Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to another edition of All the Smoke. Jack's
Speaker 2: been a minute, Bro, been a minute, But we're back
Speaker 2: in this bat like.
Speaker 3: We never left. Man, we got a special one today.
Speaker 3: Audience tune is mother. It's packed out out here in Milk.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, it's a building, right, man.
Speaker 2: Where do I start?
Speaker 3: Rapper, actor, songwriter, producer, Grammy Award winner, the one and
Speaker 3: only Ludacris.
Speaker 2: You Yeah, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: First of all, man, congratulations on the the.
Speaker 2: Star on Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Thank you man.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, come on, man, what is knowledge?
Speaker 1: I tell everybody.
Speaker 4: It makes me stand still for a second because I'm sure,
Speaker 4: just like y'all, I'm constantly looking forward. There's been two
Speaker 4: decades of I never look back, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's hard for me to take in the present moment
Speaker 4: because I'm always just looking at what's next. And this
Speaker 4: is one of those times where it honestly just made me.
Speaker 4: It making me stop for a second and look around,
Speaker 4: and you know, just it's amazing, Like it's hard to
Speaker 4: put into words because of all the peers and all
Speaker 4: the people that showed up for that, and you know,
Speaker 4: to hear someone else, and certain people talk about the
Speaker 4: accolades and talk about the things that you've done and
Speaker 4: the history that you've made.
Speaker 1: That's different.
Speaker 3: That's different what kind of stuff comes to mind though, because,
Speaker 3: like you said, we're always so hamster wheel, what's next
Speaker 3: after that next? So when you do finally take a
Speaker 3: look back at your journey and it's been twenty plus years, like,
Speaker 3: what are some of the things to.
Speaker 2: Jump out to you and what do you remember about those?
Speaker 4: I think where the journey started to where it's at
Speaker 4: right now. You know, you hear people say those cliche
Speaker 4: things like, you know, would you ever thought that you
Speaker 4: would have been doing this or doing that? And the
Speaker 4: honest answer to that question outside of music would be no.
Speaker 4: You know, things just a lot of unexpected things happen
Speaker 4: in everybody's lives and you kind of have to go
Speaker 4: with the path to a degree. And so to answer
Speaker 4: your question, you know, I started in radio. I wanted to.
Speaker 4: I always knew I want to do music. But when
Speaker 4: I say I started in radio, that was kind of
Speaker 4: like my means to an end. So in case y'all
Speaker 4: don't know the story, Yeah, I was at this station
Speaker 4: and I was trying to get the attention of certain
Speaker 4: people so that I could put the music out.
Speaker 1: And it was like.
Speaker 4: Amazing because during this time, I'm like seventeen eighteen years
Speaker 4: old at the radio station and like a local celebrity,
Speaker 4: and it was a pit stop. And for a second,
Speaker 4: I was like, this is this is pretty nice because
Speaker 4: I'm over here to get more money than I ever
Speaker 4: got in my life, host and parties, getting cash and
Speaker 4: I'm in music, so you know what I mean, like
Speaker 4: around it and I'm around all these celebrities. I'm making friends.
Speaker 4: But the whole goal was to go up there to
Speaker 4: play the music for people and try and get put on,
Speaker 4: which you know ended up me putting money in my
Speaker 4: own pocket and investing in myself and putting out my
Speaker 4: own album.
Speaker 1: And that's what it got there.
Speaker 4: But like I said, that radio music acting, hosting, producing, creating.
Speaker 1: Right, That's when I look back and I'm like, wow.
Speaker 3: We're just on some Just congratulations, bro, because like you said,
Speaker 3: obviously we were fans of music from the beginning to
Speaker 3: where it's been, but like you said, the crossover is
Speaker 3: what makes everything else stand out even more so.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Man, we've been to a we've been to a
Speaker 4: few parties together.
Speaker 2: My brother. I definitely.
Speaker 1: We've had some times. These are my guys. By the way, Man,
Speaker 1: we got.
Speaker 3: And we came and fucked his hoop game up wasn't
Speaker 3: here and I was hit on some other ship.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Listen to the day weekend.
Speaker 4: We have the bast football tournament every single year, and
Speaker 4: it's like, honestly, the basketball players that come are not
Speaker 4: really supposed to be giving it. They all, they're not
Speaker 4: supposed to be playing at one hundred percent because you know,
Speaker 4: if they get hurt, then it's.
Speaker 1: Gonna be hell for them.
Speaker 4: You know when they coaches from everybody, These two more
Speaker 4: buckers showed up like they was playing a real.
Speaker 3: Goddamn game, and we as high as the coast of
Speaker 3: Living too out there hooping real dunken, blocking shots.
Speaker 2: Shooting deepster That shit was fun. Though.
Speaker 1: Man, I'm glad that you.
Speaker 3: Had just retired, right, And I was like, I was
Speaker 3: like a year or two weeks retire. Yeah, new music
Speaker 3: in the works, it is.
Speaker 4: It's been in the works for a minute, man, and
Speaker 4: then I get a script for another fast and furious
Speaker 4: goddamn movie. But uh now it has been I'm joking,
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is after putting out nine ten
Speaker 4: plus projects, you hear people say the best artists, which
Speaker 4: is so true that your best art and your best
Speaker 4: music comes from life and experiences. So if I put
Speaker 4: out ten projects, I got to live some life again,
Speaker 4: and I gotta make it authentic, and I gotta make
Speaker 4: it organic, and I gotta.
Speaker 1: Make it real. And it takes a little time.
Speaker 4: As you continue to reinvent yourself and still satisfy the
Speaker 4: core ludicrous audience, it will take a little more time
Speaker 4: as opposed to just throwing music out, definitely, because the
Speaker 4: one thing about me is you know, that shattering that
Speaker 4: stereotype of just because he's doing all these other things,
Speaker 4: he doesn't have it musically anymore. That's my number one goal,
Speaker 4: you know. So I put out these little styles.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's just like the show people.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Look, make no mistake, I one hundred percent still hungry,
Speaker 4: still got this shit. I'm just doing other things that
Speaker 4: you know are are adding to my legacy. But make
Speaker 4: no mistake, I know what got me here.
Speaker 1: Period.
Speaker 3: As you continue to add to your legacy, what are
Speaker 3: some of the new things, any new things you're working
Speaker 3: on right now or projects music, anything outside of music.
Speaker 2: So tell us what's on your slate. I know your
Speaker 2: movie's coming out soon.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, No, it's a lot of it's a
Speaker 4: lot of different projects movies obviously this past and Furious
Speaker 4: ten just came out. I think the cat is out
Speaker 4: the bag. We can say that it is more than
Speaker 4: one because there's like a part A here, so it's
Speaker 4: open ended. I have a movie that Will Packer produced
Speaker 4: in Tim's story direct that I've been wanting to work
Speaker 4: with them forever. It comes out at the end of
Speaker 4: this year on Disney Plus and that's called Dashing Me
Speaker 4: and Little Real Black Santa Claus movie. You know, they
Speaker 4: kept saying they haven't seen a movie with a Black
Speaker 4: Santa Claus, and I'm like, I had to think back,
Speaker 4: and this might be the first Black Santa Claus like
Speaker 4: starring movie. We just talked about working on music. If
Speaker 4: you haven't heard The CARMA's World, this is based off
Speaker 4: My daughter on Netflix season of that merchandising in store streaming,
Speaker 4: chicken and beer restaurant were about to open up one
Speaker 4: in lax There's one in Atlanta right now. So what
Speaker 4: else what am I forgetting? I know it's a lot
Speaker 4: of stuff, man, but those are kind of like the
Speaker 4: main components right about now.
Speaker 3: I guess you could say, I mean, we're gonna get
Speaker 3: to it later, but you brought it up now. Getting
Speaker 3: the opportunity to work with your daughter and just see
Speaker 3: her fall in love with, you know, a space that
Speaker 3: you're in and her growl with it.
Speaker 2: What is that like for you?
Speaker 4: I mean, listen, man, people talk about what we're doing
Speaker 4: on this earth, why are we here? That's one of
Speaker 4: those full circle moments that you know, I've done my
Speaker 4: duty in terms of helping the next generation with self
Speaker 4: confidence and all the things that they're dealing with right now,
Speaker 4: you know it being inspired by my daughter, so it's
Speaker 4: unreal to her, Like she has no words.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's out.
Speaker 4: You going Target, you go on Walmart, you see a
Speaker 4: doll in your likeness and you hearing this music. I
Speaker 4: was just I took my youngest daughter, who is almost
Speaker 4: two years old, to the.
Speaker 1: Playground the other day, and our kids, you not.
Speaker 4: I saw another kid that was about four years old
Speaker 4: playing on the playground and she had the Carmerce World
Speaker 4: doll in her hand while she was playing, and it's
Speaker 4: like there's a lot of you know, people can tell
Speaker 4: you certain things. People can say how it's affecting. You
Speaker 4: can read text, you could look on social media, but
Speaker 4: when you at the playground randomly with your daughter and
Speaker 4: you see another kid, that's a whole different kind of wow,
Speaker 4: like beautiful. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing, man, beautiful thing.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Fast and Furious. Ten we say ten, like
Speaker 5: the first thing come to your mind? Number ten.
Speaker 1: The first thing that comes to my mind is what
Speaker 1: the fuck?
Speaker 2: What fuck? Right?
Speaker 4: I mean, listen, I can only be honest, and I
Speaker 4: say that because me and ty Reese both came in
Speaker 4: at two Too Fast, Too Furious, so we didn't even
Speaker 4: start the franchise. We got lucky. Rest in peace to
Speaker 4: John Singleton. John Singleton takes you know, he's known for
Speaker 4: taking ice Cube and certain people from the music world,
Speaker 4: ty Reese and throwing them in movies and then all
Speaker 4: of a sudden they have a whole career. He took
Speaker 4: me and put me in Too Fast, Too Furious. Tyese
Speaker 4: had already done Baby Boy with him, and it changed
Speaker 4: the entire direction and trajectory of my life because I
Speaker 4: was on tour with Eminem at the time, and I
Speaker 4: remember it like it was yesterday I got the call
Speaker 4: from John Singleton. He was like, I want you to
Speaker 4: try out for this part. I'm backstage about to go
Speaker 4: on in like thirty thirty minutes, and he's like, I'm
Speaker 4: sending you the sides right now. Like I'm thinking to myself, like,
Speaker 4: why the fuck is this such a rush? Like can
Speaker 4: I get a day, you know to look over these
Speaker 4: sides and stuff? And I read the sides and did everything.
Speaker 4: Come to find out later, John Rule was supposed to
Speaker 4: get the part.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what happens.
Speaker 4: I don't want to misspeak, but however it happened, they
Speaker 4: came to me and that those are the best sloppy
Speaker 4: seconds I've ever had in my god damn life. Yeah,
Speaker 4: said I got the part. He called me the next day.
Speaker 4: It was like, you got the part changed my life.
Speaker 4: So when I say bring it in full circle, when
Speaker 4: I say, goddamn, too fast, too furious, you come back
Speaker 4: in five so years have passed.
Speaker 1: So then it did you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4: And then it did three and four and then you
Speaker 4: just get this call we want you to come back,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh shit, all right, that's a surprise.
Speaker 1: And then you go six, seven, eight, nine. What you
Speaker 1: just say it's one part of ten.
Speaker 4: That means it's more than this mother, right, are you kidding?
Speaker 4: It's the gift that keeps on giving. Bro, When you
Speaker 4: say ten to me, I was happy at two. That's
Speaker 4: basically what I'm trying to say. So to be in
Speaker 4: seven of them is it blows my mind man, Like
Speaker 4: now we have lifetime memories with every single cast member,
Speaker 4: Like it's this is a quarter century of our lives.
Speaker 4: So our families hang out with each other, our kids
Speaker 4: know each other. Me and Ben's youngest daughters are like
Speaker 4: best friends, birthday parties, I've spent Thanksgiving, you know.
Speaker 1: What I mean? Like it's that it's that real.
Speaker 4: And while we're on it, just so that y'all know
Speaker 4: and y'all could ask I reach the same thing. I
Speaker 4: put my cast up against any cast in movie history
Speaker 4: in terms of when you yell cut in the movie
Speaker 4: and the camera goes off, of who really fucks with
Speaker 4: each other? Truly, nobody can fuck with us when it
Speaker 4: comes to that.
Speaker 5: All of us but started talking about too. Now we're
Speaker 5: at ten, Like how crazy has has each movie got?
Speaker 2: And like do you do your own stunts?
Speaker 1: That's a good ask question. Let me ask it.
Speaker 2: So let me break this ship down.
Speaker 1: Ask first one.
Speaker 4: That's a good question because people people really need to know.
Speaker 4: So your first your first question was before you said
Speaker 4: you did your own stunts, was what was.
Speaker 6: It how the movie gets crazy?
Speaker 1: How crazy do they get each movie?
Speaker 4: So what I was going to say was that's one
Speaker 4: of the things that we seem to defy stereotypically, because
Speaker 4: you know, as sequels go on and on, before it
Speaker 4: was like sometimes they will get worse and work. Arguably,
Speaker 4: these have gotten better and better to the point where
Speaker 4: it's like people just trying to understand how the hell
Speaker 4: we keep doing this shit? And I also hear people
Speaker 4: say all the time, why do y'all keep doing these movies?
Speaker 1: That's the dumbest fucking question in the world.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you why, because no matter what industry
Speaker 4: we in podcasts, music, movies.
Speaker 1: It's all about a bottom line.
Speaker 4: It's all about how much you spend compared to how
Speaker 4: much you make.
Speaker 1: We're making billions of fucking dollars every time, bro.
Speaker 4: And I'm saying that like, I'm just giving you my heart.
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to brag nothing, So when you say
Speaker 4: why do y'all keep When some of y'all keep saying
Speaker 4: why the.
Speaker 1: Fuck do y'all keep shooting these movies? Let me tell
Speaker 1: you why.
Speaker 4: Because if you spend two hundred million and you make
Speaker 4: a billion.
Speaker 7: Who the fuck is you gonna tell the stop shooting
Speaker 7: movies when you make it eight hundred motherfucking million dollars
Speaker 7: every time? How I need people to stop asking that question,
Speaker 7: even if you don't like it, even if you don't
Speaker 7: want to watch it.
Speaker 1: Stop asking that goddamn question. That is the answer.
Speaker 4: Because there is a person who's a CEO and a
Speaker 4: whole bunch of executives that work at an office, and
Speaker 4: they say, we just made eight hundred million dollars, We're
Speaker 4: going to.
Speaker 1: Make another one.
Speaker 2: That's why it's part two.
Speaker 1: Period shit and the second part of your stunts.
Speaker 4: When we first started in Too Fast, Too Furious, and
Speaker 4: on the first one, they used to let us do
Speaker 4: our own stunts, meaning they would have like we would
Speaker 4: be driving the cars and everything, and they would have
Speaker 4: duplicate cars waiting just in case we wreck one of them,
Speaker 4: and then we getting the other one and just keep going,
Speaker 4: you know, seatbelts, strapped up everything, safe as the budgets
Speaker 4: continue to grow, they said, get the fuck out of
Speaker 4: them damn seats, and we're gonna replace you with stunt men.
Speaker 4: And no, we don't do our own stunts anymore to
Speaker 4: a degree, like we do little stuff, but the big
Speaker 4: shit we just lead to the stunt.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't have did that stunt in real life when
Speaker 2: you was prankingly jawn.
Speaker 4: Without hell No, absolutely not. Nah, that was falling off
Speaker 4: a damn falcony. I don't play like that. I like
Speaker 4: to do crazy shit, but you know, jumping off balconies
Speaker 4: is not one of these things, not at all.
Speaker 5: You speak holly of Vin Diesel. What makes him the
Speaker 5: face of the franchise.
Speaker 4: That's another good question, because y'all are asking questions that
Speaker 4: like people don't ask one and then number two.
Speaker 1: That's going to.
Speaker 4: Allow me to tell you shit that other people don't
Speaker 4: fucking know. Vin is one of those people that he's
Speaker 4: okay with not getting the credit. And what I mean
Speaker 4: by that is what makes him so special. He's a
Speaker 4: producer on these films. When I tell you, this man eats, sleeps, breathes,
Speaker 4: shits fast and furious everything. But it's like other people
Speaker 4: will kind of get the credit. He just stays behind
Speaker 4: the scenes, but he's involved in every element, in every detail.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about to my character, to Tyreese's character, not
Speaker 4: just his character. He's looking out for everything, and he's
Speaker 4: looking out for the heart of what makes this franchise,
Speaker 4: you know, just the heartbeat of it. Because you know,
Speaker 4: you can see all these flying stunts and all this
Speaker 4: craziness and people can say it, but if you really
Speaker 4: think about when you watch these movies, why people keep
Speaker 4: coming back to the theater, there's a certain element of heart.
Speaker 4: And I know people joke about the family, and that's
Speaker 4: saying family all the time. But he is so in
Speaker 4: tune with making sure that there's heart moments that leave
Speaker 4: you even subconsciously wondering why you want to keep going
Speaker 4: back and watching this fucking movie and why you are
Speaker 4: just so.
Speaker 1: Tied to it. And that's what action besides.
Speaker 4: Besides all the besides the stuff that's on the surface.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying, he's he gets way beneath the surface
Speaker 4: and understands what makes the human fiber and people tick.
Speaker 4: That's why he's so phenomenal. And this is what he does. Man,
Speaker 4: He's very methodical.
Speaker 6: Where does the Rock stand with the Fast and Farish franchise.
Speaker 4: That's a good question as well. You would have to
Speaker 4: go see the movie to see. Man, that's all I
Speaker 4: can tell you.
Speaker 2: So he might be in it, Yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: he might not too. They gotta break band Rock.
Speaker 4: He may or may not be. We just don't know.
Speaker 4: And that's the story with every character in The Fast.
Speaker 4: If you think they died, the motherfuckers came back.
Speaker 1: He ain't really dead. No one ever died.
Speaker 2: And keep in mind, there's one more coming, so he
Speaker 2: might see the ghost.
Speaker 4: Of and that the Rock never died in the franchise,
Speaker 4: by the way, he made a spin off and everything.
Speaker 1: But no, that's my guy. Man, that's my guy.
Speaker 3: What's it like working with him? I mean the just
Speaker 3: following off Instagram? We trying to get him on. If
Speaker 3: that's your guy, We're gonna ask you at the end
Speaker 3: of the show, but we need to plug listen.
Speaker 1: If he just followed, y'all, he's watching that, I do
Speaker 1: just about it. Trust me.
Speaker 4: All you got to want you to DM the motherfucker
Speaker 4: shit I mean on social media. Take that shit serious.
Speaker 4: I will tell you that we need it.
Speaker 2: We need him.
Speaker 3: I mean obviously a great cast. As I told you,
Speaker 3: we're shooting your your man, Tyree Slater. But what is
Speaker 3: it like working with the Rock in particular. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's just someone we've all followed his path to where
Speaker 3: he is as well, and he seems like he's sitting
Speaker 3: on top.
Speaker 2: Of the world.
Speaker 4: Absolutely the most disciplined human being I've ever met in
Speaker 4: my entire life. Mark Wahlberg sits up there as well.
Speaker 4: But when you talk about the Rock, it's the closest
Speaker 4: thing to a robot, and I mean it's in the
Speaker 4: best way possible. Like you know, he'll get up three
Speaker 4: o'clock in the morning. This man will go do cardio
Speaker 4: for thirty forty minutes every single day, no matter how
Speaker 4: much sleep he's got. Sometimes he'll get two hours of sleep,
Speaker 4: depending on what he had the day before.
Speaker 1: Be that cardio, go eat a steak in like eight eggs,
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Thirty minutes later, do workout for two hours and he's
Speaker 4: you know, weightlifting, and it's just like then he'll go
Speaker 4: to work. So now it's like six in the morning,
Speaker 4: seven in the morning, he'll go and shoot a movie
Speaker 4: and he's there all day and he's eating every two
Speaker 4: three hours on the dot, and what he's eating is
Speaker 4: very specific to the macro nutrients and all of the
Speaker 4: exact protein to fucking carves, to vegetables that are supposed
Speaker 4: to work exactly in sync with what the fuck he
Speaker 4: just did three four hours before that. And the man
Speaker 4: like go get five six hours of sleep on a
Speaker 4: good day and do the same thing all over again
Speaker 4: every single day and drink water and that's it goes crazy.
Speaker 4: So if you ask what it's like working with him, man,
Speaker 4: it's inspiring working with him.
Speaker 1: And I used to be the.
Speaker 4: Smallest guy on the Fast and Furious cast and being
Speaker 4: around him now not so much. He got me on
Speaker 4: my shit, Like I just monitor. I watched, and I observed,
Speaker 4: and I took certain elements of how I want to
Speaker 4: incorporate that into my life and figure it out, man,
Speaker 4: Because it's like when you see somebody and they show
Speaker 4: you what's possible, that's what we need, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean? Like we hear about things. You guys know
Speaker 4: the same thing before you started balling. Sometimes you see
Speaker 4: that person in that car, you go to see that house.
Speaker 4: When you're able to make it tangible, then it's like
Speaker 4: you know, you know, without shadow of a doubt.
Speaker 1: That you can make it happen.
Speaker 2: Paul Walker.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how was the word rest? First of all, rest
Speaker 5: in peace. I know he was a brother to you,
Speaker 5: and I know what it feels like to lose a brother.
Speaker 5: But give me for the people that don't know not
Speaker 5: only how great of an acting he was, but how
Speaker 5: great of a human being was Paul Walker.
Speaker 1: Listen, I don't even have to tell you. I think
Speaker 1: people know.
Speaker 4: If you ever saw him speak, if you ever just
Speaker 4: felt his presence even through the screen, you know on
Speaker 4: interviews that he's done, if you ever saw his daughter,
Speaker 4: if you ever saw the work that he did through
Speaker 4: his reach out worldwide, his you know, foundation, and him
Speaker 4: trying to preserve the planet and the earth and save
Speaker 4: animals and all of these different things. Absolutely amazing. We're
Speaker 4: both virgos. Our birthdays are one day apart, extremely close,
Speaker 4: very humble.
Speaker 1: Man. Just just love man.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: You know what's so similar about us is his energy
Speaker 4: wasn't just he couldn't give that out to just anyone basically,
Speaker 4: so he was very reserved in a sense that he's
Speaker 4: very sensitive towards who he can be around, because you know,
Speaker 4: you got energy drainers, and so his his energy was
Speaker 4: so pure and so magnifying that he could only be
Speaker 4: around certain people. And it's just like even more magnified. Now,
Speaker 4: that's the best way that I could do. And his
Speaker 4: daughter is in the movie Dope. She got a cameo
Speaker 4: in there. So his legacy it lives on as it ship.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: Fuck y'all forgetting me secondhand? Hell, Like, what the hell
Speaker 4: ain't thish?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how you gonna start saying, I ain't never
Speaker 3: told nobody this, but that's how we really.
Speaker 1: See me on cameras. Start going like smoky, I'm.
Speaker 3: Just born in Illinois, moved around a little bit, landing
Speaker 3: in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: How were we when you got there? And when was
Speaker 2: your first impression?
Speaker 4: Yeah, my parents went to a University of Illinois, So
Speaker 4: fighting a line. I and my dad moved to Atlanta
Speaker 4: really early after that, and so I used to I
Speaker 4: would go stay with him summers when I was like
Speaker 4: six seven years old, and then I moved full time
Speaker 4: around nine ten, and man, Atlanta, think about this like
Speaker 4: the Chriss Cross Air and the ABC era and I'm
Speaker 4: around I'm that young, So I'm like, man, I gotta
Speaker 4: I know I can make it. It's like Chris Cars
Speaker 4: got discovered in a mall, Like that's where ain't du
Speaker 4: prediscover them. I don't know if y'all remember that, Like
Speaker 4: they were walking around in the mall. JD was like
Speaker 4: them two kids are stars. I'm about to make y'all millionaires,
Speaker 4: and so to me, I'm like, shit, man, you know
Speaker 4: I could do this untalented. Atlanta is the mecca, man,
Speaker 4: It's the motown of the South. And you know people
Speaker 4: said that early on, but I'm sure after two decades
Speaker 4: of seeing what's going on in the industry and how
Speaker 4: prominent it is, there's no doubting that at this point.
Speaker 4: So you had the face, you had the Dallas Austin
Speaker 4: rowdy records. You know, during this time. This is the
Speaker 4: Freaknick air that everybody's bringing back.
Speaker 1: Up right now.
Speaker 4: Best place on earth man, black Man's Heaven, black Man's Heaven.
Speaker 1: Y'all know that. Why y'all asking me this shit? Y'all
Speaker 1: was at freak Nick. You know what the two thousand
Speaker 1: and three and I.
Speaker 2: Ain't left set up jah Jack set up home there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what it is, Magic City, man, Gentlemen's Club.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of history five, five, nine, one, twelve.
Speaker 4: When you really think about it, Man, so much culture, Man,
Speaker 4: so much history, birthed so many stars, so much talent, producers,
Speaker 4: just movers, shakers, industry insiders, and you know, just trend setters.
Speaker 1: Man, trend setters, trend setters, trend setters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, at what age did you find music as
Speaker 3: far as feeling like you could? You said, when you
Speaker 3: saw all of it, But that's when you started, or
Speaker 3: you'd already started.
Speaker 1: I had already started. Man.
Speaker 4: I made my first song when I was nine. Some
Speaker 4: people know this story, but this audience you'll probably hear
Speaker 4: for the first time. Man, I was nine and I
Speaker 4: lied and said I was ten because my first song
Speaker 4: was called I'm bad. I'm bad, I might be damn,
Speaker 4: what the fuck was it? I'm cool, I'm bad. I
Speaker 4: might be ten, but I can't survive without my girlfriend,
Speaker 4: so I had to rhyme with girlfriends. I had to
Speaker 4: rhyme with girlfriends. So I was like, shit, I'm nine,
Speaker 4: but I need something to rhyme with fu in ten.
Speaker 4: This is the prelimiting, you know, this is the early
Speaker 4: on rhymes, This is the nursery rhyme. Shit, So I
Speaker 4: was like, I'm gonna say ten, I'm ten, and then
Speaker 4: you ask rap goals, you could be braggadocious. You gotta
Speaker 4: speak shit into existence.
Speaker 1: And what do you know, before you know it, I.
Speaker 4: Was ten, I can say and I could say that
Speaker 4: damn song the way that I intended to say when
Speaker 4: I wrote it, with honesty, integrity.
Speaker 1: And pure heart.
Speaker 4: So yeah, now to answer your question, it was a
Speaker 4: little bit before nine. But I made my first like
Speaker 4: official song when I was nine, So that's how long
Speaker 4: I've been doing it.
Speaker 2: Nine. I could be ten, right.
Speaker 4: But I can't survive without my girlfriend and ll cool
Speaker 4: Jay is who made me want to rap, which is
Speaker 4: extremely phenomenal because he was one of the ones that
Speaker 4: just spoke at the Hollywood Walker Fame star ceremony.
Speaker 1: But when I'm Bad came out, you know, this record
Speaker 1: started off with.
Speaker 4: No rapper can rap quite like can I take a
Speaker 4: muscle ball man and put his face in the scend?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: How do you start off a record like that?
Speaker 4: So for you know, a kid like myself, I heard
Speaker 4: that ship, I was like, it's given me confidence that
Speaker 4: I never even knew was there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, shit, I mean that's that's what made me.
Speaker 2: Want to rap.
Speaker 3: Catalog very impressive, one of the best to have done it,
Speaker 3: and anybody of work stick.
Speaker 2: Out as your favorite?
Speaker 1: Are you talking about from my song?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're yeah, from what you've done.
Speaker 4: But I can guess, are you what? Let's be specific.
Speaker 4: Are we asking which song is my favorite song? No,
Speaker 4: I'm talking about album album.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know what you're gonna guess.
Speaker 2: Man, Chicken and Beer.
Speaker 4: That's hard because it's every single album has its own
Speaker 4: different sentimental value, like Chicken and Beer became a restaurant
Speaker 4: release therapy.
Speaker 1: You want to rap album? But man, you know.
Speaker 4: People have asked me that question, and it's like, I
Speaker 4: don't even think I've been able to truly give a
Speaker 4: real answer, like really thinking about it. If I had
Speaker 4: to say it, man, I would just say and you close.
Speaker 4: It would probably be word of mouth, just because man,
Speaker 4: like the world is.
Speaker 1: In the palm of my fucking hand.
Speaker 4: Man, you get with you and you know why, it's
Speaker 4: like you get over that sophomore jinx. That's big for
Speaker 4: artistics well, and maybe not as much now to a
Speaker 4: degree because it's a lot of singles and streaming. But
Speaker 4: you know, people would be like, you know, if your
Speaker 4: second album don't compare to your first and all this
Speaker 4: other shit. Once I did, once I made it over
Speaker 4: that hump and I knew what them first week sales
Speaker 4: was gonna be. And that shit went on the cell
Speaker 4: like triple platinum.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, it's over. I'm good.
Speaker 4: When was that, like, oh one word of mouth was
Speaker 4: two thousand and one, two thousand and two, because it
Speaker 4: was two thousand and three.
Speaker 3: He was in college at I tell y'all used to
Speaker 3: push from LA to Sacramento bumping that shit and.
Speaker 4: Then move bitch was was obviously on word of mouth,
Speaker 4: and it was like, who was the bitch?
Speaker 2: Move?
Speaker 4: It's all type of bitches that need to move till
Speaker 4: this day it could be. And it's not just human beings.
Speaker 1: It's cars.
Speaker 4: They'll hump off your back, you know what I mean, whateverever,
Speaker 4: it's whoever gave me that second hand smoke. They But
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, man, when you talk about catalog,
Speaker 4: I don't even know if y'all was getting into this shit.
Speaker 4: I used to be in radio, so I might get
Speaker 4: a little bit ahead of you motherfuckers for a second.
Speaker 4: But what I was gonna say was you can never
Speaker 4: tell somebody how much of a hit song you have,
Speaker 4: Like it may go up the charts, it may hit
Speaker 4: number one, but in terms of being like embedded in
Speaker 4: hip hop culture, we're talking about this song. It's twenty
Speaker 4: years after so this is two decades and this song
Speaker 4: is still relevant. Humbly speaking. That's when you know you
Speaker 4: got some shit. You gotta wait, You gotta wait your
Speaker 4: records out. That's why doing verses and shit like that.
Speaker 4: It's so dope to me to what Timberland and Swiss
Speaker 4: Beats have come up with, because it shows not only
Speaker 4: the artists, but it shows the rest of the world
Speaker 4: how records age. It's like you playing your cards and
Speaker 4: how you play your hand and how you know house dealt.
Speaker 1: That ship can be an ego blow.
Speaker 4: Because some artists. What's so dope about versus It shows
Speaker 4: you where the artist ego is at when them motherfuckers
Speaker 4: want to play a record that only they think is
Speaker 4: the ship and then they play that card in the
Speaker 4: rest of the world sitting there like.
Speaker 1: That's reality.
Speaker 4: The whole world just shows Usually you do that ship
Speaker 4: with your management and your people. I'm telling you, man,
Speaker 4: what the fuck is you talking about and nobody. You
Speaker 4: don't really get no accountability real on versus accountability for
Speaker 4: your actions and decisions.
Speaker 2: Bro, that's funny, instant.
Speaker 1: That's why I love that ship.
Speaker 6: You just mentioned streaming. What is the state of the
Speaker 6: music business in your eyes? Right now?
Speaker 2: We've seen Snoop going the other day on the street.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just saw the headline. I didn't listen.
Speaker 2: Listen to it. Listen to it.
Speaker 3: You gotta hear the way he's saying, might not even
Speaker 3: should Maybe I should be saying this.
Speaker 2: No, it was on Where was it that? Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was like on a panel for something.
Speaker 1: Give us one of them lines?
Speaker 2: What he said? You give us one of the lines
Speaker 2: panel man.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's so many ways that that question can go.
Speaker 4: But I would just say not outside of what Snoop
Speaker 4: is saying, because I agree one hundred percent with what
Speaker 4: he's saying. But you know, if you don't evolve, then
Speaker 4: you'll evaporate. That's kind of one of my things that
Speaker 4: you know, you have to kind of embrace what's new,
Speaker 4: So you can't just because I didn't start in the
Speaker 4: streaming age doesn't mean that I hate what's going on here.
Speaker 1: It's just it's evolution. It is what it is. Now.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have your gripes with the business aspect of
Speaker 4: it or what's going on behind the scenes, and you
Speaker 4: might have your gripes of how people are trying to
Speaker 4: manipulate streaming and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we all listen.
Speaker 1: We all playing a game.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: You got to play the game. You got to play
Speaker 4: the game, or you quit. You can f you can
Speaker 4: put your hand down.
Speaker 1: You can put your chips away for everybody.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean not in every aspect, not just
Speaker 4: people that's watching this, like not just the music game,
Speaker 4: like movie game, life game, basketball game.
Speaker 1: Y'all know. I mean, it's just it is what it is.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: You gotta play it. Don't don't hate the player, hate.
Speaker 2: Talk to him.
Speaker 5: You didn't only come on come on the scene with
Speaker 5: a new sound. You came with the visuals. Like how
Speaker 5: big was How big was that?
Speaker 2: Young man?
Speaker 1: It was big?
Speaker 4: But you know, there's a there's a downside to it,
Speaker 4: because even jay Z was one of the ones that said,
Speaker 4: you know, he don't think I get the lyrical credit
Speaker 4: that I.
Speaker 1: Deserve because of the visual of the visuals.
Speaker 4: So you know the answer to that is like people
Speaker 4: ask me, you know, why don't you think get the
Speaker 4: get the credits?
Speaker 1: I play to goddamn much. That's what I do, you.
Speaker 4: Know, And I wouldn't have it any other way. That's
Speaker 4: why my name is Ludacris. It's beyond crazy. It's wild.
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous. I like post effects and augmenting reality, big
Speaker 4: ass shoes, a big ass chain and bibblehead and all that.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I get it, you know, I can't
Speaker 1: be mad at it.
Speaker 4: I just have to show the multifaceted aspects of myself.
Speaker 1: And I actually love that, you know.
Speaker 4: Why, Because the good side of it is there's this
Speaker 4: thing where if somebody comes out with, you know, certain
Speaker 4: material and it's like the best thing that anyone has
Speaker 4: ever seen or heard of, you have to compare to
Speaker 4: that every single time. So I like kind of being
Speaker 4: somewhere in the atmosphere where you are idling on the
Speaker 4: arguably one of the best, and you still have time
Speaker 4: to prove it as opposed to it's just definitive.
Speaker 1: He's one thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, I love being a lot of things
Speaker 4: because then I can come and at any moment, let's
Speaker 4: just say which I'm going to do. Just drop doing
Speaker 4: everything for like a certain amount of time and just
Speaker 4: focus on one thing. It's not even a question. I
Speaker 4: know I could kill it, same thing like with music,
Speaker 4: and that's what I'm saying I'm gonna do. So stakes
Speaker 4: are high, but I'm willing to take the the risk
Speaker 4: and I'm definitely willing to take that pressure.
Speaker 6: What was the biggest budget wanted videos?
Speaker 4: That's a good ask question, but I want to say
Speaker 4: like half a mial something like that. It probably wasn't
Speaker 4: like the million. You know, maybe it inched up to
Speaker 4: that six hundred thousand. But you know, you hear about
Speaker 4: when Diddy and Mace did the one million dollar videos.
Speaker 4: It was a couple of those, so you know the
Speaker 4: can't stop, won't stop it if that's what.
Speaker 1: It was, or.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what was the what was the Didi and Masum? Yeah,
Speaker 4: so more money, more problems? Was a million? I remember
Speaker 4: I think Wu Tang at Triumph video, Steve Rifkins said
Speaker 4: he did a million. It's a bunch of them, so
Speaker 4: it was like maybe about five or ten. I never
Speaker 4: made it to the million category. I never wanted to
Speaker 4: do that, but I did about half of that up.
Speaker 3: Right, two thousands. You cross paths with many legends. We
Speaker 3: try to compile a list when we tell you the
Speaker 3: name in the song, just tell us a little bit
Speaker 3: about it. But Nate Dogg and Area Coats, Wow, man.
Speaker 4: That's my I'm the biggest Nate dog fan in the world, man.
Speaker 4: People know, and I think I've done more songs with
Speaker 4: Nate Dogg collectively than any other artists, maybe Sierra, but
Speaker 4: Nate Dogg was just man, He's just amazing.
Speaker 1: He's just amazing. He smoked the.
Speaker 4: Whole wherever you at, he'll smoke that whole shit down,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know he just you throw on the beat,
Speaker 4: he'll smoke. Take him about an hour or two. When
Speaker 4: he jumps in that booth, everybody's paying attention. Kills it
Speaker 4: every single time.
Speaker 1: But just such a.
Speaker 4: Dope demeanor about himself, cool, calm, collected, and you know,
Speaker 4: just how he chose his melodies and how he chose
Speaker 4: to do certain things musically was just always surprising to
Speaker 4: you because it was out of the unexpected. I know
Speaker 4: people would say talk about his tone and stuff, but
Speaker 4: he was one of the most complex individuals when it
Speaker 4: comes to singing not only hooks but just entire songs
Speaker 4: that I ever her.
Speaker 1: So I'm huge Nate Doggh Man man.
Speaker 2: Uh for railing the Neptunes. Southern hospitality.
Speaker 4: Wait, I was going something just came to mind when
Speaker 4: I was like one of my favorite rap lines I
Speaker 4: said on one of Nate Dogg's songs, and I said
Speaker 4: something like something something going to bed. You got a
Speaker 4: frog in your throat like Miss Piggy giving head.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: I was just like, God damn, sometimes I'll be saying
Speaker 4: some of the artist ship in the world.
Speaker 1: Okay, put me up there.
Speaker 2: Man, come on, come on, man for railing the Neptunes.
Speaker 1: For railing the Neptunes.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: The first thing that comes to mind, and y'all might not notice.
Speaker 4: For so incog Negro was my independent album, and it
Speaker 4: was missing three songs when we signed The Death Jam,
Speaker 4: and not missing three songs when we signed the Death Jam.
Speaker 4: We basically repackaged it and added three songs to it
Speaker 4: and took like two or three songs off of what
Speaker 4: was on there, so that it was kind of repackaging
Speaker 4: that now for the world, as opposed to being sold out.
Speaker 4: My trunk and throw them Bow's was one of those records,
Speaker 4: and I remember this was the like eleventh inning, like
Speaker 4: we got to turn the album in tomorrow. We're going
Speaker 4: to Virginia. We're going to higher At for Real. If
Speaker 4: anybody could give you a hit the last minute, it's
Speaker 4: for Real and Chad and the Neptunes and we in
Speaker 4: Virginia is me and Shaka and he throws on this
Speaker 4: beat and I'm vibing to it. I'm thinking it's cool.
Speaker 4: I'm not you know, I'm not like thinking this is
Speaker 4: a hit. But I do what I do anyway. I
Speaker 4: go to the car. This is where I write all
Speaker 4: my music. I just go in a car. This is
Speaker 4: like my spaces where I zone out in the car
Speaker 4: in a car. So I'm in the parking lot in
Speaker 4: the studio, in this truck, listening to the instrumental.
Speaker 1: I'm writing to it. All this shit's coming out, Cadillac grill, cadillact.
Speaker 4: Man, and I'm thinking it's cool. I come back in,
Speaker 4: you know, and I'm saying it for Shaka for real.
Speaker 4: These motherfuckers like, oh shit, this is it, this is it,
Speaker 4: And I'm still like, man, it's cool, man, And so
Speaker 4: you know, forhar real kind of like helps with the
Speaker 4: hook a little bit all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 4: they play it for me, and I'm still thinking that
Speaker 4: this is good, but I still don't think it's a hit.
Speaker 4: So we you know, we put that shit on the album.
Speaker 4: I'm not thinking it's gonna be a single because what's
Speaker 4: your fantasy is the first single? And then everyone identifies
Speaker 4: with that damn thrown and bowls. And it's crazy because
Speaker 4: you hear a lot of artists always saying I knew
Speaker 4: that shit was.
Speaker 1: I knew it was a hit.
Speaker 4: I for Southern Hospitality. I did not know that it
Speaker 4: was the hit that it became and what it is
Speaker 4: still till this day. And that happens with artists all
Speaker 4: the time. Sometimes when you the one you least expect
Speaker 4: becomes a hit. And obviously sometimes your instincts are correct,
Speaker 4: sometimes your instincts are wrong.
Speaker 1: So how the game goes?
Speaker 2: Uh, Nas and Jake do it for hip hop.
Speaker 4: Man for me to get both of them on a
Speaker 4: record together. And this was right after they had squashed
Speaker 4: to B. I just remember Jay kind of hold out
Speaker 4: because you know, he liked to make an element of
Speaker 4: surprise when you get him on a record. I think
Speaker 4: I got Nas on the record first, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 4: and then Jaye hopped on there, and the day we
Speaker 4: got both of those verses on, there were just like, man,
Speaker 4: this is hip hop gold and what better way to
Speaker 4: do this than to have a record that's just for
Speaker 4: the love of hip hop?
Speaker 1: They saying, you know, if.
Speaker 4: You're gonna give a record to these two individuals, it's
Speaker 4: got to be something that's all about the heart. And
Speaker 4: you know that that could be the theme of this
Speaker 4: podcast when we talk about then in heart when it
Speaker 4: comes to music, Man, if it don't have heart to it,
Speaker 4: then I can easily see people saying, I ain't fucking
Speaker 4: with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, Welcome to Atlanta, Jermaine dupri Welcome to Atlanta,
Speaker 3: j D Man, j D j D.
Speaker 4: The first thing that comes to mind was way before
Speaker 4: that record was.
Speaker 1: Made, JD.
Speaker 4: I actually went to his house one time, and this
Speaker 4: was when he had Chris Caross. He didn't know who
Speaker 4: the fuck I was. I just found out way he
Speaker 4: lived because he was in College Park, not far from
Speaker 4: my pops lived, had a gate around his crib and
Speaker 4: one day I pulled up. I had my demo tape.
Speaker 4: I was gonna put the shit in the mailbox. I
Speaker 4: see this man walking outside in front of his.
Speaker 1: House, like yo, JD Yo yo.
Speaker 4: Now imagine this shit like a complete fucking stranger. It's
Speaker 4: a little light skim motherfucker with braids telling you to
Speaker 4: come here, like you don't know what the hell is
Speaker 4: going on. He don't know if I got a gun,
Speaker 4: He don't know what the hell I'm trying to do.
Speaker 4: This motherfucker walks up to me by himself, like no security,
Speaker 4: nobody with him. I'm like, my name is Luther chris Man.
Speaker 4: You're gonna hear about me. Here's my demo. Takes my demo.
Speaker 4: I don't know any other human being that would do
Speaker 4: that shit till this day. I have a crib if
Speaker 4: I see a motherfucker saying, hey, Luli, come in, come in, Like.
Speaker 1: The fuck is he talking about that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: But like JD is, he's one on one man. When
Speaker 4: he made Welcome to Atlanta, I definitely knew what that
Speaker 4: shit was, you know what I mean. That's an anthem
Speaker 4: when you know you can go on this Janet Jackson
Speaker 4: tour and you go to every other city budd Atlanta.
Speaker 1: And that's one of the first.
Speaker 4: Songs I do, and the crowd is still going crazy
Speaker 4: when you not even in Atlanta, and I'm telling motherfuckers,
Speaker 4: welcome to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You know what it is?
Speaker 2: Uh? Usher?
Speaker 4: Well little John one, Lil John sent me that record
Speaker 4: with Usher's you know, verse on it, and I like,
Speaker 4: when I say I knew something was a hit, everything
Speaker 4: else that I talked about to this point, disregard that
Speaker 4: I got that ship. I was like, this ship is
Speaker 4: out of here to the point where take that and
Speaker 4: rewind it back, put that shit on the front of
Speaker 4: the record and at the end of the record, and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do a verse in the middle of this.
Speaker 2: Motherfucker. I'm on this record straight up. This is it.
Speaker 1: This is that ship between that Justin Bieber.
Speaker 4: But I don't know where you're going with this, but
Speaker 4: I'm like, all I do is win Justin Bieber, baby Usher, Yeah, Ludicrius,
Speaker 4: Moneymaker and you know, throw the bowls, move bitch.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of ones that are just like to
Speaker 1: this day, the publishing checks, they they rolled, they roll.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: We got ring Man, we got rings bro uh big
Speaker 4: ring Grammys, Yeah, three of them. What does that mean
Speaker 4: to you? It means it's great. I want more of
Speaker 4: the motherfucker's I want some old man. But three is
Speaker 4: three is great. It meant a lot to me because
Speaker 4: when I was first starting the first five years of
Speaker 4: me being put in the same category as Eminem and
Speaker 4: DMX and Jah Rule and jay Z and I'm just
Speaker 4: this little motherfucker sitting in this seat, like here we
Speaker 4: go again with this shit. And then finally after five
Speaker 4: six years, they couldn't deny me no more, and it
Speaker 4: was like I just started winning awards because I held out.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, It's that longevity shit.
Speaker 1: That's what happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulations, way to go.
Speaker 3: Speaking of legends of any truth that you're related to
Speaker 3: Richard pryor.
Speaker 1: It is true to it, I don't know to which end.
Speaker 4: You don't hear people say shit like this all the
Speaker 4: time and he's like my fifth or sixth cousin some
Speaker 4: shit like that. Y'all google this shit if you don't
Speaker 4: know what that is. That means he's very far down
Speaker 4: the line of cousins, but we do air of the
Speaker 4: same blood. It's probably where I get all this silliness
Speaker 4: and want to joke around and ship from man. I
Speaker 4: study Richard. He was born in. If it wasn't Peoria,
Speaker 4: ILLINOI was right outside of it. My whole mom's side
Speaker 4: of my family is from that area Illinois, partly why
Speaker 4: you probably went to University of Illinois. So that's Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, Yep,
Speaker 4: definitely my cousin just further, just far down the line.
Speaker 2: That's dope.
Speaker 3: Well, before we get out of here, uh, we just
Speaker 3: want to give your flowers.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Like I said at the beginning of the show, man
Speaker 3: the wait man, we're done already. Man, I'm having fun.
Speaker 2: Man, they have us on the clock. They said you
Speaker 2: had a hard house. I got yeah, so we got
Speaker 2: we got quick. As we just want to say, like.
Speaker 3: You know, the way you've been able to continue to
Speaker 3: elevate and do it in a positive way and pure
Speaker 3: intentions is why we feel like you continue to just
Speaker 3: a real master and we look up to you and
Speaker 3: you're someone that's kind of behind the scenes, but you know,
Speaker 3: you're still front and center.
Speaker 2: So we appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Know, I take that to the I wish I could
Speaker 4: say you were telling one hundred percent of the truth
Speaker 4: because I might be on the backdrop on this motherfucking wall,
Speaker 4: but you know, at some point legends.
Speaker 1: Take that, take that out iry about that? Take that
Speaker 1: out of podcast? Bring that?
Speaker 4: Hey man, thank you man, I greatly appreciate that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. I accept all of those flowers.
Speaker 4: I accept that y'all got me high here today. And man, listen,
Speaker 4: this ain't This ain't the last time I'm coming back,
Speaker 4: even on.
Speaker 6: The crossover side of it, Like I'm just getting into acting.
Speaker 5: So to see somebody like you that come from where
Speaker 5: we come from able to do different things. Like you said,
Speaker 5: they like to put us in the box and may
Speaker 5: make us do one thing that we're great at. No,
Speaker 5: we can be great at a lot of things. So
Speaker 5: you are a great example of that. But even guys
Speaker 5: like me, So salute to that.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: That means the world.
Speaker 4: And thank y'all for supporting me way before you even
Speaker 4: knew how much you would support. So man, let's continue success,
Speaker 4: let's build, let's uh, let's become billionaires.
Speaker 2: Man, you got a lot of deals you need to
Speaker 2: talk to us about moving too. I'm ready, quick hitters,
Speaker 2: We're gonna put you on the spot with this one.
Speaker 3: The top five most impactful artists or group from Atlanta.
Speaker 4: From Atlanta when you say groups. I will definitely put
Speaker 4: outcasts in there. I'll definitely put goodie mob. This is this,
Speaker 4: This has to be just Atlanta. Yeah, just Goodlanta outcast,
Speaker 4: goodie mob.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: It's like when you when you say just Atlanta. I
Speaker 4: want to put like no limit in master p. I
Speaker 4: know this is still I can't do it. No influential
Speaker 4: and it has to be artists or it could be
Speaker 4: producers as well, both you throw them in there. Oh,
Speaker 4: definitely definitely organized. NOI it's definitely Jermaine Duprie. That's four.
Speaker 1: Who am I missing in this thing? I mean that
Speaker 1: was Austin when.
Speaker 4: We talk about the ones, you know, like right when
Speaker 4: I was starting and having that Face records and having
Speaker 4: the rowdy records and having the Soso death. You gotta
Speaker 4: think about that, man. They started a whole movement that
Speaker 4: that just grew sour.
Speaker 1: Say those.
Speaker 5: What's your favorite car of all time? And is it
Speaker 5: true that you purchase a car after every fast and Fir.
Speaker 1: I do, No, it is true.
Speaker 4: But the last two movies we've been shooting in London
Speaker 4: where the steering wheels on the other goddamn side. So
Speaker 4: I just said the hell with that shit. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: all the movies previous to that. I definitely own a car.
Speaker 4: My favorite car is still my nineteen ninety three Accurate
Speaker 4: Legend and I still drive it to this day, two
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2: Thousand miles on that built to last.
Speaker 4: If it's not that car, my favorite car of all
Speaker 4: times is the four GT, and I love it for GT. Man,
Speaker 4: I love that car. Bro No tracktion controls the gears shifting.
Speaker 4: How that's like. It's so unique the way that it looks,
Speaker 4: the way it drives the tires. To this day, you
Speaker 4: could drive a twenty thirty year old four GT and
Speaker 4: you drive down the street. Motherfucker's gonna be like, what
Speaker 4: in the fuck is that? It's dope? Three must has
Speaker 4: when you're traveling. Three must has when I'm traveling. I mean,
Speaker 4: besides clean draws and socks, and man, it's gonna sound random.
Speaker 4: As peanut butter. I don't know if y'all saw the
Speaker 4: commercial idead the peanut butter commercial.
Speaker 1: I love fucking peanut butter.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: I can eat peanut butter every guy there there.
Speaker 4: I have no idea what that is, but peanut butter
Speaker 4: is definitely one of those things. My AFRO pick I
Speaker 4: gotta have that even if you read it up. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, because it's it's coming out. That's that ship,
Speaker 4: my afro pick and then uh man, my right now,
Speaker 4: this big ass Atlanta World Series ring that I got, right,
Speaker 4: I just gotta show this ship up.
Speaker 1: They go.
Speaker 2: You three that bigger than yours?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You see? Heh yeah, I got three of them though.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: Five dinner guests that are alive.
Speaker 4: Tucac, Biggie, Barack Obama, Malcolm X, Martin, Luther King.
Speaker 1: That would be one hell of a dinner man.
Speaker 6: Who would you like to see on our show?
Speaker 5: But before you answer that question, you have to help
Speaker 5: us get your answer on the show.
Speaker 2: Damn, I'm bam.
Speaker 3: I was just I was so ename of the but
Speaker 3: whether the way you presented that, I know he's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: He's gonna make it happen.
Speaker 6: He's gonna make it happen.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't make it happen, but he's
Speaker 2: gonna make it.
Speaker 1: Hell, I ain't making who who the hell?
Speaker 4: I don't because there's so many people that's been on
Speaker 4: y'all show already. Now we gotta come think of someone
Speaker 4: who hasn't been.
Speaker 3: On Hereaberg Ben Diesel, I would definitely say.
Speaker 1: I think Mark Wahlberg needs to come on.
Speaker 4: Yes, we already talked about The Rock, so that was
Speaker 4: a given, But I feel like Mark has a lot.
Speaker 1: Sure, he has a lot of games.
Speaker 2: Take away.
Speaker 1: Mark, Mark.
Speaker 4: That's like because when I said two of the most
Speaker 4: disciplined people I know, the Rock and him, that's a
Speaker 4: good reason for you to try and get him on
Speaker 4: here because he needs to share some of that discipline.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you how random I got to know
Speaker 3: Mark Warburg. Well, so maybe like two years ago, I
Speaker 3: put an Instagram post like a selfie like, hey, I'm
Speaker 3: taking my family on a.
Speaker 2: Camping trip.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for a big you know, if you could
Speaker 3: uh r veter rent, if you can recommend anybody, this
Speaker 3: motherfucker dms me and tells me I can take his
Speaker 3: and I've seen him, but I never really met him.
Speaker 2: Crazy, this dude you.
Speaker 1: Could definitely get Now.
Speaker 2: We been back and forth on getting him on the show.
Speaker 2: But listen how round and the sow it was.
Speaker 3: I find out. I was like, look, I was like,
Speaker 3: a damn baby, is that him? She's like this is
Speaker 3: the star? So I hit him back like yeah for real.
Speaker 3: So this dude lets me borrow his ship. We're at
Speaker 3: the gas station, an old lady backs into me and
Speaker 3: scraped the side, So I have to end up fucking
Speaker 3: paying for a new panel door for and everything. But
Speaker 3: random situation that that that's how me and him kind
Speaker 3: of met. And we just saw him at the fight recently.
Speaker 3: Huge basketball fan. Yeah, but just random can make this happen.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be the one. But like I said, just
Speaker 3: great dude, Like I don't really know him, know him.
Speaker 3: I've just always fought him. And then he randomly just
Speaker 3: let me use his motherfucking RV to go take my
Speaker 3: family camp.
Speaker 2: I must not know how bad my kids are. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we held it down.
Speaker 1: Just sold his house. Motherucker lived like fifteen minutes away
Speaker 1: from here.
Speaker 3: But now yeah he's in vegasy. Yeah he's out of
Speaker 3: yeah here. Yeah man, that's it. You got a little
Speaker 3: package give him sure du my brother.
Speaker 1: Thank you. All the smoke gear appreciate this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the smoke Dots store, man, all the smoke
Speaker 2: Dots store.
Speaker 3: Pull uplug plug yeah, shameless plug.
Speaker 2: Pallua man, we appreciate you. That's a wrap.
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Speaker 2: We'll see y'all next week.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah.