WEBVTT - King Los Interview 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:09.760 Real celebrity. Yeah, it's the Breakfast Club Charlomagne and God Angelie. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:11.040 I don't know where the hell en you went, but 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.440 we have a very very special guest with us. That's 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:15.720 what Envy says. Yeah, that's what thing he said that 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.400 everybody from loving hip hop very special, special special, something 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:27.480 not that specials here as well. Huh isn't that wrong? Yeah? 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.920 What's the God King? Los? Yeah? Man, how you doing? 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.800 Blessed Man? God Money War is out now? Yeah, man's 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.040 playing the album title because you know, I've heard album, 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:37.960 so I get it. But some people might be like, 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:39.840 why do you why are you mixing God with those 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:45.400 worldly things? I mean, God created the world, but beyond that, Um, 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.680 I just feel like there's three things in life that 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.080 you know, um, affect us very deeply, you know, and 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.960 need you know, need to be talked about. Um. God 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.560 for one. You know, some people wake up and I 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.920 don't even believe in God and reach with a small 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.240 form before they pray. Yeah, I mean you know, I 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.600 mean not don't even pray. You know what I'm saying, 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.039 like it don't even get to prayer. It's like we 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.080 just had people walking around empty, you know, and we 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.080 wonder why we have so many, so many things that 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.120 they hold us back. You know, No, people don't have 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.560 something higher to reach to. So I feel like I 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.119 just wanted to give that to people, you know, from 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.360 a perspective of you don't have to be perfect to 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.080 love God, you know, and just in that essence, you know, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.679 and especially with our community and seeing the stuff that 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.440 we'd be going through, you know as of lately. And 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.600 then the money, you know, it's just something that I 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.360 grew up. It's something that I grew up and being 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.680 from Baltimore, you know, being basically like raised by like kingpins. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.440 Like I lost my dad when I was sixteen. My 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.600 dad was murdered, so like from that point, that's where 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.760 you really start to become a man in shape who 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.840 you are. And I was embraced by just street dudes 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.480 who was doing it on a major level in I 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.280 could have went any way in life, you know what 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.559 I'm saying. So, you know, that was the money part, 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.400 just letting people know that money shouldn't you know, um, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.440 it shouldn't rule your heart, you know what I'm saying. 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:11.000 And then um, the war and my and my um 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.400 and my depth definition of war. It's not like the 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:18.000 stuff we see on TV. And it's not like the racism. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:19.680 And it's not that I feel like it's the it's 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.880 the it's the personal wars, the war with for you know, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.880 it's the war for your soul, you know what I'm saying. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.520 So those are the things I wanted to break down 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.760 in my in my CD, because my CD wasn't that 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.000 CD in particular wasn't about me. God, money, war wasn't 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.160 about me, one about lows, you know what I'm saying. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.240 It was about us and what we go through and 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:39.799 how we just need to be there for each other. 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.680 So and you know what I noticed too, when it 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.760 comes to God, a lot of times people pray when 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.000 they need something, not necessarily to be thankful for the 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.640 things that they have. Sometimes the only time somebody might 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.480 praise if they're like, oh Lord, please don't let me 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.359 be pregnant, you know, don't let you know how you 0:02:54.440 --> 0:03:02.320 paid the thing you have. You made that prayer before. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:09.000 I haven't, I never ever. Yeah, But you know it's crazy, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.960 like that's that's the thing to see some people use 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.280 God selfishly. And it's like I pray for other people 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.600 like before I prayed, or like I never prayed like 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:22.000 for like, you know, to be successful or like you know, 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:23.840 even though I mean you can, you can pray for 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.520 anything you want, you know. I rather pay for people 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.920 to be healthy and stuff like that. But it's up 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.360 to you, man. I mean, God ignores prayers. The godson 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.840 a couple of prayers praying for well yeah yeah, I 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.200 mean you gotta be careful what you wish for because 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.080 you might get something you're not even ready for. You know. Um, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.600 one time it was a preacher who told a story 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.760 about a lady who prayed to to to you know, 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.200 to just get by. And that's all. That's all it 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.240 ever happened. She just got just got by, just barely, 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.320 because that's all she prayed for. Lord, just help us, 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.680 just please just just get by. You know. It's like 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.839 that's the power of positive thinking to maximize your blessings. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.600 Like you speak things in the fruition. So if that's 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.200 what you're constantly seeing yourself, I just want to get 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.120 bodies gonna get bay, that's gonna happen. Or when people 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.120 be like man, I don't even know there you go. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.680 You know what's interesting U when you came in h 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:13.680 angels said something what You've got a gun, I don't 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.880 know what and you was like, no, I got God. Yeah, 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:18.360 because you know when somebody goes in the bank and 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.480 say where's it? No, I mean that usually that means like, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.040 you know, you got to you don't want to say 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:26.560 what it is. Yeah. No, man, that's interesting to hear 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.080 you saying you were saying you were looking for water. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.520 That's then, I mean, yeah, I was looking. I was 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.080 actually looking for I had a feji water. I don't 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.680 know what I did with it. But it's interesting here 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:37.800 you say that because it made me think of it. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.520 I mean, it's fresh on my mind. You know, I'm 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.120 from I'm born to Charleston, so I'm thinking about the 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.720 Charleston shooting. And I heard what the representative said. He goes, oh, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.360 you know, well if somebody in there could have defended themselves, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.040 And I'm like, well, that's the church they were in 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.359 their praying. Do you feel like you need guns in 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.920 church now because these things could happen? Or do you 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.479 just rely on God? I mean, at the end of 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.920 the day, man, if things like this are happening, where 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:06.240 people are going into you know, a holy place in 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:12.479 committing just like like atrocities, Like there's no way to 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:17.880 there's no scale to gauge what you do in that situation. Dude, 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:23.640 murder nine people. So like I think for some extremities, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.880 you might you might need an extremity. You might. They 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.360 might need to protect themselves because I mean, you're not 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.960 aiming to harm people. So that's someone taking advantage of you. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.720 And that's different, you know what I'm saying. So it's like, 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.719 I mean, you gotta protect your family. I bet that 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.200 preacher or whoever when they're home. You know, you gotta 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.120 think of the church as your home. You know, if 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.960 somebody walked come in your house and try to harm you, 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.120 you gotta you gotta do what you gotta do to 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.560 protect your children or your wife or you know. Nine 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.680 people died. It was young people, older people or man, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.360 God protect me. But I still asleep from my get Yeah, 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.120 Curtis Jackson, Hey, you gotta keep it if that's if 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.159 that's if that's what people are doing, then it's it's 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.680 no it's no rules, man, you gotta you gotta protect yourself. 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.200 Now you have to sound glory to the Lord with 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.640 R Kelly. How did y'all hook up? Like, how did 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.440 what's your relationship with R. Kelly? Um, I don't have 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.360 a relationship with R. Kelly. My only relationship with R. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:23.159 Kelly is that I think he's amazing and that I've 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:27.000 been a fan forever like everybody else. Um. I made 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.680 the record Glory to the Lord Um because I wanted 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.200 to talk to the hood. And you know, again, I'm 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.640 from Baltimore, he's from Charleston. Like we're from places where 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.040 we've seen extreme turmoil, you know what I'm saying. So 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.960 me having a foundation in Christ and just growing up 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.960 like in the church or whatever. You know, I'm not 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.200 a perfect person, but I've been extremely blessed and I've 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.480 also went through crazy, crazy situations, you know. But through 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.440 it all, you know, I give the glory to God. Man, 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.080 So I would you a rapper? You're not supposed to 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.240 do that. I don't know what these rappers do. I 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.120 don't know what I don't know what these rappers be doing, man. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.360 But you know, so why act like you can't put 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.600 hip hop and God together? I remember the time when 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.000 that's all it was about. I grew up on an 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.360 outcasting goodie mob. They were giving it up for God. Yeah, Man, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.520 when they won awards, you don't want to thank God. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.600 Now you don't see none of that no more. Man, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.400 it's just crazy, like I feel like, um, we're going 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.400 towards like you know, it's just anti God, you know, Pete. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.600 They want to give you every reason to deny God. Man. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.920 But every day. You know, there was a guy who said, um, 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.360 I watched this guy Robbie zachar Riyas all the time 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:33.920 like I'd just be trying to get mine, you know, 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.160 you know, and uh he was. Someone asked him, he 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.320 does does a lot of Q and A, but he 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.800 does it at like those prestigious um, you know colleges 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.320 like Yale and Harvard with all these intellects. You know, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.560 once people get so smart they don't need God. So 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.200 he does Q and A. So the guy asked him 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:56.840 about um Jonah who was in the in the whale, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.360 you know, in the Bible, and does he think that's 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.760 ridiculous or does he believe it? Because you know, if 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.800 somebody says something about somebody being in the whale, the 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:10.200 first thing you would think, in your shallow thinking, so 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.360 you don't believe it, right, So he said, if to 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.520 say you don't believe that is to say that you 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.360 ignore the miracles that we see every day. And I 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.000 think that's what people don't have enough appreciation. Your human 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.560 body is a miracle. You know, everything about you is 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.760 a miracle. It's miraculous for a woman to be able 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.280 to have a child and then be connected emotionally, um, 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.839 he said, even like into like relationships, the way men 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.280 and women, you know, the way um, we are connected 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.040 to each other, the way we're magnetized towards one another. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.800 All those things are miraculous. But people don't have a 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.040 high enough appreciation for just the simple things in life. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.000 So of course you don't know that, he said. So 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.320 for somebody that you know, rose from the grave and 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.600 did all that being in someone being in the whale stomach, 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.600 that's a small order. For somebody who created the sun, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.720 and you look at it every day and appreciate it, 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.360 you know what I'm saying. So that's just my my synopsis. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:04.880 Now you have all Kelly on that record. How do 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.920 you think God feels about him peeing on little girls 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.520 at one point? And it's like, I don't know, man, 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.960 Only God can judge them, you know, I don't know, man. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.120 The alleged pe no we saw the take I ain't 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.440 see nothing, man, I ain't see nothing, man. I don't 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:28.120 know nothing in the world. But Kevin Wait Wait was 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:29.440 out part of it. I don't want nothing to do 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.679 with its clear you can get. Yeah, you know, no, 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.120 I saw good Man like I don't. I don't really know. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.480 I don't really know that artist. And he sounds good 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.720 on the song like that Dave Chappelle's kit. That's crazy now. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.880 I like a ghetto boy a lot too. It seems like, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.480 you know, you talk about your grandmother a lot on 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.360 that record. It seems like you have a big influence 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.240 on you. Yeah, you mentioned that you're you just mentioned 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.400 your father got killed. He was murdered when I was 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.880 like sixteen. You said that on the record. He wasn't around, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.559 so like, like, what she the one that raised you? Um? Not? 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.360 My grandmother didn't raise me, man, um My mama raised me. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.240 At a point in my life. My grandmother on my 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.920 dad's side raised me for a little while because I 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.600 want to live with my dad. You know, a lot 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.840 of young young young men when their mom and dad's 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.480 not together, they want to go live with their dad, 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.440 you know, Like I wanna go live with my pops. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.840 Because it's just you. Your dad has this different a 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.200 different essence, and he don't beat you for everything like mama. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:24.920 If you want to discipline you all the time, your 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:26.840 dad like boys stopped and you know it's like more 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.720 of a masculine thing, you know. So my grandma for 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.800 dumb stuff like having Playboy. Like yeah, Like I remember 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.680 one time I was watching um, I was watching the 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.599 like the Spice channel back in the day. I was 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.439 probably like fourteen, and I'm watching it. You know, back 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:44.839 in the day on the cave, we had the button 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.640 when you could go back to another channel, just one 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.240 button and you go back and forth. So I hear 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.040 my dad come out the ronk go back to the 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.760 last channel would be like a Disney channel or something, right, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.800 and he come out and get some juicy, go back 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.719 in the room and I go back to Spice and 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.400 he come back out not change. He like, boy, you 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.640 still woke. And I said, I said, yeah, I'm still up. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.400 He said, yeah, all them neked women keeping you woke 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.080 like I did. I didn't know. I was watching the thing. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.120 But he had like the monitor thing when his TV change, 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.840 he had a box thing. You worked for the cable 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.600 company now he worked for a cable company. But we 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.280 had we had the worst. Like he worked for change 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.080 his channel. Yeah, yeah, he had a little device when 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.840 he Yeah he knew he was on me. He was 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.120 on me early. But that's like a pop so pops 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.560 like look at him, a mon come out there and 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:39.640 be crying like, yeah he probably. Man, he keeps changing 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.280 the channel. I'm trying to watch this. You might want 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:47.480 your son to see them, you might want, um not really, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.760 not really. My dad was like from the streets, from 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.079 the you know, from the projects and raised around it. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.280 But like my dad had careers, you know, he was 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.200 a hard working dude. Like he copped cribs and whips 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.280 and had all the flyers stuff from working and that 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.960 was what he basically instilled in us, you know. But 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.080 like all my brothers. Yeah, I'm my older brother right 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.200 now inconcentrated, my younger brother inconcentrated. You know, I'm like 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.800 the one that made it out. Did your dad know 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.000 you wanted to do music before he passed? No, my 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:24.040 dad never got to, Uh see me rap? Why do 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:25.840 you get killed? If you don't mind me asking who 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:32.080 kills the cable guy? Um? Uh, I don't know, man, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.600 it was like it was like I really don't know 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:39.920 the true story, but with the you know, the newspapers 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.480 had was that, um, he was giving somebody a ride 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.760 and they went to like rob him because you know, 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:52.240 he laced, you know what I'm saying, And they went 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.240 to rob him, and I think like all they ended 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.880 up getting was like six bucks or something and they 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.760 killed him. So he died in the car. They killed 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:06.600 him in the car, you know what I'm saying. Business, Yeah, man, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.640 So I don't know, man, it's like some weak individuals. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.320 When did you decide to start doing music? If it 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:16.160 was after that, like I just started writing. I just 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.280 was looking. I just I needed a way to express 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.560 like all my anger instead of like just having like 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.080 this immense hatred for the world. You know what I'm saying, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.200 is just turned into that guy like because it was 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.720 it was it was right there. You know. I remember 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.920 like deciding like whether or not I wanted to just 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.200 hate this world and just go massacre on people or 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.640 try to figure something out, you know. So I started writing, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.800 and many times I would had like a blank piece 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.520 of paper and get up in and still be blank. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.040 I just knew I wanted to write something and I 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.440 didn't know what I didn't wrap, you know what I'm saying. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.520 So then I should start writing all kinds of literature, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.640 you know what I'm saying. And I got into literature early, 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.840 so that like drove me to like you know, like 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.080 you know, Egga Allan Poe and like you know, uh, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.680 Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and you know different. So you 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.959 were a poet really at first, I mean I wasn't 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.320 really a poet. I was just write a writer. And 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:17.160 then I started trying poetry and different you know, different 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.280 displays of um of the artistry, and I just I 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.080 did it and I was I was dope at it. 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.400 And then when I ended up transferring to this other 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.080 school because I was supposed to go to my pops 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.080 because I was I played ball. I was, I was 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.000 a ball player, and I was supposed to go to 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.040 my pops. He was coaching at this other school with 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.800 my uncle Mike, and so I had to go somewhere else. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.640 So the school I went to, they was rapping. So 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.120 at lunch every day it was on. So I would 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.520 write before lunch, and when I got to lunch, it 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.680 was time for them bars. You know what I'm saying, 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.920 so that was like my introduction. If you would have 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.200 never probably went to that school, well, my dad would 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.440 never and my dad probably wouldn't got killed. I probably 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.040 was be playing ball. Were you were? You were you 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.400 the kid who are brothers and father? I used to 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.600 be like, God, dude, don't come over here with us. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.040 We're in the street. You go ball go right, um, 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.560 you know what, I've always been embraced by the streets, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.520 So it was always like I never had to because 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.480 like they always the streets just took kire me. I 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.000 was like colloging them, you know what I'm saying, Like 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.960 they just took they Yeah, they just took hire me man. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.640 Like I'm I'm closer to some of the the guys, 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.880 you know. I mean, and at something at one point 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.160 in my life, I did stuff, you know, I did 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.320 a lot of stuff, you know what I'm saying, because 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.280 of a connection that I had and the trusted that 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.840 they had for me. You know, on that level, you 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.880 just get introduced to it because it's it's there, it's 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.560 readily available for you. And I did a lot of stuff, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.040 you know, but I never liked I never glorified it, 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.920 and I never thought it was fly. That's why I 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.720 said the money part for me, it's like it was 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.000 a lot of money, but it just it just it 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:00.360 wasn't this. It wasn't the breakfast club. It wasn't lights, 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.160 camera action, it wasn't go time. It was just like 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.120 sky boxes and bottles and you know, we was popping 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.520 Chris like all that mob. It wasn't the right it 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.520 wasn't seen in the right way though, Like even when 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.680 Mitche had it was like I didn't want to be 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.920 in a crowd. I wanted I wanted to be liked, 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.200 you know, Like we went to jay Z show and 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:20.960 jay Z still on the stage and was doing like 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.640 this and it was all in the crowd. I was like, 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:27.280 I'm in the wrong spot in my spot, like what's up? 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.240 So it was it was like that um because I 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.160 was just on my grind and uh. I went through 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.400 a couple of people, man my man Sadik, shout out 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:40.520 Sadik and Philly Sadiq did Black Friday to put beans on. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.840 That's the that's the guy that took me to puff. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.320 I was doing my my little rap thing. I had 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.320 a ten minute freestyle that I had put together. Was 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.720 over like fifty different beats, and um, I was doing 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.240 that for everybody whoever I could that knew somebody, and 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.120 they would connecting the dots. He was like, Yo, this 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.600 is amazing. I gotta take you to such and and 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.280 I climbed. That's how I climbed the ladder and Sadiq 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.400 took me. The Beans Beans heard it and was like, yo, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.960 took me the Dame. Dame heard it and was like, yo, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.639 it was Damon. Biggs was in there um at the time. 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.600 And then it went to like it was about to 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.560 go like the Jay and it was Puff. It was 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:29.040 the last two and we went to Puff first, and 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.520 Puff shut everything down. Hope wouldn't let you leave the room, 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.440 not at all, especially being not at all. Know why 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.000 didn't it work with Diddy? Um, why didn't it work 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.440 with Diddy? Well, let me get that, nah man, because 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.760 you know I do I make those like like like 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:52.120 like like like like people make excuses. That's easy. It 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.720 wasn't that, man. It was I lost that first deal 0:17:54.800 --> 0:18:00.280 because the homies everything caught up to to to to 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.639 them at that point. So, I mean, these dudes were 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.960 multime millionaires, you know, like who know the dudes that 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.840 I was with we I took them. We went all 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.400 the way to puff okay, so it was funding everything 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:18.080 and you know, fast got involved and it got ugly. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:23.280 So they came and we had a dissolved this situation. 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:27.320 It was it just did he yeah, and this is 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.439 right mind you this is like not too long, like 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.680 just the shine stuff. So in his mind he running 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.240 from everything. It feels like he's not about to be 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:42.320 shout out what I'm saying. Hey man, smart smart man, 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.480 you know. And um, we was right there on like 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.960 the customer like album, and uh, it just didn't work. Man. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.320 You know, a lot of stuff happened, man, I mean 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.959 like movie stuff with my with my people that I 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.199 was with. So it was a good thing that that 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.560 went the way it went. You know. Um, it was unfortunate, 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.640 but it was the greatest learning experience because after that, 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:08.400 I was back in the hood and grinding and struggling 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.480 and broke for like six years. So you signed with 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.760 it twice. Yeah, yeah. So the first time you signed 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:17.520 with him, you were on the CUSP and then all 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:19.440 that happened, and then you went back and you were 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:24.840 because nobody else was checking for the kids. I came 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.560 to New York and I went to every meeting with 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.000 everybody that was halfway important and they was like, Yo, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.120 this is crazy, this is crazy, and did not sign me. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.040 So when I was back in the hood, broke and 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.240 it was like it's dope is right here and you 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.320 know everybody and you could do this. And it was 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.639 like one day the phone run after six years and 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.800 it was Puff again. Wow, what did he want? He 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.160 was like yo, he was like yo, I no, never 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:55.760 never never did it. I never had a bat man. Listen, 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.639 check this out. My first after the first deal, we exhausted, 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:01.760 like with two hundred thousand dollars out of buffers. I 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:03.600 had a half a million dollars deal back then. You 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.120 know what I'm saying, This is in oh five. So 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.879 that's that was that was wavy. That like for a 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.400 guy from nothing to half a million, nice little advance. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:14.840 I've done well, you know what I'm saying. And um, 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.159 we exhausted over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars out 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.520 of that budget. Puff let me have to joint without 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.520 without owning me, without me owning him. That like all 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.080 the things from the past, and people let me go 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.159 Scott free. And we wasn't close at that time. You 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:31.400 know what I'm saying, let me go Scott free. Look, 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.680 I know, y'all, situation ain't cool. Fast came up here. 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.239 I told him nothing but good stuff about y'all. But 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.520 and that wasn't even Puffed, Like Harve told me that 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.960 they had to not, you know, go any further with it, 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:43.760 with the deal or whatever. So Puff just like, yeah, 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.400 man kept Kevin the hunting, you know what I'm saying. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.879 So attachment, so I still had the ability to go 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.159 somewhere else without somebody saying, oh yeah, but did he 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:57.720 got so after all that time and I go back 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.040 now Puff, it's like, Yo, I'm hearing you. You're making 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.520 so much noise like I saw you didn't even know 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.040 it was you. Cassie told me, like, Yo, that's Lows 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:09.639 from back in the day. Like that's Lows. Lows. He 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.159 like Lows. So that's when he reached out, and um, 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.879 we got in touch or whatever. I haul put to 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:18.760 New York, you know what I'm saying, went to his 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:22.639 book thing when he put out that book, just linked 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:24.639 up with him. We vibed and he was just like, Yo, 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.400 I'm watching you. I'm interested, Like you know, I might 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:30.520 want to fix things and let's see like where we 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:33.360 left off. Because it's seeming like you the one. It's 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:35.280 seeming like you the one, you know what I'm saying. 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.520 So we linked up and it took. It took a 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:43.360 little while about how long it take Ernie a few, 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.640 a few like five six about five six months, and 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.720 we did it. We did a new deal, and I mean, yo, 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.560 I owe everything the puff Man. It's like that that 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:57.239 that next deal um took. That's what took me to La, Like, 0:21:57.359 --> 0:21:59.040 that's what got me out the hood. You know what 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.040 I'm saying. I got a lot of questions ahead, go ahead, 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.120 do you get things? So? Yeah, did jay Z? Did 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.399 he thing? How do you decide I'm gonna sign with 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:09.560 Diddy over Jay? If it's right there? Like, how do 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:11.280 you let did he say, Okay, I'm gonna keep you 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.840 in this off because we say you're not moving? We 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:18.440 never Ah, that's that's hilarious. That's hilarious. We never got 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:21.280 to Jay because did he wanted it that badly? He 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:23.480 wasn't going to let you get to that's puff Man. 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.720 At that time, he was like fresh off of marathon. 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:29.560 What do you say to a man in city? Look 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:31.479 we was in the thing and he had a window. 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.639 He had a window like from there to there, like 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:36.840 in his office, and the curtains was closed. He was 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:38.440 sitting there the whole time, and I did the ten 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:41.199 minute thing, and you know, he was like he was 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:43.800 really impressed. He was trying not to be over impressed, 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:45.919 but he was really impressed. It was hard for him 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:48.480 to hold it back. And so everybody was quiet because 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:50.879 I like killed the room. And then he was like 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:56.280 got up, drew the curtains, open, the curtains and it 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:59.240 was his billboard in Times Square was right across the 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:03.480 thing like this. He was like, yeah, okay, okay, I'm back. 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:05.640 I'm back. And he literally said out that I'm back 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:07.920 because I guess I took him somewhere with my thing. 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:10.800 So he was like, look, that's one point five a 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.159 year for me to come to work every day and 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.800 look at myself and every I'm with game, I'm with 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:21.520 the most treacherous gangster gorilla get just like everybody just 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:23.399 broke down and just bust out, bust out in the 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:26.320 smiles because it's like that's puff, that's the that's what 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.439 he do. He put that stamp on who he is. 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:31.320 And he's you know, he's a genius marketing. And it 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:34.000 was like, yo, this is this may be a good. Wow, 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:36.320 I'm not only want my phone. I don't know, so 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:39.400 I tell everybody else, throw him in the river. Throw 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:42.080 your phone's in the late. So he said it, man, 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:44.000 and we were just like, man, let's let's rock with 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:46.800 this guy. You know, we're coming from where we're coming 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:48.760 from and we're trying to turn our lives around, so 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:52.080 let's do it. And we rock with him, and you know, 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:55.040 I mean everything was good. We that was something that 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:58.879 we messed up. So I'm not blaming Puff, you know, 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:01.240 for my career, nothing like that. And then the second 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:03.320 time around, it was just like the timing of it all. 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.760 It was just in the scope, you know, I can't 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:10.159 say that they were the most involved. You know, like 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:12.920 when nobody coming out to you know, like Jay Grant 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:16.160 come to my session. You know, I'm now so he's 0:24:16.200 --> 0:24:18.720 given me music. Nobody was doing that, you know. So 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:21.280 basically I was with Puff every day. We was more 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:24.440 close like brothers than like his artist. So like whatever 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:26.120 he needed, I was there for him. You know. When 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:29.119 it came like the same damn time verse and I 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:34.679 wrote that and yeah, and that was like you, like, 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:41.280 who wrote that? I saw you when you tweeted verse. 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:44.399 I saw when you tweeted, like, Yo, what puff just 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:47.200 did to that even gonna make you quit everything you're 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:50.600 doing or go harder. And that was the thing. And 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:54.919 when I wrote it, he didn't um, he didn't. He 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:59.639 didn't want it at first because he said that he 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:03.000 does want to intimidate people and he doesn't want to 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:07.720 come off like two braggadocious. He definitely made your real 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:10.080 it was two over the top. Yeah, and he said 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:11.280 it that. He was like, man, I don't know if 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:13.600 I don't I don't know if people are gonna take 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:15.920 this the right way by me saying it, because it's 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:20.040 all true. And I was like, yo, that's crazy. So 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:22.320 I wrote a new verse. You know what I'm saying. 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:24.680 I wrote a new verse no worse than the one 0:25:24.720 --> 0:25:27.840 that he put out. Now, you wrote toned down, No, no, no, 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:29.560 I wrote I wrote not. I just wrote another one. 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:32.200 Wasn't toned down. I just it just wasn't. It wasn't 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:34.679 as in your face, you know. I just wrote another 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:38.040 one that was still crazy. Coming to his crib, pulled 0:25:38.119 --> 0:25:40.439 up to the crib, and when I got to the 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:43.080 uh yet, we put the little studio on the crib. 0:25:43.119 --> 0:25:45.359 So by time I got to the studio, he opened 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:47.720 the door. He was like, wait one second, and he 0:25:47.800 --> 0:25:50.600 closed the door. He was in there recording the other verse. 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:54.200 And because he had recorded it, you know, and at 0:25:54.240 --> 0:25:56.120 the time, I think his assistant Neil told him, like, Yo, 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:59.400 you bugging you gotta do this verse. When he started 0:25:59.440 --> 0:26:02.240 saying it, it made all the sense in the world. 0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:04.480 I didn't. I didn't even ever give him the second verse. 0:26:04.520 --> 0:26:07.880 I literally had it in my hand, so that at 0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:10.159 the same damn con I can live your life in 0:26:10.240 --> 0:26:13.840 my life. At the same damn time for my riding 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:16.360 out money that should buy your house money. I got 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:19.160 that I could buy more. Right, buy your house money. 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:22.400 Jesus Christ. Now, for those six years that you had 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:24.600 to go back home, go back to Baltimore, what did 0:26:24.640 --> 0:26:28.359 you do to make money? Um? Like, how were you surviving? 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:32.520 Ain't no money? No, it wasn't no money. It wasn't 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:34.800 no money in Baltimore. Like, it's only a couple of 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:37.600 ways and make some money, you know. So that's like 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:39.359 a problem. And I didn't want to do that. I 0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:41.320 was just taking care of man, I was just blessed, 0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:43.600 like you know, like the streets took care of me. 0:26:44.240 --> 0:26:47.159 I was protected, you know, like I got fan like 0:26:47.200 --> 0:26:51.600 my older brother was rich. You know what I'm saying. Um, okay, 0:26:51.600 --> 0:26:54.360 so you basically I was took care of my homies 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:58.080 like they was in situations, you know, with the laws, 0:26:58.119 --> 0:27:00.800 so they couldn't really like you know, a lot of 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:03.000 them got locked up, every last one of them. Got 0:27:03.160 --> 0:27:05.840 every last person that I took to a bad boy 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:08.600 at that time, every last person got locked off. People 0:27:08.600 --> 0:27:10.840 at home. Now it's ten years. People, my man did, 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:13.560 my man did a dime. He home. I got another 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:16.119 man on waiting for to come home. The other guys 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:18.600 we don't really care about. They did something. They did 0:27:18.800 --> 0:27:21.040 they did they did no, no, no no, they did some stuff. 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:24.840 They did some stuff worse than that. They worse than that, 0:27:25.680 --> 0:27:30.760 worse than that. Nah, like but on that level, yeah, man, 0:27:30.920 --> 0:27:35.199 like you know what I'm saying, kid napping, you know, um, 0:27:35.440 --> 0:27:39.040 murder two people in the crew, you know what I'm saying. 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:41.760 So when they get to that, it's like, dude, like 0:27:41.840 --> 0:27:44.399 you we slept together, you know what I'm saying. You know, 0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:46.639 not like that we but we slept like we we 0:27:46.760 --> 0:27:49.720 grind and we stayed in hotel rooms in Jersey to 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:51.480 just drive over the bridge. They're going to New York 0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:54.000 and hustle in the morning to try to get out dreams, 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:56.520 and y'all did that during that time. Did you feel 0:27:56.520 --> 0:27:58.840 like you were going to give up music? Never? I 0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:00.920 never ever felt like I was gonna give up nothing. 0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:03.520 I'm from the worst of the worst. My pops was 0:28:03.600 --> 0:28:06.800 murdered when I was sixteen. What else kid equates to there? 0:28:06.920 --> 0:28:09.720 You know, there's no equivalent. There's nothing you could do 0:28:09.760 --> 0:28:13.760 to me. Nothing. You talk about balance a lot on 0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:15.560 your album. You even got a record call balance is 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:18.080 good when you encourage brothers to get out the hood. 0:28:18.119 --> 0:28:19.680 Now a lot of people like to glorify the hood. 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:21.720 You're telling people to get out. Explain on that a 0:28:21.720 --> 0:28:24.280 little bit, um. I mean, you can't help the hood 0:28:24.320 --> 0:28:26.200 unless you get out. You know, I just went back 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:28.200 to the hood the other day, you know, I went 0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:30.840 back to the project sixteen hundred Bruce Court, you know, 0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:33.000 gil Mahomes project. You know what that is. You know 0:28:33.359 --> 0:28:35.240 that's where they that's where they that's where they did 0:28:35.240 --> 0:28:39.000 the thing to Freddie Gray. Yeah, I stood on them 0:28:39.000 --> 0:28:41.640 blocks every day. You know what I'm saying with all 0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:44.960 them kids, I wrapped on those corners to those kids. 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:46.600 You know, when I first got my first deal and 0:28:46.600 --> 0:28:49.120 I caught my old school through the twenties on, and 0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:52.880 I came through the block out of sixty five. I 0:28:52.920 --> 0:28:56.440 had a sixty five, not a mana ray, but I 0:28:56.520 --> 0:28:58.520 forget what it was, right, but I had a sixty five. 0:28:58.560 --> 0:29:01.040 It was clean. Came through kids running up to the car, 0:29:01.160 --> 0:29:03.120 you know, like I was that guy to those those 0:29:03.200 --> 0:29:05.560 kids in those same projects where they did that to Freddie. 0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:09.920 So I shot um. You know what, I think I 0:29:10.000 --> 0:29:12.600 knew Freddie. I think he was just really young at 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:15.720 the time, because this is like six seven years ago. 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:17.840 So I think at the time he was one of 0:29:17.880 --> 0:29:20.560 the kids that was just running around being you know, 0:29:20.960 --> 0:29:22.920 I had to know him. There's no way I did 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:25.360 not know him, because I know autumn kids, you know. 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:27.680 And I just went back the other day and I 0:29:27.680 --> 0:29:30.560 shot Ghetto Boy, you know, and it was almost like 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:33.920 a tribute to Freddie at the same time, and it 0:29:33.960 --> 0:29:37.160 was just so so reflective of what happened to him 0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:40.360 and those people that are still in that environment. Like 0:29:40.400 --> 0:29:45.000 we shot one scene in the ladies house in the projects, 0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:49.640 and it was like literally like yo, I remember sleeping 0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:54.640 in these these play like what is this place? Like 0:29:55.040 --> 0:29:57.520 we did it in places you can't come though, so 0:29:57.640 --> 0:30:00.920 it's like, you know, it's like really showing these kids 0:30:00.920 --> 0:30:04.120 like being visual inspiration, you know what I'm saying, and 0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:06.600 they still it's the mentality because like even when I 0:30:06.640 --> 0:30:12.000 walked up, it's like I got cranes and cameras and crew, 0:30:12.160 --> 0:30:14.720 like it looked crazy. We got the projects lit. It's 0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:18.240 like three hundred four hundred people out here. Everybody's coming out, 0:30:18.280 --> 0:30:20.360 old people looking out their doors, like what's going on? 0:30:20.520 --> 0:30:22.280 You know what I'm saying? And for the first time, 0:30:22.400 --> 0:30:25.800 it's something good, you know what I'm saying. And it's 0:30:25.840 --> 0:30:29.440 still a mentality there that that it's still like a 0:30:30.040 --> 0:30:34.360 trapped this you know there. So you know, I just 0:30:34.400 --> 0:30:37.720 want to, you know, and embrace those people and show them, 0:30:37.880 --> 0:30:39.640 you know what I'm saying that, like, yo, you could 0:30:39.640 --> 0:30:43.000 do what I'm doing. So getting out the hood, man, 0:30:43.480 --> 0:30:45.520 somebody gotta make it out first to show people that 0:30:45.600 --> 0:30:50.280 it's possible. Absolutely, situations like Freddy Gray, Raymond Martin, Mike 0:30:50.320 --> 0:30:56.120 Brown to dance spire black Blood, um um you know 0:30:56.160 --> 0:31:03.400 what they inspired Guy Money War. You know. Um, I 0:31:03.440 --> 0:31:08.480 wrote the song War New Years. So that's how in 0:31:08.600 --> 0:31:13.120 terms of being ahead, I was because the riots was 0:31:13.160 --> 0:31:15.400 just like what a month and a half ago, almost 0:31:15.440 --> 0:31:17.920 like maybe two months like in that frame. So I 0:31:18.320 --> 0:31:20.600 wrote War, And if you look at the symbols like 0:31:20.680 --> 0:31:23.440 on the television and if you look at the war video, 0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:27.920 I put my pastor, who's Jamal Bryant, who was all 0:31:27.960 --> 0:31:30.360 over CNN doing the riots, and I put the hood 0:31:30.400 --> 0:31:32.760 the same blocks that the riots was on North Avenue 0:31:32.760 --> 0:31:34.800 with a CVS when they was run up in the 0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:37.680 in the right at the CVS all that West bottom 0:31:37.720 --> 0:31:40.240 A where I'm from, you know. So Black Blood was 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:44.760 just another extension of all those emotions and all those feelings. 0:31:44.880 --> 0:31:47.840 M Jay Grant actually brought me, um black Blood because 0:31:47.840 --> 0:31:49.800 he felt like it would be an essential piece to 0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:54.040 what I was already creating, you know. So it the 0:31:54.080 --> 0:31:56.880 record was just awesome from the beginning, and then uh 0:31:57.640 --> 0:32:00.760 isaiahra Shaw put his artistic piece on it and it 0:32:00.800 --> 0:32:03.360 was like, all right, this is crazy. You say, black 0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:08.320 blood make the grass grow in the ghetto. Um Man, 0:32:08.520 --> 0:32:11.560 that to me, that was so metaphoric and just like 0:32:11.840 --> 0:32:14.720 it was just like such a um, you know, such 0:32:14.760 --> 0:32:19.000 an artistic thing to say. You know, I think I 0:32:19.000 --> 0:32:22.760 think about the concrete rose, you know from Tupac when 0:32:22.760 --> 0:32:26.040 I hear did black the black blood make the Grass 0:32:26.040 --> 0:32:27.800 Grow in the ghetto is probably the only thing that 0:32:27.840 --> 0:32:30.800 could grow a concrete a rose from concrete, you know 0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:33.640 what I'm saying. That's like almost the ingredients to the 0:32:33.680 --> 0:32:36.560 concrete rose, you know what I'm saying. And um, yeah, 0:32:36.680 --> 0:32:39.720 those lyrics was actually already on the song when I 0:32:39.760 --> 0:32:42.720 got it. That black Blood make the Grass Grow in 0:32:42.760 --> 0:32:44.960 the Ghetto, that was already on the record, So it 0:32:45.080 --> 0:32:47.080 was I really thought the events of what we're seeing 0:32:47.080 --> 0:32:50.120 over the past hill police brutality and stuffing inspired of 0:32:50.160 --> 0:32:53.440 that record. I mean it had to, because who's who 0:32:53.440 --> 0:32:56.840 writes that without seeing that? You know, you know, I 0:32:56.880 --> 0:32:59.680 didn't personally write that. That bar that was in the 0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:05.120 hook already, you know, Um huh kn't from overdose? Yeah, 0:33:05.200 --> 0:33:07.480 shout out to him because that's crazy. And what's the 0:33:07.600 --> 0:33:12.800 joint um guns on the table? Oh yeah, you killed 0:33:12.840 --> 0:33:16.440 my papa back in eight back in ninety three, that's crazy. 0:33:17.000 --> 0:33:20.440 I killed ninety six. So that was like, you know, 0:33:20.760 --> 0:33:24.360 things were just fitting you know. But then War, I said, um, 0:33:24.400 --> 0:33:26.880 God told me this movie or right itself, stay humble, 0:33:26.880 --> 0:33:29.720 will be wise and let fooler refight itself. So really, 0:33:29.720 --> 0:33:32.840 God money, War was like putting itself together. I wasn't. 0:33:33.400 --> 0:33:35.680 I was just like getting pieces and it was just 0:33:35.960 --> 0:33:39.760 perfect every time, like literally it flew, It went all 0:33:39.840 --> 0:33:41.960 way through. You also have your son on the album 0:33:42.000 --> 0:33:44.880 as well. Yeah, I got my son and my baby 0:33:44.920 --> 0:33:47.720 MoMA on the on the album. I'm the real MVP. 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:51.640 My son two years old. Man flossing on black on 0:33:52.240 --> 0:33:55.240 Little Black Boy, you know, A Little Black Boy was 0:33:55.240 --> 0:34:00.440 inspired by Freddie tray Vaughn Mike. You know what I'm saying, 0:34:01.040 --> 0:34:04.240 Little black Boy, and then the fathers, the fathers to 0:34:04.320 --> 0:34:07.320 the tray Varns. You know what I'm saying, Like, we need, 0:34:07.480 --> 0:34:10.800 we need, we need pops, we need, we need people 0:34:10.840 --> 0:34:14.480 to own up and be responsible and raise your sons. Man, 0:34:14.840 --> 0:34:17.440 don't let these little black boys go out here and 0:34:17.480 --> 0:34:20.799 get murdered and be subject to all these things that 0:34:20.840 --> 0:34:23.080 you could protect them from. You know what I'm saying, 0:34:23.560 --> 0:34:26.200 I shouldn't have to raise your children as a rapper. 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:29.680 You know, now, how hard is it for you with 0:34:29.760 --> 0:34:32.520 everything that goes on of course, you know having a son, Now, 0:34:32.560 --> 0:34:35.239 what are some things that you you are concerned about, 0:34:35.280 --> 0:34:36.560 and what are some things that you're gonna tell your 0:34:36.560 --> 0:34:39.800 son about growing up? And you know, just everything about 0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:45.279 living his life. Man, I'm just like the I'm just 0:34:45.320 --> 0:34:47.719 like the ultimate daddy, you know what I'm saying. So 0:34:48.440 --> 0:34:51.840 I'm pretty sure, like like I'll already be joking with 0:34:51.920 --> 0:34:55.480 my son about like being light skinned. I'll be joking. 0:34:55.840 --> 0:34:57.480 I'll be joking with it, like my son got a 0:34:57.480 --> 0:34:59.719 sense of human Like my son will crack a joke. 0:35:00.600 --> 0:35:04.239 He's not even always like fluid in his speech, but 0:35:04.400 --> 0:35:06.439 he'll crack a joke like he knows when he's doing 0:35:06.480 --> 0:35:09.880 something funny, you know. So like I face time him 0:35:09.880 --> 0:35:13.839 and he'll be like Mama, and I'm like nah, nah nah, 0:35:13.880 --> 0:35:15.480 it's all it's all about dad, dad. And he's like 0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:18.880 na na na mama, And I'm like, oh, so it's 0:35:18.920 --> 0:35:20.960 really about my money, Like no, no, no, me me. 0:35:21.360 --> 0:35:23.319 So he didn't say it's about him, and then he 0:35:23.440 --> 0:35:25.239 just joke put his hand on his mouth and laugh. 0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:28.799 I'm like, this kid is just you know, so I like, 0:35:29.040 --> 0:35:32.320 uh taught him how to walk in all those things. 0:35:32.360 --> 0:35:36.000 So I'm just like that's how my dad was with me. 0:35:36.640 --> 0:35:38.799 You know, he was that connected. So it's like it's 0:35:38.840 --> 0:35:40.920 nothing we're not gonna talk about. We're gonna talk about 0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:48.960 girls and everything. Cheat channel, man channel. Now. I saw 0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:50.800 Meek Mill tweet once that King Loos is one of 0:35:50.840 --> 0:35:53.440 the nicest out here. Everybody in the game knows it. 0:35:53.680 --> 0:35:56.200 Take use yours. So what do you think has been 0:35:56.239 --> 0:36:03.560 to hold up for you? Um? Just the way, just 0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:06.759 the way my story should unfold, just the way it 0:36:06.800 --> 0:36:10.640 should go, you know. Um, just being a real champion 0:36:11.040 --> 0:36:15.719 and like really really being able to like can't know, 0:36:15.960 --> 0:36:20.440 there's there's nothing nobody could say, Like, like there's not 0:36:20.600 --> 0:36:23.480 one thing a person could say. There's not really one 0:36:23.600 --> 0:36:27.680 critique that people can have because I keep on advancing. 0:36:28.440 --> 0:36:30.839 You know, Um, I actually liked my journey better than 0:36:30.880 --> 0:36:33.560 a lot of other people who are more successful than me. 0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:36.799 You know, I gotta be honest with you. A lot 0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:39.720 of people on their way down because they hit peaks. 0:36:40.680 --> 0:36:43.960 You look, man, let's keep it, let's keep it a billion. 0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:48.760 I'm still elevating, you know. To me, that's the Mara thought. 0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:52.880 Everybody was sprinting and just running and now I'm like 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:55.960 passing them like and they just they looking tired. You 0:36:55.960 --> 0:36:58.200 gotta understand I was going to neck and neck with 0:36:58.280 --> 0:37:01.520 Wayne when Wayne was dropping the hottest freestyles in the 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:05.200 world and the putting out. I was dropping the hottest 0:37:05.200 --> 0:37:07.480 freestyles in the world. I just didn't have the world 0:37:07.640 --> 0:37:10.239 to know it. Now when I go on Sway, it's 0:37:10.360 --> 0:37:13.880 number one. This is that people are recognizing I did control. 0:37:14.000 --> 0:37:16.680 Kendrick is like, yo, that's that's the best. No. Nobody 0:37:16.680 --> 0:37:19.399 at the record station, at the at the radio station 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:21.319 and saying, hey, so what do you think about Los's verse? 0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:24.680 They mentioned everybody but me, and Kendrick's like nah and 0:37:24.840 --> 0:37:27.080 Los because it's like, at some point, man, you just 0:37:27.120 --> 0:37:29.359 gotta give it up. If Meek is like, yo, you've 0:37:29.400 --> 0:37:31.959 been the nicest. He giving it up because we gotta 0:37:31.960 --> 0:37:33.560 give it up to Meek. When when he threw the 0:37:33.600 --> 0:37:35.759 intro or do something, it's like, you gotta give it up. 0:37:35.920 --> 0:37:39.200 You can't what can you say the intro Meek Mill 0:37:39.280 --> 0:37:43.279 in the club, let's stop talking. When Drake do with 0:37:43.480 --> 0:37:45.239 Drake do you gotta give it up? So when I 0:37:45.239 --> 0:37:47.719 saw Drake, he gave it up. These artists reach out 0:37:47.760 --> 0:37:50.040 to you, like, let's work on something. Together. They don't. 0:37:50.120 --> 0:37:53.800 They don't necessarily reach out. They don't necessarily reach out, 0:37:53.920 --> 0:37:56.800 you know what I'm saying, because they're like, if he 0:37:56.880 --> 0:38:00.920 get on at helping him because he gonna trump everybody. 0:38:01.320 --> 0:38:03.919 I don't know what they think. Um, I just could 0:38:03.960 --> 0:38:07.879 say that I do recognize in respect and appreciate the 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:12.279 competitive nature of the art form. Quote unquote that's from 0:38:12.320 --> 0:38:15.440 fifty cent. Fifty cent talks about the competitive nature to 0:38:15.560 --> 0:38:17.440 art form. I just had a conversation with fifty cent 0:38:17.520 --> 0:38:19.280 the other day, by the way, too, that was really 0:38:19.480 --> 0:38:21.319 really in depth because I did this is fifty but 0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:24.360 um yeah, it's a it's a it's a it's a competition. 0:38:24.920 --> 0:38:27.640 You know. Michael Jordan wasn't putting people on. You know 0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:30.799 what I'm saying. He was putting on. So I don't 0:38:30.800 --> 0:38:33.080 expect nobody to you know. That's why I like, I 0:38:33.080 --> 0:38:36.000 don't feel like puff owed me nothing. He gave me chances. 0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:38.440 You know, shucks. If it won't for that first shot 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:40.920 and the second shot, the third shot, I wouldn't even 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:43.040 have you know, I wouldn't have my son out of 0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:46.040 a dangerous environment. I'm gucci, you know what I'm saying. 0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:49.200 And um, I don't expect nobody to do nothing for me. 0:38:49.520 --> 0:38:54.319 But what I can promise you is that there you 0:38:54.360 --> 0:38:57.839 won't have a choice soon. And that's that's that's just 0:38:57.880 --> 0:39:01.760 what it is. Like I'm learning, growing and I'm I'm 0:39:01.800 --> 0:39:04.680 I'm coming for the for the I'm coming for the spot. Now. 0:39:04.760 --> 0:39:07.360 Did he did a rant on Rick Ross his mastermind 0:39:07.680 --> 0:39:11.080 more than nobody and everybody said he was talking to um. 0:39:11.880 --> 0:39:18.360 The thing is the way people perceive it. Um, the 0:39:18.480 --> 0:39:22.960 conversation was with me. But um, anybody to know puff 0:39:23.280 --> 0:39:27.560 know that he goes on these these rants, you know, 0:39:28.760 --> 0:39:31.040 and like the thing with us was like yo, he 0:39:31.160 --> 0:39:33.759 started saying like yo, Like I'll be around him and 0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:35.520 I pick up on like you know, he got fifty 0:39:35.520 --> 0:39:38.120 people around him doing stuff. He'll say something like Yo, 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:41.400 did anybody get that? So the moy kept saying stuff 0:39:41.440 --> 0:39:43.839 like that, I just be on deck. So like when 0:39:43.840 --> 0:39:46.319 he's saying stuff, I'm already on record. So you was 0:39:46.360 --> 0:39:49.080 recording it. I recorded it. So we was in his 0:39:49.200 --> 0:39:52.160 room and we were just talking about the industry and 0:39:52.239 --> 0:39:55.359 just like my direction, like what he saw for me, 0:39:55.840 --> 0:39:59.279 you know, and you know, Um, it's like one of 0:39:59.320 --> 0:40:02.960 the greatest time speeches ever because we was literally talking 0:40:02.960 --> 0:40:06.120 and they chopped it a lot, but we were just 0:40:06.160 --> 0:40:08.719 talking about like the direction of these dudes is going 0:40:08.800 --> 0:40:12.120 in and where he saw me. And he's like, yo, 0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:14.560 I see you as somebody that I could like hand 0:40:14.560 --> 0:40:17.000 the torch to. And I never felt like that about 0:40:17.239 --> 0:40:21.400 an artist, you know, after you know, Biggie and you know, 0:40:21.520 --> 0:40:24.200 he was just giving me such a high, you know, accolade, 0:40:24.239 --> 0:40:26.919 and you know, he was just like, yo, check this out. 0:40:27.160 --> 0:40:29.560 And then he started saying this this piece and he 0:40:29.680 --> 0:40:31.520 just went into like, yo, you don't want to walk 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:33.919 with these roaches. And then and he's like, you gotta 0:40:33.960 --> 0:40:36.359 walk with God, and you know, and that's the puff 0:40:36.400 --> 0:40:38.360 and he putting on. But he knew I was recording 0:40:38.840 --> 0:40:41.920 because I'm like so he went kept going in. I'm like, 0:40:42.760 --> 0:40:45.280 I'm like not even trying to talk because it's so epic. 0:40:45.600 --> 0:40:49.279 So I had it. And then the next day he 0:40:49.440 --> 0:40:51.759 was like, yo, you recorded that thing that I was. 0:40:51.880 --> 0:40:53.160 I said, yeah. He said, send it to me. I 0:40:53.239 --> 0:40:54.680 want to hear I just want to listen to it. 0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:57.000 So I sent it to him and he played it 0:40:57.080 --> 0:41:01.200 for French, of all people, shout out to my brother French. 0:41:01.239 --> 0:41:03.320 He played it from French, and French played it for 0:41:03.440 --> 0:41:06.520 Ross and that's how it got on Ross's album because 0:41:06.520 --> 0:41:09.440 it French was like, French is like the song maniac 0:41:09.600 --> 0:41:12.600 like he like, so he saw it like being a 0:41:12.680 --> 0:41:15.920 part of a record. And I was already using it 0:41:15.960 --> 0:41:22.240 as something because I recorded because a bootleg at Hard 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:26.120 French seeing a whole vision for that thing, and um 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:28.480 he was working in with Ross, so it tied in, 0:41:28.760 --> 0:41:31.239 you know. And um so people just thought like Diddy 0:41:31.360 --> 0:41:34.000 was like getting out on me and going nut crazy 0:41:34.040 --> 0:41:37.560 on me or something. I'm like, like, that's the whole 0:41:37.600 --> 0:41:39.680 thing we do, like we I have. I have so 0:41:39.680 --> 0:41:42.120 many things in my phone, Like I used one on 0:41:42.160 --> 0:41:44.560 my on my album that just came out when he 0:41:44.640 --> 0:41:47.200 was like I ain't here to look all cool. I 0:41:47.239 --> 0:41:49.520 already am cool. So he didn't go in the studio 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:51.520 and do that. Nah, that was off my phone. I 0:41:51.560 --> 0:41:54.239 got whatever y'all need out there. I got committing but 0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:57.080 this you know it's gonna cost you know what I'm saying. Yeah, 0:41:57.120 --> 0:41:58.799 I got a lot of stuff that Puff say, man, 0:41:58.840 --> 0:42:01.120 because he say that blue stuff that you want to 0:42:01.120 --> 0:42:03.080 be able to go back and listen to. Like I 0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:05.600 got stuff with me and Pharrell like how we come 0:42:05.680 --> 0:42:07.839 up with records, you know, we go back and forth 0:42:07.880 --> 0:42:10.440 and rap I got like twenty thirty minute things of 0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:12.480 me and Pharrell just going back with a freestyle, Like 0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:15.239 I just feel like that's classic something to have, you know, 0:42:15.280 --> 0:42:17.640 I could you could use it at any time in life. 0:42:17.680 --> 0:42:19.960 Even if Diddy was yelling at you. What do you 0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:23.759 say back to Diddy? Nothing If that's the If that's 0:42:23.800 --> 0:42:26.000 the thing that somebody's yelling at you, you might want 0:42:26.040 --> 0:42:28.799 to just be listening and taking it in and not 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:31.839 being all in your feelings and all being mad and 0:42:31.880 --> 0:42:34.880 really just get that halftime speech in. I mean, any 0:42:34.960 --> 0:42:37.520 you know, anybody that wants to motivate you. They can't 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:40.520 always just be on your good side or like what 0:42:40.600 --> 0:42:44.799 does that change? Like change comes with devastation, you know, 0:42:45.040 --> 0:42:48.400 and and and extreme discomfort. Change don't come with like 0:42:48.440 --> 0:42:50.959 you being cool with the whole vibe. Like I feel 0:42:51.000 --> 0:42:55.000 like your voice, like you can never change something about me, 0:42:55.160 --> 0:42:58.040 But I feel like you could change a person because 0:42:58.320 --> 0:43:01.400 you you might anti canna a something so much to 0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:04.359 the point where a person, Yo, look what you're gonna 0:43:04.400 --> 0:43:06.520 do and you just keep it in a thousand like 0:43:06.560 --> 0:43:10.040 you're like no cut no cut is good and it's 0:43:10.040 --> 0:43:12.640 a balance. So when you got like the extremely sweet 0:43:12.680 --> 0:43:14.680 like I don't see you do a lot of disagreeing, 0:43:15.080 --> 0:43:16.560 you know what I'm saying. When you got that, then 0:43:16.600 --> 0:43:18.640 you got that, it's like, Okay, I see what the 0:43:18.840 --> 0:43:21.239 I see what the scale is. But that right there 0:43:21.440 --> 0:43:24.279 make you say, it'll make you reevaluate. Well, let's talk 0:43:24.280 --> 0:43:26.120 about that. Because I liked the I love the first 0:43:26.160 --> 0:43:28.360 seven songs on your album Okay, but it seemed like 0:43:28.360 --> 0:43:30.759 the last seven it's like, it's almost like you're doing 0:43:30.840 --> 0:43:33.840 radio records. Is that what it felt like? The last seven? 0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:36.400 It felt like the last seven was like, yeah, this 0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:38.800 is for the label. Well you know what? It was 0:43:38.800 --> 0:43:41.319 a couple did I did? Um like the tides dollar 0:43:41.360 --> 0:43:43.680 signs one with them must be that? That was a 0:43:43.800 --> 0:43:49.840 Jay Grant creation song. Yeah. I did four different versions 0:43:49.840 --> 0:43:54.000 because I had to digress to the we. That was 0:43:54.040 --> 0:43:58.399 an interesting record. Yeah. Um that that Let's see Can't 0:43:58.440 --> 0:44:02.520 Fade Us was Can't fade this? That? That was it? Um? 0:44:02.560 --> 0:44:05.479 That was the radio one. I like confidence, that's tough, 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:08.960 confidences crazy dull. So you felt like you felt like 0:44:09.000 --> 0:44:11.319 to be Honest was a radio record. To be honest 0:44:11.320 --> 0:44:13.480 it's cool. I like, to be honest, cool, it's more 0:44:13.480 --> 0:44:16.520 like camp fade Us the Tide Dollar signs one. And 0:44:16.960 --> 0:44:20.400 because that's it, I don't really have no radio slave 0:44:20.480 --> 0:44:23.760 with content wise, It's just you know, I was basically 0:44:23.800 --> 0:44:27.120 like this. I was giving people like, uh, what's good 0:44:27.120 --> 0:44:30.600 for you? What vegetable is good for you? Like anything green? 0:44:30.840 --> 0:44:34.640 Like just like yeah, like, uh, broccoli in a Louis 0:44:34.719 --> 0:44:37.560 Va tom box. You get to Louis Va tombox, You're like, 0:44:37.560 --> 0:44:39.560 oh my god, you open up, it's like yo, broccoli. 0:44:39.960 --> 0:44:42.160 That was like slave because like it sounds like a 0:44:42.239 --> 0:44:45.200 trap joint. But if you if you break down my lyrics, 0:44:45.600 --> 0:44:48.560 you know, everybody's a victim. The vindictive system been in 0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:50.239 his dam. I've been thinking the whole the statement is 0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:53.239 in like that. That's that's what I'm giving you. That's like, 0:44:53.640 --> 0:44:56.239 you know, it just I wrapped it in and in 0:44:56.480 --> 0:44:58.239 that because I felt like I didn't want to have 0:44:58.320 --> 0:45:02.360 something that was so preachy and so slow. I felt 0:45:02.360 --> 0:45:05.279 like I wanted something that has some pace and some aggression. 0:45:05.600 --> 0:45:07.680 So that was just me trying to moderate and keep 0:45:07.760 --> 0:45:11.600 like the people who aren't as a stute, you know 0:45:11.640 --> 0:45:13.640 what I'm saying, the people who don't have that attention 0:45:13.680 --> 0:45:16.319 span to just sit there and listen through war and 0:45:16.400 --> 0:45:20.480 God money, war and ghetto boys. Yeah, so that but 0:45:20.520 --> 0:45:22.480 that's the thing. If I could please you with seven 0:45:22.520 --> 0:45:26.319 songs and somebody else with seven then as long as 0:45:26.360 --> 0:45:29.960 I didn't compromise the integrity of my message, then I'm gucci. 0:45:30.160 --> 0:45:32.560 I felt like cam Faders was a little off from 0:45:32.760 --> 0:45:34.880 the message of what I had, but it really fitting 0:45:34.920 --> 0:45:37.160 the money. When you think about the just the money 0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:38.920 of it in the time, you're just being caught up 0:45:38.920 --> 0:45:42.080 in that. It's still fit, you know, and it's adult record. 0:45:42.080 --> 0:45:45.640 It's Mustard and ty Dollar, like that's a no brainer 0:45:45.640 --> 0:45:49.000 for a little commercial though. Yeah, I mean, hey, what's 0:45:49.000 --> 0:45:51.879 wrong with being commercial? Though? I feel like everybody does that, 0:45:52.000 --> 0:45:57.160 like everybody, But to my attribute, I've never had a 0:45:57.160 --> 0:46:01.440 commercial record, like you know, I've never had radio and 0:46:01.520 --> 0:46:03.960 none of that stuff. So it's it's it's still a 0:46:04.000 --> 0:46:06.000 good thing to grow too. You know, you don't want 0:46:06.000 --> 0:46:08.759 to get stuck where you just get boring and you 0:46:08.800 --> 0:46:11.799 know you're just like dry. Like I love those kind 0:46:11.840 --> 0:46:15.480 of records because it reminded me, beat wise of like 0:46:15.880 --> 0:46:18.319 where a Millie was just with the snare with the 0:46:18.400 --> 0:46:22.360 ki ki ki ki ki ki. That's a millie all day. 0:46:22.480 --> 0:46:26.080 So when I first got the song, I just went crazy. 0:46:26.160 --> 0:46:29.040 I went like one hundred miles an hour. And then 0:46:29.040 --> 0:46:31.200 and people who like had to tell me, like Jazzy 0:46:31.280 --> 0:46:34.279 Faye and Puff, like Jazzy Faye is one of my mentors, 0:46:34.280 --> 0:46:36.880 Like he had to tell me, like, dude, it's not 0:46:36.960 --> 0:46:39.879 about rapping. Because if that's the case, thing you already won. 0:46:40.680 --> 0:46:43.960 It's not just about rapping. Think about people who like music, 0:46:44.040 --> 0:46:46.399 who just want to dance. And then Puff was like, yo, 0:46:47.560 --> 0:46:49.759 it's like who could dance to that? Like you're rapping 0:46:49.880 --> 0:46:51.800 so fast, nobody could dance to that. And I didn't. 0:46:51.800 --> 0:46:53.560 I didn't get it. I was I was almost like 0:46:53.600 --> 0:46:56.040 almost offended by that. And I'm like, yo, I'm like no, 0:46:56.080 --> 0:46:58.080 I'm trying to kill the track because I don't want 0:46:58.120 --> 0:47:01.360 somebody to say I did a commercial song. And my 0:47:01.480 --> 0:47:04.920 bars was what, But that's not what it's about. When 0:47:04.960 --> 0:47:07.600 you're making a song for people to have fun, the 0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:10.799 only thing you should worry about is did they have fun? 0:47:11.560 --> 0:47:14.680 Everything don't have to be a lyrical slaughter, you know, 0:47:14.760 --> 0:47:17.120 And I'm just learning that. That's why Jay Biggie and 0:47:17.160 --> 0:47:20.680 pocat Sol though, come on, Biggs man and still have 0:47:20.840 --> 0:47:24.080 it bart so can Faders is still barred up. It's 0:47:24.120 --> 0:47:26.160 still barred up, and I had to tone it down. 0:47:26.480 --> 0:47:29.359 So imagine the other version, you know what I'm saying. 0:47:29.360 --> 0:47:32.040 But yeah, it's still a dope record. Man and confidence? 0:47:32.040 --> 0:47:34.359 Who who is that record for? Man? What insecure, low 0:47:34.400 --> 0:47:36.600 self esteem person did you have in your life that 0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:39.880 you have to instill that confidence in them? I feel 0:47:39.920 --> 0:47:43.800 like I feel like, you know, did this world needs 0:47:44.000 --> 0:47:47.400 a confidence booster? The man. I see so many people 0:47:47.960 --> 0:47:51.080 who are followers and don't have their own thing, you know. 0:47:51.200 --> 0:47:54.560 I feel like, man, just have a little confidence and 0:47:55.760 --> 0:47:57.719 maybe you'll be all right. Like I just see a 0:47:57.800 --> 0:48:00.680 lot of people following, and we have a lack of 0:48:00.760 --> 0:48:03.919 leadership right now, you know, in our community. So I'm 0:48:03.960 --> 0:48:05.719 just trying to show people, man, how to just be 0:48:05.800 --> 0:48:08.680 confident and get through. Like I said, guy, money war 0:48:08.840 --> 0:48:12.080 wasn't for me. It was for all the things I 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:15.160 felt like we needed, you know, I felt like it 0:48:15.239 --> 0:48:20.640 was necessary devices, you know that need to be implanted 0:48:20.640 --> 0:48:25.640 into our communities, into our kids, and you know, the 0:48:25.760 --> 0:48:28.520 youth especially, but even some of these older people that's 0:48:28.520 --> 0:48:31.839 just stuck, you know, like my mom, Like I want 0:48:31.880 --> 0:48:34.160 my mom to have confidence, Like I don't want you 0:48:34.200 --> 0:48:36.799 to feel like you're too old to do nothing. Now, now, 0:48:36.880 --> 0:48:39.160 my mom was chef, you know, but she used to 0:48:39.160 --> 0:48:41.719 work for the city in Baltimore. Like now she's a 0:48:41.800 --> 0:48:43.680 chef in LA. Like she used to cook for Tiger 0:48:44.080 --> 0:48:46.480 you know what I'm saying, and his whole crew. Yeah, 0:48:46.560 --> 0:48:49.120 go to his crib, cook like his personal chef. Yeah, 0:48:49.120 --> 0:48:50.719 I put my mom, you know, I gave it a 0:48:50.760 --> 0:48:54.600 whole Like, look, we are in LA. You can cook crazy. 0:48:54.960 --> 0:48:57.000 Let's go to culinary school. Let's get this, Let's get it. 0:48:57.040 --> 0:48:59.239 Let's get a popping. Now she is chef and she 0:48:59.280 --> 0:49:02.080 cooked for all this studios. I go to everybody order up. 0:49:02.200 --> 0:49:04.960 She delivered the food like she getting it in. You 0:49:05.000 --> 0:49:07.080 know what I'm saying, Like, do you plan to go 0:49:07.120 --> 0:49:09.600 on tour for this album? Of course? I. Look, I've 0:49:09.600 --> 0:49:12.359 been going on tour for every CD I ever put out, 0:49:12.760 --> 0:49:14.440 and I've been just dropped. I was just only drop 0:49:14.560 --> 0:49:17.200 had ever dropped mixtapes. I've always been going on tour. 0:49:17.200 --> 0:49:20.279 I always had a crazy core, you know, fan base, 0:49:20.320 --> 0:49:22.000 and I've always been torn. So now that I'm on 0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:24.480 a label, and Jay Grant is gonna make sure that 0:49:24.680 --> 0:49:28.719 everything's okay, and ICM is gonna make sure I'm booked up. 0:49:29.600 --> 0:49:31.759 I'm gonna be on tour. It's crazy now. Now we're 0:49:31.760 --> 0:49:35.080 gonna go, you know, across the pond and touch the 0:49:35.160 --> 0:49:37.560 Londons and we gotta hit it everywhere now, So we 0:49:37.640 --> 0:49:40.280 just gotta keep spreading a good word. What's the easiest 0:49:40.280 --> 0:49:43.120 content for you to write about? Man, God, money, war? 0:49:44.440 --> 0:49:49.200 The easiest thing for me to write about, the easiest 0:49:49.200 --> 0:49:53.520 thing for me to write about, man, anything that's real 0:49:53.560 --> 0:49:56.160 in my life. I have a hard time trying to 0:49:56.440 --> 0:50:00.160 do scripted stuff and create stuff that's not real. It's 0:50:00.200 --> 0:50:02.799 harder for me to make a record that everybody could 0:50:02.840 --> 0:50:07.040 turn up to because like I don't even go to 0:50:07.080 --> 0:50:10.120 clubs like that, you know what I'm saying. I pop 0:50:10.160 --> 0:50:12.000 in and out. You know what I'm saying. I'm more low. 0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:15.799 But you know, um, so it's probably easier for me 0:50:15.840 --> 0:50:18.640 to write something with some substance. You know, it's easy 0:50:18.680 --> 0:50:21.160 for me to write something deep, Like it's easier for 0:50:21.200 --> 0:50:22.960 me to write something deep than it is for me 0:50:23.000 --> 0:50:26.680 to write something more basic, you know. So that's that's 0:50:26.719 --> 0:50:29.200 what I'm trying to grow to as well by having 0:50:29.200 --> 0:50:32.360 a two year old. Everything can't be so deep and elaborate, 0:50:32.520 --> 0:50:34.359 you know, you gotta break it down for them. So 0:50:34.960 --> 0:50:37.239 that taught me a lot with this album, you know, 0:50:37.440 --> 0:50:41.120 just talking to everybody, not missing nobody. You know what 0:50:41.400 --> 0:50:43.160 for your son's mother to be on the album, was 0:50:43.200 --> 0:50:45.560 that you asking her, Hey, you know what, I need 0:50:45.600 --> 0:50:46.920 you to come get on this tongue And was she like, 0:50:47.000 --> 0:50:48.520 come on, but I know you're gonna put me on 0:50:48.520 --> 0:50:51.239 the album. No, that's just man though. That's just like 0:50:52.000 --> 0:50:54.960 she's an artist and you know I don't have to 0:50:55.000 --> 0:50:57.120 be an artist. And you can tell her like, look 0:50:57.640 --> 0:51:01.760 isn't for you? She Um. You know, UM, I challenge 0:51:01.840 --> 0:51:06.120 anybody that um because like I don't like, I don't 0:51:06.120 --> 0:51:08.279 write her, I don't write her wraps. You know what 0:51:08.320 --> 0:51:11.640 I'm saying. I know a lot of people, um, especially 0:51:11.680 --> 0:51:16.040 female since the beginning of female rap. You know, UM 0:51:16.280 --> 0:51:19.759 had help, you know, but like I don't help her 0:51:19.800 --> 0:51:22.120 with her stuff. You know, I helped her learn how 0:51:22.160 --> 0:51:25.400 to you know, construct bars and put stuff together. But um, 0:51:25.440 --> 0:51:28.320 she got some stuff that's about to come out that's cold. 0:51:28.480 --> 0:51:30.240 You know what I'm saying. And it's all about growing 0:51:30.320 --> 0:51:32.799 like she hadn't been rapping that long. You know. It's 0:51:32.840 --> 0:51:35.160 it's dudes, it can't rap, you know. And it's a 0:51:35.160 --> 0:51:37.799 couple of things that we did together with I felt 0:51:37.840 --> 0:51:41.520 like she had the better verse your baby mom. Would 0:51:41.520 --> 0:51:45.360 you respect her as the artist? Now? Yeah, I remember 0:51:45.360 --> 0:51:47.520 when she first I remember when she first started rapping 0:51:47.520 --> 0:51:50.200 on when she first started rapping, When she first started rapping, 0:51:50.480 --> 0:51:53.880 she I mean she couldn't rap it period, Like she 0:51:53.880 --> 0:51:58.960 couldn't rap like, but she wanted to rap. I guarantee you, 0:51:59.200 --> 0:52:07.000 I got any amount of money that she is one 0:52:07.040 --> 0:52:10.680 of the dopest female rappers. I got any amount of money. 0:52:10.719 --> 0:52:15.560 I bet you one hundred dollars. I bet you. I 0:52:15.600 --> 0:52:17.719 bet you too, I bet you. I bet you two 0:52:17.800 --> 0:52:19.399 hundred dollars. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna 0:52:19.440 --> 0:52:22.760 personally send you. I'm gonna personally send you a record, right, Okay, 0:52:23.080 --> 0:52:25.480 I don't write Now, Hold on, did you hear um 0:52:26.760 --> 0:52:32.080 Lipstick and Pistols what her CD? Yeah? Absolutely? Nut Yo, 0:52:32.200 --> 0:52:35.640 listen to me. Listen, that's why you're talking. If you 0:52:35.719 --> 0:52:39.440 if you heard the song Gorgeous, you would flip man. 0:52:39.480 --> 0:52:41.160 When she did gorgeous. First of all, it's a hip 0:52:41.200 --> 0:52:44.520 hop record, and it's so crazy. The swag of it 0:52:44.560 --> 0:52:48.120 is so ridiculous. Then it made me reassess why I'm 0:52:48.120 --> 0:52:51.160 doing so much stuff. This sounds so clubby. At the time, 0:52:51.400 --> 0:52:53.960 I was kind of all over the place. She did that. 0:52:54.080 --> 0:52:55.759 Now mind you, she was in the hotel a game, 0:52:56.120 --> 0:52:58.680 you know, Wiz and around that. So Wiz got a 0:52:58.760 --> 0:53:02.480 more relaxed overall. He do some turn up, but he 0:53:02.520 --> 0:53:05.759 got a more like you know. And when she got 0:53:05.800 --> 0:53:08.080 into that whole essence, and she just really started to 0:53:08.160 --> 0:53:11.520 learn and embody what it was about, yo, she got 0:53:11.560 --> 0:53:13.440 really really dope. You know what. I'm not even going 0:53:13.480 --> 0:53:15.760 to this future because I am not. I never listened 0:53:15.760 --> 0:53:21.480 to her music. Yeah, but I just say that. But 0:53:21.520 --> 0:53:25.080 you heard her with Calia. I guarantee you I could 0:53:25.120 --> 0:53:29.680 play you something and respectfully, because you respect real music, 0:53:30.080 --> 0:53:34.919 you would dig it in. I do not write any 0:53:35.000 --> 0:53:36.920 of her bars. Let me hear a song, and I 0:53:37.000 --> 0:53:38.920 let you hear a song. What you're gonna tell me 0:53:39.040 --> 0:53:42.200 is this. You're gonna say you wrote that. That's what 0:53:42.200 --> 0:53:44.240 you're gonna try to put on me. And I'm gonna 0:53:44.239 --> 0:53:46.560 tell you I did not write it, and I mean that. 0:53:46.640 --> 0:53:49.040 I do not write her stuff, bro, And I promise 0:53:49.080 --> 0:53:51.440 I'm gonna write you something and you're gonna I'm gonna 0:53:51.600 --> 0:53:53.480 let you hear something and you're gonna respect it. I 0:53:53.560 --> 0:53:55.919 promise you. This is me saying it like I don't 0:53:55.920 --> 0:53:58.279 have to say she dope, like I don't have to 0:53:58.360 --> 0:54:01.799 pump her up like honestly, like I could hold everything down. 0:54:02.080 --> 0:54:04.120 I could write all her wraps if it like, think 0:54:04.160 --> 0:54:06.200 about it, think about the dynamics of it. I could 0:54:06.239 --> 0:54:09.359 write all her wraps and you could never speak like 0:54:09.400 --> 0:54:12.279 I could write her the craziest bars if you got to, 0:54:12.360 --> 0:54:14.480 if you got to go up against females, it ain't 0:54:14.480 --> 0:54:17.200 even fair Like I could do that, but I don't. 0:54:17.320 --> 0:54:19.799 So if I'm telling you she's dope and you're gonna 0:54:19.840 --> 0:54:21.960 like it, I promise you. And I know where it 0:54:22.000 --> 0:54:24.399 comes from. I told her, I said, you're not gonna 0:54:24.440 --> 0:54:26.680 get respect at first. You know, she used to get 0:54:26.719 --> 0:54:28.920 outfits made and all this stuff to go rap, and 0:54:28.960 --> 0:54:31.880 I'm like, yo, that's not I used to tell her 0:54:32.120 --> 0:54:34.160 she come on stage high heels and on. I said, yo, 0:54:34.880 --> 0:54:37.720 you used to be a video model. You're not gonna 0:54:37.719 --> 0:54:41.680 get respect like that. That's why she don't sell sex. 0:54:42.120 --> 0:54:44.120 That's why when she rapped, like it's easy for her 0:54:44.160 --> 0:54:47.719 to have a million followers on Instagram, she got like 0:54:47.760 --> 0:54:51.080 two hundred thousand, like two hundred thousand because she not 0:54:51.200 --> 0:54:54.239 with her out in the booty out. She got all 0:54:54.320 --> 0:54:58.440 that she had a first, but she trying to establish 0:54:58.480 --> 0:55:02.239 that respect. It comes with the hip hop community. She 0:55:02.280 --> 0:55:04.120 really got a love for the craft. And look, she'd 0:55:04.120 --> 0:55:06.279 be writing all night. I'm gonna let you here. She'd 0:55:06.280 --> 0:55:08.359 be writing all night and I don't be helping her, 0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:11.600 and I'd be hard on her. I'd be like, Nah, 0:55:11.640 --> 0:55:14.200 that's that's weak. How did you guys end up getting together? 0:55:14.520 --> 0:55:17.279 I'm gonna mat. I mean, did y'all meet in the 0:55:17.320 --> 0:55:19.960 studio where it was with that video? We met like 0:55:20.040 --> 0:55:22.080 five different times, and she tried to hit me with 0:55:22.120 --> 0:55:26.239 the hidsman, and every time I just swerved it. I 0:55:26.280 --> 0:55:27.839 was like, you can't hit me with the higsman. I'm 0:55:27.880 --> 0:55:31.520 gonna get you. Like like, I had a poster of 0:55:31.560 --> 0:55:34.600 her on my on the wall back when I was 0:55:34.640 --> 0:55:37.359 in Baltimore, and I and every days to tell my man, 0:55:37.480 --> 0:55:39.719 my man's son. I used to I used to be like, yo, 0:55:40.120 --> 0:55:43.239 that's gonna be my girl. I just didn't see a 0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:45.480 girl that looked better than her. And then I've seen 0:55:45.520 --> 0:55:48.520 it in real life. And then I got the number, 0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:51.040 and I even swagged at Charlot Man. I swagged it. 0:55:51.040 --> 0:55:56.800 I waited two weeks. I waited two weeks. Every number 0:55:57.480 --> 0:56:00.719 it was, it was, it was her. Man jet the time, 0:56:00.800 --> 0:56:07.520 Oh Man answer the phone like, yoh this Mike. Now 0:56:07.520 --> 0:56:11.600 we're low lad, Mike, you're playing Oh? I said, Look, 0:56:11.640 --> 0:56:13.160 she gave me the number, told me car so you 0:56:13.200 --> 0:56:15.799 need to put on the phone. So he wouldn't so 0:56:16.120 --> 0:56:18.399 I seen her again. We end up having the same 0:56:18.560 --> 0:56:21.560 entertainment lawyer, and he gave me the one up. Man 0:56:21.560 --> 0:56:22.840 shout out the park guard and he gave me the 0:56:22.880 --> 0:56:25.560 one up. He was like, man, look's coming through the office. 0:56:26.040 --> 0:56:28.839 You could be here and pretend to be leaving. So 0:56:29.120 --> 0:56:31.400 if you just came get down here, I could pretend 0:56:31.400 --> 0:56:32.800 to be leaving so you could say high on the 0:56:32.880 --> 0:56:36.080 way out, did your man. I always got my best 0:56:36.080 --> 0:56:38.960 outfit on. So I came down there, and when she 0:56:39.040 --> 0:56:40.920 came this time, I said, this time, I swag it. 0:56:41.280 --> 0:56:43.839 I'm gonna act like I don't even care. I'm gonna 0:56:43.840 --> 0:56:46.000 act like I never meant you, never saw you in life. 0:56:46.320 --> 0:56:48.000 So she came in there and she walked in that 0:56:48.120 --> 0:56:50.400 joint and I gave it a five, like you give 0:56:50.440 --> 0:56:52.319 a dude. I was like, what's up? What's something up? 0:56:53.280 --> 0:56:56.080 And I walked out and then she she was interested 0:56:56.120 --> 0:56:58.840 in music, so that's what the meeting was about. So 0:56:58.880 --> 0:57:01.320 he called me back. Look, she's interested in doing music, 0:57:01.560 --> 0:57:04.520 you should help her. That would be great. So I 0:57:04.600 --> 0:57:07.000 ended up helping her with music, and now she got 0:57:07.040 --> 0:57:11.880 my son. I remember the news came out. I was like, 0:57:11.920 --> 0:57:17.720 I didn't even know that shot the whole club up. Yeah, 0:57:17.720 --> 0:57:19.160 because a lot of people didn't even know. I remember 0:57:19.200 --> 0:57:21.040 when it came out and I was like, oh, congratulations, 0:57:21.040 --> 0:57:23.240 because I didn't even know y'all were dating. I was like, yeah, 0:57:23.280 --> 0:57:25.800 I'm gonna tell you what though, on some real stuff, man, 0:57:25.960 --> 0:57:27.440 you could look at a person and you can e 0:57:27.440 --> 0:57:29.920 gauge them from what you think. But she earned my 0:57:30.000 --> 0:57:33.120 respect in so many ways. Man. It was so many 0:57:33.200 --> 0:57:36.560 dudes on her heels, so many people, and it was 0:57:36.600 --> 0:57:39.720 like I seen her curve people. I seen her The 0:57:39.800 --> 0:57:43.080 phone calls never curved me. Well. In the beginning, it 0:57:43.120 --> 0:57:44.480 was like just like how how you cute, but were 0:57:44.480 --> 0:57:46.960 in the streets. You ain't getting the number. And that 0:57:47.040 --> 0:57:49.840 was dope, right because I was getting numbers like don't 0:57:49.840 --> 0:57:53.040 play so And another thing was we spent the whole 0:57:53.120 --> 0:57:56.280 year before she even let me get any like in 0:57:56.320 --> 0:58:00.640 the same bed, sleeping every night, nothing, every night nothing. 0:58:00.800 --> 0:58:02.280 Let's not put that out there now. We don't need 0:58:02.320 --> 0:58:05.360 to discourage girls from giving no listen, listen, but this 0:58:05.400 --> 0:58:08.000 is but this is what got my respect. Every night 0:58:08.000 --> 0:58:11.400 I felt like every night, I'm like, I'm gonna crack 0:58:11.480 --> 0:58:14.320 the night, I'm ana crack it. Nothing for a year 0:58:14.400 --> 0:58:18.240 straight after the year, we just had the craziest bond 0:58:18.280 --> 0:58:20.080 and we was tight and it was like, all right, 0:58:20.120 --> 0:58:22.000 come on, so yeah, I was just cuddling in bad 0:58:22.120 --> 0:58:25.960 We was cuddling in bed. But that every the booty 0:58:26.040 --> 0:58:29.440 kept me sane. And then it was just like one day, 0:58:29.680 --> 0:58:31.560 you know, she had to bow down to a player 0:58:31.600 --> 0:58:35.160 greater than her. She had to bow down because I 0:58:35.200 --> 0:58:37.640 stuck in there, hung in there. Man. This is my 0:58:37.640 --> 0:58:39.560 final question. I don't think about this other day. You 0:58:39.600 --> 0:58:41.920 call yourself to God, as I do. So I'm wondering, 0:58:41.960 --> 0:58:43.680 do you think I'll call myself to God? Don't call 0:58:43.720 --> 0:58:47.080 yourself to God. No call myself king los Where did 0:58:47.080 --> 0:58:48.880 you get that? I've never heard that. I was like, 0:58:48.960 --> 0:58:52.720 maybe this is something somebody about. Man. Look they call 0:58:52.880 --> 0:58:56.120 they called me that every time. I don't call myself 0:58:56.120 --> 0:58:59.400 to God, but I do reflecting the God within myself. 0:58:59.280 --> 0:59:01.600 If I do you want to have something that's missing 0:59:01.600 --> 0:59:05.360 because that is empowered? Yes, yes, you post call yourself. 0:59:05.600 --> 0:59:08.320 I feel like that. I feel like that's missing. And 0:59:08.520 --> 0:59:12.480 it's like this, if you say that God is the 0:59:12.520 --> 0:59:15.400 father of Christ. If you could say that and then 0:59:15.440 --> 0:59:18.480 you say that we are children of God, I'm my 0:59:18.520 --> 0:59:21.600 father all day. Walk like them, talk like him, look 0:59:21.680 --> 0:59:24.920 like them. You know what I'm saying. So Genesis one 0:59:25.040 --> 0:59:26.840 twenty six is God pred a man in his image 0:59:26.840 --> 0:59:29.840 according to his likeness. So come on, man. And I 0:59:30.200 --> 0:59:32.360 think that's why people don't do godly things and don't 0:59:32.400 --> 0:59:35.680 be on that frequency because they don't really identify with 0:59:35.760 --> 0:59:38.520 it that that much. They put it over there, and 0:59:38.560 --> 0:59:41.439 then they put themselves in a smaller space. Of course 0:59:41.440 --> 0:59:45.280 we're smaller. We didn't create ourselves. But like you know, 0:59:45.440 --> 0:59:47.640 I just want to do things like you know, like 0:59:47.680 --> 0:59:49.520 how he did it, like he said, let that be light. 0:59:49.800 --> 0:59:52.600 That's why I can't nobody put darkness over me. Can't 0:59:52.600 --> 0:59:54.640 nobody tell me what I'm not gonna be or not do. 0:59:55.160 --> 0:59:57.439 God said, let that be light, So he killed all 0:59:57.440 --> 1:00:00.320 that already. I'm gonna create just like he created, you 1:00:00.360 --> 1:00:03.720 know what I'm saying. So yeah, pretty much that I 1:00:03.800 --> 1:00:06.080 like it. Man, that's the wars and stores right now. 1:00:06.120 --> 1:00:09.080 We out chair, We out chair. Number one in the 1:00:09.080 --> 1:00:14.160 country right now, is not playing. He's jazz. Yeah, it's 1:00:14.200 --> 1:00:16.320 that too, right now. I just seen Meek just drops 1:00:16.320 --> 1:00:21.400 this thing too. Well. Yeah, shout outs to meet though. Man, 1:00:22.120 --> 1:00:24.080 I don't want to sign a major. It's not always 1:00:24.080 --> 1:00:26.760 such a bad thing, you know. Everybody's always like independent. 1:00:33.880 --> 1:00:36.320 My man, King los Man, got money, wants stores right now. 1:00:36.320 --> 1:00:38.120 Thank you for coming to my brother, Thank you man, 1:00:38.200 --> 1:00:40.760 thank you for having me. Man. Absolutely it's the breakfast Club.