WEBVTT - Nick Young 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:11.119 R and B Money. We are, thank Jake Valentine. We 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:20.800 are the authority on all things R and B. Ladies 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.400 and gentlemen, what's going on. This is the Army Money Podcast, 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.480 the authority on R and B. I am tank. This 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:31.000 is Mr Jake Valentine and then the Hot Seat Call 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:40.559 Day and Swaggy Feet anything. Gentlemen. It's so good to 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:47.199 hav him here. I know his name Swaggy, So Swaggy 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.080 is swag Where'd you get Swaggy? Because you always got 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.600 you know, you've got different fabrics, different guy you know 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.200 me and got talking like that when I was coming 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.040 into this world where y'all you know, where y'all live, 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:05.360 gods that gonna make you specifically for you know, the 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:09.399 style purposes of the world. So that's why gifts. I'm 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:14.399 a gift for y'all. Okay, yeah, definitely for me, but 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:19.080 I accept what you're gonna turn it down. I'm doing 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:26.200 existed style. You know, here's it, here's it. Here's the 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.840 real question. Though, before you had a couple of dollars 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.880 where you Swaggy that's a whole another. Yeah, I mean, 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.720 you know, always have something, you know, we can find someone, 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.479 we can pull up on your original house, go through 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.760 the original photos. Who is this? You could be different 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.520 styles back then, white teams that hadn't caught that much. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.480 You know, you gotta ask my shoes back then. Yeah, 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.560 so you got you were swaggy as a kid. Yeah 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:58.880 did they call you swaggy? Are you just playing with 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.400 us right now? They didn't call me sway, But when 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.160 they started calling you swacky, did you start calling yourself? 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.320 I started calling myself okay, just because you know, as 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.440 a kid, you know my mom, I didn't like the 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.600 way my mom dressed me, so she said she would 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.960 tell you this. You know, one day she dressed me 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.480 in like a cracking down outfit and kinder garten people 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.320 cracking jokes at me, and I never let her pick 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.600 my outh and sit. So you know, that's that's where 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.640 this came from. And you've been in your back since five? Yeah, yeah, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.359 that's what I do. So what is your rhythm? Rhythm? Yeah? 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.720 What is your rhythm? What is your you know, you 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:38.120 know the RB Money podcast throwing Harby metaphors when you 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.359 when you're looking at something like when you either because 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:46.040 you have your own that you mad or shout it, 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.760 or if you're going through a rack of something. What 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.679 are you looking for? Are you looking at something that's 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.680 completely different or completely off the wall? Are you looking 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.800 for a certain texture that just in Japan. It depends 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.240 on my mood, you know. Some days I feel calm, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.120 something like you're giving me a lot of a lot 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.880 of goldie, right, Yeah, it depends on the mood. You know. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:07.519 You know he knows when he in the president of 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.359 players I'm about you know, when he in the pressent 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:19.240 he tipped to the side of baby. You know it 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:23.399 makes me feel good. It makes me feel good, Baby, 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:30.639 I will because yeah, because I do. I do sometimes 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.720 when you feel like, you know, I'm killing with my 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.480 chest out, that's why you threw that over. Yeah, you know, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.240 I don't mind having a nip slip for the latest. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.560 You know what I'm saying. You look cute. You're a 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:48.920 slight preview your Faemily my man. But I think it's 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.080 like because I've seen a batter time and nothing like 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.960 that though something don't talk away. I'm trying to get away. Yeah, 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:59.920 I mean here could always say the same ship that's perfect, 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:09.560 everything the same, It's the same, curl. I don't like 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.440 you said earlier, straight from the wound. He got that 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.480 from the womb, just an end. But I gotta deal 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:24.720 there wound. Gotta deal there wound. So so when did 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:31.240 when did you know that you had a gift too? 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.720 Who when did you know? Like, I know you was 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:39.000 outside at the park doing your things, practicing in the rain, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:45.200 all of those moments. But when did you know? Oh? Probably, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.279 I don't know. When I was younger, I know I 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.200 noticed I could do like if I see something, I 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:52.640 would go out there and do it. You know, if 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.200 I see something, I'll go out there and try and 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.080 it will come easy for me. But all my brothers played, 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:01.039 So I was at the park twenty seven, so my 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.320 brother next to me end up going overseas. Brother before 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.240 him went up going overseas. So I was always around basketball. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.039 So could you could you beat your brother? When did you? 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.680 When was the first time you beat your brother? When 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:18.440 like like a real accompany this? No, I know your brother? 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:29.240 Yeah it took me. Yeah, Well I didn't really beat him. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.479 I just knew I could beat him, so I let 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.200 him beat me, and I just never played him like that. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.960 It can't you know. I wanted him to feel that, 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.080 you know, keep that, you know, that feeling big brother. Yeah, 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.840 the big brother feeling. It was easy because I was like, 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.600 this is could I let him? I mean Bob had 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.360 a fight, Yeah, my brother four fight something different. I 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.840 figured like when when he figured out, not even when 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.799 I figured out when he figured out, like, oh, sneaker 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:01.000 get me somehow I got slammed then not fired. Only 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.599 mean this is like, yeah, he never tested me since 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.120 the like he knew it, and I was like we 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.520 both knew it was like it was I was here. Yeah, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.960 and then like we had players like cetera, Bottles will 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.560 come to our parks, and one day I dunked on 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.880 in front of everybody. They're sideboy, you know, a little 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.479 bar right there as a teenager though as a teenager 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.640 in high school. Yeah, he in the league at that 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.520 time or he was like fresh out of the league 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.839 on the type of thing. Fresh shout, Yeah, fresh shout. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:36.680 That's something to go on and talk about. So you 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:41.520 grew up a right, okay, because a lot of people 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:45.280 think like the valley because the high school in the valley, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.600 so kind of give us the story of that. Um well, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.159 going to raised in West of A. I went to 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:56.240 Hamilton High all the way to high school kicked out 0:06:56.279 --> 0:07:00.560 my freshman YEARY transferred to Dorsey. I mean I got 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.039 kicked out and went to Dorsey because and I wasn't 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:05.839 going to Dorsey. That was in the jungle. That just 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:07.880 wasn't for me, you know. So I didn't go there 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.880 at all. Moms found out one day she went up 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.160 there looking for me. They said, he ain't checked into 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:21.520 the school since at all. Okay, good, So moms didn't 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.920 really understand the politics. No she didn't. She didn't. She did, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:26.840 because that's the whole thing that a lot of people 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.280 don't understand about l A and itself. Like, you got 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:34.200 to be cautious of the school, you go to, the 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.040 blocks you walking down. They want to know where your 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.440 grandmama stay. Y'all the kings of that were your grandmama stay. 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.040 Like when when Kidrick said that on that album, I 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.800 was like, I've heard that before. I ain't from here. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.480 I'm not even I don't I'm staying the baby, what 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.800 are you talking about? So, yeah, you all the kings 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.160 of that. My first day there, I got, I went 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.160 my first day banged on me. They're like they try 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:59.760 to trick me, Like I don't know. They're like what's 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.920 up cool and all that. No, it's a whole blood school. Yeah. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.520 Then they finally asked me around front. I just they 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.480 knew a neighborhood I stayed in and everything grew up 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.640 in West So that's a majority of Criptini. It wasn't safe. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:20.320 Dose she didn't, but she kind of could. Well. She 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.240 was like I'm saying, my ba. She sent me to 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.440 school because she thought I was gonna play basketball and 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.520 they had a good basketball program. But I wasn't like 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.200 known at the time like that. So you were so 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.760 in l A. You're not a known basketball player yet. No, 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.199 just in my neighborhood was good. But have you grown 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:38.960 yet or did you get Are you one of them? 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:44.960 Anthony Davis and go from six to speak probably six 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.200 one and my freshman year. But I was just I 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:53.400 didn't like school really so and then one day Adrian, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.600 Adrian fat boy, he was driven to the basketball and 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.520 he said at the bus stop and a traveling team, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.800 I mean traveling coach pull them over and said, do 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:08.840 you know any players put my traveling to crazy? All right, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:14.400 shout out my boy. I go by another name of it. 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:19.880 But I can't say yeah. I can't say drake me too, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.600 that's my dog. So they pull up all Adrian, yeah accellently, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.600 don't know any Hoopers and he said yeah. So he 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.440 took me to these triouts and then I killed that 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.679 and then they introduced me to the coach at Cleveland 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:41.160 Hard and then it's it's the rap after that. That's crazy. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.120 And when you come to the valley, what they busting 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.040 you every day? They busted me, but it was like 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.240 a whole different atmosphere. I think I needed to see. Yeah, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.319 there was more hands on. They made sure I was 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.960 in class and everything so and I could mess up, 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.760 yeah for sure. So they were just busting you. Yeah, 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.920 you the bus by yourself. So it wasn't like ice 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.960 Cube and the w a movie where it was like 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:10.640 other kids and they brought up it's just swagging. That's 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:34.480 all I see right now, And that ain't right. That's 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.440 just what this by your what sophomore year? Yeah, this 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.280 is going into my junior year. So I'm gonna tell 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.360 you a funny story, right. I come to l A 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.679 fresh out of high school. Um hiever, you want to say, 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.319 out of high school. But I wasn't there no more, right, 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:59.560 So I bowed l a whatever, relaxed. So I'm in 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.199 l A and I'm in the Valley. First place. I 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.120 come at the Valley because a lot of music different, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:11.040 you know, producers, all of Michael Jackonson and singing due yeah, yeah, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.520 you know you know what I mean. We'll get to that. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:23.760 So man, So when I get here, you know, I 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.200 had hoop back home and I still was active. I'm 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:31.520 still hoping. And I remember maybe years, year two after 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.439 being here, you know, I had found, you know, different 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.800 littlehigh school games to go to, like just standing in 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.559 the mix, going by Valley College, all a little shit, 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.280 just hoping. And I'm here one day, Bro, I think 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:46.319 of my Vale bull wreck and niggas is like, bro, 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:52.439 you gotta see this young nigga. I'm like, who, I've 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.640 saw mostly all the young all the young cats coming 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.800 through that that can who By that time, like I said, 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.800 I had seen Gilbert already, I've seen something like who 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.520 are you talking about? And like, man, it's a young 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:11.840 nigga with a funked up atro go to Cleveland High? 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.520 Like Cleveland High? Where is that? I think I have 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.160 been here for however long at that point, but I've 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.480 never heard of that school. I never heard that definitely, definitely. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.480 I don't know basketball at bit man. So my brother like, 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.480 I think my brother had maybe already saw a game 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.720 two of you somewhere, but he was like, we gotta 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.760 go early. I get to the gym. I think you 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:41.400 can't park. When I say this nigger in his bad hair, 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:47.480 dude Afro was so cold and athletic. Yeah, I'm like, 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.600 because now obviously people know you as you shoot the 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.040 three and who shot the three and turned around and 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:57.560 then go in. But you shot that whole with a 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.360 whole bunch of confidence. Now you forever me right right, 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.760 But people know you as a sharp shooter. They don't 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:10.960 know the young nick young with the dumb bounce. I 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.800 was like this young nigger and I remember I was like, 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.720 here pro, same thing I said when I saw Gil. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.720 I was like, that's all I heard. I was like, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:26.080 they pro like he's a pro. And it was like, oh, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.240 this game kind of it's kind of, it ain't really 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.320 it's wrong. Everything I'm saying, you already know you probably hurt. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.719 Everybody was saying all the same show. I was like, man, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.520 that nigga pro put on a full shoulder and I 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.160 mean that was crazy though, And that was the first 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.400 time I saw you play the way. Yeah, I mean 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:50.680 you know you play. Yeah, we tag with the football player, 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:58.280 break it down. Even waiting with this, waiting for an 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:07.320 athlete to come on this show, talk is talking ship. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:14.880 You got a bag, you know, starting fullback, rol taking tailback, quarterback, kicker, 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.120 kicker yeah, wait, wait wait, I gotta put to So 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.240 I was scoring a touchdown and kicked extra point. That's 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:25.440 just the type of shot out and then getting no looks. Damn. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:32.160 I got some college okay, music scholarship instead and the 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.200 music coll ship too. All right, morning stacks. You the 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.360 only thing that's called on what you do? Man? I 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.560 thought you just started singing around the neighborhood. You know, 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:45.280 I got about singing change. It came out the wound 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:53.080 out the wound at at a Christian Union, Missionary Baptist church, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:59.080 something you might not not never know nothing about. By 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.560 the first time that a little bit, you know, my 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:07.920 community that was busy throwing up track did at the 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:16.560 black my past. It sounded like a gang something you're 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.360 doing it. But no, I thought I could play basketball 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.960 because I was athletic. So I had my first dunk 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.320 in the game and that's eighth grade. Damn. So I 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:30.200 was always buff, was always know I was. Actually I 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:35.480 grew longest long as I'm supposed to be six four. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.000 Where you stopped at that's a sore spot for I 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:47.160 don't know where you stopping at five level. Yeah, that's 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.800 that's what the people that did my assurance say. The 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.000 people that did my assurance, it's not it's like five 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.200 ten and some change, but five eleven feels great. When 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.960 you said it, it felt like it was there. It 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.000 meant the world to me. So I always stay there. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:03.920 It was the old way they used to do hiding 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:16.440 the NBA. Be like three quarters Dante Joe, I mean 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:21.000 all the time, ain't no six six Dante, don't take 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:26.960 a six sex he's six six because six seven, So 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:31.280 like U six seven, six six and last six six 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:37.680 and three quarters. So I rounded off to the I stopped. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.160 I stopped growing early. Um I didn't know why earlier, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.760 but that's neither here nor there. But um so I 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.200 thought I was gonna ready be somebody, and then I 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:55.240 stopped growing. I can still flying was way bigger than me. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.560 So I was like, football is gonna be my thing. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.760 That's my first love and then I took my music scholarship. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.720 They wanted me to turn the English and math homework out. 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:09.080 Yeah you want to know english and math for what? 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:14.320 But dropped out left college? Hey yeah, I was there 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:15.920 for two months. I was like, y'all want one. It 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:21.480 was like, I'm not doing this just but nobody. He 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.640 didn't make you didn't make a grading period at all. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.720 That was dope, do man. I went to I said, 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.600 I'm gonna just write songs and figure it out. Hopefully 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.560 I figured it out. I mean when he went he 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.480 went to the USC, so we know he didn't do 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.960 no work. He was tough boy. Yeah, it was. It 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.520 was tough. Tough? Was it? What was what was tough 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.639 about it? A little insight? Yeah, I would. I was like, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.520 you have to do an unca. It was just a 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.720 lot of work, man, Yeah, a lot of work. That 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.040 call I called it to when they walked by. I 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:57.040 called it work when they talked to it. It's a 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.440 lot of working, hey man. It was man, man, there's 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.080 a lot of work there. All right. I want so 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.360 when you making first album again? I remember in high 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.760 school was banking jo. I used to love one song 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.840 play for the girl caking ice cream. I used to 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:19.400 play cake and ice cream? Yeah, high school. It's crazy 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.520 you played Cake and ice two two is when that 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.760 album came out. Cake and ice Cream. That's my I'm 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.840 singing on this song as my ex wife, her sister, 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.479 and the other girl that was in their group. So 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:37.720 they're really caking ice game and I'm singing about a threesome. Man. Man, 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.320 when you say it like that right now, don't sound right. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.440 When we were just making the song, we just being creative, y'all, 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.280 just having good time, just having a good time, so 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:56.040 this it would be right. So college, how was that experience? 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.639 That's a big change a little bit talking about the 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.959 college on No, we were just talking about kicking ice cream. 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.040 He was in high school. Now let's go college. You 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.639 when you said it was hard work at that was 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:25.320 like ancondemn probation ship. No, not you. I was trying 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:32.320 to leave. When did you declare my junior year? Are 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.120 you stay three years? I was trying to stay too. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.680 I tried to leave my second year, but there I said. 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.720 It wasn't it wasn't looking good for me. It's gonna 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.200 be undrafted. Yeah, I probably it wasn't a second round. 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:51.119 I wondered, like I was scared. Letn't know all this workout, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.359 build up shot golden, just go fall to the second 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.399 round and try hard. But they said I could be 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.760 like a for sure first round pick next year. Come 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.879 back then it wasn't like the winning goals, and uh, 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.920 well we did. That's when Katie started the whole little 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:11.400 one and one and the little things with Katie. You know, yeah, 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:16.800 and what do you do? I went sixteen? Did anybody 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.719 promise you before that? Man? Because how does that tell 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.320 us that process, how that ship goes, because opposed to 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.520 go like when they go off your record here yea 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:28.879 most of the time if they called back, Yeah, I 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.399 was supposed to go like twelve to the Clippers, okay, 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.600 And then I was supposed to go. They said if 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.280 I didn't go twill, they guaranteed me thirteen. But two 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.600 people failed that they had twelve and thirteen. They had 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.640 twelve in New Orleans had thirteen, okay, but two people 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:47.679 failed that they didn't think was gonna fall that far, okay, 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:50.960 and they picked picked them. I was sitting there mad 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.760 because I didn't. I wanted to be in l A forever, 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.159 you know, the first time about to leave l A, 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.159 go to some city, end up going to d C 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:03.600 with Gil and you know how that works out. Yeah, 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.920 I was from I was raised there d C. It's 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.080 all right DC, alright, Like I think more people that 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:13.879 ain't from there, we like that's from they be like, man, 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:22.119 it's it's tough, yeah, V. So it's still crazy. It 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:25.800 was still crazy out there, like looking at d C, 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.320 like when you came to d C, Like what they 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:31.480 did to d C is completely it's something else. But 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:34.760 when we was raised, they were just parts of d C. 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:52.639 You didn't go to I didn't want to drive. You 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:54.639 know what I'm saying. Wh y'all came to d C 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:57.720 like they had built it up, got the m C 0:21:57.880 --> 0:21:59.440 I and all the whole little thing, and you know 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:01.520 what I'm saying that now it's like it's like a 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.960 real thing to be in d C hang out. So 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.159 now when I go to d C, I'm like, this 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.680 is really cool, but it's it really trips me out 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:15.440 to see to see white people walking their dogs. Yeah, 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:17.160 I still have those moments, you know what I'm saying, 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:23.399 Like at that term that completely all trapped. Don't they 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:27.440 jogging when they're dog? Francis for sure. For us, it's 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:30.359 more so one of those things where it's hidden because 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.520 it's a tourist city. Right, So you don't know about 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:35.800 Hunter's Point, you don't know about Sunny There, you don't 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:38.840 know about these areas hill More, you don't know about it. 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:42.000 They like what they call Western addition is what we 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:44.920 call film on my neighborhood. You know, slam the whole 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:48.000 You know that that whole thing that was known for 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:50.160 the you know PIVN and Owin and the street ship, 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:56.840 but you would never know that a Strode definitely, that 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:02.320 still strong, still strong still. But for us, they've kept 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.280 it as low as possible that you just don't know 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:07.760 what's there, you know what I mean, Because it's like, man, 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:10.080 this city is so small. Yeah, we can't say what 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.639 you are these niggas here, what these niggas on? You 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:15.920 know what I'm saying. So, but you go there and 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:21.479 gilds your That's so, did y'all know each other from 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:23.040 the valley or y'all didn't know each other at all? 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:24.840 Because I know you said you had heard of it. Yeah, 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:26.400 I heard of him, but because I think it Gil 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:29.679 was a legendar here. Yeah, I remember playing against his school, 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:32.119 and I just felt like I had to kill his 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:37.080 school because everybody like even it's like Gil with here 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:41.520 and this is Grant. You couldn't do what Gil dude us. Yeah, 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:45.280 it was a week that I had like party like 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:51.359 forty five or something. There's nothing, there's nothing. But they 0:23:51.359 --> 0:23:53.760 didn't have him. They wasn't like it wasn't getting nobody 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:57.040 like Gil there. So it don't matter. We won part 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:02.680 like forty five forty five. That's how we said. Um 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:04.800 so so you get to d C. You don't really 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:07.040 know each other like that. But he was the first 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:10.000 one to call me and welcome me in. And he 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:12.159 had like two cribs out there, so he let me 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:16.639 stay in one of them, two cribs literally up the 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:19.440 street from each other, because he said that's what was 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:22.560 was this girl at the time. Man, I guess she 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:25.200 had moved in with him or something. Okay, I'm not sure, 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:28.000 but yeah, I was staying in a big gass house 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:34.040 free you know whatever. Poor m p. You know, I mean, 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:36.719 let me, let me, let's get this because because uh 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:39.600 because girl, lets you stand up free matching. Because it 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:44.800 came with a lot of craziness. If I would have 0:24:44.880 --> 0:24:53.879 known nuck check, cheers age that, cheers and gild you 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:56.639 stay in a free match, no matter what came A 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:04.720 get there, so you'll let you stay in the freematching. 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:08.520 But he still got kids to yoh yeah, of course. 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:13.520 And we know the type of arenas is. So how 0:25:13.760 --> 0:25:16.280 was that your your rookie years? I ain't allowed my 0:25:16.440 --> 0:25:18.600 first time going out, Gil, and it took me out. 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:23.000 Bill took me out. He I guess he knew the 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:25.720 chick or whatever. I guess it was like he set 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:27.320 the chick up to trying to talk to me and 0:25:27.400 --> 0:25:29.960 something like that. He tells his story to everybody, won't 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:32.560 let nobody let this story down. So I get there 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:34.600 my first night in d C on club and I'll see, 0:25:34.680 --> 0:25:36.920 I'm like, damn, this chick on me. I didn't know 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:41.520 Gill already set it up, you know, damn sometime to 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:48.800 take her home and ship right right, yeah, like I'm young, 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:53.800 I'm doing some bullshit, allows down. They're cuffed in the club, strang. 0:25:54.240 --> 0:26:00.240 You know the song was out to I don't know 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:06.960 that Bush. I was doing too much. So um yeah, 0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:10.399 so Gil, you know if you get home and everything 0:26:10.520 --> 0:26:12.879 after the club, girl, like man, you're doing too much 0:26:12.920 --> 0:26:15.120 with this. You're doing too much menire kissing the ship 0:26:15.200 --> 0:26:18.840