1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning. 3 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:09,159 Speaker 3: Everybody's j Envy Jess hilarious, charlamage the guy. We are 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club. We got our niece nolive with us today. 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 3: We got a special guest in the building, Polo G. Welcomes. 6 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 3: How are you feeling, brother? 7 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 2: All good, new album dropping hood poet back outside for sure. Yeah, 8 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: we haven't seen you in a while. 9 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: Its been a minute. 10 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 3: It's been a minute. What took so long? 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: You know? 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 4: I went through a lot of things, you know, with 13 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 4: my music and just personally kept on derailing me. But 14 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 4: like you know, I'm actually like glad I went through 15 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 4: it a thing because I feel like I wouldn't have 16 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 4: got the product that I ended up with, and I 17 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 4: feel like it's the best one that I could have had, 18 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 4: and any yet that I would have dropped. 19 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 3: What we're going through. Was it like a writer's block 20 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 3: or you didn't know what sound you wanted or label. 21 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: All Leo? You know. 22 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 3: What about personally? He said, personally, was it gave you 23 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 3: the person? 24 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 5: Get into the new music? 25 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 2: Girl over here, get to the person. 26 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 3: When he said something, I really. 27 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 5: At first they told me like, oh, Polo G flipped 28 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 5: the Michael Jackson record, and I'm like, not, Mike, like, 29 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 5: how dare you? But then I actually really liked the record. 30 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 5: Were you not comfortable because it was a more like 31 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 5: mainstream poppy type record. I mean, it's still a rap. 32 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 5: But did you feel like you're going different from like 33 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 5: your core music or. 34 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 4: You're saying like with my new album, no, I feel 35 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,279 Speaker 4: like I was definitely getting back to my core because, 36 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 4: like my project that I dropped beforehand, I was trying 37 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 4: to be more a little more mainstream versatile. But like 38 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 4: on this album, That's why I tiedled the hood poet 39 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 4: because I connected back with my rules. 40 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 2: What's the what's a hood poet to you? 41 00:01:58,120 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: It's like a spokesperson for the naghbor. 42 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 4: You know, person's really speaking on telling everybody's story at once, 43 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 4: not just you know. 44 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 6: How can you still relate to the hood, polo? I 45 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 6: mean you you live in large in l A. We 46 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 6: see you walking down Rodale Drive. You got a big 47 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 6: stack of money. Feel free to pass Uncle hunting if 48 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 6: you want to. But I'm I'm just watching, don't you 49 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 6: got it? But how can you still relate. 50 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 2: To the hood? 51 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 4: I mean, as where I come from, I'm always naturally 52 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 4: relate to them. You know, I still got close feelings 53 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 4: with like my family, friends, everybody that's still come from that. 54 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 4: You know, I'm really you know, I really come from 55 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 4: it for real, So I'm always Yeah. 56 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 3: You feel a bit of a survivor's remorse. 57 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 4: I feel like I do at times though, like overdoing 58 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 4: for people, feeling like damn, I know I was in 59 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 4: that situation before. 60 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 3: You to get caught up in the in the feeling 61 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 3: that you have to go back and help. 62 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like that's a good thing though, having 63 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 4: that type obligation or feeling obligated. 64 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 5: What is the acronym for hood poet uh Stanford? 65 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 4: He overcame obstacles during pain or emotional trauma. 66 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 2: So have you been exploring that, Like, have you been 67 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 2: talking to like a therapist, a counselor just. 68 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 4: I tried a few times. Yeah, I do want to 69 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:28,119 Speaker 4: like make it more like a regular thing, but I have, like, yeah, 70 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:28,799 Speaker 4: a few times. 71 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to find the right person therapists and 72 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 5: y'all walk in you you'll be consistent. 73 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I feel like it is. 74 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 6: Because I saw a couple of months ago you posted 75 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 6: a drugs and liquor helped me cope with pain, but 76 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 6: I need better vices. 77 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 2: Have you found any better vices? 78 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: Yeah? 79 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 4: I really laid back off drinking. I ain't been drinking 80 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 4: for a little while. I won't say that long. It'll 81 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 4: probably been only like a month. But no, I'll be 82 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 4: really like working out a lot, I hope from time 83 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 4: to time, like I just try to do. I like 84 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 4: being by myself. I feel like that's a decent vice 85 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 4: if it is going. But like being by myself helped 86 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 4: me think clearly. 87 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 2: You ain't got no game. 88 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 3: You can't play basketball. I'm decent, can't test the net, 89 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 3: so you don't even know do anything. 90 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 2: I'm a three point specialist, not not even close. Now. 91 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 2: Hall of Fame was a number one album. 92 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 6: Did you set any expectations for yourself when you was 93 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 6: working on hood Port after having so much success with 94 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 6: Hall of Fame? 95 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 4: Definitely, Like first, like creating the album and coming off 96 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 4: of like my album being so big, the one that 97 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame, Like at first that was my 98 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 4: main primary goal, but like after all the time, how 99 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 4: I went past. My biggest thing was just getting the 100 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 4: music out and just making sure it was like the 101 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 4: best music that I could put together, you know, and 102 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 4: really just trying to put my soul into it. But 103 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 4: definitely early on that was probably one of my primary focuses. 104 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: And then it's shifted. 105 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: I read somewhere too. 106 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 6: I don't know this is true, but you said, you know, 107 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 6: only rapping history to have every album go two times platinum. 108 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. 109 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 4: I think it was like at that time. I don't know, 110 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 4: I don't really know what what they meant by, but 111 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 4: I did see, Uh, what's the Twitter account. It's one 112 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 4: of my favorite hip hop daily the certifications? 113 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, is that true? 114 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 2: If that's true, I just saw it and I was like, man, 115 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 2: that's interesting. 116 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 3: The certifications. They checked the numbers and everything on that site. 117 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 3: What I said, They checked the numbers and everything on 118 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 3: that site. He said, every album you put out is 119 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 3: going two times platin Yeah. 120 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 2: What does that look like? Money wise? 121 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 6: In your Podcastodet saying how they don't make the money 122 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 6: off the record. 123 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: Sales, I'm just wondering, like, yeah, I mean I can't 124 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: really relate to the oh. 125 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 2: You're getting the money off your records? 126 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 3: Would you rather go back to the days where it 127 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 3: was more independent? Because I realized this time around the 128 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 3: reason I asked, is usually the labels are recalled, but 129 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 3: I was getting calls from people outside like Polar want 130 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 3: to come to the breakfast club. I'm like whatever, but 131 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 3: it was it seemed like it was more of an 132 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 3: independent way of doing things opposed to actually going to 133 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 3: the label. So is that going back to the roots 134 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 3: and going back to where it started from the reason 135 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 3: you're doing it that way? 136 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: I don't give what you asks me. 137 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 3: So usually the label books you or the label calls 138 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 3: to get Polo G on the radio or whatever it is, 139 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 3: but this time was more of a personal relationship, which 140 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 3: was weird. So I was curious to if that's the 141 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 3: route that you want to go, more to an independent 142 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 3: route where it's going outside of the record label. 143 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 4: I'm always like collaborate with my label on ideas or 144 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 4: doing anything media wise, but I think it's definitely a 145 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 4: good thing to just create a good like team on 146 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 4: the inside to do a lot of the same things 147 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 4: that the label would do, just so you ain't so. 148 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 3: Dependent on them you feel like the label wasn't doing 149 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 3: enough for you. 150 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 4: No, I definitely don't think that like they step for me. 151 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 4: But like I said, it's really about building your own 152 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 4: personal team for sure. 153 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 2: What do labels do nowadays? Far as. 154 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 4: I feel like it's like a lot of groundwork that 155 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 4: they do, the things that you probably may not see, 156 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 4: you know, and just staying on point. And I know 157 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 4: I talk to my team to my label a lot 158 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 4: about like what I should do from an analytics standpoint. 159 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 6: I saw a lot of people saying they was wondering 160 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 6: why Little TJ isn't featured on the album. 161 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: Man, me and TJ, we just be having a lock in. 162 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 4: Brody just he be gone like probably eighty percent of 163 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 4: the year, Like you can never really get a hold, 164 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 4: but that's still my boy. 165 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 2: We locked in for the y'all be doing records, y'all 166 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 2: be in the studio together. 167 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: Like yeah, most of the time. That's like the only 168 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: rapper that I be in the studio with. 169 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 4: Like most of the time we I just sent a 170 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 4: track back and forth, like a lot of feature records 171 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 4: that I have. I never like, I probably had two 172 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 4: or three songs with a little Baby before I ever 173 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 4: met him in person. So me and TJ, we always 174 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 4: lock in. We got that chemistry together. Right after I signed, 175 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 4: they put us in the studio together. He had just 176 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 4: signed before me. And like we basically like grew up 177 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 4: together in the music industry. 178 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 6: Now, you know, while Good gave you a Donkey of 179 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 6: the day because you were saying that you were one 180 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 6: of the only rappers. 181 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 2: With no security, now you got all this June. 182 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 6: And the reason I was so disappointed because I'm like, yo, 183 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 6: Polo has always been one of the smart ones. You 184 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 6: walk around all the jury, you got money hanging out 185 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 6: your pocket. Why was you testing the streets in that way? 186 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 4: That wasn't like sometimes I feel like because I ain't 187 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 4: always all always out there, people don't know like when 188 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 4: I'm trolling or just playing around something like that. Onen't 189 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 4: no like I'm trying to entice nobody or trying to 190 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 4: puff my chest out. 191 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: I was just really borshit, like I. 192 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 4: Ain't even like, you know, I probably was four hours 193 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,959 Speaker 4: away by the time I posted that, you know, like, 194 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:22,559 Speaker 4: I ain't no goofy like that. I'll just be trolling stuff. 195 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 4: And that's something I've been doing since the beginning of 196 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 4: my career. Is just like I'll be forgetting that I'm 197 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 4: at a like bigger point in my career where people 198 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 4: would take down anything, and you know, so I that 199 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 4: was definitely a learning exp like something that I had 200 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 4: to learn to just be my mind. 201 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 5: For with hippod being your comeback project from the break 202 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 5: that you took, what is like the takeaway you want 203 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 5: people to get from. 204 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 4: This that I really put my all into the project, 205 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 4: that I took my time with it, because this the 206 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,599 Speaker 4: longest it ever took me to drop a project in 207 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 4: my career. Like I was on the cycle of dropping 208 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 4: an album every nine months in the beginning of my career. 209 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 4: So like, with taking so much time, it had to 210 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 4: be the best shit that how I could create. 211 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,199 Speaker 3: Were you nervous doing this album because you said that 212 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 3: you wanted to stop your vices, whether it was drinking 213 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 3: or drugs, So without using vices doing this or doing that, 214 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 3: where you were you thinking that maybe your mind couldn't 215 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 3: put out an album you couldn't rap without those vices. 216 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 3: With that a fair at all? 217 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 6: Uh? 218 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 4: Sometimes that's that's a thing, you know. Coming early on 219 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 4: into my career, like I like pills was my thing 220 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 4: a lot, and I made a lot of good. 221 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: Songs off drugs. 222 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 4: You would start thinking like, oh, that's the only way 223 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 4: I'm a and then like you, it's really just a thing. 224 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 4: A fine to yourself. No, I feel like now at 225 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 4: this point in my life, I make my best music 226 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 4: SOB And. 227 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 3: How did you get off those vices? How did you 228 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 3: finally went off and say I'm not doing this anymore? 229 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 3: Was it a scare, was it family? Was it management? 230 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 3: Or was it yourself? 231 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: It's always myself. It's definitely like. 232 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 4: Like like dealing with the like mental problems that come 233 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 4: with it, like you know, you know when you drink 234 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 4: too much and then it's like you're trying to pour 235 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 4: yourself out of that depression, all that darkness, Like going 236 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 4: through that and not wanting to be in that here 237 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 4: space again is what really made me straight away from. 238 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 6: You think you're trying to escape something, because you know, 239 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 6: when I listen to a record like you know, barely 240 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 6: holding on and you like, you know, definite, definite air 241 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 6: that should have leave you with a chilled spine, even 242 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 6: though my spirits down, like I'm okay, I feel fine. 243 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 6: Shots from that Still nine and from that Hillside, I'm 244 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 6: from the trenches where they just murder just to kill time. 245 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 6: Like it feels like you feel like you're dealing with 246 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 6: some real dark stuff on this albums. You feel like 247 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 6: you were doing all that just to try to escape. 248 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, you said for show for shure, I feel like 249 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,599 Speaker 4: that's it go hand in hand with the the just 250 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:04,320 Speaker 4: the rapper lifestyle too. 251 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: Why you may. 252 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 4: Indulge in certain things, but I definitely feel like it's 253 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 4: an escape thing sometimes too. 254 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 6: Yeah, because on turning back you say I need some therapy, 255 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 6: Like you literally say that, So you're clearly self aware 256 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:19,719 Speaker 6: that there's something going on. 257 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, And. 258 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 6: Even now having a common even talking to you now, 259 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 6: I feel like mentally you might be somewhere somewhere else. 260 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 2: You got a lot on your. 261 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 1: Mind always though, that's that's that's, that's just me. 262 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 6: Does it make these press runs even more difficult because 263 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 6: you know, you got to go out hand promote the album, 264 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 6: but then you're dealing with real life issues as well. 265 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: No, not really. 266 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 4: Press runs going to be a little difficult to me 267 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 4: because I ain't really like a person that like to talk, 268 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 4: so we know. 269 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,839 Speaker 5: Also on the turning back you talk about how you 270 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 5: gave your heart to the streets and got nothing in return. 271 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 2: Where would you say. 272 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 5: Your heart is now? 273 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 4: My heart right now it's with my family, my son. 274 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 4: I love my son a whole lot, and that's why 275 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 4: I want to like, I ain't. I wouldn't say shift 276 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 4: my focus, but like be more attentive in that area. 277 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 6: Ole man he five, okay, okay, How fatherhood has changed 278 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 6: you because you're young? 279 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 2: He was a young pops. 280 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, it changed me for the better, for sure. It'd 281 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 4: be teaching me patients. I'm a very impatient person, but 282 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 4: dealing with my son helped me, like, like learn to 283 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 4: be more patient and just see the beauty and life 284 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 4: for real. 285 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 6: I want to stay on the turning back record because 286 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 6: you talk about your brother and you said I missed 287 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 6: my Brosky through it all you was you was dead 288 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 6: for me? How is his absence affecting you on a 289 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 6: day to day basis? And and just what he's going 290 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 6: through because he's he was charged with murder, right. 291 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 4: I wasn't even talking talking about my my blood brother. 292 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 4: I was talking about my home be Money, who passed 293 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 4: away in twenty twenty one. 294 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay. 295 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 4: And but definitely my my little brother. You know, we 296 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 4: was tight, We was close, So I speak to him. 297 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 4: I'll be missing him a lot though. That's like that 298 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 4: was my dog. 299 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: I mean, that is my dog. 300 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 2: Do you feel like that? 301 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 6: I don't want to say that's your fault with like 302 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 6: the wrapper lifestyle, letting them him maybe getting jammed up 303 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 6: like that. 304 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 4: I definitely wouldn't say that. No, you can't really call 305 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 4: it to be honest, to be totally honest. 306 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 5: And let her letter from my pops. You're talking about 307 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 5: how you don't want to let your son down, like 308 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 5: that is one of your biggest fears. 309 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 2: But I feel like, you know, you did have your kid. 310 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 5: Once you got money, you up, So I don't, like, 311 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 5: what is the fear of that. You can take care 312 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 5: of yourself, You can take care of your family. 313 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 4: I just know how important it was to me, like 314 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 4: for my father to beat up for me, and like 315 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 4: definitely just be enough for my son an important thing 316 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 4: for me because I know like how much account to 317 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 4: put that time in. My pops was there for me 318 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 4: everything every point in my life, making sure we did 319 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 4: our homework, somethings simple as hanging your jacket up, playing 320 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 4: catch with you in the backyard, Like that's things a 321 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 4: kid gonna remember more than me being able to pay 322 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 4: for anything for my son. 323 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's important for you to give your dad 324 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 2: his flower as well. 325 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: For sure. 326 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 5: That's him on the record. 327 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 3: Too. 328 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool. 329 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 2: What else did you learn from your pops? 330 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 6: Like I really want to know, like how to how 331 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 6: to have a father figure keep you from really, you know, 332 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 6: succumbing to the screeens of Chicago. 333 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: My pops he a really really wise person. 334 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 2: You know. 335 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 4: He always gonna give you the pros or cons to 336 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 4: any situation. Somebody that's real easy to talk to. I 337 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 4: feel like he kept me away from or out of 338 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 4: trouble a lot of times a lot of time, you know, 339 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 4: or just being that voice or reason you know, when you're. 340 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 2: Having a conversations with your son or interactions with your son. 341 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 2: What do you do that you like? Damn that that 342 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 2: was my pop. Pops did this for me. 343 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: Like, it's a lot of things I do. 344 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 4: I feel like it's similar to my poss We almost 345 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 4: like like the same person. Like I see that and damn, 346 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 4: then I think I do. 347 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 2: What's it? 348 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 6: What's your relationship now with your with your mother station 349 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 6: Mac because she was your manager. 350 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 2: She's not no more. 351 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: No, she's not my mother no more. You know, that's 352 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: my my ma. Mom. 353 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 4: Always loved my mama. You just probably ain't in the 354 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 4: best space right now on communicating terms. 355 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: But that's that's my I'm always. 356 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 3: How did you find your moms? How did that conversation? 357 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 3: But that had to be a tough one. 358 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: It was just a mutual thing, you know, it wasn't really. 359 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 5: Michael and Joe, Janet and Joe. 360 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 3: You gotta be a conversation because that's moms like you 361 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 3: go hard for you though you do, like. 362 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 2: Do y'all still communicating now? 363 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:06,120 Speaker 1: Not often? 364 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 4: You know, it's still communication there. It's just not like 365 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 4: how it used to be. But I feel like that's 366 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 4: just a rough patch in our relationship that to get 367 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 4: back to where where it was. 368 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 6: When you see family public issues spill over the social media, 369 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 6: like you know, everybody saw the situation between your mom 370 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 6: and your sister. 371 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 2: Do you intervene or do you let them work that up? 372 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: For sure, I'm always intervening. 373 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 4: It's like I don't want to see no ship like that, 374 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 4: you know, so I'm always trying to get in between. 375 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: And before we go too far. 376 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 6: Too far, it was fighting and shooting Chicago, Chicago. I 377 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 6: might have to start at in Chicago with Florida, he said. 378 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 6: Before it go too far, it was fighting and shooting Polo. 379 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 6: That's normal to Chicago people. 380 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:58,719 Speaker 2: Nor is it even something that can be worked out? 381 00:17:58,800 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 2: You think? 382 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure? We family. I mean, I like, I 383 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:04,880 Speaker 1: feel like cuss who I am? 384 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 4: That's it's it's just being broadcasted more and like everybody 385 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 4: gonna talk about it. But every everybody family go through 386 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 4: go through ship like that shit I'm accustomed to. 387 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 3: I'm like minus to shoot, No, that's normal to him, y'all. 388 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 3: And how do you intervene because you can't pick a side. 389 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 3: It's like you almost got to just try to put 390 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 3: them both in the room and be like, listen, had 391 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 3: this conversation. 392 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's definitely the angle to take. Because my 393 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 4: sister a pretty hair strong person. 394 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 1: She had mother child, you know, so you definitely got 395 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: to be Have you tried that yet? 396 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 3: Have you tried to have to work it out on 397 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 3: the phone first, of course, because you don't want to 398 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 3: be in the room yet, but to try to get 399 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 3: their feelings out and squash it because they mom and daughter. 400 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 4: It's something that I want to get around to. But 401 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,640 Speaker 4: I'm definitely letting them breathe a little bit more right now. 402 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 2: I just like, I just like the energy to y'all. 403 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 6: Bro, I always like the capital lot I liked watching 404 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 6: y'all as a family unit. 405 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 406 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 6: I just thought that was dope. Mom helped managing the 407 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 6: rapper Sun. I just thought that was dope. Now, now 408 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 6: you mentioned you grew anti social and you said it's 409 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 6: all it's y'all's fault. 410 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 2: Who is y'all? 411 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 4: Like just I ran through a lot of different friends 412 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 4: or just like people I was associated with, and it's 413 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 4: like I always go through a phase of having to 414 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 4: cut off a lot of different people. A lot of 415 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 4: people came and went in my life. So I feel 416 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 4: like that keep me even more stamped offish than I 417 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:37,160 Speaker 4: was before. 418 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 5: To be fair, you also are evolving as an artist 419 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 5: and then you know in personal life and then like 420 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 5: public persona too. So some people are just there to 421 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 5: get you to your next phase. 422 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: Yeah that's the way you look at. 423 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 5: But I want to talk about your creative process within 424 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 5: this project. Can you describe because. 425 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 2: You said this is the longest you know that it 426 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 2: took for you to put this together. 427 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 1: What was it like? Did you create on beat? 428 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 4: You know? 429 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 5: Was it more like poems because it is a hood poet? Like? 430 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 6: What was that? 431 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 1: I was? 432 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 4: Definitely I was locked in with a producer. I was 433 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 4: locked in with south Side on ato a Mafia, and 434 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 4: we got locked in for like two months and we create. 435 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 4: We made like a large bulk of the album in 436 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 4: them two months, like probably like let's say eight or 437 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 4: nine of the eighteen songs that's on the So we 438 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 4: was just building that chemistry and really went from there. 439 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 5: Who else was on the project besides eight A eight? 440 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 4: He got a he got a team of producers, soh uh. 441 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 4: Smat is one of his producers that I work real 442 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 4: closely with, and Atl Jacob on there. I got Ohs 443 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 4: from Chicago he on there? Who I'm missing? I don't 444 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 4: want to make nobody Mad. 445 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: Had a lot of producers on that. 446 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 2: Check the credits. Check the credits. Who did we a shoot? 447 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 1: That was? That was? 448 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 3: That's not how you pronounced it. 449 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 2: I'm sure we are shoot. I'm sure that's but that 450 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 2: is how spelled. 451 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 3: I don't know what. 452 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 2: Because they shoot, I don't know what that was. 453 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 3: We shoot it like, I don't know what that was. 454 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,360 Speaker 1: I put like, that's how I talk. 455 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 4: I didn't want to put will like I think that 456 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 4: would have sounded weird or it would have been a 457 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 4: weird title. 458 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 2: That's in the hook, we got the guns, will shoot. No, 459 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 2: I ain't worried about what he'll do. 460 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 3: Are you ever nervous about that? Seeing what's going on 461 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 3: with young thug put stuff like that, rep like, damn, 462 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 3: I wonder if they could ever use this against me 463 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 3: at any time. 464 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 1: I'm not worried because I'm not doing nothing. I'm not 465 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 1: worried about. 466 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 6: Well, you did get arrested back in April. It was 467 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 6: a loaded firearm in the hotel room. I don't know 468 00:21:55,560 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 6: if it was yours, but all right, got you, Okay, okay, anti. 469 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: See. 470 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 2: But here's the thing. For coming from the street, you are. 471 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 6: You are a legitimate businessman now, so if it's not yours, 472 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 6: I feel like it's okay to say it's not mine. 473 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 2: I'm not to say who it is, but it ain't mine. 474 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 3: Apology A counselor will say, don't say anything until the courtation. 475 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 2: Did you see the discussion that Black TV was having. 476 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 6: What he was talking about, he got concerns about you 477 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 6: because he feels like you might have one foot in 478 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 6: the street. Still, what are your thoughts about people who 479 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 6: have those concerns. 480 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: That about me? 481 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 4: Like I said, I think they shouldn't have that concern 482 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 4: at all because I'm not doing I go to I 483 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 4: go home after I come from the studio. 484 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 1: No, I don't really ain't nothing too much going on 485 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: my life. I'm just you know, I'm just a rapper. 486 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 6: I feel like the brothers who survived the Streets Chicago, 487 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 6: they're literally like actual soldiers just because of everything that 488 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 6: they've experienced, the trauma or the PTSD and stuff. So 489 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 6: is it hard finding happiness now because you live a 490 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 6: great life? But is it hard actually being happy because 491 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 6: of all the traumas are your past and any things 492 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 6: you might still be dealing with that? 493 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 4: I think because I deal I feel like I cope 494 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 4: with it with that stuff pretty well because like it's 495 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 4: like like how we were saying, it is something that 496 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 4: becomes regular, Like I don't really I don't really be 497 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 4: too told off by like death or nothing no more 498 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 4: like so I be really able to accept a lot 499 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 4: of that stuff now. But I do have those moments 500 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 4: of survivors remre or just like my trauma's catching up 501 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 4: to me sometimes. But I feel like, all in all, 502 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 4: I cope with it well. I mean I got advice 503 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 4: that I didn't really touch on his music though, Like 504 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 4: I'm always hire that in my pockets, be able to 505 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 4: deal with my problem. 506 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 6: Are you accepting of it and just numb to it? 507 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 6: That's a difference, right, like learning to accept something and 508 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 6: just being numb to it. 509 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: Like a little bit of both, a little bit of both. 510 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 5: You said music is one of your vices. What are 511 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 5: some of the things you listen to to coe like 512 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 5: artists or even decades. 513 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 4: I like all types of music. I'm always on YouTube. 514 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 4: I like R and B music or just like I 515 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 4: wouldn't even consider it arm because like what what category 516 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 4: like sexy drill? 517 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: All on? That's like raping? 518 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 2: What the hell is sexy drills? 519 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:39,399 Speaker 5: R and B? 520 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: But drill because I like that Kailani song. Yeah, yeah, I'm. 521 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 6: Saying they call it sexy drill? Why because you're killing 522 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 6: pussy literally drill be talked to some times that sexy woman. 523 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 5: It's called sexy drill. 524 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: We didn't name it. Men named it. 525 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 2: So not if you was with a man and you're 526 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 2: always setting the mood, No, do not put. 527 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 6: That on. 528 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:15,880 Speaker 2: Setting the mood to sexy drill? 529 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 5: No not No. 530 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: I really don't really like that term like that, but 531 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: I just rock with it. 532 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 5: Yeah, I like. 533 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 6: Blad Also you face timed him, you said you want 534 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 6: to face to face, Like what what? Where did all 535 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 6: that start from? Like what is this? 536 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 2: Because you called him the FEDS? 537 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: Like blid Man. It was really a situation where. 538 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 4: I came across him and having a sit down and 539 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 4: my name came up, and blid had an issue with 540 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 4: me making a tweet responding to a tweet that somebody 541 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 4: made about him being of police, this before I ever 542 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 4: seen the interview about him being the police, and I 543 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 4: said some shited along the lines like I agree, you know, 544 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 4: and then we end up seeing each other in the bank. 545 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 1: He chopped it up with me. I really left it alone. 546 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 4: I ain't never say nothing about him since, but like 547 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 4: the way he was talking in an interview with actors, 548 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 4: like it was almost like he was I don't know, 549 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 4: like he still felt the way and he's saying that 550 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,719 Speaker 4: he that I didn't never respond to him for an interview, 551 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 4: and it was like he just fake got to going 552 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 4: in and I didn't really understand that from a person 553 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 4: who had an issue with me speaking on him publicly. 554 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 4: So that's really where my issue came from. And I 555 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 4: trying I'm trying to talk to him like a man. 556 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 4: It ain't really no more to it. But then he 557 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 4: trying to remind me he fifty You should have known 558 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 4: that before. 559 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: He was speaking on me, though. 560 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 2: Y'all had an actual meeting. 561 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: No, he don't want Yeah, yeah he I ran into 562 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 1: him at the bank, so. 563 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 3: You pulled up on him, But he said, hey, I'm ladder. 564 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 3: Did you know it was him? As soon as you 565 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 3: see him. 566 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,159 Speaker 4: I was in the line at the bank this like 567 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 4: during COVID time. He got his mask on, but I'm like, 568 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 4: you know, I looked back at him and I smiled, 569 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:16,919 Speaker 4: you know, And that's when he was willing to engage 570 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 4: in conversation. I guess, you know, And we really it 571 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 4: wasn't really nothing. We just chopped it up about like 572 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 4: why he felt the way, you. 573 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 2: Know you said. 574 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 6: You also said in the song, you can't relapse off 575 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 6: these drugs, all right, Peter Juice, you really took your 576 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 6: last perk with juice? Could you say that in the 577 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 6: real You said I popped my last one with you? 578 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I haven't did that since really, how longer? 579 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,160 Speaker 1: Was it? Like five years ago? 580 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 2: Okay? Okay, you remember that last experience outside of just 581 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 2: the drugs? 582 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember my last time just kicking it with Juice. Period. 583 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 4: He used to stay fifteen minutes away from me, so 584 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 4: I pulled up on I used to pull up on 585 00:27:58,400 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 4: him a. 586 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: Lot of time. He had hit me like, bro, just 587 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:01,880 Speaker 1: pull up on me today. We don't. 588 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 4: We didn't record music a lot of those times. I 589 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 4: just were just kicking it together. So that was one 590 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 4: of those days. 591 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 2: What did Juice mean to the city? 592 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 4: A lot of Juice man, he like no, he a 593 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 4: rock star, like he different. He really separated itself from 594 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 4: the rest of the pack. I feel like he definitely 595 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 4: wanted a kind. A lot of people appreciate him, and 596 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 4: and it's like a good, like a dope thing, like 597 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,199 Speaker 4: people coming from a lot of different upbringings that are 598 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 4: able to support or rock with Juice because like some 599 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 4: of his music, you would hear it and you wouldn't 600 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 4: naturally think people in the hood to play this, but 601 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 4: like people, everybody rock with Juice. 602 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: Bro. 603 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 6: Now you also got the you got a September eighteenth 604 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 6: reference on the album. Is that related to your your 605 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 6: late friend who? 606 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of my other homies though Oie. 607 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 4: His name was t Gucci. He passed away. He passed away. 608 00:28:58,480 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 4: I was fifteen, he was sixteen. 609 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 2: He had got killed her. 610 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 1: Yeah he got killed. 611 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 2: Yeah damn much that much deafine? Have you experienced? You 612 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 2: even know what grief feels like. 613 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: I know what grief feel like. 614 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 4: Uh, I went through I went I dealt with death 615 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 4: closely a lot, since I was like a lookle kid, 616 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 4: like I like my first encounter with death for real 617 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 4: or like a murder. 618 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: My my uncle died in a shootout. I was like 619 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: nine years old. 620 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 4: That was like my first real experience dealing with that 621 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 4: and ever since then, that's like what I've been going through. 622 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 3: So so you don't feel pain anymore. It's just this 623 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:37,479 Speaker 3: feels natural now. 624 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely feel pain still. I'm a human, but. 625 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 4: I just don't really read too much into it because 626 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 4: I know, you know, people live in certain lives, this 627 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 4: will come with it. 628 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 2: So what adjustments do you not not even what adjustments? 629 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 2: What do you feel your duty is to your community? 630 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 6: Is it to make records like we a shoot or 631 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 6: is it to say, you know what, I got to 632 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 6: say something to help the next generation be better? 633 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 4: I definitely in my music, I definitely dabble between the two. 634 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 4: But primary like if you know Polo G as an artist, 635 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 4: like most of the time I'm speaking on the problems 636 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 4: or like telling you how this is messed up, or 637 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 4: that I could connect with you on the level I've 638 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 4: been through something too. I feel like my main priority though, 639 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 4: in my community specifically, is just getting a hold of 640 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 4: the kids. You know, like everybody who've been in the 641 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 4: streets or have their own path and they adults like 642 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 4: it's hard to patch them relationships up, Like you know, 643 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 4: people pushing peace now and trying to patch them, but 644 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 4: like everybody ain't gonna hide that same mindset. It's the 645 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 4: best thing to do is go get a hold of 646 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 4: the youth before they get too deep into some type 647 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 4: of issue. 648 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 6: Once once bodies start dropping, it's hard to just go 649 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 6: back and be like yeah, okay, we're good now. 650 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I get it. I totally get it. 651 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 3: Let's get into a joint off the album. Let's play 652 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 3: Hood Poet. 653 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 2: That's the one you want to play? What's the one? 654 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 2: What's the one? What's the single? 655 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: We all shoot? Lord? 656 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 3: All right, let's get it on. We will shoot with 657 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 3: the accent, I said, we will shoot with the accent. 658 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 2: Chart we are shoot. 659 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 3: You make Jamaica. They just make it Jamaica. We will shoot. 660 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Lub. We appreciate you for joining us. 661 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: Brother, I appreciate you. It's the Breakfast Lug. 662 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 3: Good morning, wake that ass. 663 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: Up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.