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I gotta go and get 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:40.720 it down there now. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.120 I thought we were gonna saimp throughout the throughout throughout 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:43.799 this wenna. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.080 How we're gonna se up? You don't take it the 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:47.880 third one. You gotta go and take today real quick. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.600 Just get it anybody, Okay, Then we're gonna get your 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.760 number him you know, yeah, Lee, I mean I ain't 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.079 never had nobody to do it like that. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:56.680 He said, Yeah, I ain't gonna do it like me. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.240 I ain't gonna do it like me. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:02.840 Okay, check this out. This is what I want to 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.960 get to. Thanks for stopping by the club. You're set 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:11.720 to start your first headline tour solo. Yes, sir, what's 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.840 the excitement? 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:14.960 What's going through your mind? 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.840 Because normally you're with your you're with the me goals, 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:19.359 but now you're gonna do your own thing. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.280 It's different for sure. Everything I'm super hands on with everything. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.200 I'm preparing every single day to rehearsals, eight hour rehearsals. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.799 I'm locked in. I'm really focused on the production. I 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.040 just want to make sure the production. That's my main thing. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.040 I like to make sure that my lights is on time. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.760 I smoke, it's on time. My team were on the 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.560 same page with how to performance goals because that's why 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:39.960 we put all my heart. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.680 Into So you say the production, so obviously you're a rapper, 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.960 and normally we don't really think of like production with 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.160 rap now, but that's R and B. We see Unsha 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.400 and Chris Brown, they're singing, they're dancing, But I saw 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:54.280 a little footage of you. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:55.640 You're gonna be doing a lot of that. Also. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:56.960 Yeah, I got some moves. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.560 Now, but it's I tried not to be like everybody else. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.240 I studied great, you know, James Michael, I studied great, 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.240 so and I just feel like showman ship is missing 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.000 the rap right now. So I'm just trying to up 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.520 the level so we can get back to it and 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.440 get putting the show on for the people instead of 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.080 just you know, having all the good songs be hard, 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.520 but you know, when you ain't really it ain't no 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.680 elements of your show, it's just kind of get repetitive, 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.720 and I feel like I'm trying to step out the boss. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.479 You got your start as a backup dance TLC. Whitney Houston, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.560 Bobby Brown and the music videos. How did that come about? 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.039 Did you audition? Did you know somebody that had that 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.640 were a part of the production with these these other people. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.600 Na, My mama was driving me in the car one 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.560 day in College Park and it was like a sign 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.880 and she pulled me in, and then when it was 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.760 time to go go, I just went in. I was 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.200 like eight years old, did my thing, and then they 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:51.920 I stood out and they just was asking like who 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.279 is this kid? And then we was just like we 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.440 just pulled up and I ended up making my MoMA 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.400 three hundred dollars. Man what we needed that money too? 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.480 Back then, Yeah, I felt good. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.200 Then I ain't. I ain't she she she got whoever 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:05.680 I want. But I just know, like at the end 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.760 of the day, three three hundred health. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.239 Right, So what's what's your fondest memories of that? Because 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.360 obviously you know who they are. You know TLC. That 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.480 was a local group, Whitney Houston was its biggest, the biggest, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.560 as big as you got. So what was going through 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.240 your mind? You're an eight year old kid. Your mom 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:21.960 just stopped by, like, Hey, we're gonna go in here 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.279 do your thing? Did you Did she know you could dance? 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:24.719 Yeah? 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.680 You know it's a little family thing. The whole family knew. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.120 I just was a little little dance smartfucker when I 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.880 was little, you know what I mean. The most memorable 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.479 thing I remember is just staring at with Houston. Couldn't 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.240 believe that was right there. And then Bobbie Brown came 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.800 out and he was cool and like making us laugh. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:43.000 Mike Epps was there, right, and he was funny. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.680 He was just funny. And then. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.800 It was like it was like a pimp walk that 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.200 we had to do a part of the scene and 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.400 I won, and then Barbi Bron gave me one hundred dollars. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:56.760 I remember that that was hard. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:58.520 Do you keep the hunter that you spent it? 0:05:58.640 --> 0:05:58.760 Oh? 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:04.279 That was gone. We split that now. But there was 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:05.960 this experience of just being able to see how a 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.719 video sit was ran during that time and how serious 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.960 she took her craft with you and played like with 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.320 the camera angles and everything. She was detailed and on 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.480 every single every dimension of the music video. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.279 So she was hands on. Is that why you're so 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:19.760 hands on? 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.000 Because you say, I'm handling every when the smoke's supposed 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.279 to go, the smoke's goal, exactly when it's supposed to go, 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:25.920 The camera is supposed to be here, is supposed to 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:26.120 be there. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.200 Is that why you learned to be hands on? Yes? 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.200 Like looking at the grades because I feel like back 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.640 then they didn't have the same opportunities we had, you 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.560 know what I'm saying, So all that counted for and 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.000 then just be taken take like it's art at the 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.080 end of the day. So I take it seriously and 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.960 I just want to always want to make it perfected. 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.880 You know you're a big fan of Michael Jackson. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.479 What was it about the King of Park that made 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.080 you gravitate towards him? 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.240 His work ethic first and foremost, and like his determination 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.080 to be better than what he was because you know 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.360 he was, and I just felt like it was a 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.440 it was a relevant situation, you know what I'm saying, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.320 deal with family in the group and just starting to 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.200 go on your own and to grow as an artist. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.320 And then he I just always know like in the 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.320 history him, he always challenged itself to be better and 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:13.200 bigger and stronger and just taking the art to another 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.080 level where most people be scared. Like that's like the 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.600 production of my shows. Like I feel like a lot 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.320 of artists were rappers. I ain't gonna really do that 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.280 because they might not think it's the coolest thing to do, 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.360 But I'm trying to take it to the next level. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.280 So you're willing to take risk in your music career 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.680 at this stage of your career. Would you have been 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.160 willing to take these risks earlier in your career had 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.600 you not been established like you are now, Were you been. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.960 Willing to take those type of risks. I don't think so, 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.720 because I had not doved so far into myself yet 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.000 and believed in myself. When I first came into it, 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.800 it was just like I'm living a dream kind of 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.360 and I ain't really I took it serious, but I 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.800 start as I got older and went through the game, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.840 I started paying more attention to details and learning the 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.600 art of things. That what made me stand out. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:02.880 You reacted to Thriller in the Smooth Criminal in one 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.360 of your music videos. Did you I mean, did you 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:11.120 understand that? Like the craftsmanship Michael videos? Uh, smooth Criminal, 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.520 the one? What's the one he did with with Janet 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.120 his sister that was way way ahead of his time? 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.720 Right? Is that what made you like? Man? You know what? 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.720 I really want to I kind of I like him. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.800 I'm a different you know, I'm different. He's pop, You're 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.640 like rap. Is that what made you like really get 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.320 into the music or did you always know you wanted 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:36.280 to do you always. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.200 Want to do music? It was like and then I'm 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.680 from Atlanta, so you know, like Gushi and it was 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.679 a big business. It was a big motivation of that too, 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.400 to keep really like But as far as performance entertainment, yes, 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.520 looking at him and like, shoot my own videos because 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.960 I directed all those videos. You're saying to dive into 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.080 that in the film part aspect of it, to put 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.560 the film mixed with the music. I wanted to. I 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.480 wanted to get into that. And I look to him 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.240 as as that because if you do the same thing 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.160 he's saying, like thriller back in the time, Like the 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.080 money he even spent to make the video, there wasn't 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.000 a normal thing, no, And then I don't even think 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.319 they were showing black artists on MTV yet like that. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.520 So for him to change the game, and then they 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.319 opened the doors for everybody, that's all I'm trying to 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:16.240 do for this generation. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.000 They showed him, but it was like at midnight, one 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.839 o'clock in the morning, where everybody was going to bed. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:21.280 That's where you had to watch him. So if you 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.080 didn stay up there, then it was old. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:23.880 It was old. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.120 He wasn't getting no pride time watch it. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.839 So I'm you got a Michael Jackson tattoo, So bro, 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.840 I mean Michael was at Look, I'm olderough to remember 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.800 Mike when he was with the Jackson five And just 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.120 watch him transition to do off the wall, his own 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.080 thing and then here comes Thriller, and then Bad and 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.480 so forth and so on. So was your family did 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.600 your mom listen to Michael Jackson? Who listened to Michael 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.960 Jackson and you're like, man, this dude got my mama. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.080 Then when I was like four years old, actually, my uncle, 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.840 my uncle Darry and my uncle Vaughan, they had like 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.559 it was around Halloween and they put me in the 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.719 room all dark. I was like four years old. So 0:09:58.720 --> 0:09:59.800 I got put on the mike when I was four 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.320 years and he was playing Thriller and when when I 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:03.640 came in there, I was trying to do what he 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.600 was doing. It didn't scare me. And then ever since then, 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.400 like my mama and my grandmother, they always play his 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.120 music around right. And then I remember when I was 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.880 probably like ten or nine, I got The Moonwalker. I 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.480 got to know, I got The American Dream on the 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:21.199 v vhs and I used to have back then. I 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.600 got a picture that I posted before. It's like I 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.400 had a little TV maybe like ten ten inch twelve 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.360 inch and they were sitting on like three books and 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:30.720 that movie was playing on the back of it. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.000 So, yeah, because you react, didn't you re enact one 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.440 of his his the three I think it was thriller, 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:37.440 smooth Criminal Criminal. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.600 Yeah, and they actually, I can say this, they actually 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.960 they actually green light and brought me the actual clothes 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.120 that he wore for Smooth Criminal. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:45.319 The family really. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.840 Yeah, So because I wanted to connect with them too, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.880 because I wanted to pay respects too. I ain't want 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.080 to seem like I was just like mimicking, because I 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.440 was just inspired by it, and so I did reach 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.200 out to the family. I don't want the name and stuff, 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.280 because I know they're very private. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:00.120 Respect that. 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:01.560 But yeah, I'm tired. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.720 That's that's what's up. I'm looking at you, and you're 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.480 making the transition. And we saw a lot of the greats. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.240 We see Michael within a group, Jackson five transition away, 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.760 we see justin Timberlake and Sink transition away. We see 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.080 Robbie Brown, so forth and so on. Is that the 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:20.560 direction that off set's head again? 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.199 I'm just trying to be the better me, you know 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:23.560 what I mean, Just trying to be the best men 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.679 to get to the highest level that I can get to. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.960 And I started, you know, I started, I was grown, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.240 I'm growing up, and I wanted to get my business 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.199 in order and to understand the business, so I wouldn't 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:36.800 be tricked or nothing like that, or be lost in 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.640 the lost in the sauce on what's really going on? 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:40.679 And like I just dove into me. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.440 So do you did you? Did you talk to end 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:45.760 of these? 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.280 I mean, obviously Beyonce probably you know, she started was 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.800 in the group Destiny's Child. Now she's solo, So it's 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.839 Kelly Rowland. Have you talked to end of these people 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.640 that started in the group and branched out and kind 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:58.840 of do their own go solo? 0:11:58.920 --> 0:11:59.079 Now? 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.319 Have you talked to anybody or you just like, Hey, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.440 this is what I want, this is my career. I 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.120 think I know the direction that I want to head 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.360 in and this is what I'm gonna do. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.000 No, I never talked to nobody that might be a 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.920 good idea, though, I ain't never talked to nobody about 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:11.280 it though. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.520 Though just with the decision within myself, you know what 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:14.239 I'm saying. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.760 And you felt that this was at this time, at 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.360 this time, what's the best the best thing for Yeah, I'm. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:20.920 Just building my foundation when I'm playing my seed. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.760 So what's your take? I mean, obviously Atlanta and there 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.520 are a lot of great groups. You know, you got 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.760 goodie mob, you got out casts, you know the me goals, 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.640 you got a lot of Where would. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.120 You rank, Where would you rank your group? 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.560 Even if you want to do just Atlanta groups, or 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.880 you want to do nw you want to do NWA, 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:39.800 whatever the case you may be. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.600 If I do just Atlanta, I'll give us two because 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.720 I'm respectful. We got you gotta respect outcast. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:46.719 Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.040 They kicked the dough down for us down south. I 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.480 mean when it was a time where we won't even 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.240 accept it. Then if you look at Dre the way 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.560 he was able to like change his whole fashion sense 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.920 and change his whole look and still be cool with 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.040 the same people in hood that he grew up with 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.040 in Atlanta, that mean a lot to me. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.439 Because you got outcast Wu tang n w A run 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.440 down we go, now we go all the way. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.760 I'm still gonna stay too, because I'm gonna put our 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.320 cast first. I'm gonna put us to i'nna put Wo 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:20.760 tang rap groups locks. I get them for man, what 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.360 you you you you put n W A way down there. 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.679 I respect n W A and they keep the gates. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.320 They kids the gate. They kicked the gates off, and 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.240 like everybody, everybody in that situation still got some type 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.240 of emotion right now that's still here. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:38.079 And but. 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.920 I'm young too, you know what I mean, So. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.920 You really don't remember a whole lot about n w 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:48.520 A a whole lot definitely don't remember run dmc no 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:53.760 for shure, that's my but but I do pay respects. 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:55.959 I ain't no, I ain't no, like no young head. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:57.600 That's like not knowing what's going on. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.760 They kick them those down for us, even KRS one, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.360 like they kicked the those down for us when they 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.680 they made it gave us an opportunity to be here 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.480 where we at right now. So you gotta always pay 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:07.000 the spell now. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.440 Man Off said, it was really good to see you 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.959 in Quavo perform at the BT Awards in honor of 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.240 a take off. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:17.800 What was that moment like for you? 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.640 The moment was special, man. It gave me the cheers, 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.560 It gave me like a boost of life. I spoke 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.400 about it before just cause like a lot of these 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.560 people being away of stuff and don't really be knowing 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.240 what's going on with family, you know what I mean. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.440 And family go through us and downs at the end 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:34.800 of the day. 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.040 When you can get bad with your family and stand 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.880 there and represent the family to the world, it's the 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:40.800 best feeling in the world. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.520 It was reporting that Pharreal convince you to do it. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.320 Was this something that had you had you and Quabo 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.920 actually spoke about possibly doing something together and would you 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:52.920 collab with him in the future. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.680 We had yeah, we had sort the answer first question. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.160 We had spoke about it. And then the closer it 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:02.280 got to I was in Paris Profashion Week, and so 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.120 the time the time we had to, I had to. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.080 I had to. I had to leave that same night, 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.520 and luckily God God will and we was able to 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.160 find a flight that same night to get it give 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:13.960 me up out of there. But I just it wasn't 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.720 a thing where I didn't want to do it. It 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:17.000 was a thing where I was all the way in 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.560 Paris and and it's all the way in l A 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.160 and I'm right, I'm gonna make that work. And it 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:26.400 was like the planning of it was a little we 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.720 made it happen like me and made that happen right. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.320 What you got needed that, we needed that, We needed 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.400 that for each other's and just just just for the 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.320 peace and for the world. Because one thing about even 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.680 though I'm going I'm doing my solo thing, I still 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.600 understand my core Ba saying, I still understand that I'm 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.920 a migo the end of the day, like that's where 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.120 it comes from, That's where that's where my roots is, 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.280 my roots stay, and I'll never turned my back on it. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.560 So is there is there a chance that you and 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.960 got you and Quaba could do a project again together? 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:56.080 It's possible. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.920 I read we take Off. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.080 Was really a funny guy, fun to be around, fun loving. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:06.200 Is there any funny stories you'd like to share about it? Did? 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:07.360 You can share it with us? 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.880 Funny stories that I could shall with y'all. I only 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.160 want to show my little jewels. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:17.680 Uh. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.440 Yeah, We was making bando a long time ago. We 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.040 was living on the North Side at Mama house. We 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.040 used to have a we had we had took the 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.160 you know, the match from from high school, from school, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.120 the little blue, little thick match. Yeah, we had took 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.280 that and nailed it to a closet. And when we 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.000 was making bando, I wasn't so confident as a rapper yet, 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:36.520 you know what I mean, because you know, they was 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.440 giving me the game and teaching me how to do stuff. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.680 And then I mean when Tate came in there, he 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.800 did that, he did the he did the he did 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.080 the Migo flow first the first time I evere we 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.720 ever seen it, and then he was teaching me. And 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.840 then when we was teaching me, I couldn't I couldn't 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:53.800 get it off my tongue and it was just we 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.440