WEBVTT - REPLAY - OT Genasis 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:04.960 R and B money. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:06.040 We are. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:18.880 Than we are the authority on all things R and B. Ladies, gentlemen, 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:26.080 even take the R and B the podcast, the authority 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:32.360 on all things R and B. Listen, name in the building. Yeah, yeah, 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.760 we got a brother. We gotta love one. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.559 We you know, we gotta start saying to the authority 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.000 on R and B, money, R and B, everything and 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.840 everything that comes along with R and B. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.840 You heard it, he said that I can come from 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:52.959 now on because everything come come along with R and B. Listen, man, 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.080 I'm not gonna make the intro too long. Man. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.040 Okay, okay, the change you might make everybody mad. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.040 The change is big and the money's long. Yeah, come on, man, 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:06.560 come on, man, come on man. First, first, let me 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.000 say like this, let me say this, let me let 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.480 me get this off my chest. First of all, O 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:17.759 T is the nicest, nicest, funniest guy in the world. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.000 When I say, in the world, in the world, always smiling. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:28.759 But don't play with it, don't play with don't play 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.240 with him, don't play with his people because for the 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:38.199 smallest thing, I'm talking the smallest thing, O T will 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:39.000 go there. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.280 I'm like, like, big, bro, what's what's going on, Oh, man, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:48.080 he brought me some cold fries. Cold fries. God, who 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:53.040 brought to the fries? Oh, it's just fighting. It's the principal. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.760 They taking your kind of weakness. God, they trying to 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.920 say you cold out here, you caught out the street. Up, 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.720 I'm gonna have a hundred niggas. It's just fright. It's 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:04.919 the principal car. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.000 He will go, hey, listen, that's movie. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.640 He can really fight. That's the problem. That's the problem. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.760 But I love it because nigga, he's standing on all 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.160 the business. If he's fucking with you and he got 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.280 love for your nigga, you're not gonna let nobody play 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:37.080 with you. Yeah yeah, it starts there. Yeah yeah. Oh. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.160 This is a few incidents I could go into. I'm 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.120 just like, oh no, stop it, please don't do this. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.840 I let nobody play with my role. Man, it ain't happening. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:58.799 We'll be heavy that switch. I don't be sad. I'll 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.120 be saying for the other we're just bowling. I'm a 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:13.200 bonus nigga. I'll be having to go back to the 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.000 people and apologize. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.560 I'm so sorry my little brother. You know, he's laughing, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:24.360 like because I really was like, it's tired. You mean 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:27.079 what you mean? 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.120 He he just love heart. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:37.320 I'm sorry my life was in it was, but don't 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.160 worry about it. He's fine. Man, oh man, I just 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.680 had to get that off of my chest. Man brother, 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.280 I appreciate you. Oh, you know, we've had many a 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.520 deep conversation man, and you know, I think that for 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.680 me and of course I can speak for Jay bringing 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.800 you here on the R and B Money Podcast. It's like, 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.800 you know, it's it's one of those things where you know, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.680 maybe maybe maybe as an overall title, you consider yourself 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.600 a rapper. I consider you a songwriter for sure. Yeah, 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.440 I consider you a hit songwriter. You know what I'm saying. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.719 And you've done that, whether it just be rap, or 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.240 whether it be melodic, or whether you go ahead and 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.120 just fucking sing, get your remix on it to it. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.719 Like you've done all of that. And I think that 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:33.799 that conversation is and that information is important for everybody 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.360 all across the border. So let's go. Let's go back 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.360 to the beginning. That's what that's what was. What was 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.559 a little old tie doing the beach? 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.240 Yeah, I was, I was, I was in like I 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:53.200 was in long Beach, running around, you know, shooting dice 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:58.080 at school, you know, selling candy for some money, you know, 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:03.320 all that type of stuff. Obviously, Like I'm from Long 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.719 be so you know we have a certain type of 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.479 thing over there. I don't know if you say that 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.120 on this say what you want to say for you. Yeah, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.760 so you know we come from like cript culture and 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.640 everything like that. I wanted to play football, but I 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:22.359 was bad as hell, so I was always ineligible. You know, you. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:30.600 Know, look at you right now. I got nigga fast. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:38.160 He ain't got a grade. I know that nigga fastest, 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.440 low hissy grade, make sure he don't play here. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.320 So my grades was bad, but I never I never. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.679 I never got to like I'm one of the dudes 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.200 that like, I always used to get confused. And then 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.440 I start saying for school only because I like go 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.080 there and I like, do I do good? 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:57.360 I do? 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.800 I finish all my homework and then fail all the 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:04.679 time because I would never like retain I can retain 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.000 the information. I'll just make sure I complete what I 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.000 need to complete, you know what I'm saying. And so 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.240 and so I started doing music. Then like by the 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.200 time I'm like sixteen, but then I went to like like. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.599 Seven high schools you went to. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.240 I went to like seven, yeah, because I was Yeah, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.320 because everybody wanted me to go to their school. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:34.000 I'll be over there next week. It's not a party. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:35.440 I'm gonna pull up. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.240 No, I got I got kicked out of all of 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:40.719 all the schools I was. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.039 I was, I was going to it. 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.440 So I got kicked out at every school I went to, 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:47.839 and then I found in high school. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:49.120 Yeah yeah, yeah. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.000 Because I was getting I was getting kicked out of 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.880 like districts and so and so I would so I 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.760 would start like in one and then I go like, 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.240 I gotta go from gonna be so Serritos. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.800 We don't want you to go to any of these 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.479 ten schools, right, you can't go to none of it. 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:13.239 So what you're saying is you've been doing club hosting. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:18.120 You permitt. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.040 He only had two hour requirements. He come to his 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:32.119 hour and a half. I was kidding so like because 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.400 they were like I was so bad. They were like, 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.520 now we kick you out of the district, not out 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.280 of the school. It's not gonna expel you from the school. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.559 You're gonna go down there and do the same ship. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.120 So we get kick out whatever. But I was doing 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.880 music and I used to like go online and go, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.280 I want to go back to something real quick, go 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:51.720 to the music. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.000 I want to go to this. I was so bad 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:58.960 because I was really bad in school. Yeah, And I 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.120 don't know why I was really bad at school, Like 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.240 I was just up for whatever challenge, whatever another nigga 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.480 wouldn't do right right right before. It was before I 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.119 got to high school, right before I found the Lord. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:18.600 The Lord changed me, but before that, and the psychologists 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.480 tried to give me, you know, all these reasons as 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.080 to why, and your parents and they left you early 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.400 and went overseas without you. It's just your rebel. I 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.280 was like, no, I'm not rebeling. The nigga just said 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:34.960 you want to fight, and I was with it. Teacher 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.400 said some bullshit and I called him the asshole. I 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.080 was That's just what I was on. What was your thing? 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.280 What was it that made you that way? Was it 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.040 just you was just like taking all challenges. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.320 Yeah, I was, especially when I left Long Beach because 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:49.840 when you kick me out of school, I'm like it 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.760 was kind of like I felt that like I was 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:59.120 already I was already bad because like like when I 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:00.200 had to always to. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.720 Catch the bus. So I catch the bus. 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:05.960 When I get to like the train station, like they're 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:07.640 banging on you a train station for those who don't 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.320 know what's like where are you from? 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.400 So you start to get it, you get in that energy. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.880 I already had that energy before I even get to school, 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.400 you know what I'm saying. And then we like shoot 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.600 dice at the McDonald's outside of my school in the morning, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:22.880 like so we'll try to get with that's that that 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.199 that's what makes us get up early. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.920 You know, you said, we gotta we. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.640 Gotta shoot dice at McDonald's before we before we across 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:35.680 the street. And so but some time, but my, my, my, my, 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.600 you know, all through my youth, I have to catch 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.600 the bus and catch the training. That's when you run 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.200 into niggas and you run into. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.120 Whoop and where you're from. Oh oh damn. 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.679 We gotta get off on this stop because over there, 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:52.320 you know. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:52.679 What I mean. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.280 And so so then when I when I left Jordan 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.000 My my my main school, that's like my homeschool across 0:09:59.160 --> 0:09:59.880 like down street from my. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.000 And I left out of Long Beach. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.840 I'm always looking at other niggas different, you know, because 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.360 they looking at me and I'm like, you know, so 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.560 I'm instantly it's a it's a defense mechanism, you know. 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.480 And but I'm like, I'm ripping, and I'm like I 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.480 always now now I'm I'm I'm always trying to prove 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.560 myself to somebody, you know what I mean, and prove 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.840 that I ain't no bitch, I ain't no that I 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.600 come from here. You know, So when somebody says something 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:34.319 to you here, even if it's not even if it's 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.360 not like really threatening like that, you take it like 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.160 that because you know, you come from a certain place. 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.040 So I can't the way I'm trying to collect this 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:45.720 information that you're telling me right. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.920 Now, different, it all, it all feels, it all feel 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:49.160 the same. 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.800 Yeah, yeah, And so you mean by that, yeah, so 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.120 I would I would do that. I would do that, 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.120 you know what I mean. I had like I used 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.760 to have like my you don't have the eye, the 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.160 I seven thirdys and next tails and all that, you know. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.520 I used to do that bring like, yeah, call my homies, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.280 you know what I mean, Like bring guns to school. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:11.720 I used to have my little douce fires and my 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.760 little backpack and everything like that. Like I used to 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.560 be like I used to be like on bullshit unto you, 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.600 was really out of control. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, but 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:25.599 but yeah, but it was like because every time I 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.520 get on a bus stop and I get on the train, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:30.480 they got this thing called. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:34.600 The Blue Line, right la, and they go from Long Beach. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.280 You got the Long Beach station, the Artisa station, then 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.600 you got the Wilmington station, which is Compton. Then you 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.560 got the one hundred and third station which is Watts 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.280 you know, and your shit keep going all the way 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.360 from Long Beach or downtown today somebody. So you're going 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.920 through every hood and when you get off, you get 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:57.160 off the train. You know, it's sometimes Nigga is sitting outside. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.240 They just sitting outside the train station tripping, you know 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.360 what I mean, Like just nobody want no money, no nothing. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.040 We just hear trip you know what I'm saying. And 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.640 so I was always moving that way to protect myself. 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.120 So I'm like, I'm like overly protective about myself. But 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:17.400 at the same time, I'm like I'm like I'm aggressive 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:19.959 because I'm overly protected by myself. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.880 And at sixteen, you can't turn that on and off. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.240 Yeah, it's not like, oh, now I'm in a classroom. 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:27.240 Now I'm gonna turn. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.040 I'm gonna turn this this this tripping off. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:30.679 No, I'm tripping on. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.440 Everything because I gotta be like this happened to protection, 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.360 So I gotta be like this for nothing, nothing that 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:38.880 happened to me, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:43.280 So you got initiated, so motherfuckers. No exactly exactly him alone, exactly. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.800 I'm not waiting for a nigga run up on me. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.319 And I'm like, as soon as I get off, I'm 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.240 saying it instantly. I ain't. 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.560 And I always felt like I had to be that way, 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.080 you know, and that obviously that's what got me kicked 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.240 out of all these damn schools. You know, there's others 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.040 I gotta be. I always feel like I had to 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.480 be the rest, you know. So he was going into 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.600 the computer, into the music. Yeah, so so I would 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.520 I would look on online and I would see certain 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:16.760 things where damn, what's that site was back then? 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:17.080 No? 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.360 No, no, no, no, where they like sell stuff in 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:25.080 cars and and craigs, right, and then like people were 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.199 like you know, and they just like people would put 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.880 up like shows into where you like artist gotta sell 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.680 tickets and everything. And back then they had shine heagely 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.600 they had all this all this stuff right. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.360 Where that's what is that golden voice? 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:38.480 Yeah, I think it was. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:43.120 And so like they would have like artists perform, but 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.120 you had to sell like ten tickets, but what get 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.400 to get on the show. So it's like if I 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.880 sell team, he sells tea, he sell he sellt We 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.200 got a packed show and all our people was there. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.280 So I would that's what that's what I would do whatever. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:57.880 But every time I performed, it was like, damn, you're 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.720 a great performer. You da da da We love your music, Blase, 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.480 but this is me young, you know. And I kept 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.280 doing that, kept doing that, kept doing that, and you know, 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.800 you you start to meet people, and you start to grow, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.680 and people start to grow, you know, as you guys 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.120 are going up and and then I start meeting people. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.720 That's like they're like, yo, we're gonna put you on 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:27.520 this show. And you know, you win this contest, you 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.760 you do a song with Lil Wayne, you know what 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.480 I mean, like what and then you know, then they 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.960 have this and then but the whole time they like 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.240 they finishing you your bread you know what I'm saying. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.360 And so they trying to figure out who can sell 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.360 the most tickets, so you can sell thirty, you know, 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.800 thirty tickets at ten ten dollars each or twenty twenty 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.400 dollars each, you know, and just how the people how 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:52.960 they was making money. So so years after that go 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:57.160 by and I do a song out here. It was 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.840 a song called Touchdown that I did, and I met 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.240 this guy there and this guy so I think it 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.040 was a Jamaican guy. He was like, yo, you signed 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.680 and signing anybody. I'm like nah, He's like, all right, cool, 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.800 I got I got, I got somebody you know for 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.680 you to talk to. I'm like, okay, cool. So so 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.920 coming to happen. The guy that he was talking about 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.920 was his name was Dino's name was Dino Devaye. So 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.520 he had signed cast Money and he was trying to 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.040 sign fifty. But when he was trying to sign fifty 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.280 at University originally before fifty went to in the scope 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.480 and so he's still but University didn't want to sign 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.400 fifth because of all the shit. The gun was so like, 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.680 well now we're not signing him, so I guess, so 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:44.280 Fifth still kept a relationship with him because he was 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.520 trying to make something happen, you know. And then he 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.760 sent over the music. So Dino sent over the music 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.600 to Fifth, and then Fifth called me and I'm helping, 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.560 Like I'm helping my boy move. I got a refrigerator, 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.240 Like I'm want a dolly helping my homeboy move out 0:15:59.240 --> 0:15:59.920 of his apartment. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:00.600 You know what I'm saying. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.560 It's like, yeah, they like yo, da da da da da. 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.560 Some guy get on the phone. I'm on the phone 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.520 with Dino. Then he goes, yo, yeah, yeah, that guy's fifty. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:11.640 What someone the phone? 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.400 What's up? Niggah? So now me and Fifth on the phone, 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.479 we're talking for like an hour. You still have refrigerator. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.840 So so look I got the I got I got 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.400 all of It's like we got all. We got the 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:23.080 truck right there. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.760 We're really moving, bro, like I'm really helping him move. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.400 And so Fifth it's like, yo, so we chopping up. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.600 He's like, look, man, we gonna do something. So listen 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.040 when we get off this phone. I think he said 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.720 he was. I remember he was like, we got the phone. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:36.560 Don't go around telling your whole hood you. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:37.320 Rich, right. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.440 He was like the last thing like yeah. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.960 He said, don't go around telling your whole hood you rich, right, 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:43.840 and so he was like, I'm gonna come meet you 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:44.560 in l A. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.760 All right, cool, So he came meet me in l A. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.600 We chopped it up and then that's around the time 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.240 he was doing like his s K headphones, his his 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.080 energy dreams, all that stuff. So we was running around, 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:57.760 was like me and him and Floyd. That's when him 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.840 and Floyd was like super tight. And but I didn't 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.440 know what a single deal was. You know what I'm saying. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.080 You just know you got to deal song for the 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:13.080 time exactly, and so okay, boom. So now that deal 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:14.800 is over and I'm kind of like, yoh, what's going on? 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.639 What's going on? Is going but I'm not knowing that 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.760 this is a single diss, this is for one song 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.480 you've been signed for. And I was okay, cool, But 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.840 I always say it in contact with him, I always 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.639 check you know, I mean check in, check in whatever. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.520 So maybe I'm not. So I tell Dino who song 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:31.960 came out? 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.760 Yeah, it came out, it came out, Yeah, it came out, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:41.600 and it was all right. But then I tell Dino 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.560 became my manager at that time, I think he made 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.840 the place. So I'm like, what's going on? So, you know, 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:48.919 this is just a single deal, was like, this is 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:49.960 how things work or whatever. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.040 I'm like, I thought I was fifty forever, you know 0:17:52.040 --> 0:18:02.440 what I mean? Yeah, yeah, chef is on that. 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:02.840 You know. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:08.119 Wow, man, you gotta come through, you gotta come through you. 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.200 So I don't you know, I don't know. You know 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:11.240 what I'm saying. I don't know. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.800 I'm so I'm new to this and whatever. So I 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:17.920 just buggled down, kept recording. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:19.240 And then. 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:27.360 Three years later, I mean, playhouse out here and I'm performing, 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.439 and then I meet Buster and the busts like yo, 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:32.280 we're starting to I'm like nobody. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.920 He's like, oh, let's go talk to the studio. In 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.080 the studio, let's go talk about cool. And then when 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.200 I go home, like, what's up all these New York niggas? 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.040 You know what I mean, I'm right here, you know 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:45.600 what I mean? And so. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:48.960 And so I meet him at the studio. We start 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.040 chopping it up. We started talking about life and and 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.960 and principles and you know everything. I was telling him 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.960 like as a man, like you know what, I go forward. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.720 I ain't going for while you know things like and 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:07.040 and so be cool. So he goes to Atlantic, gives 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.680 me a deal at Atlantic. You know when they give 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.480 him a label deal. They give me a deal, get 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:13.040 a label deal. 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:14.040 It was to me. 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:21.080 And so now they gave me some money. Nigga, I 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.320 ain't recorded for damn near a year. 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:24.920 Right off of your advance. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:30.600 Yeah, I'm spending the money, right, I'm busy. So I'm 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.280 spending the money. Now, you got it. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.439 Now you have a full record, right right right. 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:35.120 I have a full record deal. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.239 So now I'm not knowing that. I just know they 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.159 gave me some money. Nobody's teaching me. 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:42.320 And why here is this? 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:49.280 This is two thousand and fourteen. Wow, okay, wait yeah, no, no, 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:50.680 it's twenty thirteen. 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:57.760 It was thirteen. And then the December of twenty. 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.119 Thirteen when it's happened, and so it to like August 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.760 and the A and R comes my A and R riggs. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.080 At the time, he came with some verbiage. I don't 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:09.120 know what he's talking about. 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:10.960 So I did. I'm like what he's doing. 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.720 They're like, oh, they're saying that they're about to drop you. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:15.480 You know, at the end of the year, you haven't 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.280 put out no music, it's no, no, no nothing. I'm like, 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.120 oh ship, So I'm panicking right. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:23.800 So because you that at this point they just paid 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:24.359 you the party. 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:30.840 Yeah, I was hoping, so look hoping that they gave 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:32.679 me some money. I'm thinking, look right now, I'm like, 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:33.600 they gave me some money. 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:35.800 I'm like, you know, y'all, ain't you know I had 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:37.640 to like hustle for shit like this, like, y'all give 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:38.840 me some money, Okay? Cool? 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:40.120 And so. 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:46.439 We get into August. They gave me that conversation. We 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:52.520 get the September, I dropped, I record Coco right, and 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:55.800 I record Coco and I was about to shoot was 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:58.320 about to shoot another video for a different song that. 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.040 I did, right, so I should this. This is the 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:02.080 coldest thing ever. 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:07.040 So this song was about to put out and we 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:11.000 shot a video, everything, big budget video everything. I was like, oh, 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:15.359 this shit is about to be lit right. And I 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:19.400 saw the video and I was like, I don't like it. 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.200 And this is when I start going. I started paying 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:24.880 attention where I really start to understand videos and understand 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:28.440 that editors make the video as well, you know what 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:31.760 I mean. So I'm like, what happened that scene? What happened, 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:33.639