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Speaker 1: and you know, um, the homey Big James is out

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Speaker 1: this ship. We got normal responsibilities. You know, my nigga

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Speaker 1: They're trying to come up with a name for me.

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Speaker 1: the front. Yeah, black, Yeah, exactly. We started that ship

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Speaker 1: Big Ship. Yeah yeah, and so working on the comic

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Speaker 1: same timeline. And then geographically Texas it's down south, right,

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00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: but Texas is leads more towards southwest. And what I'm saying, right,

424
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 1: and um, even though they're their neighbors and it's the

425
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: closest city, Mason City to Louisiana, Um, it's still different,

426
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, It's still different. And you know,

427
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,120
Speaker 1: music was on some gamest ship. He didn't what I said,

428
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 1: It was on some case of ship. You know, get

429
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 1: with southern and things like that, but we we didn't

430
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,719
Speaker 1: share the blood out that same thing. You think what

431
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So because Texas were getting we just getting

432
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 1: mused from from the West Coast further, you know what

433
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 1: I mean. And when I was in New Orleans, we

434
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: was getting music coming out of New York further. And

435
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 1: then what I'm saying, but you know, shout out to

436
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: both places, man, both places the hard in their own

437
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 1: like man, well, shout out to that West coast man.

438
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: That's our cousin. Yeah, you know, because like your first

439
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 1: like you know, it was like I said, I'll played

440
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 1: ball with a bunch of cats from Texas. You know

441
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: when I tell you they was T shirt and kaks,

442
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 1: just like we were ten khakis and a white T shirts.

443
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: Yeah ship, I said, really, if you look at it,

444
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: you mean like I said, uh, New York, you know

445
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: how the you know the ship that you know we

446
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 1: started off with as far as the banging, the cripple

447
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: and blood and type of ship like that, But Texas

448
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: was on us first. You get me, I pull up

449
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 1: in Texas and Niggas was blood and Niggas was crippin.

450
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 1: And I was way before New York started. So that's

451
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 1: why I said we were trying to cousins with it,

452
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,479
Speaker 1: because that's what I recognized when I first started touring

453
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: down South. I'd be like, man, these thinkers in khaki

454
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 1: suits and Chuck Taylor's and ship, and even though they

455
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 1: got the big they got the impolace with the big

456
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 1: motherfucking rims and that type, they were still on neighborhood

457
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: ship like we were. You get me on that ship

458
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: like we was at Birch. But Texas you could go

459
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: down to Texas and Louisatta, Louisiana, and even like I said,

460
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: Mississippi niggas was wearing catching suits and bandannas and playing

461
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: in blood. That's why I think you should kind of

462
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 1: relate it to in the aspect. Yeah, real, you know

463
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: what the thing is, the big Mike. It all occurs

464
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: from the stove because the South is all of our home.

465
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: Everybody from eight you know me and ain't talking about

466
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 1: it all the time. We was all getting them cars

467
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: taking the trips to either Mississippi, New Orleans that you

468
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 1: had family down there. My whole family is from um

469
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: Mr Happy, you don't even want to see it. Mississippi. Yeah, people,

470
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: all my people from Gulfport, Mississippi. So that's what we

471
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 1: used to take all our family on summer vacation. Mom

472
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: stickers on the Greyhound motherfucking bus and were on our

473
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: way to Gulfport, Mississippi. We're spending the whole summlers down there.

474
00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: So my music related to down shout shot South with

475
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: heavy They suck with me heavy down South. Yeah, and

476
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: the thing because you know me, but you know how

477
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: it is. Man. A lot of people's man, especially out

478
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 1: of that California man a lot of people place their

479
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: anxiers that Louisiana to that Texas. You know what I mean?

480
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: I see that a lot up our co host that

481
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: you didn't get to meet today, Big Mike, Big James,

482
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 1: the Texas dude. Okay. You know that's where his roots

483
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 1: is from. You know his family, you know his roots

484
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,639
Speaker 1: and everything. Texas man. You know one thing about it,

485
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 1: Big Mike. I went down there. I loved it because

486
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: you go down need to see a whole bunch of

487
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: big black niggas that looks just like you. Okay, that's

488
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: where I get it from. You know what I mean already,

489
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 1: the whole bunch of black niggas. Man. So you're doing music, man,

490
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: And at this time you mentioned that she was with

491
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: Tony Draper at first, who in his own right became

492
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: of a real nice executive, you know, hey, And I

493
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: tell you, you you know because we just basically you know

494
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: kids right here working at the Olive Garden and Ship.

495
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: And I tell you, even even then, his his aspirations

496
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: wasn't to be a wrapper, right. He wanted to run company.

497
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: You feel me, even as kids evenything, I'm like, I

498
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 1: wanna be a rapper. You think all teenagers think it's

499
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: gonna be rappers that they ain't. He would think about

500
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: being a weapon. He was thinking CEO from Jump And

501
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: it's just it's just awesome, dad, what we both aspied

502
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: for and set out together on. Right at a certain point,

503
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: it both happened for us. You feel me? Did you

504
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: ever trip that? Huh? Do you all even sit back

505
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: now and trick on that? Hey, when we get together,

506
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: it comes up. We're talking about it, you know what

507
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: I mean? We definitely, we definitely talked about it. Um, Yeah,

508
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's an amazing thing. Um. You know

509
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: that we actually sit down and we talked about this

510
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,719
Speaker 1: ship and embarked on the ship. Ye, you know what

511
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 1: I mean. I go to study that. And you never

512
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: try to get on the mic, you hear me. We

513
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: just pay to pay for the studio time. Man, let's

514
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: get it. Hear me. We get off and then getting

515
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: ship done. But I say, maybe enough, gus amazing, But

516
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 1: both others through this wind up coming through and people

517
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 1: don't really know that. That's why I like to make

518
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 1: mention of that you did what I'm saying, I'd like

519
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: to make mention of that, you know, But that shut

520
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: out Tony Draper Man when he was able to accomplish

521
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: over there. I ship, as a young artist, knew about

522
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: Tony Draper You know what I'm saying, And that's that's

523
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Some dudes had that vision that I

524
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: don't need to be that you give me, you know

525
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: the position I want to play. I don't need to

526
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: be the superstar and make it get a little jealous

527
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: because you start bumping on the mic and start feeling

528
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: like shining more than man. He move from the jump.

529
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: I wanna be behind the den. We got some aspirations

530
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: for a teenager. That's an aspiration to go, especially with

531
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: being in the midst of all the hip hop that

532
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: was going on and all the rappers and knowing it

533
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: was that fine for us to get on. He said, Nigga,

534
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,719
Speaker 1: I don't need that ship to know what position I

535
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: want to play. You beat the rapper, I'm gonna be

536
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: the song I'm gonna be the CEO Tony Drape the

537
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: Suave Hounds or whatever whatever that was the ship man. Yeah,

538
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: that's really let me ask you this thing, Mike, wasn't

539
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: every time that you almost might have wound up on

540
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: Suave House no, because I was already and um, we'll

541
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: offer to my relationship with rapping that time, right, Okay,

542
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: we had to do the corrected So I think, um,

543
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: the convict the head came out. Um, I thing, maybe

544
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: the ghetto for us before we start really hearing about

545
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, following m J G. Right

546
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,239
Speaker 1: before he started getting a rounded things like that. You know.

547
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: So like I said, you know, I was already all

548
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: my journey at that point. You think what I'm saying,

549
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: And um, he was, he was into his journey. But

550
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: we did come together. You know, I was able to

551
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: record um on you know, a song with on Falling G.

552
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: So you know, um, we still remain, you still remain

553
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Cool, you know to a

554
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: certain extent. Right, But we we didn't spend a lot

555
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: of time around each other because, like I said, he

556
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: was on his journey, I was on my journey. But

557
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: you know, it would have been dope if we was

558
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: able to come together and do something just on just

559
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: on just on the history factor, you know what I mean.

560
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: But um, everything happens like it supposed that happen, you

561
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And we both finding catching our

562
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: names and um in the book, so you know it

563
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: worked out. Yeah, that's real spill man. I gotta go

564
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: back because I'm bounced around a little bit. You knew

565
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: about to Get a Boy's history obviously before you joined

566
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: the group. How was that phone call that looks that

567
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: he hits you up? Like, how did that come about?

568
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: Big Mike? You want to be a Get a Boy?

569
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: Was it just a phone call? I'd tell you. Um,

570
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: I was already in Los Angeles, right, We was working

571
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: on the Compics record with Dick slip trade arng Um unknown. Right,

572
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: we was already working on a compet record, and it

573
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: was a little window where where motherfuckers had started kicking

574
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: the real head. You know what I'm saying. It was?

575
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: It was it was a lot of part of you, right,

576
00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: So kind of like that production slowed down a little bit, right,

577
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: I was getting harder to catch up with shooting this

578
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: ship at the time, you feel me, right, everybody was

579
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: still good. We're still well taking care of you. Think

580
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I had to y'all had to spot.

581
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: Y'all have to spot, had the spot. It was so

582
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: lot field, you get what I'm saying. So, but it's

583
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: kind of like production has slowed down the middle field,

584
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: right and um, and that's when I had wind up

585
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: getting a call. But I knew the situation for Willie

586
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: d leave it right prior to me leaving to come

587
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: to Los Ange. You feel me, I was already there.

588
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: I was aware, tempt you did what I'm saying. So, um,

589
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: when they did hit me up and they ran it

590
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: to me, you know what I'm saying, was like, you

591
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: know when it didn't come back to the group, right,

592
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: and we've been sitting when I had it beat. You

593
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, what we call with the ghetto

594
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: for us from here and everybody was like, you know

595
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, your name's help coming up. And it

596
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: was like me to grab the mike they might, you

597
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: know what I mean, let's go take micro. So I

598
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: didn't jump on it immediately, you know what I mean,

599
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: I had I just thought about it for a little while. Um,

600
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: things hadn't picked up on the complex project. I think

601
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: we was maybe like probably about five five six songs

602
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: into it. Yeah, and it had kind of came to

603
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: you know, little stopped right. So UM, I then listen,

604
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: I already had a couple of kids, and I didn't

605
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: really come down there just to be wasting too much time.

606
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: You feel me, I really don't get it. Yeah, and

607
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,479
Speaker 1: making some money, you know what I mean? I asking

608
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: for no money, but let me let's finish the record

609
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: with it out. Let me make some money for you

610
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: and I so I can go back and take care

611
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: of my people. You feel me. So the Gether plus came.

612
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: I talked about it. He wasn't win it at first.

613
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, Sloop, I talk me out of it. Eight.

614
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: We talked to eight. It was like, maybe you should

615
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: wait because you feel me like, man, get in touch.

616
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: We should right. I'm like, I don't wait, but you know, yeah,

617
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 1: I wind up doing that. You know what I'm saying,

618
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: talking should in the process he wanted up pick me

619
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 1: and we was you know, we was like, yeah. He said,

620
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: when you're gonna come back through the solo project with us?

621
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: I said yeah, you know, like I said, I still

622
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: had my place everything, should still see me money. He

623
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: was still there for my nigga. It didn't matter if

624
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: I was you know what I mean. You was just

625
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: like I was signing death from you feel me and um.

626
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: But by time we had finished doing to get up

627
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: was that and came out. We went on their first

628
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: Prontic tour and then things had kind of started changing.

629
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: Jethro started having his problems, started having back you feel

630
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: me and um so I was like, well, I don't,

631
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: I didn't a wait for a minute, I don't really

632
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: know what's happening. You did what I'm saying over there

633
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: right now. I really didn't know who was the charge

634
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: of things like that. So that was good over the

635
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: rapper Locks at this time right than its was cool.

636
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, we'll see man, thanks

637
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: cool man. We got we we we we we got

638
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: that sound. People love to hear me with that sound. Right,

639
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: let's let's block another. So so I embalked on the

640
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: solo um then with them around that time. But um yeah,

641
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: but you know me and should we were still cool

642
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: throughout it. That's crazy to work out. So you told

643
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: me to stay out here and wait, I mean because

644
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: no disrespect because everybody know faces my nigga. Everybody knows

645
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: Jay is my nigga, you know. But it was a

646
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: big opportunity. You know, everybody knew that rapper Lock ghetto boys.

647
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: But death role was on from you get me Death

648
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,720
Speaker 1: role was fuck is Dr Dre and stric and fucking

649
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 1: me Like it's like, you can't deny that that ship. Man.

650
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: If any time you get the opportunity to be around

651
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: a nigga like Drake, like I said, no disrespect because

652
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: little Jake and and fucking Mr Brad Jordan's my nigger.

653
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: You get me. But to have that opportunity, because that's

654
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 1: something we all we was waiting around to get our

655
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,919
Speaker 1: terms on Death Row because like I said, we were

656
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: all figuring we was gonna be a part of this

657
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: entity because we were all trying to make this shift go.

658
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: You get me from from Sugar and from up behind

659
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: the team nigging me and chill and splits. We're rooting

660
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: for my condemn was my nigger, Mike, and three two

661
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: was my nigger. So we're rooting for a death Row

662
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 1: to shoot because the that was gonna be the first nigger.

663
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: There was no other artists, you know. Then Three the

664
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: Convicts was gonna be before Drey did the Crony, before

665
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: Snoop did Doggy Style. The record was going to be

666
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: the record. Yeah, it was in the process of working

667
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: on the deep Cover sounds. It was when Mike and

668
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: three two was there, so they was gonna be like

669
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: the first official group on death Row. That would have

670
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: been crazy man A convicts would have done the drinking

671
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 1: your beats over the yeah. And I I tell you

672
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: it was a couple of factors that played into it, right.

673
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: So one one factor was that I had to consider

674
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 1: It's like, which I'm like the high school ball player.

675
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: I get to come right out of high school and

676
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: the Rockets want me exactly you feel me? And I'm like,

677
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,479
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about that too, right, and what that's gonna

678
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: mean for my family and my oaks at home, you

679
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And I didn't understand how grad

680
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 1: worked at the time, and feel me. We still caught

681
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: up an excitement of being there and you know what

682
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 1: I mean, and this and that I really didn't understand

683
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: how he worked at the time. You know, Gray, he

684
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: had gathered his artists, listen to what everybody got, and

685
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: here select the heat for himself, not totally for himself.

686
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: The artist is gonna get the chinas well, but he's like,

687
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna use this material and fielding

688
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: this project that I'm killed. You feel me? And sometimes

689
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: the artists don't know at the time, I didn't find

690
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:48,240
Speaker 1: out that great gangsterism and missed the officer what's gonna

691
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: be on the crime until I had got thank to

692
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: you you feel Me. I gets back to Houston and

693
00:38:55,160 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: I gets the call and Um and like, hey, you

694
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: might you know Dr Trade um recorded your song for

695
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: the UM for the Chronic album. You need to call

696
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: him me see what's happening, right. I called him and

697
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, yeah, Dad, I'm gonna using this and

698
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: that just now. I said, but damn, man, what told me?

699
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: Because I recorded the songs for the gett a boy

700
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: protect you feel me? So he like, man, we can

701
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: work something out, right, I do try for the ghetto

702
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: boys will be a you know. I said, well, we'll

703
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: be able to spend one of them. You feel me?

704
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: You know? So Um, But that's why you heard a

705
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: version of Mr Officer on that Chronic two thousand that

706
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: should have put out. Remember we knock off anyway, but yeah, yeah,

707
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: you heard Mr Labors on there and like, um when

708
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: Dr Trade did the interview for the Source of magazine

709
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: when he had fat to his head, right and he

710
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: was talking about the crime in the funeral, right, and

711
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: he telling them about the songs, and they listened to

712
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: songs for the pro time people from the source that's interviewing,

713
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: and when he gets to the one song to Um,

714
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: the interviewer says, he stands up. It's like his chest

715
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: stands up. Looks I just window that's overlooking the Scottline

716
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,280
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and he said, yeah, out of all this,

717
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,399
Speaker 1: this is my favorite song on the album. And then

718
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: the interview proceeds to quote the course was Mr officer.

719
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 1: Mr officer, I wanted to put your ass in the coffer, right.

720
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: But see, if I would have known this right, I

721
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 1: would have stayed. I'd have been like, kid, then you

722
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: can pray fearing me nigger to feel me you want

723
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: to use ship that I wrote for the clinic, I

724
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: would have staved my nigga. But at the time, I

725
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: didn't even know if he was really feeling me like that,

726
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: you feel like. I didn't find out until later, But

727
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: I didn't understand his method, how he worked. He did

728
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: what I'm saying right, had I had known had some

729
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: insight into these things, even if I had insighting to

730
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: that he was really feeling me like you did what

731
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying right, Um, I would I would have probably

732
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 1: I would have probably started over a little bit harder

733
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: and and probably stayed you know what I mean. It

734
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 1: needs to get that done, you know what I mean.

735
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: So but but but like I say, man, we don't

736
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: came here with ret. We would we Rett, you know

737
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I didn't learn a lot from my

738
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: from my time down there, to feel me, I didn't

739
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: learn a lot for my time down there. Um, I

740
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: worked it into what I was doing right. Um, you

741
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: heard glimpses of us and what they were doing as well,

742
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: you feel me, so you could tell we was feeding

743
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: off each other, you know what I mean. So you

744
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: know it's just that they had to fell the layout

745
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: at the time, you know what I mean. And let

746
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: me tell you, sir, no, just respect, I nigged three

747
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: too with influential most definitely. We didn't want to get

748
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: in depth on that that might be me and you.

749
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: My nigga three too was influent. Chose yeah, yeah, yeah,

750
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 1: I know. As soon as didn't nobody started seeing big

751
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: baby and let me let me tell you my nigga.

752
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: So my nigga was in exactly, that was my nigga

753
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: and he was influential exactly nigga. Niggers might be sleep

754
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: on my nigga, And like I said, but that motherfucker

755
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: right there, that nigga was heavy and when they came

756
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: to that town, and that's the whole and the thing

757
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: about that too, man um. You know, it's like we

758
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: didn't find out about that until the Clinic cast came

759
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: out because I had the demo to the Sick Feel Me.

760
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: I had on the demo songs, I had phones. They

761
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: didn't need to make the final cut You Feel Me,

762
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: And we hadn't heard none of the skits and ship,

763
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,879
Speaker 1: No skitz was on there. So then when we get

764
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: the clinic, we get bottom he finally come out. You know,

765
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: we hear the skits and things like that, and niggas

766
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: is like, hem, we enjoyed the material, but then you know,

767
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: we're taking to ourselves, like damn, damn, niggas could have

768
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: just called us and had us do that ship exactly

769
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: You feel Me? If you're gonna use it, like, at

770
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: least have us on the album. Here. We got shot

771
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: it out on the album You Feel Me. But god damn,

772
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be people at this time, and I'm like, yeah, man,

773
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: we could have got the in fight on the album, right,

774
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: because now this ship is worldwide. You got Motherfucker's and Hungary,

775
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: you got Motherfucker's and and and the Philippines really thought,

776
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: big baby, I don't known hook. You know what I mean?

777
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: Right to some people it might just be slam, but right,

778
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: we know how it is. Right, we do the tools

779
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: that we have around us, right while that our advantages

780
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: ship like that, and even in the evening in the

781
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: ghetto on the crime feel me slaying is important to

782
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: let me tell you, it's the same situation. Then I

783
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: started saying the g back in and motherfucker swear that

784
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: ship comes from any and everywhere. You give me up.

785
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: But I don't even trip off because I know back

786
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: in I brought that to the table. You know where

787
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: that chill comes from. You give me that. Ain't nobody Yeah, no,

788
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,439
Speaker 1: nothing that you ain't nobody dripping that. It's all good,

789
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: have fun with it, do your thing, because I know,

790
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: and a lot of niggers who know me know where

791
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,280
Speaker 1: that ship came from. So but you in the books,

792
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: because people worldwide, no, dude, exactly that fun with eight

793
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: So so you in the books, you know what I mean?

794
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, but at the time when we had

795
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: got the material and it was new to us, we

796
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: was like, damn my Nigga because we had came back

797
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: home telling me Nigga, Nigga, Nigga Dr Frey and Nigga's

798
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: going down out there that niggas ain't playing. Nigga's a

799
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: motherfucker going back And so like niggas first, Niggas is

800
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: jether because niggas is like, man, how the funding niggas

801
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: get to go funk with Dr Craky for us? Right,

802
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: So we run at this talking and dragging and ship

803
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: and then when she come out, we're not on it,

804
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: but they're doing our ship. You feel me think it

805
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 1: was like but but at the same time though, niggas

806
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: knew that our presents had been felt though, and then

807
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 1: what I'm saying and that's a good thing. And then,

808
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,399
Speaker 1: like I said, they fed off for us. We fed

809
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: off with him. This is real, mother, because do when

810
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: they get together. You think what I'm saying so um,

811
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: Like I said, man, the ship did a fire on me.

812
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: I can't thank you. You don't fire you. I definitely

813
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:13,280
Speaker 1: benefited from my time in Los Angeles around those cats.

814
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: You think what I'm saying, Man, we had some we

815
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: had some good times. Every day was the news my nigga.

816
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: It was basically yeah, yeah, gangsters know what I'm talking about. Anyway, Listen,

817
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: we had, we had, We had an amazing time. Bro

818
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:37,439
Speaker 1: Um three two never held no fludges against against any

819
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, None of that any time

820
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: I talked, any time I talked to my nigga, he

821
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: had nothing but humble love for ship back back. Yeah,

822
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. The only time I was

823
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: in my feelings is when my nigga had got killed.

824
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: You feel me and then't at that time, you know

825
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: how you think you're like, damn him. You're looking at

826
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: the round you like, Man, if my nigga would have

827
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: benefited from some of that ship that niggas came up us,

828
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: this ship came up on, right, he wouldn't have never

829
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: been in a position where he was still in that

830
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: type of convironment. You did what I'm saying right around

831
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: these pre fast niggas, you know what I'm saying, and

832
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: things like that. Right. But um, but if he if

833
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: he could come back and talk to me, he'd be

834
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: like nah, you know, we him get down like that.

835
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: But it was just an emotional thing for me. You

836
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You know how it is. But like,

837
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: hold on, wait a fucking minute. They I want to

838
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: talk to everybody that old my motherfucking brother. You did

839
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I don't get what is a family member.

840
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: I won't talk to him too, you know what I mean,

841
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,760
Speaker 1: and ship like that until all the emotion his things

842
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 1: like that settled. But um, I know he enjoyed his

843
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: his um his time out there. You can hear in

844
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: his style after he came back from l A that

845
00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: nigga was smooth and slick as a motherfucker. I think

846
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: it was so smooth and beauty follow the bike that

847
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: bigg was just man, I'm telling you, And what and

848
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: never another nigga like you? Straight up? No no, no,

849
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: no no, and good about it? And what's good about

850
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: it for niggas who know? His legacy is still here

851
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:21,959
Speaker 1: for niggas who know, because you can see it's still

852
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: here with niggas that know, and the fans are more

853
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: educated now, you know what I mean. So it's it's

854
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,399
Speaker 1: it's a cool thing. I'm sure. Um, you know all

855
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 1: the artists that we happen to be a friends out there.

856
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm I'm sure they still

857
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: think Hylie UM three too as well. You know what

858
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He was that kind of personality, you know

859
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: what I mean. And he was just a he would

860
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: look outside of the music ship, man, he was just

861
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 1: one of your niggas. Man. If you was good with

862
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: three two and he became one of your niggas. Man,

863
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 1: it was a good nigga outside of music. Like music,

864
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: my nigga. Nig was the funny fucker to be around.

865
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:09,439
Speaker 1: I'm counting here. I think it used to dying man.

866
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: He larious, Man, I didn't Yeah, yeah, I missed that

867
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 1: guy though. I missed that. Yeah. Man, you know, Big Mike,

868
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: we could talk about your classics man all day. But

869
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: you've got some five rands new ship. Did you just

870
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 1: put out man Finished the Job? What's going on with that? Yeah? Man,

871
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: I had um thank you for bringing that up, man,

872
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Man got the new LP out right now.

873
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: It is the title on Finished the Job. UM have

874
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: released it right found when that COVID So it kind

875
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 1: of like, uh kind of like it didn't actually so

876
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: things down because I was still grinding with it. But

877
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: you know it isn't here with everybody, um, everybody else

878
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: to at the time, but here the album is out there. Man,

879
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: it's hard to tell from what people tell me you

880
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: did what I'm saying, bro, Definitely, yeah, I definitely at

881
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 1: this stage, if I'm doing music and I'm coming out,

882
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:16,439
Speaker 1: I definitely want people here and here's that I've spent

883
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 1: right doing my crap. You feel me. I want them

884
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: to hear that when they go get the mute. I

885
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: don't want them to hear me sounding like ninety three, right,

886
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 1: and and don't you don't you trip off of that?

887
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,760
Speaker 1: A lot of the motherfucker's who listened to you today

888
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,839
Speaker 1: they want you to be so reminiscent of ninety three

889
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 1: and ninety four. It's hard to explain to a motherfucker like,

890
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 1: I'm so evolved from ninety three and ninety before. And

891
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: I get it. That was the height of y'all. You

892
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: love the negative at all you had out there if

893
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: you have out there, and I get it. But it's

894
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:02,439
Speaker 1: a different mind people. It would have been cool if

895
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 1: we was cash that had one one hit one record

896
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 1: that we was known for, right, is easier to stay

897
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,720
Speaker 1: in that mode, right, because you know what you're gonna do.

898
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:15,839
Speaker 1: But when we was artists, that was used to see

899
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: we come from the every hip hop, the hip hop

900
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: we was digested in the early eighties and ship like that.

901
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: You feel me. We grew up with with artists having

902
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: the window to grow. You feel me. We grew up

903
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: with l L. We grew up with Daddy. We watched it.

904
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Right, they taught us and

905
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: things like that. So, um, it's just that today they

906
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: don't that time of time, that kind of time is

907
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: not a lobby to the artist, you know what I mean, right,

908
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: because they don't. They don't. I hate to say judge,

909
00:51:54,600 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: but they don't. Weigh an artists today on um their

910
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 1: depth in music, right, it's really about what they could show,

911
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: right and things like that. And we had all that

912
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: ship too back in the eighties. That make we trump jewelry.

913
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: They you see sick Ricky still doing it. You feel me.

914
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 1: Niggas had real jewy. They that big ship back in

915
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: cars and everything. You know what I'm saying. But the

916
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 1: emphasis we're still on the music. You feel me. It

917
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: was still on the music. But I do, Hey, I

918
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: get that I get that a lot Cass wants you

919
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: to say in that name, but they don't really understand

920
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: that type of artists. We all won't allow us to

921
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: stay complacent like that, you feel me, especially when you

922
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: you still got you know, you feel like you got

923
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,800
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot to deal. They just want allow

924
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: you to do that, you know what I mean. But

925
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: if they walk with the new ship, they're definitely going

926
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: to here that foundation that they're looking for. You feel me,

927
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,399
Speaker 1: it's definitely going to be there. And that's the whole

928
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 1: treat of it. They like, damn, this think is really

929
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: making this ship work because I'm hitting what I want

930
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: to feel me and I'm I'm hearing what he's trying

931
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: to do as well at this stage, you know what

932
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: I mean. So you know, the fans, if they rock

933
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 1: with you, they just have to really get into what

934
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,240
Speaker 1: you're doing. And um, so far, a lot of fans

935
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: that came up and and and doing the nineties and

936
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 1: things like that when we were doing other things, they

937
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: tend to why with us, you know what I'm saying.

938
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: That's why winners there there get you the opportunity, but

939
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: you just have to give it the time to get

940
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: a round to it and things like that. But I

941
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: just try to keep it pushing, man. I try to

942
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: keep my blades short as possible. So um, at the

943
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: end of the day, when all the music is collected

944
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: and it's all done, you know what I mean. I

945
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: want people to be able to hear escalation. I want

946
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: them to be able to give some bro if they

947
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: can walk away and say, damn, that was jamming at

948
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: fifty to three harder than he was that twenty three.

949
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: You feel me, man, I'm good, you feel me. I'm like, okay, okay.

950
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: What I was trying to do was felt is then

951
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And that's the whole thing. Man. It's

952
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: just like le Bron and Ship they could say, man

953
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: for the time tapping on the brown shower the crown, like,

954
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: I just got to recalibrate my give Me a Ghost

955
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: one with Nigga and I'm gonna show you to feel me.

956
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sorry the other side of the game. So

957
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: that's what we have to do, man, And I think

958
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 1: the fans at the end of the day, they're gonna

959
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 1: appreciate that. They're gonna appreciate that that we try to

960
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: keep it curving and continue to grow because you're still

961
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: a lot of fans that's our age, man, that's out there,

962
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: and they just haven't been bead you feel me. They

963
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 1: just have a little But when we go around and

964
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:49,840
Speaker 1: do these shows right and these motherfucker um these cators

965
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:53,359
Speaker 1: be packed the lines were in the corner and show you, man,

966
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: that that that the fan bases there, they're wrong with you,

967
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 1: you feel me, But you gotta keep quick me. You know,

968
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: if you stay consistent with the product and it's quality

969
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: and it's good, it can't be no bullshit. And that's

970
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: a lot of bulls A lot of times. That's what

971
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,319
Speaker 1: fun us up too, because yeah, it's a lot of

972
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: us still around, but a lot of us ain't putting

973
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: out the quality music that we are known to put out.

974
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: It's like we're trying to adapt to a lot of

975
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: what's going on, but you're forgetting that you were still

976
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 1: gotta have that, still gotta have that. It happens, It happens.

977
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: It happens to me, you know what I'm saying. I

978
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: came home and I was trying to tip on what

979
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: was happening at time, you know what I mean. I

980
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 1: kind of stepped out and brought me some loud color

981
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: tennis really my style, you know what. Man, there it

982
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: was like we do that. We do it though, we

983
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: do it, you know, my fuer you know. But when

984
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: you already had that foundation, and it's kind of hard,

985
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: so you have to check yourself every now and then

986
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: you got to chap yourself and you have to check yourself,

987
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: and then you know, and and and and and you

988
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,319
Speaker 1: got to stand firm like a pam, you know, like

989
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 1: a pam with the child, and you watch the child

990
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,840
Speaker 1: go through all these different stages. You feel me, but

991
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: you can't change, right. That's how we are today in

992
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: the game, right, the game is a child because we're

993
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: watching the change go from stage, but we still have

994
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,839
Speaker 1: to stay firm. We can relate to them and keep

995
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: it cool. You feel me, but at the same time

996
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: they have to see that foundation firm, you know what

997
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: I mean? And um, you know, And that's that's just

998
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 1: how I see it. Some of the time depends on

999
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: what I'm smoking. Different point of view. Yeah, yeah, but

1000
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: you know that the album Mills Gym and Man What

1001
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: a Turtle Man, and I kind of got our idea

1002
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: of my money. The title finish the Job gotta this

1003
00:56:56,719 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: is like double times right there. They gotta meeting to it, right, Yeah,

1004
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: most definitely, you know, because people always want to know,

1005
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, would happened with Big Mike.

1006
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying right there on that bubble

1007
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you know, um, there's

1008
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: no secret. By now people knew I had had some

1009
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: problems with it, lady, and feel me. The ship went

1010
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: from the desk in the office and leaked out into

1011
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: the streets and got to the gangstership. Make a long

1012
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: story short, right for my part in it, I wind

1013
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:36,439
Speaker 1: up doing some times, you feel me windinging some time.

1014
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: That's what happened with me, wind up getting a seven

1015
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 1: years since doing foe on next. But at the time,

1016
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: with no social media, this this was pretty social media

1017
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: well fulk was able to keep themselves going. Then I

1018
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: can pitch you that social media motherfucker can't have that. So, folks,

1019
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: that's that's a little while, you know what I mean.

1020
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: So I felt like my career was interrupted by that

1021
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: drama with the label that led to my course ration.

1022
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 1: You feel me, right, So the job was complete. You

1023
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: did what I'm saying, I dropped some projects in the

1024
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 1: meantime after coming home a few mixtapes, you know what

1025
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: I mean, a couple of couple of records, you know

1026
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, to keep it, stay active right and

1027
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: keep some money flowing. You did what I'm saying. But

1028
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 1: it wasn't that Big Mike project that I knew what

1029
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 1: was in me. So when I came to that point

1030
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: and I was comfortable where I met right in the music,

1031
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: the sound came together for me in that pocket at

1032
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: that time, I said, you know what this it's what

1033
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: I want to finish the job with. I guess the

1034
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: first step and finishing the job you did. So when um,

1035
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: when that type of came to me, man, it's stuck

1036
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 1: with me. You know. It had that definitely that meeting

1037
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: behind it, and it made people be like, you know,

1038
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 1: bring the question up, like finish the job with job

1039
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 1: or you finish it right, and then I'm able to

1040
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: get into the things that led up right, so they

1041
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 1: get some more history on Big Mike. You did what

1042
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying, not like I just fell off playing it something.

1043
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 1: You did what I'm saying exactly sure, And that's what

1044
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm glad man that that me and my brothers got

1045
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: the opportunity, man, you know, to have this show right

1046
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: here man, which we're getting like a million downloads on

1047
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: the audio a month now, dude. And we got the

1048
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: radio showed off. So doomdays of our brothers putting off

1049
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: music and not having a support system, it's them was over.

1050
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: We got a radio showing our brothers gonna be in

1051
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Speaker 1: ten of eleven different markets out here out West. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be in front of four or five million people

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Speaker 1: every Friday. So the big mics of the world, the

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Speaker 1: Moor three too always have. We're playing all that ship.

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Speaker 1: I'm playing all that I see. I think you're two

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Speaker 1: weeks Mike. We're gonna yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. We need that, man,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Shout out to your brothers

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Speaker 1: for that, man. We need that. We need more brothers.

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Speaker 1: That's that's UM that's on that side or the ball

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Speaker 1: right to do their things and and create opportunities and

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Speaker 1: avenues and things. You know what I mean, for the

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Speaker 1: for the for the um, for the veteran artists, that's well,

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Speaker 1: that's still got good music. The offer, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. That's all it is. We know how the

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Speaker 1: radio game work, right. We know it's all about big

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Speaker 1: record companies keeping their account paid up. You feel me,

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Speaker 1: you know, and a lot of us we're just not

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Speaker 1: We're just like you know what Niggers is feeling us

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Speaker 1: on the street. Right, We're good. We're able to make

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Speaker 1: anifany eating things like that, but you know, to have

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Speaker 1: to have our peers create avenues you feel me and

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Speaker 1: say no, that ship ain't acceptable. Right, that's an awesome thing.

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Speaker 1: So I can listen. I congratulate you guys on doing that. Man,

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Speaker 1: I rocked, y'all. I think y'all for supporting us man,

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Speaker 1: And y'all know I support whatever y'all doing. Oh Man,

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Speaker 1: and we and we're playing the rivers on the radio, bro.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, we went to help you

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Speaker 1: back to be on the radio show, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, you know we pushed stuff man and

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Speaker 1: people Mike, Man, while we you mean, telling people where

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Speaker 1: they can find you and where they can get at man. Listen, man,

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Speaker 1: y'all for social lots of me on on the gram

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Speaker 1: at O G think Mike, that's o G thick Mike.

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Speaker 1: That's on the ground. And um and with that Facebook

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Speaker 1: man on that Facebook as well man that I am

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Speaker 1: Big Mike. I try to get them things consolidated. But

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Speaker 1: I'm still working on it, you know what I mean. Um,

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Speaker 1: But most definitely, man, y'all reach out to me on

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Speaker 1: the ground at O G think Mike, y'all can keep

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Speaker 1: up with me for the latest content, um, the latest

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Speaker 1: material that I'm gonna be dropping, um when I got

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Speaker 1: shows and things, performances coming up, you know, Um, different

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Speaker 1: artists that I'm working with. You know, I even post

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Speaker 1: the music or artists that that that hit me up

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Speaker 1: and pay me the feature on their song. You think

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, Um, I'm just trying to give

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Speaker 1: back man in the ways that I'm able to using

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Speaker 1: my craft for things like that. You know. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: most definitely man, y'all see that at me on that

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Speaker 1: um on the on the plan that OK kick Mike

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Speaker 1: on Facebook for all my Facebook heads that I am

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Speaker 1: Big Mike, you feel me, and for the features to

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Speaker 1: put them on put them shows. Man, y'all get at

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Speaker 1: me man that put O G. Pick Mike just dropped

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Speaker 1: us a message man concern to get interest and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get right back to you.