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Speaker 1: in here, one of my first guests on the show ever.
Speaker 1: He's officially back. Man first, Yeah, I think you were
Speaker 1: like in the first like six or seven episodes when
Speaker 1: we were doing the chairs in here, Filthy Riches here,
Speaker 1: what's up man, chilling chilling man in town for to day?
Speaker 1: You are in town for the day. Is this new
Speaker 1: jewel where you got? I don't know, I've been having
Speaker 1: for a while. It's some serious change. You have serious
Speaker 1: one side of my boy WIFFI Wiffy made both of these.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like the actual links those diamonds
Speaker 1: are like those are those are serious? That's not no
Speaker 1: normal shit. I won't do nothing normal around here. Nothing normal. Man.
Speaker 1: You got the new album out, Motivation purses great title.
Speaker 1: I do feel like you've probably been the source of
Speaker 1: motivation and inspiration for a lot of people in terms
Speaker 1: of just being an independent boss, being a businessman, being
Speaker 1: somebody who has done you know, when it comes to
Speaker 1: just longevity in the rap game, not a lot of
Speaker 1: people have longevity, and a lot of people can support
Speaker 1: themselves for the amount of time that you've been able
Speaker 1: to do. So, you know, like you gotta know how
Speaker 1: to rap, hustle, rap, hustle, break that down doing like
Speaker 1: everything that comes around rap, if it's versus, if it's videos,
Speaker 1: if it's you know, different people endorse you. Like you
Speaker 1: got to know how to really get off your ass
Speaker 1: and get to it. Like a lot of people just
Speaker 1: be content and just sit back and you know, like, okay,
Speaker 1: so really I kind of like I've seen Gym. One
Speaker 1: night we was out Jim Jones, okay, and he was
Speaker 1: like he had like three different shows, did like four
Speaker 1: verses in one night, Like one guy was like for ten, ten,
Speaker 1: twenty thousand. The other guy went over there and had
Speaker 1: like sety five hundred, Like he wasn't turning down nothing,
Speaker 1: just getting it, running it over there, not saying that
Speaker 1: he was doing the same amount of work for the
Speaker 1: for the lower but he wasn't turning down nothing. So
Speaker 1: you got to get up and rap. Hustle. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think like if you're independent and you know, there's definitely
Speaker 1: like there's a way to just super monetize what you're doing.
Speaker 1: And then you know, we're rapping, all types of different
Speaker 1: things come like Chelsea just hit me right now, a
Speaker 1: real bull woman to do something like a freestyle on
Speaker 1: the block and they supposed to be paying me for
Speaker 1: it or whatever. Then I just started doing the cameo
Speaker 1: thing to where you do all you go on cameo
Speaker 1: and people can like yo if they want to. You
Speaker 1: even want to do a drop for you or like
Speaker 1: a happy birthday for So it's like so many different
Speaker 1: opportunities that rap bring to you that you can you know, hustle. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of artists leave money on
Speaker 1: the table. A lot of people because if you're just
Speaker 1: depending on I never wanted to do that at first,
Speaker 1: like the shout out stuff, right, I never did it.
Speaker 1: And one day I'm like, man, let me see, I
Speaker 1: think I made like three thousand and one cameo now cameo.
Speaker 1: I just started talking about just off my own, Oh
Speaker 1: got you got your are you're talking about like if
Speaker 1: someone like says, hey, Phil, I want to pay you
Speaker 1: pay my shot out my store. And at first I
Speaker 1: never was doing that shit. Like I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of rappers doing that shit through the pandemic. Boo's he
Speaker 1: be doing that ship. I'm like, man, let me see.
Speaker 1: Somebody was like, hey, man, I give you five hundred,
Speaker 1: post them the story for me my cash efter to me.
Speaker 1: He synth it and I posted. I'm like, oh there's
Speaker 1: something here. Yeah, But I never they been asked me
Speaker 1: to do I give you two thousand to post me
Speaker 1: on your page. I'm like, hell, now you posted on
Speaker 1: my page. I just think that there's like a stigma
Speaker 1: that I think is probably like not accurate in terms
Speaker 1: of like, you know, I think there's certain artists that
Speaker 1: like that might not make sense for if you if
Speaker 1: you're like the Weekend or you're like but if you're
Speaker 1: an independent artist and you're should be doing it, you
Speaker 1: should be running it out. Man, Listen that it was
Speaker 1: good lucky right now, and I already got like two
Speaker 1: of them already seen. Well, think about it. You just
Speaker 1: said you got, uh, what's the most amount of money
Speaker 1: you've gotten for a ig shout out on the story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just towist five hundred, So five hundred bucks. For
Speaker 1: people who don't know, five hundred dollars is if a
Speaker 1: million streams is four bands five hundred dollars, my math
Speaker 1: might be fucked up here. Five hundred bucks is is
Speaker 1: that one hundred thousand streams? I don't know about this thing,
Speaker 1: but feel me like you got to do like a
Speaker 1: serious chunk of streams to make five hundred money, because
Speaker 1: I know when day may like like three g's just
Speaker 1: like on some back, I'm like, damn, you have to
Speaker 1: do it. By everybody coming to meeting, Well, you would
Speaker 1: have to do almost a million streams on a record
Speaker 1: to get that, to get that money, And that was
Speaker 1: what people. It's really a matter of using the music,
Speaker 1: using the catalog to open up all this other revenue.
Speaker 1: At first, I started like at two fifty and then
Speaker 1: I went up to like five and then obviously using
Speaker 1: the wrap money, using all of that to just launch
Speaker 1: other businesses. Like we were just talking you breed dogs,
Speaker 1: about the dog, I did a breathing yesterday and today,
Speaker 1: h I got puppies. I be doing dog shows. They
Speaker 1: pay me to do dog shows. I host, judge all
Speaker 1: types of shit. But that come from being a rapper.
Speaker 1: How long did have you been doing the dog the
Speaker 1: dog breeding. I think I got my first dog that
Speaker 1: I started doing the breathing with probably like just maybe
Speaker 1: five years ago. Serious money, man, serious money, Like it's
Speaker 1: a lot of responsibility. Yeah, I had, like I had
Speaker 1: a whole kennel. I built the whole kennle. I spent
Speaker 1: like two fifty like the house the backyard, and I
Speaker 1: built there like like a house in the backyard, and
Speaker 1: that had like sloughs and eat inside of the house
Speaker 1: with the drains where they pissing ship and go down
Speaker 1: to the sewerd and wash out marble floor ac unit.
Speaker 1: How water heat dogs are living better than some dudes
Speaker 1: for sure, living better than a lot of people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean because I know it's a lot of
Speaker 1: money involved, so you got to take good care of him. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: with the dog thing, it's like like you said, you
Speaker 1: got to take good care of him. It's a messy
Speaker 1: it's a messy thing. You got to make sure, you know.
Speaker 1: Like I'll be trying to convince my wife. I'm like, babe,
Speaker 1: like you know, because we got the plug. It's the
Speaker 1: main objective though, it's the longevity We're gonna get this money.
Speaker 1: You will have to clean some dogs. Ship. I might
Speaker 1: have to drink off a dog, you know, every once
Speaker 1: in a while. But when you stud your dogs, do
Speaker 1: you manually? I've never done it. You have to ask
Speaker 1: that question. Happens at the veat. That happens, so you
Speaker 1: take it to the vet. So my boy they do it,
Speaker 1: does it himself, and he says it's better than the VAT.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it. They take the
Speaker 1: female and they take the male. The male smells there.
Speaker 1: They do it right there and then they do it
Speaker 1: like that. I've never done it. I never will do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I mean, I guess, like whatever downside to like
Speaker 1: going to the vat, Like, to me, the real downside
Speaker 1: you just don't want to pay the money. Well, the
Speaker 1: real downside is jerking off your dog, Yeah too, but
Speaker 1: I just feel like, you know, it's always cutting corners
Speaker 1: with this shit, so it's like, right cool, instead of
Speaker 1: me paying the vet to do it and then they
Speaker 1: I've also seen people at home they take the seamen
Speaker 1: and put it in the girl too. I've seen them,
Speaker 1: man I didn't win, swear and they put the dog
Speaker 1: to sleep in front who through the surgery in front
Speaker 1: of everything? Wit stop shot? So what kind of dogs
Speaker 1: are you doing? English? English bull dogs? Now, I've had
Speaker 1: two English bull dogs. My first English bulldogs really didn't
Speaker 1: have any health problems. My second one day, but I
Speaker 1: always would hear you know, I got my bulldogs like that.
Speaker 1: They always have health issues. They exotic, so that's why
Speaker 1: you can't even breathe them like normally. Also, yeah, they
Speaker 1: also can't fuck like that can't swim. They can't. They
Speaker 1: can't fuck like listen, I've thrown my English bulldog into
Speaker 1: a pool. You swam. But with that being said, probably
Speaker 1: not the best idea, yeah, because they get tired, they
Speaker 1: have breathing problems, they have small trachyas. Sometimes they can't
Speaker 1: eat like bigger food. Gotta make the food soft and
Speaker 1: slobber a lot. Yeah, Well mine don't really slabber like mine. Listen,
Speaker 1: I let him out running back in the case. They
Speaker 1: they they're good. I used to take my dog to
Speaker 1: the parliamentute heat too long. Yeah no, I have man
Speaker 1: rest in peace to my guy already gold. Yeah that's
Speaker 1: happened to my dog. But yeah, no, they they're very
Speaker 1: they're they're short of breath. That's I had one that
Speaker 1: was like I ain't never had one like him before.
Speaker 1: This guy he's chasing the basketball, jumping in the air.
Speaker 1: He was. That's how my dog was. He was crazy,
Speaker 1: like I've never had an English woodog like him before.
Speaker 1: He was. He was different. What other like, uh, business ventures?
Speaker 1: Do you you know? You got your your your your
Speaker 1: emerged merch. I had a clothing I mean salon, but
Speaker 1: I ended up giving to my godmother because due to COVID,
Speaker 1: like people wasn't trying to come in and people weren't
Speaker 1: trying to work or whatever. So but I'm launched in again,
Speaker 1: but just online. Same thing. I had to clothing store,
Speaker 1: same thing happened. So I'm just launching everything online. I
Speaker 1: still have a model company in the Bay Area, like
Speaker 1: ten females for like music video shit artists that want
Speaker 1: females and videos. And that came about because it was
Speaker 1: a lot of big rappers that used to come in
Speaker 1: town and called me like, hey man, some girls girls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like shit, I might as well just start doing
Speaker 1: like this. So put like ten females together, photo shoots, calendars,
Speaker 1: they do fashion shows, video shoots. Everything that's good money. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's real shit, because that's the first thing, especially here
Speaker 1: like in la it happens all the time. Like I
Speaker 1: have someone come to l a, yo, I need some
Speaker 1: hods for my shooting. I'm like, bro, do I look
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Speaker 1: What you want from me? You know? Like but that's
Speaker 1: like that that's good money. And that ship. And then
Speaker 1: my record label and I got a got like ten
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Speaker 1: you ever a lot of artists are doing only fans management.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. It's like only fans management.
Speaker 1: They're only doing only fans manages. So like, uh, like Tiger,
Speaker 1: who else did we have up here? Who's doing that? Oh,
Speaker 1: Adam twenty two does it, but he's not a rapper,
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Speaker 1: So essentially Tiger's on there fucking okay, But Tiger will
Speaker 1: have like a girl signed and to his agency and
Speaker 1: then he promotes them and then he gets a piece
Speaker 1: of their only fans. Adam twenty two is doing the
Speaker 1: same thing, okay. Adam twenty two said he's got like
Speaker 1: a top five earner on only fans that he gets
Speaker 1: a chunk of I'm like Jesus, it's like kind of like,
Speaker 1: so what is he like invested into her or is
Speaker 1: he just promoting her? Promoting her? It's kind of like
Speaker 1: it feels like digital pimp remember remember the eight Bone
Speaker 1: I need to get into it, the MJG album Space
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Speaker 1: They need to give my grills on my get the model,
Speaker 1: get them to get them, get the filthy models and
Speaker 1: get them all on only fans and just get your percentage.
Speaker 1: Is only fans still popping out? I thought that shit
Speaker 1: was like it was supposed to go away, but they
Speaker 1: realized that if they did, if they got rid of
Speaker 1: the adult content, that their business would be over. And
Speaker 1: so it's still lit. Yeah, but they're not paying like
Speaker 1: they used to. Like take that. I don't think they
Speaker 1: think they take longer to pay out. Yeah that I
Speaker 1: don't know. But at the end of the day, and
Speaker 1: hear about it here and there, I was gonna doing
Speaker 1: a long time ago. Not me on there fucking or nothing,
Speaker 1: but just like showing my lifestyle like just so much
Speaker 1: it had in my phone where they was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you got to get contracts from these girls and you
Speaker 1: gotta have them sign off on this, and you can't
Speaker 1: post that ship. Just like going out to the club.
Speaker 1: Bitch is dancing, tworking, fighting, It might be a threesome
Speaker 1: bitches or bitches might be fucking each other whatever. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You know what? You know what
Speaker 1: I do? Uh DDG does who's a rapper. But he
Speaker 1: also he started as a YouTuber, so d d G
Speaker 1: on his only fans pretty much just a giveaway game.
Speaker 1: So he'll be like trying to teach you how to
Speaker 1: go viral on YouTube, like like Batman Kevo. Yeah exactly,
Speaker 1: shout out to him, similar to that. Yeah, they pretty
Speaker 1: much like you just go on there and like giving
Speaker 1: out gaming. Yeah, I feel you got a lot of
Speaker 1: game to give out, Yeah for sure, but you could
Speaker 1: sell it, yeah, sellers. You got to know how to
Speaker 1: market it. You just gotta know how to market it.
Speaker 1: I mean marketed with some hosts to you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, figure it out. You got ten chicks. They're
Speaker 1: called the Filthy Models. That's teen Filthy ten Filthy team,
Speaker 1: Filthy Team Filthy. I like that. What was the name
Speaker 1: of the Do you remember the team of models that
Speaker 1: were based in Miami in the early twenty tens that
Speaker 1: were lit as fun Are you talking about something. Angels,
Speaker 1: tazzs angels, tazzas angels. That was what happened to that ship.
Speaker 1: What happened to Taz. Did anybody ever see him? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so. I thought he was like incognito. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I just remember everybody was all these
Speaker 1: like random ass chicks were moving about like the same thing,
Speaker 1: like somebody just had some females like model. Prior to
Speaker 1: only fans, imagine Tazz's angels be running it up on
Speaker 1: the internet. My sure goodness, he'd have been killing it. Man.
Speaker 1: That was way before. Only fans who got on the app.
Speaker 1: You got ice wear Vessel on the project SETI Hendrix
Speaker 1: SETI Hendrix af and pays my artist tutor bands of
Speaker 1: Skinny t Rich the Kid dear my hit. I got
Speaker 1: to look and see do you pay for features at
Speaker 1: this point? No, it's all of that's. I feel like
Speaker 1: if someone that I feel like that would be the case.
Speaker 1: There's certain artists that like, I feel like it's got
Speaker 1: to be a respect thing. Yeah, for sure. For sure.
Speaker 1: I have before in the back in the day when
Speaker 1: I didn't just trying to rap and hey man, I
Speaker 1: want to hear you on my song type shit and
Speaker 1: not knowing who you are, you not knowing who I
Speaker 1: am type shit. But you know that comes to say
Speaker 1: like that's being biased because you know niggas buy features
Speaker 1: for me all day. That's true. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it just also depends. Like if you got a deal
Speaker 1: on a Drake feature, you be like, yo, it's something different,
Speaker 1: But at this point certain features worth paying for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they end up being relationships later on and the features
Speaker 1: end up being you know, triple double whatever type shit.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So you it just all
Speaker 1: depends on how the ship, how it was handled. That's
Speaker 1: some real ship. Man, Who are you like right now
Speaker 1: just on some fan ship, like outside of your crew,
Speaker 1: your label? What is the music you're listening to that
Speaker 1: you enjoy? I really just only listened to like all
Speaker 1: my artists are so many of them, you feel me?
Speaker 1: So we always uh critique and everything. I've been trying
Speaker 1: to like drop something every month from the label, like
Speaker 1: on some real master Peat type shit, like like a
Speaker 1: tape every week running it up. Yeah like that. So
Speaker 1: that's how what's this April March? It's about to be April, yeah,
Speaker 1: so we already said for April we're working on May
Speaker 1: now in June. So but other than that, like I listened, uh,
Speaker 1: I've been listening to I was. I was real big
Speaker 1: on baby Money out of Detroit before you got de
Speaker 1: Troy is going crazy man, baby money hard. You know,
Speaker 1: I fuck with the whole Detroit sound right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like yeah, we always talk about it on the show,
Speaker 1: like how Detroit and the Bay has like a real
Speaker 1: connections honestly obviously dope game wise, you know all of that.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, You know, I just I
Speaker 1: love the culture. You know what I'm saying. I love
Speaker 1: the food, the strip clubs, the jury, the good money hustle.
Speaker 1: You feel me all that ship. You know, I really
Speaker 1: be out there so I can relate to that ship
Speaker 1: Detroit to vibe give don't get it twisted, don't twisted.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we gotta go to the Triple Change immediately.
Speaker 1: We gotta go to Detroit soon, and we're gonna be wherever.
Speaker 1: Wherever the ship's popping off at is where we're gonna
Speaker 1: be at because we gotta go shoot with like three
Speaker 1: or four artists out there, like go see there where
Speaker 1: they grew up and ships. So we're gonna be in
Speaker 1: the in the thick of it. We was in. I
Speaker 1: was like stuck out there for like a week in
Speaker 1: the snow. I couldn't leave, like no flights, like the
Speaker 1: snows like oh wow, like blocking the doors. What area
Speaker 1: of the bay are you from? Oakland Seminary East Oakland? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were in. We were shooting some ship in Balletjole.
Speaker 1: I won't say with who, but uh, it was hot. Man.
Speaker 1: You won't say with who. No, I'm wonta say with
Speaker 1: with with which are just because it didn't work out.
Speaker 1: But we pulled up in the in the Crest right
Speaker 1: off the freeway SLB. No idea you said the Crest
Speaker 1: ship was hot. Let's just say sh it was hot.
Speaker 1: I mean the Bay hot period, just like Detroit, like Balao, Richmond,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Oakland, all that ship turned up. Yeah Bay
Speaker 1: right now. I feel like the Bay right now is
Speaker 1: kind of like nationally got a really bad rap because
Speaker 1: when we see a lot of the smash and grab ship,
Speaker 1: when we see a lot of the you know, homeless
Speaker 1: fools going up into the Walgreens and just filling their
Speaker 1: bag with ship and walking, it's all because you know,
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, Like I'll go there once a month,
Speaker 1: you know for Empire ship and the Walgreens like in
Speaker 1: the city and the CBS is are closed them. Ships
Speaker 1: is just but I don't think it was like a
Speaker 1: bad rap, Like I feel like, well no, because I
Speaker 1: think in the city of San Francisco they got that
Speaker 1: law that they can't stop you and the cops will
Speaker 1: prosecute you or arrest you you if you shop lift
Speaker 1: under one thousand dollars. So that's why. So all the
Speaker 1: petty staff ship, so you'll see all these dudes going
Speaker 1: in on their bikes just fucking rolling up in the
Speaker 1: fucking CBS did like a smash and grab out here
Speaker 1: for like they did at Beverly Hills five million or
Speaker 1: some shit. Yeah, that ship was crazy. Did you see
Speaker 1: the video? I just heard about it. Oh the videos crazy,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I'm like, damn, he's doing that ship everywhere.
Speaker 1: I was at the smash and grab ships everywhere. Was
Speaker 1: that a jeweler in Vegas and they told me that
Speaker 1: they just came in there and did that ship there too.
Speaker 1: That's where it kind of sucks, like if you're in California,
Speaker 1: like because you can't really like you know, some people
Speaker 1: pull some ship like that in Florida, they getting smoked
Speaker 1: by the owner. In California, you probably if you shoot
Speaker 1: the guy, you're probably gonna go to jail before he
Speaker 1: goes to It's crazy, like that's just the gun license ship,
Speaker 1: the gun loass. And I think it's gonna I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna chill out man, in Cali because I feel
Speaker 1: like people are starting to realize. I think they was
Speaker 1: doing all that shit because like the like they was protesting, right,
Speaker 1: m hm, it was just protesting for some somebody somebody
Speaker 1: got killed or something. Well there was the George Floyd
Speaker 1: protest in June, or they were doing all that shit.
Speaker 1: Could of that too. Yeah, it's been crazy, man. Cali's
Speaker 1: been a crazy place the last couple of years. And
Speaker 1: then Yo, So you know the one thing about the
Speaker 1: Bay too that everyone is that's synonymous with the Bay, right,
Speaker 1: it's bipping. Bipping is kind of like there's you'll go
Speaker 1: to the Bay and there's people who just leave all
Speaker 1: their windows down. Not even when you leave the window down,
Speaker 1: you know, like don't come through the window. But I'm
Speaker 1: saying they'll leave the windows down because they're like I'd
Speaker 1: rather you just come into my car and see there's
Speaker 1: nothing in here. Then you break my fucking window and
Speaker 1: I have to replace it. Yeah, okay, cool. Yeah it
Speaker 1: actually happened to me, not to meet personally, but rock
Speaker 1: Nation had came to Oakland. They were trying to sign
Speaker 1: me and the guy had I had wanted to get
Speaker 1: something to eat and I told him like be cool
Speaker 1: like and they went up the street when got something
Speaker 1: to eat and like when they they walked in the store,
Speaker 1: they hit the ship. It's crazy, crazy like but a
Speaker 1: lot of rappers though, like they come out there for Empire,
Speaker 1: they always get their ship hit, like a lot of
Speaker 1: rappers and they jury took out there and all type
Speaker 1: of ship. I think it's very easy to spot a
Speaker 1: rental car. I mean if you're in that profession. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're in that profession. If you are, you know
Speaker 1: what a rental is just crazy because we we were
Speaker 1: just driving the other day with downtown Oakland were like,
Speaker 1: that's the Bippers right there and they's driving around in
Speaker 1: the cars just doing the circles. You could just you
Speaker 1: could just know that you know what they're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty crazy, like was it? Because you know I
Speaker 1: feel like bipping in the bay is kind of like
Speaker 1: you know, niggas normal money off that it's just normal.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's kind of like when we think
Speaker 1: of like people people like people get money in the streets.
Speaker 1: That's rich off that. That's what I'm saying, like crazy,
Speaker 1: like motherfuckersn't called me with all type of ship before,
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, a motherfucker left this in the
Speaker 1: car like who? It's almost like opening a fortune cookie,
Speaker 1: like who, you never know what you're going to get
Speaker 1: ship in their car? Like that's crazy. I would never
Speaker 1: leave this shit without saying, obviously, what's the craziest thing
Speaker 1: you've heard? Someone getting out of someone's car? That's like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck? Someone left that two hundred thousand like
Speaker 1: faux five, watches, purses, all type of shit, like can
Speaker 1: you imagine leaving? I was like, damn, who the fuck
Speaker 1: is this? Like is this like owner or something? Someone
Speaker 1: left two hundred k in their car one thousand? I
Speaker 1: know some rappers from Prey and got ribbed too. And
Speaker 1: when I rib got bipped too for the jury, I
Speaker 1: got hit in Burbank. Someone followed me from the bank.
Speaker 1: I stopped at a UPS to get something notarized, and
Speaker 1: I had fifteen bands under my seat cash and they
Speaker 1: took that ship. I was sick. Waitit wait they bipped
Speaker 1: the car. Yeah, but I don't understand why people leave
Speaker 1: shit like that in car. Well, bro, imagine I'm in Burbank.
Speaker 1: It don't matter. I'm keeping my shit on. So this
Speaker 1: is where I'm at. There's the UPS store. I park
Speaker 1: like right there, right, I'm in and out. You thought
Speaker 1: she was in it. They was in and out. I
Speaker 1: get on my true detective ship. I figure out that
Speaker 1: they followed me from the Bank of America. So before
Speaker 1: I went to Bank of America, or after I went
Speaker 1: to Bank of America, I got gas, so I fucking
Speaker 1: paid the owner of the gas station to give me
Speaker 1: the footage to see the car that pulled in behind
Speaker 1: me and waited and followed me out. So I had
Speaker 1: like a steal of the kind of car. I fucking
Speaker 1: found their trash they threw away. They threw away McDonald's.
Speaker 1: I tried to get the plate number, but I could
Speaker 1: it was too blurry. Bro, I was all my ship
Speaker 1: though I sent. I had a homie in Chattanooga who
Speaker 1: works at a CSI thing. I sent him to McDonald's
Speaker 1: trash from the fingerprint. I'm like, bro, because I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna get this money back. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: deal with the cops because they ain't gonna do shit.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, don't let me find out who these
Speaker 1: people are. It's bad for them, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I just I was, man, I almost had these motherfuckers. Bro.
Speaker 1: I was so, oh, you ain't supposed to be Yeah,
Speaker 1: never again. But I think though, if they followed you
Speaker 1: from did all that, then they probably was just on
Speaker 1: trying to bip you know what happened, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So that's a whole lot so once I couldn't figure
Speaker 1: it out. The cops they said that a lady followed
Speaker 1: me out of the bank. A lady was like she
Speaker 1: was like she kept like resetting herself on the line,
Speaker 1: because you remember during COVID the bank lines are crazy.
Speaker 1: So the late there was a girl in the bank
Speaker 1: was just watching to see who was walking out with money,
Speaker 1: and then she followed me out. They got in the
Speaker 1: car and then followed me out. I didn't even really
Speaker 1: go to the line you call like order money and shit,
Speaker 1: like that yeah. Well, really what happened was I went
Speaker 1: there to get to open a business account, and I
Speaker 1: brought the money to open the account. We're supposed to
Speaker 1: open an account for a publishing company. But my writer,
Speaker 1: who I was opening with, oh the bank money. So
Speaker 1: they're like, if he's going to be on the account,
Speaker 1: we can't give you the account. If I pull up
Speaker 1: with fifteen banks and I'm like, well, shit, I got
Speaker 1: all this money on me. Can I just deposit this
Speaker 1: into my account? She's like yeah, but you just gotta
Speaker 1: wait in the line. And I was like, man, fuck
Speaker 1: all this. Man, I like, I ain't waiting this fucking line.
Speaker 1: I fucking never again did that before too, but I'm
Speaker 1: kind of like cool with the people now, so never again. Man.
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Speaker 1: you know, with you and the label, like having ten
Speaker 1: or twelve artists, a lot of people to look over
Speaker 1: a lot of people's lives, a lot of careers. That's
Speaker 1: why I've been kind of like trying to fall back
Speaker 1: from me doing the music so I could like folcus
Speaker 1: on a lot of responsibility, a lot of bandwidth. Sure,
Speaker 1: how are you dealing with all that? Man? I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna It's been easy. You know. We just had f
Speaker 1: D weekend in Vegas. I have run out this big
Speaker 1: old mansion or whatever. It's like twenty one rooms in it.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of work done. A lot of
Speaker 1: artists came, producers, engineers, shot a lot of videos. It's
Speaker 1: been doing different little things like that to where I
Speaker 1: could like sit down and really be hands on with
Speaker 1: everything and you know, and explain how this should worked.
Speaker 1: But it's really been easy to keep it real. It
Speaker 1: ain't been too hard, like probably just like one artist
Speaker 1: here and there. So yeah, no, I know, I just
Speaker 1: know because you know, I work with artists, and I
Speaker 1: know it could be a lot. Yeah, it can be.
Speaker 1: It can't be. But you know me, like, I've been
Speaker 1: doing this shit for so long, so I know how
Speaker 1: to like you know what I'm saying, like, and you're
Speaker 1: not doing it by yourself. You got you got a team,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, me and Chelsea. Yeah, shout out to Chelsea.
Speaker 1: Me and Chelsea that's who you know who who helped
Speaker 1: me with everything, and also my caraman Seem Colux. That's dope. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they just did shout to Empire. The documentary that they
Speaker 1: did about you was it last year? It came out
Speaker 1: last year. Philip Beasley album. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: dope to kind of just see like kind of behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, like different side of You. It was a
Speaker 1: lot more that we didn't use. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: do another one, but yeah, I just did that. Like
Speaker 1: I was kind of like transition. I was really trying
Speaker 1: to fall back on doing the music myself because I
Speaker 1: want to be able to give my artists in the
Speaker 1: label hundred percent. How many albums do you have in
Speaker 1: your catalog that are on Spotify right now? We lost count, Like,
Speaker 1: give me like a over one hundred, over one hundred.
Speaker 1: I think I dropped twelve tapes in like one year
Speaker 1: to see if I could do it, and those are
Speaker 1: all on the DSPs. Jesus man, those twelve that came up,
Speaker 1: that was all on Empire. So I've been putting on
Speaker 1: music like oh wait, so when you have that much catalog,
Speaker 1: because you know, I always try to tell artists if
Speaker 1: you're gonna stay independent, Like a lot of time, artists
Speaker 1: overthink shit, yeah they never put music out, or they
Speaker 1: overthinking and they sit on their hands too long. It's
Speaker 1: like to me, I'm like, yo, run it up, because
Speaker 1: that's your residual income. What has been your biggest check
Speaker 1: off of your catalog in a month you've done off
Speaker 1: of streams? If you don't mind, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be in your pots. Seventy five thousand. That's great, man,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Seventy five thousand. And it came. I remember
Speaker 1: I first got my first five g's and then because
Speaker 1: I used to just put out just mixtapes, I used
Speaker 1: to just run my mixtapes through Empire. Before I was
Speaker 1: that Empire, I was dealing with urban life at right back,
Speaker 1: and I uhould just be twenty thirty fifty and then
Speaker 1: uh and then god, he starts seeing the numbers. It
Speaker 1: was like, hey, we need to do an album. This
Speaker 1: before I even did this is the first album I
Speaker 1: deal with Empires in twenty sixteen. Real Niggas back in style.
Speaker 1: So it's like, hey, we need to do a single
Speaker 1: and then and then based the single round the album.
Speaker 1: This is before I did the album, like we need to,
Speaker 1: we need to, we need to get it going. So
Speaker 1: I made that single make a Living with Sue, and
Speaker 1: then I finally did the album. Other than that, I
Speaker 1: was just running tape series some city money man's neighbor starts,
Speaker 1: just running through them, doing millions of views on the
Speaker 1: videos and all the type of shit. So shit. And
Speaker 1: I think also back then, like YouTube paid a lot more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the YouTube money was great back then. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a lot different because the other what was dope about
Speaker 1: back then was if you had a distribution deal, they
Speaker 1: didn't touch your YouTube money, so you were getting the
Speaker 1: YouTube bag over here and then the iTunes over here.
Speaker 1: But now it's all all combined into one, which I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: because that YouTube money was great yea, so it paid
Speaker 1: way better than the streaming shit. So that's how that
Speaker 1: used to work too. So I mean, you know, that's
Speaker 1: why I'm able to be you know, like I get
Speaker 1: paid twenty a show still to this day. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, we're turning ten to fifteen a verse.
Speaker 1: That's big. So you go to a city post up.
Speaker 1: I'm in the city. If you got your bag right,
Speaker 1: come get the verse you No, I'll add this show
Speaker 1: in KC. Not too long ago. Shit, before I even
Speaker 1: got in the club, somebody was in the front waiting
Speaker 1: to averse. So when I'm backing up, security like, hey,
Speaker 1: this guy right here and talk to you, like, what's up.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do it verse, I'm like, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: He asked me the price, gave me the number. He
Speaker 1: didn't even go on the show. He left when you
Speaker 1: go get the bag together, told me to pull up
Speaker 1: on him when I was doing with the show. I
Speaker 1: ended up pulling up on him after I was done
Speaker 1: with the show. So manyo, I had a meet and
Speaker 1: greet that day the show the verse and then missed
Speaker 1: me doing the verse with him. Someone else came and
Speaker 1: did a verse with him in a video all in
Speaker 1: one night, so I didn't get back to the room
Speaker 1: till like like six in the morning. Jesus just ran
Speaker 1: it up. Not all that should like that be Boosy
Speaker 1: be doing it ship like that, and you know just
Speaker 1: on the road is running that ship up type of
Speaker 1: ship yeah, Boozie is he don't get for sure, He's
Speaker 1: a real rap hustler, fucking rap hustling for real. Who's
Speaker 1: somebody who inspires you because you're such a boss you
Speaker 1: do your entrepreneurial ship. But who's an artist or just
Speaker 1: someone in the game that's inspired you a lot that
Speaker 1: you get more from. I fuck with Meek Tough, I
Speaker 1: fuck with little Baby Tough Ross. I fuck with anybody.
Speaker 1: I fuck with anybody that's like, you know, aspiring. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. People I can relate to. People
Speaker 1: I can see you know that been through something and
Speaker 1: really you know, living a dream and and you know,
Speaker 1: happy where they are in life type ship, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, taking care of their family, putting they
Speaker 1: niggas in position, you know what I'm saying, and just
Speaker 1: motivating them a person to go harder, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And never being content with it. That's what
Speaker 1: Like I don't even check my bank account. I will
Speaker 1: not like, I will not look at it. Why because
Speaker 1: I don't want to know what. I don't want to
Speaker 1: know because I don't want to be content because if
Speaker 1: you see it, you might be like I could chill out.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do it, like you have someone
Speaker 1: checking your bank account for you. I have accounting the
Speaker 1: doing it now because and then every time something gets spent,
Speaker 1: it sends me a text I got you, But I
Speaker 1: don't never want to know what's in it to where
Speaker 1: I just be like, okay, I got five mill I
Speaker 1: can just relax. No, I don't never like I get
Speaker 1: mad if something like I don't even check the receipt
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, I got they give me a receipt,
Speaker 1: I won't even look at it like they asked me
Speaker 1: to receet. I say, no, that's funny. Yeah, Like I
Speaker 1: don't want to be like, oh I could just sit
Speaker 1: back and do nothing right. I just feel like at
Speaker 1: that time being, if you do it, then somebody else
Speaker 1: can come in and take that spot. Like I always
Speaker 1: just want to work, keep working harder and harder and harder,
Speaker 1: and never I figured out. I figured out, But I'm
Speaker 1: not just I won't do it. Uh. You obviously went
Speaker 1: through one of the more in my opinion, dope rap
Speaker 1: beefs recently because you guys kept it on our own record,
Speaker 1: are you and Masie? It was bothly. That was like
Speaker 1: three years ago, two years ago. I don't know that's how,
Speaker 1: but it was to me, it was like dope because
Speaker 1: it reminded me of, like, you know, just some ship
Speaker 1: that I grew up on, people keeping it up, putting
Speaker 1: dope songs out. Yeah, because I feel like nowadays, man,
Speaker 1: like we saw King Vaughan, you know that ship with Kwondo.
Speaker 1: I don't think he had a rap beef with what
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. It wasn't even like that's the
Speaker 1: weirdest thing about out the Dirk and Young Boy thing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you guys aren't even from the same city.
Speaker 1: I'm so confused. This is strictly some hip hop shit.
Speaker 1: I think that shit was like over a bitch or something,
Speaker 1: But I just thought it was dope. That Like, I
Speaker 1: feel like you guys did that shit the right way
Speaker 1: because you guys have mutual homies. You guys got mutual business,
Speaker 1: and you guys had obviously a disagreement and it ended
Speaker 1: up on record and it was what it was and
Speaker 1: everyone moved on. Yeah for sure. You know me, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't hold no grudges. I ain't mad at nobody,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like I've been doing my thing.
Speaker 1: Fel'm continued doing my thing, you know, So I don't
Speaker 1: wake up every day thinking about, you know, the past
Speaker 1: or anything else. I'd be focused on the future. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing, man, when you like see some of
Speaker 1: these younger artists who you might fuck with. I feel
Speaker 1: like recently we've just seen so much bullshit going on
Speaker 1: in terms of just people keeping one foot in, one
Speaker 1: foot out on the rap shit. And you know, we
Speaker 1: see people losing their freedom pou shisty, we see people
Speaker 1: losing their life. We see a lot so much going on, Like, like,
Speaker 1: what would be some advice you would give to some
Speaker 1: of those younger artists who maybe haven't I tell my
Speaker 1: artists all the time not to even make this record,
Speaker 1: not to even fall into the negativity, and understand it's
Speaker 1: come with the music game. Everybody not gonna like you.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of people from your past
Speaker 1: to remember or I remember he wasn't doing this. I
Speaker 1: remember he didn't have this like hater type shit. You
Speaker 1: get what I'm saying. So it comes with it. You
Speaker 1: gotta have tough skin for it. And if you ain't
Speaker 1: ready for hate, you ain't ready for success. But then
Speaker 1: also you got to understand too when you when you
Speaker 1: coming from the hood or the trenches, and you give
Speaker 1: these kids money. I never had money before. And they
Speaker 1: also had this streat mentality, Like it's like they feel
Speaker 1: like they can't be touched and don't really care about
Speaker 1: the certain things that they should be worried about until
Speaker 1: later on, you know what I'm saying. So that's like
Speaker 1: why I never choose to like pop ecstasy or appeals
Speaker 1: and shit like that, because a lot of people from
Speaker 1: my neighborhood used to get high and then they wake
Speaker 1: up not knowing what they did. Ter on in the
Speaker 1: interrogation room. Wow, you know what I'm saying, they'd be like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck happened last night? So like, and I
Speaker 1: knew a lot of people from my neighborhood lost their
Speaker 1: mind like early, like like young dudes like twenty years old,
Speaker 1: like smoking crack now because he donet pop the bad
Speaker 1: ecstasy pill and fucked him off. And this was like
Speaker 1: a fly nigga that used to hoop and get good
Speaker 1: grades in school, you know what I'm saying. So I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't never want to play with myself like that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because I've seen how you know,
Speaker 1: just like how they doing it right now, how they
Speaker 1: pressing up the pills which they found the all type
Speaker 1: shit like that people dying like this was back then,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying, This was the heype
Speaker 1: movement days when Nigga's popping six exit pills losing their mind.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, hell nah, Like you
Speaker 1: never got down with that, shiit? No? I never. I
Speaker 1: only think I ever did was smoke with you. Sip sirr?
Speaker 1: That was it? Do you still say it? Nah? I've
Speaker 1: been stopped alone time ago. Was that hard to stop?
Speaker 1: Because I know some people say it's pretty tough to
Speaker 1: get off? No, it wasn't hard. My whole thing I was.
Speaker 1: I was amusing, I was getting too high. It wasn't
Speaker 1: hard for when I kicked it. It was like I
Speaker 1: damned her, like not paying attention when I would be
Speaker 1: doing that. Damned there probably sip a brick in the day.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because I used to. When
Speaker 1: I used to buy a pint. I used to have
Speaker 1: like the twenty ounce cream sodas and I pour like
Speaker 1: a four in there in each one of them, and
Speaker 1: I done drunk like four of them, and I'm fucked off,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, not even knowing. I shoot
Speaker 1: a video. I actually I shot a video. Somebody came
Speaker 1: in town paid me for a verse in the video.
Speaker 1: I shot the video. I drunk one right here doing
Speaker 1: this scene. One at this scene, one at this scene,
Speaker 1: one of this scene. That's the whole brick. Yo. That's
Speaker 1: crazy because I'm not even paying attention to what I'm
Speaker 1: doing it. So it's so good. But you know they
Speaker 1: say something that something that's that good, ain't that's too
Speaker 1: good for you? So when they I woke up, you know,
Speaker 1: I woke up fucked up one day and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: if I make it, man, I'm done. And I just
Speaker 1: been done ever since. Damn. Yeah that's good man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, the lean thing is like I'll,
Speaker 1: like you said, it's something that people really enjoy, but
Speaker 1: it's also like it's like your body dependent on it,
Speaker 1: and it's just like if you're drinking a good ass
Speaker 1: soda and you just keep drinking that ship over and
Speaker 1: over and it's gonna keep drinking it, but you're not
Speaker 1: knowing that the sugar or whatever, the caffeine or whatever's
Speaker 1: fucking you up. You don't even realize it until Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's real ship. You talked about the rock Nation ship.
Speaker 1: I remember hearing about that. I think I think you
Speaker 1: told me about it before. What what made you initially
Speaker 1: not want to sign shout out the rock Nation? Who's
Speaker 1: trying to sign you? Earl damn okay? Fuck with dang
Speaker 1: still to this day, and its not necessarily him is
Speaker 1: the one who who wanted what they wanted, but he
Speaker 1: was the one who brought the situation, you know, together.
Speaker 1: But they just wanted to my past catalog and the
Speaker 1: masters and it's a super now and that's what the
Speaker 1: mind you just was right before COVID. So if I
Speaker 1: would have did that, I was just been paying them
Speaker 1: for nothing. So they wanted so they wanted to sign you,
Speaker 1: and then all your catalog they want to come bring
Speaker 1: it over, and that's fucking crazy. And it was just
Speaker 1: saying like we're gonna build this and we're gonna tour
Speaker 1: with this person and all that and all that, and
Speaker 1: I was just like, I'm like, man, we can start
Speaker 1: from here, Like if you want to start from new
Speaker 1: music going for I can't do it back. Luckily I didn't,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And shout out to like
Speaker 1: I said, shout out to rock Nation for the opportunity.
Speaker 1: But they do a lot of artists like that, and
Speaker 1: they was naming off all the other artists that got
Speaker 1: the same type of deals and this is and this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's not that's not a good deal, not at all.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, especially not for independent artists that's
Speaker 1: been living off music to where now I gotta wait
Speaker 1: for y'all and I gotta get it's like, damn, y'all
Speaker 1: don't have nothing to do with these albums. Yeah, why
Speaker 1: would you add all that red tape right right right
Speaker 1: after that, I mean right after that pandemic, So it
Speaker 1: wouldn't it wouldn't have been no shows, no nothing. I
Speaker 1: would have just been it would have been stuck because
Speaker 1: you can't just drop when you want now. No, not
Speaker 1: even that, Like the whole thing was they were going
Speaker 1: to put me on tour. I'm supposed to be doing
Speaker 1: this and doing that, but all that was shut down
Speaker 1: to the pandemic. So I wouldn't even getting no money.
Speaker 1: I should be giving you all money for free, thank god.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, yeah, you would have just been Yeah, where's
Speaker 1: the perks there? That's crazy? Yo, we got to stop
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Speaker 1: the interview. Yeah, any artists, if you have catalog and
Speaker 1: you try to sign a deal, and now it's different
Speaker 1: if they just say we just want to distribute it,
Speaker 1: you know, because that's a different situation. But if they're like, no,
Speaker 1: bring bring your catalog over to our label, that I'd go,
Speaker 1: go fuck yourself. The short to understand too. So how
Speaker 1: I look at it as you know a lot of
Speaker 1: people that complain about the artists putting out too much music.
Speaker 1: I'm not signed to a record label, so why would
Speaker 1: I not put out as much as you I can?
Speaker 1: Because that's where I get paid from. So it's a
Speaker 1: numbers game, man. Yeah, So if I'm getting paid whatever
Speaker 1: I'm getting paid off each album, why would I not
Speaker 1: keep dropping the numbers game? Like when you're on a major.
Speaker 1: They want you to drop an album, then tour a year,
Speaker 1: and then come back and dropped in because they putting
Speaker 1: the money up before you and and everything else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can tell you what song they don't want on here,
Speaker 1: what picture they don't want. I done heard artists like, okay,
Speaker 1: they want me to sign over here, but they wanted
Speaker 1: me to take off my tattoos or cut my drade
Speaker 1: like that. They want to control you because they putting
Speaker 1: the money up, So they want you to look a
Speaker 1: certain way, they want you to wrap a certain way.
Speaker 1: This is what they feel will work. I feel like
Speaker 1: artists nowadays are at least becoming more transparent and understanding
Speaker 1: that they might be in shitty deals inventing that. You know,
Speaker 1: like we've seen me, we've seen yg. We've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of people be like, yo, I didn't get no
Speaker 1: money off my music. Because what happens is you take
Speaker 1: the advance, and that has to if you take if
Speaker 1: you get a million, that's just an easy number to
Speaker 1: work with. A million dollars on a major label, you're
Speaker 1: probably only owning seven to twelve percent of your user
Speaker 1: so much just to get that million back, because they go,
Speaker 1: you got to make that ship back over ten times
Speaker 1: before you recoup. It's like, bro, that's hard to do.
Speaker 1: So that's where all the other things and endorsements and
Speaker 1: everything else come in. That's what they're living off of
Speaker 1: in the shows and shit. Yeah, but when that shit
Speaker 1: drives up, that's where you would see these artists during
Speaker 1: the pandemic like, man, fuck my label, I ain't see
Speaker 1: no money since. And then they get back trapping again,
Speaker 1: and then they get caught up. Nah. I think that's
Speaker 1: really what COVID did, was it made y'all realize, yo,
Speaker 1: know all these motherfuckers for the most part, you know,
Speaker 1: and these are good guys that fuck with a lot
Speaker 1: of them. But when you take that easy upfront check,
Speaker 1: you're signing off on a lot of bullshit in that deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you got to make that. Fuck it, make
Speaker 1: that given. Tell you a friend what they want back,
Speaker 1: and and I don't feel bad. And if you're not
Speaker 1: able to make that back, bro, I don't feel bad
Speaker 1: because you signed the fucking deal like you, we're talking
Speaker 1: grown ass men. You signed a contract like you either
Speaker 1: you needed the money, you don't took an advance before
Speaker 1: took advance. But it's different. I feel like it's it's
Speaker 1: different splits. Yeah, it's different, but you can't sell your soul,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And it took an advance before,
Speaker 1: but I made mine back I recouped, So yeah, that's
Speaker 1: how it works. So now a lot of them take
Speaker 1: the advance. Imagine if you get off. Imagine if you
Speaker 1: only get eight percent, how hard it is to recoup that. Now,
Speaker 1: if you do like a distro situation and you got
Speaker 1: an eighty, twenty, sixty, forty, ninety ten, whatever, it's a
Speaker 1: lot easier to recoup. But if you have eight percent
Speaker 1: out of one hundred, that means ninety two pennies of
Speaker 1: every dollar goes into the labor's pocket and only eight
Speaker 1: cents And you don't get the eight That eight cents
Speaker 1: goes towards your balance that you oh, that you oh
Speaker 1: even go in your pocket. It does not go on
Speaker 1: your pocket. You gotta fuck forever to pay that shit
Speaker 1: up forever. You gotta be fucking the weekend or somebody,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You gotta be drake like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it's like good luck,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think people understand like when you
Speaker 1: look at you know i'd be looking at people's numbers
Speaker 1: except be like, Okay, if he did twenty million streams
Speaker 1: times twenty times four thousand, I mean shit, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, I mean, that's cool money, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But like you know, like how
Speaker 1: are you? What's your overhead? What's your overhead? A lot
Speaker 1: of these you gotta understand too. A lot of these
Speaker 1: rappers like that's all they ever did was rap, so
Speaker 1: they don't have many really other hustles or whatever. So
Speaker 1: like if they get that money and fuck that money off,
Speaker 1: it's over. And it happens more often than not, especially
Speaker 1: your first deal. Most people's first deal is all bad.
Speaker 1: Go buy chains, call, bring all the homies on the road,
Speaker 1: all of all the drugs, all this shit. Man, you
Speaker 1: are you pretty? Like you? Do you travel deeper? Like
Speaker 1: did you move around with a lot of people or
Speaker 1: like like home or are you talking about like out
Speaker 1: of town? Let's say you out of town. Like for
Speaker 1: my writer, it's like four rooms and five flights. That's
Speaker 1: not bad. Yeah, that's not bad. I recently tried to
Speaker 1: book an artist for a show or for a club,
Speaker 1: and they wanted fifteen flights, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna work. Guys. You know I've seen some
Speaker 1: shit like that. I got booked for a show with
Speaker 1: the artist before, and that niggashit was crazy. It was
Speaker 1: like he wanted twenty five chicken wings, fifty lobster tails.
Speaker 1: He wanted like some crazy shit. Didn't even eat none
Speaker 1: of it. That's how it came and came there and
Speaker 1: counted it like he came to the He came there
Speaker 1: and counted this shit like I didn't book him. I
Speaker 1: was on the show with him, but the guy was
Speaker 1: telling me, like his writer, how crazy shit was. But
Speaker 1: you know, if you the promoter, you agree to I
Speaker 1: could say, hey, I won't five Latina women in the room,
Speaker 1: but as naked rolling blunts for me, and I won't
Speaker 1: a gallon of a gallon of Eminem's all green. And
Speaker 1: if you agree to it, you gotta provide to provide it.
Speaker 1: That's real up to you. There it is, man, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: look the album is out motivational purposes. Uh talk about
Speaker 1: the April slate of your artist that you got dropping
Speaker 1: so April first, I'm Friday. Next Friday, we got to
Speaker 1: the bands dropping HBO two. I met him nice guy,
Speaker 1: Funny Guy, Skinny te just drop, just bangs, just drive.
Speaker 1: We got Loso, we got a little Steve, we got
Speaker 1: a little Tray, we got Rascal Fetti. He just dropped
Speaker 1: you know, we got my nephew, he twelve years old,
Speaker 1: Jay Money. Oh ship, Yeah, he just dropped the t
Speaker 1: Are you helping him? Right? No? He writes his own ship.
Speaker 1: Everything is got videos, he do everything and so he
Speaker 1: he went of a cond that's fucking that's lit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So we're just working man. We just I'm about to
Speaker 1: drop a fo D compilation album on May knife. It's
Speaker 1: called The Infrastructure fifty Rich Presents fo D. So I
Speaker 1: like that. That's the next big move for everybody. Got
Speaker 1: the whole label on there. So and then from there
Speaker 1: we just just pushing out tapes. I think Skinny and Steve,
Speaker 1: I mean, Skinny and Steve got an album coming out,
Speaker 1: Stuck on Seminary for Tutor and Skinny got album coming out.
Speaker 1: Cardiers and Rolexus we got wiped out the Sacramento. He
Speaker 1: the next thing up by the sack. Shout out the sack,
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, shouts a Stockton too stockings. Yeah right
Speaker 1: now short with the e V k movement. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got we got slowly on the album too, on
Speaker 1: the FOD infrastructure. So uh, lots at a lot of
Speaker 1: good lots. It's gonna be a busy year. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: never not a busy year for you. Got to man,
Speaker 1: your calmest year in the last ten years where you
Speaker 1: were like like where you put out the least amount
Speaker 1: of music maybe last year. Last year it was like
Speaker 1: two tapes, maybe three, No, it was three. It was
Speaker 1: a it was a Philip Beasley and I had a
Speaker 1: group album with Tutor and then solidified, So it was
Speaker 1: only three tapes that year. Most people can't get three
Speaker 1: tapes out in their whole career. So other than that,
Speaker 1: everything else been turned up there it is, Man, appreciate
Speaker 1: you pulling up coming through your motivational purpose. Make sure
Speaker 1: y'all go get you an English bulldog, English Bulldog Real
Speaker 1: Bullies backing style. May ninth is the FOD project infrastructure
Speaker 1: dropping May ninth. Man, we're trying to take this shit
Speaker 1: over man with a new no limit Man, no limit.
Speaker 1: I like it. Let's go