WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Belly Gang Kushington Talks Vulnerability, Childhood Upbringing, Identity, Lil Wayne Linkup + More

0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:04.960
<v Speaker 1>Every day up, click your ass up the Breakfast Club.

0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:06.160
<v Speaker 2>You know I'm finished for y'all.

0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.880
<v Speaker 3>Done morning, everybody in Steve J M G just Hilari

0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.200
<v Speaker 3>and Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club, long

0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.360
<v Speaker 3>the rules and here as well. We got a special

0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:15.160
<v Speaker 3>guest in the building.

0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.720
<v Speaker 1>Yes, indeed you got Belly Gang Cushington. Welcome.

0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.600
<v Speaker 2>Brother. How you feeling man? Bliss brother Club?

0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.720
<v Speaker 1>Where your name come from? Brother man?

0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.120
<v Speaker 2>But when I was doing the wrong thing, I don't

0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.480
<v Speaker 2>like when people like make their own names, you know

0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.279
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. They was just like the boy got

0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:38.120
<v Speaker 2>cuss by the time Christie. Then like I started getting fat,

0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.400
<v Speaker 2>so they were calling me belly Gang. Start rapping. I

0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.360
<v Speaker 2>currently thinking now just put it together.

0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:44.559
<v Speaker 1>Belly Gang Cushion too.

0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.640
<v Speaker 3>And you're from Atlanta. How did you get into music

0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.479
<v Speaker 3>since you were doing the Cushington thing?

0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:52.360
<v Speaker 1>What made you say?

0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:53.520
<v Speaker 3>You know what, let me put this to the side

0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.120
<v Speaker 3>and take music series and start rapping.

0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.720
<v Speaker 2>Take music seer kitchen Casey. I had a son, he autistic,

0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.440
<v Speaker 2>Like I got to beat off for my son, you

0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.039
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. My mama left me. My dad

0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:06.880
<v Speaker 2>ain't really name, so like I got to beat up

0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:07.920
<v Speaker 2>on him.

0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:09.760
<v Speaker 3>Did I'll make you take it serious and let me

0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.200
<v Speaker 3>take the serious get out of the streets because I can't

0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.720
<v Speaker 3>get locked up, Yes, sir. And when did it finally

0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.320
<v Speaker 3>connect to you? When did you know that this was

0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.559
<v Speaker 3>the thing that was gonna make you where you needed

0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.080
<v Speaker 3>to be to take care of yourself. When was it

0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:19.600
<v Speaker 3>real for you?

0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.280
<v Speaker 2>I met my members of Monday, like he understood how

0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:24.679
<v Speaker 2>to make the dots connected my head.

0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.080
<v Speaker 3>His name is Monday, not that he met him on Monday.

0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but he understood how to make the dots connected

0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:34.640
<v Speaker 2>my head. Like, bro, you know, you can pay your

0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.960
<v Speaker 2>rent out there, like you ain't got to worry about

0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.600
<v Speaker 2>getting rich, like just worry about not having to work,

0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.840
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying, or get money like that.

0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.920
<v Speaker 2>So that when I knew like okay, you know what

0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:46.800
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying, he tapped my stream all.

0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:53.040
<v Speaker 4>Right, Yeah, okay, No, were you scared at first because

0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.240
<v Speaker 4>it was like you're going from something that you knew,

0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:57.520
<v Speaker 4>you knew how to make money off.

0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.200
<v Speaker 2>The you know, it's a different from like you ja

0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.200
<v Speaker 2>a dirty nigga run around with a gun, you know

0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.880
<v Speaker 2>what I mean? I actually was like raising a family

0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:10.280
<v Speaker 2>out there actually like about houses and all that, you

0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.120
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. So it were real hard, like

0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.040
<v Speaker 2>that was a harder thing I had to do, like

0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:14.799
<v Speaker 2>lead the street.

0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.640
<v Speaker 5>I wonder what I hear people say that? What was

0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:19.960
<v Speaker 5>what was so hard about it? Because you know the

0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.440
<v Speaker 5>end result, right, the result is jail or death? So

0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:23.520
<v Speaker 5>what was so hard about it?

0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:28.280
<v Speaker 2>Things really like yetta think, bro, you wake up no'

0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.120
<v Speaker 2>miss some twenty THI dollar play right now? Like that's

0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.040
<v Speaker 2>going through your head no matter what you do, like

0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.519
<v Speaker 2>a headache, Like I'm waking up every day like that's

0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.880
<v Speaker 2>a twenty jail past or thirty forty very hard.

0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.200
<v Speaker 4>You've always felt like that was worth the worry of

0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.280
<v Speaker 4>going to jail or time or you know.

0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I knew it was bad though when like I

0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.320
<v Speaker 2>was getting locked up and it was just regular like

0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.440
<v Speaker 2>I ain't even care it would come with it, like

0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.919
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. You know they're getting bad,

0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:56.799
<v Speaker 2>Like yeah.

0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.240
<v Speaker 1>So who made you believe that you could actually turn

0:02:58.280 --> 0:02:58.800
<v Speaker 1>this into.

0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.959
<v Speaker 2>A whole career real for real, for real one day? Okay?

0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:05.920
<v Speaker 5>Because one thing was somebody to tell you, but to

0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.440
<v Speaker 5>actually instill that confidence in you, like you know.

0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.480
<v Speaker 2>What I mean? I always had the confident cocker tell

0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.160
<v Speaker 2>like I could rap like I knew, like when I

0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.560
<v Speaker 2>get around my peers who rapped like they ain't really

0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.000
<v Speaker 2>it ain't really like coming across like man I would.

0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.679
<v Speaker 6>So that it was trash basically saying, nah.

0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.560
<v Speaker 2>It jailed like people were reacting to me more. You

0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.320
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. So I knew like man, I

0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.919
<v Speaker 2>might go crazy if I take here, you know what

0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. But I couldn't get the business right, like

0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.040
<v Speaker 2>I ain't understand like marketing or nothing like that. You

0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.000
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. I just knew like drop a song,

0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.520
<v Speaker 2>it didn't blow up all right, you know what I'm say.

0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.440
<v Speaker 1>You remember the first time you wrote something?

0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.840
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was a studio on Cometon. My buddy who

0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.520
<v Speaker 2>jed past actually had wrote me someday. I kep telling

0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.880
<v Speaker 2>him like writing something. He like, Bro, like you got walk,

0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.720
<v Speaker 2>you got to talk, bro, just put it down on

0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.800
<v Speaker 2>wats You know what I'm saying. I think I wrote

0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.840
<v Speaker 2>a song like true Legion or something like that.

0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.520
<v Speaker 5>Your music does feel rooted in real life hustle, So

0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.440
<v Speaker 5>I'll be wondering, like what part of your story do

0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.120
<v Speaker 5>you feel People still don't fully understand.

0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.440
<v Speaker 2>Man, Really, I paint the pictures so good, like they

0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.880
<v Speaker 2>really understand. Like I got so many different type of supporters,

0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.159
<v Speaker 2>like someone be rocking with the deep stuff, someone be

0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.040
<v Speaker 2>rocking with the like your friend.

0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:35.200
<v Speaker 1>That's my ship because to catch you, I like the

0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:35.920
<v Speaker 1>old sort that ship.

0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:45.120
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, plopping his ass, bouncing mother, What do you what

0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:45.720
<v Speaker 5>was we talking about?

0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:47.920
<v Speaker 3>You know, would be your mix?

0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.480
<v Speaker 1>Your mix being mixed?

0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.960
<v Speaker 3>It was it difficult for you because people like, no,

0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.599
<v Speaker 3>we're not with him, he's too he looks white, or

0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.400
<v Speaker 3>he looks like skinn or he looks just with that

0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:57.840
<v Speaker 3>for sure.

0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.359
<v Speaker 2>But I understand marketing like saying like I knew the

0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.560
<v Speaker 2>shock value with that. So it's just like okay, cool,

0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.520
<v Speaker 2>go crazy. I ain't even answer you know what I'm

0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.120
<v Speaker 2>saying because just like in real life, like this the internet, bro,

0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.200
<v Speaker 2>this ain't real. I don't been in the cell block.

0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.359
<v Speaker 2>I don't been in other peoplehood across the country, trapping like,

0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.359
<v Speaker 2>I ain't answering. It ain't no pulling up on me.

0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.680
<v Speaker 2>So I ain't gonna get on the internet explain myself

0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:22.599
<v Speaker 2>figure it out.

0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:23.880
<v Speaker 1>Do you ever think he was like you?

0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:29.040
<v Speaker 2>Did I ever think I'm like skinned, nah, I'm mixed.

0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.760
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because he said I was like, what.

0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:33.800
<v Speaker 7>Cause you mixed?

0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:35.960
<v Speaker 8>Like to I saw you say when you sat down

0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.080
<v Speaker 8>with Big Bank and a Big Facts podcast that when

0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.359
<v Speaker 8>you were younger, you felt like or it was like

0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.719
<v Speaker 8>you were too black for the white kids, too white

0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.000
<v Speaker 8>for the black kids.

0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.280
<v Speaker 2>I think, yeah, I definitely felt like that, like you

0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.239
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying, but like I only were raised

0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.680
<v Speaker 2>by my black side, so I definitely like it was

0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.120
<v Speaker 2>definitely weird with the white kids, you know what I'm saying,

0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.599
<v Speaker 2>because like some folk looking at me like what you're doing,

0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.240
<v Speaker 2>like you know what I'm saying. But the black folks

0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.880
<v Speaker 2>that were like like in my area, like they knew

0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.400
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. So I was used to that,

0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.720
<v Speaker 2>Like I was spoiled with that. Like when I go

0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.880
<v Speaker 2>to other hoods and stuff like that, play football, like

0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.520
<v Speaker 2>they used to be like white, Well, you know what I'm.

0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.839
<v Speaker 6>Saying, And did it bother you then like younger coming up, it.

0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.800
<v Speaker 2>Kind of probably did, but I think everybody got something

0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:22.960
<v Speaker 2>different about their ball.

0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:25.960
<v Speaker 5>When you were telling Push by the Ton, like did

0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.480
<v Speaker 5>you ever be on the phone with somebody and they

0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.880
<v Speaker 5>like then you pull up there like.

0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:39.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah you talk Okay, yeah that's crazy.

0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:40.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah that had that happened a lot of time.

0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:45.720
<v Speaker 7>How you can't do that? Like what do you do

0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.279
<v Speaker 7>to show them? Like, yo, I'm not undercovered like they

0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:48.919
<v Speaker 7>start talking.

0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.080
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, you know word when I get

0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.680
<v Speaker 2>around in the field, so you know what I'm saying.

0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.839
<v Speaker 2>People like starting on as a you know what I'm saying.

0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.119
<v Speaker 7>You said you understood the shock value.

0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.000
<v Speaker 8>I know people didn't understan They didn't know your race

0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:03.400
<v Speaker 8>at first, so when they would hear you say the

0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.040
<v Speaker 8>N word, there was a lot of backlash for that.

0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.359
<v Speaker 7>And that's what you're talking about. You say you understod

0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:08.800
<v Speaker 7>the shock, but you kind of like didn't respond but

0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:09.440
<v Speaker 7>leaned into that.

0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.960
<v Speaker 2>I mean the thing like I ain't looking at it

0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.040
<v Speaker 2>like that like Drake meets he said, you know what

0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. So it's just like that just what it is,

0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.960
<v Speaker 2>Like I ain't really killer explained or kill her like

0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.960
<v Speaker 2>do too much. Like I mean, it's just me.

0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:29.840
<v Speaker 1>I always think you should just say half of it

0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:30.200
<v Speaker 1>when you.

0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:40.960
<v Speaker 2>Like nig crazy. I don't even really like just sit

0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.240
<v Speaker 2>back and be like I'm finished say this word like

0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.560
<v Speaker 2>it's just my lingo like when I be rapping, like

0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:47.200
<v Speaker 2>I be talking.

0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.720
<v Speaker 6>Like this's just what it is, Like you even talking

0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:50.800
<v Speaker 6>like that almost your whole life.

0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.680
<v Speaker 2>So it's like my whole life. My daddy called me that.

0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.600
<v Speaker 5>You know what I'm saying, I notice is you and

0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.000
<v Speaker 5>I know this is who you are because like I

0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.640
<v Speaker 5>know people that are that have known you for a while, Like,

0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.680
<v Speaker 5>now that's really really who he is. But do you

0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.640
<v Speaker 5>ever feel like, you know, when you say you were

0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.200
<v Speaker 5>raised by your black side, you leaning into stereotypes?

0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.600
<v Speaker 2>Am I leaning into a black stereotype? Well? Now I'm

0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.040
<v Speaker 2>just being me, you know what I'm saying, being authentic me.

0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.080
<v Speaker 5>What would you say to the people who say that though,

0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:23.560
<v Speaker 5>like they were like, okay, he says he's raised by

0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.760
<v Speaker 5>his black side, so he wears the jewelry and he

0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.119
<v Speaker 5>got the tax and you know he talks a certain

0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:28.760
<v Speaker 5>way in.

0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.280
<v Speaker 2>My culture, like it's my culture. I don't even talk

0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.040
<v Speaker 2>a certain way. They're just how it come up. It's

0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.600
<v Speaker 2>my culture, you know what I'm saying, you know, dominating

0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.400
<v Speaker 2>his culture for real? We being honest before this full rap,

0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.160
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying, touching out a pretty female

0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.280
<v Speaker 2>getting all the money you know what I'm saying getting

0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.839
<v Speaker 2>back to the community, you know what I'm saying. So

0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.760
<v Speaker 2>I don't really you know what, I don't say none

0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.680
<v Speaker 2>of them. I just get the money and keep moving.

0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.320
<v Speaker 8>Real what about to the people who would have would

0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.000
<v Speaker 8>take issue with hearing I leaned into that like shock

0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.360
<v Speaker 8>value of people thinking I'm white and I'm saying the

0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.400
<v Speaker 8>N word because that's such a like sacred conversation for

0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:07.840
<v Speaker 8>some people.

0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.880
<v Speaker 2>NA I ain't lean into it. I just didn't answer it.

0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.920
<v Speaker 2>Just like just like the girl in my intro on

0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.480
<v Speaker 2>the AM, like, please tell us what you on ohe

0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.520
<v Speaker 2>you no insformation like or you you're a person on

0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.360
<v Speaker 2>the internet just typing m You.

0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.120
<v Speaker 1>Said you had to like, you know, learn I guess

0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:25.320
<v Speaker 1>the business of music.

0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.640
<v Speaker 5>What lessons did you have to learn the hard way

0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.680
<v Speaker 5>about like ownership and leverage?

0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.320
<v Speaker 2>I ain't really I'm kind of blessed with a good

0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.480
<v Speaker 2>lawyer early because he liked my music, and then like

0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.240
<v Speaker 2>just being a hustler period, like I'm a tiltoe for

0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.760
<v Speaker 2>I just jump into anything. I do nothing you know

0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:44.400
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying until I figure it out. So I

0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.000
<v Speaker 2>ain't really been through that yet. I sure I am

0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.000
<v Speaker 2>gonna go through that, but like I ain't been through

0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.120
<v Speaker 2>nothing that I feel like, damn, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.920
<v Speaker 2>maybe being in a distro and then it wasn't really

0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.840
<v Speaker 2>what I thought. It wore that probably like the worst.

0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:01.120
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying?

0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.040
<v Speaker 1>You dependent right?

0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.280
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? On with LVR end though, Okay, okay, yeah, yeah

0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.000
<v Speaker 2>that my family, like we're going crazy.

0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.079
<v Speaker 1>Do you see yourself staying independent long term?

0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:09.319
<v Speaker 2>Are you?

0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.439
<v Speaker 1>Are you opening like some strategic partnerships?

0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.559
<v Speaker 2>Mum, I want to be big, but you know, the

0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.760
<v Speaker 2>game the game changing right now. I don't know, you

0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.920
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying, might not need that in a minute,

0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.959
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying, Yeah, we going big? Just

0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:24.480
<v Speaker 2>this though.

0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.200
<v Speaker 6>I love that you you actually opened up a Wayne

0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.920
<v Speaker 6>on last Yeah went on to Wayne, Yeah, how was

0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:33.120
<v Speaker 6>that when you got that call?

0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.120
<v Speaker 2>Like what was that? I ain't believe it at all.

0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.400
<v Speaker 2>Who was already doing like five six shows a week?

0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.400
<v Speaker 2>So like I was just like, nah, I ain't ain't

0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.160
<v Speaker 2>calling me what he needed me for like this little Wayne.

0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.600
<v Speaker 2>So I still didn't believe it. And they were having

0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.160
<v Speaker 2>a conversation for like over a month. I ain't believe it.

0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.839
<v Speaker 2>I seen the email like the dates, What time you

0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:52.480
<v Speaker 2>gotta be here?

0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.720
<v Speaker 6>It's crazy, Yeah, Monday, Nigga, you still don't.

0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.920
<v Speaker 2>Believe, Nigga, ain't believe you.

0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:03.040
<v Speaker 1>Y'all got to call you believe.

0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.320
<v Speaker 2>Damn. I thought it was just probably like some age

0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.760
<v Speaker 2>and shit or just like I ain't think like they hit.

0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.199
<v Speaker 3>So you said when you when you had your your son,

0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.480
<v Speaker 3>it changed you a lot. And one of your songs

0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.199
<v Speaker 3>in the album, you talk about your son being autistic.

0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:17.959
<v Speaker 3>You feel like that could be calmer for being in

0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:18.320
<v Speaker 3>the streets.

0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.920
<v Speaker 2>Break that down, man, I really feel that, you know

0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.439
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. Really, man, my daddy, like you used

0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.480
<v Speaker 2>to tell me, like you know, you do wrong, they

0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.720
<v Speaker 2>come back on your kids. Like you know what I'm saying.

0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.000
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what there's some folks tell shit or what.

0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:39.320
<v Speaker 2>But like I think, like you know, waking up here,

0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.960
<v Speaker 2>they doing the wrong thing, like you never know, maybe

0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.959
<v Speaker 2>God wanted to slow me down, sit me down. You

0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.640
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. It definitely did. Though it turned

0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:52.400
<v Speaker 2>my hustle up legally back then, like had turned my

0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.280
<v Speaker 2>hustle up. But but but I became't like I understood

0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.719
<v Speaker 2>mores and values and you know what I mean, like yo,

0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.880
<v Speaker 2>people different, Like it's crazy because like I grew up different,

0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.680
<v Speaker 2>my son now he growing up different.

0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.559
<v Speaker 5>That's interesting though, because the reality is your son ended

0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.480
<v Speaker 5>up being your biggest blessing because you said that, you know,

0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.920
<v Speaker 5>finding out he was autistic ended up being your biggest motivation.

0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.400
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, for sure, So I can't say that was a

0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:18.240
<v Speaker 1>wrong thing, you know what I mean?

0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.080
<v Speaker 2>Yo yo yo yo yo. I do know he gonna

0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.000
<v Speaker 2>have not a hard life because because of my situation now.

0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.959
<v Speaker 2>But I do know like all the autistic parents out there,

0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.160
<v Speaker 2>like like they feel the same way I do. Like

0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.600
<v Speaker 2>I see the interviews I talked to him and means

0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.000
<v Speaker 2>and stuff like because he's like damn like my son

0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.920
<v Speaker 2>like there, I really don't never want to leave him,

0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.160
<v Speaker 2>Like I don't know somebody gonna care for you. Hi't

0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.240
<v Speaker 2>like like I do. Like I was locked up with

0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.079
<v Speaker 2>a uh. I was locked up one time, and like

0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.800
<v Speaker 2>it was a guy, like he was just locked and

0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.800
<v Speaker 2>like I could tell he was slick, like you know

0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.439
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying a little different, So like I'm like

0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.400
<v Speaker 2>it ain't wrong with him, like and we we seen

0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.040
<v Speaker 2>we checked his paperwork and he was enough for Like

0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.599
<v Speaker 2>I think, like burglary or something. But like how he

0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.199
<v Speaker 2>did was like walking on the lady porch and drunk

0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.719
<v Speaker 2>some lemonade and lyft and they locked him up. You know,

0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.719
<v Speaker 2>sometime they hit you with a bigger charge, you know

0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.400
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. He had never been locked up before.

0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.240
<v Speaker 2>When I was talking to him, he was just like yeah.

0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.839
<v Speaker 2>I was like, how you don't get no stole like

0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.079
<v Speaker 2>or now He was just like nah. Like he ended

0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.800
<v Speaker 2>up telling me he get a chick. He lived at

0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.760
<v Speaker 2>a boarding house and then come to find out like

0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:31.720
<v Speaker 2>he was, it's like bro, Like he was like fifty dang. Yeah,

0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.400
<v Speaker 2>it's like bro, this lady getting his chick probably, you

0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.440
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying, Like he and he was locked

0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.720
<v Speaker 2>up on a two hundred dollars bun for burglary.

0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.280
<v Speaker 8>Like yeah, yeah, being in the streets and then having

0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.520
<v Speaker 8>your son who is autistic, which takes a lot more

0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.760
<v Speaker 8>patience and like you know what, what did you have

0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.000
<v Speaker 8>to tap into the most to make sure that you

0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:54.839
<v Speaker 8>were present enough for him physically but mentally, man, it

0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:55.440
<v Speaker 8>was hard.

0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.280
<v Speaker 2>I ain't gonna lie like the crying, you know what

0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. He can't talk when he got older. Then

0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.280
<v Speaker 2>what's so crazy? Like he started to talk regular and

0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.000
<v Speaker 2>it just stopped, you know what I'm saying. So, I

0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.320
<v Speaker 2>don't know. I've been seeing a lot of like kids

0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.240
<v Speaker 2>his age going around them years like go through that.

0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.160
<v Speaker 2>So but I I really just had to be like, look, man,

0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.080
<v Speaker 2>did what it is? You know what I'm saying. Like,

0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:21.600
<v Speaker 2>and then at a certain point I wanted to be

0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.920
<v Speaker 2>there like every day all day, you know what I'm saying,

0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.240
<v Speaker 2>to make sure, like who else gonna do it? My

0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.760
<v Speaker 2>big mama, She's a good MoMA, but like who gonna

0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.280
<v Speaker 2>do the man part? Yeah?

0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.280
<v Speaker 1>You would never leave your child to bit sed off with?

0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.000
<v Speaker 1>You know how your situation was.

0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.080
<v Speaker 2>For shure Man? Sorry, yeah, for sure, Like for sure

0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:41.920
<v Speaker 2>I would never leave him because of that.

0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:44.120
<v Speaker 1>You resent your mom?

0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:46.800
<v Speaker 2>I did? You know what I'm saying?

0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:54.880
<v Speaker 7>High k Royal, he can only call if you're gonna sing.

0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.600
<v Speaker 7>You got to sing it again till you be let's out. Yeah, Milk,

0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.720
<v Speaker 7>it's so shy in front of company's crazy.

0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:08.640
<v Speaker 2>You on drugs? No?

0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.440
<v Speaker 9>Actually here looking for that? K what you're looking for?

0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:21.960
<v Speaker 9>I'm geeked up looking for what when you're coming to

0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:22.400
<v Speaker 9>see us?

0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:22.680
<v Speaker 8>Man?

0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.280
<v Speaker 1>Whatever you're ready, that's on you.

0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:27.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm ready now.

0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.800
<v Speaker 1>You're dropping. You're dropping a project this year?

0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.440
<v Speaker 2>I am, but I'm I got my first headline, so

0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:36.280
<v Speaker 2>show today.

0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.040
<v Speaker 1>So congratulation.

0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:40.400
<v Speaker 2>Thank you.

0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.120
<v Speaker 1>When you drop whatever you dropping, pull up on us.

0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:49.280
<v Speaker 5>I'm going to drop tomorrow a single first period hear.

0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.760
<v Speaker 1>Okay, come on.

0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.320
<v Speaker 6>Up, Yeah you got to Okay, I'm.

0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.560
<v Speaker 1>Gonna belly gang the plug. He's still the plug.

0:15:59.160 --> 0:15:59.760
<v Speaker 2>Don't put that on.

0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.320
<v Speaker 6>So you you were growing up, right, who did you

0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:12.880
<v Speaker 6>look to like?

0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:13.320
<v Speaker 1>Who were you?

0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.240
<v Speaker 6>Some of your favorite rappers? Who was your inspiration?

0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.080
<v Speaker 2>Man? I took it like into the trap store obviously,

0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.640
<v Speaker 2>like rock O, Jesu, t I, Gucci, you know what

0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. Then like future you know what I mean?

0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:26.240
<v Speaker 2>Out of the trap.

0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.760
<v Speaker 6>They've been comparison comparing you to Jeezy though you ever

0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:30.160
<v Speaker 6>met him.

0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.200
<v Speaker 2>Nah. I think I think they doing that just because

0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.520
<v Speaker 2>I was dicas and talk about selling bricks like I

0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.160
<v Speaker 2>don't even sound like Jesus nothing like because I put

0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.520
<v Speaker 2>the diggers on and talk draw talk. That's why I

0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.520
<v Speaker 2>think they see the movement. I go out of hundred

0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.920
<v Speaker 2>deep stuff like that, Yeah so cool?

0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:48.240
<v Speaker 1>Are you so cool?

0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.960
<v Speaker 2>Or the song from the song but it cras like

0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.760
<v Speaker 2>the first day we met, we just clicked like somehow,

0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:56.880
<v Speaker 2>like we've been to each other for twenty years.

0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:01.000
<v Speaker 6>But oh yeah, she's from Atlanta to Yeah, so it.

0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.280
<v Speaker 2>Crazed, like you right up the street from my hood.

0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:04.199
<v Speaker 2>I ain't even no.

0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.760
<v Speaker 1>I seen you killing Mike co signed you too. Yeah, yeah,

0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:10.119
<v Speaker 1>what did that mean for you?

0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.280
<v Speaker 2>That was big because it was so early on, probably

0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.800
<v Speaker 2>had like ten thousand followers. He's on Curator Cuz like

0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.160
<v Speaker 2>you had heard me, I had wrote a song Lord

0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.200
<v Speaker 2>propelled me. I wrote that, so like he heard, he

0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:23.879
<v Speaker 2>was like might like did he want to get on?

0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.520
<v Speaker 2>And he got on it. He was like, matter of fact,

0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.399
<v Speaker 2>I wanted from my al that was big Like me,

0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.920
<v Speaker 2>I had never did No, I had no accolades in

0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.760
<v Speaker 2>rap at the time. Just how somebody walking past the

0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.880
<v Speaker 2>studio hearing my song, Like, so that's all big.

0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.439
<v Speaker 1>What if you learned from Mike, you know, Mike always

0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:40.480
<v Speaker 1>dropping some jewel.

0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:47.440
<v Speaker 2>Man how to win a Grammy. No, just that, just

0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.840
<v Speaker 2>that you know, he ain't gotta be all about gangster

0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:51.800
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying. You could take a look

0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.800
<v Speaker 2>at politics, you know what I mean. You could take

0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.600
<v Speaker 2>a look at what's really going on to speak on

0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:56.000
<v Speaker 2>that too.

0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.439
<v Speaker 5>That's a good segue because what version of yourself did

0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.440
<v Speaker 5>you have to in order to grow into the to

0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:03.600
<v Speaker 5>the artist you are now?

0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.760
<v Speaker 2>Probably the hot head, you know what I'm saying, Like

0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.000
<v Speaker 2>just reacting off as soon as I feel. So when

0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.160
<v Speaker 2>I first came in the game, it was like, yeah,

0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.520
<v Speaker 2>this shit go with anything I do. And I realize, like,

0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.080
<v Speaker 2>you cannot bring that over here, Tod, you know what

0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:24.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. Yeah, kid, that hot head. Damn.

0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.919
<v Speaker 4>I'm looking at your stats and I see, all right,

0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.240
<v Speaker 4>So seventy eight percent you got your fan based black.

0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.920
<v Speaker 6>Five percent of y'all is Hispanic and black Asian.

0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.640
<v Speaker 4>Fully got eight point four Asian and then eight point

0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:40.480
<v Speaker 4>four white people.

0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.480
<v Speaker 3>You got some ages up the people just brow Mexicans.

0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.080
<v Speaker 2>Mexicans on there, shut up.

0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:51.000
<v Speaker 6>Yeah Hispanic is yeah, I'm black. Yeah, anyway, did it?

0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:51.240
<v Speaker 2>Shot?

0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:51.480
<v Speaker 9>Do it?

0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:53.399
<v Speaker 2>Oh?

0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:53.680
<v Speaker 9>Yeah?

0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.920
<v Speaker 4>You got forty five percent females and then fifty four

0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:59.520
<v Speaker 4>percent male co Yeah.

0:18:59.400 --> 0:18:59.879
<v Speaker 1>That's what's up.

0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.080
<v Speaker 7>That's that's that's up there.

0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:02.920
<v Speaker 6>Are you shocked to know you got any Asian fans?

0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.920
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? You shot for real a little bit. It'd be

0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:12.400
<v Speaker 2>like closing lines in Japan and stuff. Hearing up Thoughso yeah,

0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.600
<v Speaker 2>they were playing music out there.

0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:15.040
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.

0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:17.639
<v Speaker 5>Now that you've been in the industry a little bit,

0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.800
<v Speaker 5>what's something about the industry you wish artists talked about

0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:20.680
<v Speaker 5>more honest.

0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.159
<v Speaker 2>Being theirself. What's really going on? I see a lot

0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.320
<v Speaker 2>of folks trying to follow the leader for real, just

0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.439
<v Speaker 2>be yourself, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, we got

0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.760
<v Speaker 2>to push that. You need kids and everything, because like

0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.960
<v Speaker 2>everybody can't be no rapper. Everybody can't be no you

0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:39.879
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. Somebody might need to be a manager,

0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.760
<v Speaker 2>somebody that might need to be a computer tech guy.

0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:45.040
<v Speaker 2>Them people cool too.

0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.440
<v Speaker 8>How how has it been meeting like, you know, people

0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.080
<v Speaker 8>that you might have looked up to or listened to music,

0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:51.240
<v Speaker 8>Like I saw you linked U with Drake?

0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:53.240
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, yeah, how has that been?

0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.119
<v Speaker 2>That was big? Like they hit me like pull up,

0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.119
<v Speaker 2>pulled up just at the gate, like my flowers, like

0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.400
<v Speaker 2>get your flyer, Like yeah, no, that was big. Though.

0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.240
<v Speaker 2>I don't really want to meet nobody else though, because

0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.080
<v Speaker 2>it ain't always like like when I met Drake's future

0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.119
<v Speaker 2>the like cool, Like you know what I'm saying, they

0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.480
<v Speaker 2>really rock with me, Like he really rocked with me.

0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.719
<v Speaker 5>You know what I'm saying, But you must have met

0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:23.000
<v Speaker 5>somebody that a couple of yeah, from the crip, from

0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:24.120
<v Speaker 5>the crib, but like out of state.

0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.600
<v Speaker 2>Uh out of state? Oh yeah yeah?

0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:30.080
<v Speaker 1>Were they not familiar?

0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:36.399
<v Speaker 2>I can feel that like for real like energy.

0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.480
<v Speaker 5>Yeah yeah, people might get that from you, though only

0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.119
<v Speaker 5>because you come from the streets and you know, you

0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.359
<v Speaker 5>had to move a certain way kind of a survival, right,

0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:47.679
<v Speaker 5>Like even when you said you used to react that everything.

0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:49.679
<v Speaker 1>That probably saves you a lot of times in the streets.

0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.400
<v Speaker 5>Now you're not there, know somebody, somebody might be looking

0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:54.200
<v Speaker 5>trying to figure out your disposition.

0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.080
<v Speaker 2>But you know, no, I think that my fault for

0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.240
<v Speaker 2>like listening to somebody music thinking they was you know

0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.879
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, that's fault. Oh I got you?

0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.680
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, did that disappointment? I mean you said you don't

0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:07.840
<v Speaker 8>want to meet anybody? But what else did that disappointment

0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:10.200
<v Speaker 8>bring for you outside of just not wanting to meet people?

0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.800
<v Speaker 7>Like how is it? J Did your experiences as an artist?

0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:18.320
<v Speaker 2>Mmmm? Probably make me become more vulnerable, like more let

0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.919
<v Speaker 2>them see exactly why I know my album real vulnerable,

0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.520
<v Speaker 2>but this Nickson going to be overly vulnerable, like let

0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:25.960
<v Speaker 2>him know like this all the way meet you know

0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.440
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, Yeah, for sure, did.

0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.399
<v Speaker 1>You ever struggle with your identity as a as a

0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:34.040
<v Speaker 1>mixed kid growing up? What you mean just in general?

0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.480
<v Speaker 1>Like did you ever even want to see what the

0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.760
<v Speaker 1>other side was doing? Okay, but did you have a choice.

0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:45.080
<v Speaker 2>I should have had my baby pictures on file? No,

0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:47.160
<v Speaker 2>I thought I was like a little bow, a little

0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:47.639
<v Speaker 2>Romeo or.

0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.840
<v Speaker 4>Early on, but even but never like Macaulay Culkin or

0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:56.359
<v Speaker 4>nothing straight home alone.

0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:57.719
<v Speaker 6>Nahna, you wouldn't.

0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.720
<v Speaker 1>Okay, you never even knew your other side of the family.

0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.879
<v Speaker 2>I never I met my mama one time. That's crazy.

0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:06.440
<v Speaker 2>I met her one time. Like that's it.

0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:07.360
<v Speaker 7>I saw you say.

0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.080
<v Speaker 8>You were raised with so much like loving just whatever.

0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:12.000
<v Speaker 8>You didn't even know that there was a difference until

0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:12.560
<v Speaker 8>you had to know.

0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.200
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Like I ain't even know, Like I ain't even

0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:17.240
<v Speaker 2>missed that mama. Like you know what I'm saying. My

0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:20.840
<v Speaker 2>cousin raised me, like call her mom, like her mama.

0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:23.720
<v Speaker 2>I called her mom before she died. Like it's like

0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.440
<v Speaker 2>Grandma Nana cooked chicken every Wednesday for the for the

0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:28.920
<v Speaker 2>for the congregation, like they come and to preach in

0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.120
<v Speaker 2>the basement, like I gotta help up cook the cheek

0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:33.200
<v Speaker 2>with a suit on, you know hood, you know what

0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:37.199
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. So like I ain't really know, like they

0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:40.159
<v Speaker 2>grew up ghetto fabulous for real, Like my other grandma,

0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.480
<v Speaker 2>my dad and mama, she stayed up here. Oh I

0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:46.160
<v Speaker 2>forgot what she stayed at. But like she I went

0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:48.600
<v Speaker 2>to one O. SI's apart all that about like nine

0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:52.160
<v Speaker 2>Free AJ put me on stage and everything, the rapper

0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:55.680
<v Speaker 2>then I was just yeah as a kid, I was

0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:56.480
<v Speaker 2>like nine years old.

0:22:57.200 --> 0:22:59.000
<v Speaker 3>Need a kid as a proper because you imagine you're

0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:00.720
<v Speaker 3>trying to pick on them. I'm gonna get my cousin.

0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:02.040
<v Speaker 1>Let's go get your little white cousin.

0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.760
<v Speaker 2>Before. Now that's another thing. I got brothers and sister too.

0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:12.240
<v Speaker 2>Like my big brother he he the worst. So like

0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:14.520
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying, he would like that for sure.

0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:18.120
<v Speaker 1>When you look at like like a racist white person,

0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:19.920
<v Speaker 1>what goes to your mind? Like what do you be thinking?

0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:27.040
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I don't understand why the days old. You

0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:30.399
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying, I don't understand why they like

0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:34.160
<v Speaker 2>that any racist person for real, you know what I'm saying.

0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:36.680
<v Speaker 2>But at least you telling me you racist, and that's

0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:38.200
<v Speaker 2>what you will, you know what I'm saying on the

0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:40.520
<v Speaker 2>cover with it, You know what I mean, I think

0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:42.520
<v Speaker 2>I get I think I think my type of people

0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:45.320
<v Speaker 2>get it the worst case. Like you know, like I

0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:48.399
<v Speaker 2>don't have like white people like and black people like

0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:51.399
<v Speaker 2>older like real older be like you're a mixed breede

0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:53.200
<v Speaker 2>like that, ain't there's nothing you could do?

0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:59.600
<v Speaker 4>Like, yeah, you ever had as you ever have an

0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:01.200
<v Speaker 4>accounter with a white person that look at.

0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:09.040
<v Speaker 2>You like like you yeah, like you like all that? Yeah, yeah,

0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:12.200
<v Speaker 2>I mean like growing up like my demean always kind

0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:14.120
<v Speaker 2>of being like this. So I ain't really never dealt

0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:18.400
<v Speaker 2>with stuff personally, you know what I'm saying. But I don't.

0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:20.960
<v Speaker 2>I don't encounter stuff like that for sure. And I'm

0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:23.919
<v Speaker 2>sure like even in nick game, like you probably got

0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:26.159
<v Speaker 2>like gate keepers like looking at like man trying to

0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:30.199
<v Speaker 2>cool though, just work hard and so on to come

0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:31.600
<v Speaker 2>across the couple on too.

0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:33.320
<v Speaker 1>You never had to coach with you get your homies

0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:35.160
<v Speaker 1>out of a jam, you know what I'm saying.

0:24:36.680 --> 0:24:39.119
<v Speaker 2>You know what crazy we were looking at my records,

0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:42.760
<v Speaker 2>you know, every Jill put me in as black. I

0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:44.840
<v Speaker 2>never told her I don't rope white on them before

0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:46.080
<v Speaker 2>thinking they're gonna help me.

0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:54.840
<v Speaker 8>When you when you met Drake, the caption was rich

0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:58.159
<v Speaker 8>mixed kids compos in the back of the area right

0:24:58.440 --> 0:25:01.800
<v Speaker 8>areas the ship clerks. Yeah, so was that just like

0:25:01.840 --> 0:25:04.160
<v Speaker 8>a fly caption or were y'all really having conversations about

0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:06.680
<v Speaker 8>navigating this industry as a mixed kid because he gets

0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:08.719
<v Speaker 8>a lot of like slack for like going in and out.

0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:10.960
<v Speaker 2>We didn't speak on being met, but like it was

0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:13.960
<v Speaker 2>too rich miex kids. It was just in the back

0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:15.440
<v Speaker 2>of not having a conversation.

0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:19.119
<v Speaker 7>I asked, was it just a fly conversation? You just

0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:19.480
<v Speaker 7>never know?

0:25:20.680 --> 0:25:25.080
<v Speaker 2>No, we weren't talking about meat. We're just to meet kids.

0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:27.080
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:30.439
<v Speaker 6>I just came through Femi gonna say, tell him doing

0:25:30.520 --> 0:25:32.439
<v Speaker 6>white voice, a.

0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:37.080
<v Speaker 2>White boy crazy, I'm a suburban kid.

0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:40.480
<v Speaker 1>You didn't use that.

0:25:40.680 --> 0:25:42.960
<v Speaker 5>You didn't use that privilege at least once to help

0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:45.399
<v Speaker 5>the homies get out of jam Man, because.

0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:46.200
<v Speaker 6>How you had to.

0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:49.000
<v Speaker 2>I ain't no try I'm gonna try that.

0:25:55.080 --> 0:25:57.400
<v Speaker 1>Yes, he's already out, he's good looking back.

0:25:57.480 --> 0:25:59.320
<v Speaker 2>I'll be getting pulled over now like that. Know who

0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:00.119
<v Speaker 2>I am and.

0:26:01.640 --> 0:26:02.800
<v Speaker 1>What I wanted to meet with.

0:26:02.920 --> 0:26:04.200
<v Speaker 5>I wanted to meet you and talk to you for

0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:07.120
<v Speaker 5>a little bit before I said this. But Drew Ski

0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:09.240
<v Speaker 5>definitely was acting like you yo.

0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:17.760
<v Speaker 1>No, definitely like belly because I wasn't familiar with you

0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:19.080
<v Speaker 1>when he did the sketch, So it.

0:26:19.119 --> 0:26:21.159
<v Speaker 2>Was just that really like I ain't gonna lie like

0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:26.040
<v Speaker 2>when he did that though, Like that really skyrocketed for sure. Yeah,

0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:27.359
<v Speaker 2>so what was the.

0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:29.240
<v Speaker 7>First like, oh, this is skyrocketing?

0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:32.960
<v Speaker 8>Was it a phone call for an opportunity like signal

0:26:33.000 --> 0:26:37.720
<v Speaker 8>the skyrocketing? I don't know you think it, Like, no, no,

0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:40.040
<v Speaker 8>I'm saying from Drew Ski, like you said he skyrockets

0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:43.639
<v Speaker 8>came about that. Yeah, So like did you numbers go

0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:44.520
<v Speaker 8>up on social media to.

0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:46.920
<v Speaker 2>Be followed just going crazy out like it was on

0:26:47.119 --> 0:26:49.960
<v Speaker 2>roll who was on the roads? Like why am I

0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:53.840
<v Speaker 2>follower going crazy? Then like he seen Drew Like oh

0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:55.879
<v Speaker 2>he did. I ain't even watched the whole skit. I

0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:57.680
<v Speaker 2>ain't see the end where he went home to the

0:26:57.720 --> 0:27:04.399
<v Speaker 2>white family and ye, but I know like he definitely

0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:06.080
<v Speaker 2>seen and at the time, I think that was Drew

0:27:06.080 --> 0:27:12.000
<v Speaker 2>sky biggest skit he had, Like yeah, that was Drew.

0:27:12.040 --> 0:27:14.679
<v Speaker 2>School was already he was already following me and everything

0:27:16.040 --> 0:27:18.000
<v Speaker 2>he had already followed me and everything.

0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:19.320
<v Speaker 1>And studying you just to do a skit.

0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:24.000
<v Speaker 2>So I had put the laughing faces like the comment

0:27:24.320 --> 0:27:26.000
<v Speaker 2>kind of got a lot of lights and ship. But

0:27:26.160 --> 0:27:29.040
<v Speaker 2>then I posted a picture on like black as he

0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:31.600
<v Speaker 2>get or something like that. He DM me like, bro,

0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:33.640
<v Speaker 2>just won't listen to one thousand per cent one ting

0:27:33.680 --> 0:27:35.200
<v Speaker 2>about you on my cool.

0:27:39.960 --> 0:27:42.280
<v Speaker 1>Laughing You'll need to do a part too where y'all

0:27:42.320 --> 0:27:42.760
<v Speaker 1>meet each other.

0:27:43.280 --> 0:27:45.960
<v Speaker 2>He brought me out at the could have been fished,

0:27:46.200 --> 0:27:49.680
<v Speaker 2>like man went crazy then, like when I went and

0:27:49.680 --> 0:27:51.760
<v Speaker 2>shut down, like he was making billy cut jokes the

0:27:51.800 --> 0:27:55.040
<v Speaker 2>whole time, like your drew skin, Like that's a big

0:27:55.160 --> 0:27:57.000
<v Speaker 2>brand for him to just not even know me and

0:27:57.080 --> 0:28:01.119
<v Speaker 2>like just really pass all emotional to me, Like y'all for.

0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:04.800
<v Speaker 7>What's the life change of all that has been like

0:28:04.840 --> 0:28:04.960
<v Speaker 7>for you?

0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:07.120
<v Speaker 8>Because I saw a Billboard article that lists you as

0:28:07.200 --> 0:28:09.760
<v Speaker 8>one of the top ten songs played in the strip

0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:13.040
<v Speaker 8>clubs in Atlanta, like number young Thug, Jeezy, Young Nudie,

0:28:13.359 --> 0:28:15.919
<v Speaker 8>Like you know what I mean? Like what's that life changement?

0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:16.920
<v Speaker 8>Like big Superstar?

0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:21.520
<v Speaker 2>Now, Mmm, I don't know it kind of feel like

0:28:22.480 --> 0:28:24.480
<v Speaker 2>I don't know it kind of feel like I guess

0:28:24.560 --> 0:28:28.080
<v Speaker 2>collect my path life kind of feel like shit, I

0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:31.840
<v Speaker 2>don't know. Sometimes walk in it in the little ass spot,

0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:34.040
<v Speaker 2>jump the little cars and just be like, man, it

0:28:34.080 --> 0:28:37.440
<v Speaker 2>should be going tomorrow, like work hard every day all day.

0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:40.120
<v Speaker 2>Like in my spot I got when you walk in,

0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:43.080
<v Speaker 2>I got all my mud shots on the wall should

0:28:43.240 --> 0:28:47.240
<v Speaker 2>remind me like, don't ever go back there in my house. Yeah.

0:28:48.040 --> 0:28:51.600
<v Speaker 5>What does the Belly Gang movement mean beyond music? Like,

0:28:51.640 --> 0:28:54.280
<v Speaker 5>what's the philosophy of the belly Gang man?

0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:57.200
<v Speaker 2>No gang or nothing music music?

0:29:05.680 --> 0:29:08.000
<v Speaker 7>What's the deeper meaning of the move movement? Because you

0:29:08.040 --> 0:29:09.080
<v Speaker 7>get very vulnerable in your.

0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:12.160
<v Speaker 2>Music and you inspire your I mean that name is

0:29:12.280 --> 0:29:14.480
<v Speaker 2>just a name for real, Like like you know what

0:29:14.480 --> 0:29:17.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. But my personal movement, I think just showing

0:29:17.800 --> 0:29:21.440
<v Speaker 2>these kids like morals, values like you ain't got to

0:29:21.520 --> 0:29:23.960
<v Speaker 2>kill nobody, you know what I'm saying. Get the money,

0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:26.840
<v Speaker 2>Like let's get the money to have fun. You know

0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:27.320
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying.

0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:32.440
<v Speaker 1>Girls, either success changed your circle or just exposed it.

0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:37.240
<v Speaker 2>Mmm, it changed it for sure. I've seen something. I

0:29:37.320 --> 0:29:40.560
<v Speaker 2>think I forgot who said it, but like they were like,

0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:43.120
<v Speaker 2>I don't think money changed you are changing people around you.

0:29:43.920 --> 0:29:46.440
<v Speaker 2>You know what? Crazy like my members told me. I

0:29:47.040 --> 0:29:49.080
<v Speaker 2>used to tell them like right, being had emotional, like

0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:51.440
<v Speaker 2>being had the money, like nah, that fing gonna change

0:29:51.480 --> 0:29:55.600
<v Speaker 2>this ship. Like he was totally right. Like the fame

0:29:55.760 --> 0:30:01.520
<v Speaker 2>making them for crazy crazy, like I'm overly humble Like fame,

0:30:02.960 --> 0:30:05.000
<v Speaker 2>it changed a lot of folks. It really changed everybody

0:30:05.040 --> 0:30:07.480
<v Speaker 2>for really be honest, in what way?

0:30:08.520 --> 0:30:09.360
<v Speaker 1>What's it noticeable?

0:30:10.560 --> 0:30:12.680
<v Speaker 2>Just like the girl I had. You know what I'm saying,

0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:19.440
<v Speaker 2>you know, asking for more money? You know what I'm saying, Yeah,

0:30:19.600 --> 0:30:22.280
<v Speaker 2>not really caring about my day. And then like you know,

0:30:22.920 --> 0:30:25.760
<v Speaker 2>it'll be like I can't even have a conversation no

0:30:25.880 --> 0:30:28.960
<v Speaker 2>more where like man, I'm tired of work, or it's

0:30:29.040 --> 0:30:31.200
<v Speaker 2>just like anytime they talk to me, it's the sad

0:30:31.280 --> 0:30:35.400
<v Speaker 2>story first, Like it's just like God, damn, I gotta

0:30:35.440 --> 0:30:38.000
<v Speaker 2>go talk to somebody who ain't trying to do all that.

0:30:38.480 --> 0:30:40.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, have you learned to say no?

0:30:41.360 --> 0:30:46.160
<v Speaker 2>Hey? Yeah? Sure? Learn not say none at all? Back? Yeah?

0:30:46.560 --> 0:30:49.160
<v Speaker 2>Talk because you know what's crazy, Like people are literally

0:30:49.280 --> 0:30:52.200
<v Speaker 2>not care that you got a child. They'll not kill

0:30:52.240 --> 0:30:55.720
<v Speaker 2>that that you you you work every day all day. Man,

0:30:55.760 --> 0:30:58.239
<v Speaker 2>I've been woke. I just went to sleep last night

0:30:58.320 --> 0:31:00.120
<v Speaker 2>for the first time in two days, I'm finish, be

0:31:00.240 --> 0:31:03.360
<v Speaker 2>woke for two more. They in like three four different cities,

0:31:03.440 --> 0:31:06.360
<v Speaker 2>like they don't care. Stop what you're doing and fix

0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:09.400
<v Speaker 2>my problems. Like, nah, that's all that. That ain't gonna work.

0:31:10.600 --> 0:31:12.000
<v Speaker 5>You do get back a lot though, from what I

0:31:12.160 --> 0:31:15.760
<v Speaker 5>from what I sure for sure, Yeah yeah I give

0:31:15.800 --> 0:31:18.800
<v Speaker 5>I give back a lot real actually, but I think

0:31:18.920 --> 0:31:20.400
<v Speaker 5>like that's needed when I do it.

0:31:20.520 --> 0:31:22.440
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. I'm talking about like the personals,

0:31:22.640 --> 0:31:24.560
<v Speaker 2>Like you know what I'm saying, Nah, w ain't doing that?

0:31:25.480 --> 0:31:28.720
<v Speaker 1>Do you create music music more off emotion or intention?

0:31:30.960 --> 0:31:31.120
<v Speaker 9>Mum?

0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:36.120
<v Speaker 2>I think both? Like friend do? I kind of like

0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:39.160
<v Speaker 2>sat back and wrote that for six Rid. I was

0:31:39.240 --> 0:31:42.640
<v Speaker 2>like Rank, thinking like i'ma get it six Rid. But

0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:46.680
<v Speaker 2>like in my mind, I was just thinking, like girls

0:31:46.720 --> 0:31:49.080
<v Speaker 2>don't never just go to the club and talk by theyself.

0:31:49.720 --> 0:31:53.000
<v Speaker 2>She's gonna stand by the box drink. She with her friend.

0:31:53.000 --> 0:31:56.120
<v Speaker 2>They're gonna work together like like your friends like that.

0:31:56.360 --> 0:31:58.120
<v Speaker 2>I guess that was more so our emotion. I had

0:31:58.280 --> 0:32:00.680
<v Speaker 2>just noticed that before I do the song.

0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:02.800
<v Speaker 1>What's going on?

0:32:03.080 --> 0:32:03.120
<v Speaker 8>You?

0:32:03.520 --> 0:32:04.720
<v Speaker 1>What what's going on?

0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:06.320
<v Speaker 2>That's the merks right there.

0:32:06.840 --> 0:32:12.440
<v Speaker 7>Oh that's the hundred dollars tea, You just those.

0:32:13.680 --> 0:32:30.800
<v Speaker 10>Charlotte Magne was like, so slow man, the white tea, white,

0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:34.520
<v Speaker 10>open it up and make sure you should have white tea.

0:32:34.600 --> 0:32:36.160
<v Speaker 2>You can't open them though they're gonna be worth you

0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:36.720
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying.

0:32:37.040 --> 0:32:40.760
<v Speaker 7>You're gonna give us y'all. Okay, thank you because hundred

0:32:41.000 --> 0:32:46.280
<v Speaker 7>for my But you sold out of those teas, right.

0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:49.120
<v Speaker 2>So like first week when we first read of again,

0:32:49.240 --> 0:32:52.280
<v Speaker 2>sold out again, again, sold out again. Now became like

0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:56.800
<v Speaker 2>I guess, like novelty idol, but the idea wasn't so crazy.

0:32:57.600 --> 0:32:58.640
<v Speaker 1>I love who idea was it?

0:32:58.720 --> 0:33:00.720
<v Speaker 2>It was you? Ye that man? I got a team

0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:02.760
<v Speaker 2>we come up with I did, but this our mee.

0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:03.880
<v Speaker 8>I like that.

0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:04.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:33:04.680 --> 0:33:06.520
<v Speaker 5>So are you more focused now and building a brand

0:33:06.680 --> 0:33:08.680
<v Speaker 5>or like perfecting the art of music or do you

0:33:08.720 --> 0:33:09.760
<v Speaker 5>see them as inseparable?

0:33:10.400 --> 0:33:12.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they in separate. You gotta do both, you know

0:33:12.520 --> 0:33:15.600
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. Right now, folks on music all the way.

0:33:16.000 --> 0:33:19.240
<v Speaker 2>I think the brand building last year pretty good, you

0:33:19.320 --> 0:33:21.480
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean? But this year, like folks on

0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:24.440
<v Speaker 2>music all the way, I keep coming with them here.

0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:27.280
<v Speaker 1>It's been hard to be consistent.

0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:31.400
<v Speaker 2>Uh, It been hard, like find time to record, Yeah,

0:33:31.840 --> 0:33:34.760
<v Speaker 2>but I'm always in my phone like rain down ideas,

0:33:35.200 --> 0:33:35.760
<v Speaker 2>ship like that.

0:33:36.160 --> 0:33:38.120
<v Speaker 1>So what's what's been hard at getting in the door

0:33:38.320 --> 0:33:39.160
<v Speaker 1>or staying consistent?

0:33:39.240 --> 0:33:43.640
<v Speaker 2>Now that you you in the door, getting in the door, Okay,

0:33:44.680 --> 0:33:46.480
<v Speaker 2>I worked twenty folks out. I don't take off. I

0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:48.040
<v Speaker 2>don't do if you see me in the strip club

0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:52.160
<v Speaker 2>because I got booked. Yeah, I don't take off at all.

0:33:52.880 --> 0:33:54.440
<v Speaker 3>So when you are off, you stay in the studio

0:33:54.560 --> 0:33:54.960
<v Speaker 3>with your son.

0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:58.719
<v Speaker 2>I'm assuming, yeah, I'm with my son studio. I got

0:33:58.840 --> 0:34:00.800
<v Speaker 2>to find time for the vibe, you know what I'm saying,

0:34:01.200 --> 0:34:02.560
<v Speaker 2>Like usually just bringing the work.

0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:04.120
<v Speaker 1>Does he like the music?

0:34:05.160 --> 0:34:07.840
<v Speaker 2>My son? I don't know. He don't talk no, no,

0:34:08.120 --> 0:34:11.759
<v Speaker 2>but you know something like my my cousin, my mom,

0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:14.360
<v Speaker 2>she sent me a video the other day. She claimed

0:34:14.400 --> 0:34:16.720
<v Speaker 2>he was hum and friend when it came on the radio,

0:34:16.760 --> 0:34:21.640
<v Speaker 2>and she clean, he don't really express hisself like at all,

0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:22.960
<v Speaker 2>you know what I'm saying.

0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:25.200
<v Speaker 6>But they feel waves to like they feel the vibe.

0:34:25.239 --> 0:34:27.360
<v Speaker 6>So I was just wondering, if you head to the music.

0:34:27.920 --> 0:34:30.200
<v Speaker 2>I wrote the whole album though, like with him in

0:34:30.239 --> 0:34:33.040
<v Speaker 2>the carture me and him in the car, do you

0:34:33.120 --> 0:34:35.799
<v Speaker 2>miss the girl that you broke up?

0:34:35.840 --> 0:34:36.440
<v Speaker 1>With I guess.

0:34:38.120 --> 0:34:48.720
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I miss all, I miss I miss all my vibe.

0:34:50.360 --> 0:34:51.719
<v Speaker 1>Could you ever see yourself with a white bibe?

0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:57.200
<v Speaker 2>I like all girls all close. I like all girls

0:34:57.239 --> 0:34:57.680
<v Speaker 2>all coase.

0:34:58.160 --> 0:35:02.120
<v Speaker 7>You know numbers that that charge fifty women forty.

0:35:02.880 --> 0:35:05.880
<v Speaker 6>I love all the world like a Maigan, a Katie,

0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:08.920
<v Speaker 6>you know, like one of those ever get you like?

0:35:09.000 --> 0:35:11.880
<v Speaker 7>Oh yeah, like Darri I.

0:35:13.880 --> 0:35:15.880
<v Speaker 2>Like I like Kim kardash and Mama.

0:35:18.360 --> 0:35:21.439
<v Speaker 7>Date okay to get past court?

0:35:23.920 --> 0:35:24.239
<v Speaker 2>Why not?

0:35:24.719 --> 0:35:26.360
<v Speaker 5>I can't wait to talk to you in the future

0:35:26.360 --> 0:35:28.279
<v Speaker 5>because you know, the funny thing about talking to guys

0:35:28.320 --> 0:35:30.200
<v Speaker 5>when they like kind of like fresh out the street,

0:35:30.600 --> 0:35:32.400
<v Speaker 5>it feels like you're interrogating them a little.

0:35:32.239 --> 0:35:37.400
<v Speaker 1>Bit, like they're getting interrogated, you know, with Jesus.

0:35:42.400 --> 0:35:42.680
<v Speaker 2>Of course.

0:35:43.000 --> 0:35:46.279
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but in a very you gotta talk to my

0:35:46.360 --> 0:35:46.960
<v Speaker 1>lawyer kind of.

0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:50.719
<v Speaker 7>When you ask them about the movement. Oh my god,

0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:56.560
<v Speaker 7>he was like no, no, no, And then.

0:35:56.480 --> 0:35:59.960
<v Speaker 1>They pulled out bricks showing me got scared.

0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:00.400
<v Speaker 2>You've seen that.

0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:07.560
<v Speaker 1>I've seen some wild ship. You can't do around long enough.

0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:10.160
<v Speaker 1>I've seen new artists fresh out the street.

0:36:11.640 --> 0:36:17.040
<v Speaker 7>Crazy, just careless.

0:36:17.200 --> 0:36:18.960
<v Speaker 1>I know it's not him, it's the people that was

0:36:19.000 --> 0:36:19.720
<v Speaker 1>with him in the back.

0:36:19.840 --> 0:36:22.240
<v Speaker 7>Not Monday. Monday told him to not be careless.

0:36:22.239 --> 0:36:22.600
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

0:36:22.640 --> 0:36:24.200
<v Speaker 1>I just saw what I thought him putting up the back.

0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:25.960
<v Speaker 2>You.

0:36:26.360 --> 0:36:28.920
<v Speaker 4>So so this is my last question. What's next for

0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:33.160
<v Speaker 4>Belly Gang Cushions? And you spoke about wanting to do

0:36:33.320 --> 0:36:35.120
<v Speaker 4>big music beyond trap music.

0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:41.319
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, yeah, no, working on second album. I think

0:36:41.400 --> 0:36:44.319
<v Speaker 2>the second album the most important album in somebody career.

0:36:44.920 --> 0:36:46.319
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. That first one you can

0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:48.920
<v Speaker 2>get lucky, but that second one like show you if

0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:53.200
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna be pressure, come with depression. So I'm just

0:36:53.280 --> 0:36:55.160
<v Speaker 2>working on the music right now, you know what I'm saying,

0:36:55.400 --> 0:36:59.400
<v Speaker 2>turned down shows and all that focused.

0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:01.960
<v Speaker 5>For somebody listening to this right now, Like, what's one

0:37:02.080 --> 0:37:05.239
<v Speaker 5>song in your catalog that you think best represents who

0:37:05.320 --> 0:37:07.120
<v Speaker 5>Belly Gang Chris really is?

0:37:07.360 --> 0:37:13.080
<v Speaker 2>Introduction to everything. It's it's show how the fans perceive me.

0:37:13.600 --> 0:37:16.080
<v Speaker 2>It's so high perceived. It only show high perceived my

0:37:16.200 --> 0:37:17.399
<v Speaker 2>past life and a new life.

0:37:19.480 --> 0:37:21.520
<v Speaker 3>Let's get into a jo, my friend, do could we

0:37:21.520 --> 0:37:23.160
<v Speaker 3>played that already? What else would you want to hear?

0:37:23.239 --> 0:37:27.399
<v Speaker 2>That bird like pipe show that was going away? Can't

0:37:27.480 --> 0:37:29.200
<v Speaker 2>pull up the no Red light in Atlanta without hearing

0:37:29.239 --> 0:37:29.560
<v Speaker 2>it right now.

0:37:29.600 --> 0:37:30.320
<v Speaker 7>That's a tribute to you.

0:37:31.680 --> 0:37:32.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's on his beat.

0:37:33.239 --> 0:37:36.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, let's get into that reach out yet for that

0:37:36.760 --> 0:37:38.200
<v Speaker 1>making the style. You know, she just opened up the

0:37:38.200 --> 0:37:39.719
<v Speaker 1>Popeye franchises.

0:37:39.680 --> 0:37:42.200
<v Speaker 7>Real in Miami.

0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:44.560
<v Speaker 2>I could not I could actually do that, for sure.

0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:48.000
<v Speaker 2>We gave we gave how many old turkeys we gave

0:37:48.080 --> 0:37:51.480
<v Speaker 2>off from Pope when they hit the turkey from Popeye

0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:52.799
<v Speaker 2>Popeye turkeys and all that.

0:37:53.640 --> 0:38:00.480
<v Speaker 1>Turkeys look a little crazy, look look a little crazy crazy.

0:38:00.280 --> 0:38:02.240
<v Speaker 2>But it ain't. Aven't get one. They're crazy.

0:38:03.120 --> 0:38:07.560
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that pop up turkey, it is pretty alright seasoning. Yes, yeah,

0:38:07.800 --> 0:38:08.400
<v Speaker 1>that's what's.

0:38:08.280 --> 0:38:10.320
<v Speaker 3>Up, belly getting cause you're telling me appreciate you for

0:38:10.400 --> 0:38:12.600
<v Speaker 3>joining us, and don't be a strange to make sure

0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:13.319
<v Speaker 3>you come back up here.

0:38:13.640 --> 0:38:16.319
<v Speaker 2>For sure. I don't walk past the room like tea time,

0:38:16.440 --> 0:38:20.719
<v Speaker 2>like I can't wait I get in. But there you

0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:20.960
<v Speaker 2>have it.

0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:21.799
<v Speaker 1>It's the Breakfast Club.

0:38:21.840 --> 0:38:24.440
<v Speaker 2>Good morning every day.

0:38:24.480 --> 0:38:27.320
<v Speaker 1>I waiting, click your ass up the Breakfast Club.

0:38:27.560 --> 0:38:28.799
<v Speaker 2>You don't finished, y'all done