Obviously 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.560 there's the real slow grind, but then there's you know, 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.320 the overnight ship which just goes viral, but then like 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.080 really the build a artist, Like I've seen what y'all 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.080 did with Megan. It was like really, like that shit 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.440 ain't cheap, man, Like, did you did you like follow 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.800 a model? Like who did you look? You just created 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.599 your own recipe? When he's coming up, they kind of 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.640 just went along with it. Any big homies in the 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.600 music game that were kind of you know the way 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.880 you know, of course I'm always asking him for advice 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.640 you know, that's the only person really, you know that 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.000 I get advice from. But I just saw a coach 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.479 and like I sit back and watch, like Drake come 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.360 to our city, Houston and just just Drake weekend. Well, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.320 I mean when he first started coming out, when he 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.440 was with j Prince Junior around with jazz just like 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.880 a nobody. So I actually saw this process from start 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.479 to finish on how they groomed the person, and he 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.680 just did like one little Houston song and it just crazy. Yeah, 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.040 I was like, man ship. All they did was found 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.480 somebody with telling and kept them in the cool spots 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.760 around Houston. And the next day. You know, he paid 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.840 a lot of homage to Houston too. He loved Houston 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:51.880 because we the one broke them. So when I saw that, 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.880 I was like, man, I can do that. It's crazy 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.919 cause when we think of hip hop, we think of football, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.440 we think of basketball, we batter ever really think of baseball, right. 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.240 Baseball is like it's a sport that I feel like 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.600 it's hard to get youth into because it's because you know, 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.760 to watch a baseball game, it's about strategy, it's about 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:17.640 so much more than I can't watch it. I go 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.480 to a live game, but on TV, I can't. I 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.480 can't watch it. A lot of people say you gotta 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.920 know somebody you know and then you go live. But 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.400 you know what I'm saying, like you gotta be into it, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.400 but you know, got to like it. But at the 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:36.280 game game ship faced hot dogs? Yeah, talk ship at 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.440 the way? That was me, what what what positions did 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.160 you play? Okay, so you so you heard some ship 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.600 in the outfield? What's the because you always hear about 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.880 like fans talking ship. I've heard a lot of city. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:51.600 Well I've heard a lot of people say Boston got 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.440 racist fans. They said Utah as well. You know baseball 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:00.520 team James Christ nobody playing base they got a jazz 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:05.200 bro relaxed. I don't like you tall that. Like, like 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.160 you ever hear any racist ship or any crazy ship 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.480 out there? Whatever they say. Man, you know you're an 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.440 athlete and they're gonna say what they're gonna say. Now, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.080 one of the funniest things somebody ever told me was like, 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.280 you know, they're like, I hate crow for the man 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:22.080 you couldn't throw a baby shower. You know, you know 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.480 what did you giggle at that when he heard that? 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.920 Did it's a good one. Like yeah, like I got 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.840 you know what I'm saying, Like, but sometimes they just yeah, 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.200 you know they're trying to Hey, they won't want to 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.880 see their team lose. So how you feel about the 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.439 other athletes that got a problem with the crowd yelling 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.640 at them, like like they get all hot jumping the crowd. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:43.760 Gotta go do something else for a living, you know, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.600 because it's just kind of what comes with it comes 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.920 with it. Yeah, they gonna they're gonna act the food, 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:55.240 especially them East Coast teams. I say, like New York's 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:59.959 playing playing in Boston, is they got a certain infinity 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.640 for the for the Red Sox right right, the real 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.839 passionate very like like you could argue they got the 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:12.640 most passionate fans. Yeah, you can't get that. Yeah, what 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.439 was it like like being in Boston and being was 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.480 this was this was after the World Series, like when 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.040 the drought ended? Uh what drought? You know when there 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.160 was this Red Sox drought you know yeah yeah, yeah, no, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.160 this was after. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. When 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.000 I was there was after, so they wasn't as bad 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.320 before that drought. I heard. I wasn't there, but I 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.080 heard it was really rough, but they kind of lightened 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.200 up right into a little bit, but it was still Boston. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.720 So you know, you just deal with hey man, it's 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.720 all a family, a fat you will have a five 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.240 year old kid flipping you the bird, you know what 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:52.280 I'm saying, Like, that's that's why you say something back. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:10:01.199 You the you're the bad guy around like this Tanner, Yeah, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.520 so you know it'd be wild. I just had Big 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:10.240 U up here and we were talking about his original 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.120 deal with Nipsey. He had a production deal with Nipsey 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.120 that Nipsey signed like oh nine, and it was for 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.800 he's like ten years, right, And me and Big You 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.560 were talking and I was like, damn, ten years. That's 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.640 that's crazy, right, Like when you think about that's that's 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.160 that's a lot of time, right. But you know he 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:27.959 was saying, he was like, yeah, but what people don't 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.160 see is the five years that led up to even 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.640 being able to make money, right, you know what I'm saying, 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.400 And the idea that well, if I got you here, 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.640 you know, I got you here, so I could you know, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.880 it's almost like you know, investing in something, you know 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.920 what I'm saying, Like you should be able to reap 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.720 the benefits of that, right, And he brought you up 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:55.280 in this situation that you have with Megan, and well, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.880 me and DJ had and Megan's a sweetheart. We interviewed her. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.360 Sho's so nice. But we had a conversation and it's like, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:06.439 and I manage artists, you know, and it's it's like, yo, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.400 I'm not saying that Megan wouldn't made it with her 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.640 without you, because she's fucking immensely talented. But you took 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.439 a chance on her, invested in her. She signed the paperwork. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.280 What would you say, like, like, what did you learn 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:27.040 from that situation? See? In that situation, man, it's it's 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.160 it's so many like loose things with that, you know 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.680 what I'm saying. Like with me and Megan, she new 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.080 to the business. I'm new to the business. We had 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.040 a mutual guy that's her manager right now, T fairis 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.680 T Ferris. Well, I don't know if we well, I 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.920 just I just remember Paul Wall used to rap about him, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.400 you know, but this guy, he really took advantage of 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.520 me and her not knowing what's going on. Right, So 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.559 you know, if I were to learn anything, I would 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.640 just say that like because people don't know that contract. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:57.559 I had nothing to do with it. You know what 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.200 I'm saying. He's got t Faeriris. Mom did the whole thing, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.240 So I'm new. I'm just excited about being in a business. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.400 The baseball guy, you got, you got the bag. I 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.640 just retired two years in the game, and I'm like 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.640 top of the music scene, like doing the damn thing. Yeah, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.000 I feel you. So I'm not even I'm letting this 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.160 guy run all my business stuff because you know, I don't. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.920 I'm clearly advanced and I don't know what's going on. 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.760 Also a link to the music industry. Yeah, so I don't. 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.559 I don't know what's going on. So they do this 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.400 deal and you know, they bring it to me. Cool, 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:34.160 they happy with it, fine, you know, and when things 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.880 hit the fan, you know, when the big people come, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.480 I didn't understand. I still couldn't even understand the concept 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.440 of what was happening, you know, at the time, because 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.160 they were moving so f I didn't know a manager 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.960 gonna come in one day and signed, Like, I didn't 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.840 understand none of this stuff. So of course when the 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.040 majors want to come in, the managers, they look for 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.160 any little thing and they pound these little problems with 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.040 this contract, and you know, all of a sudden, I'm 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.200 the bad guy. But at the end of the day, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.360 I just learned that, you know, that type of stuff 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.400 you need to just know about it. Contracts, you know, understand, 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.840 do people the right way, you know, and just try 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.640 to because I try to be on top of your 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.240 business more. Well, I think that the perception was that 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.599 you had signed her to a shitty deal. Yeah, and 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.480 I'm not sure that that's the I mean, I think 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.160 that that might be obviously misleading. That's what social media 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.400 or social media just the thing with that, you know, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.920 like like I say, with the deal, like okay, we 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.400 gave a sixty forty profit split, Like nobody gets no 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.959 which is great. Nobody's getting those kind of deals. Like 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.120 even when she leaves me or whatever, she'll never get 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.160 that deal. You know, people just didn't understand contracts, and 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.320 they wanted to just blame somebody, and you know, they 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.240 wanted to get out of the contract. They wanted to 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:46.880 just avoid it. She just wanted to go to rock 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.000 Nation and be under Jay Z and all that cap shit. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.400 But you know the thing was all that they never 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.160 they never called me. They never said nothing to me. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.080 They waited for me to say one little thing on 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.360 the internet. Oh you made me mad, right, you know? 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.679 So it was like they found that one thing and 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.320 just turn everything against me. And I'm clueless. So just 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.319 imagine you and a person y'all potting us me making 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.480 we ain't nothing wrong with us? Like you and t 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.640 Feris that he was doing this in your opinion, he 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.920 was doing that. Yeah, he handling his business, be moving, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.880 we thriving, you know. And the next day she saying, hey, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.680 fuck y'all. You know what I'm saying. And I'm just 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.880 imagine you don't even know what's happening. You know what 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.600 I'm saying. You just like what's going on. I've never 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.560 me and Megan never had a problem with each other, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.320 always gave her what she wanted, never told her no 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.560 a day in my life, you know what I'm saying. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.240 And it was just like damn, you know, so what happened. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.160 Of course, when you call the t Faris guy, he's 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.560 playing both sides, doing the end around. He called me 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.040 crying one day, saying that she don't want to fuck 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.160 with us no more, and he know that's gonna get 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.160 me going like, oh, she don't want to fuck with us, Well, 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.600 but shit, we gonna hand all business. Yeah, well then 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.000 you gonna tell her he said fuck you too, you 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.840 know what I'm saying that type of shit. Wow, next thing, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.040 you know, she like to this day, me and her 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.320 never even talked about nothing that happened. This guy. If 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.160 you notice this guy, Ti Ferris, you never hear from. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.360 He never say nothing. You never nothing because he don't 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.200 want to want to say nothing. He claims that, oh, 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:16.960 I just don't want the fame and this and that, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.600 but use the cause for all this problem, like it 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.280 never was a problem with me and Magan. But this 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:27.240 guy he hides and he like, you know, he probably 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.560 gonna try to, you know, say oh, oh I'm defamation 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.760 for character the stuff he like to say. But don't 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.960 care because I know what the truth was. But you know, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.240 if it wasn't for this guy, when my mother passed, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.240 he jumped in up there. If it wasn't for this guy, 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.280 me and Megan will still be cool right now. And 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.520 as of right now, do you still are you still 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.800 benefiting from her career at all? Yeah? I mean we 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.680 still locked in. You still got the pack, Okay, so 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.920 people want to say, oh, well you running a little 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:55.840 Jay you know, and this and that. It was like, well, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.240 that's the only person I knew who understood what was 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.560 going on. Who else was I gonna call? You know 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.720 what I'm saying. Had not I did that Rock Nation 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.080 was gonna take everything from me, I wouldn't have got nothing, 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.400 you know what I'm saying. I would have just been 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.760 like they look at you like you're the little guy. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.240 You know, you don't got nothing. We're gonna take your 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.920 ship from you. Like having having Jay step in and 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.400 speak up for you. How important was that? It was everything? 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.480 I wouldn't Like I said, I wouldn't have had nothing. 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.360 They wasn't They wasn't coming to They didn't come in 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:28.200 and like to like say, oh, we want to give 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.280 you your show. They was like, nah, we want it all, 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.560 you know. So when I saw that, you know, I 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.640 had to go. I had to go do what I 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:37.960 had to go. Do you know what I'm saying. I'm 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.080 from Fifth Ward, that's a notorious place in Houston, Texas 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.520 as well. Of course princes from wey'all from the same neighborhood. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.840 He you know, in the business. He reason one of 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.800 the reasons why I even got to doing this so 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.280 con Yeah, So I was like, this is the only 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.240 person I know I can call to kind of just 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.000 even see what's going on. It wasn't like a scare 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.840 tactic to try to scare Megan or do nothing like that. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.400 You know, this was really the only person I could call. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.680 So do you think, looking back at every how it 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.840 all went down, do you think you could have handled 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.760 anything different? Are you think you do everything exactly the same? No? 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.480 I try to like be more, you know, like she 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:17.679 for me. You know, I wasn't tune with I mean 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.200 and like just like speaking, you know, like how you 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.720 treated like a little system memo communication. But I just 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:25.600 did that by design. I was like, hey, she the artist. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.679 I don't want to bother all the time. So I 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.320 could have had a probably could have had a better 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.360 relationship with her where we spoke more and that way, uh, 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.679 the stuff in between wouldn't have been so cloudy, and 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:41.040 they couldn't like like infiltrate the situation, like put that 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.840 shield up right there, y'all feel just saying you And 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.720 that was the most hurtful part because me and this 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:50.000 guy played little league baseball together. So and so, he like, 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.600 he hustled me the whole time. He made me think 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.480 that we was partners and we was friends and all 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.320 this stuff, And the whole time he was he was 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.360 running against men when he got the chance to make 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.040 a move on. Do you think that being an athlete 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.520 coming into hip hop that because I've seen it happen 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.960 where like promoters or managers they look at they look 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:12.840 at an athlete because they know you got the bag 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.320 and they're like, it's almost like they're hustling you the 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.399 whole time. It's a hustle and I have to learn it. 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.800 And that's why I like, I've known guys. Hey, let 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.239 me tell you this. I know who you are as 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.639 a baseball player, but I had no idea that it 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.240 was the same Carl Crawford, So I thought you played 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.840 for Utah apparently, so no, no, no. But what I'm 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.040 saying is that it says a lot about the what 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.600 you've built with fifteen oh one is that it's independent 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.639 of And that was and that was about design. Like 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.159 if you notice on my Instagram, I'll post baseball. So 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.440 I wanted to create my whole new identity and whatever 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.199 it was, I was going to be doing. So you 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.560 flipped right away. But I had buddies like trying to 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.560 do music playing and they'll be like, tell me how 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.679 much money they waste, and I'll be like, damn, you know, 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.440 like you know what I'm saying. But in my mind, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.320 I was calculating on what I was gonna need to 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.120 do because I knew I was gonna take a rear 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.800 run at it at some point. And it's worked out. 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.240 It has worked and that and and you got this. 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.480 You know, obviously for people who don't know who Erica banks, 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.960 it's the Bust Challenges probably the biggest TikTok moment in 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.439 the last year. So yeah, that was just like a 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.880 gift from and it was an older record. Wasn't old, 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:13.800 but it was. It been out for like six seven months, right, 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.200 We had put it out in Much or something like that. 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.800 So yeah it was out, yeah not much like much 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.600 and worked, it did well. You know, we was getting 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.160 ready to go to another song. But it's like God 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.400 just paid us for the for the hard work from 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.720 March to the symbols. So it was the challenge designed 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.800 or it's somebody, some some random TikToker just did it 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.600 just randomly happened. Damn, that's why you just see it. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.240 Just pop off that TikTok and do that too. Look, 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.439 I didn't have a TikTok nothing I saw. When I 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.320 saw those first challenges come in, I was like, you 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.000