Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Morning everybody. It's the j n V.
Speaker 3: Jess hilarious Charlamage the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: We got a special guest in the building, legendary Jermaine Duprit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, going on, where you want to start?
Speaker 2: You want to start the number one congratulations on money Long.
Speaker 3: We can start with the number one, all right, number
Speaker 3: one records, money Long, number one record this week produced
Speaker 3: by j D.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's nothing to you, no more, there's nothing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm saying no, no, I'm saying I don't want
Speaker 4: to start with that. I came to talk about Freaknick. Congratulations.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I'm I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 4: a static about it. Yeah, you know it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Now let's talk about Freakney. This Freaknick documentary.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, when making a documentary, you had tons of ladies
Speaker 3: and men scared that they were going to see their pictures,
Speaker 3: their asses on the screen. But it was it was
Speaker 3: well done. It wasn't done in a disrespectful way. It
Speaker 3: was it was so explain to it, this documentary, how
Speaker 3: it came.
Speaker 1: Out, how it came up. Yeah, I mean it came about.
Speaker 1: I think Luke was trying.
Speaker 4: To do this initially, and then they started having conversations
Speaker 4: about it, and Luke said, you know, he can't do
Speaker 4: it if I wasn't involved. And then when they came
Speaker 4: to talk to me about it, I said the same
Speaker 4: thing to them. I'm like, well, I wouldn't do this
Speaker 4: if Luke wasn't involved, and they like, well, we got Luke,
Speaker 4: so we got you, and I'm like yeah. So it
Speaker 4: went from there, and then it just kind of just
Speaker 4: started moving pretty fast. And then I just wanted to
Speaker 4: make sure that the story was told from all perspectives
Speaker 4: because the people that was concerned about the ass is
Speaker 4: showing and all of that, they don't understand how young
Speaker 4: I was when Freaknick was actually popping. So my perspective
Speaker 4: of freak Nick wasn't that perspective. I ain't see all
Speaker 4: that because I wasn't able to get into the clubs
Speaker 4: and all of this type of stuff. So my perspective
Speaker 4: was I was part of the street traffic. I was
Speaker 4: out in the streets, I was dancing outside the cars,
Speaker 4: I was on p Street. I was that was a
Speaker 4: part of freak Nick, and I saw other people saw
Speaker 4: Luke got a different story than other people. So it's
Speaker 4: just really important for me to see make sure that
Speaker 4: we made you see everybody's different perspective.
Speaker 5: How much did y'all have to water to duck down
Speaker 5: because of this lame mass cancel culture.
Speaker 6: Era that week?
Speaker 1: None?
Speaker 4: Because I mean you, I feel like I feel like
Speaker 4: ultimately what people don't understand is this is black culture.
Speaker 1: Are you embarrassed by a culture? Like? Are you embarrassed
Speaker 1: that you went to an HBCU And this is how
Speaker 1: y'all act?
Speaker 4: If that, If that's how you feel, then you should
Speaker 4: just change your color of your skin, because this is
Speaker 4: that's life in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: We got four you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Where everywhere else got one, y'all got Hampton and one.
Speaker 1: We have four of them.
Speaker 4: So if you put all of that energy in one place,
Speaker 4: it's just what black culture is.
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I mean, how did how did twenty one Savage get
Speaker 4: to be a part of it?
Speaker 2: I know that this was y'all era, you and Uncle Luke,
Speaker 2: but how did.
Speaker 1: Well twenty one?
Speaker 4: He been doing his birthday party and the theme with
Speaker 4: his birthday party is freak nick for the past couple
Speaker 4: of years.
Speaker 1: So at first I was like no, But then you
Speaker 1: know he liveing in Atlanta.
Speaker 4: He from well, I mean, you know he's not from Atlanta,
Speaker 4: but he from basically from Atlanta.
Speaker 1: So if you're from Atlanta, you've.
Speaker 4: Been you felt the repercussions of something from Freaknick at
Speaker 4: some point.
Speaker 2: You know it's crazy because you know, going to Hampton.
Speaker 3: Of course, Freaknik created so many different uh gathereries right Philly,
Speaker 3: greg Fourth to July and Virginia Jones Beach, New York City.
Speaker 3: It all started for Freaknick. But I just thought it
Speaker 3: was a party that a party that was created just
Speaker 3: for people a while out. That's what I thought it
Speaker 3: was when when you were in college, that's what you
Speaker 3: think it was. But the fact that it was created
Speaker 3: for students that didn't have any money was something. You
Speaker 3: want to break that down because I thought it was
Speaker 3: created for a whole different reason.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean that's what I'm saying a lot of people.
Speaker 4: I didn't go to college, so I can't you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, I didn't know that either. So the
Speaker 4: the person that's watching this, that's probably me that didn't
Speaker 4: go to college. Uh, that don't know nothing about that lifestyle.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't understand that these kids that come
Speaker 4: from DC or New York or.
Speaker 1: Wherever they come, Nick all the way to Atlanta.
Speaker 4: You think that they got money to just fly back
Speaker 4: home on spring break.
Speaker 1: And just back then, we didn't fly.
Speaker 2: We would drive exactly.
Speaker 1: So it's like even that's another thing that that.
Speaker 4: This documentary shows of how unmanual we are as people. Unmanual, Yeah,
Speaker 4: unmanual because we are as people because you guys.
Speaker 1: Used to drive. Now when you think you're.
Speaker 4: Gonna see four girls from New York getting a car
Speaker 4: and drive to Atlanta just to have fun, no way,
Speaker 4: never their lies.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So it just shows you
Speaker 1: that type of stuff.
Speaker 4: And then like you know, so so you should see
Speaker 4: that freak Nick is like, oh, these were some kids
Speaker 4: that couldn't go home.
Speaker 1: They they didn't know what their spring break was gonna be.
Speaker 4: Like they watching all these white kids go to go
Speaker 4: to they on the beach and all this, and they
Speaker 4: got money. But these kids are stuck in Atlanta and
Speaker 4: ain't got no money. So they threw a picnic that
Speaker 4: turned into Freaknick. That's a that's an American black history story.
Speaker 6: Oh, people weren't afraid to be broke back then.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you have no true, no trust to
Speaker 1: be afraid.
Speaker 5: But no, nowadays people confront right, so everybody can pretend
Speaker 5: to something that you can pretend to.
Speaker 6: Have more than you got.
Speaker 5: Nobody wants to mean they just you know they I mean,
Speaker 5: well you yeah, you know, I'll be seeing these girls
Speaker 5: go to tuloom and I'm sure they sharing rooms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, matter like that didn't you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: It didn't matter Like you.
Speaker 3: Would go to you know, Philly Greek or Fourth of
Speaker 3: July and Virginia and it'd be seven of us in
Speaker 3: the room and nobody thought about anything. It wasn't we
Speaker 3: broke and be like, oh you got the floor, you
Speaker 3: got the eye, you take your quick shout. But that's
Speaker 3: what it was. It was all hanging out his brothers.
Speaker 3: It didn't matter.
Speaker 1: That's why I thought it was for me.
Speaker 4: That's why as we got into it, that's why I
Speaker 4: was like, this has to come out because people, you know,
Speaker 4: we don't we don't see this in black culture. We
Speaker 4: just keep trying to make it seem like everybody got
Speaker 4: money and everybody do this and nothing. No, it was
Speaker 4: a time when none of that mattered, right, And after
Speaker 4: I liked when Jalen Rose was somebo how he got
Speaker 4: to freak Nick. He he took his cousin car or something,
Speaker 4: and it was just like, you know, as long as
Speaker 4: I get a car, I'm out, we get into freaking it.
Speaker 4: And that was the same thing with me when I
Speaker 4: was seventeen or well six, chem I had just got
Speaker 4: my first car. My first car was a Valari, a
Speaker 4: two door Valori basically probably listening don't even know what
Speaker 4: that is. But it was an ugly ass car that
Speaker 4: looked like a Pacer mixed with something else, right, And I.
Speaker 1: Ain't care what the car looked like.
Speaker 4: I just was able to drive around Atlanta while this
Speaker 4: was happening.
Speaker 1: And that's all.
Speaker 4: That's ultimately what your the goal was. Can you get
Speaker 4: into the Freakingnick? Can you get into traffic? If you're
Speaker 4: sitting at home and you can't get it, and that's
Speaker 4: when you're mad. But if you have a car, that's
Speaker 4: what all. That's all it was about.
Speaker 2: It's crazy how.
Speaker 3: They easily cancel black events. Right while you look at
Speaker 3: Daytuna Beach, you look at Miami spring Break, you look
Speaker 3: at where the white kids go for their spring break
Speaker 3: and they wild out, they get drunk, they fight, and
Speaker 3: all types of stuff, but those events never get canceled.
Speaker 3: It seemed like they tried to tame it, but they
Speaker 3: just totally canceled freaking it, which is which is crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean they had to because it was it was bad.
Speaker 4: I mean, it got to a point now and I'm
Speaker 4: not talking about the misconduct with the guys and the girls.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about just the traffic and how the city
Speaker 4: was dealing with it, because ultimately, these guys that was
Speaker 4: at their school they started something. They never talked to
Speaker 4: the people in the city, so the city had no
Speaker 4: idea what was actually happening. When it got out of control,
Speaker 4: they just start trying to control it the best way
Speaker 4: they could. But they weren't even talking to the DC
Speaker 4: Metro Club, right, So it's like at that point, it's
Speaker 4: like it's like, uh, Frankenstein, You've gone created a monster
Speaker 4: and y'all can't control this. You got the only thing
Speaker 4: you can do is shut it down at least for
Speaker 4: a second and try to see if y'all can figure
Speaker 4: out how to make it work.
Speaker 2: Did it ever come back? No, And we tried a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. Now I don't think.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it could come back if you
Speaker 4: off people really really sit down and figure out how
Speaker 4: to make it into essence Fest, because that's basically what
Speaker 4: it should have become. It should have become the essence
Speaker 4: Fest of Atlanta, right. But the traffic part of it
Speaker 4: was that was the.
Speaker 5: Ship more than people who go to others now probably
Speaker 5: used to go to Freaking.
Speaker 1: All the black people was at Freaking.
Speaker 3: You just got to define the name because when people
Speaker 3: hear the name Freaknick, they think it's gonna be a yeah.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying we can get past that. We got
Speaker 1: Slutty Vegan now.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's too much cameras now, Yeah, but
Speaker 5: that's another thing.
Speaker 1: I think that that's That's the other thing. That's the
Speaker 1: only thing I would say.
Speaker 4: If you go to Freaknick, now, you gotta put your
Speaker 4: phone away because you have missed the girls dancing on
Speaker 4: the cars, like the fact that you was driving down
Speaker 4: the street and you were looking for everything.
Speaker 1: It's how you saw freaking it.
Speaker 4: If somebody down there doing this, you're gonna miss everything.
Speaker 1: So that's another thing you gotta you.
Speaker 4: Know, And maybe the hype of it and people saying
Speaker 4: it might make people want to see it. But I
Speaker 4: just think people are so like attached to their phones
Speaker 4: and they think everything is more important than their phone,
Speaker 4: as opposed and seeing what's happening outside.
Speaker 5: And how come nobody ever focuses on some of the
Speaker 5: women that went down there because they wanted to have
Speaker 5: a good time, Like they wanted to go out there
Speaker 5: and be loose and wild and liberated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked about that, Okay, we let the girls
Speaker 4: talk about that the show that they was grabbing the dudes.
Speaker 1: You know, you think Uncle.
Speaker 6: Luke's music helped hurt Freaking.
Speaker 1: I helped? You said, did it help?
Speaker 4: It helped between Uncle Luke and Social Based All Stars.
Speaker 1: That's the soundtrack of Freaknick, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And it was like.
Speaker 4: I think, I also think now with Miami shutting down,
Speaker 4: spring Break and all that, it's the music because the
Speaker 4: people don't You don't have nothing's making you dance, right,
Speaker 4: nothing making you jump on top of the cars. You
Speaker 4: see people doing it, but they doing it to music
Speaker 4: that don't really have that vibration. Right at Freakingnick, the
Speaker 4: girls was dancing so hard and the guys was dancing
Speaker 4: so hard.
Speaker 1: You ain't had time to be worrying about nobody beside like.
Speaker 4: It was a the energy level was just too high, right,
Speaker 4: And I just think the loop music, like I said,
Speaker 4: the social debased Allso the music was making you dance
Speaker 4: in a different space and it made you think about
Speaker 4: like you was like this and it wasn't You don't
Speaker 4: have time to be like hey niggas, No, no, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. We ain't come down here for that.
Speaker 4: We came down here to see these girls. Let's go
Speaker 4: see these girls.
Speaker 1: It's almost like the mentality of.
Speaker 4: A man when you go to the strip club. Right,
Speaker 4: I go to strip club every week. You go to
Speaker 4: the strip club. Guys don't come in the strip club
Speaker 4: looking for niggas, right, They come in the strip club
Speaker 4: to see the girls.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: That was the mentality a freak Knick, And for some reason,
Speaker 4: that's that's kind of lost in the space that we
Speaker 4: live in now.
Speaker 1: Niggas want to go see what other nigga's wearing.
Speaker 5: Speaking of that, speaking of that, if Freak Nick did
Speaker 5: come back to day, would you wear the boss Baby outfit?
Speaker 1: You wore the super Bowl boss Baby outfit?
Speaker 6: What was it? What was what was the What was
Speaker 6: the inspiration behind that outfit? Gee?
Speaker 4: First of all, I had on a tuck seed though
Speaker 4: with shorts very similar to what.
Speaker 1: I have on to day.
Speaker 4: I have on a tie, a regular suit shirt and
Speaker 4: I got on shorts.
Speaker 6: It's very boised men.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's Vegas, right, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It's it's a super Bowl. It's the biggest event in
Speaker 4: the world. I could have went up there with the
Speaker 4: started jacking and started hat how regular nigga is that?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 4: Like I'm just saying, I think sometimes people don't realize,
Speaker 4: like I'm in an entertainment business and I'm getting ready
Speaker 4: to do the biggest show of Usher's life, not in
Speaker 4: my life. I guess you want to say, We're going
Speaker 4: on the biggest stage in the world and I should
Speaker 4: be wearing a baseball cap and looking like a regular
Speaker 4: ass nigga in the streets. Nah, Nah, I don't. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that was the thought behind it, right. So it
Speaker 4: was more or less like you know, a while ago,
Speaker 4: like enviewer Man, we started this thing called the Ocean seven, right,
Speaker 4: and it was me Usher, John ta becox All. We
Speaker 4: used to go to Vegas and we got dressed and
Speaker 4: we'd be dressed up. So I wanted to actually have
Speaker 4: a piece of that in what we was doing that,
Speaker 4: you know, we in Vegas. Like, you don't go to
Speaker 4: Usher show. I've seen you at us show. You was
Speaker 4: dressed you you know what I mean. Niggas go to
Speaker 4: his show dressed up. You don't go to Vegas with
Speaker 4: your football on.
Speaker 1: You just don't do that.
Speaker 4: Like you didn't get people talking. Basically, no, I didn't
Speaker 4: do it to get people talking. I didn't even think
Speaker 4: nobody was gonna pay no attention to it. I had
Speaker 4: on a tux seed.
Speaker 1: Though with a tip and a regular shirt. The socks
Speaker 1: strew people off.
Speaker 3: They were talking about they't they didn't care about the tuck.
Speaker 3: They were talk about the socks.
Speaker 4: They were talking about the socks, right, and the socks
Speaker 4: once again, the socks. I understand why if I keep
Speaker 4: saying something about the socks, because they do look like
Speaker 4: I guess what they say the Bobby socks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they not. They don't have nothing to do
Speaker 1: with that. They don't look nothing like that.
Speaker 4: Once you get up on the socks and they also
Speaker 4: you know, like I said, it's just I don't know,
Speaker 4: it's my man's line right.
Speaker 1: First of all, that's another thing for else.
Speaker 4: My man ain't doubt niggas man, right, I don't notice nigga.
Speaker 4: So in support of my homeboy line, I mean, I
Speaker 4: wasn't even thinking about it.
Speaker 1: You know, it just happened.
Speaker 4: But I mean, shit, listen, I put my first group
Speaker 4: out of nineteen ninety two. I'm trending in twenty twenty four. Yeah,
Speaker 4: y'all can say whatever you want to say.
Speaker 6: They'll got number one records.
Speaker 5: What did User's Super Bowl halftime performance mean to you?
Speaker 1: Everything?
Speaker 6: As the architect, really, if we're being honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything. It means everything because when we made My.
Speaker 4: Way, the discussion, the discussion that he and I had
Speaker 4: making that record was that he.
Speaker 1: Wanted to get to that space.
Speaker 4: He wanted to and when he once he got to
Speaker 4: that space, he wanted people to realize he did it
Speaker 4: his way. That's how that whole album came about. So
Speaker 4: for me to be in that seat and watch it
Speaker 4: go from My Way to this, I probably was the
Speaker 4: most proud. And then at the same time, I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, he did six of my songs on Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: It's like, you know, it's not a bunch of bugs
Speaker 4: that could say crazy. They had six of these songs
Speaker 4: performed on Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: I argue with somebody up here the other day when
Speaker 3: when they heard Confessions, right, younger person and they were like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he wrote Confession. I was like, you know, Confessions was
Speaker 3: about Jaine Dupre that Jamine Dupre wrote that that's factual.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so yeah, So I mean I wrote you
Speaker 2: Make Me.
Speaker 1: Want to, I wrote my Way, I wrote Nice and Slow.
Speaker 4: I wrote Confessions. I wrote you Got It Bad, I
Speaker 4: wrote my Boo. I wrote all these songs. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, people be like breaking it down when they
Speaker 4: talk about it, and they say Confessions, but nice and Slow,
Speaker 4: all these songs I wrote, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 4: so it's just the story of Confessions. I think took
Speaker 4: over and it was like I was that guy. I
Speaker 4: was the person that was in that position.
Speaker 3: But it happened right when he broke up with Chili.
Speaker 3: So people were just assumed that he was writing it
Speaker 3: about Chili.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was your story, yeah for something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean even when writing there, I didn't
Speaker 4: think about I wouldn't even think about that. You know,
Speaker 4: you just go to the studio, you write songs, it's
Speaker 4: not even about I mean, sometimes you have a motive
Speaker 4: behind it.
Speaker 1: But we was trying to just follow up. I know,
Speaker 1: I was. I was trying to follow up. You got
Speaker 1: it back.
Speaker 4: It just came off eighty seven to one, and it
Speaker 4: was a big album, So it was like, what y'all
Speaker 4: gonna do this time?
Speaker 6: Is usually the biggest jewel in your crown? The biggest
Speaker 6: what the biggest jewel in your crown?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean Mariah Carey song Song of
Speaker 1: the Decade.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that Pasion was a monster.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. There's a couple in there.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's definitely. Well, let me say this.
Speaker 4: Rolling Stone said that Russia's is the I mean Confessions
Speaker 4: is the R and B the number one R and
Speaker 4: B record of this twenty first century, right or twentieth century,
Speaker 4: whatever it is, twenty first century. So I mean, if
Speaker 4: that's the if that's a true statement, then I guess so.
Speaker 4: I mean that's a big record. That's a big statement.
Speaker 5: Do you think Atlanta as a whole is getting documented properly?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: That's why another reason why I want to make sure
Speaker 4: that this documentary gets the stage that is on shout
Speaker 4: out to Hulu Disney mass Appeal for actually allowing us
Speaker 4: to finally tell our story on this stage, because just
Speaker 4: the first story from the South that's ever been told.
Speaker 4: And when I say that, I said that south by
Speaker 4: Southwestern people was like what And I'm like, what's the
Speaker 4: what's in Atlanta story that you know?
Speaker 1: What's the Southern story that you know? You from the South?
Speaker 4: What what stories do we have that people know about
Speaker 4: the South? Besides at l is not a story of
Speaker 4: of the South, of the South riseing the culture hip hop.
Speaker 4: This is the first time that we get a story
Speaker 4: about our culture and how outcast popped?
Speaker 1: How why you know, social death? Oh damn? Why Luke
Speaker 1: said bank head and scarred? What was the reason for that?
Speaker 1: Like you ain't never wondered?
Speaker 4: Like he from Miami he talking about bank head bounce,
Speaker 4: Like why he was saying that Freaknick, Freaknick.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And this is the first time that, like I said,
Speaker 4: the South gets set that look, I mean we was
Speaker 4: never we was. I think Hollywood never felt like our
Speaker 4: stories was important.
Speaker 3: If Freaknick never happened, woul Atlanta music blow up as
Speaker 3: fast as it did.
Speaker 4: No, because what's that little thing with the you know
Speaker 4: when when when you put the little roach trap down
Speaker 4: and the roaches get in there and they go back
Speaker 4: to the they yeah, ray, but it's a little trap
Speaker 4: and they take the food back to that. That's what
Speaker 4: Freaknick was for the South. People from Virginia, people from
Speaker 4: New York, people from Baltimore, people from DC, people from
Speaker 4: everywhere came to Atlanta. The DJs in Atlanta was playing
Speaker 4: bass music, so so that based all stars Luke Skywalker,
Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah. Kids went back to their hoods saying, Yo,
Speaker 4: we was in Atlanta. This is the new shit they
Speaker 4: playing Atlanta. Well, this is the shit that was we
Speaker 4: was doing in Freaknik. Or they somebody saw the video
Speaker 4: and that's why the music spread that way, right, That's
Speaker 4: why it spread it in so many places, because these
Speaker 4: people took it back home as if they had discovered
Speaker 4: some new thing that wasn't happening in the house in
Speaker 4: their neighborhoods. And at that point, if you take it
Speaker 4: to you know, if five hundred people go back to
Speaker 4: Virginia with the same mentality and it spread, then Virginia
Speaker 4: starts sounding like Atlanta, right or whatever. That's you know, so, no,
Speaker 4: it wouldn't. I think Freaknick was definitely our mixtape, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. Freaknick was our mixtape that made
Speaker 4: people say, oh, there's some shit going on down there.
Speaker 1: It's some you know what I mean. So that's definitely it.
Speaker 4: We I don't know what would have happened if we,
Speaker 4: you know, it would have been a slower pace.
Speaker 3: How bad was it when the labels it seemed like,
Speaker 3: you know, watching the doc I seen Craig Mac performing,
Speaker 3: I've seen Biggie performing. How bad was it when the
Speaker 3: label started touching Freak nigg it commercialize it to make
Speaker 3: it worse?
Speaker 2: Not at all, No, it was all good.
Speaker 4: I think that was in People Park, So you know
Speaker 4: that scene when I'm showing you when I'm talking, I'm
Speaker 4: standing in the parking.
Speaker 5: That was.
Speaker 1: That was the park stuff, and that was the concerts.
Speaker 4: Actually was helping because all these black people in the
Speaker 4: park smoking weed, drinking, doing whatever they want to do.
Speaker 4: Because if nobody was governing this right, it was just
Speaker 4: you know, y'all niggas want to go do.
Speaker 1: Go ahead. That's how the city was open to it.
Speaker 4: So they was just out there, and we never was
Speaker 4: nobody was scared about violence. Wasn't nobody thinking about somebody
Speaker 4: pulling out a gun or anything, but that could have happened.
Speaker 4: So to give music and put music out there, and
Speaker 4: then put artists on the shows that just from the
Speaker 4: South definitely helped because then people from the North or
Speaker 4: whatever west coast they came and they was.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, snoop, here this person, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So you start feeling even more comfortable amongst all of
Speaker 4: these people.
Speaker 5: And now you're about to turn around and do the
Speaker 5: Magic City document series, right, Yeah, Magic City in American fantasy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what it's about.
Speaker 4: But it's also the same thing as a story about
Speaker 4: Magic City. That that that I don't think people know, Like,
Speaker 4: the story of Magic City is so much more deeper
Speaker 4: than just a strip club, right, and how Magic figured
Speaker 4: out a way to make this one club.
Speaker 1: A worldwide situation, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And then people always keep saying they like, why is
Speaker 4: Drake and Bob Because Drake it's from a different country
Speaker 4: and he wants to come to.
Speaker 1: A little bitty strip club in Atlanta.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, right that that I don't even know how
Speaker 4: you're supposed to think about that because I'm not from
Speaker 4: a different country. But I'm saying that being a different country.
Speaker 4: We in the United States, I don't want to go to.
Speaker 1: Ain't nothing.
Speaker 4: I heard nothing about nothing in Canada that make me
Speaker 4: want to fly there on a Monday and be a
Speaker 4: part of it.
Speaker 1: Right this place?
Speaker 4: Is that crazy that it's made people in Toronto want
Speaker 4: to come to.
Speaker 1: Atlanta on Monday. I think you have to hear about this.
Speaker 4: So it's just like I said, it's just highlighting things
Speaker 4: that happened in the South that we haven't we haven't
Speaker 4: had an opportunity.
Speaker 5: So what helped elevate the Atlanta music scene more freaknik
Speaker 5: in Magic City?
Speaker 1: Freaknik?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Okay, because you always hear about records breaking in Magic City?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, well, I think and that was after
Speaker 4: the fact that by the way, that's me saying that.
Speaker 4: That was that was something that I talked about. And
Speaker 4: once again, like I said, you got to remember, I
Speaker 4: wasn't in the clubs in eighty eighty two, eighty three,
Speaker 4: eighty four. I couldn't get in no clubs. So I
Speaker 4: wasn't even making music in eighty four. But so even
Speaker 4: in ninety two when Chris came out. I still I
Speaker 4: was only nineteen. I still couldn't even get into Magic City.
Speaker 4: So that that period where I felt like the strip
Speaker 4: club became the mixtape was a later nineties activity. Before that,
Speaker 4: Freak Nick was running the show.
Speaker 6: Damn, I saw you. I think it was with Gail
Speaker 6: King and Carrie Champion and all them.
Speaker 5: You were talking about how if you if a woman
Speaker 5: couldn't understand you being in the script club, she wasn't
Speaker 5: the woman for you. Yeah, so that was a deal
Speaker 5: break off the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I'm saying, like, I'm gonna use you just
Speaker 4: as an example. If me and Jess was talking and
Speaker 4: she came to Atlanta and I said we're going to
Speaker 4: Magic City tonight, and she was like, well, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't really fuck with no strip clubs. At that point,
Speaker 4: you you have broke our synergy. You flew to Atlanta
Speaker 4: to stay at my house while I go party with
Speaker 4: my homeboys. Now when you went, But I'm saying, but
Speaker 4: when I go to the strip club as a woman,
Speaker 4: her mind's gonna start doing this.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: I asked you to come with me so that your
Speaker 4: mind wouldn't do that. But you want to stay at
Speaker 4: home and wait till I get back, and then come back,
Speaker 4: possibly smelling like a strip club.
Speaker 6: The questions.
Speaker 1: Then were gonna have a beef? You fucked it up
Speaker 1: from the jump? Oh, I fuck it up by allowing
Speaker 1: you to just stay at home. I should have just
Speaker 1: made you come.
Speaker 4: So I'm just saying, ultimately, if this is part of
Speaker 4: your life, this is part of my life. So if
Speaker 4: you're gonna fuck with me, you gotta know that that's happening.
Speaker 4: That's gonna happen, right. It's interesting. When I was dating Janet,
Speaker 4: I try to not take her. I was, but I
Speaker 4: fought it for the longest. I wasn't in the space
Speaker 4: mindset that I'm in right now. Because I didn't. I
Speaker 4: wasn't paying attention to it. Like the way I'm telling you.
Speaker 4: I was thinking like, oh, if I take her in,
Speaker 4: and when of them girls gonna tap me on my
Speaker 4: shoulder that I haven't been with and she gonna know,
Speaker 4: And then I was thinking about all the bullshit. Yeah, nah,
Speaker 4: if this is what you do, what you did in
Speaker 4: your past is your past. I'm with you now. Let
Speaker 4: me see what's happening. Why you want to go there
Speaker 4: every Monday. That's what her question was, Fuck it, let's go.
Speaker 6: Did she understand after she went why you wanted to
Speaker 6: be there every Monday?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Of course.
Speaker 2: Now when does JD get to tell his story?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Because there's so many, so many, I would say, people
Speaker 3: in the industry that are successful from the JD tree, Right,
Speaker 3: we can go back from of course Little John and
Speaker 3: school to Braun and we can go to you know,
Speaker 3: across Usher and the stuff you did with Mariah. You
Speaker 3: can go to myself and Neil who manages Rice and Tyler.
Speaker 3: A lot of people don't know that story. So when
Speaker 3: does JD create that story and goes through it so
Speaker 3: people can understand what you've did, what you produced, the
Speaker 3: artists you've broken, the executives and talent that you created.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think the freak nick Dot helps that
Speaker 4: get helps me get into that space because you know,
Speaker 4: for the longest, the South has been ignored. It's just
Speaker 4: what it is, and I'm part of I'm part of
Speaker 4: that cloth that's been ignored. You gotta think at nineteen
Speaker 4: I put out my first group that everybody knows, and
Speaker 4: I wrote and produced every line in every beat in
Speaker 4: the music. At nineteen, if a person and they first
Speaker 4: single was a number one, top one hundred.
Speaker 1: Single, right, Kris Krust.
Speaker 4: If that was sports like football and basketball, they'd call
Speaker 4: me a freaking nature right. But the fact that it
Speaker 4: was the South, they treated us like we weren't even
Speaker 4: hip hop, like, oh, that's.
Speaker 1: Some gimmick shit, like that ain't real hip hop.
Speaker 4: So then it made people ignore the fact that I'm
Speaker 4: the person who ushered in young people rapping. If it
Speaker 4: wasn't for them, you, as a young person, you wouldn't
Speaker 4: even know that it was possible that you could have
Speaker 4: a record.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 4: Who else has come out out since Bow Wow that
Speaker 4: you know, bow was the only other person that did it,
Speaker 4: and I put him out. So I'm just saying it's
Speaker 4: the stories have been ignored, so somebody, you know, at
Speaker 4: least we get one story, and we got two stories
Speaker 4: hopefully that you know from that, it'll it'll it'll get
Speaker 4: into that space so you can actually see it and
Speaker 4: then people won't have this misconception about what they have
Speaker 4: about me.
Speaker 5: Michael michael By said, you got the whole backwards thing
Speaker 5: from from him, the whole backwards clothes actually he said,
Speaker 5: he said.
Speaker 1: I didn't get it from him.
Speaker 4: But BBD was in a space where they was doing
Speaker 4: things right, and they were they I think they had
Speaker 4: their pants inside out. That's what because I say that
Speaker 4: in the song because inside out ABC was wearing they
Speaker 4: clothes inside out. So the day that I told Chris
Speaker 4: to put his jump on backwards, that's what I was
Speaker 4: thinking about. I'm like, they got they clothes on inside out.
Speaker 4: Maybe you should turn yours around. I never saw BBD
Speaker 4: do it, and I and I and I spoke to
Speaker 4: Mike because he got on his cover of his I think,
Speaker 4: do me baby, he got a dB a bb D
Speaker 4: jacket on that I thought was a leather pullover and
Speaker 4: he's like, nah, I have my jacket on back. So
Speaker 4: we had a conversation about it. But I didn't I
Speaker 4: didn't actually know. We never had.
Speaker 1: I never knew that that's what was happening.
Speaker 5: And you know, when people talk about you too, JD,
Speaker 5: they got to talk about the fact that Mace thanks
Speaker 5: you for being the first person to pay him is worth.
Speaker 5: You introduced Biggie, you know, to a land in a
Speaker 5: lot of ways, and so who so who knows how
Speaker 5: that inspired him and j Z with with money anything
Speaker 5: was it was an introduction to the South in a
Speaker 5: lot of ways.
Speaker 6: So you got to get credit for that too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, but that's what I'm saying. It's like,
Speaker 4: like I said, it's been ignored. I mean, that's all.
Speaker 4: That's all you could do. Like I said, if you was,
Speaker 4: if if I was in New York, I'd be the king.
Speaker 4: It's no, it's no way. I mean, even like today,
Speaker 4: you don't know a person y'all. Don't have a person
Speaker 4: that can come up here this year that had his
Speaker 4: first number one record in nineteen ninety two and got
Speaker 4: a record that's number one today. You'll never you won't
Speaker 4: see nobody else come up here to this station this year.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's actually true.
Speaker 1: You won't know, not this year.
Speaker 4: I mean I don't even probably wan't to have next
Speaker 4: year either. But I'm saying no, my first number one
Speaker 4: record was in nineteen ninety two. I have the number
Speaker 4: one R and B record in the country today.
Speaker 5: Do you think it's the media, because even when you
Speaker 5: look at it, you were born in Atlanta's run has
Speaker 5: been longer than everybody too.
Speaker 4: My run has been longer than everybody. That's that's what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. That's I think that's another thing, like when
Speaker 4: people say Atlanta's run, Yeah, Atlanta's run, but my run
Speaker 4: I don't, and I don't. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm a cocky person, but I don't be
Speaker 4: one to just like, hey, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I represent the city, so I let the whole city
Speaker 4: get the splash for it.
Speaker 1: But my run has been longer than anybody.
Speaker 6: If you don't tell your story, JD, nobody else is.
Speaker 1: No. I'm gonna tell it. You believe me.
Speaker 4: That's why it's important that you watch Freak Nick on Thursday.
Speaker 4: Y'all run them streams up at Hulu, so that Hulu
Speaker 4: calls me and says, hey, we need your story.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Social Deft too write how you relaunch your social death.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: As far as label for artists you have or you're
Speaker 3: looking for artists, I know you got to go, but
Speaker 3: are you looking for artists?
Speaker 2: And are you putting the sign back up in Atlanta?
Speaker 1: And that says, oh, yeah, I'm putting a sign back up.
Speaker 4: I'm going if I'm supposed to say this, but anyway
Speaker 4: I can say, I'm gonna say it anyway. You know,
Speaker 4: BMF comes to Atlanta or they're in Atlanta right now.
Speaker 4: And you'll see in the BMF series that the sign
Speaker 4: goes back up. And at that point when that happened,
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, you know, as many niggas watch this,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm gonna have to put this sign back up
Speaker 4: because you know what I mean. So now we're gonna
Speaker 4: put it back up on an artist tip. I'm looking
Speaker 4: for new artists. It's just my you know's, That's what
Speaker 4: I wanted. I wanted a space for me to continue
Speaker 4: to keep putting out new artists. I love putting out
Speaker 4: new artists. I'm not scared to put out new artists,
Speaker 4: and I don't think nobody else could do it better
Speaker 4: than me.
Speaker 6: When you paid Mace what he was worth, did you
Speaker 6: do that just the upstated.
Speaker 1: He No, I don't you know. When I pay people,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know that I'm paying them more than you know.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know that that's you know. I
Speaker 4: don't have that conversation. I I just go after what
Speaker 4: I want, like if you so, if I wanted, you know,
Speaker 4: when I signed, Harlem wore I wanted to make the
Speaker 4: deal because Mace kept telling everybody in every interview that
Speaker 4: he did that he came to Atlanta to meet with me, right,
Speaker 4: So I actually felt like I fucked up, Right, So
Speaker 4: I felt like, damn, I fucked up and I missed
Speaker 4: this nigga Mason. He out here killing it. So I'm like,
Speaker 4: you know what, let's make this deal. And he told
Speaker 4: me what he wanted to do, and I didn't think
Speaker 4: about it twice. I just was like, let's do the deal.
Speaker 4: I ain't know I was giving him more money than
Speaker 4: he was. You know, I never knew that.
Speaker 2: They have it. Ladies and gentlemen, you main't freak Nick
Speaker 2: this Thursday and appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Brough Congratulations money Long.
Speaker 4: Let me say this, she might be watching Congratulations Money Long.
Speaker 4: Number one record. It's an R and B song, no rap,
Speaker 4: number one urban record in the country.
Speaker 2: It's Jumaine dupre Yeah, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
Speaker 2: Wake that.
Speaker 1: Ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.