WEBVTT - #180 - Hitmaka 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.720 Bulet Cap Podcast Special guests in here my guy Young 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:07.040 Bird aka hit Makers. Yes, yes, welcome, welcome, welcome, Manni 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.120 you have me. Of course, first of all, we gotta 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:14.520 talk about this. Is this a new chain? Yeah, this piece. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.840 I ain't gonna lie when when I left Atlantic, I 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.760 left Atlantic a lot of people like my peers and 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:22.880 co producers, like it was a bunch of like people 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.000 in close friends talking down like, man, you know he's 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.400 going to empire, like it might not work out for him. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.200 You know. Really, Atlantic was really the fume behind the 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.760 fire that was keeping him going. And I put so 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.000 much work in that. I just said it last year, 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.279 like like around this time, beginning the summer last year, 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.559 I'm like, yo, for every Friday for the rest of 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.400 the summer, it's gonna be a new release and it's 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.440 gonna rain hit some niggas and people were just laughing 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.400 at me. And then I would put this emoji up 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.320 and then literally every Friday for the rest of the 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.440 whole summer, like I had a hit that came out 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.120 or whatever. So I'm like, fuck, I'm just gonna make 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.600 it a change to love the chain. Yeah, bro, appreciate it. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.959 I feel like Tory Lanez might get emotional over your chain. Man. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.319 I don't know. Man, if he hears the story, now 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.840 he got it's the contact. Yeah, but it's like it was. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.080 It ain't never know that. Sh It's hard. H toy 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.360 is amazing. You know what I'm saying. What is what 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.199 is something like that? Run somebody all together like two 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:21.800 sixty Jesus man, that's a real uh you know Atlanta house? No, 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.119 for sure, it's like a Lamborghini truck. It's a Louisville 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.560 real estate. Nice little four bedroom in Louisville, you know 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:29.600 what I mean. Yeah, I've been working hard though, so 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.480 in LA. That'll get you attend on the side of 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.480 the mat four five nothing. I'm moving from LA. I'm 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.399 almost done. I'm building my house in Miami right now. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.880 So that's where it's at. I'm almost done with building 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.240 my crib. I'm moving in like August something like that. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.680 No state tax man, that's gonna be epic. You don't 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.000 have to face state tax I mean, I know the 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.560 gun laws are way more. No, it is. You good, 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.320 it's staying your ground. It's all that stuff, you know 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:54.880 what I'm saying. So you ain't got to worry about 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.200 that out here is ridiculous with like all the bs 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.560 that's going on in LA, Like they got to figure 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.840 out a happy medium with the gun laws in between, 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.120 you know what I'm saying, how they're trying to play 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.440 it because Nigga's acting crazy right now. Yeah, it's crazy 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:11.320 because like it's so hot in l A and they 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.440 make it so hard for you to like defend yourself. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.919 So it's like, but don't you like if you had 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.600 a gun in your crib? Like you straight though, right, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.360 like I listen, I'm not the expert on the LA 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.920 gun laws. I just know that, like if you were 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.440 driving around with your piece, you got to have your 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.320 bullets separated from the gun and the trunk or some shit. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.600 And it's like, well, what if someone runs up on 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.239 me and tries to fucking purpose to kill me? Yeah, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.600 shout out to rants from fifteen hundred nothing. I think 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.760 he had linked up with some of the the shriffs 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.200 and deputies or whatever. I saw that. I saw that. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.520 I think that there there's some people trying to kind of, like, 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.440 like you said, have a happy medium because you don't 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.240 want to like because you know, there's obviously places where 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.359 you could just roll around open carry and you know, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.919 not to get into politics. People feel how they feel, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.760 but there has to be a happy medium, especially in 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.040 a place like LA where obviously it's an issue people 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.320 are being targeted. La not the same no more though, bro, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.720 Like I remember, like even before I think a golden 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.160 era was like supper Club and all that. And then 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.680 even before supper Club, like how I used to watch 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.920 Entourage and be like, man, like you would go to 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.920 the w you go to Roosevelt, you go to this 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.000 spot and it's popping. It ain't even that no more. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.440 Like I don't even know, Like if somebody came to 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.280 visit me, like yo, ware to go get some chicks set, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.040 Like where should we pop out? I couldn't even tell you. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.280 People always hit me and they're like, yo, I'm in La. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.280 Where Where? Where where's it at? I'm like, bro, I 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.520 don't I be at the crib? Bro, I don't go. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.080 I don't know. I'm like, yo, go follow Sean Dickerson. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.840 I'm sure he's his IG page will tell you. Light room, Yeah, 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.960 highlight room. Good luck getting in there, though exactly they 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.400 don't be playing at the highlight Room. Good fucking luck 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:52.000 getting in man. So obviously you signed your situation when 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.480 Empire about a year and a half ago. Yeah, like 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.560 a year and a half. It's on my contract almost 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:02.040 up and marches up and through that. Obviously you've put 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:06.400 out some dope music you got, you got artists that 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.520 you've signed under your imprint. You've gotten some big red 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.680 obviously shout out young Blue. You know. Yeah, I don't 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.080 know Blue. Yeah, but we don't know if this is 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.240 We know it's bel Air. I bought it because it 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.919 said Blue on it. Yeah, and we know that he's 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.520 he may or may not own that A part of 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.000 the blue, we don't know. But shout out to our 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.120 guy Blue man. You know. Coming to Empire was was 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:31.440 really dope. I really wanted to. Like I said, I 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.760 had a little like hate, you know what I'm saying 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.240 with me leaving or whatever, leaving a major label system. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.040 So like I really was, like, you know what, I'm 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.840 just in a position where I'm gonna show people that 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.360 the hits are following me. They don't have nothing to 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.760 do with what's happening inside the building internally or who 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.960 what CEO I might be working with or whatever. Like 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.280 the hits is following me. And my team. And as 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.920 you said, the first record that we did that went 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.719 crazy was the Blue Record with Chris and Changed Baddest. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.560 I wanted to come out the gate smoking with that, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.200 and I really appreciate old guys everybody over there. That 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.720 record was like a reoccurring record or whatever. The current Yeah, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.560 it gets played over. Yeah. Still the record was top 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.119 ten for forty seven weeks out of the year last Yeah, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.400 it's still very much. Uh. I mean here in LA 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.920 it still pops up as like a power every three 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.840 weeks because it researches so well, yeah, that's crazy. So 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.960 that was a big one and then shit, we ate 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:25.679 a bunch more after that. So your Atlantic situation, because 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.520 you were obviously producing so much music for a lot 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.520 of the artists on the leg, but also you you know, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.440 obviously put put your single it was a hot box 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.440 stop box, stop box, hot box stop box close enough 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.200 hot box. Yeah, I think the title kind of like 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.760 kept it a little bit too. I remember there were 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.159 some awesome promo items for that song. Yeah, like we 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.279 had made a box that had like a little condoms 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.800 like whatever your vibe was supposed to be. Yeah, So 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.240 would you say that like like when you were in Atlantic, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:55.880 did you have a song deal with them or you 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.479 had to like give them a certain amount of music 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.320 every because I know some producers have those situations like 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:01.840 I got a Homemie Miners got one of those three 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.560 hundred huh. So this is kind of my situation with 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.640 my career at Atlantic. I had a label deal, I 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.520 was vice president of A and R, and I had 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.400 a song deal of course. And then I'm gonna be 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.400 honest at pretty much every record company and the music business. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.599 I have a song deal with them right now, yeah, 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.720 right now. Still, I have a song dealer Empire. I 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.760 have a song deal with Epic Records. I have a 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.159 song deal with Atlantic Records. Of something like that work 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.040 when you create enough leverage for yourself and you just 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:36.320 known for delivering records instead of positioning yourself to where 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.800 it's like I want a hundredth grand a track, or 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.480 I want fifty grand in track, or you might go 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.039 in and say, all right, bet, I want thirty five 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.719 granded track, but you got to get thirty upfront. You 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.600 gotta get in bulk like costco so they pay you. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.120 So with me as the way I produce, if I 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.400 was one hundred percent of producer or whatever. Then I 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.320 would just get all the money myself and they would 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.440 pay me for thirty songs upfront, which that probably like 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.720 a million dollar right there or whatever. But the way 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.640 I produce is that I have a bunch of co 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.400 producers that I work with. It's not just one person 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.040 or one man operation. So I'll go and then they'll 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.560 pay me for half of the songs up front, and 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.280 then they'll save the other half for my co producers 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:21.080 or whatever, who realistically might not be getting seventeen to 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.480 five a track, you know what I'm saying. So, and 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.360 that's how it ends up being dope. So if my 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.320 song dealers forty grand at Epic Records, then I meet 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.559 a new producer, I bring them in, I produce something 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.320 on Epic. They're slayd in the system at forty grand 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.160 for that record. So at the very least, if they like, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:37.800 all right, take me away. When it's like, well I 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.960 got paid twenty grand for my record, you could be 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.600 on your first beat and have a track record inside 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.760 that building infrastructure. So if you keep working without me 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.080 or with me, and keep your foot on the gas, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.360 you at twenty grand and track. Yeah, I do notice 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:55.800 like there are some producers that will not give the 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.600 co producers credit or they'll be like the big name 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.720 and then you'll hear the tag you won't like I do, 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.880 notice that you give a lot of love and credit 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.080 to the people you collaborate with. Hell yeah, because ultimately, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.400 like I programmed Beasts before, I've done all that or whatever. 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.679 But I've done stuff on my album, I've done stuff 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.480 on other releases that have come out. But at the 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.960 same token, it was like, I'm just so creative and 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.880 I just work at such a high level with you 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.559 know what I'm saying. I'm trying to make ten records 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.679 at night, so like to actually have as many songs 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.480 and have as many things going. I think I had 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.280 two hundred and twenty seven placements last year, so it's 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.440 probably not physically possible to make two something songs a 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:38.840 year and maybe fire fire and react and get plaques 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.240 form and all the other stuff. I just saw. You 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.000 just hit a milestone. Was it a one hundred million sould? Yeah? Yeah, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.800 I'm involved with one hundred million records sold that I've 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.679 either produced or co wrote, and that's super blessing. Man. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.600 I think a year ago I was at seventy so 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.600 you had thirty million in a year. Yeah, that's crazy. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.400 I mean two hundred and seventy seven placements will do 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.720 that for You had the numbers kind of match up 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.160 to that, you know what I'm saying. So I think 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.880 it's like eleven billion streams and one hundred million, so 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.000 I get the plaque when two days. So you've been 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.880 like active since you were a kid. Yeah. Now was 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:17.600 Bloodline Records and DMX your initial introduction to I guess 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.040 the industry. Yeah, pretty much. That was like my first 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.240 record deal. And the crazy thing about that is that, 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.400 you know the story, Like I started in Chicago with 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.559 a bunch of guys that were like, well, it's people 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.920 that notable. So I can say bugs who works with 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.880 Kanye's my brother? Yeah, I just saw I just saw 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.880 him at the Push the show. Yeoh. He literally taught 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.079 me how to be a producer. Robson, Yeah, Like he 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.000 did everything with me. He produced my whole entire demo 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.120 which got me signed the Bloodline and he was basically 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.240 essentially what I am right now. But actually he was 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.280 programming and doing stuff like that then. But books basically 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:58.160 had relationships with no idea with Kanye with different people, 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.559 and my whole demo was produced by bugs no Idea 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.320 so far, and he's a great guy and we still 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.880 work together like he's still my mentor he's killing it 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.320 right now. Yeah, so like me books and then back 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.720 in the day, they were a group called L E. 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.160 P which transitioned to Infrared and they were like the 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.960 street guys behind us, and I had a bidding war 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.480 like that. Everybody wanted to sign me. Rockefeller wanted how 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:25.560 old are you at this time? Fourteen? Yeah, so Rockefeller 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.640 wanted to sign me, Tommy Boy wanted to sign me, 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:33.720 Depth Jam, just the whole DMX everybody. And the crazy 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:38.000 thing is how I ended up meeting DMX was Eve 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:42.320 stylists introduced me to DMX or whatever at the time. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.439 And the crazy thing is we ended up on meeting 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.600 at what these bitches want from a Nigga video set 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:52.640 at at Paramount Lot in Hollywood still to this day 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.840 in LA and I remember it. It was like fucking 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.200 Eliyah was there. Dragon, DMX met the man. It was 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.640 like a two day they shoot a crazy vibe. I 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.480 meet DMX and like DMX like they like trying to 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.160 introduce me to X and like back then, I was 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.240 like four foot four, like I was really like a 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.400 little guy, and uh DMX, like it was shortly, I'm 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.640 gonna go smoke this and and I'm all back. He 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.840 had like a few chicks with him and like open 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.920 his hand had a bunch of caliweed or whatever. So 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.760 he went smoked. I went out on the trailer and 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.200 they basically was like rap. He was like rap for me, 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.360 and I'm like, all right, bet so I rapped and 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.240 I think I kicked like one of the Twister type flows. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:35.040 I said, like on that vibe and he's like, shorty, relax, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.520 I don't understand the fucking words you said. Give me 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.440 a different vibe. So I ended up spinning another verse, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.559 which they went crazy for because I'm like a little 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.360 kid going crazy. But like I had so many bricks 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.040 in my wraps and all those stuff, like I was 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.679 talking super street shit and left my demo. The next day, 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.720 I came back to the video set and like DMX 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.840 was banging my demo out the trailer like loud, like 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.600 going crazy to it, and it was bugs with me. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.960 It was all these same people, these same guys, and 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.040 I remember Kevin Lous walked up to me. He was like, man, 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.480 you ready for your life to change. I'm like, man, hey, 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.160 you like your life by the change from this day. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.080 And then DMX ended up signing me the Bloodline Records. Wow, 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.760 it was Bloodline through Death jam Yeah through Death. Shout 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.079 to Kevin Lyle, stand up guy, Yeah Man, shout out 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.520 to keV Man. Speaking of keV Man, I got song 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.080 deal with three hundreds. Still look at this all these 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.640 years later, to be it's crazy that I worked so 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.080 closely with Tina Davis, who was like with depth Ja 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.080 when I was a kid, and then now I worked 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.000 Impament or whatever, and it is what it is. So 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.800 you met DMX ended up signing with Bloodline. Obviously the 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:38.959 Bloodline thing probably didn't work out. I think it, like 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.760 a lot of us had hoped it would have. Yeah, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.040 I think that X just wasn't ready to run his 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.319 own company like that or whatever, Like he was just 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.800 too big, like because that was like, uh, what was 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:53.720 that before? That was like right before the Great Depression? Yeah, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.840 this is this is like cause and there was X 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.800 was that was that was that? Was that that what 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:00.679 these bitches want was on that album. Yeah, So it 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.200 was right after in the midst of that album and 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.079 right out there, I think this What comes to mind 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.440 is I remember being in Toronto when we were filming 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.839 Exit Wounds with Steven Seagal and all that other you 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.280 were there. Yeah, I stayed with X the whole time 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.280 while he did Exit Wounds. That's crazy. Yep, I remember that. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.760 And wasn't Dragon in that movie. Yep, drag was in 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.560 a movie. Everybody was out there, like Toronto was crazy, 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.839 and like that's how like another thing went viral when 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.120 I was promoting thought Box. That's how dmxtle my first 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.720 piece of pussy. When I was like a kid, like 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.560 we had went to a club and like met a 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.400 bunch of girls. We got back in a car, like 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.080 I remember I was in the back seat feeling up 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.520 the girls, she feeling on me. Whatever. We going to 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.840 my hotel room. I'm literally like putting my key in 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.120 a hotel and like the man is like a dog 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.600 in real life, Like he just opened up the door 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.839 of his suite. Was like, yo, ma, I think you 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.480 lover a person here. And she had never been to 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.760 the hotel or nothing, and she literally left me and 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:59.000 went in DMX room and got up purse DMX at 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.840 that time, he is, you know, the biggest motherfucker on 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.880 the planet. Yeah, Like, man, I don't know what we say, 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.600 like equivalent, what was he like? Right? You know what's 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.240 crazy because when I was a kid going to like 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.040 the Hard Knock Life Tour, I left, like, you know, 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.599 I loved jay Z, but like I was there to 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.720 see DMX. So DMX went on before Hove, which at 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.200 the time was kind of crazy because DMX was the 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.000 bigger artist at the time. You think they were like 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.280 swapping headlining. No, because it was that was the I 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.600 was a Rockefeller tour. It was a Hard Knock Life 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:35.960 to Yeah, So I remember DMX performed and just destroyed it. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:40.760 And you know, Jay's stage energy is different than DMX, 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.880 so it's like night and day. DMX just got to praying, 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.280 crying off stage and before that, Method Made and Raymond 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.640 were flying around. I went to the concert. I remember that, Yeah, 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.800 and when Hove went on, like it was cool, but 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.000 like me and my cousin left, you know what I mean, 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.280 shout out to Hope. 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Now that's like I was Iceberg then with 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.120 in DMX era and then I became young Berg and 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.200 your was your first, uh what was your first like 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.160 big record as young Berg because you had a few. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.840 Sexy Lady was the big record that I started here? 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.560 Who was on the hook? It was a guy named Junior. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.000 Kind of like similar to how like I create a 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.040 bunch well, you know, I've created a lot of records 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.760 like in my career, like a bunch of the singers 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.640 or people that were on my reference to Homi. Yeah, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.320 like they were just people that I were working with 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.680 artist or that turned into artists that I will work 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.520 with as well. And I still do that in my 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.280 career right now, Like I have a bunch of people 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.720 that are I meet his songwriters that I empower and 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.880 their dream is to be an artist. So that ends 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.560 up happening. But Sexy Lady is a crazy story because 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:24.159 remember club called Privilege, Yeah I heard of it. Remember 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.879 TK who now works for Hypnosis. You remember the promoter 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.200 TK that used to do Privilege, Well, man, he did 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:34.040 every crazy Listen when Sexy Lady came out, I was 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.639 like eighteen and is an intern in Phoenix. Okay, cool, 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:41.760 so I was too. Actually I was going to say 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.200 you and I did did some clubs together, some eighteen 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.320 and up clubs in Arizona during that I was like 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.080 eighteen at the same time. And the funny thing is 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.639 my weed man at the time was a club promoter 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.320 at the club, and he ended up introducing me to 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.840 DJ Echo from Power one six or whatever and Echo 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.960 with just go and just like playing my record in 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:04.439 the club. And I used to come in there like 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:09.119 super young kid chin chill on, just wilding out or whatever. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.520 And then we built like a group of people to 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.160 where a community to where like my manager would hand 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.880 out a clipboard everywhere, would get everybody's email, get everybody's 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.879 number or whatever, and tell them it was for parties, 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:21.840 but it turned into being a number for them to 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.879 call for Power one oh six to play my record. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.240 Oh shit. So I went and Echo took me into 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.359 a mixing meeting at Power one oh six. I didn't 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.040 know nobody, and he went in there like, yo, this 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.520 record is reacting crazy in the clubs. This is this kid, 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.280 and they brought me in at the end of the 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.240 mixing meeting. I went in there, I told my life 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.760 story pretty much. I cried through the water works on 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:42.119 them for a little bit at the end of it. 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.200 And then next thing I know, it started off at 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.640 Mike Show. It was a light rotation and then before 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:48.399 I even got a record deal out in Power rotation 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.160 with that independent. Yeah, no, that's crazy. That doesn't happen. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.199 That was crazy. That was like one of the that 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.520 was a wild thing. I've never seen it happen like that. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.400 That's a very you. That's like a unicorn situation, man. 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.840 And with me not being from l A as well, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.399