Speaker 1: Hold on, hold up? Maybe easy, so though up, hold up?
Speaker 1: Joe Sorr, produced by me Oh c T What It
Speaker 1: Do Bag producer Yo what It Alright? Following nations, we
Speaker 1: are back for another episode of the Bot Alert Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Of course, we are staying safe. We are practicing the
Speaker 1: social distancing, so we are recording the show from home today,
Speaker 1: and I hope everybody else's home no matter what your
Speaker 1: mayor or governor said. Facts hashtag stay home, stay your
Speaker 1: ass home? All right? What you've been up to? I've
Speaker 1: been quarantining at the house. I've been working on the
Speaker 1: radio from home, and I am talking to you guys
Speaker 1: from home. You did I ain't doing damn quarantine quarantine, quartine, quarantine, quarantine,
Speaker 1: Sue solo, how have you been doing? I've been good, Um,
Speaker 1: I realized this week and probably really fat at this point.
Speaker 1: So it's time for you to get out of the house.
Speaker 1: I've been kicking it at my home boy's warehouse support
Speaker 1: Black colleges. You know they have like those sweaters and hats.
Speaker 1: You've been at the house only two times this week.
Speaker 1: I had to be out the house. Um, but like
Speaker 1: it's a small warehouse, they don't have more than three
Speaker 1: or four people in there at the time, so it's
Speaker 1: still cute. But I had to be robber because I
Speaker 1: ain't doing nothing but eating at home. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: literally dressed eating and I get on my scale every
Speaker 1: day and that that bit is going up. Okay, Like
Speaker 1: those are not the numbers that I want to go up?
Speaker 1: All right? Bank accountdown, weight up? That don't what's going
Speaker 1: on with you? How? You know? It don't stop because
Speaker 1: we are here working every day, and every day we're working,
Speaker 1: I'll always get to the money's and since we get
Speaker 1: into the moneys, it is time for In case you
Speaker 1: missed that. All right, y'all, Fresh Montana is really smoking dope. Okay,
Speaker 1: he has to be smoken dope in real life. I
Speaker 1: know y'all heard what he said in the last couple
Speaker 1: of days. He said that he had more hit records
Speaker 1: than Kendrick Lamar. Okay. So for y'all who don't know
Speaker 1: by now, I don't know where the hell you've been
Speaker 1: if you don't. But Versus was created by Swiss Beats
Speaker 1: and Timberland, and it features two respected artists or producers
Speaker 1: battling it out on social media. But it's more about
Speaker 1: the love for each other, the love and respect. It's
Speaker 1: not like a battle like you know that, it's not
Speaker 1: disrespectful at all. So typically what happens is the two
Speaker 1: people are people that are kind of like in the
Speaker 1: same genre or you know, they were in the same era.
Speaker 1: So French Montana decided that this man feels that he
Speaker 1: can go in with Kendrick Lamar. The French is my
Speaker 1: guide though, but yeah, they're are where near the same.
Speaker 1: Like Wrench Montana, you're not a conscious rapper at all.
Speaker 1: I don't remember anything serious that you said that has
Speaker 1: touched my spirit in any kind of way. Hold on,
Speaker 1: hold up that pop, that video would touched my spirit,
Speaker 1: that pop that video touched my spirit that it did. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's great. That's one out of all of Kendrick Lamar's
Speaker 1: tracks that Kendrick Lamar does not have one verse anywhere
Speaker 1: where he doesn't say something real. That man is consistent.
Speaker 1: So you might have some club hits, you might have
Speaker 1: more things that DJs are playing, but Kendrick Lamar like, no, bro,
Speaker 1: you don't have more his than Kindred and Uh. French
Speaker 1: posted a list of songs that he was on and
Speaker 1: that were his and I just didn't agree with the list. Now,
Speaker 1: the list was accurate as far as the songs being
Speaker 1: dope and lit, but some of the songs weren't his,
Speaker 1: like the one were these hojse Ain't loyal. That's a
Speaker 1: Chris Brown record and it features like uh little Wayne
Speaker 1: Tiger french Montana in his verses like last credit for
Speaker 1: his features and that's cool, but no, that's not how
Speaker 1: That's not how versus works. It has to you have to,
Speaker 1: I believe I saw you have to either be the
Speaker 1: main or the the on the song or the second
Speaker 1: main of the song. A facts can't be you know,
Speaker 1: fourth verse on a record that don't count in my opinion. Well,
Speaker 1: Atlanta's own young Thugga Thugger heard about it and he
Speaker 1: was like, hold up, I know french Montana did not
Speaker 1: just say that something's wrong with this man. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: tug is definitely Uh he actually has a point. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not that he never has a point. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a very intelligent guy. Uh. He did have
Speaker 1: something to say and his videos were funny. Um, I
Speaker 1: think it's got. It got a little aggressive though, the
Speaker 1: d M showing the d ms of their dispute back
Speaker 1: in August. It was a little aggressive, but you know,
Speaker 1: Thug is with the ships. Uh. The part that took
Speaker 1: me out was my Thug was like, I wore the
Speaker 1: dress because I thought of the love. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you know thugs, Thug is. You know, he likes Marilyn
Speaker 1: Manson and um, you know, he's a rock star. So
Speaker 1: I get what Thug does. A lot of people don't.
Speaker 1: But I mean, he's really into his artistry. And I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to take up a thug, but he's really
Speaker 1: into that artistry type of stuff. So he did mean
Speaker 1: what he said, but you know, I get it and
Speaker 1: I respect it. It was just fun Twitter. It was
Speaker 1: just funny to hear it, like, hey, nigga, I wore
Speaker 1: that dress your video to show love. I was like, what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand Thug, So I understand what he was trying
Speaker 1: to say. But yeah, their French post. Did you see
Speaker 1: the picture that French posted with Thug with the lipstick
Speaker 1: not the lips they I don't know. I didn't look real.
Speaker 1: I assumed in I was like, that is not thugger.
Speaker 1: He playing with the wrong person. I'm just letting you know,
Speaker 1: so speaking up playing with the wrong person. Obviously. Producer
Speaker 1: Wheezy feels the same way because he actually posted on
Speaker 1: his Instagram story prayers up for French Montana and right,
Speaker 1: and then Gonna reposted that and added on to it
Speaker 1: saying because he's gonna need him. Now. Look if y'all
Speaker 1: know how Atlanta, no, stop playing. Don't do that like
Speaker 1: he might wear a dress. Complications and big fellow alright,
Speaker 1: speaking up complications and situations. Let's talk about these dabby daddies.
Speaker 1: They is out here. So Mostica is putting fetti wop
Speaker 1: on blast talking about he's a dead beat and he's
Speaker 1: not there for the kid, which is so crazy because
Speaker 1: we have this perception that he's a good dad. And
Speaker 1: maybe I'm making it up. I don't know where that
Speaker 1: came from. I feel like I've been reading and seeing
Speaker 1: people because that's all. He makes good music because the
Speaker 1: babies are so pretty. I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I thought he was a good daddy and and
Speaker 1: and and I don't think that he's not just because
Speaker 1: Mosica said it. Obviously, I don't know what's true. We
Speaker 1: don't know anything. But I don't know, but I do
Speaker 1: believe that Takashi Snitch nine is a is a deadbeat daddy.
Speaker 1: I definitely believe that. So y'all know, the boy has
Speaker 1: been out of prison for a couple of weeks now.
Speaker 1: He was sentenced to immediately like two years on rico
Speaker 1: charges because he literally blasted all his homeboys. He snitched
Speaker 1: on everybody. He's a sucker, but he was sucker that
Speaker 1: was still making money in jail, which is sad. The
Speaker 1: boy I think he got like he made ten million
Speaker 1: dollars in jail. Anyway, he's been out of prison for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks now, and his baby mama, Sarah Molina,
Speaker 1: I believe it's her last name. She said that he's
Speaker 1: still ghosting their kid, and she she couldn't believe it
Speaker 1: because this man kept saying to the judge, I need
Speaker 1: to be free to take care of my daughter. My
Speaker 1: daughter needs me. The baby mama was like, we'll stop
Speaker 1: using our our child as a gimmick, Like, look, you're
Speaker 1: not an active member in this child's life. Please at
Speaker 1: this point, keep her name out your mount. Don't try
Speaker 1: to use the fact that you are technically a father
Speaker 1: biologically her father as an excuse to help you get
Speaker 1: out of prison. You don't sniffs on everybody if it's
Speaker 1: not an active gang member either, Okay, we he is
Speaker 1: so not an active gang member. So I think it's
Speaker 1: really selfish to him because he's doing all he has done,
Speaker 1: all this trolling, he's snitched on all these people, and
Speaker 1: he's constantly yelling at my daughter, my daughter, my daughter,
Speaker 1: leave her out of it, let her be. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: he's probably not gonna make a statement or do anything.
Speaker 1: He's probably he's on strict um social media guidelines um
Speaker 1: per his court order. I believe once he gets our probation,
Speaker 1: he'll be back with the bullshit. But as of right now,
Speaker 1: he's behaving via social media. I don't even believe he
Speaker 1: posted anything yet at all. Right, Well, when the city
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles or the state of California put out
Speaker 1: a tweet, they said that they wanted people to call
Speaker 1: them and report businesses that we're not practicing social distancing
Speaker 1: or the Shelter in Place Act. This school actually commented
Speaker 1: on that and said, what's the number I got you?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Like he's playing he cannot help himself.
Speaker 1: It's like, what can I help himself? But he hasn't
Speaker 1: posted anything on his main page, not that I've seen,
Speaker 1: but look he's calling mama. He's definitely telling the baby
Speaker 1: Mama talking about I haven't been in our child's lives
Speaker 1: since I came out because I want the pandemic to pass.
Speaker 1: I'm protecting her. Yeah, man, you can pick up the call.
Speaker 1: You can't pass. You can't give somebody the damn coronavirus
Speaker 1: to the phone. Okay, stupid ass snitch nine. All right, now,
Speaker 1: moving on Pop Smoke, we got some good news for
Speaker 1: his family. Y'all know, Pop was fatally killed out in
Speaker 1: l A. He was in a very really nice, rich
Speaker 1: people rental home that he was at with one of
Speaker 1: his friends, and he looks like he showed some things
Speaker 1: off on social media. People found the address. Unfortunately he
Speaker 1: was killed in that home. So before all that happened,
Speaker 1: he was actually charged with stealing a Rolls Royce or
Speaker 1: driving a Rolls Royce out of out of state lines
Speaker 1: knowing that it was stolen them. Well, those chargers have
Speaker 1: been dropped, so good good for them. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: what that feels like to you know what, I never
Speaker 1: understood how is it that a deceased person could still
Speaker 1: have pending charges on them, like what happened? Does anybody
Speaker 1: don't know? What do you do? You know it's filed,
Speaker 1: so you know they have to go in there. And
Speaker 1: then because you can't necessarily sue a dead person and
Speaker 1: who doesn't have in the state, you can sue the estate,
Speaker 1: but don't. I don't think he was big enough to
Speaker 1: have in the state, so he didn't. You know, that
Speaker 1: stuff is really just gonna just stay there, So they
Speaker 1: just dropped. I'm pretty sure that makes sense to drop everything.
Speaker 1: Well good then, I guess in that case, because I
Speaker 1: would hate for his family to have to deal with that,
Speaker 1: Like you can't deal with losing a loved one and
Speaker 1: then deal with that afterwards, like give them some time,
Speaker 1: to hell, give them some space. So I'm glad that
Speaker 1: nineteen so he was when he passed, which is the
Speaker 1: same thing. Eight nine is the same damn thing. Alright.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the same damn thing, it looks like Atlanta's
Speaker 1: mayor is not on the same page as Georgia's Governor Kemp,
Speaker 1: who wants to open the state up on Friday. Factuals
Speaker 1: on Friday, So this Friday, this Friday. So Governor Kemp
Speaker 1: of Georgia feels like they are ready to move on
Speaker 1: into phase one of reopening the economy. He feels that
Speaker 1: Bowling Alleys, movie theaters, barbershops, hair and nail salons, two parlors,
Speaker 1: feel those things are ready to be open. You you
Speaker 1: need to work, You need to see your glass at home.
Speaker 1: It's what you needed. No, no, no, yeah, you're right
Speaker 1: that boys out of sanity. The tattoo or no, I need,
Speaker 1: I do need. I do need to update my tats.
Speaker 1: But that's not gonna happen no time soon because my tattoo,
Speaker 1: my tattoo. Guys not opening this Friday. He's gonna sit
Speaker 1: back and wait. Like for him, Good for him. I
Speaker 1: love that there are some people that are leading by
Speaker 1: example in doing that. Like Killer Mike is like, we're
Speaker 1: not opening the shop. I'm gonna keep it closed. Um.
Speaker 1: There are a couple of black owned hair salons that
Speaker 1: are saying the same thing. They feel like it's too soon,
Speaker 1: and it is. So. I've seen some nail salons that, Um,
Speaker 1: there's some people that's in line what I saw. I
Speaker 1: saw a picture um that was floating online. Some people
Speaker 1: were standing outside the nail salon. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's like as soon as these people go outside,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, they get affected and you
Speaker 1: know what if we have to what do people that's
Speaker 1: inside I need to go out for essential items, and
Speaker 1: then you know, they come into contact with these people
Speaker 1: who don't give a damn exactly, thank you. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's definitely far too soon, no matter how they want
Speaker 1: to kick it. So Governor Kemp is ready for it.
Speaker 1: Atlanta's mayor. But in Atlanta is the capital of Georgia.
Speaker 1: She actually came out and spoke. This is Keysha Lance Bottom.
Speaker 1: She came out and she had her so sense about it. Well,
Speaker 1: first I want you to hear what Governor Kemp said,
Speaker 1: and then we'll jump into everything else. The decisions that
Speaker 1: I'm making are made in conjunction with our public health
Speaker 1: officials and based on the data that we're seeing, our
Speaker 1: trends are going in the right direction. I want to
Speaker 1: thank Jordan's for hunkering and down and doing the things
Speaker 1: that we asked them to do. These businesses that had
Speaker 1: to close. You know, they helped us flatten the curve
Speaker 1: and get on the back side of this. And they're
Speaker 1: they're really hurting out there, and we're looking forward to
Speaker 1: this measured approach. So that was Governor Camp basically, damn fool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he sounds real slow. He sounds like somebody that stole
Speaker 1: the damn election. That's what he sounds. Sounds like somebody
Speaker 1: that didn't know the information that was just reading. He
Speaker 1: didn't even know how to put on a mask. No,
Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't put it on sideways, man. And
Speaker 1: he did not know that asymptomatic people could give other
Speaker 1: people to damn virus. Like he did not know that.
Speaker 1: Like he just was not on the same sound Come
Speaker 1: here boy all the time, exactly exactly. The part that
Speaker 1: really throws me off is he's like, we we had
Speaker 1: this strict stay at home act to prepare for this.
Speaker 1: That's the part that threw me off. And what he
Speaker 1: was saying, I'm like, did you do you hear yourself?
Speaker 1: Do you hear what you're telling us? You're saying that
Speaker 1: y'all had us and shut down so that you can
Speaker 1: prepare for an influx of debts. The only reason, or cases,
Speaker 1: the only reason we're gonna have an influx is because
Speaker 1: you're opening the damn state too soon, far too soon.
Speaker 1: So Keisha hit up CNN. She doesn't. She's made a
Speaker 1: couple of ones, and she's expressed that as a mother,
Speaker 1: forget the mayor, as a mother, she is concerned. She's
Speaker 1: concerned because you know what, these barbershops and these hair slans,
Speaker 1: hair salons, it's one of them on every block in
Speaker 1: our communities. They are all over our communities. So I
Speaker 1: do feel like it's an attack on us, because y'all
Speaker 1: just announced a week and a half ago, two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: that black people are dying far more than any other
Speaker 1: race from the coronavirus. So now it's like, all right, cool,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and open these things up. Why are
Speaker 1: not opening up no golf courses? But you know what,
Speaker 1: I just hope that I know, I know our people
Speaker 1: gonna black people are gonna be tempted to get their
Speaker 1: nails in and everything. But I just pray, and I
Speaker 1: just asked that that you guys withhold your money, with
Speaker 1: hold the black dollars. I was gonna say, like, let's
Speaker 1: let's make them feel us from when they open their doors,
Speaker 1: because we can still make a change without spending a dollar.
Speaker 1: We stay home and we stay put until otherwise. Even
Speaker 1: Trump spoke out talking about he disagrees. He told Governor
Speaker 1: Brian kimp that it was a bad idea and it
Speaker 1: was too soon. I really feel like Trump threw him
Speaker 1: under the bus. To be honest with y'all, I have
Speaker 1: a theory on that. I think that Trump and Kemp
Speaker 1: are cool and with each other. I believe I believe
Speaker 1: that Trump did that on purpose. I believe that they
Speaker 1: had a conversation. Anybody, I'm gonna have to throw you
Speaker 1: under the bus, But I like what you're doing down
Speaker 1: there telling you that. I believe that had they had
Speaker 1: a conversation. So now Camp can't do nothing but just
Speaker 1: hold his head up and look stupid. At the same time,
Speaker 1: trust both of them, not at all. And it's a
Speaker 1: couple of other black folks that don't trust the government either.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Gilly the Kids, so everybody ROAR's helped me?
Speaker 1: Like what is his rise to face? What do the
Speaker 1: majority of people know him for? Initially, Gilly the Kid
Speaker 1: was around cash money. He helped out, He helped them out.
Speaker 1: He was a rapper, rappers from Philly, and initially he
Speaker 1: was around cash money. Around the time he helped uh
Speaker 1: you know with records, hey up, some ghostwriting songs, some
Speaker 1: songs and hooks for Little Wayne. But he always was,
Speaker 1: you know, in the streets and just you know that
Speaker 1: just that guy on the block that just always had dope,
Speaker 1: words of wisdom, insight, funny hood, funny um. And then
Speaker 1: you know, once Instagram came out, he just started taking
Speaker 1: that to his Instagram, so you know, he had He
Speaker 1: always has a word of the day, He always has
Speaker 1: gives advice of people who d m him. He gives
Speaker 1: life advice, but he kind of you know, he's very
Speaker 1: urban with it. And uh yeah. So you know, when
Speaker 1: Governor Kempt said something, I just didn't appreciate the way
Speaker 1: that he said Atlanta. It kind of gives me a
Speaker 1: vibe of how maybe sometimes people view us as a
Speaker 1: city and sometimes when they think about Georgia, they don't
Speaker 1: ever think about Making or Valdosto or Columbus or whatever
Speaker 1: or Augusta. They think about Atlanta. So whatever however they
Speaker 1: view Georgia, they view Atlanta. And when you view Atlanta,
Speaker 1: you've you view back black people. So here he is
Speaker 1: saying Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, and I feel like he just
Speaker 1: kind of went Atlanta crazy. Instead of Governor Camp, Governor
Speaker 1: Camp covering the camp. I think he could have aimed
Speaker 1: his focus on that particular thing. But hey, who am
Speaker 1: I Well, I'm sure we've got some listeners that don't
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about. So y'all listen to what
Speaker 1: Gilly the kids said, and we'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about it some months. What the funk They opened in Atlanta?
Speaker 1: The funk up first, the blackest city in America. You
Speaker 1: niggas don't see the motherfucking blitz going down. Oh maha,
Speaker 1: oh mahas fifty names to mic Yo, don't see the
Speaker 1: fucking blitz schooling down. They open up the blackest motherfucking
Speaker 1: city in America first, So let them niggas run out.
Speaker 1: Did they do the test run? Let them niggas go
Speaker 1: here and run, y'all fucking guinea pigs in Atlanta, y'all,
Speaker 1: I'm too fucking happy. Can't wait to be at the
Speaker 1: motherfucking day party. Do this thinking, Land, you bit just
Speaker 1: be at the death party at night? Nicks. Can't wait
Speaker 1: to be at at motherfucking day party. Order enough to
Speaker 1: grow me. Get the coronavirus specials, Yeah, we get two
Speaker 1: of them straight, not on no changes. I want the
Speaker 1: coronavirus straight, no motherfucker Eve Niggas is crazy, man. Why
Speaker 1: the Funky ain't open? You talk? Look why they ain't
Speaker 1: open Montana up? Ain't shipped out there but snow and
Speaker 1: fucking cows? And why the fun did ain't open? That
Speaker 1: shipped up? But they opened up? So or you are right.
Speaker 1: He was definitely saying Atlanta a lot. But it goes
Speaker 1: back to say, like, don't yeah, like when people think
Speaker 1: about Georgia, they definitely think about Atlanta. And I get it.
Speaker 1: We love that y'all think about us because we lit
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So we appreciate that. But
Speaker 1: there's nobody in the streets over here trying to get out.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody protesting over here? We are fine. I have
Speaker 1: not seen Maybe it's just my circle of people, but
Speaker 1: I don't. I haven't been around anybody that's been pressed
Speaker 1: to go outside. I got a couple of my homeboys
Speaker 1: that's pressed to go outside. But that's a whole another issue.
Speaker 1: We are chilling. I'm not gonna say that there aren't
Speaker 1: some people that do want to go out there, But
Speaker 1: the way that he was saying that, I think he
Speaker 1: was really just trying to be relatable and he was
Speaker 1: talking to very specific people, you know, he was talking
Speaker 1: to everybody. Yeah, and it just made me mad. It
Speaker 1: kind of. I'm not necessarily mad at him, I just
Speaker 1: kind of I just didn't like how you just grouped
Speaker 1: Atlanta into it. Just kind of wack. But go ahead
Speaker 1: to Yeah, I mean he was talking to the silly
Speaker 1: niggas like we we know that for sure. But the
Speaker 1: self proclaimed mayor of Atlanta, Jermaine Duprian, Yeah, he. I
Speaker 1: liked his message because it made sense, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It was sensible, it was relatable. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't think that it was heartfelt. Um. And he's a
Speaker 1: self proclaimed mayor of Atlanta, so of course he was
Speaker 1: gonna come out and give us a different tone. Listen
Speaker 1: to what j D said, if you do have to
Speaker 1: go out and get a haircut, we all need haircuts.
Speaker 1: I mean listen. What I want you to understand is
Speaker 1: they're expecting us to die, and that don't have to
Speaker 1: be like that. We don't have to go that way,
Speaker 1: and we can we can change this. Yes, if places
Speaker 1: are open, let him o. Yes, j D. Thank you
Speaker 1: j D. That was a real salute on that one.
Speaker 1: I liked how he prefaced his comments. I like how
Speaker 1: he said. Look, I'm not gonna try to speak it professionally.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna speak it to a way to my people
Speaker 1: so they can understand what the hell I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, we appreciate that man, because we needed
Speaker 1: to hear it said in that way. I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at Guilly, but how is it Gilly. I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at Gilly, but how he said it, like I think
Speaker 1: we expect him to talk like that, like that is
Speaker 1: It's cool. I just didn't like how he said. You know,
Speaker 1: he just kept saying that land. I'm overhead, like, dude, Georgia,
Speaker 1: bro Georgia, because you know, Alby got the big one
Speaker 1: of the biggest breakouts in the nation where the god Like, seriously,
Speaker 1: it's not Atlanta, y'all. So people, you go ahead and
Speaker 1: open up those other states that were protesting in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: you tah, whoever the hell it was like opening up.
Speaker 1: You gotta update y'all what Bronx rapper Fred the Godson
Speaker 1: the Gods soon passes away from coronavirus. I don't know
Speaker 1: if y'all know. Like he was from New York and
Speaker 1: everybody was posting them like man, get better, get better,
Speaker 1: get better. Hope you get through this. He passed away
Speaker 1: from coronavirus. I hope this makes people understand now, like,
Speaker 1: come on, bro, yeah, this is serious. Bro. You can
Speaker 1: believe that the government is fabricating and you know, but
Speaker 1: you also have to believe that two things can really
Speaker 1: happen at the same time. Do I believe the government
Speaker 1: is fabricating? Yes, I do believe that. But do I
Speaker 1: also believe that people are still actually dying from coronavirus? Yes?
Speaker 1: I do. I do, and it's unfortunate. Rest in peace
Speaker 1: to him, Lord Hammer as soon How old was he rory?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I cursed that one of my
Speaker 1: friends yesterday he put he posted on Instagram. He took
Speaker 1: it down. He put on his instant story and said,
Speaker 1: if it's meant for me to die from COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: take me to the king. I'm outside. Mm hmm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys are stupid. You see, it's funny until it's not.
Speaker 1: It's nia exactly, thank you. It's funny until it's not
Speaker 1: funny having fun fun with this and all that. It's
Speaker 1: funny until it's not until it's in your backyard. In fact,
Speaker 1: My uncle died last week and we can't even have
Speaker 1: a funeral because he didn't die from COVID, but he
Speaker 1: died and we can't even have a funeral because of
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. Isn't that what Christianity taught us? Though? You know,
Speaker 1: if it's your time, it's your time. Isn't that? But
Speaker 1: you know what faith with that works is dead? And
Speaker 1: then if you have instructions on what to do and
Speaker 1: you don't take the instructions on what God is giving you,
Speaker 1: then you can't blame nobody but yourself. Who. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: that being said, I think it's time for a break. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: my guy, Dallas Martin, the senior vice president of Atlantic Records,
Speaker 1: is going to be speaking to us. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to him about what is he doing during this pandemic
Speaker 1: and how is he quarantining with being an A and
Speaker 1: R and managing an RS and managing his artists on
Speaker 1: his life. You're listening to all the show, alright, cool man,
Speaker 1: we got our super friend, Dallas Martin is the senior
Speaker 1: vice president A and R Atlantic Records, has it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just trying to see what's going on with you
Speaker 1: during this quarantine because we've been seeing We've been hearing
Speaker 1: from rappers, we've been hearing from promoters and people in media,
Speaker 1: but we've never heard from a record executive like yourself, Like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing during the quarantine? What I'm doing
Speaker 1: during the quarantine. I'm trying to make sure that, you know,
Speaker 1: all my artists have equipment at their houses so they
Speaker 1: could recod so they could be in a creative space. Um,
Speaker 1: and just trying to like, you know, just maintain a
Speaker 1: good balance between you know, um, not being so bumped
Speaker 1: out because we can't go nowhere, and still burning and
Speaker 1: working hard. You feel me. That's definitely something I'm wondering
Speaker 1: because you mentioned like making sure that your artists have
Speaker 1: the right equipment so they can continue recording. But from
Speaker 1: my understanding, artists need to experience different things, be able
Speaker 1: to move around so that they can be in a
Speaker 1: creative space. So how do you keep the momentum going
Speaker 1: while everybody's on lockdown? But but before that, can I
Speaker 1: can I know who the artists are? Yeah, you need
Speaker 1: introduce me the right way. What's going on? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you know what. Let's let's go down to resume. Let's
Speaker 1: go down to resume. I've known Dallas for a long time.
Speaker 1: Let's rewind when I first met Dallas where you still
Speaker 1: let Were you at Atlantic then Dallas? Yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: Atlantic the whole I was that Warner Brothers but it
Speaker 1: turned into Atlantic, but it was the same company. And
Speaker 1: I saw you had Wi and Meek mill Yeah. So
Speaker 1: so my first claim to fame pretty much was that
Speaker 1: I signed m mg um when I was coming up
Speaker 1: as a new an R and so UM did A
Speaker 1: and R for I did A and R for Meek
Speaker 1: Mill Um, I did Mario is supposed to be record Um.
Speaker 1: I worked with all his artists and I signed him.
Speaker 1: I signed him Kame Michell, and I signed Nipsey Hustle. Um.
Speaker 1: Now I just signed Roddy Rich And now I have
Speaker 1: a new artist that I'm so excited about. His name
Speaker 1: Simba Super and Corday has blessed me the opportunity to
Speaker 1: work with him um on his new music, which is
Speaker 1: incredible because he's one of my favorite artists. Okay, so
Speaker 1: now we can go back to sue solo questions go ahead.
Speaker 1: So well, actually going back to the artist that you mentioned,
Speaker 1: I actually went on your Instagram and I felt like
Speaker 1: you had a really good balance of showing you know,
Speaker 1: the artists, like the music side, and then also the
Speaker 1: family side with your wife and your kids. It's a
Speaker 1: perfect balance. But I didn't want to know, like it
Speaker 1: seemed like you were heavily involved with Meek Mills projects.
Speaker 1: So what do you feel about like the transition between
Speaker 1: me then and me now? I mean when you say transition,
Speaker 1: what you mean you feel like we just got more popping.
Speaker 1: I definitely feel like it's not that that is more popping.
Speaker 1: I just feel like his growth, like you know, with
Speaker 1: prison reform and like how he has completely kind of changed,
Speaker 1: like will not changed, but he's added on to the
Speaker 1: message that he that he's delivering, Like he's become so
Speaker 1: much more like hands on with justin reform and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So I just feel like it has elevated
Speaker 1: him in a sense, like he's always been popping, but
Speaker 1: this definitely brought him in the face of different people
Speaker 1: who who may not have necessarily seen him in that
Speaker 1: light before. Well one thing about him, man, I'm just
Speaker 1: really just proud about his growth and his evolution through
Speaker 1: the music. But I always knew it was going to
Speaker 1: be a super big star because he just always had
Speaker 1: that kind of energy coming into the game, and he
Speaker 1: had a couple of, um, you know things that happened
Speaker 1: that kind of backtracked his journey. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, like we all knew the people around him,
Speaker 1: his hunger, had energy, his attitude, his um, you know,
Speaker 1: his brand. You know what I'm saying is something that
Speaker 1: people can't really take from take from him. So, you know,
Speaker 1: him going to jail on some bullshit charges, I think
Speaker 1: open up um sides of a lot of people. And
Speaker 1: the fact that he came out that trying to help
Speaker 1: everybody else who had the same kind of struggle. You know,
Speaker 1: it's really commendable man. So I'm just really proud of
Speaker 1: him just what he's doing, um with his power. But um,
Speaker 1: as far as the music, he's always been a beast.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of stepbacks, but at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, like you can't hold back artists with substance,
Speaker 1: and that's just that's the true says in the issues
Speaker 1: he had with Drake. But I think I think I
Speaker 1: think setbacks could be jail. I think setbacks could be beef.
Speaker 1: I think setbacks could be anything that deterrogate you from
Speaker 1: what you got going on. Okay, UM, my question would
Speaker 1: be is, um, I know you had Nipsey hustle, and UM,
Speaker 1: I'll living it of course. Um, how was that like
Speaker 1: being in the studio because you were actually really active
Speaker 1: with him. That's actually, I'm a fun fact. That's actually
Speaker 1: how I started taking Nipsey like really serious because I
Speaker 1: saw that, you know, I kind of and back in
Speaker 1: dating back till when I first moved to Atlanta, I
Speaker 1: saw who you were and what you had going on,
Speaker 1: because I was just figuring out who was who. But
Speaker 1: when I saw that you took him on, I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is a big deal. Let me start listening to
Speaker 1: Nipsey a lot more. So I started paying more attention
Speaker 1: to Nipsey when you started taking him on. And how
Speaker 1: was that process like with him? Well? What was double
Speaker 1: about Nipsey Man? NFC has always been, um, somebody that's
Speaker 1: super about character and integrity. So we just really just
Speaker 1: um kind of like built a relationship. Because when I
Speaker 1: came out here to l A, my main goal is
Speaker 1: like I want to work with somebody go from the
Speaker 1: West Coast because I want to you know, I want
Speaker 1: to embrace the city I'm living in and I'm just
Speaker 1: a big fan of the music and NFC was one
Speaker 1: of those artists that I really fussed with and he
Speaker 1: already kind of, um, you know, started process in his
Speaker 1: music career, but I know he didn't want to sign
Speaker 1: with a major song like damn like Michael getting Nipsey
Speaker 1: to sign with a major And we do a dope
Speaker 1: as still which she could be legendary. And you know,
Speaker 1: it took a lot of time we built a relationship,
Speaker 1: but we built a friendship and it just got to
Speaker 1: the point where, you know, we decided to get into
Speaker 1: business with each other and and it was just a
Speaker 1: blessing man, because I think it was one of the
Speaker 1: dopest niggas I ever met in my life, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So my my next question is what
Speaker 1: is the day in the life of a senior vice president?
Speaker 1: First of all, what is the senior vice president of
Speaker 1: a record label? Dude? I was just about to ask that.
Speaker 1: So what it basically is when the music doesn't you
Speaker 1: have departments? Right, you have publicity, you have marketing, you
Speaker 1: have A and R. You have artists development with just
Speaker 1: touring and shows and things like that. Um, you have UM.
Speaker 1: You have UM Artists Administration, which handles like the business
Speaker 1: with the A and R BA basically the biggest department
Speaker 1: because you can't have a music label without music. So
Speaker 1: when you first come on to a R label to
Speaker 1: major label, they usually put you at director, then senior director,
Speaker 1: which are lower in our spots with you're building up.
Speaker 1: Then you become VP right of the department. Then you
Speaker 1: become senior VP and senior VP just basically one step
Speaker 1: for me and president of either the department or the
Speaker 1: whole company because A and R, because A and R
Speaker 1: is the biggest department in the company. But what was
Speaker 1: your advice be for the young artists right now who
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like this is their time. They're
Speaker 1: creating right now in the house, they're putting their stuff
Speaker 1: on SoundCloud. You know, they're trying to get on, trying
Speaker 1: to get theirselves set up. So when the quarantine is over,
Speaker 1: you know they'll have some action from like the masses.
Speaker 1: I would say, be original, be be relentless, UM, and
Speaker 1: just you really gotta a fade everybody out and just
Speaker 1: do what you know in your heart that is authentic
Speaker 1: to you and just really changed your dream. I mean
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you can't listen, go ahead.
Speaker 1: How could they get to you? How could they get
Speaker 1: your your attention? VP Man, they just got to him
Speaker 1: and for new record in Atlanta, and I'm gonna be like,
Speaker 1: let's get it. Because he always called me. He always
Speaker 1: called me and asked me who's who or not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. I was like, what's going on out here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But you know I got I got to a certain point,
Speaker 1: I got staff, I got Nigga and touched the ground
Speaker 1: a little. But you know, I think I put in
Speaker 1: my working up to kind of sit back and just right.
Speaker 1: It is like a yeah status for real, for real,
Speaker 1: and you know I put him work to do. I've
Speaker 1: been doing this over fucking should I was in turning
Speaker 1: um over ten years ago for two years for free
Speaker 1: and ain't like I just got into the game last
Speaker 1: year and talking like this. But and that's what I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask you about your ory. How did you
Speaker 1: get into it? Um? I went to Clark. My main
Speaker 1: goal from coming from Flating Michigan was to get into music.
Speaker 1: I went to Clark because it was in Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: I know Atlanta was fucking on fire, and my goal
Speaker 1: is to get an internship. Finally got an internship and
Speaker 1: made the best of it and I'm here today. Be
Speaker 1: where'd you get an internship at um Deaf? Yeah, under
Speaker 1: Shakira story, he's signed Rick Ross and Young Jesus. So
Speaker 1: the dope story about that is his best friend with
Speaker 1: Nicole Johnson, front of Three Brown Girls, and she was
Speaker 1: married at v Johnson and Nicole had a little sister
Speaker 1: that went to Clark and that was basically like shape
Speaker 1: god daughter, niece, all that wrapped in one and she
Speaker 1: was just like he was like, yo, who's who's on
Speaker 1: campus making noise? And uh she um used to come
Speaker 1: to my parties and I used to talk to a
Speaker 1: lot about my ambition of getting some music business and
Speaker 1: she just took me to him. So you threw parties
Speaker 1: and that's how you linked with her, and then she
Speaker 1: was able to link you with her people. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: main goal in college was like to create a name
Speaker 1: of brand, established something that people just kind of like
Speaker 1: was working with so I could break into music because
Speaker 1: I was still managing like producers, but I didn't know
Speaker 1: what the funk I was doing having relationships, but I
Speaker 1: was like I was focused on it. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So when I got my opportunity and when
Speaker 1: I got my opportunity to be in front of it,
Speaker 1: think that's a buss like shape. I had the right
Speaker 1: things to say, and he knew, he knew that I
Speaker 1: had the you know, I was focused me. You know,
Speaker 1: I had a vision and look at you now, man, congratulations,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. That means a lot to me
Speaker 1: for for well, thank you for coming to the ball
Speaker 1: of the show. So man, y'all, I really appreciate job
Speaker 1: for having me super humble. Um, you know whatever y'all need. Man,
Speaker 1: Thank y'all, it's been real to us. Well. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Glad you are keeping healthy, sane and safe and still
Speaker 1: making money. It sounds like during the quarantine. Hopefully it
Speaker 1: keep on like that. But you know, blessing to everybody
Speaker 1: that's going out times right now. I know it's crazy
Speaker 1: right now. Our economy is in a bad space, but
Speaker 1: you know, blessing M say everybody trying to get some
Speaker 1: money right now for show for shure. Thank you brother,
Speaker 1: that's it. Dear Rory. I've been dating my boyfriend for
Speaker 1: four years, but we broke up. I've cheated, I cheated
Speaker 1: because he neglected me by not showing me enough attention. Well,
Speaker 1: now he's my ex. I've moved on as of two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and my new guy is a little intimidated
Speaker 1: by my current living arrangements. Me and my ex still
Speaker 1: live together. But before you guys judge me, we haven't
Speaker 1: been speaking at all and we aren't around each other.
Speaker 1: We are just roommates. But I'm thinking this will be
Speaker 1: an issue in any such in any situation I'm in,
Speaker 1: which means I can't date someone because it creates issues
Speaker 1: until I move out. But we just renewed our lease
Speaker 1: last month and it's stay home because of COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: So I really can't leave. What the hell do I do?
Speaker 1: All right? That's funny, all right, So first of all,
Speaker 1: two weeks later, you already have a new guy who's
Speaker 1: concerned about your living arrangements. Like if I get out
Speaker 1: of a serious relationship and I'm talking to somebody like
Speaker 1: two weeks later, g don't even know what's side of
Speaker 1: the town I live on yet. So you sound like
Speaker 1: you need to slow down. Sound that she gave but
Speaker 1: she gave up the box. She probably didn't give up
Speaker 1: the box. Sorry, I don't know, but yeah, no, it's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be awkward. Says it's gonna be awkward. And
Speaker 1: you can't move, right, I mean, you know what, You
Speaker 1: can't move because I moved. I just moved again. No,
Speaker 1: she can move what? I just stay home? Yeah, moved
Speaker 1: your home, so I guess that makes sense my home.
Speaker 1: So since if it's that bad moving home? But I
Speaker 1: also know it's cheaper the keeper, so whatever? Got kids though? No,
Speaker 1: no kids, I mean no job. What you think I say?
Speaker 1: I say, slow down to sound like she's doing too
Speaker 1: much already, baby, I think you are doing too much.
Speaker 1: You cheated on your man because you weren't showing you
Speaker 1: enough attention. And it seems like you let homeboy smashed
Speaker 1: a little too early because he asked them way too
Speaker 1: many questions about living arrangements before uh, y'all even get serious.
Speaker 1: Two weeks come on, man, and but what the thing
Speaker 1: is you you're talking to him about your living arrangement
Speaker 1: within two weeks and it's a problem, so therefore you
Speaker 1: need to eradicate that problem. I'm not gonna stay with
Speaker 1: my ex. I can't. You can't stay with your ex.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you're still walking around the house naked,
Speaker 1: take a showers and all that crazy stuffies shower I mean,
Speaker 1: but you know when you get out the shower, ladies y'all,
Speaker 1: like you know, taking show. I wants staying clean or whatnot.
Speaker 1: But he's your roommate. He he used to hit that,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna no guy is gonna be cool with you.
Speaker 1: Still still living with someone that used to hit that period,
Speaker 1: so you know you're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: have another relationship successfully happily. And you still live with
Speaker 1: your ex who used to hit that. Especially I stayed
Speaker 1: together four years. I was together four years. Man. Nope,
Speaker 1: by bye bye. So what you're saying, like she she
Speaker 1: just should not be dating or what? Do not date
Speaker 1: until you move your grass up out of there, don't
Speaker 1: get you your own place, or you can hold your
Speaker 1: hold in peace, so you can so you can throw
Speaker 1: the box on whoever you want throwing buster cherry open
Speaker 1: fact down that that q D that quarantine day. Okay,
Speaker 1: up and now it's time for comment, creeping creep. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: it's time for comment creeping. Now. Look, I know the
Speaker 1: times are hard. We are at home in quarantine. It's
Speaker 1: been boring. Alright, ladies, you're tired of using your vibrators
Speaker 1: and all your cards. I just time, okay, but just
Speaker 1: hang on a little hang on a little longer, says,
Speaker 1: because we're not trying to deal with these little babies
Speaker 1: no more. In real life, we're not trying to deal
Speaker 1: with these little babies. So the little baby actually hits
Speaker 1: Twitter and says, if she can't get the Reyntalds and
Speaker 1: spots in her name, she's no good. All right, Well
Speaker 1: at Golden Lady Nail's peeped it, and she retweeted and said,
Speaker 1: sound like a nigga with no credit. Look, we are
Speaker 1: done messing with these boys. They cannot get the room
Speaker 1: in their name. Okay, they can't buy nothing on credit cards.
Speaker 1: They're sending us some money. We're done, okay, we school
Speaker 1: time out, flag on the plate. Sometimes the baby tweets
Speaker 1: lyrics from his songs, and sometimes he talks about stuff
Speaker 1: that he did in the past. So I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him a pass on that, because what everybody knows and
Speaker 1: believes that this man can get his own Reynolds, he
Speaker 1: can get his own spots, he can get that. But
Speaker 1: that was a time in his life when This was
Speaker 1: a true statement. That was a time in his life
Speaker 1: when whoever he was messing with it had had to
Speaker 1: have a good credit score. She had to have a
Speaker 1: credit card to job, know how to read well. In Atlanta,
Speaker 1: we call that jig and okay, g g I n ladies,
Speaker 1: bab okay, grow we did messing with these little boys.
Speaker 1: No more, no little babies. Okay, grown man. Hey, Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: I see you engage. You got your stuff together. That's
Speaker 1: my favorite rapper man. That's fine. I can't, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't let you talk about that new song inspired
Speaker 1: with shot. How back in the day he used to
Speaker 1: have to mess with the girls with good credit because
Speaker 1: that's the wrong one. That's that's dub baby. Oh we
Speaker 1: are talking about that? Oh shoot, I thought we was
Speaker 1: talking about the baby the whole time. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: I'm so solo. That was common creeping. But before we
Speaker 1: get out of here, we gotta leave you with some
Speaker 1: words to feed your soul. Uh Yeah. Salute to all
Speaker 1: the front line workers, the first responders, the grocery stores,
Speaker 1: the truck drivers, and anyone that is working to keep
Speaker 1: us safe during this pending. That's true. And you know
Speaker 1: what I just want to leave y'all with so wise
Speaker 1: words from the Mayor of Atlanta, Keisha lands Bottom. So
Speaker 1: what I've been asking people to do is to exercise
Speaker 1: common sense. You don't have to listen to me if
Speaker 1: you don't believe the governor, don't believe the president. But
Speaker 1: listen to the scientists, Listen to the healthcare professionals who
Speaker 1: are saying, we are exhausted, we are dying. Ask keepsha girl,
Speaker 1: you're right, and I'm gonna stay my black ass at home.
Speaker 1: Facts and Carol Baskins killed her husband. Hey are you cool?
Speaker 1: Cats and kittens? Whatever they said she did, she did
Speaker 1: that ship by father Larne, because the dreams for you