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Speaker 3: And right now when we're talking about legend, talking about
Speaker 3: international legend, to talking about you know.
Speaker 1: The boy got his own money the real life coming
Speaker 1: to America.
Speaker 3: I mean, the man, you know is born into wealth
Speaker 3: but came back and we're grinded, grinning, got his own money,
Speaker 3: said I'm gonna do it on my own. But I
Speaker 3: didn't know he went he was born in Atlanta, Holy shit,
Speaker 3: didn't grint back and then came back and went to Alabama.
Speaker 1: Holy Holy The man is a legend.
Speaker 3: First time I heard the name afrobeats, his name was
Speaker 3: attached to it. And now this has become one of
Speaker 3: the biggest genres of music there ever is. So in
Speaker 3: case you don't know what the fuck we're talking about,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say his name three different times, DAVIDO.
Speaker 1: And now let's talk about you selling weed in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Go right to it. I love that.
Speaker 3: I loved the fact that because there was other afrobeat
Speaker 3: artists that was coming to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You lived in Atlanta at the time, and you was
Speaker 1: was you was picking up?
Speaker 4: So I was like, I was basically to go to guys.
Speaker 1: I was young.
Speaker 4: I was really young, and I was like fifteen sixteen, right. Well,
Speaker 4: you'll see at that time, I had a close cousin
Speaker 4: of mine that used to work for the biggest artists
Speaker 4: at that time. His name was the Bunch, so he
Speaker 4: used to have it used to be like his hype man.
Speaker 4: So anytime they fly in for international shoes, I pull up,
Speaker 4: pick them up again, we take take them out at sixteen.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Take them out, put them
Speaker 4: in you know hotels.
Speaker 1: What club was popping in Atlanta at that time?
Speaker 4: No time was this club called Club, Miami Club Miami
Speaker 4: and Ata. Well apart from that, you know, I also,
Speaker 4: you know, will take them to the Strip Club. And
Speaker 4: this was one of the defining movements that really made
Speaker 4: me like, damn, I think I want to do this music.
Speaker 4: So I took him to the Strip Club and I've
Speaker 4: never seen that much money, being like yeah, So I
Speaker 4: took them to the Strip Club. We sat down and
Speaker 4: then he told this at the time his manager, and
Speaker 4: the manager told me, like, Yo, trying to change twenty thousand.
Speaker 4: I'm like, is the music money Nigeria crazy? I left
Speaker 4: for like two years, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I like about mine.
Speaker 4: I time back and forth, so I don't know what's
Speaker 4: going on back home, you know what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 4: visited Nigeria for Christmas and.
Speaker 2: Then I saw that, So these were Nigerian artists that
Speaker 2: were throwing this money around. Yes, that came, they had
Speaker 2: a show, So you were surprised about them throwing this money, Yes,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So that was one of the things I was like, Yo,
Speaker 4: I think I want to do this, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So I want to get back to that.
Speaker 3: But what I find very interesting is you was in
Speaker 3: like the blackest state in the world, in the whitest state.
Speaker 4: Funny enough, the first place because my dad, my dad's
Speaker 4: like a big chrisp.
Speaker 1: Like heavy on really religion, right, so that's the Bible.
Speaker 1: Be's there.
Speaker 4: We seven Day Inventors, so we go to church day
Speaker 4: and they have like inter schools, universities, so every time
Speaker 4: we like, you go to school, anytime I went to
Speaker 4: the university, must be a Christian university. So the first
Speaker 4: place he sent me to was Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: So I'm going straight from Legos, Nigeria. Wow, straight Chattanooga.
Speaker 4: And yeah, and then it was like predominantly like white school.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I don't think they were
Speaker 4: up to twenty black people in the whole community.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: So I couldn't really you know, I wasn't really comfortable
Speaker 4: that because I'm coming straight from Africa. So he's like, okay,
Speaker 4: your sister, because my sister went to the same school.
Speaker 4: Your sister went to his school in Alabama, I'm good
Speaker 4: to call uncle.
Speaker 1: Was it awkward? Okay, I'm good to call your uncle
Speaker 1: to drive you there, see if you like it.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, all right, cool, driving to awkward as
Speaker 4: soon as I get down the car. So we walk
Speaker 4: in into like the registration where registered for school. Two
Speaker 4: dreadheads just passing small like weed.
Speaker 1: I'm like, like, it's not this bad, It's not like
Speaker 1: it's this is why I want school.
Speaker 4: I registered from the school and then then it was
Speaker 4: like it's an ENCU right next door with Alabama A
Speaker 4: and m wow, I'm saying. So from there I met
Speaker 4: these Jamaicans and it was a rap.
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy?
Speaker 3: Us wouldn't even know that there's black people were in Alabama.
Speaker 3: I mean, of course we knowed black people in Alabama,
Speaker 3: but you wouldn't. You wouldn't understands the h we see
Speaker 3: you even when.
Speaker 4: I didn't think of it. I'm coming straight dude from Lego.
Speaker 4: So even like getting to school, I remember being asked
Speaker 4: questions like how did you get here?
Speaker 1: Like you guys because people I know, especially then the social.
Speaker 4: Media know black, so they know that okay, it's lit
Speaker 4: out there, but like then there was no social media
Speaker 4: to shoot anything, so it was like confusing to them.
Speaker 3: But so there's like like how you got out here?
Speaker 3: They thought they thought like like you took a camera.
Speaker 2: It was like.
Speaker 1: Only they knew.
Speaker 4: So, you know, that is interesting to see, like a
Speaker 4: different difference in like that time, this period of time
Speaker 4: when when you tell any oh I'm not yet, Oh
Speaker 4: I love not yet.
Speaker 1: So that was lovely to see.
Speaker 4: But that's experience helped me a lot, especially in my
Speaker 4: career when it comes to like explusual. You know, I
Speaker 4: believed in legals. I've lived in America, so I knew,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, dope, though, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I love that that experience is because a lot
Speaker 3: of times I'm in the airport, right and the person
Speaker 3: will come to me and say I've been to the States,
Speaker 3: and I'll be like, first off, we don't call it
Speaker 3: the States, this one right, cool? And then they were like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I've been to like you know, Seattle. You're like, okay,
Speaker 3: that's cool. But you can't base the whole States on
Speaker 3: one place.
Speaker 1: It's a whole country. So I of the fact that
Speaker 1: you've got two different coaches shocks. You got the Alabama
Speaker 1: experience because that Bama.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Alabama, it's it's Alabama, Atlanta, Legos, those three. This
Speaker 4: is I take the Greyhounds to Atlanta. He can't, right,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: It was crazy because like you can't go to one
Speaker 3: place in Africa and say.
Speaker 4: No, like when people go to when people got like, oh,
Speaker 4: I've been to Africa and they're like, I'm like where, Like, oh.
Speaker 1: South Africa, Like you're like him, yeah, South, everybody country forgotten,
Speaker 1: don't don't just my ma. He's in Southeast Africa.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I lost sometimes one of my favorite cities to
Speaker 4: be in. But it's like it's different.
Speaker 2: Looks like America, you know what I'm saying, And partially
Speaker 2: for the unfortunate fact of apartheide part of the reason
Speaker 2: because they stay.
Speaker 4: Long got there rather than like that you away, we
Speaker 4: go to independence, it's like right in the sixties. But
Speaker 4: if you come to Nigeria, like I took one of
Speaker 4: my best friends to Africa for the first time. You know,
Speaker 4: when we went to Ghana, went to Legos. If you
Speaker 4: can't survive in Legos, Legos.
Speaker 1: Is New York? Is that the capital? No, the capital the.
Speaker 4: Capital is That's what the president says. But Legos is
Speaker 4: really like New York or Nigeria. You know how if
Speaker 4: you can't survive in New York away from New York,
Speaker 4: Legos is like from Like that's how like New York is.
Speaker 4: So if you go to Africa and maybe your first
Speaker 4: trip you go to like Ghana, Ghana is a little
Speaker 4: bit more calm. Ghana is like probably like Miami, and
Speaker 4: then somebody that goes to Legos, like Yo, it's so headic,
Speaker 4: we party.
Speaker 3: Till twelve pm because her in Legos, it's only up
Speaker 3: two classes super super rich.
Speaker 4: There's no middle Like there's middle class, but it's not
Speaker 4: aluts that.
Speaker 1: Very very rich.
Speaker 4: And you know what I'm saying the gap is is
Speaker 4: really you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: This is rich, yeah, but it's crazy really Yeah, you
Speaker 1: ain't put me on there. You know.
Speaker 2: I love that they got a lot of oil money, right,
Speaker 2: and a lot of oil money.
Speaker 1: They have a oil money.
Speaker 2: There's a tech boomer in Nigeria too.
Speaker 4: Yes, recently there's been lots of like apps and text
Speaker 4: like this. This guy just sold this up for like
Speaker 4: the million dollars something. Somebody from Nigeria like natural stuff.
Speaker 4: So that's dope too. So the old culture is like moving,
Speaker 4: not only music wise, even.
Speaker 1: Like with the food.
Speaker 4: Like right now in New York, one of the biggest
Speaker 4: restaurants in Times Square is Legos Lounge.
Speaker 5: Really, I always jump. I know about the poppet and
Speaker 5: I still jump. I'm just yeah, my boy is right.
Speaker 5: It's right by Cross Studios. It's called Legos Lounge. You know,
Speaker 5: they saven Nagerai food and it's exciting to see, you know,
Speaker 5: the culture as a whole growing, not only music.
Speaker 4: You know fashion, you go to Prada, you go to
Speaker 4: Louis You see African prints now, like shirts and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So it's the whole.
Speaker 2: Even when I was in in uh in South Africa,
Speaker 2: they were they were saying Nigeria leads in terms of
Speaker 2: the music and a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: They were saying that even out and the scamming too.
Speaker 1: At one point.
Speaker 6: At one point was like, Yo, I got you man,
Speaker 6: just I'm gonna get right back to you.
Speaker 4: When when I first got into America, that was the night.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. Is different now. So Dan, it's
Speaker 4: like away from night year old man, y'all be on
Speaker 4: that car ship like the nineteenth is changing, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 4: It's just like in America. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: How you do you know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, people that was selling Yeah, yeah, that's all telling
Speaker 4: who like ecstasy?
Speaker 1: We know them dudes, Tesla, what is that? I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's gone What that means? It's like it's out of here.
Speaker 2: Okay, God damn listen, I'm going to Nigeria.
Speaker 1: Man might not come back coming death.
Speaker 4: Are you definitely got a visit? You know love artists.
Speaker 4: I've come to night to visit me.
Speaker 1: Little baby, little baby stayed in your house. Yeah, little
Speaker 1: baby came, the Migos came.
Speaker 4: Who else came?
Speaker 1: Cast see him in the video? Has to know who?
Speaker 4: I was so tired, Like imagine me being tired of
Speaker 4: going out in my own.
Speaker 1: Comets like what we're doing today, I'm well, he enjoyed,
Speaker 1: he enjoyed.
Speaker 3: It's like I'm waking up and telling me he don't
Speaker 3: let people Nageria though, like you know what I mean
Speaker 3: blended right, I'm.
Speaker 4: Waking up they telling me casting the hood. I'm like, Nikko,
Speaker 4: what you doing in the You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So that was amazing to see. And I feel like
Speaker 4: anytime they come to nig and when they leave, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm especially for like little Baby and the Migos.
Speaker 1: That's not where Meek Male lost his phone, right and
Speaker 1: that was in Ghana. I was in Ghana. That was
Speaker 1: in Ghana.
Speaker 4: Okay, Michael Blacksman got'st his phone because he went through
Speaker 4: the main entrance of the show.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, anybody was losing phone entrance.
Speaker 3: But yeah, let me ask you. Now, this is gonna
Speaker 3: I am paraphrasing.
Speaker 1: I am not what is this it called. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm just.
Speaker 3: This is how I feel like music happened, right. I
Speaker 3: feel like music originated in Africa. I feel like as
Speaker 3: it was going across it got dropped off in Jamaica.
Speaker 3: Right when it got dropped off in Jamaica, Yes, it
Speaker 3: was little sprinkles. But when it went to like I said,
Speaker 3: I'm paraphrasing, I'm like some of this ship, I'm just
Speaker 3: are you paraphrasing though, I'm just I'm just let's say
Speaker 3: your freestyle. That's what I should have said. I'm freestyle.
Speaker 3: I'm like trying to this is coming trying to say.
Speaker 3: We all know music and the original man comes from Africa, right,
Speaker 3: so music everything has to come from Africa.
Speaker 1: At some point it hit the Caribbean. Let me not
Speaker 1: say just Jamaica. It hit the Caribbean.
Speaker 3: Then at some point it hit America and when that's
Speaker 3: what hip hop is discovered, right, hip hop kind of
Speaker 3: took over did whatever. And then it's like through hip hop.
Speaker 1: You got.
Speaker 3: Reggaeton, right, that came from not not not come from Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would say that hip hop. I think it's dance
Speaker 3: hall hip hop, then dance hall, right, and then no
Speaker 3: dance was before hip hop. But that's why I said
Speaker 3: got dropped off in Jamaica.
Speaker 1: You want to correct me. And then I was trying
Speaker 1: to make it percussionsion. That's where it all ties in.
Speaker 1: It's percussion, right.
Speaker 3: So what I'm trying to make is a correlation from
Speaker 3: hip hop became became the biggest genre in the world,
Speaker 3: then through hip hop reggaeton, and then from reggaetone. It's
Speaker 3: like I felt like I got a friend named at
Speaker 3: N right. He's actually from Senegal, but he but that's
Speaker 3: my man in France. And after I had I did
Speaker 3: reggae thone, and you know reggae thone blew up and
Speaker 3: did all that. He kept saying this African rigged thone.
Speaker 3: He didn't know how to call it afro beat. He
Speaker 3: wouldn't he knew I wouldn't understand if so, he would
Speaker 3: call it to me. He would say to me this
Speaker 3: African reggaeton and he would play me the music and
Speaker 3: I would be like, this ship is ill.
Speaker 1: But I was like, I don't know how.
Speaker 3: I don't know how, like and ten years later, so
Speaker 3: right now hear me just out the blue. I told
Speaker 3: him I was going on the path. I said, y'all
Speaker 3: going to Paris And then he goes, yeah, man, I said,
Speaker 3: I got, I got with the vido.
Speaker 1: He's like, I told you how you flipped just.
Speaker 3: That And it's like, did you did you feel like
Speaker 3: when you was when you guys were starting at were
Speaker 3: they fronting on y'all because it was a new genre
Speaker 3: of music or because you think it was coming from Africa?
Speaker 4: And especially for me because I was like one of
Speaker 4: the first to get like a major deal.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And I'm coming from I'm coming from just getting I'm
Speaker 4: coming from just recording in the studio, telling my engineer
Speaker 4: you'll send me that. I'm calling my boy like yo,
Speaker 4: make a make a flyer posted it on Twitter on Instagram.
Speaker 3: It's blowing up the next day because one of your
Speaker 3: homies had a studio in the college.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, so that's how I'm used to doing music.
Speaker 4: It was, you know, it was a Christian school. Christian school, Yeah,
Speaker 4: dude that stayed every time. I used to hear music
Speaker 4: up hearing like and I was like, we'st not told this.
Speaker 4: So one day I'm like fuck that, I'm about to
Speaker 4: go check. So I knocked your door and I opened.
Speaker 4: His name is Jamo, you know, he wrote me the
Speaker 4: other He's like, yo, you said my name in the
Speaker 4: Indy all that dough.
Speaker 1: So his name is Jamo.
Speaker 4: So he opens the door and I see like a
Speaker 4: little studio set up.
Speaker 1: And then then in.
Speaker 4: School, like I'm getting like pocking money and stuff like this.
Speaker 4: I ain't never doing it.
Speaker 1: How much you got for the studio?
Speaker 4: I said, this whole set, so how much is it
Speaker 4: teaching me how to record? So he actually talked me
Speaker 4: out to use pro tools logic. I was only learning
Speaker 4: from YouTube as well. So I went to Guitar Center.
Speaker 3: I'll never forgetville got two thousands and they told you just.
Speaker 1: Terror you had tam Rex. God damn it. I apologize.
Speaker 1: I'm joking.
Speaker 4: I had a fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred for the studio,
Speaker 4: and there was like a package deal. So the fifteen
Speaker 4: hundred came in like interface, uh, laptop and everything like.
Speaker 4: So that's when I really started recording. So you know,
Speaker 4: over time, we've always been used to just recording the
Speaker 4: mixing up myster in the same day. So when I
Speaker 4: got my deal and crazy story, I got my deal
Speaker 4: and then the money came in, I'm like, we lit.
Speaker 1: Taking this is the same day I take all my
Speaker 1: boys to.
Speaker 4: Let me go.
Speaker 1: What's what's the nema Marcus? That's right, goddamn what you.
Speaker 4: Called first day, first thousand.
Speaker 1: Let's make some noise for that. So listen as day
Speaker 1: on the thousand we take trips, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: So I called my people, I'm like, yo, when we're
Speaker 4: gonna start recording the album.
Speaker 1: They're like, we got to book. What you mean it
Speaker 1: said the money did give you? You spent your budget,
Speaker 1: said the money to give you like the front of
Speaker 1: you was, you know, part of what you mentioned use
Speaker 1: for the album. So that was like my first Oh wow, reality.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now it's a business, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So from there, recording the first the first project, you know,
Speaker 4: they put me in the studio, put me with different producers,
Speaker 4: I walked with like everybody, but I wasn't feeling it. Understand,
Speaker 4: I'm used to just being in Nigeria in the room,
Speaker 4: hawks featsing, no air c, little laptop. I got the mic,
Speaker 4: there's no standard. I got the mic in my hand.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. Everybody around me were thinking
Speaker 4: of ideas. That's when the fire come out, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So that wasn't working out. And then
Speaker 4: I remember telling, you know, my management team like bro
Speaker 4: like ya didn't tell me this was you know, because
Speaker 4: I I'm comfortable. I'm in Nigeria. I'm twenty four, twenty three,
Speaker 4: I'm making I'm already making like two hundred thousand the show.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: In Nigeria, I'm comfortable. I'm flying to every African country.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: That's two hundred thousand in Nigeria. It's the same thing
Speaker 2: as two hundred thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1: And you left dad to go to schools this after
Speaker 1: you left that.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no no, I've been finished school.
Speaker 1: Okay. So this is okay, Okay, what's up?
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Speaker 4: That's another story.
Speaker 1: You're gonna yea yeah, were gonna get into that. I
Speaker 1: got all the notes, so.
Speaker 4: So you know what I'm saying, coming from making so
Speaker 4: much money to you know, actually signing with the major
Speaker 4: and then you know, everything else to be planned. You
Speaker 4: got to turn in a single weeks before you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So that was like the change for me.
Speaker 4: So I remember telling them like, look the predicide you
Speaker 4: guys put me in with. They cool, but I need
Speaker 4: to go home, Go home, because I was in America
Speaker 4: for like almost seven months.
Speaker 1: You got with your original producers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I was like, to be honest, like I
Speaker 4: actually woke up one and I just got mad. I'm like,
Speaker 4: look I need to go. So I just actually just
Speaker 4: got got on the plane went back home. My brother
Speaker 4: in two weeks from when I got back home.
Speaker 1: Ef I there, you say, I love you two weeks.
Speaker 4: So like, but just getting home and getting back in
Speaker 4: that vibe, you know, with my main producers and also
Speaker 4: telling them like you know, I'm giving them in splace
Speaker 4: like yo, we got a major deal now like it's
Speaker 4: about to be different. So we're working and then we
Speaker 4: shot the video for that that particular record, and at
Speaker 4: this point in my career, imagine being like every artist
Speaker 4: goes through it, you know that point when you're like you,
Speaker 4: you know, when you're so hot you untouchable, and then
Speaker 4: down the line you start looking like yo, it's kind
Speaker 4: of it's kind of getting quiet fading, you know, like
Speaker 4: every axis goes to the that's the worst thing ever,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, being and then it looks
Speaker 4: kind of, you know, shaky. So I was out that
Speaker 4: period in my life where it's like, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, like nah, nah, nah, I need to go back,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So immediately I got back home,
Speaker 4: go back to my mojo.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I remember going to the label after I recorded at home,
Speaker 4: playing them the music and they're like, yeah, it's nice,
Speaker 4: but they're not thinking. They're thinking, is how's this gonna
Speaker 4: get on the radio?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying about your people's in Nigeria
Speaker 2: saying this, nah, like the label, the label I'm.
Speaker 4: Going to Nigeria recorded, you know what I'm saying some music.
Speaker 1: They're not sure how to translate that here. Yes, So
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna work, I'm telling them. I'm like, they're like, it's
Speaker 4: gonna work. So I got points. They're looking at me like,
Speaker 4: you know what, let's just let him do what he
Speaker 4: wants to do. What years is this twenty seventeen? So
Speaker 4: I signed my deal in twenty fifteen. In twenty sixteen
Speaker 4: was like a dead year from me. Wow, that was
Speaker 4: like the year like figuring it up. Oh so twenty seventeen,
Speaker 4: got that record, shot the video, we dropped it two
Speaker 4: days later. I called myself, I told you so. Then
Speaker 4: from then they started, you know, allowing me have like
Speaker 4: my you know, creative face, and then everything's just so.
Speaker 2: Crazy hotly And did they know was it already being
Speaker 2: called afrobeats?
Speaker 4: No, you know afrobeats originally it fell out of genre
Speaker 4: because you didn't like that word applebeats right at first.
Speaker 1: Because it's it's it's it's now it's too late, you know.
Speaker 2: I wanted not to get up, but I wanted to
Speaker 2: ask you, like, do you like the division and calling something?
Speaker 4: Because no, because if you go and listen to my
Speaker 4: album now, like there are songs there that are downhall right, yes,
Speaker 4: like this song with me on dext adapts this song.
Speaker 4: There's another song on the album called for the Road
Speaker 4: that's that's basically a downs all templates, but because an
Speaker 4: African music sign is singing.
Speaker 1: It, we call it apple beats.
Speaker 4: Afrobeats originally is feller is a certain kind of music.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it just beats literally, wasn't it?
Speaker 4: Yes, no beats on vocals as well. So one of
Speaker 4: the first places that I know edged African music was London,
Speaker 4: the UK, you know the UK.
Speaker 2: That was like they're ahead of a lot always when
Speaker 2: you blow up back home, when you blow up back home,
Speaker 2: just like drumming bass over there, they're always ahead and up.
Speaker 4: When you blow up back home. To solidify your success
Speaker 4: is you got to go to do a show in London.
Speaker 3: That's like I'm on, I'm saying, that's where all the
Speaker 3: Africans go when they leave the country and they on
Speaker 3: it's London and London, you know, proximity.
Speaker 4: So London has always been, you know, the place, so
Speaker 4: like almost New York in America, New York always gets
Speaker 4: the first, it's always New York. But in Europe, in Europe,
Speaker 4: London was the main place. W was London that I
Speaker 4: think there was one public I don't I'm one hundred
Speaker 4: percent sure, but I think like a big newspaper did
Speaker 4: like a article and it was like afro beats.
Speaker 1: A phase or here to stay like that.
Speaker 4: So it was a big conversation and then we just
Speaker 4: ended up being called afrobeats.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like almost a story, and.
Speaker 2: Like even reggaitar artists, you can't tell me there's some
Speaker 2: that did, some that do R and B. There was
Speaker 2: to put on the under the right doesn't sound like anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: I used to call it. They used to call a
Speaker 2: Spanish reggae right. To me, that was more of a
Speaker 2: of an appropriate name, to be honest with you, because
Speaker 2: it was murder, she wrote, jacked up. The beginning of
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 3: Very true, very I don't think I don't think no
Speaker 3: one could argue that. Okay, so but all let's talk
Speaker 3: about your your cousin h MPZ narrow.
Speaker 4: So I'm the last of five kids born.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 4: I've always been the youngest in the household.
Speaker 3: Everyone else worked for your pops. Yeah, okay, you're the
Speaker 3: only renegade.
Speaker 4: I'm still gonna go back and work, he said, he's
Speaker 4: still going back. Oh, I'm going back for about to
Speaker 4: work for your pops.
Speaker 1: It's that real.
Speaker 4: So you know I was the youngest, Yeah, m PC,
Speaker 4: so I was the youngest. You know what, I'm saying around.
Speaker 4: So I my house always had all my cousins there,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So one of my cousins
Speaker 4: and PS, he's the one that actually the first person
Speaker 4: that took me to the studio. Wow, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. He was my best cousin. Like you know
Speaker 4: when you have that older cousin that you're always excited like, yo,
Speaker 4: he's coming today, blah blah. So he's the one that,
Speaker 4: you know, first took me to the studio. And he
Speaker 4: was a prospect artist.
Speaker 1: So it was four of us.
Speaker 4: My cousin be Read be Red brother she know, then
Speaker 4: MPs in me. So I wanted to be like the producer.
Speaker 1: I wanted to stay You could he just write music
Speaker 1: at first? Right?
Speaker 4: So I was writing music producing for those three artists. Yes,
Speaker 4: because you know, my boy has taught me how to
Speaker 4: engineer and stuff like that. So I was already doping that.
Speaker 4: So and then I already knew my dad wasn't gonna
Speaker 4: fuck with me. Wanted to be a full out musician.
Speaker 4: So I was like, you know what, I rather just
Speaker 4: be in the background. And then I was like, I
Speaker 4: just meant I'd like this mental I used to look
Speaker 4: up to Don Jozy. He's like the biggest producer in
Speaker 4: that year at the time. So he'd like sign artists
Speaker 4: write for them, get a percentage of their ship. You
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying now, I go. So, yeah, he
Speaker 4: was the one that like we all looked up to,
Speaker 4: like yo and piece is gonna blow. I wanted to
Speaker 4: be in the background. So you know, over time, like
Speaker 4: I was hiding from my dad like that, I do
Speaker 4: music because my dad was just all about school.
Speaker 1: It's not in line with religion either, like the religion
Speaker 1: side of it. He was religious, very religious. I'm saying
Speaker 1: the music wasn't in line with that. He probably wasn't
Speaker 1: feeling the normal team in my family. You go to school,
Speaker 1: get your education, graduates, go work for Pops.
Speaker 4: You want to work for Pops. Your offices they're waiting
Speaker 4: for you. Me and all my siblings were all directors
Speaker 4: on the companies.
Speaker 1: That's you know how it is, just like so noise
Speaker 1: to Pops man, that's real generation. Well yeah, you know
Speaker 1: how it is.
Speaker 3: No That's why I say, like, you know how it is,
Speaker 3: that's the greatest aspire for the black people.
Speaker 4: Like you know how it is with like the people
Speaker 4: they always like want their son to take over off
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 1: Course.
Speaker 4: So and and mind you, I, of all my siblings,
Speaker 4: I'm the only one that grew up in Nigeria. Where
Speaker 4: did they grow up at? London, Switzerland? Oh, my sisters
Speaker 4: went to Swisser I think in London, Switzerland and America.
Speaker 4: My brother graduated from Warhouse in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: So I was playing HM.
Speaker 4: So I was the only one because I was the
Speaker 4: last born, so they wanted to child with them said
Speaker 4: like no, David states, So I did elementary school, high
Speaker 4: school in Nigeria. So all those times like I wanted
Speaker 4: to do music. Who ah, we just had in my
Speaker 4: head like bro, my dad not gonna let me, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So that's why I wanted to
Speaker 4: be in the background, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 4: from so, remember when I told you about the strip
Speaker 4: club situation. That was the day I said I'm not
Speaker 4: going back school.
Speaker 1: Oh you didn't go back at that because I was
Speaker 1: already like, are we going supposed to make some noise
Speaker 1: to strippers? Yeah? I feel like maybe not going back
Speaker 1: that's a positive ship e me.
Speaker 4: I did finish school though, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: From that moment, I actually wanted to like move to
Speaker 4: Nigeria because I saw the industry growing. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. So crazy story. So I go to Nigeria
Speaker 4: for Christmas. Every Christmas, my dad flies those back home.
Speaker 1: They tell me in Nigeria, that's the best time to go.
Speaker 1: Is this.
Speaker 4: Is good, I'm telling you, Like we do forty eight
Speaker 4: hour parties. Like people potsy to ten am, they go
Speaker 4: take a shower, come right back.
Speaker 1: I'm in. You know what I'm saying. I'm already feel
Speaker 1: like I'm there. I'm on my way. I got my
Speaker 1: shirt all right now this is exactly what So.
Speaker 4: I remember like this exact story, like so I'm in
Speaker 4: Nigeria for Christmas. You know what I'm saying. So we
Speaker 4: go to the club, and we go to the club.
Speaker 4: Mind you, I was just with these artists in America
Speaker 4: went to the strip club. And then another sense of
Speaker 4: artists walking like in Peace Square this club called club
Speaker 4: we have p Square. Whiskey it was they whiskey was
Speaker 4: just like coming up. And then like one day call
Speaker 4: another artist was there. Boy, they walked in. All the
Speaker 4: girls were crazy.
Speaker 1: Boy.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I want that I want that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know that feeling, I said.
Speaker 4: I said, I look myself and I said the first
Speaker 4: and I want So I was like and I knew,
Speaker 4: like I did drive, Like that's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 4: So I said, Mom's gonna talk to my dad and
Speaker 4: tell my dad that I want to transfer my credits
Speaker 4: from my college in Alabama, Nigeria. Wow, because there was
Speaker 4: there was like same Christian school. I could do that.
Speaker 4: So I remember going to him and I went to
Speaker 4: him and I told him. He's like, what, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: go back to school.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you why not that. That's a great
Speaker 3: story and I'm gonna get straight to it. But why
Speaker 3: not try to start your music away from Alabama or Atlanta?
Speaker 3: What made you say let me go back home?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: What was it?
Speaker 2: I know you said that moment well, he said the
Speaker 2: artist that came something over there was one.
Speaker 1: Of the biggest video directors in that Yer, all right,
Speaker 1: look like it. You got you gotta.
Speaker 3: Because you know you could have you could have you
Speaker 3: could have you could have lost your career from from
Speaker 3: Alabama or Atlanta. But what was the moment that made
Speaker 3: you say let me go back home? I know you
Speaker 3: said earlier seeing those artists. But what but you you
Speaker 3: went back to Nigeria. What made you go back to
Speaker 3: Nigeria in the first place?
Speaker 4: I mean, first of all, I think, the fuck, that's
Speaker 4: not tryly wanting to be home, right, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. The money they changing the club, right, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, and don't see seeing that. I
Speaker 4: knew that was going to become something right, and I
Speaker 4: do want to be left outs.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what you felt left, you know them back home? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you know why I say that because
Speaker 3: most artists, like from New York, they let me not
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. We I used to remember, I
Speaker 4: learned her to record. So the whole time, I'm not
Speaker 4: really wanting to be.
Speaker 1: An artist like that because my dad and he's wanting
Speaker 1: to produce. He wants to be in the back.
Speaker 4: So that that that made me fall in love. What
Speaker 4: I saw made me fall in love. So that's what
Speaker 4: I wanted to do African music. Like I say this,
Speaker 4: I cannot do be better than Chris Brown. Chris, I
Speaker 4: cannot do better. So it's something I always say. I
Speaker 4: don't do what I know how to do what I
Speaker 4: was gifted to do, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's just crazy.
Speaker 4: Even when I used to play African music in the
Speaker 4: dorm and my friends will walked by, like, Yo, what's.
Speaker 1: That I said, African music, It's like, oh, that's dope.
Speaker 4: So I always knew that if we had the opportunity
Speaker 4: to be heard, people you know, flown.
Speaker 1: To us and that's not one of the biggest musics
Speaker 1: in the words.
Speaker 2: And it was a smart movie because you probably realized
Speaker 2: there's a window here that you got to be in
Speaker 2: that window before it goes away.
Speaker 4: And then with me, you know how you said, you said, oh,
Speaker 4: why didn't I start the music in America? It's amazing
Speaker 4: because I called it like it was like a three sixty.
Speaker 4: I left America because.
Speaker 3: He was in a group in America too, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because I just took okay, cool cool cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I left America.
Speaker 4: And then I remember even we used to send our
Speaker 4: ce these to a kon in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: All the time, he fronting on you. Yeah, good boy,
Speaker 1: but you know you want to be the only didn't
Speaker 1: see the window.
Speaker 4: I mean, eventually like he came to Nigeria, then you know,
Speaker 4: he like he collaborate, said with you know a couple
Speaker 4: of us. You know, I still want to give a
Speaker 4: shout out to him. A lot of people that Africa,
Speaker 4: you know, didn't you know, pull up so they can
Speaker 4: did this fashal work, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And he always advocates for Africa.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: So me leaving Atlanta going to Nigeria. I remember I
Speaker 4: was leaving school. I remember my friend said, man, you dumb.
Speaker 4: I said, I'm dumb. I'll watch watch what happened.
Speaker 1: But you know he said, you're dumb for leaving school.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I was pucking my stuff. I'm like, mom,
Speaker 4: I'm going back to my country.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I was school was crazy country.
Speaker 4: We had decided we had a group like a crew
Speaker 4: in school, and they was trying to get online to
Speaker 4: join this cap on fraternity Kappa.
Speaker 1: It was online for Captain.
Speaker 4: So they're trying to get me to do I said, bye, bye, Copa,
Speaker 4: I don't go have me for what I was. I'm
Speaker 4: going to So I was packing my stuff. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 4: I'm out. You're like, man, you dumb and leave school.
Speaker 1: I said, what man? Two years later he hit me,
Speaker 1: You're like yeah, you said that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So just even leaving school until today, like when I
Speaker 4: see messages from like my classmates and they're right to me, like, yo, boy,
Speaker 4: you did that.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But let me ask you, like I know it's gonna
Speaker 3: be funny, but like coming to America, when Eddie Murphy
Speaker 3: came to America, he was acting poor, like what you had.
Speaker 4: A lot of people didn't know. Per se. The only
Speaker 4: time people knew that my dad had money was when
Speaker 4: I did this record called Downy Duro.
Speaker 1: That was in school. Oh in school, not nah, in school,
Speaker 1: like in school, just.
Speaker 4: One time the dude asking me, yo, why don't you
Speaker 4: ever go to a financial age? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He was like I just noticed something. Never go to
Speaker 1: financially so what I didn't know?
Speaker 4: So so one days like so I didn't know, like
Speaker 4: like because my dad would just be sending money to
Speaker 4: the school account.
Speaker 1: He's like, if you ever checked your school account?
Speaker 2: Thing?
Speaker 4: I said, no, I'm in school.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Why did.
Speaker 4: She's like, come, let's go to our accounting. So we
Speaker 4: go to accounting.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 4: So the ladies like, what's your school? Like I said,
Speaker 4: what she said? She gave me the slip when I
Speaker 4: took that ship sixty four thousand, like balance, that's my
Speaker 4: boy was like, you know you can take it out right.
Speaker 6: You kept.
Speaker 4: This guy, this guy because because no he's from New York,
Speaker 4: my guy from pro. So he's like, you know you
Speaker 4: can take it out. So I'm like, so I'm like okay,
Speaker 4: because you know in Africa, you're not onto you, Marie,
Speaker 4: Ye're under your appearance.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's when I came to America that
Speaker 4: I knew that, Oh there's indeed, like, oh I'm America,
Speaker 4: I'm a team.
Speaker 1: You can't tell me what to do. I don't know.
Speaker 4: You know in Nigeria you can be tetsi. You still
Speaker 4: be answering to your parents. So it was when I
Speaker 4: got to America, I said, I have my blue passports,
Speaker 4: I'm on my team.
Speaker 1: So I went to the.
Speaker 4: Accounting and guy was like, yo, I'm trying to take joy.
Speaker 4: But they wrote me that check so quick and then
Speaker 4: I went and cashed there. Every Friday, men, the boy
Speaker 4: is New Jordan's that's yeah, I'm time with pumming up.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that was that was then that was yes, yes,
Speaker 3: hold on, I'm just picture in this so all right,
Speaker 3: So now the brothers are the brother from New York.
Speaker 1: They smelled the shot. This is a shot. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, so from like them.
Speaker 4: And then that was even when like you go even
Speaker 4: deep out with the music because like and then I
Speaker 4: moved out the dorm. I got a house with my
Speaker 4: Jamaican friends.
Speaker 1: From New York. We started doing.
Speaker 4: We started doing like we started playing dominoes, like we
Speaker 4: got a crib. You know, they're playing dominoes outside. They
Speaker 4: got the you know, drink and they started we started smoking.
Speaker 4: And then this went like the lifestyle aspects that they
Speaker 4: called me. You know, I got my first tattoo. Then
Speaker 4: it started. That's when I was like, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: do this music. What's your first tattoo? Not a hyena?
Speaker 4: This one all right?
Speaker 1: Okay, except.
Speaker 4: You know this little this little too, and I go
Speaker 4: like most of my time was.
Speaker 3: Like way yo, okay, so listen, we know everybody's from Africa, right,
Speaker 3: everybody everybody's from Africa, right, So I want you to
Speaker 3: look around the room and tell people where you think
Speaker 3: were part of Africa they're from.
Speaker 7: You can start with me, no, no, no, Liberia. He's
Speaker 7: from Liberia, Southern.
Speaker 4: African you yeah, yeah, need mind that leads in.
Speaker 1: That Ye give me Morocco. At least I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: Ghana, Ghana, South Africa, South Africa, Morocco, Morocco.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going off for you.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 8: No, I forgot that's a great game, right.
Speaker 1: You look just like okay, all right, so listen, did
Speaker 1: you just tell me the scorp You're like, get a lighter?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so look so look you want to play, yes, Tima.
Speaker 1: Stan all right, we're gonna get okay, yeah for me.
Speaker 1: You know, we want you to know.
Speaker 3: Our show is about giving people flowers, so we want
Speaker 3: to give you your flowers to your face. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Yoe, you put the whole country, You
Speaker 3: put a whole everything on your constant, whole country. You
Speaker 3: put the whole continent on your that's right, that's right, brother,
Speaker 3: that's a brother. You put the whole continent on your back.
Speaker 3: You put music on your back.
Speaker 1: Like literally.
Speaker 3: When we googled or we researched you, literally it came
Speaker 3: up the King of Afrobeat. It literally did it literally
Speaker 3: did prox Like I'm not even playing around, and but
Speaker 3: we want to tell you that to your face because
Speaker 3: you don't. You ain't got to read that. We could
Speaker 3: say that face the face, man and man and continue
Speaker 3: to do what you do. You're a pure legend.
Speaker 1: Man. You ain't have to be a legend. You could have.
Speaker 3: You could have consplicated this ship. And you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, like and you ain't somewhere else but you
Speaker 3: you motherfucking went and you went, you like the you
Speaker 3: like the Robin Hood in the verse. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like you went, you went.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You know rock Hood was poor and rich. He was rich.
Speaker 3: He give you the pall like that's fire. That's a
Speaker 3: Robin Hood did nobody. Robin Hood is not rich. Robber
Speaker 3: Hoods fucked up.
Speaker 1: Ahead of that.
Speaker 3: He was a But yeah, so we wanted to give
Speaker 3: you a flowers face to face man.
Speaker 1: And by the way, because we heard did you you
Speaker 1: just water? You brought Richard Milly and I made back
Speaker 1: just because it was your birthday. No, no, I got
Speaker 1: this one. This see you you got you. No, I
Speaker 1: ain't got that one.
Speaker 3: It's the only watching I don't got is the paddock,
Speaker 3: you know, for my wife, for your wife. This is
Speaker 3: my main watch. Just got it by Lady Holy Ship.
Speaker 3: But so that's what your birthday?
Speaker 1: You got that?
Speaker 4: No, it was my wife's birthday. O your Yeah, but
Speaker 4: she got so you got you got No. I just
Speaker 4: su bought myself for the album. My album came out.
Speaker 4: It was like a month, so I just.
Speaker 1: Got like made back the new Virgil Mayback. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then I got this. She makes no noise.
Speaker 2: Man, I think I think you gotta you gotta give
Speaker 2: him a fair warning. If you start getting emails from Sonny,
Speaker 2: beware of those American scammings. You's gonna be in your
Speaker 2: DM email. Yeah, this is quick time explaining them again.
Speaker 2: Now we get two choices. You pick one, all good
Speaker 2: if you if you say both or neither. We drinking easy, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're drinking a shot. Where's the where's this Jamie?
Speaker 1: He's got a shot. You're gonna get your shot right now? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, you're in a poor for him.
Speaker 2: You said.
Speaker 1: Big though, you get your shots? Ready? Yeah, all right, ready? Yeah,
Speaker 1: TUPAKT d m X okay for me? Yeah, whiz Kid
Speaker 1: or burn the boy shot?
Speaker 2: Uh? Helligi Martel okay, yes, Martel, you could say mine's
Speaker 2: Martell too.
Speaker 1: I mean you just set it on the microphone. Oh damn, Angel,
Speaker 1: what's the big Oh he got the key? All right, Angel?
Speaker 1: All right, my bad. So yeah, I'll take you yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you hope, But you're holding up the shot. No, because
Speaker 1: I mean they, I mean, Jamie, you holding up the shot.
Speaker 1: You know we need to shot. Yeah, those points say yeah,
Speaker 1: take a shot of champagna. Put it in your shot.
Speaker 3: I wait, I wait, I take a real shot. You
Speaker 3: gotta take ma tell take yea, I'll take them all.
Speaker 1: Tell with you. I'll take a motel and.
Speaker 2: Then you gotta take a mamajuanna shot that Dominican mamajuna.
Speaker 1: Thank you. This is yo to you. Brother. Hold on
Speaker 1: that w Kid or burning Boy? Right? Yeah, he said both.
Speaker 1: I said shot, yes, yes, what did you do? Versus
Speaker 1: I'm ready? Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Hey, anybody I'm putting on the table right now. Anybody,
Speaker 4: let's go so whiz Whiz Kid or burn a Boy.
Speaker 4: That's good for anybody, Okay. I just wanted to be clear,
Speaker 4: that's all. But I feel like it'll be it'll be
Speaker 4: nice for like, no, not only justin about competing, but
Speaker 4: just for the culture.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: That would be dope.
Speaker 1: I'm open to. It's open.
Speaker 3: And then after that, which I'll do three on three
Speaker 3: afro beats against regg Don't y'all.
Speaker 1: Not ready for that? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: That would be great for the culture too, Okay, that'll
Speaker 2: be dope. Dance all what three? What three dancehol artist would.
Speaker 4: Be no no, no, no no no. So if it
Speaker 4: hims you, if it's gonna be, if it's gonna be
Speaker 4: the three of us.
Speaker 3: You burn a boy with kid against against popcorn popcorn.
Speaker 1: Because of my.
Speaker 2: Own like they're gonna you're gonna be out of jail
Speaker 2: because ain't he No, No, I would have put es.
Speaker 2: I would put he's gonna get diverses though I say popcorn, Yes.
Speaker 4: Dext adapts popcorn, dext adapts.
Speaker 1: And alkaline alkaline, let's go. That would be crazy, But
Speaker 1: you don't want it with Daddy, Yankee and Well and
Speaker 1: Nikki Jam. I think that would be ill. That would
Speaker 1: be That would be like hemispheres against each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know Bad Bundy.
Speaker 3: No, nobody knows Bad Bunny. You know you know Bad
Speaker 3: Bunny on the record together.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you something whenever he see him, just
Speaker 4: playing for him.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, no, y'all gotta do something. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we just make some ship up. Why's the ship coming
Speaker 2: to Fruition? It should let's all poll get that bigge
Speaker 2: gone all right? A connor tea pain? Oh shut okay, please,
Speaker 2: no outside influences.
Speaker 1: Get you ready for me? Hold on, let me get that.
Speaker 1: But that's that's that Japanese that motell montell White. M
Speaker 1: mm hmmm mm hmmm, m h m hm.
Speaker 2: No like at the well, get they got me.
Speaker 1: Go the next one, little baby or the baby. I
Speaker 1: do both my friends, we think, take a shot cool Japanese.
Speaker 3: Let me get my let me get let me get
Speaker 3: my my real Motel.
Speaker 8: You want that Montel, will get that real Montel Williams
Speaker 8: this time. Yea, that Motel warmed me up. I ain't
Speaker 8: gonna lie beat right now? Yeah about the beat.
Speaker 1: I got a record ready and.
Speaker 2: All that.
Speaker 1: Sallows taking that against it?
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 1: We gotta learn. What does that mean? It's going? It's
Speaker 1: going gone. We sound like assholes, right hey man, We're
Speaker 1: gonna learn. We start.
Speaker 3: We sounded like assholes when we first started this ship.
Speaker 2: And we learned that's true. That's true. Were still sound
Speaker 2: like ass because boy, that's it's hit me right now.
Speaker 2: It's no or ta.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna watch this episode. I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna watch.
Speaker 2: We're gonna put something, all right. Migos are outcasts migos Okay,
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Speaker 2: Castro from Ghana? Okay, but there's Casper also Square. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Bouju. This is interesting TV series or movies TV series.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta documentary coming out in December two.
Speaker 4: I'm not showing. I kind of spoke too quick.
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Speaker 1: you have did a record together, right? We got three records?
Speaker 1: Jadakiss or NOAs nos.
Speaker 2: N w A or Woolf Tank Clan n w A,
Speaker 2: Top Boy or Snowfall, Snowfall, Magic City or Onyx Magic
Speaker 2: Radio or podcast podcast. I was waiting for him to
Speaker 2: think about it. Uh, fab or pusher fab pop can vibes,
Speaker 2: Cartel popcorn pop co popcor Well, what is it?
Speaker 1: Popcat poppy pop.
Speaker 2: As you see, I'm nineties dance all poppy for sure,
Speaker 2: even Drake you know you laugh Jamaican my homie clown
Speaker 2: Hi POPCN pop Con I'm in. I'm gonna check it
Speaker 2: out now gigs or Skepta skeptic snuoper jay z.
Speaker 1: Shot take a shot now you got.
Speaker 5: Whoa?
Speaker 1: Whoa?
Speaker 3: I ain't gonnat You supposed to drink that when it's
Speaker 3: cold out, ship warm your whole ship up.
Speaker 9: Facts go ahead, dre or puff puff Yeah, you're for
Speaker 9: h okay.
Speaker 1: Shot shot you hit the oil guy Sonny who when
Speaker 1: he wants shut out eclipse oils man.
Speaker 3: Let me get someone, Let me get want the gumbo,
Speaker 3: Want of the gumbo, roll up my gum blow.
Speaker 1: And then with the tabler. All right, right, where do
Speaker 1: you whoa? This is the last question is yours? Oh yeah?
Speaker 1: Loyalty or respect? Loyalty? Explain why?
Speaker 4: I mean like, you can't fall out with anyone, Like
Speaker 4: you can have miss understandings sometimes and you might feel disrespectful.
Speaker 1: But like loyalty, like like, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: If I'm with you, like I'm basically putting my life
Speaker 4: in your hands.
Speaker 1: So i'd rather you be low.
Speaker 4: I'd rather I always fall out about maybe you doing
Speaker 4: something crazy, then you stabbing me in the back that
Speaker 4: could hurt me.
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying. I think I said
Speaker 1: loyalty loyalty. I'm taking a shot for that. And again
Speaker 1: like me, you give what you want.
Speaker 4: I respect you, I mean various, whether you're older, whether
Speaker 4: you're younger, whether you're rich or poor, I respect you.
Speaker 1: So I want to receive that back, you know, so
Speaker 1: you know without saying to me loyalty loyalty.
Speaker 3: Salo, Yeah, did you just probably put on a Jamaican
Speaker 3: accent hold on little beef patty and cocoa bread.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a crazy there was a there was
Speaker 4: a restaurant I used to go to an Alabama called
Speaker 4: the Island Jerk. Island Jerk that was so they saw
Speaker 4: the beef patty and he put it in the coco bread.
Speaker 4: But you know, they like this like it's like they
Speaker 4: put like I don't know if he's.
Speaker 2: A milk or something in the coco bread or in
Speaker 2: the in the sandwich, in the in the cocoa bread. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it has to the way. It's like, you know, Priss
Speaker 2: coco bread is so good.
Speaker 1: Now you snuffed the immigration agent. I thought you said
Speaker 1: he sniffed on. I mean, like that back there.
Speaker 4: He said, yeah, yeah, I got yeah, I gotta go
Speaker 4: to Australia and.
Speaker 1: Yeah they're already yeah, yeah, one of those days. You know.
Speaker 4: It wasn't me though, Okay, okay, it wasn't Meto. It's
Speaker 4: one of my little brother but it's all sorted out.
Speaker 1: It was nothing. It was nothing though. Okay, it's cool.
Speaker 1: So but now, like like you just said, you going
Speaker 1: to Australia.
Speaker 3: I remember at one time, like Africa was looked at
Speaker 3: as like like a bad place, like people didn't want
Speaker 3: to go. And now not only people want to go
Speaker 3: African brothers is now it's traveling in the world.
Speaker 1: How does that feel?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: I mean, like like I said, you know, because of
Speaker 4: social media and stuff, you know, now you see like
Speaker 4: the good possible. You know, sometimes if you if there's
Speaker 4: only one a venue to see something, what everybody show you?
Speaker 4: That's what that's the that's the thing you see you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, not not to knock off any
Speaker 4: new channel, but I don't even want to mention any
Speaker 4: new channel. But no, I'm just saying just in general.
Speaker 4: When you go in New China and the show Africa.
Speaker 1: Fox five, you know one part let me tell you.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you it's a whole continent. Places in Miami.
Speaker 1: Of course, that's you will don't believe this is America.
Speaker 4: So every place I can show you somewhere right now
Speaker 4: that if I if I tell you that this is legal,
Speaker 4: so you'd be like, it's a lot, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. So I'm happy that we have other avenues
Speaker 4: to showcase the country. I'm happy that's you know, we
Speaker 4: can shoot a music video in Nigeria and they'll ask.
Speaker 1: You, oh, you show that video in La. I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: that's legos.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to be able to showcase that and the
Speaker 4: videos come out, they get two hundred three hundred million views.
Speaker 4: That's at least fifty million people that the narrative has
Speaker 4: already changed, like, oh that's my Jeria. I'm going you
Speaker 4: know what, I'm so entertainmental has been some kind of
Speaker 4: Civio two, you know show that you know, every place
Speaker 4: has its back pots, every place. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It's just like even in America, they're like, oh, I
Speaker 4: don't think you should go to this area at this time.
Speaker 4: That's that's everywhere, you know what I'm saying. So, like
Speaker 4: I said, when I first got to America for school,
Speaker 4: there were no educated tell the people were asking me
Speaker 4: how did.
Speaker 1: I get here? You know what I'm saying. So you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But guess what, But guess what?
Speaker 1: Guess what?
Speaker 4: You can't you can't blame them. One day, one day
Speaker 4: we were in we went for a show, and uh,
Speaker 4: what's it like? Was it San Francisco? Remember went to
Speaker 4: a show? I had a show in San Francisco. Bro
Speaker 4: sold out. It's like crazy, twelve thousand people. So in
Speaker 4: the hotel and this hotel is like very expensive. So
Speaker 4: me and my brother we go outside to smoke. So
Speaker 4: we go outside to smoke, and and I didn't get
Speaker 4: offended by what this lady said because she was really
Speaker 4: just didn't understand she was not educated. Actually took my
Speaker 4: time and told her, explained our culture and everything is
Speaker 4: how you know, they only.
Speaker 1: Show the back pods and stuff. Like that. So she
Speaker 1: came to show what are you guys doing here? Just
Speaker 1: randomly like doing at the hotel? Okay? She was like, Karen,
Speaker 1: I know it was cool, but no, but she wasn't.
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't lie. It wasn't carry.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like a Karen.
Speaker 1: She just really wanted to be So she's like, so
Speaker 1: you have rich Karen. So yeah, oh come on. She
Speaker 1: was dripped out, you know. Okay, okay, So you know
Speaker 1: she first saw me, She's like, oh wow, nice watch.
Speaker 1: So what do you guys doing here?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Hey man, very nice, lady, polite. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're here for a show. Oh wow? Where?
Speaker 4: And I told her because it was like a university show.
Speaker 4: So I was like, Howard, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: She's like oh wow, So like how like how did
Speaker 1: you what are you guys?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I explained to her. I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: I do African music.
Speaker 1: I used to live.
Speaker 4: So after me talking to her phone fifteen minutes, we
Speaker 4: became best friends. Like she took I took her phone
Speaker 4: and I was like, yo, this is my music. She's like,
Speaker 4: she's gonna listen. You'll follow me on the ground. You
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So she follows you on a GRAM, she hits you
Speaker 1: in a DM, she fire everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's just made me sure that if lots
Speaker 4: of people are educated correct.
Speaker 1: About the things, sometimes it takes a conversation.
Speaker 4: Yes, So like I could have gotten offended from the
Speaker 4: first thing she came to say, which was how are
Speaker 4: you guys here? I could have been like talking about
Speaker 4: you understand. But because I want to really educate, And
Speaker 4: that's one of the reasons why I do this, because
Speaker 4: I really want to educate people about the culture. Like
Speaker 4: I've said it, I've lived in both places. I understand.
Speaker 4: Do you understand? So for me to take my time
Speaker 4: my next slink to I changed our mind. I changed
Speaker 4: our mind in fifteen minutes. So imagine what the music
Speaker 4: is doing now I wasn't been doing the last time.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at Kyo, like my album just came out
Speaker 4: a month ago. I have every type of people singing
Speaker 4: everything word to word on that's crazy, that's beautiful.
Speaker 2: That's beautiful, they say, they say, they say that it's
Speaker 2: three things.
Speaker 3: It's universal, it's it's music, food, and I forget the
Speaker 3: third one fashion, fashion or maybe sex, maybe sex.
Speaker 1: Second Universe, yeah, Second universe. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember being at the airport and just uh, I'm
Speaker 3: upstairs in a band just came through and like a
Speaker 3: mariachi band but it wasn't Manoacchi and I just remember
Speaker 3: them just playing it, and I remember all different colors, queeds,
Speaker 3: the people who just stopped as we were eating and
Speaker 3: just stopped and watched this band. And I was like,
Speaker 3: you know what's crazy about this. This man can be
Speaker 3: a kukus Klan right here. I could be whatever, this
Speaker 3: person could be whatever, this person, but we all stopped
Speaker 3: for this very moment to watch this band just come
Speaker 3: and walk over and just play this music and we
Speaker 3: and I was like, music is the most universal stiff,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Because like we go to conches, like I go to
Speaker 4: countries where like like I'm trying to order food, I
Speaker 4: don't even know what I'm saying. I go to the show,
Speaker 4: they say, yes, yes, I'm saying. So it's like like
Speaker 4: I remember I was in the country the other day.
Speaker 4: I called him, like, yo, I need my stuff iron,
Speaker 4: So I give him my clothes. I just to my
Speaker 4: stylus just bought this. Give him my clothes. He goes downstairs.
Speaker 4: After like twenty minutes, I'm like, ah, we are my clues.
Speaker 1: I called him. I washed, I washed.
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, oh shit, iron, yeah, like he washed
Speaker 4: my clothes so don that I was even getting where.
Speaker 4: I was like these people even to all that food
Speaker 4: is so hot. Boy, we went to the show I'm
Speaker 4: talking about because you know what I thinking too? I
Speaker 4: think and also so we have broken English in Nigeria.
Speaker 4: We have my where I'm from Ocean, we have our
Speaker 4: lookout dialects Yoruba.
Speaker 1: Is there more than one? Yes?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 2: In South Africa, there was like that is something languages
Speaker 2: in Isia and what's crazy?
Speaker 1: And two hundred and something languages in Agera now now
Speaker 1: listen to this this but this is no hold. But
Speaker 1: this was wild. This wild.
Speaker 2: What I learned when I went to South Africa that
Speaker 2: not only is there all these different dialects, different tribes
Speaker 2: they know, they know English, they know and they know
Speaker 2: like three other languages. Here we are Americans and we
Speaker 2: can't learn but two languages. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. One is be good to you?
Speaker 2: Oh man, you got two? We bought lingual. They try
Speaker 2: quad keep going.
Speaker 4: The languages you speak just Yoruba and English, but then
Speaker 4: we speak broken English.
Speaker 1: So broken English, you'll speak Atlanta.
Speaker 2: I do, I do.
Speaker 3: Atlanta may Yeah, that's funny as fun Who you did
Speaker 3: gonna win?
Speaker 1: Papa Jermaine Duprie.
Speaker 4: Oh they got a person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know the thing. Yeah, ain't. We're just
Speaker 1: taking a shot. I'm gonna take a peep. He picked,
Speaker 1: he picked pup. Let me see. Oh no, we gotta
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta watch. Yeah, you gotta watch it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a shot for that because you ain't picked. Cheers.
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 3: Oh so the f record, right, yeah, do you consider
Speaker 3: that your breakout record? It's not said, you know, I
Speaker 3: had I had some like records before that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I work and especially like how if I
Speaker 4: fall blew up for me by the type if in
Speaker 4: the fall blew up in America and the label is calling, like, yo,
Speaker 4: you gotta come out here. The record's blowing up. You
Speaker 4: gotta do promo. By the time I've done that, I'm
Speaker 4: like back home. I'm like seven records.
Speaker 1: Right, you don't want to go to America now at
Speaker 1: this point you're like America?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like.
Speaker 4: It's like seven records. See let me tell you any legos.
Speaker 4: They call us entertainers for anything. Baby, they can call
Speaker 4: you for a baby shower, two hundred K wedding. You
Speaker 4: do one wedding here before you finishing the wedding, your guy,
Speaker 4: my guy called miss me.
Speaker 1: You are.
Speaker 4: There's one guy that just wants you to call my
Speaker 4: dos chill team give you one hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: Good there. So what's what's what's sports? And sports?
Speaker 2: What it like?
Speaker 1: I'm in whatever whatever's going on in so like like I.
Speaker 4: Like I already told you like coming off that to
Speaker 4: even my deal, you know what I'm saying. But if
Speaker 4: you really want to you know, the main thing is
Speaker 4: changing the ninety ties. So that's why we're like, we
Speaker 4: gotta you know, we gotta switch it up now.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: We can't do what we used to do a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago. You know what I'm saying. They're calling me,
Speaker 4: throwing all kinds of money at me, my manage to
Speaker 4: tell me that we can't do I'm like, fuck you
Speaker 4: feel me. But it's for a great of course.
Speaker 3: They say, it's not what you accept, it's about what
Speaker 3: you don't accept it makes you a legend. Holy moly,
Speaker 3: walk the only hold up you want me?
Speaker 1: Yo? The dm X story. Oh no no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no, that's not in Nigeria, right what? H Well?
Speaker 2: And Gola, Yeah that's where the d MX almost got kidnap.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, that's not the same. Yeah yeah, yeah, you've
Speaker 2: been to Angola of course.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: He was like, I'm trying to leave, give me because
Speaker 3: niggas out there run the government. Niggas out there run
Speaker 3: the government like your pops run the government. He tried
Speaker 3: to get you arrested the first show.
Speaker 1: Your pop trying to get my paths don't run the government.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's very influential.
Speaker 4: So what it was was obviously you know I was
Speaker 4: when I actually left, like decided that, you know, I
Speaker 4: want to face this music.
Speaker 1: Like I was.
Speaker 4: I hid it so much from my family that I
Speaker 4: don't know why. I was just so reloked dot to
Speaker 4: just tell them, like, this is what I want to do.
Speaker 4: But I don't know because I'm just used. I didn't
Speaker 4: want to disappoint them because I'm just used to how
Speaker 4: the family has always this. This this is generations of
Speaker 4: generations of going to school, doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: Even your god father, my godfather is he drove me
Speaker 1: from the hospital.
Speaker 4: That's my golf. He reaches black man in the world.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, this is wind y'all hold on,
Speaker 1: bear with me.
Speaker 4: But see, but let me tell you something. As much
Speaker 4: money that I've been saying all this reach districh. Thats
Speaker 4: my dad is very disciplined.
Speaker 1: Wow, very very difference.
Speaker 4: You can't tell, like he said, very very disciplined, mane
Speaker 4: I said, I ain't know we had money till I
Speaker 4: was thirteen.
Speaker 1: That's that means a lot, very well.
Speaker 4: My dad was a billionaire driving and like Honda called,
Speaker 4: I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: He's a much better nigger than me. I'm telling that's
Speaker 1: let me. Let me let me tell you. I knew
Speaker 1: he was lit. So I love this ship, right right,
Speaker 1: I love this so something I mean.
Speaker 4: Something something I put in Nigeria where like the area
Speaker 4: that we were living in there was like a mistake,
Speaker 4: like a bomb blastop on and then like loads of
Speaker 4: houses go destroyed.
Speaker 1: You say, a bomb blast, Yeah, like she should I
Speaker 1: that it happens sometimes.
Speaker 3: I mean, just you know, if it happens in America,
Speaker 3: Damn you right, you see you right, I'm judging, judging,
Speaker 3: but I don't think. I don't think I got white
Speaker 3: people out there because like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Like I'm saying, when I think about bomb blast, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: I think of white people, don't no niggas.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Okay, something something on, something explosions, something, but something.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of houses go destroyed.
Speaker 4: And our first house growing up as a kid, so
Speaker 4: this is like from when I was going to when
Speaker 4: I was like eleven, right, So we had like a
Speaker 4: it was it was a big compound like a bungalow,
Speaker 4: but nothing crazy.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying When you call it a compound,
Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't It wasn't like, it wasn't crazy.
Speaker 4: So when that happened, we had to leave that day
Speaker 4: because the house got so fucked up.
Speaker 1: So we leave.
Speaker 4: So my mom was like, oh, I'm David, leave the house.
Speaker 1: I'm like, house, you going to your other houses? Yet
Speaker 1: you said building the.
Speaker 4: House since like it's on the news part of the town,
Speaker 4: like he's been building this, Well I didn't. I was
Speaker 4: a kid, Like I didn't even know the car just
Speaker 4: started driving for that, I said, okay, boy it was
Speaker 4: and he still stays there.
Speaker 1: Now big it is huge crip. So I'm like, what,
Speaker 1: what's good? Like, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Like then that's when I started realizing that something's going
Speaker 4: this guy you that over time, I just like groups
Speaker 4: of me, but like a lot of people, like, he's
Speaker 4: very silent, like my dad, doesn't show, doesn't doesn't even
Speaker 4: my even my concerts. He picks the ones he comes
Speaker 4: comes to. Like my dad, woul rather just have a
Speaker 4: one on one me closed doors. Very very disciplined man.
Speaker 4: Do you understand even with unqueco we got I'm talking
Speaker 4: about that riches a black man, don't like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the richest black man in the world. Yes, And
Speaker 1: is he one of the richest people in the goal
Speaker 1: reaches black man. Yes.
Speaker 4: Every time I see every time he sees me, you know,
Speaker 4: he tells me you have to go and buy an
Speaker 4: car in the blog you don't like, I saw you
Speaker 4: bought another car.
Speaker 1: Save your money? Fuck yeah, buy another car, you know.
Speaker 4: So I'm just telling you, like apart from like even
Speaker 4: like with successful my dad, he's a very very disciplined
Speaker 4: man and very very good feeling, you know, even opportunity.
Speaker 4: He's giving us so much opportunities, me and my family,
Speaker 4: like even with the music. It's been very very supportive,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. You know, at first he
Speaker 4: really just wanted me to finish school.
Speaker 3: Because the first he gots your girlfriend arrested, He's wold.
Speaker 4: I said, listen, let me tell you if you if
Speaker 4: you book me for a show, the promoter, the crew,
Speaker 4: the people backstage, you would have paid to come and
Speaker 4: watch me, you're going inside. So like because he wanted
Speaker 4: me to go back to school, so he was upset
Speaker 4: with you when you left. Definitely, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Just you know what I'm saying, like you send your
Speaker 4: you send your kid overseas. Like listen, even when they
Speaker 4: told him, even when they told him like your David
Speaker 4: has not been.
Speaker 1: In school, he was like, no, that's not my David. David.
Speaker 1: You can never you have stand up feeling. So I'm like, ah,
Speaker 1: you heard. Yes.
Speaker 4: When when everything casted, I said to myself, I said
Speaker 4: I cannot.
Speaker 1: I said how they said in.
Speaker 4: America, the cats is out of the bag. I can
Speaker 4: never go home disappointments. Since since everything is out almost
Speaker 4: go home, it can like, the next time I want
Speaker 4: my daddy to see me, he must be proud of me.
Speaker 1: So that was really one of my reasons.
Speaker 4: Jersey's disappointments, I like out of it so hurt. You
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Imagine this ship wouldn't it work? You would have been
Speaker 3: the only one.
Speaker 4: But I said, no, I'm going back. So so I
Speaker 4: was in London for a bit. And London is where
Speaker 4: I recorded the first couple of songs that I eventually dropped.
Speaker 4: You know that, you know, set me up. So I
Speaker 4: was learning for like four months.
Speaker 1: And no, No, I was in Yeah I was. I
Speaker 1: was like, that was it. I'm a worldwide keep going,
Speaker 1: keep going, keep going.
Speaker 4: So you know, after being in London for a imagine
Speaker 4: I've run away. He don't call the school. They're like, yo,
Speaker 4: your son ain't been in school for a year. I
Speaker 4: was with the Jamaicans, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So for a year, you're keeping it from your pops.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, So I did two years. I did my freshman year,
Speaker 4: I did my sophomore year. Freshman year, I got all a's.
Speaker 4: I'm good new school, lou anything I want to focus
Speaker 4: on in his life, like I'm good.
Speaker 1: You're good.
Speaker 4: I really sit down on one to focus.
Speaker 1: Your focus shifted because I just loved us. I just
Speaker 1: loved the music so much.
Speaker 4: So like during like the ending of my sophomore year,
Speaker 4: I started like flunking out in classes and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: so I just didn't go. So you know, remember I
Speaker 4: told you that. I told him that I want to
Speaker 4: transfer the credits, yes, Nigeria, and then he told me
Speaker 4: go back. Then when I went back, I was in
Speaker 4: Atlanta for like three days because I wanted to record music.
Speaker 4: So my phone went off. You know, normally you call
Speaker 4: me and I don't miss my dad's call because I
Speaker 4: don't be calling the school or somebody else. So my
Speaker 4: phone went off and he called the school, like, oh,
Speaker 4: I don't just talk to my son. He said, ah,
Speaker 4: here's the one.
Speaker 1: I was not being here for one year. I will
Speaker 1: never forget that.
Speaker 4: And it was faced that time was like a Facebook erar,
Speaker 4: I'll never forget my big brother does with me. Daddy
Speaker 4: knows me, no, no, no Facebook this time you're.
Speaker 1: Calm down, come down, hit you my Space though, so
Speaker 1: it's like.
Speaker 4: Facebook error that my brother hit me. He like, your
Speaker 4: dad knows you're gonna be in school. As soon as
Speaker 4: I started that message, I.
Speaker 1: Said, did your brother know you wasn't in school?
Speaker 4: My siblings news, so they're like, yep, so whatever you
Speaker 4: want to do, blah blah. So I did to London,
Speaker 4: and this whole time in London, I'm trying to just
Speaker 4: figure it out. Like I told you, I was like,
Speaker 4: can I go back with me? Disappointments I I cops,
Speaker 4: Then yeah, it's time to go back home.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I got out some money, I recorded some songs. Like
Speaker 4: I said, I knew the big guess. I just had
Speaker 4: that type of the bunch. I already knew him from
Speaker 4: him coming to Atlanta. So I was like, you know what,
Speaker 4: I'm about to go back home. Don't get out, just
Speaker 4: be around and just figure it out. As soon as
Speaker 4: I get off the plane, the army grabbed me.
Speaker 3: Bro oh sure straights. That's when he did get you
Speaker 3: arrested the last time.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah you didn't arrest me. Show you didn't
Speaker 1: arrest me. Yes, thought at me to his house. They
Speaker 1: didn't like coff me up. You know. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: some gangster ship ship and it was so crazy.
Speaker 4: So I had this friend I don't want to say
Speaker 4: his name.
Speaker 1: I know you want to. I'm sorry, I ain't got
Speaker 1: to join me if I don't ready.
Speaker 4: So I had this friend which was like, you know,
Speaker 4: and that's talking about loyalty. I've known this guy for
Speaker 4: like eight years, so he's the only guy in Nigeria
Speaker 4: I'm telling my movements.
Speaker 1: He definitely rated you out. He told me he collect
Speaker 1: that money from my doctor, so I'll never forget. So
Speaker 1: I'm calling.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yo, I learned tomorrow. So you know, I
Speaker 4: got some bread with me, So hook up the hotel.
Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm lit. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm sixteen. I do like seventy thousand on me. You
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. That's just normal.
Speaker 1: You're sixteen.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, this is this. This seventy thousand
Speaker 4: is my my own, like my own, Like, yo.
Speaker 3: Just take a shot for that seven sixteen, seventy thousands
Speaker 3: solo solo shit.
Speaker 4: So I'm lit, like I'm calling him like yo, book
Speaker 4: the hotels were going out tonight. We are blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: So as soon as I get off the plane, did
Speaker 4: some like me looking guy just came. He grabbed me
Speaker 4: by the past. You like pull your past up to me.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, like he just did that because I was
Speaker 4: like sagging my parts, but he was telling me like, oh,
Speaker 4: you're gonna get your You're gonna get your ass. As
Speaker 4: soon as I passed with Greshan, I just see that,
Speaker 4: my friend, he.
Speaker 1: Just does he does this in America, going to America
Speaker 1: saying you sneak.
Speaker 4: Bro the next thing I just see. I just see
Speaker 4: my daddy just runs and hugs.
Speaker 1: On two three one two three.
Speaker 4: Ahead, so just see the hogs be like, oh, just
Speaker 4: like I'm his baby.
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4: You know my mom passed when I was like, yes,
Speaker 4: you know, he feels like I'm you know, she left
Speaker 4: the baby with him, like why do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you want? So that was when I remember
Speaker 1: when I when I I guess what when I went away?
Speaker 4: He said he caught everybody off, said nobody getting no
Speaker 4: money until he comes back. So my whole family's writing
Speaker 4: me or not please hut. He he said no thing
Speaker 4: for any I said, nothing for anybody.
Speaker 1: My baby boy comes back.
Speaker 2: Because they said you went missing. They didn't know you
Speaker 2: was when in London he was here and here. That's
Speaker 2: what I was only talking.
Speaker 4: To like one of my siblings because we were really close.
Speaker 3: So he was here like I was here and there
Speaker 3: because in a fake documentary they got about you. This
Speaker 3: is a fake documentary they got about you. They said, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I had to watch that too. You know, I want
Speaker 3: to do much here. But they said that you disappeared
Speaker 3: for a year. Was that that time period?
Speaker 1: It was a year?
Speaker 4: That wasn't I mean I was uploading on Facebook like yeah,
Speaker 4: just I wasn't not like seven months, I want to say,
Speaker 4: a year, okay, seven months?
Speaker 1: Seven months okay? Then you return.
Speaker 4: So I got home, he hugs me, We get in
Speaker 4: the car, blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: There's no rose pedals are just feeling like this roses.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm just sorry. I remember.
Speaker 4: I get home right and then everybody get home. So
Speaker 4: he's the Royal bath, you know, yeah, so so am
Speaker 4: I You know, you know when you're like you about
Speaker 4: to you know you got you. I'm sixteen, I'm about
Speaker 4: to get to Legos.
Speaker 1: I don't called all my baby. We're going out tonight.
Speaker 4: Man. So they we get in the car, we get home,
Speaker 4: but who fuck me? I did this we got each
Speaker 4: now you know he's backlip. So my dad he told
Speaker 4: me he was just talking for me to be home.
Speaker 4: But I was still being hard headed. I was like, man, no, man,
Speaker 4: what the.
Speaker 1: Fuck I was young? I was. My brother was looking
Speaker 1: at me like days, shut the fuck up, and I
Speaker 1: was like, man, I have my own money.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I went to my buck. I brother like, I
Speaker 4: have my own money. I was to leave, like that's
Speaker 4: young me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But you were sixteen. Yeah, so I'm lost now.
Speaker 7: Because you said you you I went to college at fifteen.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, then you're making sense of it.
Speaker 4: My da.
Speaker 3: Collection nageria, you go to college earlier you graduate.
Speaker 2: Because so you must have been the youngest person in
Speaker 2: your college, my whole school.
Speaker 4: So even when I was going to school, my sister,
Speaker 4: you know, I told you my sister went to awkward.
Speaker 1: My sister took you one of those shot it's okay,
Speaker 1: let's give no no yeah, every year.
Speaker 4: So when I was in college, my sister was just like,
Speaker 4: when you get there, I don't really tell people your
Speaker 4: age because you wouldn't have fun. Like nobody going to
Speaker 4: want to hang out with a sixteen.
Speaker 1: Year old well you got that fifteen you're saying, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I ain't.
Speaker 4: Nobody really asked me in school like, oh.
Speaker 2: How do you yes think about how wild that is?
Speaker 2: Regularly you go to school like me and my mad
Speaker 2: smarter than us.
Speaker 4: And at the time, like my brother's id. He like,
Speaker 4: we kind of looked like pastor, like I used these
Speaker 4: IDs again. That was in the documentary he got they
Speaker 4: put the basketball. He got it from Sonny. Sonny got
Speaker 4: a flow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Chance. So so.
Speaker 4: My Dad's like, okay, we're gonna do to me and tomorrow.
Speaker 4: So the next day he calls me off to his
Speaker 4: room and basically asking me like, oh, why did I
Speaker 4: run away?
Speaker 1: Like why didn't I just tell him?
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I'm like that I told
Speaker 4: you you remember, I told him I want to transform
Speaker 4: my credits. So he's like, you know what, he wants
Speaker 4: me to go back to school. He really wants me
Speaker 4: to go back to school. I was like, man, so
Speaker 4: what's in it for me? Man?
Speaker 3: Didn't you make a compromise like five days a week
Speaker 3: you go to school?
Speaker 4: You know, I go to school for I'll go to
Speaker 4: school for thirteen days then I get two days off.
Speaker 1: Every thirteen days and.
Speaker 2: You get two days off to make music. So just
Speaker 2: make me thirteen days straight including weekdays, right, and.
Speaker 4: I'm like six hours away from the city.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, but if he said, okay, he beat
Speaker 4: me like a world class studio, he like financially supports me.
Speaker 2: And then he classroom where it was just you know,
Speaker 2: this guy's about to say you got your own soup
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: I've been studying you already, I'm get you already knew
Speaker 1: what I was saying.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so he was like, okay, that you built
Speaker 4: me a studio and you like paid for my music career.
Speaker 4: All I got to do is go to school. I
Speaker 4: knew I had the records. I knew I had record deal,
Speaker 4: I knew I had the swag. I knew I had everything.
Speaker 4: So I was like, but in my head, I'm like, ship,
Speaker 4: I'm about to go to school for three months blow up.
Speaker 1: And that was my plan.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie like that was my plan because
Speaker 4: I was also invested in the music.
Speaker 1: So what happened?
Speaker 4: So so he built the studio. Yeah, he was like, yes,
Speaker 4: land down the road, He's gonna give it to me.
Speaker 1: Yo.
Speaker 4: He built me the best studio at the time, the
Speaker 4: best studio in Nigeria. So how that helped me was
Speaker 4: that So I started going to school.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 4: So I called my cousins in the school. So I
Speaker 4: called my cousins. I'm like, yo, I'm coming to I'm
Speaker 4: enrolling in Babcock. That's going to school.
Speaker 1: So he's like, yeah, don't worry. I got you. Don't worry.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be going to the city every weekend. Your
Speaker 4: dad don't got to know. So I'm like, yes, guess
Speaker 4: for my dad put me the the oh of the school.
Speaker 1: This is his house. The dean did not the dean
Speaker 1: number one, the owner number one. I'm thinking I'm about
Speaker 1: to be in the dorm.
Speaker 4: But I'm saying, pay off the days and ship people
Speaker 4: do it. They go to legos every weekend. I said,
Speaker 4: this is my room.
Speaker 1: This is oh no school.
Speaker 4: Every morning when he's going to walk, the first person
Speaker 4: is checking this is my room. I said, yeah, I
Speaker 4: said what, So he put me in the mean you
Speaker 4: know of the room. I'm like, you know what, I'm
Speaker 4: just about to tug it out. So like I started
Speaker 4: going home every like thirteen days. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But luckily for me. I had the best studio, so
Speaker 4: all the artists will come to my studio. Every artist
Speaker 4: was coming, and then I had a chance to be recording.
Speaker 1: So so it's time for this.
Speaker 4: So he told me after three months, if I behave
Speaker 4: myself after three months, then he gonna shoot the video.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, shit, I stay down. I fuck it.
Speaker 4: So I was actually even after these three months, I
Speaker 4: e don't forgot to like I even got tired. I
Speaker 4: was like, you know what, I'm just about to just
Speaker 4: finish school and just go work. So if we shot
Speaker 4: the video, he paid for the video for me. God
Speaker 4: bless him, you know what I'm saying. That was the
Speaker 4: start of everything. Shout out to Pops.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, and at that time, that was like the most
Speaker 4: expensive video at that time. Paid for the video. We
Speaker 4: dropped it. So when we dropped it, he said, okay,
Speaker 4: you have you have one day to do your and
Speaker 4: your promo and then you have to go back to school. Okay,
Speaker 4: So I did I remember it was like a Sunday.
Speaker 4: I did the promo on Monday after like doing radio
Speaker 4: dropping the song, and I got to go back to
Speaker 4: school four hours away. So I'm like, so I go
Speaker 4: back to school. I felt like, it's this my phone
Speaker 4: just run my one of my bridges in school. He said, you,
Speaker 4: I was in the club last night when they played
Speaker 4: your song. All the girls were going.
Speaker 1: I said.
Speaker 4: I said, I said, are you sure? He said, bro,
Speaker 4: I'm telling you. He said the club the club was shaky.
Speaker 4: I said what I said, are you sure? So? The
Speaker 4: next day was classes, right, so we get to class.
Speaker 4: I walked into class. Everybody's like I was like, shout.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking. I'm like, well, I'm like, I'm sorry, Jamie,
Speaker 1: we get a chance. Looking, I'm like, should I should I?
Speaker 4: Should I dip now?
Speaker 1: Or should I wait till shoot the second video?
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 1: From pops? Of course? Because you okay?
Speaker 4: So I said another thirteen days. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa.
Speaker 4: We about to go to the city like this. This
Speaker 4: is my first time going back since we've dropped the
Speaker 4: video everything. So my dad is like, oh, so I
Speaker 4: can go out. I mean, I've been doing good. I've
Speaker 4: been to school, go out to the club. When I walk,
Speaker 4: when I walked.
Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, this is your first time going this is.
Speaker 4: My first time experiencing film, This is my first time
Speaker 4: see somebody do, like, is that devyd Like this is my.
Speaker 1: First let's get to it. Just in touch. That was
Speaker 1: a drug bro like that feeling is it comes on?
Speaker 1: He wants Yeah, I know that feeling Broy playing in
Speaker 1: you know when you're in the club. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: so they're shouting, so I'm in the club.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm just waiting for the DJs to play
Speaker 4: the record and I'll never forget. The DJ was like,
Speaker 4: I can hard headed because he just wanted me to
Speaker 4: recognize him. That's my first time even doing that. But
Speaker 4: you better go to the DJ booth. You better go
Speaker 4: to the DJ introduce himself. So I went to the
Speaker 4: DJ booth. I was like, if you do you know DJs?
Speaker 4: They were like, oh, you know your record?
Speaker 1: I don't like this DJ. No, you know what?
Speaker 4: He played the record when he played the records crazy
Speaker 4: running away again.
Speaker 1: The next day, I changed my what is it called
Speaker 1: when it's going? What's it?
Speaker 4: What's it called when it's gone? Like from there, I'm like, no,
Speaker 4: but listen it would it happens so quick? Boom boom
Speaker 4: put up course, queen up, queen up, coen up, cooing up.
Speaker 4: That's when I start getting shows. That's when the arresting
Speaker 4: start going. I started getting booking and am I like
Speaker 4: defence booking and I got like it was like fifteen
Speaker 4: hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: I was like ship and fifteen hundred dollars. Then back
Speaker 1: up home ship it was lit. We get a hotel
Speaker 1: for like a month. So from then, honey for a month, I.
Speaker 5: Know what I'm saying, Like compay, Like then like compare,
Speaker 5: let's take a shop for that.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 4: So from then like like shit started getting lit and
Speaker 4: my dad find out that I've left school again. Yes,
Speaker 4: so we start getting bookings. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I was on the road, on the run again, start
Speaker 4: getting bookers. I had like a couple of label offers
Speaker 4: like Nigerian Independent, Nigeria Nigeriani Independent. Labels like offering me
Speaker 4: because I had a high record. Of course, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, We're getting club gigs for seven hundred
Speaker 4: dollars here sh that shit was adding up, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Back then, So so one time I
Speaker 4: got like one of my main bookings. He had like
Speaker 4: a big or what's it called a.
Speaker 1: Big billboard stage manner. So my dad going to work
Speaker 1: just seeing my son and.
Speaker 2: Like, what.
Speaker 1: Big new superstar with the hotels record?
Speaker 4: Bro?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I'm late.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm back stage, I'm you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: sagged out, you know, you.
Speaker 1: Know the boys and me. Now you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Everybody lit just here. I said, what's going on? Where's you?
Speaker 4: And while looking for somebody that's there's been kidnapped, I said,
Speaker 4: who is kidnapped? I said, you mighty, you'render your parents
Speaker 4: kill im?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You know what I did?
Speaker 2: I dip running away, arrested my dan girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 2: Oh so it's legal that that's the legal thing.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't know. It seems like you
Speaker 1: listen his pops is that next he made I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at you. You know what I'm saying. We had
Speaker 1: to deal, yes, yes, So.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying after that, like the arrest
Speaker 4: of the promoter. You know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 1: The promoted to booking everybody?
Speaker 4: Yeah, booking, if you book, if you book him, if
Speaker 4: you book him, you game booked?
Speaker 1: Was that hard for you because because because that room
Speaker 1: to give you a beat.
Speaker 4: It stopped the beast stop immediately he stopped the bag.
Speaker 4: Any household that I going to do, send you letter
Speaker 4: from the ideal of police we had that you have been.
Speaker 1: You said, your dad is not in the government. I
Speaker 1: don't know he's He's a good guy to me. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, A good guys. I'm not going
Speaker 1: I was speaking to you on your wall.
Speaker 4: So from there, like everybody was liked and it was us,
Speaker 4: you know, like when people like they want to be
Speaker 4: around like, no, they didn't want to be around me.
Speaker 4: There was just like I don't have no problems with
Speaker 4: So now I got to start being like I went
Speaker 4: to the studio. Yeah, I recorded this song, the song
Speaker 4: that sets me free. So this song called Dammy Duro
Speaker 4: this is my.
Speaker 1: Breakout means I'm the son of a rich man.
Speaker 4: No, no, son of rich one and my dammy Duro
Speaker 4: means you can't stop me, okay, And the song it's like,
Speaker 4: am I dammi Duro and me it means you can't
Speaker 4: stop me, I'm the son of rich man. This song
Speaker 4: was so powerful. It was like, I guess what the
Speaker 4: presidents of the country at that time that.
Speaker 1: Was singing so yes, that's when pop said.
Speaker 4: So when they were when they when they when this
Speaker 4: record came out, so when they we send the police
Speaker 4: to arrest me. There was one time they I went
Speaker 4: to the show, they took me. They put me in
Speaker 4: the office. Obviously he doesn't tell them like lock me up,
Speaker 4: like just like hold me. The police phone starts ringing
Speaker 4: it's my song. I said, it's me, it's me.
Speaker 1: Are you dare? I say, it's me, that's me. So
Speaker 1: at that moment, that's it.
Speaker 4: So like everybody was calling my dad like just lets
Speaker 4: him because now they starts enjoying the music.
Speaker 1: The presidence was.
Speaker 3: Like a big thing president of you're at the time
Speaker 3: or your peraps and say relax, yes, like let's see
Speaker 3: that was hard, sir my.
Speaker 4: So just like everybody calling him, And honestly, my dad
Speaker 4: is not that he didn't like entertainment.
Speaker 1: He just really.
Speaker 4: Wanted me to like have something to fall back on because.
Speaker 1: This is not forever and under the radar. I feel
Speaker 1: like he wants to be under the radar.
Speaker 4: No, definitely, So that song is how he got People
Speaker 4: knew that, oh yeah this guy ut him. Yeah I did,
Speaker 4: Oh definitely I casted him. So from that, you know,
Speaker 4: from that time we got back together. Funny enough, I
Speaker 4: signed a record deal.
Speaker 1: And I got like thirty no thirty, so I got like,
Speaker 1: I'm all in your business, my bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got like twenty something. I was don't do
Speaker 4: us and that's record deal.
Speaker 1: I remember.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget so because I'm like my song's gown.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I need to move forward, all right? Boy oh boy?
Speaker 4: He called them like, yeah, the contract is over. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna handle My son called me, this is what we're doing.
Speaker 4: You're gonna go to school part time. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm good to.
Speaker 4: Support to you. Yeah, he saw the pass on. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, I said, father, no time. If that is
Speaker 4: not what he wanted for me. It became successful, so
Speaker 4: automatically you be happy. He might not want to show anything,
Speaker 4: but his friends was telling me, ah, your dad is happier. Yes,
Speaker 4: like it would like not to like brag like my dad.
Speaker 4: I was doing so much. Like without him, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be here talking to you. But like even with me
Speaker 4: and my music has opened so much doors for my family,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Just even being like connected,
Speaker 4: you know with me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So that's because you've become like a de facto ambassador. Yes,
Speaker 2: no to even the whole country.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's beautiful, man, because that's that's what I read
Speaker 3: somewhere that afterwards your father was very involved with your contracts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like major, like right now now, it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm older.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Let me do my thing.
Speaker 4: But in the beginning of everything, all my endorsements, he
Speaker 4: would just call them. You said, I can I give
Speaker 4: my son this money?
Speaker 1: Double it?
Speaker 4: You tell me, don't sign, I'll give you the money.
Speaker 1: I said, all right, Damn, we need to follow like this.
Speaker 3: Drink Champs, I said, your father about the boy drink Champs.
Speaker 3: Just start the rumor right now it's under Nigeria or
Speaker 3: we don't care. We don't Daddy, we love you, but
Speaker 3: we go to we want.
Speaker 1: Whatever we want. Look at my shirt. I'm ready. I'm
Speaker 1: already signed.
Speaker 3: Holy shit, that's that's a beautiful thing. I'm hold on
Speaker 3: home because I got mad note home. Your first car
Speaker 3: was an Audi or was your first car supposed to
Speaker 3: be an Audi?
Speaker 1: And he was going to sell it? Damn, you know
Speaker 1: I know my ship. I know my ship.
Speaker 4: So every thirdy were becoming junior in school, like my
Speaker 4: dad always bidy's like all the kids across. So he
Speaker 4: brought me every thirty days, every when you becoming junior
Speaker 4: in college thirty year fucking fuck thirty. My family every thirty.
Speaker 4: So he bought me like Audi Q seven. But I
Speaker 4: told you I was so in love with what I wanted.
Speaker 4: I also focused on the plant.
Speaker 2: So I was gonna sell it and then take the
Speaker 2: bread and you're gonna flip the car.
Speaker 1: That sounds not Jerry in the meat. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I mean, but it never came. Came came,
Speaker 1: So let me see what happened.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I called the guy, so I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: back to pick the car, right, So I go so
Speaker 4: walking to Audi. So he about to give me the keys.
Speaker 4: He's like, oh hold on, but at this time, my
Speaker 4: dad already knows I'm not in school, so he's like,
Speaker 4: oh hold on, your dad is calling. I'm like, so
Speaker 4: the guy does like this, Oh hello hello doctor delegate.
Speaker 1: Oh really. M As soon as he started saying that,
Speaker 1: I started bunking up, like.
Speaker 4: I ain't gonna find I never got the cardough no,
Speaker 4: but eventually, like he shifted.
Speaker 1: Your father is the Tony.
Speaker 4: I got my degree though, graduated in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna I want to say when they're gonna
Speaker 3: make the movie about you, but I keep thinking about it.
Speaker 1: It's really about you and your father, the whole family.
Speaker 3: He's the Tony sopranos Nigerians Yo, that that motherfuckers?
Speaker 7: Hell?
Speaker 1: Holy yeah holy.
Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you though, because your story
Speaker 2: is unique in your story and I'm sure there's similar stories,
Speaker 2: what is the average young Nigerian that doesn't.
Speaker 1: Come from the wealthy family? Okay?
Speaker 2: How many artists have broken out like you? From that point,
Speaker 2: I mean should say the truth?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I mean I think honestly, you know, you know,
Speaker 4: it's crazy to see because when I came out, it
Speaker 4: was years or years of yeah, he's just he's just
Speaker 4: because of his dad's money. You talk me, I'm doing
Speaker 4: eighty songs back to back all here you talking about
Speaker 4: that money. And then eventually, like you know, a lot
Speaker 4: of people have money Nigeria that people that in najoy
Speaker 4: that reach out of my dad. Do you understand that
Speaker 4: have chiudure entertainers but they're not on date by God
Speaker 4: like me. You know what I'm saying. Money has nothing
Speaker 4: to do with my success. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You know how like in America, if you're from somewhere,
Speaker 4: you appreciate it day right. But I'm telling you every
Speaker 4: corner of Nigeria, rich or poor, I'm appreciated, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, just because of the way I live
Speaker 4: my life. You know, a lot of people that are
Speaker 4: from the hood Nigeria can't go to the places that
Speaker 4: I can go. Do you know what I'm saying. People
Speaker 4: you know, come from the wood and want to escape.
Speaker 4: I never want to go back. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It's not like America. I know who do If you
Speaker 4: go to who you call, I starts hating on you
Speaker 4: like you're out. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's not like that.
Speaker 4: Like love, like even we charity, like you know, on
Speaker 4: my birthday, like one of the things that you know
Speaker 4: showed me like damn, like people really appreciate me. On
Speaker 4: my birthday. On my twenty ninth birthday, we was in
Speaker 4: Dubai and I wanted this watch. So I told my
Speaker 4: boys everybody doing.
Speaker 1: This money for the watch that I wanted. I liked
Speaker 1: this idea, so so.
Speaker 4: I ended up like making like a group chats and
Speaker 4: like people were like, you know, sending money. So we
Speaker 4: went to the club that night. I got drunk as hell.
Speaker 4: I went to dobac on me. I said, fuck that,
Speaker 4: I'm about to tweet my account. You take my accounts
Speaker 4: num by. In forty eight hours, I got sent six
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Cash.
Speaker 3: You understand how this works? Can't said that again, because
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I just needed to be. I woke up.
Speaker 4: He's saying that how much love he got? I tweeted
Speaker 4: my account number like your fans, yes on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Damn, I'm not sure fucking with me like that. I might.
Speaker 3: I definitely get a cassio. I ain't get what would
Speaker 3: you borrow six hundred thousands?
Speaker 4: So so you know, in forty eight hours, I got
Speaker 4: about six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. No, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: my bad, I'm sorry. I got I'm what was fifteen
Speaker 4: million dollars? You know I did my own fifo.
Speaker 1: No no, no, how damn no. Not this new exchangery too,
Speaker 1: not the new exchange right, that exchange that that I
Speaker 1: was like four into so called the milk fans. So
Speaker 1: I got like, I'm gonna try.
Speaker 4: So I got like, I go like, I think I'll
Speaker 4: say four hundred and something thousand right cash in the
Speaker 4: account fans. People were sending one dollar. Everything was even
Speaker 4: the ones I was sending five dollars. People were sending
Speaker 4: ten thousand, people were sending seventy thousand. It was I
Speaker 4: didn't know, boy boy, And then my dad called me,
Speaker 4: you know you can't keep that money.
Speaker 1: Righted to hell.
Speaker 4: So you know what I'm saying, like, no, I don't
Speaker 4: need this, Why you don't need this? Why are you
Speaker 4: keeping the money? I think you should donate to all
Speaker 4: the motherless baby's homes in nineteen So what what happening on?
Speaker 4: So what we did was I got four hundred thousand,
Speaker 4: then I added another one hundred and fifty thousands of
Speaker 4: my money to make it six hundred.
Speaker 1: That's why I was six fifty.
Speaker 4: And we're doing it to all the motherless baby's homes
Speaker 4: in Nigeria.
Speaker 1: So it's something I planned to continue to do every year.
Speaker 3: But let me ask you, did your father ever explain
Speaker 3: why it was inappropriate for you to keep that money.
Speaker 4: He was saying that this is already showing you how
Speaker 4: much people love you. You know what I'm saying you
Speaker 4: you you know what I'm saying. You buy, You buy
Speaker 4: the watch, you buy the car they watch. That's after
Speaker 4: six months you get out of wearing it. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. You don't need the money. You get
Speaker 4: that money and if you do a show and an appearance,
Speaker 4: do the right thing.
Speaker 1: That's okay, let's do.
Speaker 4: So we made a committee like a comedee, my auntie,
Speaker 4: my dad was involved, some people from the church as well.
Speaker 4: So you made a committee to go around to all
Speaker 4: the because it's thirty six states in Nigeria, so to
Speaker 4: go around to all the motherless babies homes in Nigeria
Speaker 4: and you know, make sure that it's real, because anybody
Speaker 4: can just send that accounts and be like, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So that took like two months.
Speaker 4: Then we finally, you know, did it donated all six
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty thousand loss to the last them.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you, because during this whole interview,
Speaker 3: I'll be seeing you be switching accents, right, I don't
Speaker 3: know if you're doing on purpose or if it's just
Speaker 3: going out right. When you order room service three o'clock
Speaker 3: in the morning, Hello, key, connect.
Speaker 1: Me to room service. Can I get a Burger Buffalo
Speaker 1: with some tougher five?
Speaker 4: And then when I'm in Atlanta, Hey, hey, let me
Speaker 4: get that lemon pepper.
Speaker 1: You don't like Atlanta every time? Atlanta? Holy shit? Oh man,
Speaker 1: I love it Lanta. No huh yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: Like I mean, I perform like it's like to do this,
Speaker 4: like this darker series. And you know I wasn't coming
Speaker 4: to America too. I'm in the movie what yeah, what
Speaker 4: part in the part of the wedding. I'm the one
Speaker 4: performing on the stage.
Speaker 1: Now, she's your queen, not that boy? Yeah no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm in the movie. I remember it
Speaker 1: was dope to shoot what it was in Rick Ros's crib.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: We started at Tyler Perry Studio. Oh not Zimonda, not
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah. I remember being on set.
Speaker 4: So you know Eddie Murphy, he be Addie Murphy, he
Speaker 4: be he'd be acting different characters. Oh yeah, he'd knew
Speaker 4: that I was shooting me Eddie Mourphy for two days.
Speaker 4: I did you know that that was him? It was
Speaker 4: behind me. I don't know, I forget so like when
Speaker 4: it was like my last shot, you say, he said, yo,
Speaker 4: d Lou, I said, yeah, so it was.
Speaker 1: Just amazing to see you two days. What character there was?
Speaker 1: He he was, he was active. This is the the
Speaker 1: the guy that sings the old school Yeah, the Jerry
Speaker 1: Curves chocolate. Yeah so that. But he was like, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. When you're shooting, you know you
Speaker 1: don't even but you ain't see coming to America one.
Speaker 1: But I didn't. Didn't hits me. He was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I watched. I watched the one.
Speaker 4: But like I'm just excited to be that I'm shooting.
Speaker 4: I'm doing my job, doing what I gotta do. I
Speaker 4: really trying to do.
Speaker 1: No extra ship.
Speaker 3: You know why I would have knew because the sexual
Speaker 3: chocolates from Jackson Heights Queens. I'm from Black Rock City Queens,
Speaker 3: and I would have remembered them. Motherfuckers hed a.
Speaker 1: Sexual chocolate from Jackson Heights, Like that was dope. No
Speaker 1: black people in Jackson Heights. It was live this old time.
Speaker 1: Yeah I got that.
Speaker 3: No God, no, no, I say that there's some black
Speaker 3: people in jack His Heights. Very few it's a lot
Speaker 3: of Colombians, a lot of Columbians, a lot of Mexicans.
Speaker 4: Love New York though, yes, like after the A, I
Speaker 4: love being New York. I love his city life.
Speaker 1: Right, you know what I'm saying, what do you what
Speaker 1: do you stay in New York? Like a hotel? I know,
Speaker 1: what's your hotel?
Speaker 4: My best hotel? I don't know if I say that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm just gonna say the Plaza Hotel. That's
Speaker 3: where Eddie murk Vingham stayed at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning. That was in the hood. No, my neighbor,
Speaker 1: but he was in the hood. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that was in Queens.
Speaker 3: And I'm talking about where they stayed at the where
Speaker 3: the wall. There was the Waldorf, I said, the Plaza.
Speaker 3: You know it was the Waldorf, which is closed by
Speaker 3: the way. Yeah, they renovated for ten years. They were
Speaker 3: renovating a story, right, world over story? Do they have
Speaker 3: a world over story?
Speaker 4: But we got like a Hilton, we got married out
Speaker 4: I hair, we got an Intercontinental.
Speaker 1: And how do how do we pronounced? It's legos le
Speaker 1: legos legos And it's so like you say say like
Speaker 1: you say, layover.
Speaker 3: Lego, legos legos Okay, I got it. And what's my
Speaker 3: other ship? When it's over, I'm becoming Nigeria. Give me
Speaker 3: a credit card number.
Speaker 1: I forgot this. I got this.
Speaker 3: Holy Holy, you got a shot there. I'm sorry, miss me,
Speaker 3: and you take a shot.
Speaker 1: Man. I'm sorry, man, But for real, man, hold on
Speaker 1: what you're doing.
Speaker 3: Man, what you accomplished. It's so beautiful man, Like I said,
Speaker 3: you didn't you didn't. You didn't have to do this
Speaker 3: lifestyle you.
Speaker 1: Could have been.
Speaker 3: And the fact that you came and I can tell
Speaker 3: this to your passion, the fact that you're living out
Speaker 3: your passion.
Speaker 1: That's like such such a beautiful fucking thing, man, Like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I want to salute that. Man.
Speaker 1: We should all sue that because because that's just beautiful.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 1: And and the fact that like you had great parents.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I got a great you know, recipes to your mother
Speaker 3: as well, we had a great father, and you still
Speaker 3: pursued it like he tried to stop.
Speaker 1: So what was the point where you felt like you
Speaker 1: made it?
Speaker 4: I think I think in in in everybody's story, I
Speaker 4: think they are different points, Yeah, where you felt like
Speaker 4: you made it right, But like I'm telling you that
Speaker 4: the first feeling I told you guys about when my.
Speaker 1: Friend called me and told me that he was in
Speaker 1: the club.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and the girls were going that first feeling
Speaker 4: Kabolie once it doesn't call me game because.
Speaker 1: But that was him hearing it. You heard it. I
Speaker 1: told you I went in the club. Oh you club? No,
Speaker 1: I want him hearing the club. Like all of that
Speaker 1: was that feeling, that moment.
Speaker 4: And I've had like different moments in my career recently,
Speaker 4: like like this my my latest album that just came out,
Speaker 4: that has been a defining moments. The first time I
Speaker 4: sold out an international arena, that's been in defining moments.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, It's just beautiful, Like every
Speaker 4: country I go to. Like one of my first dope movements,
Speaker 4: I remember I was like wow, Like I got booked
Speaker 4: up for a show in Rwanda and the president came
Speaker 4: to pick me up from the Wow. Like those were
Speaker 4: like I'm just trying to give you like dope moments.
Speaker 4: So I'm like I'm like, damn, my music go to
Speaker 4: be here, Like those are one of the first dope movements.
Speaker 4: Like when I first bought my first Rose Wars that
Speaker 4: was a dope.
Speaker 1: Moment, you know, with your own money, with my own
Speaker 1: needs to be my own money.
Speaker 4: Just you know everything, just being able to just even
Speaker 4: though like my family is well off, like being able
Speaker 4: to just provide for my friends, being able to provide
Speaker 4: for my my wife, right for my kids.
Speaker 1: It's just dope.
Speaker 4: And you know what I'm saying, especially when it's like
Speaker 4: I always just believed, like called me crazy, but like
Speaker 4: I always just knew. It's like I just knew that
Speaker 4: I knew, like I'm going to be greats. I'm going
Speaker 4: to be greats. I don't know anything to happen, but
Speaker 4: like then go to happen quick for me?
Speaker 3: We need to ask because like in Africa, we always
Speaker 3: know that they got multiple wives.
Speaker 1: Now is that Muslim thing?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: That's like no, actually some Christians do it, to Christian
Speaker 1: Stewards to do it too.
Speaker 3: But you want one man, one one Yes, I got yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: he born in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You know his dad life, his dad about that life.
Speaker 4: Actually funny enough, my dad he's the one woman person.
Speaker 2: Yes, how did you get How did you were you
Speaker 2: born in Atlanta?
Speaker 1: Like how did that happen?
Speaker 4: So my grandfather was a Senator. My grandfather, so he
Speaker 4: like most of the kids, like you always send them
Speaker 4: to American Like my dad went to University of Kentucky,
Speaker 4: Bowling Green.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's generation. Yeah, this is the one thing that
Speaker 3: we know. Rich Africans send their kids the white schools.
Speaker 1: Let's just be clear. Let's just be clear. You know
Speaker 1: you're not doing the whole cup. Oh yeah, we get
Speaker 1: you a whole another drink right.
Speaker 2: There, thank you.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so my dad school in Kentucky. My dad
Speaker 4: and my mom actually first met in London. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: so that my mom is from the like South South
Speaker 4: parts of Nigeria, a place called Eddo states.
Speaker 1: My dad is Yuro.
Speaker 4: So I'm from two different tribes, actually like three. So
Speaker 4: I'm Ebo. My grandma is evil, my dad is.
Speaker 1: In twenty one savage ego. I think I think. I
Speaker 1: think it's Nigeria too, Yeah, twenty one, I think. I think.
Speaker 1: Let me not, you know, I don't want to get ship.
Speaker 4: My daughter and my mom met in London, and they
Speaker 4: know they got together and then they you know, at
Speaker 4: a lot times, I've always been in this love like
Speaker 4: young people.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 4: So my mom actually did her masters and Clerks Clark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, wow. So you know, America has always been
Speaker 1: a thing for my family. You know, we've always been
Speaker 1: coming out here crazy. If I was all, stay out
Speaker 1: there America.
Speaker 2: Now, learn what you got and to go back take
Speaker 2: it back and took another shot.
Speaker 1: I want another shot. Then he took another shot. He
Speaker 1: took a shot.
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 4: I just love the way that I just grew up
Speaker 4: in both places. Like trust me, the exposure has helped
Speaker 4: a lots do.
Speaker 2: But if you have a choice, America or Nigeria to
Speaker 2: take a shot, I take a shot.
Speaker 1: Should you shouldn't have influenced.
Speaker 3: I thought he was gonna say Nigeria, right, I don't
Speaker 3: like to take a shot.
Speaker 4: You like what I in my creative space, especially like
Speaker 4: when I'm recording. I feel like I for the best
Speaker 4: music when I'm back home.
Speaker 1: Do you do you live in Nigeria now?
Speaker 4: I live in Nigeria, I live in Atlanta. I basically
Speaker 4: live in three places. London, Nigeria, and Atlanta have houses everywhere.
Speaker 1: We don't we don't, yeah, we don't.
Speaker 2: We don't live in but like mainly mainly Nigeria, mainly Nigeria.
Speaker 1: Hey, calm be trying to get me get an apartment.
Speaker 1: I thought you told me you were about land. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm making apartments. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: Where he's at Sego. He ain't get me to buy
Speaker 3: a land in synagogue. He's trying to get me get
Speaker 3: a condo where I forget where it is. But where
Speaker 3: would you recommend if I was said.
Speaker 4: I mean right now, like real estate, right now, I
Speaker 4: would say Legos. You know, you know people have really
Speaker 4: been building some new dope investments. Yeah, very good investments.
Speaker 4: You can get a place for like but right now,
Speaker 4: like my building, Like if you can buy a place
Speaker 4: for like one point.
Speaker 1: Five Jesus, that's not the investment. I need one point
Speaker 1: five thousands, I'm telling you.
Speaker 4: But you can pip it, you can get you sell it,
Speaker 4: sell it for like four million. I mean, I'm telling
Speaker 4: you very good investments like my knee house down building. Now,
Speaker 4: you know, for me and my wife, it's about the
Speaker 4: beat is by this called Eco Atlantic.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be like Cabo Mexican thing. I'm a Mexican
Speaker 1: team I'm in. Yeah. And it's on the beach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's and like it's like water. It's quite dope
Speaker 4: good and I love good beauties and crazy amazing right crazy,
Speaker 4: So we sold.
Speaker 1: I'm sold, You're sold. What are you buying? I mean,
Speaker 1: he come, Uh, that's fine, you've been, You've been champion.
Speaker 1: Ain't come. I'm gonna here. Now you're gonna go. Now
Speaker 1: you might might, I might man, I gonna buy yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean African brothers. Let's do the first the dream
Speaker 1: jams deal with his dad and then drink is gonna
Speaker 1: buy us out and they ain't company just playing. It's
Speaker 1: all good man.
Speaker 3: So okay, obviously we say, uh, Nigeria, h Legos, Lagos. Right,
Speaker 3: what's another place that if a person never been to
Speaker 3: Africa you recommended they visit?
Speaker 1: Definitely Ghana? Ghana.
Speaker 4: I feel like I told you Legos is like New York.
Speaker 4: So it's just like if you if you're telling somebody
Speaker 4: you're going to America America for the first time, Like
Speaker 4: you can go to New York, but that's not the
Speaker 4: only place you want to go. You know, New York
Speaker 4: is fast. Legos is literably fast.
Speaker 1: Right. Oh well, Ghana is like I'll.
Speaker 2: Say, like more like La And this is all central Africa,
Speaker 2: right west Africa west west central west west just west.
Speaker 4: Yes by the coast. Okay, so God really dope. I
Speaker 4: recommend setting God where a carter is from.
Speaker 1: I recommend not the Congo. I've seen doctor.
Speaker 4: I wanted to go for coming home, Like I said,
Speaker 4: you see doctor, but like I've been to the Congo
Speaker 4: where they are good parts.
Speaker 2: To really yeah, that's why. Remember there's a there's a
Speaker 2: I had a DJ from Congo.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to talk about it. I was like,
Speaker 1: they had a lot of civil wars in the eighties
Speaker 1: and the eighties, and like, let.
Speaker 4: Me tell you what what has been happening recently in Africa?
Speaker 4: Like the people they wake it up? Boy, they're playing,
Speaker 4: they like protesting, you know, so like the United States
Speaker 4: is changing.
Speaker 1: God damn it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Beautiful, hey man, I'm gonna marry man that you know
Speaker 1: they're from where my wife is from. Because the Cubans
Speaker 1: were there wherever my wife from.
Speaker 4: That's why it was beautiful girls out that.
Speaker 1: Man, right, God damn, holy moly, guacam only you said, no,
Speaker 1: you're wakam only. It's the lea. I want to go
Speaker 1: to Liberia. Have you been the library? In the library,
Speaker 1: amazing place. They loved me, love me, even though they
Speaker 1: had a crazy civil war there too. It's stable now, right, I.
Speaker 4: Know the president yeah, gee, it was a it was
Speaker 4: a soccer player. That's the president now, George body aware.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a soccer player and now he's president. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Type of life is there, your Libera. It was wild
Speaker 1: back in the day. And damn, Sonny's not here. She's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: he's Asian.
Speaker 3: I've been yeah, no, no, yeah, I went to twenty.
Speaker 3: When you performed in Hayy, that's my next question. Look,
Speaker 3: and you are that's how you know you you're on point.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, well, Goad, you performed the hate Hadies do.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The experience that yo, the love was so much just
Speaker 4: I just remember like just driving up the hills to
Speaker 4: the hotel.
Speaker 1: Well, when you go up, the further you go up,
Speaker 1: the bricherd gets up. All all the rich people in
Speaker 1: Haiti living up in the mountains. What's cool?
Speaker 4: You know, it's just sad to see what's been happening
Speaker 4: with them.
Speaker 1: Reset It's tragic.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: I was meant to actually go back to another gig,
Speaker 4: but then they had to cancel it because it was just,
Speaker 4: you know, crazy, thisess happened.
Speaker 1: Jesus Man, we gotta go to Haiti. Man Dream Champs,
Speaker 1: gotta go to Haiti. I'm gonna going to hate I'm going.
Speaker 2: Haiti, Nigeria, Nigeria. You're like, every year I do a
Speaker 2: festival for your birthday. No, no, no, I'm doing a
Speaker 2: festival in Atlanta this year.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that too, o.
Speaker 4: So you know you have to see that g with
Speaker 4: Atlanta at Legos. You know those are like the two
Speaker 4: cities that you know kind of like mooded me, like
Speaker 4: to who I am? So I was like, you know,
Speaker 4: I want to do a festival that you know I
Speaker 4: can bring that. You have artists, African artists. I don't
Speaker 4: have an opportunity to come to America, you know, to
Speaker 4: perform every year. So we're gonna be doing that every
Speaker 4: year in November. So this year it's gonna be at
Speaker 4: the State Farm Marina in Atlanta, November eighteenth.
Speaker 1: Who you got so far locked in? I mean me
Speaker 1: and then uh we got like we got kids down there.
Speaker 1: But no about to like switch it.
Speaker 3: Up because you know it's gonna be like African artists
Speaker 3: with Crunk artists and Atlanta artists.
Speaker 4: I think that's gonna be like the surprise guest Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have like my brothers come out but African now.
Speaker 4: But like I have dreams of like in the future
Speaker 4: collaborating doing like away fast movie with like a Latina artist,
Speaker 4: you know, surprise guest, or like with the hip hop
Speaker 4: artist one year, you know, to you know, cult your class.
Speaker 1: Right, that'd be dope.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let me ask you because Michael Blacksman, he
Speaker 2: always eats food food.
Speaker 1: I don't like the way he eats food for how
Speaker 1: does he It's like my fungo. How does he eat
Speaker 1: with his hand is the same thing. It's not even
Speaker 1: that he eating his hand, it's just it's so yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so explain to people who love I.
Speaker 4: Mean, there's like there's you know, you have a different
Speaker 4: type of.
Speaker 1: Don't we have a Cuban but it's a planting soup,
Speaker 1: a planting soup. Okay, yeah, but foo they make it
Speaker 1: from planting. We have a Cuban soup like that Cuban
Speaker 1: food crazy.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's really there's two types of delicacies and
Speaker 4: that you have. There's like no more like rice dishes planting.
Speaker 4: And there's a movie called Swallow.
Speaker 1: He's saying, pause, Yeah, okay, it wasn't ready.
Speaker 4: Like they make like there's like food food, there's pound,
Speaker 4: there's Ebba, Like my favorite is Ebba. I don't know
Speaker 4: what what they call gary.
Speaker 1: He's like, which is Yuka? Right? Yuka? You like.
Speaker 4: You do that with like the you know Okra like okra.
Speaker 4: So they have like the Okra soup. It's nice, spy
Speaker 4: see put some crabs in that bitch. So so is
Speaker 4: that your favorite?
Speaker 1: That's my favorite?
Speaker 3: Put some crab, Put some African your favorite? No, I
Speaker 3: like eb the okra one about with the crab, with
Speaker 3: the crab. I like your enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about.
Speaker 3: Not because I'm not gonna lie. My friend Hollywood, he
Speaker 3: know Michael black you know Drake Yeah, the boxer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie to you. That's that's my brother.
Speaker 3: I grew up with him.
Speaker 2: He from the he's from the same building as as
Speaker 2: the same section as me, from the same.
Speaker 1: Block section two.
Speaker 3: He's a part of He's not Jerian, even though don't
Speaker 3: text him because if we don't want to be telling
Speaker 3: them no fake well he knows. But the way him
Speaker 3: and Michael Blacksman eat fool fool, I don't want to
Speaker 3: try because they be ugly.
Speaker 1: The way before he's laying by, I'm taking all my
Speaker 1: your you off before you top or they still they
Speaker 1: be still trying to be cool. Yeah yeah, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like like how you eat crabs, you put you
Speaker 3: put the bed on, no people nob noh okay, sweat
Speaker 3: sweating Okay, I'm practicing practice old water okay.
Speaker 1: On the sun all right.
Speaker 4: So that's my favorite from that, like plantation.
Speaker 3: But if I eat food for my first spirits, where
Speaker 3: should I eat it at?
Speaker 1: Yeah? At home, close to the bedroom. But you definitely
Speaker 1: don't want to eat food for and like go to
Speaker 1: the club. That's not the way this works because because
Speaker 1: you're gonna go to the club.
Speaker 4: Two thirty years right right, Well, the speakers like, I'm
Speaker 4: glad I didn't listen to the mother.
Speaker 1: They gotta love enjoy, trust me.
Speaker 4: It's the best food to eat after good like you
Speaker 4: want to go.
Speaker 1: To bed right after the club? Is a good food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the subsorbs the liquor and take it because
Speaker 2: you know there's.
Speaker 4: Pepe needs to go to the liquor stuff. There's another
Speaker 4: thing we have called suya to. It's one of my
Speaker 4: most famous dishes. It's like cut up steak, but it's
Speaker 4: like roasted and it's like the special pepe suya too.
Speaker 1: It's called I said suya to like also like we
Speaker 1: made we made us ship. No, you made would that's
Speaker 1: the new that's big bon yo to.
Speaker 4: They got vegan, they got you veganism. Yeah, so they
Speaker 4: have like vegan spots.
Speaker 1: He don't know nothing about it.
Speaker 4: You know why because the church I go to seven
Speaker 4: the Advents, they eat a lot of toyo tofu, making
Speaker 4: like make it look like burgers. And me, yeah, I
Speaker 4: grew up. My dad's my dad don't eat you know,
Speaker 4: mean justly fish.
Speaker 2: He's peccantarianly fish him too, me too, you know boris boris.
Speaker 1: For no meat at all, no mean.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: I need me a burger. I need you a don't
Speaker 1: tell me you eat pork. Yeah, he don't listen. I
Speaker 1: would to eat. I wouldn't eat. I want to eat
Speaker 1: like a like a pork ass Like I want to
Speaker 1: eat like a pork like Bill.
Speaker 4: But I have a pepperoni pizza.
Speaker 1: I had a couple of Muslim brothers tell me that
Speaker 1: same thing. I want to eat it like red meat,
Speaker 1: And I'm having a pepperoni pizza. Were having a pepperoni pie.
Speaker 2: That's the one thing anywhere in the world, just in
Speaker 2: New York, Like in New York is acceptable pepperoni and ship.
Speaker 1: Everywhere Italy, Italy blood. You know what I'm saying. Fuck
Speaker 1: you ain't pepperoni? Bro. I eat pepperoni in twenty one years? Bro, yesterday?
Speaker 2: What was that?
Speaker 1: You have to take a joke? He really don't. He
Speaker 1: really don't even read me. I ha been ate oxtail.
Speaker 1: No steak, that's none, that's newer. Read me you that's
Speaker 1: a newer thing, know what you mean? Twenty one years yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: no steak, no, no, no, none of that. So you
Speaker 1: close to me with a prescantarian show. I eat chicken, y'all.
Speaker 1: I ain't chicken.
Speaker 3: Read me, I eat chicken. I hainte turkey burgers from
Speaker 3: from Cheeseburger. Baby is slamming from turkey Burger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, because you know, I'm too changed.
Speaker 3: It was funny because to Change was trying to get
Speaker 3: him on the show so much, and then to Change
Speaker 3: finally came here and I had time that day. He
Speaker 3: was like, Yo, let's go to Carbone and then you
Speaker 3: know car you know carbon is but yeah, it's like
Speaker 3: a fasty restaurant.
Speaker 1: Cool. I was like, it's great today to changes.
Speaker 3: I just want to go have a turkey burger, I said,
Speaker 3: I hug you up with reservations with Carbone and two changes,
Speaker 3: like nah, let's go. And we went and had twelve
Speaker 3: dollars burgers and like we sat down and like and
Speaker 3: it was delicious.
Speaker 1: They let us smoke back there. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Cheezburger Baby is one of my favorite malls on earth,
Speaker 3: not not not one of my favorite burgers or one
Speaker 3: of my favorite males. It's just it's just so dope.
Speaker 3: Like you go there, it's fresh. They make it whatever
Speaker 3: you do, like they make it for you right then
Speaker 3: and there.
Speaker 2: And it's like and it's this is littles, this little
Speaker 2: a little establishment.
Speaker 1: It's a little you know, I don't want a piece
Speaker 1: of he just he's Burger Baby.
Speaker 3: Steph, Steph wherever you yeah, yeah, but listen, but listen
Speaker 3: this other restaurants. Finger licking pick up to my boy
Speaker 3: class looking this carbone. Huh this house some house some
Speaker 3: no no no, they just closed this location, close that location.
Speaker 1: Because Nigeria.
Speaker 3: I wanted to make sure, you know, he know, because
Speaker 3: I want to just say he's Nigerian. You know, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like like calling somebody from Brooklyn from the Bronx
Speaker 3: like yo, yeah, yeah, yeah you from Brooklyn the Bronx
Speaker 3: like you know, so you can't do that, you can't
Speaker 3: do But like all right, so let me that that's
Speaker 3: that's that's a great question because you said in Nigeria
Speaker 3: there's different states. It's not different baroughs, just like here,
Speaker 3: I got no not but but I'm saying you would
Speaker 3: think just like here Africa. But no, no, their country.
Speaker 3: There is a whole country, their country with states six states,
Speaker 3: thirty six.
Speaker 1: States thirty six like Miabis thirty six. So about how
Speaker 1: big it is? Remember, Africa is a humongous something humongous
Speaker 1: countries in it. You have you haven't, David, I haven't
Speaker 1: been to every state and I wow.
Speaker 3: You know, haven't been to everything. I realized that recently.
Speaker 3: I haven't been all over Queens. I've missed like you're
Speaker 3: sucking up seven spots, You've got it.
Speaker 1: I've never been. But this is like this, that's a country.
Speaker 1: You said, you you know you haven't been, No, don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've been to every state probably about
Speaker 4: maybe seventy percent, sixty five percent.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I've been sing like every state.
Speaker 1: You gotta roll you a bigger joint. Nigerian blunts.
Speaker 4: They don't want me to get well. But guess what,
Speaker 4: you know what I actually like like my blunts. I
Speaker 4: like it hot, right, I like the hot. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: I like it like I like it like like halfway.
Speaker 1: So you don't smoke blunts. No, I used to use
Speaker 1: ice ice Actually, what was it? What was that? Green world? Grabber? No, no,
Speaker 1: grab not backwards Phillies, Dutch Master, Dutch my master. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to do myself.
Speaker 2: That stop.
Speaker 1: Your for real. Regardless of what happens, we didn't do
Speaker 1: Dream Champs in Nigeria. Yeah, sure, so don't do it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna do it in my penthouse overlooking the city.
Speaker 4: We got it, and then we're gonna have another conversation. Definitely,
Speaker 4: I would like to, you know, bring creatives, bring Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I really want you guys to come and
Speaker 4: experience my country. Yes, definitely, like you know what, not
Speaker 4: three time. I really want you guys to come. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take you all to the best parts. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna take you.
Speaker 1: All to the worst, Let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 2: Let's take a shot, because that means that means this
Speaker 2: is a deal we're locking in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know what, because I also like taking
Speaker 4: them to the part. So you really appreciate, you know,
Speaker 4: once you guys have here, absolutely and you understand that
Speaker 4: you know the goal it's to you know, so many creatives,
Speaker 4: so many creatives back, I do have the opportunity to showcase,
Speaker 4: you know, what they're doing. So apart from it was
Speaker 4: just you know, extending my legacy, I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: an obligation to promote the culture.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that, I love that. I
Speaker 1: love that.
Speaker 3: Before we get up out of here, but what are
Speaker 3: some of the heroes of Nigeria Like definitely felt out Uti.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh yeah, the whole family, they got a whole family,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Definitely fell out cutie to be honest, when we have
Speaker 4: really had the best leaders. So I wouldn't want to
Speaker 4: mention anybody in politics like that. I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: a hero.
Speaker 1: Would you ever get into politics?
Speaker 4: I think so, yeah, maybe, like later on, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So if I moved it to Nigerry, I could vote
Speaker 1: for you you have to, yes.
Speaker 2: But I got to move there, right, Hey, you have
Speaker 2: to I can't vote for you from America, right right,
Speaker 2: I would have to move there, right, I can't vote
Speaker 2: for you from America.
Speaker 1: Well, no, you have to be a citizen. You can't
Speaker 1: just vote. But I'm gonna become a citizen before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're about to buy it. You won't give me the
Speaker 1: hook up? You get to one point five million dollars
Speaker 1: condo over there? Yeah, I am get that. You call
Speaker 1: credit good to that job that we're talking about. God
Speaker 1: damn it. Take one more shot and got the ticket.
Speaker 1: You already come on, guy, damn Because you don't trust
Speaker 1: Jamie with your mama Maana.
Speaker 2: That's the only reason why you ain't gonna are you
Speaker 2: about the only nigga.
Speaker 1: In the world.
Speaker 2: I don't trust nobody with that trust Jamie Solot Love.
Speaker 1: So do you like Sativo? What's Indica? What's I don't smoke?
Speaker 1: I thought you no me, it's me. Is it legal
Speaker 1: in Nigeria?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: But I've seen, like I've seen a couple of bills
Speaker 4: in the Senate trying to legalize it medically.
Speaker 1: Oh it's not.
Speaker 2: Legal Yeause if I got my medical card I got
Speaker 2: my medical car over there.
Speaker 3: It works in Madrid, though, really, yeah, what the funk
Speaker 3: out Florida is the l state.
Speaker 1: I don't believe. What are you talking about? Florida.
Speaker 2: Medic here works in Madrid, a lot of places in Europe, yeah,
Speaker 2: and Thailand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Florida's out of nowhere. Listen, listen, listen, I give
Speaker 1: you this. Listen, listen, listen.
Speaker 3: You know New York, but my residents I lived out
Speaker 3: here for the last fifteen years. One thing about Florida
Speaker 3: is they foul when they get what they want. They listen,
Speaker 3: like legal here, yeah, no, no, no, it's medical.
Speaker 1: Medical. But the way that Miami works is legal.
Speaker 3: But but I when you when you get a medical card,
Speaker 3: you can't go to like all right, so let's suppose
Speaker 3: you have a a New York medical card. You can
Speaker 3: only go to like fourteen different states, like Miami, whatever
Speaker 3: state it is. If it's legal, you can go if
Speaker 3: you have They don't got, they don't even got. Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: it's okay in New York. In New York is called recreational.
Speaker 1: That's different.
Speaker 4: I went to I was in the Diamond District. Yes,
Speaker 4: I came out and I was smoking I've seen a cop.
Speaker 1: I ran to the car.
Speaker 4: The cop was like, yo, calm down, yeah you ran
Speaker 4: like I don't like. I don't like I don't like police.
Speaker 4: I bet the couple.
Speaker 1: I don't like trouble.
Speaker 3: Yes, I want to enjoy my life, but but it
Speaker 3: can't be the same. Getting pulled over in Nigeria is
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 1: Words to be honest, you can't get I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You pick up worst maybe out here. I mean you
Speaker 2: know the average person I'm saying for that, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: yes it's probably worse.
Speaker 4: Yes, we've had previously, We've had, you know, protests previously,
Speaker 4: you know, police problems. But you know you can't you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Like there's good Coup.
Speaker 1: Says, but yeah, without saying personally just because of.
Speaker 4: My starts us, I haven't really experienced problem, but I think, yes,
Speaker 4: the average citizen do see it.
Speaker 1: Right, But I'm not going out there without calling you.
Speaker 2: I'm checking fully, I'm picking you up now, but you
Speaker 2: should step away for a second, be the average citizen.
Speaker 1: No, you probably playing how they I mean playing maybe
Speaker 1: straight to the beach. I want to want to go,
Speaker 1: I want to go to the radio. Amazing done, We.
Speaker 2: Already were stilify. We're doing Drink Champs in Nigeria. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we just we went on you to tell us when
Speaker 2: it's whatever he wants to whenever we have to. Definitely
Speaker 2: his next video we're doing I'm playing with my team. Yes, no, no,
Speaker 2: they might not let.
Speaker 1: You go back home.
Speaker 2: I can I in buy some of the South African artists.
Speaker 2: I met de Kowal. No, no, keep your people. I'm
Speaker 2: amazing artist in South Africa.
Speaker 1: Keep me so South Africa, South Africa.
Speaker 4: I stopped mixing. It's all the same South Africa. Yeah, bro,
Speaker 4: even like we have musicians. I walked in the little
Speaker 4: South Africa musicians.
Speaker 2: Even we said, I met some of the pioneers out there.
Speaker 4: Did you give me I know you met black Coffee.
Speaker 4: No I did not, But I give me what's his
Speaker 4: name Mosquito? No exactly, man, that's that's what that's the real,
Speaker 4: that's the real godfather of.
Speaker 1: Mosquito.
Speaker 6: Nah.
Speaker 1: But we was in Joe burd We went to like
Speaker 1: the hood where he would have Cape Town. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Cape Towns looked like Miami.
Speaker 2: It looks but but you know, no, but what's crazy
Speaker 2: is it looks like Miami, but it's more hood than
Speaker 2: Joe Berg. What I haven't been because when we went there,
Speaker 2: the army was in the hood. It was like having problems. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: we we went out there, shout out to de koalas
Speaker 2: one of the artists out there.
Speaker 1: I met a bunch of artists. It was there for
Speaker 1: like a week. Yeah, it was dope. It was dope.
Speaker 1: You Legos Legos saying let it go. I'm playing, man,
Speaker 1: I'm playing.
Speaker 3: But I'm definitely going to Legos man drink chances about
Speaker 3: giving people they flowers.
Speaker 1: Man, we really love man. Thank you man for.
Speaker 2: Whether it's afrobeach, whether it's regged thon, whether it's dancehall.
Speaker 2: We all want community music. It's all music. We all
Speaker 2: want culture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before that much, what do you like better writing
Speaker 1: the music or performing? And you ran into say that.
Speaker 4: Thank you really to be honest, ah, Because to be honest,
Speaker 4: the reaction of people reacting to the music is a
Speaker 4: beautiful feeling the process of making the music. It's cool,
Speaker 4: but like it's stressful a little bit because you want
Speaker 4: it perfect. But to me it's so cool, like how
Speaker 4: like how the album just came out? But like the
Speaker 4: cool thing to me is like how my boys be
Speaker 4: around and they're like, man, we heard we heard the
Speaker 4: song for two years and it's out, and yeah, I
Speaker 4: seen it's blew up like not try like a product,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Just like you really see
Speaker 4: the products and you see it blowing up like a baby.
Speaker 4: And then just even though it like like even with
Speaker 4: the producers they like they do that are co produced,
Speaker 4: like one of the biggest records of the album, like
Speaker 4: the beautiful feeling of when I was telling him like, hey, man,
Speaker 4: you know you about.
Speaker 1: To be right, telling the producer yeah yeah, and then
Speaker 1: me I'm seeing him. He's going crazy going out every night.
Speaker 4: Like so just even like seeing somebody going from zero
Speaker 4: two hundred, that's like it's like magic, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's beautiful to see. I feel like you said both.
Speaker 1: It's good you feels like you said both. They feel
Speaker 1: like you say both. So yeah, I think both. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't lie. I used to. I used to.
Speaker 3: I think it was making the music because I could
Speaker 3: sit there and perfect it and I'm not a perfectionist.
Speaker 3: But then recently I just did a show in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't even know why I took it,
Speaker 3: but I should you know.
Speaker 1: You said you don't know why you took it. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't really like to performing no more. I don't
Speaker 1: like doing nothing no more. It looked amazing. For That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Let me finish, my boy. It was
Speaker 1: a good feeling. I got back on stage.
Speaker 2: I was I knew I was a I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh I missed this ship in the
Speaker 2: crowd going like that, I was like, oh I've been
Speaker 2: I've been frying.
Speaker 3: And yeah, the crowd went crazy and I loved it.
Speaker 3: But man, I can't thank you enough. Man, like yo, man,
Speaker 3: thank you for pleasure.
Speaker 4: Man like you guys, my boys like literally like watch
Speaker 4: you guys like everywhere every I have. One of my
Speaker 4: close friends name is fresh Al, So he's very big
Speaker 4: on like podcasts. He's always said to me, you know
Speaker 4: link links.
Speaker 1: Look at these idiots you are.
Speaker 3: You are first afro beat cardist. Man, let's make some more.
Speaker 3: But but before we get up out of here, because
Speaker 3: I heard you say that earlier. You said because I
Speaker 3: said afrobeats, and you said what you considered? What was
Speaker 3: the name that you can know us?
Speaker 4: I used to say, just a future just because definitely
Speaker 4: like just afro beat Africa music.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, like I told you
Speaker 1: we were already you know, but what was it you
Speaker 1: called it before that it was it was an African word.
Speaker 1: It was like I was like, yeah, just making up
Speaker 1: word that it was something.
Speaker 3: You know, it was something like I said afrobeats And
Speaker 3: I say, you didn't like that. You was like you
Speaker 3: called it such and such. But then he said yeah,
Speaker 3: he was like I gave up. Okay, cool, no problem afrobeats.
Speaker 3: But man, we can't thank you enough. Man, you want
Speaker 3: to do one more shot. I feel like you will do.
Speaker 1: I feel like you do the culture on James that
Speaker 1: God damn it. I think you guys do.
Speaker 3: Like you know, this is your home. Anytime you want
Speaker 3: to promote you your artists. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: your new.
Speaker 1: House, your third house, your third house. You just want
Speaker 1: an alligator. We don't give a helicopter. We're gonna come,
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna hold you the helicopter.
Speaker 3: Yo, yo, man, thank you for being our first motherfucking
Speaker 3: afro beat artists.
Speaker 2: And genuine story and genuine Are we talking about the
Speaker 2: money and all that ship?
Speaker 1: Story was genuine. Story is genuine.
Speaker 2: Your heart is music, it is culture, and you went through,
Speaker 2: You went through the ship to get to where you.
Speaker 3: Let me just tell you something to hold on, hold on,
Speaker 3: hold damn, then hold on. Let me tell you something. Experiment.
Speaker 3: Experiment I did. I would go downstairs and I would
Speaker 3: play sous of music and I'll play reggae music for
Speaker 3: my neighbors.
Speaker 2: And I realized they would never say ship to me.
Speaker 2: I play sousa music and I played reggae music, and
Speaker 2: I just realized that that was universal music.
Speaker 1: It's the percussion, bro, And you know what the New
Speaker 1: South and the new that we that's what we all
Speaker 1: have in common. Let's understand this. Understand this, bro, take over.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying for me as a Cuban,
Speaker 2: the culture the Caribbean, it's food and percussion.
Speaker 4: Seeing these difference.
Speaker 2: Yes, the food and the percussion is all coming from Africa.
Speaker 1: Yes, And that's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3: Now, we got afrobeats and reggaeton to take take over,
Speaker 3: and we still got reggae music. Don't don't dance. We
Speaker 3: still got reggae drinking and drink.
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