WEBVTT - #451 - Young Dro 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:02.519 Hey, chick, this out managed your boy you on drou 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.439 check me out on Bootleg cav You dig. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:07.480 All right, man, Before we get into this episode, it 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.119 is brought to you by our good folks at Imperial Extraction, 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.640 your plug for world class dank without breaking the bank. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.279 That's right, y'all, freshly harvested every single week by the 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.680 best cultivators on the West Coast. We're talking about the flower, 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.000 the pre rolls. First of all, these pre rolls right 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.319 here are crazy. They also got the flower. They also 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.200 got your carts. Whatever you need. What you need to 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.320 do right now, though, is go to Imperial Extraction dot 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.800 com and use the promo code Bootleg fifteen. Use that 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.199 promo code. You get fifteen percent off site wide. Go 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:46.680 do that s get into the interview Yong Man Bootleg 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.640 cap Podcast special guests in here. I've been trying to 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.440 get Young Draw on the show for a very long time. Man, 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:52.159 he's in the building. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.080 I'm in the building, Young drow Baby. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.920 Well that's good man, and I'm you know what's crazy 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:58.960 is like there's certain people like when you meet him. Well, 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.480 first of all, I met you last night, but I 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:06.399 appreciate you coming poloed out like this. You know, I 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.760 feel like it's only it's it's on brand. Like if 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:11.160 I if you would have put up here like in 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.319 a pro club or something, I'd have been like, damn, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:15.520 you came up here with that ship on. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.679 You know what I'm saying. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.440 Yeah, how much polo do you own? 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:21.960 Oh? 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:22.319 Man? 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:24.880 A lot of it? You know what i mean? Over 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:32.240 the like. So, I've been doing music since two thousand, Okay, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.480 I want to say like two thousand when I got 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.120 you know, we start getting like rap checks. So and 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.640 then in high school of course I had like right, 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.160 but like getting money off it twenty four years yeah, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.240 like yeah, putting it on, having it on pieces, going 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.680 to New York. That's when New York had the Rugby store. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.160 I used to go up there and get pieces. And 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.360 then I started customizing some of it, taking the patches 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.760 from that, putting it on stuff that I already had, 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.200 and you know what I'm saying, recycling it, you know 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.680 what I mean. I used to when I shot for it, though, 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.520 Like I'm like, I might get a shirt, you know 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.280 what I'm saying, and it might take two years to 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.440 match it up, right, you know what I'm saying. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.320 So you might just be holding on to a shirt 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:16.000 on two years. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.720 Hold on to it for like two years. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.000 Then I find, you know, the shoes to match it 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.800 in pants and all that built socks. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.080 You know, when I was a kid, I can only 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.680 get the United States Polo Association from Ross. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.320 No, Bro, don't ever say that, bro. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.120 But I was like, look, we call that polo assassin, 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.320 like it's the killer of all you know what. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.799 I'm saying, because I thought it was the same thing. No, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.720 it's the man. It looks like the same thing. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.080 The man on the horse actually has a book bag 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.080 on and some other stuff. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:44.960 He's got like a fig he's got like it's like 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.040 a lot going on in the horse. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.480 He got a golf club and like I don't know, 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:49.800 he got a cane. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.200 He got too much stuff and the kye popped off. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.000 And I had a job at Macy's, so I started 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.000 stealing like real polo out and then I got caught 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:58.760 and got fired. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:00.600 I'm technically banned from Macy's. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.240 But I got some nice uh you know them them 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.760 them at the time the collar churts were popping. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:08.880 Yeah, you know that that horse on that that was 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:12.800 a donkey. It wasn't not real horse. It was a 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:13.400 donkey man. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:18.119 The US Polo you were a real jacket. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.480 They had a US Polo Association outlet and Arizona Mills 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:23.000 And as. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:28.040 That ship did it burn down? I think it's still there. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.519 No, you can see people rock of that ship, like 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.760 they got that ship off, like dog, that ain't polo. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.000 I guess that's an actual like league or something like, 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.280 it's a real thig, Like I. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.640 Don't know what that was like when we used to 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.440 like we tried to wear that ship like in high school. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:52.520 Bro, it was like, what's that got a unicorn horse? Yo? 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.240 How much do you think your collection is worth? 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.880 M hmm because some of that, like a lot of 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.440 that stuff, like the even the Teddy Bears, like you 0:03:59.440 --> 0:03:59.960 could like. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.960 Well, like I know, I spent like like a million 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.680 on over over the twenty year, like over a million 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.360 dollars over twenty years, you know what I mean. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.280 Like, which probably isn't that bad if you compare some 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.040 of these guys spending like a million dollars in a 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.880 year on like Louis and what they actually get for it, right. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.120 You know what I'm saying, So like over a meal 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.679 or something like that. You know what I mean, I don't. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:27.440 I can't. I'm not able to pinpoint it. But I've 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.880 given away a lot of it, you know what I'm saying, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.040 just because one time I just got sick. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.799 Of it and I was like taking a space. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.880 Well, I just got sick of the brand because you know, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.400 the world started changing. And then I was like I 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.240 still had it all and I used to just start wearing. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.080 You know, random shit, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.880 And then I was like, you know what, I stand 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.080 out pretty good in that, so, you know, and then 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.480 like I could put I couldnt have it on and 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.000 people would even recognize, like, you know, they'll be like 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:58.960 I wanted to say that was you, but I didn't 0:04:58.960 --> 0:04:59.359 see that. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.000 Yeah, that's crazy. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:02.200 Man. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:03.960 What have you been up to? 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:04.080 Man? 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:04.799 I know you just dropped. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.960 You're on the new single Rico shot the Pip Squad Click. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.400 I know PSC album is on the way. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:11.560 Yeah, album on the way. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:11.839 Man. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.919 It's been a hell of a ride, just you know, 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.400 recording with the guys and getting back in there even 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.640 you got some good ass music man, and me and 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.280 Tip just actually been working on some stuff that me 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:25.920 and him going to try to get an album out, 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:26.400 you know, what I'm. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.560 Saying, like a joint album. Yeah, Tip and Drove. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.880 You know what I'm saying, Man, you know this right here, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.960 what we're doing with the guys, just showing us as brotherhood. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.279 You know, it's a lot of clicks that started that's 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.240 not together, right, all of us are still together all 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.520 these years later, all these years later. So I really 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.280 want to just showcase the brotherhood and how we ain't 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:47.200 letting them break us. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:47.920 You feel what I'm saying. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:48.880 What's crazy too? 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.640 Because like really if you think about like the mixtape era, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.720 I mean, fifty said gets a whole lot of credit 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.160 as at it as well deserved, but I feel like 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:02.760 the PSC tapes were like the whole other thing, Like 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:04.440 you know what I'm saying, Like it just kind of 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.080 like I feel like it was that and then there 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.520 was like the Southern Smokes and then the Squat Up 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.360 Ship that Little Wayne was dropping around that same time. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.440 But the PSC tapes to me like stood out on 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:16.679 like a whole other level. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.320 And like what was it like? 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.279 Because back then it was you know, I was always 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.159 confused if you were an artist because mixtapes were bootlegged, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.440 right you would either download them online or they was 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.440 at the at the barbershop, or like, how were y'all 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.480 making money off of something that didn't have a skew 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.159 that was at best Buy? Like were y'all printing them 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:37.000 bitches yourself? 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:42.760 Yeah? Printing myself like drama, you know what I'm saying. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.599 And of course famously enough Drama who was hosting them? Shit? 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.120 You know he went to you know he got he 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:48.840 got to hit him in. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.800 Up, he got jam you know. So I really looked 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:52.560 at it as. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.039 Like like warm ups, you know what I'm saying. I 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.560 ended up well, my mixtape game, I think I got like. 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.960 Fifty The one you have that's on Spotify is it 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:04.560 Day one? 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:05.240 Is it? 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.240 There's a couple of morning Day one on that. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.640 Day one is the one I sold at the swap 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.200 meet myself. That's how I got my name. I was 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.760 printing them covers out my creer. It's funny cause I 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.000 was just looking at your Spotify and I was like, 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.000 oh I sold that at the swab was like that's crazy, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.080 and you listen and sorry. Anytime I have an artist 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.760 in that, I've pirated music from when I was seventeen. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.840 I definitely pirated your first album, yeah, and made some 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:30.360 money office. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:31.320 I probably owe you some money. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:32.160 But it's cool, man. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:37.920 Yeah, I had your I had the fucking bootleg shitty 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.160 litte hundred dollars printer printing your album cover. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:41.040 Out for sure. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.480 Man, that's crazy man. But you know what though, too, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.240 I don't think that's bad. I don't think that's bad 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.520 because you know, whoever bought it like that, the relevant 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.560 the relevancy of that, you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:55.920 you still get circulated. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:57.520 People know it, you know what I'm saying. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.280 And you cant was an era too, you contribute like. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.239 The bootleg man was, Like, you know, we were necessary 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:03.880 back in the day to a certain extent. You know, 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:05.640 like you if you didn't want to go watch The 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.559 Matrix three, but you wanted to see what it was about. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.120 I had a copy of it, but you just had 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.280 to deal with some people standing up and walking in front. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:13.640 Of the screen. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:14.040 You know. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.720 But but still though you still turning, you turning people 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.600 on to us that you know might have wouldn't have 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:20.920 got it. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.040 Yeah. I always tell like, dude, DJ Smalls, if I 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:25.880 ever meet him, I'm be like, bro, you know, I 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.160 met him once he was DJing for Gotti and I 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.600 just told him, I'm like, bro, I had them Southern 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.520 smokes going crazy, swap meet though. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.600 Me and smoked me and smoke got in. I mean, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.920 I'm being small got in man. He was cool. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.000 Dude was like. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.680 Damn the gangs, the grills and all the June the 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.440 radios were just like fucking just best sellers. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.960 Man. It's crazy. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.920 I feel like you have become like an underappreciated like 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.400 figure when we think of just like just in general, 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.000 just in hip hop, man, because I feel like you're 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:00.280 you're like an elite level MC, but you also have 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.080 like this classics like even like you know, like I'm 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:04.800 like high times. I think it's like super slept on 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.280 body of work that you put out what's like ten years. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:12.160 Ago now, right, yeah, Jesus got it might be twenty thirteen, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:12.760 twelve somethod. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:14.880 Yeah. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.920 Fuck that song was hard. I forgot about that. We 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.640 be in the city, in the city, Oh my god. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:27.360 But you also feel like you're okay with that. I 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.400 don't know if that makes sense, Like you ain't like 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.520 like I feel like you like like you you're so 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.240 good at this shit, it comes so naturally to you, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.880 but you don't like stress over the flowers or stress 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.920 over Like I've always just kind of felt like you 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:40.560 do the shit because you love it and do what 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:40.920 it does. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:45.120 And I mean, well, but like I can't be I 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:46.800 don't be upset with it because it feeds me, you 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.040 know what I'm saying right like to you know, like 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.319 I go out and when I do it, like if 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.960 we like we just did like forty thousand people the 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.880 other day, me and Tip in Fort Stewart and that's crazy. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.000 They were singing it like it came out yesterday. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:05.000 So to say, I got like something of vendetta against 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.439 you know, you know what what people the feedback people. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.319 Give, if not even the feedback like you feel like 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.040 you're underappreciated or underrated, I'll go for underrated. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.040 Yeah, I think they appreciate bro. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.200 Like you know what I'm saying because every time I 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.520 go somewhere and you know, like me and the mirrors 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.160 out the other night, and every time you introduced me 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.000 to Peo, their face just lit up, you know what 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:30.040 I'm saying. So you know I believe like underrated, you know, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.880 so so so a little bit so so. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.280 I mean, motherfuckers was shoulder leading all over the world. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:38.480 Man, you did you know what I'm saying. 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.319 You know what's crazy is there's like so many of 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.320 those that era of record that I'm like perfect for TikTok. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.160 Like I almost feel like y'all should kick off a 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.800 fucking TikTok campaign on that song, like right now, because 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.360 it could. Like you've been seeing these songs that are 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.320 old pop back up on TikTok and they have like 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.400 a whole new. 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:00.560 Whole life. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.080 Yeah, I've seen, I've seen. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.800 I've seen Shoulderling get on TikTok and do something, do 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.040 some crazy shit, you know what I mean? FDB, I've 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.000 seen that going there. 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.240 Yeah, Jesus man. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.320 Yeah, freeze me. I ain't seen freeze me yet, you 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:17.719 know what I mean? 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.920 I think I have a you know, FDB, I think 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.840 I have like an acapella intro to that I would 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.640 just always scratch the West Side. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:26.520 That's crazy. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:28.800 Yeah, you got some classics, dog for sure. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.559 What was like for you guys, like give me the 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.200 motivation of coming together and doing a Pimp Squad Click 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.360 album in twenty twenty four, because you spoke earlier like 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.319 just to let everybody know, like, hey, we're all still together, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.160 and that's a rare instance but you know, to get 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:49.360 everybody in. Everybody's got their lives going on. What's the 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.880 what's the creative inspiration when you guys. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.440 Are all in the studio and why was it the 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:55.000 right timing? 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.760 I felt like, you know, as far as me and 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.640 Tip go, we always been like competitive in the studio, 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.840 you know what I'm saying. I know, I know it's 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.680 like iron sharping the iron, you know what I mean 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:10.760 when it comes to shout it in there. You know 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:15.040 Mac Boney and Country, you know Mac Hustling, you know Country, 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.679 you know pimping, you know what I'm saying. So I 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.280 felt like all of us together back again, can actually 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.199 just let people know that once it's once it's in there, 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.640 it's on. You know what I'm saying. It's like something 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.479 that can't be like it's just like. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.719 Riding a bike. You can't unlearn how to ride a bike, 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:34.400 you know what I'm saying. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.640 So just to come back and do it again, just 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.720 to show, you know, the youth that once it's in you, 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.880 like music is with us forever, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.240 So I feel that man getting back together man, just 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.839 to show that man that togetherness. And you know what, 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.920 I mean that competitiveness and you know, and for me, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.360 I felt like I ain't done, you know what I'm saying, 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.760 And I know Tip got to kill the king and 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.440 stuff on the way. This is the perfect time for 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:05.720 us to showcase, you know, there's still lyrical ability that 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:06.960 we have, you know what I'm saying. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.320 So I need to figure out why you have a 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.800 t c L Best Buy branded flip phone? 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:11.959 Here? 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.040 What is happening with? What is is this your main phone? 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.280 Can you show this to the camera, just a weekend one? 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.760 This one right here? Yeah? So you you this is 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.360 your main line? 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:24.760 Yeah? 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:26.400 What is uh? 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.280 I mean what like you know I got I got 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.559 ADHD and those you know in that in those newer phones. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.960 All those cold you don't have iPhone? Nah? 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.679 If I did? I use it like for music or 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.600 you know, like so what is uh? What do you 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.400 do with that? Like you just talk? 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:44.720 Man? 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.000 Like when you text you got to hit the button 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:48.120 three times to find a letter. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:52.120 No, that's that, that's the predicted You can take it 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.520 out that and then straight tap now now, So if 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.240 if I'm I'm big on like distractions, you know what 0:13:59.280 --> 0:13:59.680 I'm saying. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.440 So at this point in my life. 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:02.400 No, iPhone is a distraction. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:04.720 Distraction, that's distraction. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.760 So at this point in my life, you know what 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.360 I'm saying, getting ship done? You know what I'm saying, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.679 I gotta be like if I can't be paying attention 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.360 to what another motherfucker doing, because before I, you know, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.640 finish my task, I'll be looking at what what Jason 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.200 doing or what Tamika? What kind of clothes Tamika got? 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:23.680 On the day I big, I asked, you know what 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.640 I'm saying, So you know what I mean, just to 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.960 cut all that ship out, just hit me. You know 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:29.440 what I'm saying. I just you know what I mean. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.600 You got to call me the goa hit me, and 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.240 then you know, I get to hang up like this, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:35.000 Oh that there's nothing. 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:35.320 Listen. 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.440 I got an iPhone and I got a Galaxy, but 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.320 but you can't listen. I had the Galaxy flip that 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.840 that that there's like the photo one and that's the 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.440 Remember when I was showing you all when I had 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:48.760 to flip and I was like, nah. 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.720 But look yeah, so if you hit in on that, 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.560 you'd be like that's good. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:54.400 If you're mad, you. 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:55.640 Still can't hear it, just. 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:01.720 Not me me you you know what I'm saying. What 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.760 I'm saying, you can't even get off you. We're talking 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.600 about TikTok. Got TikTok. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:08.720 You can hear me hang up on you with this. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.760 You can hear it. Yeah, wile you know what I'm saying. 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.640 Even though you can't hear it, you can hear me. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:17.440 Hear it. This nigga just slam the phone on me, like, yeah, 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:18.440 you know what I'm saying. 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:19.920 What's the plan like on that? It is like twenty 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.000 bucks a month. Nah, I got like a little unlimited 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:24.120 family plan. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.480 Yeah, like I could go to I can go to 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.880 China and his motherfucker you could go to the fucking 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:30.680 hell in that part I got. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.480 I got that bitch got snake on it. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:33.600 I got some serious roaming. 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.640 But guess what what, the motherfuckers don't work, this little 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:37.840 son of a bitch getting. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.480 I bet it does. Yeah, I didn't even android, bro, I'm. 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.360 Telling you this bitch, this bitch working. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.280 Hell. I was talking to the devil the other day. 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.880 Hot is the mother damn. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.320 It's like whatever, yo, we're droping at even on this 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.760 flipfold dog, Hey, that's gotta be dope. Though you ain't 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.560 really distracted by like you know, you were you in 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.000 the studio, you ain't see what other people are doing, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:01.480 focused on your ship. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.400 Yeah, that's exactly what's going on. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:03.960 I love it. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.200 How do you feel about you know, I'm curious, man, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.240 because I obviously Atlanta's going through something interesting right now 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.520 with you know, Free Thug, who obviously has a great 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.560 relationship with with with you guys, but you guys kind 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.560 of went through a similar situation when Tip went away 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.280 kind of like at the height of everything and and uh, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.920 you know, he came back and everything was fine, but 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.600 it was definitely a scary situation because that was like right. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:30.240 After King, right. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:31.840 I want to say that. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:33.720 I remember he got locked up and I saw him 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.000 on a Chevy commercial like the day before, and I was. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.600 Like, damn yellow in a yellow Camara. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.440 What was it like just being a part of the 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:41.960 crew at that time and having to kind of go 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.640 through the uncertainness of like what could be happening to 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.440 you know, at the time, the hottest rapper on the 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:47.840 planet and the leader of the crew. 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.200 You know, I feel like at that point in time, man, 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.160 a lot of opportunities that was in front of us 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.320 kind of got like put on hold, you know what 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:01.320 I'm saying. And because as as as a crew, you 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.760 know what I'm saying, we had these plans and you 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.920 know what I mean, and once they came to a halt, 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.679 you know what I mean, Thank god. You know, I 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:13.639 still had lyrical ability to sustain myself throughout that those 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.679 trials or whatever. But man, it was shit. We weren't 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:18.960 We weren't too happy about that, you know what I'm saying, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.160 You know what i mean. So while we was going 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:26.080 through it, it kind of like it's kind of like 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:28.800 if you if you was if you had a big 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.160 brother and y'all live, you know what I'm saying, y'all 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.320 at the house, and you know, he fuck around, go 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.200 to jail, you know what I mean. Everything is on 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.719 hole and at the same time, your feelings are, you know, 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.440 all over the place, because hey, look this big bro, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.199 like I kind of like follow his lead, and you 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.080 know what I mean, because he went out and start 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.080 getting MS. So it's almost like he had the blueprint 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:51.639 and the blueprint. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:51.720 Went to jail. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.160 Yeah, everything was it was like at the peak, yes, 0:17:55.400 --> 0:18:01.399 man crazy. Yeah, So I'm thinking Grand Hustle when I 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.440 think of the label man, I think of just one 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.120 of the more underrated rosters ever at a certain point 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:12.080 in time. Grand Hustle is yourself obviously, PSC b. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:12.439 O b. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.240 Iggles. Oh yeah, Young La. By the way, can I 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.200 j G kill? Yeah? I was gonna say killer, Mike. 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:27.399 Scott, Travis Scott, Yeah, damn. I mean I even like 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.679 the one dude who was just crying on the internet. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.280 I thought Alpha Mega was hardest fun. He was raw 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.760 on that Hurt record with Bust the Rhymes. Who else? 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.120 Yeah, it was just such a crazy fucking roster DJ drama, 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:44.600 you know what I'm saying? 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.840 Like, was it the duck Rich kids? 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.320 Yeah, you guys had such a crazy were you ever 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.800 like like you're the oga, the the crew? Like when 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:55.800 like Tip with sign somebody knew, would you give him 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.040 any input or would you kind of like like help 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.240 like assimilate them to being like a like Travis Scott 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.320 for example, Like I mean, look, Travis Scott's Travis Scott now. 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.040 But Tip kind of saw something and before anybody on 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:09.600 that level, did you know what I'm saying? Was that 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.120 like like were you around a lot of those conversations 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.199 in some of those early studio sessions with some of 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:15.680 those people. 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:17.240 I was high man. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.240 You were being young, best thing, smoking. 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:21.960 Geek that my mind when people came. You know what 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:22.800 I'm saying. I was. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.080 I was always supportive though, you know what I'm saying, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.200 just like when we signed young La, like I gave 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:30.880 him my chain, you know what I'm saying. Then when 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:32.880 it got a bigger change. You know what I'm saying, 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:38.119 Like when people came, I knew that my brother was 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.520 choosing something that he took interest in, and whatever he 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.719 took interest in, I took interest in. Also, like if 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:46.840 he loved you like that, I loved you like that, 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.159 you know what I'm saying. If he didn't fuck with 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.199 you like that, I really didn't fuck with you like that. 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:51.879 You know what I'm saying. 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.919 So you know when anybody would ever come in like 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.359 I was there and I was around, you know what 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.960 I mean. Of course you know what I mean, because 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.720 we're close knitted. You know what I'm saying. It was 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:07.200 impossible for me not to be around when those conversations 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:07.800 were going on. 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.200 But for the most part. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:14.040 On a as far as the business go, I don't 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:15.159 think I was too. 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.880 Were you in like any like sessions with like Travis early, 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.159 like I was wondering, like, you know, before we know 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.280 who Travis Scott is like our Pharaoh days, Like what's 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:23.679 it like? 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.640 Just be like did you see that ship of that kid? 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.520 Like I knew the well we knew Travis was with 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:33.080 shiit though, like it was like a what I want 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:39.399 to say, shit, some extra terrestrial shit, Like you know 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.960 what I'm saying. Travis Scott was beyond like out of 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.000 this world like type shit. It was like and he 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.960 do everything, and you know what I'm saying. I was like, yeah, 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.080 shot of going somewhere, you know what I mean. I 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:50.520 feel the same way about Bob. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.200 Yeah, Bob is an alien. He always was an alien. 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:55.920 Big old fan, you know what I mean. We can't 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:56.600 forget Doe b. 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.399 Man, dope b rest in peace, shout Alabama man that 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.840 that he and he was just getting started man when 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:04.400 he passed. 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:04.840 Yeah. 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.520 So all the tracks that I got with all these 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:11.440 all these people, these are dope tracks. And we was 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:13.760 able to flex our lyrical you know what I'm saying. 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.520 Of course I couldn't wait to you know, get on 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.040 them and shown that you know, hey, look it's gonna 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.080 go down when drown and motherfucker you you know what 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.160 I'm saying, Yes, sir, I. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.639 Was gonna say, do you feel like Grand Hustle gets 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:32.040 the credit it deserves for starting a lot of the 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:34.600 movements that we because I feel like we forget Like 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:36.320 I like, I was like, we're going through all these names. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.440 I'm like, god damn, Like I remember the magazine cover, 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.320 Like Grand Hustle was like really instrumental in so many 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:42.080 people's careers. 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.040 Do you feel like it gets the credit that it deserves? 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:46.600 Man? Who get who do gets the credit for what 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:47.520 they do? 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:50.239 You feel like some people do some people get too 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:50.760 much credit? 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:55.240 Well that's one thing, but but like when people do. 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:56.919 Like I think a lot of people get get the 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.440 credit they deserve. I feel like, you know, I don't. 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:04.040 Think like it's always it's always a story about about 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:04.840 you know what I'm saying. 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:08.040 When people jay Z gets a lot of credit. Okay, 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.600 that's one in a million, you know what I'm saying, 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:11.840 Like you know what I mean. 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:15.600 Like, you know, doctor Dre all the fucking credit, you know, rightfully? 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:18.640 So these are these are big dogs, I mean big 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:19.920 old dogs for sure. 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:21.000 You know what I'm saying. But it's a lot of 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:22.200 things I'm quite sure. 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:25.320 They feel like, hey, look, nobody even noticed this right 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:28.440 here about you know what I mean what they did 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:30.520 and in the mark that they put in on the 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:31.040 game you did. 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:33.439 You know what I'm saying, Hey, when you guys picked 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:40.040 fuck that Bitch FDB as a single, uh, nowadays, like 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:41.919 right now, Gunn has got a song called fuck you 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:44.720 mean it's a radio signal? How hard is it to 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:46.359 come up with like the clean version of that for 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:47.560 DJs to play on the radio. 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:49.480 That was the hardest ship because the ship is called 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:50.359 fuck that Bitch. 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:51.320 Yeah, and. 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:55.720 We had to actually go to I Don't Trust that Chick, 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:58.240 which was totally so. 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:02.280 I was so I was so pissed off. 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:05.560 Yes, it was like a whole it was like a 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:09.359 whole nother book I had to write. But f dB, 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.520 I think we was at Clark Clark, Atlanta, you know 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:15.960 what I'm saying. Collegen Man, that was the least song 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:18.119 that I felt like, you know what I mean. I 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:21.160 had other things in mind until we was like, oh, 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:23.760 just played it to see how it goes. And when 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:27.400 we played it, those college kids went berserk and then 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:28.080 we was. 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:28.920 Like that's the one. 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:31.720 Yeah, if you play a song that no one's ever 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:34.440 heard before and they lose their fucking mind. Yeah, go 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:38.480 with that. Yeah, because people don't like loving new shit. 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:41.200 They don't know, so that shit gotta be fire man, 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:41.880 that ship. 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:42.440 With fire as hell. 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:45.720 But then when everybody was like, man, what I said, like, well, 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:49.480 I consider FDB like if I had raps that was 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:52.440 stacked up like to right here, it was at the 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:56.840 very bottom, right. Yeah, that's that's how much I cared 0:23:56.880 --> 0:23:57.400 about it. 0:23:57.720 --> 0:23:59.800 And then it just so happened to be a big one. 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.520 So obviously PSC album on the way you and Tip? 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:04.280 Is there going to be another drug solo album? 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:05.120 There? Are you cooking something? 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:05.400 Yeah? 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:07.880 Man, it's a lot of It's a lot of work 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:09.760 that I'm doing right now, Like on this walk I 0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:12.280 got going on right now. You know what I'm saying, 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:15.600 being being as though, you know what I'm saying, three 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.800 years clean from all the ship that I've been doing, 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:19.960 And you know what I'm saying. 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.840 What was all of the ship Just a lot of drugs, man, 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:26.600 like all of the drugs. Yeah, but obviously are you 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:27.480 still smoking weed? 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:29.159 No? Oh, I don't do anything. 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:31.880 Man, You're not quite young Droe anymore. Nah. I mean, 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:33.960 I mean you're still young, Droe, but you know you're 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:35.320 not the best thing smoking anymore. 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:37.080 I'm just not heavily sedated. 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:41.439 Yeah, you know a lot of stuff went past, like 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:43.560 on all them drugs, man. 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:45.800 Were you doing like ecstasy and all that ship? 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:48.639 Yeah, all the all the rock star stuff step a 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:49.600 hairin ship. 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:52.359 Like now, but like you know the ship that motherfucker's 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:53.000 party with. 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.520 Ship that the party pack when you put it out Listen. 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:57.320 I did ecstasy for the first time in my life 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:03.520 not too long ago, and uh, I was stuck. I 0:25:03.560 --> 0:25:06.719 was grinding my teeth and I was slowed down and 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:08.960 I was like stuck. 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:11.200 I was like, Yo, how. 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:16.320 Do people do this ship at festivals? Because I'm like delayed, bro. 0:25:16.640 --> 0:25:18.080 I mean, it was it was different. 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:21.600 It was used to made me just just try to 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:24.680 like get all the bitches like you know what I'm saying. 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:26.440 And then and then like you know, I've never done 0:25:26.440 --> 0:25:29.280 cocaine in my life, never done any hard drugs. I 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:31.240 was super scared to try ecstasy, to be honest, because 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:34.080 I've only done weed and shrooms in my life besides 0:25:34.160 --> 0:25:37.480 doing ecstasy recently. But I have had women sniff cocaine 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:40.720 off my dick that's that's and I feel. 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:41.840 Like you're fucking freak man. 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:43.560 Shit. 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:48.280 Back in my back in my heyday, they'd be like strippers. 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:49.719 They'd be like, can you get coke? I'm like, well, 0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:50.240 I don't do it. 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:51.639 I gu's fine. If you give me something, I sniff 0:25:51.640 --> 0:25:54.119 it off your dick car. Well. So I feel like 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:54.560 if I were. 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:57.600 Ever to get into cocaine that those few experiences would 0:25:57.600 --> 0:25:59.520 have been my gateway to like put some ship up 0:25:59.520 --> 0:26:02.000 my nose. But I was strong enough to just you know, 0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:04.480 kind of do it. I guess it was on my body. 0:26:04.560 --> 0:26:07.679 You know. Do you ever have a girl do that? Nah? 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:10.800 I probably wanted it, like I was like, no, I 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:14.440 don't waste that. Why would you do that? 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:18.680 Why would you waste that? Yo on the table? Sit 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:22.360 down there for what? Bring it on? Bring it over here? 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:24.880 Nah? But I remember one time though, like. 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:32.879 I did like shrooms, and I did shrooms in ecstasy, 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:36.560 you know what I'm saying. Well, and then when I 0:26:36.600 --> 0:26:38.800 was talking to this bitch, I was talking to her 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:42.000 in her ear, and I don't know what happened to 0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:45.120 my eyes, but they left out my head and then 0:26:45.160 --> 0:26:48.280 started looking at me. And then I stuck my tongue 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:50.960 in her ear and it came out the other side. 0:26:52.440 --> 0:26:52.840 Sick. 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:55.200 That shit was like, I was like, this is my 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:56.000 last trip? 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:59.560 Oh so that was your last time, like with shrooming ecstasy. 0:26:59.840 --> 0:27:01.600 I'm not gonna lie. If that would have happened to me, 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:02.160 I'd have been. 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:06.560 Like fuck yeah, no, man, the fuck yeah. 0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:09.080 We got to spend the block on this. 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:09.720 That was some. 0:27:10.000 --> 0:27:10.359 That was some. 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:12.280 That was some demon type ship though. 0:27:12.680 --> 0:27:15.880 I was like, it sounds like venom for fucking Spider Man. 0:27:17.400 --> 0:27:19.480 How to help my eyes come out my head? 0:27:19.880 --> 0:27:22.240 Look at me? Then I was like, yes, you know. 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:23.919 What I always tell people is like you could get 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:26.200 so high a certain especially if you eat weed. 0:27:27.119 --> 0:27:29.760 You ate weed like edibles like on some broccoli ship. 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:32.879 No, like edibles like you know, like a candy bar, chocolate. 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:33.879 Oh okay, I thought you. 0:27:34.200 --> 0:27:37.600 But like I always say, there's something about if you're 0:27:37.600 --> 0:27:40.240 a certain level of high that unlocks some sort of superpower. 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:41.960 Because if you've ever been high where you're like in 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:45.560 a room or a show and you could hear everything 0:27:45.640 --> 0:27:47.880 at once, or you could like hone in on ship 0:27:47.920 --> 0:27:49.159 from far away and hear it. 0:27:49.280 --> 0:27:51.840 You want to know what's crazy? I heard your tesla 0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:53.000 truck in front. 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:56.399 So she was like, WHOA, that's how that's the real noise. 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:58.439 Yeah, yeah, I thought I thought I was back home. 0:27:58.520 --> 0:28:01.880 Yeah, we were just I was like fuck. 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:05.800 I was like, I know no dope and kicked in 0:28:05.960 --> 0:28:06.600 all these years. 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:09.240 B Yeah, I've been high before. 0:28:09.480 --> 0:28:11.360 I felt like I was like, I'm like, bro, there's 0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:13.560 some sort of superpower I got right now because I 0:28:13.600 --> 0:28:15.400 could hear everything. 0:28:17.160 --> 0:28:20.320 And eating weed? Do you eat too much? I keep 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:21.640 picturing you eating buds. 0:28:22.800 --> 0:28:25.480 Bro, You'll be fucking bribing out a concert. A rich 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:28.240 shout to Ritz from Gwynet County Rich and Yobow show. 0:28:28.720 --> 0:28:32.280 I was fucking zuited off the Edibles dog and I 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:35.280 could hear everyone's conversations at once in the whole concert. 0:28:35.440 --> 0:28:37.640 I was looking across the whole fucking venue and would 0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:39.000 look at the lady at the bar, and I'd be 0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:41.600 able to just hear what the fuck you're talking to 0:28:41.600 --> 0:28:42.360 her boyfriend about it? 0:28:42.480 --> 0:28:45.800 Shroons be too in depth, man, I thought like, because 0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:49.160 I thought I was dreaming, and in my dream I 0:28:49.320 --> 0:28:52.680 peed like I went to the bathroom and Peede Pede 0:28:52.720 --> 0:28:54.120 in the damn bed YEP. 0:28:55.480 --> 0:28:58.240 Thirty some years old. I pissed myself in from I'm 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:01.200 talking about I went the whole p like like you. 0:29:01.480 --> 0:29:05.360 It was like you butte but. 0:29:07.120 --> 0:29:10.320 Sometimes you know, lot as a motherfucker, you wake up 0:29:10.320 --> 0:29:12.560 in the morning, what the fuck? But the ac turned 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:14.680 the cold. I was like, I'm gonna be the pneumonia 0:29:14.960 --> 0:29:17.280 you ever do, like uh, like d m T or 0:29:17.320 --> 0:29:20.000 anything crazy like that domestic terrorist. 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:21.440 What's d MT? 0:29:21.680 --> 0:29:27.400 It's like, uh, that's a drug. Ship sounds like like 0:29:27.640 --> 0:29:36.160 you freebase it like crack. Yeah, I'm not lie and ship. 0:29:37.080 --> 0:29:39.720 It's like this chemical that your body produces when you're 0:29:39.760 --> 0:29:40.640 born and when you die. 0:29:41.200 --> 0:29:42.800 It's you know, the gland that's right here. What the 0:29:43.080 --> 0:29:43.480 is it called? 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:47.440 Yeah, and so like your body produces it, but you 0:29:47.520 --> 0:29:50.560 could there's a frog that sweats it, and so you could, 0:29:50.680 --> 0:29:52.160 you know. Mike Tyson always, I don't know if you know. 0:29:52.200 --> 0:29:53.680 But Mike, well, you don't have you don't have the internet. 0:29:53.720 --> 0:29:58.920 You don't know, leave me alone, nothing on that. No, 0:29:59.080 --> 0:30:01.760 Mike Tyson always he smokes the toad and it changed 0:30:01.840 --> 0:30:06.000 his life. He's smoking toad sweat, but nigga, so he 0:30:06.080 --> 0:30:07.240 don't have warts and shit. 0:30:07.600 --> 0:30:12.560 No, but if you smoke d MT, you're it's supposed 0:30:12.600 --> 0:30:14.760 to be like you just go away for. 0:30:14.840 --> 0:30:19.280 Fifteen minutes, like you're in another to mension. You see 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:21.160 shit that like you're not supposed to see. 0:30:21.880 --> 0:30:24.000 Like, so what if you smoke that ship and all 0:30:24.040 --> 0:30:26.360 of a sudden you turn the lights off in here? 0:30:26.560 --> 0:30:30.560 What do you? What do you. 0:30:32.520 --> 0:30:33.440 That's that's a frog? 0:30:34.640 --> 0:30:39.960 I mean like this nigga is toting his nigga told no, 0:30:40.040 --> 0:30:41.840 you're supposed to Like there's like a lady who talks 0:30:41.880 --> 0:30:44.720 to you. They call frog lady. I don't know, bruh, 0:30:45.320 --> 0:30:46.080 I'm scared to do it. 0:30:46.200 --> 0:30:48.520 I'm just I'm scared as fuck right now. 0:30:48.600 --> 0:30:50.680 But it's a it's a hallucinogetic. It's not addictive, but 0:30:50.760 --> 0:30:53.080 it is crackheadish because you do have to free basic 0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:58.120 what if what if? What if you saw a crankhead frog? Hey, 0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:02.600 I'm not gonna lie, like in La there's a frog 0:31:02.680 --> 0:31:03.840 smoking fatanol right now. 0:31:05.560 --> 0:31:05.920 Look like. 0:31:07.800 --> 0:31:09.240 This nigga eye separated. 0:31:09.440 --> 0:31:10.640 Your skin is terrible. 0:31:11.040 --> 0:31:12.680 But but what was your breaking point when you were like, 0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:14.160 I gotta get sober, I gotta I gotta leave all 0:31:14.160 --> 0:31:14.640 this shit alone. 0:31:16.160 --> 0:31:21.000 When I I tried to quit, right, so, I tried 0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:26.200 to quit over the pandemic and couldn't. But I had 0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:28.400 stopped for a little while, and I was like, you 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:33.040 know what, I'm good man. And then you know, I 0:31:33.160 --> 0:31:38.000 found myself going back to something that had me racy, 0:31:38.560 --> 0:31:40.760 because that shit brings on depression, you know what I'm saying, 0:31:40.840 --> 0:31:43.080 Like you be trying to figure out what's going on, 0:31:43.400 --> 0:31:46.880 and and and and at that point in life, I 0:31:47.040 --> 0:31:50.040 wasn't really where I wanted to be, you know, as 0:31:50.080 --> 0:31:51.880 far as doing shows and ship and get money that 0:31:51.920 --> 0:31:54.160 she had got. I was like, well, I'm always doing 0:31:54.200 --> 0:31:57.200 shows and I'm always traveling, but that's not enough for me, 0:31:57.360 --> 0:31:59.600 you know what I'm saying. So I can't get the 0:31:59.640 --> 0:32:02.080 way I'm trying to go fucked up all the time. 0:32:02.440 --> 0:32:04.440 I don't have that energy no more. You know what 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:06.320 I'm saying. I'm not twenty, I'm not I can't, you 0:32:06.400 --> 0:32:08.280 know what I'm saying. So I was like, you know what, 0:32:09.240 --> 0:32:13.040 I've been trying this shit like this for years, you 0:32:13.080 --> 0:32:14.920 know what I'm saying, a lot of years, you know 0:32:14.960 --> 0:32:16.320 what I'm saying. So I was like, shit, and my 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:20.000 breaking point was one day man, cause I used to 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:24.360 I had my my concoction of drugs that I used 0:32:24.400 --> 0:32:26.400 to do, right, you know what I'm saying, I might 0:32:26.520 --> 0:32:28.080 do some Maali you feel me. 0:32:28.480 --> 0:32:30.800 Then I might do the perks. You know what I'm saying. 0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:33.800 Then I might do you know, I'll mix that in 0:32:33.920 --> 0:32:36.880 with adderall and then you know, of course we get 0:32:36.920 --> 0:32:40.920 the lean and then and then when I run, when 0:32:40.960 --> 0:32:43.200 I get tired of running, I do the zan. So 0:32:44.360 --> 0:32:47.200 when I was that this particular day, when I was like, 0:32:47.240 --> 0:32:48.960 you know what I'm saying, I was running, I was running, 0:32:49.160 --> 0:32:51.560 and then I was like, I'm tired of running. You 0:32:51.600 --> 0:32:53.680 know what I'm saying, I'm tired of I'm tired of 0:32:54.240 --> 0:32:56.520 telling this bitch a lie and you know, trying trying 0:32:56.560 --> 0:32:58.720 to fuck this bitch line. And then you know what 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:00.800 I'm saying, I'm not me some of this stuff with 0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:03.360 my kids, and you know what I'm saying, my career. 0:33:03.560 --> 0:33:05.520 Is looking like this. And now I was like, you 0:33:05.640 --> 0:33:07.680 know what, it is, just time, you know what I'm saying. 0:33:07.960 --> 0:33:10.600 And then when my little girls started using drugs, that. 0:33:10.800 --> 0:33:16.040 Was a real bigs. She was actually like eighteen at 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:21.720 the time, So when I saw her do that, I 0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:23.720 was like, how in the hell can I tell my 0:33:23.920 --> 0:33:26.960 child whatnot? I'm over here, fucked up, geeked up. 0:33:27.080 --> 0:33:28.240 You know what I'm saying. I can't. 0:33:28.360 --> 0:33:30.920 I can't tell my child not to do something. I'm 0:33:30.920 --> 0:33:32.520 I already geeked up, you know what I'm saying. So 0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:34.920 I clinked all that shit up. Plus I got a son. 0:33:35.280 --> 0:33:36.920 You know what I'm saying, Junior came. I don't want 0:33:37.040 --> 0:33:39.680 Junior looking at me like like that's a zombie. Sometimes 0:33:39.960 --> 0:33:41.760 come on, man, you know what I'm saying. And I 0:33:41.880 --> 0:33:45.440 had enough respect for them not to do that type 0:33:45.480 --> 0:33:47.840 of shit in front of them. But still my behaviors 0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:49.120 showed that, you know. 0:33:49.160 --> 0:33:52.400 Stuff that you wouldn't even notice. But obviously, yeah, I 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:55.040 also think too, like when you're doing that much drugs, man, 0:33:55.480 --> 0:33:59.840 whether or not you consciously know it, your day become 0:34:00.320 --> 0:34:03.880 revolved revolving around like getting more high or. 0:34:04.160 --> 0:34:05.080 Figured out high. 0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:08.040 And then I remember, your productivity goes towards the drugs 0:34:08.160 --> 0:34:10.400 and your career or your family or your kids. 0:34:11.239 --> 0:34:13.200 I was so high one time, dog, I was talking 0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:16.720 to a garbage can you feel me. I was literally 0:34:16.800 --> 0:34:19.600 having a conversation with the garbage can. I was like, yeah, nigga, 0:34:19.640 --> 0:34:21.960 and I don't even know what you be on. And 0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:24.360 then I was like, and you stink nigga, you know 0:34:24.400 --> 0:34:28.640 what I'm saying, And the garbage was talking back to me. 0:34:29.640 --> 0:34:30.920 He was like, there's some shit in here. 0:34:32.360 --> 0:34:34.719 Oh my go straight up, Like, yo, you got me 0:34:34.800 --> 0:34:39.520 too full, bro, and like this, I'm serious about that though. 0:34:39.680 --> 0:34:42.400 No, I don't believe you. I think it's like it's 0:34:42.440 --> 0:34:42.799 it's real. 0:34:42.880 --> 0:34:44.200 It's like it's like at the end of the day, bro, 0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:47.680 like you know any ejiction where there's drug alcohol, Like 0:34:47.719 --> 0:34:49.839 people don't realize, Like yo, you might not. You might 0:34:49.920 --> 0:34:52.760 think you got it under control, but like your whole life. 0:34:52.640 --> 0:34:57.800 Really revolves around you're moving your priorities. 0:34:57.360 --> 0:34:59.880 Out of the way every day for the sake of 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:03.520 whether it's alcoholism or I gotta go get drugs or damn, 0:35:03.560 --> 0:35:05.279 I'm ana plan on my day because I gotta make 0:35:05.360 --> 0:35:05.759 your so and so. 0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:07.120 I gotta go see so and so to get more 0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:08.400 of this or you know what I mean. It's like 0:35:08.680 --> 0:35:10.759 it's bandwidth in your life. It's just getting burnt up 0:35:10.840 --> 0:35:11.560 just to be high, you know. 0:35:11.840 --> 0:35:14.840 Yeah, And I got tricked too because we was like 0:35:15.000 --> 0:35:17.480 I remember, we was in uh we was in some 0:35:17.640 --> 0:35:19.240 like some little drug courses and stuff. 0:35:19.280 --> 0:35:21.560 When Tip got out of jail. You know what I'm saying. 0:35:21.600 --> 0:35:23.279 And I was in there and I and I've seen 0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:26.200 some people that you know, they was, you know, addicts 0:35:26.280 --> 0:35:28.640 or whatever. And I heard them talking and shit, and 0:35:28.760 --> 0:35:30.640 I was like, I ain't this type of addict. 0:35:30.760 --> 0:35:32.560 Like Nigga. We rich, We haven't ship, you know what 0:35:32.560 --> 0:35:32.879 I'm saying. 0:35:32.880 --> 0:35:36.120 We got nigga, We got big beings of condole top flows, 0:35:36.120 --> 0:35:39.160 you know what I'm saying. And I didn't know that 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:42.440 I didn't have it under control. I thought that I 0:35:42.600 --> 0:35:45.920 was in control of it. But in due time, that 0:35:46.040 --> 0:35:49.359 ship will catch up to you and bust your motherfucking ass, 0:35:49.440 --> 0:35:49.960 you know what I'm. 0:35:49.800 --> 0:35:53.560 Saying, Because you think, well, I ain't on the streets right, 0:35:53.719 --> 0:35:55.399 you know what I'm saying. I don't look like this month, 0:35:55.719 --> 0:35:58.120 I'm fly fun, having fun. 0:35:58.280 --> 0:35:59.560 I'm a rich ass junkie. 0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:02.480 Yeah. Was it for you? 0:36:02.719 --> 0:36:06.520 Is it like hard to Your brand is so synonymous 0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:08.799 with marijuana, Like people look at you like the pie 0:36:08.840 --> 0:36:11.160 head guy right, like a lot of your album covers 0:36:11.239 --> 0:36:12.480 and titles and songs. 0:36:13.080 --> 0:36:13.799 Is it? Is it. 0:36:15.280 --> 0:36:19.440 Like not difficult? But is it like you know, being 0:36:19.480 --> 0:36:21.399 clean and sober, being younger? Be like Snoop Dog when 0:36:21.400 --> 0:36:22.640 Snoop Dog said he stoped smoking weed. 0:36:22.719 --> 0:36:24.759 People were like they almost lost their fucking man. 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:28.200 Yeah, but to a lesser extent, I was like, but 0:36:28.360 --> 0:36:29.839 like a lot of your brand, it's like, yo, your 0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:32.719 young drove like you know, like I mean, is that 0:36:32.960 --> 0:36:35.840 like a obviously it doesn't matter, but it's almost like 0:36:36.320 --> 0:36:38.919 when like what's his face? Jonah Hill lost the weight 0:36:39.560 --> 0:36:41.480 the actor people are like, yo, yo, but you're the 0:36:41.560 --> 0:36:44.000 funny fat guy, you know what I mean, Like, did 0:36:44.080 --> 0:36:46.480 you have any sort of like identity crisis with with 0:36:46.600 --> 0:36:48.719 your brand or like, man, I don't like if I'm 0:36:48.760 --> 0:36:50.160 not high all the time when people look at. 0:36:50.120 --> 0:36:52.560 Me different, Like now you know what I thought? 0:36:53.320 --> 0:36:57.600 I was like, my lyrics represent the kind of weed 0:36:57.719 --> 0:37:00.600 that I chose my name to be, and shit's gonna 0:37:00.600 --> 0:37:01.360 be smoking anyway. 0:37:01.440 --> 0:37:02.880 It's the best kind you got the. 0:37:04.560 --> 0:37:07.719 Best kind of music. It's it's like the way I 0:37:07.800 --> 0:37:10.359 wear clothes. It's the best kind. You know what I'm saying. 0:37:10.400 --> 0:37:13.480 If my if my outfit had to be you know, 0:37:13.680 --> 0:37:16.560 it's it's just fires. It's the best kind of it. 0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:18.680 It's expensive, it's you know what I mean. It's this 0:37:18.760 --> 0:37:20.680 ship here, it's top of the line, you know what 0:37:20.680 --> 0:37:22.680 I mean. So I ain't really tripped you know what 0:37:22.719 --> 0:37:25.000 I'm saying. I don't really trip right now, you know 0:37:25.040 --> 0:37:28.960 what I mean, because drugs don't control my narrative. 0:37:29.160 --> 0:37:29.759 You know what I'm saying. 0:37:31.800 --> 0:37:34.440 Do you feel like your pen game is sharper, your 0:37:34.480 --> 0:37:37.600 studio sessions are more productive, your creative ship is like 0:37:37.800 --> 0:37:38.720 more on point? 0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:38.920 Now? 0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:41.000 Yeah? Yeah, I do. 0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:44.160 At first, I didn't until you know, I did some 0:37:44.800 --> 0:37:47.840 some some soul searching, is you know, some self just 0:37:47.920 --> 0:37:50.000 you know what I'm saying. I just got into myself 0:37:50.080 --> 0:37:52.839 and was like, I'm better. You know what I'm saying. 0:37:52.840 --> 0:37:54.960 I'm better than I was. You know what I'm saying, 0:37:55.040 --> 0:37:58.000 for the simple fact I can remember stuff. I'm attentive, 0:37:58.160 --> 0:38:00.279 like you feel what I'm saying. I'm aware, you know 0:38:00.360 --> 0:38:04.120 I mean, I'm you know, I'm paying attention. I'm focused. 0:38:04.760 --> 0:38:09.359 Talk to me Atlanta obviously, as I mean, what ran 0:38:09.480 --> 0:38:13.600 hip hop for twenty running hip They've been running hip 0:38:13.600 --> 0:38:14.399 hop for how many years? 0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:14.680 Have been? 0:38:14.719 --> 0:38:18.080 Twenty three, twenty four? It's been a minute. It's been 0:38:18.080 --> 0:38:18.879 a long time, right. 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:21.200 I feel like the only, the only this is the 0:38:21.280 --> 0:38:25.600 closest I've ever seen to another place. Maybe getting it back, 0:38:25.600 --> 0:38:27.440 and that would be this Kendrick moment. If the rest 0:38:27.480 --> 0:38:29.239 of LA can get their shit together, we might be 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:30.640 able to, you know, just just hold. 0:38:30.520 --> 0:38:31.040 It for a little bit. 0:38:31.120 --> 0:38:34.920 But Atlanta's been through so many eras, right, and you 0:38:35.040 --> 0:38:39.239 guys are so important to all eras of it. I mean, 0:38:39.440 --> 0:38:42.040 I mean shit, you know obviously from the track I 0:38:42.080 --> 0:38:44.920 mean trap music is we know that it's a thing 0:38:45.040 --> 0:38:45.959 because of Tip. 0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:49.800 You know, how do you feel about like where Atlanta's 0:38:49.840 --> 0:38:50.600 going as a whole? 0:38:50.840 --> 0:38:54.680 And you know, do you feel like it's still as 0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:57.640 united as because we always hear LA and New York 0:38:57.719 --> 0:39:00.560 guys always use y'all as an example, Well, Atlanta united, 0:39:00.800 --> 0:39:02.240 they always always work together. 0:39:02.840 --> 0:39:04.520 Do you feel like it's still as united as it 0:39:04.600 --> 0:39:06.239 used to be? Yeah? 0:39:07.239 --> 0:39:10.759 For the simple fact is we're from the South, right, 0:39:12.400 --> 0:39:16.920 we got hospitality for outsiders, so I know we have 0:39:17.080 --> 0:39:21.040 it for ourselves. And you know, if you're not somebody cousin, 0:39:21.600 --> 0:39:23.360 you know what I'm saying. Y'all so close, you know 0:39:23.400 --> 0:39:26.840 what I'm saying, you know, and I think that the 0:39:27.000 --> 0:39:30.160 unity just has to be there because you know, somebody 0:39:30.280 --> 0:39:33.719 that's attached to somebody. I know, I got people that's 0:39:33.760 --> 0:39:37.480 attached to Thug, that's attached to Gunner, that's attached to Tip, 0:39:37.800 --> 0:39:40.799 that's attached to two chains, that's attached to Jezi, that's 0:39:40.880 --> 0:39:43.680 attached to you. Feel what I'm saying, it's almost impossible 0:39:43.840 --> 0:39:47.280 not to, you know, feel that love and want somebody 0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:50.560 like like for me. Once I see you know, people 0:39:50.640 --> 0:39:53.640 that make it. You know what I'm saying, It's almost 0:39:53.719 --> 0:39:54.960 like I made it too. 0:39:55.160 --> 0:39:55.839 You know what I'm saying. 0:39:56.000 --> 0:39:58.040 And I'm quite sure a lot of people feel the 0:39:58.080 --> 0:40:00.319 same way if they play us. You know I'm saying, 0:40:00.360 --> 0:40:03.640 if you hated that, just that's just that yeah, you know, 0:40:03.840 --> 0:40:05.680 but you know what I'm saying. And then like the 0:40:05.760 --> 0:40:07.840 state of it right now, you know, like the baby 0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:12.520 Drills and the Antis and you know what I'm saying, Uh, 0:40:12.680 --> 0:40:17.600 the Newdies and you know, yeah, man, it's and then 0:40:17.800 --> 0:40:20.920 even the girls man like their lyrical too. 0:40:21.200 --> 0:40:21.719 You know what I'm saying. 0:40:21.719 --> 0:40:25.440 I feel like you run yeah, yeah, a lot of 0:40:25.840 --> 0:40:27.480 Like when I see a lot of the state, when 0:40:27.520 --> 0:40:29.239 I see a lot of doing her thing, I feel 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:32.799 like it's just a family thing. When I see Amarella spit, 0:40:33.000 --> 0:40:35.640 I be like she's got birth from you know what 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:38.160 I'm saying. This ain't nothing like we get our best someone, 0:40:38.280 --> 0:40:39.879 We get our best ideas from others. 0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:41.839 You know what I'm saying, Nothing is new under the sun. 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:45.239 So when you're around or when you're around it and 0:40:45.360 --> 0:40:47.719 you're you know, you have these people that went before, 0:40:47.760 --> 0:40:49.120 you get to see an example. 0:40:49.440 --> 0:40:51.880 So when that that unity, yeah, the South got it. 0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:54.640 I mean, look, the South is obviously you mentioned the 0:40:54.719 --> 0:40:59.640 female MC's there. I feel like they're the only artists 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:04.360 anymore that are like trying from the new generation to 0:41:04.440 --> 0:41:07.600 make records. I feel like the dudes is just getting 0:41:07.600 --> 0:41:11.360 in the studio, punching in, throwing shit together and don't 0:41:11.480 --> 0:41:13.960 putting it out, and there's no like conscientious like effort 0:41:14.000 --> 0:41:15.520 to be like, yo, we gotta put a record together, 0:41:15.640 --> 0:41:17.520 like well we got to put some hits out, like. 0:41:18.520 --> 0:41:22.160 Yeah, because they know how it's easy to I. 0:41:22.160 --> 0:41:25.520 Feel like that the male artists are underproduced because they 0:41:25.640 --> 0:41:27.880 kind of just like you said, it's so easy. 0:41:28.200 --> 0:41:30.279 They don't like, you know what I'm saying, Like they 0:41:30.280 --> 0:41:33.080 ain't like, damn, we gotta we need to we need 0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:34.920 to go to radio with this. We need to be 0:41:35.040 --> 0:41:38.040 intentional with this, or you need to take your time. 0:41:38.480 --> 0:41:41.080 You know, you got to get your ten twenty thousand 0:41:41.200 --> 0:41:43.279 hours in right, you know what, I'm saying, before you 0:41:43.920 --> 0:41:48.600 are able to experience this, this this thing called hip hop. 0:41:48.640 --> 0:41:51.040 Especially for like you have respect for the art form. Yeah, 0:41:51.080 --> 0:41:52.600 you gotta have respect for the art form. 0:41:52.680 --> 0:41:54.920 And one of the people that I feel like has 0:41:55.040 --> 0:41:58.960 serious respect for the art form is London j That's 0:41:59.040 --> 0:42:02.399 a This dude is out of this work. 0:42:02.719 --> 0:42:03.279 You know what I mean. 0:42:03.480 --> 0:42:06.239 Like, man, I'm talking about when I tell you that 0:42:07.200 --> 0:42:10.560 most of the stuff that you hear comes from him, 0:42:10.800 --> 0:42:13.400 Oh wow, out of the South as far as writers. 0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:15.440 You know what I'm saying. He has a pin that 0:42:16.080 --> 0:42:18.239 is unmatched right now. You know what I'm saying. And 0:42:18.760 --> 0:42:20.040 don't connected to him as well? 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:23.920 Are you going to be doing more remixes and stuff 0:42:24.000 --> 0:42:24.839 like obviously? Yeah? 0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:28.080 Yeah, I'm a visual out there. Yeah, dro, Like I 0:42:28.120 --> 0:42:30.680 couldn't you know what, man. I was in New Mexico 0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:34.520 and for some reason, I just kept saying yeah, Dro. 0:42:35.080 --> 0:42:37.239 And this young dude, I think he was like twenty one, 0:42:37.480 --> 0:42:39.279 he was like, you should do that, Dro, he said, 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:42.320 he said just fits. So when he said it, I 0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:44.640 couldn't even sleep. I was like, I gotta do this. 0:42:45.040 --> 0:42:46.480 And I was inspired by Gloria. 0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:47.000 You know what I'm saying. 0:42:47.800 --> 0:42:49.800 Yeah, man, because she was saying some stuff and you 0:42:49.840 --> 0:42:51.200 know what I mean, And it made me feel like, 0:42:51.320 --> 0:42:52.720 oh she is she got damned. 0:42:52.840 --> 0:42:54.360 She's standing on betting. 0:42:54.160 --> 0:42:56.640 It for you feel what I'm saying, How dope was 0:42:56.680 --> 0:42:59.160 it for you to see Killer Mike all these years 0:42:59.239 --> 0:43:02.920 of just a prolific career get his flowers at the Grammys. 0:43:03.000 --> 0:43:06.160 Man, that was player. Man, Like I said, the unity 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:06.799 that we got. 0:43:06.960 --> 0:43:09.759 I felt like when he got the Grammys, we got 0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:11.799 the Grammys with him, right, you know what I mean, 0:43:12.239 --> 0:43:15.320 especially from Atlanta, because it just shut up all the 0:43:15.440 --> 0:43:18.480 talk and you know what I'm saying, and people talking about, oh, well, 0:43:18.520 --> 0:43:21.480 who was that? Like, that's I would love. I love 0:43:21.560 --> 0:43:25.680 the fact that it was done in that fashion. You 0:43:25.760 --> 0:43:29.200 feel I can sweep, Yeah, like he swept. You know 0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:32.080 what your thought and what y'all would toomb at all 0:43:32.160 --> 0:43:35.400 that bullshit you tomb at it got Sunday say you 0:43:35.480 --> 0:43:36.200 did what I'm saying. 0:43:36.400 --> 0:43:38.399 Yeah, felt it just felt special because it was like, man, 0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:40.200 first of all, he deserved it. That's the other thing 0:43:40.480 --> 0:43:42.920 he deserve. He had the best out of the year. 0:43:43.400 --> 0:43:45.040 I don't think it was a discussion to be had, 0:43:45.760 --> 0:43:48.040 and he deserved it. So it was just like you 0:43:48.080 --> 0:43:48.920 said it was funny. 0:43:49.080 --> 0:43:51.640 It was funny to see certain people react certain ways 0:43:51.680 --> 0:43:54.239 and then then once they listened to the outum, they're like, oh. 0:43:54.480 --> 0:43:56.680 Yeah, he deserved that. Motherfucker like desert. 0:43:56.760 --> 0:43:58.880 Because it ain't about I feel like with that is 0:43:58.920 --> 0:44:02.040 about It's about who like It should be about the 0:44:02.120 --> 0:44:04.520 best body of work, not who did the most streams, 0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:06.759 not who's most record. It's like, not supposed to be 0:44:06.800 --> 0:44:08.000 the best rap album of the year. 0:44:08.280 --> 0:44:10.560 Yeah, if I could tell, if I could tell motherfuckers 0:44:10.600 --> 0:44:13.759 that making music sh make sure you you like it, 0:44:14.200 --> 0:44:16.719 you satisfied. You know what I'm saying. Make sure you 0:44:17.120 --> 0:44:18.880 put out a body of work, you know what I mean. 0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:20.520 Don't be selfish with it. Make you know you know 0:44:20.600 --> 0:44:22.759 you got to put out music for the people. But 0:44:22.880 --> 0:44:25.520 make sure you're satisfied for about what you're putting out 0:44:25.560 --> 0:44:26.080 for the people. 0:44:26.280 --> 0:44:29.279 And you're good. Yeah, no matter, you can sell one record. Yeah, 0:44:29.360 --> 0:44:30.080 I'm satisfied. 0:44:31.440 --> 0:44:33.440 Can you give me a timeline when's everything coming out? 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:34.840 Obviously you guys just put a single. 0:44:34.719 --> 0:44:39.520 Out, Okay, psc should be out. I don't want to 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:43.920 say fall you feel me? I know me and zay Toven, 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:46.600 which is a great producer, shout out to Zay. You know, 0:44:46.680 --> 0:44:48.880 we got some stuff you know coming. 0:44:48.719 --> 0:44:51.080 Out Atlanta and Bay Area. 0:44:51.200 --> 0:44:54.600 Go to Yes, Atlanta and Bay Area. People don't know that. 0:44:55.360 --> 0:44:56.960 So I think, like around the top of the year, 0:44:56.960 --> 0:44:58.960 I'm gonna drop a couple of videos this year. But 0:44:59.000 --> 0:45:00.960 around the top of the year, you know what I'm saying, 0:45:00.960 --> 0:45:03.160 I should be gearing up for. You know what I mean, 0:45:03.440 --> 0:45:05.719 the Young Drow project. You know what I'm saying. I 0:45:05.880 --> 0:45:08.920 want to say that right after that, by that summer, 0:45:09.080 --> 0:45:11.480 I think the Drawing Tip project coming. You know what 0:45:11.520 --> 0:45:17.320 I'm saying, Drow plus t I P equals drip drow tip. 0:45:18.120 --> 0:45:19.839 You know what I'm saying, that's gonna be on the way. 0:45:20.680 --> 0:45:22.760 I think me and the boy Young La, We're gonna 0:45:22.840 --> 0:45:25.680 go back in and we're gonna you know, redo black boy, 0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:26.399 White boy too. 0:45:26.560 --> 0:45:27.640 You know what I'm saying, which. 0:45:27.680 --> 0:45:29.239 Was which was a how's he doing? 0:45:29.520 --> 0:45:31.200 He's doing pretty good, man, you know what I'm saying. 0:45:31.280 --> 0:45:33.239 Yeah, Remember he was going through his ship too, you know. 0:45:33.400 --> 0:45:37.920 Yeah, man, you know, life be lifing, But yeah, man, 0:45:38.040 --> 0:45:39.640 how you come out on top? You know what I'm saying. 0:45:39.719 --> 0:45:42.640 So all of us are we we were getting into it, man, 0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:45.839 You know the PSC drove Tip. You know, Tip killed 0:45:45.840 --> 0:45:47.480 the King on the way. You know what I'm saying, 0:45:48.160 --> 0:45:48.560 How is it? 0:45:48.800 --> 0:45:53.239 Uh? Because t I is also do a stand up now, 0:45:54.040 --> 0:45:56.680 which I think is dope because I've always wanted to 0:45:56.719 --> 0:45:57.960 try it, but I ain't got the nuts to get 0:45:58.000 --> 0:46:03.480 on stage. And but uh, it's kind of crazy, like 0:46:04.680 --> 0:46:07.640 is that something like have you have you ever considered 0:46:07.680 --> 0:46:09.359 like stepping out of the box of being an MC 0:46:09.480 --> 0:46:12.360 and doing maybe a podcast or doing some acting or 0:46:12.440 --> 0:46:13.160 just doing other ship. 0:46:13.360 --> 0:46:15.560 Man, do you want to you want to know what's crazy? Tip? 0:46:15.719 --> 0:46:18.160 And haha, mafia man. They always saying. 0:46:18.000 --> 0:46:20.120 Drou when you're gonna get on stage and do comedy. 0:46:20.480 --> 0:46:23.920 I'm just, you know, I'm just I'm just a crazy 0:46:24.000 --> 0:46:25.920 motherfucker on you know or default like you know what 0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:26.279 I'm saying. 0:46:26.320 --> 0:46:28.839 But I applaud him. 0:46:28.880 --> 0:46:29.000 Man. 0:46:29.040 --> 0:46:33.760 I remember one time we was at Madison Square Garden. 0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:38.000 We performed for Dave Chapell's birthday, and you know, and 0:46:38.080 --> 0:46:40.399 then next thing, you know, Tip did like a little 0:46:40.440 --> 0:46:41.600 set man. 0:46:41.640 --> 0:46:42.239 He killed it. 0:46:43.040 --> 0:46:45.040 Then he did some of that State Farm arena. He 0:46:45.239 --> 0:46:45.640 killed it. 0:46:46.120 --> 0:46:48.960 Like you know what I'm saying. At first, he wasn't 0:46:49.000 --> 0:46:51.680 that funny to me. But then this nigga started getting funny. 0:46:51.800 --> 0:46:52.439 You know what I'm saying. 0:46:52.560 --> 0:46:53.360 I mean it's like anything. 0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:56.360 Yeah, but like yeah, that nigga just showed like he 0:46:56.560 --> 0:46:59.839 just was like, man, I'm doing this and that ship. 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:02.239 That ship just started opening up, you know what I'm saying. 0:47:02.320 --> 0:47:04.480 So you know what I mean, whatever shot to put 0:47:04.520 --> 0:47:06.919 it ahead to like, you know, get it done. 0:47:07.000 --> 0:47:10.480 That's great, man, Look lots of new music on the way. Man. Yes, 0:47:10.600 --> 0:47:13.520 sir ski, I'm glad you came out and finally kicked it. 0:47:13.600 --> 0:47:16.839 And I heard you have a clip for me some bars? 0:47:16.880 --> 0:47:17.560 You got some bars? 0:47:18.160 --> 0:47:20.879 I don't do xanax somemore. Okay, well, oh you're talk 0:47:20.880 --> 0:47:22.680 about rap. Yeah, I thought he was trying to get 0:47:22.719 --> 0:47:24.080 me to jam. Give you some drugs. 0:47:24.760 --> 0:47:30.239 I ain't them bitches like like they're good. 0:47:30.280 --> 0:47:33.480 They wipe I'll be scared. I can't they wipe out 0:47:33.480 --> 0:47:36.040 your memory? Like you know what I'm saying. One time 0:47:36.120 --> 0:47:38.239 I slept with this ugly chick and took his in X. 0:47:38.320 --> 0:47:41.719 I forgot got. I was like, she woke up, she 0:47:41.840 --> 0:47:43.760 was like what have I I have no idea? 0:47:44.239 --> 0:47:44.920 How did you get here? 0:47:45.040 --> 0:47:46.279 How did you even get here? 0:47:46.360 --> 0:47:46.560 Yeah? 0:47:47.160 --> 0:47:47.960 You should take one. 0:47:48.120 --> 0:47:53.640 You should take one, Yo, Joe, I appreciate you. Brother. 0:47:53.680 --> 0:47:55.080 We go do a freestyle so you can check out 0:47:55.080 --> 0:47:56.080 the other YouTube video for that. Man. 0:47:56.120 --> 0:47:56.600 I appreciate it. 0:47:56.920 --> 0:47:58.480 Cool, cool, fire,