Speaker 1: What they do is baby, you could check me out
Speaker 1: on a Bootleg cab podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bootleg cav show special Guessing here his new project
Speaker 2: is out right now.
Speaker 3: It's not an album, it's a mixtape.
Speaker 4: How a mixtape?
Speaker 3: How is it a mixtape?
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: First of all, man, great body of work.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Uh, I know we spoke on it before. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it came out after, so now it's dope.
Speaker 4: It's dope.
Speaker 2: You kicked the project off saying proud of my losses.
Speaker 2: I don't care if I'm winning.
Speaker 4: That's the first words I said the whole project.
Speaker 2: And you know, you've had an interesting last five years.
Speaker 3: I know, you know.
Speaker 2: I just watched your Breakfast Club interview, so you talked
Speaker 2: about it a lot, But can you talk to me
Speaker 2: about like just like you know, there has been some
Speaker 2: males that we've all seen, Yeah, for sure, But but
Speaker 2: now that you're on the other side of that, man,
Speaker 2: and like, I feel like you've kind of shaken the
Speaker 2: mental weight of the world kind of looking at you
Speaker 2: and and and you know, trying to trying to get
Speaker 2: you the fuck up out of here for real people,
Speaker 2: people deserting you. You know, industry friends showing their through colors,
Speaker 2: all of that. How does it feel now, though, Man?
Speaker 2: How are you feeling?
Speaker 1: It's a great space to be in, man, And not
Speaker 1: only that, like most important, like being on the other
Speaker 1: side of it, like with the music. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like putting out a project is just unapologetic,
Speaker 1: completely authentic, one hundred ferment of saying, like it's dope
Speaker 1: to see the way people receiving it.
Speaker 3: And it feels like some of my classic baby shit.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely there's some shit that that can be put
Speaker 1: back on a decade from now and still has several
Speaker 1: lessons that you could learn from within it. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Based on my experiences my journey.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, do you feel like this is
Speaker 2: like kind of you getting back to like twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, twenty twenty baby type shit?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not even that, Like you know, there's me
Speaker 1: just now getting into twenty twenty four, baby, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like I feel like, you know, autumn
Speaker 1: years in between like twenty twenty one and now, ain't
Speaker 1: I ain't put my heart in a single fucking project.
Speaker 4: You get what I'm saying. I kind of was in
Speaker 4: the space the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the way I was really like following out of
Speaker 1: love with the shit and the creative process and putting
Speaker 1: it out. So you know, it's dope to just navigate
Speaker 1: through all that shit and then be in the space
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 4: It's like, all right, heah, I go.
Speaker 3: What would you say the last album you felt like
Speaker 3: you put your heart into.
Speaker 4: A good one?
Speaker 1: The one that went number one and had the uh
Speaker 1: the number had the fucking the top streaming song of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty on it. Probably blame it on baby, the
Speaker 1: one that had Rockstar on it.
Speaker 4: That's twenty twenty crazy. Uh huh.
Speaker 3: That is wild.
Speaker 2: But you know it's interesting too though, because you've also
Speaker 2: like you know, you haven't stopp rapping. You haven't stoped
Speaker 2: putting out freestyles.
Speaker 1: You have a stop Yeah, that's my way of getting
Speaker 1: it direct to the consumer and not having to, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, go through all the extra shit
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't really respecting or you know, fucking with
Speaker 1: for a while.
Speaker 2: It also feels like you've been using those freestyles. It's
Speaker 2: kind of like your form of like addressing shit and
Speaker 2: like kind of like your therapy a bit immediately yep,
Speaker 2: because it's like whatever you're going through like your weekly
Speaker 2: like you're shit dropping.
Speaker 1: Your boom immediately up soon as somebody made me mad,
Speaker 1: so its mighty pisched me off.
Speaker 4: I got them and let me come freestyle.
Speaker 2: I think that like there's a there's a strength in
Speaker 2: not letting everyone have access to your energy. You know
Speaker 2: what I mean by that is like not getting mad
Speaker 2: about everything? Not for sure have you had to learn
Speaker 2: that where you're like, you know, I.
Speaker 4: Tell you, God damn for responsibility.
Speaker 1: I hold myself that's be sent accountable for allowing myself
Speaker 1: to even get anything Neil lost in the souf. You
Speaker 1: give what I'm saying, like because it's that's something I
Speaker 1: already know, Like I came in the game like that,
Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm from Charlotte first of all, so already
Speaker 1: I'm conditioned to, you know what I mean, to not
Speaker 1: give a fuck about what nobody talking about it. You
Speaker 1: ain't coming up out of there. That's the show, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So you know when I when
Speaker 1: I found myself in the space to where I was
Speaker 1: paying too much attention to that and and making music
Speaker 1: for the goddamn haters more than I'm making it for
Speaker 1: the people who really enjoy my music, you know, and
Speaker 1: who love and support my music. Yeah, I had to really,
Speaker 1: you know, sit myself down and look at myself from
Speaker 1: across the street, you know what I mean, from the
Speaker 1: outside looking in and understand it. You know, I've been
Speaker 1: playing the most important role and and you know, in
Speaker 1: my my temporary downfall, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, I think if your temporary downfall
Speaker 2: is you know, still.
Speaker 4: So it's you know, it's a blessing.
Speaker 2: I think of all these records that you just like
Speaker 2: dropped nonchalantly during the time you're quote unuote canceled like
Speaker 2: Masterpiece and like, you know, not like these are records.
Speaker 3: I think Masterpiece probably Platinum or goal By.
Speaker 2: So it's like these records are like I feel like
Speaker 2: people don't understand. Like I don't think you ever quote
Speaker 2: unquote fell off, but I do think that there was
Speaker 2: like you know, this industry is real, real, fake bro.
Speaker 1: And nah, I'm saying, man, it comes with it, come
Speaker 1: with you know. But see like what I and this
Speaker 1: is like like I have to putting this body of
Speaker 1: work together and putting this out right, It's like it
Speaker 1: took me to do that, to like to understand it
Speaker 1: was really prior to putting it together, Like I really
Speaker 1: was holding myself back, Like I just had to get
Speaker 1: out of their space to where I wasn't enjoying it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like you know, I just had to god dam step
Speaker 1: away from all that other ship. Let that ship be
Speaker 1: what it is, and then I come with it. Do
Speaker 1: what I do, you know what I mean, Because I
Speaker 1: could have put out about it work like this immediately
Speaker 1: after the ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But it's like, yeah, with the business involved, and you
Speaker 1: know how you know how motherfuckers would like for it
Speaker 1: to be set up and this and that just all
Speaker 1: the other factors that I probably wouldn't agreeing with at
Speaker 1: the time or you know what I mean that I
Speaker 1: didn't respect or whatever, like you know, it take away
Speaker 1: from the art.
Speaker 4: I like just being authentic, bro.
Speaker 1: And you know, as long as I'm being me one
Speaker 1: thousand percent, and you know what I'm saying unapologetically myself,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with whatever come with that.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: If I do something else that, if I take any
Speaker 1: advice and then they go left, then ain't I ain't
Speaker 1: okay with that.
Speaker 4: That's gonna fuck with me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I think like when you go through adversity, you shed people,
Speaker 2: which is a good thing. Yeah, because there were people
Speaker 2: that weren't supposed to be in the first place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure I had your
Speaker 4: eyes to a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like there has been like a
Speaker 2: few because you know, as you know, you meet people
Speaker 2: in the rap game who are like your quote unquote friends,
Speaker 2: but they're only friends because you guys both are doing
Speaker 2: music and it's mutually beneficial.
Speaker 3: Somebody like fifty.
Speaker 2: Cent Dough, I feel like it's my nigga man held
Speaker 2: you down throughout all this bullshit. Can you talk about
Speaker 2: you in fifties relationship and uh, and just like how
Speaker 2: important it's been to have him kind of in your
Speaker 2: corner throughout all this.
Speaker 1: I'm for sure I met fifty really like the week
Speaker 1: before the whole world on Lived shit happened.
Speaker 4: Like I just met bro, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So he had every reason in the world to stay
Speaker 1: the fuck away from me prior to that happening, you
Speaker 1: give what I'm saying, But he ended up being the
Speaker 1: damn that the only one that you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: stuck around, you know what I'm saying, and not only
Speaker 1: stuck around like openly like out loud like hell nah,
Speaker 1: like like hell no, like you know, he calling motherfucker's
Speaker 1: this in business with me? Like you get what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like nah, what we're doing, like what we're doing while
Speaker 1: we ain't doing this, this and this? What y'all doing.
Speaker 1: What y'all doing, y'all tripping? You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: y'all tripping. And then even with times, you know, I
Speaker 1: do my thing with like the like I'm into that,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole film and television shit, that's.
Speaker 3: Some of the best videos for years now, so for sure.
Speaker 1: So it's like with him and the way that he
Speaker 1: dominate that space, you know what I'm saying, Like you
Speaker 1: know then ben motherfuckers like you know, do power, get
Speaker 1: him on power, get him on this and that and
Speaker 1: off the rip fuck that you ain't done with the
Speaker 1: music like like that shit cool, we do that whenever,
Speaker 1: but you ain't done.
Speaker 4: With the music.
Speaker 1: And you know, for him to for him to say
Speaker 1: that and for me to like like really any advice
Speaker 1: coming from a nigga like that who didn't who didn't
Speaker 1: been I'm more likely to take it from somebody who
Speaker 1: DIDNET had to navigate through these spaces and through this
Speaker 1: type of controversy and that type of ship. So when
Speaker 1: a nigga like that who didn't been there done that,
Speaker 1: say that, like, nah, fuck that you ain't done with
Speaker 1: the music?
Speaker 4: Fu that?
Speaker 1: Like that's all I need to know. If he's dominating
Speaker 1: that space. You know what I'm saying. He got the
Speaker 1: most views ship on television, the only ship I watch.
Speaker 1: I don't even watch TV, the only should I watched.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard I haven't caught up on on the
Speaker 2: finale that just happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I ain't caught up on this season of it either.
Speaker 4: I need to. I need to dive into that.
Speaker 3: There's just so much with power and the Power universe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'd be so guy, am busy or I'm
Speaker 4: just what I'm saying, you gotta I got I gotta
Speaker 4: have like a like I can.
Speaker 3: Damn your need COVID to happen together for me to catch.
Speaker 4: Up right, sit down and really you know, get back
Speaker 4: in the groove of it.
Speaker 1: No, for sure, not definitely, man, definitely, Uh if I
Speaker 1: can call anybody a mentor ever, you know what I
Speaker 1: mean throughout my journey as an artist, that that's the.
Speaker 2: One another artist who embraced you. Kind of in the
Speaker 2: thick of all of this was the Kanye situation where
Speaker 2: you you uh, you know a lot of people say that.
Speaker 4: Your verse was the best verse on the album.
Speaker 2: Was was the and was much better than the jay
Speaker 2: Z verse you know on Jail, which was an amazing record.
Speaker 2: But you you have the the live situation where there's
Speaker 2: the house and you're standing there with Marilyn Manson.
Speaker 3: Who I know we talked about it before.
Speaker 2: You didn't even know marylnd Manson was at that time,
Speaker 2: did you Nah?
Speaker 1: I knew, like you know, I recognized like the fate
Speaker 1: like who he was, but like I wasn't like I
Speaker 1: wasn't like completely in tune with like you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, like everything.
Speaker 2: No, what was that process like being like cutting a
Speaker 2: verse for Jail, which is an incredible verse, like you said,
Speaker 2: probably the best verse on the album A lot a
Speaker 2: lot of fans will say, and then also like just
Speaker 2: that experience of like I remember watching that shit from
Speaker 2: the crib, like that house and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was it was like a strong message.
Speaker 1: I'm out of a bitch like this, Like it's motherfucker's
Speaker 1: marching around. It's like two three thousand people like marching
Speaker 1: around a black the house so far and we just
Speaker 1: staying in here.
Speaker 4: I'm like, holo, bro, like this shit, this shit looked dangerous,
Speaker 4: you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, man, that man there's you know,
Speaker 1: he he on some other shit creatively bro, Like he
Speaker 1: you know, he and a whole nother a whole nother
Speaker 1: bracket when they come to you know, creativity. Not to
Speaker 1: mention the fact that like I was around the nigga
Speaker 1: for like I don't know, maybe like five days straight
Speaker 1: prior to that, and and with all the other shit
Speaker 1: he was doing, like I don't know where he had
Speaker 1: the time to do all this rehearsing and shit or
Speaker 1: whatever for this like right, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like literally, like and it.
Speaker 2: Kind of got to take a peek into the world
Speaker 2: of like one of the best, you know, artists of
Speaker 2: all time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, like genius when it comes to creativity
Speaker 1: and and and the execution of it, Like genius, bro,
Speaker 1: Like for sure.
Speaker 2: So if you were hanging with five days or for
Speaker 2: five days. I'm assuming you guys did more than just
Speaker 2: that one record.
Speaker 4: Yeah, y'all did a few. I did a few.
Speaker 1: I did another one too, did I. The other one
Speaker 1: was five the other one was fire. But I don't
Speaker 1: even I think I'm the only one on that record.
Speaker 1: Like I just did the record and like, huh, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Little one of his one of
Speaker 1: the producers that he had though, the nigga had a whole.
Speaker 4: What is it called Soho House? What's it called? The
Speaker 4: nigga had this ship like rented out the whole thing.
Speaker 2: So was it the hotel downtown?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they took the beds and shipp out all
Speaker 4: the rooms.
Speaker 1: Nigga had different producers set up in each room, studios
Speaker 1: in each room, like the niggas on some other ship.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 3: He rented out the whole Soho House.
Speaker 1: The motherfucker. I swear to God. I swear to got
Speaker 1: I'm like, God, that what's going on? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying?
Speaker 3: That is crazy.
Speaker 4: But a bunch of creatives.
Speaker 1: In one space, you know what I'm saying, Like and
Speaker 1: just a dope, dope thing experience. And that's the way
Speaker 1: I like to I like to create in terms of
Speaker 1: like having everything in one room and in that way
Speaker 1: I could just bounce around.
Speaker 4: That's when I'm its effective.
Speaker 1: Like, So it was dope to see somebody do it
Speaker 1: on a super high level, you give what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and to see the results of it, to see the
Speaker 1: album come together, to see this nigga here making Valencia
Speaker 1: against shit in this warehouse making and shit. Like to
Speaker 1: see all the different pieces, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: come together like it's it's dope, especially from a creative,
Speaker 1: another creative.
Speaker 4: With probably ADHD.
Speaker 1: If you go get gotten, I could probably be diagnosed
Speaker 1: with that shit in real life, you give what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So it was dope to just see the ship.
Speaker 3: When when you cut your verse, did you know that
Speaker 3: there was a jay Z verse two?
Speaker 4: Uh? No, I didn't.
Speaker 1: It was it was probably just open. I didn't hear
Speaker 1: no verse like lined up before mine. For sure, I
Speaker 1: didn't hear no verse. I probably would have tried to
Speaker 1: go harder.
Speaker 3: Hey you went hard though?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I just you know, I played it.
Speaker 1: I played it how it was. I wasn't tripping like
Speaker 1: it's a dope song, you know what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, talk to me on this project. You say that
Speaker 2: you're the best rapper of your generation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, one thousand percent.
Speaker 2: And somehow I feel like you are underrated as an MC.
Speaker 2: You and I have had this discussion, but I do
Speaker 2: feel like, you know, that's kind of what gravitated me
Speaker 2: towards your music as a fan. Yeah, early on was
Speaker 2: I just think you're just an amazing MC man. Do
Speaker 2: you feel like for whatever reason, like because you know,
Speaker 2: there's like the narrative that like, oh, the baby's got
Speaker 2: the same flow, which I think.
Speaker 3: You've proven wrong a bunch of times. Look, your biggest
Speaker 3: song rock stars exactly, It's.
Speaker 2: Way different than any of the other shit, right, So
Speaker 2: but I'm just curious, like, like, why do you think
Speaker 2: you're you don't get the respect you deserve as an MC.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it when I you know, when
Speaker 1: I can get it. Whenever I want it, I can
Speaker 1: get it. You get what I'm saying. It's just I
Speaker 1: don't I don't duel in that space, like I don't
Speaker 1: you know, I just you just tell me who your
Speaker 1: favorite is. Just tell me, and then you tell me
Speaker 1: what's your favorite song, and then give me ten minutes
Speaker 1: and God damn, we'll.
Speaker 4: See right, you know what I mean? And then I
Speaker 4: don't even got it.
Speaker 1: Like it's to the point like I go even even further,
Speaker 1: like in the demonstration, like I'm gonna do the shit.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna record it, ain't no auto tune. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put it. I could put a camera in front
Speaker 1: of me in a microphone with all you got is
Speaker 1: voice and meat. You get what I'm saying, So you
Speaker 1: can't make up none of that sh it. Ain't ain't
Speaker 1: none of that, Like you gotta you know you got ly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta really be one of the ones, though, fucking
Speaker 1: around with me, like you gotta, you gotta be one
Speaker 1: of the ones.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And I think too, like such an important part of
Speaker 2: like mceing is also like being an incredible live performer,
Speaker 2: like we saw that with Jada Kids with the verses.
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, but I feel like, you know, you
Speaker 2: take someone the pride in your live show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I really ain't even got to say It's
Speaker 1: like I got so much more to tap into. I
Speaker 1: really ain't even you know, went went to the heights
Speaker 1: that I can go to when it come to that
Speaker 1: before I did that, Like it was like the live
Speaker 1: show component of like you know me, like that was
Speaker 1: taken away from me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you had that festival run in front of you.
Speaker 1: I had did like two three sold out tours like
Speaker 1: coming in like I was already in arenas. I wasn't
Speaker 1: even twelve months in. I had like two twelve months
Speaker 1: in as a mainstream artist. I did like two sold
Speaker 1: out arena tours, you know what I'm saying, And then.
Speaker 4: COVID hit crazy. Even after COVID, you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Before twenty twenty one with the road and live shit,
Speaker 1: what they wasn't like other artists are performing shit because
Speaker 1: they was in like smaller venues of like clubs.
Speaker 4: But I was already well.
Speaker 2: I feel like even like I saw you, I think
Speaker 2: it was your first headline of showing la you were
Speaker 2: at the Roxy.
Speaker 3: You brought an ot genesis. Not for sure you had to,
Speaker 3: I think you.
Speaker 2: I want to say, you had fake pounds of weed
Speaker 2: that you threw out into the crowd.
Speaker 4: Did I do that at that? Yes, you did it.
Speaker 1: I probably definitely did it. The first one I probably
Speaker 1: definitely did. I made that song out here in La.
Speaker 1: I mean that was a very real song. That's a
Speaker 1: very real thing.
Speaker 4: The song that I did that too, Gorilla Glue.
Speaker 3: Gorilla Glue was my ship by the way, I.
Speaker 1: Was talking about that, like yeah, you know, like the
Speaker 1: Pat Coach in the South, like just coming out west
Speaker 1: and you know what I'm saying, like that's the whole
Speaker 1: big thing and really around my way, like I definitely
Speaker 1: like not like I represented it, like that's what it was, like,
Speaker 1: That's how I funded not to speak too much.
Speaker 4: There's enough time that went by, Hunt. I mean I
Speaker 4: spent time I got here.
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like the first time I met
Speaker 2: you was the south By and that was in like
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, fifteen.
Speaker 3: I don't know when was that fuck.
Speaker 1: I mean I did the ship with the first sixteen
Speaker 1: the first song I ever made, I was it's like
Speaker 1: two months.
Speaker 4: After when you had the diaper run.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that was like twenty eighteen or I think
Speaker 1: seventeen twenty seventeen here, because that's the last time I went.
Speaker 4: Before I popped. The next time I went, I.
Speaker 2: Was on Yeah, I was up through the so you
Speaker 2: were already coming to La just off of the off
Speaker 2: of that the.
Speaker 3: Other ship for show, yeah, fust show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about this a little bit, but I
Speaker 2: want you to because it's such a it's it's it's
Speaker 2: so dope. Well it's not dope, but it is interesting. Also,
Speaker 2: don't do this at home. But we talked about how
Speaker 2: back in the day you would pack up in vacuum
Speaker 2: seal rabbit food.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I didn't did it a few times.
Speaker 3: Man, Now how do you make how do you do that?
Speaker 2: Like if it's rabbit food, Like, first of all, how
Speaker 2: stupid other people who's buying the vacuum sealed rabbit food?
Speaker 2: And how do you how do you make short looks
Speaker 2: as good as possible? Like walk me through?
Speaker 1: I mean you got it, so you know the food
Speaker 1: save with bags of vacuum seals. You got a clip
Speaker 1: side and you gotta side that it looked like I
Speaker 1: might have one in this motherfucker I see this.
Speaker 4: We actually might.
Speaker 1: Make It's like but there's like a rough side. It's
Speaker 1: a rougher side to it. It's not it's not transparent
Speaker 1: like the other side. You want to take the rabbit food,
Speaker 1: you want to break it apart. So because it comes
Speaker 1: like thinking coming like a block, but you want to
Speaker 1: kind of like break it up, give it the texture,
Speaker 1: like butt it up.
Speaker 4: You get what I'm saying. You drop it in that bitch.
Speaker 1: And then you take the side that ain't clear, and
Speaker 1: you you flip that around. You seal one of them.
Speaker 1: You take the side that it ain't clean. You flip
Speaker 1: it around, so you make both sides the rough side.
Speaker 1: Now now ain't no cliar side. You drop it in
Speaker 1: that bitch while it's ceiling. You want to leave room
Speaker 1: in a while it's ceiling. You want to shape it.
Speaker 1: You want to give it the shape I'm taking.
Speaker 4: You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my boy, young Scooter by the way,
Speaker 1: like you know this I picked up on this game
Speaker 1: listening to his music back in the Yeah, when I
Speaker 1: met him, I told him, man, I done finessed a
Speaker 1: lot of niggas. God damn fucking around with you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so you want to you want to form it up
Speaker 1: and shape it. You get what I'm saying. And uh,
Speaker 1: and you so now it's it's double sealed or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then when you go to show it to a nigga,
Speaker 1: you ask them if they want to pop it over.
Speaker 1: That's the thing like I was already. I was already
Speaker 1: doing my thing like that before a lot of niggas,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like where I'm at, So like, motherfuckers,
Speaker 1: this is before people knew you could even in my city,
Speaker 1: that you could even go to Walmart and buy a
Speaker 1: damn vacuum sealer. Like they didn't even know that that
Speaker 1: the food saver exists. So they was fascinated with This
Speaker 1: is before the little big bags they got the labels
Speaker 1: on them. Now, this is way before all that shit.
Speaker 1: This is what the niggas this, this doing airy thing
Speaker 1: with that ship. Now they was in fucking elementary school
Speaker 1: when I was doing you know what I'm saying, when
Speaker 1: I was doing this shit. But yeah, you want to
Speaker 1: already have you some some pressure, some good some real
Speaker 1: good gas in your hand.
Speaker 4: Hey, this is what it is.
Speaker 1: And I jump in the passage the seat of the
Speaker 1: car and I got them popping on here on me,
Speaker 1: pop it up.
Speaker 4: But like I was saying, I'll give you context.
Speaker 1: They were so fascinated with it they would want to
Speaker 1: ride around and show it to people. They just wanted
Speaker 1: to show people the vacuum city, Like hey, right, They
Speaker 1: felt like it was fucking uh, what's my boy name?
Speaker 4: Uh? Uh Boston? Uh? What was his name? Boston George?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: They thought they felt like they was him or motherfucking
Speaker 1: hel Choppo or something. It just felt like a trap
Speaker 1: star when they had the whole vacuum seal, so a
Speaker 1: lot of no, no, no, I don't own open it,
Speaker 1: don't they sweet?
Speaker 3: Because I don't have a vacuum seal, right, so every.
Speaker 4: Sealing sweet, right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: But yeah, the ones that did want to pop it
Speaker 1: open our boom act like I'm popping it open, and
Speaker 1: act like I'm going in to get in the handful
Speaker 1: of shit. I already got bought up in my boom,
Speaker 1: and they hed, yeah, heah, y okay, bothered up.
Speaker 4: I don't even need to see it.
Speaker 1: And then I get out, go get in my car.
Speaker 1: I don't even pull off fast, sit there for a
Speaker 1: second and I just drive off slowly and it's all good.
Speaker 3: It never bit you in the ass.
Speaker 4: Bous, Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1: I remember one time when I started rapping, we did
Speaker 1: a show somewhere. We came outside of like every car
Speaker 1: we brought up. There was a lot we had like
Speaker 1: ten different cars, if ten now maybe like not about
Speaker 1: ten different cars, but every car that we rolled in
Speaker 1: the tires was uh.
Speaker 4: Oh shit, yeah, we ain't know what it was. I
Speaker 4: thought it was just just.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, sounds like a girl, but.
Speaker 1: But she ain't really had no reason to do that
Speaker 1: besides me, like probably like you know, for like a
Speaker 1: week or two and I did I said something too it.
Speaker 1: I definitely thought it was her, but I don't think
Speaker 1: that was her, So I.
Speaker 3: Probably probably someone who got their get back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they don't like maybe like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like a week or two after that, it was like
Speaker 1: a note on the on the door at the crib
Speaker 1: that we stayed in, like, and it said something about like.
Speaker 4: The niggai that I from that.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, you know, but if you could
Speaker 1: do I'll let you might as well, you know, do
Speaker 1: something for real. So I wasn't tripping, but definitely, like
Speaker 1: I say, like, and that's why, you know, any any
Speaker 1: losses I didn't took, man, I didn't, you know, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't did my fair share of handing out. Well,
Speaker 1: so it's all good, you know, for sure. I know
Speaker 1: how this should go for real, for real.
Speaker 3: Everything it all comes back around.
Speaker 1: Many Yeah, ain't no lick, don't know lick you know,
Speaker 1: not come with a lick on the back end.
Speaker 4: It don't even work like that.
Speaker 3: Sure, if this is a mixtape, how the is it
Speaker 3: a mix?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: Because I feel like you do have some like records
Speaker 3: on here for real.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I I know you say the album is coming too,
Speaker 2: So it's like the album done, is it?
Speaker 3: Because I know you know that.
Speaker 4: Nah, it ain't.
Speaker 1: It ain't done because like me, like you know, I
Speaker 1: wanted to be two times as good as this, and
Speaker 1: this is an amazing body of work, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So it ain't done. But I definitely.
Speaker 1: Already got like I had to not put out dozens
Speaker 1: of songs just to be able to package this in
Speaker 1: the fourteen songs, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So I definitely I got plenty of music.
Speaker 1: But I'm all about like current energy right now and
Speaker 1: just everything being on the exact same frequence that I'm
Speaker 1: like currently on.
Speaker 3: You know how many videos are in the camp for
Speaker 3: this project.
Speaker 1: I already shot too, already shot too, but I'm getting
Speaker 1: ready to and I didn't even want to lead off with.
Speaker 4: Like the videos, like how I usually do.
Speaker 1: You know, I usually come with the video like before
Speaker 1: that the people even choose to hit they gonna wait
Speaker 1: on the video that I put out and do it
Speaker 1: like that. So I usually lead off with the video,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to do a little bit different. I
Speaker 1: did the video for the intro just because that set
Speaker 1: the tone for the whole project in a minute. But
Speaker 1: aside from that, like you know, I wanted the people
Speaker 1: really be able to sit with just the music for
Speaker 1: a week, you get what I'm saying, because we got
Speaker 1: so much catching up to do, like I said, and
Speaker 1: have been like three years inside of being able to
Speaker 1: put my heart into a project. So you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like me and the and the supporters and then
Speaker 1: the listeners, they they really they need somewhat of an introduction,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, a reintroduction. I'm sorry of
Speaker 1: me as a person, you know what I mean, aside
Speaker 1: from the artist and then that way moving forward, you know,
Speaker 1: we understand, we understand who we're dealing with.
Speaker 4: We understand each other. Yo.
Speaker 2: I know you've talked about this to with Sen recently,
Speaker 2: So I don't want to get into the specifics, But
Speaker 2: I'm curious can you share with me because I feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, to shout out to h to Arnold, who
Speaker 2: I think has done a good job of just artist
Speaker 2: development over the years, so with obviously with yourself to
Speaker 2: but I feel like you also as a CEO when
Speaker 2: you know, billion Dollar Baby Entertainment was you know, let's
Speaker 2: say two three years ago, you were doing such a
Speaker 2: great job of doing the same thing. Is there any
Speaker 2: lessons you learned when it comes to putting so much
Speaker 2: into other artists and then kind of being in the
Speaker 2: situation now where you're not necessarily working with anybody, but
Speaker 2: you put so much into so many different people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what I'm saying, yess a lesson to be learned.
Speaker 1: Don't do it? You get what I'm saying, don't do it?
Speaker 1: Like and not only that, like cause I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I don't regret nothing that I done did for nobody.
Speaker 1: I'm always do something for whoever I could do something for.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. It could be a strange
Speaker 4: off the street.
Speaker 1: It could be an artist that I'm not, you know,
Speaker 1: in business with and it's not signed to me. Like,
Speaker 1: if I see something in them, you get what I'm
Speaker 1: saying that I did. I admire, I see qualities, I
Speaker 1: see potential, Like I would easily tell them, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like what's on my mind. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna have some on my mind and look at them
Speaker 1: and then let them, you know what i mean, do
Speaker 1: anything else outside of like I'm gonna at least give
Speaker 1: them information. Whether or not if they use it, that's
Speaker 1: on them. But I just simply wouldn't do it. Like
Speaker 1: they gotta Like main thing is like they gotta they
Speaker 1: gotta be just is dedicated to this shit, committed to
Speaker 1: this shit, you know, and ready to make the sacrifice
Speaker 1: and put their own work in and not letting that
Speaker 1: stop them. They got to be They got to have
Speaker 1: all what I'm saying qualities just as much as I
Speaker 1: got them in order for me to you know, split
Speaker 1: my energy and my attention and my focus, and and
Speaker 1: my money.
Speaker 4: And your band with from and my bandwid right, all
Speaker 4: that shit. You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's why you know, I'm in a
Speaker 1: space now where I'm just really I got I got
Speaker 1: too much to do for me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And the people that I'm really responsible for not people
Speaker 1: who I made my who I took on the responsibility.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, obviously, the last few years has
Speaker 2: to also kind of be like whatever you were going through.
Speaker 2: Obviously been through a lot personally emotionally, you know, your
Speaker 2: brother passed and your dad passing twenty nineteen, the role
Speaker 2: of loud shit. But you also, I think we're probably
Speaker 2: able to like focus on being a part of like
Speaker 2: your kids' lives in their in the early development developmental years,
Speaker 2: while kind of I guess maybe taking a step back
Speaker 2: in terms of like like you said, you kind of
Speaker 2: lost a little bit of the passion of for the yeah,
Speaker 2: for creating, but you're never gonna lose a passion of
Speaker 2: being a father right now.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. You know it allowed me more time to do that.
Speaker 1: I mean I was always you know, hands on and
Speaker 1: always you know what I mean. You had some new kids,
Speaker 1: nothing plenty plenty. I got four, now, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. When I when the world first caught wind
Speaker 1: to me, when I first took over the world, I
Speaker 1: had one baby girl, you get what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: she didn't been around this shit since she since she
Speaker 1: was one years old. You know what I mean, but
Speaker 1: not definitely. I like, on hindsight, like I look at
Speaker 1: the shit, it's a blessing because it gave me more
Speaker 1: time to, you know, focus on on the shit that
Speaker 1: really matter. And most importantly, like you know, when you
Speaker 1: around that type of love like you don't it don't
Speaker 1: it's not a pure form of love, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So if I'm around my kids and then
Speaker 1: I boom step back out into this world or get
Speaker 1: around these niggas out here whatever, like I can immediately
Speaker 1: see the difference. You get what I'm saying, like it
Speaker 1: ain't even know you know, I already do you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like I already know what's going on.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's like, you know, way less,
Speaker 1: way less put into that. Because me, when I put
Speaker 1: my mind to something like I'm on that ain't it
Speaker 1: ain't too much that can stop me.
Speaker 4: So if I.
Speaker 1: Tell myself I'm gonna change your motherfucker life, like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stop it nothing like I'm willing to, you know,
Speaker 1: bet the house on changing the motherfucker life, Like that's
Speaker 1: what I do. You get what I'm saying, Like I
Speaker 1: don't I stand firm in that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And I really just do it based off like me,
Speaker 1: like if a motherfucker believe in me, like I stop
Speaker 1: it nothing to prove them, right, right, you give what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's like I owe him. I owed him that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like, that's just a principle
Speaker 1: I stand on as a man, you know, So I
Speaker 1: expect the same in return, you know, from other motherfuckers.
Speaker 4: And that's probably something like that I shouldn't, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean? Yeah, I mean, yeah, it just don't
Speaker 4: work like that.
Speaker 3: Not everybody. You can't hold people to your own standard.
Speaker 1: Because it's absolutely that's what I do, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I expect people to operate at the same
Speaker 1: standard as me, Like my standard is normal in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or for them, and it ain't, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So what would be like for anybody who's you know, grinding,
Speaker 2: whether it's being an artist, being in the entertainment industry,
Speaker 2: just having you know, two full time jobs or whatever
Speaker 2: it is you do such a good job of like
Speaker 2: work life balance when it comes to still being very
Speaker 2: present in your kids lives, Like what would be advice
Speaker 2: you would give to like help help with the work
Speaker 2: life balance if someone's watching.
Speaker 1: This, I mean, you know, most importantly, like doing something
Speaker 1: that you that you thoroughly enjoyed doing, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And then your kids are gonna see that.
Speaker 1: Like my kids can tell like when I enjoy making
Speaker 1: music like that's that's generally like the music that they enjoy, yeah,
Speaker 1: listening to or whatever. You know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: it's it's just a full certain thing. It's really just
Speaker 1: leading by example, you know what I'm saying. And I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm blessed to be in a position of where
Speaker 1: my kids, especially you know, my oldest child, the one
Speaker 1: who has enough understanding to be able to process the
Speaker 1: shit you.
Speaker 4: Give them something like what's going on the child now seven? Yeah,
Speaker 4: no for sure, but she said she's a whole she
Speaker 4: grew up in and this for sure, Yeah she ain't.
Speaker 1: You know, she had different breed, so you know, to
Speaker 1: be able to to be blessed enough to have it
Speaker 1: to where my child love what I do, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean?
Speaker 4: And she and and what I do?
Speaker 1: Uh, I just kind of like spoken this ship yesterday,
Speaker 1: Like I let my kids choose like you know what
Speaker 1: they gravitate towards within within my career. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't force nothing on them, Like I'm not about to
Speaker 1: get in the car and play my music, play my
Speaker 1: music for them. I'm not doing that. Like my daughter,
Speaker 1: like I get in the car and play any one
Speaker 1: of these niggas, she turn that off. Play your music
Speaker 1: like that's that's what she's going to say, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: thousand percent.
Speaker 4: She don't want to hear nothing else. I don't want
Speaker 4: to hear me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's dope, because I feel like most rappers
Speaker 2: kids want.
Speaker 3: To listen to like Playboy, Cardi or somebody else.
Speaker 1: You feel me, like whoever they listen to to my baby? Nah,
Speaker 1: she reminds me. She reminded me what she likes.
Speaker 3: Tell you what song like the unreleased that.
Speaker 1: The one song with the go like this, And I'm like, like, damn,
Speaker 1: like I made that shit a year ago, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like I forgot I had it, Like
Speaker 1: I was supposed to put that on the tape, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So was there any songs like that that made it
Speaker 2: that you were like that were just old that you like, not.
Speaker 1: The oldest song on that bitch is Can't keep Keisha
Speaker 1: And I just made that like what like maybe like
Speaker 1: March April, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the oldest one. The rest of it, you know.
Speaker 2: I just made Yo talk to me about this, this
Speaker 2: this lawsuit with Danny's brother, which is pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: I don't know nothing about it. Man, you threatened you
Speaker 4: on the internet. Yeah, I don't see that going well
Speaker 4: for the for the man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And then approached you after he threatened you.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand the threatening me on camera with
Speaker 1: all different you know, I just.
Speaker 3: Don't know why you would sue somebody after that, Like, it.
Speaker 1: Just don't make sense. You're gonna have to pay them
Speaker 1: lawyer fees. My boy, they gonna they're gonna make you
Speaker 1: pay him too. I ain't making me paying that.
Speaker 3: Ship's crazy. It makes zero sense.
Speaker 4: Zero. That's gonna be the easiest case I never had
Speaker 4: to beat.
Speaker 2: What about you and young boy man? You guys dropped
Speaker 2: an underrated project. Yeah, shout out to him. He actually,
Speaker 2: I mean what I think they said. He he might
Speaker 2: be out in like a year and a half.
Speaker 4: Right, right, I'm glad that worked out in that way.
Speaker 2: But you guys dropped a project that I like, again,
Speaker 2: very slept on. I feel like it kind of you know,
Speaker 2: people who knew knew, and I know you guys worked
Speaker 2: to record the radio I think, but it was it
Speaker 2: was a great body of work. How did that album
Speaker 2: end up coming to be? And you guys are both
Speaker 2: kind of controversial in your own way.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've been a fan of Bruh music. Man
Speaker 1: like Bruh musically. That nigga, yeah, it ain't it ain't
Speaker 1: too many you know that, that that young nigga that
Speaker 1: he a bad motherfucker when it comes to music, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So that's that's really you know,
Speaker 1: one of the one of the handful of people that
Speaker 1: I do listen to anyways, you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So as a fan, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love Bruh music, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So, uh, that's one of the handful of people like
Speaker 1: that I that I listened to anyway. So when when
Speaker 1: the stars aligned and the opportunity presented it, stuff we
Speaker 1: we went to cook up.
Speaker 4: Then we just did a hope. We did autumn shits
Speaker 4: in like two days.
Speaker 1: It's funny you mentioned that I was in the store
Speaker 1: in Vegas the other day and they was playing like
Speaker 1: you know, I come, you come in the stores. Motherfuckers
Speaker 1: put your song on the ship, but it's the song
Speaker 1: that was playing, and then they played one off of that.
Speaker 4: I got a lot of music like that, bro.
Speaker 1: I'd be in random places and motherfuckers get to play
Speaker 1: them like and I'd be like damn, like.
Speaker 3: That's like that.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: So you know, in different music to touch you in
Speaker 1: a different way at a different time or whatever. So
Speaker 1: you know, I shut out the bruh. You know, we
Speaker 1: really and we had to do that a certain way,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean with like the restrictions up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like his probation and ship at the time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I went up to his house and they
Speaker 2: had to run a background check. His probation officer called
Speaker 2: me I had a charge from like I don't know,
Speaker 2: seven or eight years ago, and he like grilled me,
Speaker 2: like yo, what was this about? Like I like the top,
Speaker 2: you know, and I was like, yo, man, I was
Speaker 2: like fucking twenty three, Yeah, what you doing? I just
Speaker 2: lied to a cop, okay, but I got arrested for
Speaker 2: giving misinformation to a police officer and the cop was
Speaker 2: a dick. So I fucking spent the night in jail
Speaker 2: and then I ended up just pleading guilty because I
Speaker 2: was moving to Tampa to do radio, so if I
Speaker 2: was going to stay back and fight it, but but.
Speaker 3: It was like it was like a misty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't worth it, but you know it was
Speaker 2: crazy because I'm like, damn like like we both went
Speaker 2: up there and it was like, bro, you pull up
Speaker 2: to the gates, motherfuckers outside looking like call of duty.
Speaker 3: Uh soldiers out it.
Speaker 4: Got to have it together.
Speaker 3: Got to have it together. Man, one hundred yo.
Speaker 2: Talk to me about like, you know, I think it's
Speaker 2: dope that you're kind of like, you know, when you
Speaker 2: get on the other side of so much hurt, so
Speaker 2: much trauma that you've been through and just just just
Speaker 2: bullshit that you've been through to be able to launch
Speaker 2: this foundation in your brother's name, I think is really dope.
Speaker 3: And yeah, for sure, And I heard you.
Speaker 2: Tell Charlotte Mane that you were gonna try to try
Speaker 2: to go to therapy because you're gone yet.
Speaker 4: I do plan on it. One hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Can you feel like you have PTSD for some of
Speaker 3: the stuff that you've been through?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, before I ever touched the microphone,
Speaker 1: before I ever started rapping, for sure. And you know
Speaker 1: the world has seen plenty of shit since you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, and they did not see plenty of
Speaker 1: shit like you know, this ship that the world hadn't seen,
Speaker 1: hadn't been under the microscope, but like of the world,
Speaker 1: and you know that shit, that shit that didn't happen,
Speaker 1: you know that the world don't know about since I mean,
Speaker 1: we get to just say between the last five years,
Speaker 1: it run laps around that shit like it's been going
Speaker 1: down none stop with me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's plenty of shit.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of ship that I can you know, consider
Speaker 1: a factor to you know, me having whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it, you know what I mean, me being
Speaker 1: traumatized in whatever way or just affected me and my
Speaker 1: mental or whatever.
Speaker 3: Have you ever considered getting a clip outside.
Speaker 4: Of Charlotte, getting the crib outside of Charlotte? I had.
Speaker 1: I was about to get a spot out here prior
Speaker 1: to COVID hitting. No, I don't know, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't hear. To be honest, I don't. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: be somewhere in the southea, be someone you can have
Speaker 1: your guns and.
Speaker 3: Like maybe Florida or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I'm thinking about getting a spot in Miami.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But definitely, like I really
Speaker 1: would have left. Only reason why I ain't left first
Speaker 1: was my kids. Of course, you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I ain't want to be away from my baby, Like
Speaker 1: they have to leave and I go to where they're going.
Speaker 4: You get what I'm saying. But I ain't. So that
Speaker 4: was number one. You know what I'm saying. Just my
Speaker 4: people period, you know.
Speaker 1: But like with where I'm at right now, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like like you know, I just I
Speaker 1: see ship, you know, far more clear, like just like
Speaker 1: that thing else, like I'm a funk around have to
Speaker 1: be the one to leave. You get what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: right getting pick and choose who I take with me.
Speaker 3: I saw you at practice the Panthers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was after the game. That wouldn't practice, that
Speaker 4: was after.
Speaker 3: That was after the game. I saw you on the field.
Speaker 4: Though, Yeah, throwing missiles out there bitch.
Speaker 2: Shout out to uh, how we feel about Bryce young man?
Speaker 4: Is it? That's fucked up?
Speaker 1: Right after I'm out there throwing them past Ben my boy,
Speaker 1: I'm like, damns, Like, man, you you the reason why
Speaker 1: they And I'm like, no, I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 1: Don't you could have signed you as like as as
Speaker 1: the backup. Then I saw Bro the next game. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, but I definitely want I saw him. I'm like, Bro,
Speaker 1: keep your head up, fight through that ship, get back
Speaker 1: on that field.
Speaker 2: You know, because Andy Dalton came out and smoked the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Broirst I was at the Raiders game.
Speaker 1: My mama was at the wonder Just don't look good, right,
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, that ain't it. You want him to
Speaker 1: have the worst game of his life? God damn after
Speaker 1: they benched that nigga come out there. They went the
Speaker 1: first game of the season. But shout out the brother man,
Speaker 1: and you know, just anybody young and chasing it. And
Speaker 1: when you get your opportunity, man, you got to go
Speaker 1: all out. Fuck that, you gotta go all out, you know.
Speaker 1: But it ain't over. You know, it's far from over.
Speaker 1: I want it could tell you that. So you know,
Speaker 1: I ain't want to count nobody out.
Speaker 2: You know, you guys have the work like the you
Speaker 2: shouldn't comment on this, but maybe the worst owner in
Speaker 2: all sports perspectively. But that being said, you you J
Speaker 2: Cole and like you know, I don't know, Steph Curry
Speaker 2: should try to pull together and buy the Panthers.
Speaker 3: Hey man one day?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Which for thinking, I mean, or I could see you
Speaker 3: buying a piece of the Hornet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Hornets, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Baptist too, I mean, and I'm I'm having a great
Speaker 1: conversations with the Panthers now by the way too, Like
Speaker 1: you know, we're performing a partnership to where they allowed
Speaker 1: me to, you know, impact the organization culture land shit,
Speaker 1: which is something I feel like it's overdue from any
Speaker 1: sports team in the city.
Speaker 4: Like it just it makes no sense.
Speaker 1: They gotta they gotta understand that culture plays such a
Speaker 1: big part. And you know what I'm saying, the fans
Speaker 1: and just whatever. It's just gonna increase all things. It's
Speaker 1: gonna make you know, the team more appealing for players
Speaker 1: do want to come to all that type of ship,
Speaker 1: so be having to tell them, like bro, I can
Speaker 1: go to another city, right, now, and they gonna roll
Speaker 1: the red carpet out if I walk in that bitch like, yeah,
Speaker 1: my money ain't even gonna be good in there.
Speaker 4: You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: So it ain't no reason why I.
Speaker 3: Should they should sign you that you just sign you
Speaker 3: for a day exactly.
Speaker 4: It's simple. You know, even if.
Speaker 2: It's preseason next year, would you go out there and
Speaker 2: take like try to try to run a.
Speaker 4: Drive hold on you talking about the Panthers.
Speaker 3: Let's say the Panthers sign you.
Speaker 4: Nigga ain't about to tackle me out that bitch.
Speaker 3: Bro I'm saying, like her fourth quarter preseason not.
Speaker 4: But they'll kill you, like are smarty.
Speaker 1: I gotta do. I gotta do something else like I can't.
Speaker 1: But you like quarterback, Yeah, quarterback, it gotta be shotgun formation.
Speaker 4: You gotta be shot I'm bombing that. You could just
Speaker 4: throw it. Yeah, I'm bombing that bitch and I'm running
Speaker 4: the opposite way.
Speaker 3: Throw that bitch, throw Johnson.
Speaker 4: I just do it like a late hit on me.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to set an example what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and just take the little fifteen yard penalty.
Speaker 4: Any tour stuff on the way Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Definitely plan on getting back out here and going back
Speaker 1: on tour. I definitely I wanted to museic the lead
Speaker 1: at the music. I could have went up with a tour,
Speaker 1: with an underplay tour whatever, like right there with the project,
Speaker 1: or probably like right before I dropped the project, but
Speaker 1: I opted out of doing it, like it ain't. It
Speaker 1: ain't something that I that I want to force.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I want to really reintroduce myself to the listeners and
Speaker 1: the fans and let them let the music lead everything.
Speaker 4: You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, so we'll we'll be talking about a
Speaker 1: tour real soon and announcaying you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: the way I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna go out.
Speaker 2: You know something I always wondered when you and a
Speaker 2: little Baby did the baby record on the QC project
Speaker 2: at that time, you guys are both just meteorically rising
Speaker 2: simultaneously similar names. Did you guys ever talk about doing
Speaker 2: like a whole a whole?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: We did talk about doing a collab project for a
Speaker 1: certain amount of time. We definitely was talking about this
Speaker 1: year for a certain amount of time. Put any time
Speaker 1: we were so oh yeah, you guys were Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we ain't. We never got in the same place. Like
Speaker 1: we had talked about me coming to Atlanta for a
Speaker 1: couple of days and I'm coming up my way for
Speaker 1: a couple of days and just knocking that shit out.
Speaker 1: But at the time we both so b boom boom boom.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying it. The star has never
Speaker 1: aligned for us to be would have, God damn to
Speaker 1: get into it and do the ship. But that's something
Speaker 1: I'm definitely open to another anybody who you know, I love.
Speaker 1: I love the opportunity to create with anybody who's doing
Speaker 1: their motherfucking thing and and the best of the best.
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, it's an automatic It's an
Speaker 1: automatic win when it comes to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well listen, the album is out, man, everybody.
Speaker 1: How to focus. It's a mix, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But I love to wait it, you know, I love
Speaker 1: to wait.
Speaker 3: It was like an.
Speaker 4: Album and I love it. I love it. I shouldn't
Speaker 4: even corrected it.
Speaker 3: Have you picked a single yet?
Speaker 4: I haven't. I wanted to. I went.
Speaker 1: I mean, I already knew what what fact I mean,
Speaker 1: I know what's up with a song like Fat.
Speaker 4: You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And that's why I refused to lead off with it,
Speaker 1: because I could have laid off with Fat a month
Speaker 1: ago right like I already had it on fire. It
Speaker 1: would increase first week sales all that other ship. You
Speaker 1: get what I'm saying that I don't give a fuck
Speaker 1: about this go right, You see what I'm saying because
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to lead with a record like that,
Speaker 1: and it put me in a box like it's no
Speaker 1: song on there that can represent the project in its entirety.
Speaker 1: So I made it a point not to approach the
Speaker 1: conventional way as far as a rollout or whatever. My
Speaker 1: favorite that a bitch for sure, for sure, Like I'm
Speaker 1: more so you know what i mean on records like that.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Shit, this this timeless shit
Speaker 1: that you know that connect with the soul and resonate
Speaker 1: with people in and let them know about the person.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying and where the person is
Speaker 1: right now? Aside from that, like and because you know me,
Speaker 1: like even coming in the game, like people was in
Speaker 1: love with me as a person.
Speaker 3: No, you know, and like yo, they just like you're
Speaker 3: a character right exactly.
Speaker 4: So it's like it's really like the best of both words.
Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, when I when I get
Speaker 1: in the space the way okay to where I'm not
Speaker 1: really smelling all the other ship and I'm throwing out
Speaker 1: singles or whatever, and I'm doing this and that, but
Speaker 1: I'm not doing press. I'm not letting people hear me
Speaker 1: talk here where I'm at mentally, here where I'm at spiritually.
Speaker 1: You give what I'm saying, and all this shit, you know,
Speaker 1: it just all they got is is what they being given.
Speaker 1: And if they being fed all the bullshit you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying in the media and the negativity, you know,
Speaker 1: then then that leave me responsible for people being disconnected
Speaker 1: with me as a person and like looking at me
Speaker 1: and thinking of me in the light that that does.
Speaker 4: Not represent me at all. You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So I take full accountability for that ship and and
Speaker 1: I'm back with you know, unapologetic bodies of work and
Speaker 1: shit is completely authentic to me.
Speaker 4: Man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I love that, man, for sure. Body work is crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody should go go run it up, man, man.
Speaker 2: Buy it on iTunes for sure you can stream it
Speaker 2: with you what you want, as long as you're here's
Speaker 2: some money on it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: If I get you to, if I get you to
Speaker 4: put your it to it, I got you.
Speaker 2: I just talked to Tuesy about this yesterday because he
Speaker 2: said something ridiculous about it. He was gonna quit rap
Speaker 2: if he didn't sell twenty thousand the first.
Speaker 1: I just ran into him in the hallways serious ex
Speaker 1: him yesterday and I told that nigga man better not
Speaker 1: let these motherfuckers.
Speaker 3: Isn't it say?
Speaker 4: Like you off your pivot.
Speaker 2: Bro, You're dropping a mixtape with really no medium single.
Speaker 2: Do you like give a fuck about the first week numbers?
Speaker 3: I'm even looking.
Speaker 4: I mean I could have I know how to I
Speaker 4: know how to go about that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like I could have blew up fat on TikTok a
Speaker 1: month ago, right, you know what I'm saying, teas that
Speaker 1: that that would be the hottest song out right now,
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: It felt like you just dropped.
Speaker 1: That's what I did very much, So that's exactly what
Speaker 1: I did. I just dropped a fourteen track body of work.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying, I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: put out a fucking album with fourteen songs on it
Speaker 1: if it wasn't the Deluxe you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I usually like twelve.
Speaker 1: I like stand in that number, you know, to not
Speaker 1: letting thathing go over their head. But I'm just so
Speaker 1: you know, confident in the body of work and arrange
Speaker 1: did it show you know that I boom, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck that, Like that's how I'm coming. I'm
Speaker 1: really my whole my entire approach right now was like
Speaker 1: like I don't know how I'm gonna eat tomorrow type shit,
Speaker 1: Like I'm coming like that, Like I'm not a new artist.
Speaker 4: I'm not true exactly.
Speaker 1: So that with the with the level of the music
Speaker 1: that I'm putting out, and you know, with just the
Speaker 1: way that I already I'm already accustomed to hustling like that,
Speaker 1: Like that's what I prefer it'd be when I'm when
Speaker 1: I'm not hustling like that, that's when the other shit
Speaker 1: get in and getting away and you know, knock me
Speaker 1: off my mother fucking pivot.
Speaker 4: But I'm back in the space.
Speaker 3: And you make it. I feel like you're making music
Speaker 3: for your fans.
Speaker 4: Absolutely that not for the hater's not for the next say.
Speaker 1: It's like, I really, you know, I got lost in
Speaker 1: the saucer and fell into a phase where I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm addressing and and and you know, putting in work
Speaker 1: for the motherfuckers who who don't want the ship in
Speaker 1: the worst place. We don't appreciate it right exactly. So
Speaker 1: it's like, what the fuck am I doing? You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? And you know, not only that, like
Speaker 1: like I've been, I've been taking every opportunity I get
Speaker 1: to thank the fans for holding me accountable, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean over them three years, not letting me
Speaker 1: get away with just dropping a motherfucking so and it's
Speaker 1: a hit and having a fire visual on and got
Speaker 1: them sitting back and then hey, nigga, nah fuck that
Speaker 1: we know what you they know what I'm capable of delivering.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying, Yeah, baby talk hotline Definitely
Speaker 1: when I open up the lines, let the fans call
Speaker 1: in to me and got them just connect with me directly.
Speaker 1: It's ship like that did really take it back to
Speaker 1: the roots of me and they skip around all the
Speaker 1: bullshit like motherfuckers shouldn't have to come to a.
Speaker 3: Blog site to get a story about you, to get a.
Speaker 1: Story about me, like and then it ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: it anyway. It's gonna be bullshit anyway. You know, it's
Speaker 1: gonna have to surveday purpose. So you know, I definitely
Speaker 1: leave it up to me and and take that responsibility
Speaker 1: much much more serious as I did coming in the door.
Speaker 1: But I take it much more serious now, and I'm
Speaker 1: committed to just making sure that you know, you don't
Speaker 1: got to go nowhere else to find out how I'm feeling.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you know, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: from the music, the the you know, the the shit
Speaker 1: that I do. I'm only having real deal, authentic conversations
Speaker 1: with motherfucker, Like, I ain't nothing you know, fabricated or
Speaker 1: intended to the you know, to satisfy any of the
Speaker 1: the shit that you know that don't really matter, the
Speaker 1: cliche shit you know, making it, making a project look
Speaker 1: like it has an impact of this or that, Like, nah,
Speaker 1: I dropped by the fuckers. It's a mixtape. All my
Speaker 1: old holes is calling me out of nowhere. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Old potners is reaching out quoting the songs.
Speaker 1: Niggas ain't niggas did We didn't. I thought we didn't
Speaker 1: did some shit. We can be in prison right now
Speaker 1: twenty years before, but we didn't. You know, we didn't
Speaker 1: grew apart or whatever. These niggas is yeah, hitting me,
Speaker 1: quoting the records and shit. I ain't talk to these niggas.
Speaker 1: Ain't said happy birthday to each other three four years
Speaker 1: like that type of shit. Niggas that we've been talking
Speaker 1: to each other mamas. We've been checking on each other mamas,
Speaker 1: but not each other type shit like yeah, these type relationships.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying. They hitting me, quoting the
Speaker 1: lyrics and shit. So I know the impact of it.
Speaker 1: Nigga's mama was reaching out to tell me, motherfuckers forty
Speaker 1: fifty years old. I cried when I when I saw
Speaker 1: you know this interview. I cried when I listened to
Speaker 1: this song. I'm so proud of you this and that
Speaker 1: the whoop. So I know the impact of putting out
Speaker 1: real music and that ship can't be clouded or measured
Speaker 1: by none of the ship. This this fucking controlled out here,
Speaker 1: and you know what I'm saying, and manipulated to serve
Speaker 1: whatever purpose it serves.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You guys got through hurricane okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it ain't really hit Charlotte like that. It hit
Speaker 1: it hit different areas.
Speaker 3: I don't hit like Ashville.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So that's that's a little pretty bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little space between us and them. So you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully everybody they're doing okay. And with the ship, I'm
Speaker 1: saying it's supposed to be coming up in Florida hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: My.
Speaker 2: Tampa and the central Florida, the west coast floor is
Speaker 2: about to get fucking Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just seen some of the they talking about evacuating
Speaker 1: the whole. I've seen somewhere that it made The mayor
Speaker 1: said if you stay, you gonna die.
Speaker 4: Yeah, god damn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fucked. And then all the gas stations are
Speaker 3: out of gas.
Speaker 2: So it's like if you got into your car, you're like,
Speaker 2: I need to go get some gas to get the
Speaker 2: fuckup out of here.
Speaker 4: You got nowhere to go. I had this cyber truck
Speaker 4: and test.
Speaker 3: Then you got to stay thirty minutes to oh yeah
Speaker 3: it's oh ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Prayers out to them.
Speaker 2: Man, Hey, did Elon like, well, no, Elon retweeted the
Speaker 2: album cover.
Speaker 4: You saw that tweet? Yeah, y'all wrapping outside truck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all wrapping, y'alls putting the rims on it my factory, Elon.
Speaker 1: I funck with Elon. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little flex so Elon fuck with me.
Speaker 3: You gotta chop it up all now.
Speaker 1: I ain't even I ain't overplay it. I ain't do
Speaker 1: too much. I ain't reach out. Hey, what's up man?
Speaker 1: None of this ship. I reached out on some funny
Speaker 1: ship like a couple of days after, like, hey, the
Speaker 1: album sounds great in the cyber truck.
Speaker 4: If you have If you're jet laying this, Charlotte, let
Speaker 4: me know. I pick you up. We can ride to it.
Speaker 4: But I ain't overplayed.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it that, you know, just the reposting him
Speaker 1: him fucking with the dope ass album cover taking by
Speaker 1: my boy Jojo.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, that was dope, Just to
Speaker 4: note it.
Speaker 1: You know, the innova, innovative mind such as his, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, can admire something that me and
Speaker 1: a couple of people that I'm locked in and I
Speaker 1: work with put together it's crazy. Now, that's dope because
Speaker 1: it's a thousand pictures of cyber trucks, this and that.
Speaker 1: The nigga reposted a whole fucking editorial of the upcoming album.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying. So that's a different type
Speaker 1: of thing. He could have just hit the reposts, but
Speaker 1: he like, nah, you know.
Speaker 3: Do you like the truck?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love it, bro It easily became my favorite,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, neglecting all my other whips fastest, hell.
Speaker 3: Faster, and they just I don't know if you've updated
Speaker 3: it yet.
Speaker 4: I ain't updated.
Speaker 1: I've been seeing up the full stuff driving it's on
Speaker 1: and get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 4: Let me here, you get my ass home.
Speaker 3: The only thing, though, they give you strikes.
Speaker 2: If you my boy told me, if you they got
Speaker 2: the camera in the car and a warning.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But if you like, I got four strikes in the
Speaker 2: first two, ask once you get the fifth striker to
Speaker 2: take it away from a weed and sh no, you
Speaker 2: can smoke.
Speaker 3: But if like you look down at your phone text
Speaker 3: and but that ship will drive you like if you're.
Speaker 2: Like, I mean, I'm not obviously nobody should drunk drive,
Speaker 2: but I mean, you should drunk driving the Tesla if
Speaker 2: you're going to that's crazy. Anyway, listen, I appreciate you
Speaker 2: bro the album. And then how can people donate to
Speaker 2: the new foundation?
Speaker 4: Is it up?
Speaker 1: I don't even think we got to wait to donate
Speaker 1: to it really with me, like it's more so we'll
Speaker 1: probably definitely have like you know what I mean, avenues
Speaker 1: and people to take to do that, like in the
Speaker 1: near future. I'm ready to do an activation for it
Speaker 1: at a at a local high school in Charlotte tomorrow
Speaker 1: after tomorrow and then we'll we'll get it popping from there.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna definitely keep people updated when it comes
Speaker 1: to that, and a lot of people that it's crazy
Speaker 1: you asked me that because and then especially like since
Speaker 1: the project and all that, and since I've been talking
Speaker 1: about it, it happened to just come together around the same
Speaker 1: time did the project, because I wanted to drop the
Speaker 1: project last time I talked to you, like I wanted
Speaker 1: to drop the project. Then Labor Day weekend, you get
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even trying to wait, you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: want to wait and do the let's put out a single,
Speaker 1: this and that type shit. I was not on that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So you know, I really
Speaker 1: just kind of just waited it out and just dropped
Speaker 1: a cold turkey.
Speaker 4: Anyways at the end of the month.
Speaker 1: But with that being said, like since I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't announce the organization and shit, a lot of people
Speaker 1: reached out to me, hell like, how can I be
Speaker 1: a part of it? Let me know when and this
Speaker 1: and that. So I'm definitely looking forward to, you know,
Speaker 1: the people I can bring together and the resources I
Speaker 1: can create for people to, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: navigate through their own mental health journey and keep some
Speaker 1: people's families from going through the ship in my family.
Speaker 2: Last thing, you have this relationship with fifty, He just
Speaker 2: opens my nigga intreport this this new studio, you have
Speaker 2: to do a series. You know, we got Breaking Bad,
Speaker 2: which was about like meth. You know, by the way
Speaker 2: you watch Breaking Bad.
Speaker 4: I ain't seen Breaking Pain like Ozark.
Speaker 2: Ozark okay whatever, that's about washing money and heroin and
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 4: I got into that in COVID.
Speaker 3: I feel like you need to executive producer and write.
Speaker 2: A show about moving packs in like the early twenty
Speaker 2: tens in the South.
Speaker 4: I definitely got plenty of it. Yeah, I definitely work
Speaker 4: with fifty.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's an untold story.
Speaker 4: Facts. Yeah, facts, I'm into that. I'm into it, just gotta.
Speaker 3: I mean, just call fifty, say, let let's do this.
Speaker 1: Shot you too, I'm call your rich. Put up a million,
Speaker 1: put up a million. Care let's split through as it
Speaker 1: looking like I don't.
Speaker 3: I can put up a hundred.
Speaker 4: Get it. Look we put it together.
Speaker 3: You can play a cop, play a dirty cop, Yeah
Speaker 3: I can.
Speaker 2: I can play play a dirty cop, or I could
Speaker 2: play drug addicts.
Speaker 4: It's whatever.
Speaker 2: All my family is drug addicts. If you need a crackhead,
Speaker 2: I know, I know the mannerisms.
Speaker 4: So we know how it goes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I'm saying. There is baby. I
Speaker 3: appreciate you, but I.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you having me. Bro Always love Bro Booth