1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: What up, y'all? 2 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 2: This is your main man, Memphis Bleek right here. 3 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 3: Welcome to Rock Solid, a production of iHeart Radio and 4 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 3: the Black Effect Network in partnership with my guys over 5 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 3: at Drink Champs. 6 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 2: Big with this year, Memphis, I'm back at it, niggas. 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 3: Notice the difference, just more chron present, no stones, what 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 3: a do y'all you already know we back with another 9 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 3: exclusive live episode of Rock Solid. Here got my motherfucking 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 3: brother in the building, my ace boom coom. 11 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 2: You know everybody, no hove is my god. 12 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 3: But where if it's ever anybody that's close to hole 13 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 3: in that position is this guy right here? My brother 14 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 3: young Ghould. Welcome to the show. You know you more 15 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 3: than rock Salid. 16 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: My jeep G. Good to see you. 17 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,279 Speaker 2: Man. How you been man, I know you've been all 18 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: over the world. 19 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 3: No Beyonce toil jay Z secretly recorded, I'm saying, it's 20 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,319 Speaker 3: a lot of shit going on with my man. 21 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: Your goo. Yeah, you know what it is. You know 22 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: what it is, Bleak. 23 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 2: Then you got the Rock Nation school. 24 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: Yo. 25 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 2: They don't even know my God principal in these streets yo. 26 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 3: Yo o lord yo, they be sitting Nigga City dean 27 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 3: offense man. 28 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta what you I'm the director. I'm 29 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: the director, so we you know what I'm saying. The 30 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: same thing is is like we always giving back, you 31 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So, so we put everything that 32 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: we do underneath a rock nation. We put it basically 33 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 1: in Long Island University in Brooklyn, right across the street 34 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: from juniors. Yeah. 35 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out juniors, Shout out BK that used to 36 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 3: be the l i U University. 37 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 2: Shout out whole for too much fucking money. 38 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 1: Nah. But we we put three different majors in there, 39 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I'm in charge of 40 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: Music Technology Entrepreneurship Production. It's called MTEP. Right, it's a 41 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: it's a track that we got. Basically, when you come 42 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: to the school, it's still going to l You're still 43 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: going to college, you get a bachelor's degree. 44 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 2: Okay, it's still LU who just partner up? 45 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Same thing as if 46 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: like say you went for nursing. You know what I'm saying, 47 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: You would go to l i U, but your school 48 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: would be nursing. This is the same thing. You go 49 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 1: to l IU, but your school is Rock Nation, you 50 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So we got the music, we 51 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: got a vocal track, so vocal performance, and we also 52 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: got you know, the same thing we do with the management. 53 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: So we have a sports management and the sports management 54 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: actually has a bachelor's and a masters. Y'all hear that? 55 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 3: Man? Y'all kids man coming out of high school the 56 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 3: Rock Nation school hit. 57 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 2: Up my man goo you know what i mean. Principal Google, 58 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 2: y'all lean on me. 59 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:40,239 Speaker 3: That's how he walk in the halls. But we were 60 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 3: gonna dive into all of that. I want to really 61 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 3: get started this one off because my bro and we've 62 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 3: been through pardon me, we've been through so much. Man, 63 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 3: Let's talk about how we first linked up, how this brotherhood. 64 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 3: You know, I want to give a big thanks to 65 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 3: my girl, law Reale. You know what I'm saying. If 66 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 3: it wasn't for how, I wouldn't even know my brother 67 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 3: right here. No, that's that's a key factor. Like Lareel, 68 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, changed my life like crazy, bro, 69 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 3: and I remember how it happened. Shout out b Stanley. 70 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. He was the engineer. He 71 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 3: had something popping off that day and he called out, 72 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 3: and I remember Loreel running in. She like, bleak, I 73 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 3: got another engineer from Delaware, but he in DC right now? 74 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 2: No that he ready to pull up. 75 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 3: I think he was at Daddy's house at the time 76 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 3: at Puff Studio, and I was like, I was like. 77 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 2: Yo, all right, cool, do he know how to do 78 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 2: he roll up? 79 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: Do? He smoked? 80 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 2: She like I believe. 81 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 3: So I'm like, well, tell him pull up? And Google 82 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 3: came through Man and changed my life, changed the history. 83 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: And trajectory of rock. 84 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 3: Bro. 85 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: It's crazy that you say that, because it's like I 86 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: always wanted to ask you. I always say that interviews. 87 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, there's no secret you 88 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: changed my life, Bro. 89 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 3: Jay, I appreciate change my same vice versa, because you 90 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 3: made me understand being a more professional in the studio. 91 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 3: You know what I mean, Like you Shane rest in peace, Commal, 92 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. Like that that trilogy and 93 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 3: baseline man, y'all called the way of how I go 94 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 3: to the studio today and record. 95 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know what it was, but I 96 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: was like I always tell people. I was like, man, 97 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: like I got my man was you know, I don't 98 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: know what it was. He was sick or he was 99 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: having a baby or something like that. And when me 100 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: and you got together on that first session, I was 101 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,919 Speaker 1: just like we just clicked yup super and and you 102 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: basically saying, I'm gonna call go back. I want I 103 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: want him again, I'm. 104 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 3: Saying every day. And then Hope stole you. You know 105 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 3: what I'm saying, stole. 106 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying that he whole engineer saw good. 107 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 2: That's my bro. But Yo, from there, we went on tours. 108 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 3: We did, yo, bro, We done did million countless sessions 109 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 3: man like to the point I remember when we uh 110 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 3: when we found out we were spending too much money 111 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 3: in baseline, when we finally went over the numbers. 112 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: But listen, it'd be hard sometime. Pause. You know what 113 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Crazy sometimes when you go to the A 114 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: and R meeting and it was a real story where 115 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 1: you know, I'm sitting in front of J I'm sitting 116 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 1: in front of LA and they're like, yo, ghol, you 117 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: spent this amount. How I'm getting my money back exactly. 118 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: And that's when I was like, oh, man, like yo, 119 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 1: like I came straight through you were like, Yo, we 120 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: gotta come to my house. 121 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 3: We got tightened up, so we moved. We moved the 122 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 3: session everything to Google house. He had the studio just 123 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 3: like this studio set up in the crib and the shad. 124 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 3: I remember all the kids young coming in. My g 125 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 3: had to go out change change diapers, make bodies in 126 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 3: the middle of the sessions. But we were so ahead 127 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 3: of time, you know, because a lot of these artists 128 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 3: now record their self. We was doing this twenty years 129 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 3: ago almost now, you know what I'm saying. And I 130 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 3: remember we thought that we were going to get the budget. 131 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 3: We did everything, We calculated all the money, how much 132 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 3: we spent, featured all this everything. Me and Gooseen there 133 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 3: like yeah, Rock Rock, I think it was still Rockefeller 134 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 3: at the time. Yeah, they owe us X y Z 135 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 3: Goo brings the you know invoice, the whole they booked us. 136 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 3: End of the story is they robbed us with no gun. 137 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 3: Them niggas said, y'all ain't got no LLC, y'all ain't 138 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 3: got this. 139 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: We was young, so we didn't really know what it was. 140 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: But like it was, it was crazy just putting that 141 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: together and the history that we did. Yo, bro, like 142 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: that was the That was the crazy part. Like from 143 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: from baseline to the crib. 144 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 3: To the crib to rock the mic to everywhere. We 145 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 3: don't record it everywhere, my g like, but just think 146 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 3: we gave them a free album bro five three four. 147 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 3: So they talking about where the money coming from, how 148 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 3: they gonna get their money back. Y'all recouped the first 149 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 3: day and hit the stores. They ain't spend no money, 150 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 3: like yo. That was one of the illest things. Then 151 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,119 Speaker 3: me and my g I remember when we first got 152 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 3: our money. We in Miami. I think this when Jay 153 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 3: first met b they was having We was having the 154 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 3: all white party. We let anybody shopping. This is the 155 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 3: real Miami got. 156 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: You gotta tell you, gotta tell the whole story, because 157 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: it was like people think we get the invites ten 158 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: days earth. 159 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 2: Oh no, we got the insult that morning. 160 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: So that morning, yes whole and specifically through Colleen, like 161 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: y'all we having an all white party, and like I 162 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: was like, we in Miami. 163 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 4: I don't got no all white exactly. So I had 164 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 4: to go out and remember figure out the outfit. 165 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: There was no stores in Miami like today. It was. 166 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 3: This is when Miami just was one Ruffle of Rent 167 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 3: store on the corner and by the the Lowe's Hotel. 168 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 2: They just had I think it was KFC. That was it. 169 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 3: Then you had to go way out the Dauphin Mall 170 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 3: or the swap Me. I think we all went to 171 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 3: the Purple Label store. 172 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: Nah. It was crazy. So I went out. You know 173 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, we get to shoot get your little 174 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: but you can't just get white PAMs. You got to 175 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: get the linen. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, it 176 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: was like a scar fall, but I'm six five. 177 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: They don't let size. We had the improvise, so you 178 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 2: do what you do. 179 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: That night. It was crazy because it was like, yo, 180 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: we started at one spot, went to up Right and 181 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: it was like. 182 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 2: We walked it into different spots. 183 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: Hold on, but we walked in. They had everything on trays. 184 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: They was like, yo, you know you want to drink, smoke, 185 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: you want to do whatever it was who was chilling. 186 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: We had to, you know what I'm saying, a little spot. 187 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: Then jay Lebron get up. Yeah. It was like yo, 188 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: we're gonna go to the club. Yeah. So this rookie year, 189 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: rookie year, we walked down the street. It's seventy five 190 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: people were all white on all white. So we get 191 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: to the front of the club and the promoter was like, 192 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: who wit y'all everybody in all white? Everybody in all yo. 193 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 3: We went in that game if it was their clue, 194 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 3: everybody man. But I'm just thinking about before the day 195 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 3: even started, when we was looking for our outfits. I 196 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 3: remember me and you, this is like our first time 197 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 3: touching some real paper, and I remember we all chilling 198 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 3: walking through and we bought them dumb ass Lockman's Yo, 199 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 3: my j like we literally winning the store. It like 200 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 3: fuck it, let's grab this. 201 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: I don't know what it was. It was just like 202 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: I'm with you, I'm with the crew, yep. 203 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 2: Free everybody was there bean. 204 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: And we was getting it. So it was just like, Yo, 205 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: what you want five ten for this watch? Yeah? Nothing, 206 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: it's nothing. Were like swiping. We good. 207 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 2: Everybody bought it. It's you freeway. All the crack even 208 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 2: bought one that day. 209 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:52,439 Speaker 1: Yo. 210 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 3: Everybody bought a Lockman And I believe that watch went 211 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 3: out of style as soon as we brought it. As 212 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 3: soon as we walked out of store to Lockman went 213 00:09:59,000 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 3: out of business. 214 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: That was the fun we was having. Word out like 215 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: we was the Miami trips. You know what I'm saying, 216 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: Like that the month we spent in Miami, that that 217 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: was a brotherhood. That was like we couldn't you know 218 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, We can't replace. 219 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 3: That, yo, But now that is a budget we blew. 220 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 3: We blew that budget because we went to Miami for 221 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 3: the Beans and Bleak album. 222 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: Na okay, so so so slow up though, slow up, 223 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: slow up. So because I always tell people this, because 224 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: I'll be like, yo, the Miami trip started, It really 225 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: started with the party. Hold on. It started with your 226 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 1: brother getting hurt. Oh yeah, yes, yes, and then dre yes, 227 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: and then we said, y'all, we're gonna move everything down 228 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: to Miami and we're gonna go to Circle House. And 229 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: we locked our Circle House for thirty days. 230 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 3: That was the worst, y'all. It's the worst and the 231 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 3: best studio ever invented at the same time. If you 232 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 3: have your worst place and best place in the same place, 233 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 3: shout out to a be yo, babe, because that studio 234 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 3: spoiled us. 235 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 4: Bro. 236 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 2: Remember in baseline only whole had the studio. 237 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 3: Broget where they got the bottles of Chris or whatever 238 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 3: they drink. 239 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: It saying the worst because it was too it was 240 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: too luxury. 241 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 3: We didn't know what We come to the studio, y'all 242 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 3: got chefs, this the pool, the jakoujie, we young. 243 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 2: We got young females breezing through all day. 244 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 3: Niggas like record Now we there near Rockefeller Pawn at 245 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 3: this point, like. 246 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 2: We ain't trying to make no records. I might need them. 247 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: To holler at us crazy. 248 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 3: So we basically blew the budget. But one one thing 249 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 3: I got to say. I always said this Freeway took 250 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 3: full fucking events. 251 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 1: Right, Yo. What was crazy was we was down there 252 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 1: and you was working, Beans was working, y'all was working 253 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: at opposite time. Beans like like you you were super early. 254 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: Wa want to get my money? You know what I'm saying. 255 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: And I would tell people like Bleak would be at 256 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: baseline by like no. The Beans would call me at 257 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: like eleven twelve at night and be like ya, yeah, yeah, 258 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: I'm coming and be there too all night. That was 259 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: like we've seen it in Miami. So then Freeway was 260 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,319 Speaker 1: like after three four days. He looked at Justin be like, yo, 261 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: like you're giving all the beats the Beans and Bleak, 262 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 1: I can't get nothing. So we was on our way 263 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: to the Strip Club. I remember we. 264 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 2: Did. 265 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: It was in Miami, and Freeway was like, yo, come on, 266 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: just like, let me get something, and he cooked up 267 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: rocked the mic right there, and that's when it flipped 268 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 1: to becoming the state property album. 269 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 3: Free came back with them smokers because only record me 270 00:12:58,840 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 3: and Beans did was Hipnow. 271 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's still still we got records done. You 272 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,079 Speaker 1: did more. You did more than we got a. 273 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 3: Couple of unreleased Beans and Bleak records. It just never 274 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 3: came out. We just never dropped it. We never finished 275 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 3: the project nothing. 276 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: But you made me argue you into hypnotic. 277 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 3: Yes, because Yo, that's the illest because I ain't. 278 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: Even want to do that. Yeah, you didn't want to 279 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: do the beat Beans had. That's another beat that I 280 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: was like, Yo, you gotta do this beat. 281 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 3: Yep. It wasn't till Beans set the whole tone member 282 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 3: Beans had the studio dark, can't doce burning, I come 283 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 3: in there, everything hypnotic. 284 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 2: I was like, wait a minute, now I feel the vibe. 285 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 3: Let's go, and I did my verse and then when 286 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 3: Hove came and he heard it, he like, I gotta 287 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 3: get on this is bugging. 288 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: I need to see it this now. That was the 289 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: first time. That trip to when he came down was 290 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: the first because we were shooting a video for for Beans. 291 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: Forget which record it was, but that was the first time. 292 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: Like no, no, because he was starting a meeting and 293 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: he was like trying to ask why you and Bean's. 294 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 2: Album wasn't done. We wasn't doing no records. 295 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: So he didn't start the meeting until I got there. 296 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: He was like, Yo, what's going on? 297 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 3: They don't know, man, we spent so much money in 298 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,560 Speaker 3: that studio, man, circle house. I think y'all that came 299 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 3: up with us. Man, y'all might owe it's a free 300 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 3: session at this point, one on the house, Like come on, man, yo. 301 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 3: Then they showed us love. 302 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: BB showed us love and and and what's crazy is 303 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: that the last day of our organized session, like say 304 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: you paid for thirty days was notine eleven. 305 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 3: Damn. That's crazy because I went. 306 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: Google being just was trapped in the studio and the 307 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: BB and the BB let us stay there for like 308 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: another two weeks cause we couldn't get a plane with 309 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: the trail. 310 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 3: Flew that morning they shut everything down. That's crazy. Yeah, 311 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 3: if you blew my head off with that one that 312 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 3: I now, I had a real question that Nori. He 313 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 3: always texts me. He's like, I don't care who from Rockefeller, 314 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 3: you gotta ask this question. But before we get to 315 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 3: that question, I got a question on my own. Out 316 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 3: of all the artists, of course, not exclude Hove, exclude 317 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 3: me because. 318 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: That's like biased. You came in with me, so I 319 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: don't want you. 320 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 3: To be like, yeah, you out of all the artists, 321 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 3: I'm talking about everybody, mop a meal, fucking rel you 322 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, beans, free, p D, crack fucking shit, 323 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 3: you young guns. Definitely fucking old as sparks. Who would 324 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 3: you say was the easiest and the hardest artist to 325 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 3: work with? That Like, you ain't gotta say nothing to you, 326 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 3: just get in there and do his thing. And then 327 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 3: the one person that's like your fan, I told you 328 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 3: seven times, spit that word over. 329 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: No, that's hard to say. That's hard to say because 330 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: it's like I don't know you, because you know it'd 331 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: be like and I'm gonna say it only you. It's 332 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: me and you, so the people are understanding, right, So 333 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: it's like almost like your kids. So I love all 334 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: my kids, but they different, you know what I'm saying. Yes, 335 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: so like my oldest daughter and the way that she is, 336 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: my second daughter, my twins. You know, they're all different 337 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: about about shipping on them. It's not for a session. 338 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: Let me let me explain to you what I'm saying. 339 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: It'd be different emotions, you know what I'm saying. So 340 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: whole is gonna like sit there and figure out the 341 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: rhyme and like say good to this makes sense and 342 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: me and you was on the like it's only like this, 343 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: my brother, I'm making joints with them, you know what I'm saying. 344 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 3: But yeah, I ain't gonna front used to have me 345 00:16:54,920 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 3: frustrated something write a rhyp google be like say said 346 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 3: that word three times already. Come on, we're gonna put 347 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 3: that word off through the rhyme. You serious word. 348 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,679 Speaker 4: Word because I'm trying to I'm trying trying to be 349 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 4: like yo like. 350 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 3: And then when Jez came out repeating whole sentences I 351 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 3: used to be like, I would have been the first. 352 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: We was trying to make the best rhyme. You know 353 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Used to be like goo it trusts me. 354 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: But look even that when you're saying that that's the 355 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: fact that me and you could like you know what 356 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, it ain't no like yo, he trying 357 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: to play me or this and this and that. You 358 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. 359 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:40,360 Speaker 3: We brothers right, Yeah it was yo, bro. I never 360 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 3: took nothing personally all the day making the best records. 361 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 3: We did everything, man, Like. I remember me and Goul 362 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 3: in the crib recording man, and we hit a hit 363 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,239 Speaker 3: the block like we ain't know what to do. So 364 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 3: me and Gool like, fuck it, let's go to the 365 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 3: store get some back we're smoking backwards. Yeah, like, let's 366 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 3: get some backwards. And we run into a nigga in 367 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 3: the store like, yo, bleak. 368 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: What up yo goo? 369 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 2: I make beats Yo. 370 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 3: I live out here Newark, and Gul like all right, yo, 371 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 3: I know the homie from the block come to the 372 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 3: crib and we and there he come to the crib, 373 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 3: played in some heat. We end up doing Hater Free 374 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 3: that night and fucking he turned out to be Shaye 375 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 3: Taylor now here producing for Beyonce out here moving Shay, 376 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 3: you owe me a beat. 377 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 2: If I never. 378 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: Bought Backwoods, you hurt. 379 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 3: We didn't know me and Gouda have been through it all, man, 380 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 3: But one thing I got to set up because Timberland 381 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 3: and Swiss they got verses. I got my own verses. 382 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 3: We're gonna do this one. And if anybody still its idea, 383 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,640 Speaker 3: somebody suit him for me because this you heard it here. 384 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 3: First we need a DJ versus and the first two 385 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 3: people on my DJ versus is my bro It just 386 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 3: fucking blade. 387 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, go there, Yo, listen, yod, I don't know, all right. 388 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: You're gonna go there, yo, who is a major nice DJ? 389 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: But one thing I can say. 390 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 3: About my brother's almost like he from Marcy because you 391 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 3: a competitive mother. 392 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 1: And only certain things that I take super serious, like 393 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: we could we could do whatever, you know what I'm saying, 394 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: competitive and I lose and I'd be like, all right, cool. 395 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: But it's certain things that I take super serious. I 396 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: think one of them is basketball and one of them 397 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: is DJing. 398 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 3: I think that's the only time I ever saw you 399 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 3: like that, upset, like usually you know you upset, but 400 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 3: you composed some family show. 401 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: This happened, nigga, bullshit. Now what happened was? What happened 402 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: was I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you the 403 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:53,439 Speaker 1: whole story. So it was it was a day that 404 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: we was doing the E. P M D record over 405 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: with you and Bean. 406 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 3: Ye they're so what you're saying. 407 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: So so we was happy because we was like, Yo, 408 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 1: we're gonna get DJ Scratched to come in and do 409 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: the Scratches live, you know what I'm saying. So we 410 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: set up, we rented, we got scratched the door over, 411 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: so we had the turntable, you know, Me and Justice like, 412 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, scratch and scratch me, you 413 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: and just Scratches a legend. So it's like us trying 414 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 1: to set it up for him so that he's comfortable 415 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: when he come in and be like, Yo, it's already 416 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 1: set up. You ain't gotta you know what I'm saying, 417 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: mess with that boom. So we had everything set up 418 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: to turntables to mix in the middle. Everything was weighted perfectly, 419 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: me and you know, everything for Scratch. So then afterwards 420 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: it was just guy, this ship popping, you know what 421 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Start start in the. 422 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 3: Studio, and I just so happened to walk in the 423 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 3: road and they talked the ship like what I. 424 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 2: Smoked you on these tables just like what set it up? 425 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 3: So you know me Barcy instigator, y'all niggas, let me 426 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 3: see this bat who go down and the who went down? 427 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say who. 428 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 3: Ain't nobody win, But all I know is my man 429 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 3: who wanted to fight. And I was sitting there like 430 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 3: no way it just you know, he wanted to get 431 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 3: back to Zelda, but he wanted to fight too, and 432 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 3: I'm looking at him like no wagon. 433 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: Now you say, like, I don't like that when people 434 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: battle and like they lose and they don't want to 435 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: say they lost because because. 436 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 2: Because it's got it, because I'm av you ain't have yet. 437 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: No, No, I'm into I'm into reggae battles. I'm into 438 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: all types of battles. So if if you come out 439 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: and you lose that night, you gotta say you lost. 440 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 1: So that night, No, that night, I was like just 441 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: was scratching. He was killing it right, he was going right. 442 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 1: So I'm trying to beat Juggle and the ship was 443 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: skipping on me and I lost and I was like, 444 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: but I was I was so heated. 445 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 4: You had never seen me in that before where I 446 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 4: was like, what the. 447 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: That I had lost that in front of everybody that, yeah, 448 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: I was ready to fight. I was like, yo, it 449 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: was like it was like the night it was like, okay, 450 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: just as the video game king in baseline, right, Yo, 451 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: he's a video game king. Nobody being him a two 452 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: K no, no, but the one I'm relaying this to 453 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 1: the story you just told. So the one night that 454 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: I beat just in a video game, I don't even 455 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 1: remember what it was he was on. I was there 456 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 1: for that too. 457 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 3: I was there for that that wasn't I think it 458 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 3: was it was NBA Live because it wasn't too K. 459 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 2: Then it was NBA Live on Madden and you whipped 460 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 2: them in the room. 461 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 4: Right, See that like video games and somebody control everything 462 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 4: video came about. 463 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: But they love it. 464 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 3: But they got major competitive beef and I love it. 465 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 3: That just so happened to have been there for both 466 00:22:55,480 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 3: for y'all competition. But another thing go, and I gonna lie, 467 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 3: we don't. I don't seen the book of whole ship. 468 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 3: I don't seen the book that was really dope. No, 469 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 3: how you how you feel like you got it, you can't. 470 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 3: You can't skip over that. 471 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: So, first of all, being everybody, everybody got to realize 472 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: that we kept at a secret from Hole. I know, 473 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,880 Speaker 1: we kept a stupid we kept a super secret from Hope. 474 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: So it was like, you know, something monumental to be 475 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,160 Speaker 1: like yo, fiftieth You know what I'm saying, hip hop 476 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 1: what I would like to get out there or what 477 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: or people don't really realize is the museum was doing fun. 478 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 1: The library was wasn't. That's right, And so with whole 479 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: stepping in making this exhibit, it brings the library to 480 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: a certain point. You know what I'm saying. When people 481 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: are now getting library cards, you know what I'm saying, 482 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: And like. 483 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 3: Basically you know, kept the library going. 484 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,400 Speaker 1: For your whole time, you know what I'm saying, right. 485 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 3: And staple that Brooklyn been there since man I could remember. 486 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: So we try to keep it a secret until they 487 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 1: like wrap the whole. 488 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then everybody on you know what i mean, 489 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 3: everybody on there and my man Meek mil too, shout 490 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 3: out Meek. That's my bro, he said the direct flip. 491 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 3: But yeah, the book a whole I ain't on front. 492 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 3: That blew my mind just to be in the museum, 493 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 3: like I'm born and raised there. You know, my my 494 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 3: my grandma's is from Ebbittsvield. 495 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 496 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 3: So I walked past that library my whole life going 497 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 3: to Prospect Park, so to walk in the library, bring 498 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 3: my kids there and they be able to see me 499 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 3: the history that we accomplished together. It's remarkable, man Like, 500 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 3: there's no words to put to that, but I was 501 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 3: saying that because you gotta make your book goop. Seriously, 502 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 3: I think it's time for you to release your book, 503 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 3: like because Baseline didn't. 504 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 2: Roll without Guru. 505 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 3: When Guru said I gotta go home, I'm going to 506 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 3: take a shower. The studio basically it is closed. Everybody 507 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 3: just sitting in there playing dice on the pool table. 508 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 3: Niggas just in there watching YouTube. Niggas is bullshitting in 509 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 3: the studio. 510 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 1: It was. 511 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 2: It was a super like intuitive. 512 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 3: It was an intuitive, broken down everything step by step, 513 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 3: basically pro tools book for dummies, like they have the 514 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 3: Crash course for people who don't know you know, And 515 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 3: I feel like that book taught me pro Tools for 516 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 3: the Knights that you used to leave. 517 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 2: And I'd be like, damn Shane with a book at 518 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 2: Shane has showed. 519 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 3: Me the book, I'd be like, like this wire go 520 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 3: hear this plug and go here we hit this button, shang, 521 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 3: hit that button. 522 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 2: I'm a run in the booth and do this verse. 523 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 3: And from there, I bought a laptop, bought an M 524 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 3: box and bro I used to record shit. I did 525 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 3: the record with MOP in my hotel room, like you 526 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 3: heard the fame on the record, Like damn, y'all, don't 527 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 3: take the mic in the bathroom or nighting. 528 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 2: Like so that's all for you. 529 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 3: So I feel like that book is pivotal, like people 530 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 3: would want to copy of that and learn from that 531 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 3: because what these kids doing today, man, is it's not 532 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 3: what we learned. 533 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 1: Trust me, because I get it. I get it. It 534 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: was just you know, for the people don't realize I 535 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 1: was there for four days straight. You know what I'm saying. 536 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: I'm like ya, like a shower yep. So while I'm gone, 537 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: here's how you work everything in here, you know what 538 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 1: I'm saying, so that the work don't have to stop. 539 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 3: But that's but I take time to break down. But 540 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 3: you see how you walked in here. You're like, yo, 541 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,399 Speaker 3: these plugins don't have no compressor in ninety thousand for 542 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 3: the board, it's not one compressor. I tell people all 543 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 3: the time googe the all recorded ship. He will walk 544 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 3: in your studio and tell you it's not right. Everything 545 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 3: is off, everything is wrong. It's just like how pain 546 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 3: are walking and know the pain is not right, bro, 547 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 3: Like it's not smooth. 548 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 2: Here, it's lumpy. You know what I'm saying that, And 549 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 2: that's how. 550 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: You That's what Baseline was like. You know what I'm saying. Yes, 551 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,919 Speaker 1: we had it the way we wanted it, and you 552 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: have to worry about the equipment, No at all. Now 553 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: you go to studios, equipment, they're right. O. G Ward 554 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: spent that that grip. He made sure everything was a 555 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: one and if it broke, we bought a new one. 556 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 1: And it was comfortable and it was like multiple rooms, 557 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,919 Speaker 1: and it was like, you know what I'm saying, the 558 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 1: vibe that we had. 559 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 3: While all these dudes that got studios with multiple rooms, 560 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 3: this is a good because you said it was multiple 561 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 3: rooms and we never had this problem. And I know 562 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 3: you know what I'm about to say. You going on 563 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,199 Speaker 3: these studios. The A room got ac but the b 564 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 3: room don't. What the fuck is that about? Like everybody 565 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:33,360 Speaker 3: b room just hot? 566 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: Like yo. Now it's difficult nowadays because it's it's people 567 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 1: don't really realize what it means when they say the studio. Yeah, 568 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So people think like setting 569 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: up a computer and a couple of little things is 570 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 1: a studio, and it's not really you know what I'm saying. 571 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: So to the point of building a room inside of 572 00:27:55,520 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: a room and different design tech nis and things that 573 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: you don't got to worry about because it was like 574 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: yo goo know about it, you know what I'm saying. 575 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: So it's not really about the quality of what good 576 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:18,719 Speaker 1: enough matters now, not great, not perfect, not it's just 577 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: good enough. It's like in the sixty five on the test. 578 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 4: It's like in the sixty five they don't want to past. 579 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, past and that, and you're right, that's what's going 580 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 3: on today is just good enough. It's not great. This 581 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 3: kid's not perfecting and not taking a time to learn 582 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 3: the craft, you know what I'm saying. That's one thing. 583 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 3: And I know being around you, like see, I'm not 584 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 3: familiar with this guy's music, but I got. 585 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: Familiar with it through you two people. 586 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 3: So this is a two part like question for me 587 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 3: because I learned about these two individuals through you. One 588 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 3: both rest in peace, Damn God, you know what I mean, 589 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 3: God bless Jay Diller had a major influence on you 590 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 3: going here, like's not a studio session, go by that, 591 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 3: that name don't come up. And then m F. Doom 592 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 3: so had not known who the hell that was if 593 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 3: it wasn't for Gool. He used to make sure y'all 594 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 3: niggas going know what this underground sound like I do it? 595 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying backwards? But doing was like 596 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: my man Ben big Ben, you know what I'm saying, 597 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: bring us all together? Yes, right, So my man big 598 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 1: Ben was a hype man. They just call him big Ben, 599 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: the klingon in the Doom. You know what I'm saying, world, 600 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 1: He was one of my dudes. They used to come down, 601 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: you know, when I was at Howard. He was he 602 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: was a Howard student and he would bring like Lord Saya, 603 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: uh uh, Curious George, all of them. You know what 604 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: I'm saying, be rahming against my dudes. And that's how 605 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: I met m F. Doing what's through what's through Big Ben. 606 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: But Doom was just like the Ron patterns and you 607 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,239 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like it was different from what 608 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: we were doing. Yes, but yeah, he was dumb nice, 609 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: super nice, and Dila was the dealer. Thing was like 610 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: I had never heard nobody chop records like that and 611 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: make you know what I'm saying, the drum padn is 612 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: so loose. And then the ill part was early early on, 613 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: he was messing with be Hot you know what I'm saying. Yeah, 614 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 1: and and and he was like, you know, like helping 615 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: him in New York, like not managing them, but like 616 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: helping them, you know what I'm saying, Like, Yo, I'll 617 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: try to get you yeah, no, no. And the crazy 618 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: part is I said to him, I was like, yo, 619 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: just give me a session with him, like I just 620 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: want to see if it's real, like way early, and 621 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: he got me a session. He got me, Yeah, he 622 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: got me session. You know what I'm saying. For people 623 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: that don't know, that's Jake Cousin, you know what I'm saying. 624 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: And he got me a session. And I sat there 625 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: with Diler, Me and him just rolled up all day smoked, 626 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. He was making joints and I 627 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: was just like, Yo, this dude nice, like dumb nice, 628 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But he was every producer. 629 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, he had producer pays how muche to Jay Diller, like. 630 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: Because his swing you know what I'm saying, and the 631 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: looseness of his beats was just like and the way 632 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: he chopped samples was crazy. And you know that movie 633 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: is on every. 634 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 3: Day, Yeah all day, Yo, talking about that chopping samples. 635 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 3: This wasn't even say how you feel. I'm gonna have 636 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 3: my homie up here too, because I want to. I 637 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 3: want to ask him, But Yo, tel niggas man? Was 638 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 3: it real in the studio with the big and the 639 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 3: just blade shit by g Like, bro, It's like we 640 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 3: had to keep these dudes separated. 641 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: Well, I'm the person and I could say this proudly 642 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 1: who has always tried to mend that particular relationship. Yeah, 643 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: cause it's like nobody in the world can say that 644 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: they have tried harder than me to men that particular thing. 645 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 3: I feel if we would have kept them, if them 646 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 3: two would have stayed in the studio A and B room, 647 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 3: I don't think Rockefeller would have saw dead. 648 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 1: You know again, because when that's what I can only 649 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 1: have my saying, my way of saying, how can I 650 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: broke a piece thing? 651 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 3: Because when Bank left, that's when Ye came around harder 652 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 3: and Ye felled that b room. 653 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: But it was bing in the a room first. And 654 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: just Bank was definitely for the history. Bank was definitely 655 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: the first person at baseline, first person. 656 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 3: Like a lot of people think, you know, just did 657 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 3: a lot of the records, but they don't understand Bank 658 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 3: did a lot. 659 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 1: Of our records. But then it's like I don't want 660 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 1: them to Both of them. 661 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 3: Are part of a history that's right, that magnificent and 662 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 3: it's bigger than life. The reason why is history, and 663 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 3: that's why I want them together because it's like you're 664 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 3: stronger together than the part especially in the team. Man, 665 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, like whole say, when the 666 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 3: family is no nobody wins when the family fu. 667 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just you know one and a record 668 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 1: that like you know, I've definitely over the years tried 669 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: to put even up to now, have tried to be 670 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 1: like how do I you know what I'm saying, make 671 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 1: it a piece thing between that particular thing we might 672 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: have to have a versus fuck it the record, not 673 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: even not even that, like just just on some real 674 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: like you know, fuck it Swiss hog that be producer 675 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: versus that serious I'm just like, on some real I 676 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: want that. Yeah, no, no tension, no nothing. 677 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 3: Because they both two of the greatest producers I have 678 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 3: ever ever liked that I ever worked with. I honestly say, 679 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 3: there's not a record or beat being played me that. 680 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: I was like, nah, go to that one. 681 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 3: It's not a record or beat that just blazes played that. 682 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 3: I was like, nah, not that. I may just give 683 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 3: me round here. Remember he didn't even want to give. 684 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: Me to be like now this, I give you a 685 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,279 Speaker 1: lot of credit for around here too, Yeah, because back 686 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,439 Speaker 1: then just made the beat. You know what I'm saying. 687 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 1: Obviously it's in a certain vein, but you was always 688 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:26,760 Speaker 1: the person that way before then was always on the South, 689 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: like Southern records and and and and just putting us 690 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 1: up on Southern you know what I'm saying. I was like, 691 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 1: bleak is the Southern connect. So yeah, even even even 692 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,919 Speaker 1: for around here where it was like yo for you, 693 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: I think it was just like, oh t I popping 694 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 1: right now in the South, like let. 695 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:51,239 Speaker 3: Me get remember saying why T I like and Yo, 696 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 3: shout out to you because you know he charged me 697 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 3: five grand for that verse. That's probably like a honey 698 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,359 Speaker 3: racks right now for a t I verse. But Hoo 699 00:34:58,600 --> 00:34:59,439 Speaker 3: was like, why. 700 00:34:59,360 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 1: Are we giving it? 701 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,160 Speaker 2: Who the fuck is t I? 702 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 1: Why we give it him? 703 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:03,399 Speaker 2: Five bread man? 704 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:04,520 Speaker 1: We got Beanie. 705 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 3: Singel here doing for free, and I'm like, yeah, but 706 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 3: they might know Beans down man, Like I need a 707 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 3: new nigga. 708 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, the round here was definitely a It was like 709 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: it was a perfect like you record. A lot of 710 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 1: times people don't know it'll be like your personality, you 711 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So to me, round here was 712 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 1: just like a perfect you because you always been and 713 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,360 Speaker 1: I mean everybody from the South, you always. 714 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 3: A lot of people don't know that BG album Trick 715 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 3: that all Trick Daddy albums come on, man, all of them. 716 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 3: That Book of Thugs come on that that still get rotation, 717 00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,640 Speaker 3: Like you know what I'm saying, mysticol before all the 718 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,799 Speaker 3: other ship, the real, the mystical where he was the 719 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,720 Speaker 3: James Brown, you know what I'm saying. 720 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 1: You know I was. 721 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 3: I was on the South Man, no limit, cash money hard, 722 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,440 Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Eight ball m J G 723 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 3: Man fucking kidding me. I was riding dirty out here 724 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,839 Speaker 3: in New York. Yeah, I don't understand it, boy, So 725 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,680 Speaker 3: of course a lot of people would definitely want to know. 726 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,440 Speaker 3: I know, so this ain't a question for me. This 727 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 3: is like I said, I tweeted out Yo. Any questions 728 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,200 Speaker 3: y'all got for good niggas like yeah, asks Google what 729 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:20,799 Speaker 3: a session with whole is? 730 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: Like what they mean with us? 731 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:27,240 Speaker 3: Like I guess they mean, like how is it is working? 732 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,600 Speaker 1: It's the same. It's the same as like me and you. 733 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like we we we sit down, 734 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,320 Speaker 1: we listen to music, we pick a beat. You know 735 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:41,279 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And that's part of my what I do. 736 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,040 Speaker 1: I can't tell you what speaks to you, So I'm 737 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring you what I think is good. Yes, 738 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,839 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and then what speaks to you? 739 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,879 Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna say, what is this saying? And then 740 00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,880 Speaker 1: you start coming with a concept and spitting ideas. And 741 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,360 Speaker 1: I don't ever want somebody to think like I have 742 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 1: a rope one of your know what I'm saying. When 743 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 1: you sitting there and you're like, yo, this be the 744 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,719 Speaker 1: saying this and this might be the hook or this 745 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 1: is the verse, then I start going, Okay, take the 746 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,920 Speaker 1: thus and the it's out that's the one. You know 747 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:17,680 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Take the. 748 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,239 Speaker 3: How many like chill changed that out? 749 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,839 Speaker 1: The flow could be but you know what I'm saying. 750 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: But so it's not like that's what vocal code people say, 751 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 1: vocal coaching. You know what I'm saying. It's not necessarily 752 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,239 Speaker 1: I'm not telling you what to say. Just yeah, just 753 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: when you write, I'm there with you while you're writing. 754 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,400 Speaker 1: It's definitely that A and R slash engineer. It wasn't 755 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 1: just no engineer study that just pressed records. So that's 756 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 1: that's what it'd be like with holes. It like, you 757 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,239 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You know the rhyme's gonna be good? 758 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,319 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Is it the right thing 759 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,200 Speaker 1: that we're supposed to be saying at the given time? 760 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,200 Speaker 1: Did you? You know what I'm saying? Go ahead. That's 761 00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:52,799 Speaker 1: the thing too. 762 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,080 Speaker 3: That's where my trainer throw was at when I said 763 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 3: I lost my trainer thought. One thing I always wanted 764 00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,799 Speaker 3: to clear up going and you you the perfect guy 765 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,400 Speaker 3: who can help me clear this up because for so 766 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,319 Speaker 3: long in my career, people believe Hoove was in the 767 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,320 Speaker 3: studio with us. Remember you did after coming to Age. 768 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: Album they think he wrote your rhyme. Yes, he was 769 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,560 Speaker 1: in the studio with me, he wrote he wrote one 770 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:20,640 Speaker 1: rhyme and in the very beginning, as a teenager exactly 771 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:21,359 Speaker 1: I was. 772 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,600 Speaker 3: I was fourteen when that guy, I didn't even know 773 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,919 Speaker 3: what calibrium was, meant nothing. 774 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,719 Speaker 1: The rest of I'm a testament to it, that the 775 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 1: rest of the rest of your career. Because I come 776 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,799 Speaker 1: in on the second album, on the second half, Yes, 777 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,640 Speaker 1: is you writing all those rhymes exactly. 778 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,720 Speaker 3: Like, because you know when we was gonna do the verses. 779 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 3: You know what I mean with Santana. One thing Santana 780 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,920 Speaker 3: said is I you can't if you're gonna do the verses, 781 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,880 Speaker 3: you can't play none of the songs that hole wrote. 782 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,400 Speaker 3: And I said, alright, cool, I wasn't playing coming to Age. 783 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:53,359 Speaker 1: Anyway, Yes, one song. 784 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,600 Speaker 3: So you got a fucking problem. Man, You better read. 785 00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:01,360 Speaker 1: But but you gotta think. You gotta think too. Okay, 786 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,400 Speaker 1: Let's say a young kid, none of less, think about it, 787 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,160 Speaker 1: a young kid you're getting on in the game, who 788 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,880 Speaker 1: gives you this paper and says, memorize this, and as 789 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,279 Speaker 1: soon as you can do this, you can get on. 790 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 1: But let's just think of coming to age too, So 791 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 1: you wrote coming to age too, and you got to 792 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,600 Speaker 1: realize that coming to age two is a mental sport. 793 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,160 Speaker 1: The whole thing is that the verses are all in 794 00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,000 Speaker 1: somebody head and y'all really throughout the whole song, if 795 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,839 Speaker 1: you listen to it, y'all only said yo what one time. 796 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 3: It's all what we think, It's all the thought process. 797 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:44,879 Speaker 3: It's all thought because that's that's it. 798 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,080 Speaker 2: So a little homie, what up? That's it. 799 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,759 Speaker 3: He never supposed what he thinking. I'm thinking, and I'm 800 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 3: thinking he's thinking like that song. If you really dissect 801 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,560 Speaker 3: that record, man, that ship. That's why I say, Man, 802 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,359 Speaker 3: back then, you took like you said, you couldn't be good, 803 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,440 Speaker 3: you had to be great, And when I came out, 804 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,040 Speaker 3: it was no dudes my age like of course you 805 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,879 Speaker 3: at ja ru jahru is a fucking next level phenomenon 806 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,680 Speaker 3: out there. To keep telling him let me hold three muscles, 807 00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,400 Speaker 3: I'll be good. He was just next level right, and 808 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 3: all kind of big records. 809 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:25,000 Speaker 1: What what what? What was? Dope though, was like the 810 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:32,200 Speaker 1: thing of like being at baseline making records, knowing what 811 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,920 Speaker 1: that meant for because we had a we had a 812 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:39,120 Speaker 1: perfect trifecta. Yup, so it was like me and Hop 813 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: is gonna be in the studio with y'all making record up, 814 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,880 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So then Lenny is gonna 815 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,719 Speaker 1: be in the office. Lenny gonna be the fly, you 816 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:51,280 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, fresh every day boom bubbah boomb 817 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,360 Speaker 1: and everybody loved Lenny. And then it's gonna be G 818 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,680 Speaker 1: and G gonna go around and kiss the babies. He 819 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,080 Speaker 1: gonna what I'm saying, get the things signed, he gonna 820 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,000 Speaker 1: do g doing that. And then Bobby Dash here in 821 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:03,200 Speaker 1: the radio radio. 822 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, so all of that was working together. 823 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:11,799 Speaker 3: Yep, it was all cohesive. Everybody moving is one unit, right, 824 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,600 Speaker 3: and that's what made Rockefellers so great at that time. 825 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,239 Speaker 3: And I always say that was the best time of 826 00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,080 Speaker 3: my life because I ain't have to do nothing. All 827 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,800 Speaker 3: I had to do was go in the studio round 828 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,560 Speaker 3: the next day flex cluing them playing it. It's like, 829 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,000 Speaker 3: oh shit, I ain't even know they got the record 830 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 3: because Bobby Dash took that record and took it to 831 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:29,920 Speaker 3: the radio. 832 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,000 Speaker 1: But a lot of artists don't realize that where it 833 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: was like, that's the part that you're missing. 834 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,880 Speaker 3: Yes, as to why your record ain't popping. Yes, you 835 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,839 Speaker 3: need that. You need that guy that's going. Bobby used 836 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:44,960 Speaker 3: to be up there, bry And nearly all day, hanging 837 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,880 Speaker 3: in high ninety seven, hanging in one oh five, Like Bobby, 838 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:49,160 Speaker 3: what you was a He's like, Yo, I was at 839 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,720 Speaker 3: the radio day, I'm in Baltimore tomorrow. I'm on these guys. 840 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:53,880 Speaker 3: We was on everybody. 841 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,239 Speaker 1: What was What was crazy to me was like one 842 00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,200 Speaker 1: time when you called me, he was like, ghool, I 843 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,160 Speaker 1: see everything I was doing that I ain't understand you 844 00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:02,640 Speaker 1: know what I'm. 845 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,400 Speaker 3: Saying, Yo, That's what I got the seat of the 846 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,520 Speaker 3: warehouse play because being from the artist side, you know, 847 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,960 Speaker 3: you just in the studio right in rhymes, and I 848 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,960 Speaker 3: call you and Jay when I got this chair of 849 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,400 Speaker 3: you know, trying to be the CEO run my own company, 850 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,239 Speaker 3: and you start figuring out, like, hold on, you're paying this, 851 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,279 Speaker 3: of course this you need this person for that. It's like, 852 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,440 Speaker 3: wait a minute, who was doing seven of those things? 853 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,239 Speaker 2: And then Jay had doed all of this. 854 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,680 Speaker 3: Man, I gotta call these niggas and thank them because 855 00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:34,000 Speaker 3: I didn't even know it was this much work into 856 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,920 Speaker 3: putting out a project. Man, Like I just thought, right 857 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,640 Speaker 3: the rhymes. You picked the beat. Next thing you know, 858 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,759 Speaker 3: it's on the radio, but it's up. It takes a lot, man, 859 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,080 Speaker 3: take money. It's more than money. It's more than raps. 860 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:46,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's more than money. And that's that's the other 861 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,360 Speaker 1: part that got to you know what I mean, let 862 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,880 Speaker 1: people know because people think people think you can just 863 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,440 Speaker 1: put money into it and buy it, and it's not 864 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,600 Speaker 1: that because then the richest people would have all the 865 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,360 Speaker 1: hit record. That's right saying can't. 866 00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 3: Buy can't buy a Graham, You can't buy a hit. 867 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,680 Speaker 1: It don't make sense. But you do need the team, Yes, 868 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,920 Speaker 1: where everybody believe and everybody is like on one accord and everybody, 869 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,840 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, is moving like okay, this 870 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,360 Speaker 1: is the decision whether or not. And that's one of 871 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,799 Speaker 1: the things of soldiering, you know what I'm saying. So 872 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,880 Speaker 1: if you want a team and your opinion is heard, 873 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,640 Speaker 1: it may you may not agree with the decision that 874 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:28,200 Speaker 1: everybody made, but you want a team. That's right, So 875 00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:29,320 Speaker 1: go with the decision. 876 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,080 Speaker 3: Like that's how it happened with if going back around here, 877 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,000 Speaker 3: remember Jay and Leon didn't want that record to come. 878 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:45,600 Speaker 1: There's plenty of records bro. And here again, here's where 879 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:49,920 Speaker 1: the people mess up. You can't take it as like 880 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,879 Speaker 1: Jay and Leor didn't mean you no harm. No, No, 881 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,400 Speaker 1: they doing what they think is the best thing for 882 00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:01,520 Speaker 1: your career. That's right. So okay, so what let's say 883 00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,560 Speaker 1: they was wrong. Let's say it was wrong. Cool, they 884 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:10,279 Speaker 1: still got the wisdom. So we don't have to sit 885 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,600 Speaker 1: there and be like, yo, you was wrong a million times. No, 886 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,160 Speaker 1: let me get some of that right. We just be like, yo, 887 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,120 Speaker 1: it worked. The same thing they told me for what 888 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:23,200 Speaker 1: we do it don't have no hook. And look that 889 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 1: was they immediately said to me, Google me and Hot 890 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:31,040 Speaker 1: was like, Yo, this is the one. And they was like, good, 891 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,359 Speaker 1: don't have no hook for what we do. 892 00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,480 Speaker 3: I never even know, you know, I never noticed that, bro, 893 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:39,280 Speaker 3: that that record. 894 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:40,520 Speaker 1: You're right, don't no hook. 895 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,280 Speaker 3: And I say to people all the time, yo, radio, 896 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,120 Speaker 3: don't play records without a hook, because that's what they 897 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:45,920 Speaker 3: used to tell me. 898 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,040 Speaker 1: But look at what we do, we do what is wrong. 899 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,160 Speaker 3: As a fuck. It's phenomenal record. 900 00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,799 Speaker 1: But I don't even look at it like that, That's 901 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:55,759 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I don't can't I say look at 902 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,600 Speaker 1: it like that like as if they messed up. They 903 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,000 Speaker 1: doing what they think is right. That's right. You know 904 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,520 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That was even as a parent. You 905 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:07,239 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like sometimes as a parent we 906 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,680 Speaker 1: come in and we teach our kids based off of 907 00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,200 Speaker 1: what we think is right in our time period, that 908 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,960 Speaker 1: it may be different for their time period. 909 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,760 Speaker 3: I had a conversation like that with Daz. I remember 910 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,120 Speaker 3: when Jay when we first talked about this, when Duce 911 00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,680 Speaker 3: first was getting large, and Jay like, yeah, I'm bringing 912 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,960 Speaker 3: you on the Duce move. And Dad's was like, you 913 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,319 Speaker 3: don't know nothing about no liquor. I said, you right, 914 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,399 Speaker 3: we all ain't know nothing about none of this shit, 915 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,719 Speaker 3: but we're doing it. You don't know what you know 916 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:33,960 Speaker 3: until it's time to know it. 917 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,160 Speaker 1: Man. That's you gotta get out. That's the beauty of 918 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,920 Speaker 1: the thing is Like, imagine if somebody told you in 919 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:46,400 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three that this kid from Marsie Projects is 920 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:47,480 Speaker 1: going to be a billionaire. 921 00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,880 Speaker 3: Go, I'd have been on a Latins carpet, right, I've 922 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,080 Speaker 3: been like the little monkey on the carpet right with 923 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 3: him and the girl. 924 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,360 Speaker 1: Now that's just the story of it, right, That's just 925 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:03,040 Speaker 1: a story. Like you like Okay, cool. Now break down 926 00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:07,000 Speaker 1: the odds of that you actually know that person. Okay, 927 00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:09,760 Speaker 1: that's a bunch of people that you know from Marcie. 928 00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,440 Speaker 1: Now break down the odds that my mom and his 929 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,720 Speaker 1: sister's best friends. Yeah. 930 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,600 Speaker 3: Yo, I got hurry for that one because I remember 931 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,440 Speaker 3: I remember asking my mom. This probably was like two 932 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,480 Speaker 3: years ago, and I'm like, I asked my mom, Yo, 933 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,960 Speaker 3: what made you move to Marsie Because we're originally from Brownsville, 934 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,480 Speaker 3: like my mom's was born and raised in Rockaway Projects, 935 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,400 Speaker 3: browns Reel, you know what I mean, Southern Avenue, Rockaway, 936 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:35,480 Speaker 3: Dumont's that's. 937 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,080 Speaker 1: My It bugged me out when I when I found 938 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:38,759 Speaker 1: out that she was related to dunck Down. 939 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,480 Speaker 3: That's right, Sean Price, my cousin, rest in peace, still 940 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,640 Speaker 3: Smith and Wesson, you know, shout out, buck Shot, the 941 00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,359 Speaker 3: whole Louisville, the whole duck Down. 942 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:48,320 Speaker 2: Man, that's my family. 943 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,959 Speaker 3: I grew up with them, guys man, putting it work 944 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,600 Speaker 3: in the ville, watching them come grind into what they became, 945 00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,759 Speaker 3: mega mega, mega successful, you know what I'm saying. So 946 00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,840 Speaker 3: I saw both sides, the underground, and then I was 947 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,279 Speaker 3: with Hove in Marcie and it was like that was 948 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,560 Speaker 3: kind of tough juggling because it was like, damn, do 949 00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,680 Speaker 3: I fuck with my fan? Do I fuck with my 950 00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:09,880 Speaker 3: man from my building? 951 00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,480 Speaker 1: How do you go at? Y'all ain't messing with each 952 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:12,839 Speaker 1: other back? 953 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,919 Speaker 2: And no we did. I used to try to get 954 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:16,080 Speaker 2: on with them, but them niggas. 955 00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:16,200 Speaker 1: You. 956 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,440 Speaker 3: I remember Sean Price, you stories telling me him and 957 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:19,480 Speaker 3: my cousin t White. 958 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:21,440 Speaker 2: Nigga used to be like, man, you gotta come up. 959 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,640 Speaker 3: Man. You ain't man, you ain't that good bleak. You 960 00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:25,759 Speaker 3: gotta get better. So I used to be like, all right, 961 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,480 Speaker 3: I'm working, I'm right, and I'm right, and then I 962 00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:28,440 Speaker 3: used to go be around. 963 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:28,800 Speaker 1: Still. 964 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,160 Speaker 3: This is back when they were super wild because they 965 00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:33,800 Speaker 3: was all in deceps. So still used to be like, nigga, 966 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:34,440 Speaker 3: you too little. 967 00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:36,520 Speaker 1: You can't be fucking with me. It's wild out here, 968 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:37,160 Speaker 1: Get out of here. 969 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,040 Speaker 3: So you know, he used to shit on me until 970 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,400 Speaker 3: you know, I mean, made records and hit these streets 971 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:43,160 Speaker 3: and started moving. 972 00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,200 Speaker 1: What's wild? And I ain't. I ain't never go to 973 00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:49,879 Speaker 1: Brooklyn until me and you went to Marsy together. No way, Nah. 974 00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,080 Speaker 1: I was always with Bronx. 975 00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,840 Speaker 3: That's that niggas. I don't know nothing about the Brox. 976 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,400 Speaker 3: That's one thing. Brooklyn niggas don't go to the Bronx, 977 00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,120 Speaker 3: and Bronx niggas don't go to Brooklyn. 978 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,440 Speaker 2: And I don't think that's because we too wild. Is 979 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,120 Speaker 2: that too far? Yeah? 980 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,320 Speaker 3: That shit too far. That's ship number trains, Like I 981 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:08,440 Speaker 3: don't know where I'm going. 982 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:11,160 Speaker 1: All of my Howard dudes right like on my Howard 983 00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,680 Speaker 1: that's right Howard you Yeah, all of my Howard dudes 984 00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,520 Speaker 1: is Bronx dudes. So that's Jackson Avenue, Saint Mary's projects, 985 00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,640 Speaker 1: the two in the five. Yeah, take the two in 986 00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,120 Speaker 1: the five thirty fourth, you know what I'm saying. So 987 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,600 Speaker 1: I had never went, and then me and you went 988 00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:26,400 Speaker 1: one day. I forget what it was. I don't know 989 00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,160 Speaker 1: if it was MARSI Day or something, but me and 990 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,919 Speaker 1: you went to Marsy and that was the first time 991 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,680 Speaker 1: I ever been in Brooklyn. That's crazy. Yeah. 992 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,640 Speaker 3: No, the Bronx, we definitely. I don't know shit about 993 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,439 Speaker 3: the be Act. So all I know is Fat Joe 994 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,880 Speaker 3: and Big Punt. Know what I'm saying, remits is my family. 995 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:41,520 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 996 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:46,440 Speaker 1: Now, I Spike Jackson as Jackson ad yeah, I'm saying that. 997 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,800 Speaker 3: Who oh my god, can't forget my guy a boogie 998 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:51,840 Speaker 3: with the motherfucking hoodie. 999 00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,600 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. That's all I know about 1000 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:59,520 Speaker 2: the Bronx high Bridge. That's it. You asked me anything else. 1001 00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,399 Speaker 1: I'm loved blood. 1002 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:05,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, I've lost you know what I'm saying. Fucking I'm 1003 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,160 Speaker 3: glad we cleared that up because a lot of people thought, 1004 00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,000 Speaker 3: you know, Hoole was out here penning in the guard versus. 1005 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,720 Speaker 3: But let's yo. You know, one of the illest sessions 1006 00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,400 Speaker 3: I've ever had with you, and I woke you up 1007 00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:17,640 Speaker 3: for this. 1008 00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,719 Speaker 1: Seton, but hold on, hold on, before you even go there. 1009 00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,120 Speaker 1: Do you feel like I put too much pressure on 1010 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,520 Speaker 1: you in terms of like when it was flipping and 1011 00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,799 Speaker 1: it was like people was just saying anything, and I 1012 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,000 Speaker 1: was just like, nah, I believe you can't just say anything. 1013 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,239 Speaker 1: You used to argue with you know what I'm saying, No, 1014 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:36,239 Speaker 1: thank you for that. 1015 00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,080 Speaker 3: Hell no, nah man, Like the anything rappers they gone, 1016 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,600 Speaker 3: I'm still you know, I'm still. 1017 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,560 Speaker 2: Here because you ain't let me say anything. 1018 00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,600 Speaker 3: Niggas would have flushed me down the toilet spend cycle 1019 00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,839 Speaker 3: one time. Get them out of here. Flush them. 1020 00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:52,840 Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. But I used to be. 1021 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:54,319 Speaker 1: I used to be like, you know what I'm saying, 1022 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:55,120 Speaker 1: it's super critic. 1023 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,319 Speaker 3: Yes, hell yeah, Goo was the major critic. So I 1024 00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,839 Speaker 3: don't know how y'all think I wasn't get busy because 1025 00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:02,840 Speaker 3: my man made sure we got busy. 1026 00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,440 Speaker 2: You kidding me. I remember when he first bought ninth 1027 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:06,560 Speaker 2: Wonder round man. 1028 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:11,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, ninth one and now ninth to me, just 1029 00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,279 Speaker 3: a is one of the greatest chopper right, he could 1030 00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,640 Speaker 3: chop that nigga chopped some shit up. You don't even 1031 00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,160 Speaker 3: know what the record was. Nine is the greatest flipper. 1032 00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:24,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, ninth flip joints like so so that that was 1033 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,600 Speaker 1: like a Me and Hop was in the studio and 1034 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:30,880 Speaker 1: you know the same thing. We have our ears to 1035 00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,840 Speaker 1: the underground. We was listening to the Oka Player joints 1036 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,000 Speaker 1: and was hearing the Little Brother joints, and then they 1037 00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:39,520 Speaker 1: came with this joint called Speed and I was just like, yo, 1038 00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:47,520 Speaker 1: what is this? And then this kid named t He 1039 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,200 Speaker 1: ended up being a dude that was feeling the behind 1040 00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,880 Speaker 1: the scenes for Fade to Black. Oh, so I was like, 1041 00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,479 Speaker 1: oh shit. He was like me and me and Hop 1042 00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,120 Speaker 1: was listening to the joint. He was like, I know 1043 00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,480 Speaker 1: the kid that produced that, and I was like who 1044 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,840 Speaker 1: He was like this kid named Knife Wonder, And I 1045 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,359 Speaker 1: was like, word call you know what I'm saying, I'm 1046 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:13,800 Speaker 1: calling the bluff. You know what I'm saying. Your calling 1047 00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:19,799 Speaker 1: call them? Call them right, So he called Knife. I'm like, Yo, 1048 00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,239 Speaker 1: I'm hearing this, Yo, you gotta come. You know what 1049 00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,200 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Play some joints for the for the fan. 1050 00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,399 Speaker 1: And that's how me and Knife got. It was through 1051 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,000 Speaker 1: the dual t who was filming the b s to 1052 00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,560 Speaker 1: all that, Like behind the scenes you see a fade 1053 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,960 Speaker 1: to black, that's the homie tee Like that's my man, 1054 00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,560 Speaker 1: that's crazy. But like when we first that's when we 1055 00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:40,200 Speaker 1: first met. 1056 00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,520 Speaker 3: Yo as ill my nigga. That's how I feel about 1057 00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,520 Speaker 3: shout out your artist, Ruben Vincent. Of course, Knife Wonder, 1058 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:47,239 Speaker 3: y'all got the joint. 1059 00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,600 Speaker 1: He became. He became like one of my best friends 1060 00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,520 Speaker 1: in the world. That's not my best friend, Yeah, man, 1061 00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,640 Speaker 1: that's like us coming together with the music. And I 1062 00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:01,920 Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, uh, when a Jedi I 1063 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,080 Speaker 1: meet the Jedi, you know, it's. 1064 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:08,200 Speaker 3: Like, Yo, we fann like yo, But Ninth is a 1065 00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,960 Speaker 3: different kind of guy. I just was in Riley right now. 1066 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,839 Speaker 3: Too long ago, me and Freeway had a party, so 1067 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,719 Speaker 3: I hit knife that nigga hit me back. 1068 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,200 Speaker 1: Who is so back? 1069 00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:17,360 Speaker 4: Yo? 1070 00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:17,839 Speaker 1: This bleak? 1071 00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:18,839 Speaker 2: He like, bleak? What the fuck? 1072 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:19,160 Speaker 3: Man? 1073 00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:20,040 Speaker 1: Oh shit, I ain't. 1074 00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,440 Speaker 3: Had your number. What you're doing out here? So I'm like, Yo, 1075 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,799 Speaker 3: I'm out here for a party. I'm just chilling. He like, Yo, 1076 00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,520 Speaker 3: come by the studio. I'm having a cookout. So I'm 1077 00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:31,520 Speaker 3: saying to myself, I it is lick. So I get dressed. 1078 00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,040 Speaker 3: Like usually somebody invite you to cookout, you go regular. 1079 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,840 Speaker 3: You know, it's just some regular hoodshit. But this is Rileigh. 1080 00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,600 Speaker 3: I never been to a cookout Riley. I ain't been 1081 00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:41,600 Speaker 3: there forever. So I'm like, I'm not gonna pull up 1082 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:42,000 Speaker 3: in the black. 1083 00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,719 Speaker 1: First thing they're gonna do in North Carolina's feed you. Yeah. 1084 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,960 Speaker 3: So I'm like, they're not gonna see blizz who looking crazy. 1085 00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:48,960 Speaker 3: So I can get all dressed. We juned up. I 1086 00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:51,839 Speaker 3: tell the team, get dressed, we're going to cookout. Ninth 1087 00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,799 Speaker 3: left out one major part of this cookout, that the 1088 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:58,399 Speaker 3: cookout just was for him. It was nobody there. We 1089 00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,920 Speaker 3: were the only people there. Like this nig had mad 1090 00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,080 Speaker 3: food everywhere, And I'm like, yo, what the fuck? 1091 00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:06,439 Speaker 1: Knife? 1092 00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,239 Speaker 2: You told me you having a cookout? He said, Yeah, 1093 00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:09,640 Speaker 2: I do this shit every Thursday. 1094 00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:11,200 Speaker 1: Bleak. I don't care people here. 1095 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:13,360 Speaker 2: I do it just for myself because I fucking like 1096 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:14,160 Speaker 2: cookout food. 1097 00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:15,319 Speaker 3: Yo. 1098 00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,799 Speaker 2: Yo, Knife is ill by gi for that. 1099 00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:21,719 Speaker 3: I'm like, yo, my nigga, every Thursday, I'm pulling up 1100 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:22,680 Speaker 3: like it's free lunch. 1101 00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:26,279 Speaker 1: You get you hur nah he he. You know, it's 1102 00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:30,000 Speaker 1: just like my brother during the whole pandemic, like he 1103 00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:34,520 Speaker 1: started to stay fast Auntie lounge. You know, we've seen 1104 00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:39,160 Speaker 1: a bunch of people that won off of during a pandemics, right, 1105 00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:43,120 Speaker 1: excuse me, So like d nice, you know what I'm saying. 1106 00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,120 Speaker 1: We see what he did. He murdered though, Yeah, and 1107 00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:49,160 Speaker 1: Knife did the same thing with his fast Auntie line. 1108 00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,480 Speaker 1: And so it's just like, you know, it's like us, 1109 00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:58,520 Speaker 1: like like those of us that don't I teach eighteen nineteen, 1110 00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,719 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, twenty two two year olds every single day. 1111 00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:06,280 Speaker 1: I'm not hating on them. It's just the fast Auntie 1112 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,600 Speaker 1: lounges for us, you know what I'm saying, Like, let us. 1113 00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,040 Speaker 1: Let us have our vibe and then you know what 1114 00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:12,759 Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, y'all get it. 1115 00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,239 Speaker 2: That's right, I'm saying y'all could get it there. 1116 00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,120 Speaker 1: I don't be hating on the kids. I don't like 1117 00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,920 Speaker 1: the old school that hate on the kids like that 1118 00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,960 Speaker 1: don't make sense, like you know what it was like 1119 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,400 Speaker 1: when we was running around, they hate it like the 1120 00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:31,839 Speaker 1: old Hold on, this is what the thing is you 1121 00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:33,960 Speaker 1: at your age. If a young boy look at you 1122 00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,359 Speaker 1: and be like, yo, you're doing this you only own 1123 00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:42,279 Speaker 1: a barber shop or no, this is where we at. 1124 00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,480 Speaker 1: That's right, because he gonna look at you and be 1125 00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,640 Speaker 1: like if I listen to you and you've been out 1126 00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:54,520 Speaker 1: here for thirty years and you ain't graduated from the barbershop. 1127 00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:58,160 Speaker 3: Or nothingking advice? Am I taking advice from you? Exactly? 1128 00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:01,000 Speaker 3: I would have been that kid looking like that. It's 1129 00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:03,640 Speaker 3: it's normal, Like I don't give me advice that you 1130 00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:04,480 Speaker 3: didn't succeed. 1131 00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:09,040 Speaker 2: Like I'm one hundred percent still that old man that taking. 1132 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody tell you how to do it, they never 1133 00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:12,239 Speaker 1: done done it. 1134 00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:13,160 Speaker 3: That's a fact. Bro. 1135 00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,680 Speaker 2: Everybody got their advice how to win that never won. 1136 00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,080 Speaker 1: So it's no advice. I'm just telling you. I'm telling you. 1137 00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:22,160 Speaker 1: I'm telling you about somebody who is in there every 1138 00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:27,400 Speaker 1: day with kids on a corner to kids in college. 1139 00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:31,640 Speaker 1: If you have not produced nothing in your life, don't 1140 00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:35,439 Speaker 1: talk to these young men. That's crazy. 1141 00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,279 Speaker 4: That's a fact, though you under saying what I'm saying. 1142 00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,120 Speaker 4: That's a fact. You gotta come to that. 1143 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:45,760 Speaker 1: You gotta come to them with facts, not the theoredical facts. 1144 00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:49,320 Speaker 1: Give them the facts first. Didn't give them the theoretical 1145 00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,600 Speaker 1: or what it could be. But give them the facts first. 1146 00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,400 Speaker 1: How to eat, that's right. You gotta be hungry, that's right. Now. 1147 00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,560 Speaker 3: They don't want to hear what could be. They want 1148 00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:00,440 Speaker 3: to hear what gunning? 1149 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,319 Speaker 1: After you feed him, you know what I'm saying. But 1150 00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,560 Speaker 1: they say, you know, feed him a fish, he eat 1151 00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:11,279 Speaker 1: for the day, tea. But guess what I gotta feed 1152 00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:13,160 Speaker 1: him for me to teach him how to fish. 1153 00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,120 Speaker 3: That's right, because they're not even gonna listen to you 1154 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,160 Speaker 3: if you don't feed them, they're not even gonna know 1155 00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,400 Speaker 3: what the meal coming from. They don't care. 1156 00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,080 Speaker 1: Hungry, No, that's what I gotta feed him to teach 1157 00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:24,160 Speaker 1: him how to fish. That might take me, That might 1158 00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:24,480 Speaker 1: take me. 1159 00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:27,359 Speaker 2: A week man, that's ill. And these kids done grew 1160 00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:27,960 Speaker 2: lazy man. 1161 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,280 Speaker 1: I know, like now you know what it is bleak 1162 00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,800 Speaker 1: And here's another one. You know what I'm saying. And 1163 00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:39,720 Speaker 1: I want to make this clear because we talking hypotheticals 1164 00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,640 Speaker 1: and we be doing like and I don't want it 1165 00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,480 Speaker 1: to be a thing where like your podcast get you 1166 00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,719 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Attack. I love the thing of 1167 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:53,360 Speaker 1: like us when we was young, a thing of therapy 1168 00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,240 Speaker 1: and all that it didn't exist, didn't exist, it didn't exist. 1169 00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,600 Speaker 1: I love that. I love that for us to be 1170 00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:01,480 Speaker 1: able to be like, yo, you know what, I may 1171 00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:03,239 Speaker 1: need to go talk to somebody, you know what I'm saying. 1172 00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:09,240 Speaker 1: That's cool. The other side of it is that nobody 1173 00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:18,680 Speaker 1: want to tell these kids that they saw. But that's 1174 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:25,560 Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm with them every day, 1175 00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:30,840 Speaker 1: so at the same time, you can have somebody that's 1176 00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:37,479 Speaker 1: empathetic and understand real generational trauma, real trauma that comes 1177 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,479 Speaker 1: from It's so many different angles. I'm with them every day. 1178 00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,680 Speaker 1: But you know what happens. I get a nineteen year 1179 00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:48,960 Speaker 1: old at the little amount of discomfort, it's trauma's traumatized. No, 1180 00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:50,120 Speaker 1: you're uncomfortable. 1181 00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:51,520 Speaker 2: Yes, I deal with it. 1182 00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:55,200 Speaker 3: You got no you gotta son uncomfortable. I got a son, 1183 00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,520 Speaker 3: so I see it. Man, that's not trauma. 1184 00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:02,040 Speaker 4: Uncomfortable is not truma, no, man, it's just you uncomfortable, man. 1185 00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:06,360 Speaker 1: And it make them soft, right and and nobody don't 1186 00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:07,760 Speaker 1: want to say that. And I ain't gonna lie. 1187 00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:10,800 Speaker 3: Man, it's really because it's a lot of absentee fathers. 1188 00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:11,080 Speaker 1: Man. 1189 00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:13,280 Speaker 3: I blame the dad's man, it's a lot of like 1190 00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,000 Speaker 3: I'm I'm a person that grew up without a father, 1191 00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:19,120 Speaker 3: So I know the impact of not having a father 1192 00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,440 Speaker 3: in the household because my mom had to be both 1193 00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,200 Speaker 3: and they grew to a point where, man, you can't 1194 00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,000 Speaker 3: what what you You can't tell me nothing. You're a woman, 1195 00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,560 Speaker 3: the fuck you gonna tell me. So I had to 1196 00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,960 Speaker 3: learn in the street. And it wasn't until me having 1197 00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:38,080 Speaker 3: a son, knowing what the jewels or son needed, because 1198 00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,560 Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine leaving my kid out here without the 1199 00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:42,160 Speaker 3: proper knowledge or property. 1200 00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:47,720 Speaker 4: The crazy part is it's ill Thatt like I had 1201 00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:48,720 Speaker 4: the exact opposite. 1202 00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:52,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, So my father's the head, not only the head 1203 00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:56,440 Speaker 1: of my household, but the head of my family. So 1204 00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:04,480 Speaker 1: the cousins, the everybody as the like had. Yeah, you 1205 00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:09,080 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I remember when the forty forty opened. 1206 00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:13,640 Speaker 1: How many ties I had? The tie? One in the 1207 00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:14,840 Speaker 1: front bin too. 1208 00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:16,560 Speaker 2: Mind you tied my joint. 1209 00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:18,640 Speaker 1: Don't know how to tie tie? 1210 00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:20,000 Speaker 2: That's a fact. 1211 00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:24,920 Speaker 1: Know how many ties? I was like, Yo, hool, I 1212 00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:26,960 Speaker 1: ain't never tied a time, never been on the job. 1213 00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:30,680 Speaker 1: Said yo, Yo, what's crazy is? I said? You realize bleak, 1214 00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:34,040 Speaker 1: I ain't never been on a job interview. 1215 00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:38,240 Speaker 3: Yo, Yo, chill because fred C, my man, Fred C 1216 00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,880 Speaker 3: said all the time like bleak man, how the fuck 1217 00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:42,120 Speaker 3: that don't even sound right? 1218 00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,520 Speaker 2: How to fuck you never been you never had a 1219 00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:45,960 Speaker 2: job or no. 1220 00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,440 Speaker 1: But because you gotta, like literally at the age of fifteen, 1221 00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:54,360 Speaker 1: sixteen years old, you got older. Geez, like yo saying 1222 00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:56,840 Speaker 1: to a promoter. I know he's sixteen years old, but 1223 00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:58,520 Speaker 1: he's on this record and he's right. 1224 00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:01,400 Speaker 3: Man who used to pay thousand dollars to give me 1225 01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:03,720 Speaker 3: in every club to perform. He used to have to 1226 01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,200 Speaker 3: pay one of the bounces a thousand dollars like I do. 1227 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,880 Speaker 3: On K sixteen. He got of getting his club, he 1228 01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,920 Speaker 3: got a record out, and that's a fact, yo, so 1229 01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,200 Speaker 3: I know bow Wow had drama out there. 1230 01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:17,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it's real. Bow Wow. 1231 01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,200 Speaker 2: Probably your bag. 1232 01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:21,960 Speaker 1: How lucky that is, and you'd be like yo, Like 1233 01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:25,000 Speaker 1: I had my father and my mother. 1234 01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,160 Speaker 3: Yeah no, my mom's when they used to send that 1235 01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:30,000 Speaker 3: blue card from school to go on the trip, my 1236 01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:31,840 Speaker 3: mom had to fill out both sets. 1237 01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:34,520 Speaker 1: I had the mom and I had the moms that 1238 01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:38,000 Speaker 1: taught Special LED, So my moms knew all of like 1239 01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:42,840 Speaker 1: hookups in the hood. You can get free this here, 1240 01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,840 Speaker 1: free lessons here, free music here, free this here. My 1241 01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:48,720 Speaker 1: mom's taught Special LED man and all the thugs. You 1242 01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:50,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, My mom taught them. 1243 01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:53,919 Speaker 2: It's so crazy that me my hustle as a kid. 1244 01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,840 Speaker 3: I used to get paid for taker Jay nephews to 1245 01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:57,960 Speaker 3: school with picking them up. 1246 01:00:58,440 --> 01:00:59,960 Speaker 2: That was like my first hustle. 1247 01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,480 Speaker 3: Wets to get one hundred dollars a week to be 1248 01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:04,480 Speaker 3: like y'all what I'm going to get the way how 1249 01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:07,000 Speaker 3: many times a week y'all even to get there. I'll 1250 01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:09,760 Speaker 3: be there every day. So that's my only job. I 1251 01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:12,440 Speaker 3: never and I don't take pride in saying y'all never 1252 01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:16,680 Speaker 3: worked because I worked for everything I got. But they 1253 01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:18,760 Speaker 3: scooped me off the block at fourteen, So now you 1254 01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:21,520 Speaker 3: definitely work. You definitely was no job out there for me, 1255 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:25,600 Speaker 3: but you rafe work. That's why. That's why when Rockefeller 1256 01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,479 Speaker 3: was over, when Hope talk about Yo, this shit over, 1257 01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:32,160 Speaker 3: I'm looking at him like, Nigga, what am I gonna do? 1258 01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:35,200 Speaker 1: Now? I remember Hole looking at me like nigga. 1259 01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:38,080 Speaker 3: You yo ioire you your whole life like I had 1260 01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:39,840 Speaker 3: the wreck carpet out for you. It's time for you 1261 01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,360 Speaker 3: to figure it out. You gotta fly, young man, and 1262 01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:43,480 Speaker 3: I hit the ground running. 1263 01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:43,680 Speaker 4: Man. 1264 01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:46,400 Speaker 3: You know, Duce popped off. I remember they thought I 1265 01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:49,400 Speaker 3: couldn't do it. You here we are, baby. You know 1266 01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,000 Speaker 3: what I'm saying. They know what that dude say is 1267 01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,000 Speaker 3: shout out my g rugs out there putting that foot 1268 01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:55,760 Speaker 3: on their neck. 1269 01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,760 Speaker 2: You know what I mean, That's exactly. 1270 01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:05,040 Speaker 1: What we did. And Mi Wilson where yo. But But 1271 01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,120 Speaker 1: but that's that's the bugd out part because people think 1272 01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:10,880 Speaker 1: that bleak. They'd be like, oh, go you good, bleak, 1273 01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:14,919 Speaker 1: You're good, and I'd be like, no, that is a break. 1274 01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:18,680 Speaker 3: Glass in the case of emergency, and it's not an emergency. 1275 01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:22,480 Speaker 3: Not why you still got to working you're working hands. 1276 01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:27,680 Speaker 1: But also also too, also too you want to do 1277 01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:30,280 Speaker 1: it like, Okay, this is the thing I'm interested in. 1278 01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:32,080 Speaker 1: This is the thing I'm interested in. Okay, let me 1279 01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:36,560 Speaker 1: go do this boom won't Yes, For the first time 1280 01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:39,120 Speaker 1: in your life, you were like, yo, if it gets. 1281 01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:43,840 Speaker 4: All away to where I ain't got nothing, then I 1282 01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:49,520 Speaker 4: break glass case of emergency that we out here. No no, 1283 01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:54,520 Speaker 4: because because because this is somebody you love. So the 1284 01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,960 Speaker 4: point of view becomes this person already has to deal 1285 01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:01,960 Speaker 4: with a whole lot of stress, a whole lot of 1286 01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:05,479 Speaker 4: people trying to talk to you. Why would I add 1287 01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:08,200 Speaker 4: on to that if I really love you. It's the 1288 01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:12,600 Speaker 4: same thing of you know, I'm gonna keep it funky. 1289 01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,480 Speaker 4: I'll be trying to, like, you know, protect everybody. But 1290 01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:19,520 Speaker 4: it's like you saying, yo, Carlleen, didn't give me these 1291 01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,680 Speaker 4: amount of tickets. Oh you know, we gave you seven. 1292 01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:26,600 Speaker 4: We gave you seven first, we gave you seven tickets. 1293 01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:30,760 Speaker 3: You wanted more? Yeah, Colleen, that's my girl. So she said, 1294 01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:33,760 Speaker 3: on top of that, I could give you two. You 1295 01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,520 Speaker 3: ain't say that party. You ain't say that part. It's cool, 1296 01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:42,000 Speaker 3: but that's my point. On a show day, I'm never 1297 01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:45,320 Speaker 3: going to stress Carleen. No, not on show day. 1298 01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:51,920 Speaker 1: That's like me on a show day around four or 1299 01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,400 Speaker 1: five o'clock, I'm gonna touch the phone off. That's right. So, 1300 01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:58,280 Speaker 1: because as much as this is a thing of like, Yo, 1301 01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:02,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna come watch the Jay Show, I gotta perform. 1302 01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,720 Speaker 3: And I gotta be on point, on point, lose my 1303 01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:05,600 Speaker 3: fucking job. 1304 01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,920 Speaker 1: Yes, if I'm not on point completely straight, inte what 1305 01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,680 Speaker 1: I'm saying, because that's what I mean. So I'm never 1306 01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:16,960 Speaker 1: gonna stress my people on those particular days. I already 1307 01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:18,240 Speaker 1: know what that is. That's right. 1308 01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:23,919 Speaker 3: I don't know how hard it is. First of all 1309 01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:29,680 Speaker 3: them jay Z, Beyonce, those m show tickets, Man, this 1310 01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:32,560 Speaker 3: is why I love my geez. Man, y'all think it's easy, 1311 01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:34,760 Speaker 3: like me and Google. Just sit here, Yo, we need 1312 01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:38,040 Speaker 3: ten tickets, were pulling up. Yeah, you better have ten 1313 01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:43,240 Speaker 3: cashed out tickets because every seat with every ass is 1314 01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:47,160 Speaker 3: a paid seat. There is no free ass and no 1315 01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:48,560 Speaker 3: free seats out there. 1316 01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:52,920 Speaker 1: That's like me saying listen, listen. That's like me coming 1317 01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:57,120 Speaker 1: to you and being like, yo, you my man, your 1318 01:04:57,160 --> 01:04:58,680 Speaker 1: wife work as circuit city. 1319 01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, I need Mad TA, I need mad TV. 1320 01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:05,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, free, Yeah, plug me put me on hook me 1321 01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,680 Speaker 3: up wife, he in there. I need all the TVs 1322 01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,640 Speaker 3: in the back discount. I need a free I need 1323 01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:12,760 Speaker 3: a free. Yeah. You don't even want the friends and 1324 01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:16,320 Speaker 3: family form price nothing, I just need them free. 1325 01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:21,240 Speaker 1: I said, you're fan. I don't work. I work for 1326 01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:22,520 Speaker 1: jay Z. 1327 01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:26,360 Speaker 3: That's right. I called my work, Yo, listen for the 1328 01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:30,000 Speaker 3: bea shit. I even called Goo goo like bleak. 1329 01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,400 Speaker 2: Now you know you know I don't got. 1330 01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:34,000 Speaker 1: No plug over there. 1331 01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,720 Speaker 2: There's only one person you can asks for that you got. 1332 01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:40,000 Speaker 1: Because they do. That's that's I don't feel like I'm 1333 01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:42,160 Speaker 1: supposed to be the person that's supposed to add on 1334 01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:46,640 Speaker 1: to the amount of stress already. No matter what city 1335 01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:51,600 Speaker 1: you in, it's a superstar in that city, and they 1336 01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:54,520 Speaker 1: expect to get a free ticket. That's a fact. They 1337 01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:57,240 Speaker 1: expect to be well taken care of. That they expect 1338 01:05:57,240 --> 01:06:00,360 Speaker 1: to like even talk to. And I be like, if 1339 01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:01,680 Speaker 1: she even you know what I'm saying. 1340 01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:05,800 Speaker 3: I've seen them tell certain people, but just listen. 1341 01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:09,440 Speaker 1: You still gotta be super on point with the dances, 1342 01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:12,320 Speaker 1: with the out changes, with the lighting, with. 1343 01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:17,440 Speaker 3: The yo, yo, google chill. You was in Africa with us, right, Yes, 1344 01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:19,400 Speaker 3: where you like, Yo. You gotta be your point. You 1345 01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,280 Speaker 3: just brought backup memory, yo, you man, I almost died 1346 01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:25,600 Speaker 3: in Gabong, my gee, and I love my African people. 1347 01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:35,840 Speaker 3: I fucking love Africa. Listen, Tanzania, Gabong, Cape Town, Nigeria, Ghana, fucking. 1348 01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:39,600 Speaker 2: Joe Bird. We done been everywhere, but. 1349 01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:41,640 Speaker 1: This electricity gave out. 1350 01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,320 Speaker 3: Not that was at the hotel. I'm talking about the 1351 01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:49,040 Speaker 3: club where we performed that. Remember we did stadiums the 1352 01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:53,040 Speaker 3: whole Africa. We did stadiums and there's one particular spot 1353 01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:57,280 Speaker 3: in Gabong. I fucking almost died because I don't think 1354 01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,800 Speaker 3: y'all came with me. I went with Randy to the 1355 01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:04,680 Speaker 3: show yo, before y'all came and were getting through, so 1356 01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:08,640 Speaker 3: all the people bump rushed the car. So Randy telling 1357 01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:11,240 Speaker 3: the people, yo, y'all gotta clear that gate. Hop never 1358 01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,560 Speaker 3: gonna pull up to the show. Y'all gotta clear the fence. 1359 01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:16,800 Speaker 3: So me, I'm just sitting back, not talking, just watching. 1360 01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:18,760 Speaker 3: So I'm like, all right, I want to see how 1361 01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:22,080 Speaker 3: they gonna clear because it's about ten thousand Africans in 1362 01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:24,200 Speaker 3: front of the gate. So I'm like, how they gonna 1363 01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:27,120 Speaker 3: clear this gate? So I'm saying to myself, what the 1364 01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:30,520 Speaker 3: fuck they gonna do. These niggas pulled up a box truck, 1365 01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:35,280 Speaker 3: opened the back of the box truck and let out 1366 01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:39,080 Speaker 3: like twenty dogs and they had you know how New 1367 01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:41,720 Speaker 3: York we got the batons the shit they pull out. No, 1368 01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:45,640 Speaker 3: they had tree limbs, like bark from the tree as 1369 01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,439 Speaker 3: like a weapon, and they told them, yo, you gotta 1370 01:07:48,480 --> 01:07:52,000 Speaker 3: clear the fence. They put so much blood in front 1371 01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:54,600 Speaker 3: of that fence, bro that I literally had to tell them, yo, 1372 01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:58,240 Speaker 3: chill hop. Don't want y'all clearing the fence like this. 1373 01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:02,560 Speaker 3: Y'all gotta chill, y'all wiley and just tell people to move. 1374 01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:05,720 Speaker 3: You don't have to bust everybody. Had to get them 1375 01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:07,000 Speaker 3: to move like chill. 1376 01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:09,200 Speaker 2: So that's what had me thrown off. 1377 01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:14,280 Speaker 1: My takeaway was like I had to meet y'all in Taipei, Taiwan. 1378 01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:15,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this. 1379 01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:19,879 Speaker 2: I remember we was in Taiwan. 1380 01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:25,719 Speaker 1: We was in Taipei and we had to get which 1381 01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:29,439 Speaker 1: album was done, trying to remember which album was and 1382 01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:34,200 Speaker 1: I had to bush through the front to get to 1383 01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,519 Speaker 1: y'all in tai Pay, Taiwan. It was crazy. We have 1384 01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:38,840 Speaker 1: so many tour stories, y'all, And. 1385 01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:41,200 Speaker 3: Who was the falls man? Because you know good I 1386 01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:43,400 Speaker 3: used to hit the street go get the weed for us. 1387 01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:44,559 Speaker 3: Remember I felt the. 1388 01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:51,760 Speaker 1: Weed in your pad. But I'm gonna tell you the 1389 01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:54,960 Speaker 1: best steak I ever had in my life. I'm gonna 1390 01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:56,720 Speaker 1: tell you the best steak I ever had in my 1391 01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:58,800 Speaker 1: life was in Japan. It's right. 1392 01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:01,960 Speaker 3: Shout out my bro nik, y'all, maazaka out there. You 1393 01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:05,080 Speaker 3: know what I mean, big, This is my guy poker stars. 1394 01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,040 Speaker 3: He won all the money. He got all the money. 1395 01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:09,559 Speaker 3: You're out there spending all the money Richie Millie's for 1396 01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:10,320 Speaker 3: just Wednesday. 1397 01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:13,360 Speaker 1: You know, that's how you do it. But yeah, we 1398 01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:17,120 Speaker 1: went to the joint, yo, and it was like yo. 1399 01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:20,800 Speaker 1: So we went. We went in a in a room 1400 01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:26,280 Speaker 1: and they brought this steak that I've never tasted ever 1401 01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:30,040 Speaker 1: again in life. And it was almost it was almost 1402 01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,919 Speaker 1: perfect because the dude was like standing outside the room. 1403 01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:35,400 Speaker 1: But then every time, like you put your fork down, 1404 01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:36,679 Speaker 1: he more stuff. 1405 01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:40,320 Speaker 3: You remember, they brought the shrip alive. My god, yo, listen, 1406 01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:43,240 Speaker 3: they put the shrip on the grip. The shrip was alive. 1407 01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:47,400 Speaker 3: They put the shrip on the grill. Them ship started 1408 01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:51,960 Speaker 3: screaming and ships like Yo, I looked at get the 1409 01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:53,960 Speaker 3: fuck out of here, that nigga. 1410 01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:55,760 Speaker 2: Gul like what you eat that it's the best part, 1411 01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:56,439 Speaker 2: you mugget. 1412 01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,360 Speaker 3: They squitched the face that all that snigger gou was 1413 01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:03,520 Speaker 3: in there on his African sit eating the face everything. 1414 01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:05,280 Speaker 2: I'm like, Yo, I don't. 1415 01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:07,080 Speaker 1: Even know who this dude is no more. 1416 01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:10,120 Speaker 2: He turned Japanese on me, Yo. 1417 01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,200 Speaker 1: Yo. We had some times, man. 1418 01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:19,639 Speaker 3: Yo talk about that Japanese trip, Yo Yo, Japan. No, 1419 01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:22,439 Speaker 3: nothing is worse than China, though, Man China. Them niggas 1420 01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:23,680 Speaker 3: will walk up to you in the middle of the 1421 01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:27,280 Speaker 3: street with a chocolate centipede, like I took up you 1422 01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:28,720 Speaker 3: mean I WoT he? 1423 01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:32,160 Speaker 1: No, I took a picture right because because they said 1424 01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:36,320 Speaker 1: it was a sign that was like r C Republic 1425 01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:36,840 Speaker 1: of China. 1426 01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:44,120 Speaker 3: Any trafficking drugs through here subject to death, subject death. 1427 01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,720 Speaker 1: So hold on, hold on, hold on. So so you 1428 01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:50,720 Speaker 1: gotta understand. So as we travel. 1429 01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,920 Speaker 2: The world, we get the blood everywhere. 1430 01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:58,000 Speaker 1: Everywhere, So it'd be certain places where I'd be like, yo, 1431 01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,840 Speaker 1: if bleak gotta be with our weed for like. 1432 01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:06,280 Speaker 3: I'm yo, I'm gonna die. I died in Korea, y'all, 1433 01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:08,280 Speaker 3: died in Korea. I left a part of my life 1434 01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:10,280 Speaker 3: out there. They don't even know Korea. 1435 01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:13,639 Speaker 2: It's so Korea. It's a part of Bleak dead. 1436 01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:16,799 Speaker 1: They don't understand. Hold On, I'm really looking at the calendar. 1437 01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:20,000 Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, so Bleak gotta be without weed for 1438 01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:24,000 Speaker 1: like four days on this part of the thing. Hold on. 1439 01:11:24,400 --> 01:11:27,200 Speaker 1: So it's like already and this was This might have 1440 01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:30,639 Speaker 1: been like Blueprint three where it was like already ten 1441 01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:34,640 Speaker 1: people in Jay band. Then Bleak had him and his 1442 01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:38,040 Speaker 1: people with them, you know what I'm saying. So people 1443 01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:41,960 Speaker 1: get this confused. There's a bet High and a bat Ah. 1444 01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:45,519 Speaker 1: There's a bet High that's Jay's cousin. There's a beat 1445 01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:48,599 Speaker 1: a as my man, that's Bleak men. And they grew 1446 01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:54,120 Speaker 1: up in the same building, right, They wore for the 1447 01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:59,120 Speaker 1: same building, right. So hold on. So we all on 1448 01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:01,920 Speaker 1: the bus and it's like, Yo, it's a day where 1449 01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:04,040 Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, it's gonna be like four days with 1450 01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:09,320 Speaker 1: this dude. Don't have no weed. Chu understand. Bleek is 1451 01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:13,559 Speaker 1: the coolest person in the world. He's my brother. Do 1452 01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:18,240 Speaker 1: not be around this man? Well he ain't got no You're. 1453 01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:21,360 Speaker 3: Gonna meet full o. Yo, My bro be out. He 1454 01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:24,040 Speaker 3: always say, yeah, you Memphis Bleak. A lot of people 1455 01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,600 Speaker 3: don't know who Malik is. When they look, they're like, 1456 01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,479 Speaker 3: fuck that nigg I was like, break bleak back. 1457 01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:37,200 Speaker 1: I was doing my best, yo. I was doing my 1458 01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:41,120 Speaker 1: best yo to try to find this man some trees. 1459 01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:44,960 Speaker 1: But four days went by, and I swear to God, 1460 01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:48,760 Speaker 1: if it wasn't my man, he was like at the 1461 01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:49,960 Speaker 1: point where it was like. 1462 01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:54,439 Speaker 3: Career, I'm telling you, I asked the promoter, got your fair? 1463 01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:56,400 Speaker 3: Where can I get the butt that? It was like, 1464 01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:01,840 Speaker 3: I'm like, what you mean? No, where we get through? 1465 01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:04,080 Speaker 3: We like no weed out here. I could get you 1466 01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:08,719 Speaker 3: anything else. They don't do no drug that slow you down. 1467 01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:11,960 Speaker 3: You want drugs that keep you up working. I got 1468 01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:14,200 Speaker 3: that all day. But if it's gonna slow you down, 1469 01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:15,560 Speaker 3: you're gonna see you. 1470 01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:18,880 Speaker 1: So a lot of people don't really understand a lot 1471 01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:22,200 Speaker 1: of my career been also like trying to keep this 1472 01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:27,519 Speaker 1: nigga out of jail. Right. So we go to this joint. 1473 01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:34,920 Speaker 1: It's downtown. Were walking there, it's us, it's mop fab, 1474 01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:38,680 Speaker 1: It's a bunch of people, the VIP so packed that 1475 01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:41,320 Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, it's uncomfortable in here. Let me 1476 01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:47,320 Speaker 1: get out the VIP. I don't know what the fuck happened. 1477 01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:51,400 Speaker 1: I'm in the front of the VIP talking to LAIDs 1478 01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:55,000 Speaker 1: from Mop, right, so it's you know, it's Mop, It's Fox, 1479 01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:58,200 Speaker 1: it's Lais, it's all of them. So I'm talking to lads, 1480 01:13:58,280 --> 01:14:00,559 Speaker 1: me and Laides is kicking it. All I hear is 1481 01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:06,800 Speaker 1: a ruckus just start in the v I p and 1482 01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:15,400 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh ship this us. So I'm like, I 1483 01:14:15,439 --> 01:14:18,960 Speaker 1: turn around yo yo, and I look and I see 1484 01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:23,639 Speaker 1: Bleak going. Now that Bleak going. I gotta come up there. Yeah, 1485 01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:26,720 Speaker 1: it was on. It was so when the cops come in. 1486 01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:29,559 Speaker 2: They locked us in the club that day. 1487 01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:37,080 Speaker 1: They locked Bleak and Leaky right, but downtown, Yeah, we're 1488 01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:42,559 Speaker 1: downtown down right, We're downtown. So I'm trying to talk 1489 01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:44,479 Speaker 1: to the police officer to tell him, like, you know, 1490 01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:46,759 Speaker 1: first of all, I'm I'm trying to play the Memphis 1491 01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:49,240 Speaker 1: Bleak card, you know what I'm saying, early with the 1492 01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:53,760 Speaker 1: police officers, like they're going down now you could do 1493 01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:57,479 Speaker 1: they going down? Trying to play that early I try 1494 01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:00,320 Speaker 1: to play the young Google card. That ain't work. I 1495 01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:01,920 Speaker 1: try to play that, you know what I'm saying. I 1496 01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:04,200 Speaker 1: know the promoter call that ain't work. You know what 1497 01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:04,719 Speaker 1: I'm saying. 1498 01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:08,160 Speaker 3: Hope is to go for that too, because the next 1499 01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:09,479 Speaker 3: day they had us in court. 1500 01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:12,759 Speaker 1: Right, he got Colleen in court with the envelope. 1501 01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:14,920 Speaker 4: Now be hold on, before we even get to the 1502 01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:18,040 Speaker 4: next day, we Colleen, So these two niggas, you know 1503 01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:18,439 Speaker 4: what I'm saying. 1504 01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:20,519 Speaker 1: This is like two o'clock in the morning. Yep, we 1505 01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:25,240 Speaker 1: go through all right. So I called Colleen. I'm like, Yo, 1506 01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:34,080 Speaker 1: we just got arrested. Don't tell hole. Yeah, this up right. 1507 01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:38,840 Speaker 1: So we go down there and these two niggas is 1508 01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:42,840 Speaker 1: in the pen on some gangster ship making. 1509 01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:47,640 Speaker 4: It worse, yes, throwing ship fighting the Yeah, I'm like, 1510 01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:48,799 Speaker 4: your room. 1511 01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:51,639 Speaker 3: B we need that, bitch. We ain't sitting on no floor. 1512 01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:54,040 Speaker 3: You need that bitchigs gotta move. 1513 01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:57,840 Speaker 1: To forget all that gangster ship. I'm trying to get 1514 01:15:57,880 --> 01:15:58,280 Speaker 1: you out of here. 1515 01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:02,000 Speaker 2: Blurt out. We ain't sitting on the floor while. 1516 01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:05,760 Speaker 1: Yo. 1517 01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:08,439 Speaker 3: But yeah whole said Colleen the court. The next day 1518 01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:09,519 Speaker 3: she had one hundred grand in. 1519 01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:12,360 Speaker 1: The envelope called the lawyer's Colleen, just the. 1520 01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:14,920 Speaker 3: Case, I gotta bail you out, and she had to 1521 01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:18,120 Speaker 3: go to trial for that for that bullshit man. Shout 1522 01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:21,200 Speaker 3: out Stacey Richardson too, because she beat the case I 1523 01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:24,400 Speaker 3: had on the white soup man and she was like, Yo, 1524 01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:27,719 Speaker 3: if y'all beat this kid up, this bad broken jaw 1525 01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:30,360 Speaker 3: did all it is and you got on the white suit. 1526 01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:31,880 Speaker 2: How come ain't no blood. 1527 01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:33,599 Speaker 1: Get on you? I don't know, girl. 1528 01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:35,960 Speaker 2: She was like, well, we're gonna put this suit in court. 1529 01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:38,559 Speaker 1: This was the normal night going out with Memphis Bleak 1530 01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:47,000 Speaker 1: regular ship that or it's plenty of Knights again. Back 1531 01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:49,040 Speaker 1: at that time, we was like running up and down 1532 01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:52,000 Speaker 1: the whole East coast getting bags. You know what I'm saying. Called, 1533 01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:59,000 Speaker 1: if it's north of DC, Bleak is gonna go, tell 1534 01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:00,000 Speaker 1: the turtle top to go there. 1535 01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:04,400 Speaker 2: A that's right that way to ac baby, shout out 1536 01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:05,240 Speaker 2: my nigga, A y. 1537 01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:07,960 Speaker 3: I used to see I even sitting there all the 1538 01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,080 Speaker 3: time at the three called poker table. 1539 01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:10,760 Speaker 1: Yo. 1540 01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:15,519 Speaker 4: I'm trying to tell you, if it's Northwark, DC, we 1541 01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:18,960 Speaker 4: out Bleak, it's gonna go at two o'clock in the morning, 1542 01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:19,519 Speaker 4: a C. 1543 01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:21,280 Speaker 1: He's gonna go, Yo. 1544 01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:23,759 Speaker 2: Yo, let's go to a C. That's a fact. 1545 01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:26,719 Speaker 1: So I would take out a certain amount of money 1546 01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:31,360 Speaker 1: and if I lose this. I'm done done. These niggas 1547 01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:33,479 Speaker 1: would be in there till like six. 1548 01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:35,280 Speaker 2: The sun come up. 1549 01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:39,160 Speaker 3: That mofucking the sun came the sun up. 1550 01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:40,959 Speaker 2: Were driving back down. 1551 01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:44,320 Speaker 1: To jerse Yo. You drop me off of my house, 1552 01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:46,760 Speaker 1: ship Man. 1553 01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:49,439 Speaker 3: One of the endless days that we had, though that 1554 01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:52,600 Speaker 3: turned out to be one of the best sessions. Was 1555 01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:54,680 Speaker 3: the day we remember we was in the studio and 1556 01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:56,439 Speaker 3: I forgot what's I think? We was in rock the 1557 01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:59,639 Speaker 3: mic and we was waiting. I think you you went 1558 01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:02,360 Speaker 3: to sleep two because I caught I know you was 1559 01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:05,800 Speaker 3: in the studio. I was home and Swiss called me. 1560 01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:08,519 Speaker 3: It was like bleak, I got it. It was like 1561 01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:11,280 Speaker 3: five in the morning. I pulled up to the studio. 1562 01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:12,200 Speaker 1: Pick go up. 1563 01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:15,240 Speaker 3: We went right the Swiss studio that nigga like, I 1564 01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:18,880 Speaker 3: got the record, go like, play it, nigga, play like that. 1565 01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:22,960 Speaker 3: We recorded that record right there on the spot, five 1566 01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:23,639 Speaker 3: in the morning. 1567 01:18:23,920 --> 01:18:25,439 Speaker 2: By nine a m. 1568 01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:30,280 Speaker 3: We are at Rock Nate Rockefeller Death Jam playing that record. 1569 01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:35,679 Speaker 2: This is the single. They looking at us like where 1570 01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:36,679 Speaker 2: y'all made this record? 1571 01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:36,840 Speaker 4: At? 1572 01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:37,160 Speaker 1: Yeah? 1573 01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:40,280 Speaker 3: Last night them nigga sit the young guns right to 1574 01:18:40,439 --> 01:18:43,680 Speaker 3: Swiss too, that's true, too, young niggas. 1575 01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:44,120 Speaker 1: Took got swat. 1576 01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:46,680 Speaker 3: They like Swiss over there, nigga ship like this. I 1577 01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:48,599 Speaker 3: ain't send the gunners over there, babies. 1578 01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:54,240 Speaker 1: Those two on fire. Swiss was on fire that like that. 1579 01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:57,000 Speaker 1: That like that was different like that played. That's one 1580 01:18:57,040 --> 01:19:00,360 Speaker 1: of them joints that when I play in Dubai, it's 1581 01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:02,719 Speaker 1: still green and play like anywhere. 1582 01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:05,000 Speaker 3: I remember we got the plane in Africa. When we 1583 01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:06,960 Speaker 3: went on the Africa tore the water for life. That 1584 01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:09,760 Speaker 3: ship was on the radio the first song we all 1585 01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:12,479 Speaker 3: jumped off the plane getting in the car. Nigga ho, 1586 01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:15,240 Speaker 3: everybody jumping the car, turn on the radio. That's the 1587 01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:16,320 Speaker 3: song on the radio. 1588 01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:16,800 Speaker 1: Like that. 1589 01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:20,960 Speaker 2: We was bugging like, oh shit, word. 1590 01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:24,799 Speaker 1: Man, crazy. I was definitely sleeping baseline No rock the mic. Yeah, 1591 01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:25,760 Speaker 1: it was rocked the mic. 1592 01:19:25,840 --> 01:19:30,400 Speaker 3: Then, man, that's crazy man, fucking like that session shoutout Swiss, 1593 01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:30,960 Speaker 3: it's crazy. 1594 01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:33,919 Speaker 2: DJ Enough was in the studio with us too. Yeah. 1595 01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:36,679 Speaker 3: I don't think I got fifteen hundred spins from you Enough, 1596 01:19:37,640 --> 01:19:43,439 Speaker 3: Like probably owe me like sixty spins crazy. 1597 01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:46,640 Speaker 2: He probably on me like sixty spins. E. 1598 01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:49,080 Speaker 1: No, you know what it is. You know what it 1599 01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:53,520 Speaker 1: is now. It's like it ain't even about the spins. 1600 01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:57,439 Speaker 1: Ain't even about playlist. It's about culture. It's just about 1601 01:19:57,479 --> 01:20:00,439 Speaker 1: like you know what it man, It's about culture. That's it. 1602 01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:04,280 Speaker 1: That's it. That's all you gotta do. Like like people 1603 01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:08,919 Speaker 1: getting tired of the normal formula. It's just about culture, 1604 01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:12,479 Speaker 1: man like, Like that's it. Culture. 1605 01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:16,240 Speaker 3: Integrity, staying true you know, and believe and believe what 1606 01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:20,000 Speaker 3: you believe. Don't be a follower like I think. I 1607 01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:23,000 Speaker 3: think I think that's the thing going on today. No, 1608 01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:25,120 Speaker 3: but that's the one thing. If you was to look 1609 01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:28,960 Speaker 3: up loyalty in the dictionary, your face is like. 1610 01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:33,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, I should definitely me ya yo, you know jungle 1611 01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:34,679 Speaker 2: I face. 1612 01:20:34,479 --> 01:20:38,240 Speaker 1: Your face, your face is definitely next to them, definitely. 1613 01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:42,760 Speaker 3: Fucking but I definitely Like I just want to say 1614 01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,519 Speaker 3: these young kids today, man, before we you know, sign 1615 01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:50,160 Speaker 3: off for anything, stay true to yourself man, tagrity, Stop 1616 01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:52,719 Speaker 3: being followers because like I said, I don't wear house 1617 01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,680 Speaker 3: music group and we steady looking for talent and people. 1618 01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:56,400 Speaker 2: Always say you're bleek. 1619 01:20:56,600 --> 01:20:58,479 Speaker 3: Why you don't sign niggas from New York And it's 1620 01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:02,479 Speaker 3: like all yallniggas if it ain't a boogie, y'all niggas 1621 01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,920 Speaker 3: is chef g and sleepy hollow sounder likes and it's like, bro, 1622 01:21:06,479 --> 01:21:08,559 Speaker 3: they have day lane artists. 1623 01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:10,000 Speaker 2: You have to do what you do. 1624 01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:14,360 Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine and not ever me trying to sound 1625 01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:17,800 Speaker 3: like Jada Kids Styles or Chic All Little Seas or 1626 01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:20,800 Speaker 3: jav Ro like it would be like blast for me. 1627 01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:23,400 Speaker 3: Niggas would have had my head on the chopping block. 1628 01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:26,280 Speaker 1: That people seeing that with the decline and like the 1629 01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:30,439 Speaker 1: sales of hip hop music, people seeing that, and I 1630 01:21:30,439 --> 01:21:33,840 Speaker 1: think it's it's a bunch of young like New York 1631 01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:36,640 Speaker 1: cats that's and females. You know what I'm saying, That 1632 01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:39,800 Speaker 1: that's killing it. Yes, it's just gonna take a next 1633 01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:45,160 Speaker 1: generation of executives. So my dream, my dream bleak is 1634 01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:50,479 Speaker 1: like the next executives are supposed to be twenty two 1635 01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:52,920 Speaker 1: years old. Yes, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, you 1636 01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:56,519 Speaker 1: think about how young we was when we was doing it. 1637 01:21:57,560 --> 01:22:02,280 Speaker 1: That next IRV God, that next Dame Dash, that next 1638 01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:04,120 Speaker 1: jay Z, that next you know what I'm saying. 1639 01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:07,840 Speaker 2: They the young boys you gotta give and they can't. 1640 01:22:07,880 --> 01:22:10,280 Speaker 3: Of course, it ain't the music, Like I'm not never 1641 01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:12,680 Speaker 3: knocking the music, the drill sound, whatever. 1642 01:22:12,439 --> 01:22:15,799 Speaker 1: These not. I love it. It's like so many sounds 1643 01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:16,720 Speaker 1: in New York right now. 1644 01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:21,280 Speaker 3: That's what I see, many simular similar That's the only 1645 01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:23,640 Speaker 3: thing I don't agree with On the radio. I just 1646 01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:25,599 Speaker 3: heard the dude semi a song and he was rhyming 1647 01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:28,719 Speaker 3: like Ice Spice, and I was like, fam like for real, 1648 01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:33,400 Speaker 3: Ice Spice, my nigga, Like this is a It's like 1649 01:22:33,479 --> 01:22:35,720 Speaker 3: I never heard the nigga in my ever rhyme like 1650 01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:36,240 Speaker 3: little Ken. 1651 01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:39,280 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm tune. I'm a tune with these 1652 01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:39,800 Speaker 1: young boys. 1653 01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:43,840 Speaker 3: This ship is giving Fu Spooky did not want to 1654 01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:46,439 Speaker 3: be Little Kim. These niggas out here want to be 1655 01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:50,519 Speaker 3: Ice Spice. This ship is crazy and she winning, winning, 1656 01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:56,639 Speaker 3: winning between her Lola Brooks, fucking of course, Nikki Cardy. 1657 01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:59,679 Speaker 3: They the staple, but the new, the new young girls 1658 01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:03,040 Speaker 3: out here are winning. The girls is applying pressure. And 1659 01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:05,000 Speaker 3: I knew this was coming because I used to say 1660 01:23:05,040 --> 01:23:07,599 Speaker 3: Eve was making it hard for these niggas. She used 1661 01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:10,400 Speaker 3: to go in the boof and bully these niggas got 1662 01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:13,040 Speaker 3: Remy been bullying niggas, you know what I'm saying. 1663 01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:16,080 Speaker 1: And now the girls is like they fuck. It only 1664 01:23:16,120 --> 01:23:18,479 Speaker 1: makes sense, you know what I'm saying. Like I've been 1665 01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:20,240 Speaker 1: saying that for years, Like if you think about my 1666 01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:22,439 Speaker 1: whole career is through women, you know what I'm saying 1667 01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:25,960 Speaker 1: that so so from nonchalant. Yeah, y'all got Rap City Rhapsody, 1668 01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:29,439 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying was a beast like that 1669 01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:32,559 Speaker 1: whole thing. But the thing about it is is just 1670 01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:38,320 Speaker 1: like they gotta let them be them'ing and not put 1671 01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:42,800 Speaker 1: them in a a box that we had. 1672 01:23:42,960 --> 01:23:46,360 Speaker 3: That's right, And y'all knew artists don't be them let 1673 01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:49,479 Speaker 3: them be there right. You don't be there right? Okay, 1674 01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:54,639 Speaker 3: you be you? Let them be there please, because that's 1675 01:23:54,640 --> 01:23:58,000 Speaker 3: the advice. I remember being a young dude right before 1676 01:23:58,160 --> 01:24:01,160 Speaker 3: Jay Jack so I remember Ja used to be in 1677 01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:03,360 Speaker 3: the coming through the hood with Jazz Oh before they 1678 01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:06,800 Speaker 3: even gave me an opportunity. I used to always ask them, yo, 1679 01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:09,479 Speaker 3: what's the advice you would give me? Like I remember 1680 01:24:09,560 --> 01:24:12,720 Speaker 3: telling Jazz yo, bro, I have troubles writing hooks. I 1681 01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:14,519 Speaker 3: don't know how to write a hook, and that nigga 1682 01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:17,840 Speaker 3: was like, just keep writing, it'll come to you. Just 1683 01:24:17,920 --> 01:24:20,599 Speaker 3: keep writing. That was always his answer. Hove too, your hold, 1684 01:24:20,680 --> 01:24:22,320 Speaker 3: how do this? How you make a six? Yo? Just 1685 01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:25,040 Speaker 3: keep writing, you'll get it. So that's what I give you. 1686 01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:28,599 Speaker 3: Gotta develop your own sound by just keep writing, turn 1687 01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:31,000 Speaker 3: tune everything out and do you man? 1688 01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:31,720 Speaker 1: Trust me? 1689 01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:34,639 Speaker 3: If you great, we gonna figure it out and we're 1690 01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:37,840 Speaker 3: gonna know this and that's what it is, baby, you 1691 01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:41,280 Speaker 3: know what it is. We hear rock solid before we 1692 01:24:41,400 --> 01:24:47,960 Speaker 3: signed off. Though, Wait, goo, how did you feel when 1693 01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:49,719 Speaker 3: Beans came at the crew? 1694 01:24:52,080 --> 01:24:54,439 Speaker 1: Like when Beans win that whole? 1695 01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:55,600 Speaker 2: Like, I know me it? 1696 01:24:56,120 --> 01:24:58,320 Speaker 3: Then they shott in my heart like that's my bro, 1697 01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:02,160 Speaker 3: you know we passed that now, But how how what? 1698 01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:04,240 Speaker 3: What was your your mind stayed at that time? 1699 01:25:04,760 --> 01:25:06,000 Speaker 1: It's always be elevation. 1700 01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:07,200 Speaker 3: Hm. 1701 01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:10,720 Speaker 1: You know, everybody feel how they feel at a certain point, 1702 01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:14,640 Speaker 1: and I just be like, I just be wanting to 1703 01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:15,640 Speaker 1: have conversations. 1704 01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:19,760 Speaker 3: That said, I feel like conversations can and can be 1705 01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:22,800 Speaker 3: the solution to all problems with some people always got 1706 01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:25,160 Speaker 3: a problem for every solutions. 1707 01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:26,000 Speaker 2: Not my guy. 1708 01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:33,040 Speaker 1: But still but still it don't matter, Like there's nothing 1709 01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:39,560 Speaker 1: that can't be talked out, there's nothing that can't be addressed. 1710 01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:45,120 Speaker 1: There's nothing I feel as though, like as elder statesman, 1711 01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:48,400 Speaker 1: that's right, and especially people that have been through it, 1712 01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:55,559 Speaker 1: even if it's not just an example for a younger generation. 1713 01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:59,400 Speaker 1: There's nothing that nobody can't talk through that's. 1714 01:25:59,280 --> 01:26:01,600 Speaker 3: Right and can't get to the bottom of man. And 1715 01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:03,680 Speaker 3: you know, I'm glad we passed that. You know, it 1716 01:26:03,760 --> 01:26:06,400 Speaker 3: was just it was a dark error for our our 1717 01:26:06,479 --> 01:26:09,240 Speaker 3: crew man. And my last question before we get out 1718 01:26:09,240 --> 01:26:12,720 Speaker 3: of here, you think it'll ever be a Rockefeller Reunion tour? 1719 01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:13,919 Speaker 3: It's possible. 1720 01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:15,280 Speaker 1: No, absolutely Oo. 1721 01:26:16,160 --> 01:26:20,040 Speaker 3: You heard it here first, Baby rock Solid, you know 1722 01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:28,320 Speaker 3: what it is. 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